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Home Books The Atlas of Emergency Medicine, 5e
21-26: Schistosomiasis
Shannon M. Langston; Brian D. Bales
Langston SM, Bales BD. Langston S.M., & Bales B.D. Langston, Shannon M., and Brian D. Bales.Schistosomiasis. In: Knoop KJ, Stack LB, Storrow AB, Thurman R. Knoop K.J., & Stack L.B., & Storrow A.B., & Thurman R(Eds.),Eds. Kevin J. Knoop, et al.eds. The Atlas of Emergency Medicine, 5e. McGraw Hill; 2021. Accessed February 09, 2023. https://accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2969§ionid=250462884
Langston SM, Bales BD. Langston S.M., & Bales B.D. Langston, Shannon M., and Brian D. Bales. (2021). Schistosomiasis. Knoop KJ, Stack LB, Storrow AB, Thurman R. Knoop K.J., & Stack L.B., & Storrow A.B., & Thurman R(Eds.),Eds. Kevin J. Knoop, et al. The Atlas of Emergency Medicine, 5e. McGraw Hill. https://accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2969§ionid=250462884
Langston SM, Bales BD. Langston S.M., & Bales B.D. Langston, Shannon M., and Brian D. Bales. "Schistosomiasis." The Atlas of Emergency Medicine, 5e Knoop KJ, Stack LB, Storrow AB, Thurman R. Knoop K.J., & Stack L.B., & Storrow A.B., & Thurman R(Eds.),Eds. Kevin J. Knoop, et al. McGraw Hill, 2021, https://accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2969§ionid=250462884.
Clinical Summary
Management and Disposition
Over 200 million people worldwide are infected with schistosomiasis, with approximately 200,000 annual deaths. Transmission has been documented in over 75 tropical countries; it is considered the 2nd most devastating parasitic disease, behind malaria. Humans become infected by contact with blood flukes in contaminated freshwater, usually through bathing, swimming, fishing, or agricultural work. The infectious larval form of the worm, known as cercariae, penetrates the skin, develops into an adult, and deposits eggs causing a host immune response and tissue damage.
Acute symptoms are most often seen in nonimmune individuals such as travelers. Cercarial dermatitis, or swimmer’s itch, is a pruritic papular rash discovered immediately following exposure. Katayama fever may occur 2 to 8 weeks after exposure from systemic hypersensitivity and resembles serum sickness: fever, cough, chills, myalgias/arthralgias, diarrhea, lymphadenopathy, and hepatosplenomegaly. Resolution usually occurs after a few weeks, but patients can progress to coma or death.
Chronic symptoms are related to parasite load and involved organs. Intestinal symptoms (caused by Schistosoma mansoni) include abdominal pain, poor appetite, bloody diarrhea, with possible hepatosplenomegaly, periportal fibrosis, ascites, and portal hypertension. Urogenital disease (caused by Schistosoma haematobium) typically causes hematuria and dysuria, as well as genital lesions and vaginal bleeding in women. It can progress to fibrosis and calcification of the bladder and ureters, leading to hydroureter/nephrosis, infection, glomerular disease, and bladder cancer. Schistosomiasis is also associated with neurologic and pulmonary complications, including transverse myelitis, seizures, and pulmonary hypertension. Diagnosis is made through egg detection via stool or urine microscopy. Anemia and eosinophilia can be found in up to two-thirds of patients. Serology is useful for diagnosis in travelers.
Cercarial dermatitis usually resolves within 1 week; topical or systemic glucocorticoids may be considered. Therapy for Katayama fever is supportive, although glucocorticoids might be a useful adjunct. Praziquantel is effective against all forms of chronic disease but is not active on immature worms. Thus, patients with acute Katayama fever require delayed treatment in order to eliminate matured worms. Central nervous system disease is treated with a combination of praziquantel and steroids.
Hematuria is a common presenting symptom in areas endemic for S mansoni. These patients are often treated empirically with praziquantel.
Schistosomiasis can impact other infections, leading to more severe disease in patients with hepatitis B or C virus, HIV, and malaria.
Prevention includes avoiding high-risk waterways, wearing protective boots, and vigorous toweling/drying following contact/exposure.
Swimmer’s itch can occur as an initial manifestation of human schistosomal infection but is most often caused by avian schistosomes and is not otherwise infectious.
Schistosomiasis. Bladder thickening and calcification in a patient with S haematobium infection. (Used with permission from the J.D. MacLean Centre for Tropical Diseases at McGill University.)
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TAMIL NATIONAL FORUM
Erasing Tamil East
Editorial, Oru Paper , 24 July 2007
"Napoleon won the battle of Waterloo. The German Wehrmacht won World War II. The United States won in Vietnam, and the Soviets in Afghanistan. The Zealots won against the Romans, and Sri Lankan President Rajapakse has won the War against Tamils. You didn't know that?.."
[see also Sinhala Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse celebrates 'capture' of East Tamil Eelam and Latest Militarized Zone of the GoSL is in Muthur East]
Napoleon won the battle of Waterloo. The German Wehrmacht won World War II. The United States won in Vietnam, and the Soviets in Afghanistan. The Zealots won against the Romans, and Sri Lankan President Rajapakse has won the War against Tamils.
You didn't know that?
Well, on the 19th of July 2007 a 'prestigious' national event `Negenahira Navodaya' (eastern resurgence in Sinhalese Language) was held at the Independence Square, Colombo with President Rajapaksa presiding as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. This ceremony has marked the comprehensive victory and the liberation of the Tamil East from the Tamil Tigers and felicitated the victorious Sri Lanka Armed Forces who had contributed to this `humanitarian' effort, according to the Sri Lankan regime. Symbolising the triumphant completion of the operations, the Armed Forces Chiefs have presented a sannasa' (parchment in Sinhala Language) at this victory ceremony to President Rajapaksa, who thereafter proclaimed the defeat of Tamil Nation.
A Tamil journalist described the event as 'the regime is planning a "victory" celebration in a conquisitadorial spirit. Just as Chandrika Kumaratunga had Anuruddha Ratwatte ceremonially deliver "Yapa Patuna" to her, Mahinda Rajapakse wants "Naginahira" to be handed over symbolically amid pomp and pageantry. Such types of ceremonies were reserved for extra territorial conquests during medieval times.
For us, the Tamil Expatriates, this celebration of war and these medieval victory ceremonies remind us of the Sinhalese racism and why our people are still fighting.
Racism has always been the lifeblood of the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL). Sinhalese Buddhism rests on the fundamental belief that the Sinhalese have superior national, human, and natural rights in the land, an inherently racist foundation that excludes any possibility of true democracy or equality of peoples. GOSL's current destructive rampage in the Tamil Homeland is merely the continuation of such a founding ideology after a few year break. Precisely because that ideology posits the exclusivity and superiority of one people's rights, it can accept no legal or moral restraints on its behaviour, for it needs an ever-expanding geography to accommodate those unlimited rights.
Thus the military take over of Tamil Homeland is necessary for the GOSL. Sinhalese Buddhism cannot abide encroachment or even the slightest challenge to its total domination over its own space -- not merely of the historical homelands of the Sinhalese, but of the surrounding space as well, extending outward to geographical limits that it has not yet seen fit to set for itself.
Total domination means no physical threat and no demographic threat: Sinhalese reign, Sinhalese are totally secure, Sinhalese always outnumber, Sinhalese hold all military power, Sinhalese control all natural resources, all the others are powerless and totally subservient.
This is the message GOSL is sending the Tamils with its occupation of the Tamil East: that neither Tamil Tigers nor anything in Tamil Northeast that nurtures Tamil resistance should continue to exist, for the sole reason that Tamils challenge GOSL's supreme authority in the island and GOSL cannot abide this effrontery. Sinhalese Buddhism cannot coexist with any other ideology or ethnicity except in the pre-eminent position, for everyone and every ideology that is not Sinhalese Buddhist is a potential threat.
The battle for the Tamil East has killed hundreds of civilians, injured thousands and more than a hundred thousand are displaced.
It was not part of a war against terror, as GOSL would have us believe. This is a war for Sinhalese Buddhist breathing space, for the absolute certainty that they woulddominate every corner of the island. It is a war against a Tamil population that was not totally subservient, that had the audacity to harbour a force like the Tamil Tigers that does not bow to GOSL's will. It is a war on people and their way of thinking, people who are not Sinhalese Buddhist and who do not act to promote Sinhalese Buddhist hegemony.
GOSL has been doing this in the Tamil East in one form or another since the fifties. Eastern Tamils have obviously been Sinhalese Buddhism's longest suffering victims, and its most persistent opponents.
Sinhala Colonization of Tamil Districts 1881-1982
Source: Sinhalese - Tamil Relations & the Politics of Space, Chelvadurai Manogaran, 1997
Lee, Lionel, Census of Ceylon, 1881, Table IV, Colombo 1882, Dept. of Census and Statistics, Census of Ceylon, 1953, Colombo and Census of Population and Housing, Sri Lanka Preliminary Report No.1, Colombo 1981
Sinhalese Electorates Carved out of Eastern Province
and Manal Aru and Maduru Oya Projects
GOSL thought it had rid themselves of their most immediate problem, the problem at the very core of Sinhalese Buddhism, in the eighties and nineties when they forced the flight of nearly two-thirds of the Eastern Tamil population that stood in the way of establishing Trincomalee as a Sinhalese majority region.
You cannot have a Tamil Homeland if most of your population is not Tamil, GOSL policy makers opined then. In 2006, when GOSL began its war again those Tamils who it thought had disappeared turned out to be still around after all, threatening the Sinhalese Buddhist hegemony.
During the last fifty years, GOSL's policy has been largely directed -with periodic time-outs for attacks on Jaffna -- toward making the Eastern Tamils disappear for certain by ethnically cleansing the Tamil East.
The methods of ethnic cleansing are myriad: land theft, destruction of agricultural land and resources, economic strangulation, crippling restrictions on commerce, home demolition, residency permit revocation, arrest, assassination, family separation, movement restriction, destruction of census and land ownership records, theft of tax monies, starvation. GOSL wants all of the Eastern Tamil land, including all of Trincomalee, but it cannot have a Sinhalese majority in all of this land as long as the Tamils are there.
Hence, this military take over and ethnic cleansing is necessary for the GOSL.
And here is the crux of the situation today. Will anyone notice this horror? Has GOSL truly exposed by its wild summer campaign of ethnic cleansing and war mongering in the Tamil Homeland, the total bankruptcy of its very founding idea, the essential illegitimacy of the Sinhalese Buddhist principle of exclusivity?
Can even the most deluded see this, or will they continue to be deluded and the world continue to turn away, excusing atrocity because it is committed to the GOSL in the name of keeping the territorial integrity and sovereignty of a failed state? | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8110511898994446, "wiki_prob": 0.8110511898994446, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0100.json.gz/line1594649"} |
How The Pandemic Has Changed New-Home Design
It goes without saying that the pandemic changed a lot about the way we all live our lives. The ability (and in some cases, necessity) of attending work and school from home, coupled with restrictions on what we could do out in public, meant that our houses had to do more for us than ever. As homeowners reprioritized their spaces, builders and architects have needed to change the way homes are designed.
New-construction homebuyers want more space
The biggest change is the footprint of new-build homes. “Buyers want more square footage,” says Rose Quint, assistant vice president for survey research at the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).
Quint explains that the average size of newly constructed homes tends to be cyclical. It had been trending downward since it last peaked at around 2,700 square feet in 2015. In 2020, however, that trend started to reverse. After sinking to around 2,450 square feet, new home sizes are rising again and averaged 2,561 square feet in the first quarter of 2022.
Architects are placing new importance on entryways
A desire for more room isn’t the only home design trend that’s emerged since the pandemic, according to Donald Ruthroff, principal at Dahlin Group Architecture in California. “People are looking for their home to be a safe space, to be more functional than it was,” Ruthroff says.
That increased functionality starts right at the front door: The pandemic led to a resurgence in the popularity of foyers and vestibules at the main entryway.
Homeowners were looking for a way to separate delivery workers and other temporary visitors from the main living area, and a separate space at the main entrance was the answer. In fact, Ruthroff says, vestibules first became popular architectural features during the Spanish flu pandemic a century ago.
Secondary entrances, like a back-door mudroom more often used by the family, saw a makeover, too. In particular, the so-called drop zone where shoes, coats and bags often get dumped had to morph in response to homeowner demands.
“We’re seeing that space get larger because it has to do more,” Ruthroff said. “People want to come into the house and be able to wash their hands and drop their work clothes, especially if they’re a frontline worker.”
Dahlin Group Architecture produced this idealized floor plan based on survey responses about home layout preferences during the pandemic.
DAHLIN GROUP ARCHITECTURE
Flexibility is now an interior design trend
Further inside the house, people also looked to make the existing space do more.
“We really talk about design changing in terms of the house not getting bigger, but looking at every square inch of the house and making sure it’s functioning to its most efficient,” Ruthroff says.
From glass doors that create an office space out of a nook in the living room to furniture solutions that help spaces function better, innovative solutions of all kinds have received increased interest over the last few years.
“Our president talks about the Swiss Army Knife kitchen,” Ruthroff offers as an example. “Kitchens don’t need to be bigger, necessarily, but they need to do more. It’s about more detailed kitchen cabinetry that has more efficient storage.”
Did the pandemic kill the open floor plan in new homes?
Even as people need their space to do more, the open floor plan remains popular with homeowners and buyers.
Quint says that in a recent NAHB survey, about 34 percent of remodelers reported working on projects aimed at making floor plans more open. Only 2 percent said they had work that created more isolated spaces.
Ruthroff agrees. “The open floor plan is not going away,” he says. “But we are creating opportunities for spaces adjacent that are connected, but not fully connected.”
One futuristic solution that’s just starting to get attention, he adds, is movable walls. “We’re seeing some arrival of flexible wall systems that will provide the ability to wall off or change the floor plan,” he says. “That’s still a few years off in its real application, but I think that’s coming.”
Architects and builders are also being more intentional about creating spaces at the right scale. “Some of the spaces we were creating around 2010 were overly large,” Ruthroff says. “We sometimes refer to it as twirling space, just space for space’s sake. But it comes down to: You can’t sit very far from the television before it becomes uncomfortable.”
New homes emphasize indoor/outdoor living
Homeowners began to place higher value on outdoor living space during the pandemic, too. Patios, decks and porches have been popular additions over the last few years, according to Quint.
Ruthroff says that more people now want outdoor spaces that feel like a natural extension of their inside rooms. This includes using complementary materials both inside and out, and creating clear sightlines to the outdoors.
“It’s the idea of making sure people feel connected in a holistic way, that contributes to physical wellness and wellbeing,” he says. “The amount of natural light you get in the house is important to keeping people healthy.”
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DHS students’ experiences with marching in the Santa Parade
Maddy Futter November 5, 2014 in FEATURE - 1 Minute
Every year, Midland comes together to create a special event that brings excitement to children’s eyes and welcomes Santa to his house for the next season of joy and happiness. The Santa Parade is on Nov. 11 this year and will start at MHS around 10 a.m., and finish at the end of Main Street.
The DHS band has always been a large part of the parade by providing cheerful Christmas songs. Junior and clarinet player, Shannon Kilbride, is starting to get ready for marching downtown.
“Even though it’s cold, if you march with your friends and just get into the holiday spirit it’s fun and a great experience,” Kilbride said. “I look forward to it every year.”
Other students, the majority are freshmen, have never experienced the Santa Parade through the marching band. Freshman and trumpet player, Logan Elliot, is very excited for the parade. He has seen the parade every year, but this will be his first year in the marching band. While at Jefferson Middle School, Elliot marched the parade in a very different way.
“I was wearing a Huskie suit,” Elliot said. “Everyone else was really cold but it was really warm inside the suit. [It smelled] sweaty and gross.”
Overall, the Santa Parade is a fun experience that most band members and spectators including DHS students enjoy. To welcome Santa into his house and get into the holiday spirit this Christmas season, DHS students can watch the parade at 10 a.m., downtown, on Nov. 11.
For more information go to www.midlandsantaparade.org
By Madeleine Futter
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Cyclonic storm Mandous to form in Bay of Bengal today, Odisha not to be impacted
Cyclone Mandous is expected to reach the southwest Bay of Bengal by Wednesday. Odisha will not be affected in any way due to the cyclone.
By Shraddha Suman On Dec 7, 2022 0
Image Credit: Twitter/ @Indiametdept
Cyclone Mandous is expected to reach the southwest Bay of Bengal by Wednesday evening, IMD reported. Odisha will not be affected in any way due to the cyclone.
The formation of a low-pressure area over South Andaman sea and its neighbourhood on Monday is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm ‘Mandous’ and move towards north Tamil Nadu-Puducherry and south Andhra Pradesh by Thursday, prompting the India Meteorological Department (IMD) to trigger a heavy rain alert l in the region. Six National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams have also been deployed in Tamil Nadu in view of the alert.
Light to moderate rainfall can occur in parts of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and Karaikal area on Tuesday which may intensify into heavy rainfall. The cyclone is likely to form but weather experts suggest it will weaken before reaching the coast. Coastal areas of Tamil Nadu and south coastal Andhra Pradesh will get heavy showers on December 7 and 8. It’s a fast-moving weather system.
The weather office in Tamil Nadu has predicted heavy to very heavy downpour in several districts, including Chengalpattu, Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur, Chennai, Ariyalur, Thanjavur, Nagapattinam while heavy rainfall in isolated places over Ranipet, Vellore, Sivaganga, Tiruchirappalli, Tirupattur, Tiruvannamalai, among others, has been predicted on Thursday. A few more districts may face rainfall in addition to these districts on Friday.
Sea conditions in Andaman sea and some parts of the Bay of Bengal, and coastal areas of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and South Andhra will be very rough in the next few days, hence IMD has also advised fishermen to not venture into the sea.
WML over southeast BoB at 0830hrs IST of 6th Dec. To concentrate into a Depression over Southeast BoB by 6 Dec https://t.co/sQp1nWKa2q intensify further gradually into CS and reach near north TN-Puducherry & AP coasts by 8 Dec morning. pic.twitter.com/kit7kXNSZp
— India Meteorological Department (@Indiametdept) December 6, 2022
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— Tamilnadu Weather-IMD (@ChennaiRmc) December 5, 2022
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What using an iPhone did to Your Brain for the Last 15 Years
An investigation in 2011 found that some apps could violate Apple’s GPS access rules. Until recently, app manufacturers were able to access users’ unique identification numbers without permission and thus keep track of the same users between different apps.
This unleashed powerful advertising techniques that have helped many small apps gain a foothold, but also created a gray market for smartphone usage data and enabled giants like Facebook to create detailed profiles of users’ interests and habits without their knowledge.
These practices also exacerbated compulsive smartphone use, as each new piece of information the apps gathered made it easier for them to engage users with personalized content.
For Barnard, Apple bears ultimate responsibility for all of this because it runs the App Store so closely. “Whether or not they are specifically blamed for the rise of these manipulative free-to-play games, they deliberately allowed it to happen by not changing the rules,” he says. ‘[But] You have a financial incentive not to stop the addiction. ‘
As the power of smartphones increased, society began to reshape itself around them. Gloria Mark points out how much of our phone use is reinforced or even mandated by social conventions, from expecting us to check email all day to the common practice of Googling to answer questions during a conversation.
We use GPS so much that we forget how to navigate; our phones are becoming security cards for our online services; we wait distractedly for elevators or buses or traffic lights.
Nowhere is this more evident than in China, Apple’s main manufacturing base and now its largest overseas market. “People born in 1980 had minimal contact with laptops,” says Francesca Yu of AppInChina, a Beijing-based company that helps app makers enter the Chinese market.
“You are not familiar with office software or Internet surfing … [now] Everything is done via an app or website, from buying train tickets to paying gas bills. We no longer leave the house with wallets, ID cards and keys; Instead, we just bring our smartphone and a power bank with us. ”Not just an iPhone, but iWorld.
In recent years, Apple seems to have gotten restless with its crown. After spending the last decade and a half making so many people so thoroughly dependent on its devices, it now faces perhaps an even greater challenge: taming the forces it releases.
It has sought to limit the power of app makers and presents itself as the guardian of the privacy and wellbeing of iPhone users. 2018 saw the introduction of Screen Time, which allows users to keep track of how long they’ve been using different apps, set time limits on each one, and schedule “downtime” when their phone gently prompts them to log out.
Focus was added earlier this year, which allows users to define different modes such as “Drive”, “Sleep” and “Work” with different notification settings and permissions for each.
On the data front, Apple finally allowed users not to share their unique tracking numbers with advertisers in 2016, and in April of that year it began forcing apps to ask permission before accessing it. According to analytics firm Flurry, only 23 percent of users who see such prompts actually agree.
Apple has also promised iCloud customers a virtual private network (VPN) called Private Relay, which hides their identity from websites they visit, and has released a one-way email service called Hide My Email.
Regardless, pressures from legal proceedings and angry developers have forced it to cut its small business fees, and Google has upped the ante by cutting all of its fees to 15 percent.
The new requests to pursue consent are already wreaking havoc on digital advertisers and are leading to an estimated 15 to 20 percent drop in sales for iPhones.
Shares in Facebook, Twitter, Google, and most importantly, Snapchat, have hit the mark as evidence of the impact, while Apple’s own advertising business – which is not affected – has captured a confident new market share.
Eric Seufert, an advertising expert who has written extensively on the crackdown, argues that it will only get large companies to collect more of their own data instead of getting it from others, which does little in the way of privacy benefits for users and gives Apple more control.
Mark Griffiths says that he is “very much in favor” of the new Screen Time and Notification Management tools as some of them have proven themselves in the UK gambling industry where they are mandatory.
He believes that smartphones should be subject to similar regulations. Larry Rosen is skeptical and bluntly calls Apple’s features “not good enough” because they offer too little data and are too easy to circumvent.
Two of his studies tested whether smartphone users can moderate their behavior with simple strategies; in both cases smartphone usage was actually higher after the interventions.
“Apple has a really good platform for making change; There are a lot of things they could do … but that’s their business model, “says Rosen.
“We have reached the point of this massive paradigm shift where something has to happen from above.” He would like a massive public information campaign similar to the one against cigarettes, but is not optimistic: “We’re just not even close to it… we’re not at our peak yet. We’re just getting out of hand all the time. ‘
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'Just devastated' by library closures, say rural residents
No more library books, programs, or free internet and computer access for people in 54 small communities in Newfoundland and Labrador - and some people in those towns say government is taking away a service they depend on.
People have harsh words for government after learning their local libraries closing due to budget cuts
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Newfoundland and Labrador library board said they have been forced to adopt a regional library model, which will see more than half of the provincial branches close in the next two years. (Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images)
No more library books, programs, or free internet and computer access for people in 54 small communities in Newfoundland and Labrador has left some saying government is taking away a service they depend on.
More than half of N.L. libraries closing in wake of budget cuts
Library closures will hit children, rural areas hardest, says association
"We were just devastated by the news," Christine Dwyer told the Central Morning Show on Friday.
Dwyer has been on the Fogo Island library board for 39 years, and said libraries are the "cultural foundation of Newfoundland," even if many are open less than 20 hours a week.
She said it will take people on Fogo and Change Islands hours to access the closest library left after the cuts. Closing it will save one small salary — about $15,000 a year.
Dwyer said people rely on the Fogo library for computer access and there's a social aspect as well, with more than 1,000 registered users out of a population of about 2,500.
"They're just eradicating the rural Newfoundland," said Dwyer.
Growing concerns about illiteracy
In Port au Port, a single mother and small business operator said this budget, with its planned book tax, already impacts her ability to buy her daughter books.
"We might not live in a big city or a town with many thousands of people, but does that mean that we have any less worth than the rest?" said Cheryl Bennett.
Bennett said the Port au Port library is housed in the school and used daily by children.
"If you don't have reading, what chance do they have in school?" she asked.
Loss in Labrador
Dwight Lethbridge, the mayor of Cartwright, told the Labrador Morning Show that people in his town can't drive to another library.
He doubts whether the town can take it over.
"This cut [affects] the lowest income and disadvantaged the most," he wrote in a Facebook post. "Pretty soon, we are not going to have any services left."
Lethbridge said he supports a lot of the cuts, but the government is going about it the wrong way.
Public libraries board releases list of 54 libraries to close
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Roger Khan says “bullets were meant for me”; police deny Fagundes killing probe compromised
Posted by: Denis Chabrol in Crime, News Monday, 29 March 2021, 17:34 0
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Roger Khan (screen grab from Royston Drakes Production)
Convicted drug-lord, Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan, who had publicly claimed to have prevented the Bharrat Jagdeo administration from being toppled, on Monday said he was the intended target of gunmen who killed his “son” Ricardo “Paper Short” and he accused police of deliberately responding slow to the incident.
“This was not an attack on Ricardo…He died in my place. Make no mistake about it. Ricardo died in my place. Every single one of those bullets was meant for me. All twenty-something of those bullets were meant for me. I’m standing here almost speaking to you as from the grave,” said Mr. Khan who was also with Ricardo at Palm Court. Khan said the “tragedy” could have been greater because his daughter, Betty, and Fagundes’ niece were also in Palm Court.
Khan had been often accused by the People’s National Congress Reform-led opposition coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APN+AFC) of being at the helm of a death squad that had been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of mainly Afro-Guyanese.
Jagdeo had in the past distanced himself and his People’s Progressive Party (PPP) from Khan amid claims that the latter had staved off a coup. Evidence led in a United States court had shown that then Health Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy had given government authorisation for the purchase of sophisticated cellular phone tapping and triangulation equipment. Khan and several of his cohorts had been arrested at Good Hope and firearms and cellular tapping and triangulation equipment had been seized.
Khan did not say who was behind the police slothfulness last week Sunday when Fagundes was riddled to death by high-powered weapons on Main Street outside Palm Court a short distance from State House and the Prime Minister’s Official Residence. “This assassination has a particular signature to it especially in the light of the police posture over the past week,” he said in a Royston Drakes video recording at Fagundes’ funeral . He noted that the car was parked short distances away from the President and Prime Minister’s residence under three State cameras and two private cameras as more than 40 high calibre rounds were found, killing Fagundes. Mr. Khan said the police posture was characterised by intimidating people at the wake and vigil.
The Guyana Police Force did not address Khan’s concern that the response was poor before and immediately after the incident, but disagreed with him that the probe was not getting the kind of desired attention similar to the Henry cousins who were hacked to death last year and their bodies found aback Cotton Tree village, West Coast Berbice. “The police are not following the evidence in this matter. Responding to Mr. Khan’s claims that Fagundes’ shooting death has not reached Police Headquarters at Eve Leary, and that was a “particular signature” of the probe, the Guyana Police Force slammed Khan’s comments as “erroneous” and denied that the probe was adversely affected by corruption or other reasons. “From the outset, the Guyana Police Force states that the investigations into the circumstances surrounding the death of Ricardo Fagundes have not been compromised, neither has the Police Force failed the victim and his family, as alluded to by Roger Khan. This incident is being treated with every seriousness and alacrity spearheaded by investigators of the Force’s Major Crimes Unit,” the police force said. Police said Khan was aware of that as he was questioned by two policemen and voluntarily gave a statement in the presence of his lawyer
Khan appealed to President Irfaan Ali to “remedy this situation and fix this injustice”. “Ricardo’s life is no less important than any other life in Guyana. We’re asking for the political will, we’re asking for the resources that this investigation be handled by impartial investigators,” he said. He claimed that senior police officers have told him that they have to stay far from the probe.
Mr. Khan said a police patrol that had passed by had not recognised a stolen vehicle with a fake number plate. He said it was from that car that the men emerged at 10:01 PM and mowed down Fagundes after they had seen his (Khan) Ford vehicle lights turned as he had been preparing to drive it to Palm Court entrance.
In apparent reference to police surveillance video, he cited evidence that was in the public domain that showed that 29 minutes after the killing of Fagundes, the vehicle travelled to the Soesdyke-Linden Highway without having been intercepted by police. “Twenty-eight minutes they drove from Palm Court to the most populous and busy highway in Guyana, unencumbered by a single police patrol, even though, even though at the scene police were there harassing witnesses in minutes and there is one State security vehicle that arrived there in seconds, yet no road block was erected all the way to decide,” he said.
But the Guyana Police Force denied that persons were being harassed. “The Guyana Police Force is also refuting the allegation that members of the Force have been intimidating and harassing family members of the victim and their supporters during the investigations.”
Unlike “common practice” to erect roadblocks on the East Coast and East Bank Demerara when incidents like that occurred, Khan said none of that happened. “The State security failed Ricardo and in the past week State security investigations have failed him and his family and I’m telling you that history, history can tell us that when there is no State security lawlessness will prevail. The heart of men bleed for justice,” he said.
He warned that if the police does not solve Fagundes’ death, anger would pour out. “If the police do not investigate this crime and follow the evidence rather than follow the money or any type of corrupt motive, the hearts of men will become enraged,” he said.
Police have also rejected Khan’s claim that no statement was issued to the public through the media, but said “it would not be prudent to divulge certain aspects of the investigation.
The law enforcement agency said the Police Crime Chief has been updating media operatives as they make contact with him in relation to the matter.
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Ghana Maintains Position In Latest FIFA World Ranking
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Ghana has maintained its 46th position in the latest FIFA rankings for the month of March.
The West African giants, despite not being involved in any game in the last month, moved level on points with Costa Rica in the previous ranking and has not moved due to the halting of international football due to the outbreak of COVID-19.
Ghana and Costa Rica both have 1,439 points after the Central American side lost a friendly game with the United States of America.
The latest ranking has all countries maintaining their positions from the last ranking.
Belgium is still the best football nation in the world, followed by world champions France, Brazil, England, and Uruguay in the top 5 slots.
Senegal remain Africa’s highest ranked football nation maintaining their 20th position on the log.
They are joined by Tunisia, Nigeria, Algeria, and Morocco as Africa’s best-ranking countries placing 27th, 31st, 35th, and 43rd respectively in the global rankings.
The Black Stars stay in 6th on the African continent.
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Rebecca L. Sczepanski
Rebecca Sczepanski is of counsel in the Savannah office, practicing in the areas of ERISA and employee benefits. Rebecca’s practice focuses on all aspects of employee benefits taxation and fiduciary issues (under ERISA and state law, where applicable), including 401(k), 403(b), 457(b), 457(f), 409A, defined benefit, cash balance, and hybrid pension plans, as well as cafeteria/Section 125 plans, welfare plans, 415(m) excess benefit plans, top hat plans, stock option and executive compensation plans, third-party administration arrangements, pharmacy benefits management, prohibited transaction, institutional trust, and fiduciary investment and participant disclosure concerns.
In the more than twenty-five years that Rebecca has practiced employee benefits law, she has represented for-profit, nonprofit, charitable, government, insurance companies, hospitals, and church clients, ranging from small local businesses to established private and large publicly-traded Fortune 1000 companies and hospital systems. In those representations, Rebecca has assisted her clients with benefit aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, corporate transactions, establishment and administration of employee benefit plans, IRS and DOL audits, and review and negotiation of plan documentation and service provider agreements, as well as employee disputes, claim resolution, collective bargaining benefit issues, fiduciary issues including selection and monitoring of 401(k) and 403(b) plan investment options and fees, preparation and review of annual Form 5500, and establishment and negotiation of executive compensation and non-qualified deferred compensation plans. Rebecca has seen the practice evolve from a focus on drafting and amending individually-designed qualified retirement plans through the implementation of HIPAA, an increasing focus on health and welfare plan issues, the enaction of Code Section 409A and the expansion of the non-qualified deferred compensation plan practice, to a focus on design, administration, and correction of errors in all employee benefits plans. Along the way, Rebecca has gained extensive experience in non-discrimination testing issues for welfare and retirement plans and in IRS and DOL correction programs, including EPCRS, DFVCP, and DVFC; benefit plan-related excise tax issues; cafeteria plan issues; and third-party administration issues. Prior to joining HunterMaclean, Rebecca was a member of the highly-regarded national employee benefits practices of Ice Miller LLP in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn in Detroit, Michigan. Rebecca has also served as a Vice President of Institutional Trust Compliance for Comerica Bank and as general counsel for Employee Health Insurance Management, Inc., a fast-growing pharmacy benefits management and third-party administration firm in Southfield, Michigan.
Rebecca is licensed as a C.P.A. in the state of Michigan and is admitted to the bars of Georgia and Michigan. She graduated from Wayne State University Law School with her J.D., cum laude, in 1996 and from Saginaw Valley State University with a B.B.A., magna cum laude, in 1987. While in law school, Rebecca served on the editorial board of the Wayne Law Review in 1995-1996, won the ABA Intra-School Negotiation Competition and Donald E. Barris Trial Advocacy Competition, and received the Dean’s Scholar and Fruman Foundation Scholarships as well as the Bronze and Silver Keys.
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Restatement of complex individually-designed 401(k) plan for large national insurance company.
Consulted with large nonprofit hospital on correction of errors in 409A, 457(b), and 401(k) plans and design/implementation of health plan wellness incentives.
Performed due diligence review and negotiation of benefits-related agreement provisions for multiple business transactions of all types and sizes.
Prepared private letter ruling request and negotiated conditions for issuance of ruling.
Consulted with recently acquired subsidiary and performed coverage testing required to ensure the subsidiary’s 401(k) plan could continue to be maintained as a separate plan.
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Drafted restatements of 401(k) and defined benefit pension plans for large non-public automotive parts manufacturer for both non-union and union workforces; assisted in submission and negotiation of corrective actions for serious drafting errors in prior defined benefit plan document, including negotiating application of 411(d)(6) anti-cutback issues.
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By Clara Moskowitz
A spectacular shot of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft landing onthe steppes of Kazakhstan shows the bright blaze of the spacecraft's thrustersfiring just before it touched down Wednesday morning (local time).
NASA photographer Bill Ingalls took the photo from arecovery helicopter as the Soyuz TMA-17 capsule safely returned Russiancosmonaut Oleg Kotov, NASA astronaut Timothy "T.J." Creamer, andJapanese spaceflyer Soichi Noguchi backto Earth after six months onboard the International Space Station. The trioserved as members of the Expedition 22 and 23 crews.
Parachutes helped slow the descent of the Soyuz TMA-17spacecraft as it plummeted down from Earth orbit. In the final minutes thethrusters helped further ease off the speed of the capsule to enable a softlanding at 9:25 a.m. Wednesday local time (11:25 p.m. Tuesday EDT).
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Defense lawyers team up on new firm
Amy January 20, 2016 0
Iris Eytan
A pair of criminal defenders who represent business executives facing white-collar allegations and college students accused of sexual misconduct have set up shop in Cherry Creek.
Iris Eytan and Dru Nielsen spent 14 and eight years, respectively, at Denver-based Reilly Pozner before they started their own practice this summer and moved into a new office this fall.
Eytan said the pair has worked 20 cases under the Eytan-Nielsen banner since leaving Reilly Pozner, which announced it was downsizing staff last year, she said.
Handling the legal workload hasn’t been a problem, Eytan said, but she never anticipated that setting up things like printers, payroll and phone lines would be such a time drain.
“I’m a great criminal defense lawyer, but I’ve never been tested as a businesswoman,” she said. “That’s the scary part: having mouths to feed and keeping track of the financial parts of the business.”
As for the legal side, Eytan said the firm is continuing much of the work she and Nielsen started at Reilly Pozner. That includes defending college students accused of sexual assault, advocating for prisoners to receive mental health screenings and taking a murder case to trial last March.
And Eytan initially represented Aurora theater shooter James Holmes in court in 2013.
The two specialize in pre-filing investigations – a practice that aims to prevent attorneys from filing charges against a client – and also work as trial attorneys.
With more autonomy, Eytan is speaking up more frequently. A week after officially leaving Reilly Pozner, she penned an article on sexual assault and said her phone rang with calls from students seeking her services. She now regularly comments in the press and lectures at universities on the subject.
Nielsen, meanwhile, is more comfortable taking on white-collar criminal cases.
Eytan-Nielsen is one of two firms that was recently started by former Reilly Pozner attorneys. The other, commercial litigation firm RBF Law, began working out of the Denver Tech Center in October.
Eytan said she and Nielsen decided to place their office in the Citadel Building at 3200 Cherry Creek South Drive as an alternative to downtown Denver, where parking for clients would be scarce.
The practice now has five employees, she said, and the goal is to keep hiring contractors. But it’s too early to say when the firm’s payroll will grow.
“We’re so young, like a fresh young baby,” Eytan said. “We get calls a lot – ‘Are you looking to hire someone?’ – but we’re not there yet.”
A pair of criminal defense attorneys who were co-workers at a larger Denver firm have set up their own practice with a focus on pre-charge defense and various types of crimes.
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Schwarzenegger's Weekend gets Ruined in the Red-Band Trailer for Kim Jee-Woon's 'THE LAST STAND'!
The Red Band trailer for Kim Jee-Woon's The Last Stand has been released & you can check it out after the jump. The movie arrives this January 18th & stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Johnny Knoxville, Rodrigo Santoro, Forest Whitaker, Peter Stormare, Eduardo Noriega, Zach Gilford & Jaimie Alexander. Schwarzenegger plays Ray Owens a small-town sheriff who becomes the last guy standing between a ruthless cartel leader [Noriega] & the Mexican border. Hit the jump for the details.
Synopsis: "After leaving his LAPD narcotics post following a bungled operation that left him wracked with remorse and regret, Sheriff Ray Owens (Schwarzenegger) moved out of Los Angeles and settled into a life fighting what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Sommerton Junction. But that peaceful existence is shattered when Gabriel Cortez (Eduardo Noriega), the most notorious, wanted drug kingpin in the western hemisphere, makes a deadly yet spectacular escape from an FBI prisoner convoy. With the help of a fierce band of lawless mercenaries led by the icy Burrell (Peter Stormare), Cortez begins racing towards the US-Mexico border at 250 mph in a specially-outfitted Corvette ZR1 with a hostage in tow. Cortez’ path: straight through Summerton Junction, where the whole of the U.S. law enforcement, including Agent John Bannister (Forest Whitaker) will have their final opportunity to intercept him before the violent fugitive slips across the border forever. At first reluctant to become involved, and then counted out because of the perceived ineptitude of his small town force, Owens ultimately rallies his team and takes the matter into his own hands, setting the stage for a classic showdown."
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This week in PTFC: Azteca, Challenge Cup Final, Sounders in massive week of Portland soccer
By Mike Donovan @TheMikeDonovan
In one of the biggest weeks in PTFC history has arrived, with both Thorns FC and the Timbers playing huge games this week.
On Wednesday, the Timbers will travel to take on Club América (7:15pm PT, FS1) in the second of its two-legged series in the quarterfinals of the Scotiabank Concacaf Champions League. The teams drew 1-1 in the first leg at Providence Park.
Then on Saturday, Thorns FC will square off in the 2021 NWSL Challenge Cup final against Gotham FC (10am PT, CBS).
The week finishes with Portland taking on the rival Seattle Sounders FC at Providence Park on Sunday (12pm PT, ABC)
What's on tap for Timbers
The Timbers have one of the biggest double-game weeks in club history with the CCL quarterfinals and an MLS match against Sounders FC. Portland's match against América will be the first time the Timbers have played in Mexico.
What's on tap for Thorns
Having finished the group stage of the Challenge Cup with a record of 3-0-1, Thorns FC will host Gotham FC in the 2021 Challenge Cup final. Gotham FC finished with a record of 2-0-2 in the group stage to win the East Division.
Timbers Opponent Connections
When the Timbers take on the Sounders it will be the 112th match between men's soccer club teams from Seattle and Portland. The series started on May 2, 1975.
Thorns Opponent Connections
The Thorns will face Gotham for the first time since the clubs met on Aug. 3, 2019, when Gotham was known as Sky Blue FC. In that match, the clubs played to a 1-1 draw in front of 19,070 fans at Providence Park.
The leading scorer for Gotham in the 2021 Challenge Cup is Midge Purce, who has scored twice this season. Purce played for Thorns FC for two seasons (2018-2019).
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Wednesday's match will be played at Estadio Azteca, which is at an altitude of 7,200 feet above sea level. It will be the highest altitude that the Timbers have ever played at, in all eras of the club.
Both Thorns manager Mark Parsons and Gotham manager Freya Coombe started their managerial careers as coaches for reserve teams in England. Parsons led the Chelsea Ladies Reserves while Coombe managed the reserves for Reading FC Women.
The Timbers are in the middle of a stretch that sees the club play five matches in 15 days.
Five numbers to know
10Forward Felipe Mora has played 10 competitive matches against Club América in his career. Of those 10, Mora has eight starts and two goals.
4Saturday's match will be the fourth final in the history of the Thorns. The team won the NWSL Championship in 2013 and 2017 while finishing as runners-up in 2018.
6Thorns FC have scored six goals in the 2021 Challenge Cup, with all six being scored by different players. The six goalscorers have been Christine Sinclair, Simone Charley, Lindsey Horan, Morgan Weaver, Tyler Lussi and Rocky Rodríguez.
9In regular season games against Sounders FC, Diego Valeri has scored five goals while also delivering nine assists. Valeri's nine assists are the most of any MLS player against Seattle.
100While teams from Portland and Seattle have played more matches, Sunday will be the 100th match between teams called the Portland Timbers and Seattle Sounders. In MLS regular season and playoff games, each club has won exactly 14 matches.
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The 'You' Season 4 Trailer Is Here—And This Time, Someone Is Stalking Joe
Erica Gonzales
January 9, 2023, 10:43 AM ·7 min read
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Apologies in advance to our moral compasses, which will once again be tested with another season of You, Netflix’s hit thriller starring the ridiculously hot Penn Badgley as a ridiculously creepy serial killer. The streamer renewed the series for a fourth season just days before the third arrived, pointing to its confidence in the show. While further details might still be top-secret (and maybe stored in a shoe box somewhere in Joe’s ceiling), we’re gathering what we know so far about You’s upcoming chapter.
When will You season 4 be released?
The fourth season will be split into two, with Part 1 arriving on February 9, 2023—just in time for your twisted Valentine's Day plans—and Part 2 following on March 9, 2023. This is a day earlier than initially expected, and for You fans, every day counts.
London's calling.
Part 1 of You Season 4 shall now be arriving on February 9 with Part 2 following March 9 pic.twitter.com/TDmPDoFEIf
— Netflix (@netflix) November 24, 2022
(For reference, the third season arrived on Oct. 15, 2021.)
Hello, you.
For you, YOU has been renewed for Season 4! See you soon. pic.twitter.com/mIqXwvUDIl
— Netflix (@netflix) October 13, 2021
Has filming started?
Production is officially underway in London. Netflix announced on April 1 with a photo of Badgley on set with a pile of classic books, a nod to Joe.
For anyone interested, the stack includes: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, A Good Man in a Cruel World by Rhys Montrose, Vanity Fair by William Thackeray, and Bleak House by Charles Dickens.
Who’s in the cast?
Gossip Girl alum Penn Badgley will likely return as Joe Goldberg, the leading loner and bookkeeper who obsesses over and stalks women until, as his track record has shown, he usually ends up murdering them. While the cast usually changes from season to season, we’re hoping to see more of Love (The Haunting of Bly Manor star Victoria Pedretti), Joe’s wife and mother of his child, who also happens to be a killer.
Badgley as Joe in You season 4.Netflix
Recurring stars in season 3 include Scott Speedman (Matthew), Tati Gabrielle (Marienne), Shalita Grant (Sherry), Travis Van Winkle (Cary), and Dylan Arnold (Theo). Time will tell if they make it to season 4. Showrunner Sera Gamble and producer Greg Berlanti, however, are confirmed to return.
Tati Gabrielle returns as Marienne in season 4.Netflix
British actress Charlotte Ritchie (Ghosts) will join the cast and star opposite Badgley as Kate. Per Deadline, Kate is “fearsomely smart, independent, suspicious, misses nothing. She is fiercely loyal to her friends, a brick wall to everyone else. The daughter of a chaotic, bohemian single mother, Kate worked hard to create the life she now leads. She’s an art gallery director whose job means managing tempestuous artists. Kate tends to be “the adult in the room,” and has embraced the moniker of “icy bitch.” She’s especially protective of best friend Lady Phoebe, a sweet and trusting person whose extreme wealth and fame tend to attract opportunists. Kate prefers “arrangements” to love, which is why she dates fun but self-centered partier Malcolm.” She's also said to be immediately suspicious of Joe when Malcolm invites him into their privileged circle.
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The White Lotus and Euphoria star Lukas Gage will also join You season 4 as Adam, “an ex-pat American, the youngest son of a wealthy East-Coast magnate,” according to Deadline. “He’s famous for spectacularly failing to meet the standards of his successful, venerable family. An entrepreneur and a gambler, Adam is a warm and funny party host and fast friend. But underneath, Adam is hiding a trove of secrets and papering over problems with heavy self-medication.”
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Netflix announced the rest of the series regulars and recurring cast when it announced the start of season 4 production.
Niccy Lin (The Great) plays Sophie, an entrepreneur and jetsetter with a highly curated (and sponsorship-riddled) social media feed. She's also a “watchful protector” of her younger brother, Simon.
Aidan Cheng (The Girlfriend Experience, Harlots) plays Simon, an artist and Oxford-educated son of a Chinese technology magnate. He's “impossible to impress and abhors small talk and strangers.”
Stephen Hagan (The Larkins) plays Malcolm, a friendly literature professor and “drug-loving bon vivant.” He's dating Kate (Ritchie), but seeing other women on the side.
Ben Wiggins (The Sandman, The Witcher) plays Roald, who hails from an old aristocratic family. He's attractive but cold and rumored to have a dark side.
Eve Austin (ABC Murders) plays Gemma, “a member of a privileged circle of friends who met at Oxford;” a fun friend and fellow partier but tone deaf to the greater world around her.
Ozioma Whenu (The Lark) plays Blessing, a Nigerian princess “with a passion for cryptocurrency.” She's cliquish and a risk-taker, and believes we're all living in a simulation.
Dario Coates (The Girlfriend Experience, The Rules of the Game) plays Connie, also an Oxford alum from Kate and Phoebe's circle. He's a total upper-crust “sportsman gone soft” who loves “betting, horses, drinking and cocaine.”
Sean Pertwee (Gotham) plays Vic, Adam's driver, dealer, and security guard. He's a bit of a fixer too, he's “not afraid to get his hands dirty” to protect Adam and his friends.
Brad Alexander plays Edward, a popular and smart student who's father owns a powerful news outlet.
Alison Pargeter (Chernobyl, EastEnders) plays Dawn, a paparazzi photographer.
Adam James (Vigil, I May Destroy You) plays Elliot, who's “world-weary, calm, grounded, [and] allergic to drama.” He used to live in California but now travels through Europe for his job, as he answers to a powerful employer.
Ozioma Whenu as Blessing, Ben Wiggins as Roald, Dario Coates as Connie, Lukas Gage as Adam, Tilly Keeper as Lady Phoebe, Charlotte Ritchie as Kate and Niccy Lin as Sophie Soo in You season 4. Netflix
What will it be about?
Netflix shared the official synopsis below:
“After his previous life went up in flames, Joe Goldberg has fled to Europe to escape his ‘messy’ past, adopt a new identity, and, of course, to pursue true love. But Joe soon finds himself in the strange new role of reluctant detective as he discovers he may not be the only killer in London. Now, his future depends on identifying and stopping whoever’s targeting his new friend group of uber-wealthy socialites…”
The first season was adapted from Caroline Kepnes’ novel, You, while the second followed the sequel, Hidden Bodies. Season 3 echoes the plot of the third book, You Love Me, which was published in 2021.
So far, there’s no fourth book in the series, but onscreen, Gamble teases that season 4 will “explore new, dark facets of love.” She wrote in a statement about You’s renewal, per The Hollywood Reporter:
“Reading Caroline’s novel, Greg and I were instantly obsessed with Joe Goldberg and his twisted worldview. And it’s been thrilling to watch Penn bring Joe to creepy yet compelling life. We’re deeply grateful that Netflix has shown You such monumental support, and that people around the world have enjoyed watching Joe really get it all very wrong over the past three seasons. The whole You team is excited to explore new, dark facets of love in season four.”
Is there a trailer?
A sneak peek arrived during Tudum 2022, which shares the first look at Badgley's character this season as well as the rest of the cast.
Joe's alias this time is not a bookstore employee, or suburban dad, or L.A. shop clerk, he narrates in the clip. No, now he's Professor Jonathan Moore in London, complete with a beard and tweed blazer to complete the refined look. He says that “gone are the days of unrequited love and longing; this time I'm focusing on academia,” but from the way he watches Marienne from under the brim of his signature baseball cap, that surely can't be true.
The official trailer arrived in January 2023, showing Joe still desperately trying to reunite with Marienne. While settling into London under his new alias, Professor Moore, he tries to suppress his stalker tendencies but nonetheless becomes obsessed with a new woman. He's also not the only killer in town; someone else is plotting murders among the elite, while also keeping a close eye on Joe.
Watch this space for updates.
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One nice thing about every FBS team
Mar 16, 2022 20 min
Even Nebraska and Michigan!
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It's the middle of March, we're still over 160 days away from the 2022 season, and I need things to write about. I'd rather shut this site down than talk about Spring practice, so I took some time to write one nice thing about all 130 FBS teams. My only rule was that it had to be current, and not everything could be about uniforms. If you think what I said about your team wasn't nice enough - sorry, I tried my best.
My favorite service academy team. Bonus points for having one of the best helmet logos in college football:
Hiring Joe Moorhead was quietly the steal of the off-season, and a much needed jolt of positivity for a program with a 3-27 record the past three years.
Jahmyr Gibbs spent two seasons in witness protection at Georgia Tech, and I like that a whole lot of new eyes are going to see just how talented he is.
Consistently one of the most enjoyable programs to watch. Their identity is set in stone each season, and I know, "[Team] deserves more attention," is overused, but it applies to App State Football.
Jedd Fisch is recruiting well, probably because after years of hideous uniforms, they went back to one of the best sets in the country:
Deserves kudos for the public masterclass they've put on for the last year on how useless the NCAA is.
Sam Pittman is easy to like, and it's wild that he's turned them into a competent threat in the SEC West this fast.
At some point I have to visit the waterfalls at Centennial Bank Stadium. A+ stadium feature:
Each coaching cycle that middling Power Five teams decide they're too good to run the option and not hire Jeff Monken is a win for Army. They have eight or more wins in five of the last six seasons, and back-to-back nine win seasons heading into 2022. There's a solid chance they could get to 10 this year.
In a sport of constant change, I appreciate that Auburn always operates in state of pure chaos.
Arguably the most fun schedule in the country:
The dark red/black helmets with the added chrome flake are quietly one of the best in CFB:
Nothing is funnier in the sport right now than Baylor dominating the last days of the Texas/OU Big 12 era. I hope they win the conference again.
Safety JL Skinner is back for his senior season, and I'm ready for more of this:
We've been blessed with another year of Phil Jurkovec:
They play in the crown jewel of college football: Doyt Perry Stadium.
Buffalo is in a rough spot right now, so I'll just go with their cool-looking locker room:
Memorial Stadium kicks ass, and if you have the chance to go see a game there you should:
I'm genuinely happy for Jim McElwain's success at CMU. They're 20-13 in his three seasons, and always have a fun offense to watch.
I irrationally love the all-gold uniforms:
The fact that Notre Dame, LSU, USC, Oklahoma, Miami, Florida, and Oregon all had openings and Luke Fickell is still there is a testament to how he's built that program. I'm a hater, but even I must show my respect.
Happy for Clemson fans that they don't have to watch their 2021 offense ever again.
I can't believe no P5 program has –publicly, at least– made a run at Jamey Chadwell. Back-to-back 11-win seasons, and I don't think they're slowing down as long as he's there.
It's tough to say anything nice, given how I feel about CU Football right now, so I'll just say this: Going to Buffs games is one of my favorite things. I haven't been able to go to one since 2019, and I miss it. Hopefully this season.
Poaching Jay Norvell from Nevada was a major win. Maybe that doesn't translate to a bunch of wins in 2022, but I like CSU's long-term prospects with him guiding the program.
How the Jim Mora Jr. hire goes is going to be one of the best stories to track this season. All I ask from programs is "Don't be boring," so UConn at least has my attention here.
I don't know enough to argue whether Mike Elko was the right hire or not, but I think it was the right time for Duke to move on from the David Cutcliffe era, and give the program some new energy. Sometimes that all you can ask for.
ECU made a jump last year, and is going to be even better in 2022. They're also one of those programs I'll always root for, because I did some legendary shit with them on NCAA 07:
I understand that you aren't going to get the average college football fan to care about Eastern Michigan, but consider the fact they went to one bowl game in their first 40 years, and Chris Creighton has gotten them to four in their last five full seasons. It's good for EMU fans, but how do athletic directors around the country not try and hire this dude???
Billy Napier is 1000x more likeable than Dan Mullen.
Of the 12 national titles I've won in that NCAA 07 graphic from the ECU section, 6 were at Florida Atlantic. Go Owls:
Mike MacIntyre has a special place in my heart thanks to him leading Colorado to their only good season in the last 15 years, so I like seeing him get another shot. He has history making something out of nothing from San Jose State days, and he'll have to do the same here.
FSU plays LSU week two in New Orleans, and it might be my favorite matchup of the season. Brian Kelly's one of the few people who could make the general public root for FSU in a primetime game.
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As much as I didn't care for them winning the national championship, it's nice to know that there's a consistent, year-after-year threat to Alabama in the SEC now.
They hired Clay Helton, who has head coaching experience.
One of my favorite things in CFB is when G5 teams play Power Five teams at home, so I started doing backflips when I saw that GSU hosts North Carolina in week two. I'm still pissed that they got screwed against Auburn last year, so I want to see them make up for it here.
I tried to crowdsource this one, and the only non-"Atlanta is cool/Calvin Johnson went there" answer I got was for quarterback Jeff Sims:
Jeff Sims
— Sixth Amendment Fan (@Mock_Dr_taylor) March 12, 2022
Sims is fun; I just hope he stays healthy. Every time I've scrubbed through a GT game the last two seasons, I swear I see 4-5 plays a game where he gets detonated because his line can't protect. They've given up almost 60 combined sacks the last two years, so I'm praying for average pass protection this season. If they can do that, Sims might be in for a big year.
How cool is it that Timmy Chang is their Head Coach now? Also: New stadium around the corner!
This is subject to change, but I'm talking myself into Houston going undefeated. The schedule is light, QB Clayton Tune is throwing to 1,300-yard WR Tank Dell again, and their top-20 defense from last year brings back a ton of experience.
.....I like what Bret Bielema is doing. They're going to a bowl if they can steal two of the of Iowa/Minnesota/Nebraska/Purdue games.
Last year was a disaster (the offseason hasn't gone much better) but I think Tom Allen does his best work as an underdog, and maybe that's what IU needs to get back on track.
I respect and admire Iowa fans for what they have to put up with every single season.
I'm a noted Matt Campbell non-believer, but even I'll admit that it's great for Iowa State that he's back for at least another year. They lost some big-time talent, but maybe that means they can sneak up on a few teams this season?
If you can't sell wins, you sell hope. Kansas finally has some of the latter. I'm not sure I see more than 2-3 wins on their schedule, but Lance Leipold is already doing one of the most impressive building jobs in the country in his second year. I'm legitimately looking forward to see what they can do this season.
I'm always down to watch Kansas State fuck up the rest of the Big 12's plans. 2022 feels like one of those years.
My favorite non-conference schedule of 2022:
Kent State's 2022 non-con schedule is AGGRESSIVE pic.twitter.com/Pv6rhDnjou
— Colton Denning (@Dubsco) March 13, 2022
Also: The powder blue jerseys.
I'll admit it: I've secretly been cheering against Kentucky now for the last 3-4 years, and trying to convince myself that what Mark Stoops is doing there really isn't that impressive.
I was wrong. He's doing a hell of a job, and they aren't going to dip as long as he's there.
There's nothing worse than being boring, and LSU does 'not boring' greater than anyone else in the country. The Brian Kelly era is going to be a constant sideshow – regardless of how it goes– and I'm here for it.
They're adding endzone cabanas to their stadium this year, which seems cool/potentially disastrous.
That's right, another bulldog mascot - Tech XXII:
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Louisiana-Lafayette
They still might be the best team in the Sun Belt, despite losing Billy Napier to Florida, and also one of my favorite QBs of the last 10 years in Levi Lewis.
This graphic of Terry Bowden their football account sent out:
🎭 #MardiGras2022 pic.twitter.com/fUJxzC1i1W
— ULM Football (@ULM_FB) March 1, 2022
Malik Cunningham.
One of the best sub-stories in the Sun Belt-Conference USA drama: The yearly return of the Marshall-Appalachian State rivalry. Moving to the Sun Belt just feels right for Marshall.
Maryland played four ranked teams last year and went 0-4 with an average loss of 54-17. That's not nice, but this is: Maryland's going to score lots of points again, and I think they'll find a way to beat a one of the ranked teams on their schedule.
Don Brown is back for his second stint as Head Coach in Amherst. I've made my fair share of jokes at his expense, but I hope he's ultimately able to have some success and find a way to get them back into a conference.
Memphis wore five variations of their tiger stripe helmet last season, and I'm pretty sure they have at least two more they can break out if they want to. Cincinnati Bengals take notes:
There isn't a better hire Miami could've made this cycle than poaching Mario Cristobal from Oregon. He understands what that job is, how it works, and if anyone is going to limit outsiders from taking away south Florida recruits, it's him.
Brett Gabbert might be the best QB in the MAC.
You know what? The white over blue look is pretty nice:
I don't know what Mel Tucker's ceiling is, but he's used the transfer portal as efficiently as any coach in the country, is already 2-0 against Michigan, has an 11-win season, and a New Years Six Bowl win in just two years. Sparty's going to be a threat as long as he's there.
Defensive end Jordan Ferguson is back for his senior season after a 17.5 TFL, 9-sack season.
Hired an actual offensive coordinator after not having one for two seasons.
Lane Kiffin having a QB named 'Jaxson Dart' feels necessary.
The Mike Leach meme(s) stopped being funny eight years ago, but I appreciate that the SEC has a team who's going to sling the rock 55 times a game no matter what.
The grass hill seating in their north endzone is delightful stadium:
Three of their last four seasons have been pretty tough, but I refuse to bet against Ken Niumatalolo, and think this is the year he gets it back on track.
I'll go out on a limb: They won't lose eight one-score games again this season. But really, there's a realistic path to 10 wins on this schedule if Scott Frost can get out of his own way.
Nevada fans throw (?) confetti in the air after every touchdown, and it makes their field look like this if the wind is blowing right. Just another random CFB thing I love:
Turquoise numbers and accents:
Not many logos better than this:
Let's get stupid: UNC's recruited pretty well the last few years, the defense will probably improve after 2021's disaster, and the offensive line can't get much worse. If they find an adequate QB replacement for Sam Howell, they'll probably be in the ACC Coastal race into mid-November.
If you're looking for a random team to root for this season, NC State might be the one. They're probably going to start in the top 15, QB Devin Leary is back after throwing for over 3,400 yards and 35 TDs, and they should have one of the most badass defenses in the country.
The perfect throwback uniform:
We're all blessed with the return of QB Rocky Lombardi:
I love ridiculously-shaped stadiums, and Ryan Field is one of the more unique in the country:
Marcus Freeman is easily the most likeable Notre Dame coach ever, right?
No more quarterback rotations; Which you can read more about in friend of the site Patrick Mayhorn's excellent G5 preview series.
Finally decided it was time to hire a real defensive coordinator.
Brent Venables' Clemson defenses always played fast and aggressive as hell. I'm excited to see him forge that same identity at OU.
I never know what to think of Oklahoma State. They lost their defensive coordinator plus a lot of production, but QB Spencer Sanders is back, and they were literally a yard away from winning the Big 12. An easy non-con slate should give them the runway to figure out who they are in 2022, and whether they can do it again.
Conference re-alignment win: ODU sneaking their way into the Sun Belt.
Even with the success Mario Cristobal had, Oregon felt like it was missing something to truly get to the next level. Time will tell if Dan Lanning gets them there, but I think he has a better chance to do it than Cristobal did.
What they did last season turned me into a Jonathan Smith believer. The program's in the strongest state it's been in since the mid-2000s, and an eight-win season is on the table if things break right. (Nine, if they really break right.)
Penn State still plays on natural grass, and I wish Ohio State, Michigan, Texas, etc. would stop pretending it's a budget issue and do the same:
It took most of seven years, but Pat Narduzzi finally decided fielding an offense would help his football team win games. They lose Kenny Pickett, plus their offensive coordinator, but add USC transfer Kedon Slovis, and have a ton of returning experience up front. I'm going to blindly say they're the Coastal favorite until we're sure Miami has their shit together.
Do people truly realize how down bad this program was by the end of the Darrell Hazell era? Jeff Brohm's done a fantastic job, and their administration has done the same in fighting to keep him from other schools. They have to replace some key pieces, but don't have to play Ohio State, Michigan, or Michigan State, and get Penn State out of the way in the season opener. Back-to-back bowl appearances look likely.
Rice won four games for the first time since 2015 last season, so maybe that's a sign that Mike Bloomgren's lengthy rebuild is headed towards bowl contention?
I don't know if they're going back to a bowl with that schedule, but they're legitimately getting better. Greg Schiano's doing a good job!
Barring any other transfers, SMU should have another top-30 offense. If they can get anything close to that from the defense, they could be AAC contenders.
This program somehow keeps winning, despite completely not giving a shit about playing offense. For selfish reasons –AKA when I'm on Coors Light No. 15 and SDSU is the last game of the night– I'm manifesting that this is the year they score some points.
I went to the home opener last year against Southern Utah and sat a row behind "Billy Bob." I can't wait to go to the Spring Game on the 26th:
I'm really struggling here, so I just want to point out that the South Alabama logo reminds me of the art style for Batman's head in Batman: The Animated Series. I'm the only one? Ok, moving on then.
The Spencer Rattler discourse will be nauseating, but this looks like their best team in at least five years. Maybe this is the season they beat Clemson?
The Rock:
I watched Utah run for 441 yards on Stanford in person last year, so the nicest thing I can say is that they can't possibly be worse defensively this season.
We're in year seven of the Dino Babers era, and it feels make or break. 10 of his 29 wins at Syracuse came in 2018, as well as his only bowl appearance. I'm rooting for them to break through this year and at least get back to a bowl game.
I've need to watch a game from the Moncrief South Endzone Club seats. Someone at TCU please see this and make it happen:
I don't care what Stan Drayton's record is in year one. The Rod Carey era is over, and I'm happy for you, Temple fans.
You're looking at the conductor of the 2022 Tennessee hype train. They're upsetting either Alabama, Georgia or both. Deleting this article when the season starts.
Glad that Ewers gets a warm up game at least pic.twitter.com/3bBwxPfoqX
— Colton Denning (@Dubsco) December 13, 2021
Jimbo Fisher got mad at people talking about that NIL fund that led them to the No. 1 recruiting class, but I'd like to earnestly commend the Texas A&M boosters for taking care of business. Begging Ohio State bagmen to get with the god damn program.
If you weren't aware, Texas State is in the midst of a fascinating experiment. Head Coach Jake Spavital is trying to build a roster almost solely through the transfer portal. Only 2 of the 13 members of their last recruiting class came from high schools, and all five of the dudes in the QB room started at other FBS schools.
Early returns are mixed, but they did jump from two wins in 2020 to four last year. There are definitely coaches around the country watching to see how it plays out, and I like the creativity from Spavital regardless of what the outcome is.
I made peace with the fact that the majority of college coaches are guns for hire a long time ago. It is what it is. That's what makes someone like new Texas Tech Head Coach Joey McGuire special:
McGuire's going to be one of the best soundbites in the country, and if his early recruiting is any indication, he's going to to have a lot of positive things to talk about.
Dequan Finn.
It sounds like new Head Coach Jon Sumrall has a reputation for being a great recruiter, so hopefully that can translate to wins the next few years as they move away from the Chip Lindsey era.
2021 was a rare down year for Willie Fritz's squad, but I'm betting that they get back on track this season.
How can you not love the Good Juju Hat?
But really. Bill Clark is a magician.
Gus Malzahn's first season in Orlando was about as Gus Malzahn as it gets. Ridiculously high highs, stupidly low lows, nine wins. If they can find some mainstays offensively, the schedule sets up for them to be in the AAC title hunt with Houston and Cincinnati.
UCLA's defensive line should be fun to watch with the addition of Grayson and Gabriel Murphy. The identical twins had monster freshman seasons at North Texas last year, combining for 26.5 TFLs and 15.5 sacks.
Lights just got a little brighter..🌴@UCLAFootball pic.twitter.com/ulrm2JtjVX
— MURPH (@GabrielMurphy_) March 7, 2022
The Raiders let UNLV use Allegiant Stadium on Saturdays, and I desperately want to see a college football team in Vegas succeed with a platform like this:
USC's been boring for far too long. Putting aside my thought that Lincoln Riley's just a glorified offensive coordinator with a head coach title, their offense is gonna be explosive and full of star power - Just like USC always should be.
Great news: Their new indoor practice facility should be ready to go by August, and it sounds (?) like progress is being made on an on-campus stadium:
On Sept 6th, 1996 Coach Jim Leavitt and the first @USFFootball team held the 1st ever practice at this exact location. Now approx 30 years later we will be back there playing our home games in a new state of the art OCS🏟 #FullCircle #BULLIEVE #US2F 🤘 https://t.co/jMt8qHkgke
— Coach Jeff Scott (@coach_jeffscott) March 8, 2022
I watched more UTEP last year than I ever thought I would since I cut WR Jacob Cowing's highlights. I'm glad I did, because they were entertaining and made a bowl for the first time since 2014. Cowing transferred to Arizona, but QB Gavin Hardison can rip it, and they have enough returning to get back to the postseason. This is one of the toughest jobs in the country and Dana Dimel deserves props for what he's doing here.
UTSA is 19-7 in the last two seasons, made it into the top-25 for the first time in program history last year, and just gave Head Coach Jeff Traylor a 10-year, $28 million extension. I love watching programs on the rise, and UTSA is at the top of the list.
It's understandable that USC's getting all the attention for the huge moves they made this offseason, but Utah's still the best team in the Pac-12 South. They also happen to play the same physical style that Lincoly Riley's teams struggle against.
I honestly forgot that these guys won the Mountain West last year. I don't know how confident I am that they can make another run at it, but I've liked Blake Anderson since his Arkansas State days, so I want to see them in the mix again.
Vandy's probably going winless SEC play again, but I think they'll improve enough in Clark Lea's second season to have some optimism heading into 2023.
There's nothing more this website loves than a left-handed quarterback. We're rolling with Brennan Armstrong in 2022.
Maybe Brent Pry is the coach to get them back on track. Maybe he isn't. But CFB is more fun when Virginia Tech is a threat, so I'm rooting for the former.
All the talk about Wake Forest will probably be whether they can get back to the ACC Title/if they're a top-20 team, but I just want to take a minute to appreciate what's going on in Winston-Salem:
Six straight bowl appearances, including four wins.
Three eight-plus win seasons in Dave Clawson's eight years, including 11 in 2021.
Consistently fun offenses with innovative wrinkles that put their players in positions to succeed!
Wake Forest is the easiest Power 5 team to root for. I wish them nothing but continued prosperity.
Washington has sneaky buy-low potential. The Jimmy Lake era was a mess, and Kalen DeBoer should bring a level of stability back to the program. He'll also bring some life back to an offense that was one of the least watchable in the country. Indiana transfer QB Michael Penix is an intriguing addition. He struggled last year, but played well in 2020, and had his best season in 2019 with DeBoer as his OC. There's no way they come close to being as comically injured as they were last season, and the defense is solid.
Am I talking myself into 8-9 wins if things swing their way? Check back in August.
Sincere congratulations to Washington State fans for not having to spend a full offseason worrying about a sideshow clown coaching their football team.
Doesn't seem like things are going great at WVU right now, so I'll just go with how happy I am that the Backyard Brawl is back:
2022 Pitt Football Schedule 📝
Week 1 » West Virginia » 9.1.22
The Return of the Backyard Brawl 💥@ESPN Thursday Night Opener 📺#H2P » @PittBostick pic.twitter.com/9ljHihfTOy
— Pitt Football (@Pitt_FB) February 1, 2022
WKU let it fly to an all-time degree in 2021, and I hope they do the same thing this year.
Brown isn't the easiest color to work with, but these are pretty clean:
I'm not a "cheer for other teams in your conference," guy. I can't stand the rest of the Big Ten, and actively root against the conference in most non-con scenarios/bowl games. That said, if there's one B1G school that doesn't bother me, it's Wisconsin.
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Using ‘Googled’ Images Can Result in License Demands and Legal Threats
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by Doc Squiffy 4th November 2018 4th November 2018
The Internet is littered with millions of images that are easy to find through a variety of search engines, including Google. These files are regularly downloaded and used by people without permission. To address this, Pixsy is offering photographers a service to “fight and find image theft,” which includes license demands and legal threats. A brilliant scheme according to some, while others brand it a ‘scam’.
Whether it’s for a school project, a funny meme, or a blog, many people use search engines to find fitting images.
Some of these are free to use, but in most cases, permission from the creator is required to publish photos in public.
The same is true for images that float around on news sites or social networks. It’s easy to make a copy of a photo and use it elsewhere on the web but more often than not, people are not supposed to do so without permission.
This is a cause of frustration for many creators and some are now drawing the line. In the past, we have covered several lawsuits filed by photographers against major news outlets that use their work without permission, but there’s another development worth noting – Pixsy.
Pixsy offers a dedicated product that helps creators to find where their images are being copied without permission. Optionally, they can then request to send a takedown notice, or take it up a notch and demand compensation from the infringer, via email.
The artists see the images Pixsy finds and can ‘submit’ the infringing one for further action. The site will then take care of the rest and only gets paid if the artist gets paid too.
“Once submitted our expert case managers handle everything. From preparation to evidence collection, negotiation, settlements, and payouts,” Pixsy notes.
Fight image theft
Pixsy officially launched its services in 2014 and has already processed over 55,000 cases worldwide. The company doesn’t specify how many licensing demands have been sent, but they appear to be quite common.
The Internet is littered with mentions of these emails with varying demands. In some instances they’re asking for $750, but we’ve also seen $575 and various other figures floating around, also in pounds.
TorrentFreak spoke to a person who was recently targeted by a Pixsy license request. He prefers to remain anonymous, fearing more repercussions, but we’ll call him Frank. He was utterly surprised when the email came in.
“I had no idea you could get in trouble for taking a picture off Google search results,” Frank told us.
The trouble, in this case, refers to an email requesting hundreds of pounds in licensing fees. The email stresses that the creator of the image hasn’t given permission, and there’s an “evidence report” that summarizes the findings.
The licensing request doesn’t come without a proper stick, however, as Pixsy warns that legal action may follow if the demands are not met within a set deadline.
“In the event that resolution with a license fee is not possible, our next steps are to forward this matter to a legal partner in your local area to secure the highest fees recoverable for copyright infringement,” Pixsy writes.
“These fees include actual damages or statutory damages, and can include legal costs, expenses, costs affiliated with filing a lawsuit, and ensuing litigation.”
The image Frank used wasn’t an actual photograph but a mocked-up Photoshop image that appeared rather generic. When writing this article a reverse image search revealed that it appears on hundreds of sites.
Interestingly, none of the sites credit the author, nor could we find any way to officially license the image.
Despite the strong language, Frank tells us that he has no intention to pay. And he’s not the only one. The letters have been described as an “extortion scam” by some, and others note that the legal threat may not be as imminent as it seems.
That said, it’s no surprise if many of the recipients choose to pay the license fee (as this woman did), if only to get rid of the looming threat of things getting worse.
While not everyone agrees with the tactics, the scheme certainly is a wake-up call that people should not randomly use images they find online. Many creators who struggle dealing with copyright infringing also see it as a useful service.
TorrentFreak also spoke to Pixsy which informs us that they “fight image theft” with the help of 26 different legal partners across the world. They stress that their service doesn’t target all websites randomly. They pick selected targets which seem to be professional businesses, major publications, or government agencies.
In Frank’s case, the professional business was a blog that was set up a few months ago, offering a certain service. Not a typical company, but Pixsy presumably saw it as a legitimate target.
Our source had no experience with creating websites and maintains that he had no clue that the image he used required a license. To avoid confusion, he urges search engines to make this more clear going forward. Most mention that images “may” be copyrighted, but a starker warning could be appropriate.
While Frank doesn’t deny that creators of photos and other images should be able to protect their rights, he’s no fan of Pixsy’s model.
“I think their email threats come across as a scam or extortion. Only after googling Pixsy I could see that other people have run into them and their methods, and most call them copyright trolls.
“I’ve not replied to their emails as I’m hoping they’ll go away to catch bigger fish than little old me,” Frank adds.
Talking about bigger fish – Pixsy recently offered help to catch one.
The company reached out to photographer Sean Heavey who is currently suing Netflix for the infringing use of a photo. While Heavey didn’t use Pixsy to find the infringing use, the company referred him to a legal partner, and is helping him to track other infringers through their service.
“I now believe all photographers need to have a service such as Pixsy as part of their normal business plan,” Heavey told Alpha Universe.
“We have taken action on not only the Netflix case but others as well — some of which I knew about and others I discovered while using the Pixsy platform,” he adds.
We’re pretty sure Netflix won’t be able to make that go away for $750…
Whether any infringements found through Pixsy have ever resulted in full-blown lawsuits is unknown. The company informs us that it can’t provide exact numbers on licensing requests and legal cases.
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Yan Swiderski: The importance of regenerative investments – #WorldEarthDay
by Brandon Russell | Apr 22, 2022
This article features as part of IFA Magazine’s celebration of World Earth Day.
The importance of regenerative investments over sustainable investment alone cannot be understated, says Yan Swiderski, Co-founder of the Global Returns Project.
There has been a recent call for investors to consider where they deploy their capital – ensuring that investments tick both the regenerative and sustainable boxes.
The call to ‘invest in out planet’ has been a loud one as we approach World Earth Day and co-founder of the Global Returns Project, Yan Swiderski has suggested that more responsibility needs to be placed on investor to do good for the planet.
He said: “The theme for Earth Day 2022 is ‘Invest in Our Planet’. While this theme should certainly encourage investors to consider sustainable investing, it’s time for investors and advisers to think more broadly about how to deploy their capital.
“Even the best ESG portfolios cannot address all the environmental and climate issues that we face. A comprehensive and future-oriented approach to investment must include a contribution to ‘regenerative investments’.
By ‘regenerative investments’, we mean not-for-profit organisations tackling climate and biodiversity challenges. These organisations deliver non-financial ‘global returns’ that enhance and protect the biosphere. In doing so, they make all other investments – including sustainable investments – less risky.
“On Earth Day 2022, investors can start considering these organisations as a separate asset class. They can begin taking them into account when allocating capital every year.
Sustainable investments can have positive impacts. On their own, however, they just are not enough. ‘Investing in our planet’ means that those who have investable capital must think more broadly than ever before as to how to deploy it to best effect.”
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Solana Flips XRP as SOL Outpaces Bitcoin, Ethereum Crash Recovery
While most of the market reels from this morning’s sudden downturn, SOL has jumped up another spot in the Top 10.
By Andrew Hayward
Sep 7, 2021 Sep 7, 2021
Solana blockchain. Image: Shutterstock
Solana (SOL) is up 12% over the last 24 hours and is now the 6th largest cryptocurrency by market cap.
It overtook XRP to claim that spot. XRP is now down 20% over the last 24 hours.
After a morning crash that erased 13% from the total cryptocurrency market cap and muted most of the gains seen by top coins over the last week, the market is gradually recovering ground—although it’s been a bit up and down in recent hours. No top coin has bounced back faster than Solana (SOL), which has claimed a new spot on the Top 10.
Solana is now up 12% over the last 24 hours to a current price of $177 per coin, according to data from CoinGecko. It’s the only non-stablecoin in the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap to be in the green over the last day, as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cardano, and other coins saw sizable declines this morning.
Solana’s price dropped about 17% within an hour this morning, but it has regained much of that value since.
Now, Solana has leapfrogged Ripple’s XRP to become the sixth-largest cryptocurrency by total market cap, at a current cap of $51.3 billion compared to XRP’s $51.1 billion. Solana only flipped Dogecoin for the #7 slot last week, and wasn’t even in the top 10 until last month. XRP is currently down more than 20% over the last 24 hours at a current price of $1.10.
Solana has steadily surged in value over the last month, up 351% over the past 30 days according to CoinGecko. Along the way, SOL has repeatedly set new all-time high levels. Prior to August, SOL had peaked at $56.20 in May, per data from CoinGecko. SOL smashed through that level on August 16 and has more than tripled in price in the three weeks since.
Founded in 2018, Solana is seen as a key rival to Ethereum, which is currently the leading blockchain platform for smart contract-powered applications. Smart contracts are bits of code that perform set instructions, and they serve as the heart of a wide array of decentralized applications, including DeFi protocols (peer-to-peer lending and trading) and even NFT collectibles like images and video files.
Solana has seen an uptick in both DeFi and NFT usage of late, including the launch of popular NFT collections like Degenerate Ape Academy and Aurory. The price of SOL pumped before the launch of each of those sets, as collectors seemingly accumulated the coin in anticipation of securing one of the rare randomized profile pictures.
Today, another notable Solana project—upcoming crypto game Star Atlas—launched NFTs for purchase. According to its Twitter account, the game’s marketplace is “experiencing capacity issues due to extreme demand” as users vie for tokenized digital spaceships designed for the eventual future release of a playable game.
The value of SOL locked in DeFi protocols has also increased significantly in recent weeks. Currently, there’s about $5.9 billion worth of assets locked into DeFi platforms on Solana, per data from DeFi Llama, up from $1.49 billion a month ago on August 7. However, the actual amount of SOL locked in DeFi protocols has actually decreased 7% during that time, although the value of each coin has dramatically risen.
Ultimately, however, Solana’s rising activity still pales in comparison to that of Ethereum. The vast majority of the recently-surging NFT ecosystem is currently based in Ethereum, while DeFi protocols on the network currently hold $121 billion worth of assets.
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Stocks rise after Fed signals further rate hikes, Dow jumps nearly 200 points
The S&P 500 was flat on Wednesday as traders awaited the Federal Reserve’s release of its policy meeting from earlier this month.
The market was split as the broad market index hovered around the flat line while the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped by 84 points, or 0.3%, after being the only one of the major averages to finish higher in the previous session, albeit slightly. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.4%, after posting a steep loss in the previous session.
Investors are awaiting the latest meeting minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee, which are scheduled to be released at 2 p.m. ET. At the May 4 meeting, the Fed hiked rates by half a percentage point, with Chair Jerome Powell saying that inflation is “much too high and we understand the hardship it is causing. We’re moving expeditiously to bring it back down.”
“The Fed is committed to a near-term rate and quantitative tightening path, with a goal to soften demand and moderate inflation without inducing a recession,” said Ross Mayfield, investment strategy analyst at Baird. “With market devoid of major catalysts, earnings reports and macro takeaways remain in focus, particularly retailers, which have sold off precipitously on cracks in consumer demand and rapid spending mix shift.”
Nordstrom shares jumped more than 12% Wednesday after the retailer surpassed sales expectations and raised its full-year outlook. Dick’s Sporting Goods gained 11% after topping earnings and revenue estimates for its fiscal first quarter.
Best Buy climbed 6% despite getting a downgrade from Barclays, which followed a mixed earnings report Tuesday in which the electronics retailer cut its yearly outlook.
Retailer names led the market higher after it opened in the red, following a report that bidders are still competing to acquire Kohl’s. The SPDR S&P Retail ETF gained 6%.
Retailers have been on an earnings spree since last week that has held the attention of investors anxious to see how companies are managing sky-high inflation. Investors and analysts have pointed out that what has so far been a retail wreck reflects a shift in consumers’ demand for services rather than goods, and some have suggested stocks may be getting overly punished for their results.
“I know everybody’s focused on Walmart and Target,” which spooked investors when they plummeted on weak results last week, “but let’s focus on something like TJX that actually delivered and raised their margin guidance,” Hightower Advisors chief investment strategist Stephanie Link said Wednesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
“Services and high end are actually still doing pretty good,” she added, noting Ralph Lauren’s top- and bottom-line beats and positive performance in Nordstrom’s designer and shoe business that “helped comps because people wanted to buy things for occasions.”
Elsewhere, Intuit jumped more than 7% after the tax software company reported better-than-expected quarterly profit and revenue, and raised its current quarter outlook. Tech stocks led market losses in the previous session, following a warning of slowing growth from social media company Snap.
Homebuilder Toll Brothers also posted quarterly results that beat analyst expectations, sending the stock up more than 3%. Lennar, D.R. Horton and Pultegroup were also among the S&P 500’s top gainers Wednesday.
Traders will continue to parse through earnings reports this week to see how companies are handling inflationary pressures. Snowflake and Nvidia are set to post quarterly reports after the bell. Costco will report on Thursday.
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Botanica Lithuanica , Volume 2, Number 2
Mycological and lichenological investigations in the former Soviet military forestries in Lithuania. Protologue. – Botanica Lithuanica, 2(2): 103–110
Results of investigations on species diversity and ecological peculiarities of fungi anf lichens carried out during 1994–1995 in 6 former Soviet military forestries in the greatest Lithuanian woods are presented in series of articles. Investigations were carried out in various phytocenoses. Distribution, substrate and habitat of each species were registered. The aim of the investigations was to study species diversity of fungi and lichens in the former Soviet military forestries, their distribution and ecological peculiarities as weel as concentration of trace elements in macromycetes and their substrate. Special attention was paid to rare and endangered fungi species, measures for their protection.
Keywords: military forestries, fungi, lichens, Lithuania.
Mycological and lichenological investigations in the former military forestries in Lithuania. Species composition and ecological specificity of agaricoid fungi (Agaricales s.l.). – Botanica Lithuanica, 2(2): 111–129
Species composition and ecological peculiarities of agaricoid fungi (Agaricales s.l.) in the previous Soviet military forestries in Lithuania are presented. Investigations were carried out in 1994–1995. In total 455 species of agaricoid fungi were recorded in the investigated territories. Distribution, substrate and habitats of each species are determined.
Keywords: fungi, Agaricales s.l., species composition, ecology, military forestries, Lithuania
New for Lithuania Cercospora Fresen. Species. – Botanica Lithuanica, 2(2): 131–135
In 1995 four fungi species on 4 species of host plants were registered in Lithuania for the first time: Cercospora circumscissa Sacc. on Cerasus avium (L.) Moench, C. conyzae Sawada on Conyza canadensis (L.) Cronq., C. epilobii Schneider on Epilobium parviflorum Schreb., C. lysimachiae Ellis et Halst. Sacc. on Lysimachia vulgaris L.
Keywords: fungi, Cercospora, conidiophores, conidia, Lithuania
Free amino acids in sediments of the lake Drūkšiai – the cooling basin of Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant. – Botanica Lithuanica, 2(2): 137–155
During the investigations carried out in 1990–1991 in sediments of the lake Drūkšiai 17 free amino acids were identified. The greatest amount of free amino acids was found in silt of deep-water sampling stations. The lowest amount of free amino acids was registrated in the zone of unloading canal. Neutral amino acids dominated, whereas amount of sulfur-containing and alkaline amino acids was low. A large amount of amino acids was in combinations. According to the quantity of irreplaceable amino acids the sediments of the lake Drūkščiai equate with sapropel. Constantly and in rather large quantities such amino acids as valine, threonine, serine, aspartic acid and dlutamic acid, which stimulate development of cyanobacteria, were found. In winter on the average 51 % of free amino acids decompose and from sediments pass into the water. Total amount of free amino acids in the fluid phase of sediments was 14 times larger then in epilimnion.
Keywords: lake sediments, free amino acids, lake Drūkšiai, Lithuania.
The herbarium of vascular plants of Lithuania collected by Jonas Dagys (1906–1993). – Botanica Lithuanica, 2(2): 157–188
Famous Lithuanian plant physiologist, professor of Vilnius University Jonas Dagys (1906–1993) has collected private herbarium (1059 harbarium specimens), which was trasferred for keeping to WI in 1988. The herbarium includes three parts: 1) collection of algae, fungi and mosses – 37 specimens; 2) herbarium of vascular plants of Lithuania – 777 specimens; 3) harbarium of vascular plants from foreing countries – 245 specimens. Plants from 114 collecting-sites in 28 vascular plants of prof. J. Dagys. Specimens of 39 plant species recently included in the Red Data Book of Lithuania are presented in the collection.
Keywords: herbarium, vascular plants, flora, Lithuania.
Two species of marine Hyphomycetes new to Lithuania. – Botanica Lithuanica, 2(2): 189–192
Two marine hyphomycetes Asteromyces cruciatus and Orbimyces spevtabilis were found in the Baltic Sea foam. These temperate species are reported as new to Lithuania and are common in the sea foam.
Keywords: marine fungi, Hyphomycetes, Asteromyces cruciatus, Orbimyces spectabilis, Lithuania.
Flowering of Lemna L. species in Lithuania. – Botanica Lithuanica, 2(2): 193–197
Data on the flowering of Lemna gibba and L. minor in Lithuania are presented. Flowering L. gibba was collected in 1936 and 1936, L. minor – in 1971, 1973 and 1995. The air temperature of those years was analysed, however, no clear relations between the flowering and air temperature were revealed. The flowering probably depends on microclimatic and ecological conditions of a habitat. The map of known localities where Lemna species flowered is presented.
Keywords: Lemnaceae, Lemna minor, L. gibba, flowering, Lithuania.
Eugenija Šimkūnaitė (1920–1996). – Botanica Lithuanica, 2(2): 199–201
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Cuban police forcefully evict and arrest a group of opponents in Havana
Cuban security agents on Thursday forcibly evicted the group of 14 dissidents, five of them on hunger strike, who were barricading themselves in a house in Havana, according to the opposition group Movimiento San Isidro - which groups artists, independent journalists and academics - and corroborated several witnesses at the scene.
The eviction of the opponents, some of whom remain unaccounted for after being transferred in several patrols, took place around 20:30 local time (1:30 GMT on Friday) on Damas Street, in the neighborhood of San Isidro in the iconic Old Havana. When Efe arrived at the scene after the events were consummated, there were two policemen guarding the door of the house and more than a dozen people on the street who identified themselves as neighbors or State Security agents.
Two neighbors who witnessed the incident assured Efe that the agents removed the activists "with blows", while another said "with violence." All the witnesses refused to speak further when asked to provide more details about what happened.
A man dressed in civilian clothes who identified himself as a State Security agent denied any type of violence in the eviction - he assured that it occurred peacefully - and told Efe that the forces of order took the opponents away because one of them it had "violated the anti-COVID-19 protocol."
In the mansion on Calle Damas, 14 people associated with the San Isidro Movement - one of the main opposition organizations created by dissidents in the field of art and culture - were voluntarily detained to demand the release of the young rapper Denis Solís, an anti-government activist who was sentenced to eight months in prison for "contempt".
"Agents of the dictatorship broke into our headquarters, savagely beat our comrades, took them away and we do not know their whereabouts. We fear for their physical integrity," the group reported from its Twitter account.
#URGENT | Agents of the dictatorship broke into our headquarters, savagely beat our comrades, took them away and we do not know their whereabouts. We fear for their physical integrity #ATENTOS @mbachelet @JMVivancoHRW @Mariearenaps @CubanDefenders
- San Isidro Movement (@Mov_sanisidro) November 27, 2020
"We hold the Cuban Government responsible for the health of Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, Maykel Castillo and the other strikers stationed at our headquarters," the Movement published on Twitter minutes later, which also "called for respecting the life and dignity of all detainees and set them free. "
Five of those who remained in the house were on hunger strike -three of them for eight days-, which has generated a strong international repercussion when numerous Cuban and global organizations, such as Amnesty International, in addition to the US Secretary of State spoke. .UU., Mike Pompeo.
The evictees were protesting the recent eight-month prison sentence for "contempt" of the amateur rapper and dissident Denis Solís, considering the judicial process illegal, although they are also calling for the closure of the controversial Cuban stores of basic products that pay exclusively in dollars.
The raid on the house of San Isidro and the arrest of the opponents coincided with the temporary fall of Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, inaccessible for about 40 minutes through the Cuban mobile network.
In recent days, entrenched activists used to broadcast live on the social network Facebook what was happening in the house, for which several Internet users attributed the mysterious blackout to an attempt by the Government to prevent images and videos of the eviction from being released in time real.
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Ashtead Group's (LON:AHT) Upcoming Dividend Will Be Larger Than Last Year's
June 28, 2021 • Updated February 09, 2023
Ashtead Group plc (LON:AHT) will increase its dividend on the 21st of September to UK£0.35. Despite this raise, the dividend yield of 0.8% is only a modest boost to shareholder returns.
Check out our latest analysis for Ashtead Group
Ashtead Group's Dividend Is Well Covered By Earnings
If it is predictable over a long period, even low dividend yields can be attractive. Before making this announcement, Ashtead Group was easily earning enough to cover the dividend. As a result, a large proportion of what it earned was being reinvested back into the business.
Over the next year, EPS is forecast to expand by 16.5%. Assuming the dividend continues along recent trends, we think the payout ratio could be 27% by next year, which is in a pretty sustainable range.
LSE:AHT Historic Dividend June 29th 2021
Ashtead Group Has A Solid Track Record
The company has an extended history of paying stable dividends. Since 2011, the dividend has gone from UK£0.029 to UK£0.42. This works out to be a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of approximately 31% a year over that time. We can see that payments have shown some very nice upward momentum without faltering, which provides some reassurance that future payments will also be reliable.
The Dividend Looks Likely To Grow
Investors could be attracted to the stock based on the quality of its payment history. It's encouraging to see Ashtead Group has been growing its earnings per share at 14% a year over the past five years. Growth in EPS bodes well for the dividend, as does the low payout ratio that the company is currently reporting.
Ashtead Group Looks Like A Great Dividend Stock
In summary, it is always positive to see the dividend being increased, and we are particularly pleased with its overall sustainability. Distributions are quite easily covered by earnings, which are also being converted to cash flows. All of these factors considered, we think this has solid potential as a dividend stock.
It's important to note that companies having a consistent dividend policy will generate greater investor confidence than those having an erratic one. At the same time, there are other factors our readers should be conscious of before pouring capital into a stock. For instance, we've picked out 1 warning sign for Ashtead Group that investors should take into consideration. Looking for more high-yielding dividend ideas? Try our curated list of strong dividend payers.
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At WWDC this year, Apple unveiled its biggest design change ever. Getting rid of skeuomorphism and rounded design, both of which were outmoded, iOS 7 flaunted a sleek, flat design that conforms to the latest trends. Apart from new icons came new features that further simplify the way a user interacts with the mobile operating system. In other words, Apple, with this release, is playing catch up with Android who is ruling the mobile OS market at this moment. The question remains whether these changes are enough for the average Android user to jump ship and become an Apple loyalist.
Apple’s iOS 7 comes with a completely revamped design that keeps up with the latest trends. The icons now sport a flat look and no longer can you see any hint of the infamous skeuomorphism that Apple was known for all these years. The design borrows heavily from Android and Windows Phone OS. For example, the all-new Control Center is similar to what Android offers with Jelly Bean's notification toggles. The colors are fresh and effects like Blur, which aren't present in many mobile operating systems these days, make an appearance. Personally, I'm a fan of the interface as it is fresh, easy to use, and just works. When compared to Android, though, it has a lot of catching up to do. But still, given the fact that Apple had a huge responsibility of coming up with something new yet staying familiar to users at the same time, this is an amazing milestone. Summing up, one can say that the design is a bit polarizing. Some people will instantly get drawn to it, while others won't even look at it and prefer Android or WP7 instead.
"True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation -- it’s about bringing order to complexity" -- Jony Ive
iOS 7 comes with a lot of new features. Multitasking, upgraded default applications, iCloud sharing, iTunes Radio, Anti-Theft functionality, improved Notification Center are some of the features that are going to please a lot of iOS fans. However, as far as the competition is concerned, Android users won't be that interested in this update as most of the new features are already present in Android Jelly Bean.
Siri vs. Google Now
Siri, Apple's innovative voice assistant has gotten some major updates. It now has male and female voices and can now speak French and German as well. Apart from the voice change, Siri now looks more aesthetically pleasing and has gotten much more control over the device. You can now ask Siri to play your voicemail, turn down brightness, turn off Bluetooth, and more. As compared to Google Now these features put Apple a step ahead of Android. However, just Siri isn't enough for Apple to evangelize a horde of Android fanboys and fangirls into buying a new iPhone.
Maps is an area where Android still has an upper hand over Apple. Apple Maps, Cupertino's ambitious-yet-failed attempt at taking on Google is something Tim Cook is still embarrassed about. That's why Apple has offered users a choice between the installed maps applications. However, those choices don't compare against the stable and powerful built-in maps application that Android provides.
The biggest problem that Android is facing is that of fragmentation. Unlike Apple wherein you'll find same or similar operating systems installed across all devices, the fragmentation has made it hard to find uniformity in the platform. And, as long as Google doesn't fix this problem, Apple will keep having an upper hand in this department. For example, if you consider iOS 7, the update is compatible not only with the latest iPhone 5 but also with iPhone 4, iPhone 4s, iPod Touch, iPad 2, iPad mini, and iPad with Retina display. iOS7, by making the update compatible even across older devices has reminded Android that it's not too late to fix the fragmentation problem.
Given the way Android has been improving recently, there is barely any chance that we'll see a major migration of users towards Cupertino. That said, with iOS 7, Apple has given its old users something to look forward to. The release, being compatible across so many devices, says that Apple still cares about its old users and is not going to let their devices become obsolete.
Written by: Abhishek, a regular TechSource contributor and a long-time FOSS advocate.
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Diversity and inclusion in the workplace: How to find an employer that values you
Published October 4, 2022.
Estimated reading time: 3.5 minutes
Find an employer that treats you with respect, dignity and values your education, experience, knowledge and perspective.
Research what initiatives and commitments they have made with respect to diversity, inclusion and equity.
Find candid employer reviews online or talk to current or former employees to better understand the workplace culture of the organization.
Dienye Meshileya says her immigration journey to Canada was the culmination of a “wild dream”.
An immigrant from Nigeria who arrived in 2016, the human resources (HR) executive now based in Burlington, Ontario remembers hearing about Canada’s harsh winters but was committed to seeing her dream become reality.
“I was eager to experience it all,” says Meshileya.
Meshileya understood that in order to make her big Canadian dreams come true, she would have to put in the time and the work to succeed away from the comforts of friends, family and home. What she quickly learned was that Canadian workplaces can, at once, be welcoming and challenging places for immigrant and refugee employees.
“The excitement of calling a new country ‘home’ can quickly meet up with the anxiety of finding one’s place in this ‘new home’,” says Meshileya. “It can be exhausting but still full of exciting possibilities.”
In her conversations with newcomers, she found stories of individuals who experienced workplaces that sometimes didn’t necessarily value diversity or inclusion. Managers who didn’t appreciate cultural differences. Workplace cultures that took no steps to embrace different perspectives. This wasn’t the case in all workplaces but many fellow immigrants shared their stories with Meshileya. While recent surveys show approximately two-thirds of Canadian companies are prioritizing diversity and inclusion initiatives or policies. As well, more than 70 per cent of workers say it’s important to them that their organization keep equity, diversity and inclusion top of mind. It’s clear there remains work to be done to create more inclusive workplaces where all employees feel welcomed and valued.
Three Windmill Microlending newcomer clients, Clodia, Anoop and Alexandra, share their stories of inclusion in the Canadian workplace and what the future of inclusion at work should look like. Read about their experiences in our recent blog post.
Meshileya believes work environment plays a key role in how quickly an immigrant or refugee feels integrated and finds their place in their new country. She shares the following warning signs to look out for as well as indicators that an organizational values diversity and inclusion.
Dienye Meshileya is an HR executive and immigrant from Nigeria to Canada.
She says newcomers need to do their due diligence to find an employer that values them for who they are.
Warning sign: The interview
Take the time to learn more about the company you are interviewing with. What are their values? Pay attention to how your interview is conducted. Are you treated respectfully throughout the recruitment process? If you visit the office, in person, what is the feeling you get meeting the people there? Do you see aspects of yourself in the other employees of the organization? Remember, while the potential employer is interviewing you for the job, you are also interviewing them for your time and service. You should feel excited about the job and the prospect of the work environment you’ll be joining.
Sign of inclusive workplace: Intentional inclusivity
Diversity and inclusion need to be supported by action. It isn’t just about ticking off a box on a to do list, it’s about who is participating in organizational decision-making. The commitment to creating an inclusive work culture has to be intentional. Leaders have to actively listen and understand what biases may exist within their organizations and dedicate time and resources to building the organizations competencies in anti-racism, anti-discrimination and inclusive practices. Are you seeing this commitment and intentionality in the organization you work for or want to work for? If you’re not seeing it in your workplace, decide if you want to be the internal champion for change or find an employer that does value these concepts.
Warning sign: Disrespectful behaviours
This can come in many different forms. Maybe it’s the condescending tone of a manager or colleague, disregarding or devaluing your foreign education or experiences. It could be reflected in a lack of opportunities to share your perspective or voice. These are diminishing behaviours that trigger self-doubt and loss of confidence. Many Canadian organizations are keen on fostering a psychologically safe environment for their employees. There are many benefits to the employer in building a supportive and inclusive workplace environment and that starts by addressing disrespect in the workplace. If you’re in a workplace setting where these issues go unaddressed, consider reaching out to your manager or human resources team for support. If no action or follow-up ensues, you may want to reflect on whether the employer is still a fit for you.
Sign of inclusive workplace: Sense of community
Some of my closest friends are people I met at work. Trust and camaraderie formed in the workplace can be valuable personally and professionally. After all, much of our lives is spent at work. Companies that create an enabling environment for teams to build rapport with each other are the ones that succeed. Does your workplace offer informal team-building activities or mentorship programs? Does it foster bonds that make it easy to build allies? Inclusive employers offer diversity and inclusion activities in the workplace that empower employees, strengthen their practice of empathy and build a sense of belonging and community.
Warning sign: Reviews matter!
Reputable companies are interested in how engaged their employees feel and if they are proud to work for them. Is there a genuine effort to address concerns raised by employees in the organization you work for? Online review sites like Glassdoor allow you to read company reviews from current and former employees. You can also peruse the list of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers. See what you can find about companies you are applying to and know what you are getting yourself into. You owe yourself that.
Sign of inclusive workplace: Are you able to lead the change?
Everyone has a role to play in creating more diverse, equitable and inclusive workplaces. Be the change you seek in your organization. Be empathetic, be collaborative, be your unique self, share your perspective and let your creativity show. Remember, you bring value to your organization through more than just your skills and knowledge. Be mindful of organizations that value all that you bring to the workplace. If your organization doesn’t enable you to bring your whole self to work or play a role in making it a more welcoming place, ask yourself if it is truly where you belong.
Are you looking to make a change in your Canadian career? Windmill Microlending’s Career Change Navigator can help you decide whether a career switch is the right decision for you with helpful articles, a step-by-step checklist and videos to walk you through your transition to your next career opportunity. Download the Career Change Navigator today.
About our blog contributor
Dienye Meshileya is a certified HR leader with nearly two decades of experience in organizational development and human resources leadership, across multiple industries. She currently works as part of the HR team at Metso Outotec Canada. Since immigrating to Canada from Nigeria, Meshileya has been honoured with multiple awards of commendation for continuous support and empowerment of children, youth, women and families. She is also an active volunteer with Windmill Microlending partner, Council for Nigerian Professionals (CNP).
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Injecting a Performer’s Spirit Into Business
On February 28, 2011, I performed standup as part of a comedy class to a sold out crowd of 281 people at the Punchline in Atlanta. (See my routine here.) Not only was it a wonderful personal growth moment but the experience also taught me some unusual principles that I’ve since applied to the world of business. Many people are unnecessarily uncomfortable in the business world, all of the time. At the office or out networking, they are mostly worried about knowing their subject matter and “getting it right.” While a well-scripted phone call or no-nonsense networking conversation may give the impression that they did their homework, that approach often does not come across as particularly charismatic, likeable, or relaxing to team members, clients, or potential prospects. That is why entertainers are great to study. A few of my favorite entertainers illustrate several important communication lessons that can be applied to the business world.
Treat Every Moment Like It’s Your Last Gig (Henry Rollins)
As a former punk rocker and current spoken word artist and actor, Henry Rollins always puts every ounce of energy he has into his work. Watch any live musical performance, and he is sweating, swaying, and yelling with abandon. Watch even his spoken word performances (see above for example) where he brings unusual energy to his stories. While relying on a rough road map, he never gives the same rote talk twice. He allows room for both structure and creative improvisation, and his performance demonstrates that he’s fully engaged in the moment.
In the business world, people often hop on a phone call or go to a networking event and bring…no…energy. No laughter. No questions. No intellectual curiosity. Something else is on their mind. They don’t look you in the eye. Their voice has no energy, no charisma. They don’t speak up. Their voice trails off.
Others, though, seem to want to be there. They’re excited about the challenges set before them. And this energy can also be the difference between a client feeling you truly care about their business or just collecting a paycheck. From my experience, those who bring energy to every moment tend to be those who are remembered after networking events, asked to speak on panels, and sought after to participate on boards. These people even help increase company morale by energizing others.
Challenge: Watch Henry Rollins doing part of a spoken word performance. Do you bring that much energy to your work? To a meeting? To a networking event?
Show People You’re Genuinely Interested and Curious (Howard Stern)
Howard Stern is not to everyone’s taste – including mine. However, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more entertaining and honest interviewer in 2012. Over the last five years, his interviews with Paul McCartney, Billy Joel, Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett, and other entertainers have been remarkable for their depth and fresh insights. In studying how Howard Stern keeps an interview interesting, insightful, and entertaining, I discovered it’s not the sex jokes or bathroom humor. It’s his honesty and genuine curiosity about his interviewees, along with a free-wheeling, impulsive, instinctual approach to conversation.
Early in my career, I used to be terrified when I spoke with someone on the phone. I used to rely on safe, pre-planned phone scripts to guide me along. I’d hang on to a PowerPoint deck like I was holding onto the edge of a cliff. Then, I began to eventually loosen up and become more conversational. I’d even crack a joke when appropriate. Instead of sounding like a robot, I began to sound human. People will forgive authenticity, but they’ll just forget you if you sound like everybody else.
But it’s not just about talking. Howard Stern keeps conversation rolling not by dominating the conversation, but by asking fun yet thoughtful, probing questions. He tries to draw out interesting assumptions, discussion points, and insights, while also keeping the interviewee interested and entertained. In business meetings or networking events today, I bring some pre-planned questions but I don’t stick to a script. I ask genuinely curious questions to both get to the objectives but also make the conversation intellectually compelling, relationship-building, and – yes – even fun.
Challenge: Listen to Howard Stern interview Paul McCartney. Are you that curious about other people during your business conversations? Do you project a loose feeling of fun to make other people comfortable?
Make the Other Person the Star (Johnny Carson)
While a very different entertainer than Howard Stern, Johnny Carson illustrates a complementary lesson. Johnny Carson was not always the best with comedic monologues but all of that was swept aside during his interviews. He was a master at listening, and he would talk in just the right places in order to elicit fascinating insights from his interviewees.
Partly, that was by creating a nest of sorts to make the other person feel comfortable. Comedians often used to parody his conversational style with its odd stops and starts, questions, and catchphrases. However, when he talked to a guest he expertly weaved in and around the guest’s conversation, prodding it along when needed, moving to another subject when necessary, and making sure any comedic moments were recognized and brought out. But ultimately, he made his guests feel welcome and comfortable. If he did that, the comedy and insights would inevitably follow.
While the goal in business is not to get the laughs, I’ve seen expert businesspeople similarly listen and ask questions during a meeting – barely saying anything – only to close the discussion with several brilliant insights at the end and be stunningly clear about next steps. I’ve also seen the reverse where a businessperson will dominate the conversation and talk the entire time. While those meetings can range from interesting to painful, they often end in confusion. The dominator runs out of fuel, people wonder what it all meant, and next steps are unclear.
Challenge: What percentage of time do you usually listen and talk in business conversations (networking, sales presentations, client meetings)? Do you listen like Johnny Carson?
Find Inspiration Through Your Favorite Entertainers
There is a point in our careers when we understand the fundamentals of how to give a presentation, how to run a meeting, and how to do our work. Past those fundamentals, it takes all of us a lifetime to master the soft skills of life and business. The best entertainers get to those soft skills faster and better than many of us. In the Darwinian world of entertainment, only the best survive. These are only three of my favorite entertainers, but I’m sure many more come to mind who inspire you. Study and emulate their best qualities, and you may be surprised how your communications skills improve.
Stay tuned for Part Two where I’ll discuss three entertainers who represent attitude applied to business.
Written by Kevin Howarth on March 2, 2012
03/04/12 12:03pm
Dusty Wood says:
Great examples for bringing performance into the workplace to boost your quality of work. I know many people at my workplace who treat elements of our job like theatre and it definitely promotes a better morale.
03/03/12 9:19am
Grayson Daughters says:
The Rollins piece is just brill! Posting that (and your post) to my Facebook now.
Kevin, if I looked up "truth" in the dictionary I'd find "Righteous Man, Kevin Howarth." Great post. Anyone in management should be required to take a comedy class. No questions asked. How many lives could be saved? Countless!
I have a dear friend, and excellent improv actor, Allison Gilmore who has a company that teachers comedy skills in business environments. In her spare time. Which doesn't exist, last I checked. (More urban myths... that "spare time" thing.)
Allison's website (she's here in Atlanta) is: http://www.dumoreimprov.com/Welcome.html
Bring her in. Amazing lady. Amazing lessons to be learned. And the best part is... people have FUN, serious fun, learning to be.... better people. Winning.
Lisa Nanette Allender says:
Incredibly insightful. I've long suspected "business people" could gain much from learning the techniques we actors use, whether it is the deep-breathing and physical and vocal warm- ups to ride them of their "nerves" before a presentation, or learning "the Method" many of us use to become a character (for a business-person, it would be useful for developing empathy).
Thanks for this. I have been holding classes entitled "Acting for Non-
Actors" for a long time. Here's to performing!
Delilah S. Dawson says:
Great post. I only worked in corporate offices twice, and the overall spirit was the reason one job was great and one was drudgery. Humor, energy, self-deprecation, being open to improvisation-- hugely important, both for office dynamics and to communicate your excitement to your customers.
Eric Van Fossen says:
I think this is really dynamite. Right on with great examples, too. I think one could definitely say the only business, these days, is show business. Everything is an experience and every one is looking for entertainment value. Heck, look at TED. The 'most serious' topics are events.
Sherry Heyl says:
Excellent post Kevin. One thing I always tell my clients is that their content should educate, inspire, and entertain. No one does that better than a great performer.
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Campaign for new footpath in Camlough bears fruit after young boy knocked down
The commencement of roadworks by DFI on the Clontigora Road in south Armagh has also been welcomed
For almost four years Camlough residents have been campaigning for a new footpath after a young boy was knock down.
The youngster was struck by a vehicle while crossing the Newtown Road between Cashel close and Cloughan court in 2018.
The near tragic accident resulted in a campaign for a continuation of the footpath where it cuts off abruptly.
Sinn Féin councillor Oonagh Magennis says she, and fellow campaigners, are delighted that the Department for Infrastructure will soon begin works on the project.
The Slieve Gullion councillor said: “Following the incident [in 2018], I met with the family to discuss the road safety issue and to organise a campaign to secure traffic calming measures and ultimately, a much needed footpath for this part of the village.
“After many years of lobbying, DFI have now agreed to build a footpath from Cloughan Court, into the village itself.
“This will link the footpath to St. Malachy’s primary school and to the crossing Island before the first roundabout, giving locals a much safer means to cross this busy road.
“This work is scheduled to begin in the next few weeks, however I would continue to urge all driving through the village to do so at a responsible speed to ensure the village is kept safe for all.”
Meanwhile, Sinn Féin Councillor Cathal King has welcomed the commencement of roadworks by DFI on the Clontigora Road, near Killeen.
The Councillor for Newry DEA and Fathom said: “The initial works carried out by DFI this week are a step in the right direction.
“I had reported the road to DFI for repair last week and it’s good to see such a prompt response.
“So far they have resurfaced part of the road which had begun to subside, much to the concern of local residents and motorists.
“There is still more work to be done and I will continue to press DFI to ensure that our roads are kept in a safe condition for local residents and all who travel on them.
“Improving infrastructure for our communities is a priority for Sinn Féin and we will continue to work to Improve the safety and quality of our roads for all.”
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Habitat for Humanity still helping low income families get housing despite pandemic, supply chain obstacles
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) – We’ve all had a lot thrown our way in the past couple of years, and charitable organizations like Habitat for Humanity are no different.
The organization, which helps low-income families build and finance homes of their own, is supported by a large army of volunteers and businesses who donate time and money to support the cause. Still, during the pandemic, one part of that army was missing.
“Coming off COVID, we shut down volunteering,” said Habitat Executive Director Chris Tuckness.
When volunteers weren’t allowed to participate during the pandemic, the organization only built one house, quite a contrast considering Habitat had made over 800 homes since 1988.
And now that the volunteers are back?
“This year, we’ll build six homes,” Tuckness answered. “And we’ll do about 150 repairs to keep homeowners in their homes.”
Habitat for Humanity has its subdivision north of Springfield named “Legacy Trails.” On Friday, nine Missouri State University Office of Planning, Design, and Construction members were on hand to help refurbish a home that will soon have a new owner.
That MSU group oversees all capital improvement projects on Missouri State’s campus, like the new John Goodman amphitheater and the refurbished pedestrian tunnel under Grand Avenue.
“We currently have about $160 million of construction activities on campus,” said director Mark Wheeler.
Yet they were working on a capital improvement project they weren’t getting paid for on this day and had nothing to do with MSU.
“To contribute and get our hands dirty in a different fashion is rewarding and enjoyable,” said assistant director Emily McGee. “And it’s a great way to get rid of some stress.”
“We wanted to help with a capital improvement project on a different scale that will impact the community in a positive way,” Wheeler added. “And hopefully, it will also be a team-building endeavor.”
“I’ve seen volunteers who in some cases have never swung a hammer come out, and by the time they leave, they’re hanging windows and door jambs,” Tuckness said. “And it’s a source of pride. Our volunteers come out when we have our home dedications, and you’ll hear them whispering to their friend, ‘Hey, I put up that window,’ so they do get a lot of satisfaction out of that.”
More homes are being built thanks to the return of the volunteers, but the new homeowners also do their part by competing over 250 hours of their own volunteer work and paying for their homes.
“They put in their own sweat-equity to their home and help other Habitat homeowners,” Tuckness pointed out. “And I think the biggest myth is that we give the homes away. They get a zero-percent interest loan and have to go through life-skill classes. In most cases, it takes about two years to complete our program.”
The supply chain and workforce issues have also taken their toll on Habitat. The organization tries to sell the house as close to the cost-to-build-it as possible, with an average two-bedroom house at around $88,000. So donations like the one Habitat got Friday from the Veterans United Foundation for $10,000 will go a long way towards helping the new owner pay for a home getting more expensive to build.
“We are very mindful of the finances,” Tuckness explained. “We want to keep the cost down so that the house payment will be much more affordable for that homeowner. But we’re looking at about a 20 percent increase across-the-board in our construction costs. We’re trying not to pass that on to the homeowner because even a rise in construction cost of $2,000-5,000 can impact a payment significantly. So we offset that with donors and volunteers. The volunteers offset our labor costs, and the sponsors offset the upfront money it takes to build the house. It makes a huge difference.”
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22-Year-Old Eniolorunda Flourish Emerges Face Of Royalty Africa
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A Kogi born 22-year-old Eniolorunda Flourish has been crowned the 2022 Face of Royalty Queen.
She hails from Ijumu local government area of the state.
The graduate of Chemistry emerged winner ahead of nine other contestants who represented various countries in Africa.
The FCT resident can now safely be addressed as Head Queen of Face of Royalty.
At the pageant event which took place in Abuja the nation's capital, distinguished personalities were also honoured with Africa Royalty Award for their selflessness and commitment in serving their communities.
In his remarks, the lead organiser of the pageant show and the CEO Face of Royalty Africa, Amb Duke Bassey said the event was organised to harness the talents of young women and make them contributors in the country's economy.
According to him, models are critical stakeholders in the development of the country's tourism sector, noting that the brand will continue to put the talents of young ladies to make them self independent.
He thanked the participants for putting in their best and assured that as an organisation, Face of Royalty Africa will always honour its agreement with its models at all times and set the pace for mutually beneficial business relationship.
The event which was held at Bolingo Xperia Hotel was anchored by PR consultant AlexReports and TV Host Madinma.
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Honest Thief (2020)
Director: Mark Williams
Notable Cast: Liam Neeson, Kate Walsh, Jai Courtney, Jeffrey Donovan, Anthony Ramos, Robert Patrick
It wouldn’t be another year in film if there wasn’t at least one Liam Neeson anchored action thriller to hit theaters. Still, color me shocked that his latest, Honest Thief, was one of the larger films to make it to theaters after the pandemic has crippled the entire industry for most of the year. While so many action films are either postponed or relegated to VOD premieres, leave it to Liam Neeson and his grumbly charm to power through. Fortunately, this latest entry into the action portion of his career is just charming enough, just exciting enough, and just surprising enough to be one that will definitely appease his fanbase. Honest Thief lacks the pizzazz some of the other films of his tenure, particularly those directed by Collet-Serra, but it’s the kind of straightforward comfort food piece of film that hits all of the right spots when needed.
When a legendary thief, Tom (Neeson), meets the woman of his dreams (Walsh) he decides to give up his lifestyle, return the money and try to redeem himself. After his attempt to turn himself and $9 million dollars goes south from a greedy FBI agent (Courtney) who wants to stash the cash for himself, Tom will have to fight to clear his name, save his girlfriend, and cleanse himself of his sins.
If you’ve seen one of the Neeson Action Extravaganzas, then you’ve (more or less) seen them all. Honest Thief, despite some fun elements, is rarely a film meant to surprise or shock. It’s a run of the mill throwback action thriller through and through. It’s often predictable in its plotting, generic in many of its side characters, and often silly in the many, many plot contrivances that continually propel everything forward to keep things thrilling. For more discerning viewers, Honest Thief will be a paint-by-numbers effort that may not thrill as much as some of his others.
Although the film is certainly centered around the screen presence of Neeson, who delivers the usual charming ‘old man who’s seen some shit’ performance that one would expect, the truly surprising part of Honest Thief that makes it worth the watch is the secondary cast. The romantic subplot is, all in all, a generic one, Kate Walsh as the girlfriend Annie adds a lot of emotional support to the narrative and she adds definite chemistry to the mix that comes as a welcome surprise. The same could be said about Jai Courtney who is, shockingly, an asset to the film as the sleazy FBI agent villain. I’ve never been a fan of the actor, outside of his smaller role in Jack Reacher, but he is despicably fun in the film. The final mention to make in this category has to go to a shockingly large and fun role for Jeffrey Donovan as the ally FBI agent both hunting and helping Neeson’s Tom. Donovan simply steals this film in every sequence he is in. He is so charismatic and effective in the film that one has to wonder when he will get his own action thriller to really showcase his abilities.
As for the action, Honest Thief is definitely more of a thriller than a full-on action flick so keep expectations in check. Neeson is getting to an age where most of his action set pieces are shot to hide stunt doubles, but there are a few key sequences that are quite exciting. There is a decent car chase sequence and a handful of fist-to-cuffs moments that jack up the energy of the film. The pacing helps immensely, it’s a very workman script that knows it has to maintain a structure that will not meander too far from the meat and potatoes of its thrills and kills, but it’s not the highest-octane material you’re likely to see this year.
Honest Thief is a fun film that ought to play perfectly into the series of Neeson lead action thrillers for the established fanbase. It’s not going to win over many of the detractors with its formulaic approach to its story and characters, but some fantastic performances and charming character moments add a bit of flair to the proceedings that make it a decent watch.
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Miriam K. Carliner Chair - Economic Studies
Senior Fellow - Center on Regulation and Markets
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Aaron Klein is Miriam K. Carliner Chair and senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, focused on financial technology and regulation; payments; macroeconomics; and infrastructure finance and policy. Prior to joining Brookings in 2016, he directed the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Financial Regulatory Reform Initiative.
Between 2009 and 2012, Klein served as the deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the Department of Treasury. He worked on financial regulatory reform issues including crafting and helping secure passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. He also played leading roles on responding to the economic crisis, housing finance reform, transportation and infrastructure policy, and Native American policy.
Previously, Klein served as chief economist of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee for Chairmen Chris Dodd and Paul Sarbanes. He worked on numerous pieces of major legislation, including the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (aka TARP), Housing and Economic Recovery Act, and the SAFETEA Act of 2005—re-writing America’s surface transportation system.
Klein serves on the Board of the PC Project, a charity dedicated to finding a cure for Pachyonychia Congenita. He taught at the Wharton school of Business. Klein serves as an external economist for the National Homebuyers Fund, Astro America, provides occasional expert analysis for several groups including Gerson Lerhman Group, AlphaSights, Guidepoint, Raymond James, and the Native American Finance Officers Association, and is an expert witness.
Klein is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.
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Ermenegildo Zegna XXX’s fall/winter 2021 men’s line breaks the fourth wall By Alex Hodor-Lee
Ermenegildo Zegna XXX’s fall/winter 2021 men’s line breaks the fourth wall
Alex Hodor-Lee
The latest collection balances luxury and loungewear while narrowing the gap between public and private
Alessandro Sartori certainly does not bend to trends. While artistic directors and fashion designers the world around have confronted pandemic and political turmoil with the mottled glory of technicolor experimentation, asymmetric deconstructed designs, and interactive installations, Sartori presents an alternative vision, clad in uniform certainty, seeking to dissolve the firewall between private and public in his latest seasonal offering: Ermenegildo Zegna XXX Fall/Winter 2021.
The Italian fashion house’s latest collection arrives digitally in video format—many brands are opting to show this way in the socially-distant age—in which modernist architectural perfection cascades graphically unto itself with Christopher Nolan-like cinematic edge. Emerging from the glassy skyscrapers and angular street walkways (the film was shot principally on the brand’s sprawling campus), models saunter through urban mazes unperturbed by overhead surveillance cameras or even the confines of our current condition.
Branded as The (Re)set, the latest collection blends Zegna’s heritage of tailoring and fine material with a steadfast attitude in a precarious world. For Sartori, clothing is no longer about compartmentalizing identity—“In the collection shapes are fluid, comfortable, and adaptable. The coziness of jersey and cashmere garments reshape the very idea of formality as the collection pieces get new and unreleased functions,” Sartori says. The new sartorial direction balances luxury with loungewear (“Chore coats in cashmere” are “wrapped as a robe” reads the brand’s accompanying show statement).
“We all are experiencing a new reality that is concerned with new needs. This led us to a previously unseen form of lifestyle and attitudes.” Sartori commented., “At Zegna, we translated the change with the word (Re)set to (Re)tailor the modern man.”
The video is impressive in its ambition and production. “I decided to present the collection in the form of a fashion film, with a real script that we wrote starting from the collection: a visual narrative full of wonders from one situation to the other,” Sartori continues. “Shot in Milan, in internal and external set, the film follows a seamless pace, where indoor and outdoor collide, like our life today.”
In one scene, a lithe model breaks the fourth wall, only to brandish and don a pair of sporty sunglasses just as he prepares to meet the viewer’s gaze. Thus, a further entanglement of the public and the private is woven into Zegna’s new philosophical fabric: the fashion is built for both comfort and protection. As the model passes through a series of rooms—a living room, a discotheque, a dimly-lit space with a commodious couch into which a model plops down to read the Zegna Daily—it becomes apparent they are all connected in a massive dollhouse-like set. The lights dim, revealing one room in which Sartori himself is slumped into a loveseat reading the brand’s eponymous newspaper. When the lights return, the models having left their various habitats—clad in their earth tone shawls and robes—organize in concert, opening the Zegna Daily, to reveal the paper’s headline, which reads: The (Re)set.
Maybe they’re reading about the outside world.
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Villa were taking advantage of some woeful Fulham defending, enough for Sky Sports' Jamie Carragher to describe it as the worst in the Premier League this season, while Roy Keane said the Cottagers "were making Villa look like Bayern Munich". BeSoccer Ole on Man Utd win over Leeds: It could have been 12-4! Aston Villa boss Dean Smith: "We scored some quality goals. Aston Villa: Martinez (6), Cash (6), Konsa (7), Mings (8), Targett (6), Hourihane (7), Luiz (6), McGinn (8), Trezeguet (6), Watkins (7), Grealish (8). Woods and son Charlie finish five behind Team Thomas. "He was the one who was buying all those players two years ago, and made a mess of that. Live Text. He's a fantastic player, and he was terrific tonight. Fulham won 11 direct matches. 48' | Half Time: 0-2. Aston Villa U23s vs Fulham U23s predictions, football tips and statistics for this match of England Premier League 2 on 27/11/2020 26 May 2018. You dominate for large periods, you stream crosses into the box, we had a real control and endeavour about us. "It's difficult at Fulham at the moment, I'm more certain of Fulham going down than Liverpool winning the league. Aston Villa won 12 matches. Aston Villa . Fulham: Areola (5), Tete (4), Hector (5), Odoi (4), Ream (5), Bryan (5), Anguissa (5), Cairney (5), Decordova-Reid (5), Cavaleiro (6), Mitrovic (5) 2020/2021; Championship; League One; League Two; National League; National League N / S; Non League Premier; Non League Div One; Counties Leagues; FA Cup; League Cup; Community Shield; EFL Trophy; FA Trophy; FA Vase; Alan Turvey Trophy; Southern League Cup; Northern Premier League … Budweiser King of the Match explained and statistics, King of the Match explained and statistics, Budweiser Kings of the Match: Matchweek 3, Villa beat Fulham to maintain 100 per cent start, FPL Update: Mings delivering at both ends of the pitch. But the decisions that are being made when the opposition are in possession and on that side of the game, it's tough.". Mitrovic heads towards goal from Tete's right-wing cross, but his effort is easily held by Martinez. Aston Villa won away in the Premier League for the first time since New Year's Day, breezing past Fulham 3-0 at Craven Cottage on Monday Night Football. The Official Website of Fulham Football Club: get the latest news, highlights, fixtures and results, tickets, Club shop and more. I went with a back five today just to maybe give us a bit more solidity and it didn't work obviously. The second occasion, they score a goal. They are on a four-match winning run, and also on an eight-game unbeaten streak. Tweet. Have Man Utd emerged as real title challengers? I’m sorry everybody. Areola then blocked McGinn's effort after he was put through on goal by Grealish, before Fulham looked to have got a lifeline as Reid capitalised on Emi Martinez's poor parry to turn home, only for VAR to spot a foul from Mitrovic on Konsa seconds beforehand. Sports Mole provides score predictions for both of Monday night's Premier League matches - Leicester City vs. Fulham and West Ham United vs. Aston Villa. Follow today's live match between Fulham vs Aston Villa of Premier League 2020/2021.With score, goals, plays and result comments. 1st Half. Image credit: Getty Images. Fulham vs Villa: What’s the first thing that comes to mind? Aston Villa found themselves two ahead within 15 minutes in the Premier League for the first time since May 2011, when they led Arsenal 2-0 at the Emirates. Watch the Premier League, Formula 1, PGA Tour and much more. On top of all that, you have to find the balance in football, and that can be the desire to keep the ball out the back of the net, and the players have found that at the moment. Man of the match:John McGinn. At the right of the box, Grealish's mind was made up by Fulham goalkeeper Areola, who dwelled on whether to come out, as the Villa man poked home from an angle. 17 February 2018 — Fulham 2-0 Aston Villa. Fulham vs. Aston Villa – EPL, September 28, 2020. 0: 3. Kamara and Mings have got involved in some handbags and both are booked. Teams Fulham Aston Villa played so far 34 matches. Fulham 0-3 Aston Villa: Fulham split open as Villa win away for first time since January 1, FREE TO WATCH: Highlights from Aston Villa's win against Fulham in the Premier League, Jack Grealish celebrates his goal with Villa team-mate Matty Cash, Keane: Man Utd can challenge Liverpool for title. 45' Attempt missed. Subs: Kamara (5), Le Marchand (4), Kebano (NA) If you continue on this website, you will be providing your consent to our use of cookies. the way we set up and how we played and how progressive we were, I thought we looked like a very good team at times. Fulham - Aston Villa Follow the Premier League live Football match between Fulham and Aston Villa with Eurosport. With speculation surrounding his future now settled, Grealish was outstanding in the first half, giving Villa an early lead as he latched onto McGinn's brilliant lofted ball over the defence. Assisted by Conor Hourihane with a cross following a set piece situation. You read correctly. Aston Villa have opened a Premier League campaign with back-to-back victories for just the third time, also doing so in 1995-96 and 1999-00. J. Grealish . 26 May 2018 — Aston Villa 0-1 Fulham. Jack Grealish of Aston Villa scores his team's first goal during the Premier League match between Fulham and Aston Villa at Craven Cottage on September 28, 2020. Jose questions other players' attitude after Aurier 'mistake', Why Joshua vs Fury may not happen in the UK. Loading... Aston Villa - Fulham FC | 26 May 2018 They enter our box on the first occasion, they score a goal. The Official Website of Fulham Football Club: get the latest news, highlights, fixtures and results, tickets, Club shop and more. In 7 (100.00%) matches played at home was total goals (team and opponent) Over 1.5 goals. Last updated on 4 January 2020 4 January 2020. Grealish was also involved in the second, darting into the box from the left after a one-two with Ollie Watkins, squaring for McGinn, and his neat lay-off was swept home by Hourihane into the bottom-right corner with his weaker right foot. Aston Villa View events: 17/12/20: PRL: Aston Villa 0 - 0 Burnley 20/12/20: PRL: West Bromwich Albion 20 : 15: Aston Villa 26/12/20: PRL: Aston Villa 16 : … Fulham vs. Aston Villa 0 - 3. 45'+3' First Half ends, Aston Villa 0, Fulham 0. Weimann winner delights Aston Villa boss McLeish Summary; H2H Comparison; Venue England Premier League. Aston Villa might also be involved in the lower reaches of the division for the majority of the campaign, but there seems to be … Everyone at the club for the past year worked really hard to get the team up, & now we need to work significantly harder to stay up. L'ESSENTIEL. I promise better efforts than today. Jack Grealish struck his first Premier League goal of the season to give his side a fourth-minute lead, before Conor Hourihane followed it up just over 10 minutes later. Post update. You can't give up goals like we are, I've highlighted it and we know where we are. Fulham-Aston Villa Betting Pick. Share: Share. cards: 0.153.42. We have updated our cookie policy to reflect changes in the law on cookies and tracking technologies used on websites. We spoke to blogger, Cole Pettem from 7500 to Holte to get an Aston Villa perspective ahead of Monday Nights game at the Cottage…. Second Half begins Aston Villa 0, Fulham 0. Fulham came straight back down the following season while Aston Villa returned to Wembley to defeat Derby County. Les Cottagers ont en effet très mal débuté leur championnat en perdant leurs deux premiers matchs disputés contre Arsenal (0-3) et chez le promu Leeds United le week-end dernier (4-3). 45'+2' Offside, Aston Villa. They were a mess last time they came up, what they don't want to be this year is a mess. Fulham vit un retour dans l'élite pour le moins compliqué. The Cottagers have just made it to the top flight, and they expectedly are struggling to stand up against the experienced teams in the league. Aston Villa extended their winning start to the season to four successive matches in all competitions after a convincing 3-0 victory at Fulham. Fulham vs Aston Villa is scheduled for a 5:45pm BST kick-off on Monday, September 28. Fulham vs Aston Villa is scheduled for a 5:45pm BST kick-off on Monday, September 28. 01:32 FPL Update: Mings delivering at both ends of the pitch 29/9/2020 CC AD; 03:57 Classic goals from Matchweek 3 fixtures 27/9/2020 CC AD; 00:34 Watch Richardson's Villa Park rocket 27/9/2020 CC AD; 00:58 FPL Gameweek … Fulham in actual season average scored 1.00 goals per match. "I've stood in this position for the first three games and it's a common theme of what I'm saying. In the meantime, the Lions registered a 1-0 victory at home against Sheffield United. Since the Playoff Final in 2018, the two sets of supporters have formed a bit of a rivalry. Villa were unchanged from the 1-0 win over Sheffield United, with new signing Bertrand Traore on the bench. "I feel like I can help the team, I think you saw that today. On 12 July 2019, the groups were announced for the EFL Trophy. The Premier League website employs cookies to improve your user experience. Show Score. Fulham have now lost all three opening Premier League games, conceding 10 goals, while Villa have won away in the Premier League for the first time since New Year's Day, upholding their 100 per cent record this season. 04 January 2020 — Fulham 2-1 Aston Villa. Now Villa's suvival and Fulham's latest play-off … Fulham - Aston Villa Follow the Premier League live Football match between Fulham and Aston Villa with Eurosport. 45'+1' Nathan Baker (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half. What we saw there defensively was unbelievable. Sky Sports' Jamie Carragher on Monday Night Football. What do those players in the dressing room, who may have to play next week at the back, think of that? 4' C. Hourihane . Fulham will attack as they know these are the types of games they have to look at winning, but Aston Villa have more resilience this year than last and could emerge with a … Goals by Jack Grealish, Conor Hourihane and Tyrone Mings delivered a 3-0 Premier League victory for Aston Villa against Fulham at Craven Cottage Video Fulham vs Aston Villa 0-3 Highlights, All Goals, Full Match Replay – English Premier League – September 28, 2020. Fulham in actual season average scored 1.00 goals per match. 90+ mins: Fulham 0 Aston Villa 3 B ryan hits a crisp shot that Martinez tips onto the bar and over. Although Fulham had most of the ball (65 per cent), much of it was from wide areas - they made 36 crosses to Villa's two - as Mings and Ezri Konsa bossed the back line. "But Khan's tweet does not help. w d w w w . "It never works [tweeting like Khan did] it always ends up in tears. 12 MINS. Villa got a third just three minutes after the break as Tyrone Mings broke Fulham's offside trap from a Hourihane free-kick, poking home low, unmarked (48), while Fulham had a Bobby Reid goal disallowed by VAR after a foul by Aleksandar Mitrovic in the build-up. Andreas Weimann (Aston Villa) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. In 4 (57.14%) matches in season 2020 … 72. Although they had most of the play, the signs in defence and the lack of bite were worrying for Fulham - their owner Tony Khan apologised via Twitter seconds after full-time - while Villa simply took their chances as they look to avoid another relegation scrap. From the section FA Cup. Aston Villa is slightly better on paper, but the difference between these two teams is not wide enough that I’d turn … Hits and misses: Can Leeds' style really be successful? Fulham 0, Aston Villa 3. Aston Villa remain precariously placed in the battle against relegation after the Midlands side were held to a draw by Fulham. Fulham are going down, I've never been more certain of anything in my life, and they need to buy two, maybe three, four defenders. Villa’s packed midfield was allowing them plenty of time on the ball so Jol attempted to counter the threat by dropping Johnson into a left wing position, with Dempsey moving more central. Dean Smith’s men will be hoping they can build on their 1-0 victory over Sheffield United last week.. Fulham maintained its unwanted record of conceding at least three goals in each game since the team’s return to the English Premier League by losing to Aston Villa 3-0 on Monday. Catch the action for only £25 a month with this limited time offer. Loading... Aston Villa - Fulham FC | 26 May 2018 Subs: Ramsey (NA), Traore (NA), Nakamba (NA) Some last-ditch Villa defending assured their clean sheet; first Matty Cash cleared off the line from Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa's effort, before Martinez superbly tipped Joe Bryan's left-footed shot onto the crossbar. Fulham have failed to find the back of the net in consecutive home league games for the first time since January 2016. The Cottagers lost 4-3 on the road the last match-day, against Leeds. Aston Villa easily saw off Fulham in the Premier League on Monday night with a 3-0 win at Craven Cottage. Overall, the average simulation score is Aston Villa 1.7 to Fulham 1.0. As pleased as they were to see Liverpool drop points at Fulham this afternoon, Aston Villa fans were left scratching their heads. Tyrone Mings (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Their defending did not improve after the break as Fulham pushed up at a Hourihane free-kick, looking to catch Villa out, but Mings just stayed onside as he connected with the cross, stretching to touch past Areola for 3-0. As pleased as they were to see Liverpool drop points at Fulham this afternoon, Aston Villa fans were left scratching their heads. Fulham 2-1 Aston Villa, FA Cup third round. The change seemed to work as Fulham ventured into their opponents half more often as the first 45 drew to a close, but they couldn’t quite find the final ball whenever they approached the area. Fulham 2-1 Aston Villa: Anthony Knockaert and Harry Arter both score screamers to knock Premier League strugglers out of the FA Cup. Aston Villa won 12 matches. Fulham lift the Championship play-off final trophy after beating Aston Villa 1-0 at Wembley. 15' Tyrone Mings . "It's tough [to fix the defensive frailties]. Aston Villa easily saw off Fulham in the Premier League on Monday night with a 3-0 win at Craven Cottage. Mark Hughes was keen on landing the 31-year-old in the summer but failed to secure a £2m transfer. Smith hails team effort in Fulham win Fulham welcome Aston Villa to Craven Cottage on Monday evening looking to end a two-match losing streak since their return to the Premier League.. Cancel any time. Fulham 0, Aston Villa 3. … Fulham - Aston Villa : Les Cottagers courent après leur 1er succès. Brad Guzan tries a through ball, but Christian Benteke is caught offside. Fulham 0-3 Aston Villa External Link. Possession Home 57% Away 43% Shots Home 17 Away 9 Shots on Target Home 5 Away 3 Corners Home 3 Away 2 Fouls Home 9 Away 9. But we knew with our quality and defensive ability we could get the win here. I should + will apologize repeatedly for that performance. Tyrone Mings (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Fulham made three changes from the 4-3 defeat by Leeds - Tim Ream, Tom Cairney and Bobby Reid came in, replacing Aboubakar Kamara, Josh Onomah and Harrison Reed. They are also on a two-fixture winning run on the road, and had scored … What does Scott Parker think about that? "This was always going to be a tough game for us, our first away game, and we knew they'd have the share of possession. FULHAM VS ASTON VILLA: HEAD TO HEAD. Kamara and Mings have got involved in some handbags and both are booked. Home Team Fulham Away Team Aston Villa. Just keep your mouth shut. Fulham won 11 direct matches. Fulham . By Katie Falkingham BBC Sport. External Link. Shut your mouth, keep your head down, get on with it. Hamilton crowned Sports Personality of the Year 2020, Grealish and Tyrone Mings were both on target at Craven Cottage, Mings reacts quickest to put Villa 3-0 up, Aleksandar Mitrovic and Fulham endured a tough evening, Scott Parker said Fulham cannot make those mistakes in the Premier League, Dean Smith was delighted with Villa's balance, We would like your feedback, please fill in our survey. There are 36 games still to go this season but it already looks like Scott Parker’s Fulham is going to struggle back in the top flight. 45'+1' Foul by Dimitar Berbatov (Fulham). Fulham have won six of their last eight meetings with Aston Villa in all competitions (L2), winning each of the last three in a row (2017-18 Championship, 2018 … Thanks to some miserable Fulham defending, Villa raced into a 2-0 lead within 15 minutes, first netting through Jack Grealish at an angle from John McGinn's fine through ball (4), before Conor Hourihane slotted low from 12 yards from another McGinn assist (15). 11 matches ended in a draw. Jack Grealish of Aston Villa scores his team's first goal during the Premier League match between Fulham and Aston Villa at Craven Cottage on September 28, 2020. Fulham 0-2 Aston Villa (15 minutes) 18:00 . Fulham manager Scott Parker said: "I'm not too sure [how to sum up the game]. "It's well documented that we are trying to bring people in, I've highlighted that and the club understand that. They're going to go down, but almost go down as a club, be together, stick together.". In simulations where the game is not a draw Aston Villa, at 51.7%, are heavy favorites to beat Fulham who have just a 21.8% chance to win at home. We all need to do a better job. Full Time . By Dan Roberts in Soccer | September 25, 2020 10:28 am PDT . Aston Villa : Fulham: 15:01 GMT: McDonald 47 ' Knockaert 54 ', 88 ' Arter 74 ' Hector 90+7 ' Report: Nakamba 6 ' Taylor 21 ' El Ghazi 63 ' Lansbury 90+6 ' Stadium: Craven Cottage Attendance: 12,980 Referee: Craig Pawson: EFL Trophy. From the section. 501. Club News Fulham 0-3 Aston Villa External Link; Club News Fulham 0-3 Aston Villa External Link; More News: Related News Related Videos. Fulham – Aston Villa: How early is too early to call a game “must-win” in the Premier League? Fulham have re-ignited their interest in Aston Villa defender Luke Young. Championship. Aston Villa-Fulham Preview Scott Parker claimed it is too early in the Premier League season to be declaring Fulham's meeting with Aston Villa as a "must-win" for the west London club. On average in direct matches both teams scored a 2.32 goals per Match. Premier League 2020/2021 | Matchweek 3 | 28 Sep 2020 - 5:45 pm. On average in direct matches both teams scored a 2.32 goals per Match. Image credit: Getty Images. The match starts at 17:45 on 28 September 2020. Fulham go to rivals Brentford in the Carabao Cup on Thursday, live on Sky Sports Football at 5.30pm, before going to Wolves on Super Sunday, live on Sky Sports Premier League at 2pm. Assisted by Conor Hourihane with a cross following a set piece situation. Read about Fulham v Aston Villa in the Premier League 2020/21 season, including lineups, stats and live blogs, on the official website of the Premier League. Play for free, entries by 3pm Saturday. This was the first time Aston Villa's had taken part in this competition, which allowed young players to … As things stand, Smith’s men have the upper hand. MATCH INFO - Fulham vs Aston Villa Highlights Start date: 28 Sep 2020 17:45 Location: London Venue: Craven Cottage Referee: Stuart Attwell, England Avg. "John McGinn being fit makes a massive difference. Teams Fulham Aston Villa played so far 34 matches. Villa won it in injury time when Fulham keeper Mark Schwarzer failed to hold a Gary Gardner shot and the Austrian bundled the follow-up over the line. Fulham vs Aston Villa: Prediction. Aston Villa registered a clean sheet for the first time in their last 27 away Premier League games, since a 0-0 with West Brom in January 2016. Read news relating to the Aston Villa v Fulham fixture season 2020/21, visit the official website of the Premier League. 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Costs and Length of Stay of Hospitalizations due to Diabetes-Related Complications
Ssu Wei Cheng, Chih Yuan Wang, Yu Ko
Ph.D. Program in Drug Discovery and Development Industry
Department of Clinical Pharmacy
Master Program in Clinical Genomics and Proteomics
Background. Diabetes mellitus (DM) has become a significant worldwide public health problem and economic burden because a great proportion of healthcare costs has been spent on the treatment of DM and its related complications. The aim of this study was to examine the costs and length of stay (LoS) of hospitalizations due to diabetes-related complications in Taiwan. Methods. This study is a retrospective claim database analysis using the Longitudinal Cohort of Diabetes Patients, with 2012 used as the base year. The hospitalization costs and LoS per admission were estimated for each complication of interest using data from the LHDB 2004 to 2012 cohorts. The presence of eight DM-related complications were identified using the ICD-9-CM codes and procedure codes. ANOVA was used to examine the relationships of diabetes duration with the LoS and costs of the complications. Results. A total of 27,473 DM patients who were hospitalized in 2012 due to one of the examined DM-related complications were identified. The most common complications that caused the hospitalizations were nonfatal stroke (34.7%) and nonfatal ischemic heart disease (IHD) (28.7%). Amputation was the complication with the longest hospital stay, with a mean±SD of 21.6±14.1 days, followed by nonfatal stroke (13.6±11.3), ulcer (12.7±11.8), and fatal IHD (12.2±13.6). The complications with the greatest hospitalization cost were fatal IHD (mean=TWD 306,209.8; median=TWD 221,417.0; 1TWD=0.034USD) and fatal myocardial infarction (mean=TWD 272,840.1; median=TWD 174,008). Conclusions. This study indicates that DM-related complications are associated with significant hospital LoS and costs. The study results could be useful for economic evaluations of diabetes treatments and the estimation of the overall economic impact of diabetes.
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Cheng, S. W., Wang, C. Y., & Ko, Y. (2019). Costs and Length of Stay of Hospitalizations due to Diabetes-Related Complications. Journal of Diabetes Research, 2019, [2363292]. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/2363292
Costs and Length of Stay of Hospitalizations due to Diabetes-Related Complications. / Cheng, Ssu Wei; Wang, Chih Yuan; Ko, Yu.
In: Journal of Diabetes Research, Vol. 2019, 2363292, 01.01.2019.
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Cheng, Ssu Wei ; Wang, Chih Yuan ; Ko, Yu. / Costs and Length of Stay of Hospitalizations due to Diabetes-Related Complications. In: Journal of Diabetes Research. 2019 ; Vol. 2019.
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Obama endorsement not worth much
Featured, News, White House
Obama: Thanks for nothing Mr. President (AFP)
President Barack Obama may end up playing a rather hands-off role in this fall’s elections, a surprising turn for a political phenomenon who excited millions of voters just two years ago.
Recent elections have tarnished Obama’s luster a bit, and Democratic candidates are likely to be selective in seeking his help.
Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania became the fourth Democrat in seven months to lose a high-profile race despite the president’s active involvement. Specter’s career-ending loss raises questions of whether Obama can transfer even small portions of the political charm that catapulted him to the White House.
Campaign strategists said Wednesday that many congressional Democrats seeking re-election this year will probably tap Obama to raise money, record ads for black radio stations and perhaps highlight a key issue or two. But some, and perhaps many, will not seek presidential visits, and they will emphasize their own roles on issues such as job-creation.
Obama remains generally popular, especially when compared to Congress or Republican leaders, said Jim Margolis, a Democratic consultant who worked on the president’s 2008 campaign. However, he said, “what we’ve seen in many states is that his popularity doesn’t necessarily translate into specific support for a particular candidate.”
That’s the case for all presidents, Margolis said, especially in midterm elections. “Where you get the pop is when you have someone at the top of the ticket” who can generate excitement and voter turnout for down-ballot candidates, he said.
That may be true. But it’s still a letdown for fans who saw Obama as a charismatic president.
In previous months, Obama’s endorsements and campaign appearances weren’t enough to save then-Gov. Jon Corzine’s re-election bid in New Jersey, Creigh Deeds’ run for governor in Virginia or Martha Coakley’s campaign in Massachusetts to keep the late Edward M. Kennedy’s Senate seat in Democratic hands.
In fairness, Deeds was an underdog all along, and Corzine brought many problems on himself. But the Coakley loss to Republican Scott Brown was excruciating.
Also embarrassing was Rep. Joe Sestak’s victory over Specter in Tuesday’s Democratic primary in Pennsylvania. Sestak portrayed himself and his supporters as being more faithful to the Democratic Party than Specter and his backers, including the president, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and other high-ranking party officials.
Creating another headache for Obama, Sen. Blanche Lincoln was forced into a runoff in Arkansas’ Democratic primary. Obama supports her bid for a third term, but he is not as closely associated with her campaign as he was with Specter’s.
Obama’s poor endorsement record thus far could hurt his legislative agenda if Democratic lawmakers decide they need some distance from him as they seek re-election in an anti-incumbent, anti-establishment climate. Conversely, it might embolden Republican lawmakers and candidates who oppose him.
“We’re licking our chops at running against President Obama,” said Rand Paul, a tea party favorite who won Kentucky’s Republican primary for retiring GOP Sen. Jim Bunning’s seat.
Other Republicans are less sure. They are still absorbing their party’s loss in a special election to fill the Pennsylvania House seat long held by Democrat John Murtha in a district that Republican John McCain won against Obama.
Tuesday’s loser, Republican Tim Burns, campaigned largely on national issues, whereas Democrat Mark Critz focused more on using a House seat to steer jobs to the district.
Tim Kaine, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said in a speech Wednesday that Burns “ran against the president, as much as his opponent, and pledged to repeal health insurance reform. He lost by a significant margin.”
GOP officials, however, noted that Critz opposed Obama’s new health care law as well as gun control and abortion rights.
Scores of congressional Democrats must defend their votes this fall for the health legislation, a bank bailout bill, an economic stimulus and other issues under attack by conservatives and some centrists. Because such issues are largely associated with Obama, those Democrats may be wiser to accept whatever help the president can offer, and not bother with overt efforts to distance themselves from him, campaign advisers said.
In Nevada, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is locked in a fierce re-election battle. Margolis, who works for Reid’s campaign, said Obama has made two campaign appearances for the senator and “I’d not be surprised to see him again.”
But in Nevada and all other states, Margolis said, voters will focus on the candidates and their issues, and Obama will be a minor factor at the most.
“I don’t look at any race and see it as a referendum on the president,” he said.
Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press
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Update ; even the voles / rats know ,
when the boogie has lost it’s oogie..
Reference picture , looking down by the rock stars steps, carefully perched like ogres the ills of the so called modern day President lurk, and they might cover up that he can’t field if he will take the blame once again for all the bat brained behavior of 2/3rds of this government.
Not a job for the weak, in many ways…..
Less racing,
less licking of old wounds, we’ve enough of petty pseudo royal incompetence.
The more debating opens old wounds the more the carbuncles that assail us swell to bursting.
Focus even if you have to squint before you use that scalpel,
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Strangers in Recovery – Ep4 – Karen
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Strangers in Recovery - Ep4 - Karen
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Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 49:08 | Recorded on October 31, 2021
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Karen, a UK-based recovering alcoholic and mum of two, self-defined binge drinker, who talks about transformation from being in the center because of drinking to being in the center because of not drinking. She’s started her recovery as a challenge to put down the drink for 100 days that she managed and soon after had a slip that taught her how easy it is to fall back to the old habits and how strong is the community that is out there, helping her with no judgment to become her best self.
She shares relatable moments of her life when she was drinking and how she recognized that she has a problem. Her journey has many similarities to others’ early in their own recovery, and with such a thoughtful conversation she wants to raise awareness and help the ones who feel equivalently lonely and confused about how they can experience what she does every day since she doesn’t drink. Her tools are as simple as following #RecoveryPosse hashtag on Twitter and attend at RecoveryHour online meetings, connecting with like-minded people who are there to share their own life and listen to hers as well.
Her stories can resonate with many of us being early in recovery and also the ones who revisit the periods by either being tempted or actually relapsing: she came to recovery for challenging herself and stays for being herself. You can follow her on Twitter @Angel Dust.
“I started to feel that this was more than a challenge, this is a way of life, and if I can learn from these people, who had some sobriety behind them, and then they are talking to me and then they are listening to me: it felt good. Counting the days, I would recommend it, because it kept me accountable, but if you do have a slip it can be so demoralizing to have to go back to day 0. (…) Even it was tough in the beginning, it started to become better, because I better sleep, more energy, spending quality time with the children, becoming me again.”
I appreciate you leaving your comments and thoughts on https://strangersinrecovery.club website. You can reach your host at [email protected], follow him on Twitter and Instagram.
Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast and stick with us until the next episodes! Listen to all episodes with care and empathy. We are here to show our best selves via stories from our worst periods. We are Strangers in Recovery.
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How to Find Your Lost AirPods using Find My App on iPhone, iPad, and Mac (Step-by-step Guide)
by Rishaj Upadhyay · Apple, Audio, Gadgets, How to · 20 Jan 2023
AirPods are undoubtedly one of the best audio accessories one could get to enjoy music. You can also use them to talk over a call without even bothering to take your iPhone out of your pocket. But, the fact that they are designed to be sleek and small, you might lose them so often. And, we truly understand how frustrating it is. Thankfully, there are a few ways to track your AirPods if you ever misplace them around your home or somewhere else. You’d be glad to know that Apple has released updated firmware versions for AirPods Pro, AirPods Max, and some Beats headphones that make locating them easy through the ‘Find My’ app.
So, if you are finding answers to how to find lost AirPods, the Find My app is there to rescue you. In this article, we have explained three different ways to find your lost AirPods using the Find My app. To remind you, this instruction also applies to both AirPods and AirPods Pro.
Please make sure to follow the step-and-step methods that we have mentioned below to find your misplaced AirPods Pro without any hassle in 2023.
Headsup: The Find My feature is not automatically enabled on iOS devices, therefore it is important to enabling the feature before you lose your AirPods. Please note that there’s no way to turn it on after you’ve lost the device.
How to turn on Find My on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
Head to the Settings app
Then, tap your name, and tap on Find My
Next, tap Find My [device], then turn on Find My [device]
If you want to be able to find your lost device on a map, don’t forget to turn on the Location Service. You can do this by going to Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services, and turning on Location Services.
Note: Let’s not forget that when you set up Find My on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, the feature automatically gets turned on for the AirPods as well.
List of the 4 top tried & tested ways to find lost AirPods using the Find My app
How to find lost AirPods on iOS/iPadOS devices using the Find My app
How to find lost AirPods by using the Find iPhone app on iCloud
How to find lost AirPods on Mac using the Find My app
How to Play Sound on Lost AirPods while searching them using the Find My/Find iPhone app on iOS/iPadOS devices, iCloud, and Mac
How to get an alert if you leave your AirPods behind using Notify When Left Behind feature
What to do if you can’t locate lost AirPods?
FAQs related to finding lost AirPods using the Find My app
If your kids have misplaced your AirPods Pro or you’ve mistakenly dropped them somewhere in your house/friend’s place, there’s a way to find them. You can easily find your AirPods Pro using the Find My app on your iPhone or iPad.
Since you are here to find a solution to find your lost AirPods, we are assuming that the Find My is already set up on your device.
Here’s how to find your lost AirPods using your iPhone or iPad device with Find My enabled:
First, open the Find My app on your iOS device and tap Devices.
Next, scroll through the list of devices and tap on AirPods.
Then, you can see your AirPods on the map in their last known or current location.
Just in case your AirPods are connected to Bluetooth and are lost somewhere at your home, you can simply use the Play Sound feature to find your AirPods easily.
If you found out that AirPods are not at your place, and are somewhere far, simply tap Directions and get the driving directions on Apple Maps so that you can track them down.
Please note that if you didn’t find the lost AirPods using the Find My app, you are likely to see ‘No Location Found.’
How to find individual AirPod lost in different locations
If both the AirPods Pro isn’t in the same place, you are likely to see only one initially. So, make sure to find it and put it back into the case. Then, refresh the map, and you’ll see another AirPod for you to find.
Note: Whether you’re finding one AirPod or both of them, please remember that all other methods remain the same.
Also read: How to fix iPhone 13 not charging problem
If you are unable to find your lost AirPods Pro using an iOS or iPadOS device, you can also locate them from a computer using iCloud.
Here’s how to find lost AirPods using iCloud:
First, head to iCloud and sign in with your Apple ID
Tap Find iPhone
Then, tap on All Devices (you might have to sign in again)
Next, tap on your AirPods
As soon as you execute step 4, your AirPods’ current, or last known location, will be plotted on the map.
You can also use the Find My app installed on your Mac to locate your lost AirPods. If you are unsure about how to find and view their location on the map, don’t forget to try the step-by-step methods as under and view their location on the map.
Also read: How to enable Low Power Mode on any Apple Watch
Are you still worried about your lost AirPods? Well, there is still a way left for you to try to find your lost AirPods Pro. You can use the Find My app on the Mac and try to find your lost AirPods right now. If you are not aware of how to do that, you can do that by following the step-by-step methods given below:
First, launch the Find My app on your Mac using the Launchpad, Spotlight search, or the applications folder
Next, tap on Devices
Then, tap on your AirPods, and you’ll see their location on a map
Disclaimer: From the user’s perspective, that’s the last available method to find your missing AirPods.
Also read: How to Fix iOS 16 Battery Drain Issues
If your lost AirPod is near any of the Apple devices and connected via Bluetooth, you can always make them play a sound and locate it easily. We have already mentioned it above, but we’ll elaborate on the steps here, make sure to check it out.
Here’s how to make your lost AirPods play a sound:
In either the Find My app or Find iPhone App, locate your AirPods as mentioned above, then follow the steps to make your AirPods play sound using different devices.
1. How to play sound on lost AirPods using the Find My app on iOS/iPadOS devices:
Once you’ve opened the app, tap on Devices > [your AirPods]
You can now top on the Play Sound option in the iOS Find My app
2. How to play sound on lost AirPods on the Find iPhone app using iCloud on any computer:
Go to iCloud.com/find and sign in with your Apple ID. Then, click on All Devices > [your AirPods]
Then, you can simply click on the Play Sound option that pops up on possibly the top left side.
3. How to play sound on lost AirPods using Find My app on Mac:
On Mac, right after you’ve entered the Find My app, just tap AirPods on the map and then tap Play Sound
Whether you choose to go with the first, second, or third method, a sound will play from your AirPods allowing you to find it easily. You can also choose to play Left and Right AirPod, once tracked, you can tap on Stop to end the sound.
Also read: How to shoot 48MP images on your iPhone 14 Pro without sacrificing storage
If you have an iPhone or later, you can always set up a separation alert by enabling the ‘Notify When Left Behind’ feature. This feature comes in handy if you tend to leave your AirPods AirPods Pro and AirPods Pro 2nd gen, AirPods 3rd gen, or AirPods Max at an unknown location more often.
Go to Find My app
Then, from the Devices tab, choose your AirPods
Under Notifications, tap Notify When Left Behind
Toggle ON the Notify When Left Behind feature
If you are still unable to find the lost AirPods, try searching on your own. If you have misplaced them around your place, there are chances that you have dropped them behind your couch. Also, don’t forget to talk to your kids just in case they are at fault.
Are you still searching for your lost AirPods? Sadly, there are chances that you may have dropped it in a bustling subway crowd or a crowded bus. By now you should consider buying new AirPods and related accessories for yourself.
Also read: How to Turn ON/OFF Always ON Display on iPhone 14 Pro
a) How to find lost AirPods that are offline and dead?
If you are worried about losing your offline or dead AirPods & AirPods Pro, be patient. There is a way to track them down, but sadly, chances are quite low. The lost AirPods can be found by utilizing their last known location. Since the AirPods are dead you can neither play sounds to trace them nor they will pop up on the Find My app. Therefore, you have to search for them by yourself based on the most recent location before AirPods were dead or went offline. There is nothing more you can do to find lost AirPods using the Find My app if they are offline or dead.
b) Do AirPods have GPS tracking?
No, AirPods don’t come with a GPS feature. Therefore, Apple incorporates the iPhone’s GPS technology. The map inside the Find My app shows you the last known location where AirPods were in the range of an iOS device that is connected to your iCloud account. The 2nd Gen AirPods Pro have Precision Finding which uses UWB technology with compatible iPhone to help you search for them more accurately. Remember, if you have lost your working AirPods with enough battery, searching for them can be fairly easy. However, finding offline or dead AirPods is always tough as you can’t track the real-time location of the audio gadget.
c) Can AirPods be tracked to the exact location?
Yes, it is possible to track your AirPods to the exact location where you lost them. In other words, we can say that your AirPods can be tracked down to the location when they last got disconnected from your iOS device. FYI, the 2022 AirPods Pro 2nd generation and its charging case can also be tracked using Precision Finding which uses UWB technology. This allows compatible iPhones to help you track your lost AirPods accurately. All you have to do is properly follow these steps.
That’s all for now in this article where we mentioned the top ways to find lost AirPods using the Find My app on iOS/iPadOS devices and Mac. Also, don’t forget to check out our guide on how to add emergency contact on your iPhone and access it from the lock screen.
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Apple not yet green enough – Greenpeace
9to5 Staff | Jun 25 2008 - 6:56 am PT
While it excels in some areas, Apple needs to improve in terms of the energy used in computer manufacture and needs to deliver much improved global e-waste schemes, according to the latest Greenpeace report.
It’s not all bad news for Apple – the company is one of the two best firms in terms of energy efficiency in its products, with all of them meeting and, in many cases, exceeding Energy Star requirements. However, Apple missed a big chance to advance its score by not improving the environmental performance of the new version of the iPhone, Greenpeace notes.
The latest Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics rates company performance on a range of categories, but this eighth edition introduces expanded and tougher criteria on toxic chemicals, electronic waste and new criteria on climate change. It ranks the top market leaders of the mobile phone, computer, TV and games console markets according to their policies and practices on toxic chemicals and take-back schems and more.
Companies are scored on disclosure of their greenhouse gas emissions, commitment for absolute cuts in their own emissions and support for the mandatory global emissions reductions that are needed to tackle climate change. On energy efficiency, a selection of each company’s product range is assessed to see how far they exceed the current de-facto global standard, Energy Star. The overall percentage of renewable energy in a companies total energy use is also assessed.
Apple took eleventh place, scoring 4.1 points, mainly due to putting products on the market whose key components are free of brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and PVC vinyl plastic.
"For example, all new models of iMac and the MacBook Air have bromine-free casings and printed circuit board laminates as well as PVC-free internal cables. Millions of iPods now have bromine-free enclosures and printed circuit board laminates. The MacBook Air also has mercury free LCD display with arsenic-free glass. MacBook Pros come with mercury-free LED backlit displays," Greenpeace explains.
"Apple scores poorly on most e-waste criteria, except for reporting a recycling rate in 2006 of 9.5 per cent as a percentage of sales seven years ago. It does only slightly better on energy criteria, failing to score on all criteria except energy efficiency of products, where it scores top marks (doubled) for all desktops computers, portable PCs and displays complying with Energy Star 4.0 and their iPod and iPhone power adapters not only exceeding the Energy Star standard, but already meeting California’s stricter efficiency regulations that take effect 1 July 2008."
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Cost benefit analysis of mesh reinforcement of stapled left pancreatectomy
Kamran Idrees, Joshua R. Edler, David C. Linehan, Steven M. Strasberg, David Jacques, Nicholas A. Hamilton, Ryan C. Fields, Dennis Lambert, Steven Kymes, William G. Hawkins
Objectives Pancreatic leak is a morbid complication following left pancreatectomy, which results in prolonged hospitalization, additional diagnostic testing and invasive procedures. The present authors have previously demonstrated that mesh reinforcement of stapled left pancreatectomy results in fewer pancreatic leaks. This study was conducted to investigate whether mesh reinforcement also results in cost benefits for the health care system. Methods A cost benefit model was developed to estimate net cost savings from the payer's perspective. The model is based on the results of a randomized, single-blinded trial of mesh versus no mesh reinforcement of the pancreatic remnant after left pancreatectomy. A two-way sensitivity analysis was conducted to determine the model's sensitivity to fluctuations in the cost of mesh and the effectiveness of the mesh in reducing clinically significant leaks. Results Average total costs for an episode of care were US$13 337 and US$15 505 for patients who did and did not receive mesh, respectively, which indicates savings of US$2168. Two-way sensitivity analysis showed that, given a probability of 1.9% for developing a clinically significant leak in patients in whom mesh reinforcement was used, the strategy would continue to save costs if mesh were priced at ≤US$1804. Conclusions Mesh reinforcement decreases clinically significant pancreatic leaks. Despite the additional cost of mesh reinforcement, the use of mesh reinforcement results in overall cost savings for the health care system because of the resultant decrease in the occurrence of clinically significant leaks.
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Idrees, K., Edler, J. R., Linehan, D. C., Strasberg, S. M., Jacques, D., Hamilton, N. A., Fields, R. C., Lambert, D., Kymes, S., & Hawkins, W. G. (2013). Cost benefit analysis of mesh reinforcement of stapled left pancreatectomy. HPB, 15(11), 893-898. https://doi.org/10.1111/hpb.12055
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In: HPB, Vol. 15, No. 11, 11.2013, p. 893-898.
Idrees, K, Edler, JR, Linehan, DC, Strasberg, SM, Jacques, D, Hamilton, NA, Fields, RC, Lambert, D, Kymes, S & Hawkins, WG 2013, 'Cost benefit analysis of mesh reinforcement of stapled left pancreatectomy', HPB, vol. 15, no. 11, pp. 893-898. https://doi.org/10.1111/hpb.12055
Idrees K, Edler JR, Linehan DC, Strasberg SM, Jacques D, Hamilton NA et al. Cost benefit analysis of mesh reinforcement of stapled left pancreatectomy. HPB. 2013 Nov;15(11):893-898. doi: 10.1111/hpb.12055
Idrees, Kamran ; Edler, Joshua R. ; Linehan, David C. et al. / Cost benefit analysis of mesh reinforcement of stapled left pancreatectomy. In: HPB. 2013 ; Vol. 15, No. 11. pp. 893-898.
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RUSSIA - Alltech and DLG Group set up alliance in Russia
Animal health and nutrition company, Alltech, and Danish agribusiness player, the DLG Group, have announced a tie-up in the Russia market. “We have been in collaborative talks with DLG for the past few months. We are awaiting the go-ahead from the Russian authorities before we can reveal more about the joint venture.
Animal health and nutrition company, Alltech, and Danish agribusiness player, the DLG Group, have announced a tie-up in the Russia market.
Both announced that they are in the process of establishing a joint venture that will combine their areas of expertise.
“We have been in collaborative talks with DLG for the past few months. We are awaiting the go-ahead from the Russian authorities before we can reveal more about the joint venture.”
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With the merge approaching, Survivor strategy goes long term
Carrie Raisler
PublishedNovember 1, 2017
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“This Is Why You Play Survivor”
Because The A.V. Club knows that TV shows keep going even if we’re not writing at length about them, we’re experimenting with discussion posts. For certain shows, one of our TV writers will publish some brief thoughts about the latest episode, and open the comments for readers to share theirs.
At Soko post-Tribal, Ryan is immediately confronted by Ali about his surprise vote. Ali’s entire argument comes from a place of honest confusion with her supposed alliance member, but Ryan is purely analytical in his assessment that now she’s potentially an enemy, and must be taken care of. Cold. Entertaining, but cold.
After JP essentially wins a pizza reward challenge for his team, he seems very certain that means that his tribe won’t get rid of them because they need him in order to win. Famous last words, JP. Or, considering how often we’ve seen JP do confessionals this season, maybe famous first words?
Levu’s tribe dynamics might be the most interesting right now, because it’s basically Joe and Desi versus Ashley and Devon. Who flips in that scenario? Ashley’s plan is to try to get Desi to flip on Joe. And Joe? His plan is to find another idol, which he does.
Meanwhile at Yawa, Cole is hungry and everyone hates him. Not because he’s hungry, but because he’s annoying about his hunger (and also everything else). Cole’s hunger manifests in a truly physical way when he passes out face first on the ground. If there’s any bit of luck for him, it’s that he does it in front of two tribe mates with a medical background who immediately know what to do. Scary stuff.
The most amusing thing about Cole’s low blood sugar episode is that Ben and Mike immediately use it as the “justifiable” excuse they need to get rid of him. This is a fun game, and I am not saying that with sarcasm.
The immunity challenge is a good change of pace: A group balancing challenge, instead of an individual one! It’s an interesting mix of strategy and testing teamwork, and the moment where Cole almost loses the whole thing for Yawa before they change strategies and win the whole thing is a lot of fun to watch.
Ryan doing an about face and getting back on Ali’s good side so he can get her on his side to vote out JP is very satisfying to watch, as is watching Ali attempt to make some strategic moves by approaching Chrissy. Ryan never seems totally on board however, and he’s the only person in a truly sweet spot because everyone always seems to want to work with him. A good sign for his game going forward.
The entire Tribal seems unreasonably stacked against JP, so that’s the clear sign that he’s staying. And stay he does, as they send Ali home 3-1. Interesting. It’s difficult to see how JP wins this whole game considering how little we’ve seen of him this season, but he will win individual immunity challenges. Did Ryan and Chrissy make the right choice?
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Home » NFL » Jazz Insider Expects 1 Team To ‘Quickly’ Put Together Blockbuster Package For Donovan Mitchell
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Jazz Insider Expects 1 Team To ‘Quickly’ Put Together Blockbuster Package For Donovan Mitchell
July 13, 2022 @12:23am (Updated: November 16, 2022 @6:24pm) by Darrelle Lincoln
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH – APRIL 28: Donovan Mitchell #45 of the Utah Jazz in action during the second half of Game 6 of the Western Conference First Round Playoffs against the Dallas Mavericks at Vivint Smart Home Arena on April 28, 2022 in Salt Lake City, Utah. License Agreement. (Photo by Alex Goodlett/Getty Images)
After initially denying it, the Utah Jazz finally had to come to terms with the fact they are going to have to rebuild. So that means, another top player needs to be traded.
The Jazz previously traded Rudy Gobert to the Minnesota Timberwolves as they embark on a rebuild. The Utah Jazz are now expressing a willingness to listen to trade offers on Donovan Mitchell.
The Athletic’s Tony Jones followed up on that report by noting that the New York Knicks are expected to be one of the most aggressive suitors for Mitchell:
Expect the New York Knicks to quickly try and put together a package for Donovan Mitchell, according to league sources. Utah’s bar for Trading Mitchell is sky high. But the Knicks are the team that has the assets to make this a conversation
— Tony Jones (@Tjonesonthenba) July 12, 2022
The Knicks may be forced to give up RJ Barrett, who averaged a career-high 20.0 points per game during his third season. The Knicks also have seven first-round picks in the next three drafts.
Mitchell signed a designated rookie max extension in 2020 and has four years remaining on his contract with the final season as a player option.
Jones added that the Jazz are “currently not close” to trading Mitchell, and they’ll keep him if nobody meets their high demands.
Let’s be clear about this: the Jazz are currently not close to a Donovan Mitchell trade. And much like Gobert, they have no issues whatsoever in keeping him. Either a team is going to meet the bar to make this a convo, or he will be with the Jazz. They are not giving him away
Any such deal won’t come cheap for the Knicks, with ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reporting that “the asking price appears to be steep, but in the wake of Utah’s recent Rudy Gobert blockbuster deal to Minnesota, the Jazz are no longer simply dismissing calls on Mitchell, sources said.”
The Jazz recently landed Malik Beasley, Patrick Beverley, Jarred Vanderbilt, Leandro Bolmaro, 2022 No. 22 overall pick Walker Kessler, three unprotected picks (2023, 2025, and 2027), and a top-five-protected pick in 2029 from Minnesota for Gobert.
The package for Mitchell, who is 5 years younger, is expected to be even better.
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Bandsintown has been talking to artists and fans again about their livestreaming views and habits. Its latest survey canvassed 7,688 people, and found that 86% of fans have watched at least one music livestream within the past 12 months, while 31% have streamed seven or more. 62% have paid for a livestream, while 55% say […]
Concert streaming site MySongbird seeks $5m in crowdfunding
New rules on equity crowdfunding in the US will allow startups to raise up to $5m a year from ‘non-accredited’ investors (i.e. the general public). Expect a wave of startups testing it out, including music firms. Early out of the blocks is MySongbird, a streaming service for live performances and music documentaries, which is seeking $5m […]
FAC and MMF on livestreaming tariffs: ‘We need to talk!’
This guest column is by David Martin, CEO at the Featured Artists Coalition, and Annabella Coldrick, CEO at the Music Managers Forum: Whether it’s COVID 19, Brexit, the yearning for live shows and international touring, the economics of streaming, or the constant battle against inequalities, there’s a lot going on in the music industry right […]
New funding for livestreaming startups Maestro and Looped
If you’re a livestreaming startup, now is the time to be raising funding (or if you’re Veeps, getting bought by Live Nation). Two of the companies trying to help musicians perform live online for their fans have announced new funding rounds this week. Maestro, whose clients have included Billie Eilish and Erykah Badu, has raised […]
Vampr raises $790k and plans to add livestreaming features
Startup Vampr is describing itself as a “LinkedIn for Creatives” nowadays, and the company has just raised more funding to continue developing its service. The money is $790k, taking it to $2.6m raised so far – with a Series A funding round to follow. Vampr says it will use the new funding to launch a […]
PRS for Music’s livestreaming licence sparks another row
In December, UK collecting society PRS for Music’s proposed tariff for livestreamed concerts drew an angry response from manager and artist bodies MMF and FAC, claiming that it would make livestreams “unviable” for artists of all sizes. Yesterday, PRS launched its new ‘Online Live Concert‘ licence for small events – those earning less than £500 in […]
UTA’s David Zedeck: livestreaming will be a ‘virtual balcony’
The NY:LON Connect conference that we co-run with Music Biz kicked off its first online edition yesterday with a track on the future of live and livestreaming, including a keynote interview with UTA partner and global head of music David Zedeck, conducted by Billboard’s Taylor Mims. He talked about how he sees livestreaming’s future once […]
Scruff of the Neck launches live music shows on Twitch
British live music promoter Scruff of the Neck is trying out a new business model on livestreaming service Twitch. It’s launching a channel called Scruff of the Neck TV, which will be airing three-hour shows with live music performances, with 10 planned this month before settling into a schedule of performances, podcasts and artist interviews from […]
LiveXLive financials show a $10.2m loss for Q3 2020
US livestreaming and podcasts firm LiveXLive is a public company, so it’s one of the few companies in that space whose numbers we get quarterly insights into. The numbers for Q3 follow its historical pattern: growing revenues, but also net losses. LiveXLive saw its revenues grow by 51.9% year-on-year to $14.6m last quarter, but it recorded […]
Tencent Music invests in Wave and re-airs Billie Eilish livestream
These are two separate stories, but they both show Tencent Music’s growing focus on livestreaming. This morning TME announced a strategic partnership and minority equity investment in startup Wave, whose tech has been used for virtual concerts by the likes of The Weeknd, John Legend and Lindsey Stirling. The deal will enable TME to air […]
Vargas & Lagola team up with Spotify for livestream concert
Vargas & Lagola is the artist name of Swedish duo Vincent Pontare and Salem al Fakir, who recently released their second album ‘Mount Alda’. To promote it, they’re doing a livestreamed concert on 25 November, promising “a holistic experience, a visual journey, where we trigger all senses”. Which is nice, but what’s really interesting about it […]
Hatsune Miku online concert zooms past its Kickstarter goal
Long before Riot Games started creating virtual artists like K/DA and Seraphine, Japanese avatar star Hatsune Miku was playing stadium gigs. Now her creators are working on a big virtual concert based on her ‘Miku Expo’ tours. It’s called Hatsune Miku Expo 2021 Online, and will be a free show with at least 10 songs. […]
Spotify to host ‘Tokyo Super Hits Live 2020’ livestream concert
With Apple Music hosting livestream events with artists and Amazon Music forging ever-closer links with sister company Twitch, the integration of livestreaming and audio streaming is a trend we’re keeping an eye on. Now look to Japan, where Spotify is hosting a livestreamed concert on 26 November based on its ‘Tokyo Super Hits’ playlist. The […]
Lil Nas X set to play a concert in games platform Roblox
Games platform Roblox’s music ambitions press on: it’s working with Columbia Music and Lil Nas X on a concert this weekend. Well, it’s a bit more than a concert. There’ll be a pre-show event on Friday evening involving a Q&A with the artist, as well as the debut of a new video for his upcoming […]
Amazon Music to host Dolly Parton Christmas livestream
If you’re the kind of person who shouts at people who put their Christmas decorations too early, look away now. Dolly Parton is doing a Christmas-themed livestream for Amazon Music… on 13 November. ‘Dolly Parton’s Comin’ Home for Christmas’ will be streamed live on Amazon Music’s Twitch channel and within its app, with a performance and […]
Driift takes its livestreams to Australia and New Zealand
Management company ATC Management launched its Driift online-concerts spin-off earlier this year after successful events for Laura Marling and Dermot Kennedy. Ahead of tomorrow’s Kylie Minogue ‘Infinite Disco’ broadcast, Driift is expanding to her homeland. In fact, it’s opening an office to produce and promote shows in Australia AND New Zealand. “We believe this is a format with […]
It’s 2020 so of course there are now fake artist livestreams
There was good news for fans of musician Zoe Keating in late August: one of her cancelled gigs was being replaced by a ticketed livestream. The only downside: Keating knew nothing about it. It had been created as an event on Facebook, with the people behind it taking fans money in the full knowledge that […]
Tomorrowland says its virtual festival ‘about broke even’
Dance festival Tomorrowland sold nearly 140k tickets to its virtual festival earlier this year. Now the organisers have been talking to Billboard about how those sales translated into profit. The answer: not quite, but not far off. Co-founder Michiel Beers said that the festival “about broke even” after Tomorrowland spent around $6m putting it together, with additional […]
Amazon launches Breakthrough Live weekly livestreams series
The timing may be awkward given the renewed DMCA takedown notices currently battering Twitch, but Amazon Music is stepping up its livestreaming activity, including with its sister platform. It’s launched a new weekly show called Breakthrough Live, which will air live performances from artists in a different genre every Tuesday. The show will be broadcast live […]
Push Live Unlimited helps artists with simul-livestreaming
As the number of artists exploring livestreams at scale grows, so there’s going to be a need for decent infrastructure around that. One example is being announced today, by live-tech firm Push. It’s a tool called Push Live Unlimited, which helps artists who want to broadcast on a number of platforms at once – for example, […]
Kylie Minogue set for Driift-run ‘Infinite Disco’ stream
More evidence for the growing ambition of online concerts for bigger artists comes with Kylie Minogue’s ‘Infinite Disco’ event on 7 November. It’s the latest event from Driift, the company launched earlier this year by ATC Management, with investment from Beggars Group. The 50-minute show will blend tracks from Kylie’s new album ‘Disco’ with older hits, […]
Billie Eilish merch store will be integrated into livestream
We reported earlier this month on plans for Billie Eilish’s first livestream, the $30 ‘Where Do We Go? The Livestream’ concert on 24 October. Startup Maestro is the technical partner, and it’s been talking about a new partnership with ecommerce firm Shopify that will see merch sold during the event. Open to all artists using the platform, it […]
Defected to hold three-part ‘We Dance As One’ livestream
Dance label Defected Records did a great job earlier this year with its ‘Virtual Festival’ series of livestreams, raising $1.2m for the World Health Organization’s Covid-19 relief fund over 10 weeks. Now it’s coming back with a new event called ‘We Dance As One’ spread over three dates: 30 October, 27 November and a finale […]
Livestreaming startup Moment House raises $1.5m from starry seed investors
Scooter Braun, Troy Carter, Patreon CEO Jack Conte, actor Jared Leto and artist Kygo’s Palm Crew Investments are among the investors in the latest ticketed livestreams startup, Moment House, which announced its $1.5m seed funding round today. The round was led by Forerunner Ventures, with Sequoia Capital partner Jess Lee also among the angel investors, […]
Livestreaming startup Mandolin raises $5m in seed funding
Six months ago, livestreaming was in many quarters seen as a temporary sticking plaster for the shutdown of physical concerts, likely to return to a niche once the latter returned. A lot of people have changed their tune since then: physical concerts aren’t returning anywhere near as soon as we had hoped, and successful livestreaming […]
Oda connected speakers have their own season of concerts
Oda is a startup making a pair of speakers (also called Oda) that look very nice indeed – “made of wood, glass, cotton, and steel: materials that are humble and human, not technological” as the blurb puts it – with as much attention to detail paid to their audio innards. However, what interests us about the $299 […]
How should artists use Twitch to connect with fans?
Live video streaming service Twitch has been one of the (unwitting) beneficiaries of the global pandemic, as musicians scramble to find a way to compensate for the near-total shutdown of live music. In their recent “State of the Stream” report, StreamElements and Arsenal.gg claimed that Twitch’s Q2 2020 chart bars “look like skyscrapers compared to […]
AiR Show augmented-reality concerts app acquired for $300k
This might just be a record for the shortest gap between a startup being first covered by Music Ally, and being acquired. We wrote about Trick 3D and its ‘AiR Show’ app a couple of weeks ago: it promised to beam artists into fans’ living rooms using augmented reality technology, for performances. It had a partnership with […]
Charli XCX to kick off Oculus and Tidal’s VR concerts series
We knew that Tidal and Facebook’s Oculus were working together on plans for some virtual reality concerts. Now we know who’s playing the first one: Charli XCX, who’ll be performing within the Oculus Venues app this Friday (9 October). It’s the first of a series of six concerts organised by the companies, each of which will see […]
The bigger picture around Twitch, music licensing, and industry criticism
When we reported on the launch of Soundtrack by Twitch earlier this week, we had a sneaking suspicion that we’d be hearing from the publishing sector – and US representative body the NMPA’s boss David Israelite – sooner rather than later with some opinions. And lo, he’s one of the interviewees in a Rolling Stone follow-up about the wider […]
Rockifi streaming service will focus on hard rock and metal
Scottish startup Rockifi isn’t brand new: back in 2018 it was being hailed as ‘Tinder for rock fans’ with an app that helped rock and metal fans find likeminded fans to go to concerts with. However, it’s relaunching this month with a bigger ambition: to be a fully fledged streaming service for hard rock and heavy metal. […]
Making the most of Twitch: tips for artists from its music team
Amazon’s livestreaming video platform Twitch was already looking to do more with music before Covid-19 struck, but the pandemic has fuelled a moment where lots of musicians are also suddenly keen to do more with Twitch – and livestreaming more generally. At Music Ally’s Sandbox Summit Global online conference this week, Twitch’s VP of music […]
Japanese artist Reol made $130k from a YouTube livestream
Can you make money from livestreamed music performances on YouTube? Japanese artist Reol certainly did: to the tune of $130k. YouTube’s director of Black music and culture Tuma Basa revealed the figure in his appearance at Music Ally’s Sandbox Summit Global online conference yesterday alongside colleague T. Jay Fowler, director of product management. Reol’s livestream […]
Logic blames UMG for not letting game-streamers use his music
Having officially retired from music earlier this year, before signing what was reportedly a seven-figure exclusive deal to stream on Twitch, artist Logic is a prominent figure at the intersection of music and livestreaming. A tweet on Friday is thus making a few waves. “Too many of my gaming homies @Ninja included have wanted to play my […]
Chartmetric launches new charts tracking music on Twitch
Twitch has been doing more with music and musicians, and analytics firm Chartmetric has been tracking that. The result is four new charts for music on Amazon’s live-video platform, presenting the top users by viewer hours both weekly and monthly, as well as the top users by followers both weekly and all-time. Chartmetric says it’s […]
Rufus Wainwright launches catalogue-spanning livestream series
As the physical live-music lockdown stretches on, artists are finding new spins on livestreaming. The latest example is Rufus Wainwright, who’s kicking off his ‘Rufus-Retro-Wainwright-Spective!’ series of streams in October. He’s going to perform each of his nine studio albums in chronological order, splitting each into two broadcasts (corresponding to ‘sides’ in a vinyl stylee). […]
Keith Urban premieres new album with Apple Music livestream
Apple has a history of music-related livestreams: for example the broadcasts of its London iTunes-branded concerts back in the day. There’s something interesting happening this year around livestreams and artists though. We wrote about Apple Music’s virtual listening party for Victoria Monét in August, and now it’s repeating the trick for country star Keith Urban. 1,000 of […]
Next BTS livestream comes with month-long virtual exhibition
K-Pop stars BTS are already one of the big success stories of lockdown livestreams: their ‘Bang Bang Con’ concert in June pulled in 756,000 paying customers. Now they’re following it up with an even more ambitious event. ‘Map of the Soul ON:E’ will take place on the weekend of 10-11 October, with two broadcasts. However, […]
Twitch gets global deal with rap-battle league King of the Dot
Rap battles are a perfect match for livestreaming services: not only are they fun to watch and chat about, but musically speaking, they’re original content with far fewer copyright headaches for the platform. Twitch knows all about those headaches, so its latest deal is interesting: with rap league King of the Dot. The exclusive agreement […]
Spotify adds livestreams to its in-app concert listings
Spotify has been showing artists’ upcoming tour dates on their profiles for years, although data on how effective those listings are at selling tickets is scarce. With the live industry still shut down in many parts of the world due to Covid-19, the streaming service is taking the logical step of adding listings for livestream […]
Tim Westergren talks Sessions: ‘Artists need to recover their audience’
In the Covid-19-era music industry, the old income dichotomy of recorded music and live performances is not dead so much as it is becoming fleshed out. A variety of different fan experiences, earning money for artists on different platforms, is emerging as a common approach. Livestreaming is at the heart of many of them. It […]
Beabadoobee talks Fake It Flowers, Spotify and lockdown creativity
“It’s so hard to stay positive in a time like this, but it’s about finding the little things. Once this is all over, there’s going to be the Summer of Love, and festivals, and touch. I can’t wait!” Beatrice Kristi Laus – aka Beabadoobee – is looking for the silver linings in the Covid-19 pandemic, […]
Gaming star Ninja returns to Twitch with exclusive deal
Twitch may be doing more with music, but gaming remains its bread-and-butter content. Now one of the platform’s first and biggest stars is returning to it. Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins is well known to Music Ally readers: he broke livestreaming records when playing Fortnite with Drake; competed in pro-amateur tournaments of the same game with Marshmello; […]
Podcasts proving popular for classical streaming service Primephonic
Primephonic is one of the streaming services focusing on classical music, with a comprehensive collection of albums and playlists. However, neither of those are its most popular format with listeners. It’s podcasts. The company has been producing its own shows blending interviews with classical music artists, composers and conductors with their music. “These podcasts are […]
Electronic Labor Day livestream to support rebuilding in Beirut
The explosion in Beirut on 4 August was devastating, killing nearly 200 people and injuring thousands more, while destroying buildings across a large swathe of the city. One of the latest relief efforts comes from the music industry: a livestreaming event called ‘For Beirut’ that has been organised by the Electronic Labor Day initiative and Beatport. It […]
Music livestreams are getting their own awards ceremony
A music industry trend isn’t a proper trend until it gets its own awards ceremony, right? If so, livestreams are graduating to the Big Trends league, because LiveXLive has announced plans for ‘The Lockdown Awards’ this October to “honour artists and entertainers who create content for fans amidst the pandemic”. Categories include Best Virtual Festival; Best Show […]
Twitch is shutting down its Twitch Sings karaoke game
Amazon’s Twitch live-video service may be doing more with music artists, but it’s also shutting down one of its existing music projects: karaoke game Twitch Sings. “As we look to the future, we have decided to invest in broader tools and services that will help support and grow the entire music community on Twitch. Because […]
Amazon Music integrates Twitch livestreaming into app
It’s almost a surprise that this hasn’t happened sooner, but Amazon Music has now integrated Twitch, the live streaming service owned by Amazon, into its Amazon Music mobile apps. Artists can now livestream via Twitch, with the streams appearing on their profile page in the Amazon Music mobile app, and followers will be alerted when they […]
Pro artists are making $5k-$20k per livestream on Sessions
Sessions is the startup launched earlier this year by former Pandora boss Tim Westergren: a livestreaming platform for musicians to broadcast “with just a laptop and a microphone”. Now Westergren has been talking to Pollstar about how things are going. “In the first 6-9 months when we were in beta, we recruited about 150 artists […]
Restream raises $50m to power multi-platform livestreams
Do you want to stream to YouTube, Twitch or Facebook? How about these and a couple of dozen more platforms simultaneously? That’s what the technology of a startup called Restream does, and investors are excited to the tune of a $50m Series A funding round for the company. Sapphire Ventures and Insight Partners led the […]
eMusic gets into livestreaming with eMusicLive launch
The last time we checked in on eMusic, it had just launched its eMU token as part of a blockchain drive, while its boss had joined the board of B2B firm 7digital. A few months on, the two companies are hopping aboard the livestreaming bandwagon. eMusic is launching a platform called eMusicLive, which it says […]
Skrachy launches livestreaming app for DJs – royalties included
News of a livestreaming app for DJs can’t help but spark questions about royalties for the musicians whose work those DJs are using in their sets. Skrachy is a US startup which claims to have an answer for that: it will charge DJs membership fees, and pay royalties out from that. “A Skrachy membership equips DJs […]
Survey: 30% of musicians are planning weekly livestreams
Bandsintown has been one of the companies around live music that has pivoted during Covid-19 – in its case, turning its site and app into places for fans to discover livestreams by artists, as well as launching its own live channel on Twitch. Now the company has published a report based on a survey of […]
San Juan Symphony launches $99 ‘digital season’ passes
If you thought getting concerts up and running again with four-piece bands was tricky, imagine doing it with an orchestra. The classical music industry has been hit for six by Covid-19 lockdowns just like the rest of the music business, but there are also orchestras figuring out alternative, digital models to start their recovery. The San […]
Facebook launches paid livestreams (and takes a pop at Apple)
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, musicians offering livestreams have been exploring the different ways to make money from them. Paid ticketing has tended to be restricted to the smaller livestreaming companies, while on the bigger social/video platforms (Facebook/Instagram, YouTube and Twitch) it’s been more about free streams and revenue from virtual item sales and/or merchandise. So, […]
Aloha by Elk wants to improve remote music collaboration
We’ve written about a blizzard of new livestreaming startups in recent months, but Aloha – which is the work of Swedish ‘audio operating system’ firm Elk – is a bit different. It’s described as “a virtual shared studio, rehearsal room, stage and or classroom with options to stream performances to audiences over social platforms” – so it’s a production […]
Metallica preps drive-in gig with $115 ‘per vehicle’ tickets
$115 to see Metallica? We know concerts are in short supply, but this is outrageo… Oh wait. Metallica’s upcoming concert does cost $115 for a ticket, but that ticket covers a vehicle with up to six people: potentially just over $19 per head, which is actually rather good value. The band are the latest artist to […]
Jazz Re:Fest to stream with MQA and Bluesound partnership
Another festival forced to switch from offline to online this year is Jazz Re:Fest in the UK. Its 2020 version will be held on 23 August, with four hours of performances streamed from a two-stage set in The Mill studios. That way, artists will be able to perform their 30-minute sets while the other stage […]
LiveXLive financials reveal revenues of $10.5m for Q2 2020
US music-streaming and livestreaming company LiveXLive has published its latest financial results, including a new record for quarterly revenues: $10.5m. That’s in the second quarter of 2020 (its fiscal Q1), with those revenues having grown by 11% year-on-year. The company reported a net loss of $7.5m though, although at least that was down from $11m this […]
Ride apologise after technical problems nix paid livestream
The music industry is increasingly excited about the potential for ticketed livestreams, but we can’t ignore some of the risks involved too. For example, British band Ride were forced to abandon their concert last night and apologise to fans who’d bought tickets to watch it online, after technical troubles at the venue. Ride: Live From […]
WMG boss: ‘We’re very happy that Spotify is investing in podcasting’
Having published its latest financial results this morning, Warner Music Group held its quarterly earnings call this afternoon, with CEO Steve Cooper and CFO Eric Levin fielding questions from analysis. One of those questions focused on Spotify’s podcasts expansion, and whether it’s causing tensions around the potential impact on royalties paid out to companies like […]
Apple Music hosts virtual listening party for Victoria Monét
Apple Music is working with artist Victoria Monét on “an exclusive virtual listening party” taking place this Thursday (6 August) to celebrate the release of her new album ‘Jaguar’ the following day. The event will be presented by Apple Music’s ‘Today’s Hits’ playlist and hosted by Beats 1’s Nadeska Alexis. According to Broadway World, this is […]
Twitch to feature artists in its first ever ‘music month’
Twitch is building on its recent growth of music livestreams by launching its first ever ‘Music Month’. It’ll be spending August promoting some of the musicians who are operating on its platform, including featuring their streams on the service’s homepage and its own official channel. The latter will include a show every Friday called ‘Follow […]
ATC and Beggars Group team up for Driift online concerts firm
The founders of music management company ATC Management have launched a new firm called Driift, to produce and promote ticketed online concerts. The team has already worked on recent livestreams for Laura Marling (who sold 6,500 tickets for her recent Union Chapel concerts), Lianna La Havas and Dermot Kennedy (who Driift says sold more than […]
Snoop Dogg / DMX Verzuz battle broke viewing records
Fresh from striking an exclusive deal with Apple Music, the Verzuz battles series garnered its highest viewing figures yet from its latest episode. That’s the one where Snoop Dogg and DMX went head to head in a ‘battle of the dogs’ last Wednesday (22 July). Verzuz posted the stats itself, noting that the battle had […]
India’s new livestreaming tariff plans are already changing
We reported earlier this month on plans by Indian collecting society IPRS to start charging licensing fees for music livestreams – and initial criticism that the plans could leave artists out of pocket. Now the plans are changing. Medianama reported that the introduction of the new tariffs appears to have been delayed until September, amid […]
Report hails Twitch’s ‘skyscraper’ viewing hours in Q2 2020
Another Covid-19 lockdown trend is the sharp growth of viewing hours for livestreaming video services, particularly Twitch. Industry firms StreamElements and Arsenal·gg have published their latest ‘State of the Stream’ report quantifying this growth. “Twitch’s 2nd quarter chart bars look like skyscrapers compared to Q1’s single floor dwellings,” it claimed, with a chart showing monthly viewing hours […]
Pandora kicks off a new series of concert livestreams
Streaming service Pandora is getting into the livestreaming game with a series of performances branded Pandora Live. The first one takes place next week (28 July) with country star Kane Brown, with the promise of more “across country, Latin, R&B, pop, and rock” to follow this year. Besides streaming performances live, Pandora said that there’ll be […]
Tim McGraw to host an ‘all-live album premiere’ livestream
The longer this lockdown goes on, the more artists are finding different ways to experiment with the format of livestreams – and also to charge for them. Country star Tim McGraw is the latest example. He’s going to be holding a “unique all-live album premiere” event on 22 August, broadcasting from Nashville to tie in with […]
Not retiring just yet: Logic signs a seven-figure Twitch deal
On 17 July, artist Logic announced his retirement ahead of the release of (seemingly) his final album ‘No Pressure’ a week later. “It’s been a great decade. Now it’s time to be a great father,” he tweeted. As it turns out, it’s also time to sign a megabucks exclusive deal with a livestreaming video service. […]
Apple Music bags exclusive deal for Instagram Verzuz battles
One of the hits of the Covid-19 lockdown has been the Verzuz battles on Instagram, where high-profile artists go head-to-head for… well, they’re less battles and more mutual love-ins, exchanging their hits in an atmosphere of respect. Anyway, they’ve been hugely popular on Instagram Live: Jill Scott and Erykah Badu attracted more than 740,000 viewers […]
Music Ally Report :: Q2 2020 Edition
Our main feature explores the evolution of live music, as we look towards a time when concerts are able to resume safely. What have we learned from the livestreaming boom during the Covid-19 lockdown, and what are the prospects for ‘hybrid’ online/offline concerts in the coming months? We’ve also got a feature recapping two thought-provoking […]
Underoath launch three-part series of livestream concerts
Metalcore band Underoath are the latest artist to do something more involved with livestreaming. Underoath: Observatory is a series of three concerts, each of which will see the band playing one of their albums in full, from a venue in Florida. Tickets for each show cost $15, while a three-show ticket bundle is $45. However, each […]
Two more livestreaming startups: Gramrphone and LiveFrom
And still the new livestreaming startups keep coming: we have two more to tell you about today. Gramrphone was one of the six winners in the #NextStageChallenge hackathon earlier this year – Music Ally was a partner in that event. Its service helps artists to stream live from their digital audio workstation (DAW) via Gramrphone’s software, creating their […]
Pitbull signs LiveXLive deal for paid livestreams and vodcast
Pitbull is the latest artist looking to do more with livestreaming and video content, and he’s found a partner to help. He’s working with US firm LiveXLive in a “multi-year revenue-share content partnership” that will see Pitbull play a series of pay-per-view livestream concerts, while also launching a video podcast (or ‘vodcast’). The latter will […]
Twitch set for multi-week run of Amazon Music Sessions
Slowly but surely, the crossover between Amazon Music and its parent company’s Twitch subsidiary is growing. Amazon Music’s channel on the livestreaming platform has been ramping up during the Covid-19 pandemic, and the streaming service has also been throwing some promotional weight behind artists’ own streams on Twitch. Now it’s launching a series of ‘Amazon […]
FanTracks and Bulldog DM are the latest livestream startups
To adapt the old cliché about buses: you wait ages for a music livestream startup to arrive, then two come at once! Except actually, the two are arriving just after what feels like another couple of dozen. Can FanTracks and Bulldog DM stand out from the crowd? FanTracks is launching with a prominent artist at […]
The Streets set for August pay-per-view livestream concert
The Streets are the latest artist to explore ticketed livestreams, with plans for a pay-per-view concert on 6 August filmed at the Earth venue in London. It’s part of the band’s series of drive-in concerts across the UK, planned to replace the string of festival dates which were cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The […]
Rave Family Block Fest Minecraft festival postponed again
We reported on Friday about the bumpy start for Rave Family Block Fest, the dance music festival being held within the game Minecraft. People who’d paid for tickets to attend were finding it difficult to access the event, and when they did get in, they realised that the music itself had to be streamed separately […]
Liam Payne set to launch ticketed livestreams on Veeps
Veeps! Another new livestreaming startup for artists? Actually, no, this one’s been around since 2017, and was founded by Benji and Joel Madden from rock band Good Charlotte. It’s a platform for ticketed livestreams, and the latest artist to sign up is a biggie: former One Direction star Liam Payne. He’s going to be launching […]
Livestreaming startup Yoop to open more ‘eSpace’ venues
We wrote about startup Yoop in May, as the latest entrant to 2020’s livestreaming-platform scramble. Its concept was an ‘eSpace’ virtual venue, which artists would be able to play ticketed live performances in. Now Yoop is expanding its activities: it’s creating eSpace venues in Los Angeles, New York, Nashville and the UK, to complement its […]
Sandbox Issue 256: PRIMAL STREAM 📱🎧 Making lockdown concerts work
Lead: Livestreams have moved to try and fill the massive hole left by the total cancellation of tours and festivals around the world. As more acts do them, however, it becomes incrementally harder to stand out and draw in big enough audiences to make them worthwhile. We speak to those building a whole new gig economy here […]
MelodyVR and Live Nation set for Brixton Academy livestreams
We reported last week on VR music startup MelodyVR’s financial performance in 2019 – £195k of revenues but a net loss of nearly £15m. The company is continuing to explore new partnerships to grow its business, though, with the latest being a deal with Live Nation in the UK. The pair will launch a series of […]
Wiz Khalifa to play Genius Live interactive livestream
If there’s one thing we’ve learned about livestreamed concerts during the Covid-19 lockdown, it’s that fans relish interactivity: at its simplest level seeing an artist read and respond to comments in between songs. Genius is going further though: it’s launching a new “performance-oriented livestreaming and experiential platform” called Genius Live, with lots of interactivity. Wiz […]
Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda created his new album on Twitch
During the Covid-19 pandemic, a lot of musicians have been thinking about doing more with live-video platform Twitch. But what should they do? Live performances, DJ sets (even though there are issues here), fan Q&As, playing games… All these have been tried. Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park has been using Twitch to broadcast his actual creation […]
Suicide Silence and Bandsintown launch geofenced virtual tour
Livestream music concerts can air globally, but that doesn’t mean they have to. We’re seeing a growing number of artists experiment with geofenced online concerts, which can only be viewed by fans in a particular part of the world – sometimes as part of virtual ‘tours’ with a string of performances. Now deathcore band Suicide Silence […]
Sandbox Issue 255: K-Pop. What the Global Music Industry can learn from South Korea
Lead: K-pop is eating the world whole and is changing what marketing – especially superfan-centric marketing – can do. We speak to those working in and around the K-pop world to learn how the genre markets itself, where its acts engage with their fans to build incredible levels of loyalty, why trans-media marketing underscores everything they do […]
Microsoft shuts down its livestreaming video service Mixer
Mixer was tech giant Microsoft’s rival to Twitch and other livestreaming video platforms, focused squarely on gaming. You may remember that in August 2019 it signed an exclusive deal with Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins (of ‘played Fortnite with Drake’ fame, although to many young people, it’s more Drake who’s of ‘played Fortnite with Ninja’ fame). More on that […]
LiveXLive reports record revenues – but also increased losses
LiveXLive is the US-based company that’s been increasingly active around music livestreaming, as well as owning audio-streaming service Slacker. The firm has announced its financial results for its fiscal year 2020, which ended on 31 March. The company’s annual revenues grew by 15% to $38.7m, while its number of paying subscribers grew by 25% to 849,000. […]
Universal Music hails China sales success for Linong Chen
The major western music companies are, it’s fair to say, very keen to expand their foothold in the Chinese music industry. From beefing up their offices in China to taking investment from its digital industry’s giant Tencent, Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music are all making the country a growth priority. Some new numbers […]
Startup Show4Me expands into ticketed online concerts
Back in January, we wrote about Show4Me, which described itself as a “music interaction network”. It had raised $13.5m in funding and was offering acts a variety of tools such as music and concert crowdfunding campaigns, sales of music, D2F interaction and even a $1-per-year fan membership model. The company launched an online ticketing option in […]
Artist Tom Walker plans a 12-hour world tour on Zoom
Rock band Def Leppard hold the record for playing the most gigs in different continents in one day (three: Africa, Europe and North America). Meanwhile, Jeff Aug holds the record for most gigs in different countries in a day (nine: Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Austria). Now artist Tom Walker is making his own globetrotting move, albeit […]
Sandbox Issue 254: The Rise of Music Podcasts
Lead: If you aren’t making or appearing on a podcast, do you actually exist? Even with DSPs and record labels investing in them heavily and building whole podcasting divisions, there is still the issue of licensing music for them that is holding back their creative potential. Yet beyond that knotty problem, the sector is still an […]
Music livestreaming firm Livit Media acquired by eResonate
Livestreaming has never been more prominent than it is now as artists and venues try and plug that massive hole left by the cancellation of shows, tours, festivals and clubs. Now there’s some consolidation afoot in this area: a company called eResonate Media is buying another livestreaming startup called Livit Media. The companies have been working together since […]
Dice boss on ‘20 things we’ve learned about livestreaming’
British mobile-ticketing firm Dice is one of the startups most affected by the Covid-19 impact, but the company has been pivoting during the pandemic to focus on livestreams. Now its CEO Phil Hutcheon has published an article about 20 things Dice has learned about music livestreaming, which we think has some practical, helpful advice for artists […]
Tools. Lockdown Livestreaming
When lockdown started, artists around the world swiftly jumped onto platforms like Instagram and Twitch, in order to livestream from their homes. But, with social distancing restrictions in place for the foreseeable future, and no real sense of when live music could return, the idea that livestreams could help to partially offset the enormous losses […]
Chartmetric says livestreams boosted artists’ social followings
Music analytics firm Chartmetric has published the third and final part of its analysis on Covid-19’s impact on music consumption. The study focuses on livestreams, and the extent to which they boosted artists’ social media followings. The conclusion: yes they did. Chartmetric says that “live streams scheduled by artists from their own channels generated significant […]
Andy and the Odd Socks launch new album with kids’ parties
Andy Day is a popular children’s TV presenter in the UK on TV channel CBeebies, but he’s also been building a music career as the frontman of Andy and the Odd Socks. The band’s new album comes out today (22 May) through Sony Music’s children’s entertainment label Magic Star, and there’s an inventive marketing campaign around […]
Get set for Wireless Connect and Electric Blockaloo virtual festivals
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OMG! OMD sell £75k in merchandise from their virtual gig
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Pandora founder Tim Westergren launches livestreaming service Sessions
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Roblox to stream One World: Together at Home concert in-game
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L Devine’s digital ‘URL Tour’ helped her sell out of merch
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Side Door expands to include ticketing for livestream concerts
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Today’s positive coronavirus-related music industry news (27 March)
Let’s start today with Germany, at a time when bodies representing musicians and the music industry are pressing governments around the world for relief and support. The post Today’s positive coronavirus-related music industry news (27 March) appeared first on Music Ally. Source: Music ally
Music Ally to hold free webinar: ‘Bringing Live Online’
As you’ll have noticed, livestreams are all the rage right now, as artists look for a way to perform for and chat to fans (and perhaps to find a new income stream) in lieu of cancelled tours and festivals. This Thursday, Music Ally is holding a free webinar called ‘Bringing Live Online’ – kindly supported by […]
Charli XCX kicks off ‘self-isolating’ livestreams series on Instagram
Everyone and their artist auntie is livestreaming now, it seems – our RSS feed was overwhelmed by a blizzard of media articles commenting on the trend this morning too. Some of the more notable examples from the past 24 hours include: Charli XCX kicking off a series of Instagram livestreams, patching in fellow artists like Christine and […]
More artists turn to livestreams amid coronavirus isolation
As the live-music shutdown continues, more and bigger artists have turned to livestreaming performances online as an alternative, if not (certainly not in terms of income) a replacement. Neil Young is launching a ‘Fireside Sessions’ series of concerts broadcast from his home. As far as we can tell, the performances will be hosted on his own Neil […]
Live music affected by latest coronavirus event restrictions
Having said last week that we’re going to try not to stoke your anxiety over the novel-coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak with long, scary stories, this morning we can’t ignore the latest developments and their implications for our industry. You may have already seen the reports that Universal Music Group boss Sir Lucian Grainge has been hospitalised […]
Rappers take centre stage in the livestreaming video battle
There’s something of a talent war going on in the livestreaming video space, with several gaming stars (Ninja, most prominently) being tempted away from Twitch by big-money offers from Microsoft’s rival, Mixer. Another company in the live-video space is Caffeine, and it’s just hauled in a big name: musician Drake. Caffeine described it as a […]
LiveXLive revenues grew in Q2 but its losses widened slightly
US digital music company LiveXLive has published its latest financial results, which show that its revenues grew by 25.1% year-on-year to $9.5m in the second quarter of 2019. However, the company’s net losses also widened slightly, from $10.8m a year ago to just under $11m last quarter. LiveXLive’s cost of sales, at $9m, accounts for nearly […]
Podcasting app Castbox adds live-streaming feature with tips
Castbox is one of the independent podcasting apps that people can use to find, follow and listen to shows on their smartphones and smart speakers. Now it’s launching an interesting new feature for podcasters: the ability to stream live, and solicit donations from their listeners. The feature is called Livecast, and will help podcasters to […]
LiveXLive gets livestreaming rights to iHeartRadio events
US firm LiveXLive has bagged the rights to live-stream 17 of US radio group iHeartMedia’s events this year, including various festivals, as well as licensing and streaming rights for some smaller events like album launches and live performances. The deal will also see iHeartRadio getting a channel on LiveXLive’s online-video service. The latter company says that it […]
Emma McGann talks music, live video and finding fans on YouNow
Live video is an increasingly common way for musicians to interact with their fans, from album and tour launches on Facebook to fan Q&As on Instagram and even streaming gaming sessions on Twitch or YouTube. One aspect of livestreaming that still flies under the western music industry’s radar, though, are standalone live-video apps like YouNow, […] | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7315840125083923, "wiki_prob": 0.7315840125083923, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1444182"} |
Chevrolet Volt "Electric-First" to Cost $41K
Will you have a Chevy Volt in time for Christmas? Will its battery last? What about Volt mpg? And what does that price include?
By Dennis Simanaitis
With no particular attempt at electrical humor, I note that few upcoming cars have sparked more consumer interest than the . Its claimed 40 miles of EV operation between plug-ins and 300 more in extended-range mode have gotten lots of hype. (Remember last year's claimed 230 mpg? Read on.) But what's its real mileage? When will it be available? And what'll you get for the price?
Answers to these have been gleaned through surmise, analysis and craftily doled doses of GM news. The hottest and latest, from the 2010 Plug-In Conference & Exposition in San Jose, California, is the Volt's official Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price: $41,000. As with other EV/PHEV announcements, subtraction of a federal $7500 tax credit is quickly appended (or, as some do, blatantly offered as the bottom line). A 36-month Volt lease will run $350/month, with $2500 due at signing. The car will have standard navigation system and 5 years of OnStar concierge service.
But does the federal $7500 spiff bring the out-the-door price of your Volt (or, for that matter, your Nissan Leaf, Mitsubishi i-MiEV or Tesla Roadster) down by this amount? No. The benefit comes when you file your federal income tax return sometime during the year after purchase. Despite wording I've seen, don't confuse the $7500 with a "rebate;" it's a tax credit. Also unknown, given EV buzz and limited numbers, is what sort of dealer markup might be expected.
Whichever computation you prefer, to put it in perspective the Volt's MSRP is $41,000/$33,500 post tax. The is $33,720/$26,220. On the other hand, except for EV bling, it's foolish to compare these two cars. One is a pure EV; the other, to use GM's latest term, is an "Electric-First" plug-in series hybrid.
GM says it expects the Volt to be on sale by November of this year, with orders taken from July 27 at . It plans to produce some 10,000 Volts by the end of 2011 and expand this to 30,000 in 2012. In analysis, these anticipated sales are not big numbers, particularly for what's been touted as a paradigm shift in personal mobility. By contrast, over the past four years the Toyota Prius has averaged almost 13,000 sales each month. On the other hand, the first-generation Prius didn't exactly go off like a rocket: Sales for its first two years, 2000 and 2001, amounted to 5562 and 15,556, respectively.
With regard to battery longevity, GM recently announced that the Volt's 16-kWh lithium-ion pack will carry a warranty of 100,000 miles or eight years, whichever comes first. This is similar to conventional hybrid warranties, but still noteworthy in that the Volt's Electric-First configuration puts more stress on its battery pack. Also, this will be the first significant use of lithium-ion technology in an automotive application. Only the and (this first, a mild hybrid; the second, a microhybrid) and Tesla's micro-production of just a tad more than 1000 cars have used lithium thus far.
Fuel economy of the Volt's 1.4-liter 4-cylinder engine remains an open question, in that the government is still working out how to assess plug-in technology. As noted here at roadandtrack.com, this is a non-trivial problem, only obfuscated last year by GM's claim of the Volt's 230 mpg.
Briefly, gasoline consumption of a plug-in depends profoundly on how much the car travels in "charge-depletion" mode, loosely when it's running EV, and how much of the trip is in "charge-sustaining" mode, i.e., once its gasoline engine comes into play. A while back, I demonstrated that any value from makes sense for the Volt, depending on how often it's plugged in and how much it's driven in between. More than ever before, the phrase "Your mileage may differ" will apply with the Volt and other plug-ins.
What's more, until we have opportunity to drive a Volt in the real world, even that 40 miles of Electric-First is only a laboratory assessment, based on what might or might not be anything resembling reality.
Last, I'm a bit surprised that the Volt's November introduction has yet to be supported by any significant journalistic experience with the car. A while back, Shaun Bailey, our Detroit Editor at the time, drove a prototype—in EV mode only. And I've read a sole piece, in The New York Times, describing a brief—and not altogether flattering—drive of the Volt in its extended-range transition mode. GM engineers acknowledge that the real challenge is when the car's Electric-First miles are exhausted and you want it to shift transparently to gasoline-generated electricity.
San Jose Conference participants have a controlled-drive opportunity on a closed course. By contrast, we've driven other pure EVs and plug-ins extensively during their developmental stages. For instance, characteristics of the Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric city car and Toyota Prius Plug-In, neither appearing any sooner in our market than the Volt, are not exactly mysteries to us. To cite only two examples of many: We've from San Francisco to Sacramento—via a Vacaville quick charge. We've driven the Toyota Prius Plug-In at more than 70 mph in its EV mode. And we have other more extensive driving experiences of these two cars coming soon both here and in print R&T.
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Suddath announced that it has acquired St. Pete Moving & Storage, a residential local and long-distance mover serving the broader Tampa Bay area....
Suddath Shortlisted for Best International Removals Provider Award by Relocate Global...
We are excited to announce that Suddath® has been shortlisted for the 2019 Think Relocate Award for Best International Removals Provider....
Suddath South Florida Sponsors Master Brokers Forum Event...
Suddath® sponsored the latest Master Brokers Forum event, which focused on technology and innovation in real estate....
Suddath Shortlisted for FEM’s Moving Company of the Year...
Suddath® is a four-time winner of the EMMA for Moving Company of the Year. Find out more about our 2018 entry....
Suddath and Jacksonville: Growing Together for 100 Years...
Suddath celebrates 100 years in the moving, relocation and logistics industries....
Rob Giese Appointed Vice President of Innovation and Change...
Rob Giese has joined Sterling Lexicon as vice president of innovation and change, to enhance and optimize the mobility experience for its clients and their employees....
Top Mobility Firms Combine to Form Sterling Lexicon...
Sterling Lexicon brings together two deeply-rooted companies that care about our customers to create an enhanced global mobility experience....
Suddath Global Logistics Renews GFSI Certification...
Suddath® Global Logistics is proud to announce the renewal of the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) accreditation for 2019....
Suddath Global Logistics Marks 500 Days Injury-Free and Counting...
Suddath reached a significant safety milestone in its Global Logistics division – over 500 days without lost workdays due to injuries....
Suddath Global Logistics Supports Truckers Against Trafficking...
Before National Human Trafficking Prevention month, the furniture, fixtures and equipment (FF&E) team of the Global Logistics division obtained its TAT certification....
The Suddath Companies Acquires Perdue, Inc....
The Suddath Companies today announced that it has acquired Perdue, Inc., a North Florida leader in office furniture....
Suddath Wins Digital Edge 50 International Technology Award...
Suddath®has been named a 2019 Digital Edge 50 Award honoree for specific digital transformation projects that achieve a significant, measurable business impact....
Suddath Wins Unigroup’s 2018 Top Booking Agent...
Suddath® has won the 2018 Top Booking Agent for UniGroup, the parent company for United Van Lines, Mayflower Transit, UniGroup Logistics and UniGroup Worldwide Moving....
Suddath Executive Leaders Volunteer with K9s For Warriors...
The Executive Leadership Team at Suddath® hit the phones on Veterans Day for K9’s For Warriors during their telethon fundraiser to build a new mega kennel. ...
Barry Vaughn Elected Chairman of UniGroup’s Board of Directors...
The board of directors for UniGroup, a $1.7 billion transportation company, elected The Suddath Companies’ Barry Vaughn as its chairman....
Suddath Global Logistics GFSI Certification is Renewed...
Suddath Voted 2018 Best Moving Company and Best Storage Facility...
The Suddath Companies won the titles of Bold City Best Moving Company and Best Storage Facility after two weeks of public voting in a prestigious award competition....
Suddath Global Logistics is 365 Days Injury-Free...
Today marks one full year with zero lost workdays due to injuries across the Suddath® Global Logistics division, a major milestone for any business. ...
Suddath Announces Peter Sewell as Managing Director with Sterling Mobility brand...
Sterling Mobility, a subsidiary of Lexicon® Relocation and The Suddath Companies announce the appointment of Peter Sewell as managing director for its EMEA and APAC divisions....
Global Expansion Leads to Opportunity...
CCO Mark Burchell talks to FIDI Focus about how a recent acquisition within The Suddath Companies, and how it is opening doors for Suddath partners....
Suddath Receives Prestigious CIO Award...
Tracker, proprietary technology developed by Suddath, has been so successful in transforming customer expectations that it was recognized as one of the elite CIO 100 Award recipients....
Suddath Announces New Bonded Capabilities...
As needs for US drayage increase and challenges around freight capacity linger Suddath® is making continued investments in the transportation space....
Military Moves Update from CEO Michael Brannigan...
The Suddath Companies CEO discusses industry-wide capacity and driver shortage issues that have impacted military moves for some customers....
The Suddath Companies Celebrates Anniversary in Dallas-Fort Worth...
Suddath® celebrates the first-year anniversary of its new 150,000-square-foot, secure facility adjacent to the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) entrance. ...
Brazil Strikes Impact Transportation...
Two strikes in Brazil, a truckers’ association strike and a customs strike, have caused disruptions throughout the country. Suddath® is doing our very best to mitigate the impact to our clients....
Suddath wins International Moving Company of the Year at the 2018 EMMAs...
The Suddath® Companies won International Moving Company of the Year at the 2018 FEM Americas EMMAs (Expatriate Management and Mobility Awards)....
Suddath Joins the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA)...
Suddath®Global Logistics, a division of The Suddath Companies, joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA), an organization setting freight industry standards for blockchain use and educational forums for early adopters....
Suddath Wins CIO 100 Award for Industry Innovation...
CIO from IDG today announces The Suddath Companies as a recipient of the 2018 CIO 100 Awards for its leadership in industry innovation. ...
Suddath Subsidiary Lexicon Relocation Acquires UK-Based Sterling Mobility...
The Suddath Companies is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Lexicon Relocation, has acquired U.K.-based Sterling Mobility....
Suddath Shortlisted for Relocate Award for Best International Removals Provider...
Suddath® is pleased to announce we have been shortlisted for Best International Removals Provider for the upcoming Relocate Awards....
Suddath Shortlisted for Two EMMAs...
Suddath® has been shortlisted for two FEM Americas EMMAs: International Moving Company of the Year and Outstanding Corporate and Social Responsibility Initiatives....
Michael Morrissey of Suddath Named United Van Operator of the Year...
Michael Morrissey of Suddath® was named the 2018 Household Goods Van Operator of the Year for delivering the highest level of customer service, quality and safety....
Suddath Awarded Partner of the Year...
Suddath® received Mesa Moving and Storage’s 2018 “Agent Partner of the Year” at the annual United Van Lines’ Learning Conference in St. Louis, MO....
Suddath Announces Scott Perry as President of Global Logistics Division...
The Suddath Companies announces a key addition to its executive leadership team with the appointment of Scott Perry as president for its Global Logistics division....
Suddath Global Logistics Announces Addition of Free Trade Zone (FTZ) Space...
Suddath® Global Logistics, a division of The Suddath Companies is pleased to announce the addition of 320,000 square feet of newly acquired activated Free Trade Zone (FTZ) space....
Suddath Partners With The RES Forum as Their Technical Partner for International Moving...
Suddath® is pleased to announce its new partnership with The RES Forum as their Americas technical partner for international moving....
Suddath Certifies to New ISO 9001: 2015 Quality Management System...
Suddath®, a leading global provider of international moving services, headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., announced today that its international division has successfully certified to the new ISO 9001:2015 standards....
The Suddath Companies Announces Silvio Cavaceppi as New Vice President for Marketing and Communications...
Cavaceppi is a global marketing leader with a strong record of developing new markets, driving sustained growth and building successful teams....
The Suddath Companies Renews FIDI-FAIMPLUS certification...
Suddath® was awarded the FIDI Accredited International Mover (FAIM) Confirmation of Quality Assurance certificate for 2017, recognizing our continued high levels of service to our customers....
The Suddath Companies and Move For Hunger Organize Successful Food Drives for Giving Tuesday...
Tuesday, Suddath® hosted a nationwide food drive collecting over 2,000 pounds of non-perishable items to be donated to local food banks in a handful of communities the company serves....
The Suddath Companies Announces New Philanthropic Partnership with Smiles Foundation...
Suddath® will provide warehousing in South Florida for the organization, free of charge, to store donations of dental equipment, materials and supplies until they are ready to be shipped overseas to the Dominican Republic....
The Suddath Companies Awarded the 2017 Best Place to Work...
The Suddath® Companies wins the Florida Times Union’s 2017 Bold City Best Place to Work. The win came in the category of “Best Place to Work” for large companies with over 100 employees....
Update on Hurricane Irma...
Florida locations remained closed; Atlanta to close Monday, September 11th. Hurricane Irma will continue to impact the Southeast US as we begin the work week. ...
Post Hurricane Harvey Update...
The situation in Houston post-Hurricane Harvey has moved to recovery and our thoughts are with those impacted....
The Suddath Companies Wins Prestigious Technology Award...
Suddath® wins the Jacksonville Business Journal’s 2017 “BizTech” technology award for innovation in the relocation industry....
Update on Hurricane Harvey...
While the situation in Houston remains dynamic and unresolved, Suddath® is pleased to report that all of our employees and their families are safe and sheltered....
Suddath Relocation Systems Announces Most Improved Branch of the Year...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 20, 2017 – Suddath® is proud to announce our Tucson facility has received the 2016 Most Improved Branch of the Year award....
Suddath Relocation Systems Announces Branch of the Year...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 11, 2017 – Suddath® is pleased to announce its central Florida operation has received the 2016 Branch of the Year award....
The Suddath Companies and Move For Hunger Announce Collaborative Effort to Help Feed Families In Need Nationwide...
Suddath has partnered with Move For Hunger to help fight hunger nationwide....
Suddath Relocation Systems Announces Intent to Acquire Graebel Van Line’s Locations Orlando, Portland and San Jose...
Suddath Relocation Systems Announces Intent to Acquire Graebel Van Line’s Locations Orlando, Portland and San Jose....
Suddath Works to Emerge as a Leader in Hospitality Services...
With the decision to shift the hospitality business to Workplace, we are looking forward to seeing Suddath® emerge as a national market leader in hospitality services. ...
The Suddath Companies Shortlisted for EMMA Award...
Suddath® is pleased to announce we have been shortlisted by the Forum for Expatriate Management (FEM) for Best Vendor Partnership with our client Ingersoll Rand. ...
Suddath Relocation Systems of Jacksonville Wins Top Van Line Agency Award for 2016...
We are so proud to announce that Suddath Relocation Systems has won the highly-coveted 2016 Moving & Storage Agent of the Year Service Excellence Award from the American Moving & Storage Association (AMSA). ...
The Suddath Companies Awarded Customs and Border Protection National Permit...
Suddath® has been approved by the US Customs and Border Protection Service (CBP) for a Customs Broker National Permit and Remote Location Filing (RLF). ...
Bob Thomas Announces Retirement with Suddath Global Logistics...
Bob Thomas has officially announced his plan for retirement at the end of the year from his position as Senior VP of FF&E/Hospitality for Suddath® Global Logistics....
The Suddath Companies was a Key Partner Assisting with Opening of Disney Springs Sperry Store...
Suddath Global Logistics was instrumental in the logistics and staging required for the opening of the Sperry store in Disney Springs. ...
Suddath Hires Mark Burchell as President, Global Moving Services...
The Suddath Companies, announces a key addition to its new Global Moving Services business unit, hiring Mark Burchell as president....
Suddath Launches Redesigned Website in Line with New Brand Strategy...
The Suddath Companies launched a redesigned website, merging 36 sites into 1, as part of an overall digital strategy following an audit of the Suddath® brands....
Extreme Port Congestion May Cause Shipment Delays and Surcharges...
Suddath has the latest 2014 news on shipping delays at major U.S. and European ports, including extreme congestion and a continued chassis shortage....
Suddath Recognized as International Mover of the Year...
Suddath wins EMMA award in the International Mover of the Year category for the third time in four years by Forum for Expatriate Management....
Suddath Announces Charlotte Location Wins 2015 Branch of the Year Award...
Suddath in Charlotte has earned the 2015 Branch of the Year award for excellence in customer service, safety, quality and financial performance....
The Suddath Companies Recognized as a 904 Magazine Companies with Heart...
The charitable efforts of Suddath were recognized recently at the annual Companies with Heart luncheon, hosted by 904 Magazine....
Suddath on CARB Regulations and Potential Effects to your Business...
Suddath is committed to staying ahead of the CARB Truck and Bus regulation, keeping our customers & partners informed....
Suddath CEO to Speak at UNF Executive Spotlight in March...
Mike Brannigan, Suddath® President and CEO, will be featured as the 2016 UNF Executive Spotlight and discuss future initiatives, investment strategies and more....
Suddath Participates in Annual Trucking Day at the Florida Capitol...
Suddath was one of four member companies chosen to represent the Florida Trucking Association at legislative event in Tallahassee....
The Suddath Companies Announces Acquisition of The Secor Group...
The Suddath Companies has acquired The Secor Group, one of the nation’s oldest logistics, moving and storage companies in Washington, DC....
The Suddath Companies Announces Retirement of Jim Barnett, Chief Financial Officer...
The Suddath Companies announced today that chief financial officer, Jim Barnett, will retire in January 2016, after 41 years of dedicated service....
The Suddath Companies Designated as one of Northeast Florida’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies...
Suddath placed third in the Top 10 Fastest-Growing Private Companies list based on revenue volume growth from 2012 to 2014...
The Suddath Companies Recognized as one of the 2015 Best and Healthiest Places to Work...
The Suddath Companies announced it was named one of the top companies in Northeast Florida as “Best Places to Work” by the Jacksonville Business Journal....
The Suddath Companies Appoints Michael J. Brannigan as CEO...
Suddath announces a key change to its executive leadership team with the appointment of Michael J. Brannigan as president and chief executive officer....
The Suddath Companies Announces the Retirement of President and Chief Executive Officer, Barry Vaughn...
The Suddath Companies announces president and CEO, Barry S. Vaughn, will retire in May and assume the new position of vice chairman of The Suddath Companies....
Suddath Workplace Solutions Announces the Appointment of Mark Scullion as President...
Suddath Workplace Solutions, a business move management provider and office moving company, announces appointment of Mark Scullion as president....
Suddath Lead Packer Tony Meindel Receives United Customer Hero Award...
Tony Meindel, lead packer for Suddath Relocation Systems of St. Petersburg, consistently puts the customer first resulting in the United Customer Hero Award....
Suddath Associate Jose Marrero Elected President of The Pan American International Movers Association...
Jose Marrero, operations manager for Suddath® locations in London, New Jersey and Connecticut, has been elected president of PAIMA....
Suddath Hires Len O’Neill for the New Role of Chief Information Officer...
The Suddath Companies announces a key addition to its executive leadership team with the appointment of Len O’Neill to the new role as SVP and CIO....
Suddath Sponsors a "Visit from St. Nicholas" a Program Through HandsOn Jacksonville...
The Suddath Companies recognizes the importance of giving back; the Visit from St. Nicholas program is expected to serve 7,000 children in 3 counties this year....
Suddath Recognized as International Mover of the Year by The Forum for Expatriate Management...
For the second time in three years Suddath receives Expatriate Management & Mobility Award from The Forum for Expatriate Management...
Suddath Expands Logistics Presence in La Mirada, CA and Grand Prairie, TX...
To further strengthen logistics and warehousing capabilities Suddath Global Logistics adds expandable warehouse space....
Suddath Authorized to Operate Foreign-Trade Zone...
A Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) in the U.S. encourages international trade activity by allowing reduced/delayed duty payments, in addition to other cost savings....
ISO 9001 Certification Gives Suddath International Elite Status...
Quality service and customer satisfaction are two integral components of the International operation at Suddath®, as evidenced by their ISO 9001 certification....
Hours-of-Service Rules, What are They and What are They Trying to Accomplish...
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration implemented new regulations designed to improve safety for truck drivers and the motoring public....
The Suddath Companies Acquires Swartz Moving and Storage in Portland...
The Suddath Companies have acquired Swartz Moving and Storage in Portland, Oregon. Find out more about the acquisition of this company on Suddath.com...
The Suddath Companies Appoints Frank P. Senatore as Senior Vice President, Eastern Region...
The Suddath Companies announces the appointment of Frank P. Senatore to the role of senior vice president of its eastern region operations....
Bryan Brownell, Driver for Suddath Relocation Wins 2013 AMSA Super Van Operator Award...
Veteran van operator, Bryan Brownell, was awarded the 2013 Super Van Operator honor from the American Moving & Storage Association (AMSA)....
Suddath Relocation Systems Takes Top Honors at the 2012 UniGroup Annual Convention...
Suddath received significant accolades from UniGroup (United Van Lines and Mayflower Transit) for its services in the moving industry....
Suddath Hires Michael J. Brannigan for the New Role of Chief Operating Officer...
The Suddath Companies announces a key addition to its executive leadership team with the appointment of Michael J. Brannigan to the role of executive VP and COO....
The Suddath Companies Acquires PenserSC; Expansion Strengthens Global Supply Chain Management and Logistics Portfolio...
Suddath Global Logistics LLC, announces the acquisition of PenserSC, a third party logistics company that provides warehousing and logistics services....
The Suddath Companies Acquires Horizon Moving Systems...
Suddath Relocation Systems announces the acquisition of Horizon Moving Systems, an Arizona-based moving company....
Suddath Acquisition of PenserSC Featured in Jacksonville Business Journal...
The Suddath Companies has been featured in the Jacksonville Business Journal for the acquisition of PenserSC, a Jacksonville-based third party logistics company. ...
Suddath International is Now FAIM Plus Certified...
Suddath International has earned the FIDI’s FAIM Plus accreditation through our consistent application of exceptional quality processes....
The Suddath Companies Announces West Coast Acquisition and Expansion of Global Logistics Service Network...
Suddath Global Logistics LLC, headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, announces the acquisition of Cali America Logistics Inc....
Suddath International Opens Customer Service Center in London to Meet Customer Needs in EMEA...
Suddath International, a premiere moving and relocation company, announced today the opening of a new customer service center in London....
The Suddath Companies Acquires City Moving Systems...
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DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE CREATIVE ECONOMY
THE CENTER DIRECTOR
OF THE CENTER
WORKSHOPS,
LECTURES & SYMPOSIA
International Workshop / Comparative Study on Happiness
CSCE
Center for the Study of the Creative Economy
International Workshop Comparative Study on Happiness
Comparative Study on Happiness
DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY, KYOTO
24-25 FEBRUATY 2014
Workshop program in this PDF.
Presentations (PDF) are available in the table below.
Chair: Aki Tsuchiya, The University of Sheffield
Adaptation and the Easterlin Paradox
Andrew Clark, Paris School of Economics
Happiness in the Arts-International Evidence on Artist's Job Satisfaction
Lasse Steiner, University of Zurich
City Size and Happiness
Yoshio Itaba, Doshisha University
Chair: Lasse Steiner, University of Zurich
Social mobility, social beliefs, and attitudes to redistribution A comparison between the United States, France, and Japan
Sebastien Lechevalier, L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
Happiness, social cohesion and income inequalities in Britain and Japan
Dimitris Ballas, The University of Sheffield
A comparative study on happiness and inequality : five countries' case
Toshiaki Tachibanaki, Doshisha University
Sayaka Sakoda, Doshisha University
Chair: Victor Ginsburgh, European Center for Advanced Research on Economic and Statistics (ECARES)
Can Work-Life Balance Policies Foster Happiness within the Family? A Comparison of New versus Old Family Arrangements
Álvaro Martínez-Pérez, The University of Sheffield
The Effect of Changing Employment Status on Happiness
Tadashi Yagi, Doshisha University
Kunio Urakawa , Kyushu University
Chair: Chair: Akiko Kamesaka, Aoyama Gakuin University
Overview of ESRI's "Survey on Quality of Life" and "Arakawa Local Government Poll" on Gross Arakawa Happiness
Shiho Kawano, Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan
Chair: Toshiaki Tachibanaki, Doshisha University
An overview of intertemporal measures of individual well-being: Do they explain life satisfaction better?
Conchita D'Ambrosio, University of Luxembourg
Happiness, Wellbeing and the Role of Government: the case of the UK
Ian Bache, The University of Sheffield
Exploring experience and preference change, with special reference to emobility
Werner Pascha, University of Duisburg-Essen
Chair: Sebastien Lechevalier, L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
Happiness, life satisfaction and migration
Marcel Erlinghagen, University of Duisburg-Essen
Activities in Neighborhood Associations in Japan: Discovering the Drivers of Procedural Utility
Tim Tiefenbach, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Cultural Policy for Social Inclusion
-Can the Arts and Culture Make People Happy?
Nobuko Kawashima, Doshisha University
Chair: Nobuko Kawashima, Doshisha University
Do Workaholics Live a Happy Life?:Comparison of Japan, US and France
Akira Kawaguchi, Doshisha University
Takato Kasai, Doshisha University
The Optimal Employment System for Promoting Friendly Competition
Katsuhiko Yonezaki, Doshisha University
Meeting of Editorial Committee (editors only)
WELCOME FROM THE CENTER DIRECTOR
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE CENTER
WORKSHOPS, LECTURES, AND SYMPOSIA
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE CREATIVE ECONOMY, DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY
Office of the Center for the Study of the Creative Economy, Doshisha University
Karasuma-higashi-iru, Imadegawa-dori, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, 602-8580, Japan
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Empty Trail Releases New Song ‘In My Mind’
Austin based band Empty Trail has officially released their newest single “In My Mind”. This song is a completely raw and vulnerable take from front man Rick Lambert.
Rick states, “I wrote this song at a pretty low point in my life. Everything seemed to be going wrong.
“I was hypercritical on myself and everything around me. It got to the point that I couldn’t sleep well, I couldn’t even really function properly. Almost like a computer charged to detect every little “perceived” flaw in my life. Music has always been really powerful for me. It really is as they say an expressional release. To get all those horrible feelings that sometimes we feel we can’t share with even our closest friends, out. I’ve always felt a sense of power over what was crippling me, by sharing my most honest truth, whether it was positive or in this case quite negative.
“If anything, I would want others to connect in the way that maybe seeing someone else overcome it to some degree will give you power to do the same. Because anyone who does connect to these feelings, knows just how crippling they can really be.
Sonically, “In My Mind” showcases more grunge-y — overdriven guitars and bass that have been made an Empty Trail staple. The same raspy, genuine, soaring vocals that were apparent in past releases that Empty Trail fans love.”
“Artwork-wise,” Rick says, “I wanted to make myself the forefront of this song, because it is truly from my personal struggle. I want people to connect person to person, so I decided to put myself front and center of the artwork. I personally created/edited it while Logan Presley was kind enough to take the raw pics.”
Following up on the band’s latest success with “I Don’t Want the Truth” (100,000 Streams Cross Platforms). Empty Trail passed the 2 million stream mark on Spotify, Ten million views on YouTube and inked an endorsement deal with Ernie Ball. The band’s Instagram has smashed 17,000 devoted followers and is rising. Building on the success of 2022 Empty Trail is looking forward to a great2023.
Follow Empty Trail:
Web: Emptytrail.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emptytrail
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3TaRoxCRNfchmN7P0odIdE?si=ixSx3HmAQkaNHPzgM0PpiQ
Company Name: Empty Trail
Contact Person: Rick L
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EXCLUSIVE: Jim Jordan Plans To Investigate FBI
Rep. Jim Jordan will investigate the FBI for secretly pressuring Americans to waive their gun rights should the GOP take back the House, the Ohio Republican told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The fact that the FBI provided forms to people that relinquished their rights to own, buy or even use firearms underscores a “pattern” in the Bureau that is “frightening,” said Jordan, revealing in a Monday interview he will probe the FBI if Republicans secure a November House majority. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Gun Group Calls On FBI, DOJ To ‘Remove’ Records On Americans Who Waived Away Their Gun Rights)
“All we can do is get facts and the truth, so the American people know exactly what’s going on,” said Jordan. “That’s what we will attempt to do because that’s part of our constitutional responsibility. To do the oversight and the investigation that you need to do so the country gets the facts.”
There are at least 15 Americans between 2016 and 2019 that signed the secret FBI forms, the DCNF first reported Sept. 6. The forms ask signatories to declare themselves as either a “danger” to themselves or others or lacking “mental capacity adequately to contract or manage” their lives and specify signatories will be permanently registered with the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7097180485725403, "wiki_prob": 0.2902819514274597, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line923368"} |
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As technology evolves, we’re often faced with misconceptions around how it works and how we can use it. Whether it’s that Apple computers are immune to viruses or that private browsing keeps user activity anonymous, there are a number of security myths that surround our technology—and change how we use and protect it.
This trend applies to both personal and business contexts. Within the enterprise, decision makers are often swayed by common misunderstandings around securing corporate resources. For instance, despite the hype around cloud computing, 98% of enterprises still rely on on-prem systems and servers. In part, this is because they believe that the cloud presents more of a security risk than their on-prem systems—but that’s simply not true.
Three myths that get in the way of on-prem security
In my previous post, I discussed how Okta Access Gateway enhances organisational security. Now, I’ll explore three on-prem security myths that have no place in today’s enterprise, and how Access Gateway helps change the game for these types of environments.
Myth #1: On-Premises systems don't require the same security as cloud systems
As businesses adopt new technologies, it’s easy for them to dismiss their legacy infrastructure as not being refined enough to hold potentially compromising data. However, personally identifiable information remains highly sensitive regardless of whether it sits on Salesforce or on PeopleSoft. Additionally, many on-prem business applications, like Oracle’s E-Business Suite, are also responsible for hosting classified corporate data including trade secrets, business process intelligence, and financial information.
Understanding this, hackers don’t discriminate between on-prem and cloud-based applications when they’re looking to breach an organisation.
Myth #2: On-prem is inherently more secure than the cloud
Due to the belief that on-prem systems are inherently secure, organisations rarely implement cutting-edge security in these resources. Meanwhile, cloud infrastructure is increasingly enabled with security features like bot protection, biometric authentication, and adaptive multi-factor authentication (adaptive MFA).
However, on-prem systems that operate within an organisational network are particularly vulnerable, especially with the rise of data breaches caused by internal employees. Currently, 87% of businesses point to human error as their biggest security threat and 59% suffered an insider attack in 2018, up from just 33% the previous year.
With these looming threats, the adage, “it’s only running on our intranet” is no longer a valid security claim. Companies need to treat these on-prem systems with the same level of security as any application hosted on the public cloud.
Myth #3: Securing on-prem resources is a complex process
Up until recently, securing on-prem systems has been a daunting task—especially for businesses operating with legacy identity infrastructure. Implementing access management meant deploying complex vendor-specific MFA solutions and servers for each system, which resulted in a number of disjointed MFA policies across the organisation. Since many of these MFA solutions used hardware tokens, this resulted in expensive solutions, with poor end-user experience for any admin or employee that wanted to access the tools to do their job.
However, new integrated identity and access management solutions are eliminating the infrastructure and MFA hardware complexities.
Three myths, one solution
So, what have we learned? In order to effectively protect themselves, businesses need to understand that their on-prem systems and applications are not secure enough to manage the sensitive data they hold—and that implementing the right level of security doesn’t have to be an onerous task. These three debunked myths can all be addressed with a comprehensive identity management solution that prioritises security and simplicity. Enter Okta Access Gateway.
By implementing Access Gateway, companies can deploy tools such as Single Sign-On (SSO) and Adaptive MFA to control access to their on-prem resources using the same platform that serves their cloud-based applications. In this way, Access Gateway replaces legacy Web Access Management solutions and on-prem MFA servers that are known for being insecure, inefficient, and incompatible with systems hosted in the cloud.
Okta also provides out-of-the-box integrations to more than 6,000 applications, including on-prem resources that contain sensitive data—Sharepoint, PeopleSoft, E-Business Suite, and more. This means that organisations can embed modern security features across all of their systems, drive improved compliance with data protection regulations, and enhance the experiences of admins and end-users alike. In doing away with the myths that surround on-prem security, organisations can take another step towards future-proofing and protecting their infrastructure.
To learn more about how Okta Access Gateway can help you secure your on-prem infrastructure, check out the following resources:
Okta Access Gateway: Secure access to on-prem apps and protect your hybrid cloud—without changing how your apps work today - Datasheet
What Is Okta Access Gateway? - Video
Introduction to Access Gateway - Okta help page
Okta Access Gateway - Product page
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Beer Shortages in Europe? Surging Energy Costs are Shutting Down Fertilizer Plants… And Consequently Brewers
August 29, 2022 5:47 PM August 29, 2022 5:47 PM Hermina Paull 0 Comments beer, energy crisis, Fertilizer, Russia-Ukraine
The European Union may not need to embark on burdensome efforts to cut down the use of fertilizer in the name of reducing emissions— it appears the region’s energy crisis will do all the work. The soaring cost of natural gas is forcing fertilizer plants across Europe to shutter output, sending ripple effects through numerous industries including farmers and food manufacturers. But, most notably and likely the most overlooked, though— has been the subsequent impact CO2 supplies, a byproduct of fertilizer production.
CO2 is not in particularly high concentration in the air, and extracting it for industrial use is inefficient. Most food-grade CO2 is produced as a byproduct of ammonia production. In 2018 there was a CO2 shortage in Europe due to several ammonia plants closing temporarily.
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Europe’s food chain is collapsing— and fast. Last week, Yara, the biggest fertilizer producer in the world, announced it will be slashing urea and nitrogen fertilizer production by 50% amid astronomically high natural gas costs. Likewise, CF Fertilizers’ UK operations also revealed it will “temporarily halt” output at its Billingham plant. Not only are the latest shutdowns detrimental to crop fertility, but also to the production of CO2 gas, which is used for surgical procedures at hospitals, humanely slaughtering animals, and most importantly (to some, anyway), adding fizz to beer.
Carlsberg told Politico it will be halting beer production in Poland right away, with other brewers also planning to follow suit. “Few people realize that carbon dioxide is a byproduct of fertilizer making. And it cannot be stored for a very long time, so we only have a few days’ worth of reserves left,” said company spokesperson Beata Ptaszyńska-Jedynak. “We will be shutting down beer production any moment now … but we aren’t the only ones. Unless they have facilities to produce their own CO2, most beer companies will have to do the same.”
Ptaszyńska-Jedynak stressed that the situation has far wider-reaching implications that beer production, because CO2 is also used for making dry ice, which is vital for preserving food during transportation. “The situation is critical for every aspect of the food sector where CO2 is used.” CO2 is also used in the humane slaughter of livestock, seeding worry among farmers who are facing animal-welfare issues due to mounting levels of pigs and poultry awaiting processing.
To partially help ease the burden facing the region’s food producers, the European Commission proposed temporarily lifting tariffs on materials used for nitrogen fertilizer production, but such a decision isn’t slated for discussion until sometime in September. “Waiting even a few weeks for the government to act could be too long,” British Beer and Pub Association CEO Emma McClarkin told Politico. “We need a sustainable plan for the supply of CO2 to our industry and urgent help with rising energy bills for businesses before they’re forced to close their doors.”
Information for this briefing was found via Politico and twitter. The author has no securities or affiliations related to this organization. Not a recommendation to buy or sell. Always do additional research and consult a professional before purchasing a security. The author holds no licenses.
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L-Acoustics Ai Series Helps Walter Pyramid Get Its Point Across Loud And Clear
A challenging space in an iconic Long Beach State venue was no problem for Ai loudspeakers
Christopher Shuler ⋅ Published: June 21, 2022
Egypt doesn’t have all of the cool pyramids. One of the four architecturally true pyramids in the US is in Long Beach; specifically, the Long Beach State Walter Pyramid, the sports and event space for the university’s Athletics Department. The $22 million venue, built in 1994, has hosted several NCAA events, including women’s volleyball NCAA matches, the 2001, 2003, and 2019 NCAA Men’s Volleyball Championships, and the 2003 NCAA Women’s Volleyball Regionals.
The uniqueness of the Walter Pyramid’s exterior also presents interior geometric challenges. Believed to be the largest space-frame structure in North America, the Walter Pyramid measures 345 feet on each side of its perfectly square base, accommodating three full basketball courts and four additional half basketball courts, and featuring a unique cantilevered seating system mounted on moveable platforms. However, the Walter Pyramid is unique in another way: it’s got the best sound of any pyramid, anywhere, any epoch, thanks to the installation of a new L-Acoustics Ai Series sound system, a project completed earlier this year.
That’s good, because the venue’s previous and original PA system perhaps had more in common with those of ancient Egypt, as it was old with outdated technology. Its truss-hung loudspeakers had stopped working earlier in the year and were being supplanted by portable speakers.
Long Beach State’s Walter Pyramid is believed to be the largest space-frame structure in North America
“It was the original sound system, installed in the early 1990s, and it was pretty old technology that was simply ineffective for this type of building,” says Mark Edrington, Senior Associate Athletics Director at Long Beach State. He also knew that sourcing a new sound system for the venue would be a challenge, citing its geometry, its unique moving seating system, and the venue’s requirements to accommodate a wide range of activities, from sports to banquets. Unlike many venues with retractable seating, the lower bowl at Walter Pyramid is hinged and raises in drawbridge-like sections to create an open flat floor. In this “seats up” configuration, the metal undersides of the seating sections become acoustical reflectors around the lower bowl.
“In terms of audio, they were limping along in there,” says Susan Holguin, founding CEO of Burbank-based Vizual Symphony, Inc., the integrator that installed the new L-Acoustics Ai Series system, which was the culmination of two years’ development of a system design by consultancy Idibri, a Salas O’Brien company. That system would come to include, after safety inspections, a replacement of the entire truss system, which was no small task in a building with no parallel surfaces.
Then, the entire cable path had to be rewired, with new, super-heavy 8-gauge audio cables needing to run as long as 190 feet to the highest point. In retrospect, says Holguin, who worked on the project with Long Beach State Project Manager Marc Joves and Production Access Group CEO Ben Frederick, it made the installation of the L-Acoustics Ai system itself seem like a breeze.
Vizual Symphony installed the Ai Series PA based on an Idibri design
The new loudspeaker system design is typical for an arena installation: a four-sided cluster with A15i Focus speakers as the main enclosures—two per hang except for one hang, which has only one A15i in order to shorten it above an area with no bleachers. All four hangs are buttressed with one A15i Wide on the bottom and one KS21i sub on the top. A horizontally-hung array of four A10i Wide provide court-floor coverage. One LA2Xi and one LA4X amplified controllers power and process the entire system.
Edrington, who has oversight of all of the school’s Athletics facilities, is the Sports Administrator for Women’s and Men’s Volleyball, Men’s and Women’s Water Polo, and Women’s Soccer; and also oversees the implementation of all Athletics capital improvement projects. He shares that he was highly receptive to the idea of the L-Acoustics brand. “They’d been in touch with us over the years,” he says. “Prior to the pandemic, they even came in and did a sound assessment for the Walter Pyramid.”
That would prove especially helpful, he says, noting the venue’s very tall structure and what he calls its “tricky” acoustics. “The old sound system had acoustical challenges because of the unique shape and design of the building. The volume setting for the lower seating area would be at one level while fans in the upper seats were literally getting blasted,” he says. “Sound in here is challenging, but L-Acoustics seems to have conquered it by making the sound consistent throughout.”
The four-sided array deployment utilizes KS21i, A15i Focus, and A15i Wide enclosures, plus a fifth down-firing array of A10i Wide for court-floor coverage
Idibri’s Ryan Knox reveals the secret of how that was possible: “We used the flexibility of the Ai Series’ vertical and horizontal patterns to maximize coverage of the seats and minimize sound hitting the walls in both the ‘seats up’ and ‘seats down’ configurations,” he says. “Soundvision proved out the coverage quickly and EASE was used to verify that the design was optimized for the unique acoustical environment and would achieve the intelligibility goals, which it did.”
“The loudspeaker system went without a hitch, and when we turned it on, it was exciting,” Holguin recalls. “They’ve also installed a nice, big video wall, and seeing and hearing all of these new systems makes it feel like a brand new arena. I think the highest compliment it’s gotten so far is on social media, where people were posting that they could hear the announcers clearly over the noise of the screaming fans. Now that’s a powerful PA.”
Installed earlier this year just as the basketball season was wrapping up, the new system was fully ready for the 2022 volleyball season. And even though it’s still early days for the Ai Series system there, says Edrington, “It’s performing well and meeting expectations.”
For more details on Long Beach State’s Walter Pyramid, visit https://tinyurl.com/yc2epcmt.
Idibri, a Salas O’Brien company, can be found online at www.idibri.com, while Vizual Symphony, Inc. can be found at www.vizualsymphony.com.
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Building Vibration Isolation Market is Projected to Reach US$ 2.92 Billion in 2028
Stratview Research
December 9, 2022, 6:56 AM ·4 min read
The Building Vibration Isolation Market is expected to reach US$ 2.92 Billion in 2028, growing at a CAGR of 5.48% during 2022-2028, reports Stratview Research.
Raipur, Dec. 09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Stratview Research, a leading market research firm has launched a report on the Building Vibration Isolation Market which provides an in-depth analysis of the market dynamics, current and emerging trends, industry forecast, and competitive landscape.
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What are the Top Market Drivers?
According to the report, the Building Vibration Isolation Market is driven by a host of factors, some of which are noted below:
Building vibration isolations products are used to support building structures to provide protection from low frequency ground-borne noise and vibration generated from sources such as footfall noise and underground railways.
The report also includes growth rate estimates based on the intensity of drivers and constraints and provides the users with several graphical illustrations of the key insights.
Building Vibration Isolation Market Segmentation:
Stratview Research has segmented the market in the following ways which fulfill the market data needs of multiple stakeholders across the industry value chain.
By Material Type (Cork & Natural Rubber, Resin Bonded Cork & Recycled Rubber, Resin Bonded Recycled Rubber, Virgin Polyurethane, and Others),
By Form Type (Mats & Pads, Blocks, and Module),
By Application Type (Floating Floor, Box-in-box, Two Tier Construction, Building Bearing, Elastic Bearing of Stairs & Landing, Separation of Individual Building Parts, and Others),
By End-Use Industry Type (Residential, Commercial, and Industrial),
By Region (North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Rest of the World).
Building Vibration Isolation Market Insights
Market Trends by Form Type
The building vibration isolation market is segmented as mats & pads, blocks, and module. Mats & pads are expected to remain the dominant segment and account for more than half of the share during the forecast period. Mats & pads are preferred in industrial and commercial sectors, owing to their easy installation and comparatively high performance, in terms of, efficiently controlling structure-borne noise and resonant vibration.
Market Trends by End-Use Industry Type
The building vibration isolation market is segmented as residential, commercial, and industrial. Building vibration isolation products are dominantly used in commercial and industrial sectors. The commercial segment dominated the market in 2021, and is likely to lead the market over the forecast period.
Which region offers the best opportunity and growth?
Asia-Pacific is estimated to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period due to increasing adoption of vibration isolation products with the rising awareness. In Asia-Pacific, building vibration isolation products have a higher penetration in commercial and industrial sectors. The demand is expected to rise with the industrialization in countries, such as China, India, and Indonesia. Government regulation and subsidies are expected to give a further push to their demands.
COVID-19 Impact on the Building Vibration Isolation Market
COVID-19 has put an instant halt to many industries across the globe. Lockdown norms in several countries have swiftly affected the global economy by affecting the supply chain, production, and demand in the market. Both direct, as well as indirect impacts of the pandemic, have been incorporated in this report.
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Who are the Top Market Players?
After a thorough analysis of the market, the experts have listed a few key players and discussed the company profiles of the below-given players -
Acoustical Control LLC.
Alpha Acoustiki
Deicon Dynamic & Controls
Farrat Ltd.
Getzner Werkstoffe
KRAIBURG PuraSys GmbH & Co. KG.
Mason Industries Inc.
Maurer SE
Regupol BSW GmbH
VibraSystems Inc.
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Building Thermal Insulation Market
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.CO Registry to Expand Exclusive Accredited Registrar List
Re-launches competitive RFP process to add new registrars to sell .CO domain names
BOGOTÁ, Colombia - Wednesday, July 10th 2013 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- .CO Internet SAS (www.COinternet.co), the Registry operator of the .CO top-level domain, today announced the re-launch of its competitive Request for Proposal ("RFP”) process to help identify and select additional Accredited Registrar partners to sell .CO domain names.
Taking a measured approach to accreditation, the .CO Registry will be accepting additional partners that meet established standards and criteria. Selection will be based on a variety of factors, including each candidate’s demonstrated ability and commitment to expand brand awareness, grow sales in local markets, and enhance the overall competitive landscape for .CO domain names.
"Partners from every corner of the world have expressed a keen interest in becoming an official .CO Accredited Registrar,” said Crystal Peterson, Director of Global Sales & Channel Marketing for the .CO Registry. "As the domain of choice for startups and entrepreneurs, we are excited that soon we will have even more enthusiastic channel partners helping us to distribute and spread awareness about .CO domains!”
As in the past, each .CO Accredited Registrar will be contractually obligated to follow international best practices to protect and enhance the integrity and value of the .CO name space. The .CO Registry will continue to support both Accredited Registrars and their resellers with custom marketing materials and resources.
All the details of the updated Accreditation and RFP Process can be found at http://www.cointernet.co/registrars/accreditation. Only ICANN accredited registrars are eligible to participate. Questions can be sent to [email protected].
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In the three years since its launch, the .CO domain has become one of the most successful top-level domain extensions in history, with more than 1.5 million web addresses registered by people and companies in over 200 countries. From start-ups and small businesses to big brands and multinational corporations, .CO is increasingly becoming the web address of choice for innovators and entrepreneurs the world over. For more information about .CO, please visit www.go.co or follow us on Twitter @dotCO.
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PolyU research discovers the impact of fruit and vegetable intake on the nutritional value of breast milk
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A research project by the Research Institute for Future Food (RiFood) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has revealed that the fruit and vegetable intake of lactating women was below the recommended level, and there was a significant correlation between dietary intake and the nutrient levels of breast milk. Prof. Wong Man-sau, Steering Committee Member of RiFood and Professor of the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology of PolyU (2nd from left); Dr Kenneth Lo, Assistant Professor of the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology of PolyU (2nd from right); Dr Daisy Zhao, Assistant Professor of the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology of PolyU (1st from left); and Dr Christine Li, Teaching Fellow of the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology of PolyU (1st from right) discussed the findings.
The research team suggested lactating women should enhance the levels of carotenoids and polyphenols in breast milk through increasing their fruit and vegetable intake.
The breastfeeding rate in Hong Kong has been increasing steadily over the past 20 years. As the source of a variety of nutrients, breast milk plays a vital role in the healthy growth and development of infants. The Research Institute for Future Food (RiFood) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has conducted a study to analyse the three-day dietary records and breast milk samples of Hong Kong lactating women. The research has revealed that the fruit and vegetable intake of lactating women was below the recommended level, and there was a significant correlation between dietary intake and the nutrient levels of breast milk, especially the carotenoid and polyphenol contents.
As explained by the research team, the first 1,000 days from pregnancy to a two-year-old infant is the basis for establishing long-term health. Breast milk contains a variety of nutrients and plays an important role in their healthy growth.
Prof. WONG Man-sau, Steering Committee Member of RiFood and Professor of the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology of PolyU said, “Apart from commonly known nutrients, such as protein and fatty acids, breast milk also contains phytonutrients such as carotenoids and polyphenols. These phytonutrients are important in the physical development of infants and can reduce the level of inflammation. Lacking one or more nutrients may weaken the immune system of infants, and may also increase their risk of getting chronic diseases in the future.”
The PolyU research team collected breast milk samples and a three-day dietary record of about 90 lactating women and analysed the levels of carotenoid and polyphenol content.
The study found that only 4% of lactating women had dietary habits that met the recommendation from the Department of Health to consume at least two servings of fruits and three servings of vegetables per day, or the recommended intake of vitamin A according to the “Chinese Dietary Reference Intake” which was established by the Chinese Nutrition Society. The level of carotenoids in breast milk was higher in lactating women who had a higher intake of fruits and vegetables. Dr Christine LI, Teaching Fellow of the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology of PolyU, said some carotenoids can be converted to vitamin A to promote the development of infants’ brain, vision and immunity, and can also protect the retina from damage by strong light.
The research also found a significant correlation between the dietary habits in fruit and vegetable consumption of lactating women and the polyphenol content in their breast milk. Dr Daisy ZHAO, Assistant Professor of the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology of PolyU, said polyphenol is a powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compound, which can prevent cardiometabolic diseases and reduce the risk of bacterial infection.
Based on the research findings, Dr Kenneth LO, Assistant Professor of the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology of PolyU, suggested lactating women should enhance the levels of carotenoids and polyphenols in breast milk through increasing their fruit and vegetable intake. Common dark green vegetables, including Chinese flowering cabbage, spinach, Chinese kale, Indian lettuce, sweet potatoes, carrots, pumpkins, papayas, mangoes etc., are rich in phytonutrients.
A new research project “Feeding mom feeding infants” has been launched by the research team, recruiting about 100 pairs of lactating women and infants for a one-year study, to further investigate the relationship between the dietary habits of lactating women and the nutrients of breast milk, gut microbiota composition of infants and their growth.
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BMW Replaces M2 Coupe With 'M2 Competition' This Summer
April 18th, 2018 10:53 AM Share
For a long time BMW was being accused of losing its touch when it came to building the “ultimate driving machine.” People would gripe that the company’s tech was overshadowing driving enjoyment. That may be true to some degree but you could usually point them to the M division and tell them not to worry.
However, most people don’t have the kind of money required to facilitate the purchase of an M3 — and if they don’t have the cash for that, then they definitely aren’t going to pick up the superb M5. But that’s okay because BMW eventually built the M2 and it’s probably the best car in its lineup.
That’s why we are somewhat surprised to learn BMW will be giving the fun-loving coupe a dirt nap, replacing it with the more hardcore “M2 Competition.” It’s not a new car in the strictest sense, but it is a slightly different mindset.
More is more. That’s the theory the M2 Competition works under as it borrows heavily from the M3 and M4, starting with their engine. BMW opted to ditch N55 and replace it with the S55, leaving us with an twin-scroll inline-six of the same displacement and more power. The 3.0-liter now makes 405 horsepower and 406 pound-feet of torque — which is an increase of 40 and 63, respectively.
That shaves off roughly a quarter of a second from the M2’s 0-to-60 time, although the 7-speed dual-clutch automatic is a touch faster than the manual. According to BMW, DTC-equipped models can hit the mark in four seconds flat but the manual takes an additional 0.2 seconds.
The M2 Competition gets a number of chassis improvements to handle the upgraded power, which also appear to be borrowed from the bigger M cars. A carbon fiber strut helps out with front-end stiffness, while aluminum is the new material of choice for control arms and the front and rear axles.
Steering has been “enhanced” but we’re hoping not in the same way as the M3/M4. Both models offer an unpleasant electronic vagueness that takes some time to become accustomed to and is among their biggest drawbacks. We’d like to have seen BMW talk about feedback but instead the improvements made in regard to steering appear to revolve around how it works with speed. It’s electronically adjustable.
You can actually customize most of the car’s settings and assign them as presets, including the engine and transmission, if you have the dual clutch. A slick-sounding electronic limited-slip differential handles power delivery to the rear wheels and bigger M Sport brakes are said to bring the vehicle down to a stop faster than its predecessor.
Aesthetically, it’s not all that different from the outgoing M2 Coupe. However, we’re not convinced all the changes made were wise ones. First of all the seats, which seem very nice, come with an illuminated M2 logo embedded in the backrest. That’s borderline tacky, but whatever. The new 19-inch wheels, wrapped in 254/35-series front and 265/35-series rear tires, only come in various shades of black. You can either have all black or a bi-color design that is still partially blacked out.
The enlarged kidney grille also ditches its chrome for a shade of midnight crude. Can you guess what color the new exhaust tips are? I bet you can.
While the de-chroming of the M2 does give it sort of a track-car vibe we’re sure many will appreciate, it seems strange they wouldn’t offer it as part of an appearance package. In fact, the whole car has a sort of “special edition” feel about it. However, BMW is doing this kind of stuff on all of the M vehicles so it makes sense in a broader context. I just feel that Competition lacks the broader appeal the coupe has. Fortunately, it’ll probably make up for it in performance. We just pray copying the M3/M4 exhaust setup (flaps and all) and styling doesn’t involve copying fake noises being piped in through the audio system.
The 2019 M2 Competition should arrive at BMW dealerships this summer. Pricing has yet to be announced but expect it to surpass the 2018 M2 coupe’s $54,500 base price.
[Images: BMW Group]
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Published April 18th, 2018 11:00 AM
DearS on Apr 19, 2018
Glad the V6 Camaro exists. $26k 330HP.
Cognoscenti on Apr 19, 2018
I'm glad too. Unfortunately, you can't see out of the thing - it's so dark in there!
Lon888 on Apr 20, 2018
Where in the hell are the other 4 cylinders? In the motor picture above I can visualize 2 cylinders under the plastic cover but the other 4 must be buried in the firewall. If a plug change cost $10,000 on this car, I'd believe it! What a shade tree mechanics nightmare.
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Oysters may struggle to build shells as carbon dioxide rises
Ocean acidification could hamper larvae's growth
As oceans soak up more carbon dioxide, oyster larvae may have trouble getting enough energy to build their shells, finds a new study of Pacific oysters (shown).
Taylor Shellfish Farm, NOAA
By Erin Wayman
The changing chemistry of ocean waters may cause baby oysters to have trouble mustering the energy to build their shells, new research suggests.
As oceans soak up more CO2, young oysters (embryo shown) may have trouble building their shells. G. Waldbusser/Oregon State Univ.
Oysters, clams, mussels and other bivalves build calcium carbonate shells using mostly raw materials from seawater. A two-day-old oyster larva is already 90 percent calcium carbonate by body weight, ecologist George Waldbusser of Oregon State University in Corvallis and colleagues report May 29 in Geophysical Research Letters.
During their shell-building blitz, larvae rely solely on energy derived from their eggs, the team found in a study of Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas) from a commercial hatchery in Oregon. By looking at the forms of carbon present in eggs versus algae provided as oyster food, the researchers found that larvae depend heavily on an egg’s resources for more than a week. The youngsters can’t grab outside food until they construct enough shell to support muscle attachments for feeding appendages, Waldbusser says.
Oyster larvae’s dependence on a fixed energy source could be a problem as atmospheric carbon dioxide rises. Oceans soak up more of the gas, driving reactions that lower the water’s pH and alter the availability of the compounds needed to make shells. Waldbusser and colleagues calculate that the amount of energy that oyster larvae need to build shells grows exponentially as CO2 dissolved in the water increases.
Previous work has found ocean acidification affects oyster growth and survival, says Annaliese Hettinger, an ecologist at Oregon State who wasn’t involved in the research. “George’s paper is one of the first to point to an actual reason.”
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The ocean’s surface waters are slightly alkaline, with an average pH of 8.1 on a scale where anything below 7.0 is acidic. Since the onset of the Industrial Revolution, ocean pH has dropped by 0.1. By 2100, pH could decline another 0.3 units, and some parts of the ocean could become corrosive to shells.
The new findings may help explain why oyster populations could suffer even before that point. Oyster hatcheries in the Pacific Northwest have had disastrous production declines in the last several years, possibly due to seasonal winds that have brought deep, CO2-rich water to the surface. Although the water hasn’t been corrosive enough to dissolve shells, its decreased alkalinity has made shell-building difficult for larvae, Waldbusser says.
Hatcheries can combat falling pH by buffering water with antacids, Waldbusser says. But globally, he says, the only way to fight dropping pH is to reduce CO2 emissions.
More work needs to explore whether other bivalves are similarly vulnerable. Studies should also examine whether oysters can adapt to higher CO2, says physiologist Brad Seibel of the University of Rhode Island. It may be that oysters in CO2-saturated seawater will make eggs with more energy reserves to compensate for larvae’s more laborious shell construction.
G.G. Waldbusser et al. A developmental and energetic basis linking larval oyster shell formation to acidification sensitivity. Geophysical Research Letters. Published online May 29, 2013. doi: 10.1002/grl.50449. [Go to]
A. Barton et al. The Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas, shows negative correlation to naturally elevated carbon dioxide levels: implications for near-term ocean acidification effects. Limnology and Oceanography. Vol. 57, May 2012, p. 698. doi:10.4319/lo.2012.57.3.0698. [Go to]
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iPhone dominates North America, Western Europe as 5G surpasses 4G
Mike Peterson | Mar 17, 2022
The number of 5G smartphones being used across the globe surpassed 4G for the first time in January, with Apple's iPhone being a key driver in several regions.
In a new research report, Counterpoint Research analyzes 5G penetration data across the globe. It noted that three regions were largely responsible for the uptick in 5G's market share: China, North America, and Western Europe.
China had the highest global rate of 5G smartphone usage with penetration at 84% in January 2022. Counterpoint attributes this to a push from Chinese telecom operators, as well as manufacturers releasing competitively priced 5G smartphones to consumers.
The 5G smartphone penetration rate in North America and Western Europe reached 73% and 76%, respectively, in January. Apple dominates both markets with a share of more than 50% in North America and 30% in Western Europe.
Counterpoint also indicates that both markets saw a natural surge in the sales of 5G smarpthones after Apple released the 5G-equipped iPhone 12 lineup in October 2020.
"These regions are expected to continue contributing substantially to 5G sales globally, as even without offering competitive specs, there is an immense and ongoing demand for a 5G upgrade within the iOS user base," Counterpoint wrote in the report.
In addition, iPhone users who have been holding onto their devices for years and who are ready for an upgrade are fueling the demand. For many users, Counterpoint estimates, upgraders are nearing four years of holding onto their older devices.
Going forward, the next areas of growth for 5G could be Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and Latin America. Counterpoint notes that 5G-equipped smartphones in the sub-$150 range are the "sweet spot" for these regions.
Android smartphones with 5G are starting to trickle down to that price point, thanks to more affordable smartphone chips from MediaTek and Qualcomm. Low-end 5G chips are currently priced at above $20. When they cross the $20 threshold, the research firm says 5G-equipped devices will begin appearing in the sub-$150 price point.
payeco
said about 10 months ago
“ as even without offering competitive specs, there is an immense and ongoing demand for a 5G upgrade within the iOS user base," Counterpoint wrote in the report.”
What the hell is this supposed to mean? What world is the author of this report living in?
aross99
Are these 5G phones being used with 5G plans? Is 5G really a feature that people are upgrading for, or do the newer phones just happen to have 5G? With the carriers charging more for 5G plans, I would be surprised to see people actually being able to use the 5G features. Pretty much all of the people I know are upgrading to "get the new iPhone" or because their phone is broken, or a couple of years old. Some upgrade for camera features, etc. Don't know anyone who is looking for the 5G faster download, etc - especially if they have to change to a more expensive plan...
lkrupp
payeco said:
Just the babbling of a “research” entity out to make a buck. Move on.
aross99 said:
Yes, my wife and I will be trading in our iPhone 8’s for either the SE or 13 but will not be upgrading to 5G service. We simply don't see any need for it on a phone yet. And besides, as an AT&T customer, my iPhone 8 already has 5Ge. It says so right on the phone screen. Oh wait. /s
lkrupp said:
Typically you don’t have to upgrade to 5G service. If you have a 5G phone you’ll receive 5G service unless you turn it off in the cellular settings.
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Electrosmog is the word used to describe artificially generated fields of electricity, which are produced by the technology we use and also by ourselves. They alter the natural radiation conditions and electromagnetic fields of the earth.
How can I protect myself against electrosmog?
The best way is to reduce the number of radiation sources you come into contact with as much as possible. By turning off your Wi-Fi router at night and using analogue phones (connected by cable) etc., and also by using VIVOBASE technology.
What studies on electrosmog and its effects are available?
The number of studies available on the pros and cons of ‘electrosmog’ is impressive. Several scientific studies conclude that electrosmog causes damage to the human system. Of note here are the results of studies that address the opening of the blood-brain barrier and the formation of gliomas and acoustic neuromas. In fact, the state of knowledge we have access to is quite alarming. (An excellent overview of the results of the various studies available can be found on www.emf-portal.de.)
To what extent do the concentration limits that have been set protect me (SAR-specific absorption rate)?
With low frequency fields of up to about 30 kHz, the irritating effects of the acute biological activity dominate the sensory, nerve and muscle cells; these effects are caused by electric currents induced within the body. Thermal effects only play a minor role. The current limits ensure that the limit values in exposure guidelines only address the question of heating organism tissue to an impermissibly high temperature.
However, biological effects can also be observed with weaker fields, such as influences on the melatonin balance, the formation or development of cancer, or an increased risk of dementia (Alzheimer). To this end, several epidemiological studies and laboratory experiments exist whose results show that there is a relationship between an acceleration in cancer growth (especially childhood Leukaemia) and the presence of magnetic fields. They make the acceleration of cancer growth in the realm just above a constant exposure of only 0.4 μT (micro Tesla) appear to be possible. However, the results of some studies still need to be subjected to more accurate analysis.
The World Health Organization, however, does already classify weak low frequency magnetic fields as potentially carcinogenic.
Source of concentration limits: www.maes.de
Who should I take special precautions against electrosmog?
‘Electrosmog’ is a topic which should concern everyone. Electromagnetic radiation has a demonstrable influence on all biological creatures irrespective of whether they are human, animal or plant. Geographical features such as water veins also give rise to influences.
What good is a building-biology shield?
Most shields are used to suppress low and high-frequency radiation. Reflections can cause these fields to amplify or shift ‘unnaturally’ and increase exponentially at a different location (bundling). Another significant problem is that the natural frequencies that our system needs (e.g. Schumann resonance frequencies) and the Earth’s magnetic field are warded off too, because biological building shields do not have a filter function.
How important is it for me to protect against electromagnetic radiation in my car?
Many shielding measures are based on the principle of Faraday’s cage. This also applies to the interior of a car. The myriad sources of electromagnetic fields emitted by the various components in a car multiply and bounce the radiation around the interior.
Please read the following article (german): www.autobild.de | Magnetfeldbelastung – Elektrosmog im Auto
Do these devices shield me from radiation from the earth?
Yes, radiation from the earth and water veins, etc. act in the same way as artificially generated electromagnetic fields do.
Does just one VIVOBASE HOME device over the whole house?
Normally one VIVOBASE HOME suffices. That said, if you do have evidence of very strong electro-sensitivity, two devices may be required in rare cases.
Does the protection that the VIVOBASE HOME device affords also penetrate through walls and ceilings?
VIVOBASE HOME has a radius of 30 m, which also provides protection through walls and ceilings.
In which frequency range do VIVOBASE devices function?
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The ‘Jurassic Park’ Trilogy Is Leaving Netflix
Claire Epting Published: August 23, 2020
The original Jurassic Park trilogy will be leaving Netflix on September 30. But wait, wasn't it only added a few weeks ago? That is correct. The first three movies in the multi-billion dollar franchise arrived on Netflix August on 1, following its 17-day run on NBCUniversal’s newly launched streaming service Peacock. It is still unknown where the titles will be migrating to next.
The Jurassic Park franchise won’t be going completely extinct on Netflix. On September 18, Netflix will debut a new animated series from DreamWorks Animation, Camp Cretaceous. Hailing from executive producers Steven Spielberg, Colin Trevorrow and Frank Marshall, the series will follow a group of kids who enter Jurassic Park for a summer camp experience like no other. But of course, as is tradition, the prehistoric beasts will somehow escape and wreak havoc on everyone around them. All in good, clean fun!
In a surprising twist, Jurassic Park (1993) has been crushing the box office recently due to the lack of summer blockbusters. In June, it reached the number one slot for the fourth time since its release 27 years ago. Movie theaters that decided to resume operations this season bolstered their losses by showing crowd-pleasers such as Jurassic Park and Jaws. Naturally, Jurassic Park was also extremely popular on Netflix, and quickly became one of the most watched movies on the platform. We’re sad to see it go.
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Sterling Whitaker Published: June 11, 2019
Miranda Lambert's new song, "Locomotive," is reminiscent of some of her most energetic early material, and in a new interview, the 35-year-old country superstar says she feels re-energized in both her life and her music since her recent marriage to Brendan McLoughlin.
Lambert hit the stage at the 2019 CMA Music Festival in Nashville on Saturday (June 8) to debut a new song titled "Locomotive," which is a rock-influenced country-punk track. Though its musical structure and aggressive tempo are more along the lines of early hits including "Kerosene," the lyrics portray a different perspective on love than some of her more vengeful early work.
"'Cause I'm sweet tea sippin' on my front porch sittin' / While my hubby fries chicken and I'm picking these strings / I've been down on my luck but I ain't given up / Well I totaled his truck but he loves me just the same / Oh he gives me wings, oh he gives me wings," she sings in the chorus of "Locomotive."
After a few years of tough times romantically, Lambert shocked fans and the industry when she revealed she had married McLoughlin, a New York City police officer, in January. Speaking to Entertainment Tonight prior to her CMA Fest performance, she said taking some time for herself between 2016's The Weight of These Wings album — which focused on introspective songs about her divorce from Blake Shelton — and trying to make a new album has helped rejuvenate her.
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"I took a good break and I got to live life and just be a person for a while," she observes. "Just being off the road, I took my time writing and enjoyed it instead of rushing like we always do."
Lambert admits that for a period in her career, she got "tired."
"I've been doing this since I was 17," she explains. "So, sometimes you get tired, but then I'm like, now I have more energy than ever. My fire is back and I still feel like the girl that was at 'The House That Built Me' era."
Lambert says her new marriage has made her "really happy," adding that she feels that happiness is "contagious."
"You go through life's journey, up and down, and you don't know what to expect and you have fails and victories," she reflects. "But I love love and I'm always in search for it. I've found the person who loves it as much as I do. And it just works."
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American Carnage: Students Defy Trump’s Cult of Violence
Sean Ledwith
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Could the student response to last weekend’s shootings be the spark for change? Sean Ledwith looks at gun violence in the United States
The depressingly familiar ritual of America’s modern epidemic of school shootings was played out at again at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida last weekend. First reports of a lone gunman entering a campus armed as if he was heading into a war zone; students being escorted off-site with their hands on their heads; and then the inevitable identification of the killer as a white male with a troubled personal history. The difference this time, however, is that the tragedy might actually provoke a sustained political backlash against the US elite and its gratuitous obsession with violence at home and abroad.
Political paralysis
Students directly affected by the shooting mobilised two days later with supporters to march on the state capital demanding action from state legislators. Teenagers gave impassioned speeches refusing to accept the dominant American attitude that such events are almost like traffic accidents-awful but part of everyday life. Their defiance put to shame the paralysis that overcomes virtually all US politicians when the issue of gun control re-appears on the national agenda. Trump and his insidious sponsors from the National Rifle Association have struggled to respond in a meaningful way to the anger erupting from America’s classrooms and may soon find themselves on the receiving end of a major protest movement.
The raw numbers concerning school –based gun violence in the US are breath-taking-
The MSDH shooting was the 18th school shooting this year
There is one school-based shooting incident every 63 hours
150 000 children have experienced at first hand a school shooting since the Columbine massacre of 1999
There have been 436 similar incidents since Columbine
239 similar incidents since the Newtown massacre of 2012
438 children have been shot dead in schools since Newtown
There are 53 000 gun related deaths every year
Trump and friends
Trump’s idiotic response to the problem is the barely-believable notion of arming teachers. Apart from the absurdity of bringing even more guns into the classroom, the proposal also belies the reality that 38 states already authorise teachers to carry a concealed weapon with a school’s permission. Of course, in episodes such as last year’s Last Vegas massacre (America’s worst ever spree shooting) the ability to shoot back is irrelevant when confronted with a sniper from an unknown elevated position. Trump declared his plan in a hastily-arranged meeting with survivors of the Parkland massacre in the White House a couple of days after the tragedy. Bizarrely, he was filmed holding a note from spin-doctors reminding him to express concern as he spoke to them! The execrable Wayne La Pierre, President of the National Rifle Association, outdid Trump for rank stupidity by repeating his mantra after Parkland that, “To stop a bad guy with a gun, it takes a good guy with a gun.” La Pierre’s thinly veiled political agenda is apparent in another statement from the same speech to the right-wing Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington that Socialism is a movement that loves a smear. La Pierre’s organisation (which donated $30 million to Trump’s 2016 election) also organised the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) scheme that allowed 19 year old Nikolas Cruz to learn how to use the AR15 automatic assault rifle.
Occupy 2:0?
The scenes of vibrant, young and multicultural demonstrators bearing down on bastions of power across the US this week is reminiscent of the peak of the Occupy movement of 2011 that rattled the US establishment. It remains to be seen whether the current upsurge can match the impact of that period. However, the potential for overlap with the afterburn of the Sanders electoral campaign and the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests gives this moment the potential to re-energise the US left. Trump is planning a gratuitous display of American military might in the summer as part of a parade in Washington. The contrast between his glorification of destructive power and the students’ campaign to curtail will be striking to many. Further major mobilisations are planned in March and April. Maybe the Parkland tragedy really will be the turning point in ending America’s recurrent classroom nightmares.
Sean Ledwith is a Counterfire member and Lecturer in History at York College, where he is also UCU branch negotiator. Sean is also a regular contributor to Marx and Philosophy Review of Books and Culture Matters
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Blue Wahoos seek positive end in final homestand
Bill Vilona
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A positive ending.
That’s what the Pensacola Blue Wahoos seek in their final home series, which begins tonight against the Montgomery Biscuits at Blue Wahoos stadium.
After essentially being eliminated early in the second half of the season, the Blue Wahoos face a team with near equal struggles. The Biscuits entered Thursday night with a two game lead to avoid last place in the Southern League’s South Division.
The Blue Wahoos were last in the first-half standings.
But not in support. They will become the fourth Southern League team since 1998 to attract more than 300,000 fans in three consecutive seasons. The Blue Wahoos enter Friday’s game with 290,005 season attendance, according to the Southern League office.
They will finish with the second- or third-highest season attendance. The Birmingham Barons have attracted 404,608 this season and have a chance to surpass Jacksonville’s 420,495 set in 2004 when the Suns’ new downtown ballpark opened.
The home stand will feature two post-game fireworks shows (Saturday, Tuesday) and two pregame autograph sessions (Sunday, Tuesday) with players. The Blue Wahoos will wear special U.S. Marine jerseys, presented by Andrews Institute, in Saturday’s game. They will be auctioned off for charity after the game.
It will include the last home start for Gulf Breeze High graduate Ben Lively, who is expected to throw Sunday’s game. Robert Stevenson, who may get put on the Cincinnati Reds’ 40-man roster on Sept. 1, will likely start Tuesday night’s finale.
Also at stake could be the futures of several position players. The Reds are expected to retool their minor league system following their own disappointing season.
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By Claudia Mendoza
While previewing the Democrat’s debate earlier this week I brought you a few key numbers that play a role as the 2020 cycle kicks off for Democrats.
22% Percentage of registered Democrats were familiar with the candidates and their positions prior to the debates
33% Percentage of leaders in polling going into the first debate who’ve won the nomination
It’s like this. Only the hard-core news junkies pay attention prior to the debates kicking off. As a result, the candidates that poll the best aren’t generally supported by much more than having the highest name recognition. That’s why these debates are so important. It’s where a candidate like Barak Obama, Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter establishes themselves among the party faithful. First impressions are important in life but especially when you have 24 candidates competing and only five or six who currently have enough financial support and campaign structure to make it to Iowa. So, what about those first impressions? On night one, the two off-the-radar names that might have moved the needle were Tulsi Gabbard and Julian Castro based on initial polling of debate viewers. Though there's now the narrative that conservatives were encouraged to participate in those polls and to vote for Tulsi Gabbard. There appears to be validity to that idea given that Andrew Yang, given only about 3 minutes of time, was showing well during these night two debate polls.
Meanwhile, the ratings are in from the first night and 15.3 million total viewers watched the debate across all NBC platforms and Telemundo. That’s 500,000 fewer viewers than tuned into the first 2016 Democratic Presidential debate.
What about last night’s debate? Ranking based on the initial unaccredited polls, excluding Yang:
Kamala Harris: 1st
Bernie Sanders: 2nd
Pete Buttigieg: 3rd
Joe Biden: 4th
All others at 3% or less
Looking at the initial returns, Tulsi Gabbard seems to match the Democratic electorate the best, on desired traits and positions, Kamala Harris, rose to the top in night two. This might have been a breakout moment on the national stage for her. It’s hard to contrast the candidates from one night to the next but right along I’ve mentioned that Joe Biden seems like this year’s Jeb Bush to me. Polling first early because of name recognition, but extremely vulnerable. Nothing that happened last night leaves me feeling differently.
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By Andrew LaSane
In Terrell Place, a building in Washington, D.C., a routine walk becomes an interactive experience where the walls react to you. The main hallway of the structure is home to a large-scale installation incorporated into the architecture that features media displays that react to nearby movement, Designboom reports.
Here's how it works: Infrared cameras in the main lobby and hallways detect when someone is approaching and cause the artwork on LED panels to change its pattern of movement; cherry blossom trees sway as if they were hit with a soft breeze, and spiraling light beams become concentrated and follow the person like metal shavings to a magnet.
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Check out the video above, where you can see two of the three modes (it does not include Cityscape) at work.
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Is Your EHR Harmful or Helpful? Reimagining Role-Based Access Control
May 4, 2022 Insights
In a cloud environment where security controls are implemented early on, the planning, communications, and budgeting for EHR deployment is critical.
Hassan Zahwa
Kristin Porter
Brian Jones, DO
As healthcare organizations look to eliminate unnecessary errors and provide efficient and high-quality care, they often count on the usability, security, and effectiveness of their electronic health record (EHR). Because of the EHR’s potential to reduce harm and support clinicians, the technology is a key factor in establishing a high reliability organization (HRO).
EHRs require the ability to secure sensitive patient information with access control methods, such as role-based access control (RBAC). This creates a record of user movement within an EHR, providing accountability for policy violations. EHR users accumulate permissions when they are assigned roles that require additional system access. RBAC can also restrict access based on a user's role in a healthcare setting. While tailoring user access can be beneficial, restrictions vary by organizational policy, professional scope, and information-owner consent. This can create limitations to optimizating an EHR’s full potential.
As hospitals and health systems strive for HRO status, leaders should consider reevaluating their EHR’s RBAC model to ensure the system is properly designed to improve patient safety and enhance care quality.
EHR RBAC Model Limitations and Opportunities
While RBAC touts enhanced information security and reduced IT support, there are many limitations that are commonly overlooked. Identifying and addressing these limitations is crucial to optimizing EHRs’ use of the RBAC model.
Limitations within the RBAC model stem from a variety of causes, but ultimately result in lack of integration between people, processes, and technology. These three pillars of healthcare technology implementation/organizational change are required to maximize efficiency, enhance patient safety, deliver quality care, and maintain a high-performing healthcare organization.
As healthcare organizations continue to adopt and expand use of EHRs, they will need consistent methods to improve functionality and prevent risks. For RBAC systems, governance, change management, communications, and collaborative solutions will play a key role in improving staff experiences.
Here are three risks to watch out for and accompanying solutions.
Risk #1 – People: Preventing Productivity Losses
Decreased staff productivity is a risk for using the RBAC model. Staff often require multiple role assignments to perform their job duties, and must spend time submitting access request tickets or switching roles to perform certain tasks.
Clinicians review data from a variety of specialties (lab, radiology, etc.) to determine a diagnosis and treatment plan for patients. Frequently, these specialties have their own IT system that is not integrated with the EHR, resulting in constant switching from one application to another. This lack of “context management” creates patient safety issues (reviewing wrong patient data), decreases productivity (time lost by manually switching between applications), and staff frustration/burnout.
To prevent disenfranchised staff, increased workload, and decreased productivity, employees must be prepared for the change in advance.
Clear communications regarding the distinction between role assignment and job titles can reduce confusion. Clinicians and staff need to understand that their role assignment in an RBAC model does not directly reflect or define their position within the organization.
Building a team that consists of IT, super users, physician champions, and change leadership can help bridge the gap between IT developers and end users, maximizing understanding and adoption of new staff roles. Establishing a current state assessment (CSA) can help the team quantify the change impact, identify ideal state workflows, and then optimize them within the EHR.
Change commonly brings apprehension and uncertainty but using organizational change management methodologies can deliver a new lens for how staff members view change, drive action, and successfully implement new approaches.
Risk #2 – Processes: Preventing Compliance Misses
RBAC governance implements policies and procedures to control access to information and resources. If the policies are designed around direct entitlements of the user, this may lead to role explosion.
Role explosion is the most costly and complex process limitation of RBAC models, occurring in organizations with large staff, high turnover, and third-party staffing. Managing thousands of access rights across a healthcare organization requires adequate IT staffing and bandwidth. Large volumes of service tickets due to fluctuating demand can result in incorrect assignment of user roles and creation of ad-hoc roles to quickly provide user access. This creates access creep, compromising secure information and posing a legal risk to organizations.
To resolve these issues, IT staff spend significant amounts of time and resources reassigning and redefining access roles while users often must switch roles to perform alternating tasks in a single workflow. This interrupts clinician workflows, decreases productivity, and increases the likelihood of human error.
Establishing policies using an identity governance approach is the most beneficial way to prevent role explosion and the compliance risks that accompany it.
Identity governance defines roles based on common resource groups, which are designed for users that need access to the same resources. Each user has one link to the role, and the role has one link to each related resource. Additionally, collaboration with key stakeholders (HR, legal, C-suite, and IT Services) is imperative during implementation of an RBAC model. Collaboration will ensure alignment with organizational goals and objectives and identify the proper set of system and data access based on least privilege.
Sustainment of an RBAC model must be an agile process, where policies and role assignments are continuously reassessed and updated to prevent a massive restructure when it becomes apparent there is too much access, out-of-scope activity, role explosion or overlapping assignments. Creating an iterative process where this sustainment practice is performed at regular intervals will act as a safeguard against security breaches, access creep, and human error.
Risk #3 – Technology: Preventing Cost Erosion
The implementation of RBAC can be expensive and difficult to manage within a large healthcare organization. The level of complexity increases with additional costs related to changing roles and policies, such as the cost of duplicate servers and other infrastructure (database, APIs, etc.).
Changing roles or migrating users increases system security risk, unplanned downtime, and data loss. Technology investments for secure EHR access (single sign-on) and integration of IT applications for viewing (context management) will significantly yield a positive return on investment by improving productivity, patient safety, and staff satisfaction.
Fortunately, three alternative technical safeguard solutions to RBAC’s limitations are available:
Policy-based access control (PBAC)
Access control list (ACL)
Most EHRs are adopting the ABAC model in combination with RBAC as it offers flexibility that security administrators can define, as well as management of user access based on attributes instead of roles. Policies and rules can be defined in and specific to each attribute allowing for the creation or amendment of business policies to a higher level of complexity. The rules can be evaluated with ease, even for the resources that are yet to be defined by the system administrator.
PBAC is an effective starter for managing user access to multiple applications within an EHR. The role of the user is combined with policies to determine what level of access each user should have. For example, single-sign on access may be attached to a provider for multiple applications whereas administrative will not have single sign-on access to all applications as the policy was not combined with the administrative role.
Finally, ACL is a good option for “low-level” data environments. For instance, it can grant access to a specific file, but cannot determine what changes an end user can make to the file. While ACL simplifies and strengthens organizationwide access, defining policies and establishing the right resources is a time-consuming process.
As EHRs transition to cloud platforms, the security and attributes of the systems remain top priorities. RBAC has superiority of organizationwide and “all level” data security. Alternatively, ABAC provides better security and ease of access to geographically diverse workgroups – increasingly seen with telemedicine. Many healthcare organizations are using a hybrid approach, where high-level access is accomplished through RBAC and then fine-grained controls are accomplished through ABAC.
Ensure Your EHR is Helping, Not Harming
The main idea behind RBAC is to protect EHR data and impede users from doing something they are not supposed to do. Combining the best of RBAC, ABAC, PBAC, ACL with clear communications and governance is key. It is important for leaders to understand their EHR’s limits and integrate people, processes, and technology to ensure staff are empowered, privileged information is secure, and alerts are effective. In a cloud environment where security controls are implemented early on, the planning, communications, and budgeting for EHR deployment is critical.
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Australia: Here’s your complete Amazon Prime Video release schedule for the month of FEBRUARY 2023. We’ve also included the trailers that have been made available!
After more Australian streaming release schedules? Also check out the FEBRUARY line-ups for NETFLIX, DISNEY+, STAN, and BRITBOX …
Despicable Me 2 (MOVIE)
Fifty Shades Of Grey (MOVIE)
Trainwreck (MOVIE)
About Time (MOVIE)
How To Train Your Dragon 2 (MOVIE)
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (MOVIE)
Pitch Perfect 2 (MOVIE)
Gary And His Demons – S1-S2 (TV)
The Estate (MOVIE)
Two sisters plot to win the inheritance of their cantankerous, terminally ill aunt, but find other relatives have equally devious designs on the family fortune. The whole family hates cranky, sickly Aunt Hilda (Kathleen Turner). And she loathes them right back. What everyone loves, however, is dying Hilda’s alleged fortune. The woman’s cash-strapped nieces, ruthless Savanna (Anna Faris) and guilt-ridden Macey (Toni Collette), are banking on a little last-minute fawning and flattery in ensuring their aunt will change her will in their favour. Unfortunately, they’re not the only scheming relatives. A scurrilous farce that starts in bad taste and becomes increasingly perverse, The Estate’s crack ensemble cast are clearly having a blast. Blending surreal non-sequiturs with sexual slapstick, British writer-director Dean Craig’s (Death at a Funeral) gleeful irreverence ensures that the family who preys together very much pays together.
The Estate stars Toni Collette, Anna Faris, David Duchovny, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ron Livingston and Kathleen Turner.
Harlem – S2 (TV)
From writer Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip), our beloved comedy Harlem is back. We continue our journey with our four stylish & ambitious best girlfriends in Harlem NYC, the mecca of Black culture in America. After blowing up her career and disrupting her love life, Camille (Meagan Good) has to figure out how to put the pieces back together; Tye (Jerrie Johnson) considers her future; Quinn (Grace Byers) goes on a journey of self-discovery; and Angie’s (Shoniqua Shandai) career takes a promising turn. Together, they level up into the next phase of their careers, relationships, and big city dreams.
Harlem Season Two stars Meagan Good, Jerrie Johnson, Grace Byers, Shoniqua Shandai.
Hellboy (MOVIE)
Somebody I Used to Know (MOVIE)
Workaholic TV producer Ally (Alison Brie) faces a major professional setback, which sends her running to the comforts of her hometown. She spends a whirlwind evening reminiscing with her first love Sean (Jay Ellis), and starts to question everything about the person she’s become. Things only get more confusing when she discovers Sean is getting married to Cassidy (Kiersey Clemons), whose confidence and creative convictions remind Ally of who she used to be.
Somebody I Used To Know is directed by Dave Franco and stars Alison Brie, Jay Ellis, Kiersey Clemons, Haley Joel Osment, Danny Pudi, Julie Hagerty and Amy Sedaris.
Clarkson’s Farm – S2 (TV)
Colombiana (MOVIE)
Survive (MOVIE)
Star Trek: Picard – SEASON 3
Star Trek: Picard features Patrick Stewart reprising his iconic role as Jean-Luc Picard, which he played for seven series on “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” and follows this iconic character into the next chapter of his life. Tony Award winner Amanda Plummer has joined the cast in a recurring role as Vadic, the mysterious alien captain of the Shrike, a warship that has set its sights on Jean-Luc Picard and his old crewmates from his days on the Enterprise. Ensign Sidney La Forge is played by Sharpe Chestnut and is the eldest daughter of Geordi La Forge and helmsman of the U.S.S. Titan. Ensign Alandra La Forge is played by Mica Burton, Geordi La Forge’s youngest daughter who works alongside her father. Daniel Davis will also take up the role again as Professor Moriarty from “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”
Star Trek: Picard stars Patrick Stewart, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd, Amanda Plummer, Mica Burton, Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut and Daniel Davis
Carnival Row – SEASON 2
In a fantasy world where humans and creatures clash, Season Two of Carnival Row picks up with former inspector Rycroft Philostrate a.k.a. Philo (Orlando Bloom) investigating a series of gruesome murders stoking social tension. Vignette Stonemoss (Cara Delevingne) and the Black Raven plot payback for the unjust oppression inflicted by The Burgue’s human leaders, Jonah Breakspear (Arty Froushan) and Sophie Longerbane (Caroline Ford). Tourmaline (Karla Crome) inherits supernatural powers that threaten her fate and the future of The Row. And, after escaping The Burgue and her vengeful brother Ezra (Andrew Gower), Imogen Spurnrose (Tamzin Merchant) and her partner Agreus Astrayon (David Gyasi) encounter a radical new society which upends their plans. With humans and fae folk divided and freedom on the line, each hero will face impossible dilemmas and soul-defining tests in the epic conclusion of Carnival Row.
Carnival Row Season Two stars Orlando Bloom, Cara Delevingne, Arty Froushan, Caroline Ford, Karla Crome, Andrew Gower, Tamzin Merchant and David Gyasi.
Rhys Nicholson’s Big Queer Comedy Concert (SPECIAL EVENT)
The stand-up special was recorded at Sydney’s magnificent Enmore Theatre. Hosted by Rhys Nicholson, the concert features a cast of award-winning LGBTQIA+ comedy superstars, including Urzila Carlson, Geraldine Hickey, Cassie Workman, and Chris Parker. Rhys has had a busy time over the last few years, hosting RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under in New Zealand, and won the 2022 Melbourne International Comedy Award for Most Outstanding Show (formerly the Barry Award) for his latest show Rhys! Rhys! Rhys!, which he then took to sell out audiences in LA, Montreal, Toronto, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. This all new one-hour special is brazen, honest, warm, and above all—hilarious.
Joel Creasey Queen Of The Outback (SPECIAL EVENT)
This exclusive special from Joel Creasey (Australian Amazon Original LOL: Last One Laughing Australia) was filmed in front of a live audience at the 2022 Broken Heel Festival, Australia’s largest regional drag celebration, in September 2022. The special features a live, all-new stand-up performance from Joel Creasey recorded under the stars, plus all the glitter and glamour amidst Broken Heel’s nonstop weekend carnival.
Five Feet Apart (MOVIE)
Die Hart (MOVIE)
Die Hart sees Hart playing a fictionalized version of himself, as he sets out to pivot away from being pigeon-holed as a comedy wingman to being taken seriously as an action movie star. Kevin Hart attends ‘action hero school’ run by Ron Wilcox, played by John Travolta (Paradise City, Eye for an Eye), where he attempts to learn the ropes on how to become one of the industry’s most coveted action stars.
Die Hart the movie features the original ten-episode series, reimagined into a feature film format. Originally launched on Quibi in the US, the series scored an impressive Rotten Tomatoes score of 80%. Prime Video will now become the exclusive home of Die Hart the movie, bringing the hilarious and iconic comedy performance of Hart and his co-stars to a worldwide audience.
Die Hart stars Kevin Hart, John Travolta, Nathalie Emmanuel, Josh Hartnett and Jean Reno.
The Consultant – S1 (TV)
The Consultant – based on Bentley Little’s 2015 novel of the same name- is a twisted, comedic-thriller series that explores the sinister relationship between boss and employee. When a new consultant, Regus Patoff (Christoph Waltz), is hired to improve the business at the App-based gaming company CompWare, employees experience new demands and challenges that put everything into question… including their lives.
The Consultant stars Christoph Waltz, Nat Wolff, Brittany O’Grady and Aimee Carrero.
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CIArb Ireland has published its All-Ireland Arbitration Rules
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The existing Irish Branch arbitration rules were published on 1st April 1990. The rules were devised in the main to meet the needs of arbitration before the 1996 Act in Northern Ireland and the 2010 Act in the Republic.
In March 2019, the CIArb Irish Branch Committee resolved that an Arbitration Rules Sub-Group (AR Sub-Group) should be formed with a mandate to produce new All-Ireland Arbitration Rules capable of use in both jurisdictions.
The All-Ireland Sub-Group was formed with five persons from all four provinces with multi-discipline backgrounds as identified below. (BHMS Solicitors D2 kindly provided facilities for the various meetings of the Sub-Group). In addition to the All-Ireland mandate, the Sub-Group set for itself a core objective of producing user-friendly rules but which provide as much legal certainty as is reasonably possible and capable of operation within the arbitration acts and the general body of law in the two jurisdictions.
To this end sections of either Act are not referred to in the rules nor are articles of the UNCITRAL Model Law. The approach as taken assumes an arbitrator or representative to be fully familiar with the relevant Act and the law relevant to each appointment. The Rules were developed to be compatible with the various provisions in the Acts and the Model Law.
The Irish Branch obtained support for the initiative of two senior members of the judiciary, one from each jurisdiction who are each closely connected with the administration of commercial law. (Mr. Justice Barniville IRL and Mr. Justice Horner NI) Both have provided introductory comments on the new arbitration rules. The CIArb Membership were invited to an open meeting of the Sub-Group to review the evolving Rules. Various bodies and parties including The Bar Arbitration and ADR Committee provided input/comments in addition.
CIArb hopes that the Rules will provide scope for arbitrations to re-emerge in an All-Ireland setting for the benefit of the users of ADR services. It is intended that the Rules will be updated on a more frequent basis to address the changing landscape of Arbitration on the island of Ireland.
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Paula Mary Murphy FCIArb., Tipperary, Chair of the Sub-Group Committee member
Adrian Kearney C. Arb., Belfast, NI Chapter Committee member
Timothy Bouchier-Hayes FCIArb., Dublin
Conor Kelly C. Arb., Galway
Tom Wren FCIArb., Limerick, Hon. Sec. to Sub-Group
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OPINION: Gen. Colin Powell’s Many Achievements Outweigh Any Specific ‘Blot’ In His Lengthy, Storied Profession
In the event you had been born after say, 1995 and are usually not significantly eager on twentieth century U.S. historical past, Gen. Colin Powell is perhaps one thing of a floating query mark to you – a reputation that dominated headlines originally of your week however appears a contact unfamiliar. You realize you’ve heard the title earlier than, however you aren’t positive the place and in what context.
However when you have any reverence in any respect for the historical past that Barack Obama made as our first Black president, you’d be fully remiss to not no less than admire Powell, who died early Monday morning of problems from COVID-19 at 84. Born in New York Metropolis in 1937 and raised within the Bronx as a first-generation Jamaican-American, Powell’s story is a case examine within the resolve of immigrants who come to America and revel within the dream inside its borders.
Powell’s curriculum vitae is a smorgasbord of historic firsts: He was the primary Black U.S. Secretary of State, a place he held from 2001 to 2005. He was the primary Black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers, underneath presidents Invoice Clinton and George H. W. Bush. He was the nation’s first Black Nationwide Safety Advisor, underneath President Ronald Reagan, throughout which he was instrumental in bringing to an finish the Chilly Conflict with Russia. He was the one the second Black individual to function a four-star basic within the U.S. Military. He was one in all solely two to obtain the Presidential Medal of Freedom twice.
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He completed all of this in an traditionally conservative (learn: racist) U.S. Military. Powell was first commissioned in 1958 – only a decade after President Harry Truman desegregated the Military – and spent a long time shifting up the literal ranks; it could be 41 years into his profession (which included two excursions within the Vietnam Conflict) earlier than he would develop into basic. Powell had a hand in almost each U.S. army battle within the latter half of the twentieth Century, and truly served as an architect of a number of, together with the Persian Gulf Conflict within the early Nineteen Nineties and the US Invasion of Panama in 1989.
Sadly, the profession blemish Powell wore till his dying was the speech he delivered to the United Nations on February 2003, through which he justified the necessity to take down Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein with the now-infamous declare of “weapons of mass destruction.” We all know now that there have been none of these to be present in Iraq, however that it led to a protracted, maligned struggle that formally led to 2011 however whose cascading results have resulted in unrest within the area that persists to today.
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Powell himself known as the protection of the struggle and subsequent speech a “blot” on his record. He’s to not be fully absolved of that blame, however many conveniently neglect that there have been many cooks within the kitchen with the Iraq Conflict, together with Presiden George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Protection Donald Rumsfeld (a trio many would contemplate the true “Axis of Evil“). There are additionally members of Congress – a lot of whom are nonetheless cozy of their gigs gathering checks – and, sure, even the press.
However Powell was the face – the Black face – that many use as a photograph on the middle of the Iraq Conflict dartboard to today. Have a look for your self…there are as many headlines about Powell and the Iraq Conflict as there are about his precise dying.
As Powell was a dyed-in-the-wool army man, anybody with a beef with American imperialism, wars with specious provenance or the blood of younger troopers and harmless civilians on our fingers might decide a worse goal than him. Nonetheless, to be a pacesetter within the U.S. Authorities is to have blood in your fingers. Full cease. Obama included.
If that’s the metric with which you want to measure Powell, I received’t argue. Nonetheless, I select to recollect him as an distinctive chief who was the primary to perform a fantastic many issues thought unimaginable for a Black man when he completed them.
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States and regions prepare to drive forward climate action in Madrid
3 December 2019, 17:34 GMT 2 min read
States and regions are crucial climate actors and have significant power to cut emissions, as demonstrated in a recent report released by the Climate Group and CDP which found that states and regions have, on average, reduced emissions by 14%, in contrast to rising global emissions.
The report - which is the most comprehensive account of state and regional climate action released to date - also showed that 75 states and regions are now powering their economies with 45% renewable electricity. By comparison, only 25% of global electricity is renewable.
Ahead of this year’s General Assembly, which will bring together Under2 Coalition members from across the globe, the instrumental role that developed states and regions can play in uplifting the climate action capabilities of their developing and emerging counterparts has been channelled through the launch of the third Under2 Coalition Future Fund Progress Report.
In the past year, the Future Fund has funded three peer-learning secondments and one knowledge building project to support Under2 Coalition members in strengthening their response to climate change and developing stronger mitigation capacities.
Providing an opportunity to take stock on collective ambition and ensure that a coordinated response is planned to the climate challenge in 2020, the General Assembly is a key moment in the Under2 Coalition calendar for showcasing success and agreeing on upcoming priorities.
With each government invited to make a contribution to the dialogue, discussions will be centred around the question ‘How will you commit to enhancing your action in the climate decade?’, focussing on the themes of:
Setting net-zero goals
Tracking progress and being transparent
Innovative policy and finance
The General Assembly will be followed by an interactive networking lunch, where attendees will have the opportunity to learn more about the Under2 Coalition’s key areas of work, including: Transparency, 2050 Pathways, Policy Action, Leadership for Climate Action, Climate Finance Accelerator and Climate Diplomacy, as well as share inspiration for the work of the Coalition into the 2020s.
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Burlington gun control opponents take fight to Montpelier
March 6, 2014 Rob Port
By Jon Street | Vermont Watchdog
BATTLE FOR BURLINGTON: Gun control opponents take their fight to Montpelier
BURLINGTON, Vt. – Mayor Miro Weinberger is applauding sweeping new gun control ordinances he says represent an important step forward for “common sense” public safety reforms in Burlington.
Burlington voters approved the measures Tuesday, but already, gun control opponents are vowing to take the fight to Montpelier.
State law prohibits towns or cities from regulating guns, and any change in Burlington’s city charter must be approved by the Vermont Legislature.
Ed Cutler, president and legislative director for Gun Owners of Vermont, said he expects the gun control ordinances to die there. If not, his organization stands ready to take the case to the Vermont Secretary of State or State Attorney General.
“Most legislators are really proud of the Sportsmen’s Bill of Rights,” Cutler said. ”What this is doing is asking for an exception from state law. I don’t think (the Legislature) will give it to (the city of Burlington).”
The National Rifle Association, like Gun Owners of Vermont, also is preparing for a battle at the Statehouse.
“This clearly violates the Vermont Sportsmen’s Bill of Rights and the state’s firearms preemption law,” Darin Goens, the NRA Institute for Legislative Affairs liaison, told Vermont Watchdog. “(The) NRA will actively work to defeat these proposals in Montpelier … Vermont’s many gun owners should not be bullied by anti-gun city councilors in Burlington.”
The first of the ordinances, passed by a vote of 5,579-2,066, would allow police to seize firearms for five days from residents who are involved in domestic disputes. The second, passed 5,194-2,517, would make it illegal to carry a firearm inside a liquor establishment. The third, requiring “safe storage” of firearms inside residents’ own homes, passed 4,351-2,971.
Burlington City Councilor Norm Blais first proposed the sweeping measures after the Dec. 14, 2012, shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., left 26 people dead, 20 of whom were children.
Vermont Watchdog reported Dec. 12 that Burlington had been eyeing a loophole that would allow it to pass gun ordinances in direct conflict with state law. That loophole, “except as otherwise provided by law,” precedes the clause in the Vermont Constitution, which prohibits the regulation of firearms, also known as the Sportsmen’s Bill of Rights.
“To those people who say we don’t need this legislation in Burlington because nothing like this has ever happened here before, well the people of Newtown, Conn., could have said that before December (14),” Blais said during a Jan. 2013 City Council meeting.
Contact Jon Street at [email protected] and find him on Twitter @JonStreet.
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AgriTech Trends to Look Out For in 2021
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At Vitabeam, we make sure to keep an eye on the latest trends and patterns in the AgriTech world, to ensure that we can move in the right directions and keep our industry knowledge topped up! We are now halfway through the first month of this new decade, so here is a look into the future at three trends we can expect to see in the next 10 years.
The Sun is rising on a new decade, but what can we expect from the world of agriculture? Photo by Dan Loran on Unsplash
Direct to Consumer (D2C) Business Models are Hitting their Stride
The desire of the public to know where their food comes from is increasing as awareness of the effect of our diets on the environments grows. D2C businesses are profiting from this by being able to provide the consumer with a simple “farm to fork” route. The simpler and cleaner the route, the more appealing the product.
Vitabeam aims to be a crucial player in these businesses, helping to ensure produce is as clean and safe as it can be, and further simplifying the farm to fork process by allowing produce to be cleaned and packaged by the grower or farmer.
In the past year, throughout the pandemic, D2C companies have see their monthly revenue rates double, triple or even quadruple as demand for fresh, locally sourced produced soars. This demand is only expected to increase post-pandemic.
Innovations Driven by Partnerships on the Rise
Employment rates were severely hit by the pandemic, as businesses furloughed and let go of staff to try to stay afloat. Consequently, many people sought new careers, pursuing their passions, and becoming entrepreneurs. Big companies need constant innovation to stay ahead of their competitors, so entrepreneurs are taking advantage of this, building partnerships with larger companies to develop their ideas and prototypes into new technologies and techniques.
Vitabeam is one such company aiming to build partnerships in order to help other businesses by introducing them to new technology. These relationships can bring about fantastic outcomes for both parties, and Vitabeam looks forward to developing more of these relationships in the coming decade!
Demand for Environmentally Friendly Innovations is Increasing
Scientists have been warning us of the need for rapid changes in order to avert a climate disaster, so this decade needs to be a turning point, pointing the way towards a more sustainable and planet-friendly way of producing food. Not only is consumer behaviour demanding changes to agricultural practices, but businesses themselves will also see that growth obtained through practices harmful to the environment will not be sustainable, therefore continuing with these practices would be jeopardising their own future as a company. Additionally, companies built on unsustainable practices will find it increasingly difficult to find investment.
As a company, Vitabeam is passionate about the environment, and wants to drive sustainable growth with other businesses. We will do this by reducing the need for harmful chemicals and pesticides, instead using our technology to safely kill bacteria and mould that threaten crops and keeping produce safe and clean for consumers. Our technology is highly energy-efficient, and will enable more food to be grown using fewer resources, limiting the impact of businesses on the planet.
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8-Year-Old Boy Thirteenth Coronavirus Case Confirmed in Australia
By George Day • 04 February 2020 • 12:57
First Death From the Coronavirus in Europe reported in France
An eight year old boy has been diagnosed with coronavirus in Australia.
Queensland Health confirmed the diagnosis, with this being the third case confirmed in the state.
The boy is reported to a Chinese national from Wuhan – the origin city for the deadly disease.
The young boy is part of a tour group where a 44-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman were also confirmed to have the disease. It is reported that he is currently in a stable condition.
Man quarantined in Melbourne
The boy has been placed into isolation alongside the others diagnosed with coronavirus in Australia – at Gold Coast University Hospital.
The coronavirus has reached more than 20,000 cases across the globe, resulting in the deaths of more than 400 people.
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And Now Time for Kvetching From “Teh Left”
by John Cole | November 16, 2007 3:21 pm | 66 Comments
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I guess after the inevitable right-wing freak-out about Kos being hired by Newsweek, we need a mini freak-out about their decision to hire Rove. For balance, of course:
Newsweek magazine hiring Karl Rove to be a political commentator illustrates everything that is wrong with the corporate media system. Here is a guy whose scorched earth politics have left the nation reeling with ill effects and crippling divisions and he is rewarded with a prominent mouthpiece for his vitriol from one of the nation’s most widely circulated newsweeklies? Newsweek might as well give a column on the subject of humanitarian living to Charles Manson.
Newsweek thinks it will sell magazines. Hence, they hired him. Lesson over.
Can we leave the freaking out about stuff like this to the professionals? Like, say, Red State?
*** Update ***
Speak of the devil- the GREAT ORANGE SATAN, whose attention I so crave and desire according to my former friends on the right, has his first piece up in Newsweek.
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The Other Steve
The Federal Government really has it in for Ron Paul.
They’ve seized thousands of coins bearing his likeness. I don’t see what’s wrong with minting your own currency. Surely private industry can do a much better job at this than the government. That’s what the fed’s are afraid of!
As for Karl Rove. I don’t have a problem with Newsweek hiring him. I think we’ll find he’s a terrible writer. It is funny, though, that they put Kos at the same level. It’s really pissed off Malkin and the other nuts.
Zifnab
As for Karl Rove. I don’t have a problem with Newsweek hiring him. I think we’ll find he’s a terrible writer.
It was the Karl Rove political machine that gave us “compassionate conservative” and “Osama bin Laden: Dead Or Alive” as well as “Mission Accomplished”, “They hate us for our Freedom!”, and “You’re either with us, or you’re with the Terrorists!”
Rove is nothing if not a good butcher, ready to serve up the red meat. I have no doubt his articles will be an interesting read.
Dreggas
I am actually surprised there isn’t bitching on the left about Kos doing a column there obviously he has sold out to his corporate overlords that make him run advertisements for Chevron on dailykos and, well, he likes pie.
As for turd-blossom if he writes like he dances then it should be both amusing, and eye gougingly painful at the same time.
I think we’ll find he’s a terrible writer.
I expect the same. Further, I think that he’ll find that he can’t control the message as well as he may want to (imagine a Kos rebuttal following his previous week’s column, every week, along with direct attacks on his credibility), and will give up the job within three months. (I don’t imagine that it’s being set up as a head-to-head competition, at first, but I’m not sure it will be avoidable.)
The Other Steve,
Apparently that has been in the works for at least a year or so, but it’s a bit late for them to start questioning it now. Also, I’ll be interested in seeing if there’s any substance to the government’s claims relating to “money laundering, mail fraud and wire fraud”–I’m sure they’ll have it all worked out a few years after the election.
Newsweek is exactly the kind of job Rove should have, a job far away from government. The world’s a better place when wannabe professional blowhards provide entertainment rather than make policy, and you can be sure Rove will be plenty–albeit unintentionally–funny to read.
You won’t get the collective freak-out from the Left. You show know better by now. I find Rove much more appealing, more level-headed, and more insightful than other hyper-partisan, hyperactive screechers they could have culled, like Malkin or Hewitt. I think most of the Left has given up on the MSM, and instead of bitching about Rove–something we’ve come to expect–we’re just much more thankful of having Mark writing for us–something we surely would not expect.
LiberalTarian
At least they have given us a forum where every week we can write to them, and their sponsors, and have a hate-a-thon never seen the likes of on the left.
Seriously, I intend to boycott anyone within two pages of his articles; and buy anyone’s stuff who places their ads near Kos.
Fight ’em with the pocketbook. It’s the only language they understand.
This lefty will take comfort in the fact that a Librul “freak out” isn’t 1/10th as shrill or demented as what you get from the Right on a daily basis.
In fact, because the Right has set such a high freak out bar and because we are talking about Karl “Twisty Bastard” Rove, I’m having trouble recognizing this as much of a freak out at all.
More of a grumble, really.
Isn’t there some point at which basic human decency cuts into the decision making process? You know, Newsweek could sell a lot of magazines by tossing its editorial integrity out the window and just turning into a tabloid-y organization too…
Okay, okay, sorry. I’m done.
I’m actually kind of surprised though. Like, are they seriously going to pit Kos up against Rove in a battle of words? That’ll be interesting to watch…
Jake wrote:
Actually, I think it is more of a mass upchuck.
Tim in SF
I’m the most left person I know and I don’t care if writes for Newsweek. Kos himself sanctioned the idea:
Newsweek actually got this right, for once. They balanced out a movement progressive with a movement conservative. In years past, Rove’s “balance” would’ve been Bob Shrum. Now, they’re apparently starting to realize the difference between a movement partisan and an establishment hack.
I’d rather Rove spew his wisdom in the public sphere for all to see and judge on its merits. It’s better than filling the ear of the president with poison on a daily basis.
jenniebee
I think it’s interesting in that it’s telling what serves as parity. Kos’s influence is entirely born out of his efforts to empower the grassroots. Kos is listened to on the basis of a single piece of wisdom: he saw that it would be good to give somewhat-like-minded people means to speak for themselves.
Rove is as unlike Kos as it’s possible to get. He got where he is today by hitching his star to the nogoodnik son of a patrician family with strong political networks, and his big piece of wisdom was that it doesn’t matter that you can’t fool all the people all the time, as long as you can fool enough of them in the three weeks heading into an election you’re golden.
I’m pretty happy to have those two as representatives of what it means to be “left” or “right” these days. I think we come out way ahead on this one.
“Keep your friends close and your turd-blossoms closer.”
Herr Karl will probably not deign to write anything himself, but I suppose the more he’s in the public eye the less he’s off scurring around looking for the next dubya.
As for Karl Rove. I don’t have a problem with Newsweek hiring him.
Me neither. Newsweek, Time and similar magazines are journalistic dinosaurs, doomed to extinction. Long ago I subscribed to both publications, finding them essential. But I haven’t bought or even thumbed through an issue of Newsweek in years, and have no interest in the online version.
I guess that Rove will find an audience among fellow pundits and Wingnuttia true believers. But, much like Dick Morris, he will inevitably degenerate into a journalistic whore, teasing readers with fake orgasmic insights based on his relations with his former tricks within the Bush Administration.
Dennis-SGMM
I’m in favor of giving more of these people columns. The more they’re exposed to the light the better.
Could you imagine an Alberto Gonzales column on legal matters? How about John Bolton on diplomacy? The more the Republicans are allowed to express themselves the greater laughingstocks they will become.
I think that’s how the paper plans to make money.
I just suspect it’s KR’s effort to rehabilitate/reinvent himself in order to establish some credibility for the next GOP reich.
I can’t think of a magazine that sucks more than Newsweek. I’d rather read Ladies Home Journal for hard hitting politics and news reporting.
jcricket
This works for me, for a number of reasons. The fact that a political blogger, organizer and activist on the left who no one had heard of 5 years ago is now considered on par with a trusted adviser of our president and the Republican party is a great thing.
And as others have said, getting Kos in front of people who read Newsweek and the commentators about it can only be a good thing. We need more left-leaning (not faux leftists, like all the “centrists” and “concern trolls” at the DLC) people in the traditional media, as long as it’s around.
Those avenues may not be growing anymore, but they’re still pretty influential and important. The left should not ignore the reach of these new avenues.
Of course you knew someone from the left was gonna freak. Who better than Rove to comment on the current state of the GOP. He is in large part responsible for where they are at now.
Tony Alva
Quite frankly, the Huff Post needs to be added to you “Blogs We Monitor and Mock As Needed”.
wasabi gasp
{{{ the sound of flipping pages in waiting rooms all across America }}}
Cindrella Ferret
They’ve seized thousands of coins bearing his likeness. I don’t see what’s wrong with minting your own currency. Surely private industry can do a much better job at this than the government.
You’re correct. Wha with the former Cheerleader being the son of a ex-President, AND his mother’s picture on the dollar bill. That just ain’t right!
And who the hell cares about Newsweek hiring anyone? I care about this almost as much as I care about Al Sharpton’s perm. Jesus! Know wonder suicide is at such a high rate for cops and veterans! We were risk our lives so a bunch of self-absorbed lintheaded nobodies can run around with their hair on fire over who a third rate shit rag hires as political writers. The shame and degradation of 21st century America is at hand. Goddammit! Where’s the tequila and brown acid?
Ha! Rove is a political legend, Kos is a hack. I think we’re getting the better end of this deal.
MNPundit
I think most of the Kossacks are envisioning Markos tearing him to pieces and having him be exposed as the scum he is.
ThymeZone
Tim in SF and jenniebee have it right. Bring it.
shaker o salt
Well, I’m not going to “freak out” about it but the differences between Markos and Rove are huge. For one, Markos is a decent person. Rove, not so much. ‘Nuff said.
See, this is why Newsweek will sell papers. Millions of ditto-head conservatives will line up around the block to read their Republican Budda lay the smack down on Big Orange Satan. And they won’t be disappointed, in much the same was that Malkin and Hewitt never disappoint their readership.
I suspect every second Wednesday will become official “Rove beat Kos AGAIN! day”, when conservatives nationwide rejoice as they are given a warm glass of milk and a Rovian bedtime story to go to sleep with.
With luck there will be a web presence, like with Time, and cranky people can leave lots of nasty comments. It really freaked Joe Klein out until he learned to ignore it.
Brachiator Says:
The thought of Karl Rove and the words “Whore” and “orgasmic” just made me throw up in my mouth a little…
SpotWeld
Rove vs. Kos… I’m just surprised no one has made the obvious Palipatine vs. Luke Skywaker photoshop yet.
mrmobi
That’s nice, Jenniebee! And accurate.
I am no Kossack, and I’M fondly envisioning it.
Bubblegum Tate
It’s better than filling the ear of the president with poison on a daily basis.
What makes you think he doesn’t still do this just because he doesn’t have an official title anymore?
As to Rove’s NW column…meh. Who gives a shit? He’ll recite right-wing pabulum, NW’s circ numbers will go up as wingers check it out, everybody else will roll their eyes.
MNPundit Says:
ya know what I am loving about Kos getting the spot? He’s a young guy, he’s hip technology wise and he’s smart. He’s everything the establishment Dem party isn’t at this point. The establishment leaders are, for the most part, older “boomers” it’s nice to see someone representing me and every other “non-boomer” who have had to deal with the bullshit from the establishment for so long.
Psycheout
Did the evil Karl Rove ever say “screw them” about Americans dying in Iraq?
Psycheout Says:
Yes he did through bush, it was called extended deployments, stop loss, over-extension, starting a war against a country based on false intelligence. Need I continue?
I think he said :
We will fuck him. Do you hear me? We will fuck him. We will ruin him. Like no one has ever fucked him!
God, I hope we get to see some of that in Newsweek.
He’s a young guy, he’s hip technology wise and he’s smart. He’s everything the establishment Dem party isn’t at this point. The establishment leaders are, for the most part, older “boomers” it’s nice to see someone representing me and every other “non-boomer” who have had to deal with the bullshit from the establishment for so long.
As a big fan of the Great Orange Satan, and a boomer, I concur with your analysis, Dregs.
Clearly, our leadership is in need of new blood, and we have lots of work to do in electing “new” Democrats.
Incertus (Brian)
It is the kind of thing that would cause me to cancel my subscription to Newsweek, assuming I had one to begin with, but that’s more because I think Rove belongs in jail for his role in the Plame affair, not in the pages of a national magazine. But I’m not going to have a shitfit over it because I know why Newsweek did it–they think it’ll sell magazines. I don’t expect that it actually will, beyond the initial curiosity issue.
I actually look forward to the juxtaposed opinions of Kos and Rove on vital political matters of the day…two or three years from now in the waiting room of my dentist.
I can see them being the Goofus and Gallant of the future.
numbskull
Actually, Psychout, it would be GREAT if you got Unka Karl to bring up the Blackwater killings again in his NW column. It’d be a good reminder to NW readers that Kos was right – just like the recent Baghdad killings that sparked controversy, mercenaries caused the Fallujah crisis that ended up getting a lot of Marines killed and set back our policies and initiatives.
Yep, this is gonna be fun.
gypsy howell
You’re assuming that he’s going to write the articles. Gerson maybe, or one of the other professional liars who’ve been serving up crap from the administration for the last 7 years.
Given recent tabloid-ish developments among prominent republicans, I thought Jeff Gannon would have been a better choice for the job. More representative, anyway.
but that’s more because I think Rove belongs in jail for his role in the Plame affair, not in the pages of a national magazine.
I think he belongs in the poor house after being sued for the crap he pulled in S. Carolina in ’00. You know, “Would it change your vote if you knew McCain’s brown daughter came from a black prostitute?” or words giving that impression. Gotta hand it to Rove, that’s extremely effective push polling.
D-Chance.
This Kos/Rove hire is such a wonderful idea for Newsweek!
After all, look at what the idea of hiring Ann Coulter and Michael Moore did for USA Today in the last election cycle…
mrmobi Says:
I think that’s the one thing that pisses me off about old people, especially in politics. No offense to the elder generation and I respect my elders because they are my elders. The reality is though, that they are fighting and re-fighting the battles they were fighting 20 years ago. The end result being that issues facing me, here and now, aren’t being addressed and as a result I look at them and have to say WTF? I’m 28 and the people in congress and gov’t, for the most part as old as or older than my parents, some old enough to be my grandparents.
Like I said I respect my elders and this is not to trash older people since I will be one some day but isn’t it time to let those of us living in the here and now, dealing with here and now problems lead?
Johnny Pez
Yes, the online columns do have comments. Or, at any rate, Kos’s does. Will Turdblossom dare to let the unwashed masses comment on his pontifications?
CaseyL
The reality is though, that they are fighting and re-fighting the battles they were fighting 20 years ago.
20 years ago, we were mostly fighting the nuclear arms buildup. Is nuclear proliferation no longer an issue?
No, seriously: what battles are you talking about, that boomers are fighting but which are irrelevant to you?
I always wonder when I hear people moaning about us boomers fighting battles that are decades old. Question:
What would you have us do? Should we have waived the white flag and surrendered to the right wing cultural warriors waging on America that to roll back our hard won progress?
That would have ended the battle. And you would be living in a country with polluted air and water, with racial segregation and open discrimination, with lower wages and longer working hours, with back alley abortions and malnurished millions, with Gestapo like police brutality and Soviet style spying common throughout the land. Is that what you want?
You should be gratefull we kept fighting.
CaseyL Says:
I meant the politicians which keep being sent to washington. But examples:
1) War on drugs – It’s a failure but will anyone stand up to the establishment on it? Nope, still locking people up for stupid shit because it’s the popular thing to do among the older generations.
2) Vietnam – Dems, those in charge and elected, are scared so shitless to actually do the right thing and put the breaks on bush because OMG they’ll live under the shadow of Vietnam
3) Candidates – John Kerry, enough said. Instead of a candidate willing to stand up, and that was pretty much any candidate, and not back down we got John Kerry. I wasn’t a Deaniac so that isn’t my gripe, my gripe is the fact that rather than having a candidate willing to ruffle a few of their “sensible” feathers we got a candidate as boring as plain toast.
4) Acting like the 50’s housewife – That’s about the only way to describe the dem congress. Sure they’ll voice an opinion but when push comes to shove they’ve shown time and again their all too willing to do whatever bush wants.
5) unwillingness to look to the younger generation – Just look at how Obama is treated “Oh he’s inexperienced”, “oh he’s young” and that’s how any younger candidate who’s under 55 is treated when they run for president, again by the establishment which is comprised mainly of older voters. The end result will be having a 60+ yr old woman who says she was a “goldwater girl” which means absolutely squat to anyone of my generation. Hell the only older candidate who seems to get it on a lot of things is Dodd.
Yes, the youth vote never seems to materialize but face it, any time we get excited about a candidate the machinations are rolled out to shut that candidate down because *gasp* he or she might not be what the “establishment” wants. So people like Dean go from being far ahead in the polls to losing states because they have the nerve to actually stand up to everyone and maybe say things not everyone wants to hear..like oh…the truth.
We get mealy mouthed candidates and mealy mouthed representation all looking at the “center” as if there is some magical peak upon which all the answers lie. Candidates with no fire in their belly that isn’t crowd tested. So, we become apathetic, wouldn’t you if your representatives were old enough to be your grandparents and treated you like someone either to be kept out of sight, or like you were a moron?
If the politicians in washington were listening to the younger generation right now the war in Iraq never would have happened (again when I refer to boomers I am referring to those elected), and things like gay marriage wouldn’t become a cudgel.
Instead we have the pelosi’s and reids who get mush mouthed and trip over their tongues on one hand promising to stand up to bush in a united manner then bowing down and kissing his ass.
But we’re supposed to just let them do that because they are older, and somehow because of that wiser.
As for fighting off the culture warriors, funny they seem to be doing all but dictating how the dems behave in congress. They’re so afraid to stand up to the wingers it’s not even funny and yet they (the elected members of government) somehow fought them off? More like they just haven’t completely capitulated. And spying…gee bush has been doing that for 6+ years and congress (including the elected democrats) have been more than willing to sign off on it, revising FISA, something that didn’t need revising. Enacting the PATRIOT Act, talk about fascist gestapo shit.
Talking about a Nuclear arms build up? Hmmm which government was it that backed out of the ABM treaty and began building an anti-missile shield leading to Russia beginning to build new nukes, then went and invaded another country demonstrating to two others named as part of an axis of evil that the only way to avoid invasion was to get nukes?
Congress, with democratic complicity, signed off on this. Stolen election in 2000 or not, they signed off on it, all of it. While it may be Bush’s shitpile the dems elected have the stink of it on them too.
The War on Drugs is like MADD/drunk driving, local police and courts are making a ton of money on forfeitures and fines. For all these misdemeanor resulting in a county jail visit, the “criminal” has to pay for the pleasure of a stay in jail. State prisons also have similar scam, Dr Death(Jack Kevorkian) owes Michigan prisons a tidy little sum. Any book or speaking fees will be attached.
State of Michigan – Jackson Motel
Kevorkian stressed his own needs are simple, that he shunned “fancy” clothes, cars and restaurants and — as far as he was concerned — his speaker fees could “be given to charity.”
State officials have said they will monitor Kevorkian’s earnings and, if appropriate, use the money to reimburse state taxpayers for some $250,000 it cost to care and feed him in prison since 1999. While Morganroth said that prospect seems unlikely, a spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office said the state’s position is unchanged.
I wonder what restitution Neil Bush owes the tax payers? Will the government garnish his UAE funded software company bilking us because of NoBushieLeftBehind.
John, catch up on your vocabulary.
Now that you’re a dirty fucking leftie, Kos is to be known as The Right Hand of Gord.
And a hearty Fuck you too, Psycheout.
Screw the Mercs.
laneman
Dreggas.
Like I said I respect my elders and this is not to trash older people
This ain’t an age thing.
Stupid don’t hurt enough 11!!elevenone
Rove is one of the most corrupt and corrupting figures in US politics. I think some bitching, oh, just might be in order.
Dreggas, the bastards in DC don’t represent most older people, either. Damn if I know who they represent, but it ain’t us. The other side of this is that, well, what about Al Gore? He ain’t young. He’s just not corrupt, like all the DC Republicans and half of the Democrats. Some things…it’s hard to argue against the whole “protect the children” thing, even when it’s being used to defend horrors (and the drug war is a horror.) And, damn, the US system pretty much guarantees that candidates appeal to the widest group possible, and that means that candidates are boring, and no-one gets to vote for who they want. You want an issue for the young? Fight for electoral reform.
No Blood for Hubris
Yes, it’s true, our blushing rosy-lipped milkmaid, Karl “Miss Piggy” Rove, rides again.
What’s a deathless propaganda zombie/Goebbels tulku for, if not to spread fetid evil hither and yon forever, eh?
Bring ‘im on!
Libby Spencer
He’s everything the establishment Dem party isn’t at this point.
I’d disagree. Kos is the new face of the establishment. He’s said himself that he’s not about ideology, he’s only about winning power. That said, I did think it was a really good first column and I hope he’ll be able to get through to the Dems that actually fighting the GOP is a winning strategy.
As for choosing Rove to balance him — I found it just hilarious. I’m still chuckling every time I think of it. I think it speaks to the emerging power of the ‘netroots’ that Newsweek felt they had to pull out the biggest gun they could find to counter Kos, a ‘mere’ blogger.
grumpy realist
Hmm. I’ve a self-proclaimed liberal and the only thing I can say is: bring on the popcorn.
I think the people who have a fit over Karl Rove’s writings are the sort of people who voted for Nader.
I confess I was confused. Michael Gerson is Orange?
A few days about after Gerson began at the WPOST, the A section ran a whole half-page article about how everyone was wondering to what degree Gerson’s new book would trun the world upside down. Then Al Kamen’s “In the Loop” told us everyone who was anyone was at Gerson’s book party in Manhattan. Since then every Gerson column in the WPOST closes with “Michael Gerson is the author of ———.”
Not a world about this from media conscience Howard Kurtz, of course.
Jen Clark is cancelling her subscription to Newsweek because she thinks Karl Rove ought to be breaking rocks in a prison rather than being paid to spout GOP talking points in a national magazine.
Does that count as liberal kvetching?
unwillingness to look to the younger generation – Just look at how Obama is treated “Oh he’s inexperienced”, “oh he’s young” and that’s how any younger candidate who’s under 55 is treated when they run for president, again by the establishment which is comprised mainly of older voters. The end result will be having a 60+ yr old woman who says she was a “goldwater girl” which means absolutely squat to anyone of my generation. Hell the only older candidate who seems to get it on a lot of things is Dodd.
Well said, Dreggas!
While the GOP hopefuls offer nothing but the long night of perpetual war, most of the Democrats, with the notable exception of Obama, seem more concerned with promising their base a rehash of shopworn ideas than with attempting to appeal to a new generation of voters, or demonstrating that they have any grasp of contemporary issues. For example, national health care might be nifty to have, but it is a lot less meaningful if both the job you just lost and the job that you are training for have been outsourced. But the Democrats don’t really seem to grasp the degree to which the middle class is shrinking, and the degree to which Dubya’s tax and economic policies are accelerating this trend.
As a relative oldster who is totally frustrated with the lack of vision in the Democratic Party, I encourage your efforts to translate your excitement over your preferred candidates into electoral victory.
As for choosing Rove to balance him—I found it just hilarious. I’m still chuckling every time I think of it. I think it speaks to the emerging power of the ‘netroots’ that Newsweek felt they had to pull out the biggest gun they could find to counter Kos, a ‘mere’ blogger.
Eggs-actly!
They don’t “balance” Kos with Patterico, John Trevino, Malkin, or even Coulter, but Karl “I have a nickname from the President” Rove. The “architect” of the Republican strategy for the last 10-15 years.
If that’s not a good sign for the power that Kos and the left-netroots wields, I dunno what is.
I’m not going to cancel my subscription. I’m not sure I’d get my money back. I’m just not sure if I’ll renew. I’m getting pretty bored with it anyhow.
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The Untold History of the Barbell
Barbells are a much more recent invention than dumbbells.
Written by Conor Heffernan
Last updated on January 6th, 2023
This year, Rogue Fitness announced a $50,000 prize to anyone who could lift more than 501 kilos on an elephant bar, a specially designed barbell capable of handling such heavy weights. Innocuous as this may seem, the use of the elephant bar set off an interesting debate in the lifting community as to whether any attempt with the elephant bar should be considered a deadlift record owing to the elephant bar’s unique physics. (It has more whip than your standard barbell.) Whether or not this is the case is for someone else to decide. For the general lifting community, the debate shed light on the importance of the barbell to the lifting enterprise.
It doesn’t matter if you bodybuild, powerlift, do CrossFit, or just lift on a semi-regular basis, the chances are that you use a barbell as part of your training. Perhaps taken for granted by modern lifters, barbells are in fact a relatively new phenomenon and their evolution was not as straightforward as we may like to believe. Whereas dumbbells can be traced back to Ancient Greece when soldiers lifted stone halteres for reps, barbells are a much more recent development.(1)
So with that in mind, today’s post looks at the history of the barbell from its earliest iterations to the snazzy objects of today.
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An Early History of Barbells?
Where to begin when discussing the history of the barbell? Thankfully better, much better, minds than me have asked this question. One of the first academic studies of the barbell was written by Jan Todd, who traced the object to the mid-nineteenth-century when American and European strongmen and health promoters began to toy with the kind of implements needed to build strength, muscles and health.(2) Her findings were echoed by fellow strength chroniclers David Webster and more recently, Randy Roach, both of whom found little evidence of the barbells existence prior to the mid to late 1800s.(3) Why the delay, especially given the longevity of the dumbbell in human history?
Though it is nigh on impossible to discover why this was the case, there are some interesting factors to consider. While militaries had been using dumbbells and Indian clubs from the early 1800s, there was little need for progressively heavier weights at this time. Few individuals had the luxury or desire to dedicate to muscle building. Lightweight training, as was the norm during this period was primarily based upon improving agility and correcting postural issues.
[Does club swinging sound antiquated? Check out the surprising benefits of club training for strength.]
Secondly, the first public gymnasiums, as we would understand them, did not emerge until the mid-nineteenth-century when individuals had the time, money and interest to dedicate to heavy training. Prior to this light weights reigned supreme. There was little economic incentive then to producing barbells or some early iteration of them. This was certainly the experience of Donald Walker, who produced a rudimentary barbell in the mid-1830s.
In his fabulously titled and hugely popular 1834 work British Manly Exercises, Walker promoted Indian club swinging for men interested in both health and strength. Encouraged by the success of his first book, Walker next set his sights on female exercise. His later work, Exercises for Ladies, recommend the use of an ‘Indian scepter’ for exercises rather than an Indian club. Similar to a baton and only minimally weighted, the scepter was nevertheless an indication that barbells would one day have a future. Sadly for Walker, his scepter was quickly cast aside as British audiences proved much more interested in club swinging than scepter raising.(4)
[See the other side: The Untold History of Weight Training Machines.]
Mid-Century Progress
As Walker’s sceptres faded from the public’s memory, a wave of new developments in Europe, Britain and the US were occurring. In France in the 1880s, Hippolyte Triat, a strongman of note, opened his own gymnasium. This was not a regular, small-scale enterprise but rather one of the largest public gymnasiums of its kind. Due to Triat’s own interest and knowledge of strength building, his gymnasium was home to some rather remarkable innovations. Thankfully for us, Triat was not shy in promoting his wares. Advertisements for his gym made reference to ‘Barres À Spheres De 6 Kilos’ or ‘bars with spheres of six kilos’. For aspiring strongmen and women, Triat also made reference to ‘Gros Halteres et Barres À Deux Mains’ or ‘large dumbbells and bars for two hands.’(5)
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We don’t know how heavy these ‘barres à deux mains’ were, although some sources cite dumbbells weighing up to two hundred pounds being found in Triat’s gym. Nor do we know where Triat drew his inspiration from. To return briefly to Jan Todd’s article on the subject, Professor Todd speculated that Triat may have drawn his designs from the sort of sceptres promoted by Walker and prior to him, the orthopedics of the eighteenth-century who likewise promoted them.(6) Triat himself was silent on this subject, at least as far as his historical record is concerned.
Triat was not the only individual using barbells during this time either. Karl Rappo, an Austrian strongman who performed in several states in the late 1840s and early 1850s, was likewise said to have used globe barbells during his routine. Unlike the modern plate loaded barbells, these objects were fixed in weight with two rounded balls on each end. They were the type of barbells we would envision when thinking about stereotypical Victorian era strongmen. Now what differentiated Rappo from Triat was the the Austrian did not run his own gymnasium.(7) As far as we can tell, Rappo didn’t advise members of the public to use barbells at any point during his career. The Austrian simply used them as part of his act where they were described, like Triat, as heavy dumbbells.
Keen eyed readers will have noticed however that neither Walker, Rappo nor Triat referred to the term ‘barbell’. The history of the term itself has been traced to a Madame Brennar whose 1870 Madamme Brennar’s Gymnastics for Ladies, A Treatist on the Science and Art of Calisthenics and Gymnastic Exercises was among the first to use the term ‘barbell’. Where Brennar got the idea from is sadly unknown but Brennar’s descriptions of her barbell bore a clear resemblance to the modern object. In describing the term for her audience, Brennar wrote of an ‘appliance [that] partakes partly of the ‘Wand,’ and partly of the Dumb-bell.’(8) These devices were between four and six feet in length and were thicker than the ordinary wooden wands being used for lightweight exercise. A cursory glance at British Newspaper Archives, an online resource containing thousands of old newspaper articles published in Britain, shows a huge growth in the term post 1870.(9) Whether or not Brennar was responsible for the popularization of the term, she was one of the first entrepreneurs to use it.
The Birth of Modern Barbells
So Walker, Triat, Rappo and to a lesser extent Brennar paved the way for the birth of the modern barbell. What then, was the spark that finally set the lifting world ablaze?
As you can imagine, it’s difficult to pinpoint the man or woman responsible for creating the first modern, heavy barbells. What we can do however is highlight where they became popular. Edgar Mueller, an early German physical culture scholar, who incidentally wrote a fantastic book on Herman Görner, argued that Turner clubs in Germany were a pivotal arena in this regard. In describing old Turner gymnasiums in Munich from the late 1870s, Mueller noted that many of these gyms contained barbells with globe ends such as the one shown below.(10)
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Unlike the barbell precursors found in Triat’s gym, those in Germany were modifiable, albeit with some considerable difficulty. The globes, positioned on both ends of the barbell, contained a small and sealable opening. To increase a barbell’s weight, lifters would pour shot or sand into the globe. While this may seem a trivial modification, it’s worth laboring its importance. The ability to lift heavier barbells meant that aspiring gym goers now had the potential to build more muscle and strength than ever before. Furthermore it lay the groundwork for the eventual emergence of weightlifting competitions from Olympic lifting to powerlifting. Being able to modify the weight of barbells meant that bodybuilding, CrossFit, strongman, and whatever else we do today, was possible.
Admittedly, this change was not without its problems. It was very difficult to evenly load shot or sand into the globe barbells. Furthermore, there were allegations a plenty that lifters were manipulating barbells in weightlifting competitions. After Arthur Saxon defeated Eugen Sandow in a series of lifts in the late 1890s, Sandow began claiming that Saxon had loaded the barbell with mercury which made its weight distribution incredibly uneven. This, Sandow claimed, was the reason Saxon had been able to best him. Barbells, even unevenly loaded ones, became a mainstay among strongmen.(11) An 1891 international weightlifting competition, covered previously on Barbend, is testament to this point. The regular gym goer, except for a privileged few, was still being neglected however. What was needed was an entrepreneur with a vision.
[Learn more about the founding father of fitness, in our bio of Eugen Sandow.]
American Exceptionalism?
Europe was undoubtedly a hotbed of lifting activity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century. This did not mean, however, that the United States was not equally vibrant. Of relevance for the present history, we should note that the Harvard and Boston strongman George Barker Windship, whose rack pull machine swept across mid-century America, also designed some makeshift barbells. Thanks to Jan Todd we know that in 1859, Windship devised his own shot loading weights to a makeshift dumbbell.(12) Like Triat’s heavy dumbbell, this allowed Windship to create a dumbbell whose weight could be increased at several turns.
A more significant American contribution to the weightlifting community came some time after that in the form of Alan Calvert, the founder of Milo Barbell. In 1902, Calvert began producing his own rudimentary barbell and dumbbell sets. Beginning with a small set of loyal customers, Calvert’s business and influence, began to grow. Through his advertising pamphlets, Calvert inadvertently created one of the first dedicated weightlifting magazines of its kind. Calvert’s greatest achievement however, was the creation of his Milo Triplex, a barbell whose weight could be easily adjusted. Calvert’s invention, as understood by Jan Todd and Kimberly Beckwidth, whose doctoral work on Calvert is available online, marked a seminal moment in the Iron Game.(13) Users now had access to affordable barbells, whose weight varied. Importantly Calvert’s design caught on.
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Soon after, similar devices had emerged in Britain and mainland Europe. The same year the Milo Complex hit the market, a German inventor, Franz Veltum, produced a disk loading barbell. This, in effect, was an early version of the barbells we use today, whose weight can be adjusted by adding or removing plates from both ends. Veltum’s barbell was first marketed to German lifters in 1910 under the supervision of the Berg Company.(14) Somewhat frustratingly, it has proven impossible to discover if Veltum or Calvert was aware of each other at this time (Calvert began replicating Veltum’s bars from 1916). In any case, it is fascinating to think that Calvert produced a mass produced adjustable barbell at the same time that Veltum created a disc loading barbell. In time the affordability of Calvert’s creation would be joined with the practicality of Veltum’s.
Innovation Never Sleeps
Though several innovations would be made in the opening decades of the twentieth-century amongst the weightlifting community, an unsung hero in this regard was the simple barbell collar. These objects, placed on either end of the barbell, help to keep plates in place, and thereby ensure the weights do not fall off the bar. Are they simple? Of course. Are they vitally important? As someone whose laziness has resulted in plates and barbells wildly flying through the air during a shaky squat, I would argue yes.
Now admittedly, the barbell collar/clamp/clip is a small and very difficult thing for historians to pinpoint its exact history. What we can say is that around the 1910s, a series of British physical culturists, like Edward Aston, began marketing their own barbell clamps, which allowed plates to be added and subtracted from the bar with even more ease than before. So next time you’re loading up the bar, take a brief moment to thank Aston and his cohort!(15)
Returning briefly to Veltum, his disc loading barbell was slowly modified in the late 1920s when Kasper Berg, of the Berg Company, expanded its length to seven feet. This length is now the standard barbell length found in modern gyms. In response to complaints about the equipment being used in Olympic Weightlifting events, Berg submitted his new design to the Olympic powers that be. Much to his great delight, they proved impressed with its durability and design. The 1928 Olympics in Antwerp saw Berg’s barbell used in each of the weightlifting events.(16) When the Olympic committee commissioned Berg to provide barbells for future Olympics, his contemporary barbell manufacturers took notice. In time, seven feet, disc loading barbells were produced by York Barbell, Jackson Barbell and several other firms.
[Read more: What Are the Different Types of Barbells?]
The Modern Age
When talking about Olympic Weightlifting, there is, of course, a very obvious company which must be addressed, Eleiko. The iconic Eleiko barbells, which first emerged in the 1950s, are for many, the quintessential Olympic barbell. While the period from 1930 to 1950 had seen a series of barbell manufacturers emerge, there was still one problem facing the lifting community. In a problem I have sadly never encountered, barbells were breaking under the immense weights being attached to them.
This, admittedly privileged, problem was enough to force Mr. Hellström, an Eleiko employee during the 1950s, to put his thinking cap on. When not working in Eleiko, then a company most famous for its waffle makers, Hellström was an avid weightlifter with a frustration borne from faulty barbells. In seeking to build a new barbell design, and stop the regularity with which barbells broke once and for all, Hellström designed a reinforced barbell made with a specially hardened steel inspired by Eleiko’s products. When his employers were approached by Hellström about mass producing the product, they proved particularly enthused. Mass production began and in 1963, the Eleiko bar debuted at the Weightlifting World Championships in Sweden. Soon after it entered the Olympic realm and has, since then, become a favorite of lifters around the world.(17)
Pretenders to the Crown?
So before concluding, it is important to stress that not everyone has proven enamored with the standard Olympic barbell. Take for example, Lewis Dymeck, who invented the EZ Bar during the late 1950s as a means of relieving pain from his elbows during arm work.(18) Likewise Al Gerard’s trap bar, created during the 1980s, sought to find a new and sounder way of deadlifting.(19) Prior to both of these inventions we had the cambered barbell in the 1920s, which eventually re-emerged as the safety bar squat during the 1980s thanks to Dr. Fred Hatfield. Each bar was invented to fix a perceived deficiency found in the regular barbell.(20)
To return to the introduction of this post, Rogue’s elephant bar, which captivated the lifting community during the 2019 Arnold Strongman, was built to address a new generation of lifting feats. Rogue, who only entered the lifting game in 2007, first built a nine ft. barbell capable of sustaining several hundred pounds, for the Arnold Strongman in 2016. The barbell, which bends under the immense weight it holds, has added an extra spectacle to the event. Aside from how impressive it looks, the elephant bar serves as a good reminder that the lifting community will continue to demand, and produce, variations of the barbell at every turn.
While we will never know who invented that very first barbell, the device’s history spans nearly two hundred years of lifting history. Innovation has come about thanks to the enthusiasm shown by circus athletes, bodybuilders, weightlifters and, more recently, strongmen. As a piece of equipment seen as absolutely necessary for the majority of gym goers, the barbell’s evolution was by no means straightforward or simple.
Necessity, finances and inspiration were needed to bring us the modern barbell. For lifters in 2019, we’re reaping the benefits.
Featured image via @massenomics and @tomahawk_d on Instagram.
Jan Todd, ‘The Strength Builders: A History of Barbells, Dumbbells and Indian Clubs’, The International Journal of the History of Sport, 20, no. 1 (2003), p. 65.
Ibid., pp. 65-90.
David Webster, The Iron Game (Glasgow, 1976), pp. 2-15, Randy Roach, Muscle, Smoke and Mirrors: Volume One (Bloomington, 2008), pp. 17-20.
Donald Walker, Exercises for Ladies; Calculated to Preserve and Improve Beauty (London, 1836), pp. 83-90.
Edmond Desbonnet, ‘Hippolyte Triat’, Iron Game History, July (1995), pp. 3-10. Translated by David Chapman.
Todd, ‘The Strength Builders’, pp. 78-90.
Ibid., p. 80.
Madame Brennar, Gymnastics for Ladies, A Treatise on the Science and Art of Callisthenics and Gymnastic Exercises (London, 1870), p. 33.
From British Newspaper Archives.
Edgar Mueller, Goerner the Mighty (London, 2012), pp. 12-26.
David Chapman, Sandow the Magnificent: Eugen Sandow and the Beginnings of Bodybuilding (Chicago, 1994), pp. 104-109.
Jan Todd, ‘Strength is Health”: George Barker Windship and the First American Weight Training Boom’, Iron Game History, 3, no. 1 (1993), pp. 3-14.
Todd, ‘The Strength Builders’, pp. 78-90; Kimberly Beckwith, Barbellism, ‘Alan Calvert, the Milo Bar-Bell Company, and the Modernization of American Weightlifting’ (Ph.D. Thesis,, University of Texas, Austin, 2006).
Mark Kodya, ‘An Exploration of the History of Weightlifting as a Reflection of the Major Socio-Political Events and Trends of the Twentieth-Century’ (M.A. Thesis, State University of New York, 2005), pp. 20-25.
See for example, ‘Hall’s Barbell Clamp’. Available from the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports.
Jan Todd and Jason Shurley, ‘Building American Muscle: A Brief History of Barbells, Dumbbells and Pulley Machines’, in Linda J. Borish, David K. Wiggins, Gerald R. Gems (eds.), The Routledge History of American Sport (New York, 2016), pp. 332-340.
Conor Heffernan, ‘From Waffles to Weightlifting: Eleiko Barbell’, Physical Culture Study.
Conor Heffernan, ‘Who Invented the EZ Bar?’, Physical Culture Study.
Paul Kelso, Kelso’s Shrug Book (Tucson, 2002), Chapter Five.
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Life in prison for bank swindler
By Cyril Li | February 14, 2009, Saturday | Print Edition
A BUSINESSMAN has been sentenced to life in prison for swindling two banks in northeastern China of 800 million yuan (US$117 million) and causing a total loss of nearly 400 million yuan.
Huludao Intermediate People's Court in Liaoning Province found Zhuang Dachuan guilty of fraud and issued the ruling together with a fine of 800 million yuan, China News Service reported yesterday.
Zhuang's accomplice, Huang Leqin, a senior clerk at China Galaxy Securities, was jailed for 15 years and fined 10 million yuan. The asset management arm of the securities company was ordered to pay a total of more than 390 million yuan together with Zhuang and Huang.
Zhuang hoaxed Huludao City Commercial Bank to purchase treasury bills from July 2002 to May 2004 from an outlet of Galaxy in Xiamen, Fujian Province. Zhuang transferred all the money to his account together with Huang and Li Wenqiang. Li is still at large.
Seven credit unions of the bank had transferred more than 600 million yuan to the outlet. The bank found its money gone in October 2006 and called police.
Zhuang and Huang also swindled a credit union in Liaoning's Tieling City of about 200 million yuan.
Zhuang invested the money in stocks and futures or paid debts with it. He even transferred about 100 million yuan overseas via illegal private banks.
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Home Town Crier Letters Letter: Regarding Movie Theater
Letter: Regarding Movie Theater
Having returned to Laguna after 10 years in New York City, I’ve been surprised that the small town charm I grew up loving has been now eclipsed by an overwhelming ghost town aesthetic. While the pandemic cannot be discounted here, I am continually astonished by certain groups’ active efforts to purposefully stymie basic town improvement and restoration—the latest attempt being the movie theater downtown.
I have a degree in Film and have worked in entertainment. I care deeply about cinema, its history, and its future. That is why this latest move by the Laguna Beach Historic Preservation Coalition feels like a slap in the face. Nothing is more sad than a rundown theater. For the last five years, the only thing this ramshackle vestige of my childhood has done for the community is gather dust and house a few “temporary residents.” Now, when we have the chance to do something to enliven the structure with something for the community, LBHPC uses the guise of the California Environmental Quality Act to keep another decrepit town landmark in a state of limbo. The irony of using this act against an electric car company should also not be lost.
I wish it could be a movie theater again, I really do. However, the economics are not feasible. Chains face an existential crisis that threatens even the strongest megaplexes, and both consumer demand and exogenous forces have shifted the art-house market to streaming. Theater owners make the bulk of their profits on snacks. Assuming the tepid attendance I remember persists in this new climate, we’d all need to buy our weight in popcorn and Milk Duds nightly to keep it operating.
The Rivian concept is not what I would choose nor what I would do with the space. That being said, they are respecting its history and actually restoring key elements that were lost when it was converted to a two-screen theater. Will it be weird that it also showcases electric cars? Absolutely. But, there is no viable way for it to move forward as a movie theater alone. Disagree? Buy the theater and give it a shot. Take that risk yourself. You’ll find yourself dangling helplessly like a letter falling from the marquee in no time.
If we don’t do something, the ghost of theaters past will continue to loom over Main Beach for years to come. Not very… charming.
Brian Barwick, Laguna Beach
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A Sons of Anarchy Star is the Newest Addition to TWD
Post written by RC Murphy at September 7, 2018 9:00 am
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Tags: Beta, new season, Ryan Hurst, season nine, SoA, Sons of Anarchy, The Walking Dead, TV show, TWD, zombie survival crew, zombies, ZSC
by R. C. Murphy
Casting news from the Walking Dead camp comes at a whirlwind pace nowadays. Over the last month or so, we’ve learned that season nine will introduce yet another survivor group, the Whisperers. This crew is straight from the comics, with their reign as Grimes’ adversary coming after All Out War wrapped, just as it is planned on the show currently. What makes the Whisperers different from other foes Rick’s group has faced is their heavy-handed use of undead skins to blend in with the creatures. The show has already announced actors for the Whisperers’ leader Alpha and her daughter Lydia—Samantha Morton and Cassady McClinty.
At the end of August, they announced that another Whisperer has come onboard. Beta, Alpha’s second-in-command, will be brought to life by Ryan Hurst (Sons of Anarchy, Bates Motel). It’s not hard at all to imagine Hurst filling that all-too memorable walker skin mask. Matter of fact, just a day after the announcement, Hurst found himself in the makeup chair with his head covered in goop so the makeup magicians for the show can create said mask.
Fellow cast members wasted no time welcoming Hurst to the fold via social media. Some joked around a bit, possibly alluding to a gruesome plot line from the comics which may or may not happen; it depends on how much tweaking they have to do in order to not only make up for Carl’s absence, but also writing off two community leaders this season. However the Whisperers story line plays out, it’s bound to be incredible based on the casting news alone. There’s no way they’d squander this much talent.
The Walking Dead returns to AMC on October 7th. Catch up on previous seasons via your favorite streaming service, or keep an eye out for one of the many mini-marathons AMC hosts at random.
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Squirrel drives students nuts
Though some squirrels might be innocent critters that don't do much harm, others are just plain sadistic. Liz Lapetina '02 learned this lesson the hard way when a squirrel used her computer as a desktop toilet Jan. 10, smack in the middle of the reading period crunch.
Lapetina returned to her room in Little Hall that day to find her roommates jumping on their futon and shrieking.
"They said a squirrel was in the room, but they said this one was possessed," she said.
"I wasn't really worried because usually as [the squirrels] hear you, they run away," Lapetina added. "But this one came flying towards me. I screamed and ran out of the bedroom."
After the squirrel left through the window, Lapetina went to her room to assess the damage.
"We just noticed this awful burning — almost acidic — smell, and at the same time I decided to try to check my e-mail," Lapetina said. "I noticed my screen seemed to be off which was weird, and I couldn't turn it back on."
"I discovered a clear gel on my computer," she said.
What was this mysterious 'gel'? Well, let's just say that Lapetina won't be using it in her hair any time soon.
The squirrel had decided to let the good times "flow" and urinated on Lapetina's computer monitor.
Even worse was the fact that the computer appeared to be broken. Fortunately for her, Lapetina did not have any papers due Dean's Date — the next day — although she did have a politics paper due later in the week that was not saved to a disk.
In the end, the squirrel damaged only Lapetina's monitor, and she was able to use someone else's monitor to get her essay from her hard drive.
Lapetina said squirrels have stolen her roommate's gourmet chocolates and the eyes of their stuffed animals in the past. And Lapetina still remains skeptical of furry creatures with bushy tails. "They always find a way to get in," she said.
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Meet the 94-year-old Kung Fu granny who became China’s internet sensation
Anson Ling 20 February 2017
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Zhang Hexian has mastered 15 styles with 36 moves each
94-year-old Kung Fu granny, Zhang Hexian, has become an internet sensation in China.
The grandmother has been practicing kung fu for 89 years, following a family tradition. “I started when I was four years old,” she told CNN. “It’s my family tradition that has lasted more than 300 years.”
According to The Star, Zhang’s hometown is Ninghai County, Ningbo in Zhejiang province. Her family members had all learned kung fu for discipline and strength.
Video clips and pictures of her practising kung fu have went viral on Chinese social media.
“My dear granny, You are so great!” read one post on Sina Weibo, according to The Star. The netizen wished she would live more than 100 years. “Granny, do you still want to have disciples,” asked another.
“I was born in 1924, at a time when China was at war with other countries,” Zhang said to CNN. “So (kung fu) was also a good way to learn self defense.”
Zhang’s kung fu style originates from Fujian province and encompasses 15 different styles. Each style has 36 moves. According to the grandmother, it takes her three years to master one style. Zhang has mastered them all but struggled in the beginning.
“Most difficult was learning to squat firmly, because it made my muscles so sore,” Zhang says. “I remember being so sore, I couldn’t even go to the bathroom. And we were a poor family, so after practicing I’d be starving and we’d have nothing to eat.”
Zhang wakes up every morning at 5am to exercise. She especially enjoys using bamboo sticks to fight an opponent. The grandmother has never had to go to the hospital and credits kung fu, sleep and a healthy diet for her health.
“To have good body, you need to exercise and keep a positive attitude,” she says. “It’s also important to help others as often as you can.”
Whilst Zhang’s family have moved away over the years, the kung fu granny now enjoys teaching her neighbours.
Discussing her new found internet fame, Zhang said, “I never thought about being famous. If people love kung fu, my family can teach them. We have been teaching people around here — but I never imagined we’d get the attention of others around the world.”
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His Substitute Wife Author Interview & Giveaway
Life has never been worth living for Charisse before her father died. After three attempts to kill herself were unsuccessful, she makes a deal for release from hell on earth, with one of the people who made her life what it was.
It wasn't until Chyna finds out that her husband, Parker Mills, was having an affair with her twin sister, Cheyenne, that she realizes she's losing the best thing she's ever had. Feeling the ultimate betrayal by her own sibling, Chyna knows she has to do whatever it takes to keep her husband and give him what he longs for - a baby. Knowing that she's unable to have children and Cheyenne is afflicted with the same condition, she decides to go to the only person that can help her save her marriage - her younger sister, Charisse.
In the end, one sister will die, another will lose everything and one will get everything that she wants.
“Spending fifty thousand dollars to produce off spring is crazy. Do you know what I could have done with that money? By this time, I’d have hundred college funds set up for you to donate to some third world child you could have adopted.”
Frustrated, Parker sunk down in the chair in front of Jaelen’s desk. “Yeah, but it’s not the same and you know it, Jae. Look at you. Five kids. Five damn kids.”
“Two are from my wife’s first dead husband.”
“But you’re still a family. You have off spring. You have someone to carry on your bloodline and you’re sharing these moments with the woman you first fell in love with and married. I want that. I want to be you… well not all ornery and mean, but you know what I mean. I’ve been married ten years to Chyna and you weren’t even married to Kim before you were bopping out twins.”
“Well, she raped me to get mine.”
“Let’s not even go into that. I think you just harbor that over her just so you can take advantage of her.”
Jaelen smirked wickedly. “It does make the mundane marriage very exciting when you can tie up your wife and make her beg for you. You should try it sometime.”
“Chyna says it might mess up her hair and hands.”
“If you can spend fifty on a baby, you can spend a couple of hundred– “
“Let’s not go into this.” Parker really didn’t want to expand upon his wife’s shallow behavior.
Jaelen took the hint, understanding in advance this was a sore subject for Parker. “So, this crazy sister-in-law, what’s her story?”
“Nothing I haven’t already told you. Chyna says her sister is so pathetic she can’t even kill herself.”
“How many times has she tried?”
“This last time makes three.”
Jaelen stopped what he was doing and frowned. “I’m not religious and all that, but she ever thought that it just wasn’t her time, and that she had a purpose in life.”
“You ever thought you’re just saying that shit because you’re an ass and you’re trying to find some hilarity out of a bad situation?” He stood up.
“So I take it you haven’t told Chyna about the boat?”
Parker didn’t answer because he knew Jaelen already knew the answer. He was saving it for the moment when Chyna announced that they were going to have a baby. Knowing that they were going to dedicate eighteen more years together deserved an award and “the boat” was the key.
Yet that moment hadn’t come and he was starting to think it never would. The majority of Parker’s friends were married and those that were had children, vibrant healthy off spring. Their blood running through small versions of themselves.
1. Tell us about yourself. I am first and foremost a person deeply and devoted to words – a writer and a reader, always wanting more. Words are my drugs. Words are my life. Words are my Everything. Being a mother, a woman and a human being becomes secondary in my life.
2. How did you get started writing? When I was six years old. I used to lie to my mother a lot and after she would give me punishment I would have to write my lies down. My pain became my pleasure. My lies looked so good on paper and I could make them longer and longer. The only bad thing is that I can’t lie verbally anymore so I have very little friends.
3. What genre(s) do you write in and why? I started writing first historical romance because that is the genre I started reading in. I was a little paranormal fan, but I didn’t want to make up new worlds. Although I love history, I found that I couldn’t find my voice because it was a lot of research and I didn’t want to keep facts so straight and accurate. By the age of seventeen I realized I wanted to be a contemporary suspense romance novelist and the first book I ever finished was Stone’s Revenge, my psychological thriller, which actually became my 2nd independent work I published.
4. How many books have you written? Do you have a favorite?
I have over thirty published works since 2000 and to ask me which is my favorite is to ask me which is my favorite child. My books are so hard to choose from and I actually try to re-read them every once in a while not just to pass the time or look for new characters to bring into other stories, but just because they are that enjoyable. I write because I can’t find what I want to read and I still have that challenge as a reader. I love really all my books. Now my favorite character, and most challenging one, would be Lethal Heart. I’ve woven him throughout a lot of my books. He’s dangerous, sexy and crazy. Just the way I love my men.
5. Tell us about your current series/WIP.
My current book series is His Substitute Wife. (Two books as eBooks but one whole paperback book.) Bringing Charisse to life with her problems and past was difficult and hard. I could feel her inner emotional pain. Dealing with her family, especially her sisters, the frustration grew to a tipping where she had nothing to live for. Parker Mills was a man who knew he wasn’t perfect, but he craved a family. Doomed to be in a loveless marriage he tries to make the most of his situation by allowing his wife to convince him to let Charisse have his baby. Getting Charisse pregnant with Parker’s baby was easy part. Filled with drama, suspense and romance, The His Substitute Wife… My Sister Series has given me a great joy to bring to my readers.
6. What inspired your latest book?
Studying other phobias, I found Charisse condition and wondered if I could actually write a romance with a woman who hates to be touched? It was a challenge and I’m proud of the story.
7. What is your next project and when will it be released?
Betrayed is my current Work In Progress. Cons, Revenge, Deceit and Love can’t mix, but I’m going to try.
8. Where do you get the ideas for your stories?
Life, living and observing the world around me. My mind is an open syringe looking for the unique, strange and ominous.
9. What is your favorite part of writing?
The initial process itself. When an idea hits and you must go to write it down. Once I start I can’t stop. It’s addictive. I sleep with my kindle with a keyboard right by me or under my pillow in case I wake up in the middle of the night and get the urge.
10. What is your least favorite part of writing?
The marketing of my work, but I’m glad I earned a degree at it so it comes a little bit easy to me.
13. How much time do you spend promoting your books? I try to spend at least four hours a day marketing, two hours blogging and one hour working on websites I manage in order to make my books sells work for me. I look at promoting like a real business. If I opened a store, I’d dedicate at least twelve to sixteen hours a day to my business. I do that for my writing career tirelessly promoting and tirelessly writing more for the upcoming year.
What works best for you? Blogging on my website always has worked best for me or being on other bloggers. I’m an avid tweeter and FB’er, but I use those as breadcrumbs to get more people to the website.
14. How has your experience with self-publishing been?
Awesome. Since I’m a control freak I love it.
15. What advice do you have for other authors wanting to self-publish?
Research and learn what you have to do before you do it.
17. Where can readers find you?
I can be found on my website at http://sylviahubbard.com, FB: http://facebook.com/SylviaHubbard& Twittter: http://twitter.com/sylviahubbard1
Sylvia Hubbard knew she’d wanted to be a writer of romance long before she knew there were black writers in the world. Weaving stories magically as a summer past time to writing stories to get through the humdrum of school, she was able to create something from nothing.
Today, she has independently published over 28 books, is the founder of Motown Writers Network and The AA Electronic Literary Network, CEO of HubBooks Literary Services, runs over five blogs on a variety of subjects, host The Michigan Literary Network Radio Show and is a happily divorced mother of three children in Detroit, Michigan.
“I’m no superwoman,” she states with a smile that seems infinite on her lips. “I’m just being an asset in the world instead of a liability.”
Considered an addicted blogger by HoneyTechblog.com, nominated and recognized for her literary work in the Metro Detroit area, referred to as “A Literary Diva” by Detroit City Council and donned “Cliffhanger Queen” by her readers, she finds solace in speaking and educating on a variety of topics.
Author’s Website: www.sylviahubbard.com
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Thank you so much for this lovely post M. much appreciated.
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Hi, Sylvia...enjoyed the interview. Best wishes with your book! | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6803714632987976, "wiki_prob": 0.3196285367012024, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1433262"} |
U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo visit Purdue University
U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo visited Purdue University on September 13th to tour university research facilities and meet students as they embark on their mission to bolster the U.S. semiconductor industry.
Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Indiana Gov. Eric J. Holcomb joined Blinken and Raimondo on a tour of Purdue’s Birck Nanotechnology Center, highlighting the leading-edge research and workforce development efforts at Purdue that can help the United States restore domestic semiconductor manufacturing and competitiveness abroad.
Purdue President Mitch Daniels then hosted the guests at the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering for a fireside chat that focused on building a semiconductor ecosystem to restore domestic manufacturing and competitiveness abroad.
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03.11.2020SpotlightNesrine
Nesrine: Music without borders.
When the Franco-Algerian singer, cellist and songwriter Nesrine Belmokh and her trio NES appeared on the scene in 2018 they seemed to emerge from nowhere. Many parts of the music world in Europe were taken by surprise by her, and completely captivated as well. Now, for her second album named simply after her – "Nesrine" – she has re-invented herself. Nesrine's debut album "Ahlam" was received with tremendous and widespread enthusiasm. What commentators noticed was its sheer beauty, the unusual instrumentation of voice, cello and percussion, and also the way in which the Mediterranean region from North Africa to Southern Europe was brought to life and unified through music. The distinguished cellist Sol Gabetta called Nesrine "a wonderful singer and cellist". London’s Sunday Times described her as "an incandescent, multilingual talent, " and later went on to include “Ahlam” among the newspaper’s albums of the year. French producer and radio host André Manoukian was in raptures: "NES lets us hear the beauty of the world" and Deutschlandfunk stated simply that "NES’s time has come.” Several extensive tours throughout Europe followed, and NES beguiled audiences in major classical venues like the Philharmonie and the Konzerthaus in Berlin, made a very big impression at the Amsterdam Cello Biennale, and had major success at important jazz and world music Festivals.
In the new album, Nesrine the solo artist gives us further glimpses of her personal and musical life story. She grew up in France as a child of Algerian parents. She learned classical cello, and was soon working with organisations such as Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Opera in Valencia, conducted by Lorin Maazel, plus landing a solo role in one of the programmes of "Cirque du Soleil". But it is through the ingenious songs that she writes herself, in Arabic, French and English, that her dazzling artistic personality comes through. Nesrine’s musical world is without borders; the combination of cello with her powerful voice and the interaction of her North African roots with her European present are irresistible. There is an economy of expression here, and the poise and culture of classical music are juxtaposed with rhythms coming from both pop and jazz – it is a fascinating and constantly shifting blend.
For the new album Nesrine has teamed up with producer/guitarist Vincent Huma (Jorge Drexler, Miguel Bosé, Marlango) and sound engineer Fab Dupont (Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Wynton Marsalis, David Crosby and many more). Together with NES percussionist David Gadea and guests, they have succeeded in creating a complex musical world of both acoustic and electronic sounds, and yet the naturalness, the simplicity and warmth of the debut album "Ahlam" have been retained, and also broadened by adding completely new influences. In theory this might sound as if the juxtaposing of different cultures and the crossing over between them will lead to overload, but for Nesrine we are dealing with things that are normal, even existential. Her music is a reflection about her generation for whom origins and stylistic boundaries define themselves through their interaction. This music functions and flows so naturally because the combining of cultures is never artificial. It results from the fact that the different elements are simply, logically and truly parts of the artistic essence of the artist herself, and of her personal history. To ask what this music is just has to be the wrong question. World music? Or global pop? Or fusion? The right question to ask is *who* it is. And the answer has a compelling simplicity about it: NESRINE.
Nesrine Nesrine
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