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Vote For Me – Or Get Cancer
by Editors | Feb 9, 2008
Dr. Caroline Lucas – Green Member of the European Parliament for Southeast England – continues to peddle scare stories to generate political legitimacy. From a press release carrying the dramatic headline "CANCER 'CAUSED BY POLLUTION', MEP LUCAS TO TELL BRIGHTON WOMEN":
CANCER is often caused by environmental factors including toxic chemicals added to household goods, pesticides and poor air quality, local Green Party MEP Caroline Lucas will tell a Brighton cancer-prevention day this Saturday, February 9th.
This rather conjures up images of people deliberately lacing household goods with carcinogens out of sheer spite, doesn't it? No mention of the usefulness of chemicals, nor even their effect on reducing diseases, and extending human longevity. Nor the countless improvements they have made to our lives in other areas, such as improving the quality and shelf-life of food, leading to lower prices, and better diets, and therefore longer lives. Nope. Chemicals… are bad.
An increasing number of scientists are pointing to the link between toxic chemicals – especially so-called gender-bending hormone-disruptors – and breast cancer, which kills more than 10,000 people each year in the UK alone.
We phoned Caroline Lucas's press office (again) to find out who these 'increasing number of scientists' actually are, and what they are actually saying, and what research actually supports it. They said they'd get back to us. It seems highly unlikely that anyone is deliberately putting carcinogenic compounds into your breakfast, just for fun, nor even just for profit, as our Caroline goes on to suggest:
Similarly links are being found between pesticide use and cancers. Yet these technologies are all growing apace – the Government and EU simply must exercise caution, and put human health above the profits of their friends in the companies that manufacture them.
Ah, it's the Government and their mates again! A chemical conspiracy. Profit standing in the way of a cancer-free population. On this point, Caroline Lucas's press officer told us that the statement that implies a conspiracy reflects her experience in working towards the EU's REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical substances) regulations. Dr. Lucas apparently believes that a deal between European Conservatives and Socialists to reduce the extent of the regulations was the result of industry lobbying; not the result of debate and discussion. She didn't like the result, so, of course, there's a conspiracy… The conceit of the self-righteous. In a press release from 2005, Lucas said of the compromise…
Around 75 per cent of all cancers are caused by environmental factors, mainly chemicals, and each year more than 30,000 die in the EU due to occupational exposure to substances which are carcinogenic. This directive was designed to require manufacturers to ensure their products don't contain the chemicals responsible, at least where safer alternatives are available.
Is there any scientific basis for the claim that 75% of cancers are caused by environmental factors to imply that industrial chemicals are 'mainly' responsible? The claim that 75% of cancers have environmental causes is the corollary to the theory that 25% of cancers have genetic causes. It means nothing. Cancers take years to develop, and their causes are too many to attribute to one category of risk. The complexity of many factors interacting with one another make it virtually impossible to evaluate such a hypothesis scientifically, let alone in lay terms. It is pure speculation. If the true extent of the effect of environmental cancer-causing factors were known, it would imply that all of the factors had been identified. They simply haven't. Not in synthetic compounds, and not in naturally occurring substances. Nature is made of chemicals too, you know. And in just the same way, we've barely begun to understand the role of genetics in cancer. About all one can say with any certainty is 100% of cancers are the result of a complex interaction between genetic and environmental factors. And why stop at chemicals? Perhaps Lucas should be going the whole hog and banning the environment. After all, it's not just cancer you can catch off it. Just walking through happy organic mother nature friendly fields exposes you to risk. And then again, so does locking yourself up behind your front-door, terrified that cancer is waiting for you at the top of the road. Lucas's statistic – almost certainly bogus – is meaningless when wielded so inexpertly, and is terrifying to anyone who happens to take what she says at face value.
Lucas takes weak and controversial scientific theories out of context and uses them as scientific fact to use them to create legitimacy for her political campaign. Whether she does this consciously, or whether she is oblivious to the fragility of her argument is not our concern. The effect is the same, and she does not appear to be taking any steps to treat her words with caution, let alone get the measure of just how controversial they are. And she seems happy to terrify people to give her political cause some momentum. Her words are used to effect the same thing as the Labour Government's claims of WMDs in Iraq being mobilised, launched and landing in the UK in 45 minutes. It is the politics of fear. Without that fear, and 'sexed up' scientific 'evidence', Caroline Lucas has absolutely nothing, nothing, nothing to offer her constituents.
The problem for Lucas is that one moment science is bad, because it makes nasty chemicals, the next it's great, because it tells us that we're all going to die. But what Caroline wants is not for science to develop safe chemicals which better our lives at all. She wants no chemicals, and she wants society to be organised in a specific way. She uses the science which is convenient to give that vision authority, and the fear it generates is used to create political legitimacy. The remaining science is immoral science; the result of conspiracies which dazzle us with false promises to satiate lusts for consumer lifestyles, but actually poison us. There is no middle ground coming from the Lucas Press office. Check it out for yourself.
The irony is that in making people sick with worry, she is likely to have a more deleterious effect on people's health than industrial substances in the environment. First, because of the direct effect of such terror about getting cancer any minute now. Second, because of the distrust it breeds about useful technologies. Third, because it may have the consequence of generating policies which actually throw the chemical baby out with the toxic bathwater. Lucas wants a chemical free society. But part of the reason that cancers appear to be on the rise is that people are living longer, not dying from other diseases – thanks in part, to the chemicals Lucas is intent on banning. But also, thanks in part to the kind of medical research that Lucas wants to outlaw. Her press office still haven't got back to us about exactly where she got the idea that 'increasing numbers of scientists' are pointing to the link between toxic chemicals and breast cancer, or that 75% of cancers are caused by environmental factors (or what that even means). What they did say was that Europeans for Medical Advancement have something to do with it. Europeans
for Medical Advancement, like Europeans for Medical Progress – of which Caroline Lucas is a patron – campaigns against the use of animals in medical research.
Anonymous on February 10, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Does this mean that 75% of green politicans are neurotic self serving apocolypse mongerers and the other 25% and currently sick with vegan induced cancer?
Anonymous on February 11, 2008 at 7:04 pm
"Cancers take years to develop, and their causes are too many to attribute to one category of risk."
Well said sir! If only the tobacco industry had been able to rely on such able debunkers of namby-pamby scaremongering nonsense as yourselves, then we might not have to put up with swingeing taxes on cigarettes and nanny-state prohibitions on where we can enjoy a harmless smoke.
I do wonder what this has to do with climate, though? I worry that your eagerness to have a go at Dr Lucas and her ilk you may become distracted from the more urgent task of exposing the so-called 'global warming' conspiracy. That's where the real danger to freedom and economic growth lies – so carry on hitting those 'peer reviewed' scientists where it hurts!
Editors on February 12, 2008 at 12:51 am
There may be a layer of irony which prevents us from understanding the point Anonymous was making. We can't tell. Ironic or not, Anon goes on to ask what this has to do with climate. Lucas demonstrates how political environmentalism uses superficially plausible scientific arguments to create fear and political legitimacy. We are interested in the political phenomenon of environmentalism. That means we occasionally take a broader look at the politics involved in areas other than climate change. The 'modus operandi' of environmentalists with respect to industrial chemicals is the same as it is for climate change. As we say in the post, Lucas epitomises the politics of fear, and it is interesting to see how fear is generated within the context of the wider political debate, not just on the climate issue. Lucas's views on animals in medical research (the kind which continues to save millions of people's lives, yet which Lucas wants to ban because she believes it to be 'scientifically unsound') are interesting for much the same reasons.
The parallel Anon has drawn with the tobacco lobby is an interesting one. The links between smoking and cancer are, of course, well established. Lucas appears to be claiming that the links between industrial chemicals and cancer are equally established. Yet when we asked her press office (twice) for the supporting data, they have been unable to furnish us with it. That is because if it exists – and we doubt it very much – it is not what Lucas says it is. So who is doing the 'tobacco-science' here?
Anonymous on February 12, 2008 at 9:59 am
All power to your elbows in dealing with tiresome whingers like Dr Lucas. If she's so bothered about our furry friends, perhaps she should volunteer for experiments with potential carcinogens herself!
Without wanting to drag you into the smoking debate, it's worth remebering that there were plenty of dissenting voices in the 1970s and 80s pointing out that the case against tobacco was far from watertight, and that an apparent association between smoking and cancer is not at all the same thing as a cause. The eminent psychologist and statistician Professor Hans Eysenck was one such, and found to his cost the penalties for questioning a scientific 'consensus'.
Then there was Dr William Whitby, author of 'The Smoking Scare De-bunked'. Dr Whitby even uncovered evidence that smoking may actually be beneficial (brought together in his book 'Smoking is Good for You'). Unfortunately, he was vilified on the grounds that he had receved financial support from Philip Morris – just as scientists who question the global warming scare are vilified if they have received much-needed funding from the fossil fuel industry – as you have described so eloquently elsewhere on your blog.
The parallels between these two episodes of hysteria based on bogus and politically motivated scientific 'consensus' are simply too strong to be ignored – but this time round the stakes are of course much higher.
I just want to thank you guys for the fantastic job you're doing here.
I would also like to second the anon. comment above … We should also consider the case of poor Ronald Fisher, one of the few scientists brave enough to stand up to the tobacco hysterics. His common-sense theory that it was cancer that causes smoking was roundly denigrated by the smoking alarmists … even today his opposition to the alarmists still brings discredit to his name.
I agree that the persecution of these brave pro-tobacco scientists is so similar to the unfair persecution of the climate change realists that the comparison simply cannot be ignored.


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Jack Beal: Hard-Edge Painting, 1968-72
January 6 – March 28, 2015
Selected Works Thumbnails Back
Sondra with Table
JBp 58
Furniture Fragment
Table Painting #11
Table Painting #6
Sondra on Sofa
Still-Life with Girl
In January and February the George Adams Gallery will show a selection of paintings by Jack Beal dating from 1968 to 1972, a four year stretch of time that was a fertile and searching period for the artist. During these years Beal relentlessly pursued an investigation of geometry and form, and this effort resulted in a group of hard edge paintings of still-lives and furniture, some including the figure. While these paintings are vividly colored, large-scale, and imbued with other familiar Pop sensibilities, they somehow suggest an earnestness of purpose and are without any trace of irony.
Although this was a new approach for Beal, the concept and execution of these works can be directly traced back to the artist's education in Chicago at the Art Institute. His teacher and mentor, Isobel MacKinnon, taught painting with an emphasis on spatial structuralism and used a system of leading the eye into the painting with diagonal lines. According to Beal,
Using the lessons of Isobel MacKinnon, I began diagonals as lines of entry and exit, as well as using the empty chairs and other foreground objects as "welcome mats" and linear fractures and convolutions as a means of drawing the viewers into the image and pressing the subjects out into the world.*
The contemporary reception of these works reflected the mindset of viewers and critics at the time, and many considered the paintings too mechanical and graphic. As the artist and critic Sidney Tillim wrote in 1969 "[Beal] combines two and three dimensional design in the same pictures and constructs set-ups that are obviously "machines" which provide the endless flow of varied shape, pattern and color."**
Eventually, the artist grew disappointed with this body of work, believing these paintings lacked humanism. The "machine" label was not seen as praise, and Beal ultimately determined that this avenue of pursuit was wasted time and returned to his former, more expressive, style of painting. According to Beal it all came to a head on one evening:
Alfred Leslie and Sidney Tillim almost mugged me, pushing me into a doorway on the upper Madison Avenue and berating me for betraying Realism and betraying myself, for moving away from "the true path." It was one of the finest things that anyone ever did for me, for not only was their advice very pertinent, but it showed that they really cared for me - Realist painters rarely even talk to one another - and I was deeply touched.*
*Jack Beal, catalogue essay by Eric Shanes - Hudson Hills Press 1993
**Catalogue essay by Sidney Tillim in Directions 2: Aspects of a New Realism, Milwaukee Art Center 1969
Estate of Jack Beal
Jack Beal reviewed in The New York Observer
Hard-Edge Paintings: 1968-1972
Our exhibition of hard-edge paintings by Jack Beal has been reviewed by Alanna Martinez for The New York Observer. In the review, Martinez points out that "Between 1968 and 1972 the New York Realist painter—known for his nude studies and the public murals he produced for the U.S. Department of Labor building—departed from his thick-brushed signature strokes to paint in blinding neon, flat foregrounds, and sharp geometric compositions."

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Open and shut: open access in hybrid educational technology journals 2010 – 2017
Costello, Eamon ORCID: 0000-0002-2775-6006, Farrelly, Tom ORCID: 0000-0002-1986-4154 and Murphy, Tony (2020) Open and shut: open access in hybrid educational technology journals 2010 – 2017. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 21 (1). pp. 113-134. ISSN 1492-3831
Little is known about open access publishing in educational technology journals that employ a hybrid model which charges authors only if they wish to publish via gold open access. In this study we sought to address this gap in the scholarly understanding of open access publishing in hybrid journals that publish research into the intersection of education and technology. We analysed three categories of article access types: gold, green, and limited access, and collected data on their prevalence in the seven-year period from 2010-2017 across 29 journals. Data was gathered from Scopus, Unpaywall, Sherpa RoMEO, and via manual searches of the journal websites, resulting in a dataset comprising the metadata of 8,479 articles. Our findings highlight that most research remains locked behind paywalls, that open access publishing through legal means is a minority activity for the scholars involved, and that the complexity and costs of legal open access publishing in these journals may be inhibiting the accessibility of research to readers.
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open access; open scholarship; open education; educational technology research; gold open access; publishing
Social Sciences > Education
Social Sciences > Educational technology
DCU Faculties and Schools > DCU Business School
DCU Faculties and Schools > NIDL (National Institute for Digital Learning)
http://dx.doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v20i5.4383
2020 The Authors. CC-BY- 4.0
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DeFazio Welcomes Testimony from State Rep. Nancy Nathanson Regarding Amtrak Rail Service in Oregon
Washington, D.C. —Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Peter DeFazio (OR-04), today released testimony from Oregon State Representative, Nancy Nathanson (Eugene, District 13) delivered at a committee hearing titled: "Amtrak Now and Into the Future." Nathanson advocated for increased federal funding for passenger rail operations, more reliable capital funding, attention to freight train length and freight interference in order to improve passenger rail service and increase on time performance. Below are excerpts of DeFazio's opening statement as prepared for delivery and Nathanson's written testimony. Chair DeFazio's statement as delivered can be found here. Nathanson's full written testimony can be found here. A video of the full hearing can be found here.
Excerpts of DeFazio's opening statement:
"Thank you, Subcommittee Chairman Lipinski and Ranking Member Crawford, for holding this hearing. First, I'd like to welcome Oregon Legislative Representative Nancy Nathanson, who represents the Eugene area. She has been a long-time advocate for improvements to passenger rail in the state and I think her testimony today will echo the challenges and opportunities that many states are feeling with Amtrak service. Thank you for being here today.
"Amtrak should be one of our Nation's great success stories, but it remains one of our Nation's most difficult challenges because of a belief by some in this chamber that our country shouldn't have a national passenger rail system supported by the Federal Government. We spend hundreds of billions of dollars to subsidize every form of public transportation – highways, aviation, transit– yet Amtrak gets the short end of the stick, with under $2 billion a year from the Federal Government.
"People are tired of spending an hour and a half to drive 20 miles to get home from work or spending an hour (plus) to get past airport security and to their gate only to find their flight is further delayed because of weather. Our highways and airports are at capacity, so it makes no sense to continue to ignore the value that our passenger rail system could offer this country if we actually put some real money towards improving it.
"…The thing is, people want national passenger rail service. To get there, we have to stop nickel and diming Amtrak to death and get over this notion that Amtrak can help meet the far-reaching transportation needs of our country without real federal investment that both expands services and improves the system that we have. I look forward to hearing your visions of Amtrak's future and about the ways we can strengthen and grow this national asset without harming those who rely on this system for travel and employment."
Excerpts of Nathanson's written testimony:
"…I have heard from my constituents and from Oregonians that passenger rail service is vitally important for Oregon and the broader region, and that is why I have been working to ensure it continues to be available as a key link in our region's multimodal transportation system.
"…A growing challenge for [on time performance] in Oregon is freight rail interference, which accounts for nearly ¾ of the delay time. In the first quarter of 2019 alone, there were nearly 7,000 minutes of freight rail related delay on the Union Pacific system in Oregon. While federal law may give passenger trains preference over freight trains, this has not been Oregon's experience in practice.
"…In recent years, states have stepped into the breach and have continued funding short distance intercity passenger rail operations, but in order to truly grow the service, states need a strong federal partner. By restoring funding for passenger rail operations, Congress can help cities, regions, and states across the country deal with some of their most urgent problems.
"…Reliable federal funding for capital projects will also help strengthen and grow passenger rail service. …However, these general fund supported grants are not reliably funded from year to year. …Having reliable and predictable capital funding available every year will allow states and their partners to better plan for capital improvements that will benefit passenger and freight rail alike.
"…More capital funding for grant programs and Amtrak will allow states to have better and more efficient rail service, construct more separated grade crossings, eliminate more points of rail system congestion, and ensure a better customer experience.
"… Many challenges to public health and safety arise from longer freight trains. …Congress and the Administration can reduce adverse impacts on communities and improve safety and passenger service by addressing train length.
"…Taken together, increased funding for capital projects and common sense limits on train length can certainly improve [on time performance]. However, more must be done to address on time performance. I fear that without further action, we will continue on the trend of increased freight rail interference and lower [on time performance]. Giving the Federal Rail Administration the tools it needs to achieve true passenger rail preference would be incredibly helpful for promoting better [on time performance]."
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Home » Metro Exodus' price tag is fixed
Metro Exodus' price tag is fixed
The price tag of Metro Exodus was announced as $15. Developed by 4A Games and launched in 2019 as the Metro Exodus FPS game which will be antagonistic.
The production, which opened for preliminary orders as of last night, started at $15 on Steam. The rich story and realistic atmosphere will give us a gripping atmosphere and the production will be about the world after the apocalypse. It will be featured in fantastic monsters that can be played as a single player. Metro Exodus, which will have a progression-based game system, will have 9 different language options. Turkish language option will not be included in the game.
Which will be the subject of 2036, will show us how the nuclear war has destroyed the world and will want to save a few thousand survivors. It will not be easy for us to save the people who were among the ruins of Moscow. In order to be able to advance to Moscow, the players must kill the creatures they meet and fulfill their duties. The production that has fatal fights will come out as a survival game. With its adventurous nature, weapons will fascinate us as they will provide a real battleground for the players.
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Dogara made the call during a courtesy visit to Gov. Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi in Birnin Kebbi, on the sideline of the turbanning ceremony of the Chief Whip of the House, Alhassan Adodoguwa, as the Dallatun Kangiwa in Arewa Local Government area of the state.
The speaker was, however, represented at the occasion by the Deputy Leader of the House, Umar Jibril, who also led other members to the state.
Bagudu, while responding, urged the National Assembly to provide mechanisms that ensure increased funding to agriculture sector.
He said that if Nigeria had spent a lot on the sector, the country's economy would be have been diversified.
Reacting to his new title, Adodoguwa described it as a gesture that would further bridge the gap among the people in the North, especially among the people of the North-West.


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Catch waves up to six feet and body surf toward the sandy shore or just lounge on the beach that surrounds the Surf Pool – which is billed as "the largest inland surfing lagoon in Florida!" The 2.75-million-galloon Surf Pool lies in the heart of Disney's Typhoon Lagoon and also features a couple of children's water play areas –Blustery Bay and Whitecap Cove. Kids will also love the Bay Slides, which are located at the far left-hand side of the Surf Pool.
In addition, Surf Lessons can be arranged at the Surf Pool on Tuesday mornings before Disney's Typhoon Lagoon opens (separate fee; reservations required).
Note: Life vests are provided free of charge and several lifeguard stations are available at the Surf Pool.
Virgin Trains breaks ground on South Florida to Orlando leg
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A planned passenger train connecting Miami, Orlando and Tampa is moving forward even as local elected officials raise concerns that the train is missing crucial stops. Virgin Trains USA is also working on a line that would connect Orlando with West Palm Beach. That groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled for June 24. Virgin Trains USA engineer Adrian Share says the plan …
SeaWorld Orlando Electric Ocean Summer Event is Back!
Returning for its third year, Electric Ocean is a celebration at SeaWorld Orlando that begins when the sun goes down. On select nights you can experience the special fireworks show "Ignite," along with a live DJ at Club Glow, Pop bubble show, and special versions of your favorite animal shows. You can also sample specialty foods and drinks, including craft …
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Disney has just announced that they will be live-streaming the dedication ceremony for Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge on May 29th at 8:20pm PDT/11:20 EDT. The ceremony is presented by AT&T and a link will be available on the Disney Parks Blog shortly before the ceremony begins.
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Wonderful World of Animation debuts at Disney's Hollywood Studios
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"Wonderful World of Animation" is an all-new nighttime experience debuting just in time for Disney's Hollywood Studios 30th Anniversary on May 1st, 2019. The new show will be a cinematic nighttime projection show featuring state-of-the-art projection technology that will "take guests on a magical journey through more than 90 years of Disney animation." Tips You Might Like Tips to Save Money on …
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Disney is hiring actors for its new, highly anticipated land, Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, which is opening up this summer at Disney's Hollywood Studios. The casting call is for actors at "Savi's Workshop" located in the "Black Spire Outpost," an apparel shop which Disney says provides "functional clothing suitable for a variety of occasions and worlds." Auditions will be held …


BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie has issued the following statement on George Taliaferro, IU football legend and the first African-American drafted by an NFL football team, who passed away Monday at age 91.
"All of us at Indiana University are deeply saddened by the passing of George Taliaferro, a man of enormous talent, courage and determination that helped him shatter racial barriers and earn a special place in the annals of our state and its flagship public university.
"A standout running back who had been a high school star in Gary, Indiana, he helped lead the 1945 IU football team to the only undefeated Big Ten championship in Hoosier football history, which was also the first of his three All-American seasons at IU. The 'Jackie Robinson of football,' he went on to become the first African-American player to be drafted by the National Football League, where he excelled at a remarkable seven positions and earned Pro Bowl honors in three of his six seasons.
"As a student-athlete at IU -- at a time when segregation was prevalent across our state and nation and in the face of tremendous obstacles -- he fought to integrate our classrooms, cafeterias, movie theaters and restaurants. And he continued to be a champion for fairness, compassion and equality well past his playing days, serving as a special assistant to then-IU President John Ryan, a proud and dedicated IU alumnus and a tireless community activist, always working to keep open the doors of education for minority students so they could follow in his footsteps.
"He was a true trailblazer in every sense of the word and an individual of the greatest integrity, whose impact will be forever felt at IU and throughout the Hoosier state.
"In honor of George's legendary status as an athlete and a champion of racial equality, I am directing that all flags on the IU Bloomington campus be lowered to half-staff until the Sunday after IU's homecoming football game against Iowa.
"Our thoughts and deepest condolences go out to his wife, Vi, to his family and friends, and to the many other individuals whose lives have been touched by this remarkable Indiana legend."


TWO of Maryborough's finest hockey exports have been confirmed for the Gold Coast Games.
Former Olympic bronze medal-winning Kookaburras player Mark Hager, named his 18-player New Zealand Black Sticks squad yesterday.
Hager, one of the Heritage City's suite of international hockey exports, named former Maryborough Brothers junior and goalkeeper Grace O'Hanlon, who is in line to make her first appearance at a Commonwealth Games.
Her selection comes just 15 months after she made the decision to cross the Tasman to pursue an international career.
O'Hanlon, 25, was part of the Hockeyroos' set-up in Perth, but told the Chronicle she did not see any opportunity to progress to the national team.
She qualifies for New Zealand through her father, and in December, 2016, did enough to impress Black Sticks selectors to earn a place in the national squad.
The St Mary's College student has played more than 20 games for the Black Sticks, and was part of the squad who competed in a five-game tour of Argentina last month.
Argentina triumphed 4-1, but it gave Hager a chance to give O'Hanlon time in the net ahead of the Games.
Hager has coached New Zealand since 2008.
He led the side to silver at the Delhi Games in 2010, when they lost the gold medal match to Australia, and bronze at the 2014 Games in Glasgow.
"We've put our faith in the majority of players who played and finished second at the World League Final in December, and are confident we have the necessary talent in this side," Hager said.
New Zealand was drawn in Pool B, where they will meet Australia, Scotland, Canada and Ghana.


Welcome to my portfolio! I'm Nejuf Rowan, and I'm a game and web designer and developer. I love to create, so on this site you'll find games, websites, illustrations, software, and even 3D models I have made. I follow kaizen and strive for continuous improvement of myself and my works. If you have something I may be interested in, whether it's a chance to join a great team, contribute to a cool project, or make the world a better place, then please get in touch.
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My first true foray into 3D modeling. I designed and built this 3D model of a ring, which then I then had cast in real silver!
Game Projects: Game projects I worked on and levels I built. Technologies used include Adobe Flash, Unreal Editor 3, the Elder Scrolls Construction Set, and Sandbox 2.
Design/Art Gallery: A collection of artwork, paper game designs, interactive applications, and other interesting things that I enjoy.
Contact/Resume: Information about me and contact information with my resume available for download and a connection to my LinkedIn profile.


Tomorrow we will be hosting a New Zealand Olympic Ambassador, Emily Gaddum at our school.
We were thrilled to have the Minister for the Environment join us to celebrate World Water Day last Thursday.
At assembly last Friday our Year 4 tamariki were gifted dictionaries from Rotary. Your child's name should be written in the front.
A huge thank you to all the families that were able to give a few hours on Saturday to help clean up our school garden with the working bee.
The Board of Trustees has received the confirmed report following last year's external review carried out by ERO.
Thanks to Leah and J.J for making this poster to promote the Garden working bee on Saturday. Come along and help us tidy our garden between 1.00-3.00pm this Saturday.
Thank you to those who have offered to help with various roles around the school this tam. We are in the process of going through the papenvork and organizing volunteers.


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Call for city council to do more to breathe life into Norwich's River Wensum
Dan Grimmer
A call is to be made for the city council to help make more of Norwich's River Wensum, to turn it into a major draw for tourism and businesses,
The Wensum River Parkway Project and the Norwich Society have been pressing for action on the river, claiming the most is not made of it, compared to how cities such as Cambridge cash in on their waterways.
And, at a meeting of Norwich City Council next week, councillors will be asked to back efforts to breathe new life into the river.
The Greens have put forward a motion calling for the council's cabinet to support the Wensum River Parkway Project and to encourage and promote safe river activities.
The motion also asks the council to ensure that when development, such as housing, is built near the river, 'all practical action' is taken to encourage pedestrian and cycle access to the river and that private developments not be allowed to prevent access to the waterside,
Lucy Galvin, Green councillor for Wensum ward, who has put the motion forward for discussion at Tuesday's council meeting, said: 'It really needs someone to do something about it. It needs the political will to push forward and say this is an easy win win.'
But Brenda Arthur, leader of the city council, said the city council was already working with HEART (Norwich Heritage Economic and Regeneration Trust) and the Norwich Society on the Wensum River Parkway Project.
She said: 'This is about the Greens trying to make some political mischief out of something which is already the subject of collaborative work. The Wensum River Parkway Project is something which the council gets behind already.'
Last month, civic watchdog the Norwich Society launched a new film to encourage a rethink over the way the river is used.
Shown to invited guests, including councillors, council officers, architects and business leaders, the Beside Still Waters film highlighted how some parts of the river have been neglected, with poor access for the public.
The society says the river should be a focus for tourism, but suffers from a lack of joined-up thinking and under-investment.
• Why not post your photographs of Norwich's rivers to our iwitness website? The website, at www.iwitness24.co.uk allows people to share their pictures, videos and words.


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UN Human Rights Council Endorses Report On Gaza Conflict
By Nikola Krastev
UNITED NATIONS -- Twenty-five members of the UN Human Rights Council have voted to endorse a report that accuses both Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes during the conflict earlier this year in Gaza.
The report criticizes Israel for failing to cooperate with the UN probe, which was led by South African war crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone.
Six states, including the United States and some European Union members, voted against it and 16 abstained or did not vote on October 16.
Elliott Abrams, a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, says that the resolution could make life difficult for some Israeli officials.
"Some countries, particularly in Europe, may use this as an excuse to prosecute or try to arrest Israeli officials. So one of the things that this means is that Israeli officials need to be more careful about travel," Abrams says.
"And that obviously has an impact on relations with any number of countries."
He says another consequence of the report is that Israel's already low level of trust in the United Nations is bound to drop even lower.
Lastly, the report is likely to slow up peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.
Although Hamas was also found guilty of war crimes, Abrams says Hamas leadership will be pleased that the report lends it credibility.
"They are treated almost as an equal to Israel," Abrams says, which is a member of the United Nations. "So when you have a report that talks equally about Israel and Hamas, they seem to find it a kind of acknowledgement of their own credibility."
Security Council Next?
Now that the Human Rights Council has endorsed the report, will the UN Security Council be next?
Abrams says it's unlikely. The United States, a permanent Security Council member, is a firm friend of Israel and would probably veto any resolution against it. The United Kingdom and France would also likely support the U.S. position.
But it's not clear how China and Russia might react, Abrams says, "because both the Russian and Chinese governments are guilty of human rights abuses. And it may be that they don't like the idea that this subject and the Human Rights Council report will come to the Security Council."
Mohamad Bazzi, a journalism professor at New York University and a Middle East expert, says Hamas is trying to focus world attention on the abuses committed by Israel in Gaza.
Bazzi says that it's "interesting that the Israelis have not highlighted the criticism of Hamas in the report as much as the other side has."
Israel has dismissed the report as anti-Israeli propaganda.
The report calls for the UN Security Council to refer the issue to the International Criminal Court if the Israelis and the Palestinians fail to investigate the alleged abuses themselves.
Israel's Netanyahu Vows To Fight UN Report
Row Could Signal Geopolitical Change In Region
UN Finds Evidence Of War Crimes In Gaza


Using an intersectional approach, this paper provides a novel case study of young 'Millennial' female independent fashion designers who operate within the emerging and under-explored Canadian fashion industry. Drawing on 87 interviews and participant observation, the paper demonstrates how entrepreneurial motivations, pathways, practices and experiences are shaped by individual characteristics, such as gender, age, lifecycle and class. Particular attention is paid to the challenges and tensions associated with the D.I.Y. model and how forms of work, including aesthetic labour, are performed and experienced in virtual spaces such as social media platforms. In so doing, the paper contributes to nascent research on Millennials and nuances our understanding of the gendered nature of creative labour.
As the possibilities for people, knowledge, practices and objects to flow across time and space increase, this paper considers whether creative talent still need to cluster in established global centres to succeed. Drawing on 87 interviews and participant observation with independent fashion designers in Canada, it explores how these creative entrepreneurs overcome challenges and access opportunities and resources by mobilising forms of temporary, mediated and virtual mobility. By demonstrating that being permanently located in Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver is not essential or necessarily desirable, the paper nuances our understanding of talent flows and the regional culture of entrepreneurship.
The contemporary marketplace for cultural products, such as music, fashion and film, features an abundance of goods, services and experiences. While producers struggle to differentiate and monetize their offerings, some consumers are overwhelmed by the amount of choice and information available to them. As curation remains a 'fuzzy concept' – with definitions and connotations that vary by industry and occupation – this paper aims to contribute to existing conceptualisations by focussing on the case of recorded music. It provides a typology of curation-related activities and highlights the range of economic and non-economic rewards that motivate different actors to perform curation. It also interrogates the importance and role of space by identifying physical, temporary and virtual spaces where curation is performed and relationships between specific spatial dynamics and curation-related processes.
In the increasingly global and competitive fashion industry, firms are adopting a variety of strategies to generate value and brand loyalty. While some emphasise the quality of material elements such as inputs, local production and design, others focus on immaterial aspects such symbolic value and exclusivity. In recent years, place-branding has become an important way to create connections between people, places, and products. Yet, the processes behind this type of branding remain poorly understood. This paper examines how a range of Canadian fashion firms leverage the landscape to create and communicate brand identities, distinction and values. It demonstrates how firms of different sizes and scales construct, harness, or reimagine landscapes and/or popular stereotypes to connect with Canadian identities and consumers.
This paper considers the extent to which power in the fashion industry is expanding or consolidating. While there is a prominent discourse that structures, systems and spaces within the global fashion industry have been (and will continue to be) disrupted by new actors, technologies, practices and cities, there are good reasons to question whether the fashion industry has really entered an era of democratization, or if established power structures remain entrenched. In particular, the paper looks at the following themes: established and emerging fashion capitals, challenge and change within fashion retail and sustainable fashion futures.
The contemporary retail landscape is in flux and there is a growing perception that patronizing bricks and mortar shops is more expensive and time-consuming than shopping online. For music, illegal downloading and streaming have restructured the retail landscape and put thousands of record shops out of business. Yet some retailers remain attractive consumption spaces. Drawing on a qualitative case study of independent record shops in Stockholm, this paper considers three value-creating strategies that sustain these physical retailers in the digital age: cultivating in-store consumer experiences, creating value through curation and tapping into global markets by going online.
What is 'good food'? Is it fair trade, local, organic or ethically produced? With an ever-expanding array of products and 'qualities' to consider, consumers in the global North may find it increasingly difficult and time-consuming to make the 'right' choices. As a result, a range of intermediaries, including food apps and collective buying groups, are emerging to support and influence people with their food choices. While intermediation refers to all activities linking producers and consumers, this paper narrows the focus and considers one important, yet poorly understood, intermediary function within the food marketplace: 'curation'.
As food production becomes increasingly integrated, globalized and competitive, small-scale food-related enterprises in many European countries are struggling to market and monetize their products. This paper focuses on the development and implementation of new and hybrid commercial strategies by food-related entrepreneurs in three rural communities in Denmark. Building on Pine and Gilmore (1999) we assert that entrepreneurs use different experiences with varying levels of intensity and consumer engagement for different purposes. Whereas 'passive' experiences such as storytelling are used to educate consumers about the specific qualities of products, more active and participatory experiences are sold as add-ons and standalone products. The findings contribute to our understanding of food-related entrepreneurship in rural contexts, consumption, value creation and the experience economy more broadly.
In this paper we examine the changing nature of aesthetic labour in creative industries. Drawing on a case study of independent musicians in Toronto, we argue that the spatiality and temporality of aesthetic labour has shifted as a result of technological change in the music industry and the decline of record labels. In particular, we demonstrate that aesthetic labour in the music industry has become more time-intensive and takes place across a growing range of spaces, including the stage, the home an online. This paper contributes to existing studies in geography that consider the spatial dynamics and precarious conditions of creative labour.
Cultural intermediaries in the digital age: the case of independent musicians and managers in Toronto, Regional Studies. This paper explores the limitations of the contemporary do-it-yourself model of music production and the recent shift towards re-specialization in Toronto in Ontario, Canada. It argues that freelance managers are re-emerging as key intermediaries who catalyse and facilitate new organizational forms and strategic partnerships between creative workers. Attention is paid to how digital technologies and shifting market dynamics influence and alter the relationships and contracts between these individuals. The spatial concentration of managers and other 'helpers', including fashion designers, photographers and web designers, is also used to explain why music production remains clustered in space despite the decentralizing potential of digital technologies.
Geographers have studied the complex relationships between cultural production, consumption, and space for some time, but the marketplace for cultural products is being reconfigured by digital technologies and broader societal trends. For producers of fashion and music the contemporary marketplace is a double-edged sword featuring lower entry barriers and fierce competition from an unprecedented number of producers and ubiquitous substitutes. Global firms and local entrepreneurs struggle to stand out in the crowd and command monopoly rents for their unique goods and services. This paper examines how independent cultural producers use 'exclusivity' to generate attention and distinction. Drawing on qualitative research with independent musicians and fashion designers in Toronto, Stockholm, Berlin, and New York it presents three mechanisms through which exclusivity can be created. These include exploiting consumer demand for uniqueness, enrolling consumers into the production and promotion process, and manipulating physical and virtual space.
This paper nuances our understanding of the ongoing transition within the North American music industry. It extends the existing analysis of the so-called "MP3 Crisis" by exploring the ways in which digital technologies have challenged the entrenched power of the major record labels. In particular, new insights are offered based on interviews with music industry executives who have been active in shaping the industry's response to illegal file sharing. The paper also uses interview data from musicians to investigate the implications of restructuring at the macroscale on creative talent at the microscale. As such, it documents the structures and spatial dynamics of digitally driven independent music production in Canada for the first time.
Although Toronto has been the centre of the Canadian music industry for many decades, recent interviews reveal that industrial restructuring may be affecting the choices that musicians make about where to live and work. In an era of contemporary independent music production, some smaller city-regions, such as Halifax, Nova Scotia, are becoming more attractive to musicians. This article explores the ways in which musicians consider the economic and social dynamics of city-regions in making their location choices. Musicians recognize Toronto's advantages in size and economic opportunity, yet those in the music scene described it as an intensely competitive and difficult work environment. By contrast, respondents in Halifax talked about a supportive and collaborative community that welcomed newcomers, encouraged performance, and facilitated creativity. In the contemporary context, where independent musicians are adopting new strategies to pursue their vocation, communities high in civic capital may gain an advantage in attracting and retaining talent.
Although economic geographers have paid significant attention to the competitive dynamics, organizational and employment structures of specific cultural industries, the existing research privileges large firms and established centres such as New York, London and Los Angeles. Moreover, despite the conceptual articulations of spillovers and "related variety" few attempts have been made to examine the collaborative linkages between two or more related industries and, more specifically, how changing macro-economic forces are affecting individual producers at the local scale. In this paper we address these gaps and argue that the growing prevalence of independent production is transforming the nature of the long-standing connection between music and fashion. Specifically, that strategic collaborations between indie producers are becoming crucial to competing in the contemporary landscape of cultural production and consumption. We also assert that the motivations and mechanisms of these contemporary collaborations differ from their historical counterparts in important ways. Indeed technological advancements and the demands of indie production are changing the networking practices that facilitate these partnerships and the ways in which indie producers value and exchange goods and services.
Built places/spaces have long been sites for civic conversations and the engage- ment of citizens to exercise their rights to celebrate, protest and bear witness. Two basic propositions concerning civic conversations, collective interests, as well as rights and obligations of citizens are offered. Planners are encouraged to promote places/spaces for civic conversations as important elements to promote decent societies. Civic conversations are part of the broader milieu in which citizens conduct their lives, and the comments by Taylor on the malaise of modernity is suggested as a challenging contemporary context for planners as they seek to pro- vide places/spaces for citizens to express opinions about the world. We also offer brief comments about citizenship, which provide further contextual material for an understanding of the planning of places/spaces. It is suggested that planners need to find creative ways to provide access to virtual places/spaces from physical places/spaces so that recent trends in technology using the Internet can complement the traditional public sites where citizens congregate.


Many companies are forced to seek advice on bankruptcy because too many of their customers have taken too long to pay them.
From Saturday March 16th, this should change, as the Late Payments Directive (2011/7/EU to use its technical title) comes into effect throughout EU member states.
The precise impact is likely to vary in individual countries, but in the UK the existing three-tiered fixed-fee system chargeable on overdue accounts has been extended to include all reasonable recovery costs incurred while chasing the debt.
Both the fixed fee, and the remainder of any recovery costs, can be charged on top of the original invoice amount and statutory interest at 8% above the Bank of England base rate.
The legislation also renews the assertion of a 30-day standard payment period on invoices where a longer deadline is not mutually agreed, giving businesses a better chance than ever of successfully pursuing debts.
We expect to see fewer businesses seeking advice on bankruptcy due to late payment of invoices they have issued; however, you should be careful to pay the invoices that you receive on time, as the new legislation could see even a single, small overdue bill become a sizeable liability as interest and costs are added to the total.


Timothy was a young gospel preacher whom Paul loved and trusted very much. Several times in his letters to him (1 & 2 Timothy), Paul refers to Timothy as my son, or my true child in the faith. Though he was a grown man, Timothy was much younger than Paul, and so Paul's instruction to him often seems to take on a fatherly tone. Many of us have been blessed to grow up under the guidance of Christian fathers, and even more of us were able to partake of strong Christian influence from a friend or relative. Whatever the case for each of us, we need to pause often to express our appreciation to those who have properly steered us in the way of righteousness.
Paul's first letter to Timothy is addressed to him in Ephesus, where Paul has left him for the purpose of teaching and strengthening the church there. Apparently, some in that place were teaching doctrines contrary to the truth, and Paul's legitimate concern over this matter is clear in his opening words of the letter, instruct certain men not to teach strange doctrines...(1 Tim.1:3). Then, just as now, the temptation was strong among some to take a less-than-diligent approach to maintaining the purity of the teaching which was declared at first by the Lord... (Heb.2:3). In Ephesus, as had been the case among some of the Galatians, there were those who sought to teach a different gospel, (Gal.1:6). This was just one of the problems that Timothy was charged with tackling in Ephesus, and as a young man with a challenging task before him, he no doubt benefited greatly from Paul's instruction and fatherly advice in this letter.
"Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, show yourself an example of those who believe. Until I come, give attention to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation and teaching. Do not neglect the spiritual gift within you, which was bestowed on you through prophetic utterance with the laying on of hands by the presbytery. Take pains with these things; be absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all. Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching; persevere in these things, for as you do this you will ensure salvation both for yourself and for those who hear you."
For the next few weeks, we'll delve into this passage and examine several lessons that we can draw from Paul's words to his young associate. The four points I have in mind for us to examine are taken from notes that I've jotted in the margin of my Bible, no doubt gleaned from someone else's work, long enough ago that I've forgotten the identity of their source.
Though Timothy's youth was certainly a factor in Paul's advice to him, this young man was no stranger to the work of teaching and strengthening the church. The time he had spent with Paul on their missionary journeys was no doubt full of both intensity and joy as Timothy learned first-hand from the old master. We, too are able to benefit from his advice as well, as we allow the inspired word to come alive in our hearts.


A tourist on safari had a heart-stopping close encounter with a cheetah after it hopped into the back of his car.
Peter Heistein took the video, which shows American Britton Hayes sitting stone-still after the big cat leaps into the back seat of the safari Landcruiser.
The Serengeti tourists had been watching three cheetahs when one of the predators leaped onto the bonnet of the vehicle.
With their collective attention fixated, the group weren't watching when a second cheetah jumped into the back.
The cheetah appeared at ease and mostly uninterested in the humans, choosing instead to gnaw on an empty seat.
Mr Hayes told Seattle's KOMO News that the tour guide told them to remain calm and still and not make eye contact with the animal, which would have been considered a sign of aggression.
"Honestly, it was probably one of the scariest moments of my life while it was happening," Mr Hayes said.
"I felt like I had to clear my mind of any thoughts because from everything you're told about predators like that, they can sense fear and any sort of discomfort you're feeling and they'll react accordingly."
The world's fastest four-legged animals soon got bored of toying with the tourist, presumably because the car wasn't moving at quite the speed they are accustomed to.


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(3200) Phaethon ist ein Planetoid aus der Gruppe der Apollo-Asteroiden. Dies sind erdbahnkreuzende Himmelskörper, deren große Halbachse größer als 1 AE und deren Periheldistanz kleiner als 1,017 AE ist.

Der Asteroid wurde am 11. Oktober 1983 mittels des Infrarot-Satelliten IRAS entdeckt und nach Phaeton, dem Sohn des griechischen Sonnengottes Helios, benannt.

Phaethon bewegt sich zwischen 0,140 AE (Perihel) und 2,403 AE (Aphel) in rund 524 Tagen auf einer stark elliptischen Bahn um die Sonne. Die Bahnexzentrizität beträgt 0,890, die Bahn ist um 22,180° gegen die Ekliptik geneigt.

Radarbeobachtungen zeigten, dass Phaethon ein annähernd kugelförmiger Körper ist, dessen Durchmesser ungefähr 6 km beträgt. Er besitzt eine dunkle Oberfläche mit einer Albedo von etwa 11 %. In rund 3,6 Stunden rotiert der Asteroid um die eigene Achse.

Phaethon kommt der Sonne sehr nah. Im Perihel erreicht er dabei eine Geschwindigkeit von 110 km/s (400.000 km/h) und Oberflächentemperaturen über 700 °C. Seine Bahn stimmt mit der langgezogenen Staubwolke überein, die den Meteorstrom der Geminiden hervorruft. Trotzdem handelt es sich um keinen Kometen: Infrarotaufnahmen zeigten, dass seine Oberfläche aus festem Gestein besteht. Im Jahr 2013 zeigte die Auswertung von Messungen der STEREO-Raumsonden schwache Anzeichen von Materieemissionen von Phaethon; der Staub löst sich vermutlich durch den extremen Temperaturstress.

Dies und seine relativ zur Gesamtheit der Geminiden geringe Masse führten zu der Theorie, dass ein Ereignis wie z. B. ein Auseinanderbrechen von (3200) Phaethon deren Ursprung sein könnte.

Erforschung
Phaethon näherte sich der Erde laut NASA am 16. Dezember 2017 bis auf 0,069 AE und wurde bei dieser Gelegenheit gemeinsam von Goldstone-Komplex zusammen mit dem Arecibo-Observatorium mittels Radar untersucht. Die so entstandenen Aufnahmen hatten eine Auflösung von 75 m/Pixel. Für 2093 wird mit 0,019 AE die bislang größte Annäherung seit seiner Entdeckung vorhergesagt.

In einer 2016 vereinbarten bilateralen Forschungsmission namens DESTINY PLUS des Deutschen Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) und der japanischen Raumfahrtagentur (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA) soll eine Raumsonde den Asteroiden erforschen. Sie soll etwa viereinhalb Jahre nach dem Start den Asteroiden Phaeton erreichen und ihn während eines dichten Vorbeiflugs erkunden.

Literatur

Einzelnachweise

Asteroid vom Apollo-Typ
Asteroid vom Typ F

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An afternoon of fun trad dance for all the family and all ages. There will be dances for very small ones (3-5), slightly larger ones (6-8), and dances for little ones to do with their parents too.... for tiny ones there will be a softplay corner and bubbles for everyone!
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The Open Long/Short ratio shows the net sentiment of retail traders. Extremes of over 80% or under 20% are generally seen as potential points of overbought/oversold and may give contrarian traders the signal that a change of direction may be on the way. Some traders use 70/30% ratios to start considering counter trading if combined with weak technical signals.


To the surprise and delight of its management team, this strategically-grounded rebranding effects a personality change so dramatic it feels like a new company... a company "reenergized, with a stronger presence and a wonderful future" said Betsy Pohl, director of corporate marketing.
And what is MFS? Originally (1924) it was Massachusetts Financial Services (a name abandoned many years ago), where the mutual fund was invented. Today it is a leading global firm serving other investment managers, with some $300 billion under management.
in 2010, when this rebranding was initiated, there were no evident identity problems, other than a somewhat chaotic diversity in visual materials design; the name and logo themselves were felt to be adequately functional. But MFS, known as a strong U.S. retail mutual funds brand, felt itself underappreciated for its positive momentum (in a down market) and global expansion. "And we were planning a headquarters relocation," Betsy Pohl added; "if so much was going to change anyway, we needed to take a look at branding as well."
Many branding firms were considered; three were asked for proposals, and in March 2011 Lippincott won it -- for chemistry, depth of financial services portfolio -- and "we liked it that as we are a pure play in investment management, Lippincott is a pure play in branding." Pohl engaged senior officers in a rebranding team, including the distribution heads, CFO and president as well as CEO Manning. After the usual interviews and analysis, Lippincott distilled a new positioning statement that would guide logo design exploration -- "Building Better Insights."
According to Lippincott's Connie Birdsall, initial design work retained an initials-based mark, focusing more on a clearer, more coherent visual system than on the logo itself. But "Building Better Insights" called for more aggressive, expressive ideas. The boldest of them, a three-toned rendering of a jaggedly abstract sculptural form, not only survived early screenings; in every presentation it won over doubters and gained enthusiasts. "The symbol says so many things that ring true for us" said Pohl; "Like our portfolios it ties many pieces together. Its intersections suggest the collaboration which is in our DNA. We love its angularity and its energy." The team also loved the retention, indeed enrichment, of the deep red heritage color. Though there was some trepidation, "if we're going to change at all, we figured, let's change with real impact."
The decision was nailed, perhaps, when the symbol got a name -- "the infinite M." "We had not set out to design a monogram" said Birdsall "but when an M was seen we were pleased."
Note how the symbol's bended band comes to life in animation, and provides a graphic device useful in anchoring the new visual system in print as well as digital media.
The new branding was launched in an aggressive large-space print campaign, by agency Allen & Gerritsen, tagged "Investment Management for Investment Managers."


A remake of the ZX Flux shoe with a graphic adidas Primeknit upper.
The ZX family of running shoes caught the attention of high-mileage runners around 1984 with a futuristic look and feel based on the concept of biomechanics. The ZX Flux ADV Virtue incorporates the clean, linear aesthetic of the ZX archive while redefining the silhouette. Made in soft, adaptive Primeknit material, these women's shoes have an asymmetrical tongue and lacing system. The bold graphic on the upper is inspired by the look of white-noise on old television screens.


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Christmas Meteor
At our house, Christmas strikes like a meteor. Not one of those sneak-up-on-you-out-of-left-field, wake-up-one-day-and-discover-a-meteor's-coming-for-lunch kind; no, this is one of those you can always see coming, the kind whose progress you can follow as it tracks its way towards you. But it looks so distant and so tiny for so long that it fails to register any alarm (in fact, I can already see next year's meteor way out there in space, twinkling innocuously). By the time you're ready to start taking it seriously, of course, it's too late. That accelerating ball of rock is looming over you in the sky, trailing fire and smoke, dropping its advance shadow on your house, and you look up knowing there is nothing that can deflect its weighty mass from smashing into you.
At our house, the moment of impact is the same every year. 6:00 p.m. on Christmas Eve. We have a tradition of hosting a Christmas Eve party every year, a tradition that goes back to Elizabeth's parents, both of whom have since passed away. The party, however, lives on, in the same house (now our house) where it's been happening since about 1982 or so.
Anyway, six o'clock is it. That's when all preparations must cease. In years past, we have sometimes had a few moments to spare, when we would huddle together as a family in the eerie quiet, looking around in nervous anticipation, waiting for that meteor to explode all over us. The past few years, however, we've been attending Christmas Eve service at our church, and so miss out on that fleeting, weird tranquility, which is no big loss.
The meteor's arrival is marked by the muted thud of car doors closing. Within seconds of that, the first of many shockwaves comes blowing through our doors. Within mere minutes, we are swept away by a surge of friends and family, pulled apart and lost amongst a roiling sea of merry-makers, often losing visual contact with each other for half-hours stretches at a time, even though we are all contained in three connected rooms within the same, modest ranch-style house. There may be fifty or more of us on any given Christmas Eve, bumping and ricocheting and pardoning each other, and a fair number of children, who, with an art long forgotten by us adults, weave nimbly through a dense forest of moving grown-up legs.
And yes, there is food. Elizabeth always lays in enough to eat so that no matter how much sheer tonnage is vaporized by the meteor's impact, there is sure to be mountains of it remaining at the end. Turkey, ham, cheesy potatoes, fried raviolis, cold shrimp, tamales and tortillas and beans, and veggie platters, olives (of both green and black), and pickles galore. Our niece Eva started bringing red chile last year, my new favorite, which I have caught myself guarding jealously and calling 'my preciousssss.' Then there are those fiendishly delicious things we call beanie-weenies, which have nothing to do with beans at all, but are actually little cocktail sausages wrapped in bacon impaled on toothpicks and broiled in brown sugar. They will survive only the first fraction of the evening, no matter how many dozens have been stockpiled. The presence of the beanie-weenies tends to encourage early arrivals, since the ones who don't get there in time run the risk of having to hear about 'those heavenly heart attacks on a stick' from those who were directly involved in their decimation.
Forming their own little sugary domain on some festively decorated card tables are the desserts. I believe I may have mentioned something last year about Elizabeth's annual "Christmas Crazy," a frenzied period of about 48 hours duration in which a wide variety of confections are produced with the same relentless rapidity as fastballs fired from a malfunctioning batting cage machine. The Christmas Eve party is the primary impetus behind "Christmas Crazy." Elizabeth's prodigious output is supplemented by our niece, the one I call the Miracle Girl, who brings a junior partner's dedication to "Christmas Crazy," and the goodies to back it up. I won't bother trying to make a comprehensive inventory; rest assured that if it's sweet and comes from an oven, you'll probably find it in there somewhere. At its peak, the crowded tables approximate a rugby scrum as people work through the piles in search of their particular favorites. All the activity creates an impressive cloud of powdered-sugar dust that can hang overhead for hours, sometimes posing a problem for those with respiratory issues.
Somehow, within the whirling maelstrom of the evening, we are brought together for a toast of Crown Royal to the memory of Lew and Josephine, Elizabeth's parents. Depending on how long the party goes, there will be a second, and possibly a third, with some individuals saluting their memory privately, and at more frequent, intervals. But this fragile fellowship is soon ripped asunder, each of us submerging again into the tumultuous mix of games, and gift-givings, and conversations. I have learned to keep a watchful eye on a favorite relative of Elizabeth's, chasing her off whenever I spy her scooping up shreds of tissue and wrapping paper, or picking bits of Hersey kiss foil out of the carpets, or surreptitiously trying to wash the dishes. Doesn't she know, I ask myself, after threatening to show up at her house one day and randomly start cleaning, that this party is for her? It's for her and her husband and their kids, and Randy and Susan, and Rick and Karri and their two girls, and Tommy and his two boys, and Becky and Anna, and Pete and Yvonne, as much as it is about our own immediate family.
It takes about four hours for the dust to begin to settle. People have other places to go, other parties, their own Christmasing to do. The crowding eases, the constant call for more ice diminishes, the pulse slows. Later, after we have bid a Merry Christmas to the last of the guests in the chill, still air of our front yard, we come back inside the now-hollow hull of the house. We put what remains of the kids to bed, and Elizabeth and I collapse on the couch in the back room, the TV set running an endless loop of A Christmas Story. We are depleted, run down, exhausted. Around us, the house is still smoldering, sometimes literally, like the time Elizabeth accidentally set fire to the garland on our mantle during her thankfully erstwhile, candle-happy years. I survey the condition of the house and realize that Santa will shortly have to wade through the wreckage around us, still at some risk to his personal safety, despite the noble efforts of certain angelic guests. I expect, like I do every year, that this will be the time he finally decides he's had enough, and simply toss the gifts on the sidewalk at the end of the driveway, taking his cue from our newspaper delivery person.
Nevertheless, we are happy. It was another good party.
For many years, I thought we did the big Christmas Eve party simply because that was what we did, because it was a family tradition. I'll admit it took me a long time to realize that it was something more than that. The people who come back, year after year, taught me there was a larger purpose in what we were doing. We open our doors to the chaos, we willingly put ourselves smack-dab in the path of the meteor, because we want to give people a warm and happy, if not particularly serene, place to Christmas. I think that's what it's come to be about for us. At least, that's what it's come to be about for me. And you know, it wouldn't surprise me much to learn that's something like what Lew and Josephine intended when they started this Christmas Eve tradition all those many years ago.
So our traditions carry on, their meanings sometimes obfuscated under the constantly deepening sediment of time and the hasty, sometimes stumbling hand-off from generation to generation. Sometimes the meanings are lost, and sometimes traditions die, though the shell may linger on indefinitely, like a wayward ghost. And sometimes they're renewed, or rejuvenated by somebody unexpected somewhere down the line, someone who sees something precious, something that makes them worth saving, and cultivating, and passing on to the next generation, who, in their turn, will have their own chance to forget, and maybe even remember.
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When was the last time your breath was taken away by some amazing sight or sound? When you felt gooseflesh creeping all the way up your arms and tears filling your eyes just because something was so unbelievably beautiful? And after that, what happened? Could you admit the feeling to yourself and -heaven forbid- to others as well? Without cracking jokes about getting old and sentimental? Good, because honest appreciation of all things beautiful is the way forward.
While researching this story I talked to a lot of people -fashion professionals and others- about the subject and all, with the exception of one- who understood beauty without ironing (!)- knew exactly what I was on about and agreed with me fully: its very relaxing to finally drop that cool front and admit you love seeing fine paintings, haute couture and ballet, you like to listen to classical music once in a while -harmonic melodies are easy on the ears after all- and even romantic sunsets, newborn puppies and other so -called clichés have a certain appeal. They're not clichés for nothing, right?
Enjoying beauty is firstly a very physical experience, almost scarily so. Remember sitting on a football terrace with loads of enthusiastic fans, or being present at the singing of the national hymn -you, as a cool person, of course kept your lips firmly sealed- and you couldn't help but feeling moved by the singing masses? Admit it and it feels even better. All that gooseflesh and those dilated pupils, rapid heartbeats and deep breathing must be good for something.
Before you all rush out now and become nationalistic hooligans (don't believe the hype, you fools!), what I'd really like to plead for is a more private joy of beauty, one to be found in abundance in the arts, fashion and music. More and more so in fact. I mean, how far can you go with destruction? Decibels? Irony? Or the mother of all cowards, sarcasm? Let's all just sit at home or in a 'trendy' bar dressed in our ironic trashed & customized outfits and complain, shall we? That'll teach the world a thing or two. Except, I don't think so.
OK, maybe secretly at night, when no-one's looking), just wanting to create something that's unique, honest, instinctive and -here it comes again- beautiful. In the eye of the beholder. Because together with this new appreciation of beauty also comes a new definition of what beauty really is. Symmetry, as science tried to teach us for decades? Humbug. Give us imperfection and gapped teeth any day. Gloss and perfection? Aaaaarrrrggghhhh! Who hasn't seen a grainy black & white photo of a big town backstreet and thought: now that's really beautiful? Without trying to be clever, just because you were touched by the image? Honesty, passion, creativity and humility -yeah, that old chestnut pops up again too- are what count and all I can hope is that this won't be a passing trend like so many others before. You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I surely am not the only one… Go on, admit it, you really like beauty that way. Feel better already?
Beauty Without Irony and it's offshoot Designers against AIDS act like two sides of the same coin: BWI wants to add more pure beauty, while DAA wants to prevent/take away some ugliness. Result: a more beautiful and better world. Simplistic? You bet!


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Сахарна (до 2009 року — Цукрова) — проміжна залізнична станція Знам'янської дирекції Одеської залізниці.

Розташована в селі Саблине Знам'янського району Кіровоградської області на лінії Знам'янка — Долинська між станцією Медерове (9,5 км) та роз'їздом 5 км (6,5 км).

Історія
Станція була відкрита на лінії Знам'янка-Пасажирська — Долинська в 1902 році.

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 ст. Сахарна
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Залізничні станції Кіровоградської області
Станції Одеської залізниці
Засновані в Україні 1902
Транспорт Кропивницького району


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On Saturday the Walsall fans will be allocated our North Stand, which holds around 3300 fans. If you travel without a ticket, you will be able to purchase these from our 'Club Doncaster Academy' which is located next to the away end. Myself and the stewards will be able to direct you if you need help.
Outside of the club shop we will be holding a Foodbank collection, if you have anything you could possibly spare please bring it along and donate to a very worthy cause.
Can i just take this opportunity to congratulate you on this information pack you and your club obviously put on all your opponents sites .
Donny was good away day last season although probably one of the most bizarre atmospheres I've ever been in at a football match. The chants of Whitney out were still going on at 3-0 up!
Liked the shuttle buses laid on from the station/town centre to the ground, again something that's lacking on this patch (although in fairness they don't have a train station right next to the Keepmoat).


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1,500 anti-Narmada dam protesters, leader Medha Patkar detained in Bhopal, released following all-India "pressure"
In a major swoop, the Madhya Pradesh police on Wednesday morning detained approximately 1,500 on protesting Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) activists and supporters at the Bhopal railway station soon they got down. The NBA activists were first taken to Habibgunj Railway Station and then to Central Jail, Gandhi Nagar, Bhopal.
Among those who were arrested a little later were NBA leader Medha Patkar and Aam Aadmi Party leader Alok Agrawal, when they were seeking to go and meet chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan. They were also taken to the Central Jail.
The activists and their supporters had planned a protest against the alleged unilateral decision of the inter-state Narmada Control Authority (NCA) to close the Narmada dam's 30-odd gates in order to fill up waters in the reservoir up to 138.64 metres.
The NBA claims, as many as 192 villages and one town would be submerged as a result of the NCA decision, displacing 40,000 families. It cites government figures to say that at least 18,000 families would be displaced and need to be rehabilitated. The rehabilitation sites, it alleges, are still not prepared for them to be livable.
In the evening, at around 4.30 pm they were let off, following "pressure from large sections of people, including activists, politicians, and intellectuals from across India", NBA said in a communiqué.
Soon after the detention, the NBA issued an open appeal, seeking support from politicians, activists and intellectuals, asking them to approach by phone, fax and email the DGP, Madhya Pradesh, and the Madhya Pradesh chief minister, among others, to build pressure to release them.
Earlier on Tuesday, in Delhi, the police swooped on protesting NBA activists under the leadership of Patkar, who protested in what they called "Coffin Satyagraha". Narmada dam affected women lied down in front of the Water Resources Ministry building, covering themselves with a white shroud. The police removed them.
When the protesting women, about 100 of them, refused to budge, the police used lathicharge to remove them. A few of the women sustained injuries. Six women were taken to the hospital, while four went unconscious during the melee.
The protest followed NBA leaders' hour-long meeting with Union water resources secretary Amarjit Singh, telling him about the danger of displacement looming large over tens of thousands of people. Singh, on his part, cited figures to show nothing of the sort would happen, and the protesters' apprehensions were wrong.