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Allocation frustrates NYC groups
Groups in New York City are frustrated over allocation of post-Sept. 11 funds.
BY HEATHER MOYER | NEW YORK CITY | March 18, 2005
Community groups in New York City are frustrated about where the federal governments post-Sept. 11 restoration and recovery funds are going.
New York Gov. George Pataki placed the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) in charge of distributing $2.7 billion from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development earmarked for revitalization and restoration of Manhattan post-Sept. 11.
Community groups are continuing to urge the LMDC to focus the remaining $850 million in cash grants on unmet needs they say have been ignored.
A coalition of community groups including New York Disaster Interfaith Services (NYDIS), 9/11 Environmental Action, Labor Community Advocacy Network, Latin American Workers Project, and many others, held a forum on Wednesday night entitled Without a Trace. The forums aim was to allow community members to speak out about where the money should go, as well as voice their frustrations about being ignored.
There is general frustration and anger from these groups and people who are feeling left out of the process, said Daniel Bush, director of disaster recovery and victim advocacy for NYDIS. He said he didnt believe the LMDC has been transparent about the allocation process.
Bush said most of the community organizations feel that the money has gone to the higher end instead of to people who most need assistance. The coalition of organizations agrees that the focus of funds should be on affordable housing, environmental health and employment.
Much of the conversation (Wednesday night) was around housing. So far the money has mostly gone to higher-end housing which just makes housing constraints worse, explained Bush.
The health issue involves the toxic cloud of dust that enveloped Manhattan and other boroughs on Sept. 11, contaminating offices and residences. Ground Zero workers and Manhattan residents and employees report they are suffering from health problems tied to the dust, which has been shown to include such toxins as asbestos and lead.
Groups like NYDIS have been helping sickened employees and residents with basic needs, such as rent payments or transportation. The only current screening for Ground Zero health issues is for people who worked at the site, and not those who live or work in the general area. Beyond that, there is no funding for treatment of the sick workers.
Wed like to see needs addressed on a systemic level not just treating the symptoms like were doing, noted Bush, who said religious groups and community coalitions have limited assistance money.
The LMDC defends its distribution of the funds thus far, citing a residential grant program set up in 2002, as well as one funded proposal for affordable housing. Funds have also gone toward incentives to keep businesses in lower Manhattan, creating community parks, promoting tourism, and creating a Ground Zero historical campaign, said LMDC spokesperson Joanna Rose.
The corporation is also defending its public input process, with Rose saying that LMDC held numerous public hearings and allowed for significant public input to the funding proposals.
Every single step of the way theres been public engagement, said Rose. We welcome input. We are working out now what future opportunities there will be for public comment.
For the remaining money, Rose added that the LMDC is looking at what the priorities are and reaching out to the public for ideas.
Yet no LMDC representatives attended the Wednesday forum, despite being invited, said Bush. Some members of the faith communities in attendance said the evening was another powerful reminder that many are still struggling to recover.
It was a very inspiring and moving event, said Rabbi Jonathan Glass of New York Citys Synagogue for the Arts. We saw and heard stories of significant hardship. There is a definite desire for access to money earmarked for people in need who are not getting it.
Glass is a member of a clergy group working with NYDIS to put more pressure on the LMDC about fund distribution and public input. We lend a moral voice in a way that only clergy can do, explained Glass, who also noted that every community group involved has shown incredible commitment and resolve.
The organizers of Wednesdays gathering said they were pleased with the results. It was a wonderful event and we were very proud to be participating in it, said Kimberly Flynn of 9/11 Environmental Action. It was a celebration of the diverse and interconnected communities of lower Manhattan. Folks who attended represented every area in lower Manhattan, from river to river.
Flynn said the forums attendees and speakers asserted that LMDC-distributed funds are the communitys money. The LMDC needs to hear the community, she said, and the corporations attempts thus far at hearing from the public are sorely lacking.
There is a way of holding meetings that fosters discussion and provides for accountability and then theres what the LMDC has done, she explained.
As for which needs should take a priority for the remaining $850 million, Flynn said the community should decide.
The host of organizations working with the community should work together in defining (the needs) and in dividing up (the remaining funds) because all of these are urgent needs, she explained.
Health is an urgent need, but I think when you look at rebuilding peoples lives, you cant really separate health from having a safe clean place to live and being able to make a living. The whole idea of this money was to rebuild peoples lives, and thats a multi-faceted project.
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I have so much to write about the last 4 days, I hardly know where to start. It's been fantastic from start to finish and I feel thoroughly depressed to be back in England!
We arrived late on the Friday night and met our number one supporter, Bex, at the airport. We headed to the B&B, the fabulous El Balcon del Born (which Bex wrote about in her blog post here) and headed straight to bed. I was conscious that pre-marathon nerves may keep me up the following night, so I needed all the sleep I could get.
We woke surprisingly early the next morning and had a delicious breakfast in the B&B. I can't express how much I love this place. It feels like a home from home in Barcelona, the owners are so welcoming and the place so full of character and charm that I know I'll be returning time and time again.
We left Bex to explore on her own and headed to the Expo. I hadn't felt nervous before this moment. I had trained hard, carb-loaded, travelled all the way to Barcelona but I didn't believe I was actually going to do it until I arrived at the Expo and then suddenly it was all too real. The Expo was located where the marathon starts and finishes, so I began imagining me crossing the finishing line and wondering just how exhausted I'd feel (very, it turned out.)
The Expo was well organised and not too busy. We picked up our race numbers and then our marathon t-shirts. I was quite surprised to get a t-shirt before I'd even done anything… I did contemplate giving the whole thing a miss since I'd got the t-shirt and all but don't think I would have got away with it.
They had a special machine where you could check that your chip was working, which I was a big fan of, given both mine and Bex's chips had failed at London Marathon 2010 (I'm still traumatised by this, Bex has to practically sedate me if someone asks me what I thought of London Marathon).
So, with the knowledge that my chip was A-OK, we headed round the rest of the Expo. It was pretty standard, with lots of stalls selling clothes and sports products. We didn't stay too long, as I knew Bex would be wondering where we'd got to, and ambling around Barcelona is definitely better than ambling around an Expo.
We met up with Bex and headed to a restaurant for the carb-loading to commence while she updated us on her morning pottering around the old town and the Picasso gallery.
We decided to head to Park Guell so we could sit and admire the views without tiring our legs out too much. Due to some navigational errors (ahem, Cristiano), we did far more walking to get there than we'd anticipated so I was getting a little worried about how tired my legs were going to be. It was well worth the walk though as the views were fantastic. We sat and ate ice- cream before heading back to the B&B to get everything ready for the big day. I was most definitely nervous!
And thanks to Cristiano for the use of his photos in this blog post 🙂

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Your Kids Will Love These Children's Books Illustrated by Famous Artists
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frame: 44 3/4 x 33 inches
Published for an exhibition at the Modern Art Pavilion, Seattle Center, Seattle, Washington, November 18, 1976 - January 9, 1977
Printed by Bill Miller 's Wallpaper Studio, Inc., New York
Publisher Factory Additions, New York
Signature: Authenticated on the verso with the Official Stamps from the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Numbered along with the Initials "TJH" (Tim J. Hunt).
Publisher: Factory Additions, New York
Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, Fourth Edition (expanded by Frayda Feldman and Claudia Defendi), 2003, Catalogue Reference F&S II. 12A, another impression reproduced page 64 in color.
Obsessed with celebrity, consumer culture, and mechanical (re)production, Pop artist Andy Warhol created some of the most iconic images of the 20th century. As famous for his quips as for his art—he variously mused that "art is what you can get away with" and "everyone will be famous for 15 minutes"—Warhol drew widely from popular culture and everyday subject matter, creating works like his 32 Campbell's Soup Cans (1962), Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe, using the medium of silk-screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of color. Known for his cultivation of celebrity, Factory studio (a radical social and creative melting pot), and avant-garde films like Chelsea Girls (1966), Warhol was also a mentor to artists like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. His Pop sensibility is now standard practice, taken up by major contemporary artists Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami, and Jeff Koons, among countless others.
American, 1928-1987, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, based in New York, New York
Your Kids Will Love These Children's Books Illustrated by Famous Artists
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In Bhojpur district the inhabitants have been the indigenous Newar ethnic group. Bhojpur forms part of Majh Kirat / Kirant (Middle Kirat). It is one of the richest districts in Nepal in biodiversity. To the northern part of this district lies the beautiful small city of Dingla. Various hill castes, Brahmin (bahun in Nepali), Kshetriya (Chhettri in Nepali), and ethnic groups like Rai reside within this beautiful area. This is the place where rudraksha trees are grown naturally in the forest as well as individually on people's land. Champe is the other small town where people from surrounding villages come and sell their products. This happens every 15 days and is called Hatiya.
Balankha borders with neighboring Khotang district's Bopung village. Balankha is slowly emerging as another hub of education, communication, health and trade. The most distinctive thing about Balankha is its famous Chhongkha Chandi celebration. It is the Kirat Rai festival when Rais go to 'Chandi Than' at Dammarkhu village of Khotang (across the river Buwa Khola), pray for good harvest and rain. Then they flock back to the open space of Chandi bazar, there they dance and celebrate with great joy.
Chhinamakhu is a hill village in Bhojpur. The highest elevation of the village is Merung (2999 masl) and lowest is Yangtang-Pikhuwa river meeting point (1000 masl). It lays in an anti-pyramid shape in between Yangtang river in the South, Hingkhuwa in the North and Pikhuwa in the East. This is an east-facing beautiful typical Nepali hill village rich in sub-tropical to temperate flora and fauna.


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Flooding in Newark left fish flopping on the street near Weequahic Park.
Large carp poured out of an overflowing lake at Weequahic Park and out onto the street, even into flooded Meeker Avenue.
News 12 New Jersey photojournalist Joe Caruso captured county employees as they worked to get the stranded fish back into the lake.
The City of Newark Health Department issued a warning to residents not to eat the fish, as they are unsure how the exposure to elements outside of the fish's natural domains will affect them.
News 12 New Jersey meteorologists say periods of rain will continue through Tuesday.


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Golden – Double Vase
Gold is one of the most influent element in the world. It has, nowadays, an inumerous variety of appliances, from the classic jewelry, to the modern electronics and medicine. We picked the essence of Gold, and using our three-dimensional grating manufacturing system, created Golden, a Double-Vase for indoor/outdoor environments. It has a ring shaped vase, contrasting with an oval-cut shape, that gives its design, a sense of continuation.
Its tight mesh stops the pebbles from exiting the vase and creates an invisibility coat that prevents you from seeing the inside vase from which the plant grows. It can be supplied with 2 different finnishings, one for each vase.
Dimensions: Width: 60cm; Depth: 30cm; Height: 30cm
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Instead of making New Year's resolutions this year (which I inevitably fail at keeping), I decided to go with themes for the year instead. One of the themes is learning more about the world around me. With that in mind, I subscribed to and downloaded Espresso (from The Economist) and WSJ (from The Wall Street … [Read more…]


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Shana Boyle/
Shana is a Florida girl through and through. She was born in Vero Beach and grew up in Jensen Beach. An interesting fact about her is that she have a twin sister. Growing up, she dabbled in some sports, but honestly was never really an athlete, in all reality she was a band nerd in high school. She's always kept active doing something, whether it was running, golf, mountain biking, or going to the gym. After high school, she moved to Gainesville, FL for college and earned her Ph.D. in Pediatric Psychology. Gainesville is where she also met a strapping young lad named Geoff Boyle. They actually met at American Eagle, where they both worked part-time jobs. They got married in 2013 and she dragged him to Delaware for 2 years where she finished her psychology residency and fellowship at Nemours. During that time, they added their first-born to the family; Radar Adam Boyle. He is a pit mix and is often mistaken for the "Target" dog. Fast forward, and here they are back in Florida now with a 2-year-old daughter Avery. She's still working for Nemours as a psychologist and love what she does!
You recently completed a full cycle of Barbell Club. What was your interest/reasoning to try it out and what did you learn/gain from it?
I had been thinking about joining Barbell Club for quite some time before taking the plunge. I'll be honest- I was intimidated. I sort of told myself, "I need to get better at CrossFit before doing barbell." As I continued with CrossFit, I noticed that I was being challenged by coaches and members to lift more weight (in an encouraging way). I also noticed that I was stuck. I was trying to "muscle" a lot of lifts, and I was hitting a wall. I also was sacrificing form for time. So, that's when I decided that the only way I am going to improve my lifts is going back to square one and taking the time to learn the fundamentals. I also needed to learn to stop comparing the weight on my bar with others. I would highly recommend barbell club to ANYONE- whether you are new or a seasoned athlete. Yee was so incredibly helpful, patient, and encouraging. She is spot on with her feedback. Before barbell, I was intimidated by lifting. It really helped improve my strength and confidence. I am definitely applying what I learned in Barbell to WODs.
You have a sweet little girl Avery and a full time job, how do you manage your time to be consistent with the gym and still do everything else you need to do?
I'm sure a lot of us can relate- but it is hard (and sometimes impossible) to balance parenting, work, and the gym. Our family has a bit of a routine during the week, which helps. I am grateful to have a partner who also is invested in fitness. There are definitely sacrifices we have to make, but we also realize that the gym is sort of our time to decompress and work on our health. When Avery gets to join, it's always fun. It's really awesome having such supportive and family-friendly people in the gym who are looking out for us if we need an extra hand.
Who wins more workouts, you or Geoff?
Do you think Geoff actually had a shoulder injury? I think he just needed an excuse.
I saw you recently booked some flights to Europe for a big trip. Is traveling something you've always done, or wish you could do more?
Yes, we just booked a summer trip to Paris and London! We rarely get a chance to travel with our work schedules and now with being parents. This will actually be our first vacation since our honeymoon 5 years ago (during which there was a tropical storm). It is something we have always wanted to do! We've already looked up CrossFit Gyms. We are officially brainwashed.
Who in your life is somebody you aspire to be like and why?
Geoff is probably going to hate me for this, but I actually aspire to be a lot like him. He has so much patience and is the most humble person I know. He also has a very competitive nature and is always looking for ways to better himself. I also aspire to be like my dog- a life of spoon-fed peanut butter and naps around the clock.
What are some hobbies you enjoy either personally or with the family?
Aside from Crossfit, I love going to the beach and pool when I can. I also love to check out new restaurants, breweries, and markets/festivals around town. I have a MAD sweet tooth, and so I also have to say ice cream is a solid hobby of mine.
I saw that you registered to compete in a local event coming up in February. What made you want to sign up?
You're right- I just signed up for my first ever competition- the CF904 Valentine's Day Massacre! Geoff did Rep Your Box this past year, and he really seemed to enjoy it. After watching him and other friends compete, I told myself I would do a competition some day. I am really excited, but also a little nervous. I feel like I am at the point where I won't make a total fool of myself, so why not?
You have really come a long way since training with us. I know there's so much more growth we will see over time but we wanted to acknowledge you and your efforts in the gym. Do you have any closing thoughts or comments you'd like to share?
Coming from another awesome gym (shoutout to NorthJax CrossFit) and still being relatively new to CrossFit, I am just so thankful that we have found a home at SoFit Athletics. The community is really something special. I am constantly challenged every time I step foot in the gym. I hate that CrossFit sometimes gets a "bad rap." I think our gym embodies what CrossFit is all about- improving health, encouraging and motivating each other to be better, and having fun while doing it. I really appreciate all the coaches and members who have made me and my family feel welcome. I have made a lot of gains since starting in June and am excited to set new goals for this year!


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The new job is being advertised this month and city officials hope to have the winning applicant hired and working by August. The pay range is $35,000 to $45,000, which should be enough to attract qualified people from the ranks of mall managers, marketing companies or municipal managers who want a big challenge.


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A liquid jet setup for x-ray scattering experiments on complex liquids at free-electron laser sources
In this study we describe a setup for x-ray scattering experiments on complex fluids using a liquid jet. The setup supports Small and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS/WAXS) geometries. The jet is formed by a gas-dynamic virtual nozzle (GDVN) allowing for diameters ranging between 1 μm and 20 μm at a jet length of several hundred μm. To control jet properties such as jet length, diameter, or flow rate, the instrument is equipped with several diagnostic tools. Three microscopes are installed to quantify jet dimensions and stability in situ. The setup has been used at several beamlines performing both SAXS and WAXS experiments. Finally, as a typical example we show an experiment on a colloidal dispersion in a liquid jet at the X-ray Correlation Spectroscopy instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source free-electron laser.
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- Review of Scientific Instruments
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- Journal Volume: 87; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 0034-6748
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- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
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- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); German Electron Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); Korea Research Inst. of Standards and Science (KRISS), Daejeon (Korea, Republic of)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22); German Research Foundation (DFG); Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI) (Germany); Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (Korea, Republic of)
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- The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI) (Germany); Max Planck Inst. for Solid State Research, Stuttgart (Germany); Max Planck Inst. for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart (Germany); PNSensor GmbH, Munich (Germany)
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- United States
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- English
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- 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; Fluid jets; Nozzle jets; Fluid drops; Light emitting diodes; X-ray scattering
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What a sad day! I kept thinking we would turn it around and praying for a miracle. Leaving our office for the last time last week, with the FemT box files in a shopping bag, I felt mainly sadness but also a little relief. No more sleepless nights worrying or fruitless hours writing supplicating emails to rich people. No more guilt about not being fully present for my husband and young children or my FemT colleagues. I'm looking forward to spending time with my family (as disgraced politicians say) with a clear conscience, and gathering my thoughts for the rest of the summer and possibly longer.
I won't miss being resented from afar; I am privileged but my life is far from enviable. I am in the early stages of Huntington's disease, cognitively impaired, and struggling with many aspects of every day life. I lose things, break things, hurt myself, rage at Tom and the children. This is a symptom and can't be addressed by anger management techniques. My dad is in the late stages of Huntington's disease; he can't speak, read, swallow or co ordinate his movement but is otherwise compos mentis and so all too aware of his predicament.
I don't think quickly now and have sometimes struggled to keep up with the breakneck pace of this project. My short term memory is shot and my mind wanders. I exist much of the time in a state of terrified befuddlement. Furthermore, I can no longer multi-task, which might explain why I've struggled when too many things are going on at once during this project (i.e. most of the time) and there's literally nothing I can do about it.
I haven't previously written about Huntington's Disease in Feminist Times and I was in two minds about mentioning it even now. On one hand I want to tell the truth, but on the other I worry that my condition will make FemT less credible (and perhaps less tempting to publishers and investors).
But not telling the truth is worse. The whole point about FemT is that it was true to life, unlike the other media. The truth is that my daily life recently has been assembled piece by piece like a jigsaw puzzle with my family and FemT colleagues' help.
Thank goodness for Deborah and Sarah; my FemT colleagues have been wonderful help for the hard of thinking. They can work magic on my half-formed ideas and sharpen my copy. They work and think a hundred miles a minute but, unlike most prolific writers, the quality of their output is consistently high. I didn't think this was possible. I'm completely in awe of them because they are multi-skilled, and can balance the books and husband our limited resources very effectively. Because of them I have a clear conscience whatever happens next.
Like a Big Brother contestant, I come out of this project more vividly alive than when I went in, disinhibited and ready to reveal all. My wise colleagues have cautioned against full disclosure, so what follows is an edited account of the last 18 months rather than the whole nine yards. I hope you will forgive digressions and deviations as I want convey what it felt like as well as the whys and wherefores of how we got to this point.
The setting off point of all modern feminist 'journeys'. You must begin with masturbation, whether relevant or not, if you want people to sit up and take notice.
Vivenne Albertine from the Slits begins her memoir with an account of a lifetime not masturbating. She says masturbating when you are single is like getting drunk when you're miserable; it makes you feel more lonely. I liked this. Maybe the same is true of literary masturbation – I have read so many accounts, for business rather than pleasure, and felt lonely afterwards .
It isn't taboo, as Petra Collins and Caitlin Moran claim. Moran's new novel begins with a masturbation scene. The woman interviewing her on Newsnight looked thoroughly embarrassed. Who put her up to it?
Collins says: "We're taught to hide our menstrual cycles and even to hide masturbation."
Are we? In fact we are being goaded to reveal the intimate facts in public, on pain of being accused of prudery. I am not a prude or repressed, but won't wank in public. Feminist Times isn't a wank fest. I wanted there to be one place where authenticity didn't equate to baring all.
In fact, it's not talking about the intimate details of your sex life that is taboo. Men love it.
Distracting Lucy
I have known our art director Lucy for 32 years, but only recently got to know her. We were in the same class at secondary school and I kept distracting her with my big ideas and stopping her from concentrating. I tried to convert her to Marxism and Modism, but it didn't work. She didn't join the school students' strike or beg her mother to let her see The Jam's last ever concert. She was her own person; much less malleable than the people in my gang. They thought she was straight, and it took me a while to realise – we were the conformists.
We kept in touch, and she did get a word in edgeways eventually. I met Lucy for coffee in Foyles eighteen months ago and pitched this big idea to her. She took a long time to respond. I kept emailing her for an answer. She had been consulting (very sensible) and thinking and only when she had done so did she agree.
Lucy is the subversive soul of Feminist Times. She wouldn't talk about wanking on Newnight and her reticence makes her stand out . We had such a good time mocking up concept covers. One was a full bleed cover of a bare breasted Femen activist with a chainsaw. Lucy said the straights (although she wouldn't use that term) in her studio were giving her funny looks.
One of our digital consultants said Lucy's logo would alienate Telegraph woman, Grazia woman and even Guardian woman. It looked like a stop sign and broke every design rule, including the one that said it was good to experiment as long as the results aren't experimental. There was still time to rethink, but not much. Once we were out there on the margins, there would be no way back…
The unfocused group
It wasn't a focus group and we weren't brainstorming. I bought a whiteboard, because I was nervous, then hid it in the broom cupboard just in time.
"What are you doing?" Anna said. "Don't you want to use it?"
"Why did you buy it?"
"Shhh! They're here!"
One of the brilliant things about this project was having an excuse to get in touch with people I admired. Playwrights Emma Crowe and Penny Skinner, Kat Banyard, writer and activist Jan Woolf, artist Marica Farquar and Hannah Pool were all mildly or moderately drunk around my kitchen in the early days (not all at the same time). It was a riff on Judy Chicago's Dinner Party.
These conversations were respectful, revealing and hilarious. We were connecting. Kitty Finer thought of our brilliant strapline 'Life not lifestyle', Kate Tempest was very excited by our vision of a women's magazine with no celebrities or brands that told the truth. It seemed more timely and necessary the more we talked about it. Why hadn't this happened before? And why did Private Eye have the monopoly on humour? Bloody Woman's Hour, with features on 'do you let your dog sleep on your bed?' and no SOH didn't speak to us.
We wanted satire, investigations, columns and properly written features. Some of us really wanted a printed magazine, others weren't that bothered. Radical empathy was a founding principle. We wouldn't judge women or hold them accountable for the ills of society. There would be no shaming or blaming. We would have positive reviews. But they wouldn't be bland.
So many open questions. How did we feel about lesbian mud wrestling if the wrestler was funding her art? And what price honesty? How would it play? Laying yourself bare was very risky as some of us had already discovered. Would positivity come out bland? We were at the intersection of life and art! It was thrilling and scary.
These women aren't muses or 'inspirational' in a Woman's Houry way. I often thought, we need a new word for this. I should have asked the unfocused group while you were there.
What a brilliant idea! I wanted a brand and sponsorship free space for women and the membership model seemed to have more integrity than one off asks on Kickstarter where the commitment was one sided.
Someone said crowdfunding is like a courtship. You show the public your best side, offer them presents and positivity, garlanded in tweets. An unwise crowdfunder sticks the ask on a site and gets on with his life. In fact you are meant to promote your project (and yourself) in creative and compelling ways continually. You are selling yourself. The paradox of crowdfunding is that it is still all about you and me, not really a form of collective ownership at all.
This sounded exhausting. Our membership model was a marriage; not a dalliance. We wanted a long term commitment; a relationship that could grow and deepen over time. I had never been in that kind of relationship with hundreds of people simultaneously. I'd also never tweeted so didn't know the form.
We called in the 'relationship based engagement experts', then fell out with them. They said it was about making people connect with me by tweeting and communicating in my voice, which made sense, then said we should ask founder members for more money, which didn't.
Our relationship with our founder members was the lynch pin of the project; I felt I knew them but couldn't be sure. When we asked them whether they still wanted to commit to the project if it wasn't called Spare Rib I still held my breath. But the vast majority did, which was hugely motivating.
It has been a privilege getting to know so many of you and I have happy memories of our time together. I'm sad that this relationship will be broken off rather abruptly at the end of this week. I'm sorry it didn't work out…
I think the membership model might have worked if we'd had more time to reach critical mass.
Hashtag not Spare Rib
We needed a new name as good as Spare Rib. And fast. Crucially it mustn't seem as if we'd tried too hard. From what I recall, that name had come about organically. A joke that stuck, like all the best names. I knew the more we thought about it the worse it would be, but what was the alternative? We tried to crowd source, but people were obviously struggling. There were a lot of biblical references, Lilith, some suffragette ones, Purple Sash. I loved Redstocking which was Shulamith Firestone's activist cell but it was already taken. In fact all the good names were already taken.
This is how mad we were. One afternoon we were kicking around 'fall' ideas, specifically the feminist rehabilitation of Eve as the heroine of the piece. We were under a lot of pressure to deliver and then… a breakthrough. Someone had suggested Eve's Apple several hours ago, I wasn't keen. But what about APPLE?
It had a ring to it. Slightly surreal and edgy but not clever clever. I could see the logo in my mind's eye. An apple with a bite taken out of it. A powerful founding myth and a feminist joke. We will gorge on the forbidden fruit and hang the consequences. I was so happy, then we all noticed the logo on the back of our computers at the same time. `
We had a short list, put it to a vote, then ended up with the second placed name. I hated Feminist Times at first it, as it seemed banal and literal minded. But quirky is the new normal in publishing. There is a magazine called Elephant, another called Tirade and an online women-fronted tv show called Fox Problem. A straightforward name is as radical today as weird was in the seventies.
Elle on earth
The lads mags are folding or recalibrating and feminists are delighted. Nuts is no more. Loaded has turned it's back on lad culture after publishers felt it's "lewd content was lowering the tone." Will the strapline 'for men who should know better' be consigned to the dustbin of history?
Men are no longer behaving badly when feminists are looking, but women are. Women's magazines are still full of hot chicks demonstrating the truth of the old maxim; a little bit of what you fancy does you good.
What about the lewd content of women's magazines? Won't Cosmo be lowering the tone when Loaded has a cover image of Antoina Byatt? The feminist gaze has been on lads mags, and our old adversaries have been growing in confidence and borrowing our clothes without asking when we were out campaigning.
The argument against women's magazines is the same as ever. They pretend to be your friend, then stab you in the back. Mean girls who keep you guessing about their motivations. They are party animals. And killjoys. They preach indulgence and abstinence in the same breath. Spend, shag, repent. No wonder we're confused. Lads mags weren't conflicted. There were no ads for detox spas in the back of Loaded.
So why don't womens mags "move with the times" like Loaded? Nobody's telling them to. They appear to be making it new and constantly reinventing themselves into people with short memories. In fact, it is a repetitions compulsion.
Every few years, a womans magazine is launched for people who don't like woman's magazines. Marie Claire was aimed at women who feel patronised by the women's media, and want long features and occasional references to A N Other country.
Now Elle is "the best of the bunch" because it has long features, according to Vagenda.
I wish we hadn't taken part in Elle's rebranding feminism project. Who are they to tell us we have an image problem? And imply that they can fix it by giving us a makeover. They flattered us, made us feel special by seeming to be interested in us. Such lovely ladies they are too, talking about how intelligent Elle was compared with its competitors.
I wanted Feminist Times to be a real friend, not a fake one, who would dump you over a fashion faux pas or a mistimed downward dog
Angry bird
Elle wants feminists to take a chill pill. If we use quiet voices, people will listen. That makes me so bloody angry. I was rational and reasonable when this project began, but no more. The newspapers all enrage me, Women's magazines, ditto.
I'm angry with Ed Milliband for not being angry enough about food poverty and the destruction of the NHS.
And outraged that feminism has been co-opted by brands. Fuck Dove and all the others.
I'm angry about the new female stereotypes, and the old female stereotypes. Reports of the ladettes' death were exaggerated,
I am even angry about the lack women at board level for the first time. The boards sound like a bear pit so this isn't surprising.
And I'm angry about how the equal pay act isn't being implemented and won't be until there is transparency.
A year on I'm more convinced more than ever that feminism needs some firebrands, not milquetoasts.
The bottom line
We produced some amazing content and held some memorable events but some aspects of our business plan – no corporate sponsorship and no slave labour – didn't pay off in the current climate. The project wasn't supported by a phalanx of cheap interns because we believed that was wrong. And we were committed to remaining free from the dead hand of advertising and corporate sponsorship.
I wanted FemT to be different, but in the end the income from membership alone was not enough to keep it going. Rather than break our promise to reject intern labour and advertising, we decided to stop. We have kept our integrity and I want to put the project on ice while we work out if there is another way of funding the project that's both ethical and sustainable. My Feminist Times email will be open for the next several months; please feel free to submit any suggestions and let me know if you want to get involved. If you have an idea of how you could relaunch it I'd be pleased to hear from you.


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Congolese See No End To President's Final Term***As seen in The New York Times***
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — To take the political pulse of this sprawling, mineral-rich country, head to the busiest stretch of Lumumba Boulevard, one of the capital's main roads. On weekdays, a large crowd gathers here to peer at the newspapers posted on an eight-foot-high wall and loudly trade opinions on the news of the day.
Recently, the shouting has been about President Joseph Kabila's plan to carve the country's 11 provinces into 26, which many Congolese see as a ploy to delay the coming presidential election and allow Mr. Kabila to "slide," as people here say, into a third term.
"We already know these are political maneuvers," said Theo Balsomi, an unemployed college graduate, as he jostled with others to get a look at the newspapers on a recent afternoon. "Knowing the reality of our country, we have lived through many regimes. We won't allow Mr. Kabila to slide for even a second. The whole population would oppose that."
Mandated in 2006, the plan to split the provinces lay dormant until the president revived it in March. The new provinces have been named, but elections for governors and other leaders have yet to be held.
Before voting for a new president in 2016, the Democratic Republic of Congo must go through a series of elections on the local and provincial levels. Mayors, village chiefs and councils must be named, and deputies and governors need to be elected in the provinces. The longer this process takes, the more likely the presidential race will be postponed.
Under Congo's Constitution, the president is limited to two terms. However, delays in the packed electoral calendar, which is already months behind schedule, are stoking fears that a postponed presidential election ...
Dreaming In Kibera***As seen in the New York Times***
With the spotlight shining down on her 4-foot-something frame, 10-year-old Eunice Akoth stepped into character.
"Every mighty king was once a crying baby! Every great tree was once a tiny seed! Every tall building was once in paper! And so I dream my dream!" she yelled.
Taking wide, confident strides across the stage, and punctuating every other word with a fist pump, Eunice captivated the audience at the Women In The World Summit on Friday. Her declaration was a response to her life growing up in Kibera, Africa's largest urban slum, sprawling across Nairobi, Kenya.
"Most of the kids in Kibera are raped, some are neglected by their parents, some are homeless," she said, fighting back tears after the performance. "Most of them have dreams, but they don't know how they can achieve them, so I had to write a poem that tells them that they can achieve their dreams."
Eunice is a sixth-grader at Kibera's all-girls school, the first of its kind, co-founded by Kennedy Odede and Jessica Posner Odede. The husband and wife team behind the Shining Hope For Communities foundation—which pairs free education with health care, clean water, and other social services—accompanied Akoth to the Summit.
"I heard about this amazing community organizer, really bringing people together and helping them change their own realities," Jessica said, "and I was just so inspired by that."
Back in 2007, Jessica traveled to Kenya as a study-abroad student, drawn in by the work Odede was doing in his hometown. She saw how much he valued education, even scouring the streets for newspapers as a run-away at the age of 10 to teach himself how to read. Jessica joined Odede's SHOFCO organization, which he founded in 2004, after saving 20 cents to buy a soccer ...
One Richmond*As seen on CBSSports.com*
The story begins here, where the glaring overhead lights bounce off the giant red spider down at center court. The Richmond Spiders women's basketball team trots out, a mélange of braids, ponytails and curls bobbing in unison in front of 7,200 empty seats. It's a late-October preseason practice at the Robins Center arena, and this is where the healing happens.
Here, a scolding about a missed defensive assignment is a reminder of the right now, a fixture in the normal. Five months ago, this tight-knit family's fabric was torn, when two of its core members -- associate head coach Ginny Doyle and director of basketball operations Natalie Lewis -- embarked on a hot-air balloon ride and never came home. The wounds are fresh. The upcoming basketball season is long. Every second spent on the court is an act of resilience.
"She really loved this place," says Joe Doyle, smiling as he walks around his younger sister Ginny's house, a 15-minute drive from the University of Richmond campus. Joe and his mother are now trying to sell the home, and gathering Ginny's belongings forces him down memory
Growing up in Philadelphia in the 1970s, they learned how to shoot hoops on the corner, where the basket was a metal rim bolted to a plywood backboard hanging from a telephone pole. Ginny always won, routinely embarrassing the neighborhood boys. She eventually chose to play college ball at George Washington, and then transferred to Richmond.
Joe pops in an old tape: grainy footage of big hair, bulging shoulder pads, and Ginny challenging former CBS analyst Billy Packer in a free-throw shooting contest in 1992. At the time, Ginny's streak of 66 straight from the line was an NCAA record for ...
Mudiay Family: 'No Truth' To Skipping SMU Over Eligibility*As seen on CBSSports.com*
With the college basketball world struggling to make sense of his bombshell decision, Emmanuel Mudiay is in the gym, shielded from the noise. The 6-foot-5, 190-pound point guard is working out with his trainer and preparing his body for next season, despite the giant question mark regarding where he'll be playing.
This is according to his older brother Steph Mudiay, who has been Emmanuel's mouthpiece since the younger Mudiay announced his intentions for the near future in a statement Monday.
One of the country's top recruits -- and already a top prospect in the 2015 NBA Draft -- Mudiay said he wanted to financially provide for his mother. His decision to backtrack on his commitment to SMU and instead play professionally overseas has sparked questions about the true motives behind his sudden change of heart. At the forefront are multiple reports speculating that Mudiay's move could be a way to bypass a looming NCAA investigation into his eligibility.
"There's no truth to that," Steph said in a phone interview, adding that "rumors" about Emmanuel's NCAA eligibility have been circling since the All-American starred at Dallas' Prime
Prep Academy. "People have been speculating that anyway. Two years ago, there was an incident about eligibility issues and there were a lot of questions about whether the school was qualified or not. So I think it just went from there." Steph said.
The charter school -- which was co-founded by Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders in 2012 and could soon be shut down -- failed to fully meet the NCAA's academic requirements. After individual reviews, the NCAA ruled some former Prime Prep players ineligible. Others, like Monmouth freshman guard Micah Seaborn, were cleared to play college ball. Emmanuel was admitted to SMU and scheduled to enroll in August ...
Watching Mexico-Brazil from Rio's largest 'favela'*As seen on CBSSports.com*
You wore the wrong shoes. Climbing up and down the narrow, wet and steep walkway that connects the many parts of Rocinha -- Rio de Janeiro's largest favela -- requires a sure grip, not the wood-sole kicks you opted for today.
Being careful to not fall and break your face, you follow Isadora Machado, your makeshift tour guide. She's a member of Midia NINJA, a citizen journalism/activist group that drew international attention for the images of the huge Brazil protests they beamed around the world via social media during last year's Confederations Cup. Isadora's team invited you to come watch Brazil face Mexico here, in a tight-knit community of soccer fans who can't be in Fortaleza, where the match is being played. You accepted, because you'd really like to see how this city within the city does Game Day.
You marvel at the neighborhood's stacked houses -- piled on a hill along a mountain, one squeezed on top of the other, making a landslide a very scary scenario. The latest census puts
Rocinha's population at slightly more than 69,000, but research estimates say the number could be as high as 300,000. It has schools, clinics, theaters and a rich cultural side reflective of its diverse inhabitants. It has also earned a reputation for being one of Brazil's most dangerous favelas, ruled by drug gangs.
You were dropped off in a Fiat near Rocinha's higher entrance 20 minutes ago. Rio's Police Pacification Unit officers were there, with their guns showing and their heads on a swivel. Their role is to rid the neighborhood of drug gangs and other criminals. They've been accused of killing innocent locals, though, and their relationship with residents is often tense. You smile at one of the armed men as you make your way in, but ...
Congo's Female Basketball Players Shine on American Courts*As seen in Newsweek*
From a distance, she looks like a walking tower. Her slim, six-foot-four frame casts a shadow twice as large, moving in giant strides under a scorching Arizona sun. On most days, Emilie Muanandibu is accompanied by Lisette Longomo, a six-foot tower in her own right. Today, they're heading to their basketball coach's house to cook fufu na mbisi.
"When we took this walk in the summer, people would stop and ask us if we needed a ride," Muanandibu said. "No one could understand why we were walking in such heat."
The pleasure at the other end of this self-inflicted pain is worth it, though. Eating fufu, a mixture of corn flour and grains, with mbisi, sautéed or grilled fish, beats the monotony of cafeteria food at Arizona Western College. Once or twice a month, the two Congolese players on the Lady Matadors basketball team indulge in this traditional meal and reminisce.
"There are no barriers when it comes to fufu. Regardless of where you are you can eat it," Longomo said through a mouthful.
A little more than a year ago, eating fufu meant toiling in her mother's kitchen in Limete, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The run-down, concrete basketball court where she met Muanandibu was a short walk away. To escape the pitfalls of life in war-torn Congo, the tweens joined basketball club Hatari and began spending most of their time outside of the classroom honing their hoops skills.
In August 2011, Longomo and Muanandibu became two of AWC Head Coach Patrick Cunningham's chosen few. After seeing videos of the pair on YouTube, the women's basketball coach added them to his list of international recruits, making them the second and third Congolese ...
Protests linger, excitement high as World Cup begins in Brazil*As seen on CBSSports.com*
SAO PAULO -- Standing near the exit of the Arena Corinthians metro station in Sao Paulo, drowning in a sea of dancing yellow and green jerseys, with fireworks and cornetas blaring, it is easy to forget that the months and weeks leading up to this day were marred by often deadly protests and civil unrest.
The 2014 World Cup kicked off as planned Thursday afternoon, with the 170,000 extra security forces making their presence felt and keeping any anti-FIFA demonstrations at a distance.
A few hours before kickoff and only three miles away from the stadium, police helicopters hovered above a group of nearly 300 protestors, armed with blow horns and anti-World Cup signs. The military on the ground stifled any
attempts to march down Melo Freire, the straight-shoot route to Arena Corinthians, the site of the opener for the 32-team international soccer tournament.
Here, the fireworks were replaced by the explosion of tear gas bombs the military threw to disperse the crowd. Guards marched towards protesters, and rubber bullets pelted those not willing to clear the area.
"We'll continue to fight, regardless, against this government's reckless spending and injustice," said Callo Costa, as police ordered protesters to move or be moved by force. "Cup or not, we'll continue to fight against the loss of respect and the loss of dignity we deserve."
On certain streets, armed military forces outnumbered the demonstrators. The opening-day protests were a far cry
from those that preceded the $11.3-billion event, the most expensive World Cup in FIFA history.
Groups that planned to take to the streets on opening day – like the Homeless Workers Movement representing the thousands of families that occupied a lot ...
World Cup: Argentina gets started; rivalry with host Brazil omnipresent*As seen on CBSSports.com*
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Neymar Jr.'s No. 10 jersey is everywhere. It's at the market, sold next to giant Brazilian flags. It's at the restaurant, as the default uniform for waiters. It's at the soccer fields that decorate the inner city, on the backs of young Neymars dreaming big. It's impossible to miss, sort of like the other No. 10 jersey vying for attention on the streets of Rio de Janeiro.
Lionel Messi's sky blue and white striped shirt is at Copacabana Beach. It's on the metro, in the hotel lobby and at the bar down the street. Thousands of Argentinian fans have flocked to Rio and other World Cup host cities to watch this No. 10 try to add soccer's most prized trophy to his resume.
Argentina is second only to the United States in World Cup tickets bought outside of Brazil, totaling just over 61,000 at the start of the tournament, according to FIFA. In Latin America, Argentinians bought more seats than any other group besides Brazilians. Some fans embarked on a 36-hour bus ride to cheer on their national team in the land of its biggest soccer rival.
"It sounds a little bit crazy, but it's normal to us," said Nicolas Salto, who journeyed from Buenos Aires on a minibus with 50 other fans to reach Rio Thursday afternoon.
Salto and nearly 79,000 ticket-holders will be in the stands when Argentina and Bosnia kickoff World Cup play at the renovated Maracana Stadium on Sunday night. Though Argentinian fans will be out in full force, locals could try to remind Messi and his team how far they are from home, like they did during a pre-World Cup practice. Brazilian fans booed as Argentina took the pitch, offering ...
The LottoAs seen in the *Amsterdam News*
Working the night shift at Wendy's and earning $7.25 an hour was never part of the dream. Not for an aspiring attorney, less than a year away from a law degree when luck struck and sent him 6,380 miles from home.
Today, Olivier Wetshi rents a room in a four-bedroom apartment in Corona, Queens. There's a map of the New York City subway system hanging off the wall, and it doesn't take more than two giant steps to get to the other side of the room.
"I left Kinshasa for my education, my future. I'm only doing this to have the money to pay my schooling, then I'll be back on track," said Wetshi.
Before sweltering in the kitchen at Wendy's, the 24-year-old was delivering sandwiches for a restaurant in midtown Manhattan. Before that, he was a customer service aide at a discount store in The Bronx. The odd jobs are starkly different from his role as a field officer for a human rights organization, his last post in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Wetshi moved to the United States last June, one of 2,575 Congolese to be relocated to the U.S. last year through the Diversity Visa Immigrant Program administered by the Department of State. From early October to early November every year, the program, dubbed "the green card lottery," accepts electronic applications from nearly 20 million dreamers envisioning a future in the U.S. Anyone can win, a notion that has drawn criticism from lawmakers hoping to end the program, calling it a gateway for terrorists. Nearly 7,000 Congolese immigrants have won since 1992, and their luck has spurred a dramatic growth in the number of applications from the DRC in the last few ...
On The Brink, Harlem Small Biz Looks For Plan BMaybe it's the three empty barber chairs that haven't been used in months.
Or the rent that is due soon.
Or his daughter, whose picture stands out among the old Yankees photos decorating the shop.
Whatever it is, Tony Garcia can't tell exactly why he hasn't found time to paint recently. Life has been keeping him busy, he says, glancing up at an image of a midnight sky cradling the moon and stars. Most of his artwork, hanging on the worn white wall over the waiting area in his barbershop, dates back to 2009.
"I pay my bills first, before I do anything else, and lately all I've been able to do is pay the bills," says the licensed barber, "Hopefully things will get a little better."
Garcia, a father of two, has paid the bills by using clippers as tools to craft hair into fades, ceasers or afros for nearly 14 years. As owner of Tone's Barbershop on 125th Street, he is one of East Harlem's long-standing small businessmen who've managed to stay afloat amidst a swift wave of cultural and economic change. But the rising property values and the emergence of competing businesses over the last 10 years are placing his shop's future in jeopardy.
"The radical change in Harlem is the magic word called gentrification," said Harlem historian Andi Owens, founder of the Genesis II Museum of International Black Culture. He explains that Harlem's makeover -- from new corporate businesses to housing and charter schools -- has drawn higher income residents to the neighborhood.
Census data shows that there are 433 whites living in the four-block radius surrounding Tone's Barbershop, a 38 percent increase from 2000. The Asian population has also increased, but blacks and Hispanics are still the vast ...
Column: Why You Don't Care About Brittney GrinerPrologue: I am not a raging feminist and this is not a rant. Enjoy!
Forty and zero. Forty wins and not a single loss. It's the mark of a flawless college basketball season, in which 40 opponents challenged you and crumbled, one after another, under the weight of your perfection. It means that you're just too damn good.
Winning 40 games and being undefeated in a season had never been done before the 2012 NCAA women's tournament in Denver. That's when Brittney Griner and the Baylor University Lady Bears hoisted the championship trophy under a shower of confetti, breaking the 39-0 record while barely breaking a sweat. With her performance throughout the season – capped off by the 26 points, 13 rebounds and 5 blocks she collected in the big game – Griner catapulted into the discussion for the best female basketball player EVER.
But you don't care. You didn't care then and you don't care now. Nobody cares about how talented Griner is. The only thing that mattered after the Lady Bears made history was how deep the team's star player's voice was during the postgame interview.
The Twitterverse, the new standard for assessing public opinion, erupted with countless tweets questioning if Griner was really a woman and wondering how big her penis had to be for her to sound and look like that. The most derogatory tweets were from male users.
If you were watching the game, which you probably weren't, you would have been thinking the same exact thing. And you know what? It's not entirely your fault. It's not entirely your fault that you didn't know much about Brittney Griner when you started reading this. It's not entirely your fault that the first thing you'll think when you see her will have ...


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Matt Joy rounds up all the latest news from the world of motoring, including a look at how Formula One bosses are trying to make the sport more eco-friendly Motorsport is rarely given any credit for eco-consciousness, particularly not the highoctane, big-budget arena of Formula One.
Yet since 1997, long before the possible damage of CO2 gases was really in the public consciousness, the FIA (F1's governing body) was buying carbon credits to offset F1's greenhouse gas emissions.
It seemed a daunting task; turning the glamour of the Grand Prix circuit into an ecoefficient sport with a social conscience. However, the FIA's long-term commitment to achieving a 100 per cent carbon offset is now paying off, with a little help from companies such as the London-based Carbon Neutral Investments (CNI).
And the message is still being drummed home to the rest of the motorsport. At last year's Motorsport Industry Association Cleaner Racing Conference at the NEC in Birmingham, members were told: "Motorsport must go low carbon."
Of course, one of the main sources of CO2 emissions from F1 teams is not the race itself but rather the movement of the fleet of trucks used to transport the cars, crew and other equipment around the world. In 2009, the total CO2 emissions for F1 teams were 215,588 tonnes, of which only 0.3 per cent came from fuel emissions during racing and testing.
To claim to be totally 'carbon neutral', teams such as Vodafone McLaren Mercedes and Sauber have formed a partnership agreement with CNI to assist in reducing their net emissions to zero.
CNI, with access to more than six million VER (Verified Emissions Reduction) credits globally, is now the world's largest carbon credit broker – a perfect fit for F1.
By working closely with its partners, CNI analysed the minutiae of each and every diverse stage of each team's F1 operation; from the research and development of new race cars to the waste management of spent tyres. Once it had accumulated all the relevant data, it could then calculate exactly how many carbon credits were needed to offset and neutralise the CO2 emissions.
These credits then fund environmentally friendly projects worldwide, such as a hydro-electric plant in India, or the preservation of the Brazilian rain forests, or the plantation of sustainable timber for local African tribesman.
Not only are these projects hugely eco-friendly, they also offer job opportunities in areas with high unemployment; plus they encourage further investment for schools and hospitals.
CNI's head of UK operations Edward Carlton says: "Vo d a -fone McLaren Mercedes leads the way across F1, and certainly does so in terms of environmental initiatives: the first F1 team to achieve the Carbon Trust Standard, recognition by the Government's Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme and a whole host of initiatives at the McLaren Technology Centre.
"In working with us at CNI, the team has closed the gap between being carbon efficient and carbon neutral."
F1 and its leaders may still court a certain amount of controversy, but in terms of its green ethics, it is setting an very high standard for others to follow.
Used car scene Classic and historic vehicles are to be exempted from the annual MoT test, the Government has announced. From November 18 this year, owners of vehicles manufactured before 1960 will not have to take them in for an MoT, Roads Minister Mike Penning said.
Pre-1960 licensed vehicles make up about 0.6 per cent of the total number of licensed vehicles in Britain, but are involved in just 0.03 per cent of road casualties and accidents.
Penning says: "We are committed to cutting out red tape which costs motorists money without providing significant overall benefits. Owners of classic cars and motorbikes tend to be enthusiasts who maintain their vehicles well – they don't need to be told to look after them, they're out there in all weathers checking the condition of the engine, tyres and bodywork. Owners of classic vehicles will still be legally required to ensure that they are safe and in a proper condition to be on the road, but scrapping the MoT test for these vehicles will save motorists money."
Wheels and deals Car-sharing company Zipcar has announced a pilot partnership with Vauxhall that sees the all-new electric Ampera join its fleet of self-service, payas-you-go vehicles for the next six months.
It's the first time in the UK that a car-sharing club has offered access to an Extended-Range Electric Vehicle (EREV), and Zipcar members will be able to reserve the Ampera online or using their smartphones.
European Car of the Year for 2012, the Ampera is a full-performance Extended-Range Electric Vehicle, which can travel free of tailpipe emissions for up to 50 miles, after which it shifts to a petrol generator that produces electricity to keep it going an additional 310 miles on a full tank of petrol.
Because many trips taken by Zipcar members are less than 35 miles, it is anticipated that a large number of journeys will use electric power only.
Stewart Gibbs, Vauxhall's new business fleet sales manager, says: "With the Ampera, Vauxhall has brought to market the first electric vehicle that can go anywhere anytime. "It's a vehicle designed to lower emissions and boost fuel economy, and partnering with an innovative company like Zipcar, who is committed to helping the environment, is a partnership we're delighted to be involved with."
¦ Two new special edition convertibles have been unveiled by Peugeot, based on the 207 CC and 308 CC.
Both share the 'Roland Garros' name that's famously linked with the venue for the French Open tennis tournament.
The two new models will have unique trim details and be available only in black or white. Key upgrades for the 207 CC, which is based on the Allure trim level and will cost from £18,795, include leather seats, a Roland Garros wind break behind the seats and Roland Garros-embroidered carpet mats.
Other nice features to grace the 207 CC will be aluminium door sills, 17in 'melbourne' alloy wheels, dual-zone air conditioning, an automatically dimming rear view mirror, automatic headlights, cruise control with a speed limiter, Peugeot Connect with Bluetooth connectivity, rear parking sensors, electric folding door mirrors and tinted rear windows.
There are two engines available to power this special 207: the 1.6-litre VTi 120 petrol and the 1.6-litre HDi 112 diesel.
The larger 308 CC Roland Garros comes in a slightly different choice of black or white. It also comes with more power, with the three available engines being a 1.6-litre THP duo with either 156 or 200 horsepower, or a 2.0-litre HDi 163 diesel.
It features blue and grey leather seats, 18in wheels taken from the GT hatchback, Bluetooth, front and rear parking sensors, automatic headlights and automatic windscreen wipers. Like the 207 CC Roland Garros, it features the wind break and carpet mats with Roland Garros logos.
The 308 CC is a lot more expensive than its smaller cousin, though, at £25,845. Both will carry Roland Garros exterior badging and can be viewed at
¦ DAB radio will be standard on almost all Volkswagen cars from next year, the company has confirmed.
Every model from the Polo supermini right up to the Phaeton luxury saloon will have DAB as standard, on top of traditional AM/FM tuners, MP3 input sockets and CD players. Only the smallest Volkswagen, the Up, will be left out. It will continue with its selection of normal radio channels and media inputs.
On top of the improved radio quality, all models from the Polo S upwards will feature at least six speakers, with most having eight.
Upgrade options will be available including the MDI Multi Device Interface that allows quick and easy connection of iPods and other MP3 players via a USB input port. Users can then control track selection via the car's audio controls. Bluetooth connectivity will be an option on some models and standard equipment on others, mainly highend models. A high-performance Dynaudio speaker and amplifier upgrade will be available on some models as well. Some Beetle models will be offered with an audio system developed with famous guitar and amplifier manufacturer Fender.
The details apply to 2013 model year Volkswagens, so towards the end of this year buyers should be sure to check whether the car they're looking at is 2012- or 2013-spec.
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Prescribing Advisory Issued for Cipro, Other Fluoroquinolones
On Thursday, May 12, 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an advisory to prescribers regarding the use of a common class of antibiotics, fluoroquinolones. The agency's concern is the potential side effects of Cipro and other drugs in this class.
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— Robert Herriman (@bactiman63) May 13, 2016
Unlike previous advisories issued by the FDA on this drug class, this information advises physicians and other prescribers to avoid using these antibacterial medications as a first line of defense against routine infections such as sinusitis, bronchitis and uncomplicated urinary tract infections. The federal agency cites the risk of serious side effects from the use of Cipro, Levaquin, Floxin and other fluoroquinolones outweighs the potential benefits of using these medications unless the medical condition warrants it.
Related News: Healthcare Providers Still Over-Prescribing Antibiotics
Potential side effects associated with fluoroquinolones include disabling damage to the central nervous system, nerves, joints, tendons and muscles that can become permanent. Such damage may manifest as tingling sensations, confusion or hallucinations.
The side effects may occur without regard to the form of the medication, whether it be taken orally or parenterally. Topical forms of the medications are not known to produce these side effects. Warning labels will now be required for drugs in this class of drugs, warning users of the potential risks.
Thursday's advisory follows a safety review conducted by the FDA, a probe that is ongoing and may issue more safety warnings related to these medications in the future. Thursday's advisory is the implementation of the agency's advisory committee who made the recommendation in November 2015.
Fluoroquinolones: An advisory FDA panel urge drug companies for clearer and prominent label… —… https://t.co/KGtC21YYsu
— Dr Mike Keen (@docmikekeen) November 25, 2015
Health care providers and patients are being advised to report these side effects and others experienced with any of these medications to the FDA MedWatch program, an ongoing program where adverse affects to these or any prescription medication may be reported.
Medications in the fluoroquinolone class have been available for two decades, with an average of 23 million prescriptions written annually between 2010 and 2014, according to U.S. News and World Report.
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Hey guys, it's me Miranda and I'm so excited today because I got the Unicorn Frappuccino. I have been asking my mom for this, for a real long time every since it came out. And she finally agreed; she said if you work all the day cleaning the whole house, I'll get you one. I did it, I worked all friggin' day long and cleaned up everything. And I finally got it.
Here we go, it looks like this, purplely, bluish. All this stuff, things. So…. [coughs] What the heck? [coughs] This seems like a friggin' butt. I worked all day for this. It tastes like a friggin' fart.
Nah, I cleaned the whole house. You don't understand; the whole house, for this! It's a nail polish. Shut up Bird, stop! They're taunting me.
Everyone on Instagram was like, 'Oh look at this'. 'I got the Unicorn Frappacino'. 'Look it's so good'. 'I'm so cute'. 'I'm eating it.' On my Instagram.
So when I work all day and it tastes like friggin' __________.
I swear to God, if I see one picture of a freaking Unicorn Frappacino on Instagram, I'm going to lose it.
Everyone is a liar.
It is the worst drink I ever even had – that's not even drink. That's friggin' garbage trash water. Tastes like someone farted in my Fruit Loops.
Tastes like the smell of apricot but in French. Tastes like slutty panty.
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To all you girls taking pictures with that see, 'Oh, it's so cute', I will never trust you again.
With your bowls of brussel sprout pictures, with your Unicorn Frappuccinos, with your outfit of the days. It's been all day cleaning.
What a friggin' rip off.
I didn't even get a good picture on my Instagram.
Friggin' rip off.
[Good on me shorts]. Bye.
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Chinese shoots Ghanaian Man DEAD at Wasa Akropong (Photos)
Story reported on Facebook by Bigspout Nana Prempeh reads:
A Chinese man shot a guy called Nana Boah at Wasa Akropong
According his family he was only going for his workmanship after a plumbing service and the Chinese didn't want to pay. He went to inform his close relation to come and assist him talk to the Chinese man to pay him. The money involved was ghc150 only.
An eye witness
In a humble discussion with the foreigner to pay the plumber, the Chinese pulled the gun. I had close from job heading towards home. I saw him threatening with the gun whilst people scream. He then fired. I thought it was a mere warning shot till I saw people closer to the scene crying and shouting. I quickly ran back to office to inform my colleagues to be careful when passing by. The gun was pointed at him consistently for 3 minutes and the shot went on the same direction. This a good enough… grounds for me to say, it wasn't an accident…..#JucticeForNanaBoah
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Heatshield 101
Before buying any heatshield exhaust wrap, header pipe wrap, or other insulation it is imperative to educate yourself about the product and the application. The following information is intended to be a guide to help you decide which type of heat shield insulation is best for your application. We can provide you all the technical data for the product, but ultimately it is up to you to pick the best heatshield material or insulator for your application.
First things first, do your homework. Decide if you have a conductive heat issue or a radiant heat issue.
Conductive heat transmits heat from the heat source to a component by direct contact. Conductive heat is a little more difficult to manage. If you have such an application you can try using a heat insulator product to act as a thermal gasket or thermal break to help minimize the transfer of conductive heat from component to component.
Radiant heat is heat that radiates from a heat source to a component that is not in direct contact with the heat source; instead it sits at a distance. Example: an exhaust pipe 1" away from a floor pan radiates heat up to the floor pan or into an engine room
Check your temperature ratings for your application(s). If you have access to an infrared temperature gun use it. Record the temperatures of the components you need protected and measure the temperatures of the heat source(s). In addition, measure the distance between the component you want to protect and the heat source. Taking these steps will help you make your decision between a heat shield car insulator and a heat shield barrier. You would not buy a pair of cylinder heads or an intake manifold without finding the correct parts for your engine; do not do the same thing with thermal insulation. We at Heatshield do not want you to waste your money buying the wrong product. Therefore we will do everything within our ability to help you get the right product, at the right price, with the best service.
Heat Insulators - Heat insulators, retain heat in what they are placed upon. The most efficient way to fix a hot firewall, interior, engine room, or fuel cell is to stop heat at the source with an insulator. The most common used insulators are exhaust wraps, but there are other options. Most insulators wraps available on the market are comprised of fiberglass, which is good for 1000 degrees Fahrenheit of continuous direct heat. Fiberglass wraps can have special coatings applied to them such as "Vermiculite", graphite, etc., which allows the fiberglass to take 1200 degrees Fahrenheit of continuous direct contact. Heatshield Products has developed a proprietary HPTC coating which allows the glass to sustain 1350F continuous; in addition the wrap will remain flexible, strong, and abrasion resistant even at 1350F. Be cautious of any fiberglass wrap advertising or labeled as 2000 degrees Fahrenheit, the 2000 degrees Fahrenheit number on a fiberglass exhaust wrap is the maximum temperature a fiberglass exhaust heat wrap can withstand for less than 30 seconds. Anything above 2000F for period of time will cook fiberglass exhaust wraps; fiberglass header wrap get brittle and fall apart when this happens. That means you have exceeded the 1200 degrees Fahrenheit continual operating temperature, the chemical makeup of the material has changed, and begun to crystallize. For these applications we highly recommend our Inferno Wrap. Have you ever had a basalt (volcanic rock) wrap get brittle and fall apart? Much like the fiberglass exhaust wraps, the volcanic rock (basalt) exhaust wraps cannot sustain 1800 degrees Fahrenheit continuous, instead they are designed to sustain operating temperatures of 1200 degrees Fahrenheit and take brief intervals of 2000 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 seconds or less. Anyone selling you a volcanic rock wrap telling you it can take 1800 degrees Fahrenheit, is just looking to get your money, not solve your problem.
Alternative to alternative to exhaust wraps, are an exhaust insulation jackets. Jackets are widely used in industrial, marine, and some heavy duty applications. Exhaust jackets are made to fit specific exhaust system. Exhaust jackets will cost more than exhaust wraps, but their installation is much easier and can eliminate up to 80 percent of heat radiating from an exhaust pipe. They can vary in thickness and materials but can take sustained temperatures of 2000 degrees Fahrenheit.
Heatshield Products Armor series as a hybrid between an exhaust wrap and custom made exhaust jacket. This is a versatile do it yourself exhaust heat shield system. It is easy to work with and can stop up to 70 percent of radiant heat from an exhaust system. With its outer aluminum layer it can also survive the elements and even pressure washing unlike most exhaust wraps. You can achieve a custom look like an exhaust insulation jacket without the 4 to 5 week lead time for fabrication.
Heat Shield Thermal Barriers - Heat shield barriers act as a thermal barrier to stop radiant heat. Most heat shield barriers are designed and tested to be placed 1 inch away from the heat source on the "hot side, i.e. underneath the floor pan, engine side of firewall, transmission side of trans tunnel, etc. The most common type of radiant barrier is aluminum combined with a fiberglass, silica, or ceramic insulation. Air gaps and air flow are huge factors when using a heat shield barrier. With the right combination of an aluminized barrier, air gap, and air flow, most aluminized fiberglass barriers are capable of reflect over 90 percent of radiant heat away. If the application has less than 1"of an air gap between the heat sources or has some direct contact points, these aluminized barriers are only good for temperatures of 500 degrees Fahrenheit, and might only stop 50% or less of the radiant heat. Lava rock barriers (basalt) are another good product for reflecting radiant heat away. While basalt may not reflect as much heat as the aluminized heat barriers, they may perform more efficiently in applications with limited airflow. The ultimate heat shield barrier is the HP Sticky Shield, with a 0.125 inch thickness it will outperform any other stick on barrier in any environment.
**ALERT** Buyer Beware of some gold heat shield barriers! The market has been dominated by gold heat shield barriers have no textile combined with the Mylar foil. In fact, if you were to peel them apart, you would find some scrim for structural integrity and adhesive backing behind the shiny yellow Mylar. Mylar is the same stuff used for birthday balloons. Mylar alone can reflect some heat, but then again so can aluminum foil at a fraction of the cost. If you must have to have gold the gold insulation, please check out our Cold-Gold Shield™, or please seek gold with a fiberglass or other textile component to it. Without the textile you are putting on an expensive yellow sticker.
Foil stick on sound insulators are NOT also heat shield car barriers. We don't care what other sound simulation companies say, that claim defies the physical laws of our world. Thermal and acoustical are two different types of energy they require different physics and chemistry to combat them. Be extremely cautious when buying a sound insulator promising heat reduction. It may slow some heat transfer temporarily. It will not shield the heat away, that sound insulator would need to be put on the bottom side of the car with the foil directly facing the heat source. Something we do not recommend. Use two different solutions for the two different problems.
Remember, measure twice, cut once! Whether you use our products or another company's, we would like to see you get the problem solved the first time. So there you go, you are now ready to conquer your hot problems. Please visit the rest of our site for some very cool solutions! If you have more questions or need consulting, please contact us.


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