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CSA Announce Coaching Line-Up for WSL 3.0 T20
by Cricket South Africa | Nov 24, 2020 | Careers, Coaching, Cricket, Media and Coverage, Newsroom, Selection, Team Sports, Update, Women's Sport, Womens Interest | 0 comments
Cricket South Africa (CSA) have announced eight coaches who will head up the four Women Super League T20 squads.
The keen interest from top quality coaching staff across all teams and regions lends massive gravitas to the third edition of the league, and affirms the passion and commitment that these coaches have for South African Women's cricket.
Ahead of the WSL 3.0 T20 League Player Draft to be held on Thursday (3 December 2020), with almost 100 players from all nine provinces confirming their interest.
The League will be a strength versus strength domestic competition, designed to raise the standard of South African domestic cricket and give provincial players the chance to measure their skills against the established Proteas, most of whom will be taking part.
The competition will be played in the T20 format with all matches being centralised at the iconic Newlands Cricket Ground with six matches each being played from 14-16 December.
The winners will be the team to come out on top after a full round of league games have been played.
"We have assembled a strong team of qualified coaches within our ranks and looking forward to see how they fare in the third edition of this T20 tournament," commented CSA Senior Cricket Manager, Johan Weyers.
"With virtually all our Proteas in the draft we have a wonderful opportunity to measure emerging talent from within our domestic ranks against our established stars.
"This will achieve our dual objective of making sure that we are represented by the very best players at our disposal at the highest level and that our domestic game achieves growth and strength."
The WSL3 player draft will be broadcast live on CSA digital platforms (YouTube and Facebook Live).
Cricket fans can follow the WSL T20 Player Draft by using the hashtag #WSLT20.
Coaching Line-Up for the 2020 Edition:
Coronations
Adele van Eck (Head Coach)
Shaun Pretorius (Assistant Coach)
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Martelize van der Merwe (Head Coach)
Mark Arthur (Assistant Coach)
Angelique Taai (Head Coach)
Richard Hlela (Assistant Coach)
Claire Terblanche (Head Coach)
Neo Sekokotla (Assistant Coach)
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Sen. Jim DeMint is proposing a law he says would bring a freer marketplace between local broadcasters and the pay-TV industry.
TV watching dollars at stake in complex policy battle
Broadcast television stations have a complicated relationship with cable and satellite television providers. A broadcast TV station is beaming its content into space, where it can be freely received and viewed by anyone with a suitable antenna. But the good old days of ???rabbit ears,??? wired into television consoles that could be used as furniture, are long behind us. Most people get their TV feed from cable or satellite companies now??? and they???ve got the rabbit ears.
Local broadcast stations have always felt they deserved compensation when the pay-TV industry ???re-transmits??? their content???essentially repackaging work they grabbed out of the sky for free, and selling it for a profit. In the early ???90s, Congress created a legal framework around the concept of ???retransmission consent.??? In essence, this means broadcasters must consent to the retransmission of their content by cable, satellite, and telecom providers.
Naturally, broadcasters expect to be paid for granting their consent. The production of television programming is a costly process, involving expensive equipment and labor.
A massive regulatory apparatus grew around retransmission consent, while technology marched onward. Video programming is now routinely watched on computers, and even tiny smart phones. The pay-TV industry believes the current rules are slanted in favor of broadcasters.
Pay-TV providers are required to purchase certain broadcast programming in their area. Negotiations with broadcasters are regulated in a way that negotiations with cable TV stations, such as the History Channel or Discovery Channel, are not. Negotiations have occasionally broken down, leading to rare instances of content blackouts by certain pay-TV providers.
Broadcasters counter that emergency information and public-affairs programming are vital community services, and most viewers simply don???t have the equipment to easily receive those signals over the air any longer???consumers are largely dependent on their cable, satellite, or telecom provider. Also, without the revenue from retransmission fees, it would become impossible for local broadcast stations to continue providing the expensive round-the-clock news and weather services viewers rely upon.
Local broadcasters find it difficult to compete with big cable networks for national advertising dollars, making them more dependent on retransmission fees. Those fees have increased nearly 700 percent over the past five years, from $215 million in 2006 to $1.5 billion in 2011. Pay-TV providers say consumer rates for cable and satellite services have been driven up accordingly. However, the fees paid to basic cable networks are, collectively, much higher, and they???ve increased dramatically as well???from $16 billion to more than $26.5 billion in the same period.
Pay-TV provider competition rises
One key issue in this dispute is the rise of substantial competition among pay-TV providers. In 1992, when the current regulatory regime was conceived, many cable TV companies had an effective monopoly in their service areas. Now there is vibrant competition between cable, satellite and telecom providers. This gives local broadcasters more leverage when they threaten to black out a particular provider.
At the end of 2011, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) introduced the Next Generation Television Marketplace Act, which would remove the ???must-carry??? mandates, repeal ownership limitations imposed on local media operators, and most significantly remove the ???retransmission consent??? regulations. Instead, a de-regulated environment in which pay-TV providers pay for the use of copyrighted material would prevail.
???What we now have is a complex web of outdated regulations that must be addressed comprehensively and cannot be dealt with individually, in isolation from one another,??? explained DeMint. Scalise added, ???The government should not be in the business of picking winners and losers, and the Next Generation Television Marketplace Act ensures that by removing the heavy hand of government, the market is free to operate in a way that continues to benefit consumers and encourage innovation.???
The National Association of Broadcasters counters that existing regulations have created a competitive environment for negotiations, rather than distorting it: ???These negotiations are fair and market-driven, and there is no need to change the process that Congress established and has worked well for nearly two decades. Eliminating broadcasters??? ability to negotiate for the value of broadcast signals would mean less choice for viewers and fewer dollars for stations to dedicate to local news, public affairs programming, coverage of emergency weather events and community activities.???
Dennis Wharton, NAB executive vice president, said the industry fears ???compulsory copyright??? provisions in the DeMint-Scalise bill would not be sufficient to allow broadcasters to secure an equitable fee for their content, and might not even survive the legislative process at all. If Congress ended up doing nothing more than eliminating retransmission consent protections, the days of pay-TV providers repackaging expensive broadcast content at little or no cost might return. ???It???s the most anti-free-market idea to come along in a long time,??? he said, describing an environment in which cable and satellite companies could ???profit from the sale of content they don???t own, and didn???t pay for.???
Remove antique FCC regulations
Wharton did, however, speak favorably of the Next Generation Television Marketplace Act???s measures to remove antique FCC regulations against broadcast companies purchasing newspaper outlets, which date from a 1960s era in which only three TV networks existed. This could provide rescue for struggling newspapers.
Retransmission is a complex issue, and the battle lines are a little blurry. Notably, the American Conservative Union, which favors portions of DeMint and Scalise???s de-regulatory bill, is not comfortable with completely stripping away the concept of retransmission consent. ACU chairman Al Cardenas wrote in March, ???The reality is that today we have a functioning market in which opposing parties are able to bring value to the negotiating table. By stripping away the right to compensation for the use of the signal the government would be tipping the scales heavily to the side of the pay-TV companies. It would distort the marketplace and allow an uncompensated use of broadcast signals and content and is certainly not ???deregulation.??????
The debate rages on, largely unnoticed by television viewers, who tend to take a great deal of what they see for granted. But local TV stations are not just a desk, a couple of monitors, and a van with a big antennae on top; cable television providers consist of more than a little control room surrounded by satellite dishes; and the cost of packing our big-screen TVs with thousands of hours of content is far greater than many of us realize.
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Immigration drives the development of great cities. The ONS profile confirms how the capital benefits from its increase in foreign-born residents, now almost four in ten of all Londoners. Immigration brings a versatile labour force, and a young population whose children leave London schools with impressively better results than students elsewhere.
But to realise the potential of migration, London needs the right conditions. That means enforcing a decent minimum wage to protect all low-paid employees. Reviving more free English language tuition for those who can't afford it – short-term investment for future gain. And getting serious about London's housing crisis. With delivery of new affordable homes now slipping below the Mayor's modest target, investment in London housing has to be restored.
Meanwhile London's administration has redefined affordability as 80% of market rents, in line with government. Besides being far from affordable, this renders more tenants vulnerable to the £500 per week benefits cap. Tenants are having their benefits cut because rents are so high, not just in the private sector, but even in social housing.
Migrants are typically at the sharp end of this crisis. 85-95% rent privately when they arrive and remain in rented accommodation, often exploited by landlords and agents, as well as employers. They and their children have less chance to integrate as London citizens if stuck in overcrowded housing where lack of long-term rights exposes them to unfair practice by landlords. Last week the BBC revealed how London accommodation agencies already discriminate on race grounds. The government's draconian Immigration Bill will make matters worse, requiring landlords to check immigration status of all tenants.
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Kurt Busch, Martin Truex Jr. on how Next Gen car performed at their Charlotte Roval test
By Nate RyanNov 16, 2020, 7:00 PM EST
NASCAR's continuing education with the Next Gen car was back in session Monday with two apt pupils (and former Cup Series champions) behind the wheel for a test on the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval.
Kurt Busch drove a car prepared by Richard Childress Racing/NASCAR with an ECR Chevrolet engine and said driving the new model was "like the first day of school.
"There's so much to look at and digest and feel," Busch said during a late afternoon break from the opener of a two-day session. "It's been an impressive pickup of speed vs. the traditional car. That says Next Gen all over it when you're going faster, turning better, accelerating harder and braking faster, because faster is better."
Martin Truex Jr., who was in a Ford-powered car built and prepared by the Action Express team from the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, was in a race car with independent rear suspension for the first time. While it mostly drove similarly to his No. 19 Toyota, Truex said the "souped-up model of a Cup car" that "definitely was a huge learning curve with bigger brakes and wheels and a sequential gear-shifter replacing the traditional H pattern).
"There are so many differences about the way these cars are built from our style of racing or racing stock cars in general," the Joe Gibbs Racing driver said. "It's going to be a huge learning curve for everyone, but when the car is balanced well, it feels really, really similar to what we have now. That's a good thing. This is a slow road course. To see how it feels on the fast oval Wednesday will be a real eye-opener."
According to auto racing journalist and sports car mechanic Bozi Tatarevic, the Next Gen cars were lapping Monday in the 84-second range, which is comparable to race pace from the Oct. 11 race (and a few seconds off the top practice and qualifying speeds with more downforce in the 2019 race) on the 17-turn, 2.32-mile course road course.
Busch said the cars were running somewhere between the 550 and 750 horsepower configurations used in Cup.
We ended 3 seconds quicker than the Roval playoff race. Car is more efficient everywhere. Braking, cornering speed and acceleration. Even at 100 hp less than the race. So 650hp. Fun to drive the sequential gearbox.
— Kurt Busch (@KurtBusch) November 17, 2020
Busch and Truex will test on the track's 1.5-mile oval Wednesday and run side by side to get a feel for how they handle in traffic.
First day of @NASCAR #NextGen testing, @CLTMotorSpdwy Roval. She was nice! pic.twitter.com/xyrO9eMSCQ
Here's a rundown of what they learned about the new car, which will make its Cup debut with the 2022 season:
—Tires: With larger 18-inch wheels and single lug nuts, the tires already are visually different. But Truex said the larger contact patch and stiffer suspension also are helping keep tire temperatures much lower, which should allow for tires with better wear.
The single lug-nut wheels were used in the Next Gen test Monday (Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images).
"I'm able to feel we can make the tires softer already," he said. "With the same car weight and more tire surface area, you can go softer on the compound. That'll help out, especially on the ovals.
"What we all like about ovals is degradation and falloff. The newer paved tracks have been a challenge because the tires overheat so bad. Typically, the tires have to be so hard for a big track like this, the infield is like ice. Today, the infield is feeling better with more grip. It's made this track more fun to drive and slip and slide the car more."
—Gearing: The sequential shifter was described by Truex as "a lot easier, more efficient and effective. You lift off the throttle less to shift, and we have more gears and more options. If you get bogged down going through the infield, you can jump down a gear and grab the throttle. It's really good for road course. It's like a real car with paddle shifters, you barely have to blip the throttle to pull the thing in gear. It's neat."
Busch compared it with a motorcycle gear shift and said many drivers were familiar with the adjustment from racing Legends cars.
—Suspension: Busch said drivers will have to learn how to help the team tune a car with larger brakes and a raft of new independent rear suspension lingo that no longer will include track bar and wedge. But the fresh vernacular related is worth the tradeoff.
"It accelerates quicker, stops quicker, turns quicker," Busch said. "It's more nimble. All the lap time is gained in the infield with the independent rear suspension and the ability to shift quicker. The car is more effective and sensitive to changes and feel. You feel everything more vividly."
Martin Truex Jr. climbs into the NASCAR Next Gen car during the test on the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval (Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images).
—Steering: Busch and Truex said they didn't notice the complaints the steering was "soft and twitchy" during previous tests.
"I feel pretty confident with it," Truex said, though he noted that sometimes the steering "locks up, and car bottoms out on the oval. Hopefully we can figure that out."
Busch said they would use Wednesday to firm up the steering, which was "on the aggressive side for feel. I like its movement. On the oval sections, it's on edge. We need to perfect that, and that'll be the Wednesday focus. It's a bunch of cool stuff to learn."
—Noise: Because the new car uses a "split" exhaust, both drivers said the engine sounds "throatier" with an "old-school" design. "It's cool and badass when you're driving it," Truex said. Busch said it's like "an old school Trans Am thundering power and feel."
The Next Gen car was estimated to be turning laps in the 84-second bracket Monday (Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images).
This week's test is the sixth with the Next Gen car, which most recently had been on track Aug. 24-25 at Dover International Speedway with Cole Custer.
Previous sessions:
Oct. 8-9, 2019 at Richmond with Austin Dillon
Dec. 9-10, 2019 at Phoenix with Joey Logano
Jan. 15-16, 2020 at Miami with Erik Jones
March 2-3, 2020 at Auto Club Speedway with William Byron


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I didn't know anything about Timbuktu going in, which is fitting, I suppose, for a film named after a place considered by Westerners as unfathomably distant and unknowable. (Do Africans have a 'Timbuktu' equivalent? Do Saharan villagers say things like "from here to Milton Keynes"?)
Far more unfathomable than any colonial-era geographical mystique is the baffling ideology of ISIS, the terrorist group who form the loose subject of Abderrahmane Sissako's gorgeous film. Granted, a movie about Islamic fundamentalists hardly seems like a barrel of laughs, and I'll admit, there is not quite a barrel's worth of chuckles here. But what's surprising about Timbuktu is how warm and perversely optimistic it is, even in the face of incredible persecution.
Maybe optimistic is the wrong word. It's dark. It's rife with injustice and terror. It does not end well. People are punished, and murdered, for the flimsiest of reasons. But Timbuktu's great strength is portraying the humanity that comes up against this ugly force.
It presents a side of the ISIS story rarely told in western media: the Average Joe. Most of the people in Timbuktu are just nice, ordinary people, trying to get by, who react with a mixture of exasperation, weariness, drollery and anger when this parade of idiots roll into town.
Put aside their extreme religious or murderous elements and you arrive at one incontrovertible truth: ISIS are just massive, massive arseholes. They ban cigarettes, music, and footballs. They force women to wear veils and gloves. They're hypocrites (one member smokes secretly behind sand dunes) and cowards. Their utter dickishness is counterpointed by the brilliant stoicism of the people they oppress.
Witness the religious elder who calmly, quietly tells one of the terrorists that there is nothing in the Koran which approves of child murder. Or the woman who offers her hands up for chopping in frustration after refusing to wear gloves. Or the boys who play football without a ball, miming an entire game with breathless enthusiasm.
These ephemeral acts of civil disobedience offer no small amount of hope. That's where the optimism lies. If you had to offer a criticism, you could say it is a little unfocused, and the motivations of a central character, tried for murder under Sharia law, seem somewhat spurious. But it's worth seeking out. Sumptuously shot – it probably doesn't take much to make a country like Mauritania look beautiful, but still, credit where credit's due – and buoyed by a mesmeric soundtrack, Timbuktu brushes beauty and humanity against an unfathomable ideology in one elegant, timely package.
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Dr. Anokhi Dalia Bock is a native of Lake Forest, Illinois. Upon graduation from Lake Forest Academy, she moved to the East Coast for her undergraduate studies at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. While in college, she continued to pursue her love of the outdoors as a biology and environmental studies major. She spent a year researching the effect of urban development on the habitat of the eastern coyote, white-tailed deer, diamond-back terrapin, and box turtle, both in and around Cape Cod.
After receiving her Bachelor of Science, Dr. Anokhi continued her studies at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in Boston. This is where she and Dr. Derek met! She graduated with high honors and was inducted into Omicron Kappa Upsilon, the national dental honor society. While in dental school, she received several awards and distinctions, culminating in her Doctorate of Dental Medicine.
After graduating from dental school in 2003, Dr. Anokhi moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, so she could continue her studies at Riley Children's Hospital through Indiana University School of Dentistry. There, she completed her two-year residency in pediatric dentistry and obtained her Master of Science in dentistry. While in residency she received a Graduate Student Research Award through the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry for her research on fluoride's effect on bone.
The summer after residency, Dr. Anokhi Dalia and Dr. Derek Bock got married! They enjoyed a wonderful honeymoon, after which she joined the practice of Jerry Udelson, DDS, in Forest Park, Illinois. In late 2008, Drs. Derek and Anokhi Bock decided to join forces and open up a "boutique-style" practice close to home, where they could use the skills they had gained as associates and practice dentistry according to their philosophy and goals. Forest Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry is the practice they have always dreamed of building together.
Professionally, Dr. Anokhi stays actively involved in the pediatric dental community. She has formed a study club with other pediatric dentists in the area and is currently on staff at Lake Forest Hospital. She has also participated in a program by the American Academy of Pediatrics called "Bright Smiles from Birth," which provides fluoride varnish application training, and oral health care education to local pediatricians. The goal of the program is to prevent childhood caries, and to decrease the incidence of caries by promoting early treatment with fluoride varnish and early referral. Her additional activities include the American Youth Soccer Organization, Gorton Community Center Children's Drop-In, LEAD (Linking Efforts Against Drugs), and sponsorship of many local school activities.
In July 2007, the Bocks welcomed their first child, Bela, to the family! The Bock family did not stop growing there. On October 26, 2009, Bela became a big sister to Asha! On April 20, 2012, Bela and Asha had the honor of becoming big sisters to Lila. In 2013, the family welcomed a son, Keegan. Dr. Anokhi's free time is happily spent playing with her children, and she enjoys traveling whenever the opportunity presents.


Do you know of the online cosmetics opportunity available for you? As technology advances, the market for cosmetic products is also expanding. People in your area are learning about new cosmetics that they never knew about in last decades. These people are not only interested in the knowledge, but also they are ready to try the cosmetics.
Is it this chance to make a significant income? As you know, businesses exist as solution providers to the customers. With expanding demand of cosmetics, new business opportunities are coming up for you to create your online cosmetics store.
Obesity and overweight have become a pain in the back of many people across the world. Due to the current lifestyle, people are gaining weight in an uncontrollable way which is causing a worry to them. Luckily, several companies have come with cosmetics to help people lose weight without taking medications or participating in weight loss activities.
Unfortunately, most people are not aware of these products. As an upcoming entrepreneur, you should be on making it easier for clients to access these products by offering them in your online store. Also, you should inform them about the available cosmetic surgeries to help them regain their shape after weight loss.
Note: you should carry out due diligence before starting to sell cosmetics described as weight management products, Only offer weight loss cosmetics that you have proof of their effectiveness.
Another online cosmetic business opportunity that you can utilize is selling skin protection cosmetics. Due to climate change, there has been an increase in the number of skin diseases. For this reason, people are seeking for measures to protect their skin from these diseases. Fortunately, manufacturers have come up with new cosmetics that secure your skin.
Despite this, only a few people are selling cosmetics that are effective. Most of the online sellers are offering chemical mixtures with skin protection labels.
If you love natural products, then it is your turn to start selling skin protection cosmetics online. However, you should identify genuine natural cosmetics manufacturers to become a go-to cosmetic seller.
In this era, ladies are in the race to becoming a model. If you are a lady or have a female friend, you can ascertain that there are three or more makeup cosmetics in their purse. This observation should click into your mind that venturing on this niche is profitable. Particularly, you need to target your female friends in your online platforms.
For you to earn handsome returns, you should focus on selling cosmetics that will make your clients feel good. Hint: lipstick and facial makeup cosmetics are on-demand products, so it is advisable to give them a priority in your online store.
Due to increased stress and insomnia cases, cases of having a dull skin are showing a rising trend on a daily basis. In this regard, companies have come up with moisturizing cosmetics to help people to maintain a moisture skin. Also, the global warming has led to the enhanced breeding of mosquitos. As a result, the spread of Zika virus and Malaria is on the rise.
However, researchers developed cosmetics with mosquito repellants. If your eyes are wide open, you are aware of the challenges your neighbor and community go through as they try to fight with mosquitos particularly at night. Hence, you should offer them a solution be selling these cosmetics in your online cosmetic store.
With all these opportunities, you do not have a reason for complaining about business ideas. Take a step and start selling cosmetics online. You can start with one of the above or offer all of them.


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Hotel Engine is a new hotel booking site which is offering a $25 credit for new members. Unlike other sites like Travelpony which only have a small list of hotels, Hotel Engine seems to have a large selection of hotels available and they even pay you back in rewards after every booking. (Many sites don't list lower end properties or hotels which have low room rates. Hotel Engine lists $20 Vegas hotels for example, but does not have every hotel in every city.) Additionally, they seem to only have U.S. properties at the moment, which limits the site's usefulness.
By joining, you get a $25 credit which comes with no minimums. (For example, you can book a $25 room for free!) They also give 5% back in credit for normal hotels or 10% for hotels with the 2x logo. The site also features a number of standard features like reviews, hotel amenities and a map view. They also have a "Walkable Index" which rates how walkable a hotel is. I'm not sure what criteria they use, but I suppose it is useful.
Now that I have signed up, I will make sure to book a hotel soon in order to review their site. I highly suggest signing up now, even if you don't make a booking right away. This is a new offer and many sites like Airbnb and others have minimum spending requirements for their new member credits. Hopefully Hotel Engine doesn't go that route, but who knows.
If you sign up through the links in this post I receive a $25 credit after your first booking, although you receive your $25 credit up front. Enjoy and don't forget that any hotel booking site should be used as a tool. I always search a variety of sites before making a hotel booking. Enjoy!
Great find Shawn! Sounds very similar to the Orbitz Rewards program. They have a $25 sign up bonus and you earn cash back that can be redeemed for future hotel stays.
I tried signing up with your referral link. Only shows $5 for signing up?
Hmm. That is weird. When I click through it shows $25. Are you clicking the links in the post? If you go directly to their site without a referral link they only offer $5 for signing up. Perhaps try copying my link and pasting it in Private browsing or Incognito mode.
Figured it out. Looks like te link didn't like Firefox. I switched to Chrome and it worked.
No international hotels at all.
Thanks. I had thought that I put that in the original post, but somehow I forgot. I have added the information. You are correct. It is U.S. only at the moment which is a severe limitation.
It has minimum: For purchases under $50, the maximum amount of credit that can be applied is $10.
Wow then they changed it. As of when this was written last night there was no minimum. Thanks for letting me know.
no minimum is NOT correct. I just tried to book a $42 rm, said under $50 can only use $10 of credit. So there IS a minimum of $50 to use the whole $25.
It appears they changed this since the article was originally published. I will update when I get to a computer.


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Small area estimation and hotspot identification of opioid use disorder among military veterans living in the Southern United States
© 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Background: The purpose of this study was to estimate opioid use disorder prevalence rates at the county level among veterans in Alabama and to determine hotspots of said rates. Methods: By combining data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health and the American Community Survey, we developed a mixed-effects generalized linear model of opioid use disorder and modeled probabilities onto veteran-specific population counts at the county level in Alabama. Results: The average model-based estimate for opioid use disorder prevalence among veterans in Alabama from 2015 to 2017 was 0.79% (SD = 0.16), with a minimum of 0.52% (i.e., Lowndes county, Alabama) and a maximum of 1.10% (Dale county, Alabama). Hotspot analysis revealed a significant cluster of "high-high" veteran opioid use disorder prevalence in neighboring Marion, Winston, and Cullman counties. Conclusions: The application of the statistical technique presented in this study can provide feasible, cost-effective, and practical county-level prevalence estimates of veteran-specific opioid use disorder and should be widely applied by states and counties so that they can more accurately and efficiently allocate resources to caring for veterans with an opioid use disorder.
Stefan Kertesz
Substance Abuse Journal
Albright DL; McDaniel J; Kertesz S; Seal D; Prather K; English T; Laha-Walsh K


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Elderly Man And Wife Happily Married For 71 Years Die Just 12 Hours Apart On The Same Day
By LittleThings
A Georgia couple's love story gives Allie and Noah from The Notebook a run for their money — especially since this story is true. Herbert DeLaigle and his wife, Marilyn Frances DeLaigle, were married for 71 years and passed away hours apart.
They met when Herbert was 22 and Frances was 16. After a long and beautiful life together, both Herbert and Frances died on July 12, just 12 hours apart.
The couple was interviewed by WRDW last year as they celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. Herbert still remembered very clearly the day he met Frances.
"Frances worked at a little cafe we had in Waynesboro named White Way Cafe. I kept seeing her going in and out, in and out and I had my eyes set on her," he recalled.
"And then I finally got up the nerve to ask her if she would go out with me sometime."
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The two went to the movies on their first date. A year later, Herbert asked Frances to marry him. While her answer was yes, their wedding almost didn't happen. Herbert, who was known for always being late, had to convince the preacher to marry them after they were an hour late to their own wedding.
After they tied the knot, the couple spent six years in Germany, where Herbert was stationed during World War II. He spent 22 years in the US Army, also serving in Korea and Vietnam before retiring.
They went on to have six children. They are also survived by 16 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren.
The family released a statement following the couple's death. "It's amazing how they were together for 71 years and now they are together in heaven," they said. "What an amazing love story that is."
Watch the video to learn more.
This story originally appeared at LittleThings.


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Liverpool transfer news and rumors
Borussia Dortmund Reportedly Want to Sign Liverpool Starlet
According to the papers, Dortmund want to sign Bobby Duncan along with a few other top English youngsters.
By Noel Chomyn@LFCOffside Oct 22, 2018, 7:00pm BST
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Over the summer, Liverpool signed 17-year-old Bobby Duncan away from the Manchester City academy, convincing the youngster that he had a clearer path to first team success down the road at Anfield than he did at The Emirates.
The early signs have been good, and Duncan has been so impressive with at the youth and reserve levels that he was called up to spend the most recent international break training with the first team. Already, though, there could be a problem.
Borussia Dortmund are said to be lurking, having been buoyed by their success convincing Jadon Sancho to leave Manchester City to join them and seeing a wealth of under-utilised young talent in the Premier League there for the taking.
According to the Mirror at least, claiming an exclusive on the transfer story, Liverpool's Duncan—himself recently of City—is top of that list, one that also includes Chelsea's Callum Hudson-Odoi and another City starlet, Phil Foden.
Interest, of course, doesn't mean a deal is likely—and the player signing his first professional contract with the Reds last summer means he's tied down through the summer of 2021 at least—but it seems at least an interesting development.
In the past it was English clubs who typically raided the continent's top academies for young talent on the cheap, but with minutes harder to come by for youngsters in an increasingly wealthy league, there looks a chance that trend could flip.
There also seems to be a growing willingness for young English talent to at least consider heading abroad to develop—see Liverpool's Rhian Brewster, who toyed with a move to Borussia Monchengladbach before eventually re-signing.
At least that's the story this week. If all three of Duncan, Hudson-Odoi, and Foden stick with their English clubs there's always a chance that Sancho ends up being the exception and fears of an English talent exodus amount to nothing.


bottom of the page) Alex Ross' 2012 New Yorker Festival presentation on The Wagner Legacy came up in our search results - surely one of only a few other people that have discussed Wagner and Lambert?
Persistent readers may recall us bringing this video to your attention 3 years ago (3 years? Where does the time go?). Alas, at that time it was hidden firmly behind one of those detested paywalls. Although, despite this fact we still recommended it for your attention. If however, you did not trust our judgement at that time - and who can blame you - or indeed you didn't see that recommendation, we have some good news for you. It seems the New Yorker has now made the full discussion/lecture available for free.
Free Kindle Ebook: Ferdinand Praeger's "Wagner As I knew Him"
The famous (or infamous -, depending on how you look at it) Ferdinand Praeger book "Wagner As I knew Him" A book that Bayreuth - following Wagner's death - tried to ban (and caused to be withdrawn in Germany) and discredit. A book that may have lead to end of London's first Wagner Society - see here. In English translation. Available here in Kindle, Epub and web format. Simply click the version that you want.
We need your help again. This year we would like to run a readers vote of what you consider to be the best entire Ring Cycle on video - DVD or Blu-ray.
However, before you vote, the problem for us is selecting which productions to include in that the vote. Only 20 years or so ago, this would have been easy - there were simply not that many Ring cycles that had been recorded on video and then made commercially available. But things are different now and it can seem we have been swamped with productions - not a bad thing.
So, with the above in mind, we would appreciate if you would complete the form below, adding the name of three Ring cycles on DVD that you admire, in no particular order - you will have plenty of time later to select the one you think is the best. And should you only be able to think of one production, or just two then that's great also.
Again, we would appreciate your help. Please note, we will not record any details about you other than your answers. That includes IP address.
As usual, there are a number of sources to listen to this year's Bayreuth Parsifal after its broadcast. In our opinion clicking on the link below, which will launch Bartok Radio's on demand player should give the none German speaker the easiest way of doing this. You may have to forward through it a little bit for the beginning of Parsifal.
This piece basically focuses on the religion of Christianity. On one hand, the grail knights in "Parsifal" inhabit a realm of charity, empathy and sympathy, and they come to the aid of the needy. Then there's the other side: a crucified God, blood rituals and military symbolism.
I believe that Wagner wanted to bring out the factors of benevolence and mystery in this work. Not to openly criticize religion, but to enable one to experience it. That's interesting in our own times of widespread religious fundamentalism - but also in times of a Pope Francis, who has been de-emphasizing the institutional side of the Catholic Church and stressing the factors of mercy, grace and benevolence.
It's always been pertinent to ask: What are religions doing, and are they allowing themselves to be abused for ideological purposes? What do they really stand for?
If you just consider the text, "Parsifal" is difficult, yes. You need the music. It explains so much in detail, and you have to get a sense of that. Such is the case with the happy ending. Wagner knew this would be his last work. At the final uncovering of the Holy Grail, the violins soar upwards, the harmonies become clearer, and everything finally dissipates into nothingness. It's like a final breath, the utopia of a dying man, as it were - a very beautiful, holy, peaceful utopia.
"Through Wagner modernity speaks most intimately, concealing neither its good nor its evil—having forgotten all sense of shame. And conversely: one has almost completed an account of the value of what is modern once one has gained clarity about what is good and evil in Wagner.
There was a time, not that very long ago, when you might have to wait for up to ten years for tickets to Bayrueth. This was especially so for Bayreuth Ring cycles. But how times have changed for it seems that as of right now - on the festival's online ticket shop - tickets to the second Ring Cycle are still available. Sadly, all other productions are sold out. Whether this speaks much of the reception of Castorf's production or something else we would not venture to guess. To buy tickets, click the link below. Once you are at the page click "Buy Now" and you will enter a "line". When we tested it, not long ago, the wait was about 3 minutes. Once through, you will have 10 minutes to select and buy your tickets.
A little late again (Ed: Yes. Seems you have to do things yourself around here to get anything done) but please find below a list of links, dates and times where you can listen to this years performances from the Bayreuth Festival. We are trying something different this year by including a link directly to that stations page on Tunein. This should help those with no German - no matter your native language. It will also be useful for those that might use the Tunein app on their phone, Ipad, etc. We have selected Radio Románia Muzical as this seems to be offering the highest bitrate (sound quality) broadcast as of today.
Any feedback as whether this presents the reader with any issues would be gratefully received. If so, we will make adjustments accordingly. We may be able to assist on the day of transmission but would highly recommend you click a link in advance to make sure it works for you now.
Click below to be taken to the Broadcast. All times discussed are in GMT. Note: there is likely to be a long pre-broadcast talk/program to each broadcast.
To watch simply click on the link below to BR-Kassik's Website. This will take you straight to the videoplayer which is now in place, displaying a handy countdown clock slowly ticking down to the start time - so no German should be needed to navigate.
We have left this a little late to announce it - SORRY! So, you might want to get it to as many people as you can quickly. Again, sorry!
The authors discuss the bold interpretations of Wagner's works at Bayreuth over the last decade in the context of deconstructionist approaches to literature and theatre, concluding with a dramaturgical analysis of the Castorf Ring. This landmark article should prove invaluable to anyone intending to see the production, but will also make stimulating and enlightening reading for anyone interested in the staging of Wagner's works in the modern era. The article can be accessed here.
30 years ago or so, I would not have felt compelled to write as much of this as I am about to. The reason was simple: what has happened in Nice is an horrendous, cowardly act. Many, far too many (as if one person was not enough) have died, many more will be injured and hundreds, many children, will carry the psychological trauma of this event for years to come. That would have been enough. No need to say more, but to offer our thoughts, and any help and support we could provide. And indeed, part of me still feels we should leave it there. As I type this I wonder if what I say shall next is wise. Does it "lessen" what has happened?
30 years ago, I am unsure, if I would have even felt the need to remind, anyone – perhaps even myself – that events like this are not the result of an entire people, or religion. Instead they are a small group of fanatics with a shared ideology often twisted and distorted from the one they claim to represent. Fanatics of course have always been with us, possibly as long as society has existed. They have been, and remain, of many races, religions, philosophies and ideologies. They have many goals, but important among them is to generate fear , distrust and to increase their own number. When we turn against each other, against our neighbours, against the "other", when we allow our prejudices and fear to run wild we help them succeed. Alas, events over the past few years, have shown me that they are very good at this. And some countries seem more easily manipulated than others. To my eternal shame the UK is one such country. However, this not a time to grow further apart but to grow closer together. And no, this is not about events in a loosely held together political and economic alliance, even if recent and continuous strains in this alliance are a sign, but not the cause, of how insular and fearful we are becoming.
It does not matter if we are part of an economic alliance, what matters now is that we don't let "them" get what they want. We shall not let them make us afraid and paranoid, make us turn against each other, our neighbours against the "other" - those obviously different . We have only one enemy and they are not a people, a race, a religion but a twisted ideology that lies, cheats, rewards with wealth and uses fear, to expand its number. Let us not help them.
To the people of France, to the people of Nice, let them know we are with them at this time, as we are with all of those people that simply wish to live their lives, but right now, with them most of all.
to become a friend to a friend.
It was a last-minute upset, but not unusual for the Bayreuth Festival. Conductor Andris Nelsons called off his opening night performance and will be replaced by Hartmut Haenchen. Here's a history of Bayreuth drop-outs.
The 73-year-old German conductor Hartmut Haenchen was greeted by Bayreuth Festival director Katharina Wagner in a statement released Tuesday (05.07.2016), "I'm very grateful to Maestro Haenchen for declaring his readiness to take over conducting responsibilities for the new production on short notice and am looking forward to his first participation at the Bayreuth Festival."
That production is of Richard Wagner's last work, "Parsifal," written specifically for the "Festspielhaus," his self-designed festival theater, and normally requiring close knowledge of the specific performance conditions there. Haenchen will be joining a team that has been rehearsing since early June: orchestra, chorus, soloists and the stage director Uwe Eric Laufenberg. The team was traumatized when the announcement came on June 30 that star conductor Andris Nelsons had thrown in the towel.
Owing to a differing approach in various matters," Nelsons had requested a termination of contract. The choice of words was so vague that it's occupied the arts world for the past week.
Had he been miffed by unsolicited advice from the festival's music director, Christian Thielemann? Were there differences with the festival management over casting issues? Was the young maestro, described as a warm and outgoing, but also sensitive and somewhat private person, disturbed by the intense security measures recently introduced at the Festspielhaus? Or was Nelsons uncomfortable with Laufenberg's production, in which Wagner's "Parsifal" is set in the context of religions?
All possible explanations were denied, and both the festival and the conductor have adhered to their pledge to keep silent on the issue.
1999: Willy Decker: The experienced German opera director had been commissioned to direct Wagner's "Lohengrin" but backed down just months before, citing "artistic reasons." It was the first time that a designated Bayreuth stage director had stepped down. British director Keith Warner was hired in his place - and delivered a solid rendition of the opera.
2000: Hans Sotin: The famous German baritone had sung every Wagnerian role for the bass voice in Bayreuth - in every season without interruption since 1972. Then, just days before the premiere of "Parsifal," Sotin left the "Green Hill" in a huff, citing "irreconcilable differences" with conductor Christoph Eschenbach. Another baritone was found - and in the following year, another conductor.
You will have to visit the Telegraph to do so, but it will be available live from 5.30pm (UK time) Tuesday 12 July and then on demand for 7 days there after.
Nicholas Mockridge, from the artists collective known as "Like a Wild Beast's Fur," directed Black Mountain - a short, experimental film based on Parsifal - condensed onto ten minutes.
Mahler, the 9th, Abbado and Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Happy birthday.
"All Mahler symphonies look back nostalgically to the innocent past and having failed to find it, look forward (fearfully or hopefully) to some sense of resolution." In the 9th, each movement a farewell: the 1st is a farewell to tenderness, passion - human love; the 2nd and 3rd are farewells to life – first to country life, then to urban society; the finale is a farewell to life itself."


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Chowa planning interdisciplinary global research center
UNC School of Social Work Associate Professor Gina Chowa is proposing to launch a global research center. The center, known as Global Social Development Innovations (GSDI), will focus on enhancing the lives of marginalized populations around the world by creating innovative social development interventions, building knowledge, generating new evidence, and impacting policies that ensure economic justice for the poor.
The UNC Board of Trustees has approved plans for the new center and is expected to vote on its establishment this fall. The center will be housed at UNC's School of Social Work and will bring together a team of interdisciplinary scholars focused on social change in communities with limited economic, social and health resources, said Chowa, GSDI director. The center also will work with researchers and partners from across the globe to collaborate and leverage local expertise, while also offering an environment for junior scholars to learn the techniques and skills of impactful research.
"At its core, the GSDI team will focus on training the next generation of researchers and practitioners so that we're building the research capacity needed for rigorous scientific inquiry into social development practices," said Chowa, whose scholarship centers around creating holistic interventions that positively affect the root causes of poverty and health disparities around the globe.
Chowa and her team — Assistant Professors Rainier Masa, Latoya Small and David Ansong — will use GSDI's new data hub as a primary source for strengthening research and for networking with social development scholars from around the world. The data hub, which is being developed in collaboration with UNC's Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), will serve as a one-stop resource site for storing and sharing "information relevant to tackling the challenges that marginalized and disenfranchised populations living in resource-limited settings face," Chowa said. Such challenges can include a lack of access to higher education, inadequate opportunities for employment or for generating income, and barriers to financial inclusion, among other issues.
"If you think about resource-limited countries, there is limited rigorous, and impactful research that currently exists," Chowa said. "And most of what is there is observational research rather than interventional research that would begin to provide solutions to economic security issues that our target populations face. So we're excited because this really will be an innovative, first-of-its-kind center."
GSDI will focus on the following core research areas, each of which Chowa and her team members have been exploring for years: economic security, workforce development, financial inclusion, social protection, health and mental health, and education. The team also intends to collaborate with national and international partners that members have worked closely with, including the UNC Center for AIDS Research Social and Behavioral Science Research Core; the Centre for Social Development in Africa at the University of Johannesburg; the Institute for Statistical, Social and Economic Research at the University of Ghana; the Center for Studies in Rural Development, University of Pune, Ahmednegar; and the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis.
"We're not just bringing all of these people together to collect data and research for the sake of it," Chowa said. "We want to bring about social change. Our mission is to collaborate and build capacity for our partners and for scholars so that we're improving opportunities for rolling out services, based on evidence, to ultra poor people who need them."
Such a center also enables the School of Social Work to continue to build upon its work globally, said Dean Jack M. Richman, who praised Chowa's efforts in launching the venture.
"It really is a feather in the cap for the School," he said.
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CP&DR News Briefs October 9, 2018: Martins Beach; San Diego Development; L.A. Cost of Living; and More
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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Silicon Valley billionaire Vinod Khosla to keep a Martins Beach private. This is a significant victory for coastal access rights in the state and whether a property owner needs state permission to gate off the road. However, Khosla and his attorneys argue that the case is not about coastal access but rather interference of his private property rights. While the Coastal Commission is not an official party to the lawsuit, it is considering how to proceed and hopes that Khosla "will work with us to assure that the historical public access to Martin's Beach remains available for present and future generations." The State has created an account to gather donations to appraise, acquire, and maintain public access way at the beach. The State Lands Commission has suggested a public route with hours of operation, trash bins, and portable toilets.
Controversial Housing Project Approved in N. San Diego County
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved the 2,135-home Newland Sierra development along I-15 in North County. The approval came one day after a Superior Court judge refused to halt the vote due to a lawsuit of the Sierra Club and Golden Door spa. The two groups argued the way the developer was proposing to mitigate the project's greenhouse gas emissions was likely to be ruled illegal later this year. Opponents of the project say a lawsuit challenging the decision will be filed within weeks. Opponents are also collecting signatures for a referendum in March 2020 that would ask voters to overturn the approval. The hearing also had many pro-speakers stressing the need for more housing in the County. The project calls for 1,140 single-family homes, 995 multi-family units, 81,000 square-feet of office and retail space, including a grocery store, 1,209 acres of open space, and a six-acre school site.
Report: Los Angeles Employers Grapple with High Housing Costs
The Los Angeles Business Council Institute released a report, "The Affordable Housing Crisis in Los Angeles: Impacts to LA's Fastest Growing Industries" prepared by USC's Dr. Gary Painter. Since the Great Recession, the employment rate has been cut down to 5.4 percent in 2017. The report found the three business segments with the fastest growing job growth are healthcare and social services; accommodation and food services; and professional, scientific, and technical services. The research team surveyed 18 employers in the three industries to explore how they were responding to the region's high cost of living and lack of affordable housing near job centers, and how these trends impact employees. Key findings were the Professional, Scientific, and Technical services industry were more likely to reflect the high cost of living in their hiring packages while the other two industries agreed it adversely affected employees and employers in the area. The majority of employers surveyed had not taken any steps to directly assist employees with housing, and the lowest wage workers received the least housing related assistance. Some recommendations from the report include employers offering housing related assistance, organizing business leaders to support and advocate for housing at all income levels, and building bridges between private, nonprofit, and public entities to create more affordable housing.
City of Orange's 'The Plaza' Named to APA 'Great Places in America' List
The American Planning Association released its Great Places in America, which "recognizes the neighborhoods, streets, and public spaces that make communities stronger and bring people together through good planning." One of the 2018 Great Public Spaces winner was The Plaza in Orange, California. This area has preserved residential and commercial buildings that contribute to local character and charm; the Plaza and historic core are at the heart of a highly intact sidewalk network that connects the surrounding neighborhoods and Chapman University; the Orange Transportation Center is a three-block walk from the Plaza; and, community holiday celebrations, food festivals, and parades attract visitors.
Quick Hits & Updates
The City Manager of Lafayette, Steven Falk, announced his resignation after three decades because of differing views with residents over housing. In his resignation letter Falk wrote, "All cities — even small ones — have a responsibility to address the most significant challenges of our time: climate change, income inequality, and housing affordability. I believe that adding multifamily housing at the BART station is the best way for Lafayette to do its part, and it has therefore become increasingly difficult for me to support, advocate for, or implement policies that would thwart transit density." In recent years, Lafayette has failed to meet about a third of its RHNA housing goals.
San Diego officials have created a 25-member working group and hire Keyser Marston Associates to analyze inclusionary housing legislation in the city to determine how aggressive the potential legislation can be without scaring of housing developers. The new law would require developers building apartment complexes to include units reserved for low-income residents. Supporters say the legislation could play a key role in solving the city's housing crisis while critics warn that it could choke off housing construction by slashing the profit margins of developers.
UCLA's Luskin Center released a paper titled, "People are Simply Unable to Pay the Rent: What History Tells Us About Rent Control in Los Angeles." The report evaluates two previous moments in history when the city experienced a severe shortage of affordable housing stock: the early 1940s and late 1970s. The paper reviews the history and proposes a range of solutions such as extending the city's rent stabilization law, modifying the "vacancy decontrol" provision, and extending just-cause eviction protection to all renters.
UCLA Transportation's Bruin Commuter Transit Benefit program earned the Commuting Options in Public Transit award at the Association for Commuter Transportation's 2018 International Conference. The international group received more than 80 nominations in 15 categories, which recognizes and honors outstanding achievements in transportation demand management. The UCLA program provides eligible employees and students new to public transportation with free transit pass that covers unlimited rides on Metro, Santa Monica Big Blue Bus, and Culver CityBus. Almost 1,600 commuters opted out of a parking permit to take advantage of the program since its launch last summer.


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A: Use distriqt's Dialog instead >:)
https://airnativeextensions.com/extension/com.distriqt.Dialog

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Facebook To Buy WhatsApp Message Service
By Laura Sydell
Published February 20, 2014 at 4:00 AM CST
It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep.
I'm Renee Montagne. And Steve, a lot of people this morning might be asking what's up with that? Facebook is paying $19 billion for a messaging service called Whats-app. This dwarfs the one billion Facebook paid for the photo sharing app Instagram and it may be signaling an arms race among tech companies for mobile technology. NPR's Laura Sydell joins us now to explain why Facebook is paying so much for what is basically an app. Good morning.
LAURA SYDELL, BYLINE: Good morning.
MONTAGNE: Well, what exactly is it, Whats-app?
SYDELL: Right. Whats-app. So as the name suggests, it's an app, now worth $19 billion. You can download it to your mobile phone for free and it taps into your phone book and lets you easily text message with your friends on the app. And by doing this you can avoid facing data cap plans for your cell phone, from your cell phone company, or international charges if you're texting with somebody who's outside the country.
MONTAGNE: Is it worth it, $19 billion?
SYDELL: Ah. Well, Facebook obviously thinks so. The app is not that well known in the U.S. but it is growing very fast in Europe, India and Latin America - currently it has 450 million users. That's twice as many users as Twitter and it's growing by more than one million new accounts a day. Now, in a conference call, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted that it is the only app that has grown faster than Facebook ever did.
And key to that growth is the coveted youth demographic which has been losing interest in Facebook, so this is a way to get them back. And Whats-app has a lot of people outside of the U.S. - in Europe, India and Latin America - and Facebook needs to grow there because its growth is slowing in the United States.
Facebook is also putting a big push into the world of mobile and this app acquisition is part of its effort to improve its mobile services.
MONTAGNE: Well, a lot of people, though, Laura, do seem to think Facebook is paying way too much.
SYDELL: Yeah. I actually had an analyst wonder what kind of drugs they were taking at Facebook. But anyway, Facebook is basically paying about 10 percent of its value for this company. And among the reasons people question the price is that it's basically an instant messaging app and people don't have to invest a lot of time signing up for an instant messaging app like you do when you sign up for Facebook and you put in information and pictures.
So it's just as easy to sign up as it is to drop it. Facebook also uses an advertising model and the founders of Whats-app have really stayed away from that model. In fact, the co-founder is a Ukrainian immigrant named Jan Koum who, fled anti-Semitism and anti-authoritarian government in the Ukraine with his mom when he was 16.
He came from a small town and he actually has a distaste for advertising. So Whats-app has a $1 a year subscription model and there could be some cultural disconnect between the two companies down the line.
MONTAGNE: So is Facebook likely to change Whats-app?
SYDELL: Well, for now Facebook says it's not going to change anything. The emphasis here is on growth, not revenue, getting more and more people to sign up. So users aren't likely to notice a shift at this time.
MONTAGNE: And Laura, finally, do you think this is - this price tag does suggest an arms race in the tech world?
SYDELL: Well, sort of an arms race. What we don't know for sure is whether other companies were bidding on Whats-app, but I think we can guess that they probably were. So there was a bidding war going on. And one of the things that you see happening is there are a lot of startups in the tech world right now and companies like Facebook and Google want world domination, essentially.
So it bids up the price, if they see something that's really vibrant. And as for whether or not this is a good or bad purchase, remember when Google purchased YouTube for $1.6 billion, everybody thought they'd overpaid because YouTube wasn't making any money. But look what's happened. YouTube is wildly profitable. So someday we may say that Mark Zuckerberg was a visionary by buying Whats-app.
MONTAGNE: Laura, thanks very much.
SYDELL: You're welcome.
MONTAGNE: NPR's Laura Sydell. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Sales and profits down at BT
Submitted by Antony Savvas on November 4, 2021
BT has reported both a drop in sales and profits for the half-year to September 30. There was a 30% annual jump in capital expenditure costs as the telco strived to invest in new products and services.
Revenue fell 3% compared to the same period last year to £10.305 billion, driven by poor performances in both the Enterprise and Global services units, down 5% and 14%, respectively.
While adjusted EBITDA was up 1% to £3.748 billion, profit before tax fell 5% to £1.009 billion.
Capital expenditure jumped to £2.563 billion, with a big chunk of that going on acquiring wireless spectrum to deliver new 5G services. Net profits fell 50% to £431m due to these increasing CapEx costs.
"We have hit our [previously announced] £1 billion cost savings target 18 months early, which allows us to bring forward our FY25 target for £2 billion of savings to FY24," said Philip Jansen, BT chief executive. "This is all part of creating a leaner BT with simplified processes and improved customer experiences."
He said the Openreach unit had now rolled out faster full-fibre broadband to almost 6m premises across the UK. He added that the company's 5G network now covers "over 40%" of the UK population, and that it had "over 5.2m 5G-ready customers".
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Some children absent themselves for a short period and then return. Often their whereabouts are known. They are not considered at risk and usually they are testing boundaries. Sometimes children stay out longer than agreed either on purpose or unwittingly. This kind of boundary testing activity is well within the range of normal teenage behaviour. It should not come within the definition of 'missing'.
Children who go missing from Children's Services care can place themselves and others at risk. The reasons for their absence may be varied and complex and cannot be viewed in isolation from their home circumstances and their experiences of care. Every 'missing' episode should be given the proper attention from the professionals involved with the child. Professionals must work together to ensure a consistent response is given to the child on their return.
The Police are frequent partners of Children's Services in managing 'missing' episodes. It is important that staff in both agencies work together. The following protocol should assist in this. It combines aspects of Children's Services and Police procedures in relation to missing persons. Where they overlap or interface, respective actions and responsibilities should be clear.
In responding to and managing a child's absence from care, Social Care and Health and Police staff should not dismiss the potential significance of multiple abscondings by a young offender. Young people are often immediately labelled as 'the problem'. Insufficient consideration is sometimes given to considering why they are persistently absenting themselves.


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The U.S. district courts represent the basic point of input for the federal judicial system. Although some cases are later taken to a court of appeals or perhaps even to the Supreme Court, most federal cases never move beyond the U.S. trial courts. In terms of sheer numbers of cases handled, the district courts are the workhorses of the federal judiciary. However, their importance extends beyond simply disposing of a large number of cases.
The District Courts as Trial Courts:
Congress established the district courts as the trial courts of the federal judicial system and gave them original jurisdiction over virtually all cases. They are the only federal courts in which attorneys examine and cross-examine witnesses. The factual record is thus established at this level. Subsequent appeals of the trial court decision focus on correcting errors rather than on reconstructing the facts.
The task of determining the facts in a case often falls to a jury, a group of citizens from the community who serve as impartial arbiters of the facts and apply the law to the facts. The Constitution guarantees the right to a jury trial in criminal cases in the Sixth Amendment and the same right in civil cases in the Seventh Amendment. The right can be waived, however, in which case the judge becomes the arbiter both of questions of fact and of matters of law. Such trials are referred to as bench trials.
Two types of juries are associated with federal district courts. The grand jury is a group of men and women convened to determine whether there is probable cause to believe that a person has committed the federal crime of which he or she has been accused. Grand jurors meet periodically to hear charges brought by the U.S. attorney. Petit jurors are chosen at random from the community to hear evidence and determine whether a defendant in a civil trial has liability or whether a defendant in a criminal trial is guilty or not guilty. Federal rules call for 12 jurors in criminal cases but permit fewer in civil cases. The federal district courts generally use six-person juries in civil cases.
Trial courts are viewed as engaging primarily in norm enforcement, whereas appellate courts are seen as having greater opportunity to make policy. Norm enforcement is closely tied to the administration of justice, because all nations develop standards considered essential to a just and orderly society. Societal norms are embodied in statutes, administrative regulations, prior court decisions, and community traditions. Criminal statutes, for example, incorporate concepts of acceptable and unacceptable behavior into law. A judge deciding a case concerning an alleged violation of that law is practicing norm enforcement. Because cases of this type rarely allow the judge to escape the strict restraints of legal and procedural requirements, he or she has little chance to make new law or develop new policy. In civil cases, too, judges are often confined to norm enforcement, because such litigation generally arises from a private dispute whose outcome is of interest only to the parties in the suit.
The district courts also play a policy-making role, however. As Americans have become more litigation-conscious, disputes that were once resolved informally are now more likely to be decided in a court of law. The courts find themselves increasingly involved in domains once considered private. What does this mean for the federal district courts? According to one study, "These new areas of judicial involvement tend to be relatively free of clear, precise appellate court and legislative guidelines; and as a consequence the opportunity for trial court jurists to write on a clean slate, that is, to make policy, is formidable."
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The First District Courts:
Congress made the decision to create a national network of federal trial courts when it passed the Judiciary Act of 1789. Section 2 of the act established 13 district courts by making each of the 11 states then in the Union a district, and by making the parts of Massachusetts and Virginia that were to become Maine and Kentucky into separate districts. That organizational scheme established the practice, which still exists, of honoring state boundary lines in drawing districts.
The First District Judges:
Each federal district court was to be presided over by a single judge who resided in the district. As soon as this became known, President Washington began receiving letters from individuals desiring appointment to the various judgeships. Many asked members of Congress or Vice President John Adams to recommend them to President Washington. Personal applications were not necessarily successful and were not the only way in which names came to the president's attention. Harry Innes, for example, was not an applicant for the Kentucky judgeship but received it after being recommended by a member of Congress from his state.
As new states came into the Union, additional district courts were created. The additions, along with resignations, gave Washington an opportunity to offer judgeships to 33 people. All of the judges he appointed were members of the bar, and all but seven had state or local legal experience as judges, prosecutors, or attorneys general. Presidents have continued to appoint lawyers with public service backgrounds to the federal bench.
Present Organization of the District Courts:
As the country grew, new district courts were created. Eventually, Congress began to divide some states into more than one district. California, New York, and Texas have the most, with four each. Other than consistently honoring state lines, the organization of district constituencies appears to follow no rational plan. Size and population vary widely from district to district. Over the years, a court was added for the District of Columbia, and several territories have been served by district courts. There are now U.S. district courts serving the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
The original district courts were each assigned one judge. With the growth in population and litigation, Congress has periodically had to add judges to most of the districts. The Federal Judgeship Act of 1990 created 74 new district judgeships, bringing the current total to 649. Today all districts have more than one judge; the Southern District of New York, which includes Manhattan and the Bronx, currently has 28 judges and is thus the largest. Because each federal district court is normally presided over by a single judge, several trials may be in session within the district at any given time.
Also see History of the Federal District Courts
[1]: IIP Digital website: "History and Organization of the Federal Judicial System" (retrieved 2015): http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/publication/2008/05/20080522212957eaifas0.9853327.html#axzz47w7Cx0Fp
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By Blake Paterson July 19, 2017 Updated: July 19, 2017 7:42 p.m.
1of2A Fort Bend County surveillance camera captured this image of a woman unloading boxes at an illegal dump site on July 20, 2011.
With surveillance cameras in place at 25 sites across the city, Harris County Precinct 1 Constable Alan Rosen had a message at a press conference for anyone thinking about illegally dumping trash.
"We're watching you," Rosen said in August 2016. "Don't mess with the city anymore, or you'll go to jail."
Evidence gathered from the cameras since has led authorities to 617 instances of illegal activity, 349 of which have led to criminal charges since January 2016, according to data from Rosen's office.
On Wednesday, City Council voted to bolster the program, approving $100,000 to install 14 more surveillance cameras in south and northwest Houston.
Illegal dumping - an environmental crime that ranges from misdemeanor to felony, depending on the weight of the material dumped - predominantly affects Houston's low income, minority communities, which often lack security and trash pick-up resources.
The cameras, funded partially by the city and managed by the environmental crimes unit at Rosen's office, are strategically placed near dumping "hot spots," capturing the license plates of people unloading tires, old furniture, construction debris and other garbage.
"Illegal dumping destroys the quality of life in neighborhoods. Who wants to live around all that debris?" Rosen said. "We've had a lot of success with these cameras so far."
The city initially provided $250,000 for a set of cameras in 2015, but the county since has expanded the program independently, bringing the total number of cameras currently deployed to around 75, according to Rosen.
"Dumping is an injustice, a disservice, to my constituents," said District B Councilman Jerry Davis, whose district, alongside District D, will be the focus of the new cameras. "It's aesthetically unpleasing, and depreciates the value of the homes in these neighborhoods."
The dumping sites can also pose health hazards, fostering rodents and mosquitoes, city officials say.
Last fall, the city health department cleared more than 35,000 illegally dumped tires to eliminate potential breeding grounds of mosquitoes that could carry the Zika virus.
The piles of trash also affect neighborhood infrastructure, clogging up ditches and contributing to flooding.
"Dumping ruins communities and damages infrastructure," District D Councilman Dwight Boykins said. "The garbage runs down the city's drains and blocks the flow of water in residential neighborhoods."
Robert Bullard, a professor at Texas Southern University sometimes referred to as the "father" of the national environmental justice movement, said that the disproportionately large number of landfills in Houston's poorer, black communities has led to larger amounts of illegal dumping in those areas.
"Certain areas being are perceived as compatible with illegal dumping," Bullard said. "The pattern of areas has persisted for at least the past 30 years."
Community members in District B already have organized a "hot team" to quickly identify and clean-up trash piles so others are not encouraged to dump. Davis hopes the cameras will assist those communities members in breaking this cycle of trash dumping.
"Do you really want kids walking around thinking that its OK to live in a slum, around trash?" Davis said.
The cameras, Rosen noted, have recorded more than just dumping.
The 24-hour dispatch center monitoring camera footage helped to identify a stolen car and ATM machine, as well as captured a murder and an instance of child abuse, Rosen said.


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