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Mr. President, never leave us a Moyes
Ugandans are more indebted than Uganda
Government revives Agric. mechanization
It took Ferguson 27 years to rebuild Manchester United, but it has taken Moyes just six months to destroy every single record that his anointer had created!
In the weeks gone by, the debate about the future of Uganda has taken the centre stage. Whispers were filling bars and other social gatherings, suggesting there was a silent but salient rift between you, Mr. President, and your last political friend, Premier Amama Mbabazi, until the Kyankwanzi caucus brought everything to the fore.
It is now common knowledge that it is not all well, you reached the point of playing intelligence recordings to prove to NRM members that Mbabazi and his family were, and still are, plotting to remove you from power!
Well, it is my grandmother who used to tell me, before she passed on, "My grandson, don't ask God for so many things; ask him for one important thing — life. Life will enable you to see amazing things…"
The amazing things I have seen, but that is not the reason I picked pen and paper this week. The reason I picked my pen, Mr. President, was to make a genuine appeal to you. I understand you are a football fan. I once saw you pulling on jersey No.7 at Namboole stadium.
United now a laughing stock
Mr. President, where you stop at loving football is where I pick from. Like your (former?) friend Mbabazi, I have very few things in life that attract my evening gusto. I don't drink (not because I am Muslim per se); I don't go to music shows; I rarely attend weddings; and as a rule I don't keep company of "party animals". Yet I am a very lively and happy guy! So what keeps me alive? Football and economics.
I have supported English football club, Manchester United, all my conscious life. Throughout, I have seen this team succeed at all fronts under the management of one man, Sir Alex Ferguson. Coincidently, this is a man who became United manager in the same year you took power, 1986. I have written about this before. He left the club last year.
During his glorious 27 years as manager at Old Trafford, collecting a glut of trophies along the way, Ferguson was successful in limiting any major errors on his part to a minimum. However perhaps the biggest mistake he will be remembered for was recommending to the club's board that the man who should replace him in the hot seat was his compatriot, David Moyes.
Under Moyes, my club has not only fallen from grace to grass, the once most feared team has now become a laughing stock in football. True any manager or leader needs time to go through the transition, but Moyes has so far shown neither any tactical acumen nor capability of handling the task of managing one of the biggest, richest and most successful clubs in world football.
Handpick own successor?
Of course it is fair to note that the squad of players Moyes inherited from Ferguson was not the strongest; United's Premiership title triumph last season had as much to do with the weaknesses in the Manchester City camp under Roberto Mancini as with their own winning consistency. But United were still champions and even Moyes himself knows that a good manager should have done so much better with the current squad.
Events at Manchester United today are a mirror image to the collapse of the team in the early 1970s when a one, Wilf McGuinness, replaced the legendary Matt Busby as manager and in the space of four years the club had sank from winning the European Cup (now Champions League) to relegation in 1974.
Leadership pundits will tell you that although several factors matter, it takes a certain type of person to be able to succeed at the very high levels or occasions such as a big club like United.
Indeed even some football pundits think United made a mistake allowing Ferguson to choose his successor. I don't subscribe to that opinion. In my view, no one could possibly compete with Ferguson's knowledge and experience of the game of football, and so he would naturally use this to find a manager capable of building on his legacy.
Yet six months into the job and with United being out of the title race, humiliated by nearly every team that Man-U fans loved to beat, and slumming it in seventh position, it increasingly looks as though the pundits could be right; it was a mistake to allow Ferguson to handpick his own successor.
We need one with proven track record
In his recently published autobiography, Ferguson justifies why he went for Moyes, a fellow Scot, thus; "A lot of Scots have a dourness about them: a strong will. When they leave Scotland it tends to be for one reason only. To be successful. Scots don't leave to escape the past. They move away to better themselves…The Scottish dourness others talk about sometimes applied to me as well.
"David had some of these traits. I knew his family background. His father was a coach at Drumchapel, where I played as a lad. They have a good family feel about them. I'm not saying that is a reason to hire someone but you like to see good foundations in someone appointed to such high office."
In these two paragraphs it appears as though Ferguson got too carried away in trying to find someone in his own image to replace him. Yet in over a decade of being a manager at Everton, Moyes hadn't won a trophy!
Mr. President, those who follow football will tell you that Manchester United is too big a club to appoint a manager for the content of his character rather than the contents of his trophy cabinet. It goes without saying that United needed a manager with a proven track record of winning rather than the good foundations that Ferguson looked for in Moyes.
It is believed that on hearing he had been overlooked for the post of succeeding Ferguson, Jose Mourinho (one of the most successful coaches in history) burst into tears. Right now the vast majority of United supporters, myself inclusive, must be sharing his frustration that the Special One was not named as the Chosen One too.
Uganda needs a Mourinho
When the news that Ferguson had overlooked Mourinho in favour of Moyes first came out, I was naively perturbed why on earth a man who dedicated his all to build a team as successful as United could make such a mistake.
It is my oracular friend who told me, "Don't be naïve. The last thing Ferguson would want to do is to hand over his legacy to a former rival in Mourinho and then watch as the Portuguese enhances his own already sizeable reputation on the back of all his hard work. He would prefer to have a Moyes who would fail and people say, 'you see, United was successful because of Ferguson'."
Mr. President, I know you have already announced you are still around. Well, whatever the case the next decade will see one reality — you leaving State House! As a Manchester United supporter who has experienced, firsthand, the anguish of witnessing a club that just months ago was celebrating as champions and now being humiliated by conference teams, I beg you to do me and other Ugandans one favour: when time comes for you to leave, please don't leave us a Moyes.
I see a number of Moyes's trying to position themselves, and some (or is it one?) are being groomed by you! Mr. President, I tell you from a position of experience, spare Uganda of Moyes. Like Ferguson did at Manchester, you picked this country from a very sorry state. You have rebuilt it. But don't get carried away that since it has now reached somewhere, a Moyes can manage. Alas, it took Ferguson 27 years to rebuild Manchester United, but it has taken Moyes just six months to destroy every single record that his anointer had created. This country needs a Mourinho.
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Lucien Wercollier (26 July 1908 – 24 April 2002) was a sculptor from Luxembourg.

While he worked primarily in bronze and marble, some of his work is sculpted in wood, alabaster, stone and onyx. His public monuments in bronze and marble are of particular importance. Works by Wercollier can be found in public places and museums in  Belgium, France, Germany, Israel, Luxembourg, Switzerland and the United States.

During the German occupation of Luxembourg in World War II, Wercollier refused to join the Reichskulturkammer, the Nazi organization that ensured all artists' works were of an acceptably "Aryan" spirit. This refusal put him at odds with the Nazi occupiers, and when he participated in the 1942 nationwide strike, he was arrested on September 4, 1942. Wercollier was first imprisoned in the Neumünster Abbey in Luxembourg City. Today, the Abbey is home to the Lucien Wercollier Cloister, where many works from his private collection are permanently displayed. In 1965 when the lighthouse-shaped National Monument to the Strike was opened in Wiltz (which won the title of the "martyred city" for the Germans' particularly strong vehemence leveled against it in response), Wercollier created the two reliefs on the lighthouse displayed there.

Wercollier was later transferred to the Hinzert concentration camp in Germany. The camp, located just 30 kilometers from the Luxembourg border, was one of the main sites where Luxembourger resistance leaders were sent. Today, one of his best-known bronze sculptures is on the grounds of the Hinzert concentration camp where it honors the prisoners and those murdered there.

Later Wercollier was moved to Lublin in German-occupied Poland, returning to Luxembourg after he was freed at the end of the war. In 1954, he was one of the founding members of Iconomaques, a group of Luxembourg artists keen to promote abstract art.

His bronze monument Interpénétration stands at the Palace of Europe in Strasbourg. Wercollier's sculpture that stands in front of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg City was featured on Luxembourg's eight-franc postage stamp in 1974. Another well-known work is his marble monument La Vague ("The Wave"), located on the grounds of the Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital (Centre hospitalier neuro-psychiatrique) in Ettelbruck, Luxembourg.

When nations around the world gave gifts of art works for display at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the government of Luxembourg donated Wercollier's sculpture Ascension as its gift to honor John F. Kennedy. Another notable work of Wercollier is his sculpture Altius ("Higher")—a tribute to the sport of pole vaulting—which stands in the Olympic Sculpture Garden at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Among his best-known works are sculptures dealing with the Nazi occupation of Luxembourg during World War II. For example, his bronze The Political Prisoner stands at the National Monument to the Resistance and to the Deportation at the Notre-Dame cemetery in Limpertsberg, Luxembourg City. It is also exhibited at the National Resistance Museum in Esch-sur-Alzette.

Lucien Wercollier also designed the sculpture that is given to recipients of the Vision for Europe Award.

Bibliography
 Joseph-Émile Muller, 1976. Lucien Wercollier. Collection: Les Maîtres de la Sculpture Contemporaine. Arted, Éditions d'Art, Paris. 49 pages. .
Joseph-Émile Muller, 1983. Lucien Wercollier. Publication de la Section des arts et lettres de l'Institut grand-ducal. Imprimerie Saint-Paul, Luxembourg. 132 pages. Sans ISBN.

Other publications:
Paul Bertemes (coord.), 2005. Lucien Wercollier au cloître de l'Abbaye Neumünster. Catalogue édité à l'occasion de l'installation des sculptures de la collection privée de l'artiste au Centre culturel de rencontre Abbaye de Neumünster. 64 pp. .
 Linda Eischen (coord.), 2003. Wercollier et ses amis peintres Gillen, Stoffel, Trémont. Exposition à la Villa Vauban.  Catalogue de l'exposition du 30 avril au 7 septembre 2003. (Sans indication du nom de l'imprimeur). .
 Josée Kirps, 2001. Lucien Wercollier. In Robert Theisen (coord.) : Luxembourg sculptures. Skulpturen - Sculptures.  Éditions Îlôts, Steinsel, Luxembourg. . (See the pp. 123–127 for L. Wercollier).
 Joseph-Émile Muller, 1988. Lucien Wercollier pour son 80e anniversaire. Les Cahiers luxembourgeois no 2: 17-24.
 Ragon M. & M. Seuphor, 1974. Wercollier Lucien. L'art abstrait 1945-1970. Biographie des artistes. Ed. Maeght, Paris.
 Joseph-Émile Muller, 1954. Lucien Wercollier et la sculpture moderne. Les Cahiers luxembourgeois, no 3.

External sources
 Lucien Wercollier on the Website of the National Museum of History and Art (Musée national d'histoire et d'art), Luxembourg
 Picture of the sculpture Altius in Lausanne
 Review of the Wercollier book by J.-E. Muller

References

1908 births
2002 deaths
Luxembourgian sculptors
People from Luxembourg City
Hinzert concentration camp survivors
Luxembourgian artists
20th-century sculptors

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Items that have been sent to Publications, Prints and Drawings; a book 'Arthur O'Connor' by Frank MacDermot [Reprinted from Irish Historical Studies, vol. XV, no. 57 (March 1966)]; Portrait of Dr. Thomas Percy (1729-1811); Pen and Ink Sketch by Thomas Le Dieu; Programme of performance of 'The Colleen Bawn', at Private Theatricals, Bognor; Portrait of the Right Rev. Doctor Doyle, R.C. Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin; Two images of Barry Sullivan, Irish actor; Portrait and extract from a book on Joseph Hume.
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Letter from Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, to unidentified recipient, giving details on the issues relating to the fishing industry in Ireland, especially the lack of suitable harbours and government funding to repair the pier at Ardglass, Co. Down, in response to a proposed bill by William Gladstone, 1891 Oct. 25.
by Beauclerk, Aubrey de Vere, 1837-1919
In collection: Autograph letters signed collection, ca. 1603-ca. 1972
Letter from Charles Darling to "Madame de Bury" discussing political matters such as [William] Gladstone and the change of government, 1892 August 19.
by Darling, Charles J. Darling (Charles John Darling), Baron, 1849-1936
Letter from Edward Walter Hamilton, civil servant, on behalf of W.E. Gladstone, to Hugh Law, Attorney-General for Ireland, concerning the Irish Compensation for Disturbance Bill, advising what may be useful whilst discussing the Relief Bill and what the Exchequer is contributing towards the relief of distress, 1880 July 3.
by Hamilton, Edward Walter, Sir, 1847-1908
Letter from Frederick Charles Cavendish, Lord Cavendish, to Henry Meysey-Thompson, Baron Knaresborough, concerning the Irish University Bill, [1873?].
by Cavendish, Frederick Charles, Lord, 1836-1882
Letter from George Jacob Holyoake to Charles W. Schofield, regarding the Irish Church and making a decision which "the nation should have decided for themselves", 1869 July.
by Holyoake, George Jacob, 1817-1906
Letter from Marquis of Dufferin and Ava [Frederick Temple Blackwood] to Miss C.J. Hamilton, concerning a story that was incorrect about [Caroline Norton] and explaining he will write a letter to the 'Daily Mail' to further "destroy this hideous calumny", 1896 December 5.
by Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of, 1826-1902
Letter from Spencer Compton Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire to Hugh Law, regarding the state of Ireland, 1886 January 7.
by Devonshire, Spencer Compton Cavendish, Duke of, 1833-1908
Letter from William Gresley to "dear Bushby", providing his considered opinion upon the proposed disestablishment of the Irish Church, of which he is in favour, 1869 April 10.
by Gresley, W. (William), 1801-1876
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Gresley, W. (William), 1801-1876 (1)
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Holyoake, George Jacob, 1817-1906 (1)

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Coco coir eyed vs soil erosion
MORE popularly known as 'bunot', coco coir which used to be a useless by-product of coconut tree is now gaining attention from the scientific community after research showed that it could be used as an effective tool against soil erosion.
No less than the Mining and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) has certified that the coco fiber is useful erosion tool and that it is compliant with the provisions of Mining Act.
Because of the coir's potential, a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) was signed between the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and National Irrigation Administration (NIA) on the use of geonets, a term used for the product derived from coco coir, for its use in all infrastructure projects of the two agencies.
"Our coir technical working group composed of representatives from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and Department of Agriculture (DA) will meet with the mining sector on Memorandum Circular 25," said Luz Brenda P. Balibrea, trade information and relations chief of the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA).
Geotextile, the end product of coco coir is proven to be effective in the rehabilitation of stream banks, and even in preventing or minimizing siltation in rivers and water bodies and in protecting mangrove areas.
In line with this, some mining companies such as Taganito Mining Corp. and Nickel Asia Corp. have already adopted use of coconut coir in protecting the environment such as for slope stabilization in mine tailings pond.
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"With the order of closure of mines by DENR Secretary (Gina) Lopez, there should be rehabilitation of mines, and it should be with the use of indigenous materials like coconut fiber. That will be an expansion for new markets for coconut producers," Balibrea said.
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The coconut coir industry registered P176 million in sales in 2014. It has consistently grown from P42.5 million in 2011, P104 million in 2012, and P131.97 million in 2013.
It employs more than 5,000 people in 64 commercial-based processing facilities and 285 micro small and medium enterprises assisted by the government.
Also, the move is in line with efforts to boost domestic sales which currently stand at close to P200 million.
According to the National Coco Coir Industry Technical Working Group, the coconut coir industry has a potential to grow to P1.7 billion.
Coconut industry officials expect the mining sector's use of geotextile to boost consumption of coconut products and create more jobs for poor Filipino coconut farmers in the countryside.
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Sec. 60 of the Philippine Mining Act directs mining companies to use "indigenous goods, services and technologies" in their mining operations.
It states specifically that "a contractor shall give preference to the use of local goods, services and scientific and technical resources in the mining operations, where the same or are of equivalent quality and are available on equivalent terms as their imported counterparts".
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Regions 5 and 10 are the biggest producers of coconut coir in the country. (Mico Agustin)
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Please stop telling me to be grateful
Well, 2020 is turning out to be quite the shit show, isn't it? If the pandemic wasn't enough, we've now got horrific and preventable explosions in Beirut, an official economic recession and even locust swarms in East Africa. This stuff is biblical. Seriously, HAS ANYONE SPOKEN TO SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH?! I feel sick with worry.
Given our inability to socialise as much as we usually would, social media has become a lifeline for us all to feel and stay connected when we can't be together physically. However, it has its flaws. There are some things you see, as you're scrolling through for the 60th time that day, that triggers you. It ignites a fury inside of you and you're pretty convinced there is an increasing amount of smoke coming out of your nostrils and you're expecting the fire alarm to go off any second. That happened to me recently. I saw a post telling people to be 'more grateful for what they have', especially if they have a roof over their head and food to eat. Now, I'm going to tell you why I would stick two fingers up at someone who think it's okay to share that (whilst wearing a mask and keeping my distance, obviously).
At a time when the world feels like it is falling apart (quite literally when you look at the storms we have been having over the last few days), I understand and agree that it feels more important than ever to prioritise recognising what we are thankful for, wherever and whenever we can. However, for some of us who have depression or may be experience a depressive spell, it simply is not that straight forward.
Let's get one thing straight - no one chooses to be depressed. If you truly believe that, you're clearly privileged enough to have never faced such a horrible disease. That's right, for the person at the back who didn't hear me, IT'S A DISEASE! As someone who has had depression and hasn't been feeling her usual silly, sassy self recently, I can tell you I most certainly didn't and wouldn't choose to be depressed. Anyone who knows me knows how much I love being happy - after all, who doesn't?! To me, there is no greater feeling than having a full heart, a genuine smile on your face and that bubble of excitement you feel when you're just so pleased to be alive. So, with that in mind, why would I 'choose' to feel the opposite? That's right, I bloody wouldn't.
Depression isn't simply someone choosing to live a life that is seeped in ceaseless darkness and emptiness. Depression is a psychological and biological disorder where the serotonin levels in your brain are reduced - sometimes quite significantly. Like any disease, you have to have treatment to manage it. Just like you wouldn't tell someone to just shut up and walk if they broke their leg, you shouldn't tell someone who is depressed to 'stop being so negative' or to 'be more grateful'.
On a personal level, I try practising gratitude on a daily basis. I have a lot to be thankful for in life and I like to take the time, at least once a day, to recognise that. However, when you're depressed or going through a depressive spell, it is really hard to do this when you don't feel anything at all.
Let me explain what depression feels like, for anyone who has been lucky enough to dodge that bullet. You're wrapped in a constant state of numbness, completely depleted of energy. You feel nothing at all. You get no joy from the things you usually take great pleasure in doing and simple activities seem like insurmountable tasks. It is when you're in this state, when your brain and even body won't let you feel or do anything at all, that gratitude is so incredibly difficult. When nothing makes you happy, and you feel completely hopeless, it's hard to see what good there is in life. That's not to say there isn't anything to be thankful for, but you simply can't see it. It's like a constant cloud hanging over you, blocking the sun.
Telling people who are depressed that they 'have so much to be grateful for' or that they 'should be thankful' is beyond the stages of unhelpful - it's damn right uncompassionate. Robin Williams was one of the world's most successful comedians. He had a wife and three children he loved and who loved him dearly. With a fortune that was believed to be worth up to $100 million, you could argue that he had it all. Did that stop Robin Williams from taking his own life in 2014? No. Depression blinds you and no amount of money, security or love from family members and friends is sometimes enough, on its own, for people to see the beauty that surrounds them. Like any condition, depression needs treatment and the patient needs care and support. What they don't need is unsupportive, tone deaf comments from a know-it-all (and who doesn't dislike a bloody know-it-all?).
When you're depressed, you want to be anything BUT depressed- trust me. I spent a lot of time, when I was at my worst, blaming myself for what I was experiencing. I'd spend every hour of every day battling all the dark and often terrifying feelings I was experiencing, and with any energy I had left, I would pyschologically beat myself up for feeling the way that I did. People would make stupid comments about how I had so much to be thankful for, further pushing me down a hole of self hatred and worthlessness - talk about kicking someone when they're down. I felt ashamed that I wasn't strong enough to silence the voices in my head that told me I was pathetic and would be better off not being here anymore. I was so frustrated and even disgusted with myself for letting this happen and for not being able to appreciate what I had, like so many people were telling me to do.
How do we encourage people to get the support they so desperately need, support that could save their life, if we are constantly shaming people into believing they caused the disorder that is now such a significant burden in their everyday life? We, very often, don't blame people who have physical conditions for the situations they find themselves in, so why are we still doing it when it comes to mental health?
I'm not knocking the importance of practising gratitude, as I've said. There is a lot of really crazy and sad shit going on in the world at the moment and to be able to take 5 minutes out of your day to recognise the good things we do still have is important (if you're able to do that). However, please recognise that for some people, right now, practising gratitude is one of those insurmountable tasks I mentioned earlier.
Now, more than ever, is a time for us to come together and support one another. We need to be kind. All I ask is that you bear this in mind going forward: just like people who exercise on the regular still get depression (because exercising alone simply isn't enough to cure moderate to severe cases of depression), practising gratitude isn't going to cure depression either.
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If you take a peek in the library on Monday lunchtimes and find a group of children with their shoes kicked off, drinking hot chocolate, eating biscuits and chilling out on the sofas…. you might wonder what is going on.
They are, in fact, diligent members of the SCS Book Club, and, if you listen carefully, you will hear them discussing and recommending favourite books and authors. Have a look at Benjamin's review below; you will definitely want to read this book!
This book is brilliant and laugh out loud funny and has an awesome plot. This book is a book worth double the cost —it is funny, action-packed and all-round great entertainment for all ages.
David Walliams has written it beautifully and it is packed full of wit, this book is ten out of ten, even adults will love the humour and the story in this book is the best one yet. I thought the story was written extremely well and very funny. The funniest part is when Tom has to say an oath and George starts saying it instead. If you haven't got this book get it now.
The book is about a child in a hospital who meets some other children and they get up to mysterious adventures to make each other's dreams come true.
The main characters are: Tom, a boy who got hit in the head with a cricket ball; George, a cockney - he had his tonsils taken out in an operation; Sally - she is so ill she spends most of her time in bed; Robin - he has had an operation on his eyes so at the moment he can't see; and Amber, who has broken both her arms and legs so she has been in a wheelchair for some time.
My favourite character is George because he is very funny and very good at fooling the horrid matron.


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Lockheed Martin Wins $378 Million Defense Network Contract
By William Welsh
Lockheed Martin Corp. won a $378 million, 10-year task order to upgrade and manage the Defense Department's Network Infrastructure Services Agency at the Pentagon, the company announced Dec. 11.
The network supports 25,000 computers users throughout the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff and the military departments.
Lockheed Martin of Bethesda, Md., will provide program and network management, transition, quality assurance planning, security operations, help-desk support and other process, technical architecture and engineering management services, said the company.
The upgrade of the Pentagon's network infrastructure represents a critical part of a multiyear, multibillion dollar renovation under way at the Pentagon, company officials said. Lockheed Martin will manage the Pentagon's backbone communications infrastructure throughout the modernization period.
The task order was made under the General Services Administration's Millennia contract. Millennia is a $25 billion contract awarded to 12 companies to provide a broad range of IT services to any government agency.
Lockheed Martin's core businesses are systems integration, space, aeronautics and technology services. In 1999, Lockheed Martin had 147,000 employees and $25.5 billion in sales, according to Hoover's Online of Austin, Texas.
William Welsh is a freelance writer covering IT and defense technology.


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Home » February 2017 2017 In Focus
Collaborating with Clients
CTA Construction Managers
For the past sixteen years, CTA Construction Managers has excelled at providing clients with a range of superior pre-construction, construction, and post-construction services. Its strong focus on working with customers and partners in the spirit of collaboration has allowed it to proudly deliver in excess of one billion dollars of award-winning projects with integrity and the highest possible degree of professionalism.
Based in historic Waltham, Massachusetts, CTA was founded by Lyle Coghlin and Patrick Tompkins in 2000. Today, it has grown to a full-time staff of thirty-three and performs in academic, civic, commercial/retail, and residential sectors, with an emphasis on municipal construction. The company operates mainly in Massachusetts, primarily in the eastern area of the state, and has fostered numerous successful, long-term relationships across the state.
Although it does not have a set value for projects, works over recent years have ranged from $5,000,000 to $68,000,000. For projects of all sizes, CTA Construction Managers is highly proactive and takes great pride in communicating openly and honestly with all clients.
The company is a proud member of the respected US Green Building Council (USGBC) and adheres to the principles and mission of the USGBC, namely the promotion and implementation of sustainability-based practices in America's construction and building industry. The team at the 'green' builder has years of experience in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) and many other areas of sustainable building including Massachusetts High Performance Green Schools Guidelines as administered by the Collaborative for High Performance Schools (MA-CHPS) performance standards.
Over the past seven years, CTA has "championed the construction and renovation of ten LEED-designed buildings and fourteen MA-CHPS-designed buildings," according to the company. All of these projects went on to receive LEED Silver (or higher) certification or MA-CHPS certification.
"Many of the green projects that we complete translate to additional compensation from the government agencies that help fund the projects," says CTA Project Executive Paul DuRoss. "The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is committed to green building."
With almost two decades of construction experience and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Villanova University, DuRoss has served as a project superintendent, project manager and project executive since he joined CTA in 2002. The company, he says, continues to educate itself about ever-changing green design practices and sustainable construction. It maintains systems and handles certifications for owners if required, and prides itself on the expertise of all employees.
CTA Construction Managers has over $800,000,000 of work completed or in progress that is either LEED, MA CHPS or Enterprise Green Communities certified. It works with clients to achieve many environmental initiatives. These include stormwater control systems, water use reduction of twenty to thirty percent, gray water systems, rain collection systems, permeable paving systems, use of recycled materials, energy efficient performance systems, using local materials, lighting controls, and a range of energy-efficient performance systems.
A number of projects, including the Mountview Middle School (Holden), Hingham Municipal Power and Light (in Hingham), the Abe Lincoln Elementary School (in New Bedford), and the Beverly High School (in Beverly), have involved photovoltaic systems. Other initiatives, such as green roof systems on the Lexington DPW & Parker Elementary School in Billerica, bio-retention systems (Lexington DPW), and solar wall heating at the Hingham Elementary School, have been used on a range of schools and public structures.
Additionally, CTA has successfully implemented a variety of geothermal well systems for heating and cooling. These have been used on projects at the University of Massachusetts New Police Facility, the Fiske Elementary School in Lexington, and the Hopkinton Public Library in Hopkinton.
Successful construction management is a process requiring collaboration to create a relationship founded on professionalism and integrity. Partners are involved in the overall process, and by working as a unit from the beginning, a favorable outcome is achieved. This is particularly important when it comes to understanding and appreciating client needs and objectives.
"We remain client-focused by always putting the owners' interest ahead of our business objectives," says DuRoss. "At CTA, we treat our partners – architects, consultants, subcontractors, and vendors – fairly, by being empathetic to our project team members' goals and constraints. We work jointly, complementing each other's strengths with our own unique expertise and creativity, to not only make projects successful but to ensure the planning and construction process is enjoyable and memorable."
Precisely planning every stage of a project in done with project management systems such as building information modelling (BIM) software to generate and manage data for commercial/retail, residential, academic and civic works. BIM is an outstanding tool for every stage of all projects, including phase planning, cost estimation, and design development and review. Through technologically advanced programs like BIM, 3D modeling, and a host of other information-based solutions including web-based document sharing, the company provides the highest-quality project management services available.
In 2014, America's top one hundred green building contractors generated an impressive $48.71 billion in revenue. In 2015, CTA Construction Managers ranked #82 of the hundred largest sustainable building contractors in the nation by Engineering News-Record (ENR).
CTA has been the proud recipient of many accolades for its sustainable works. These include the Green Difference Award – Project Green Schools by The Massachusetts House of Representatives for the Abraham Lincoln Elementary School, New Bedford; the Green Award, Association of Builders and Contractors, LEED/Sustainable Design for the East Elementary School, Hingham; and the Green Award, Association of Builders and Contractors, LEED/Sustainable Design for the UMass Amherst Police Station, Amherst.
Additionally, CTA has been awarded for its outstanding work in other areas by the American Public Works Association, Public Works Project of the Year Award for the Samuel Hadley Public Services Building, Lexington; the Historical Preservation Award for Excellence in Rehabilitation, Restoration & Adaptive Reuse, Massachusetts Historical Commission, 2008 (for the Harvard Public Library, Harvard, and others.
Over the years, CTA has seen a significant increase in LEED and other green building initiatives across several sectors, largely as a result of client demand for sustainable and environmentally friendly projects.
"The overall market is more aware of green building nowadays," comments DuRoss. "The workers on site on our projects have become accustomed to the changes from indoor air quality control to waste management procedures. Documentation has become easier as well with the majority of product manufacturers now understanding the reporting and product information requirements to foster sustainable building."
The company provides preconstruction, construction, and post-construction services such as site logistics planning, construction feasibility, design evaluation, construction document review, cash-flow analysis, contract development, information management, and quality control. It also performs mechanical, electrical and plumbing coordination, arranges certificate of occupancy, does building systems training (including mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, technology, security), and more. All services are delivered with the utmost professionalism and respect for safety.
CTA is responsible for the construction of many municipal buildings which are extremely important to communities and believes in giving back through philanthropic efforts, including supporting local schools with scholarship foundations, helping local food pantries, and supporting fire and police organizations, along with sports booster clubs and scouting organizations.
"At CTA, successful projects are the result of strong management and the high levels of operational efficiency we employ in executing and delivering our services," states DuRoss. "We are a proactive builder. As construction advisor to our clients, we realize and respect their valuable resources."
"We believe in open and effective communication. Transparency fosters trust. Trust builds long-term relationships. That is why successful projects begin with CTA Construction, and great building starts here."
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Just the job!
Arena Coventry bosses have signed a £60 million deal with the world's largest catering and hospitality company.
Arena Coventry bosses have signed a £60 million deal with the world's largest catering and hospitality company.
FMC, which serves food at some of the country's leading sporting events, beat off stiff competition from Birmingham's NEC to win the 10 year management contract.
The company is part of the Compass Group, which already looks after the catering at Wimbledon, Silverstone, the Royal Albert Hall, Cardiff's Millennium Stadium and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
The move, which is set to create up to 500 jobs, was announced after bids from three firms were studied by an independent specialist.
Paul Fletcher, chief executive of Arena Coventry, said: "This has been a very long, carefully conducted process and we are delighted to have reached agreement with Compass Group.
"Its record speaks for itself and they are a recognised industry leader.
"Not only was its offer the best, it also has ideal experience for the varied needs of the Arena and we are confident it will help establish our development as one of the leading sporting, conference, exhibition and leisure venues in the UK."
Birmingham's NEC lost out during the tender process.
Mr Fletcher said: "While we fully recognise that the NEC is the most successful exhibition venue in Europe, we have assessed the competing bids against our business requirements.
"We are more than happy that the new deal will satisfy all those diverse needs."
FMC expects to employ about 30 full-time senior managers and sales staff. In addition it will need about 450 people on match days and bring in casual workers for corporate functions.
Director of FMC Simon Evans said the company would provide a range of food including special packages for conferences and banqueting.
Mr Evans added: "We want to know what the fans like and what they would like to see provided on match days.
"We will not make any decisions without consulting them first. At other venues we have set up fans' forums to determine the food we serve." ..SUPL:


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Winter School Mamelodi
The Mamelodi Ikamvanites braved the early morning iciness of winter to come to Winter School during the June holidays. After heating up their bodies through ice-breakers and tea, they got to work. Past papers, exercises, quizzes, discussions and games, you name it, we did it in an effort to prepare for the new academic term by revising all of the work the Ikamvanites had done earlier in the year and struggled with. Various organisations and individuals also came in daily to discuss issues outside of the classroom. We had motivational speakers, an image consultant even a yoga specialist to name a few. The proverbial cherry that came on top of the cake that was all the hard work and effort of the students, was the Talent show at the end of the second week of winter school in which the learners got the chance to show off their more creative talents outside of the classroom. All in all, Winter School was a resounding success that we can all be very proud of. Well done Ikamva!
After Winter School, the Matric pupils joined us for a week of preparations aimed solely at the matric learners. As the Matrics draw nearer and nearer to their final exams, they understand the need to place a greater emphasis on their studies. The class of 2016 came prepared with work and enthusiasm and a willingness to learn anything and everything they could, before the third term started. By the end of the week, the Matrics were exhausted from all the hard work but come Finals, they'll be more than ready to tackle any academic challenges that they are faced with!
With the election right around the corner, many South Africans have been discussing choices. The idea that we are responsible for deciding the future of our great nation. The Ikamvanites made a choice when they came into the program at the start of the year. They chose to believe in success. They chose to believe in a future where education provides the tools with which one can ultimately achieve one's dreams. They chose to believe in themselves. And as we head towards the second half of what has turned out to be an adventurous and exciting year, it is up to us, the people who make Ikamva a pillar of hope in a community plagued by issues like nyoape and blessers, to choose success yet again. As former President, Nelson Mandela, once said, "[e]ducation is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." By choosing to invest in their futures, Ikamvanites are arming themselves with the tools that they'll need when they battle a world in which knowledge is power.


Christie's is auctioning Mark Rothko's masterpiece No. 36 (Black Stripe), 1958, from the collection of the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden – one of Europe's most important and prestigious private museums for Classical Modernism and Contemporary art based in Germany.
With Rothko's signature concordance of three shimmering rectangles of directly contrasting color asserting themselves against a luminescent red ground, No. 36 (Black Stripe) is a classic example of Rothko's mature style of painting and embodies perfectly renowned collector Frieder Burda's vision and taste for emotional and expressive masterpieces of 20th and 21st Century art. Painted in 1958 when Rothko was engaged with the creation of the series of famous murals for the Four Seasons Restaurant in the Seagram building in Manhattan (now known as the famous The Rothko Room at the Tate Modern in London) – No. 36 (Black Stripe) exemplifies this extraordinary moment in the artist's life and career. Acquired by Frieder Burda over thirty years ago, No. 36 (Black Stripe) has never appeared at auction and has been featured prominently in every major museum exhibitions devoted to the artist, including the Tate Gallery in London, the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sidney and was part of the seminal artist's retrospective at the Fondation Beyeler, in 2001. Estimated $30-50 million, the work will be on view in Hong Kong and London before being offered at auction in New York on May 13th. Proceeds from the sale will allow Frieda Burda's non-profit foundation to further strengthen its asset base and thus to ensure the operation of the Museum Frieder Burda, which is exclusively funded by the foundation, for generations to come as well as to expand the work of the museum.
"Painted in 1958, this vibrant, powerful and deeply emotive painting was created during Mark Rothko's most influential and acclaimed period. Here the artist has arrived at a new structural language of color that was to define his most famous body of works, The Seagram Murals, painted at the same time and which today constitute the celebrated Rothko Room at the Tate Modern, London. No. 36 (Black Stripe) is the quintessential Rothko – orange, black and red – passion and blood. This is the first time that the painting has been on the market for thirty years and we are sure to see a bidding war at the auction in May for this extremely rare and universally enticing work, especially with such a prestigious provenance and exhibition history," stated Brett Gorvy, Chairman and International Head of Post-War & Contemporary Art.
"We feel honored to be have been entrusted with the sale of Mark Rothko's No. 36, Black Stripe on behalf of the Frieder Burda Museum. Ever since its opening in 2004 the privately funded museum built by Richard Meier has attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors and stands out as one of the most beautiful and successfully designed museum buildings in Europe. It pays tribute to the unerring taste, passion, long term commitment and generosity of one of the great 20th Century art collectors of our time", added Andreas Rumbler, Chairman Christie's Switzerland.


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Tennis player Naomi Osaka, 21, who became No. 1 in the world ranking in women's singles on the 28th, responded on the 24th to a dispute over the skin color of an animated character depicting her in a video advertisement created by Nissin Foods Holdings Co., with whom she has a sponsorship deal. The character was portrayed as being more pale-skinned than Osaka is in reality, causing a controversy to arise that led the company to remove the video from its website.
"I'm tan, it's pretty obvious. … I don't think they did it on purpose to be, like, whitewashing or anything," she said. She made the comment when answering reporters' questions at a news conference after winning the semifinal at the Australian Open in Melbourne the same day.
"But I definitely think that the next time they try to portray me or something, I feel like they should talk to me about it," she said.
1) Why did a controversy arise over a video advertisement?
Because (in it athlete Naomi) Osaka's skin color appeared paler than it is in reality.
2) Afterward, what happened to the video?
They were removed from the website.
3) What did Osaka request of the sponsor?
To talk to her the next time it portrays her.


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Lukrezia Luise "Luc" Jochimsen, née Lukrezia Schleussinger (born 1 March 1936), is a German sociologist, television journalist, and politician of The Left party.

Professional career

Luc Jochimsen was born in Nuremberg, the daughter of a vehicle dealer. Her schooling in Frankfurt am Main ended in 1956.  She studied sociology, political science, and philosophy at the University of Hamburg. In 1961 she became a doctor of philosophy at the University of Münster.

She was from 1961 to 1975 a freelance author, and from 1975 to 1985 presenter of the TV programme Panorama in Hamburg.  From 1985 to 1988 she was the ARD London correspondent.  From 1988 to 1991 she was responsible for the department of documentaries of NDR and from 1991 until 1993 she led the ARD television studios in London. From 1994 to 2001 she was the chief editor of television for Hessischer Rundfunk and together with others chaired the politics show 3 zwei eins.

Political activities
Jochimsen only became politically active in 2002, after her retirement. She has complained that the former German Democratic Republic and the successor of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, then named Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), was being "stigmatized" after the fall of the communist regime in 1989.

In the 2002 Bundestag election, she was the top candidate of the Party for Democratic Socialism in Hesse. However, she was not elected. In 2005, she was nominated by the Party for Democratic Socialism in Thuringia in the former East Germany, and was elected. There, she proposed to abolish October 3 (the date of the reunification of Germany) as the national holiday, and instead introduce May 8, as a national holiday commemorating German defeat in World War II. In September 2009, she was denied access to the Ministry of Defence by the military police on the occasion of the dedication of a monument to German soldiers who were killed in action on missions abroad.

She was nominated by her party for President of Germany in the 2010 election. She opposed Christian Wulff, the candidate of the governing Christian Democratic Union, Christian Social Union of Bavaria and Free Democratic Party, as well as Joachim Gauck, the candidate of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Greens, and the candidate of the National Democratic Party of Germany, Frank Rennicke.

Following her nomination, Jochimsen opined that the German Democratic Republic was "not a state of injustice per definition", despite "committing inexcusable injustice towards its citizens".

Like the other members of the Bundestag parliamentary group of the Left Party, she is under surveillance by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

Awards

Before she started her political activities, she received several professional awards for her work as a journalist.

 1971: Adolf Grimme Award
 1981: Alexander Zinn Award
 1984: Prix Italia
 2000: Hedwig Dohm Certificate
 2001: Hessian Order of Merit

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1936 births
Living people
Politicians from Nuremberg
Members of the Bundestag for Thuringia
German journalists
German women journalists
Hessischer Rundfunk people
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Candidates for President of Germany
21st-century German politicians
Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Members of the Bundestag for The Left
21st-century German women


When I was 14 I spent most of my summer with my Grandparents. I really loved my Grandparents. They were so awesome. We spent time together. We did stuff like go fishing and watch old Alfred Hitchcock shows. My Grandfather was a preacher. He may have had some religious doctrine that I wouldn't agree with today but He was a "man of God." He knew Jesus. He may not be able to say preach Grace from the pulpit but He knew Grace as a person. He was an amazing Grandfather filled with so much love and compassion for people. I knew that no matter how bad it got, no matter what mistakes I made, no matter what the circumstance, I could count on Him. I might get a "why did you do that son?" discussion but that was always after the dust settled and the crisis was over.
That summer was filled with all kinds of adventures. One of those "adventures" included the pretty girl across the street. I was 14 and she was 16. She was an "older woman" and I was really smitten by her. She actually took the initiative and wanted to spend time with me. Like any curious teenager that logically lead to "smooching in the neighbor's house." (You can pretend like you don't know but you do know what I'm talking about) Little did I realize that this "sweet young lady" from across the street had an 18-year-old boyfriend. She left that part out of the introductions. So you get the picture…kissing on someone elses girlfriend…bad news. I was still waiting on my "growth spurt" so I was still a small 14-year-old. The 18-year-old boyfriend was shaving twice a day.
Here is where it gets good. Imagine the chase scene, running through a house out the back door, scampering through the yard and directly to the only place I would ever go. I run back to my Grandfather. I run right into his arms. 14 years old may seem pretty mature but in that moment I was a little child all over again. I tried to get the story out and start with my excuses but there wasn't time. Instead I said simply "help me Granddaddy." He didn't hesitate. He sent me into the house while he went to the curb to meet the threat. I watched in amazement (from behind the window and the curtain) as my Grandfather explained the situation to this young man. When it was over that 18-year-old boy looked like a frightened 3-year-old.
I had no more issues that summer with 18-year-old boyfriends or girls with exceptional curiosity or sneaking around with less than admirable intentions. I did get to explain the situation but there were no penalties or lectures or punishments. My Grandfather was certain that I had already learned a valuable life lesson. Instead he took me fishing. What an awesome man. My Granddaddy. I do miss him.
Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and blessing and calamity you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
She had just been walking with God that morning. She had spent time with Him every day. This is the amazing God that created her and her husband. He was the source of life, their friend, their father, their brother. He was Jesus walking with them in the Garden. There had never been laws or rules or punishment or hardship of any kind. God was good, perfectly good. He was the very person they idolized and looked up to. He was beautiful and magnificent and impressive and kind and generous and loving and merciful and…well God. So when the devil tempted them he used their desire to please God as the crow bar of manipulation. I can imagine Eve thinking "of course to be like God would be fantastic so we could always make good choices and please Him and be good like Him." Can you see it?
The answer is they "died." The fruit poisoned their ability to see a good God. They were just with Him and now they feared Him. This same God that would die as a servant to mankind at the hands of mankind, this same God that loves us so much He dies for us, this perfectly good God they now feared. Doesn't it perplex you? It does me. I believe it proves that they "died" in that moment. If they would have still been able to discern a perfectly good God they would have run to Him and said "Jesus look at what the devil did, we really messed up and we need your help." Instead they ran and hid in the bushes.
Not possible. God is good or He isn't.
That is why Jesus. That is why resurrection. The Holy Spirit is the only one that can restore us to the created state that can comprehend the goodness of God. We have to be born again to begin to see the depths of His goodness and Grace. We need Him to understand Him. We got really messed up when we ate the wrong fruit. Now Jesus sets us free from the lies that made us run and hide. We can run into the arms of Jesus for anything. We will make mistakes but instead of trying harder to be better we run into the arms of our Father and He sorts it out. We may be smooching with the wrong girl but God will come to the rescue. Think about it. If my Grandfather, a regular old human filled with Jesus can save me don't you think that the origin of love and goodness can save us? We may "have surely died" when we consumed the wrong fruit but Jesus gives us life and freedom to "see" Him again as He is.
We will take a look at what this means to us now as believers, unbelievers, evangelist and more in the next few posts. Stay tuned.
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'Twilight Zone': DeWanda Wise and Jessica Williams Become the Latest to Join Jordan Peele's Reboot
The two will star in an upcoming episode of the CBS All Access series
Tim Baysinger | January 14, 2019 @ 10:46 AM
Jordan Peele's upcoming reboot of "The Twilight Zone" for CBS All Access continues to fill out its cast list, with DeWanda Wise and Jessica Williams the latest to enter the fifth dimension.
The two will star in an upcoming episode, which will also feature Lucinda Dryzek, Jefferson White and Jonathan Whitesell.
Previously announced cast members include Steven Yeun, Greg Kinnear, John Cho, Allison Tolman, Jacob Tremblay, Sanaa Lathan, Adam Scott and Kumail Nanjiani.
Also Read: Jordan Peele's 'Twilight Zone' Reboot Adds John Cho, Allison Tolman and Jacob Tremblay
Peele is executive producing and narrating, stepping into the role that Rod Serling made famous. You can get a taste of what Peele's narration will sound like here.
The new series, which will debut later this year, will be produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Peele's Monkeypaw Productions and Simon Kinberg's Genre Films. Peele and Kinberg serve as executive producers along with Win Rosenfeld, Audrey Chon, Carol Serling, Rick Berg and Greg Yaitanes.
Serling created the original series, which ran for 80 episodes from 1959 to 1964, and used socially-conscious storytelling to explore the human condition and culture of the times. There have been two prior revivals of the classic series. The first reboot aired for 110 episodes on CBS starting in 1985, and a second version, with Forest Whitaker in Serling's role, ran for 43 episodes on UPN in the early 2000s.
Wise currently stars as Nola Darling in the Netflix adaptation of Spike Lee's "She's Gotta Have It," while Williams is the co-creator of "2 Dope Queens." Williams is also writing and executive producing an upcoming series for Showtime and was formerly a correspondent on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show."
23 TV Reboots That Should Have Been Booted, From 'Dynasty' to 'Charmed' (Photos)
From "Dynasty" to "Charmed," TheWrap is taking a look at reboots of classic TV shows that should've gotten the boot from the start.
"Dragnet" (2003-04)
Jack Webb and Ben Alexander starred in the original 1950's police procedural that became a major hit. Unfortunately, the Ed O'Neill and Ethan Embry reboot in 2003 failed to find similar success. It was cancelled after two seasons.
"Kojak" (2005)
Another police procedural bound to be rebooted, Telly Savalas starred as the chrome-domed detective in the 1970's series. Ving Rhames took the reins in 2005, but only made it to nine episodes.
"The IT Crowd" (2007)
This hilarious British series that helped launch Chris O'Dowd's career ran for four seasons from 2006 to 2010. It's American counterpart -- not so much. The across-the-pond adaptation with Joel McHale was ordered to pilot but failed to get picked up at NBC in 2007 and 2008.
"The Bionic Woman" (2007)
A 2007 take on the 1976 "Six Million Dollar Man" spinoff, this NBC show's original sin was casting "Battlestar Galactica" ass-kicker Katee Sackhoff as the recurring villain rather than the lead.
"Knight Rider" (2008-09)
Like so much '80s television, the original "Knight Rider" is over-celebrated. But NBC's 2008 version lacked even the original's dumb charms — and David Hasselhoff.
"Melrose Place" (2009-10)
The 1990s classic nighttime soap got a CW makeover in 2009, but the brand wasn't enough to keep an audience interested, especially on a network that was doing rich young people drama better on shows like "Gossip Girl" and even "90210."
"Charlie's Angels" (2011)
"Charlie's Angels" perfectly captured the goofiness of the '70s, but it felt painfully out of date in 2011. Critics and audiences agreed: It was canceled after three episodes and was easily as disappointing as the 2019 film.
"Prime Suspect" (2011-12)
Helen Mirren broke out big time as a rare female detective fighting crime and the sexism of her fellow cops in a hit series first introduced in 1991. But NBC's 2011 version, starring Maria Bello, struggled to find its voice and lasted just 13 episodes.
"Mockingbird Lane" (2012)
Bryan Fuller tried to put his stamp on a reboot of the 1960s series, "The Munsters," and it's still a bit of a cult classic among his fervent fans, but NBC never ordered the show to series. At least we will always have the pilot, which aired in 2012, which is more than you can say for most pilots that don't get picked up to series.
"Ironside" (2013)
Blair Underwood has done some memorable TV work, starting with his career-making role on "L.A. Law." But his 2013 take on the 1960s and 70s Raymond Burr crime drama was yanked from NBC's air even faster than you can say "LAX" or "The Event."
"Gracepoint" (2014)
"Broadchurch" captivated U.K. audiences from 2013-2017 with its tense murder mystery format, but when the U.S. tried to replicate its magic - with original star David Tennant in tow - it just never quite managed. Needless to say, "Broadchurch" is producing a third season, and "Gracepoint" was canceled after just one in 2014.
"The Odd Couple" (2015-17)
Matthew Perry and Thomas Lennon were no Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, or Tony Randall and Jack Klugman for that matter. The reboot of the 1970s series began in 2015 and lasted three seasons, but the canned, laugh track sitcom felt very old fashioned and led to some miserable ratings. Matthew Perry even tweeted out one month ahead of schedule that the show was cancelled when he saw his face painted over on his stage door.
"The Returned" (2015)
SundanceTV had an international hit on its hands with the 2004 French-language moody zombie thriller. A 2012 English adaptation was of course inevitable, but Damon Lindelof's A&E remake never quite found its audience, despite gaining the support of critics, and was canceled in 2015. Luckily, the original French series is still ongoing.
"Heroes Reborn" (2015-16)
Beyond "Chuck" star Zachary Levi, NBC's bland "event series" reboot of 2006's "Heroes" brought nothing new or interesting to the table and was canceled in 2016.
"The Muppets" (2015-16)
ABC's reboot of the 1970s series "The Muppet Show" was one of the most highly anticipated new shows of the 2015-16 TV season, but the inside look at the adult lives of Kermit and company failed to resonate with fans.
"MacGyver" (2016-21)
Like the hero that shares the show's name, the 2016 reboot of "MacGyver," with Lucas Till in the 1985 Richard Dean Anderson role, cobbled together a bunch of unusual parts to make yet another procedural that's somehow still kicking, despite constant lampooning from "The Simpsons" and "SNL's" "MacGruber" sketches. The show managed to last five seasons.
"24: Legacy" (2017)
Corey Hawkins starred in this Kiefer Sutherland-less "24" reboot that maintained the show's real-time structure and some of the original 2000s show's flaws, but also managed to be canceled in real-time. "24: Legacy" had a big debut following the Super Bowl in 2017 but dropped off sharply afterward and was done after just one season. At the time of the cancellation Fox was still considering continuing the "24" franchise.
"Dynasty" (2017 - )
The CW rebooted the classic '80s primetime soap in 2017, but despite the buzz for Peruvian-born Nathalie Kelley as Cristal, the show drew critical pans and weak ratings -- that were still lucrative enough to earn the series a fourth season premiering in 2021.
"Mad About You" (2018)
In 2018, Spectrum lured Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser to return for another season of their Emmy-winning '90s sitcom about an urban married couple. But the spark was mostly gone.
"Magnum P.I." (2018 - )
This 2018 CBS reboot fell short of its potential to remake the 1980s classic series for a few reasons -- one being that Tom Selleck was not involved (nor was his mustache). Though set in picturesque Hawaii, critics were quick to tire of the new Magnum (Jay Hernandez)'s voiceover, calling the reboot average at best, and lacking in panache.
"Charmed" (2018 -)
Despite the name, this 2018 CW reboot was cursed from the start. Side-stepping the original 1998 witches -- Alyssa Milano, Shannen Doherty and Holly Marie Combs, and later Rose McGowan -- in favor of newer, younger ones didn't sit well with fans, or with the original ladies themselves. Milano told US Weekly she felt the reboot was "disrespectful" for not including her and her fellow OG cast members. And though it was touted as a "feminist" reboot, Combs tweeted, "I will never understand what is fierce, funny, or feminist in creating a show that basically says the original actresses are too old to do a job they did 12 years ago."
"The Twilight Zone" (2019-20)
No reboot of this classic sci-fi series has ever managed to live up to Rod Serling's groundbreaking original series, which ran from 1959 to 1964. The first revival, which debuted in 1984, fell flat of its expectations -- something it has in common with Jordan Peele's 2019 reboot. Though Peele is credited as a creator and serves as the host, he did not write or direct any episodes, which critics complained were too on-the-nose, melodramatic, and, well, a lot meaner things than that. The show lasted two seasons.
"Party of Five" (2020)
The original '90s Fox series, about siblings forced to look after themselves after their parents were killed in a car accident, ran for six seasons -- and made stars of Matthew Fox, Scott Wolf, Neve Campbell and Lacey Chabert. But the Latino-cast 2020 reboot lasted just 10 episodes.
TheWrap looks at TV remakes that never should've happened


The Blizzard Store has been closed since late 2013 but, as of today, has reopened under the name "Blizzard Gear". As expected, the site features clothing, artwork, toys, etc. Interested World of Warcraft players can also get their hands on a physical authenticator for account protection. Most interestingly, there is a new "Caverns of Time" section that will allow players to get hold of Blizzcon items from years past.


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WASHINGTON - Americans stepped back from buying new homes in March, the third straight monthly decline as sales plunged sharply in the Western states.
New-home sales slipped 1.5% last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 511,000, the Commerce Department said Monday. That rate has steadily dropped from 519,000 in February and 521,000 in January. Sales plummeted 23.6% in the West, which has been prone to volatile swings in sales as one of the nation's priciest housing markets.
The market for new housing developments has gotten off to a rocky start. Sales are still running slightly ahead of the year-to-date pace in 2015, yet supplies of new construction are mounting in a possible sign that demand is lower than many builders had hoped.
Sales were flat in the Northeast and rose in the Midwest and South. Prices dipped with sales declining in Western states where land often commands a higher premium. The median new-home sales price fell 1.8% from a year ago to $288,000.
The market's stalling momentum comes amid an incomplete recovery from the housing crash of almost a decade ago. New-home sales are significantly below the half-century average of more than 650,000. Subprime mortgages helped propel sales as high as 1.28 million in 2005, but the debt resulting from that peak led to series of foreclosures that triggered the Great Recession at the end of 2007.
The recent unevenness in real estate has also been seen in sales of existing homes.
The National Association of Realtors said last week that sales of existing homes rose 5.1% in March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.33 million, a partial rebound after a sudden drop in February.
Fewer existing properties are being listed for sale, causing prices to rise. The number of listings has dipped 1.5% over the past 12 months, despite a foundation of demand caused by lower mortgage rates and healthy hiring levels.
Builders still anticipate sales growth, although they have become slightly more cautious in recent months.
The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo builder sentiment index has held at 58 for the past three months. Readings above 50 indicate more builders view sales conditions as positive. Still, the component of the index looking at current sales prospects fell in the April report released last week.
Sales have been aided by mortgages rates staying close to historic lows.
The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was 3.59% last week, according to mortgage buyer Freddie Mac.


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MEDIAN Technologies to propose nomination of Dr. Kapil Dhingra to its Board of Directors
26 October 2012, Sophia Antipolis, France
Dr. Kapil Dhingra will bring to the board his strategic expertise, vision, and experience of the global biopharma industry with an emphasis on the oncology therapeutic area.
MEDIAN Technologies (ALMDT), a leading medical imaging software solutions developer, and a service provider for image interpretation and management in oncology clinical trials, announced today that the Board of Directors, chaired by Fredrik Brag, CEO, has proposed to appoint Mr. Kapil Dhingra as a new director for a period of 3 years. This decision was made at the Board's meeting on October 4 and will be put on the agenda of the next shareholders' meeting.
"Kapil Dhingra will bring us his unique strategic expertise, vision and experience of the global biopharma industry", said Fredrik Brag, CEO of MEDIAN and Chairman. "Kapil has a vast experience in bringing innovations to the drug development process in oncology. His knowledge and support will contribute to further enhance MEDIAN growth strategy, in particular as regards to the advanced imaging services that we bring to top tiers Pharmas and Biotechs. We are very proud to have him joining our Board", Fredrik Brag added.
"Accurate and consistent evaluation of tumors is crucial to the management of patients with cancer and in clinical trials of new drugs and represents a major unmet technology need in oncology today", said Kapil Dhingra. "The solutions provided by the MEDIAN platform can greatly enhance interpretation and management of images. The ability to obtain high quality and accurate lesion assessment in near-real-time can significantly enhance the efficiency of clinical trials of new drugs."
Dr. Dhingra founded KAPital Consulting LLC in 2008 to help biotechnology, pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies realize the clinical and commercial promise of advances in oncology. From 1999 to 2008, he served in positions of increasing responsibility at Roche including Vice President, Head, Oncology Disease Biology Leadership Team, and Head, Oncology Clinical Development. Prior to joining Roche, he worked in the Oncology Clinical Development Group at Eli Lilly and Company. From 1989 to 1996, he was a faculty member at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center where he led a successful laboratory as well as clinical research program.
Throughout his industry career, Dr. Dhingra held an active faculty appointment at Indiana University School of Medicine from 1997 to 1999, and more recently, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York from 2000 to 2008.
Dr. Dhingra holds an M.B., B.S. (equivalent to US M.D.) degree from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), and has performed postgraduate work at the AIIMS, the Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center (New York Medical College), Bronx NY and Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta GA. He is Board-certified in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology.
Dr. Dhingra is currently an advisor to and/or member of the Board of Directors of several biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and organizations. He has previously served on the Boards of several successful biotech companies, including Biovex and Micromet, which were acquired by major pharmaceutical companies.
About Median Technologies.
Median Technologies develops medical imaging software and services dedicated to oncology clinical trials, cancer screening, and clinical practice. Median Technologies standardizes and automates the interpretation of medical images in oncology to optimize the diagnosis of cancer patients and the assessment of their response to therapy. Median serves two primary markets: drug development and patient care. Median has a strategic partnership with the world's largest CRO (Contract Research Organization) to offer integrated imaging services for clinical trials to biopharma sponsors worldwide, and a strategic partnership with Canon to develop new imaging technologies, and to address the patient care market.
Founded in 2002, Median Technologies is based in Sophia-Antipolis, France, and has a US subsidiary in Boston. Median has a global reach and actively works with clinical sites located in Asia, Europe, North and South America, and Australia.
Median has received the label "Innovative company" by the BPI and is listed on Euronext Paris' Alternext market (ISIN: FR0011049824, ticker: ALMDT). The company is eligible for the PEA PME SME equity savings plan setup.
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A multiple Canadian Screen Award winner, Volden joined TSN as an associate producer in1995. He began his career at ITV News (now Global) in Edmonton, where he was a production assistant, and later, a news producer for the station's morning show.
A native of Saskatoon, Volden graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a Bachelor of Science and Physical Education.