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What to watch: AstraZeneca remains in COVID-19 vaccine race, oil steady, Land Securities property value slumps
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Here are the top business, market, and economic stories you should be watching today in the UK, Europe, and around the world.
Astrazeneca remains in vaccine race
While Pfizer and BioNTech's preliminary vaccine results were the first to debut and move markets, other pharmaceutical firms will share their findings in the days and week ahead and could prove to be more effective.
One of Britain's largest drug companies, Astrazeneca (AZN.L), has been working with scientists at Oxford University and their vaccine is currently undergoing late-stage, mass trials.
There are around a dozen vaccines in the final stage of testing - known as a phase 3 trial - around the world. This is the critical point at which vaccines can either succeed and eventually be approved or fail.
On 21 October, it was announced that the Astrazeneca-Oxford vaccine trial will continue despite the death of a volunteer in Brazil. At the time, the country's health authority gave no details about the death, citing confidentiality protocols.
AstraZeneca said it will analyze data from its vaccine trials in November and December. If the results are promising, the company's chief executive announced last week that it would quickly ramp up manufacturing and obtain government approval in the US and in other countries.
Oil holds steady
Oil prices held steady about $40 (£30) a barrel on Tuesday as markets continue to rally on the heels of the COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough news.
The benchmark Brent crude (BZ=F) price was about $42 a barrel at 9am in London, up 0.5%. Crude (CL=F) was also up 0.5% at about $40 a barrel.
Oil prices gained the most since May on Monday following news that a vaccine developed by Pfizer (PFE) and BioNTech gave coronavirus sufferers a 90% success rate in preventing COVID-19 in a trial of over 43,000 participants. The UK is expected to get 10 million doses by the end of the year, with a further 30 million doses already ordered.
Both the Dow Jones (^DJI) and S&P 500 (^GSPC) surged to record highs following the news, and US futures continue to point upward in early trading in London on Tuesday.
READ MORE: Oil maintains gains as optimism abounds on COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough
Land Securities' mounting property loss
Land Securities (LAND.L), the FTSE 100 property company behind buildings like the famous Piccadilly advertising hoardings in London, has slumped to a half-year loss as the value of its buildings has dived.
The company said on Tuesday it made a pre-tax loss of £835m ($1bn) in the six months to 30 September. That compared to a loss of £147m in the same period a year earlier.
Mounting losses came as Land Securities slashed the value of its property empire by almost £1bn. The company said its property portfolio — which is mostly focused on London — was now worth £11.8bn, down £945m compared with a year earlier.
Land Securities owns office blocks, hotels, and high-quality retail space. The company said rental income was down 10% on last year.
READ MORE: Piccadilly landlord sees value of property empire plummet by £945m
European markets find calm after frantic rally on COVID-19 vaccine news
The euphoric rise of global stocks on Monday following news of Pfizer (PFE)-BioNTech's vaccine was met with a more modest rally on Tuesday in early trading.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson described news of the vaccine as "that toot of that bugle [which] is louder but still some way off," but it did succeed in offering markets a renewed sense of hope.
Britain's FTSE 100 (^FTSE) was up 0.4% and France's CAC 40 (^FCHI) also tilted higher 0.3%. Germany's DAX (^GDAXI) rose 0.3%.
Stocks futures in the US were also up, with the S&P 500 (ES=F) gained 0.1%, the Dow (YM=F) higher 0.2%, and the Nasdaq (NQ=F) rose 0.2%.
The optimism surrounding vaccines are also expected to remain as other pharmaceutical firms' results will be revealed in the days and weeks ahead, including Moderna (MRNA) and J&J (JNJ).
-With additional reporting from Oscar Williams-Grut
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The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. There are 715,072 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 715,072 confirmed cases (73,919 active, 623,033 resolved, 18,120 deaths).*The total case count includes 13 confirmed cases among repatriated travellers. There were 5,225 new cases Monday from 55,172 completed tests, for a positivity rate of 9.5 per cent. The rate of active cases is 196.65 per 100,000 people. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of 46,889 new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is 6,698. There were 80 new reported deaths Monday. Over the past seven days there have been a total of 990 new reported deaths. The seven-day rolling average of new reported deaths is 141. The seven-day rolling average of the death rate is 0.38 per 100,000 people. The overall death rate is 48.21 per 100,000 people. There have been 16,612,155 tests completed. _ Newfoundland and Labrador: 396 confirmed cases (nine active, 383 resolved, four deaths). There were zero new cases Monday from 122 completed tests, for a positivity rate of 0.0 per cent. The rate of active cases is 1.73 per 100,000 people. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of three new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is zero. There have been no deaths reported over the past week. The overall death rate is 0.77 per 100,000 people. There have been 76,491 tests completed. _ Prince Edward Island: 108 confirmed cases (10 active, 98 resolved, zero deaths). There were four new cases Monday from 251 completed tests, for a positivity rate of 1.6 per cent. The rate of active cases is 6.37 per 100,000 people. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of six new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is one. There have been no deaths reported over the past week. The overall death rate is zero per 100,000 people. There have been 86,471 tests completed. _ Nova Scotia: 1,557 confirmed cases (25 active, 1,467 resolved, 65 deaths). There were zero new cases Monday from 909 completed tests, for a positivity rate of 0.0 per cent. The rate of active cases is 2.57 per 100,000 people. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of 24 new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is three. There have been no deaths reported over the past week. The overall death rate is 6.69 per 100,000 people. There have been 196,719 tests completed. _ New Brunswick: 973 confirmed cases (305 active, 656 resolved, 12 deaths). There were 26 new cases Monday from 719 completed tests, for a positivity rate of 3.6 per cent. The rate of active cases is 39.26 per 100,000 people. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of 173 new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is 25. There were zero new reported deaths Monday. Over the past seven days there have been a total of three new reported deaths. The seven-day rolling average of new reported deaths is zero. The seven-day rolling average of the death rate is 0.06 per 100,000 people. The overall death rate is 1.54 per 100,000 people. There have been 128,996 tests completed. _ Quebec: 244,348 confirmed cases (19,936 active, 215,325 resolved, 9,087 deaths). There were 1,434 new cases Monday from 7,600 completed tests, for a positivity rate of 19 per cent. The rate of active cases is 234.96 per 100,000 people. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of 13,658 new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is 1,951. There were 32 new reported deaths Monday. Over the past seven days there have been a total of 352 new reported deaths. The seven-day rolling average of new reported deaths is 50. The seven-day rolling average of the death rate is 0.59 per 100,000 people. The overall death rate is 107.1 per 100,000 people. There have been 2,664,134 tests completed. _ Ontario: 240,364 confirmed cases (28,621 active, 206,310 resolved, 5,433 deaths). There were 2,578 new cases Monday from 38,983 completed tests, for a positivity rate of 6.6 per cent. The rate of active cases is 196.48 per 100,000 people. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of 21,244 new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is 3,035. There were 24 new reported deaths Monday. Over the past seven days there have been a total of 375 new reported deaths. The seven-day rolling average of new reported deaths is 54. The seven-day rolling average of the death rate is 0.37 per 100,000 people. The overall death rate is 37.3 per 100,000 people. There have been 8,672,567 tests completed. _ Manitoba: 27,629 confirmed cases (3,108 active, 23,748 resolved, 773 deaths). There were 118 new cases Monday from 5,188 completed tests, for a positivity rate of 2.3 per cent. The rate of active cases is 226.95 per 100,000 people. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of 1,181 new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is 169. There were four new reported deaths Monday. Over the past seven days there have been a total of 32 new reported deaths. The seven-day rolling average of new reported deaths is five. The seven-day rolling average of the death rate is 0.33 per 100,000 people. The overall death rate is 56.45 per 100,000 people. There have been 441,424 tests completed. _ Saskatchewan: 20,562 confirmed cases (4,265 active, 16,078 resolved, 219 deaths). There were 290 new cases Monday from 1,165 completed tests, for a positivity rate of 25 per cent. The rate of active cases is 363.14 per 100,000 people. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of 2,036 new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is 291. There were four new reported deaths Monday. Over the past seven days there have been a total of 20 new reported deaths. The seven-day rolling average of new reported deaths is three. The seven-day rolling average of the death rate is 0.24 per 100,000 people. The overall death rate is 18.65 per 100,000 people. There have been 322,431 tests completed. _ Alberta: 117,311 confirmed cases (11,923 active, 103,941 resolved, 1,447 deaths). There were 474 new cases Monday. The rate of active cases is 272.76 per 100,000 people. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of 5,220 new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is 746. There were 11 new reported deaths Monday. Over the past seven days there have been a total of 140 new reported deaths. The seven-day rolling average of new reported deaths is 20. The seven-day rolling average of the death rate is 0.46 per 100,000 people. The overall death rate is 33.1 per 100,000 people. There have been 2,979,663 tests completed. _ British Columbia: 61,447 confirmed cases (5,713 active, 54,656 resolved, 1,078 deaths). There were 301 new cases Monday. The rate of active cases is 112.65 per 100,000 people. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of 3,340 new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is 477. There were five new reported deaths Monday. Over the past seven days there have been a total of 68 new reported deaths. The seven-day rolling average of new reported deaths is 10. The seven-day rolling average of the death rate is 0.19 per 100,000 people. The overall death rate is 21.26 per 100,000 people. There have been 1,021,911 tests completed. _ Yukon: 70 confirmed cases (zero active, 69 resolved, one deaths). There were zero new cases Monday from 19 completed tests, for a positivity rate of 0.0 per cent. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of zero new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is zero. There have been no deaths reported over the past week. The overall death rate is 2.45 per 100,000 people. There have been 6,175 tests completed. _ Northwest Territories: 28 confirmed cases (four active, 24 resolved, zero deaths). There were zero new cases Monday. The rate of active cases is 8.92 per 100,000 people. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of four new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is one. There have been no deaths reported over the past week. The overall death rate is zero per 100,000 people. There have been 8,323 tests completed. _ Nunavut: 266 confirmed cases (zero active, 265 resolved, one deaths). There were zero new cases Monday from 216 completed tests, for a positivity rate of 0.0 per cent. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of zero new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is zero. There have been no deaths reported over the past week. The overall death rate is 2.58 per 100,000 people. There have been 6,774 tests completed. This report was automatically generated by The Canadian Press Digital Data Desk and was first published Jan. 19, 2021. The Canadian Press
NHL honours Willie O'Ree while struggling to tackle its diversity issues
Sixty-three years after Willie O'Ree became the first black player in an NHL game, the league paid tribute to him on Martin Luther King Jr. Day even though many say the league is still struggling with diversity issues.
Canadian snowbirds getting the COVID-19 vaccine in Florida face backlash from some residents
The story has made national headlines in the United States: Foreigners aged 65 and older in Florida, including Canadian snowbirds, are being offered the COVID-19 vaccine. Some snowbirds who made the journey to Florida this winter — despite Canada's advisory not to travel abroad during the pandemic — are counting their lucky stars, as they could wait months to get the shot in Canada. But they also face a backlash from some locals who argue non-Floridians shouldn't get early access to vaccines that are currently in short supply. "We're first. Get to the end of the line if they want to come," Florida resident Judy Allen told a local NBC TV station on Friday at a vaccine clinic in Sanford, Fla., north of Orlando. A week earlier, Canadian snowbirds Andrew Paton, 75, and his wife, Jill, 74, each got their first vaccine dose at a clinic in a gated community in Palm City, Fla., where they own a home. They're set to get their followup shot on Feb. 4. "I'm just glad I got it," said Andrew Paton, who is from Toronto. "Our American friends are thrilled. We're part of this community. Let's get everybody vaccinated if we can." But not everyone is on side. A few days after getting the shot, Paton said someone sent a letter to the board of his gated community, complaining that Canadian residents were offered the vaccine. "It's ridiculous," he said. "We're not taking it from anybody. Everybody in this community who wanted one could get one." Unlike Canada, Florida is offering COVID-19 vaccinations to everyone aged 65 and older during the first phase of its vaccine rollout. While the state discourages visitors from coming specifically to get the shot, seasonal residents are welcome to sign up. That policy has especially angered some Floridians who have yet to secure a vaccination appointment due to a slower-than-planned rollout. "They're taking it from people that are ahead of them … It's not their stockpile," said Clare Archer, 67, of Englewood Isles, Fla., south of Tampa. Archer is a dual Canadian-American citizen who grew up in northern Ontario and has lived in Florida for the past 25 years. She said due to the short supply of vaccines in her region, both she and her husband have yet to snag an appointment. And even though she has Canadian roots, Archer said she objects to snowbirds both travelling to Florida during a pandemic and getting the vaccine before some Floridians. "They absolutely should not be here," she said. "It's beyond infuriating." WATCH | Why Canada's vaccine rollout is so slow: Several Florida politicians are also angry. Last week, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez announced he's trying to revise the rules so that non-permanent residents in Miami are last in line to receive the vaccine. And on Jan. 10, Rick Scott, one of the state's U.S. senators, declared on Twitter: "Vaccines must go first to Floridians." It's up to each U.S. state to decide who gets priority during the vaccine rollout. In a news conference earlier this month, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis explained why he's not turning away seasonal residents who meet the current age requirement. "We're a transient state," he said. "People who are here, four or five months a year, they have relationships with doctors, they get medical care in Florida." Canadian snowbirds on Good Morning America Visitors in Florida getting the vaccine has become such a hot topic, the popular TV show Good Morning America covered the issue in a news segment on Friday. "Residents across America — even Canada and Argentina — flocking to Florida … leading to what some are calling vaccine tourism," the segment said. The story featured Canadian snowbirds Shelton and Karen Papple of Brantford, Ont. The couple travelled to their home in Fort Myers before Florida announced its vaccine plans, and are both scheduled to get their first dose on Monday. Papple, 66, told CBC Newshe has no qualms about getting vaccinated in Florida. "We live here, we pay taxes," he said. "We're all in this together. It's a world problem and everybody should be banding together." He said he also believes that reports of Canadians flocking to the state to get the vaccine are overblown, because there are plenty of hurdles. On top of securing a vaccine appointment, you must test negative for COVID-19 before travelling to Florida (effective Jan. 26); stay in Florida for up to a month to get the second dose; receive another negative COVID-19 test before returning to Canada; and quarantine for 14 days upon your return. But some Canadians are still willing to make the trip. Travel insurance broker Martin Firestone of Toronto's Travel Secure said about 100 of his snowbird clients who originally decided not to head to Florida this winter due to the pandemic are now planning to travel to the state to get vaccinated. But these aren't cases of "vaccine tourism," he said, because his clients plan to stay for the rest of the winter. "They all own property and are really just exercising their right, I guess, to head down to a state that is offering vaccines," said Firestone. Papple suggests that as Florida secures and doles out more doses, the backlash against foreigners like him getting the shot will calm down. "As things go along, the more and more people get vaccinated, I think that becomes a duller story." To help speed up the rollout, the state is now offering vaccine shots at a major pharmacy chain in the state. And more than a dozen federal lawmakers representing Florida, including Sen. Marco Rubio, have asked federal officials to beef up Florida's vaccine supply to accommodate its large number of seasonal residents.
Orléans garden centre closing after 60 years
After 60 years of nurturing and selling countless plants and blooms, as well as dispensing gardening tips to thousands of local green thumbs, J.A. Laporte Flowers and Nursery in Orléans has closed. Founded in 1960 by Thérèse and Roger Laporte, the mom and pop organization grew from one to 17 greenhouses, cultivating thousands of plant varieties. "It's not a decision we made lightly," said Jean Laporte, who along with his wife Estelle Laporte, took over the family business from his parents almost 40 years ago. The pandemic and the restrictions it brought to businesses created a number of challenges, including forcing the garden centre to reduce staff from 27 to six people and moving to curbside service. "We worked seven days a week, 16, 18 hours a day to maintain those greenhouses," said Jean. And although curbside business was brisk, with an estimated 500 customer orders served daily, it was exhausting. "I've said to myself that I would never go through a curbside year again," said Jean. "I mean, we'd be open till 4 p.m. and we'd go home full dead, like never before. " Customers thank the owners Long-time customers have flooded the company's Facebook page with good wishes, but also notes of sadness. "I have cried just hearing the overwhelming response that we're getting that is so heartfelt," said Estelle, who said before the pandemic, she'd greet returning clients as friends with smiles and even hugs. But the joy she felt helping customers make choices about what to plant disappeared with physical distancing rules. "It broke my heart when I would have to stand outside and run to the cars with orders," said Estelle. "I'd see customers in the distance waving at me and I couldn't get close to them." Jean said the most difficult aspect of the decision was telling his 95-year-old father, who started the family business so long ago, about the closure. Jean said when he visited his father and told him the decision was made for the good of the family, he understood. "He took it quite well. I was quite surprised and very happy of course."
WASHINGTON — Back when the election was tightening and just a week away, Joe Biden went big. He flew to Warm Springs, the Georgia town whose thermal waters once brought Franklin Delano Roosevelt comfort from polio, and pledged a restitching of America's economic and policy fabric unseen since FDR's New Deal. Evoking some of the nation's loftiest reforms helped Biden unseat President Donald Trump but left him with towering promises to keep. And he'll be trying to deliver against the backdrop of searing national division and a pandemic that has killed nearly 400,000 Americans and upended the economy. Such change would be hard to imagine under any circumstances, much less now. He's setting out with Democrats clinging to razor-thin House and Senate control and after having won an election in which 74 million people voted for his opponent. And even if his administration accomplishes most of its top goals in legislation or executive action, those actions are subject to being struck down by a Supreme Court now controlled by a 6-3 conservative majority. Even so, the effort is soon underway. Washington is bracing for dozens of consequential executive actions starting Wednesday and stretched over the first 10 days of Biden's administration, as well as legislation that will begin working its way through Congress on pandemic relief, immigration and much more. Has Biden promised more than he can deliver? Not in his estimation. He suggests he can accomplish even more than he promised. He says he and his team will "do our best to beat all the expectations you have for the country and expectations we have for it." Some Democrats say Biden is right to set great expectations while realizing he'll have to compromise, rather than starting with smaller goals and having to scale them back further. "You can't say to a nation that is hungry, uncertain, in some places afraid, whose economy has stalled out ... that you had to slim down the request of their government because you have a narrow governing margin," said former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, Biden's onetime Democratic presidential primary rival. New presidents generally enjoy a honeymoon period that helps them in Congress, and Biden's prospects for getting one were improved by Democratic victories this month in two Georgia special Senate elections. He may have been helped, too, by a public backlash against the deadly, armed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters. Biden's advisers have acknowledged they'll have bitter fights ahead. One approach they have in mind is a familiar one in Washington — consolidating some big ideas into what is known as omnibus legislation, so that lawmakers who want popular measures passed have to swallow more controversial measures as well. Another approach is to pursue goals through executive orders. Doing so skirts Congress altogether but leaves the measures more easily challenged in court. Trump made hefty use of executive orders for some of his most contentious actions, on border enforcement, the environment and more, but federal courts often got in the way. Biden's top priority is congressional approval of a $1.9 trillion coronavirus plan to administer 100 million vaccines by his 100th day in office while also providing $1,400 direct payments to Americans to stimulate the virus-hammered economy. That's no slam dunk, even though everyone likes to get money from the government. Any such payment is likely to be paired with measures many in Congress oppose, perhaps his proposed mandate for a $15 national minimum wage, for example. And Biden's relief package will have to clear a Senate consumed with approving his top Cabinet choices and with conducting Trump's potential impeachment trial. Nevertheless, the deluge is coming. On Day One alone, Biden has promised to extend the pause on federal student loan payments, move to have the U.S. rejoin the World Health Organization and Paris climate accord and ask Americans to commit to 100 days of mask-wearing. He plans to use executive actions to overturn the Trump administration's ban on immigrants from several majority-Muslim countries and wipe out corporate tax cuts where possible, while doubling the levies U.S. firms pay on foreign profits. That same day, Biden has pledged to create task forces on homelessness and reuniting immigrant parents with children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. He'll plan to send bills to Congress seeking to mandate stricter background checks for gun buyers, scrap firearm manufacturers' liability protections and provide a pathway to citizenship for 11 million immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children. The new president further wants to relax limits immediately on federal workers unionizing, reverse Trump's rollback of about 100 public health and environmental rules that the Obama administration instituted and create rules to limit corporate influence on his administration and ensure the Justice Department's independence. He also pledged to have 100 vaccination centres supported by federal emergency management personnel up and running during his first month in the White House. Biden says he'll use the Defence Production Act to increase vaccine supplies and ensure the pandemic is under enough control after his first 100 days in office for most public schools to reopen nationwide. He's also pledged to have created a police oversight commission to combat institutional racism by then. Among other major initiatives to be tackled quickly: rejoining the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal, a $2 trillion climate package to get the U.S. to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, a plan to spend $700 billion boosting manufacturing and research and development and building on the Obama administration's health care law to include a "public option." Perhaps obscured in that parade of promises, though, is the fact that some of the 80 million-plus voters who backed Biden may have done so to oppose Trump, not because they're thrilled with an ambitious Democratic agenda. The president-elect's victory may not have been a mandate to pull a country that emerged from the last election essentially centrist so far to the left. Republican strategist Matt Mackowiak predicted early Republican support for Biden's coronavirus relief and economic stimulus spending plans, but said that may evaporate quickly if "they issue a bunch of first-day, left-wing executive orders." "You can't be bipartisan with one hand and left-wing with the other," Mackowiak said, "and hope that Republicans don't notice." Biden had a front-row seat as vice-president in 2009, when Barack Obama took office, with crowds jamming the National Mall, and promised to transcend partisan politics. His administration used larger congressional majorities to oversee slow economic growth after the 2008 financial crisis, and it passed the health law Biden now seeks to expand. But Obama failed to get major legislation passed on climate change, ethics or immigration. He failed, too, to close the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which remains open to this day. Falling short on promises then hasn't made Biden more chastened today. He acknowledges that doing even a small portion of what he wants will require running up huge deficits, but he argues the U.S. has an "economic imperative" and "moral obligation" to do so. Kelly Dietrich, founder of the National Democratic Training Committee and former party fundraiser, said the divisions fomented by Trump could give Biden a unique opportunity to push ahead immediately and ignore conservative critics who "are going to complain and cry and make stuff up" and argue that socialists are "coming to kick your puppy." Biden and his team would do well to brush off anyone who doesn't think he can aim high, he said. "They should not be distracted by people who think it's disappointing or it can't happen," Dietrich said. "Overwhelm people with action. No administration, after it's over, says, 'We accomplished too much in the first hundred days.'" Will Weissert, The Associated Press
MAMUJU, Indonesia — Relief workers worked to clear up rubble of collapsed buildings Tuesday on an Indonesian island where a deadly earthquake left thousands of people homeless. The 6.2 magnitude earthquake Friday that killed at least 84 people was one of multiple recent disasters in Indonesia. President Joko Widodo, who visited a flood-hit area on Borneo island on Monday, visited the quake-hit areas of West Sulawesi province Tuesday to reassure people the government's response is reaching those who are struggling. He pledged to rebuild government buildings that collapsed and to help people rebuild their damaged houses with aid of up to 50 million rupiah ($3,560) as he toured the hard-hit city of Mamuju, a city of nearly 300,000 people and the provincial capital. "We hope with the assistance by the central government can hasten recovery of collapsed houses and economy," he said in a speech after visiting survivors being housed in shelters on a soccer field. "The government services should be returned to normal," he said. The National Search and Rescue Agency counted at least 30,000 survivors who have moved to shelters in Mamuju and its neighbouring district of Majene in West Sulawesi, as the government and aid agencies pooled efforts to meet the survival needs of shaken communities. Four days after the disaster, the streets of Mamuju were still covered in debris and most people have slept outdoors, fearful their homes would crumble if strong aftershocks come. Sniffer dogs were being used to search for bodies and possible survivors. The president had travelled Monday to flood-affected areas in South Kalimantan province on Borneo, the island known for rainforests and orangutans where floods since last week have inundated several regions. The floods killed several villagers and forced tens thousands of people to flee their homes. Floods also reported in many other provinces in the vast archipelago nation. Widodo said rainfall caused the floods in South Kalimantan, but environmentalists blame deforestation by mining, palm oil and agricultural industries. The quake and flood disasters follow a deadly landslide in West Java on Jan. 9 that left 40 people buried in tons of mud. On the same day, a Sriwijaya Air jet nosedived into the Java Sea, killing all 62 people on board. Indonesia also last week began vaccinating health workers with a COVID-19 vaccine in a campaign that aims to immunize two-thirds of the population in the world's fourth most populous country. It has confirmed more than 917,000 infections and 26,000 deaths from the pandemic, the most in Southeast Asia. And on Saturday, Mount Semeru, the highest volcano on Indonesia's most densely populated island of Java, spewed hot clouds as far away as 4.5 kilometres (nearly 3 miles). The eruption caused panic but no casualties. Indonesia, home to more than 260 million people, is lined with seismic faults and is frequently hit by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis. Annual monsoon flooding also causes problems, and its transit infrastructure is often weak and stretched beyond its capacity. ____ Karmini reported from Jakarta. Niniek Karmini And Yusuf Wahil, The Associated Press
Roberts to swear in yet another president who opposed him
WASHINGTON — Someday, perhaps, John Roberts will swear in a new president who doesn't wish someone else was chief justice of the United States. Wednesday won't be that day. When Roberts leads President-elect Joe Biden in the oath of office, security will be unusually tight following the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, and inaugural events will be curtailed because of the coronavirus pandemic. But it will be the fourth time that Roberts will stand across from a man who either voted against his confirmation to the Supreme Court or has made no secret of his unflattering views of the chief justice. Biden was one of 22 senators who voted against Roberts in 2005. Another was President Barack Obama, who twice took the oath from Roberts. President Donald Trump has castigated the chief justice as a "disgrace" for his role in upholding Obama's health care overhaul. Roberts presided over Trump's first impeachment trial last year and could preside over his second, as well. Roberts is far from the only justice whose confirmation Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris opposed. Biden, who was a senator from Delaware for more than 35 years, also voted not to confirm Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. Harris, a California senator, cast votes against the nominations of the three Trump appointees to the high court: Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. It's the first time in American history that the incoming president and vice-president have together voted against a majority of the court. The unusual milestone reflects that both halves of the Democratic ticket served in the Senate at a time of increasing political polarization that found full expression in Supreme Court nomination fights. "It's more partisan, more polarized, more contentious than at any time since" after the Civil War, said Richard Friedman, an expert on Supreme Court history at the University of Michigan law school. But Friedman and others dismissed the idea that bruised feelings would play any role in how justices decide cases. "It's a remarkable thing what life tenure does. It can diminish the force of any kinds of grudge. You don't need to get back at anybody," Friedman said. Deanne Maynard, an appellate lawyer who served as a Supreme Court clerk in the 1990s and also worked in the Justice Department, said it would be a mistake to think justices allow personal feelings to influence decisions. "The court likes to think of itself as approaching, and does try to approach, every case on its facts and on its own law. I can't imagine the justices are thinking back to the tally in their confirmation hearings when they decide any given case," Maynard said. Roberts' record on issues that were important to Obama and Trump offers support to the idea that deciding cases isn't personal. He cast the decisive vote and wrote the opinion that upheld Obama's health care law in 2012. He also upheld Trump's ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries in 2018, then ruled against Trump on other immigration-related cases, including the administration's failed effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census and wind down protections for about 650,000 immigrants brought to the country illegally as children. Biden and Harris also are taking office at a time when the court is more conservative than it's been since the early days of the New Deal and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration. If the administration runs into trouble at the Supreme Court, it's likely to be over a clash of ideologies. The court's conservatives "are not going to necessarily like big pieces of legislation," said University of South Carolina political scientist Jessica Schoenherr. When Roberts joined the liberal justices in the 2012 "Obamacare" case, four conservative justices were prepared to strike down the law in its entirety. Efforts by the new administration to reverse Trump positions on some issues also could meet resistance on the court, Maynard said. "To the extent it is a situation where the Biden administration might take a different view, then I think that's where the composition of the court might matter," she said. Presidents don't always see eye to eye even with the justices they put on the court. In addition, preserving the court's independence is practically an obsession of Roberts', Friedman said. "All justices are very conscious of their role," he said. "They may not always be totally dispassionate, but it's not as if they go in saying, 'I like this president, let me do him a favour.'" Trump has criticized his three appointees for failing to take his side in election challenges. President Theodore Roosevelt was enraged when Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes voted against the president in a major antitrust case. "Out of a banana I could carve a firmer backbone," Roosevelt said of Holmes. President Dwight Eisenhower also soon regretted his choice of Chief Justice Earl Warren, referring to the man who led the court during its liberal era "the biggest damned-fool mistake I ever made." Mark Sherman, The Associated Press


Wanted to let you know you can paint metal patio furniture. I did and it came out great. A good quality spray paint is the answer.
Today is themed furniture day and the theme is "outdoor furniture". Not only is my project super simple…..it's budget friendly. Gotta love that.
We have a set of outdoor furniture that includes a large round table and two of the original four swivel rocking chairs. The set is 20+ years old and it was pretty expensive when new back in the early 90's….it was made to last. The metal frames are heavy and that's a plus.
The chairs are super comfortable and they swivel and rock. The original mesh in the seats gave out several years ago. At the time I decided to redo the seats. Boy was that a job. I searched the fabric stores for outdoor fabric to match the 90's blue color of the frame. I found one design at the time and when I looked for similar fabric recently I didn't have any luck.
Removing the original fabric from the tubing and replacing it with the new fabric was very, very, difficult. I'm sure there is a special tool just for this type project but I love doing things the hard way. Once…..never again.
When the replacement fabric on two of the chairs gave out we tossed the chairs. I know…..bad.
The paint on the chairs and table is faded and a little grungy. Well, guess what….I painted over it all….no cleaning…..who has time for that. You would never know all that grunge is under the new coat of paint.
The miracle worker is RustOleum Metallic Spray Paint. It's a paint and primer in one and the color is Oil Rubbed Bronze (Amazon affiliate link, read the disclosure here).
I tested the paint on the fabric to be sure it was fabric friendly and wouldn't become hard or flake off. The fabric is plastic or Teflon coated…. or something. I checked the fabric the next day and the paint adhered just fine and it didn't make the fabric feel funny. I decided the project was a go.
The chair turned out beautifully. I love RustOleum spray paint. It sprays evenly and covers so well. I had that chair painted in about 15 minutes, top to bottom and back to front!
Now I need to paint the other chair and the table. We have two hard plastic outdoor chairs that are a really dark gray/black and the oil rubbed bronze color matches those chairs pretty well. So we have a set of four chairs for the table.
It took one can of spray paint to cover the chair. You may be able to get by with less. I tend to go a little nuts with spray paint….overkill for sure. Since replacement chairs cost much more than a can of spray paint, it's a win-win.
I painted a vintage glider recently. You have to see it and the color I chose. Click here….Vintage Metal Glider.
Time to take the "Outdoor" tour. Click the photos below. Let me know which is your fav makeover. Have a great day and I'll see you next week!
Oh Kathy- this looks fabulous.
I can't even imagine how hard it was to replace the 'fabric'.
It turned out great. I love Rust-oleum products too. Your chair turned out great! Thanks for sharing with us at Merry Monday.
I have a green metal outdoor table I want to paint, but I am hesitant because it has a glass top. I am trying to figure if I should just tape and cover or take off the glass, any ideas.
Hi Sue, My table also has a glass top and when it gets cool enough outside (if ever) I'm going to tape that sucker off and paint it with the glass in place. Hope this helps. Thank you for the sweet comment!
It's good to know the paint will cover the mesh fabric. I had wondered about using it on a fabric like that. Thanks for testing it out! It looks great!
I think you're right, that was a win-win!!! Chair looks great and how nice not to have to mess with the fabric again! Good Job!
The Rustoleum ORB paint is one of my favorites as well. It did wonders for your chair and I'm sure you will love it even more when you finish the entire set!
Looks great, not ready for the trash pile yet!
My table matches your chair. Great minds think alike. I love the paint you chose too. I would love to share a ice cold glass of lemonade with you this summer sitting in your freshly painted chair. Fabulous!
It does match. I have to paint my table now. It's a large round one. It will go easy…after I get the glass top taped off!!
Looks like a new chair! Love it! It is always fun to see how much a little paint can transform something!
I used to have chairs similar to that and gave them to my son. I'm definitely showing him how he can refresh them in a new color that works better with his new house. They don't make them like that anymore so it's worth the refresh rather than replacing them. Gotta love Rust-oleum spray paint – it's my go-to paint as well!
What a difference! It looks so much better now! Great job as always!
Bravo! I have done the same to my glider swing and patio furniture and it lasts for years. Cheap and easy fixes are the best!
I would love a tutorial on how to change the fabric on the chairs and where to find the fabric! We have the same chairs and one of ours tore in the seat! Yikes! I'd love to re-do and save some money! I'm thinking I will paint our chairs too! Love this idea! I had no idea you could paint the fabric and it would stay! Bonus!
Shane, I replaced the fabric years ago….way before I started this blog. It was very time consuming and hard to get the fabric in the channels and stretched really tight. The best I remember it involved sewing the fabric around the piece that fits in the channel and then feeding the two pieces into each side. Wish I did have a tutorial for you. I bet you can find one on Google!
Ok so I can't just choose 1 because I love them all !
I've used this paint before. It works great, but my only complaint would be that the colors it comes in are so limited. Great project!
What an improvement! Spray paint works wonders, doesn't it?
The seats on our outdoor chairs are wearing out and I've got to figure out how to replace them. I'm kind of bummed that you know from experience that it isn't an easy job.


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By Dave Curtis and Marin Independent Journal | Marin Independent Journal, MediaNews
MILL VALLEY — Darren Williams pitched a two-hitter and Ted Medina and Pablo Artero each drove in a run as the 10th-seeded John F. Kennedy High-Fremont baseball (13-12) defeated No. 7 Tamalpais (16-11) 2-0 in the first round of the North Coast Section Division III baseball playoffs on Tuesday.
Williams allowed singles in the first and sixth innings and retired 12 batters in a row at one stretch for the Titans, who will play second-seeded Sir Francis Drake-San Anselmo on Saturday night in San Rafael.
"Darren came out and pitched a heck of a game," Kennedy coach Kevin Lydon said. "That's the first game he's thrown seven innings all year, so that was very much a surprise."
"My fastball and my curveball were working," Williams said. "I tried to get in my split-finger a couple times but that wasn't working very well. … This was the best game I pitched this year. This was probably my best game in a long time."
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Avid readers of this blog will no doubt remember that over summer we welcomed Marcus Green to our Moodle development team. As Senior Developer, Marcus takes the lead on many of our bespoke projects, and he's certainly hit the ground running at Titus Learning.
Here, Marcus gives a quick round-up of some of the exciting work he and the team have been doing this term – some of which is still a work in progress.
I have worked on the creation of Titus Wall, a Moodle plugin that allows students to post images and links to videos within a course. It has a social element in that students can "like" the posts of other students by clicking a heart image.
Students can flag posts made by other students if they are of concern and the tutor will be notified. I have also worked on a custom plugin for awarding badges based on when a student's post has been rated by another student.
The Moodle assignment module offers teachers enormous power and flexibility but sometimes this comes at the price of complexity that can be off putting. The Homework block offers a simplified interface to the assignment module making it easier to create and mark assignments.
I have worked on improvements so the teacher is presented a list of subjects to select from rather than a free-form text box. This makes it easier to analyse data – for example maths homework will be listed as 'Maths' and not either 'Maths' 'Math' or 'Mathematics'.
We have added an archiving feature so that after a pre-set period following the submission deadline assignments are archived to a hidden area of the course. This presents a clearer course structure to students allowing them to focus on current assigned work.
We have been testing the MoodleBox installation of Moodle, which is a version that runs on the Raspberry Pi single board computer. This is small enough to fit in one hand including a battery power source and will work as a WiFi access point so making it usable in remote areas without any Internet access.
It is a fully featured installation of Moodle that will run standard plugins and we are exploring possibilities of co-operating with charities that look after education in remote areas of the world.
I have created and maintain the single most comprehensive diagram and documentation of the Moodle database available anywhere.
The Moodle database has grown in complexity and now includes around 400 tables. This diagram is useful for both developers and report writers as it helps to understand the relationships between the tables.
Keep an eye on the blog to see the official announcement as each of these projects goes live. In the meantime, if you've got a Moodle puzzle which you'd like our team to solve, please get in touch.


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Yakuza Zero will be the first game to really challenge your Japanese this year
Last updated on March 19th, 2020
Out on the street, running through Kamurocho. Not quite sure what I'll do today. The sun is sparkling, no street punks in sight. The world is yours. Go for shopping at the nearby コンビニ or just head over to your Hostess Club to have a look what your girls are up to. Yakuza is an open world game and a great one to say the least.
Where is another portable Yakuza entry?
Home consoles are not selling well in Japan anymore. After the Ps2 era and the Wii it went downhill. A steady decline in sales and earthquake like decline for the current gen consoles. Which still brings up the question why there hasn't been a new portable entry in the Yakuza series. I played the first one, クロヒョウ 龍が如く新章 (Yakuza Black Panther in the West) and loved it. Instead of a real tough criminal you're playing a young delinquent. Very much in the tradition of Kenka Bancho and the whole bunch of school/fighting manga out there like Crows and Worst. The gameplay remains the same and is equally fun on a portable system. Considering the state of consoles in Japan today it really would make sense to bring the series to a portable platform again. Just imagine it on the Vita. Would look stunning, play great but probably not sell so well because of the abysmal install base of the Vita.
Next gen Yakuza and the upcoming Yakuza Zero 竜が如くZero.
Are there any great current gen games worth importing? The only titles that come to mind on the PS4 are Yakuza Ishin and the upcoming Yakuza Zero竜が如くZero. I played a little bit of Kenzan a couple of years back which marked the first Samurai spin-off in the Yakuza series. But the setting just didn't do anything for me. Really prefer the raw streets of Tokyo and Neon lights instead of swords and feudal intrigues. Maybe because it reminds me so much of Tokyo Drifter. The classic film by Japanese director Seijun Suzuki pretty much captures the whole essence of the Yakuza series in it's heiday for me. Set in the 80's, a hard boiled movie with outlaws out for trouble. A film between gritty gangster movie and concrete and poetic fever driven visuals.
Set before the first entry of the series which once released for the PS2, Yakuza Zero will take us back to Kamurocho when all the characters were still young and full of energy. I think it's a pretty smart choice to locate the new entry of the series before the whole Yakuza saga. You can start out fresh. There are no boundaries story wise. Sure you have to include the main characters but otherwise you can pretty much do whatever you want. After all the story doesn't have to connect end to end with Yakuza 1.
Every girls dream, become a hostess in a Yakuza game.
Let's call it a yearly tradition. The casting for the girls who'll later be "scanned" and then become a part of the game inside the hostess clubs is a big event. Or at least I think it's a big event. Or better the Sega marketing team makes us believe that it's a big event. Girls from all over the country gather for an interview to become par of the game. And it's understandable. Just think how awesome it might be if you become a part of an video game. A character the players can interact with.
If I were a Japanese girl (and a good dancer which was one of the necessary features) I'd instantly hop on the hype train and take part in that casting. If you guys have seen the creator of the Yakuza series you might wonder how easily the casting votes may be pushed to a specific choice. He definitely looks a bit "mysterious" to say the last. There are probably several ways for a participating girl to stand out. Just think about it which video game is hosting a casting event. A big public one solely to choose the girls who will later be part of the game. It's a little sketchy on one hand on the other it's pretty cool and on a totally different hand it's very Yakuza.
That just reminds me how English speaking players were complaining when they took out the Hostess Clubs in Yakuza 3. Some people were furious. It's always been a gamble if Yakuza games were localized in the Ps3 era (and the struggle continues). But even if we finally got a translation there were still enough complainers around. Seriously, the voiced minority of the gaming community can be a pain in the ass.
Play Yakuza Zero even if you don't know Japanese.
The game isn't even released yet but as soon as it does I will gather all the available guides no matter if English or Japanese and include them here. Everything that helps people who don't speak Japanese to play Yakuza Zero will be included in this place. After all the game is very story heavy and only the cutscenes are voiced (which is really annoying). Just remember that "brrrr", "brrrr" whenever you hit the ok button in a dialogue. Horrible. Or charming, your choice. There is always the possibility to sweet talk a games flaws. Because of all the Yakuza slang and just the sheer amount of dialogue Yakuza Zero will be a tough one for us Japanese leaners. Again, the guides will come in very handy for us as well.
No English released date for Yakuza Zero in sight.
We did wait years for Yakuza 5 to finally be announced for the West. 2.5 whole years did it take for the title to be translated and distributed for English speakers. Digital only, coming this summer. The chances are pretty slim for Yakuza Zero to make it down to Western communities within the foreseeable future. Sega is pretty much bankrupt and the whole series was never a good seller over here. They probably won't bother. If you want to pay the game your best chance is to import.
Buy Yakuza Zero at cdjapan PS4 / PS3 (pre-order bonus included)
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What are your thoughts on the Yakuza series in general. More fans around here? And are you having plans to pick up Yakuza Zero as well?
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5 Underrated Sam Rockwell Movies to Watch
ByBee15
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Tagssam rockwell, sam rockwell movies, sam rockwell SNL, snl, three billboards
People know lots of Sam Rockwell movies. As he himself mentioned in his SNL monologue, he's 'that other guy in that movie' you like. Remember the charismatic villain from Charlie's Angels? Yup, that was him. But mostly, everyone has slept on Sam Rockwell. Not me though. I've been in love with him since feverishly scribbling quotes in my notebook from the 1998 indie film Lawn Dogs. Now that he seems to finally be getting some real recognition, at least in award form, (he just won the golden globe for best actor in a comedy), something tells me a lot more people are going to be talking about the allure of Sam too. But don't expect to see Rockwell starring in the next Marvel movie either. (At least, I hope not.) In the past, his most interesting roles haven't been in huge blockbusters (also the reason he's not a ubiquitous name) but in more thoughtful, off the beaten path films. Now that Three Billboards is turning out to be a mega hit, (though a somewhat divisive one) Rockwell's more in the spotlight than ever before. To further catapult him into people's homes, the actor hosted SNL this Saturday for the first time. But before you see all that, go back to the beginning and journey through some of the most underrated Sam Rockwell movies you maybe haven't seen. It's sure to be an entertaining ride.
1. Lawn Dogs. This small, quirky movie about a heartwarming, if unconventional relationship between a lawnmower and a young girl sounds quite relevant, and controversial in today's current climate. However, the nuanced performances from Sam Rockwell and a very young, terrific Mischa Barton prove that not every relationship of that type is bad. In fact, in the case of Lawn Dogs, it's pretty poignant.
2. Moon. Part 2001: A Space Odyssey, and part Alien, the 2009 Sci-fi film stars Sam Rockwell in a mostly solo role. Only second to computer, GERTY. Funny enough, the voice of Kevin Spacey. This film may not be a classic, but it's definitely worth a watch. And at almost a decade old, it showcases what some already knew; Sam Rockwell is a terrific actor.
3. Matchstick Men. Rockwell stars in the Ridley Scott drama as a con man learning the ropes opposite Nicolas Cage. It's an underrated film featuring fast talking and quick banter; two of my very favorite things. Also a trait that many Sam Rockwell movies seem to possess.
4. Joshua. As far as thrillers go, this won't be making any top ten lists. But what Joshua lacks in certain areas it makes up for with its actors performances. In this case Sam Rockwell and Vera Farmiga as parents who bring home a new baby daughter to their son, and begin to deal with the consequences. Watch it on Amazon here.
5. Box of Moonlight. There's no way of completely knowing what kind of Sam Rockwell movies are going to come our way after the mainstream success of Three Billboards. But, if you're craving some small, indie flicks, another to add to the roster is Box of Moonlight. In the same vein of Lawn Dogs, it's super quirky, very independent, but also, unique. If you love movies, I highly recommend giving it a chance.
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Monika on January 15, 2018 at 11:46 am
I love how he said during his acceptance speech that it's actually nice to be in a film that's being seen lol I'm sorry for actors like him, must feel a bit desperate sometimes… Anyway, I gotta admit I haven't really seen many of his films either, I just know his name… so this list is great for me! Thanks 🙂
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Everblessed in an exploration of church and dancehall culture in Jamaica; a meditation on the sacred and the profane and the fine line between them.
Everblessed (2016)
Nile Saulter and Jeremy Relph
Nile Saulter is a Jamaican director, cinematographer, photographer, and founding member of New Caribbean Cinema. His short films have been exhibited at The British Museum in London, The Michael Werner Gallery and the Grace Exhibition Space in New York. Various works have been screened at festivals in Toronto, Nigeria, Trinidad, Barbados, Cuba, St. Lucia, Jamaica, and London, where his short film Coast won the award for Best Cinematography at the Portobello Film Festival. He's been sent on commercial assignments to both Brazil and Senegal, and has shot several short, fashion and documentary films for various regional and international brands.
Jeremy Relph is a journalist who specializes in stories set in crisis areas. He has an MA from the University of Manchester's Creative Writing program and has published widely in publications including the New Yorker, Business Insider and the Toronto Star. He received a grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting for his work on the crisis level violence in Honduras. He is currently focusing on San Pedro Sula, Honduras' homicide department.


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BBC Business Unit Producer and Industry Veteran Mantej Deol Joins The 10 Group in Advisory Role
By Eddie Hammerman
Senior Business and Economics Unit producer joins agency after three decades in BBC newsroom.
The 10 Group has appointed former BBC Business and Economics Unit senior producer Mantej Deol in an advisory role.
Reporting into CEO and founder Elaine Stern, Deol will be responsible for helping grow The 10 Group's broadcast newsroom function with a focus on corporate storytelling. She will be working with clients to help them create compelling stories for business news audiences.
With a career spanning over three decades, Deol has worked across the BBC's national newsroom as well as internationally, having run the Asia Business Bureau between 2002 and 2004 reporting across China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan and other nations. She also served as a reporter and producer at BBC Westminster, reporting on national political stories and party conferences throughout John Major and Tony Blair's years as Prime Minister.
More recently, Deol has played a key role in the development of high profile stories across the BBC's nine networks, sourcing interviews ranging from Twitter founder Jack Dorsey to Hermes CEO Axel Dumas.
The announcement follows a significant period of growth for the agency, after a string of recent wins for new and existing clients including Meta, Sonepar, mthree and Genpact.
Mantej Deol says: "I'm delighted to be joining the team at such an exciting time, working with the newsroom team to craft truly unique stories, continue growing the agency's international client base and driving forward its ambitions. I'm excited to become part of The 10 Group's distinctive blend of content creators, journalists and amplifiers in this next phase of growth."
Elaine Stern, CEO at The 10 Group, says: "Mantej's experience in building meaningful stories aligns closely with our creative vision at The 10 Group. Mantej has built a strong reputation in the industry over the past few decades, and I look forward to bringing her into the business to further hone our editorial and broadcasting mindset to marketing."
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An appraisal is an important part of a Highlands NC real estate transaction. While a REALTOR will conduct a CMA (comparative market analysis) of a home to suggest a fair market price for selling, the reality is that a home is only worth what a buyer is willing to pay. The snafu can occur when the appraisal takes place because a lender is only willing to lend an amount based on what a home is appraised at.
A low appraisal is, of course, great news for a buyer. What buyer is not thrilled for a bargain these days? Of course the home will only be a bargain if the seller is willing to come down from the price. This is an ideal scenario for a buyer if it works out in his favor.
If the seller will not come down in price then the buyer has the choice of paying more than what the Highlands property is worth or walking away from the deal. A loan for more than a home is worth is tough to get so to close in this scenario a buyer would have to come to the table with a larger down payment.


Acupuncture can increase the probability of success of IVF and IUI in a number of ways.
Increase the uterine lining thickness. A major cause of infertility and IVF failure is a thin uterine lining, or inadequate blood flow to the uterus. Research and clinical experience show acupuncture has great ability to stimulate blood flow to reproductive organs and in many cases thicken the uterine lining.
Increase the probability of implantation. A study performed by a German medical group found that women undergoing IVF became pregnant at a rate of 26%. When acupuncture was done before and after the transfer procedure, the success rate climbed to 43% – a 60% improvement in outcome.
Improve sperm quality. Men can benefit from fertility treatment as well. Several studies show that acupuncture improves all 3 parameters of sperm quality – sperm count, sperm motility, and the percentage of normal sperm.
Relieve stress. IVF is one of the most stressful events a woman can go through. Acupuncture is particularly able to relieve stress and achieve relaxation. This not only makes the process more pleasant, but increases the probability of success as well.
Relieve side effects. The drugs used during IVF and IUI often have unpleasant side effects. Acupuncture can reduce or eliminate those side effects, making the experience far less stressful.
At Libertyville Acupuncture we keep current on all the research on acupuncture and fertility, and offer the most up-to-date advances in the marriage of modern Assisted Reproductive Technology and the ancient art of acupuncture.
We make acupuncture affordable so you can come in often enough to really get better. Cost is just $45-$55 per treatment.


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This weekend, on Sunday, October 1st, a rare and joyful event takes place in our parish community. Brendan Gallagher from Dunhill will today be ordained a permanent deacon for our diocese by Bishop Cullinan. Originally from Kilmacthomas, Brendan is a cabinet maker by profession, and is married to Bridget, and they live in Dunhill. They have five children; Mark, Brian, Tracey, Emma and Ben. Having felt a call to become a deacon, Brendan applied to the diocese and spent four years training, which included periods of pastoral work, academic study and liturgical formation.
Brendan will be stepping into a ministry that has deep roots in the life of our Church. Since the time of the apostles, deacons have played an integral role with regard to ministry in the life of the Church. The word 'deacon' means 'servant', and in the Acts of the Apostles, we find that the first deacons were ordained to assist the apostles in the distribution of food to the poor (c.f. Acts 6:1-6). A deacon was essentially a man chosen from the Christian community and ordained as a servant of Christ. It is therefore a ministry rooted in Christ the servant. The deacon's ministry was closely connected to that of the Bishop, in that a deacon was ordained primarily to serve his Bishop and assist him in various ways, such as bringing the bread and wine to the altar at Mass, visiting the sick on his behalf, assisting with baptisms and proclaiming the Word of God.
As centuries passed, the ministry of permanent deacons declined, so that up until the 1960s, virtually all deacons were 'transitional deacons', i.e. men who were ordained deacons on the path to priestly ordination. This is because the diaconate is the first stage of Holy Orders. With the second Vatican Council, however, a renewed emphasis was placed on the permanent diaconate, where older men, whether single or married, could offer their lives and their talents for the service of Christ's Church once again. It is only in recent years that our own diocese has begun to adopt this programme. Brendan will be the second permanent deacon ordained for Waterford and Lismore; the first was Lazarus Gidolf, who was ordained in June 2015 and who currently ministers in the Clonmel area.
The ministry of the deacon today is generally much broader since the time of the early Church. Brendan will exercise his diaconate in three key ways: (1) assisting at liturgies, especially the Mass, (2) proclaiming the Word of God and preaching on it, and (3) performing works of charity and service in Christ's name. These include various roles such as presiding over public prayer, administering Baptism, assisting at and blessing marriages, bringing Viaticum to the dying and conducting funeral rites. In each of these, the faithful recognise in the deacon the presence of Christ himself, who came not to be served but to serve. It will therefore fall to Brendan to minister and serve in Jesus' name in these roles in the coming years. We in Tramore pray for him, that his ministry may bring abundant fruitfulness and joy both to him and to all whom he serves.


Glamorgan has its own claimant to the title of Camelot. Welsh Historians, Blackett & Wilson explain all.
The Theory: Blackett & Wilson claim that their King Athrwys of Gwent & Glywysing, an historical monarch of controversial early 6th or mid-7th century origin lived at the real Camelot. This, they locate at Castle Field in Graig-Llwyn near Lisvane (Glamorgan). Castle Field has sulphur pits nearby which lead Blackett & Wilson, like Barber & Pykitt, to derive the name Camelot from Caer-Melyn (Fort of Yellow). The name was apparently rendered Castrum Mellitus (Fort of Honey) by the Romans; hence Caer-Mellit or Camelot in French.
Modern Archaeology: Castle Field is a very small Iron Age hillfort, seventy-nine metres long by fifty metres wide. It has close-set multiple defences, whose banks appear to be mostly of earth with no sign of stone revetments. There have, as yet, been no archaeological excavations on the site.
Possible Interpretations & Criticism: This ancient site at Craig-Llwyn seems rather small to have been the chief residence of King Athrwys of Gwent & Glywysing, let alone the great city of Camelot. On the whole, Barber & Pykitt's identification of Caer-Melyn as Llanmelin near Caerwent is to be preferred. Perhaps future archaeological investigation will finally settle the matter.


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Category: American Un-Commonwealth
USA, the Entropocracy
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"A thermodynamic quantity representing the unavailability of a system's thermal energy for conversion into mechanical work often interpreted as the degree of disorder or randomness in the system.
"The second law of thermodynamics says that entropy always increases with time.
Lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder."
Nearly three decades ago, when our son was an undergraduate geology student, he came home one day bubbling over with enthusiasm. "Did you know that everything can be explained by thermodynamics?" he said. "Everything?" I squinted. "Everything!" he repeated. So it's ironic that today, a generation later, I should start this piece with a definition of entropy, in an effort to explain the "decline and disorder" in the country where I was born and raised, baptized, deflowered, drafted, and discharged, the United States of America.
One possible definition of a "country" is a group of people with an abiding sense of shared destiny, a conviction that they're all in it together. That goes for all of the countries of Europe and a lot of others around the world, most of them actually, except for the United States. They're almost all in it for themselves. Seen from here, the state that comes closest to the world norm in this respect is Massachusetts. They actually had the audacity to call themselves a "commonwealth."
Nor is toxic American individualism a recent phenomenon. This is from Alexis de Tocqueville's book, Democracy in America (1840):
…a new expression to which a new idea has given birth … a deliberate and peaceful sentiment which disposes each citizen to isolate himself from his fellows and to draw apart with his family and friends … [abandoning] the wider society to itself … [sapping] the virtues of public life … [and finally being] absorbed into pure egoism.
Ruthless Competition, Maximum Profit, Powered by Patriotism
How did the Americans manage to miss the common-good boat? Early on they adopted individualism as a national philosophy. That, of course, precluded any form of collectivism or joint solutions to the challenges of their society. As time went by the American people assimilated that gravely flawed–in terms of uniting, consolidating and advancing a country–idea. Not only that, they elevated it to a virtually religious belief, one that cannot be questioned. Any deviation from the gospel of American individualism is seen as sinful. It didn't take long for powerful special interests to adopt the self-made-man mantra and adapt it to their own needs, starting with no-holds-barred competition. Profit became king and commonwealth was replaced "patriotism," a much more flexible, less specific concept that could be easily converted into a tool of manipulation. This phenomenon is most evident in the process of arming and training young American men and women for war and sending them to far-off foreign lands, then bringing them back in black, heavy-duty-plastic body bags.
Without patriotism, it would be much more difficult to embark them on such a fool's errand. Patriotism soon morphs into a variety of nationalism capable of justifying everything, from the extinction of most of Guatemala's indigenous people to reducing Iraq to rubble and anarchy. What to say about their penchant for starting wars and then losing them? Considering their military wherewithal, is losing even a possibility? More recently the Americans were driven out of Syria. And just a few days ago we are informed that President Trump has decided to "withdraw" from America's longest war, in Afghanistan. Justin King, "Beau," the genial southern journalist who presents his lucid take on the news daily on YouTube, admonished recently., "Don't believe that 'withdrawal.' What has happened to the Americans in Afghanistan is that they have been defeated."
A Recipe for Ruin
The very notion of a country based on laissez-faire, every-man-for-himself principles inevitably brings with it the loss of national consensus, coherence, identity, and general wellbeing. Absent these factors that give meaning and direction to national policy–to the commonwealth–what happens next responds to pure thermodynamics. Remember the second law? "Entropy always increases with time," which aptly explains what's going on politically in the United States today. Seen in terms of plain everyday logic nothing seems to make any sense. Voters vote against their own interests. Initiatives to thwart voter turnout are rampant. Congress passes tax cuts for the rich. Bare-faced lies pass for truth. Trickle-down economics is alive and well. Issues that affect all citizens equally–the environment, climate change, racial equality, universal education… have either been abandoned utterly or are in the process of being mutilated beyond recognition. Candidates arise from seemingly random, highly unqualified sectors of the society, and obey criteria that don't make any sense. Highly-placed-but-culturally-limited figures in the American administration under President Donald Trump speak in terms of "sound theological principles" in government and in private rely on "The Rapture" to solve all the country's problems. This is not just a violation of the separation of church and state, it's rule by nonsense. Good government shouldn't depend upon miracles or biblical prophecy, and to pretend that it should is to drive the country even further down the road to ruin.
What the Americans Are Best At
Not surprisingly, the things that Americans are best at have to do with mind control: advertising, persuasion, brainwashing and, above all, fabricating and selling their quintessential lies. If they decide to implement a long-term regime-change project in an oil-rich country–say Venezuela–they must have, of course, a good reason. They do have one, and it's always the same. It's a lie but they can skip lightly over that hardly-relevant detail. They're going into those countries (or sending their proxies in) to oust repressive dictatorial regimes and replace them with democracy. It's not about oil. It's about freedom.
That weary old saw–or some variation on it–has been used time and again over many decades to justify American conceived and financed wars, proxy wars, takeovers, subversions, false-flag operations, genocides and other violations of international law. Legality is irrelevant to them. They have absolute veto power in the United Nations since its creation in 1945, and they refuse to recognize the authority of the International Criminal Court. Does this sound like the very definition of a rogue country? Well, yes, but the formula continues to work for them. Is that because they are big, have paved the world with military bases, and are armed to the teeth? That's a possibility, too.
The other flimsy pretext for American meddling in other countries' affairs is "anti-communism," the eternal constant in the American muddle. Communists are not necessarily the devil, though they have been demonized in the US as if they were. In fact, the world's most civilized countries–those of Western Europe–have drawn many principles that have contributed to their highly-successful social-democracy model of society straight from Marx and Engels. European workers have a month's vacation from day one. Is this why the United States is out to break the back of the European Community, starting with the British Brexit?
What Happened to the American Dream?
The American Dream is the Americans' most wonderful lie, the magical gossamer strand that sustains their whole house of cards. "You, too, can be rich! If you're not rich it's because you don't work hard enough, or you're somehow defective." And that bit of cheap doggerel is what powers a presumably-well-educated, first-world country of more than 300 million people. At this stage in the first quarter of the 21st century, the American Dream has succumbed to entropy. It was inevitable, due to the very nature of American society from the beginning.
Do you have trouble relating to physics? This same message can also be expressed–perhaps even better–in poetry:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
William Butler Yeats, 1920
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Sworn to a Great Divide är ett musikalbum av Soilwork, utgivet 2007. Det är det enda albumet av gruppen med gitarristen Daniel Antonsson, som ersatte Peter Wichers när denne lämnade bandet 2005.

Låtlista
 "Sworn to a Great Divide"
 "Exile"
 "Breeding Thorns"
 "Your Beloved Scapegoat"
 "The Pittsburgh Syndrome"
 "I, Vermin"
 "Light Discovering Darkness"
 "As the Sleeper Awakes"
 "Silent Bullet"
 "Sick Heart River"
 "20 More Miles"
 "Martyr" (bonusspår)

Musikalbum 2007
Album av Soilwork


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Photography of five wars
He photographed five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second China-Japan War, and World War II across Europe, the Arab-Israeli War in 1948, and the first Indo-Chinese War.
He followed World War II in London, North Africa, Italy, the Battle of Normandy on the Omaha coast, and the Paris Liberation Movement.
When photographing dramatic moments, attention to technical issues was of secondary importance to this famous photographer.
His thrilling photographs, including those taken during the invasion of the Normandy in 1944, were able to uniquely capture the violence of war.
Establishment of Magnum Photo Agency
In 1947, Robert Capa, along with three other photographers, Henry Cartier-Bresson, George Roger, and David Seymour, founded the Magnum Photo Agency.
Robert Capa was able to capture what was going on in the wars and the emotions of that environment in his photographs with extraordinary ability because he had felt the war with his skin and bones.
Capa recorded his most famous work in June 1944, the day of the Battle of Normandy.
He swam near the shore like other soldiers that day, but instead of a gun, he armed himself with his camera.
Photography in war
In the first few hours, Capa took 106 photos of the enemy's attack and aggression.
A member of Life London magazine over-placed the films in the dryer in the darkroom, melting the emulsion of the negatives and ruining three and a half of his films.
In total, only 11 frames were obtained. Life magazine published 10 frames of those photos in its June 19 issue.
Goodbye in front of the camera
In the early 1950s, Robert Capa traveled to Japan for an exhibition by the Magnum Photo Company.
Life magazine asked him to go to Southeast Asia, which was involved in the first Indo-China war.
On May 25, 1954, as he was crossing dangerous areas, Capa got out of his car and climbed up the road to photograph it.
About five minutes later, an explosion was heard, with Robert Capa's foot on a mine.
He was still alive when his colleagues arrived at the scene, but his left leg was dismembered and there was a deep wound in his chest.
The famous photographer was taken to a small local hospital but died on arrival. He said goodbye to the world with the camera in his hands.
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Lucy Parker presents a year's research into the illicit practice of blacklisting employees in the construction industry. It's an informative, timely and interestingly framed exhibition of her gathered materials.
Video interviews with blacklisted construction workers sit alongside the official documentation surrounding the recent revelation of this practice. In 2009, a blacklist containing upwards of 3,200 names was discovered. Passed between construction companies, it ensured that individuals with ideas of unifying the workforce in any way would be known and punished with unemployment in the sector.
In this exhibition Lucy Parker presents the findings of a year of research into the practice. Suggestions are also made as to appropriate aesthetic strategies and the forms a film on the subject may take. For this reason, there are manuals and video tutorials on jump cuts and double exposures, alongside more straightforward texts on the practice and consequences of blacklisting.
Official governmental documents that are presented in the space are parts of reports and records. Their expression and syntax is almost impenetrable. This particular kind of obfuscation is presented alongside the much more accessible video interviews. In these, Parker interviews some of the affected people, who narrate and reflect on their particular hardships.
In one video work, Parker records a creative writing workshop in which a blacklisted person describes extreme difficulties in obtaining work. His writing is then analysed and criticised, with suggestions for bettering the work. There's discomfort, for some members of the group, in editing notes taken at the time of the difficult events. What's most important, according to one participant, is that the story is given its most effective form.
Parker subtly questions the validity of re-presentations that have been made by different genres of documentary sources, whether her own videos, testimonies by those involved or bureaucratic expressions. With so many lost and unhelpful sources of information surrounding the illicit practice of blacklisting, information comes ready processed and with some loss. In a context already saturated by myriad conflicting public and private demands, Parker rightly takes more care with the look and form of her future film rather than putting faith in a drily documentary objectivity.
Lucy Parker's Blacklisted continues in Rhubaba Gallery until 6 December.


The Melbourne artist's latest is a silky smooth little pop dream.
I am a 23-yr-old singer/songwriter from Melbourne. I juggle leading my own eight-piece live band, playing in Cousin Tony's Brand New Firebird and running a small clothing label GONZO.
A mix of electronic, indie, soul, R&B and pop.
I usually make demos on my laptop, write a tonne of lyrics in cafes and then take them to my legend of a producer Matt Neighbour. We record most of it in his studio, and on occasion record the drums at Sing Sing.
Can you tell us about your new single, Better Person?
This song is very special to me. It describes my journey of independence and striving to be the best version of myself. The song originally was about the perspective you gain while travelling overseas, how you do all you can to bring that into your real life. However, as I was recording the song, I went through a break-up. It was a really difficult time but the song turned into a message to myself; that you can't rely on anyone else to make you happy. You have to look within yourself to find the strength to thrive.
My next show will be the launch of my new EP early next year.
I'm going to be focusing all my time on writing new tunes. I really want to tackle an album, I think I'm ready.
Perth's BATS give us the rundown on their debut album, Truthless FaithlessOfficially out today and ready to kick your arse.
Tiny Little Houses tell it how it is on Entitled GenerationThe lo-fi Melbourne rockers are releasing their debut album Idiot Proverbs on January 12.
Just in time to soundtrack your upcoming, hopefully sunset-drenched, summer.
The masked bandits know how to work a camera, worked by Jackson Greatz.
The band never short of shenanigans.
The Central Coast lads are about to embark on a big tour as well.
Meet your newest Unearthed High winners.
The German group return with a fuller sounding release, that still has some of their debut's lesser elements.


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Nicolas Alexis Julio N'Koulou N'Doubena
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Date of Birth: Mar/27/1990
Place of Origin: Cameroon
Nicolas Alexis Julio N'Koulou N'Doubena (born on March 27, 1990 in Yaoundé), commonly referred to as Nicolas N'Koulou, is a Cameroonian footballer currently playing for Ligue 1 side AS Monaco.
N'Koulou began his career at Kadji Sports Academy in Douala. The same academy that produced the likes of Samuel Eto'o, Carlos Kameni, and Eric Djemba-Djemba. In late 2007, it was announced that he was acquired by the principality-based side AS Monaco FC. He agreed to a three-year professional contract.[1] He spent the latter portion of the 2007-08 season playing with Monaco's CFA squad, before joining the squad for preseason in July 2008, where he was handed the number 3 kit.
He made two appearances during the pre-season starting their opening friendly match against fellow Ligue 1 side Toulouse FC and also starting against Croation side NK Zagreb. He made his professional debut on September 13, 2008 in a 2-0 victory over FC Lorient starting the match before being substituted in the 65th minute. He has started every match since playing the full 90 minutes in them all. He has yet to score a goal.
N'Koulou was included in the Cameroon U-23 squad that participated in the 2008 Summer Olympics. He helped the squad reach the knockout round, where they were eliminated by Brazil. He would make his international debut in the senior squad on November 19, 2008 in a friendly against South Africa.
Nicolas N'Koulou
His performances with Monaco have led to him being scouted by several prominent European clubs. The English clubs Arsenal[2] and Hull City[3], Spanish sides Sevilla and Atlético Madrid[4], and French champions Olympique Lyonnais have all declared their interests in the Cameroonian defender.[5]
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