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The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) is pleased to provide the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance this pre-budget submission. It provides recommendations to address major pan-Canadian challenges to the health of Canadians: improve how we provide care to our growing elderly population; improve access to primary care across the country; increase digital health literacy to take advantage of the benefits of new health information technologies; and better prepare for and mitigate the health impacts of a changing climate on Canadians.
Health systems across the country are currently struggling to meet the needs of our aging population. People aged 85 years and over—many of whom are frail—make up the fastest growing age group in Canadai.
Provincial and territorial health care systems (as well as care systems for populations falling under federal jurisdiction) are facing many challenges to meet the needs of an aging population. Canadians support a strong role for the federal government in leading a national seniors strategy and working with the provinces to ensure that all Canadians have the same level of access and quality of services, no matter where they live.
The 2017 federal/provincial/territorial funding agreement involving $6 billion over 10 years to improve access to home care services is a welcomed building block. But without greater investment in seniors care, health systems will not keep up. To be truly relevant and effectively respond to Canadians’ present and future needs, our health care system must provide integrated, continuing care able to meet the chronic and complex care needs of our growing and aging population. This includes recognizing the increased role for patients and their caregivers in the care process.
The federal government must ensure transfers are able to keep up with the real cost of health care. Current funding levels clearly fail to do so. Health transfers are estimated to rise by 3.6% while health care costs are expected to rise by 5.1% annually over the next decade.ii
The federal government ensure provincial and territorial health care systems meet the care needs of their aging populations by means of a demographic top-up to the Canada Health Transfer.iii
Providing care often comes with a financial cost such as lost income due to the caregiver’s withdrawal from the workforce to provide care. There are also increasing out-of-pocket costs for both caregivers and care receivers for health care-related expenses—privately covered expenditures on home and long-term care for seniors are projected to grow by an average of 5.8 per cent annually—nearly 1.5 times the pace of household disposable income growth. While the federal government offers tax credits that can be claimed by care receivers/caregivers, they are significantly under-utilized. While representing a significant proportion of caregivers, those with low or no income receive little to no federal government support through these programs. Middle-income earners also receive less than those earning high incomes.
The federal government create a Seniors Care Benefit that would be an easier, fairer and more effective way to support caregivers and care receivers alike.iv
Access to Care
Since the mid-1990s, the federal and provincial/territorial governments (FPT) have provided sustained leadership in promoting and supporting the transformation of primary care in Canada. In 2000, the First Ministers concluded the first of three Health Accords in which they agreed to promote the establishment of primary health care teamsv supported by a $800 million Primary Health Care Transition Fund (PHCTF) funded by the federal government, but jointly governed. The PHCTF resulted in large-scale sustained change in primary care delivery models in Ontario, Quebec and Alberta with interest in other jurisdictions as well.
However, the job is far from finished. Across Canada, access to primary care is challenging for many Canadians with a persistent shortage of family physicians. In 2017, 4.7 million Canadians aged 12+ reported they did not have a regular health care provider.vi Even those who have a regular provider experience wait time issues.
There has been widespread interest in primary care models since the development of the College of Family Physicians of Canada’s (CFPC) vision document Family Practice: The Patient’s Medical Home (PMH), initially launched in 2011vii and recently re-launched.viii The model is founded on 10 pillars depicted in Figure 1.
Figure 1. The Patient’s Medical Home, 2019
The updated model places increased emphasis on team-based care and introduces the concept of the patient’s medical neighborhood that sets out connections between the primacy care practice and all delivery points in the surrounding community. While comprehensive baseline data are lacking, it seems
safe to conjecture that most Canadians are not enrolled in a primary care model that would measure up to the model’s 10 pillars.
The federal government, in concert with provinces and territories, establish a targeted fund in the amount of $1.2 billion to support a new time-limited Primary Health Care Transition Fund that would build on the success of the fund launched in 2000 with the goal of widely introducing a sustainable medical home model across jurisdictions. This would include the following key elements:
Age-sex-weighted per capita allocation across the provinces and territories;
Joint governance of the FPT governments with meaningful stakeholder engagement;
Respect for the Canada Health Act principles;
Common objectives (e.g., modeled on the CFPC Patient’s Medical Home framework);
Canada and most industrialized countries will experience a digital health revolution over the next decade with great potential to improve patient and population health. Digital health can be described as the integration of the electronic collection and compilation of health data, decision support tools and analytics with the use of audio, video and other technologies to deliver preventive, diagnostic and treatment services that promote patient and population health.
While most Canadian physicians’ offices and health care facilities are now using some form of electronic record keeping and most households have internet access, there remains a large deficit in using virtual care, both within jurisdictions and across provincial/territorial boundaries. Recently the CMA, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the College of Family Physicians of Canada established a Virtual Care Task Force to identify opportunities for digital health to improve health care delivery, including what regulatory changes are required for physicians to deliver care to patients within and across provincial/territorial boundaries.
To take full advantage of digital health capabilities it will be essential for the population to have a functional level of digital health literacy: the ability to seek, find, understand and appraise health information from electronic sources and apply the knowledge gained to addressing or solving a health problem.ix This also includes the capability of communicating about one’s health to health care professionals (e.g., e-consults), self-monitoring health (e.g., patient portals) and receiving treatment online (e.g., Web-based cognitive behavioral therapy).x
There are no current data available on health literacy in Canada, let alone digital health literacy. One basic barrier to achieving digital health literacy is access to, and usage of the Internet, which has been termed the “digital divide” (e.g., older Canadians and low income households are less likely to have Internet access).Error! Bookmark not defined.
In 2001 the federal government established the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC). Its mandate includes informing consumers about their rights and responsibilities in dealing with financial institutions and providing information and tools to help consumers understand and shop for financial products and services.xi In 2014 the FCAC appointed a Financial Literacy Leader who has focused on financial literacy, including activities such as conducting financial capability surveys and the development of a National Strategy for Financial Literacy.xii
Considering the anticipated growth of digital/virtual care it would be desirable to understand and promote digital health literacy across Canada. What the federal government has done for financial literacy could serve as a template for digital health literacy.
The federal government establish a Digital Health Literacy Secretariat to:
Develop indicators and conducting surveys to measure and track the digital health literacy of Canadians;
Develop tools that can be used both by Canadians and their health care providers to enhance their digital health literacy; and
Assess and make recommendations on the “digital divide” that may exist among some population sub-groups due to a lack of access to information technology and lower digital health literacy.
Climate Change and Health
Climate change is the public health imperative of our time. There is a high level of concern among Canadians about their changing climate. A 2017 poll commissioned by Health Canada demonstrates a high level of concern among Canadians about their changing climate: 79% were convinced that climate change is happening, and of these, 53% accepted that it is a current health risk, with 40% believing it will be a health risk in the future.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified air pollution and climate change as one of the biggest threats to global health. Health care professionals see first-hand the devastating health impacts of our changing climate including increased deaths from fine particulate matter air pollution and increased heat-related conditions. Impacts are most common in vulnerable populations such as adults over 65 years, the homeless, urban dwellers and people with a pre-existing disease.
Canada’s health care system is already treating the health effects of climate change. A lack of progress in reducing emissions and building adaptive capacity threatens both human lives and the viability of Canada’s health system, with the potential to disrupt core public health infrastructure and overwhelm health services, not to mention the economic and social costs. The federal government must provide leadership to deal with the impact already being felt in Canada and around the world.
The federal government make strong commitments to minimize the impact of climate change on the health of Canadians by:
Ensuring pan-Canadian and inter-jurisdictional coordination to standardize surveillance and reporting of climate-related health impacts such as heat-related deaths, develop knowledge translation strategies to inform the public, and generate clinical and public health response plans that minimize the health impacts;
Increasing funding for research on the mental health impacts of climate change and psychosocial adaptation opportunities; and
Ensuring funding is provided to the health sector to prepare for climate change impacts through efforts to increase resiliency (i.e., risk assessments, readiness to manage disease outbreaks, sustainable practice).
i Statistics Canada. The Chief Public Health Officer's Report on the State of Public Health in Canada, 2014: Public Health in the Future. Ottawa: Statistics Canada; 2015. Available: http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/cphorsphc-respcacsp/2014/chang-eng.php; (accessed 2016 Sep 19).
ii The Conference Board of Canada. Meeting the care needs of Canada’s aging population. Ottawa: The Conference Board; 2018.
iii Canadian Medical Association. Meeting the demographic challenge: Investments in seniors care. Pre-budget submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance. August 3, 2018. https://policybase.cma.ca/documents/Briefpdf/BR2018-16.pdf
iv The Conference Board of Canada. Measures to Better Support Seniors and Their Caregivers. March 2019. https://www.cma.ca/sites/default/files/pdf/health-advocacy/Measures-to-better-support-seniors-and-their-caregivers-e.pdf
v Canadian Intergovernmental Conference Secretariat. News release – First Ministers’ meeting communiqué on health. September 11, 2000. http://www.scics.ca/en/product-produit/news-release-first-ministers-meeting-communique-on-health/. Accessed 04/22/19.
vi Statistics Canada. Primary health care providers, 2017. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/pub/82-625-x/2019001/article/00001-eng.pdf?st=NGPiUkM5. Accessed 04/21/19.
vii College of Family Physicians of Canada. A vision for Canada. Family Practice: the patient’s medical home. http://www.cfpc.ca/uploadedFiles/Resources/Resource_Items/PMH_A_Vision_for_Canada.pdf. Accessed 04/22/19.
viii College of Family Physicians of Canada. The patient’s medical home 2019. https://patientsmedicalhome.ca/files/uploads/PMH_VISION2019_ENG_WEB_2.pdf. Accessed 04/21/19.
ix Norman C, Skinner H. eHealth literacy: essential skills for consumer health in a networked world. J Med Internet Res 2006;8(2):e9. Doi:10.2196/jmir.8.2.e9.
x Van der Vaart R, Drossaert C. Development of the digital health literacy instrument: measuring a broad spectrum of health 1.0 and health 2.0 skills. J Med Internet Res. 2017;19(1):e27. Doi:10.2196/jmir.6709.
xi Financial Consumer Agency of Canada. About FCAC.
xii Financial Consumer Agency of Canada. National Strategy for Financial Literacy. Phase 1: strengthening seniors’ financial literacy. https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/canada/financial-consumer-agency/migration/eng/financialliteracy/financialliteracycanada/documents/seniorsstrategyen.pdf. Accessed 06/24/19. https://www.canada.ca/en/financial-consumer-agency/corporate/about.html. Accessed 07/01/19.
As Canada's population ages, concern is growing about the capacity of our health care system to respond to the increased demands that will be placed on it. Of particular concern is the capacity to deal with an expected surge in the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, a major cause of disability in Canadians aged 65 and older.
The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) shares this concern. In August 2012, CMA's General Council passed a resolution supporting the development of a national dementia strategy.
About three quarters of a million Canadians currently live with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia and cognitive impairment. People with dementia may live for years with the condition, and will eventually need round-the-clock care. Our knowledge of how to prevent dementia is limited, and we do not fully understand its causes. Though treatments are available that may delay progression of the patient's condition, there is no known cure. Dementia currently costs Canada roughly $33 billion per year, both in direct health care expenses and in indirect costs, such as lost earnings of the patient's caregivers.
Since the number one risk factor for dementia is age, there is no question that with the aging of Canada's population, its prevalence will increase. The Alzheimer Society of Canada predicts that by 2031, 1.4 million Canadians will have dementia, and by 2040 the annual cost to the country will reach $293 billion.
Other countries, including Australia, Norway, Netherlands, France, and the United Kingdom, have developed national strategies to address the dementia epidemic. CMA recommends strongly that Canada join this list. A national strategy could address issues of pressing concern such as
* The need for research on the prevention and treatment of dementia;
* The occupation of acute-care hospital beds by patients with dementia while awaiting placement in more appropriate long-term care settings. This both increases health-care costs and exacerbates Canada's waiting-list problem, blocking hospital beds which could otherwise be used for other patients.
* The emotional and financial burden faced by spouses, children or other informal caregivers of patients with dementia.
A Dementia Strategy for Canadians
Given the terrible toll that dementia currently takes on Canadians and their health care, and given the certainty that this toll will grow more severe in coming decades, the CMA believes that it is vital for Canada to develop a focused strategy to address it.
The Alzheimer Society of Canada recommends that a national dementia strategy encompass the following elements:
1. Increased investment in research on key aspects of dementia, including prevention, treatment options, and improving quality of life.
2. Increased support for informal caregivers. This should take several forms.
a. Financial support. The 2011 federal budget introduced a Family Caregiver Tax Credit of up to $300 a year. However, this does not adequately reimburse the cost of a caregiver's time, which studies have shown is often much higher.
b. Programs to relieve the stress experienced by caregivers; this can include education and skill-building, and the provision of respite care and other support services.
3. An emphasis on brain health and risk reduction, early diagnosis and intervention.
4. An integrated system of care facilitated by effective co-ordination and case management.
5. A strengthened dementia workforce, which includes both developing an adequate supply of specialists and improving the diagnosis and treatment capabilities of all frontline health professionals.
The Government of Canada has supported similar condition-specific strategies, most recently the Canadian Cancer Strategy, initially funded in 2006 and renewed for five years beyond 2012. This strategy focuses on prevention and screening, early detection, clinical care, supporting the patient's journey, targeted research, and work with the First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities. We believe that a national strategy for dementia, bringing together partners such as the Alzheimer Society of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Institute of Aging), the Canadian Caregiver Coalition, and other patient and health professional groups, will enhance the ability of our health care system to respond to the coming dementia epidemic in a compassionate and cost-effective manner.
In 2012, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Institute of Aging) and the Alzheimer Society of Canada have invested about $30 million in research. We propose that an initial investment in a National Dementia Strategy be $25 million per year for five years: $10 million for research, $10 million for caregiver support and respite care, and $5 million for knowledge transfer, partnership development and administrative support.
Therefore the Canadian Medical Association recommends:
That the Government of Canada fund the development and implementation of a National Dementia Strategy for an initial five-year period.
The CMA is ready to work with governments, patients and their families, health professional associations and other stakeholders to make this recommendation a reality.
Alzheimer Society of Canada. A New Way of Looking at Dementia in Canada. Based on a study conducted by RiskAnalytica. C. 2010
Canadian Medical Association. A More Robust Economy Through a Healthier Population. 2012-2013 pre-budget submission.


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Residents of a Kentucky town devastated by a tornado could be without heat, water and electricity in chilly temperatures for a long time, the mayor warned Monday, as officials struggled to restore services after a swarm of twisters leveled neighborhoods and killed dozens of people in five states.
Authorities are still tallying the devastation from Friday night's storms, though they believe the death toll will be lower than initially feared since it appeared many more people escaped a candle factory in Mayfield, Kentucky, than first thought.
"This is a tough morning ... but it's OK, we're still going to be all right," Mayfield Mayor Kathy Stewart O'Nan said on "CBS Mornings."
But those who survived faced highs in the 50s and a low below freezing Monday without any utilities.
"Our infrastructure is so damaged. We have no running water. Our water tower was lost. Our wastewater management was lost, and there's no natural gas to the city. So we have nothing to rely on there," she told CBS. "So that is purely survival at this point for so many of our people."
Across the state, about 26,000 homes and businesses were without electricity, according to poweroutage.us, including nearly all of those in Mayfield.
Kentucky was the worst-hit by far in the cluster of twisters across several states, remarkable because they came at a time of year when cold weather normally limits tornadoes. At least 64 people died in the state, Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday. There were at least another 14 deaths in Illinois, Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri.
Authorities are still trying to pin down the full death toll, and the storms made door-to-door searches impossible in some places. "There are no doors," said Beshear.
"We're going to have over 1,000 homes that are gone, just gone," he said.
Over the weekend, Beshear had said that the state's toll could exceed 100 — but he scaled that back after it appeared fewer people died in the candle factory than first thought.
Initially as many as 70 people were feared dead in the factory, but the company said Sunday that eight deaths were confirmed and eight remained missing, while more than 90 others had been located.
"Many of the employees were gathered in the tornado shelter and after the storm was over they left the plant and went to their homes," said Bob Ferguson, a spokesman for the company. "With the power out and no landline they were hard to reach initially. We’re hoping to find more of those eight unaccounted as we try their home residences."
Debris from destroyed buildings and shredded trees covered the ground in Mayfield, a city of about 10,000 in western Kentucky. Twisted sheet metal, downed power lines and wrecked vehicles lined the streets. Windows were blown out and roofs torn off the buildings that were still standing.
Firefighters in the town had to rip the doors off the fire station to get vehicles out, according to Fire Chief Jeremy Creason on "CBS Mornings."
"Words cannot describe the bravery, the selflessness that they’ve exhibited,” he said of his employees. “We had to try and navigate through all the debris up and down our streets. We were responding with ambulances with three and four flat tires.”
Downtown churches were heavily damaged or destroyed. The Rev. Joey Reed of First United Methodist Church told CBS that he was able to hold a worship service Sunday with a colleague at a different church after the tornado ripped through his. He said he and his wife were in the church as a wall collapsed and the ceiling caved in.
"Thanks be to God that the parts of the building that came down didn’t come down on us," he said.
At the candle factory, night-shift workers were in the middle of the holiday rush when the word went out to seek shelter.
For Autumn Kirks, that meant tossing aside wax and fragrance buckets to make an improvised safe place. She glanced away from her boyfriend, Lannis Ward, who was about 10 feet away at the time.
Suddenly, she saw sky and lightning where a wall had been, and Ward had vanished.
"I remember taking my eyes off of him for a second, and then he was gone," Kirks said.
Later in the day, she got the terrible news — that Ward had been killed in the storm.
Four twisters hit Kentucky in all, including one with an extraordinarily long path of about 200 miles (322 kilometers), authorities said.
In addition to the deaths in Kentucky, the tornadoes also killed at least six people in Illinois, where an Amazon distribution center in Edwardsville was hit; four in Tennessee; two in Arkansas, where a nursing home was destroyed and the governor said workers shielded residents with their own bodies; and two in Missouri.
Pope Francis expressed his sadness over the "devastating impact" of the tornadoes. In a telegram sent Monday by Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the pope offered prayers for those who died, “comfort to those who mourn their loss and strength to all those affected by this immense tragedy."
At a Sunday service held in a church parking lot surrounded by rubble in Mayfield, residents came together to pray for those lost.
"Our little town will never be the same, but we're resilient," Laura McClendon said. "We'll get there, but it's going to take a long time."
Additional reporting by the Associated Press.

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Massmart recently launched its first Urban Bookshelf, a literacy project developed to increase access to books in under-served communities at Phefeni Recreation Centre in Orland, Soweto.
Through a curated process Massmart commissioned GASS Architecture Studio to design the unique book sharing station, or lending library, and a renowned graffiti artist Rasik Green aka Mr Ekse to enrich the design.
“This is the first of many artist-designed free miniature libraries” says Massmart Sustainability Executive Alexander Haw “We have earmarked other locations around Johannesburg and will be collaborating with various other artists and architects to create different interpretations of the Massmart Urban Bookshelf. We hope that through this project we will promote reading and improve literacy.”
Made of powder coated steel, the book sharing station is 2.8m high and consists of durable steel boxes that ensure the books are protected from all the elements. The structure is tailored to both kids and adults, with children’s literature at the bottom for easy access. The structure also has built-in benches so people can have a seat while browsing. It can store 450 to 500 books and books are arranged into eight genres, namely, African Fiction; General Fiction; Non-Fiction; Current Affairs & Politics; Law & Business; Self Help & Motivation Young Adults and Children’s books.
The Urban Bookshelf works similarly to a traditional library except there is no need for library card and there are no fees. The community can borrow and return books at their leisure. To provide and replenish the structure with a diverse range of reading material Massmart partnered with major publishers, namely Jacana and Jonathan Ball. To ensure that the books cater to the local taste of readers in the community Massmart conducted extensive research.
Haw says “We deployed field researchers to study the habits of readers in the community. Our survey looked into several dimensions of this exploration by noting the role of libraries in people’s lives and by paying particular attention to people’s purposes for reading. Our research’s key findings highlighted how libraries add value communities and serve as cultural centres where individuals gather to learn, explore and interact. It also gave us insight into the local book taste of the community and informed us on which books and genres are required and desired for our structure.”
Welcome to world of 2099
The world of 2099 will be unrecognisable from the world of today, but it can be predicted, says one visionary. ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK met him in Singapore.
Futuristic structures tower over the landscape. Giant, alien-looking trees light up with dazzling colours amid the hundreds of plant species that grow up their trunks. Cosmetic stores sell their wares via public touch-screens, with products delivered instantly in drawers below the screens.
This is not a vision of the future. It is a sample of Singapore today. But it is also an inkling of the world we may all experience in the future.
Singapore was the venue, last week, of the World Cities Summit, where engineers, politicians, investors and visionaries rubbed shoulders as they talked about the strategies and policies that would enhance urban living in the future.
As part of the Summit, global payment technologies leader Mastercard hosted a small media briefing by one of Singapore’s leading thinkers about the future, Dr Damian Tan, managing director of Vickers Venture Partners. The company’s slogan “We invest in the extraordinary,” offers a small clue to Tan’s perspective.
“We look as far forward as 2099 because, as a venture capital firm, we invest in the long term,” he tells a group of journalists from Africa and the Middle East. “Companies explode in growth because there is value in the future. If there is no growth, they won’t explode.”
The big question that the Smart Cities Summit and Mastercard are trying to help answer is, what will cities look like in the year 2099? Tan can’t give an exact answer, but he offers a framework that helps one approach the question.
“If you want to look at 81 years into the future, and understand the change that will come, you need to double that amount and look into the past. That takes us to 1856. The difference between then and now is the difference you can expect between now and 2099.”
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- Arthur Goldstuck is founder of World Wide Worx and editor-in-chief of Gadget.co.za. Follow him on Twitter on @art2gee and on YouTube
Street art goes electric
Kaspersky Lab and British street artist D*Face have unveiled the first-ever “art helmet” design at the Formula E finale for electric cars in New York.
The ‘Save The World’ helmets will be raced by DS Virgin Racing’s drivers, Sam Bird and Alex Lynn, as they traverse the New York street circuit during the final races of the Formula E season.
The announcement signals the first art helmet by a Formula E team, continuing the heritage of art in motorsport and the cybersecurity brand’s commitment to contemporary art, creativity and innovation. D*Face took inspiration from Kaspersky Lab’s tagline, “A Company To Save The World”, and hopes that his colourful work will inspire people to take positive action.
D*Face will announce his first-ever art car design with a custom-made livery for the DS Virgin Racing Team. Its design will be released at the “Art Goes Green” event after Saturday’s race. The helmets and art car are the latest installations in the “Save the World” collection, following a major permanent public mural that was installed in Brooklyn, New York, in May.
D*Face, whose real name is Dean Stockton, said: “It is exciting to work with Kaspersky Lab on this project and create art with a real message of hope for a better future. After all, this is our world and we need to look after it. It will take every one of us to make a real lasting, impactful change. I love the mentality of the DS Virgin Racing Team and that of Formula E by showcasing sport in a way that doesn’t harm the environment, but is still just as exhilarating and fun.
“It is time for us all to stand together and make a change… be that stopping data steals, climate change, plastic waste or using damaging fuels. I want everyone to make a pledge to do one thing that will help make a change.”
As a sponsor of DS Virgin Racing Team, Kaspersky Lab is responsible for protecting the team’s devices against cyber threats. The company sees the technical environment in the global sport of Formula E as the next frontier in furthering its research and development of new technologies to keep vehicles secure in the digital world.
Sylvain Filippi, Managing Director at DS Virgin Racing, said: “The whole team fully supports this great initiative and our thanks got to Kaspersky and D*Face for their collaboration. It’s an honour to have such an innovative artist bring his talents to bear in our team ahead of the season-finale; the car, drivers’ crash helmets and mural all look amazing.”
Aldo Fucelli Pessot del Bo, Head of Global Partnerships and Sponsorships at Kaspersky Lab added: “There is a need for innovation on a global scale, both in contemporary art and in the fast-growing sport of Formula E. Now, for the first time ever, Kaspersky Lab is proudly bringing together the two sectors in an effort to Save the World and unleash creativity, encourage freedom of expression and further innovation.”

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Both synonymous with London shopping, but which actually came first?
Carnaby Street derives its name from Karnaby House, located to its east and originally erected in 1683. The street is thought to have been laid out in 1685 or 1686 – first appearing in the ratebooks in 1687.
Although Oxford Street follows the route of an original Roman road (linking Hampshire with Colchester), it did not become known as Oxford Street until around 1729 (until then it was variously known as Tyburn Road, Uxbridge Road, Worcester Road and Oxford Road).
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Mary Boyd looked at the Christmas decorations on display at Hope Mills Retirement Center.
"Beautiful. They're always beautiful," she said. "They work so hard to make them beautiful."
Boyd, 90, is a resident at the center on Elk Road. She, along with the other approximately 35 residents, were enjoying the holiday decorations placed by the center's staff and volunteers.
The festive finery has become a tradition at the center, which opened in 1988. This year, the center has outdone itself.
All of the residents' doors have been decorated to resemble Christmas packages. Eight trees brighten the center, and there are two more outside.
The work was done by center administrator Donna Sandy and a team of volunteers.
"We started Sunday, Nov. 11," Sandy said, "and we worked all day."
The retirement center grew out of Hope Mills Rest Home, which operated for years on Main Street.
Sandy's mother, Pat Piner, ran the rest home and built the retirement center at its current location.
The center is an assisted living center, home to residents who need some help with everyday life but do not require full-time medical attention. Sandy said most residents are in their 80s and 90s.
Center staff members are always looking for ways to make life a little brighter for the residents, and at Christmastime that means decorations.
Sandy said the center has gradually increased the size and scope of the decorations.
"It started with just this tree," Sandy said, sitting in a living room at the center, "and gradually we've kind of added and added."
Now, it's impossible to turn a corner in the center without seeing some Christmas finery.
Residents and their families seem to appreciate the time and effort the staff and volunteers took to spruce up the center.
Carol McFadyen was sitting with her mother, Frances, in her room at the center. Carol said her mother, who is 90, has been a resident there for three years.
McFadyen said the decorations are a sign of how much the staff cares for the residents.
"It makes a difference for the residents and the family as well," Carol said. "It makes it festive and more like home."
Pat Keefe, 91, called the decorations "wonderful." Keefe has been at the center for about 2 1/2years.
Keefe formerly lived in St. Petersburg, Fla., where she taught nursing at a community college.
Sandy said the residents all come from different walks of life. Mary Boyd, for instance, worked for years in an Indiana steel mill.
"There's more stories here than just the decorations," Sandy said.


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If you want to succeed, it helps if you rock! That's something that up-and-comers The ReAktion know all too well and they're ready to give a taste of that in the form of the new lyric video for "Ten Steps to Success" they're exclusively premiering here at Loudwire.
The song starts off rather dreamy and melodic, but it's not long before the song kicks in with a bit of electronic heaviness and aggressive vocals. Upon listening to the track, it quickly becomes clear why the South American rockers have garnered the interest of producing vet Gggarth and Slipknot's Sid Wilson, who signed them to his Mach 2.8 Management Company and participated in the recording of the "Ten Steps to Success" song.
The ReAktion's Philip Monypenny tells Loudwire, "'Ten Steps to Success' is a very special song for us. It was a song that got the attention of lots of people who would later get involved in our work, including Sid (#0, Slipknot). We can't wait to play it live for everyone on this coming tour!!"
"Ten Steps to Success" is featured on The ReAktion's forthcoming album, SELKNAM. The band will be touring in support of the disc with Otep. Dates can be found at this location. Keep up with the band via their official website, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts and pick up The ReAktion merchandise here.


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The following letter has been published in the Catholic Herald (March 13)
SIR – We the undersigned are writing to express our burning anxiety at the Vatican’s treaty with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the light of the China Tribunal’s findings into forced organ harvesting.
The Tribunal was commissioned by the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse – a group of lawyers, academics, medical professionals and human rights advocates – and chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, a former prosecutor at the International Criminal Court.
It found that Beijing’s government is conducting a state-run programme of forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience and detailed acts of torture committed in the course of the programme including:
- Killing prisoners by the removal of organs, lethal injection and “organ harvesting under the pretext of brain death”;
- Widespread accounts of rape and torture, including harrowingly graphic stories of sexual violence and prisoners being “shocked” with electric rods, with one woman “shocked until [she went] blind”;
- The use of the so-called “tiger chair”, a torture device, on Uighur prisoners.
In his submitted evidence, leading human rights lawyer Edward Fitzgerald CBE QC said the treatment of Falun Gong in China could meet the legal definition of genocide.
The Tribunal concluded that such acts constituted crimes against humanity and said it was certain beyond reasonable doubt that they had occurred.
This damning finding echoes that of the US Congressional Executive Committee in 2018 that the mass arbitrary internment of as many as one million or more Uighurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities in ‘‘political re-education’’ camps in western China may be the largest incarceration of an ethnic minority population since World War II, and may constitute crimes against humanity.
Despite these recent and present human rights abuses, some Vatican representatives have shamed their office and their Christian profession in their responses to concerns about the Holy See’s 22nd September 2018 provisional agreement with the PRC. In 2018, Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, the head of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, asserted that the Chinese government had “accomplished the reform of the organ donation system” and even went on to claim that “those who are best implementing the social doctrine of the Church are the Chinese”.
We note that the text of the treaty has been kept so secret that not even Cardinal Zen has actually seen a copy of the agreement. That in itself is a scandal.
The case for opposing the Vatican’s deal with Xi Jinping’s government, which also harasses and detains leading Catholic clergy and destroys Catholic shrines and churches which refuse to join the official “Patriotic Church”, was already formidably strong. Now, it is unarguable. The time has come for the Vatican to rescind its treaty with the PRC and by so doing stand in forthright solidarity with all victims of totalitarian oppression.
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A pressure group calling itself ‘Justice for Albert Donkor Movement’ in the Nkoranza South Municipality of the Bono East Region, is demanding justice for a 27-year-old businessman, Albert Donkor, who died under mysterious circumstances.
Albert was arrested at his mother’s residence at Kasadjan on April 25, 2022, at 1;00 am over his alleged involvement in a robbery incident that happened on the Nkoranza-Kintampo road.
He subsequently passed on while in police custody.
The Member of Parliament for Nkoranza South, Emmanuel Kwadwo Agyekum, has said Albert was denied access to a lawyer and his family members after his arrest.
The group has thus called on the Inspector General of Police, George Akufo Dampare, to ensure that the police personnel alleged to be involved in Albert’s death are brought to book.
“We want the IGP and the President to intervene. The IGP should interdict these policemen so that through the interdiction, we can get a fair trial for our brother,” the Convener of the group, Nana Adjei Baffoe said.
Meanwhile, the Bono Police Regional Commander, DCOP Moses Atibilla, has called on residents to stay calm as the Police Service investigates the incident.
“I met the youth, the chief, the queen-mother, and the family itself. I tried to impress upon them to be calm and not to do what they were doing. I agreed with them that they need to show that they were not happy, but afterward, they should put that aside and let us work together.”


Every time I read about a specific proposal by Sarasota's state Sen. Joe Gruters, my mind drifts to the song that gave Meghan Trainor her 15 minutes of fame.
The legislation would ban so-called sanctuary cities in Florida.
Of which there are none.
Yet Gruters filed a similar bill last year in the House of Representatives and recently submitted SB 168 in the Senate.
The bill stalled after a committee meeting this week but is expected to resurface in other committees. Although Gruters is a freshman in the Senate, he has accumulated substantial political capital — especially since be became chairman of the Republican Party of Florida.
SB 168 would, in essence, require local governments and their law enforcement departments to cooperate with federal agencies in order to identify individuals suspected of being in the United States illegally and possibly detain them in jail.
Whether local authorities could be mandated — or are even allowed — under the U.S. Constitution to participate in those activities remains up for political and legal debate.
And, as I mentioned, Florida is free of so-called sanctuary cities.
Nevertheless, Gruters persists.
Well, he was recently quoted as saying that he thinks passing the legislation is "the right thing to do for Florida." And, he stated, "this is the right thing to do from my party's perspective."
Ah, the party's perspective.
As recent hearings made clear, not everyone in Florida thinks the legislation is "the right thing to do for Florida." Senate President Bill Galvano of Bradenton, a Republican in good standing, has stated that SB 168 is not among his priorities.
Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez, a Miami Democrat, opposes Gruters' bill. He stated, "[Republicans] are trying to convince part of their base that they are tough against undocumented immigrants even though there is no such thing as a sanctuary city in Florida."
Ah, the base.
Cue Meghan Trainor: "Because you know I'm all about that bass."
OK, bass is not the same as base and, in the context of this column and the song, and the meaning of the two words is not the same.
But the point is relevant: Politicians have always played to their base but, in my 38 years of covering news in this region, the refrain has never been repeated more frequently.
Yes, voters who supported Gruters — whom I rather like, even though we often disagree — deserve to see him put forth his agenda. But he was elected to represent everyone in his district.
It's not all about the base.
Tom Tryon is opinion editor.


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Over 1,000 participants are expected to assemble in Tempe Park on Sunday 11 June to help raise funds for children in Mongolia’s most impoverished region, at the 3rd annual Magic Mongolia Family Fun Day organised by non-profit organisation Lantuun Dohio Australia.
A celebration of Mongolian culture, this ticketed fundraising event brings together young and old, with 60 stalls and performing partners providing food and drinks, traditional song and dance performances by young local talents as well as a special performance by the renowned throat singer Bukhu Ganburged (famous for his appearance on The Voice TV show) and live painting by celebrated mural artist Heesco.
The day will also feature a full array of stalls from local small businesses and plenty of activities for the kids - from jumping castles, face painting, balloons to cosplay characters and ponies!
All proceeds will be donated to Lantuun Dohio’s Magic Mongolia Centres operating in Mongolia where they have been actively funding critically needed child and youth counselling services by professional psychologists for the past two years.
Magic Mongolia Centres are crowd funded centres for children in the ‘ger districts’ in Mongolia where they provide a variety of services including a library, day-care, accessible playground area, basketball court, and courses ranging from ballet and ballroom dancing to jiu jitsu, art classes, foreign language classes, as well as legal, social, and psychological services for children and parents.
What: Traditional Mongolian performances including The Voice star throat singer Bukhu Ganburged, traditional song and dance performances by young local talents, celebrated mural artist Heesco, food, drink and market stalls by local small businesses, and lots of activities for the kids - from jumping castles, face painting, balloons to cosplay characters and ponies!
To learn more about children’s charity Lantuun Dohio Australia visit their website: lantuundohio.org.au
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Nerlens Noel fighting for minutes in Dallas Mavericks' frontcourt
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Nerlens Noel has started six games for the Dallas Mavericks this season, but has played less than six minutes over their last two games after getting DNP’d in the Mavs’ loss to Cleveland on Saturday.
Mavs coach Rick Carlisle tried again this season to play Noel and Dirk Nowitzki together, but the Mavs have been outscored by 17.1 points per 100 possessions with the duo on the floor. So Nowitzki is back to being the starting center, with Noel competing for back-up minutes with Salah Mejri, who has been the second option each of the last two games.
ESPN‘s Tim MacMahon has an explanation from Mavs coach Rick Carlisle and reaction from Noel:
Center Nerlens Noel, who turned down a four-year, $70 million contract from the Dallas Mavericks before eventually settling for the one-year qualifying offer, did not play in Saturday’s 111-104 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers because of a coach’s decision.
Coach Rick Carlisle, who mentioned that matchups made it difficult for traditional centers to play against Cleveland, said that Salah Mejri had earned playing time over Noel at this point.
“Look, minutes have to be earned,” Carlisle said. “At this point, if it’s between him and Salah, Salah has earned the minutes. There’s no doghouse here. There just isn’t. It’s pretty simple: You compete, and if you earn minutes, you get minutes. And you’ve got to compete to keep them, because it’s a competitive situation.”
Noel said he wasn’t frustrated by not getting the opportunity to play Saturday night, emphasizing that he would remain ready.
“I’m good, I’m good,” Noel said. “I’m a very self-confident player. I know I can go in there and change games. When my number is called, I’ll do just that and help some winning efforts. That’s all my play style is about, is just winning. When I’m called on, I’ll bring my winning effort.”


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Shotgun, drugs, stolen documents seized in search of North End home: WPS
Posted October 18, 2022 3:26 pm.
Winnipeg police say they seized a weapon, drugs and stolen items from a home in the city’s North End on Monday.
Two arrests were made: a 34-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman.
Police say the search of the home on Redwood Avenue near Aikins Street was conducted by the guns and gangs unit as part of a drug investigation.
WPS says it seized a sawed-off shotgun, 21 grams of methamphetamine (estimated street value of $1000) and three grams of fentanyl (estimated street value of $600).
Police also allegedly seized stolen identity documents and cheques that were previously reported stolen.
The 34-year-old suspect is facing 21 charges, including possession of a scheduled substance for the purpose of trafficking and possession of a prohibited or restricted firearm with ammunition
He was detained in custody.
The 19-year-old woman is facing 12 charges. She was released on an Undertaking, per the Criminal Code.


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A glob of bad weather in the Caribbean became better organized Wednesday and was poised to become a tropical cyclone that could spin toward Florida.
Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center were monitoring the area of low pressure in the Caribbean, which was moving toward the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday night.
Tyler Fleming, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's office in Ruskin, said some computer models predicted the storm would make landfall in the Panhandle, while others placed it farther west.
"In terms of exact track, it's still changing day to day," Fleming said.
Forecasters gave the storm a 70 percent chance of tropical cyclone development in the next day or so. If it becomes a tropical storm, it will be named Karen.
Fleming said models didn't agree on wind speed. Some showed no development at all, while others predicted hurricane-force winds. A hurricane hunter aircraft was sent into the storm Wednesday.
No matter the final outcome, Fleming said the system's eastern edge will bring an increased chance of showers to the Tampa Bay area today and Friday.
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The MG brand was not heard from for decades until it was reactivated in China. Instead of puristic roadsters, the trademark now adorns modern electric SUVs from the world’s largest automobile country. The MG Marvel R Electric AWD is fresh in the European program.
A mid-range crossover model with a pleasing design, electric drive and a range of around 400 kilometers is a surprise in view of similar concepts such as the VW ID.4 (test), Audi Q4 e-tron (test), BMW iX3 (test), Lexus UX 300e (test), Mercedes EQA (test) are in the shop windows. The large number of electric cars on offer is due to the success that crossovers in this format have enjoyed for decades.
The basic MG version as Marvel R Electric with rear-wheel drive and 132 kW is available for 42,900 euros, but in this all-wheel drive segment counts so much that MG also offers it as Marvel R Electric AWD with 212 kW, then for 50,990 euros. With the competition, similarly configured models cost more than 60,000 euros, here you also pay for the image and can count on a higher resale price. The MG is a pretty crossover model, but the manufacturer SAIC has to be spelled out for most people in this country (in “Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation”).
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That could change soon, however, because the overall package of the 4.67 meter long MG Marvel R Electric is right. It not only offers a successful design, but also convinces with an appealing quality of workmanship. In everyday use, the Marvel R Electric AWD hardly offers more thrust than the much weaker version with 132 kW and 410 Nm. The top model only has 212 kW and 665 Nm torque in the “Sport” mode.
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The 4.67 meter long MG Marvel R Electric has been in the most popular format for years – as an SUV.
From a standstill, the 1.9-ton truck reaches 100 km / h in 4.9 seconds, and unregulated it can go up to 200 km / h. The advantage, of course, is not the dynamic extra power and certainly not the top speed, but rather good traction in poor road conditions. That fits the design: the chassis is comfortable, but not underdamped. Most people should get used to the smooth steering quickly, but a little more feedback from the road would be desirable. In general, however, the car is more geared towards quiet travel, which it underlines with its low level of drive and road noise.
The Marvel R Electric is only available with 70 kWh. While the rear-wheel drive car can manage 400 kilometers to the next charging process, the all-wheel-drive top model only has 370 kilometers. This applies to an assumed standard consumption according to WLTP between 19.4 and 20.7 kWh per 100 kilometers, which is likely to be exceeded quickly in winter, for example. In addition, there is a maximum charging power of only 92 kW. Even the modern models VW ID.4 (test) or Skoda Enyaq (test) with their 125 and 135 kW, respectively, now look old after Hyundai / Kia introduced the 800-volt technology in the Hyundai Ioniq 5 or Kia EV6 (test) . The charging times decrease significantly, even if not as drastically as it would already be technically possible.
All-wheel drive without frunk
The MG Marvel is as chic on the outside as it is on the inside. The space available fits both front and rear, even if the adjustment range of the electrically adjustable seats could be larger. Behind the electrically opening tailgate there is a volume of 357 liters, which can be increased to up to 1396 liters by folding down the rear seat. That is not particularly voluminous in comparison. With the all-wheel drive there is also no need for frunk because of the front engine above the front axle.
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In the interior one discovers the theme of “converging lines” …
Buttons and switches are missing for many functions, driving program, navigation, entertainment or air conditioning have to be controlled laboriously and with little reliability via the 19.4-inch portrait display in the center console. To simplify operation, SAIC should at least animate the instruments a little larger and offer a head-up display at least as an option.
When it comes to touch screen fashion instead of safe operation, the Chinese product hardly differs from the established ones from the USA, Korea, Japan or Europe. It remains to be seen whether the inconspicuous swimming at a lower price will be enough for a success. The Chinese shouldn’t be underestimated, after all, the Korean manufacturers who are now successful today started their way to Europe in a similar way and are now among the innovation drivers among the long-established brands.


Strike Energy Limited provided Wednesday an update on operations at its Southern Cooper Basin Gas Project in PEL 96 (Strike 66.7 percent and Operator, Energy World Corporation 33.3 percent) in South Australia.
The workovers of the Klebb wells required for the Phase 3 flow test program have progressed well with flow testing of Klebb 2 underway following completion of the frac program and installation of pumping infrastructure.
The frac at Klebb 3 has been successfully pumped and the well is currently being completed for recommencement of flow testing by the end of July.
At Klebb 1, all downhole equipment has been installed and the assembly of the beam pump at surface is well underway with commissioning currently scheduled by Aug. 1.
The table below summarises the fracture stimulation treatments that have now been pumped in the Patchawarra Vu Upper zone at each of the three Klebb wells.
* Completed in June 2014
The Klebb 2 and 3 fracs are approximately two to three times the size of the original Klebb 1 frac and are designed to substantially increase the productivity of these wells. Flow testing of the three wells together will accelerate reservoir pressure reduction around Klebb 1 allowing the full productive potential of the reservoir to be validly tested over coming months. The fracture stimulation program has been completed within budget with pleasing improvements in design, execution and costs achieved.
The early flow back results at Klebb 2 are encouraging and confirm that well productivity has been substantially increased following the fracture stimulation treatment with gas flows to surface already achieved.
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Many mayors across the U.S. are taking up two major issues: climate change and gun violence.
Many mayors want to take forceful steps to combat climate change.
Mayors and gun-safety advocates are also increasingly showing their willingness to name and shame gunmakers.
Mayors are looking at banning gas stoves or leaf blowers, as well as other so-called controversial steps like replacing gas-guzzling city vehicles with electric alternatives and supporting solar power.
But they fear the moves would be political poison.
The brutal realities of the election cycle prompt many officials to gravitate toward policies that will not alienate broad swaths of voters.
It means that politicians are being held hostage by political discourse, and it is happening in the face of extreme weather and climate risks that threaten their cities and constituents.
The results were published in the 2022 Menino Survey of Mayors, a nationally representative survey of U.S. mayors.
Mayors are also speaking out against gunmakers in an effort to stop gun violence.
A group of mayors revealed the top gun manufacturers and other fresh data that they’ve collected over a five-year period at the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors Winter Meeting in D.C.
In 2021 alone, four manufacturers accounted for over half of the recovered guns used in crimes across 31 cities, according to a new Everytown for Gun Safety analysis.
Glock, Smith & Wesson, Taurus, and Ruger were the top four manufacturers named in the report.
“Mayors are on the frontlines of our nation’s gun violence epidemic and that’s why we won’t shy away from naming those who make the guns that are killing our communities,” said Mayor Quinton Lucas of Kansas City, Missouri, who is a co-chair of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a coalition of mayors working with Everytown to end gun violence.


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Studio: Wonkybot Studios
Writer/Director: Stewart St John
Composers: Stewart St John & Michal Plahuta
Musical Director: Michael Plahuta
Producers: Todd Fisher, Stewart St John, Michael Plahuta
Co-Producers: Emmalie Whitney
Casting: Emmalie Whitney, Stewart St John, Michael Plahuta, Todd Fisher
Location: Anniston, Alabama
This Casting Call is for the Wonkybot Studios Presents Musical Concert Tour featuring Spooky Troop [Pre-Show] & Tara Tremendous The Musical – In Concert [Main Event]
Based on Stewart St John’s audio story adventure series SPOOKY TROOP, about a group of positive supernatural friends who live in a dark netherworld of race warring monsters; the young characters in this musical concert must be able to sing, dance and be charismatic and bright.
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[VALERIE THE VAMPIRE] (Female, 12-15) an outspoken, cheerful vampire and animal activist (especially when it comes to bats). Highly intellectual, an avid reader, and sensitive to energy, she is an empath. Must sing.
[WILLIE THE WEREWOLF] (Male, 11-15) a free spirited soul who loves to surf rather than hunt with his wolf family. A bit of a rebel. He’s upbeat, energetic and funny. Must sing.
[DELILAH THE DEMON] (Female 12-15), the slightly self-absorbed, fashion obsessed demon girl with a heart of gold; she loves to sing. Must sing.
[MICHAEL THE MONSTER] (Male, 11-15), the awwww-shucks, country-boy monster-kid from “the other side of the tracks” who has a huge heart and loves his friends. Extremely strong. Must sing.
[ZIANNA THE ZOMBIE] (Female 11-15) the “dead” girl who tells it like it is; a straight-shooter who has no interest in girly things, which makes her friendship with Delilah even more humorous. Zianna’s body parts are always dropping about, which she is very no-nonsense about. Must sing.
[TODD THE ODDBOT] (Male, 10-15) a warm-hearted robot who loves to give analytics to the group, even when they don’t ask. He is unlike any of the other robots in that he can express the feeling of love, though he is hungry to acquire other emotions, too. Must sing.
[DEMON KING] (Male, 20-40) the terrifying majesty of the Dark Realm within the Netherworld; he rules over the region with his monsters and skleleton army as he tries to gain more control over the entire Netherworld. Hot-tempered and arrogant, he is the main antagonist for the Spooky Troop kids. Must sing.
[GHOULS 1 / 2] (Male, 20–30) Loyal monsters/skeletons servant to the Demon King.
[MAYOR TULLUBUB] (Male, 30-50) The bumbling, jittery, ghostly Mayor of Asterlin in the United Netherland.
[COUNT VINCHENT VAN VLEET] (Male, 30s) Stern but lovable, he’s the hotel owner and father of Valerie the Vampire.
[CREATURE CHOIR] – Comprised of various monster type kids (all ages and sizes), the Creature Choir comes on stage at the end and sing in the final number with the Spooky Troop.

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Modern Warfare and Warzone veterans are going to be excited about this new and exciting news. Looks like an old war dog has returned from the depths to rule over Caldera. Since its release in 2020, Warzone has received many changes and new content. Forcing players to keep researching new weapons and perks to stay on the current meta.
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Schoolgirl Isabelle Allen joined some of Hollywood’s finest for the world premiere of the big budget film version of Les Miserables.
The Eastbourne 10-year-old was photographed on the red carpet and alongside the film’s stars Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe at London’s Leicester Square on Wednesday night.
Isabelle, who plays the young Cosette in the film, landed the role after being spotted singing in a school play a year ago.
The talented youngster, pictured below, who wore a pink tutu dress for the event, is also performing in the stage production of Les Miserables.
The Les Miserables film is directed by Tom Hooper, the man behind Academy Award-winning The King’s Speech.
The story unfolds against the backdrop of 19th century France and follows the trials of ex-prisoner Jean Valjean (Jackman), who is hunted for decades by ruthless policeman Javert (Crowe) after breaking parole.
The musical is in its 27th year, and has been seen by more than 60 million around the globe.
Les Miserables will hit UK cinema screens on January 11.
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A surfer reported missing Sunday evening was brought safely to shore after a two-hour search.
The man was reported missing in waters off Kualoa around 5:30 p.m.
Fire rescue crews searched the area until about 7:30 p.m., when they spotted him attempting to paddle back to shore his surfboard. The rescue personnel assisted the surfer to shore, according to Honolulu Fire Department spokesperson Capt. Terry Seelig.
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Ballet for Young Audiences performs Cinderella at Grunin Center
(TOMS RIVER, NJ) -- RWJ Barnabas Health Family Series presents Ballet for Young Audiences’ Cinderella on Saturday, April 7 at 11:00am on the Main Stage, Grunin Center for the Arts (Building #12), Ocean County College Main Campus, College Drive, Toms River, NJ. This production of Cinderella follows a young woman and her cat through the classic fairy tale. It combines all the romance of the Masked Ball with all the slapstick comedy of Cinderella’s bungling stepsisters.
Ballet for Young Audiences presents full stage productions, featuring beautiful dancers, exquisite scenery and costumes, and compelling drama. Each ballet is fully narrated for your added enjoyment and to ensure understanding of the dance vocabulary for newer audiences.
Please use Parking Lot #2. Show Tickets: $12 adult and $10 child. Purchase Tickets online at grunincenter.org, call 732-255-0500, or visit the Box Office, Monday to Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and one hour prior to show time.
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Roxey Ballet Presents "Dracula"
Roxey Ballet kicks off its 21st season with its dance adaptation of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”. Roxey Ballet’s “Dracula” interprets Stoker’s famed horror story through a complete sensory experience of movement, music and spoken word with pyrotechnic, sound and lighting effects. Showcasing 14 professional dancers, the performances take place in the intimate, 72-seat Canal Studio Theater in Lambertville.
Alborada Spanish Dance Theatre Celebrates 20 Years
Celebrate the past, present and future of the widely acclaimed Alborada Spanish Dance Theatre on Friday, September 25 at 7:30pm for a special anniversary production “20 Years of Flamenco and Spanish Dance in New Jersey”, at Crossroads Theatre (located at 7 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ). Tickets are $30 VIP/Front Row Seating; $25 General seating and $18 Seniors/Students. Order tickets on-line at http://alborada.bpt.me or call 800-838-3006. For more information AlboradaDance.org.
Inside American Repertory Ballet’s 2015-2016 Season
The upcoming season for American Repertory Ballet (ARB) includes performances throughout New Jersey and New York City. The 2015-2016 season will kick off on September 24 at Rider University Bart Luedeke Center with an open rehearsal and State of the Art Address, celebrating five years of Artistic Director Douglas Martin’s artistic leadership.
Roxey Ballet Presents Fall
“Fall,” a world premier dance/music collaboration, celebrates the 20th Anniversary Season of Roxey Ballet. Choreographed for Roxey Ballet company members by Founder and Artistic Director Mark Roxey, with a newly-commissioned score by composer Robert Maggio, “Fall” also features video art and live music performed by violinist Ruotao Mao and cellist Thomas Kraines. Inspired by the story “The Fall of Freddie the Leaf” by best-selling author Leo Buscaglia, “Fall” examines the natural, interconnected circle of life through an exploration of music and movement.
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Published: 24 Oct 2018
The Chinese owned construction giant, John Holland Group, has been caught out bullying its subcontractors into keeping records on workers who attend political rallies, threatening legal action and fines.
The CFMEU National Assistant Construction Secretary Andrew Sutherland said the company had overstepped the mark, and warned that more of this behaviour would come from employers under the Liberal Government’s partisan attack dog, the ABCC.
In a leaked email to its subcontractors, John Holland Group has warned that workers attending today’s rallies in Adelaide might be participating in “unprotected industrial action”, that may lead to “investigation by the Australian Building and Construction Commission”.
The email urges subcontractors to “keep records” on workers attending the rally.
“It is not illegal in Australia to participate in democracy. Protesting injustice is our right,” Andrew Sutherland said.
“John Holland Group has been caught out trying to intimidate its workforce and punish them for participating in democratic protests.
“This is unacceptable. Attendance at a rally or protest is not industrial action, and they have no right to intimidate the workforce in this way.
The union said the company’s action came after the ABCC last week threatened to fine construction workers up to $42,000 for participating in the national Change the Rules protests on Tuesday.
“Clearly, the ABCC sets the tone, and big construction companies follow suit.
“This is why Australia needs independent regulators, that will pursue petrol companies and banks with the same rigour they go after unions.”

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OTTAWA, Dec. 4 /CNW/ - The Canadian Association of Journalists is calling on Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan to explain American journalist Amy Goodman's recent detention at the border and is seeking a guarantee that similar incidents will not occur in the future.
Goodman, a well-known journalist and broadcaster, was detained and questioned for more than an hour while crossing into Canada at Blaine, Wa., on Nov. 25. Her notebooks and computer were scrutinized and she was asked repeatedly if she planned to speak critically about the 2010 Olympics.
"This is not how a country that values a free press ought to treat journalists, including foreign ones," said CAJ President Mary Agnes Welch. "This could have been an isolated incident, but it could bode badly for the hundreds of journalists who will enter Canada in the coming months. What happens when a journalist writes or broadcasts something the federal government doesn't agree with?"
The Canadian Association of Journalists has asked Minister Van Loan for an explanation and assurances that journalists will not be stopped at the border or refused entry to Canada for the content of their coverage, thought or expression.
Amy Goodman delivered the closing keynote at the CAJ's national conference and annual general meeting in Winnipeg in 2005.
The Canadian Association of Journalists is Canada's largest professional organization for journalists from all media, with about 1,200 members across the country. The CAJ's primary roles are to provide high-quality professional development for its members and public-interest advocacy.
SOURCE Canadian Association of Journalists
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Alkali metal re-distribution after oxidation of 4H-SiC
2016 (English)In: 16th International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials, ICSCRM 2015, Trans Tech Publications Ltd , 2016, 677-680 p.Conference paper (Refereed)
Relocation of alkali metals sodium, potassium and cesium during oxidation of 4H-SiC has been studied by secondary ion mass spectrometry. The alkali metal source has been introduced by ion implantation before oxidation into n- and p-type 4H-SiC samples. Dry oxidation of SiC has been performed at 1150 ºC during 4, 8 and 16 h. In the formed oxide, the main part of the alkali metals diffuses out via the SiO2 surface. Close to the moving SiO2/SiC interface, a minor amount of alkali metals is retained. In the SiC material, the main amount of implanted alkali atoms is not redistributed during the oxidation, although a minor amount diffuses deeper into the samples. For ptype 4H-SiC, the diffusion deeper into the samples of the studied alkali metals decreases as the mass increases, Na+<K+<Cs+, but the sodium mobility is substantial already at 1150 °C.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Trans Tech Publications Ltd , 2016. 677-680 p.
Cesium, Diffusion, Oxidation, Potassium, SIMS, Sodium, Ion implantation, Mass spectrometry, Metals, Secondary ion mass spectrometry, Silicon oxides, Alkali atoms, Dry oxidation, Mass increase, P-type 4H-SiC, Re-distribution, SiC materials, Silicon carbide
IdentifiersURN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-195473DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.858.677ScopusID: 2-s2.0-84971570725ISBN: 9783035710427OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-195473DiVA: diva2:1049827
4 October 2015 through 9 October 2015
QC 201611252016-11-252016-11-032016-11-25Bibliographically approved

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