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A church in Sackville, N.B., has partnered with a community organization to provide free harm-reduction supplies. In early March, a vending machine was set up at the entrance of Sackville United to assist the community with safer drug use.
According to a 2020 study, almost one percent of New Brunswick’s population injected drugs in 2016 — a 37 percent increase since 2011 — placing the province second after British Columbia.
The statistics “knocked my socks off,” says Debby Warren, executive director of Ensemble Greater Moncton. “And so we should be going, ‘Holy moly, we need to do something about this.’”
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Warren’s social services organization received federal funding for two harm-reduction vending machines. It placed one on its own site in Moncton and one in the church. The first machine dispensed 52,000 needles within the first two months of deployment.
The machines, made by SMRT1 Technologies, a company based in Nelson, B.C., provide 24-hour free access to clean needles, overdose prevention kits and educational videos about overdose protection. Warren says the machines will not solve the overdose problem but will reduce harm. “That machine is to keep them from getting another and another infection, diseases like HIV and hepatitis.”
Rev. Lloyd Bruce says the machine will raise the profile of the church community. “People will see Sackville United Church as a place that’s trying to respond to issues in the community in helpful and supporting ways,” he says. “There are some folks who are worried that the machine might attract people who are of a questionable character. I think those fears are overblown.”
Bruce adds that he is eager to see more such collaborations with community organizations. “The direction that churches across the country need to be working towards is partnerships with other organizations that are trying to make positive change in their communities.”
Abbas Mehrabian is a recent Broadview intern.
This story first appeared in Broadview’s July/August 2021 issue with the title “New Brunswick church gets harm-reduction vending machine.”
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My favorite movie podcast, “Blank Check with Griffin and David,” structures its episodes around the blank check theory of directing. It’s a long-held belief that directors who hit it big are often given the opportunity to make whatever they want as a reward for their success, with more budget availability and minimal studio interference. It’s arguable whether Damien Chazelle, who came out of “La La Land” with a Best Director Oscar, cashed in his blank check on the Neil Armstrong biopic “First Man,” but his newest film, a three-hour sprawling look at nascent 1920s Hollywood, is a far more undeniable example of Chazelle using his clout to do whatever he wants.
“Babylon” builds its tale around four central characters, all of whom enter the scene and experience it from far different origins. The first person we see is Mexican immigrant Manuel “Manny” Torres (Diego Calva), a lowly assistant who uses his ability to fix problems as a gateway to building his influence in the boardroom. At a particularly wild party at the beginning of the film, he becomes acquainted with Nellie LaRoy (Margot Robbie), a small-town girl looking to become a big-town star by sneaking in and strutting her stuff with the aid of a mountain of cocaine courage to catch the eye of someone who will put her in front of the camera. The type of person she’s trying to woo is Jack Conrad (Brad Pitt), the sort of elite actor that the entire party stops to say “hi” to when he stumbles in three sheets to the wind. And lastly, there’s trumpet virtuoso Sidney Palmer (Jovan Adepo), whose talent is so undeniable that he too finds himself pulled from gigging to the spotlight. How the studio system molds and morphs these four individuals from who they are to who they become is the meat of “Babylon,” as is the industry’s transition from silence to sound.
The first hour of “Babylon” has one goal: show Hollywood at its most excessive and depraved, and then maybe consider pushing it a little further than that. After a particularly silly cold open involving attempts to bring an elephant up a perilously sloped road, things settle in for an extended sequence at a debauched party, where the elite of the movie industry gathers for an entirely out-of-control orgy of sex, drugs, music and pretty much every combination of bodily fluids you could imagine. It’s a sensory overload, with Linus Sandgren’s camera dipping and diving through a jungle of writhing bodies high on life but much higher on cocaine while a jazz combo blares out another killer score from Justin Hurwitz. It’s a chaotic but effective way to introduce the principal cast, with Robbie as the outsider who sneaks in to take the party by storm and worms her way into a career in front of the camera; Pitt as the superstar actor and barely functional alcoholic everyone fawns over to impress; Calva quietly keeping it all together while simultaneously swept up by Robbie’s irresistible aura; and Adepo watching it all from the stage, whipping them into a frenzy with the power of his trumpet.
Chazelle has hinted at some of the bravura filmmaking seen in “Babylon” in his prior films, especially in the more energetic sequences of “Whiplash” and “La La Land,” but those moments were simply appetizers compared to the main course here, with the scope and scale blown out to the size of, well, Los Angeles. We see that in the party sequences that have made up so much of the trailers and prerelease marketing, but it’s just as effective, and perhaps even more so, when applied to the movie shoots that straddle the divide between the silents and the talkies in the film’s maximalist first hour. The silent set, shot outside in a sprawling lot with what seems like half a dozen simultaneous movies filming all at once, takes advantage of the lack of sound recording to be as cacophonous and chaotic as possible. Compare that against the first shoot with sound, defined by the tension of its stillness and the suffocating weight of what this nascent technology means for an industry ill-prepared for the exactness and care it requires. Every creak of the floorboards is magnified tenfold knowing it will make its way into the final product, with the exasperation of the producers, director and sound tech turning the tension to slapstick. We’ve seen this before in the likes of “The Artist” and particularly “Singin’ in the Rain,” which this film bears more than a passing resemblance to in its plotting, but Chazelle does manage to bring something new to the table in the exuberance and spectacle he uses to bring his view of Hollywood to life.
Plenty of people will find their reasons to jump off the “Babylon” train far before it wraps itself up in ways that are less than satisfying. Its energy and exuberance are purposefully uninviting, designed to show the dark side of the glitz and glamor of Hollywood that seemed just as debauched and exploitative as it is nearly a century later. It’s also Chazelle’s aim to balance how awful it all is with the inspiring art it generates, which he uses the ending to hammer home in a way you can see from space, and it’s here that he’s not nearly as successful.
When my screening of the film ended, I was left with an aggressively bad taste in my mouth, believing that the final eight to 10 minutes of “Babylon” betrays what came before it both tonally and thematically. And in the hours and days since the credits rolled, my ire has waned a bit, and I have a better sense of what the ending was trying to say. That doesn’t mean he pulled it off, and I still can’t call it entirely satisfying. What it comes down to, then, is where you fall on how much a bad ending can invalidate what came before it. The great things about “Babylon” are still great, but judging it as a cohesive whole means it cannot be considered a complete success with such a poor ending. It’s tough to imagine Chazelle will be allowed to do something with the scope and scale of this again, and considering how it ended, perhaps he shouldn’t. But “Babylon” is quite the ride until it isn’t, and I remain interested in seeing what he does next.
Starring: Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Brad Pitt, Jovan Adepo
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Bills earn 1st sweep of Patriots since '99 with 38-9 win
The last division opponents to sweep the Patriots were the Jets and Dolphins in 2000. The Patriots’ 19 straight seasons without losing both games to a divisional opponent was an NFL record. The Patriots closed to 10-9 on Newton's 9-yard TD run in the second quarter, but Nick Folk missed the extra point and the Bills pulled away from there. INJURIESBills: S Jordan Poyer was helped off field late in second quarter to be evaluated for a head injury. … LB Josh Uche exited in second quarter with a foot injury.
Vikings RB Cook up vs. Packers, who keep LT Bakhtiari out
(AP Photo/John Froschauer)Dalvin Cook is back for the Minnesota Vikings from a one-game absence, his injured groin cleared to play in Green Bay. Packers: QB Jordan Love, CB Kevin King, S Raven Greene, RB Aaron Jones, LB Randy Ramsey, OT David Bakhtiari, DL Billy Winn. ___LOS ANGELES RAMS AT MIAMIRams: RB Raymond Calais, OL Brian Allen, WR Trishton Jackson, TE Brycen Hopkins, DL A’Shawn Robinson. Dolphins: RB/WR Lynn Bowden Jr., RB Salvon Ahmed, FB Chandler Cox, CB Jamal Perry, RB Jordan Howard, DE Jason Strowbridge. Bengals: K Austin Seibert, WR John Ross III, RB Joe Mixon, OG Michael Jordan, C Trey Hopkins, OT Bobby Hart, OT Jonah Williams.
AP source: Cam Newton to be Patriots starting quarterback
New England Patriots quarterback Cam Newton walks to the field for an NFL football training camp practice, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, in Foxborough, Mass. Cam Newton is officially the new starting quarterback of the New England Patriots. A person familiar with the situation said Thursday that Newton was announced as the starter during a team meeting. The move was expected after the 2015 league MVP outperformed second-year Jarrett Stidham and veteran Brian Hoyer during training camp. Theres been some things that a lot of people may have not known about me prior to (joining the Patriots), Newton said.


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KNOXVILLE — Coming off their best season in school history, the Knoxville girls soccer couldn’t follow up their historic 2019 season with spring sports being shut down to due COVID-19 last year. Now the Panthers are back on the pitch and look to continue their winning ways in 2021.
Matt Ritchhart enters his fourth season leading the Knoxville girls with a 24-12 career record, including a school-best 14-4 mark in 2019 that saw the Panthers go undefeated in conference play and win 13 games in a row before falling in regional play.
Returning for the Panthers will be seniors Marley McKay, Melody Torres and Jamie Beal along with juniors Taylor Jones, Charlee Heffron, Abby Wadle, Dani Johnston, Brook Moore and Raegan Cook.
McKay will be key for the Panthers in the midfield. She is a big-time playmaker for them as she led the team with 12 assists in 2019 along with six goals.
Torres will be on the back line by she has offensive ability with three goals and one assist as a sophomore.
After seeing all-state forward Emma DeJoode lose her senior season in 2020 after scoring 30 goals as a junior, Knoxville will need a new go-to goal scorer this year. Coach Ritchhart looks to have Jones in mind for that role after missing her freshman year due to injury and her sophomore season due to the pandemic. Now a junior, Jones will be eager to finally take the field for the Panthers and try to find the back of the net.
Speaking of the net, Knoxville will be very happy to see their starting goalie return this season. Wadle, now a junior, started with the Panthers as a freshman in net and enjoyed a very good season posting 11 clean sheets and an 85.6% save percentage.
Senior Jayce Hughes, junior Kira Deaver and sophomore Hanna Linsley are newcomers that should all carve out a role with the Panthers.
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Construction activity at the Sherborn Library continues at a brisk pace. Visitors to the Town Campus will see noticeable changes to the library as exterior walls, windows and skylights are installed. “Many patrons have asked about the small, barn-like structures popping up on the construction site,” noted Library Director Elizabeth Johnston. “Once hoisted to the roof, those enclosures will provide the construction crew with a covered space, protected from the elements, where they can work to install our Library’s new skylights!” Over the next few months, activity will continue to increase, with a number of subcontractors on site.
Interior furnishings are on order and HVAC, plumbing and electrical work on the addition and main building continues. New, angled parking around the Town Campus parking loop and restored spaces on Sanger Street have proved helpful for Town Hall meetings as well as on Sundays, when demand for church parking is high. The latest project schedule provided to the Library Building Committee estimates a July/August completion date.
As construction continues, the Sherborn Library remains in its temporary home across Sanger Street at the Sherborn Community Center. There, the Library staff continues to work hard, keeping the Library running without interruption and offering a wide range of programming for patrons of all ages.
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A Nazi Zelig: Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones
At all of these levels, the novel teems with erudite allusions, beginning with classical sources, which are in turn refracted through recent intellectual currents deeply embedded in the novel's orchestration. The novel's title is the euphemistic moniker for the Furies of Greek mythology and the title of the third part of Aeschylus' Oresteia sequence. In Aeschylus' telling, the Erinyes, or Furies, are forced by Athena's intervention in their relentless pursuit of Orestes for killing his mother to become the "Eumenides," or kindly ones, and join her in generously acquitting him of his crime. Indeed, the bare facts of the Oresteia provide the template for the specific acts Aue commits, and the defensive contrition of his preface certainly indicates that he expects a similar act of redemption.
Littell updates these classical themes by recalibrating their dynamics with psychoanalytic theories, especially the unclassifiable German thinker Klaus Theweleit's old and generally forgotten analysis of the psychology of fascism. (Theweleit became the chief German defender of The Kindly Ones and a pen pal with its author.) A generation ago, Theweleit published Male Fantasies, which analyzed the inner lives of the Freikorps, a group of soldiers who refused to demobilize after World War I and formed paramilitary units to put down the socialist revolution whose specter briefly haunted German cities. (Aue's father, not coincidentally, was a Freikorps officer.) Theweleit's theory focused--rather impressively at the time--on the psychic, lived reality of reactionaries. He highlighted, most of all, their desperate attempt to expunge any traces of femininity from their being, to achieve an impermeable "armored" body that would repel the miasma of pestilence and infirmity they attributed to the revolutionary left. Theweleit's influence shows most of all in the "atmospherics" of The Kindly Ones: in Aue's constant, striking immersion in viscous fluids--mud and his own shit, above all, but also vomit and semen. Far more than any explicit killing, it is the almost constant eruption and flow of greasy putrescence that saturates these pages with an inescapable feeling of nausea and abjection.
Yet Littell just as clearly wants to apply Theweleit's meditations on the psychosexual roots of reactionary politics to the Nazi era--and to a deeper syndrome. Another title for The Kindly Ones, given this aspiration, might have been Female Fantasies. For Aue, the goal is anything but to expel the feminine; it is to revel in and return to the feminine, and the various strands of his life are all dyed in the hue of this wish. Indeed, he has an intuitive understanding of Theweleit's discoveries before their time, and the femininity that could "wreck" men's "dominion" and "dissolve their control," so secretly feared by Theweleit's fascists, is precisely the self-loss that Aue consciously seeks.
Above all, the plot's fundamental motor, and the heart of Aue's quest, is his incestuous passion for his twin sister, Una. Aue's homosexuality is one feature of his governing fantasy to rejoin his sister, even to be her, or perhaps to return to their enwombed unity. Aue hates his mother for breaking up his love affair with his sister (and for driving away their father). But other passages indicate that Aue's melancholic longing for Una is fixated on something early and metaphysical and not late and sexual. In an aside during his work for Himmler, Aue confesses to missing "that other life that could have been, if something hadn't been broken so early. It wasn't just the question of my sister; it was vaster than that, it was the entire course of events, the wretchedness of the body and of desire, the decisions you make and on which you can't go back, the very meaning you choose to give this thing that's called, perhaps wrongly, your life."
The symbol of the twin--and, without giving too much away, it bears noting that there are many pairs of twins in the novel--seems to stand for the outrageous imperfection that drives Aue's transgression: the constant presence in the psyche of another, more perfect self one also knows is lost forever. All of Aue's regressive fantasies of reconciliation come to a head late in the novel in an extraordinary onanistic interlude--a sordid but unexpectedly spellbinding one--in which he indulges in his sister's empty house, as Soviet troops remorselessly close in. And yet, even in his orgy of self-involvement, Aue recognizes that he seeks not sexual ecstasy but metaphysical bliss. It is "these imaginings, these forever rehearsed obsessions, and not the thing itself," Aue says (emphasis added), "that are the frantic driving forces behind our thirst for life, for knowledge, for the agonizing struggle of self."
A rather obvious parallel is Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. Much as for Gustav von Aschenbach, the symbolism of personal abasement and perhaps extinction through feminine transformation is central to the landscape of Aue's dreams, some of which--notably an epic reverie after he is shot in the head at Stalingrad--are enigmatic in the extreme. It is also as a kind of feminine self-loss that Aue understands what one might otherwise criticize as an utterly stereotypical link between his Nazism and his homosexuality. The comparison with Death in Venice extends to Littell's crystalline and resolutely unexperimental prose style: dreams and sexuality trigger thematic fireworks, but the rhetoric is almost always measured, and the syntax never breaks down.


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Here’s to you, bitch.
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Here’s to tearing each other apart to mask our own insecurities. Here’s to sabotaging each other because we fear we can’t both be successful at the same time. Here’s to it never being enough or always being too much.
So, here’s to all of these bitches. And everyone who’s ever been called a bitch. If you’re not one of these, you’re all of these. (Perhaps toxic masculinity isn’t the entire issue.) Reminder: we’re all in this together.
Here’s to you, bitch.

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It is hard to find a silver lining in the clouds that hover over France’s economic future. Months of sustained political protest by French students forced a humiliating defeat on the Paris government, obliging it to withdraw a package of labor reforms that would have made it easier to fire first-time workers. The results highlight the increasing gap between the demands of French citizens and the realities of 21st-century economy. It also made plain the inability of the French leadership to rise to the occasion — and lead — when the country needed it most.
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin introduced the First Employment Contract, known by its French initials “CPE,” in an attempt to introduce flexibility into French labor markets and bring down the stubbornly high unemployment rate among the country’s youth. The national unemployment rate in France is 9.6 percent; for workers under the age of 25 the rate is near 25 percent, while in some areas, populated mostly by immigrants, it can get as high as 50 percent. The CPE would allow employers to hire workers under the age of 26 for a two-year probationary period, during which time they could be terminated without explanation. After the probation, the employee would get the standard labor contract.
The legislation was greeted by mass protests by French students. Millions took to the streets to demonstrate against a measure that they claimed discriminated against them by denying them the protections afforded other workers. They were joined by national labor unions, which called general strikes in support of the students. This proved too much for the Paris government. After the CPE was passed into law in early April, President Jacques Chirac asked businesses not to apply it. Escalating protests forced Mr. Chirac and Mr. de Villepin to backtrack completely. They used their parliamentary majority to quickly purge the law from the statutes and replace it with vocational training for young workers and financial incentives for employers to hire them, even though similar programs already exist.
Complete retreat may not be enough to end the protests. A similar reform, the new job contract (known as the CNE), was passed last summer. It allows companies with less than 20 employees to dismiss workers without giving a reason during a two-year trial period. Some students and unions have argued that it, too, should be repealed, calling it “the elder brother of the CPE.”
The easy answer to that demand is that companies have hired 400,000 on the new contract, and more than one-third of those are new jobs. By virtually all forms of logic, that is a compelling argument.
Sadly, logic does not seem to be the guiding principle in this dispute. Instead, politics — as always — is the predominant concern. The unions and the left opposition joined the students because they sensed an opportunity to successfully challenge a government that has out-maneuvered them for several years. At the same time, Mr. de Villepin’s main rival within the center right government, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, has been battling the prime minister as the heir to Mr. Chirac, and their competition has hampered the government’s ability to respond to the unfolding situation. By most accounts, the entire debacle has hurt Mr. de Villepin badly — his approval ratings, along with those of the president, have plummeted. Mr. Sarkozy, perceived as being more sympathetic to the students, has high ratings. (A word of caution here: When immigrants rioted months ago over perceived injustices, Mr. Sarkozy was blamed for insensitive remarks. Popular opinion is fickle.)
Changing France’s labor market is always a hazardous exercise. Reform has been attempted in 1993, 1995, and again in 2003, but each time public protests forced the government to back down. This latest attempt will only deter politicians from trying again. No politician is going to revisit the issue for some time.
But the need for reform is plain. Unemployment in France continues to hover around 10 percent, defying all attempts — including an artificially shortened work week — to bring it down. The minimum wage continues to rise, even though it is already one of the highest in the world. The new economy demands increasing flexibility and mobility among workers and companies to adjust to rapidly changing economic conditions. Yet the French cling to an outdated outlook, expecting guarantees that will insulate them from economic reality. The only guarantee today is that demands on labor will change and employees and employers alike must be prepared to adapt to them. Governments can help workers develop the skills that allow them to deal with new conditions, but they cannot guarantee a job today for five years, much less 40.
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The Grammy Award is scheduled for February 10th 2019 in L.A. This morning the nominees were announced.
Beyonce and hubby Jay-Z who have been performing to sell out crowds worldwide, were looked over by the Academy this year. The couples collaboration “Everything is Love” was passed over by the Recording Academy.
Taylor Swift was also passed over this year and only received one nomination for her “Reputation” CD. H.E.R. is up for Album of the year, and R&B song of the year with Daniel Caesar for “Best Part”. You can read more about the Grammy’s on our ‘home” page on this site.


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Sicily is my favorite place on earth.
And I adore Dolce and Gabbana.
So therefore I am prepped and primed to totally love
Dolce and Gabbana's new line of lipsticks and nail polishes,
called Sicilian Jewels.
Designed by the most influential makeup artist in the world,
the legendary Pat McGrath,
in delicious shades of Ruby, Amethyst, Topaz and Emerald
perfect for the holiday season, the shades are
both the perfect accompaniment to the Dolce Gabbana
fall collection and also the ideal way to
brighten up any dreary winter day.

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The Bamboo Shelter is a temporary, light-weight, bending-active structure and habitable pavilion built on a rooftop at the UABB Shenzhen 2015 exhibition. The design highlights and gives identity to a space for public gathering. This area is located in between the auditorium and adjacent café and exhibition building.
The installation is defined by an undulating bamboo membrane that is suspended between the building edges, bent over the handrail of the walkway up, and pulled down into a central seating area. This membrane is materialised by means of a diagrid made from thin bamboo sticks. These sticks are bent onsite and manually tied together according to specific building information that was extracted from computer models. These models employ digital real-time physics simulation tools to find form that is suitable for the selected material configuration. Specific annotation and construction documentation algorithms were developed to allow easy onsite construction without the need for conventional architectural drawings such as plans, sections or elevations.
This installation is conceived as a research project within a lineage of investigations on how computational design tools can be strategically inserted into low-tech construction methods to produce innovative architecture. The thesis is that by initiating form-finding exercises from material and construction properties and restrictions, rather than from virtual speculation only, a much more practical and realistic project implementation becomes possible.
The Bamboo Shelter promotes the innovative use of natural materials which, through their symbolic and cultural associations, enforce the local identity of the project location. But most importantly it illustrates how engaging architectural alternatives are possible from the simplest of means.


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It was revealed Nadz is getting Hoppe’s Sloppy Seconds. But how did it go down, and what is the huge secret she has?
Rover answers whether he’d come into work after winning Mega Millions jackpot.
Chris Matthews from Hardball on MSNBC talks with Rover about the news of the day.
Does a LifeStraw really make contaminated water safe to drink? The crew tests them out in the most toxic way possible!
Should women sex-up their look as much as possible to close business deals?
Rover did a “wife-swap” with the West Palm Beach affiliate’s midday girl, swapping Duji for Jaylah. She came prepared for the environment she was entering!


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28 May 2019
Data from the Agricultural Business Chamber (Agbiz), which represents commercial farmers and agribusiness enterprises, yesterday showed that the sector weathered the tough start to the year and recorded a trade surplus of $660 million (R9.53 billion) in the first quarter, up 11 percent from the same period last year.
Agbiz said the surge in the surplus was primarily a result of an 18 percent year-on-year decline in the value of imports to $1.45bn.
It said its data showed that the African continent and Europe continued to be the largest markets for South Africa’s agricultural exports, respectively accounting for 44 percent and 30 percent in value terms.
Asia was the third-largest market, taking 18 percent of South Africa’s agricultural exports in the quarter under review.
In a market update, Wandile Sihlobo, the head economist at Agbiz, said exports were underpinned by grapes, wine, apples, pears, wool, fruit juice, apricots, cherries, peaches and maize. “We expect these products to continue driving South Africa’s agricultural exports in the second quarter of 2019,” Sihlobo said.
“With that said, maize might not feature prominently, as we think South Africa’s 2019/20 maize exports could fall by 55 percent year-on-year to about 1 million tons owing to an expected lower harvest.”
Agbiz warned that South Africa’s agricultural trade prospects for this year were not as positive, as unfavourable weather conditions in parts of the country could lead to lower production, particularly of grains and grapes.
Data from Statistics South Africa this month showed that the sector continued to shed employees, with 12 000 people losing their jobs in the first three months of the year.
The crop estimates committee will today release its fourth summer crop production forecasts, followed by grain producer deliveries data and weekly grain trade data later this week.
Last week, the SA Reserve Bank said that the economy contracted in the first quarter of the year, with the key mining, manufacturing sectors faring poorly in the quarter.
Meanwhile, StatsSA’s tourism and migration data showed that the number of tourists to the country fell by 6.3 percent year-on-year in the first quarter.
Investec economist Lara Hodes said South Africa’s tourism sector remained a vital conduit for growth and employment creation, as it has sizeable spillover effects for other key segments of the economy.
“The lowering of regulatory barriers and, consequently, improving ease of entry remains key, and this, together with addressing the significant issue of crime in the country, are paramount to attracting foreign visitors,” Hodes said.


Raccoon Media Group, the award-winning health and well-being events company behind shows such as The National Running Show, The National Cycling Show, The National Outdoor Expo, and The National Snow Show, has announced it will remove aisle carpets from all future events.
This is the first of many initiatives from Raccoon Media Group as they strive to become net-zero by 2025, announced by CEO Mike Seaman at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2021.
Mike commented: “When I announced our ambitious target at COP26, we were still in the process of having our carbon footprint measured. This is an in-depth analysis of all areas of our business to identify where we can make carbon reductions, and I’m thrilled to see we could save over 15,100kg CO2 e just from removing aisle carpets from our shows!”
Although they can be recycled, it’s not easy, and the carpet industry still produces significant carbon emissions. Mike explained: “We initially looked at recycling, but from manufacturing to installing and removing the carpet and then transporting it from venue to venue, it still added up to a significant footprint. So in the end, we decided to get rid of them completely.”
“Of course, we’re looking to our venue partners to come up with a sustainable yet comfortable alternative to make sure our visitors still have a great experience,” he added, “we’re looking forward to seeing what they come up with but in the meantime we will be pushing forward to remove all aisle carpets at our shows..”
To measure its carbon footprint, Raccoon Media Group partnered with ecollective, a carbon emissions analysis firm. Charlie Cotton, Founder of ecollective, said: “When you think of carbon footprints and emissions, you normally don’t think of carpets, but to tackle the climate crisis, no area of a business should be out of scope. When we worked through the data and presented it back to the Raccoon Media Group team, the numbers spoke for themselves.”
Raccoon Media Group set up a Sustainability Working Group to work with suppliers and exhibitors to reduce their carbon footprint. Event carpeting was one of the first areas they focussed on.
Matthew Lambert, Director of Operations at Raccoon Media Group, said: “When we got the data back from ecollective, we jumped at the chance to make a real difference. So when visitors flock to the National Running Show South in May, they’ll take part in a much more sustainable show experience. Not only have we removed aisle carpets, but our ambassador teams all wear T-shirts made from recycled plastic bottles produced by our partners Scimitar.”
“In addition, we removed over 20,000 plastic merchandise bags, discouraged the use of single-use printed materials, and swapped our printed show guides with a digital alternative. We even replaced our VIP gift bags with ones made from sustainable and biodegradable jute.”
Raccoon Media Group is calling on the rest of the event industry to follow its lead and assess their supply chains. Matt continued: “We want to challenge every supplier and partner to join us in focusing on minimising their carbon footprint and offsetting any emissions that can’t be reduced. We’ve also given our visitors the option to offset their emissions from travelling to the venue. We want our guests to feel confident that whenever they visit one of our events, it’s as sustainable as we can make it. Even down to the (lack of) carpet under their feet.”


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I’m heading to Vermont College of Fine Arts on Wednesday where I’ll be writing until July 18. I CANNOT wait —- and I sure hope traveling halfway across the country to focus on writing works it’s magic.
For me, it’s been a struggle to get back to writing ever since January when some committee work in the English Graduate Program sort of stole my writing time. I thought I’d ease back into writing by revising a novel I completed last summer. But the editor inside my head has consistently told me it’s not good enough and so that’s been slow going. But then I also started a new novel and I’m excited about the idea. I have the plot in my head. I even have a significant character and her best friend. It’s a kidnapping story – I know that. But I absolutely have been struggling over figuring out the voice. The character I know best is a quiet innocent with a sensitive poet’s voice. Her best friend is more of a rock star sort of poet. I’m thinking that the best friend should tell the story. But then I hear the sensitive quiet voice too. Two points of view? Or does the rock start poet tell the story because the sensitive poet is unable to tell it?
At least I’m thinking about it, right?
But it’s been such a struggle to put words on paper. That is, it was tough until a friend invited me to sit on her porch and write together for a few hours this past week. I do hope that’s the breakthrough that helps me really use every available moment I have to write at Vermont College. I’ll let you know how it goes. Meanwhile, I’d love to hear how some of you have handled getting back to writing.


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The New Normal in NYISO
April 20, 2020
NYISO has produced a graphic that highlights the impact of social distancing and COVID-19 on hourly load patterns. The morning peak arrives later. Commercial demand is lower. Residential demand is higher. And overall consumption is down is significantly lower. “The sudden departure from historical behavioral patterns caused by New York’s response to COVID-19 is historically unprecedented. As more data is available, our forecasting team will further refine forecasts based on the societal changes we are seeing,” NYISO said in a statement.

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- About Us
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Author Visit - 5th October 2010
Here at Salford City Academy, we had Author Chris D'Lacey with us all day on the 5th October 2010. Chris is the Author of the well known books: Fire Star, Fire Ice and Dark Fire.
Pupils in year 7 and 8 had the pleasure of meeting Chris.He gave a talk about his books and how he got into writing at the late age of 32 years old.
Chris answered questions pupils asked him, he signed his books that pupils could buy from him and had photo's taken with pupils.
Both year 7 and 8 pupil's enjoyed the story that Chris told about his stray pigeon, that he made into a pet and kept for 14 years.
At break time, Chris met other pupils from mixed years in the library and gave advice on writing a story.
Mrs Wilkinson (Librarian) and English staff had lunch with Chris in the library and he answered questions, spoke about his life and his love of writing.
Overall it was a very good day, the pupils are still talking about the pigeon and how Chris wrote a book about it and the advice he gave about not giving up if you want to write a book. These comments were taken on board by a lot of our pupils. We have some very keen, enthusiastic writers - as Chris would say "You can do it!"


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A diocese is a territorial division of the Catholic Church in a region or province. The head of a diocese is referred to as a bishop.
The Diocese of Orlando in Florida was officially established on June 18, 1968. In 1968, there were 50 parishes with 128,000 Catholics. New boundaries were established on July 17, 1984. The Diocese currently encompasses 9,611.11 square miles.
|Counties||9||Orange, Seminole, Lake, Brevard, Osceola, Volusia, Polk, Sumter, Marion|
|General Population||4,320,834||U.S. Bureau of the Census: www.census.gov|
|Catholic Population||393,271||Catholic Census Information|
|Patroness of the Diocese||Mary, the Mother of God|
|Active Bishop||Most Reverend John Noonan|
|Former Bishops||Most Reverend Thomas G. Wenski
Most Reverend Norbert M. Dorsey, C.P., S.T.D.
Most Reverend William D. Borders
Most Reverend Thomas J. Grady
Special Education School
|Basilicas||2||The Basilica of St. Paul, Daytona Beach
The Basilica of the National Shrine of Mary, Queen of the Universe, Orlando
|Shrines||1||The Basilica of the National Shrine of Mary, Queen of the Universe, Orlando|
** This information was last updated April 2014.

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The Dinosaur Mystery (Digital Book) Win/Mac
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Now available as Digital Books for use on Windows, Mac and Interactive Whiteboards! Scientists have always wondered about dinosaurs. Why did they die? How much do you know about dinosaurs? Read this book to find out more.
Please note: Digital files will be emailed after purchase.
- Format: Digital
- Series: Wings Digital
- Publisher: Era Publications
- Subject: Literacy
- Audience: Early Childhood, Primary


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13 Sep Ny (AP) – Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of your American Collection Association’s Place of work for Intellectual Versatility, has never been thus hectic
Last belong Virginia, Glenn Youngkin supported a location college board’s banning of these two books throughout the his effective focus on having governor
“This past year, we possibly may was basically acquiring one, maybe two records a day in the a book getting confronted within a collection. And usually the individuals phone calls might possibly be getting ideas on tips manage a problem and product that hold the value of the task becoming confronted,” Caldwell-Stone told
The newest Relevant Force. “Today, we are delivering around three, four, five records twenty four hours, of many trying to find help and several trying to find good number of help.”
Profile regarding book bannings and you will attempted guide bannings, also threats up against librarians, has actually soared over the past 12 months together with ALA features provided some number within its yearly County away from America’s Libraries Declaration, released Friday. This new organization located 729 demands – affecting almost 1,600 courses – at the social colleges and you will libraries for the 2021, more double 2020’s numbers and also the higher due to the fact ALA began producing pressures over two decades before.
The real full having a year ago is probable higher – the fresh new ALA gathers research by way of news account and as a result of times it learns from the out-of librarians and instructors or other people players. Instructions preemptively drawn of the librarians – regarding anxiety about society protest otherwise question for their services – and you will challenges never claimed from the libraries commonly integrated.
The other day, the fresh new Georgia legislature passed a bill who would accelerate the process for removing books thought to be “harmful to minors.”
Both extremely confronted books on ALA’s top 10 record come in payday loans Plainfield IN the headlines tend to: Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir in the sexual identity,
“Sex Queer,” and Jonathan Evison’s “Turf Man,” a sneaking-of-age novel narrated by the a young homosexual man. Both was basically singled out by Republican authorities.
Ron DeSantis slammed “Gender Queer” and “Yard Child” up on signing a rules who would force primary schools to add a searchable list of most of the guide obtainable in its libraries or found in tuition and permit mothers, DeSantis told you, “to pay brand new whistle
Kobabe and you will Evison noted during the current interview a paradox of its books are targeted: Neither attempt to create a story getting teenagers.
Even so they gathered followers certainly students by using the latest American Library Association, which has considering for every book a keen Alex Honor to possess works “authored to own adults with special attract teenagers, years 12 owing to 18.”
“I believe a big part in our courses taking much appeal is that they’ve been prize champions and you may got ordered by the libraries across the country,” Kobabe said.
Other people on the ALA checklist, almost all cited for LGBTQ otherwise racial themes, tend to be Angie Thomas’ bestselling “New Dislike U Render,” based on an authorities capturing out of a black colored adolescent; George Johnson’s “Most of the Males Are not Bluish,” Juno Dawson’s “It Guide Is actually Gay” and you can Susan Kuklin’s “Beyond Magenta.” Two older functions that have been towards the checklist in advance of together with appear: Sherman Alexie’s autobiographical book “This new Undoubtedly Real Journal of a part-Go out Indian” and you can Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s debut book “The new Bluest Eye.”
The newest library connection represent a great “challenge” because the good “formal, created problem submitted with a library or school asking for that information go off because of stuff otherwise appropriateness.” Brand new ALA doesn’t continue a precise figure based on how many instructions have actually been eliminated, however, instances attended right up routinely over the past season. Last December, a school district within the San Antonio, Texas, pulled a huge selection of collection books so you can “verify it did not have people down and dirty or vulgar question within the her or him.”


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I found this beautiful Saturniid moth (oomizuao) hanging onto the front of a vending machine at the side of a mountain road (near Inunaki Dam). Apparently the adults lack functioning mouthparts, so they only live for a couple of weeks. What a pity that they spend their two weeks of life bumping into the lights of roadside vending machines!
This species (Actias artemis) looks very similar to the Luna Moth (Actias luna) that is found in North America. You can see a picture here.
Actias artemis = oomizuao

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What About the Kids?
Every once in a while it's good to think outside the box, plastic kit wise, and this past week was one of those times for me. I've been on a Korean War binge of late and have, in that vein, been enjoying the magic of one of my two remaining bottles of Floquil Old Silver in the creation of the required weathered natural metal finishes, an activity which led me to consider building the relatively new Eduard Spitfire Mk XVI. My chosen subject was a late example of the type, a post-War example in overall silver from 601 Sqdn RAF, and the build was what can only be described as pleasurable, although I'd be more than a little remiss if I didn't mention that Eduard's choice of landing gear attachment did cause me to utter what that old-time cowboy song termed a discouraging word (or two).
Let's use that landing gear, all draped in colorful epithets, as the starting point for today's ramble. It occurred to me while arguing with its attachment that other people had complained about it too, so it wasn't just my inherent ineptitude that was causing the problem. It was the way those parts were designed to fit together and it was a challenge, although it wasn't the end of my own personal polystyrene world by any means. I eventually figured out how Eduard meant for things to go together and everything turned out just fine in the end. The thing that got me thinking wasn't the gear installation itself, though; it was the fact that I've been doing this stuff since 1956 and have, for the most part, learned enough tricks of the trade to cope with almost any sort of plastic foolishness a manufacturer could come up with, and this kit threw me a curve.
What's the point, you may well ask yourself. That Friddell guy had trouble with the Spitfire, but so what? I probably won't---to use yet another set of old cowboy song lyrics he'd probably use to describe his misadventure, "it's your misfortune and none of my own". Ok then; maybe you won't, but what if you happen to be ten or twelve years old and the proud owner of an Eduard kit of almost any flavor, or maybe someone a little older who has developed an interest in the hobby and decided to buy that first kit and try things on for size? In a case like that, Eduard's landing gear could easily be the deal-breaker that pushes the novice right out of the hobby (that's presuming all the teensy-tiny detail parts included with almost any Eduard kit don't do the job first).
It's not just an Eduard problem either; I mention them because I happen to like their kits and build a lot of them. I've also been doing this stuff for a while, so most of my problems regarding the hobby are self-induced and I fully understand that phenomena. When I mess something up I take a deep breath and go back to figure out where I went wrong so I can fix the problem. You probably do a variation of the same thing but your typical Newbie won't, particularly if he or she happens to be on the youngish side.
We could easily make the point that a rank beginner shouldn't be starting off with a kit such as the Eduard "Spitty", but quite a few people new to the hobby buy kits based on box art and price. A Profi-Pack Eduard Anything is going to cost fifty bucks or more, but their Weekend Edition of same will start in the twenty to thirty-dollar range, which is affordable for some kids. Let's consider the consequences.
Junior Newbie wants to build plastic model airplanes because he's interested in both history and flight, and he's read about the legendary Supermarine Spitfire. He's hooked, and he wants to build a model which will, of course, come out looking just like all those models he sees on the Internet. He finds himself an Eduard "Spit" of any flavor and it's a Weekend Edition so he can afford it if he puts off buying that new video game until next week. He plunks down his money and takes it home, excited and ready to build a model of his favorite airplane, and reality sets in when he discovers he can't get past the cockpit or wheel wells. His new treasure is an unmitigated disaster and ends up in the trash can, while he goes back to playing video games. We lose another aspiring scale modeler but in the grand scheme of things we, as a hobby, lose a whole lot more than that.
Most plastic kits of recent design are intended for the modeler who's been at it a while, and said kits tend to cater to the high side of the standard. Some are unnecessarily complicated, and many of the limited-run specimens are virtually impossible for the novice to successfully complete. All of these things conspire against the kid (or novice adult) who's infatuated with model airplanes and wants to get into the hobby. They give a model an honest shot but, quite by accident, purchase something that's intended for the guy or gal who's got the chops to deal with what we're going to call severe polystyrene idiosyncrasies and they fail. They walk away from the hobby but that's no big deal, right? WRONG!
A great many of us are a rapidly aging demographic as far as this hobby is concerned yet a whole bunch of the newer kits are aimed at us; the Old Guys (relatively speaking, of course) who can afford the initial purchase price of our toys and have achieved the skills necessary to turn them into the models we want them to be. Eduard could be the poster child in terms of the production of the models we want to have, because they listen to what their customer base have to say and they act on what they hear. They don't always get it right in terms of accuracy but you can't fault their kits as kits---they're superb! The problem is; they're also largely unsuited for beginners.
This is a discussion that could go round and round, but in simplest terms you and I have a mission when possible; a duty, if you will, to help The New Guy or Gal, or The Young Guy or Gal, pick out kits they can actually be successful with if they decide they want to experience the magic of this hobby of ours. Hobby Boss has a range of kits intended for the relative newcomer to the hobby, as do a few other manufacturers, and there are still simple kits being boxed and marketed that were originally designed in the 50s and 60s and are pretty easy to assemble. That means the kits are out there, just waiting for someone who's new to the hobby to discover the magic we've enjoyed all these years. Maybe, just maybe, you ought to help the Newbie pick out something they can be successful with. It's the right thing for them because it will let them get the results they want with a whole lot less angst than they might otherwise have to endure, and it's the right thing for all of us because it helps fill the pipeline with aspiring modelers as we graybeards inevitably age out of the hobby, thus ensuring that there are still quality kits and accessories around for the remaining serious scale modelers to enjoy in years to come. Today is truly the Golden Age of plastic modeling and Today is likely to last for a few more years but, inevitably, the brand spanking new wonder-kits we're able to purchase now will begin to dwindle away as fewer and fewer modelers buy them because the folks that produce the kits aren't altruistic to any great extent. If they can't make money they won't produce new kits and at the end of the day we'll all suffer for it.
What do you say, then? Are you willing to help the novice modeler choose kits he or she can actually complete? Are you willing to help steer them through their first few models so they'll stay with the hobby, thus ensuring new and better kits for us all? Are you ready to do that? Can I get an Amen?
Think about it, ya'll; it's most assuredly the right thing to do!
Speaking of Getting Older
It seems like only yesterday that the F-16 Fighting Falcon entered the inventory but it has, in fact, been substantially more than a few years since that event and the Electric Jet has now achieved a certain seniority on life that rarely registers on those of us who have been around a while. Just to put things in perspective, here's a shot you may not have seen before of a B-model with a really neat paint job:
THIS is How It's Done!
We're greatly privileged around here because we're read by quite a few of the heavy hitters in our hobby. A lot of our discussion with those guys occurs over the telephone, but we still receive a bunch of e-mails as well. The following images came to us via the internet and from one of those aforementioned heavy hitters, Pat Donahue, who's polystyrene skill-sets are to be envied. He sent these photos a couple of months ago and they, plus shots of the completed airplane, have long since appeared on several of the plastic modeling web sites, which means they aren't exactly brand new to most of us. They are, however, excellent depictions of a project in work by someone we consider to be a master of the craft, so let's take a look at what we've got.
And that's it for this particular essay. Pat did finish the model, as we mentioned up there in the introduction, and you can see how it came out over on Hyperscale and, I suspect, a few other sites as well. Many thanks to Pat for the images and the opportunity to share them with all of you!
Something Rarely Seen
At least on this web site! We almost never run photography depicting any airplane in service after the very early 1990s, but this shot is really pretty and we need to share it with you:
Thanks as always to Mark for sharing the photo with us.
Those Guys Liked the "Jug"
Yes they did. In point of fact, you could probably say the guys in the 348th FG loved the airplane once they figured out how to properly employ it in combat. There's a fair amount of photography out there depicting the group during their days with the P-47D, but it's sometimes a little difficult to come up with something that everyone hasn't already seen. In that light we're guessing a few of you may have seen these images before, but they're new to us and they're something special!
Please note that I had originally attributed these photos to the collection of Bobby Rocker. I had mis-filed the original images when I received them and the rest, as some folks say, is history! That said, there truly aren't enough superlatives to adequately describe Bobby and his ongoing dedication to the preservation of those images of a remarkable time in our history and we'll show you a photo that actually is from his collection in a minute, but first let me apologize to Gerry Kersey for the mistake I made when I captioned these photos. Gerry's another one of the Good Guys who deserves credit for preserving the history of the the greatest generation, and we most assuredly want to give credit where credit's due. Yes; these photos could be better quality (and probably were, once upon a time), but the airplanes they depict, and the attitude and sacrifice of the men who maintained and flew them, are a significant part of our aviation heritage and their preservation is both remarkable and appreciated. Time hasn't been overly kind to those photos but they're here and, because of Gerry, Bobby, and so many others like them, we can all treasure them for the irreplaceable record they are. Thanks, guys, for everything you do!
Just One More
From the Rocker Collection, that is!
Thanks once again to Bobby Rocker's kindness, both for the photograph and for the enigma it presents to us!
A Different Bobby
You remember Maddog John Kerr, right? Well, way back in what constituted the beginning of The Publishing Day for me, I spent a lot of time in his home looking at airplane slides, a fair number of which came from a fellow named Bob Burns. Bob's photography stood out in John's collection, both for the uniqueness of its subject matter and for its exceptional quality, because Bob had ramp access at Pax River and used that access to the max. Here's an example of the sort of thing we're talking about:
We Wish We Knew
Not about the airplanes---we can pretty much figure that part out. No; the confusion part comes from the photographer of these images. They reside in our collection but we don't have a clue, not the first idea, who took them! (Well, actually we do---we're guessing Rick Morgan to be the culprit here...) We don't know when or where they were taken either, which makes them Mystery Meat par excellence, but lack of information never stopped us before and they're a really good way to end this edition so, without further delay:
Finally, here are a couple of shots of VF-102 F-14A Tomcats to round out our homage to The Mystery Photographer:
And that's it for today's Mystery Meat! (Would the real photographer please stand up? Beuller? Beuller?)
And it's time for a correction already, a mere five hours after I originally posted this particular photo essay. Rick Morgan sent in an e-mail which is of interest, I think:
Phil- Nice work, as always, but none of those Navy shots are mine! VFC-12 used overall gloss dark engine gray as a standard paint scheme for years for some reason. It certainly doesn’t look bad either. Those shots all appear to be at their Oceana home. The brown camo A-4 is from VF-126; picture is obviously at Miramar. While both of the Oceana adversary units (VF-43 and VC/VFC-12) had “house” colors in their later A-4 days, the West Coast units (VF-126, VA-127) painted practically all their aircraft differently. Very few of them were alike.
The Intruder is definitely VA-75, also home at Oceana. If the last two digits are “96” as they appear, that makes it about four possible aircraft… another classic example of how TPS’ grays melted into each other over time. Not a problem on, say, that Black Falcon KA-6D off to the right.
Many thanks, Rick! Now then, would the guy who shot the airplanes in this piece please get in touch with me so I can properly credit the images? Please?
Happy Snaps, and Under the Radar
Not today, folks. Things have been absolutely lunatic crazy around here for the past couple of months and I've really had to push to get this issue out so you wouldn't think I'd forgotten about you! With any luck those departments will be back with the next issue.
The Relief Tube
We honestly weren't prepared to run a Relief Tube this issue, but an hour or so ago I received a couple of comments from Doug Barbier that I felt needed to be published:
Phil, Another great blog - as usual! I really liked the opener about the graying of the hobby and helping out the newcomers, as well as the internet types who generally have no factual knowledge of the actual aircraft that they are raving/complaining about. I have sent a couple of e-mails to both xxx and xxx (internet modeling websites that I'm choosing to keep anonymous. Editor) about factual inaccuracies in reviews that would lead the unknowing the wrong direction and were unjustified in the face of the plastic/resin in question being accurate, and have received dead silence in return. Or when I tried to answer a couple of questions that were asked on the discussion forums---people did not want to hear a factual answer, they were more interested in flaming someone who did not see things "their" way. So I simply quit participating there rather than spend the time and effort just to get flamed - I have plenty of other things to keep me busy... I feel sorry for the poor guy who initially asked an honest question...(This) is a sad state of affairs, because I have more than a fair amount of knowledge that I could share - and there are plenty of misconceptions and fallacies out there.
Doug, I couldn't agree more! The things you describe are 100% of the reason we don't run an open forum on this site. And for our readers: Doug's comments are part of an e-mail discussing something else and have therefore been heavily edited by me, but they're so germane to what we try to do around here that I thought they needed to be published. Your comments regarding this particular Relief Tube entry are welcome and encouraged as long as they're civil, polite, and on-topic!
Now we're done! Be good to your neighbor and we'll try to meet again real soon!


2017 Midis Musique programming unveiled for Oak Lane
Downtown Moncton Centre-ville Inc (DMCI), in collaboration with the Capitol Theatre, launched this year’s edition of Midis Musique, the free summer concert series in Oak Lane, held every Wednesday and Friday from noon to 1:00 p.m. throughout July and August.
DMCI is committed to creating an attractive, inviting atmosphere throughout the downtown – and Oak Lane is the perfect location to experience Downtown Moncton and is fast becoming a coveted urban space where downtown workers, residents and visitors have an opportunity to relax and enjoy a break.
Downtown Moncton Centre-ville Inc. promotes leisure and cultural activities in the heart of the city. From large-scale community events that draw tens of thousands of people, to smaller more intimate gatherings and everything in between, DMCI is a strong supporter of downtown events and festivals and is pleased to offer programming in Oak Lane. “Midis Musique is our way of encouraging up-and-coming artists all the while adding to the downtown experience for the lunchtime crowd in Oak Lane” said Anne Poirier Basque, Executive Director of Downtown Moncton Centre-ville Inc.
One of the leading entertainment providers in the region, the Capitol Theatre, started developing the programming for Midis Musique during the late winter months. Kim Rayworth, the Capitol Theatre’s Managing Director is excited about this year’s line up, “We are thrilled to partner once again with DMCI to present Midis Musique and create more opportunities for the public to discover up and coming local artists.”
Entertainment for the season launch was provided by local performer Isabelle Cormier.
The 2017 line-up for Midis Musique:
June 30: Isabelle Cormier August 2: Kyle Birt
July 5: Drake Adams August 4: Melissa Hunt
July 7: Darcy Mazerolle August 9: Patrick Murray
July 12: Arianne Caissie August 11: Jaclyn Reinhart
July 14: Matt Comeau August 16: Émilie Landry
July 19: Jane Blanchard August 18: Travis Furlong
July 21: Katherine Moller August 23: Shaun LB
July 26: Amateur Trahan August 25: Matt Boudreau
July 28: Billy Knowles


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Van Cleef Asset Management Inc raised its holdings in Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD) by 94.7% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 129,752 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock after buying an additional 63,096 shares during the period. Gilead Sciences comprises approximately 2.3% of Van Cleef Asset Management Inc’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 12th biggest holding. Van Cleef Asset Management Inc’s holdings in Gilead Sciences were worth $9,295,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
A number of other large investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the business. FMR LLC increased its stake in shares of Gilead Sciences by 1.1% during the second quarter. FMR LLC now owns 23,037,303 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock worth $1,630,581,000 after purchasing an additional 258,005 shares during the period. Macquarie Group Ltd. increased its stake in shares of Gilead Sciences by 26.6% during the third quarter. Macquarie Group Ltd. now owns 479,332 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock worth $38,836,000 after purchasing an additional 100,741 shares during the period. Vanguard Group Inc. increased its stake in shares of Gilead Sciences by 2.4% during the second quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 92,841,960 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock worth $6,571,355,000 after purchasing an additional 2,148,697 shares during the period. Northern Trust Corp increased its stake in shares of Gilead Sciences by 0.7% during the second quarter. Northern Trust Corp now owns 16,430,476 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock worth $1,162,949,000 after purchasing an additional 116,780 shares during the period. Finally, Toronto Dominion Bank increased its stake in shares of Gilead Sciences by 19.0% during the second quarter. Toronto Dominion Bank now owns 472,577 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock worth $33,445,000 after purchasing an additional 75,364 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 77.96% of the company’s stock.
In other news, EVP James R. Meyers sold 100,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Tuesday, January 16th. The stock was sold at an average price of $80.24, for a total value of $8,024,000.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president now directly owns 102,715 shares in the company, valued at approximately $8,241,851.60. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, EVP Gregg H. Alton sold 15,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Tuesday, January 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $73.87, for a total value of $1,108,050.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president now owns 64,613 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $4,772,962.31. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last ninety days, insiders sold 430,268 shares of company stock worth $34,074,395. Company insiders own 1.30% of the company’s stock.
Shares of Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ GILD) opened at $81.72 on Wednesday. The firm has a market capitalization of $106,186.01, a price-to-earnings ratio of 9.49, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of -1.86 and a beta of 1.24. Gilead Sciences, Inc. has a twelve month low of $63.76 and a twelve month high of $89.54. The company has a quick ratio of 2.67, a current ratio of 2.74 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.53.
Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD) last issued its earnings results on Tuesday, February 6th. The biopharmaceutical company reported $1.78 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $1.67 by $0.11. The firm had revenue of $5.95 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $5.71 billion. Gilead Sciences had a return on equity of 50.29% and a net margin of 17.73%. The company’s revenue was down 18.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $2.70 EPS. equities research analysts expect that Gilead Sciences, Inc. will post 6.21 earnings per share for the current year.
The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, March 29th. Shareholders of record on Friday, March 16th will be issued a $0.57 dividend. This represents a $2.28 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.79%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 15th. This is an increase from Gilead Sciences’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.52. Gilead Sciences’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 59.77%.
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The Baltimore Ravens have been known for not only their outstanding play on the field, but their work off of it as well. They are an extremely charitable organization, and that is shown by players, coaches, executives and more continuously giving back to the community when they can.
The most recent act of kindness from the franchise is that the Ravens as well as The Stephen and Renee Bisciotti Foundation have committed $20 million dollars to transform the Hilton Recreation Center. The West Baltimore Hilton Recreation Center will now be known as the Baltimore Ravens Boys and Girls Club at Hilton Recreation Center.
Alongside The Stephen and Renee Bisciotti Foundation, the Ravens have committed $20 million to transform the Hilton Recreation Center in West Baltimore into the Baltimore Ravens Boys & Girls Club at Hilton Recreation Center. 💜https://t.co/0CXkBqwyzo
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Apple’s Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams, Kevin Lynch, Vice President of Technology and Sumbul Desai, Vice President of Health all sat down for an interview about how heart health became the focus of the Apple Watch (via The Independent).
Apple Watch Heart Health
In one example, Apple’s Heart Study was the biggest study of its kind, only made possible with the Apple Watch (n=400,000+). It looked for signs of atrial fibrillation to not only help people but also improve the Watch’s irregular heart rhythm feature.
Although the Apple Watch had a heart rate monitor from the very beginning, at first it was to give people more accurate step counting. But things changed, and Mr. Williams said it happened organically:
Most people think we had this major health initiative, well, we had some notions in the beginning but no idea where it would lead. And honestly, it’s a situation where we started pulling on threads and the more we pulled, the more we realized there’s such a huge opportunity for us to impact people with the information that’s on their wrist.
He also talks about rumors that the Apple Watch could have a glucose sensor one day, but says it’s a challenge:
Non-invasive sensing of the human body is incredibly challenge [sic]. You mention glucose, people have been talking about non-invasive glucose sensing for decades. I read every year that somebody has a non-invasive glucose sensing monitor ready. And what I’ll tell you is, it’s hard enough detect glucose when you can access the interstitial fluid, it’s way harder to do it with photons. And so, of course, we will be interested in more sensors down the road.


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Illinois Attorney General Sues Suburban Bus Company Over Alleged Discrimination
The Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed a lawsuit against private bus company Suburban Express Monday, accusing the company of discriminating against its customers.
According to the lawsuit, Suburban Express, which mainly serves the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has shown prejudice toward its Asian customers through advertisements, including one that said, “Passengers like you. You won’t feel like you’re in China when you’re on our buses.”
The University of Illinois immediately criticized the advertisement, claiming it was racist. Days later, Madigan issued a subpoena for documents that would help figure out if the company’s practices violated the Illinois Human Rights Act or not.
Suburban Express later issued an apology for its ad.
The lawsuit described other alleged acts of discrimination by Suburban Express, including rejecting credit cards from zip codes with high Jewish populations and telling employees to avoid giving coupons to certain customers who didn’t seem to speak English well. The lawsuit also the company retaliates against customers and files lawsuits against those who complain.
Madigan said Dennis Toeppen, the owner of Suburban Express, called one customer “a pushy little Chinese international student with a fragile ego” who “should go back to your country and stay there.”
The company also has a “page of shame” where complaining customers are called degrading names, like “slimeball” and “dishonest little scumbag.”
“Suburban Express and Dennis Toeppen have engaged in illegal discrimination and harassment against college students and their families,” Madigan said in a statement. “I am asking the court to take immediate action to prevent further harm to people who have been targeted by Suburban Express and its owner, and my lawsuit seeks to shut this company down for good.”
The executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Tuyet Le, said she is pleased about the lawsuit and hopes that it puts a stop the company’s policies and practices.
“A bus company that advertises its racism has no place in serving the people of Illinois,” Le said. “And by urging his employees to mock and discriminate against Asian students, Mr. Toeppen is fueling anti-immigrant sentiments growing in this country. Companies that are openly hostile toward people of different faiths, races or nationalities deserve to be put out of business.”
Toeppen said that company takes these allegations seriously and plans to fight the lawsuit.
The lawsuit demands fines of $10,000 and $50,00 for every discriminatory act.

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MetalGear Solid themed ipod sock
My brother is a long time fan of the Metal Gear Solid games, so I made him a pocket for his ipod, with the logo of the special ops team the game is focused around, Foxhound. It matches a t shirt he wears all the time, too. I honestly just eyeballed the logo(2nd image) and cut out bits of felt in the approximate shapes and glued them in place. I blanket stitched the emblem in place, and the sides of the pocket. I also blanket stitched the two sides of the opening, separately, to make it look finished. I embroidered his Foxhound codename on the back.
SparrowFae posted this project as a creation without steps
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Conte proved himself versatile musically, and by 1973, he was playing regularly in local clubs. He quickly became a busy studio musician, and throughout the 1970s, he played in the Latin fusion band Caldera.
In the 1980s, Conte toured with several different musicians, including Madonna, guitarist Al Di Meola, and Andy Narell. His debut as a bandleader came in 1987, when he released La Cocina Caliente, which included a Latinized version of Chopin's "Susarasa". Conte also played percussion on the Pat Metheny Group release 'We Live Here', in 1995, as well as I Mother Earth's first two albums Dig (1994) and Scenery and Fish (1996).
Recently, Conte has toured as part of James Taylor's "Band of Legends." He has also played alongside such famed musicians as Alex Acuña, Jaguares, Larry Klimas, and David Garfield, both as a bandleader and a sideman.
Luis Conte was part of Phil Collins 1997 "Dance into the Light" tour and 2004 "First Farewell Tour", performing in both of them Afro-Cuban percussion and adding more depth into the concert songs. He also performed during The Phil Collins Big Band tours in 1996 and 1998.
In 1999 Conte collaborated in Maná MTV Unplugged project.
In 2009 worked together with Sergio Vallín in his Bendito Entre
"I really don't know how I got started playing. As far back as my memory will go, I owned a drum. It's like asking someone how long they've been breathing."
Luis Conte’s genius stems from his ability to integrate the powerful rhythms of his native Cuba with the American necessities of American pop music. His long and varied career has included numerous Hollywood film scores and mega-successful albums with Madonna, Ray Charles, Phil Collins, Santana, Shakira, Jackson Browne, Sergio Mendes, Cachao, and a multitude of other artists too numerous to mention.
Born in Santiago, Cuba, Luis spent the first 15 years of his life soaking up the rich musical heritage of “El Son” and Carnival. "Life in Cuba is all about enjoying life, and music is central to that lifestyle," Luis says. "Music is almost like food to Cuban people.” While immersed in the music of his native Cuba, Luis also developed a passion for Rock & Roll, R&B soul music, jazz, and the Beatles.
At 15, looking for freedom, Luis emigrated to Madrid, Spain. He soon had another opportunity to travel, this time to Hollywood. In California, Luis stayed with a cousin and attended Hollywood High School, playing guitar in numerous rock bands throughout his teens.
After high school, Luis met John Monteallegre, who reunited him with Cuban drums at LA City College. By the time he was 18, Luis was intensely interested in drumming and took every opportunity to play and to learn, drawing his inspiration from a deep source of rhythm absorbed during his youth in Cuba.
Since then, Luis has become one of the most respected and recorded percussionists in the world.
Some of Luis’ musical influences:
All the drummers that play in Carnival in Santiago
Mongo Santa Maria
"Percussionist of the Year" - Modern Drummer Reader's Poll (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)
"Percussionist of the Year" - Drum Magazine (2007, 2008, 2009)
"Studio Percussionist of the Year" - Drum Magazine (2007, 2008, 2009)


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Audiosonic PB-1724 Power bank black
Item No. PB-1724
Thanks to its super powerful 7800mAh battery, the AudioSonic Power bank provides your tablet with that extra boost of energy on the go. To ensure your device's connectability, the Power bank comes with a 2 in 1 Micro USB and 30 pin iPhone connector.