Irish Men #39;s Sheds International Festival 2014 - President Patron, Michael D. Higgins
Listen to the Patron of the Irish Men #39;s Sheds and President of Ireland give his blessing on the conference and the importance on the work being done in the Irish Men #39;s Sheds Movement. The Irish...
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For the blind players in "Algorithms," chess is not just a mental game but a tactile one.
Sociologist Ian McDonald's first feature-length documentary profiles three Indian teen boys competing in blind chess tournaments and the mentor who's determined to produce a world champ. Shooting in handsome black-and-white, the filmmaker zeros in as the contenders' fingers read the specially designed board and pieces, and he captures on their intent faces the significance of each move.
McDonald's up-close filmmaking tracks the boys at regional and international meets over three years. The repetition of chess lingo can be mind-numbing, until it becomes a kind of poetry, an incantation: strategy as credo in a subculture that's both strange and familiar.
He visits the players in their homes. One mother, a seemingly overbearing stage parent when first glimpsed in the heat of competition, comes into sympathetic focus as her husband describes the horrendous childhood illness that took their son's sight. Another boy, whose visual impairment is partial, is determined not to be treated differently from the sighted.
As with many stories about children involved in a competitive activity, "Algorithms" is partly a portrait of grown-up hopes channeled through kids. (But where are the girls?) The adult at the center of the film, Charudatta Jadhav, became a chess whiz after losing his vision as a teenager. He'd make a compelling documentary subject by himself. As advisor to the up-and-comers, he's quietly philosophical. His pep talks and his disappointments are never sugarcoated, and they're all the more affecting for it.
"Algorithms."
No MPAA rating.
In English, Hindi, Tamil and Odiya with English subtitles.
Running time: 1 hour, 36 minutes.
Playing: Laemmle's Town Center 5, Encino.
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'Algorithms' sheds light on blind teen chess players
A video of Nina Pham, the first person known to contract Ebola in the United States, shows the Dallas nurse in good, if emotional, spirits.
"Don't cry! Don't cry!" a healthcare worker in the room says as Pham, sitting up in her hospital bed and wearing a green surgical smock, appears to be tearing up but still smiling.
Pham, 26, was part of the healthcare team in Dallas treating Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed on U.S. soil. Pham became ill late last week and was diagnosed over the weekend.
The video was recorded shortly before Pham began her transfer for treatment at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. "Come to Maryland, everybody," she says cheerfully.
In the last few seconds of the video, shot in her isolated room at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, Pham is seen wiping away tears.
"I love you guys," she tells the heavily protected staff in the room with her.
The video was shot by Dr. Gary Weinstein, who thanked her for getting well.
"Thanks for being part of the volunteer team to take care of our first patient," Weinstein tells Pham, referring to Duncan. "It means a lot. This has been a huge effort by all of you guys."
Amber Vinson, a second nurse diagnosed with Ebola at the Dallas hospital, was flown to Atlanta and is now hospitalized at Emory.
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Kitzhaber Sheds a Tear Responding to Cylvia Hayes Controversy
"I was very taken aback by it and hurt." John Kitzhaber appears to shed a tear when speaking about how he was lied to by live-in gal pal Cylvia Hayes.
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OPINION: What to think about dairy sheds, as featured on the front page and online on Tuesday?
There are two clear schools of thought, positive and negative, which can also be loosely bracketed as farmers versus townies.
There are few people in the middle.
On the plus side there is less pollution from a shed operation. Cow effluent and runoff are better able to be managed. Everyone has to like that.
Not so clear-cut is the aspect that life is easier for the cow, which it obviously is, because the cows live longer. But is that necessarily a good thing?
Farmers think so because it gives them extra production, townies swayed the other way because the animals are inside for 10 months of the year which isn't natural.
Also not clear-cut are the benefits or otherwise of the sheds themselves.
Townies think of the lack of sun and that cows don't get to wander free in paddocks, while cockies think of the times their animals don't have to endure weather extremes such as floods or heatwaves.
Cows die in these things.
Perhaps the biggest disconnect though is around the thinking that farms are businesses.
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Editorial: New cowsheds create wide divide
OPINION: What to think about dairy sheds, as featured on the front page and online on Tuesday?
There are two clear schools of thought, positive and negative, which can also be loosely bracketed as farmers versus townies.
There are few people in the middle.
On the plus side there is less pollution from a shed operation. Cow effluent and runoff are better able to be managed. Everyone has to like that.
Not so clear-cut is the aspect that life is easier for the cow, which it obviously is, because the cows live longer. But is that necessarily a good thing?
Farmers think so because it gives them extra production, townies swayed the other way because the animals are inside for 10 months of the year which isn't natural.
Also not clear-cut are the benefits or otherwise of the sheds themselves.
Townies think of the lack of sun and that cows don't get to wander free in paddocks, while cockies think of the times their animals don't have to endure weather extremes such as floods or heatwaves.
Cows die in these things.
Perhaps the biggest disconnect though is around the thinking that farms are businesses.
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New cowsheds create wide divide
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Chesapeake Energy Corp. CHK, +17.11% shares rallied Thursday after the company said it sold 413,000 acres in shale formations in West Virginia and southwest Pennsylvania to Southwestern Energy Co. SWN, -7.59% for $5.38 billion. For Chesapeake, the deal could fuel a share buyback, debt reduction, and increased activity in oil-rich areas, analysts at Citi said in a note Thursday. Southwestern Energy shares fell 8.1%, the top decliner among energy companies in the S&P 500 index. Some analysts said the deal looked expensive for Southwestern, and the company announced it was using a $5 billion bridge loan from Bank of America Merrill Lynch to pay for the deal. Southwestern added it plans to tap debt and equity markets around the transaction's closing to raise the permanent financing.
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RENEWABLES could help feather the nests of Herefordshire broiler producers looking to fund new poultry sheds in response to growth from poultry giant, Cargill.
Hereford-based Cargill is expected to need 90 new poultry sheds as part of development plans to meet a rise in poultry consumption poultry is expected to account for more than half of our meat intake this year, up from just over a third 20 years ago.
And farmers such as Andrew Davies, who has been rearing broilers at Aberhall Farm near Ross-on-Wye since 2001, are supporting their expansion by incorporating renewable energy production into plans.
Adopting renewable technology simply restores poultry margins back to where they should be, he explains. Costs of production have gone up but returns havent kept pace, so income from renewables is becoming pretty important in poultry enterprises where margins are typically squeezed.
Without renewables youd be looking at 15 years or more to pay back the investment in a standard shed; with renewables, this is nearer six years if you can get your costs right.
Andrew has installed 198kW boilers to heat his six sheds; each takes a multi-fuel feedstock of anything from wood chip to miscanthus also known as elephant grass rape straw and poultry litter (thanks to recent Environment Agency approval), increasing his ability to deal with supply issues or future price rises.
Further insulation from fluctuations in biomass feedstock markets will come from 8ha of his own miscanthus he has planted for the first time this year. The miscanthus will be due for its first harvest in two years time, and with yields of about 20 tonnes per ha per year expected over the next 20 years, this should leave us about 15 per cent self-sufficient in energy crops at our current rate of use, he explained.
This means we will be less reliant on wood chip, which we currently source as timber offcuts from Forest of Dean. Its a great local supply, but the price has recently risen to 31 per tonne and we still have to pay for chipping on top of that. So it definitely pays to keep your options open by making sure the boiler can run on a variety of materials.
He says the underfloor heating installed in the last of his sheds has proven especially beneficial during the initial 18 days of the production cycle. It might add 55,000 to capital outlay, but before a batch of chicks arrives in cold weather, it can take 25 per cent less energy to get the shed up to temperature.
Then it dries the litter out better, lowers ammonia levels, reduces odour and keeps an even temperature across the whole shed. Ive seen perfect chick distribution in that shed even on the coldest of days an hour after chicks arrive and a reduction in podo-dermatitis incidence.
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Christopher Lee Sheds Blood of Saxon Men
Who #39;s blood? Saxon Men.
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Given the sheer size of the TRF and constant tweaking of the portfolio by Mr Gross, Wall Street dealers and futures markets were never starved of business.
However, the big West Coast playeras Pimco was often dubbed by the Streetfrequently used the power of its $2tn assets to demand steep concessions from the traders who arranged its transactions and the salesman who sold it bonds.
A former bond salesman who worked on syndicating debt deals for investors says Pimco could walk into a pending deal and receive a full allotment of new paper ahead of others.
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"When I saw them in deals, they got a full fill no questions asked, even on deals where they came in late," he says. He adds how on hot bond deals that attracted hefty demand from investors, Pimco was an exception to the rule that every bond fund would be scaled back in order to guarantee broad participation.
At times the power of Pimco could help a bank underwriting a bond deal by compelling an issuer to sell debt at a higher cost to guarantee a successful sale that included the bond firm as an investor.
"There is no question that on Wall Street, Pimco would drive a very hard bargain over deals and pricing," says a fixed income trader.
Read MoreBill Gross wants to 'whip the pants' off Pimco
Away from the Street, the massive size of Pimco across markets has sparked tension, notably in Chicago, where Mr Gross and the bond house were often major players in US Treasury futures contracts.
In 2010, Pimco settled a private lawsuit brought by traders, who accused the bond manager of manipulating the price of US Treasury futures back in 2005.
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Wall St sheds light on Bill Gross reign