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Breakenridge: Calgary won't crumble if new sportsplex doesn't happen
Rob Breakenridge, for the Calgary Herald
Nick Twyman, president of Sunalta Community association, stands on the pedestrian overpass leading to the site of where a new Calgary Flames arena could be placed.	Aryn Toombs / Calgary Herald
Calgary needs to take a deep breath. Whatever challenges or opportunities CalgaryNEXT presents, it does not represent an existential crisis for the city.
The Calgary Flames have presented their idea for new facilities for their professional franchises to call home, and have offered up a rough outline of how the $890-million project should be funded. Is that really supposed to be the final word on the matter?
For one thing, there are too many unanswered questions. For those prepared to accept this deal at face value, there's almost a fear of even asking them, as though the Flames are simply going to walk away from the deal, or even from Calgary. The city, though, is by no means in a weak position here.
Mayor Naheed Nenshi himself raised several important questions: where the city's presumed contribution is to come from, whether the city would be expected to front the money the ticket tax would eventually raise, and where the money would come from to clean up the land in the West Village.
Other questions abound. Where did the Flames come up with the $200-million figure that would represent their direct contribution? Was that the most they could afford to pay? The most they were inclined to pay? Would the Flames pocket the revenues from all non-hockey and non-football events at this new facility? How strong is their current bottom line and how much would this enhance it?
From the city's perspective, how big a priority is the West Village? Does the CalgaryNEXT plan represent a significant enhancement over the previous vision for the area? How much potential development might be crowded out by this sprawling complex?
However, the arguments in favour of CalgaryNEXT are much grander in scope than the mere enhancement of a patch of land near downtown. Ward 8 Coun. Evan Woolley suggested that this project would "diversify our economy" and "create jobs."
While the construction itself would mean jobs (like any construction project), the jobs associated with the Flames and Stampeders already exist. We're not trying to lure a team. And "diversification" doesn't mean "more of what we already have" — we've had no shortage of new construction projects in recent years. We already have an arena and stadium, too.
Others, though, envision a bleak future for Calgary without this project. Calgary Herald business columnist Deborah Yedlin warns that Calgary could become a Buffalo-like crumbling economic wasteland. She says we need to instead diversify, and attract new businesses and more people. But again, a determination to diversify an economy and a determination to build a new arena are not one and the same.
Buffalo certainly has its issues, but what of Winnipeg? Remember, all along Buffalo has had NHL and NFL franchises — which clearly then wasn't much of a stimulus — whereas Winnipeg lost its NHL team. While fans there are certainly grateful to have the Jets back, the city didn't shrivel up and die when the team left — quite the opposite. Winnipeg's prosperity without the NHL, ironically, made it a viable NHL market once again.
That's not to suggest that Calgary should play hardball with the Flames or tell the team to stuff it. But rather, we need to be realistic about what's at stake and what the true value of this project is.
The evidence on all of this is quite conclusive. A 2008 study by renowned sports economists Brad Humphreys and Dennis Coates reviewed the relevant literature and found that, "sports subsidies cannot be justified on the grounds of local economic development, income growth or job creation."
If boosters are going to justify the use of public dollars on this project, they'll have to come up with something else. There may very well be compelling reasons for the city to partner with the Flames on this project or something else. But we shouldn't be afraid to ask hard questions, and we shouldn't fear the prospect of it not happening.
Rob Breakenridge is the co-host of Kingkade & Breakenridge on NewsTalk 770. rob.breakenridge@corusent.com
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Fake it like Indian TV
The only lesson one can learn from India's nationalist television anchors is how not to be rowdy like them.
Published at : July 9, 2020
Updated at : July 10, 2020 08:32
In a short video clip doing the rounds on social media in the past couple of days, Janata Samajwadi Party leader and former foreign minister Upendra Yadav is heard answering in the affirmative an Indian television journalist's query as to whether Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli had been 'honey-trapped' by Hou Yanqi, the Chinese ambassador to Nepal. Going by the slight hesitation in his response, Yadav possibly failed to understand the meaning of the phrase. But he still played into the hands of the journalist and ended up trolling the dignitaries as well as himself. Notwithstanding Yadav's callous response, characteristic of Nepali leaders who keep putting their feet in their mouths, there is no questioning the moral integrity of Prime Minister Oli and Ambassador Hou, both of whom have been targets of a vicious disinformation campaign run by a section of the right-wing, nationalist Indian television media in the past few weeks.
Rattled by Nepal's recent updating of its political and administrative map by including the disputed territories of Lipulekh, Limpiyadhura and Kalapani, the Indian nationalist television channels have begun an all-out war against Prime Minister Oli. Their accusations vary according to how farther away a particular propagandist-cum-journalist is willing to go from the truth: Oli is presumably working at China's behest, is selling Nepal to China, is pitting China against India, or is even cashing in on Pakistan's anti-India sentiment to destabilise the southern neighbour.
Each day, one nationalist media channel or the other comes up with a new—and invariably false—propaganda against Oli. Sitting in their Delhi or Mumbai studios, they do not hesitate to announce the date and time of Oli's resignation, some of them even asking him to step down. Oli, it seems, is the new enemy they must fight each day to garner higher television rating points for themselves. In becoming their target and helping them gain higher TRPs, Oli has, in fact, become a steady source of their bread and butter. As the prime minister of the country, Oli is rightly facing brickbats and bouquets both from the Nepalis. But the brazenness with which the propaganda channels have castigated Oli is totally uncalled for. In showing Oli in a negative light to satisfy their bloated nationalist egos, the channels and their journalists have arguably raised his approval ratings on the home turf.
In running the disinformation campaign, the propagandists have also been outraging the modesty of Ambassador Hou. The ambassador's political activities may be questioned and debated through diplomatic paradigms as has always been the case when Indian diplomats are seen hobnobbing with political leaders during crises in Nepali politics. But calling the Chinese ambassador a vishkanya, or a poisonous woman, and flashing her photographs alongside Oli's only exposes the deep misogyny that runs through Indian newsrooms. Ambassador Hou's rights to dignity as a professional, woman and human being must be sternly defended, and the media trial must be condemned by all sections of society.
The campaign also exposes the deep crisis of credibility that characterises Indian television media today. They have long discarded the idea that their only loyalty should be towards truth, and not towards any individual, party or government. The farther they deviate from seeking the truth, the more they fail in their duty to be the eyes and the ears for the citizens. As the trend of fake news and alternative truths challenges the traditional media industry, it is all the more important for mainstream media to stick to the primary purpose of journalism: Providing citizens with unadulterated information and helping make the world a better place rather than trying to turn it into a hellhole.
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The 45th Annual International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS 2018) will be from June 24-28, 2018 in Denver, Colorado.
The International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS) is an annual conference coordinated by the Plasma Science and Application Committee (PSAC) of the IEEE Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society. The program of the 45th ICOPS covers both traditional areas of plasma science and new exploratory research areas. The conference offers an outstanding forum for scientists and engineers to learn further about some of the greatest advances in plasma science and technology in recent years and to discuss future directions of research.


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CRISPR Crops – June 22
Tucker / 2020 Archive, Event /	agriculture, CRISPR, crops, farming, food, gene edit, genetic engineering, global warming, gmo, plants, technology /
Gene editing is revolutionizing agriculture by changing how we design, produce, and consume food. But how is this technology being used, and what does this mean for farmers, consumers, and society at large? We'll take a holistic journey through the history of plant breeding to understand how this cutting-edge technology — and CRISPR gene editing, in particular — is being used to meet the needs of a growing human population and a warming world.
Our speaker, Evan Groover, is a PhD candidate and researcher in UC Berkeley's Department of Plant & Microbial Biology. He is also a Wonderfest Science Envoy. Evan will answer qustions during the video premiere via the YouTube "chat" bar AND, afterward, via live Zoom seminar.
Evan Groover
WHAT: CRISPR Crops: Food, Farms, and the Shape of Plants to Come
WHO: Evan Groover, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley
WHERE: Wonderfest Science YouTube Channel [http://youtube.com/wonderfestscience]
WHEN: 2020-06-22 — 8pm, Mon, June 22 (1 hour)
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8:00pm — Click this YouTube video "Premiere" link: <https://youtu.be/KKFoHXedP4g>.
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Special screening of GATTACA, with gene/law expert Hank Greely, Sept 30
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Perhaps "Biology is not destiny." But our genetic code is at least writing on the wall! 1997's GATTACA is a sci-fi thriller that explores what happens when society can control that writing — when eugenics and genetic discrimination are the norm. Is this our future? Expert commentary and audience Q&A will be provided by Prof. Hank Greely, Director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford University. Dr. Greely is both Professor of Law and Professor of Genetics, and he directs Stanford's Program in Neuroscience and Society.
WHAT: Special screening of GATTACA, with Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman
WHO: Expert commentary by Hank Greely, Professor of Genetics and of Law, Stanford
WHEN: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, Sept 30, 2015
WHERE: Balboa Theater, 3630 Balboa Street, San Francisco
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Many women who had an abortion suffered workplace stigmatisation and isolation in Northern Ireland as a result, a survey has said.
Some were unable to access sick leave and pay. A quarter wanted time off but could not afford to lose the money, the trade union study showed.
Patricia McKeown, regional secretary of public service union Unison, said it was a hugely important piece of research.
A total of 3,200 people, 2,031 from Northern Ireland, responded to the survey conducted by Ulster University and commissioned by five trade unions as well as pro-choice campaigners.
Dr Fiona Bloomer, lead researcher for Ulster University, is expected to tell a launch event later: "This research study, the first of its kind globally, provides clear evidence that abortion is a workplace issue.
"Their experiences ranged from stigma, isolation, lack of support to being unable to access sick leave or sick pay, often due to precarious employment.
A majority of those asked did not support a total ban on access to abortion and favoured legal reform in Northern Ireland, which has the strictest restrictions in the UK.


Opened in the roaring 1920s, Sunnyside Beach was the place Torontonians came to play for decades. This waterfront icon played host to bathers, concerts, tightrope-walkers and even an amusement park. The Palais Royale was one of Toronto's most popular dance halls, featuring jazz greats like Duke Ellington and Count Basie. In 1954, sixteen-year old Marilyn Bell ended her historic first swim across Lake Ontario nearby. Not long after that, the Gardiner Expressway went up and the amusement park came down. Today, you can still use the Sunnyside Bathing Pavilion and swim in the pool (aka, "The Tank"), have drinks and a bite to eat on a patio overlooking the beach, and of course, have a splash in Lake Ontario.


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Papuan Pastor Questions BBC Reports on Indonesian Palm Oil Company Korindo
Father Felix Amias, Community Leader Papua
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Nov. 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- A Catholic priest from Papua has issued a public statement to question the veracity of a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) report on Korindo, an Indonesian palm oil company.
The BBC report was published in both Bahasa and English with the title "The burning scar: Inside the destruction of Asia's last rainforests".
In his statement to the press, Father Felix praised Korindo for having brought development to his area which included job opportunities, telecommunications, schools and the Indonesian province's highest-rated hospital.
Father Felix questioned the BBC's motifs in singling out Korindo in its news report,
"The parish also has a forest next to Korindo's operational area, which several untrustworthy companies have tried to lay their fingers on.
Why is it only Korindo that continues to be highlighted when there are also other companies residing around Muting and Bupul areas?
If the report aims to defend the interests of the community on the grounds that the community should not lose the forest and that the forests are the lungs of the world, then all the companies around there should be highlighted as well.
If the only one highlighted is Korindo and the other companies are allowed to freely clear land for their plantations, then it is clear that the BBC is not really defending the people but only manipulating the people for its own interests."
He questioned the credibility of images and indigenous peoples shown in the BBC report.
"The photos of people inside the shack next to the Digoel River is not that of people who lost their customary rights because of Korindo. These are people from a neighboring village who came to live next to Digoel River to raise pigs. I know this because one of the shack owners is my cousin, Mrs. Yustina Kemon.
In the opening scenes of the video a woman is seen dancing in traditional clothes. As a member of Auyu clan, I can confirm that this is a woman from Auyu clan from the traditional clothes and the way she danced.
We from the Auyu clan, have no problem with Korindo because most of our forests are not part of its concessions, so why did the BBC put a dancing Auyu woman to introduce their report?"
Father Felix further stated that he had seen the images of land clearing used in the BBC report. According to him, the land clearing took place many years ago but continues to be used by media to criticize Korindo since they have no new images to support the reports as news.
Father Felix went on to explain that the "compensation" paid to indigenous clans was not a buyout of their lands as stated by the BBC. The payments were merely a gesture of goodwill between the company and the community to jointly manage the land because the community still gets assistance from Korindo as long as the company is operating on their lands.
Father Felix concluded his statement on the BBC report by saying that as a local person who has seen the benefits of Korindo's presence, he felt compelled to make a public statement as the indigenous Papuans need development.
Father Felix Amias
Father Felix Amias MSC comments on BBC program (1).pdf
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Father Felix Amias, Community Leader in Papua, Indonesia
Father Felix (left) in a community meeting in Kampung Piyes, Papua province, Indonesia
Source: Father Felix Amias, Community Leader Papua
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Coastal Currents
EAST OF HASTINGS
Are you the Press?
GROUNDED/Screening 3: Tuesday 4 August 6PM – 5 August, 6PM
PART OF GROUNDED: A SEASON OF SCREENDANCE
taking / care
An investigation into the embodiment of loss, uncertainty and that which we cannot name.
Yvonne Rainer, Hand Movie (1966), 8mm film transferred to video, b&w, silent, 05:00
Rainer's first film, Hand Movie, was shot by fellow dancer William Davis when Rainer was confined to a hospital bed, recovering from major surgery and unable to dance. The resulting five minutes of footage is a sustained close-up shot of Rainer's hand against a grey background as it stretches and contracts, bends and points, performing the kinds of everyday, quotidian movements that characterize her pioneering minimalist choreography.
Courtesy of Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, vdb.org
Florence Peake, The Keeners (UK, 2015), video, 10.51
CREDIT: Photo: Time Bowditch. Performer: Rosalie Wahlfrid
The Keeners 2015 takes its title from the notion of 'keening', where professional mourners in Irish and Celtic traditions grieve the losses of others on their behalf. Peake pays homage to this tradition and presents a collective grief in the form of a public performance to mourn the commodification and instrumentalisation of art by the corporate world, enacted by a chorus of dancers. Collected through a public open call, the dancers mourn every one of the submitted personal losses. The performance was situated in London Fields, which is classified as common land (Lammas Rights for grazing animals), and links to its history as a plague burial site.
Dancers: Charlotte Ashwell, Lizzy Le Quesne, Nikki Tomlinson, Rosalie Wahlfrid, Susanna Recchia. Filmed and edited by Video in Common.
Phoebe Collings-James, Mother Tongue, Mother Master (UK, 2018), 16mm film transferred to video, 02.28
Language, given, received, taken. stolen. assumed.
Light bondage. Joan Armatrading's song I Like it When You Call Me Names. Shame,
flagellating, regret. Always, also, fatigue. Jamaican Tongue, Cockney Tongue. My
Understanding self through freedom and sacrifice. Being covered, held barely.
Will it crack my teeth and do I care? Those edges. Pleasure, desire, chaos.
What happens when language blurrsss. It is all you have and it was never yours. How to
about liberation? The nets. recurring tensile material. Containment. A stocking,
hammock, a cage.
A thrill, ominous, putrid, sexy in an idea that something could shift motive in a split
– Phoebe Collings-James
Courtesy of the artist and Arcadia Missa, London
Fenia Kotsopoulou, THIS DANCE HAS NO END (2018), video,10:59
A dance dedicated to artist, drag king and gender activist Diane Torr who passed away in May 2017. The traditional urban zeybekiko dance of Rebetiko, traditionally only performed by men, is danced by my hybrid manifestation: a single shot fusing male and female as ode to life and death.
Zoë Marden, Little Lo Ting (UK/Hong Kong, 2017), video, 04.08
When Hong Kong was returned by the British to China in 1997, the curator Oscar Ho created an exhibition based around the ancient myth of the Lo Ting, a half-human, half-fish creature thought to be the ancestor of the indigenous inhabitants of Hong Kong. In her video Zoë Marden reimagines this story to foreground the uncertainties of our lineage and to challenge notions of belonging. Filming underwater she dissolves the boundaries between what we are and what we are not.
Little Lo Ting is part of a long term research project that has included sculpture, performance and a series of texts.
Gray Wielebinski & HRH, water bb (UK, 2019), video, 08.02
water bb depicts a group of people standing in the atrium leisure pool of Wavelengths Leisure Centre in Deptford London. Despite the association with synchronised swimming, the participants appear to be following a workshop or training routine. The work foregrounds ways through which collective movement can be utilised to create new forms of world building. A collaboration between designer HRH and artist Gray Wielebinski, with choreography by Holly Blakey.
The video was originally presented for the arts festival Deptford X where it was shown in a dance studio overlooking the pool along with costumes and props from the performance.
Choreographed by Holly Blakey
Originally commissioned by Deptford X for Deptford X Festival 2019
Costumes with HRH
Music by Luke Clayton Thompson
Featuring: Darcy Wallace, Sakeema Crook, Lewis Walker, Areena Ang, Benoit Loiseau, Nural Moser, Akti-Magdalini Konstantinou, Aaron Whitty, Eugenio Rebolleda
Site Specific performance at Wavelength Leisure Centre Pool
Documentation by Katrazyna Perlak
Courtesy of the artists
Lisa Clifford and Cheryl White, Dad's Coffin (UK, 2020), video, 08.00
CREDIT: Photo: Laura Aitken
Dad's Coffin is a short documentary introducing Hastings resident John Lynes, Jewish Quaker, activist, rebel, great-great-grandfather. It's part of a longer film following John until he takes up residence in his coffin.
John Smith, State of Grace (UK, 2019), video, 03.00
Airline safety instructions can be ambiguous.
Lisa Clifford. English/Canadian, lives and works in Hastings
Lisa Clifford – Co-director/Camera of Dad's Coffin. The film is Lisa's second feature documentary film. Her debut, Militia Man about a Congolese warlord and his trial at the International Criminal Court, is currently screening in the US and Europe. Lisa is a journalist with more than 25 years' experience reporting from around the world and an alumni of ESoDoc documentary development programme.
Phoebe Collings-James (b.1987, London, UK) Lives and works in London
Collings-James' work often eludes linear retellings of stories. Instead, her works function as what she calls 'emotional detritus': they speak of knowledges of feelings, the debris of violence, language and desire which are inherent to living and surviving within hostile environments.
@mudbellyceramics; https://arcadiamissa.com/phoebe-collings-james
HRH (b.1989, London, UK) Lives and works in London
HRH is a costume and fashion designer and creative director and often works on artist collaborations in video and performance. HRH has a long working relationship with Holly Blakey on projects such as Some Greater Class at the Southbank Centre (2017) and But We're Doing This at London Contemporary Dance School The Place (2019) and has previously collaborated with Gray Wielebinski on their video and performance piece A Dog Pees On Things For More Than One Reason in 2018.
Fenia Kotsopoulou (b. 1981, Pyrgos, Greece) Lives and works in Lincoln
Fenia is an award-winning Greek cross-disciplinary artist based in Lincoln (UK), investigating the fields of performance (art), dance, video, photography, and their intersection. She collaborates with digital artist, Daz Disley, is artist-in-residence at x-church in Gainsborough (UK) since 2016, and teaches on the Master of Theatre Practices in the University of ArtEZ (Arnhem, NL).
Zoë Marden (b.1985, Hong Kong) Lives and work in London
Zoë Marden is an artist, curator and writer, who works with performance, video, text, sound, sculpture and installation to create alternate worlds and speculative futures. Her works are research-focused and concerned with intersectional feminism, specifically where it overlaps with the postcolonial. Her intimate performances play with the voice, activating soundscapes of desire and vulnerability, while recent projects have investigated the mythologies of witches and mermaids and their resonance within contemporary culture. Recent performances and exhibitions include: Remember the Liquid Ground, Gasworks and The Royal College of Art (2020); AMY/YMA, Serpentine Gallery, London (2019); Unbothered + Moisturised, Eaton Workshop, Hong Kong (2019); Manifesta 11, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (2016). She is part of the CAMPerVAN collective, a nomadic queer performance platform that has been active since 2016
Florence Peake (b.1973, London, UK) Lives and works in London
Peake's work explores notions of materiality and physicality; the body as site and vehicle of protest, the anthropocene and the commodification of art. By encouraging chaotic relationships between the body and material, she creates radical and outlandish performances, creating temporary alliances and micro-communities within the audience. Her work has been presented internationally, most recently at at Venice Biennale 2019 with Eve Stainton; CRAC Occitanie, Sète, France (2018), MDT Stockholm, Sweden (2018), London Contemporary Music Festival, UK (2018), Bosse & Baum, London, UK (2019); De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, UK (2018); Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France (2018); Hayward Gallery, London UK (2018).
Yvonne Rainer (b. 1934 San Francisco, California) Lives and works in New York
Yvonne Rainer is a choreographer, filmmaker and writer. In the 1960s she was a leading figure of the Judson Dance Theater, a loose collection of dancers and artists whose performances (often held at the Judson Memorial Church in New York City) crossed fluidly between the fields of dance and visual art, creating a striking and intellectualized form of performance that denied the theatricality and emotionalism of modern dance in favor of movements that seemed casual, spare, and cool. Over time, Rainer's works became increasingly personal and political, and by the early 1970s she had begun to focus on producing experimental feature films. Over the next 25 years, Rainer produced an extraordinary series of films that engaged with the most advanced theoretical thinking of the time while also grappling with issues of power, privilege, and inequality. In 2000, Rainer returned to choreography and continues to produce provocative new works.
John Smith (b. 1952, Walthamstow, London, UK) Lives and works in London
John Smith's films and videos, known for their formal ingenuity, anarchic wit and oblique narratives, create mysterious and sometimes fantastical scenarios from the raw material of everyday life. Over five decades he has developed an extensive and varied body of work that defies easy classification, blurring the perceived boundaries between documentary and fiction, representation and abstraction.
Gray Wielebinski (b.1991, USA) Lives and works in London
Gray Wielebinski is an American artist based in London whose work across sculpture, print, installation, drawing, performance and film tends towards the exposure and creation of mythologies of power and identity in terms of gender, race and sexuality. With a particular fascination in the cultures of sport and the latent polarities of competition and belonging; machismo and eroticism; national identity and hierarchy; performance and surveillance.
Cheryl White. Northern Irish, lives and works in Hastings
Cheryl White – Co-director/Writer of Dad's Coffin. Cheryl completed her MA in Scriptwriting at City University in 2007 and has written and directed a number of award winning films which have screened at festivals around the world. She was awarded an Arts Council grant for her play inspired by Poly Styrene and is currently working on a series of audio plays inspired by the Clash's London Calling album.
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Mother's final act saved Goomeri fire survivor from death
LOOKING BACK: Marie and Malcolm Lehman. Troy Jegers
by JOSH PRESTON
JOSH PRESTON
15th Dec 2018 6:24 PM | Updated: 15th Dec 2020 3:42 PM
A CHRISTMAS NIGHTMARE: Goomeri Hotel burns down, kills eight
GLADYS Edwards died in the most horrific fashion nearly 79 years ago today, but her desperate final actions meant her infant daughter Marie didn't meet the same fate.
As the old Goomeri Hotel burned to the ground in just minutes on Christmas Eve morning, 1939, 24-year-old Gladys was one of eight people to go down with it.
The mother of three had youngest daughter Marie - just seven months old at the time - in her arms as she frantically tried to escape the inferno on the hotel's upper floor, but soon faced a grim ultimatum when she couldn't get out.
VIDEO: Take a look inside Gympie's most haunted building
RUINED: This photo shows the ruins of the original Grand Hotel at Goomeri which was destroyed by fire on December 24, 1939. Contributed
Onlookers and escapees standing on the street soon heard screams of "for god's sake someone save my baby", and one of them caught the infant as Gladys disappeared back inside the hotel - never to be seen again.
Marie has gone on to enjoy a rich and fulfilling life alongside husband Malcolm in Gympie and Tin Can Bay, and will turn 80 five months after the fire's 80th anniversary, but she still honours her mother's legacy by thinking of her heroism and bravery.
"I often wondered why my mother didn't get out, and they said she probably couldn't," Marie said.
"She went back to get her friend, that's what I was told. Her friend was Eileen Eisentrager, and she perished in it too.
"I never used to talk about it and I haven't really talked about it, a lot of people don't know.
"I was only seven months old when it happened so I don't have a lot to tell about that night, but I take comfort in what she did."
The Grand Hotel at Goomeri (1940) used a very similar design to the Carlton Hotel in Maryborough
Grand Hotel, Goomeri ca1939. Photo Contributed Contributed
Marie said she and sisters Phyllis and Frances were raised mostly by her grandmother Mary Ann after the fire, while father and Gladys' husband Frank served in the Australian Light Horse.
She said she "never had a lot to do with" her father and said she felt as if he had struggled to cope with the horrific loss of his wife.
They reconnected later in life, with Frank spending time at the Cooinda Nursing Home in Gympie, and Malcolm even serving as his carer.
"He never told us anything about it, he didn't like talking about it I don't think," Malcolm said.
"They never told you anything in those days."
Page 3 of The Courier Mail on January 12, 1940, recounted Gladys' tragic death from the perspective of escapee Eva Muriel Buchanan.
"Mrs Edwards' screaming from her room awakened me," Miss Buchanan told The Courier Mail.
"There was a little smoke in my room. I saw smoke and flames coming from Mrs Edwards' room. She was leaning over the veranda railing with her baby in her arms, saying to the men below, 'For God's sake save my baby'.
"She threw the baby. I grasped her arm, and told her to come with me, but she wrenched her arm away, and said she could not jump.
"It was getting hotter each moment, and there was much fire and smoke. She went to the other end of the veranda towards the fire escape."
Miss Buchanan told the Coronial Inquest into the fire that Gladys remarked to her that "it was silly" to nail the blinds down between the upper verandah and the hotel's fire escape.
Malcolm and Marie said they had received multiple claims from families of men who said they had been the one to catch Marie after her mother had saved her from the fire.
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Fun with Maps! Everybody who lives here works here also.
From the blog Flowing Data, the interactive designer Harry Kao has taken information from the TranStats database of commuting (did you know there was one? I didn't!) and made these neat interactive maps that show just who's commuting to and from your neighborhood.
I plugged in the zip 11211 and, guess what? Pretty much everyone who works here lives here too. Ok, so some people who live here work in Manhattan, and there's some random dude (or lady!) commuting into Jersey City every day, but I guess we all gotta pay the bills somehow, right?
Anyways, check it out. And just for fun try typing in your zip and then comparing it with your parents' or something.
No, it's just that most of those midwest morons that invaded Williamsburg DON'T work. Unless they're professional finger-painters or something.
22.4% is "pretty much everyone"?
The MMP union hall is in Jersey City. A bunch of merchant sailors lay up in Brooklyn waiting on ships out of New York harbor because…well….it's not Jersey City.


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Accueil de l'OCDE Centre pour l'entrepreneuriat, les PME, les régions et les villesDéveloppement économique et création locale d'emplois (LEED)OECD LEED Webinar Series on "Local economic resilience and adaptability to long-term challenges" - Part One
OECD LEED Webinar Series on "Local economic resilience and adaptability to long-term challenges" - Part One
Part One: Understanding Economic Resilience
1-2 December 2015
The OECD LEED research project "Building resilience through greater adaptability to long-term challenges" aims to explore the link between local resilience and the capacity to adapt to long-term challenges such as ageing populations and the shift to a green economy.
Resilience is a broad concept that analyses not only the ability to resist and recover from adverse shocks, but also to 'bounce back' stronger than before and to learn from the experience. The OECD LEED Webinar series will explore the notion of 'local economic resilience' for practitioners in local labour markets.
The objective of the series is to develop a practical policy lens for building resilience in local labour markets for local partners, relevant stakeholders, researchers, practitioners and academics. The webinars will enable serious discussion on the concept of 'local economic resilience' in an informal setting that facilitates interaction and questions. The format will feature presentations from policy experts and a roundtable discussion with the audience.
No participation fee is required. Participants are able to participate in the webinar over the internet.
For further information on the seminar, please contact the OECD Secretariat.
Webinar 1: Defining Local Economic Resilience
December 1, 4pm (CET) Webinar 2: Measuring Local Economic Resilience
December 2, 5pm (CET)
This webinar analysed conceptual and definitional issues associated with the term 'local economic resilience'. Although the concept of resilience is increasingly used in policy contexts, its practical value could be unclear to local policymakers. We explored this notion by critically examining the following ideas:
How should we define 'local economic resilience'?
Why is resilience a relevant concept for local policymakers?
Is resilience linked only to the ability to respond to short-term shocks? What about adapting to long-term structural change
How does the concept of 'local economic resilience' apply to labour markets?
How can policymakers assess the resilience of regional labour markets?
How does resilience in local labour market link to broader concepts such as economic diversification?
Professor Karen Chapple (University of California, Berkeley), Professor Ron Martin (University of Cambridge) and Neil McInroy (CLES) discussed the definition and conceptualization of the term 'local economic resilience'. They answered targeted policy questions from Nathalie Cliquot (OECD LEED) and then responded to open questions from the audience.
Presentations:
Building Resilience Through Greater Adaptibility to Long-Term Challenges (Nathalie Cliquot, Policy Analyst, LEED Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development OECD)
Understanding Local Economic Resilience (Karen Chapple, PhD Professor, City & Regional Planning)
Governance Health and wellbeing Environment Identity, history and context (Neil mc Inroy)
Shocking Aspects of Regional Development: The Economic Geographies of Resilience (Professor Ron Martin Department of Geography University of Cambridge)
This webinar discussed indicators and metrics of resilience, particularly in the context of local labour markets.
Which factors can impact regional resilience and how can we measure them?
How can we measure a local area's capacity to respond to change?
How can we assess the relative importance of particular factors?
How can we use these factors to understand variation in regional economic performance?
How can we apply resilience to the specific context of regional labour markets?
What is the relationship between labour market institutions and labour market resilience?
Associate Professor Menno Fenger (Innovative Social Policies for Inclusive and Resilient Labour Markets in Europe) and Dr Adrian Healy (Cardiff University) presented factors impacting local economic resilience in labour markets. This were followed by a roundtable discussion with the audience.
Building Resilience Through Greater Adaptibility to Long-Term Challenges - Webinar 2 (Nathalie Cliquot, Policy Analyst, LEED Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development OECD)
Local economic resilience and adaptability to long-term challenges (Adrian Healy Cardiff University)
Measuring labour market resilience in a comparative perspective (Prof. dr. Menno Fenger Erasmus University Rotterdam INSPIRES project manager)
Recording of the Webinars
Building resilience through greater adaptability to long-term challenges
Building Resilience Through Greater Adaptability to Long-Term challenges (doc)


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History shouldn't be tampered with: Pratibha Patil
Former President Pratibha Patil on Thursday said there should not have been any tampering with the history of queen Padmavati, as she represented the honour of the entire women's community. Speaking to the media here during her visit to the city, Patil said historical facts should never be tampered with while making films. Patil's comments …
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Always knew my character was an underdog in Padmaavat: Shahid Kapoor
Shahid Kapoor believes playing Maha Rawal Ratan Singh was the biggest risk of his career as people did not know much about the character's journey but he is glad that "the hero" of Padmaavat is rightfully getting his due. The 36-year-old actor said there were many people who questioned him for taking up the role, as …
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The Princess and the Pernicious Sultan
Mythological fiction having become the mainstay of Indian publishing; here comes a timely version of the 16th century legend of Padmavati, piggybacking on a roaring controversy about the film, which no longer dares to use the full name. Once upon a time, in 1540 to be exact, Amethi-based Sufi poet Malik Mohammed Jayasi penned a …
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'Padmaavat' timeline: Trail of controversies that changed course for SLB's film
Sanjay Leela Bhansali's upcoming historical drama is finally going to witness a worldwide release on January 25. But the film had its fair share of controversies before actually making it to the big screen. From vendalising the set in Jaipur last year in January to violent threats given to Bhansali and Deepika Padukone, Padmaavat has become …
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'Padmaavat' becomes first Indian film to release in IMAX 3D
Sanjay Leela Bhansali's upcoming film Padmaavat, starring Deepika Padukone, Shahid Kapoor and Ranveer Singh will become the first Indian film to release in IMAX 3D, an achievement which has never been accomplished before in India. After much controversy and trouble from Kerni Sena and other fringe groups who claims that the film has distorted historical …
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'Death of democracy': Twitteratis fume over full-page disclaimer by Padmaavat makers
Here's what the disclaimer reads.
Now, Gujarat too bans release of 'Padmaavat'
Succumbing to sentiments of the aggrieved Rajput community, the Gujarat government has decided not to allow the release of controversial film Padmaavat, the Sanjay Leela Bhansali film which had to drop the "I" from the legendary Rajasthan queen's name as per the advice of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). Gujarat chief minister Vijay …
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Karni Sena warns of 'public curfew' in theatres if 'Padmavat' is released
Demanding a "complete ban" on Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film "Padmavati", retitled "Padmavat", across the country, a Rajput organisation, Shree Rajput Karni Sena, on Wednesday said here that a mere modification in the disclaimer and the film's name would not justify the "defamation" of the queen Padmavati. Karni Sena threatened that it would impose a "public …
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'Padmavat' producers deny speculations on 300 cuts
There are no 300 cuts in Padmavat, say the films producers, appreciating the balanced, fair and transparent process followed by the censor board in suggesting five modifications in the movie. "We appreciate the balanced and considered approach that the CBFC has taken to address this situation," a company spokesperson from Viacom18 Media Pvt Ltd said. …
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Nothing official yet: Sidharth on 'Aiyaary' release
Actor Sidharth Malhotra says there's nothing official on whether the release date of his forthcoming movie Aiyaary is being shifted from January 26. As per trade buzz, since Padmavati will release as Padmavat on January 25, it will impact the release plan for some other movies, including Aiyaary. Talks are on that it may hit …
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'Padmavat' to release on January 25 across India but not in Rajasthan
Going by the popular mood in Rajasthan, Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia on Monday said Sanjay Leela Bhansali's movie 'Padmavati', now rechristened as 'Padmavat', will not be released in the cinema halls of the state. "The sacrifice by Queen Padmini (also known as Padmavati) is a matter of honour and respect for all of us …
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'Aiyaary' shifts release date to avoid clash with 'Padmavat', 'Pad Man'
The makers of Aiyaary has decided to push the release date of their film by two weeks to avoid a clash at the box office with Padmavat and Pad Man. The film is now scheduled to release on February 9. Starring Sidharth Malhotra and Manoj Bajpayee, Aiyaary was earlier scheduled for release on January 26, thus clashing with Akshay Kumar's …
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Confirmed: 'Padmavat' to clash with 'Pad Man' on January 25
Sanjay Leela Bhansali's controversial Hindi film Padmavati, which stars Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh and Shahid Kapoor, will release on January 25 as Padmavat. "It will release as Padmavat on January 25. The film has got U/A certificate," sources at Viacom18 Motion Pictures said. Padmavati— now Padmavat — was earlier slated for release on December 1 but …
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Akshay not bothered with possible clash of Padman, Padmavati
There is a buzz that Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Padmavati may hit the theatres the same day as Padman, but actor Akshay Kumar is hopeful that both the movies do well in the holiday weekend. Padmavati, which missed its December 1 release date due to controversy over its plot, has been finally given a go ahead …
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Rajasthan saw 'Padmavati' protests, lynchings in 2017
Protests over Sanjay Leela Bhansali's period drama Padmavati, lynching of a man over suspicion of cow smuggling and encounter of most wanted gangster Anandpal Singh were among the several issues that kept Rajasthan in news in 2017. The Vasundhara Raje-led BJP government, which completed four years in office on December 13, was cornered over 'black …
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Will release 'Padman' as per schedule: Makers on likely clash with "Padmavati"
The makers of Padman have said the film's January 25 release date will not change amid speculation that Sanjay Leela Bhansali-directed Padmavati may hit theatres the same day. B-town is abuzz that Padmavati, which has been making headlines due to its plot line, is set to release on January 25 – the same day as …
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Notorious gangster 'will kill Salman Khan'
Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi of Rajasthan on Thursday issued a death threat to Salman Khan, saying the Bollywood actor will be killed in Jodhpur. "Salman Khan will be killed here, in Jodhpur… Then he will come to know about our real identity," Bishnoi told media persons while being taken to a Jodhpur court in police security. …
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Different paths to cloud and SaaS enablement yield similar major benefits for Press Ganey and Planview
Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: VMware.
The next VMworld innovator panel discussion focuses on how two companies are using aggressive cloud-computing strategies to deliver applications better to their end users.
We'll hear how healthcare patient-experience improvement provider Press Ganey and project and portfolio management provider Planview are both exploiting cloud efficiencies and agility. Their paths to the efficiency of cloud have been different, but the outcomes speak volumes for how cloud transforms businesses.
To understand how, we sat down with Greg Ericson, Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer at Press Ganey Associates in South Bend, Indiana, and Patrick Tickle, Executive Vice President of Products at Planview Inc. in Austin, Texas.
The discussion, which took place at the recent 2013 VMworld Conference in San Francisco, is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Disclosure: VMware is a sponsor of BriefingsDirect podcasts.]
Gardner: We heard a lot about cloud computing at VMworld, and you're both going at it a little differently. Greg, tell us a bit about the type of cloud approach you're taking at Press Ganey.
Ericson: Press Ganey is the leader in a patient-experience analytics. We focus on providing deep insight into the patient experience in healthcare settings. We have more than 10,000 customers within the healthcare environment that look to us and partner with us around patient-experience improvement within the healthcare setting.
We started this cloud journey in July of 2012 and we set out to achieve multiple goals. Number one, we wanted to position Press Ganey's software as solution products of the next generation and have a platform that was able to support them.
We went through a journey of consolidating multiple data centers. We consolidated 14 different storage arrays in our process and, most importantly, we were able to position our analytic solutions to be able to take on exponentially more data and provide that to our clients.
Gardner: Patrick, how has cloud helped you at Planview? You were, at one time, a fully a non-cloud organization. Tell us about your journey.
Tickle: Planview has been an enterprise software vendor, a classic best-of-breed focused enterprise software vendor, in this project and portfolio and resource management space for over 20 years.
We have a big global customer base of on-premise customers that built up over the last 23 years. Obviously, in the world of software these days, there's a fairly seismic big shift about being in software as a service (SaaS) and how you get to the cloud, the business models, and all those kinds of things.
Conventional wisdom is for a lot it was that you can't get there unless you start from scratch. Obviously, because this is the only thing we do, it was pretty imperative that we figure out a way to get there.
So two or three years ago, we started trying to make the transition. There were a lot of things we had to go through, not just from an infrastructure standpoint, but from a business model and delivery standpoint, etc.
The essence was here. We didn't have time to rewrite a code base in which we've invested 10-plus years and hundreds of thousands of hours of customer experience to be a market-leading product in our space. It could take five years to rewrite it. Compared to where we were 10 years ago, when you and I first met, there are a lot more tools in the bag for people to get to the cloud that there were then.
So we really went after VMware and did the research sweep much more aggressively. We started out with our own kind of infrastructure that we bolted together and moved to a FlexPod in our second generation.
We have vCloud Hybrid Services now, and leveraging our existing code base, and then the whole suite of VMware products and services, we have transformed the company into a cloud provider. Today, 90 percent of all our new Planview customers are SaaS customers. It's been a big transition for us, but the technology from VMware has been right in the center of making it happen.
Gardner: Greg, tell us a little bit about some of the business challenges that are driving your IT requirements that, in turn, make the cloud model attractive. Is this a growth issue? Is this a complexity issue? What are your business imperatives that make your IT requirements?
Ericson: That's a great question. Press Ganey is a 25-year-old organization. We pioneered the concept of patient experience and the analytics, and insight into the patient experience, within the healthcare setting. We have an organization that's steeped in history, and so there are multiple things that we're looking at.
Number one, we have one of the largest protected health information (PHI) databases in the United States. So we felt that we had to have a very secure and robust solution to provide to our clients, because they trust us with their data.
Number two, with the healthcare reform, the focus on patient experience is somewhat mandatory, whereas before, it was somewhat voluntary. Now, it's regulated or it's part of the healthcare reform. When you look at organizations, some were actually coming to us and saying, "We want to get however many patient surveys out that we need to satisfy our threshold."
Our scientists are also finding a correlation between the patient experience results and clinical and quality outcomes.
Our philosophy is why would you want to do that? We believe that if you can understand and leverage the different media to be able to fill that out, you can survey your entire population of patients that are coming into not only your institution but, in the accountable care organization, the entire ecosystem that you're serving. That gives you tremendous insight into what's going on with those patients.
Our scientists are also finding a correlation between the patient experience results and clinical and quality outcomes. So, as we can tie those data sets together in those episodic events, we're finding very interesting kinds of new thought, leading thought, out there for our clients to look at.
So for us, going from minimally surveying your population to doing census survey, which is your entire population, represents an exponential growth. The last thing is that, for our future, in terms of going after some of those new analytics, some of the new insight that we want to provide our clients, we want to position the technology to be able to take us there.
We believe that the VMware vCloud Suite represents a completeness of vision. It represents a complete a single pane of glass into managing the enterprise and, longer-term, as we become more sophisticated in identifying our data and as the industry matures, we think that a public cloud, a hybrid cloud, is in the future for us, and we're preparing for that.
Gardner: And this must be a challenge for you, not only in terms of supporting the applications, but also those data sets. You're getting some larger data sets and they could be distributed. So the cloud model suits your data needs over time as well?
Ericson: Absolutely. It gives us the opportunity to be able to apply technology in the most cost-value proposition for the solutions that we're serving up for our customers.
Our current environment is around 600 server instances. We have about 300 terabytes (TB) running in 20 SaaS applications, and we're growing exponentially each month, as we continue to provide that deeper insight for our customers.
Gardner: Patrick, for your organization what are some of the business drivers that then translate into IT requirements?
Tickle: From an IT perspective, it changed the culture of the company, moving from being a on-premise perpetual kind of "ship the software and have a customer care organization that focuses on bug and break-fix" to a service-delivery model. There were a lot of things that rippled through that whole thing.
We had to move from an IT culture to an OPs culture and all the things that go along with that, performance and up time.
At the end of the day, we had to move from an IT culture to an operations culture and all the things that go along with that, performance and up-time. Our customer base is global. So it was being able to provide that around the globe is. All those things were pretty significant shifts from an IT perspective.
We went from a company that had a corporate IT group to a company that has a hosting and DevOps and Ops team that has a little bit of spend in corporate IT.
Out of the gate, the first step at Planview was moving to colo. SunGard has been a great partner for us over the last couple of years as our ping, power, and pipe. Then, in our first generation, we bolted together some of our storage and computer infrastructure because it wasn't quite all the way there. Then, in our most recent incarnation of the infrastructure we're using FlexPods at SunGard in Austin, Texas and London.
OPEX spend
We're always having to evaluate future footprints. But ultimately, like many companies, we would like to convert that infrastructure investment from a capital spend into an OPEX spend. And that's what's compelling with vCloud Hybrid Service.
What we've been excited about hearing from VMware is not just providing the performance and the scalability, but the compatibility and the economic model that says we're building this for people who want to just move virtual machines (VMs). We understand how big the opportunity is, and that's going to open up more of a public cloud opportunity for us to evaluate for a wide variety of use cases going forward.
Gardner: How big a deal is it when we can, with just a click of a mouse, move workloads to any support environment we want?
Tickle: It's a huge deal. Whether it's a production environment or disaster recovery (DR) environment, at the end of the day it's a big deal for both of us. For a SaaS company the only matter is renewals. It's happy customers that renew. That transition from perpetual-plus maintenance to a renewal model, where you're on the customer service watch at another level, and it's every minute of every day.
Everything that we can do to make the customer experience, not just from our UI and our software, but obviously the delivery of the service, as compelling as possible, allows us to run our business. That can be a disaster scenario or just great performance across our geography where we have customers and then to do that in a cost effective way that operates inside our business model, our profit and loss.
So our shareholders are equally pleased with their turn off. We can't afford to have half of the company's OPEX go into IT, while we're trying to make customers as successful as they possibly can. We continue to be encouraged that we're on a great path with the stack that we're seeing to get there.
Gardner: I think it's fair to say that cloud is not just repaving old cow paths, that cloud is really transforming your entire business. Do you agree, Greg?
Rejuvenate legacy
Ericson: I agree. It allows us, especially an organization that's 25 years steeped in history, to be able to rejuvenate our legacy applications and be able to deliver those with maximum speed, maximizing our resources, and delivering them in a secure environment. But it also allows us to be able to grow, to flex, and to be able to rejuvenate and organically transform the organization. It's pretty exciting for us and it adds a lot of value to our clients indirectly.
Gardner: Greg,what are some of the more measurable pay-offs when you go to cloud? Are these soft payoffs of productivity and automation or are there hard numbers about return on investment (ROI) or moving more to a operation cost versus capital cost? What do you get when you do cloud right?
Ericson: We justify the investment based on consolidation of our data centers, consolidation and retirement of our storage arrays, and so on. That's from a hard-savings perspective. From a soft-savings perspective, clearly in an environment that was not virtualized, virtualizing the environment represented a significant cost avoidance.
Our focus is on a complete solution that allows us to really focus in on what's important for us, what's important for our clients.
Longer-term, we're looking at how to position the organization with a robust, virtual secured infrastructure that runs with a minimum amount of technical resources, so that we can focus most of our efforts on delivering innovative applications to our clients.
The biggest opportunity for us is to focus there. As you look at the size of the data set and the growth of those data sets, positioning infrastructure to be able to stay with you is exciting for us and it's a value proposition for our clients.
Entire environment
With a minimum amount of staff, we were able to move in nine months and virtualize our entire environment. When you talk about 600 servers and 300 TB of data, that's a pretty sizable enterprise and we're fully leveraging the vCloud Suite.
Our network is virtualized, our storage is virtualized, and our servers are virtualized. The release of vCloud Suite 5.5 and some of the additional network functionality and storage functionality that's coming out with that is rather exciting. I think it's going to continue to add more value to our proposition.
Gardner: Some people say that a single point of management, when you have that comprehensive suite approach, comes in pretty handy, too.
Ericson: It does, because it gives you the capability of managing through a single pane of glass across your environments. I was going to accentuate that we're about 50 percent complete in building on our catalog.
For our next steps, number one is that we're looking at building upon the excellence of Press Ganey and building our next-generation enterprise data warehouse. We're looking at leveraging from a DevOps perspective the VMware vCloud Suite, and we already have some pilots that are up and running. We'll continue to build that out.
Not only are we maximizing our assets in delivering a secure environment for our clients, but we're also really working toward what I call engineering to zero.
As we deploy, not only are we maximizing our assets in delivering a secure environment for our clients, but we're also really working toward what I call engineering to zero. We're completely automating and virtualizing those deployments and we're able to move those deployments, as we go from dev to test, and test to user acceptance testing, and then into a production environment.
Tickle: As we all know, there are lot of hypervisors out there. We can all get that technology from a wide variety of sources. But to your question about the value with the stack, that's what's we look at and again. What's important now is not just the product stack, but the services stack.
We look at a company like VMware and say, "Site Recovery Manager in conjunction with vCloud Hybrid Services brings a DR solution to me as SaaS vendor and that fits with my architecture and brings that service stack plus."
There's no comparing another hypervisor vendor to build out that stack of service. Again, we could probably talk about probably numerous, but that's when I listen to the things that go on at the event and get to spend time with the people at VMware. That whole value stack that VMware is investing in is what looks so much more compelling than just picking pieces of technology.
Gardner: Looking to the future, Greg, based on what you've heard at VMworld about the general availability of vCloud Hybrid Services and the upgrade to the suite of private cloud support, what has you most excited? Was there something that surprised you? What is in the future road map for you?
A step further
Ericson: A couple of different things. The next release of NSX is exciting for us. It allows us to be able to take the virtualization of our network a step further. Also to be able to connect hypervisors into a hybrid-cloud situation is something that, as we evolve our maturity in terms of managing our data, is going to be exciting for us.
One of the areas that we're still teasing out and want to explore is how to tie in that accelerator for a big-data application into that. Probably, in 2014, what we're looking at is how to take this environment and really move from a DR kind of environment to a high-availability environment. I believe that we're architected for that and because of the virtualization we can do that with a minimum amount of investment.
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Massive London Tunneling Project Passes 11 Percent Mark
Crossrail Ltd has dug 3 miles of tunnels so far with five tunneling machines working night and day to complete Europe's biggest construction project.
Crossrail Ltd released new photos last week of its tunneling work beneath London, England, a 26-mile project that is Europe's biggest current construction project. Five tunneling machines are in operation and two more will be added later this year. Three miles of tunnels have been created thus far; when the full route opens in 2018, it will boost the extensive London rail network capacity by 10 percent and significantly cut travel times to cross the city, according to the company.
Stuart Buss filed a report on the Crossrail website about its progress to date. Work is going on around the clock with the machines, named Phyllis, Ada, Elizabeth, Victoria, and Sophia. Phyllis has installed more than 1,500 tunnel rings between Royal Oak and Park Lane, at the edge of Hyde Park, Buss reported. Sprayed concrete lining is being extensively used, including in an East London shaft about 100 feet deep that is being built so the two eastern tunneling machines can pass through it later this year, according to his report.
"With 26 miles of new tunnels to be built for Crossrail, we are delivering our own London marathon beneath the streets of the capital. This is a huge and complex task with work underway 24 hours a day below London's streets but our first few miles of tunnel are now completed," said Andrew Wolstenholme, Crossrail's CEO. "These new underground images show the scale of transformation taking place beneath London and the essential new transport links being created with every meter of new tunnel built."
Crossrail was established in 2001 to develop the route. It was a 50/50 joint venture between Transport for London and the Department for Transport until December 2008, when it became a fully owned subsidiary of TfL. The company's 2012 sustainability report indicated more than 92 percent of demolition and construction waste is being reused, more than 98 percent of excavated material is being recycled, and Crossrail's rolling stock will include regenerative braking and lower energy usage.
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Windfall for projects to cut waste
More than a dozen community projects that are working to cut food waste, and recycle or reuse everything from textiles to furniture have been selected to spearhead a £180,000 initiative across Merseyside and Halton.
The winners of Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority and Veolia Environmental Services 2014 Community Fund have been announced, with six Merseyside-wide schemes each receiving up to £20,000 to put their ideas in to action.
The six Merseyside and Halton wide projects are:
• Faiths4Change's innovative Sew Many Trees project have been awarded £19,980 and will work with 24 community groups across the region to develop sewing skills and encourage reuse and repair of clothes and textiles helping to divert textiles from landfill. One key part of the project will be to create a 'textile forest' of decorative trees that will form part of a public artwork.
• Community Action Wirral's Donate and Create Change project have been awarded £19,980 and will give local groups who would not normally be able to afford to rent retail space to have their own 'charity shop for a week'. The initiative will help a range of groups to raise funds by selling pre-loved goods and ensure that resources are recycled and reused.
• Emmaus Merseyside's Recycling Superstore have been awarded £14,500 to support their newly opened 'Superstore' in Seaforth that actively works with homeless people and gets them involved in recycling and reusing unwanted goods which are then sold to the public. The new facility is multi-functional and provides both accommodation and support services. The Community Fund grant will be used to encourage members of the public to get involved by volunteering, donating goods and becoming Superstore customers.
• Neighbourhood Services Co. have been awarded £18,618 for a project, based at Larkin's Farm in Croxteth. The grant will help the project create a new environmentally friendly education facility reusing waste wood and will also offer school visits to Farm. The funding will also help develop existing projects involving people with special educational needs in practical recycling/reusing activities like making bird boxes.
• Bulky Bob's Fresh Start project which has been awarded £20,000, builds on the success of its existing support work with agencies and charities across Merseyside and Halton such as PSS, Salvation Army and the YMCA. The Fresh Start project provides furniture for referred people and families in critical need.
• Children's Food Trust Mersey Waste Munchers which has been awarded £19,610, will be building on its successful cooking project with school and community groups across the region. The project will help set up 15 new Mersey Waste Muncher cooking clubs that provide classes and hands on cooking experience on heathy eating and reducing food waste.
A further eight local, district-based projects will also share an additional £67,000.
MRWA Chairperson, Councillor Graham Morgan said: "The Community Fund is about reducing and preventing the amount of household waste we all produce but, in supporting these groups, will this year directly support whole communities and help everyone, from homeless people to vulnerable families, as well."
MRWA Chief Executive Carl Beer said: "This year's Fund will help some fantastic projects and make a real difference to the waste disposal habits of Merseyside homes."
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Benshaw Inc. acquires Aucom Electronics LTD
Benshaw Inc. has finalized an agreement to acquire Aucom Electronics LTD, a New Zealand-based manufacturer of soft starters.
A press release said that the combined organization, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, offers a full range of applied motor control solutions, and is the leading supplier of low and medium voltage soft starters worldwide. Global operations now include facilities in the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, Germany, Middle East and Asia. Pete Morgan, the former General Manager of Aucom North America, has been appointed as president of Benshaw Inc., effective immediately. Prior to his employment with Aucom, Morgan served as General Manager of Benshaw's OEM Division. His career includes extensive experience in engineering, operations, sales and business management in the soft starter and industrial controls industries. Benshaw Executive Chairman Fran Livingston said, "The integration of Benshaw and Aucom provides a bright future for the entire organization. We believe the acquisition of Aucom provides an incredible opportunity that will benefit Benshaw and Aucom customers, our employees, and our entire network of distributors across North America and around the world. Founded in 1983, Benshaw Inc. is a Pittsburgh-based, privately held manufacturer of applied motor control solutions for mission critical industrial applications with offices in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.


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The internet has revolutionized the way we live, work, and communicate over the last decade. It has changed the way we access information, conduct business, and entertain ourselves; it has also changed the way we interact with each other. Before the internet, people had to rely on physical media such as books, newspapers, or magazines for news and entertainment. Today, however, people can access an almost limitless amount of information with the click of a mouse.
A key factor in how the internet has changed our lives in the last decade is its ability to facilitate communication. E-mail, instant messaging, and social networking sites have made it easier than ever to stay in touch with family and friends. In addition, video conferencing and voice-over-IP (VoIP) services have enabled people to communicate face-to-face with those in distant locations.
The internet has also changed the way we conduct business. In the past, companies had to rely on traditional methods such as face-to-face meetings, phone calls, and mail to do business. Today, however, businesses can communicate online, reducing the need for expensive travel and logistics costs. Furthermore, the internet provides businesses with access to a global market, allowing them to advertise and sell their products and services to customers worldwide.
The internet has also made it much easier for people to access information. In the past, people had to rely on libraries and bookstores for access to books and other media. Today, however, people can access an almost limitless amount of data from the comfort of their own home. This includes educational resources such as online courses and tutorials, which are often far more comprehensive than their physical counterparts.
Finally, the internet has revolutionized the way people entertain themselves. From streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu, to social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, the internet provides access to a wide variety of media and entertainment options. Furthermore, people can now play video games online with friends, watch live events, and engage in virtual worlds.
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Has America Already Forgotten Ronald Reagan's Success?
August 13, 2021 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy
Then President Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office of the White House during his last term, Washington, D.C. By Carol M. Highsmith.
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. It's a cliche, but true. It seems America has forgotten the lessons taught by President Ronald Reagan's success. Chiefly, America seems to have forgotten the value of tax cuts and letting Americans keep more of their own money. Art Laffer and Stephen Moore remind them at The Wall Street Journal, writing:
Friday marks the 40th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's first tax cuts—arguably the most consequential and controversial economic policy paradigm shift of the past half-century. The Reagan supply-side revolution went global. An analysis by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that the unweighted average top marginal income-tax rate among developed countries fell by a third, from 65% to 43%, after 25 years. Nearly every nation, from China to Costa Rica, imposes lower tax rates today than in the 1970s.
Alas, the U.S. needs to relearn the lessons of the Reagan tax cuts. President Biden has proposed a sweeping tax-policy reversal that would raise many tax rates—such as the capital-gains and death-tax rates—to levels even higher than in the Jimmy Carter years.
The U.S. economy was a wreck when Reagan took office, due to the combination of tax rates that rose to as high as 70% on some types of income and an inflation rate that hit 14% in 1980. The "misery index" (inflation plus unemployment) closed in on 22%, as a new gloomy term appeared in the economic lexicon: "stagflation."
The Keynesian Democrats were out of ideas. The dean of liberal economists, Paul Samuelson, glumly advised that the only way to break the back of inflation was to tolerate another decade of very high unemployment. Reagan dismissed the austerity model and carried the banner of supply-side optimism. Borrowing from the young Rep. Jack Kemp, economists Robert Mundell and Mr. Laffer (one of the authors of this article) and these pages, Reagan persuaded Americans that the remedy to the decadelong malaise was to reduce the drag of regulatory and tax policy to encourage more work and production.
Lower tax rates, Reagan predicted, would reduce unemployment and help stabilize prices. This revolutionary concept wasn't an easy sell even in the Republican Party. Many Republicans, including Sen. Barry Goldwater, had voted against the tax-rate cuts President John F. Kennedy advanced, and when Reagan proposed the idea, George H.W. Bush ridiculed it as "voodoo economics." The Republican Senate leader, Howard Baker, called the policy a "riverboat gamble."
The Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 cut rates for every income group by at least a quarter and brought the top tax rate down from as high as 70% to 50%. The Tax Reform Act of 1986 further reduced it to 28%. The bet paid off:
• Take-home pay rose for all income groups in the 1980s, and real median family income rose by nearly $8,000 (in today's dollars) during the Reagan years. Real median family income climbed from $60,597 in 1981 to $68,299 in 1989, following steep declines during the Carter presidency. Tens of millions of Americans moved up the income scale in the 1980s; 86% of households in the poorest income quintile in 1980 had moved to a higher quintile by 1990.
• The 30-year mortgage-interest rate fell substantially—from more than 18% in 1981 to below 10% at the end of Reagan's presidency. Inflation fell from nearly 14% in 1980 to less than 4% by the late 1980s. The misery index fell in half.
• Gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 7.3% from 1981-89. As the late Robert Bartley, editor of these pages, put it in his 1992 book, "The Seven Fat Years," that was the equivalent of "growing a new California."
• From 1980 to 1990 tax revenues almost doubled in nominal terms even though most rates fell by more than half. The share of taxes paid by the richest 1% rose from 19% to 26% under Reagan and has subsequently grown to 40%.
• Reagan's policies ushered in an unprecedented era of wealth creation. The Dow Jones Industrial Average before the Reagan tax cuts was at roughly 1000. Forty years later, it stands at 35000. The Federal Reserve Board calculates that the wealth of households in the U.S. has risen by nearly $100 trillion in real terms from 1980 to 2020.
The only complaint from liberal Democrats that carried much weight during the prosperity of the Regan era was that his policies allowed the debt to rise substantially. The national debt was 38% of GDP in 1983, but wealth was rising quickly. Compare this with Mr. Biden's call for a deficit in the middle of an economic recovery that would raise the debt-to-GDP ratio well beyond 130%, three times what it was in Reagan's worst year.
One of the most impressive repercussions of the Reagan tax cuts has been their staying power. While federal income-tax rates have meandered between 30% and 40% since Reagan left office, that's a far cry from the 50 years before he took office, when the top tax rate never dropped below 63%. No serious politician considered raising rates back to their historic highs.
Until now. Mr. Biden wants to erase 40 years of progress and return to "That '70s Show," with runaway welfare spending and soak-the-rich economic policies. If Reagan were alive, we think we know what he'd say: "Well, there they go again."
Action Line: Elect bold leaders who remember the lessons of the past. And if you can't in your state, maybe it's time to look for a better America.
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