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Gants Hill is a district of Ilford in the London Borough of Redbridge in northeast London, England. It is a suburban development situated 9.5 miles (15.3 km) northeast of Charing Cross. It is also the name of a roundabout junction within the district. The name could have originated from the le Gant family, who were stewards of Barking Abbey. The name Gantesgrave appears in records as early as 1291. Alternatively, the name may be derived from 'Gnats Cross' in reference to the insects.


Third graders from Poinciana Park Elementary School during their Sunroom Poetry class.
Third grader Danyelle Daniels preparing for her poetry reading.
Poetry Teacher Laurel Nakanishi and third graders from Poinciana Park Elementary School.
Elementary students from three Liberty City schools spent the last two months meeting once a week to write poetry, and some of it has ended up in some unusual places. Like gas stations. And buses.
"Poetry asks kids to come up with innovative ideas. It encourages them to think outside the box instead of asking them to zero in on a definition or answer to a test question," said Laurel Nakanishi, teacher and coordinator of the program that added poetry to the kids' curriculum.
The Sunroom Poetry program started at Orchard Villa Elementary in Liberty City. It is now part of the curriculum for a little more than 100 third and fourth graders in the neighborhood.
Nine-year-old Otis Guyton became a first-time poetry student this spring.
Poems written by third graders from Poinciana Park Elementary School.
"My favorite part of the class is when we get to write the [poems] and talk about our feelings and talk about the things we like about our neighborhood," said Guyton.
Guyton attends Poinciana Park Elementary. He and nine other third graders recently learned how to write poetry using similes and metaphors.
But Nakanishi says poetry is more than just learning how to write for the students.
"Having a venue to express their emotions--I feel like that's not always available to them, and so through poetry they really have a chance to feel heard and to articulate what they're actually feeling," she said.
Nakanishi, a native of Hawaii, received her master's in fine arts from the University of Montana. She has taught poetry to children in Montana, Nicaragua and Hawaii. She made South Florida one of her teaching destinations two and a half years ago.
When Nakanishi arrived in Miami, she proposed the kids' program to the directors of the O, Miami Poetry Festival, who didn't hesitate to move forward.
"It was so sort of natural for us to fund a project working with Laurel," said Melody Santiago Cummings, the operations director of O, Miami.
A transit bus covered with poems from elementary school kids.
The program, Santiago Cummings says, took the name of "sunroom" because of the Florida sun. Contributions from the Children's Trust and the Knight Foundation helped make it possible.
For Scott Cunningham, director of O, Miami, the program also serves as a channel to show some people a side of Miami they may not know about.
In her eight years of teaching poetry, Nakanishi has noticed a difference on what her students from Liberty City write about.
A poem displayed on a pump at a Tom Thumb gas station.
The kids' poems--in English, Spanish and Creole--are displayed on the pumps at Tom Thumb gas stations around the county and at check-out lanes of the Sabor Tropical grocery stores in Miami's Mimo District.
Last month, Miami-Dade Transit also unveiled a yellow city bus covered with the kids' poems.
The program concluded last week with a poetry reading. The student poets will meet again next year in time for National Poetry month.
Miami City Ballet's Patricia Delgado reflects on almost 17 seasons with the company, and considers what's next.
Patricia Delgado was 11 years old the first time she walked into the Miami City Ballet studios to take class. Her sister Jeanette was nine.
Dance Now! Miami's latest dance piece is a direct response to President Donald Trump.
"Bridges Not Walls" was conceived during the presidential race when the then-presidential candidate Trump repeatedly declared that he would build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
"When Donald Trump came up and made those comments about immigrants, specifically coming from Mexico, we were at that time in the process of creating a collaboration with a Mexican [dance] company and so we thought that that was the moment to respond," said Dance Now Co-Director Diego Salterini.
Michael Brun grew up in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. As a kid, he remembers the pulsing and intoxicating rhythms that washed over the neighborhood every weekend in the form of rara bands--musicians beating drums, blowing handmade horns, clapping and singing through the streets.


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The word came to me from a podcast I listened to on my way to the StoryCamp in Lingenau. In the podcast, three historians discussed the peace treaty negotiated in 1919 in Paris, ending what is commonly referred to as the first world war. The discussion centered on the parts of the agreement and the circumstances around it that made it one of the root causes for conflicts throughout the 20st century.
What captures me about the word is that it is still used as a shorthand to refer to a very complex story: the historians named a few references in which the word "Versailles" was used to describes situations in which a country or a political power was forced in a situation that necessitates a strong response in terms of counter-aggression. A reaction that was forced through the terms of a forced agreement. Effectively situating the responsibility for the aggressive response with the parties involved with the forced agreement.
A few days after the camp, the word lingers around my mind as an example of what one could call a "one-word story", a term inspired by my colleague Joanna Sell. One-word stories in my understanding are words that are so soaked with a particular narrative that they become a shorthand for a whole story.
One-word stories
Without having searched for different examples, the notion of one-word stories reminds me of a quote from Julien Rappaport:
"While some community narratives are quite direct, many well-known narratives are coded as visual images, as symbols, as stereotypes, and as performances of behaviour so ritualized that we may be unaware of the narratives we implicitly accept and enact, [...]. Underlying much of what we know, and can recall, are encoded stories indexed by certain cognitive handles. These indices are like headlines in a newspaper account. They are cues to the underlying story. They affect both the target and the source. Overlearned stereotypes primed by adjectives or coded words are the handles to underlying stories (Rappaport, 2000, S.5)
So, one-word stories are basically these handles for the underlying stories: stereotypes come in that form. Large battles take on a meaning that resound universal tales: Waterloo, Hastings, Stalingrad. Social dynamics are framed in that way: the wave of refugees and so on.
What strikes me is the power of these one-word stories to frame a complete discourse or dialogue with one word. A word that can tip the scale of dialogue in one way or another by situating the conversation in an engrained, widely shared, image-laden narrative.
During a walk at the Story Camp, I shared a story with an old friend. A story about how I am reluctant to give a name to a certain situation. I realized that this reluctance was keeping my mind busy and made me unstable in how to relate to that situation.
Naming a story is an important part of narrative therapy and re-authoring practices. Naming a thing is making it real. Giving substance and form to something that did not have a shape. From an unnamed feeling or perception, we discern a Gestalt.
Naming is an act of creation which entails all the references that make up the web of meanings leading from and to the name. By naming we summon the context to the stage that the story will unfold on (consciously or unconsciously – but that´s another story).
But giving a thing or a story a title or a name has more implications than that: it is an important part in a process to relate to that story. Naming is the singular step that can make the difference between living into a story and the decision to live into it. The distinction between a story you choose to tell and live and a story that tells you.
It puts the story outside of a person or a community and gives it a live on it´s own. A problem becomes a problem story - ready to be told differently. A solution becomes a solution story – ready to be lived into.
Melting and freezing: From cold to hot stories and back again
Naming a story might turn that story from a cold into a hot story. A cold story is a story that we unconsciously live into, a story that impacts the way we are in this world without having awareness of it. These stories might be rooted in our biography, in our society or the organization we are with.
Hot stories are stories that we are conscious of, stories in the making, stories in transformation (The distinction of hot and cold stories is borrowed from George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, probably inspired by Claude Lévy-Strauss` distinction between hot and cold societies).
We need cold stories and metaphors. We need to have structures of meaning that guide us through the world. As sign posts in the land of possibilities. That we can rely upon while thinking fast. That we can rely on in exploring the unknown.
Every transformation moves between cold and hot stories. It is about "unfreezing" (Kurt Lewin) the clay the story is made of and shape and relate to it in a different way. Warming it up to form something new.
Attorneys of maneuvrability
When I started this writing, I did not know where it will lead me. Posting it on the slack channel for the StoryCamp, I got some valuable impulses about how to continue. About the complexity of the distinction between hot and cold and between freezing and unfreezing.
I will borrow a term coined by Wolfgang Tonninger in his first reflection on the StoryCamp: as people concerned with transformation and change, we are attorneys of manoeuvrability. Our concern is and should be about the flow of the story and restoring the ability to maneuver, to act, to set one foot before the other, unearthing the potential to remove obstacles for development and new insights:
In some cases, this involves naming a story so it can be left behind, to heal and to move on. In some cases, it needs a re-naming of an all-to-familiar story, to find a different opening, a different meaning in it. Sometimes it needs a name for a story not yet written, to clear the path, to open doors into the unknown, to think, feel and act differently.
Being present with the process of naming, re-naming and un-naming is the work. Opening cracks, so that light can shine. Opening passages, opening doors. Story-Work.
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Exmouth in Devon is a town where the one-mile wide, eight-mile long River Exe Estuary feeds into the sea.
At 4pm on a sunny weekday, the sky and sea are filled with at least 30 kitesurfers swooping, whirling, turning and flipping in and above the waves. Theyve either knocked off work early or the younger ones have come straight from school.
A prominent presence among them is Steph Bridge three times world kite surfing champion, Guinness Record Breaker who spent Sir Richard Bransons 60th birthday kitesurfing the English channel with him, and category ambassador for the 2016 Olympics.
Steph is Exmouth born and bred to a family of boat builders. Shes married to another champion, Eric, and together they have spawned more wave-riding winners the Bridgelets: Tommy 10, a European junior champion, Guy 11 and Ollie 13. All the Bridges are bronzed, blonde and lovely, and extremely down to earth with it.
Steph and Eric have been together since she was 18. After starting Spinnakers, a successful sailing business aged 20, they then set up Edgewatersports teaching, hiring and selling everything related to windsurfing, paddle-boarding, kayaking and kite-surfing.
Far from being sports for lithe lovelies, community clientele are aged from 6-74 and include the local-based Royal Marines, Army, schools, hospital units and lifeguards.
With the estuary and the sea to choose from, theres so much scope for watersports. Theres no such thing as a bad day on the water here.
Steph was a comparatively late starter to kitesurfing but a very passionate one. She didnt start competing until 2004, winning her first world title in 2007. In Exmouth she says the sport has snowballed, becoming as popular as the Cornish hotspots.
Kiteboarding has become a bit of a scene here. People have come to me for a course and then keep coming back. Some have even bought second homes here. I think Exmouth will become the next Watergate Bay.
It becomes part and parcel of your blood, says Kevin Riley, explaining how a three-month temporary stint at Exmouth RNLI has turned into 10 years as the stations Lifeboat operations manager. The town has had a lifeboat station for 200 years, and is one of the busiest for shouts in the South West. However, it relocated after natures elements shifted the shape of the river and the depth of its bed.
to some generous legacies and a public appeal. Kevin does many a station tour 1,500 youngsters in the past year, and many adult attendees of the regular open days.
We are really only the custodians of this station. The public have paid for it, this fantastic town really got stuck in and raised 2 million, so its great that they should be able to view it.
Kevin, 63, and his family left Stockton-On-Tees for Exmouth 25 years ago, but his roots are part of the jokey boathouse banter. They still take the Mickey and call me a foreigner from the North! As its only 12 years since he left a military career in the Paras, he can probably give as good as he gets!
When hes not on call, Kevin teaches sailing as a yachtmaster instructor, and flies as part of the Devon Strut Light Aircraft Association often with Scouts and the disabled. He modestly brushes over his MBE, but his heart obviously belongs to helping people.
Its good to bust a gut and lead by example so others follow. You get out of society what you put in.
Its fair to say Dave Foa and Paul Craven are on an extremely tight deadline. The structure pictured may look like a half-built beach hut on a washed-up pontoon, but in a few weeks time it will be moored in the estuary ski lane and functioning as the River Exe Floating Caf.
Weve already got lots of bookings through July and August, birthday parties and a wedding in September! says Dave.
Customers will either be able to stop off and disembark from their various water sporting vessels or arrive by more conventional methods, via one of the four ribs which will serve as the cafs shuttle service. In the evenings theyll serve mussels it would be rude not to as theyll be sitting in the midst of the infamous Exmouth Mussel Farm plus steak frites, and even throw barbies on the al fresco deck that will seat up to 60.
Dave and his Foa family are London exiles who would never go back, he explains. He used to be in property and now has a thriving wakeboarding business, Exe Wake, and the imminent caf adding to his portfolio.
The Exe has always been part of business partner, Paul Cravens life. Resident for 32 years, he has sailed on it since the age of 4, and now he works on it. Paul is the new director of the recently regenerated Exmouth Marina and runs an engineering firm, Craven Marine Services. He sees the expanding facilities as the start of a new era.
The marina was almost a closed doors operation before. Now its been developed with visitors berths, the Pierhead gallery, restaurants and a pub. I think the combination of that and our caf will attract more people here.
riverexecafe.com. The shuttle leaves from Exmouth Marina.
The recently opened lifestyle and design store INC fits perfectly with Exmouths new image. Filled with handmade and printed pictures, cushions, cards and lampshades, its based in the Strand, an area of town which has been the recipient of a multi-million pound redevelopment. Tastefully European in style, its now a vast, largely pedestrianised square for eating and drinking, entertainment, shopping and generally hanging out.
INC is owned by former award-winning glass-maker Emma Houlding whose work was sold at Liberty, auctioned at Sothebys and shown around the globe. Adding to the style credentials, Emma is a former resident of Londons Hackney bringing urban inspiration and artists from terribly trendy Shoreditch and Columbia Road.
Locally, shes a huge fan and seller of World of Moose by the Devon artist and illustrator Moose Allain.
She, husband Adam, and their two young children are living a few minutes away in Lympstone. Its been a rush job, moving in January and opening the shop in May.
theres the beach, estuary and the town is thriving. And after we came to last years Exmouth Festival, it completely sealed the deal!
On the search for Exmouth characters, many local fingers pointed to the crazy Frenchman. Its a title Olivier Guyard-Mulkervin wears with pride, as it refers to his passion for spear fishing. In former and more exotic climes he was a deep-sea diving champion, infamous for wrestling marlins, sharks and catching a 100lb yellow fin tuna. In Exmouth his haul is huge conger eels and sea bass.
Olivier, who previously worked in many Michelin-starred kitchens, is also a pretty popular restaurateur. With a simple menu and dcor both influenced by his native Brittany, he opened Les Saveurs four years ago.
It was the recession and worst possible timing. We used every bit of our life savings to start and with no money to employ staff. But pure hard graft with the help of Irish wife, Sheila, sons Patrick and Sean, and his sister-in-law and friends all doing the interiors, waiting on table and prepping in the kitchen, has earned them an AA Rosette.
Even on weekdays the place is often fully booked with fans of his trademark Mediterranean fish soup and Lyme Bay fillet of brill with a langoustine Amoricaine sauce.
My dad was a chef, and ever since I was 10 years old I always dreamed of having my own restaurant by the sea, so I could cook and fish. We fell in love with Exmouth because a lot of Devon and Cornwall coastline is like Brittany.
Les Saveurs, 9 Tower Street 01395 269459. Open Tues-Sat from 7pm (so Olivier can spend as much time as possible fishing).


The lid and basin of this grain vessel are virtually identical in form; with the lid inverted, both pieces could be used as serving dishes. Its large lug handles are cast as vestiges of dragon heads with rolled snouts; smaller heads are applied to the lid. The surface design consists of flat, tessellated planes composed of rectangular units of tightly interlaced ribbons. This restrained pattern reflects a new interest in finely textured grid patterns that transformed bronze design in the sixth century B.C. The blue (azurite) and green (malachite) patina is copper corrosion, formed over centuries of burial underground.
The form of this vessel was originally based on a bamboo prototype, whose function was to hold grain, perhaps rice.


Is the fridge in your office starting to sprout more types of fungus than a mushroom farm? While we can all make jokes about it, the fact is that this is a major hygiene issue that probably sends your workplace health and safety officer into a panic. The office fridge is much like the office sink and dishwasher; it is no man's land and no one seems to think it's their responsibility to keep things in order. If you've had enough and need to turn this situation around quickly, here's how to go about it.
If staff won't voluntarily keep the office kitchen or kitchenette in order, make them. The common excuses heard in offices all around the world are "but I don't use the kitchen", "I'm too busy" and "I do my share, it's everyone else that isn't pulling their weight". So to level the playing field, make it policy that all staff take turns in cleaning the kitchen, including the fridge, as per a dedicated staff roster. Rosters are fair, and once everyone gets into the swing of things, it should hopefully become part of the office culture to look after shared and common areas like the kitchen.
It's an oldie but a goodie: the monthly fridge clean-out. Very simple and effective, just make sure you send out an email to all staff a couple of days before it's done to make sure people remove all their items if they don't want them thrown in the bin. You might need to also put staff on a roster to do this one as it's pretty unpleasant when it comes to tipping out lunchboxes whose contents may have once resembled someone's leftovers from last night's dinner.
If the situation has got to the point where even your staff roster is falling down or you are not happy with staff efforts to clean the fridge well enough, you can always outsource the problem to a professional cleaner. This is also the ideal scenario for busy offices where there are frequent visitors and different staff on different days, or if you're a small business already operating on limited resources. Ask your commercial cleaning company to incorporate fridge cleaning into their schedule.
If you don't already have a cleaning contractor or the company you currently use isn't prepared to clean the fridge, it might be worth looking for a more flexible cleaning supplier and arrangements. Aim for companies that tailor packages to suit the individual needs of your company and only charge you for cleaning services that you need and want, such as AMC Commercial Cleaning .
Clean, organised offices project a more professional image and are more likely to boost morale and productivity. However, staff often don't feel it's their responsibility to contribute to the ongoing maintenance and cleaning of communal areas and resources like the kitchen and fridge. If this is the case at your office, it might be time to implement a staff cleaning roster, organise regular fridge clean-outs or, better still, have your professional cleaners do it for you.


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Kristine Roug (ur. 12 marca 1975) – duńska żeglarka sportowa. Złota medalistka olimpijska z Atlanty.

Brała udział w dwóch igrzyskach (IO 96, IO 00). Startowała w klasie Europa. W 1996 zdobyła złoty medal, w 2000 zajęła dziesiąte miejsce. Trzykrotnie zwyciężała na mistrzostwach świata w tej klasie (1994, 1995 i 2000), była druga w 1997 i trzecia w 1998.

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Duńscy medaliści olimpijscy
Duńscy żeglarze sportowi
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The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for PowerCenter skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PowerCenter over the 6 months to 19 April 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
PowerCenter is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.
Job postings citing PowerCenter as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing PowerCenter in Berkshire.


Olaf the Berserker is a melee DPS champion available for your summoner to play in League of Legends. There are many different ways to build an effective Olaf. This video shows you what you should keep in mind as you assign your own abilities and runes to the Berserker.


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Despite the fact that key attacker Timo Werner missed the game with injury, Leipzig rolled over relegation strugglers Hannover 3-0 on the road at the weekend. The Red Bulls are determined to book their place in the Champions League and they seem to be on top of their game ahead of Saturday's football match against Eintracht Frankfurt. Die Adler, on the other hand, did well to hold Borussia Dortmund to a draw in their last league match, with Luka Jovic scoring his 14th goal of the season. Eintracht Frankfurt are enjoying a season to remember and despite the fact that Leipzig have found their best form of late, we predict that the visitors are going to grab something from the Red Bull Arena clash. Taking everything into account, we believe that there is a big value in betting on draw in what is expected to be one of the most entertaining games of the weekend.
Yussuf Poulsen is a Danish footballer who started his youth career at BK Skjold. At the age of 14 he joined Lyngby and he made his debut for the first team on 4 December, 2011. He came as a substitute in a match against Horsens after 84 minutes, substituting Mathias Tauber. However, he made no more than five league appearances for Lyngby in the 2011/2012 season. Despite the fact that Lyngby dropped to Denmark 1st Division, Poulsen did not leave the club in the summer transfer window and it has to be noted that he made 30 appearances for the Vikings in the 2012/2013 campaign. On 4 July, 2013 he signed a deal with Leipzig and he has been playing for the German outfit ever since. The 193-cm-tall attacker is capable of playing as both right and left winger. Poulsen's father is Tanzanian, but he decided to represent the Danish national team. He made his debut for the senior team against Albania on 11 October, 2014. Poulsen scored his first ever goal for Denmark in a 2-0 win over Serbia on June 13, 2015.


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A botched rescue strands Alex the lion and his companions in Africa. Sadly, Alex discovers he has little in common with the locals, having lived for so long in the city. His friends, meanwhile, begin to doubt they'll make it back to the zoo.
Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Alec Baldwin, Sherri Shepherd
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Children & Family, Family Animation, Family Adventures, Family Comedies
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Parents need to know that this sequel to the popular animated movie Madagascar will likely please all ages. But there are some mild sexual allusions (Gloria the hippo flirts with a brawny male hippo who likes her figure and isn't shy about saying so) and cartoonish violence (sequences include a plane crash, a handbag-packing grandma, and hunters wielding guns). There's also come crude/potty humor to watch out for, and an upsetting scene early on in which a young Alex is separated from his father against his will.
A hippo flirts strongly with another hippo, who tells her several times how much he likes her body. Some additional mild romance.
A few scenes may be a little disturbing for younger kids. There's a jarring plane crash that puts characters in peril, but no one is seriously hurt. An old lady gets into a physical fight with a lion, and the lion has no compunctions about hitting her back (both take some hard hits but come out OK). The same woman fights with other lions later. Guns are trained on animals, and there's a power struggle between two leaders on the savannah. A lion rite of passage involves a fight for dominance. Animals, including a main character, are shown in what are called "dying holes" when they are sick. One main character almost ends up in a volcanoful of hot lava (and another minor one eventually takes the plunge). A young Alex is separated from his father against his will in a scene that could be upsetting for some kids.
"Stupid" and "butt" are as salty as it gets.
Lessons in being loyal to your friends dominate the plot. There's some crude/potty humor along the way (spitting, nose picking, etc.).
Mentions of an iPod and the New York Zoo, as well as references to being famous and catering to one's audience. And, of course, the movie itself is tied into a lot of merchandise and other marketing initiatives.


Robbery: Seeking Suspect | WeTip, Inc.
At approximately 2:15AM on Sunday, April 9, an armed robbery occurred at the Casey's convenience store on Main Street in Branson. An undetermined amount of money was taken, but no injuries were reported. The suspect is a thin, white male, wearing dark pants and a black hoodie with a turquoise print on the hood and shoulders with white "Nike" tennis shoes. The suspect was armed with a handgun which was concealed up the suspect's right sleeve with the only the barrel exposed. The suspect was last seen fleeing east from the scene on foot.


By allowing the federal government to negotiate with drug makers, Medicare and its beneficiaries could save an estimated $2.8 billion in a single year for the top 20 most commonly prescribed medicines, according to a new analysis by Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
In crunching the numbers, the committee staff found that other government agencies that are permitted to negotiate with drug companies — such as the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense — were able to secure pricing that rose at "significantly lower rates" than wholesale prices for the most widely prescribed brand-name drugs in Medicare Part D.
It's time for the Federal Government to negotiate with drug makers. Get Medicare coasts down Save Medicare!
1) The mechanism by which Medicare would bring down prices is monopsony power, which inefficiently / artificially reduces prices (given its's one concentrated buyer, rather than many) relative to the value of the treatment. That has serious incentive effects, not for the drugs already on the market today, but for the next treatment to reach the market. As other countries engage in this practice already, it's important to understand that they do so because they can piggyback off of a really large, wealthy nation (the U.S.) who to date has been willing to pay a market price. Turn off that spigot, and in equilibrium less risk capital will flow towards innovation in health care (and instead will go towards other industries).
2) This tangibly results in real, definable, winners and losers. Winners in that taxpayers save money on drugs available today. Losers in that underserved patient populations (e.g., Hep C before Solvadi showed up) continue to suffer. The greatest privilege, after all, is being free from a fatal / unmet health condition.
Both points you discussed are what you typically hear out there but they are simply untenable.
First of all, yes, other (OECD) countries pay significantly less for the same drug compared to what the US is paying. Price negotiations, often even based on cost-effectiveness outcomes, and re-importation of drugs are instruments to increase price pressures on manufacturers in (for them) economically interesting markets. Guess what, both does not happen in the US, since PhRMA lobbied themselves out of it for years.
And what tells you that other countries are "piggybacking" off of the US? There is no reason to believe that, if prices in the US decrease, prices in other countries would increase (and vice versa). Your claim is completely without merit. The pharmaceutical industry currently spends between 3% and 20% (depending on who reports it) on R&D. At least twice as much is put into marketing and ads. The US is one of two or three countries in the world, where direct-to-consumer ads are allowed. Maybe this should be changed first, so that less money is wasted? Not even talking about the dubiousness of direct-to-consumer ads..
Secondly, to refute your second point I will come back to my first point. Take a look at the fractions spent on R&D versus marketing/advertising and tell me again there is no money available for research.
Your line of arguments are completely based on emotions ("the US is the piggybank of the world", "underserved patient populations continue to suffer", etc.), but either you don't know better or if you know better it's completely bogus.


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Virtual 24 Hours of Le Mans 2020: TV channel, live stream, schedule for online endurance race
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The postponement of the 88th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans has paved the way for the first-ever running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual. For those who simply can't wait for the world's most prestigious sports car endurance race in September and need their fix in the traditional mid-June window, the ACO, FIA WEC and Motorsport Games have delivered.
The creation of the 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual was announced in May as a means to fill the sports car racing void left by the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which was rescheduled for Sept. 19-20.
"Since the Le Mans Esports Series was launched two years ago, it's been very satisfying to see it double in size and visibility year on year," said Gérard Neveu, the CEO of FIA WEC. "That highlighted to us the huge appetite among the esports community for endurance racing and access to the jewel in the crown of the discipline, the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
"This 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual event is unique in very many ways, not least that it is not part of LMES, but a stand-alone event."
The virtual 24 Hours of Le Mans will play out on the rFactor 2 platform, an online racing simulation that allows for driver changes, dynamic weather, dynamic day/night transitions and multi-class racing — all of the elements that make the actual 24 Hours of Le Mans such a unique race. And yes, many of the drivers who will compete in the real 24 Hours of Le Mans in September will race in the virtual event.
Below is all you need to know about the 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual, including the TV schedule, live stream info and the list of drivers and teams scheduled to compete remotely from around the world.
Virtual 24 Hours of Le Mans TV channel, schedule
TV channel (U.S.): ESPN2
TV channels (Canada): Velocity | REV TV Canada
ESPN2 will broadcast the 24 Hours of Le Mans virtual in the United States, but the network will not show the entire race. It instead will show 12 of the 24 hours, cutting in and out of coverage. (The entire race will be available to stream on ESPN's platforms.)
ESPN2's coverage will begin Saturday, June 13 at 8:30 a.m. ET with pre-race coverage before the green flag at 9 a.m. ET. That coverage will run through noon ET before a three-hour break and another window of coverage from 3-5 p.m. ET. Sunday's coverage on ESPN2 will begin at 3 a.m. ET and run through the end of the race at 9 a.m. ET.
Below is the complete TV schedule for the 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual on ESPN2:
Date Time TV channel
Sat., June 13 8:30 a.m. ET - noon ET ESPN2
Sat., June 13 3-5 p.m. ET ESPN2
Sun., June 14 3-9:15 a.m. ET ESPN2
In Canada, both Velocity and REV TV Canada will broadcast all 24 hours of the race.
Virtual 24 Hours of Le Mans live stream
In addition to the YouTube live stream above, there are multiple live stream options available for the 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual, including a global presentation on Motorsport.TV.
Anybody who has a cable or satellite subscription can stream the 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual live via the ESPN app or Watch ESPN on mobile devices. This should be the preferred route for a viewer who has such a subscription but isn't able to get in front of his or her TV.
For those who don't have a cable or satellite subscription, there are five major OTT TV streaming options that carry ESPN2 — Sling, Hulu, YouTubeTV, fuboTV and AT&T Now. Of the five, Hulu, YouTubeTV and fuboTV offer free trial options.
Below are links to each.
Hulu (free trial)
YouTubeTV (free trial)
fuboTV (free trial)
AT&T Now
Virtual 24 Hours of Le Mans entry list: Drivers & teams
The entry list for the 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual features 50 cars. The selection of the drivers was not linked to the selection for the real 24 Hours of Le Mans. The virtual race instead brings together the best of real racing teams and esports squads.
Each team line up consists of four drivers, and each must contain at least two professional drivers with an international FIA license or equivalent. The other two drivers can be either sim racers or professional drivers.
There are only two classes of cars (LMP and GTE) in the virtual race as opposed to the customary four in the real race. There is one LMP model (based on the ORECA 07 LMP2) and four GTE models (Aston Martin Vantage, Corvette C.7R, Ferrari 488 GTE and Porsche 911 RSR).
Below is the full entry list for the 24 Hours of Le Mans virtual, complete with lists of all four drivers who will compete for each team.
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Virtual 24 Hours of Le Mans rules, format
Below is a general overview of the rules and format for the 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual as set by the ACO, FIA WEC and Motorsport Games.
The event will be run on the rFactor 2 platform which offers driver changes, dynamic weather, dynamic day/night transitions and multi-class racing (LMP and GTE)
Damage will affect a car but can be repaired in a pit stop; car will be driveable but may not perform as well as at the start
Full simulation includes the use of fuel and tires
Teams will work to create their own setups to optimize performance
Each team must contain at least two professional drivers with an international FIA license or equivalent
Minimum race time per driver will be 4 hours
Maximum race time per driver will be 7 hours
Teams are be selected by a committee from the organizers
Drivers may not drive more than 3 hours within a 5-hour period
Drivers may not compete in more than one car
Available on the 24 Hours of Le Mans site is a complete breakdown of the rules and format for the virtual race, including details on entries, qualifying, communication and competition.
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As was already announced October last year, Tobias and Sabrina Buholzer have opened their new workplace, restaurant Die Rose. Now they can once again woo their guests with every trick in the book at the 400-year-old timbered house in the village centre.
We can't wait for an evening of culinary delicacies and begin with a glass of the house rosé from Provence. The "bits and bites" five-course menu is offered for a very reasonable 95 francs.
If you still have room after the set menu, you should definitely enjoy the specialties from the cheese or chocolate cars- the latter being the only one in Switzerland. The finest, homemade chocolate creations, from chocolate tarts to chocolate terrines. A paradise!
We are served four different homemade breads right away, and a different complimentary bite from the kitchen before each course, perfectly whetting our appetite for the next dish. The first of the bits comes shortly after, made of a smoked charr with potato jelly, salmon confit, and sour cream.
There are two options for the main course. I decide on the "Mustica Poulet" from Wendelin Biohof, where the chickens spend all day in open fields and are fed 100% organic food. The meat is very aromatic and tender.
I want to give a special mention to the porcino spaghetti with the homemade Noix Gras, a vegetarian and one of the only morally acceptable variants of foie gras. Even the dessert is animal-friendly, a honeybee made of honey brittle with honey ice cream, mascarpone, and blossom droplets. A true piece of art!
And those who, instead of the set menu, would prefer specialties from Ticino and Lombardy shouldn't pass up a visit to the adjacent Taverna Rosa with its cosy terrace.
As usual at the Buholzers', we spent a first-class culinary evening at Die Rose, full of geniality and incredible delicacies with the best regional produce. Definitely worth experiencing!


Home Criteria Congratulations to all the competitors at the Arnold!
Congratulations to all the competitors at the Arnold!
Cash prize winners, you will be receiving an email shortly concerning the payout process (via ACH for U.S. lifters and Paypal for International Lifters). For those drug tested at the event, your payouts will be after the drug test results are back from the lab.
Thank you again for making 2018 an outstanding event!


It is often said by the supporters of these centres that where they have been established in other countries no individual has actually died in a drug consumption room. That might be so, but the lack of such deaths is not the high-water mark of success for drug treatment services. The rise in addict deaths in Scotland and in England shows that we need to do much more by way of engaging drug users in services. Doing more should entail taking services to drug users themselves wherever they are living and wherever they are using illegal drugs. Setting up a city-centre location where people can use illegal drugs under some level of legal protection betrays a worrying lack of knowledge both about Glasgow itself and about the life of an addict. Glasgow is a territorial city par excellence and there are addicts who cross into different parts of the city at their genuine peril. Similarly, when addicts secure the drugs they so desperately need their first thought is not 'How do I travel to a city-centre location where I may use these drugs without fear of prosecution?' but 'Where is the needle that will enable me to inject now?' It is for both of those reasons that we should be talking about how to take services to the addicts rather than how to get the addicts to go to the services.
Glasgow's addiction services have been slow to adopt a focus on recovery, and even to date they are unable to report how many drug users they have treated have managed to overcome their addiction – this despite having a strategy which for the last ten years has emphasised the importance of enabling drug users to become drug-free. That strategy is now being reviewed by the Scottish Government with the real risk that the commitment to abstinence-based recovery will be diluted in preference to the much woollier goal of seeking to reduce the harm associated with addicts' continued drug use.
Within Scotland we spend more than £100million a year on drug treatment. We should be asking why our services seem to be achieving so little in terms of getting addicts into long-term recovery and why, in the face of that failure, public officials are seeking to promote centres where illegal drug use can take place without fear of prosecution. Injecting on the streets is a terrible reality but the response to that problem should not be the provision of a centre where injecting can occur beyond public view, but actively to discourage injecting at all.
The reason we need to be doing much more to discourage drug injecting is because the substances addicts are injecting are often manufactured, stored, and transported in dreadfully unhygienic conditions with the result that they often contain serious and potentially fatal bacterial contaminants. These drugs do not become safe when they are used in a drug consumption room, but remain harmful wherever they are injected. We need to do all we can to discourage drug use, to discourage injecting, and to ensure that as many addicts as possible are in contact with services focused on assisting their recovery. We need to be very wary of developing initiatives that run the real risk of normalising illegal drug use and driving a possible further increase in the number of people using illegal drugs.
Director of the Centre for Drug Misuse Research in Glasgow and former Government drug policy advisor.


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Rich and multi-dimensional city, Singapore is where your passions can truly come alive.
For more tourist information, head to www.visitsingapore.com
Merlion Park
You've probably seen images of Singapore's national icon, the mythical Merlion with the head of a lion and the body of a fish.
The body symbolises Singapore's humble beginnings as a fishing village when it was called Temasek, meaning 'sea town' in Old Javanese. Its head represents Singapore's original name, Singapura, or 'lion city' in Malay.
Today, you can glimpse this legend at Merlion Park. Spouting water from its mouth, the Merlion statue stands tall at 8.6 metres and weighs 70 tonnes. This icon is a 'must-see' for tourists visiting Singapore, similar to other significant landmarks around the world.
The lush and beautiful Gardens by the Bay is dominated by the sleekly sculptured biodomes—marvels of architecture, design and engineering.
It's hard to miss the sprawling 101-hectare lot right by the water in Marina Bay. Two huge futuristic structures rise out of the greenery at Gardens by the Bay, which was designed with environmental sustainability in mind.
These are the Flower Dome and the Cloud Forest cooled conservatories, the world's largest columnless greenhouse. The freestanding unsupported glass roofs enclose expansive spaces unmarred by any pillar or column. Besides ultra-modern design, the conservatories also use cutting-edge technologies for better energy efficiency.
A testament to Singapore's reputation as a City in a Garden, the Botanic Gardens is the country's first UNESCO Heritage Site, joining the ranks of iconic landmarks such as Cambodia's Angkor Wat and The Great Wall of China.
Established in 1859 by the Agri-Horticultural Society, 60 acres of land were transformed from a disused plantation into the popular recreational garden you see today.
As well as being a favourite recreation venue for jogging, dining or just lazing about, the sprawling grounds are also a leading centre for botanical and horticultural research.
The award-winning Singapore Changi Airport offers visitors a variety of attractions spread across its four terminals. Singapore's main airport is an experience not to be missed, as it is consistently ranked as one of the best in the world. Whether you're stopping by on a layover, or jetting in or out of Singapore, there's always something to do at all hours, within its four terminals.
Come 2019, travellers and local residents will have plenty more to look forward to with the opening of Jewel Changi Airport (Jewel), a 10-storey lifestyle destination located in the heart of Changi Airport. Nestled at the topmost level (Level 5) is Canopy Park, a 14,000 square-metre world-class attraction, featuring unique offerings such as play attractions, gardens, walking trails and dining outlets in air-conditioned comfort.
Taking the centre stage are three first-of-its-kind play attractions – Sky Nets, Canopy Mazes and Discovery Slides – which have been specifically designed by world-renowned consultants to blend into Jewel's unique indoor garden environment.
Take in the region's newest and largest museum of modern Singapore and Southeast Asian art housed within two of Singapore's awe-inspiring national monuments. The latest jewel in Singapore's art crown, the National Gallery Singapore is a visual arts institution housing an unparalleled collection of modern Singapore and Southeast Asian art. Dedicated to curating a collection that will provide insights into the unique art, heritage and history of the region, this is a must-visit destination in Singapore.
The Gallery showcases more than 8,000 pieces from Singapore's National Collection, making it one of the world's largest and most invaluable public collections of Singapore and Southeast Asian modern art from the 19th century to the present day. The focus of the National Gallery Singapore is to provide a unique experience of art and to inspire international appreciation of our rich history and heritage.


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Palestinian leader promises better future as Israel destroys settlement
RAFAH, Gaza Strip – Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas promised freedom, jobs and homes for the people of Gaza once Israel completes its pullout. Hours before he spoke Friday at Gaza's abandoned airport, an Israeli bulldozer demolished the first Jewish settlement, clearing land for Palestinian development.In the settlement of Gadid, Israeli troops expelled the last settlers holed up in a synagogue, crashing through a flaming barricade of cars, wooden planks and garbage bins. Then, Israel suspended evicting settlers for the Jewish Sabbath, having evacuated 87 percent of Gaza's settlers in just 2 1/2 days. All but four settlements were vacant.Smiling and waving to a cheering crowd at the closed Gaza International Airport, Abbas said Israel's departure was bringing "historic days of joy" to the Palestinians.In his first major speech since Israel began pulling out on Monday, he promised that the airport, whose runways were destroyed by Israel in fighting in 2000, would again become a gateway for Palestinians – though that will require Israel's blessing.Abbas also pledged the Palestinian Authority would rebuild homes demolished by Israel during the past five years of conflict. He promised to reserve 5 percent of government jobs for the disabled, mainly war wounded.He told the crowd that Israel was quitting Gaza because of Palestinian "sacrifices" and "patience," and he promised the withdrawal would lead to further pullouts from the West Bank and Jerusalem.Earlier, hundreds of Palestinians from the town of Rafah offered prayers of thanks in sandy open ground within sight of two deserted settlements, celebrating the coming return of land – captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war – that became home to 8,500 Jewish settlers."We won, so we came to thank God for our victory," said Abdel Raouf Barbar, an official of Abbas's Fatah party. With parliamentary elections scheduled in January, the party is competing with the Islamic group Hamas to claim credit for the Israeli withdrawal.On Friday, two Hamas militants were wounded when an explosive device they were carrying accidentally blew up before they could plant it near the evacuated Kfar Darom settlement, Palestinian officials said.The extent of their injuries was unknown, said the security officials, who cannot be identified because they are not authorized to speak to the media. The militants apparently wanted to target Israeli troops still guarding the emptied settlement to bolster Hamas claims of having driven the Israelis from Gaza.A bulldozer crushed flimsy caravan homes in the first demolition of an abandoned Jewish settlement, and the army prepared to complete the anguishing task of uprooting the last Israelis from Gaza next week before moving on to evacuations in the West Bank.In quiet consultations with the United States and the Palestinians, Israel decided to demolish the private homes – many of them single-family villas – and to leave most public buildings intact. Palestinians, who plan high-rise housing units in place of the villas, will be able to use the construction rubble to build a seaport and other projects.The first demolition was at Kerem Atzmona, an illegal outpost within view of the Mediterranean. The massive shovel of a yellow excavator flattened about 20 homes with just a few blows to each. Cranes lifted bomb shelters – concrete boxes with thick metal doors – onto a flatbed truck to be hauled away and recycled.In Gadid, the 17th of Gaza's 21 settlements to be evacuated, protesters set up a flaming barricade at the gate when the army arrived shortly after dawn. They hurled stones and paint-filled light bulbs toward the troops. A military bulldozer cleared the burning debris, and forces quickly fanned through the settlement.Troops rounded up holdouts who climbed on the roofs of homes and shouted insults. Protesters taking refuge in the synagogue agreed not to resist with force. Police moved into the building and carried sobbing protesters away into waiting buses.The last four settlements were expected to be emptied by Tuesday, allowing the military to turn its attention midweek to the northern West Bank, the heart of biblical Israel for religious Jews and where authorities expect even more impassioned resistance than in Gaza.Since Wednesday when the forced evictions began, security forces detained nearly 950 protesters. On Friday, 245 were still in jail in the southern Israeli town of Beersheva, police said.Yet most of the operation was unexpectedly swift and smooth, amid scenes of pathos and despair as people were forced to abandon homes and farms they lived in for as long as 30 years.Violent resistance to the pullout peaked on Thursday when protesters – mostly ultra-nationalists from outside Gaza – made a last stand in the synagogues of Neve Dekalim and Kfar Darom and defied orders to leave.Dozens of police and army were injured by caustic liquid – apparently paint thinner – or by exploding light bulbs filled with paint and other objects hurled at them from protesters on the roof at Kfar Darom. About 20 demonstrators were injured.Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the settlers' former patron who became the architect of the Gaza pullout, said the violence infuriated him.Sharon had said he was reduced to tears watching images of settlers losing their homes. But after seeing what happened at Kfar Darom, he told the Haaretz daily "my mood altered and the pain turned to rage."In another interview, with the Yediot Ahronot newspaper, Sharon said he has no plans to uproot any more Jewish settlements in the near future. He said peacemaking would be based on the U.S.-backed "road map" peace plan, which calls for a negotiated settlement with the Palestinians.Vail – Colorado
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Former top Ashcroft aide takes the fifth on trial related to Abramoff
"Hey buddy boy, I hope I look as dapper as you when I get put in prison for crimes against humanity."
A top aide to former Attorney General John Ashcroft claimed his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination Thursday in a trial related to the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.
David Ayers, who was Ashcroft's chief of staff at the Justice Department during the Bush administration, refused to answer questions under oath about tickets he received from Abramoff's firm and any favors he may have granted for the firm's clients.
Ayers was called as a defense witness in the corruption trial of Abramoff deputy Kevin Ring.
Ring faces charges that he illegally influenced federal officials by providing them with expensive meals, drinks and tickets to concerts and sporting events.
Prosecutors say Ayers helped Ring get Justice Department funding for one of his clients, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, to build a $16.3 million jail on their reservation.
Prosecutors say Ring, with Abramoff signing off, then gave Ayers highly sought-after tickets to the 2002 NCAA March Madness college basketball tournament in Washington.


Sleep apnea is a common condition that many people have to deal with. In many cases the sleep apnea is mild and requires no intervention. There are many sleep apnea causes and many sleep apnea remedies to help you or your doctor make a sleep apnea diagnosis. In severe cases it is best to consult your health care provider as sleep apnea can be very dangerous, and in some cases deadly.
Sleep apnea is a disorder in which the person has periods of interrupted breathing while asleep. The person often has an obstructed airway that causes these periods of not breathing. There are many other causes of sleep apnea. Some of these causes cannot be helped, but there are some causes of sleep apnea that can helped by certain sleep apnea remedies. Without surgery however, there are no sleep apnea cures per say. There are sleep apnea remedies that can alleviate the symptoms of the disorder.
Before a sleep apnea diagnosis can be made there are some home sleep apnea remedies you should try first. People with sleep apnea should sleep on their sides instead of their backs. This puts less pressure on the airway and may help the person be able to breathe better while asleep. Another thing to try at home is to go to bed at the same time every night. Studies have shown that a consistent bed time and sleeping pattern helps alleviate the symptoms in some sufferers. Another one of the causes of sleep apnea is cigarette smoking. Along with a multitude of detrimental effects, smoking makes overall breathing more difficult and this can be manifested in sleep apnea.
If these home remedies do not work then it is time to see your health care professional so they can make an official sleep apnea diagnosis. Once the diagnosis is made, your doctor will try many treatments for a sleep apnea cure. He will suggest that you try all the remedies that you can do at home. Then he may order a sleep study so he or she can get a first hand look at how you sleep. If he or she determines that the problem is severe they may have you try some devices to help keep your airway open during sleep. One of these devices is called a nose strip. They are easy to use; they are just adhesive strips that keep the nose open to promote better breathing. The next step is to send you home with what is called a CPAP machine. This device sends light air pressure to the airway to keep it open. While cumbersome and difficult to get used to but in most cases can be a so called sleep apnea cure.
If none of these remedies work, as a last resort your doctor will evaluate the need for surgery to keep your airway open and allow you to breathe during sleep. This is an extreme step but for some it is the only thing left to give them relief.


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More: Blaze released an EP in 2000 which didn't sell well. Blaze left Psychopathic because he wasn't makin the money he felt he should've been. He came back eventually after thinking about what he was missing out on... the juggalo family. So, Blaze jumped on the FreekShow and Bizzar Bizaar tours which helped up his CD sales. In 2001, Blaze released the "1 Less G In Tha Hood" LP which was a big hit with the Juggalos. Blaze hit up the Mirror/rorriM tour with ABK and then left soon after to work on ABK's album "Hatchet Warrior". After that was released Blaze did his own tours and even headlined a few of his own shows. In summer of 2003 thought Blaze left Psychopathic because his heart wasn't in the same place. Whether he comes back or not we'll just have to wait and see, until then we have tons of memories to remember his presence by.


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The Controversial Use of Canine Cops | Speeders beware the Ticket Man
Most of us love dogs, and if not dogs specifically, then animals in general. In fact, I have noticed over the last several years a growing trend towards animal advocacy. Years ago it was rare, if ever, that you heard of a "no-kill" shelter. Stray dogs and cats were simply picked up by animal control and then dropped off at local animal shelters. If that pet was not claimed or adopted, euthanasia was imminent. It is a sad fact, but true nonetheless. Then we started hearing more and more about spay/neuter campaigns. For those who found the cost of spaying or neutering to be prohibitive, clinics started cropping up through the help of shelters, veterinarian offices began offering reduced fees, and animal advocacy groups started implementing and/or supporting these procedures being offered for free or at reduced costs. Frequent commercials and billboards touting the importance of spaying or neutering your pet began to become commonplace. This was also the case with advertisements from animal activists imploring you to choose the adoption of strays over purchasing pets that are a specific breed from breeders.
I have an affinity for animals, so I agree for the most part that when choosing a pet, adoption is a great idea. It is this type of common care and concern that we have for animals that makes a recent story reported by the media so terribly tragic. On May 27, 2015, Hialeah police officer Nelson Enriquez finished up a long shift before returning to his home in Davie around 11 a.m. This is not that unusual until you learn that Enriquez had been a K-9 officer for seven years, yet he somehow managed to leave his two K-9 partners, Jimmy (a bloodhound) and Hektor (a Belgian Malinois), in his unmarked SUV for more than six hours. When he returned to his vehicle, he found both dogs had succumbed to the intense heat that built up inside of the vehicle. Why, with all of his experience and training, this occurred has yet to be determined, but it is a tragedy nonetheless. Maybe, in his exhausted state, he thought that he had brought the dogs into the house with him, only to realize his error several hours later. In reading about Officer Enriquez, it is difficult to imagine that he intentionally harmed these dogs which were reportedly also his family pets.
I would be hard-pressed to believe that a seemingly dedicated canine handler knowingly committed this heinous act. The reason, however, is still under investigation. The remains of the dogs were sent to Orlando for a necropsy to confirm the suspected manner of death. As with any fallen officer, a memorial service was held for these K-9 cops. These particular police dogs were held in high regard by the Hialeah Police Department, so much so that this memorial service was one befitting any police officer. This type of treatment of canine police officers, the recognizing them as members of the police force with which they work, is a relatively new occurrence. The use of dogs to assist law enforcement, however, has been around at least since the medieval period in Europe with the first documented use being in St. Malo, France. Here in the United States, the first known K-9 unit was developed by the U.S. Army during the Second Seminole War which occurred in Florida from 1835-1842. It wasn't until much later that canines were systematically used in the military and police forces.
Initially it was the German shepherd that was selected for use, particularly for protection because of their incredible bite force, loyalty, and intelligence. Many people stereotype German shepherds because historically they have been used in negative situations such as in Nazi prison camps, and they are frequently used to quell riots. Although they are often viewed as "attack dogs", they are usually loyal and loving pets who strive to please their handlers/owners. This is another characteristic that makes them a popular choice for canine cops. The German shepherd may be the image that comes to mind when thinking about police dogs, but these day there are several breeds that are used by the military and at all levels of law enforcement including local, state, and federal agencies. These breeds include Belgian Malinois like Hektor, which are used by the Secret Service to patrol the White House and its grounds; bloodhounds like Jimmy to search for missing persons; and even beagles which are often used to sniff out contraband in airports because they look much less threatening than some other K-9 cops.
Some additional breeds that are in use are the American Pitbull, Doberman pinschers, Dutch shepherds, and Labrador retrievers. These dogs are used for a variety of purposes such as the detection of drugs or bombs, search and rescue, cadaver discovery, and most notably, protection. In fact, police dogs often fulfill the role of a human partner by providing back-up and protection of his human partner. (It is a common practice to employ the use of male dogs as police dogs.) It is amazing to watch these dogs in action, as long as you are not on the receiving end of their abilities. Unfortunately, there is considerable controversy about their use here in the U.S. and in Canada. As I mentioned, many people perceive these dogs as attack dogs and many others question the accuracy of their ability to accurate detect drugs and those who are carrying or have been handling drugs.
Part of the concern is inconsistent training and the lack of a general standard. An additional consideration is how the results of alerts are gauged. These dogs are used to "establish probable cause" to effect an arrest or justify a drug search. When a dog alerts, he is often trained to sit and look to his handler for further instruction. If a dog alerts in the presence of a suspect or suspect's vehicle, the law deems this to be "probable cause." One particular court case, Florida v. Harris, called in to question the validity of the use of a dog's response as probable cause to search a vehicle. One way in which Florida v. Harris did so was by providing very compelling evidence that questioned the accuracy of the police dog's "hits". The method by which the canine officer, Aldo, was trained was closely examined. Aldo's handler, Officer Wheetley, testified that he would take small amounts of marijuana and hide them in various vehicles in a junkyard. When Aldo would alert correctly, Wheetley would document these events. What was addressed in this case was that the officer had no data to show what percentage of "misses" Aldo may have complied. Without that data, it is impossible to calculate Aldo's statistical accuracy.
Unfortunately for those who are interested in protecting their Fourth Amendment rights, after several years of court battles, the Supreme Court finally addressed the probable cause issue. They determined that 'the totality of the circumstances" combined with the dog's alert establishes probable cause for the search. This provides the loophole needed by Florida law enforcement to be able to continue to use K-9s to search vehicles that they stop for other reasons. When Officer Wheetley stopped Mr. Harris, he became suspicious because of Mr. Harris's actions. It was for this reason that he released Aldo to sniff around the vehicle. This is just one strong illustration as to why it is so important to remain calm and polite if you are pulled over for a traffic violation.
Whether you agree or disagree with the accuracy and use of canine police dogs, the Supreme Court has seen fit to allow their continued use. Whether or not this impinges upon the Fourth Amendment is debatable. If you happen to get pulled over by a canine handler who releases his K-9 to conduct a scent search, remember to remain cooperative. If you receive a traffic violation or if you are found to have an illegal substance in your vehicle, you will need a good traffic ticket attorney, so give us a call at 954-967-9888. There are methods to successfully fight charges brought about by a K-9 search.
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Posted on April 1, 2008 April 26, 2016 by Ian O'Neill
NASA to Burn Sponsor Logos into the Surface of Mars
NOTE: This was the Universe Today's contribution to April Fools Day (April 1st), but it isn't all a joke… International efforts in space are being seriously hindered by budget cuts, forcing agencies to think up alternative methods to raise money. The following article could be a possibility…
In an effort to raise additional funds, NASA has announced new partnerships with corporate sponsors. It is becoming increasingly difficult for government-backed space agencies to support the vast range of missions currently exploring the solar system, so urgent measures are being taken. Planetary missions in particular, such as the Mars Exploration Rover project, have fallen on tough times. As already demonstrated by research groups in the UK, funds from private companies are essential for survival and some weird and wonderful methods to capture public interest have already been exploited.
Now it is the perfect time for the biggest marketing stunt yet: tattoo Mars with corporate logos for orbiting spacecraft and ground-based telescopes to observe…
With millions of dollars being injected into the commercial space market, companies such as Virgin Galactic, Astrium and XCOR are all beginning to dominate the fledgling space flight industry. Where government space agencies such as NASA and ESA have spearheaded technological advancement, the void left behind is slowly being filled by space tourism companies all competing for short trips into space and, eventually, tours to the Moon with the prospect of Mars in a few decades time.
But what about all the robotic missions exploring the solar system now? Who pays for them? Well, that is up to government funding and initiatives. As recently highlighted by the UK's £80 million ($160 million) research budget shortfall, and the attempt to cut $4 million from the NASA Mars rovers, there appears to be international pressure on government-funded groups to think "out of the box" where money is concerned. After all, scientific research (on the whole) is not political, but scientific funding is.
So, in an unprecedented move, UK astronomers carried out an unorthodox measure and transmitted Doritos ads into space to help fund the beleaguered Jodrell Bank Telescope in Cheshire currently under threat from closure due to funding cuts. This might sound silly, but the undisclosed advertising revenue was much needed.
Although there is a slim-to-no-chance of aliens picking up the interstellar ad, NASA was obviously paying attention. Today, the space agency has announced an offbeat plan of their own: to burn sponsor logos into the surface of Mars. It's not quite as reckless as it sounds, but existing technology on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) will be used to etch sponsor logos into the top layers of the Martian regolith. The stunt is expected to have minimal effect on the planet, as winds and dust storms will erase the ads within a couple of sols (Martian days).
"Just think, 3 years ago, we wouldn't have the optical capabilities to spot an advertisement from orbit. But now, with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and its ability to resolve objects as small as half a meter, we'll be able to see our sponsors ads clearly etched into the Martian surface." – Dr. Francis Rae, NASA Outreach Spokeswoman.
The MRO has a laser-ranging instrument on board that usually takes highly accurate measurements of landscape features. Scientists have modified the laser to emit a higher powered beam so small areas of Martian regolith can be fused together. It is expected to use the surplus power available from the ultra-efficient solar panels on the satellite. After a few orbits, corporate logos and other ads may be constructed, creating logos spanning small 5×5 meter areas of Mars plains and crater bottoms. Of course, the logos created will be crude, and will only be available in shades of red, but the marketing and psychological impact will be huge. It is hoped the advertising revenue will follow suit.
This is only for starters. If all goes well, huge areas of the surface may be used, possibly allowing Earth-observable logos. Doritos, famed with the UK's ad transmission into space, has already backed NASA's plans and fully intends to support any marketing campaign carried out by the robotic explorers. An excerpt from a Pepsi Co, Inc. statement reads, "…the Doritos snack division of our corporation is always looking for new and novel ways to promote our products, branding an alien planet with our logo will not only be historic, it will revolutionize product marketing." They add at the bottom of the press release, "Besides, it will be very cool." An artists impression of a huge Doritos logo next to a crater observed by the MRO (HiRISE instrument) has also been released (pictured).
Other Mars missions are now being evaluated for their potential marketing skills, and an obvious mission that comes to mind are the Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. Easier than tattooing the planet from orbit, the rovers could quickly create tire tracks into shapes that can be observed from space.
When asked whether the Phoenix lander had any such capability, Rae commented, "I really wish we'd thought that through better." The lander will only be able to dig crude shapes into the regolith should it be called into fund-raising action. It seems doubtful that sponsors would be interested in this mission which is arriving at the Red Planet in May.
This leads to the question: Will a NASA mission be measured more for its revenue building ability, or for its scientific merit? "I doubt it will come to that, we're not a private enterprise, science is our priority," Rae added.
Other marketing tools are at mission planners' fingertips. Some fun options include:
Physically moving rocks around the Martian landscape by future advanced rovers to assemble messages, take photos and send them back to Earth – the ultimate personal postcard message!
The future of terraforming the planet could include growing lichen in the shape of sponsor logos (imagine how much Pizza Hut would pay to have the very first life on Mars growing in the shape of their hut logo!)
Send a personal item on a Mars-bound mission and get the lander to place it on the planet, take a photo and pay for the pleasure of seeing something you own in the Martian dirt! Just don't expect it back… (An orbital version has already been done by Bigalow Aerospace…)
Source: NASA Press Release
CategoriesMars, Missions, NASA
40 Replies to "NASA to Burn Sponsor Logos into the Surface of Mars"
MrBill says:
Leanna Stead says:
I saw this headline and sat there stunned… then I remembered today's date.
Happy April Fool's Day!
Istvan Fulop says:
Thanks for this story 🙂 Stunned me for minutes 🙂
Martin Watts says:
Happy April 1st
Michael Maniaci says:
Fight Club anyone?
"When deep space exploration ramps up,
it'll be the corporations that name everything.
The IBM Stellar Sphere.
The Microsoft Galaxy.
The Planet Starbucks."
belinda birdleg says:
Great Ian,
as a fan of your reports I like each of them.
This one is another example in a long row of scientific excellent writer cradftsmanship.
The idea is so brilliant.
Will they also find a way to make it light emitting ?
Lets say bake with that laser a fluorescent crystal with the ad ?
I love these fiction reports.
Matthew Ota says:
Ha ha happy April Fools Day. Nice joke
I don't know what's more impressive… that he wrote it, or that it's one of the longer articles I've seen ><
Happy April fool's day
Ian O'Neill says:
I think the joke was revealed too soon, spoil sports! I agree with Steve, would have been good if it lasted a little longer without people blowing the lid off the story. Oh well, good try 🙂 Hehe, thanks Francis Rae for your invaluable statement in the story, muchly appreciated 😉
Cheers, Ian
PS. I actually think advertising on Mars would be an interesting idea… lets see if NASA is listening…
Oxoman says:
Thats a lot of effort just for an April fools joke.
I don't understand why everyone thinks it's a joke. Our own planet has been nothing but a billboard for aliens for quite some time. What do you think crop circles are?
think of all the dorito cults about chip eating aliens that'll spawn 5,000 years from now. there lives are in your hands!!
I think we should duplicate some of the crop circle designs seen in England, so that when the Martians come out of their houses in the morning, they'll know we're on to them!
RL says:
Arrgh. You got me. And I woke up this morning with every intention not to fall for this kind of thing.
Uh…this is an April Fools joke, right?
Al Hall says:
Well that's great.., but when will NASA and the rest of the world start focusing on more serious topics? Like the eradication of DHMO, for example. Dihydrogen Monoxide kills thousands of people every year. In fact, in the year 2004 alone, at least 300,000 people died from this deadly chemical compound. Get the word out! We must get this killer substance banned and keep it off of our planet once and for all!!
Dark Gnat says:
The sad thing is, I can see this happening in a couple of decades.
Still, good one!
tsk tsk to all those that actually said "haha, happy April fools day". The real enjoyment would have come from the idiot that would have responded with: "we need to prevent this at all costs to preserve the Martian environment!"
Fabio Knopf says:
Sayadina says:
I heard that Kraft is hoping to build a cheese theme park on the moon. And isn't the Mars candy company planning something big for their Milkyway bar?
Terragen says:
Thank GOD its April Fools Day! I was about to lose my breakfast all over the place!!
But yes I wont be surprised to see things like this in the future; people tend to give in to the most absurd things for advertisers. I hate marketing and advertising in all its forms.
Aw, man, I was all ready to rant about this one!! You got me!
Fraser Cain says:
Francis Rae is an anagram, if you didn't already catch that.
Gerald says:
Okay, this is clearly an April Fools joke (and I hope NASA is NOT listening!).
However, I've been wondering about the TV and billboard ads I've seen recently, suggesting that a beer company will be projecting "moonvertising" on the full moon using green lasers.
Somebody please tell me that, too, is a joke.
Emission Nebula says:
Ha ha *sarcasm*. Having read all this my hopes were getting high. Actual advertisement on Mars wouldve been like saying that actual human Mars exploration wouldve been possible sooner than later. But lo and behold, I forgot what day it was.
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/03/25/nasa-u-turn-over-mars-rover-funding/#comment-16428
Yahoo needs an idea-man like you Ian!
Helio Huet says:
That was a good one, Fraser. Thanks. My eyes are watering, as if from an Onion.
RobbiNewman says:
No joke….just wait.
PHWilson says:
Cute, I mean really, Happy April's Fool to you also. BUT, don't forget how soon sky-writing became a commercial industry that helped fund aviation.
You look up, just after the sun sets, you see Marry Me Bertha! glaring as ionized gas in NEO. How hard to design a "smoker" satellite with retros configured for complex manuvering?
My bet is we see such within 25 years, or less, maybe much less. Hopefully they design an eraser for the biggest chalkboard ever.
Godmaster says:
I'm glad it's April Fool's Day because that would be a horrible idea! Disfiguring some clean planet's environment with ugly logos that no one finds appealing…I don't think nearly enough people would be looking on the surface of Mars for it to be worth it for the company anyway.
This arrived in my inbox on April 2nd…
Brian Sheen says:
For all of those who missed the "unmissable" the BBC broadcast an excellant film of Peguins flying to South America for their holidays. The film was so realistic that many people were fooled.
Prospero says:
Nice try, Frazer *lol*
LukeG says:
I had actually heard they were going to put the Nike tick symbol on the moon.
What a bunch of Lunatics!
Glenn Harbison says:
I think it's an obscene move. We are such a self-consumed race of people that we should imprint
symbols of our own disease of consumerism on such
places as our neighbor, Mars….. amazing.
Syral says:
Wow. This one really had me worked up, heh a real scare.
I know it was a joke, but does anyone else feel that there is something very inherently wrong with marking other planets with brand names (one of the lowest common denominators of our culture)?
The idea is not very far fetched. International business certainly has the money to be big players in space exploration, and might indeed prove an attractive last resort for underfunded government projects.
But imagine the history books in the decades after. Michael Maniaci's quoting of Fight Club is a good example of what it might sound like:
Alphonso Richardson says:
That's one surreal April Fool's gag
Chuck Lam says:
The guys who are serious about tattooing the Moon or Mars must be on drugs.
I was about [ ] this close to believing the article (ok I believed it).
I was thinking to myself "Yeah, great. Aliens come to the Solar System, make a pitstop at Mars and find Doritos, Pepsi, etc. logos. Why don't they burn images of Einstein, Newton and Darwin into Mars?" And then the April Fools thing comes up. Dammit!
How to Get Six Pack Fast says:
Hey, nice tips. I'll buy a glass of beer to that man from that chat who told me to go to your blog 🙂
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