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February 20, 2018 Alan Hickey Leave a comment
ORLANDO, FL – The American Sleep and Breathing Academy’s work with the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) continued last month prior to the NFL’s Pro Bowl game in Orlando, Florida.
The relationship has led to real benefits for NFL players while continuing to raise awareness among the general public, many of whom pay attention to the actions of their grid-iron heroes. Dr. Ronny Rosenbaum, DMD, PA, helped foster that ASBA/NFLPA relationship at last month’s Pro Bowl game.
As a veteran private practice dentist, Rosenbaum discovered dental sleep medicine a few years ago, and it quickly became his passion. With ASBA Diplomate status secured, Rosenbaum got the invite to the 2018 Pro Bowl and eventually took impressions for 25 NFL players at the nearby University of Central Florida’s medical facility during the same day health screening event.
“David Gergen [CEO of the ASBA] is trying to help these ex-NFL players to breathe better, live better, and improve their quality of life,” says Rosenbaum, owner of Cosmetic, Restorative & Preventive Dentistry, Pembroke Pines, Fla. “About 70 players rotated through, and only one said, ‘I don’t want this. I don’t think I have sleep apnea.’ The rest were open, honest, and receptive. In their screening questionnaires, we could see their numbers. We did not expect to take 25 impressions, but they know that oral appliances work.”
Rosenbaum called the overall experience “wonderful” and described the players as “big teddy bears who wanted to feel better and have more energy, because a lot of them were lethargic.” Rosenbaum acknowledges that “CPAP works” but says, “most will not wear it, and even when they do wear it, it can get leaks, and patients can develop issues. It can be good at first and then turn bad. The oral appliance is the best thing for these guys, especially the football players.”
Recently, Rosenbaum has been working with Sleep Group Solutions (SGS) and Rani Ben-David, SGS’ president and founder, using the pharyngometer to measure the airway. “We also test the nasal cavity,” says Rosenbaum, who intends to continue lecturing on behalf of SGS in 2018 and beyond.
“In just a matter of 5 hours I added 25 retired NFL players as patients to my sleep practice. The screening was organized, professional and beyond what I expected. Having the screening inside the Health Center at University of Central Florida was the cherry on top. Taking my staff to the Sleep Group Solutions/ASBA Boot Camp was the best decision I could have made; I heard awesome feedback from other doctors about my staff. This is one of the most exciting things I’ve done in years and I highly recommend all of my colleagues to join the ASBA, attend the annual meeting and bring your staff for the boot camp. It’s fun, exciting and financially rewarding. These NFL players are amazing to work with,” said Dr. Rosenbaum. “Next is Project Rose. I’ve talked with a couple of the guys within Project Rose and the numbers are astounding. Project Rose is going to change dental sleep medicine not only am I excited to help more people with oral appliances, I’m definitely ready for the payout as well.”
To register for the ASBA Annual Meeting and add your staff to the Boot Camp, visit
To find out more about Project Rose, email David Gergen at or call 602-478-9713.
Alan Hickey
Publisher of Sleep Diagnosis and Therapy Journal the Official publication of the American Sleep and Breathing Academy, the Journal is a clinical and technical publication for dental and medical professionals.
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Big banks, asset managers and Jewish institutions invest trillions of dollars in oil, gas and coal companies that are fueling the climate crisis.
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This Passover more than 1,000 Jews and allies gathered at 21 events across North America, calling on banks and asset managers to move their dough out of fossil fuels. We publicly proclaimed today’s fossil-fueled plagues, lifting up matzah as a symbol of urgency, calling on these financial institutions to end their investments in oil, gas, and coal. These were the first actions of All Our Might, Dayenu’s multi-year campaign to end financial support for the fossil fuel industry, free ourselves from the destruction of the fossil fuel economy, and create a world where everyone can thrive.
Confronting the Climate Crisis With All Our Might
In the V’ahavta passage that is part of the Sh’ma, we are exhorted to love God with all our heart, all our soul, and all our might.
To avert the most harmful impacts of the climate crisis and live l’dor v’dor, from generation to generation, we need to not only invest in clean energy solutions, but rapidly slash greenhouse gas emissions . This includes stopping the drilling, mining, and burning of oil, gas, and coal, and keeping these fossil fuels in the ground and unburned.
But fossil fuel companies have spent decades spewing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, polluting our air and water, sowing misinformation, and delaying climate action just to make a profit. To achieve climate action at the scale that science and justice demands, we need to brght campaign will work with Jewish, multifaith, and secular partners to remove the financial support for – and social license of – the fossil fuel industry to operate by urging banks, asset managers, and Jewish institutions to be a force for good, leaving behind fossil fuel investments, and investing in a just, clean energy future. And at key strategic moments, we’ll confront the fossil fuel industry through political advocacy and direct action shoulder to shoulder with frontline communities.
Like the V’ahavta, All Our Might is rooted in love: Love for our planet, love for our communities, and love for generations to come. Join us in this crucial new effort: weSh’ma, All Our Might is a Jewish campaign to end the era of fossil fuels and build a clean energy future. In the last two years we have advocated and mobilized with all our hearts and all our souls to pass major federal legislation – The Build Back Better Act – that invests in clean energy and transportation and addresses environmental injustice. The investments that are part of Build Back Better are a good start, but the fossil fuel industry has thwarted progress, whittling down the bill and delaying passage, all to make a profit while the planet burns. Much, much more needs to be done to cut emissions fast enough and deep enough to avert climate catastrophe.
Through this new campaign, we Jews and Jewish communities across the country are bringing All Our Might to:
Pressure major banks, asset managers, and investors to leave behind oil, gas, and coal companies
Work in partnership with Jewish communal institutions to move investments away from fossil fuel companies and towards clean energy
Stand shoulder to shoulder with communities on the frontlines of drilling, mining, and transportation to help keep fossil fuels in the ground
What is the meaning of All Our Might?
The V’ahavta section of the Sh’ma prayer tells us to love God with all). Over the past year, we’ve brought all our heart and soul to confronting the climate crisis: We’ve made thousands of calls to policymakers, showed up at their offices, sounded shofarot in the streets, and stood shoulder to shoulder with communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Now we need to bring all the people and power of the American Jewish community to bear; we need to bring all our might.
Additionally, some rabbis interpret the phrase “u’v’chol me’odecha” as “with all our possessions” or “with all our money,” a fitting connection to a campaign focused on moving investments and financing away from the polluting fossil fuels drivingolluting our air and water. Its enormous wealth gives it power over our political process, and it has almost no incentive to change its core business model: Extraction.
But it depends on investors to keep digging up and burning the coal, oil, and gas that is driving the climate crisis. Just a handful of big banks and asset managers provide the majority of financing that keeps the fossil fuel industry afloat. Even as many top Wall Street firms have made commitments to the public, their books show that they are not (yet) taking meaningful action to cut financing of coal, oil and gas. These banks and asset managers can drive a rapid transition to sustainability – but only if they divest from destruction and invest in a clean energy future.
What about Jewish institutions?
Jewish communal institutions hold more than $100 billion in assets, and so far only three have committed to moving their investments away from fossil fuels.
Through All Our Might, we look forward to partnering with Jewish institutions to help their investment strategies reflect our shared Jewish values – values like living l’dor v’dor, sustaining the Jewish people from generation to generation; bal tashchit, the prohibition against destruction; shomrei adamah, protecting creation; and tirdof tzedek, pursuing justice.
By working with leaders and stakeholders, we are confident that an increasing number of Jewish institutions will join the growing trend of more than 1500 institutions such as Harvard University and the New York State Common Pension Fund in moving away from fossil fuels in a responsible way, aligning their investments with their values while protecting their assets.
We will support and connect institutions to resources and tools that help to re-invest their assets in clean energy and sustainable solutions, working to secure a livable and just world for us and for generations to come.
Should I move my own investments away from fossil fuels?
Aligning personal investments with Jewish values can be a good first step in educating yourself about the kinds of fossil free investment options available. Our friends at the Stop the Money Pipeline campaign have a range of resources to help. But the real opportunity for collective impact is moving the tens of trillions of dollars that the world’s largest asset managers and top banks have invested in fossil fuels, urging Jewish institutions to move their billions of dollars away from fossil fuels into clean energy, and standing shoulder to shoulder with communities on the frontlines of drilling, mining, and transportation to stop fossil fuel companies in their tracks.
Don’t institutions have a fiduciary responsibility to invest money as profitably as possible?
The fossil fuel sector is a bad long-term investment. Share value of fossil fuel companies dropped by $123 billion in the last decade, underperforming major indices by more than 50%. In addition, coal, oil, and gas investments risk becoming stranded assets – investmentsnd climate impacts across the globe.
That’s one reason why more than 1500 institutions worth nearly $40 trillion have screened out fossil fuel investments from their portfolios and begun to invest in a more sustainable future. As Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said in his announcement that New York State’s $226 billion Common Pension Fund would screen out fossil fuel investments: “Investing for the low-carbon future is essential to protect the fund’s long-term value.” Any fiduciary who is concerned with long-term returns should be considering climate risk in investment decisions.
Won’t other, less ethical investors just buy the positions? How does selling fossil fuel stocks and bonds make an impact?
The campaign to divest from fossil fuels has already helped to screen coal, oil and gas out of nearly $40 trillion in institutional assets. And it’s having meaningful financial impact on the fossil fuel industry itself. A recent academic study found that “Increasing oil and gas divestment pledges in a country are associated with lower capital flows to domestic oil and gas companies.” Financial strategies like divestment, alongside regulatory frameworks, social stigmatization, direct action, and the rapidly falling costs of renewable energy, can drive the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy more rapidly, in line with what the Paris Agreement, science, and justice call for.
Responsible shareholders have worked diligently for years to urge companies like Exxon, Shell, and Chevron to disclose climate risk, address human rights abuses in their operations, and transition to clean energy. Ethical investors have good intentions, but these strategies have not yielded meaningful, measurable emissions reductions because fossil fuel companies’ core business model is extraction. A different approach is necessary: Moving money away from fossil fuel companies.
The more institutions, banks, and asset managers screen out fossil fuels from their portfolios, the more probable it is that other institutions, banks, and asset managers will also screen them out. This creates a positive feedback loop that will eventually strangle the ability of the fossil fuel industry to continue to extract and burn coal, oil, and gas to the detriment of our health and our future.
How will we know if we’re making an impact?
Banks, asset managers, and investors tend to follow trends, and move together as a pack; generally, they try to avoid unnecessary risk. We will have achieved success if the handful of major banks and asset managers that prop up the fossil fuel industry significantly cut their investments in coal, oil, and gas companies, and if Jewish communal institutions are leading the way by screening fossil fuels out of their own investment portfolios.
How can banks, asset managers, and Jewish institutions invest in climate solutions?
The International Energy Agency estimates that to reach net zero emissions by 2050, annual clean energy investment worldwide will need to more than triple by 2030 to around $4 trillion. Clean energy and sustainable investment opportunities dominate energy markets: in 2021, more than $370 billion (70% of the total) was invested in renewable electricity, storage, grids and efficiency. Investing in the future has never been easier.
For individuals, small and medium-sized institutions, there are dozens of investment funds available that screen out fossil fuels and invest in clean energy technologies. More than ever before, investment managers and committees have a choice of clean energy investment vehicles that provide solid returns on investment.
As part of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, more than 430 banks and asset managers have already made commitments of $130 trillion to investing in clean energy and sustainable technologies. But for these investments to lead to emissions cuts in line with what science and justice demand, these financial institutions must also wind down their investments in coal, oil and gas as quickly as possible.
Why do this work Jewishly?
The American Jewish community is poised to play an important role in keeping fossil fuels in the ground, recognizing our responsibility to current and future generations, bringing our spirit, people, and power to the broader movement, and standing shoulder to shoulder with Black, Brown, Indigenous, and low-income communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis.
We join with multi-faith and secular partners involved in this struggle, but we start with our own American Jewish community — one which is more worried about the climate crisis than any other single issue. Like the V’ahavta, the All Our Might campaign is rooted in love: Love for our planet, love for our communities, and love for generations to come.
Won’t moving off fossil fuels too quickly cause economic pain and suffering for communities reliant on the industry?
The economic and human costs of inaction on climate change are astronomical, and they will continue to rise. In 2021 in the U.S. alone, the cost of climate and weather emergencies was $145 billion in damage. One study estimated that by 2030, the cost of climate disasters and disruption in the U.S. could amount to $240 billion per year, roughly equivalent to having a COVID-style economic shock once every five years. Thepread far and wide, into every corner of the world.
In short: the cost of climate inaction is higher, more wide-ranging, and more unequal than the cost of climate action. As the price of renewables, sustainable industry, transportation, and agriculture falls, we must ensure that workers and communities reliant on the fossil fuel industry have an opportunity to thrive.
That’s why over the past year we’ve advocated for the THRIVE agenda and passage of Build Back Better, which will invest hundreds of billions of dollars helping communities transition to a just, clean energy economy.
With the clock ticking, we can’t just wait for our governments to act. We can make a difference right now by using all our might to keep fossil fuels – oils, gas, and coal – in the ground unburned. By joining together, we can end the fossil fuel era and build a more just and livable future for all people, for generations to come.
How can I get involved?
First, you can sign onto the All Our Might pledge, encouraging the Jewish community to bring all our people and power to end the era of fossil fuels and build a clean energy future.
Second, you can help organize a public action around Passover, outside the office of a bank or asset manager that isn’t yet living up to their commitment.
Third, you can reach out to one of your local Jewish institutions – a synagogue, Federation, JCC, etc. – and ask them about their plan to screen fossil fuels out of their investment portfolios and to invest in sustainable solutions.
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’ve noticed that nearly every time I look at the clock it is 11.11 or 12.12 or 1.11 or 3.33. I have been told that this means that you are many ways. The Camino has turned my life upside down and it teases me with its siren song luring me back there over and over again. How can I bring it’s sense of peace and fulfillment into my everyday life?
I hang out at an ashram at home and regularly bathe in it’s bliss. It has been a part of my life for nearly 20 years and I love everyone there. I miss it terribly when I’m away.
The closest thing to this I have found is the province if Galicia with its myths and legends, it’s ‘thin spaces’ and its mystical atmosphere. It swallows me as I walk among the moss covered forests, it engulfs me with its ‘familiarity’. Someone said to me yesterday that I must have been a Druid in my past life. I laughed at first but it may make some sense. My grandfather was high up in the druids. He wore cloaks and was obsessed with myths and legends. This man was extremely intelligent. He was a scholar, spoke several languages, was a headmaster of an elite boys grammar school, a university lecturer and a respected man in his community. He was not a hippy or an airhead. Did he know something else? Did he actually tap into this type of mysticism because he felt the ‘pull’? I’m not about to wear the cloaks, dress up and dance around a fire (don’t think he ever did that), but it does fascinate me. I wish he was here so I could talk to him.
I have had some interesting people in my life. People, who have taught me through good and bad experiences, that satisfaction and fulfillment only come with not hard work but in just letting things ‘be’…. not to judge others, to listen and respect their opinions and the way they live their lives, to just be kind, loving and accepting.
This is not always easy, but it took me many years to work this out. I now live my life, and this has brought the ‘right’ people into my circle. Everyday, I have conversations and experiences that enrich my being, and I just feel so privileged to know you all.
My friends challenge me in a productive way, they stir my inquisitive mind and I love learning from them instead of being the ‘teacher’ myself. (I used to attract needy people.)
Just this weekend has been full of meaningful moments, and I devour and appreciate every second spent with the special people I have shared them with.
When I look at my old friendships, the ones that go back sometimes even to childhood, I see that they ‘got’ me all along and you, my special peeps, are gold. You saw what I could not. Thank you
So this brings me to another question….how do I fill my remaining years after retirement? We don’t know how long we have on this earth. I actually look forward to future conversations, trips overseas and sharing with friends…something that the old introvert that has left my body would have cringed at!
I’m wandering freely, breathing fresh air, I have an open mind and I’m loving the experience, the friendships and gentle kindness that surrounds me. I am so very lucky indeed.
I guess I’m trying to say that I’m loving the wisdom that age brings
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Phyllis says:
July 25, 2018 at 3:11 am
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From: Margaret Caffyn Reply-To: Margaret Caffyn Date: Sunday, 22 July 2018 at 2:08 PM To: Phyllis Subject: [New post] The Wisdom of Age
Margaret Caffyn posted: “I’ve had a lot of time to think lately, observe my mind and study it. Sometimes this can be destructive but it can also be constructive. I’ve noticed that nearly every time I look at the clock it is 11.11 or 12.12 or 1.11 or 3.33. I have been told that t”
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Ruth A Evans says:
July 22, 2018 at 12:34 pm
You are half eacher who needed to understand how others thought and used logic. This life you are supposed to connect with your own spirituality and red they are really saying and being spontaneous, thereby developing a sense of freedom and adventure. This is your north node in Sagittarius.
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ozyantscamino says:
July 22, 2018 at 11:13 am
The answer you seek is in Louis Daniel Armstrong words what a wonderful world..
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Dawn says:
July 22, 2018 at 9:35 am
We all know that things happen for a reason my friend, some people come into your life and stay for ever some are just passing through. We all sometimes question what are we doing here what is life all about. I think your answers will come sooner than you think Maggie you are a lovely soul, you’ve been tried and tested but i think you already know what you want !!!
As you know i was a lost soul when we met only a short time ago but now i know exactly what i want, you left a great impression on me, more than you will ever know just been around you made me feel stronger, you have an amazing personality beautiful smile and contagious laugh. Just keeping living your life, loving every step you take and enjoying your family and friends xx
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Margaret Caffyn says:
July 22, 2018 at 9:38 am
Oh my goodness Dawn. Thank you for your beautiful words. We are kindred spirits indeed
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Margaret Caffyn says:
July 22, 2018 at 9:54 am
Oh Dawn thank you so much for your kind words. We are indeed kindred spirits 💜
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Helen Sell says:
July 22, 2018 at 3:34 am
Wonderful words Marg.
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Carol Maynard says:
July 22, 2018 at 2:51 am
I love listening to your life logic🏃🏻♀️🇨🇦
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Margaret Caffyn says:
July 22, 2018 at 2:59 am
Thanks Carol. Actually, it takes guts to write your thoughts😳
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The Mississauga Youth Orchestra (“MYO”) was established in February 1984. The MYO offers young musicians a chance to participate in performing orchestral music. The orchestra now performs three or four public concerts each year at the Mississauga Living Arts Centre (LAC) and participates in some national and provincial youth orchestra festivals. The MYO is proud to be part of Mississauga’s vibrant artistic community. The MYO is open to talented musicians aged 10 to 21, in Mississauga and neighbouring communities. The activities of coaching young musicians in the art and discipline of the orchestral tradition are overseen by a professional coaching staff, a manager and a volunteer board.
The MYO encompasses two separate and distinct groups:
Symphony – includes the full range of symphonic instruments. It provides opportunities for experienced young musicians to explore a wide choice of orchestral repertoire.
Concert Strings – introduces less experienced string musicians to ensemble playing.
Our Vision and Mission
The MYO strives to be “The premier Mississauga-based youth orchestra, enriching life through music.” The MYO mission is “to create a dynamic environment for young musicians; to strive for excellence in music and to contribute to the cultural life of our community.”
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The MYO is a registered charity and is funded through fees (with a limited number of bursaries available), fund raising activity and through corporate and private sponsorships and donations. Please see Support Network for further information.
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Regular weekly rehearsals and sectional coaching are held Monday nights at Port Credit SS
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I would like to congratulate the Mississauga Youth Orchestra for their outstanding performance last Sunday evening. As Mayor of the City of Mississauga, I am most proud to have an organization of this calibre in the City and I value greatly the talent and dedication of your performers. The Mississauga Youth Orchestra is to be congratulated for helping to promote the arts in our community and for fostering an appreciation of music among our youth. – Hazel McCallion, Mayor – May 8th 2002. (after attending MYO concert April 28th 2002)
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The idea of extraterrestrial life, which dates back at least to the ancient Greeks, has become one of the most persistent themes of Western civilization. Nevertheless, historians of science prior to the 1980s largely ignored it, because it was not believed to constitute science or to have any intellectually respectable history.
With a more realistic concept of the nature of science, however, historians have now analyzed the idea in considerable detail, beginning with Steven Dick’s Plurality of Worlds: The Origins of the Extraterrestrial Life from Democritus to Kant (1982). This work showed that far from being an aberration, the idea of life on other worlds was strongly connected to major scientific traditions, including the ancient atomist, Copernican, Cartesian, and Newtonian world views. The Aristotelian world view strongly opposed it.
Professor Michael J. Crowe, in his volume entitled The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750-1900 (1986), showed how pervasive the idea was in religious and intellectual discussion in the 19th century. Harvard Professor Karl Guthke emphasized the literary aspects of the discussion in T90).
Dick’s The Biological Universe: The Twentieth Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate and the Limits of Science (1—from the scientific aspects of the search for life to the popular culture elements of UFOs and alien science fiction and the implications of contact with extraterrestrial intelligence.
The history of the debate offers many lessons about the nature of evidence and inference, the limits of scientific inquiry, and the differing styles among scientists in terms of what problems they take up and how they pursue them. Moreover, Dick argues that the idea of a universe filled with life, the “Biological Universe” as he terms it, is the major world view of the 20th century. As such, it has implications for all of society, and has the potential to change our perspective on theology, philosophy and all areas of human endeavor.
The status of extraterrestrial life as a world view comparable to the Copernican and Darwinian world views allows one to discuss possible implications of contact. All world views go through stages, and a rich literature in the history of science has analyzed the reception of past scientific world views over the short and long term and among various segments of society. Although there are obvious differences among world views, and although predictions cannot be made and outcomes are scenario-dependent, the cautious use of these analogues may serve as a foundation for discussing the implications of contact with extraterrestrial intelligence.
The biological universe, however, has not yet been proven—either for microbial or intelligent life. Claims of proof in the past, ranging from the canals of Mars to Martian meteorites and UFOs of extraterrestrial origin, have stirred great passion precisely because so much is at stake—an entire world view with profound implications for human destiny. Possible implications have become part of popular culture in the form of science fiction literature and film, where the alien theme has been one of the most dominant.
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As an adult with cystic fibrosis, I am used to being the patient and having someone take care of me. However, the roles were reversed when my then-fiancé needed surgery. Striking a balance between taking care of him and myself was difficult but necessary.
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Having cystic fibrosis and experiencing quality care as a patient has made me feel confident in my ability to provide quality care for another person. I heard someone say once that CF patients are more sensitive to other people's needs because we're always having to monitor ourselves. And that vigilance can carry over into other parts of life, like when you switch from being the one who needs the care to becoming the one who provides the care.
The caregiver switch happened when my fiancé, now husband, had open heart surgery. It all came about rather suddenly, but we did have time to prepare plans for how he'd be cared for once he came home and was recovering from such an extensive surgery.
Something that I struggled with, and had to accept, was that I wouldn't be able to be the caregiver in the traditional sense.
I couldn't be there for him in the ways he had been there for me so many times before. It was a difficult truth for me to accept.
To deal with this reality, we set a plan in place. Our best friends would be with us in the intensive care unit (ICU) waiting room and one of their jobs was to make sure I took care of myself. Although I am an incredibly compliant patient, when it comes to stressful situations, it is human nature to forget to eat, drink water, or do that mid-afternoon treatment. Our minds are elsewhere, and we need help to stay on top of everything, especially when our own health is at stake.
Once my fiancé was out of the ICU, I had to go home to rest, which is something we agreed upon when we learned of his surgery. Because he would spend four to five more days in the hospital, we spoke with friends in the area, and they happily checked in on him every day. In addition to the ICU group and the daily visitor group, we also had a couple of people from our church who drove him to and from his appointments that were three hours away from home. And once he got home, we also scheduled sitters to stay with him when his brother -- and roommate -- was at work.
Having to prioritize my health, while still having the desire to be available to my fiancé, meant that I had to accept I couldn't do everything.
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A Dutch court placed a 13-year-old girl in temporary custody on Friday, Aug. 28, after her parents insisted on supporting her bid to become the youngest person to sail around the world solo. Laura Dekker, an avid sailor who was reportedly born on a yacht during her parents' own around-the-world trip, told Dutch television before the court handed down its decision that she simply wanted to "learn about the world and to live freely."
"The crucial question is whether it is wrong for parents to allow their child to indulge in her passion," the Dekkers' lawyer told Radio Netherlands. Dekker will continue to live at home, but her parents will not have the right to make decisions on her behalf for two months, at which time the case will be reviewed. Had her plans not been put on hold, Dekker, whose trip would take two years, would have been on track to shatter the world record for the youngest solo trip around the world, which was broken on Thursday by Mike Perham, 17, from the U.K. But now the Dutch court will have to judge just how young is too young to face the physical and emotional strain of setting out alone on the high seas.
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"No matter how mature a 13-year-old she is, the psychological effects would be enormous," says Amanda Owens, a London-based sports psychologist, who worries that Dekker's planned journey could leave her emotionally stunted. "At that age, two years is a big chunk of her life to spend alone. Plus, she wouldn't yet have the coping strategies to deal with the emotional trauma that can — and would — happen."
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Perham, who was just 16 when he set sail on his nine-month expedition around the world, believes age shouldn't be a determining factor when it comes to deciding whether someone can try to follow his accomplishment. "I think it's right for the Netherlands to state their views, but in the end, it should still be Laura and her parents' choice," he tells TIME.
However, he doesn't think he could have made the trip when he was 13, nor would he have gone for two whole years. "You have to be incredibly headstrong — it was difficult for me now," he says, laughing. On his nearly 30,000-mile (48,000 km) journey, Perham subsisted on freeze-dried food and faced large waves, high winds and equipment failures. Along with the physical strain, he faced mental exhaustion brought on by isolation and sleep deprivation. At one point, he even had to turn off his tracking device when he reached pirate-infested waters to avoid being followed, as did the former holder of the title of youngest solo around-the-world sailor, American Zac Sunderland (who was older than Perham by several months).
Yet Perham says he had no doubts he was ready by the time he was 16. Two years earlier, he had sailed for six weeks across the Atlantic while his father monitored him from a nearby boat. That adventure left him feeling ready to take on the world — but not right away. It took him more than a year to prepare for his record-breaking trip, during which his parents sought out several additional opinions, including those of 12 sailors who'd gone around the world (11 of them were supportive of Perham's attempt) as well as those of sports psychologists. This time, his father stayed home but kept in contact with his son by satellite phone.
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My dear Candor Sage,
I can't believe we are already here - you are one, my littlest baby. This has been the swiftest, sweetest year. You light up our lives. You have been such a sweet balm to the tumult of the world these past couple of years. God knew we needed you. I am so thankful He's allowed us to steward your life. May you grow to know Him and His kindness, goodness, faithfulness, and steadfast love to us through the glorious gospel. May we be faithful in teaching you to walk in His ways as we learn and know you.
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Patrik Verhoek December 14, 2021 2 min read
With a new case of Digital Yuan fraud lodged to the police in the eastern province of Jiangsu, China has seen more fraud cases related to its digital currency this month alone.
As reported by a local Chinese media, Modern Express, on Monday, the Police force in Gaoyou, a city under the watch of Yangzhou in Jiangsu province, received a report earlier this month from a defrauded resident who said she was scammed. She got a call from the suspect who accused her of involvement in a fraudulent case and went ahead to ask for her personal bank account details and some other verification codes.
With the details provided by the victim, the suspect created an e-CNY digital wallet with her identity and topped it up with more than 300,000 Yuan (approx. $47,000) from her bank account. Eventually, the money was transferred to the suspect personal digital wallet.
During the Police investigation, the local police realized money had been flowing to a particular digital yuan wallet with the surname Li in East Shandong Province. Following the discovery, Li was detained for money laundering suspicion, and about 60,000 yuan (approx. $9,400) in his account was confiscated.
This case reported by this victim is not the first case of money laundering through e-CNY handled by the police. The police force in Xinmi (a city in the Henan Province of Central China) has, earlier the month, received a report of a tele-fraud involving e-CNY.
China has been at the forefront of launching the major central bank digital currency in the world. The issuance of the digital currency named e-CNY and e-RMB alternatively is being handled by the PBOC – People’s Bank of China. The country is looking to launch the digital currency formally in February 2022 during the Beijing Winter Olympics Games.
In the technical white paper released in July, the central bank noted that the digital currency would not run a 100% anonymous system, but it has a level of anonymity. In the white paper, the central bank urged citizens to guard against the possibility of using the digital currency for illicit activities like Money laundering, internet gambling, tax evasion, tele-fraud, among others, by making sure that every transaction they use the digital currency for meets the AML (Anti-money Laundering) and ATF (Anti-Terror Financing) requirements.
All across China, the trials for the digital currency are underway, and every resident that signed up will receive coupons worth 50 yuan in e-CNY (approx. $7.83).
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In recent history, a few have made breakthroughs, the most obvious being the president. Patrick is another, being elected Massachusetts’ first black governor and only the second black governor elected in the entire nation, after Douglas Wilder in Virginia.
On a personal note, appointing himself Senator would bolster his own resume, loading it with both executive and legislative experience, were he to one day want to seek the presidency.
Patrick would also be a natural ally for Obama in the Senate. They have the Harvard Law School connection, the historic nature of their own elections, and represent a new breed of black politician that has become more viable in national politics. And as Democrats try to build a more progressive coalition to push through their agenda, they could do worse than having someone who served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Clinton administration’s Department of Justice, doing work in the Civil Rights Division on issues of racial profiling and police misconduct. It’s perhaps one of the things Obama and Patrick discussed over dinner this past Friday.
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The term “All-Purpose Apples” is an industry classification for apples to be sold to the consumer for any household use the consumer might wish to put them to such as fresh-eating, baking, drying or sauce-making.
Generally, applications such as juicing and cider-making do not seem to be included in the marketing accompanying such apples.
Some wags note that “all-purpose” means that such apples don’t particularly excel at any one purpose.
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Boiken Apples
Boiken are round, medium-sized apples with smooth, yellowish-green skin with red flushes. They have firm, fine-textured white flesh and are mildly tart. Cooking Tips Boiken Apples are good for fresh-eating, juicing and cooking. History Notes...
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Fameuse apples (aka Snow Apples, Chimney Apples) are small-sized apples with pale yellow skin with red flushes, or an entirely red skin. The flesh is white, sometimes with red streaks and is juicy, mildly tart and sweet. The tree is very cold hardy,...
Jonalicious Apples
Jonalicious Apples grow 2 ½ to 3 inches (6 to 7.5 cm) wide. They have yellow skin almost entirely covered with a bright red. The flesh is firm, crisp and juicy. The tart taste sweetens somewhat after some time in storage. Cooking Tips Jonalicious...
Jonamac Apples
Jonamac are medium-sized apples, with thin green skin mostly covered in dark red. Inside, the flesh is white, finely-textured, firm and crisp, with a tart taste. The fruit ripens mid-September in New York State area, and stays well on the tree. The...
King David Apples
King David are medium to large-sized apples, ribbed at the top. They have pale green skin, mostly covered in dark red. The skin occasionally feels greasy. Inside they have crisp, juicy, firm yellow flesh, with a sharp, slightly sweet taste. Some...
Limbertwig Apples
Limbertwig are medium-sized, round, slightly conical apples. Their greenish-yellow skin is rough, covered with dull red on the side that got the sun, with brown dotting. Inside, the yellow flesh is firm and juicy. Its rich, aromatic flavour improves...
Norland Apples
Norland are medium-sized apples, growing up to 2 ½ inches (5 cm) wide. They have pale green skin covered with red stripes. Inside, they have off-white, slightly coarse, juicy flesh with a sweet taste. The tree is a hardy, heavy bearer and...
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Skinner's Seedling Apples
Skinner's Seedling are large-sized apples. They have greenish-yellow skin with pale red or pink stripes. Inside, they have white, finely-textured, tender, juicy flesh with good flavour. Cooking Tips Good for fresh-eating, sauce or other cooking. History...
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Sops of Wine Apples
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Stayman Apples
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Swiss Gourmet are medium-sized, slightly conical apples with waxy skin. There is often some russetting at the bottom. Inside, they have firm, crisp flesh. The mild taste is a balance of sweet and tart, with the tart more dominant. The tree is...
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Tompkins County King are large to very large-sized apples, somewhat flattened in shape, with some ribbing. They have waxy yellow skin flushed with red and dark red, speckled with white or russet dots, and russetted in the stem cavity. Inside,...
Virginia Gold Apples
Virginia Gold Apples have waxy, greenish-yellow skin with a pink flush. Inside, they have aromatic, crisp, firm, juicy white flesh. The flavour is mildly sweet, slightly tart and sprightly. The flavour balance gets even better on storage after...
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Study in Greece Master’s of the Week: Professor Spiros Efthimiopoulos presents the Athens International Master’s Program in Neurosciences, NKUA
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Emal advantages of our country. In particular, the campaign focuses on the foreign language study programs that Greek Universities offer to Greek and international students. The initiative is supported by the General Secretariat of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs and the General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad and Public Diplomacy of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. In this context, a number of educational programs and actions are presented in detail on a regular basis, such as undergraduate and postgraduate programs, summer schools etc, to inform international students about the many foreign language options offered by Greek Universities.
Study in Greece interviewed Professor Spiros Efthimiopoulos, Director of the Athens International Master’s Program in Neurosciences at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Biology, on the program’s rationale, content and its prospects for international students. Spiros Efthimiopoulos is Professor of Animal & Human Physiology – Neurobiology in the Department of Biology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Efthimiopoulos holds a PhD in Neurobiology from the Biology Department of the University of Patras and is the author of numerous publications and a pioneer in molecular neuroscience of Alzheimer’s disease.
Could you please describe briefly the history, the rationale and the content of the Master in Neurosciences?
The Athens International Master’s Program in Neurosciences was first established in 2017 and is the combined effort of the majority of Neuroscience University Departments and Research Institutes in Athens. Its Director of studies is Professor Spiros Efthimiopoulos. The program is interdisciplinary in content and inter-departmental in structure since the majority of Neuroscience Departments and Research Centres in Athens contribute to it each year. The program is modular, flexible to participants’ backgrounds and interests and provides both theoretical and practical training, including two research laboratory rotations. What makes it distinct from other postgraduate Neuroscience Programs in Greece is that its curriculum covers the entire spectrum of the neurosciences, bridging the gap between molecular and cellular neuroscience to systems neuroscience and high-level cognitive processes, including computational neuroscience and big data analytics.
In the framework of the program, you cooperate with different institutions and research centers. Tell us a few words about this “spirit of cooperation” and how important it is for the success of the program.
The Athens International Master’s Program in Neurosciences takes an integrated approach to neuroscience and provides skills training in a wide range of experimental and theoretical methods intended to enable students to ask questions and tackle problems that transcend the traditional disciplines from which neuroscience has evolved.
In order to succeed in its goal, the program promotes a spirit of cooperation between almost all University Departments and Research Centers in Athens including the following:
Department of Biology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Department of Nursing of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Department of Dentistry of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Foundation for Biomedical Research of the Academy of Athens
National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos"
Hellenic Pasteur Institute
Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming”
National Research Foundation
Given that the Master’s courses are delivered in English, would you like to tell us why this program aims to attract international students?
The neuroscience community in Athens and in Greece is very strong and thus we believe that we can provide very high-quality neuroscience education, equivalent to most well-known programs.
Why should an international student choose this Master’s? Could you tell us about the benefits and the prospects offered to an international student by this interdisciplinary program?
The Athens International Master’s Program in Neurosciences offers a comprehensive curriculum to all theoretical and experimental aspects of neuroscience, including its interaction with the endocrine and immune systems. All courses are taught in English by Greek and international academics.
The academic year begins early in October and is divided into four terms. The first term provides a comprehensive introduction to neuroscience and research methods followed by a laboratory rotation (research project), while the second term combines advanced taught courses and one laboratory rotation. The third and fourth terms include a thesis (dissertation research project).
Each lab rotation lasts two months and is selected according to the interests of the students and the availability of the supervisor. The dissertation project lasts about 11 months and is also selected on the basis of student interests and the availability of the supervisor. If students are interested in a particular lab or research topic, they are welcome to discuss a potential project with the relevant supervisor. Many of these projects lead to publications.
What has the output of the program been so far? Is it satisfactory?
The output of the program is satisfactory since most students have continued with PhD studies in Greece or abroad.
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Are there any ties between the International Program and the job market?
Despite the short time since its inception, the program is well-known in Greece and is highly valued. There is also a high demand for our graduates by research laboratories and the pharmaceutical industry.
Considering that Neurosciences is a high-demand scientific field, could we argue that with such academic initiatives Greece has the potential to become an international study and research destination?
Greece through the millennia has always had a strong presence in the Neuroscience field. Greeks were among the first who began investigating the brain as the center of consciousness and physical functioning and around 700 BC Alcmaeon of Croton (6th century BC) was the first to discover that all sensory organs, e.g. the eyes, were connected to the brain via channels, or poroi. He contributed to the terminology of the four out of the five senses (sight, hearing, taste, and smell) in understanding sensation and perception. Later philosophers, such as Plato, used the concept of the brain as one of the most important organs, responsible for understanding and intelligence. Hippocrates identified the brain as the source of the Sacred Disease (epilepsy). Galen contributed to the discovery and distinction between motor and sensory neurons.
Excellence in the neurosciences has continued with contemporary Greek neuroscientists both in Greece and abroad. Greek neuroscientists publish regularly in high impact research and internationally recognized journals and conferences.
Apart from excellence in neuroscience, Greece is well known for its culture, excellent weather, and superb cuisine. Thus, beyond mastering neuroscience, our students can also enjoy the largest open-air museum during the mostly sunny and dry days in Athens. These include the Acropolis and the Parthenon, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, the Arch of Hadrian, the Theatre of Dionysus, the Panathenaic Stadium-Kallimarmaro, the iconic Temple of Olympian Zeus, the pedestrian avenue of Dionysios Areopagitou, Pnyx Hill, Thiseio, Monastiraki, Plaka and the surroundings of the Attiki region and beyond that are full of ancient temples and Byzantine monuments. In addition, Athens has a great number of museums (such as the Acropolis Museum, the National Archaeological Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the museum of Greek Folk Art and of Greek Folk Musical Instruments, the War Museum, the Benaki Museum, the Museum of Cycladic Art, the National Gallery, and many others.
Moreover, students will also have the opportunity to enjoy the excellent natural surroundings and coastline, as well as the easily accessible Aegean islands. Thus, we foresee that all these initiatives will establish Greece as an international study destination.
For more info visit the program’s website here.
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What Are The Must Haves To Add In A Research Paper
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Must Have Qualities
Must Have Structures
1. Title
2. Introduction
3. Literature Review
4. Research Methodology
5. Data Analysis
6. Results
7. Conclusion
To Conclude
Introduction
If you are going for a research paper, you must be prepared for it before writing anything. If you are not knowledgeable enough, you will not be able to create a research paper of good quality.
Well, writing a research paper was never an easy option for any of the students. The idea of this article is not to make your life difficult as a student but to give you ideas that can help you determine a good research paper.
It might be daunting, but if you follow the step-by-step process, you will realize there is a structure you need to follow to manage a good research paper.
If you want to be highlighted in and between the readers, you will need to be perfect enough to show your skills and attributes in the research area.
Apart from following this article and its steps, you also can hire a writing service to help ready your research paper. The must haves in a research paper includes style, length, source formatting, et cetera.
Must Have Qualities
Among the various qualities, we have collected some must have qualities for you to consider in your research paper. The process of writing a research paper starts with the process of researching a particular topic.
The quality of a research paper depends on various things-
No one will continue reading your research paper until they find it interesting enough. So, try to grab the interest of the readers through your writing.
Be wise enough to be rigorous while writing your paper. If you are not rigorous enough, you will not be able to establish your thesis comment in front of the readers.
Try to be accurate enough and clear while stating examples. Besides, a controlled writing approach is essential for your research paper. Without this, you will keep on writing but will not be able to get closer to the readers.
Make sure your paper is verifiable and logical in terms. Watch for the validity of your writing, and if you lack these qualities in your research paper writing, you will not be able to grab a good paper.
Have you considered all these in your previous writing? If not, try with your next one and make sure you are highlighted this time.
Must Have Structures
Have you thought about the research structure of your paper?
Okay, it’s not that tricky; instead, it’s simple enough to consider while writing.
If you start writing and go through your writing by just meaning your topic area, you are not probably meeting a research paper because there are structures that meet specific criteria and style of writing.
So, if you show the same kind of writing approach in every paragraph of your paper, then you are making a big mistake.
Here we will share some of the exciting ideas to meet the must-have structure of your research paper.
1. Title
If you want to make the whole research paper attractive, you have to showcase an eye-catching title on the first page. Your research title must not be long but concise enough to state the topic accurately.
On the other hand, you also need to add additional information such as your name, date, and the dedicated institution of paper. This is a simple format that can make your cover page attractive enough as well as informative for your readers.
After that, there will be a table of content to show the whole structure of the research paper, including references.
2. Introduction
This is the very beginning of your research paper, and your audience will expect some quality from you here.
Don’t get nervous, as you are not the first one in this world to stumble while writing the introduction of a paper. There are many things that you know and understand if you search for a writing service, and they will let you handle your writing approach better.
Make sure it is not a summary of your whole paper but an appropriate process to let your readers understand the subject matter. Besides, your introduction will force the reader to dig deep into your future paper.
3. Literature Review
This is an essential aspect of your research paper. Here you will be able to explore your topic depending on the pre-existing research made on the same.
Stole the attention of your professor by reviewing the peer-reviewed journals and books accurately. The literature review is not just about reviewing other journals but exploring those in your paper by comparing or compromising the sense.
Make sure you are doing this process by mentioning the author’s name and their contributions to avoid academic misconduct.
4. Research Methodology
This is a unique but simple process of writing the methods of your research. This area of writing is concerned only with the research processes of your paper.
You do not need to elaborate on the process of methods or the definitions. Try to avoid definitions and include why you are allowing any particular research method in your study or research.
Whatever method you choose, make sure you can relate them to your subject matter. Be cautious! Do not just blindly follow any method; rather, research them accurately.
5. Data Analysis
Are you aware of this part? People often feel uncomfortable with this part because they are not ready enough to show their data.
Here is the chance for you to write and introduce data related to your subject matter. When you are going through this portion, try to show some analyzing tone.
In this section, you are simply expected to analyze your data. Here is also a chance for you to show new data that can help shine your purpose or statement.
6. Results
If you are providing a research paper, your audience won’t believe in any circumstance without the results. If you have analyzed the data, where is the result?
Thus, this section should be on your ‘must have’ list. Through this section, you have to show the results by analyzing the data that you have discussed so far.
Here in this section, you should also consider the processing of methods and their collaboration with your data and analysis process. With this, you will be able to deliver a concise result to the readers.
7. Conclusion
We all know how to conclude writing. Here also, the process will be the same, including the writing style.
To add something new to your research paper, you will need to consider the main statement of your research here. Do not just ponder on concluding things quickly.
In addition, you can write a slow review while confessing results and revisiting your whole topic and its outcomes. You can get a good idea of referencing your whole study by going through a writing service.
To Conclude
To consider a good research paper, you will need to follow the above-mentioned steps. This article will be useful enough for you before you sit and write a research paper because it has delivered both quality and adequate structure tips for your research paper.
If you think that we have missed something from the must have list regarding a research paper, you can write back anytime. It will be a good collaborative process to ensure a better research paper overall.
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Global LNG Marine Infrastructure Platform Provides Reliable, Cleaner and More Affordable Energy to Support Transure vessels owned by NFE to a newly formed joint venture (the “JV” or the “Platform”) between funds managed by Apollo and NFE in a transaction valued at approximately $2 billion. The JV will be owned approximately 80% by Apollo funds and 20% by NFE.
This transaction will create a global marine infrastructure platform underpinned by long-term contracts, benefitting from NFE’s LNG downstream operations and development activities, as well as Apollo’s leading investment and maritime experience. The Platform provides critical infrastructure for the delivery, storage, and regasification of liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) to power countries around the world, which can reduce their reliance on oil and coal to lower carbon emissions while enabling potentially substantial cost savings. In addition to serving NFE’s projects globally, the Platform also serves a diversified customer base of utilities and energy companies worldwide under third-party charters.
The 11-vessel portfolio consists of 6 Floating Storage and Regasification Units (“FSRUs”), 2 LNG Carriers (“LNGCs”), and 3 Floating Storage Units (“FSUs”). The total implied enterprise value of the transaction is approximately $2 billion, and NFE will receive approximately $1.1 billion in proceeds after accounting for NFE’s share of the JV and paydown of existing debt.
As part of the transaction, NFE has agreed to charter 10 of the 11 of the vessels from the Platform for a period of up to 20 years commencing either upon close of the transaction or upon expiration of the vessels’ existing third-party charter agreements. The Platform will also seek growth opportunities in support of both NFE and third parties to support the energy transition and bolster energy security globally.
“Together with Apollo, we are creating a leading LNG marine infrastructure platform to help accelerate the energy transition while freeing up capital to continue to invest into our Fast LNG and downstream LNG projects worldwide,” said Wes Edens, Chairman and CEO of New Fortress Energy. “We are pleased to be partnering with Apollo in creating a maritime infrastructure company that will help support NFE’s growing LNG infrastructure needs going forward.”
Apollo Partner Brad Fierstein said, “Energy transition and energy reliability are global priorities and core to Apollo’s sustainable investing platform. We’re pleased to further these initiatives through this long-term investment alongside our JV partners at New Fortress Energy. This is a high-quality portfolio that increases energy security around the world, accelerates decarbonization efforts, and facilitates LNG use which is cleaner and more affordable than diesel. We look forward to investing behind the platform’s growth to drive a more sustainable future.”
Subject to satisfying customary closing conditions, including receipt of certain regulatory approvals and third-party consents, closing of the transaction is expected to occur in Q3 of 2022. Transaction proceeds are expected to be utilized to fund NFE’s FLNG projects, as well as for ongoing downstream infrastructure and general corporate purposes.
About New Fortress Energy
New Fortress Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: NFE) is a global energy infrastructure company founded to help address energy poverty and accelerate the world’s transition to reliable, affordable, and clean energy. The company owns and operates natural gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure, ships and logistics assets to rapidly deliver turnkey energy solutions to global markets. Collectively, the company’s assets and operations seek to support global energy security, enable economic growth, enhance environmental stewardship, and transform local industries and communities around the world.
About Apollo
Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade to private equity with a focus on three investing strategies: yield, hybrid, and equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes. As of March 31, 2022, Apollo had approximately $513 billion of assets under management. To learn more, please visit
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These forward-looking statements represent the Company’s expectations or beliefs concerning future events, and it is possible that the results described in this press release will not be achieved. These forward-looking statements are necessarily estimates based upon current information and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside of the Company’s control, that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to: the risk that the proposed transactions may not be completed in a timely manner or at all; common risks related to the sale and purchase of businesses or assets, including among others the risk of valuation and successful implementation, and the risk that we may not be able to realize the benefits of any such transactions; the ability of the JV to implement its business platform and to realize anticipated efficiencies and benefits; common risks related to joint ventures, including the timing and amount of commitments or obligations to fund operating and/or capital expenditures, nonperformance by joint venture, limited or no control over the management, business or operations of the joint venture, and subordination of claims of creditors in the event of a liquidation or reorganization; possibility that any or all of the various conditions to the consummation of the transaction may not be satisfied or waived (or any conditions, limitations or restrictions placed on such approvals); the receipt, on a timely basis or otherwise, of the required approvals and consents for the transaction; breach or failure by the parties to comply with the covenants and obligations under the Purchase and Contribution Agreement; nonpayment or nonperformance by any of NFE’s or the JV’s customers or suppliers; including among others nonpayment or nonperformance by any of parties to the charters; the effect of the announcement or pendency of the transactions on our operations, including the ability of NFE to retain and hire key personnel and maintain relationships with customers, suppliers and others with whom NFE does business; the ability of the parties to implement their respective plans, forecasts and other expectations with respect to NFE’s and the JV’s businesses after the completion of the proposed transactions; adverse regional, national, or international economic conditions, adverse capital market conditions and adverse political developments; volatility in the price or demand of LNG products; business disruption following the transaction; and the impact of public health crises, such as pandemics (including coronavirus (COVID-19)) and epidemics and any related company or government policies and actions to protect the health and safety of individuals or government policies or actions to maintain the functioning of national or global economies and markets. These factors are not necessarily all of the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in any of NFE’s forward-looking statements. Other known or unpredictable factors could also have material adverse effects on future results.
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Executive Council and the Governor on Friday re-examined the reasons for the closure of the Jamestown Swimming Pool. Members recognised it had been seven weeks since the pool was closed by Public Health and there was concern from the general public. They were very concerned at the delay in reopening this important facility for public use, especially during the present warm period. Members were informed that in spite of various interventions by the operator and Health officials it has not yet been possible to re-store the quality of the water in the pool to the required standards of clarity, chlorine content and pH level.
Medical specialists from the Health Directorate advised they have a genuine concern some members of the public may be susceptible to communicable illnesses if the general public used the pool in its present condition. ExCo Members present at the meeting questioned the findings and options in detail and concluded they had little choice but to accept the recommendations of the Health Directorate’s personnel. The Jamestown Swimming Pool will remain closed until a specialist engineer can get to the Island.
An exception is being made for diver training where divers would be in wet suits and use breathing apparatus, so should have far less direct physical contact with the water. The Health Directorate is satisfied this purpose would not constitute an unacceptable risk to individual health.
A Commissioning Engineer to service the pool and plant room, as well as to provide additional plant room training, to the Pool Operator and SHG Staff will arrive in early-January. Additional swimming pool chemicals have also been ordered and are awaiting air freight delivery via the Airlink flight.
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The Pool has been closed to the public since Friday, 1 November 2019.
This decision was made after a routine health inspection of the Swimming Pool was held by the Environmental Health team on 28 October 2019. The inspection found that the chlorine level was below the recommended value, the pH level was higher than the recommended value, and one bacterial colony grew on the water sample without being able to provide further identification of the bacteria. The pool water was also found to be cloudy.
Subsequent daily checks of the pool were carried out and results failed to comply with operational standards. This was further aggravated when it was found that the pool chlorinator was broken and therefore corrective measures could not be undertaken. Works to repair the chlorinator took place soon after.
Following the pool closure, samples of particles from the pool water, the pool wall, and from the heritage wall were taken to test. The result of these tests showed a similarity between the water particles and the particles taken from both the pool and heritage walls.
Ways of addressing the cloudiness that constitutes a health risk were discussed as well as solutions to maintaining pH level and water balance (including other parameters such as calcium levels) were identified during a joint site visit and meeting that included representatives from the Health Directorate, Corporate Procurement, the Property Department of the Infrastructure & Transport Directorate, the Pool Operator and Corporate Support.
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Varying pH levels between 7.8-8.2
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In its current state, the pool’s decreased water visibility poses a risk of injury and is a drowning hazard – a struggling swimmer could go unnoticed by other swimmers in and outside of the pool. These issues are further hindered by lime mortar falling off the heritage wall and some particles entering the pool water.
The high pH level also causes irritation to the eyes and skin but most importantly affects the disinfecting effect of chlorine, increasing the risk of infectious diseases.
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One of the fun things about my job is that I get to do lots of different things. That can be a bit troubling some days, because statistical software consultant encompasses a wide range from different types of models, to coding, to various operating systems to all of non-parametric, parametric, Bayesian and other statistics that I cannot remember at the moment.
Because the range of people I work with continually increases, I am now more often running into questions I cannot answer off the top of my head. I do know how Mahalanobis’ distance is used, even though I had not thought about it in years until someone asked me a question yesterday, I do know the calculation for pooled variance , which should be used when Levene’s test is rejected. Still, once a day or so, someone asks me a question I have to look up. Sometimes, these are on techniques I have not used before and just as many times, the question relates to something that I KNOW can be done, and I know this because I personally have used that statistic or written that code before. I just can’t remember how.
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“I have forgotten more about statistics than you’ll ever know.”
Well, that is my problem. I keep forgetting it. Fortunately for me, and this is why I am happy, I get to consult on a lot of different projects each week that remind me of things I used to know. For example, cluster analysis, as the Stata multivariate statistics guide so poetically says, is used for finding groups in data. You can use it to identify or validate specific diagnostic groups, you can try to group just about anything. Most often, cluster analysis is used as an exploratory technique, which is my favorite type of statistics, where you are turning a bunch of numbers into knowledge.
The most common way to use cluster analysis is the k-means technique. You assume there are k-groups (with k being a number you specify) and the program iterates to a solution. The program starts with k “seeds” which are the means for each group. Every observation is assigned to the group whose mean is closest to it. New group means are calculated based on the observations in the group. If an observation’s mean is closer to a different group, it is moved into that group. Then, group means are calculated again. This continues until a step is reached where none of the observations change groups. And that is one way to do cluster analysis.
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I am so excited to share my July make along with two other amazing sew sisters that I met via social media. After winning last year's Fabric Mart challenge, I have connected with so many awesome ladies in the sewing community!
Honestly, over the last ten months, I have learned so much from my sewing community of friends who have always shown much love and support. I am grateful for this platform and opportunity with Fabric Mart, where I am able to share my monthly makes and be committed to a hobby that I truly enjoy. Carla (middle) and Johanna (right) are two amazing ladies that I can always count on for sewing advice.
I fell in love with this McCall's summer pattern M7784 as I wanted to make a flutter top without an elastic band around the shoulder VIEW C using a crisp white cotton/polyester/lycra shirting here.
Love the flutter! USED bias tape hem for the finish.
I love classic and timeless pieces and this crisp shirting fabric was perfect for the shirt I envisioned. The soft feeling against my skin is to die for and I fell in love even more after washing the fabric and knew it was perfect for the top.
VIEW C - SIZE 14 (Cut a size larger but realized it was NOT necessary.)
I shared the pattern via Instagram (insta-story) and quickly my sew friend Johanna messaged me as she had plans to create one of the views this summer. I then reached out to my other sew friend Carla (Nikki) and she was ready to join in on our first official collaboration. We chose our view, selected our fabric from Fabric Mart and went to work.
I met Johanna on Instagram and she lives only 30 minutes away. I am always happy to practice my photography skills and shoot her makes when time permits. She offers great sewing tips and tricks from her experience doing pattern test and reviews.
Johanna fell in love with View A and chose a crinkle seersucker shirting fabric. Unfortunately, it is sold out but here is another option that is perfect for this view. Her second fabric choice for this view is also here.
Johanna lined her fabric using the Muslin that she made.
Side view with ties
MODIFICATION: Remove the keyhole as it was not necessary with this style.
Be sure to stop by Johanna's blog to see more beautiful photos of her top with construction tips for her view!
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Carla (Nikki) chose to create View D with a designer knit (rayon/lycra) fabric that drapes so perfect from Fabricmart here.
Carla shared a few construction TIPS with us as she was the first one to sew her view the minute she received her fabric.
1. When working with knit or any fabric with stretch, the keyhole may NOT be necessary if the top slides easily over your head. After trying it, Carla decided to close it up which gave it a cleaner finish in the back. I opted to keep mine open but plan to close it as the hook kept on opening while shooting.
2. Since this pattern has a shoulder facing all around, the instructions did NOT state to understitch and a beginner may not know. It is important to understitch so that the facing lays flat inside the garment.
3. Interfacing can be tricky with knit and Carla also suggested instead of cutting strips of interface for each section of the shoulder facing (5 individual pieces for this pattern), you should stitch all the facing pieces together and then cut 1 long strip of interface if possible for a more sturdy fit. Sometimes the facing will stretch slightly while working with each individual pieces if interfaced separately.
Be sure to check out Carla's, blog for more detail photos of the construction. I am always happy to reach out to her for any sewing tips or advice when starting a project that I may have a challenge with. She is a passionate part-time sewing instructor and is always willing to help.
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Thank you so much for reading! I truly had fun collaborating with both Johanna and Carla this month. Also, have you participated in the Fabric Mart photo a day challenge? Be sure to post your photo for today!
On a final note, I have been sewing consistently this summer so be sure to stop by my personal BLOG and check out my latest make.
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Ann Brodsky July 21, 2018 at 2:37 PM
Wow! You all look great- I love each and every version! I will have to try out this pattern now!
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Marica July 21, 2018 at 4:52 PM
Thanks Ann! Go for it!
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marjenann July 23, 2018 at 2:11 PM
Love! Love! Love them all! Inspiring and gorgeous!!!!!!
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Marica July 31, 2018 at 3:19 PM
thanks.
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Abbeydabbles July 23, 2018 at 6:26 PM
All 3 of those tops are so gorgeous!
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Marica July 31, 2018 at 3:19 PM
Aww thanks.
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JD July 24, 2018 at 2:24 AM
Love all the versions. What a fun way to see different views made up by each sewist. That way you don’t have to sew each version and the tips from one to another must have been very helpful. Thanks for sharing from you and your new friends. Sounds like you are having a great summer.
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Marica July 31, 2018 at 3:19 PM
thanks. Yes we all learn together and share tips as well.
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TipStitched July 27, 2018 at 11:40 AM
I love the collab! All three of your tops are amazing. I didn't even give this pattern a second glance but your crisp white version is really speaking to me!
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Marica July 27, 2018 at 2:32 PM
Go give it a try!!! It will be worth it when it's done.
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Carl Colavecchio's three-run triple in the 10th inning lifted Bartlett Post 29 over Chugiak Post 33 in a 7-3 marathon game that lasted 10 innings on Day 1 of the Alaska Legion State Tournament at Mulcahy Stadium.
This not only was an upset with the No. 6 seed taking down the No. 3 Mustangs, but the Bears won their first game at the state tournament since 2013.
Blake Bacho's RBI walk with the bases loaded gave Bartlett a 4-3 lead and then Colavecchio cleared the bases with a triple to the gap.
This was the first time Bartlett beat Chugiak at the state tournament since 2004.
The historic effort was highlighted by several players, including Colavecchio's extra-base laser. Third baseman Luke Helgeson made a beautiful backhand, spin, throw across the diamond play and right fielder Connor Sessoms made a great catch to end the ninth inning and force extras.
And then there was Corey Gagnebin, who pitched four scoreless innings of relief to pick up the win.
Gagnebin also tied the game 1-1 with an RBI single in the fifth inning.
Down 3-1, Chugiak turned aa 6-4-3 double play to end the top of the sixth inning and then tied the game by scoring a pair of runs in the bottom of the sixth.
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After several days of being immersed in my research data I am starting to see patterns appearing around the use of wikis in Small to Medium Enterprises.
One of the repeated findings in my study was the user's awareness that the wiki was only going to be valuable if everybody was participating. They spoke of an awareness that a solo effort was a waste of time and effort.
Below is my first try at mapping the interactions between these concepts and uses the actual labels used by the participants in the study. There is minimal theory in this framework. Each link is based on evidence in the data. I share it because I am interested in feedback, both from practitioners and academics. Not just on the model itself, but also if people have seen similar frameworks published. I'm sure I cannot be the only one seeing these interactions in the wild?
The key for my study seems to hinge around group participation in the wiki. This participation generates both tangible and intangible benefits which can boost trust and encourage further spontaneous participation which was the hallmark of all the successful wiki implementations in the study.
Many people currently talking about Enterprise 2.0, including Andrew McAfee himself, mention the process of evolution where both the functions and even the tools themselves are modified or replaced over time to best suit the needs of the business. Often the idea of success or failure is based on the notion of participation. For example, Safe-Fail can be useful to detect the success or failure of systems based on the concept that participation in these systems is an emergent behaviour of a complex system, so it is unreasonable to be able to predict beforehand which tools will gain participation simply by comparing software features with business requirements.
I am interested in three areas surrounding this:
What drives an employee to use or not use a tool?
What part does the culture of the organisation play in this process?
What can be done to kick start a successful adoption?
I hope you will be kind enough to take a few minutes to consider these questions, the model and how these factors might be improved based on your theories.
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Anonymous said…
I'm not sure I understand the meaning in the directions of the arrows.
Is it your hypothesis that participation is based on soft benefits, which is based on trust, which is based on collaboration, etc?
M
17 November, 2008 14:34
Stuart French said…
It's a good question Matt.
The arrows indicate "Contributes to".
So the soft-benefits of participation (ie: finding helpful and timely information, learning who an expert is, developing relationships with key users, knowing what is going on outside your sphere on accountability, etc) seems to contribute to the level of trust in the group. This can be either trust in the validity of the content, or trust they others will gain a benefit from their work. This seems to contribute to spontaneous participation and growth. A lack of trust within the group or company seems to inhibit spontaneous use and the only participation is mandated through workflows or specific management directives. Some of this leaks over to the intangible side, but not enough to allow the wiki to grow substantially outside the original department.
17 November, 2008 15:13
Anonymous said…
Hi Stuart,
I read your post earlier this morning, and went away to have a think. Seeing your post on actKM, let me give you a couple of pieces of feedback.
(a) I like it. It has a simplicity and I think a pretty accurate split between the complex and structured domain.
(b) By "leadership" do you mean top-level leadership, or a "leader" who takes charge of the wiki? Is "organizing" or "ownership" perhaps more appropriate?
(c) Is "culture" really the only bridging factor? I could make a case for "management" being a bridge between "soft benefits" and "hard benefits"...
But good on you for putting this out there. I think it's a thought-provoking piece.
17 November, 2008 15:32
Stuart French said…
Thanks Stephen,
I intentionally used the term leadership because it was regularly mentioned by some the participants.
It tended to be used generally and often without context. In this way, some used it as an implicit way of saying "Somebody needs to stand up and lead". Most times this was local, sometimes at a corporate level, but not necessarily referring to an official management role. This was especially apparent at companies where there was low trust and no clear mandate to use the wiki, therefore the wiki tended to work in small integrated teams where local trust was high, but failed to transition to the wider corporation.
In terms of other spanners, I will have to think more about that. I am using the term culture from a complexity theory viewpoint. The two main cultural facets that stood out were:
Successful companies: Spontaneous and collaborative traits and norms.
Companies with local success only: Strong structures, tight control of information flows, fairly hierarchical management structures.
As such, Culture by this definition would include management interactions both with the tools (via KPIs, Guidelines, etc) and the people (via C&C).
Thanks for getting involved and helping me think it through.
17 November, 2008 15:52
Anonymous said…
@Stuart: I also agree with your comment on leadership equating to management, particularly as a prerequisite to the organisational sphere and success.
You could also further expand this to thought-leaders and champions as a vehicle or bridging factor back into the formal leadership structure as @stephen suggests.
I've noted this later factor in my own improvements to this theory insofar as participation leads to a shared understanding of the benefits which, in turn, is embedded into the culture.
M
18 November, 2008 10:40
Kristoffer Hartwig said…
Really interesting post and theory Stuart.
I'm working on my masters thesis on the use of idea markets in corporate settings. Of course, wiki's are not idea markets, but they both fit under the Enterprise 2.0 hat (McAfee).
A specialist in this field is Danish Company Nosco, and I've had the chance to work on a few projects for them now.
What I've seen so far is that;
-Leadership participation leads to higher levels of adoption -if done right. It has to be "authentic", though.
-Many user tell us that they want a tangible success story - Proof of the systems benefits- this will drive their adoption of the system in the future.
- Furthermore, idea markets have the convenience of a reward (prizes) for system use, but users are more motivated by the recognition of their peers for their ideas and ability to predict what ideas will be popular.
-We see network effects. Much like the Google Report on prediction markets, we see that physical proximity and personal network does play a part.
I hope this is of use to you.
Kristoffer
18 November, 2008 21:41
Stuart French said…
Good points Kristoffer,
I have people talking about stories in my data but I didn't code them as such. I will review it again and see what I find. Testimonies of both successes and failures are always good tools to spur and shape growth. It will be interesting to see if it was the successful companies that used stories or not.
Interestingly, the idea of rewards was brought up, both times by the companies that only had local success. I'm not sure if the use of incentives flows from a cultural bias that is also not conducive to wiki growth (precursor factor), or whether this was simply an idea that most people would reach for when a tool like this isn't being taken up by the general population (resultant factor). Have to think about that too.
I appreciate the feedback and ideas. Very helpful.
@magia3e, I like the way you have inverted the two domains in your updated model, however the change from Complex Domain to Personal Domain shifts the model away from the data somewhat, which I am trying desperately not to do.
My goal in putting this model together is first to take a poke at possible links between the observed factors to suggest a causal network at play, and second to see if others had competing theories that would counter any of these relationships.
Your model is more focused on a meta-theory for adoption rather than a description of observed evidence around participation. I would like to develop it more with you after Christmas once the research side of it is out of the way.
18 November, 2008 23:00
Patrick Lambe said…
What would happen if the complex and structured domains were layers above/below each other instead of being side by side with "crossover" points?
22 November, 2008 11:41
Stuart French said…
Thanks Patrick,
It's comments like that, that make sharing this stuff raw worthwhile.
A layered theory is a good way to overcome the objections to the seperated domains presentation.
When I first drew this out, I had the concept in my head similar to physical and spiritual dimensions overlapping. Where the Org Structure including the tangibles of explicit processes, financial systems, etc representing the physical dimensions and the social and intangibles (ie: personal tacit knowledge and distributed cognition) representing the spiritual dimensions.
Looking at your idea now I'm wondering why I didn't think of it myself.
24 November, 2008 08:31
Anonymous said…
Stuart - Have you done anything more with this? I don't recall anything new from the blog since this posting. I've been pondering it for a while.
31 March, 2009 06:42
Stuart French said…
Hi Jack,
I have developed this a little further in my Masters Thesis, however I can't release that until I publish from it.
Life has been pretty hectic with work, conference speaking and preparation for an ERP rollout since finishing (I actually graduate in two days time). I have kept my musings mainly on Twitter (@DeltaKnowledge) rather than this blog, where I like to present more thought through positions.
Now things are starting to slow down a little I will continue this work as I publish the findings of my research.
Stay tuned!
31 March, 2009 09:49
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Hey, you'd know what would be a better name than the Gay Ghost? Anything. I mean c'mon now, seriously...
—Superdickery
All right, you've got the powers, got the costume, got the cool origin story, now you just need to pick the perfect superhero name. Maybe you go with something that describes your powers, or a grim n' gritty one-syllable name. Surely you're the next classic superhero, with an Awesome McCoolname superhero name to go with it.
Wait, what's this? Why is everybody laughing? Surely evildoers would tremble at the mere utterance of your name! Or not. Sorry, pal. You need to get a better name if the Legion of Doom is going to take you as a serious threat. You've got yourself a Fail O'Suckyname.
Once you have committed this, there is no turning back. The name will catch on and that's how you will be known from here on. Your only hope is to become famous enough one day for everyone to not automatically think of something else when they hear it.
Many are the reasons for having such a malodorous moniker: Maybe you were originally published in The Golden Age of Comic Books, when certain slang terms had different meanings. Maybe you're using a fairly standard Something Person naming convention and your powers don't exactly make for an intimidating name.
A specific type of Unfortunate Name. See also The Adjectival Superhero, Have a Gay Old Time (the cause for most names on this list), Giver of Lame Names.
Please note that this trope is only about embarrassing names that the character specifically chooses. If it's a name the person was born with, see Unfortunate Names.
Examples of Fail O'Suckyname include:
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Gohan from Dragonball Z picked the name 'The Great Saiyaman', complete with ridiculous costume. He never seemed to notice the bystanders he just saved were staring at him incredulously. The one time he actually was called out for his ridiculous name, he started throwing a tantrum that terrified the wits out of the poor guys.
Ships in Martian Successor Nadesico are named after flowers. One of them has the unfortunate name of the Pansy. Guess what happens to it in battle.
Bleach gives us a hilarious in-universe fictional example in the form of the Seaweed Ambassador. It's made all the funnier by the fact that his creator, Byakuya, is the Aloof Big Brother.
Gundam: Sai Argyle, Allelujah and depending on the romanization, Quattro Bajina or Quattro Vagina.
Sentai parody Special Duty Combat Unit Shinesman. All of the protagonists are office drones in their daily life and the color uniforms they wear are the result of their bosses questioning them on good colors. Unfortunately, they chose these colors before they found out about the sentai-thing, assuming they were choosing colors good for business. Thus, you get characters announcing themselves as the "Moss green" and "Salmon pink" Rangers.
Katekyo Hitman Reborn: The character Shitt. P. of the Shimon family.
Death Note - "Kira" (a corruption of "killer") means "glittering" in Japanese. However anyone who dares mock Lord Kira shall suffer a sudden inexplicable heart attack.
In the series Clannad, several alternative names for the protagonist were suggested in a scene, but were not actually relevant beyond characterizing the two new characters that were introduced.
In Busou Renkin, the protagonist spent half of an episode coming up with stereotypically crappy names for his weapon and attack.
Back when he was in high school, Kotetsu from Tiger and Bunny spent quite a bit of effort on thinking of possible superhero names he would use in the future. He was not very good at it.
Tomoe: Okay, let's see... "Fate Wanderer: The Destiny", "Fearful Body: The Muscle", and "The Prince of Fists, Mr. Punch". They all suck. You're terrible at this.
Kotetsu: Y-You don't have to say it like that...
One legendary Bully Hunter in Daily Lives of High School Boys is called "Rubber Shooter." While the Japanese themselves has no doubt as for what it meant -- "Rubber" means rubber bands in Japanese—due to Separated by a Common Language, other from other parts would have issues understanding what he shooted. This is particularly embarrassing for the Americans.
In the original non-dubbed Yu-Gi-Oh! GX episode where Kagemaru first appears, after Manjoume challenged him using his nickname ("Manjoume Thunder"), Fubuki tries to do the same and give himself a cool nickname of his own. Unfortunately, the best he can come up with is "Blizzard Prince"; the look of embarrassment on his sister's face says it all.
Comic Books
Pictured above is the Whizzer, who has pretty much been a walking joke since The Silver Age of Comic Books due to his snicker-inducing name (for non-US readers, "taking a whizz" means urinating). The fact that his costume is yellow probably doesn't help matters. His origin? Mongoose blood gives you superpowers! In Spider-Man: The Animated Series, even Spider-Man laughs at his name and pee-yellow costume. When Spidey asks the Whizzer why he chose his name, the Whizzer says it was the sound he made when he ran, and that it sounded better in the 50s. Deadpool also riffs on him a bit for it at one point.[1] When the character debuted in 1939, football player (and later US Supreme Court Justice) Byron "Whizzer" White had been playing in the NFL for a year, having been given the nickname by a newspaper columnist during his college career. So perhaps it made more sense at the time.
For some kind of 70th anniversary thing, Marvel did a story set in the Golden Age where he explained that "Whizzer" was his college nickname - he thought they were calling him "Wizard", and by the time he worked out they weren't...
Good job The Beano isn't available in the US - it has a character called Billy Whizz, named that for the same reason as the Whizzer (he has super speed).
Also in the Spider-Man universe, the Shocker gets this, presumably because his name is also a term for a sexual act (and an obscene gesture.) Being a Deadpan Snarker, Spider-Man makes fun of these folks. In Ultimate Spider-Man when Spidey first meets the Shocker and asks him "Who are you supposed to be? The Vibrator?" Also from Spider-Man, Kraven the Hunter apparently forgot that "craven" means "cowardly. They try to justify it by revealing his full name to be "Sergei Kravinoff".
Others from Spider-Man's Rogues Gallery: Jackson "Big Wheel" Wheele; Frederick "Big Man" Foswell; Jason "Demogoblin" Macendale (what, is he the goblin you try in the store before you decide you want to buy it?); Miss Arrow (if only for the implication that she isn't a good shot). Spider-Man also got a lot of amusement out of the name "Night Thrasher". He thinks it makes him sound like he has terrible nightmares. In one issue, Spidey teams up with Thrasher and The Punisher. Naturally, Spidey doesn't get along with either of them (both of them being Darker and Edgier heroes), and eventually grumbles about being lectured by "One guy who sounds like he has naughty dreams and another guy who sounds like he likes to spank people." Then there was the time the Blue Shield attempted to apprehend Spider-Man for not registering with the Initiative. Spider-Man took the time to question why his health insurance premiums had gone up so much (for non-US posters, Blue Shield is also the name of a major health insurance company).
Rocket Racer; he himself admits in a solo story that "all the good names were taken".
Marvel Comics' "The Trapster" originally went by Paste Pot Pete. He still gets mocked for that from time to time. (In fact, bringing it up is his Berserk Button.) One flashback story had Spider-Man encountering Pete while Paste-Pot was preparing to ambush the Human Torch. Before a fight could ensue, Paste-Pot announced his name-causing Spidey to break into laughter. Paste-Pot is so insulted and disgusted by Spidey's mockery he simply gives up and walks off, muttering something about needing to change his name.
A Superman comic once featured a retired supervillain called the Molester. He kept explaining that when he chose the name (during The Golden Age of Comic Books), molest meant 'to annoy' and that he was supposed to be a playful villain like the Prankster.
Golden Age superhero Doll Man.
In an issue of X-Factor the heroes are confronted by a villain calling himself Number One Fan (with spinning blades as his main weapons) leading one member of X-Factor to comment that "We must be just about tapped out of silly names to call ourselves". When Kitty Pryde heard of the name "Negasonic Teenage Warhead," her reaction was similar: "Wow, we really have run out of names." Negasonic Teenage Warhead had been dead since the Genoshan massacre. Before her death, she planned to name herself after the song by Monster Magnet. (Furthermore, her death caused Emma Frost a mental breakdown. Suddenly, not so funny...) X-Factor also features Strong Guy (a.k.a. Guido Carosella), who picked his name on the spot when a reporter saw his exaggerated musculature and said "He must be the Strong Guy. Every super team has a Strong Guy." Needless to say, Guido wasn't taking things very seriously. But Guido insisted on sticking with the name.
The X-Men's monkey-like, teleporting mutant Kurt Wagner uses the alias Nightcrawler. And it would be perfectly cool for a superhero name, except for one problem—a nightcrawler is also an earthworm.
The second issue of Heroes, Anonymous revolves around the struggles faced by a sheltered farm boy who takes up the mantle of the legendary Gay Avenger without having the slightest clue that to modern ears, "gay" immediately suggests "homosexual". However, after discovering this, he's dedicated to keeping the name out of respect for his grandfather, the original Gay Avenger.
The first issue also briefly flirts with this; former sidekick Attaboy finds his name inappropriate in adulthood, but sticks with it because "Attaman" doesn't have quite the same ring.
Hero Happy Hour features Night Ranger, a Batman-style grim vigilante who is often called "Sister Christian" by associates after the title of the hit song by the band Night Ranger.
While he was alive "Freedom Ring" got a lot of flack for having a pretty dumb alias. It was also invoked gay symbolism -- "freedom rings" are rainbow-colored rings on a chain, a well-known gay signifier of the '90s. This, however, was likely intentional as the character was an open homosexual, and prior to being killed by evil alternate universe Tony Stark, Iron Maniac, Freedom Ring was the most prominent gay superhero in Marvel. Creator Robert Kirkman regretted killing the character as he represented about 20% of the overall homosexual hero census in the Universe.
Batman villain Mr. Polka-Dot. Also Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Whose real names are Dumphrey Dumson and Deever Tweed. And Humpty Dumpty, who bears the unfortunate real name of Humphry Dumpler.
Spider-Man examples:
The villainess "The White Rabbit", which is hardly a name to inspire terror. Then again, she's not at all scary anyway.
Not to mention the Scarlet Spider, Ben Reilly's costumed identity during The Clone Saga. Even he hated the name, although to be fair, it was thought up by Daily Bugle reporter Ken Ellis. Ken had based the name on Ben's costume, which was a brighter red version of Spider-Man's costume with a blue jacket over the top.
Dr. Drool.
During the time the Blackhawks became superheroes, some of them got ridiculous names to go with their equally silly costumes. The already silly-named Chop-Chop became "Dr. Hands," and Chuck became "The Listener," complete with ear-covered costume.
During the time the Dark Age of Supernames reigned supreme, names trying to sound "extreme" or "kool" usually ended up being hilarious instead. D-list Captain America (comics) villain "Blistik" sounds more like a lip balm than a serious threat.[2]
Speedball probably crosses into this territory when you realise that a brightly-coloured, bouncy comic relief character shares his name with a lethal drugs cocktail that's polished off more entertainment careers than Celebrity Big Brother.
Either Steve Ditko or Tom DeFalco probably noticed Speedball brand art supplies around their studios - they're very common among comic artists—and thought it sounded like a good hero name. I'm just glad to know they probably know little about narcotic cocktails.
Penance, on the other hand...
The closest thing Howard the Duck had to an archenemy was a mad musician named Dr. Bong. Well, what else would you call a supervillain that had a giant bell on his head that when you rung, he could change reality?
Astro City has the Otter, possibly the cutest supervillain name ever. Mind you, he does run around dressed as an otter, so the name clearly doesn't bother him. Maybe he should have called himself the furry old lobster instead.
Then there's Glue-Gun, an Expy of Marvel Comics' Paste-Pot Pete.
Legion of Super-Heroes has Matter-Eater Lad.[3] And the infamous Arm-Fall-Off Boy, who received the slightly more dignified name of Splitter after the Zero Hour continuity reboot. Recurring Legion of Supervillains member Radiation Roy. Look, man, we don't care if you have radiation powers and your name is Roy, that name is dumb. This is even specifically mocked by one of his teammates, who insists on calling him "Radiator" because he doesn't ally himself with losers. Absorbency Lad of the same team. Again, this name suffers from being a little too on the nose. The reboot version of him is a Terran supremacist called Earth Man, which is a marked improvement to say the least. In the Amalgam Universe, where DC and Marvel characters were combined, Matter-Eater Lad and Paste-Pot Pete became... wait for it... Paste-Eater Pete.
Although the Smug Super characters tend to make fun of Empowered's name, the best example from the series isn't the heroine. One of the Superhomies is a Blob Monster who took the name Protean, and becomes increasingly enraged when a mook thinks his name is Protein and makes fun of him. Sistah Spooky tells Protean than he should go back to using his old name (something like Glurgh) which at least wouldn't confuse anyone. There's also a trio of Captain Ethnic villains who called themselves Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash. Rum ended up at Alcoholics Anonymous, Sodomy left after getting tired of insisting that his name only referred to heterosexual sodomy, and Lash, who Emp encounters is a ridiculous Fauxreigner who Did Not Do the Bloody Research. Empowered plays this trope for laughs (being a superhero parody/deconstruction) to the extent that pretty much every character in the book has a ludicrous name: Sistah Spooky, dWARf, Phalik, Maid Man, Baron Womb... hell, the main super team is called the "Superhomeys."
Minor Iron Man foe Vibro's name is pretty weak as it is, but his real name is the utterly pathetic Vincent Vibreaux.
Mark Millar and his infamous creation: Kick-Ass.
Upon meeting Spider-Man in an intercompany Crossover, Image hero Invincible makes fun of Spider-Man's heroic name, and Spidey does the same for Invincible. Then when meeting the Avengers, he attempts to guess their names, using 'Spider-Man' as a gauge. Robot-Man (Iron Man), Claw-Man (Wolverine), Flag-Man (Captain America), Fabio-Man (Sentry), Bat-Woman (Spider-Woman), and Black-Man (Luke Cage, formerly known as Power Man) -- to which Peter confesses that perhaps his name is poorly chosen.
Darker Image #1 gives us... Death-Blow! A name so utterly trapped in its time of origin that even That '90s Kid couldn't get past its stupidity.
Captain Marvel had a few Golden Age opponents with questionable names, but the worst of them had to be Mr. Banjo, whose gimmick was that he strummed secret codes to a Japanese submarine on his banjo. Depending on how you look at it, Mr. Mind (the World's Wickedest Worm) might qualify as well.
The other especially suspect one is Nippo, the Japanese judo master and assassin. Seriously, Nippo?
The Gay Ghost is one of the most infamous examples in comic history. For the record, in his later appearances (however few there have been), he's been known as the Grim Ghost—evidently the "Gay" moniker was something akin to an Ironic Nickname.
Grant Morrison memorably lampshaded this, having Animal Man meet the Ghost in a comic book afterlife and having the Ghost beg not to be brought back. (Apparently it's better to be dead than gay...)
The Champions comic books has the Galloping Galooper.
Combining this trope with Unfortunate Implications, John Walker, aka Super-Patriot, recruited a team of super-strong allies called the Bold Urban Commandos, or "Buckies", led by African-American Lemar Hoskins. When Walker replaced Steve Rogers as Captain America (comics), Hoskins took the identity of Bucky, until someone brought up the fact that 'Bucky' was demeaning, since slave-owners in the 1800s sometimes called their male slaves 'Bucks'. Hoskins promptly changed his name to Battlestar.
In Power Pack Alex Power takes the name "Gee" when he gets his gravity based powers. He realizes how stupid this sounds just before the group changes powers. When he finally gets his original powers back at the very end of the series years latter he quietly starts uses "Zero-G" instead. The Marvel Adventurers based reboot makes him Zero-G at the start.
The Stepford Cuckoos, who appear in X-Men and various related comics. These five mutant-clone-sisters prefer to use "Five-in-One" as their "hero name", but their origin - which has similarities to both The Stepford Wives and The Midwich Cuckoos - gave them a nickname that has been hard to shake. Given their incredible psychic and matter-manipulation powers when used as cooperatively, their name seems kind of... undignified.
Captain Klutz; of course, that's the general idea, and it's arguably better than his real name, Ringo Fonebone.
Film
One of Roger Ebert's rules is that if a comedy has characters with silly names, it's probably an unfunny comedy grasping for straws.
Or actors. When Siskel and Ebert reviewed UHF, being generally unfamiliar with media outside film, they derided ""Weird Al" Yankovic" as an obviously made-up name in the vein of "Yahoo Serious", and apparently saw nothing in the movie that could dispel their impression that it was cut from the very same cloth as Young Einstein.
Reservoir Dogs, when the team is assigned their codenames:
Joe: Mr. Brown, Mr. White, Mr. Blonde, Mr. Blue, Mr. Orange, and Mr. Pink.
Mr. Pink: Why am I Mr. Pink?
Joe: Because you're a faggot, alright?
Mr. Pink: Why can't we pick our own colors?
Joe: No way, no way. Tried it once, doesn't work. You got four guys all fighting over who's gonna be Mr. Black, but they don't know each other, so nobody wants to back down. No way. I pick. You're Mr. Pink. Be thankful you're not Mr. Yellow.
Mr. Brown: Yeah, yeah, but "Mr. Brown"? That's little too close to "Mr. Shit".
Mr. Pink: "Mr. Pink" sounds like "Mr. Pussy".
Evelyn Tremble in Casino Royale 1967.
The Specials: To be fair, Small is at least a better name than Mr. Smart. But then, so is Captain C***face.
Karl Berger, aka K. the Butcher Shitter from Violent Shit.
Archie Benjamin, aka Horny the Clown from Drive Thru.
Literature
In the story-within-a-story of Stolen from Gypsies, one character actually the hero's love interest in disguise is a rakish highwayman who took the name "the Dim Avenger". While the intended meaning of Dim was "dark", the character tends to get asked if their name means they are stupid.
In the first novel of the Evil Genius Trilogy, one character early on is a Jerk Jock who is trying to chose a sufficiently threatening villain name, but all of his choices lead the others to laugh at him (e.g. choosing the Decimator, and then having it pointed out that decimate literally means "kill 10%"). Of course, the Axis Institute's coursework slowly destroys this little habit- right before he loses control of his powers and incinerates himself.
The comedy book How to Be a Superhero has section devoted to avoiding choices like this, e.g Mr AC/DC might not be good choice even if you do have electrical powers. Then there's the poor guy who got his powers from and named himself "Purple Helmet".
Zits from Flight.
Good Omens' secondary set of Bikers of the Apocalypse, Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty to Animals, Really Cool People, and Treading In Dogshit (formerly All Foreigners Especially The French, formerly Things Not Working Properly Even When You've Given Them A Good Thumping, never actually No Alcohol Lager, briefly Embarrassing Personal Problems, and finally People Covered In Fish).
Wild Cards had Snotman, who was unable to make people forget his old name even after he has become the Reflector.
Similarly, Nuclear Action Bomb Drake Thomas was dubbed "Little Fat Boy" by government agents unfamiliar with the concept of Bullying a Dragon, and the name stuck even after he started calling himself "Ra".
Discworld
The rats in The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents named themselves from the labels on discarded food packaging, resulting in names like Dangerous Beans and Nourishing. Peaches is not so bad.
Like the Discworld talking rats, wyrmen in Perdido Street Station take names from whatever gibberish they overhear that sounds good. Teafortwo, Isaac's wyrman gofer, has a sister named Bottletop and a son called Scabies.
Most of Redwall's vermin characters are Only Known by Their Nickname, and their nicknames tend to be based on unflattering physical attributes. "Redtooth" is bearable. "Stinky" is worrying. Also, the unlucky hare by the name of "Stiffener Medick". Ow.
Professor Pippy P. Poopypants from Captain Underpants. That book was about him wreaking havoc on the entire city because nobody would take him seriously because of his silly name. At the end, George and Harold suggest that he changes his name, and he picks his grandfather's name instead: Tippy T. Tinkletrousers.
In fact, he comes from a country where everybody for a reason that's stated to be too boring and stupid to be explained has a moronic name.
In Hush, Hush, the Fallen Angel who stalks, harasses, terrifies and almost murders Nora calls himself Patch. The author clearly intended this to be a cool and gangster-like name but seriously, what kind of fallen angel who remains borderline sociopathic even after being seemingly redeemed by love names himself Patch? A name that sounds much more apt for a dog?
Dune: Leto II named his Amazon Brigade as Fish Speakers.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: One of the main protagonists of the series adopts an assumed name so he can easily blend in with the locals when he visits an unremarkable backwater planet named Earth. The "minimal research" he did before deciding on his "nicely inconspicuous" moniker led him to settle on Ford Prefect.[4]
Live-Action TV
In an old All That sketch, a Mayor is auditioning several superheroes for the city, though only encountering examples of generally sucky powers. The final one is basically a Superman Expy with all of his powers and no weakness whatsoever. He would be an automatic shoo-in were it not for his name of Superty-Duper Man. In the end, the Mayor resolves to save the city herself, strapping on a cape and flying away.
A Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode featured the rise of "Mothers Opposed to the Occult"... M.O.O. for short.
The episode "Tabula Rasa" also had an amnesiac Spike complaining that his name was "Randy Giles" (which he got from the coat he'd stolen from someone named Randy before losing his memory, and from guessing that he must be Giles's son since they're both English).
"Randy Giles? Why not just call me 'Horny Giles,' or 'Desperate for a Shag Giles'? I knew there was a reason I hated you!"
In the first episode of the first series of The Black Adder, Edmund wants to settle on a new nickname, having become a Prince of the Realm. His initial suggestion is The Black Vegetable, before his (at the time) Hypercompetent Sidekick Baldrick persuades him otherwise.
Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Applies to the Superheroes game (but then that's What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway? to start with) and also often the aliases adopted by the players for the Newscasters or Sports Commentators games.
Greg Proops: I'm Rock Hard.
Colin Mochrie: And I'm Peggy Lee. (Over audience laughter) IT'S NOT FUNNY!
In Glee, when the members of New Directions go to Regionals, one of the opposing glee clubs is named Aural Intensity. (you may have to hear it said out loud to get it) Sue Sylvester lampshades this when she says "... The not at all stupidly named Aural Intensity". This is most likely lampshading the fact that when spoken aloud New Directions sounds exactly like Nude Erections.
In the Nationals episode, we see a board with a list of show choirs on it. One of which is the Waffletoots.
Mad TV has a sketch of a Mexican (or Argentinian, depending on the sketch) wrestler named "El Ass-o Wipe-o." He helpfully explains that in Spanish it means "The Asswiper." He has a compatriot named "Senor Bag of Crap."
Nathan on Misfits is pretty hopeless at remembering names, and often comes up with nicknames instead. When he considers superhero names for Curtis and Simon, the names he comes up with are "Mr Backwards" and "The Invisible Cunt". Needless to say, they aren't impressed.
In an episode of Seinfeld, Kramer tells Jerry and Elaine about how he escaped from a gang called the Van Buren Boys, named after President Martin Van Buren. "And they're just as mean as he was!" he exclaims.
Professional Wrestling
The ultimate ECW Woobie "Mikey Whipwreck". There is also a "Mike Quackenbush".
A famous anecdote about Steve Austin recalls how, in his early days of WWF, he wanted to change his nickname to go with his cold and uncaring character and asked the creative team to come up with a name. They sent him five pages of names. While most were pretty good, like the Ice Dagger, there was an infamously ridiculous one called Chilly McFreeze. He chose Stone Cold and the rest is history. He jokingly stated in one interview that if they turned down Stone Cold, that he would be the best Baron Von Ruthless he could have been.
Similarly, in her autobiography, Chyna mentioned several of the names that the WWE had thought up for her. Some were decent, if cliche, such as Phalan, Sheera, Venus, and Tigress. One she singled out as particularly bad... TEEVA GWEEVE.
Sports
In Australian Rules Football, Melbourne were originally nicknamed the "Fuschias", and Hawthorn were the "Mayblooms". They have since changed to "Demons" and "Hawks", respectively. Sydney (formerly South Melbourne) are still nicknamed the "Swans". In the 19th and early 20th century, Essendon's colors of black and red resulted in them being unfortunately referred to as the "Blood-stained Niggers". With the advent of World War Two, the proximity of the air force base led them to adopt the official nickname of the "Bombers", though they were, and are, also known as the "Dons". Similarly, South Melbourne (not Sydney, because the forced transfer of the club to NSW involved the team name formally becoming the "Sydney Swans") were known for many years as the Blood-stained Angels, or the Bloods for short, due to their predominantly white shirt with a red sash or yoke.
Melbourne's soccer teams appear to be following the lame name tradition: "Melbourne Victory" wasn't that great a name, especially given that it's a lame pun on the state of Victoria, but at least it's better than the new team, Melbourne Heart. What kind of a lame name is Heart, anyway?
American college athletics has given us teams such as:
The UC Santa Cruz Fighting Banana Slugs.
The Kent State Golden Flashes.
The South Carolina Gamecocks.
The Evergreen State College Geoducks [5]
Oregon State Beavers.
And their instate rivals, the University of Oregon Ducks.
The University of Akron (Ohio) Zips.
Years ago, Scottsdale (Arizona) Community College let the students vote on the team name. Thus, for a number of years, they were the Fighting Artichokes. The team color was pink.
Then there are the Heidelberg College (Ohio) Student Princes and Whittier College (Cal.) Poets.
The Wilmington College (Ohio) Fighting Quakers. Yes.
The (University of) Maryland Terrapins. Fear the Turtle, indeed.
Hey now, the diamondback terrapin is the only animal incapable of moving backwards!
Be that as it may, I would hate to be on their track team
California's Long Beach state gives us the Dirtbags for Baseball
Delta State University in Mississippi: The Fighting Okra.
A Special mention should be made of Alabama college's official team nickname... the Crimson Tide.
The Panamanian soccer teams (and sometimes also for other sports) use the "Red Tide" variant because of the color of their uniform. It sounds much better in Spanish, since they don't use that moniker as a metaphor for the other thing.
This one's professional, but the Detroit Red Wings?
In the late 80's, the official nickname of the sports teams at St. Andrews Presbyterian College (NC) was the Knights, but the most popular school team, women's volleyball, were universally referred to as the "Loons".
Ohio State's Buckeyes and Indiana State's Sycamores -- trees, people.
The Whitman Missionaries have apparently embraced the ridiculousness of their mascot by coining the chant: "Missionaries! Missionaries! We're on top!"
Don't forget the Carnegie-Mellon Tartans.
The University of North Carolina School of the Arts have the Fighting Pickles as a mascot. It largely serves as a joke, since they also have no sports teams, as they're an arts conservatory, though they do crown a Pickle King and Queen every year.
Wake Forest University has the Demon Deacons. This was seen as an improvement over their old mascot, the Fighting Baptists.
The University of Evansville Purple Aces don't have a particularly unfortunate name- but the mascot is a "a turn of the century riverboat gambler" named Ace Purple.
High school football:
Frankfort has the "Hot Dogs" (hey, everybody loves a wiener).
The Nimrods can be found at a high school in Michigan. Even if you know that Nimrod a powerful king and not a lunkhead, it still counts (he got showed up by Abraham in the end).
Camas High School is home to the Papermakers. Really. However, their mascot is surprisingly awesome.
Along the same lines you have the Tillamook Cheese Makers. For a few years the mascot was a cow.
The Montgomery Biscuits from Alabama? Google the mascot. Go on, Google him!
They should merge with the Cairo (Ga.) Syrupmakers.
Hereford, TX, has a High School whose teams are named the Whitefaces. Sounds racist, but it's actually a breed of cattle.
The infamous Butte Pirates.
Teams from a small town in Minnesota are saddled with Scarlets. Never had a mascot; common opponent chant: "What's a Scarlet?"
New Zealand's national soccer team is the All-Whites. Ouch. They're not very good. Their national rugby team, the slightly better named All-Blacks, however, has a winning record against every team it's competed against.
It Gets Worse: The name of the national basketball team is the Tall-Blacks, intended as a play on All-Blacks.
When guest-starring on Mock the Week New Zealand comedian Jarred Christmas noted the irony of the first World Cup the All-Whites qualified for being in South Africa.[6]
Made fun of in this comic.
The city of Anaheim seems to have bad luck with team names:
In hockey, they had the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, originally named after the Disney film. After being sold by Disney, the new owners changed their name... to the Anaheim Ducks.[7]
And then there's the story of the Angels. At first, they were Los Angeles Angels, in Los Angeles. In 1965, they relocated to Anaheim and renamed themselves The California Angels. A contract renegotiation in 1997 required that they use the city name, so they became The Anaheim Angels. Then, in 2005, their new owner wanted to hearken back to the team's history (read: gain market support from Los Angeles), despite the stipulation in their contract. Thus, they became saddled with the unwieldy moniker The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
Former NASCAR driver Dick Trickle.
And, from the pre-WW 2 Grand Prix era, Dick Seaman.
The World Taekwondo Federation... WTF
One of the early NFL teams, based in a small Pennsylvania town called Pottsville, was called the Maroons. At the time, "maroon" was a popular slang term meaning, well, "dumbass". The fact that the Maroons are to date the only NFL team to ever have their championship title revoked doesn't help their image.
ESPN the Magazine's monthly feature of collectibles once featured high school sports merchandise specifically from schools with bizarre team names. Some, like the Punchers and the Atom Smashers, were actually pretty cool. Others, like the Earwigs, were silly. Two examples stood out in particular: The Hobos and the Beetdiggers.
The baseball player Boof Bonser
Also, Nick Swisher
Bernhard Langer. While Langer may not seem that bad to Americans, take note of its meaning in Hiberno-English.
Tabletop Games
Aberrant, being a deconstruction of superheroics, touches on this: the rise of superpowered Novas, many of whom think they're now required to don costumes and take up aliases, have spawned a budding fashion industry dedicated to not only making non-stupid costumes, but also to come up with fitting and stylish names a Nova can use without feeling silly or raise Unfortunate Implications. A few sucky names still crop up, though.
Just about every unique name in the campaign setting provided with the legendarily bad RPG Spawn of Fashan. The land of "Boosboodle"? Monsters called "maki", "gruf" and "foklom", among others?
Video Games
In Elona, there is a random name generation system that allows you to pick an alias at the beginning and also applies to randomly generated magic items. This can lead to items being generated with names such as Sparkle Homo, Mustache Fortress, Pimp of Awesomeness, or, more likely, a name that is complete gibberish like Foreigner Kitty or Princess of Rebel-rouser
Robotech: Invasion. "Wait, our group is named F.A.I.L.!?"
It's possible for players to invoke this trope in games where characters can be named.
Far more common in games where you can name other characters. Pokemon was particularly infamous by giving you the ability to name your rival.
"This is my grandson. You two have been rivals ever since you were children, now what was his name again?..... Oh yes, now I remember, his name is Asshole!"
Also, naming your Metapod "penis." Its only move was "harden".
If it evolved from Caterpie, it has Tackle and String Shot. Tackle is slang for penis, and String Shot is...yeah.
King Wee Wee. Yeah.
Fatty Glutton, a Humongous Mecha piranha. Sounds silly, until you find out that he's one of the toughest recurring bosses in the series.
Touhou: Medicine Melancholy.
Lyric from Sonic Boom. Yeah, of all the nouns in the English language, "lyric" isn't exactly a Name to Run Away From Really Fast, nor is it the best name for a snake, or a villain. But then, he wasn't much of a villain either.
In Shantae: Half-Genie Hero, Risky attacks the town with her Part Omni-Organic, Partially Titanic, Ocean-Optional Tinkerslug.
Shantae: P.O.O.P. T.O.O.T.?
Risky: Don't call it that!
Pokémon Sword and Shield has, uhm, Mustard. Yeah, this is the name of a boss trainer in the Isle of Armor DLC, and while he's a Cool Old Guy and the most powerful trainer in the game (level-wise) the name makes you think he's a hot dog vendor or something.
Burgerpants, the cashier at the Burger Fool in Undertale. Yeah, it's not his real name, but his jerk of a boss calls him that. To be fair, he got that nickname after he was caught stealing burgers from his workplace because the weight of the burgers he was smuggling in his pants caused them to fall down.
Web Comics
Magellan has "Psi-Jector" - he thinks it's a great (and obvious) name: "I'm a tactile psychic... I project images of thoughts... PSI-JECTOR!" but everyone else just pays out on him - "Psi-Jerktor", "Re-Jector"...
The defunct Queer Nation (in which a pink meteor gives all homosexuals on the planet superpowers) had a gay, ditzy, male bartender with telepathic powers name himself "Cocktale", just because it was his favorite drink.
The villain of Van Von Hunter unintentionally gets himself dubbed "The Flaming Prince". It was supposed to be "The Prince of Flames" but his assistant hastily made the announcement before he was finished with his out-loud brainstorming. The villain's father visits and asks what the name is really supposed to mean, then the prince walks out to great him while on fire.
And the winner is: Lord Moldypants from the Sluggy Freelance parody of Harry Potter.
From El Goonish Shive, Elliot's superhero form was dubbed Cheerleadra by the internet.
Web Original
The Whateley Universe includes several mentions of them. The students are warned to be careful even with their non-final name since it can stick even if you change it. Examples include Power Pork, the Flying Bulldozer, and Quickie. Quickie is a well-endowed girl speedster, who didn't get why everyone thought her codename was so funny her freshman year. After finding out what it meant, she ended up changing it to Go-Go. Jinn Sinclair's first choice of a codename was 'Clothes Ghost'. Her teammates made her change it. Like they have a lot of room to talk, since their team name is Team Kimba. Which, again, is Jade's fault. Traduce didn't know what her codename meant until after she got it finalized. It is very appropriate, though.
Homestar Runner has Firebert, The Cheat's commando name.
There's also Strong Bad's short-lived attempt to get people to start calling him "The Lege" (as in "the legend"), until he realizes Homestar was right about it looking like it was pronounced "The Leg".
From A Gamer's Manifesto, deriding EA's purchase of the NFL license: "get ready to play as the Dallas Zombies with all-star QB Cletus Fuckhat".
Legion of Nothing has Psy-Kick, a karate-wielding human stenograph whose choice of hero name is a source of great amusement to the protagonist (this gets him in trouble, since Psy-kick is also a telepath).
In his review of the video games based on the film Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Angry Video Game Nerd freaks out when he learns that one of the movie's producers is named "Fred Fuchs".[8]
Agamemnon Tiberius Vacuum
Several of her fellow teenagers make dirty jokes at the expense of Banging, a teenaged supervillain from the Global Guardians PBEM Universe, because of her name. She's only fourteen, though, and grew up a bit sheltered before running away. Itsy Bitsy, a shrinking superheroine from the same setting, gets made fun of a lot as well. Fey, an elven swordsman brought back to Earth from a mythical fairyland, can't understand why he's the butt of constant gay jokes. The first time the Superheroic trio Ready, Willing, and Able introduced themselves, the reaction they got was, "Are you for real, with that?"
Coyle Commander's cyborg assistant has the cool moniker of Annihilator. Unfortunately he's a parody of Destro, so it gets shortened to Anni.
Chicken Maker has Zitty NotCoolguy who exists as a parallel to the sites Shades McCoolguy.
Western Animation
Danny Phantom had this in its series finale, with Jack having been in a band called the Skunks Punks:
Headline: The Skunks Stink!
Jack: Yeah, we walked right into that one.
Also, Danny's name according to the media; Invis'o Bill
An episode of Freakazoid! featured a hero originally named Lord Bravery having copyright issues and eventually ending up with the name "Lord Smoked Meats and Fishes." People then refused to get help from him.
Minoriteam had an entire episode devoted to Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain the Black Coq in a nonstop session of Getting Crap Past the Radar.
Sea Man from the South Park episode "Super Best Friends." And his sidekick is a fish named Swallow.
Narrator: Meanwhile, in the ocean depths, Semen seeks out water to mix with the concrete.
Sea Man: Sea Man! Look, Swallow, we should be able to divert the water with that pipe.
Narrator: And so, Semen and Swallow get to... get to work. *laughs*
The boys' school football team are the Cows.
The Simpsons
"Homer to the Max": Homer's proposed new names for himself are not only idiotic -- "Rembrandt Q. Einstein"—but, except for one (Max Power!), misspelled on his name-change application.
And of course:
Homer: See, I got this friend named...Joey Jo-Jo...Junior...Shabadoo --
Moe: That's the worst name I ever heard.
(A man leaves, weeping)
Barney: Hey, Joey Jo-Jo!
In another episode Homer tries to imitate Bart's secret identity "El-Barto". He decides to call himself "El-Homo".
Homer to Bart: "Do you want to change your name to Homer, Junior? The kids can call you Hoju!"
Deliberately and appropriately true of the Toilenator from Kids Next Door.
In an almost subversion of the trope, an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants features a group of villains who go under the acronym E.V.I.L. which is appropriate. However, the acronym stands for Every Villain Is Lemons.
In a G.I. Joe parody sketch on Robot Chicken a new member is inducted into the Joes. While trying to come up with a cool code-name he accidentally slips on a spilled drink and is summarily dubbed "Fumbles", much to his chagrin. He jumps over to Cobra to get revenge and is suggested an equally horrible code-name ("Trouser-Snake" because he's in Cobra and has cool pants) which he accepts resignedly. He turns out to be an incredibly Badass Cold Sniper who single-handedly destroys the Joes (save for Duke, who he leaves alive), with Cobra Commander nervously congratulating him:
Cobra Commander: Uh, Good job, Trouser-Snake.
Fumbles: Fumbles. It was always Fumbles.
Most supervillain names on The Venture Brothers. Seriously, Phantom Limb? Doctor Girlfriend?
Then you have names of minor villains, like "Intangible Fancy," "White Noise," "Mr. Monday," and how about "Tigerrific?"
Lard Nar runs into this problem in Invader Zim when, while scrambling to decide the name of his resistance movement before hailing the Irken armada, he finally settles on his crewmate Spleenk's suggestion...
Lard Nar: We are... the Resisty! We have come to strike...
Almight Tallest Red: Whoa whoa whoa! Did you say "the Resisty"?
Lard Nar: Yes, yes, the Resisty! Anyhow, we have come...
Almight Tallest Purple: That's a stupid name.
Lard Nar (to his crew): See, I told you it was stupid! Why do I keep listening to you!?
Spleenk: I don't know.
Dorkus on Jimmy Two-Shoes
Changed Daily in The Secret Show gets a ridiculous name every day, much to the amusement of whoever hears it whenever it's announced.
In the third Jimmy Timmy Power Hour, Jimmy and Timmy created a villain and named him "Shirley".
Totally Spies!: Jerry's Evil Twin created a team of villains and named it League Aiming to Menace and Overthrow the Spies and even had t-shirts with the acronym before someone pointed out it's L.A.M.O.S.
In a similar vein, the League of Super Evil (LOSE)and Uniform Neighborhood Code of Orderly Living (UNCOOL).
The Life and Times of Juniper Lee was another show where groups had trouble with acronyms. One group of villains was the high-tech hate group Humans for the Abolishment of Magic. The later episode "Sealed with a Fist" featured the nefarious League Of Villainous Evildoers, opposed by Heroes Against Terrible Evildoers. In defense of both those groups, none of their members were all-too bright.
Regular Show Rigby legally changed his name into Trash Boat, by taking an advice from a rock star named The Urge. But The Urge later attacks Rigby because his stupid name overshadowed his band.
The Red Guy from Cow and Chicken has many pseudonyms, and all of them are dumb, all of them also referring to the the fact that he doesn't wear pants. These include Mike Hiney, Officer O'Fanny, the King and Queen of Cheese, Larry the Molting Fairy, Dr. Lackslacks, Officer Pantsoffski, Mr. Lackapants, Major Wedgie, Ben Pantsed, Mr. Clearbottom, and in I Am Weasel, I.B. Red Guy.
In Billy and Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure, the song "Scary-O" (which Billy starts because, according to him, "they always have songs in animated movies") is performed by Sergeant Pooper's Lonely Fart Club Sandwich, which is produced by Billy and the Butt-Tones Undermath Records. Uh... yeah.
The Beetlejuice episode "The Neitherworld's Least Wanted", had a gang of villains who called themselves the Society of Neitherworld Outlaws, Thugs, Rogues, Antagonists, and Gangsters, aka S.N.O.T.R.A.G.
Baseball Episodes of Looney Tunes tend to have teams with silly names. The short "Baseball Bugs" had the Gashouse Gorillas and the Tee Totallers. Another short, "Gone Batty", had the Greenvile Goons and the Sweetwater Shnooks.
Real Life
A historical atlas of New York City described the turfs of gangs in the early 1900s—Post "Gangs of New York", but pre-Prohibition. One of the gangs was named "The Pansy Gang".
There is a still-active gang in Chicago called the Gaylords.
Detroit had The Purple Gang, mentioned by name in the song "Jailhouse Rock". (They were the whole rhythm section.)
In a similar vein, University of Hawaii's sports teams used to all be called The Rainbows, which couldn't have helped their win/loss record at all. After all, nobody wants to get their asses whipped by a team named "The Rainbows." It was partly because of this that men's teams were eventually allowed to choose their own nicknames.
In an attempt to cut down on gang activity, the Fullerton, California city council changed the name of a neighborhood from "Bakerstreet" to "Iris Court". As for whether it worked or not? This was about 10 years ago, and overall gang activity in the city is down. Hard to say if that particular street name change had any effect.
B.A.D.D. Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons
B.A.A.D.D. Beale Airmen Against Drunk Driving at the Beale Air Force Base. "We're looking for a few more B.A.A.D.D. drivers."
The former CINCUS (Commander in Chief, United States Fleet), pronounced "sink us".
The leading organization for the preservation of traditional marriage in the USA is the National Organization for Marriage, or NOM. They don't seem to mind the acronym.
One of their campaigns was called "Two Million For Marriage", which they abbreviated "2M4M".[9]
There was a motorcycle gang in the '80s called the Cupcakes. When they were involved in drug dealing, newscasters often had to preface stories about them by saying things like, "Don't let their name fool you--they're dangerous."
Canada's Reform party for a brief time was named the Canadian Reform Alliance Party, but you can just call them CRAP. Their full name was the Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance Party, but the extra initial just meant it could be construed as "See? Crap!" Which was really no better. To nobody's surprise, this name was the brainchild of its first leader, Stockwell Day.
Similarly, the USA had "the Committee to Re-Elect the President" during the Nixon years. Technically CREP, but critics had little trouble turning it into CREEP.
One obscure, and fairly recently-devised first name is pronounced "Absidy" but spelled... wait for it... Abcde.
I guess this is quite possibly one reason why the other white supremacist group, The Knights of the White Camellia, didn't last long.
When the US Tea Party movement was in its infancy, some members actually called themselves "Teabaggers", in reference to the early protests involving things like mailing massive numbers of tea bags to members of Congress. This stopped when someone found out what teabagging was. Using the name now, or bringing this up, is generally not recommended, and is used in a derogatory manner by critics of the movement. This derogatory was ushered in by a Hurricane of Puns mockery by then-MSNBC commentator David Shuster.
Amateur video game designer Matthew Dickie, who claims he wears his name as a badge of pride despite having since legally changed his name.
Lev Romanov was a promising Soviet politician in the 1980s and, as the Leningrad party boss, was near the top of the Communist Party hierarchy. But one thing kept him from going any higher, and caused Mikhail Gorbachev to become the General Secretary in 1985. No-one in the Soviet Union wanted to be led by someone with the name of the family deposed by the Bolsheviks. The Communists probably regretted not going with him a few years later.
Renault (or some variation) is a fairly common name in France. Some people aren't pleased at all with the automaker's tendency to name its cars after girls' names.
For example, their legal troubles with the parents of a girl named Mégane Renaud made local headlines for a while. They're also accused of killing the use of Clio as a girls' name, and Zoé might now be in danger as well.
Somewhere, Ford Prefect must be laughing his arse off.
Hermione Granger's Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare (SPEW) in Harry Potter was actually named for a real-life Victorian feminist society in England, the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women... which eventually had to rename itself the Society for Promoting the Training of Women (SPTW) because of its amusing acronym.
The Fudge Town Mafia Crips
In late 2007, the South-Lake Union community in Seattle, Washington was pleased to be the home of the first new rail line in the city in 30 years. Residents just couldn't wait to ride the South-Lake Union Trolley! It was quickly re-christened a "streetcar".
The Wisconsin Tourism Federation...think about it.
By the same token, the World Taekwondo Federation, the international governing body of Olympic and Olympic-recognized Taekwondo.
The first owner of the Miami Marlins was *this* close to naming the then-debuting franchise the "Florida Flamingos" (with pink jerseys and all) before being talked out of it by the design director of MLB Properties.
M.I.L.F. - Moro Islamic Liberation Front (yes, really).
The Rank of Petty Officer in the Navy is a bit demeaning for some, even though its equal to the rank of Sergeant.
Creamy White Finishing Sauce, a product made by MasterFoods, whom one could only hope fired the marketer who thought that name up. The truly tragic part is, customers who actually bought it said it was actually pretty good if you just ignore the name on the package.
Nad's. Oddly, it seems the name hasn't kept it from being one of the most popular hair-removal products in the industry.
↑ Given his origin, why the hell didn't he call himself the Mongoose? "Let the snakes among men beware!"
↑ Actually, Blistik was a brand of lip balm made by Blistex.
↑ Spoofed in one The Simpsons comic, which had Apu, Flanders, and Comic Book Guy team up to fight crime as the Better Business Battalion. The cover had them rejecting Homer Simpson, in costume as Fatter-Eater Lad.
↑ A rather silly car made by the Ford motor company for the British market. For those of you familiar with Harry Potter, it's along similar lines to the Ford Anglia
↑ a type of Clam, pronounced GOO-ee-duck
↑ Though this is not exactly accurate, the first World Cup they qualified for is actually in Spain on 1982.
↑ Renaming the hockey team seems to have worked, however: that same year, they won the Stanley Cup, and have been contenders in most seasons ever since.
↑ Silly, "Fuchs" is just German for "fox".
↑ (a personals-ad abbreviation for "two men seeking additional man for threesome")
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1. Wired Controller for PS2 Console, Dual Vibration Game Controller Gamepad Remote for Playstation 2 PS2 with Long Cable Black
Features :
🎮 【Product Compatibility】:P2 Gamepad perfect compatible with all P2 games, 360-degree positioning with ultra-accuracy, high sensitivity and fast response
🎮 【Magnetic Ring Design】:Provide optimal signal clarity and shielding to minimize interference. ensure transmission of the highest quality audio and video signals, improve audio and video quality. Giving you an excellent gaming experience.
🎮 【Easy to Use】:Plug and Play, no extra drivers needed, Just plug & play, No driver needed. Compared with the wireless controller,P2 controller powered by using wired cable, no need to change batteries, more stable connection, no delay
🎮 【Perfect Game Experience】:The P2 controller offers dual vibration, Let the game more realistic, ergonomic design, you can enjoy the fun of the game
🎮 【After Sales Support】:Our product 100% extremely strictlyth 0.65
Length 4.1
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2. Wireless Controller for PS2 Play station 2 Dual Vibration 2 – ClearBlue and ClearPurple
Features :
NOTE: THIS ITEM IS NOT MADE BY SONY AND IT’S A THIRD PARTY PRODUCT. It is Burcica brand product
Ergonomic Design Controller: The most classic shape PS2 controller perfectly fit palms, all the buttons and controls make your hand very comfortable for long periods of gameplay. It must be a big surprise when your kids or your friends receive these beautiful controllers.
Double Shock Remote: Our Wireless controller for PS2 built in two electric motors makes each hit, crash and explosion is more excite and realistic, you will feel the rumble in the palm of your hand
8 Action buttons with pressure sensitivity w/ Twin analogue sticks and directional thumb-pad,2.4g Wireless Receiver Included ; Requires 2 batteries (not included),Optimized performance for every game,botton pattern random
EXCELLENT SERVICE – If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. Please believe that we will put the customer experience first. We will provide you with the best solution.
Additional Info :
Color ClearBlue and ClearPurple
Item Dimensions
Weight 0.1
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3. PS2 Controller to USB Adapter Converter, 2 Pack Compatible with PS1/PS2 Controller Gamepad to PS3/PC Controller No Need Driver
Features :
Type: PS2 To PS3/PC Controller Converter, connect to your PS3 or PC USB Ports.
Function: Adapter to use your PS2 controller on PS3 console or PC/Laptop, fully compatible with the console and control.
Use: Converts PS2 or PS1 vibration controller to play with PS3 games on PS3 system, without requiring any external power or driver to operate. Easy to set up and use.
Compatible With: All original and third party for PS2 Controller (wired and wireless), supports most of for P3 games and for P2 or P1 vibration controllers, can be directly used with PC computer.
Application: Support wired For PS1/For PS2 hand lever and wireless For PS1/For PS2 hand lever. Applied on PC/For PS3.
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4. 2Pack 6Ft Controller Extension Cable for PS2, 1.8m Controller Extension for Sony Playstation 2 PS2 Game Console
Features :
★ 【Power Specifications】: The length of our Cords is 6 feet – about 1.8M.
★ 【Product Compatibility】: Compatible with PS2 Controller, Perfect to Replace Your Lost or Broken Cable,Protects Console from Trip Damage.
★ 【Safe and Durable】: High quality copper wire inside for optimal signal clarity to guarantee no lag during your gaming time. The copper pins connector heads slot in easily and steadily, and won’t get loose or fall out of your devices. Premium PVC housing, flexible and tangle free.
★ 【Easy to Use】:Plug&Play-Easy to use PS2 extension cable for your PS2 controller with effortless plug & play operation, no worry of the disconnection during the games.
★【After Sales Support】:Our product 100% extremely strictly before selling, You can give it as a gift to your family, friends, classmates and anyone, especially your children.If you have any issues for this product, please contact us by Amazon message, we will provide you satisfied solution at first time.Content:2 X Cable.
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Item Dimensions
Height 0.65
Width 4.1
Length 5.3
Weight 0.1
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[Double Vibration] This controller adapter supports the double vibration feedback function on the original controllers, supports analog / digital mode.
[Easy to use] USB interface, plug and play.
[Compatibility] Our controller adapter is compatible with Win98, Win Me, Win2000, Win XP, Win Vista and Win7.
[Good Quality] The adapter adopts ABS material is well made, durable and reliable to use.
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Color default
Item Dimensions
Height 0
Width 0
Length 0
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6. Mcbazel Playstation 2 Controller to USB Adapter for PC or Playstation 3 Converter Cable for Sony DualShock PS2 PS3 Controllers (NOT Compatible with Dancing Mat Guitar Hero)
Features :
Use your PlayStation 2 controllers on the PlayStation 3 console
Cheapest way to recycle existing PS2 controllers
Simply connect PS2 controller to the adapter, then plug the other end of the adapter into an available USB port on the PS3
Length: 18″ / 45.72cm
NOTE: Does not provide the motion sensing capability featured on PS3′ s SIXAXIS wireless controller. May not be Compatible With all PS3 games due to Sixaxis function and PS button on PS3 controllers. Length: 18″ / 45.72cm. NOT compatible wit dancing mat, Guitar Hero, drum ..etc but the Joypad controller only.
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Item Dimensions
Weight 0.03
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7. OSTENT PS2 to Xbox 360 Controller/Wheel/Dance Pad Adapter Converter Compatible for Microsoft Xbox 360
Features :
Converts PS1/PS2 controller to XBOX360 with no delay, lag or dropped inputs
Directly connect & play without the need of a wired Xbox360 controller
Supports Xbox360 headsets
Supports vibration feedback
All buttons, directional pad, and analog sticks are fully converted
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8. Original Gamer Game Controller Metal Enamel Keychain Backpack Small Cute Colourful Unique Cartoon Collection Ps2 Gameboy
Features :
✐Adorable Game Controller Keychain
✐Perfect To Place On Backpack For Back To School!
✐Perfect For Gifts For Gamers!
Additional Info :
Color Black
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9. OSTENT PS1 PS2 to PC Computer USB 2.0 Controller Adapter Converter Compatible for Sony PS2 Wired Controller
Features :
Works with SONY Playstation 1, PSX and Playstation 2 controllers, guns, and dance pads
Supports Dual Shock Real Vibration Function on supported games and digital/analog mode
Easy and convenient to use
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10. Finera USB 2.0 Games Controller Adapter Converter Cable, Compatible with Sony PS1 PS2 Playstation Dual Shock 2 Joypad Gamepad to PS3 PC Game
Features :
★ Widely Applicable: Works with Sony Playstation 1, PSX and Playstation 2 controllers.
★ Easily Install: Easy and conveninet to use, simply hot-plug the PC USB socket and install the driver, then it works perfectly.
★ Enhance Game Experience: Supports dualshock real vibration function on supported games and digital/ analog mode. Support most of PC games, can be directly used with PC computer.
★ Compatible with Many Models: with Win98, Win98SE, Win Me, Win2000 & the newly announced Win XP, Win 7 together with the direct X 7.0a or above .
★ Package Include: 1 X USB Controller Adapter Converter ( Not Include the Driver )
Additional Info :
Color Black
Item Dimensions
Weight 0.04375
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As a premier Denton estate planning and business planning law firm, we do more than prepare your financial future — we protect your legacy. No matter what kind of assistance you need, from asset protection to special needs planning, our team is here to help. Call us today at (940) 594-7754 to schedule a consultation.
Everyone has an estate plan, including you; the only question is whether you create it for yourself or the government creates it for you. When someone passes away without a plan, the government decides what happens to their assets. Here’s the bottom line: Everyone needs an estate plan, regardless of their net worth. However, financial preparation is more critical for some than others.
If you care for a family member with special needs, failing to properly organize your assets can have devastating effects on their future. It can jeopardize their care, leave them disenfranchised, and even render them ineligible for disability benefits. That’s no way to leave a legacy.
Some people think the solution to this is to print estate planning documents and get started alone. However, estate law is complex, and unless you’re a lawyer, you can’t be sure you’ve covered every base and eliminated all possible mistakes. Luckily, Denton’s top special needs planning attorneys are right around the corner at Hunter Sargent, PLLC. Keep reading to learn why our services can be essential to your family’s well-being.
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Why Do I Need Special Needs Planning?
People with serious physical or developmental disabilities have special needs. They are often unable to care for themselves or live independently, so they rely on trusted caregivers, long-term care facilities, or nursing homes. However, quality care is expensive, so many people with special needs receive government benefits from Social Security and Medicaid.
If you’re the parent, grandparent, or primary caregiver to a person with disabilities, you’ll probably want to leave them an inheritance. However, this is where things get tricky. If they inherit a large sum of money, they may not qualify for the government benefits they did previously, and comprehensive care can quickly drain their assets. But don’t worry — there’s an easy way to prevent this from happening.
The goal of special needs care planning is to make sure your loved one can receive your funds without losing eligibility to benefits. By working with a special needs planning attorney, you can ensure they have a comfortable, safe future, even after you’re gone.
What Is a Special Needs Trust?
Trusts are a reliable, commonly used estate planning tool. These legal agreements consist of three parties: the grantor who issues the trust, the trustee who oversees it, and the trust’s ultimate beneficiary. Money placed in a special needs trust doesn’t count toward the beneficiary’s assets, meaning they can still receive Social Security and Medicaid benefits. However, trust distributions may only be used for certain expenses.
Spending a Special Needs Trust
Beneficiaries can use money in this type of trust to cover a wide range of expenses, including the following:
Medical devices like wheelchairs
Computers and other technology
Public transportation
Personal vehicles
Rehabilitation and therapy
Insurance premiums
Specialized job training
Recreation and entertainment
Tuition
Business startup costs
Other healthcare expenses
Although a special needs trust covers a variety of large expenses, it cannot be used to pay for everyday items like food or housing. If the individual with disabilities does use the special needs trust for these purposes, the government can designate the amount spent as countable income, meaning it may disrupt eligibility for public benefits.
Other Factors to Consider with Special Needs Planning
When it comes to special needs planning, creating a trust isn’t all you’ll need to do. An experienced special needs planning attorney can help make sure all of your bases are covered by also reviewing the following:
Transition planning. For parents of adolescents with special needs, it’s important to set up a plan for how they will transition into adulthood with as much independence as possible. Parents should design an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) to address the academic, social, and life skills their child will require.
Guardianship. If a child with special needs will be unable to make important decisions on their own, parents or family members may want to establish a guardianship. This will allow someone to look out for and protect the best interests of the individual.
Government benefits. As previously discussed, eligibility for benefits programs will be based on the income and assets of the person with disabilities. Rather than protecting the beneficiary, receiving a sum of money or inheritance may inhibit them from receiving essential support, so it’s important to plan accordingly.
Beneficiary designations. A special needs planning lawyer from our firm will review your beneficiary designations to ensure they’re not in conflict with your estate plan.
Letter of intent. A letter of intent can help you communicate essential information about an individual with special needs to their caregiver upon your passing. It may include medical and educational history, likes, dislikes, habits, aspirations, lifestyle, quality of life considerations, and more.
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Congratulations! After weeks of research, comparing makes and models, and taking test drives you finally bought that brand-new car you wanted. But before you take that well-deserved road trip, check one more item off your list: the right car insurance.
While some auto coverage options are essential whatever the age of your car, new vehicles may carry some additional risks you should know about. So before leaving the lot, give us a quick call to discuss the possible coverage options:
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Loan and lease coverage. Consider what could happen if you financed your new car and then it was totaled or stolen soon after buying it. Not only would you lose your new ride, you’d still be on the hook for your entire loan balance — which would be more than the car was worth. With loan and lease coverage, you’d get a check to cover the gap between what’s left on your loan and the depreciated value of your car.
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OEM parts replacement. OEM (original equipment manufacturer) parts are often preferable to other aftermarket parts because they are made specifically for your make and model of vehicle. So if you want your Honda repaired with Honda parts, or your Mercedes to only have official Mercedes parts, this coverage is for you. When you buy this optional coverage, it’s added to your existing Comprehensive and Collision coverage so that all repairs or replacements made to your damaged car will include new OEM parts where available.
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Slime just never seems to get old! My 8 year old has loved it his entire life. Most slime recipes that we've found online call for a use of chemical glues, petroleum based dyes or pigments and borax that may cause respiratory, skin, and eye irritation.
Here's an all natural, kid-friendly slime with only 4 ingredients!
Supplies:
1 tbs Psyllium Powder (you can find this at various health shops or pharmacies)
1 tsp Cornstarch
1/2 tsp Earth & Mineral Pigment of your choice (I used Ultramarine Blue!)
2 cups of water
A medium sized pot
A whisk
Directions:
1. Place your pot on the stove top over medium heat.
2. Add in the three dry ingredients. Add the pigment first, then psyllium powder, and then cornstarch, mixing between each addition.
3. Keep mixing with a whisk over medium heat until you achieve the slime consistency you want. I kept mixing for about 10 minutes.
4. Let the slime cool. Afterwards, feel free to play with it or keep it in an airtight container! (Note: Although the slime may leave a few bits on your hands, it won't stain your skin!)
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For the past year, I have been wanting to update my website and I thought I had simply been procrastinating… yet I realized that it wasn’t procrastination as much as it was that I didn’t have a clear strategy of what I wanted the updated website to look like. NOW I DO! WooHoo!
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trees.’ It is easy for me to handle the marketing for my clients, they are awesome! Once I stepped back and took a look at what the past 2.5 years of Rebel Girl Marketing (RGM) have looked like (the good, the bad and the ugly) I realized that what the website was missing… ME! I need a brand refresh, RGM 2.0 you may say.
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Keeping Active When You Are Not Feeling Your Best
When I am sick, I find creative ways to exercise, even if it's just walking a short lap around the house to keep my strength up. I also make sure that I eat well and have a game plan for getting good food if I get sent to a hospital.
Jun. 18, 2019 | 5 min read
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When you have cystic fibrosis, it is so easy to lie around all day when you are feeling sick; but it is important to keep moving, no matter how small the task or how short the movement. Moving is great for supporting lung health, and it helps you cough up excess sputum, which normally plagues me when I am having an exacerbation.
Another critical activity is eating, especially when you are ill. If you do not eat enough, especially protein, your body will start to feed on your muscles. Eating well is vital for recovery and strength. Here are some things you can do to help yourself at home:
Take the long way to the bathroom. This may mean taking a lap or two around your house before using the bathroom and then doing the same thing on the way back.
Walking around your favorite store even if that means you haven't showered in a day or two and your hair looks awful. Don't care what you wear -- just get your butt there.
Tow that oxygen! On multiple exacerbations over the years, I've had to take a portable oxygen machine with me along to the store. It's heavy and cumbersome, but I just throw it in a shopping cart and start my hike around the store.
Tips for eating at home
I frequently have bouts of nausea while I'm on IV antibiotics. Certain foods -- even some of my favorites -- can cause me to become sick instantly. During this time, my husband lets me choose what's for dinner, and each night will be different. Sometimes I'll want a home-cooked meal, while other times I prefer quick takeout.
Pick foods that are rich in protein. Ever hear the phrase, “Protein helps you heal?” Well, I grew up hearing that, and each time my mom says it, I STILL have to give her a HUGE eye roll. It frustrates me greatly, but I know she's right … even if I never tell her that.
Sometimes when all else fails, just getting in calories is super important. When I'm on an IV, I'll eat my “growing food” first (protein, real food) and then -- to help my body keep on weight -- I'll reach for that blueberry muffin, brownie, or soft pretzel.
Hospital walkabouts
Take a walk (with a mask, of course) around the unit. Venture farther to other parts of the hospital or to other floors. Your care team will be quite impressed that you are taking the initiative to walk around and will not hold you back.
The easiest place to lose muscle mass is when you are in the hospital -- you may not be eating as much with limited food options, your bathroom is only three steps away, and the staff waits on you hand and foot. Get in your exercise by wandering around. Ask for a portable oxygen tank, make sure your IV pump is fully charged, and then walk. Before leaving, always let your care team know you are taking a walk. Be sure to walk between IV antibiotics and breathing treatment times, so you don't miss any medications or treatments.
Your TV and bed will always be there for you when you get back. Make sure to move when you get a little bit of energy. It's better to be moving slowly, then to be lying down all day just letting the infection fester.
Coping with hospital food
Definitely have your friends and family bring you good food. A limited hospital menu can get old really quickly, and your body will need the calories to help you keep your weight on and your strength up. Bring your favorite snacks to help supplement the hospital menu. If your friends and family are busy, don't forget that food delivery companies exist and can deliver orders to the hospital. Employees at all hospitals order out every day. Find out where the food delivery location is at your hospital, and start making some delivery calls.
I know getting off the couch when you are sick is the last thing you want to do. I know you are breathless, exhausted, spent, and are fighting hard. I'm with you! Just know that walking, even slowly, is great for your mental and physical health.
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Home » Renewed Focus at DFA
Renewed Focus at DFA
March 1, 2008
James Dudlicek
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New faces and a new emphasis on performance have begun to define Dairy Farmers of America ten years out from the historic merger that created the nation’s largest farm cooperative. DFA is the leading marketer of raw milk in the North America, and a manufacturing powerhouse, who’s portfolio of products is lead by the venerable Borden Brand. By James Dudlicek
The leading raw milk marketer in the United States, Kansas City, Mo.-based DFA also is a manufacturing powerhouse, making cheese, butter, a variety of dairy ingredients and other dairy and dairy-based products for retail, industrial, private label and foodservice customers through its Dairy Food Products division. Arguably DFA’s most well-known public identity is the Borden brand, under which the company manufactures and markets an expanding line of cheese.
“We continually focus on how to leverage the heritage of the Borden brand, while ensuring that Borden cheese products are relevant to today’s family,” says Mark Korsmeyer, president of Dairy Food Products, says of the brand, which boldly proclaims on each package that the proceeds go back to dairy farmers (DFA’s member-owners). “The number-one point of differentiation we communicate to consumers is the connection between DFA’s member-owners and Borden cheese. That connection drives the quality and wholesomeness of Borden cheese.”
The Borden brand has been connecting with consumers for many generations; in 2007, Borden celebrated its 150th anniversary.
Borden – along with other DFA branded products, including Keller’s and Plugrá butter, and the Sport Shake beverage products – account for thousands of SKUs and about half of DFA’s annual $2 billion in finished product sales. The remaining sales come from a robust contract manufacturing business, foodservice clientele and ingredients customers. “Our contract manufacturing will play a key role in future growth,” Korsmeyer says. “That business is growing at a nice, steady pace.”
Meanwhile, the division is exploring opportunities for growth through new products and line extensions that address consumer demands for health and convenience, as well as its first foray into the organic market (anticipated to debut later this year).
Leading the way are Korsmeyer and some fresh faces on his management team, including
John Stephens, filling the newly created position of DFP’s chief operating officer. With DFA for about six months, Stephens is heading up the effort to readjust the duties of sales and marketing with other units within the company for better communication and efficiency. This will bring more “clarity and focus for the organization,” he says. “We’re bringing people from sales and finance together in tight-knit groups to address challenges and, more importantly, bring different perspectives when identifying opportunities.”
The new organizational system aims to bring more centralized management to a business structure that historically has relied on local control. “We are centralizing, but we want to maintain the focus at our plant levels,” Stephens says. “We’re trying to bring the passion for solving customers’ problems. … We don’t want to take the autonomy away; we want more constructive and creative solutions to address customers’ needs.”
Form and function
Channeling that passion into brand development, DFA’s focus will be new products with taste plus functional benefits. “We try to bring the combination of great-tasting food with the functional benefits that moms feel good about when serving it,” Stephens says.
DFA’s answer is this month’s rollout of Borden Essentials, a line of sliced and snack-style cheeses fortified with vitamins A and E, antioxidants known to support a healthy immune system. “Cheese is a fun food,” Stephens says, “but with vitamins A and E added, it provides a healthy reason for a snacking occasion.”
The Essentials line is expected to go national by the second quarter of the year through a major big-box retailer, Stephens says. It’s a natural follow-up to the Borden Kid Builder line of fortified string cheese and processed slices, launched two years ago.
Meanwhile, DFA reports strong sales of its Borden Grilled Cheese Melts, a new processed sliced product with triple the calcium of regular processed singles, introduced last year. “It’s about an eating occasion – promoting grilled cheese for snacking and as a meal option,” Stephens says.
And DFA’s Plugrá European-style butter brand is the focus of a new marketing blitz to promote the specialty product as the choice of discerning chefs both inside and outside the home. Plugra has been adopted as the official butter of the French Pastry School and is being used in recipes by major restaurant and bakery chains, Stephens says.
Key selling points for the branded lines include Borden cheese products’ boosted calcium content, Plugrá’s higher butter fat content and the Keller’s seasonal butter sculpture formats. But Stephens says the trump card is at the products’ source. “The unique aspect we have over the others is farmer ownership,” he says of DFA’s 18,000 farmer member-owners in the lower 48 states. “Our members have a long-term commitment to producing high-quality dairy products. That message resonates with our customers and consumers.”
That message also gives DFA the unique position of being a large company that’s still able to take advantage of the growing trend toward locally produced food. “We have members in so many communities,” notes Janine Smiley, DFA’s director of industry communications. “And these members have tremendous investments in their local communities.”
To bring local commitment more into focus, a new campaign expected to be launched this year will include DFA members more prominently in marketing, namely specific farmers in local and regional markets “to show their commitment to their products and the community,” at the retail level,” Korsmeyer says. “Many of our brands have a regional orientation and are number one in their regions. We customize programs specific to our retailers taking into consideration our farmers and their locations.”
Contractual obligations
In addition to the cheese that’s in great demand from private label and foodservice customers, DFP is enhancing the extended shelf-life capabilities of its contract manufacturing business. Seeing innovation in this segment as a growth area for the future, DFA’s members have invested in low-acid canning facilities and is one of the few dairy manufacturers nationwide that utilize retort technology.
The company recently installed additional retort equipment in its Cabool, Mo., plant to increase its production capacity, and has made a significant investment in a new filling and batch retorting line that expands the types of packaging formats available to its customers.
DFA currently manufacturers retail and institutional products for well-known national brands and produces its own shelf-stable nutritional dairy-based beverage under the Sport Shake brand.
Over the past decade, the company has made a “renewed effort to expand into more traditional shelf-stable beverages where flexibility and innovation are key,” says Art Farris, executive vice president of DFP’s Formulated Dairy Food Products division, who directs DFA’s contract manufacturing activities.
In fact, DFP’s shelf-stable business – which includes sports drinks, coffee and milk-based beverages and infant formula – has grown from 360 million to 600 million units of product over the past eight years, Farris notes. “It’s one of the reasons DFA’s members have been so supportive of this product category,” he says.
That support has come in the form of additional dollars to establish and support a research facility in Springfield, Mo., where DFA’s manufacturing, engineering and R&D teams specialize in formulating shelf-stable, low-acid foods and dairy-based beverages packaged in glass, aluminum, plastic and steel containers.
“We’re going to see products move in and out of this category pretty quickly. That’s why it’s important to have equipment that allows us to be flexible to meet customer needs,” Farris says. “All of these new products are going to give greater breadth to this market than has traditionally been limited as to packaging and beverage types.”
Farris expects DFA to launch line extensions of its convenience-driven products. “People are looking for safety, for quality and for something that gives them nutritional value,” he says.
Growth in the shelf-stable dairy markets has been particularly strong with ready-to-consume coffee beverages and energy drinks. “The growth has been rapid,” Farris says. “The low-carb drinks of a few years ago opened up the marketing and packaging of nutrition in a different way.”
DFA’s R&D team spends about a quarter of its time on new research while focusing the rest on improving the quality of existing products and addressing new product demands. “Contract manufacturing going forward is going to be positive for DFA,” Farris says. “Our true goal is to deliver returns to our members and a quality, low-cost product to our customers. Our foundation is strong and we are in position to manage developing market trends.”
Challenges, opportunities
Rollercoaster commodity costs are an issue at DFA as they are throughout the industry. “Increased commodity cost has been a major challenge,” says Stephens, who brings to DFA the experience of stints with Frito-Lay, ConAgra and Parmalat’s bakery division. “It’s not the absolute increase. It’s the volatility we saw through 2007.”
Of course, this creates problems, which Stephens says are especially evident when working with foodservice customers trying to establish menu prices and plans for the year. Consistency is key for consumer confidence, he says.
But DFA is in a unique position as a farmer-owned cooperative, which seeks to get top dollar for its members’ milk as well as control costs on the manufacturing end. “Forward contracting and risk management are key ingredients for more continuity of costs in the future,” Korsmeyer says. “It is our goal to produce products and create a positive return on our owners’ assets.”
Energy and feed costs play a large role in driving up production costs for DFA members, whose costs are passed along to manufacturers, Korsmeyer adds. “This all adds up to greater cost impacts that we must manage,” he says. “Our supply-chain people deal with this continually.”
Heading up that effort is John McDaniel, vice president of supply chain and one of DFA’s new management team members. “We’re looking to hedge fuel costs to take some volatility off the table,” he says, along with consolidating the company’s carrier base for better efficiency.
It’s part of a new effort to work more closely with customers and suppliers in moving raw materials and finished goods. “You’re going to see industries in general working more closely with customers and suppliers,” McDaniel says. “It really cries out for more of a team effort. We’re talking to customers about things we can do to help save them money.”
Until McDaniel arrived in December 2006, DFA had no centralized supply chain organization, which is typical for organizations that have merged and have a variety of systems in place. His task was to centralize logistics, purchasing, warehousing and transportation activities. “We’ve taken a more holistic, global approach, to take advantage of efficiencies across our organization that may have been overlooked,” he says.
One thing McDaniel’s group is studying is how to reduce the cost of transporting fluid milk used to make various food products. Making a concentrate by removing the water would help reduce transport costs, but he notes that such a move would depend on the standards of identity for products to be made from the milk.
“The marketplace is becoming more competitive. Customers are getting larger and they expect us to drive costs down,” McDaniel says. “There’s no stone unturned. We’re looking at every area we can. There’s only so much you can do to manage commodity costs.”
McDaniel’s group sets annual goals that he expects will eventually “drive millions of dollars” of efficiencies over the coming decade. “We got several million dollars in savings in 2007,” he says. “We expect to get double that in 2008 and the same levels over the next five to 10 years.”
By improving its position regarding the cost of doing business, DFA can concentrate on seizing new opportunities for its products at home and around the world. “Number one are better-for-you products with line extensions of our brands,” Korsmeyer says. “Secondly, we need to continue to focus on a shorter product cycle in our go-to-market strategy.”
Also important are exports. DFA currently exports cheeses, butter oil, dry powder and ingredients overseas to customers in Europe, Korea and Japan. “We need to adjust our mindset of building a base of international customers for the long term,” Korsmeyer says.
“U.S. manufacturers must shift from “spot sales” to “longer-term demand sales.”
DFA is well positioned for doing business in the Pacific Rim, Korsmeyer says; the company’s key assets include farmers and plants in California, in good proximity to Asian markets. “Our whole business model in the West gives us tremendous opportunity,” he says.
Valuable resources
Korsmeyer, who reports to president and chief executive officer Rick Smith, describes DFA’s management structure as “a pretty flat organization.” Smith once remarked to an audience at Dairy Forum soon after he took the reins at DFA that he hardly ever sees the inside of his Kansas City office. Korsmeyer concurs that DFA’s leadership spends a lot of time in the field.
“The business happens outside the corporate headquarters. Rick travels continuously to meet with our members and our customers; I do the same thing as my schedule permits,” he says. “When you get out with customers, understanding how they do business and developing relationships to help build their businesses, you’ve got a success.”
Also important are the DFA employees around the country. There are more than 4,000 employees in all, 2,200 of them based at 15 plants across the country. An array of training programs helps honor management’s commitment to its work force, Korsmeyer says. “Communication is a critical thing,” he says.
David Darr, vice president of sustainability and public affairs, agrees. “As we look at our business, people are the most valuable asset we have. The foundation of that is our members. They’re providing leadership locally in their communities,” Darr says. “We want to operate our business in a similar fashion, in the right way for the right reasons, with care for our people, the environment and the resources we use.”
Darr leads DFA’s sustainability efforts, providing a framework for bringing company-wide programs together. “We’re doing lots of great things to better utilize our resources,” he says. “We’ve developed plans … a lot of local initiatives that have been going on for a long time. As we look at our milk supply chain, we want to better understand what they’re doing on the farm, their strengths, where we can assist them.”
Last year, DFA launched its “Gold Standard Program” to promote environmental stewardship, “to quantify what our members do every day toward sustainability,” Darr explains. Included in these efforts are studies on a no-idle policy for trucks and a close monitoring of fuel use. Further, he notes, “dairy facilities are great recyclers,” and water extracted during manufacturing processes is treated and reused for sanitation.
No flavor of the month, sustainability is here to stay, Darr affirms, and it’s a policy that in many cases is being pushed along by key customers. “The dairy industry, we’re not ahead of the curve yet,” he says, “but we’re getting on the curve and speeding along at a rapid pace.”
History
Dramatic change within the dairy industry helped shape the creation of Dairy Farmers of America Inc. The presidents of four of the nation’s leading dairy cooperatives met in late 1996 to determine a strategy for improving members’ competitiveness. All the co-ops were successful in their own right, but a thorough evaluation revealed the enormous potential of working together.
The boards of each of the four merging cooperatives realized that by combining resources and assets as one organization, under one name and one vision, they could build better, more efficient and dynamic opportunities for members and customers of the cooperatives.
On January 1, 1998, DFA was formed, combining the resources, talents, leadership, markets, technology and vision of four cooperatives - Southern AMPI Inc., Mid-America Dairymen Inc., Milk Marketing Inc. and Western Dairymen Cooperative Inc. Two more cooperative organizations have since become part of DFA - Independent Cooperative Milk Producers Association and California Gold Dairy Products. DFA was created by dairy farmers with a common goal of each of the merging cooperatives to create a dairy marketing cooperative that would give its members the ability to compete in rapidly changing global business environment.
As a result of these mergers, DFA and the merging cooperatives combined their substantial resources to better participate and compete in a multinational industry that has experienced, and continues to experience, increasing consolidation. At the same time, DFA provides a grassroots organizational structure to ensure member-producers participation in the management of DFA.
Fast Facts
• Based in Kansas City, Mo., DFA has members in 48 states. Products manufactured by DFA are sold in every state and exported internationally.
• DFA is governed by its board of directors, which is made up of dairy farmer members of DFA who are elected on a grassroots level by the dairy farmer-members of DFA in the same geographic region. Each board member serves a two-year term and helps to establish guidelines that define the business directions for DFA as a cooperative food company.
• Rick Smith is DFA’s president and chief executive officer. He leads a team of more than a dozen upper-level managers who oversee the company’s various operating divisions.
• In 2007, DFA marketed more than 61.9 billion pounds of milk for its 18,278 dairy farmer members, supplying bottling plants and manufacturing plants that produce a complete line of dairy products for consumers in the United States and around the world. In 2007, DFA had sales of $11.1 billion.
• DFA manufactures American and Italian cheeses; natural and processed shredded and diced and cheeses; shelf-stable infant and adult nutrition products; dehydrated dairy products; nonfat dry milk; dried whey products; dairy and dairy-based extended shelf-life products; dairy-based dips and sauces; and other dairy ingredients. DFA manufactures Borden Cheese products, which include natural and processed cheese slices, natural chunk and shredded cheese, snack and string cheese, salted and unsalted butter quarters, and spreadable butter with canola oil. Borden-branded products are available nationwide at major grocery and mass-merchandise retail stores.
• Keller’s Creamery, a division of DFA, produces and markets butter products sold under DFA-owned brand names, such as Breakstone’s, Plugrá, Falfurrias and Hotel Bar.
• DFA’s joint ventures include Hiland Dairy Foods, Roberts Dairy, National Dairy Holdings, HP Hood, and Stremicks Heritage Foods, all involved in fluid milk bottling and distribution. DairiConcepts, Humboldt Creamery, and O-AT-KA Milk Products Cooperative are other DFA joint ventures and affiliates that serve other segments of the dairy industry.
• DFA’s state-of-the-art technical center in Springfield, Mo., includes research and development laboratories, a sensory lab for small-scale pilot plant that allows scientists to perform all current plant processes and provide manufacturing process testing for new products. Technologists can work with DFA R&D staff in developing new products, including shelf-stable dairy products, cheese, dairy-based flavorings and cultured products.
• DFA exports cream and other dairy products internationally to locations where DFA is aggressively developing new markets.
• DFA’s position on rBST: “DFA has a policy of choice for its members. Through each of its seven area councils, DFA works with its members to market their milk to available markets, and with its customers to supply the milk they require. Many of DFA’s members have elected to discontinue the use of rBST and sign an affidavit, so that DFA can market their milk to customers requesting milk from producers pledging that they are not treating their cows with rBST.”
Borden at 150
Over the years, Borden products have become part of American history. The Borden brand maintains high industry and consumer recognition and has become a multigenerational household name, dating back to 1857 when a visionary named Gail Borden established the nation’s first milk condensery in Burrville, Conn.
Borden products emerged in large part as a result of Gail Borden’s relentless drive to create better products for American consumers. Born in New York, Borden was a bit of a renaissance man by the time he reached his 40s. He had been a publisher, cattleman, surveyor, civil servant, politician and missionary. In the mid-1840s, he began to focus on methods to keep food from spoiling.
In 1853, Borden began working on a process to condense milk as a means of preventing spoilage, patenting his design in 1856. A year later, he established his first condensery in Burrville and called his emerging business the New York Condensed Milk Co.
Borden built more processing facilities in Connecticut, New York and Maine. The business quickly grew after the Civil War began in 1861; the Union Army called on Borden to supply condensed milk in large quantities. For the first time, consumers could rely on dairy products to remain free of bacteria due to his processing methods. As a result, the Borden brand became synonymous with quality and wholesomeness.
Borden maintained that reputation by establishing the “Dairyman’s Ten Commandments,” the guidelines and standards for barn and herd cleanliness which even today are the basis of many health department regulations. Borden’s sons, John Gail and Henry Lee Borden, were pioneers in their own right, establishing Borden also as a purveyor of fluid milk products in New York City in 1875, and a decade later selling sanitary milk in bottles. The business expanded to New York state and then to Illinois. The business further expanded with the sale of evaporated as well as condensed milk.
By the turn of the century, Borden reached $10 million in sales and the business was reorganized to allow non-family members as shareholders. In 1919, the firm changed its name from the New York Condensed Milk Co. to Borden Co. and Borden’s. The first annual report listed assets including 21 milk plants, eight dairy farms, 156 bottling plants, 70 city pasteurization plants throughout the United States and 3,400 horses and wagons.
By 1928, Borden had expanded to all regions of the country and became a nationally known brand. In the late 1920s, Borden acquired several of the nation’s leading ice cream and cheese companies.
In the 1930s, Elsie was created. She first appeared as one of many cartoon cows extolling the benefits of milk in medical journals. Doctors were so charmed that they asked Borden to send reprints that they could hang on their walls.
The first live Elsie was selected at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. The “Borden Boys” – young agriculture and dairy college students recruited to handle the cows at the Borden exhibit – were instrumental in choosing Elsie and taking care of her. In the 1940s, a study showed that more people recognized Elsie than President Harry Truman.
For nearly 70 years, Borden has used Elsie as its “spokescow.” So far, there have been 29 Elsies. Elsie continues on the road today making appearances at fairs, parades and special events. She is a symbol of the wholesome quality products that bear the Borden label.
Eventually, Borden Co. became Borden Inc., with six operating divisions: dairy, grocery, snacks, non-food consumer products, packaging and industrial products and chemicals. In 1968, Borden created Borden International, Inc., a mirror image Borden’s U.S. operations with just about every Borden product distributed in America also being distributed overseas.
In 1995, investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) acquired Borden. KKR divested Borden’s food interests, selling its Borden/Meadow Gold Dairies Inc. unit in 1997 to Mid-America Dairymen Inc. (a predecessor of Dairy Farmers of America), which was granted a license to use the Borden trademark on cheese and other dairy products. Control of Elsie the Cow and the Borden trademark remained with KKR and its successor companies. (Meadow Gold is now owned by Dean Foods.)
Borden Cheese products are now marketed through DFA’s American Dairy Brands division. Borden Cheese products include individually-wrapped cheese slices, natural shredded cheese, natural chunk cheese, string cheese and natural cheese slices and are available nationwide at major grocery retailers and mass merchandisers.
Borden celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2007 with events that commemorated the heritage of the brand and showcased hard-working dairy farmers and their families.
“It’s American farmers who back Borden brand dairy products, and it’s the families who embrace those products that have made Borden a highly recognized brand through the years,” says Mark Korsmeyer, president of American Dairy Brands.
The anniversary campaign featured donations of memorabilia to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and the New York Historical Society during National Dairy Month in June, including an original milkman uniform, 50 years worth of “Borden Boys” yearbooks and an original Gail Borden scrapbook.
SOURCES: Dallas Business Journal, Business
The DFA Family of Products
Borden
DFA’s flagship is the historic Borden brand, under which DFA markets an extensive line of cheese and butter products. Hitting stores now is Borden Essentials, a new line of sliced and snack cheeses fortified with antioxidants. Among other new Borden products is the portion-controlled 100 Calorie line, including cheddar and Monterey jack cheese sticks, along with the Li’l Snacks line of cheddar and colby-jack sticks. Answering the call for more natural cheese options are Borden natural slices in mild and sharp cheddar, provolone and colby-jack. The Grilled Cheese Melts, launched last year, have quickly found a following. Borden processed singles – which have triple the calcium of most competitive brands – encompass nearly 20 varieties in regular, 2% and fat free, all in an assortment of flavors. Borden Kid Builder products offer singles and string cheese in a kid-friendly format. The Borden cheese family is rounded out by an extensive line of chunk, sliced, shred and string cheeses. More information is available at
Keller’s
As a fully owned division of DFA, Keller’s Creamery produces and markets well-known butter brands including Keller’s, Hotel Bar, Breakstone’s, Borden, Falfurrias, Cache Valley and Plugrá. Keller’s has a rich history in the Philadelphia area, with distribution in the Northeast and throughout regional pockets of the United States. What is now known as Keller’s Creamery began as the Branch Valley Creamery in 1906, and was later purchased and renamed by Florence and Harvey Keller. Over the next 100 years, the company would grow to become the second-largest branded butter manufacturer in the nation. In 2005, Keller’s Creamery became a division of DFA. More information is available at
Sport Shake
Sport Shake teams up protein and carbs with calcium-rich milk, resulting in a creamy milk shake-like sports drink packed with power and full of flavor. The beverage comes in chocolate, vanilla and strawberry flavors. The Sport Shake Web site is designed to help consumers with their active lifestyles and how this product can be an integral part, along with information about the nutritional benefits of dairy-based products over other energy drinks. More information is available at
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While I was rebuilding this website with 2007-2008 archived content after recently purchasing the domain, I was reminiscing about the year 2008. As folks were cleaning up the banks of the Illinois River during their annual Illinois River Sweep, folks along the eastern seaboard of the US, including myself, were cleaning up after Hurricane Hanna. The phones of companies who offered emergency water damage restoration in New York City were "ringing off their hooks." What I really needed though was an oriental carpet cleaning NYC emergency service. I should know since my cousin owns such a company offering efficient, professional and affordable oriental rug restoration company serving the New York Metro Area. He's always telling me that my shoreline 2nd home is a potential disaster. Since everything in the path of the water including furniture and other household items, walls, and floors can become quickly saturate, damage starts within minutes. Having a coastal house is crazy he tells me. Well, when Hanna hit in 2008 and then Sandy in 2011 all his predictions came true. And since we couldn't return to the house for several days after the hurricanes move through, we couldn't even start a recovery which in turn causes dramatic increases in cost and time for removal and repairs since extensive contaminated material replacement and structural rebuilding may become necessary. Fortunately in Hurricane Hanna's case the damage was minimal. I can't say that was the case with Sandy. What the Friends of the Illinois River does each Fall is certainly admirable. So I applaud you with rescuing your old site from the attic of un-renewed domain registration.
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Enhance local awareness of issues directly related to the Illinois River.
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The Annual Illinois River Sweep
The Sweep is an annual event that cleans up the Illinois River and it's tributaries on the third Saturday in September - Make plans now to join us in September, 2008 for our 8th Annual Illinois River Sweep. We are ever so grateful to the volunteers. Without them, the sweep would not be possible. But along with the Volunteers, below is a list of Our Friends who help us each and every year with donations and their time that truly makes the Illinois River Sweep the success that it is today. To them we say, thank you! We ask you to visit their website and learn what our friends do and how they help us keep our Illinois River clean. We have some exciting news for our 2008 sweep - MoonAtMidnight, the online Batman apparel shop will be providing our Batman themed t shirts and promo campaign. This is the hands down worldwide favorite outlet for all the most stylish Batman apparel we know of and we are honored to have them onboard. So volunteer, tell your friends, be Batman for a day and help us make the waterfront a better, cleaner, and healthier place. Make Batman proud and fly his flag while doing a good deed - he would definitely approve.
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To Jonathan Sewall, 10 September 1760 JA Sewall, Jonathan To Jonathan Sewall, 10 September 1760 Adams, John Sewall, Jonathan
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Sir Braintree, post 10 September 1760 1
You have perhaps expected from me (according to the Custom of the World) some Expressions of my Condolance, in your unfortunate loss of Judge Sewal.2—To be plain, I always feel extreamly awkward, whenever I attempt, by Writing or in Person, to console the sorrowful, or to rejoice with those that do rejoice. I had rather conceal my own Sympathy fellow feeling in their Joys or Griefs, at the Hazard of being thought insensible, than express any very great Degree of Either, at the Risque of being tho't insincere.—The Loss is certainly great to you, and to the Province in general: But Providence can neither be resisted, nor perswaded, nor fathomed. Implicit Resignation is our greatest Wisdom, both as our Duty, and as the only sufficient source of Tranquility. Relying on this foundation, we shall endeavour to turn our Thoughts as much as we can, from irretrievable Misfortunes, and towards the means of procuring, according to the Probabilities of Things, future Peace and Pleasure.
And in this View, instead of grieving excessively for what can never be avoided nor diminished, I shall be so free as to ask your Opinion, and to set you on the search (if at any loss) concerning the following Point of Law Practice.—If a Writt tryable before a Justice, is served within six days or five if you pleas, of the Time of Tryal, or one at 46Court, within 12 or 13, what is the proper Method of taking Advantage of this Insufficiency? Must this be pleaded in Abatement? or must the Action be dismissed? Must Advantage be taken by motion or by Plea? The Law has provided that Court Writs shall be served, 14 days, and Justices, at least seven days before the Time of Tryal. And in general, what is the Method of taking Advantage of Insufficient services, and Returns?
And Query, also. Suppose A. leased an House, in 1756, for one Year to B, at ten Pounds Rent, for that Year, and after that Year expired B. continued, in the House Another Year, without any Renewal of the Lease, or any new Contract for any certain Rent. Would Debt for Rent, in the common form lye, for the Year 1757, at £10 also for the Year.—Should be glad of an immediate Answer to these Questions, especially the last, as upon that, turns an affair of Importance to me.
In the mean time, wishing you, amidst all the Perplexities and Disappointments of this uncomfortable state, as great a share of Happiness as your Genius and Virtues may be said in the Language of Mankind to deserve, I subscribe as Usual your hearty friend,
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Dft or LbC (Adams Papers); at head of text: “To Jona. Sewal.” Text is on fourth page of two leaves torn from the (missing) letterbook or miscellaneous journal discussed in descriptive note on JA to Sewall, Feb. 1760, above.
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Bernice Virginia McMahan Gibby, 88, of Thomasville, formally of Taylorsville, passed away at her residence on May 12, 2017.
A graveside service will be held Tuesday, May 16, 2017, at 2:00 p.m., at Land Cemetery, in Taylorsville. The family will greet friends at J.C. Green and Sons Funeral Home, in Thomasville, on Monday evening from 6:00-8:00 p.m.
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To the family of Ms. Bernice Gibby:
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TUESDAY, Sept. 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes baby in the baby carriage.
While that childhood rhyme used to be true, college-educated women in the United States are now more likely than ever to have a first baby outside marriage. They're also more likely than other women to have a wedding ring by the time they have their second baby.
"It suggests a change in the way that college-educated young adults are living their family lives, and change in the place of marriage in young adults' family lives," said sociologist Andrew Cherlin, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore.
That doesn't mean that most women are doing it. But Cherlin projects that 18% to 27% of college-educated women now in their 30s will follow this pattern.
Yet, it does suggest a historic shift.
The reasons are varied. Many college-educated women who are having babies outside marriage live with their partners. It's far more culturally acceptable now to have a baby while cohabiting than it was 20 or 30 years ago, Cherlin said.
Plus, college students are piling up more debt than they used to and seeing fewer economic returns from their education. Some studies have shown that people are less likely to marry while shouldering a lot of student debt, Cherlin said.
"You have economic factors and cultural factors pointing in the same direction," he said. "If you don't feel you're as economically secure as you'd like to be and if having a child outside of marriage is more acceptable, you may do that. I think that's what may be happening."
For a study published Sept. 6 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Cherlin looked at nationwide survey data to see when U.S. women were having children.
While he found that first births outside marriage were greater among women of all education levels, the greatest increase was among women with college degrees.
The percentage of college-educated women who were unmarried when they had their first baby jumped sixfold between 1996 and 2016 — to 24.5%.
The percentages were even higher among women with less education.
At least half of those with a high school diploma were unmarried when they gave birth for the first time, the study found — as were a majority of women with no high school or equivalency diploma.
For women in their 30s who had their first birth outside marriage, those with college degrees are more likely to be married by the time their second baby is born. College-educated women are also more likely to have the same partner for both children.
"For some college-educated young adults, we may be seeing a new family sequence in which you have a first child and then afterwards you marry," Cherlin said. "My findings don't show that college-educated adults are turning away from marriage, necessarily, but at the very least, the place of marriage in your life may be changing."
Christine Percheski, an associate professor of sociology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., reviewed the findings.
"The estimates are in some ways not surprising to those of us who study these things but are also important," she said. "They're important because they suggest both continuity and change."
A difference in the non-marital birth rate still exists by education, but the share of unmarried college-educated women giving birth has increased considerably, Percheski said.
She said education positions women better in the labor market and in marriage.
"College-educated women are just in a much better position to get rewarding jobs that pay well and they're in a better position to bargain with partners and, if they want marriage before kids, to get that," Percheski said.
She noted that for the last few decades, college-educated women have had higher rates of marriage than less-educated women. It wasn't always the case.
More research is needed to understand why it's happening, Percheski said, but it's likely a combination of all of these factors.
Does it really matter? Cherlin thinks it's worth watching.
Until recently, single and cohabiting parents have had less-stable relationships with their partners, which could result in less stability for children, he said. On the other hand, it may not, Cherlin added.
"I'm not sure how much this is a social problem. I'm not finding it necessarily is, but since we care a lot about the stability of children's family lives, that's something we should watch," he said.
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The Brookings Institution offers these thoughts on how cohabiting parents and married parents differ.
SOURCES: Andrew Cherlin, PhD, professor, public policy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Christine Percheski, PhD, associate professor, sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.; Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Sept. 6, 2021
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Is it called Friday leftovers? all of the random thoughts that I want to get out, but that might not all be connected. here goes.
- I totally failed ICLW. Its possible that I'll get caught up over the weekend, but as of right now, I totally failed.
- Work has been really stressing me out. I just can't seem to get ahead of the work curve, and feel like I am falling farther and farther behind. It is a kind of stressful job, but I love it. I just wish I could hit time out every now and then.
- My puppy is shedding and there is fur everywhere.
- ML just got some work that will keep him employed for a few weeks. I've been stressed out about him not having any work, so this is good. very very good.
- My boobs hurt. a lot.
- My shirts are all too short, probably because my boobs have grown so much. I need new shirts, and have had an order with old navy up in my browser all week, but am worried about money and not hitting the 'checkout' button as a result.
- We got released from the sex prohibition and I couldn't be happier :) Ml is quite happy as well :)
- I resigned from one community Board that I've been on for 5 years, and was elected president of another community Board that I started 10 years ago.
- My mom and I are going to the spa on Sunday, and I am so excited. I need to call and make my treatment appointment, but can't decide what I want.
- I can't stop thinking about the Greys Anatomy scene a few episodes back where meridith and derek were in the elevator and meridith started crying because she was jealous of Cali at her baby shower.
- We had our first ob appointment on Wednesday, which was awesome, and deserves its own post.
- I also saw my regular doctor on Thursday to check in after i quit taking my lexapro at 8 weeks.
- We usually celebrate christmas at my sister in laws house, but instead invited her and her family and my mother-in-law to come celebrate christmas with us. But now I'm wondering if we might be crazy. If the baby comes on time, we'll have a 2 week old at christmas. And a house full of people. We like them, and they'll help, but still. I don't want to set myself up for failure.
- We met with the Doula, and I want to write all about it.
- A friend of ours, the first ones we talked openly about our infertility struggles with, are in their 2ww following a second IVF cycle. I really really want this for them.
- My delinquent cousin has pushed my aunt over the edge... We are going to tour a boot camp that they want to send her to. I think its her only real chance at graduating high school and not ending up incarcerated. Again, I might be nuts, but I reiterated that our offer to have her come live here with us as another option if she refuses to go to the camp.
- Apparently I've got a lot of thoughts floating around in my head at the moment. I think I'm going to dedicate some time to writing this weekend.
Update: oh my god, I just read that my dear friend Augusta has lost her baby. I am simply heartbroken, devastated. She went thru so much to conceive her baby with more love and intention than I ever imagined possible. She has been the most incredible source of support for me, and it felt so perfect that we were getting to continue our journey together. I am shaken to the core. Her first OB appointment was on Wednesday, the same as me. She asked the Dr the same question as I "is the baby still there?" only she got the worst answer possible, whereas I got to breathe a huge sign of relief. How is this fair? How can this be? I just don't have any words, I am devastated. and I feel so helpless to help her thru this.
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Lauren said...
I'm so sorry about your friends baby:( That is awful.
I think you are taking on too much with the Christmas thing. You really need to relax as much as possible after the baby is born. So unless those people will come into your house, not cause you ANY stress, and do EVERYTHING for you, I would cancel Christmas plans.
And the deliquent teenager? The stress of her living with you would probably not be good for you and your pregnancy either. Although that is very kind and giving of you.
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E and R said...
You have a lot on your plate! Wow! Glad you are getting to go to the spa with your mom, hopefully that will be some nice, relaxing time for you! Congrats to ML for the work for a few weeks - hopefully another opportunity will present itself soon.
Christmas will be crazy busy - I would like to think that they will all help out a ton...or maybe they could get a hotel? Maybe if you express your concerns to them they can offer a solution.
Also, I kind of agree with Lauren - a delinquent teenager right now might be a bit much to take on.
My heart also breaks for Augusta - you sent me to her blog several months ago when I expressed the difficulty I was having with the whole donor egg thing, and she has been a huge inspiration to me. Praying for continued strength for her to get her through this.
Hopefully you can relax a little this weekend!
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marilyn said...
I am sorry to hear about your friend. That can never get easy to hear or to help heal. Time..and warmth from a good friend. I am sure that is all you can do.
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Laurie said...
I'm so sorry for your friend. I can't imagine.....
If you're unsure about buying the ON clothes there may be other options. Do you have a Clothes Mentor in your area? They sell gently used maternity clothes. I bought mostly ON maternity clothes too but definitely would have checked out CM if I had known they sell maternity clothes.
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Miss Mac said...
I hate to hear that about Augusta. It is especially hard to be around the same place and I can't even imagine what she's feeling. So unfair.
On the random thoughts, I can't think of one thing that helps shedding... we brush frequently with the furminator and it does not help. I found some maternity clothes at a local thrift store and plan to look for clearance winter clothes at one of the maternity stores soon. I do not want to spend much money on temporary clothing! Enjoy your day at the spa with your mom! My delinquent cousin dropped out of high school and my poor aunt is still paying for everything and helping him out of trouble (injuries from fights and such) six years later... go for the boot camp!
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Marianne said...
I am heartbroken for Augusta. What a nightmare. I feel so bad for her - and it makes me more scared about everything.
I'm so glad your OB appt went well girl. What awesome news!
Have fun at the spa!
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It's no coincidence that the first "Made in Africa" smartphone comes from Rwanda: The Mara Phone is manufactured in an industrial area in the capital Kigali, just down the road from a Volkswagen plant.
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The economic recovery of Rwanda after the 1994 genocide that killed more than a million ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus has gone into the history books as a success story — and it’s inextricably linked to Paul Kagame, who officially took power in 2000.
Read more: 25 years on, Rwandan genocide still reverberates throughout the region
While many Rwandans revere their president for the progress their country has made during his 20 years in office, others criticize Kagame for suppressing dissenting views.
Across Rwanda, Kagame is seen as a benevolent dictator, who pursues unselfish goals for the development of the country.
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One of his toughest policies — that of Umuganda — forces Rwandans to commit a few hours of their time to community service on every last Saturday of the month.
Effectively in control since 1994
“Paul Kagame is a dictator who rules Rwanda with an iron first,” said dissident David Himbara, “not since 2000 but actually since 1994.”
In 1994, after the genocide and the civil war, Pasteur Bizimungu officially became President of Rwanda. However, Bizimungu was commonly seen as a placeholder for Kagame, who at the time assumed the joint titles of vice president and minister of defense.
“In fact, however, [Kagame] had unlimited power in Rwanda from the start,” Himbara told DW.
Himbara is not simply a dissident; he’s a former insider who was once a senior aide and economic adviser to Kagame before falling out with the president, like many other former close confidants of Kagame. Himbara then fled to Canada, where he had grown up.
‘Aggressive, uncontrolled, violent’
Kagame previously commanded the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a Ugandan-based Tutsi militia, which ended the Hutu slaughter of Tutsis by defeating the authorities responsible for the killing campaign. Although the RPF is regarded by the majority of Rwandans as saviors, they are also accused of massacring Hutus.
Read more: ICTR: A tribunal that failed Rwandan genocide victims and survivors
Himbara believes that Kagame’s military past is still visible today: “Kagame became socialized in the war. He is a very aggressive person, uncontrolled and violent.”
Rights organizations have also made serious allegations against Kagame. Human Rights Watch, for instance, claims that since Kagame took office, people have been prosecuted for doubting the official government’s explanation about the genocide. The rights body lists a long series of murders, disappearances, politically motivated arrests and illegal arrests of critics, opposition members and journalists.
Kagame himself has, at times, unashamedly commented on such allegations, as in the case of former secret service chief and dissident Patrick Karageya, who was strangled to death at a hotel room in South Africa: “Rwanda did not kill this person. But I wish Rwanda had done it,” Kagame said.
A shining light for all of Africa?
Kagame advisor Jean-Paul Kimonyo, on the other hand, sees President Kagame as “a shining lights for Rwanda, Africa and the whole world.”
Kagame is the master of reinvention, believes Kimonyo, who is also author of the book “Transforming Rwanda: Challenges on the Road to Reconstruction.”
“First he became a soldier, then transformed himself into a statesman and a reformer, and finally gained international recognition,” he told DW.
Rwanda, one of the smallest countries on the African continent, is known beyond the borders for its stringent and effective policies. In Western countries, Rwanda is mainly associated with three political projects: equality of women, promotion of new technologies and environmental protection measures.
Kagame also prides himself as a gender equality pioneer. About 60% of the country’s lawmakers are women.
Kagame’s business policy is also repeatedly praised in the West. In the World Bank’s ‘Doing Business’ report 2019, which describes how economically friendly the 190 countries in the world are, Rwanda ranks 29th – the second-best African nation after Mauritius.
Progress or propaganda?
“Rwanda is one of the countries in Africa with the best and cheapest internet infrastructure,” Kimonyo told DW. Many government services are online, making it easy, for example, for entrepreneurs to set up a company on a smartphone.
Read more: Coronavirus: Rwanda imposes Africa’s first lockdown
Kimonyo believes that Kagame has also achieved much in terms of environmental protection.
As for Kagame critic Himbara, he calls this “hymns of praises and mere propaganda.” Kagame might have banned plastic bags, but he points out that Kigali doesn’t even have “a sewage system and all the rubbish washes into the rivers.”
A central sewage system in the capital is currently under construction; the government plans to connect all households to it by 2024.
In power for a lifetime?
From a legal point of view, nothing stands in the way of Kagame staying in power for many more years to come.
In a 2015 constitutional referendum, Rwandans voted overwhelmingly to allow Kagame to stand again for office beyond the end of his second mandate, which ended in 2017.
Kagame won the 2017 elections, with nearly 99% of the vote. In theory, he could run twice again, keeping him in power until 2034 — although his current term ends in 2024.
Dissident Himbara believes Kagame wants to stay in power “preferably until death.”
President’s advisor Kimonyo denies this, but points out how popular the president is.
“Here in Rwanda, a possible extension of our President’s term of office is currently not an issue,” Kimonyo said in an interview. “We want more prosperity and we need strong leadership for this. And Rwandans are currently very satisfied with their leadership.”
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File photo: HEKAN President, Reverend Amos G. Kiri speaking at the 53rd Annual Convention of the church at Gonin Gora in Kaduna on Sunday April 7, 2019.
By KATO P. LADAN, Kaduna
The President of the HEKAN Church, Reverend Amos G. Kiri has called on Nigerians in general and members of his church to make concerted efforts in ensuring that enduring peace reigns in Nigeria.
He gave the charge in his Easter message delivered on Sunday April 21, 2019.
“May I also use this medium again to call on all our members and the larger society for the need to allow peace to reign. In recent times, hardly a day passes by without one clash or the other around the country. Peace has eluded many communities due to banditry attacks, kidnapping, robbery and fights.
“I therefore want to use this medium to appeal to all and sundry to give peace a chance. The security agencies also must intensify their efforts by keeping watch over the lives and properties of citizens of this country. Nigeria cannot develop if we are not living in peace. Let us join hands and give peace a chance,” he charged.
In the text of the speech titled, “THE LAMB OF GOD GAVE HIS LIFE FOR MANKIND” he urged all to embrace forgiveness in the spirit of Easter.
“Though some of us have witness and celebrated many Easter celebrations, it is not out of place to remind us of what Easter is really all about. We celebrate Easter because the work of salvation of mankind was finished successfully on the cross of Calvary when Jesus Christ gave his life voluntary for mankind. He paid the costly price by dying on the cross of Calvary for me and you to be saved from the anger of God on the last day. The great work of forgiveness of sins was accomplished on the cross when Jesus Christ uttered his last words on earth “IT IS FINISHED” (John 19:30) meaning that:-
*Our sins are forgiven
*Jesus took our place and died for us
*He reconciled us with God the Father
*We are assured of life after death just as he rose victoriously from dead etc.
“Therefore, as we celebrate this Easter, let us imbibed the culture of Easter, which is forgiveness. If we forgive one another, we are practicing true Christianity,” he said.
He stressed that the great work of libration from sin has been done on the cross of Calvary.
“The Lord Jesus Christ was delivered over to deliver. However, the work of liberation is continues service. Today many people are suffering from all manners of atrocities committed by man. Man’s inhumanity to man is on the increase. Many people are under bondage. They need to be librated. The duty of librating one another falls on all who call themselves Christians.
“Therefore, we must show love to one another, the type of Love Christ has for us and gave his life for mankind.
“Suffering and hardship must not becloud our thinking and cause us to act like the rest of the world. We must continue to shine our light for the world to see.
“Our purpose on Earth is to add flavour to make the world a better place to live. As salt, we must not lose our flavour as losing it means we will be trampled upon, thereby making the world a miserable and chaotic place to live. We are the light and salt of the world. We must be seen in that light, in and out of season,” he charged.
Reverend Kiri urged all to see the essence of Easter and thank God for making it possible.
“As I conclude this short speech, I urge you to remember once again the purpose of Easter. Christ did not die because he committed any crime or any sin. He gave himself willingly to save us from eternal death. Therefore, use this Easter as an opportunity to thank God for the great work of salvation in your life.
“The Holy Scripture says, “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but was made alive in the Spirit…and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits…” (1Pt.3:18-19).
“Since death could not hold him, this is an assurance that when we leave this planet earth, we will live with him forever and ever.
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Duck hunting is the practice of searching ducks for meals and recreation. Industrial searching is usually prohibited, and duck hunting is in most cases an out of doors sporting pastime.
Many kinds of ducks and geese proportion the equal habitats and are hunted the usage of the identical techniques. It is not uncommon to take several one-of-a-kind species of waterfowl in the same day trip.
Wild geese were looked for food, down, and feathers global in view that prehistoric instances. Ducks, ducks, and swans appear in European cave artwork from the last Ice Age, and work of art in Ancient Egyptian tombs display men in hunting blinds taking pictures swimming geese in a entice.
By the turn of the century, commercial Ducks Unlimited Online Auction hunting and lack of habitat result in a decline in duck and goose populations in North America. The Lacey Act of 1900, which outlawed transport of poached recreation across nation lines, and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, which prohibited the ownership of migratory birds without permission (which include a looking license), marked the sunrise of the present day conservation motion.
In 1934 the USA government exceeded the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act, better called the Federal Duck Stamp Act. This program required hunters to buy a special stamp, in addition to a everyday looking license. Revenues from this system furnished most people of funding for duck conservation for many a long time and funded the acquisition of four.Five million acres of National Wildlife Refuge land for waterfowl habitat since the application’s inception.
Duck looking season is usually in the winter and fall. At this time of the year, the birds have finished raising their young and are migrating to warmer regions. There are three factors utilized by nearly all duck hunters: a shotgun, a searching blind, and decoys. The decoys are used to entice the birds within range, and the blind conceals the hunter. Once the birds are inside range, the hunters rise up within the blind and shoot the birds before they’re worried off.
The most typically used weapons are 12 gauge shotguns. In many regions, buckshot and larger shot is unlawful to use for taking migratory birds. Ten, sixteen, and 20 gauge shotguns also are used. Taking birds with a rifle is unlawful due to the inherent danger of taking pictures long-variety bullets into the air.
Duck hunting with lead shot, along with the use of lead sinkers in angling, has been recognized as a first-rate purpose of lead poisoning in waterfowl, which regularly feed off the lowest of lakes and wetlands in which lead shot collects. In the USA all shot used for ducks must not incorporate any lead. Steel is the cheapest alternative to steer however steel has a miles much less effective variety than lead due to its lower density. 30 to 40 yards is considered the most effective variety for duck hunting.
Although metallic is the most used shot, many hunters do no longer like its capturing houses. Steel is much less dense than lead, consequently, its powerful variety is reduced because of a faster decrease in velocity. Many corporations have advanced metallic shot by using growing muzzle-pace and making greater constant ‘shot’ or pellets. Within latest years, numerous groups have created ‘heavier than lead’ non-poisonous shot out of Tungsten, Bismuth or different factors with a density similar or extra to guide. These shells have extra constant patterns and more range than metallic shot.
Originally, a duck name turned into a very easy woodwind tool. It had a barrel, a sounding board and a reed. Hunters might grunt into the decision while pronouncing “hut”, “end” or “ut”. With the development of calls and calling strategies the satisfactory callers are capable of use no voice. The most generic and hunted duck in the United States, the mallard, makes the widely recognized “quack” sound many companion with ducks. Other species make many one-of-a-kind sounds, ranging from excessive-pitched whistles to very low, grunt-like quacks. There are calls for almost all species of geese. Pintails, teal, timber geese, diving ducks and different geese along with the calls of each the male, or drake and the female, or fowl.
In many species, the decision of the drake isn’t like that of the bird. Mallard drakes make a decrease pitch, longer quack than the fowl mallard. This name is regularly used while feeding and when a mallard drake is touchdown. The quack of a mallard drake requires voice and is replicated by using buzzing right into a special whistle-like name. This whistle is often called a 6-in-1 whistle, due to the fact that it is able to reflect six extraordinary duck species sounds.
In teal, the drakes make a name of quick bursts of a high pitch whistle. The “teet! (pause) teet! (pause) teet!-teet!” or any other order of repetition. This name can be made by blowing short bursts of air into the “6-in-1” whistle.
The majority of duck sounds human beings have heard and are acquainted with comes from ladies, or hen, mallards. Hen mallards are very vocal and this is probably why the number one name for duck hunting in North America is a chook mallard name.
There are severa kinds of systems that qualify as duck blinds. Blinds may be brief or everlasting. They are very effective at concealing hunters and making their movements un-noticed. For searching over water, the kinds of blinds are nearly limitless. Many of these permanent blinds seem like a small shack with an opening that faces the water and a portion of the sky.
Often creating a transient, natural blind as a method of concealment is a hunter’s great guess. This is performed with the aid of the usage of local grasses or flowers and herbal material and truely hiding in a tree, clump of grass or a shrub. More state-of-the-art natural blinds can also have massive logs or branches leaned collectively or tied together the usage of rope. Temporary blinds are common in blanketed and public regions where a permanent blind isn’t always allowed. Temporary blinds may be quite simple and commonly require a three dimensional enclosure to hide hunters from circling flocks.
With the developing reputation of boats in duck searching, many have chosen to use boat blinds. Boat blinds are used to conceal a hunter when searching out of a ship.
Duck season takes vicinity in the fall and winter where the weather can be harsh. Waterproof garb is vital to duck hunting. Most duck hunters hunt over water, and that they stand in water or in a ship. In order to stand in the water and live dry the hunter have to put on waders. Waders are water-proof pants that have attached boots and are absolutely water-resistant. Typical waders are chest high, however waist high and knee high waders are now and again used in shallow water. Duck hunting may be a completely cold sport and the hunter have to be well insulated from the cold. Ducks additionally have extraordinary vision which requires the hunters garb to be nicely camouflaged.
Duck hunters often use a dog to retrieve downed birds. Most frequently hunters use retrievers, and on occasion spaniels. The use of a dog gives some of advantages. As duck hunting often takes place in bloodless wet locations, the use of a canine frees the hunter from having to wade into cold water to retrieve the bird. This may be dangerous for the hunter, however is managed through a trained canine without difficulty. It also allows for the recovery of wounded birds that could in any other case break out.
Duck searching is tremendously regulated. Hunters are required to reap a searching license and face limits on the variety of birds that may be taken in an afternoon (bag limits) and the overall range of birds a hunter can own (ownership limits).
In the USA, hunters ought to also buy a federal duck stamp and regularly a kingdom stamp. It is unlawful to shoot ducks from a motor vehicle, a shifting boat, or to shoot sitting or swimming ducks. Many practices that have been once not unusual in business duck looking before the flip of the century at the moment are prohibited. In most regions, shotguns that may keep greater than two or three shells need to be changed to lessen their mag size. Legal hunting is performed “in-season” most effective. It is likewise considered excellent sportsmanship to make each try to retrieve dead or injured waterfowl the hunter has shot.
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The 2015 Scouting Combine did much to validate what was seen on film, and there were also many cases of players putting on a performance that made you go home and recheck the tape. Vic Beasley, Chris Conley and Byron Jones are the three most notable names in that category.
But there's no time to sit back and reflect as the NFL draft train rolls on at 500 mph now until April 30, when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers turn in their draft card with the No. 1 overall pick.
I left Indianapolis convinced the Buccaneers already know who they will draft with that first pick. Who will it be? Find out in this brand new two-round mock draft.
1. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
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The Pick: Quarterback Jameis Winston, Florida State
The NFL draft is two months away, but it's becoming more and more likely Jameis Winston is the quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Winston followed up two very good seasons at Florida State—including a national championship, a Heisman Trophy and just one loss—with a fantastic showing at the combine. His interviews and on-field work were that of a franchise quarterback. Winston is the best choice right now and moving forward for a Tampa Bay team with a massive need under center.
2. Tennessee Titans
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The Pick: Defensive Lineman Leonard Williams, USC
The Tennessee Titans don't have a sure thing at quarterback, but Zach Mettenberger showed enough at LSU and in his rookie season to believe he can be the long-term answer with another season of maturing at the position. With Marcus Mariota a bit of a project at the position, the Titans will look to win now by turning their defensive line into a huge strength.
Jurrell Casey is already a stud defender for the Titans, which makes adding a top-tier talent like Leonard Williams a huge boost for the defensive line. Williams has the versatility to play as a 5-technique or 3-technique, making him perfect for Ray Horton's defense.
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The Pick: Edge-Rusher Randy Gregory, Nebraska
Worried about Randy Gregory's weight? Don't be. Trainers told me thise. Last week he was at 245 pounds before getting sick and losing weight.
Gregory can bump up to a solid 250 pounds for his rookie season and play the "Leo" role in the Jacksonville defense. Chris Clemons has been the man there, and at 6'3" and 254 pounds, he's a great example of a smaller, agile defender playing to his scheme. Gregory also gives you versatility, because he's shown he can rush from a linebacker position and has surprising quickness and awareness in coverage.
4. Oakland Raiders
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The Pick: Wide Receiver Kevin White, West Virginia
Fans of the Oakland Raiders have not liked this pick in previous mock drafts, but after watching Kevin White run a 4.35-second 40-yard dash at 6'3" and 215 pounds, I'll bet they are coming around to it.
White offers the most upside, sure, but he's also the type of big, physical, violent wide receiver who can dominate a game. Amari Cooper is close behind him, and it may come down to scheme preference when looking at the two, but in my rankings, White comes out as the best wide receiver in the draft.
The Raiders have many holes, so a trade down would make sense for them if a quarterback-needy team is trying to come up for Marcus Mariota.
5. Washington
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The Pick: Edge-Rusher Dante Fowler, Florida
New general manager Scot McCloughan has been influential in building powerhouse football teams in San Francisco and Seattle. Now he'll take that mentality to Washington, where Dan Snyder's team needs an identity.
McCloughan has favored athletes with long arms and big hands in his previous stops, which is what makes Dante Fowler such a good fit here. Fowler is only 6'3", but his arm length of 33.75" is very good. Add in a 9.5" hand with an impressive 261-pound frame, and Fowler is one of the bigger edge-rushers in the class.
With Brian Orakpo set to leave in free agency, Fowler can step into this defense and be the complementary rusher Ryan Kerrigan needs.
6. New York Jets
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The Pick: Quarterback Marcus Mariota, Oregon
Too many fans have begun to think of Marcus Mariota as a consolation prize, or a quarterback not worthy of the No. 2 pick in this draft. He's definitely worth it, and he may even be the second player taken when the 2015 draft kicks off.
Mariota isn't Jameis Winston as a passer, but he can do amazing things with his mind, his arm and his legs. He's a top-notch athlete with a high football IQ, and that's a deadly combination given his upside, character and youth. Mariota is a bit of a project because of the Oregon offense, but nothing about his actual traits and tools is a project. He's capable of being a franchise quarterback.
The Jets need that—unless you believe Geno Smith is going to turn his career around. And unless the Jets sign a veteran quarterback in free agency, I'll continue to think the pick here is a quarterback.
7. Chicago Bears
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The Pick: Nose Tackle Danny Shelton, Washington
The Chicago Bears need an infusion of talent with new head coach John Fox and defensive coordinator Vic Fangio bringing a 3-4 defense to the Windy City. That transition can't happen in one draft, though, so expect the Bears to be smart about adding value and not reaching for positions.
With pick No. 7, Danny Shelton is the best value on my board and a need for the Bears in a 3-4 scheme. He's a classic 0-technique anchor for the three-man front. And while Shelton didn't wow anyone with his 40-yard dash times, he's 339 pounds and his 10-yard split (1.88 seconds) is right on par with nose tackles drafted in the past 10 years.
Baseball teams build from the middle of the field out, and smart football teams do too. Shelton can be the foundation for a new era in Chicago.
8. Atlanta Falcons
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The Pick: Edge-Rusher Shane Ray, Missouri
The Falcons won't run a 3-4 under Dan Quinn as head coach, but much like the Seattle Seahawks and Jacksonville Jaguars, they'll want a 3-4 style pass-rusher for the edge. Cliff Avril does this in Seattle, and I'm projecting the Jaguars will draft Randy Gregory to do it in Jacksonville. For the Falcons, Shane Ray becomes that Avril/Bruce Irvin-type player.
And while Quinn may want Dante Fowler—a player he recruited to Florida—Ray has the speed and toughness to fit into this defense. Just look at the hit he put on Blake Sims as evidence of his "take it to the wire" style of play.
9. New York Giants
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The Pick: Wide Receiver Amari Cooper, Alabama
Amari Cooper fans can rest easy—his draft day ends with a top-10 spot and a dang-good quarterback to get him the ball. And he'll play with Victor Cruz and Odell Beckham Jr. taking coverages away from him.
You might wonder why wide receiver is the pick for the Giants here, and that's valid. But everyone expected them to go offensive line last year and they drafted Beckham. General manager Jerry Reese is trying to build a football team—not reach for needs. And Cooper is the highest-rated player on my board.
With Cooper, Cruz and Beckham, the Giants would have one of the NFL's most dynamic passing games.
10. St. Louis Rams
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The Pick: Offensive Lineman Brandon Scherff, Iowa
The St. Louis Rams are facing another offseason of uncertainty along the offensive line, but this time they have an anchor in No. 2 overall pick Greg Robinson from the 2014 class and left guard Rodger Saffold. Now they just have to fill out the rest of the starting gigs.
Jake Long may be back in 2015, but he also may not be due to injuries and salary-cap room. Whether Long is or isn't a Ram next year, Brandon Scherff is an ideal fit for this team. The Iowa left tackle projects best to guard, but he could have a long, fruitful career at right tackle given his strength in the run game. He's technically savvy in tight windows and can be a dominant run-blocker on the strong side.
11. Minnesota Vikings
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The Pick: Wide Receiver DeVante Parker, Louisville
Reunited and it feels so good for DeVante Parker and his college quarterback Teddy Bridgewater. The two Louisville Cardinals need each other—Teddy needs a legitimate No. 1 receiver and Parker will step into an NFL offense begging for his ability in the red zone.
With freakish size, game speed and the ability to post up in the end zone, Parker has the skill set needed to open up the Minnesota offense with speedsters like Jarius Wright and the big-play potential of Cordarrelle Patterson. With 2014 surprise Charles Johnson being the team's most consistent threat last year, the 2015 Vikings could look a whole lot different at receiver.
12. Cleveland Browns
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The Pick: Defensive Tackle Malcom Brown, Texas
The Cleveland Browns just miss out on the big three at wide receiver, but general manager Ray Farmer passed on wide receivers last year when it was an obvious need. It's more likely the No. 19 pick—added in a draft-day trade with Buffalo last year—is used on the receiver.
With pick No. 12, the Browns are in a good position to beef up the defensive line. Phil Taylor had a nice career for a short time, but he's not a long-term plan at nose tackle. Malcom Brown can be with his 6'2", 319-pound frame and surprising quickness and burst from the 0-technique position. He can also bump down and play a shade technique if needed in a four-man front.
13. New Orleans Saints
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The Pick: Edge-Rusher Vic Beasley, Clemson
The great Vic Beasley's combine showing either made you a believer or had you looking up Vernon Gholston's combine numbers. Believers in the speedy Clemson edge-rusher now want him in the top 10 picks, but let's remember that Beasley weighed 233 pounds when his training began. Or that he weighed 220 pounds last spring, per NFL Network draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah.
Beasley is a monster, and I'll admit to moving him up my board after seeing him weigh in heavier and then move well with that weight. My biggest concern with him was always size, but if he can maintain this weight through his pro day and private workouts, I'll be very impressed.
For the Saints, Beasley's rise could be bad news. They sit right on the edge of where the edge-rushers are expected to go, and it's a major need in Rob Ryan's defense.
14. Miami Dolphins
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The Pick: Cornerback Marcus Peters, Washington
Take away the off-field concerns and Marcus Peters may go No. 5 to Washington. He might even with the off-field concerns.
The University of Washington dismissed Peters midway through the season, but the film he put out in 2013 and 2014 is some of the best you'll see from a cornerback—better than anyone in the 2014 class, and better than even top-tier player Dee Milliner (who was more upside than production at Alabama). Peters' on-field grade will be my highest on a cornerback since Patrick Peterson in 2011.
The Dolphins are good with Brent Grimes, but they could no doubt use a potential No. 1 cover man opposite him.
15. San Francisco 49ers
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The Pick: Wide Receiver Dorial Green-Beckham, Oklahoma
I wouldn't draft troubled former Missouri wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham in the first round on Feb. 24 (my grade on him is still pending), but I'm willing to bet some NFL team will. And the San Francisco 49ers have a habit of accepting off-field issues for on-field results. That perfectly sums up DGB, a player who would easily be in my top 10 players if not for his checkered past.
The 49ers need speed at receiver, and in Green-Beckham they get 4.49 speed on a 6'5", 237-pound frame. That's not quite Calvin Johnson, but it's pretty damn close. Michael Crabtree isn't giving you that size or speed, and especially in the red area, that mix of explosion and length would be dangerous for the 49ers offense.
16. Houston Texans
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The Pick: Edge-Rusher Bud Dupree, Kentucky
Lost in all the Vic Beasley talk was the day Kentucky's Bud Dupree turned in during linebacker workouts.
At 6'4" and 269 pounds, Dupree posted a 4.56 in the 40-yard dash, a 42" vertical jump, an 11'6" broad jump and a 1.60-second 10-yard-split. That's insane. Dupree didn't get the attention he deserved in the coverage I saw and heard, so here it is. He's a freak.
The Texans could use a freak like that on the edge. The future is completely unknown for Jadeveon Clowney after he underwent microfracture surgery on his knee, and with Brooks Reed hitting free agency this year, Dupree is a need now and into the future.
17. San Diego Chargers
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The Pick: Tackle La'el Collins, LSU
Don't be surprised if there is a run on offensive tackles and La'el Collins goes in the top 10—especially to the New York Giants. But for now, with no run predicted, Collins slides into the middle of the first round, but he has the skills to start at right tackle for the San Diego Chargers on Day 1 as they move D.J. Fluker to guard.
Collins had an impressive combine when looking at on-field drills. His times were a bit lost in the crowd, but he's been a consistent performer in the SEC while showing versatility and improvement each season. Want him at right tackle? No problem. Collins can line up protecting Philip Rivers' face or kick King Dunlap to the right side to protect the blind side.
18. Kansas City Chiefs
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The Pick: Strong Safety Landon Collins, Alabama
The Kansas City Chiefs need a wide receiver. You know it, I know it, they know it, the entire NFL knows it. But that doesn't mean they'll draft one in the first round, because the Chiefs also need to replenish the secondary, fix the offensive line and look at adding another inside linebacker.
It's easy to armchair quarterback it and say, "The Chiefs are drafting a receiver in Round 1!" but you have to have value to match the need. The absolute worst thing the Chiefs could do in the 2015 draft is reach on their board for a receiver they don't value. And with Jaelen Strong as the best of the bunch left—and with him not being a great scheme fit in the Chiefs' underneath passing game—there are other areas to fill.
With Eric Berry's future in doubt, Landon Collins makes sense here as a value and fit. He can be the anchor at safety until Berry can hopefully return, and in that future they can play alongside one another.
19. Cleveland (from Buffalo)
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The Pick: Wide Receiver Jaelen Strong, Arizona State
Jaelen Strong was not a good fit for the Kansas City Chiefs at pick No. 18, but he's an ideal fit for the Cleveland Browns at pick No. 19. That's because he's a deep threat with limited yards-after-catch skill underneath. The Chiefs want to dink-and-dunk; the Browns want to hit home runs. Strong is a home run hitter.
Strong has the size (6'2", 217 lbs) and speed (4.44) to take the top off the defense. He's a little stiff in his stem (where his route breaks) at times, but is enough of a straight-line guy to burn past defenders and then attack the ball in the air downfield.
20. Philadelphia Eagles
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The Pick: Cornerback Jalen Collins, LSU
This may be anticlimactic, but the Philadelphia Eagles need a cornerback. A big, rangy cornerback. Unless they sign a Byron Maxwell in free agency, Jalen Collins looks to be that guy. He might be even if they sign Maxwell or another cornerback in March.
Collins is my No. 2-ranked cornerback after the combine (and was heading into it) thanks to his size (6'1", 203 lbs) and what I saw on film as good speed and a toughness and confidence to play well in man coverage. Turn on the Alabama game and watch him battle Amari Cooper, and you'll see his 4.48 speed and good use of his length to fight for the ball.
The days of Bradley Fletcher are behind you, Philadelphia. Let Jalen Collins into your hearts.
21. Cincinnati Bengals
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The Pick: Linebacker Shaq Thompson, Washington
The Cincinnati Bengals face an offseason with Rey Maualuga entering free agency, Vontaze Burfict coming back from an injury-filled 2014 and uncertainty at the linebacker spots with young guys such as Vincent Rey and Emmanuel Lamur seeing major reps and mixed results.
One way to fix the linebacker spot would be drafting Shaq Thompson, moving Burfict to "Mike" linebacker full-time and letting Maualuga hold down the other starting spot after he outplayed Lamur in '14. A linebacker corps that was a weakness becomes a strength and gives the Bengals versatility in the middle of the defense they've never had under Marvin Lewis.
22. Pittsburgh Steelers
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The Pick: Cornerback Ronald Darby, Florida State
Ronald Darby tore up Monday morning at the combine, posting a 4.38 in the 40-yard dash to go with an impressive showing in position drills. This matches the film, and Darby's reputation as a track star is secure. But how does he look in coverage?
Darby has always impressed me as a confident, patient cornerback who uses his speed well. He doesn't gamble or bite on plays, and his coverage became such a known factor that many teams started throwing at P.J. Williams and avoiding his side of the field completely.
That's respect. And it's what the Pittsburgh Steelers don't have in their secondary.
23. Detroit Lions
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The Pick: Defensive Tackle Arik Armstead, Oregon
The Detroit Lions enter the offseason with four free agents at defensive tackle—Ndamukong Suh, Nick Fairley, C.J. Mosley and Andre Fluellen. Expecting even three of the four back next year is pretty far-fetched, and it means drafting a starting-caliber tackle is a huge need if there's a value.
And there's a value, all right. Arik Armstead is a massive man (6'7", 292 lbs) who plays with rare quickness and leverage. This isn't Ra'Shede Hageman or Daniel McCullers, but an athlete with movement skills and agility. He can play the 3-technique but has shown the versatility at Oregon to bounce around the line and be a matchup nightmare. Much like Calais Campbell, Armstead has a high ceiling.
24. Arizona Cardinals
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The Pick: Edge-Rusher Eli Harold, Virginia
Did you forget about Eli Harold in all the edge-rusher excitement? That's exactly what teams drafting in the back of Round 1 are hoping will happen.
The Virginia defensive end has length (33" arms) to go with speed (4.60 40) to go with production. He's able to use his first step to get into the chest of tackles but has to learn to use those long arms to keep his body clean and swat away at blockers. If you want to see a prospect use his hands well, Harold isn't your guy, but he does have the upside to learn that skill. Things like quickness, bend and agility can't be taught. Hand use can.
Given his athleticism and versatility, Harold is a perfect fit in Arizona's scheme and fills its biggest need along the way.
25. Carolina Panthers
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The Pick: Tackle D.J. Humphries, Florida
No player has moved more on my big board in the last month than Florida tackle D.J. Humphries. And this late first-round grade is 100 percent warranted on film.
I made the mistake of grading Humphries early off of one game (against Missouri), and he looked bad. Shane Ray attacked him, setting up inside pass-rushing lanes with a hard sell off the edge that had Humphries getting too much depth off the line of scrimmage. But then I started watching more, and Humphries' athleticism, length and recovery in other games was the opposite of the Missouri game.
A lesson in scouting: Never grade off of one game. So I've revised, and here Humphries is with the most upside of any left tackle prospect in this class.
That's great news for Cam Newton, as the Panthers found out in 2014 how important Jordan Gross was to them following his retirement.
26. Baltimore Ravens
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The Pick: Running Back Todd Gurley, Georgia
Sometimes a player just looks like he belongs on a certain team. Todd Gurley looks like an Ozzie Newsome running back. The Baltimore Ravens have a need at the position with Ray Rice released, Justin Forsett a free agent and no young back in the pipeline they can trust.
Gurley may not be ready Week 1 after suffering a torn ACL against Auburn, but before serving a two-game suspension in 2014, he looked like a Heisman Trophy candidate and a top-five player in this draft class. At 222 pounds, Gurley was running over, around and past defenders as a runner, receiver and return man.
Would you be willing to spend a first-round pick on a back who could take the pressure off Joe Flacco and grind out 1,300-yard seasons behind a very good offensive line? I would.
27. Dallas Cowboys
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The Pick: Defensive Tackle Eddie Goldman, Florida State
The Dallas Cowboys need help at defensive end and defensive tackle, and you can almost bet they'll draft one of each early on. Who they draft at No. 27 overall depends on scheme fit and graded value. Eddie Goldman, the big nose tackle from Florida State, is both.
Goldman moves very well for 6'4", 336 pounds (he didn't test at the combine), and has the type of penetration/anchoring skills that can become the foundation of a defensive line. With Henry Melton gone via free agency and Tyrone Crawford a good, versatile defensive lineman, Goldman can take his natural spot on the line and fuel the defense as a three-down player.
28. Denver Broncos
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The Pick: Center Cameron Erving, Florida State
Cameron Erving hasn't been in many mock drafts of mine since the season began, but that's about to change.
The senior Seminole entered the year as a promising left tackle, but he struggled early in the season before making a move to center that solidified the entire FSU offensive line. It also set Erving's draft stock on fire, and he's been climbing ever since.
The Broncos have a massive hole at center with Will Montgomery entering free agency, and Erving's shown the ability to handle pass protection calls in a pro-style offense for Jimbo Fisher. That makes his adjustment to handling the ball for Peyton Manning that much easier.
29. Indianapolis Colts
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The Pick: Running Back Melvin Gordon, Wisconsin
Two running backs in the first round? What is this, 2012?
It's not, but this is the year for a run on running backs in the first round. Two reasons: (1) This isn't a great draft class for top-tier talent (especially on offense); and (2) there are legitimate needs at the position. That sets up well for Todd Gurley (No. 26, Baltimore) and 2,000-yard rusher Melvin Gordon.
I'm not completely sold on Gordon's ability to transition to the NFL (he doesn't show great burst or long speed, had six fumbles in his last five games and definitely benefited from the scheme), but he has unquestioned vision, patience and balance as a runner. The Colts need a bell cow, and Gordon is a much better option than Trent Richardson.
30. Green Bay Packers
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The Pick: Cornerback Trae Waynes, Michigan State
Trae Waynes became the cornerback Twitter wants after he posted an official 4.31 in the 40-yard dash, but let's go back to the film. Waynes is good but has a weak lower body and struggled getting through transitions against underneath routes. Pure 40 speed is good for cornerbacks, but he's not the top-10 player I saw many hyping up.
Waynes, though, is a better prospect than Darqueze Dennard was last year and is a smooth operator down the field. He can cover bigger receivers, but he has to learn to play without his hands so much in the NFL. If he can do that, the Green Bay Packers will have an ideal replacement for free agent Tramon Williams on the roster.
31. Seattle Seahawks
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The Pick: Edge-Rusher Owa Odighizuwa, UCLA
General manager John Schneider loves two things in prospects—long arms and big hands. Owa Odighizuwa has both (33.75" arms, 11" hands) and has shown the speed and production as an edge-rusher to fit in well with the Seahawks' 4-3 defense.
Odighizuwa would ideally play a defensive end role, allowing Michael Bennett to continue being a wild card at end and tackle. When Odighizuwa is in, Bennett is allowed to wreck the offensive line, and it has to focus on Cliff Avril and the former UCLA pass-rusher at the same time. That's a nightmare for any offensive line.
32. New England Patriots
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The Pick: Offensive Lineman Jake Fisher, Oregon
Jake Fisher has been under the radar among offensive linemen all year, but it's his time to shine.
Fisher, who won't wow you with athletic testing but had a respectable combine, has some of the best hand placement and football IQ you'll see this year. So why does he project to guard?
For most teams, Fisher would be a left or right tackle, but in New England—where they throw the ball and operate from spread sets so often—Fisher's value as a right guard is huge. A right guard is on an island often in pass protection because most NFL teams slide their protection to the left (to protect the quarterback's blind side), so the right guard doesn't have the help of the center. Fisher's ability in pass protection added in with his agility and IQ are a huge key for why he's a fit with New England.
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Pick Team Player School
1 Tennessee CB P.J. Williams FSU
2 Tampa Bay ILB Benardrick McKinney Miss. State
3 Oakland CB Alex Carter Stanford
4 Jacksonville ILB Eric Kendricks UCLA
5 NY Jets T Andrus Peat Stanford
6 Washington T T.J. Clemmings Pitt
7 Chicago ILB Paul Dawson TCU
8 N.Y. Giants DE Preston Smith Miss. State
9 St. Louis WR Devin Funchess Michigan
10 Atlanta WR Devin Smith Ohio State
11 Cleveland TE Maxx Williams Minnesota
12 New Orleans T Ereck Flowers Miami (Fla.)
13 Minnesota MLB Denzel Perryman Miami (Fla.)
14 San Francisco CB Kevin Johnson Wake Forest
15 Miami DT Carl Davis Iowa
16 San Diego RB Tevin Coleman Indiana
17 Kansas City T Cedric Ogbuehi Texas A&M
18 Buffalo RB Jay Ajayi Boise State
19 Houston WR Nelson Agholor USC
20 Philadelphia WR Phillip Dorsett Miami (Fla.)
21 Cincinnati DT Jordan Phillips Oklahoma
22 Detroit RB Duke Johnson Miami (Fla.)
23 Arizona DT Ellis McCarthy UCLA
24 Pittsburgh OLB Nate Orchard Utah
25 Carolina DE Danielle Hunter LSU
26 Baltimore WR Breshad Perriman UCF
27 Denver FS Gerod Holliman Louisville
28 Dallas RB T.J. Yeldon Alabama
29 Indianapolis OLB Lorenzo Mauldin Louisville
30 Green Bay ILB Stephone Anthony Clemson
31 Seattle CB Byron Jones UConn
32 New England RB Ameer Abdullah Nebraska
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International and residential strategies helped Emira Property Fund counter a difficult domestic economy and boosted the group’s turnaround which helped lift its final dividend by 3.1 percent to 78.48cents per share for the year to June 30, in line with guidance and making it the second year of dividend growth.Revenue decreased by 4.8 percent to R1.7billion, operating profit fell by 9.5 percent to R954 million, and headline earnings per share was down 9.4percent to 159.51c.
Net asset value per share increased 1.9percent to 1790.8c.
Emira chief executive Geoff Jennett said their strategy involves rebalancing its portfolio of assets out of offices, recycling under-performing capital into yield-accretive investment in the US, and diversifying into residential property locally.
“We have made good, gradual progress on our strategies despite the tough local trading conditions throughout the year,” he said,
Office vacancies improved to 5.3percent from 7.1percent, mostly due to a R1.8bn portfolio disposal to Inani Prop Holdings. The directly held South African office exposure fell to 24.5percent from 35.3percent of total overall assets, leaving it “fundamentally rebalanced” and with 21 office buildings, of which 19 are P and A grade, said Jennett.
Emira closed the year with 80 directly held South African properties, valued at R10.9bn.
New letting and contractual escalations saw Emira’s stable portfolio notch up like-for-like net revenue growth of 3.1percent.
A highlight was leasing four of the 11 floors of 80 Strand, Cape Town, co-owned by Emira and Swish, to global co-working brand WeWork. It also invested R239.2m in upgrades.
The R209.3m Bolton residential conversion in Rosebank with co-investors the Feenstra Group, came on stream to become Emira’s sole directly-held residential property.
Completed in May 2018, it was more than 75 percent let by year-end.
Emira also has indirect exposure to the residential rental property sector through its 34.9percent stake in Transcend Residential Property Fund, which it took up during the year.
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A new day and new week. Did you spend the weekend worrying or anticipating something this week? I challenge you to awake each morning in prayer (we often forget this in such times) asking that God go before you to remove whatever obstacles are set in place and to make the path straight for you to fulfill your obligations of the day.
Don’t be discouraged for I am your God:
How sweet to be reminded of God’s unmistakable power, that he is a Father that never leaves his child even when we leave him. He is not only our God and Father, but our Mother, Friend, Confidant, Counselor, Doctor, Lawyer, and whatever you need him to be.
I will strengthen you and help you:
What situations are you facing that have you second guessing your ability to succeed? Feeling weak from giving to someone or something and you are now drained of energy? Or maybe you are barely holding on and not sure how you will make it through the week, how you will care for your family, or how a bill will be paid. In our weakest moments, we tend to lose words, but God is happy to receive a heartfelt, “Thank you Jesus.” “Lord I need you.” “Lord, my God.” Or “Have Mercy on Me.” Our weakest moments can be moments of revelations. In some ways, it is a sign that we need to be still to hear what God has to say.
I will hold you up with my victorious right hand:
Simply put, We are MORE THAN CONQUERORS!!! With God for us, nothing or no one can stand against us.
Be blessed my friends. These are simple reminders, as we often forget how powerful God is and that it is okay to relinquish control over to him. TRUST!!!
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WARS Philippines: R thing is not given as much media coverage as Islamic terrorism and other foreign threats (like American warships passing through the South China Sea). The new mandatory spyware in Xinjiang monitors smart phone use in much more detail and constantly reports back to the government censors. Normally most of the several million people working for the national Internet censorship bureaucracy look for anti-government activity online. The use of the new spyware is an earlier effort to introduce similar spyware nationwide. That generated more trouble (and backlash) than it was worth and was halted. The Xinjiang effort seems to be another test of the idea. Police in Xinjiang are checking locals (who must produce their ID cards at the many checkpoints established in the past few years) and those whose smart phones do not have the spyware are punished. Naturally the spyware is not popular but the government publicized some recent arrests (for incorrect through online) to the spyware.
Meanwhile Xinjiang is a problem and more so than Tibet, the other troublesome western province. Xinjiang has about eight times the population of Tibet but only a third more territory. Unlike Tibet Xinjiang is still angry enough to generate lots of violent attacks on security forces and recent migrants from eastern China. There was less violence in 2016 but at the end of the year three Uighurs drove into the government compound, set off a bomb and were shot dead by police. A policeman and a civilian also died. Aside from the bomb the Uighur attackers were only armed with knives.
The government has had a media blackout in Xinjiang for years but Chinese language media outside of China has been able to interview Xinjiang residents, including some who recently served in the security forces there. Those witnesses tell a different story, indicating that during 2016 there were about twenty protests and violent incidents a week in Xinjiang. Those familiar with how Chinese censors work point out that the government can get away with saying nothing is happening as long as no ethnic Han Chinese, with kin elsewhere in China, are killed. This is especially true when the dead are soldiers, police or government officials. These deaths stir up Internet chatter among the Han majority in China. The censors can suppress such forbidden chatter but cannot eliminate it. When the government does have to admit to anti-government violence in Xinjiang they describe the perpetrators as common criminals or Islamic terrorists.
The reality is that the Xinjiang problems are more about the native ethnic Turk population resisting being overwhelmed by Han Chinese migration to the area. China accuses Islamic terror groups among the ethnic Turks (Uighurs) of Xinjiang for all these problems. Unhappy Uighurs are increasingly aggressive in protesting, if not attacking, the growing Chinese presence among them. The Xinjiang Uighurs never responded well to growing pressure from Han Chinese soldiers and intrusive Han government officials. Because of that many Uighurs continue to support anti-Han activity and this made it possible for some Islamic terrorists to survive and operate there for a while. Most Uighurs are found in Xinjiang province where nine million of them are now less than half the population and most of the rest are Han Chinese. The government has been publicly urging soldiers and police to be more aggressive against uncooperative Uighurs and in 2015 the security forces were told to do whatever they thought necessary to keep the peace. That attitude has intensified since then. The government accuses Uighur activists of endangering state security and tries to keep the unrest out of the news. The same thing is happening in Tibet, where the government is using the same tools to keep everyone under control. Since 2011 several hundred have died in Xinjiang because of Uighur violence against Han rule. Thousands of Uighurs have been arrested and hundreds sentenced to prison, or death. While Islamic terrorism is seen as a major threat in the West the Chinese regard that threat in China as largely confined to Xinjiang. Despite the occasional attack, the Chinese now believe they have it under control but not eliminated.
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President Xi Jinping is accused of using the anti-corruption campaign to purge the government of officials he considers insufficiently loyal. There is some truth to that but so far there have been no false accusations but some corrupt officials have escaped punishment and many of those appear to be cozy with Xi and his cronies. The anti-corruption effort against senior officials has been going on since 2012.
So far in 2017 0ver 201,000 government officials have been punished for corruption. That is on track to match the number punished for all of 2016. What is most encouraging is that many more very senior officials are being hit and hit hard with jail time and confiscation of what they stole. This is where the accusations against Xi Jinping fade because most Chinese don’t care, for the moment. The fact is that there are so many corrupt senior officials going to jail who long considered themselves immune to punishment. If taking down many of these senior crooks also eliminates someone who displeased Xi Jinping that is not a problem until it is. China is still a communist police state, but an uncharacteristically prosperous one. There are well-founded fears that Xi Jinping is trying to make himself leader for as long as he wants. Most Chinese don’t care as long as the good economic times last and they otherwise feel good to be Chinese. .
Meanwhile Xi Jinping regularly meets with the senior leadership and repeats how important it is to eliminate corruption in the military and for the military to keep in mind that its primary loyalty is to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party). A growing number of junior officers are indicating that they are not focused on that aspect of their military duties. The government has been taking several steps to educate everyone. In November 2016 Xi Jinping persuaded the senior members of the government to add to his titles one (translated as “core” or “core leader”) that makes him equal to communist China founder Mao Zedong. No other Chinese leader since Mao Zedong (who died in 1976) has had that kind of power. While Mao has become popular with many Chinese, those who lived through the 1960s see Mao as a major failure. That is what led to the economic reforms that have transformed China. Xi Jinping has, as expected, used this Mao-grade power to deal with the corruption that still persists in the senior ranks of the government and military. To demonstrate that as soon as Xi was declared a core leader the Communist Party Central Committee announced punishments for many senior party officials for corruption. Since then there have been regular announcements about senior officials being accused or punished for corruption.
Keeping India Scared And Pakistan Safe
For the first time since 2008 another ancient and unresolved border dispute between China and India escalated because China wanted it to. This is taking place in the south, in Tibet where northeastern India’s Sikkim State borders China to the north, Bhutan to the east and Nepal to the west. Sikkim is small (7,100 square kilometers) and has a population of less than 700,000. East of Bhutan is the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, which China claims most of. China claims smaller bits of Bhutan and Sikkim. The problem with Sikkim is that it was an independent monarchy until 1975 when the king allowed a referendum on joining India, which won. China protested Sikkim becoming part of India in part because of the border disputes China long had with independent Sikkim. The current incident began in mid-June when China began building a road into Bhutan that was seen as part of a Chinese effort to threaten the Siliguri Corridor (a 22 kilometer wide strip of land between China and Bangladesh that connects northeast India to the rest of India). India had agreed to help Bhutan oppose Chinese efforts to just grab the disputed area (which is 3,000 meters up on a plateau that has no real value to anyone). China and India had signed an agreement in 2012 to respect the existing Bhutan border. But like most Chinese territorial claims revived recently incidents like this serve to make the Chinese government look like it is “serving the people” and are carried out at little cost in lives or money. So thousands of Chinese and Indian troops have been moved to this inhospitable part of the world because the Chinese government wants some good publicity inside China.
Pakistan is more of an economic problem. For example Pakistan regularly threatens to block road access to Afghanistan if the United States does not back down on its efforts to shut own Islamic terrorist sanctuaries in Pakistan. This escalation threat ultimately fails for Pakistan because the only major ally they have is China and the Chinese have made it very clear that they will not join Pakistan in such an escalation. China is more concerned maintaining order and economic growth in Afghanistan. China has also made it clear that the Pakistani ability to protect that thousands of Chinese coming into Pakistan each year to build new infrastructure projects is vital to the continued good relations with China. Pakistan has over 100,000 soldiers and police dedicated to the security of these Chinese and their growing number of work sites. There are still thousands of Islamic terrorists inside Pakistan who see the Chinese as a legitimate target.
Pakistan does indeed encourage and support Islamic terrorists who attack India and Afghanistan and China warns that whenever this Pakistani obsession threatens China economically or otherwise China will act swiftly and without warning. Meanwhile China has a grand strategic plan involving Pakistan and a lot of other Asian countries. This is Obor (One Belt, One Road) and Chinese describes it as a revival of the ancient “Silk Road” but with a major difference. The ancient Silk Road was only partially run by the Chinese. Most of it was operated by other major powers (Iranian, Indian and Arabs) and was largely put out of business after the 16th century by European innovations in ship building and management of sea routes that provided a safer and cheaper way to move goods worldwide. Moreover, until the late 20th century Chinese leaders never encouraged (and often banned) foreign trade. For most of Chinese history the leaders believed China had all it needed (largely true) and considered all non-Chinese and their products inferior. The big change now is that China needs international trade and Obor is the Chinese plan to control as much of it as possible. This is essential for a prosperous economy because without that the communist rulers are in big trouble. Obor means China owning or otherwise controlling as many of the new roads, railways, ports, pipelines and sea routes as possible. China is investing nearly $200 billion in Obor construction. This includes land routes through Central Asia to Europe and the Middle East, another through the Himalaya Mountains to the Indian Ocean (soon to be under new management if China has its way) and new land connections into Southeast Asia. The key to China’s new sea routes is asserting ownership of the South China Sea.
Another feature of Obor is that it offers business relationships that are more acceptable (than Western ones) to most of the countries Obor is investing in. The Chinese can, as they like to put it, be more flexible and respectful of local customs. In other words the Chinese don’t see bribes and corruption as a defect but an opportunity. This is great for the foreign political and business leaders but less so with most of the others and this is causing problems. Africans and Asians living near many Chinese foreign operations complain that China is the major investor in illegal extraction of raw materials and keeping local gangsters and corrupt politicians in business. The Chinese also violate local labor laws with impunity and prefer to hire their own armed security personnel who will shoot to kill if threatened by angry workers or local residents. Keeping local tyrants in power serves Chinese interests when it comes to things like establishing new military bases or preventing other nations from doing so. Corrupt locals also make it easier to carry out espionage operations (locally or in nearby areas). Helping to keep unelected leaders in power also serves to maintain the legitimacy of the current Chinese government which is basically a communist police state and the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) wants to keep it that way. All this is nothing new. For example once China got its seat in the UN back (from Taiwan) in 1971 it has been notorious for encouraging and using corrupt practices in the UN. Many nations play along and as China became wealthier they were willing and able to buy whatever they needed inside the UN. The latest example of this is how Chinese pressure has caused the UN to withdraw investigators (responding to local complaints of serious crimes) looking too closely at Chinese owned operations in Africa.
Korea
China continues to go through the motions of enforcing the sanctions on North Korea. In effect China makes it a crime on their side of the border to export a growing list of goods to North Korea. Couple that with the increasing anti-corruption efforts in China and border security personnel in both countries note that this is a situation where boldness can make to rich. This is less of a problem in China, where living standards have grown rapidly since the free market economic reforms of the 1980s. For Chinese corruption is a problem but in North Korea corruption is often a matter of life or death but for those collecting the bribes it is way to get out alive. By amassing enough money to bribe your way out of the country you and members of your family get to live. With the corruption spreading throughout the North Korean security services there is hardly anything you cannot bribe your way out of or past. But for most North Koreans the heavier use of bribes means that the cost of everything goes up. More police and security personnel now see it as a fringe benefit of their job to demand bribes whenever they can. So they do.
The bribes required to escape across the border into China are much higher this year and often do not work. This is the case on parts of the border where North Korea has installed an electrified fence. While the Chinese are sending more troops to the North Korean border this is more for keeping out deserting North Korean soldiers, who often come across in uniform with their weapons and create a very visible (and embarrassing) North Korean threat in China. In part because of that this year China finished installing all-weather surveillance cameras all along the border.
The growing number of Chinese troops on this border are mainly there to stop any large scale movement of desperate North Koreans trying to escape a government collapse in North Korea. In the last few months these Chinese troops have carried large scale training exercises on the North Korean border, visible from the North Korea side of the rivers that form most of the border.
Although North Korea GDP rose a bit (4 percent) in 2016 that was mainly because of all the weather related disasters North Korea suffered from in 2015. This year does not look as promising. Moreover North Korea has a miniscule GDP ($29 billion in 2016) which is pathetic compared South Korea ($1.3 trillion), Russia ($1.2 trillion) and China ($11 trillion, second only to nearly $19 trillion for the United States.) On a per-capita basis South Korea GDP is more than 20 times larger than the north and per capita GDP of China and Russia is more than five times larger than North Korea. The problem here is that the current North Korean leadership insists on developing ICBMs with nuclear weapons so they can threaten the wealthiest nations to give them all the economic aid they need to make their communist police state viable. China is not threatened by any North Korean economic or military threat but is concerned about a flood of North Korean refugees heading for China in a crises. The Russian border and economy are much less accessible and the South Korean border is protected by minefields and massed North and South Korean troops. What makes this worse for China is the fact that most Chinese despise the North Korean leadership and what they have created. This is one thing most Chinese and South Koreans can agree on.
Since 2016 China has been enforcing more economic sanctions on North Korea and has agreed to cooperate more with the UN, the U.S. and South Korea to enforce the sanctions. But one area China is reluctant to discuss is the role of corruption in China that enables North Korea to bypass a lot of the economic sanctions. The Chinese government is very visibly waging a major campaign against its own corruption but does not like to go into details with foreigners. Same with South Korea where the capital and much of the economy is built so close to the North Korean border that North Korea could destroy most of the economic prosperity (and millions of South Koreans) using the capabilities they already have. The North Korean ICBM threat to the United States is not seen as comparable to what North Korea’s neighbors face if they push North Korea too far.
July 23, 2017: Two Chinese jet fighters threatened a U.S. Navy EP-3 maritime patrol aircraft flying in international air space (the East China Sea 140 kilometers from the Chinese coast). One of the Chinese fighters flew close enough (under 100 meters) to cause the American aircraft to maneuver away. A similar encounter in 2016 involved a Chinese jet moving to within ten meters of an EP-3. Since the late 1990s China has been trying to keep American recon aircraft away from their coast to prevent these aircraft from detecting and recording activity by Chinese air defense systems and other military electronics. Carefully analyzing these systems from a distance (international waters are anything at least 22 kilometers from the coast) reveals vulnerabilities that U.S. could exploit in wartime. This is doubly troubling to the Chinese because the Americans are known to share this kind of information with their allies, especially Taiwan, South Korea and Japan.
July 21, 2017: For the first time Chinese warships visited the Baltic Sea. The Chinese are there for joint training exercises with the Russian Navy. This has been an annual event since 2012 but until this year were held in the Pacific. One of the Chinese ships in the Baltic is a Type 052D destroyer, one of the most modern Chinese warships and equipped with a radar system similar to the Aegis system popularized by the United States over the last few decades. These naval firsts are popular news items in the Chinese state-controlled media and have been occurring a lot in the last decade. For example in late 2013 Chinese warships carried out multiple firsts. This included warships visiting Chile and Argentina and passing through the Strait of Magellan. At the same time a Chinese amphibious ship with marines on board visited Syria. This was the first time a Chinese amphibious ship had visited the Mediterranean.
July 20, 2017: India turned down the Chinese offer to mediate the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan. China also has territorial claims on Kashmir and is a close ally of Pakistan.
July 16, 2017: In Iran another American citizen was prosecuted, convicted and sentenced to prison (10 years) for espionage. The latest victim is Xiyue Wang, a graduate student in Iranian history who was born in China but is a naturalized American citizen. He was arrested in mid-2016 and, like all other foreigners imprisoned this way, to be used to trade for the freedom of Iranians arrested in the West for espionage, smuggling or whatever. China considers “overseas Chinese” as still subjects of China and will make similar arrests and accuse American citizens of Chinese ancestry of treason to the motherland. Iran often does that with Iranian-Americans who return for a visit. The overseas Chinese have been a presence in Asia and elsewhere for centuries. But until now the Chinese government was never much concerned with them. China was never, until the late 20th century, a major international trading power. Now China is and it is spending heavily to finance the migration of more Chinese to settle in foreign lands, and never forget where they came from. For those who do, when the motherland calls, the Chinese government will remind the unwilling that they still have kin or other links back in China and how shameful would it be if this lack of cooperation became known.
July 12, 2017: It’s been a year since the Permanent Court of Arbitration, after two years of deliberations, ruled that that China was acting illegally with its claims in the South China Sea. Britain and other Western nations said they would enforce any penalties levied but none were. While the Permanent Court of Arbitration is universally recognized (and backed by the UN) its rulings require other nations to enforce them, or not. It this case China pushed back and nothing has really happened because of the ruling. The Philippines, America, Australia, Japan and South Korea all openly opposed the Chinese claims early on while other nations in the area (Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia and India) held back for a while but eventually lined up against China. Only Japan, the United States and Australia openly called on China to obey the court rulings. The United States told China that any efforts to build an artificial island on Scarborough Shoal and install a military base would be resisted with more than diplomatic protests. The base was built and is still there. Another reason for the lack of success in halting Chinese aggression is because China offers to hold regular talks with the Philippines over these disputes. The Philippines refused at first because it did not consider the situation a dispute but rather a case of unwarranted Chinese aggression. But around the same time the court ruling came through the Philippines elected a new president who was willing to negotiate. Now China has offered the Philippines $24 billion in economic aid plus trade deals. This has changed attitudes in the Philippines.
July 11, 2017: Thailand approved a $5.5 billion Chinese railway project that will build six stations and a 250 kilometer high-speed line linking Bangkok and the northeast. As a practical matter this will cut travel time (from Bangkok to the north) 75 percent (to 90 minutes). Once this project is completed in 2021 China will seek to get that high speed line extended to the Laos border and have further railroad projects under way. China has been trying to get this first rail project approved since 2010 but many Thais opposed the financial terms and the control China wanted over running the rail line. In 2016 China agreed to a lower price for a joint Thai-China railroad project. China says it has now basically agreed to the terms Thailand insisted on since 2010. But the final approval came as the military government invoked some emergency powers to disregard remaining delays and order construction to start by September. Thus Thailand will build a rail line of their own design and finance it themselves with some technical assistance and financing help from China. This will enable China to eventually construct a 900 kilometer rail line from the Laotian border to Bangkok. China hopes to have the new railway operational by the mid-2020s. Meanwhile China is building a high speed line in Laos that will complete a 1,250 kilometers line from China (Yunan) to Bangkok. This is part of a larger project to build a “Shanghai to Singapore” high speed rail line. This would cut the cost of travel (currently mainly by air) for Chinese by more than half and increase the number of Chinese tourists to Thailand by at least two million a year. The Chinese were too insistent for too long on doing the 900 kilometer long rail line their way and resisted Thai suggestions and preferences. Many Thais don’t trust the Chinese and negotiations continued until China quietly agreed to comply with the Thai preferences. Meanwhile the military government, using the power it seized in 2014, managed to silence most of the public criticism of the China railroad deal. The generals have been less successful silencing the growing number of Thais pointing out how China is expanding its influence in Thailand with the active cooperation of the military government. Nany Thais see their own military shifting from protecting Thailand against foreign threats to becoming a partner with the largest regional threat as a means of keeping the unelected military government in power.
July 4, 2017: Russia and China have come up with a new plan to deal with the North Korean crises. This one involves North Korea agreeing to temporarily halt its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs and in return South Korea, the United States and Japan would temporarily halt joint training exercises. At that point all parties would enter negotiations to develop a permanent solution. Russia and China also want South Korea to consider getting rid of its anti-missile defenses, especially THAAD, as it is seen by China and Russia as a threat to the effectiveness of Chinese and Russian ballistic missiles. These proposals did not gain much, if any, acceptance from anyone they were directed at. China and Russia understand that what North Korea wants is cash and access to essential imports (food, oil and all manner of tech) and will not accept any substitutes.
July 2, 2017: An American warship (the destroyer USS Stethem) carried out a FONOP (freedom of navigation operation) in the South China Sea and came closer than 22 kilometers to Triton Island in the Paracel Islands. The U.S. Navy last did a FONOP off Triton in 2016. China has claimed (and occasionally occupied) Triton Island since 1974 when it used force to drive off South Vietnamese forces seeking to take possession. China considers Triton Island part of China and that all waters within 22 kilometers of this Chinese territory are Chinese as well and unauthorized visits by foreigners are forbidden. The problem is that international law does not recognize this Chinese claims and the Chinese make it clear they do not care what the rest of the world thinks. Triton Island is still claimed by Vietnam as well as Taiwan. Chinese media reported report these FONOPs as a violation of international law and often triggering a response by Chinese warships or warplanes. In reality China rarely opposes the American warships. These exercises are meant to affirm that many of the Chinese claims to the entire South China Sea are invalid and that the right to free passage through China’s EEZ is assured.
For the second time in less than a year, one of China’s Long March 5 satellite launcher rockets failed and this time a Chinese communications satellite was lost. Back in August 2016 a Chinese Long March 4C rocket failed and lost a very expensive Gaofen 10 photo reconnaissance satellite. The Long March 4C has been in service since 2006 and had 19 successful launches since then. The 2016 failure was the first for the Long March since 2013 and had proved reliable. The failure today was to the Long March 5 model, developed for carrying the heaviest loads (25 tons low orbit or 14 tons high orbit). The Long March 5 is the heaviest launcher (at 867 tons) China has and the only one that can lift certain cargoes, like portions of the new Chinese space station or major space missions, like the upcoming second Chinese mission to put robot exploration vehicles on the moon.
The Long March type rockets have been in use since 1970 and have failed only the 13 times out of 249 launches. That’s a 95 percent success rate, which is quite good. But China has yet to fully explain the 2016 failure and why two of the last fifteen Long March launches failed. That’s only an 87 percent success rate and something commercial customers and their insurance companies pay a lot of attention to. Long March is mainly used for commercial launches and that is big business that China is seeking to dominate.
The Long March series has always been China's main satellite launcher and that is largely because it is based on Russian designs. That means it is simple, cheap and reliable. This has made China a major player in the satellite launching business where minimum levels of reliability are mandatory. China can handle the mandatory requirements and competes on price. The U.S. Space Shuttle was retired because it was the most expensive way to get stuff into orbit. Satellites sent up via the Space Shuttle cost $25 million a ton put in orbit. The Russians and Chinese will do it for under $10 million a ton. But insurance can more than double that cost if there have been a number of recent failures with Russian and Chinese boosters. This keeps more reliable American and European boosters in business.
The Long March has a failure rate of about five percent, which was a little higher than twice the rate for the most used Russian launcher. The Space Shuttle failure rate was two percent, as were most Western satellite launchers. While the Russians are also having problems with their satellite launchers that’s because the Russian government has less money to invest in its space program or satellite launchers in general. In addition Russia has been losing skilled personnel (from manufacturing workers to rocket scientists) since the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991. In the same time period China has been increasing the quantity and quality of personnel as its space and satellite launcher programs grew enormously. China also pays better, for the same skills, than Russia. Whatever problems China is having with the Long March they are much better able to deal with than the Russians who suffer from a growing list of failures in that area and defense manufacturing in general.
June 28, 2017: China launched the first of four Type 055 destroyers. This was not unexpected because evidence of such a ship (Internet photos of ship mockups for training and chatter) began showing up in early 2015. Back then it appeared that this new (Type 055) 12,000 ton cruiser class ship would have 128 VLS (vertical launch system) tubes and much else besides. China claimed this ship would be the equivalent of a U.S. Burke class destroyer. The Type 055 would be, and now is, the largest surface combat ship China has ever built. Before 2015 the new Chinese Type 052 destroyers were described as similar to the Burkes but in reality the Type 052s were “Burke Lite” while the Type 055 is much closer to the Burkes in capabilities and, at least on paper, surpasses the American ships in some ways. The first Type 055 won’t enter service until early 2018 and the sea trials will be closely watched by foreign navies. This is usually very revealing about what works and what doesn’t. The Chinese have, so far, been quite persistent in fixing flaws discovered during sea trials and regular operations and that makes the new Chinese ship designs rather more frightening.
China flew in some emergency military aid to the Philippines in the form of 3,000 CQ-A5 assault rifles (and five million rounds of 5.56mm ammo) and 80 CS-LR4 7.62mm sniper rifles (and 800,000 rounds of ammo). The aid was valued at $7.3 million. It was noted that these two weapons, while Chinese made, looked like two famous rifles from the 1960s; the U.S. 5.56mm M-16 and the Russian 7.62mm SVD sniper rifle. Both are indeed that, Chinese copies of these two weapons manufactured mainly for the export market. Filipino troops have long used the M-16 as their standard assault rifle and Filipino snipers use several different sniper rifles and like variety. The Philippines thanked China and later thanked the United States as well for providing intel resources as well as American Special Forces troops on the ground to advise and assist.
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The bug for trekking and hiking is reaching an all-time peak. I wouldn’t really classify myself as a hiking lover, but I do know there are quite a few outdoor enthusiasts, who love embarking on a good old hike once in a while. Being physically and mentally prepared on a hike of any sort is extremely critical – whether it’s creating the right mindset or the perfectly equipped backpack. And, I do believe a great set of hiking accessories play a major role in a successful hike! From a foldable mini stove that fits into your hiking pants to a flexible 3D-printed single material hiking shoe – these handy and innovative product designs are the best companions you could have on your trekking/hiking adventures! These are must-have essentials for all adventure lovers and thrill-seekers!
1. Herman Miller hiking backpack
This Herman Miller hiking backpack is something outrightly unique thanks to its niche structure and the hues it comes in.
Why is it noteworthy?
The backpack has lightweight aesthetics, and the designer gives much of the focus on how the accessory can be a practical hiking backpack given the Herman Miller chair influence. This backpack is suited for city commuters who have to carry their laptop and other important stuff safely, as well as, hikers and campers who need a robust, waterproof rucksack to haul the load. The solid structure on the outside – just like the Cosm chair – provides protection from any accidental bumps when important breakable stuff is inside.
What we like
Lightweight product
Draws inspiration from Herman Miller’s design philosophy
What we dislike
2. The Grouper utility knife
Looking like a prop from a sci-fi movie, the Grouper utility knife comes with a stunning design featuring a titanium construction, a parallel-linkage opening mechanism with ball-bearing pivots, and should you choose, an absolutely breathtaking rainbow finish.
Why is it noteworthy?
The knife, which measures a mere 4.3 inches (110mm) when closed, comes with a carabiner clip on one end, and a tungsten carbide glass-breaker on the other end. Open it out, and the now 6.2-inch-long knife reveals its TAJIMA V-REX II blade on the inside, perfect for opening boxes, slicing envelopes, or doing more rogue cyberpunk-worthy stuff like slicing wires and cutting seatbelts.
What we like
The Grouper sports a titanium alloy body that’s more than impervious to rough use
A nifty locking clip on the top keeps the knife’s blade intact until you’re done and ready to close your Grouper
What we dislike
3. The Conic
Designed primarily for use in outdoor activities; the Conic is a helpful extension of a flashlight, which should come in handy to light up the entire camp or make those two-handed tasks easier to carry out. It will be a great help thus while cooking or maybe when playing board games at the camp.
Why is it noteworthy?
The gap between outdoor flashlights and lanterns is narrowing with transformation in design. This inventive approach has given birth to a new domain i.e., an outdoor lamp, which double duties and makes sure you’re never found wanting while camping or traveling. Conic is an embodiment of such a design, which is a nice transition from the traditional, boring light sources you’ve been accustomed to packing in your backpack.
What we like
A far cry from the traditional flashlights
Portable
Multipurpose design – can be used indoors and outdoors
What we dislike
4. Earth Moc
Designed as a passion project, Daniel Shirkey’s Earth Moc was created as a potential recovery shoe for hikers. Shirley’s prime objective was to figure out how one single material could fulfill every aspect of a shoe’s experience from its flexibility to comfort while giving your feet the support they need after a tough hike.
Why is it noteworthy?
Shirley’s design even comes with treads on its underside that additionally allow you to do some light hiking, giving the right amount of traction required on moderately uneven surfaces and dirt paths. The highlight of the Earth Moc is its design. The entire shoe is made from a single material, sort of like a Croc, except it features interwoven elements that provide the stretch and flexibility of a conventional sandal. While most single-material shoes are made by injection molding of an elastomer, Shirley’s concept goes down a different route.
What we like
3D-printed design
Inspired by intertwining roots and vines
What we dislike
5. The Sasquatch Tool
Designed to be compact enough to carry with you in your pocket, on your keychain, or on a carabiner attached to your backpack or belt-loop, the Sasquatch Tool is the ultimate celebration of the outdoors! The handy multitool is the perfect EDC for carrying on hiking trips, cycling expeditions, or even out fishing/kayaking. Just don’t expect it to help you defend yourself against an actual Sasquatch!
Why is it noteworthy?
The handy little ape-shaped gizmo comes made from stainless steel, making it robust and corrosion-resistant. Its unique form factor comes perfectly outfitted with 12 different tools, from wrenches and screwdrivers to bottle and can openers, a cord cutter, and even a nifty 1-inch ruler. Measuring 3.6-inches in length and 2.5-inches wide, the Sasquatch Multitool is perfectly pocket-sized, and weighs just 1.2 ounces (34 grams)… and although Sasquatches have a reputation of being large and dangerous, this compact little guy is perfectly sized to be your everyday outdoor companion; and it’s TSA-friendly too!
What we like
What we dislike
Designs seems to focus more on aesthetics than actual functionality
6. The Cue
Smart wristwatches are found dime a dozen. But to everyone’s surprise, smart pocket watches are a thing and the smart version of these timepieces for the pocket has gained a foothold in the niche market. A charm for collectors, these intricate devices have always left me fascinated. No wonder, when I came across the Cue – a concept for a smart pocket watch – I couldn’t help but share the idea.
Why is it noteworthy?
Indian designer Rahul has conceived the idea of a feature-rich pocket watch every adventurer would want to have handy when venturing into the wild. Designed with features to allow travelers to navigate better, track their daily activities, and keep tabs on their health, the minimalistic yet powerful Cue can send out emergency SOS alerts and even remind the user of medication time when traveling.
What we like
Can be mounted to your bike or backpack or carried in your pocket for convenience
Can send out emergency SOS alerts and even remind the user of medication time when traveling
What we dislike
A seven-second long press opens the menu, while a long press of 15 seconds opens up the SOS slider
7. Katipo
Katipo is a foldable outdoor gas stove that can fit in the palm of your hand. Imagine the weight and space that can be saved when you go camping or backpacking with Katipo instead of usual outdoor stoves.
Why is it noteworthy?
Katipo got its name because its shape and form resembles that of a Katipo spider. It is an Australian redback spider that is small in size with long legs that bend at angles which inspired the stove’s own leg stand and tiny size. The Katipo is a stainless steel stove that folds into a portable size of 50 mm wide and 120 mm long, and when opened it is 180 mm in diameter. “Each leg has a cutting edge that stops its motion by a stopper pin and opens to the angle of 120° and thus produces an equal opening to them all perfectly” explains Elad Achi. Apart from the product proportions, even the colors of the stove were inspired by the spider’s red and black body. The stove’s red and black look comes from a ceramic-based color that is heat resistant.
What we like
Perfect size for when you want to go on a long hike
Its shape and form resembles that of a Katipo spider
What we dislike
8. Seongju Kim’s Lantern
When preparing for adventures in the outdoors, a flashlight is a must-have EDC camping accessory. But like every other thing you’re packing, you’d want a flashlight that does more than show you the way. This is where a sustainably crafted option you can hang like the lantern in the camp comes in. The eco-friendly camping lantern designed by Seongju Kim is an embodiment of this thought. The camping lantern, as it is referred to, is made completely from reusable materials, which is a good way to help the environment and keep the camping area clean. When camping, multifunctional accessories are a key to thriving in the wild. The flashlight that can be used as a lantern to light up the tent helps campers prepare for the night.
Why is it noteworthy?
Ideal for campers who value multipurpose accessories they can stuff in the backpack, a lantern-like this, ensures you leave no trace in the great outdoors and have a guiding light as and when needed. For the convenience of use, the lantern’s body is made from aluminum, while the insulated handle is made from wood. The most essential strap, which instantly facilitates the accessory to be used as a lantern from a flashlight, is made from pinatex material, which is extracted from pineapple leaves.
What we like
Sustainable
Innovative use of Pinatex
A clean multipurpose design
What we dislike
Not sturdy enough for the outdoors
We don’t know how the lantern would generate power
9. The Travel Box
Designing a bag that caters to different wear styles is definitely no easy feat. Especially when you’re trying to hit other targets like comfort, style, and even modularity. Those are the lofty goals that this Travel Box outdoor bag concept tries to address. As with any good product design, the idea went through various iterations and prototypes before arriving at a final, workable version.
Why is it noteworthy?
The Travel Box is notable in a few ways, and the most immediate is its minimalist design that almost has a tinge of futuristic appeal with its sharp angles, straight edges, and hard shell. This design brings both protection as well as room for all the items you’d want to bring with you on a trip outdoors. The colored straps provide a nice chromatic contrast to the bag’s all-black motif, creating visual points of interest that bring a bit of life to the product. The bag also makes use of reflective stickers that not only provide safety but also break the monotony of that black surface.
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The top portion of the bag can actually be detached and be used as an independent diamond-shaped box you can carry around by hand
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Having to scramble for the right battery in an emergency just adds to the stress you’re already feeling. Thankfully, Acebeam’s Rider RX tries to cut down on that by delivering a flashlight that not only works with almost any type of battery, it also helps relieve stress by giving your fingers something to play with.
Why is it noteworthy?
Some flashlights work with typical alkaline batteries. Others use rechargeable NiMH batteries. Still, others use the same kind of lithium-ion type that smartphones use. The Rider RX embraces them all so you can grab whatever’s readily available, which is often an AA battery, without making compromises. While the included Li-ion battery does offer the brightest output, even an AA battery can deliver a decent brightness so you won’t trip in the dark. The optical lens makes sure that the 219F LED shines a soft and balanced beam instead of blinding your eyes or spreading the light too thin.
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Helps relieve stress by giving your fingers something to play with
Its small size, which is just big enough to fit a single AA battery, makes it extremely portable and convenient to use
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Made in Ireland exhibition opens in the National Design & Craft Gallery
Posted 05.11.21
An exhibition celebrating the skill and vitality of Ireland’s craft makers
The Made in Ireland exhibition has gathered together the largest visual and sensory feast of fresh ideas and craftsmanship that has been seen in Design & Crafts Council Ireland’s National Design & Craft Gallery in Kilkenny and offers an insight into current activity in skilled making on a national scale. It is not only reflective of the skills of our community of makers, but it also celebrates work by different generations of the same family, and by collaborative groups and partnerships – it demonstrates the importance of passing on skills, of cross-pollination and innovation. It is a true and enriching representation of the fabric of the Irish craft and design sector, incorporating the work of over 100 makers from all regions of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
The exhibition which launched on 5th November, was borne out of a proposal made by the project team to the Design & Crafts Council Ireland (DCCI) biennial call for exhibitions. Their aim was to bring together a snapshot of what is happening in skilled making in Ireland, to create an exhibition that is ‘big and eclectic but also surprising, joyful, and inspirational’. The open callout attracted over 420 applicants to the juried process.
CEO of Design & Crafts Council Ireland, Rosemary Steen said: “The past twenty months of closures have been a difficult time for our makers, and opportunities to show craft have been reduced, which makes Made in Ireland all the more timely. During this time the public have engaged more with the sustainability and authenticity of craft. Guilds, Associations, Networks and Societies (GANS) are at the heart of Design & Crafts Council Ireland and we look forward to continuing to support the development of technical and business skills, creating opportunities and promoting craft in Ireland through the work of our dedicated team.”
Project team of Made in Ireland, Mary Gallagher, Hilary Morley and Stephen O’Connell said: “It is our hope that Made in Ireland will engage with diverse audiences and build understanding of craft, design and material culture. In a desert of digital and mass manufacture, we find this oasis of making – a tangible link to the materials and traditions of this island, to its colour, its landscape and its people.”
Exhibitors include makers of international renown as well as young, emerging artists and those who have practised quietly in areas of the country such as Clare Island, West Cork and the North Antrim Coast. Some are members of Design & Crafts Council Ireland’s Portfolio Critical Selection, while others are highly skilled makers who practise away from the spotlight and national competition.
A full list of exhibitors can be viewed on and includes:
TEXTILES – Beth Moran, Contemporary Tapestry Artists, Anne Kiely & Carmel Creaner, Studio Donegal
GLASS – Jerpoint Glass Studio, Scott Benefield, Peadar Lamb
JEWELLERY – Inga Reed, Janice Byrne, Garvan Traynor
WILLOW – Ciarán Hogan, Hanna Van Aelst, David Purcell
CLAY – Grainne Watts, Cora Cummins, John McKeag
WOOD – Roger Bennett, Matt Jones, David Cousley
METAL – Jane Murtagh, Cecilia Moore, Seamus Gill
FURNITURE – Paul O’Brien, Joshua Gabriel, Mark Hanvey
The exhibition will run at the National Design & Craft Gallery, Kilkenny until 30 January 2022. From there, it will tour to Farmleigh Gallery, Phoenix Park, Dublin: 1 July - 28 August 2022; and to FE McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge, Northern Ireland in Autumn 2022.
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Design & Crafts Council Ireland (DCCI) is the national agency for the commercial development of Irish designers and makers, stimulating innovation, championing design thinking and informing Government policy. DCCI's activities are funded by the Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment via Enterprise Ireland. DCCI currently has 66 member organisations and over 3,500 registered clients. The craft and design sector contributes €500m annually to the Irish economy.
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Mary Gallagher owns the Blue Egg Gallery in Wexford where she shows contemporary craft work by Irish and international makers. The annual programme includes many exhibitions as well as demonstrations and talks. Prior to opening the gallery Mary curated craft exhibitions in Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford and in Wexford Arts Centre.
Hilary Morley is a curator, specialising in multidisciplinary exhibitions. Her experiences range from retail, commissioning and education to editing an online journal called MAKING.ie. Exhibitions include Galway Arts Festival cross-disciplinary exhibitions along with independent fine art, ceramics and mixed media presentations.
Stephen O’Connell is a freelance curator specialising in contemporary craft and design. He previously worked as a specialist with Christie’s auctioneers in London and furnished historic properties for The Landmark Trust. He is interested in the economics and sustainability of craft practices and advises on the commissioning and collecting of craft. Recent exhibition projects include collaborations with the Lavit Gallery, South Tipperary Arts Centre and the Blue Egg Gallery.
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"On sunday morning just before the race I said to him: 'You are the fastest guy around, why don't you quit?' He said: 'I can't quit, I have to go on.' Maybe I should have been much more severe with him, but then you know, you’ve got responsibilities to all those boys, and they were boys to me."
San Marino, 1994
In the documentary 1 - Life on the Limit (2013) an emotional Sid Watkins tells us the last words he exchanged with Ayrton Senna before the San Marino grand prix of 1994. Sid Watkins, the iron man with an impeccable professionalism that stood for nothing but the safety of dozens of Formula One drivers, cracks in front of the camera and wipes the tears from his cheeks. They were his boys. Boys who, according to Watkins, were blessed with the absence of brains to be able to get into these driving coffins. Twelve years went by in Formula One without a single fatal accident. The racing cars were little like the moving fuel tanks of the seventies when it comes to safety. The carbon-fibre monocoque, the front-wheel suspension placed in front of the driver, and the reinforced fuel tanks. A certain amount of confidence brought some arrogance to the drivers and constructers and the cars were becoming dangerously fast. A certain amount of immortality was felt now that the Formula One was obviously in a period of unprecedented safety. It was almost too good to be true and at some point it had to go wrong. It couldn’t get much worse than the weekend of the first of May 1994, the San Marino grand prix. Rubens Barrichello tempted faith during the Friday qualifying session by crashing his car while exiting the Variante Bassa at 225 km/h, leaving him unconscious. Saturday, the Austrian Roland Ratzenberger missed the apex of the Villeneuve curva due to a damaged front wing, sending him into the concrete wall at 300 km/h. He passed away in hospital due to heavy brain damage. The next day, race day, Ayrton Senna went straight of the track at Tamburello and slammed the concrete barrier at a speed of 211 km/h. Millions of viewers around the world and of all ages watched as RAI's helicopter images showed Senna’s last twitch while sitting unconscious in his Williams. The medical helicopter with Senna on board took off fifteen minutes later, leaving nothing but a large puddle of blood, visible to everyone.
No one wants his child to see a racing driver die on television
This shouldn't be happening, right? We are way past the time that the Sunday broadcasts could as well show a Formula One driver heading for certain death in his primitive chassis with an engine strapped on the back, are we not? Gary Hartstein, Watkins' successor from 2005 up until 2013, is asking himself these questions during an exclusive interview for a YouTube channel. "If this happens again the prime ministers of the countries that we go to are going to say no, you are not doing this in our countries anymore. This is crazy." And so it was up to Max Mosley, the new FIA president, to start an investigation regarding the events of that weekend. He introduced a package of aerodynamic changes with immediate effect to slow the cars down and introduced the Expert Advisory Safety Committee, which was given the task to do research for a safer sport. It was headed by Sid Watkins. The Expert Advisory Group (EAG) was going to be the final and definitive turning point in the safety of world motorsports. Watkins of course started a medical revolution by changing dozens of Formula One racetracks and its organisations. By 1994 the circuits were matured in this respect. The EAG was going to walk down a different road. Henceforward, new safety regulations were to be tested in a scientific manner. Ideas were now to be proven by experiments which would result in the collection of data. If that data supports the initial idea, implementation could commence. And so a lot of engineers and scientists were contracted by the EAG to research aspects like the monocoque, chrash helmets, impact force, etc. Safety measures by the EAG are for example the enhanced crash helmet, the side-pod crash structure, the high cockpit sides and the HANS-system. The EuroNCAP is also an example of an EAG initiative. Direct changes after the San Marino grand prix were the reduced pit-lane speed, no pit-crews were allowed outside the box during racing except for pit-stops, wooden skid-plates were installed to check for ride height and diffusers were further simplified to ban any form of ground-effect.
The FOCA versus the FISA
In the meantime, what has become of Ecclestone and his relationship with Sid Watkins? The past two parts of this story showed that he was a human veto for whenever Watkins’ was unhappy with track conditions and facilities. Pay attention, this is a very short summary. Since the early seventies, Ecclestone owned the Formula One commercial rights and seated himself at the top of the FOCA. The FOCA was the organisation in which all the constructers defended each other’s interests like the splitting of the prize money. The FOCA became more powerful than the Commission Sportive Internationale (CSI) which was the organizational representative of the FIA in Formula One. The FIA made the charismatic Jean-Marie Balestre the head of the CSI to counter Ecclestone's growing power. Balestre turned the CSI into the Fédération Internationale du Sport l'Automobile (FISA). This resulted in the infamous FOCA-FISA war of the early eighties. The 1981 Concorde Agreement ended this tug-o-war by giving the FOCA the responsibility for all the commercially related aspects of the sport, while the FISA itself would focus on the regulatory aspects of the sport including the medical services offered by Sid Watkins. In 1991 Max Mosley became president of the FISA and president of the FIA in 1993. He abolished the FISA and put the Formula One under direct control of the FIA. Henceforward, Watkins had to plead his responsibility to Mosley and the FIA, not to Bernie Ecclestone. That also explains why the safety measures after the San Marino grand prix were initiated by the FIA and not by Ecclestone.
Watkins' protégé: dr. Gary Hartstein
Dr. Gary Hartstein was Watkins' student and bound to be his successor when Watkins removed himself from his position as medical delegate at the end of 2005. Hartstein's career as medical delegate in the FIA Formula One circus was not to be without problems. Hartstein tells us in the interview that he learned a lot from Watkins, except patience. He wanted to push hard to form a sort of worldwide standard for medical practices at any racetrack. He started to write a manual for circuit doctors, which was a brilliant idea considering the fact that the Formula One circus was going to expand to countries that had no experience in organizing motor racing events whatsoever. Grands Prix were to be held in Bahrain, Singapore, India, South-Korea, Abu Dhabi, etc. Hartstein invited several doctors to write chapters specializing on certain aspects of circuit preparations and the managing of medical facilities. He handed the manuscript to the FIA who left it collecting dust for the next five years. By writing the book, Hartstein became politically involved in FIA policy that was being subdued to a political face-off between the French and the English representatives. Hartstein’s efforts were not appreciated. Withouth patience, Harstein pushed his ideas further by developing an online community for racetrack doctors worldwide to share stories, comments, questions, how-to’s and general information. Hartstein handed a total of 1200 names in favour of this community over to Jean Todt, who was infuriated. Hartstein was degraded to be an assistant. Trying to find a way to blackmail Hartstein, Todt accused the former of giving an unauthorised interview and threatened to fire him. Hartstein had formal evidence that the interview was authorized and escaped the firing squad. However, Hartsteins career as a medical officer ended when he tried to advise the FIA delegates that they had to perform thorough research into the flammable political situation in Bahrain in 2011 to be able to ensure the safety of all the personnel, teams and drivers. Jean Todt was beside himself and subsequently Hartstein's contract wasn't renewed. Although fired from his position as medical delegate, Hartstein continued to chair the FIA Safety training Working Group.
On September 12, 2012, prof. dr. Sid Watkins passed away aged 84.
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In the VBE, select Insert > Module. This will insert a new blank module into the VBE.
In the new module, paste the code below.
For example, the following code will create a macro that will Remove Characters from a String:
Public Function removeFirstC(rng As String, cnt As Long)
removeFirstC = Right(rng, Len(rng) - cnt)
End Function
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Utilization Of Digital Information Resources For Academic Development In School Of Health Information Management Zaria
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Yalusa C; Habibu M
Dept. of Library and Information Sci. Faculty of Education, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria.
Akpulu S.P
Dept. of Human Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria
All correspondence to: Phone +1237060975262
ABSTRACT
Digitalization of information has made access to medical science records and information easy and fast. Therefore, the need for developing skills, knowledge and understanding in the use of electronic information devices cannot be over emphasized. However, the reverse is what is commonly seen in most of our institutions of learning. This study was aim at studying the utilization of digital information resources (DIR) for academic development in School of Health Information Management ABUTH, Zaria. Two hundred and thirty six (236) structured questionnaires were administered using the stratified random sampling technique. The data collected was analyzed using frequency and simple percentage statistics. The study revealed that while e-Text books (53.6%) and Internet facilities (38.0%) top the most frequently used digital resource materials, Irregular power supply (31.8 %) and poor network services (24.8 %) top the challenges faced in accessing DIR by the respondents. 52.6% of the respondents accessed DIR materials by subscription. 26.0% is by loan while 20.7% is by purchase. This finding suggests that there is under-utilization of DIR because of infrastructural changes. It is therefore recommended that all relevant stake holders should invest heavily in ensure ring adequate provision of digital resource materials in the Libraries.
Key words: Digitalization, utilization, Information Management, Resources.
INTRODUCTION
The library or information center is the heart of the academic community since learning and research is the core academic program (Bashir, 2013). The digitalization of information and communication has no doubt brought about changes and rapid development in all human endeavours especially in medical science education. Thus, the ability for timely acquisition, retrieval and utilization of relevant and accurate information has become an important attribute in teaching and learning process especially among medical students.
Digital or electronic information resources are those information resources that contain information other than in written format. According to Bandele (2006), digital information resources are tools that comprise electronic devices which are utilized for information and communication needs of institutions, organization, students and individuals. Such electronic devices include computers (desktop/laptops), internet networking, telephone (handsets/mobile phones), video and multimedia devices. Adegun (2007) revealed that presently in Nigeria, the use of E-learning in the educational sector is still at the rudimentary stage.
In this age of information explosion, no student is expected to be left behind, especially students that study information science related courses such as the Health Information
Management Students. Digitalization of information has made access to records and information easy and fast. It gives room for unrestricted access to students for relevant information and development in various subject areas. Access to latest text books, journals, books published by reputable scholars in various disciplines is guaranteed for students. The internet provides e-mail services generally utilized for correspondences and dissemination of information. Student read comments from daily mails (newspaper), use chat room where activities take place lively and the use of World Wide Web (WWW) for necessary information (Adebayo, 2007). Digital information or what may be referred to as ICT has increased importance within the school curriculum, support student-teachers in teaching and learning process, enables students to access, share, analyses and present information gained from a variety of sources and in many different ways and encourages active participation in classroom interaction as knowledge is shared (Emenilse, 2003).
However, the reverse is what is commonly seen in our institutions of learning. Most students are faced with challenges of sourcing and utilization of digital information resources ranging due to several reasons, which may include inadequate digital facilities. Most of our schools do not have enough functional electronic information resource equipment that can meet the need the need of the rapidly growing student population. Another reason is that the majority of the students are not well trained or skilled with the knowledge of information technology particularly the practical aspect of it. Poor quality service delivery is another reason that poses challenges to our students. This is locally referred to as “No Network”. The evident of poor services develop lack of confidence in the system. Lack of maintenance and regular services or replacement of spare parts when faulty is also a challenge to students. Poor power (electricity) supply has greatly disrupted the smooth running of electronic services so much that most students have resulted to fate, while become nonchalant towards anything digital or electronic. What impact has these on the students and how can some of these reasons be corrected? According to Missen et al (2005), the Internet poses African Universities to gain equal footing with their sister institutions in the more developed countries. It is imperative that Institution of learning be connected if they are not to be rendered irrelevant in the modern academic world.
Harold (1998) supported this by saying the weakness of the present situation lies in the absence of a nationally coordinated programme of bibliographical activity, and in the lack of coordination between organisation and institutions with related interest. It is against this background that this study was carried out.
Materials and Methods
This study was conducted in the School of Health Information Management (SHIM) A.B.U.T.H Zaria. The school is located in the old Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital Tudun Wada Zaria and has a population of approximately 600 students. Stratified proportionate random sampling was adopted using the open and close ended structured questionnaire. The questionnaire was designed after the pattern of Aina (2004). The questionnaire was divided into sections. Section A was on personal data. Section B was as on knowledge and availability of library information resources (LIR) and section C was on the use of LIR, while Section D was on Challenges encountered in the access and use of DIR. The data generated from the questionnaires was analysed by using frequency and simple percentage statistics.
Results and Discussion
Out of the two hundred and thirty-six (236) questionnaires administered, only two hundred and twelve (212) was eturned correctly completed.
Discussion
The finding in this study is similar to most studies carried out on utilization of digital resources. The results show that female respondents 136 (64.2%) were more than that of the male 76 (35.8%). The age range of the respondents with the highest percentage (48.1%), was 21-30 year. The respondents 138 (65.1%) with National Diploma Certificate are more than those with other educational qualifications. Text books 158 (40.1%) and Internet facilities 152 (38.6%) constituted the highest percentage of digital resource materials available in the institution. The most frequent channel of accessing Digital Information Resources by the students was by subscription 142 (52.6%). Text books and internet facilities also top the most frequently used DIR with 72 (34.6%) and 46 (22.1%) respectively. The most frequent reasons for using DIR was for academic resources 106 (35.3%) and for information 104 (34.7%). This study also shows that the respondents use the DIR more daily 102 (45.5%) than weekly usage of frequency 54 (24.1%). Eighty two (48.5%) of the respondents were very satisfactory with use of Internet facilities while, 20 (22.2) of the respondents were not satisfied with the use of Audio Visual. The most frequent challenges of accessing DIR reported the students was irregular power supply 100 (31.8 %) followed by Net Work problems 78 (24.8 %).
In a recent study conducted by the Global information technology (2005), the report used the Networked Readiness index (NRI) covering a total of 115 economies in 2005-2006, to measure the degree of preparation of a nation or community to participate in and benefit from ICT developments. Nigeria was ranked 90th out of the 115 countries surveyed, united states of America toped the list, followed by Singapore, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Canada, Taiwan, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom and so on. Also, Nigeria was ranked 86th out of 104 countries surveyed in 2004 (Global information Technology, 2004).
This study recorded a general low usage and patronage of digital information resources when compared to results from other part of the world. This, according to Tiefel (2004) may be due to the fact that most library users are unaware of the quality and variety of information available.. Internet is the most frequently used DIR, which is similar to this finding. Falak (2003) reported the rapid growth and use of e-books in school’s colleges and universities in developing countries, which is not the case with finding of this study where text books seem to be the highest. Most of these studies reported high usage of internet resources (De Vicente et al 2004; Falk, 2003). High usage was `attributed to a number of factors including the freely available access, the ease of use and its currency. Gakibayo (2001) and Agaba (2003) carried out a study on e-resources usage at Makerere University of Science and Technology; the results of this study indicated low usage. Zaki (1991), pointed out that the poor library use background by students in using library facilities, had led them to carry this problem with them to Universities and higher institutions.
Conclusion
The finding from this study suggests that though, the DIR has provided a wider access to global information resources, these resources are not effectively utilized due to varying factors.
Recommendation
There is need to equip end-users with skills such as information literacy skills, information retrieval skills, computer skills among others as a strategy to promote e-resource usage among medical students.
Acknowledgment
We are grateful to the management of ABUTH Zaria, especially the Coordinator and students of School of Health Information Management ABUTH Zaria, for the support and cooperation.
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