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Northwest Road Trip: The Ale and Wine Trail
THE ROUTE: Yakima, WA > Moxee, WA > Benton City, WA > Milton-Freewater, OR > Walla Walla, WA (150 miles).
WHY GO: Eastern Washington and Oregon let both beer and wine lovers see the ag roots of their preferred libation—and offer an excellent range of tasting rooms.
WHO IT’S FOR: Enophiles and hopheads who travel together.
WHERE TO STAY: Desert Wind Winery has four guest rooms above their adobe tasting room near Prosser. For a deluxe stay near Walla Walla, try The Inn at Abeja, where guests have access to the winery’s tasting room. Desert Wind: From $275, including tasting; desertwindwinery.com. Abeja: From $245, including tasting; abeja.net.
Yakima Craft Brewing Co. Yakima’s original craft brewery has a very small taproom but a broad range of fresh ales, all of them brewed on-site. No tasting fee; yakimacraftbrewing.com
Gilbert Cellars. From rosé to Riesling, the chic tasting room has downtown Yakima’s best palate pleasers. $5 tasting; gilbertcellars.com
Bale Breaker Brewing Co. Nestled between acres of hops first planted in the late 1800s, the popular new Moxee brewery offers tastings in its Baling Room and brewery tours. Tasting from $3; tours on Sat; balebreaker.com
Red Mountain AVA. Find a taste of France—palatial château included—at Hedges Family Estate, balanced Bordeaux-style reds at Cooper Wine Company, or luxurious Cabernets at Col Solare, all in Benton City in the Red Mountain region. Hedges: $5 tasting; hedgesfamilyestate.com. Cooper: $10 tasting; cooperwinecompany.com. Col Solare: No tasting fee Sat; colsolare.com.
Dragon’s Gate Brewery. Small-batch Belgian-style ales are crafted with hops grown at Dragon’s Gate Farm in Milton-Freewater, Oregon. No tasting fee; dragonsgatebrewery.com
Charles Smith Wines. Taste award-winning wines with names like “Eve” and “Boom Boom” in a converted downtown Walla Walla auto warehouse that also has sidewalk seating. Tasting from $5; charlessmithwines.com
DETOUR: Milton-Freewater, OR. A wine-and-chocolate pairing at Petits Noirs, a boutique chocolatier. petitsnoirs.com
BEST ROAD FOOD: Housemade pork tamales. The hokey Country Mercantile in Pasco, WA, has every car snack imaginable, but you’ll want to sit down for a plate of the tamales. $; countrymercantile.com
PLUS: Two Mountain Winery. Do a movie and dinner at the vineyards in Zillah, WA. Aug 10 and 31; twomountainwinery.com


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Methaq Takaful also plans to open a fifth branch in Jebel Ali, Dubai. The company’s long-term strategy features successive openings of branches throughout the UAE to meet the diverse demands of its customers for insurance products.
Methaq offers car insurance, marine cargo insurance, travel insurance, residence insurance, and a small- and medium-size enterprises (SME) package, along with other products and solutions. The company has also launched, in cooperation with Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (YahSat), an innovative, one-of-a-kind Takaful insurance program for managing satellite risks. This program covers the launch of two satellites into the open space for YahSat, the first of which was successfully launched on 23 April.
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Helping children cope with illness in the family
Turning Point children's programs offer children and families affected by a serious illness, such as cancer, the opportunity to develop positive coping strategies through unique, skill-based, developmentally appropriate experiences. Programs are conducted through workshops, camps, and six-week groups at NO COST to the families. Please call or visit our website for more information. The mission of Turning Point is to enhance the lives of individuals, families and friends living with cancer and other serious or chronic illness through innovative education and support services that complement medical care. Turning Point's programs for parents and children are designed specifically to help the entire family live well with the stress and change brought about by a family member's serious or chronic illness. Many families experience emotional, social and physical distress when a loved one is diagnosed with a serious or chronic illness. Children are especially vulnerable as their routines and sense of their world are turned upside down. In most cases, children are very aware when stress and change impact a family. Honest, accurate, and age-appropriate communication will be your best guides as you discuss your health with children. Creating an ongoing dialogue and a safe outlet for their emotions can assist your child's ability to cope and grow through difficult times.
The following suggestions may help children cope with illness in the family:
- Tell your child the truth. When they are included, children have the best chance to cope and regain a sense of stability. Tell them the name of your disease and your best understanding of what may happen.
- Let children know what you are doing to treat your illness and what the potential side effects are.
- Be sure that your child knows the seriousness of your illness. Children often imagine the worst and not talking about the possibility of death can cause a great deal of fear and anxiety.
- Make sure that your child knows that they did nothing to cause your illness and that they cannot "catch" your illness.
- Encourage children to ask questions.
- Find and use extra support from extended family, neighbors and friends.
- Remind your child that all feelings are OK and that it is important to express them.
- Help your child find appropriate ways to express anger.
- Try to keep family routines as normal as possible.
- Reassure your child that they will be cared for no matter what.
- Express your own emotions in front of your child. It models for them that it is ok to feel different things.
- Keep your child's school and teacher informed of what is going on in the family.
- Let your child know it is not their job to make you feel better.
- Reassure children that it is still ok to have fun.
- Look for changes in behavior, like sleep or eating disturbances or developmental trouble. These can be important warning signs that your child needs help.
Turning Point Programs for Children and Parents:
Step by Step: (4-6 year olds) & Fork in the Road: (7-12 year olds). In a group setting, your child uses fun, age-appropriate activities in music, art, and play to learn how to communicate feelings about an adult family member's illness.
Crossroads: (13-18 year olds) In a supportive group setting, teens create a video that expresses what it is like to have an adult family member facing illness.
My Time: A relaxing support program for parents that is held concurrently while the children are in session.
Teen Transitions Project: Helping teens with a serious or chronic illness navigate life's many transitions - from typical adolescent issues to changing health care providers.
Camp Courage: a 3 day camp, held in conjunction with Children Mercy Hospital, for children ages 6-14 diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease.
Camp Compass: a nature based day camp for children with a sibling diagnosed with a serious illness.
Camp Horizons: (4-12) COMING SOON! A day camp for children whose families reside in Eastern Jackson County and who have an adult family member with a serious illness.
Call Turning Point at 913-383-8700 to enroll your child, receive more information, or schedule a tour!
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Google has announced changes to the licensing model for its Android mobile operating system in Europe, including introducing a fee for licensing some of its own brand apps, saying it’s doing so to comply with a major European antitrust ruling this summer. In July the region’s antitrust regulators hit Google with a recordbreaking $5BN fine for […]
Google has announced changes to the licensing model for its Android mobile operating system in Europe, including introducing a fee for licensing some of its own brand apps, saying it’s doing so to comply with a major European antitrust ruling this summer.
In July the region’s antitrust regulators hit Google with a recordbreaking $5BN fine for violations pertaining to Android, finding the company had abused the dominance of the platform by requiring manufacturers pre-install other Google apps in order to license its popular Play app store.
Regulators also found Google had made payments to manufacturers and mobile network operators in exchange for exclusively pre-installing Google Search on their devices, and used Play store licensing to prevent manufacturers from selling devices based on Android forks.
Google disputes the Commission’s findings, and last week filed its appeal — a legal process that could take years. But in the meanwhile it’s making changes to how it licenses Android in Europe to avoid the risk of additional penalties heaped on top of the antitrust fine.
Hiroshi Lockheimer, Google’s senior vice president of platforms & ecosystems, revealed the new licensing options in a blog post published today.
Under updated “compatibility agreements”, he writes that mobile device makers will be able to build and sell Android devices intended for the European Economic Area (EEA) both with and without Google mobile apps preloaded — something Google’s same ‘compatibility’ contracts restricted them from doing before, when it was strictly either/or (either you made Android forks, or you made Android devices with Google apps — not both).
“Going forward, Android partners wishing to distribute Google apps may also build non-compatible, or forked, smartphones and tablets for the European Economic Area (EEA),” confirms Lockheimer.
However the company is also changing how it licenses the full Android bundle — which previously required OEMs to load devices with the Google mobile application suite, Google Search and the Chrome browser in order to be able to offer the popular Play Store — by introducing fees for OEMs wanting to pre-load a subset of those same apps under “a new paid licensing agreement for smartphones and tablets shipped into the EEA”.
Though Google stresses there will be no charge for using the Android platform itself. (So a pure fork without any Google services preloaded still wouldn’t require a fee.)
Google also appears to be splitting out Google Search and Chrome from the rest of the Google apps in its mobile suite (which traditionally means stuff like YouTube, the Play Store, Gmail, Google Maps, although Lockheimer’s blog post does not make it clear which exact apps he’s talking about) — letting OEMs selectively unbundle some Google apps, albeit potentially for a fee, depending on the apps in question.
“[D]evice manufacturers will be able to license the Google mobile application suite separately from the Google Search App or the Chrome browser,” is what Lockheimer unilluminatingly writes.
Perhaps Google wants future unbundled Android forks to still be able to have Google Search or Chrome, even if they don’t have the Play store, but it’s really not at all clear which configurations of Google apps will be permitted under the new licensing terms, and which won’t.
“Since the pre-installation of Google Search and Chrome together with our other apps helped us fund the development and free distribution of Android, we will introduce a new paid licensing agreement for smartphones and tablets shipped into the EEA. Android will remain free and open source,” Lockheimer adds, without specifying what the fees will be either.
“We’ll also offer new commercial agreements to partners for the non-exclusive pre-installation and placement of Google Search and Chrome. As before, competing apps may be pre-installed alongside ours,” he continues to complete his trio of poorly explained licensing changes.
We’ve asked Google to clarify the various permitted and not permitted app configurations, as well as which apps will require a fee (and which won’t), and how much the fees will be, and will update this post with any response.
The devil in all those details should become clear soon though, as Google says the new licensing options will come into effect on October 29 for all new (Android based) smartphones and tablets launched in the EEA.
Google has lodged its legal appeal against the European Commission’s €4.34 billion (~$5BN) antitrust ruling against its Android mobile OS, according to Reuters — the first step in a process that could keep its lawyers busy for years to come. “We have now filed our appeal of the EC’s Android decision at the General Court of the […]
Google has lodged its legal appeal against the European Commission’s €4.34 billion (~$5BN) antitrust ruling against its Android mobile OS, according to Reuters — the first step in a process that could keep its lawyers busy for years to come.
“We have now filed our appeal of the EC’s Android decision at the General Court of the EU,” it told the news agency, via email.
We’ve reached out to Google for comment on the appeals process.
Rulings made by the EU’s General Court in Luxembourg can be appealed to the top court, the Court of Justice of the European Union, but only on points of law.
Europe’s competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, announced the record-breaking antitrust penalty for Android in July, following more than two years of investigation of the company’s practices around its smartphone operating system.
Vestager said Google had abused the regional dominance of its smartphone platform by requiring that manufacturers pre-install other Google apps as a condition for being able to license the Play Store.
She also found the company had made payments to some manufacturers and mobile network operators in exchange for them exclusively pre-installing Google Search on their devices, and used Google Play licensing to prevent manufacturers from selling devices based on Android forks — which would not have to include Google services and, in Vestager’s view, “could have provided a platform for rival search engines as well as other app developers to thrive”.
Google rejected the Commission’s findings and said it would appeal.
In a blog post at the time, Google CEO Sundar Pichai argued the contrary — claiming the Android ecosystem has “created more choice, not less” for consumers, and saying the Commission ruling “ignores the new breadth of choice and clear evidence about how people use their phones today”.
According to Reuters the company reiterated its earlier arguments in reference to the appeal.
A spokesperson for the EC told us simply: “The Commission will defend its decision in Court.”
The European Union’s competition commission is looking into how Amazon uses data from retailers selling via its ecommerce marketplace, Reuters reports. Competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager revealed the action today during a press conference. “We are gathering information on the issue and we have sent quite a number of questionnaires to market participants in order to […]
The European Union’s competition commission is looking into how Amazon uses data from retailers selling via its ecommerce marketplace, Reuters reports.
Competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager revealed the action today during a press conference. “We are gathering information on the issue and we have sent quite a number of questionnaires to market participants in order to understand this issue in full,” she said.
It’s not a formal antitrust probe at this stage, with Vestager also telling reporters: “These are very early days and we haven’t formally opened a case. We are trying to make sure that we get the full picture.”
The Commission appears to be trying to determine whether or not third-party merchants selling on Amazon’s platform are being placed at a disadvantage vs the products Amazon also sells, thereby competing directly with some of its marketplace participants.
Companies found to be in breach of EU antitrust rules can be fined up to 10 per cent of their global annual turnover.
We’ve reached out to Amazon for comment.
In recent years the ecommerce giant has greatly expanded the own-brand products it sells via its marketplace, such as via its Amazon Elements line, which includes vitamin supplements and baby wipes, and AmazonBasics — which covers a wide array of ‘everyday’ items including batteries and even towels.
The company does not always brand its own-brand products with the Amazon label, also operating a raft of additional own brands — including for kids clothes, women’s fashion, sportswear, home furnishings and most recently diapers, to name a few. So it is not always immediately transparent to shoppers on its marketplace when they are buying something produced by Amazon itself.
Meanwhile, tech giants’ grip on big data has been flagged as a potential antitrust concern by Vestager for several years now.
In a speech at the DLD conference back in 2016 she said: “If a company’s use of data is so bad for competition that it outweighs the benefits, we may have to step in to restore a level playing field,” adding then that she was continuing to “look carefully at this issue”.
It’s not clear how the Amazon probe will pan out but it signifies a stepping up of the Commission’s action in this area.
The EU also issued Google with a recordbreaking $5BN fine this summer, for abusing the dominance of its Android mobile operating system.
That fine followed another recordbreaking penalty in 2017, when Google was slapped with an $2.7BN antitrust fine related to its search comparison service, Google Shopping.
Half an hour into their two-hour testimony on Wednesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey were asked about collaboration between social media companies. “Our collaboration has greatly increased,” Sandberg stated before turning to Dorsey and adding that Facebook has “always shared information with other companies.” Dorsey nodded […]
Half an hour into their two-hour testimony on Wednesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey were asked about collaboration between social media companies. “Our collaboration has greatly increased,” Sandberg stated before turning to Dorsey and adding that Facebook has “always shared information with other companies.” Dorsey nodded in response, and noted for his part that he’s very open to establishing “a regular cadence with our industry peers.”
Social media companies have established extensive policies on what constitutes “hate speech” on their platforms. But discrepancies between these policies open the possibility for propagators of hate to game the platforms and still get their vitriol out to a large audience. Collaboration of the kind Sandberg and Dorsey discussed can lead to a more consistent approach to hate speech that will prevent the gaming of platforms’ policies.
But collaboration between competitors as dominant as Facebook and Twitter are in social media poses an important question: would antitrust or other laws make their coordination illegal?
The short answer is no. Facebook and Twitter are private companies that get to decide what user content stays and what gets deleted off of their platforms. When users sign up for these free services, they agree to abide by their terms. Neither company is under a First Amendment obligation to keep speech up. Nor can it be said that collaboration on platform safety policies amounts to collusion.
This could change based on an investigation into speech policing on social media platforms being considered by the Justice Department. But it’s extremely unlikely that Congress would end up regulating what platforms delete or keep online – not least because it may violate the First Amendment rights of the platforms themselves.
What is hate speech anyway?
Trying to find a universal definition for hate speech would be a fool’s errand, but in the context of private companies hosting user generated content, hate speech for social platforms is what they say is hate speech.
Facebook’s 26-page Community Standards include a whole section on how Facebook defines hate speech. For Facebook, hate speech is “anything that directly attacks people based on . . . their ‘protected characteristics’ — race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity, or serious disability or disease.” While that might be vague, Facebook then goes on to give specific examples of what would and wouldn’t amount to hate speech, all while making clear that there are cases – depending on the context – where speech will still be tolerated if, for example, it’s intended to raise awareness.
Twitter uses a “hateful conduct” prohibition which they define as promoting “violence against or directly attacking or threatening other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.” They also prohibit hateful imagery and display names, meaning it’s not just what you tweet but what you also display on your profile page that can count against you.
Both companies constantly reiterate and supplement their definitions, as new test cases arise and as words take on new meaning. For example, the two common slang words to describe Ukrainians by Russians and Russians by Ukrainians was determined to be hate speech after war erupted in Eastern Ukraine in 2014. An internal review by Facebook found that what used to be common slang had turned into derogatory, hateful language.
Would collaboration on hate speech amount to anticompetitive collusion?
Under U.S. antitrust laws, companies cannot collude to make anticompetitive agreements or try to monopolize a market. A company which becomes a monopoly by having a superior product in the marketplace doesn’t violate antitrust laws. What does violate the law is dominant companies making an agreement – usually in secret – to deceive or mislead competitors or consumers. Examples include price fixing, restricting new market entrants, or misrepresenting the independence of the relationship between competitors.
A Pew survey found that 68% of Americans use Facebook. According to Facebook’s own records, the platform had a whopping 1.47 billion daily active users on average for the month of June and 2.23 billion monthly active users as of the end of June – with over 200 million in the US alone. While Twitter doesn’t disclose its number of daily users, it does publish the number of monthly active users which stood at 330 million at last count, 69 million of which are in the U.S.
There can be no question that Facebook and Twitter are overwhelmingly dominant in the social media market. That kind of dominance has led to calls for breaking up these giants under antitrust laws.
Would those calls hold more credence if the two social giants began coordinating their policies on hate speech?
The answer is probably not, but it does depend on exactly how they coordinated. Social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat have grown large internal product policy teams that decide the rules for using their platforms, including on hate speech. If these teams were to get together behind closed doors and coordinate policies and enforcement in a way that would preclude smaller competitors from being able to enter the market, then antitrust regulators may get involved.
Antitrust would also come into play if, for example, Facebook and Twitter got together and decided to charge twice as much for advertising that includes hate speech (an obviously absurd scenario) – in other words, using their market power to affect pricing of certain types of speech that advertisers use.
In fact, coordination around hate speech may reduce anti-competitive concerns. Given the high user engagement around hate speech, banning it could lead to reduced profits for the two companies and provide an opening to upstart competitors.
Sandberg and Dorsey’s testimony Wednesday didn’t point to executives hell-bent on keeping competition out through collaboration. Rather, their potential collaboration is probably better seen as an industry deciding on “best practices,” a common occurrence in other industries including those with dominant market players.
What about the First Amendment?
Private companies are not subject to the First Amendment. The Constitution applies to the government, not to corporations. A private company, no matter its size, can ignore your right to free speech.
That’s why Facebook and Twitter already can and do delete posts that contravene their policies. Calling for the extermination of all immigrants, referring to Africans as coming from shithole countries, and even anti-gay protests at military funerals may be protected in public spaces, but social media companies get to decide whether they’ll allow any of that on their platforms. As Harvard Law School’s Noah Feldman has stated, “There’s no right to free speech on Twitter. The only rule is that Twitter Inc. gets to decide who speaks and listens–which is its right under the First Amendment.”
Instead, when it comes to social media and the First Amendment, courts have been more focused on not allowing the government to keep citizens off of social media. Just last year, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a North Carolina law that made it a crime for a registered sex offender to access social media if children use that platform. During the hearing, judges asked the government probing questions about the rights of citizens to free speech on social media from Facebook, to Snapchat, to Twitter and even LinkedIn.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made clear during the hearing that restricting access to social media would mean “being cut off from a very large part of the marketplace of ideas [a]nd [that] the First Amendment includes not only the right to speak, but the right to receive information.”
The Court ended up deciding that the law violated the fundamental First Amendment principle that “all persons have access to places where they can speak and listen,” noting that social media has become one of the most important forums for expression of our day.
Lower courts have also ruled that public officials who block users off their profiles are violating the First Amendment rights of those users. Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald, of the Southern District of New York, decided in May that Trump’s Twitter feed is a public forum. As a result, she ruled that when Trump blocks citizens from viewing and replying to his posts, he violates their First Amendment rights.
The First Amendment doesn’t mean Facebook and Twitter are under any obligation to keep up whatever you post, but it does mean that the government can’t just ban you from accessing your Facebook or Twitter accounts – and probably can’t block you off of their own public accounts either.
Collaboration is Coming?
Sandberg made clear in her testimony on Wednesday that collaboration is already happening when it comes to keeping bad actors off of platforms. “We [already] get tips from each other. The faster we collaborate, the faster we share these tips with each other, the stronger our collective defenses will be.”
Dorsey for his part stressed that keeping bad actors off of social media “is not something we want to compete on.” Twitter is here “to contribute to a healthy public square, not compete to have the only one, we know that’s the only way our business thrives and helps us all defend against these new threats.”
He even went further. When it comes to the drafting of their policies, beyond collaborating with Facebook, he said he would be open to a public consultation. “We have real openness to this. . . . We have an opportunity to create more transparency with an eye to more accountability but also a more open way of working – a way of working for instance that allows for a review period by the public about how we think about our policies.”
I’ve already argued why tech firms should collaborate on hate speech policies, the question that remains is if that would be legal. The First Amendment does not apply to social media companies. Antitrust laws don’t seem to stand in their way either. And based on how Senator Burr, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, chose to close the hearing, government seems supportive of social media companies collaborating. Addressing Sandberg and Dorsey, he said, “I would ask both of you. If there are any rules, such as any antitrust, FTC, regulations or guidelines that are obstacles to collaboration between you, I hope you’ll submit for the record where those obstacles are so we can look at the appropriate steps we can take as a committee to open those avenues up.”
It pays to be a monopolist. Alphabet’s earnings were stellar, and that is truly saying something. Just a few weeks ago, the European Union placed a record €4.34 billion fine on the Mountain View-based company, a penalty for the company’s payments to OEMs to include Google Search as the default search option in order to […]
It pays to be a monopolist.
Alphabet’s earnings were stellar, and that is truly saying something. Just a few weeks ago, the European Union placed a record €4.34 billion fine on the Mountain View-based company, a penalty for the company’s payments to OEMs to include Google Search as the default search option in order to access Google Play, the company’s App Store.
The acrimonious feud with the EU has become such a constant financial concern for the company that it now includes a “European Commission fines” line item in its consolidated statements of income.
Yet, one can’t help but stand back in awe at a company whose results show the complete lack of teeth of existing antitrust law, whether here in America or anywhere else globally. Alphabet’s revenues grew by $6.6 billion, far more than the record fine the EU laid on the company. Net income for the quarter was $3.2 billion even after the fine was deducted as an expense. The Alphabet cash machine remains as strong as ever.
The EU fine was of course one component in the plan of the antitrust authorities. There are structural remedies, namely that Alphabet needs to cease and desist on leveraging Android to cement its market share in search. But at this point, what exactly are the alternatives for handset manufacturers? DuckDuckGo? Bing?
My colleague Natasha Lomas, along with many other journalists, discussed the potential of the EU demanding that Alphabet being broken up. Yet, even such a meat cleaver of a structural remedy would seem to be useless at this juncture. Google Search essentially has no peer, and isn’t likely to have one in the near future. It has brand equity, data equity, extensive capital investments and trade secrets. No amount of structural remedies save the complete destruction of the company is going to reduce those burdens to competition.
These fines then are less about punishing behavior — after all, they aren’t deterring would-be monopolists from their activities. Instead, they essentially act as an excess profits tax, a way to uniquely target extraordinarily profitable tech companies without changing general business taxes.
Even when we expand the lens beyond just these anticompetitive enforcement actions to include data sovereignty issues like GDPR, Alphabet is once again positioned to be a winner. As I have written before, Alphabet and Amazon are likely the only companies with sufficient scale to even begin to handle the myriad laws and regulations emanating around the world on data sovereignty. Far from empowering consumers, these laws essentially ensure that there is now an added “regulatory network effects” barrier to competition in these markets.
The next billion internet users will ultimately determine the ceiling for Alphabet’s revenues
To me, there is only one force today that has any potential to threaten Alphabet’s complete and ongoing dominance, and that is China and its ambitious tech industry. Transsion’s subsidiaries dominate in the African smartphone market, and it along with other smartphone players like Xiaomi have targeted India and its quickly burgeoning middle class. If the next one to two billion internet users come to rely on Chinese internet services instead of Alphabet, that could prove a serious competitive headwind for the company.
One legacy of GDPR may simply be that it forced large tech companies to double down on the U.S. and Europe at a time when they should have been focused on global expansion. Alphabet broke the $5 billion revenue barrier for the Asia-Pacific region for the first time this quarter, but that amounts to only 15.6 percent of the company’s revenues. Meanwhile, Facebook, dealing with its Cambridge Analytica imbroglio, has started to curtail the expansion of its Free Basics internet access scheme.
All of that might mean little to the U.S. or European consumer, but it does potentially put a ceiling on the growth of Alphabet and other large tech companies. As TechCrunch pointed out yesterday, there has been a race to see who will break the trillion-dollar market cap barrier first among the major tech players. Alphabet is sitting at $865 billion and a trillion isn’t far away. But could it grow much beyond that? That to me depends on these new, developing markets, and there the race is much more competitive.
As these earnings show, the jaws of antitrust have no teeth, and competitive dynamics might constrain Alphabet to merely be a trillion-dollar company. It pays — over and over again — to be a monopolist.
The European Union’s antitrust authorities have issued a series of penalties, fining consumer electronics companies Asus, Denon & Marantz, Philips and Pioneer more than €110 million (~$130M) in four separate decisions for imposing fixed or minimum resale prices on their online retailers in breach of EU competition rules. It says the four companies engaged in so called […]
The European Union’s antitrust authorities have issued a series of penalties, fining consumer electronics companies Asus, Denon & Marantz, Philips and Pioneer more than €110 million (~$130M) in four separate decisions for imposing fixed or minimum resale prices on their online retailers in breach of EU competition rules.
It says the four companies engaged in so called “fixed or minimum resale price maintenance (RPM)” by restricting the ability of their online retailers to set their own retail prices for widely used consumer electronics products — such as kitchen appliances, notebooks and hi-fi products.
Asus has been hit with the largest fine (€63.5M), followed by Philips (€29.8M). The other two fines were €10.1M for Pioneer, and €7.7M for Denon & Marantz.
The Commission found the manufacturers put pressure on ecommerce outlets who offered their products at low prices, writing: “If those retailers did not follow the prices requested by manufacturers, they faced threats or sanctions such as blocking of supplies. Many, including the biggest online retailers, use pricing algorithms which automatically adapt retail prices to those of competitors. In this way, the pricing restrictions imposed on low pricing online retailers typically had a broader impact on overall online prices for the respective consumer electronics products.”
It also notes that use of “sophisticated monitoring tools” by the manufacturers allowed them to “effectively track resale price setting in the distribution network and to intervene swiftly in case of price decreases”.
“The price interventions limited effective price competition between retailers and led to higher prices with an immediate effect on consumers,” it added.
In particular, Asus, was found to have monitored the resale price of retailers for certain computer hardware and electronics products such as notebooks and displays — and to have done so in two EU Member States (Germany and France), between 2011 and 2014.
While Denon & Marantz was found to have engaged in “resale price maintenance” with respect to audio and video consumer products such as headphones and speakers of the brands Denon, Marantz and Boston Acoustics in Germany and the Netherlands between 2011 and 2015.
Philips was found to have done the same in France between the end of 2011 and 2013 — but for a range of consumer electronics products, including kitchen appliances, coffee machines, vacuum cleaners, home cinema and home video systems, electric toothbrushes, hair driers and trimmers.
In Pioneer’s case, the resale price maintenance covered products including home theatre devices, iPod speakers, speaker sets and hi-fi products.
The Commission said the company also limited the ability of its retailers to sell-cross border to EU consumers in other Member States in order to sustain different resale prices in different Member States, for example by blocking orders of retailers who sold cross-border. Its conduct lasted from the beginning of 2011 to the end of 2013 and concerned 12 countries (Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands and Norway).
In all four cases, the Commission said the level of fines were reduced — 50% in the case of Pioneer; and 40% for each of the others — due to the companies’ co-operation with its investigations, specifying that they had provided evidence with “significant added value” and had “expressly acknowledg[ed] the facts and the infringements of EU antitrust rules”.
Commenting in a statement, commissioner Margrethe Vestager, who heads up the bloc’s competition policy, said: “The online commerce market is growing rapidly and is now worth over 500 billion euros in Europe every year. More than half of Europeans now shop online. As a result of the actions taken by these four companies, millions of European consumers faced higher prices for kitchen appliances, hair dryers, notebook computers, headphones and many other products. This is illegal under EU antitrust rules. Our decisions today show that EU competition rules serve to protect consumers where companies stand in the way of more price competition and better choice.”
We’ve reached out to all the companies for comment.
The fines follow the Commission’s ecommerce sector inquiry, which reported in May 2017, and showed that resale-price related restrictions are by far the most widespread restrictions of competition in ecommerce markets, making competition enforcement in this area a priority — as part of the EC’s wider Digital Single Market strategy.
The Commission further notes that the sector inquiry shed light on the increased use of automatic software applied by retailers for price monitoring and price setting.
Separate investigations were launched in February 2017 and June 2017 to assess if certain online sales practices are preventing, in breach of EU antitrust rules, consumers from enjoying cross-border choice and from being able to buy products and services online at competitive prices. The Commission adds that those investigations are ongoing.
Commenting on today’s EC decision, a spokesman for Philips told us: “Since the start of the EC investigation in late 2013, which Philips reported in its Annual Reports, the company has fully cooperated with the EC. Philips initiated an internal investigation and addressed the matter in 2014.”
“It is good that we can now leave this case behind us, and focus on the positive impact that our products and solutions can have on people,” he added. “Let me please stress that Philips attaches prime importance to full compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations. Being a responsible company, everyone in Philips is expected to always act with integrity. Philips rigorously enforces compliance of its General Business Principles throughout the company. Philips has a zero tolerance policy towards non-compliance in relation to breaches of its General Business Principles.”

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Welcome! I’m Luis and officially, I’m an “award-winning” and “best-selling” author. I’ve written a bunch of books, stories & poems and I’ll write a bunch more. I hope you like them. Read my official bio, download a press kit & see some family pictures.
Oh, and you pronounce it: oo-RAY-uh.
Book club members have been some of my most enthusiastic and careful readers. I’m thrilled to share my work with you, answer your questions and tell you some of the stories behind the stories. This is our spot, just for us. Here, we can chat: If I’m nearby, I’ll come and visit your club. Otherwise, we can Skype, talk over the phone or email. Sometimes, I’ll send surprises or hold contests.
As part of their Culture Crossing Speakers Series, I will talk books, border, immigration. Details here.
Celebrating Open Books & its new West Loop location. Should be a fun event with me, Irvine Welsh, Aleksander Hemon & Rebecca Makkai narrating excerpts of our work alongside actors from Lookingglass Theater. Details here.
Excited to return to the shindig! Details here.
Honored to be named the Cerro Author for Bakersfield College and have the opportunity to speak to the students and community there. A couple of different events are scheduled. Details here.

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Book Review: Circe
Circe by Madeline Miller has been on my list for quite some time. Have you read it yet?
Circe is a daughter of the Titan sun-god Helios. She grows up in the halls of Helios with two of her siblings, never quite able to measure up. And then one day Circe finds that she has unthinkable powers- witchcraft. The great Olympian Zeus deems this power problematic. Helios drops Circe on a desolate island, where she is banished forever. It is on the island of Aiaia that the great witch comes into her full power, a power that will be put to the test with mortals and gods alike.
Why I picked this book:
I was seeing Circe all over Bookstagram/Goodreads. I happened to be wandering through Target one day and picked it up to read the summary. Needless to say it ended up in my cart. Shout out to my awesome mom for buying it for me because she was concerned about how much I’ve spent on books since joining #bookstagram!
Ever since high school English class, I have admired Greek history. I love reading stories of Greek gods and goddesses and tragedies and love and war. One of the main things that I appreciate most about Circe was how well developed the characters were. I found it exceptionally helpful that Madeline Miller included an index in the back of the book with detailed descriptions of each character.
I loved the main point of the story: finding oneself amidst both the good and evils that you have done. And I love a good female main character/storyteller. Circe is complex and vilified- she does not want to be a heroine. I loved that. It made Circe more real to me. Not to mention the fact that most of the ways in which she uses her power is totally badass. Of course I loved the ending so much, and absolutely felt like it was true to the main point of finding herself and ultimately freeing in a way that gives her a well-deserved ending.
Admittedly, it took me a long time to really get into this book. I do think I picked it up at a tough time, right as law school was kicking into gear, so perhaps if I would have read it when I had more down time I would have been able to get into the story a bit earlier. That said, I really truly enjoyed this book. The level of detail with which Madeline Miller writes is truly incredible. She is a linguistic artist, and not to mention a master when it comes to all of these great myths and rich history. It’s clear she has an expertise in this area and I loved expanding my reading horizons with Circe this week.
The Bookish Bronde Rating
If you have any interest in Greek mythology, this one is definitely for you. Super interesting, full of detail, and overall quite empowering!
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It's typical, isn't it? You wait for one musical adaptation of a literary classic to come along and then two come along at once. They're like buses in that respect... not that buses even existed when either of these books were first written. Following the triumphant Pride and Prejudice (Sort of) is a slightly more faithful adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's timeless classic Little Women.
First published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869, Little Women has stood the test of time, being made into countless adaptations across film, TV and theatre. This musical adaptation began life as a workshop in 2001 before heading to Broadway for a short run in 2005. It made its debut in the UK in 2017 at the Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester. Now, the team behind that last production are bringing it to London where it is playing a season at the Park Theatre in Finsbury Park.
If you have never read the book or seen any adaptation before, Little Women tells the story of four sisters as they come-of-age, fall in love and generally grow. Translating 750 pages into a musical that is little more than two hours long may seem like a tall order and runs the risk of watering down the plot so much that you lose the essense of what the show is about. Thankfully, Little Women doesn't have that problem. In a speedy runtime, it manages to flesh out all of the characters, giving them clear characteristics and their own stories while endearing them to the audience in an adaptation that is all killer, no filler.
The four sisters are led by Lydia White who gives a captivating performance as Jo, coming to terms with her own growth while navigating her sisters lives - all the while pushing the story forward through her own stories. The biggest and perhaps most complicated role in the show, Lydia gives a masterclass in performing - emotional, funny and always demanding attention from the audience. All this while showcasing incredible vocals.
Jo's three sisters Meg, Beth and Amy are played by Hana Ichijo, Anastasia Martin and Mary Moore. All give well-rounded performances and exhibit fantastic chemistry together while ensuring they all get their own moments to stand out. Their mother Marmee is played by Savannah Stevenson - having formerly played Glinda in Wicked, she gives a performance as wonderful as ever, attempting to be the glue that holds together the very different sisters in a relatable and utterly charming performance. Their family is completed with the small but memorable role of Aunt March, played in scene-stealing fashion by Bernadine Pritchett,.
Another standout performance comes from Sev Keoshgerian who plays the sweet, innocent and instantly loveable Laurie. Showing off an incredible singing voice, Sev proves he can hold his own against a group of powerhouse women. The cast is completed by Ryan Bennett, Brian Protherhoe and Lejaun Sheppard who all get their own turn to shine on stage in what is a consistently high performing cast.
The musical numbers, written by Jason Howland and Mindi Dickstein feel instantly familiar. Keeping a safe route of more conventional musical theatre numbers, they allow the cast to showcase their brilliant talents, with Lydia White's 'Astonishing' and 'The Fire Within Me' among the highlights. 'Delighted' is an instant earworm, 'Off to Massachusetts' feels like an old standard while certain musical moments feel like they could be straight out of a Disney movie - that may seem like a strange comparison, but given their high quality, that is the highest of compliments. With musical direction from Leo Munby, the songs truly come to life around the theatre.
Directed by Bronagh Lagan and produced by the always fabulous Aria Entertainment, the high standard the creative team are used to extend to this production. While they may be used to larger West End spaces in recent times, Little Women has to make do with a small and simple stage. This, however, is always used to its full potential, never allowing the audience to be bored by the limited and static set. This is a show where the audience share Jo's imagination in what could be - and with a cast as ridiculously talented as all of the ones on this stage, no bells and whistles are required to ensure the story is still believably told.
Overall, Little Women is a great little show. With a brilliant cast and some fantastic material to work with, it is a pleasant adaptation of an absolute classic. Beginning in the capital in a jewel of a venue that is the Park Theatre, this is a show that deserves to be seen by a wider audience in the years to come.
Little Women plays at the Park Theatre until December 19th. Tickets from www.parktheatre.co.uk


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Pop quiz: what sex-and-scandal filled teen drama features a group of impossibly pretty friends living in a seemingly idyllic wealthy enclave, mysterious, teasing text messages from an anonymous but all-seeing observer, and an ethnically-ambiguous girl who occasionally locks lips with other girls?
If you answered “Gossip Girl,” you’re correct. (Remember the threesome, in which Vanessa got it on with Hilary Duff?) But if you answered “Pretty Little Liars,” ABC Family’s answer to the CW’s flagship drama, you’re also correct.
Try to summarize “PLL” for someone who’s never seen an episode, and your synopsis will sound like nothing more than a list of names accompanied by scandalous modifiers: The blond, Hanna, is a former bulimic with a shoplifting problem and an absentee father. The ambiguously ethnic one, Emily, is an athlete hiding her bisexuality. The brunette, Aria, lived in Iceland for awhile, hooks up with her English teacher, and kept the secret of her father’s infidelity from her mother. The other brunette, Spencer, is an overachiever with a habit of stealing her older sister’s boyfriends. All four were once BFF with Alison, a queen bee who disappeared a year ago under mysterious circumstances—and who had some serious dirt on each of our four heroines.
Got that? Good. Tonight’s first season summer finale tied up a few loose ends while leaving the show’s most important mystery—the identity of the malevolent “A,” who’s been torturing our Pretty Little Liars via text since Episode 1—unsolved. Considering the book series on which the show is based lasted four volumes before identifying A, then had a new A start messing with the PLLs in the next installment, we can expect the writers of the show to drag this out for awhile longer.
The episode’s dramatic conclusion takes place in the woods, where most of the show’s characters have gathered for mean girl Mona’s “glamping”—that’s “glamour” mashed up with “camping”—birthday party. Before we can get there, though, each girl has her own individual storyline to wrap up.
Hanna and her mom are trying to deal with their sudden reversal of fortune. Mrs. Marin can’t pay her mortgage, and there’s a chance they’re going to lose their house. In order to avoid that, Hanna’s mom takes desperate measures: stealing wads of cash from the safe deposit box of an old lady who’s a client at her bank.
Meanwhile, Hanna finds herself on thin ice with Mona after she fails to meet her for a weekday shopping excursion. But she’s resolved to attend Mona’s birthday party despite being uninvited, since A has sent the PLLs a text saying that he or she might reveal him or herself during the shindig: “Camp Mona’s a scavenger hunt and I’m the prize. Come and find me, bitches.”
Aria tries to bring some order to her chaotic house and is metaphorically sucker-punched when A puts a book in her locker that contains a poem written by Mr. Fitz, the English teacher. The poem, called “B-26,” is evidently about her: “It’s a number. / It’s a song. / It’s a girl,” reads the first stanza. (The next stanza, though, is a total mystery, meaning-wise: “Smooth. / Pearl joy packed. / Gold falafel, / as though ice.” …Huh?)
She confronts Mr. Fitz in his office, telling him that he should have fought for her if he truly loved her. Aria’s current crush, the nice and age-appropriate Noel, almost overhears their heated conversation. Notably, Noel and Mr. Fitz look exactly the same.
Spencer tries to make peace with her sister, Melissa—partially because Ian, the boy Melissa dated and Spencer surreptitiously macked on, is back in town. We see in flashback that Alison saw Ian and Spencer kissing.
Emily juggles seeing her quasi-girlfriend Maya with the return of her soldier father. Her mother knows that Emily’s leading a double life—she’s somehow got a hold of photos of the two girls kissing—but she doesn’t let tell Emily that she’s onto her. Emily’s also shocked when, as she’s driving to Mona’s birthday party, she discovers that there’s a stowaway in her car.
It’s Toby, the prime suspect in Alison’s murder. The police have just discovered a tape Alison made the day she died, in which she speaks to an unseen viewer about how she knows he wants to kiss her and wears a man’s sweater. The feds have deduced that the object of the video is Toby, even though everyone remembers Ali absolutely despising him. According to Toby, though, he’s innocent. He did meet with Alison right before she died, but it was only to thank her for inadvertently helping him break off a relationship with his stepsister. He tells Emily that he saw Ali leave their meeting by getting into a car with another guy—presumably, the person at which her video was actually directed.
Toby’s made plans to skip town, but it’s not meant to be—he’s apprehended by the cops before he can make his getaway.
As Toby’s getting cuffed, Aria, Emily, and Spencer are making the most of Camp Mona. Hanna’s sneaking into the woods, determined to beat A. at his or her game. Just as the PLLs decipher a note left for them by A., indicating that they should take a trip to a nearby playground in order to find answers, Aria gets a text from Mr.Fitz asking her to meet him.
Emily and Spencer walk to the playground, where they find a tree that has a message carved into it: “Alison + Ian.” So Alison’s mystery man was Melissa’s boyfriend! Meanwhile, Aria meets Fitz and they have a steamy reunion—one that’s witnessed by Hanna, who happens to be in a nearby clearing with binoculars.
She’s in the right place at the right time, because as Aria and Fitz are getting it on, a hooded stranger sneaks up to Fitz’s car and writes “I SEE YOU” in what looks like blood on the rear windshield. After seeing this, Hanna writes her friends a text: “I know who A. is.” She asks them to meet her in a nearby parking lot.
The other three come together and spot Hanna. Hanna walks towards them. But before she can unmask A. once and for all—SLAM! A car comes out of nowhere, hits her, and drives away. Then Aria gets one last text: “She knew too much. A.” As the episode closes, Emily screams for help as Hanna lays on the ground, deadly still.
Think you know who A. is? Think the writers do? Think “Pretty Little Liars” is juicy enough to be more than a “Gossip Girl” ripoff? Sound off in the comments.
For more on the show, go to ‘Pretty Little Liars’: Troian Bellisario on the Summer Finale


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1995-03-03 Senate Journal Page 0474 SB 36 Senator Halford, Cochair, moved and asked unanimous consent that Uniform Rule 23, publication notice, be waived on SENATE BILL NO. 36 "An Act relating to interest on and repayment of A. W. Brindle memorial scholarship loans; and providing for an effective date" for the Finance Committee meeting on March 9 at 9:00 a.m. Without objection, it was so ordered. Announcements are at the end of the journal.

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An obvious view of Cwip and Sail's Rollerhouse when it's not bathed in darkness
Cwip and Sail's Rollerhouse
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Nobody can remember what the appeal of Cwip and Sail's Rollerhouse is. It was once a fun place with things to climb, but the legal staff had it eradicated to make it harder for kids to get exercise.
- Warning: very Disney-addicted children will want to queue for this attraction multiple times.
- Snow White was once seen enjoying this attraction.
- Be sure to look for a hidden Secretariat when you are struck unconscious in the first room.
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Why 'Shark Tank's' Mark Cuban Personally Answers All Emails and Texts: 'I Don't Need to Unplug'
Mark Cuban of Shark Tank has established himself as a business icon. With his list of credits including tech guru, NBA team owner, film producer, and reality star, Cuban rarely slows down and consistently goes way beyond a 40-hour work week.
While most people in the workforce try to disconnect when they clock out for the day, the Shark Tank star keeps all devices fully charged and in use til he turns in for the night.
‘Shark Tank’ stars talk shop
In November, Cuban was a guest on fellow Shark Barbara Corcoran’s podcast “888-Barbara,” where Corcoran commented on the NBA team owner’s ability to quickly respond to texts and emails.
“How do you do it? How do you unplug, Mark?” Corcoran asked, according to CNBC. “You’re constantly on. How do you pull out the plug, or is that not necessary? Is that a fallacy?”
“I don’t need to unplug for the most part,” Cuban told Corcoran. “I’m the only one who sees [the emails and texts]. Going back in my business and career, it’s always been easier for me just to do it than to explain to someone what I want. It’s just easier for me and faster.”
Rather than having an assistant deal with his correspondence, Cuban personally answers emails and texts, saying dealing with “kooks of the world” is the “fun part.”
“I’ve always done email. I have emails going back 25 years. And it’s just like delete, delete, delete,” Cuban said. “I can just read the first paragraph and know, as opposed to someone not knowing, sitting down, reviewing everything, explaining to them, trying to adjust and figuring out what to do next.”
Mark Cuban likes to personally interact with fans and followers
The Dallas Mavericks owner feels that having somewhat of an open-door policy with people can make a difference and be a help to others. In October, Cuban even gave his phone number to the public via the celebrity texting platform Community and encouraged people to text him with questions.
“Not every entrepreneur, not every business-person wants to put themselves out there. But I will,” Cuban said on the Oct. 10 podcast of “On Air with Ryan Seacrest.” “I’ll try to answer 20-30 a day. You can text me. I think being accessible, being available, that’s important.”
Even with his busy schedule, Cuban always makes his wife and three kids a priority despite the fact that his two daughters are in their teenage years.
“I just try to connect with my family and be available for them. I kidnap them to go to lunch. My son is 10, so it’s still fun,” he said. “But with my 13 [-year-old] or 16-year-old [daughters], it’s like everything is a one-word answer. They’re good kids, so it’s fun to spend as much time as I can.”
Dallas Mavericks owner is no stranger to hard work
Cuban is renowned for his strong work ethic and prides himself on being a grinder. Never one for a 9-5 work day, he starts each morning by getting plugged in.
“My days are straight out of the movie Groundhog Day. I wake up, check my email, news feeds and eat. I kiss my wife and kids, and get them to school,” Cuban told Entrepreneur in 2012. “I come home and get back in front of my computer. I’ll go workout. I’ll play with the kids when they come home. I’ll sit in front of my computer some more.”
His day doesn’t end there, where Cuban may check out his team on TV if they’re playing and then head back to his other screen. “If there is a Mavs game I check my email at breaks and go to my computer at halftime,” the Shark Tank star said. “After the game, I do the same thing until I go to bed.”
No wonder Cuban is a billionaire!
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Another Android Tablet is being launched in Japan. The Malata T2 Android tablet is the newest in the breed of Android tablets flooding the market. The Malata T2 runs Android 2.2 and has a 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 Corex-A9 dual-core processor which makes it faster than its competitors. It also has 1GB or RAM and about 16GB of memory for storage.
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Why Obama is on top in 'sequester' battle, but could lose long-term (+video)
President Obama is working hard to clarify how sequester spending cuts will hit Americans. But many don't understand what's happening and ultimately will look to Obama for solutions.
Even Republicans concede that, for now, the president’s bully pulpit strategy on the “sequester” is working. He has been doing local media interviews, leaning on the governors, and holding campaign-style events around the country – including Tuesday’s visit to Newport News, Va. – to highlight cuts in defense spending. And his team is flooding the zone with data aimed at sowing concern about how the cuts would affect real people. On Sunday night, the White House released numbers on the sequester’s impact, state-by-state.
But the public isn’t paying much attention. Despite intensive media coverage, only 27 percent of Americans say they have heard a lot about the sequester, according to a poll released last week by the Pew Research Center and USA Today. In addition, not surprisingly, most Americans don’t understand the sequester. When asked what it is, only 36 percent of Americans selected the right answer, a recent poll by The Hill newspaper found.
So in fact, Mr. Obama bears some risk – especially as time goes on.
“I think he wins short term, but danger mounts over time,” says Cal Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. “There’s only one president, and he will be the focus of people’s attention if a satisfactory resolution is not eventually reached.”

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Alternative Names: Silex or Flamborough head
Type of Dive: Selwick Bay is a great shore dive in good conditions with plenty sealife to see and interesting kelp topped gullies and white sand seabed.
Suggested Experience: Ocean diver
Travel directions: Flamborough Head is found just north-east of Bridlington. Take the B1255 from Bridlington or the B1229 (Flamborough Road) from Scarborough. Go right through the village of Flamborough and take the Lighthouse Road to Flamborough Head.
Parking directions: There is plenty of parking spaces at the lighthouse. park as close to the lighthouse as you can but not in the restricted area.
Lat & Long: 54.118063, -0.081312 Postcode YO15 1AR Google
Tides: Tide tables Selwick Bay is 30 minutes after Whitby. It's best to dive at high tide as it saves walking across the seaweed.
Site entry/exit: The path and stairs are not for the faint-hearted so travel light if you can. At the bottom of the path head for the cliff on the right and enter the water here.
Underwater directions: Heading out with the cliff on your right fin in and around the rocky outcrops heading for the point. Dont go past the point unless you have slack water as you have to exit in the same place you entered because it's near impossible to get up the cliff on the other side.
Site Hazards: Currents at the head of the bay. Take care leaving the water if there is a swell, it's easy to get knocked over.
Nearest Public phone: Headlands restaurant
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Accommodation: Cameron court
Other comments: Flamborough Head Lighthouse built in 1806 is open to the public with short guided tours. You can climb the 119 steps to its top to see magnificent panoramic views over the coastline, Nearby is the original lighthouse of 1669.
Pub: Headlands restaurant and in Flamborough
Cafe: Headlands restaurant Cliffend Cafe 01262 850671
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Real Madrid playmaker James Rodriguez has thrown his future at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu into further doubt after he admitted that he’s not sure of a Real Madrid stay beyond this summer.
The 27-year-old talked about his future at Real Madrid in a recent interview monitored by popular Spanish media outlet Marca.
James Rodriguez has been linked with several European sides this summer including newly crowned Champions League winners Liverpool.
The Colombian international star is presently on international duty with his national team at the ongoing COPA America tournament in Brazil.
James Rodriguez and Colombia are in the quarterfinals at the tournament where they will meet defending champions Chile for the right to qualify for the semifinals.
His future won’t be resolved until after the COPA America tournament.
The Real Madrid player spent the last two seasons on loan at German Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich who paid £11m for his loan spell.
He signed for the Bavarian giants on a two-year loan deal until this summer with the option for a permanent transfer for £36m but the Germans decided not to take up that option.
Apart from Liverpool, James Rodriguez has been linked with other clubs like Chelsea, Manchester United and the Italian Serie A duo of Juventus and Napoli.


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ticulate in the exhaust stream. Diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) is re-quired in vehicles equipped with a selective catalyst reduction system. Not all diesel vehicles are equipped with this system. The catalyst, in conjunction with the DEF, reduces the level of NOx in the exhaust stream. It is important to monitor the level of the diesel exhaust fluid and refill the reservoir when it gets low. Most vehicles are designed to hold enough DEF that it can be refilled at the time of a normal oil service without risk of running out. The vehicles are designed with a series of warning lights to alert the driver when the system gets low. If the system is allowed to run empty or a fluid other than DEF is used to refill the reservoir, the vehicle may default to a depowered mode of operation. When refilling the DEF system, make sure to use quality fluid that has been stored properly. Regular diesel engine mainte-nance is critical to the operation of the exhaust aftertreatment sys-tem. This would include replacing the diesel fuel filters, air filter, and servicing the cooling system with quality replacement parts as re-quired by the manufacturer. Failure to follow these recommendations may result in premature wear in the engine or the high pressure fuel system. Unwanted oil, coolant, or diesel fuel in the aftertreatment sys-tem are leading causes of exhaust system component failures. Customer driving habits will have a significant effect on the die-sel exhaust aftertreatment system performance. The modern diesel engine is designed to driven under a load. Short trip driving, or long stretches of idle time, will diminish the effectiveness of the exhaust aftertreatment system. These maintenance items are not difficult to perform, however, they may differ from a similar vehicle equipped with a gasoline engine. By following the manufacturers’ ser-vice recommendations, the exhaust aftertreatment system will operate as designed and will provide miles of trouble-free service. Re-energize your teaching by attending conferences By Dale Vandeberg B EFORE I started teaching some 6 years ago, I felt very confident about my ability to diagnose some very diffi-cult-to-find issues in the engine con-trol system. As an instructor, one of my main concerns was how to keep that edge and stay relevant in the au-tomotive industry. I figured that I had five years before I really struggled. As an instructor in a NATEF*-certified AYES* high school program, I had many options for training from vari-ous manufacturers and vendors, but none was as exciting and in-depth as what I had received as a technician from the manufacturers. As an instructor, I had attended many seminars and classes, and had heard about the NACAT* confer-ences, but because of scheduling conflicts, had not been able to attend them. I discovered that AYES and NACAT were planning to collaborate, and this was a chance to see what NACAT had to offer. I was looking for-ward to some new energy, and focus, to help me with a new class I would be teaching for advanced students. I was not to be disappointed. When I arrived, I felt immediately welcome. I met new friends and saw some old ones. When I started attending the train-ing, I was instantly impressed with the presenters. The quality of in-struction at each of the seminars was better than I had received for quite some time. I felt that each of the in-structors was obviously knowledge-*NATEF—National Automotive Technicians Foundation AYES—Automotive Youth Educa-tional Systems NACAT—North American Council of Automotive Teachers able, and the energy they brought was contagious. I grew more and more excited as each class happened. I found that I was eager to start planning the next year of classes. I had some new re-sources to help me with my content, and I had also made contact with some new people who I felt were some of the best in the industry. I was excited to be back in the class-room with a new class ready to start with some new ideas and direction. The trade show was a great ad-dition to the seminars. Many of the booths were extensions of the semi-nars, with books and training aides that were well thought out and useful for students. This gave me an oppor-tunity to get to know the presenters even better and get my hands on some of the resources that were available. I enjoyed seeing what others had come up with to successfully teach some of the technology of today’s vehicles. I left the trade show with an armful of resources to help keep me excited about new student opportunities. The conference was exciting in a way that I hadn’t experienced in quite some time. I felt re-energized and ready to go back to work. I felt very good about still being on the cutting edge of technology and teaching it. I felt this was one of the best in-vestments I had made in time and money in regards to training and get-ting the excitement back about teach-ing. I definitely will do this again next year. I would highly recommend the NACAT conference to every automo-tive instructor for the seminars, rela-tionship, resources, not to mention the fun, friends, and family. Reprinted from nacat.org. www.techdirections.com automotive technology 27
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The Truth Behind “The Big Cat Public Safety Act” HR 3546
For those of you who may not have heard yet, a piece of legislation deceptively called “The Big Cat Public Safety Act” has been introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives.
On the surface this bill claims to help crack down on the supposed “illicit interstate trade of protected wildlife species and keep the public safe from unqualified big cat owners”. The authors of this bill specifically exempted three types of big cat owners from this bill. These are AZA zoos, sanctuaries, and traveling circuses. In order to understand why these exemptions are in place it’s important to know where this bill originated. This bill was proposed and authored by Big Cat Rescue, a questionable animal rights sanctuary in Florida that has a 20 year stated plan that will eliminate all big cats from captivity including those in AZA zoos.
Big Cat Rescue is a pragmatic organization, that understands the nuances of politics. BCR knows that if the bill did not exempt AZA zoos, it would be dead in the water. On their Facebook page when BCR was questioned why circuses were exempt from this bill they said “They are vocal opponents who know how to play the game, and who donate heavily to make sure bills that protect wild animals don’t get passed. There are only 68 tigers in circus acts in the U.S. so we are trying to protects thousands of big cats first and then will turn our attention to the last 68”.
Clearly the organizations backing this terrible bill want a total ban on all animals in human care and they are just biding their time.
The most important information for you to know about this bill is that it will forever hurt captive conservation of rare and endangered big cat species. For example the country’s largest breeding groups of the highly endangered Snow Leopard and threatened Clouded Leopard are at private non AZA zoos. If this bill passes those animals will no longer be able to be used for captive breeding programs. Many rare and endangered cat species are responsibly bred by USDA licensed and or ZAA accredited private facilities. The authors of this bill would have you believe that the only true conservation work is done by AZA zoos but that simply is not true. Many private breeding programs are working with some of the worlds most rare and endangered cats. The same negative outcomes will befall all private zoos and USDA breeders who work with cheetahs, tigers, lions, etc.
Here’s an interesting fact for you, Do you enjoy seeing baby Snow Leopards and other big cats on morning programs or late night tv shows with Jack Hannah and other tv animal presenters? Well it turns out that many of those cats are born in private facilities, not AZA zoos. So you can say goodbye to tv appearances by baby big cats that raise the public’s awareness of the dangers facing these amazing creatures in the wild.
The truth is that the exotic animal industry is heavily regulated, regardless of what you may have been told. The United States Department of Agriculture issues licenses to breeders and exhibitors of big cats. Everyone who raises big cats or exhibits cats is required to have this license and submit to, at will unannounced inspections. Every zoo and sanctuary that is open to the public is subject to the rules of USDA. An AZA facility holds the same USDA license as a private zoo, which is also the same type of license that a “sanctuary” like Big Cat Rescue has.
If there are a few bad facilities out there, then those issues should be dealt with independently and the entire industry should not be punished. I will be posting more information about this bill and what you can do to help fight back against this erroneous piece of legislation. Remember that even if you don’t own or raise big cats, this bill effects you. The more momentum the animal rights movement picks up and the more laws they pass, the time will come in the not so distant future, where you will be told you can’t raise your elephants, primates, parrots, horses, or even dogs and cats. This bill has the potential to affect everyone, lets do something to stop it!
—Gavin Livingston The Unlikely Conservationist
Animal Rights Indoctrination of America’s Children
Organizations like PETA have been trying to indoctrinate children to their radicle animal rights ideology for decades now. In the past they have made horrific coloring books depicting animal abuse, and have published terrifying books aimed at getting children to tell their parents they don’t want to eat meat, go to the zoo or circus.
PETA however has reached a new low, they are releasing their very first Playstation 4 video game where the player can take the fight for “animal liberation” into their own hands. Here is how PETA describes the game.
“In this role-playing adventure game, you’re a kitten who fights evil robots to liberate orcas from a marine-park prison and whisk sheep away from the “Sheep Puncher.”
The game even lets the players get to know the “personal stories” of each of the animals they are rescuing. This is of course the hight of anthropomorphism. What really concerns me is that not only does this game aim to brainwash the next generation but it encourages criminal behavior. Lets not forget the past sins of organizations tied financially to PETA. It wasn’t to long ago that car bombings, robbery, vandalism, and “animal liberation” were the normal tactic for animal rights groups. They figured out that those tactics for the time being, aren’t very politically savvy so they have changed their form of terror to terrorize through threats of lawsuits and legislation to put hard-working people out of business.
In a society that has an ever-increasing problem with respect for the rule of law, a video game like this, encouraging criminal behavior to “save animals” could be disastrous.
I’m attaching the link below for a full description of the game straight from the horse’s mouth. Please tell your friends about this new tactic from these extremists and encourage them to protect their children from playing games like this. Children deserve to be able to visit zoos, marine parks and the circus. If this group has their way that will soon be a thing of the past.
Lets face it, for the most part the animal rights activists have for a very long time been defining the narrative to the general public about how we care for our animals. We have seen the negative effects that poor public perception or a lack of understanding can have on an animal business or facility. Some people may disagree with me on this, but I believe we are all in the same boat when it comes to the daily struggle to defend our way of life and protect our ability to care for our animals. The animal rights groups no longer just target certain segments of the animal industry, they will go after anyone. Accredited zoos, private zoos, circus, dog breeders, horse breeders, and agriculture are all in the same boat.
We needn’t look any further than the Pittsburg Zoo for a case study. They are a world renowned facility with a stellar reputation for both animal care and conservation work, yet as soon as they decided to switch which zoological association accredited them, they were viciously attacked by PETA and HSUS. Now the PETA attack is not a surprise, they will go after anyone, however HSUS is usually a little more restrained with big city zoos. HSUS seems to have a bit of a détente going with most large zoos, but all gloves were off once Pittsburg switched to being accredited by ZAA (Zoological Association of America).
It is time that we take a proactive approach, educating the public about how we care for our animals. It isn’t enough to explain to them about the care and enrichment that the animals receive when people visit your zoo, those people generally don’t need to be convinced. It is the hordes of people who are not already coming to your facility that need to hear your message. Social media seems to be the most efficient and cost-effective way to spread whatever your animal care message is.
The general public needs to know what it is like to see footwork done on an elephant, see an elephant get a bath, or learn why a sow needs to be in a farrowing crate when she gives birth. What we seem to forget, and I’m as guilty of this as anyone, is that the general public does not understand why standard animal husbandry practices are the way they are. By and large the animal husbandry tasks that we perform on a daily basis have been fine tuned for decades, now we need to let the public know about them.
Those of us who have devoted our lives to animal in zoos or agriculture have done so because we love our animals and are passionate about their well-being. People don’t just decide one day that they want to spend their life working with animals because it is a profitable career. If we continue to let ourselves be vilified by the animal activists then they will ultimately prevail.
The veil of secrecy must be lifted and we need to get the public on board with our animal care practices. We must be offensive though, because once you are put on the defensive it may already be too late to sway the court of public opinion. The National Pork Board has been succesful in creating a series of videos for social media that invites the average person into a hog barn and shows them the state of the art facilities that pigs are raised in. This should serve as a model for all of us to use, to educate the world. It is no longer enough to educate the average person about the plight of animal in the wild, they also need to be educated about how we care for them in captivity. Animals in the wild face untold dangers, animals in human care face only one foe, the radical animal rights movement. This movement is dependent on emotion and counts on a lack of understanding by the public of animal care techniques, lets change that.
As many of you know our elephant friends in CA are fighting a terrible bill, SB 716 that would ban the elephant guide! This bill is backed by animal rights organizations and a certain questionable sanctuary that want to see the end of elephants in human care! Our last hope to kill this terrible bill is a Veto by Governor Brown. So please click on the post below and send your letter politely asking the governor to veto this bill to the email address listed and they will hand deliver the letters to the governor. We only have until Sep 10th to get this done, please send letters and share this post so we can get as many letter opposing SB 716 as possible! #NOSB716


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Nintendo is set to announce new games and other big news at its E3 2015 event Thursday starting at 12 p.m. ET. Expect new details about its upcoming Zelda and Star Fox titles, and perhaps more specific information about Nintendo’s plans to make games for mobile devices.
There’s a long shot chance we could hear about Nintendo’s next gaming console, currently referred to as the Nintendo NX, as well. But it’s probably not going to make an appearance.
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‘Dalacin C’ is a trade name for an antibiotic that is used to treat bone and joint infections. These are useful for treating people who are allergic to penicillin or for treating bacteria that have acquired genes that make them resistant to destruction by conventional antibiotics.
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Diablo III expansion in the works
Blizzard CEO, Mike Morhaime has revealed that they have an expansion for Diablo III in the works.
Morhaime gave the news after announcing this quarters financials although he was typically vague with the details.
"So we do have a plan. An expansion planned for Diablo," he revealed. "I don't have any timeline to talk about," he said. "I think that the most important thing for us always comes down to the quality of the expansion and the gameplay, and so that will be a big factor in terms of driving our schedule."
Diablo III has already passed the 10 million sales mark since it launched in March of this year.
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