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Coronavirus: Will resorts and casinos like Sun City become permanently 'lost' destinations?
by Stephen Hickmore | Jun 17, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
Fin24 – The image of a lost city nestled in the Pilanesberg mountains has been used over the years to conjure up an attractive marketing image of the Palace of the Lost City at Sun City.
Now the devastating impact of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic on the tourism and gaming industry since the national lockdown started at the end of March, raises the question whether resorts and casinos like Sun City, might end up really just becoming "lost" destinations.
The strain the industry has been under – even before the unexpected sudden arrival of the coronavirus pandemic – is reflected in the share prices of South Africa's big listed leisure companies Sun International (owner of Sun City) and Tsogo Sun (split into Tsogo Sun Hotels and Tsogo Sun Gaming). Tsogo's share price declined 82% over the past five years and that of Sun International by 86% over the same period.
"Sun International has R13 billion in debt and a market capitalisation at present of R1.6 billion. Of that debt, about R8.8 billion is local and the balance offshore…Aggressive expansion and the cost of Times Square in Pretoria and now the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown and restrictions to trading has severely impacted the hotels, hospitality and gaming sector," Anthony Clark, an independent analyst at Small Talk Daily Research, commented on Monday.
Sun International announced a R1.2 billion rights issue last Friday. For Clark that seems like a drop in the bucket compared to the current operational debt pile. He wonders why Sun International did not raise more, "though such an exercise would have been highly dilutive to shareholders and crushed the share price even further".
Tsogo Sun has debt of R11.2 billion and a market value of R3.9 billion. In recent results Tsogo saw a drop in profit year-on-year from R1.6 billion to R277 million. Clark points out that a prospects statement for Tsogo stated that the Covid-19 lockdown to date had cost the business R2 billion in lost revenues.
"This is revenue and profit it is unlikely ever to see recovered in the current weak South African consumer economy. With extended weakness already existent in the South African economy even before Covid-19, the wealth destruction seen from the lockdown and the hazard created to the economy from resultant employment loss and business closure, means that an already embattled consumer is unlikely to want to spend money on gaming to the same extend as 2019," says Clark.
Consumer need to remain?
Sun International CEO Anthony Leeming said on Monday that, before the Covid-19 pandemic hit, they really felt like they were turning a corner at Sun City, despite having had a weak 2019 and SA's weak economy. Before the pandemic hit, we actually thought things were looking positive in the difficult environment.
"Even before the pandemic and lockdown we had started looking at a potential restructure of Sun City and the closure of Naledi (in the Free State) and Carousel (in North West). Yes, the pandemic will have a short-term impact on Sun City and Sun International. We might have to cut up to about 1 200 jobs at Sun City and another 600 hundred jobs at our other resorts and hotels. Even before the pandemic there was an element of over-staffing at Sun City anyway," he said.
However, in his view, Sun City is still a viable entity, although he foresees it will be tough for the next year.
Sun International is looking at reducing costs while improving service by working more efficiently and also using technology.
"We are not mothballing Sun City but rather using this time for care and maintenance…we are working to improve our guest offering and service," said Leeming.
"At some point people are going to want to get away again – even if it is only in about 6 to 8 months' time – and Sun City is well positioned to fulfil that need again. And here will be world standard hygiene protocols in place."
As for Sun International itself, to survive the lockdown, salaries had to be cut and costs managed. Yet, Leeming is hopeful that restaurants and casinos might be allowed to reopen again – even as soon as July hopefully. He remains cautiously optimistic.
Regarding the rights issue announced on Friday, he said it is purely about a liquidity issue and not about the business not being able to recover. He foresees – as he says likely at Tsogo Sun as well – a period of low capital spending.
View on the future
Tshifhiwa Tshivhengwa, CEO of the Tourism Business Council of SA (TBCSA), which represents private sector businesses in the industry, believes big resorts like Sun City could have an even brighter future post Covid-19, because of the inclusive, comprehensive value for money offering they can make.
As for visitor confidence, he emphasised that the industry has comprehensive hygiene protocols in place at every level of the tourism value chain.
"No doubt consumers are under pressure, but there is a core group of people who like to travel and would take a break and will still be able to do so. That is why offering value for money and stimulating demand is key," he says.
Lee-Anne Bac, a director at the specialist tourism unit of international consulting firm BDO, agrees that there is a future for resorts and casinos like Sun City.
"In reality hygiene protocols are all manageable at resorts and casinos. I can see that Sun City still provides that resort experience people will be looking for. The need to travel is still going to be there and the need to get out – and especially if it might not be that easy for South Africans to go overseas anymore," she says.
"Even international travellers will come back, though it might just take a while for borders to be re-opened and travel confidence to increase."
* Tsogo Sun prefers not to comment at this stage.
Stephen Hickmore
Stephen is a hospitality professional from Johannesburg South Africa. His career started with THF hotels in the UK and subsequently with the Southern Sun Hotel group in Johannesburg. Hickmore Recruitment / CareerMap, is a leading supplier of Senior and Exec recruitment services for the hospitality industry in Southern Africa. Stephen recently added career change services, headlining as CareerMap, to assist job applicants. Stephen is a founder and business developer of Pple Hospitality (formerly HSC) the largest Hospitality Industry full-service outsourced staffing company in South Africa. In March 2020 Stephen became a director and part-owner of the Swiss Hotel School South Africa. Stephen writes for a number of publications on food and hospitality industry matters, trends and opinions.


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This Issue Back Issues Editorial Board Contact Information
BOOKS BOOKS and CDs Received
Volume XXV, No. 1
Gesta principum Polonorum: The Deeds of the Princes of the Poles, by an anonymous 12th century author. Translated by Paul W. Knoll and Frank Schaer. Central European Medieval Texts, vol. 3. Budapest-New York: Central European University Press (ceupress@ceu.hu), 2003. Bibliography, list of figures, map, and genealogical table. Indexes of proper names, geographical names, and names of peoples. lxv + 318 pages. ISBN 963 9241 40 7. Hardcover. $44.95 on Barnes & Noble (www.barnesand noble). Bilingual in Latin and English.
A laudatory comment on this English translation of the first Polish chronicle is in order. This volume is obviously a foundational one, so far as the history of Poland in English is concerned. The idea that Poland is a "new nation" that erroneously emerged out of the ill-conceived Treaty of Versailles is by no means rare among American historians. In due time, translations like this one should make a difference.
Historia Polski, 1795-1918, by Andrzej Chwalba. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2001. 671 pages. Buibliography, indices of persons, geographical names, and subjects. Tables, illustrations, photographs. Paper. Zl 65.00 (including postage) at www.merlin.com. In Polish.
Finally, a history of Poland that is not merely a history of war and diplomacy. This history concentrates on demography, GDP, transportation, living conditions in the homes in both cities and the countryside. The book brims with crucial figures and statistical data, and it paints a realistic picture of Polish society in the nineteenth century. It shows the connection between standards of hygiene and quality of housing on the one hand, and the success or failure in defending Poland's national interests. It is fascinating to read, and we cannot recommend it highly enough. It is easily available at the Merlin Bookstore. Among the dozen or so books we have ordered from that mail-order Polish bookstore, all came on time and in perfect condition.
Faunt-le-Roy i jego eskadra w Polsce: Dzieje eskadry Kościuszki, by C. Meriam Cooper. Chicago, IL: Faunt-leRoy, Harrison & Co., 1922. vii + 287 pages. Copyright (and translation into Polish?) by Joseph Wedda. Appended: Ignacy Jan Paderewski's telegraph to Col. Faunt-le-Roy. Numerous photographs. In Polish.
This rare book was authored by C. Meriam Cooper, the American who created the Polish Air Force and used it to stop Marshal Semyon Budyonny's konarmia from joining Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky in the attack on Warsaw in 1920. Cooper is best known by Americans for his production of the movie King Kong plus most of the John Ford/John Wayne western classics. More important was his key work in the relief of Lwów/Lviv in 1919 and his defense of that city in the summer of 1920.
Interestingly, Cooper's great-great grandfather had carried the dying Casimir Pulaski off the field of Savannah and had given to his descendants the charge to help return the debt of honor America owed to the Poles. Needless to say, the book gives an entirely different picture of the Polish-Bolshevik war than one known through Isaac Babel's Konarmia. (jrt)
The Labyrinth of Dangerous Hours: A Memoir of the Second World War, by Lilka Trzcinska-Croydon. Foreword by Norman Davies. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8020-3958-8. xviii + 152 pages. Numerous photographs. Hardcover. $40.00.
The author is an Auschwitz survivor. Before Auschwitz, she was involved in the Polish Resistance. Among the remarkable features of this book are the photographs (of excellent quality) of the three heroes of Aleksander Kamiński's classic Kamienie na szaniec: Zośka (Tadeusz Zawadzki), Alek (Alek Dawidowski), and Rudy (Janek Bytnar). All three perished fighting the Nazis; Bytnar died after horrible tortures by the German Gestapo. He did not betray his coconspirators. Zawadzki was a born leader: his pseudonym was eventually assumed by a Home Army Battalion. Zośka, Rudy, and Alek were buried at the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw. Their graves remain carefully tended, and they are among the most admired heroes of the Second World War. While Trzcinska-Croydon mainly tells her own story, she came from the same Polish circles that produced so many irreplaceable figures of the Polish Home Army. (sb)
Słowo i obraz: Na pograniczu literatury i sztuk plastycznych, by Janusz Pelc. Kraków: Universitas (al. 3 Maja 7, 30-063 Kraków, Poland), 2002. 413 pages. Hardcover. In Polish.
The title of the book in English is Word and Image, and its concerns embrace literature and the fine arts. It focuses on the concept of the emblem. It presents Polish poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries against the background of the European sacred and secular culture. The author discusses the Renaissance and Baroque Polish writers from Mikołaj Rej to Zbigniew Morsztyn, as those who continued in their works the tradition of ancient Greece and Rome as well as medieval Christianity. There is also a discussion of the works of the Renaissance Latin poets Mikołaj of Hussów and Andrzej Krzycki. The development of the Polish use of the emblem in the Renaissance and the Baroque period is presented in the context of iconology, painting, sculpture, the occasional verse of the times, and old Polish religious culture. The author emphasizes the connections between the Polish use of the emblem in the seventeenth century and that of such Dutch authors as Pieter Hooft, Otto Vaenius, and Jakob Cats. A particularly valuable feature of this book is the multifaceted interpretation of poetry at the height of the Baroque period including the use of the emblem by Maksymilian Fredro (Peristromata), Zbigniew Morsztyn (Emblemata), and Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski (Adverbia moralia). Pelc recalls the chief themes of these collections of verse: the praise of virtue and reason, the dialogue between man and God, the maturing of the individual towards goodness and truth, focusing on the images of Divine Love (Amor Divinus) and Profane Love (Amor Profanus). The book presents emblematic forms found in sermons, architecture, and gardens, and it demonstrates in various ways the connection between poetry and the fine arts.
The use of the emblem reflected the intellectual and aesthetic needs of the seventeenth century, the love of puzzles and symbolic representations of states and occurrences. Pelc leads the reader into the world of early Polish culture, in which a combination of word and image occupies a privileged place. The work is enriched by numerous illustrations from the early books of verse reflecting the rich imagination of the Renaissance and the Baroque in the presentation of both secular and spiritual matters, the laws of the macrocosm, and the encounter of man with the sacred. Janusz Pelc's monograph shows the spread of the emblem in European culture and highlights the part played by Polish authors in the development of early European literature. The volume is well written, and the author's meticulous selection of source materials and penetrating interpretations deserve much praise. (Danuta Künstler-Langner)
Jewish Poland-Legends of Origin: Ethnopoetics and Legendary Chronicles (Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology), by Hayah Bar-Yitshak. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0814327893. 195 pages. Hardcover. $34.95.
An interesting attempt to gather together various versions of Polish Jewish history in Jewish folklore. Partly based on the writings of Bernard Weinryb. Not entirely successful as a scholarly book, it is nevertheless interesting as a self-reflection of Jewish writers.
Serbołużyczanie: kultura i historia, edited by Leszek Kuberski and Piotr Palys. Brzeg: Opolski Oddział Towarzystwa Polsko-Serbołużyckiego, 2000. ISBN 83-906224-2-4. 40 pages. Paper. In Polish.
Pro Lusatia, edited by Leszek Kuberski. Opolskie Studia Łużycoznawcze, vol. 1. Opole: Opolski Oddział Towarzystwa Polsko-Serbołużyckiego, 2002. ISSN 1643-1391. 122 pages. Paper. In Polish.
Some of the most beautiful and inspiring manifestations of polskość, or Polishness, relate for this reader to generous Polish expressions of sympathy for other Slavs, a cultural and political feature not often associated with the Poles or the Polish stereotype. The two volumes under review have appeared through the efforts of an organization of enthusiastic Polish scholars founded in Opole in 1999 to promote the languages, history, and culture of the Sorbs (often referred to in America as Wends). Inhabiting the southeastern corner of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Sorbs are sometimes referred to as the "Last Mohicans" of Slavdom, and they represent the smallest Slavic nation.
The first volume contains five papers in Polish and Upper Sorbian from a conference on the Sorbs held in 1998 in Brzeg, Poland. Ewa Siatkowska in "Geneza jezyków łużyckich w świetle danych historycznych i lingwistycznych" offers a concise summary of the diverse views of linguists on the origin of Upper and Lower Sorbian, which represent two autonomous literary traditions and groups of dialects. Siatkowska also briefly comments on the linguistic ties linking modern Serbian and both varieties of Sorbian. Krzysztof Mazurski in "Ewangeliccy łużyczanie wobec współczesnych wyzwań" examines the history and current situation of Lutheran Sorbs who represent a majority among the speakers of Lower Sorbian (while speakers of Upper Sorbian are, for the most part, Roman Catholic). Leszek Kuberski in "Próby utworzenia państwa łużyckiego w latach 1918-19" looks at an interesting moment in the history of Czecho-Slovak Panslavism, when Thomas Masaryk and other Czecho-Slovaks advocated the territory of the Sorbs be detached from Germany. Unfortunately for Slavs, that plan was never implemented. The fate of the Sorbs under Communism, when the officially sanctioned Sorbian cultural institutions benefited from substantial government support, is examined by Edmund Pjech in "Politiske a socialne wuwiče lužiskich Serbow 1945-1989." Some aspects of post-war Polish interest in the Sorbs are analyzed by Piotr Pałys in "Tematyka łużycka na łamach katowickiej 'Odry' w latach 1945-1949."
The second volume contains nine articles in Polish. Dietrich Scholze-Šolta in "Serbołużyczanie-najmniejszy naród słowiański" offers a detailed overview of the factors influencing contemporary Sorbian identity. While pressures working towards assimilation with the German majority produce a steady decline in the size of the Sorbian population, several factors contribute towards the preservation of Sorbian identity, e.g. language and religious traditions (either Catholic or Lutheran). Though the fall of Communism has meant, to a great degree, the loss of government support for those academic institutions that support the Sorbian language and culture, since 1988 the broadcast hours of local Sorbian-language radio programs have actually increased, and since 1992 there is greater German television coverage devoted to the Sorbs. Scholze-Šolta points out that many older Sorbs today are illiterate as the result of Nazi policies that had prohibited the functioning of the Sorbian schools and cultural organizations. The number of speakers of Upper Sorbian today is estimated at thirty to forty thousand, and that of Lower Sorbian at ten to twenty thousand. "Sytuacja Łużyczan w Republice Federalnej Niemiec" by Leszek Kuberski offers an analysis of the state of affairs among Sorbs in contemporary Germany. A series of articles on Sorbian cultural and political activists is presented by Mieczysław Bałowski in "Michal Hórnik w artykułach wspomnieniowych," in Leszek Kuberski's "Jan Skała-dziennikarz i redaktor," by Zbigniew Kolciów in "Michał Nawka i Jan Skała," in Annett Brzanec's "Polsko-łużyckie kontakty w działalności przewodniczącego 'Domowiny' Pawła Nędy (1934-1950)," and by Piotr Pałys in "Działalności Wojciecha Kólki w serbołużyckim ruchu narodowym w latach 1945-1950." Jakub Brodacki in "Styl propagandy 'Prołuzu' w latach 1945-1949" examines postwar Polish sympathies toward the Sorbs, especially in the region of Wielkopolska. Krzysztof Stecki in "Łużyce 1945. Najmniej znana z polskich bitew?" looks at one of the final battles of the Second World War and its implications for Polish military history.
Scholarship on the Sorbs is scarce, and the materials presented in both volumes represent a valuable resource on one of Europe's smallest nations. Particularly interesting is the information on the political and cultural situation of the Sorbs since 1989. The editors cite sources in Upper and Lower Sorbian, Polish, Czech, Russian, and German. It is regrettable, however, that no English summaries are provided. This reader looks forward to future publications from Opolski Oddział Towarzystwa Polsko-Serbołużyckiego. Finally, though the Sorbian cultural institutions since 1989 have been crippled by the loss of government funding, each summer Serbski Institut in Budyšin/Bautzen sponsors the International Summer School in Sorbian Language and Culture. Information on the activities of that organization can be found at www.serbski-institut.de. (Kevin Hannan)
Cassubia Slavica. Internationales Jahrbuch für Kaschubische Studien. Hamburg, Germany: Aschenbeck & Isensee Universitätsverlag, 2003. 150 pages. Paper. Euro 24.00.
The first volume Cassubia Slavica is divided into two parts: one containing scholarly articles in linguistics, sociological, and literary studies; and one dedicated to reviews. This new journal accepts articles in Kashubian, Polish, German, Russian, and English.
A paper by Jörn Achtenberg and Marlena Porebska,"Research into the Vitality of Kashubian Language: An Empirical Study in Głodnica," deals with the chances of survival of the Kashubian language. The authors' research concentrates on demographics (birth, mortality, and migrations rates) and the existing institutional support (the role of school and church). The researchers confirmed their initial hypothesis that the vitality of the Kashubian language in the village of Glodnica is high. It is still a primary means of communication. Due to the introduction of bilingual education and of the language's usage in church for prayer, Kashubian has been revitalized. Another paper by Iwona Joc looks at the Kashubians' attachment to their region, and poses the question of why children should study Kashubian. She considers the language to be a part of Kashubian identity, and points to the role of teachers and schools in revitalizing the language. Jowita Kęcińska emphasizes the importance of regional cultures in the study of literature. In the modern world the existence of smaller cultures has been endangered. Their disappearance would be a loss for Europe whose vitality is rooted in cultural diversity.
Peter Oliver Loew presents fragments of Otto von Bismarck's letters to his sister. In his time, Poland was under hostile partitions, and Bismarck was anxious to Germanize the originally Slavic Pomerania. He traveled through that region many times, even purchasing a piece of property there. During his travels Bismark came into contact with the Kashubians who, despite the politics of Germanization, retained their own language and identity. Aside from Bismarck's negative remarks, his letters testify to the Kashubian identity that is neither German nor Polish. Lastly, Ferdinard Neureiter, an Austrian scholar, describes his "Path to Kashubians." He is the author of a History of Kashubian Literature (Gdańsk, 1982), and has been honored for his studies in Kashubian culture by the Polish authorities. The volume also presents Zbigniew Zielonka's introduction to Józef Borzyszkowski's work on Aleksander Majkowski: Biografia historyczna. Majkowski (1876-1938) was the author of the first Kashubian novel, Remus' Life and Adventures.
In the reviews section, Wojciech Osiński writes about Pawel Huelle's novel Mercedes-Benz, Wiktor Peplinski's study of Kashubian periodicals titled Czasopiśmiennictwo kaszubskie w latach zaboru pruskiego, and a collective publication dedicated to Boleslaw Fac, a recently-deceased translator and author (Boleslaw Fac. Dichter und Vermittler deutsch-polnischer Kultura, by Wolfgang Schlott, Inge Buck, and Konstanze Radziwill). Another review by Aleksander D. Duličenko takes on Język kaszubski: Poradnik encyklopedyczny (Encyclopedia of Kashubian Language) edited by Jerzy Treder.
Cassubia Slavica closes with excerpts from the 2002 Polish population census. According to this census, 5,100 persons in Poland consider themselves Kashubian, while 52,700 occasionally use the Kashubian language at home. Virtually all of them are inhabitants of Pomerania. It should also be added that the Kashubians have never wanted to separate themselves from Poland. They possess a double identity, Polish and Kashubian. This is best expressed in a Kashubian saying: "There is no Kashubia without Poland, nor Poland without Kashubia." (Agnieszka Gutthy)
Torn Out Memories, by Danuta Zamojska Hutchins. Storm Lake, Iowa: Culanco Publications (827 Lighthouse Drive, Storm Lake, IA 50588), 2004. vii + 80 pages. Illustrations by the author. Paper.
A memoir of the Second World War by a survivor who was born during the war and was a preschool child in postwar Poland. The book is ideally suited for children, and it belongs to a growing body of memoirs of Polish survivors who managed to emerge alive from the Second World War, only to be thrown into the pit of Communism for fifty years following the war.
The Complete Mazurkas of Karol Szymanowski performed by Matthew Bengtson, piano. More about this pianist at www.mattbengtson.com. This CD was received from Publicity Works, A WBE State Certified Agency, P.O. Box 557, Bowmansville, PA 17507.
It is not often that we have an opportunity to compare Chopin's and Szymanowski's Mazurkas. A lovely recording.
History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century, by Ivan T. Berend. Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: University of California Press, 2003. xx + 330 pages. Hardcover.
As indicated by his emphases and by the choice of items for inclusion about nations he knows something about, and those he knows next to nothing about, the author's expertise lies south and southeast of the borders of the former Polish Commonwealth. His center of attention is Hungary and adjacent territories. Jarosław Dąbrowski (rather than Romuald Traugutt) is singled out as "leader" of the January 1863 Rising (perhaps he was singled out because he participated in the Paris Commune). The book shows no understanding of the cause of liberty. It could have been written in Soviet-occupied central Europe. Avoid it.
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The meteor shower makes its wowza return.
ANZA-BORREGO DESERT STATE PARK, or Death Valley National Park, or Joshua Tree National Park, or the Salton Sea, or the scrubby-spectacular destination of your choosing, for December is Geminids meteor shower time. The sky-streaky occurrence isn't all December long, mind you, and the Ursids come along around the winter solstice, so plan out your dates now for Dec. 4 through 16. The biggest night for some "did you see that?!" type sights? You'll want to pitch your tent on Dec. 13 (and look to the Anza-Borrego Foundation, which has great suggestions on how to best enjoy the event from the beautiful Southern California desert). Spying any of the shower, of course, isn't predictable, and there is the thrill of looking in the right direction at the right moment. But being surrounded by cacti, and rocky hills, and ancient ravines, and the occasional coyote howl, feels like the way to set the scene, whatever you might spy in the sky. Need a break from the pre-holidays? Let the Geminids draw you to the desert, and out of day-to-day doings for a night.


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Product Liability – Tainted Intravenous Compounds
Product Liability.
S. Aureus Bacteremia infection after tainted intravenous pharmaceutical compounds.
Our Massachusetts product liability lawyer took on a case where between October 3 and October 6th 1997, two male plaintiffs underwent intravenous infusion of a chemical compound manufactured by the defendant pharmaceutical manufacturer, under the care of a Boston physician and nurse. The subject compound administered to the plaintiffs consisted of four (4) ingredients, individually labeled in separate multi-use vials as Vitamin A, Amino Acids, Mineral Complex, and Extracts. The controversial treatment, referred to as Chelation Therapy, claims to rid the body of heavy metals and boost the patient's immune system. Shortly after receiving the administration of their chelation therapy, the plaintiffs each reported experiencing dizziness, sweats, fever and severe nausea. Over the next 24-48 hours, the plaintiffs presented to different hospitals with symptoms ultimately confirmed as blood-born Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), an infectious bacterium that had been introduced to both plaintiffs during their respective chelation treatments.
The plaintiffs filed claims against the defendant manufacturer as well as against the physician, nurse and clinic that had administered the intravenous compounds.
Of the tests performed at the request of the defendant physician on the four multi-use vials from which both plaintiffs received their infusions, two of the four tested positive for Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) bacteria. The defendant product manufacturer denied that any of the products sold to the defendant physician were tainted when they left the defendant's manufacturing facility, and argued that the introduction of S. aureus bacteria occurred, if at all, after the vials were received and prepared by the defendant physician and nurse for use at the clinic.
Plaintiffs' counsel retained a leading expert in the area of infectious disease who was prepared to testify that the volume of bacteria required to develop the onset of symptoms as quickly and acutely as those suffered by both plaintiffs, would be expected to well exceed the volume of bacteria that could arguably have been introduced into the vials by the administering nurse as a result of poor sterile technique. In plain words, dirty hands would not likely have introduced the quantity of bacteria required to make the plaintiffs so sick, so fast. Plaintiffs' expert was further prepared to testify that the more likely scenario responsible for the plaintiffs' bacteremia was that the compounds left the defendant's manufacturing facility in tainted condition, and that the bacteria thrived and multiplied in the nourishing liquid compound solutions which surrounded them during transport.
As a direct result of their infection, both plaintiffs were forced to undergo lengthy intravenous antibiotic treatment, and suffered a range of continuing deficits including knee pain and weakness caused by the settling of the infection in the plaintiff's joints, and fatigue.
The plaintiffs reached a settlement with the defendant manufacturer of $200,000 and claims against the defendant physician and nurse are pending.
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Without the keystore, an attacker can not do anything with your passwords. Just change them and continue using the key


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Farmers slam Trudeau over rising fertilizer costs
Canadian farmers slammed Justin Trudeau over rising fertilizer costs resulting from his decision to put tariffs on Russian fertilizer.
Farmers slam Trudeau
According to Ryan Koeslag, executive director of Ontario Bean Growers, tariffs on Russian fertilizer are wreaking havoc on the Canadian Agriculture Sector and the ability of farmers to merely keep their heads above water.
"Around one-third [of the 2022 shipments] had not been delivered into Ontario yet when that tariff was applied, and some of those ships were even being told that they would have to turn around," Koeslag told CBC News in an interview. "… It's hard to be a green farmer when you're operating in the red."
He also wonders why Canadian farmers are being forced to flip the bill for the war in Ukraine, despite other G7 countries abstaining from imposing such tariffs as they knew it would hurt their citizens.
"The United States is not applying a tariff. The U.K. and France are not applying a tariff. Why is it that Canada is the one that's forcing our farmers to pay for the cost of the war in Ukraine?" asked Koeslag.
Indeed, as noted by Atlantic Grains Council chairman Roy Culberson, "The world needs Canadian farmers to produce our best crop this year. You cannot grow crops without fertilizer, and you cannot produce food without crops. An additional tariff paid by farmers on a global product such as fertilizer just penalizes the farmer. We look forward to working on a resolution with government."
Earlier this year, Deputy PM and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland acknowledged that the government's decision to put tariffs on Russian fertilizer would negatively impact the Agriculture Sector but assured Canadian farmers that it wouldn't be too bad.
"Tariffs and retaliation and sanctions are the most effective when you can devise policies that have the maximum impact on the counterparty whose attention you are seeking to get and do the minimal damage to yourself," Freeland said a week after the Russia-Ukraine war kicked off.
How could it not cause more than "minimal damage," though? According to Grain Farmers of Ontario, "Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic Canada rely heavily on fertilizer imports. Approximately 660,000 – 680,000 tonnes of nitrogen fertilizer is imported from Russia to Eastern Canada annually, which represents between 85-90 per cent of the total nitrogen fertilizer used in the region."
Trudeau, of course, hasn't addressed any of the farmer's concerns regarding tariffs. Moreover, the rising fertilizer costs come at a time when the Trudeau government is pushing forward with a 30% emissions reduction cap on nitrous oxide from fertilizer.
Indeed, as noted by Fertilizer Canada CEO Karen Proud, farmers are already reducing fertilizer use due to rising costs (resulting in less food and rising prices), and the nitrogen policy will only exacerbate the problem.
"We are talking about the food supply," said Proud. "Canada is already among the top countries that use nitrogen efficiently. We don't have much room to go before we start affecting yields."
Agriculture Ministers from several provinces have also voiced their frustrations over the actions of the Trudeau government, explaining that this has already been the most expensive year for farming in recent memory, and Trudeau's climate fanaticism is only going to make things worse.
"We're really concerned with this arbitrary goal," Saskatchewan Minister of Agriculture David Marit said. "The Trudeau government has apparently moved on from their attack on the oil and gas industry and set their sights on Saskatchewan farmers."
Alberta Agriculture Minister Nate Horner agreed, adding, "This has been the most expensive crop anyone has put in, following a very difficult year on the prairies. The world is looking for Canada to increase production and be a solution to global food shortages. The Federal government needs to display that they understand this. They owe it to our producers."
With what appears to be a coordinated attack on Canada's Agriculture Sector and food supply, it's no surprise that farmer's groups speaking to Farmers Forum are wondering if he's intentionally trying to cause a food shortage — which Trudeau previously told Canadians to prepare for.
Germany's defense minister declares war after Russia warns of 'global catastrophe'
Days after Russia warned of nuclear war, Germany's foreign affairs minister declared that her country was also at war against Russia.
NHL respects Provorov's choice to shun politicized Pride flag
The NHL released a statement expressing respect for players who distance themselves from the politicized Pride flag, and woke sports reporters are losing their minds.


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Mesmerising video shows 27m bridge beam being delivered and lowed over rail line at Dunkettle
Transport Infrastructure Ireland are also working towards a new junction arrangement on the N25 east of the current interchange
A mesmerising video shows bridge beams being unloaded from a truck and put into place as part of the major Dunkettle Interchange upgrade project.
There were some delays last night after 7.30pm as the beams were being transported up the route and placed over the Cobh/Midleton rail line.
Officials said the installation marked a "significant milestone" in the €215 million project that will see a series of direct links between the N8, N25, N40, and R623 in Little Island.
Transport Infrastructure Ireland are also working towards a new junction arrangement on the N25 east of the current interchange.
Their plan also includes 4 new roundabouts and 52 new structures - along with new pedestrian and cyclist facilities.
This weeks works saw 38 beams delivered in total, with all of those deliveries conducted after 8pm to avoid rush hour.
The first main section of the upgrade of the Jack Lynch Tunnel and the Dunkettle Interchange is due to open later this year, giving motorists going from Tivoli a direct route onto the M8 Cork-Dublin motorway.
It's one of the biggest infrastructure projects for Cork in recent years and should make the Dunkettle easier and safer to navigate for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians.


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Prop 45 Would Give Insurance Commissioner Final Say on Health Premiums
Pauline Bartolone
Thursday, October 9, 2014 | Sacramento, CA
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When the Affordable Care Act set up a state-run health insurance marketplace, it created a framework through which more than a million people signed up for health care within months. But it also created a new state agency that insurance companies must answer to.
"We have changed the trend in health care costs. For consumers, we're making a huge impact," said Peter Lee, Executive Director of Covered California, while announcing the exchange's 2015 rates this past July.
Lee pointed out the exchange isn't just a clearinghouse for industry as it is in other states – it actively negotiates with insurers to get the best deal.
"We have had multiple in person meetings, but huge amounts of back and forth electronically, information, questions, follow ups, of actuary to actuary discussions," says Lee.
Lee says Covered California's power to choose which plans are offered in the subsidized marketplace is part of why premium increases will be modest next year.
"We sent them back, and time and time again [insurers] came back with much lower rates," he said.
But Covered California does not have the final voice on health plan prices. Health insurance regulators review rates, and they may even find them unreasonable. But there is no law to force insurance companies to comply with a regulators recommendations. Proposition 45 would change that by giving California's insurance commissioner the power to reject a rate increase that he or she finds excessive. Covered California says that could interfere with its marketplace.
Prop 45 Would Affect Consumers Outside Covered California
Not everyone in individual insurance policies have coverage through California's exchange.
"Just because we have Covered California acting as a purchasing agent, it doesn't mean that every single person has an affordable health plan currently, " says Dylan Roby, Assistant Professor with the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
Roby says about a million people are in coverage that don't benefit from Covered California's active negotiations, and would get premium protection through Prop45's rate approval process. Roby says at least 34 other states have such laws, and in many cases, consumers have paid less because of them.
"In the majority of cases it's true that those insurance commissioners that do have the power over rate regulation, are able to keep premium increases lower than in states that don't have that power," he says.
Prop 45 Would Require Three Agencies to Work Together
As if the new health insurance system weren't complicated enough – in California, there are two state health insurance regulators. The Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance. Proposition 45 would give the Insurance Commissioner the final say on the rates for plans the Department of Managed Health Care oversees.
"Department of Managed Health Care, actually has a lot of power and a lot more authority over network adequacy issues, timeliness, tracking and auditing, the access issues that patients may face," says Roby.
Roby says the weakness of Prop 45 is that it could duplicate government bureaucracy.
"You would like to see insurance rate regulation exist in whatever regulatory body is already regulating the plan," he says.
Health consumer advocates say they've supported a state health insurance approval law for some time. They say the success of this law would require that three government agencies to work together, and in a timely manner.
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The lights have dimmed, the photos have been taken, and the flowers thrown. It's time to consider honeymoon necessities. Be sure you've got these products packed to ensure that your new life together begins with happy memories.
Following an exciting day of gathering with family and friends for one of the most important events of your life, it's easy to leave behind things that you'll regret not having when you arrive at your destination. The lights have dimmed, the photographs have been taken, and the flowers thrown. It's time to consider honeymoon necessities. Be sure you've got these products packed to ensure that your new life together begins with happy memories.
Sunscreen. Even if you're not heading to the sunny Isles, sunscreen is a necessity to protect your skin from the sun's harmful rays. Whether you'll be basking on a sandy beach or chasing powder on a snowy mountainside for your honeymoon, the sun is ever-present. Do your skin a favor and pack your sunscreen.
Your favorite makeup basics and makeup remover. Now is the time to splurge on that high-end lipstick you've been eyeing, to boost your confidence as you head out to fancy evenings with your new spouse. Don't forget your makeup remover so that you can end each day with refreshed skin.
Hair products. The last thing you want to do when arriving at your destination is to run to a store, or worse, return to civilization to pick up basics like shampoo, conditioner, and styling products.
Deodorant and your favorite fragrance. It may seem basic, but one of the most commonly neglected supplies is deodorant. Don't forget your favorite scent for those nights out on the town!
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Post wedding brain can leave you feeling muddled and foggy, even in a happy state, so consider packing your essentials before the wedding day, and be ready to depart without the rush and fuss of gathering the necessities on the way out the door. Go forward into your wedded bliss well prepared, and enjoy your honeymoon to its fullest. This is the time for making happy memories.
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I need to see this movie, some people hate this scene and some people love it!
Pepper Potts: The Woman who Holds Tony Stark Together when the Armor Can't.
Sums up the ending pretty well.
HA where is your proud now stark. shitted down in your pants.
Tony had some heroic moments but he spent much of the movie barely being able to function or in small town with malfunctioning armor. It's cool Pepper's has some heroic and awesome moments because apparently in the comics she gets her own suit. I think Marvel should do a movie about it; come on Marvel, I want a Pepper Pots movie!
Yeah, she has a rescue suit in the comics, mostly used to rescue people instead of fighting villains. But she is awesome.
I feel like Tony would do that... if he wasn't so shocked to see Pepper acting so epic like that. Haha! I love it!!!
Pepper was one of the few things I liked about this movie.
And Iron man, too be honest.


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In several countries in central and southeastern Europe new opportunities are arising for people to learn Transcendental Meditation, and the meditation technique and related programmes of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi are becoming increasingly popular, especially among young, active people.
In the Czech Republic, interest in Transcendental Meditation and Maharishi's programmes to create coherence and peace in the world is increasing. Young people are coming to the Czech Republic from abroad to learn Transcendental Meditation, which is publicized on the national website for Transcendental Meditation and on a Transcendental Meditation page on Facebook®.
During the past year seminars and courses were held in the eastern part of the Czech Republic, near the border with Slovakia, and also in Slovakia itself.
An article about Transcendental Meditation, 'The Silence of the Mind is Healing', was published in a well-known monthly journal, Respekt. The article featured the beneficial effects of Transcendental Meditation on health, how it can be used in schools, and its effectiveness in treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in veterans.


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Hot-sauce mother faces jail after child abuse conviction
By Casey Grove and Anchorage
VIDEO of Jessica Beagley punishing her screaming adopted son with hot sauce and a cold shower first landed the Anchorage, Alaska, mother on Dr Phil. Yesterday, an Anchorage jury decided Beagley's unorthodox parenting was indeed a crime, finding the 36-year-old mother of six guilty of misdemeanour child abuse.
Beagley faces up to a year in prison and a $US10,000 ($9553) fine, with sentencing scheduled for Monday. It took the jury of three men and three women a day to find the so-called ''hot sauce mom'' guilty in a case that ignited blustery legal arguments on cable news shows and drew media attention in Russia, where the Beagleys adopted twins in 2008.
Jessica Beagley at court. Credit:AP
Prosecutor Cynthia Franklin, who told the jury that Beagley abused the boy in an attempt to get on national TV, called the verdict a just one. ''[The jury] concluded that it is child abuse to hurt your child as an audition for a television show,'' she said.
Defence lawyer William Ingaldson had argued Beagley struggled to correct the troubled boy's bad behaviour and was reaching out for help.
''The way the law is written … makes it really difficult for a parent to discipline your kids and not be subject to other people's subjective ideas of what is right or wrong,'' he said.
Beagley stood blank-faced as the verdict was read. She quickly walked out of the courtroom with her husband, Gary, an Anchorage police officer. The couple did not respond to questions from reporters as they hurried to a stairwell.
The Beagleys adopted the boy in the video and his brother when they were five. Beagley emailed the Dr Phil show a year later, in 2009, in an effort to appear on a segment titled ''Angry Moms'', the prosecution said. More than a year later, the producers replied and encouraged her to send video.
Beagley did, but the producers asked her to send additional video of her doling out punishment, Ms Franklin said. The show promoted the resulting November 17 ''Mommy Confessions'' segment with clips of the boy screaming, Beagley saying she felt ''out of control'' and images of the audience in tears.
''Can this stressed-out mom get the guidance she needs to control her temper and reform her discipline techniques?'' asked the show's website. ''Can she establish a bond with her son? And, do her actions constitute child abuse? … It's an intense Dr Phil you don't want to miss!''
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MasterChef Junior Season 2: November 11 2014 Episode 2 Recap and Review
November 12, 2014	| Posted in EPISODE RECAPS, REALITY TV | By sockii
Screencap from MasterChef Junior, November 11 2014 episode. Watch it now at Amazon Instant Video.
Last week we met the sixteen young contestants who would be computing in season two of MasterChef Junior, but four of them were sent home before the end of the night: Coco, Berry, Nasir and Isabella. That leaves twelve still in the competition: who will shine this week, and which young home cooks will be sent home? We'll find out in this second episode as it begins.
Sean says it's the most exciting thing he's every done. Levi, 12, cooks almost every night for his family and doesn't think there are many kids like him so he's pretty confident about his chances to win.
The judges greet the young cooks and remind them that Oona, Samuel and Sean had the best three dishes last round. Now it's time for a special challenge for these top three. It's all about pancakes. Samuel is excited, talking about the exotic pancakes he makes for his parents. Oona seems less than thrilled; she is more of an Eggs Benedict gal, she says.
They have everything at their stations for making their pancakes: 12 burners at their disposal, a huge bowl of batter and one plate each. The judges want them to stack as many pancakes as they can on each of their plates in 6 minutes. The winner will get a huge advantage in the next challenge….and get to save one of the judges from a huge vat of syrup!
Each chef will be competing to "save" one judge from a sticky fate. Sean is working to save Joe, Samuel is working for Graham, and Oona is trying to save Gordon. Gordon is worried about his hair more than anything else, so he really wants Oona to win!
It's time to get cooking. Samuel's strategy is to move fast and not think about anything but the pancakes. Sean wants to make sure his aren't underdone. But it's harder than they thought as the pancakes will break if they don't flip them properly, or before they are cooked all the way through.
Abby is rooting for Oona. Sean is getting intimidated by Joe. They have only two minutes to go and we hear from more of the young contestants as to who they are rooting for. Mitchell is rooting for Samuel so he can save Graham. Jessica wants Joe to be safe from the syrup because he's her favorite. Abby is going crazy with the screaming and cheering for Oona.
Time is up and the three have to very carefully bring their plates to the front for the judges to evaluate. Oona is screwed; her stack is not nearly as big as Samuel's or Sean's. She only has 8 pancakes, Gordon counts with dismay. Samuel has 16. Sean has … how many? It's a tough call. Joe counts and it turns out Sean has nineteen. Joe is going to be safe from the syrup!
Gordon is the first to get doused in maple syrup as Oona tips over her giant pitcher! Graham is next, doused in syrup by Samuel. Joe is so lucky…but everyone wants Sean to dump Joe in syrup anyway (of course we saw this coming)…and he does. There's a brief moment of "hilarity" as the judges toss pancakes at each other and the kitchen is turned into a sticky mess. Talk about a waste of food!
Since Sean won the pancake advantage he gets an advantage in the next challenge, but first, the judges need to take a long shower.
And so they've had their breakfast sweets, now it's time for some desserts…and in this case that means pie! Sean's big advantage is he doesn't have to cook in the upcoming pie elimination test, and he gets to chose between three different cream pies that the others will have to prepare.
The first cream pie is one of Joe's favorites: rich and delicious, it's the classic chocolate cream pie. It could be milk chocolate, dark chocolate or even white chocolate. It's all about the filling and a crispy, crackling crust.
Next is one of Graham's favorite: a fruit cream pie. Cherry, bananas, blueberries…all are game for this kind of pie. But it has to be cooked the right was so everything blends together perfectly.
Last is Graham's favorite: a citrus cream pie. It could be made with any kind of citrus fruit, although he has an orange cream to illustrate the style. It's a tricky pie to make because the balance of sweet and tart has to be there. But which will Sean choose?
Mitchell wants it to be the citrus pie. Levi loves chocolate and wants that to be Sean's pick. Sean ends up choosing the citrus pie, because he thinks it will be the hardest to get the balance of tart and sweet correct.
It turns out Sean has another advantage tonight. He gets to choose one fellow competitor to share the citrus pie Gordon has given him…and to be immune from elimination with him. Who does he choose?
He chooses someone who thinks would get through the challenge anyway, because he's heard they are good at cream pies…Mitchell. That's a pretty smart move, I have to say. (Now if only some of the adult MasterChef competitors could be that wise…)
Levi is pretty confident about the citrus pie challenge; he's good at baking. They have only one hour to make a stunning citrus cream pie and it's time to pick their ingredients. Oona is doing a cream pie with blood oranges and is pretty confident. In fact many of them seem to be sure they can pull this off.
The pastry crust is a key, Gordon says, and then the flavor. It's a tough one for sure. Samuel is making grapefruit and rosewater pie. Abby says she usually makes pie with her grandmother and she thinks she will nail her blood orange pie…but she doesn't want Gordon distracting her. Levi is making a key lime pie with coconut whipped cream. He thinks Oona is the strongest still in the competition at this point.
Josh is doing key lime pie. He's happy with his cream, although it might be a little sweet according to Joe who gives it a taste
Adaiah is doing orange, lemon, and raspberry pie. She seems confident as she comes from a long line of Southern bakers, she says. This seems right in her comfort zone.
Fourteen minutes to go and Natalie is doing a grapefruit coconut cream pie because she got the wrong fruit – she wanted to do orange! There might be something missing from her fruit, the judges say. Jessica is doing lemon key lime pie. She's confident, too, because she's won awards in the past for her baking at Texas state fairs. Logan is doing lime and raspberry for his pie and he is confident; he may be the next Graham Elliot!
The judges debate who is looking good and who is struggling. Josh may be in the weeds, but Adaiah is doing well, the judges think. Time's called and now it's time for tasting.
Samuel is first with his grapefruit cream pie with rosewater, nutmeg, pistachio and mint dust. Will his tricks work? Last time it was foam, now he's doing dust. Graham says it's a little heavy handed on the nutmeg and the filling a little too spicy, the cream needed to be whipped longer as well. Joe wants to know about the exotic spices he's chosen. Graham thinks there are a lot of flavors going on and it needed a little longer on the crust. There's a lot of whipped cream toward the center. Maybe next time he should have taken two things off the plate. For once Samuel seems a little humbled, that he may have gone overboard in his gourmet aspirations.
Next is Logan. His crust is ugly but it's all about the flavor…isn't it? He's made a raspberry twisted lime pie. It's not visually the prettiest, Graham says, but it tastes delicious. Nice and tart, although the crust could have used a little longer in the oven. Joe says it's delicious, and the extra raspberry on top is like a punch in the nose. Really delicious, Graham says, he just wishes he'd had a little more time to finesse the pastry.
Sam is next with blood orange cream pie. He bakes a lot of pies every Thanksgiving, he says. The crust is a little sloppy, but everything else is spot on.
Next is Adaiah. She's confident with her blood orange lemon pie with raspberries. Graham says it's very nice, even. All in all a great pie and she should be really proud.
Oona has blood orange cream pie with passion fruit whipped cream. Graham loves the passion fruit. It's well done, a good job.
Josh has his key lime pie. The crust, he had a little trouble with it he admits. It didn't cook all the way through. Graham does love the whipped cream on top and the actual pie is pretty good except for the crust.
Next is Natalie. She is scared with her grapefruit cream pie with coconut cream frosting. The grapefruit was a mistake, for sure…it's not that really distinguishable, and what Joe mostly tastes the raw pastry dough. A little bit of a strange combination.
Abby is next with her blood orange cream pie with apple butter whipped cream and jelly beans as a garnish. Visually it's a little bit uneven but it's so weird…she's only eight years old and been cooking since she was two…and it's absolutely delicious, the judges declare. It's a great job, a great pie to send "shockwaves" up to the balcony.
Next is Levi with his "out of control" whipped cream. It's key lime pie with coconut whipped cream. It's creative, Graham says. And there's a nice proportion of cream to filling. Finally, some much needed acidity in a citrus pie! It's one of the best.
Last up is Jessica with her citrus Texas pecan pie with key lime, lemon and orange. The crust is a little uneven, Joe says. There might not be quite enough cream, either. Joe wants more key lime because it's a bit too sweet. Gordon thinks it needed more consistency in the filling. It's not bad but it needs more punchy citrus flavor and fewer nuts.
Now it's time to see who had the best – and who had the worst – pies. It was a difficult task and the judges need to discuss who is staying and who is leaving.
The two standout pies were Levi and Adaiah's. The judges next call down Sam, Josh, Jessica and Natalie. Unfortunately they had the four worst pies. It's really hard for the judges to make the call. Sam and Josh are called forward. They are not going home tonight. That leaves Natalie and Jessica, whose journeys are over now in the MasterChef kitchen.
Thus ends the second episode of season two of MasterChef Junior, as we go from twelve young cooks to only ten. Who will stand out next time? Looks like we might get a team challenge this week as we have two on top this time. We shall see!
MasterChef Junior Season 2: December 2 2014 Episode 5 Recap and Review
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2019 trailer "Call of the East":
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The Elder Scrolls Renewal Project (or TESRenewal) is an organized community of modders, artists, and developers, looking to rejuvenate the Elder Scrolls games by bringing them into newer engines.
Skywind is a community-driven fan project to recreate Morrowind (2001) as a "total conversion" mod for the much newer Skyrim: Special Edition (2016) engine, rejuvenating the game with modern graphics and gameplay, and with full voice acting. The team is determined to maintain very high standards of quality.
The project began in 2012 but underwent a total change of direction in 2015 to become a total ground-up recreation rather than a port of the older game.
The game will be for PC only. Players will need Skyrim: Special Edition and Morrowind with its expansions. There is no set release date at this time.
Skyblivion is a sister project under the same TESRenewal banner, recreating Oblivion (2006) in the Skyrim: Special Edition (2016) engine. The Skywind and Oblivion teams are independent, but do collaborate.
Morroblivion is a completed sister project under the same TESRenewal banner, porting Morrowind (2001) to the Oblivion (2006) engine. It was first released in September 2010 and has since had hundreds of updates, the last released in 2014. A group of volunteers continue to work on patches and improvements.
The Elder Scrolls is a series of fantasy video games developed by Bethesda that have very traditional RPG rootsbut have come to be known for their extremely unique and deep content, subverting many of the Tolkien-esque tropes of conventional medieval fantasy.
Morrowind is a 2001 fantasy roleplaying video game set on the hostile island of Vvardenfell in the fictional continent of Tamriel, 400 years before the events of SKyrim. The player begins as a prisoner who is employed as a spy for the governing Imperial Empire, but finds him- or herself on the path of fulfilling prophecy against nefarious forces from a bygone era. The game was a bold last-ditch gamble by the studio to avoid bankruptcy, giving it unprecedented creative freedom, and it is often remembered as one of the most immersive RPGs ever created.
Skyrim is a hit 2011 fantasy roleplaying video game in the same series, set in the Viking-esque province of Skyrim 400 years later. The player discovers their godly gift of dragonblood (which grants the power to use their voice as a weapon) and goes on to become the 'Dragonborn'. The 2016 Special Edition was released based on the improved engine used in Fallout 4, bringing significantly enhanced graphics, a 64-bit architecture, and greatly improved stability.
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Well I want to first wish everyone a Happy holidays and a happy new year. I also would like to give a quick video, either later on today or over the weekend I will have the video that I spoke about in today's podcast up.
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Controversial Former Presidential Candidate Leaves MSNBC in Politically Charged Breakup
A controversial former presidential candidate and opinionated TV host is parting company with cable news channel MSNBC, and political differences have been cited as a factor in the breakup.
Conservative Pat Buchanan is officially leaving the channel after not appearing on it since October, reports The New York Times' Media Decoder blog. In an essay he blamed "an incessant clamor from the left" as the reason, according to the story.
"After 10 years, we've parted ways with Pat Buchanan. We wish him well," said a spokesman for MSNBC.
Buchanan hadn't appeared since he started promoting his book, "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?," in which he expressed concerns about the country's demographic changes and described what he called "the end of white America," the piece notes.
Some liberal groups had pressed MSNBC to either fire or sanction Buchanan, citing the statements in his book, according to the article.
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When Do Senior Biden Administration Officials Start Throwing Joe Under the Bus?
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With the end of the year 2021 approaching rapidly (we are just 34 days away from 2022), I think it might be time to look forward to the one-year marker of the Biden administration on Jan 20th. What that means of course is reviewing just what a colossal mess it has been and looking forward to when the White House reporters start whispering that they are hearing the President is having "problems" with things.
So let me call it here first — if you had watched the basement campaign last year, you might have been tipped off something might not be working with Joe correctly. Actually, if you had watched this guy for any of his 40-plus years in government you would not be shocked at all, but I digress.
If you are a regular reader of RedState, then you know that the front page has been filled with all sorts of interesting types of stories about the odd behavior of both Joe and his administration in terms of their policies. Here are just some examples from the last couple of days.
This is just a small sampling, and the list goes on for a good country mile in how many confusing and troubling mess-ups this can't-shoot-straight crew that occupy the White House currently have done. The bad thing for the country is that this group does not seem to have any self-awareness that they are screwing stuff up and are committed to ramming the U.S.S. United States right into that iceberg, while trying to sink this country faster than the Titanic went down.
Thankfully the country is a bit tougher than the ship that could not be sunk.
Yet with the one-year anniversary of Biden raising his other right hand to take the oath of office, and the midterms now 11 months away, we all know how this is soon going to go. People inside the bubble will start whispering that maybe the boss spends too much time in his bunny slippers, wandering around looking for ice cream. This always happens when the pols inside the government start seeing the polls for the next election, and determine their job is more important than protecting the old man.
If you don't think this is how it works, the staff has already floated some trial balloons on attacking the person who has no power in this administration as a practice run.
Enter Madame Vice President Kamala Harris. My colleague Sister Toldjah covered this earlier this month with this post: The White House 'Goes There' on Criticism of Kamala Harris and I Have Thoughts. From that article…
As we previously reported, embattled Vice President Kamala Harris is being hit with yet another wave of bad press, with even CNN getting in on the action by reporting how Biden staffers were allegedly growing increasingly frustrated with Harris. In addition to that are reports of an alleged rift between President Biden and Harris, which is said to be growing even as the lame excuses for it all are brought forth.
Making matters worse has been her disastrous handling of the border crisis, of which she was made Biden's point person back in March. Perhaps more embarrassingly, during an exchange between Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas yesterday on the working relationship between himself and Harris, Mayorkas couldn't give specific answers on what her exact role was, how many times they'd connected/met to discuss the border, and if she had been part of the decision-making process on policy decisions Mayorkas had either been considering or had implemented in response to the border surge.
Criticism of Harris' performance in office has unquestionably come from both sides of the aisle and from both current and former staffers of Harris. But if one listened to and believed what White House press secretary Jen Psaki had to say about it during a Wednesday interview, you'd think all the criticism was coming from the right. And the reasons she gave for that "right-wing" criticism boiled down to – you guessed it – "sexism and racism":
If you are following along at home the criticism of Harris coming from the White House is based on sexism and racism or some other neat spin they are trying to C.Y.A. Of course, Kamala is just a helpless rube picked because of her reproductive parts, and not chosen because of any accomplishments that she had as an elected official. If you recall, Tulsi Gabbard showed that brilliantly at some of the 2020 primary debates.
The administration is heading for even rougher waters in 2022, with a new COVID variant, and rapid inflation running off the rails. The polls are starting to show that mainstream Democrats and Independents are having more than just some remorse of picking Biden over President Mean Tweets, and there looks to be no end in sight for them to mess stuff up.
Whether Joe and Jill Biden know it, the effort to throw them under the bus has already warmed up and is about ready to roll into 2022. All those years in Washington, D.C,. should have taught them that the only loyal things in D.C. are dogs — and I don't think they keep theirs at the White House anymore.
Joe Biden is already facing opposition from the GOP, but he is about to face the wrath of the Democrats he thinks love him. He would be disappointed, if he would be able to recall anything 10 minutes out, about how his own people will throw him and his below-toilet-water approval rating under a rock in a New York minute.
So, get ready for the COMING SOON whispers and leaks from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue about Uncle Joe having an hour-long conversation with the portraits of JFK and Richard Nixon, where he asked them if they like his hair plugs.
Thankfully, Democrats are more vicious than the GOP in this regard — and I'm hoping it will be a spectacle to watch.


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Hubert Bower Corben
Monumental mason, founder of HB Corben & Sons (mid 1880s to 1958)
Clunes Digger memorial
The Corben family came from Worth Matravers, Dorset, U.K. where they were stonemasons, a trade that they continued with great success in Melbourne after their arrival in the 1850s. Hubert, born in 1857, established his own monumental mason business in Smith Street Clifton Hill in 1880. HB Corben & Sons became a respected and long-standing business that was an integral part of the Clifton Hill community and also became well-known for war memorials across Victoria.
Two brothers Isaac and Reuben had arrived in Melbourne in 1854 and 1857 respectively. Other members of their extended family followed in later years. Once settled they saw opportunities in the growing city of Melbourne and soon established themselves as highly respected stonemasons and members of the local community. Isaac was a founding member of Wilson, Corben & Co and one of the 12 who pioneered the call for an Eight Hour Day in 1856, as well as a member of The Old Colonists Association, while Reuben's son Hubert founded HB Corben & Sons.
While Hubert was growing up with his siblings and extended family around Carlton and North Fitzroy, his father Reuben and uncle Isaac were establishing themselves as builders, stonemasons, and stone merchants working with slate, bluestone and marble both in Melbourne and Sydney. Reuben was a member of a government appointed board established to investigate whether stone from the Grampians quarries was of high enough quality to be used on the western front of Parliament House. Meanwhile Wilson, Corben & Co were winning prizes at various exhibitions for their enamelled slate and polished marble mantelpieces and securing Government contracts in Melbourne and Sydney for kerbing, hearth stones and steps and use of enamelled slate. All of this enterprise must have made an impression on Hubert and his brother Joseph when in 1880 they established their Monumental Masons business in Smith Street, Clifton Hill, opposite the Gasworks. It was originally Brown, Corben & Co but the name changed to HB Corben & Sons in the late 1880s.
The closeness of the two brothers extended beyond the workplace. They lived side-by-side in a pair of brick houses built in 1891 in Walker Street Clifton Hill. Here Hubert would remain for some years as his family grew up. Both Hubert and Reuben later moved to nearby North Fitzroy. Eldest surviving son Edwin attended Kings College in North Terrace, Clifton Hill, where he gained many prizes in the late 1890s. The schools of his brothers and sister have yet to be identified.
The family had a strong work ethic and were successful in winning many contracts. Hubert's sons Edwin, Clifford and Leslie all went into the business. In 1907 Hubert died aged 49 after a short illness but his sons continued the business for many years. Under Hubert's will, the Monumental Mason works in Smith Street with sheds and showrooms was left to Leslie. Edwin, Clifford, Evelyn and Stanley each received one of Hubert's four houses in McKean Street, North Fitzroy. In 1924, Edwin, Leslie and Clifford registered a new company called HB Corben & Sons Pty Ltd, that acquired the going concern of HB Corben & Sons.
In the early days, they were mainly concerned with grave monuments, marble and enamelled wood mantelpieces and general masonry work. This changed during the 20th century when HB Corben and Sons became well known for their work on memorials. An early memorial for the Boer War located in Sale, Victoria was erected in 1909. They also won the contract for the Explorers Memorial in Swan Hill in 1914 and the Ross and Keith Smith Memorial in 1922, which commemorates their plane landing in Darwin on 10 December 1919. In the aftermath of World War 1, with the high loss of life from many country towns and suburbs in Australia, local communities raised money for a fitting memorial, a substitute grave where relatives could grieve for the fallen buried in foreign fields. Many of these were 'Digger statues', a carved figure of an AIF soldier standing on a pedestal. In late 1915, Corbens employed August Rietman, a stone artisan of German-Swiss heritage, who possessed the skills and artistry to carve statues from blocks of marble .The 'Digger' statues manufactured by H.B. Corben & Sons that grace an unknown number of Victorian towns were probably carved by Rietman, who worked at Corbens until 1930.
The Corben war memorials ranged from the Digger figures standing on stepped pedestals to sombre non-figurative cenotaphs, obelisks, granite pillars and columns. Some of the latter can be found at Portarlington 1919, Werribee 1921, Morwell 1921, Moe 1921, Warragul 1922, Williamstown 1925, St Kilda 1925 and North Melbourne 1926. There is a detailed description of the Portarlington Soldiers Memorial in the Geelong Advertiser 19 March 1919 page 5.
The Digger Memorials by H.B. Corben & Sons have not all been identified but those that have can be found in Clunes 1920, Boort 1921, Inglewood, Coleraine, St Arnaud and Bonnie Doon. They were all designed and made between 1919 and 1921. These war memorials cemented the name of HB Corben & Sons as a foremost manufacturer of such memorials and they were highly regarded in the competitive world of monumental masons. The firm had branches and agents right across Victoria which no doubt enabled them to continue to grow and expand their business. There are also war memorials by HB Corben & Sons in other states, notably the War Memorial in Launceston, Tasmania.
During the late 1920s and into the 1930s, Corbens took on the manufacturing of other memorials such as the JM Bennett Memorial in St Kilda 1926-27. J.M. Bennett was one of the mechanics on that epic first flight to Australia by Ross and Keith Smith. Others were a cairn to Sir John Franklin on Arthurs Seat 1929, the Sir John Monash Memorial in Yallourn 1932 (funded by the SEC employees ), the grave of Robert Capron in the Fawkner Cemetery 1936 (an American comedian who gave his life saving a puppy from drowning ) and the Jack Donaldson World Champion Runner Memorial in Stawell 1939. In the latter years the firm went back to its origins and were mainly doing monumental mason work in cemeteries.
HB Corben & Sons were members of and on the executive of the Master Masons Association, appeared before the Tariff Board arguing for reduced tariffs on imported marble, which would increase employment during the Depression, and were often in court suing in order to recover money due to non-payment of work carried out by the firm.
HB Corben & Sons were a well-known, respected and long-standing business that was an integral part of the Clifton Hill community, described favourably by councils and other employers when assessing tenders. As summarised by the Launceston War Memorial Committee: 'they were people of very high reputation and a firm that carried out big works.'
Reitman in workshop
47 and 45 Walker Street
Life Summary
Spouse Name
Catherine Annie Wilson 1880 Alfred Hubert (1881-1881), Edwin Reuben (1882 – 1947), Evelyn Clarice (1884 – 1961) Clifford Emanuel (1886 – 1927), Leslie William (1888 – 1947), Stanley Wilson (1890 -1918)
Home Addresses
Home Street
Home City
Status of Building
47 walker Street Clifton Hill Extant
Work Addresses
Work Street
Work City
634 Smith Street Clifton Hill Demolished
Wesleyan Methodist Church, Wellington Street Clifton Hill Court Brunswick, Ancient Order of Foresters (United Melbourne District)
9 July 1907 North Fitzroy Melbourne General Cemetery
The Age, The Argus, The Fitzroy City Press, The Australasian, RHSV History News Issue no. 328, February-March 2017 page 9, Gippsland Times, Geelong Advertiser, Daily Telegraph, (Launceston) Monument Australia: http://monumentaustralia.org.au, Heritage Council of Victoria: www.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au, Port Phillip City Council: www.heritage.portphillip.vic.gov.au
Inglis, Sacred places: war memorials in the Australian landscape
Digger statues
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Article 3 permits to work fulltime; minor under 16 over 14
A permit to work full time may be issued to a minor under the age of 16 years and over the age of 14 years who holds a diploma of graduation from the prescribed elementary school course under both of the following circumstances:
(a) The permit expires not later than the end of the current school year.
(b) Any of the following conditions:
(1) The parent or guardian of the minor child presents a sworn statement that the parent or guardian of the minor is incapacitated for labor through illness or injury, or that through the death or desertion of the father or mother of the minor, the family is in need of the earnings of the minor and that sufficient aid cannot be secured in any other manner.
(2) The minor is unable to reside with his or her family and the earnings of the minor are necessary for the support of the minor.
(3) The minor is residing with a foster care provider, or guardian receiving foster care funds for the minor, if the provider or guardian obtains written authorization from the minor's social worker, probation officer, or child protective services worker acting as an officer of the court. A permit may be issued to a minor who is subject to this paragraph only if the child's case plan documents that the purpose of the employment is to further the goal of emancipation pursuant to Part 6 (commencing with Section 7000) of Division 11 of the Family Code, or to enable the minor to gain knowledge of necessary work skills and work habits, and of the responsibilities related to maintaining employment.
The person issuing the permit shall sign a statement that he or she, or a competent person designated by him or her, has investigated the conditions under which the application for the permit has been made and has found that, in his or her judgment, the earnings of the minor are necessary for the family to support the minor or that the earnings of the minor are necessary to support the minor and that sufficient aid cannot be secured in any other manner. Before issuing a work permit to a minor who is subject to paragraph (3) of subdivision (b), the person issuing the permit shall sign a statement that he or she has received authorization from the minor's social worker, probation officer, or child protective services worker.
A minor who applies for a work permit pursuant to this section shall be duly enrolled in a work experience education program.
(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 257, Sec. 2.)