Without access to cash and a way to diversify their portfolios, the future for junior minors is looking increasingly difficult. Gavin Knight reports.
Unplundered treasure reserves of gold and copper lie below our seas. Jodie McLeod looks how technology is making the mining of these minerals possible.
Dr Gareth Evans looks at how Sweden's iron ore mining legacy is encouraging fresh international investment.
Resource rich but largely autonomous, China's mining industry holds great financial clout. Natalie Coomber looks at how it is slowly internationalising.
Top gold and precious metals producer South Africa is wrestling with mounting mine deaths, putting the heat on mining firms to end the carnage.
Darren Baguley looks at how a simple glass of wine went a long way towards proving the worth of deposits in the ground.
Coil Tube Drilling: The Gas Drainage Saviour?
Coil tube drilling could be the answer to draining gas from mines in a more efficient, accurate and safe way. Paul French explains why.
A prominent policy of investing in technology has led Rio Tinto to develop an automated operation at its Pilbara mines. Alex Hawkes reports.


Many Jeffco schools participate in the Fuel Up to Play 60 program to encourage healthy eating and activity. The program is sponsored by Dairy MAX, the NFL, and features the Denver Broncos. Several schools earned "touchdown status" last year, and were invited to Mile High to meet players, cheerleaders, tour the stadium, and more. Groups from Swanson, Fitzmorris, West Woods, Shelton, and Ryan elementary schools and Everitt Middle School had a great time accepting the award for their school. Plus, one of the cheerleaders is a Jeffco grad (Ralston Valley High School), and a Fitzmorris student did a TV interview with Univision in Spanish.Way to rep Jeffco!


Where next for Integrated Reporting?
Earlier this year, we were delighted to welcome Professor David Welbourn, an associate of our Centre for Governance, Leadership and Global Responsibility and to hear his analysis, thoughts and insights on the future effects of population growth, climate change and urbanisation. He warned us that his statistics would be alarming and he wasn't wrong! Human population growth is perhaps the most significant cause of the complex problems the world faces together with climate change, poverty and resource scarcity. The United Nations estimates that by 2050, the world's population will have grown by 2.7 billion to 9.7 billion with most of this increase being in Asia and Africa. Research published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development suggests that sustained population growth, aggressive economic competition and increased consumption will result in intensive exploitation and pressure on resources. Most people will live in cities and by 2035, 60 percent of the world population will live in urban areas. As David demonstrated, those cities where the highest growth is projected don't look like London. Many are slums where young people are sent out to the local rubbish tips to search for resources to support their families. In particular, urban growth will be highest in Africa, where there are already problems with drought, famine, poverty and corruption. This will become a serious global problem as those who need access to basic needs will attempt to migrate or become so desperate (and angry) that they may resort to violent action.
It is not just the growth in numbers that present a challenge but also the significant ageing of the population. This issue is more prevalent in developed countries where one third of the developing country population will be aged over 60 by 2050 and nearly 80 percent of older people will live in developing countries facilitated by greater access to health care, higher GPD and better standards of living which increase life expectancy. Some developing regions and countries, on the other hand, will witness an increasingly young population. Both trends will mean a shrinking working population, significantly altering the balance between economically-active and -inactive members. The number of people living outside their country of origin is likely to grow to 230 million from the current 175 million and migration will mostly occur between developing countries and will increase in response to environmental pressures, extreme poverty and natural disasters. These factors will be aggravated by the consequences of climate change, environmental changes, uneven distribution of wealth, the effects of disease and the inability of authorities to respond. The availability and flow of energy, food and water will be critical and resource challenges will intensify in areas where population expansion has the greatest impact, relative to local resources and economic growth.
While IR won't address all potential global problems, it provides an opportunity for businesses to realign resource allocation and corporate behaviour to consider not only financial, but also environmental and social issues. IR adoption continues to grow globally with current developments taking place in Malaysia, Thailand and Africa to increase its uptake by the business community. A publication by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants earlier this year highlights the concrete benefits and challenges that early adopters of IR have experienced, and gives practical recommendations to guide adoption by more organisations.
However a change of mind-set is required to drive IR forward. This should not only be at current Board level but also in developing the mind-sets of our future board executives. This thinking is currently informing the development of innovative modules at Leeds Business School to consider IR, ethics, governance and responsibility that aim to encourage integrated thinking and awareness of how business leaders will need to adapt and respond to the rapidly changing environment.
Dr Fiona Robertson is a member of the ICAS Corporate Reporting Committee and has held several senior finance positions in business. She has recently completed a PhD in Integrated Reporting at Leeds Beckett University and convenes the research group in Leeds Business School.


The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has asked vigilantes to please be careful about which gun owners they choose to attack after a black concealed carry permit holder was wrongly assaulted at a Florida Walmart.
According to the Hillsborough Sheriff's Office, 62-year-old Clarence Daniels was entering Walmart with his legally concealed firearm to buy coffee creamer on Tuesday when he was spotted by 43-year-old vigilante Michael Foster.
Foster, who is white, had observed Daniels conceal the weapon under his coat before he came into the store. When Daniels crossed the threshold, Foster tackled him and placed him in a chokehold, Hillsborough Sheriff's Office spokesperson Larry McKinnon explained.
"He's got a gun!" Foster reportedly exclaimed.
"Otherwise you might be confronting a guy that is legally permitted to carry a gun," he pointed out.
Watch the video below from WFTS, broadcast Jan. 20, 2015.


text:
[Out Now]: Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers
Love science fiction, but wishing for visions of brighter futures instead of the standard doom and gloom? Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers is available now in ebook and paperback! This anthology features 17 stories of brighter futures from authors all over the world.
Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. The seventeen stories in this volume are not dull utopias—they grapple with real issues such as the future and ethics of our food sources, the connection between technology and nature, and the interpersonal conflicts that arise no matter how peaceful the world is. In these pages you'll find a guerilla art installation in Milan, a murder mystery set in a weather manipulation facility, and a world where you are judged by the glow of your solar nanite implants. From an opal mine in Australia to the seed vault at Svalbard, from a wheat farm in Kansas to a crocodile ranch in Malaysia, these are stories of adaptation, ingenuity, and optimism for the future of our world and others. For readers who are tired of dystopias and apocalypses, these visions of a brighter future will be a breath of fresh air.
See What Reviewers Are Saying
"This anthology is a welcome relief from dystopias and postapocalyptic wastelands, and a reassurance that the future need not be relentlessly bleak."
"Each of these stories is a window into a world where issues like climate change and food shortages are approached with a joyful creativity. The variety in character, narrative approach, and setting offers something to appeal to a wide variety of readers, especially those who look to anthologies to find new authors to follow."
"This anthology gives you just enough story, science, and hope…I've been needing a book like this in my life."
—Utopia State of Mind
About the Anthologist
Sarena Ulibarri is Editor-in-Chief of World Weaver Press, and she is also a fiction writer who has been published in Lightspeed, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Weirdbook, and elsewhere. Her solarpunk story "Riding in Place" appeared in the anthology Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories in Extreme Futures. She lives in a solar-powered adobe house in New Mexico, and can be found online at SarenaUlibarri.com and @SarenaUlibarri.
Find out all about the authors here!

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Vitali Fiodorovitch Doubko (), né le  à Krasnodar, est un entraîneur russe de trampoline. Il est également vice-président de la Fédération russe de trampoline.

Il a notamment entraîné de nombreux champions russes tels qu'Aleksandr Moskalenko, Irina Karavaeva, Evgeni Janes, German Khnychev, Evgeni Jakovenko, Ludmilla Karpova ou encore Natalia Tchernova.

En 2000, il est nommé entraîneur du siècle par la Fédération internationale de gymnastique. En 2001, il reçoit la médaille de l'Ordre de l'Honneur.

Notes et références

Entraîneur sportif russe
Entraîneur de gymnastique
Naissance à Krasnodar
Naissance en RSFS de Russie
Naissance en mai 1936

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


The Zika virus has been linked to serious neurological conditions, including birth defects in children whose mothers were infected during pregnancy. An international team of researchers is using World Community Grid to search for a critically needed anti-viral drug to combat Zika, and they need your help.
In February 2016, the World Health Organization declared the Zika virus to be a global public health emergency due to its rapid spread and new concerns about its link to a rise in neurological conditions.
The virus is rapidly spreading in new geographic areas such as the Americas, where people have not been previously exposed to the disease and therefore have little immunity to it. In April 2016, the Centers for Disease Control announced that a rise in severe neurological disorders, especially in children, has been linked to the Zika virus. Some pregnant women who have contracted the Zika virus have given birth to infants with a condition called microcephaly, which results in brain development issues typically leading to severe mental deficiencies. In other cases, paralysis and other neurological problems can occur, even in adults.
Currently, there is no vaccine to provide immunity to the disease and no antiviral drug for curing Zika, although various efforts are underway. Even though the virus was first identified in 1947, there has been little research since then, because the symptoms of the infection are usually mild. However, new data on links between Zika and microcephaly or other neurological issues have revealed that the disease may not be so benign, prompting the need for intensified research efforts.
The OpenZika project on World Community Grid aims to identify drug candidates to treat the Zika virus in someone who has been infected. The project will target proteins that the Zika virus likely uses to survive and spread in the body, based on what is known from similar diseases, such as dengue virus and yellow fever. In order to develop an anti-Zika drug, researchers need to identify which of millions of chemical compounds might be effective at interfering with these key proteins. The effectiveness of each compound will be tested in virtual experiments, called "docking calculations," performed on World Community Grid volunteers' computers and Android devices. These calculations would help researchers focus on the most likely compounds that may eventually lead to an antiviral medicine.
The OpenZika research team is committed to releasing all their data to the public as quickly as possible, so other scientists can help advance the development of some of these active compounds into new drugs. They hope the OpenZika project will include a second stage, with virtual screenings on many more compounds.
The information on this page was last updated in April 2016.


text:
    // where
        private TreeVisitor<Symbol,Env<AttrContext>> identAttributer = new IdentAttributer();
        private class IdentAttributer extends SimpleTreeVisitor<Symbol,Env<AttrContext>> {
            @Override
            public Symbol visitMemberSelect(MemberSelectTree node, Env<AttrContext> env) {
                Symbol site = visit(node.getExpression(), env);
                if (site.kind == ERR)
                    return site;
                Name name = (Name)node.getIdentifier();
                if (site.kind == PCK) {
                    env.toplevel.packge = (PackageSymbol)site;
                    return rs.findIdentInPackage(env, (TypeSymbol)site, name, TYP | PCK);
                } else {
                    env.enclClass.sym = (ClassSymbol)site;
                    return rs.findMemberType(env, site.asType(), name, (TypeSymbol)site);
                }
            }

            @Override
            public Symbol visitIdentifier(IdentifierTree node, Env<AttrContext> env) {
                return rs.findIdent(env, (Name)node.getName(), TYP | PCK);
            }
        }

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Meyer v. Carnival: Siobhan Beaubrun Cox deposition part 2
This is part two of the Siobhan Beaubrun deposition in our coverage of the Michael Meyer v. Carnival Cruise Lines, et al. case resulting from a cruise ship shore excursion catamaran propeller accident in St. Lucia.
Siobhan Beaubrun / Cox deposition part 2
Plaintiff attorney produced a Tour Information Form (TIF) with information on the Pitons excursion. It includes the text "a relaxing swim in the lovely waters of the Caribbean Sea." Carnival now uses a similar statement on its website about the tour.
Plaintiff attorney produced an EDQ (Excursion Description Questionaire), Siobhan called it an Extreme Detail Questionaire, dated 30 July 2012 for a Cruise to Soufriere Bay. That description included stops at Anse Cochon and Malgretout Bay. Mr. Meyer was on the Piton tour and injured at Malgretout, but Exhibit 22, the EDQ for the Piton tour, said they would be stopping at Anse Cochon. It did not list Malgretout Bay. Malgretout is closer to the Pitons than Anse Cochon as seen in the map below.
View Michael Meyer Propeller Accident: St Lucia in a larger map
Plaintiff's Exhibit 3, Tour Operators Liability Insurance Application signed by Siobhan and submitted to to Aon Risk Services of Florida in March 2009 asks, "What percentage of your operation is subcontracted?", you answered, "95 percent." A similar document dated 26 October 2011 was filled in as 99 percent. (pgs.187-188). PGIC comment – we assume the greater percentage of tours that are subcontracted, the lower her insurance bill.
Cox has offered a motorized vessel tour down the Caribbean side of St. Lucia since 2003.
Michael Meyer was injured on an excursion using the Tango Too catamaran, operated by Sea Spray Cruises.
Plaintiff attorney asked if Cox owned or leased the Tango Too at that time. She said no.
Plaintiff attorney asked her if Cox had ever made the statement that it did not own the watercraft used on the excursions, but that they were all leased by Cox. She said something like that might have been indicated on one of the forms. Plaintiff attorney showed her the form she signed to get Aon to get some insurance for Cox. On the first page it says the number of owned/leased watercraft. It has a block for entering the answer. It was filled in as "none owned, all leased".
Plaintiff attorney asked he what she meant by "all leased", she said that part was filled out by Insurance Services brokers, she just read it and signed it. Then she inspected it closer and said it was not her handwriting. She did not fill it out. Then Plaintiff attorney asked her if she filled all the form out except for the first page, then signed it and sent it to the brokers in St. Lucia. She said, "Really, I don't know I can't remember when, exactly when that happened."
Plaintiff attorney asked her if Cox's relationship to the vessels (ownership, leasing, whatever) was the same in 2011 as it was in 2009. She said they have never owned any vessels. After some discussion, she answered the question with, "Correct."
Plaintiff attorney asked her about Plaintiff's Exhibit 16, the agreement between Carnival and Cox. The agreement includes the clause:
"Neither party may assign any of its rights or obligations under this agreement by operation of law or otherwise without the written consent of the other party, and any attempt to do so shall be null and void (including any subcontracting by operator)."
Plaintiff attorney asked her if Cox subcontracted any part of the Catamaran Cruise to the Pitons that Meyers was injured on?, she said, they used a company that they had double checked and verified they were reputable. And I suppose part of my, in terms of the word "subcontracting" we did not subcontract.
Plaintiff attorney asked her if Cox provided the vessel, she said, No. So it's not ours, per se.
Cox had a representative on the vessel at the time of the Meyer incident, a lady named Lera Toato.
Plaintiff attorney produced Plaintiff's Exhibit 28, a from Eleanor Rae (of Cox) to the managing director of Sea Spray Cruises advising him Cox would require some services from him for the 2010/2011 cruise season (the period of the Meyer incident). (pgs.220-221).
Cox has been offering a catamaran tour down the coast to near the Pitons for about ten years. Cox brought Sea Spray on in 2009 to handle the Carnival catamaran excursions to the Pitons.
Cox has standards for watercraft used on tours. They had not yet been supplied to the plaintiff. At this time they were entered as Plaintiff's Exhibit 29.
Cox made no attempts prior to the Meyer incident to determine who owned the Tango Too. Cox just dealt with Sea Spray Cruises and they supplied the catamaran.
Sail Away Tours and Sea Spray Cruises are owned by the same owners.
Cox regularly checked to make sure Tango Too was insured. It was not covered by Cox's policy.
Cox required several things of Sea Spray Cruises. The boats needed to have approved life jackets for each person, the craft had to adhere to a no smoking policy, they had to have a certain number of crew members depending on how many people were onboard, the vessel had to have secure handrails, 2 crew members were to be at the gangplank to assist passengers off and on, etc.
Cox's requirements also included, "Prior to swimming all passengers should be fitted with a life jacket, especially non-swimmers and children." It also says life jackets are mandatory.
Siobhan interprets that as, passengers are to be shown where the life jackets are. It is not necessary that they wear them to go swimming.
Plaintiff attorney becoming upset with witnesses inability to answer many questions. Cox was to have someone here today capable of answering these questions. (pg.286).
She was asked if Cox ever formed a contract in Florida with a cruise line to act as a port agent (get them fresh water, make sure they get clearance, bring the customs guard on board, take people to the hospital, etc.), she said she could not answer that question.
Plaintiff's Exhibit 36 is a letter of appointment by Prestige (they have Oceanic Cruises and Region Seven Seas Cruises). Plaintiff attorney then asked he how long Cox had been the port agent for Prestige. She said about six years. Then she said this is not a port agency agreement, it is for shore excursions and ground handling. It does say the agreement is entered into in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
Plaintiff attorney asked her if Cox was Carnival's port agent in St. Lucia. She said they had been for about 20 years. To they best of her knowledge there is no contract/agreement for that relationship. It is just a handshake deal. Cox is paid for providing the service.
Cox's vessel standard also requires crews "must provide assistance to the passengers as they enter in and out of the water." (pg.301).
She was unable to provide the percentage of Cox's excursion business with cruise ship customers that came from Carnival over the last five years. She was unable to even say Carnival had been a major customer in that time period.
She said Cox's catamaran procedure called for shutting down the propellers and then advising passengers they could come off the catamaran. (pg.332).
Cox has not been able to purchase the required insurance, she thinks it was an "A plus" rating in St. Lucia. That is why it purchases insurance outside the country.
Cox has been a member of the Florida Caribbean Cruise Association for at least ten years. Cox has been a platinum member for the majority of those years.
Plaintiff attorney showed Exhibit 38, an insurance certificate for the Tango Too with the insured being Sail Away Tours for $500,000 U.S. dollars that was in the stack of documents produced by Cox. Plaintiff attorney asked them why it was $500,000 and not the $2 million required in Cox's agreement with Carnival. She said the requirement was for Cox to have the insurance, not Sea Spray or Sail Away Tours. Then Plaintiff attorney asked her if anybody at Cox had ever told Carnival the coverage on the Tango Too was only 25 percent that which Cox was required to keep. She said, "But that was not relevant that we had to inform anybody, so we wouldn't have. No."
Plaintiff attorney read from Cox's agreement with Carnival, the part saying that Carnival submitted itself to the U.S. District Court of Southern Florida for any any lawsuits to which Carnival is a party in connection to the shore excursions or terms of this agreement. Then plaintiff attorney asked her if Cox read and signed the agreement, did they not know that if Carnival became involved in a lawsuit related to the shore excursions, that lawsuit would be in Florida? She said she could not answer that one. (pgs.349-350).
Then plaintiff attorney asked her about the similar statement in the agreement in which the tour operators agree to submit themselves to the same jurisdiction (U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida) and if she could think of any interpretation that Cox might put on that statement beyond the obvious one. She said, "I wouldn't be able to answer that."
Plaintiff Attorney asked her if Carnival had ever been sued in the past for a Cox excursion. She said, "No, I am not aware." Plaintiff attorney went to Exhibit 14, Henderson v. Carnival Corporation, a legal case dated in 2000. The case involved a injury to a passenger on a Cox catamaran in St. Lucia.
Once again she was asked if she had ever heard of the case, she said, "No, but I would have to say I don't think it's our tour actually." (pg.372). She went on to say it could have been a mistake, we've been mentioned before and it wasn't our tour."
Noah Silverman, Attorney for Cox
(pg.387)
Silverman opened by talking about the preparation Siobhan had done for the case (gathering documents, familiarizing herself with them, visiting with others at Cox, etc.) He went on to try to illustrate that Cox is a business in St. Lucia, not in the United States. He asked her if Cox had a P.O. Box or mailing address in the U.S., she said they did not (interesting answer after the earlier revelations of two Cox U.S. mailing addresses).
Defense attorney asked her if Cox had an agent in the U.S. authorized to conduct business on their behalf, she said, "No we do not." (interesting after earlier testimony identifying at least two Cox agents in the U.S.)
Defense attorney asked her about listing several vessels as being leased by Cos on Exhibit 3, the agreement with Aon. he asked her, "Did you assume that because you didn't own them that meant that you had to put down "leased"?", she answered, "No, I did not." (interestingly, the defense attorney just went on to the next question). Later she said she relied on Insurance Services Brokers, Limited to fill out that page of the form. (pg.403).
Cox was an independent contractor for Carnival. (pg.417).
Defense attorney pointed out one of the Cox U.S. addresses previously discussed, 8300 Northwest 53rd Street, Suite 102, Miami Florida is Royal Marine's address. Siobhan said Cox did not authorize Royal Marine to establish a Cox address for that site.
Defense attorney asked her about the Henderson v. Carnival case involving a catamaran injury in St. Lucia. He asked her if Cox was involved in any of the events that occurred as described in this document, she said, "No, we were not actually." Then he asked her if Cox had any idea who might have been involved if it was not Cox, she said, "I am not sure."
Info From PGIC on the Henderson Incident
3 May 1998 Jennifer & Joseph Henderson were on their honeymoon and boarded the Carnival cruise ship, Inspiration. During the cruise they purchased tickets for a Soufrieres catamaran excursion in St. Lucia about May 5th. During the excursion, the catamaran struck and reef and they were both injured. The Hendersons allege the collision was caused by negligence and carelessness of Carnival in operation of the catamaran. The suit was originally filed in the Circuit Court of Hancock County Mississippi (home of the Hendersons), then moved to U.S. District Court of Southern Florida.
The Hendersons thought Carnival owned and operated the catamaran because the vessel had a Carnival logo on it, and the crew was wearing carnival clothing as well.
The only evidence plaintiff attorney presented in court for Carnival owning or operating the catamaran were claims of the Hendersons and others that the vessel bore the Carnival logo and the crew wore clothing with the Carnival logo.
Carnival said it was Cox's Soufrieres Cruise Adventure catamaran excursion and backed that up with an affidavit from Lupe Seco, a claims representative for Carnival. He said Carnival does not own, operate, manage or control the independent contractors offering shore excursion. He has personal knowledge that Cox & Company was the tour operator on the Henderson's excursion.
Carnival then moved for Summary Judgement that the case be dismissed based on the disclaimers on their tickets and on Carnival not owning or operating the catamaran, it being operated by an independent third party. Carnival said they had been selling tickets on Cox & Company excursions since 1991.
The only fact alleged by Plaintiff is that Carnival owned the catamaran. Defendant, Carnival, offered an affidavit with an uncontested statement that Cox & Company operated the excursion.
Plaintiff offered no evidence beyond logos to prove Carnival owns the catamaran, Summary Judgement was granted to Carnival and the case was dismissed.
The case was tried about 12 years before the Meyer case, but the Hendersons definitely lacked the details and tenacity portrayed by Meyer's attorneys. Cruise ship excursion accident cases are tough and best left up to law firms with a lengthy history of cruise ship cases and at least a few cruise ship excursion cases.
Back to Defense Attorney Questioning Siobhan Beaubrun of Cox
As seen above in our discussion of the Henderson case, it appears Siobhan's claims of that accident being falsely attributed to Cox are just like many of her other answers that didn't hold much water. Plaintiff attorneys will probably be able to prove it was a Cox excursion in the trial.
Siobhan said Cox had filed approximately 6 claims with Aon over the last three or four years.
Defense attorney had Siobhan state that Cox & Company is identified as the tour operator on the Catamaran Cruise to the Pitons ticket. The back of the ticket identifies Cox & Company as an independent contractor.
Siobhan said Cox & Company has knowledge that Lera, the tour guide, provided the safety briefing / safety instructions more than once prior to Mr. Meyer jumping from the catamaran.
In that safety briefing, passengers are told they are not supposed to jump, they they are to use the stairs and exit the front of the vessel. She testified it was Cox & Company's corporate knowledge that these instructions were provided to the excursion participants that day, prior to Meyer jumping from the vessel.
Siobhan said 35 percent of Cox & Company excursion business comes from North American cruise line passengers.
Recross Examination by Robert M. Oldershaw in Behalf of Carnival
Oldershaw started asking Siobhan about North American cruisers representing 35 percent of the company (he took it from 35 percent of the excursions to representing 35 percent of all Cox operations). Cox has several other income streams (shipping, cargo operations, documentations, provisioning, stores, medical assistance for the ships, customs brokerage, renting out properties in town, photo and video services, a concierge service for yachts, etc.). (pgs.476,477).
Siobhan said Cox has a gentleman from the standards department that goes out towards the beginning of the cruise ship season and inspects the vessels to make sure things are in order, clean, and they have their inspections, and certificate of operation.
Redirect by Eriksen representing Meyer
Plaintiff attorney Eriksen asked Siobhan about the Henderson case, to the extent that this case involved a Cox & Company catamaran excursion, would that have been a catamaran provided by Mr. Devuax or his companies (Sail Away and Sea Spray)?, she said, "Ok." Then she went on to say, "But that case in question, I'm saying we were not involved. I know we are mentioned there, but it's not our tour."
The deposition ended at 11:30 at night. (pg.497).
Tags : catamaran, cruise, Cruise Ship, excursion, Meyer, Propeller Accident, Propeller Accident Trial, St. Lucia


text:
Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/n/nep-upt/2011-07-02.html
Report NEP-UPT-2011-07-02
This is the archive for NEP-UPT, a report on new working papers in the area of Utility Models & Prospect Theory. Alexander Harin issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.
Other reports in NEP-UPT
Kevin Dowd & John Cotter, 2011. "Spectral Risk Measures with an Application to Futures Clearinghouse Variation Margin Requirements," Working Papers 200742, Geary Institute, University College Dublin.
Kontek, Krzysztof, 2011. "What is the actual shape of perception utility?," MPRA Paper 31715, University Library of Munich, Germany.
Kevin Dowd & John Cotter, 2011. "Intra-Day Seasonality in Foreign Market Transactions," Working Papers 200746, Geary Institute, University College Dublin.
Emmanuel PETIT (GREThA, CNRS, UMR 5113) & Anna TCHERKASSOF (LIP/PC2S) & Xavier GASSMANN (INRA), 2011. "Anticipated regret and self-esteem in the Allais paradox," Cahiers du GREThA 2011-25, Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée(GREThA).
John Cotter & Kevin Dowd, 2011. "Spectral Risk Measures with an Application to Futures Clearinghouse Variation Margin Requirements," Working Papers 200616, Geary Institute, University College Dublin.
John Cotter & Kevin Dowd, 2011. "Extreme Spectral Risk Measures: An Application to Futures Clearinghouse Margin Requirements," Working Papers 200516, Geary Institute, University College Dublin.
Matthias S. Hertweck, 2011. "Strategic Wage Bargaining, Labor Market Volatility, and Persistence," Working Paper Series of the Department of Economics, University of Konstanz 2011-26, Department of Economics, University of Konstanz.
Michał Krawczyk, 2011. "To answer or not to answer? A field test of loss aversion," Working Papers 2011-13, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw.
Michał Krawczyk, 2011. "Framing in the field. A simple experiment on the reflection effect," Working Papers 2011-14, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw.
John Cotter & Kevin Dowd, 2011. "Estimating Financial Risk Measures for Futures Positions:A Non-Parametric Approach," Working Papers 200613, Geary Institute, University College Dublin.
Andrew Caplin & Daniel Martin, 2011. "A Testable Theory of Imperfect Perception," NBER Working Papers 17163, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
Wolfgang Höchtl & Rupert Sausgruber & Jean-Robert Tyran, 2011. "Inequality Aversion and Voting on Redistribution," Discussion Papers 11-18, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics.


text:
Russia produces first batch of COVID-19 vaccine—report
from Reuters
Home/News/Russia produces first batch of COVID-19 vaccine—report
FILE PHOTO: A handout photo provided by the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) shows samples of a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, in Moscow, Russia August 6, 2020. (RDIF)/Handout via REUTERS
MOSCOW—Russia has produced the first batch of its new vaccine for COVID-19, the Interfax news agency quoted the health ministry as saying on Saturday, hours after the ministry reported the start of manufacturing.
Some scientists said they fear that with this fast regulatory approval Moscow may be putting national prestige before safety amid the global race to develop a vaccine against the disease.
Russia has said the vaccine, the first for the coronavirus to go into production, will be rolled out by the end of this month.
Its approval comes before trials that would normally involve thousands of participants, commonly known as Phase III. Such trials are usually considered essential precursors for a vaccine to secure regulatory approval.
The vaccine has been named "Sputnik V" in homage to the world's first satellite launched by the Soviet Union. President Vladimir Putin has assured the public that it is safe, adding that one of his daughters had taken it as a volunteer and felt good afterwards.
Moscow's Gamaleya Institute, which developed the vaccine, said previously that Russia would be producing about 5 million doses a month by December-January, Interfax said.
info@thenationalpolicy.com2020-08-16T09:26:46+00:00August 16th, 2020|News|0 Comments


The Lightweight Cotton MA-1 Jacket is a sun faded jacket which is absolutely perfect for the spring season and cool summer nights. Styled after the original MA-1 flight jacket, the MA-1 comes constructed from 100% cotton poplin. This weather washed jacket features smooth, sun faded colors along with authentic military details. The lightweight, slim-fit jacket is available in blue color, and sports articulated sleeves and two front covered pockets.


Bexhill Rowing Social Club is a club social venue and function room for hire in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex.
We have available for hire a spacious function room that is perfect for seated dining, parties, ceremonies and receptions. The hall holds plenty of people, and features a bar with snacks and other amenities, with ample space for catering or buffet dining.
Bexhill Rowing Club is always looking to welcome new members, and the building has been staging events and special occasions for many years, and is held in high regard by the residents of Bexhill and the surrounding area. Such an iconic building on the seafront is a wonderful backdrop for your special day, and hiring the hall for your event costs comparatively little.
Visit the Club's Facebook page for pictures from the Bexhill Regatta, Clubhouse social gatherings and other events.


Pumps Selection Battery Back Up Sump Pump Manufacturer Reviews By Amazing Backup With Regard To 18 is one of pictures thet are related with the picture before in the collection gallery. If you would like to see the Pumps Selection Battery Back Up Sump Pump Manufacturer Reviews By Amazing Backup With Regard To 18 in High Resolution [HD Resolution] version, please press the right click on picures/image then choose "Save as Image" option, and done. You will get Pumps Selection Battery Back Up Sump Pump Manufacturer Reviews By Amazing Backup With Regard To 18 pictures that you want. The exactly dimension of Pumps Selection Battery Back Up Sump Pump Manufacturer Reviews By Amazing Backup With Regard To 18 was 600x483 pixels. You can also look for some pictures by collection on below this picture. Find the other picture or article about Battery Backup Sump Pump Reviews here. We hope it can help you to get information of the picture.


Lithograph, 1932, edition 50. 9 7/8 x 14 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. A fine impression in fine condition. Full margins. Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, NY. In addition to his sporting lithographs Becker was an illustrator.


text:
Verónica Ruth Frías de la Cuesta (Córdoba, 1978) es una artista contemporánea feminista española residente en Málaga, sus obras las forma mediante performances en las que su cuerpo es el sujeto de la obra.

Trayectoria artística
Graduada en Bellas Artes por la Facultad de Santa Isabel de Hungría en Sevilla en 2003. Pronto abandonó la pintura para orientar su carrera hacia el vídeo y la performance. La apropiación, el vestuario y el tatuaje son algunas de sus herramientas con las que coloca su cuerpo al servicio del arte y transforma lo personal en las prácticas artísticas. El sarcasmo, la ironía y el humor son fundamentales para la artista, aunque trata temas muy serios como la construcción de lo femenino, la maternidad, la violencia contra las mujeres o la discriminación contra las mujeres en la historia del arte. En su carrera ha tratado múltiples temas, pero todos enfocados al movimiento artístico feminista, desde su primera obra. Desde el año 2005, viene transformando su apariencia a través del disfraz, el maquillaje y hasta el camuflaje para adquirir otras identidades. Su obra ha sido reconocida con premios y ha participado en diferentes exposiciones.

Obras
Uno de sus primeras creaciones fue Quiero ser Angelina ¡Jolín! (2005) en el cual hace uso de su propio autorretrato en polaroids a las que interviene con labios recortados de revistas. Un ejercicio de cirugía estética en el que critica los cánones de belleza femeninos. Pasó a hacer una versión de la Historia del Arte en la obra Disfrazando el arte (2006), , para ello se pasea por zonas rurales de Andalucía, mediante la caracterización de ilustres artistas fundamentales en la Historia del Arte como Picasso o Andy Warhol.

En sus múltiples recursos, el vídeo forma parte no solo del registro de su obra sino que forma parte de ella como la titulada Give Me Your Blood, Thanks (2010) en ella reinterpreta la pintura de Frida Kahlo Las dos Fridas (1939). Lo representa dividiendo la pantalla en dos partes, en un lado de la pantalla se puede ver a Verónica Ruth Frías, en un período de su vida en que estaba embarazada, caracterizada como Kahlo, semidesnuda, compartiendo arterias y vida con la imagen de la Kahlo auténtica. En otra performance, vuelve a recurrir a Kahlo citada en la performance Mira que si te quise (2015), consistió en una acción colectiva en el espacio público registrando como otras mujeres cortaban el pelo de la artista.

Una de sus obras más reconocida es en la que realizó en 2011, creando su alter ego Súper M, de Súpermujer y Súpermamá, haciendo hincapié en el difícil y complejo mundo de ser mujer, madre y artista. Frias, convierte su período de maternidad en el tema central de su obra realizando su práctica artística activista empoderando la maternidad de la mujer y las dificultaddes que conlleva la conciliación con la vida laboral. Art Now realizada en los años (2017-2018), recurre a la vestimenta de rojo, recurso recurrente en casi todas sus performances, consiste en manener el equilibrio sobre una montaña de libros de Historia del Arte en los que no se incluyen nombres de mujeres. Una reivindicación a como la historia del arte ha omitido a las mujeres artistas a lo largo de los siglos. Esta performance, que realiza en el año 2018 junto a ocho mujeres en Marte, la Feria de arte de Castellón, fue también realizada en otros emplazamientos como en la Fundación Rafael Botí de Córdoba y en el Festival Maf de Málaga. En el año 2019 fue invitada por el Centro Pompidou de Málaga a realizar esta misma performance.Otra de sus performances más relevantes es la realizada entre los años 2017 al 2019, basada en una performance colaborativa titulada La última cena. Esta acción performativa la llevó a cabo en varias ciudades españolas, invitando a 12 artistas a participar en la representación junto a otras mujeres. En esta obra se recrea la famosa obra homónima de Leonardo da Vinci de Santa Maria delle Grazie. En esta nueva versión de la última cena, los apóstoles son representados por mujeres, todas vestidas de rojo, en poses estáticas hasta que son interrumpidas por sus hijos y se incorporan a la representación viéndose esta ampliada considerablemente con gran número de niños vestidos de rojo también.. En la representación de 2019 en Madrid participaron en la performance la artista María Gimeno, Marisa González, las historiadoras del arte Susana Blas y Nerea Ubieto, entre otras."Cada persona se enfrenta a la vida de una determinada manera: hay gente triste sin motivos para estarlo y gente que sonríe a cada paso por muy dura que pueda llegar esta. Esas diferentes personalidades se exportan al artista que eres ya que, para mí, la experiencia artística es una réplica de nuestra experiencia vital". Verónica Ruth Frías en la entrevista realizada en el año 2016 en Inquire Magazine En la edición 2019 de la feria internacional de arte contemporáneo ARCO de Madrid, Verónica Ruth Frías realizó el proyecto Pink Power producido por la Fundación Rafael Botí. El proyecto, consistía en una instalación de 32 carteles cuadrados, de color rosa con las letras en blanco, cuyos enunciados en inglés, suponían un ejercicio de empoderamiento femenino y una crítica hacia los estereotipos dominantes. Esta instalación la representó acompañada de la performance I am a woman, que consistió en un desfile por los pasillos de la feria, entre los stands, en el que mujeres del mundo del arte, portaban los carteles de la instalación, como reivindicación colectiva de la diversidad de roles e identidades femeninas. Los carteles contenían frases tales como: I am an artist, I am a mother, I am strong, I am a woman, I am history, I am culture, I am brave, I am rebel, etc.

Becas y residencias

 2013 Línea de Costa, Cádiz.
 2007 Beca de Producción INICIARTE, Junta de Andalucía, España.
 ·2006 Beca Rafael Botí, Fundación Provincial de Artes Plásticas Rafael Botí, Córdoba, España.
 Ayuda Producción de obra INICIARTE, Junta de Andalucía, España.
 Ayuda a la adquisición de material INICIARTE, Junta de Andalucía, España.

Exposiciones
Son numerosas las exposiciones colectivas en las que ha participado desde el año 2003 en festivales de vídeo internacionales y galerías de arte, En España en diversas ciudades como en todas las provincias de Andalucía, Palma de Mallorca, Badajoz, País Vasco, Cataluña, Bolivia, Venezuela, Cuba, Brasil y en Europa en Francia, Alemania, además en New York, Dakar.

Individuales

 2013 "Súper M", Ecco Cádiz, España.
 2012 "Súper M" Instituto Andaluz de la Juventud, Huelva, España.
 2011 Narraciones Extra(ordinarías), Galería ABA Art, Plama de Mallorca, España. Comisarío Fernando Gomezdelacuesta. *

 2010 "Yo quiero", Instituto Andaluz de la Juventud, Huelva, España.
 2009 "Press Star(t)". Un proyecto de Verónica Ruth Frías y Cyro García para la Filmoteca de Andalucía, producido por el Programa INICIARTE, Córdoba, España. *
 2008 "Comiendo PerdiZes", MECA, Mediterráneo Centro Artístico, Almería. España.
 "La noche Blanca del Flamenco", Galería Tula Prins, Córdoba, España. *
 "yo quiero mucho a mi mama" Galería Tula Prins, Córdoba, España, España.
 "Disfrazando el Arte", IX Muestra de Arte Contemporáneo D-MENCIA. Doña Mencía, Córdoba, España, España. *
 2007 "Videocreaciones", Galería Tula Prins, Córdoba, España.
 2006 "Mujeres el la Sombra", Galería La Fábrica de Licors, Palma de Mallorca, España.
 2004 "Pasajes históricos, yo también estaba allí". Sala Aires Córdoba, España.
 2002 "Pintura Neorrealista". Galería al-Mulk, Córdoba, España.
 2001 "Tiempos de reconciliación". Galería al-Mulk, Córdoba, España.
 1999 "Rostros". Sala de Exposiciones Casa de la Juventud, Córdoba España.

Obras en colecciones
 Centro de Arte Rafael Botí, Córdoba, España.
 Colección INICIARTE, CAAC, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla.
 Fundación Pepe Espaliú, Córdoba, España.
 Colección Desencaja, Instituto Andaluz de la Juventud, Junta de Andalucía.
 Colección de Arte Contemporáneo Ayuntamiento de Utrera, Sevilla, Málaga.
 Ayuntamiento de d'Arts Plàstiques de Pollensa, Palma de Mallorca, España.
 Sierra Centro de Arte, Huelva, España.
 Colección Ayuntamiento de Doña Mencía, Córdoba, España.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Programa La aventura del saber RTVE dedicado a Verónica Ruth Frías.
 Vídeo de la conferencia titulada 'El Método, según Verónica Ruth Frías'.
Participación de la artista en el VII Encuentro 'Mil Formas de Mirar y Hacer' en la Universidad Pablo de Olavide en 2019.
 Vídeo de la conferencia titulada 'Géneros y subjetividades en las prácticas artísticas contemporáneas' en La Térmica de Málaga

Artistas feministas
Artistas visuales de España
Artistas contemporáneos de España
Mujeres videoartistas
Arte y género
Feministas de España
Mujeres artistas de España
Pintoras de España
Fotógrafas de España
Artistas de performance de España
Nacidos en Córdoba (España)


How to add desktop shortcut to App volume device preferences?
I used the .vbs script solution with a shortcut on Desktop, works very well.
Thanks. That script opens the Device Properties page for the Mic - see attached screenshot. Any idea how the script can be modified to open the App volume device preferences screen?
You can change the tab number on that script. In my case I've changed from 6 to 7 and worked.
Perfect - thanks. It was 9 in my case but I now see the logic in it!


text:
Tag Archives: Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Dead And Breakfast (2004)
January 23, 2016 by marklongden
I think "Dead And Breakfast" is a victim of over-expectation. The pull quotes used on the trailer are full of praise, even if one or two of them are weirdly indirect – "sure to become some sort of cult classic" is an odd one. There's a level of expectation built up (the trailer also features two moderately big names, Portia De Rossi and David Carradine, when their level of participation in the movie is barely more than those few seconds, which is a bit of a dick move) and I feel if they'd toned it down a smidge, viewers would've been a lot happier with what they got.
But they really give it their all. Everything is thrown at the screen, every gore effect and comedy style you can think of, and…most of it is pulled off. In terms of what the finished product is most like, I'd say it's more "Brain Dead" than "Shaun Of The Dead". There are a couple of straight lifts from other horror-comedies, but by and large it finds its own niche.
How many horror movies have started with a group of teenagers / young adults in a camper van? Hundreds? I imagine fans of romance movies also do this mockery with stuff like…a woman rushing into an office with her clothes all dishevelled because she had to run for the bus and her heel broke? I don't know, I don't watch them. Anyway, this group are driving to their friend Kelly's wedding (De Rossi), and in amusingly perfunctory fashion, get lost on the way and end up in the small town of Lovelock. Even though they're driving in a massive camper van and could all sleep in there (presumably the reason they picked that particular mode of transportation) they stop off at a bed and breakfast, run by Mr Wise (Carradine) with an assist from exceptionally rude French chef Henri (Diedrich Bader). Because of reasons, there's an ancient and powerful magic box just stored on a shelf at the B&B, and when it falls off and is opened, an ancient evil spirit is released and people start getting murdered sharpish; the person in charge of the box can put a small part of someone else's body in there (blood, hair, a finger) and then that person becomes a mindless sort-of-undead slave.
So, all hell breaks loose. Our heroes and a few friendly residents (the Sheriff, the lady in charge of the Hall Of Records) up against a horde of sort-of-zombies. A mysterious drifter, who knows all about the box, also helps out – there's a group trapped in the B&B and a group who go to find Wise's body so they can do some ritual to stop it all. It's a bit tenuous, but it works. They're forced to improvise weapons, and the blood! So much blood. Gallons of the stuff – one particular gruesome beheading drenches an entire room (bringing to mind that classic lawnmower scene in "Brain Dead").
I've already mentioned some of the cast, but the rest of them are strong too. Jeremy Sisto is sort-of star Christian, the sensible-ish one; and Erik Palladino is hot-head David (Palladino and Sisto look enough alike to easily play brothers, but don't). The female side of the camper van crew is Gina Phillips, Ever Carradine and Bianca Lawson, and all five are solid TV and movie hands. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, just pre-"Supernatural" and much bigger fame, is the Sheriff, and lovers of "Friends" will recognise Vincent Ventresca, aka Fun Bobby, as the town doctor. In a direct lift from "There's Something About Mary", there's an onscreen musical narration from time to time, supplied by actor/musician Zach Selwyn – although Jonathan Richman never performed a rap song about how him and his zombie buddies are coming to eat you (the little zombie dance is another lift, though, from "C.H.U.D. 2: Bud The C.H.U.D.")
I've not even mentioned the comedy yet. It's a mix of every comic style you could think of – there's some nice wordplay in there, lots of juxtaposition (zombies shouldn't behave in this wacky way!), lots of situations where the wildly OTT action just becomes funny; but most of all it's farce. Farce is a tough one to pull off alongside everything else, but they manage it, with some lovely pratfalls and visual gags.
I appreciate I like movie trivia probably more than some of you do, but "Dead and Breakfast" has some interesting examples. Credited co-writer is Billy Burke, the actor known for "Revolution" and the "Twilight" series; turns out he and Jeffrey Dean Morgan have been friends since childhood. Burke was going to play the Drifter, but got a bigger gig; Burke asked if their other childhood friend, Brent David Fraser, could play the part instead. All three have been friends with director Matthew Leutwyler since their first days in Hollywood in the early 90s, and Leutwyler must be a good guy to work for as Palladino, Burke, Morgan and Sisto have all appeared for him multiple times.
So, it's a decent movie. Not as hilarious as it could have been, but handles the horror / comedy split better than most. Approach it with a friendly mind and you'll have a fine time.
Rating: thumbs up
Posted in Reviews.	Tagged horror comedy, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jeremy Sisto
They Came Together (2014)
August 20, 2014 by marklongden
I think David Wain is great. He's been involved in tons of hilarious things – "Stella", "Wainy Days", and "Childrens Hospital", to name a few. Of his directing work, I love "Role Models" and think "Wet Hot American Summer" and "The Ten" had brilliant moments, so I'm right in the target audience for this. With him, Michael Showalter as co-writer, and a cast crammed with America's best comic talent, it could not tick any more pre-viewing boxes.
At about the twenty minute mark, I paused this, turned to my wife and said "do they need to beat every single joke into the ground?" If you wanted to, you could stop reading there and you'd have all the information you need. The gist of it is, Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler are a couple, relating the story of how they became so to their friends Ellie Kemper and Bill Hader. They mention how it's like a bad romcom and refer to themselves as those clichés – she works in a charming little sweet shop, and he works for CSR, the world's biggest sweet conglomerate, and their story has every single roadblock and wacky misadventure you've ever seen in a rom-com. And I mean every one.
The cast list is absolutely amazing. Aside from the four of them, we have Max Greenfield, Jason Mantzoukas, Ed Helms, Cobie Smulders, and Christopher Meloni; Michael Shannon, Adam Scott and Jeffrey Dean Morgan have blink-and-you'll-miss-them cameos, and Kenan Thompson, Ken Marino and Michaela Watkins pop in too. Among many others. That is close to a comedy dream team, and they all give it their best. Which is why the fact the material gives them no laughs at all is so incredibly disappointing.
A character commenting on the action as it's going on can work, I think. I feel like it works better when there's only one or maybe two people behaving like that; when you've got the entirety of the cast telling the viewer about the romcom cliché they're working with at that moment, all the damn time, it becomes so tiring that it eventually just turns into white noise. And there's a lot of times when that is the only joke, so great swathes of the film go by and I'm sat there in stony-faced silence. Add that to the fact that they're mocking those romcom clichés at the same time as using them, and you're left wondering just what exactly the point of this is.
If this entire film had been done, exactly the same, by a slightly less well-known cast and had been written / directed by Friedberg and Setzer (the guys behind all those awful genre spoof movies) then you can absolutely guarantee it would have been slammed by the critics. Yet the entire cast and crew coast on their accumulated goodwill, and a film which my wife didn't laugh at once and I laughed maybe three times at gets great ratings (currently 69% on Rotten Tomatoes).
It treats its "hilarious" observations as if it's the first film to ever poke fun at rom-coms, when "Annie Hall" and "When Harry Met Sally…" (to name but two) have a lot more to say about the genre itself, operating from inside it, than this does. It seems to think that just noticing a cliché is enough, that you don't need to bother with funny material or doing something original with the cliché or anything like that. It seems so weird to waste an amazing cast on something like this. It's almost as if they don't think you'll get it, so keep reminding you you're watching a parody every ten seconds or so.
There are a few good bits, and non-coincidentally they're when they go off-book and just try to make something funny. Rudd's encounter with his grandmother and Christopher Meloni's extended bit about soiling his superhero outfit are fantastic, because they're not trying to be incredibly tired parodies, and have no-one in them saying out loud "look at this romcom cliché, look at it, this is why you should laugh".
This film drags. I paused it for a cup of tea, thinking I had maybe 10 minutes to go and it was barely half over. The incessant reminding you're watching a parody, rather than just doing the parodying, isn't a good idea for a decently paced film it seems. Wain and some of the cast of this are involved in "Childrens Hospital", the hilarious Adult Swim parody of hospital dramas. Those shows come in, minus adverts, at 11 minutes and are just about perfect. This film, at 83 minutes that feels like 150, ought to have been a great deal shorter. The blame on this one has to go on Wain (as director / co-writer) and Showalter as the other co-writer, I'm afraid.
Rating: thumbs down
Posted in Reviews.	Tagged Amy Poehler, Childrens Hospital, Christopher Meloni, David Wain, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Michael Shannon, Michael Showalter, Paul Rudd, unfunny comedy
Tweet Tweet Boom
Youtube Film Club: Night Hunter (1996) iscfc.net/2019/07/09/you… https://t.co/kQUWHSfsxc 6 days ago
Armageddon: The Final Challenge (1995) iscfc.net/2019/07/07/arm… https://t.co/K0lqYaQ2nN 1 week ago
Deadlocked: Escape From Zone 14 (1995) iscfc.net/2019/07/02/dea… https://t.co/CgNtqEGFoH 1 week ago
Twisted Pair (2018) iscfc.net/2019/06/30/twi… https://t.co/oIzDY0oYV3 2 weeks ago
Youtube Film Club: Deadly Ransom (1997) iscfc.net/2019/06/29/you… https://t.co/W533Nr87lx 2 weeks ago
Follow @iscfc
Support the ISCFC
to help cover our site costs
Youtube Film Club: Night Hunter (1996)
Armageddon: The Final Challenge (1995)
Deadlocked: Escape From Zone 14 (1995)
Twisted Pair (2018)


text:
Agency of Human Services
Department for Children and Families
Department of Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living
Department of Mental Health
Department of Vermont Health Access
Child & Youth Development
Disability and Aging Supports
Financial and Employment Security
General Health Care Services
Mental Health and Substance Use Services
Risk Reduction and Community Justice Services
Performance Scorecards
Vermont Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Abuse
Medicaid Administration
Global Commitment to Health 1115 Waiver
1115 Waiver Documents
2015 - 2017 Waiver Documents
Mobile Crisis Services Planning Grant
Quarterly and Annual Progress Reports
Global Commitment Register
Home and Community-Based Services Enhanced Funding
Field Services & AHS Districts
Public Records & Research
Highlighting Promising Practice
Call 211 to connect to help near you!
The Global Commitment to Health is a Demonstration Waiver authorized pursuant to Section 1115(a) by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Current CMS Approved Global Commitment to Health Section 1115 Waiver (10/12/2022)
Waiver Documents by Year:
2007 - 2013 Waiver Documents (zip file)
The initial Global Commitment to Health (GC) and Choices for Care (CFC) demonstrations were approved in September 2005, effective October 1, 2005. The GC demonstration was extended for three years, effective January 1, 2011, and again for three years effective October 2, 2013. The CFC demonstration was extended for 5 years effective October 1, 2010. The following amendments have been made to the GC demonstration:
2007: A component of the Catamount Health program was added, enabling the state to provide a premium subsidy to Vermonters who had been without health insurance coverage for a year or more, have income at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL), and who do not have access to cost effective employer-sponsored insurance, as determined by the State.
2009: The state extended Catamount Health coverage to Vermonters at or below 300 percent of the FPL.
2011: Inclusion of a palliative care program for children who are at or below 300 percent of the FPL and have been diagnosed with life limiting illnesses that would preclude them from reaching adulthood. This program allows children to receive curative and palliative care services such as expressive therapy, care coordination, family training and respite for caregivers.
2012: CMS provided authority for the State to eliminate the $75 inpatient admission copay and to implement nominal co-payments for the Vermont Health Access Plan (VHAP) as articulated in the Medicaid State Plan.
2013: CMS approved the extension of the GC demonstration which included sun-setting the authorities for most of the 1115 Expansion Populations because they would be eligible for Marketplace coverage beginning January 1, 2014. The renewal also added the New Adult Group to the demonstration effective January 1, 2014. Finally, the renewal also included premium subsidies for individuals enrolled in a qualified health plan whose income is at or below 300 percent of the FPL.
2015: As of January 30, 2015, the GC demonstration was amended to include authority for the former Choices for Care demonstration. In addition, the State received section 1115 authority to provide full Medicaid State Plan benefits to pregnant women who are determined presumptively eligible.
2017: Global Commitment demonstration is extended from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2021.
2018: Global Commitment demonstration is amended effective July 1, 2018 through December 31, 2021 to authorize Vermont to receive federal financial participation for the continuum of services to treat addictions to opioids and other substances, including services provided to Medicaid enrollees with a substance use disorder who are short-term residents in residential and inpatient treatment facilities that meet the definition of an Institution for Mental Diseases (IMD).
2019: As of December 5, 2019, the Global Commitment to Health demonstration was amended to include authority for Vermont to receive federal Medicaid funding on payments to IMDs for individuals ages 22 to 64 receiving mental health (SMI/SED) treatment for short term acute care stays that are no more than 60 days and when the statewide average length of stay meets the expectation of 30 days or less.
280 State Drive - Center Building
Waterbury, VT
Careers at AHS
Job Postings for Job Seekers
Featured Job Videos


text:
Home Opinion Hazlehurst After victory, what's next for Suthers?
After victory, what's next for Suthers?
A few days after the election, and those of us who became inured to the city's seemingly endless dysfunction during the last several years are still stunned.
Did Colorado Springs residents really vote for a massive tax increase by a two-to-one margin? Did they so trust Mayor John Suthers that they gave him a great deal of latitude in determining how, when and where the money will be spent? Did every City Council member except Helen Collins back the Mayor's proposal? Did the proponents rely on a positive, dignified campaign to make their case? Was the Mayor open, accessible and consistent? Did the voters decisively reject the Douglas Bruce/Joel Miller/Americans for Prosperity axis of negativity?
Yep on all six.
If we blamed Steve Bach, Keith King, Miller, Collins, Don Knight and Andy Pico for the dark days of 2013-15, we'll have to give King, Knight and Pico part of the credit for the turnaround. We also have to credit Council newcomers Larry Bagley, Bill Murray and Tom Strand for bringing fresh perspectives to Council. Add new leadership from Merv Bennett and Jill Gaebler and presto! We suddenly have an effective and united City Council.
But most of the credit belongs to John Suthers, whose many skills were on impressive display.
When he took office, he didn't go after Steve Bach's appointees. He made it clear that they'd be judged by their performance, and he stuck to his promise. Instead of being resentful and demoralized, senior city employees were empowered and encouraged. None sniped at him off the record — or tried subtly to undermine him.
He well understood that passing a tax increase of any kind in Colorado Springs required not just the appearance of unity, but real unanimity.
Suthers has run four substantial public enterprises as district attorney, U.S. attorney, Colorado attorney general and director of the Department of Corrections. He knows how to manage such organizations and he knows how to work cooperatively with other elected officials.
He didn't bully, cajole or scheme. He didn't communicate through the media, play favorites or get mad.
He well understood that passing a tax increase of any kind in Colorado Springs required not just the appearance of unity among city elected officials, but real unanimity.
It's tempting to compare him with Bob Isaac, who commanded the respect and affection of our citizens during his long tenure as Mayor.
Yet Isaac couldn't stop Douglas Bruce from rewriting the City Charter in 1991, because he was unwilling to risk his personal popularity for the long-term benefit of the city. He led when it was easy, and faltered when it was difficult.
Suthers may be sui generis, a Deus ex machina come to save the city from itself. So what's the next act?
The high drama is done. From now on, it's all routine administrative detail. Does Suthers really want to spend the next three-and-a-half years immersed in the minutiae of city budgets, overseeing asphalt contractors, refereeing interdepartmental disputes, hiring and firing administrators and maintaining good relations with Council?
That's boring stuff. Compared to passing 2C and 2D, it's child's play. In theory, the mayor could just sit in his office, attend events and let Chief of Staff Jeff Greene do the heavy lifting.
But that's not his style. He likes challenges, so what's ahead?
What about the United States Senate? Alone among Colorado Republicans, Suthers would have a good chance of beating incumbent Michael Bennet in 2016, and thereby ensuring continuing GOP control of the Senate. By pushing through 2C, he proved that Republicans can bring effective governance to the home of TABOR and Amendment 2. Democrats have made hay statewide by demonizing Colorado Springs, but those days are over.
Maybe it's too late to start a bruising, take-no-prisoners Senate campaign, but suppose Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush or John Kasich becomes our next president? They'll need an attorney general, and Suthers has the experience, the intelligence and the gravitas for such a job. Advise the president, argue cases before the Supreme Court, go toe-to-toe with the best and the brightest — now there's a job worth doing.
But maybe, as the Mayor has often said, he's content to be back in his hometown, engaged in a satisfying job, getting paid a nice salary and enjoying life. He's paid his dues and then some.
Maybe there are still other initiatives, other challenges ahead. Issues like increasing the Lodging and Automobile Rental Tax to better promote Pikes Peak tourism, or building a regional collaboration to tackle major issues.
Besides, it's a short commute from his house in 80906, and he doesn't have to drive I-25. Looks pretty good, compared to Denver or Washington.
Andy Pico
Don Knight
John Suthers
Keith King
Steve Bach
Previous articleC4C: Some progress, stadium lags
Next articleNaughton chose banking to help people
Hazlehurst: Why not decentralize the national government?
Hazlehurst: To beat Trump, Dems should mind their business
Hazlehurst: Time has come for state to replace TABOR
Hazlehurst: Dems' reality show might not work well
Hazlehurst: Should government be allowed to play favorites?
Hazlehurst: The coming election will be a real dog fight
Richard D Wehner November 17, 2015 at 10:27 am
What's next. For starters, a high-speed overhead monorail from the downtown convention center parking garage to Colorado Springs International Airport.
With early planning for a revitalized, C4C'd downtown to call for a 'regional transportation terminus' to be developed near the Colorado Ave and Colorado Ave area featuring space for the Santa Fe to Cheyenne light rail, moving the city transit service master location from Kiowa to the new facility – with space for cabs – and a summertime horse and buggy scenic ride through old Colorado City and Manitou with smoking section following purchases in Manitou plus good weather pedal cabs to take folks shopping in downtown Colorado Springs, dropping folks off in the dedicated Tejon pedestrian mall – and access to the high speed monorail to the airport. Think Big!
Jimmie B. November 18, 2015 at 3:13 pm
Rubio perhaps. The Jebster and John-Boy, not so much.


text:
Upcoming crime fiction events for 2017
Here are some of the crime fiction related events taking place in Ireland and abroad in 2017. More details throughout the year...
UEA Live: Rory Gleeson
Dragon Hall, King Street, Norwich
Free event with the Writers Centre Norwich. Irish writer Rory Gleeson talks about his debut novel Rockadoon Shore, due to be published in spring 2017.
Granite Noir
Aye Write!
9 - 19 March 2017
Annual literary festival.
Portsmouth Book Festival
This year's festival has several crime fiction-related sessions, including talks on the Golden Age of crime fiction and Arthur Conan Doyle's life, and The Deadly Dames on female detectives past and present.
CWA Edinburgh
Annual conference (Crime Writers' Association members only).
Chiplit Festival
Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
Big names in previous years include Lee Child, Mark Billingham and Paula Hawkins.
Crimefest
First organised in June 2008, Crimefest is one of the most popular dates in the international crime fiction calendar, drawing top writers, readers, publishers and reviewers from around the world.
International Literature Festival
Formerly known as the Dublin Writers Festival.
Focal Literary Festival
May 2017 TBA
Crime events held in conjunction with the annual festival in England. Exact dates to be confirmed.
Kells, County Meath
Now in its fifth year, this is a rebranding of the annual Hay Festival Kells. The 2016 line up featured writers from the Irish crime fiction scene including Jax Miller, Liz Nugent and Vanessa Ronan.
Borris House Festival of Ideas
Borris, County Carlow
This "summertime festival for the cuturally curious" brings together authors, artists, musicians, historians, journalists and the odd crime fiction writer or two.
Agatha Christie: A Reappraisal
Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge
Academic conference. Confirmed keynote speakers include Julius Green (author of Curtain Up: Agatha Christie: A Life in Theatre) and Merja Makinen (author of Agatha Christie: Investigating Femininity).
Belfast Book Festival
Dates and speakers to be confirmed.
Dalkey Book Festival
Last year's line-up included crime fiction writers Declan Hughes and John Connolly.
BGE Irish Book Awards (submissions)
Submissions open for the 2017 awards, including the Crime Fiction category.
Thrillerfest
Grand Hyatt, New York
The annual conference of the International Thriller Writers. The 2017 line-up includes Lee Child, Lisa Gardner, Heather Graham and John Lescroart.
Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival
Harrogate, North Yorkshire
The line-up already includes Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Peter May, Stuart MacBride and Kathy Reichs..
Includes dozens of crime fiction events. Programme launch is in June.
St Hilda's Crime and Mystery Weekend
Author Lee Child was last year's guest of honour.
Bloody Scotland
8 - 10 September 2017
Last year's line-up featured Stuart Neville and Steve Cavanagh.
Cheltenham Literary Festival
6 - 15 October 2017
Among those appearing at last year's festival were Asking For It author Louise O'Neill, John Banville, Paula Hawkins, Frederick Forsyth and Clare Mackintosh.
Red Line Book Festival
The annual festival around south Dublin usually features sessions on Irish crime fiction.
Malahide, County Dublin
The now annual crime fiction festival, usually on the bank holiday weekend at the end of October.
Killer Women Crime Writing Festival
Line up and dates to be confirmed. Last year's speakers at Shoreditch Town Hall in London included Mark Billingham, Ann Cleeves, Martina Cole and Val McDermid.
Dublin Book Festival
BGE Irish Book Awards
The awards night in Dublin.
Iceland Noir Crime Fiction Festival


Combining high functionality with elegant design, the latest-generation Sports Tourer has a stable, robust stance, complete with muscular rear-wheel arch contours and divided rear-light clusters. With its slightly arched, sloping roofline, it appears sleeker and longer than the original – an effect further enhanced by the divided C-pillar.
While it has the same dimensions as the outgoing model, the Astra Sports Tourer offers much more space for drivers, passengers and luggage alike.
The Astra Sports Tourer is the first Vauxhall model to be available from launch with our personal connectivity and service assistant, OnStar. OnStar offers many services, such as in-car access to an advisor 24/7 and 365 days a year and emergency assistance. You can also take advantage of a 4G in-car wi-fi hotspot, which can connect up to seven devices simultaneously. (Standard on SRi and Elite models, optional on the other trims).
You are also in safe hands with the Motability team at Wilson and Co. We are committed to ensuring that you have complete peace of mind and will be happy to discuss the Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer with you and arrange a test drive to suit you. We are always happy to arrange a home visit and can bring the car to you or to carers and other drivers that may be involved in the decision. Please call or fill in an enquiry form so that we can begin to understand your requirements and tell you how Motability at Wilson and Co can assist.
The most fuel economical new Astra Sports Tourer is the 1.6 CDTi SRi Nav 136PS S/S BlueInjection.
The new Astra Sports Tourer with the lowest CO2 emissions is the 1.6 CDTi Design 136PS S/S BlueInjection.
The new Astra Sports Tourer with the highest performance is the 1.4i SRi Nav 150PS Turbo.
Choose from 4 different Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer grades.


I visited the Philippines recently and found the team very excited about their short term mission trip to the Cagayan Valley - the ninth Kawa Saka.
Sixteen people had travelled from Manila and Laguna, making it the biggest Kawa Saka ever!
Late last year the team recorded messages in four languages spoken in the area.
They had the joy of seeing a new congregation form and a disbanded congregation reform during the translation and recording process. Previously there was no church amongst speakers of the Atta Pudtol language, and the Atta Pamplona congregation had not met for over a year. After much prayer for these people, the church in the town of Pamplona now leads these new churches. Church people greeted our recording team as an answer to prayer - and now they added a further fourteen people to the Kawa Saka team.
The Kawa Saka team, now numbering thirty, sought to minister holistically to these people and show God's love for them. They provided meals to the local people as well as the team, feeding over 1,000 people during the course of the visit. They distributed shoes (500 pairs), clothing, hygiene packs, and food parcels donated by generous people and churches in the big city.
Fun was an important component as they ran programs for children and adults. They played games and shared food as well as talked about their faith. At night they showed movies on a big screen and again shared their faith. The team gave Saber players and flipcharts to churches as well as CDs and pocket books to individuals. They also played and distributed the recordings made last year.
The GRN team said it was the best Kawa Saka ever held. The involvement of the Pamplona Church was a new and exciting experience for them. They learned ministry skills and had opportunity to reach out to their neighbours. The team hopes that some church members will join them again next year for Kawa Saka 10.
The team from Manila and Laguna were enriched by serving alongside the Pamplona people. They returned home enthusiastic and wanting to come back next year. Pray for these people to use their newly learned skills and experiences in their own churches and to encourage missionary work and prayer.
It was a real joy for the team to worship with and encourage the two new congregations which live in remote areas and do not have weekly services. They were happy to have the recordings to use on the weeks when no preacher is sent.
Please pray for these new Christians to grow in their faith and Christian maturity.
Pray for Jurine (Director), Mary Ann (recordist and admin), Francis (trainee recordist) and Hannah (admin trainee) as they seek to tell the story of Jesus in the languages of the Philippines.
I am so heartened to see this team working together well after a very difficult start to 2016. They were on the verge of collapse, but now they are excited about the future. They are preparing for their next recording trip, preparing to tell people in Manila and Laguna about their work, and making plans for Kawa Saka 10. I give thanks to God for this team and for the work he has done through them in Cagayan Valley.


Duncan comes to us with over a decade of corporate paralegal and administrative experience. Before entering the corporate workforce, he was a police officer and is a United States Air Force Veteran, and graduated from The University of Massachusetts – Lowell. Duncan is the 2016 "Editors Choice Award" recipient as voted by readers and editorial staff for The Merrimack Valley publication "The Valley Patriot". Duncan is originally from The North Shore but now calls The Merrimack Valley home with his wife and two children.


Established in 2012, this construction clean up business is still growing. Company has two main customers, new home builders, located in the area of Fort Myers, which both bring sales of about $10K a month. Other smaller accounts bring the rest of sales which average $25K/mo. Owner oversees the operations, and permanent and part timer workers do the operation. Seller may consider a small promissory note for a qualified buyer.


Internet Explorer: Tools → Internet Options → Privacy → Settings. For more information, you can consult Microsoft support or browser Help.
Firefox: Tools → Options → Privacy → History → Custom Settings. For more information, you can consult Mozilla support or the browser Help.
Chrome: Settings → Show advanced settings → Privacy → Content settings. For more information, you can check Google support or browser Help.


Comment(s): The City of Burnsville offers a Traveling Bean Bags league in partnership with other SORR communities, including: Apple Valley, Burnsville, Eagan, Farmington, Lakeville, Rosemount, and Savage. This league will take place on Wednesday nights from June 5th through July 31st (playoffs set for August 7th). Each week, teams of two will travel to a different community to play their doubleheader games. Locations will be communicated to teams.


text:
Molly Bull
VP of Marketing, Sudara Inc.
Molly's passion for social justice combined with more than twenty years' experience in Marketing Communications, both in the corporate world and nonprofit sector, drew her instantly to Sudara. Taking concept, to strategy, to measurable execution is Molly's favorite recipe for meaningful impact, and it was immediately apparent that Sudara was a perfect fit with its tireless effort to achieve global gender equity as a certified Benefit Corporation. She wanted to be part of the change.
A life-long philanthropist, Molly's draw to help others began with volunteer work as a crime victim advocate for the Deputy District Attorney's office where she counseled and guided victims who were ordered to testify in court. Her commitment to understanding human behavior is what drew Molly to the marketing communications world, and joining Microsoft Corporation's disaster response program fueled her 'give back' nature, where she oversaw deployment of communications systems during large-scale natural disasters, and was the recipient of Microsoft Operations' Innovation Hero award. Most recently, Head of Marketing for a global nonprofit organization with a mission to eliminate corneal blindness, Molly co-led immersion trips to Asia that raised significant funds for the cause and built global awareness and advocacy. She has authored a number of speeches and industry publications for known media outlets.
With her deep-rooted experience in marketing, communications, public relations, and strategic development, Molly oversees all things marketing for Sudara. Her commitment is to connect with and compel others to join the mission to eliminate human trafficking as we all lift society as a whole.
November 01, 2019 by Sudara Admin
Tags: U.S.


text:
Q: React native Flatlist official documentation not rendering I took the example in official React native documentation to apply, just changed few things that should not matter at all, and added <Text> so I can make sure the component is exported properly in my parent component.
The part with List problem shows but the list itself doesn't show. I tested Scollview with mapping DATA before Flatlist and it worked but Flatlist doesn't work.
import React from "react";
import { View, Text,  SafeAreaView, FlatList, StyleSheet } from "react-native";

function Item({ title }) {
  return (
    <View style={styles.item}>
      <Text style={styles.title}>{title}</Text>
    </View>
  );
}

const ListOfTrips = () => {
  const DATA = [
    {
      id: 'bd7acbea-c1b1-46c2-aed5-3ad53abb28ba',
      title: 'First Item',
    },
    {
      id: '3ac68afc-c605-48d3-a4f8-fbd91aa97f63',
      title: 'Second Item',
    },
    {
      id: '58694a0f-3da1-471f-bd96-145571e29d72',
      title: 'Third Item',
    },
  ];

  return (
    <View>
      <Text> List problem </Text>
     <SafeAreaView style={styles.container}>
      <FlatList
        data={DATA}
        renderItem={({ item }) => <Item title={item.title} />}
        keyExtractor={item => item.id}
      />
    </SafeAreaView>
    </View>
  );
};

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    marginTop: 250,
  },
  item: {
    backgroundColor: '#f9c2ff',
    padding: 20,
    marginVertical: 8,
    marginHorizontal: 16,
  },
  title: {
    fontSize: 32,
  },
});

export default ListOfTrips;

A: This issue is because of SafeAreaView placing is not proper. Refactor your return as
 return (
      <SafeAreaView>
          <Text> List problem </Text>
          <FlatList
              data={DATA}
              renderItem={({ item }) => <Item title={item.title} />}
              keyExtractor={item => item.id}
          />
      </SafeAreaView>
  );

The SafeAreaView should be used as root tag of the screen to avoid view mis alignment in notch devices.
Kindly refer React-Native SafeAreaView

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


mediante una conexin WiFi. Amazon Fire u otro streaming box funciona a traves del internet, el how to get a uk proxy for free ROKU, esta cajita se enlaza con el Wifi lo que le permite visualizar el contenido disponible a traves de los varios canales de la tienda ROKU o Amazon.
free proxy how to get a uk proxy for free to surf the web in total freedom. What is a proxy server? Anonymster offers a complimentary HTTPS web proxy completely free of charge.
Et puis, sans ce systme, je naurais jamais pu devenir ingnieur (il ny a qu voir comment a se passe dans dautres pays, au niveau des frais de scolarit dj). Alors oui, aucun systme nest parfait et on peut toujours trouver matire critiques, mais la.
Once you have a router that is flashed with DD-WRT, you can follow the below steps. Go to Control Panel in your computer. If all the networking cables are correctly connected, you should see a VPN router control panels in your Control Panel. When you.
el Valor Presente Neto (VPN)) o tambin conocido como Valor Actual Neto (VAN)) es actualmente uno de los mtodos de anlisis ms utilizado y sencillo para evaluar how to get a uk proxy for free proyectos de inversin a largo plazo.psiphon is open code browser which avoids censorship that millions of people suffering from. Download Psiphon for iPhone. Censorship blocks the content data and keeps restriction how to get a uk proxy for free for accessing it. Its easy and we have already shown you in my blog how to.open "System Preferences then "Network". Select "VPN (L2TP in Service Name field.) find and click " in the how to get a uk proxy for free list on the left side of the window. In the Network configuration window, this will show the configuration screen for setting up a VPN connection.
if youre not the administrator of the VPN server how to get a uk proxy for free we recommend that you first check that you have been given permission to do this, to do this, or you may find that the remote server disallows it.we do not how to get a uk proxy for free provide clientless VPN support for Java, auto applet download, smart tunnels, port forwarding, plug-ins,however, the VPN App works great for public coffee shops, the place where most people how to get a uk proxy for free forget about perfect privacy arch keeping all of their web traffic secure is their home. Airports, and places where you would connect to a public wireless connection or free WiFi.
uk While these web proxy sites are almost perfect, so If you prefer other UK proxy sites, it is not always how to get a uk proxy for free a guarantee that they can always able to unblock websites whenever you wish. Uk.
the software offers three running modes : Anonymous Proxy express vpn on netgear nighthawk Mode, how to get a uk proxy for free expat Internet Browsing Mode and Unblock Websites Mode.
vPN. PPTP was developed by Microsoft about 30 years ago and is used vpn server android pptp all how to get a uk proxy for free over the world for a simple and fast.


text:
package self.micromagic.eterna.dao;

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.SQLException;

import self.micromagic.eterna.share.EternaException;

/**
 * 数据库的更新对象.
 */
public interface Update extends Dao
{
	/**
	 * 执行本数据库更新对象.
	 *
	 * @return    更新的记录数.
	 */
	int executeUpdate(Connection conn) throws EternaException, SQLException;

	/**
	 * 获取前一次executeUpdate方法的执行结果.
	 *
	 * @return  前一次的执行结果, 如果返回-1表示未执行或执行的是execute方法
	 */
	int getExecutedResult() throws EternaException;

}


text:
1955 establishments, 1950s establishments, ABC network affiliates,
Former NBC network affiliates
Former CBS network affiliates
Local television stations in Rapid City, South Dakota
Local television stations in the state of South Dakota
KOTA-TV
KOTA Territory (general)
KOTA Territory News (newscasts)
Coverage You Can Count On
Digital: 2 (VHF)Virtual: 3 (PSIP)
3.1 ABC3.2 RTV
3.3 This TV
Duhamel Broadcasting
South DaKOTA (pronounced as "kota")
Analog:3 (VHF, 1955-2009)
Primary:CBS (1955-1976)
ABC/CBS (1965-1976) Secondary: ABC (1955-1965) NBC (1955-1958, 1976-1988)
44°4′7.7″N 103°15′5″W / 44.068806°N 103.25139°W / 44.068806; -103.25139
www.kotatv.com
www.kduhtv.com
KOTA serves a large area in western South Dakota, eastern Montana, eastern Wyoming and the Nebraska panhandle. It calls its vast coverage area "KOTA Territory."
2 Rebroadcasters
3 On-air staff
3.1 Current on-air staff
4 News/station presentation
5 Logos
KOTA debuted on the air on July 1, 1955 as the first television station in western South Dakota. It originally carried programming from all three networks, though it was a primary CBS affiliate. It was owned by local Rapid City businesswoman Helen Duhamel along with KOTA radio; her family still owns the station today.
When KRSD, the original channel 7 in Rapid City, signed on in 1958, it took the NBC affiliation, sharing ABC with KOTA.
In 1965, KOTA took on an unusual "joint primary" affiliation with CBS and ABC, slightly favoring CBS. It was certainly quite a struggle to fit as many network shows as possible onto the schedule, especially in the daytime, so KRSD had to take up some of the slack. But KRSD always had a painfully weak signal which, by 1966, had deteriorated to the point of unacceptability. KRSD finally gave up on December 31, 1971.
Fortunately for KOTA, the original Prime Time Access Rule had taken effect by this time, which made it easier for the station to clear shows from both CBS and ABC. From January 1972 until June 1976, KOTA had only PBS station KBHE as a competitor; NBC had to be piped in on cable from KOA-TV in Denver (now KCNC-TV).
The coverage of KOTA satellite KDUH in Scottsbluff clashed with the coverage of KSTF, a satellite of KYCU-TV in Cheyenne (now KGWN), especially with CBS programs. In February 1976, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) awarded a channel 7 license to KEVN, in order to relieve KOTA of its heavy network load and to end the duplication problem in Scottsbluff. When KEVN opened on July 11, 1976, it took all CBS programming. KOTA and its satellites became primary ABC affiliates. As consolation, both stations added secondary NBC affiliations.
Then in November 1988, KELO-TV in Sioux Falls put a Rapid City satellite of its own on the air, KCLO, which took the CBS affiliation. KOTA then became a full-time ABC affiliate, leaving KEVN with NBC and, eventually, Fox.
In 2009, KOTA-TV and its satellite stations added the Retro Television Network and This TV on their digital subchannels.
Rebroadcasters
KOTA's programming is also shown on a network of three satellite stations:
[show]Map of all coordinates from GoogleMap of all coordinates from Bing
Map of all microformatted coordinates
Station City of license Channels First air date ERP HAAT Facility ID Transmitter Coordinates
KDUH-TV Scottsbluff, Nebraska Digital: 7 (VHF)Virtual: 4 (PSIP) March 5, 1958 32 kW 475 m 17683 41°50′27.7″N 103°4′28.8″W / 41.841028°N 103.074667°W / 41.841028; -103.074667 (KDUH-TV)
KHSD-TV Lead, South Dakota Digital: 10 (VHF)Virtual: 11 (PSIP) November 2, 1966 34.8 kW 576 m 17686 44°19′35.1″N 103°50′9″W / 44.326417°N 103.83583°W / 44.326417; -103.83583 (KHSD-TV)
KSGW-TV Sheridan, Wyoming Digital: 13 (VHF)Virtual: 12 (PSIP) December 28, 1977 50 kW 372 m 17680 44°37′23″N 107°7′2.3″W / 44.62306°N 107.117306°W / 44.62306; -107.117306 (KSGW-TV)
KDUH is a semi-satellite of KOTA, airing separate commercials. It once produced its own full-length newscasts as well. However, due to recent cutbacks, KDUH's newscasts have been reduced to inserts in KOTA's newscasts. KHSD and KSGW are full repeaters of KOTA.
KDUH is also carried as the local ABC affiliate on Dish Network's Cheyenne-Scottsbluff local feed. Since KTWO-TV in Casper, which is carried on KLWY's digital subcarrier, isn't carried on Dish, KDUH effectively serves as the local ABC station for satellite subscribers in southeastern Wyoming.
When KHSD was being launched, the Duhamels made a deal with KDIX-TV in Dickinson, North Dakota (now KXMA) to provide programming for that station, as KDIX was close enough to Dickinson that its engineers would be able to pick up KHSD's signal. Consequently, KDIX was practically a satellite of KOTA from November 1966 until KEVN signed on nearly a decade later.
Helene Duhamel - weeknights at 5:30PM (also "Family Healthcast" reporter)
Alicia Garcia - weeknights at 10PM (also consumer reporter)
Jason Tarr- weekends
Makenzi Henderson - weekends at 10PM (also producer and reporter)
Cindy Davis - weekdays at noon (also producer)
Eric Gardner - weekday mornings and 5:30PM
Rachael Embler - general assignment reporter
Katy Urban - general assignment reporter
Jason Tarr - general assignment reporter
Mike Modrick (AMS Seal of Approval) - Chief Meteorologist; weeknights at 5:30 and 10PM
Eric Gardner (NWA Seal of Approval) - Meteorologist; weekday mornings and noon
Justin Fanfarilli - Meteorologist; weekends at 10PM (also producer/general assignment reporter)
Dick Horkey - Meteorologist; fill-in
Vic Quick - Sports Director; weeknights at 5:30 and 10PM (lover of cheese)
Chris Neyenhouse - Sports Anchor; weekends at 10PM (also general assignment reporter)
Newsline (19??–1989)
KOTA Territory News (1989–present)
You'll Love It on KOTA Territory (1985-1986; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
Together on KOTA (1986-1987; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
Your 24-Hour News Source (1990-2000)
Your Local News Leader (2000-2003)
Live. Local. (2003-2006)
Coverage You Can Count On (2006-present)
[1] This film, television or video-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it with reliably sourced additions.
KOTA Territory - Thursday promo from Fall 1985
NBC Daytime - Another World bumper w/KEVN-TV Rapid City byline from Fall 1985
KEVN Action News 7 - Pat Dooris ident from Fall 1985
KEVN Action News 7 - Karie Angell ident from Fall 1985
NBC Network - Bridge Across Time - Friday promo w/KEVN-TV Rapid City byline for November 22, 1985
KOTA Territory - Weekdays promo from Fall 1986
KOTA Newsline 5PM Weeknight open from June 25, 1987
KEVN Fox 7 logo from 1996
KOTA Territory News 5:30PM open from Early February 2016
KOTA Territory News 10PM open from Early February 2016
KEVN Black Hills Fox News 9PM Weeknight close from December 19, 2017
KOTA Territory News 10PM Weeknight open from May 22, 2018
K06JM 6 Gillette, Wyoming (repeating KSGW)
K02NT 2 Scottsbluff, Nebraska (repeating KDUH)
K02NY 2 Chadron, Nebraska (repeating KDUH)
K08IP Baker, Montana (repeating KHSD)
K13WT Plevna, Montana (repeating KOTA)
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
KOTA-TV website
KDUH-TV website
Query the FCC's TV station database for KOTA
Query the FCC's TV station database for KDUH
Query the FCC's TV station database for K02NT
Query the FCC's TV station database for K02NY
Query the FCC's TV station database for KHSD
Query the FCC's TV station database for K08IP
Query the FCC's TV station database for KSGW
Query the FCC's TV station database for K06JM
Retrieved from "https://annex.fandom.com/wiki/KOTA-TV?oldid=396873"


text:
FilmJabber
Movie Overview Movie Synopsis Movie Review Movie Trailers
Blood Diamond (2006)
March 20, 2007 (Buy on Amazon)
Charles Leavitt, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz
Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly, James Purefoy, Arnold Vosloo, Stephen Collins, Michael Sheen
Rated R for strong violence and language
Set against the backdrop of the chaos and civil war that enveloped 1990s Sierra Leone, "Blood Diamond" is the story of Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), a South African mercenary, and Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou), a Mende fisherman. Both men are African, but their histories and their circumstances are as different as any can be—until their fates become joined in a common quest to recover a rare pink diamond that can transform their lives.
While in prison... Full synopsis »
Leonardo DiCaprio already wowed audiences once with The Departed, but can he do it a second time within the span of three months? From Edward Zwick, the director of The Last Samurai, Legends of the Fall and Glory, comes Blood Diamond, an in-your-face look at the mining of so-called conflict diamonds in Africa. Full movie review »