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CARROLL SHELBY FOUNDATION DONATES $25,000 TO TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOR VICTIMS OF HURRICANE HARVEY
The Carroll Shelby Foundation created and sold a special T-shirt to benefit children in Houston impacted by the recent hurricane
The $25,000 gift is going to the Harvey Resiliency and Recovery Program at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston
The money will serve the mental health needs of children suffering from the hurricane and flooding
GARDENA, Calif. – Nov. 16, 2017 – The Carroll Shelby Foundation donated $25,000 to Texas Children's Hospital in Houston to help children suffering from Hurricane Harvey. The money, which was raised through the sale of a limited-edition T-shirt, will support the hospital's Harvey Resiliency and Recovery Program as part of their Trauma and Grief Center.
"Hurricane Harvey wreaked heartbreaking havoc in the Houston area," said Aaron Shelby, Co-President of the Carroll Shelby Foundation. "While Texans are a tough bunch, we wanted to accelerate hurricane recovery for children impacted by this tragedy. Our team created a limited-edition 'Shelby Texas Strong' shirt inspired by the resilient spirit of my grandfather, Carroll Shelby. All proceeds from the sale of these shirts will go to the Harvey Resiliency and Recovery Program at Texas Children's Hospital to support the most vulnerable pediatric populations."
The Harvey Resiliency and Recovery Program was designed to serve the mental health needs of children impacted by the recent hurricane and flooding. According to experts, children can face significant mental, emotional and physical consequences after a major disaster. Children who live in poverty are often more affected by crises such as hurricanes, as trauma experienced from a storm can exacerbate existing stress and the cumulative effects of challenges. According to a 2016 Dallas News analysis, about 26 percent of the more than 1 million children who live in Harris County, where Houston sits, live below the poverty line.
"Carroll Shelby initially created the foundation to benefit children awaiting an organ transplant soon after his own such operation," said Neil Cummings, Co-CEO of Carroll Shelby International, CEO of Carroll Shelby Licensing, and Co-President of the Carroll Shelby Foundation. "Over the years, the scope of the charity has expanded to support families and children in many different ways. This gift, which follows on the recent $10,000 donation to Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, continues Carroll's vision of helping kids win the race for life."
Texas Children's Hospital is a not-for-profit health care organization committed to creating a healthier future for children and women throughout the global community through patient care, education and research. Consistently ranked as the best children's hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation, Texas Children's has garnered widespread recognition for its expertise and breakthroughs in pediatric and women's health.
"Using evidence-based assessments and interventions, as well as providing trauma-informed training to mental health professionals and teachers in impacted communities, we hope to more quickly recognize and address the needs of children who are at risk for developing post-traumatic stress disorder and related psychological difficulties," said Dr. Julie Kaplow, director of both the Trauma and Grief Center and Harvey Resiliency and Recovery Program at Texas Children's, and associate professor of pediatrics in the section of psychology at Baylor College of Medicine. "Surviving a disaster can be distressing for anyone, but youth who have already been exposed to trauma, traumatic loss and/or severe adversity are at particularly high risk for severe persisting stress and may need the support of a mental health professional. The new Harvey Resiliency and Recovery Program will connect our experts to these children and we are grateful to the Carroll Shelby Foundation for helping us reach even more youth in need of our expertise."
The donation was allocated to the hospital on Oct. 1, 2017.
About The Carroll Shelby Foundation
The Carroll Shelby Foundation was created by legendary racer and automotive manufacturer Carroll Shelby. Headquartered in Gardena, Calif., the Foundation is dedicated to providing medical assistance for those in need, including children, educational opportunities for young people through automotive and other training programs and benefitting the Shelby Automotive Museum. For more information visit http://www.shelby.com.


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Kelly folds Navarro's trade shop into National Economic Council
Since arriving at the White House in July, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly has sought to better organize the policy-making process within the White House. | Win McNamee/Getty Images
By Andrew Restuccia, Nahal Toosi and Tara Palmeri
White House chief of staff John Kelly is folding adviser Peter Navarro's trade office into the National Economic Council – a move that could limit Navarro's influence in the West Wing.
The Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, which is run by Navarro, will now be housed within the NEC, four administration officials told POLITICO. That means Navarro will report to NEC Director Gary Cohn, with whom he has repeatedly clashed in recent months.
Kelly made the decision on Tuesday, the officials said.
"I'm a chain of command guy and will follow Chief Kelly's orders," Navarro said in a statement to POLITICO. "The chief has assured me I will continue to have the same seat and voice at the president's decision-making table."
Navarro's role in the administration has long been a topic of intense debate for President Donald Trump's team. During the presidential transition, Trump tapped Navarro to be the head of a new White House National Trade Council, which would have been elevated to the same status as established bodies like the Domestic Policy Council. But the president later put Navarro in charge of a separate Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy.
Since then, Navarro has operated largely as a one-man trade warrior within the West Wing, arguing vehemently for aggressive tariffs. He's operated with a rare degree of independence – though he often works closely with senior policy adviser Stephen Miller, an ideological ally.
Kelly's decision to have Navarro report to Cohn, who has pushed behind the scenes to temper Trump's hardline instincts, could further isolate the former economics professor. Cohn is Navarro's "nemesis," according to an associate of Navarro's. The two men have sometimes yelled at each other during White House trade meetings, and Cohn has often been dismissive of Navarro's policy proposals.
In the statement, Navarro said there is "a certain logic to having a Harvard Ph.D. economist join the National Economic Council," adding that he was promised that his office "would remain an essential part of the policy development process."
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Navarro has found himself with fewer allies in the White House since the departure of Steve Bannon and other trade hawks. Navarro's West Wing critics hope the reassignment will lead to his ultimate resignation, though people close to Navarro say he has no intention of leaving.
Supporters of Navarro's agenda worry the reassignment is the latest signal that the president is abandoning his trade promises.
"I think this is very troubling because Peter was maybe the last person in the White House who was guardian of the president's economic and trade commitments during the election," said Mike Wessel, who knows Navarro and is a longtime commissioner on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a watchdog panel set up by Congress in 2000.
Since arriving at the White House in July, Kelly has sought to better organize the policy-making process within the White House. He has limited administration officials' direct access to President Donald Trump and issued a mandate that all policy issues must be run through formalized vetting processes helmed by either the NEC, the Domestic Policy Council or the National Security Council.
Ben White and Adam Behsudi contributed to this story.
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Gathering in Front of AI for Batebi and Other Prisoners of Conscience in Iran
There will be a gathering in front of Amnesty International offices in Lonodn at 2:30 pm in solidarity with Ahmad Batebi and other prisoners of conscience in Iran.
I am currently working in Amsterdam so I won't be able to make the gathering in London. My best wishes for all those who will turn up tomorrow.
Ahmad Batebi in Hospital
Ahmad Batebi, the Iranian student who was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment during Khatami's presidency, for having raised a bloody T-shirt of a student colleague at a peaceful student protest, was taken to hospital on Friday after going into a coma.
After Khatami was given an honorary doctorate at St. Andrew's university, the Islamic regime felt more emboldened to further ill treat Batebi. He was denied prison visits and leave, and was under constant threat to be transferred to section 8 of the Evin prison alongside dangerous criminals and drug addicts. On Friday, the prison authorities attempted to remove his personal belongings from him. This was like a last straw for Batebi's already frail nerves. He reacted angrily and then suffered convulsions and was unconscious for several hours. Prison authorities transferred him to the prison hospital at first. On Sunday Batebi suffered more convulsions and was taken to Tajrish Martyrs hospital along with six armed guards, while his feet were chained together.
I am still convinced that had the NUS in St. Andrews university insisted on Batebi's release as a pre-condition for Khatami's poxy honorary doctorate, Batebi would now be free and healthy.
I consider the lack of solidarity action by the St.Andrews university NUS, and in particular the cowardliness of the president of the Student Association, Tom D'Ardenne, partly responsible for the present demise of Ahmad Batebi. I hope the St. Andrews student association bear the guilt of what has happened, but then again cowards do not usually have a conscience.
More pictures of Tom D'Ardenne:
Gathering Outside Islamic Assembly to Stop the Sivand Dam
This morning several hundred Iranians, mainly young, have gathered peacefully outside the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis), under heavy rain in Tehran, to demand the closure of Sivand dam.
More than 20 NGOs including a group of seminary students from Qom, called for the gathering, to try and stop any possible damage to our national heritage in the Bolaghi by-pass and in particular to the tomb of the founder of our country, Cyrus the Great.
IRI uses British Universities as Propaganda Platform
"Note that propaganda is on the top of our agenda. Today's world rotates around propaganda. Note that the highest action that can bear fruits for our revolution here and help its export outside Iran is propaganda. Increasing and widening propaganda outside Iran should be at the top of our programmes". These are quotes from Ayatollah Khomeini on the importance of propaganda.
Whatever one thinks of Ayatollah Khomeini, it would be unfair not to admire his enormous talents in the art of revolution. He knew what levers to pull, and recognised so well the importance of the propaganda lever.
It seems those who carry Ayatollah Khomeini's legacy and represent the interests of the Islamic Republic in UK, have rightly seen the importance of the Western universities, as a useful propaganda platform for strengthening and export of the 1979 revolution. Universities after all will produce the future diplomats, think tank units, journalists, politicians, managers etc.
It is ironic that while secular academics are expelled and forced into early retirement in the Islamic Republic, student activists are imprisoned, and banned from furthering their education, and while actions like "gender rationing" in favour of more university places for male students instead of female students are being considered by the Islamic Republic, secular Western universities rather than restricting the Islamic Republic's political agenda on their campuses, knowingly or unknowingly, provide more and more opportunities for the Islamic Republic to give a rosey picture of a theocratic state.
Take a look at what happened at SOAS last week:
A request was made by an Iranian student at SOAS for a "symposium" about Iranian cinema. Later on an organisation named "Council for the Promotion of Persian Language and Literature" took over the organisation of the event and the "Iranian Cinema Symposium" actually became a pretext for an official celebration of the Islamic Revolution in a British university, organized and sponsored by the Iranian embassy in London.
The "Council for the Promotion of Persian Language and Literature" is actually a front for "Organisation for Islamic Propaganda and Communication" in Iran which amongst its long list of previous activities, printed literature in support and justification of Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa for the assassination of the British writer, Salman Rushdie.
The official advertising poster for the event did not show the English translation of the Persian text. The English text was kept neutral, but the Persian text was aall about the glorification of the Islamic revolution in 1979.
On the first day of the event, a diplomat from the Iranian embassy in London, acted as the master of ceremony and the event was opened by recitals from the Koran and posters glorifying the Islamic revolution in 1979 were exhibited along with bookstalls disseminating Islamic Republic official literature.
Pictures of this event can be seen here on the Islamic Republic embassy related website:
http://london.icro.ir/?c=newsShow&NewsId=290259&t=4
University officials say that they had not realised the political content of the event, and have expressed their displeasure at such tactics used by the Islamic Republic embassy and have notified the Foreign Office.
New Dress Code Restrictions for Female Students
Amir-Kabir University news website reports about new dress code restrictions for female students. A big sign at the gates warns women students that they can only attend the classes if they strictly observe the Islamic dress code.
The website reports the new restrictions were initiated by a young cleric who was recently promoted from deputy representative of the Supreme Leader in the University of Arts to the position of chief representative. During his time as the deputy representative, he had impressed his superiors and secured his promotion by his relentless efforts in encouraging male students to take on female student colleagues as temporary concubine wives - Sigheh.
Iranian Female MP Supports the Bill to Reduce Female Student Numbers
Prior to the 1979 revolution, many religious families in Iran withheld their daughters from further education, fearing the secular universities, where boys and girls were mixed in the same lecture room. After the Islamic revolution however, the universities and other institutes were deemed Islamic and the number of Iranian female students entering higher education saw a steady increase.
The percentage of female to male students for the university entrance exam is now 60/40 in favour of girls. This demographic change is now being blamed by the mullahs for much of the country's social catastrophes, to the extent that a bill is being passed in the parliament to make sure the number of female students does not exceed the number of male students.
Fatemeh Ajorloo, one of the few female MPs, is one of the supporters of the bill. "If we allocate the university places according to the nature of the course and the physical ability required, then it is better for society as a whole. We should not refer to this bill as gender allocation, but gender limitation. We should give consideration to the sanctity of gender in educational courses" Ajorloo stated in an interview with ILNA.
Avaz Heydarpour, another MP who also supports the bill said "If women want to go after science and knowledge they should seek courses that will be useful for them at home"
Human Kindness Transcends Artificial Barriers
What a heart warming story this is. Israel awarding an Arab Muslim for saving Jewish lives:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6318201.stm
Whenever human kindness transcends artificial barriers of race, religion, cast etc. it is a triumph for humanity. At a time when there is so much mindless sectarian violence, it is good to know about the likes of Khaled Abdulwahab.
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US Symbols of Liberty
US Colonial History
US Historical Places
US Electoral Process
Immigrants / Immigration
Mexican American War
Slavery in America
Japanese-American Internment
Presidents of the US
Three Branches of Government
Immigrants/Immigration
It is said that the United States is a nation of immigrants--the great melting pot. Except for Native Americans, everyone in America is an immigrant or the descendant of an immigrant.
The early colonists came from England, Holland, and France. Then came Scandinavians, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, and Germans. By the end of the 1800s, Italians, Polish, Armenians, Russians, Greeks, Hungarians, and Turks began to pour into America. Soon Chinese and Japanese immigrants arrived in great numbers.
Immigrants came for many reasons. They came in hopes of owning land or getting a better job. Some came for adventure or to avoid military service in their former country. Many came to escape persecution. Mostly they came for the hope of a better life.
People in the United States are descendants of one of the greatest migrations in human history. And that migration is not over. Even today, immigrants continue to come to America in large numbers. This mix of cultures and diverse ethnic ancestries is what helps make the United States an interesting and dynamic place to live. The Great Seal of the United States has featured on its face--E. Pluribus Unum--Out of Many, One. This reflects the cultural diversity and unity of America.
Sample some of the following activities to learn more about immigrants and immigration.
Places To Go People To See Things To Do Teacher Resources Bibliography
The following are places to go (some real and some virtual) to find out about immigrants and immigration.
Virtually visit Angel Island in San Francisco Bay. From 1910 to 1940, the island was used as a portal to process immigrants to the United States--most of them from Asia. Angel Island was called the "Ellis Island of the West".
Travel to Ellis Island in New York Harbor. Between 1892 and 1954, more than 16 million people passed through Ellis Island, hoping to become Americans.
Immigrant Ships
The vast majority of immigrants coming to America traveled in steerage which was the area in the bottom of large ships where people were packed into rows of narrow bunk beds. There were no portholes to let in light, and the ceiling was usually only 6 to 8 feet high.
Lower Eastside Tenement
Visit an historic tenement building on the lower eastside of New York City where immigrants to the city lived in overcrowded conditions.
Manhattan Neighborhoods
Visit ethnic areas of Manhattan. Early immigrants in large cities faced many problems. They arrived with little money. They mostly spoke no English. They had no homes. They often lived in crowded apartments with relatives. They formed their own neighborhoods with such names as Little Italy and Chinatown. People there spoke a common language and shared common customs.
People To See
Her famous poem, "The New Colossus", published in 1883, is on a bronze plaque at the base of The Statue of Liberty. In her later years, she wrote bold, powerful poetry and essays protesting the rise of anti-Semitism and arguing for Russian immigrants' rights.
Meet Fiorello La Guardia. He was the mayor of New York City in the 1930s and 1940s. In his earlier years, before he became a lawyer and politician, he was an interpreter on Ellis Island.
Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi
Meet Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi. He designed the Statue of Liberty and presented it to the United States. The base of the statue is it is inscribed "The New Colossus," the famous sonnet of Emma Lazarus, welcoming immigrants to the United States.
History Channel: Ellis Island
Meet a few of the 12 million immigrants who passed through Ellis Island and read about their personal experiences.
Get to know the "Lady with the Torch". She has stood in upper New York Bay on a ten acre island since 1886. She was frequently one of the first sites that immigrants saw as they arrived on their ships and de boarded at Ellis Island.
The Immigrant Journey
Follow the steps that a family went through to immigrate to America. From 1900 to 1910, almost 95 percent of the immigrants arriving at Ellis Island were joining either their family or a friend who had arrived before them.
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Discover what today's immigrants need to do to become citizens of the United States.
Immigration in American Memory
Learn about the earliest American immigrants, about the great surge of immigration which occurred between 1865 and 1920, and about immigration today.
Know Nothing Party
The Know Nothing Party was a political movement in the 1840s and 1850s. One of the goals of this movement was to restrict immigration and to encourage the election of only native-born Americans to office.
National Library of Medicine: Disease Control and Prevention
Learn about some of the diseases that could keep an immigrant from entering the United States. Trachoma was a common reason for immigrants to be sent back to their former countries. It was a contagious eye disease that was common in Europe and for which, at the time, there was no cure.
The Promise of Gold Mountain: Tucson's Chinese Heritage
Learn how Chinese immigrants helped build Tucson, Arizona. Many immigrants from China were railroad workers, and in southern Arizona, they worked on the Southern Pacific Railroad and earned $1.00 a day.
Lesson Plans/Webquests
Huddled Masses Still Yearning to Breathe Free
Immigration Today WebQuest
Andryszewski, Tricia. Immigration: Newcomers and Their Impact on the U.S. Brookfield, Conn.: Milbrook Press, c1995.
Bratman, Fred. Becoming a Citizen: Adopting a New Home. Austin, Tex. : Raintree Steck-Vaughn, c1993.
Jacobs, William Jay. Ellis Island: New Hope in a New Land. New York : C. Scribner's, c1990.
Koral, April. An Album of the Great Wave of Immigration. New York : F. Watts, c1992.
Levine, Ellen. If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island. New York : Scholastic Inc., c1993.
Maestro, Betsy. Coming to America: The Story of Immigration. New York: Scholastic, c1996.
Quiri, Patricia Ryon. Ellis Island. New York: Children's Press, c1998.
Reef, Catherine. Ellis Island. New York: Dillon Press; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, c1991.
Reimers, David M. A Land of Immigrants. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, c1996.
Sandler, Martin W. Immigrants: A Library of Congress Book. New York, NY: HarperCollins, c1995.
Takaki, Ronald T. Spacious Dreams: The First Wave of Asian Immigration. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, c1993.


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Safety Participation and Worker Involvement: Driving Leaps in Performance with Ken Woodward
Aug 25, 2022 | Season 3
Ken Woodward was involved in a chemical explosion at work that resulted in the loss of his eyesight, smell, and taste. Rather than talking just as a victim, he embraces what can be learned from the incident that cost him three of his senses. In this episode, Ken stresses the importance of all team members working together equally to target zero damage to people, equipment, products, and finances. There's not just one driver to workplace incidents; there's a build-up over time. Tune in to learn how to increase safety participation in the workplace!
Real leaders leave a legacy. They capture the hearts and minds of their teams. Their origin story puts the safety and wellbeing of their people first. Great companies, ubiquitously have safe yet productive operations. For those companies, safety is an investment, not a cost. For the C suite, it's a real topic of daily focus. This is The Safety Guru with your host Eric Michrowski, a globally recognized ops and safety guru, public speaker and author. Are you ready to leave a safety legacy? Your legacy success story begins now.
Hello, and welcome to the Safety Guru. Today I'm very excited to have with me Ken Woodward. Ken is going to speak to us about a topic that's incredibly near and dear to me around safety participation, worker involvement. So, Ken Woodward is an officer of the order of the British Empire OBE onfell of Ayosh, as well as the Safety Council of Australia. He's worked for 32 years in workplace safety in 89 countries following a workplace incident that took place. So, Ken, welcome to the show, really excited to have you with me today.
I'm looking forward to it Eric.
So maybe let's start a little bit about your incident. I want to get into a lot of the work you've done around worker involvement because that's phenomenal, it's exciting. But let's start a little bit about your story and the incident that took place that really got you involved in safety to this level.
Okay. It was November 1990, chemical explosion, caustic and Hypo. I had both eyes removed. I have no sense of smell or taste. Unfortunately, the burns recovered, and my life was saved by a work colleague. And at the time I was working for a leading soft drinks company. I also investigated the loss of my eyes, how it happened, why it happened, what we didn't do, what failed, all the lists of whys, why's wise, but to the workplace for a very good reason.
So, one of the things when we first connected that you talked about was that everyone could have prevented this. Tell me a little bit more about kind of the whys you went through and that observation around everyone could have.
Prevented what happened in that investigation. I realized that it was a process that I never attempted before. So, I found the most experienced person to train me to show me how to do it. Now this guy had 58 years experience, but it was inadequate training. We didn't validate the training, we didn't validate the competency of the trainers, the risk assessments, the standard operating procedures. We didn't do any of that because it's a very simple task, it takes three minutes, and it happens thousands of times every year. So, we didn't do that. But there was a previous incident two weeks earlier, same task in the same place. There was exothermic reaction, and he burned his face and he had to go to hospital two weeks prior.
Yeah, two weeks prior. That was reported immediately and investigated by the front-line manager. His condition was operator error. He must have been. So, we have a breakdown of communication and listening. We didn't communicate with anybody. Eight weeks before that, there was a heating up of hot pipes. There were lots and lots of circumstances where compliance to systems, procedures and processes would have highlighted it all if we'd have adhered to it, sure. But we didn't. We're very busy people, lots of pressure to get the job done. Normal everyday occurrences throughout the world. It is no different.
Very common.
We manage those that makes a difference. So, there was lots of circumstances. Five different departments, a couple of managers. I just picked five different departments, all of them really? And then there's a lot of fingers pointing afterwards. There's a faint mistake because there's not just one driver to these incidences. There's a build up, of course. And that build up may take an hour, it may take a year, but the flags are waving. And we had nothing in place. We had no communication of the importance of flagging these up in place. And this is in 1990. If I shared the stats with you, they would frighten you. But nobody knew them.
Nobody. I only found out afterwards.
It wasn't discussed, it wasn't reviewed?
No, nothing. If we got to hear about anything that happened on our C-Suite, and you would never find out how it happened.
So, in that sense, and yet when you look at it, our topic is zero.
No damage to people. Equipment, vehicles, property, product, environmental, finance. Every single employee around the world manages all of those to a lesser or greater degree. So, it's in our own interest for everybody to work together equally to target that zero.
But do we know how well that zero is doing? Probably not. And we most certainly don't make sure it's happening.
So, it's all of those elements I picked up. And I also had to go to a rehabilitation center for a year where I learned the art of communication and listening. More importantly, working together equally as a team and compliance. That's just for me to be a blind person, to go out into a cited world. There are four major factors. I can never drop the standards as I will get hurt.
Or it would become very inefficient. So, my life is based on those four standards, and I took those four standards into the workplace.
Now, the best way I can explain this, in 1990, we had 89 reported lingers to the government who want fatality. Ten years later, I spoke to thousands of people that I work with within the organization six major sites, watch long solutions to put it right, how are we going to achieve it, and what support do you require from your management team to do to reach those objectives? Ten years it took to get to no reportable injuries to the HSE?
None whatsoever.
None whatsoever. We had 13 lost time injuries. The most was two days. That's for thousands of people.
We produce more, and we made the most profit we've ever made.
So, tell me a little bit about that approach to worker involvement, because I think that's a key component in terms of how you get the workforce involved in safety. Tell me a little bit more about tactically, how you went about it.
Okay. We pulled together the executive board, the vice presidents, and we fed to them the facts.
We showed them where we think we could get to. So how you can measure us. If you want to make it a KPI, that's fine. Don't have a problem with it. But do we have the right management system in place? Did our international safety rating system work? So, we pointed out that you may have thought we were doing a brilliant job, but we put all the facts on the table, and then we showed them how we can start to improve it. And we did say it would take a long time, and we need the full support of the vice president of manufacturing and distribution.
And we want that support to be personal and on site. We created a workshop with the vice presidents. We wanted them to come up with how they're going to do it, how they're going to support us at no cost. We will also have no cost to reach those improvements. We don't need money off you, because the people that can do it are the workforce. They know what's wrong. They know the solution to put it right. They know how to do it. But we need your support to achieve it. And it's got to be personal. So, I don't want you to pick up a KPI, go out and check it or do an audit, go out and check it. I don't want any of that. Just want you to go along and say, how's it going? How's this work? How's that working? Keep it calm and quiet. We also put an observation process in place so that we could observe compliance. Now, that's quite difficult to put into any company because a lot of our employees thought it's Big Brother.
Absolutely. We're being watched. We're going to get in trouble. So, we had to make sure that we gave an overview to every single employee in this country on why we're doing it and what to expect. And if you don't get any of that, here's the number, phone me, and I will work with you to put that right.
So, we gave them the support.
And then after a period of time that started to die away. In fact, it didn't die away. It started to develop because we then put it into Lucky way of explaining it. If you were to go to anybody on a shop floor and say, your son and daughter is going to do your job tomorrow, what would you warn them about? Open up the gold dust. Let's hear it now. How would you prevent that? We're now starting to move to the next level of continuous improvement.
So, then it became everybody's job to do that, including the vice presidents. They could do it any way they wanted to. We looked at our audit system and we looked at we asked people, you have audits for housekeeping? They said yes. Who does them? The management. How often? Well, they didn't know the answer to that half the time. Do you ever get feedback from that? Never. Okay, if you have a VIP visit, do the standards of Housekeeping go up? Well, we're going to know the answer because of course they do. We cleaned everything. So, we just proved to our senior team that, okay, that's just one audit, one KPI, whatever you want to call it, that we know the answers because it keeps highlighting them. Every week we do them, which takes 157 managers that do it an hour or two to do it. We're wasting time. We know the answers already. How do we develop that? And we develop self management teams. So, the areas that they work in, they managed. They also then continuously improved on that, where they would manage compliance. It doesn't matter who you are, it doesn't matter if we had the Queen to visit, she had to wear the hair net, the hard hat, if she had to, the gloves and the safety boots.
So, it really was they were testing us to make sure we meant it and we were managing them to make sure we mean it. So, work together equally as a team. We're fully unionized, right? So, I asked every member, every convener, every union member, tell me what's wrong, and then I asked all of them, how many of you ever go across and do anything about it? Right. Not one. So, in all fairness, we're almost as bad as each other. So, we said, let's just work together on this. We then asked them later on to set the standards for noncompliance so we could all manage it together, so we could communicate and inform people we have agencies, we have tenants, so that we could actually say, look, you have to wear those, or if not, we won't produce. We'll stop work, right? You're not going to mess it up for us. So, they immediately followed it and they managed each other. So, it became self managed in teams. They then took over the reporting of incidents, hazards, minor injuries. They then set a target to measure 87%, close to closure at source. We didn't do it.
The workforce did it, right? So, everything became I mean, I can say it now simple, but it took seven years, I'm sure, of running against a brick wall. We had to keep breaking down, going over it, round it and under it to show. We really do mean it, but we could never have done it without the full support of the senior team, of course. And it was tough for them, I'm sure.
So, you talk about these self managed teams, which is a great concept. I'm assuming that during that ten-year period, there were some leadership changes that took place. How did the approach work through these leadership changes? Sometimes new leaders come in with new perspective, new ideas. How do you manage through that?
We had a new CEO come over, but during those ten years, there's a guy called Bob Cameron. He was Vice President of Manufacturing distribution. He was there the whole time. In fact, we both left in 2010, years after we started. We both left together.
See, I left Coke in 2001. Of the reasons we left was we were making much better profits and everybody was going home alive and with their bids.
And I was getting invites from major companies in the UK. I went over to America in 97 to lay out the pathway that we've taken, because they're really interested in how we do it.
And what I got at the time was where our culture is different. It is not different. We all go to work to earn money, to support our families and our hobbies.
We all do it worldwide. We can make excuses that makes it different, or we can make assumptions that our people are different. No, they're not.
Once we raise the understanding of why we're doing it and the simplicity of it, it's so much easier.
But it is important. And I'm glad you've mentioned that now, because within this week, I found out now there's new people there, and it is incredibly different to what it used to be. It is very easy to spoil it because people have their own ideas.
Exactly. And they've seen something that worked elsewhere, and they think it's going to work, and sometimes it doesn't make it better. You talked about the ten-year journey, the first ten years.
What about the next ten years? So, you left in 2000. What happened in the next ten years? Because it's still endured.
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Yes. I went back about 20 days for quite a number of years.
It just improved. And then we got major companies in the UK going to see our companies over here. How are you doing it? We used to issue them with little booklets that said, as we take you around our sites, we want you to look for things that are wrong. Please write them down and give them to the director of the site. Right. But we want you to manage it straight away if it's dangerous. Right.
Even a visitor, somebody who doesn't know.
The plan this is near the sites at all.
So that's what they did. And that has been kept up now for decades and it's done by the workforce. We have contractors coming in and we would manage filler operators and line operators to manage the permit trees because it's happening in their area. So, if they haven't got their correct PPE on, they would give it to them. The supervisor will put it into the system and Coca Cola would charge the company for the personal protective equipment that they didn't bring with them. But that was all done before they arrived. They knew that would happen.
That's part of the agreement. So, they managed them. And if they wanted to do anything or go anywhere, that was the agent for that contractor for that amount of time that they were there. So, everything went through the operator.
I love the fact that this endured well over ten years after you'd left. You're still coming in and out, but the ability for this to be sustained on an ongoing basis is the hardest part.
Yes. How do you get better and start managing our road footage? You start making sure that they don't use their mobile phones. They put them into boxes underneath the car seats and that's the only way you can start your engine, so the phone is locked away.
You make appointed times that you go to stop, take the phone out and make the calls. Does anything come up? Do I need to go anywhere? These are all designed by the workforce.
Simplicity and efficiency. And I don't know the answers, but I know we can go to find them.
We got those answers. We cascaded into the workforce for their agreement. So, when we rolled it out, no pushback.
No surprise there. I've had guests share. Dr Josh Williams came and shared a little bit about how an observation program designed by the workforce had seven times more participation than one that was designed by a consultant coming in to say, this is the best way to do it. And some additional examples where workers were involved and consulted in how to run a tailboard. Significant more involvement in participation because it's theirs. So, time and time again, the numbers, the stats show that self employed participation and safety is so critical but often miss. What you're talking about is really total worker involvement in participation in safety, which is phenomenal.
I was asked by a world leading company once it's out in the Far East. He didn't believe the safety stats on some of the platforms under, so he asked me if I go out. I had to get paid in the dunking of the helicopter and all that to get my ticket to go out and I went straight to the rig and started to lost the workforce. And that CEO in that country was absolutely right. His instinct was something's not right. Sure, the facts, they genuinely were not right. But why? I've just mentioned that it's not because of that. We can manage safety as long as we raise that awareness and understanding of why we're doing it. We want you to return tomorrow with your bits, we want you to retire with those bits and enjoy your pension. And more importantly, you will be secure in the future of a new people joining you, because that's where the experience is. Yeah, but what have I learnt on that rig? A guy came up to me and he said, this isn't safety, but do you mind listening to me? I said, no, not at all. He said, I checked the valves, I'm the supervisor and I have a team of four, and I check all the valves and the ones rusting up.
I have to with a wire brush, brush off the rest of the valves. Now, there's thousands of these valves on a rig, so it's a constant process. It's like painted a bridge, it never stops. And then painted a different color so that the painters could come round and paint it. So, I said, yeah, okay. He said, well, why can't I paint it? And I said, It's a very good question. Why can't you paint it? He said, well, the painters are contractors, they won't let us touch the paint. So immediately I thought, all right, can we get a training program so we can train some of these people up? Now, I know this means the painters aren't going to be too happy about it, but we have a far more efficient way of doing it, because the longest was three years before it was painted.
So, it's inefficient, of course. So, they did it and they saved £2 billion that year and reduced risk, in all likelihood, that came from I know it's nothing at all to do with safety. Yes, it is. It gives us a chance, it gives us money to improve things, so we move on. We don't want all of it. We want what's right.
And we need to tackle that workforce and get them to understand we're going to listen to you.
We can't do everything called wando. It will take time, but we'd like you to prioritize. And we found lots of skilled people that we didn't know about. They were in a previous life, they were a painter, let's just say. And we started to look at this and we said, would you like to do it? I put yellow lines around that palletizer, so no forklift truck goes in it without your permission. And it just jumped for it.
So simple stuff, the big stuff. We put in an RFA to the States to get a mezzanine floor across the whole production floor with five production lines on it. I can't tell you the speed that they travel at, and they have drop down points for the workers. That eliminated for the truck impacts, but that cost 170,000 pounds.
But it eliminated all impacts because that 170,000 was just one incident that happened.
And that's what it cost the company without the loss of production in the investigation. So those simple things we managed to get done. But they designed it. The people on that site designed their mesome floor.
And if we had a breakdown in machinery, the site director used to stand on that missing floor with his arms behind his back, telling everybody to get it fixed quick because the workforce told me, so I had to phone him up, say, please don't do that. They will do it as quick as they possibly can, but I understand why you're doing it. So, we work together, we spoke to each other, and that is the most powerful thing I have found around the world, no matter what country, what conditions, different priorities, but the same issues.
How wonderful is that? It's just managing people, listening to them.
So where to from here? So, you've driven significant improvements sustained for the following ten years. What's the next level?
It's a campaign that's now probably eight months into it we go 1% more. We've got the figures from the UN and from OSHA and HSC and all around the world that have been recorded in fatalities in the workplace, and statisticians have worked out what I'm going to show you now. It's quite perfect. If all of us worldwide did one thing personally in the next twelve months to improve safety in the areas that we work in, 27,000 people would go home alive.
I find that quite profound because that's probably a million odd people attached to all that that are not going to be affected.
We have to go to the workforce now and what I'm going and working with at the moment is the leadership team and the CEOs and the MDS and everybody across the board to let the workforce come up with a remit re improving safety for the next two years.
For a member of the workforce to present it to the board for their agreement, that will show which systems it will fit into. And don't worry, if the reporting goes up, all we're doing then is getting honesty.
Right? Absolutely.
And how are you going to support them in achieving it? So, we get dual agreement and then that is communicated to everybody in their wage limits so that they know exactly how well we're doing.
Or if you like, online, so that they get it personally.
Within that, we'll be praised for success. No blame for failure.
Because if we have to blame somebody for the health and safety issue, we have all failed.
So, Ken, thank you very much for sharing your story. I think incredibly powerful in terms of the work of participation, in terms of self managed teams, incredibly important topics. I love the changes were sustained for significant period of time because sometimes I've seen it work for short periods of time with a leadership team that buys in for a period of time until the next one comes in. I think it's a very powerful story. If you'd like more details, you can go to Ken's website. Kenwoodward.co.uk K-E-N-W-O-O-D-W-A-R-D.CO.UK Thanks.
You very much for asking me. It's been the first time for me and a real pleasure.
Thank you, Ken. Have a wonderful day.
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Ken Woodward was working for Coca-Cola Schweppes Beverages (CCSB) in November 1990 as a production operative when involved in a chemical explosion, which resulted in the loss of his sight. With enormous support from CCSB and following months of rehabilitation and re-training with the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) Ken eventually returned to work.
In 1996 Ken was invited to appear in a Health & Safety Film – 'Fighting Against Chance'. As a result the video '1 in 1.6 Million' was also produced and this proved to be a valuable tool in Behavioural Safety training. The Film was included as part of a training package for CCSB and this, together with Ken's presence at all training workshops, enabled CCSB to dramatically improve their safety performance over the following few years.
In 1997 requests were received from other companies for Ken to make personal appearances and on each occasion the video '1 in 1.6 Million' was shown. Since then Ken has evolved into a motivational speaker on Behavioural Safety.
Now an independent consultant, since September 2000 Ken's 'Passion for Safety' has taken him all over the UK as well as internationally. He has been involved in the production of further health & safety videos including the bestseller 'Think What If, Not If Only, [2006] 'Hindsight' [updating TWINIO] and most recently [2007] Lessons From a Blind School.
In February 2004 Ken's work was recognized by The Institute of Occupational Safety & Health (IOSH) in the
UK when he was made an Honorary Fellow of IOSH.
In June 2006 Ken was awarded an OBE for services to Health & Safety in the Queens Birthday Honours.
In 2008 Ken received the 'Health & Safety Champion of the Year' at the Health and Safety Awards for his work with Mace at Heathrow Terminal 5.
London 2012. Very proud that Ken played a small part in the first fatality free construction of an Olympic Park.
Dec 2015 Ken awarded Honorary Membership NSCA Foundation [Australia].


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Kelsea Ballerini Collaborates With Kenny Chesney And Halsey On New Album
Kelsea Ballerini released a new song, "Hole In The Bottle," today from her upcoming album.
"I swear ten minutes ago that bottle was full…" // hole in the bottle out midnight tomorrow & "kelsea" the album available for pre-order now 🤍🍷
A post shared by Kelsea Ballerini (@kelseaballerini) on Feb 26, 2020 at 4:20pm PST
She also shared the track listing for her new CD on Instagram this week.
my favorite body of music yet. here are the 13 pieces of me that I get to share with you on March 20th (and one tonight at midnight) WHAT ARE YOU MOST EXCITED ABOUT?!? 🤍
The ninth track on the record, "Half Of My Hometown," will feature Kenny Chesney. Additionally, pop singer, Halsey, makes an appearance on "The Other Girl."


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Inside Danneel Ackles' Limbo Jewelry Launch Party
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by Brianna
Image Courtesy Limbo Jewelry.
When the doors of Limbo Jewelry opened at 6 p.m. for Danneel Ackles' Link Collection Launch Party, attendees who were lined up immediately made their way to the display of her collection. The lustrous jewelry caught everyone's attention, and we were all excited to see it in person. Staff were available to answer questions and assist with letting anyone try any of the pieces on- which, of course, we all did.
With both food and drinks provided, it was a true party atmosphere. Limbo Jewelry's owner and designer Edson Enriquez, jewelry crafters, and Danneel wandered about the room mingling to discuss everything from their summer fun thus far to the making of her unique collection.
We were able to speak with Danneel about the jewelry line and she immediately showed us the various pieces she was modeling. She was proud of the end result and the way many of the pieces are convertible. Husband Jensen Ackles attended the party in support of Danneel and even wore a couple pieces (the Dual Ring and Unite Choker Necklace in silver), demonstrating the versatility of her line.
Already a fan and customer of Limbo Jewelry, Danneel was asked if she would be interested in collaborating with Limbo to create her own line. Knowing that the company employed an all female jewelry crafting team, with every piece handmade in Austin, she jumped at the opportunity to work with them.
"I want it to be like Gucci for the masses," said Danneel, "I want to make things that last." She enjoyed the process of creating her line, start to finish, and even hinted at future projects. Danneel also spoke to the lack of quality in many of today's products, and her desire to create high quality pieces at more affordable prices. She recalled living on a 'waitress budget' and worrying about making ends meet while still wanting to buy good pieces that can be passed down to her children one day. Limbo works with sterling silver, gold, and platinum. Nothing is plated, meaning everything is made to last and they even provide a one year warranty if any of their pieces break.
We sat down with designer Edson to discuss the creation of Danneel's Link Collection. They began with a few creative meetings where he requested Danneel bring her own jewelry or photos of art and architecture she loved to provide a starting point for the design. "She wanted simple stuff, things you can layer or wear multiple ways, and I thought 'oh that's cool, we've never done that before.'", he says.
Edson took home the ideas Danneel gave him and began brainstorming. At their following meeting, she brought an additional necklace she loved that perfectly represented his direction for the line. Upon seeing it he was happy they were so clearly in tune. From there prototypes were created and fine tuned leading to these incredible final products.
"We are super different and from different backgrounds in a lot of ways, but we're also exactly the same; we're both human and there's no difference," said Edson. The message of the Link Collection is rooted in unity and how everyone is connected and linked together. In a lot of jewelry the structure of the piece isn't the main focal point, but Link aimed to showcase it as not only a strength but the leading design.
The Dual Shift Earring is one of Edson's favorite pieces from the collection. The inspiration for it struck him on a flight. He started sketching the idea and realized the shape could be used in different ways, which incorporated Danneel's initial desire to create adaptable items giving wearers various options. "Within 24 hours I'd designed 30 or 40 concepts and we narrowed it down to the 19 we ended up having for the collection."
Once Edson and Danneel selected the final designs, the all-female team of jewelry crafters took over. We were able to meet with four of the six crafters- Brittany Bernstrom, Chelsea Rodriguez, Hamaila Qureshi, and Hannah Parks (team members Amie Goetz and Jennifer le Dissez were not present)- to discuss their experiences working both at Limbo and with Danneel. "The best part of working at Limbo is the studio where we make everything here in Austin is just six women. It's all of us together all the time, collaborating together, and it's a really good environment," said Hamaila.
During the first creative meeting, Danneel came to visit the workshop to meet everyone involved and see the full jewelry-making process. "She was super down to Earth and welcoming," said Brittany. "She was excited to see everything we were doing and our whole process." Chelsea added, "She wanted it to be super accessible jewelry and something most people could afford."
Their favorites from the Link Collection were the Unite Choker Necklace, the Mesh Ring, Mesh Hoops, and the various convertible earrings. They liked that so many of the products were multi-functional and unique, allowing the wearer to have multiple looks from a single piece. Brittany elaborated, "We questioned the chain design at first [of the choker], but then once you see it on, you're like 'oh that's fantastic!'"
Both Edson and the jewelry crafters were also delighted with Danneel's plan to donate 20% of the gross sales to Creative Action, an Austin based non-profit group that helps young people "develop skills for long-term academic, personal, and career success through high-quality, socially and culturally-relevant arts education programs led by professional Teaching Artists." They have helped over 20,000 youth in the Austin area with the aim to promote the arts. It's a cause close to the hearts of those working at Limbo who all share a love of the creative arts and the need to continue growing that community.
Conversation flowed throughout the evening as people meandered about the store, appreciating the gorgeous jewelry and additional artwork and novelty items. The Launch Party was a definite success and the Link Collection is a beautiful line with an inspiring message of unity and togetherness.
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Written by Brianna
Brianna works full time in the publishing industry, passionately building books to bring to the masses. Her first fandom was Harry Potter, which she joined at age 11. Her love for books took her abroad to earn her Masters Degree at University College London, after which she lived in New York City, and now resides in Austin. She loves all things fandom including Supernatural, Doctor Who, and more. Ever the introvert, she can usually be found reading, playing with her dog, listening to music and practicing yoga. Brianna joined the Nerds and Beyond staff in 2018 where she unites her love for all things "nerd" with her passion for writing. Find her on Twitter here: @bookbag09
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Last week it was reported that two-time UFC light heavyweight title challenger, the man known as 'Rumble,' Anthony Johnson had been arrested for domestic violence.
MMA Junkie has now confirmed that on Monday, Johnson pleaded not guilty in Florida for his single count of misdemeanor domestic battery where his ex-girlfriend informed authorities that a 'football hold' was used by Johnson to pick her up and lead to her being relocated into another room during an argument that they had. The 35-year old retired MMA star did admit to doing this but denied that he was trying to inflict any harm. Police couldn't find any visible injuries on the woman.
The ex-girlfriend stated that she was kicking Johnson out of the house and packing up his belongings during the argument where she claimed that she "was scared due to his size and martial arts experience" and "upset" but aside from that, unharmed, per police report.
MMA Junkie also happened to speak with Johnson's attorney, Michael Walsh about the situation who had the following to say.
"Anthony Johnson, if he hits you, your grandkids are going to feel it," Walsh told said. "He's trying to deescalate her verbal argument. So he simply picks her up gently and puts her down. He simply did not want to argue anymore and put her in another room. That happens every day in America in domestic relationships… It might be a domestic dispute, but it's not domestic violence. We're taking Jerry Springer and turning it into the courtroom."
The attorney also shared that in the initial court appearance that judge Debra Moses Stephens ordered for less severe levels of no-contact rather than one that entirely restricts any sort of contact. Rumble also happens to already be under an active restraining order that expires on February 6, 2020, where he was accused of online stalking, making threats and posting intimate images of the woman involved, according to Walsh.
For the 22-6 Johnson, he has been retired from MMA since April 8, 2017, when he suffered his second career defeat to Daniel Cormier in his second career UFC title shot. Having gotten into the marijuana and bodybuilding industries in life after fighting, Johnson currently finds himself in a fighter relations role for the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship.
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Bolt finds Kellerman 'disrespectful'
Usain Bolt of Jamaica (right) wins gold in the men's 100m final, for the third time, during the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, August 14, 2016.
World's fastest man Usain Bolt says he feels disrespected by ESPN analyst Max Kellerman's comments on track and field.
In a debate on ESPN's First Take on Monday, which Kellerman hosts, the topic of "Who is the most electric athlete in history?" came up. Kellerman weighed in, saying he cannot Bolt.
"... For the same reason, it can't be Tiger Woods, it can't be Usain Bolt, it's only a sport by a very broad definition. It really only tests your fast twitches, right?" Kellerman asked. "That's an athletic ability but it's only one specific kind. We don't know his manual dexterity, we don't know his ability to think on the fly, etcetera. Which is why track and field stars are usually failed [American] football and basketball players. The best athletes, because that's where the money is, go to basketball and football, and the others fall down to track and field, because they can't be relied on because their hands aren't good enough or you're not tough enough."
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But after hearing the comments, Bolt made a short but direct tweet on the issue.
"Why ppl always want to disrespect Track and Field Athletes.. smh," Bolt said on Twitter.
Bolt then went on to retweet colleague Wallace Spearmon, who formerly sprinted for the United States.
"Hey man someone go get that lady who makes people run 40yrd dashes ... y'all got me watching this fake news...
"@maxkellerman grow up boss ... we can battle this out whenever you're ready .... I swear the audacity of this man ..."Bolt and Spearmon are not the only track athletes to take umbrage at Kellerman's words as American teenage sprinter Matthew Boling also tweeted, but making fun of the ESPN journalist."Looked this guy up and saw he used to make music. Talk about failure ..."
Bolt is considered widely to be the greatest sprinter of all time, having won eight Olympic gold medals, which includes winning the 100 and 200m sprint double in 2008 in Beijing, China, and then defending both titles at the London Olympics in 2012, then again at the Rio Olympics in 2016.
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The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening review for Nintendo Switch
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Platform: Nintendo Switch
Developer: Grezzo
Medium: Cartridge/Digital
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ESRB: E
Did you ever look through your Gameboy games and think they would be perfect if put on a modern platform with stylized graphics? Because Nintendo sure did! And the decision to bring a remaster of Links Awakening for Nintendo Switch turned out to be a very good choice with the game's portable history and an overlooked Zelda game that will be a new experience for many!
So this will be a game that does not take place in Hyrule with Link being caught in a storm at sea and washing up onto Koholint Island. And nobody has ever left this island! But that doesn't mean you won't try and the adventure to wake the Wind Fish and escape becomes your new journey.
This is refreshing in how simple the game is when compared to modern games. But it is also refreshing for being a very different take on 2D Zelda when the games were not fully defined with platforming and familiar characters from other series. You will be taken back to a game made decades ago but still having lots of puzzles and being a solid experience. The updated graphics and music really show how the original game was just awesome at its core and still delivers today.
And the game does look gorgeous! Everything looks toy-like and very colorful with a very flattering presentation. Even with bringing the original map into 3D the island still feels very alive and just fun to explore. It's even fun to lose all your rupees in the Trendy Game shop!
But there is one big drawback and it's my main complaint with the game being the slowdown when entering new areas. It does only happen for a couple seconds before returning to normal but this never ceases to be jarring and if such things bother you then it might be a dealbreaker. We don't know if it will be fixed with a patch in the future but the issue is there for the entire game.
But I find the performance problems confusing because outside of this the entire game is very polished. It also has a simplistic visual style that must be pushing the Switch harder than the graphics look like they should. And with the original being such a feat on the GameBoy without such problems it's sad to see some tradeoffs in this day.
That being said there are lots of little tweaks to the original game that are appreciated. The shield and running are now assigned to the shoulder buttons and your map is very useful with being able to pin markers like in Breath of the Wild. Also new is a dungeon making extra where you can make custom dungeons with rooms that you will collect and even open a time attack mode. These can be transferred to any Zelda amiibo if you like doing that but I just like that we have a mini Zelda Maker to play with.
I was also very happy to see the inclusion of content from Link's Awakening DX which had the optional Color Dungeon. Clear this and you can find yourself overpowered for the game! And with all the additions and attention to detail the only thing missing is support for the Gameboy Camera and printer! Well and some menu options to change volume or adjust the screen.
The music is also very good and stands out with full instruments which bring classic tunes into their full glory. If you're one of the longtime fans of Links Awakening then you're in for a real treat with how they handled the music on Switch!
Whether you know Links Awakening like the back of your hand or have never played then you will be in for a treat. This was a great game back in the day and still is! The only thing holding it back are the distracting framerate problems and even being less sensitive to these things it was noticeable to me. I don't think it's game breaking but might be for some. For anyone else they will find an adventure once lost to time and now back in all it's glory!
Note: Nintendo provided us with a The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Switch code for review purposes
Legend of Zelda Link's Awakening – Nintendo Switch (Video Game)
Manufacturer: Nintendo
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Total Defence Day 2014: Remembering the Fall of Singapore
It was a wartime horror years before their time.
And yet the assembled ranks of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) senior leadership, new SAF recruits, their family members and Friends of 3rd Guards from schools linked to the battalion under the SAF-School Partnership Programme gathered at the War Memorial this evening to remember victims of the Fall of Singapore on the 72nd anniversary of Singapore's surrender.
SAF Chief of Defence Force, Lieutenant-General Ng Chee Meng, and Recruit Nicodemes Yeo from Bravo Company of the 3rd Battalion, Singapore Guards (3 GDS) – representing the highest ranking and newest member of the SAF respectively – jointly laid a wreath at the foot of the monument in memory of the Japanese Occupation war victims.
Always remembered: SAF Chief of Defence Force, Lieutenant-General Ng Chee Meng, and Recruit Nicodemes Yeo from B COY 3 Guards, after jointly laying a wreath in memory of victims of the Japanese Occupation in Singapore.
The Guards are heli-borne infantry who are equally at home operating from the air as well as on and from the sea during coastal hook operations. Singapore Army Guards battalions are tempered for tough missions behind enemy lines that put a premium on their ability to read, understand and react rapidly to fast changing battlefield situations in order to grab and exploit fleeting tactical advantages before such moments disappear. The Guards training syllabus is notorious for last minute mission injects and frequent changes to the script that are designed to condition Guardsmen to be always ready and ready to strike, day or night, and to be able to keep their cool and decide quickly in the midst of battlefield chaos.
"This is your rifle!" Lieutenant Chua Yong Kee (handing over SAR-21 assault rifle), OC of Support Company 3 Guards, arms his men during the rifle presentation ceremony on Total Defence Day 2014.
The solemn ceremony in the heart of Singapore's commercial centre marked the second year running that SAF recruits received their rifles at the War Memorial during a ceremony that formalised the commencement of their military training.
By coincidence, last year's recruits were also from a Guards battalion. But the training cycle for the two active Guards battalions is unlikely to see a repeat of the pattern in 2015, should the SAF hold the ceremony on Total Defence Day again.
The rifle presentation ceremony capped activities done in their camp and at battlefield sites around the island which allowed the Guards recruits to hear accounts of the war from Japanese Occupation survivors and understand and appreciate their part in the defence of Singapore.
The citizen soldiers with 3 GDS join some 900,000 Singaporean men who have served the SAF since full-time National Service was introduced in 1967.
In time to come, the pledge by REC Nicodemes and his fellow recruits to take care of their SAR-21 assault rifles and uphold the SAF Pledge will see their willpower and endurance pushed to the max – and then some – as these boys learn the true meaning of rite of passage in their journey towards earning the right to wear the coveted Guards tab and beret.
P.S. I would have kept the wreaths laid during the morning ceremony at the foot of the monument, perhaps arranged nicely on either flank. The wall of floral tributes would show onlookers that the annual commemoration of the Fall of Singapore is an all-of-nation affair, not just an SAF one. Subliminal messaging is as important as direct messaging.
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SBF is Set to be Arraigned in New York on January 3rd
The co-founder of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried is expected to be arraigned by the federal court in the Southern District of New York on January 3rd, 2023.
A Reuters report on Wednesday, December 28, citing court documents Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) plans to enter a plea to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan for the charges of wire fraud and conspiracy. He is charged with two counts of wire fraud and six counts of conspiracy, in addition to civil suits filed by the SEC and CFTC.
The report says that the original judge assigned to the case, Ronnie Abrams, was forced to recuse herself as his husband's law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell was reportedly an FTX adviser before the collapse. As reported, Caroline Ellison, former Alameda chief executive, and Gary Wang, former FTX chief technology officer, have already pleaded guilty.
SBF was arrested on December 12 in the Bahamas and was extradited to the US. He was released on $250 million bail on December 22 and ordered to stay with his parents in California. Now he is expected to submit a plea before the court and many believe if convicted, could go behind bars for decades.
SEC Finds Two Controversial Venture Deals Made Through Users' Money
In the latest development of the case, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has pointed out two controversial $100 million venture deals.
On December 13, SEC and CFTC charged SBF with "orchestrating a scheme to defraud equity investors." The first deal was a $100 million investment in Dave, a fintech firm that had gone public earlier. In the press release, the companies said they would "work together to expand the digital assets ecosystem."
The second was another $100 million investment in a $300 million investment round for Mysten Labs, a Web3 company, that included participation from Coinbase Ventures, Binance Labs, and Andreessen Horowitz's crypto fund.
There was nothing wrong with the transactions but the money used for investments was FTX's customer money. FTX Ventures was described as a $2 billion venture fund. However, according to Financial Times, it was a venture capital fund "that didn't venture its own capital."
According to CNBC, these investments "appear to be the first identified examples of customer money being used by FTX and Bankman-Fried for venture funding." If confirmed, FTX bankruptcy trustees could pursue recovery of those funds as part of an effort to retrieve customer assets.
The list of SBF wrongdoings is increasing and it appears that the law will not go soft on SBF. A conviction will send him sent in prison for decades.
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Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr., ca. 1980.
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Anti-War Protests 50 Years Ago Helped Mold The Modern Christian Right
Vietnam created a rupture in the Protestant church.
by David Mislin via The Conversation on May 2, 2018
As it became apparent that many mainline church leaders had embraced the anti-war position, it became equally clear that not all U.S. Protestants agreed with them. As The New York Times noted at the time, even the editors of the Christian Century and other Protestant journals recognized that "the majority of church members" did not "share such opposition to American policy in Vietnam."
The most that could be hoped for was that churchgoers would be "willing to listen to reservations about the war."
Times reporter Edward B. Fiske observed how conservative evangelical Protestants supported the war. Many, like the theologian and editor of Christianity Today, Carl F. Henry, believed it to be morally defensible. Fiske wrote that "the majority of laymen and clergy in this country" were more in agreement with Carl Henry than with William Sloane Coffin.
The simmering divisions that boiled over
This was not the first time that prominent Protestant leaders found themselves at odds with regular churchgoers or even ordinary ministers.
As I have shown in my work on mainline Protestantism, in the early 20th century, a division had long existed between liberal Protestant leaders and more conservative churchgoers. A significant number of ministers, for example, championed civil rights efforts and affirmed interfaith cooperation with Catholics and Jews – efforts staunchly opposed by many of their congregants.
But, it was in the Vietnam era, when a large numbers of Protestant leaders actively campaigned against U.S. military policy, that for many churchgoers the opposition went too far.
As Cambridge University historian Andrew Preston has written, "divisions between liberal clerics and conservative congregants had always existed…but they were rarely as wide as on Vietnam."
Evangelicalism and Politics
Four historians weigh in on evangelicals' affinity for Trump – and their commitment to the conservative movement more broadly.
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The Last Temptation
How evangelicals became an anxious minority seeking political protection from a not traditionally religious president.
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Vietnam in the Battlefield of Memory
On the war's 50th anniversary, peace activists will be challenging the Pentagon's whitewashed history.
by Jon Wiener via The Nation on April 15, 2015
Is the Term 'Evangelical' Redeemable?
One historian, who also happens to be an evangelical Christian, says no.
by Thomas S. Kidd via The Gospel Coalition on September 8, 2017
Why Conservative Evangelicals Have Lined Up for Trump
It's a match made in heaven.
by Molly Worthen via The Atlantic on May 1, 2017
Billy Graham's Legacy
A roundup of historians' commentary about Billy Graham in the wake of his death.
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The Summer of Love Ended 50 Years Ago. It Reshaped American Conservatism.
The Jesus People, born on Haight Ashbury, had a profound influence on the Religious Right.
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Exceptional Victims
The resistance to the Vietnam War was the most diverse and dynamic antiwar movement in U.S. history. We have all but forgotten it today.
by Christian G Appy via Boston Review on January 26, 2018
Making History Safe Again: What Ken Burns Gets Wrong About Vietnam
Vietnam was not a "tragic misunderstanding" but a campaign of "imperial aggression."
by Patrick Lawrence via Salon on October 15, 2017
The Crisis in America's Cities
Martin Luther King Jr. on what sparked the violent urban riots of the "long hot summer" of 1967.
by Martin Luther King Jr.
History Suggests We Should Be Paying More Attention to Karen Pence
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The U.S. Representative Who Tried to Outlaw War
Jeanette Rankin was the first woman to become a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. And she once tried to outlaw war.
by Erin Blakemore, Harriet Hyman Alonso via JSTOR Daily on April 2, 2017
Activism in the US
The Civil Rights movement led the way, soon followed by anti-war protests and activism for women's issues and gay rights.
by Digital Library of Georgia via Digital Public Library of America on April 1, 2013
The Myth of Eugene McCarthy
Correcting the record about the 1968 race for the White House.
by Joshua Zeitz via New York Times on March 8, 2018
Conversion and Race in Colonial Slavery
To convert was not just a matter of belief, but also a claim to power.
by Katharine Gerbner via Social Science Research Council on June 26, 2018
America Passed Gun Control in 1968. Can It Happen Again?
The King and Kennedy assassinations spurred passage of the Gun Control Act. What will contemporary gun violence bring?
by Jason Sokol via New York Times on March 22, 2018
80 Days That Changed America
Fifty years later, Bobby Kennedy's passionate, inspiring, and tragic presidential campaign still fascinates.
by Joan Walsh via The Nation on April 23, 2018


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After 30 years, Subaru bids farewell to the EJ20 engine
Posted on October 16, 2019 by Ben Hsu
Since the dawn of the modern Subaru era, the venerable EJ20 engine has been a hallmark of the marque. In its various guises the boxer four has powered everything from rally machines to family station wagons. Now, after 30 years on the market — a tremendous lifespan for any motor — the EJ20 is ending production.
While we in the US we are more accustomed to the 2.5-liter EJ25 motors in our high-po Subies, in many ways the 2.0-liter turbocharged EJ20 was Subaru. An inseparable part of the brand's identity, it was Fuji Heavy's leading sports engine, having competed in races ranging from the WRC, where it powered the WRX STi cars to three manufacturer's and as many driver's championships, to the 24 Hours of Nürburgring.
The final EJ20 motor will roll off the assembly lines in December 2019 as Subaru makes way for the next-generation WRX STI. The new performance flagships are largely expected to have the FA-series motors under the hood (with the 2.4-liter FA24 to power US-market WRX STIs and BRZs), meaning the EJ25 will end production as well. To commemorate, Subaru is releasing a limited run of EJ20 Final Edition WRX STI Imprezas for the Japanese market.
No details have been revealed yet, but the car is expected to be unveiled on October 23 at the Tokyo Motor Show. How many Subaru plans to make, and how different they will be from standard WRX STIs will be revealed then. Interested parties will be able to apply for a chance to buy one of these final cars in a lottery system.
tagged: impreza, legacy, subaru, wrc, wrx, WRX STI.
6 Responses to After 30 years, Subaru bids farewell to the EJ20 engine
Lindsay Druett said:
Absolutely brilliant engine, but huge improvements with the FA and FB engines. Having said that the the EJ engine was a huge improvement of the EA engine. I remember when the 1989 Legacy came out and that was a big thing for Subaru
Yes, I'm a Subaru fan through and through, been owning Subarus from 1986, first one was a 1600cc (ea-61) 1980 Leone.
With the FA and FB engines, it was very much a progression from the EJ engines, having a cam chain rather than a cam belt, having the oil filter in a very accessible position, and a list of other improvements from the predecessor.
Subaru have done such an awesome job with the horizontally opposed engines.
It will be a sad day when the last EZ36 rolls off the production line.
Just a minor detail, my first car had an EA71 engine (1600cc), not an EA61 which was an early 1100cc engine which played a vital part of Subaru's history featured here…
https://japanesenostalgiccar.com/how-subaru-became-masters-of-awd/
Perplex said:
No more ej20 . All good Things has come to an end.
on October 17, 2019 at 11:23 am
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The centre of Nola, a town just outside Naples renowned for its history, culture and commerce, now offers a new gourmet restaurant called Habitué-Vin&Cuisine
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At the centre of Nola, the birthplace of Giordano Bruno, stands the main square, Piazza del Duomo. It is the location of the Cathedral with its sober neo-Renaissance style, and the Town Hall with its equally restrained and well-calibrated architecture. And now it is also home to the Habitué-Vin&Cuisine restaurant, a creative haute-cuisine establishment founded by two young entrepreneurs, Fabio Coppola and Giuseppe Vetrano, with funding from Japanese and French backers. Despite its modern vision, it is respectful of traditions (the chef is the highly talented Raffaele D'Aria who has worked as a sous-chef to the Michelin-starred Francesco Sposito). It is a jewel in every sense of the word, starting out from the architecture designed by StudioarchO with the aim of creating something new but with a retro flavour that reflects the cuisine. "Right from the start, we searched for a location with a strong identity that would reflect the clients' vision," explain the Nola-based architects. "The chosen venue was an apartment on the main floor of a historic building right next to the cathedral." The first step was to eliminate the various historical layers that had accumulated over the years and to give the location a rational layout and visual appeal without succumbing to banal stylistic modernism that would have been out of place in the setting. The architects devoted special care to the entrance area. Stepping inside from the cathedral square, diners find themselves in the lobby surrounded by mirrors and marble set amongst floral-themed wall tiles, immersed in a Belle Epoque atmosphere that exudes a sense of luxury and elegance. Upstairs, the original layout of the rooms has been only slightly modified, while a lot of effort has been made to give the rooms an intimate feel that will put diners in a pleasant, relaxed and inquisitive mood, ready for the culinary experience that awaits them. The monochromatic theme and the ingenious use of mirrors give the spaces a theatrical and nostalgic feel, as though time has stood still. "Brass coexists with brick-coloured velvet seats, while warm lighting recreates the mood of candlelight and enhances the natural grain of the parquet," say the architects. "The materials play a vital role. In particular, we chose large-size ceramic tiles from Fondovalle for a portion of the floors and walls. A passion for beauty and tireless technological research make this company a point of reference in the world of contemporary design. We chose the Infinito 2.0 line in a 160×320 cm size for the surface coverings in two of the dining rooms and the bathroom, opting for the Fior di Bosco finish inspired by Tuscan marble." The Res Art collection in the Pottery version and in the same sizes completes the floor and wall coverings in the bathrooms, its slight relief texture emphasising the vibrancy of the light. "As we were saying, the choice and juxtaposition of materials played a key role in this project," conclude the architects. "Thanks to their authenticity they make the Habitué a unique meeting and dining venue for the town. Moreover, in late June diners can enjoy a front-row view of the unforgettable spectacle of the Festival of Lilies, now inscribed on UNESCO's Cultural Heritage List. Our design choices were not influenced by trends: in a venue like this with its powerful architectural and culinary identity, it is vital to focus on style rather than to follow the vagaries of fashion…" As Coco Chanel said, fashion changes but style endures.
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Infinito 2.0: Fior di Bosco - Res Art: Pottery
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Water absorpion (ISO 10545-3): ≤ 0,1%
Chemical resistance (ISO 10545-13): UA ULA UHA
Resistance to deep abrasion (ISO 10545-6): ≤ 130 mm
Stain resistance (ISO 10545-14): compliant
Frost resistance (ISO 10545-12): compliant
Modulus of rupture and breaking strength (ISO 10545-4): ≥ 50 N/mm2
Slip resistance (DIN 51130): R 9 Natural
Thermal shock resistance (ISO 10545-9): compliant
Crazing resistance (ISO 10545-11): compliant
Linear thermal expansion (ISO 10545-8): compliant
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