There are many species of mosquitoes, which can be found all around the world. The female species is responsible for the irritating bites we suffer from and these bites can also carry fatal diseases.
Read more about the lifecycles and habits of different types of mosquitoes below.
The Anopheles mosquito is responsible for transmitting malaria.
Adult – pale and dark marks on its wings and resting 45 degree angle to the surface.
Larval rest parallel to surface of the water.
Egg is about 1mm long and has floats on its sides.
Egg to adult stage takes 6 – 10 days.
Complete metamorphosis – egg, larval, pupa and adult.
Habitat – prefer clean and unpolluted water.
Biting rhythm – bite at night and rest indoor and outdoor (depends on species).
Female with one blood meal can lay 50 – 150 eggs.
The bites from an Aedes mosquito peak at the change of light intensity (after sunrise and before sunset).
Adult has black and white markings.
Larval rest 45 degree from the surface of the water.
Egg is black in colour and shape like a rugby ball.
Egg to adult stage takes 6 – 8 days.
Habitat – container breeder especially man-made containers with clean water.
Prefer darker colours like black and red.
Can fly short distance (50 – 100m).
Adult – thorax, legs and veins on the wings are always covered with brown scales. Dull in colour. The tip of the abdomen is always blunt.
Egg is brown, long and cylindrical, vertical on water surface, cemented in a raft of 300 eggs. Raft usually 3 – 4mm long and 2 – 3mm wide.
Habitat – mainly breed in polluted stagnant water and drains.
Biting rhythm – bite at night and usually rest indoor before and after the blood meal. Sometimes they may rest outdoor.
Adult midges are about 1.5 - 4.0mm long.
Lifespan of 20 to 30 days.
Egg batches contain between 30-100 eggs.
1 to 2 day larvae stage.
Lives near lakes and ponds, rivers and streams and general wetlands.
Most active at dusk and dawn.
The Dark Winged Fungus Gnat can cause damage to the root of plants.
Adult – 5 - 7mm. Grey/black bodies.
Larvae up to 5.5 mm long. White, shiny black heads and transparent.
Females lay up between 100 and 300 eggs, which hatch in 4 to 6 days.
The larvae feed for 12 to 14 days.
The pupal stage lasts about 6 days.
Adults live about 7 to 10 days.
Larvae can injure the roots of bedding plants.
They are poor fliers and can generally be seen running across plant surfaces.


The company has two divisions handling Township Development and Niche Projects respectively. It also has a hospitality division that operates Suasana Suites serviced apartments, a construction division under UMLand Builders Sdn Bhd, and an F&B division under UMLand Lifestyle Sdn Bhd.
UMLand's Township division manages five townships namely: Bandar Seri Alam (Iskandar Malaysia), Taman Seri Austin (Iskandar Malaysia), Bandar Seri Putra (Bangi, Selangor) Mahkota Hills (Semenyih, Selangor) and the upcoming world–class integrated biotech park in Pasir Gudang, Iskandar Halal Park, a joint venture initiative with Perbadanan Islam Johor Holdings (PIJH), a Johor state government arm.
UMLand's Suasana Iskandar Malaysia is the iconic residential development which comprises of a 35- storey serviced apartment tower, the very first Amari hotel in Malaysia , managed by ONYX Hospitality Group, and is complemented by Zenith Lifestyle Centre, a two-level international and specialty dining , avantgarde entertainment, premium wellness right in the middle of Johor Bahru City Centre. Medini Lakeside in Medini Iskandar Malaysia is an integrated development comprising UMCity (a mixed-use commercial development) and Viridea Lakeside (a green residential development). Meanwhile in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, Star Residences is a joint venture initiative with Symphony Life Berhad to develop an upmarket serviced residences in the center of KL City.
Incorporated in the 4th quarter of 2017, UML Lifestyle Sdn Bhd is the Food & Beverage (F&B) arm of UMLand Bhd. The subsidiary provides its support and oversees the operations of its companies – Avenue Ambience Sdn Bhd and Jjang Restaurant Sdn Bhd. UML Lifestyle Sdn Bhd is the appointed Master Franchisee for BreadTalk & Toast Box Malaysia following the joint venture with Bread Talk Pte Ltd, a Singaporean multinational food and beverage corporation.
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Guided by Voices is een Amerikaanse lo-fi indierockband uit Dayton, Ohio. De band is ontstaan in 1983 met zanger en songwriter Robert Pollard, gitarist Ed Dwyer, bassist Mitch Mitchell en drummer Kevin Fennell. Guided by Voices groeide uit tot een van de invloedrijkste indierockbands in de periode waarin alternatieve rock zijn hoogtepunt bereikte. Gedurende zijn bestaan heeft de band vele wisselingen in de bezetting doorgemaakt. Pollard was steeds de constante factor. Wat hij later de classic lineup noemde, bestond uit Pollard, gitarist Tobin Sprout, Mitchell, bassist Greg Demos en Fennell. Pollard's broer Jim (gitarist, bassist) maakte deel uit van de oorspronkelijke bezetting.

De band staat erom bekend veel werk uit te brengen, tot soms drie albums in een jaar. Veel nummers duren kort, zelden langer dan twee minuten. Guided by Voices bereikte met drie albums de Billboard 200. Isolation drills kwam op #168 terecht in 2001, Universal truths and cycles piekte op #160 in 2002 en Earthquake glue kwam in 2003 niet verder dan #193.

De naam "Guided by Voices" verwijst naar de stemmen uit het verleden van de rockmuziek waardoor Pollard zich geleid voelt bij het schrijven van muziek.

Stijl
De muziek van Guided by Voices is diverse malen vergeleken met die van R.E.M., een van de grondleggers van de alternatieve rock. De band is zelfs een R.E.M.-coverband genoemd. Pollard liet zich inspireren door progressieve rock uit de jaren 60 en British Invasion. Het viel Eric Carr van Pitchfork in zijn recensie van Earthquake glue (2003) op dat de (hard-)rockband The Who terug te horen is in Pollard's werk. De observatie dat de band door Britse rock beïnvloede muziek maakt, werd gedeeld door David Antrobus van PopMatters die in zijn recensie van hetzelfde album opmerkte dat in sommige nummers "Union Jack-draped boy-rock love" te horen is. De wijze waarop de band muziek maakt werd door Punknews.org wel vergeleken met punk: "Maybe it isn't punk rock in the traditional sense of the word, but when five guys produce an album themselves in their guitarist's basement and joke they spent more on beer than the actual recordings ... you can't say they didn't walk the walk, even if they weren't talking the talk". Jeff Bergstrom van BrooklynVegan noemde de bandleden "garage rock icons".

Gedurende de beginjaren drukte Tobin Sprout een grote stempel op de muziek van Guided by Voices. Volgens Landon MacDonald van PopMatters leidde Sprouts invloed tot betere recensies en zijn aanwezigheid tot momenten van bezinning in de aanhoudende stroom van vreemde popmuziek die Pollard produceerde. In zijn recensie van Sprouts album The universe & me (2017) schreef MacDonald dat als Guided by Voices vergeleken zou worden met The Beatles, Pollard John Lennon en Paul McCartney zou zijn en Sprout zou George Harrison zijn. Een zelfde soort vergelijking werd gemaakt op het blog Wilfully Obscure waar Sprout "de McCartney van Pollards Lennon" werd genoemd.

Belang en invloed

Guided by Voices bleek een van de invloedrijkste indierockbands in de periode waarin alternatieve rock zijn hoogtepunt bereikte. In de editie januari 1997 riep Rolling Stone de band uit tot derde beste alternatieve artiest, na Beck en Sebadoh.  Samen met Sebadoh en Pavement legde Guided by Voices het fundament voor lo-fi en hielp de band met het populariseren van deze stroming.

Na het uitbrengen van Vampire on Titus in 1993 kon de band ook Kim Deal (The Breeders, Pixies) en Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) tot zijn fans rekenen. Guided by Voices had een grote invloed op Albert Hammond jr. (The Strokes) die later de rest van zijn band enthousiast wist te krijgen. The Strokes zouden daarna zelfs optreden in het voorprogramma van Guided by Voices. Guided by Voices had een cameo in de videoclip van de single Someday, afkomstig van The Strokes' debuutalbum Is this it (2001). In een scène nemen de bands het tegen elkaar op in een fictieve aflevering van het spelprogramma Family Feud.

Do the collapse (1999) genereerde bekendheid voor de band vanwege het feit dat verschillende nummers op de soundtracks van tv-series belandden. Teenage FBI kwam terecht op Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The album hoewel het nummer in geen enkele aflevering gedraaid werd. Hold on hope werd gedraaid tijdens de aflevering My occurence van de medische dramedy Scrubs. Filmregisseur Steven Soderbergh was onder de indruk van het album. Voor de aftiteling van zijn film Full frontal (2002) gebruikte hij het nummer Do something real, afkomstig van het album Speak kindly of your volunteer fire department (1999) van Pollard en Gillard. Soderbergh schreef later het voorwoord voor het boek Guided by Voices: A brief history (2005) waarin voormalig Spin-redacteur en oud-bandlid James Greer de geschiedenis van de band tot de eerste opheffing in 2004 beschrijft.

Filantropie
Op 20 april 2015 maakte gitarist Thomas Fekete van de indierockband Surfer Blood bekend dat hij aan een zeldzame vorm van kanker leed. Dertien bands stelden elk een niet eerder uitgebracht nummer beschikbaar. De dertien lp's werden via eBay bij veiling te koop aangeboden en het geld ging naar de GoFundMe-campagne die was opgezet om de (alternatieve) behandelkosten te dekken. Guided by Voices doneerde een opname van een live-uitvoering van Motor away waarvan de studio-opname afkomstig is van het album Alien lanes (1995). Op 30 mei 2016 overleed Fekete op 27-jarige leeftijd. Later dat jaar ging Surfer Blood op tournee met Pollard.

In mei 2019 raasden er 15 tornado's over Ohio en omliggende staten waarbij enkele doden vielen. Op 4 augustus 2019 vond er een schietpartij in Dayton plaats waarbij negen doden en 27 gewonden vielen. Tijdens Heedfest, een evenement ter viering van Pollard en zijn muziek, werd onder de bezoekers geld opgehaald dat geschonken werd aan slachtoffers van beide gebeurtenissen. Ook Guided by Voices en Pollard zelf droegen bij zodat het totaal op meer dan $ 28.000 kwam.

Op 17 juli 2020 werd een van tevoren opgenomen concert ("one day world tour") gestreamd. Het concert, opgenomen in het poppodium Metro in Chicago en gestreamd via het platform NoonChorus, gold als test voor het tweede album van 2020, Mirrored Aztec, dat op 21 augustus werd uitgebracht. 20% van de baten van het concert kwam ten goede aan poppodia waar de band in de loop der jaren gespeeld heeft. De actie was bedoeld om de poppodia te helpen gedurende de coronapandemie.

Discografie

Studioalbums
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 Devil between my toes, 1987
 Sandbox, 1987
 Self-inflicted aerial nostalgia, 1989
 Same place the fly got smashed, 1990
 Propeller, 1992
 Vampire on Titus, 1993
 Bee thousand, 1994
 Alien lanes, 1995
 Under the bushes under the stars, 1996
 Tonics & twisted chasers, 1996
 Mag Earwhig!, 1997
 Do the collapse, 1999
 Isolation drills, 2001
 Universal truths and cycles, 2002
 Earthquake glue, 2003
 Half smiles of the decomposed, 2004
 Let's go eat the factory, 2011
 Class clown spots a ufo, 2012
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 The bears for lunch, 2012
 English little league, 2013
 Motivational jumpsuit, 2014
 Cool planet, 2014
 Please be honest, 2016
 August by cake, 2017
 How do you spell heaven, 2017
 Space gun, 2018
 Zeppelin over China, 2019
 Warp and woof, 2019
 Sweating the plague, 2019
 Surrender your poppy field, 2020
 Mirrored Aztec, 2020
 Styles we paid for, 2020
 Earth man blues, 2021
 It's not them. It couldn't be them. It is them!, 2021
 Crystal nuns cathedral, 2022
 Tremblers and goggles by rank, 2022
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 Televisieoptredens
 Open Mike with Mike Bullard, 1999
 Late Night with Conan O'Brien, 2000 & 2004
 Austin City Limits, 2005
 Late Show with David Letterman, 2011 & 2012
 Last Call with Carson Daly'', 2016

Literatuur

Externe links
  Officiële website
  Guided by Voices Database

Bronvermelding

Amerikaanse rockband
Indiegroep
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The 969-A/O/P/W has an internal receiver for 5.8Ghz signals from drones systems like the DJi Phantom.


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Hugo Chavez takes the gold
August 18, 2011 · 7:23 PM UTC
By Sarah Childress
Hugo Chavez salutes his people.
Credit: Juan Barreto
Looks like Hugo Chavez is already delving into his bag of pre-election tricks.
Chavez announced this week that he would nationalize the gold industry, and ordered home some 200 tons of gold the country had stored with European and American banks. The decision was taken in part, he said, because of the U.S. debt crisis and fears of instability in Europe. Chavez argued that the gold would be safer at home or with allied countries, such as China.
"I agree with bringing that home," Chavez said on state television, according to Bloomberg. "It's a healthy decision."
Chavez already has plenty of cash—Venezuela sits on the largest oil reserves in the world. But with presidential elections coming next year, Chavez may also be looking to secure other assets as he prepares for his campaign.
If things go badly at home, or countries try to impose sanctions from abroad, they wouldn't be able to touch his gold reserves. According to Bloomberg, an analysis by RBS Securities Inc. suggested the decision was part of the government's political agenda, calling it "worrisome."
It's not much of a surprise. Chavez often rails against foreign interests that he sees as interfering with Venezuela. Last year, the government seized a French-Colombian grocery-store chain he accused of illegally hiking prices.
Chavez didn't warn the only publicly-traded gold mining company in the country, Canada-based Rusoro Mining Ltd. about the decision, either. In a statement on Thursday, Rusoro said it had "no indication" that its agreement with Venezuela would change, adding that it assumed the government would focus only on curbing illegal mining activities.
The move will likely decrease transparency in accounting for the government's reserves, which could lead to further corruption in a country already plagued by graft.
A recent report by Reuters said that PDVSA, the nation's massive state-run oil company, nearly a half-billion dollars of the company's pension fund was lost after it was invested in a Ponzi scheme by a financial advisor close to Chavez. The oil company funds the bulk of Chavez's social welfare plans, from health care to arts programs, and is one of the largest oil companies in the world.
Despite the wealth of social programs, many troubles remain. The country is wracked with frequent power cuts, inflation remains high and still 29 percent of the population lives in poverty, according to the World Bank.
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Last night we dreamt of a paradise. A paradise where there was unlimited beers for us to try. Each of these beers had been lovingly created by a proud brewer, who would tell us many interesting facts about their beverage. And when we became hungry, the aroma of Ginger Pig onglet steaks and Big Apple hot dogs hit our noses and led us towards them. Mmm. Paradise. Today we were elated to discover such a place exists: The London Craft Beer Festival. A little tear rolled down our faces as we read about this celebration of flavour and discovery being held in Bethnal Green's Oval Space. And when we heard that each visitor gets their own festival tasting glass, we were in full floods of tears. Dreams do come true. Over 18s only. Valid ID required. A ticket gives you entry, a festival tasting glass, unlimited beer to try, lots of brewers, and the most exciting beer festival in London.


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Carl Eduard Schubert (* 31. Oktober 1830 in Halsbrücke; † 11. Januar 1900 in Reichenbach im Vogtland) war ein deutscher Orgelbauer.

Leben und Wirken
Nach vollendeter Schulausbildung absolvierte Schubert eine Lehre zum Tischler. Anschließend nahm er eine Tätigkeit als Tischlergeselle bei dem Orgelbaumeister Urban Kreutzbach in Borna auf, wo er auch zum Orgelbauer ausgebildet wurde. Er machte sich anschließend selbständig und richtete in Adorf/Vogtland seine Wohnung und Werkstatt ein.

Seine erste Orgel baute er für die evangelische Kirche im böhmischen Roßbach. Diese wurde im August 1860 eingeweiht. Es folgten u. a. Aufträge für die Kirchen in Greiz, Bösenbrunn, Adorf, Erlbach, Rödlitz, Herold, Wildenfels und Werda.

Mit seiner Familie zog Schubert 1868 nach Chemnitz. Während der Arbeiten für den Neubau einer großen dreimanualigen Orgel für die dortige Schlosskirche geriet er in den finanziellen Ruin, so dass 1876 seine Werkstatt und Hausrat gepfändet wurden. In der Folge verdingte sich Schubert als Wander-Orgelbauer ohne feste Bleibe. Zunächst wandte er sich nach Marienberg, um die Errichtung einer 1872 begonnenen Orgel zu beenden. Deren Fertigstellung und Einweihung erfolgte 1879.

Seine Orgeln baute er streng nach dem traditionellen Handwerk und verzichtete auf fabrikmäßig hergestellte Orgelteile und Pfeifen. Dem Zeitgeist widersprechend lehnte es Schubert ab, alte Orgeln zu modernisieren, was sich in seiner Auftragssituation niederschlug. Er selbst führte aus, dass es ihm sein Gewissen verbot, sich der Fabrikorgel zuzuwenden. Er beharrte auf der mechanischen Schleiflade. Im Laufe seines Wirkens entstanden 18 neue Orgeln. Zudem bewahrte er zahlreiche historische Instrumente vor Abriss, Verfall oder Umbau.

Zeitweise wohnte Schubert in Dresden, zuletzt lebte er in Reichenbach im Vogtland als Almosenempfänger. Im Januar 1900 beendete er sein Leben durch Suizid.

Werkliste (Auswahl)

Literatur
 Klaus Walter: Leben und Schaffen des sächsischen Orgelbauers Carl Eduard Schubert (1830–1900). In: Acta Organologica. Bd. 16, 1982, S. 65–216.

Weblinks
 Biografie Schuberts auf der Homepage der Kirchgemeinde St. Marien in Marienberg
 Organ index: Carl Eduard Schubert

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Orgelbauer (Deutschland)
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April 15, 2022 February 19, 2022 by Modina
21st February is likewise known as the 'Amor Ekushey', the basis of the Bengali Nationalism and an unbiased country, Bangladesh. The international mother Language Day on 21st February is found global to sell the attention of the cultural diversity, linguistic and multilingualism.
On November 17, 1999, UNESCO declared 21 February as international mother language Day for our particular sacrifice for mother language. there may be no nation in the global who fought and sacrificed their life for their mother tongue. it's far an honor given by means of the international network on Language motion of Bangladesh. The motion changed into made on the electricity to preserve the privileges to speak and write in some one's mother tongue. greater than 280 million people talk in the Bangla language internationally presently.
The day of international mom Language (IMD )has been celebrated since 2000 to create attention of multilingualism and peace global. It was officially identified in 2008 under the United countries general meeting's resolution to establish.
Australian Federal Parliament has passed a regulation to have fun 21 February as an global mom language day formally on 17 Feb-2018.
21 February is the most memorable annual day in the records of Bangladesh. It's a countrywide day with a public holiday to commemorate the sacrifices and protests to shield Bangla as the countrywide language in 1952.
21 February has a massive fee and significance for the Bengali state. in this day they get the right to talk and write of their mom language after donating a massive quantity blood under the shooting of the Pakistani Police. It acted as the catalyst of the identification of the Bengali countrywide in the East Bengal.
It also have become the ancestor to the actions of the Bengali nationalist, including the motion of the 6-point and sooner or later the Liberation warfare of Bangladesh in 1971. 21 February is the country wide Day of the country with a public excursion. there's a Shaheed Minar (the Martyrs' Monument) close to the Dhaka clinical college to do not forget the sufferers and the movement.
recently Library association of Bangladesh, Bangladesh countrywide UNESCO commission, global mother Language Institute, mom Languages Conservation motion Sydney, Australia are together going to arrange an international Seminar on building Ekushe nook in each library round the arena at international mother Language Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 28 February 2017. And we are hoping every librarian of the sector will take initiative to set up Ekuse nook in the library to keep all the languages of the sector.
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It's no wonder that every day, more and more people in each of my classes are reported as absent, what with midterms over and senior slump starting to kick in. Beyond that though, sickness and the ubiquitous cold are claiming countless new victims as the sun rises on each new but equally unforgiving morning. Whenever another one of my friends begins to speak up about feeling under the weather, my advice is always the same: Stay warm, get plenty of rest, and drink as much miso soup as you can take. Slowly processing my words through their spent, hazy minds, it seems perfectly agreeable until the 'miso soup' part starts to register. Miso soup? What about chicken noodle? Don't even get me started on that foul fowl housed in a gelatinous broth of overcooked starch. It will hardly give you the energy to get out of bed on a good day, let alone help you overcome the odds when maladies are knocking at your door.
Having such a well stocked pantry as I do, it's easy to forget that not everyone has such an abundance of more esoteric ingredients. Miso is hardly exotic in this day and age, but it is still not the first thing on most Americans' grocery lists either. Hearing that those I care about don't have access to my sure-fire method to restore health, of course I couldn't just sit around and hope they felt well enough to show up at school tomorrow. Trudging home through muck and slush from the previous night's sad attempt at snow, I immediately set upon my new task, and whipped up a nice hot batch of miso soup, tofu and all.
They say that laughter can be the best medicine, so I thought it would be best to serve up a bowl with my beloved Hello Kitty spoon included, as I'm not one to take chances. Who wouldn't be cheered by the mere sight of Hello Kitty's face on their eating utensil anyway? It's my secret weapon to combat the worst moods and gloomiest days.
After slurping down just a small mouthful of the comforting brew, my friends are most likely to concede that the miso really must have made a difference, and that the additions of tofu and scallions really hit the spot, too. It hardly takes any time, skill, or complicated recipes, but I believe that a bowl of miso soup made by a caring companion can heal any aches and pains, whether it be of the body or of the heart. Best of all, after this chance encounter with someone who didn't have the means to make their own miso, I was able to discover this new method to make it so that I can now ship it through the mail to those long distance acquaintances that could use some warmth of their own!
Great! You making me want to run out and figure out how to make this, as I've enjoyed it in restaurants. Your version looks mighty tasty; can I order it with extra scallions?
This one is just wonderful! It looks just like miso soup, which is by far better than chicken noodle as a cure – for anything!
That's some awesome looking soup, bet it just hits the spot! And you are so right about that Hello Kitty spoon, it's fantastic! I don't know how you got your crafty hands on such a wonderful utensil, but I'm pretty sure I'll be checking out my local Asian Market for something similar.
Mmm, now I want miso soup. Seeing the Hello Kitty spoon made me smile and feel warm inside, which is really just what I needed.
Holy poop-blossom – you just made a frickin' bowl of miso soup.. out of crochet.
My goodness you make the most amazing things. I want them all! Hehe it makes me wish I had the time to crochet so I could make my own miso soup! This just blows my mind it's so awesome!


David Mamet Rebooting 'Have Gun – Will Travel' for CBS!!!
It seems like everything is getting rebooted or remade. CBS is developing 'Have Gun – Will Travel' with David Mamet heading up the project. Westerns are making a come-back…finally. Maybe the Hatfield's and McCoy's mini series had something to do with it. But, CBS has made a script deal to produce the project. Now, I'm waiting for a 'Gunsmoke' reboot.
If the pilot comes to a full series, it might go well with the upcoming 'Vegas' series which is also a Western that will star Dennis Quaid and Michael Chiklis. Let's not forget, NBC is developing 'The Frontier' as Fox is developing a Wyatt Earp projects sans Kevin Costner. Mamet wil write and executive produce, and if CBS likes it enough, he will direct the show.
The original 'Have Gun – Will Travel' originally aired on CBS from 1957-63. During its six-season run, the drama starring Richard Boone as Paladin not only delivered top-five ratings but also spawned a successful radio show according to THR.
Mamet is known for his writing mostly, but has also produced and directed. His credits include 'Glengarry Glen Ross', 'The Untouchables', 'House of Games', and 'Hannibal'. I think he will do well with this remake.
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Tsunami alert after quake
NEW DELHI: India kept Armed Forces on standby and put governments of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and all the states on the eastern coast on alert fearing a Tsunami after an earthquake measurin
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NEW DELHI: India kept Armed Forces on standby and put governments of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and all the states on the eastern coast on alert fearing a Tsunami after an earthquake measuring 8.7 on Richter scale rocked Indonesia on Wednesday.
The epicentre of the massive earthquake reported at 2.08 p.m. was 270 nautical miles south of Campbell Bay, the last in the island chain of Andaman and Nicobar isles. Immediately, the Home Ministry asked the Chief Secretaries of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and all eastern coast states to issue a coastal alert.
The states were asked to advise fishermen not to venture into sea. As a precautionary measure, the Andaman Administration moved people from Nicobar side to safer areas.
The Indian Navy geared up to face any eventuality in case of a possible tsunami that could be triggered by the high-intensity quake. Ships in Port Blair, the capital island of the archipelago, were sailed out.
Meanwhile, the Eastern Naval Command posted disaster relief teams on its ships to provide immediate assistance to affected-areas of Indonesia, if required.
Other Naval Ships at sea in the Bay of Bengal were also alerted. The Indian Air Force also kept two C-130J special operations aircraft on standby at the Hindon Airbase in Ghaziabad.
The giant aircraft are ready to fly a swift reaction team of 80 National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel at any moment on call. Ten tonnes of medical supplies and rescue and relief materials have also been loaded on the aircraft.
One IL-76 aircraft was also been kept on standby at Chandigarh, which will also carry NDRF team while two AN-32s and Dorniers were on standby in the southern sector. Six NDRF teams have already reached Chennai.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) also got in touch with Indian missions in the region hit by the earthquake.
"Indian Embassy in Jakarta has reported that so far there were no reports of any loss of life of any Indian nationals. Control rooms were put in place at Indian Mission in Jakarta and Consulate in Medan to assist Indian nationals, if required," MEA spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin tweeted.


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Traditional craft. Modern aesthetic. A new approach.
Sebastian's music comes from the unity of musical principles and systems. His output is finely wrought, innovative, and expressive.
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Sebastian's music is played in concert venues across the United States. Orchestras that have programmed Sebastian's original compositions include:
Louisville Orchestra
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Philadelphia Orchestra
Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
Sebastian can work as a piano soloist, piano accompanist, & keyboard player in various styles. He performs in a variety of settings and ensembles, including but not limited to: with singers, instrumentalists, chamber ensembles, bands, and orchestras, both as orchestral pianist or soloist.
A History of Music & What Sebastian Provides
Music's astounding story begins in prehistoric times, through songs passed on from generation to generation, before even the advent of written language. These songs were later accompanied by simple instruments. Music found a home through the church, ushering in the beginnings of music notation. The composers of the canon shaped our understanding of music through it.
The rise of technology dominates our current milieu. The creation of new settings, like film, television, or video games, have expanded possibilities in musicians' creative processes, while limiting other areas of development. Streaming technologies have changed how we consume it.
Through all of this, the underlying structures of music remain coherent. Large-scale structures and pattern-based generative musical development prove elusive in a philosophy yet unexposed to analysis of the music of classical music's canon. The value of working with and against traditional structures is measured from a perspective that's aware of the disposition of the modern day listener in context with how music was thought about in the past. What things mean is calibrated through a musicians' knowledge of the meaning of musical symbols within the modern day gestalt, and an experiential knowledge of emotive content of the music in settings that are live or as close to live as possible.
Familiarity with fundamental musical concepts and an understanding of how to use them offers musicians a platform in which to maneuver through authentic expressions of today's multilingual, multicultural exchange. This paradoxically offers the musician moments of extended improvisatory spontaneity, and the ability to be active and contributory in a variety of settings.
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Join us on a Journey into History and Adventure. Be a pioneer and build the most famous transcontinental railroad tracks in the United States of America throughout the 19th century. Our Journey starts in the city of New York around the year 1830. Discover the famous trail of the railroad pioneers to the sunny east coast.
Experience the Dangers and Challenges of those times and enter one of the biggest Adventures in the history of the Railroad. In Railroad Pioneer you are invited to explore these famous routes step by step. Learn about the fantastic history of discovering the west of America and see if you have what it takes to be successful.


The people have spoken, and what they're saying – judging by the results of the European elections in May – is that the level of immigration into the UK is too high.
No issue, it seems, is as politicised as that of inward migration. UKIP's recent campaign was built around posters that declared that 26 million people in Europe were looking for work, before asking: 'And whose jobs are they after?'. The Conservative party has promised an in/out referendum on Europe for 2017 should they win the next election and pledged to reduce annual net immigration to below 100,000 by next year. Independent think tank Migration Watch UK has declared that 'we must build a new home every seven minutes for new migrants'. And who can forget the Home Office's mobile adverts last year declaring that illegal immigrants should 'go home or face arrest'?
Given the heated nature of the political debate, it might come as a surprise to learn that research paints a rather more nuanced picture, one where migration is pretty much uniformly regarded as beneficial to the UK. Away from the political fireworks, the official policy of the UK's Home Office is that 'immigration enriches our culture and strengthens our economy and therefore we want to attract people to study, work and invest in the UK'. That, according to the general consensus of those who attempt to look at the debate dispassionately, is nearer to the mark.
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the UK saw a statistically significant increase in net migration from 154,000 to 212,000 in the year to September 2013: 532,000 people arrived and 320,000 people left. Non-EU citizens accounted for 46 per cent of that immigration, EU citizens 39 per cent and British citizens 15 per cent. In all, 209,000 EU citizens migrated to the UK, the highest number on record, up from 149,000 in the previous year.
Why did they come? The ONS says that 176,000 of these migrants came to study, while work-related migrants totalled 218,000 – the highest number since 2008. Of these, 63 per cent (138,000) came with a definite job to go to and 37 per cent (80,000) came to look for work.
All of this adds to a historically high long-term trend: the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford found that the annual long-term inflow of EU citizens (excluding British citizens) for 2004–12 was around 170,000, compared to 67,000 during 1997–2003.
The rise in migration has been driven by the accession of eight countries to the EU in 2004 (Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia, known collectively as the A8) and the associated freedom of movement for citizens of those countries. The 2011 census suggests that 2.7 million UK residents were born in other EU countries, and 41.7 per cent (1.1 million) of those were born in the A8 or Bulgaria and Romania. Polish-born residents in the UK totalled 654,010 in 2011 and Romanian-born 83,168.
According to the Migration Observatory, in the year to September 2013, twenty-four thousand Bulgarian and Romanian citizens migrated to the UK, a statistically significant increase of 15,000 when compared to the previous year. Around seven in ten (17,000) of the Bulgarian and Romanian citizens who moved to the UK that year did so for work-related reasons.
In May this year, the ONS reported that the number of Romanians and Bulgarians working in Britain had dropped since border controls on them were fully lifted in January, from 125,000 in December 2013 to 122,000 in March 2014.
In 2012, the government launched an audit of what the EU does and how it affects the UK. Known as the 'Review of the Balance of Competences', it was made up of 30 studies carried out by government departments, focusing in particular on trade and investment. It found that EU trade policy had benefited the UK economy, with the total value of exports increasing from £130billion to £240billion. However, the release of a section on the free movement of people has twice been delayed, amid reports of ministerial disagreements over its appraisal of the impact that it has had. A spokeswoman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said that the section was now due to be published this summer.
And what of the impact on British jobs? The common refrain is that British workers lose out to migrants who are willing to take the same job for less pay. The ONS identified a clear increase in the number of A8 migrants employed in the UK between 2004 and 2008, by which time the total had stabilised at around 500,000. By 2011, this had risen to around 700,000 and as of autumn 2013 stood at 723,000.
According to the Migration Observatory, there's still a significant gap in per capita income between the UK and the A8 countries. World Bank figures suggest that last year, the average income in the UK was US$38,670; in Poland, it was US$12,660, in Bulgaria and Romania, US$7,830 and in the other A8 countries, it was US$16,369. This income differential, the Migration Observatory argues, suggests that the incentive still exists for migration from Eastern Europe to the UK.
But do EU migrants take British jobs and force down wages? The answer is, for the most part, no. The labour force survey carried out by the ONS in March shows that British workers had taken more than 90 per cent of new jobs in the UK economy during the past 12 months.
a significant impact of overall immigration on unemployment in the UK, but the evidence suggests that immigration from outside the EU could have a negative impact on the employment of UK-born workers, especially during an economic downturn'. It added that 'any declines in the wages and employment of UK-born workers in the short run can be offset by rising wages and employment in the long run'.
The Migration Observatory report looked at several academic studies of UK migration and found that the effects on average wages fluctuate from negative to positive, but are relatively small. A 2013 study found that an increase in the number of migrants corresponding to one per cent of the UK-born working-age population resulted in an increase in average wages of 0.1 to 0.3 per cent. A similar study for the period 2000–07 found that a similar migration trend lowered the average wage by 0.3 per cent.
Another study reinforces the view that it's the lowest-paid UK workers who can lose out. It found that the greatest wage effects were among low-waged workers. And that each one per cent increase in the share of migrants in the UK-born working age population leads not only to a 0.6 per cent decline in the wages of the five per cent lowest-paid workers and but also to an increase in the wages of higher paid workers.
However, it's worth noting, says the Migration Observatory, that the available research shows that any adverse wage effects of immigration are likely to be greatest for resident workers who are themselves migrants. This is because the skills of new migrants are likely to be closer substitutes for the skills of migrants already employed in the UK, rather than for those of UK-born workers.
As for whether unemployed migrants are claiming benefits, in 2012, the National Institute of Social and Economic Research used National Insurance data to explore the impact of immigration on benefit claims in 379 local authorities in England. Their results suggested no impact of immigration on claimant numbers.
Meanwhile, the Migration Advisory Committee, an independent, non-statutory, non-departmental public body that advises the government on migration issues, looked at the impact of migrants on the employment of UK-born people using data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) for 1975–2010. The study suggested that, overall, migrants have no impact on UK-born employment.
'Migrants either complement or substitute the local labour force,' says Scott Blinder, director of the Migration Observatory. 'The extent to which they are complementary should, in theory, have a positive impact on jobs. The caveat is that it depends on assumptions that aren't provable – short-term economic effects are usually pretty small. It's easy to mistake a small positive for a zero, a small negative for a zero.
The solution, Blomfield argues, isn't to point the finger at migration, but instead to create a level playing field. 'We can have greater enforcement of the minimum and living wage, and address the issue of agencies that recruit exclusively from Eastern Europe and that cut out local labour altogether,' he says.
So much for the empirical data. Unfortunately, what tends to happen is that such figures can be interpreted differently.
Migration Watch UK, which voices concern about the scale of immigration, concludes that 'net migration quintupled from 50,000 in 1997 to 250,000 in 2010, and that nearly four million immigrants have arrived since 1997. A migrant arrives almost every minute, but they leave at only just over half that rate.' In a report published in April, Migration Watch concluded that half of Eastern European migrants earn no more than £300 a week, so 'a significant number are unlikely to be making any net contribution to the Treasury'.
And the ONS admits that it has made some historical under-estimates: the census-based 2011 mid-year population estimate for England and Wales was 464,000 higher (0.8 per cent) than the mid-year population estimates rolled-forward from the 2001 Census base. The largest single cause, said the ONS, was its underestimation of long-term immigration from Central and Eastern Europe in the middle part of the decade. In April, the ONS said that the net flow of migrants to the UK over a decade was underestimated by 346,000.
Former US president Bill Clinton is famously associated with the phrase '[It's] the economy stupid,' when talking about voter priorities, but Kaufmann suggests that when it comes to migration, this isn't always the case. 'The issues can be cultural and about identity rather than economic,' he says. 'In surveys, poorer people respond to ethnicity rather than jobs. The middle class talks more about the economy. Among the far-right populist vote, cultural drivers are more important than economic ones. If you're working class, your most prestigious identity tends to be your ethnicity rather than your professional identity. 'If you look at geography, the more deprived a ward is, the more opposition there is to migration,' he continues, pointing to studies that show that this opposition applies to both UK-born ethnic minorities (55 per cent concerned about migration) and white British (83 per cent).
Eleni Andreouli, a lecturer in psychology at the Open University, believes that the guardedness towards migration comes partly from a fear of change and difference. 'People may feel that difference threatens their sense of identity and culture,' she says.
This May, Policy Exchange, a right-of-centre think tank, published A Portrait of Modern Britain, which draws on the 2011 census, polling and academic research. Headlines focused on how black and minority ethnic (BME) communities could represent 'between 20 and 30 per cent of the UK's population' by 2051 (the current figure is 14 per cent).
In this respect, the attitude of native Britons is key to assimilation, suggests Andreouli. 'From the migrant's perspective, identity is a matter of how we see ourselves, and how other people see us,' she says. 'The extent to which a migrant feels British is very often a response to how other people see them. It's not an either/or issue – there can be combining identities coming into play. If people are able to combine multiple identities, then they can be more easily integrated.
Does immigration really harm cultural identity?


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Fringe Up HFF14: 'Man's Dominion'
by Tracey Paleo, Gia On The Move
"To be wild is our nature — to be free."
One of the more shocking plays happening at Fringe this year is Man's Dominion playing at the Theatre Asylum (Elephant Studio) 6320 Santa Monica Blvd. It is completely resonant and very unexpected.
Genesis 1:26 is the biblical quote that universally grants all men dominion over beasts. But what about the beasts themselves? What do they want? Throughout time man has reserved the issue of natural dominance for himself because he possesses certain qualities that separate him from the animal kingdom. But is that entirely true? Are we very different?
What if empathy, compassion, gentleness, preference, intelligence, discernment, joy are not just the provenance of men? What if those qualities which we consider "human" extend to other two or four-legged, earth-bound, winged or finned creatures? And what if they, the animals, the beasts, can and do express these very qualities better than us? Who is more "human"?
Man's Dominion is a horrific true story, a lost event, told in the most sympathetic of ways about an 18 year old Indian elephant named May, raised in captivity, who in 1916, in Erwin, Tennessee, is hanged by the neck until dead, for killing a man.
It had never happened before. May as described by the circus people who knew, loved, cared for, and worked side by side with her, had never given any sign of violence. In fact, she was almost the matriarch of the circus community where she had grown up; a gentle, loving, female, protective of her friends and smart enough to know when someone needed a helping hand. She never complained. She did her work day after day, faithfully.
But when a new and inexperience trainer, Red Eldridge, just two days on the job, is given not only instruction but permission to abuse May in whatever way he sees fit via a bull hook, a standard implement for keeping elephants in line, May rebels, powerfully flinging Red several feet and to the ground, then stomping on him.
May is suddenly transformed from dumb animal and endowed by the religious rabble of the town, using the Genesis quote as their most powerful argument, with anthropomorphic will and perverse behaviors as if it were a murder with full intent. From there she is deemed a killer, although not given a trial (certainly not one of her peers) and judged for execution for an act that may have been at best the reaction to a total stranger who inflicted extreme pain. Most likely she was as confused as the trainer who probably didn't understand why she would even get as angry as she did.
Actor Tim Powell brilliantly plays 10 different characters, including May herself, to recall the events, reactions and feelings of everyone involved and May's unbelievable demise by giant railroad cranes.
Is it fair to hold accountable and punish a creature we deem mentally, emotionally and spiritually inferior?
Man's Dominion brings up the very question of, who are the real animals us or them? A very poignant non-fiction, it is an absolute must see for the content, the direction and the delivery.
animals, circus, Genesis 1:26, Hollywood Fringe Festival, Los Angeles Theater Scene, lynchings
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This I have to see! WoW!!!


During this holiday, we celebrate with family and friends, while sitting down to delicious dinners, attending cocktail parties, and bringing in the New Year.
Unfortunately, some of us aren't so lucky, but you can help.
I'm sure that many of you know of someone who is struggling with an ailing parent who is suffering from Dementia. Your child likely attends a school with a child who might go hungry if it wasn't for local support. (1 in 8 Oakville children live in poverty).
You can make a difference. It doesn't have to be $100's, even a $1.00 can positively impact someone's life. Maybe, you have time to volunteer. Just give.
Free programs to Front of the Line children and youth from JK-Grade 12, most particularly to individuals from families who may not have access to Arts-related activities.
Provides quality mentoring relationships to children in need.
Provides youth who are unable to live with a family and unprepared for independent living with: housing, support, structure, guidance, along with ongoing support.
Provides telephone and online support to people in crisis, loneliness, and emotional stress.
Helps anyone struggling with challenges related to the misuse and abuse of alcohol and other drugs with a team of professionals in a women's centre, a men's centre and a community based centre.
Offers facilitated peer support groups to help children, teens and their families after a death in their family.
Responds to the mental health needs and contributes to the wellness of our community by strengthening families and enabling the emotional and social well-being of children and youth.
Runs nurturing activities for children's healthy growth and development, and teaches parents and caregivers about parenting, children's behavior and development.
Provides clinical assessment and counselling services to children, youth and families affected by interpersonal abuse: physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, neglect, or who have saw domestic violence.
Provides 24 hour support to all survivors of violence including female-identified, male-identified, and members of the transgender community.
Provides a comprehensive range of employment support options, which are responsive to individual needs for youth and adults.
Supports people with mental illness and/or addictions, and youth at risk are treated as unique individuals free from stigma, and where housing, services and support are available when and wherever needed to help them reach their full potential.
THRIVE Counselling Services Halton Inc.
Helps people struggling with individual and family issues including: family conflict, separation, divorce, depression, abuse or violence and grief and loss.
Just take a moment, and think about who you could help. Oakville is a great town. Moneysense named Oakville as the Best City. Let's live up to our reputation, and give.


Zam Plante of Hermantown earns Wiz Wyatt after guiding his Hawks to a state runner-up finish.
Edina forward Sammy Walker was named the school's first Mr. Hockey after racking up 35 goals and 79 points this season.
Kukkonen and Faber helped power a dominant Osseo-Maple Grove Bantam AA team to the state championship.
Skylar Vetter was the backbone of the Lakeville North Bantam AA team all season, and is committed to Minnesota.


I gave the wonderful folk at Best Friends Rescue (BFR) a paws up in my last blog. I'm happy to announce my lovely and very generous publishers have decided to support BFR. With every Dog Logic sold online, Big Sky will donate $5 towards BFR. This is a real win win situation. As both Sox and Snowy are ex RSPCA pound puppies, the plight of the unwanted dog is something close to my heart. There are far too few feel good stories associated with animal welfare, but this is most definitely a positive one.


This is the best and preferred method to dissolve a Labuan Company. However it is the most expensive amongst the two methods.
Any surplus cash of the Labuan Company is to be distributed to its shareholders subject to the company Memorandum and Articles of Association. More-often it is distributed based on the shareholding percentage.
Prepay all company secretary fee and invoices for assisting in the voluntary winding up.
Prepay LFSA Fees in the voluntary winding up.
A Tax Clearance notice from Lembaga Hasil Dalam Negeri (LHDN) that is has no objection to LFSA making a declaration of dissolution of the company.
Fee of USD 2,000 (assuming the exchange rate of USD1.00 = Ringgit 4.00) or Ringgit 8,000 payable to LFSA.
Corporate Services Trust Company professional fee for this purpose will be USD 1,000 exclude Out of Pocket expenses. For more complicated case such as the company with very long history in business our professional fees will be higher in commensurate with the complexity and time cost.
On top of our fee as stated above the liquidator fees is also payable. The liquidator fee in general is USD 3,000 exclude out of pocket expenses. For more complicated case such as the company with very long history in business our professional fees will be higher in commensurate with the complexity and time cost.
If there is no objection received from any party of the above, LFSA may approve the dissolution application less than 3 weeks after 30 days notice. The Declaration of Dissolution Notice publication issued by LFSA is valid for six (6) years. Any creditors claim or person to be interested may apply to Court within the validity date of 6 years to revoke the dissolution.
Prepay all company secretary fee and invoices for assisting in the strike off.
All Labuan companies are required to pay LFSA annual fee of Ringgit 2,600 one month before anniversary date of the date of incorporation.
The Labuan Company may appeal to Labuan FSA to extend the period subject to LFSA approval.
Once the name has been struck off the register continuously for a period of 3 years, the Labuan Company is deemed to have dissolved. Once the company is struck off, the directors can apply to Inland Revenue to close the corporate tax file and all other tax files. During the process of striking off, Labuan Company is liable to compliance with yearly tax filing even when the company is dormant or inactive.
Default Annual Fee Payment with Labuan FSA under Section 151 of The Labuan Companies Act 1990 is not applicable to a Labuan company in the process of being wound up and dissolved.
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Upper Darby, PA – It's an annual tradition that continues today, more than 25 years later. The post-Greek Independence Day parade performance at St. Demetrios unites the community over dancing. Olga Tsaousidis was the Master of Ceremonies on occasion. Her home church, St. Demetrios led the afternoon off with the flag presentation and the singing of the United States and Greek national anthems. That was followed by several speeches, including that of the president of the Federation Nikolaos Spiliotis and Mayor Tom McCozzie of Upper Darby.
More than twelve dance groups performed from across the Delaware Valley. They demonstrated the great variety of dances that come from as far as Pontos, in Turkey and as close as the islands where Nisiotika comes from. Family members, friends, and grandparents looked on as the next generation of Greek Americans flaunted their stuff on the stage. Colorful costumes and pleated dresses kept you guessing as to the region of Greece the folk attire represented.


Last month, Gartner, Inc. published two very interesting reports. The first report was based on research presented at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2014, in Orlando, where they identified the Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2015. Software-Defined Applications and Infrastructure was one of these trends.
"Cloud services are software-configurable through API calls, and applications, too, increasingly have rich APIs to access their function and content programmatically. To deal with the rapidly changing demands of digital business and scale systems up — or down — rapidly, computing has to move away from static to dynamic models. Rules, models and code that can dynamically assemble and configure all of the elements needed from the network through the application are needed," said David Cearley, VP & Gartner Fellow.
An additional Gartner Inc. report, published just last week focused on Real-World SDN, and it focuses on how and what mainstream enterprise are doing with respect to SDN. This report details the three key benefits of SDN that Telco Systems' customers gain: increased agility, cost savings and improved security.
The biggest challenge to date has been organizational/cultural, not technology (handoff to operations has been particularly difficult).
Not a lot of mainstream folks are doing SDN yet. In fact, Gartner estimate there are only between 500 and 1,000 mainstream deployments of SDN globally.
Roughly half of today's SDN deployments are from vendors that are not in the top five in switching revenue, including NEC and VMware.


In their 2015 Employment Survey the sector skills body Creative Skillset found that across the whole radio industry 46% employees are women and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) employees make up 9%. This compares to 10.9% BAME employees in the rest of the UK workforce.
According to RAJAR data (Q2 2018), our sector reaches 60% of the BAME audience, compared to a 45% reach by BBC services. It also reaches 67% of listeners considered to be in a lower socio-economic classification (C2DE), compared to 55% reached by the BBC.
While overall share of hours for all adults is 52% at the BBC compared to 45% at commercial radio, for BAME audiences it is 33% for the BBC and 56% for commercial radio. In addition, a quarter of local commercial radio listeners (7 million) do not tune in to any other type of radio service.
Our most recent Creative Access Radio Masterclass was held on June 2017. Panellists included (pictured, from right to left): Jagruti Dave (Producer at LBC), Asheesh Sharma (Asian Network), Yasmin Evans (1Xtra host), Keturah Cummings (BBC Content Producer), Pandora Christie (Kiss FM DJ).
Radiocentre has been working closely with Creative Access to try and improve representation of young people from BAME backgrounds. In addition to taking part in their internship programme we have now joined forces with the BBC to co-host a number of Radio Masterclass for Creative Access interns who are looking to start careers in the Creative Industries.
In 2018 mental health has rightly received a significant increase in media attention. Our team was instrumental in uniting BBC and commercial radio to broadcast the same message in a historic first for a Mental Health Minute.
In 2016 Ofcom launched its Diversity in Broadcasting monitoring programme. We have been working with industry ahead of this on the details of the programme. Ofcom began monitoring commercial radio at the beginning of 2018 and the first report on the sector was published (here) in June 2018. There are a number of resources available on the Ofcom Diversity and equality hub here.
In conjunction with the Employers Network for Equality & Inclusion, Radiocentre has drawn up a diversity statement for the commercial radio industry. The statement is available here.


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The Financial Times toughens its stance against ad blockers
Ad Blocking Wars
May 4, 2017 by Lucinda Southern
After running ad-blocking experiments last July to a select group, the Financial Times has blocked content for all registered users with ad blockers installed.
As of this week, registered users — those who have provided their email address in exchange for a number of free articles a month, but haven't shared any payment details — are hit with a pop-up telling them to whitelist FT.com, then refresh their browsers to continue reading.
The pop-up message links to a webpage showing readers how to add the FT to their ad blocker whitelist, with added commentary on what ad blocking is, and the FT's advertising policy.
The FT is blocking content from ad-block users
Craig Bannister, senior product manager at the FT, said this is an extension of the four-week experiment the FT ran last July to a sample of 15,000. The FT ran three types of messages to 50 percent of the 30,000 registered users who also block ads, encouraging them to whitelist the site. These included offering unrestricted access to the content with a polite message; access to the content but with some article text missing; and a blanket ban on the content altogether.
As reported after the trials — and as other publishers have also discovered — blocking the content had the biggest impact, with 69 percent of people whitelisting the site when faced with the roadblock. Still, 40 percent of those who had full access to the content whitelisted the FT.
The FT tested the levels of engagement with its content before and after people added the site to a whitelist and saw no drop off in things like dwell time or numbers of articles read, although it wouldn't share exact details.
"The content consumption after the whitelist was not affected, so we're confident from rolling this out further this week that we're likely to see those kind of results," said Bannister, adding that it was too soon to see the impact of implementing the test more widely. "It didn't negatively impact readers' relationship with our content; that's the most important thing." At this stage, the FT is not exploring any tests with paying subscribers.
The experiment is running only on desktop, where the publisher said 18 percent of page views are ad blocked. The FT is also keeping track of ad blocking on mobile, where 2 percent of page views are ad blocked.
Advertising accounts for 40 percent of total revenue for the FT, the remaining 60 percent coming from subscriptions and events. As such, ad blocking is not as much of an issue for it as for other publishers that rely solely on advertising for revenue. Even so, for most publishers, ad blocking remains an industry-wide concern.
Publishers fear fallout of Google-backed ad blocker
April 20, 2017 by Jessica Davies and Lucia Moses
The Atlantic is now telling ad blockers to whitelist or pay up
April 10, 2017 by Lucia Moses


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There Could Be a Crazy Health Benefit to Eating Stale Bread
By Ryan F. Mandelbaum on at
Every other day, someone writes a story about something causing or preventing cancer. Usually, it's all hype or the explanation is a snooze, but sometimes, the research is just strange enough to grab our attention. That's the case with a new study, which details how stale bread might help ward off colon cancer.
Researchers from RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) in Melbourne, Australia baked up some white bread and measured temperature's effect on the way a kind of starch, called resistant starch, developed. The study found that this resistant starch grew best at refrigerator temperatures. Not much grew, probably not even enough to outweigh how unhealthy white bread is, but this resistant starch happens to be a tool for protecting against colon cancer and provides other health benefits. That being said, the researchers think their finding could apply to other, less crappy breads.
Resistant starch is a set of carbohydrate molecules resistant to the body's own digestive enzymes. Instead, some of the bacteria living in our intestines feast on these starches, and leave behind a slew of fatty acids. "It's a carbon source for the bacteria in our colon who produce a range of healthy byproducts for the human gut," said William Sullivan, the paper's first author from RMIT. These chemicals, with names like "butyrate" and "propionate," seem to have all sorts of helpful benefits—one paper says they help guard against obesity and regulate the gut hormones. Another says that they help maintain healthy cell growth in the lining of the colon, and even stop or slow the beginning of the cellular chain reaction that could lead to colon cancer.
So, why stale bread? Sullivan and his team baked their own white bread ("It doesn't completely mimic what you'd get in the supermarket, it's more like the bread you'd get from the local bakery," he said) and let it sit around at various temperatures for up to a week. When analysis time came around, they froze the samples in liquid nitrogen, ground them up, and analyzed them with x-ray diffraction, a method to analyze how the molecules crystallized. The increase in crystallinity implied an increase in one of the types of resistant starches, known as resistant starch type 3, as shown in the results published last week in the journal Food Chemistry.
"Crystallisation starts as soon as the bread leaves the oven," explained Sullivan, "and would continue to increase [with time]. After 5 days the resistant starch would be significantly higher than when the bread was first baked," though most of the resistant starch formation happens in the first few hours. This crystallization and resistant starch levels were the highest in the bread stored at around 38 degrees Fahrenheit. Water loss mainly, but also crystallization, are two of the driving factors behind staling bread, researcher Mario Martinez Martinez from the Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Research at Purdue University in Indiana, told Gizmodo.
There's one obvious one issue with the bread in this study — it's white bread, and there isn't that much resistant starch even in the stale version, said Martinez. "All of the other carbohydrates I am sure will mask the [health benefits] of the increase in resistant starch," He mentioned whole wheat bread and other sources of resistant starch might be a better choice for folks actually looking to take advantage of the health benefit—for example, swapping some wheat flour with flour from green bananas could offer a much higher increase in resistant starch, according to his own research. Sullivan hasn't tested other types of bread, but thinks his conclusion might hold for them as well.
Two years ago, a report in the journal JAMA Surgery found that colon and rectal cancer rates had increased for patients 20 to 34 years old, while rectal cancer rates increased for patients 35 to 49 in the United States from 1975 t0 2010. Maybe, just maybe, our bread has just been a little too fresh. Think twice before throwing that old bread away. [Food Chemistry]


The European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA) has just announced the continued funding for their 'JET' operation, located at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE), Oxfordshire, UK, that should see the facility run until late 2018.
JET, is an experimental test bed project that explores the magnetic confinement (MC) branch of nuclear fusion, and aims to provide essential research data and engineering know-how for the next generation of toroidal tokamak reactors— such as ITER (see below), which is currently under construction, and should be operational by 2020.
To generate fusion reactions conditions are extreme, with temperatures of one million °C required for fusion to occur. To overcome this engineering problem magnetic fields have been utilised to confine and 'bottle' plasma—made from hydrogen isotopes—away from the inner walls of the reactor.
Once conditions are correct, the confined deuterium/tritium atoms fuse together to produce helium nuclei and high speed neutron by-products—these reactions release the required energy. The total power per reaction has been calculated to be approximately 17.6 Mev, which is 10 million times more powerful than current sources, making fusion potentially the golden egg of energy research.
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So, I've started my journal comic back up! This time, instead of "Allan" it's "Cory Allan," and I was actually able to buy coryallan.com! The website is still on it's way, of course, as I've been busy PRODUCING and not DESIGNING. But hey, what's a boy to do when he works over 40 hours a week and still tries to have a life?
Anywho, you guys get this strip in COLOR. And most strips, I think, will have some kind of bonus flare here on Patreon. I'm gonna play it by ear. But thanks for supporting me and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
on February 18, 2007 and modified on June 21, 2018.
Being typed while I'm sick… …Getting dizzy, more tomorrow (hopefully I'll feel better).


Brian Aston and Eric Nelson at Fundraiser at Goodtime Ernie's on Friday! Eric saw the story on King 5 News and drove down from Bellevue. He has had LHON for 20 years!
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The Superheroes have completed the challenge and have raised over £400 so far for Border Terrier Welfare with a significant amount of Gift Aid to add the total is getting close to £500.
If you would like to follow some of the action you can watch Channel 4 TV on Sunday 27th August "TRIATHLON" It is being broadcast at "6 AM" so you may prefer to let the video recorder take care of it for you and catch up later.
I know you will all join me in saying a BIG THANK YOU to Oscar, Paula, Estelle and Helen who are the SUPERLIME TEAM.
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Transit 2018 German/French 1hr 42 mins
As fascism spreads, German refugee Georg (Franz Rogowski) flees to Marseille and assumes the identity of the dead writer whose transit papers he is carrying. Living among refugees from around the world, Georg falls for Marie (Paula Beer), a mysterious woman searching for her husband-the man whose identity he has stolen. Adapted from Anna Segher's 1942 novel, Transit transposes the original story to the present, blurring periods to create a timeless exploration of the plight of displaced people.
Peter Bradshaw The Guardian
Transit review – brilliant existential thriller works like a dream. In Christian Petzold's superbly deft drama, a fugitive steals someone else's identity with deeply disturbing results. The strangeness of this story will live in your bloodstream like a virus.


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The House met at half-past Ten o'clock
[Mr. Speaker in the Chair]
Oral Answers to Questions
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The Secretary of State was asked—
Judy Mallaber (Amber Valley) (Lab): On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.
Mr. Speaker: The hon. Lady must wait until after questions, and then the business statement, and then the statement, so she has time for a cappuccino.
Local Authority Recycling
1. Mr. Michael Jack (Fylde) (Con): What steps he is taking to improve local authority recycling performance. [117810]
The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (David Miliband): Recycling and composting of household waste has doubled in the past four years and more than tripled in the past eight years. Government support for, and engagement with, the poorest performing local authorities, as well as progressively lower landfill limits and the escalating landfill tax will all help to drive forward even higher recycling rates.
Mr. Jack: Impressive as the Secretary of State's answer is, he will be aware of the considerable discrepancies between the policies of different authorities. Some recycle glass, but others do not; some recycle plastic, but others do not; some fine people if they put their rubbish in the wrong recycling bin, which is not helpful if we wish to encourage more recycling. As the Secretary of State prepares to publish his new waste strategy, what steps will he take to encourage a more uniform performance by local authorities further to increase recycling rates?
David Miliband: I am grateful for the right hon. Gentleman's recognition of the Government's impressive record, which was largely achieved before I arrived in the Department. I accept his point that we need to drive up performance across the country, but there are different ways of doing so in different areas to reflect local needs. It is significant that over 90 per cent. of local authorities offer kerb-side collection, and over 80 per cent. collect plastics as well as the more traditional recyclates. In the waste strategy, we will
indeed seek to find ways of helping all local authorities to raise their performance. May I point out to the right hon. Gentleman an example of interdepartmental co-operation that he will applaud? In the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill, which has been introduced in the House, the development of joint waste authorities across metropolitan borough lines will help to achieve the consistency that he rightly seeks.
Dr. Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes, South-West) (Lab): Will the Minister consider, too, the slightly perverse effect of the weight requirement on local authorities, which discourages the recycling of plastic and results in recycled paper being of much poorer quality because of the co-mingling of waste?
David Miliband: My hon. Friend makes an important technical point. As she suggested, there is a tendency, if we are not careful, to discriminate against the collection of high-volume but low-weight plastics. As I suggested earlier, the fact that 80 per cent. of local authorities collect plastics is a step forward, but I assure my hon. Friend that the issue is being looked at. We are keen in the waste strategy to make sure that any disincentives to recycling and collection are minimised.
Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire) (LD): Is it not the case that recycling rates would improve if more packaging were made of recyclable materials? What steps has the Secretary of State taken to encourage food producers, particularly the large supermarket chains, to adopt a more responsible approach by reducing excess packaging and, importantly, making sure that any necessary packaging is made from materials that can be recycled?
David Miliband: I hope that the hon. Lady agrees that the first priority is to reduce the amount of packaging, rather than to tackle the recycling potential. As for packaging that is required, may I point out that voluntary agreements to achieve an 80 per cent. reduction in packaging have been negotiated in part by my hon. Friend the Minister for Local Environment, Marine and Animal Welfare with some major supermarkets? All supermarkets have to meet the requirements of the packaging directive that we have implemented, but the hon. Lady made an important point about the recycling of packaging. As I recollect, 70 to 80 per cent. of packaging is recyclable, but it is important to drive that up as high as possible. The interest in her constituency knows no bounds, because one of my colleagues tells me that she conducts some of her surgeries in Tesco, and I am sure that she can take the recycling message to her next surgery.
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish) (Lab): Stockport's Liberal Democrat council proposes to deliver 52 black bin bags—a year's supply—to every household in one go, with no restrictions on the number of bags that people are allowed to put out each week. Will that help or hinder recycling efforts in Stockport?
David Miliband: When it comes to local matters in Stockport, I certainly take my hon. Friend's views about the rights and wrongs of the situation into
account, as he is a passionate campaigner for a more environmentally friendly and greener Stockport. From central Government's point of view, it is important that local authorities pay suitable attention to the particular needs of their own areas, which is why we have not sought to impose a single Stalinist model for recycling and collection on the country. It is right that local authorities innovate, but they should do so in a sensible way, not a silly way.
Gregory Barker (Bexhill and Battle) (Con): Over the past year the Government have announced welcome plans to do more, at last, to promote recycling of school waste, but how will they judge the effectiveness of any of those initiatives if, according to the written answer given to me by the Under-Secretary of State for Education and Skills, the hon. Member for Gloucester (Mr. Dhanda),
"Central Government have not set any specific recycling targets for schools. There are targets for local authority recycling of household waste which does not include waste from schools. We do not know how much school waste has been recycled in the last 10 years"—[ Official Report, 25 July 2006; Vol. 449, c. 1461W.]?
New schemes are great, but where is the visible follow-through, where is the rigour of reporting progress, and where is the accountability?
Mr. Bill Olner (Nuneaton) (Lab): Does the hon. Gentleman want more regulation?
David Miliband: My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. I applaud the hon. Gentleman's concern to boost recycling rates, and I am sure he will be as pleased as I am that local authorities have been reminded recently that they have a duty to collect recyclates from schools, which has not always happened. As my hon. Friend suggested, one person's rigour in reporting, which I think was the phrase that the hon. Gentleman used, is another person's bureaucracy and form-filling. I am sure the hon. Gentleman would not want me to announce that I was sending a form to every school in the country asking it to weigh the amount of waste recycled. We will know success when we achieve more recycling by local authority levels. The percentages that I gave in answer to the right hon. Member for Fylde (Mr. Jack) are the sort of outcome that the hon. Gentleman should support, rather than denigrate.
2. John Robertson (Glasgow, North-West) (Lab): What discussions his Department has had on reducing the amount of domestic waste exported. [117811]
The Minister for Local Environment, Marine and Animal Welfare (Mr. Ben Bradshaw): The export of waste for recycling is not bad in itself because it reduces the amount of virgin materials used by the importing country and is often carried in ships that would otherwise sail empty. However, we are working to expand markets for recyclates in this country and to reduce our reliance on exports.
John Robertson: My hon. Friend will be aware of recent reports about the 200,000 tonnes of plastic that have been exported to China. Does he share my concern about the effect that that will have on local
people there? What can he do to ensure that they are protected, and that we as a nation deal with our own waste and dispose of it ourselves?
Mr. Bradshaw: It is a matter for the Chinese Government to ensure that proper consideration is given to the working conditions to which my hon. Friend refers. We ensure, as far as we can, compliance with international rules. It is not in the interests of China to import recyclable materials only to see them put into landfill. As I said in response to his initial question, it is better, particularly in overall climate change terms, that China, India and other emerging and growing economies make products from recyclable materials that we produce, rather than cutting down trees or using virgin oil to make those products.
Mr. Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley) (Con): But is it not a fact that we import an enormous amount of goods from China? I recall the container coming to the UK before Christmas laden with goods for us to buy as presents. Would it not be a good rule, therefore, for us to return all the packaging around those imported goods, so that the producers think twice about the amount of packaging that they use for goods exported to the United Kingdom?
Mr. Bradshaw: As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State told the House, a number of initiatives and measures have been introduced, not least by retailers, to address the problems of excess packaging. What the hon. Gentleman suggests does happen. A significant proportion of plastic, paper and card packaging which comes from overseas is re-exported as recyclable material, as I said earlier, obviating the need to make new products from virgin materials, which can only be a good thing.
Single Payment Scheme
3. Martin Linton (Battersea) (Lab): If he will publish payments made under the common agricultural policy single payment scheme by constituency. [117812]
The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (David Miliband): Detailed analysis of all the payments made under the 2005 single payment scheme is not yet available. Once the remaining 2005 scheme payments have been completed, a decision will be taken on the level of detail that will be published.
Martin Linton: Some £16 billion is paid every year to farmers and growers under the single payment scheme— [Interruption.]—£16 billion. In the interests of accountability and transparency, is it not time to identify payments at least by constituency?
David Miliband: Many farmers would like £16 billion to be distributed under the single payment scheme, but the figure may be one tenth of that. My hon. Friend raises an important point. He asked a similar question a year ago. He has rightly been saying that information should be available about the amount paid under the single payment scheme. As he knows, for the period up to 2005, we published regularly the payments to individual farmers. That is entirely reasonable. Our first priority, obviously, is to make sure that the payments
are correct. Once we are sure that they are correct— [Interruption.] I made the point myself. I ask hon. Members to humour me for a moment. It is our first responsibility to make the payments correctly, but once they have been made, it is important that the information is in the public domain, and I should like that level of openness to continue under the new system.
Mr. David Curry (Skipton and Ripon) (Con): The Secretary of State would therefore agree that if any figures were to be meaningful, he would have to be certain that the money was paid to the farmers who were entitled to payments in respect of the land which so entitled them in the year for which they were eligible and in respect of a product that they grew. Since none of those conditions is yet in place, it would be entirely fatuous to attempt to publish anything, but when they are in place, we would welcome their publication.
David Miliband: I have enormous respect for the right hon. Gentleman, but he could not have been listening to my last answer, in which I said that our first duty was to ensure that the correct payments were made and that we should then publish the information.
David Taylor (North-West Leicestershire) (Lab/Co-op): It would be helpful to members of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, on which I sit, and to other Members to have information of the kind suggested in the question. Could we not go further in respect of the largest decile of payments and publish the individual payments made to the very rich agro-industrial complexes that receive so much agricultural support?
David Miliband: I am sorry if the situation is not clear; perhaps I should have made it clearer. Under the system that was introduced by my predecessor, my right hon. Friend the Member for Derby, South (Margaret Beckett), individual payments are published. My hon. Friend the Member for Battersea (Martin Linton) asked about payments by constituency. We have not done that so far, not least because several farms, large and small, cross constituency boundaries. We do not want to create additional bureaucracy. However, the degree of openness suggested in the original question is important, and I know that my hon. Friend and his Select Committee share that view.
Mr. Roger Williams (Brecon and Radnorshire) (LD): The Government's preferred method of agricultural support is through the rural development programme and pillar 2 payments, yet the Department has failed to publish the English rural development programme for this year. As a result, new agri-environment schemes and local food processing payments are not being made. Is the Secretary of State content with that situation, and how long will it continue?
David Miliband: The hon. Gentleman has a conspiracy theory too far if he believes that it is the Government's fault that the European Parliament, at the behest of the Conservatives, should have blocked the development of the rural development programme; that the European Commission's plans should be stuck in the European Parliament, with the support of the
official Opposition; and that the European Parliament should now be saying that 20 per cent. of the funds due to farming communities and rural areas should be blocked, again with the support of the Conservatives. That is not the Government's fault but something that we are trying to resolve, and we could do with a bit of help from Opposition Members.
Mr. Henry Bellingham (North-West Norfolk) (Con): What percentage of farmers will receive this year's single farm payment by the June 2007 target date?
David Miliband: As the hon. Gentleman may know, the European rules are based on the percentage of the fund disbursed rather than the percentage of farmers who are paid. As I made clear in my statement in November, our aim is to meet the European Union requirement that 96.14 per cent. of UK funds are disbursed by 30 June. I am pleased to say that we are working hard with the Rural Payments Agency to deliver that. As I have said before, I will always keep the House informed on progress.
Mr. Peter Ainsworth (East Surrey) (Con): In his statement on the single payments scheme on 7 November, the Secretary of State told the House that a mere 1,700 farmers were still awaiting their final payments for 2005. Did he know at the time that in fact up to 20,000 cases remain unresolved? If he did know, why did not he tell the House, and if he did not know, why not? Why did it take an investigation by the Yorkshire Post to extract the truth about the scale of the continuing mess at the Rural Payments Agency? So much for his talk of openness. Is not this just the same old sleight of hand and spin? Is this the way to restore the confidence of the rural communities, and why should they believe a word he says any more?
David Miliband: It is very important that I answer this charge absolutely directly. The hon. Gentleman has rushed into print to accuse the Government of covering up information that he says was only exposed by the Yorkshire Post—a fine and wonderful newspaper, I should like to underline.
The hon. Gentleman's allegation is that throughout the autumn the Government conspired to keep from the public and Members of the House the fact that the Rural Payments Agency, having made payments to farmers, was then open to farmers coming back and asking for corrections. I have with me a press release dated 6 September 2006—fully three to four months before the hon. Gentleman woke up to this story—the second sentence of which states:
"Around 19,000 SPS claims together with 7,700 claims with horticultural authorisations are being reviewed to verify whether adjustments are required."
Some cover-up! That is a press release put on to the internet by the Rural Payments Agency. I suggest that the hon. Gentleman improves his research before he starts making allegations.
4. Mr. Andrew Pelling (Croydon, Central) (Con): What percentage of the population of (a) cod, (b) sole and (c) plaice are expected to be removed from UK seas per year under new quotas. [117813]


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NYPD Study: Implicit Bias Training Changes Minds, Not Necessarily Behavior
By Martin Kaste
As U.S. law enforcement departments are accused of racist policing, one of the most common responses by the people in charge has been to have officers take "implicit bias" training.
The training usually consists of a seminar in the psychological theory that unconscious stereotypes can lead people to make dangerous snap judgments. For instance, unconscious associations of African Americans with crime might make cops quicker to see them as suspects.
After the 2014 Ferguson, Mo., protests, states rushed to require the training. Now a majority do, with New Jersey joining the list late last month.
We MUST address the systemic and implicit biases that too often impact relations between law enforcement and communities.
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— Governor Phil Murphy (@GovMurphy) August 27, 2020
But despite the boom in implicit bias training, there has been little real-life research into whether it actually changes what police officers do on the job.
"It's like I'm offering you a pill to fix some disease, and I haven't tested to see whether it actually works," says Joshua Correll, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he studies racial bias. "Expecting that we can take people in and train them to reduce their implicit bias — I don't think it's been supported by the literature."
That's why Correll is excited about a new study at the New York Police Department that allowed researchers to track the effects of mandatory implicit bias training as it was implemented in 2018.
Their findings? As measured in surveys before and after their training, NYPD officers expressed more awareness of the concept of implicit bias and greater willingness to try to manage it.
"We could certainly say that the training can be credited with elevating officers' comprehension of what implicit bias is," says Robert E. Worden, director of the John F. Finn Institute for Public Safety in Albany, N.Y., and the lead author of the study.
But then the researchers examined data about NYPD officers' actions on the job before and after the training. Specifically, they looked at a breakdown of the ethnic disparities among the people who were arrested and had other kinds of interactions with those officers. And in those numbers, they found no meaningful change.
"It's fair to say that we could not detect effects of the training on officers' enforcement behaviors," says Worden.
Worden calls it a "null result": It doesn't prove implicit bias training changes cops' behavior, but it doesn't disprove it either.
The trainers are undeterred.
"We believe that our training reduces biased behavior on the streets of the jurisdictions where we train," says Lorie Fridell, the University of South Florida criminology professor who developed the "Fair and Impartial Policing" curriculum used in New York. "That the research didn't detect those changes in behavioral outcomes does not mean that they did not occur."
She points to the inherent difficulties in measuring real-life outcomes in policing, especially in a place like New York. Multiple other variables may have clouded the data, such as the city's preexisting efforts to reduce race as a factor in police stops.
The NYPD brass also doesn't seem to be bothered by the lack of change in behaviors.
"That wasn't the objective," says First Deputy Commissioner Benjamin B. Tucker. "The training was designed just to have them do some self-reflection and just to understand that any biases that they may have may creep into their job," he says. "That awareness, we think, adds value in and of itself."
Tucker says it's worth the $5.5 million it cost to train the department's 36,000 officers.
Anecdotally, police officers around the U.S. are getting used to the training and even warming to it.
"I think that even the most cynical cop out there would agree that prejudice on the street is a problem and you've got to try to do something," says Adam Plantinga, a San Francisco police sergeant who writes about policing.
Plantinga says his department's training was "pretty good," because it helped officers explore the unconscious associations that might affect their split-second decisions.
"If we approach a suspect who's reaching for his pocket," he says, "does that white suspect get a second or two more of a grace period than the suspect of color, before we draw our gun?"
But from a purely utilitarian perspective, do such moments of "self-reflection," as the NYPD's Tucker put it, actually lead to fairer policing, especially given the unresolved debate among researchers about how — or even whether — implicit bias governs behavior?
Correll, the psychology professor, says the training itself probably doesn't hurt, but there's an opportunity cost to consider, especially if the effort to "fix" implicit bias in officers displaces other kinds of training or gives a city an excuse to ignore factors that are external to policing.
"You don't need to intervene at the level of the individual [police officer's] brain," Correll says. "You need to intervene at the level of the culture," such as grappling with the reasons certain communities have more encounters with the police, such as poverty or public housing policies that end up concentrating particular ethnic groups in crime-prone areas.
Even one of the pioneers of the theory of implicit bias, Harvard University psychology professor Mahzarin Banaji, worries about the quality of implicit bias training for police.
"The teaching [of implicit bias concepts] has been in the hands of people called 'diversity trainers,' and they're like politicians — they don't have to have any expertise," Banaji says, referring to the decentralized, entrepreneurial reality of the world of police consultants and trainers.
She doesn't like the fact that departments usually make the training mandatory. That's likely to create resistance, she says, and it defeats the goal of convincing officers that they stand to benefit from understanding their unconscious biases and learning ways to compensate for them.
At the same time, she says, even the best implicit bias training shouldn't be expected to produce immediate changes in the behaviors of a whole police department.
"That, to me, is like saying, 'Can I give you a lecture on climate change?' and tomorrow you're going to stop driving your car and start taking public transportation," she says. "I don't think the question is commensurate with the behavior that they're measuring."
She believes there are still years of research ahead before we can say we know how to deal effectively with implicit bias.
Others are trying to make progress on that. Following the NYPD study, the next major attempt to test the effectiveness of implicit bias training on police is work being done by Lois James, at Washington State University. She's one of the developers of Counter Bias Training Simulation, a curriculum that uses video scenarios in shooting simulators to show officers the dangers created by implicit bias.
The hope is that a more hands-on experience will have a deeper impact, but she's not assuming it works.
"As someone who's literally developed an implicit bias program, [I think] it would be irresponsible for us to not test the outcome," James says. "It can't be just speculation."
She's in the middle of an experiment with the Sacramento Police Department in which some officers will get her simulator-based training, some will get traditional, seminar-style implicit bias training and some will get neither. Then her graduate students will review the body camera videos of officers' interactions with the public — before and after the training period — and score them for how civilly the officers treat each ethnic group.
James says she finds it "disheartening" that the NYPD study found no behavioral change, and she says, "Many people are expecting me to find nothing too, but we'll see."
Even if her study also finds no behavioral change, she says, "it doesn't mean we should eradicate implicit bias training. It just means we have to work harder."
Corrected: September 10, 2020 at 12:00 AM EDT
A previous version of this story incorrectly said that the training cost $5.5 million per year. The $5.5 million was to train officers over more than two years.
Martin Kaste
Martin Kaste is a correspondent on NPR's National Desk. He covers law enforcement and privacy. He has been focused on police and use of force since before the 2014 protests in Ferguson, and that coverage led to the creation of NPR's Criminal Justice Collaborative.
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This project is replacing the concrete tube OTAs (my tubeless Newtonians) with 3D printed OTAs. Each requires a mirror end, Focuser end, and two rings in the middle to stiffen the tube and connect to the mount. I bought a Creality CR10 3D printer which has a work surface of 300mm x 300 mm and a height of 400 mm (12"x12"x16") to print these for an 8" scope. Print times were 11 hours for the rings, 42 hours for the mirror end, and 47 hours for the focuser end.
Note that the mirror mount and secondary spider and focuser hole are built into the OTA. Mounting holes for the electrical conduits are also included are are the mount holes for the mount. This insures that the mirror and secondary are perfectly centered, and the focuser should be perfectly perpendicular. Since all the rings are exactly the same diameter there should be very little stress for twisting on the conduits. I am now working on the secondary mirror mount.