A woman has filed suit against her employer, one of her co-workers and a doctor after she says she was forced to undress in front of her co-worker while being examined at a doctor's office following a work-related injury.
Breeann Hedger claims she was working as an oiler for defendant Alberici on July 23, 2009, at defendant Ameren's plant in Coffeen when she fell on wooden mats.
Because of injuries Hedger sustained during her fall, Alberici instructed her to seek medical examination and treatment at defendant Midwest Occupational Medicine in Wood River, according to the complaint filed July 21 in Madison County Circuit Court.
Chuck Smick, safety officer for Alberici, accompanied Hedger to the doctor at Alberici's orders, the suit states. Once Hedger and Smick arrived at the doctor's office, Smick accompanied Hedger into an examination room where defendant Dr. Brian Ruiz examined Hedger, the complaint says.
"That while in the presence of Brian Ruiz and Chuck Smick, Plaintiff was ordered to disrobe in their presence, over Plaintiff's protest," the suit states. "That Brian Ruiz made no attempt to insure (sic) the privacy of the Plaintiff and made no attempt to exclude Chuck Smick from witnessing Plaintiff disrobe."
Throughout the exam and while Hedger undressed, Smick watched her, she claims.
"That as a result of the disrobing and medical examination of the Plaintiff, which was conducted without privacy and in the presence of Chuck Smick, the Plaintiff sustained humiliation, shame, privacy violations, a visual sexual assault, and severe emotional distress," the complaint says.
In addition, because of her fall, Hedger suffered severe and permanent injuries; experienced pain, suffering, permanent disfigurement and disability; and lost wages, according to the complaint. She also claims she sustained an impaired earning capacity and incurred medical costs.
Hedger alleges negligence against Ameren, saying she had previously complained about gaps between the wooden floor mats that caused her fall, but the company did nothing to correct the condition.
The remaining defendants -- Alberici, Smick, Ruiz, Midwest Occupational Medicine and Midwest President George Dirkers -- allegedly invaded Hedger's privacy, intentionally inflicted emotional distress, participated in a visual sexual assault and caused a tortuous interference with Hedger's patient-physician privilege of confidentiality, according to the complaint.
In her seven-count suit, Hedger is seeking a judgment of more than $50,000, plus costs and pre- and post-judgment interest.
John P. Kujawski of Kujawski and Associates in O'Fallon will be representing her.
Madison County Circuit Court case number: 10-L-764.


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Q: XStream doesn't support custom converter cross-delegation? It appears to me that the Java XStream library does not support cross-delegation.  Am I correct in this belief?
So, I can explain what I mean, consider the following example:
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Let's say we have a converter for "node-type-x" nodes and another converter for "node-type-y" nodes.  The functionality I would like to see in XStream would be sometype of delegate() method which I could call within the node-type-x converter that would identify nested node-type-y nodes and delegate unmarshalling to the converter for such nodes and return the result so that the node-type-x converter can process the result as needed.  As it stands, XStream seems to require that the converter for "node-type-x" handle processing of all children of such nodes.

A: Two simple ways to do this:

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*Register your node-type-y converter with the XStream instance, and inside your node-type-x converter, call marshallingContext.convertAnother(object).

*Don't register your converter with the XStream instance, and inside your node-type-x converter, call marshallingContext.convertAnother(object, converter), passing it the converter you'd like to use for the "y" that you passed it.

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Crelan: The whole is greater
than the sum of its parts
Crelan: The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
For many years, the financial body Crelan has been a sponsor of various athletes and sports teams. To highlight this, we were asked to underline how this fits in with the bank's DNA and philosophy.
In concrete terms, the campaign has to contribute to increased awareness of the brand and increase the "Crelan and Sport" brand attribution within the fan and sports community. It must also pay attention to young people, appeal to an urban target group and increase the reach in French-speaking Belgium.
And finally, it should propagate the Crelan values and positioning:
Crelan as a challenger
the cooperative idea behind the bank
the proximity and the human touch (extended office network).
WAVE took "Banking differently together" (Samen anders bankieren) – the bank's motto and slogan – as the starting point. In other words, the team is always greater than the sum of its parts. This fits perfectly with the cooperative nature of the bank and the team spirit of athletes.
The baseline is supported with headlines that start from "together" and in this way we strengthen the image while giving extra meaning and impact to the baseline.
In addition to the copywriting, we also play the "cooperative / working together as one team" card. Literally. We created "clone" images in which athletes do not clone themselves but are split into different teammates. The first wave features the Borlée brothers and the Belgian Cats. Other sportsmen and women will be added later, as the campaign rolls out through the year.
In addition to 3 main videos, the campaign consists of various digital and print assets such as: GIFs, posters, window stickers, brochures and video for the internal office circuit.
The campaign is live from April 20.
Let's meet at the WAVE bar!
We are a big fan of having a chat over a coffee, a gin or beer.
Meet us at the Cimorné
© 2018 WAVE. All rights reserved.

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Kola Beach
Good 2020 news from Africa
Someone says "Leap year, baleful year" and this 2020, at the moment, is confirming these popular beliefs. At Kola Beach We are used to work in a holiday atmosphere, with happy and carefree people, who enjoy days between the beach, swimming pool and ocean, drinking a cocktail and eating fresh fish every day. Those who experience this type of holiday want to be surrounded by smiling, trained and friendly staff. Obviously we can all have problems, thoughts and worries that can turn off our smiles and blur the light of our eyes. But we are uncompromising that part of our professionalism lies in leaving problems outside the gates of our workplace and transmitting, with verbal and non-verbal language, all the serenity we are capable of. It takes a certain positivity, attitude and training to see the glass half full, however difficult this year is really making it.
Santiago, the protagonist of Hemingway's The Old Man And The Sea, used to say
"Anyone can be a fisherman in May"
highlighting the fact that true attitudes are seen when things are not going as well as they should go and in the midst of difficulties.
We'll remember this 2020 forever, that's sure! But despite everything is overshadowed during a global pandemic like the one we are experiencing, not only disasters and tragedies are happening in these first months of 2020. Turning points and good news that few of us know and that can distract us from the monothematic news of these days are happening too. Here are some small examples that, despite the enormous necessary importance to be given to Covid 19, can tear us a smile, a "WOW" making us understand that the World and life go on and we must not let them escape distracted by the lockdowns and all those measures of prevention that will also make us win this new challenge.
KENYA'S FIRST GREEN BOND STARTS TRADING ON THE BOURSE
On 13th Jan 2020, Kenya's first green bond was listed for trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange offering investors the chance to put money into an environmentally-friendly fixed income security for the first time in the bourse's 65 year history, as written by reuters.com.
This capital will be raised for projects in renewable energy, energy efficiency, green transport and waste-water treatment.
The following week, the green bond was also listed on the London Stock Exchange which is a first also to have a Kenyan shilling bond listed in the United Kingdom.
Not bad for a bareful year, isn't it?
KENYAN FARMERS FIND SWEET SPOT WITH NUTRITIOUS, DROUGHT-HARDY CROP
Meru Friends Sacco, a savings and credit cooperative, run this reality in Maua town. It was born to help people access nutritional food in a region where crops are routinely destroyed by drought.
They found a crop that would fight malnutrition issues, boost climate resilience in the area.
The farmers chose sweet potatoes because they are known for being rich in Vitamin A and essential minerals, therefore the hot, dry weather is ideal for the sweet potato.
Before they joined the project, farmers used to rely on brokers who bought their produce at "throw-away prices", said Martin Munene, agriculture director for Meru County. Now they sell directly to the factory for 50 Kenyan shillings per kilogram, double what they got before.
RARE WHITE RHINO BORN IN KENYA
On realisation that all rhinos were on the brink of extinction, conservation efforts were stepped up and coordinated across multiple countries.
This is what saved the Southern White Rhino. From an isolated population in South Africa of not more than 50, the Southern White Rhino has recovered to 20,000 ranging across the region.
Najib Balala, confirmed the birth of the white rhino calf at the Meru National Park.
HOW MANY NEW BIRTHS THERE WERE IN KENYA TODAY?
Now it's 12.08pm and from midnight 2339 kenyan families are celebrating the arrival of a new born.
According with countrymeters.info, Kenya welcomed 500,014 new born this year.
MADAGASCAR CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY WITH MASSIVE TREE-PLANTING
The country is the world's most biodiverse island and it plans to keep it that way.
To celebrate its 60th birthday, the Government challenged its citizens: plant one million trees for every year Madagascar has beed a formal nation.
Beautiful things happen every day. must be seen. should be appreciated. must be enhanced. They must be held tight for moments like the ones we are experiencing today to give us something solid to hold on to for strength and move forward.
In Kola beach, Covid-19 has no Space!!!
Get a sneak view of our rates and offers. For more information contact us on 0721586544/0717022653!
Travellers' Choice 2020


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Inside David Guetta's Incredible Top 100 DJs Winner's Set
Guetta presents his vision of the future of DJing in performance of original and remixed material...
Alternative Top 100 DJs 2020 results revealed tonight
Using data from Top 100 DJs voters and house/techno Beatport purchases, we present the Alternative Top 100 DJs 2020
The results for 2020's Top 100 DJs poll have been announced
Kerri Chandler wins Lifetime Achievement Award in DJ Mag Top 100 DJs poll 2020
With a career spanning almost 30 years, Chandler is one of the most respected names in the game
DJ Mag Top 100 DJs 2020 results revealed tonight
Find out the results of our annual public vote to uncover the world's most popular DJs
Printworks London responds to rejection of Cultural Recovery Fund assistance
Depot and The Drumsheds were also unsuccessful in their applications
Top 100 DJs Awards 2020 date announced
This year's DJ Mag Top 100 DJs and DJ Mag Alternative Top 100 DJs, powered by Beatport will be announced across the weekend of 7th & 8th November 2020
Alison Wonderland shares live mash-up tutorial in 'How To DJ For Beginners' YouTube series
The Australian DJ/producer explores different elements of mixing in episode three
Beastie Boys' 'Sabotage' used in advert for Joe Biden campaign
The group have given rare approval for their music to be used in an advertising campaign
UK government to examine the impact of streaming on music industry
The new enquiry is called Economics of Music Streaming


Most would think that ice hockey is the most popular winter sport in existence but there are those that will disagree with this. The assumption of popularity is based on the fact that there are so many professional ice hockey teams. The significant coverage of this sport in the media also plays a role in this assumption.
There are many that question why ice hockey is not more popular in the United States. Experts have come up with some reasons for this. In this country, hockey is overridden in popularity by the NFL, the MLB, and the NBA. It is perceived that one of the reasons why hockey is not king in the USA is because it is not a winter sport that the players generally excel in. Those in the spotlight in the US leagues are usually from Canada or Europe.
In Canada, ice hockey is the number one winter sport. It is enjoyed both on professional and amateur levels. When it comes to participation, it is only superseded by those who play golf. Some attribute the popularity of ice hockey in Canada to the fact the game was created in this country.
Canada and the US are not the only countries that greatly enjoy the game of ice hockey. It is a winter sport that is highly appreciated in many other parts of the world. Overall, ice hockey is considered to be the third most popular sports throughout the world. It is estimated that it has about 2 billion fans. Other countries where it is quite popular are those in Europe and Asia.
Playing ice hockey on an amateur level is also extremely popular especially in Canada. There are many bush leagues and kids leagues that entice participants to enjoy the game.
Ice hockey is a great game on any level and one that is certainly well known and popular.


Journeying to St. Kitts and exploring the island's many attractions is your first act in supporting our tourism industry. For those who have a passion for getting involved and helping, St. Kitts offers a number of volunteering opportunities.
As tourism grows, sustainable development is an important priority for the island. The Heart of St. Kitts Foundation is a program that builds awareness around sustainability priorities and provides funding for local projects that develop community-driven tourism, preserve local culture and heritage as well as land and marine conservation.
Visitors have the opportunity to get involved with initiatives such as the Rail to Trail project, restoring and converting St. Kitts old sugar railway into a hiking and biking trail to visitors to explore.
With 78km of precious coastline, Heart of St. Kitts hosts regular beach clean-ups and awareness building activities around the impacts of litter on coastal ecosystems, the economy, and community pride.
Through support from local business and visitors to the island, the Heart of St. Kitts Foundation aims to inspire locals and visitors as stewards of St. Kitts' environment, culture and lasting legacy.


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using namespace yas;
using namespace yas::proc;

track_event_type proc::to_track_event_type(observing::map::event_type const &map_type) {
    switch (map_type) {
        case observing::map::event_type::any:
            return track_event_type::any;
        case observing::map::event_type::inserted:
            return track_event_type::inserted;
        case observing::map::event_type::replaced:
            return track_event_type::replaced;
        case observing::map::event_type::erased:
            return track_event_type::erased;
    }
}

proc::track_module_set_map_t proc::copy_module_sets(track_module_set_map_t const &src_modules) {
    track_module_set_map_t result;
    for (auto const &pair : src_modules) {
        result.emplace(pair.first, pair.second->copy());
    }
    return result;
}


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Red Bull's impending Honda deal means Toro Rosso has been virtually playing a test role for the parent team's 2019 season - but that doesn't mean it has ceased concurrent chassis developments. With the end of the season in sight, you could forgive a midfield team like Toro Rosso for giving up on improving its current car and instead be focusing entirely on 2019. However, its STR13 has remained a sort of mobile laboratory as it, Honda and Red Bull have laid down the foundations for what they hope will be a good challenge in years to come. On the engine front, Honda has not hesitated in using Toro Rosso's car as a test bench this year – which has helped it accelerate...
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The Innovation That Has Helped Toro Rosso's Top Speed
Toro Rosso has never been a team afraid to do something different, and the Italian Grand Prix highlighted a design lead that has helped its straightline speed performance. Like sister team Red Bull, Toro Rosso has been well aware that the power deficit it suffers means it has to do all it can with its wings to try to help boost its straightline speed performance. While it did not go as aggressive as Red Bull in terms of the levels of downforce it ran at Monza, the team again opted for a unique DRS design element that has played a key part in helping keep it in the fight this year. The DRS pod actuator (arrowed) is different to other...
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Island in the Sky Overlook, Canyonlands National Park (photo courtesy Visit Utah)
Saving Our National Parks Could Save Us, Too
Love for national parks is one of the few things that unites most Americans. Even the bitterly partisan U.S. Senate recently agreed on a resolution designating the week of April 16 through April 24, 2022, as "National Park Week," by unanimous consent. One bipartisan Senate resolution isn't going to fix all of the challenges national parks are facing today, but our mutual love for national parks could help us come together on at least one divisive issue impacting our parks: climate change.
According to a recent Pew Research Center report on climate change, "partisan affiliation remains the dominant divide in views of climate and energy issues, with Republicans and Democrats staking out competing visions for the country's energy future."
While the aforementioned Pew report found that more than 70% of Americans believe climate change is an issue and should be addressed, it also found that we are far from agreement on how it should be addressed. But, recent polling by the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) suggests Americans could come together over climate change policy if it's centered on protecting national parks from further impacts.
The poll found a bipartisan majority of 84% see national parks as part of the solution to address climate change and 83%, regardless of political affiliation, would be more likely to support a representative who supported a bill to reduce the impact of climate change on U.S. national parks.
Canyonlands National Park (photo by Tom Till, courtesy Visit Utah)
"It was interesting to see how much of a unifying force national parks can be on the topic of climate change," says Erica Parker, Managing Director of The Harris Poll, which conducted the NPCA poll, in a recent statement. "Americans, both Democrats and Republicans alike, clearly see the adverse effect climate change is having on the national parks and that connection compels them to support climate change solutions."
Theresa Pierno, President and CEO for NPCA says, "This poll shows national parks unite us and offer solutions for addressing it. With visitation to our parks at an all-time high, Americans are seeing the impacts firsthand with parks burning, flooding, melting and eroding. We all agree. We cannot and must not wait."
And the time to come together on climate change was yesterday. A new UN report on climate change indicates that harmful carbon emissions from 2010-2019 have never been higher in human history. The report concluded that the world is on a "fast track" to disaster, with scientists arguing that it's "now or never" to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. That's the proverbial tipping point that could lead to "cascading and irreversible climate effects," says UN chief António Guterres, such as "unprecedented heatwaves, terrifying storms, widespread water shortages and the extinction of a million species of plants and animals."
"Climate change is the most serious problem our national parks face, wreaking havoc on so many things we love," says Pierno.
We are already seeing how climate change can impact the delicate environments, ecosystems and resources protected by the boundaries of our national parks. Peer-reviewed science from the NPS Climate Change Response Program has found that human-caused climate change has exposed the US national park area to more severe increases in heat and aridity (that means higher temperatures and less rain) than the rest of the country as a whole.
Lake Powell, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (courtesy Visit Utah)
Scientific research in national parks has identified numerous changes attributed primarily to human-caused climate change, including:
Doubling of the area burned by wildfire across the western US, including Yosemite National Park
Melting of glaciers in Glacier Bay National Park
A doubling of tree mortality across the western US, including Sequoia National Park
A loss of bird species from Death Valley National Park
A shift of trees onto tundra in Noatak National Preserve
Sea level rise of 17 inches near the Statue of Liberty National Monument
Decline of the flow of the Colorado River (which runs through Arches National Park, Canyonlands, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Grand Canyon and Lake Mead), along with drought, reducing Lake Mead and Lake Powell to their lowest levels
According to that same 2020 report, "adaptation measures can strengthen ecosystem integrity. Yet, reducing greenhouse gas emissions from human activities is the only solution that prevents the pollution that causes climate change. Energy conservation and efficiency improvements, renewable energy, public transit and other actions could lower projected heating by two-thirds, reducing risks to our national parks."
Southern Utah's 16th annual Amazing Earthfest 2022 is hosting an event highlighting climate change's effect on national parks, calling it "the greatest threat the national parks have ever faced." Registration is required to attend this and other Amazing Earthfest events.
Learn more about National Park Week on the NPS website and what you need to know to make the most of National Park Week. For more outdoor adventures, subscribe to Salt Lake magazine to receive the latest issue.
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Jeanne Guérin1744–
Jeanne Guérin
La Bazouge-du-Désert, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, FRANCE
Birth of a sister Angélique Guérin
Birth of a brother Jean-François Guérin
June 27, 1745 (Age 15 months)
Death of a maternal grandmother Perrine Degasne
Attending: Jean Guérin — son-in-law
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The French & Indian War
between 1754 and 1763 (Age 9 years)
Note: The French and Indian War is the American name for the North American theater of the Seven Years War, fought primarily between the colonies of British America and New France - http://goo.gl/SiIuNc
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Death of a father Jean Guérin
before October 16, 1774 (Age 30 years)
Death of a mother Marie Perinne Maupillé
October 16, 1774 (Age 30 years) Age: 72
Chérulière, La Bazouge-du-Désert, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, FRANCE
Note: Jean guérin, François fouillard.
Note: In 1775, there was an epidemic of unknown cause in North America (especially New England,) followed in 1775-1776 by what is described as one of the worst worldwide influenza epidemics - http://goo.gl/2Xa2kO
Note: The Thirteen American Colonies broke from the British Empire and formed the independent nation, the United States of America - http://goo.gl/kvWJnX
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between 1793 (I) and 1798 (VI) (Age 48 years)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Note: More than 4,000 Philadelphia residents died from yellow fever - http://goo.gl/4c1Pp5
1803 (XI) (Age 58 years)
Note: Napoleon Bonaparte agrees to sell 828,000 square miles of land to the United States for $15 million - http://goo.gl/yH4MPB
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Note: War of 1812 between the Americans and the British. The Creek (or Red Stick) War in Alabama had different origins, but it coincided with the war of 1812, and the U.S. treated it as a part of the larger war, with Jackson and his forces also in charge of defeating the Creeks - http://goo.gl/cu6BNB
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between October 1835 and April 1836 (Age 91 years)
Marie Perinne Maupillé
Marie Guérin
Olivier Guérin
Perrine Guérin
Pierre Guérin
Marie-Madelaine Guérin
Jean Guérin
Angélique Guérin
Jean-François Guérin
Birth: April 23, 1702 — La Bazouge-du-Désert, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne
Death: before October 16, 1774
Birth: Saint-Mars-sur-la-Futaie, Mayenne, Pays de la Loire
Death: October 16, 1774 — Chérulière, La Bazouge-du-Désert, Ille-et-Vilaine
Marriage: July 7, 1725 — La Bazouge-du-Désert, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, FRANCE
Birth: June 30, 1726 24 24 — La Bazouge-du-Désert, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne
Birth: July 18, 1727 25 25 — La Bazouge-du-Désert, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne
Birth: 1728 25 26 — La Bazouge-du-Désert, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne
Birth: March 17, 1730 27 28 — La Bazouge-du-Désert, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne
Birth: April 3, 1732 29 30 — La Bazouge-du-Désert, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne
Birth: October 2, 1736 34 34 — La Bazouge-du-Désert, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne
Birth: January 1, 1738 35 36 — La Bazouge-du-Désert, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne
Birth: November 18, 1740 38 38 — La Bazouge-du-Désert, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne
Death: December 8, 1740 — La Bazouge-du-Désert, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne
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Jeanne Guérin, daughter of Jean Guérin and Marie Perinne Maupillé, was born on March 10, 1744 in La Bazouge-du-Désert, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne.
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Roll Call: Republicans Look to Make Up Loss of House Women
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Nearly a fourth of the Republican women in the House aren't coming back next term.
And another handful could lose competitive re-elections next fall.
Twenty-two GOP women serve as representatives. Five have already announced their departures. The task for Republicans this year may be less about increasing the number of female lawmakers and more about minimizing the party's losses.
That's putting pressure on the party that's always struggled to get female candidates through expensive primaries without anything comparable to EMILY's List. Democrats have 62 female representatives.
Florida Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is retiring, as is Kansas Rep. Lynn Jenkins. Tennessee Rep. Diane Black and South Dakota Rep. Kristi Noem are running for governor in their respective states. Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn is running for the Senate.
"It doesn't appear we're going to be replacing women with women, but I'm not worried about that," said Jennifer Higgins, chairwoman of Congressional Outreach for Right NOW Women PAC, which supports female GOP candidates.
"What stands out is not quantity but quality," she said, crediting New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, the first chairwoman of recruitment at the National Republican Congressional Committee, for "pounding the pavement" to look for viable female candidates who can get through primaries.
Ask Republican strategists about viable female House recruits for next year, and the first name that consistently comes up is South Dakota Secretary of State Shantel Krebs.
As the front-runner for the GOP nomination in the at-large seat, her candidacy gives the party a rare opportunity to replace a retiring female Republican with another woman.
But of the nine GOP women running in open seats whom strategists mentioned most often, most face more competitive or crowded primaries.
State Sen. Carla Nelson entered the race for Minnesota's open 1st District seat earlier this year. She's going up against the 2014 and 2016 GOP nominee, Jim Hagedorn, who came within a point of knocking off Democratic-Farmer-Labor Rep. Tim Walz last fall. (Walz is running for governor next year.)
State House Majority Whip Carol Miller is one of several Republicans running for West Virginia's open 3rd District seat. State Rep. Yvette Herrell is running in New Mexico's open 2nd District. Former state Assemblywoman Victoria Seaman — the first Latina Republican elected to the Assembly — is running for Nevada's 3rd District. Several women are running for Ros-Lehtinen's seat in Florida's 27th District, including former Miami-Dade County School board member Raquel Regalado.
Michigan businesswoman Lena Epstein dropped down from the Senate race to run for the open 11th District. In another seat opened up by a departing male Republican, Ohio state Rep. Christina Hagan is vying for the nomination in the 16th District. Elsewhere in Ohio, Delaware County prosecutor Carol O'Brien plans to run for the 12th District seat that Rep. Pat Tiberi plans to leave by early next year.
GOP women are running as challengers too. Farmer and small business attorney Tiffany Shedd recently entered the Toss-up race in Arizona's 1st District.
Trump surrogate and soap opera star Kimberlin Brown is running in a more challenging seat, hoping to take on Democratic Rep. Raul Ruiz in California's 36th District.
Some of these women are more credible candidates than others. But it's still early. Julie Conway, executive director of VIEW PAC, which is dedicated to electing GOP women, expects even more female candidates to announce in the coming weeks in open and competitive seats.
"There is a really talented crop of women candidates this cycle, and I believe we will be adding many to the GOP conferences in the next Congress," GOP strategist Liesl Hickey said.
VIEW PAC is starting an independent expenditure arm this year to help get female recruits through primaries. Women2Women, an offshoot of the Republican Main Street Partnership, is debuting a PAC to help fund female candidates from the "governing wing" of the party. Sarah Chamberlain, Main Street's president, has spoken with EMILY's List about how to effectively fundraise to help women candidates.
GOP donor Paul Singer is expected to launch a new effort later this fall to help elect GOP women — an evolution of a similar 2014 effort.
Still not enough
Female Republicans make up the same percentage of the Senate as they do the House. But the GOP has the possibility of making net gains in that chamber, now that Maine Sen. Susan Collins is sticking around. Besides Blackburn in Tennessee, state Sen. Leah Vukmir is running for Senate in Wisconsin. Both women will face primaries.
Most of the women leaving the House are pursuing higher office.
"Diane Black is running for governor. That's how you get a woman in the White House. Noem too," said Missy Shorey, executive director of Maggie's List, a PAC that helps elect conservative women to federal office.
But GOP strategists would like to see more women running for the House.
"What's sad is that we're talking about a handful," said Chamberlain, who focuses only on female candidates who align with her group's values.
"We should say, 'Oh yeah, there's 20 of them.' And we're like, 'Oh yeah, there's one here, there's one there,'" she added.
At the beginning of this year, VIEW PAC's Conway expected there'd be more GOP women running for office. President Donald Trump's election proved candidates could run — and win — without previous political experience, and she thought more women would think they could do that too.
That hasn't yet proved to be the case on the Republican side. Conway estimates there's about the same number of GOP women running at this point as in previous cycles.
Democrats have been talking up the surge in female candidates wanting to run since Trump's election. According to EMILY's List, nearly 19,000 women have approached them about running for offices at all levels this year, compared to just over 900 women during the entire 2016 cycle.
But if Trump hasn't inspired more GOP women to run for office, his candidacy hasn't necessarily discouraged them from running either, Chamberlain said.
"We've had the same problem for years. It's nothing to do with Donald Trump," she said.
"We have to do better recruiting women," Chamberlain said, before stopping herself. "That's not true. We do recruit them — the men are more than willing to fund them — we just have to convince them they can run, and it's been a little bit difficult through the years."
Getting women to run
Some of the reasons why women don't run for office as frequently as men are practically cliches by now: They need to be asked. Fundraising is difficult, especially when men still write most of the checks. And they don't want their lives (and their children's) on display.
The timing also has to be right. John H. Sununu, chief of staff to former President George H.W. Bush, tried to get Brown, the candidate in California's 36th District, to run for Congress in the 1990s, but the actress had two young children.
Now her kids are grown.
"I'm at a position in my life right now where I'll still be that mom, I'll still run that home, I'll still be that wife, but I'm able to do more," Brown said.
Shedd, the Arizona candidate who runs a 600-acre cotton and wheat farm with her husband, has been interested in politics and policy since interning for former Rep. Jim Kolbe.
She said she never thought twice about running as a woman since she's mostly worked in male-dominated industries.
"The biggest complaint I have running for Congress is I have to wear uncomfortable shoes," Shedd said, noting she hopes she can wear her farm footwear if she comes to Congress.
"There's nothing you can't do as a woman wearing cowboy boots," she said.
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Some of us might not carry on at the theater, but is the stigma reversible?
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The stereotype that black Americans are always loud at movie theaters may actually have an explanation.
Warwick Pugh, Chief Researcher at the Washington Academy for Tracing Colored History (WATCH), recently shared his preliminary findings, which link the uncontrollable urge to shout at movie screens all the way back to the time of slavery.
The advancement of what? Riiiiiight.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has publicly endorsed this theory, but believes that it shouldn't justify the effort to curtail such behavior, especially in the company of those who are made uncomfortable by it. A spokesman for the NAACP went on to say that shouting at the screen is on a long list of other funerals planned for the coming year to follow their burial of the N-word in 2007.
Other NAACP funerals planned: du rags outdoors, pants on the ground, sizzurp and the 'stanky leg'.
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Siebenhengste-Hohgant-Höhle is a cave located in Switzerland, in the Canton of Bern north of Lake Thun, between the villages of Eriz and Habkern. The cave network formed in the Urgonian Limestone Formation (Aptian age).

The cave was first explored in 1966 by the Club Jurassien, a speleology club from La Chaux-de-Fonds in the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, when three of its 42 entrances were discovered. Explorations were later undertaken by many different regional caving clubs.

In 2019, it was the world's 12th longest cave, with a 164.5 km development. It is also the world's 26th deepest cave at 1,340 m deep.

See also
 Hohgant (F1 and K2 caves)
 Sieben Hengste
 List of longest caves

Bibliography

References

External links
 General map of the underground network
 Höhlenforschergemeinschaft Region Hoghant (Hoghant Region Cavers Community)
 Club Jurassien (in French)

Caves of Switzerland

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I think it's safe to say (as of like 5 books ago) that Marissa Meyer is one of my absolute favorite authors. If all the books of hers that I've loved weren't enough, going to her signing and seeing how amazing and down to earth she is just melted my heart. Marissa, I would gladly have you officiate my Lunar Chronicles themed wedding (for those of you who didn't hear her "FAQ's" that she answered on her tour, she not so jokingly said she would LOVE for someone to ask her this).
This book picks up not too long after everything that went down in the first book, it wasn't IMMEDIATELY following, but it wasn't years later either. Our Sentinel is now going out and about and capturing criminals left and right and our dear Nightmare still hates him. Meanwhile, Nightmare manages to royally piss Adrian off and he now has a vendetta against her. Bum bum bummmmm.
That aside, this book was really cool for a lot of reasons. We got to see more behind the scenes stuff for how the Renegades operate. The weapons and artifacts department was so freaking cool. I loved the introduction of both Callum and Snapshot.
The pace was so well set, once I got reading, I honestly couldn't stop. One little thing after another kept happening, all building up to just sheer chaos and it was honestly beautifully done.
It was also extremely cool to see some of Ace's powers in action and sort of understand exactly what the Renegades were up against when he was at the height of his power with the helmet.
Overall, I adore this book. Nova manages to irk me left and right though with her blind devotion to Ace's cause. She even had a few moments of doubt that made me want to scream at her because she so obviously fits in better with the Renegades. But I think that's a big part of the point Meyer is trying to make… none of us are completely good or bad. None of us are strictly villains or heroes. Look at Frostbite's team. Look at the Sentinel. Look at Nova. Most of us lie somewhere in the middle and that's why neither side should be in power 100%. There needs to be some rules and regulations, to an extent. But this book really managed to make that gray area a lot bigger, especially with the introduction of Agent N. GAH.
That last 50 pages was so beyond intense, I'm still processing everything that happened. All I know is that Frostbite has got to be one of the absolute worst characters (in the sense that they're just plain horrible as a person) I have ever witnessed.
I absolutely cannot wait for the next book to come out.
Where to even start with this one? Marissa Meyer yet again made me fall even more in love with her writing and her storytelling abilities. She's an absolute GODDESS when it comes to coming up with these amazing ways to tell stories.
I've always been a sucker for superhero stories, getting to see all the awesome super powers out there and the origin stories of those characters. Then you add Meyer in the mix and her usual storytelling and we've got a likeable set of *gasp* villains. It's so interesting to hear things from the "villain's" side and seeing how they view the world and the "good guys".
Nova's story began with heartbreak and it was really cool to see where she was at all that time later, how the world developed around her, and how far she's come. I loved Queen Bee and her hives, I loved Phobia and his ability to detect fears, Cyanide and his poisons/ his father-figure role, and everyone else on the Anarchists' side. The more you hear about why they feel the way they do about the Renegades and the current way of life for prodigies, and everything else, it's hard to disagree with where they're at.
The Renegades side was really interesting to see because of how broad a range of characters we get to meet. Adrian (AKA Sketch, AAKA The Sentinel) was one of my favorite main characters, I loved his superpower and everything it entailed for him and I loved how truly good he was. He's the perfect embodiment of the "good side". I loved the idea of his parents being part of the Council and being a gay couple who adopted him after his mother died. MAX. I cannot get enough of his character and his abilities, and the doors that opened for the Renegades.
From beginning to end, this book steadily progressed and I just absolutely cannot wait to see where the story goes in the next one. I loved every moment between Adrian and Nova, and I loved getting to see the insides of the Renegade headquarters alongside Nova. It was so cool to be introduced to everything as she was and learn all the information as she did. This book did such a good job introducing you to the world, the characters, and everything else and I have absolutely NOTHING bad to say about this book. I'm so stoked already for the next book.


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Planetocracy
The Future of Humanity in Space
It Is My Freesponsibility To Review 'Libra'
In the far future of 2003, the Earth is falling apart under the mismanagement of a global planned economy, suffering constant power cuts and famines – but there is hope in the stars, in the form of a libertarian Bernal Sphere called 'Libra'.
This 40 minute short film, made in 1978 by a libertarian group named World Research, was intended both to promote the ideas of rotating space habitats put forth by Gerard K. O'Neill (who served as a technical consultant) and to function as unabashed libertarian propaganda. The story follows two visitors to the eponymous space colony; a businessman considering investing in a second colony, and a senator, Mr. Gordon, representing the straw-man socialist government in charge of Earth. The visuals are fairly good for the time, and the films serves as good introduction to the technical aspect concept of large rotating habitats in space.
Libra showcases some ideas for space development, such as on orbit manufacture, pretty well. It also features a home speaker system on the colony not unlike Amazon Alexa used exclusively for shopping, although in one scene it flaty refuses to recommend a product on the basis that this is the users 'freecision' and it can only give factual information. The same scene coins the term 'freesponsibility', hence the title of this post.
The film is quite dated, not just by the ropey special effects or the 70s fashions, but also by its focus on the political obsession of the time. Earth is subject to strict energy rationing – except of course for the agency who is in control of the rationing program, whose lights remain on at all times. Libra offers a solution by providing space-based solar energy, where giant solar panels in Earth orbit convert sunlight to microwaves and beam it to receivers on Earth. These facilities would be too large to be practically launched from Earth, so manufacturing them at Libra from materials mined on the Moon is cheaper. This was how O'Neill originally envisaged paying for his rotating habitats.
Whether this business model is even possible is controversial. Elon Musk, who is heavily invested in both spaceflight and solar energy and generally considered a savvy businessman, thinks its "the stupidest thing ever". There have been suggested niche applications such as military bases or disaster sites, and perhaps the economics will shift in its favour once space resources are available to build the things, but it is far from the clear cut win that it was assumed to be by Gerard O'Neill and the makers of Libra.
The 70s was a time of fuel crises throughout the west, and the notorious three day week in the UK, which is very reminiscent of the electricity and heat rationing depicted in the film as a permanent global phenomenon. This didn't continue much beyond the time the film was made though; the US changed its relationship with Arab countries to get the supply of oil flowing again, North Sea oil helped pull the UK out of its energy crisis, and France dived into nuclear energy to protect itself from such shocks in the future.
Likewise, overpopulation and mass famine which are alluded to in the film turned out to be false alarms as well. The Green Revolution averted the worst predictions from the 60s and 70s. Essentially, the creators of Libra offered up their political ideology as the one and only solution to problems of the day which, with the benefit of hindsight, were actually temporary and fixable within the existing political system (more or less).
And Everybody Clapped
The climax of the film features a televised debate between Senator Gordon and the stations leader Dr. Baker. After the senator offers some fairly weak arguments, Baker responds with a lengthy denunciation of the planned economy of Earth, during which Gordon sits there, does not interrupt once, and looks somewhat ashamed of himself. He is stunned into silence by the force of his opponents words.
This never happens in reality, but keeps happening in a certain type of polemic fiction. I recall The West Wing being especially egregious at it. There seem to be quite a lot of people who think debates ought to play out this way, and when you get two or more of them debating on, for instance, a US cable news channel, they tend to end up screaming at each other like crazy people. Those who have bought into this fantasy can get very upset when their opponents refuse to play their assigned role in it. How dare you argue back! You are supposed to wither before my amazing arguments!
What is notable though, is that the strawman enemy that Libra constructs, while exaggerated and lacking a proper advocate in the story, does have some element of truth to it. There really were degrowthers, rationers and overbearing planners in the 1970s, and there still are today. Even if their solution were not right, the makers of Libra had some correct observations about the problems of their day. I think this is true of a lot of people's politics. A cynical take might be that the democratic landscape is dotted with terrible ideas on how to run a society, and your politics is mostly defined by which of these ideas you hate the most.
Who Turned Out The Lights?
Beginning with Paul Ehrlich's 1968 Malthusian book The Population Bomb which predicted inevitable mass famine throughout the world by the 1980s, there was a growing movement in the 1970s that thought the Earth had reached its carrying capacity and future growth was impossible. At the time Western economies had begun to falter, and the Eastern bloc had entered a deep economic stagnation from which it would never recover – so this would've been an easy thing to believe.
At around this time the Club of Rome was founded and published its famous Limits to Growth report. India and China implemented draconian population control methods late in the decade. A sense that the world economy was finite, limited and zero-sum arose at arouond the same time as environmentalism entered public consciousness (the first Earth day was celebrated in 1970) and the two ideas became entwined and mutually reinforcing. This trend continues to this day, experiencing a resurgence as the issue of climate change has become more urgent. Greta Thunberg denounces 'money and fairytales of eternal economic growth' from the podium of the United Nations, and Sir David Attenborough (patron of the population control advocacy group Population Matters) is given an enourmous platform on Netflix to espouse his view that we have pressed up against the limits of our planet and must curtail both our population and our activities to minimise the damage. This is not at all a fringe idea.
In Kim Stanley Robinson's latest book The Ministry For The Future he depicts a heroic global organisation of the same name who are required to represent the interests of future generations and thus overturn the effects of rapacious capitalism. They seem to be more or less the bad guys from Libra, but have become good guys because the author is a left-wing environmentalist. I haven't yet finished this book though; I will write a review when I have as I think its a good counterpoint to this film. The book seems explicitly anti-growth; it makes the case that existing economic output can be enough for all if evenly distributed, and makes positive mention of the 2000 Watt Society, which as its name suggests advocates energy rationing.
Libra therefore serves better as a criticism than as a positive statement these days. There is a doom-laden anti-growth trend in the modern left, which worries me being someone who is on most issues classed as left wing. Modelling yourself as the hero of an Ayn Rand novel is bad, but surely modelling yourself as the villain of an Ayn Rand novel is worse.
There really are valid concerns about growth – humanity does have a huge impact on the biosphere – but the idea that all economic growth is destructive does not hold up, because growth can be achieved by doing more with the same resources. In the 70s, the development that allowed this was not the O'Neill cylinder, nor was it libertarian politics – it was the microchip. The first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004 was released in 1971 and by the end of the decade, practical desktop microcomputers such as the Apple II and the Commodore PET were available. Driven by Moore's Law, computers were able to generate exponential economic value without requiring exponential resource inputs. Its not clear what could do the same now – biotech perhaps – but it would be premature to announce that such intensive growth is at an end.
So Libra did manage to skewer its targets fairly well, to the extent that its criticism could still be applied to their modern day ideological descendants, but it lacked the self-examination necessary to consider that there could be any solution to the problems it pointed out other than its writers' ideological and technological preference. They are hardly alone in this conceit of course; its all too common to claim ones pet policy is a matter of strict necessity rather than choice.
There is certainly a warning here for advocates of space settlement – its easy to trap oneself in wishful thinking, mentally closing business models based on incorrect assumptions because you just want things to happen. I hope that I can avoid that in my own work.
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Acqua azzurra, acqua chiara/Dieci ragazze è il sesto singolo da interprete del cantautore Lucio Battisti, pubblicato in Italia nel 1969.

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Inizialmente il singolo doveva contenere i brani in ordine inverso, in quanto Battisti e Mogol ritenevano più adatta ad essere lanciata la canzone Dieci ragazze. I due brani vennero fatti ascoltare in anteprima a Renzo Arbore, probabilmente per i preparativi preliminari della partecipazione di Battisti a una trasmissione televisiva di Arbore, Speciale per voi (avvenuta poi il 15 aprile 1969), dove Battisti doveva lanciare una delle due canzoni. Arbore, impressionato dalla bellezza di Acqua azzurra, acqua chiara convinse gli autori a lanciarla e quindi a invertire la posizione dei due brani nel singolo.

I due brani, editi in mono su singolo, apparvero per la prima volta in versione stereofonica nel luglio 1970 nella raccolta in cassetta Lucio Battisti Vol. 2, quindi alla fine dell'anno vennero inclusi nell'album Emozioni.

Acqua azzurra, acqua chiara
Con "Acqua azzurra, acqua chiara" Battisti realizza uno dei tormentoni dell'estate di quell'anno, arrivando terzo al Cantagiro 1969 con 861 voti e vincendo il Festivalbar con 343.984 preferenze, distaccando i Camaleonti, secondi classificati, di quasi 50.000 voti.
Sempre nel 1969 Rino Gionchetta incide una cover del brano (Junior, JR 0045).
È citata nel manga di One Piece di Eiichiro Oda, mentre Rufy e Usopp bevono dell'acqua da delle botti.
Nel 1973 Paola Orlandi incide la sua cover per la raccolta Piccola storia della Canzone Italiana (RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, 0205-0206).
Nel 1997 la Formula 3 incide una cover per l'album La Formula 3 a Sarabanda (NAR, NAR 2075-4).
Nel 2009 la cantante Svetlana Černych realizza una cover in russo dal titolo Дорогой мой долгожданный (Dorogoj moj dolgoždannyj) inserita nell'album Čerhnych poët Battisti.

Dieci ragazze

Il brano, dal ritmo veloce e accattivante, raggiunse rapidamente una notevole popolarità e ancora oggi gode di una certa notorietà nel repertorio di Battisti.

Il testo della canzone ha come protagonista un uomo che, non ricambiato dalla donna che ama, cerca di dimenticarla per smettere di soffrire, circondandosi di "dieci ragazze" e rivolgendosi epicureamente all'amore solo come atto fisico e non come sentimento. Ma alla fine, anche se ha una ragazza per il giorno e una per la notte, disposte a fare di tutto per lui, è costretto ad ammettere che muore per il suo grande amore che purtroppo non può avere.

Come analizzato da Gianfranco Manfredi nel suo saggio del 1979, la frase «labbra rosse sulle quali morire» è un riferimento al sesso orale; l'uso del verbo "morire" per significare l'orgasmo maschile si ritrova anche in altri testi scritti da Mogol in quel periodo (su tutti Il tempo di morire e Dio mio no), e rientra nel rapporto tra l'orgasmo e la morte, un tema ricorrente della sua poetica.

Copertina
Per la copertina del singolo è stato utilizzato uno scatto dalle sessioni fotografiche per l'LP precedente Lucio Battisti.

Hit parade
 Il singolo raggiunse il quarto posto della classifica italiana. Fu il 19º singolo più venduto del 1969

Tracce
Tutti i brani sono di Battisti - Mogol.

Lato A

Lato B

Musicisti
Tra i musicisti che hanno suonato nel disco, oltre ad alcuni collaboratori abituali di Battisti come Alberto Radius, Franz Di Cioccio o Damiano Dattoli, si segnala in Acqua azzurra, acqua chiara la sezione fiati del gruppo canadese Chriss & The Stroke, che in quel periodo come molti altri gruppi beat soggiornava in Italia incidendo per la Durium (Ricordi); gli arrangiamenti e la direzione d'orchestra sono invece curati da Detto Mariano.

 Lucio Battisti: voce, chitarra, tamburello e cori
 Franco Mussida: chitarra acustica
 Andrea Sacchi: chitarra elettrica
 Alberto Radius: chitarra elettrica
 Franz Di Cioccio: batteria
 Damiano Dattoli: basso
 Alberto Baldan Bembo: organo
 Flavio Premoli: pianoforte
 Chriss & The Stroke: fiati in Acqua azzurra, acqua chiara; in particolare:
 Rocky Ferrari: trombone
 Tom Sheret: sax alto
 Andy Kirk: sax baritono, tromba
 Enzo Perruzza: sax baritono
 I Musical: cori
 4+4 di Nora Orlandi: cori

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Voci correlate
Chiare, fresche e dolci acque

Collegamenti esterni

 La pagina della Discoteca di Stato sul 45 giri

Brani musicali vincitori del Festivalbar


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The Seychelles Islands celebrate the annual "Endless Summer" roadshow in CIS region
The Seychelles Tourism Board appeared in full flare for the third edition of its annual "Endless Summer with The Seychelles Islands" events, which took place in Astana and Almaty (Kazakhstan) and Kiev (Ukraine) in August 2019.
The events featured interaction with key partners from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region and presentations of the destination and its partners.
The "Endless Summer" roadshow seized the city of Astana on August 26, 2019 and saw the presence of 45 companies. The events included a tropical breakfast, a presentation of the Seychelles Islands in the luxurious UNO restaurant, followed by a B2B workshop.
At the next stop, Almaty, participants had an opportunity to partake in a workshop with one-one meetings followed by a networking cocktail reception, which took place in "Afisha", a popular restaurant that was transformed into an exotic paradise, invoking the Seychelles atmosphere.
The following day, the STB team engaged with trade partners during the summer open-air festival in the Garden of VDNH Park, in Kiev, Ukraine, where the participation of 75 agents were recorded.
Taking place in a vintage orangery, the core elements of Seychelles flora blended with the rustic elements of the retro festival, namely its food trucks, scattered beanbags and fairy lights, creating a mesmerising backdrop.
The workshop and teasers were presented inside the orangery and was followed by open-air festival with lounge zones, picnic style tables and sun lounges.
The food stalls also contributed to the Seychelles Islands atmosphere with grill fish, seafood finger food, coconut ice cream, tropical smoothies and lemonades.
These successful events gave the STB team the opportunity to provide the perfect platform for local tour operators to meet the partners from Seychelles, to broaden their knowledge about the destination and discuss prospective collaboration opportunities.
This year in Astana & Almaty we saw participation from 7° South, Pure Escapes, Savoy Resort & Spa Seychelles & Coral Strand Seychelles, Fregate Island Private, Etihad Airways and Fly Dubai. Participants in Kiev included, 7° South, Pure Escapes, Fregate Island Private and Turkish Airlines.
"We are very happy to get such an opportunity to share a part of Seychelles with our dear partners from the CIS region. This region has great potential for Seychelles and our presence continues on such events with the support of the local partners will only help to penetrate the region even further" said the STB representative in Russia and CIS, Ms Olga Demina. "Year after year we record a positive growth from these important markets as Kazakhstan and Ukraine and hope that the interest in Seychelles will only keep growing".
Filed Under: Travel & Tourism Tagged With: Astana, BB, CIS, islands, partners, region, summer
Summer business soars as #WhatCoolLooksLike summer campaign delivers month after month of positive growth!
The Antigua and Barbuda Tourism Authority's summer campaign #WhatCoolLooksLike is delivering on target, as just three months into the campaign, the Ministry of Tourism is reporting month on month growth for the summer.
Minister of Tourism, Charles Fernandez has expressed satisfaction with the increases. He said: "With the launch of the campaign in May, the tremendous support from our partners, hotel openings, and new destination events on our tourism calendar like the Optimist World Championships, we are seeing double-digit increases, at a time when this is not the norm."
The latest tourism statistics released from The Ministry of Tourism show a 10% increase in total stayover air arrivals for the month of May 2019. June and July provisional figures are also reflecting double digit increases when compared to figures during the same months in 2018.
According to the provisional figures, for the year up to July, Antigua and Barbuda received a 10% increase in overall stayover air arrivals with 187,701 visitors.
"This healthy10% uptake in the summer is significant. It means that on top of the phenomenal growth we received from January to July 2018 of 171,147 visitors in comparison to the 159,764 in 2017, that the Antigua and Barbuda Tourism Authority's marketing strategy as well as other key factors, have really allowed us to steadily build arrivals, year on year", said the Tourism Minister.
The #WhatCoolLooksLike Campaign was designed to run during the destination's traditional shoulder season from May – October. With record-breaking results achieved during the summer, Antigua and Barbuda Tourism officials are proving that Antigua and Barbuda is more than a winter destination.
The Antigua and Barbuda Tourism Authority's CEO Colin C. James said, "We are changing the narrative. Antigua and Barbuda is open year round. Our partners are communicating to us, that the campaign has made a huge difference and we are seeing it not only in increased arrivals, but in the increased ABST revenue coming into the country during the summer months."
The #WhatCoolLooksLike Campaign activations within the US, UK, Caribbean and Canadian Markets spanned tv, radio, digital, social media, print, PR and outdoor.
Antigua and Barbuda adverts appeared in places like cinemas, airport lounges, on in-flight screens, outdoors, in malls, on undergrounds and at consumer shows. Campaign offers were pushed out to consumers via co-op marketing with the travel trade. Consumers also benefited from discounts on flights booked with airline partners during the campaign period, and on-island summer offers.
The US market, The UK & Europe market and the Caribbean Market continue to thrive with the markets showing growth for the year up to July 2019. The destination is also acquiring new market share, as arrivals from other countries and emerging markets have increased. Though arrivals from Canada experienced a slight decline due to a significant reduction in airlift, The ABTA CEO said, "We are combatting that with a number of activities planned in the market with airline partners."
"As we continue the campaign, the teams are working flat out on their various plans, and at this current run rate we are looking forward to a record year again in air arrivals barring no natural disasters," said the tourism official.
The Antigua and Barbuda Tourism Authority's #WhatCoolLooksLike Campaign, was recently awarded a Silver Winner, in the 2019 Travel Weekly Magellan Awards. Being selected a Magellan Award Winner is a tremendous achievement and proves winners represent a high standard of excellence within the travel industry.
ABOUT ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
Antigua (pronounced An-tee'ga) and Barbuda (Bar-byew'da) is located in the heart of the Caribbean Sea. Voted the World Travel Awards 2015, 2016 and 2017 Caribbean's Most Romantic Destination, the twin-island paradise offers visitors two uniquely distinct experiences, ideal temperatures year-round, a rich history, vibrant culture, exhilarating excursions, award-winning resorts, mouth-watering cuisine and 365 stunning pink and white-sand beaches – one for every day of the year. The largest of the Leeward Islands, Antigua comprises 108-square miles with rich history and spectacular topography that provides a variety of popular sightseeing opportunities. Nelson's Dockyard, the only remaining example of a Georgian fort a listed UNESCO World Heritage site, is perhaps the most renowned landmark. Antigua's tourism events calendar includes the prestigious Antigua Sailing Week, Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta, and the annual Antigua Carnival; known as the Caribbean's Greatest Summer Festival. Barbuda, Antigua's smaller sister island, is the ultimate celebrity hideaway. The island lies 27 miles north-east of Antigua and is just a 15-minute plane ride away. Barbuda is known for its untouched 17 mile stretch of pink sand beach and as the home of the largest Frigate Bird Sanctuary in the Western Hemisphere. Find information on Antigua & Barbuda at visitantiguabarbuda.com or follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.
Maria Blackman
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Filed Under: Travel & Tourism Tagged With: Antigua, arrivals, Barbuda, campaign, CEO, summer, summer campaign
Summer Daze Malta set for another iconic Music Festival
June 12, 2019 by PressEditor
Some of the world's biggest pop acts and DJs are locked in for the second ever edition of Summer Daze Malta. The newly expanded event will take place on August 11-17 at various venues across the idyllic Mediterranean island.
With the event in collaboration with Creamfields and BBC Radio 1 Dance, house duo The Martinez Brothers kick off proceedings on August 11 with a performance in partnership with well-known Malta clubbing brand GRINGOS.
Meanwhile the main events will take place over August 14-15 at the Ta Qali National Park – which hosted Rita Ora last year – with underground legends in the form of Paul Kalkbrenner, Loco Dice, Green Velvet, BBC Radio 1's Monki and local favorite Carl Bee all scheduled to play.
The following day sees the line-up shift towards more pop-focused acts, with the likes of David Guetta, Tyga, James Arthur, Danny Howard, Alle Farben, Tenishia and a slew of local artists all making an appearance. In collaboration with VisitMalta Events, tickets for both main events are entirely free.
The following day, Christian 'Bobo' Vieri, the former Italy international striker, will be soundtracking a sunset pool party at the Medasia beach club, while there is also a Vida Loca showcase at the island's UNO nightclub.
Summer Daze will return to UNO the following day for the closing event, with house music royalty Roger Sanchez set to headline alongside Miami-based DJ Kristen Knight, for a party in association with ZIGGY.
Building on the success of its maiden year, Summer Daze Malta has stepped things up for 2019, with a serious line-up of local and international talent set to soundtrack parties in multiple locations across the island.
Carlo Micallef, Deputy CEO & Chief Marketing Officer Malta Tourism Authority, stated: "Over the past 3 years the Mediterranean Islands of Malta and Gozo have managed to develop and grow a year round calendar of top quality events to rival any other tourism destination in Europe. Famous international artists are being attracted to Malta to join Maltese counterparts in first rate, music, cultural, contemporary arts, gastronomic and sports festivals that are a spectacle to attend and enjoy or even join in. The hot bright summer months in Malta lend themselves brilliantly to music and sea sport events of international repute and the Summer Daze Malta Festival is firmly establishing itself as a highlight in Malta's Summer."
Michelle Buttigieg, North American Representative for the Malta Tourism Authority, said: "We are excited to announce the second year of Summer Daze Malta with some of the world's biggest pop acts and DJs performing, this should be a huge draw for millennials from the US & Canada. This year the festival will attract even more North American Tourists."
Check https://www.visitmalta.com/en/events-archive for the full calendar of events
To find out more about Summer Daze Malta, go to: Facebook | Instagram | Website
The sunny islands of Malta, in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, are home to a most remarkable concentration of intact built heritage, including the highest density of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in any nation-state anywhere. Valletta built by the proud Knights of St. John is one of the UNESCO sites and was the European Capital of Culture for 2018. Malta's patrimony in stone ranges from the oldest free-standing stone architecture in the world, to one of the British Empire's most formidable defensive systems, and includes a rich mix of domestic, religious and military architecture from the ancient, medieval and early modern periods. With superbly sunny weather, attractive beaches, a thriving nightlife and 7,000 years of intriguing history, there is a great deal to see and do. www.visitmalta.com
Malta Tourism Authority
Michelle Buttigieg
MTA US Editorial Contact
The Bradford Group
Karen Hoffman/ Bianca Pappas
Filed Under: Travel & Tourism Tagged With: August, Events, festivals, summer, UNESCO, weather, years
Puerto Rico Tourism: Out with the old, in with the new
"Since our inception last July, we hit the ground running to accelerate the tourism economy," said Brad Dean, CEO of Discover Puerto Rico. "This brand campaign follows a strong publicity effort that set up Puerto Rico as the top place to visit in 2019 and a recently revamped website, DiscoverPuertoRico.com.
"The creative highlights our two strongest assets – our culture and our people – and will help us strengthen traveler's familiarity with what makes our Island one-of-a-kind." The campaign officially launches today across digital channels via digital banners, social, pre-roll and a follow-up TV spot that will launch in coming weeks in key markets. Additional marketing support is expected throughout the rest of 2019, to attract visitors to the Island during the summer travel season."
Discover Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico's newly-established Destination Marketing Organization (DMO), announced today the rollout of Puerto Rico's brand campaign called "Have We Met Yet?" which draws inspiration from Puerto Rico's cultural and natural offerings and at its essence, focuses on the hospitable and welcoming nature of its people. By posing the question "Have We Met Yet?" the creative re-introduces the Island to the world and brings to life the exotic yet familiar essence of Puerto Rico. As the U.S. mainland's "neighbor to the south," the new campaign showcases through Puerto Rico's iconic doors how the Island welcomes visitors with open arms.
Following extensive research that showed that Puerto Rico's brand identity was neutral in the minds of travelers, this new campaign is this next phase of Discover Puerto Rico's brand repositioning process, enabling the Island to fully capitalize on its rich tourism product offerings and emerge as a leading Caribbean destination. The creative repositions the island as that neighbor that one dreams of – with the festive flair, the ocean view, the incredible art collection, the delicious food. Puerto Rico is the neighbor you'll laugh with, celebrate with, and maybe even fall in love with.
"Puerto Rico's people, its rich culture and unparalleled natural offerings, combined with the fact that it's a U.S. territory and easily accessible, were key factors that led to this creative. We're excited to debut this brand campaign as it opens the door, literally, to endless possibilities that showcase the spirit of the Puerto Rican people and everything the Island has to offer," said Leah Chandler, CMO of Discover Puerto Rico.
Travelers exposed to the new brand campaign will be immediately drawn by the colorful vibrant doors and stunning imagery found throughout the Island. The creative highlights many aspects that make Puerto Rico a unique destination—ranging from its people, its cuisine, its festive spirit, its natural attractions, and much more.
"The campaign invites travelers to visit Puerto Rico and meet us, the neighbor that you can't live without," said Chandler. "Puerto Rico was named the #1 Place to Visit in 2019 by the New York Times and has topped over 20 other notable lists of places to visit this year," she added. "We want to send a message to all travelers that this is THE year to visit Puerto Rico. The entire island is eager to welcome them."
The creative was ideated and produced by Beautiful Destinations, with support from local production crews who traveled throughout the Island to capture the beautiful scenery, thousands of colorful doors, and welcoming faces of the Puerto Rican people.
To view the "Have We Met Yet?" creative online, visit YouTube.com/DiscoverPuertoRico and be on the lookout for additional campaign creative coming soon.
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Swiss-Belhotel brings special offers to Arabian Travel Market
Swiss-Belhotel International has created exciting packages for wholesalers and tour operators that will be launched at the Arabian Travel Market (ATM) taking place in Dubai from April 28 to May 1, 2019. Targeted at Middle East travelers, the group has put together a fabulous range of offers that will be available across its spectacular properties in New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, and Indonesia.
Laurent A. Voivenel, Senior Vice President, Operations and Development for the Middle East, Africa and India, Swiss-Belhotel International, said: "We are delighted to announce the launch of these exclusive packages that have been designed to provide unique experiences along with greater benefits and value to our Middle East partners as well as customers. We have superb properties located in some of the most sought-after destinations that attract large number of travelers from our region. With the summer holiday season around the corner, ATM presents us the ideal opportunity to launch these. Moreover, this year we are very excited about the ATM Holiday Shopper that we believe is a great addition to the show."
The Special Packages offer a diverse choice of experiences at unbeatable rates: These include the following:
Special Golf Packages in Indonesia at various destinations – Jakarta, Batam, Bandung, Bali, Tarakan, Belitung, Surabaya, Jayapura, and in Vietnam in Da Lat.
Discounted wholesale rates for hotels in New Zealand and for hotels in Australia.
Early Bird discounts in the busiest destination in Australia, the hotel in Sydney offers 15% discounts for booking within April with stays valid till August and 10% for bookings until August with stays valid all throughout the year.
In Philippines, book at Makati and get a free room upgrade; and when you book at Manila get to enjoy the amazing introductory offer including breakfast for two.
Visitors to ATM can find Swiss-Belhotel International on stand HC0825 located in Sheikh Saeed Arena in Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre.
eTN is a media partner for ATM.
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You can only use Royality Free or Copyright Free Images in your blog. People normally don't care these things while blogging because they hardly get any copyright violation notice but it doesn't mean that they are doing everything right. They don't get such notification because they are not popular. Have a look at any popular blog. You won't find any such images or Pictures. What does it mean?
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Home All About The Money Mr Ethical, the Integrity Initiative, and the HSBC connection
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Mr Ethical, the Integrity Initiative, and the HSBC connection
"2 Degrees of separation" – a theory whistleblower Nicholas Wilson has, that wherever in the world a financial scandal occurs HSBC is to be found nearby.
Nicholas has been campaigning for 13 years after blowing the whistle on a High Street fraud of excessive bank charges applied to store cards administered by HSBC. He has recently been vindicated by a Financial Conduct Authority ruling and HSBC have had to begin paying back some of the money defrauded from customers. He was dubbed "Mr. Ethical" by his boss at the time for refusing to defraud debtors.
In this first of several new interviews for Real Media, he connects Government funding and the security services to the recently revealed psyops outfit, Institute for Statecraft and its 'integrity initiative'.
He asks whether there might be a connection with the suspicious death of auditor Sergei Magnitsky, who was working for the Hermitage Fund there. HSBC bankrolled and jointly managed the Hermitage Fund with Bill Browder, who appears in Institute of Statecraft's documents.
Browder, convicted of tax fraud in Russia connected with the Magnitsky affair, has spent years pointing the finger at the Russians over both the killing and the disappearance of nearly quarter of a billion pounds, but a film by Andrei Nekrasov casts suspicion on Browder and HSBC. If the film is to be believed, it would make sense that Browder is involved with a shadowy group set up to counter Russian "disinformation".
Nicholas Wilson reveals the close associations between HSBC and the UK security forces, and asks whether the Foreign and Commonwealth Office should be giving public funding to the Institute of Statecraft.
More HSBC revelations at nicholaswilson.com
Andrei Nekrasov
Ark Data Centres
Institute of Statecraft
Lord Janvrin
Lord Jonathan Evans
Mr. Ethical
Nicholas Wilson
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