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Former Pakistani president Musharraf pleads not guilty to treason
Supporters of former president Pervez Musharraf, head of the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) political party, chant slogans during a protest demanding a fair trial for him in Karachi on March 30, 2014. Mr Musharraf, on Monday, March 31, 2014, pleaded not guilty to five counts of treason, in the latest chapter of a long-running drama between the country's increasingly assertive judiciary and its former military ruler. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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ISLAMABAD (REUTERS) - Pakistan's former president, Pervez Musharraf, on Monday pleaded not guilty to five counts of treason, in the latest chapter of a long-running drama between the country's increasingly assertive judiciary and its former military ruler.
Musharraf faces the death penalty if convicted of the charges over his suspension of the constitution and imposition of emergency rule in 2007, when he was trying to extend his rule as president.
Judge Faisal Arab, who heads the special panel of three judges trying the case, rejected a defence plea for additional time.
Musharraf stood ramrod straight and replied "Not guilty" to each charge.
"I would like to ask where is the justice for me in the Islamic republic of Pakistan ... I have only given to this country and not taken anything," Musharraf said. "I prefer death to surrender."
The case is being closely watched for any impact on the relationship between Pakistan's three power centres - the historically powerful military, an increasingly independent judiciary and the civilian government, led by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Some observers are concerned that the trial could anger the army, which has ruled Pakistan for more than half its history since independence in 1947.
Musharraf has told reporters the whole army supported him, though the military leadership has given no indication that it might intervene in the trial.
Musharraf's lawyer later asked the court for permission for his client to visit his sick mother in Dubai. The former military ruler is currently under house arrest. The court promised to rule on the request during the day's proceedings.
Musharraf's trial began last November, but faced repeated delays. First he refused to appear. Then a series of explosive devices was found planted along his route.
On January 2, he was rushed to hospital when he suffered chest pains on the way to court.
Musharraf's lawyers have challenged the court's jurisdiction, saying it was inherently biased because the judiciary had helped lead popular protests that led to his resignation in 2008.
They argue that Musharraf cannot receive a fair trial under the government of Mr Sharif, who won landslide elections a year ago. Musharraf deposed Sharif in a coup in 1999.

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Home / Comics / IDW Games to publish CHEW tabletop game
IDW Games to publish CHEW tabletop game
Jason May 22, 2014 Comics, News, Tabletop Gaming Leave a comment 1,617 Views
Actually, make that a series of tabletop games as the publisher is set to deliver a whole banquet of CHEW titles.
"I love working with IDW. I love the people there, and am always in awe of their commitment to quality," says CHEWcreator John Layman. "We're gonna do everything we can to make the CHEW game every bit as awesome as the rest of IDW's stuff. I'm excited and grateful for this opportunity, and Rob [Guillory] and I are going to be deeply involved in this thing– every step of the way!"
"IDW has always loved working with John Layman and Rob Guillory," says IDW's Director of Business Development Jerry Bennington. "CHEW has grown into an amazing project, and we're excited to bring it to the fans in a brand-new way. We're looking forward to putting Tony Chu in all kinds of bad positions, and letting fans step in to save the day."
And there will be a multitude of 'bad positions' as there will be a whole bunch of games to play featuring Mr. Chu. IDW promises everything from board to card to dice games with each one being a "stand-alone" title and capable of being an experience unto itself- so we're not talking a series of interconnected titles here.
For their part in things, series creators Layman and Guillory will be remaining on hand throughout development of the games to keep things in line with what fans of the comic would expect from a related product.
You can expect to see Chew-branded titles to start showing up and taking a bite out of retail sometime next year.
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At an ancient crossroads on the edge of the Fonthill Estate, Dan Brod and Charlie Luxton's Georgian pub-with-rooms is a 'popular, good-value' spot.
More than a century old, this former seafarers' hotel is in a quaint street in the city's historic maritime district. It takes its name from the famous shipping line. A Fuller's pub, the bar stocks draught ales and a large selection of gins and wines. In the panelled dining room, menus of classic fare are served for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Cosy, contemporary bedrooms are located on 'decks'. Upper Deck rooms are the most spacious; bathrooms have a roll-top bath.
Off the beaten track, four miles south of Taunton, a relaxed and dog-friendly rustic inn with wooden floors, exposed stone walls, leather sofas and a log burner. Perfect for pre and post bracing walks, the welcoming bar serves an extensive range of Somerset ales, and there is hearty fare in the oak-beamed restaurant. Bedrooms have views of rolling countryside.
Nestling by a church, a traditional, family-run country inn with a bar, comfy sofas and good food in two restaurant areas. The 17th-century building is close to Montacute House; Yeovil is a thirteen minute drive.
Close to the Ridgeway path (Europe's oldest pathway), a small, friendly pub serving cask ales from local and micro breweries, and tasty food. The original well can be viewed through a glass panel in the restaurant floor. Comfortable accommodation is in an annexe; pets are welcome in ground floor rooms. 3 miles N of Marlborough.
Bedecked with hanging baskets, a friendly local on the high street. It is owned by Wadworth, an independent brewer based in Wiltshire. Comfortably furnished bedrooms (quieter at the back) have restful tones and some original features. Real ales at the bar; pub dishes (sausage and mash, pie of the day) are sered in the characterful wood-panelled dining areas.
Updated in colonial style, a dog-friendly red-brick pub in a leafy residential area close to the village of Canford Cliffs and a beach. It has ornithological and botanical wallpaper and fabrics, dark wood shutters and screens; natural tones and materials in spacious bedrooms. Pub classics and sharing platters are served in the large conservatory (a riot of patterned floor tiles and exotic palms in up-cycled storage crates) or in one of the tropical Tiki huts in the garden.


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A little more about the man whose work inspired our range of tools …
Viktor Schauberger was an extraordinary man, a visionary with a new, integrated way of understanding the processes of nature. A forester by training, he lived in Austria in the first half of the 20th century. Through observation of the workings of nature in the forests under his care, he developed a view of the Earth as a living entity, with water as her lifeblood, a living fluid.
"Even in earliest youth my fondest desire was to understand Nature and through such understanding to come closer to truth; a truth I was unable to discover either at school or in church."
Viktor Schauberger
Viktor Schauberger rejected academic training as a young man, preferring to learn from experience in the woods and mountains while he did his work as a forester. He was a patient, intuitive man. He had opportunities granted to very few today – he could observe Nature in her raw state, undisturbed by human technologies. In the mountains where he wandered, some areas had hardly ever been visited by humans before. How many of us, in the course of our work, have stumbled across the place where the chamois go to die? And seen the flowers that grow on their grave?
He learned from what he saw, the ways of Wise Nature, as he called it. He developed an understanding of the way that Nature worked. He then, much later, developed practical applications based on what he had observed. The copper tools project was an exception – most of his inventions were to do with water. They led to his being given the nickname 'the water wizard'.
The copper tools project
From his understandings of the ways of living Nature and his experience as an engineer, Viktor came to the assessment that cultivating the soil with copper implements would be more beneficial to the Earth and lead to healthier plants. In his writings, he listed several reasons for this.
Primarily, he believed that using iron or steel implements to work the soil was detrimental. Everything in Nature is in movement, moving towards either growth or decay. If metallic iron is exposed to the weather it will rust and decay in a relatively short time. He could not see the logic of trying to encourage plants to grow using a material that is in a process of decay. Copper, on the other hand, is much more stable. Nuggets of metallic copper have been found in the Earth. It is not antagonistic to the Earth, is not in a process of decay. (In fact, it actively resists harmful bacteria. More about this on the copper page of this site.)
Secondly, he believed that on planet Earth, growth occurs in cooling conditions, in the medium of water; and decay occurs in conditions of warmth: the medium of fire. That is why compost heaps get hot. The heat encourages the constituents of the heap to break down, to be accessible for the next cycle of growth. Iron has greater frictional resistance than copper. This means that as an iron or steel ploughshare is dragged through the soil it heats up. Copper and its alloy, bronze, are smoother than iron, so the tool stays cool as it moves through the soil.
And thirdly, iron is a sparking metal. A spark is a discharge, a loss of energy. Viktor Schauberger believed that as the groundwater makes its way to the surface, it acquires a weak electrical charge. This charge is part of what nourishes the plants. Using iron tools depletes the groundwater of this charge, leaving less for the plants. Copper is a non-sparking metal, so there is no loss of energy in this way.
In the late nineteen-forties he collaborated with an academic from Salzburg to institute some field trials to test this idea. They grew a range of eight crops over fourteen trials, cultivating each test plot half with a copper-plated plough and half with a conventional steel plough as a control. The results were consistent. The crops cultivated with the plough with copper ploughshares had larger, healthier yields and fewer pests.
Despite the success of the trials, for various reasons he was not able to go into commercial production. However, his family kept his ideas alive and in the late 1990's a coppersmith was invited to develop a range of garden tools, inspired by Viktor Schauberger's work nearly half a century previously.
The golden plough revisited – Jane's story
The copper-plated plough used in the Salzburg trials came to be known as the 'golden plough'. There is a diagram of a plough in Callum Coats' book about the work of Viktor and Walter Schauberger, 'Living Energies'. Shortly after the launch of Implementations, as a tribute to Viktor Schauberger, I decided to try to make the plough, based on that diagram.
An engineer agreed to make it, and after much difficulty with deciphering the small diagram and working out how to make the template, he managed to make a copy. This was trialled at the Biodynamic Association conference, Botton Village in 2004. It almost worked, but not quite. The engineer then moved on to other ventures, I had neither the skills nor the resources to carry on the project myself, and so it was shelved again.
However, various things have been learned. When the engineer and I trialled the plough, one clever man asked – what is your archetype? All we could say was – we copied Viktor's drawing. I now realise that simply won't do, for me anyway. When I am dealing with living things, I want to bring as much of myself as I can to the process. That is what Viktor did and that is why he is such an inspiration. He made a connection with the essence, the life of water and from that connection had understandings that were not accessible in any other way. He loved the water and the trees and was greatly saddened when the logging flumes he designed were used to denude the mountains. He had a reverence for nature that made it safe for these living processes to reveal their secrets to him. That's how I see it now. It's what humans can do. Then the skills they have acquired in their life determine the applications they can make and what they can do with the understanding.
After that trial, I decided to focus on what I could do, so I wrote a book about Viktor Schauberger, trying to see the world from his perspective. For me now, it is greatly enriching to know I can engage with the natural world in a similar way to the way Viktor Schauberger did. That is the most important part of his legacy for me.
The official Viktor Schauberger website is run by PKS, the society established by Walter Schauberger and now run by his son and daughter-in-law.
To see a project developing applications of Viktor Schauberger's work, have a look here.
A Conversation with Frau Ingeborg Schauberger
Frau Schauberger is the widow of Walter, Viktor Schauberger's son. At the time of our conversation, when she was 89 years old, she was living in the family home in Bad Ischl, upper Austria. Each time I saw her she was wearing the traditional Austrian clothes, the close fitting tailored jacket and a dirndl skirt. Although she is less than five feet tall, she has a powerful presence. She shows a sharp intelligence. She speaks some English, more than my German, so our conversation was mainly in English. She was concerned that she would not be able to express herself well in English, so at each meeting we had an interpreter sitting with us.
Frau Schauberger died on Saturday 3rd June 2017, at the age of 101.
Thank you for agreeing to talk to me about your memories of Viktor Schauberger.
Goethe talked about the difference between poetry and reality. A large poem can come from a small core of reality. I want to tell the reality about Viktor Schauberger as I remember him. There are not many people alive now who knew the real Viktor Schauberger.
I only knew Viktor for a short time, from 1952 until he died in 1958. I did not spend a lot of time with Viktor. Walter and I lived in Bad Ischl, and he lived in Linz.
He was one of the special men of the twentieth century. But by the time I knew him, he was disappointed about many things. It was always the same, all his life. His ideas always fascinated people, but few people could put it into practice.
The Schauberger family has a long tradition of working in the woods. Do any family members do this work still now?
Viktor was the last. He had grown up north of Linz, in an area of original woodland even now. This is rare in Austria these days. He was a soldier for four years in the first world war. He fought in Russia, Italy, Serbia and France, and was wounded. After the war, he worked in the wild woodland until 1924, then his forestry work was finished. After he built the logging flume (his first invention, which brought him to the attention of a wider audience), he was invited to work in Vienna. He was the last one in his family to work in the woods. Now nobody does that work. There is no hunting, nobody works in the wild woodland.
What did Walter and Viktor talk about?
Walter said, 'Help Nature, help the trees. We have to have many more trees, more woodland. The first task for the woodland is to bring the water into existence. What can we do for Nature, what can we do for the woods, and what can we do for the woods and the water together?' He always talked about this.
This was a time of industrial growth, the time of the German postwar economic miracle. Everything had to be bigger and better. These two men, Viktor and Walter, said it is not good to always have bigger and bigger. They said you have to look, where is the concentration, the essence, what is important for the whole of life. For Viktor and Walter, this was the important thing. How they could put this idea across so that people could understand it.
What did Viktor talk about?
Viktor Schauberger always said, 'Think about Nature. Nature has to have a long time to grow. So natural things do not happen immediately.'
He used to say to Walter, 'Now, everything is more expensive than water. But you will see, the next war will be about oil. And even more than oil, about water.'
He always said, 'CAN'T YOU SEE IT? Can't you see the water climbing up in the trees, 30 metres or more? There is no pump in the Earth! Nature works silently, without heat or pollution. In industry there is always noise and heat and pollution.'
He said that with the way industrial society has built up, now we are up to our necks in problems, we are drowning in difficulty. What can we do to get humanity back to the right way? He said, 'Who will speak for the water? For the Earth?' Nowadays, things are a little better than in Viktor's and Walter's time. The times are turning towards Viktor Schauberger's way of thinking.
Viktor wanted to provoke people, to make them think. He would say to the engineers and professors, 'You don't know. You can't even tell me how a blade of grass grows. And if you can't tell me that, then what about the trees?' Then he would put on his hat and leave.
He was a compelling speaker. When he spoke, everybody listened to him, and they understood what he meant. But when they went away and tried to remember it, the influence diminished. They remembered the feeling, not the understanding. They didn't remember what they had understood when they were in his presence. It was as if a connection had been cut.
He had a group of devoted supporters, who loved to listen to him speak. Afterwards, they would say, 'That was excellent!' But when he asked them what they had understood, their jaws dropped and they said nothing.
My father-in-law was an impatient man. Sometimes he was angry and frustrated that his life was too short for him to put across all his ideas and the whole of his vision. He said, 'Can't you understand me?' Looking back, I can see that he was unhappy. He spoke and spoke and spoke, and nobody seemed to hear him. It was like talking into thin air. And many of the people who did listen to him, they wanted immediate answers. For Viktor and Walter, the understanding of Nature came first. The machines came much later.
For Viktor, his life's work was to speak to everybody, to make people think. He knew he had to put across the whole of his vision before he died. By the time I knew him, I think he could feel his approaching death. This gave him an extra sense of urgency. He had a very clear vision of what was needed. For him, it was simple. So he was very impatient when people did not understand.
I think now that he began to have doubts towards the end of his life. He began to wonder if he had achieved anything at all. His ideas were so simple and evident to him, but nobody else seemed able to grasp them.
The tragedy of Viktor Schauberger was that he was unable to communicate what was so clear to him. He knew that people did not understand, but he never asked if the reason for this was with him. It was always everyone else who was at fault.
Another problem was that he did not trust people. He made everything himself, because he did not trust other people to get it right. I think he was afraid that people would take his ideas and use them wrongly, either through ignorance or intent. His work was so unconventional, so extraordinary, that some people thought it was trickery. This was not helpful.
Viktor and Walter thought the same things. Why did they disagree?
They had the same idea, but father said, 'Sorry, it's my idea!' He was often angry with Walter. There was a lot of difficulty between the father and son. Viktor always said, 'Be quiet, you don't understand what I mean!'
Viktor came from intuition. His three older brothers all had an academic education, and were distinguished men. But Viktor did not trust the thinking of people who had studied academically. Viktor believed that a person's thinking is spoilt by academic training. Academic training prevents people from appreciating the ways of Nature.
Walter had studied Engineering at the Technical University. Viktor did not like to share his ideas with him. He was afraid that Walter would explain his ideas incorrectly, that he would say things Viktor could not accept.
One day, father came to Ischl. He and I had a discussion. I said, 'Father, it is not so. Walter knows these things too.' Viktor asked me, 'Do you support Walter?' I said 'Yes, I stand by him in what he does, and I know that Walter also has an intuitive understanding of the ways of Nature.' Viktor reluctantly accepted this, and after that he never said another word against Walter. They worked well together in the end, in the last two or three years of Viktor's life.
In the end, Viktor said to Walter, 'I think it is good that you studied academically. You can speak with the academics, the engineers in their language.' Because nobody understood Viktor's language. They were reconciled, and this made Walter very happy. After that he was more settled.
Walter respected his father and his ideas. Walter would translate his father's ideas in a way that people could understand. Walter was intuitive too. He was the sort of man who could see that a woman was pregnant before she knew it herself! He could bridge the two worlds – he was intuitive and academically fluent. Viktor also bridged two worlds, from that of the old knowledge from his own father to the present. Viktor was a hundred years before his time.
And then there was the American episode.
We don't know the exact background of the American adventure. Nobody knows exactly what happened, and many people speculate about it. In 1958 two men, two Americans came here. They promised Viktor mountains of gold. They said, 'Anything you want, Viktor, you can have. It will be possible to bring it all with you. Come with us to Texas.' Viktor understood no English, and Walter only spoke basic English. He was only interested in the language of Mathematics and Physics. There was a translator, a naturalised German-American. He said to me, 'No word. Don't talk about this to anyone. We are watching you.'
First they went to New York. There was an official welcome. 'What luck for America, what luck for you,' they said. They spent three or four days in New York then flew to Dallas. Then they drove out into the desert. They were provided with a bungalow in the desert. And so Viktor and Walter asked, 'When can we begin to work?' 'You must have time to acclimatise,' they said. But there was no work, no target. Walter did not know why they were there. They always had the feeling that they were being controlled.
Viktor became ill and went into the hospital. They did everything possible, anything he wanted, first class treatment. But nobody in the USA told the family in Austria that Viktor was ill. We didn't know he was ill.
He wanted to come back home. They said, 'If you want to return to Europe, you must sign this document.' He had to promise not to speak about his ideas. If he had any new ideas, he was not allowed to speak to anybody about them. Only to the Americans. He was forced to sign this document. Five days after his return, he died. Before he died, he always said 'I can't say anything. They have taken my words.'
After Viktor's death, an American came and apologised to Walter for the way they had been treated. But he couldn't explain why it had happened, either. Later, other Americans came, five or six of them at different times. They all said, 'You will have to excuse the treatment you had. Not all Americans are so bad.' But Walter had nothing to do with Americans after that.
Tell me about PKS (Pythagoras-Kepler School).
Walter started the PKS. He felt that his life's work was to explain the principles behind Viktor's system. Walter studied Kepler's ideas very intensively, and saw the correspondences with Viktor's intuitive knowings. He looked for a mathematical explanation of Viktor's system. Kepler's work with the movement of the planets was a good starting point.
And Pythagoras?
Pythagoras is almost too far back in the past, but what he learnt in Egypt also has resonances with Viktor's ideas. Pythagoras was the grandfather, Kepler was the father and Viktor was the son. Each picked up the baton from his predecessor and passed it on. With each of them the expression is different, but the core principles are the same.
(Joerg (her son): Pythagoras and Kepler were both heroes for my father, as they brought the idea of Harmonics into Physics and Astronomy. They led my father to his Natural Tone Law – Natur-Ton-Gesetz – with hyperbolic cones and the hyperbolic spiral as manifestation of harmonics in evolution. That is why the PKS symbol is a hyperbolic spiral.)
I know about Viktor Schauberger's ideas from reading Olof Alexandersson's book, and Callum Coats' translations of his writings. So his message is reaching out to people now.
Olof Alexandersson came here in 1959. He was the first outsider to make connection with Walter. I don't know where the connection came from. He came here six or seven times, and they kept in contact. He was a great help for us, and still is. Everybody who read his book said, oh, what a man Viktor was! Olof and Walter had an academic relationship. With me, it was a personal friendship.
Callum Coats first came to Bad Ischl one year after Viktor died, with his mother. His mother knew Richard St Barbe Baker, and he introduced her to the Schauberger family. I remember when Callum came. He stepped into the PKS office and saw the spirals drawn on the walls. At that moment, a big door opened for him. It was a life-changing moment. The memory of those spirals stayed with him. Later, he came back and worked here. Callum is a dear friend of mine. I think that wherever Viktor is, he is very pleased with Callum. "
Jane Cobbald
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Fire Chief Accused Of Showing Up Drunk To Scene Pleads Guilty
Filed Under:Cash Cortazzo, Drunk, Fire, Fire Chief, Fire Department, Intoxicated, Kimberly Gill, Port Vue
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PORT VUE (KDKA) – A local volunteer fire chief who responded to a call while drunk will not face jail time.
Cash Cortazzo, the fire chief in Port Vue, was in court today. His charge went from public intoxication to disorderly conduct. He was ordered to pay a $100 fine, plus he has to stay enrolled in an alcohol rehab program.
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The situation started back on Sept. 17 when Cortazzo was called out to a vacant house fire on Tacoma Avenue.
A police officer on the scene said the 24-year-old was stumbling and incoherent.
A 911 tape obtained by police also indicated Cortazzo had been drinking.
"Slurred speech, not sure of the location of the fire, what companies he is calling in. It was a little bit disturbing to me," Port Vue Police Chief Bryan Myers said.
Cortazzo was asked to leave the scene. He was eventually charged with public drunkenness.
Chief Myers said the case has always been about public safety.
"If somebody was entrapped in a house and I had somebody come on scene that was incapable of the safety, then that becomes a problem," Chief Myers said.
This isn't the first time Cortazzo has been in trouble with the law.
In July, he received a DUI in Cecil Township, Washington County.
Chief Myers said Cortazzo has been enrolled in an alcohol rehab program for the past two weeks.
"I think when somebody admits that they have a problem and they do go to rehab or at least make the attempt to get some help, I don't have a problem dropping it down to a disorderly conduct," Chief Myers said.
As for whether Cortazzo will remain with the fire department, Chief Myers has not received official word that he has been suspended.
He said the Port Vue mayor and council are in charge of operations at the fire department.
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Who says rain has to disrupt your wedding day happiness! Fiona and Stuart show us in this blog that a rainy day wedding at their beautiful venue Kinkell Byre is nothing to be upset or sad about.
This was our first wedding of the year and boy did it deliver. From Fiona's beautiful and simple dress to Stuart's choice of kilt, to the romantic lights in Kinkell Byre. I could go on and on about the day just to bring home just how perfect of a day it was to kick off our 2019 wedding season! We got about 5 minutes dry spell to run outside and get some photos on the beautiful grounds. The rest was enjoyed inside the venue which is huge with plenty of space in case the rain does not stop. It's the perfect venue for plan B which in my opinion is a mega plus in Scotland.
I have included a slideshow for you all to enjoy and if you want to find out more details on which suppliers they used for their day you can find this at the end of the blog post.
We have shot at Kinkell Byre many times! Have a look at more blog posts below.


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Тепин — русская фамилия.

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 Тепин, Андрей Иванович — бригадир слесарей-сборщиков ПТО рыбной промышленности, лауреат Государственной премии СССР в области техники (1977).
 Тепин, Дмитрий Валентинович (род. 1981) — российский политический деятель, глава Энгельсского муниципального района Саратовской области (2019-2020 гг.).
 Тепин, Яков Алексеевич (1883—1952) — русский и советский художник, историк искусства, коллекционер, организатор музейного дела и охраны памятников.

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Climate summit, climate justice
The climate summit called today by the United Nations secretary-general, Ban Ki-Moon, will not bring the commitments needed to avert global chaos. Only popular mobilisation for climate justice can do that.
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Voice of the future: joining the climate march in Delhi. Flickr / South Solidarity Initiative. Some rights reserved.On Sunday, from New York to Kathmandu to London to Delhi to Amsterdam, hundreds of thousands of citizens and environmental activists took to the streets. In advance of today's climate summit at the United Nations, they joined the People's Climate March, the largest climate action in history, endorsed by more than 1,200 organisations representing 100 million people worldwide.
The voices of those hardest hit by climate change must be heard. At the heart of every climate solution must be an impetus urgently to transform energy and food systems and the way forests are managed, and to build the power of people everywhere to take action.
The numbers and science are clear. As a planet and a civilisation, we cannot let average global temperature rise by more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
The voluntary pledges by governments and business at the summit are laughable in the face of the climate crisis. Non-binding pledges are an insult to the hundreds of thousands of people who are losing their lives and livelihoods due to climate change, including extreme weather events, more floods and droughts and failing agriculture. What we need are ambitious, equitable, science-based and, most importantly, binding emissions-reduction targets for developed countries.
Undue corporate influence
Yet developed countries' leaders are neglecting their responsibility to prevent climate catastrophe. Their priorities are increasingly driven by the narrow economic interests of wealthy elites, the fossil-fuel industry and multinational corporations. They are listening to the polluters instead of the people.
The summit for business held on the eve of the climate summit highlighted the undue corporate influence at the UN. Dirty energy companies and other polluters and their financiers are co-opting democratic governments and the UN, where the voices of ordinary people should be heard.
Business used this year's UN Private Sector Forum on "a fair valuation" of carbon to profit even more from carbon trading and offsetting, which have proven false solutions to the climate crisis. Carbon trading's basic premise is that polluters can pay someone else to soak up their pollution, so they don't have to do any work to reduce it. It isn't working to reduce emissions—it's only making profits for elites while further dispossessing vulnerable communities in the developing world of land and other resources.
Similarly, the "climate smart agriculture" initiative, yet another push for offsetting being launched at the summit, is a new empty phrase used to greenwash the worst practices of industrial agriculture; synthetic fertilisers, industrial meat production and genetically modified crops. The proponents of this dangerous solution—the corporations which stand to benefit and the World Bank, among others—are seeking to turn the carbon in farmers' fields into carbon credits. It would be another excuse to grab lands and resources from communities, as has already been happening in other multi-billion-dollar carbon-credit schemes.
Real solutions
The list of false solutions to climate change is long and includes nuclear energy, mega-dams, natural gas, "clean coal", carbon capture and storage, genetically modified organisms, agro-fuels, carbon trading, offsetting and mechanisms like REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation). These false fixes distract from the real social and economic changes needed to exit the climate crisis.
First among these real solutions is the reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions at source. This must be agreed through a legally-binding agreement at the UN in line with science and equity.
Climate change is directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people even year.
The way energy is produced, distributed and consumed must also be transformed. Dirty energy is causing climate change and harming workers and communities. Clean, sustainable, community energy fulfils the right for people to have access to energy, to decide and own their sustainable-energy sources and to enjoy sustainable consumption patterns.
Deforestation is a contributor to net carbon emissions and must be stopped. It is mostly driven by industrial agriculture, agro-fuels, excessive meat consumption and unsustainable demand for timber. To stop the destruction of forests, we need public funds to implement community forest management, to tackle deforestation and support communities at the same time.
Current industrial methods of food production and consumption also contribute to carbon emissions, as well as to global food crises and shortages due to mismanagement and waste. The solution is "food sovereignty", which includes decentralised food production and distribution, and agrarian reform in favour of small-scale, peasant farmers practising agro-ecological farming, absorbing atmospheric carbon.
Another solution promoted at the People's Climate March is the financial transaction tax (FTT)—a tax on Wall Street also known as the Robin Hood tax. It proposes a tiny tax on trades of stocks, bonds and other financial instruments which would nevertheless generate hundreds of billions of dollars of new revenue annually.
The FTT is supported by Nobel Prize-winning economists and the Pope, among others. It would generate public funds desperately needed to help people around the world transform their energy and food systems. Eleven European countries, including Germany, are establishing a regional Robin Hood tax. France, a member of that coalition, already has one, the revenue from which is used in part to help developing countries address climate change.
The FTT is an example of a grassroots initiative which has affected the leaders of some countries. It is based on a rights-and-equity approach—"climate justice"—which needs much more support to make a difference on a global scale.
The climate crisis is about people and about justice, not just saving cute polar bears. It is about asking why we live in a world which is so unequal. The causes of the climate crisis and sky-high inequality are the same: a "dig, burn, dump economy".
Richer developed countries, with less than one fifth of the world's population, are responsible for almost three-quarters of historical greenhouse gas emissions. The European Union and the US alone are responsible for more than half the carbon emissions in the earth's atmosphere, yet they only have roughly a tenth of the world's population between them.
By contrast, the poorest 10% of the world's population has contributed less than 1% of these emissions. Developing countries have contributed least to the causes of climate change—yet they are the most affected.
Industrialised countries must commit to reducing their emissions domestically, without carbon trading, in line with what science and equity demand. The 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (the Kyoto convention) clearly states that developed countries have a "historical responsibility" for their carbon emissions. They have accrued a climate debt to developing countries which must be reflected in ambitious emission-reduction targets, as well as technology transfer and financial support for mitigation and adaptation in developing countries.
Climate change is directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people even year. Most are in the poorest countries of the world, which didn't do anything to create this crisis in the first place.
From 10 to 18 October, people across the world will be taking co-ordinated actions on energy as part of Reclaim Power. In the coming sequence of official climate-change "Conferences of the Parties" to the convention, world leaders must be held accountable: from the social "pre-COP" in Venezuela through "COP20" in Lima, culminating in the much-hyped "COP21" in Paris in December 2015, where a global agreement is supposed to be reached. It will take popular mobilisation and further successful climate-justice initiatives to avoid the worst the climate crisis may bring.
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110 solar panels were installed on the south-facing roof of the Weather Discovery Center and Administrative Offices of Mount Washington Observatory in North Conway, NH in June 2014.
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Note: Snow cover during the month of February is causing the monitoring software to show that the system has a production issue, there are currently no issues with the system.


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The Marine Corps Marathon is tomorrow and I will be running with Team in Training's National Capitol Area Chapter. While I am super excited about the race, I am nursing a recovering hamstring strain, so I am not sure how well things will go. I probably should have sat this one out, but it's MARINE CORPS and I've raised a little over $1500 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, how can I not go out there and run with my team?
Don't worry, I'm going to be smart about it. I haven't done much running since the injury a few weeks ago and have been slowly increasing the load on my leg being very conscious about any pain experienced.
Once upon a time, I had high hopes of a 4 1/2 hr marathon, that then became a 5 hour goal and now I have thrown time goals out the window and just plan to go out and have a great time! My first marathon was a 5:47…anything faster than that will do…actually anything that gets me to the finish line, without re-injuring my hamstring too much, will do!
With the race less than 24 hours away, Pablo and I headed to Packet-Pick Up and the Expo. We had originally planned to go on Friday to avoid the crowds, but work got in the way for both of us, so off we went on the busiest day.
Just kidding, it wasn't too bad. The line moved quickly and the weather was beautiful, so while we had to be on our feet a little more than we wanted, it really wasn't that bad.
Besides, I got to get off my feet for a little bit while we were in the expo, which made it all worthwhile.
See that blue tape? My plans to tape myself up got even better when I discovered that KT Tape actually had a booth at the Expo where they were taping people up for free!
Both Pablo (who's been suffering from shin splints) and I (seriously, we stay injury-free all through Ironman training and get injured in the last few weeks of marathon training?) picked up our packets, got taped up for our injuries, picked up some nutrition, and headed out the door. There was a whole lot to see, but there was no expo wandering for us. We wanted to rest!
Marathon prep is a lot easier than triathlon prep! No transition bag, no multiple outfits, just nutrition and gear and you're ready to go!
I will be wearing my purple Team in Training shirt tomorrow and a couple of nights ago I sat down and decorated my shirt with the names of all of the companies that sponsored me.
THANK YOU for donating items for my silent auction and raffle and helping me meet my $1500 fundraising goal! Tomorrow I will proudly wear my Team in Training shirt with your names on it and head out for a beautiful 26.2 mile run in the Nation's Capitol!
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Ulrich Martin Drescher (* 1. August 1952 in Frankfurt am Main) ist ein deutscher Organisationsberater und Moderationsexperte im Bereich Organisationsentwicklung sowie Weiterbildungstrainer für Führungskräfteentwicklung und Unternehmenstheater. Daneben ist Drescher in verschiedenen Verbänden als Lobbyist einer ökosozialen Marktwirtschaft aktiv.

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Ulrich Martin Drescher wuchs in Frankfurt am Main auf. Während der Schulzeit arbeitete er als Produktionsassistent beim Hessischen Rundfunk (Fernsehen) von 1968 bis 1972, daran schloss sich eine Lehre als Bankkaufmann an, die er 1974 abschloss. Anschließend studierte er an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Volkswirtschaftslehre und Jura. Während dieser Zeit wirkte Drescher als Studentenparlamentspräsident und hauptamtlicher Finanzreferent des AStA sowie als Senator der Universität für den Liberalen Hochschulverband (LHV). Zwischen Frühjahr 1974 und Winter 1975 beteiligte sich Drescher am Widerstand gegen das geplante Kernkraftwerk in Wyhl am Oberrhein. Es folgten Engagements in der Umweltbewegung, von der Gründungs-Unterstützung der "Pionier-Windmühle Auenberg GbR" 1990 in Hüfingen über die Start-Beteiligung bei den "Stromrebellen" der Netzkauf Schönau GbR 1992 bis hin zur Gründungs-Teilhaberschaft an der Solar-Fabrik in Freiburg im Breisgau 1996.

1976 begann Drescher neben dem Studium als PR-Berater und -Trainer sowie mit der Moderation von Gruppenprozessen für die Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung. Er gründete 1977 gemeinsam mit anderen Linksliberalen das "Liberale Zentrum - Politisch-kultureller Club" in Freiburg und war bis 1991 Vorstand dieses Treffpunkts für politisch-literarische Diskussion, Musik und Kabarett.

Nach seinem Studienabschluss als Diplom-Volkswirt 1979 folgte eine Beratungs- und Moderations-Tätigkeit bei Metaplan GmbH in Quickborn. 1992 gründete er mit ökologisch interessierten Unternehmern in Stuttgart den Lobbyverband UnternehmensGrün zur Förderung umweltgerechten Wirtschaftens, heute "Bundesverband der grünen Wirtschaft" (Berlin).

Seit 1994 ist Drescher selbständig als Moderator und Organisationsentwickler tätig. 2001 war er Mitgründer der "Global Contract Foundation / Stiftung Weltvertrag" in Hamburg und übernahm dort den stellvertretenden Kuratoriums-Vorsitz.

Tätigkeiten

Moderation und Unternehmenstheater
Mit seiner Arbeit als Moderator postuliert Ulrich Martin Drescher die interaktionelle Moderationsmethodik als Führungsinstrument mit provokativen und systemischen Coaching-Elementen sowie den Erkenntnissen des Pygmalion-Effektes (Du bekommst von Deinen Mitarbeitern, was Du ihnen zutraust.). Hierzu integriert er einzelne Elemente verschiedener didaktischer Konzepte zu einem skalierbaren Methodik-Ansatz. Diese Haltung vermittelt Drescher auch Trainerkollegen und potentiellen Mitbewerbern und veröffentlicht in diesem Zusammenhang u. a. einen Moderationsleitfaden.

Drescher hat zur Verbreitung der Moderationsmethode als Führungstechnik in Workshops zur Unternehmensentwicklung und des Gruppenmarketing beigetragen. Sein Engagement für professionelle Open Space- und (Groß)Gruppen-Moderation (Bild 2) für bis zu 1.200 Personen in über 350 Wirtschaftsunternehmen führte ihn auch zu Moderationen für Ministerien der Bundesregierung (Bild 3: Projekt "Teamarbeit für Deutschland" im Arbeits- und Wirtschaftsministerium).

Politisches Engagement
Das politische Engagement Dreschers begann zunächst mit seinem Beitritt zu den Jungdemokraten 1970. Aufgrund des Misstrauensvotums der FDP im Jahr 1982 gegen den damaligen Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt trat er aus der FDP aus und gründete am 28. November 1982 in Bochum mit Gleichgesinnten die Partei der Liberalen Demokraten, denen er bis 1986, u. a. als Landesvorstand Baden-Württemberg angehörte. Seitdem ist Drescher Mitglied der Grünen, zeitweise als Kreisvorstand Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald und später in Freiburg. Bei der Bürgermeisterwahl in Kirchzarten am 21. Januar 2001 erzielte er ein Ergebnis von 16 %.
Am 25. Mai 2014 wurde Drescher auf der Grünen Liste in den Gemeinderat von Kirchzarten gewählt und im Oktober 2016 im Bundestagswahlkreis Waldshut sowie Teilen des Landkreises Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald als Bundestagskandidat von Bündnis 90/Die Grünen aufgestellt. Hier erzielte er bei der Bundestagswahl am 24. September 2017 in seinem Wahlkreis das drittstärkste Ergebnis bei den Erst- und Zweitstimmen mit 11,9 % bzw. 13,9 %.

Lobbyismus
Mit wachsendem wirtschaftlichen Netzwerk gründete Drescher 1992 den KMU-Lobbyverband UnternehmensGrün zur Förderung umweltgerechten Wirtschaftens., heute Bundesverband nachhaltige Wirtschaft. Er war bis 2006 im Bundesvorstand des Verbandes für die Bereiche Arbeitsmarktpolitik, Globalisierung und Unternehmerverantwortung zuständig.

Daneben engagiert sich Drescher in den von ihm mitgegründeten bzw. mitinitiierten Verbänden Stiftung Weltvertrag und Global Marshall Plan.
Im März 2008 war er in Berlin am Start des internationalen Konsultationsprozesses der Coalition for the Global Commons, einer auf Nachhaltigkeit zielenden Assoziation der internationalen Bürgergesellschaft beteiligt. Drescher ist Mitinitiator und Beirat des Freiburger Gründerzentrums Grünhof GmbH und Aufsichtsrat des "Social Innovation Lab".

Von 1996 bis 2002 war Drescher als Sprecher der stillen Gesellschafter Beiratsvorsitzender der Solar-Fabrik GmbH in Freiburg. Von Oktober 2008 bis Dezember 2020 wirkte er zunächst als Beirats-Vorsitzender und dann als stv. Aufsichtsrats-Vorsitzender der BaumInvest AG. Von Frühjahr 2010 bis Herbst 2020 wirkte Drescher als Aufsichtsrat der Genossenschaft Elektrizitätswerke Schönau eG. 2012 übernahm Drescher den Aufsichtsrats-Vorsitz der Regionalwert AG mit Sitz in Eichstetten am Kaiserstuhl, eines Pionierunternehmens der ökologisch-regionalen Landwirtschaft. Er ist seit Herbst 2019 Beirat des nachhaltigen Mobilfunk-Pionierunternehmens WEtell und unternehmerisch tätig.

Privat
Ulrich Martin Drescher ist verheiratet und hat einen erwachsenen Sohn.

Veröffentlichungen
 mit Hansjörg Mauch: Werkstattzirkel nach der Metaplan-Methode, in: Die Mitbestimmung, Jg. 5, 1983
 Unternehmensentwicklung durch Moderation; Manager Seminare Nr. 16, Juli 1994
 Transformation des Unternehmens; zfo 4/1997
 Die ganze Zukunft in einem Raum – Schneller Wandel durch aktive Beteiligung aller; Trainer-Kontakt-Brief, 12/97
 Zur Selbstverantwortung führen; Süddeutsche Zeitung, 6. September 1999
 Moderation ist eine Führungstechnik. managerSeminare, Heft 75, April 2004
 Methodische Qualitätsverbesserung mit der Metaplan-Gesprächstechnik in: Prof. Dr. Johann Löhn (Hg.): Der Innovationsberater, Rudolf Haufe Verlag, 2/1984
 "Öffentlichkeits- und Pressearbeit. Ratgeber für den mittelständischen Unternehmer", Haufe Freiburg 1985, ISBN 3-448-01558-X
 Quality Circle in: Praxishandbuch der Unternehmensführung, WRS Verlag, 1990
 Großformen der Moderation in: Sabina Bolender (Hg.): Managementtrainer, Campus Verlag, 1998

Weblinks

 Website von Ulrich Martin Drescher

Einzelnachweise

Veranstaltungsmoderator
Mitglied der Jungdemokraten
FDP-Mitglied
LD-Mitglied
Bündnis-90/Die-Grünen-Mitglied
Deutscher
Geboren 1952
Mann
Mitarbeiter der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung


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3 men indicted in wake of Wallace Avenue drug raid
Gere Goble
Bucyrus Telegraph Forum
BUCYRUS - Three men have been indicted by a Crawford County grand jury in the wake of an Aug. 22 drug raid on Wallace Avenue.
Jonathan Bagley, 30, Columbus, was indicted on a first-degree felony possession of drugs (methamphetamine), Crall said.
He's accused of having more than 200 grams of the drug, "which would qualify him as a major drug offender under Ohio law," Crall said. In convicted, Bagley faces up to 11 years in prison, with a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years.
Bond was originally set at $2 million, but has been reduced to $1 million, he said.
Detrell Bennett, 30, Columbus, was indicted on a second-degree felony charge of possession of drugs (heroin). He's accused of having more than 200 doses of heroin. His bond was set at $250,000, according to court records.
Jonathan Alsept, 24, who lived in the house at 115 Wallace Ave., was charged with permitting drug abuse and possession of drugs, both fifth-degree felonies. He faces up to a year in prison. Bond was set at $150,000, according to court records.
"He is the one whose apartment the operation was being run out of," Crall said of the allegations. "He had some drugs that were in his possession as well."
All three men were arraigned on Monday.
Standing in front of the Wallace Avenue house on Aug. 22 as officers continued removing evidence, Bucyrus police Chief David Koepke said the search warrant was the result of a long investigation.
"We served it to this house today and found exactly what we were looking for and more," he said. "It was a drug operation that was operating with drugs that were trafficked from Columbus to here. … The two guys from Columbus were running a deal where they were paying rent to sell drugs here."
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Station Chauny is een spoorwegstation in de Franse gemeente Chauny. Het ligt aan de spoorlijn Creil - Jeumont, en was eindpunt van de inmiddels gesloten Spoorlijn Anizy-Pinon - Chauny.

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Frenchman Bay Oyster Company
A returning veteran turns to aquaculture
Born and raised in Maine, Graham Platner served eight years in the military, with four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, before landing a job in Afghanistan with the U.S. Department of State. He wasn't sure he would ever come back to Maine. But, on one of his leaves, Platner connected with Jock Corrothers, owner of Waukeag Neck Oyster Co., an established aquaculture cooperative that began raising oysters in Frenchman's Bay in 2012. Platner spent two weeks out on the water with Crothers, who was, himself, looking into the future. When the two weeks were up, Crothers asked Platner if he would like to be an oyster farmer. At the time, Platner couldn't see a path forward. But he kept thinking about it.
"I went back to Afghanistan for six months and realized that I didn't want to be there anymore," says Platner. He returned to Maine, bought a boat and began to work alongside Crothers.
In early 2021, Platner reached out to the Maine SBDC for help growing his own business, Frenchman Bay Oyster Company. CEI Maine SBDC business advisor Peter Piconi worked closely with Platner to help him establish short- and long-term priorities, develop a solid business plan and build out financial projections. They confirmed that in order to expand, the new business needed financing. Piconi and Platner discussed options, did some research and found an opportunity through the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, whose mission is to help U.S. small businesses—especially those owned by people of color, women, and veterans and those in lower-income communities—find their footing in a challenging economy. With Piconi's support, Platner applied for a grant and was awarded $20,000 for new oyster cages and farming equipment.
"Being able to come back to the place I grew up…after being away for a long time, has been made significantly easier by being able to work on the sea," Platner says in a video produced by the Maine Aquaculture Association. "I believe aquaculture [is important to the future of] how we get food. Having a purpose in something I believe in helped me come back and find a place in Maine."
Platner is committed to keeping good jobs and food local, boosting the local economy. And, as it turns out, his best customer happens to be his mom, Leslie Harlow, owner of Ironbound Restaurant & Inn in nearby Hancock. Follow Frenchman Bay Oyster Company on their Instagram page HERE to find out where you can track down their spectacular oysters.
Photos courtesy of Graham Platner, Frenchman Bay Oyster Company
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Retail - Scrubs & Footwear
Apparel Decoration
Penny for Rett
Located on upper Main Street, Uniformz is easily accessible from all Bridgeport districts. We're located 1 mile south of the Trumbull Mall and 1 mile north of St Vincent's Hospital, across from People's Bank, between Captain's Pizza and Freedom Fuels. The northbound bus to the Trumbull Mall stops right in front of the door! And we have ample parking.
Uniformz is known for selling only top-quality clothing that meets the tough demands of medical professionals. We never compromise our stellar reputation with mediocre products. Our in-house embroidery services are also very popular with local businesses, medical practices, schools and sports teams.
Formerly Nosotros Sports Plus on East Main Street, Uniformz was opened in a larger, more accessible location on Main Street in July 2009. The main reason for this move was to to handle the school uniform needs of Bridgeport parents after a new uniform mandate (K-8) went into effect for the 2009/2010 school season, and the High Schools for the 2011/2012 season.
Then in May 2012 we moved Production (embroidery, screen printing, team uniforms and awards) to another location so we could convert the store to 100% retail space. After 2 full months of renovations, fixturing and restocking we were proud to convert to a scrub retail store offering the top brands of scrubs, shoes and accessories. Public school uniforms were finally phased out in 2020. We still service a few charter schools exclusively.
Our highly talented Retail team members are Fernanda - Store Manager and Evelise - Store Associate. We all help each other to give our customers the best possible product, and have fun doing it! We are very fortunate to offer products that put smiles on people's faces.
No job is to small... in fact owner Pieter's favorite saying is: "You're not worth the big job if you don't honor the small one".
After spending 25 year in corporate life, Pieter decided he was ready to run his own business. After a short search in early 2009 (during a historic low in economy) he came across a situation where the planets were aligned: Nosotros - a well-established business in Bridgeport that included school uniforms, a new school uniform mandate in Bridgeport for the upcoming school season and - after a trip down Main Street - an available lease on a quality location. The transfer of ownership was made in May and the new location was gutted, remodeled, stocked, and opened in July. Uniformz quickly became the "ground zero" of the back-to-school uniform rush! The Bridgeport PAC held a press conference, TV news crews arrived throughout August and our overflowing parking lot caused some minor traffic jams on Main Street.
We certainly have evolved with the times over the last decade. Our customers drive everything we do. We listen, you win! Drop by and check us out.
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Living Longer Better
Event Listing ( System page )
When: 1pm 17th February
Chair: Graham Rushbrook, chair of the Behaviour Change Special Interest Group and member of the NICE Public Health Advisory Committee Programme.
Speaker: Sir Muir Gray, CBE, FRCPSGlas, FCLIP, Director, The Optimal Ageing Programme
The scientific basis of Living Longer Better is that ageing by itself is not a major problem until the mid-90s. It is now known that what happens to us after the age of 60 should not just be assumed to be caused by the ageing process.
The ageing process affects everyone from about 40 on but by itself does not cause major problems until after 90. There are three interrelated causes of the problems that occur more frequently as people live longer:
Loss of fitness
Disease, much of which is preventable, complicated by accelerated loss of fitness and
Pessimistic and negative beliefs and attitudes summarised in the RSPH report on Ageism
All these risk factors have been aggravated by lockdown and there is an urgent need to overcome the effects of inactivity and isolation, now termed deconditioning, as well as the need for system development for the long term.
The aim is to create a new paradigm based on a new culture with redefinition of the concept "care" to focus on the positive and enabling people of any age to:
Increase strength, stamina skill and suppleness
Increase brainability and reduce the risk of dementia by tackling key risk factors including isolation
Maintain and strengthen a sense of purpose based on positive beliefs and attitudes
Muir Gray entered the Public Health Service in Oxford in 1972 after qualifying in medicine in Glasgow. He now works one day a week as a consultant in public health in Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
He has been working with both NHS England and Public Health England with the aim of increasing value for both populations and individuals and published How To Get Better Value Healthcare in 2007. The means of doing this is through Systems and Personalisation, now called Population Healthcare. This aims to maximise value and equity by focusing not on institutions or technologies, but on populations defined by a common symptom such as breathlessness, condition such as Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes or by a common characteristic, such as multiple morbidity
Recently he has returned to his first public health mission - preventing the changes we assume are due to ageing and disease by getting the right attitude and fighting back against an environment that makes us inactive. His key books include Sod70! And, with Diana Moran, Sod Sitting, Get Moving!
1 CPD Point is available - you can download the webinar flyer here.
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© Guildhall Art Gallery, City of London.
The name of Alderman Finnis is often quoted for having been the last Lord Mayor to have his procession on the Thames. But what else is known about this distinguished Bowyer?
The City History website tells us that Thomas Quested Finnis was born in January 1801, the son of an upholsterer of Hythe, Kent, and that he was baptised at St Leonard's Church on 12th February of the same year. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to James Smith, bowyer, for a period of seven years from 6th December 1815, paying a consideration of £150. He was admitted to the Freedom of the Bowyers' Company in April 1823 and to the Freedom of the City in September. Whilst serving as Master from 1856 to 1858 he also served as Lord Mayor in 1856/1857.
A family historian and descendent of Thomas's brother, tells us that his parents were Robert Finnis (1754 - 1832) and Elisabeth Quested (1762 - 1839), which explains his unusual middle name, and that this brothers were Lt Col John Finnis of the 11th Bengal Native Infantry and Stephen Finnis of the 29th Native Infantry. It was during Thomas's mayoral year that John was killed by sepoy mutineers at Meerut on 10th May 1857 and it is believed that he was the first European officer to be killed in the Indian Mutiny.
In business, Thomas was partner in a firm of provision merchants, Finnis & Fisher, which pioneered trade to the port of Bussorah (now known as Basra) and was also Deputy Chairman of the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company and of the Improved Industrial Dwellings Company. His business address is given in the Renter Warden's Account books as 79 Great Tower Street.
In civic life, he was appointed in 1833 Common Councillor for Tower Ward where his business was located, Deputy in 1848 and Alderman as well as Sheriff in the same year. He was also Deputy Governor of the Irish Society 1843/1844, member of the Metropolitan Board of Works 1863 to 1866, the Thames Conservancy Board 1872 to 1883 and Treasurer of the Sons of the Clergy from 1874 to 1882, plus a member of the City Glee Club.
In later life he retired to a mansion known as "Park Gate" in Wanstead, Essex (now E11) where he died on 29th November, 1883. The house was demolished in 1925 but two impressive stone gate posts placed there in 1715 by Sir Richard Child can still be seen on both sides of Overton Drive.
The Corporation's on-line picture collection, "Collage", contains three images relating to Thomas Finnis. The earliest dated 1850 is a fine painting in oils showing him in the robes of an alderman. In 1856 a portrait engraving appeared in the Illustrated London News following his appointment as Lord Mayor and the collection also contains a wood engraving of the Lord Mayor's carriage procession. Sadly there is no image of the procession on the river. The Illustrated Times dated 8th November, 1856 included an engraving of the new Lord Mayor and of the installation ceremony at Guildhall.
"The case of George Carruthers Finnis, apprenticed to Mr Alderman Finnis and now resident in Baghdad, in the employ of Mr Alderman Finnis was brought forward and it was resolved: That the Clerk ascertain whether there is a precedent of the admission of an Apprentice to the freedom of the Company without his attending personally to be sworn in."
He was not the only member of the family absent overseas for on 20th April 1876 the Court Minutes record: "As Captain Finnis was not present expected to return from India the Court proceed unanimously to elect Alfred Sangster MD.....to fill the vacancy on the Court."; On 22nd April 1880, Major John Finnis was eventually elected to the Court.
On 28th July 1898, Frank Valentine Finnis, son of G C Finnis and great nephew of the Alderman, was admitted to the livery. The Court minutes record that on 24th January 1918, he was sworn in as an assistant wearing the uniform of His Majesty's Army Service Corps. The early death of Capt F V Finnis was recorded in the minutes of 23rd October 1919.
But by far the most interesting entries in the Court Minutes are those dated 18th October 1856 relating to the preparations for the installation of the Lord Mayor and 22nd January 1857 which describe the river and carriage processions.
The final entry appears in the Court Minutes of 17th January, 1884: The Clerk reported "the death of Mr Alderman Finnis late senior member of the Company. It was unanimously resolved that the Master be requested to write to Mr G C Finnis expressing deep feelings of regret of the Company of the loss of so highly esteemed a member of the Company."


[Ganesha Games]Of Armies and Hordes.
So, Ganesha Games snuck one by us again and released Of Armies and Hordes, which is the company's first fantasy army battle wargame as opposed to their usual offerings of skirmish-level games. The game still uses their basic activation system, but there are a few things that are different in the transition to the larger scale.
-No sticks- the game is strictly area-based.
- There's now more flexibility with failed activation dice- whenever a player fails activation dice, the other player can trade in two failed dice to switch initiative as before, or they can use those failed dice to try to activate and use their own unit(s) during the opponent's turn.
-Units now have a separate attack bonus and defense value.
-Unit quality better than 4+ now has hard-ruled limits how much of those kinds of units you can bring into a battle.
One of the conspicuous omissions from this book seems to be scenario creation guidelines- most games usually have at least half a dozen types, so this game seems to rely more on the good faith of both players. Besides, this is pretty conspicuously an army battle game, so smaller tactical scenarios applied to this scale may not be appropriate.
However, what the game does seem to expect, seeing as there's a pretty hefty number of them, is for players to make hefty use of special terrain and terrain features to make things various kinds of interesting, like castles, watchtowers, enchanted forests (spellcasters can gain more energy in there, but bumble too much and you get shot at by the Fair Folk), burial grounds (first team to get a necromancer in there gets to rustle up some free skeletons), and dungeons- yeah, one of the unit types is "adventuring party", so you can have adventurers raid dungeons for cash (worth victory points) and/or magic items for the army on the march.
As per the usual Ganesha standard, there's a ton of prebuilt statlines for the common fantasy armies (and not so common, if you happen to want some shroomed-out-of-their-goddamn-mind halfling berserkers), plus the tools to build your own to fill in the gaps.
Just letting you know this thing is out there.
Thanks for the heads-up, a fantasy wargame sounds totally right my alley, and the changes on Ganesha system you comment sound interesting.
Hey, I was anteciopating this so much back in... 2011-12??? Time flies.
Taking a look at the description and reviews the area based rules look interesting. I've been educating myself on hex and chit wargames and many of them use that type of rules to some impressive results. Transposed to miniatures based rules they allow for multiple basing standards to be used without incompatibilities, and handle the mixed troop formations you would expect to find in "medieval" contexts very well.
Definitely going on my to buy list.
So, is that like the Gears of War boardgame or Deadzone? I've never played Deadzone (only read about it), liked it in Gears, so I'm quite curious.
I would like to see more about magic although I assume it must be in the SoBH vein. Looks usable for quasi-historical armies.


96-010. U.S.S. Spuyten Duyvil. 1/96th Scale. U.S.S. Spuyten Duyvil was designed, built and launched in 1864, as one of the first purpose-built torpedo boats in the United States Navy, and the first where the spar torpedoes could be reloaded from inside the hull. She spent 1865 on the James River outside of Richmond supporting the Union fleet that faced down the Confederate James River Squadron. Once Richmond surrendered in April 1865, Spuyten Duyvil used her torpedoes to clear obstacles to open up the river to Union ship traffic.
Approximately 10 ½" long without the Spar Torpedo, the kit features resin and cast metal fittings, with some brass and wood included. Some very minor scratch building required from supplied materials, and instructions. Flag sheet and fully illustrated thorough instructions included. This is a very nice weekend project, or good kit for those with little or no experience building resin model kits.


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THE CS HULL FORM FOR POWER CATS
Evolution in Hull Forms
Everything comes from something that came before. Technological advance comes from finding new combinations of existing technologies.
To quote Brian Arthur from The Nature of Technology;
"If evolution in its fullest sense holds in technology, then all technologies, including novel ones, must descend in some way from the technologies that preceded them."
It's hardly breaking news that the combination of a slim hull and a canoe stern makes for a very easily driven hull form.
Add some stability in the form of outriggers or a second hull, add some pitch damping technology in the form of asymmetric water planes and you have a highly effective means of voyaging at sea under motor with good fuel economy and a sea kindly motion.
Malcolm Tennant put all these technologies together in the 1980's to create a highly successful hull form that he labelled the CS (Canoe Stern) hull. The success of the CS hull form is firmly established and aside from being deployed Tennant's own designs it has been adopted by the builders and designers of displacement motor yachts around the world, especially for long range voyaging in open ocean waters.
We've taken the CS hull form one step further by maximising the length of the waterline in relation to the weight of the boat, with particlar emphasis on the bow. This allows us to use a fine bow for easy penetration of the waves while still providing adequate buoyancy forward to minimise the chance of nose diving.
In the quest for more accommodation in a given length of boat, seakeeping and efficiency (including low fuel consumption) have all too often be overlooked. A high centre of gravity promotes pitching and roll. Longer hulls dampen pitching and reduce resistance. A lower profile and longer hull provides us with a lower displacement to length ratio, a sign of an easily driven hull and greater fuel economy. Longer hulls are ideally combined with the a reverse bow which is ideally suited to motor yachts with CS hulls because it optimizes waterline length without significantly increasing weight or windage.


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Пьетральба (, ) — коммуна во Франции, находится в регионе Корсика. Департамент коммуны — Верхняя Корсика. Входит в состав кантона Голо-Морозалья. Округ коммуны — Бастия.

Код INSEE коммуны — 2B223.

Население
Население коммуны на 2008 год составляло 435 человек.

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В 2007 году среди 260 человек в трудоспособном возрасте (15—64 лет) 161 была экономически активными, 99 — неактивными (показатель активности — 61,9 %, в 1999 году было 53,6 %). Из 161 активных работали 146 человек (89 мужчин и 57 женщин), безработных было 15 (6 мужчин и 9 женщин). Среди 99 неактивных 17 человек были учениками или студентами, 39 — пенсионерами, 43 были неактивными по другим причинам.

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Fusion Risk Management Appoints Experienced Executive as New Chief Operating Officer
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By AIT News Desk On Oct 6, 2020
Leadership Team Expands, Reinforces Company's Focus on Global Growth and Client Success
Fusion Risk Management, Inc. ("Fusion"), a leading provider of business continuity and risk management software and services, announced it has appointed Judith Tigner as Chief Operating Officer (COO). Tigner will join Fusion's Executive Leadership Team and will oversee delivery, support, and strategic consulting functions, with a key focus on driving business growth and enhancing the overall client experience for Fusion's rapidly expanding global client base. She will report to Fusion CEO Michael Campbell.
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Tigner brings more than 20 years of experience in software implementation and support, client services, and operations management to her role at Fusion. Most recently, Tigner served as Senior Vice President, Client (Customer) Success at Mitratech, a $100+ million provider of legal operations, workflow automation, and risk and compliance software. As part of the leadership team, she managed more than 100 employees across three continents, reporting directly to the CEO. Before Mitratech, Tigner spent 20 years at SirsiDynix, a privately held provider of library software solutions. Throughout her tenure, she progressed from a managerial position to Director of Professional Services in EMEA and then Director of Global Training and Consulting.
"Fusion is at an exciting point in our growth journey, and Judith's impressive experience helping high-performing businesses like ours accelerate their success will be a valuable asset as we continue to execute against our long-term strategy," said Michael Campbell, CEO, Fusion. "Fusion continues to disrupt the overall business continuity and risk management market, and Judith will play a key role as we build on our success to further scale our operations, continue our impressive annual growth, and expand our offerings to bring robust operational resilience capabilities to the market."
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"Fusion has established itself as a market leader with a clear focus on innovation and client success. I am excited to work closely with Fusion's global client community to enhance the transparent and honest relationships that help our clients solve their most challenging business problems," said Judith Tigner, COO, Fusion. "In addition to its impressive business success, Fusion has built an amazing culture and established strong client and employee communities. I'm thrilled to join this growing team as we continue to set the bar for operational resilience and exceptional client engagement."
Fusion continues to record impressive momentum throughout 2020 as the world's premier companies turn to Fusion for its market-leading operational resilience solution. The company was recently recognized in the August 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Vendor Risk Management Tools, named Best Risk Management by SC Europe, and won the Continuity & Resilience Innovation 2020 Award from The Business Continuity Institute.
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If left as above, all DHCP clients will get a hostname.lan DNS record. (Now you can ping your friends who came over to your house like this ping friends_computer.lan or like this ping friends_computer. The second (suffix-less) method works because of the option local, which makes the DNS server try .lan if no suffix is given). So, as you can see, this only allows for one domain to be handed out to the DHCP clients, whereas I want two.
And the desired dnsmasq runtime configuration should contain the following as a result. The IP and netmask/CIDR come from the output of ifconfig.
I want to have the LAN and WIFI interfaces on the router to receive DNS names like this: router.lan and router.wifi. Furthermore, I wish to have plain router to resolve to either of the prior two, depending on whether the requesting machine is on LAN or WIFI. In other words, if I type ping router from a LAN machine, I should get router.lan/192.168.2.1, but not router.wifi/192.168.3.1.
There are two problems with the above. First, this only adds one of the two desired interfaces (no section for wifi). Second, the address option is being used incorrectly (this was fixed in Barrier Breaker 14.07, but since I am still on Attitude Adjustment 12.09 the fix must be introduced manually). address essentially makes a wildcard name record for the given domain. For example, a query to whatever.router.lan will be directed to 192.168.2.1. This is useful for blackholing advertisement domains for the entire home lan, such as *.doubleclick.net -> 127.0.0.1, but for what we want to do, this is incorrect. Non-existent subdomains should not be resolved. The correct option to use is host-record.
And there you have it. Now DHCP clients get proper suffixes added to their name, suffix-less names resolve to their correct .lan or .wifi counterparts, and the router itself has correct names for both local interfaces, which, when when used without a suffix will also correctly resolve to their .lan and .wifi counterparts.
/var/etc/dnsmasq.conf — this one is formed automatically, but is nevertheless given to show the result of our manipulations.
And the files themselves can be found here.
Say this I use this for firewall whitelisting. I wouldn't like to put these addresses in /etc/ethers mixed with the others.
Would you know how to make dnsmasq read this file as it was an additonal /etc/ethers, so the hostnames are matched to the mac addresses for dns purposes?
I don't think dnsmasq supports reading from files other than /etc/ethers for this purpose. But you can supply the "friend" addresses one at a time via –dhcp-host option. You could add some code to /etc/init.d/dnsmasq that would do that for you automatically.


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Obviously. HS2 is either a very good idea, or a very bad idea, depending on your opinion thereon. I am sure that we can, at least. all agree on that.
For those of you furth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland who may not be totally up to date with said HS2, it's a proposed high speed link between the Great Wen and parts midlandish and northwards thereof. One day, it might even make it as far as Caledonia (stern and wild). Provided, of course, that you are still talking to us by then.
Whatever. I've decided that I would, myself, like the whole thing called off right now. I've been watching the debate on the second reading of the High Speed Rail (West Midlands-Crewe) Bill and I am now incandescent.
MP after MP has been saying 'Haitch' when referring to the 'HS2' proposal. This is deeply wrong and they should all know better.
I blame Edward Boyle, Minister of Education from 1962-64 and nearly every other Mister of Education since then for this perversion. Their deliberate mangling and serial neglect of our language has led us to this sorry state of affairs.
It should go without saying that the correct pronunciation is 'Aitch'.
And, while we're on the subject, it's 'scone' and not 'scone' or 'scone'.
A good evening to you, Admiral Mackie.
I side with Boylesy and the ministers of education on this. Language and pronunciations mutate over a period and in this case we have added an aitch, I mean, haitch to the word use. This evolvement is because no one wants to go furth down the cockney road and drop the H : 'arrods, Prince 'arry, West 'am, 'ovis, 'ippopotamus. Trust our educators to educate.
Where in the loft do you stand with the word hatch? Are you going to do a hatchet job with this and chop off its H? Atch your age John and move with the times.
I think it should be abandoned forthwith as being far too expensive and deleterious to the population who owns the property through which it travels. No one will be able to afford the fares anyway. The money should be spent improving what is there all ready which would generally speed it all up a bit. With or without the H.
Anyone in that much of a hurry can fly anyway.
Never mind the awful 'H'aitch, I'm sick of all the BBC bods talking northern with their blasted short vowels polluting my ears since Auntie moved to Manc-land. It sounds so common and dirty.
Where I come from one mows one's grarse then draws a barth and enjoys a glarse of wine. They don't even drink wine in the north…..that's how it should be done.
As for HS2, why would anyone want to get oop north any quicker?
The last I heard "officially" reported in the news here in the USA, there was still a lot of discussion, not to mention argument and confusion, regarding a possible high speed rail line between Dallas and Houston.
Well, then (as the Welsh like to begin a good bit of gossip), according to an NHK (Japanese TV) show I recently saw, it's all miraculously done and dusted, with service expected to begin in 2023 and Japan Railways, who will be exporting the latest model N500A Shinkansen ("bullet train") stuff, good for up to 285 km./hr., to the USA, already having set up an office in Dallas.
It's amazing how some projects seem to get approved in the dead of night, when nobody is looking. One darkly suspects that someone, somewhere, is personally going to make out very well on this.
I can't help but wonder how, when UK rail passengers are already screaming about how they're being squeezed for ever-higher fares, the promoters of the "HS2" scheme expect to ever have enough posteriors in seats to make the fool thing pay off. No skin off my nose, so to speak, just so long as no public funds are poured into it. What the Haitch?
HS2 is hugely expensive £56bn and climbing. I think that paradoxically this may be the reason it gets built. Think of the huge fees to be earned by the armies of consultants, lawyers, accountants and bankers. These people have vested interest in making HS2 happen they've got influence and savvy they'll know exactly who to buy off and for how much.
If you put HS2 to a referendum I'm sure the result would be a resounding 'nyet' not that the establishment has much time for popular opinion.
Ach weel…..respectable cisatlantic dictionaries do not recognise 'haitch' as a word. The common comparison with 'hotel' is spurious, since the 'otel usage is based on the French origin of the word. I suspect 'haitch' derives from defective teaching/learning of the alphabet. Onomatopoeia – thy name is mud.
Janus: It's an overcompensation. In the past many were more likely to not aspirate the initial aitch. Teaching methods aimed at "correcting" this resulted in aitches getting put where they don't belong, including the letter itself!
H says 'h', Z says zee. Language is too important to be left in the hands of pedagogs!
There's talk here of a super-fast train, at enormous expense, to cut a few minutes off the journey between the Gold Coast and Brisbane – no one seems to even consider spending the money on improving local transport. Why would they – super-speed trains are glitzy – local transport is boring.
Cog… I believe that Americans generally call herbs – erbs -it's very disconcerting! I don't know how you pronounce other words beginning with an 'h' – but I'm pretty sure that you don't call hospitals – ospitals – or do you?
Janus: Of course you mean Haitch Ess Two.
Anyway the money could be better spent on other less glamorous infrastructure projects….like fixing the f*****g roads for a start and providing better routes for cyclists and pedestrians.
And if there's any change left over bung it in the direction of the NHS !
Boadicea: Are we sure it's not "scoons?" I'd never even try to pronounce the name anyway because, as soon as I get within reach, I'd be stuffing them into my mouth.
The American practice of dropping the "h" from "herbs" also bothers me, so much so that I've been known to bother people right back by using the British pronunciation.
"Hospital," on the other hand, is always pronounced with the initial "h." When our nearest such establishment has been particularly annoying, however, I sometimes refer to them as being run by the Sisters of Perpetual Profit.
Cog: Some 75pc of the Japanese population, roughly 90 million in total, live along the Yamata Plain which stretches from greater Tokyo to the southern tip of Honshu. Other pockets of population density are conveniently located. Japan is, thus, geographically ideal for high-speed rail. France and Germany, also home to well-developed high speed rail systems, are large countries with a less uneven distribution of population than the UK. Taiwan's HSR is found on the densely populated western plain and connects the capital, Taipei, to the island's second largest city, Kaohsiung. The population is spread out enough to warrant high speed rail. In the UK, South East England and Greater London account for a third of the national population. The remaining population centres in England are either close enough to be reached within reason by regular rail or better served by a short flight operated out of regional airports. HS2 also doesn't take into account the needs of those not living in London. I looked into going to Liverpool. It would be calamitously difficult to get there without going over London, even if that means going to the opposite, and wrong, end of England first.
jazz, I love cyclists dearly but be careful what you wish for. Few Brits would like the bike-state Denmark is becoming. High-speed lycra-clad missiles around every corner.
Definitely should be "Aitch " only, just lazy not to. Also what annoys me is incorrect use of words, e.g. "loose" when "lose" is meant. Whether this is bad spelling or not I would not know.
BTW, Aitch Ess Two is a VERY bad idea. A complete waste of money!!
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The Conway campus of Granite State College, 53 Technology Lane, Conway NH, serves as the home for Conway OLLI volunteers and most classes. Six class rooms provide the capacity for an average of 50 courses offered per year. Field trips known as 'Out and Abouts' may take place on hiking trails in and around the greater Conway area and attractions such as Castle in the Clouds, Squam Lake and Cannon Mountain.
Conway provides its membership affiliates with free, casual, social events such as 'mug and muffin's and class preview luncheon events. Currently there are an average of 140 members living in Conway and the surrounding towns that are affiliated with the Conway site.
OLLI members are welcome to take courses at any of the four OLLI Sites.
Cribbage, dominos and backgammon games group usually meets 10:15 am to 12:15 pm on Mondays and Wednesdays from 1 to 3 pm. at the N. C. Community Center. A donation to the NCCC of $1.00 is requested when you attend. Playing cards, boards etc. supplied. Contact Benny Jesseman bjesseman1@roadrunner.com to confirm times.
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A Man Searches for the Owner of 'The Bra' in Azerbaijan Comedy Trailer
Indican Pictures has released an official US trailer for an indie, light-hearted comedy titled The Bra, from German filmmaker Veit Helmer. The film is already out to watch now, but we're just catching up with it at this point. Set in the country of Azerbaijan (nestled between Iran and Georgia) the film tells the story of an aging train driver named Nurlan. To escape from his lonely existence, he embarks on the most adventurous journey of his life: to find the owner of a perky piece of blue underwear that his train snagged off a washing line. He rents a small room in Baku and begins his quest. Starring Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic as Nurlan, with Paz Vega, Denis Levant, Chulpan Khamatova, Maia Morgenstern, and Frankie Wallac. This has the look and feel of an old classic B&W film, something from a time long ago, a comedic quest for love. And this dialogue-free trailer is pretty dang good - emphasizing that this film is entirely dialogue-free, too.
Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Veit Helmer's The Bra, direct from Indican's YouTube (via Apple):
Train driver Nurlan's (Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic) heading to Baku for the last time before retirement, but on his fateful journey around the neighborhoods of the city his train snags a blue bra off a washing line. To escape from his lonely existence, Nurlan embarks on the most adventurous journey of his life: to find the owner of this perky piece of underwear. He rents a small room in Baku and begins his quest to find his "Cinderella". The Bra, also known as Vom Lokführer, Der Die Liebe Suchte (From the Train Driver Who Was Looking for Love) in German, is directed by German filmmaker Veit Helmer, director of the films Tuvalu, Gate to Heaven, Absurdistan, Baikonur, and Fiddlesticks previously. The screenplay is written by Leonie Geisinger and Veit Helmer. This first premiered at the Hof and Tokyo Film Festivals in 2018. Indican already released Helmer's The Bra in virtual cinemas + VOD on October 9th earlier this month. Anyone?
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Apple's peer-to-peer payment system built into iMessage called Apple Pay Cash is now available for testing. Specifically, Apple flicked the switch for those who are registered with Apple Pay and running iOS 11.2 and watchOS 4.2 on their devices. Currently, it only looks like the second beta of each upcoming OS update carries the feature, but it should roll out to everyone when the upgrades are made available to the public.
To use the feature, you and the person you're chatting with will need to both be running either iOS 11.2 or watchOS 4.2 and be registered to Apple Pay. Afterward, you can open the Messages app and select the Apple Pay Cash option at the bottom of the screen within a chat thread. You can send up to $3,000 via this method of payment so while you can't probably pay your rent with it, you have enough breathing room to pitch into that night out on the town.
Right now, only those in the United States can use the feature, but it's expected Apple Pay Cash will roll out to more users in the near future.