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Butte County Public Health has confirmed another new case of measles, bringing the total reported cases in the county to 11.
The ABC congratulates Screen Australia’s Indigenous Department for marking 25 years of supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, voices and stories, including the landmark ABC series Redfern Now and Mystery Road.
The ABC and Screen Australia share a proud history of delivering distinctive content, told through an Indigenous lens. Together, we have enabled Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to tell and share their own stories and supported Indigenous talent.
Since 1993, the Indigenous Department has provided $35 million in funding for more than 160 films, TV programs and documentaries, including ABC series The Gods of Wheat Street, Bush Mechanics, 8MMM, The Warriors and Mystery Road – which averaged 1.3m viewers and is the most successful non-children’s show on ABC iview.
Screen Australia Head of Indigenous Penny Smallacombe said: “For 25 years Screen Australia’s Indigenous Department has helped to get First Nations stories on screens and very often that was on the ABC. When you think of the moments of seismic change in Indigenous representation on television such as Redfern Now, Gods of Wheat Street, 8MMM, Mystery Road, plus documentaries like Bush Mechanics, Coniston and Crocker Island Exodus, ‘Aunty’ was our steadfast partner.
“You cannot underestimate the power of seeing yourself on screen. Thanks to the ABC, SBS and NITV, a whole generation of Indigenous people now not only expect to see their stories on television, but they absolutely believe it’s possible to make those stories themselves. Our creators have always been welcomed at the ABC, our stories have always been held with care and we now have a catalogue of hits to prove what Indigenous people can do when they are in the driver’s seat.
Screen Australia’s Indigenous Department will celebrate its 25th anniversary at a function in Sydney on 30 August, which is co-sponsored by the ABC.
No, Amazon has repeatedly said what is being recorded, it's outlined in various documents on using the device (Ts&Cs etc.).
What you are saying that you don't believe what Amazon has said. There is a difference.
Amazon has stated multiple times, and in their documentation that (paraphrased), a correctly working device sends nothing to Amazon until the device is activated with its activation word or by pressing the button on the device itself. The Echo has enough processing power to identify the specific keywords, this is why the allowed list is so short, so it doesn't require much local processing to recognise it. Once it has been activated by the keyword/button press, it transmits a certain amount of following audio (10 seconds I think it is? I forget) to Amazon to then be parsed for the request, and this recording is saved for a certain period of time.
I personally believe that is how the device works and is intended to function. But I will not have one, because while that might be how Amazon operates now, it's quite possible for them to change how they operate, or to unintentionally introduce a bug that records more than it's supposed to (I think this has happened before? It might not have been Echo, but could have been a competing product), or it could be susceptible to being hacked - whether from criminals or the government. Therefore whether you trust the vendor or not, I think it is ridiculous for anyone to have an always-on mic (or video) sitting in a private place that could be a vector for an un-related, un-trusted body to exploit.
PORTLAND, Ore. — The University of Northern Colorado continued to use the fourth quarter as a way of saving grace Saturday afternoon.
However, it was hardly enough as the Bears lost 35-14 to Portland State University at Providence Park in Big Sky Conference action.
UNC is winless at 0-7 overall and 0-4 in BSC play. Portland State is 3-4 overall, 2-2 in conference action.
Collins also talked about the Bears’ stopping their own drives — two interceptions on Saturday kept the Bears from scoring.
“We’re killing each other on both sides of the ball,” Collins added.
UNC senior wide receiver Alex Wesley had another big day for the Bears, hauling in 163 yards in receptions, including a 42-yard fourth quarter touchdown.
The Bears actually had some impressive numbers in the loss, but none that snap their longest losing streak in more than five seasons.
UNC piled up 367 yards of total offense, but it yielded 192 to PSU on the ground.
Portland State recorded five sacks, which kept UNC’s offense from establishing any momentum. It also had 10 tackles for loss.
Quarterback Conor Regan was 27 for 44 for 351 passing yards, but he was intercepted three times, two leading to PSU touchdowns.
Wesley scored the Bears’ first touchdown , but it didn’t come until the fourth quarter after the Bears trailed by 35 points.
Milo Hall added a 2-yard touchdown run with just a little over five minutes to play as the Bears cut the gap to 35-14.
With 11 minutes, 28 seconds left in the game, Wesley hauled in his 42-yard touchdown catch from Conor Regan to finally put the Bears on the board.
Wesley’s touchdown has hardly overcome the frustration UNC has had all day as Regan was twice been intercepted at the goal line.
With a 28-0 halftime lead, the Vikings marched down the field with their first possession of the second half and scored on a 2-yard run by Carlos Martin to extend their lead to 35-0 with 5 minutes, 56 seconds left in the third quarter.
The drive was nine plays and featured all running plays.
All five of the Vikings’ touchdowns were on the ground and they were 5 for 5 in the red zone.
UNC had 134 yards of total offense at the half, but nothing to show for it. PSU has 176 yards at the half and scored a pair of touchdowns in each quarter, three on the ground by quarterback Davis Alexander.
The Bears’ best chance to get on the board stalled inside the PSU 10 in the final minute of the half as Trae Riek and Hall were stopped short of the goal by a stout Vikings defense.
Regan was also intercepted by Anthony Adams at the goal line in the first quarter, and the Vikings then marched 99 yards for a touchdown in a drive that lasted nearly seven minutes on 13 plays.
Collins said that lineup or scheme changes have already been made, including having to go with Regan at quarterback after backup Keaton Mott continues to undergo concussion protocol.
“If I knew how to fix this, it’d already be fixed,” Collins said. “We have four more (games) and we have to try and get it fixed. We made too many mistakes in the first half of this game.
The Bears will return home and play host to Northern Arizona in a noon game next Saturday at Nottingham Field.
A BRIT has been arrested over allegations he tried to throw his girlfriend off a fourth-floor balcony at their holiday hotel in Majorca.
The 23-year-old is accused of grabbing the woman by the neck before trying to hurl her off the side of the block in Arenal, which is on the west coast of the Spanish holiday island.
Guests at the hotel, on bustling Calle Trencadors, are said to have tried to tackle the man.
They are believed to have intervened after hearing the cries of the woman - who is also aged 23.
She eventually escaped from her hotel room and made her way to the reception area.
Police were called in and headed up to the fourth floor room to tackle the man.
He was arrested after he tried to attack officers, local newspaper reports claim.
According to Cronica Balear, the man appeared to be under the effects of drugs or alcohol.
The suspect's girlfriend suffered a number of injuries and was taken to hospital for treatment.
The identity of the couple is not yet known.
It is also not clear whether they were tourists or ex-pats living in the resort.
Adam Scott feels time time slipping away as he eyes another golden chance to claim a second golf major title at the US PGA Championship.
The Australian fired a second-consecutive five under par 65 at Bellerive Country Club on Saturday to go outright second, putting himself into Sunday's final group alongside leader Brooks Koepka (66), who is two shots clear at 12 under.
Scott has had several good chances on golf's biggest stage since his storybook Masters win five years ago, including at least a share of the Sunday lead at the 2013 and 2015 British Opens.
At age 38, he knows how precious they are as he eyes another opportunity to cement his legacy when he battles two-time US Open winner Koepka and others on a leaderboard packed with stellar names.
"A couple years have slipped by where I really haven't contended and I'm going to relish it tomorrow," Scott said after producing the best round of day three.
"Because, if it's another five (years), basically you're wheeling me out to pasture at that point.
"I want to make the most of this; hopefully it's the start of some (great) form in the big tournaments."
One shot behind Scott are Jon Rahm (66), Rickie Fowler (69) and Gary Woodland (71).
Australia's 2015 PGA Championship winner Jason Day struggled to hit top gear during a 67 which left him a shot further back.
Day, who finished second at the 2016 PGA and tied ninth last year, shares sixth with five others including defending champion Justin Thomas (68) and Tiger Woods (66).
"It all inspires me," Scott said.
"I've always thought I'm good enough to win more than one major, it's just been a different journey than I'd imagined.
"If it all were to fall my way (Sunday), it'd be significant for a lot of reasons other than just the history books.
"(Mostly) personal satisfaction; (victory) would be a great feeling for me and my family."
Scott is also driven to lift the PGA Championship's Wanamaker Trophy for close mate Jarrod Lyle, the Australian former US PGA Tour player who died on Wednesday following a 20-year battle with cancer.
"No matter who wins, if that person has met Jarrod Lyle, they will have felt something with him passing this week," Scott said.
Four-time PGA Championship winner Woods has ignited hopes he can chase down a four-shot deficit and earn his 15th major title.
Rounding out the Australian contingent arwe Marc Leishman (72) and Cameron Smith (73), who both tumbled down the leaderboard to be one over and three over, respectively.
Tiger Woods is six shots behind leaders Zach Johnson and Kevin Kistner after missing some golden opportunities on day two of the Open at Carnoustie.
Despite missing the cut at the US Open, Tiger Woods is one of the favourites to win the US PGA event in Maryland.
Australian golf star Marc Leishman will tee up alongside Tiger Woods at the US PGA Tour’s Quicken Loans National this week.
Two-time major champion John Daly says he won’t be playing the US Senior Open again after being denied permission to use a cart at this year’s championship.
Medical aestheticians help patients with pre- and post-operative skin care.
1 What is a Medical Aesthetician?
2 What Are the Duties of an Aesthetician?
While most aestheticians use their skills in salons or spa settings, medical aestheticians apply their expertise to medical conditions. They are trained and licensed skin care specialists and an integral part of many medical teams. Medical aestheticians often working in plastic surgery offices, burn units or other medical offices and help patients with conditions or trauma to care for an improve the appearance of their skin.
The specific training and licensure requirements for medical aestheticians vary by state. Most states require aestheticians to complete a training program and pass a state exam to be licensed. Some states also require continuing education to maintain a current license. For example, medical aestheticians in California must complete a 600-hour training program and pass both a written and practical exam issued by the California Board of Cosmetology.
The specific duties and responsibilities vary based on what type of medical office the aesthetician is working in. For example, medical aestheticians in burn units might teach patients to care for scarred skin and how to best use cosmetics to conceal injuries. In dermatologist offices, aestheticians may perform exfoliation treatments such as microdermabrasian. Additionally, they might treat precancerous cells or offer restorative treatments. Medical aestheticians working in plastic surgery offices provide pre- and post-operative skin care for patients.
As of May 2010, the median hourly wage for all skin care specialists was $13.90, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Medical aestheticians perform more advanced procedures and earn a higher wage to reflect this. The median wage for aestheticians working in physicians offices was $18.45 per hour.
Many nurses are also entering the field of medical aesthetics. Registered nurses, like licensed medical aestheticians, may perform aesthetic procedures under the supervision of the licensed physician. Nurse practitioners in most states can operate independently, without the supervision of licensed physicians, as long as they have the required education and background to operate in the field. This independence allows nurse practitioners to open their own medical aesthetician practices. After completing classes for specific techniques, such as Botox or microdermabrasian, nurse practitioners can immediately begin offering these services.
Skincare specialists earned a median annual salary of $30,270 in 2016, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. On the low end, skincare specialists earned a 25th percentile salary of $21,960, meaning 75 percent earned more than this amount. The 75th percentile salary is $42,810, meaning 25 percent earn more. In 2016, 61,300 people were employed in the U.S. as skincare specialists.
School of Botanical & Medical Aesthetics: What Does a Medical Esthetician Do?
Malone, Maureen. "Careers in Medical Aesthetics." Work - Chron.com, http://work.chron.com/careers-medical-aesthetics-26261.html. Accessed 23 April 2019.
What Can I Do With an Esthetician License?
What Are the Duties of a Medical Esthetician in a Medispa?
What Is the Income for a Beautician?
More than any other American, he personifies the era when we lost our nerve when it came to reining in the size and concentration of Wall Street’s banks.
When I heard that Timothy Geithner was putting out his memoir Stress Test, I couldn’t help but to think back to the first time I interacted with him. It happened on the 14th floor basketball court of the Federal Reserve’s New York branch (the “New York Fed”). Back in 2003, I was a relatively green Fed lawyer—two years out after completing a J.D./M.B.A. at Columbia University.
I worked for a total of nine years at the New York Fed over two separate stints. In the aftermath of Lehman Brothers’ 2008 collapse, I returned there to manage the centerpiece program of the experimental stimulus program known as “Quantitative Easing” or "QE." Several months ago, I apologized publicly for my role in QE, suggesting that it had become the greatest backdoor Wall Street bailout of all time. But I've never spoken openly about why I left the Fed in the first place: It was mainly because of Mr. Geithner.
Inside the New York Fed, I wouldn’t actually realize how cautious a leader Mr. Geithner was until 2006 when I transferred to a mid-level management position in its “Bank Supervision” department—arguably, the Fed’s most important regulatory division.
The department I now joined was in complete disarray. Rife with politics, the only thing it seemed to excel at was demoralizing the bright, idealistic minds it was recruiting from the nation’s finest graduate schools (staggeringly, up to a quarter of the 600-plus person department was leaving each year). Even more tellingly, in the period directly preceding the largest U.S. banking crisis since the Great Depression, the New York Fed’s bank regulators were obsessively focusing on the systemic risk from hedge funds—not banks.
Mr. Geithner’s response? He seemed to float above the action. Far too often, in the senior-level regulatory strategy sessions I attended, Geithner simply peppered the room with questions, rather than providing any concrete direction. And, instead of making any serious attempt to straighten out a chronically underperforming bank regulatory division, Geithner had instead begun filling various, key New York Fed positions outside of the regulatory function with trusted advisors from Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, and American Express.
It would be equally unfair not to give Geithner immense credit for the U.S. government’s response. By almost all accounts from inside and outside the Fed, he finally stepped up to take the shot. As head of the New York Fed (by his own description, the “fire station of the financial crisis”), Geithner guided the U.S. Central bank’s operational attack and tirelessly helped stabilize Wall Street—a role that would end up netting him the job of U.S. Treasury Secretary as of early 2009.
But, however heroic, Mr. Geithner’s boldness proved to be short-lived and eventually appeared to have been a reflexive reaction to unprecedented contagion. In the aftermath of the U.S. financial crisis’ most acute phase—at what would have been the right moment to pursue the type of resolute, strategic moves that might prevent such a catastrophe from ever happening again—Geithner seemed to revert to his previous form.
Fighting for a return to bright-line (Glass Steagall-like) regulation that would have effectively broken up the big banks? Fat chance. Geithner shepherded through Congress a convoluted Dodd-Frank bank reform that continues to be only roughly 50 percent implemented. Those celebrated stress tests that have supposedly served to validate the U.S. banking system’s resilience? As we saw only two weeks ago with Bank of America’s admission of misreporting capital levels, the results still fundamentally rely on opaque internal bank modeling. In response to such observations, Mr. Geithner might cite the barrier of congressional intransigence and throw up his hands, but, I’d ask, did he ever really try to take the ball strong to the hoop?
Now, looking out at the U.S. economy little more than five years after Mr. Geithner’s becoming U.S. Treasury Secretary, what do we see? The more things are said to have changed, the more they’ve stayed the same. Nursed back to health by massive government support, the U.S. financial sector is once again America’s largest enterprise, accounting for more than 30 percent of the nation’s corporate profits. Moreover, Wall Street’s six biggest banks—the so-called “too big to fail” ones—have gotten 37 percent bigger.
There are those who impugn Timothy Geithner’s character, but, in my seven years of interacting regularly with him at the Fed, he couldn’t have come across as more gracious and professional. There are those who point to his recent move to private equity and retroactively question his motivation while in government, but the implication seems unfair when you consider that he spent 23 straight years in public service.
No, I’d argue Mr. Geithner's story is ultimately one about missed opportunity. For all the justifications he surely provides in his new book, Mr. Geithner should be seen as occupying a particularly sad place in the evolution of the U.S. economy. More than any other American, he personifies the era when we lost our nerve when it came to reining in the size and concentration of Wall Street’s banks.
This essay originally appeared at Business Insider, an Atlantic partner site.
Andrew Huszar is a senior fellow at Rutgers University Business School and a former managing director at Morgan Stanley. From 2009 to 2010, he was the program manager for the Federal Reserve's Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities Purchase Program.
Situated on a hilltop overlooking the Gulf of Messara in south-central Crete, the Minoan settlement of Kommos may reveal amazing secrets from the Bronze Age. However, as fabulous, such discoveries may be, the intersection of modern touristic products and the island’s heritage are brought into sharp focus today. With priceless Minoan Civilization discoveries still unearthed, Crete’s beaches and other touristic offerings represent a real crisis dynamic and a public dilemma. The good news is, new preservation and public access initiative by Heraklion parliamentarian Nikos Igoumenidis and Greece’s Minister of Culture Lydia Koniordou may pave the way to remedying these cultural points of pain.
The Kommos Minoan settlement sits right on top of one of Crete’s most fabulous beaches. Thought to have been the port of the amazing Phaistos Palace situated six kilometers farther up the Messara Plain of Heraklion Prefecture, this fascinating Bronze Age town sits at one of the vertices of a triangle formed by Phaistos, Agia Triada, and the ancient seaside settlement. Archaeologist Dr. Joseph Shaw and his wife carried out the most extensive excavations and cataloging of the site in between 1976 and 2005, finding layer-on-layer of successive habitations. Imported pottery at the site led the archaeologists to the theory of Kommos as a maritime center linked to Phaistos, and monumental Minoan structures found nowhere else on Crete. Archaeologically, the Palace at Kommos elevates thinking and presents new questions as to the purpose and extent of palatial architecture. Unfortunately, Crete’s beach tourism product may have already been the cause of unreconcilable loss and damage. Readers will want to visit Dr. Shaw’s Kommos Conservancy site to gain more valuable insights into the immeasurable value of the site, and perhaps to take part in helping preserve this magnificent piece of our human journey.
The beach at Kommos stretches from the rocky point near famous Matala past the present site of the Kommos dig, all the way to Kalamaki to the north. Protected for decades as far as building permits and commercialization, the beach is exposed to ever increasing touristic pressure and vandalism. The situation at Kommos is indicative of difficulties all over Crete in as far as touristic pressures on the island’s cultural aspects are concerned. This report (in Greek) on the site of Nikos Ingoumenidis reveals the current situation and efforts being made to open the archaeological site to the public, while at the same time mitigating further damage to the ancient palace. The short version of this story is that the Cretans want to share these fabulous cultural treasures and at the same time to preserve them for future generations as well. But time is of the essence.
The cradle of western civilization, Crete holds a unique and magnificent position as a piece of the human history puzzle. So much of Minoan Civilization remains a mystery, and places like Kommos certainly hold the answers to questions about the human condition and to lessons from our distant past. Only recently Crete’s Governor Stavros Arnaoutakis and Culture Minister Koniordou met to discuss funding of initiatives to preserve and to present Crete’s cultural-historic value including the archaeological museums of Messara. The real identity of the people known as Minoans remains unresolved. From an archaeological and historical standpoint, we only have a tiny fragment of this majestic civilization in our grasp. So, the efforts by Greece’s ministry of culture, the parliament, and the Region of Crete seem paramount if we consider the overall epic puzzle piece this island represents, especially from the European perspective.
In a previous story on Argophilia News, we revealed the vital role Dr. Igoumenidis is playing for the forward progress of Crete’s cultural-tourism future. In that story, sustainability was a central theme, as is the case for this report. A vast touristic potential, beach and other touristic products, and the unbelievable legacy of this extraordinary island can co-exist. With funding in short supply and resources taxed to the maximum, the challenge is a stout one for all concerned. But the importance of Cretan antiquity in our human heritage is genuinely priceless. Let’s hope EU legislators and private financiers recognize the stakes soon.