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Lotte Jeffs: what the bile of an industry veteran taught me about ad land's fear of change
By Lotte Jeffs-04 January 2019 07:30am
Brendan Freeman
Lotte Jeffs, the former deputy editor of Elle, joined the advertising industry when she was hired as a creative director almost a year ago. Yet she experienced an unexpected amount of vitriol online from an industry she had hoped would embrace change.
The worst thing I could have done when I joined the advertising industry from a career as a magazine editor and journalist at the beginning of last year was bullshit.
From the very start I have been entirely honest about where my skills, experience and particular breed of creativity will intersect with an agency's and where they won't. I've asked questions, made mistakes and done work I'm really proud of.
I've met some formidably talented people who have been welcoming of me as an outsider, and keen to get my different perspective on briefs. Being honest about my lack of previous experience as a creative director leaves me vulnerable and that's OK, because in this business that can be a disarming power.
I've used my platform as a journalist and my column in the Evening Standard to explore the humour and professional nuances of my switching industry. I've had an overwhelmingly positive response from readers who have been in touch to tell me that my experience has inspired them to think differently about their next career move.
I've also connected with business leaders who are keen to learn from my move and hire 'outsiders' into their teams too.
In November, however, I received some rather unpleasant feedback on Twitter from one blue-ticked industry guru who had taken umbrage with a piece I wrote for the paper back in January. This article in the lifestyle section was an amusing, light-hearted take on my first few months as a creative director.
In it I wrote: "The role of a magazine editor and a creative director are remarkably similar: we're both using words and pictures to turn good ideas into something that resonates and sells a product.
"But I don't doubt that it took some vision for my new boss to offer me a senior role in an industry that I had no experience of. It was precisely my lack of knowledge that appealed. He wanted me to challenge ingrained 'ways of doing things'."
It was the line about my lack of knowledge that was - out of the full context of the piece - used to imply that as I had not followed a traditional trajectory to reach a senior position in an agency did not deserve the job title, and that the whole thing was a bit of a joke.
What was really depressing wasn't that this highly regarded man stooped so low as to write "I bet her Mum has her ideas stuck to her fridge with little fridge magnets" (at which point I'm afraid I lost any hint of respect for his argument) but that a number of men – and it was mainly men – chimed in with the same unpleasant whiff of misogyny offering such comments as "I bet she's just been hired to churn out female friendly content".
The thing about change is, it doesn't happen by writing about it in books or referencing it in Keynote presentations. It's not a theory, it's a real lived experience. It's messy, hard to contain, unpredictable and that is what makes it so vital.
I am honoured that an agency took a risk in hiring me and were brave enough to allow me to do things differently. The job title of creative director may not have been the right one for me as it meant people had to adjust their expectations of what that role might be. But I was the deputy editor of Elle magazine and I'd spent half a year covering as its editor-in-chief, so I needed my sideways move to reflect the seniority I'd spent the last 15 years working up to.
I can relate to the destabilising feeling that comes with seeing a job you associate with taken by someone with a different skill set. As an editor who comes from a writing background, editing for me is about crafting stories and working with copy - images are key but the story comes first.
I have had to shift my thinking as stylists and fashion directors such as Edward Enninful at Vogue take the helm of iconic magazines. They may not bring a Tina Brown-like journalistic rigour to their publications, but they offer something else. It's different, but maybe, just maybe, difference is what every industry needs right now if they are to survive.
I invited the ad land veteran who had so taken against me to meet for coffee. I'd love to have a robust, adult debate about what my influence in advertising could be. But alas he ignored my invitation and sent me back an essay in which he quoted The Devil Wears Prada, writing:
"You may remember a line where the secretary, who has been given the job everyone wants, asks why she's unpopular. She's told: 'While others dream of working here, you merely deign to work here'."
The offer of coffee still stands, by the way.
This month I decided to go freelance. I wanted the opportunity to work with different kinds of agencies and explore the possibilities of a career in advertising that could be more fluid than an in-house role allows.
My colleagues at the agency and the people I have met at industry events are, on the whole, excited by this and the kind of projects it may mean we could work on together.
But it strikes me as sad that some industry veterans remain so resistant to new ways of doing things. My position is not designed to diminish anyone else's but to enrich the traditional 'done thing' in ways maybe none of us expected. And if advertising is to stay relevant, for God's sake it needs to change – someone make that into a fridge magnet for my mum, quick.
In the words of The Devil Wears Prada's legendary editor in chief, herself a woman threatened by new talent...
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In favour of Varoufakis' Plan B – by Paul Tyson
English European Crisis Guest Post Op-ed Politics and Economics Various YanisV 4978 Views 5 comments	August 1, 2015
In a recently released recording of a teleconference between Yanis Varoufakis and a group of hedge fund managers, Mr Varoufakis spoke frankly about the contingency plans he had developed when he was the Finance Minister.
This "plan B" involved thinking outside of the box of the Troika's game where you fully comply with them or they shut down your banks. Plan B was looking at how to set up a parallel currency mechanism that could be immediately implemented on Grexit so as to save ordinary Greek citizens from having no currency, no money, and no viable banking system.
Whilst avoiding Grexit was Varoufakis' second to top priority, Syriza's top priority was to arrive at a socially and economically viable renegotiation of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreed to by the previous Greek government and the troika. Should no form of genuine negotiation happen, then, if Syriza refused to drop its election platform, the risk of a troika imposed Grexit was very high. Hence, if Syriza was to take its own platform seriously, it was necessary for the Finance Minister to work out some sort of secret plan to save Greece's financial system under an imposed Grexit. Clearly, these plans must be made in secret or else whatever slim chance Syriza had of realizing their top priority, within the Eurozone, would be voided.
It is very hard to see how anyone could fault Varoufakis' need to develop a plan B, and it is very hard to fault the intentions of this plan, or its intelligence. The thing that is controversial concerns his description of the manner in which he set a non-actioned emergency parallel payment system up by "hack[ing]" into Greece's tax register. Philippe Legrain describes the situation like this:
"Perhaps the biggest objection [to Varoufakis' plan B] is that hacking into the tax system is illegal. I am not an expert on Greek law – and I doubt that all the foreign commentators weighing in are either. But if Tsipras had decided to go ahead with the plan after the Greeks' oxi (no) vote in the referendum, he could surely have obtained parliamentary approval – or indeed invoked a case of force majeure. After all, national emergencies don't come much greater than creditors threatening to blow up the banking system and, with it, people's savings and small businesses' working capital." [The Guardian, 29 July 2015]
Given the scale of the financial disaster Grexit without another currency set up to go into would create, the question of what legality means in relation to the world of high finance is worth contemplating. Consider, for example, FATCA.
FATCA is the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. This piece of legislation facilitates the global surveillance powers of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of the government of the United States of America. This legislation stipulates that if any bank in the globe refuses to comply with the US government's request to know exactly what goes on in every global account that it wants to know about, that bank will be excluded from trading with the US, and taxed at 30% of its yearly profits, whether anyone who has an account with that bank is an American for taxation purposes or not. The ostensible purpose of this act is so that the IRS can identify and tax American accounts with a balance of more the $50,000 where-ever in the world such accounts might be. That total knowledge of global finance just happens to fall into the hands of the US government is, apparently, an unintended side-effect of this legislation. And, as a bonus, this legislation makes it very easy for the US government to take financial action against anyone in the world that the US determines is a terrorist or a threat to the national interests of the US. Of course, FATCA's demands violate the privacy laws of probably every nation on earth, so each bank is required to sign privacy wavers with the IRS in order to operate in the global financial theatre, whatever their national laws might say. Unsurprisingly, even the Swiss comply with IRS requests for information.
The IRS has an astonishing ability to elicit the cooperation of foreign banks in divulging the most intimate details of their account holders to the US government. Its persuasive force is derived from nothing but the sheer financial power of the US economy and the US Treasury in the global arena. The exclusion cost of non-compliance is just too high. No-one who is a serious player in global finance tells the US Treasury to butt out, or that they are acting in violation of non-US government's national sovereignty, or that they are violating the basic principles of privacy and international law, or that they have become global financial dictators … whatever they do is just how things are.
Laws operate in strange ways when it comes to high finance.
In 2007-8 American corporate bankers were using special financial instruments which enabled them to generate huge private profits out of speculative hutzpah and mathematical magic. These creative activities with mortgages were not, apparently, illegal, but they did place the entire global financial system in peril of collapse. So when the US government threw trillions of tax-payer dollars down the throats of five giant private finance corporations, this was seen as a necessary action that could not be avoided. This public bail-out of private institutions may have caused a little soul searching in high finance circles at the time, but essentially, the Wall Street game was being played in the way all the big powers expected it to be played, so no-one with financial power felt that there had been any in-principle wrong doing going on. The game is, global financial power exists for the advancement of global financial power, and nation-states are there to make sure that nothing goes wrong for the risk takers. Everyone played there part and the wheels didn't fall off, so all is well. For this reason the inventors and users of financial weapons of mass destruction were not prosecuted or held accountable for bleeding public money into private hands in unprecedented quantities.
What we learn from this is that for big financial players and big governments, power is its own justification. This is called financial realism. All the Eurozone troika are doing in relation to Greece is following the American example of financial realism. Here, that which is legal, necessary and right is, in the final analysis, whatever the financial institutions with the most power tell you is legal, necessary and right. That their rules work in their interest is taken for granted. It is also understood that anyone who doesn't play the game that they control, by their rules, will be punished severely.
Mr Varoufakis' plan B, including the mode in which he developed this plan, is a function of his rejection of the social and political unaccountability of foreign financial power within the Greek nation. Perhaps it may also be a moral rejection, under extreme circumstances, of the validity of laws that facilitate the destruction of the Greek finance sector by the troika. Given that Varoufakis was given political authority by his Prime Minister to pursue this plan, then perhaps his mode of pursuit should be evaluated in relation to the political agendas he was politically authorized to advance. The salient evaluation questions are then would this plan save, in some form, the personal savings of the Greek people, and would it facilitate an operational finance sector for Greece, after Grexit? I think there can be little doubt that Varoufakis' plan B would have been the best practical option for the Greeks if they had of been forced out of the Eurozone after June 5 referendum, if Syriza had held fast to its original platform.
In thinking about the rules of finance outside of the box mandated to him by the troika, Varoufakis acts out of a concern to promote the wellbeing of the Greek people. Such free and creative thinking, and such motivations, are an affront to the financial realism of the troika because Greece is a small and indebted player in someone else's financial game, ridiculously seeking to operate outside of the rules that those in power have set in place to suit themselves. This Greek rule-bending ambition, from a position of weakness, violates the basic principles of financial realism.
It is true, Varoufakis defies the laws of financial realism. However, he does not take this stance up out of naivety. Indeed, Varoufakis is all too aware of how financial realism operates. What makes him such a political anomaly is that he is also aware of three other things. Firstly, as an "erratic Marxist" and a gifted mathematician and political economist, Varoufakis is aware that indeterminacy is a basic feature in all human arenas of belief and action. This gives him a philosophical awareness of the dialectic between necessity and freedom which enables him to believe in politics rather than simply in power. This delineates him from the blind determinacy and complete political indifference of dedicated financial realists, both in Brussels and in the mainstream media. Secondly, he is aware that financial realism violates the basic principles of democratic accountability, national sovereignty and moral responsibility. As he believes in that which financial realism violates, he must reject financial realism. Thirdly, he is aware that the rules of finance do not have to be set up to function in financial realist terms. He is intelligent enough to be able to think outside the box, and morally and philosophically courageous enough to make practical plans on the basis of genuinely creative initiatives. In today's very conformist world of power, this sort of leader is very hard to find. These three factors make Varoufakis a potentially radical political non-conformist in the Eurozone, who just might upset the whole apple cart of the financial realist status quo.
This is why the likes of Schäuble loathe Varoufakis. Yanis threatens the very philosophical foundations of their power. In order to preserve the power of the financial realists, Varoufakis simply must not be taken seriously. Hence, all this patronising media dribble about his clothes, motorbike and hair. Hence, all these relentless media beat-ups about any action he takes that is not coherent with financial realism. Hence all these red herrings about how undiplomatic he is without comment on how sensible and genuinely interested in constructive outcomes he is. The media loves to analyse his style and manner, but seldom has any serious interest in the substance of what he says.
Financial realism is the enemy of politics. It is the enemy of the common people. It is the set of operational assumptions undergirding a global climate of power where the rich enslave and exploit the poor and organize all the structures of power to advance their own interests. Varoufakis' plan B was a bold and moral plan which the Syriza election platform always needed to have in reserve if negotiations with the troika failed. The July 5 referendum put the Greek people firmly behind Syriza's original platform. If Tsipras and the Greek parliament had not caved in to the troika after July 5, plan B could have been actioned, and it could have worked. But then, the ball is still in play. The next few months are going to show us if a third bail-out will actually happen, regardless of the fact that the troika did succeeded in head-locking Syriza into agreeing with their austerity demands.
Paul Tyson
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lemexie says:
Witnesses in you defense all make strong points. One that has been missed is to ask the physical location of backup and processing data of every citizen's tax and health records in the EU, irrespective of your plan B scenario-planning. Marketisation of government IT services and the development of cloud technology means that it is highly likely to be outside EEA [http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/data-collection/data-transfer/index_en.htm]
Reblogged this on My World, Your World, One World and commented:
Maybe the whole world could use Plan B?
Reblogged and sent to various people so I can find out others' opinions. I particularly like "Varoufakis is aware that indeterminacy is a basic feature in all human arenas of belief and action." Would that everyone was aware of this… and stopped trying to control ends. Direction at the point of action is the best we can do, preferably seeking direction that enables all people. It is ironic that the term "Financial Realism" is fundamentally out of touch with such basic reality as indeterminism. It is a psychological AS IF system based on defense, inner world takes priority over relating to an outer world that can be discovered. Varoufakis is a threat because he threatens this – it will strengthen if he tries to tackle it with reason alone – best to keep demonstrating his own philosophy and intelligence – that is emotional intelligence as well as rational. V does not need to defend himself… though it looks as if [as if again] he tried to in some previous posts.
Dean Plassaras says:
The Varoufakis plan B needs no defense. It's called doing your homework.
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Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar has always gone the extra mile. During his promoting spree, his immense love for the defense forces was evident.
The 49-year-old actor, who was in the national capital to promote his upcoming movie Toilet Ek Prem Katha, visited the Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force.
Varun Dhawan was also present at the occasion. "Got to spend the day with our commandos at the indo-Tibet border police camp. #realheroes #inspired," he tweeted.
Meanwhile, Akshay is doing all it takes to raise curiosity around his film. He recently collaborated with Kaya Constructs to make public toilets in many cities, including Delhi and Mumbai too.
Helmed by Shree Narayan Singh, Toilet Ek Prem Katha also stars Bhumi Pednekar and Anupam Kher in a pivotal role. The film releases on August 11.


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Gordon Yntema joined the Army from Detroit, Michigan in 1964, and by January 16, 1968 was serving as a Sergeant in Company D of the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne). On that day, near Thong Binh in the Republic of Vietnam, Yntema and the two platoons of irregulars he was with were involved in a heavy firefight with the Viet Cong. After the group's Vietnamese commander was wounded, Yntema led the force for the remainder of the two-day battle as ammunition dwindled and losses mounted. With his position about to be overrun, he refused to abandon his wounded comrades and instead fought to the death.
Yntema, aged 22 at his death, was buried in Pilgrim Home Cemetery, Holland, Michigan. He and his wife Peggy had two daughters, Elizabeth and Jane.
The enlisted club at Fort Bragg, NC is named in his honor.
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For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life and above and beyond the call of duty. Sgt. Yntema, U.S. Army, distinguished himself while assigned to Detachment A-431, Company D. As part of a larger force of civilian irregulars from Camp Cai Cai, he accompanied 2 platoons to a blocking position east of the village of Thong Binh, where they became heavily engaged in a small-arms fire fight with the Viet Cong. Assuming control of the force when the Vietnamese commander was seriously wounded, he advanced his troops to within 50 meters of the enemy bunkers. After a fierce 30 minute fire fight, the enemy forced Sgt. Yntema to withdraw his men to a trench in order to afford them protection and still perform their assigned blocking mission. Under cover of machinegun fire, approximately 1 company of Viet Cong maneuvered into a position which pinned down the friendly platoons from 3 sides. A dwindling ammunition supply, coupled with a Viet Cong mortar barrage which inflicted heavy losses on the exposed friendly troops, caused many of the irregulars to withdraw. Seriously wounded and ordered to withdraw himself, Sgt. Yntema refused to leave his fallen comrades. Under withering small arms and machinegun fire, he carried the wounded Vietnamese commander and a mortally wounded American Special Forces advisor to a small gully 50 meters away in order to shield them from the enemy fire. Sgt. Yntema then continued to repulse the attacking Viet Cong attempting to overrun his position until, out of ammunition and surrounded, he was offered the opportunity to surrender. Refusing, Sgt. Yntema stood his ground, using his rifle as a club to fight the approximately 15 Viet Cong attempting his capture. His resistance was so fierce that the Viet Cong were forced to shoot in order to overcome him. Sgt. Yntema's personal bravery in the face of insurmountable odds and supreme self-sacrifice were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect the utmost credit upon himself, the 1st Special Forces, and the U.S. Army.


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The international project to fix Bangladesh's garment industry may end in a whimper
A safety inspection at a garment factory in Dhaka.
Image: Reuters/Krista Mahr
Marc Bain
The 2013 factory collapse at Rana Plaza was among the worst industrial accidents in history. Its death toll of 1,134 people shocked the world, spurred a wave of consumer consciousness, and prompted an international alliance of fashion brands, retailers, and trade unions to join in a massive, complex effort to make Bangladesh's garment industry safer.
But five years later, this coalition, the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, is on the verge of being pushed out of the country it was created to serve.
In May, a high court in Bangladesh ordered the Accord (as it is generally known) to cease its work in the country by Nov. 30, after a local garment manufacturer filed a petition against the group, according to Reuters. The country's supreme court recently bumped the start of the restraining order to Dec. 10, but if it's upheld, the Accord will have to leave Bangladesh. Its work isn't done, though, and many stake-holders and observers believe Bangladesh's government isn't ready to take over the job of fixing the industry itself.
The challengers to the Accord
The Accord is one of two coalitions that set out with a five-year timeline for improving factory safety in Bangladesh, the world's second largest garment producer behind China. The other is the Bangladesh Alliance for Worker Safety, or the Alliance, made up of mostly American fashion brands. Both had five-year deadlines that expired this year. The groups have made a great deal of progress, fixing well over 80% of the issues they had originally identified at the 2,800 factories they cover between them (which actually accounts for just part of a massive industry, much of which is made up of under-the-radar subcontracting factories). Since they formed, there have been no mass casualties from accidents like fires or building collapses.
Still, the task of making Bangladesh's garment sector safe is an ongoing project, not one with a defined end date. Much of the sector developed haphazardly over the years, popping up in spaces never designed to house industry, and often out of sight of any safety regulations. Serious problems persist.
In a January report (pdf), for example, the Accord stated that "major life-threatening safety concerns remain outstanding in too many factories and need to be fixed urgently. These include: inadequately protected fire exits, inadequate fire alarm and fire protection systems, and outstanding structural retrofitting work."
The workers who fill Bangladesh's garment industry.
Image: AP Photo/A.M. Ahad
The Accord has created a three-year extension to continue the remediation work, and to allow its oversight to transition smoothly to a body set up by Bangladesh's government to carry on the work of remediating factories, called the Remediation Coordination Cell (RCC). The Alliance's tenure in Bangladesh, meanwhile, will end with 2018. "Beginning in 2019, most Alliance member brands plan to work through a locally-based organization to continue to collectively monitor safety in the factories from which they source," says the Alliance's executive director, former US ambassador Jim Moriarty.
Not all parties in Bangladesh are happy to have the Accord staying on though. It hasn't always been popular with the factory owners themselves. They aren't included in its decision-making, yet they're ultimately responsible for funding all the fixes the accord says must happen. These fixes can be time-consuming and expensive in an industry predicated on paper-thin margins, and factory owners often complain that brands are still squeezing them for lower prices. But if the factory owners don't comply, they risk losing valuable business from the roughly 200 brands that are Accord signatories.
There are also those in Bangladesh's government, which has deep ties to the garment industry, who would like to see the Accord leave. A number of politicians are also factory owners, and the garment industry is responsible for about 83.5% of Bangladesh's total exports, making it central to the country's economy. Yet the Accord has been effectively regulating the industry without government approval. Recently, when the Accord warned it would cease working with some 532 factories that hadn't made enough progress in remediating safety issues, commerce minister Tofail Ahmed lambasted the group, saying "We cannot accept this."
The government has been anxious for the Accord to hand off its oversight of the factories to the RCC, and says at this point, it no longer needs these outside groups.
"Which is not true," retorts Kalpona Akter, an activist for workers' rights and chief executive of the Bangladesh Centre for Workers Solidarity, in reference to the government's claim that the Accord is not needed. "It is not ready yet to take all the responsibilities and high volume of work that the Accord did."
Akter, who was herself a factory worker from the age of 12, said during a talk at Business of Fashion's Voices conference in Oxfordshire, UK, that the government and factory owners have never accepted the Accord, and are effectively trying to get rid of it. Unless some miracle happens, she said, it seems the Accord will have to leave the country.
Akter, on stage at Voices.
Image: Samir Hussein/Getty Images for The Business of Fashion
The Clean Clothes Campaign, which works to improve conditions for workers in the garment industry, agrees that the RCC isn't ready to take over the work. Among other issues, "the national inspectorate fails to act transparently and has only one third the amount of inspectors to monitor twice as many factories as are currently covered by the Accord," it has stated.
If the Accord is expelled, its ability to carry out real factory oversight would be greatly limited. According to the Guardian, to continue monitoring the slice of the industry it covers, it would need to pair with international engineering firms sending inspectors into the country.
In a statement, Rob Wayss, the executive director of the Accord, said the group is "hopeful that the [ready-made garment] factory owners and the Government of Bangladesh will decide to help avert a premature closure of the Accord office in Bangladesh and will work together with the Accord for the safety work at covered factories to be completed."
If it does leave, its signatory brands could go as well, potentially meaning a financial loss for many factories. But it's not clear exactly what will happen. "No brand which sources substantially from Bangladesh can afford to shift quantities overnight," Rubana Huq, managing director of Mohammadi Group, one of the country's biggest manufacturers, told the Guardian.
"Our position is that the timeline must secure the possibility for a smooth and progressive transition of the Accord to a national regulatory body, and that the transition process must include a thorough knowledge transfer," a spokesperson for H&M, one of the Bangladesh garment industry's biggest clients, said in a statement. The company says it's working out a transition plan with Bangladesh's government, the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, the International Labour Organization, and other stakeholders to support the transition from the Accord to the RCC.
H&M is among the brands that signed onto the Accord's three-year extension, but many of the Accord's original signatories have not committed. Now that years have passed since Rana Plaza and the spotlight is off the industry, Akter says, many brands are no longer interested in the work and expense of making the industry safer. She points out that workers had died in fires and accidents caused by negligence before Rana Plaza, but it wasn't until there was international pressure on the brands that they took action.
"If these brands would say something bold, these factory owners will make change overnight, so the Accord will stay as long as they want," she notes. So far, that hasn't happened. "The brands are also playing games," she says.


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Firstly, I want to talk about my latest read: The Last Equation of Isaac Severy.
This one surprised me. Sure, I chose it as an extra Book of the Month selection, but I didn't expect to like it as much as I did. The characters were complicated, all going through their own personal struggles, while this mystery of their patriarch's last equation unfolded.
The novel opened with the death of Isaac Severy. While a shock to his family, he was entirely prepared to die. And with this tragic event, the relations of Isaac Severy find themselves brought together. Their relationships are strained, and different facets of the characters are slowly revealed to us in purposeful ways.
Told from three points of view from within the Severy family, we get a fuller picture of the mystery. Each of them have something that connects them to it, even if we don't know it straightaway. Which allows for the story to come together at the end nicely.
The pace of this was steady throughout. There were a few twists, which then urged me to read several chapters more in one sitting, but it wasn't heart pounding where you needed to finish the entire thing in a single setting. The mathematical concepts in this were well explained for people with little to no knowledge of it (like myself haha), without the writing becoming heavy with technical terms. And there were references to today's culture, making you as a reader feel more connected to the story.
All in all, I thought this one was worthy of a 4.5 rating. I highly recommend this one to those who like a good mystery + family drama.
And now onto the second part of this post. My June TBR list!
Sadly I am not even halfway through my Goodreads Challenge. Yes, it shows that I practically am, but I am not counting The Lying Game & I accidentally clicked the "I'm finished!" button besides Sherlock Holmes on their website haha. So technically, I am only 12 books in 2018.
But I will not give up, even if I sound a bit defeatist. There are 6 months left in the year, and I only need 18 more books to complete my challenge, and I just need to keep reminding myself of that I can handle 3 books per month (if not more).
The three for June I will push myself to finish are….
Burundi, 1992. For ten-year-old Gabriel, life in the comfortable expatriate neighborhood of Bujumbura with his French father, Rwandan mother, and little sister, Ana, is something close to paradise. These are happy, carefree days spent sneaking cigarettes and stealing mangoes, as he and his mischievous gang of friends transform their tiny cul-de-sac into their kingdom.
But dark clouds are gathering over this small country – and their peaceful idyll will soon shatter when Burundi, and neighboring Rwanda, are brutally hit by war and genocide.
I'm looking forward to this one. I love reading stories set in different places of the world during parts of history I am not familiar with. Knowledge is power, whoop whoop!
Who doesn't love a promising sounding thriller? Set in another unique community, I'm looking forward to diving into this one, and holding on tight!
I am so excited to have my hands on the latest Ruth Ware novel! I know she's becoming a pretty big deal in the bookish community, and I'm not really in the "in crowd," to have received this in advance. But I'm really excited for this one! She has a lovely way of writing, and also finds ways to shock you with various plot twists.
I might add some more to this list, especially those "classics," I am supposed to be reading, but am really struggling to force myself to haha. Although The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a pretty good read to be in the middle of at present.
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The collaboration with AbCheck will allow MolMed to enlarge its proprietary CAR pipeline for both liquid and solid malignancies
Milan (Italy) and Plzen (Czech Republic), June 28th 2018 - MolMed S.p.A. (MLMD.MI), a medical biotechnology company focusing on research, development, manufacturing, and clinical validation of cell & gene therapies to treat cancer and rare diseases and AbCheck s.r.o., a technology company focusing on the discovery and optimization of high-quality human antibodies, today announced that they have entered into a three-year Master Agreement aimed at providing MolMed with selected and optimized antibodies for the development of new Chimeric Antigen Receptors (CARs), targeting both liquid and solid tumors.
Under the agreement, AbCheck will use its proprietary discovery platform to select, optimize and deliver multiple human single-chain variable fragments (scFvs), specifically recognizing each MolMed target candidate. ScFvs are the extracellular regions of the CAR responsible for antigen recognition and binding, conferring specificity to the CAR.
The new and optimized scFvs delivered by AbCheck will allow MolMed to expand its proprietary pipeline in both autologous CAR-T and future allogenic CAR-NK platforms.
Riccardo Palmisano, MolMed CEO, commented: "This new collaboration plays a key role to complete the picture of the planned and announced enlargement of our CAR pipeline. Leveraging on the unique experience that we developed on CAR T CD44v6, now close to clinical stage in acute myeloid leukemia and multiple myeloma and on the recently signed partnership with Glycostem, with this agreement with AbCheck, a company with extensive expertise in antibodies selection and boasting partnerships with relevant companies and institutions in the CAR field, MolMed is fully prepared to build a robust autologous and allogeneic original CAR T pipeline, able to target both liquid and solid tumors".
Volker Lang, Managing Director of AbCheck, added: "AbCheck is recognized for its proven capability to reliably deliver high-quality human antibodies suitable for clinical development. We are very pleased to employ our unique technology suite to support MolMed's dedicated team in adding novel therapeutic options to its diverse pipeline. Both CAR-Ts and CAR-NKs represent promising novel immuno-oncology approaches and we are confident that AbCheck's abilities in antibody discovery and optimization will be an important asset in developing such approaches."
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MolMed S.p.A. is a biotechnology company focused on research, development, manufacturing and clinical validation of innovative anticancer therapies. MolMed's product portfolio includes proprietary anti-tumor therapies in clinical and preclinical development: Zalmoxis® (TK) is a cell therapy based on donor T cells genetically engineered to enable bone marrow transplants from partially compatible donors for patients with high-risk hematological malignancies, eliminating post-transplant immunosuppression prophylaxis and inducing a rapid immune reconstitution. Zalmoxis® received Orphan Drug Designation and is currently in Phase III in a high-risk population of acute leukemia patients, but has already obtained a Conditional Marketing Authorization by the European Commission in the second half of 2016 as well as reimbursement conditions in Italy at the end of 2017 and in Germany at the beginning of 2018. Still focusing on this cell & gene technology, the company is developing a therapy based on Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR), specifically the CAR-T CD44v6, an immune gene therapy project, currently in advanced preclinical development, potentially effective for hematological malignancies and several solid epithelial tumors. MolMed is also the first company in Europe to have obtained the GMP manufacturing authorization for cell & gene therapies for its proprietary products (Zalmoxis®) as well as for third parties and/or in partnership (Strimvelis, a GSK gene therapy for the ADA-SCID). With reference to GMP development and manufacturing activities for third parties, MolMed signed numerous partnership agreements with leading European and US companies. In the framework of innovative anticancer therapies, MolMed's pipeline also includes NGR-hTNF, a therapeutic agent for solid tumors investigated in a broad clinical program, involving more than 1,000 treated patients. MolMed, founded in 1996 as an academic spin-off of the San Raffaele Scientific Institute, is listed on the main market (MTA) of the Milan stock exchange managed by Borsa Italiana since March 2008. MolMed is headquartered and based in Milan, at the San Raffaele Biotechnology Department (DIBIT) and has an operating unit at OpenZone in Bresso.
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Nursing consultations and control of diabetes in general practice: a retrospective observational study
Trevor Murrells, Jane Ball, Jill Maben, Mark Ashworth, Peter Griffiths
The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp15X686881
Nursing consultations and control of diabetes
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Trevor Murrells (Adult Nursing)
Jane Ball (Nursing & Midwifery Research)
Jill Maben (Adult Nursing)
Mark Ashworth (Population Health Sciences)
Peter Griffiths (King's College London)
BACKGROUND: Diabetes affects around 3.6 million people in the UK. Previous research found that general practices employing more nurses delivered better diabetes care, but did not include data on individual patient characteristics or consultations received.
AIM: To examine whether the proportion of consultations with patients with diabetes provided by nurses in GP practices is associated with control of diabetes measured by levels of glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c).
DESIGN AND SETTING: A retrospective observational study using consultation records from 319 649 patients with diabetes from 471 UK general practices from 2002 to 2011.
METHOD: Hierarchical multilevel models to examine associations between proportion of consultations undertaken by nurses and attaining HbA1c targets over time, controlling for case-mix and practice level factors.
RESULTS: The proportion of consultations with nurses has increased by 20% since 2002 but patients with diabetes made fewer consultations per year in 2011 compared with 2002 (11.6 versus 16.0). Glycaemic control has improved and was more uniformly achieved in 2011 than 2002. Practices in which nurses provide a higher proportion of consultations perform no differently to those where nurse input is lower (lowest versus highest nurse contact tertile odds ratio [OR] [confidence interval {95% CI}]: HbA1c ≤53 mmol/mol (7%) 2002, 1.04 [95% CI = 0.87 to 1.25] and 2011, 0.95 [95% CI = 0.87 to 1.03]; HbA1c ≤86 mmol/mol (10%) 2002, 0.97 [95% CI = 0.73 to 1.29] and 2011, 0.95 [95% CI = 0.86 to 1.04]).
CONCLUSION: Practices that primarily use GPs to deliver diabetes care could release significant resources with no adverse effect by switching their services towards nurse-led care.
One size fits all? Mixed methods evaluation of the impact of 100% single-room accommodation on staff and patient experience, safety and costs
Maben, J., Griffiths, P., Penfold, C., Simon, M., Anderson, J. E., Robert, G., Pizzo, E., Hughes, J., Murrells, T. & Barlow, J., 22 Mar 2016, In: Bmj Quality & Safety. 25, p. 241-256 16 p.
Registered nurse, healthcare support worker, medical staffing levels and mortality in English hospital trusts: a cross-sectional study
Griffiths, P., Ball, J., Murrells, T., Jones, S. & Rafferty, A. M., 9 Feb 2016, In: BMJ open. 6, 2, p. e008751
Is single room hospital accommodation associated with differences in healthcare-associated infection, falls, pressure ulcers or medication errors? A natural experiment with non-equivalent controls
Simon, M., Maben, J., Murrells, T. & Griffiths, P., 24 Jan 2016, In: Journal of health services research & policy.
State of the art metrics for nursing: a rapid appraisal
Griffiths, P., Jones, S., Maben, J. & Murrells, T., 2008, London: National Nursing Research Unit.
Cross-sectional examination of the association between shift length and hospital nurses job satisfaction and nurse reported quality measures
Ball, J., Day, T., Murrells, T., Dall'Ora, C., Rafferty, A. M., Griffiths, P. & Maben, J., 25 May 2017, In: BMC nursing. 16, 1, 26.
Ethnic inequalities in the impact of COVID-19 on primary care consultations: A time series analysis of 460,084 individuals with multimorbidity in South London
McGreevy, A., Soley Bori, M., Ashworth, M., Wang, Y., Rezel-Potts, E., Durbaba, S., Dodhia, H. & Fox-Rushby, J., 19 Jan 2023, In: BMC Medicine. 21, 26 (2023).
The gestational diabetes future diabetes prevention study (GODDESS): A partially randomised feasibility controlled trial
Parsons, J., Forde, R., Brackenridge, A., Hunt, K. F., Ismail, K., Murrells, T., Reid, A., Rogers, H., Rogers, R. & Forbes, A., 30 Dec 2022, In: PLOS One.
Corrigendum to "Anticoagulation therapy and outcomes in patients with atrial fibrillation and serious mental illness: A systematic review and meta-analysis"
Farran, D., Feely, O., Ashworth, M. & Gaughran, F., 28 Dec 2022
Associations between air pollution and multimorbidity in the UK Biobank: A cross-sectional study
Ronaldson, A., Arias de la Torre, J., Ashworth, M., Hansell, A., Hotopf, M., Mudway, I. S., Stewart, R., Dregan, A. & Bakolis, I., 2 Dec 2022, In: Frontiers in Public Health. 10, 1035415.
Transdiagnostic Therapy for Persistent Physical Symptoms: A mediation analysis of the PRINCE secondary trial
James, K., Patel, M., Goldsmith, K., Moss-Morris, R., Ashworth, M., Landau, S. & Chalder, T., Dec 2022, In: Behaviour Research and Therapy. 159, 104224.
GDP, CPI, RPI, and GPs: why economic indicators matter for GPs
L'Esperance, V. & Ashworth, M., 1 Nov 2022, In: The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners. 72, 724, p. 514-515 2 p.
Measuring continuity of care in general practice: a comparison of two methods using routinely collected data
Hull, S. A., Williams, C., Schofield, P., Boomla, K. & Ashworth, M., 1 Nov 2022, In: The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners. 72, 724, p. e773-e779
Continuity of care in diverse ethnic groups; a general practice record study in England
Stafford, M., Becares, L., Hayanga, B., Ashworth, M. & Fisher, R., Oct 2022, In: British Journal of General Practice.
Supporting the 'multi' in multi-agency working: learning with and from each other could enable multi-agency safeguarding
Dixon, S., Kendall, B., Driscoll, J. & Pope, C., Sep 2022, In: British Journal of General Practice. 72, 722, p. 438-439 2 p.
Editorials Cervical screening: the evolving landscape
Davies-Oliveira, J. C., Round, T. & Crosbie, E. J., 1 Aug 2022, In: The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners. 72, 721, p. 364-365 2 p.


Dad had recently been diagnosed by the prison psychiatrist as having narcissistic behavioral disorder. The next time I visited him, he spent two hours explaining to me why he wasn't a narcissist. I had this gut feeling that his hearing would not go well.
I couldn't believe it. No I LITERALLY could not believe it. I expected the day to be just like any other day. For about thirty seconds I was incredibly happy for my dad. I think he deserves to get out – he's served the time given for his conviction and he's been a stellar inmate.
But then as the day began to unravel, flashbacks of my life filled my mind. I thought about how life had been before my dad's arrest, during his trial and conviction, and now sixteen years of seeing my dad in orange jumpsuits, shackles, Christmases in prison, collect phone calls recorded by the guards. And now everything was about to change once again. Oh God.
My body tensed up, my jaw locked, and I was full of nervous adrenaline. I took a yoga class to relax and got a migraine during the class. The teacher came over to me and told me she could see me holding my breath. What was happening to me???
Over the next week, my mind continued to wander as I daydreamed about how my life would change. My dad calls me from prison to let me know he's still the head of the household. "You know I've noticed you've stopped running things by me. I have knowledge and wisdom that you don't have. You don't have to what I tell you to do, but you need to listen to me first before you make any decisions about life." This is a recurring one-way conversation we have.
Dad told mom that he thinks his biggest hurdle once released will be learning new technology. I think about him trying to assimilate back into a family unit that has mostly dissolved. Dad's conviction was like a death in the family. We got rid of nearly all his possessions. I kept a lamb's wool jacket he used to wear in the 1970's as a keepsake. The whole experience was so hard to move on from, but eventually I realized I had my own life to live.
When I think of Dad being released I think of the Mork and Mindy episode, where Mearth, played by Jonathan Winters, suddenly bursts out of a giant egg as their adult child. Anyone else remember that?? That's how I imagine my dad's release. He'll have no clothes, no car, no driver's license, no credit cards, few friends. He's a convicted felon, he can't vote, can't visit many countries, and can't even leave the state for a few years.
I think of all the things he'll need to learn about – veganism, gluten-free, the return of froyo, venti half-caf-no-foam-soy milk lattes, über, Amazon, Google, emojis, iphones, on-demand TV, wifi, Game of Thrones and even email. He will have lots of time on his hands and seventeen years of no control just waiting to be released into society.
Wow that was a first and it took me by surprise. I was expecting another phone call where he tells me how it's gonna be when he's released. So this next year will be an emotional struggle for everyone in the family. How will this person adjust back into society? Our family? My everyday life? I'll have this year to let it set in and figure out what I want without letting it take over my life again.
I hope for my Dad that he takes a step back and learns to appreciate the little things life has to offer, like the freedom of being able to pee without asking for permission.
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Many more twists and turns to come my friend and you are navigating them with love and confidence! love you.
You rock, and you will be his rock. It's going to be an amazing journey for you both. Thanks for sharing.
We love you Woodsy, thank you for being so brave, open, & honest. You can always find an open door, cold bottle of wine and back steps to smoke on at our house.
Some courses can be set, and some are like a powerful river you can only kinda prepare for. But you are the captain of your own sovereign vessel and get to decide which maritime route you want to maintain.
Wow, Laurel. I always knew you were a strong woman but this takes it to a whole new level. Great read.
I loved reading this story and happy for your father. It's been a long time and I was with Tony and he mentioned you blogged and that your dad was being released. I understand your nervousness around the situation and wish you all the luck.
Kellymo! What a nice surprise! Namasté didi!
Hi Laurel, wow so glad to hear that your dad is set to be released. I think about him all the time. Been following your blog for many years. Best to you and your family.
I would love to go boating with your dad. Please give him my best.
Hi thanks! He gets out next June.


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Mid-Hudson Valley state senators, Dutchess…
Mid-Hudson Valley state senators, Dutchess County executive add to voices blasting Central Hudson bill hikes
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Central Hudson's Lake Katrine operation is at 2001 Ulster Ave. (Tania Barricklo/Daily Freeman file)
By Paul Kirby | pkirby@freemanonline.com | Daily Freeman
PUBLISHED: February 16, 2022 at 5:43 p.m. | UPDATED: February 17, 2022 at 7:10 a.m.
SAUGERTIES, N.Y. – Two Mid-Hudson Valley state senators from different parties, and Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro are taking aim at Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. for big price hikes in customer electric bills.
Sens. Michelle Hinchey, D-Saugerties, and Sue Serino, R-Hyde Park, blasted Wednesday the utility's announcement that customers could see up to 46 percent increase in their electric bills.
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"Many of our community members have seen their Central Hudson bills unexpectedly skyrocket this month, and at a time when people are already struggling to pay the bills, which has been made even worse by the utility's failed estimation billing system, this surge is unacceptable," Hinchey said in a statement. "In addition to introducing legislation that cracks down on utilities by limiting their ability to use estimated billing procedures, my office has been in direct contact with Central Hudson to ensure that they will not terminate service or charge late fees"
Hinchey said her office has also partnered with the Public Utility Law Project "to make sure that customers are aware of the resources available to them if they are having trouble paying their utility bills, and I encourage everyone impacted by these increases to call her office at 845-331-3810 for assistance."
Hinchey represents the 46th Senate District, which includes parts of Ulster County and all of Greene County.
Meanwhile, Serino said that the timing of Central Hudson bill increases could not be worse. Serino represents the 41st Senate District, which covers most of Dutchess.
"With prices rising on everything from food to fuel, our neighbors, especially our seniors on fixed incomes, cannot shoulder another bill increase," Serino said in a statement. "I will be working with my colleagues to see what the state can do to make a difference and urge the company to prioritize its ratepayers and do whatever it can to hold the line on rates."
Molinaro, a Republican, said the utility is failing to provide an adequate billing system.
"Central Hudson's roll out of a new billing system and failure to communicate effectively with our residents in anticipation of increased energy costs is flawed and disturbing," Molinaro said in a statement. "Gas prices globally have spiked, and nationally we are experiencing an unbearable rate of inflation. Locally, New York State's decision to close Indian Point shifted the region from a reliance on steady, stable and affordable energy to an unstable commodity."
Molinaro said that "bitter cold temperatures have further exacerbated the situation by increasing demand.
"Some of what we're experiencing can be attributed to bad decisions and bad policy in Albany and Washington, but Central Hudson bears much responsibility here."
Molinaro added that Central Hudson was not transparent.
"They knew a rate increase was imminent," the county executive said. "They have absolute control over their operations and communications. It is clear based on the countless individuals who have communicated with my office that Central Hudson's outreach efforts have failed.
"Central Hudson has an obligation to keep our community informed about the cost of the energy they deliver," Molinaro said. "Too many families living paycheck to paycheck cannot bear the weight of inflation. Add to that a confusing and shocking utility bill increase and we have a recipe for disaster."
This week, candidates for the 103rd Assembly District, including incumbent Kevin Cahill, D-Kingston, also took aim at the utility after its announcement of electric price increases of about 46 percent. Cahill's Democratic challenger, Sarahana Shrestha, criticized the company and suggested a public takeover of energy delivery.
"These bill increases are temporary and may vary for individual customers depending on energy usage and their billing cycle," Central Hudson has said.
For example, customers receiving bills now may see the effect of these increases spread out over their current bill and next month's bill, the company said.
Central Hudson said the main factors for the new prices are the increased supply prices for both electricity and natural gas as the region navigates a colder-than-average winter and as global energy factors come into play.
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Daytona ARCA Testing
DAYTONA BEACH, F.L. – The Lafferty Motorsports team is no stranger to Daytona International Speedway, however, this would mark the first laps ever turned at the famed race track by Chris Lafferty. "I was especially excited to go to Daytona for the ARCA test because I had never driven this place and I always wanted to; the only time that I got a little nervous was when we lost our power steering - it was unexpected and was a bear to handle. "
Joining the Lafferty team was new-comer Justin Boston. "It was awesome to drive this place, I want to thank Chris and the team for giving me the opportunity to test with them." Justin later added that he was in fact a tenth faster than Chris had been on back to back runs.
Lafferty Motorsports is pleased to say that Justin did in fact get approved to run the upcoming Daytona ARCA event in February.
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Last Minute Score Gives Holy Cross Football First-Ever Playoff Victory
By theholycrossspire on December 3, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )
Colin Healy
Photo courtesy of Mark Seliger
Holy Cross vs. Sacred Heart
After a 38-year hiatus, playoff football returned to Fitton Field this past Saturday. Fresh off a third straight Patriot League championship, the Holy Cross Crusaders clashed with Sacred Heart in the first round of the FCS playoffs. A defensive showdown turned into a classic nail-biter in the final minutes and though the outcome looked bleak, a miraculous finish with only seconds to go in the game pushed HC across the finish line and into the history books.
Opening up as 15-point favorites, the Crusaders were quickly knocked on their heels with Sacred Heart scoring on the first possession of the game. Sloppy football took over on both sides, with punts and penalties becoming the story of the game. A turnover on downs deep in Pioneer territory highlighted offensive struggles for the Crusaders in the first quarter.
While the offense sputtered, the HC defense kept the Crusaders in the game. No points were allowed in the first half after Sacred Heart's first touchdown. Derek Ng finally put HC on the board with a 23-yard field goal to make it a 7-3 game with 3:53 left in the half. Back to back punts on both sides meant that score would hold going into halftime.
A three-and-out to start the second half forced an HC punt. Life was injected into Fitton and the HC sideline when the Pioneers muffed the punt, giving the Crusaders the ball with a short field to work with. The first play of this drive, however, saw HC give the ball right back after a Pioneer interception, squandering a great opportunity to put up more points.
Despite their struggles throughout the game, HC was still within striking distance to flip the game in their favor thanks to the valiant effort on defense. After a Pioneer field goal, Sophomore QB Matt Sluka led the offense into field goal territory for Ng, who added a 38-yarder to make it a 10-6 ballgame with 8:27 left in the game. Another stop on defense gave the offense the ball with 3:14 to go, needing a touchdown to win.
Sluka kept the game alive with his legs twice on the drive. On a 4th and 4, he scrambled five yards to move the chains. Then, on a 3rd and 17, with the pocket collapsing, he again took off for a 21-yard gain to move the ball to midfield. Fans and players alike held their breath watching Sluka dance around the field, prolonging the game. Out of timeouts and with under a minute to go, it became desperation time. HC drove to the 35 yard line of Sacred Heart, but a bleeding clock meant only a couple more plays could be run — they only needed one. With 14 seconds left, Sluka heaved a jump ball towards WR Jalen Coker, who secured the catch and tumbled into the end zone for a touchdown. Pandemonium ensued as the Crusaders went ahead. A game that looked like trouble for HC the whole way was turned upside down. A final play for Sacred Heart was stopped, and the Crusaders captured the first playoff victory in team history.
It wasn't a game for comfort, but a win is a win. The Crusaders are moving on and will hit the road to play #5 ranked Villanova on Friday, Dec. 3 at 7:00 p.m. HC will surely be pegged as the underdogs, but coach Bob Chesney's squad is fired up. The Crusaders have made a lot of history this season, and they wouldn't mind making more. Come Friday, an energized Crusader team will be ready to play spoiler.
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"The Doctor" is an original character featured in Mortal Kombat: Legacy.
Though unnamed, he plays a prominent role in both episodes he appears in. Chronologically appearing for the first time in the ninth episode, the Doctor is responsible for overseeing Sektor and Cyrax's conversion into Cyborgs, and during the episode he makes several video documents detailing the upgrades the two are receiving over the first Lin Kuei Cyborg, Hydro. The Doctor, along with the Grandmaster and Kano, then observe Cyrax and Sektor's battle against Hydro, with the doctor confident in the two latest Cyborgs.
Though the two struggle at first, they ultimately manage to overcome Hydro and Cyrax delivers a Fatality on him, proving the two the superior models. The Doctor urges the Grandmaster to fully convert the Lin Kuei into the Cyber Initiative.
He appears for the first time in the second episode of the series in the final shots, overseeing the operation that gives Kano his cybernetic eye implant.
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Almost 60% of votes counted
Friday, May 10, 2019 - 09:13
SAnews
The Electoral Commission (IEC) had finalised results from 13 731 of the 22 924 voting stations (59.89%), totaling 8.9 million votes at 6.30pm on Thursday.
"Results from a further 2 577 voting stations had been captured and were awaiting audit and finalization," the IEC said in a statement.
The province that was leading the way in capturing results was the Northern Cape, where 94.48% of results had been captured, followed by the Western Cape (89.8%), Eastern Cape (85.1%), Mpumalanga (79.96%) and North West (75.47%).
"Provinces with the most results still awaiting capture were KwaZulu-Natal (44.84% outstanding), Limpopo (43.18% outstanding), Free State (33.62% outstanding) and Gauteng (30.86% outstanding)," the IEC said.
Of the 8.9 million votes captured by 6.30pm, 329 936 (3.70%) were special votes and 120 172 (1.35%) were spoilt ballots.
"Based on the results captured to date, voter turnout was sitting at 65.36% nationally, with the highest turnout reported in Gauteng (71.88%) and the lowest in Limpopo (58.37%)," the IEC said. – SAnews.gov.za
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Megan Park Australia
Park / December 3, 2019
"I remember walking out of the Vogue offices in London with my first collection and going into a red phone box to call Liberty, telling them I was being featured in the magazine. Within two weeks, I'd sold to my wish list of stores - Barney's New York, Neiman Marcus, Harvey Nichols, Joyce Hong Kong and Liberty, " she recalls.
Since returning to Australia to its hometown of Melbourne 10 years ago, the MEGAN PARK brand has retained its signature style that caught the attention of international buyers and media. MEGAN PARK collections are consistently impressive from season to season, the pieces possess a luxurious artisanal appeal with a modern bohemian spirit.
Committed to their team of artisans, everything is designed in-house, and a single garment will be worked on by the same tailor or embroiderer from start to finish. "My clothes are hopefully things that you'll keep and love. The collections are not mass produced; the pieces I design and produce are considered in every way from the fabrication selection through to the cut and details that make them uniquely MEGAN PARK, " says Megan.
MEGAN PARK continues her international approach to the business which services stockists in Europe, the USA, Japan and the Middle East. The most successful region outside of Australia is the USA with over 50 stockists many whom are longstanding customers of MEGAN PARK and the collections sit beautifully alongside prestige brands in store including Marni and Dries Van Noten. Locally the brand is now represented through over 80 wholesale stockists in Australia and has three stand-alone MEGAN PARK boutiques, Armadale and Fitzroy in Melbourne and Pacific Fair on the Gold Coast with plans for further retail expansion in 2017.
The MEGAN PARK brand appeals to a life of style and now incorporates jewellery, a home collection and a children's line. The Holiday range launched in 2013 was created in response to customers who yearned for additional holiday and travel pieces for their wardrobes ahead of the festive season. MEGAN PARK continues to evolve its offering to cater for their loyal customers.
"I think our collections transcend fashion: they are feminine, hand worked but also timeless and modern. I want a woman to feel like she's definitely wearing something right for the season but not dictated by that, either."
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1974 Talon MR1A-03 F5000
Owner: Peter Burson, New Zealand
The Talon MR1A Chev F5000 was a production version of the McRae GM2 designed by New Zealand's Graham McRae.
American-based Jack McCormack purchased the GM2 project from McRae and built five Talon MR1A cars, but these were some 50kg heavier than the GM2 that McRae drove himself.
Chris Amon drove a Talon MR1A in the 1975 International Tasman Series. At the first event held at Levin on 5 January 1975, Chris blew the engine in practice and could qualify no better than ninth place of 15 cars. After suffering further engine problems, he retired from the main race after only 15 of the 84 laps. At the New Zealand International Grand Prix (NZIGP) meeting held at Pukekohe on 12 January 1975, he qualified second to McRae but finished down in seventh place after tyre changes in the wet/dry race. In the Lady Wigram Trophy race held on 19 January 1975, Chris qualified with the same lap time as McRae, so they tossed a coin and unsurprisingly Chris came 2nd. In the main race his engine soon dropped to only seven of the 8 cylinders, and he retired after only 19 of the scheduled 44 laps with a cracked cylinder
head. Chris qualified in second place again to McRae at the Teretonga International held on 26 January 1975, and held on to finish first by 20 seconds.
On to the Australian legs of the 1975 Tasman Cup, Chris finished fourth on 60 of the 61 laps at Oran Park on 2 February 1975, before heading on to Surfers Paradise a week later where he retired after only 26 laps with engine trouble. One week later he was at the Adelaide Raceway on 16 February 1975, where he again finished fourth. The final race of the 1975 series was at Sandown, near Melbourne, on 23 February 1975 – where he finished fifth. Chris took an overall fifth place in the Tasman Cup to first-placed Warwick Brown (Lola T332 Chev) followed by joint second places to Graeme Lawrence (Lola T332 Chev) and John Walker ((Lola T332 Repco) with John McCormack (Elfin MT6 Repco) in 4th. Chris remembers the series as one in which he drove a 'good car but with a lousy engine. He was always struggling for engine power in his Talon compared to the power of other cars, and of course his car was 50kg heavier than the similar car of McRae's.
Chris was reunited on 21 December 2010 with the 1974 Talon MR1A F5000 Peter Burson. This car was brought to New Zealand and raced by Tony Roberts before the car was purchased by Peter and raced by his son Aaron Burson. The Talon will be raced at the first weekend of the New Zealand Festival of Motor Racing celebrating Chris Amon by Aaron Burson. Aaron is hopeful that Chris will do some demonstration laps in the Talon on the second weekend of the Festival.
Chris Amon – 1974 Talon MR1A, first place in book Teretonga 25, 26 January 1975. (Photo: Peter Wood)
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Coast Guard rescues at least 20 people from boats, barge in Corpus Christi
Updated 6:55 pm CDT, Sunday, August 27, 2017
A tattered U.S. flag blows in the wind in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in Port Aransas, Texas on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017.
Photo: Kin Man Hui, San Antonio Express-News
Officials say the U.S. Coast Guard has rescued at least 20 people in various incidents as Harvey came through Texas.
Capt. Tony Hahn, commander of the Corpus Christi sector, said Saturday that two helicopters managed to rescue 18 people — three people from a fishing boat, four from a barge and 11 from two tugboats — when it became safe enough to do so.
The Coast Guard also rescued two people and their dog after they became stranded near the city of Rockport, where damage from the hurricane is extensive. The Coast Guard says a helicopter crew spotted them just before noon Saturday. They were taken to a hospital, and they Coast Guard says they're in good condition. It was unclear whether or not they were in a boat when they were rescued.
Harvey came ashore as a Category 4 hurricane Friday night but has since been downgraded to a tropical storm.