study suggestsThe virus is widely circulating in white-tailed deer no humans are known to have been infected by deer A white-tailed deer in Canada likely infected a human with coronavirus, according to new research. The case, reported in a preprint journal would be the first known instance of a COVID-19 spillover from a white-tailed deer—a common species throughout North America—into another species Previous work has shown that the virus is circulating widely in U.S. white-tailed deer populations the virus appeared to be very similar to that found in nearby humans suggesting that the deer likely were sickened by us—not the other way around Now, a team of 32 government and academic researchers in Canada has concluded in a new work posted in BioRxiv that in late 2021 more than a dozen white-tailed deer in Canada had been infected with coronavirus that had a constellation of “mutations that had not been previously observed among SARS-CoV-2 lineages.” further analysis revealed that a person who had close contact with white-tailed deer in Ontario was infected with the same variant of coronavirus (It was detected as part of Canada’s standard genomic sampling of all COVID-19 cases in the area at the time.) those factors suggest that the virus had been circulating among deer and accumulated mutations as it hopped from one animal to the next before ultimately being passed to a person It’s possible the virus was transmitted first through another host species though the genomic analysis suggests that direct transmission from deer to human is “the most likely scenario,” the authors write The chances of transmitting coronavirus between people remains much higher than contracting the virus from a deer, says Jüergen Richt, a veterinarian and director of the Center on Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at Kansas State University, who was not involved with the work.  Their results also showed that the variant is an older version of COVID, one that predated Delta and Omicron, suggesting that coronavirus has been circulating among deer for a long time. After discovering the coronavirus cases, the study authors analyzed whether the deer virus would likely be able to evade an existing COVID vaccine and concluded it would likely still provide robust coverage. That’s good news, says Richt, who agrees that deer-to-human infection appears to be the most likely explanation for the human case in Ontario. possibly making the picture more complex than we realize you always have to discuss what else could be happening if you aren’t 100 percent sure,” he says It remains unknown if there are other human cases of the Ontario deer-related virus or if there have been other spillover events from deer to people “The emergence of Omicron and the end of deer-hunting season has meant both human and [white-tailed deer] testing and genomic surveillance in this region has been limited since these samples were collected,” they wrote in the paper In contrast to those isolated instances with domestic animals it’s far more challenging to control—as well as detect—transmission between white-tailed deer and humans Exactly how deer may have acquired coronavirus remains unknown too. As National Geographic reported in August 2021, deer may be in contact with people for research Department of Agriculture researchers theorized that deer could have encountered the virus through contaminated wastewater or from exposure to other infected species The USDA did not respond to a request for comment for this article Boosting surveillance of humans and animal populations, especially deer, is of “particular importance” the Canadian team writes.  “At this time, there is no evidence of recurrent deer-to-human or sustained human-to- human transmission” of the virus found in deer and one person in Ontario, they wrote. But identifying reservoir hosts capable of driving sustained transmission of the virus or passing it from one species to the next, they say, is essential. “I think this is going to be a landmark study,” says Tracey McNamara, a veterinary pathologist at Western University of Health Sciences, in Pomona, California. She hopes “this will be the future of biosurveillance, where we will have to look across the spectrum of the animal kingdom—not just humans in isolation, not just animals in isolation, but doing that work jointly—which is what this group did, and that was pretty remarkable.” Volume 3 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/frsus.2022.980530 As a “super-wicked problem,” climate change deserves a multidisciplinary approach in higher education that actively engages students with this global issue that has both local and regional consequences The online short learning program “Climate change: from global to local action” combines environmental scientific The conceptual model of Lived Experience of Climate Change (LivExpCC) aims at engaging students with climate change and explicitly adds the human dimension Students write an essay using the LivExpCC-model: they connect their personal and local experiences with regional proximate influences and with broader global contextual influences of climate change This stimulates the knowledge–reflection–engagement–action cycle We analyze student essays from an environmental humanities perspective looking specifically at distances (spatial and temporal distances and distances in interest) The results of these ecocritical analyses show that limited local distances and vivid inherited histories reflect the awareness of students of the effects of climate change and how they engage with it in different ways This concept re-examines the relationship between humans and the nonhuman world and it expands the types of knowledge beyond “objective” knowledge from the natural sciences By integrating such questions that derive from the field of the humanities into the discourse of discussing the challenges of climate change and sustainability a broader view of the challenges is made possible This holistic and integrated approach provides insight into the most important aspects for individuals (and groups) that play in their nearby specific climate change issue it might contribute to their knowledge and actions in their immediate living environment Figure 1. Visualization of the concept of the Lived Experience of Climate Change [based on: Perez et al. (2022)—accepted for publication] Three iterations can be discerned on the following levels: 1 (inner circle) the individual learning–action cycle; 2 (middle circle) the regional proximate (local) influences; 3 (outer circle) broader and more long-lasting contextual (glocal) influences The course ran from February until June 2020 and coincided with the start of the COVID pandemic The aim of the course is to introduce the concept of the LivExpCC and its potential contribution to policy and actions for adaptation and mitigation The course aims to inform and analyze information about climate change from different perspectives The course also aims to discuss the different adaptation and mitigation measures of climate change that humans can implement to improve and cope with their environmental surroundings Students write an essay (that is graded) in which they choose a subject close to them and demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the concept of the LivExpCC and the contextual aspects of people's lives They also critically learn to analyze whose lived experience counts: from practical knowledge to knowledge as a power The essays (~3,500 words) are graded according to several criteria that the students get at the start of the course These include describing a specific example or case of the Lived Experiences of Climate Change in the vicinity or elsewhere (city The essay should show elaborations of individual lived experiences effects of power/knowledge relations (regimes of truth) and a final conclusion where a connection is made between previous results with policy (making) on climate change and the student's reflections on this connection who specifically looks at distances between humans and the natural nonhuman world The first essay is written by Raquel from Spain which has suffered a deep transformation during the last decades and is extremely vulnerable to the effects of global warming The second essay is written by Paulo from Porto in Portugal the sandy coastline is decreasing due to climate change (rising sea level and the increase in extreme weather) This has consequences for nature and human use of the coastline The third essay is written by Sanne from the Netherlands and she chose climate depression in the Netherlands as her subject She does not suffer from this herself but knows diverse persons in her surrounding that do suffer from it Raquel describes her lived experiences of a place she visits regularly since childhood: the Ebro Delta on the east coast of Spain Her knowledge is expanded through the transmittance of lived experience to her by her uncle Manolo for some 60 years one generation of experiences is added to her own lived experience; this personal inherited history is a proximate influence of her LivExpCC This LivExpCC is further extended to the past by referring to a broader contextual influence of cultural history the history of agriculture in the Ebro Delta which she explicitly frames as a “human cohabitation with the natural ecosystem.” By this she more or less seems to refer to a stable balance between culture This can be concluded from the individual observations from Raquel and her uncle but also from the proximate and broad collective influences Most obvious for Raquel was the storm “Gloria” (January 2020) that hit the Ebro Delta only a few months before she wrote her LivExpCC essay and which she connects to the knowledge that was already available as a lived experience of her uncle: Manolo has the historic memory of the progressive transformation due to human action and we both have the proof of what an extreme natural event additionally has […] Human activity has led to this situation due to construction of water infrastructures that have changed the dynamics of the area.” Raquel connects types of knowledge from local (including knowledge on the economic infrastructure of the area and scientific knowledge on the complex ecosystem of the delta and its biodiversity the balance between fresh water and saline water and the degenerative dynamics of the deltaic plain) to global scales (the predictions considering the rising of the sea level due to melting polar ice and the rising temperature of seawater) Meaningful is the consensus that already seemed to exist between the inhabitants of the Ebro Delta considering the problems they face in their living environment which have increased as more entities became interested in the protection of the natural spaces in the delta Inhabitants together opposed the building of dams initiated by the central and regional governments The knowledge of the area of the inhabitants made it clear dams would break the balance in the delta the government was not interested in this knowledge nor did it intend to gain any other knowledge on the area and the effects the dams would initiate Storm Gloria served as an eye-opener to the governments This one-time disaster of extreme weather served as a warning and a vision of the future Instead of trusting the LivExpCC of local inhabitants a taste of the future was necessary to persuade a distant government of the upcoming threat of climate change The value of this storm as a source of knowledge for a distant power agency brought Raquel insight into the importance of connection and belonging in the learning–action cycle: not only can different pieces of knowledge be connected to each other but also the urgency of action is enhanced In Paulo's story of the Portuguese coastline and more specifically the coastline near Porto indisputably creating urgency considering the threats of global warming These sources of knowledge include data on temperature and weather conditions but also personal experiences and personal inherited histories Paulo characterizes specifically coastal areas as zones that “assume an increasing strategic importance in environmental and cultural terms,” which implies diverse types of knowledge and Paulo focuses on scientific data on temperature rise and the increase in extreme weather conditions two future scenarios have been calculated that indicate how the coastal line will look in 2,100 although the diverse types of knowledge he observes create an evident image of the threats of global warming to this local environment any coherence seems to be lacking in policymaking This lack of coherence speaks directly from Paulo's description of the learning–action cycle (first iteration) of the LivExpCC model when he tells how he has visited Madalena beach not only draws from his own experiences since childhood but also explicitly states his experiences are “enriched” by those of his parents (born in the 1930s) a personal inherited history that serves as a proximate influence on Paulo's learning–action cycle The knowledge he gains from his lived experience and friends considering changes in the coastal area: changes in the amount of sand on the coast Striking is the way he now visits the Madalena beach and his perception of the area compared with how he and his father visited this beach in his childhood and how the area looked like then: “I want to share the lived experience of the drastic alteration of dozens of kilometers of seafront that I've frequented for over fifty years in the summer and frequently during the winter My father took us camping near one of the beaches I still go today due to the legislations and real estate market it's only possible to camp in one authorized camping ground The entire coastal area evolved so to satisfy mainly tourist demand Most beaches along this coastal area had at almost twice the sand we have today the sea was not as “brutal” sea life was abundant and was easy to find different types of molluscs (mainly mussels) have told me that it seems to be more difficult to catch fish on the coast line and even along on the Douro River bank (Douro River) Local inhabitants cannot freely go to their coastline due to the privatization of the area Paulo describes the collective proximate influences and the broad influences This enables him to connect what is happening at the coastline near Porto to what is happening on a global scale due to climate change This results in an image of the availability of an extensive and broad amount of knowledge (on temperature the missing connection to actual policymaking is repeated on an ever-increasing scale from local to global The concrete outcome of this lacking policy manifests itself in the further construction works on the coastal area an actual storm in the winter of 2014 acted as a warning and made clear what will happen in the future no action has been taken or a change in policy has been made political and economic pressure and prioritizing short-term investments did not only detach Paulo from his Madalena beach but it does not acknowledge the collective types of knowledge of the local residents for the action that would be needed Sanne has climate depression in the Netherlands as the subject of her LivExpCC essay Climate change-related depression has set foot in the Netherlands although no exact numbers of sufferers from this form of depression are available yet Although Sanne does not suffer from climate depression herself the fact that many of her friends do enables her to choose this as a suitable subject for an account of LivExpCC Sanne stresses the strong relation between the impacts of climate change and the impact of depression on engagement and action: essential parts of the learning–action cycle climate depression is a trigger to engage in climate activism; for others climate depression like other forms of severe depression is precisely what prevents them from taking any action The choice made in this essay to discuss the situation in the Netherlands was prompted by the author's place of residence There are her friends and acquaintances located that inform her of proximate influences: personal inherited histories of dealing with climate change-related depression mainly of people involved in climate activism (such as Extinction Rebellion) Sanne links sensitivity among Dutch people for climate depression to the Dutch past the Netherlands being an aggressive colonizer and slave trader the Dutch are said to feel consciously guilty about the impact of their own actions on climate change which mainly causes damage elsewhere around the globe Other types of knowledge Sanne includes are related to psychological knowledge on depression and policy She describes how climate activists suffering from climate depression value scientific knowledge on CC: “I am in close contact with someone with CC related depression who joined XR [= Extinction Rebellion] last year and saw him change his view and thoughts on what impacts CC has and will have on the world He used to always base his view on scientific knowledge but now seems to rely even more on information from within XR than anything else If scientific publications show less destructive predictions than thought of within XR he is very skeptic on the quality and background of the research where he would not have been before joining XR Which (…) could make one argue that joining an action group could even worsen CC related depression.” this scientific knowledge itself is not directly relevant to her essay which aims at relating climate depression to policymaking This Dutch manifestation of depression has an important characteristic: in the Netherlands up to 2021 climate depression was mainly caused by a confrontation with the indirect consequences of climate change Although direct consequences of climate change are indeed noticeable in the Netherlands the direct threats are more pressing in the Global South She explicitly notes that she did not find any accounts of climate depression in the Netherlands caused by direct impacts the unusual and severe flooding in the southern part of the Netherlands in the summer of 2021 (the essay was written in the spring of 2020) has changed this for the residents living in that part of the country Although one might think that depression negatively influences willingness to act and therefore the “action” in the learning–action cycle Sanne seems to describe an opposite effect that only seems to apply to a part of the people suffering from this type of depression climate depression actually leads to actively engaging in climate activist groups the negative effects of climate depression are to be found in other parts of the learning–action cycle and concern the extent to which people value the outcomes of new scientific research knowledge derived from the natural sciences on climate change is valued high among climate activists For those who suffer from climate depression it seems that only the most negative scientific scenarios that correspond to the convictions that foster the feelings of climate depression are considered true Scientific knowledge and other types of knowledge provided by proximate or broad contextual influences that are inconsistent with these most negative scenarios are depreciated This triggers Sanne to consider the feelings and experiences of sufferers of climate depression a useful source of knowledge for policymakers because it can bring related problems on health to the surface Prioritizing and communicating policy may be done differently so it will lead to ways to better create support and engagement among citizens we show the results from the ecocritical viewpoint specifically addressing the distances between the human and the natural or nonhuman world inherently human-centered experiences and the connection to locations of the natural world that are made we investigate the span of the narratives that are described in history and the future and how this time span is connected to present-day experiences Our third focus point is interests: what weight is given to diverse stakes and in what way are the human interests related to the concerns of the nonhuman world All three essays acknowledge the global character of climate change and the huge local differences that these have both originating from the Iberian Peninsula describe places located on practically the same latitudes: the first is situated on the western coastline facing the Northern Atlantic Ocean and the second is situated on the eastern coastline of the peninsula that borders the Mediterranean Sea These essays remain close to their own living environment and they connect it to the global consequences of climate change including sea-level rise Both students describe places they feel connected to; the spatial distance is close These sentiments of attachment are reinforced in both narratives by emphasizing the connection is already existing for more generations in the family and that is still valid for several family members: there is a collective connection that spans more than one lifetime Older family members pass knowledge of the areas and experiences with it on to the students who expand their own knowledge and views the rapid changing of the local environment seems to make inhabitants feel detached from their living environment A prime example of this is the limits to visiting one's own coastal area as described by Paulo which seem to be in line with the low appreciation by governments for local lived experiences as sources of knowledge This detachment of humans and their living environment seems to be illustrative of the missing coherence between the diverse sources of knowledge and the willingness to implement appropriate local- and regional-based policy Although climate change is evidently acknowledged as a global problem the focus is on the direct consequences for the students' own living environments and the consequences for different layers of the population of the areas The vulnerability of coastal strips worldwide is acknowledged but the focus stays on the local situation Contemplating the effects of global warming both Iberian essays recognize the nonhuman world explicitly by looking at local wildlife and sea life although these environments were created by humans The balance between the human and the natural world is always the starting point of thinking about these environments: this balance is measured using human-centered values “colonialism” is finally included as a driver of the climate crisis but also as an ongoing problem that increases the vulnerability of communities to it A more extensive relationship between the local lived experience and the power relations in the past and present in these essays could not only expand the case itself but also lead to more realistic and inclusive handling when considering possible solutions for both the human and the nonhuman world Both Iberian students include the past in their essays: Raquel mentions that rice has been grown in the Ebro Delta for two centuries Paulo looks back at his childhood and covers therefore about 50 years in which he (and his father) in their leisure time frequented the natural environment close to their home Both students describe the changes in the area since one generation above them: these developments are outlined by observations of themselves and family and friends (such as the coastline retreating and less fish caught) These observations are linked to scientific data such as measurements of salinity in the Delta The Dutch student mentions the colonial past of the Netherlands which she relates to part of the Dutch being sensitive to feelings of guilt but she does not explicitly include a more personal past to the case she describes presumably because climate depression and the related terms eco-anxiety and solastalgia are relatively new concepts visions of the future play a prominent role in the essays scientific future scenarios were used to complete the LivExpCC visions of the future were included in relevant policies Both Iberian essays speak explicitly about the particularly vulnerable status of both areas to the effects of climate change: the impact not only is great now but also threatens to be much greater in the future Next to the gradual changes that have been visible to the students and their families in previous years both essays explicitly mention a recent storm as a turning point: the storm “Gloria” in January 2020 near the Ebro Delta and the winter storm that wreaked havoc near the coast of Portugal in 2014 The specific storms with their extreme waves feature as visible turning points: both storms destroyed things that can never be restored Raquel states: ‘[….] the strong waves provoked by “Gloria” awashed farmland that will no longer recover'; Paulo writes: ‘The sea came with extreme violence destroying almost all these facilities along the several kilometers of beaches in some cases it was not possible to rebuild […].' In the case of the storm “Gloria,” Raquel observes that it has an impact on the awareness of the diverse local parties Paulo did not see effects in policymaking after the 2014 storm he described in his essay Although the Netherlands can be seen as a vulnerable area in view of its partial location below sea level the Dutch essay does not discuss the direct impact on the living environment in the Netherlands now or in the future This may have to do with the dominant narrative of the Netherlands as the master of the water: coping mechanisms are culturally determined no climate change-related floodings happened yet (this changed in July 2021 Although Sanne does not include a historical view on the Dutch dealing with water currently Dutch scientists and water management policymakers are interested in these historical data on the Dutch landscape and the dealing with water The views of the future that Paulo describes and uses for his LivExpCC analysis are mostly based on scientific predictions up to the year 2100 of temperature rise and sea-level rise Raquel and Sanne focus on more short-term use of the experiences for policymaking that should have an impact on short notice Including specifically a more extensive historical viewpoint that explicitly includes attention to the natural world may provoke thinking about alternative ways of living and dealing with the natural world which also may affect the views on future goals worthy of pursuing The interests of the human and nonhuman world may be intertwined considering accelerated global warming (e.g. loss of biodiversity will affect food production for people) this interrelatedness can be put forward in these essays that start from a human-centered perspective There is a clear division between the representation of nonhuman interests in both the Iberian essays and the Dutch essay which may be related to the experiencing of direct impacts of climate change or indirect impacts of climate change These differences emerge when describing solutions: exactly which problem has to be solved Both Iberian essays describe areas that have long been influenced by humans for economic reasons The fact that people live together with nature is mainly colored by an anthropocentric perspective (agriculture and tourism) The landscapes and their uses are linked to climate change and sea-level rise and loss of economic yields now and in the future The area of the Ebro Delta has been inhabited and cultivated by humans for centuries the cultivation of rice that set in motion the current economic development of the area started about two centuries ago tourism seems to be of great economic impact and has been important for decades the expansion of tourism in this area has not only economic consequences but also made certain areas inaccessible to local inhabitants By losing the possibilities of personal experiences of wild camping local inhabitants have fewer opportunities to connect with and be a part of their natural environment The Iberian essays look for solutions that call for governments and residents and their different interests to be more aligned The Dutch essay also sees a role for the government in a problem The surplus value of including policymaking is only formulated by Sanne as useful for humans as it is good for their psychological health The fact that depression can have a paralyzing effect and therefore negatively affect the willingness to act remains implicit in the proposed solutions but it can have effects on the willingness to take action and thus have negative consequences for the mitigation of climate change Integrating the humanities in Climate Change Education (CCE) seems a promising route using the LivExpCC model. The humanities may increase the level of attending critique, nuance, and multiple perspectives to the current model, which is important for education on sustainability issues (John et al., 2017 It may also increase students' awareness of diversity and enable them to acknowledge this as well This then will lead to a better ground for transnational collaboration and possibilities of knowledge production with fellow students in a glocal curriculum ecocriticism shows to be a promising paradigm for the expansion of the LivExpCC model Adding the subsequent discipline of ecocriticism as a source of knowledge in the learning–action cycle students may be more actively challenged to question and nuance their LivExpCC analysis of the complex matter of climate change Explicitly questioning the human-centered starting point of the model in CCE may make room for a more broader view on the matter and therefor nuance the base values of the students in their LivExpCC could enrich the essays and with this add to the paradigms that lead to thinking about actions and solutions that eventually lead to policy recommendations intended goals may be critiqued and choices for aiming at certain goals can be nuanced or adjusted The value for adding fictional narratives as a source of knowledge in the CCE seems to be promising and aligns with including the humanities in CCE The main study objects of the humanities are the infinitely diverse cultural products such as fictional narratives These cultural products react and reflect on all sorts of (social) issues in many diverse ways and levels and also can influence the public domain in dealing with or thinking about these issues Climate change is one all-encompassing and major issue that requires holistic viewpoints and we need a multidisciplinary educational setting for our future professionals We used an ecocritical lens to analyze higher education student essays on climate change experiences We specifically looked at distances in location and interests between humans and the nonhuman world Surfacing the way these three types of distances play a role in the LivExpCC essays showed us how students relate to climate change as a complex problem with diverse consequences on global and local scales The LivExpCC model proves to be a model that enables students to make connections between points in this complex issue between which there is a distance By making these distances visible and attributing significance to them it is possible to further develop the use of the LivExpCC model in CCE critically diverse forms of knowledge are identified: situated knowledge and local knowledge about residents' living environments are integrated with scientific knowledge about the consequences of climate change The difference in appreciation of scientific knowledge by different groups is discussed All essays have a human point of view that influences the value of the economy and the relation with timescales Anthropocentrism is not rejected nor questioned which is inherent to the current design of the assignment of the students Using the LivExpCC model in higher education on climate change proves to result in valuable analyses of local and regional situations relating to this global problem The model enables students to directly relate to climate change despite the fact that the experience of effects of climate change is very diverse around the globe Especially for students whose daily lives are not so much affected by global warming it is eye-opening to more consciously relate to climate change The LivExpCC model ensures that students understand the connection between their local and regional environment and recognize the (future) effects of climate change They will realize the relationship between scientific data and their own living environments and the value of their own experiences as a source of knowledge Awareness and feeling connected with this global problem will probably positively influence their learning and 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This is the first time the Royal Canadian Air Force has worked with USCG Air Station Savannah but not their first time training with the U.S they did winter training with USCG Air Station Clearwater and they regularly work with USCG Air Station Detroit covering the Great Lakes The Royal Canadian Air Force SAR unit is comparable to the U.S "We are the equivalent of the Coast Guard on the Canadian side with search and rescue is our mandate," he said "We cover a significant amount of the northern part of Canada as well as the Great Lakes region." is that his unit is part of the 424th Transport and Rescue Squadron which is a search and rescue response unit that covers not only water rescue but mountain ground The squadron covers the vast Trenton Search and Rescue Region which extends from Quebec City to the Rocky Mountains border to the North Pole -- an area of more than over ten million square kilometers in Central but working on the water with Coast Guard Station Tybee "Our small boats station out at Tybee is doing the direct support of the hoisting of the boats," said Lt MH65 aircraft commander out of USCG Air Station Savannah The training for the Canadian SAR unit is to upgrading one of their air crew to the position where he can perform search and rescue missions as well as valuable training for the other members of the unit "Our goal is to force generate the flight engineer as well as provide training for SAR techs and proficiency training for pilots," said Capt everyone at Air Station Savannah is involved in the training "Pretty much everyone's involved in one way or another," he said "The biggest direct involvement is on our command That's through supporting them with maintenance support and then just day-to-day business here at the hangar." "I think the biggest is [benefit] for us is the transfer of ideas and techniques," Lt "Learning different techniques and seeing the similarities and differences of how we do the search and rescue business has been the best part of us We've discovered that we do a lot of things similarly but there are always different ways to do things and new techniques and ways to go about things." Also working the Royal Canadian Air Force in their training is the Hunter Airfield Operations team Tate Simms and Vera Herten are two locally-based musicians who perform regularly at the Desert Room here in Gardena Herten spoke to the News about their background and what they have coming up… and what have you done prior to these performances His mom had a choir in a church from an early age he was exposed to music and started playing guitar when he was 8 Tate toured with numerous artists in the US and abroad plays with the West Coast Slave band and the Lakeside Originally from Germany I saw a TV show called Superdrumming which inspired me to play drums I toured with bands in Germany (Isartaler Hexen Currently I play a lot of Tamborazo (traditional Mexican music from Zacatecas) and also work on my music and play frequent blues and rock gigs with Trulio Disgracias (led by Norwood Fisher) and Margaret Love (blues) How did you meet and start performing together We met in 2016 at a jam session at Harvells in Santa Monica and started playing shortly after You name it… except blues and hip-hop As small bars are limited in space and the money they can spend on live music we come as a two-piece band but we’ll rock out How did you start playing at the Desert Room I think six years ago I walked into the Desert Room A friend of mine had told me that they have live music so I figured I’d ask for a date gave us a try out date and we have been there ever since The Desert Room is your good old neighborhood bar with a twist There’s not a lot of live music in Gardena — do you feel like it’s a bit of a wasteland within LA The Desert Room has lots of other bands on Sundays and Tuesdays In the summer there is a jazz festival in a park in Gardena and also there are quite a bit of underground shows Tates Simms’ Utmost is out and available on all digital plat- forms. My stuff is on Soundcloud Tate Simms and Vera Herten play at the Desert Room on the third Tuesday of every month Log in to leave a comment 2019 at 5:05 pm ET.css-79elbk{position:relative;}Special Olympic Athlete Sophia Illiano and her mother Gemma at last year's plunge (Joe Herten)BRANFORD CT - Police officers are used to going above and beyond in their duties but Branford police officer Josef Herten will be taking it to another level on March 30th Officer Herten will plunge into the icy ocean waters off Westbrook 24 times - or once an hour - all to raise money for Special Olympics Herten and others making the plunge(s) will be staying at the Westbrook Elks during the time and making their plunge(s) on the hour - every hour Herten is asking the public to make a contribution to the Special Olympics He had set up a donation page - where he is hoping to raise $2,400 So far he’s raised slightly more than $900 "What started with 1 Dedicated Police Chief in Rhode Island has turned into Police Officers/Firefighters/Athletes from New England states plunging into the frigid water 24 times in 24 hours "Last year a Special Olympics athlete from Rhode Island convinced me with her charm to join a fellow officer from CT to participate in my first 24 Hr Super Penguin plunge in Rhode Island "I have been selected again to take the plunge and against my better judgment I have accepted to plunge into the Long Island Sound in the first 24 Hr Super Plunge in CT in Westbrook on March 30th! "The link to donate to my page is below."https://give.classy.org/Officer-Joe Officer Herten said several local business have agreed sponsor me and also sell plunge penguins for a dollar to support his fundraising efforts who works at the Chowder Pot will be plunging with me and we are having a small event at the Chowder Pot on Wednesday March 20th Under the direction of Officers Herten and Joseph Harrington the Branford Police Department was recently recognized for raising more money for Special Olympics than any police department in state of Connecticut Here is what Officer Herten had to say about the department’s efforts: “Officer Harrington and I have raised over $100,000 in the last three years and Branford Police have been one of the top fundraising departments in the CT for the last six years “This is the first time Branford Police Department has raised over $40,000 and the first time we have been awarded the (CCPA) Connecticut Chiefs of Police Association award for top fundraising department in the state Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. 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MSC Cruises Canada announced two new appointments with Ramon Jacinto as Business Development Manager for Western & Central Canada and Chrysoline Herten as Inside Sales Co-ordinator According to the cruise line's press release Jacinto brings over 20 years of experience in the Canadian travel industry to his new role at MSC beginning his career in the hospitality and the airline industries He most recently represented Norwegian Cruise Line “Having vast experience working alongside our travel partners Ramon takes pride in being able to relate to them and anticipate their needs Ramon will use his expertise in cruise to help identify new opportunities and drive continued growth from Manitoba to British Columbia,” said Ian Patterson “I am excited to join a brand as dynamic as MSC Cruises and one with such incredible growth on the horizon I feel it is a great fit and I’m eager to contribute to the cruise line’s mounting success in North America,” adds Jacinto Chrysoline Herten rejoins MSC Cruises Canada where she previously worked in the Contact Centre and Groups department out of its head office in Mississauga “We feel that this is an important time to grow our Inside Sales department and Chrysoline will assist us to provide more agency support in Western Canada” said Patterson For more information on MSC Cruises Canada, visit its web site You must be logged in to post a comment Logistics Business © 2025 All Rights Reserved. | Privacy | Terms | Site Map Subscribe to our quarterly magazine and weekly newsletter to stay updated with the logistics industry By submitting this form you agree that the personal data you provided will be transferred to Logistics Business for processing in accordance with our Privacy Policy Happy Birthday to one of WAMG’s favorite movie stars Pam’s iconic movie career began when she moved to Los Angeles in the late ‘60s from her native North Carolina at age 18 After a tiny role in Russ Meyer’s BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1970) she landed a job as a receptionist for American International Pictures where she was discovered by Jack Hill an AIP director who cast her in a pair of women’s prison films: THE BIG DOLL HOUSE (1971) and THE BIG BIRD CAGE (1972) Soon she was known as the “Queen of Blaxploitation” at a time when film roles for African-American women were GREASED LIGHTNING is a biographical film about Wendell Scott (Richard Pryor) the first African American to drive in Nascar races the Anglo Americans are not too happy about Scott’s ambitions and do everything possible to stop him.   Pryor is excellent in a rare dramatic role and Beau Bridges is good as a white mechanic who is open minded enough to help him out.  Pam Grier does quite a lot with a role that could have been by the numbers Scott’s wife Mary.   She is nothing less than a tower of strength for Scott when the odds seem impossibly stacked against him.   Greased Lightening was not a bit hit when it was released and it is pretty much forgotten these days.  I saw it in a theater during my tour of duty in the Navy and showed it on my tv station Bouncing back from the lukewarm box office return of ED WOOD Tim Burton decided to bring another beloved childhood icon to the big screen But rather than grabbing up another character from comic books These adored (by kids) “bubblegum” cards told the grisly story of alien invasion in MARS ATTACKS Burton filled the movie with well-known names an all-star cast in the tradition of Irwin Allen’s 70’s disaster epics The main story locales were Washington D.C and Pam Grier’s character was connected to both In “sin city” we meet former prizefighter turned greeter/ entertainer Byron Williams (Jim Brown) at an Egyptian-themed casino where his ex-wife Louise (Grier) is trying to pry their pre-teen boys Cedric and Neville away from a “shooter” video game He assures her that he will be visiting them soon (still a lot of affection between these two) driving a public transit bus through the busy streets of the capitol She will not tolerate them skipping school so she drags them out of the arcade and loads them on to the bus as the very understanding passengers applaud and cheer the glamorous action icongets to show her maternal side and that love can be of the “tough” variety when crossed The no-nonsense matriarch will set those two back on the “straight and narrow’ Unfortunately she’s sidelined during the Martian attack on DC pleading with Byron long distance while admonishing their sons to take cover (I’m sure she could wipe out a platoon of those bulbous-headed bums) Louise enlists the boys in trying to tidy up their apartment (though the building’s missing a wall) Later that year Grier and Brown would share the screen more in ORIGINAL GANGSTAS (a nostalgic return to their screen roots) but both are a welcome addition to this sci-fi satire extravaganza Pam Grier entered a new phase of her prolific career she graduated from Grindhouse High to Big Budget University Perhaps the 1980’s was closer to baseball as Ms Grier was called up to the big leagues AKA major movie studios from the quickie 1981’s FORT APACHE: THE BRONX was an “A-list” prestige picture from Twentieth Century Fox headline by a major movie star grabbing big ratings as the lead of “Lou Grant” Grier was an essential part of Daniel Petrie’s gritty modern-day police drama She truly sets the tone for the story in the first scene as drug-addled working girl Charlotte emerges like a tawdry phoenix from the rubble and filth of the Bronx Sporting a cheap blonde wig and nearly bursting through a fluorescent print cocktail dress she elicits chuckles from two cops having lunch in a patrol car Their laughter is soon cut short when their banter (she slurs too”) prompts her to unload her pistol into them She stumbles back into the city’s squalor while human vultures descend on the squad car We catch a brief glimpse of her later during a street riot She returns in the dark of night when a middle-aged “joe’s” car has a flat In one of the film’s most memorable sequences but in slashing bloody horror from a razor blade as Charlotte become yet another discard piled upon the urban trash heap Grier’s screen time is far too brief but her “angel of death” is a most compelling SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM (1973) was a funky and fun which brought Vampires into Blaxploitation cinema for the first time the year before The success of BLACULA  spawned a bunch of other Blaxploitation/Horror hybrids SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM once again delivered a groovy 70s vibe and the distinguished William Marshall was more than cool in the eponymous role What makes this film especially worthwhile was the casting of  the wonderful Pam Grier as Lisa Fortier who becomes the new voodoo priestess after her elderly predecessor dies though not before using her skills to resurrect Prince Mamuwalde  (aka Blacula) but merely a tormented soul who cannot help but satisfy his thirst for human blood in order to survive a beautiful young woman who has particularly powerful Voodoo-skills The whole thing is strange and ridiculous and stupid and clever and terrible and wonderful a movie that richly deserves its place on a list of Pam Grier’s best The writing of Ray Bradbury is notoriously hard to capture on film Some adaptations are almost complete disasters Illustrated Man anyone?   Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451 is one exception and Something Wicked this Way Comes (1983) is another.   Bradbury was one of the first authors to realize the basic creepiness of carnivals and circus’s.  Along with Jack Finney’s brilliant Circus of Dr Lao Something Wicked This Way Comes tells of a carnival coming to a small town where in something sinister is happening.  Among the attractions at Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show  (I love that name!) is the Dust Witch played with such elegance and grace by Pam Grier I found it hard to believe this was the same woman who made whupping ass an everyday activity.  The Dust Witch has very dark magic at her command but Something Wicked is the rare horror movie cinematic history was made with the release of THE BIG DOLL HOUSE directed by Jack Hill and co-starring Pam Grier in her first feature role.  Hill had been recommended to producer Roger Corman by Francis Ford Coppola Corman’s first choice to direct the film and a friend of Hill’s from UCLA film school.   Corman had just formed his New World Pictures studio and wanted proven types of stories with guaranteed box office.  He got more than he bargained for with DOLL HOUSE which not only was a huge financial success but also established the blueprint for “women in prison” exploitation films for decades to come.  Dispensing with the previous melodramatic storylines in such big studio product as CAGED and SNAKE PIT sometimes graphic situations.  He also determined to put his women characters in roles of power just as if the film starred Cagney or Bogart.  These were real females who swore profusely and weren’t afraid of automatic weapons.  Hill also gathered a memorable ensemble of young actresses to surround Pam:  Roberta Collins (CAGED HEAT and Pat Woodell (miles away from her role as the original Bobbie Jo on TVs PETTICOAT JUNCTION)   The film hits all the obligatory exploitation marks (shower scene etc.) and Pam even gets to sing the main title song  “Long-time Woman” for the movie.  When Corman asked Hill to do a sequel to DOLL HOUSE the following year there were already cheap imitators and rip-offs flooding the drive-in market (Grier herself had made WOMEN IN CAGES right after DOLL HOUSE) so Hill decided to create a semi-spoof of the genre and wrote THE BIG BIRD CAGE with a starring role for Grier (fun fact:  the “cage” of the title was a working sugar mill designed by Hill’s father who also designed the castle at Disneyland!).  Whether seen as feminist manifesto (“All men are filthy!”) or no-holds-barred cult film with kick-ass women BIG DOLL HOUSE is a blast from start to finish and required viewing of 1970s cinema Any movie that finds Pam Grier in bed with Warren Oates has to be considered a must-see 70’s classic a 1975 movie about sexual shenanigans between masters and slaves on the Falconhurst slave-breeding plantation was savaged by critics who saw it as nothing but degrading Roger Ebert called it “racist trash” and MANDINGO certainly had it all; brutal violence and abundant nudity.  But of course it was a huge hit and inspired a brief run of “slaverysploitation” films such as PASSION PLANTATION (1976) and SLAVERS (1978) MANDINGO was overwrought melodrama to be sure but it’s a model of subtlety compared to its official sequel a mean-spirited trash epic from 1976 that would never fly in today’s politically correct climate DRUM’s tawdry story picks up about 20 years after MANDINGO the son of the late Falconhurst patriarch Warren Maxwell purchases a slave named Drum from bordello hostess Marianna (Isela Vega) Drum turns out to be the son of Mede (killed at the end of MANDIGO) the slave who had murdered Hammond’s father Hammond uses Mede and his friend Blaise (Yaphet Kotto) to fight in ridiculous gladiator battles as entertainment for the ‘white folk’ Slave Regine (Pam Grier) is Hammond’s favorite ‘bed wench’ but develops a romance with Drum Hammond’s bratty slut daughter Sophie (Rainbeaux Smith) stirs up trouble between Drum and Blaise by trying to have sex with both of them and then lying to her father that Blaise tried to rape her and a campy gay French slave trader (John Colicos) wants to bed black stud Drum as well emotions erupt and by the end of the movie the black slaves have revolted    against the ‘mastas’ wielding scythes and knives while the white men battle it out with their muskets and rifles Where MANDINGO was at least pretentious and literary (and had a dignified performance by James Mason as Warren Maxwell) DRUM makes no pretense at being anything except cheap thrills exploitation and ups the sleaze quotient by adding lesbianism DRUM is more fast-paced and entertaining than its predecessor Inspired by Stanley Kramer’s THE DEFIANT ONES (starring Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis) BLACK MAMA WHITE MAMA (1973) has no thematic pretensions concerning racism and social inequality.  This is first and foremost a women’s prison exploitation film and contains all the required elements that sub-genre is known for.  The first third of the film takes place in the prison where hot-tempered prostitute Lee (Grier) meets idealistic activist Karen (Margaret Markov) and the women take an immediate dislike to each other.  So of course they end up chained together for most of the film.  However they first have to deal with the usual women’s prison indignities including the wonderful Lynn Borden as a predatory lesbian guard.  Soon and most of the film is Lee and Karen on the run from gangsters and vile locals.  Pam has some wonderful dialogue that she delivers with angry and bitter sassiness and Markov balances the tone with her luminous political fervor.  The inevitable fight between the two is a highlight of the movie as Pam found with Markov another statuesque and strong woman who could match her physicality (the two actresses would work together again a few years later in THE ARENA another ‘70s classic).  Directed by Eddie Romero (the cult films SAVAGE SISTERS the movie is a lean action treat with a darkly cynical ending and vengeance featuring Pam Grier in probably her most iconic role When drug pusher Link Brown (Antonio Fargas) loses half a kilo of cocaine worth $20k his suppliers become irate and send two thugs to work him over he calls his sister Foxy (Pam Grier) to rescue him from the two goons She manages to get to him before they can grab him and puts him up at her place for a few days completely unaware of the exact nature of his predicament her boyfriend (Terry Carter) is an undercover cop who has just undergone a face-lift and assumed a new identity because the same suppliers have a contract out on his head Things begin to take a turn for the worse and Foxy Brown suddenly has a score or two to settle with some major league drug dealers FOXY BROWN was written and shot to be a sequel to director Jack Hill’s previous film COFFY where Grier played a nurse with a bad attitude and a penchant for taking her aggression out on mother**kers who wronged her the studio forced Hill to make Foxy Brown stand-alone at the last minute The opening credits to FOXY BROWN are like a funked-out version of a 007 intro with Foxy dancing around in front of multi-colored backgrounds all the while rocking her outfits from the film The title sequence employs almost every trick in the title design book from image rotoscoping and solarization to multi-layered optical animation and colorization One of the best scenes in FOXY BROWN has to do with one of Foxy’s friends though she is supposed to be laying low (people need to “lay low” often in Foxy’s world) wanders into a lesbian bar and Foxy has to get her out This lesbian bar needs to be seen to be believed And in a wonderful endorsement of equal rights these female bar patrons are just as violent and prone to fight over nothing as any beer-belching men When director Jack Hill was asked by American International Pictures to direct a “black woman’s revenge movie,” he immediately insisted on casting his favorite actress Pam Grier.  The resulting cult classic was COFFY (1973) which was a huge hit and helped launch the “blaxploitation” films of the 1970s.  It also contains one of Grier’s finest performances.  Grier portrays “Coffy” Coffin nurse by day and angel of vengeance by night.  She is out to get anyone who was involved in turning her younger sister into a “smack addict at 11…..her whole life is gone!”  And Coffy doesn’t care how high up the junkie food chain she has to go – even to the top dog himself.  Along the way and fights her way on a one-woman rampage to rid the world of drug pushers and avenge her sister.  Hill wisely created the role of a woman with no special skills—she’s not a martial arts expert or professional assassin.  She is a strong her sexuality to help her achieve her goals.  However she’s not just a killing machine; she wonders throughout the movie if she’s in some kind of dream—an allusion to the “dream state” that ancient warriors achieved before they went into battle.  In this early film Grier shows why she’s a true star:   her unique blend of physically imposing power with a natural ability to show vulnerability and raw emotion.  At the end of the film “I loved you!  I loved you so much!” your heart breaks a little bit It had been three and a half long years since Quentin Tarantino had rocked the movie world with the one-two punch of RESERVOIR DOGS (1992) and PULP FICTION (1994) Tarantino had the clout to cast anyone he wanted for JACKIE BROWN (1997) the film he adapted from Elmore Leonard’s novel Rum Punch and I’m sure most of Hollywood wanted to work with him and he put together his usual imaginative ensemble of major players Pam Grier was the now-mature siren of Blaxploitation the star of many wonderful 70’s urban classics such as COFFY (1973) articulate ass-kicker in these films and Tarantino was a huge fan (she’s mentioned by name in his scripts for both RESERVOIR DOGS and TRUE ROMANCE) He’d originally considered Grier for PULP FICTION in the role ultimately played by Roseanne Arquette (which would have made her the mate of Eric Stoltz an actor I can see Pam Grier breaking in half with two fingers) and changed the lead character in Leonard’s novel from a blonde Caucasian to an African-American in order to accommodate Grier (in the novel Tarantino renamed her Brown after her character from FOXY BROWN) Pam Grier was 48 when she starred in JACKIE BROWN (though her character claims to be 44) and she gives a strong world-weary performance tough and believable especially when standing up to Samuel L It’s been noted that JACKIE BROWN did not do for Grier’s career what PULP FICTION did for John Travolta but then how many parts were there in Hollywood for black women pushing 50 Pam Grier did receive some choice roles after JACKIE BROWN including parts in John Carpenter’s GHOST OF MARS (2001) LARRY CROWNE (2011) as well as roles in the TV shows The L-Word and Smallville JACKIE BROWN was the perfect mix of pulp fiction Windpower Engineering & Development By | December 1 The HySTAT uses pressurized alkaline electrolysis to generate high purity hydrogen at pressures to 25 bar (363 psi) directly from the electrolyser module Hydrogen and oxygen are channeled through efficient inorganic membranes resulting in high-quality hydrogen A manufacturer of hydrogen generation and fuel cell products says it has been selected by the City of Herten Germany to store hydrogen generated from wind power Herten is a major German hydrogen cluster for electro-mobility as well as renewable energy projects Renewable wind energy is a good source of power for communities to offset the demand traditionally 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The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of WTWH Media Privacy Policy | Advertising Learn how to describe the purpose of the image (opens in a new tab) Leave empty if the image is purely decorative The sorting plant of AGR-DAR in Herten processes sorts and assembles light weight packaging material for recycling This procedure starts with the BO Bag Opener from BRT Hartner: the BO with integrated feed hopper is filled by wheel loader with the bags stored in the reception hall The incorporated moving floor conveyor with a new modified drive pushes the material to the two-part drum The two halves of the drum are driven separately and create a relative movement which leads to reliable and efficient opening of the plastic bags The content of the bags is loosened up but not shredded during this process The drum and its ripping fingers are of extremely high rigidity A new special coating even quadruples the lifespan of these tools the largest and most highly performing BRT HARTNER machine achieves a throughput of up to 220 m³ of light weight packaging per hour there is no other bag opener in the world that can process more material with an opening efficiency of 95 % The material processed by the BO is eventually fed to further treatment by a downstream inclination belt conveyor of the company Eggersmann Anlagenbau „We have successfully cooperated with BRT Hartner in the past and we are very pleased to optimize the handling process in our new sorting plant with the anniversary machine“ explains AGR-DAR managing director Lambert Freitag „We are very happy about the repeated decision of AGR-DAR for one of our products as it verifies our quality-conscious and customer-driven focus“ Pig sticking probably is a proposition most Bedford area residents have never perused.But Pig Sticking will be in the spotlight tonight when a group of thespian students from Herten present their musical play in the Bedford North Lawrence High School Performing Arts Center There is no admission chargeThe play not only will clear up what pig sticking is actually it also will show how the porcine entertainment is used as a serious reflection on the differences between the haves and the have-nots.The students are a group of goodwill ambassadors who call themselves Bridges bridges from Germany to Bedford between different schools and between countries a drama coach and English teacher at Herten She planned the trip from the Herten end with Erick Amick a BNL graduate and pen pal with one of Bischoff-Dolls students.The Bridges group has taken a play to England for the past 10 years as a goodwill gesture and an experience for the German students Bridges came to BedfordAnother side of the play presentation is the students themselves only 33 were able to make the trip to Bedford.They earned part of their payment for trip costs by selling pancakes at their twice-a-week city market and by having a display booth.The students also had their own form of pig sticking They took piggy banks around for people to stick in their contributions.Some contributions came from the ministry the school and the school board.One big stockyard owner gave us 8,000 marks as a loan We will have work to do to pay it back when we get back We will have to do weeding and cleaning at the stockyard.With making pancakes and setting up decorations an adult member of Bridges who helped with fund raising.There are quite a few songs in the play and she supports the little ones in the singing She has been a member of the group seven years She has a daughter in the group now.Even though she has been in Bedford only a short time Michel has a favorable impression of Hoosiers.It looks like television the houses The people weve met have been very helpful very nice.Our bus driver and his son drove us around Indianapolis while we waited for the other group (the rest of the students) to show up Their helpfulness was conspicuous.One thing about Hoosiers that Bischoff-Doll found encouraging was that they have a sense of humor.Theyre not all that very serious we thought everything was serious Indiana and Bedford reassuring.What pig sticking isBischoff-Doll was afraid that Hoosiers would not see the humor in the Pig Sticking play one of them being the scene involving an ancient game known as pig sticking.It used to be a competitive game in Nurenburg in the 16th century A rich person donated a pig and the pig was fastened to a pole in an arena Then they sent blind beggars into the arena Their task was to find the pig and hit or stick the pig the participants would hit each other.Those watching were the rich; those hitting were poor people she explained as the extended meaning of the game derive pleasure from seeing poor people compete for their money It is the attitude of the rich concerning the poor people.But Bischoff-Doll has taken comfort in the attitudes of the people she has found at Bedford.You have the right audience for the play The reformers were the Anabaptists in that time (the setting for the play) Now the largest assembly of Baptists is in Indiana.The religious persecution will be understood here extremely well The Anabapatists were persecuted by a reformed society.The Anabaptists wrote the words of lots of songs They took popular melodies (for their words) They needed the songs to lift each other up.The play is about the high and the low the rich and the poor and the in-between classes who wanted to rise.Bischoff-Doll said that with only part of the cast coming to Bedford she needs some extras for the peaceful demonstration scene which she compared to the peaceful protests of the 1960s hippie movement.Anyone interested can contact her or the cast at the PAC before the performance.Students hometownThe origin of the goodwill ambassadors and their drama teacher is Herten Westphalia in Western Germany.Traditionally One town leads to another town with little space in between It was the center of steel making and coal mining but they closed down the last mine last year.A half-million people were employed in the mines The area not only has unemployed mine workers but also people who depended on them to buy their wares.The butchers tool makers when the mining stopped they also had to close their shops They call it restructuring to find new jobs for those people Some took early retirement.The Herten area actually is made up of two towns and some villages The area is attractive to tourists because the two towns once had two counts who had two castles.The castles are distinctive for different reasons One count is still alive and has made his castle into a golfing hotel and his grounds into a golf course for players from all over the world.The other castle is in a castle park with trees hundreds of years old The castle and park are the site of concerts meetings and dining.Many houses in the old town are the old timbered style and are protected by a heritage group Bischoff-Doll said.The schools include a comprehensive school and a technical school Herten also has an adult education center for those who want to continue learning The page you are looking for was not found Here are some links to help you find creative ideas in the big city Celebrating creativity and promoting a positive culture by spotlighting the best sides of humanity—from the lighthearted and fun to the thought-provoking and enlightening is wanted for six counts of fail to comply with probation and one count of uttering death threats in connection with an assault investigation A 40-year-old Toronto man convicted of assaulting a woman and is wanted for unlawfully contacting her on two occasions and the information within may be out of date got into an argument with a woman in an apartment in downtown Toronto’s Garden District Herten-Greaven was subsequently charged and convicted of one count of assault and ordered to have no contact with the victim Toronto police said they received a call for a disturbance in in the Beach Triangle area near Dundas Street East and Edgewood Avenue Investigators report Herten-Greaven was inside a building when he allegedly approached the assault victim police responded to a call for unknown trouble again at an address near Edgewood Avenue and Dundas Street East the same woman was inside a building when Herten-Greaven reportedly threatened her is now wanted for six counts of fail to comply with probation and one count of uttering death threats He is described as 6’2” and 225 pounds with short red hair and blue eyes Police said Herten-Greaven is “known to be violent and dangerous.” Anyone who locates him should not approach Anyone with further information should contact police at 416-808-5500, or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477) or online at www.222tips.com Your browser is out of date and potentially vulnerable to security risks.We recommend switching to one of the following browsers: Actress Nicole Kidman has spoken about the pain caused by her divorce from Tom Cruise On a British chat show she revealed that the split had “left her shaken” but that she had now moved on and would love to get married again Speaking to veteran journalist Michael Parkinson the striking star of Moulin Rouge admitted that the break-up had left her shaken but her children Isabella and Connor had helped to keep her going “You have two kids and there’s times when you say ‘I just want to curl up in a ball and never get out of bed’ “Then you have a six-year-old coming in and going “I didn’t expect it to happen to me,” continued the Australian actress ‘How are you?’ Divorce is divorce and it’s a tough thing to go through Nicole spoke warmly of the decade spent with Hollywood’s most powerful actor “You’re in a fishbowl and all of those things but you also only have each other that you exist in and that’s quite romantic We would go to Rome and he wouldn’t walk down the street in the day because of people coming up We’d break out of the hotel room and run around at 3am We broke into the Coliseum – climbed the fences and broke in It’s a way of dealing with being really well known but still being able to see a city like Rome.” An American magazine has linked her with Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz and a British newspaper has got tongues wagging with the revelation that Robbie Williams paid the film star a midnight visit at the Dorchester Hotel The two have recorded a version of the classic song Somethin’ Stupid which is a frontrunner for the Christmas Number One and Nicole was present at the former Take That singer’s Royal Albert Hall show last week Robbie had invited his singing partner to perform live at the gig but she pulled out citing shyness as the reason A spokeswoman for the singer confirmed that Robbie spent time in Nicole’s hotel room “They are friends and they were hanging out,” she said By entering your details, you are agreeing to HELLO! Magazine User Data Protection Policy. You can unsubscribe at any time. For more information, please click here FULL-TIME offers you an easy way to manage your football leagues online Helpful apps and websites to support leagues and clubs To mark International Transgender Day of Visibility and the close of The FA-endorsed Football v Transphobia week if action transgender photographer Dr Sophie Cook reveals her ten favourite photos The 53-year-old transitioned from Steve to Sophie in 2015 and in doing so also became the first transgender woman to work in the Premier League as a photographer for AFC Bournemouth She has since contested East Worthing & Shoreham in the 2017 General Election and is currently a key worker specialising in mental health and dementia care during the COVID-19 pandemic You can follow Dr Sophie Cook on Twitter via @sophiecooktalks. She has also written a book titled, 'Not Today: How I chose Life' where you can read more about her inspiring life story. Get all the latest football news sent directly to your inbox Sweden’s Moa Folke produced a finish that has perhaps ruled out Leona Maguire this weekend at the KPMG Women’s Irish Open Folke went on a blistering run on the back nine that came to an end with a stunning closing eagle on the par-5 18th as she emerged from the pack and opened up a two-shot halfway lead in Dromoland Castle Even without the eagle it still would have been a closing stretch to remember as the Swede reeled off four birdies in a row from the 13th to jump into a share of the lead Folke holds a two-shot lead over Carmen Alonso Klara Spilkova and Smilla Tarning Soenderby with Ann van Dam and Ursula Wikstrom a shot further back on –9 Her round of 62 is the lowest in her LET career and if her finish was excellent then her front nine was even better as she reached the turn in just 30 strokes on a course that has been reduced to just over 6100 yards with preferred lies in place “I don’t know what happened out there really All the putts just seemed to go into today I hit some really good shots and I’m really happy but I don’t know if I can understand what happened I made some mistakes but still ended up in good spots and then I made a lot of putts I’m not going to lie,” said Folke who carded nine birdies and an eagle Home favourite Maguire teed off just two shots off the pace after a hot putter masked some scrappy golf in an opening 67 her flat stick was unable to bail her out this time and four successive bogeys on her back nine saw her tumble out of contention a rather disgruntled Maguire signed for a disappointing 75 as she fell back to two-under and a share of 42nd place The cut fell at one-under and Aideen Walsh of Dromoland will rue her second shot into the par-5 16th which cost her a bogey and meant she missed out by the minimum on level-par after a second round of 73 Scoring HERE  Subscribe to our newsletter to get the latest Irish Golfer news straight to your inbox document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id" "a730f96f3ef5f3ab55e1971b26d67530" );document.getElementById("a75f86a167").setAttribute( "id" and website in this browser for the next time I comment This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy & Terms of Service apply Address:Match Play Media LimitedThe Kinsealy GrangeChapel RoadPortmarnockCounty DublinD13 A5R2 Tel: +353-1-5036090+353-1-5036099Email: info@matchplaymedia.ie © Match Play Media 2018 – 2025 | All rights reserved. No information on this website may be reproduced without written permission from Match Play Media. | Privacy Policy | Website by FlyingFish.ie All articles from our websiteThe digital version of Today's PaperBreaking news alerts direct to your inboxAll articles from the other regional websites in your areaContinueDr Newsome spent her summer fighting bushfires and feeding stock in the blazing heat Her family own a sheep and cattle farm at Dundee "All the timber of the property was burnt and it comes on top of two years of really severe drought," she lamented Dr Newsome completed her medical degree in Port Macquarie in 2019 Despite falling in love with Port Macquarie while studying in the town she admits a little bit of her "heart" is back on the farm knowing how tough people in Dundee are doing it "Growing up in a rural community I've always had an awareness of the rewards and challenges of working in rural healthcare," she said Her long-term goal is to become an anaesthetist but she is keeping her options open "There are a lot of opportunities at the hospital," she said "I am also a bit of a bookworm," Dr Newsome jokes Sophie NewsomeDr Newsome was one of 11 new medical interns welcomed to Port Macquarie Base Hospital on Thursday January 23 by Port Macquarie MP Leslie Williams and Mid North Coast Local Health District Chief Executive Stewart Dowrick Another new intern Dr Lisa Morgan said she was attracted to Port Macquarie for her first year as a doctor because she wanted to work in a rural area "I had great experiences in rural country towns in the hospitals," she said Dr Morgan grew up in Penrith but did her medical placements at Lithgow and the Hawkesbury In her spare time you will find her at some of the local racetracks "I really like horse racing," she enthused Another intern Dr Tara Van Herten said she was "excited" to finally be a doctor "I still feel like a bit of an imposter but hopefully we will settle in soon," she confided in The Port News Dr Van Herten is no stranger to the region Despite growing up in Sydney she spent many holidays on the Mid-North Coast in Forster-Tuncurry where she has family "I really enjoy the lifestyle of the area and the working culture at the hospital seems really positive," she said While you're with us, you can now receive updates straight to your inbox from the Port Macquarie News. 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More information Follows successful delivery of award winning National College for High Speed Rail Willmott Dixon is aiming to extend its track-record for building award-winning projects in Doncaster after being appointed by Doncaster Council for a £7.7m mixed-use scheme called the Herten Triangle The company’s National College for High Speed Rail in Doncaster recently won four awards including the accolades of ‘Best Educational Building’ and ‘Winner of Winners’ at the South Yorkshire and Humber LABC (Local Authority Building Control) Excellence Awards Now the company’s new-build commercial skills have been tasked with building a new retail park in the town creating five restaurants and three drive-through units that will be home to a host of big names including Costa Burger King and Dunkin Donuts will be moving in The site was originally planned to be developed by a private sector developer which was unable to make the project viable and attract the national restaurants needed for the area The council then stepped in and have brought the project to fruition which will create more than 200 jobs and bring in more business rates for the borough Procured through Scape Group’s Major Works framework Willmott Dixon is working with DLG Architects and Rex Procter & Partners as project manager managing director inthe North for Willmott Dixon: Willmott Dixon is continuing its relationship with the council’s housing arm St Leger Homes with a contract to build 41 units in Conisbrough and 25 homes on Warde Avenue in Balby three and four bed houses and two bed bungalows The project will be completed by the summer of 2019 and are being delivered through a partnership between Doncaster Council So far Willmott Dixon’s residential specialists have built 180 homes in the town One of two colleges we are building to train thousands of HS2 engineers retail and community facilities to create sustainable communities Will stimulate further collaboration and partnerships between university Latest project in Sutton follows work on the high street and award winning Passivhaus schools Latest project in Oldham continues track-record for public realm green space for people to enjoy nature have been appointed to drive Dover's regeneration plans to create a vibrant Focus on recycling and circular economy continues to pay dividends Second topping out for a police station in a week Welcome to building.co.uk. 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Read our policy A festival focused on the future of digital construction By 2018-07-03T06:30:00+01:00 Retail job continues contractor’s relationship with Yorkshire town’s council Willmott Dixon has been signed up by Doncaster council to build a £7.7m mixed-use scheme called the Herten Triangle The company will be constructing a new retail park (pictured) housing five restaurants and three drive-through units that are expected to host the likes of Costa The site was originally planned to be developed by an unnamed private sector developer which was unable to make the project viable or attract the restaurant brands needed for the area Procured through Scape Group’s Major Works framework Doncaster mayor Ros Jones said: “Since this scheme halted under the private sector developer we have been working hard with the industry to ensure this project is completed “In just over a year we have been able to completely turn this on its head brought in the national and international providers and ensured this can be developed.” Willmott Dixon is already working with the council’s housing arm St Leger Homes on a contract to build 41 units in Conisbrough and 25 homes on Warde Avenue in Balby also expected to be finished early next year Civil servants looking to arrange meeting with G15 bosses following publication of State of the Capital report Despite numerous reviews finding no evidence of housebuilders deliberately withholding land from the market we are again having to talk about ‘unbuilt’ homes DESNZ will boost green skills under its Warm Homes Plan through financial awards  Former Interserve subsidiary posts turnover of £542m for 2024 150 Aldersgate was fully pre-let to social media giant prior to completion and includes new terraces a reconfigured entrance and a public art installation Site powered by Webvision Cloud Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.