Every Thursday evening there's a great fun live gathering on Twitter called #lrnchat. It's a fast free-for-all organized around a theme, like instructional design, virtual worlds, social learning, or e-learning myths, structured around 3 general questions. If you're in the training/learning/Ed business, folks you've heard of often drop in, as do many folks you haven't heard of. Once you meet them, you'll want to know them better.
I recently threw out an idea to organizers of a large conference, saying that I'd like to host a 'Twitter event' during the conference. That's about as far as my vision went, and as often happens I have been called on it. Thinking over what a live "Twitter event" for trainers might look like, I turned to the #lrnchat blog and found the transcript from the June 11 discussion. The theme: Incorporating social media into learning events. The #lrnchat participants: Dozens of learning professionals, many of whom had participated in, or helped organize, events that sought to incorporate use of tools like blogs or Twitter.
Half an hour later I'd sketched out a general approach to my session, a way to structure it, questions to ask during it, and tools to support it (I forgot about Ustream TV, and didn't think to ask people to put their Twitter handles on their name badges.). The transcript included a link to "8 Ways to Make Your Event More Blog and Twitter Friendly which in turn linked to a guide for participants joining a conference remotely via Twitter.
So. #lrnchat gives me all-at-once access to some of the best minds in the field, directs me to new ideas, provides alternative points of view, and sends me looking for a new book or article. It usually helps me focus my thinking, occasionally solves a problem, and often cracks me up.
Warning: #lrnchat is messy. Sequential, linear thinkers tend to have a hard time following it. But you know what? 21st century information is going to be messy, and those who can deal with that messiness and the accompanying ambiguity will be ahead of the pack. #lrnchat is also, again, a chat. It's not a workshop, or a class, but as with Real Life you may find you learn something informally and by accident.
Join us on Thursday nights, 8:30 ET, 5:30 PT. Begin by typing #lrnchat into the Twitter search box. If you'd like to get a look at who's likely to be there, and how the conversation will go, you can check out the transcripts. Just remember that the transcript won't give you the same sense of fun and speed as you'll get by drinking from the live stream of tweets flying fast and furious.
I think as we move foward, we have a choice. A choice to denounce technology and scream we have to much information overload or the choice to manage our emotions/expectations and become information synthesizers. Have you ever heard a Gen Y announce they are dealing with information overload? Not usually. Many of them have mastered the art of information synthesis.
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Wicked Stepsisters, a rocking fairy godmother, and a very unusual chauffeur!
Cinderella Spinderella will be a family favorite for years to come.
You and your children will enjoy the story that has enthralled thousands upon thousands of listeners of all ages and backgrounds for more than a decade!
Part of the best-selling "Bed Time Story Book" series, this volume starts with simple stories for early readers, and then allows youngsters to stretch their skills. Bonus tips for reading-aloud at bed time!
Who threw the first holiday party? What happened in the bakery on New Year's eve? What did Jack really get from the magic man?
Seven stories from around the world: Christmas, Kwanzaa, Chanukah, Ramadan, Diwali, Solstice and the New Year. Plus an awesome multicultural song!
Recorded live before an audience of K-5, this is a perfect non-denominational celebration of the holidays.


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Sea temps surprisingly pleasant over the past week, as marine heatwave continues
Jenny Suo, 1 NEWS Reporter
Kiwis brave enough to take a dip recently may have been pleasantly surprised, with surface water in the Tasman Sea several degrees above average in the past week.
Kiwis brave enough to take a dip in the sea this past week may have been pleasantly surprised. Source: 1 NEWS
Off Northland's Tutukaka Coast, divers have been treated to warmer than normal sea temperatures, enjoying the abundance of sea life the coast offers.
1 NEWS Meteorologist Dan Corbett says last year's marine heatwave has kept the waters warmer.
"Over the winter we didn't get wind coming from the cold direction, so the water did cool off but it didn't cool off that much," he says.
The recent fine weather could also have warmed surface temperatures.
The effects of the warmer water have also had a positive impact on snapper breeding.
But many species are unable to cope with even the slightest shift in their environment.
Last year, the sea surface temperatures in the Southern Tasman sea broke records.
Warmer water also takes up more space and contributes to sea level rise.
'We're going to see water temperatures warmer than normal going into the next few months and in some places dryer than normal if El Niño comes to the party," says Corbett.
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Full video: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks with media from Labour Party retreat
Orca pod spotted frolicking at Whanganui River mouth
Diet, detox teas described as 'little more than laxatives in disguise' pulled from Kiwi shelves

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LG G5 with Android 7.0 Nougat in November, at least in Australia
Alberto Mulas | 2016-10-17
With the launch of the first smartphone on the market with Android Nougat just around the corner (the new LG V20), begin to emerge new information about the timing of updates to the new version of Android to the main Android smartphone by the Korean brand. At the forefront of this updates program, LG will not only introduce the LG V20, but must be one of the first companies to update its 2016 high-end, the LG G5, Android 7.0 Nougat.
As stated by a mobile operator in Australia, updating to Android Nougat, probably in version 7.0, is now undergoing testing for LG G5. The plans also provide for an official launch in late November. Therefore, we can assume that if these rumors are confirmed, all copies of the LG G5 will be updated to the new version of Android in late 2016, possibly being the first to do so.
To facilitate the task of software update to Android Nougat, LG G5 has similar specifications to those of LG V20, the first phone with Nougat preinstalled to be released in the international market. For now, anyway, LG has not released any official statement regarding the timing of updating its current flagship vessel of its line, and therefore have to wait a little before getting a little more information.
For example, the LG G5 will be one of the first cell phones, with the exception of the Nexus range, which will be updated to Android 7.0. The source of information is Optus, the Australian mobile operator, so it is very likely that the no brand model could receive Android 7.0 shortly before the period set by the company. Recall that at the end of this year Android Nougat should also reach the Samsung Galaxy S7 and HTC 10 as well as some other high-end Android devices released in 2016. Again, however, the official information is scarce.
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One Greek, One Italian – Review Adelaide – Food, Entertainment & Places and more!
Hidden away in the backstreets in Mile End near the corner of Henley Beach and South Roads is a delightful boutique café which offers a mix of flavours of gourmet cuisines from around the world.
Loveon Cafe, situated on Gladstone Road, has been a buzzing venue which are sure to enjoy.
They offer breakfast and lunch options, however their main feature is their coffee which is grown in Brisbane.
Loveon Café also offer delicious fresh juices and smoothies which are great in the morning as a takeaway on the way to work. Try the Mangosteen Madness it is incredible!
It's a great spot for a catch up with friends (especially Mums & Bubs as there is plenty of room to move around inside), or a place to have that casual business meeting.
Loveon Café is open everyday from 7am to 5pm except for Tuesdays.
If you have ever been to Devour Dessert Bar at Prospect, then you have to try their new store, Devour Cafe Patisserie, now open at Hilton.
Situated in the backstreets off Sir Donald Bradman Drive in Hilton, this boutique venue offers a more casual setting.
Devour Cafe Patisserie offers smaller portions of desserts rather than the larger options at their Dessert Bar.
They also offer breakfast and lunch options.
The service is brought to you with a smile.
Recommend paying this place a visit if you are after coffee and dessert, or maybe for a business meeting.
Froth and Fodder Cafe is a prized find.
It's been here for some time, but if you're not in the know, it's tricky to find, tucked away behind Kmart Kurralta Park just off Anzac Highway.
Forth and Fodder offers a venue that is not over crowded and noisy, it features a simple menu and its staff are very friendly.
It's a boutique cafe which serves breakfast and lunch with real authentic food such as Vegie Patch Breakfast with poached eggs, sour dough, mushrooms, zucchinis and capsicum or for lunch try the Fodder Burger with Beef patty, melted cheddar, caramelised onion, lettuce, aioli on a sour dough roll.
Froth and Fodder serve fresh home made juices along with real coffee made with local products.
Meander through the picturesque Adelaide Hills and head towards Hawthorndene, where you will find the iconic Joan's Pantry.
Located 20 minutes from the Adelaide CBD, it is situated close to a lovely park for the kids and a great spot for dog walkers.
Specialising in breakfast menu, Joan's Pantry is also open for lunch and offer takehome ready meals for people on the go.
They have freshly squeezed juices and a variety of delicious homemade cakes including Gluten Free Options.
It's a great place for a Sunday drive into the foot hills of Adelaide.
Looking for a country outing without the long travel? Then we highly recommend heading to Gumeracha and Birdwood in the glorious Adelaide Hills.
Only a 40 minute drive East of Adelaide, Gumeracha is home to The Big Rocking Horse and the Toy Factory which share the same site. And for an added bonus, there is a Wildlife Park, where you can feed the animals and birds. It is such a beautiful and unique setting, with native flora and fauna.
Looking for a healthy option for lunch, then we recommend heading to Birdwood to eat at the Pomegranate Cottage.
I want to share a little gem with you. It's a small and intimate venue amongst the popular Henley Beach Road strip in Torrensville. It's charm is not only its simple Greek food but also its décor.
The decor reminds me of looking at my parents old photos from the 70s. From the dining areas to the interior decorating, everything reminded me of those photos. It's a classic décor that makes you feel how your parents used to socialise with their family and friends.
Ikonic Kitchen serves authentic Greek food and even though there was some good choices on the menu, I stuck to just the Open Yiros because I was craving a Yiros!
The venue provides Spit menu on Sundays.
So whether your looking for a quick lunch time bite, or a family gathering, try this little gem out.


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The Zio collection by Marcel Wanders for Moooi.
Marcel Wanders' idiosyncratic and theatrical approach has seen him dubbed by the New York Times as the "Lady Gaga of Design" and by another journalist as the "peacock like Prince of Dutch design".
But as his elegant Zio and Nut collections for Moooi demonstrate, there's more to Wanders' prolific portfolio of work than flamboyance.
The Zio collection for Moooi is defined by a quieter aesthetic than most Wanders followers might be attuned to. With its solid oak frame, the collection with its dining chairs, dining table, coffee table, lounge, ottoman, and buffet are reminiscent of mid-century modern furniture.
The Moooi Zio dining table and dining chairs.
Graceful and refined, Zio has a cozy familiarity that's as comforting and solid as an old rocking chair but like Wanders himself, it leans towards playfulness.
His Nut collection for Moooi, released the year before Zio, conveys a similar warmth and Scandinavian-style curves, featuring oak veneer bent plywood, solid oak legs and cozy.
Both collections could be seen as outliers when juxtaposed with other Wanders creations like the Monster chair. However, when considered as an expression of Wanders' enduring interest in tradition, Zio and Nut begin to make sense.
"I'm trying to create a sense of bigger scope in time," the designer told Co.Design when discussing Zio. "In the compass of modernism there's only newness, but I'm trying to create a love and awareness of things, so we invite visitors to look backward and sideways. If we want to have a sustainable world we should not accept the past as irrelevant; we should take it with us."
View Moooi's Zio collection and the Nut collection on the Space Furniture Australia website.
Under the neon lights of "A Life Individual", white lab coats, an inflatable dinosaur, and furniture by the world's best brands, transformed the Space installation with humour and style wrapped up in a series of graphic b&w screens, a technique made famous by design radicals Archizoom that set the scene for the perfect Instagram vignette.


The word miracle can mean different things to different people. To some people it means experiencing a happy event like having a baby. To others it means a statistically improbable event occurring like winning the lottery. Yet others say a miracle happens when the laws of nature are broken. But none of these examples require a supernatural being to be at work. I define a miracle when a supernatural being does something to cause awe and wonder in people inviting them to respond.
What is The Relationship Between Miracles and the Laws of Nature?
Are You Aware of Natural Phenomena That are Often Mistaken for Miracles?
Do You Think That All Miracle Claims Can Be Accounted for Naturally?
Just because people have mistaken natural events for miracles, doesn't mean miracles do not occur or that people are incapable of correctly identifying them. It simply means that some people make mistakes. Since we know people make errors, it could also be the case that some miracles are mistaken for natural events.
What determines if miracles can take place is whether or not supernatural entities exist and act in the natural world. If we live in a materialistic universe (a world with only material things), miracles are impossible. If the God of the Bible exists, then miracles can, and probably do happen. The best way to determine if such a God exists is to determine if the historical evidence points to resurrection of Jesus as having took place. The Bible treats the resurrection as a public historical miracle event, and teaches if it did not happen, then one should not believe in Jesus (1 Cor 15:14). You have to decide for yourself. The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus by Gary Habermas is a great place to start your investigation. You can also watch him lecture on Youtube.
What Can Science Say About Miracles?
Science can't prove a supernatural agent caused a miracle to happen because science only deals with natural phenomena. Science can only show that evidence is consistent with a testimony or disprove one. If someone says they broke their arm on Saturday, got an X-ray, received prayer on Sunday, claim a miracle happened, and got another X-ray on Monday showing the break is gone, then the medical evidence could corroborate the testimony. Or if after a close examination of Monday's X-ray the break is still there, then it could disprove it.
How Will You Go About Making Your Documentary?
I want to secure five testimonies. I am looking for testimonies of organic or structural failure of a body part with a rapid recovery after prayer that can't be accounted for by natural phenomena. I hope to corroborate them by gathering before and after medical evidence and interviewing the patients' doctors.
A person will contact us with their testimony of healing. We will provide them with a form to sign. This form will allow us to contact their doctors, discuss, and collect any necessary medical records. We will interview the person who claims to be healed upon receiving a signed and notarized copy of the form. Next, we will contact the relevant doctors offices to collect the data we need, and ask to interview the doctors involved over the phone. Then we will discuss the case as a team. Upon discovering the right type of situation for our documentary, we will proceed to interview the person claiming healing on camera to capture their testimony. Then we will interview any relevant doctors who agree to be on film.
What Will Keep You From Being Fooled?
Hopefully, my team. I will be surrounding myself with a team of investigators, doctors, philosophers, scientists, and theologians.
What Happens If You Don't Find The Evidence You Need?
I don't make the documentary.
What's Your Plan to Honor Everyone Involved?
I want to respect and honor everyone involved. I will have everyone who is filmed sign a document that warns them of the possible negative attention something like this might bring. Secondly, if needed, I will attempt to deidentify them to the degree we both agree is appropriate. I will only use people that I think are of sound mind, and able to endure media scrutiny. Lastly, I will have the film crew sign non-disclosure forms.
Lastly, share this. By getting the news out, I will be more likely to get testimonies I need.


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There weren't any witches in Salem in 1693. But there sure are now.
How we see Salem's witches tells us more about the present than the past.
SALEM, Massachusetts — It is nightfall in Salem, the week before Halloween. A woman who looks to be in her 70s sits in the bar of the Hawthorne Hotel sporting a novelty witch hat. Her male companion wears a spiderweb tie. Along the lawn at Washington Square, another tourist tugs at her companion's sleeve as she considers another destination for their week. "But it's not spooky like this place, right?" she asks.
At Pastime 32, a vintage-inspired craft shop just off Essex Street, a shopkeeper in velvet gives visitors advice about practicing magic. "Witchcraft is more of a lifestyle now than a religion," she says. She recommends that they read a BuzzFeed article to that effect. "So if a spell works it works." In the old days, she tells them, you might have had to resort to the formal magic kept in some arcane spell book. But now, she adds brightly, you can just check out Witch Instagram for ideas.
Along the narrow, red brick street in the pedestrianized heart of town, T-shirt stalls alternate with New Age storefronts selling herbs, tinctures, and Tarot cards.
Two girls fixate on the shirts. "Look! I got stoned in Salem." One pauses for a second. "Get it? Stoned?" She rolls her eyes, and explains to her friend what it means to stone somebody in order to execute them.
These tourists are just some of the million-odd who come to Salem each year. Destination Salem's Stacia Cooper says these tourists come to visit sites and museums associated with the Salem Witch Trials, where 20 people, mostly women, were executed on suspicion of witchcraft after an outbreak of mass hysteria in 1692 through 1693. Some visitors come for the "spooky" atmosphere. Others come, often with school groups, to learn more about a particularly brutal time in American history. And others still come because they identify as witches or practitioners of magic to pay tribute to a place that, for some, has become a source of spiritual pilgrimage.
The difference in their approach, and the myriad differing narratives around the trials available across town, reveal how powerful — and how diffuse — the story of the Salem Witch Trials really is. Is it a story about the dangers of superstition? About what happens when people let fear take over their lives? About misogyny and men policing women's identities? The different ways in which Salem's residents tell and retell the Salem narrative can tell us as much about 20th and 21st century America as they can about New England in 1693.
A range of political and social groups have interpreted Salem differently
For Salem's 40,000 residents, particularly those who make their living through witch-related tourism, it can be a challenge to balance the historic narrative of the Salem Witch Trials with the powerful mythology that has surrounded it.
Between 1692 and 1693, 19 people were hanged, and one crushed to death, ostensibly for the civil crime of practicing malevolent witchcraft, after an outbreak of mass hysteria. Chances are, none of those 20 people were witches — they all maintained their innocence, with the exception of Tituba, a local enslaved woman, whose confession may have been tortured out of her.
The majority of the Salem Witch Trials didn't even happen in Salem Town — what is known as Salem today — but in Salem Village, an inland hamlet that was renamed Danvers in 1752. And on top of all this, none of the accused witches were stoned or burned at the stake in Salem, either.
According to Smithsonian's Danny Lewis, the witch trials were, historically, a taboo subject within Salem; a reminder of a horrific aberration. But in the 20th century, interest in the Salem Witch trials as a pop culture phenomenon was renewed. Much of this began with Arthur Miller's 1953 play The Crucible. A retelling of the trials, the play was a coded indictment of the anti-communist hysteria of the 1940s and 1950s. Miller heavily implied that the accusers and magistrates of Salem were motivated by a combination of fear and greed, including a desire to seize the lands of the accused. The story of Salem, for Miller, was the story of any mass panic — how self-interested human use fear and panic to stoke "witch hunts" for personal gain.
Then came Bewitched. When the popular, proto-feminist supernatural sitcom filmed a portion of its seventh season here in 1970, the protagonist, Samantha, seemed to uphold this dominant narrative. Samantha, a "real" witch who has magically time-traveled back to 17th-century Salem, uses her powers to prove that the other accused witches were innocent, condemning the prejudices of those who thought otherwise.
But Bewitched also heralded a change in how people saw Salem. It became "Witch City." Witches were now in fashion, after all — in part because of Bewitched — and Salem's witch history could be monetized. And Salem could use the money. After centuries as a prosperous shipping port, Salem's fortunes were in decline. The "Witch Tourism" boom revitalized Salem. (In 2005, in commemoration of that boom, Salem erected a controversial statue of Samantha in the town's main square, raising more debates about the degree to which "pro-witch" aesthetics had coopted Salem's legacy).
By the '70s, after all, feminist and New Age movements alike had reappropriated elements of the Salem narrative as part of a wider interest in women's spirituality. For many, the so-called witches of Salem were victims of a male conspiracy. The Salem story was the story of earth-centered, "natural" female spirituality dominated by a group of misogynist men who sought to control them. Witchcraft was something to celebrate.
In 1970, witch Laurie Cabot opened Salem's first New Age shop and several others followed suit. The accused of 1692 may not have been witches, but they were nevertheless celebrated as martyrs: foremothers of a modern movement they themselves would almost certainly have disavowed.
Those two strands of historical narrative — Salem as a site of mass panic, and Salem as witch city — are factually opposed to each other. Kristina Stevick, artistic director of the Cry Innocent project, which lets people experience a mock witch trial, thinks it's utterly illogical. "A person can't both be innocent and a martyr. That narrative really puzzles me."
And both narratives are also at odds with the generic "spookiness" that makes up much of the town's touristic appeal, particularly in Halloween season. (Of Salem's 40,000 residents, between 800 and 1,600 identify as witches, with many working in or through the town's witch shops, or in witch-related tourism industries, such as the city's myriad magic-themed walking tours.
The economics of Salem witchery is often a sore subject for many. Sources speaking on background spoke of "witch wars" between rival shop proprietors as well as price-fixing of services like Tarot readings, while some sources I contacted for this article would only agree to be interviewed on the condition certain proprietors be excluded from my reporting. (I have not quoted any of them.)
In Salem, accused "witches" are both innocents and martyrs
Yet many of Salem's tourist attractions try to have it both ways.
Nowhere is that difficult balance more evident than at the Salem Witch Museum, which opened in 1972 — soon after Bewitched put the show on the map. Located in a converted church off Salem Common, the Museum tells the story of the trials through a combination of life-size wax statues, eerie sound effects, and a narrator who seems to have taken his delivery from Vincent Price.
He speculates about the devil "howling in the wind" (there's a menacing-looking statue of Satan himself), reports Puritan superstitions about witches' bacchanals, and captures each gory execution of the accused with thoroughly macabre sound effects. He walks us through a grisly narrative that combines kitschy "spookiness" with a somewhat reductionist view of the trials, portraying them purely as the result of ignorant superstition, even as he uses the tropes of magic for dramatic effect. While the narrator reminds us that the mass panic was anything but supernatural, he leaves us with a distinctly Gothic ending, asking us to reflect on who the "real demons are" and "on whose side they are still working today."
The museum's second exhibit likewise tells us as much about 1970s New Age feminism as it does about the Salem Witch trials. Dedicated to the history of the witch from the pre-Christian era to the modern day, the museum (and its docents) tell a very clear-cut, if simplistic, narrative. Women, particularly midwives, were once "in touch with" the earth. They worshipped a pre-Christian Goddess. Once Christianity came to power, evil Christian men — "the Church" — were afraid of female power and tried to stamp it out. More wax figures present different visions of the witch: the angelic, beaming midwife, the green-faced crone we recognize from The Wizard of Oz's Wicked Witch of the West.
A timeline on one wall elides world history: We move swiftly from "Jesus Christ is crucified" to witch panics in 16th-century Scotland, with an implicit link between the two. A final tableau of two modern Wiccans invites us to learn more about this "ancient religion" and speak to its peace-loving practitioners. While the odd mention is made of the fact that Salem's witches were innocent, a less-careful viewer could easily come away with the idea that the accused of Salem did practice wholesome, nature-based magical traditions and worship a Goddess in secret, and that this is, in fact, a good thing.
Historicity, in this exhibition, seems less important than symbolism, celebrating the witch as a symbol of maligned womanhood. Wicca, far from being an "ancient religion," only dates back to the 1950s, which the museum never mentions. And although the "green-skinned witch" as a trope only dates back to 1939's Wizard of Oz, when dyeing Margaret Hamilton's skin was a novel special effect to capitalize on the then-new use of Technicolor, my docent presents several other options as equally valid. Were witches green-skinned because of their use of herbs, she asks aloud? A witch who visited the exhibition, she tells us, sees the green as important symbolism: It is the bruises left upon her by intolerant Christian men who beat her for her independent thought.
It's a powerful exhibit, to be sure, but one with an agenda. And it raises questions about more than just what happened in 1692. Rather, it challenges us to think about whether history can or should be rewritten, or reimagined, if the myths it presents to us can inspire positive change. Does a woman's personal reaction to a figure of a witch — her intuitive feeling that her face is the color of bruises — belong in a museum alongside, say, actual documents of the trials themselves?
For others, Salem is about learning to think historically — and critically — about challenging narratives
Stevick, at least, has her doubts. Her Cry Innocent project is an immersive theatre experience that challenges audience members to participate in a mock witch trial. It is designed to help audiences understand the mentality of the witch trials, ideally without projecting a contemporary narrative upon it. The project plays an exceedingly necessary role in Salem, since, Stevick says, the trials have become a lightning rod for different, often ahistorical, interpretations of what happened in 1693.
She counts off the most popular misconceptions: "That it's all about land-grabbing, that it's just about misdirected misogyny [against accused women], that Puritans were just stupid and superstitious, that those who died were the spiritual foremothers of the Wicca movement…"
Stevick says she sympathizes with such interpretations up to a point. But, ultimately, each narrative fails to appreciate the "cocktail of factors" that made Salem a lightning rod for hysteria in the late 17th century. The dangers of foreign invasion, tensions within the community over religious observance, the adversarial relationship between the insular Salem Village and the wealthier Salem Town, tensions over the use of folk magic, and various waves of outbreak of illness all contributed to an incident that was about so much more than mere superstition or mere misogyny or mere anything.
Often, Stevick says, people are reluctant to abandon their preconceived narratives about the trials. She recalls an incident that happened the previous week with a middle school group that had booked a Cry Innocent show.
"They had a reductionist idea of what the witch hunt hysteria was about and thought that this was their opportunity to bring down the magistrate," Stevick said. Rather than looking through the historical evidence presented during the show, she said, the students derailed the show with unrelated questions and preconceived judgments, making the show "a little bit distressing" for the actors.
She recalls the students' teacher was taken aback by the complexity with which the Cry Innocent cast wanted to approach the 17th-century Puritan mindset. "She wanted this to be an opportunity for the students to take down the patriarchy, which I could relate to, but it's not what's happening here."
It's a shame, says Stevick, because ultimately developing a more complex understanding of history is necessary if one is to avoid repeating it. "What I would hope is that a person who has had 45 minutes to flirt with a 17th-century English mindset … would understand why a person might accuse somebody of witchcraft."
It is that, she says, rather than a preconceived narrative, that has the most power to inspire change.
Only once audience members learn to empathize with people from the past whose attitudes and preconceptions might be different from their own, she says, audience members can ask themselves: "How can I use this newfound imagination … to try and look into my current political situation? … Our country is in a fragile dangerous place [right now] and we need to be extremely careful that a great tragedy doesn't happen." She corrects herself. "Another great tragedy."
For contemporary witches, Salem's magic is still "mysterious"
Among Salem's practicing witches, the place's magic transcends its history. Margaret McGilvray, who runs The Witchery, equal parts magic shop and experimental performance art space, says that — despite the innocence of Salem's original "witches" — she's always felt a preternatural connection to the place. Visiting the Salem Witch Museum as a child, McGilvray says, she found herself identifying with the accused.
"I came home to my mom and said 'Ma, I think I'm a witch.'" She recognizes that the witches of Salem denied being witches up through their last breaths, but nevertheless finds in Salem a kind of spiritual home; a place where she can connect with and collaborate with like-minded practitioners. Part of it, she acknowledges, is "commercialism" — if you're a witch, Salem is a great place to make a living — but part of it is more profound.
"There is something just mysterious about Salem as a gut level," McGilvray says.
And Salem's draw, for other witches, has transcended its witchy history, becoming as much about the present as the past.
As the "witch aesthetic" becomes more popularas a cultural signifier — blending '70s-era New Age spirituality with left-wing activism and, at times, performative rebellion — Salem has become something of a hipster haven. In 2015, Salem's more eclectic, cluttered-looking witch shops were joined by the sleek, minimalist HausWitch (which itself started as an Instagram), where activist hours are on the schedule alongside Tarot salons and meditation classes. (Destination Salem's Cooper describes them as the "millennial" witch store).
These witches are attracted to what HausWitch worker Cheryl Rafuse calls the "good vibes" of Salem — a town whose witch traditions have given rise, in turn, to a thriving counterculture, and the creative community that comes with it — as to its history. So often Rafuse says, people visit out of interest in the "Witch City" only to fall in love with the place and joke about moving. "And then they end up moving here a year later."
Sure, she admits, she gets frustrated by the gimmicky aesthetic of some of the town's tourist traps. She points to the Stoned in Salem T-shirts as a particularly egregious example.
"There's a scene [in Salem] that's a little uncomfortable considering" the grotesque nature of the trials, Rafuse says.
"A lot uncomfortable," Erica Feldmann, the shop's owner, cuts in.
Rafuse continues, "the people we draw tend to be pretty woke, good-vibe-y people, or at least looking for something here [that's] at least not gimmicky. We have that 'Witch City' vibe that people love … but [when] people try to make light of history" — mocking or joking about those that died — Rafuse and other shop workers actively work to discourage them.
Feldmann adds, "The world needed a place to celebrate the witch, and that ended up being Salem, and that has nothing to do with the witch trials."
Ultimately, Salem's history might be less important than its symbolism
The "true history" of Salem, in other words, might be almost irrelevant. A combination of economics and mythology have made Salem a location of pilgrimage for those who identify with the accused of 1693, whether they are witches themselves, feminists drawn to the narrative of wrongly accused women, or just ordinary people drawn to the story of those penalized for being a little bit different. Even Stevick acknowledges that even the more ahistorical elements of Salem's mythology — that it was all about misogyny, say — might be powerful narratives of support for people who need them most.
She recalls an episode years ago, when she was portraying the character of Bridget Bishop — the woman on trial for witchcraft. A student group had come in, and a shy girl in the audience got up to ask a question in defense of Bishop. Stevick can't remember precisely what the question was, but "I could tell that she was really nervous to speak in public, she was shaking … I remember it being an intense moment — the air was thick."
A few years later, when the teacher brought in another group, she and Stevick discussed that day. The teacher told Stevick the girl was famously shy, without many friends.
"It turned out that she was pregnant," Stevick remembers. "[She was] facing this extra level of slut-shaming and all this stuff at school … [the Cry Innocent experience] had given her the extrovertive oomph to get up and say something. And that moment had been a catharsis for her. And that touched me so deeply and made me think: That's why I love doing this type of theater. That kind of catharsis is okay. Even while it might not be quite the right narrative, I'm okay with people saying, 'Yeah Bridget! Go Bridget!' too."
There is, in all this, a degree of irony. A town once derided for the damaging aftereffects of religion and superstition has now remade itself in the image of its own new myths.
At Salem's Witch Museum, the narrator tells us — with more than a little derision — that the Puritans were a superstitious people. They made up stories to explain the world around them, narratives that would make the chaos of their existence make sense. But if Salem can teach us anything, not a lot has changed.
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Ro Khanna on Civil Rights
Ensure full equality for LGBTQ Americans
Providing equal rights for LGBTQ individuals is something that I will never compromise on. Our founding fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence and Constitution recognizing the fundamental importance of equality. But we have failed to live up to this ideal--the denial of equal and full rights to all Americans continues to be a source of great injustice in our society. Even though we have a long road ahead, I was encouraged by the Supreme Court's ruling that affirmed that all loving and committed couples who marry deserve equal respect and treatment under federal law, in addition to its ruling on California's Proposition 8, allowing same sex marriage to resume in our state.
Progress toward marriage equality in our country is evident, but there is much more to do in order to ensure full equality for LGBTQ Americans. We must address workplace discrimination, youth homelessness, school bullying, and health disparities affecting LGBTQ communities. Source: 2016 California House campaign website RoKhanna.com , Nov 8, 2016
Supports same-sex marriage, according to Faith2Action.
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Ethiopian Airlines and Boeing sign MoU for new 777-8 Freighter
05/03/2022By travelweeklyPosted in News
Ethiopian Airlines and its longstanding partner Boeing today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the intent to purchase five 777-8 Freighters, the industry's newest, most capable and most fuel-efficient twin-engine freighter.
The Memorandum of Understanding to order the 777-8 Freighter will enable Ethiopian Airlines to meet expanding global cargo demand from its hub in Addis Ababa and position the carrier for long-term sustainable growth.
"Consistent with our history of aviation technology leadership in Africa, we are pleased to sign this MoU with our longstanding partner Boeing, which will make us join select group of launch customer airlines for the fleet. In our vision 2035, we are planning to expand our Cargo and Logistics business to be one of the largest global multimodal logistics providers in all continents. To this effect we are increasing our dedicated Freighter fleet with the latest technology, fuel efficient and environment-friendly airplanes of the 21st century. We have also started the construction of the largest E-commerce Hub Terminal in Africa." said Ethiopian Airlines' Group CEO Tewolde Gebremariam.
"The new 777-8 Freighters will be instrumental in this long journey of growth agenda. Today, our air cargo services cover more than 120 international destinations around the world with both belly hold capacity and dedicated Freighter services."
Boeing launched the new 777-8 Freighter in January and has already booked 34 firm orders for the model, which features the advanced technology from the new 777X family and proven performance of the market-leading 777 Freighter. With payload capacity nearly identical to the 747-400 Freighter and a 30% improvement in fuel efficiency, emissions and operating costs, the 777-8 Freighter will enable a more sustainable and profitable business for operators.
"Ethiopian Airlines has been at the forefront of Africa's cargo market for decades, growing its fleet of Boeing freighters and connecting the continent to the flow of global commerce," said Ihssane Mounir, senior vice president of Commercial Sales and Marketing. "The intent to purchase the new 777-8 Freighter further underscores the value of our latest airplane and ensures Ethiopian will remain a key player in global cargo, providing it with increased capacity, flexibility and efficiency for the future."
Ethiopian Airlines currently operates nine 777 Freighters, connecting Africa with more than 40 cargo centers throughout Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Americas. The carrier's fleet also includes three 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighters and a combined commercial fleet of more than 80 Boeing jets including 737s, 767s, 787s and 777s.
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FOR YOUR DONATION TO THE COATESVILLE SCHOOL CENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS!
WE CAN ARRANGE TO GIVE RECEIPTS FOR YOUR DONATION!
THANK YOU to those who supported the PFA stall at the inter-school swimming sports and our first After School Cafe selling cupcakes & ice blocks on Friday - more of this for the next two weeks! To all who helped out to run these things as well as our important customers - THANK YOU! We are delighted to announce that the funds raised at these types of events and for marshalling on the Coatesville Classic, will be divided towards both short term projects like new sports uniforms and longer term projects like heating and ventilation for classrooms which are all in the plan! The school will get to these projects more promptly if you continue to support these initiatives - THANK YOU!
Can you or your business help??? Consider the following?
Assist with quotes at reduced rates and/or provide & install heating & ventilation units for classrooms.
Your business' brand name on the school PFA Gazebo – value $1000 - duration for the lifespan of the gazebo.
Cover the costs associated with an exciting new school wide fundraising campaign we have planned in term 2 - please contact Tracy Ellingham for more details.
Donation of prizes for school Disco and the school wide fundraising campaign, both coming up in term 2.
Become a supporter of Coatesville School by completing the simple online form. By giving us information of your business or who you work for or what services you can provide or what equipment you can lend/charge out at a reduced rate, you are really enabling making things happen around the school. This doesn't commit you or anyone but it is opening up lines of communication and possibilities!
For more details regarding any of the above please get in contact with Heather Seel or Tracy Ellingham.
Do you work for large corporate businesses like Vodafone or Spark? - Corporate Sponsorship Match!!!
Did you know that businesses like these will match funds raised at events you have assisted on? For the last two years we were fortunate to have a parent in the school help out at the school disco (coming up next term) and the amount raised was doubled by his Vodafone employer! (This family has relocated). Please enquire in your work place - maybe they have the same initiatives available? Then please let me know!


Before plugging in the modem, please download the driver and extract it the hard drive. The "Found New Hardware Wizard" will appear when you plug in the modem. Select "No" to not to use Windows Update.
"Data Interface" is shown as the new hardware. Select "Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)" and click Next.
Browse for the location of the driver where it has been extracted to. Since we are using XP, the path is under the WinXP sub-folder.
After a while, the "HUAWEI Mobile Connect - 3G Modem" is successfully installed.
Repeat the above steps for "HUAWEI Mobile Connect - 3G Application Interface".
There are 3 COM ports associated with the modem, as shown in the Device Manager. Choose the one called "HUAWEI Mobile Connect - 3G PC UI Interface". This is IMPORTANT because other COM ports do not work.
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We left off on the last post with a few questions, and there won't be many answers on this one, but I thought I'd update everyone on what's been going on.
First, ECI is coming to evaluate Matthew tomorrow to see if he needs occupational therapy to help him eat. I don't know exactly what to expect from the visit, so I steamed a lot of Matthew's safe foods tonight so that we'd have them on hand and ready to go. Today was our last day for the avocado trial, so we can add another food to Matthew's "safe" list - yay!!! Pears are next...it will be his first fruit (ok, ok, I know avocado is a fruit, but who really thinks of it as a fruit?). So ECI will have a lot of foods to work with, and hopefully we can get going on that spoon again!
Now on to the electrolytes....the Metabolic Disorders Specialist (Dr. Gibson) ordered three tests. Another Comprehensive Metabolic Panel (CMP), a lactic acid test, and a urine test. You should have heard Nick when I told him we had to do the CMP again ;) It's the fifth time they've run it (the bicarbonate results the first four times were: low, low end of normal, low, low end of normal). Nick actually said "NO!" when I told him it was ordered, but they needed to take it with the lactic acid test, so we did it again. I've been good, not looking up what the doctors are testing for, but after so many odd electrolyte readings I finally gave in and did a search. The bicarbonate count being low could be SO many things...but when you add in a lactic acid test there are only a few things they could be testing for. Congestive heart failure (that's SO not us), or liver or kidney disease. When I read "kidney disease" bells started going off, because both my Mom's brother and my Dad's sister had acute nephritis when they were kids (it was called Bright's Disease back then). So it was good that I did an internet search...when they ask for family history you never know how far to branch out, and I never put down things from my aunts and uncles.


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David lives with his wife in the heart of the beautiful town of Faringdon.
He has been active in campaigning for Faringdon's voice to be heard. David ran the successful Liberal Democrat campaign to return funding for the new building updates to increase patient capacity at the local GP surgery, where he is now a member of the Patient Participant Group.
He is a scientist working for an innovative company developing needle-free room-temperature stable vaccine technology, with the potential to improve lives across the globe.
David believes that Faringdon needs a fresh approach now if the town is to thrive in the future.
Bethia has lived in Faringdon for fifteen years and has worked in private business and with local councils supporting Faringdon town centre businesses, promoting the best of what the town has to offer.
She played an key part in helping to save Faringdon's Preschool, supporting local schools and special needs groups, raising funds and a supporting a variety of local projects.
Recently she has secured a major source of funding to keep the Pump House Project thriving over the next few years providing vital community services in Faringdon.
As a working mother with a young family, she is passionate about Faringdon and its residents' needs, and would love the opportunity to work together to improve the future of the town, as part of the team moving our town forward.


Google (NASDAQ GOOG) is now planning to release a photo sharing and collecting service. This service would be helpful for the users to post and share their images on social networking sites. Google would be planning to help users share their images on Facebook and Twitter. This should be helpful for the users and it stands as an exciting prospect.
Here in this article, we will take a further look at the Google (NASDAQ GOOG) stock. The stock has not only been leading in the search engine segment, it has also diversified well. Through Android it has entered well in the smartphone market. We will look at how the market might perform in this segment.
Google had been in the news for a new photo service for some time now. This new tool should help in making the users share their photos with much ease. Google might be launching these services in their upcoming annual software developer's conference.
This conference would be held in San Francisco. Google would be hoping to compete with the likes of Facebook and Instagram with this release. It would like to cover much more of the market than it currently has and therefore this launch should be of great value to the company.
Google (NASDAQ GOOG) has been a good stock in the past few months. Google has not been a star performer by any stretch of imagination, it has also not been a dud. It is therefore interesting to see how the stock might perform in the coming days. Stay tuned for further updates.


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Tattooed Millionaire
by Bruce Dickinson
Album: Tattooed Millionaire (1990)
Charted: 18
In his book The Heroin Diaries, Nikki Sixx from Motley Crue explains that this song was written about him having sex with Dickinson's wife.
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Aliceinhell666 from Hell Town, CoCan we please actually comment something about the artist of the song here, not his ex-wife's sex partners.
Jovan from Mount Pleasant, MiI believe Tattooed Millionaire is actually about the LA scene in the 80's. The person in the video who depicts Nikki Sixx (allegedly), could be many people from the 80's Sunset Strip scene. Bruce has said multiple times that he and Iron Maiden play music for the creativity, not for the partying aspect of the industry.
Rachel from North Jersey, Njwhat a fun guilty pleasure of a song...
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Hukowa Skała – niezbyt wysoka (ok. 470 m n.p.m.) turnia skalna, zamykająca Pieniński Przełom Dunajca, na południowym zboczu Długiego Gronika (569 m), w Pieninkach, na obszarze Pienińskiego Parku Narodowego (PPN). W tym miejscu 40-metrowa, niemal pionowa ściana opada do doliny Dunajca. Nazwa pochodzi od donośnego, głośnego echa odbijającego się od tutejszych skał. W czasie spływu Dunajcem dawni turyści dokonywali tradycyjnych wystrzałów z pistoletów, a nawet moździerzy. Anonimowy autor w 1880 pisał: "Tutaj to wyróżnia się Hukowa Skała, która się odznacza tym, że echo wystrzału dziewięć razy odbija się o grzbiety Pienin".

Zbudowana jest z wapieni rogowcowych serii pienińskiej, a jej urwiska porasta grupa reliktowych sosen. W drugiej połowie XIX wieku nazwą Hukowa Skała określano również inne skały pod Bystrzykiem z drugiej strony Dunajca. Po jej zachodniej stronie znajduje się Hukowa Dolinka. Z rzadkich w Polsce roślin na Hukowej Skale i w Hukowej Dolince występuje oman wąskolistny.

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We Wrote the Book on the Future of Work. (It's Already Here).
In the face of the biggest workforce transition—the biggest work culture transition—in a century, the Knight Foundation commissioned The Solo Project to explore one question: What will it take for individuals and communities to prosper as we pass from the traditional, employer-based economy to the emerging independent one in which people design their own work, create their own jobs, and reinvent the workplace as we know it.
No surprise, one question blossomed into a hundred, and a year-long inquiry. The resulting book is here: the Solo City Report.
What does the new world of work look like? It looks like this.


K and J were in Paris so I nipped over for a day to see them (justifying it as cheaper than a flight to LA). Obviously if you're in Paris you should try to eat well - using David Lebovitz as our guide, we ended up at A La Petite Chaise, which is a very old, very classic French restaurant. Charming old fashioned waiters, a decor that looks like it could have been unchanged from when it opened in the 1860s, and a menu that reads like you'd expect. Escargot, French onion soup, and for me, an avocado and citrus salad (my slight nod at trying not to have a heart attach). I made up for that starter with the duck breast main, which was executed well and came with a lovely puck of dauphinoise potato. Creme brulee to end, with an appropriately shattering caramel top - though I should point out that the portion was absolutely enormous and I was sadly unable to finish, which disappointed our waiter. K picked out a great wine (though I can't recall exactly what it was) and it made for the perfect three hour dinner after a long day of walking.
best onion soup ever! seriously. so good. and such friendly waitstaff too. great find!


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11-Year-Old Girl Paralyzed After Being Shot in Bed-Stuy
By Claire Cameron |&nbspJune 1, 2013 9:59am | Updated on June 1, 2013 5:00pm
Tayloni Mazyck
BEDFORD STUYVESANT — An 11-year-old girl may never walk again after she was shot in the neck outside her home Friday night when a teen gunman opened fire on two men standing nearby, police said.
The girl, Tayloni Mazyck, or "Tutu" as she is know, was recovering at New York Presbyterian Saturday morning after undergoing surgery to remove the stray bullet, police said.
The violence unfolded about 8:30 p.m. Friday when a 17-year-old gunman started unloading as he walked down Throop Ave, shooting at two men standing outside 590 Gates Ave., police said.
Tayloni was waiting for her aunt, Michelle Fitzpatrick, outside the door of her apartment building at 600 Gates Ave. when she was accidentally struck. Her mother and her aunt's 7-month old granddaughter were with her at the time. No one else was injured.
Fitzpatrick said she was running late to pick up Tayloni and taker back to her home on McKinley Ave, Brooklyn. The girl usually stayed with her aunt on the weekend, and had grown up alongside her four female cousins. The girls were like sisters to each other, Fitzpatrick said.
"I had her with me since she was a baby," she said. "She was just a joy to be around, full of life and energy. Now she is never going to be the same."
The full extent of her injuries was still unknown following surgery on Saturday morning. Doctors told the family that Tayloni had no feeling in both her legs, and they were unsure if she would be able to walk again, said Fitzpatrick.
Despite the trauma, her father Robert Mazyck said that his daughter was awake and able to respond to questions.
"She can't move her legs, and her arms just tingle and hurt when you touch them," he said. "But she is in good spirits. She is awake, she is alive, and she knows what is happening around her."
The injured girl was due to graduate from local elementary P.S. 44 later this month. A math and track team enthusiast, her elder brother Daiquan Mazyck, 15, said Tayloni had been talking about her graduation ceremony for weeks.
"She was always asking me, everyday, if I was going to come to her graduation," he said. "And I said I would be there even if I had to skip school."
An NYPD surveillance tower video camera caught the shooting on camera, leading police to identify the suspect as Kane Cooper, a 17-year-old who lives less than a block from Tayloni and who was known to members of the 79th precinct's anti-crime unit.
Cooper's intended targets are not known to the family, her aunt said.
Cooper was charged with attempted murder, assault, criminal use of a fireman and reckless endangerment.
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Q: preg_match a string with repeated data in it For example i have next string :
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in the string must be 10 digits then | and this formula may be repeated n times, how to match it?
maybe there is an easiest way to do that, than this :
preg_match('/^[\d]{10}|[\d]{10}| ... [\d]{10}$/', $string);

Thanks.

A: You will want something like this:
^(?:\d{10}\|)+\d{10}$

The \d{10} at the end is there since there is no | character at the end.  The + will match one or more of the preceding pattern.  If it is valid to match only one group of 10 digits then replace the + with * which will match zero or more times.
Note that the | character needs to be escaped, because it is used as an OR operator in regex.

A: This means "one or more of (10 digits then pipe)":
(\d{10}\|)+

Edit: It's not clear from your question if the tailing pipe will be there or not. If not, then:
(\d{10}\|)*(\d{10})

Also, if you need to extract the values anyway, you may as well just do:
foreach (explode('|', $string) as $value) {
    if (preg_match('/^\d{10}$/', $value)) {
        ...
    }
}

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Angela Constance said: "Our ambition is for a fair, smart, inclusive Scotland with genuine equality of opportunity for everyone.
"This is a watershed moment in Scotland and a significant milestone in our quest for equality.
The Fairer Scotland Action Plan (FSAP) lists 50 actions to be achieved in the next 14 years under five themes: a fairer Scotland for all, an end to child poverty, a strong start for all young people, fairer working lives and a thriving third age.
For the first time anywhere in the UK, the FSAP commits the Scottish Government, councils and other public bodies to a Socio-Economic Duty, assessing the impact of certain policy or service changes will have on tackling poverty, which will soon go to consultation.
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National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Chairman Rodney Hood said the regulator will propose a rule clarifying credit unions' responsibilities when acquiring banks.
The not-for-profit financial institutions have acquired 21 U.S. banks since 2018, compared with 12 acquisitions in the prior five years, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.
A leading trade group's report slams the practice, saying many tax-exempt credit unions are diverging from their mission to serve low-income households.
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Credit unions should "make sure that they are acquiring a bank that comports with their existing field of membership and the lines of business they are operating in," Hood told The Wall Street Journal this week.
The American Bankers Association has called the acquisition spree "an example of how credit unions are pursuing aggressive growth opportunities while falling short of their statutory mission to serve households of small means."
But a June report commissioned by the trade group found credit union members are disproportionately from middle- and upper-income households.
The agency "maintains no data on credit unions' effectiveness at providing financial services to people of 'small means,'" the report said. Additionally, the agency's "definition of 'low-income' is far more expansive than that used by other federal agencies," according to the report.
The report, conducted with the help of Federal Financial Analytics, also concluded the NCUA's rulebook lacks a statutory mission required by Congress "as a condition for credit unions to enjoy numerous benefits and expanded powers."
ABA President and CEO Rob Nichols called the report a "wake-up call" to regulators and lawmakers.
"[T]his $1.5 trillion dollar industry no longer meets its statutory mission to serve low- and moderate-income households," Nichols said after the release of the report. "Instead, credit unions are increasingly using their tax advantage to expand membership with higher-income customers, make high-risk loans without adequate capital, and even buy up tax-paying community banks."
The trade group said that although it commissioned the report, it had no editorial control over its research and conclusions.
Industry analysts, however, said increased competition in the financial services sector is pushing credit unions to buy banks.
"There is a real desire by the larger credit unions to get even larger because they're recognizing that they're now competing with banks and money center banks head-to-head to get deposits," Peter Duffy, a managing director with Sandler O'Neill & Partners, told S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Dan Berger, president and CEO of the National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions, called the trend a strategic move by credit unions.
"Credit unions want the assets. They want the bank's customers, especially if it fits in the field of membership," he said. "They may want some branch locations."
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03/11/2011 JC 2011/094 Press release- ESMA, EBA and EIOPA appoint members of Joint Board of Appeal Joint Committee, Board of Appeal, Press Releases Press Release PDF
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15/02/2012 2012/100 Regulators re-elect Jean Guill, Kurt Pribil and Fernando Restoy to ESMA's Management Board Management Board, Press Releases Press Release PDF
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27/03/2012 2012/224 ESMA seeks views on proxy advisors Press Releases, Corporate Governance, Corporate Disclosure Press Release PDF
170.89 KB ESMA published last Thursday a discussion paper (ESMA/2012/212) on proxy advisors active in the European Union, seeking views of stakeholders. The paper aims at giving an overview of the state and structure of the market, advisor's methodologies, and on possible policy options. Generally, proxy advisors assist (institutional) investors and asset managers in their voting policy and strategy. Currently, there are no rules in place on a pan-European basis regarding proxy advisors. ESMA will use the feedback received on this paper to publish a feedback statement in Q4 of 2012, which will also include ESMA's view on whether there is a need for policy action in the area.
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26/07/2012 2012/483 ESMA publishes review of accounting treatment of Greek sovereign debt Corporate Disclosure, IFRS Supervisory Convergence Press Release PDF
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today published Review of Greek Government Bonds accounting practices in the IFRS Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2011, which sets out the results of the review conducted by ESMA on accounting practices and disclosures regarding exposure to Greek government bonds. The ESMA review considered a sample of 42 European financial institutions, each with significant exposure to Greek government bonds totalling an estimated gross exposure of around €80 billion.
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ESMA issues statement on forbearance practicesThe European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued a Public Statement on the Treatment of Forbearance Practices in IFRS Financial Statements of Financial Institutions. The statement deals with the definition of forbearance practices, their impact on the impairment of financial assets and the specific disclosures relating to forbearance activities that listed financial institutions should include in their IFRS financial statements for the year ending 31 December 2012.The statement results from ESMA's concerns that a lack of consistency amongst issuers in this area raises issues over the transparency and accuracy of their financial statements. ESMA believes that the consistent application of IFRS principles promotes comparability among listed financial institutions' financial statements.This forms part of broader work on forbearance practices undertaken by regulators, including the European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), who are examining the issue in the context of prudential reporting and macro-economic risks respectively.Steven Maijoor, ESMA Chair said:"ESMA and national authorities have become concerned at the lack of clarity in financial issuers' financial statements regarding their treatment of forbearance-related practices, and the potential impact this might have on issuer's financial performance and position, with consequences for investors and markets."We have seen the impact of an inadequate approach to forbearance and impairment in previous financial crises and our aim is to avoid a similar situation developing here in the EU. We believe that by promoting an appropriate and consistent approach to the definition of forbearance, measurement of impairment and related disclosures, investors can be confident that issuers' financial statements accurately reflect credit risk exposures and the credit quality of their financial assets.""A uniformly consistent approach on this issue in the EU will contribute to the proper functioning of financial markets, the maintenance of financial stability in the European Union and improved investor protection."Forbearance and objective evidence of impairmentForbearance occurs when the borrower is considered to be unable to meet the terms and conditions of the contract due to financial difficulties and ,based on these difficulties, it decides to modify the terms and conditions of the contract to allow the borrower sufficient ability to service the debt or refinance. Therefore, forbearance measures constitute objective evidence of impairment under IFRS.Forbearance and asset impairmentAs forbearance measures are extended due to the financial difficulties of the borrower, ESMA expects that issuers would have when assessing the impairment of those loans:• identified whether a loss event has had an impact on the estimated future cash flows;• based impairment calculations on the estimated future cash flows and not the contractual cash flows; and• applied a heightened level of scepticism when estimating the future cash flows, as well as other parameters used. Required disclosures in the year-end IFRS financial statementsThe disclosures to be provided by financial institutions, regarding their forbearance practices in their annual IFRS financial statements, should include the following qualitative aspects:• details of the types of forbearance practices undertaken during the reporting period;• description of the risks related to the forbearance practices undertaken, and how these risks are managed and monitored for internal management purposes;• accounting policies applied in respect of the forborn assets; and• description of any changes in these aspects from the prior period.The issuers should also provide quantitative disclosures in order to enable users to evaluate the impact of forbearance measures on the credit risk profile of their loan portfolios and their financial position and performance. ESMA expects such quantitative disclosures to be included in the 2012 financial statements as far as possible, and in any event they should be implemented and reflected in 2013's annual financial statements.Next StepsESMA, together with EU national competent authorities, will continue to monitor the level of transparency that issuers provide in their financial statements on forbearance related measures and their impact on impairment, and will consider whether further action is required. The statement complements ESMA's common enforcement priorities for the 2012 year-end IFRS financial statements which were published in November 2012.
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12/04/2013 2013-04-12 JC Report on Risks and Vulnerabilities in the European Union's (EU) Financial System Joint Committee Press Release PDF
195.24 KB The Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (Joint Committee) has published today its first Report on Risks and Vulnerabilities in the European Union's (EU) Financial System. Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities calls for action on cross-sectoral risks. • First report by the Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) on cross-sectoral risks facing the EU financial system; • Key risks facing EU financial markets include weak macroeconomic outlook; low interest rate environment; risk of further fragmentation on the single market; increased reliance on collateral; the quality of financial institutions' assets; lack of confidence in financial institutions' balance sheet valuations and risk disclosure; loss of confidence in financial benchmarks; • The ESAs have closely monitored the situation in Cyprus as it has developed. The events will lead to losses throughout the financial sector in Cyprus. However, the risks of direct international contagion seem to be limited.
06/06/2013 2013/684 ESMA and the EBA publish final principles on benchmarks Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors, Press Releases, Benchmarks Press Release PDF
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29/07/2013 JC 2013/02 Joint Committee Draft Regulatory Technical Standards Joint Committee Press Release PDF
64.35 KB EBA, EIOPA and ESMA publish RTS on the consistent application of calculation methods under the Financial Conglomerates Directive The Joint Committee of the three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA) has published its draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on the consistent application of the calculation methods described in the Financial Conglomerates Directive (FICOD) covering the assessment of the financial situation of credit institutions, insurance undertakings and investment firms which are part of a financial conglomerate. These RTS define the appropriate application of calculation methods for the determination of required capital at the financial conglomerate level. Their underlying principles are to eliminate multiple gearing and intra-group creation of own funds, transferability and availability of own funds and to cover deficit at financial conglomerate level having regard to definition of cross-sector capital. Based on the technical calculation methods provided in the FICOD, the RTS aim at harmonising the use of the calculation methods, by applying these principles and specifying which sectoral rules comprise sectoral own funds and solvency requirements in order to ensure a consistent approach in the calculations is applied across different financial conglomerates. Legal basis These draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) have been developed in accordance with the mandate contained in Article 49(6) of the Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 (Capital Requirements Regulation or CRR) and Article 150 of Directive 2013/36/EU (Capital Requirements Directive or CRD IV) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 (amending Article 21a of the Directive 2002/87/EC). These Articles provide that the ESAs, through the Joint Committee, shall develop draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) with regard to the conditions of the application of Article 6(2) of Directive 2002/87/EC. The Joint Committee The Joint Committee is a forum for cooperation that was established on 1st January 2011, with the goal of strengthening cooperation between the European Banking Authority (EBA), European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), collectively known as the three European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs). Through the Joint Committee, the three ESAs cooperate regularly and closely and ensure consistency in their practices. In particular, the Joint Committee works in the areas of supervision of financial conglomerates, accounting and auditing, micro-prudential analyses of cross-sectoral developments, risks and vulnerabilities for financial stability, retail investment products and measures combating money laundering. Documents Press Release JC 2013/02 Draft Regulatory Technical Standards JC 2013/01
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