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USS Langley underway off Cape Henry, Virginia, United States, 6 Oct 1943; note SNJ aircraft on flight deck USS Langley underway off Cape Henry, Virginia, United States, 6 Oct 1943; note SNJ aircraft on flight deck and K-class airship from Lighter Than Air Squadron ZP-14 overhead.
Ships at Pearl Harbor's repair piers, 16 Jan 1944. Note the camouflage paint on the buildings. USS Langley at anchor in Kwajalein Lagoon, 8 Feb 1944
Lieutenant Commander Edward C. Outlaw and pilots of his VF-32 squadron celebrating after completing a mission over Truk, Caroline Islands, 29 Apr 1944 F6F Hellcat fighter landing on USS Langley, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, 10 Oct 1944
Flight deck crew of USS Langley ducking as a Japanese aircraft attacked the carrier (seen in center of photo), off Taiwan, 14 Oct 1944 USS Langley, USS Hornet, and other warships at Ulithi, Caroline Islands, 30 Oct 1944
A column of smoke 500 feet wide rising from the burning fleet oiler USS Mississinewa after being struck by the first Japanese Kaiten deployed, Ulithi Atoll, 30 Nov 1944. Light carrier USS Langley is in the foreground. Smoke plume from the burning oiler USS Mississinewa in Ulithi Lagoon as seen from the battleship USS South Dakota, 20 Nov 1944. Carriers in the foreground are Bunker Hill and Langley (Independence-class).
Carrier USS Ticonderoga at anchor in Ulithi Lagoon 8 Dec 1944 with USS Langley (Independence-class) beyond. Note the faded Ms33/10A paint scheme. Ticonderoga's flight deck is loaded with the planes of Air Group 80. USS Wasp, USS Yorktown, USS Hornet, USS Hancock, USS Ticonderoga, and other warships at Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands, 8 Dec 1944, photo 3 of 3
USS Langley underway off the Philippine Islands, 12 Dec 1944 US Navy Task Group 38.3 entering Ulithi anchorage in a column following strikes in Philippine Islands, 24 Dec 1944, photo 1 of 7
US Navy Task Group 38.3 entering Ulithi anchorage in a column following strikes in Philippine Islands, 24 Dec 1944, photo 2 of 7 US Navy Task Group 38.3 entering Ulithi anchorage in a column following strikes in Philippine Islands, 24 Dec 1944, photo 3 of 7
US Navy Task Group 38.3 entering Ulithi anchorage in a column following strikes in Philippine Islands, 24 Dec 1944, photo 4 of 7 USS Langley underway, 1945
USS Langley in heavy seas in the South China Sea in the morning of 13 Jan 1945. Note the trailing USS Washington riding the storm much better. Anti-aircraft gun crews aboard Light Carrier USS Langley roll with the ship in heavy seas in the South China Sea, Jan 18, 1945
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The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) has awarded the Department of Chemical Engineering at University of Patras (ChemEngUP), international accreditation for its Integrated Master Diploma. Patras is the first University in Greece to receive the recognition, joining some of the world's top ranked higher education establishments.
The award is great news for graduates of the accredited degree course, as the accreditation will signify that they have fully met the academic requirements to apply for Chartered Chemical Engineer status.
IChemE had been particularly impressed by the Department's efforts to comply with its standards, following its initial benchmarking visit in 2016. A final visit in 2017 concluded that ChemEngUP had satisfied international standards, and provided students with a high level of practical training. The modules on the course offered a suitable mix of theory and practical work, and the Design Project module was marked particularly highly.
To mark the recognition, the Department held a special event at the National Research Foundation in Athens on 1 November.
The University's Rector and Vice Rector was there to introduce the guests, which included the Alternate Minister of Education Research and Religious Affairs, Professor Costas Fotakis, as well as key figures from the Greek political and academic community. Department Head, Prof. Dimitris Mataras, gave the keynote lecture – focusing on the accreditation process, and how it contributed to ChemEngUP's continuous improvement strategy.
Fotakis praised ChemEngUP for the initiative, and for the new opportunities it would offer ChemEngUP graduates.
"I'm very happy, to receive accreditation from IChemE, after a preparation period that lasted almost three years.


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Inhaled-Drug Maker Savara Buys European Biotech With Two Candidates
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Austin—Savara Pharmaceuticals, a privately held drug developer with an inhaled formulation of an antibiotic for a type of lung infection, is announcing today that it is acquiring two new drug programs. The Austin, TX-based company also is seeking new funding that could precede an initial public offering.
"Now that we have multiple products in the pipeline, we will begin the process of raising a mezzanine round with the eye toward potential IPO," says Savara's CEO Rob Neville.
In an all-stock deal, Savara is purchasing Serendex Pharmaceuticals, a Danish drug developer that has two inhalation-based therapies in clinical development. Serendex will no longer exist, and the employees of the company will transfer to a newly formed Savara entity that will remain in Denmark, Neville says.
With the deal, Savara is gaining ownership of a late-stage inhaled treatment for pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, a rare lung disease known as PAP that causes phospholipid and protein build-up in the lung's air sacs. Savara is also getting a preclinical inhaled treatment that aims to treat a form of bleeding into the portion of the lungs where oxygen exchange happens.
Even with the new drugs, the primary focus of Savara will be on its lead candidate, a treatment it calls AeroVanc. Savara says AeroVanc will be the first inhaled antibiotic for the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) lung infection in people with cystic fibrosis. In March, Savara Pharmaceuticals announced $20 million in Series C funding that it will use to take its inhaled version of the antibiotic to late-stage clinical trials later this year.
Meanwhile, patients are already being enrolled for a Phase 2/3 trial in Europe and Japan for Molgradex, the PAP treatment that Savara acquired in the Serendex deal. Savara is in the process of determining what information from a previous Phase 1 study and the ongoing Phase 2/3 studies it might be able to be used to seek regulatory approval in the U.S. from the FDA, says chief operating officer Taneli Jouhikainen.
In February 2015, Savara announced it met the primary endpoint in a Phase 2 trial AeroVanc, which attempted to measure if the drug could reduce the density of MRSA—bacteria that commonly cause infections—in patients' sputum compared to a placebo. Cystic fibrosis causes mucus to build up in the lungs, among other problems, making it fertile ground for infection-causing bugs like MRSA or pseudmonas aeruginosa, as Xconomy's Angela Shah wrote when covering Savara's $10 million Series B in 2014.
AeroVanc would be an inhaled version of a generic drug that has been around for more than 50 years, vancomycin. The drug has typically been administered intravenously, though there are other oral applications.
Savara, founded in 2007, contends that inhaling the drug directly to the lungs will deliver more of the treatment to the problem area, potentially increasing its effectiveness. Plus, the method reduces the likelihood of exposing the drug to other areas of the body, which the company hopes will reduce side effects. The AeroVanc device is meant to be convenient, too, the company says.
As a part of the acquisition, Serendex was delisted from the Olso Stock Exchange—the company went public in 2014—and became a pass-through entity within Savara, Neville says. Stockholders of Serendex will become percentage shareholders of Savara, he says. The deal also includes milestone payments if Molgradex and the preclinical candidate are successful, but Neville declined to disclose details about them.
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Pundits react to King's warning about void being filled by Iran
Russian forces will not leave Syria soon, experts say
By Razan Abdelhadi, Jordan News
last updated: May 22,2022
His Majesty King Abdullah speaks during an interview with H.R. McMaster in Washington, DC, for the Battlegrounds series by Stanford University's Hoover Institution (Photo: Royal Court)
AMMAN – Local and regional pundits reacted to His Majesty King Abdullah's warning, in an interview on Wednesday at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, that Iran and its proxies will be filling a vacuum left by Russia in southern Syria, adding that this could lead to issues along Jordan's borders.اضافة اعلان
Political experts interviewed by Jordan News said that the King's statements indicate both Jordan's concern with what was happening at its northern border and its readiness to deal with any event that may occur in the near or distant future, ruling out at the same time the complete withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria anytime soon.
Political analyst Labib Kamhawi told Jordan News that he ruled out a withdrawal of the Russian forces from Syria, noting that "talk about the weakness of the Russian forces is inaccurate".
"Thinking about this issue stems from the hopes and dreams of some that Russia will exit the region," he said, stressing that the Russian position "is very strong despite all these gossips and rumors".
Jamal Al-Shalabi, political analyst and a professor of political science, told Jordan News that the King wanted to send "national and international messages".
At national level, for example, the message is "that we are ready for all developments and transformations that may occur", he said, adding that "Jordan was able to confront the penetration of terrorists into the Kingdom, along with that of drug dealers".
Jordan, he said, "is a transit point en route to many Arab countries, which poses some threat".
He stressed that the King is aware of what is happening in the world and wishes to express his concerns over possible shifts in Syria that could change the geopolitical realities in the entire region.
"Some of these changes could have dire consequences on the Jordanian situation," he said.
"Jordan is trying to create a balance in its international relations; the upsurge in Russian-Jordanian relations was curbed by the Russian-Ukrainian crisis," Shalabi said.
When Russia intervened in the Syrian crisis in 2015, in support of the regime, Jordan welcomed the Russian intervention, which was seen as curbing Iranian expansion.
"It is not possible to imagine Russia's exit from the region," he said, adding that "there may be a redistribution of forces, but I completely rule out that there will be a complete exit."
Political analyst Amer Al-Sabaileh told Jordan News that "for Jordan, the Syrian crisis differs from the Iraq crisis, since there is a great overlap between Syria and Jordan in the economic, social, and geographical fields".
"Jordan cares not to have hostile organizations close to its northern border," he said, adding that "Jordan is ready for all scenarios, especially since the situation is worrying".
Sabaileh stressed that "the Russian forces in Syria will not be leaving anytime soon, but may be forced to change their priorities and redeploy in parts of Syria, and this is what worries Jordan".
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Scholarly Awards
CK Prahalad Award
Emerging Scholar Award
SMJ Best Paper Prize
SEJ Best Paper Prize
GSJ Best Paper Prize
Conference Awards
Conference Best Paper Prize
Conference PhD Paper Prize
SMS Special Conference Award
Practitioner Awards
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Service Award
Inaugurated in 2007, the prize is awarded annually to a relatively young or new scholar, who displays exemplary scholarship that promises to have an impact on future strategic management practice.
Deadline for Nominations
Announcement of Award Recipient
SEPT. 22-25
SMS Annual Conference
Previous Award Recipients
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2017 Emerging Scholar
Emilie Feldman
Guoli Chen
Aaron Chatterji
Gary Dushnitsky
Dovev Lavie
David Sirmon
Yan Anthea Zhang
Michael Lenox
Riita Katila
Jeffrey J. Reuer
Exequiel Hernandez, 2018 Emerging Scholar Award Recipient
From the Award Selection Committee:
"Exequiel Hernandez is the Max and Bernice Garchik Family Presidential Assistant Professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and is the winner of the 2018 Emerging Scholar Award for the Strategic Management Society.
Exequiel (Zeke) is best known for research examining how firms can use formal external relationships (e.g., board interlocks) and informal relationships to internationalize, innovate, and enhance their performance more generally. His work is creative in examining a new source of knowledge that firms tap into when expanding abroad – immigrants. These informal ties can affect the firm's key foreign expansion decisions and their success when internationalizing. Zeke's research seeks to identify conditions under which such informal ties, as well as more formal relationships, have an impact on the foreign expansion of firms.
In a second research stream, Zeke has examined how formal and informal institutions across countries can have a bearing on the innovative outcomes firms obtain from alliance networks. Significant research has examined the consequences of networks for firms, and his work takes national boundaries seriously and suggests that institutions can shape firms' abilities to engage in networks and derive benefits from them, such as the quality and quantity of innovation.
In more recent research he is building upon these streams to consider the origins and changes in networks and the role played by competition as well as firms' abilities to strategically modify their network positions.
In sum, Exequiel Hernandez has published eleven papers in top journals since obtaining his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 2011. The committee concluded that his strong publication record across the field's major journals, as well as his ability to ask important questions and identify novel mechanisms to unify corporate and international strategy research, made him a worthy winner of the Emerging Scholar Award."
Exequiel will be presented with this award at the Awards Luncheon, Tuesday afternoon at the SMS Annual Conference in Paris. As a recipient of the award, he will also be organizing a session on Monday at the conference! Click here to view the session details.
Below is an interview with Zeke Hernandez and SMS Board Member Jeffrey Reuer
Q: Your work is creative in examining the role of immigrants in strategic management. What led you to devote your research to this topic?
I was always interested in immigration as a phenomenon, in part because I've been an immigrant most of my life and in part because the topic is always in the news (especially nowadays). I lived in four different countries growing up because of my father's work. I was around immigrants, expats, and people doing business in foreign countries. The interface between people and organizations of different nationalities was inherently interesting to me.
When I started the PhD program at Minnesota, I was highly interested in global strategy. In my head, I had this map of the world with dots representing the locations of foreign firms, and my goal was to be able to explain that map—why do firms expand abroad? As I went through the normal process of taking seminars and reading the literature, I started to learn about theories that could explain firm internationalization. One night, as I lay in bed stressed about an econometrics exam, another map popped into my head. It didn't only have dots representing the locations of foreign firms, but also other dots representing the locations of immigrants across the world. It struck me that the flows of people and firms across countries had to be related. I'm not sure exactly where that thought came from, and I figured someone had already made the connection. But I wrote down about a page of potential research ideas on the relationship between immigration and firms' global strategies and set out to see if there were any precedents. That was the beginning of one of my main research streams.
It still took years to figure out how immigration was relevant firms. I had to read broadly in our field plus in sociology, economics, and political science to understand immigration as a phenomenon connected to strategic issues like location choice, innovation, performance, knowledge transfer, etc. I still continue to find new connections and research questions, and now there's a small but growing community of scholars on the topic from which I draw inspiration. And with the current controversies about immigration in so many countries, I'm now motivated to contribute to the debate by offering empirical evidence that the interaction between firms and immigrants plays a crucial role in increasing the stock of skilled labor, innovation, and productive capital in the economy.
Q: You have been a very productive scholar with studies related to corporate strategy and international strategy. If you had to pick one surprising finding that is interesting to share, what would it be?
Hmm… It's always hard to choose just one, so I'll select a fairly recent one.
In a series of recent papers, my coauthors and I have explored how acquirers pick targets to improve their position in strategic alliance networks. We've found that an acquisition can not only create value by affecting the assets owned by firms – the focus on prior work on M&A – but also by modifying the structure of the two firms' external alliance networks. These changes in the network can be favorable for the acquirer (what we call "network synergy") and produce externalities that affect other firms in the industry positively or negatively.
The implications are pretty important. For those interested in corporate strategy, this research suggests a need to pay more attention to how M&A affect external relationships (e.g. with alliance partners, non-market stakeholders, etc.). Changes in these relationships caused by M&A can be an unexpected source of value creation or destruction. For those interested in networks, this work offers a novel lens to understand structural change: corporate actions that fuse or split nodes (acquisitions or divestitures, respectively) as distinct from the more commonly studied tie additions or deletions. Plus, acquisitions and divestitures (node changes) are more radical means of network change than tie changes. I see a promising opportunity to integrate the literatures on corporate strategy and networks.
Q: What are your current areas of research interest?
I'm pushing along three fronts at the moment. The first is to continue exploring how immigrants affect the global strategies and performance firms, and the mechanisms by which this happens. The second is the relationship between corporate actions (acquisitions, divestitures) and the structure of firms' alliance networks, as described in answer to the previous question. And the third has to do with how national institutions (e.g. intellectual property rights, competitive vs. cooperate approaches to business) affect the innovation benefits firms get from knowledge alliances (e.g. R&D) with foreign partners. The common thread is an interest in how firms strategically manage external collaborations, both formal and informal.
Q: What have been the most important moments in your career trajectory so far?
I associate key moments with wonderful people who have taught and supported me along the way. Deciding to get a PhD and pursue an academic career was the first milestone, and Gerry Sanders from my undergraduate institution played a tremendous role in helping me cut my teeth in doing research and navigate the application process. My training at the University of Minnesota was not only excellent but also more enjoyable than I ever could have imagined. For that I have to thank my co-advisors, Myles Shaver and Aks Zaheer, who have remained as mentors, coauthors, and friends. I've had supportive colleagues in the institutions in which I've worked, as well as in the profession more generally, who created a collaborative environment in which I could learn and grow into my role as a scholar and teacher. And I've been fortunate to have good coauthors, capable and hardworking. There are too many individuals to mention one by one – and I'm afraid I'd leave someone out! But I'm grateful to each one for their role in helping me love this profession.
Q: What advice would you offer to junior faculty or doctoral students interested in pursuing an academic career in the strategic management field?
I would pass along what my mentors taught me: focus on producing good research more than on getting a publication. The second is usually a byproduct of the first, but the opposite isn't always true. This may be idiosyncratic, but to me good research is the convergence of an important question, an interesting and credible answer to that question (what we typically call theory), and convincing methods that support the proposed answer. The first two elements are the most important but the hardest to learn. I'm grateful for those who constantly reminded me of this early on, because the rookie bias is often to prioritize methodological skills over critical thinking. Most of us come into the profession knowing how to read and thus think we know how ask questions and craft arguments, while we usually lack the requisite "hard" methodological skills. This is reinforced by some paradigms that emphasize methodological rigor above all else. And it leads underinvesting in learning other essential research capabilities that have to do with reading broadly and critically, asking questions, connecting ideas across literatures and disciplines, writing persuasively, etc. I don't want to be misunderstood: methodological rigor is crucial, but it's not why we do research. We do it to address important questions, and the most impactful research is so because it poses novel questions or offers original answers to existing questions.
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ADTRAN's Enabling Communities, Connecting Lives program provides framework for European Commission's Gigabit Society Initiative
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Leveraging best practices and resources, ECCL will help EMEA network operators successfully drive deployments and spur economic growth
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 2016-- ADTRAN®, Inc., (NASDAQ: ADTN), a leading provider of next-generation open networking solutions, announced today that it has extended its successful Enabling Communities, Connecting Lives (ECCL) program to the entire EMEA region. ECCL will be a useful support program of the European Commission's recently announced Connectivity for a European Gigabit Society Initiative. ADTRAN's ECCL program has already fostered economic development and transformation in a growing number of communities in North America through the sustainable delivery of ultrafast and Gigabit broadband services, driven by ADTRAN's FTTP, G.fast and VDSL vectoring solutions. From an operator deployment and community engagement standpoint, it can serve as a model for network operators throughout EMEA that want to leverage best practices, understand market impact and create partnerships that can help drive adoption.
"Communities, network operators and equipment vendors must work together if the European Commission's vision of Digital Single Market will become a reality," said Tony Shortall, director at Telage and former economic advisor to the European Commission. "Ultrafast broadband connections will be the linchpin of a globally connected, data-driven economy across Europe and the world. ADTRAN has demonstrated its ability to help operators make a positive and long-term impact on their respective communities and I'd expect them to play a larger role as the European market develops."
According to a recent survey of ADTRAN's ECCL service provider customers, the primary community segments that have adopted these types of services include education, healthcare and the residential market. These service providers have also indicated that the primary driver for deploying Gigabit and other ultrafast services has shifted. In 2014, only 30% of respondents were deploying Gigabit as a driver for economic growth. In 2016, over 60% of respondents cite economic growth as a key driver for deployments. In addition, service providers are finding that once Gigabit is deployed the market for Wi-Fi, smart home devices and services and over the top (OTT) managed services become relevant.
With the European Commission's focus on schools, transport hubs and main providers of public services as well as digitally intensive enterprises, ADTRAN's results should help underscore the relevance and opportunity of bringing ultrafast services to communities throughout EMEA. ADTRAN's ability to help any network operator create a positive and long-term impact on its community with these types of services is well documented. In a little over two years, the ECCL ** program has benefited over 350 communities in North America, engaging every kind of service provider, including incumbent and competitive local exchange carriers, utility companies, MSOs and land developers. Each has capitalized on ADTRAN's fibre-based Gigabit broadband and other ultra-broadband solutions to reinvigorate struggling business and residential districts, connect classrooms with other learning centres around the world and help attract new companies seeking to relocate.
"As service providers in EMEA evolve their broadband access networks to meet demand and gain competitive advantage, they establish superior connectivity with the global digital economy which, in turn, generates enormous value to communities that could otherwise be left behind," said Ronan Kelly, ADTRAN's CTO for the EMEA and APAC region. "Our program is designed to support this process of enablement and to identify the best examples, use cases and real-life stories. Extending the ECCL program to EMEA is the next logical step and we look forward to charting its progress in line with next-generation broadband adoption across the region."
UK-based broadband operator Telcom is one of the service providers being showcased in the ECCL EMEA program. Telcom uses ADTRAN FTTP technology to deliver ultrafast Gigabit broadband services to residential and business customers in cities such as Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow, and understands the impact this has on individual neighbourhoods.
"Gigabit broadband is a huge benefit to society, attracting professionals to live and work in newly developed properties and acting as a catalyst to entrepreneurship," said Shaun Gibson, CEO at Telcom Networks. "We've enshrined a 'community-first' approach in our business through a scheme called Telcom Unity, which delivers free public Wi-Fi to local areas, and we even subsidize the cost of local business connections to worthy public and non-profit organisations. ADTRAN's technology is integral to delivering this capability and we welcome the opportunity to share our experience for the benefit of others in Europe and beyond."
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Berean Bible Society > Two Minutes With the Bible > The Law Misunderstood
The Law Misunderstood
by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
There are three misconceptions that most people entertain about the law of God and its Ten Commandments:
Most people have a vague notion that the law always was in existence and that it must have been given to the first man, Adam, or soon after. Actually, God gave the law to Moses for Israel about 1500 B.C., after about 2500 years of human history had elapsed (John 1:17). So mankind lived on earth for about 2500 years without the law or the Ten Commandments.
Most people suppose that the law and the Ten Commandments were given to mankind in general, while, in fact, it was given to Israel alone (Deuteronomy 5:2,3).
Most people suppose that the law and the Ten Commandments were given to help us to do right. Even some clergymen teach this, although the Bible clearly teaches that they were given to show us that we are guilty sinners.
It is true that the law, while given to Israel, also shows the Gentile that he is a sinner. This is why Romans 3:19 says:
"Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought in guilty before God."
But most important of all: Few people realize that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins to deliver us from the just condemnation of the law. This is taught in the following Scriptures:
"Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us…" (Gal.3:13).
"For God hath made Him to be sin for us, [Christ] who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him" (IICor.5:21).
"For sin shall not have dominion over you; for ye are NOT UNDER THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE" (Rom.6:14).
To the Reader:
Some of our Two Minutes articles were written many years ago by Pastor C. R. Stam for publication in newspapers. When many of these articles were later compiled in book form, Pastor Stam wrote this word of explanation in the Preface:
"It should be borne in mind that the newspaper column, Two Minutes With the Bible, has now been published for many years, so that local, national and international events are discussed as if they occurred only recently. Rather than rewrite or date such articles, we have left them just as they were when first published. This, we felt, would add to the interest, especially since our readers understand that they first appeared as newspaper articles."
To this we would add that the same is true for the articles written by others that we continue to add, on a regular basis, to the Two Minutes library. We hope that you'll agree that while some of the references in these articles are dated, the spiritual truths taught therein are timeless.
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2023: Resonating Pa Awo's political ideologies through Atiku/Okowa joint ticket
Okowa
By Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi
Aside from the general discontent with the quality of governance, frustration and disappointment of the citizenry who feel betrayed by the All Progressive Congress(APC) led Federal Government elected into power, and anger, at the deplorable state of the nation, Nigerians (students, businessmen, traders, investors, creative people and women among others) have in the last seven years learnt that the difference between good and bad government sometimes lies in the number of obstacles leaders can remove from the path of their citizens or put before them.
This believe is further fed by the fact that at no time in 'the chequered history of our beloved country have we been as divided as we are today or witnessed such magnitude of mistrust of ourselves and of our nation'. In fact, the nation has not only lost the capacity, sincerity and trustworthiness to negotiate and resolve contentious issues without resorting to violence. Rather, today, no nation best typifies a country in dire need of peace and social cohesion among her various sociopolitical groups than Nigeria as myriads of sociopolitical contradictions have conspired directly and indirectly to give the unenviable tag of a country in constant search of social harmony, justice, equity, equality, and peace.
ALSO READ: In defense of Governor Okowa's vice presidency quest
Qualifying the above scenario as a crisis is the awareness that Nigeria is blessed with plenty politicians/leaders, more than it really needs, but the present administration at the centre lacks creative managers of resources (human material and human) who can lead the nation out of the constant crisis or possess political will to engage as policymakers best minds to help get the answers and deploy the resources we need to move into the future.
The above failings and failures on the Federal Government part has made the need for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa's joint ticket in the forthcoming 2023 presidential election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) not only necessary and welcoming, but eminently desirable.
Separate from their enormous experience in public leadership sphere as the nation's former Vice President and Executive Governor of Delta state respectively, the duo are aware that presently, Nigerians need for lengthy speeches, statements and eloquent words is far less important than their need for people who can build airports, ports, companies, factories and other growth-generating ventures. Atiku snd Okowa are aware that good management requires a capable manager and if allowed, will end both the galloping unemployment and underemployment sitution in the country which going by the latest report from the Nigeria Beureau of Statistics (NBS) stands at frightening 33%.
Their 'combination' will save and serve Nigeria as they are capped with required managerial skills capable of mobilizing the resources needed to reach specific targets within a defined time frame.
Therefore, as the selection process for Atiku's running mate hots up, one point that is Okowa -specific which Atiku, the party's standard bearer and of course the party's hierarchy must not fail to remember is that Governor Okowa's antecedents in the last seven years as a state governor, indicates that in the areas of infrastructure development/deployment, education and healthcare delivery, the Governor shares ideological characteristics/ideals with the late sage of the old Western in the person of Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
Take as an illustration, I grew up in the then Mid Western region, all the primary schools that I know were founded in 1955 by Awo. It is amazing to create this number of schools to make sure that education was available for all was exemplary. You ask; what was the education budget of Western region in 1955 to create this number of primary schools. He was just looking for what to do for people.
In line with the above performance, Delta state under Governor Okowa's first term in office, in his search for what to do for deltans, witnessed over 5,000 classrooms renovated/reconstructed/constructed and at the same time to his credit; incubated, nurtured and brought into existence three healthy universities to cater for the academic yearnings of the people of the state.
That was not the only effort that currently postures him as the Chief Obafemi Awolowo of our time.
Separate from three new universities Okowa recently incubated, nurtured and established in the state, evidence also abounds that as a result of the work of the Technical and Vocational Education Board in conjunction with the supervising Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education in the state, six technical colleges in Agbor, Sapele, Ofagbe, Utagba-Ogbe, Ogor and Issele-Uku have been fully rehabilitated, well equipped and fully functional. Consequently, Delta is the first State in the country to have all of the courses offered by its technical colleges accredited by the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE).
In the same vein, The Delta State Library (a fully equipped e-resource centre) and the Office of the Head of Service were completed and are functioning to optimum capacity. The administration's quest for organizational synergy among Ministries, Departments and Agencies, cost-efficient bureaucracy and timely, excellent service delivery is in full flight with the completion of construction of the Central Secretariat Complex, an architectural edifice in its own right. All the MDAs are currently in one location, which has enhanced functionality, discipline and reduced cost of managing government business. because, they have one source of power, internet services, among others. The new complex is also fitted with, among other facilities, banking halls and crèche to boost productivity and enhance staff welfare.
In the areas of infrastructural development of the state, Okowa in his first term in office (between 2015 to 2019), through the Ministries of Works, Urban Renewal and the Delta State Capital Territory Development Agency, embarked on a total of 455 projects comprising 1,269.42 kilometres of roads and 517.34 kilometres of drainage channels. As at April 30 2019, 263 of these roads, covering 638.23 kilometres of roads and 295.71 kilometres of associated drains have been completed. Such record has since tripled. The Direct Labour Agency also made great strides in the development of road infrastructure during this period.
This effort has advanced rural-urban integration whilst ensuring that our urban centres remain livable cities with good road network and recreation opportunities. Even much more significant is the awareness that such success in this sector not only saved thousands of jobs, but also created several thousand others as well as opportunities for the informal business sector to grow.
For instance, it was noted that when this administration came on board, many of the major construction companies/Government contractors were at the verge of retrenching many of their workers as a result of the slump in the economy. However, we prevailed on them not to do so assuring them of patronage. Today, these companies have expanded and employed more people as a result of our huge investment in road and physical infrastructure.
Just before you conclude, wait till you cast a glance at the next paragraph.
The Asaba Airport for example, was downgraded just before the Governor assumed office. Today, the same airport is now a category 6 airport that receives international flights; the airport is now a major national carrier's hub in the South-East and South-South geo-political zones. Same goes with the Osubi Airport in Warri part of the state.
In the health sector, Delta state under Governor Okowa became the first in the country to commence Universal Health Coverage with the establishment of the Delta State Contributory Health Commission in February 2016. The Commission commenced healthcare service access to enroll on the 1st of January 2017. As at May 15, 2019, the total number of enrollees stood at 530,664 broken down as follows:
Providing services under the scheme according to reports are 110 primary healthcare facilities, 65 secondary healthcare facilities and 52 private healthcare facilities spread across the 25 Local Government Areas in Delta State. Healthcare service access has also been provided to employees of the State at the Abuja and Lagos Liaison offices. With a robust and dynamic ICT Platform, the scheme has been able to initiate a seamless e-medical records registration process for all.
In the past seven years of his administration, he devoted substantial resources, time and energy to build a knowledge-based economy and a critical mass of skills for entrepreneurship and business competitiveness. Over 20,000 persons benefited from flagship Skills Training and Entrepreneurship Programme (STEP), Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurs Programme (YAGEP) and similar programmes undertaken by the Ministries of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Commerce and Industry, Women Affairs as well as the Delta State Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency.
Without doubt, there is, in my view, need for Okowa, a strategist, to per with Atiku, who as a 'private citizen' is reputed for being an employer of labour, to bring this nation out of economic woods while promoting Pa Awolowo's welfarist ideologies.
Utomi Jerome-Mario is the Programme Cordinator (Media and Public Policy), The Social And Economic Justice Advocacy (SEJA). He could be reached via jeromeutomi@yahoo.com or 08032725374
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Former St Kilda coach Grant Thomas has put the cat among the pigeons.
'You're a liar': AFL great confronts former Saints coach
21st Feb 2019 1:57 PM
AFL great Peter "Spida" Everitt has grilled former coach Grant Thomas in a fiery live radio dispute surrounding the former mentor's explosive drug allegations.
Everitt, a three-club star who finished his 10 seasons with the Saints in 2002, labelled Thomas a "liar" for suggesting a group of St Kilda players used illicit drugs during his coaching tenure in the early 2000s.
The former Saints coach revealed he was stunned when told recreational drug use had been "rife" among players during his time at the club.
In his podcast, the ex-Saints mentor opened up about how he was "devastated" when one player told him, shortly after he finished his tenure in 2006, about what had allegedly happening under his watch.
"I would've had a suspicion of one or two, but no more than a week or so after I finish, one of the players, he told me what had actually been going on, which basically devastated me," Thomas said on Sam, Mike & Thommo.
"He said that it (drug use) was rife - a lot of them.
"Some of the players that were mentioned could've dropped me."
Peter "Spida" Everitt finished his AFL career at the Swans.
Thomas's comments were on Wednesday rejected by former Saints star Nick Dal Santo - and they were again strongly denied by Everitt on Thursday when he and Thomas traded bitter words during a live radio segment.
Everitt declared that what he had experienced at the club was not in line with Thomas's allegations.
He said he had never used illicit substances and never witnessed any teammates using illegal drugs at the Saints.
Everitt also appeared to get angry when Thomas made a joke suggesting the number of former St Kilda players using drugs at the time could have been as high as 90 per cent.
Here's how the frosty conversation unfolded during the Bridge and Spida Breakfast Show on Gold FM.
Peter Everitt: Thommo, I take offence to something like this and I think the majority of the players do. When you're saying 50 per cent of the players are on social drugs, do you really believe the information you were given?
Grant Thomas: Yeah, it was probably a bit light on wasn't it? It was probably more like 80 or 90 per cent.
PE: We're being serious because you're questioning a lot of the dignity of the players that you supported, you grew up with. You put your heart and soul into them and now you're questioning their dignity in the game. Every time now we're going to be questioned. I think you're a liar.
GT: Don't you think that's a good thing. Don't you think that there's a question about it. Let me remind you, first of all, Spida, it's illegal. That's the first thing, Secondly, it's not my opinion. What I was doing, I was conveying what was told to me by a player straight after I was terminated. Since that time I've spoken on many occasions to many of the guys that I've coached and they've confirmed it. If you've got information that refutes that, well, I'm happy to hear it. But I can only convey what I've been told.
PE: You can convey what you've been told, but is that 100 per cent correct? We know that being in the media you have to do your research to make sure what you're saying is correct. I totally say that it isn't correct.
GT: I'm not in the media, mate.
PE: You are. A podcast is no different to using TV or radio.
GT: 100 per cent it's different. I don't have any guidelines. I'm not responsible to anyone. We can say what we want, when we want.
Grant Thomas coaching at St Kilda in 2004.
PE: So you're lying. You're lying then.
GT: I'm not lying at all mate. I know you know what lying is Spida, but I'm not lying.
PE: I say that you are because you're saying that 80 per cent of St Kilda players are on social drugs.
GT: I never said any percentage. It's really important when you're in the media…. it's sad that I'm still giving you advice, Spida. If you're in the media you actually have to use facts. The facts are it was told to me that it was rife. I didn't quote a percentage. All I said was, I was told that it was rife. What's rife? I don't know. But in my investigations and discussions with players since, probably around… 10 to 15 players, 50 per cent of them, had tried social drugs.
PE: But you're saying it's rife. There's a difference between trying and rife. You're saying at the time while you were coaching that you didn't know any of the players were on drugs? Did you know (former St Kilda president) Rod Butterss was going down that line, because you were great mates with him, who was the president of the football club at the time.
GT: Absolutely, but that's been well documented. Of course I knew.
PE: Why didn't you bring that out at the time? Why is it so good now for you to sit there and throw allegations out about players?
GT: I did actually. Once again you haven't got your facts straight.
PE: In 2006 you brought that out.
GT: No, not in 2006 I didn't. No I didn't.
It was then suggested to Thomas that he had thrown Everitt and his teammates under the bus by casting doubt across the entire playing group from 15 years ago.
Spida was not happy.
Thomas then attacked Everitt, suggesting the former ruckman was so displeased with the comments because he might have been one of the players accused of using illicit substances.
"I understand that," Thomas said.
"Usually the players who complain are the ones who have actually done it."
Everitt responded by saying he never saw drug use while at the Saints.
"Well, I totally disagree with that," he said.
"I can sit here honestly and say I have never done it. I have never seen a St Kilda player do it. So I disagree."
Everitt's comments came after Dal Santo said it was "annoying and frustrating" that he and his former teammates had been forced to defend themselves.
"I am just as shocked that he's even going to suggest that it was rife within that playing group, but then not follow on," Dal Santo said on SEN Radio.
"It's just annoying and frustrating and there's just no need for it."
The former midfielder admitted there had been a drinking culture at the club, but said he never saw any evidence that the club had a drug culture problem.
He also said he now believed he had to defend himself because of what Thomas had said.
"I will say I'm extremely disappointed that I'm going to get painted with the brush of possibly being one of those drug-takers that you wouldn't have thought did it," he said.
"I would be shocked if it was 'rife' with that playing group. I'm not calling Grant a liar, because if that's the story he's been told he has every right to tell it.
"But I look through some of the guys I grew up with since I was 17, and I'm still really close with a big group of them, to say it was rife with that particular group of players would shock me.
"I didn't see it. Yes, we drank ... but I didn't see drugs. It wasn't part of our culture with that particular playing group.
"It would be naive of me to say no one at St Kilda was doing it, but rife makes me think it's the majority, that's 20 to 25 players. I can't see that."
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TN Conservancy Office a Target of Arson
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Memphis (TN) – The Wolf River Conservancy offices at 3100 Walnut Grove Road were deliberately set on fire early Monday morning. Damage estimates to its office and an adjacent, vacant office suite came to $185,000.
An investigation is ongoing, and there were no injuries. According to a statement on its Facebook page, the conservancy will continue operating in the "virtual world" until if finds a new, more permanent office space. All of its computers were destroyed in the fire; it is seeking up to four new laptop computers for its staff.
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News MasterCraft Pro Wakeboard Tour Mooresville to Air on NBC Sports Network
MasterCraft Pro Wakeboard Tour Mooresville to Air on NBC Sports Network
By Pro Wakeboard Tour
Orlando, Fla. – The Mooresville, North Carolina stop on the 2013 MasterCraft Pro Wakeboard Tour presented by Rockstar will be available in approximately 78 million homes on July 24 when NBC Sports Network broadcasts the 30 minute episode at 3:30 p.m. (EST). The event was the second competition on the 2013 Pro Tour season and is also one of the eight stops on the 2013 King of Wake series.
"The NBC team captured some incredible footage in Mooresville and we are excited they will be airing the contest as part of their broadcast of the entire 2013 King of Wake season," said Sean Dishman, World Sports & Marketing's director of sales and marketing.
Tune in to follow wakeboarding's top pro riders, as they compete in the sport's most elite competition series for big prize money and to determine who is the King of Wake. NBC Sports Network will give viewers unprecedented access to the competition with in-depth profiles of all the top riders.
For more information visit www.kingofwake.com.
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Wells Fargo Securities, LLC Fined 3.2 Million Dollars
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC (CRD #126292, Charlotte, North Carolina) – An AWC (Accept Waiver & Consent) was issued in which the firm was censured, fined $3,250,000, and required to review its supervisory systems and processes.
Without admitting or denying the findings, the firm consented to the sanctions and to the entry of findings that it failed to report all of its reportable conventional options positions for an unknown but significant period of time because of the firm's erroneous belief that the positions were not reportable and then, after determining that the firm would begin reporting these positions, the firm failed to develop and implement a Large Options Position Report (LOPR) system.
The findings stated that after identifying and remediating the firm's failure to report reportable conventional options positions to LOPR, FINRA determined that the firm still failed to accurately report an unknown but significant number of conventional options positions to the LOPR. The findings also stated that the firm and a customer exceeded the over-the-counter (OTC) position limit by 25 percent for at least 461 trading dates in options related to one security, and by 40 percent for two trading dates in options related to another security. The firm had not detected these violations because of its LOPR-related deficiencies.
FINRA found that, until 2014, the firm failed to maintain any type of system of supervision, including systems of follow-up and review, which were designed to achieve compliance with the rules governing the reporting of conventional options positions to the LOPR system. The firm also lacked any relevant WSPs (Written Supervisory Policies) requiring relevant reviews. After implementing supervisory systems and WSPs (Written Supervisory Policies) pertaining to the reporting of conventional options to LOPR, the firm still failed to adequately supervise by failing to detect errors in numerous conventional options positions reported to the LOPR. The firm did not have an adequate system of supervision, including systems of follow-up and review and relevant WSPs (Written Supervisory Policies), reasonably designed to achieve compliance with rules related to the exercise of physically settled OTC options.


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Seduced By Her Incest Family
by alana church (Author)
Fiction Erotica Romance Adult
A DNA test tells shy Alexandra she has a family she never knew about. But what will she do when a weekend visit to a Kentucky horse-farm turns sexy...and she learns that her lovely half-sister, her hunky brothers, and their gorgeous mother are all incestuous lovers? Can Alex find the courage to embrace a new life? Find out in "Seduced By Her Incest Family!"
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"Out of the way, you disgusting tramp," Joy said cheerfully. "Damn. I hope my butt looks that good from behind when I bend over," she continued, leering at Alex as she backed up and gave her rear a good, long look. "Does it?"
"I don't know," Alex smiled "I can't see my own rear end. Maybe we should hire a photographer and find out."
Joy tilted her head back and laughed. "Man, that would be so much fun. You and me and Mom, like in those photo shoots that Playboy does. But no." She sobered. "If we do, then Randy and Ricky would spend all their time looking at pictures of us instead of catering to our every whim. Can't have that."
"It's a bit of a sticky situation," Alex agreed. She lifted her eyebrows at her older sister. "'Disgusting tramp'? It's a bit late in the day to be doing to whole sibling rivalry thing, isn't it?"
"Depends. Are you going to borrow all my favorite outfits without asking and try to steal my boyfriend?"
Alex laughed. "Well, we're pretty much the same size," she said, as she turned on the water for the shower. "But wouldn't trying to steal your boyfriends be kind of, I don't know. Redundant? Since they're my boyfriends, too?"
"Only Richard," Joy replied. "Unless you pulled a fast one on me last night and screwed Randy, too. And I don't think you did. I rode him last night until he passed out. Though he wasn't in my bed when I woke up." She followed Alex into the shower, smirking as her little sister raised her eyebrows. "Room enough for two," she said cheerfully. "And no reason not to get friendly. Want to fool around a bit? I really like making out early in the morning. It starts the day off right, you know? Unless you're shy?" Her brows crimped together in sudden worry. "If you don't want me in here, just say so. I'm cool if you need, you know. Some time to get used to things."
"Not...shy," Alex said slowly. "It's not like Mom raised me to believe in hellfire and eternal damnation. It's just...I never..."
Her sister smiled. "With a woman?"
She looked down at the water swirling around her toes. "Yeah."
"Well, it's not that complicated," Joy said. "Though you wouldn't know it, to hear some guys go on and on about how hard it is to make a woman happy in bed. I mean, you already know what works for you, right?" Alexandra nodded. "Then," her half-sister said, stepping into her arms, her eyes bold, "just do to me what you think I'd like. And I'll tell you if I don't.
"You do want to fool around, don't you Alex?" Her voice had gone low and throaty. "I'm supposed to ask. Mom would have my butt on a platter if I didn't. But I can tell." The tip of a nail rested in the hollow of her throat, then traced a line down her chest. "You're horny," she whispered, barely audible over the falling water. "I can tell. We all are, most of the time. It's like that night flipped a switch in our heads. We don't want anyone else. Not other men. Not other women.
"Just each other."
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January 14, 2020 January 14, 2020 David
There's always a fresh buzz when the calendar turns over and there's new digits on the date. Resolutions and all sorts of fantasies sprout from everyone. Fitting to have that kind of viewpoint as a comic book fan ain't it?! Well, it only makes sense to capitalize on this time frame and all the new, fresh air to take a look into the future and share some things we're excited for this coming year! Using our 2020 Vision we're able to see some brand new projects that look fantastic, some known books getting brand new storylines, and the continuation of some books we love. All in all we've got plenty of reason to be excited about the new year. Join us for a quick run down of several things we're looking forward to:
Ancient Noise (1st/2nd) – Dust Pirates
The 101 continue their mission to rescue their seemingly abducted comrade, Jack, while Brock resurrects with a taste for revenge and a chorus of madness in his mind. Glimpses of nightmare realities and the beings beyond time and space wait for you in the continuation Ancient Noise. Right off the bat I cannot express how over the moon I am that Ancient Noise will be returning with issues #3 and #4! David Crispino writes the goods while colors will come from Simon Gough and letters by Lauren Tyler Norby. Tony Gregori, one of my favorite artists, does the line work! Ancient Noise is a book that I absolutely love. It is easily one of the best reads out there. Yeah it's a little outrageous but it's well written and down right beautiful. As a reminder there's time travel, space bending, and a sentient gorilla named Silver. I can't wait to see where the exploration of time, space, and our own evolution takes us with the rest of the series. Tony will also be doing the lines for Dust Pirates with the WORD BROS Bob Frantz/Kevin Cuffe (those Metalshark Bro type folks), Marissa Louise on colors, and Chas Pangburn doing letters. Some Waterworld meets Black Sails with D&D/Mad Max type fantasy elements are all going to crash together. I'm told it will be a fantasy/sci-fi buddy cop movie with lots of real world overtones as two pirates struggle against a warlord who has seized control over the remaining water in Atlantis. Also, the two pirates were actually real pirates so maybe it could also be considered Alt history sci-fi/fantasy? Regardless it all sounds like a whole bunch of hell yes.
Gutter Magic – SOS – Broken Gargoyles
Source Point Press re-released Gutter Magic under their banner as a primer for the new stories that are coming in 2020 with Gutter Magic: Smoke and Mirrors. Rich Douek will be bringing us brand new stories from the world of Gutter Magic with art/colors by Fei Chen (letterer TBD). There's going to be more magic, more problems – Cinder learns that one of the biggest drawbacks to gaining magical power is all the new enemies you make. I missed Gutter Magic originally but have been able to hop on board with SPP's re-release. I'm glad they've done things this way leading up to the new stories. It'll all be fresh when Cinder's new problems manifest.
Rich also has another project and has gotten the Road of Bones band back together. Alex Cormack and Justin Birch take the stage with Rich again as they bring S.O.S. to shelves in 2020. The only thing we've got thus far is the teaser (which is enough honestly) and the extremely cold shoulder and tight lips Rich had when I asked if there were any super sweet deets other than the teaser image. I kid, but seriously the Road of Bones crew is bringing us another tour. I'm getting tickets to the show regardless of where they're holding it.
Rich isn't the only one having some fun at SPP though. Bob Salley, Stan Yak, Marco Pagnotta, Robert Nugent, and Justin Birch bring us Broken Gargoyles. In a Dieselpunk alternate history, soldiers return from WWI and fight a new battle. Physically scarred by war, the struggle for redemption and revenge will separate brothers in arms. Given the quality of books SPP has been pumping out lately, you really should check them out. This looks to be the perfect place to hop on board.
Letter to Jo – We Are the Dead – Gorilla Tails
Next up is a project from Top Shelf Comics (an IDW imprint). A Letter to Jo will bring us face-to-face with the raging terror of World War II. In this firsthand graphic novel adaptation of a Polish-American machine gunner's letter home. Kelly Williams' (Creepy, Eerie) paint brushes bring this heart-wrenching tale to life. A Letter to Jo is at once a tender love story and harrowing battlefield memoir. Writer Joe Sieracki teams with Williams and Taylor Esposito in this harrowing recounting of a time the world wants to forget, but needs to remember. A LETTER TO JO WILL BE AVAILABLE JANUARY 21st!
Beth Barnett is bringing us another enriching project with We Are The Dead. Aiming for a March release, this new historic take juxtaposes World War I against comics, introducing new readers to poetry written by soldiers as a stark reminder of the brutalities of the Great War. This is sure to be another fantastic graphic piece that helps broaden and enrich our experience with the medium and the history we're all born from. After Dreamers of the Day I'm beyond excited to get ahold of this.
Successfully Kickstarted, Gorilla My Dreams: Gorilla Tails, from Big Tim Stiles, Ahmed Raafat, and Dennis Tirona, is the second in the Gorilla My Dreams series. Dropping in January this is the perfect book for you if you've ever wondered what "Batman: The Animated Series mashed into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles if Saturday morning cartoons came on after 10pm" would look like. You see, in Struggle-Town the streets are protected by Knockaround-Guy, a depressed gorilla who wants to be a superhero. However, when a street mime is found dead (asphyxiated inside an actual invisible box), Knockaround-Guy soon finds himself wading through the ugly and dangerous underbelly of Struggle-Town. I backed the project and can't wait for it to land for everyone this year.
Scout Comics will be putting Dave Chisholm's CANOPUS out to shelves starting in February. It's about a woman who wakes up on an alien planet with no memory beyond an urgency to get home. She and her robot companion explore the planet and her memories gradually return as monsters on the surface of the planet. The ComicbookYeti says "Canopus is so many genres wrapped in one: Thriller. Horror. Science-fiction. Character study. It's all of them and none of them at the same time." https://www.comicbookyeti.com/post/canopus-issue-1 If Yeti is excited for a book, you should be too … I am.
Coming to Kickstarter in the first half of 2020 will be Re-Animator Incorporated from Andy Perry and Lyndon White (Candles – Unbound). This is going to be 64 full color pages adapting H. P. Lovecraft's Herbert West: Reanimator. This time around there will be a combining of the classic horror story with sci-fi elements and putting in a little twist or two. The beloved tale asks "What would you do to save a life?" In a desperate attempt to save his son, Herbert West and his colleague Cain successfully discover how to reanimate the dead, but at the cost of losing his son's soul and opening the door to other realms. This is a reimagining of the characters and the concepts from Lovecraft's Necronomicon collection exploring philosophical and theological ideas. There's a balance between Lovecraftian mythology and an introduction to the characters to appeal to fans and those unfamiliar of Lovecraft and his stories. The story is for fans of sci-fi / horror cross-over who like to ponder the metaphysical while seeing bodies being torn apart.
Bog Bodies is coming from Declan Shalvey, Gavin Fullerton, Rebecca Nalty, and Clayton Cowles around the end of April. It goes a little something like this: An Irish gangster, on the run after a job gone wrong, stumbles upon a young woman lost in the Dublin mountains. Injured and unarmed, the unlikely pair must try to evade their pursuers and survive the desolate bog that has served as burial grounds for unspeakable murder throughout history. So some crime, superstition, and perhaps some survival horror? Everything about this sounds phenomenal. Having read through the ashcan I can attest to just how uniquely this book deals with the bleakness of the noir setting.
Rounding out the year our good friends over at PLB Comics are looking to get the next story for John the Swamp Dude out to the masses. Fan favorite PLB Comics character, John the Swamp Dude returns in a brand new epic adventure! Set four months after the cataclysmic events in the 'Who Killed Mobie Graye?' one shot, the world has changed for John and his friends. But a new threat emerges, unstoppable and destructive monsters, who are linked to an old foe from John's past. The Last Outpost #1 begins an exciting new chapter in the John the Swamp Dude saga and is tentatively slated for a late 2020 release. Josh Shockley and James Dufendach are on creative duties.
BHP Comics will be handling the publishing of A Boxer. Launching on Kickstarter January 27th, the creative team behind this book is quite literally award winning. Dominic Archer, Gary Welsh, Marc Casilli, Amanda Miranda, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou bring to life a 100 page graphic novel that tells the story of Mike Shepherd, a British fighter trying to succeed in the hyper-masculine world of boxing while struggling to manage his sexual identity. The book is narrated by Mike's partner and medical consultant, Jude who faces his own challenges as an openly gay man in the sport. A Boxer details the experience of a homosexual man struggling to find his place between two worlds, feeling himself equally empassioned and alienated by both the boxing and LGBTQ+ communities.
Finger Guns – No One's Rose
On the Vault Comics front we've got Finger Guns landing February 26th. Two troubled teenagers discover they can manipulate emotions by firing finger guns. There will be laughs. There will be tears. There will be uncomfortable teen feelings and angst. Oh yeah… and chaos. So much chaos. From Justin Richards, Val Halvorson, Rebecca Nalty, and Taylor Esposito, Finger Guns is all about emotional maturity. It's an audacious book that tackles the war between compassion and selfishness. In interviews EIC of Vault, Adrian Wassel, has stated "it's deceptively brave. You'll have so much fun, right up until you feel the tears welling." Given that much of this book is about growing up and whether or not we actually do this description seems to fit.
Vault is also set to launch No Ones Rose in March. Upon first look this is set up to join the monumental worlds that have been built in Vault books such as Heathen, Zojaqan, Wasted Space, She Said Destroy, and Sera and the Royal Stars. The solicit is this: Centuries after the fall of the Anthropocene, the last vestiges of human civilization are housed in a massive domed city powered by renewable energy, known as The Green Zone. Inside lives teenager Tenn Gavrilo, a brilliant bio-engineer who could rebuild the planet. But there's one problem: her resentful brother Seren is eager to dismantle the precarious utopia. Zac Thompson, Emily Horn, Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque, Raúl Angulo, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou are lining up another epic book over at VC.
Afterlight Comics is finishing up three series and getting follow ups to two others in 2020. It all starts with their first Kickstarter campaign on January 27th!
Though it had a soft release in the last part of 2019 New York City Gallows is getting some freshening up AND the second issue is aiming at Fall 2020 for release. If you've read the first issue (which I have, and you should too) then this is all you need to get ready for the follow up issue: Following the events of #1, Cass finds herself at the mercy of The Hangman, now having to rely on the mass murdering vigilante for a way out. Nothing comes free, but if the price is accepted, nothing will be the same for Detective Delaney again. Ben Cook, Robert Ahmad, and DC Hopkins will take us back to the gallows! And hey, check that snazzy logo from Jim Kersey!
Advent Comics is going full steam ahead into decade number two and for us the highlight looks to be Legend & The Vanguard. Global defenders have gathered to aid the Advent Universe's Original Hero Legend to right a wrong from his past that jeopardizes the entire planet. Formed to protect the planet from a threat nearly a century in the making the newest super team within the Advent Universe leads the way in their very own Cosmos tie-in title! Available as part of the Cosmos #5 Kickstarter beginning in late February/early March.
Mario Candelaria, Adam Ferris, Lesley Atlansky, and John Keaveney finally have schedules synchronized and are in production for their long awaited and officially unannounced sci-fi action adventure. This is a project I've been awaiting for some time and cannot wait to see.
Milan Adame is looking to host Word Hollow through Webtoon in the coming year. With characters modeled after the genres of fiction this project sounds quite intriguing. Fact and Fantasy have a close relationship with each other and the universe humans inhabit. Their friendship becomes rocky when humans begin to favor one over the other.
From Beyond Comics is kicking off the new year with the release of Electric Youth on Kickstarter in early February. "It's 1989 and the city of Irvine, California is the perfect place to raise a family…some might think it's a little too perfect."
Pete Doree's Stan & Jack is looking to have three issues published this year.
Red Stylo Media will be returning to Kickstarter in February with Ninja Bear. What started as a mini-comic giveaway at SDCC will now see its second issue! Also on tap is the annual anthology, this time focusing on Bram Stoker's Dracula. Bite Me is in the open call stage currently. It will explore the twists and turns of this gothic classic, taking sideways looks at smaller characters, diving deep into throwaway moments, and twisting on the original in new ways.
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Q: NotFound: 404 Not Found (error code: 10011): Unknown Role I am trying to add a mute command in my dicord.py and discord.ext.commands bot, and since other discord roles do not let "Muted" role operate properly, I have to remove all roles from member before assigning a "Muted" role to the member. Everything seems fine but I can't get along with member.roles list which through print() seems fine and shows each role's name or ID but it gives me this error:
NotFound: 404 Not Found (error code: 10011): Unknown Role

I tried changing different types of member.roles list but none of them work
@client.command()
@commands.has_any_role('Admin', 'Mod', 'Owner')
async def mute(ctx, member: discord.Member = None):
    for i in range(100):
        try:
            print(member.roles[i])
            await member.remove_roles(member.roles[i])
        except IndexError:
            print('Something happened, maybe index out of range?')

    role = ctx.guild.get_role(781129235079233586)
    mute_message = ('Muted ' + str(member))
    print(mute_message)
    await member.add_roles(role)
    await ctx.send(mute_message)

I also tried using role's ID instead of name
id(member.roles[i])

But I get this:
Command raised an exception: AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'id'

A: Your loop are not setup correctly. You should look Member.roles.
Note: It is a bad practice using for i in range(100) You can loop directly.
for role in member.roles:
    await member.remove_roles(role)

A: Use
role = discord.utils.get(message.guild.roles, id=781129235079233586)

instead of
role = ctx.guild.get_role(781129235079233586)

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Is Allardyce's return a step towards normality?
Posted byrichardfoster60 December 18, 2020 June 23, 2021 Posted inArsenal, Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool FC, Manchester United, Sam Allardyce, Tottenham, VAR, WBA
There is something faintly reassuring about Sam Allardyce being appointed to rescue a club that looks destined for the drop. It has happened a few times before and no doubt will happen again. In this season of all seasons perhaps this is what we all need, some familiarity, a return to what we perceive of as normal. West Bromwich Albion become Allardyce's eighth Premier League club and he arrives with the 'Never Relegated' tag writ large on his massive forehead. After a long and tortuous journey around English club football the Dudley-born Allardyce is returning home.
Slaven Bilic can consider himself a little unfortunate to be jettisoned after gaining a point at the Etihad but it appears that his fate was already sealed before that gutsy draw with City. As he said in his farewell statement – "it has been a difficult year for so many." It has indeed been difficult and also a very different year for football and the Premier League. A season that started late and has been shoehorned into the tightest of schedules, began with a bang. There was a glut of goals, with over 100 in the first 28 games and during this extraordinarily fast start to the season teams scored at least three on 19 occasions. Added to which, there has been a plethora of penalties, initially at a dizzying rate of one every two games and we are on course for well over 150 for the season, smashing the previous record of 106 to smithereens. Then, of course there was a vat of VAR controversies, with hairline offside decisions and marginal handballs adding to the sense of the abnormal as we all wait in suspended animation for the lords of Stockley Park to deliver their judgement.
The dizzying madness continued beyond those opening weeks as in the fourth round of games previously all-conquering Liverpool became the first Premier League champions to concede seven goals during their title defence. It was also the first time that the Reds had let in so many in a game since 1963 – before Jurgen Klopp was born. And that crushing defeat came against a Villa side who had escaped by the skin of their teeth last season. On the same weekend, Tottenham's 6-1 victory proved that fortress Old Trafford had long since crumbled and had been transformed into a safe haven for away sides with Palace having already plundered three, and soon afterwards Arsenal broke a famine of five years, stretching back 29 games, by winning an away game against a top six side.
United's solitary victory in their opening six home games was a very squeaky 1-0 over poor old Bilic's West Brom in a maelstrom of baffling VAR and penalty decisions. By contrast United have been imperious away from home, winning all six, scoring 19 in the process and in so doing becoming the only English top flight club to score at least three times in the opening half a dozen away fixtures since the advent of the Football League in 1888. Adding to the abnormality of this unprecedented run they have conceded the first goal in every single of those games. As for the aforementioned Arsenal, the expected renaissance under Mikel Arteta has not quite materialised. Having lost four games on the trot at home before drawing with Southampton this week, they find themselves in a distinctly uncomfortable and rather embarrassing fifteenth place.
Both Arsenal and United are among the nine clubs to have collected more points away than at home, which may well be as a result of the first ten rounds of matches being played behind closed doors. By comparison last season only one club – Southampton – secured more points away than at home. Those empty cavernous stadiums have provided a surreal backdrop to the unreal action on the pitch. Last month a sliver of a silver lining appeared as a few thousand were allowed in to the majority of grounds. It was a glimpse of reality after months of emptiness but it was still a tad surreal to have 2,000 people dotted around stadiums that are nearly always full to the brim with tens of thousands in attendance. Having just re-opened their doors and adapted to the logistics of ensuring a Covid-safe environment, London clubs had to slam their doors shut again as the capital was moved to Tier 3 earlier this week.
It is nigh on impossible to predict what will happen in the coming months regarding restrictions especially when the government appears to be making it up as they go along and vacillating between imposing draconian rules and allowing more individual freedom. Like other industries and sports, football has been left floundering between the devil and the deep blue sea and fans have been forced to watch all the strange goings on from afar. Maybe only when Manchester United start winning the odd game at Old Trafford, Arsenal lift themselves into the top half and Allardyce's WBA grind out results, edging away from the danger zone will it feel a bit more normal.
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1. This movie restored my confidence in Marvel Studios, after being mildly disappointed with the most recent Thor.
2. The tense political thriller angle took me by surprise.
3. I caught and appreciated the Pulp Fiction Easter egg.
4. Robert Redford was an excellent casting choice.
5. Scarlett Johansson. 'Nuff said.