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__label__wiki	0.530391	0.530391	ConnectFollow Masters & Seekers askLooking for answers? Start here... WriteCreate Blogs & Slideshows Filter Content By SEEKERS ZONE Connect Follow Masters and fellow Seekers Ask Looking for answers? Start here… Write Post blogs, slideshows Home Masters Thich Nhat Hanh Satsangs Thich Nhat Hanh's Network Paresh Redkar Points 510 Bhupin Kumar Pramod Kumar Agarwal Nilanc Parida Babul Parida Sandeep Deshmukh Chanu Babu Yagami Saiyomnara Kaimur Shahabadi Points 1702 Arjit Ramesh Kumar Pathak Vivek Pandey Thinking Common Common A Kumar Shweta Aggarwal Syed Irshad Irshad Gopal Singh S P Gopal It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems. It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through.. Read More UPDATE STATUS Thich Nhat Hanh is a Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist now based in France.He joined a Zen (Vietnamese: Thien) monastery at the age of 16, studied Buddhism as a novice, and was fully ordained as a monk in 1949. The title Thích is used by all Vietnamese monks and nuns, meaning that they are part of the Shakya (Shakyamuni Buddha) clan. In the early 1960s, he founded the School of Youth for Social Services (SYSS) in Saigon. This grassroots relief organization rebuilt bombed villages, set up schools, established medical centers, and resettled families left homeless during the Vietnam War.He traveled to the U.S. to study at Princeton University, and later to lecture at Cornell University and Columbia University. His focus at the time, was to urge the U.S. government to withdraw from Vietnam. He urged Martin Luther King, Jr. to publicly oppose the Vietnam War; King nominated Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize in January 1967. He created the (non-Zen) Order of Interbeing in 1966,establishing monastic and practice centers around the world. Nhat Hanh has published more than 100 books, including more than 40 in English. A journal for the Order of Interbeing, The Mindfulness Bell, is published quarterly which includes a Dharma talk by him. He has also been featured in many films, including The Power of Forgiveness showcased at the Dawn Breakers International Film Festival. More info: www.plumvillage.org Thich Nhat Hanh is a Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist now based in France.He joined a Zen (Vietnamese: Thien) monastery at the age of 16, studied Buddhism as a novice, and was fully ordained as a monk in 1949. The title Thích is used by all Vietnamese monks and nuns, meaning that they are part of the Shakya (Shakyamuni Buddha) clan. In the early 1960s, he founded the School of Youth for Social Services (SYSS) in Saigon. This grassroots relief organization rebuilt bombed villages, set up schools, established medical centers, and resettled families left homeless during the Vietnam War.He traveled to the U.S. to study at Princeton University, and later to lecture at Cornell University and Columbia University... Read More Thich Nhat Hanh is a Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist now based in France.He joined a Zen (Vietnamese: Thien) monastery at the age of 16, studied Buddhism as a novice, and was fully ordained as a monk in 1949. The title Thích is used by all Vietnamese monks and nuns, meaning that they are part of the Shakya (Shakyamuni Buddha) clan. In the early 1960s, he founded the School of Youth for Social Services (SYSS) in Saigon. This grassroots relief organization rebuilt bombed villages, set up schools, established medical centers, and resettled families left homeless during the Vietnam War.He traveled to the U.S. to study at Princeton University, and later to lecture at Cornell University and Columbia University. His focus at the time, was to urge the U.S. government to withdraw from Vietnam. He urged Martin Luther King, Jr. to publicly oppose the Vietnam War; King nominated Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize in January 1967. He created the (non-Zen) Order of Interbeing in 1966,establishing monastic and practice centers around the world. Nhat Hanh has published more than 100 books, including more than 40 in English. A journal for the Order of Interbeing, The Mindfulness Bell, is published quarterly which includes a Dharma talk by him. He has also been featured in many films, including The Power of Forgiveness showcased at the Dawn Breakers International Film Festival. More info: www.plumvillage.org Rhythmic Breathing Editorial By: Thich Nhat Hanh Total views 189 Sit Down! It’s An Act Of Revolution ‘Your smile is precious’ SEEING AND LIVING Why Suffer? Be Happy Young And Sensitive Know Your Position In The River Of Being Four ideas for seekers The Importance Of Being Happy The Art of Compassionate Listening Be Aware Of What You Do Mother Earth She needs our love Nourishing Awareness In Each Moment The Good Earth The Four Crucial Dimensions Of True Love Always Running? Earth Touching Waves Of The Ocean Speaking Tree Print Articles From the desk of Spiritual Writers © 2019 Times Internet Limited. All rights reserved	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line837
__label__cc	0.548373	0.451627	iMalqata – A Joint Expedition The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Ancient Egyptian Heritage and Archaeology Fund History of the Excavations Excavation Team MOA Reports While the tombs of the pharaohs, from the Old Kingdom pyramids to the Valley of the Kings, are familiar the world over, the settings in which the kings of ancient Egypt lived and ruled are comparatively poorly known. One of the few royal cities surviving from ancient Egyptian times is at Malqata in western Thebes. It was built by the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Amenhotep III, who reigned for thirty-eight or thirty-nine years, from about 1390–1352 B.C. Located on the edge of the cultivation at the southern end of the Theban necropolis, the site today is marked only by the low mud brick ruins and the great mounds that border the huge harbor known as the Birket Habu. Artist’s re-imagination of the central part of Malqata, with the Birket Habu in the background One of the most significant urban sites surviving from ancient Egypt, Malqata was established by Amenhotep III in the 30th year of his reign (about 1360 B.C.) when he celebrated his first heb sed, a royal jubilee intended in part to rejuvenate the king. The great festival city was constructed to the south of the large funerary temple the king was building for himself at the site now known as Kom el-Hettan. In all, Amenhotep celebrated three sed festivals: in years 30, 34, and 37 of his reign. After his death, the city was largely abandoned. Because Malqata was only occupied for a limited time, the site presents an unusual opportunity to view a settlement at one of Egypt’s principal urban centers without the intrusion of later occupation. A view of Malqata from a hot air balloon In an area of late 18th Dynasty occupation that extends roughly seven kilometers along the floodplain, Amenhotep III built several palaces and cult areas. At the north end of the site, the complex of mud brick buildings includes the King’s Palace, the North Palace, the Middle Palace, the so-called Audience Pavilion, administrative buildings, a Temple of Amun, and the remains of residential and industrial areas. The immense harbor known as Birket Habu begins east of the King’s Palace and extends to the south for two and one half kilometers. The enormous mounds created from digging out the floodplain rise up along the harbor’s edge, making a monumental statement about Malqata’s importance. Heading south from the end of the Birket Habu mounds, one finds the Kom el-Samak, a platform built for the celebration of ceremonies connected with the heb sed. An ancient raised roadway lay beyond the western edge of the site. It probably began at the king’s funerary temple (Kom el-Hettan), continued past the city, and terminated at Deir esh-Shelwit, a Ptolemaic temple that likely sits on the site of a much earlier structure. The Birket Habu, now under cultivation, seen from a balloon Some three kilometers south of the Kom el-Samak, the Kom el-Abd rises out of the low desert. The purpose of this mud-brick platform is not clearly understood, although one suggestion is that it supported temporary structures. But this was not the last of Amenhotep III’s construction projects in the area. At some point near the end of his reign, the king cleared a giant strip of low desert. The strip, made visible by the large stones piled along its edges, extends to the foot of the natural terraces leading up to the cliffs of the high desert. The purpose of this strip is difficult to determine because it was never finished. Thanks Cathy for the email with blogs. I look forward to the next posting By: muriel somerfield on February 14, 2010 looking forward to future blogs about this interesting site! By: dianabuja on February 22, 2013 Monthly Archives March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 February 2018 March 2017 February 2017 February 2016 January 2016 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 March 2014 February 2014 February 2013 January 2013 May 2012 March 2012 February 2012 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 August 2009	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line838
__label__wiki	0.808015	0.808015	Home Sindh Two arrested for intoxicating, raping hindu girl in Tando Mohammad Khan Two arrested for intoxicating, raping hindu girl in Tando Mohammad Khan TANDO MOHAMMAD KHAN: The police Saturday two suspects for intoxicating and raping a hindu girl in Tando Mohammad Khan. According to reports, a 13-year-old Hindu girl was intoxicated and raped by two men on Friday. The police registered an FIR and arrested two suspects for their involvement in the alleged sexual assault. They were remanded into police custody for four days by a local court. According to the first information report (FIR) of the incident, which was lodged on behalf of the girl’s father under Sections 376 and 34 of the Pakistan Penal Code, the victim had gone outside of her house to bring some groceries on Friday (June 7); while on her way, two unidentified suspects called her towards them. The girl said that when she went to them, the two forced her to drink liquor and then proceeded to rape her. The father told the police that when the girl didn’t return home after a while, he along with his son started looking for her and found her in distress near Sugar Mills ground. He then rushed his daughter to the Civil Hospital Tando Mohammad Khan and informed police about the matter. The girl was later referred to the Civil hospital Hyderabad, where different tests were performed on her. Following an initial medical examination, doctors confirmed that “sexual intercourse has taken place”. Meanwhile, Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister on Information Murtaza Wahab also promised that the culprits involved in the teenage girl’s rape will be brought to justice. He said that the provincial government had received the initial police inquiry report on the matter. The adviser said that a case had already been registered and two suspects were arrested. He said that the victim will be provided with comprehensive medical and legal support. Previous articleTwo soldiers martyred in North Waziristan blast Next articleLandsliding kills two tourists in Mansehra Anwar Bangash Bye-polls in Ghotki postponed till July 23 Masses can no longer tolerate PTI govt’s economic policies: Bilawal Ten killed in Sanghar road accident	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line840
__label__wiki	0.650434	0.650434	Makerere University Hospital Now Reference Centre of Excellence for SMC It is a bright sunny afternoon on Tuesday, 11th December 2012 at the Makerere University Hospitaland a few hours away from the official launch of the Safe Male Circumcision (SMC) services by the U.S. Ambassador to Uganda H.E. Scott DeLisi. Under a semi-permanent structure at the back of the facility, a few young men and adult males are gathered and listening intently to a facilitator as she briefs them about SMC and post-surgery care. At the end of her delivery, she invites questions and is met with silence. The looks on their faces are a mixture of emotions, while the younger lot seems to still be digesting what they just heard; the older ones seem to be in awe of her boldness and candid delivery. This is the first stage of the SMC service conducted under a newly constructed iron-roof structure, recently erected to cater for the increased demand for SMC in the Makerere community. Prior to this, the handful of participants had to make use of a tent, as the service was yet to be fully embraced by the community. However, thanks to the social marketing strategy model, where the circumcised shared their experience and referred their colleagues to the University Hospital, the numbers have swelled to over 60 surgical operations a day! All this has been made possible thanks to the Makerere University Hospital-Makerere University Joint AIDS Programme (MJAP) partnership, funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), with technical support from the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). PEPFAR has directly supported over 450,000 circumcisions since April 2010 and increased investment in SMC in Uganda from over $1.6 million in 2009 to over $31 million in 2012. In his address, the U.S. Ambassador graciously accepted the thanks from Makerere University, MJAP, Ministry of Health, Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) but strongly rallied stakeholders to each play their part in the fight against the spread of HIV. “Success in saving lives depends upon all of us—ambassadors, government ministers, health care workers, students, young and old alike—playing our part and sharing in the responsibility we each shoulder,” said Ambassador DeLisi. “As President Museveni has correctly said, circumcision does not make us metal. Nor does it mean we can be sexually irresponsible with no worries about the consequences,” he added. Mr. Cyriaco Kabagambe, The Dean of Students who represented Prof. Lillian Tibatemwa-Ekirikubinza, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic Affairs) at the occasion commended the U.S. Government for helping Makerere achieve a multi-pronged approach in the fight against HIV/AIDS. He further noted that thanks to this support, the University Hospital had etched its mark on the SMC service delivery in Uganda. “The program has also trained and built 15 high performance circumcision teams that are able to circumcise over 20 clients per day per team,” he said. “These teams have spread out all over the country, a feat that has transformed the hospital into a reference centre of excellence for SMC,” added Mr. Kabagambe. Following the launch of SMC services at the University Hospital, patients are now able to get linked to other services at this facility, or at the MJAP-supported treatment site at Mulago Hospital, and elsewhere, based on their preference. University-Hospital The great Makerere university The great Makerere, as always and will ever be Way to Go This is the way to go MAK	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line851
__label__wiki	0.801781	0.801781	When Cameroon Convinced Themselves They Couldn’t Win Steven Friedman Why do African teams struggle in the World Cup? It has everything to do with colonialism. Popper Foto / fifa.com If the spirits of Frantz Fanon and Steve Biko were hovering unseen above a football stadium in Naples in July, 1990, they would not have liked what they saw. But they would have found it sadly predictable. The stadium hosted a World Cup quarter-final between Cameroon and England. The more skilled team, Cameroon, lost. They were beaten not by England but by themselves. The 1990 Cameroon team captivated football fans around the world—especially those in South Africa. This was the country’s first live televised World Cup (previously fans had to make do with watching matches at clubs or restaurants a couple of days late) and the first after the bans on liberation movements were lifted and the negotiations which ended apartheid began. Although South Africa was two years away from competing in international football (beginning, not by accident, with a match against Cameroon), this was the first time South Africans could identify in real time with a team representing Africa. Cameroon would have generated excitement even in less heady times—they turned out to be probably the best African team to play in a World Cup finals. The party began with the first match of the tournament—Cameroon, down to nine men after two red cards, beat the world champions, Argentina, 1-0, with a late goal in a match which is still iconic. They then beat Romania 2-1 to qualify for the knock-out stage, a status they celebrated with a 4-0 loss to Russia when little was at stake. They beat Colombia 2-1 in the Round of 16 to become the first African team to play in a World Cup quarterfinal. Cameroon 1990 is best remembered for its striker Roger Milla, then 38 years old (some say he was older), who seemed to inspire the team every time he was brought on as substitute. But the team was filled with the type of skilled footballers who would play in Europe’s top leagues in decades to come—defender and captain Stephen Tataw, midfielders Francois Omam-Biyik, his brother Andre Kana-Biyik and Emile Mbouh and striker Cyril Makanaky (Kana-Biyik and Mbouh did not play in the England match). The football mainstream assumed that England was a bridge too far for Cameroon. Their two victims after Argentina were hardly among world football’s elite and England seemed sure to assert football’s natural pecking order. All of which seemed justified when England went ahead half way through the first half and retained the lead into halftime. After halftime, everything changed when Milla came on. Within minutes, Cameroon won a penalty and equalized. A few minutes later, they went ahead (although Milla seemed to have invigorated the team, he scored neither goal). Cameroon came to life, showing more skill than at any other time during the tournament. They danced past the English, who were unable to cope. A wave of Cameroonian skill produced a scoring opportunity—they seemed certain to score, but English goalkeeper Peter Shilton got lucky: the ball cannoned off his shins. That ended the Cameroon challenge. With 8 minutes to play, England equalized through a penalty. They won with another penalty in extra time. Football is often political, particularly when the contest is between the colonizer and colonized (Britain, with France, colonized Cameroon). This showed in the contrasting ways the match was explained. The dominant view (as always, that of the colonizer) is that the Europeans showed why they usually came out on top. The Africans might dazzle with their skills, but it was organization and professionalism which mattered. England, unlike Africans, had loads of both. The view of the dominated was that Africans had been cheated yet again: two penalties were concocted to make the World Cup safe for the Empire. Both were wrong. Neither penalty was dubious. But the English were not the better team: they lost because the Cameroon players convinced themselves they could not win. That self-confidence is often the difference between winning and losing is a sporting truism—for teams as well as individuals. All too frequently, teams which are skilled but expect to lose play themselves into a winning position and then shrink back, convinced that winning is not for them. In international sport, it is hardly surprising that this is most likely when powerful countries play the powerless—when, for example, African teams play their European colonizers. Sometimes, this inferiority complex is instilled by African teams’ coaches (who are almost always European). A prime example happened 4 years later, at the 1994 World Cup. In the Round of 16, Nigeria, having dominated the first half against Italy, went into half-time 1-0 ahead. Their Dutch coach, Clemens Westerhof, insisted that they defend the lead. Nigeria’s striker, Rashidi Yekini, yelled at him that this defeatism would cost them the match: they were good enough to attack and win. Westerhof’s instructions prevailed and Yekini was right—Italy won in extra time. Often, however, African teams don’t need a European to convince themselves they can’t win. When the ball bounced off Shilton’s shin, doubt, which disappeared when Cameroon were down and Milla appeared, returned. Cameroon stopped dancing round England and retreated into their shell. They told themselves they were doomed—much as Ghana may have done when they missed a penalty which would have beaten Uruguay in Johannesburg in 2010. This would, of course, have made sense to Fanon and Biko—both wrote of the mental colonization which convinces the dominated that they are not good as the dominant. It surely won’t be long before another African team emerges capable of reaching the last four or even winning the World Cup. When it does, we can only hope that its coach and players have learned from Fanon and Biko that they can prevail—if they free themselves of the chains the colonizer has planted in their heads. Republished from Africa Is a Country . Steven Friedman is a Research Professor in the University of Johannesburg Politics Department. He has watched every minute of every World Cup since 1990. If the spirits of Frantz Fanon and Steve Biko were hovering unseen above a football stadium in Naples in July, 1990, they would not have liked what they saw. But they would have found it sadly predictable. The stadium hosted a World Cup quarter-final between Cameroon and England. The more skilled team, Cameroon, lost. 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__label__cc	0.533419	0.466581	Relações de trabalho produtivas e éticas, diálogo transparente e receptivo com as comunidades do entorno e os órgãos públicos para o benefício de todos. Jaguar Mining Reports Second Quarter Financial Results; Revises 2018 Production Guidance Aug 15, 2018 Download PDF Toronto, August 15, 2018 – Jaguar Mining Inc. ("Jaguar" or the "Company") (TSX: JAG) today announced financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2018 ("Q2 2018"). All figures are in US dollars, unless otherwise expressed. Detailed financial results for Q2 2018 are available on www.sedar.com and on the Company's website www.jaguarmining.com. Q2 2018 vs. Q2 2017 Financial Highlights Strong operating cost performance drives 139% increase in gross profit to $6.1 million on lower revenue of $22.9 million. Consolidated cash operating costs ("COC") improved 16% to $717 per ounce of gold sold. Consolidated all-in sustaining costs ("AISC") increased 1% to $1,277 per ounce of gold sold reflecting strong investment in Turmalina Gold Mine ("Turmalina"). Consolidated gold production of 18,819 ounces, compared to 19,769 ounces in Q2 2017. Q2 2018 average feed grade was 3.77 g/t compared to 3.18 g/t for the comparative period. Strong operating cash flow of $4.5 million, significantly higher compared to $0.2 million for the comparative period. Sustaining capital expenditures of $7 million in Q2 2018, up 52% from $4.6 million in Q2 2017, investing in key primary development and new mining equipment. Adjusted EBITDA of $5.3 million, up 43% from $3.7 million from comparative period. Cash balance of $9.2 million as of June 30, 2018, including $1 million financing repayments, reducing total bank debt to approximately $12.3 million at quarter end. Company revises 2018 production guidance to 80,000 – 85,000 ounces. Pilar continues to perform well and is on track to meet its production guidance. Turmalina production is expected to be below guidance, as management continues to address the operational issues through the remainder of 2018. Q2 2018 FINANCIAL & OPERATING SUMMARY Cash Position, Working Capital and Foreign Exchange As at June 30, 2018, the Company had a cash position of $9.2 million, compared to $18.6 million as at December 31, 2017. The June 30, cash balance excludes the $2 million of cash deposit with Auramet. The lower cash balance compared to the end of 2017 reflects $15.22 million in total Capital Expenditures and lower gold sales that declined 14% in the first six months ended June 30, 2018. Working capital was $4 million as at June 30, 2018, compared to $14.1 million as at December 31, 2017. Working capital reduction is mainly due to the replacement of the Sprott Resource Lending facility with Auramet Facility, as the latter is classified as short term. Financial Summary Highlights Revenue for Q2 2018 decreased 2% to $22.9 million (17,230 ounces), compared with $23.4 million (18,453 ounces) in Q2 2017, due to a 7% decrease in ounces sold, offset by 5% higher average gold realized price of $1,328 in Q2 2018 compared with $1,266 in Q2 2017. Gross profit for the three and six months ended June 30, 2018, was $6.1 million and $11.1 million, respectively, compared to $2.6 million and $3.7 million for Q2 2017 and YTD 2017, mainly attributed to reduction in cash operating costs. Adjusted EBITDA for Q2 2018 was $5.3 million compared to $3.7 million for Q2 2017, while adjusted EBITDA for the first half of 2018 was $10.9 million compared to $7.9 million in the first half of 2017. Cash Operating Costs, Capital Expenditures and All-In-Sustaining Costs ("AISC") Cash operating costs decreased 16% to $717 per ounce of gold sold for Q2 2018, compared to $857 per ounce sold during Q2 2017, primarily due to operational excellence measures and the 12% weakening of the Brazilian Real. AISC increased 1% to $1,277 per ounce of gold sold in Q2 2018, compared to $1,262 per ounce sold during Q2 2017. In Q2 2018, sustaining capital increased 52% to $7 million focused on primary development and exploration drilling, compared to $4.6 million in Q2 2017. Operating cash flow was $4.5 million for Q2 2018, compared to $0.2 million in Q2 2017, mainly due to the decrease in cash costs of 16%, or $140 dollars per ounce. 2018 Revised Guidance Company revises 2018 production guidance to 80,000 – 85,000 ounces. Pilar continues to perform well and is on track to meet its production guidance. Turmalina production is expected to be below guidance, as management continues to address the operational issues through the remainder of 2018. Management Change The Company also announces that Rodney Lamond is leaving his position as CEO and director of Jaguar. Benjamin Guenther has been appointed as Interim Chief Executive Officer effective immediately. Mr. Guenther was appointed to the Board of Jaguar Mining in November 2017 and is the Chairman of the Technical Committee of the Board. He is a mining engineer with a wide range of management and executive experience and over 40 years in the mining industry. Mr. Guenther held Senior Management Positions with AngloGold Ashanti in his past career including a long association with mining in Brazil. Mr. Guenther graduated from the Colorado School of Mines. The Company plans to start a search for the permanent position of the CEO. "On behalf of the entire team, we would like to extend our thanks to Rodney for his commitment to Jaguar Mining over the past few years. We wish Rodney great success in his future endeavours" said Jaguar Mining Chairman Dick Falconer. Qualified Persons Scientific and technical information contained in this press release has been reviewed and approved by Jonathan Victor Hill, BSc (Hons) (Economic Geology - UCT), Senior Expert Advisor Geology and Exploration to the Jaguar Mining Management Committee, who is also an employee of Jaguar Mining Inc., and is a "qualified person" as defined by National Instrument 43-101 –Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101"). About Jaguar Mining Inc. Jaguar Mining Inc. is a Canadian-listed junior gold mining, development, and exploration company operating in Brazil with three gold mining complexes and a large land package with significant upside exploration potential from mineral claims covering an area of approximately 64,000 hectares. The Company's principal operating assets are located in the Iron Quadrangle, a prolific greenstone belt in the state of Minas Gerais and include the Turmalina Gold Mine Complex and Caeté Mining Complex (Pilar and Roça Grande Mines, and Caeté Plant). The Company also owns the Paciência Gold Mine Complex, which has been on care and maintenance since 2012. The Roça Grande Mine has been on temporary care and maintenance since April 2018. Additional information is available on the Company's website at www.jaguarmining.com. The Iron Quadrangle The Iron Quadrangle has been an area of mineral exploration dating back to the 16th century. The discovery in 1699–1701 of gold contaminated with iron and platinum-group metals in the southeastern corner of the Iron Quadrangle gave rise to the name of the town Ouro Preto (Black Gold). The Iron Quadrangle contains world-class multi-million-ounce gold deposits such as Morro Velho, Cuiabá and São Bento. Jaguar holds the second largest gold land position in the Iron Quadrangle with just over 25,000 hectares. Benjamin Guenther Interim Chief Executive Officer bguenther@jaguarmining.com Hashim Ahmed hashim.ahmed@jaguarmining.com Certain statements in this news release constitute "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Forward-looking statements and information are provided for the purpose of providing information about management's expectations and plans relating to the future. All of the forward-looking information made in this news release is qualified by the cautionary statements below and those made in our other filings with the securities regulators in Canada. Forward-looking information contained in forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as "are expected," "is forecast," "is targeted," "approximately," "plans," "anticipates," "projects," "anticipates," "continue," "estimate," "believe" or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results "may," "could," "would," "might," or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, may be considered to be or include forward-looking information. This news release contains forward-looking information regarding, among other things, expected sales, production statistics, ore grades, tonnes milled, recovery rates, cash operating costs, definition/delineation drilling, the timing and amount of estimated future production, costs of production, capital expenditures, costs and timing of the development of projects and new deposits, success of exploration, development and mining activities, currency fluctuations, capital requirements, project studies, mine life extensions, restarting suspended or disrupted operations, continuous improvement initiatives, and resolution of pending litigation. The Company has made numerous assumptions with respect to forward-looking information contained herein, including, among other things, assumptions about the estimated timeline for the development of its mineral properties; the supply and demand for, and the level and volatility of the price of, gold; the accuracy of reserve and resource estimates and the assumptions on which the reserve and resource estimates are based; the receipt of necessary permits; market competition; ongoing relations with employees and impacted communities; political and legal developments in any jurisdiction in which the Company operates being consistent with its current expectations including, without limitation, the impact of any potential power rationing, tailings facility regulation, exploration and mine operating licenses and permits being obtained and renewed and/or there being adverse amendments to mining or other laws in Brazil and any changes to general business and economic conditions. Forward-looking information involves a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, including among others: the risk of Jaguar not meeting the forecast plans regarding its operations and financial performance; uncertainties with respect to the price of gold, labour disruptions, mechanical failures, increase in costs, environmental compliance and change in environmental legislation and regulation, weather delays and increased costs or production delays due to natural disasters, power disruptions, procurement and delivery of parts and supplies to the operations; uncertainties inherent to capital markets in general (including the sometimes volatile valuation of securities and an uncertain ability to raise new capital) and other risks inherent to the gold exploration, development and production industry, which, if incorrect, may cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by the Company and described herein. In addition, there are risks and hazards associated with the business of gold exploration, development, mining and production, including environmental hazards, tailings dam failures, industrial accidents and workplace safety problems, unusual or unexpected geological formations, pressures, cave-ins, flooding, chemical spills, procurement fraud and gold bullion thefts and losses (and the risk of inadequate insurance, or the inability to obtain insurance, to cover these risks). Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. For additional information with respect to these and other factors and assumptions underlying the forward-looking information made in this news release, see the Company's most recent Annual Information Form and Management's Discussion and Analysis, as well as other public disclosure documents that can be accessed under the issuer profile of "Jaguar Mining Inc." on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. The forward-looking information set forth herein reflects the Company's reasonable expectations as at the date of this news release and is subject to change after such date. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, other than as required by law. The forward-looking information contained in this news release is expressly qualified by this cautionary statement. Non-IFRS Measures This news release provides certain financial measures that do not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS. Readers are cautioned to review the below stated footnotes where the Company expanded on its use of non-IFRS measures. Cash operating costs and cash operating cost per ounce are non-IFRS measures. In the gold mining industry, cash operating costs and cash operating costs per ounce are common performance measures but do not have any standardized meaning. Cash operating costs are derived from amounts included in the Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss) and include mine-site operating costs such as mining, processing and administration, as well as royalty expenses, but exclude depreciation, depletion, share-based payment expenses, and reclamation costs. Cash operating costs per ounce are based on ounces produced and are calculated by dividing cash operating costs by commercial gold ounces produced; US$ cash operating costs per ounce produced are derived from the cash operating costs per ounce produced translated using the average Brazilian Central Bank R$/US$ exchange rate. The Company discloses cash operating costs and cash operating costs per ounce, as it believes those measures provide valuable assistance to investors and analysts in evaluating the Company's operational performance and ability to generate cash flow. The most directly comparable measure prepared in accordance with IFRS is total production costs. A reconciliation of cash operating costs per ounce to total production costs for the most recent reporting period, the quarter ended June 30, 2018, is set out in the Company's second quarter 2018 Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. All-in sustaining cost is a non-IFRS measure. This measure is intended to assist readers in evaluating the total costs of producing gold from current operations. While there is no standardized meaning across the industry for this measure, except for non-cash items the Company's definition conforms to the all-in sustaining cost definition as set out by the World Gold Council in its guidance note dated June 27, 2013. The Company defines all-in sustaining cost as the sum of production costs, sustaining capital (capital required to maintain current operations at existing levels), corporate general and administrative expenses, and in-mine exploration expenses. All-in sustaining cost excludes growth capital, reclamation cost accretion related to current operations, interest and other financing costs, and taxes. A reconciliation of all-in sustaining cost to total production costs for the most recent reporting period, the quarter ended June 30, 2018, is set out in the Company's second quarter 2018 MD&A filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line853
__label__cc	0.618815	0.381185	WTC 7 report: end of the line for 9/11 conspiracy theories? August 23, 2008 August 24, 2008 ~ Jefferson Flanders ~ 7 Comments The National Institute of Standards and Technology just-released final report on the collapse of World Trade Center 7 in 2001 following the 9/11 terrorist attack concludes that fire, not controlled demolition, was the cause of 47-story building’s destruction. At an August 21st news conference, Shyam Sunder, the lead investigator for the federal building and fire safety investigation of the WTC disaster, explained: “Our take-home message today is that the reason for the collapse of World Trade Center 7 is no longer a mystery. WTC 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings. It did not collapse from explosives or from diesel fuel fires. It collapsed because fires—similar to those experienced in other tall buildings—burned in the absence of water supply to operate the sprinklers, and burned beyond the ability of firefighters to control fires. It fell because thermal expansion, a phenomenon not considered in current building design practice, caused a fire-induced progressive collapse.” Sunder directly addressed the question of whether controlled demolition had brought down WTC 7, a favorite theory of the “9/11 Truth Movement” and its celebrity hanger-ons, like Jesse Ventura, Charlie Sheen, and Rosie O’Donnell, noting that the investigative team had considered that possibility and rejected it. NIST concluded that “blast events inside the building did not occur” and “found no evidence supporting the existence of a blast event.” A NIST WTC 7 fact sheet summarized the case against controlled demolition: In addition, no blast sounds were heard on the audio tracks of video recordings during the collapse of WTC 7 or reported by witnesses. According to calculations by the investigation team, the smallest blast capable of failing the building’s critical column would have resulted in a sound level of 130 decibels (dB) to 140 dB at a distance of at least half a mile, if unobstructed by surrounding buildings. This sound level is consistent with a gunshot blast, standing next to a jet plane engine, and more than 10 times louder than being in front of the speakers at a rock concert. For the building to have been prepared for intentional demolition, walls and/or column enclosures and fireproofing would have to be removed and replaced without being detected. Preparing a column includes steps such as cutting sections with torches, which produces noxious and odorous fumes. Intentional demolition usually requires applying explosive charges to most, if not all, interior columns, not just one or a limited set of columns in a building. The NIST WTC 7 team also found another popular 9/11 conspiracy theory, that thermite/thermate was used to sever columns was highly unlikely: “To apply thermite to a large steel column, approximately 0.13 lb of thermite would be needed to heat and melt each pound of steel. For a steel column that weighs approximately 1,000 lbs. per foot, at least 100 lbs. of thermite would need to be placed around the column, ignited, and remain in contact with the vertical steel surface as the thermite reaction took place. This is for one column … presumably, more than one column would have been prepared with thermite, if this approach were to be used.” NIST concluded that it was “unlikely that 100 lbs. of thermite, or more, could have been carried into WTC 7 and placed around columns without being detected, either prior to Sept. 11 or during that day.” A blow to the 9/11 conspiracy theorists The final NIST WTC 7 report represents a major blow to the promoters of 9/11 conspiracy theories. They began by claiming that the Twin Towers (WTC 1 and 2) had been felled by controlled demolition as part of a government “false flag operation.” Their argument had obvious flaws—it wasn’t hard to imagine that two large airliners loaded with jet fuel smashing into skyscrapers could inflict massive damage—and that was what the first NIST report concluded. Their focus then turned to WTC 7, with many conspiracy theorists seizing on the fact that the building was not hit directly by the planes and “mysteriously” collapsed hours later. Again, they argued for controlled demolition, forcefully enough that NIST included explosions as a possible cause for the collapse in its investigation. With the demolition theory for WTC 7 having been considered and rejected, the 9/11 conspiracy theorists are in a bind. The final NIST report offers what Sunder called a “simple and straightforward and elegant” explanation for the collapse of the building. The simplicity of the theory—that unchecked fires led to a chain of failures and then progressive collapse—and the extensive computer modeling of the hypothesis place it squarely in the best traditions of the scientific method. The alternative theory advanced by the so-called 9/11 Truthers is far-fetched and requires a complete suspension of disbelief. Professional demolition experts have repeatedly explained that it takes weeks of work to prepare a building for a controlled demolition. And how could such a massive conspiracy, involving hundreds if not thousands of people, be kept silent? And what of the lack of any evidence of an explosion, as pointed out by the NIST team? Despite the “on-the-record” scientific studies now explaining the WTC disaster, it’s unlikely that all members of the “9/11 Truth Movement” will go away quietly. Some make considerable amounts of money hawking 9/11 conspiracy DVDs and books. Others cling to the notion for deep-seated psychological reasons. Some are deluded. Yet the weight of the evidence is clear: the destruction of the World Trade Center buildings was directly caused by the actions of the 9/11 terrorists. To believe otherwise is to not only embrace an alternative theory, but to accept an alternative reality. An extended commentary on the 9/11 “Truth Movement” can be found at “Exposing the 9/11 conspiracy fantasies.” July 2008: Nobody asked me, but… August 1, 2008 August 2, 2008 ~ Jefferson Flanders Veeps and Swing States, Che’s dark legacy, the Big Dig and the Big Lift, and other observations With a tip of the straw boater to legendary New York columnist Jimmy Cannon, nobody asked me, but… WHO WOULD JOHN McCAIN AND BARACK OBAMA SELECT FOR THEIR RESPECTIVE RUNNING MATES if they put aside all considerations except winning key swing states? For McCain, former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge represents the best choice for the GOP ticket to contest Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and perhaps even New Jersey (more so than McCain-Romney). For Obama, Hillary Clinton as VP would provide the most lift in Ohio, Michigan, and Florida by appealing to ethnic working class Democrats and older women. Yet it’s unlikely Ridge and Clinton will be the vice presidential choices. Ridge’s pro-choice stance makes him a difficult sell to Republican evangelicals. Obama doesn’t want to share the stage, or spotlight, with the more experienced Clinton. So, it can be argued, the candidates will not let Electoral College math drive their VP-picks and that’s where political decision-making veers from the rational. IT WAS TELLING THAT COLOMBIAN COMMANDOS DISGUISED THEMSELVES IN Ernesto “Che” Guevara t-shirts to trick Marxist guerrillas into freeing 15 kidnap victims. That the brutal Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, idolized Guevara—the Argentine revolutionary icon—is yet another part of Che’s dark legacy, albeit a predictable one. That an American director, Steven Soderbergh, should seek to glorify this ruthless proponent of a failed Marxist ideology (as he does in his new movie) is less understandable. THE LAND OF THE BEAN AND THE COD can now proudly lay claim to the world’s greatest public works boondoggle—the mismanaged Big Dig. The Boston Globe reports that the error-plagued project (grandly entitled the Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel) “will cost an additional $7 billion in interest, bringing the total to a staggering $22 billion…” The debt will not be paid off until 2038, according to the Globe, and the state government’s solution to the crushing debt? Borrowing more! It was Albert Einstein who defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” JEFF JACOBY OF THE BOSTON GLOBE quarreled with Sen. Obama’s oratorical treatment of the Berlin Airlift (in Obama’s July 24th speech), with the often-fiery conservative columnist zinging the Democratic presidential hopeful for failing to mention President Harry Truman’s pivotal role and the courage of the U.S. pilots involved. Jacoby added: …Obama seemed to go out of his way not to say plainly that what saved Berlin in that dark time was America’s military might. Save for a solitary reference to “the first American plane,” he never described one of the greatest American operations of the postwar period as an American operation at all. He spoke only of “the airlift,” “the planes,” “those pilots.” Perhaps their American identity wasn’t something he cared to stress amid all his “people of the world” salutations and talk of “global citizenship.” Jacoby’s criticism is partially valid, but the Berlin Airlift was a combined Anglo-American operation, with more British pilots (39) dying than American (31) during the course of the nearly year-long resupply effort. (The 1950 movie “The Big Lift” offers an in-depth look at the harrowing conditions faced by pilots flying into Berlin.) SPEAKING OF ANGLO INFLUENCES, LOOK NO FURTHER THAN THE NEW BATMAN MOVIE “THE DARK KNIGHT.” The two stars, Christian Bale (England) and Heath Ledger (Australia), the director (Christopher Nolan, a Brit), and two key supporting actors, Michael Caine and Gary Oldman (both Londoners) prove that Batman isn’t as American a franchise as you might think. THE LATE DALE DAVIS, PUBLISHER OF THE SANTA BARBARA NEWS-PRESS USED TO JOKE THAT every American man believed he could do three things well: drive a car, make love, and run a newspaper. Of course whether that proverbial guy actually could perform adequately was a completely different question, Davis would add. Sam Zell, the Chicago “turnaround maven” who engineered the takeover of the Tribune Company for $8.5 billion in 2007 has discovered that running newspapers these days isn’t as easy as it looked from the outside, and BusinessWeek calls it “a transaction that’s shaping up to be one of the most disastrous the media world has ever seen.” As Zell slashes newsroom payrolls, sells many of Tribune’s papers, and belatedly admits he misjudged the financial situation, the question now becomes whether this self-described “grave dancer” will run the company into the ground. Zell’s hand-picked former Clear Channel executives clearly don’t know what they are doing. It adds up to hard times for some of the country’s major metros (like the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune.) IT’S A TOSS UP AS TO WHETHER RAPPER LUDACRIS OR ACTOR JON VOIGHT demonstrate better the absurdity of entertainers pontificating about politics. Ludacris embarrassed the Obama campaign by releasing a rap video insulting both Hillary Clinton and John McCain, while Voight contributed a pro-McCain op-ed to the Washington Times warning about Obama’s plans to introduce socialism to the United States. With celebrity friends like these, who needs enemies? THIS MONTH’S WORDS OF WISDOM FROM JOURNALIST THEODORE “TEDDY” WHITE: “To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.”	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line856
__label__cc	0.51067	0.48933	Directory Fellows National Fellow Trish Kahle C. Austin Buck Family National Fellow B.A. Salem College (2010) M.A. University of Chicago (2015) Dream Mentor: Andrew Needham View All Mentees Fields of Interest: Trish Kahle is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Chicago. Kahle’s dissertation, “The Graveyard Shift: Mining Democracy in an Age of Energy Crisis, 1963-1981,” examines the energy crisis of the 1970s from the perspective of the coal mining workplace. Combining the methods of labor, economic, environmental, and political history with the emerging field of energy history, this project shows how the energy crisis—better remembered for gas lines—remade the practice of industrial democracy in the energy workplace at a crucial turning point in American history. Kahle’s work has received support from the Mellon Foundation, the American Society for Environmental History, the Western Association of Women Historians, the Reuther Library, Pennsylvania State University Libraries, the Labor and Working-Class History Association, and the University of Chicago Division of Social Sciences. Kahle is also a contributing editor for Red Wedge and has written on contemporary labor organizing, energy politics, and climate justice for a variety of outlets including Dissent, Jacobin, In These Times, The Ecologist, Salvage, and Scalawag. Kahle received her B.A. in English literature and creative writing from Salem College and an M.A. in history from the University of Chicago. Thesis Description: The Graveyard Shift: Mining Democracy in an Age of Energy Crisis, 1963-1981 Trish Kahle’s project, “The Graveyard Shift: Mining Democracy in an Age of Energy Crisis, 1963-1981,” examines the US energy crisis of the long 1970s from the perspective of the coal mining workplace. Particularly focusing on the unionized mines in which the majority of the nation’s coal miners worked, this project traces a “long energy crisis”—which began in the mid-1960s amid debates over the future of atomic energy, and persisted into the early 1980s. In the coalfields, the energy crisis manifested as battles over industrial restructuring, occupational health, mine safety, union democracy, strip mining, and the availability of gasoline. Combining the methodologies of social, environmental, and economic history, I show how the transformation of US energy production shifted the ways in which Americans thought about, regulated, and purchased energy. This broader transformation coincided with a sustained effort to reform the United Mine Workers of America, and I argue these narratives—of energy crisis and union reform—are in fact a unitary story. Together, they illuminate the transformation of the US energy regime as a response to concerns about the viability of high-energy capitalism at a moment when its future was called into question by concerns about limited resources, the compatibility of the new energy firms with democratic politics, and the moral implications of coal production’s externalities. View Fellows	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line857
__label__wiki	0.946828	0.946828	Tom Petty Believed He Was Playing His Last Tour Rick Diamond, Getty Images Tom Petty believed he was delivering his last tour during the road trip leading up to his death last year, his widow Dana said. She also revealed that he’d only been told he was suffering from emphysema, along with a broken hip, just before the tour began. Petty died on Oct. 2, 2017, after an accidental overdose of painkillers. He’d been avoiding the hip surgery doctors had recommended for some time. “He would do anything to help anyone -- his bandmates, the crew, the fans – and that's why he did the last tour with a fractured hip,” Dana told Billboard in a new interview. “He was adamant. He found out a few days before the tour was gonna start – and that he had emphysema.” She said he’d relied on drugs on the road to keep his hip pain under control but was looking forward to not needing them anymore. “That's why he wouldn't go to the hospital when his hip broke,” Dana recalled. “He was like, 'I just got home. I want some time. I don't want to go to hip replacement surgery. I want to be home with my wife and my dog.' I was just like, dude, you can't hobble around the house… insane in pain, but he was stubborn. He’d had it in mind it was his last tour and he owed it to his long-time crew, from decades some of them, and his fans.” She said she was appreciative that Petty had been able to perform his final three shows at the Hollywood Bowl in the days leading up to his passing. “[T]he day before he died he was pounding his chest going, 'I'm on top of the world!' Never had he been so proud of himself, so happy, so looking forward to the future – and then he's gone.” Petty tribute box set An American Treasure has just been released. Tom Petty Through the Years Next: Tom Petty Albums Ranked Source: Tom Petty Believed He Was Playing His Last Tour Filed Under: Tom Petty Tour de Gap	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line859
__label__wiki	0.537642	0.537642	Photo by Jay Blakesberg. “Placeless” released today Placeless, Kronos’ first collaboration with Iranian singers Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat, was released by Kirkelig Kulturverksted today and is now available to stream and download through Bandcamp, Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora and other platforms. Listen now > CDs will be available after April 26 and may be preordered in North and South America through Valley Entertainment at the link above. For European orders, please go here. Kronos is very excited to announce that the Norwegian record label Kirkelig Kulturverksted (KKV), in association with New York-based Valley Entertainment, will release Placeless on March 1, 2019. The CD and digital album are now available for preorder. Preorders include an immediate download of “My Ruthless Companion.” Placeless is the first collaboration between Kronos and Iranian singers Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat. Recorded in Oslo’s Kulturkirken Jakob in November 2018, the album features 14 songs composed by Mahsa Vahdat to classical poems by Hafez and Rumi and the works of contemporary Iranian poets Forough Farrokhzad, Mohammad Ibrahim Jafari and Vahdat’s husband Atabak Elyasi. Composers Sahba Aminikia, Aftab Darvishi, Jacob Garchik and Elyasi arranged the songs for string quartet. This week, the National Endowment for the Arts announced more than $27 million in grants that will help provide all Americans with the opportunity to participate in and experience the arts, support local economies, and preserve American heritage while embracing new forms of creative expression. Kronos Performing Arts Association is grateful to receive an Art Works grant to support the organization’s fifth annual self-produced Kronos Festival. Art Works is the NEA’s principal grantmaking program. Learn more > We are planning to announce the details of Kronos Festival 2019 soon. It is being held this year on May 30, May 31 and June 1 at the SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco, California. This year’s festival artist-in-residence is Valérie Sainte-Agathe, the artistic director of the San Francisco Girls Chorus. Stay tuned for more… Kronos Quartet/Kronos Performing Arts Association (KPAA) is proud to announce the fifth and final group of composers to be commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire: Mark Applebaum, Rafiq Bhatia, Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté, Alexandra du Bois, Barry Guy, Angélique Kidjo, Sky Macklay, Aruna Narayan, Charlton Singleton, and Paul Wiancko. For 45 years, Kronos Quartet has collaborated with composers and musicians representing tremendous stylistic and cultural diversity. Drawing on this legacy, the nonprofit organization KPAA is developing the first learning library of contemporary repertoire for string quartet. Launched in 2015, Kronos’ Fifty for the Future is a partnership with Carnegie Hall and others that is commissioning 50 new works – by 25 women and 25 men – expressly for the training of students and emerging professionals. Scores and parts, recordings, and other learning materials for 25 of the compositions are available free of charge online here. As the remaining 25 string quartets and their supporting materials are developed, they are scheduled to be added to Kronos’ Fifty for the Future website through the 2020/21 Season. < 1 2 3 4 5 > >>	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line862
__label__cc	0.743001	0.256999	Karshner Museum and Center For Culture & Arts » Artifacts » Artifact of the Week » 2017-18 Artifacts of the Week » Week 1: Clam basket What is this? What is it made of? What was it used for? Who would have used it? When do you think it was made? This is a Native American clam basket, made by the Chehalis Tribe in Washington State. It is made of the roots of the spruce tree, gathered and held over open fires until the bark could be removed with ease and the roots split into strips and tied in bundles for future use. If the roots became dry or brittle they were soaked in cold water until pliable enough to be used. What was it used for? It is a food carrying basket, particularly for collecting clams, oysters, mussels and other shellfish or even fish. It would be dipped in the water to clean the shellfish. Who would have used it? Chehalis women from the Palix River area made these baskets and used them for gathering foods in the summer. This one is thought to have been made around 1870. These were known to be made during the 1800’s and early 1900’s, but they could have been made much earlier as well.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line865
__label__wiki	0.679957	0.679957	4 Leadership Lessons From The Art Of Goalkeeping December 19th, 2017 Community, Leadership, Personal Growth As a goalkeeper, you're the last line of defence. By PRAVIN NAIR It was the 61st minute of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final. A through ball from Wesley Sneijder sliced through the Spanish defence offside trap, and Arjen Robben was through on goal. The only obstacle between him and the first goal of thes game was Iker Casillas, the Spanish goalkeeper. Casillas dashed off his line, and in a moment of pure brilliance, pulled off a stunning save to deny Robben. It proved to be one of the most important saves in footballing history, as Spain went on beat the Netherlands after extra-time for their first FIFA World Cup victory. Casillas was Spain’s first-ever captain to have lifted the World Cup trophy, and is widely regarded as one of the finest leaders to have graced the game. His heroic gameplay on the field demonstrated that being a goalkeeper is more than just a shot stopping machine; it is an act of leadership. Over the years, I have observed the likes of Oliver Kahn and Gianluigi Buffon becoming the backbone of their respective clubs and countries. These, coupled with my personal experience of being a goalkeeper, has taught me four leadership lessons. “Goalkeepers need an element of insanity.” – Kahn This might interest you: Football Talk: The 3 Distinctive Leadership Styles Of Mourinho, Guardiola And Conte 1. Be dependable during moments of crisis In many games, even a rock-solid defence will experience momentary lapses in concentration. When that occurs, a goalkeeper may find himself one-on-one against the opponent. A sense of helplessness usually sinks in as he is at the mercy of the attacker. But, is he really in deep trouble? Great goalkeepers do not wait for the attacker to find his footing, rather they rush out and narrow the angle to force the attacker into a difficult shot. Goalkeepers who are highly dependable during vulnerable moments will build confidence within the team to face tumultuous situations. From a real-life perspective, it teaches us that when facing critical situations, we should not feel helpless. Instead, respond to it as there is every chance we could still bounce back with a positive result. Recommended for you: The Greatest Show On Earth: A Tribute To The Unsung Heroes In Football 2. Learn from your mistakes David De Gea made his debut for Manchester United on Aug 2011 after he was signed for then a British record fee of £18.9 mil for a goalkeeper. The expectations were tremendously high: The world was witnessing an up and coming goalkeeper at a prestigious football club. However, De Gea would go on to concede a soft goal in that game, generating a lot of criticisms from fans and professionals. During his first season, he committed more than five notable mistakes, which led to him being dropped out for several games. Eric Steele, Man United’s goalkeeper coach who played a huge role in identifying the young stopper previously, admitted later: “His first six months were horrendous.” Instead of playing second fiddle, De Gea bounced back from the disappointments and worked on improving his physique, as his scrawny body had struggled against the tough demands of the English football. With sheer determination, De Gea has silenced his critics to become one of the leading goalkeepers globally. He led from the back and provided immense confidence to his team. Sir Alex Ferguson, then the manager of Man United once said, “David has stood up as a man. He got a grip of it, he didn’t let it get to him and the boy has improved every game.” See also: The Man Behind United Occasionally, there are situations that brings out the worst out of a goalkeeper. I’ve had the ignominy of conceding goals over my head, under my diving body and even by spilling it into the net. Many times a goalkeeper is left red-faced following a mistake, and the most mature way of handling it is to assume responsibility for it and never allow it to distract his performance thereafter. When we are directly responsible for a mistake, it is futile to point fingers, when we should work on fixing the mess that may have been created. As Brad Friedel, a former goalkeeper with the United States, once said: “For a goalkeeper, there is no hiding place.” In a real-life perspective, we are not perfect and make mistakes occasionally. Real leaders learn from these mistakes and fix what’s not working before it relapses. 3. Communicate and organise Statistically speaking, 55% of the captains of teams in 2017/18 English Premier League are defenders. The major factor behind such decision is that defenders are able to organise the team’s movement from the back. However, it must be noted that a goalkeeper has the largest vision area in front of him. He can see the formation of both teams ahead, and is usually one of the earliest to spot a dangerous attack. The onus is then on the goalkeeper to communicate to his teammates on their surroundings in the most effective manner. Sometimes, all it takes is a breakdown of communication between the goalkeeper and his teammates to concede the easiest opportunity for the opponent to score. In 2013, Manchester City and Chelsea were heading to a drab 1–1 draw when Man City’s defender Matija Nastasic headed the ball back to the goalkeeper under tremendous pressure. However, Man City’s goalkeeper Joe Hart had dashed out of the penalty box and inexplicably missed the ball. Fernando Torres of Chelsea slalomed past both of them to slot in a last-gasp winner. It was revealed that Hart was at fault for not communicating effectively to his defender, hence he was dropped from the starting line-up after several matches. Peter Shilton, widely regarded as the finest goalkeepers for England, once said: “As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what’s going on and respond to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.” A great goalkeeper will ensure that an opponent’s free-kick is foiled by a well-organised wall, or even play as the last defender (sweeper keeper) to prevent opponents from capitalising on spaces behind the defenders, which is best conceptualised by Bayern Munich’s Manuel Neuer. Check this out: Failure Maketh Man 4. Be agile David Seaman was 39 years old when he captained Arsenal in the FA Cup semi-final vs Sheffield United in 2003. In the 84th minute, when Arsenal were leading 1–0, Carl Asaba thought he had equalised when he headed the ball into an empty net. But Seaman pulled off a stunning one-handed reflex save, and Arsenal went on to win the game. Agility is a necessary and essential attribute in a goalkeeper. Being agile to sudden changes in the direction of the ball represents a challenging situation where a split-second decision can win the game for your team. There are two major factors in making a split-second save: Positioning and Preparedness. A goalkeeper has a higher percentage of producing a save if he gets his bearings right when facing a probable shot. However, a goalkeeper’s preparedness is what that sets him apart from the rest of the field. He should possess the ability to be on his toes to move in an instance wherever the ball moves. Similarly in life, leaders should be agile towards sudden changes in the industry. Leaders who are ready to make instant decisions (Position) and equip themselves with the necessary knowledge (Preparedness) tend to respond better to potential turbulence. When a goal goes in, everyone looks at you. Do you have what it takes to deal with that? Every position in a sport provides a unique leadership experience for the individuals involved. In football, goalkeepers are usually filled in by individuals who are considered the “weakest” link in the team. However, a goalkeeper has to be mentally strong, as he carries a heavy weight of expectation within the team. Seaman best describes it: “Massive, massive mentality. The mental strength, you’ve just got to have that because you get a lot of stick, as a goalkeeper you’re the last line of defence. When a goal goes in, everyone looks at you; you’ve got to be able to deal with that. If you make a mistake, it could be a bad mistake, how are you going to recover? Are you going to react positively or are you just going to cave in?” It can sometimes seem cruel to the person affected, but with the right attitude, one can bounce back from the disappointment and prove that he/she is dependable by the team. Leadership through goalkeeping is a great case of experiential learning, which should be pursued by any individual with an interest in donning a pair of leadership gloves. Pravin hopes that one day he will witness a world-class goalkeeper from Malaysia on the global stage. To discuss football with him, connect with him by dropping us an email at editor@leaderonomics.com. Meanwhile, to see how you can partner with Leaderonomics Youth or Leaderonomics Campus initiatives, please connect with us at info@leaderonomics.com. We’ll be more than happy to discuss how we can work together to grow these young ones into leaders. 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__label__wiki	0.928608	0.928608	Chapter 4. The "clash of civilizations", Part II. The Reversal In Morocco, although Abd el-Krim’s insurrection had been crushed in 1926, “pacification” operations were extended until 1934. In Nicaragua, the United States defeated Augusto Sandino’s insurrection (1927-1933). During this period, two organizations would stand out for their use of terrorism in their attempt to make a national cause triumph. One was the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO), from 1890 to the 1930s. The IMRO would perpetrate the most spectacular attack of this half a century against the Sofia Cathedral in Bulgaria, killing nearly one hundred eighty political leaders and international representatives during high mass. But politically, it would fail. The other organization was the Irish Revolutionary Army (IRA) (1919-1921), led by Michael Collins who managed, shortly after World War I, to wrest the independence of Ireland (Eire), except for Ulster, where the majority of the population were Presbyterian protestants who had migrated to Ireland from England centuries earlier. Outside of the North West Frontier, where insurrections were chronic, the major feature of the British way was to use primarily its police force. It was only when the latter failed to maintain order that the army intervened as a last resort. In India, the country was held by seventy thousand British soldiers for two hundred fifty million inhabitants. Very quickly, Gandhi’s passive-resistance movement gave protests a unique style. Riots were rare: during the Moplah Rebellion in 1921 and at Peshawar in 1930. A colonial power dominating a considerable share of the world’s Muslims while having, through their reading of the Old Testament, particular bonds with the Jewish religious tradition—which was not the case in the Catholic states—Great Britain was in an ambiguous position. The ambiguity had already been expressed in the very terms of the Balfour Declaration (1917), in which a “national home” was to be provided for the Jewish people without encroaching on the prerogatives of the local populations. In 1920, Arab enmity to the Jews was very clear; these were perceived as foreigners in every way, and culturally closer to the British than to the Arabs. The situation became worse after 1933, when some sixty-five thousand Jews emigrated to Palestine, including many from Germany. Riots broke out against the British, and in 1936, attacks were perpetrated against the Jewish settlers and were followed by a general strike of nearly one week, showing the extent of the movement of rejection. It became necessary to resort to arbitration by the Peel Commission (1937), which proposed a partition into two states, a Jewish state in north and an Arab state in the South with, in the center, a buffer zone controlled by the British. Neither of the parties agreed to the Commission’s proposals. Armed hostilities increased while Arab volunteers came from Iraq to bolster the Arabs in Palestine. A British officer, Orde Wingate, trained units of the Jewish armed group Haganah to protect the Jewish settlements. Order was nonetheless restored. A conference held in London committed to restricting Jewish immigration and considered granting independence with no partition, which satisfied the Arabs temporarily and raised Jewish indignation. The last act of the British Mandate would be played in 1944-1947, in an impassioned climate in which the Jewish side was determined to use force to compel Great Britain to change its policy. In the end, the destiny of Palestine would be entrusted to the United Nations, which would decide on a partition plan that the Arabs would reject. By winning the war (1948-1949) against four Arab armies (Egypt, Transjordan, Iraq, and Syria), Israel would ensure its right to existence. The great Paris Colonial Exhibition (1931) symbolized both the pinnacle of the colonial period and its swan song. In Vietnam, the Yên Bái uprisings of the 1930s were brutally repressed. Protests were being heard in France. The young André Malraux prefaced Andrée Viollis’s explosive report, Indochine SOS (Gallimard, 1936). But in the Far East in 1937, the situation was already changing radically. The Japanese, who had been in Manchuria since 1931, were engaging in an overall attack on China. The Chinese Communist Party had suffered serious reversals in urban areas (1927) and had retreated to rural areas. Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang tried in vain to destroy the Communist Party in 1930. The annihilation campaign was followed by three, better organized ones between 1931 and 1934. The last campaign forced the Communists to withdraw to Shaanxi in the north. The pressure from the Japanese led the Chinese nationalists to impose an anti-Japanese alliance on their leaders. During the Communists’ retreat, known as the Long March, Mao Zedong became the unquestioned leader of the party apparatus (1934-1935). It was during the period extending from 1936 to 1938 that he innovated on the ground and managed to change the Communists’ guerrilla warfare into revolutionary warfare. The Japanese were not, however, seeing the Communists as the main adversary. The Kuomintang seemed more dangerous to them, and in fact the Communist guerrillas had launched only one major offensive, in 1940. 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__label__cc	0.575777	0.424223	The bombing of dresden essay help National missile defense essay Happy cows essay Abortion a necessary right of all women Beforewhen abortion was legalized in New York City, 80 percent of all women who died from botched illegal abortions were Black or Puerto Rican. Through this legislation, a doctor could face up to two years in prison and civil lawsuits for performing such a procedure. So, rather than asserting that human life begins at any specific point, the court simply declared that the State has a "compelling interest" in protecting "potential life" at the point of viability. Such methods are rarely used in countries where surgical abortion is legal and available. Even if a patient asks where she can get an abortion, clinic personnel are required to reply, "This project does not consider abortion an appropriate method of family planning. For one, abortion providers tended to be untrained and not members of medical societies. After viability, doctors call an abortion a "termination of pregnancy". This procedure may be performed from 13 weeks gestation to the third trimester. The very fact that such cases happen proves the lie behind the slogans about women choosing abortions freely. The study indicated a long-term decline in the abortion rate. Today, however, the entire terrain of the abortion debate has been shifted. Nevertheless, it has generated much controversy among pro-choice advocates who view it as a potential step in the direction of banning abortion. Between andin the U. The abortion rate for protestant women is 15 per 1, women, while Catholic women have a slightly higher rate, 22 per 1, Note that this figure includes all women of reproductive age, including women that are not pregnant. But unless this support is galvanized, the pro-choice majority could continue to lose ground to the anti-abortion minority. Increasingly, abortion has been transformed from a right to a privilege, denied to ever greater numbers of women. Major complications those requiring hospital care, surgery or transfusion occur at a rate of less than 0. In the upside-down world of Wendy Davis, yes. Fifty-three percent of clinics were picketed 20 times or more in a year. Upadhyay UD et al. Bush on November 5,but a federal judge blocked its enforcement in several states just a few hours after it became public law. An example of a clandestine advertisement published in a January edition of the Boston Daily Times. In March, Bush experienced a slight change of heart: Supreme Court has in subsequent decisions reaffirmed that right. For this reason, labor induced abortion is legally risky in the U. Second-trimester abortions are generally well-tolerated.New pro-abortion documentary inadvertently highlights Texas Right to Life; The cutest thing you’ll watch all day: 50 moms sing with their kids who have Down syndrome; She talks about her own abortion decision and the decisions of other women as reasons why abortion is necessary, showing a total lack of understanding of fetal development. Oct 19, · Even a leading group opposing abortion, the National Right to Life Committee, issued a statement saying that its position is "to allow abortion if necessary to prevent the death of the mother.". Over a decade before widespread legalization of abortion, even Planned Parenthood’s Medical Director, Mary Calderone, recognized that “it is hardly ever necessary today to consider the life of a mother as threatened by a pregnancy.”(1) But thanks to the efforts of abortion advocates, pregnancy is perceived as dangerous, and women are. Abortion: Every woman’s right. Whatever restrictions are placed upon legal abortion, all women do not suffer equally. while still anti-abortion, Bush nevertheless felt it. More than 40% of all women will end a pregnancy by abortion at some time in their reproductive lives. but what provisions are necessary to protect young women who feel they cannot notify their parents? He cited the safety of the procedures and the basic right of women to make their own decisions. The right to life, the right to liberty, the right to security of person, and the right to reproductive health are major issues of human rights that sometimes constitute the basis for the existence or absence of . Personality psychology dollard and pavlov An evaluation of the vietnam war Community kitchen business plan Fahrenheit 451 essay outline Essays comparing two cities Business plan dragons den cbc Perfume grenouille analysis The impact of inflation on economy Difference between race and ethnicity essay Markets in financial instruments directive mifid	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line880
__label__wiki	0.80774	0.80774	Sign Up Member Login Life in the UK Test > Practice Tests > Test 2 Test View Loading test... You have 45 minutes to answer 24 multiple choice Life in the UK Test questions. You need to answer at least 18 out of 24 questions correctly to pass. Answers may be reviewed after each question or at the end of the test. Good luck! Begin Test Sign up to keep track of your progress Last Score Next Test >> << Previous Test Study Material in Different Languages List of questions in above test (quick view). Click question box to reveal correct answer. 1. Which TWO are 20th century British discoveries or inventions? A Cash machines (ATMs) B Cloning a mammal C Mobile Phones D Walkman's Correct Answer: Cash machines (ATMs), Cloning a mammal Explanation: In 1996, two British scientists, Sir Ian Wilmot (1944-) and Keith Campbell (1954-2012), led a team which was the first to succeed in cloning a mammal, Dolly the sheep. In the 1960s, James Goodfellow (1937-) invented the cash-dispensing ATM (automatic teller machine) or 'cashpoint'. The first of these was put into use by Barclays Bank in Enfield, north London in 1967. Reference: Chapter 3: A long and illustrious history - Britain since 1945 - Some great British inventions of the 20th century 2. Which of these statements is correct? A By 1400 the preferred language of English court was English B By 1400 the preferred language of English court was French Correct Answer: By 1400 the preferred language of English court was English Explanation: By 1400, in England, official documents were being written in English, and English had become the preferred language of the royal court and Parliament. Reference: Chapter 3: A long and illustrious history - The Middle Ages - A distinct identity 3. After the abolition of slavery, more than 2 million migrant came from which TWO countries to replace the freed slaves? A Australia B China C India D Russia Correct Answer: China, India Explanation: After 1833, 2 million Indian and Chinese workers were employed to replace the freed slaves. Reference: Chapter 3: A long and illustrious history - A global power - The slave trade 4. The last successful foreign invasion of England was by which of the following? A The Normans led by William B The Romans led by Emperor Claudius C The Romans led by Julius Caesar D The Vikings Correct Answer: The Normans led by William Explanation: The Norman Conquest was the last successful foreign invasion of England and led to many changes in government and social structures in England. Norman French, the language of the new ruling class, influenced the development of the English language as we know it today. Reference: Chapter 3: A long and illustrious history - Early Britain - The Norman Conquest 5. On his escape from the Battle of Worcester, Charles II famously hid inside what? A A cellar B A forest C An oak tree Correct Answer: An oak tree Explanation: Charles II escaped from Worcester, famously hiding in an oak tree on one occasion, and eventually fled to Europe. Parliament now controlled Scotland as well as England and Wales. Reference: Chapter 3: A long and illustrious history - The Tudors and Stuarts - Oliver Cromwell and the English republic 6. Is the statement below TRUE or FALSE? Thanks to its position as the world's leading industrial nation during the 1800s, Britain was responsible for producing half of the world's coal, iron and cotton cloth. A FALSE B TRUE Correct Answer: TRUE Explanation: British industry led the world in the 19th century. The UK produced more than half of the world's iron, coal and cotton cloth. Reference: Chapter 3: A long and illustrious history - A global power - Trade and industry 7. Where did Mary Stuart spend most of her childhood? B France C Germany D Spain Correct Answer: France Explanation: Much of her childhood was spent in France. When she returned to Scotland, she was the centre of a power struggle between different groups. Reference: Chapter 3: A long and illustrious history - The Tudors and Stuarts - The Reformation in Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots 8. What was the Spanish Armada? A A Spanish princess B A fleet of Spanish ships C A treaty with Spain D The Spanish Army Correct Answer: A fleet of Spanish ships Explanation: Elizabeth became one of the most popular monarchs in English history, particularly after 1588, when the English defeated the Spanish Armada (a large fleet of ships), which had been sent by Spain to conquer England and restore Catholicism. Reference: Chapter 3: A long and illustrious history - The Tudors and Stuarts - Religious conflicts 9. Where can HMS Victory be visited? A Falmouth B Poole C Portsmouth D Southampton Correct Answer: Portsmouth Explanation: Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London, is a monument to him. His ship, HMS Victory, can be visited in Portsmouth. Reference: Chapter 3: A long and illustrious history - A global power - War with France 10. Is the statement below TRUE or FALSE? Mary Peters was an author who was later made a Dame in recognition of her work promoting literacy. Correct Answer: FALSE Explanation: Born in Manchester, Mary Peters moved to Northern Ireland as a child. She was a talented athlete who won an Olympic gold medal in the pentathlon in 1972. After this, she raised money for local athletics and became the team manager for the women's British Olympic team. She continues to promote sport and tourism in Northern Ireland and was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2000 in recognition of her work. Reference: Chapter 3: A long and illustrious history - Britain since 1945 - Problems in the economy in the 1970s 11. Which TWO famous London buildings are built in the 19th-century 'gothic' style? A Buckingham Palace B St Pancras Station C St Paul's Cathedral D The Houses of Parliament Correct Answer: The Houses of Parliament, St Pancras Station Explanation: In the 19th century, the medieval 'gothic' style became popular again. As cities expanded, many great public buildings were built in this style. The Houses of Parliament and St Pancras Station were built at this time, as were the town halls in cities such as Manchester and Sheffield. Reference: Chapter 4: A modern, thriving society - Arts and culture - Architecture 12. Which TWO of the following are major horse-racing events in the UK? A Royal Ascot B Scottish Grand National C Six Nations Championship D The Open Championship Correct Answer: Scottish Grand National, Royal Ascot Explanation: Famous horse-racing events include: Royal Ascot, a five-day race meeting in Berkshire attended by members of the Royal Family; the Grand National at Aintree near Liverpool; and the Scottish Grand National at Ayr. Reference: Chapter 4: A modern, thriving society - Sport - Horse racing 13. What awards event celebrates British theatre? A The Brit Awards B The Laurence Olivier Awards C The Man Booker Prize D The Tuner Prize Correct Answer: The Laurence Olivier Awards Explanation: The Laurence Olivier Awards take place annually at different venues in London. There are a variety of categories, including best director, best actor and best actress. Reference: Chapter 4: A modern, thriving society - Arts and culture - Theatre William Blake, Lord Byron and Robert Browning were all famous golfers. Explanation: Poetry was very popular in the 19th century, with poets such as William Blake, John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Robert and Elizabeth Browning. Reference: Chapter 4: A modern, thriving society - Arts and culture - Literature - British poets The daffodil is the national flower of Wales. Explanation: The countries that make up the UK all have flowers which are particularly associated with them and which are sometimes worn on national saints days: -England - the rose ; -Scotland - the thistle ; -Wales - the daffodil ; -Northern Ireland - the shamrock Reference: Chapter 4: A modern, thriving society - Leisure - Gardening 16. Is it acceptable in the UK to treat people worse because of their sexual orientation? A No, it is never acceptable to treat people worse for their sexual orientation B Yes, if their sexual orientation is forbidden by religion Correct Answer: No, it is never acceptable to treat people worse for their sexual orientation Explanation: Although Britain is one of the world's most diverse societies, there is a set of shared values and responsibilities that everyone can agree with. These values and responsibilities include: - to treat everyone equally, regardless of sex, race, religion, age, disability, class or sexual orientation Reference: Chapter 5: The UK government, the law and your role - Your role in the community - Values and responsibilities 17. In 1999, what happened to hereditary peers in the House of Lords? A Their numbers were greatly increased. B Their salaries were stopped C They lost their automatic right to attend the House of Lords D Women were allowed to inherit their titles Correct Answer: They lost their automatic right to attend the House of Lords Explanation: Since 1999, hereditary peers have lost the automatic right to attend the House of Lords. Reference: Chapter 5: The UK government, the law and your role - The British constitution - System of government -The House of Lords 18. What happens when a Member of Parliament (MP) dies or resigns? A A by-election is held to replace the MP B A neighbouring MP looks after the constituency C The post remains vacant until the next General Election. D Their party chooses someone to fill the post until the next General Election. Correct Answer: A by-election is held to replace the MP Explanation: If an MP dies or resigns, there will be a fresh election, called a by-election, in his or her constituency. Reference: Chapter 5: The UK government, the law and you role - The British constitution - System of government - Elections 19. Which of these statements is correct? A In Northern Ireland a member of your family must complete a voting registration form on your behalf. B In Northern Ireland all those entitled to vote must complete their own registration form. Correct Answer: In Northern Ireland all those entitled to vote must complete their own registration form. Explanation: In Northern Ireland a different system operates. This is called 'individual registration' and all those entitled to vote must complete their own registration form. Reference: Chapter 5: The UK government, the law and your role - Who can vote? - The electoral register 20. Which TWO of the following are amongst the shared goals of the Commonwealth? A Democracy B Dependency C Development D Discrimination Correct Answer: Development, Democracy Explanation: The Commonwealth is an association of countries that support each other and work together towards shared goals in democracy and development. Reference: Chapter 5: The UK government, the law and your role - The UK and international institutions - The Commonwealth 21. Are police obliged to obey the law? A Yes, always B Yes, except when investigating a difficult case Correct Answer: Yes, always Explanation: The police force is a public service that helps and protects everyone, no matter what their background or where they live. Police officers must themselves obey the law. They must not misuse their authority, make a FALSE? statement, be rude or abusive, or commit racial discrimination. If police officers are corrupt or misuse their authority they are severely punished. Reference: Chapter 5: The UK government, the law and your role - Respecting the law - The police and their duties 22. Which of the following is not the job of the police? A To keep the peace B To prevent and detect crime C To prosecute someone for debt D To protect life and property Correct Answer: To prosecute someone for debt Explanation: The job of the police in the UK is to: -protect life and property ; -prevent disturbances (also known as keeping the peace) ; -prevent and detect crime. Reference: Chapter 5: The UK government, the law and you role - Respecting the law - The police and their duties 23. Which TWO of the following deal with civil disputes? A County Court B Crown Court C Sheriff Court D Youth Court Correct Answer: County Court, Sheriff Court Explanation: County Courts deal with a wide range of civil disputes. These include people trying to get back money that is owed to them, cases involving personal injury, family matters, breaches of contract, and divorce. In Scotland, most of these matters are dealt with in the Sheriff Court. Reference: Chapter 5: The UK government, the law and your role - The role of the courts - Civil courts 24. As well as giving legal advice, solicitors are able to do which TWO of the following? A Arrest suspects B Change the law C Represent clients in court D Take action for a client Correct Answer: Take action for a client, Represent clients in court Explanation: Solicitors are trained lawyers who give advice on legal matters, take action for their clients and represent their clients in court. Reference: Chapter 5: The UK government, the law and your role - The role of the courts - Legal advice - Solicitors © Copyright Lifeintheuktest.net 2019. All Right Reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line881
__label__cc	0.5553	0.4447	A Publication Day Interview with Paul Mathews, Author of We Have Lost the Pelicans Once again the wonderful Book Connectors on Facebook has brought me into contact with an author – this time Paul Mathews whose latest comedy thriller We Have Lost the Pelicans is published today, 28th December 2016. We Have Lost the Pelicans is available for purchase in e-book here. As 2016 seems to have been a pretty dreadful year for so many, including me, it’s wonderful to be ending the year on Linda’s Book Bag with an interview with Paul to tell me all about this latest comedy thriller. We Have Lost the Pelicans London, 2044. The St James’ Park pelicans have gone missing – the day before the Republic’s new pelican flag is unveiled. At the same time, British intelligence uncovers coded e-comms about possible anti-Government activity. Who are the bird-nappers and what do they want? And who is behind the secret messages? Agent Howie Pond – licence to lunch – reluctantly agrees to try and find out. Howie’s fiancée Britt has a secret mission of her own – to identify the mysterious owner of Windsor Castle. And to add to the chaos, Howie and Britt are supposed to be getting married tomorrow… There’s a super trailer for We Have Lost the Pelicans here. An Interview with Paul Mathews Hi Paul. Thank you so much for agreeing to answer some questions on my blog about your writing and your novel We Have Lost the Pelicans that is published today. Firstly, please could you tell me a little about yourself? Thanks, Linda. It’s great to be here. Okay. I’m a 44-year-old British guy, who’s given up the 9-to-5 to become a full-time indie author. I self-publish my comedy-thriller e-books on Amazon, with the help of an editor and graphic designer. In my previous life, I was a UK Government press officer for 16 years. So, I know a bit about PR and marketing, which comes in handy. Before that, in the dim and distant pre-internet days, I was an accountant. But we don’t talk about that. And delving even deeper into the past, I somehow ended up studying philosophy at Cambridge University. What else? Oh, yes. I love cheese. And Marmite. Sometimes together. That’s the kind of crazy world we authors live in. And tell us a little about We Have Lost the Pelicans too. It’s the second book in my We Have Lost comedy-thriller series, which is set in a British Republic in the year 2044. There are two main characters: Howie Pond, the president’s spokesperson and rookie secret agent; and his journalist girlfriend Britt. In the first book, We Have Lost The President, the nation’s leader goes missing. In the second book, the St James’ Park pelicans disappear overnight – the day before a big presidential announcement in the park – and Howie is asked to investigate. Meanwhile, Britt is trying to find out who owns Windsor Castle. Oh, and it’s very funny. Mustn’t forget to mention that. (Find out more about We Have Lost the President here.) When I was 11 years-old, I was writing adventure books and producing my own comics, so I always had that creative urge. I won a local playwriting competition aged 18 and I would’ve loved to pursue it more actively after that. But that was back in 1990, when the internet didn’t exist and it was harder to find opportunities. I only got back into it in 2006 when an old school friend asked me to write her school’s pantomime. I wrote more plays and found an online publisher (Lazy Bee Scripts) who accepted my work. And then I progressed to novels. It’s taken more than three decades to become a full-time writer. But definitely worth the wait. I was an amateur actor for several years and was attracted to professional acting as a possible career change. But it’s expensive to train, I didn’t fancy the idea of having to pretend I’m a tree with a bunch of 20-somethings, and work is sparse. If I’d been brave enough, I think I could have become a stand-up comedian. I might give it a go at one of those ‘open mic’ nights soon. Or maybe not! You gave up ‘real’ work to become an author full time. How did you make that decision and what impact has it had on your life? By the time I’d hit the magical age of 42, I’d had enough of working long hours in London. And while some press office work is creative, the vast majority isn’t. I decided that being stuck in an office, using about 10% of my creative talents, was not where I wanted to be. It wasn’t that difficult a decision to make because I’d been thinking about a career change for a while. The main impact is that, in these early days, I am investing a lot of time and money, with the rewards coming later. In other words, I no longer have an income! But luckily I saved for years, my wife has a good job and the cost of living in Poland – where I do lots of my writing – is much cheaper than the UK. Another consequence is that my cat sees a lot more of me at home now, which I think she’s happy about. I’m never quite sure. Your books are comedy thrillers. How difficult is it to balance those elements? I’ve always written comedy, so that’s the easy part. Plotting a good thriller is the hard work. I try to make each chapter an adventure in itself, which keeps the reader engaged. Chapters switching between the two main characters is one way I build tension. The important thing is that the humour should flow from the characters and their actions, and not be forced upon the reader e.g. with lots of unnecessary one-liners. Are you naturally funny in real life? Yes, I’m hilarious. But I would say that! (Well I suppose you would!) Your Mum likes your author photo. What does she think of your books? I think she enjoys them. She’s an author herself – but a totally different genre (paranormal fiction). She writes as Carolyn Mathews (sorry, had to get a plug in there for my Mum!). You’ve written quite a few plays. Why did you decide to write in another genre? Playwriting simply doesn’t offer the same creative rewards in terms of audience. Amateur drama groups tend to go with established playwrights and it can take years for an amateur play to receive its first performance. For example, my full-length comedy Happiness was premiered in June by the St Mary’s Players in Welling – five years after it was published. E-books are a much more immediate way for my work to be enjoyed by people who love a good story and a good laugh. People who read your blog, for example..! It’s not really the writing – it’s what comes before and after it. I don’t enjoy the preparation work; it drags on over many weeks, as ideas come to me. Also, the endless re-reading of full-length drafts (my first novel was 100,000 words) can turn your brain to mush after a while. I never have an actual problem with writing – unless I have a hangover or I’m ill, when I’m not quite so productive. We have a second bedroom that has been turned into my office – I do all my writing there on a laptop. I usually set myself a 2,000-word daily target (equivalent roughly to one of my chapters). When I’m in full writing mode, I write Sunday to Thursday and do social media on Friday. I treat it much more like a job than I used to. Routine is important. And so are periods when you just chill out and let the editor do all the hard work. I know that you’re often distracted by social media. How far do you think it’s a benefit or a curse for authors? It’s useful for keeping friends, family and hardcore fans updated about your work. And I found my editor and graphic designer through it. But it sells a fraction of the books that well-targeted advertising can shift. Spend too much time on Facebook or Twitter, and your productivity suffers. When I’m writing, I have short social media breaks which work well. I read comedy fiction and, in the past, I read a lot of science fiction. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series is a big influence on me and several Amazon reviewers have noticed similarities between myself and Douglas Adams, which are the kind of comments that make it all worthwhile. I find it helpful to see how other comedy writers structure their work, so reading their novels is both work and pleasure. I’m reading The Perpetual Astonishment of Jonathon Fairfax by Christopher Shevlin at the moment which, coincidentally, involves a scene with a pelican in St James’ Park! You studied Philosophy at university. How has that helped or hindered your writing? Philosophy wasn’t a proactive choice of subject – it was the only option after I changed my mind about studying mathematics. So, I guess, in a way, going in the wrong direction as a young man made me more determined to go in the right direction in later life. And my main characters do have their philosophical moments, so it comes in useful. If you could choose to be a character from one of your books, who would you be and why? Brian the auto-tech is a funny robot who features in the series. I would enjoy not being human for a while, so I’ll go with him. If We Have Lost the Pelicans became a film, who would you like to play the main characters of Howie and Britt? I’m not sure about Howie – he is a grumpy 40-something. Me, maybe, as I’ve done a bit of acting?! Britt is quite a steely, no-nonsense character, so I could easily see Gwyneth Paltrow in that role. If you had 15 words to persuade a reader that We Have Lost the Pelicans should be their next read, what would you say? If the book is made into a film, you can be one of the extras! Thank you so much, Paul, for your time in answering my questions. About Paul Mathews Paul Mathews is a 44-year-old British guy who’s given up his 9-to-5 job in London to become a full-time novelist. Why did he make this bold step? Well, he’d had enough of crazy managers and printers that didn’t work properly. So one afternoon, he shut down his computer, deleted all his emails and escaped the office – never to return. Now he does what he loves . . . sits at a laptop, spends hours on social media and occasionally does a bit of writing. Before becoming a poverty-stricken writer, he was a Government press officer and PR guy. He’s even been an accountant. But he doesn’t like to talk about that. And going back further, he went to Cambridge University and studied philosophy. The internet didn’t exist then. And the internet doesn’t exist in his debut novel. So that makes him feel less old than he really is. You can follow Paul on Twitter and find out more about him on his website. 7 thoughts on “A Publication Day Interview with Paul Mathews, Author of We Have Lost the Pelicans” Great author interview, LInda Thanks – and thank you for taking the time to read and comment. Happy New Year. Mike Thomas says: Anyone who has discovered the joy of marmite and cheese – together, is a mar-mate of mine! Ha! Thanks for calling by Mike. I like mine on crumpets! Another mar-mate! Oooo crumpets! I wish they sold them here. I could eat a dozen or so, right now. Just the right sort of day for them I feel – and you do know you’re welcome on the blog any time don’t you Mike? Awesome! Look out for the email heading your way…	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line883
__label__wiki	0.783037	0.783037	Home / Press Gentry Magazine― author interview in January 2018 Austin Statesman ― author interview in March 2017 Booklist (starred review) – book review in the January, 2017 issue Publishers Weekly – book review on December 15, 2016. From the review: “Stuffed with realistic but inspiring stories and concrete advice, this is a healthy reminder that those who pause to place the personal before the professional are not failures.” Hemispheres magazine – author article in February issue BerkeleyHaas magazine – author article in spring 2017 issue Pregnancy magazine – biweekly author column January through June 2016 Actionable Books — book review on September 19, 2017 Training Magazine (online) — excerpt on August 28, 2017 Forbes — author quote in article on August 2, 2017 Huffington Post — book mention on June 26, 2017 NBC News — author quote on May 4, 2017 Los Angeles Review of Books — author interview on April 3, 2017 Dash of Evans ― book review on March 13, 2017 Essentially Erika ― book review and giveaway on March 10, 2017 Smart Little Cookie ― book review and giveaway on March 9, 2017 Bandit Lifestyle ― book review and giveaway on March 8, 2017 All Done Monkey ― book review and giveaway on March 3, 2017 Jen Oni ― book review and giveaway on March 3, 2017 Juggling Act Mama ― book review and giveaway on March 3, 2017 Jen Around the World ― book review and giveaway on March 3, 2017 Live and Let Blog ― book review and giveaway on March 3, 2017 Reviews by Cole ― book review on March 1, 2017 The Exhausted Mom ― book review and giveaway on March 1, 2017 Dealicious Mom ― book review and giveaway on March 1, 2017 Love Jaime ― book review and giveaway on February 28, 2017 StyldGrace ― book review on February 25, 2017 Lee Caraher ― book review on February 1, 2017 Fairygodboss ― author interview on January 31, 2017 Everything Speaks (podcast) ― author interview on January 31, 2017 Fix-It with Fran ― book review on January 21, 2017 Berkeley Haas Alumni Network newsletter — book feature March 3, 2017 800-CEO-READ ― #15 on bestseller list for January 2017 CNBC.com’s Make It ― author interview on March 10, 2017 at 5:30 p.m. EST The Dreamcast Podcast (podcast) — interview February 10, 2017 at 2 p.m. EST Training Magazine (online version) ― excerpt article on August 28, 2017 Associated Press ― review on February 6, 2017; 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__label__wiki	0.896421	0.896421	Legal Hackette Lunches with Julia Salasky May 31st, 2016 May 31st, 2016 ~ Catherine Baksi Over toasted courgette bread with grilled halloumi and a humble glass or two of Adam’s ale at Lantana Café on City Road, the former City lawyer who left a job at the United Nations to start CrowdJustice – a funding platform to raise the costs of legal actions, discusses how the first year has gone, the importance of social media and how crowdfunding has become mainstream. Julia Salasky launched the UK’s first crowdfunding platform for public interest litigation a year ago. Since last May CrowdJustice has raised more than £600,000 to fund more than 45 cases. Around 90% of the cases posted on the site have raised the funding needed to get off the ground, with donations ranging from £1 (the minimum sum permitted) to £1,000 and the average being around £35. The cases funded so far have been enormously varied, dealing with environmental and employment issues, whistleblowing, public policy decisions, and the Human Rights Act. They range from an elderly man challenging a local council’s decision to restrict his access to his wife, who has dementia and lives in care home to, a woman fighting for equal rights for cohabiting couples and a campaign to stop Sheffield County Council felling trees. The plea from junior doctors to fund a challenge to the Secretary of State’s imposition of a new contract was the most successful in terms of fundraising, raising £85,000 in just three days and a total in excess of £133,000. Current and recent cases include those from specialist legal charity, the AIRE Centre, which is looking to challenge the joint Met Police and Home Office initiative, Operation Nexus, that allows people to be deported from the UK without any convictions; and an appeal for funding from the Justice Gap and Justice Alliance to publish PROOF – a one-off magazine telling the public the ‘definitive story of legal aid’. The ‘biggest success and most exciting case,’ so far, says Salasky, has been the intervention by grassroots campaign group JENGbA’s (Joint Enterprise: Not Guilty by Association), questioning the law of joint enterprise, which allowed people to be convicted of murder even if they had not inflicted the fatal blow. It had been widely used to prosecute cases involving gangs of young people, and claimed campaigners, lead to many miscarriage of justice. In February, in the case of R v Jogee, the Supreme Court agreed and ruled that the law on joint enterprise had been wrongly interrupted for 30 years. ‘We took the whole team to the Supreme Court to watch the judgment and to see the immediacy of what we’re doing. JENGbA supporters were crying and hugging each other – we thought “this is what it’s all about”. ‘At CrowdJustice, in a way we are just a platform, but in a way we exist to create access to justice. For JENGbA to have pushed to create this change in the law and for us to have played a small role in it, was really exciting’. Born in Virginia to an English, journalist mother, and American, attorney father, Salasky qualified into the litigation team at magic circle firm Linklaters in 2010, before moving in-house at the United Nations. Her first year at the UN was spent in The Hague working at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, before spending two and a half years at UNCITRAL, the UN Commission on International Trade Law. It was during the latter period that the seeds for CrowdJustice were sown. ‘I engaged a lot with the tech community on projects and saw their passion to use technology to change people’s lives for the better’. So, she took the bold decision to leave the UN and bring the embryonic idea to life. Initially, she combined it with working for an environmental NGO, before taking the plunge full time. ‘I realised that it would only work if I put 100% into it,’ she says. ‘I wasn’t comfortable at first taking that risk, but then I met this 22-year-old guy who was starting something up. ‘When I started probing on the details of his project, his response to everything was “I’ll deal with it”. This is the approach you have to take to starting anything new – you just have to blast through any objections. Nothing ever gets started if you stop at the first hurdle. But, she adds, ‘it was a leap of faith and that’s why watching JENGbA at the Supreme Court was so exciting – we saw the result’. CrowdJustice came onto the scene as the legal aids cuts started to bite. But, says Salasky, that was a coincidence. ‘Although things became more critical after the devastating cuts, legal aid has been in retrenchment for years and years.’ In most cases for which funding has been sought, she says, the parties would not have been eligible for legal aid before the cuts. Rather they are brought by people who ‘can’t afford access to justice’ for all sorts of reasons, ranging from court fees, to adverse costs risks, to legal fees. ‘I’m hoping we can provide an alternative source of funding for people, but it wasn’t our intention to fill the gap left by the withdrawal of legal aid,’ she says. In any event, she adds, the £500 million funding gap is too big for CrowdJustice to fill and the platform cannot offer the automatic protection against an adverse costs order that legal aid affords. ‘What’s really powerful about crowdfunding is that we’re allowing communities to come together to support someone — that is way more empowering that going to the government for legal aid. ‘If there are 300 people behind you and willing you to succeed – there is something very empowering about that, both for the person raising the money and for the community around them who have the chance to help someone’. She continues: ‘What we’re trying to do is say to people that they might feel like they’re alone and that they have no money, but they can achieve something if they get lots of people to come together – whether it’s change in a personal situation or change at a policy level — and that is a huge thing to be able to do’. Salasky compares CrowdJustice to a ‘virtual whip-round’. Parties looking for funding must have a legal representative, she explains. When someone has a case that affects them and others in their community, they (the case owner) set up a ‘case page’ with details of the issue and a funding target to be reached within a certain number of days – typically 30. Only when the target is met, will the monies be collected from those who have pledged support. Second, or ‘stretch’ targets can be added to meet funding for additional legal needs. There have, she says, been a couple of cases that have been unsuccessful, though most have yet to reach the final stage. Where a funded party loses, the complainant is responsible for any adverse costs order, although parties can crowdfund for the additional liability. ‘Because the donors are not investors, they are not getting a financial return and they are not exposed to an additional amount beyond their contribution,’ she explains. CrowdJustice is still a small organisation, with only four staff. It is funded by private investment from angel investors and takes a 5% cut of the funds raised. In addition, its payments processor (Stripe) deducts a fee of 1.4% + 20p for every transaction. ‘That means 93.5% of funds raised go directly to the cases,’ which, says Salasky, ‘sounds so reasonable’ that she finds the question of justifying it hard. ‘We’re running an organisation in a new way and I’m really proud that so far we are managing to sustain a 5% model,’ she adds, before drawing a comparison with third party funders who seek to make millions from their investments – or charities, where the percentage that goes to administrative costs can be far higher, and less transparent. While Salasky states that CrowdJustice is really just like taking a petition to the next level, by petitioning the law, she says it would not work so effectively without the internet and the social media tools that it makes available. Half of the funding raised, says Salasky, tends to come from people reading Facebook posts. ‘We try to help funders figure out a social media strategy and look at ways they can start building a community.’ The ability to build a community, says Salasky, is key to successful crowdfunding. She gives the example of a ‘dynamic’ junior doctor who was fired after he raised concerns about patient health and safety concerns. ‘Until he started to crowdfund, he had no Twitter account and was not active on Facebook. But he managed to leverage every tool available to him to tell people about his case, and he got about 1,000 people funding him’. Some people, acknowledges Salasky, do not have the energy, time or support to make it work. ‘That’s why it’s hard for crowdfunding to be a panacea, because the most vulnerable people simply won’t be able to create that level of community support’. And the internet, she adds, allows people to track the progress of the cases they have funded and see the value of what they have been part of. When she launched CrowdJustice, Salasky says, she did not know what the take-up would be, because it was so ground-breaking. Now that it has been going for a year, while it has been successful, she does not know the extent of the need for funding. ‘We don’t know if we’ve just scratched the surface, or whether we’ve maxed out and this is the pinnacle of crowdfunding in the UK. But it’s cool to see lots of different cases get funded, and to see what people are inspired by – it’s usually the human story of someone trying to create change for themselves or their community’. Last month, it launched its first bid to fund a project rather than in individual case. Ipswich and Suffolk Council on Racial Equality is seeking to raise funds for its Tackling Discrimination in the East project, to bridge a funding gap while it waits for the outcome of its application for renewed funding from the Big Lottery Fund. Third party funder, Balance Legal Capital, is providing some sponsorship in the partnership that sees legal charity, legal crowdfunding, and a third party funder coming together to improve access to justice. The CrowdJustice team is also working on publishing a ‘find a lawyer’ guide – ‘to enable people to take the first step’. ‘Accessing legal advice is really hard. Loads of people don’t know where to start to find a lawyer. That’s not a problem that is restricted to people with low incomes – it’s common to most people’. For now, they want to focus exclusively on crowdfunding. ‘We have managed to build momentum. Our ambition is to make sure everybody is aware that this is an option – whether it’s the lawyers or the parties themselves. ‘Crowdfunding is no longer a fringe thing. It’s changing how people access things from investment opportunities, to buying houses, to their studies.’ But, Salasky finds it a particular sweet fit in the world of law. ‘It’s a very innovative way to help people who aren’t big come together to be a Goliath. In law that’s perfect – to have equality of arms in that way’. < Previous Legal Hackette Lunches with Peter Noorlander Next > Legal Hackette Lunches with Sally Smith QC	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line886
__label__wiki	0.942073	0.942073	Wednesday, July 17 Sports Subscribe Sports Subscribe Zion's time: Williamson the center of attention at NBA draft By BRIAN MAHONEY, AP Basketball Writer \| on June 19, 2019 Zion Williamson, a freshman basketball player from Duke, attends the NBA Draft media availability, Wednesday, June 19, 2019, in New York. The basketball draft will be held Thursday, June 20. Photo: Mark Lennihan, AP NEW YORK (AP) — Zion Williamson smiled his way through nearly half an hour of questions, trying to portray himself like any player just hoping to be drafted. Suddenly, a tall, thin newcomer pushed his way to the front of the shoulder-to-shoulder swarm surrounding Williamson and shot down that idea. "What does it feel like," Duke teammate RJ Barrett asked, "to be the best prospect since LeBron James?" Williamson has similar hype. Soon, he can start showing if he has the game to match. The powerhouse power forward will almost certainly be doing it in the uniform of the New Orleans Pelicans, who hold the No. 1 pick Thursday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. NBA teams are discouraged from announcing who they will pick, and the Pelicans confirmed nothing to Williamson when he visited recently. "They just told me that maybe they'll draft me and I'm a good player or something," Williamson said. Maybe? It would be one of the biggest surprises anyone in the NBA conjured up in years if the Pelicans passed on a player whose combination of size, speed and skill calls to mind James and few others. Listed at 6-foot-7 and 285 pounds, Williamson averaged 22.6 points and 8.9 rebounds while shooting 68% from the field and joining Kevin Durant and Anthony Davis as the only freshmen to be voted national player of the year by The Associated Press. His sledgehammer slams were good for college, but Williamson wants to be known for more than his above-the-rim game in the pros. In fact, he isn't eager to take part in the Slam Dunk Contest. Instead, he's been improving his 3-point shot, and Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski noted that Williamson was previously a perimeter player before bulking up and becoming a force around the basket. "He's still only 18 years old," Krzyzewski said on his SiriusXM radio show. "And as good of an athlete — he's a top percentile athlete in the world, not just in the game of basketball. He's that level of young man." No wonder Pelicans fans are so eager to get him. Williamson said he found New Orleans to be welcoming when he walked around the city, and the locals should love him even more now after the team agreed over the weekend to trade Davis to the Lakers to play with James. "The city seems very excited if I come there," Williamson said. Memphis has the No. 2 pick and an apparent opening at point guard for Murray State's Ja Morant after agreeing to trade Mike Conley to Utah on Wednesday. Barrett is hoping he'll go to the New York Knicks with the third pick, and whoever lands at No. 4 is set to be Williamson's teammate because the Lakers included the pick in the package for Davis. Teams drafting beyond that should feel confident about their chances for success after a season in which the Toronto Raptors won the NBA title with a roster featuring no lottery picks, and Giannis Antetokounmpo emerged as an MVP finalist after being taken with the No. 15 pick in 2013. So, drafting smart seems more important than drafting high. Still, the season-long attention on Williamson dwarfed nearly everything else, so all eyes will be on him Thursday night as he walks onto the stage to greet Commissioner Adam Silver. Williamson called himself a simple guy, so maybe he won't wear the type of flashy suit that it is the usual draft-night dress code; the striped sweater he wore Wednesday was certainly plain enough. His game definitely isn't. "For his size, he can get everywhere he wants on the floor," said De'Andre Hunter of national champion Virginia. "He's just a very strong, dominant player." Williamson doesn't seem caught up in the hype, seeing himself more as a team player than franchise savior. He wasn't expecting to be the No. 1 option at Duke and isn't lobbying for the job in New Orleans. "I don't really look at the expectations," Williamson said. "I just want to win at the end of the day and I'm just going to try to be the best version of myself, and whatever the team needs me to do I'm going to be willing to do it." But his standards are high, responding to a question about his goals by saying they include "MVP, Rookie of the Year and eventually possibly Defensive Player of the Year. Hall of Famer." Not even James has done all that. More AP NBA: https://apnews.com/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line894
__label__cc	0.715118	0.284882	Posts Tagged ‘Hingoli’ Sizing up rural and urban settlements in Maharashtra The districts of Jalna, Osmanabad, Hingoli, Satara, Ratnagiri, Washim, Nandurbar, Gondiya, Gadchiroli and Sindhudurg in Maharashtra all enjoy a rural built-up to urban built-up ratio of more than 2 (where the built-up area of the district’s rural settlements are at least twice the area of its urban settlements). In the chart, the light green bars show a district’s rural built-up area, the light maroon its urban built-up area. The number associated with the name of the district is the ratio between the two kinds of built-up area. Such a comparison helps us understand the dependency of the two kinds of populations in a district, rural and urban, upon the natural resources (as classified by land types). The chart shows us that some districts (see Jalgaon, Sholapur, Satara and Ratnagiri) have total rural built-up areas of 150 square kilometres and above. But whereas the urban built-up areas of Jalgaon and Sholapur are more than 100 sq km each this is not so for the other two districts. Districts may have similar ratios between rural and urban built-up areas – see Ahmednagar, Akola and Dhule – but whereas the built-up areas of both types are more than 100 sq km in Ahmednagar they are smaller in the other two districts. There are only three districts for which the total rural built-up area is less than 50 sq km: Parbhani, Hingoli ad Washim. There are 15 districts in which there is at least 1.5 sq km of rural built-up area for 1 sq km of urban built-up and this indicates that in these districts the base of agricultural and allied activities is still strong and therefore needs continuous encouragement. There are 7 districts for which this ratio is between 1.5 and 1 and these therefore must be watched for signs of quickening urbanisation which will need to be curbed in the interests of sustainability and indeed of the provision of food. I have taken the data from the land use and land change information for 2011-12 collected by the Resourcesat-2 satellite with land classification and calculation carried out by the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Department of Space, under the Natural Resources Census Project of the National Natural Resources Repository Programme. It is available through Bhuvan, the geo-platform of ISRO. Urban areas are non-linear built-up areas covered by impervious structures adjacent to or connected by streets. This class includes residential areas, mixed built-up, recreational places, public and private utilities, communications, commercial areas, reclaimed areas, vegetated areas within urban zones, transportation infrastructure, industrial areas and their dumps, and ash/cooling ponds. Rural built-up areas are the lands used for human settlement in which the majority of the population is involved in agriculture. These are built-up areas, small in size, mainly associated with agriculture and allied sectors and non-commercial activities. They can be seen in clusters both non-contiguous and scattered. The last 4 districts – Nagpur, Nashik, Thane and Pune – have their urban built-up bars coloured differently to indicate that their scales are beyond, and very much above, the 150 sq km of the chart. Mumbai city and suburban is omitted entirely. Posted in cities and urbanisation, Population Tagged with Gadchiroli, Gondiya, Hingoli, ISRO, Jalgaon, Jalna, land cover, land use, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Nagpur, Nandurbar, Nashik, natural resources, NRSC, Osmanabad, Parbhani, Pune, Ratnagiri, remote sensing, rural, Satara, Sholapur, Sindhudurg, Thane, urban, Washim How a district employs land and crop A plotting of the cropland size categories with the number of holdings for the district of Hingoli in Maharashtra. The central group of rectangles displays the distribution, relative to each other, of the size categories of holdings (in hectares, ha.). The blue squares, also relative to each other, displays the number of holdings for each farm size category. The data source is the Agricultural Census 2010-11. In the district of Hingoli, Maharashtra, the allocation of cultivated land between food crops and non-food crops is somewhat in favour of non-food crops. That is, for every hectare planted with a food crop 1.3 hectares is planted with a non-food crop. The broad categories we have under food crops are: cereals, pulses, vegetables and fruit. Under non-food crops there are: oilseeds, sugarcane, fibres, spices and fodder. Where Hingoli district is in Maharashtra state. The Agricultural Census 2010-11 detailed data for Hingoli shows that at the time of the survey 493,927 hectares were under cultivation for all kinds of crops, both food and non-food. As this is a count of how much land was under cultivation by crop, the total land under cultivation for all crops taken together is more than the total land under cultivation when measured according to land use. This is so because of crop rotation during the same agricultural year, inter-cropping and mixed cropping – for a plot, the same land may raise two kinds of crops in a year. Size categories of farm holdings, with number of holdings and total area under each category for Hingoli district, Maharashtra. The 493,927 hectares under cultivation in Hingoli are divided under 213,286 hectares for food crops and 280,640 hectares under non-food crops. This gives us the overall picture that the farming households of Hingoli choose to give more land for crop types under the ‘non-food’ category. As the settlement pattern of Hingoli is very largely rural – that means, few towns and these are the district headquarters and two more taluka centres – do the farming households of Hingoli grow enough to feed themselves comfortably? Do the farming households have the labour needed to continue cultivating so that they can feed themselves and their village communities? How are choices relating to land use and crop made? Using the publicly available information from a variety of government sources, we are able to find parts of answers. The Agricultural Census 2010-11 is one such source, the Census of India 2011 is another, so are the tables provided by the Department of Economics and Statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture. The graphical representation I have prepared here helps provide the land use basis upon which to layer the district information from other sources. Posted in Agriculture and food, labour, Population Tagged with agriculture, किसान, कृषि, भारत, महाराष्ट्र, crop, farm, Hingoli, holding, land use, Maharashtra, rural, village Between Berar and Nizam, a taluka in Maharashtra This is a small taluka in Vidarbha, Maharashtra. To the north, not far away, and visible on the horizon, is the line of hills called the Sahyadriparbat, which is also called the Ajanta range after the site with the remarkable frescoes. Also due north is the city of Akola, and a little farther away north-east is Amravati, named after Amba whose ancient temple the old city, with more than 900 years of recorded history, is built around. To the west, in a nearly direct line west, is Aurangabad. To the south had stretched, not all that long ago, the dominions of the Nizam of Hyderabad, to which this little taluka had once belonged. Sengaon is the name of this taluka (an administrative unit unimaginatively called a ‘block’ by the administrative services, elsewhere a tehsil or a mandal) and today it is one of five talukas of the district of Hingoli, which itself is only very recent, for before 1999 it was a part of the district of Parbhani. But Hingoli town is an old one – its cantonment (old bungalows, large compounds) was where the defenders of this part of the Nizam’s northern dominions resided (over the frontier had been Berar), and there was a large and thriving market yard here, as much for the cotton as for the jowar. The villages of Sengaon are mostly small and agricultural, which is how the entire district was described in the district gazetteer of the 1960s. There are today 128 inhabited villages in this little taluka, and this chart (click it for a full size version, data from Census 2011) shows how their populations depend almost entirely on agriculture – for the group of villages, 92% of all those working do so in the fields, whether their village is as small as Borkhadi or Hudi, or as large as Sakhara or Palshi. There were Bhois here (and still are), the fishermen and one-time litter-bearers, there are ‘deshastha‘ Maratha Brahmins, there are ‘Karhada‘ who take their name from Karhad, the sacred junction of the Koyna and the Krishna in Satara district, there are the former leather-workers and rope-makers called the ‘Kambhar‘, there are the weavers who are the ‘Devang‘ (with their four sub-divisions, and themselves a division of the great Dhangars or shepherds), there are the ‘Virasaiva‘ or the ‘Shivabhakta‘ or the ‘Shivachar‘ (all Lingayats) who have for generations been traders and agriculturists. There are the ‘Pata Jangam‘ still who must lead a celibate life and could be distinguished by the long loose roseate shirts they wore and who spent their days in meditation and prayer, there were the ‘Mali‘ the fruit and vegetable growers the gardeners and cultivators (and in times past their society was divided according to what they grew so the ‘phool Mali‘ for flower the ‘jire Mali‘ for cumin seed and the ‘halade Mali‘ for turmeric), and there are the Maratha – the chief warriors, land owners and cultivators – and the 96 families to which they belong, there are Maheshvari Marwaris, the ‘suryavanshi‘ or ‘chandravanshi‘ Rajputs, the Lambadi who at one time were grain and* salt carriers but also cattle breeders and graziers, and the ‘Vadar‘ or stone and earth workers. This is who they are and were in the taluka of Sengaon, beyond and away from the dry and terse descriptions contained on government beneficiaries lists and drought relief programmes. They know well their trees in the expansive grasslands of the north Deccan – the Indian bael, the ‘daura‘ or ‘dhamora‘ tree, the ‘saalayi‘ whose bark and gum resin treats all sorts of ailments, the ‘madhuca‘ or mahua, the amalaki – and do their best to protect them; the twigs and sticks that fuel their ‘chulhas’ are those which fall to the earth. It is a small taluka but old, like the others in the ancient north Deccan, and in Marathi, some of the elders of the villages here explain, with great embellishment and pomp, how the Brihat Samhita contains detailed instructions of what to plant on the embankments of a water tank, especially the madhuca, which they will add could be found in villages whose names they all know well: Pardi, Shivni, Karegaon, Barda, Sawarkheda, Suldali, Kawardadi, Datada, Jamthi, Sabalkheda … Posted in Agriculture and food, culture, Ecology and environment, history Tagged with amalaki, bael, Cotton, Deccan, district, Hingoli, Jowar, madhuca, Maharashtra, Parbhani, Sahyadri, taluka, Vidarbha	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line898
__label__wiki	0.545941	0.545941	Tag Archives: Stephan Andersen Euro 2012 – Group B goalkeeping preview Posted on June 9, 2012 by Aidan Ministry of Glove BET £10, GET £20 FREE ON EURO 2012 AT PADDY POWER – CLICK HERE Rarely has there been a stronger group assembled in international football. With all four members of Group B nestled inside FIFA’s top 10, it’s been labeled the ‘group of death’. It doesn’t lack for goalkeeping talent either and here’s a rundown of the twelve vying for game time at Euro 2012. The Danes go into the tournament with a trio of goalkeepers lacking experience at international level. Between them Stephan Andersen, Kasper Schmiechel and Anders Lindegaard have a grand total of 15 caps. Anderson (30) is likely to get the nod by virtue of his slight advantage in experience and strong showing for Evian in Ligue 1. He’s a very technically correct goalkeeper with good reflexes and tidy hands. He’s arguably the least globally famous of the Danes goalkeeping ranks, but he’s a reliable presence. Lindegaard (28) had a mixed bag of a season for Manchester United. At one point he looked unbeatable and, in contrast to the struggles of David De Gea, the keeper more able to handle the pressure of playing at Old Trafford. It didn’t take long for more suspect performances to come however and combined with the young Spaniard finding his feet, he was relegated to the bench. He wasn’t helped by injury towards the end of the season and his inactivity has counted against him. It’s hard to disassociate Schmeichel junior with the standards set by his Dad. Examined in his own right, Kasper is a good pro, capable of pulling off some saves, but also a little too error-prone so far in his career. He has played for Denmark’s underage teams, but has yet to earn his first senior cap. If all goes to plan for Morten Olsen and his team, that won’t change at this tournament. Manuel Neuer went to World Cup 2010 as the replacement for the tragic Robert Enke. He was good, but a little raw and it showed. Two years on, he’s got two good seasons under his belt and he looks genuinely world-class. His effort to keep out Drogba’s header in the Champions League final wasn’t his finest hour, but it was one possible mistake in a season of excellent performances. Behind him in the order is the vastly experienced Tim Wiese. Ideally Joachim Loew would prefer not to need him, but if called upon, the 30-year-old newly signed Hoffenheim keeper will be a reliable deputy. He made a few high-profile blunders a few seasons back, but he bounced back to become a more solid keeper. Ever the man for the blunt quote, former Arsenal and Germany keeper Jens Lehmann is less convinced telling the media “If Neuer gets injured, we have no chance.” The ‘one for the future’ in the goalkeeping division is Ron-Robert Zieler. The former Manchester United youth team player has excelled since returning to his homeland. He has just one senior international cap to his name, but has played for Germany all the way up the age groups, including the successful Under 19 European Championships campaign of 2008. Spain undoubtedly have the strongest goalkeeping division at the Euros, but the Netherlands are a close second. Maarten Stekelenburg was excellent in the Oranje’s run to the final of the 2010 World Cup and it’s his experience that makes him the preferred number 1 over his two immensely talented rivals. Michel Vorm goes into the tournament on the back of an excellent season with Swansea. His reputation grew with every Premier League performance. He’s arguably a more agile and athletic keeper than Stekelenburg, but may suffer for being a less authoritative figure under the high ball. Tim Krul was another Dutchman to have an excellent Premier League season. He has some lightening quick reflexes (see his string of point blank saves for Newcastle this season) and more command of his penalty area than Vorm, so it looks like a lack of experience is the main issue undermining his claims. The official line coming from the Portuguese camp is that the goalkeeping role is up for grabs with each player having an opportunity to impress. That stance was backed up with the rotation used in the friendlies coming in to the tournament. Rui Patricio of Sporting Lisbon is most likely to get the nod however. He was the choice for the latter stages of the qualifying campaign and is arguably the most naturally talented of the three. He lacks the experience at club of his two older compatriots, but his natural athleticism and reflexes make up for it. His handling can be a little untidy at times, but as that’s some his rivals also sometimes struggle with, it’s not a major disadvantage. Rumours have done the rounds about a possible move the Manchester United and although that makes little sense, it does suggest how highly he is rated. Eduardo began the road to Poland and Ukraine as the first choice, but lost his place after slipping down the pecking order at Benfica. Something of a penalty saving specialist, he’s an agile keeper, but one that doesn’t exert the greatest command of his penalty area. To his credit, he played all of Portugal’s matches at World Cup 2010, conceding just one goal in four games and keeping three clean sheets. Beto is almost certainly rated as the third choice of the three. He hasn’t been able to leapfrog Helton at Porto and spent last season on loan in Romania, playing for CFR Cluj. There’s no doubting his supreme agility or tenacity, but you get the feeling he tends to ham it up for the cameras, which isn’t ideal. At 6 foot tall, he lacks height and as a result he can be poor under the high ball. 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__label__wiki	0.598935	0.598935	Mitchell Applauds DOJ Anti-Heroin Task Force Program Grant for Michigan October 25, 2018 Press Release Shelby Township, Michigan – Congressman Paul Mitchell (MI-10) released the following statement following the United States Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Service’s (COPS) award of a $2,815,645 grant to the Michigan Department of State Police through the Anti-Heroin Task Force Program. PRESIDENT TRUMP SIGNS BILL AUTHORIZING A NEW LOCK AT THE SOO LOCKS Shelby Township, MI – Congressman Paul Mitchell (MI-10) released the following statement after President Donald Trump signed into law S.301, America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018, a bipartisan bill that authorizes America’s water resources and infrastructure projec Trump Signs Mitchell STB Information Security Improvement Act into Law Shelby Township, MI – Yesterday, President Donald Trump signed into law bipartisan legislation introduced by Congressman Paul Mitchell (MI-10), H.R. Congressman Mitchell Applauds Signing of FAA Reauthorization October 5, 2018 Press Release Shelby Township, MI – Today, Congressman Paul Mitchell (MI-10) released the following statement after President Donald Trump signed into law H.R. 302, the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, a five-year reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Mitchell Announces MI-10 School Violence Prevention Program Grants Macomb County and Port Huron to Receive School Safety Grants Shelby Township, Michigan – Congressman Paul Mitchell (MI-10) released the following statement following the U.S. Mitchell Applauds New US-Mexico-Canada Agreement Shelby Township, MI – Congressman Paul Mitchell (MI-10) released the following statement after the United States, Mexico, and Canada announced an agreement was reached on the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement: Agriculture, Economy Rep. Mitchell Votes in Favor of Tax Reform 2.0 September 28, 2018 Press Release WASHINGTON – Congressman Paul Mitchell (MI-10) released the following statement today after voting in favor of three bills he cosponsored, the American Innovation Act (H.R. Congressman Mitchell Votes to Fund the Department of Defense WASHINGTON – Congressman Paul Mitchell (MI-10) released the following statement this afternoon after voting to fully fund the Department of Defense consistent with funding in the National Defense Authorization Act: Mitchell Announces USDA Rural Development Grant and Loan for Croswell Shelby Township, Michigan – Congressman Paul Mitchell (MI-10) released the following statement following the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Rural Development’s award of nearly $5 million in grants and loans for the city of Croswell to perform sewer syste Agriculture, Great Lakes, Energy, Health New Legislation Authorizes a New Lock at the Soo Locks Complex Yesterday, leaders in the House and Senate released the Great Lakes, National Security, Transportation	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line907
__label__wiki	0.996341	0.996341	Performers, TNG performers John Pyper-Ferguson Mordialloc, Australia Character(s): Eli Hollander John Pyper-Ferguson (born 27 February 1964; age 55) is the Australian-born Canadian actor who played Eli Hollander in the Star Trek: The Next Generation sixth season episode "A Fistful of Datas" in 1992. Pyper-Ferguson was born in Mordialloc, Australia and raised in Canada. He is known for his many television roles, including his recurring role as Peter Hutter on the short-lived western series The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. and his role as Joe Whedon on the drama series Brothers & Sisters. Career Edit Television Edit He made his television acting debut in the 1986-88 Canadian drama series Hamilton's Quest, after which he co-starred with fellow TNG guest actors John Anderson and Matt McCoy in the 1987 CBS TV movie American Harvest. In addition to his appearance on TNG, Pyper-Ferguson has made guest appearances on such American or Canadian television series as Night Heat (starring Allan G. Royal), Neon Rider (starring Antoinette Bower and directed by Joseph L. Scanlan), Bodies of Evidence (starring Jennifer Hetrick and Leslie Jordan, in an episode with J.D. Cullum and Benjamin Lum), Walker, Texas Ranger (starring Noble Willingham), and Legend (created by Bill Dial and Michael Piller and starring John de Lancie). In 1995, he appeared in a Rob Bowman-directed episode of The X-Files entitled "P. Emasculata". In 1997, Pyper-Ferguson was nominated by the Gemini Awards for his guest appearance on the adventure series Highlander in the 1994 episode "Courage". In addition, Pyper-Ferguson has guest-starred in two episodes of Millennium, the television drama series which starred Megan Gallagher and Terry O'Quinn. His second episode, 1998's "Anamnesis", also guest-starred Gwynyth Walsh. Pyper-Ferguson and Terry O'Quinn previously worked together in the 1988 film Pin (co-starring Helene Udy) and united again in a 1999 episode of Harsh Realm, along with Mark Rolston. More recent TV appearances include the pilot episode of the hit CBS drama series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (working with Susan Gibney and Barbara Tarbuck), a 2000 episode of NBC's ER (with Megan Cole, Jenette Goldstein, Scott MacDonald, and Gwen Van Dam), a 2001 episode of Judging Amy (in which Julie Cobb plays his character's attorney), a 2002 episode of Family Law (with series regular Christopher McDonald and fellow guest stars Earl Boen and Aaron Lustig), a 2003 episode of 24 (with Zachary Quinto), a 2005 episode of Smallville (starring John Glover), and the final episode of Lost (starring Daniel Dae Kim, Terry O'Quinn, and Sam Anderson). He can also be seen in the TV mini-series Into the West (2005, with Keith Carradine, Clayton Rohner, Keri Russell, Keith Szarabajka, and Garrett Wang) and Everest (starring Leslie Hope and William Shatner). Recurring roles Edit Pyper-Ferguson appeared in seven episodes of The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. between September 1993 and May 1994. During this time, he worked with such actors as Gary Armagnac, Raye Birk, Bill Bolender, Peter Dennis, Bruce Gray, Richard Herd, Michael Jace, Scott Lincoln, Kevin Lowe, Tzi Ma, Richard McGonagle, Andrew Hill Newman, Miguel Pérez, Bert Remsen, Victor Rivers, Marco Rodriguez, Chris Wynne, and David Youse, and such directors as James A. Contner, Kim Manners, and the aforementioned Joseph Scanlan. In 1997, Pyper-Ferguson returned to The X-Files for a recurring role in two episodes, "Christmas Carol" and "Emily". The latter episode was directed by the aforementioned Kim Manners. The following year, Pyper-Ferguson on played the recurring role of Top Dollar on The Crow: Stairway to Heaven. He worked with actor Mark Rolston for the first time in an episode from this series. Pyper-Ferguson had recurring roles on no less than six different television series between 1999 and 2007. He played Mikey's boss, Kevin, in four episodes of the comedy series Jack & Jill (including one with Stephen Macht and another with Michael J. Pollard). During this time, he also appeared as Jake Blumenthal in three episodes of the USA Network series The Huntress (including an episode directed by Terrence O'Hara). During the 2003-04 TV season, he recurred on the Showtime series Jeremiah, playing the role of Sims in six episodes, including a two-parter directed by Mike Vejar. In 2005 and again in 2006, Pyper-Ferguson played Captain Cole "Stinger" Taylor on Ronald D. Moore's reimagined Battlestar Galactica series, working with Michelle Forbes, and had a recurring role in its prequel Caprica, followed by a third (single) Galactica appearance in the 2012 television movie Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, the final outing in the revamped franchise. In these same years, Pyper-Ferguson played Agent Bernard Fain in the short-lived series Night Stalker, starring Gabrielle Union. Another recurring role was that of Hudson on the short-lived CBS drama series Cane in 2007. One of his more recent, and more notable recurring roles was that of the combatant survivor Tex Nolan in the post-apocalyptic series The Last Ship (2014-2016). Films Edit In addition to his television work, Pyper-Ferguson had small roles in a number of popular feature films. He made his film debut that same year, appearing in the sequel slasher film Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II. He later co-starred with Jeff Corey and Clyde Kusatsu in the 1990 action comedy Bird on a Wire and appeared, along with Saul Rubinek, in Clint Eastwood's Academy Award-winning 1992 western Unforgiven. He can also be seen in the 1997 comedies McHale's Navy (starring Dean Stockwell) and For Richer or Poorer (starring Kirstie Alley and featuring Ethan Phillips). In 2001, he was one of many Star Trek actors to appear in the blockbuster Pearl Harbor; his co-stars in this film included Pat Healy, Glenn Morshower, Randy Oglesby, Leland Orser, Steve Rankin, Raphael Sbarge, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, and Michael Shamus Wiles. More recently, Pyper-Ferguson appeared in the 2006 films She's the Man and X-Men: The Last Stand, with the latter starring fellow TNG players Kelsey Grammer, Famke Janssen, and Patrick Stewart. Other Trek connections Edit Additional projects in which Pyper-Ferguson worked with other Star Trek alumni include: Film Edit Showdown at Williams Creek (1991) directed by Allan Kroeker Every Breath (1993) with Willie Garson The Road Killers (1994) with Michelle Forbes and Christopher McDonald Space Marines (1996) with Meg Foster and Michael Bailey Smith Somebody Is Waiting (1996) with Jeanetta Arnette and Maury Sterling Drive (1997) with Tracey Walter I'll Take You There (1999) with Ben Vereen Black Dawn (2005) with Timothy Carhart Episodic Edit The Sentinel episode "Survival" (1997) with Marshall Teague Nash Bridges episode "Skin Deep" (1998) directed by Jim Charleston Poltergeist: The Legacy episode "Seduction" (1998) directed by Paul Lynch Gideon's Crossing episode "Clinical Enigma" (2001) with Tzi Ma and John Rubinstein The Division episode "The Kids Are Alright" (2004) directed by Babu Subramaniam CSI: Miami episode "One Night Stand" (2005) with Michael Buchman Silver The Closer episode "The Big Picture" (2005) with Raymond Cruz and Don McManus Cane episode "The Perfect Son" (2007) with Ned Vaughn and directed by James Whitmore, Jr. The L Word episode "Lady of the Lake" (2008) with Lucia Rijker Cold Case episode "Bad Reputation" (2008) with Gordon Clapp and Maury Sterling TV movies Edit Miracle on Interstate 880 (1993) with Len Cariou and Roger R. Cross and directed by Robert Iscove Love, Cheat & Steal (1993) with Mädchen Amick The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy (1998) with Dick Miller, Marjorie Monaghan, and Joel Swetow The Tempest (1998) with John Glover Angel in the Family (2004) with Ronny Cox John Pyper-Ferguson at Wikipedia John Pyper-Ferguson at IMDb John Pyper-Ferguson at NowCasting.com JohnPyper-Ferguson.blogspot.com John Pyper-Ferguson at Battlestar Wiki Retrieved from "https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/John_Pyper-Ferguson?oldid=2227215" TNG performers	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line908
__label__wiki	0.561088	0.561088	Eric Chu in the limelight From the most recent TISR poll, the old Global Views survey. Note that satisfaction with Ma is just 12.7%, dissatisfaction at 78%. The DPP approval rating is 43.7% to the KMT's 21.4% Some good commentary out there on Eric Chu, who is set to become the new KMT chairman next month since no one is running against him. One thing that has really excited everyone watching is Chu's call for constitutional reform and his support of a national meeting on the matter. Of the two great pieces out today, first read Ben on the Constitutional Reform issue, arguing that the key issue is the Birdcage referendum law, which exists to prevent the public from having real referendum powers. If we see change in that, it might be meaningful. This is important because the mechanism that Chu has proposed to change the constitution is a public referendum, as WantWant reports. Frozen Garlic contends in the other excellent one out today: First, the proposal to adopt a parliamentary system seems extremely hurried and might not be well thought out at all. This is not a minor change. It would impact everything in the entire political system, and we haven’t even begun to think about the first-order impacts, much less the third-order impacts. Moreover, every parliamentary system is somewhat different; there isn’t a simple off-the-shelf model that you can buy at your local Carrefour. It’s one thing to ask for a parliamentary system; it’s quite another to hammer out all the little details. Who gets to have the first shot at forming a coalition government? How will confidence votes be handled? Will the president continue to be directly elected? What happens to the National Security system? The ROC government was never more than the candy shell over an authoritarian party-state, so making it work as a democracy has always been problematic. Because of this, when links inside the ruling party are poor, the government is even crankier and more inoperable. Commonwealth observed of the KMT's reform moves: For the KMT to make a fresh start, the new chairman must take big, bold steps to reform. One component of this is for the Central Standing Committee (CSC) – often accused of "sharing business interests with China" – to return to functioning as a platform for diverse opinions. A former director of the KMT's Organizational Work Committee relates that, among the current 39 members of the Central Standing Committee, apart from seven directly appointed by the party chairman, the other 32 are elected by party members, among which "close to 10 have commercial interests related to China." The reason such a situation has taken shape is that in China "the title of Kuomintang Central Standing Committee member opens a lot of doors and gets you places, so some people end up competing for seats in order to achieve that type of elevated status," says the source, intimately familiar with the party's workings. Central Standing Committee elections are frequently plagued by rumors of vote buying. Consequently, when Ma Ying-jeou took over as party chairman he set up the "Zhongshan Council" for direct handling of important party affairs and political decision making. This move effectively relegated the Central Standing Committee, reputedly the party's highest agency of power, to a discussion group that "hears reports" and "makes recommendations." The Central Standing Committee was full of people like Lien Chan and other core elites who did not like Ma Ying-jeou, hence his relegation of them to secondary status with the ironically-named Zhongshan Council. But this meant that the KMT was effectively split into a pro-Ma inner circle and Ma-Opposed camps, which weakened it, and which Ma institutionalized. Ma's weaknesses are innumerable, but among the most important is an inability to conciliate -- his model for rule, I am ever more convinced, is the dictator Chiang Kai-shek. The creation of competing bodies performing the same function is a classic move of dictators everywhere. The Central Standing Committee's close business links with China are probably what Chu is criticizing when he talks about compradores... more on that. Chu also said that the current government system means that those who screw-up are not accountable to the people, in which "power and responsibility do not match each other." Its instability is obvious: Ma is on his fifth premier, only one less than Chen Shui-bian, whom he used to criticize for regularly change premiers. A closer reading of the Commonwealth piece, however, shows that the KMT isn't going to change its cross-strait sell-out policies, nor is it going to change its presentation of them. Su Chi, long close to Ma, is quoted therein: In cross-strait political discourse, from the Ma Ying-jeou administration's "economics first, politics second" stance during its first term, to "economics only, forget politics" in the second, the administration's total emphasis on economics placed the Taiwanese people's focus on the economic balance sheet of cross-strait interaction. Moreover, the emphasis was placed narrowly on who benefits and who loses out, neglecting the fact that the value of cross-strait reconciliation is not measured exclusively in economic dividends, but also security dividends, international relations dividends, and political dividends. "Unless this part is explained clearly, misunderstandings result," Su Chi reminds. The KMT always claims that its pro-Big Business, pro-China policies are rejected because they are not properly explained. The KMT is never actually wrong. It just doesn't communicate well. One wonders, as Froze notes below, how much headway Chu can make against these entrenched interests and attitudes. Even more fascinating is to watch Chu's "stand" against the "compradore faction" of the party, the big names who have been making the big money off their party connections over the years. Chu has even promised to give the ill-gotten party properties back to the people. Chu complains that the party's policies benefit the rich, recognition that the public perceives the party to be the party of big business. Quite true, but as Frozen Garlic observes, that is where the rubber meets the road. He said a lot of great sounding things on Friday, but now he will actually have to deal with the consequences of those statements. If he doesn’t do something with party property, people will ask questions. Lien Chan and Wu Po-hsiung aren’t just going to ignore his comment about “compradore-style figures.” Most importantly, Ma Ying-jeou is not just going to yield to Chu’s ideas about economic policies. Chu might complain that Ma’s policies unfairly benefit the richest people, but Ma is still in charge of the government and he doesn’t seem to want to reverse six years of economic “achievements.” The business world isn’t going to sit idly by if Chu tries to change the economic policies they want. They have lots of power within the KMT, and they will defend their interests. Chu is going to have to engage in a full-blown power struggle to force the cabinet to follow his new line. Otherwise, Chu is going to look pretty weak if he, as KMT party chair, is calling for one set of policies and President Ma continues to push ahead with his entirely different political priorities. Moreover, as Froze notes, Chu's media darling days all over. He'll be a national figure, facing a national media that has deep knowledge of the island's political machinations and little patience with its politicians. There's been complaints that Chu is just the second coming of Ma Ying-jeou. Chu promised to do something about the party assets -- well, so did Ma in 2009. In fact Ma did as early as 2006, and in 2000 none other than Honorary Chairman Pickled in Brine Lien Chan, when he ran for President in 2000, promised to do the same. In other words, making noises about getting rid of the Party's ill-gotten assets isn't something that one does when one is a reformer. It's part of the package of noises that anyone who assumes control over the KMT and aspires to higher positions must reproduce, because it is a widely supported centrist position, not because they actually mean it. Chu's position on the party assets may well be a signal that he is going to run for President in 2016 even though he insists he is not going to. Another interpretation is that if a much weaker candidate than Chu runs in 2016 and is beaten, which is highly likely, then Chu will oh-so-sorry have to step down from the KMT Chairmanship to "take responsibility" and what a coincidence, reform will go unaccomplished. Hey, he'll say, it wasn't my fault, we just didn't win the election. So he wouldn't actually have to carry out reform -- not enough time, you know -- but he can still wear the mantle of reformer when he goes into the trenches in 2020 as the Presidential standard bearer. So all this noise he is making now is just positioning... Of course, he could actually mean what he says.... Indeed, here's an editorial in the pro-KMT China Times from 2009: Today Ma Ying-jeou is again in charge of the party. He has proudly waved the party flag on behalf of candidates for the year-end elections. When Ma Ying-jeou declared his commitment to clean government and political reform, people were inspired. Political momentum accumulated. But he has now declared his intention to enforce strict party discipline. He has promised that he will strictly punish those who have disobeyed the party decision and run for public offices. But they doubt Ma will hold up if they give him the cold-shoulder treatment. Ma Ying-jeou has been in charge of the affairs of state for a year and a half. He is being pulled in several directions at the same time. He has not demonstrated sufficient courage and determination. As a result, his leadership has been subjected to constant challenges. Candidates for City Mayor and County Executive offices have thrown their hats in the ring without consulting him. Even incumbents who were elected on the basis of Ma's endorsement are ignoring the party leadership, and bent on rebellion. During the party chairmanship election, the turnout in many constituencies was low. The percentage of invalid ballots was high. Quite a few former "Team Ma" legislators with reputations for integrity and many outspoken and forceful County Executives and City Mayors have all gradually withdrawn their candidacies for membership in the KMT Central Standing Committee. When asked why, they replied without enthusiasm, and sighed, "Let him (Ma) find out what it's like to have a Central Standing Committee not consisting of his own people!" Already by 2009 Ma had alienated the bottom of his own party. Is Chu headed for that? We can only hope. As I said, the close business links of powerful KMTers with China are probably what Chu is criticizing when he talks about compradores, but let's not forget that Chu's Dad-in-law Gao Yu-ren (高育仁) was a central standing committee member of longstanding with nearly half a century of service to the KMT in various positions. His father is the former speaker of the "Taiwan Province" legislator. Chu is a princeling, in other words (on his mother's side he is from a family of DPP politicians, which may help his relations with that party, and he and Taipei mayor-elect Ko Wen-je are old school classmates and friends of long-standing). But as the national media begins to focus on Chu, these relations -- his father-in-law was forty years in Tainan politics -- and Chu's own deals in the past are going to come under far more heightened scrutiny than Chu may be able to handle. I'm going to go roast some popcorn now... A documentary about the canal China is building across Nicaragua that is going to be a disaster for local communities. More election analysis from Eurasia Review Ma did not improve US-Taiwan relations Beijing set to ramp up pressure on Ma, says CRS report Labels: Eric Chu, KMT, KMT assets If any of you out there are journalists, please ask Future Chairman and Current New Taipei Mayor Chu how his KMT is going to settle the 4th nuclear power plant standoff. 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__label__cc	0.508792	0.491208	Matthew Glassman Selected as a Top 100 Florida Trial Lawyer by The National Trial Lawyers Press Release: The National Trial Lawyers announces Matthew Glassman has been selected for inclusion into its Top 100 Criminal Defense Trial Lawyers in Florida The national Trial Lawyers is pleased to announce that Matthew Glassman has been selected for inclusion into its Top 100 Criminal Defense Trial Lawyers in Florida, an honor given to only a select group of lawyers for their superior skills and qualifications in the field. Membership in this exclusive organization is by invitation only, and is limited to the top 100 attorneys in each state or region who have demonstrated excellence and have achieved outstanding results in their careers in either civil plaintiff or criminal defense law. The National Trial Lawyers is a professional organization comprised of the premier trial lawyers from across the country who have demonstrated exceptional qualifications in their area of the law,specifically criminal defense or civil plaintiff law. The National Trial Lawyers provides accreditation to these distinguished attorneys, and also provides essential legal news, information, and continuing education to trial lawyers across the United States. With the selection of Matthew Glassman by The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100, Mr. Glassman has shown that he exemplifies superior qualifications, leadership skills, and trial results as a trial lawyer. The selection process for this elite honor is based on a multi-phase process which includes peer nominations combined with third party research. As The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100 is an essential source of networking and information for trial attorneys throughout the nation, the final result of the selection process is a credible and comprehensive list of the most outstanding trial lawyers chosen to represent their state or region. To learn more about The National Trial Lawyers, please visit: http://thenationaltriallawyers.org/.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line917
__label__wiki	0.605698	0.605698	Michael Bublé’s yuletide collection takes some of the season’s most popular songs and invests them with his own personal seal of companionship. He promises a swinging holiday, full of big-band sass. With Shania Twain, he tips his hat to The Drifters’ arrangement of “White Christmas”, while The Puppini Sisters help bring a touch of the boogie-woogie bugle boy to “Jingle Bells” and Thalia delivers a perfect “Feliz Navidad”. Bublé’s cover of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” takes some chutzpah, but it’s a gift that keeps on giving. Christmas (Deluxe Special Edition) Michael Bublé Jingle Bells (feat. The Puppini Sisters) White Christmas (Duet With Shania Twain) Holly Jolly Christmas Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) Cold December Night Mis Deseos / Feliz Navidad (Duet With Thalia) The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On an Open Fire) [Bonus Track] Winter Wonderland (Bonus Track) Frosty the Snowman (feat. The Puppini Sisters) [Bonus Track] Silver Bells (feat. Naturally 7) [Bonus Track] Michael's Christmas Greeting ℗ 2011 Reprise Records More By Michael Bublé To Be Loved Nobody But Me (Deluxe Version) Michael Bublé Meets Madison Square Garden Special Delivery - EP love (Deluxe Edition) That's Christmas To Me The Andy Williams Christmas Album Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album, Vol. 3 A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector Vous pouvez aussi faire vos achats dans un Apple Store, par téléphone au 0800 93 932 ou chez un revendeur agréé.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line920
__label__wiki	0.886852	0.886852	You are here: Home » Artist » Keith Urban Brings Fans Closer During ‘Light The Fuse Tour’ Keith Urban Brings Fans Closer During ‘Light The Fuse Tour’ Jessica Nicholson • February 3, 2014 On Saturday evening (Feb. 1), Keith Urban got a warm welcome from the musical city he’s called home for the past 20 years. Urban, Little Big Town and Dustin Lynch brought the last night of their Light The Fuse Tour to Music City. Prior to Urban’s headlining set, the arena was treated to the airtight harmonies of Little Big Town. “I remember playing our songs at 3rd and Lindsley and dreaming about this night,” said Karen Fairchild. “All we ever wanted to do was sing. Thank you to all the songwriters who let us sing your songs. Keith gave us our first shot at performing in arenas about nine years ago.” Little Big Town performed several of their hits including “Boondocks,” “Pontoon,” “Tornado” “Your Side of the Bed,” and covers of Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” and The Oak Ridge Boys’ “Elvira.” Eschewing the expected dramatic entrance favored by many musicians, Urban’s concert opening was refreshingly sparse. Urban reversed the typical concert opening, which involves band members taking the stage and vamping until the crowd is whipped into a frenzy that welcomes the star of the evening onstage. Urban walked onstage alone, practically taking the audience by surprise. As a swell of recognition filled the arena, Urban greeted the crowd before taking up his banjo for an instrumental solo. One by one, his band members joined in, creating a wall of sound. Urban and his band of talented musicians offered a substantial palette of hits, including “Long Hot Summer,” “Sweet Thing,” “Better Life,” “Even The Stars Fall 4 You,” “Who Wouldn’t Wanna Be Me” and even a quirky cover of “Rocky Top.” Urban made great use of his talented tourmates as well, bringing out Little Big Town to lend harmonies on “Fly,” and Lynch to add some country boy swagger to “Kiss A Girl.” Fairchild gave a soulful rendition of Miranda Lambert’s female vocal on “We Were Us.” Kudos to Urban’s lighting and video team for the creative and effective design. The video screen was divided into five panels, separated by vertical rows of lights, which allowed for a myriad of configurations. At points during the concert, the panels displayed one image, while at other times, each member of the band was featured on a separate panel simultaneously, creating a close-up look at what was happening onstage from all angles. A small camera was attached to the headstock of Urban’s guitar, allowing fans an extremely close look at those guitar riffs Urban is famous for. Creating a personal, intimate feel in a cavernous arena has always been one of Urban’s strengths, and the Fuse tour is no different. He used an arsenal of tricks to get close to fans in every section of the venue, including walking through the crowd and shaking hands along the way (while playing Blake Shelton‘s “Boys ‘Round Here,” no less). He ventured to a smaller stage in the back of the arena, and also into the “cheap seats” to perform. One lucky fan got a signed guitar from the star. Urban gave another attendee, Alexis, the best seat in the house. After using a spotlight to get a better look at signs that die-hard fans brought to the show, Urban selected Alexis’ sign, which bore the questions “Can I Have A Hug?” Urban did one better. Not only did Alexis get the hug she hoped for, but a recliner was brought onstage and Alexis got a personal serenade from Urban on “Back To Me.” He not only got close to his fans, he let them get close to him, via personal stories scattered throughout the concert. He mentioned that he performed “Memories of Us” during his wedding to Nicole Kidman. He told fans how he penned “Once In A Lifetime” after a conversation with then-fiance Kidman. “We were talking about getting married,” he recalled. “She was scared about making a commitment to a guy like me and I was trying to convince her. The next day, I didn’t plan on it, but I was writing a song and this is what came out.” The crowd also got an extended concert. “We might be a bit late tonight—a little later than normal,” said Urban, to the audience’s delight. His set began at 9 p.m. and didn’t end until after 11:30 p.m. It wouldn’t be a Nashville concert without special guests. Eric Church appeared for “Raise ‘Em Up,” while Peter Frampton joined Urban for a sizzling guitar duel. Unfortunately, a technical issue kept the audience from hearing a brief portion of Urban’s masterful guitar melodies. The two clearly enjoyed the moment, trading guitar licks on The Beatles’ “Get Back.” After closing the show with his signature “Somebody Like You” amid blasts of confetti, Urban returned to the stage after a brief pause. Taking a seat solo at a piano, Urban offered a medley of ballads, including “But For The Grace of God,” “Raining On Sunday,” and “Tonight I Wanna Cry,” before closing with the romantic Rodney Crowell-penned ballad “Making Memories Of Us.” Though the tour ended in Nashville, Urban didn’t stay in town long. He told the crowd he would be flying out the next day to visit his wife and children in Morocco, where Kidman is currently shooting a movie. 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__label__cc	0.697085	0.302915	Sara-Elizabeth Cottrell December 24, 2018 No Comments Sara-Elizabeth Cottrell December 24, 2018 It’s that time again! My mind scattered in a lot of directions this year and I didn’t read as much as I should have, but here’s a run-down of what I did get to read. I’ll end with some items on my to-read list and ask you for some recommendations. I’m ending the year with just one book I’m labeling a must-read, and it’s the 2013 Pulitzer novel. The Orphan Master’s Son, Adam Johnson From Goodreads: An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master’s Son follows a young man’s journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Part breathless thriller, part story of innocence lost, part story of romantic love, The Orphan Master’s Son is also a riveting portrait of a world heretofore hidden from view: a North Korea rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, and love. A towering literary achievement, The Orphan Master’s Son ushers Adam Johnson into the small group of today’s greatest writers. My take on it: I’ll preface this by saying many people can’t “get into the book” and end up giving up or getting angry that they “wasted” so much time getting through it. So, if you have that opinion, you are not alone. I recommend you read through the reviews on Goodreads a bit. But for me, the story was stunning, the characters drew me in, the novel enveloped me almost straight through from beginning to end. The way the camera, the tattoo, the identity issues, everything wove its way through the story (oh, the peaches!), the changing voices, the loudspeaker chapters – I felt like this was a literary masterpiece. I recommended it all year. That said, it’s hard to read. There is cruelty and deception and propaganda you cannot imagine. Every other page rips your heart out. So be prepared. Adam Johnson isn’t Korean, but he did a lot of research and made a trip to North Korea for the book, and even the epilogue of information he gathered for the book is an eye-opener. I finished this book at the time when every news story was Trump’s meeting with the Great Leader, all about the sanctions and the economy, and it was incredibly frustrating to me that in the case of North Korea as well as Saudi Arabia we kowtow in the name of national sovereignty and the almighty dollar. If you’re like me, you’ll be wondering why the world refuses to address the human rights nightmare that is North Korea. Girl at War, Sara Nović From Goodreads: Zagreb, summer of 1991. Ten-year-old Ana Jurić is a carefree tomboy who runs the streets of Croatia’s capital with her best friend, Luka, takes care of her baby sister, Rahela, and idolizes her father. But as civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, soccer games and school lessons are supplanted by sniper fire and air raid drills. When tragedy suddenly strikes, Ana is lost to a world of guerilla warfare and child soldiers; a daring escape plan to America becomes her only chance for survival. Ten years later Ana is a college student in New York. She’s been hiding her past from her boyfriend, her friends, and most especially herself. Haunted by the events that forever changed her family, she returns alone to Croatia, where she must rediscover the place that was once her home and search for the ghosts of those she’s lost. My take on it: It’s the theme of the year: mass cruelty isn’t perpetuated by a few monsters, it’s perpetuated by ordinary people who give free rein to the monsters within us all. As soon as you read the opening pages of Girl at War and read how Ana is asked Do you want Serbian cigarettes or Croatian ones? you know there’s one of those events afoot. Of course, the sociolinguistic aspects were super interesting to me: In school we’d been taught to ignore distinguishing ethnic factors, though it was easy enough to discern someone’s ancestry by their last name. Instead we were trained to regurgitate pan-Slavic slogans: ‘Bratstvo / Jedinstvo!’ Brotherhood and Unity. But now it seemed the differences between us might be important after all. The difference between Croatian and Slovenian was exasperatingly mild, the storefronts and street signs filled with words that looked familiar but not quite right, rendering comprehension just out of reach. When meeting an English-speaking doctor, I’d studied English since the first grade but considered it a murky language, one whose grammar seemed to have been made up on the fly. Still, I resolved to concentrate and pick up as much as I could. On German war reports, We stared at the screen, as if looking at it hard enough would somehow advance our German skills. And when she returns to Croatia, she ends up speaking Cringlish, a system we’d devised without discussion- Croatian sentence structure injected with English stand-ins for the vocabulary I was lacking, then conjugated with Croatian verb endings. This book, too, was a window into a world so beyond us. So far beyond that Ana thinks after the 9/11 attacks, War in America was so incongruous with what had happened in Croatia- what must have been happening in Afghanistan- that it almost seemed a misuse of the word. And the rescuers that should have come, those elusive heroes that always seemed otherwise occupied? On the news men in suits were always calling on the States to help protect us, but no one had shown up yet. Maybe they were just too far away. That does seem to be our problem, doesn’t it. Over the years I’d lost faith in the UN- their interventions, in my country and across the globe, were tepid at best. And so even though after being sent to the States to be adopted, Ana’s effort to create a palatable war was tiring and painful, so one day, I stopped completely. I grew and my accent faded. For years I didn’t reveal anything at all. I passed as an American. It was easier that way – for them – I told myself. she has the opportunity to talk to them, to the UN about their intervention. To see photographs of children smiling in photos as if they remembered from another time that one was supposed to smile in photographs. To remember the photographers as outsiders who claimed the moral high ground, then stood back and snapped photos during encounters with bloodied children. And to tell the U.N. heroes, Know that your food aid does not reach the people it’s supposed to. In the place where I stayed, there were no Peacekeepers, and the Cetniks stole the aid meant for civilians. If you drop the food and leave, you’re just feeding your enemy. We had guns, but they had more. Firepower is the only thing that determines who eats. I like endings, and this book didn’t have enough of one for me, but my best takeaway is the perspective on why people go back. Ana and her parents were out of Croatia for her sister’s doctor appointment, and then they went back. Yes, it was dangerous, and no, it didn’t turn out well, but Ana’s wise father taught her important lessons in the process. He told the border guards, Of course we want to go back. Of course we’re going home. and told her, Do you understand, Ana, that sometimes hard things are worth the trouble? The book capturesd for me the heart of the refugee crisis across the world. It helped me understand the huge smile on the faces of our Congolese students at the ESL program I direct when I manage to get something right in Kinyarwanda. Of course we want to go home. Which leads me to… A Hope More Powerful than the Sea, Melissa Fleming From Goodreads: Doaa and her family leave war-torn Syria for Egypt where the climate is becoming politically unstable and increasingly dangerous. She meets and falls in love with Bassem, a former Free Syrian Army fighter and together they decide to leave behind the hardship and harassment they face in Egypt to flee for Europe, joining the ranks of the thousands of refugees who make the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean on overcrowded and run-down ships to seek asylum overseas and begin a new life. After four days at sea, their boat is sunk by another boat filled with angry men shouting threats and insults. With no land in sight and surrounded by bloated, floating corpses, Doaa is adrift with a child’s inflatable water ring around her waist, while two little girls cling to her neck. Doaa must stay alive for them. She must not lose strength. She must not lose hope. My take on it: The noise of competing news and sound bites drowned each other out to the point I really had no idea what was going on in Syria, for how long, and why. A Hope More Powerful than the Sea put faces and names to the refugees risking it all to cross a deadly sea in hopes of a tenuous freedom. Just one ding: Fleming is an outreach worker, someone who makes a difference, but she’s not a writer. The writing has a bit of a feel of adolescent journalism- not bad, but clipped, matter-of-fact, without much feeling or depth. Not a big deal, though, because Doaa’s story has enough feeling all on its own, stormy and deep as the Mediterranean itself. As politics turned tumultuous and the powerful began to oppress as they often do, Doaa’s conversations with her friends were no longer about boys, marriage, or neighborhood gossip. Now they talked only about resistance and rebellion. She was spunky and cared about what was going on around her. And when her father decided the oppression and violence were too much, she envied the mountains and the trees and the rocks because they will be able to breathe Daraa’s air and I won’t. I often think refugees must just be grateful to have ended up in whatever savior country has accepted them and forget the deep, human, natural love they must have for their home left behind. As I work with refugees weekly in my own city, this perspective helps me feel empathy for them so much more. As an evangelical Christian, I found myself asking how many 19-year-old Christian girls I know could say what Doaa would say about her Quran: She had read from it every evening before bed, and at random times during the day when she needed some comforting words to give her peace of mind. When she got a copy while on the boat that would carry so many of them to their deaths, she kissed the cover and opened the book anxiously, reading the words of God inside, and feeling as if she held an object of protection. Doaa’s boat was brought down by men blinded to the cruelty of trying to sink a boat carrying little children. These men had every intention of killing every man, woman, and child on board. And they nearly succeeded. But Doaa floated in the sea for days, until the only power left in her was her knowledge of the word of God. She protected two small children whose families she watched die. She assured those dying around her, Be strong, pray, so hope is still inside you. And in the end, she stood on the shore, and turned back to look out at the horizon and thought, I am not afraid of you anymore. Make your bed, William McRaven From Goodreads: If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. On May 17, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day. Taking inspiration from the university’s slogan, “What starts here changes the world,” he shared the ten principles he learned during Navy Seal training that helped him overcome challenges not only in his training and long Naval career, but also throughout his life; and he explained how anyone can use these basic lessons to change themselves-and the world-for the better. Admiral McRaven’s original speech went viral with over 10 million views. Building on the core tenets laid out in his speech, McRaven now recounts tales from his own life and from those of people he encountered during his military service who dealt with hardship and made tough decisions with determination, compassion, honor, and courage. Told with great humility and optimism, this timeless book provides simple wisdom, practical advice, and words of encouragement that will inspire readers to achieve more, even in life’s darkest moments. My take on it: It’s good to have a short, easy read, but in the case of Make Your Bed, my opinion is that it is too short! I had this as an ebook on loan from the library and got a notice that it would expire in 3 days. Oh no! I’d have to stay on the waiting list forever AGAIN. But as soon as I started it I saw how concise it is and I easily finished it in about half an hour. General McRaven has been there and done that, and he’s here to help you with powerful, concise advice for life: Start each day with a task completed. Find someone to help you through life. Respect everyone. Know that life is not fair and that you will fail often. But if you take some risks, step up when times are toughest, face down the bullies, lift up the downtrodden, and never, ever give up–if you do these things, then you can change your life for the better… and maybe the world! Good advice, General. When I Don’t Desire God, John Piper From Goodreads: We often struggle to find, and hold onto, true and lasting joy—even when we have embraced the good news of God’s grace. So we face a crucial question: What should I do when I don’t desire God? John Piper aims to help us find joy in Jesus that is so deep and so strong that it frees us from bondage to comfort and security, and impels us to live merciful and missional lives. Written with the radical hope that all Christians would experience the fullness of life in Christ, this book will help you fight for joy daily by leading you to rediscover the soul-satisfying glory of God. My take on it: Certainly God mightily used R.C. Sproul, but when I listened to him, I came away with such a defeated sense of guilt and powerlessness, like I could never change myself but somehow was responsible to keep trying at that futile task. That’s never what R.C. would would have said aloud, but that’s how I felt. Not with John Piper. In the darkest two years of my life, When I Don’t Desire God walked with me in grace and peace and tears. Down to the last chapter, I was sure John was just going to tell me to suck it up and get over my depression and feel better. He didn’t, but he made me believe I could anyway, and he helped me know that there’s no condemnation when I can’t. And then made me believe I could yet again. Thank you, John. From the bottom of my desperate, undesiring heart. Building a Storybrand, Donald Miller From Goodreads: Donald Miller’s StoryBrand process is a proven solution to the struggle business leaders face when talking about their businesses. This revolutionary method for connecting with customers provides readers with the ultimate competitive advantage, revealing the secret for helping their customers understand the compelling benefits of using their products, ideas, or services. Building a StoryBrand does this by teaching readers the seven universal story points all humans respond to; the real reason customers make purchases; how to simplify a brand message so people understand it; and how to create the most effective messaging for websites, brochures, and social media. Whether you are the marketing director of a multibillion dollar company, the owner of a small business, a politician running for office, or the lead singer of a rock band, Building a StoryBrand will forever transform the way you talk about who you are, what you do, and the unique value you bring to your customers. My take on it: Building a Storybrand is a message about clarity in business made very clear. The content is applicable to teaching, parenting, and more, but I most highly recommend this for anyone with a “side hustle” or in charge of anything involving influencing others, from promoting a school festival to starting a blog. And yet… I came away with the feeling I often get from a book like this. Like there’s something I’m still missing. I listened to the podcast for a long time before reading the book. The website (not this one) was revamped. We wrote copy and requested web changes and talked on the street with Don in our heads. Is there some inherent flaw I can’t see, some hidden sabotage? I believe in what Don has to say, and I believe the company I work for is putting it into practice, but the success is still elusive. Pachinko, Min Jin Lee From Goodreads: In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant–and that her lover is married–she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son’s powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations. Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan’s finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee’s complex and passionate characters–strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis–survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history. My take on it: When I started Pachinko, I thought it was going to be one of my must-reads of the year. By halfway through, I had changed my mind. Still, it was well worth the read, as evidenced by how much more quickly I finished it than other books I read this year. When someone on Goodreads called this “basically a Christian novel,” I nearly laughed out loud. I’m not sure what people think Christian novels are, if one could come away with that opinion from the collection of profanity and promiscuity in this novel, but it’s certainly not “basically a Christian novel.” That said, at least one major character and a few minor characters are some of the most faithfully written Christian characters I have ever read in a secular novel. It’s not surprising – it’s just Lee staying faithful to reality, really. In a matter of a generation, Korea “went from a country void of the gospel to one of the biggest exporters of it.” The large evangelical seminary in my city has a thriving community of Korean students. In fact, the largest evangelical church in the world is in South Korea, getting crazily close to one million in average weekly attendance. Among the 44% of the country that claims a religion, 45% are Protestant, a stunning statistic in that part of the world. So, the Christian element among the Koreans in the novel is with good reason. When you first meet “the minister,” who is from the North, it’s the beginning, and it’s November 1932. A man had told Baek Isak about his ailing wife and he said he would pray for her right then and there. He just dropped his head and closed his eyes! I don’t know if I believe in that mumbling that people do, but I can’t see how it can hurt anyone. And so you come to understand that Baek Isak is a man of deep character and conviction, deep humility, unassuming. He marries Sunja because she’s pregnant by a man she didn’t know was already married, and because he was reading Hosea that morning. (If you’re not familiar with the biblical book of Hosea, God orders the prophet to marry a prostitute as a picture for how Israel has forsaken Him and His love to seek after other gods.) He’s the kind of man with the insight to know that, when he recites a favorite verse and Sunja’s mother is unmoved, She and her daughter could not love God if they did not know him. He asks her if she thinks she can love God, and tells her, If you could love God, then I know everything will be all right. It’s a lot, I think, to ask of you. It might not make sense now. It will take time. I do understand that. And she says she can. When a pastor friend emphasizes Sunja’s sin, Isak had not wanted Sunja to turn to God in this way. Love for God, he’d thought, should come naturally and not out of fear of punishment. (A gracious approach, though I’d withdraw the phrase “come naturally” as I believe love for God only comes from God.) Soon, Isak and Sunja are on their way to Japan, and the rest of the story chronicles the generations of their family that live through the war in Japan and continue as Japanese who will never be Japanese because they are ethnically Korean. Pachinko is a pinball-based gambling game in Japan, and it serves two purposes in the book: a metaphor for how the characters are knocked from one pin to the next, and as one of only two apparent sources of great wealth for ethnic Koreans in Japan (the other is organized crime). There is a theme that women are to suffer: A woman’s life is endless work and suffering. There is suffering and then more suffering. It’s better to expect it, you know… no matter what, always expect suffering and just keep working hard. And they do, but they are strong because of it: Her suffering and privation had made her finer in a way… They’d make a tasty broth from stones and bitterness. They are strong as they care for their men, Isak and his brutal imprisonment when the Japanese arrest him and two others for violating the command to bow at the shrines. Isak’s brother and his long decline to death after “surviving” one of the atomic bombings. They are strong as they care for their sons, making and selling the kimchee and sweets that provide food on a table when the men cannot provide it, though there is a complex wretch of a man lurking in the background to provide. The problem with the book was in what Goodreads calls “Lee’s complex and passionate characters.” I cared so deeply about the characters I met in the first third of the book that it was hard to muster that level of caring for generation after generation, tangential relationships, this one’s stepchild, that one’s girlfriend. Sunja persisted to the end, and I think I only stuck around for her. Becoming Mom-Strong, Heidi St. John From Goodreads: Have you ever looked into the faces of the people who call you “mom” and wondered what in the world you got yourself into? If you’re like many Christian moms today, you’ve been reading the headlines and watching the rapid-fire changes in our culture with frustration and fear. Let’s face it: Moms today are facing questions that previous generations didn’t even see coming, and even our right to determine what is best for our own children is under fire. Popular speaker and blogger Heidi St. John (The Busy Mom) believes that today’s mothers need a special kind of strength. We need to be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. We dare not rely on human strength for the battles we’re facing right now. In Becoming MomStrong, Heidi has a powerful message just for you–the mom in the midst of it all. Through encouragement, practical prayer points, and authentic “me-too” moments, Heidi equips you for a job that only you can do: to train your children to hear God’s voice and to walk in truth no matter where our culture is heading. My take on it: Heidi St. John endured traumatic childhood experiences, married young and had 7 children, homeschooled them, served in church – in short, her book is what I hoped Nancy Leigh Demoss’s book would be. Demoss writes “The Bible has all the answers” – which is very true – but St. John writes “The Bible has all the answers – and also I have been there, and I cry with you.” It’s a message of empathy without excuses that brought tears to my eyes more than once and encouraged me on nearly every page, encouraged me to fight with all that’s in me for my family and my faith. Don’t Go, Lisa Scottoline From Goodreads: When Dr. Mike Scanlon is called to serve as an army doctor in Afghanistan, he’s acutely aware of the dangers he’ll face and the hardships it will cause his wife Chloe and newborn baby. And deep inside, he doesn’t think of himself as a warrior, but a healer. However, in an ironic turn of events, as Mike operates on a wounded soldier in a war-torn country, Chloe dies at home in the suburbs, in an apparent household accident. Devastated, he returns home to bury her, only to discover that the life he left behind has fallen apart. His medical practice is in jeopardy, and he is a complete stranger to the only family he has left – his precious baby girl. Worse, he learns a shocking secret that sends him into a downward spiral. Ultimately, Mike realizes that the most important battle of his life faces him on the home front and he’ll have to put it all on the line to save what’s dearest to him – his family. My take on it: Within the prologue, I thought I had this book figured out. I really read the first third thinking how awfully she’d given it away and my only motivation for reading was to find out how Mike would find out the truth. And, I wondered how on earth she was going to fill hundreds of pages with plot when it didn’t seem there was any plot left. As soon as Mike returned to Afghanistan, I began a race to the end to figure out if I was right, and how he was going to come back to himself and his daughter. It’s not literature, but it was an entertaining read. Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America From Goodreads: Short, emotional, literary, powerful―Tears We Cannot Stop is the book that all Americans who care about the current and long-burning crisis in race relations will want to read. As the country grapples with racist division at a level not seen since the 1960s, one man’s voice soars above the rest with conviction and compassion. In his 2016 New York Times op-ed piece “Death in Black and White,” Michael Eric Dyson moved a nation. Now he continues to speak out in Tears We Cannot Stop―a provocative and deeply personal call for change. Dyson argues that if we are to make real racial progress we must face difficult truths, including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted. My take on it: I came to Tears We Cannot Stop to find out what I had been doing wrong, to find some help and advice from someone who was supposed to know what I was doing wrong and how to fix it. Spoiler alert: I didn’t find it. I hated this book so much if it weren’t on my iPad I’d have spit on it. Never in my life have I been so patronized and labeled by someone who knew nothing about me but the color of my skin. But for Dyson, it turns out it’s not all about your skin- his labels for you depend on how much you line up with his thought and prescribed course of action. Because Michael Jordan isn’t black enough, nor is O.J. Simpson. Clarence Thomas is a traitor to his race – but Elvis Presley, now there’s the blackest white man who ever lived. The black people who changed the locks on his church door to kick him out- they weren’t so much traitors as they were poor, stupid saps who had bought into the lies of society around them and were perpetuating them without any strength of character or eyes for enlightened truth. The book dies on its labeling, on the mass generalizations so prevalent I couldn’t begin to name them all, what the group known as “the cops” are like (they seem to know that all those white folks who come at cops with swinging fists or menacing demeanors or drawn guns don’t really mean them any harm – WHAT?!), and also “the black and brown cops:” they’re the guinea pigs of racism. Dyson knows what people who voted for Donald Trump were thinking: because he wasn’t the black man who had taken their country, willing to cast aside a seasoned leader because of her gender. Which is it, Dr. Dyson, because he was white or because she was a woman? He declares The election of President Trump was all about whiteness. I’m not one of them, but I know and love a lot of people who voted for Donald Trump. Not one of them voted for him because of whiteness. I have news for Dr. Dyson, and maybe for you too, but many people who voted for Donald Trump were actually swallowing their distaste for so many aspects of the man in order to cast a worthwhile vote against Hillary Clinton. For my friends and family who are Trump supporters, the vote was about one or two things: the military, and abortion. There is very little that matters to us about Hillary Clinton after we know that she supports the right of a woman to murder an unborn child for any reason or for no reason with no restrictions almost up to the moment of birth. She would have been the most pro-abortion world leader this modern world has ever known. For my friends and family, it wasn’t about white people trying to make sure people of color knew they didn’t deserve a life of equal dignity. It was about people trying to lift high the most basic human right of all, to see that all our babies got a chance to know they deserved a life at all. That said, I was intrigued by Dr. Dyson’s message that white people should set up an “Individual Reparations Account,” a financial way to pay for the sins of white privilege, by paying for black children to go to summer camp or to get a tutor, or by paying a black person twice what you’d pay a white person to mow your lawn. Most of my friends very involved in social justice movements shy away from this “white savior” idea and I’m curious to see what the middle ground ideas would be. I also appreciated his reading list and want to use his recommended reading to continue to diversify my reading with titles like Many Thousands Gone (Berlin), Closer to Freedom (Camp), Out of the House of Bondage (Glymph), and of course Beloved (Morrison). Also The Half Has Never Been Told (Baptist), The Reaper’s Garden (Brown), and This Republic of Suffering (Faust). Also Black Reconstruction in America (Du Bois) and Devil in the Grove (King). This Little Light of Mine (Mills) and Race Rebels (Kelley). Invisible Man (Ellison) and Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston) and also The Color Purple (Walker), which I can’t believe I’ve never read. These titles are my primary takeaway from Dyson’s condescending tirade. The Magnificent Ambersons From Goodreads: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. The protagonist of Booth Tarkington’s great historical drama is George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled and arrogant grandson of the founder of the family’s magnificence. Eclipsed by a new breed of developers, financiers, and manufacturers, this pampered scion begins his gradual descent from the midwestern aristocracy to the working class. My take on it: I rarely quit on books, even ones I can’t stand, but I would have quit this one had it not been the second Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, and thus part of my bucket list item to read them all. I was optimistic, because I’d loved Penrod as a child. This Tarkington read (which I listened to via Librivox), though, dragged on eternally with dialogues five times longer than they needed to be, characters you hated so much you wanted them out of your life- and not even because they were proper villains. And then at the end, you think the dreadful main-ish character who’s been a spoiled, insufferable brat his whole life and the whole book is going to finally show some growth, and the growth turns out to be in someone else altogether, and it’s over. And you think, that’s it? I wasted that much time on this book for THAT? Unless you’re on a mission to read all the Pulitzers, this title is worth forgetting. In addition to the books Dr. Dyson recommended, I’ve got a few hundred on my want-to-read list at my library’s ebook lending site, on my Amazon wish list, and on Goodreads. I’m listening to Age of Innocence as my next Pulitzer and the jury’s still out on that one. This coming year I expect I’ll finally finish Quiet and give a thumbs-up review of that book on “the power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking.” Also on a professional note, I’m eager to finish Languages and Children as well as While We’re on the Topic. I’m reading the Spanish version of Enrique’s Journey as a strong contender for my next ebook guide. I might finish El códice 632 even though I think it’s horrible, just to give an ending to the past three years I’ve been slogging through it. To better understand the world, I hope Factfulness will help with positive reality and Addicted to Outrage will help me overcome something. I hope A River in Darkness and City of Thorns will help me further understand the conflicts that plague us. In fiction, I want to make it to Truly Madly Guilty and Fruit of the Drunken Tree and explore more deep stories in A Land of Permanent Goodbyes, The Great Alone, and Things Fall Apart. Many of my friends say I must read Foreign to Familiar. In faith and parenting, I’ve listed Raising World Changers in a Changing World; Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus; The Passionate Mom; and With the Master in the School of Tested Faith. Next up in my Pulitzer list are The Sympathizer and Beloved. That’s a lot and I’m sure I won’t get to it all. But I’ll have a lot of fun trying, and reflecting on it a year from now. What about you – what’s on your list that should be on mine, too? 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__label__wiki	0.574603	0.574603	Aimee Berger-Girvalo Aimee Berger-Girvalo is a candidate for CT State Representative, 111th District. Aimee moved to Ridgefield 13 years ago and is proudly raising her family in our town. Her background in business management, education, youth sports and service are demonstrations of her talent and her commitment to building the people and the community of Ridgefield. Aimee grew up in New York State, the daughter of a Vietnam-era US Army nurse, Lynn Berger, and advertising executive George Berger. She began her career as an Operations Manager for Hard Rock Café International where she worked with the corporate training department to develop and rollout nationally a comprehensive staff development program. Her business unit was selected for its best practices and served as a Management Training hub for the corporation. After five years with Hard Rock International, she served as General Manager for two units of the Banana Republic. After seven years as an at-home Mom, with encouragement from her family, she enrolled at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her dedication and hard work earned her a BA in Developmental Disability Advocacy in 2017. Today, as a Special Educator and ABA Therapist, she credits the inspiration of her children and their pride in her as the driving forces behind her career change. As Aimee often states, “Their support of me forced me to banish the phrase, I can’t, from my vocabulary.” Aimee’s work to improve education, physical and mental health for children and youth led her to volunteer for 11 years as the director and coach of the Holland League of the Soccer Club of Ridgefield. There she resurrected the program which gives children with special needs the opportunity to play a team sport. It was the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in neighboring Newtown that led Aimee to become a member of the planning committee for the March for Change, as well as an active volunteer with Moms Demand Action. Aimee is a co-founder of the Ridgefield Women’s March, a non-partisan group of over 1,000 local men and women dedicated to governmental accountability, transparency and action on the most important issues of today. Aimee and her children Gracie and Austin, along with their rescue dogs, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Jarvis and Potter, are active hikers of Ridgefield’s Pine Mountain Trail and Bennett’s Pond State Park.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line930
__label__wiki	0.595297	0.595297	Posts Tagged James Taylor The Undercover Soundtrack – Tim McDonald Posted by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on February 24, 2016 The Undercover Soundtrack is a series where I host a writer who uses music as part of their creative environment – perhaps to connect with a character, populate a mysterious place, or hold a moment still to explore its depths. This week my guest is singer-songwriter Tim McDonald Soundtrack by Player, Al Stewart, Kansas, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Carole King, Karla Bonoff, Tim McDonald, Broken Poets, Stephen Bishop I use to love cheesy pop music when I was a kid. The kind of songs that make you cringe when you get older. Until a close friend of mine died and my taste in everything changed. Music’s what saved me, though. Even the pop stuff, eventually. For the Death of Dustin Essary: a music novel is a tribute to my childhood best friend, whose unfortunate death from cancer at the age of 13 is what would lead me to over 30 years of songwriting. And some songs I wrote got me started on the book, but it was the music from my past that would help me finish it. My story covers the six-month period leading up to Dustin’s death in 1978. Those last immortal days we might have enjoyed more had we known better. The hard part was trying to remember it all. Which is where my embarrassing nostalgia for 70s soft rock comes in. Sorry, but in order to find my way back I had to admit it. I was never one of the cool kids. Case in point, one of my old favorites at age 13, Player’s Baby Come Back. Yes, this ridiculous dreamy pop rock ballad (a song my adult ego still denies it ever heard before) is what served as a portal back to those simple childhood moments. The lyrics for this song helped me to remember a frustrated crush I had around that time also. Or I’d listen to Al Stewart’s Year of the Cat on auto repeat and be sure to find some more lost scenes. (I’m not ashamed of this one, though, it’s just a beautiful song) I found it best to narrate the story from the perspective of just a few years after Dustin died, since looking back from my adult high-horse wasn’t very interesting. But these songs, and many more like it, not only brought back the time and place, but helped to reanimate that well-meaning, naïve, 13-year-old self I used to be. I look back on a lot of these future classics at the end of part one, recalling a day of radio airplay in 1977. Back then it was On And On into Night Moves and One Is the Loneliest Number and Baker Street … It was obvious I had to revisit those days, musically or otherwise, in order to write this story. But how my own music would bring me to write the book in the first place is a bit of a mystery. The origin of which came from the music that first influenced me to become a songwriter. Music as a refuge After Dustin died the light pop stuff just didn’t make sense any more. I’d walk around the old neighborhood alone for hours, singing that amazing new rock song I heard by Kansas Carry on Wayward Son (jump to 1:05 for the amazing part) Because everything the guy was singing was exactly how I was feeling… But besides my new obsession with prog-rock at the time, all the great songwriters from that era just spoke to me after that. Like Jackson Browne’s Doctor My Eyes and James Tylor’s Fire and Rain sounded different all of a sudden. And songs I hadn’t paid much attention to before, like Carole King’s, You’ve got a Friend and Karla Bonoff’s Home called out to me also. So these songs became my new best friends in a way. And then my sister gave me her old acoustic guitar and I’ve been writing my own music ever since. Here’s a live performance of one of my songs from the book So Be It. A music novel So then cut to five years ago when a group of songs came to me unexpectedly, one of which was about Dustin. To be honest, I hadn’t thought about him in years, but that’s when it struck me that my whole musical journey had started over 30 years before as a direct response to his death. So I started the book as a memoir at first, with the idea to include my music somehow. But when I struggled to remember some dreams Dustin shared with me, the other songs in the group seemed to be waiting there to use for Dustin’s dream content. There was one song about a scientist, the second about a psychic, and another about a spiritual leader. The whole thing was strange how it came together, but it’s what gave me the idea to embed my music as a part of the story and to call it a music novel. Here’s a live version of me performing one of Dustin’s dream songs The Clairvoyant. There are eight songs in the book all together, and for each song you come to in the story you can play, and or, download as you read along with the lyrics, which I hope will lead you poetically and sonically back to the next part of the story. For this reason the book is only available through my membership website. And besides the songs that became Dustin’s dreams for the book, there were more songs I had written through the years that seem to retrofit perfectly into the storyline as well. Here’s a live version of the opening song To Dream of Another Life. And this song Idle Thought with my band Broken Poets, worked to help describe a daydream I have in part IV. Looking back, it’s hard not to imagine some mysterious redeeming force behind it all. Maybe to help us grow at certain points. A force strong enough to bring back our childhood, or save us if we need it, or remind us how we got here to start anew. Tim McDonald is the author of For the Death of Dustin Essary: a music novel. The first chapter is free as an excerpt, including the first three songs. You can find Tim’s complete music catalogue and more of his writing available at brokenpoets.com. His music is also available through iTunes and Pandora. Tim is the founder, songwriter, singer and guitarist for the modern indie rock band Broken Poets. Find him on Facebook. a music novel, Al Stewart, Broken Poets, Carole King, childhood cancer, childhood loss, For The Death Of Dustin Essary, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Kansas, Karla Bonoff, multimedia, multimedia novel, music for writers, musicians, Player, singer-songwriters, songwriters, Stephen Bishop, The Fault In Our Stars, The Undercover Soundtrack, Tim McDonald, undercover soundtrack The Undercover Soundtrack – Fanny Blake Posted by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on May 1, 2012 ‘Musical taste says so much about someone’ Once a week I host a writer who uses music as part of their creative process – perhaps to tap into a character, populate a mysterious place, or explore the depths in a pivotal moment. This week’s post is by journalist and contemporary women’s fiction author Fanny Blake @FannyBlake1 Soundtrack by James Taylor, Johannes Brahms, Eric Clapton, Johann Pachelbel, Ella Fitzgerald, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland I don’t listen to music when I’m writing. If I did, I’d lose my focus on the words and spin off into whatever I was listening to. However I do use music in my novels as an indicator of character or to set a mood. When I’m thinking about a particular scene or someone’s state of mind, then I spend ages (too long, probably) listening to different tracks, or trawling through Youtube, to check that the pieces I choose are the right fit. Sometimes I play them very softly in the background, because they can transport me into the scene I’m writing, but never loud enough to distract me, and not for long. A record collection speaks volumes about a man Musical taste says so much about someone, as Bea, the central character in What Women Want realises when she hears strains of James Taylor coming from the record player in the holiday cottage where she’s been brought for a weekend. She enters the room to see several LPs that she recognises at a glance strewn on the rag rug: Dory Previn, Fleetwood Mac, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, The Lovin’ Spoonful, Country Joe, The Byrds and of course Bob Dylan. ‘A record collection speaks volumes about a man, she thought.’ The fact that her new lover has hung on to his vinyl tells us something, but so does his choice of music. He’s a man of a certain vintage who enjoys musical nostalgia, and maybe his taste hasn’t moved on much. Bea immediately recognises that they share a similar musical history, giving them that little extra in common. She feels at home. In my new novel, Women of a Dangerous Age, the two central characters Ali and Lou have quite different soundtracks to their lives. Lou, a woman in her 50s, has left her husband and is starting a new life on her own. Her passion is for vintage clothes, and she plans to set up a high-end vintage clothing shop called Puttin’ on the Ritz. At work, she listens to the songs I remember so well from the old movies my family used to watch on TV. She gave me the perfect excuse to revisit on Youtube the fabulous song ‘n’ dance numbers of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers or, when she walks home with her ex having had a glass or two too many, of Fred with Judy Garland. Secret passion for cheese When her lover takes her to a concert at the Festival Hall to hear Brahms’ Symphony Number 2 in D, Lou is too embarrassed to admit she is ‘a self-confessed unreconstructed schlock chick. Cheesy pop and songs from the shows were more her thing but there was no way she’d confess her secret shame to Sanjeev.’ Instead, when alone in the car, she sings loudly and out of tune to Billy Joel and Dire Straits, and nurses a private passion for one of the band members of Take That. When she receives some shattering personal news, she soldiers through an evening with her children before arriving home and turning to Eric Clapton’s Tears in Heaven to accompany her misery and a good cry. Ah, the cheap emotionalism of music. Lou’s a woman after my own heart. However, Ali is cut from another cloth. She is of a classical bent. When her lover is clearly distracted, she chooses one of the ‘most soothing pieces of music she knew’ – Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major. She’s a goldsmith who shares a studio with a silversmith. They listen to Radio 3 in the background all day long. She befriends Lou when they’re on holiday in India. Lou invites her to design some jewellery for her shop and before long Ali is helping her in it. When Lou arrives one afternoon, she finds Ali reading a paperback ‘with something classical at full throttle in the background’. Lou’s immediate reaction is to change the CD for Ella Fitzgerald singing All Through the Night, after all it was ‘her shop, so her mood, and this was definitely more the thing’. Although Ali’s lifestyle is perhaps more unconventional than Lou’s, her taste in music is not and I hope that gives a better indication to the quality of her interior life. I find that using music in my novels is a way of adding an extra dimension to my characters, and one that can often act as a useful shorthand for the reader. Novelist and journalist Fanny Blake is also the Books Editor of Woman & Home. Her career has spanned almost every aspect of writing. She was a publisher for many years before becoming an author. She has written best-selling non-fiction, ghost-written several celebrity autobiographies and has written two novels, What Women Want and now, Women of a Dangerous Age which was published last week by Blue Door. She lives at home with her husband, a novelist, an ancient cat that’s young in spirit, and however many of their three sons happen to be at home at the time. She goes to the theatre more than is good for her bank account, loves long country walks and chocolate. Find her on Facebook and on Twitter as @FannyBlake1 authors, Brahms, Cole Porter, contemporary fiction, contemporary women's fiction, Ella Fitzgerald, Eric Clapton, Fanny Blake, Fred Astaire, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, James Taylor, Johann Pachelbel, Judy Garland, music, music for writers, music for writing, My Memories of a Future Life, Nail Your Novel, playlist for writers, Roz Morris, The Undercover Soundtrack, undercover soundtrack, What Women Want, Women of a Dangerous Age, Women Writers, Women's fiction, writers, writing to music	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line932
__label__wiki	0.902798	0.902798	Posts Tagged Sonic Youth The Undercover Soundtrack – Chris Hill Posted by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on March 4, 2015 ‘Men, women, flirtation and heartbreak’ Once a week I host a writer who uses music as part of their creative environment – perhaps to connect with a character, populate a mysterious place, or hold a moment still to explore its depths. This week’s post is by prizewinning novelist and short story writer Chris Hill @Chilled CH Soundtrack by Bobby Fuller Four, Sonic Youth, Little Jackie, Chad and Jeremy, The Emotions, Sufjan Stevens My latest book The Pick-Up Artist is the story of a young man’s inept attempts to find love through a web community called the pick-up artists who claim to use psychological techniques to help their members appeal to the opposite sex. Authors write books for all sorts of reasons I suppose. Some, a lot smarter and richer than me, will choose what to write based on market research and audience demographics. For myself, what I write starts not with a bar chart but with a feeling and that feeling is often sparked off by a piece of music. The Pick-Up Artist was sparked off by a lesser known pop song from the early 60s. It’s called Let Her Dance and it’s by The Bobby Fuller Four, who were relatively unknown in their heyday and whose star has fallen even further in the half-century since they ceased to be. If you have heard of them at all it’s probably because their other hit I Fought the Law was made into a much more famous cover version by The Clash in the 1970s. I can’t remember where or how I first came across Let Her Dance but it snagged on me as songs often will and I took to playing it on repeat on Spotify during the period I was working through ideas for The Pick-Up Artist. There’s a youth and freshness about the song, an innocence, but also a strength and optimism. My book is a kind of romantic comedy. It’s about men and women, about flirtation and heartbreak and Let Her Dance is about all these things too. There’s a sense of excitement and urgency in the music, from the first moment the bass line loops in like a beating heart. It’s also a song about a strong woman I think, and a man who has to watch and wait. My book is also about strong women and so it’s perhaps not surprising I found myself listening to, and being influenced by, songs by and about such women. One of these was Cool Thing by Sonic Youth. It’s a noisy rock song with a playful, ironic vocal which messes around with gender roles. Though it’s theoretically about a male object of desire there’s really only one Cool Thing in the picture and that’s Kim Gordon who drawls her way over the howl of the guitars, leaving us in no doubt who’s really the boss in this relationship. We don’t need to have any fear of a female planet she tells us, she just wants us men to know that we can still be friends. In some ways I wanted the women in my book to be like Kim, ironic, aloof, in control. But I also needed them to be like the woman in 28 Butts by Little Jackie. Hers is a song about a real, rounded person, not the romantic cypher we so often get in pop songs. She smokes way too much, another bottle of whisky’s been emptied and she knows we wouldn’t put it past her. She’s not sure about the direction of her life and though she sounds strong and in control she’s also not sure where she’s headed. She tells us she’d really like to be a housewife and we almost kind of believe her, but only as much we believe she’d like to own a llama. I wanted the women in The Pick-Up Artist to be like the subject of 28 Butts, complex and rich with contradictions, the way people are in real life. I found myself listening to music from a different age when I was writing the novel, and valuing it for its innocence. I was writing about young people and early relationships – so I suppose, subconsciously, I wanted to get to a place which wasn’t all about knowing and experience but was also about wonder and finding your way in life. One of the tracks I listened to was A Summer Song by Chad and Jeremy – a throwaway pop song from the early 60s which offers nothing more complex than a simple love song, some harmonies and a catchy tune. There was also some old soul; Blind Alley by The Emotions is perhaps a female equivalent – young and innocent, charming and catchy, a song about youthful flirtation and exuberance. I think it was Martin Amis who said that when you embark on a novel you find yourself writing about things you didn’t realise were on your mind. Some time before I began writing The Pick-Up Artist I lost my mother to cancer. I certainly hadn’t intended to write about that but, what do you know, it turns out the young hero has lost his mum too. Casimir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens tells a story about the death of a loved one and the impact it has. It’s a complex story, an amazingly rich narrative to find in what is effectively a pop song. Though the narrative details of the song are very specific, what I took from it was more the feelings Stevens conveys, not just of unexpected loss but of bewilderment and anger. It’s calm and low key but leaves a lasting impression – which is something I want very much for my work too. Chris Hill lives in Gloucestershire. The Pick-Up Artist is published by Magic Oxygen Publishing. He works as a PR officer for the UK children’s charity WellChild and spent more than 20 years as a journalist on regional newspapers. He lives with his wife Claire, their two teenage sons and Murphy, a Cockerpoo. His first novel, Song of the Sea God, published by Skylight Press, was shortlisted for the Daily Telegraph Novel in a Year prize and won the efestival of Words award for Best Literary Fiction novel. Chris has previously had some success as a short story writer including winning one of Britain’s biggest story awards, The Bridport Prize. Find Chris on his website, on Twitter @ChilledCh and on Facebook. bereavement, Bobby Fuller Four, Bridport Prize, Chad and Jeremy, Chris Hill, comedy, Daily Telegraph Novel in a Year prize, efestival of Words award, flirtation, internet community, internet dating, Little Jackie, male writers, Martin Amis, music for writing, pop song, romance, romantic comedy, song, Song of the Sea God, Sonic Youth, strong female characters, strong women, Sufjan Stevens, The Emotions, The Pick-Up Artist, The Undercover Soundtrack, undercover soundtrack, writing to music	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line933
__label__cc	0.6726	0.3274	Working Towards Tackling the Issues of Discarded Tyres June 5, 2017 By Namrata Rana in Conversations Which are the main pillars of your CSR and Sustainability strategy? The ethos of CSR and Sustainability is deep rooted in our organisational culture and engrained into its Corporate Governance practices. The approach to CSR stems from our vision to add value to the lives of all the stakeholders and foster inclusive growth. The organisation acknowledges the significance of its performance in relation to the society in which it operates, and its impact on the environment, both now and in the future. The social responsibility and sustainability commitment flows from this understanding and is based on its vision of growth, development and expectations of all its stakeholders. Based on this vision, the organisation showcases a sense of responsibility towards environment, labour, occupational health and safety and human rights. It strongly believes that in order to move up the value chain, it is critical to use fewer natural resources to produce more. The structure is formalised through the constitution of a Sustainability Committee which has representation from the Management Board. This highlights the commitment of our top management to ensure that we drive our sustainability strategy forward. The Sustainability Committee is responsible for management of the sustainability statement and sustainability framework and also works towards achieving sustainability goals. In addition, there is a CSR committee, formulated as per requirement of Section 135 of Companies Act, 2013 and represented by our Board of directors. Broadly, our CSR work is carried out under the themes of Environment and Social, which includes Health and Community Development. The key focus areas under Sustainability, for the organisation, are Climate Change Mitigation, which has initiatives for Greenhouse Gas Emission and Renewable Energy, and Community Development, implementing initiatives under health. What have been some of the greatest challenges in realising your CSR and Sustainability goals in the past, and how has your company overcome them? During the initial years of the HIV-AIDS awareness and prevention programme, which is our flagship (oldest) CSR project, because of the subject being taboo, our team found it difficult to have people come up and discuss about it. However, our sustained efforts using outreach workers, street plays and distribution of printed materials to raise awareness, helped people open-up and come forward with their queries, and understand about HIV-AIDS prevention. For community development and environment related projects, especially the latter, the biggest challenge in our area of operation was the limited availability of expert NGOs and maintaining the quality of the programmes that we undertook. We overcame this challenge by sticking to the basics like following the standard operating procedures and the financial guidelines, in addition to regular monitoring and evaluation. The “We Care” programme is centred around customers, employees, suppliers and dealers, and, community. This is unique in that it encompasses the complete value chain. Could you share the evolution and development of this programme? The organisational strategy stems from the belief of creating value for all its stakeholders, namely employees, customers, communities, suppliers, dealers and all others, in the value chain while doing business and constantly re-orienting itself to meet their needs and expectations. Employees are considered as pillars of success and are an integral part of our value chain. The HR vision of the organisation is to be a strategic partner to the business and create value for the organisation by developing the human capital. In line with this vision, we believe in empowering our employees and honing their skills. We make a conscious effort to ensure that a healthy workforce base is maintained, and safety needs of employees are met. We ensure and take steps to impart right knowledge and skills to them to enhance their growth in the organisation. This is done through structured training, development and leadership programmes both within the organisation and outside. Our commitment not only lies in imparting relevant training or learning experiences but also evaluating and rewarding performance. Sales and Marketing activity is directly linked with customers. Hence it focuses on customer satisfaction, market intelligence, creating new market, conducting customer and dealer meets, creating marketing communication for above the line and below the line activities. The Procurement function is the lead in our upstream value chain. It is our policy to deal directly with raw material suppliers and to be a strategic partner to the business. We invest quite extensively in our supplier management process to strengthen our long-term partnerships with them. Disposal of rubber tyres is a serious problem. What can the industry do to improve the situation? What are Apollo Tyres’ plans? As per a research commissioned by us, very soon India will have more than 100 million end-of-life tyres every year, without proper mechanisms in place to recycle or dispose of these tyres. As a responsible company, we have been working towards tackling the issues of discarded tyres. From expanding our retreading footprint, to Go The Distance football pitches in UK and India, and creating play structures made out of discarded tyres in Chennai, all showcase ways we have been working towards the reuse or recycling of discarded tyres. Discarded tyres or end-of-life tyres, in India, are increasingly being consumed by the environmentally hazardous pyrolysis units in the unorganised sector. This has led us to commission another research to find out efficient and eco conscious ways to do pyrolysis. What sustainability challenges do you see for Apollo Tyres in the future? Apollo Tyres has taken a structured approach to integrate Sustainability into organisational Corporate Governance. It has formulated a Sustainability framework based on the international standard of ISO 26000. This is done with the objective of relooking at processes and aligning them with international best practices. It also gives us an opportunity to mainstream the material/business issues, which form critical sustainability parameters for the company. On the economic front, the volatile raw material prices continue to pose challenges for the organisation, in addition to the dumping of low cost tyres, especially the truck-bus radials, from China. On the social front, meeting the growing needs of the community where we operate, and all stakeholders at large, will always remain a challenge for the organisation. We measure our strategic preparedness against these challenges on a frequent basis, and strive to overcome them in our quest to deliver value for all our stakeholders at every point in time. In conversation with Mr. Onkar Kanwar, Chairman Apollo Tyres Ltd. (Original Post) « One Global Approach Cannot Be Seen as a Solution For All Developing Countries Corporates Need to Remember That Business Cannot Survive In A Society That Fails »	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line936
__label__wiki	0.579079	0.579079	"Atlantic City" Jazz (Music) 7 Singers (Musicians) 4 Track and field 4 Entertainers 2 Rhythm and blues (Music) 2 Soul (Music) 2 Actors and actresses 1 Medals 4 Pins (fasteners) 4 Contracts 2 Frames (furnishings) 1 Side chairs 1 Atlantic County 18 Attleboro 4 Bristol County 4 32 North Kentucky 3 32 N. Kentucky Avenue 1 Convention Hall 1 Guildford County 1 Club Harlem 9 Houston, Robert L. 7 Atlantic City High School 4 Balfour 4 Peacock, Eulace 4 Gillespie, Dizzy 3 Alton, Ben 2 Charles, Ray 2 Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party 2 Wilson, Nancy 2 1964 Democratic National Convention 1 American Federation of Musicians 1 American Friends Service Committee 1 American Guild of Variety Artists 1 Apex News and Hair Company 1 Baker, Ella Josephine 1 Ballis, George 1 Cooke, Sam 1 Cornell University 1 Business contract between Club Harlem and Johnny Lynch American Federation of Musicians, founded 1896 Club Harlem, American, 1935 - 1986 Lynch, Johnny H x W: 11 x 8 1/2 in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm) Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America A business contract between Club Harlem and Johnny Lynch obligating the musician to perform at the club for thirteen (13) weeks starting December 7, 1955 for four hundred and forty-one dollars and sixty-five cents ($441.65) to be paid at the end of each week. The contract was drawn up on a contract form created by the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada. The seal for this organization is visible in the upper top left-hand corner. The contract is signed and dated by Johnny Lynch. Band (Music) Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Henrietta W. Shelton, Chicken Bone Beach Historical Foundation, Inc. Documents and Published Materials-Business and Legal Documents Souvenir frame from Club Harlem frames (furnishings) mid 20th-late 20th Century A white cardboard frame folder from Club Harlem. In green ink are the words: [The Fabulous CLUB HARLEM / Photo by Johnson / Atlantic City, N.J.]. Photographic print of four men and one woman ink on photographic paper A black and white photograph of an unidentified woman surrounded by four unidentified men. The woman is posing with her both legs raised and her arms around the four men who are supporting her. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Henrietta W. Shelton, Chicken Bone Beach Historical Foundation, Inc. Business contract and letter between Club Harlem and the Dell-tones American Guild of Variety Artists, founded 1939 Delltones Alton, Ben 32 N. Kentucky Avenue, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America A letter (a) and business contract (b) between Club Harlem and the musical group the Delltones obligating the musicians to perform at the club for two (2) consecutive days starting March 31, 1956 for one hundred and twenty-five dollars ($125.00) paid immediately after the first performance. The contract was drawn up on a contract form created by the American Guild of Variety Artists. The contract is signed and dated by the Delltones: Ben, Stan and Pat. A letter is attached to the contract from Gale Agency Inc., addressed to Pop Williams, stating that the contract between Club Harlem and the Delltones is enclosed and is a copy for his files. The letter is signed by Bill Peterson. Rock and roll (Music) 2011.145.4.2ab Club Harlem Revue of 1975 Green, Al, American, born 1946 The Pointer Sisters, American, founded 1969 DeBlanc, Damita Jo, American, 1930 - 1998 Williams, Clifton Randall, Cecil H x W: 9 x 4 in. (22.9 x 10.2 cm) Program for Club Harlem's upcoming concert season for 1974-1975, with the grand opening June 28, 1974. This was in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the club in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It is printed on pink paper with white lettering and featuring images of performers: Al Green, the Pointer Sisters and Damita Jo. Poster of Sammy Davis, Jr. used at Club Harlem, Atlantic City Davis, Sammy Jr., American, 1925 - 1990 lithographic ink on paper , wood H x W x D: 30 3/4 x 29 1/16 (78.1 x 73.8 x 0.1 cm) 32 North Kentucky, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America (2013.2.3a) A black and white poster of an image of Sammy Davis, Jr. He is seen from the chest up, wearing a tuxedo, bow tie, and white shirt. On his shirt there are small dark pin stripes and three (3) dark buttons can be seen. In this front pocket is small, white pocket square. Davis is seen smiling into the camera. In the lower left corner along the bottom is a small white triangle with Davis' name in capital, black letters: [SAMMY DAVIS JR]. (2013.2.3b) A wooden frame holds the poster. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of CBBHFI-Henrietta Shelton 2013.2.3ab @ Getty Images. Permission required for use. Photographic print of a performance by Melvin Harris and the Blue Notes Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, American, founded 1954 Pendergrass, Teddy, American, 1950 - 2010 A black and white photograph of a performance by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes on stage at Club Harlem in Atlantic City, with a full band behind them and audience members sitting at tables at the front of the stage. Teddy Pendergrass, the lead vocalist, is pictured in the center of the stage facing the audience while behind him the rest of the group face stage left, with left knees slightly bent. There are no inscriptons, front or back. Photographic print of Sam Cooke and Betty Jo Spyropulos at Club Harlem Cooke, Sam, American, 1931 - 1964 Spryopulos, Betty Jo, American H x W (Image and Sheet): 7 × 5 in. (17.8 × 12.7 cm) A black and white photograph of Sam Cooke and an unidentified woman seated at the bar at Club Harlem in Atlantic City, New Jersey. His right hand is around her waist and they are both smoking cigarettes. Black Delegates Challenge Mississippi Democrats Ballis, George, American, 1925 - 2010 Baker, Ella Josephine, American, 1903 - 1986 Schwerner, Michael, American, 1939 - 1964 Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, American, founded 1964 H x W (Image): 6 11/16 x 9 11/16 in. (17 x 24.6 cm) H x W (Mat): 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm) Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America A black-and-white photograph of Ella Baker speaking into a microphone and gesturing with her left hand. In the background there is a large portrait of Michael ‘Mickey’ Schwerner. © 1976 George Ballis ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Permission required for use. Wood chair used at Club Harlem, Atlantic City wood and metal H x W x D: 34 x 14 1/2 x 16 1/4 in. (86.4 x 36.8 x 41.3 cm) A wood chair with four legs. The back rest has two (2) horizontal slats with the top slate taller than the one below. The leg support is one curved piece of wood attached on the inside to the lower back legs and upper front legs. Furnishings, Housewares, and Décor Table used at Club Harlem, Atlantic City particle board and metal H x W x D: 29 3/4 x 24 x 18 in. (75.6 x 61 x 45.7 cm) A rectangular table with a particle board wood top and metal base. The base is made up of a large tube with a round base and circular support attached to the underside of the table top. Four (4) small holes are drilled into the four (4) corners of the table top. The Hononrable Lisa Anderson Todd Oral History Interview Honorable Todd, Lisa Anderson, American, 1942 - 2015 Dr. Crosby, Emilye Ph. D., American Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s 1964 Democratic National Convention, American, founded 1964 Tougaloo College, American, founded 1869 American Friends Service Committee, American, founded 1917 Cornell University, American, founded 1865 Stanford Law School, American, founded 1893 Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America Greensboro, Guildford County, North Carolina, United States, North and Central America The oral history consists of eight digital files: 2011.174.93.1a, 2011.174.93.1b, 2011.174.93.1c, 2011.174.93.1d, 2011.174.93.1e, 2011.174.93.1f, 2011.174.93.1g, and 2011.174.93.1h. The Hon. Lisa Anderson Todd shares memories from when she was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) volunteer in Mississippi in 1963 and her recollections of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City. Todd describes how she was introduced to the Movement during her participation in a work camp at Tougaloo College and how she went on to do voter registration work, first with the American Friends Service Committee in Greensboro, North Carolina, and then with SNCC in Greenville, Mississippi. Todd shares her memories as well as her book research on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. She also describes her college years at Cornell University; her decision to attend law school at Stanford; her interest in civil rights law; and her work as a lawyer and later as an administrative judge. 2011.174.93.1a-h Letter from Sara S. Washington for the Apex News and Hair Co, Inc. Apex News and Hair Company, American, founded 1919 Washington, Sarah Spencer, American, 1889 - 1953 Cosmopolitan Community Church H x W: 11 × 8 1/2 in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm) form letters Form letter from the Apex News and Hair Co., Inc. to support its new beauty school. The paper has the Apex letterhead. The letter is dated in the upper right. The form text begins [Dear Friend and Co-worker: / A very cordial invitation is extended to our Professional / and Business men and women to co-operate with the Apex News / and Hair Company, Inc. in the opening of its new and / modernly equipped Beauty School, located at 900 N. Eutaw / Street, Baltimore, Maryland.] The second paragraph includes an invitation to a Monster Mass Meeting on September 14th at the Cosmopolitan Community Church. The letter is signed by Sara S. Washington, the president of Apex. The back of the letter has two columns of handwritten names and monetary amounts. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Stokes/Washington Family Dizzy Gillespie - on conga drums - Convention Hall, Atlantic City, N.J. - 1980 Robert Houston, American, born 1935 Gillespie, Dizzy, American, 1917 - 1993 H x W: 8497pixels × 6830pixels digital media - born analog This image depicts the musician Dizzy Gillespie playing a set of conga drums. Seated behind the drums, with another drum set behind him, Gillespie wears a light colored suit and button down shirt. He has a large pendant around his neck. His eyes closed, and his head turned to the viewer's right, he plays the drum with his left hand. Jazz (Music) Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Robert and Greta Houston © Robert Houston Dizzy Gillespie - Convention Hall, Atlantic City, N.J. - 1980 This image depicts Dizzy Gillespie sitting behind a drum set. Wearing a light colored suit, Gillespie sits leaning forward, forearms leaning on the two drums in front of him, and speaks into the microphone in front of him. He wears a wrist watch on his left wrist and a large pendant on a chain around his neck. Although he faces forward, his eyes glance obliquely to the viewer's right. This image depicts Dizzy Gillespie playing his trumpet. He stands at a three-quarter angle to the viewer, holding his trumpets to his lips, cheeks inflated. The trumpet's bell is bent upward at a 45 degree angle. Gillespie wears a light colored suit and he stands in front of a microphone. Stage lights can be seen in the background. Ray Charles - Convention Hall, Atlantic City, N.J. - 1980 Charles, Ray, American, 1930 - 2004 H x W: 16644pixels × 12142pixels This image depicts musician Ray Charles playing the piano. Wearing a light colored tuxedo with a lighter stripe down the pant leg, a black bow tie, and sunglasses, he sits on a piano bench with a microphone in front of him. His arms are raised to play, but his hands and the majority of the piano is in shadow. Light falls primarily on his face and upper torso, while the rest of the image is in shadow. His face is angled upward and turned slightly towards the microphone. Rhythm and blues (Music) Soul (Music) This image depicts musician Ray Charles playing the piano. Wearing a light colored tuxedo with a lighter stripe down the pant leg, a black bow tie, and sunglasses, he sits on a piano bench with a microphone in front of him. His arms are raised to play, but his hands and the majority of the piano is in shadow. Light falls primarily on his face and upper torso, while the rest of the image is in shadow. He faces forward. Nancy Wilson - Convention Hall, Atlantic City, N.J. - 1980 Wilson, Nancy, American, 1937 - 2018 Convention Hall, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America This image depicts Nancy Wilson, singer and entertainer. Wearing a fitted strapless black dress, she holds a microphone up to her open mouth with her right hand. Her left hand is held loosely at waist height. She wears a ring on the fourth finger of her left hand, a simple chain choker, and small earrings. Shot from below, the angle of the picture gives her a monumental aspect. This image depicts musician Nancy Wilson singing. Wearing a black strapless dress, a single chain choker necklace, she stands holding a microphone cupped in both hands up to mouth level. She turns her face away from the microphone in front of her, towards the viewer, eyes closed. Taken from below, the angle gives her a monumental aspect.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line940
__label__wiki	0.792338	0.792338	← Noir Crime Fiction \| The Twenty-Year Death by Ariel S. Winter Noir Art \| Victor Kalin → Femme Fatales \| Lana Turner The “Femme Fatale” segment on NoirWhale.com is designed to highlight the life and merits of exceptional film noir actresses. These women are the embodiment of the femme fatale archetype, and propel possibly the most recognizable and integral theme in the noir genre. Lana Turner (February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995) (via listal.com) “A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.” Lana was born Julia Jean Turner in Wallace, Idaho. As a girl, she was lovingly called “Judy” by family and friends, but changed her name when she became a professional actress at 16. Her father, John Turner, was a miner from Tennessee who was murdered at age 27. Money problems had forced the family to move to San Francisco, and John had started gambling in an effort to bring home extra earnings. It’s believed that on December 14th in 1930, he won a bit of cash at a traveling craps game and stashed it in his left sock. He never made it home. Later, his body was found on a street corner, left shoe and sock missing. Tragically, the murder was never solved. Famously, Lana caught her big break at a Hollywood drug store. She was skipping a typing class and decided to stop into the Top Hat Cafe located on Sunset Boulevard for a Coca-Cola. She was spotted by William R. Wilkerson (The Hollywood Reporter), who then referred her to Zeppo Marx. Lana was signed and cast quickly in her first film: They Won’t Forget (1937). Her form-fitting attire in the film earned her the nickname “The Sweater Girl”– a nickname which she hated. Ms. Turner became wildly famous in the 1940s and 1950s due to her roles in such films as: Ziegfeld Girl (1941), Johnny Eager (1942), and Slightly Dangerous (1943)– her popularity and extreme beauty casting her as a favorite pin-up girl for our servicemen overseas. But Lana didn’t truly become a femme fatale until after the war. She co-starred opposite John Garfield in the immensely successful film noir, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) (a James Cain adaptation). Even though she received critical praise as an actress for the first time, she famously complained about Garfield’s appearance, saying “Couldn’t they at least hire someone attractive?” In 1957, Lana began a relationship with mobster Johnny Stompanato, a man known for his good looks and ties to Mickey Cohen in the L.A. criminal underworld. She tried several times to end their affair, but Johnny wouldn’t have it. They argued incessantly, and he frequently beat her up. “In the fall of 1957, Stompanato followed Turner to England where she was filming Another Time, Another Place (1958) costarring Sean Connery. Afraid that Turner was having an affair with Connery, Stompanato stormed onto the set brandishing a gun. Connery punched Stompanato’s jaw once and took away his gun. Stompanato was soon deported by Scotland Yard for the incident.” On an infamous night in April 1958, Johnny and Lana had an especially violent argument at her house in Beverly Hills. As it escalated, Lana’s 14 year old daughter Cheryl began to fear for her mother’s life. Hefting a kitchen knife, Cheryl ran to Lana’s aid, stabbing Mr. Stompanato–killing him. The event was tabloid fodder overnight, but the courts ruled it justifiable homicide in light of Lana’s dramatic testimony. Observers have said, “her testimony that day was the acting performance of her life.” Notoriously, Turner was married eight times to seven different husbands: Artie Shaw, Joseph Stephen Crane, Henry J. Topping Jr., Lex Barker, Fred May, Robert P.Eaton, and Ronald Pellar. She said late in her life, “My goal was to have one husband and seven children, but it turned out to be the other way around.” (Joseph Stephen Crane is the father of her daughter Cheryl). Sadly, in 1982 Lana’s memoir revealed that she had been through three stillbirths and two abortions. She also acknowledges her struggle with alcoholism and attempted suicide. In true femme fatale fashion, Lana Turner was a heavy smoker, and it eventually killed her. She died of complications from throat cancer in 1995. Tragically, Lana didn’t only act in noir films, she lived a noir life. She added to the genre immensely with The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), but she couldn’t escape the genre in her personal life. “A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.” (via lanaturner.org) (via stirredstraightup.blogspot.com) (via magicmonkeyboy.blogspot.com) (via listal.com) (via lovethoseclassicmovies.blogspot.com) “The Sweater Girl” (via lanaturner.org) Lana Turner, Stephen Crane, and Cheryl Lana Turner lights Ava Gardner’s cigarette (via lanaturner.org) Lana Turner and Clark Gable (via lanaturner.org) John Garfield and Lana Turner (via listal.com) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) (via listal.com) Lana Turner and Johnny Stompanato (via latimesblogs.latimes.com) (lanaturner.org) All biographical details were obtained from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lana_Turner All quotes were obtained from: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/lana_turner.html Filed under Femme Fatales Tagged as Ava Gardner, Clark Gable, Femme Fatales, Film Noir, Johnny Stompanato, Lana Turner One response to “Femme Fatales \| Lana Turner” Hilary de Lisle What a gorgeous woman with such a tragic life! It’s so unfortunate that she wanted a large family and one man but had quite the opposite. A classic Hollywood Beauty for certain.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line942
__label__cc	0.523786	0.476214	Why Obama’s New Plan to Reform Education Is Likely Illegal By Simon van Zuylen-Wood Faced with a looming deadline and a deadlocked legislature, Barack Obama is employing a strategy many wish he had in the recent debt ceiling talks: He’s bypassing Congress altogether. On Monday, Obama approved a Department of Education plan to grant waivers allowing states to bypass the most stringent and unrealistic requirements of the Bush-era education law known as No Child Left Behind, including its fairy-tale provision that all schools must be 100 percent proficient in reading and math by 2014, in exchange for the adoption of certain policy priorities. Owing to the fact that Republicans have vowed to block any comprehensive reform* of NCLB this summer, the administration’s plan to grant waivers is a valuable and timely stop-gap solution to prevent schools from needlessly being labeled as “failing.” The one problem, however, is that it probably isn’t legal. To be sure, the simple practice of granting waivers to help states skirt NCLB’s worst features isn’t new or illegal. The Department of Education’s authority to do so was written into the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in 1965 and, as recently as 2009, the department granted 351 waivers to states seeking leniency on federal requirements, many of them related to NCLB. Instead, the issue at stake lies in what Secretary of Education Arne Duncan plans to demand in return for said waivers. By mandating that only those states that commit to specific reforms (we don’t find out what they are until September) will be entitled to receive the flexibility provided by waivers, the administration is attempting to overhaul NCLB behind Congress’s back. In other words, instead of waiting for Congress to change the way teachers are evaluated or schools are punished, Duncan is hoping to do it himself by forcing the states’ hands. As education policy expert Tom Loveless of the Brookings Institution puts it, “If states embrace the Obama education reform agenda, they get a waiver.” If they don’t, tough luck. The administration’s decision represents an ingenious, and, according to Loveless, “unprecedented” way to get around a federal law. Jack Jennings, President of the Center on Education Policy and longtime House Committee on Education and Labor staffer, says though it “may be the right thing to do,” there’s a good chance Duncan and Obama are “overstepping their authority.” American Enterprise Institute education scholar Rick Hess goes even further, calling the plan unconstitutional and likening it to a future Republican president letting states opt out of the Affordable Health Care Act—but only on his terms. But, if the Obama administration is breaking the rules, who’s going to punish them? Democrats, for one, are likely to let this slide—the waivers will probably be closely aligned with President Obama’s NCLB reauthorization “Blueprint for Reform,” and they will save schools from both the ignominy of being labeled failures and the possibility of facing harsh penalties for not meeting arbitrary “Adequate Yearly Progress” benchmarks. Even though, earlier this summer, Democrats George Miller and Tom Harkin, the House and Senate education committee leaders, opposed the waiver idea, on Monday they performed an about face and endorsed it. Republicans, on the other hand, will likely challenge the move. Indeed, House education committee leader John Kline already has—not so much on the grounds that he disagrees with the administration’s ideas, but rather with its methods. After all, Republicans haven't introduced a comprehensive* re-authorization plan of their own, and party moderates share common ground with Duncan on issues like charter schools and teacher accountability measures, among other reforms. It’s also worth noting, says Jennings, that, since the 1970s, it’s largely been Republicans who have pushed for waivers to ease the burden of federal education guidelines. According to congressional expert Norman Ornstein of AEI, Republicans have four tools at their disposal to combat the plan. First, they could block the Department of Education’s appropriations funding when it comes up for a vote this October. But, given the consequences—tens of thousands of shuttered schools and laid-off teachers—they probably won’t resort to this measure. Second, they could block Obama’s appointments, in the Department of Education or elsewhere, just to make their displeasure known. Third, they could berate Duncan and the Obama administration with lengthy hearings on the plan’s constitutionality. None of these measures, however, would do anything to actually block the waivers. For that, a state would have to sue the Department of Education, claiming it deserved a waiver but didn’t want to participate in Duncan’s reforms. At that point, we’re in uncharted territory, and, according to Ornstein, the courts may back off as a result. “In what sounds like a very fuzzy question of whether this is within or outside the boundaries of the law, courts tend not to try and get involved in that,” Ornstein told me. Whether Republicans choose to make a serious show of jeopardizing the administration’s waivers—which, at this point, represent the most realistic way of fixing NCLB before the 2012 elections—remains to be seen. But there’s a good chance they will—not only because many of them see it as a bad idea for education reform, but also because it fits nicely into their ready-made narrative about the Obama administration’s dangerous and unconstitutional use of executive power. Simon van Zuylen-Wood is a reporter-researcher at The New Republic. *UPDATE: I originally wrote that Republicans have vowed to block any plan to reform NCLB this summer, nor do they have a plan of their own. In fact, Republican Representative John Kline has passed three small bills—designed, respectively, to cut education funding, expand charter schools, and increase local control of federal education spending—out of his House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Still, these bills do not amount to a comprehensive approach to reforming No Child Left Behind. Politics, Education, Arne Duncan, Barack Obama, Jack Jennings, Norman Ornstein, Committee on Education, John Kline, Tom Loveless, Congress, Department of Education	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line945
__label__wiki	0.634861	0.634861	Appeal as stray African Grey Parrot found at Cardiff Uni’s school of engineering A search for the owner of an African Grey Parrot has been launched, after being found at the school of engineering at Cardiff University. The bird was found at the University’s Newport Road-based engineering school on Tuesday (6 March). A microchip was found on the bird, who is now based at the Valley Vets surgery in Cardiff, but the chip – sadly – has not been registered; meaning the owner is unknown. Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, it is an offence to release non-native birds into the wild, or allow them to escape. Vets have been unable to confirm the gender of the parrot. RSPCA Cymru has now launched an appeal for information in the hope the owner of the parrot can be found, and the bird be returned home. Anyone claiming to own the parrot will need to provide proof that the bird belongs to them. Gary Lucas, RSPCA animal collection officer, said: “This African Grey Parrot was found straying at Cardiff University’s school of engineering. “The bird was taken to the Valley Vets practice in Cardiff, who have been looking after the parrot, who is doing fine. We’re now just eager to see this bird returned safely home. “While the parrot was chipped, sadly the microchip isn’t registered. We’re now appealing to the public to help us find the owner. Our inspectorate appeal line can be reached on 0300 123 8018. “Anyone claiming to be the owner of the parrot will need to provide proof that this beautiful animal belongs to them.” Should you wish to help the RSPCA investigate incidents such as these, you can donate online. Region: Wales.Tags: African Grey Parrot, animal welfare, animals, Bird, birds, Britain, cardiff, Cardiff University, Cymru, engineering school, Newport Road, parrot, pets, RSPCA, school of engineering, UK, Wales, Welsh, wildlife.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line946
__label__wiki	0.629395	0.629395	Theatre Preps for New Show in April The UHD Theatre is making preparations for the upcoming spring show, Fences by August Wilson. Auditions will be held the week of Feb. 24 with rehearsals beginning after that. Fences, penned in 1983, is set in the 1950s and is the sixth play in Wilson's ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle. It explores the evolving African-American experience and examines race relations, among other themes. The play won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play. The protagonist, Troy Maxson is a restless trash-collector and former baseball athlete. Though deeply flawed, he represents the struggle for justice and fair treatment during the 1950s. Troy also represents human nature's reluctance to recognize and accept social change. The schedule for the show is below. Fri. Apr. 11 Opening Night - 8 p.m. Sat. Apr. 12 Performance - 8 p.m. Sun. Apr. 13 Matinee Performance - 3 p.m. Mon. Apr. 14 Dark Tues. Apr. 14 Performance - 8 p.m. Wed. Apr. 16 Student Matinee Performance - 1:30 p.m. Thurs. Apr. 17 Performance - 8 p.m. Fri. Apr. 18 Student Matinee Performance - 1:30 p.m. Fri. Apr. 18 Performance - 8 p.m. Sat. Apr. 19 Closing Night - 8 p.m.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line947
__label__wiki	0.506513	0.506513	Interview with Kathleen Ossip By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, Faculty, People, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / April 30, 2013 Kathleen Ossip is the celebrated author of The Cold War (named one of Publisher's Weekly 100 Best Books of 2011), The Search Engine (which was selected by Derek Walcott for the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize), and the recent play The Status Seekers. Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies including The Best American Poetry, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, American Poetry Review, and the Washington Post. She teaches at The New School, including the upcoming Summer Writers Colony. I spoke with her about the variety of her work, her experiences editing WSQ and LIT, and the effects of cinema on her poetics. Roberto Montes: Your play-in-verse, The Status Seekers, had a stage reading earlier this month at The Medicine Show Theatre. How would you say the experience of writing a play differs from writing poetry? Are there any points of intersection? Kathleen Ossip: It didn't feel all that different. For me, writing a poem is always about listening for voices. Usually the voices are pretty disembodied and free-floating, and often they're pieces of me. But with The Status Seekers, the voices attached themselves to a specific time (Mad Men-era) and place (the burbs) and to specific characters. What was different, and a real revelation, was hearing actors speak my lines. I'm in awe of what they do, how they projected emotion from lines that were often pretty oblique and repressed. I cried. And laughed. Cinephrastics by Kathleen Ossip RM: In your chapbook, Cinephrastics, each poem is comprised of a 9-10 line stanza meditating on contemporary cinema in brief, discursive verse. How did you find the form for these poems, and which of the films first inspired this series? KO: Cinephrastics is the result of a deal I made with myself. I told myself that I would write a poem for every movie I saw. It was a way to force myself to see movies. I was going through a period where it was unbearable for me to watch a movie -- they seemed so predictable and constrained, so slow and so overlong, even the good ones. I have a very low threshold for boredom. So getting a poem was the reward for seeing the movie. That was the inspiration, rather than any particular film. But I'm pretty sure that the first poem in the chapbook – The Godfather, Part III – was the first one I saw, and wrote. Talk about slow and overlong! I think the compact form was a reaction to my impatience. And the poems use syllabic lines – it's always fun to count syllables. RM: Your poetry collections have varied widely in form and you’ve recently written a play; what forms and structures are you working with now? KO: It's true, I love exploring different forms -- it's another way to keep myself from getting bored. I just finished my third full-length book of poems, called The Do-Over. It includes a lot of acrostics for people who've died fairly recently, some for celebrities (Amy Winehouse, Steve Jobs, Donna Summer) and some for someone I loved who's now gone. Other forms in the book are prose poems, two long poems, one with a rather hysterical voice a la the best of Sylvia Plath, syllabics, and a long fictional prose piece (aka short story). RM: How is being the poetry editor for the critical journal Women’s Studies Quarterly different from your past editing experiences, such as with LIT? What kind of work do you look for? KO: WSQ is a journal of women's studies published by the Feminist Press. Most of the journal is filled with academic essays, but for every issue, I get to sneak in 10-15 pages of poems. Each issue centers around a theme (for example, the issue we just closed was Fashion, and the next one will be Debt) and while the essays address the theme directly, the poems get to be slant. I love seeing just how slant they can be! I always look for poems that surprise me with their beauty and their meaning and the way those two things play off each other. A sense of urgency is a must, and a sense that something fresh and new is happening in the poem. That holds true for LIT too, but with LIT we aren't tied to a theme. RM: We’re excited to have you back teaching the poetry workshop at the Summer Writers Colony this June. What has been your experience as an instructor in such a focused and intensive program? KO: The Summer Writers Colony is always the high point of my teaching year. Over and over, I've found the experience to be life-changing for the students I work with – and for me. I'm always inspired by the progress that my students make and by their openness to try new approaches. Spending time with them every day for three weeks allows me to get to know them and their writing, their goals and their resistances, in ways that just aren't possible in a typical once-a-week semester-long workshop. We all get comfortable with each other real fast – and then the fun begins. Kathleen Ossip's poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, American Poetry Review, the Washington Post, The Believer, A Public Space, and Poetry Review (London). She teaches at The New School, including for the Summer Writers Colony, and online for The Poetry School in London. She has received a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and grants from Yaddo, Ragdale, and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. You can follow her on Twitter @KathleenOssip. Roberto Montes's first collection, I DON'T KNOW DO YOU, is forthcoming from Ampersand Books in 2014. His chapbook, HOW TO BE SINCERE IN YOUR POETRY WORKSHOP, will be released this Fall by NAP. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Best of the Net 2011 Anthology; Forklift, Ohio; ILK; Sixth Finch; and Hot Street among others. He lives in Queens. You can follow him on Twitter @robertogmontes. Tags: InterviewsPoetry	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line948
__label__wiki	0.670632	0.670632	Hyperbaric oxygen therapy provides post-radiation relief After treatment for prostate cancer, Milton Rhodes had an uncommon side effect from radiation to his bladder. Around the same time, he also heard about hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) and how it could help him heal. One of the few hospitals he knew of using the method was in Chicago. His life was in Bloomington, and because the issue wasn’t bothering him, he left it alone. Fast forward to January 2016, Rhodes was in Pennsylvania and found himself having a hard time going to the bathroom. As hours would pass, the more he would have to go. He told himself if he couldn’t go by midnight, he would drive to the emergency room. As the hour approached, Rhodes finally passed some clots and was able to go. The relief was short lived, and this marked the start of a series of issues for him. “In 2018, the same problem occurred. Nothing was coming out, so I went to the emergency room,” Rhodes said. It seemed like his problem went away, but four days later, he was back in the hospital. “I was in the ER about 16 times from August to November that year. It was a nightmare,” Rhodes said. When he finally decided to give HBOT a shot, he was living in Urbana, and Carle was his first choice. “Most patients we treat have soft tissue radionecrosis or open diabetic foot wounds,” said Latoria Jake, medical assistant, Wound Healing Center. “The therapy causes a creation of small blood vessels, so the wound gets better blood flow. Wounds that have more oxygen and blood flow heal better.” Rhodes did a total of 50 treatments for HBOT. Each session was two hours long over a span of more than eight weeks. He never missed one. “In the beginning, it was rough. I was still bleeding, and the staff had to insert a catheter. My pain went from a zero to 10,” Rhodes said. “I’m not lying when I say 10 either. I tried to endure it, but then we stopped for a bit.” Rhodes’ care team prescribed medicine to help him with the pain so he could continue his treatments. “I had no pain after that. The pills worked to perfection,” Rhodes said. Jake started working at Carle in 2008. At that time, few people knew we offered HBOT. “Some of the doctors didn’t believe the results until they saw it for themselves,” Jake said. “Once I took a respiratory class at U of I and they listed Springfield as the closest place having hyperbaric chambers. They didn’t know Carle had them.” And where does Health Alliance stand with covering HBOT? “I haven’t run into a denial from them yet. We’re also good at knowing what diagnosis is covered, so we only treat those and approach the insurance companies with the appropriate diagnosis,” Jake said. For Rhodes, now that his treatment is complete, he is healed. “The team did my cystoscopy, and the pictures were remarkably different,” Rhodes said. “I was very impressed with Latoria, the team and the doctors – all the kindest, loving people to work with.” Jake added, “For Milton, the diagnosis he had is one of the most successful outcomes to date. HBOT makes a huge difference for patients like him because they are in pain, always have to use the bathroom, can’t sleep at night and have a problem passing clots.” HBOT is a big commitment, but as long as patients remain committed to their care and treatment, and follow their care team’s guidance, it’s safe. “Once in the oxygen chamber, patients do need to pop their ears like on an airplane,” Jake said. “There really are no side effects.” carle radiation hyperbaric oxygen therapy cystoscopy Super-targeted radiation sets sights on cervical cancer	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line949
__label__cc	0.743526	0.256474	Mom's infections during pregnancy may affect child It's scary to think about, but an infection during pregnancy, whether the flu or a urinary tract infection, appears to increase a child's risk of being diagnosed with depression or autism. ... 2 therapies found to help dialysis patients with depression For almost 50 years, hemodialysis has extended lives of people with chronic kidney disease. But when a patient first learns that their kidneys have failed and dialysis is necessary to survive, it can... Digital psychotherapy has yet to overcome trust barrier In this digital age, would you expect people to consider undergoing psychotherapy sessions online? Turns out it depends. Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Rutgers... Cutting sugar from kids' diets The figure is shocking: On average, a 10-year-old child has consumed 18 years' worth of sugar, based on recommended daily allowances. The study by Public Health England found that children were... Navigating the aisle of non-dairy beverages If you've been in the grocery store recently, you may have noticed that the aisle of non-dairy beverages continues to grow, with soy milk, almond milk, and even pea milk and oat milk. And that has... What constitutes 'milk' is confusing OK, we can’t resist: Got milk? The answer seems to be maybe. The Food and Drug Administration is collecting comment on whether the plant-based beverages on the market – such as soy, almond, hemp, or... Doctors should be on the lookout for perinatal depression In a policy statement this month, the American Academy of Pediatrics urged pediatric healthcare providers to watch for signs of perinatal depression in the mothers of their infant patients. The... Don’t shun fat during the holidays, but eat wisely First things first, says Natalia Groat, a UW Medicine clinical nutritionist. Don’t go on a diet during the holidays. “I would avoid diets,” said Groat, who works at Harborview Medical Center. “They... Nutritionist: Be mindful to lighten up holiday meals Most holiday parties have a lot of food, and it's usually a lot of rich, heavy food. If you're worried about what you're eating, nutritionists say you don't necessarily have to have a fat-free... Blog Article (10) Apply Blog Article filter (-) Remove nutrition filter nutrition	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line951
__label__cc	0.695379	0.304621	Did you know that a Level I Trauma Center provides total care for every aspect of a serious injury, from prevention through treatment and rehabilitation? The only Level 1 Trauma Center that covers... Researchers create road map for pediatric head trauma Severe traumatic brain injury is a leading cause of death and disability in children leaving 61 percent of survivors with a lifelong disability, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and... Segment: Surgeons recount military experiences Veterans Day is a time to honor the men and women who have served our country. Niten Singh and Ben Starnes, UW Medicine vascular surgeons, were deployed multiple times over 30 years of collective... Inslee unveils state plan to combat hepatitis C Gov. Jay Inslee signed a directive that would coordinate state and local governments’ efforts to try to eradicate hepatitis C by 2030. In late September, the Washington state governor visited the... Amputee support group flourishes at Harborview Medical Center Someone in the United States loses a limb every three minutes. The recovery process is as much about regaining mental strength as physical strength, and a Harborview Medical Center support group has... What a surgeon (really) looks like The walls along the hallways of the University of Washington School of Medicine's surgery department are lined with portraits of (mostly) white surgeons. One artist/nurse decided to change the... U.S. News ranks UW Medical Center as best hospital in state University of Washington Medical Center, part of the UW Medicine health system, today earned U.S. News & World Report’s No. 1 hospital ranking in Washington state and in the Seattle metropolitan... (-) Remove Harborview Medical Center filter Harborview Medical Center	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line952
__label__wiki	0.795222	0.795222	Civil War (1990-1999) SARAJEVO, Baščaršija - Bloody Wedding, March 1, 1991 Criminal and the killer Ramiz Delalić Ćelo, a member of Alija's Iizetbegovic Green Berets, and his team of criminals, attacked Serbian wedding guests in front of the Old Orthodox Church (Temple of the Sacred Architects of Gabriel and Mikhail ) in order to seize their Serbian flag, because, in his opinion, the Serbian flag should not was at Baščaršija in Sarajevo. Serbian wedding guests refused to give a flag, Ramiz Delalić took out a pistol and killed his groom's father, Nichola Gardovic. On that occasion, Radenko Mikovic, a priest, was wounded. After that they set the flag on fire. The Serbs considered this act at the beginning of the war, and the same night they raised barricades in Sarajevo and other cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The wedding of Milan Gardovic and Diana Tambur was performed at 14.30 on March 1, 1992 year, in the temple of the Transfiguration of the Lord, in the village of Pofalici. Municipality of Novo Sarajevo. The wedding was done by priest Voja Čarkić. After the wedding, the wedding guests went to Dom Sent Tekla in the courtyard of the Old Orthodox Church in Baščaršija, where they were waiting for the wedding lunch. Since traffic for passenger cars in the center of Sarajevo is one-way and parallel with tram traffic, the wedding guests walk from the church at Pofalici to the Old Church, passed through the streets of Vojvoda Putnik and the Obala Vojvode Stepe, to the City Hall, where the closest parking was located a hundred meters away Old church. The wedding column in passenger cars consisted of about 100 wedding guests. After parking cars at the City Hall, the wedding guests walked to the Old Church. In the immediate vicinity of the entrance of the wedding column in the courtyard of the Old Church, beside the wedding guests, a white passenger vehicle of the "Volkswagen Golf" brand, which contained four criminals, was stopped, among which Ramiz Delalić, called Ćelo. Four criminals led by Ramiz Delalić came out of the car "Volkswagen Golf" and turned to the groom's father, Nikola Gardović, who was in charge of the barracks in the wedding column. Ramiz Delalic tried to take away the old flag, the flag of the Serbian Orthodox Church (a tricolor with a cross), to the old bartender, or to the barracks, Nikolic Gardovic, after which there was a stir in the wedding column. After that, Ramiz Delalić, called Ćelo, opened fire from a pistol, and mortally wounded the groom's father, Nikola Gardović, while his accomplice was wounded by the priest SPC Radenko Mirović (groom's son-in-law). Immediately after the opening of the fire, the criminals escaped with the flag of the Serbian Orthodox Church they burned with. Nikola Gardovic died of wound infections a few minutes later in an ambulance. In addition to the perpetrator of the murder, Ramiz Delalić, known as Celo, witnesses as attackers and accomplices of the attack, murder and wounding, recognized Suad Šabanović from Zvornik and Muhamed Švrakić, son of the founder of Green Berets, Emin Švrakić. The fourth attacker is Taib Torlaković, who, like Ramiz Delalić Ćelo, was killed in a mob account in Sarajevo after the war. Ramiz Delalic, immediately after the start of the war in Sarajevo, became the commander of the 9th Muslim Mountain Brigade of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and from Alija Izetbegovic received a pistol with a dedication. On that day, most US media, mockingly or maliciously, announced that the Serbs fired at Muslim wedding guests and killed their groom's father. The film was shot in the Muslim part of Sarajevo in which Ramiz Delalic confesses this crime, and calls it "a Muslim patriotic act". Будите информисани, пријавите се на наш Билтен! Copyright © 2015-2019 www.pamtimo.com. All rights reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line961
__label__wiki	0.894532	0.894532	Douglas Leonard Rayment Birth Date: 17 Dec 1912 Death Date: 17 Jul 1941 Service Branch: Royal Air Force Service Number: 37536 Douglas Leonard Rayment, the son of Leonard Rayment (a clerk in the tobacco trade) and Elsie Rayment née Kirk, was born in North London, England on 17th December 1912. He was the eldest of three children, his birth being followed in 1916 by that of a sister named Jean Elsie Rayment and in 1921 by a brother named Kenneth Gordon Rayment. After leaving school Douglas worked as a commercial clerk and learned to fly, gaining his pilots certificate at the Cinque Ports Flying Club on 11th August 1934. He joined the RAF and was commissioned as a Pilot Officer on 20th January 1936. He served in Bomber Command from December 1936 until June 1938 at which time he became involved with experimental flying by the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment. He flew from RAF Martlesham Heath near Ipswich in Suffolk and later with the SDF (Special Duties Flight) at RAF Christchurch in Hampshire. The Battle of Britain was on-going while they were at Christchurch and, initially, all SDF aircraft were grounded during an alert to avoid distracting the defenders. This order was rescinded on 16th August 1940: “Fighter aircraft of non-operational units are authorised to mount airborne patrols in the vicinity of their airfields in order to harass the enemy”. Although not a fighter specialist, Douglas did not hesitate to play an active and aggressive role whenever he could, and kept Hurricane L1562 (and later L1592, now preserved in the Science Museum, South Kensington) fuelled, armed and ready to go, outside his office. Making numerous scrambles, he was finally rewarded with the kill of a Ju 88 on 19 September, having previously damaged a Ju 88 when flying Blenheim P4832 on 12th September during the course of an airborne radar trial. Unfortunately, he was badly shot up on the 19th and the Hurricane was categorised as damaged beyond repair. The work of the SDF began to bear fruit in 1941 when the nightfighter force, now equipped with AI, began to obtain significant results against German bomber formations. On 1st July 1941, Douglas was awarded an Air Force Cross for his work in the development of radar, but disaster struck on 17th July. Having completed his paperwork in the morning, he elected to fly a calibration sortie after lunch against a new lightweight radar set under development. He and his wireless operator/air gunner, Sgt Raymond Sadler, took off from Christchurch at around 1400hr in Blenheim IV P4832. At about 1500hr Douglas reported that he had observed a barrage balloon adrift on the sea 35 miles south of St Albans Head, Dorset, and that he was going to investigate. Simultaneously R/T and radar contact with the aircraft was lost. At about 1505hr, Red Section, consisting of two 118 Sqn Spitfires based at Ibsley, which had been scrambled to patrol the English Channel north of Cherbourg, sighted a smoke trail from an aircraft which appeared to descend on to the water after bursting into flames. On investigation, the section identified a Blenheim on the water with two persons sitting on it (the Blenheim carried two lifejackets but no dinghy); the balloon was floating nearby. The position of the downed aircraft was reported to sector control at Middle Wallop and rescue action put in hand. However, despite an intensive air/sea rescue operation, nothing further of the wreckage or the crew was ever seen again. Flight Lieutenant Douglas Leonard Rayment AFC is commemorated on panel 29 of the Runnymede Memorial (sometimes known as the Air Forces Memorial) overlooking the River Thames at Cooper’s Hill in Runnymede, Surrey, England and should his fate ever become known, his name will be chiselled out. The Rayment Society has carried out much research into Douglas Rayment’s life and holds a large collection of records (including a number of photographs and a transcription of the very rare book about his mysterious disappearance). It is extremely sad that the Air Force Cross awarded to Douglas was stolen from his only son Timothy (a magistrate) some years ago and has never been recovered. Flying must have been in the blood of this part of the Rayment family because his younger brother Kenneth Gordon Rayment was the pilot who died on 15th March 1958 in the Munich air disaster, and Kenneth’s only son Stephen Grenville Rayment was for many years a pilot in the service of the Dubai Royal Flight. Study Website: http://www.rayment.info Author: Roy Rayment Stories of Those Who Served Welcome to our members’ stories of Those Who Served. Photo courtesy of Photos of the Great War Archive. Search Service Stories	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line962
__label__wiki	0.980642	0.980642	Knights’ Evan Bouchard Named OHL Defenceman of the Year Awards evan bouchard london knights Toronto, ON – The Ontario Hockey League today announced that Edmonton Oilers prospect Evan Bouchard of the London Knights is the 2018-19 recipient of the Max Kaminsky Trophy awarded annually to the OHL’s Most Outstanding Defenceman of the Year. Bouchard recorded 53 points in just 45 games scoring 16 goals and 37 assists while carrying a plus-28 rating as the Knights won their ninth Midwest Division title. His 1.18 points-per-game mark was the second highest in the OHL this season and he was the only defenceman in the league to average more than four shots on goal per game. “I am very honoured to be named defenceman of the year,” said Bouchard. “With the quality of players throughout this talented league, this is an achievement that I am incredibly proud of. I would like to credit my teammates, coaching staff, family, and fans for this award. Each member within the London Knights organization was instrumental to my success both on and off the ice and I would like to thank each and every person who helped me along the way.” A 19-year-old from Oakville, Ont., Bouchard played four full seasons with the Knights after joining the club as a first round pick in the 2015 OHL Priority Selection. He helped the team capture an OHL Championship and Memorial Cup title as a rookie and went on to play 223 career games for the green and gold. He amassed 54 goals and 147 assists for 201 points during his London tenure which ranks second all-time among points by a Knights defenceman behind Rick Corriveau who produced 251 in 206 games between 1987-92. Bouchard was named Knights captain in January, 2018, and later selected tenth overall by the Oilers in the 2018 NHL Draft. He began the season in Edmonton where he played seven NHL games returning in time to represent Team OHL at the CIBC Canada Russia Series and Canada at the 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship. Bouchard is currently with the AHL’s Bakersfield Condors where he scored a goal and two assists in his playoff debut on Tuesday. “We are incredibly proud of Evan for his accomplishment, not just this year, but throughout his entire London Knights career,” said London Knights General Manager, Mark Hunter. “Evan was a tremendous leader and representative of our organization. We watched Evan mature from his time coming in to this league as an enthusiastic 16-year-old rookie, to leaving as a seasoned professional. We’d like to thank Evan for his time in London and wish him the best in his hockey career.” The Max Kaminsky Trophy is awarded each year to the Most Outstanding Defenceman as selected by OHL General Managers. All 20 clubs submitted a nominee but were not permitted to vote for their own player. The first round of voting was conducted by conference only with the top three selections from the West and East advancing to form the final ballot. Players received five points for a first place vote, three points for a second place vote, and one point for a third place vote. Bouchard, who was a runner-up to Nicolas Hague of the Mississauga Steelheads one year ago, received 59 points in the final voting process this season. Toronto Maple Leafs prospect Mac Hollowell of the Soo Greyhounds finished second with 53 voting points, and New York Islanders prospect Bode Wilde of the Saginaw Spirit finished in third place with 46 voting points. The award is named in recognition of Max Kaminsky, who enjoyed a 10-year professional playing career that included four years in the NHL with Ottawa, Boston, and Montreal. After he retired from playing, Kaminsky enjoyed a 15-year coaching career that was capped by winning the Memorial Cup with the St. Catharines Teepees in 1960. Bouchard becomes the first Knight to win the Max Kaminsky Trophy since Danny Syvret in 2004-05 marking the sixth time a member of the organization has received the honour. That list also includes John Erskine in 1999-2000, Bob Halkidis in 1984-85, co-recipients Brad Marsh and Rob Ramage in 1977-78, and Rick Green in 1975-76. Past winners of the award also include current NHL talents in Andrej Sekera (Owen Sound 2006), Marc Staal (Sudbury 2007), Drew Doughty (Guelph 2008), Ryan Ellis (Windsor 2009 and 2011), Jacob Muzzin (Sault Ste. Marie 2010), Dougie Hamilton (Niagara 2012), Aaron Ekblad (Barrie 2014), Anthony DeAngelo (Sault Ste. Marie 2015), and Mikhail Sergachev (Windsor 2016). Bouchard will be formally presented with the Max Kaminsky Trophy at the OHL Awards Ceremony which takes place June 5 at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. He will also be the OHL’s nominee for CHL Defenceman of the Year to be announced on May 25 at the 2019 Memorial Cup presented by Kia which takes place in Halifax.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line966
__label__wiki	0.957126	0.957126	YouTube Cover Song Face-Off 18 Recent Stories YouTube Cover Song Face-Off: One Direction's 'What Makes You Beautiful' Written by Brian Anthony Hernandez Each week, Mashable picks a popular song, finds 10 to 15 covers of it and asks you to vote for your favorite. British boy band One Direction catapulted to worldwide fame -- less than a year after they finished third on The X Factor UK's seventh seaso... YouTube Cover Song Face-Off: Maroon 5's 'Payphone' Each week, Mashable picks a popular song, finds 10 to 15 covers of it and asks you to vote for your favorite. Maroon 5's "Payphone" lands at number two on Billboard's Digital Songs chart -- just behind Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" -- this week.... YouTube Cover Song Face-Off: Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Call Me Maybe' Each week, Mashable picks a popular song, finds 10 to 15 covers of it and asks you to vote for your favorite. 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__label__wiki	0.59256	0.59256	HOW TO DO GOOD — AND DO GOOD BUSINESS Howard Schultz, Chair & former CEO of Starbucks Cameo appearances: Leila Janah (Samasource, LXMI) Photography Courtesy of Howard Schultz About this episode: Starbucks Chair Howard Schultz knows: You can scale social impact as you scale your business. But you'll have to get creative. In fact, you'll need to be as innovative about doing good as you are about your business itself. Transcript below. "Starbucks is values-driven, and as a result of those values, we have become very profitable." - HOWARD SCHULTZ "If you want to scale your impact, you have to be as innovative about this as you are about your business itself." - REID HOFFMAN LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE NOW Subscribe now for free: Apple Podcasts \| Google Play Music \| RSS Feed < RETURN TO FULL EPISODE MENU GUESTS ON THIS EPISODE Howard Schultz joined Starbucks in 1982, when the brand consisted of a single store selling coffee beans in Seattle. A few years later, he became the CEO; Starbucks now has tens of thousands locations across the country, and countless more internationally. Howard offered health-care coverage to Starbucks employees from day one; he also pioneered a partnership with Arizona State University to offer free tuition to his employees. Learn more about Starbucks’ social impact initiatives here. LEILA JANAH Leila Janah is the founder and CEO of Samasource and LXMI, two socially conscious companies that provide work to those in need. “There has to be balance between the profit you’re searching for and the values that will endure.” EPISODE TRANSCRIPT DOWNLOAD TRANSCRIPT (AS PDF) NARRATOR: From Silicon Valley, where no game show has ever been born, welcome to the Liars Club. This is the Masters of Scale edition of the 1976 game show. And now the host of the Liars Club, Reid Hoffman! REID HOFFMAN: Welcome everyone. Thank you, thank you. The rules of The Liar’s Club haven’t changed from the 70s, but if you’re not watching the reruns on YouTube, let me refresh your memory. We have three esteemed, panelists, and each of them will tell us a story. But only one will be telling the truth. You have to guess which. And that’s the game. Our panelists all come from podcasts we really admire. From Business Wars, which chronicles epic company rivalries, meet David Brown. From Death Sex and Money, the show that talks about the things people don’t talk about, it’s great to have you Anna Sale. From The Thread, which explores history’s interlocking lives and events, may I introduce the one and only Sean Braswell. HOFFMAN: So, listeners, listen closely. Only one of the following panelists is telling a true story of an American company’s expansion into China. The other two are artfully lying. If you guess correctly, tweet us at @mastersofscale when you hear this sound below, and you might just win the “bonus prize”. What’s the bonus prize? NARRATOR: It’s Aunt Ida’s complete hostess serving selection in artificial silver plate. Featuring a coffee service, punch bowl set, champagne cooler, and a large serving tray with matching chip and dip tray. All furnished by the Aunt Ida manufacturing company. Now, back to you Reid! HOFFMAN: We’ll start with Panelist Number One, David Brown from the new hit podcast Business Wars. DAVID BROWN: I want to take you back to Groupon, you remember Groupon? I mean, it’s not doing gangbusters in the US right now but back in 2011, it was a different story. And the company was thinking, ok, how do you grow, how do you take advantage of the size at the moment, the momentum they had. And the answer was kind of obvious: you look abroad. And the biggest kahuna out there was China. Groupon moved really fast and the management team wasn’t exactly steeped in Chinese culture. So, they found a partner fairly early, WeChat. They recommended doing something called the “digital red pockets” campaign, this is sort of like an online version of those traditional red envelopes that older Chinese use to give kids money. So, with this launch, the concept was the first X number of people to sign up, I don’t remember how many, they get an extra 100 Renminbi in their virtual envelope. That’s about 10 dollars. But the problem was, once they launched this campaign, it got hot so fast that the WeChat online platform actually crashed. But once they got it up and running, well, it was hugely successful — even by China standards. And it’s become sort of an annual event. Each year during the lunar celebration, this digital red pocket campaign starts all over again. So even though Groupon’s had to pull back a little bit here in the US, the success story on China is a big part of why as a company, they’re still doing pretty well. That’s my story, you can take it to the bank. HOFFMAN: Wow, David. A campaign so big, it brought down WeChat. Let’s go to Panelist Number Two, Anna Sale from Death Sex and Money. ANNA SALE: I’m going to tell you about Uber’s epic rise in China. The company knew that China was a great opportunity. The population is obviously the world’s largest. But perhaps more importantly, China has enormous, sprawling cities, and a very low rate of personal car ownership. There was just one problem: a giant local competitor had a pre-existing relationship with the Chinese government. In fact, they were also integrated into WeChat, the group-messaging service that David just talked about. This made the competing ride service much easier and cheaper to the consumer. So, in 2016, Uber decides to launch a competitive social media/messaging system in an effort to match its competitors advantage. The messaging platform was called Yóu bó bēi. Uber requires its fleet of 100,000 drivers to exclusively use Yóu bó bēi. They succeed. But when the Chinese government realized that Uber was competing with WeChat — a state-owned enterprise — it shut down Yóu bó bēi. Within a year, Uber threw in the towel and pulled out of China. HOFFMAN: Ouch! It’s hard to go up against the Chinese government and win. Alright, Panelist Number Three, Sean Braswell of The Thread. What’s the story you’re going to tell? SEAN BRASWELL: It’s the story of Starbucks expansion into China, led by former CEO and now chairman Howard Schultz. Now Reid, you first of all have to keep in mind that China is predominantly a tea-drinking society. So, Starbucks really had a steep climb. They struggled for nearly 10 years, with poor sales and high staff turnover. This was tough for Starbucks, because they pride themselves on being employee focused. Their turn-around came when Starbucks recognized the dominant role that Chinese parents play in their kids’ career choices. Starbucks extended health insurance to every Chinese employee and their parents. And perhaps more unusually, they started inviting all employee parents to join them at an annual company meeting. Staff retention rocketed, and that had a cascading effect on customer retention. HOFFMAN: So, who’s telling the truth? And who’s a liar? Tweet us now @mastersofscale. You’ve got about 5 seconds. We’re back to tell you… Sean from The Thread podcast is telling the truth about Starbucks. But here’s the thing, the others weren’t total lies. Groupon really did take an almost entirely Western approach to winning over the China market, but the digital red pockets campaign with WeChat never happened, Groupon shut down their China offices after just nine months. And Uber? No, they’d didn’t launch a competitive social network to embed their technology in. Uber just couldn’t compete against its more entrenched competitor and so it sold Uber China to them in 2016. Thanks for playing the Liars Club. HOFFMAN: All games aside, Starbucks is succeeding in China. They have 3,200 stores, and a new store opens there every 15 hours. A key to their success? Recognizing the pivotal role parents play in guiding their kids’ careers. When they added health benefits for parents, as well as employees, their retention rate soared. For a Chinese company, that may be obvious. For Americans, like me, it’s non-intuitive. Starbucks was able to spot this because they have a philosophy of focusing on employee loyalty and happiness. Starbucks benefits plan can seem extravagantly generous at first glance. But it inevitably pays off, as it did in China. Every successful company scales more than just revenue. It scales your worldview. And I believe you can scale positive social impact along with your business. But only if you’re as creative and cash-conscious about doing good as you are about your business itself. HOFFMAN: I’m Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, investor at Greylock and your host, and I believe you can scale positive social impact along with your business. But only if you’re as creative and cash-conscious about doing good as you are about your business itself. When your business scales massively, you’re going to touch lives on many different levels. You impact employees, customers, entire communities… Depending on your business, your choices can impact their mood, the quality of their interactions, their outlook on their own future. You have the opportunity to shape the world, for better or for worse. And these touchy-feely concerns shouldn’t just be side effects of your business — if you’re strategic about it, they will become the beating heart of your business. It’s not about saying, “I’m a good person, so my company will do good things.” It’s about asking: “What kind of positive impact can I have, that will also support my core business?” So, if you want to scale your impact, you have to be as innovative about this as you are about your business itself. And struggling startup founders may think that’s a nice idea for later on… Something they can think about after they scale but I’d argue that the best scale entrepreneurs think about their social impact from day one. I wanted to talk to Howard Schultz about this, because he’s navigated these questions while tackling truly massive challenges of scale. As the founder, former CEO, and now executive chairman of Starbucks, his job is to ask: How do you scale the intimate experience of a neighborhood coffee shop across tens of thousands of locations worldwide? How do you keep a quarter million employees positive, consistent, and loyal? How do you ensure that 100 million weekly customers — that’s U.S. alone — have delightful experiences? And perhaps closest to Howard’s heart: How do I change my employees and customers lives for the better? He’s asked this question throughout his career. And he has a specific way of thinking about it. HOWARD SCHULTZ: For years, I’ve sat in our management team weekly meeting, metaphorically thinking about two empty chairs in every one of those meetings, and I think about it in terms of one chair is empty but occupied by a customer and the other is empty and occupied by a Starbucks partner. HOFFMAN: Howard calls all of his employees “partners,” by the way. So, it might help to imagine a green aproned barista in that second chair. SCHULTZ: And I’m always asking myself quietly, silently, is this decision going to make the customer and the partner proud? If the answer is even remotely gray, I know we’re on the wrong side of the debate. HOFFMAN: I want you to notice two things in Howard’s comment. First of all, he’s always willing to ask: “Are we on the wrong side of this debate?” A necessary ballast for any strong-minded entrepreneur. And Howard — as you’ve probably already noticed — is strong-minded. But for our purposes, it’s more important to notice that Howard always gives equal weight to his customers and his employees — I mean, “Partners.” SCHULTZ: I view them interchangeable. We can’t make our partners proud if our customers are not, and we can’t make our customers proud if our partners are not. HOFFMAN: This viewpoint is far from universal today. And it was much less common when Howard took the reins at Starbucks in the late 1980s. His board members, at the time, didn’t quite know what to make of him. SCHULTZ: “What do mean? What are you talking about? This isn’t working, you’re losing money.” HOFFMAN: Howard and his archetypical friends haven’t always sat easily with the shareholders – but Howard keeps bringing these two groups together. The origin story of those archetypical friends goes back to a very real and searing experience from his childhood. He grew up in public housing in Canarsie, on the eastern shore of Brooklyn. SCHULTZ: My father was a World War II veteran, high school dropout and came back from the war with yellow fever and unfortunately ended up really not realizing the aspiration of the American dream he thought he was going to come home to after the war. He was a delivery driver picking up and delivering cloth diapers, before the invention of Pampers. In March of 1960, on a delivery, he fell on a sheet of ice and fractured his ankle and broke his hip. The injury caused him to get fired, no Workman’s Compensation, obviously no health insurance. When I was seven years old I literally came home from school, opened the apartment door and saw my father laid out on a couch with a cast from his hip to his ankle. Listen, at the age of seven, how could I possibly understand the impact that would have on me, but it scarred me to watch and witness my parents and my mother just go through such a hard time. As I got older, I think I’ve always been sensitized to people living on the other side of the tracks, and as Starbucks evolved, I think I was trying to build the kind of company my father never got a chance to work for. A company that would try and balance profit with conscience. HOFFMAN: Notice his phrasing here: He wants to balance profit with conscience — as if too much profit will strain his conscience and vice versa. And there’s some truth to that — but it’s not the whole truth. Profit and conscience are neither enemies nor friends — they’re frenemies. You have to be creative about how you bring the two together. Howard didn’t put benefits ahead of profits. But he didn’t put profits first either. He started tackling both problems simultaneously. When we sat down to talk, I asked him how he took his very first steps. HOFFMAN: Because of your experience at home with your father, did you say from the beginning the way that we’re going to think about employees as partners? What did the startup part of that journey look like? SCHULTZ: I have many of these old journals that I kept. I wrote something early on about the business plan of this new company was going to be to achieve the fragile balance between profit and conscience, and then underneath that I started thinking about what does that really mean? What’s important to understand is we had no money to build a traditional marketing, or advertising, or PR, we had none of that and so we defined the brand by the experience in our stores. And we said early on that the equity of the brand would be defined by the managers and leaders of the company exceeding the expectations of our people, so that they could exceed the expectations of the customer. And because coffee is so personal and it’s frequent, we had an opportunity to create an intimacy with the customer that built the equity of the brand. HOFFMAN: Notice the way Howard turns a constraint into an advantage. He doesn’t brood over his non-existent marketing budget. He turns it into an asset. In fact, it becomes the justification for investing in his team, which is what he wanted to do in the first place. As a small, under-funded company, it would be easy — and typical — to just say: “I’ll take care of my people later.” It’s more innovative to say, “I’ll find a way to take care of them now, by making sure that it makes my business stronger.” A little back story might be useful here. I called Howard the Founder of Starbucks, but this isn’t technically true. Howard joined a company called Starbucks in 1982. At that point, it was a small coffee roasting company with several stores. They didn’t serve cups of coffee, much less venti, no-whip, double-pump hazelnut lattes. Howard started as director of retail operations and marketing. At that time, the idea of innovative coffee sounded like an oxymoron. On par with saying, “innovative shrimp” or “innovative pork ears.” That is, until Howard attended a trade show in Milan and a whole world of innovations unfurled before his eyes and underneath his nose. It was 1983, four years before Howard would become CEO of Starbucks. And this trip is now part of company lore. SCHULTZ: I went to Milan, to this trade show, I would walk to the fair and as I was walking I became enamored with the fact that on every street there was two or three coffee bars. What I witnessed was the romance, the theater and, to use your word, the joy of espresso. I would go back to these coffee bars every day I was in Italy and I began to witness something: I would see the same people who were doing this routinely. They didn’t know each other, but there was a camaraderie between them because there was a sense of place, a sense of community and there was human connection over coffee. HOFFMAN: Howard soon recommended to the owners that they open a cafe — to cultivate this human connection over coffee. They weren’t interested at first. But he persuaded them to test the waters with a single cafe. Five years later, he had the chance to fully realize his vision. The company had expanded to acquire Peet’s Coffee, based in Berkeley, California. They were over-extended, and the owners decided to sell Starbucks. SCHULTZ: The founder came to me and said, “We’re not going to be able to keep both companies. I want to sell Starbucks, and you’re the natural person that I would trust to buy it,” and I said, “That’s fantastic news, but I have no money.” So, he said, “I’m going to make it very easy.” It’s $3.8 million to buy six stores and an old roasting facility. Now, $3.8 million to me in 1987 was like a billion dollars … I didn’t have it. I had nothing. HOFMANN: Howard, as you might have guessed, figured it out. He raised the money. And in 1987, he acquired Starbucks for $3.8 million. By the end of that year, he had 11 stores, 100 employees and a dream of creating a national brand to bring specialty coffee — and coffee culture — to the country. So, what does he do next? He starts planning a benefits package for those 100 employees. For Howard’s private investors, it would be the first of many befuddling encounters. SCHULTZ: You can imagine this conversation, we were small, losing money, and not yet proven the model, and I said, “I want to provide health insurance and equity in the form of stock options for every person who works for the company.” HOFFMAN: Yeah. SCHULTZ: They said, “What do you mean by that?” HOFFMAN: Yup. SCHULTZ: I said, “Well, it’s pretty clear what I mean. I want to invest in our people and I think I will be able to prove that we will lower attrition, raise performance, but most importantly create the kind of company in which people feel part of something larger than themselves.” So, 25 years before the Affordable Care Act, Starbucks became the first company in America to provide comprehensive health insurance to everyone, including part-time people, working 20 hours or more. And we figured out a way to provide equity in the form of stock options to every single employee, again, even part-timers. HOFFMAN: Notice how Howard spoke the language of business. He didn’t say “I want to invest in our people because it’s the right thing to do” or “I want to invest in our people because no one invested in my father.” And this is the first thing you need to understand. To promote social good as a founder, you have to think creatively about how it will help your business. You have to frame benefits and social impact as a means to an end. And you may have to do it in a way that no one has ever thought of before. The social good may be touchy-feely, but the business results should be undeniable. If you require yourself to adhere to that level of discipline, your impact can scale. This approach has worked for many entrepreneurs with a mind toward social change. I can think of another good example with my friend Leila Janah. She’s the founder and CEO of two companies — Samasource and LXMI. Lakshmi is spelled L-X-M-I by the way. Leila founded both companies to bring jobs to parts of the world mired in poverty, due to lack of opportunity. But she wasn’t thinking only of that mission. She believed that if she got creative, she could draw a direct line between the good she wanted to do, and the profits her company would need to make. With LXMI, a beauty product company, it all started with butter. LEILA JANAH: Most of the shea butter in the US and European supply comes from West Africa. And this was a particularly unusual variety of shea called nilotica, that only grows wild at the source of the Nile River in Northern Uganda, South Sudan, and Ethiopia. So, I come across this in a local market. Of course, I start using it myself, started using it for about a year. And I kept thinking to myself, “This is such an amazing product.” I’d always go and restock at these markets in Northern Uganda, and I thought, “How come no one has created a brand around this stuff?” HOFFMAN: So, Leila had spotted the business opportunity. And then she thought: this can be something more. This can help people… AND be a profitable business. And the fact that it helps people can actually make it more appealing and more profitable. The two can work in harmony. JANAH: The way this nilotica is produced is that women from these communities hand pick these nuts, select them, grade them and cold-press them. And the women who do this are literally all war widows—they lost their partners in this really horrific war. So, the number-one way we can help them is by buying stuff from them. And here’s this beautiful product that could be branded as a luxury product and command the same margins as an Estee Lauder or L’Oréal fancy skin cream—but a skin cream that actually not only makes you more beautiful but makes the world more beautiful. HOFFMAN: Leila caught onto another truth about human behavior: certain consumers are willing to pay a premium for products that come with social impact; it creates a justification for an indulgence they want to make on themselves. And that premium they pay can be passed on to people who need it most, if you get creative about connecting the dots. Leila got creative. JANAH: There’s such an opportunity, I think, in luxury, where people are trying to demonstrate that they have the capital to purchase a luxury item, and to almost sneakily do good through that business model. HOFFMAN: Howard, as we’ve seen, is a master at “sneakily doing good through a business model.” He honed his abilities through years of tough conversations with Starbucks investors. As Howard connected the dots between employee good vibes and shareholder returns, his investors might be forgiven for questioning his logic. But this gets back to Howard’s hypothesis. He just didn’t see his business the same way other people did. Starbucks, it turns out, was not selling coffee. It was a social experiment. SCHULTZ: A long time ago someone said at Starbucks, we’re not in the coffee business serving people, we’re in the people business serving coffee. Well, we really believe that. When we go off course and make mistakes, it’s because we lose focus and attention on the fact that we are in the people business, and the innovation has come as a result of putting that front and center. HOFFMAN: So, innovation, to Howard, doesn’t just mean the latest frappuccino flavor. It means new programs for employees that make them happier, more engaged, and more loyal. You might start with health insurance, or equity. You might add free meals or an office ping pong table. But if you want to remain competitive over time, you have to stay attuned to deep foundational employee needs as they evolve. Especially as they evolve. In Starbucks’ case, they’re very attuned to the fact that their staff, as a whole, is young. When you’re young and ambitious, the first thing on your mind is a college diploma. But college is staggeringly expensive — and out of reach for the average Starbucks employee earning a barista’s salary. Identifying this worry led to an idea. SCHULTZ: Can we provide free college tuition for every one of our employees in the United States and we started looking at the cost of it, there was great trepidation and concern that we could not afford to do that. HOFFMAN: Free college tuition. For every employee. It was a wild idea. One that would strike the most idealistic of listeners as deeply impractical. But to Howard, it made perfect sense. SCHULTZ: The country is $22, $23 trillion in debt, it doesn’t have the financial capability to do the things that we would aspire America to do and so the responsibility falls on its citizens, and in this case, our companies, it’s in our interest to provide more for the communities we serve and the people we employ. One, because the government is not capable and is not doing it, and two, I’d selfishly say, it’s good business and it’s good business because it attracts and retains great people. HOFFMAN: He just had to figure out how to make it pay for itself. SCHULTZ: And then the question, like anything else, is when you got a group of smart people in a room and you leave your ego outside, you say, “We’re not going to leave the room until we solve the problem,” and the problem is how do we make this cost neutral? And we figured out a way. HOFFMAN: In 2014, Starbucks introduced a first-of-its-kind partnership with Arizona State University to cover, in full, college tuition for every American Starbucks employee working 20 or more hours a week. Note that once again, they approached it as a business. They didn’t say “Education is priceless so any cost is okay.” Instead it was “No, no, no. Figure out how to get the best value.” Starbucks and ASU split the tuitions costs 60-40. The degrees were exclusively offered online, allowing employees to stay in their jobs and ASU to keep their cost structure contained. At this point in Starbucks’ trajectory, there’s no doubt that the company has a massive, ubiquitous presence — not just in storefronts on streets, but in the national consciousness. That meant one thing to Howard: an opportunity. SCHULTZ: The role and responsibility of a public company today, especially given the political environment that we are in right now, is the rules of engagement have dramatically changed, and they were even changing before this current administration. HOFFMAN: As Howard began thinking more broadly about Starbucks’ opportunity, he started thinking of the stores differently. Their employees and customers had 100 million interactions each week. He started to think: What can we accomplish in those conversations? Starbucks is such a visible company they could start a national conversation with just a few words. Or, in one memorable case, two words. In 2015, the company initiated a national campaign to get its employees and its customers talking about race relations in the United States. You might remember it, it was called “Race Together.” It mostly took the form of baristas writing those two words on customers’ cups, inviting them to engage in a candid conversation about race and tolerance. The intention was to build empathy. Racially-charged tragedies were unfolding across the country. The way Howard saw it, Starbucks had a civic responsibility to help people talk about it. Things didn’t exactly go according to plan. SCHULTZ: Within two hours of launching race together, it was hijacked by social media and we lost the narrative, and we lost it very fast. HOFFMAN: Critics called the campaign insensitive and tone-deaf. Some worried that the baristas who wrote those words to their customers could face hostile backlash. Others thought the whole thing felt like a marketing ploy. SCHULTZ: It was the first time where we experienced anonymous haters, all we were trying to do as a company was raise the level of empathy and compassion towards one another, make our customers and our people proud, that we want to stand up for justice, and that’s all we’re trying to do. But once we lost the narrative there were other issues at play, including partner safety and misinterpretation by the media of what we were trying to do. HOFFMAN: In short, “Race together” was not well received. SCHULTZ: We had to close it down. HOFFMAN: But Howard doesn’t regret it at all. SCHULTZ: Of all the things we’ve done over the many years, we didn’t execute that properly. We learned something about the cause and the effect of social media and what could happen. We don’t have moral authority, but we had moral courage. We discussed this at the board level, at the management team level, and I’m so proud that all of us locked arms, faced in the same direction and said, “Yes, it is very different for a corporation of any size to talk about race, but if we don’t do it, who will?” As I look back on it, we’re proud that we tried to do something that was good and just and had a level of empathy and compassion associated with it. HOFFMAN: If you were to have a phone line to your younger self, what would you have told yourself to do differently? SCHULTZ: I think we needed the help and the support of influences on both sides of the debate to understand that we were not taking a position, we were simply offering the opportunity to have a compassionate level of understanding, that the country is in need of human kindness. We put it out there and we assumed people would understand, and I think we would’ve benefited from a swath of Americans who could’ve helped us in support of what we were trying to do, because the interesting thing is they came out much later, saying “I’m so proud of what you’ve done.” If you’re going to build a great enduring company, not only do you have to take a risk every now and then, but you got to be able to jump into the deep end of the pool and say we’re going to figure it out. The entrepreneurial DNA of a company must remain, even for a company of this level of scale and ubiquity. HOFFMAN: As companies reach the kind of massive scale that Starbucks achieved, they inevitably face a new set of challenges. Those twin questions: “How do I do good?” and the “How do I do good business?” become more complicated as your opportunities — and your responsibilities — grow massive. How do you keep what Howard calls their “entrepreneurial DNA”? How do you keep a human focus? How do you prevent customers from becoming “revenue” and employees from becoming “headcount”? This tension is at the heart of every great scale company. But Starbucks is perhaps an extreme. SCHULTZ: Starbucks will do, I don’t know, between $23 and $25 billion in revenue this year, but our average sale is $5. So just think about that, we’re in the pennies and small dollar business, so in order to do that much revenue, we’re totally dependent on human behavior. HOFFMAN: Howard is right to marvel at that ratio: An average sale of $5, and a yearly revenue of $25 billion. That’s a lot of cups of coffee. As an entertaining aside, I have to add that it always helps to be in the business of selling legitimate drugs. I often tell entrepreneurs, I only invest in companies that play to one of the seven deadly sins. Coffee may just be the 8th deadly sin, at least for me. That aside, Howard is also right that his business completely relies on two sides of a human interaction: A customer making an order and a Starbucks employee fulfilling that order perfectly. And this is the perspective Howard brings as he enters new territory. He asks what innovation he can bring to the market, and what innovation can he bring to the employees. You might remember from the top of this episode that Starbucks is by every measure succeeding in China. They have 3200 stores. A new one opens every 15 hours. But it wasn’t always so. SCHULTZ: We lost money for nine consecutive years in China and during that time, as a public company, they just said, “this isn’t working, you’re losing money, it’s a tea drinking society, close it up.” HOFFMAN: The key to their success? His years of focusing on employee happiness, let him spot a key opportunity: the pivotal role parents play in guiding their kids’ careers. SCHULTZ: 87% of our employees are partners in China then and today are college graduates. The parents in China, especially given the one child rule, are deeply involved in the lives and aspirations of their children, and they felt, “I sent my son or daughter to college and they’re working in serving coffee as opposed to working for Apple, or Google, or Alibaba, or Tencent. Why are they working at Starbucks? It’s not right.” HOFFMAN: The idea that turned it around? It came from a friend. SCHULTZ: I have been friends with Jack Ma for — before Jack was Jack. HOFFMAN: Jack Ma, by the way, is the CEO and founder of the e-commerce giant Alibaba and the richest person in China. SCHULTZ: And he and I have talked many years about Chinese philosophy and Chinese values and he asked me to speak a long time ago at a Alibaba function, and there were a lot of older people there, and I said, “Who are… Are these employees? Who are they?” He said, “No, they’re the parents of some of our employees.” I said, “Really? What are they doing here?” He said, “We invite them,” and it stuck with me. HOFFMAN: As Starbucks’ operations in China grew, he started paying attention not just to employee benefits but parental benefits. They extended health insurance not only to every employee, but to their parents too. A huge line item for a market that was still finding its feet. And Howard took it one step further, taking a page out of his friend, Jack’s, playbook. SCHULTZ: Given the fact we had this high level of attrition, I said I want to have an annual meeting of the parents of our employees in China. HOFFMAN: Remember, Starbucks opens a new store in China every 15 hours. When Schultz says, “let’s meet the parents of our employees in China”— he’s talking about more than a few symbolic handshakes. SCHULTZ: Now, the people sitting in Seattle, when I said those words, I think they thought I was crazy: “What do mean? What are you talking about?” And the people in China said, “We don’t know if we do this, should we rent a large auditorium, because a lot of people are going to come.” Or, “Should we rent a small one because we don’t want to be embarrassed?” And I said, “I have a feeling if we do this right, we need a big room.” HOFFMAN: They’ve been filling big rooms for the past six years. In a series of annual meetings, Starbucks gathers employees and their parents — not for a financial report but a family affair. SCHULTZ: The entire annual meeting of parents and family is a celebration of families who are working at Starbucks, of us highlighting their children. We fly people, parents, to Shanghai or Beijing, who have never been on an airplane, they don’t have the right clothes because they might be farmers, and we surprise our partners who don’t know the parents are coming, and it is the most emotional, the most … It is the thing every year that I will not miss. HOFFMAN: The appeal of these meetings in China isn’t just the strategic importance. For Howard, they capture the essence of the company — its humanity. SCHULTZ: When you get this big, the challenge is, how do you get big and stay small? How do you maintain the intimacy, when you knew all the people and you were hungry and fighting? These kinds of moments are so emotionally alive with the spirit and culture and values of the company. What we’ve learned through all of this is that we are longing for human connection. We’re longing for a sense of humanity and kindness and compassion and empathy, people are looking for belonging, especially given what’s going on in our own country right now. HOFFMAN: One hundred percent. You and I both did The Daily Show on that one. SCHULTZ: Without getting too philosophical, there is a sense of loneliness in America, and I would even go as far as to say that I think we’re approaching an epidemic of loneliness. Technology has brought us so much, but it also has taken something away, so the humanity of things becomes so vitally important to what it is we do. If a company can do that and elevate that, that is our core purpose and reason for being. HOFFMAN: Howard would argue that Starbucks’ success in China has less to do with innovation in its product or packaging, and more to do with innovation for its people. SCHULTZ: We’re seeing it through a different lens, not only in terms of the coffee innovation and store design, but mostly what can we do from a people perspective? HOFFMAN: What can we do from a people perspective? This is a question that all businesses could ask themselves more often. We invest so much of our attention in innovating new products, new platforms and new networks. We offer employees free food and company fitness rooms, to keep them at work late. We can be strong on maternity and paternity leave, to retain employees over the long term. But when it comes to thinking about people broadly, all businesses could stand to learn a lesson here. When we build something that could take over the world the way Starbucks did, there’s an opportunity to ask: What do we want to stand for? What impact can we have? How can we make people’s lives — the whole world, really — better? And how can we do that in a way that strengthens our business? Howard thinks it boils down to an idea that any entrepreneur can apply to their business. And I agree. SCHULTZ: Starbucks is not profit driven. Starbucks is values driven, and as a result of those values, we have become very profitable. Not every business decision should be an economic one. And this is very important, I think, especially for young people to understand, is that you’re going to make a series of decisions about your business, and if every decision goes through a very defined lens of how much money can you make as a result of this, it’s not going to add up to much at the end. There has to be balance between the profit you’re searching for and the values that will endure. Starbucks is living proof. And again, we’re not perfect, we make mistakes, but our financial performance is directly linked to the enduring values and culture that we are constantly trying to enhance and preserve. HOFFMAN: Profits and values. Two old frenemies. Together, again. I’m Reid Hoffman. Thank you for listening. © 2019 Wait What Inc., All Rights Reserved – Terms & Conditions showpopup Thank you for your interest in the Mastercard Impact Challenge and being a force for good!	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line973
__label__cc	0.655827	0.344173	mcw.edu › OBGYN › News & Events › Department News › Reproductive Endocrinologist Jayme Bosler joins Medical College of Wisconsin faculty Reproductive Endocrinologist Jayme Bosler joins Medical College of Wisconsin faculty August 19, 2015 \| Department News Jayme Bosler, MD Jayme Bosler, MD, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, at the Medical College of Wisconsin and to the medical staff at Froedtert Hospital and North Hills Health Center. Dr. Bosler comes to us from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and started July 27, 2015. She earned her doctor of medicine degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2008 and completed residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Tufts University School of Medicine in 2012. She completed a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2015. Dr. Bosler earned a Bachelor of Science-Mechanical Engineering degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000. Her areas of clinical expertise are infertility due to polycystic ovarian syndrome, endometriosis, diminished ovarian reserve, male factors, anovulation, tubal factors, uterine factors and unexplained causes. Dr. Bosler’s research interests include sperm motility and peptides involved in improving sperm health and vitality. Please join us in welcoming her.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line978
__label__cc	0.551434	0.448566	Trump Threatens To Reverse Obama’s Opening With Cuba After waffling initially, the president-elect says he will “terminate” Obama’s deal if Cuban policy does not open up as he sees fit. Angela Bronner Helm After waffling initially, the president-elect says he will “terminate” President Obama’s deal if Cuban policy does not open up as he sees fit. In what cannot be a surprise to anyone, President-elect Donald Trump said (or in fact Tweeted) that he will reverse the executive action President Obama has taken as it relates to opening up relations with Cuba if the nation does not make reforms to his liking. “If Cuba is unwilling to make a better deal for the Cuban people, the Cuban/American people and the U.S. as a whole, I will terminate deal,” Trump tweeted. Trump is pledging to follow through on a campaign promise to undo Obama’s decision to open diplomatic and commercial ties with Cuba if the communist government doesn’t adopt changes. Trump can erase nearly all of Obama’s Cuba policies himself, since they were made by executive action and not an act of Congress. The statement comes less than three days after the death of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro in which Trump crassly tweeted “Fidel Castro is dead!” Initially, Trump released a statement on Saturday marking the longtime U.S. adversary’s passing, reports Politico, in which his rhetoric was not on policy was not as clear. “While Cuba remains a totalitarian island, it is my hope that today marks a move away from the horrors endured for too long, and toward a future in which the wonderful Cuban people finally live in the freedom they so richly deserve,” the president-elect said. The Hill reports that Trump’s top aides gave conflicting messages in the days after Castro’s death on Saturday. Incoming chief of staff Reince Priebus said Sunday he was willing to cancel Obama’s Cuba opening, while top aide Kellyanne Conway indicated a decision has not been made. President Obama released a statement on Castro’s death on Saturday which was criticized by Republican politicians, especially those from Florida where there is a sizable Cuban-American populace driven out by Castro’s revolution in January 1959. It reads: At this time of Fidel Castro’s passing, we extend a hand of friendship to the Cuban people. We know that this moment fills Cubans—in Cuba and in the United States – with powerful emotions, recalling the countless ways in which Fidel Castro altered the course of individual lives, families, and of the Cuban nation. History will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular figure on the people and world around him. For nearly six decades, the relationship between the United States and Cuba was marked by discord and profound political disagreements. During my presidency, we have worked hard to put the past behind us, pursuing a future in which the relationship between our two countries is defined not by our differences but by the many things that we share as neighbors and friends—bonds of family, culture, commerce, and common humanity. This engagement includes the contributions of Cuban Americans, who have done so much for our country and who care deeply about their loved ones in Cuba. Today, we offer condolences to Fidel Castro’s family, and our thoughts and prayers are with the Cuban people. In the days ahead, they will recall the past and also look to the future. As they do, the Cuban people must know that they have a friend and partner in the United States of America. Trump Threatens To Reverse Obama’s Opening With Cuba was originally published on newsone.com Cuba , Donald Trump , Donald Trump and Cuba , Obama's In Cuba , President Obama , President Obama and Cuba	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line981
__label__wiki	0.917987	0.917987	Duterte firm ‘no ceasefire,’ tells troops to ‘destroy’ communist rebels December 29, 2018 - Catherine Valente Duterte GMA Network PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday refused to reciprocate the unilateral ceasefire declared by the New People’s Army (NPA), ordering the military to “destroy” the communist rebels. In his speech during the Christmas gift-giving at Camp General Manuel T. Yan, Mawab, Compostela Valley,... PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday refused to reciprocate the unilateral ceasefire declared by the New People’s Army (NPA), ordering the military to “destroy” the communist rebels. In his speech during the Christmas gift-giving at Camp General Manuel T. Yan, Mawab, Compostela Valley, Duterte said the Philippines would never improve unless the government destroyed the communist rebels. “We do not subscribe to their ceasefire. We are ready for anything. Do not fight them, destroy them,” the President said. “Law and order means you have to destroy — not really fight, but destroy the Communist Party of the Philippines, including its legal fronts and infrastructure,” he said. Duterte’s statement comes after the NPA attacked a military detachment in Sibagat, Agusan del Sur, on December 19, abducting two soldiers and carting away several firearms. The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) announced previously that it would observe a ceasefire with the government forces during the holiday season to “freely enjoy” the celebration of its 50th founding anniversary. The communists’ truce will take effect at 12:01 a.m. of December 24 to 11:59 p.m. of December 26. Another ceasefire is scheduled from 12:01 a.m. of December 31 to 11:59 p.m. of January 1, 2019. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said, however, that the military did not recommend a holiday truce with the communists. Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo, in a statement on Friday, accused the communist rebels of declaring a holiday truce to catch the military off guard when they attack. “That’s the problem, they (communists) have been declaring they will have this truce. So perhaps, our soldiers on the ground believed there’s a truce so they did not anticipate those attacks,” Panelo said. “And now, it seems to me now that they are using the truce to have our soldiers on the ground off guard. They’re taking advantage of that [truce],” he said. Meanwhile, Panelo said the state forces should always be prepared for the communist rebels’ possible offensives, whom he likened to a “thief in the night” who are ready to “come and assault” any government troop. “Definitely it’s not prudent. Nagkamali sila kaya (They made a mistake so) look what happened to them. Kaya (So) that should be a lesson for all of them,” Panelo said. “They should always be like boy scouts, be prepared because they’re like a thief in the night. They will come to you and assault you,” he added. (The Manila Times) Author Catherine ValentePosted on December 29, 2018 Categories News	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line986
__label__wiki	0.803665	0.803665	\| GEOGRAPHY \| GEOLOGY \| USA STATISTICS \| CHINA STATISTICS \| COUNTRY CODES \| AIRPORT CODES \| RELIGION \| JOBS \| Debt - external 2016 Country Ranks, By Rank SOURCE: CIA World Factbook 2016 हिन् List in alphabetical order > Rank Country Value Date of Info United States $17,260,000,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. European Union $13,050,000,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. United Kingdom $9,219,000,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Germany $5,597,000,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. France $5,496,000,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Japan $5,180,000,000,000 31 Dec 2013 est. Netherlands $4,154,000,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Luxembourg $3,331,000,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Italy $2,459,000,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Spain $2,064,000,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Ireland $1,960,000,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Switzerland $1,533,000,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Canada $1,491,000,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Australia $1,381,000,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Singapore $1,330,000,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Belgium $1,312,000,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Hong Kong $1,290,000,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Sweden $1,010,000,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. China $949,600,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Austria $820,000,000,000 31 Dec 2013 est. Brazil $712,500,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Norway $661,200,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Russia $599,000,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Finland $547,500,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Denmark $534,600,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Greece $514,400,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Portugal $493,700,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. India $459,100,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Mexico $424,100,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Korea, South $409,100,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Turkey $402,400,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Poland $354,200,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Indonesia $293,200,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Malaysia $213,900,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. New Zealand $189,800,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Hungary $182,200,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Taiwan $177,900,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. United Arab Emirates $171,900,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Saudi Arabia $166,100,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Kazakhstan $157,100,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Qatar $156,800,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Argentina $147,000,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Chile $145,700,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. South Africa $145,100,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Thailand $140,700,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Ukraine $127,500,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Czech Republic $125,100,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Malta $122,800,000,000 30 Dec 2014 est. Romania $114,500,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Venezuela $109,500,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Colombia $101,300,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Iceland $97,870,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Israel $96,160,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Cyprus $95,280,000,000 31 Dec 2013 est. Slovakia $82,290,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Philippines $77,670,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Vietnam $69,760,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Pakistan $63,580,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Croatia $62,090,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Peru $61,270,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Iraq $58,130,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Puerto Rico $56,820,000,000 31 Dec 2010 est. Slovenia $56,110,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Bulgaria $49,160,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Sudan $48,170,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Sri Lanka $45,000,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Morocco $43,990,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Egypt $41,320,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Latvia $40,500,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Belarus $40,020,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Serbia $36,090,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Kuwait $35,220,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Lebanon $31,590,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Lithuania $30,810,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Angola $28,620,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Tunisia $27,660,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Papua New Guinea $26,510,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Cuba $25,210,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Ecuador $25,030,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Jordan $25,020,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Bangladesh $24,470,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Dominican Republic $24,310,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Uruguay $24,190,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Estonia $22,950,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Nigeria $20,930,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Costa Rica $19,430,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Bahrain $18,750,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Palau $18,380,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Guatemala $18,330,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Bahamas, The $17,560,000,000 31 Dec 2013 est. Jamaica $17,300,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Ghana $17,200,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Kenya $17,160,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Mongolia $16,800,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Ethiopia $15,550,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Panama $15,470,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. El Salvador $15,140,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Paraguay $14,760,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Tanzania $14,120,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Georgia $13,560,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Cote d'Ivoire $13,030,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Mauritius $11,830,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Bosnia and Herzegovina $11,200,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Nicaragua $10,190,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Uzbekistan $10,190,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Oman $10,180,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Azerbaijan $9,833,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Laos $9,552,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Zimbabwe $9,130,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Albania $8,782,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Armenia $8,537,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Bolivia $8,228,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Mozambique $8,049,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Yemen $7,772,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Macedonia $7,241,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Cambodia $7,222,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Kyrgyzstan $7,101,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Honduras $7,041,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Iran $6,922,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Zambia $6,730,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Burma $6,616,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Congo, Democratic Republic Of The $6,562,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Senegal $6,536,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Moldova $6,495,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Namibia $5,993,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Syria $5,812,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Cameroon $5,784,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Libya $5,244,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Korea, North $5,000,000,000 2013 est. Uganda $4,970,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Trinidad and Tobago $4,879,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Algeria $4,839,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Gabon $4,736,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Barbados $4,490,000,000 2010 est. Mauritania $3,807,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Congo, Republic Of The $3,763,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Nepal $3,727,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Mali $3,633,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Tajikistan $3,612,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Chad $3,525,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Madagascar $3,444,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Somalia $3,054,000,000 31 Dec 2013 est. Niger $2,983,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Burkina Faso $2,852,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Seychelles $2,823,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Benin $2,635,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Bermuda $2,435,000,000 2015 est. Guyana $2,303,000,000 31 Dec 2013 est. Botswana $2,256,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Malawi $1,884,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Bhutan $1,855,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Rwanda $1,778,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Cabo Verde $1,617,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Montenegro $1,576,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Equatorial Guinea $1,416,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Sierra Leone $1,368,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Haiti $1,366,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Belize $1,348,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Guinea $1,283,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Afghanistan $1,280,000,000 FY10/11 West Bank $1,180,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Guinea-Bissau $1,095,000,000 31 Dec 2010 est. Suriname $1,067,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Togo $984,400,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Eritrea $955,600,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Djibouti $905,500,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Lesotho $900,400,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Faroe Islands $888,800,000 2010 Maldives $793,600,000 2013 est. Fiji $769,100,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Burundi $700,800,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Aruba $693,200,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Grenada $679,000,000 2013 est. Liberia $652,200,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Central African Republic $630,100,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Swaziland $561,300,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Gambia, The $546,600,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Turkmenistan $522,300,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Saint Lucia $497,500,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Solomon Islands $491,500,000 31 Dec 2013 est. Samoa $447,200,000 31 Dec 2013 est. Antigua and Barbuda $441,200,000 31 Dec 2012 Kosovo $411,600,000 2014 est. Vanuatu $369,200,000 31 Dec 2012 est. Timor-Leste $311,500,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Dominica $292,900,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines $282,700,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Sao Tome and Principe $234,100,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Tonga $215,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Saint Kitts and Nevis $156,100,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Comoros $142,000,000 31 Dec 2014 est. Cook Islands $141,000,000 1996 est. New Caledonia $112,000,000 31 Dec 2013 est. Marshall Islands $97,960,000 2013 est. Micronesia, Federated States Of $93,600,000 2013 est. Greenland $36,400,000 2010 British Virgin Islands $36,100,000 1997 Nauru $33,300,000 2004 est. Kiribati $13,600,000 2013 est. Montserrat $8,900,000 1997 Anguilla $8,800,000 1998 Wallis and Futuna $3,670,000 2004 Niue $418,000 2002 est. 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__label__cc	0.515951	0.484049	Should we say farewell to the Arctic's unique nature? by Lærke Stewart, ScienceNordic Most land areas in the Arctic are covered by tundra, but the beautiful and rich plant life is threatened by global warming. Credit: Shutterstock Temperatures are rising faster in the Arctic than any other place on Earth. If these changes continue, it is likely that the unique and diverse Arctic tundra will change into a more uniform vegetation dominated by shrubs. And such a change in vegetation could cause additional changes to local and perhaps even the global climate. I reached this conclusion during my Ph.D. by studying plants in Greenland and producing models of future plant communities, in collaboration with researchers from Aarhus University, Denmark, and the Swiss Federal Research Institute, Switzerland. Our results are now published in the Journal of Biogeography, and they show that when the climate changes, the conditions in Northeast Greenland will no longer be optimal for many of the unique Arctic species that live here. Unique Arctic tundra Most land in the Arctic is covered by tundra – a unique composition of small low growing herbs, grasses, mosses, and lichens, as well as a few dwarf shrubs that have developed due to the permanently frozen soil (permafrost) and a very short growth season. The arctic bluegrass almost shimmers like northern lights in yellow-green, turquoise, and blue-lilac colours. The nodding campion points cheerfully with its bloated striped sepals, while the arctic bell-heather's fine white bells collect the morning dew. The yellow marsh saxifrage shines in competition with the midnight sun, and the red-tipped lousewort stretches its flaming flowers towards the great open sky. These small and seemingly fragile flowers have adapted to survive in a climate where the annual average temperature is below zero, where the soil is permanently frozen, and there is total darkness for up to six months of the year. Diverse Arctic vegetation. From top left: White cottongrass, cushion pink, white bluegrass, dwarf fireweed, alpine bluegrass, northern catchfly, bearberries, cinquefoils, Arctic white heather, fringed sandwort, red rattle, Arctic willow, purple saxifrage, mountain aven, yellow rockfoil. Credit: Lærke Stewart These plants have defied all reason and create the foundation for a whole ecosystem in the far north. White Arctic hares, playing Arctic foxes, buzzing insects, grazing muskoxen, small snow buntings, and majestic snowy owls, are just some of the species that are dependent on the Arctic vegetation. This whole ecosystem is in danger of change when the temperature rises. But climate change does not only affect the temperature. The amounts of snow and rain also change and the permafrost becomes less stable. These conditions cause the water content of the soil to change. Temperature, soil moisture, and the amount of snow are all vital for the survival of the tundra plants. Each and every one has adapted to grow under certain temperatures, snow, and water levels. When these conditions change, it could lead to species that are adapted to the Arctic climate no longer able to survive, while other Arctic species can expand their range northwards. So, the question is, what will happen to the unique Arctic tundra when the climate changes? How will changing temperature, snow, and soil moisture affect the composition of the vegetation? Fieldwork in the world's greatest national park Hoping to find answers to this question, I took the long journey north several years in a row to one of the most deserted land areas on Earth—the northeastern part of Greenland. Lærke Stewart, the author of this article, collecting data in Northeast Greenland. Credit: Lærke Stewart Here the tundra extends across the world's largest national park. Deep in the middle, lies a small research station where international scientists are developing a deep understanding of all the components of an Arctic ecosystem and how they interact. I spent several summers here collecting data on plant distribution, measuring the soil's water content and temperature, and using data collected at the research station of snow distribution. Once home, all these data were analysed and transformed into statistical models. From diversity to uniformity The results showed that changing climatic conditions will mean that this area of Northeast Greenland is no longer optimal for many of the unique species that currently live here. On the other hand, there will be optimal conditions for a few species of dwarf shrubs that can easily spread and outcompete the smaller herbs and grasses. If the climate continues to change, it is likely that the unique and diverse Arctic tundra landscape will change to a more uniform vegetation, dominated by shrubs as shown in the photo below. Changing Arctic vegetation can reinforce climate change Such a change in vegetation will have a great impact on the local ecosystem and for all of the species that live here. If this change is representative of other parts of the Arctic, it will lead to additional climate changes. The structure of the plant communities influence the water balance, how the snow is distributed in the landscape, the permafrost, the amount of solar radiation that is reflected into the atmosphere and how much is absorbed by the soil. All these factors together affect the climate. A warmer Arctic, where the current diverse vegetation is taken over by dwarf shrubs, will not only lead to a world poorer in many of the unique species that are adapted to the Arctic climate, but potentially also reinforce global warming. Taller plants moving into Arctic because of climate change More information: Laerke Stewart et al. Forecasted homogenization of high Arctic vegetation communities under climate change, Journal of Biogeography (2018). DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13434 Journal information: Journal of Biogeography Provided by ScienceNordic This story is republished courtesy of ScienceNordic, the trusted source for English-language science news from the Nordic countries. Read the original story here. Citation: Should we say farewell to the Arctic's unique nature? (2019, January 8) retrieved 17 July 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2019-01-farewell-arctic-unique-nature.html Tundra study uncovers impact of climate warming in the Arctic How to get nuanced details at the top of the world Gaining a bird's eye view of the greening of the Arctic Team discovers a significant role for nitrate in the Arctic landscape The Arctic is turning brown because of weird weather – and it could accelerate climate change	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line991
__label__wiki	0.630358	0.630358	Correction! by M.G. Piety.In Conference news, News from Copenhagen.8 Comments on Correction! This is embarrassing. I had written in the last post that Pia Søltoft was the director of the Søren Kierkegaard Research Center at the University of Copenhagen. Sylvia Walsh Perkins corrected me, however, in a recent email exchange. Niels Jørgen Cappelørn is the director of the center, she said. He had told her so himself. That makes sense given the penchant the Danish press had for referring to Cappelørn as the director of the center, even after everyone in the U.S. (and one can presume the rest of the world outside Denmark) had been notified that Pia Søltoft was the director of the center. What gave me pause, however, was the fact that Pia had told me herself that she was the director of the center. Or more correctly, she had answered my question as to whether she was the director of the center with an affirmative “yes.” I’d asked her that precisely because there’s been lingering ambiguity about who is the center director (see my inaugural post to this blog). Pia explained that she was, in fact, the director for now, but that she would not be the director for much longer because now that the center had been incorporated into the theology faculty of the University of Copenhagen, the head of the theology faculty would be the director of the center. I thought I’d do a web search to see what the website for the center said and was surprised to discover that there were actually two websites for the center, the old one, when the center was not affiliated with the university and one that reflects its new affiliation. Neither lists Pia Søltoft as the director though, so I’m not sure what her role is re the center and why she did not explain the situation. Maybe even she does not understand it. Also, I was surprised to learn that the Theology Faculty bio for Pia to which I had included a link in the earlier post no longer works. It worked when I wrote the piece last week, but it doesn’t work now, so I included an older link above. Niels Jørgen CappelørnPia SøltoftSøren Kierkegaard Forsknings CentretSøren Kierkegaard Research CenterSylvia Walsh Perkins Patrick Stokes says: I can’t comment directly on the directorship issue (as my understanding is that it has changed quite recently) but I think I can explain the website at least. SKC has always been, in a sense, two distinct but overlapping bodies: a research center linked to the University of Copenhagen, and a philological and editorial center for the production of the new edition (SKS) under the aegis of the Søren Kierkegaard Research Center Foundation. When SKC was absorbed into the Theology Faculty (February 2010 – I remember as we had the ceremony just as I was finishing up my postdoc there, followed by a surprise party/festschrift launch for NJC’s 65th birthday), a new page was set up for SKC within the KU website, while the ‘old’ page became the webpage of the Research Foundation as it continued to work on the remaining volumes of SKS. (You’ll notice they’ve added a ‘Fonden’ to the page header). There’s currently a notice on the Foundation webpage that “Fonden Søren Kierkegaard Forskningscenteret har med udgivelsen af de to sidste bind, 28 og K28, af Søren Kierkegaards Skrifter løst sin sidste opgave og er under nedlæggelse.” So presumably that page won’t operate for much longer either. M.G. Piety says: Thanks for this info. I didn’t think there was much “overlap” though between what you refer to as the “research center” at the University of Copenhagen and the Søren Kierkegaard Research Center that was started by a grant from Forsknings Fonden. What you call the “research center” was always known as “the Kierkegaard Library” and it was part of the theology faculty of the University of Copenhagen. The SKRC was originally on the top floor of the theology faculty, but people who were working at the library were rarely allowed in the center or invited to center events. Then the center split off completely and moved to a new building a few blocks away. Then, I believe, it moved again. When did the last volumes of SKS appear? I thought that was a while ago, so it is puzzling that the website is still active. It’s also confusing. No explanation was ever given either for the fact that people outside Denmark were told Pia Søltoft was the center director whereas inside Denmark Cappelørn continued to be referred to as the director. It’s all very strange. patstokes says: Well during my time there, they overlapped insofar as they shared the same building (second floor of Vartov), facilities, director (Niels Jørgen, until Feb. 2010), Secretary (Bjarne) and public identity. You wouldn’t necessarily know about the dual reporting lines to KU and SKRCF even if you worked there – in fact I didn’t know about it for ages. Not sure exactly when the last SKS volumes appeared – though obviously some time before the whole thing was presented to Dronning Margarethe on 5th May. They shared the same floor? That’s a configuration I had not heard about. I also don’t get how Cappelørn could have been the director of the Kierkegaard library because the director was always a member of the Theology Faculty of the University of Copenhagen and Cappelørn was never, so far as I know, employed by the university. Do you think they kept the old SKRC website up until such time as they were able to present SKS to Queen Margarethe. That’s possible, I suppose, but it seems kind of odd and it is certainly very confusing. Yes we were all on the same floor (in offices coming of the same corridor in fact), shared the same lunchroom, copier, stationary, all appeared on the same website etc. It was great fun and a lovely environment to work in, though it would get a bit noisy one morning a year when the Grundtvigians would celebrate Grundtvig’s birthday outside in the courtyard 🙂 Not sure why they’re keeping the old site up: maybe it’s a requirement while the Foundation still exists as a legal entity, or maybe it’s just that no-one has taken it down yet. Wow, that sounds really nice. It was not at all like that when I was there. It sounds as if both the library and the center are now smaller than they were when I was there. The center used to take up the whole top floor of the Theology Faculty building. Small and friendly is certainly better than large and indifferent though. Robert L. Perkins says: Thanks, Marilyn, for your efforts; a few mistakes are inevitable, but your error-count is most admirable. Bob Previous Previous post: Kierkegaard Repetitions: An International Conference Celebrating the Bicentenary of Kierkegaard’s Birth Next Next post: Clarification of an Ambiguity in Philosophical Crumbs	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line992
__label__wiki	0.54399	0.54399	Tiffany Smith, wife of former Texans G.M., dies of breast cancer Posted by Curtis Crabtree on January 31, 2019, 7:41 PM EDT Just over a year ago, Rick Smith took a leave of absence from his role as General Manager of the Houston Texans to tend to his wife, Tiffany, as she battled breast cancer. Smith released a statement on Thursday evening that Tiffany had lost her fight. “Tiffany Avery Smith my wife of 17 years, passed away today at 12:00 noon, after a fierce battle with Breast Cancer,” Smith said, via ABC 13. “She was beautiful, courageous, and a wonderful wife and mother. I was honored to be her husband and I loved her dearly. My family and I, are in such gratitude for the outpouring of love and support we have received during her course of treatments. Thank you for your prayers, well wishes, dinners, rides to school, and all the many gestures of love and support we’ve received during this time. We are blessed to be in this community. God bless you all.” The Texans announced Rick Smith was taking a leave of absence of New Year’s Eve of 2017. Smith and Texans head coach Bill O’Brien had also butted heads over decisions made by the team leading up to Smith’s leave. The Texans hired Brian Gaine to take over the G.M. duties with Smith unavailable for the foreseeable future. The Texans also released a statement upon learning of Tiffany’s passing. “My family and the entire Houston Texans organization are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Tiffany Smith,” chairman and CEO Cal McNair said. “She was a loving mother, wife, and a strong force for good in the Houston community. Our thoughts and prayers are with Rick, their three children and the entire Smith family.” 11 responses to “Tiffany Smith, wife of former Texans G.M., dies of breast cancer” dash2713 says: Prayers for Rick and his family. vecchiaio says: Terrible news. Angel Valle says: Rip to her ! we all need to come together as a planet and defeat cancer! WarEagleTexan says: As a Texans fan from a business perspective I wanted him gone long ago. This news however breaks my heart. Stay strong Rick acmepackers says: God’s peace be with the family footballpat says: President Kennedy made a national commitment to go to the moon by the end of the decade. Not because it was easy, but because it was hard. We need to make that same commitment as a nation to defeat cancer. objectivefbfan says: The number of thumbs down about something so personal, so pervasive, and can affect all of us literally disgusts me. Hats off to @footballpat. We need to do it because it is hard – and worthy. nfl1818 says: wow – I know he was critcized by many – but obviously was in a fight for his wife’s life for some time. terrible news eaglesfan77511 says: Rip and ill keep them in my.prayers….very sad indeed. nortonfest says: Sad news. I know first hand that cancer sucks. Footballpat, there is a national/global commitment similar to what you described. It is called the Moonshot Initiative. Although there is a long way to go, there have been many advances in defeating cancer and many more are on the horizon. I doubt they cure it by 2020, but fingers crossed that someday a cancer diagnosis will not be as ominous as it is today. “In January 2016 during President Obama’s final State of the Union address he called on his Vice President, Joe Biden, to help make America “the country that cures cancer once and for all.” The name purposefully evokes feelings of The Space Race in the 1960s. Similar to Kennedy’s call to get America to the moon first, Obama and Biden are calling on those in the scientific community and all Americans to pull together to cure cancer. Even after funneling billions of dollars into research, up to half of American men and one third of all American women will receive a cancer diagnosis in their lifetimes – this initiative aims to put an end to this harrowing fact. The formation of the Blue Ribbon Panel was the first step in the process. The Cancer Moonshot task force chose this panel, comprised of experts from a range of scientific fields, cancer advocacy organizations, and pharmaceutical companies. The panel was announced on April 4, 2016 and have since met intermittently. In September 2016 the panel released a report that details their plan for 10 transformative research programs that they believe will allow the project to achieve a decade’s worth of progress in cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment in just 5 years.” The negativity expressed here in voting makes me want to cry. The man lost his wife and people can’t have empathy for that. Is your life really that sad. Grow up people and let’s become a country of compassion again.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line996
__label__cc	0.685115	0.314885	PAY & REWARDS DISCOVER PENN STATE Search Penn State Job #87174 Part-Time Adjunct Lecturer in Speech and Rhetoric Campus/Location: Date Announced: Date Closing: Job Number: Work Unit: Penn State Harrisburg invites applications for Adjunct Lecturers in Speech and Rhetoric to begin August 2019. Responsibilities: Teach 1-3 courses (3 credits each; with maximum of 9 credits) each semester to include teaching CAS 100, Effective Speech, with a possibility of related courses in Communication Arts and Sciences. Teaching assignments may require teaching day or evening classes, as needed. This is a part-time, adjunct position. Qualifications: Minimum requirement of Master`s degree. Must have completed MA in related field required and experience teaching at the post-secondary level is preferred. Commitment to high-quality instruction in a student-centered environment is desired. Enthusiasm for working in a multidisciplinary environment is important. Campus Information: Penn State Harrisburg is one of more than 20 Penn State campuses state-wide as an integral part of The Pennsylvania State University. Penn State Harrisburg’s expanding and multicultural campus is located in Middletown, PA and is a student-centered campus of approximately 5,000 students. Our students receive a world-class education delivered in a small campus setting. For more information about the campus, visit http://www.harrisburg.psu.edu Application: To be considered, candidates must apply electronically on the Penn State jobs site and submit the following: a cover letter of application detailing relevant qualifications for this position; a current curriculum vitae; and the names and contact information for three professional references. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Back Apply To This Job These salary bands have been established to provide salary guidelines for staff positions. A $16,584 $24,456 $32,328 B $18,240 $26,904 $35,556 C $19,728 $29,592 $39,456 D $21,708 $32,568 $43,416 E $24,312 $36,468 $48,612 F $27,228 $40,848 $54,456 G $30,012 $45,744 $61,500 H $34,188 $52,140 $70,080 I $38,988 $59,424 $79,908 J $43,716 $67,740 $91,812 K $50,712 $78,600 $106,488 L $58,836 $91,176 $123,528 M $68,232 $105,756 $143,292 N $80,508 $124,788 $169,068 O $93,492 $147,252 $201,024 P $110,340 $173,760 $237,192 Q $126,396 $199,056 $271,728 R $151,668 $238,872 $326,088 CAMPUS SECURITY CRIME STATISTICS: Pursuant to the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act and the Pennsylvania Act of 1988, Penn State publishes a combined Annual Security and Annual Fire Safety Report (ASR). The ASR includes crime statistics and institutional policies concerning campus security, such as those concerning alcohol and drug use, crime prevention, the reporting of crimes, sexual assault, and other matters. The ASR is available for review at https://police.psu.edu/annual-security-reports. Penn State is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer, and is committed to providing employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. If you are unable to use our online application process due to an impairment or disability, please contact HR Services at vacancy@psu.edu or 814-865-1473. Employment with the University will require successful completion of background check(s) in accordance with University policies. Affirmative Action Office Privacy and Legal Statements The Pennsylvania State University © 2014 – 2019	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line997
__label__cc	0.571272	0.428728	Crenshaw County Appeals Lawyer There is often a real possibility that a case does not go the way a defendant might prefer. If a poor decision is reached through flawed reasoning or unjust means, the legal system provides a process for people to appeal their cases to a higher court. The appeals process essentially allows an individual to review—and in some cases retry—their case in a higher court, giving them a chance to correct an error or further clarify the law. The possibility of receiving a different decision on a case could be an important one to pursue, and it may be overwhelming to handle alone. A Crenshaw County appeals lawyer could help you through the process and explain the steps needed to appeal your case to a higher court. A skilled criminal attorney could help you learn your rights and legal options. Contrary to the process in a trial court, there is no trial in the appeals process. While no new information or facts can be added to the record, the case in its entirety is reviewed. Both criminal and civil cases may be appealed to a higher court. Most of the work to garner an appeal happens through a person’s Crenshaw County attorney researching and writing a convincing argument on why the original decision was flawed. This often entails looking at the case for a reversible error that occurred during the trial proceedings. A reversible error is one which the appeals court could either overturn as a decision from the trial court proceedings or require that the trial court provide more information about so that the appeals court can take action on the original conviction. The appeal court decides whether to confirm the original ruling or to overturn the decision based on the brief that the lawyer gives them. Consequently, if someone is looking to appeal their court decision, it could be crucial for them to have representation from knowledgeable legal counsel immediately. Getting New Counsel May Help a Defendant’s Case Most trial lawyers do not know how to handle appeals. Their primary focus area is either criminal defense or prosecution during trial proceedings and their types of preparation are best suited for a trial process, which includes collecting documents and witnesses. Given that an appeal does not include a trial, a trial attorney’s usefulness may be limited in an appeal setting. It is also advisable for a defendant to get a fresh perspective on a case they intend to appeal. A new set of eyes may be able to offer new ideas and build a strong argument which differs from that presented in the original case. An appeals lawyer in Crenshaw County could review all the documents that were involved with the case and could request the transcript from the case to look for any possibly reversible errors. Contacting a Crenshaw County Appeals Attorney An experienced Crenshaw County appeals lawyer could be ready to help you through the appeals process. Given certain time constraints, it is often crucial to act as soon as possible. There is a finite amount of time after the original trial court decision is made in which you can appeal your case to a higher court. Get in contact with a qualified attorney as soon as possible to begin the process of appealing your case. Crenshaw County Criminal Lawyer	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1000
__label__wiki	0.585191	0.585191	Sake, Our Black Beauty by Chris Parkinson-Days \| posted in: Blog Entry \| 0 When I started volunteering and getting involved in horse rescue, I always thought the hard cases I would deal with would come from strangers. Those cases are hard and heartbreaking, there is no question about that, but I was wrong when I assumed that the heartbreak would always come from the ugly side of human behavior. I believe strongly that life deals us lessons with our experiences. I was taught a valuable one by a horse that was not a stranger to me. His name was Sake. Sake was a beautiful, coal black, Friesian stallion. For a stallion, he was miraculously mild mannered and so polite, no matter what the circumstances. Beautiful flowing locks and tail and a gift for always posing for the camera, he was a gorgeous horse – the spitting image of what I had always pictured the horse from Black Beauty to be. He belonged to a dear friend of mine. I never thought in a million years, I would be approaching him as an intake for Pony Up Rescue for Equines. My friend cared for her horses with all the love in the world. She had told me a year or so before about a choking incident Sake had suddenly had one day. She was certain it was a small apple or something that one of the kids had thrown into the pasture. He recovered quickly and life went on. Until it happened again. And then three more times. Working six days a week, raising kids, with an ill husband, and other horses, she was exhausted and had run out of funds after sending Sake to stay at nearby equine vet in hospital care, having him scoped, and having emergency visits to her farm when his choking would occur again. She had imported him from Holland when he was a colt along with her other Friesian, Sytze (a gelding). He was 10 years old. I remember getting the phone call from her asking me to help her. She didn’t know what else to do. She had stopped feeding him hay, he couldn’t take grain, but seemed to be ok with pasture grass. She had pasture, but it was January and soon it wouldn’t be enough anymore. I called Rosemary and we had a discussion about what to do. We decided we would take him in. We had a potential home lined up, ready to take him, give him the medical care needed, everything seemed like it was going to be ok. It wasn’t. My friend struggled with letting him go, and I couldn’t blame her. None of us could, but it was the right thing to do. She signed the release document, handed his papers over to me, and we arranged transport. She would be at work when it took place. Her husband told me she spent the morning brushing him, grooming him, gathering as many moments as she could before she would leave for work and return to him no longer being there. My heart ached for her. I and another volunteer transported Sake to Pony Up and settled him in to a paddock within sight of the other horses, but not close by. He could see them and he called to them. He had loaded up without a fuss, minded his manners in the trailer, and been a perfect gentleman settling into his paddock. Within 24 hours, Rosemary was contacting me saying he was too close to choking and we needed to get him to Pilchuck immediately. Arrangements were made and we transported him that day to Pilchuck. It was a Sunday and he would be seen first thing in the morning. On the way there, we brainstormed fundraising ideas, setup a GoFundMe, posted on Facebook about Sake. It was going to be expensive, but we were going to make it happen. Again, he was a perfect gentleman in the trailer and when we got there. He stood on the scale patiently while his weight was taken. We were disheartened to see his weight was about 200lbs under what it should have been by the tech’s estimation. He was so hungry too, immediately inspecting the buckets in the stall they had prepared for him. Rosemary jumped in immediately with the tech, giving tips on what his gruel had to look like for it to be safe for him to swallow and asking for answers on what they would be doing for his care until he could be seen the following morning, making suggestions on the answers as necessary. With heavy hearts, we all bid Sake farewell for the night, and headed back home. The vet had told Rosemary when she’d called that the signs pointed to a condition common in Friesians called Megaesophagus (ME). It was a genetic condition for which there was no cure or treatment. We hoped against hope that it wasn’t ME. Let it be something cureable, something surgery would fix, something that could be managed or treated. Despite limited funds for the rescue, we were determined to see this through. We would give him the chance. The next day, Rosemary, Katherine, and I kept in constant contact via text message. “Any news?” “Have they contacted you yet?” “I hope it’s not ME” “This waiting is killing me…” And then there was the message we didn’t want to receive. Rosemary called me to deliver the news. I knew it wasn’t good from the tone of her voice. When scoped, Sake’s esophagus was completely flacid and didn’t contract at all. It was ME, very advanced. The apple blamed for his first choke incident was not an apple at all…it was the first sign of the condition. The vet said he was days away from a ruptured esophagus, an extremely painful and miserable way to die. He couldn’t eat, he was slowly starving, he was going to suffer, and we knew we had no choice but to do the kind thing for him. “I have to get myself together and then go back to work,” Rosemary said to me. We were both upset. It wasn’t fair. “We have to let him go,” I said. Rosemary asked me to notify my friend. She had signed Sake over to Pony Up, but as a courtesy, she should know. Rosemary posted on our Facebook page the results for our followers to see. We wanted those who had donated to the cause to know the outcome. We were all heartbroken. You would think those who work rescue would get used to it, but we never do. Everyone we lose hurts. Every decision made has weight, and every horse we care for is our responsibility. We stand by that, no matter how much it hurts and how hard it gets. Sake was humanely euthanized at Pilchuck Hospital the same day as his diagnosis. I did inform my friend and we cried together on the phone. I found myself apologizing, I had wanted so badly to save him. All of us had wanted that. I told her what the diagnosis was and assured her that there was nothing that could have been done differently that would have changed the outcome over the past several years. My friend thanked me through tears, told me she loved me, and asked me to send her gratitude to everyone at Pony Up for seeing her boy to a peaceful end she could not afford to give him herself. He was at peace now and no longer in pain. What more could we really ask for given the circumstances? My heart broke for her and I wished more than anything I had the ability to conjure up words that would make it all ok. Grief doesn’t work like that though. Time is the only healer. About two weeks ago, Rosemary met me at the barn during my volunteer shift and handed me an envelope. It held a tail memory made by Pilchuck Hospital. She had received it the day before. A piece of Sake’s tail hair had been artistically braided and decorated. It came with a sympathy card. “She should have this..please give it to her,” Rosemary said. I said I would and we said no more about it, both of us shouldering our grief over our Black Beauty in silence. Sake taught me that I was wrong. Yes, we see a lot of horrible things as a rescue. We see starvation, neglect, abuse – all things we can easily despise and label as human indecency and ugliness. Those cases boil my blood and break my heart each time. Not all cases are like that though. Sake was well loved, cared for, had a beautiful ten years before a genetic condition claimed him. My friend had spent all of her savings trying to care for him, bring him back to health, and give him the best she could, but emergency vet bills are expensive and her life circumstances made it impossible to maintain. She was presented with no choice but to give him over to us in hopes that we could get him what he needed to be healthy or to find peace. It was the complete opposite of those other cases where horses are sold to kill pens after being starved half to death, or abused, or discarded like a pair of old sneakers. It was no less heartbreaking though. Sake taught me that the call to aid is not always accompanied by a glaring view of humanity’s underbelly. Sometimes it comes as a desperate cry for help conjured from love. Sake at Pony Up Rescue or Equines Sake being admitted to Pilchuck Hospital Run free, Sake. We love you. Pony Up is starting “Sake’s Fund” in the memory of this beautiful boy. The fund will go towards vet expenses for the horses currently at Pony Up Rescue for Equines and will also serve as a community fund so that we can assist those, like my friend, who are saddled with unmanageable emergency bills for the horses they love. If you would like to donate to support this cause, please contribute to Sake’s Fund on our Donation page. Subscription Link (opens in new tab) We respect your privacy and are grateful for your interest. Your email will never be sold, distributed, or shared. © 2019 Pony Up Rescue for Equines	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1002
__label__wiki	0.746773	0.746773	Jakarta’s Museum MACAN: No damaged Yayoi Kusama artworks, or special treatment for influencers https://www.malaymail.com/s/1639757/jakartas-museum-macan-no-damaged-yayoi-kusama-artworks-or-special-treatment Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s exhibition ‘Life Is the Heart of a Rainbow’ is currently on display at Museum MACAN in West Jakarta and will be open to the public until September 9. — Jakarta Globe pic A director at Jakarta’s Museum MACAN said none of Yayoi Kusama’s artworks were damaged by visitors touching, moving or taking selfies with them, despite someone partially rubbing out one of her famous polka dots. The Jakarta Globe previously ran an article that sparked a lot of debate about selfie-taking and damaged artworks at Museum MACAN. However, during a meeting with museum director Aaron Seeto on May 24, he confirmed that no artworks had been damaged. “I can confirm that no artworks had been damaged by visitors to the museum. What was reported was actually inaccurate and the images were posted by a volunteer, not a staff member,” he said. He added that the photos, which he described as inaccurate and out of context, were not authorized by the museum. The previous story, published on May 18, was based on a series of photos Amanda Aulia, a part-time staff member at Museum MACAN, posted on her Instagram account @amansaulia on May 17, showing damage to Kusama’s artworks. “Unfortunately, I am not going to respond to the motives of another person, especially in distributing something that was not authorized by the museum,” Seeto said. He went through some photos and explained the condition of the artworks. Seeto said the partially erased polka dot was actually a replaceable sticker and that the museum had expected a huge turnout, so there was scheduled maintenance to replace those stickers. “So the stickers in the image that was reported were actually replaceable, and that image was taken before our maintenance teams were able to go through,” he said. Regarding one of the silver balls in Narcissus Garden, Seeto said it had been “dislodged” but that the artwork was not damaged. Entang Wiharso’s plexiglass paintings in the Children’s Artspace, on the other hand, are allowed to be touched. “In the children’s art space, Entang’s artwork is actually designed for young children to understand how artists create. So there are components kids may touch and again, from time to time we have to maintain the artwork. They are allowed to touch that work, so from time to time, we only need to change it,” he said. He reiterated that the images that went viral on social media were taken and distributed by the volunteer before the scheduled maintenance could take place. “I have a conservator on board. We do a daily review of the exhibition. We all have the planning in place, the planning is part of the design of the exhibition and the images you have seen are all of the works that have interactive elements. And we know that we have processes to maintain the artworks and these images were taken before our team was able to maintain the artwork.” Museum director Aaron Seeto confirmed that no artworks had been damaged. — Jakarta Globe pic Did influencers cause trouble? The Jakarta Globe’s article originally featured two photos of Instagram influencers seen mistreating the artwork. One was seen sitting on the kitchen counter in Obliteration Room. When writing the article, Museum MACAN communications officer Nina Hidayat told the Globe that sitting is only allowed in the chairs, because going to the room “is like visiting someone’s house.” Seeto expressed a similar sentiment. “They are able to sit on certain parts of the installation. We prefer people not to sit on the counters, but again, the artwork was not damaged.” The other photo depicted a man leaning on one of Kusama’s pieces titled Dots Obsessions. The owner of the photo, who goes by the name Abi Shihab, clarified that he was not leaning on the artwork, as it is made from soft material and cannot support his weight. He said he used his feet to support his body, and the lighting made it look like there was no distance between him and the artwork. However, Seeto declined to specifically comment on this picture. “Of course, there are things people can’t do and they are instructed not to do. Touching a certain element is not permitted and from time to time, people touch it and we prefer that they don’t. From time to time, people do touch artwork and we prefer that they do not and there are rules and guidelines in place for people to not to touch the works. “I can’t comment on the picture and I think my response is very clear that no artworks were damaged here. Our team and visitors are also instructed on how to behave inside the museum but I am not commenting on the image,” he said. Seeto said influencers do not get preferential treatment but prior to the public opening of the exhibition, there had been several previews to which members of the media, sponsors, influencers and MACAN Society members were invited. However, there are no different rules regarding their interaction with the artworks. “During the preview days, we had all kinds of interested people coming to the exhibition. There were artists — young artists, established artists — curators, architects, fashion designers, media people so that the assumption that only influencers attended the exhibition is not actually the full picture,” he said. He added that after an exhibition opened to the public, the museum welcomed people from all backgrounds. On weekends, they mostly dealt with families. The museum also hosted a sponsored school visit on the day of the interview. Since the museum is open to everyone of any age, Seeto said there are protocols in place to protect artworks, such as selling timed tickets to limit visitor traffic, having 24-hour security, making sure that children are accompanied by adults, and only allowing phone cameras, except for accredited media. “All of the exhibition design has been thought through very carefully to ensure that the flow of the audience past the artworks that allow participation is managed in a particular way,” Seeto said. — The Jakarta Globe CategoriesArt Damage Museum Security ICE and DOJ return Christopher Columbus letter to Spain “The Museum of Lost Art”: Examining the vulnerability of the world’s treasures	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1008
__label__wiki	0.948036	0.948036	Philosophical Analysis in Latin America Philosophical Analysis in Latin America pp 339-364 \| Cite as Natural Conjectures Joäo Paulo Monteiro Part of the Synthese Library book series (SYLI, volume 172) I. How do ccmnon sense and theoretical knowledge relate to each other? Hume seems to suggest a smooth and swift continuity between both: “Philosophical decisions are nothing but the reflections of common life, methodized and corrected.” Philosophical inquiry is characterized by the search for evermore general principles, but this transition has already begun at the level of common sense: “From our earliest infancy we make continual advances in forming more general principles of conduct and reasoning;… the larger experience we acquire, and the stronger reason we are endowed with, we always render our principles the more general and comprehensive; and… what we call philosophy is nothing but a more regular and methodical operation of the same kind.” Common Sense Common Knowledge Theoretical Knowledge Inductive Inference Ontological Relativity Translated by Barbara Ann Norton and the author. Original article in Manuscrito 3 (1979), 57–80. Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding XII, iii, in Enquiries, ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge and Rev. P. H. Nidditch ( Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975 ).Google Scholar Hune, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, I, ed. N. C. Smith ( New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1947 ), p. 162.Google Scholar Quine, Ontological Relativity and Other Essavs ( New York and London: Columbia Univ. Press, 1969 ), p. 129.Google Scholar Chomsky, Reflections on Language ( New York: Random House, 1975 ), p. 224.Google Scholar Hune, A Treatise of Human Nature, I, iv, 7, ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge ( Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888 ), pp. 267–8.Google Scholar Monteiro, “Inducao e Hipotese na Filosofia de Hume,” Manuscrito I (1978) and “Hume’s Conception of Science,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 19 (1979).Google Scholar Monteiro, “Hume e a gravidade newtoniana,” Ciencia e Filosofia 1 (1979).Google Scholar Wisdom, Other Minds ( Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969 ), p. 230.Google Scholar Reid, Essays on the Intellectural Powers of Man, II, viii, (Cambridge, Mass., and London: MIT Press, 1969 ), p. 152.Google Scholar Quine, From a Logical Point of View, ( Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1964 ), p. 77.Google Scholar Quine, Word and Object (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1960), pp. 11 and 3.Google Scholar Quine, The Ways of Paradox ( New York: Random House, 1966 ), p. 237.Google Scholar Popper, Objective Knowledge ( Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973 ), pp. 68–70.Google Scholar Quine, The Roots of Reference (LaSalle, II.: Open Court, 1974 ), p. 19.Google Scholar Lorenz, L’Envers du Miroir ( Paris: Flanmarion, 1975 ), p. 17.Google Scholar © D. Reidel Publishing Company 1984 Monteiro J.P. (1984) Natural Conjectures. In: Garcia J.J.E., Rabossi E., Villanueva E., Dascal M. (eds) Philosophical Analysis in Latin America. Synthese Library (Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science), vol 172. Springer, Dordrecht DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6375-7_18 Publisher Name Springer, Dordrecht Print ISBN 978-94-009-6377-1 Online ISBN 978-94-009-6375-7	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1011
__label__wiki	0.529755	0.529755	SF Bay Area Events Baltimore Events New York/New Jersey Area Events Revolutionary University Workplace Newsletters SON Monthly Editorials from L’Étincelle Lessons From the Civil Rights Struggle The struggle against racism in the U.S. has involved millions of people, starting with the first person to resist slavery. Today this history is often told with the tactic of nonviolence being opposed to self-defense. The truth is that the two were not opposed during the movement. Both tactics were used to fight against institutional and individual white supremacy. The tactic of non-violence could involve masses of people in directly opposing racist oppression, especially when facing powerful forces. Its message was clear. It was militantly disciplined and often disruptive. The violence came from those who stood on the side of racism. And that is where the tactic of self-defense came in. People living in the rural South could be easy targets for night-riding racists. The racist order was maintained through campaigns of terror. Many communities were organized to defend themselves. Homes were stocked with arms and ammunition. Networks existed that could respond in case of an attack. When students from both the North and South joined the struggle, the attacks of the racists often increased. Most of the student activists were sworn to nonviolent resistance. Their courage was appreciated by those who gave them food and shelter. Giving support to the student activists put local people in great danger, and a nonviolent strategy was not going to have an impact on armed racists in the middle of the night. That was a tactic for daylight in plain sight of the media. One of the first leaders of a Civil Rights organization to openly advocate armed self-defense was Robert F. Williams, President of the Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The Ku Klux Klan was a powerful force in the area. Weekend Klan rallies would bring as many as 3000 to nighttime cross burnings. Racist nightriders would drive through the black community firing their weapons. Williams, a military veteran, like others in his chapter, organized a defense guard to stand up to this terrorism. The community was trained and ready. When the racists shot, their fire was returned, which put a stop to their cowardly activity. Williams was not alone in his understanding that people had to protect themselves from the racist violence. One of the better-known groups was the Deacons for Defense and Justice. In 1964, military veterans in Louisiana organized the Deacons. Some were actually Deacons in their churches and the name provided a cover of sorts. Within a couple of years there were more than twenty chapters across the South and many more similar groups made up of determined men and women. More people became aware of the Deacons during James Meredith’s “March Against Fear” in 1966. Meredith had planned to march from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi. On the second day, a racist shot him three times with a shotgun. Hundreds took up the march, refusing to be intimidated, and finished the 220-mile march in the Deep South, registering voters along the way. The Deacons provided security for the march. Still, the march is often presented as a victory of the principle of nonviolence. Those who were active in the movement knew that the two tactics complemented each other including the Rev. Martin Luther King. They understood the vicious nature of this system. Visitors to King’s home were often shocked at the number of weapons present and having to check for a pistol on a couch or a chair before they sat down. Those who were deep in the struggle understood that it was a matter of assessing and responding to the forces arrayed against them. Today, we face the same questions, whether on a picket line or defending our communities from violence – by the police or others. We need to be realistic. Tactics of non-violence, which present our cause to the public, have the possibility of involving more people and showing up the forces opposing us. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t defend ourselves when attacked. The Future is Socialism Capitalism is the Problem 1968 – Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible! The Future Is In Our Hands! The Challenges We Face Today: Short-Term Mobilizing or Organizing for Real Social Change France: “All Together! 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__label__cc	0.603831	0.396169	Tag Archives: arab news Three anonymous sources Arab News, the newspaper that calls itself “The Middle East’s Leading English Language Daily,” published this piece about the lack of lack of cultural and recreational activities available to women in Saudi Arabia. While I don’t question the premise of the story, I do have a problem with how the story is written. The piece quotes three women who decided to hide their identities. The first is a PE teacher, the second is a university professor, and the third is a “Saudi girl.” Two things: a) how could the editors pass a piece with three anonymous sources and not raise a flag? b) no offense to the three women, but I see no reason why they refused to be identified. I could cut the girl some slack, but not the the teacher and the professor. The way they put it makes you think they were revealing state secrets or something. Sheesh. Wednesday, February 23, 2011 by Ahmed 1 Comment Origin of Arab News, Saudi coed study Arab News is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year. To commemorate the occasion, the newspaper has published a supplement that carried articles by many people, including one by Prince Turki al-Faisal, the former Saudi ambassador to the US and the UK. In his article, Prince Turki reveals that both Arab News and Asharq al-Awsat, the flagship publications of SRMG, were actually the brainchildren of himself, Kamal Adham, and Hisham Ali Hafiz. In other words, both newspapers were born at the offices of the Saudi intelligence agency. A study on co-education at university level has been recently conducted. The study sample was comprised of 440 med students from KSU and KAU. 71% of them said they support co-education, compared to 29% who were against it. Makes you wonder about all those ‘majority’ arguments that some people like to bring up when discussing controversial issues in the country. Wednesday, May 19, 2010 by Ahmed 10 Comments The View of Arab TV, i.zone advertorial in Arab News Why most of women talk shows on Arab TV channels have four hosts? Amal Zahid jokingly says, probably because they accept the notion that one woman is not enough for a man. The reason, of course, is because most of these talk shows are modeled after The View. But I agree with Zahid that my friend Buthaina al-Nassr is more than capable of hosting her own show instead of sharing the table with three other women on Al Hurra. She has already done it with Al Ekhbariya, and I’m sure she can do it again. Dear Arab News, I like you guys, but shame on you for publishing this piece without telling your readers that it is an ad. Seriously, shame on you. Friday, April 9, 2010 by Ahmed Today’s Links Note to Arab News: my last name is al-Omran, not al-Omranm. The way you misspelled my name makes it unpronounceable. Another thing: I don’t blog for Saudi Jeans. Saudi Jeans doesn’t pay me any money. Saudi Jeans is my blog. It’s the website where I blog. Also, don’t rephrase what I said and then put it in quote marks. Kthxbai. Fellow blogger Najla Barasain is about to leave KSA soon heading to the US in order to continue her education. She is understandably worried. Friday, February 26, 2010 by Ahmed Arab News Redesigns Finally, and after many long years of stagnation, Arab News gave their website a redesign. Nothing groundbreaking, but certainly an improvement over their old one which looked like a website from the mid 90’s. True to its nickname, the Green Truth, the new design features the green color heavily, using it for all headlines and links. Although I have to say that the green .com next to the newspaper name is pretty lame and it looks rather outdated. The website also uses more pictures in a much nicer way than the old one. But more importantly, they finally introduce RSS, but the feeds are not full so you will have to visit the website to read the articles. They also decided to open all articles to comments by readers, so that’s something as well. The very first comment on the new AN was about the Grand Mufti’s call for monitoring of massage centers, and it reads: “That’s all this blind man cares about?! I expected him to encourage MOH to care for the poor patients who lose thier (sic) lives due to mistakes and recklessness. I guess massage pose a greater danger!!!” I guess it will be interesting to watch their policy when it comes to comments. Is it going to be like al-Arabyia’s ‘everything goes’ policy, or something like al-Watan’s which its editor Jamal Khashoggi recently bragged that he employs ten girls whose their sole job is to monitor comments. But back to the redesign itself, it will be inevitable to compare it to the other English daily in the country, Saudi Gazette, which has also gone through a redesign last year. While Saudi Gazette uses a solution developed by the local company SmartInfo, which Fouad al-Farhan recently sold, Arab News uses Escenic, a CMS developed by a Norwegian company that was also used for the website of al-Majalla. However, when compared to other regional and international newspapers, both remain pretty barebones. Nothing out of the ordinary, and nothing that really stands out. It is very obvious that newspapers here are still approaching the web with their old mentality. Except for al-Riyadh, which has a very good team of local smart developers, none of these newspapers think of their websites as an important part of their service. None of them has an ‘online newsroom,’ and none of them think of their websites as a new medium where they can build a community where they can engage their readers in ways print cannot do. I believe that the local internet scene is still lacking on many levels, and there are many opportunities to create excellent Saudi content especially in Arabic. The attempts that we have seen so far in this field are very weak and leave much to be desired. I have been thinking about this a lot lately, and I have some ideas that I’m working on, so if you are interested please get in touch. Monday, February 15, 2010 by Ahmed 5 Comments Poor Journalism Says Hi I’ve been following the local mainstream media closely for the last three years. One of the things that I observed is that some of the English-language press here do a better job when it comes to reporting important and controversial local stories. Part of this has to do with the fact that they are in English so they are not under the radar of the censorship, but more importantly because their editors are usually committed to higher standards than their peers in the Arabic ones. However, every once in awhile the very same publications come up with gems like this which make me reconsider that observation. Other than some unknown market analysts, the reporter relied completely for his story on one source only: the owner of a company that runs a few of these amusement parks and who apparently looks forward to open more of them. And why not? I mean he, after all, was the one who said his “centers were located in attractive places, close to beaches and residential areas” as well as being “equipped with advanced educational and entertainment facilities.” This piece of lousy reporting, and believe me I’m being way too nice to describe it as reporting when it sounds like a paid for commercial more than anything else, makes me lose my hope in the future of the fourth estate in this country. When I spent two weeks in the States last September I decided to take a break from the Saudi MSM while I was there and guess what? I didn’t miss it that much. 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We had a chance to hold the discussion on the 6th of May, when we had our negotiations in Finland on the margins of the Arctic Council. We covered and … Joint Statement on Syria The text of the following statement was released today by UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, and U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo. By U.S. Mission Russia \| 5 April, 2019 \| Topics: News, Political Affairs, Press Releases, U.S. Secretary of State Op-Ed by Ambassador Jon Huntsman for RBC The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, signed in 1987, prohibits the United States and Russia from possessing ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 KM. In the early years of this historic treaty, both sides collectively destroyed more than 2,600 missiles. 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__label__wiki	0.576232	0.576232	Humanities Scholarship, Cyberinfrastructure & the Future of Cultural Memory Organizations Electronic technology has changed the way scholars in the humanities do their work, creating two distinct groups of scholars: first, those who perform leading-edge humanities computing research (a relatively small number); and second, scholars who perform traditional humanities research with new electronic tools (a fairly large number). How is it possible to bring these two groups together? The Text Creation Partnership at the University of Michigan provides one way of providing services to both. And as the electronic publishing community looks for ways to provide reliable cyberinfrastructure in the humanities, the Text Creation Partnership provides a model for building large digital collections that meet the needs of future scholars. Clifford Lynch is the Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), a joint program of the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, based in Washington, DC. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley’s School of Information. He is both a past president and recipient of the Award of Merit of the American Society for Information Science, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. Stream Interview Speaker: Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information Location: Lumpkin Auditorium	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1022
__label__cc	0.727744	0.272256	How does dry ice work? While dry ice looks like it would be cold, it's extremely dangerous to the touch and can cause severe burns. Photographer: Kivig \| Agency: Dreamstime.com Dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide. A block of dry ice has a surface temperature of -109.3 degrees Fahrenheit (-78.5 degrees C). Dry ice also has the very nice feature of sublimation -- as it breaks down, it turns directly into carbon dioxide gas rather than a liquid. The super-cold temperature and the sublimation feature make dry ice great for refrigeration. For example, if you want to send something frozen across the country, you can pack it in dry ice. It will be frozen when it reaches its destination, and there will be no messy liquid left over like you would have with normal ice. Many people are familiar with liquid nitrogen, which boils at -320 degrees F (-196 degrees C). Liquid nitrogen is fairly messy and difficult to handle. So why is nitrogen a liquid while carbon dioxide is a solid? This difference is caused by the solid-liquid-gas features of nitrogen and carbon dioxide. We are all familiar with the solid-liquid-gas behavior of water. We know that at sea level, water freezes at 32 degrees F (0 degrees C) and boils at 212 degrees F (100 degrees C). Water behaves differently as you change the pressure, however. As you lower the pressure, the boiling point falls. If you lower the pressure enough, water will boil at room temperature. If you plot out the solid-liquid-gas behavior of a substance like water on a graph showing both temperature and pressure, you create what's called a phase diagram for the substance. The phase diagram shows the temperatures and pressures at which a substance changes between solid, liquid and gas. This page shows the phase diagrams for water and carbon dioxide. What you can see is that, at normal pressures, carbon dioxide moves straight between gas and solid. It is only at much higher pressures that you find liquid carbon dioxide. For example, a high-pressure tank of carbon dioxide or a carbon-dioxide fire extinguisher contains liquid carbon dioxide. To make dry ice, you start with a high-pressure container full of liquid carbon dioxide. When you release the liquid carbon dioxide from the tank, the expansion of the liquid and the high-speed evaporation of carbon dioxide gas cools the remainder of the liquid down to the freezing point, where it turns directly into a solid. If you have ever seen a carbon-dioxide fire extinguisher in action, you have seen this carbon-dioxide snow form in the nozzle. You compress the carbon-dioxide snow to create a block of dry ice. Dry Ice Safety If you ever have a chance to handle dry ice, you want to be sure to wear heavy gloves. The super-cold surface temperature can easily damage your skin if you touch it directly. For the same reason, you never want to taste or swallow dry ice, either. Another important concern with dry ice is ventilation. You want to make sure the area is well-ventilated. Carbon dioxide is heavier than air, and it can concentrate in low areas or enclosed spaces (like a car or a room where dry ice is sublimating). Normal air is 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen and only 0.035% carbon dioxide. If the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air rises above 5%, carbon dioxide can become toxic. Be sure to ventilate any area that contains dry ice, and do not transport it in a closed vehicle. How Water Works What if I touched dry ice? How Freeze-drying Works Why do bridges ice before the rest of the highway? Dry Ice Info Using Dry Ice to Preserve Food Experiments with Dry Ice Fun With Dry-ice	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1023
__label__wiki	0.804426	0.804426	Home Blog Entry Forecast calls for nanoflowers to help return eyesight Forecast calls for nanoflowers to help return eyesight EUGENE, Ore. — University of Oregon researcher Richard Taylor is on a quest to grow flowers that will help people who’ve lost their sight, such as those suffering from macular degeneration, to see again. These flowers are not roses, tulips or columbines. They will be nanoflowers seeded from nano-sized particles of metals that grow, or self assemble, in a natural process — diffusion limited aggregation. They will be fractals that mimic and communicate efficiently with neurons. Fractals are “a trademark building block of nature,” Taylor says. Fractals are objects with irregular curves or shapes, of which any one component seen under magnification is also the same shape. In math, that property is self-similarity. Trees, clouds, rivers, galaxies, lungs and neurons are fractals, Taylor says. Today’s commercial electronic chips are not fractals, he adds. Eye surgeons would implant these fractal devices within the eyes of blind patients, providing interface circuitry that would collect light captured by the retina and guide it with almost 100 percent efficiency to neurons for relay to the optic nerve to process vision. In an article titled “Vision of beauty” for Physics World, Taylor, a physicist and director of the UO Materials Science Institute, describes his envisioned approach and how it might overcome the problems occurring with current efforts to insert photodiodes behind the eyes. Current chip technology is limited, because it doesn’t allow sufficient connections with neurons. “The wiring — the neurons — in the retina is fractal, but the chips are not fractal,” Taylor says. “They are just little squares of electrodes that provide too little overlap with the neurons.” Beginning this summer, Taylor’s doctoral student Rick Montgomery will begin a yearlong collaboration with Simon Brown at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand to experiment with various metals to grow the fractal flowers on implantable chips. The idea for the project emerged as Taylor was working under a Cottrell Scholar Award he received in 2003 from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. His vision is now beginning to blossom under grants from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the U.S. Air Force and the National Science Foundation. Taylor’s theoretical concept for fractal-based photodiodes also is the focus of a U.S. patent application filed by the UO’s Office of Technology Transfer under Taylor’s and Brown’s names, the UO and University of Canterbury. The project, he writes in the Physics World article, is based on “the striking similarities between the eye and the digital camera.” (Physics World article is available at: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/indepth/45840) “The front end of both systems,” he writes, “consists of an adjustable aperture within a compound lens, and advances bring these similarities closer each year.” Digital cameras, he adds, are approaching the capacity to capture the 127 megapixels of the human eye, but current chip-based implants, because of their interface, are only providing about 50 pixels of resolution. Among the challenges, Taylor says, is determining which metals can best go into body without toxicity problems. “We’re right at the start of this amazing voyage,” Taylor says. “The ultimate thrill for me will be to go to a blind person and say, we’re developing a chip that one day will help you see again. For me, that is very different from my previous research, where I’ve been looking at electronics to go into computers, to actually help somebody if I can pull that off that will be a tremendous thrill for me.” Taylor also is working under a Research Corp. grant to pursue fractal-based solar cells. Contact: Jim Barlow, director of science and research communications, 541-346-3481, [email protected] Source: Richard Taylor, professor of physics, director of Materials Science Institute, 541-346-4741, [email protected] Physics World article: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/indepth/45840 Taylor faculty page: http://physics.uoregon.edu/faculty/taylor.html Physics department: http://physics.uoregon.edu/index.html Materials Science Institute: http://materialscience.uoregon.edu/ UO Office of Technology Transfer: http://techtran.uoregon.edu/ Simon Brown faculty page: http://www.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/people/brown.shtml Audio Clip with Taylor: http://comm.uoregon.edu/files/pmr/uploads/The_Vision.mp3 Follow UO Science on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/UniversityOfOregonScience	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1024
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Birds eat 400 to 500 million tonnes of insects annually Birds around the world eat 400 to 500 million metric tonnes of beetles, flies, ants, moths, aphids, grasshoppers, crickets and other anthropods per year. These numbers have been calculated in a study led by Martin Nyffeler of the University of Basel in Switzerland. The research, published in Springer's journal The Science of Nature, highlights the important role birds play in keeping plant-eating insect populations under control. Nyffeler and his colleagues based their figures on 103 studies that highlighted the volume of prey that insect-eating birds consume in seven of the world's major ecological communities known as biomes. According to their estimations, this amounts to between 400 and 500 million tonnes of insects per year but is most likely to be on the lower end of the range. Their calculations are supported by a large number of experimental studies conducted by many different research teams in a variety of habitats in different parts of the world. "The global population of insectivorous birds annually consumes as much energy as a megacity the size of New York. They get this energy by capturing billions of potentially harmful herbivorous insects and other arthropods," says Nyffeler. Forest-dwelling birds consume around 75 per cent of the insects eaten in total by birds which make up about 300 million tonnes of insects per year. About 100 million tonnes are eaten by birds in savanna areas, grasslands and croplands, and those living in the deserts and Arctic tundra. Birds actively hunt insects especially during the breeding season, when they need protein-rich prey to feed to their nestlings. Further, the researchers estimated that insectivorous birds together only have a biomass of about three million tonnes. Nyffeler says the comparatively low value for the global biomass of wild birds can be partially explained through their very low production efficiency. This means that respiration takes a lot of energy and only leaves about one to two percent to be converted into biomass. "The estimates presented in this paper emphasize the ecological and economic importance of insectivorous birds in suppressing potentially harmful insect pests on a global scale – especially in forested areas," explains Nyffeler, who says that this is especially so for tropical, temperate and boreal forest ecosystems. "Only a few other predator groups such as spiders and entomophagous insects (including in particular predaceous ants) can keep up with the insectivorous birds in their capacity to suppress plant-eating insect populations on a global scale," he adds. A study from 2017 which Nyffeler also led showed that spiders consume between 400 and 800 million tonnes of insects each year. Other predator groups like bats, primates, shrews, hedgehogs, frogs, salamanders, and lizards seem to be valuable yet less effective natural enemies of plant-eating insects. He says their influence seems to be more biome-specific rather than on a worldwide scale. For instance, lizards help to suppress insects on tropical islands, but less so on a broader scale. "Birds are an endangered class of animals because they are heavily threatened by factors such as afforestation, intensification of agriculture, spread of systemic pesticides, predation by domestic cats, collisions with man-made structures, light pollution and climate change. If these global threats cannot soon be resolved, we must fear that the vital ecosystem services that birds provide – such as the suppression of insect pests – will be lost," says Nyffeler. Reference: Nyffeler, M. et al (2018). Insectivorous birds consume an estimated 400-500 million tons of prey annually, The Science of Nature DOI: 10.1007/s00114-018-1571-z Erica Lorenzoni @SpringerNature http://www.springer.com https://www.springer.com/gp/about-springer/media/research-news/all-english-research-news/birds-eat-400-to-500-million-tonnes-of-insects-annually-/15910278 <h4>Related Journal Article</h4>http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-018-1571-z Penn’s Brian Capell, M.D., Ph.D., wins Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award Intense conditions turn nitrogen metallic Salt regulation among saltmarsh sparrows evolved in 4 unique ways Exploring frontiers: Predicting biology Hubble helps uncover origin of Neptune’s smallest moon Hippocamp Scienmag Feb 21, 2019 Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, L. 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__label__wiki	0.853005	0.853005	Home > Opinions > People v. Brice People v. Brice People v. Brice , 49 Cal.2d 434 [Crim. No. 6110. In Bank. Nov. 22, 1957.] THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. REMMEL WAYNE BRICE, Appellant. Andrew R. Edwards and Douglas J. Stapel for Appellant. Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Elizabeth Miller, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent. GIBSON, C.J. The jury convicted defendant of murder of the first degree and fixed the penalty at death. This appeal comes before us automatically under the provisions of subdivision (b) of section 1239 of the Penal Code. About 10:30 p.m. on July 21, 1956, G. Estanpol was shot to death in his liquor store on Sepulveda Boulevard in San Fernando Valley. Richard Provencio witnessed the shooting from his automobile at a nearby intersection. He saw a man facing Estanpol fire a gun and back out of the store. The man ran around the side of the building and disappeared into a [49 Cal.2d 436] parking lot at the rear. Provencio got out of his automobile and went to the back of the building. A man sitting on the passenger's side of a 1950 or 1951 Oldsmobile sedan pointed a gun at him as the car drove away. When the police arrived at the scene of the killing, they found three empty cartridges on the floor and three bullets embedded in the wall behind the spot where the victim lay. About a week later, a gun was discovered in the vicinity of the store. It was traced to defendant, and an expert on firearms identified it as the weapon used in the killing. After defendant's arrest, he freely and voluntarily admitted the shooting when questioned by the police. According to his account, he had gone to Los Angeles from Bakersfield on July 21 in an automobile with Thomas Crow, and, on their way back to Bakersfield, they stopped at a liquor store on Sepulveda Boulevard. Crow, who was driving, remained in the car, and defendant went inside. There was no one in the front part of the store, and defendant walked to the rear with a gun in his hand. An old man was sitting there, listening to the radio, and defendant told him to get up and demanded "the money." As the man walked to the front of the store, he picked up a soda bottle and began "hollering" something in a language which defendant did not understand. Defendant thought the victim "was going to do something," and, before he "knew it" the gun went off in his hand. Defendant returned to the car, told Crow to drive slowly so as to escape notice, threw away his gun and his hat, and changed his shirt. Crow testified that, on the night in question, he was driving a 1951 Oldsmobile, that defendant directed him to stop at the next liquor store, and that, upon returning to the car from the store at which they stopped, defendant told him to take a circuitous route to Bakersfield. After they were on their way, defendant told Crow that he had shot a man in the store. fn. * The evidence is clearly sufficient to support the verdict, and we find no error in rulings on the admission of evidence or in the instructions given to the jury. Defendant's sole contention [49 Cal.2d 437] is that he was denied a fair trial on the issue of punishment because of the prosecutor's conduct. During the voir dire examination of prospective jurors and the argument at the close of the evidence, the prosecutor asked questions or made statements which might have been understood as meaning that, under the law applicable to first degree murder, the death penalty is preferred to life imprisonment and must be imposed, unless there are mitigating circumstances, and that death is the legally required punishment in the case of a "murder for profit." No objection was made to any of these questions or statements. [1] It is settled that, regardless of the circumstances connected with a murder of the first degree, there is no requirement of or preference for either of the applicable penalties but that, to the contrary, the selection of punishment is in every instance completely within the absolute discretion of the jury. (People v. Green, 47 Cal.2d 209, 217-232 [302 P.2d 307]; People v. Friend, 47 Cal.2d 749 [306 P.2d 463].) [2] In the absence of objections, however, defendant cannot now complain of the prosecutor's conduct where, as here, any danger that the jury might misunderstand its duty could easily have been removed at the trial. (People v. Hampton, 47 Cal.2d 239, 240-241 [302 P.2d 300]; People v. Byrd, 42 Cal.2d 200, 207-209 [266 P.2d 505].) We cannot assume that the court would not at once have taken corrective action, had the matter been called to its attention. fn. † [3] Moreover, there is no reason to believe the jury was misled. In the instructions given by the court following the closing arguments, the jurors were told: "You are to be governed solely by the evidence introduced in this trial and the law as stated to you by me." We must assume, therefore, that the jurors followed the subsequent instruction relating to punishment in which they were informed that, under the law of the state, death or life imprisonment was the penalty for first degree murder "at the discretion of the jury," that, in performing their duty of selecting one of the penalties, they should be unanimous and should indicate their choice on the form to be provided them, and that they were free to act according to their own judgment and discretion. [49 Cal.2d 438] Under the circumstances, there is no basis for concluding that there was an error resulting in a miscarriage of justice. (See Cal. Const., art. VI, § 4 1/2.) The judgment and the order denying a new trial are affirmed. Shenk, J., Carter, J., Traynor, J., Schauer, J., Spence, J., and McComb, J., concurred. FN *. Crow was initially made a codefendant in this case. He was discharged pursuant to section 1099 of the Penal Code, which provides: "When two or more defendants are included in the same accusatory pleading, the court may, at any time before the defendants have gone into their defense, on the application of the prosecuting attorney, direct any defendant to be discharged, that he may be a witness for the people." FN †. The only objection made during the prosecutor's argument to the jury was directed at a misleading comparison between the respective penalties for first degree murder and robbery, and the court immediately required the prosecutor to clarify the point in a manner favorable to defendant. Fri, 11/22/1957 49 Cal.2d 434 Review - Criminal Appeal Opinion issued 1 THE PEOPLE (Respondent) 2 , v. REMMEL WAYNE BRICE, Appellant. (, v. REMMEL WAYNE BRICE) SCOCAL, People v. 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__label__wiki	0.731522	0.731522	Roland in the Winner’s Circle Irvine, California-based Roland DGA, the U.S. division of the Japan-based printer company, announces a big win for its partner, Richard Childress Racing. RCR driver Tyler Reddick recently won the NASCAR MoneyLion 300 Xfinity Series race at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. Reddick crossed the finish line 1.27 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher, and when he did it was not just a win for his team but also a win for Roland. While the RCR team uses Roland wide-format printers for all of its cars—wrapping more than 420 race cars and support vehicles per year—this was a rare instance where Reddick’s car was wrapped stern to stem in a Roland wrap. That only happens once or twice over the course of a season. The RCR Graphics Center is a 2,500-square-foot facility on the expansive RCR campus in Welcome, North Carolina, and it features a large collection of Roland printers and printer/cutters. The high-profile win at Talladega gave the printer company some high-profile exposure on that sunny Saturday. Which is Bluer: The Ocean, The Sky or This Beemer? Featured Project: Hewlett-Packard Started in a Garage, Too XPEL Recognized by Porsche Club Of America Club Racing Featured Project: Making a Statement	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1027
__label__cc	0.518288	0.481712	Difference between key generation and key agreement Please excuse my ignorance as I am new to information security. Could someone please explain in simple terms what the difference is between key generation and key agreement. In which situation would I use which. Keep it simple please. key-generation The Nutty ProfessorThe Nutty Professor Key agreement is a sub-case of key generation. Key generation is about moving from a World where there is no key, to a World where there is a key. A "key", here, is some value with the correct structure for some cryptographic algorithm (e.g., an AES key is a sequence of 128, 192 or 256 bits; a RSA key is a set of a few big integers which fulfil some specific relations). Since keys have value by being unguessable by third parties, key generation necessarily involves using source data which is unknown to other people; in general, this "source data" will be random values obtained from a suitable source. Key agreement is when the key generation must be such that, at the end of the process, two specific entities will know the key, and only them. A prime example is the Diffie-Hellman protocol where both parties use randomness to produce some data elements, exchange some of these elements with each other, and do some computations, which end up with both of them obtaining the same result at the end, while keeping external observers completely nonplussed. A common method for key agreement is asymmetric encryption: Alice generates a key K for some algorithm (say, a sequence of 128 random bits), then encrypts it with Bob's public key, and sends the result to Bob. Bob decrypts it (with his private key), and thus obtains a copy of K. At the end of the day, Alice and Bob both know the same secret key K, so that's key agreement. If we look at the details, we see that the key agreement begins with a key generation, which is done entirely by Alice. That "local-generation-then-asymmetric-encryption" method is how most SSL connections are done on the Internet; note that Diffie-Hellman cannot be described that way, so one should not assume that all key agreement works that way. Tom LeekTom Leek Here is what I could find about each term: Key agreement: In cryptography, a key-agreement protocol is a protocol whereby two or more parties can agree on a key in such a way that both influence the outcome. If properly done, this precludes undesired third-parties from forcing a key choice on the agreeing parties. Protocols that are useful in practice also do not reveal to any eavesdropping party what key has been agreed upon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key-agreement_protocol Key generation: Key generation is the process of generating keys for cryptography. A key is used to encrypt > and decrypt whatever data is being encrypted/decrypted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_generation Hope this helps you. Regards BoogyBoogy Key generation (as said in one of the previous answers) is the process of moving from a world with no key to a world with a key: i.e., a key is generated. A key can be generated by any number of methods. For example, the key could be generated individually by one person running an algorithm, or could be generated in a collaborative manner. The definition of key generation does not require certain parties to know about the key: key generation can be done in isolation and the key not shared. Key establishment is a process or protocol whereby a shared secret (which here, is a key) becomes available to two or more parties, for subsequent cryptographic use. Key establishment may be broadly subdivided into key transport and key agreement. A key transport protocol or mechanism is a key establishment technique where one party creates or otherwise obtains a secret value (by generating a key themselves, for example), and securely transfers it to the other(s). A key agreement protocol or mechanism is a key establishment technique in which a shared secret is derived by two (or more) parties as a function of information contributed by, or associated with, each of these, (ideally) such that no party can predetermine the resulting value. In this process, the key generation is done in a collaborative manner, resulting in both parties having the key. An example of a key transport protocol is where one player will generate a symmetric key and encrypt the key under the public key of the recipient using asymmetric cryptography. This is a key transport protocol (sometimes called a key encapsulation mechanism, or KEM), and not a key agreement, as the key is dependent on inputs from only one party: the sender. The key is generated by one party and then transported to the other party. An example of a key agreement protocol is Diffie Hellman key exchange. In DH, both parties influence the resulting key, rather than just one party. The key is agreed on by all the parties contributing. Reference for definitions: Chapter 12 of the Handbook of Applied Cryptography, by A. Menezes, P. van Oorschot, and S. Vanstone, CRC Press, 1996. arthurmiltonarthurmilton Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged key-generation or ask your own question. Speed of key generation - Is old hardware safer? What is the difference between DHE and ECDH? Should generating gpg keys ever result in an identical key to an older key? RSA key generation: gpg vs openssh Session key renewal between two constrained devices Symmetric key generation How to properly use PGP for e-mail encryption/signature (key generation, key rollover, etc.) Are all categories of assymetric key generation applicable to all categories of assymetric key exchange? Key Generation on FIPS device or using SW with FIPS generator Security Appliance Key Generation	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1030
__label__cc	0.679721	0.320279	Tag Archives: Flight Deck The Real World- Theater Edition: An Interview With Christopher Chen Barbara Jwanouskos interviews one of San Francisco’s notable playwrights, Christopher Chen. I was lucky enough to see one of Christopher Chen’s staged readings a couple of years ago and remember thinking, “Whoa, I didn’t know you could do that in plays?!” Christopher has this great style, which he describes as having “a maximalist approach.” He’s definitely another writer who inspires me to explore and play with form and theatricality in my own writing, while still focusing on the topic or issue or idea that the play was responding to in the first place. I’d been wanting to chat with Christopher for some time about playwriting, his style, and his upcoming projects. And as it turned out, we were able to connect and talk about Home Invasion, which is 6NewPlays’ first production. What follows is the interview I had with Christopher Chen about his work. Christopher Chen Barbara: How did you get into writing plays? And tell me about your writing style? Christopher: Before I landed on playwriting I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I was all over the place in terms of what kind of artist I wanted to be. In elementary school I wrote stories and made puppets; in middle school I was obsessed with movies (Malcolm X was the movie that got me; I watched five movies a week); in high school I got into novels (Virginia Woolf, Paul Bowles) and music (the minimalists, grunge). I entered college as a music major, on the music composition track. But I also wanted to be a film director so I took film classes. And I took English classes because I wanted to be a novelist or poet. Or a sociologist or psychologist. And I also took acting classes and was in Theatre Rice, an Asian American theater group that mainly did/does sketch comedy. But they also had space for drama, and I wrote my first short play with them. I wrote my first play because I wanted something to direct, and I didn’t want to direct somebody else’s work. I think I was using theater directing to scratch my film directing itch. But then I found that playwriting was actually the thing that fulfilled all my creative impulses simultaneously: It combines literature with musicality with visual spectacle. It’s also a discipline tailor-made for my introvert (with extrovert impulses) personality. I love the process… a period of introverted writing followed by organized collaboration where I can still sort of be a wallflower. In terms of my writing, I’ll cut and paste something I’ve written for grants: “My work as a playwright deals foremost with systems of power: how they are structured, perpetuated and how they wend their way into even the most intimate psychological spaces. My primary interest is the very scope of a system’s complexity, and to capture this, I use an all-cylinders-firing approach to theater making. It is a maximalist approach that combines elements of fable with up-to-the-moment political discourse; absurdist humor with subtle naturalism; and intimate spaces with multi-media spectacle. All of these elements are situated within kaleidoscopic, shifting structures designed to continuously challenge an audience’s expectations. The idea behind these multi-faceted constructions is to reflect the complexity of the system I’m exploring.” That sounds a little pretentious, but that’s fine. Barbara: Tell me about 6NewPlays and how Home Invasion came to be? Christopher: 6NewPlays is Erin Bregman, Eugenie Chan, myself, Barry Eitel, Andrea Hart and Brian Thorstenson. We are a producing playwrights’ collective inspired by 13P, the New York playwrights’ collective whose whole thing was putting the production directly into the hands of the playwright. We wanted to do that too, and produce plays of ours that might be a little riskier, might be cast aside by established theater companies. We liked the idea of bypassing the whole institutional machine of theater-making that so often creates DOA products. Our plays are going to be high-quality, formally inventive, and low-cost. Home Invasion is a surreal murder mystery that is being performed in actual private living rooms around the Bay Area. We decided to have this be our inaugural production because it was something we could pull off relatively easily and because it embodies our scrappy, nimble get-it-done ethos. Most of the budget is going to artist stipends. I was excited to take this on because I’ve been increasingly gravitating towards more subtle character-driven writing, and having actors perform in real living rooms, just feet away from the audience’s faces, allows a level of intimacy and nuance you can’t get outside of movies or TV. It’s like writing for the screen… but it’s live. Barbara: What has your experience as a SF playwright been like? Christopher: I’ve lost steam after the first two answers. Barbara: What’s your take on the current theater scene? Christopher: There’s a lot of different facets to it. Barbara: Is there anything you would change or see an opportunity for within the scene? Christopher: Doing Home Invasion with 6NewPlays was very inspiring for me because it really drilled home a Bay Area truism: where there’s a will there’s a way. It’s not as cut-throat here as it is in New York or Chicago, so there’s no reason NOT to gather really good people together who share your passions and instincts, and then just make theater at relatively low risk. Everyone will be glad to pitch in if everyone likes and respects each other and shares common goals. THEN THEATER WILL HAPPEN. In the group development phase of 6NewPlays we all pitched in. As a group we collaboratively tackled all practical matters: finances, grantwriting, budget-making, etc. etc. These things would be overwhelming if you were doing it all by yourself for the first time. That’s why you need a team. And then, during the artistic phase of Home Invasion, I’m once again experiencing the joys and ease of collaborating with a dedicated, passionate and professional team, all pulling together in a DIY way. Where there’s a will there’s a way. I was able to snag my dream director: Matthew Graham Smith, and my dream cast: Kat Zdan, Lisa Anne Porter, Matthew Hannon. And they’re going to go into private living rooms, big and small, for audience sizes ranging from 15-40, and put on a full-length play. I’m losing sight of the original question, but the bottom line is: In this community there’s room to make your own opportunity. Barbara: What can we expect from Home Invasion? Christopher: I was originally inspired by Dial M For Murder. ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES EVER AND IT ONLY TAKES PLACE IN ONE ROOM. (Mostly.) I was also inspired by The Maltese Falcon, Vertigo, and The Twilight Zone. The play goes into some strange places. I was inspired by a mysterious book my story collaborator Hannah Birch Carl found at Urban Ore. This mysterious book was a big inspiration. Home Invasion, running April 16-30th in various Bay Area living rooms. Barbara: Any advice for people who would like to do what you do? Christopher: Gather good people together and just make the work. Don’t listen to too much feedback– double down on your own instincts. In fact, push your instincts to their logical conclusions. Explore many other artistic influences other than theater. If you’re starting out in this community, start by saying yes to everything. Before I gained any traction as a playwright I worked box office and house managed and interned at the Magic Theatre, I acted at Impact Theatre (Horatio) and Shotgun Players (a tiny tiny role in a Marcus Gardley world premiere!), and did all kinds of staged readings and development workshops. Barbara: Any projects coming up you can talk about? Christopher: I am working on commissions with A.C.T., Crowded Fire, S.F. Playhouse and O.S.F. (that controversial Play On! translation project— I’m doing Antony and Cleopatra). My play Caught will be at Shotgun Players this Fall, along with productions in Seattle, Chicago and New York. Barbara: Any plugs for your own work or friends’ work? Christopher: I wish I’d gotten tickets to Peter Nachtrieb’s House Tour, but it’s all sold out. For more on Christopher Chen, check out his website at http://www.christopherchen.org. Home Invasion runs April 16-30 at selected living rooms across the Bay Area, including a barebones performance at The Flight Deck in Oakland in collaboration with Just Theater. For more info, go here. 1 Comment Posted in The Real World Theater Edition Tagged 13P, 6NewPlays, A.C.T., Barbara Jwanouskos, Caught, Christopher Chen, Crowded Fire, Flight Deck, Home Invasion, House Tour, interview, Just Theater, maximalist approach, new play, O.S.F., Peter Nachtrieb, Play On!, playwright, pretentiousness, S.F. Playhouse, Shotgun Players, The Real World Theater Edition, Theatre Rice	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1033
__label__cc	0.725582	0.274418	Come Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival Joey Rocketshoes Dillon and David Thornbury show off their cowboy skills during the 24th annual Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival at William S. Hart Regional Park in Old Town Newhall on Saturday. Nikolas Samuels/The Signal By Mayor Laurene Weste Mayor Laurene Weste The City of Santa Clarita has a proud western heritage that traces back to the first families that settled in the Santa Clarita Valley. Our cowboy culture is evident in all parts of our City, from the protection of thousands of acres open space and miles of trails to the celebration of radio, television and movie icons on the Walk of Western Stars. The past 150 years of innovation mean we no longer drive our wagons through Beale’s Cut, but we still take the time each April to honor the rich western history that makes Santa Clarita the City we all know and love. As we mark a special milestone this year, the City Council invites you to celebrate with us at the 25th Annual Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival, presented by Heritage Sierra Medical Group. Over the last two and a half decades, residents and visitors have traveled from near and far to take in the sights and sounds of the Cowboy Festival. This year’s festival will once again be held at William S. Hart Park in Newhall and will take place April 19 through April 22. With western music, activities and performances, this festival shows guests the cowboy way of life. One of the most popular aspects of that way of life is the delicious grub you’ll enjoy at the festival, including authentic cowboy peach cobbler, barbecue and other western fare! In addition, you and your family will be able to explore the historic Hart Mansion and Heritage Junction and shop for authentic western crafts and merchandise from vendors. The Cowboy Festival encompasses much more than just the popular activities at Hart Park. Elementary school students in Santa Clarita will benefit from the culturally enriching Cowboys in the Schools program, which features a Cowboy Festival performer who visits schools and teaches the children how to play western songs on the harmonica. All school-age kids in the City can also participate in the Youth Poetry Roundup Contest, by writing and submitting an original poem for a chance to win prizes, including the opportunity to perform their poem on stage at the festival! The weekend officially begins on Thursday, April 19, at the SENSES Cowboy Kickoff block party as part of the [email protected] series. Come enjoy great music, food, merchandise vendors and more as you two-step the night away! In honor of the 25th anniversary of the Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival, general admission to the Hart Park event area on April 21 and 22 is FREE. I am also excited to share that the City has partnered with various venues in Old Town Newhall for special ticketed concerts featuring an excellent lineup of performers over the four-day period. The highlight of this year’s festival will no doubt be the 25th Anniversary Gala, which will be held at Hart Hall inside Hart Park on Saturday, April 21, at 8 p.m. Tickets for the gala, ticketed concerts and other experiences are on sale now. To purchase tickets, visit CowboyFestival.org or call 661-250-3735. I hope you’ll join us for this one-of-a-kind event that is rooted in our rich western heritage. Mayor Laurene Weste is a member of the Santa Clarita City Council and can be reached at [email protected] Santa Clarita Transit to offer free rides during Cowboy Festival City announces Line Dance Night, film ranch tour How Santa Clarita stays solid as a rock Our Community Submissions Mobility Devices Needed for Kenya	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1034
__label__cc	0.640477	0.359523	1977 article on Canadian Folk Art Posted on January 19, 2018 by shadflyguy The following article was originally printed in “Antiques and Art” magazine, July / August 1977 issue. It was written by Nora Sterling and Jackie Kalman. This article serves as a useful introduction to folk art, and it is also interesting to note how much folk art has grown in recognition and popularity over the past thirty years. CANADIAN FOLK ART By NORA STERLING and JACKIE KALMAN When the Bowmanville Antiques and Folk Art Show opened its doors this year, waiting with the throng to enter were two people very significant by their presence. They were buyers from the Museum of Man and the National Gallery in Ottawa. The academically oriented National Gallery soon will be opening its folk art room and, in anticipation, has been collecting for the past few years. By buying and displaying folk art, these prestigious institutions announce to Canadians what other more culturally secure countries have acknowledged for at least 50 years: folk art has finally come of age. In the United States, as early as the 1920s, families like the Rockefellers, DuPonts and Whitneys had major collections of folk art, much of which now reside in three New York museums: the Metropolitan, the Whitney and the Museum of Modern Art. In Canada, folk art is just being recognised as a viable and valid art form with qualities of freshness, inventiveness and vigour that make it exciting. What gives folk art its originality and charm is that, fortunately, the gifted artists who produced it are free from the dogmas and restrictions which the academic world imposes. Folk art is not merely a quaint reminder of a nation’s manners and mores, a thing of the past with only functional or merely decorative purposes. It may indeed have all of these attributes, but like all good art, its expressions are powerful and compelling with an originality of concept, creativity of design, craftsmanly use of the medium and flashes of inspiration that are not surpassed by many academic artists. Keeping in mind the similarities between academic and folk artists, the distinctive difference is that the latter is unschooled, while not necessarily unskilled. For example, a folk artist may have been whittling from his youth, creating bits and pieces for his own pleasure in his spare time. As an adult he may have become a white collar worker or perhaps a farmer, while still retaining his interest and further developing his skill. Donald Hays is such a folk artist. Carving since he was five years old, he is .now in his early 40s and an engineer by profession. He carves bird decoys which he paints with the incredible expertise and attention to detail of an Audubon. With the true artist’s eye, he chooses those idiosyncratic stances and important characteristics that are peculiar to the bird he is carving. On the other hand, Collins Eisenhauer, a folk artist who, like Grandma Moses, has “made it,” did not start intensive wood carving until 1964, when he was 66 years old. When asked what he did for a living in the ’30s, Eisenhauer replied, ” I wouldn’t like to tell you! ” He does admit, however, to being a farm hand, a logger and a sailor. His work has been bought by the Museum of Man, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the National Gallery in Ottawa. Though carved from big hunks of wood, his figures still have a two dimensional look about them. They have the static and stiff quality which is characteristic of naive art – as if the artist does not want to risk a trial of skill to depict movement. Charles Tanner, an ex-fisherman from Nova Scotia, approaches the task of carving with even a lesser degree of academic knowledge of the craft of sculpture than Eisenhauer. He solves his technical problems simply, by a complete disregard of detail and a disrespect for proportion which, in effect, enhance his work. One is struck by his bold personal style – exuberant, colourful and direct. His sculptures are now on tour with an exhibit of Canadian art assembled by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Generally studied in a category unto themselves, decoys have a significant place in the spectrum of folk art. Following the Indian custom of making lures to attract water fowl, the white man began carving and painting decoys. These decoys were utilitarian. They were meant, through their likenesses, to attract birds to be shot. The early makers sold their decoys for 20 cents to 50 cents a piece. However, when market gunning was prohibited in 1918, decoy makers and factories went out of business, so the sportsman, by default, became his own decoy maker. At this juncture, decoys became folk sculpture. The link with the folk genre lies in the carver’s craftsmanship and especially in his personal interpretation of the salient characteristics of his quarry. Sculpture is only one way in which the power and beauty of folk art is expressed. Rugs, quilts, paintings, furniture and accessories are among the wide variety of objects produced by folk artists. Much has been written on folk art, albeit not Canadian. Many art historians, curators and artists have concluded that the expressions of folk art are world-wide and that they state universal truths – realities which will always be voiced by untrained people with a creative urge. Barber, Joel. Wild Fowl Decoys. New York: Windward House, 1934. Reprinted New York: Dover Public- ations, 1954. Bishop, Robert. American Folk Sculpture. New- York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1974. Folk Sculpture U.S.A. Edited.by Herbert W. Hemphill Jr. The Brooklyn Museum and the Los kngeles County Museum of Art. Catalogue- for 1976 show. Folk Art of Nova Scotia. Art gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Catalogue for show, November 1976 through May 1978. Biographies of artists and illustrations of their works. Gladstone, M.J. A Carrot for a Nose:, the Form of Folk Sculpture on America’s City Streets and Country Roads. New York: Charles Scribner’s Song, 1974. Hooked Rugs in the Folk Art Tradition. Museum of American Folk Art, New York. Catalogue for 1974 show. Lipman, Jean and Winchester, Alice.The Flowering of American Folk Art, 1776-1876. New York: The Viking Press in cooperation with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1974. People’s Art: Naive Art in Canada. J. Russell Harper. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Catalogue for, show, 1973-1974. The April Antiques and Folk Art Show. Mel Shakespeare. Catalogue for the 1975 Bowmanville, Ontario, show. This entry was posted in Canadian folk artists, Historical folk art and tagged animals in art, art populaire, Bowmanville, Canadian folk art, Canadian folk artist, collecting folk art, Ontario folk art, Quebec folk art by shadflyguy. Bookmark the permalink. 1 thought on “1977 article on Canadian Folk Art” larryzb on January 19, 2018 at 11:28 pm said: Thanks for sharing this interesting article. For those of us here in the US, there is much beautiful folk, native art in the Southwest. This artwork includes ceramic wares, carvings, weavings, and some painted works.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1035
__label__wiki	0.740451	0.740451	Courts Weigh In On Analysis of Disabilities Defense counsel continue to challenge whether plaintiffs qualify under ADA Connecticut Law Tribune Download: article pdf In 2008, Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Amendment Act (ADAAA) after two U.S. Supreme Court decisions had narrowed the numbers of individuals who could qualify as disabled under the Americans with Disabilities Act. With the passage of the ADAAA, Congress determined that "the question of whether an individual's impairment is a disability under the ADA should not demand extensive analysis." Although Congress did not want "extensive analysis" after the ADAAA, recent court opinions demonstrate that courts continue both to conduct analysis on this issue, and, more importantly, dismiss discrimination claims when a plaintiff cannot demonstrate that he or she is actually disabled. Moving forward, employers should continue to challenge alleged disabilities in appropriate cases, and plaintiffs must be prepared to establish the bona fides of their disability. One recent appellate court opinion provided guidance on the proper way to instruct a jury in post-ADAAA cases. In that case, the district court had instructed the jury that the predicate question for its consideration was whether the plaintiff was a "qualified individual with a disability." After the jury answered that question in the negative, the plaintiff appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. In his appeal, the plaintiff contended that the jury instruction — which was based on the Fifth Circuit's pre-ADAAA model instructions — conflicted with the ADAAA's use of the more limited phrase "qualified individual." In a December 2013 opinion, the Fifth Circuit soundly rejected this argument. Despite congressional intent to increase the number of individuals considered disabled under the ADA, the Fifth Circuit noted that the changes made by the ADAAA "in no way eliminated the term [qualified individual with a disability] from the ADA or the need to prove a disability on a claim of disability discrimination." A key element of ADA claims continues to be that the plaintiff is a qualified individual with a disability. Or, as the Fifth Circuit aptly stated, "though the ADAAA makes it easier to prove a disability, it does not absolve a party from proving one." Moving forward, therefore, employers must continue to challenge conclusory allegations of disability. Anticipating rulings such as this one issued by the Fifth Circuit, defense lawyers have continued to file motions arguing that plaintiffs are not disabled since the passage of the ADAAA. Despite the broad language of the ADAAA, those motions continue to be successful. For example, one district court judge in Kentucky recently dismissed a plaintiff's ADAAA claims based on her failure to allege facts that supported an actual disability. In that case, the plaintiff alleged that she had a host of medical conditions, such as arthritis, bursitis, and disabilities. Other than the mere fact that she had those conditions, however, she did not set forth any allegations about the nature of her alleged disability, or how it limited any of her major life activities. In other words, her allegation of being disabled was wholly conclusory, and subject to a motion to dismiss under the ADAAA. A district court judge in Illinois reached a similar conclusion in a case brought by a pro se litigant who had been fired immediately after telling his boss he needed to leave work to get medical attention for a blood pressure problem that was causing a problem with his eye. The district court found that the plaintiff's allegations demonstrated only a transitory and suspect medical condition — not a disability. On appeal, however, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed, concluding that this episodic flare-up of the plaintiff's longstanding problem with blood pressure stated a plausible disability claim — especially since the ameliorative effects of his medication could no longer be considered under the ADAAA's changes. Although this case survived on appeal, it nevertheless demonstrates that district courts remain receptive to motions to dismiss disability discrimination claims even after the passage of the ADAAA. The same holds true for motions for summary judgment, where district courts have a full evidentiary record before them. In such cases, defendants continue to argue successfully that a plaintiff cannot demonstrate that he or she is disabled. In a recent Pennsylvania case, the plaintiff had a string of unfortunate medical issues and personal developments: she reported that she was treating for anxiety and depression; she took a leave of absence to care for her daughter, who had recently overdosed; she reported she had her own issues with drugs and alcohol; she was in a car accident and had surgery on her back. During this time, the plaintiff also had ongoing, documented performance issues. After several significant mistakes, the employer decided to terminate her employment. That same day, the plaintiff called out sick, telling her supervisor she was going to make an appointment to see her doctor. Nevertheless, she was terminated. The district court agreed that, as noted above, the plaintiff had a long history of medical issues. The only medical issues she contended were disabilities, however, were her depression and her attention deficit disorder (ADD). The factual record did not support those allegations, as there was no evidence of an actual diagnosis of depression, or evidence that her employer was aware of such a diagnosis. Although the plaintiff was diagnosed with ADD after her termination, there was no evidence that she had that diagnosis during her employment or that her ADD substantially limited any major life activity. In other words, even under the relaxed standard set forth in the ADAAA, the plaintiff's disability claims failed because it was based on "nothing other than her speculative and subjective belief[s]." As these cases demonstrate, employers may still challenge whether an employee has a recognizable disability, and employees must be prepared to demonstrate that their condition meets even the more liberal definitions under the ADAAA. When employees cannot meet that burden, disability discrimination cases will continue to be dismissed by federal judges. Peter J. Murphy Labor, Employment and Benefits	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1037
__label__cc	0.746944	0.253056	Ontotext and DrugBank Joint Efforts to Explore Drug Data Ontotext, part of Sirma Group has just announced its partnership with DrugBank, one of the world’s most widely used reference drug resources. The new collaboration will empower commercial and academic Pharma and Healthcare researchers in their efforts to discover and repurpose drugs for treating various illnesses. DrugBank’s unique bioinformatics and cheminformatics database will be reinforced by using a RDF format, governed by the DrugBank research team and maintained by Ontotext. RDF provides self-explanatory and machine readable format that is better way to ensure semantic data interoperability, and provides a wide range of possibilities for further developments. The Pharma and Healthcare research could enormously benefit from this technology advancement, based on the agile knowledge management and retrieval system that semantic technology provides. Since its foundation in 2006, DrugBank has one of the world’s most widely used reference drug resources. It is widely used by the drug industry, pharmaceutical researchers, pharmacists, pharmacologists, medicinal chemists, regulatory agencies and the general public. Follow the link to the full story.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1040
__label__wiki	0.766064	0.766064	Tag: conversation 3.30 p.m. on a free Wednesday afternoon Big boy: “You’re not fat at all.” Little boy: “Look at my belly on the picture.” Big boy: “No, look here at my belly.” Little boy: “You haven’t got a belly at all.” Big boy: “But, if I press it between my fingers. It looks the same.” Little boy: “I won’t eat any more.” Big boy: “Come on. Eat your mars.” Little boy: “No, I won’t. And I won’t eat any more.” Big boy: “It’s how mom took the picture. Your belly is not fat.” Little boy: “It is…!” Big boy: “Don’t feel bad.” Little boy: “I feel bad…!” Big boy: “Look at you. You’re perfect.” Little boy: “I’m not.” Big boy: “Don’t say that…” Little boy: “Hmm…” Big boy: “Mom, tell him please…!” Mom: “It’s all my fault. You’re not fat at all.” Mom: “I didn’t take a good picture.” Big boy: “You see… my dear brother…!” 12.45 a.m. first day of summer vacation Little boy: “Where is my coffee?” Big boy: “What…?” Little boy: “You promised me a cold coffee.” Big boy: “I beg you pardon.” Little boy: “Don’t you remember?” Little boy: “For sure. We made a bet and I was right.” Big boy: “What? A bet?” Little boy: “We were looking for the right name of a film.” Big boy: “Okay. Right! I owe you a cold coffee.” Little boy: “I want it now…!” Big boy: “I can make you one now.” Little boy: “But, I want a cold one from the shop.” Big boy: “I don’t want to spend money.” Little boy: “But you promised me.” Big boy: “I’m always short of money…!” Little boy: “But, you lost our bet.” Big boy: “Hey… you cannot ask me when I’ve so little money…” Little boy: “This isn’t my problem…” Big boy: “Come on. Don’t be so mean.” Little boy: “So… when do I get my coffee…?” 3.40 p.m. in the living-room after school Little boy: “What’s wrong? Why are you crying?” Big boy: “Hmm… (sobbing).” Little boy: “What happened?” Big boy: “Well… two class mates wanted to beat me?” Little boy: “Just like this?” Big boy: “No, because I’m talking too much to E…” Little boy: “Oh… they’re just jealous of you.” Big boy: “I like talking to E. She is nice.” Little boy: “Sure, she is a nice girl.” Big boy: “But, they told me not to talk to her.” Little boy: “But, they cannot do this.” Big boy: “They warned me. They’ll beat me.” Little boy: “But, you won’t let them do!” Big boy: “They followed me all the way back home.” Little boy: “Why don’t you tell your teacher?” Big boy: “They warned me. If I tell him…” Little boy: “But, you won’t waste your time with these two guys.” Big boy: “Hmm…. (sobbing).” Little boy: “Come on. You’re stronger than them!” Big boy: “I know… (but still sobbing).” 7.20 p.m. in the car after shopping Little boy: “…you still owe me a new gun.” Big boy: “It wasn’t my fault that it’s broken.” Little boy: “Who’s fault is it then?” Big boy: “I don’t’ have any money.” Little boy: “Why…?” Big boy: “I already owe Dad 50 Swiss francs.” Little boy: “But I don’t want to wait.” Big boy: “But you know I have debts.” Little boy: “This isn’t my problem.” Big boy: “You’re so mean.” Little boy: “What?” Big boy: “You’re pushing me.” Little boy: “I just want a replacement for my gun.” Big boy: “You’re making me feel so bad.” Big boy: “It’s not fun being in debt.” Little boy: “Well, this isn’t my problem.” Big boy: “You don’t know how it feels for me.” Little boy: “Yes, because I’m not always spending all my money.” Conversation between brothers: Scene 9 7.37 a.m. before leaving for school Big boy: “Can I borrow your headphones again?” Little boy: “Why don’t you take yours?” Big boy: “They’re broken. Can I?” Little boy: “No, I don’t give them.” Big boy: “Oh, come on!” Little boy: “You’re always breaking my things.” Big boy: “No, this isn’t true.” Little boy: “I remember very well.” Big boy: “Come on, just for today.” Little boy: “Buy you new headphones.” Big boy: “I can’t. School is starting soon.” Big boy: “But you don’t need yours today!” Little boy: “No, but I don’t want to lend.” Big boy: “Oh, you’re such a coward.” Little boy: “And you’re always insulting me…” Big boy: “Yes, because you’re deserving it.” Little boy: “Stop now…” Big boy: “You’re such a snob.” Little boy: “Mom, he’s insulting me again.” Big boy: “Oh dear! …mama’s boy!” 17.46 p.m. on the cycle ride under the rain Little boy: “I’ll take a bath when we’re back home.” Big boy: “Oh, good idea!” Little boy: “But I want to be alone in the tub.” Big boy: “Oh, no!” Little boy: “I like to chill and relax.” Big boy: “Okay, no problem with me!” Little boy: “But you’re always disturbing me.” Big boy: “Come on…” Little boy: “Mm…” Big boy: “I want to chill too.” Little boy: “But we don’t have enough space.” Big boy: “Come on. Let’s try once more.” Little boy: “You always want to do the same things as me!” Big boy: “No. This isn’t true.” Little boy: “But it is…” Big boy: “It’ll feel great in the tub after this rain.” Little boy: “Sure. But you can take your bath after me.” Big boy: “But we could chill together!” Big boy: “Okay?” Little boy: “Oh… okay!” Big boy: “Thank you… little brother!”	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1049
__label__wiki	0.744937	0.744937	Florida I-595 Corridor Improvements Project & Colorado DOT’s David Spector Honored with National Public-Private Partnership (P3) Awards Home/Press Releases/Florida I-595 Corridor Improvements Project & Colorado DOT’s David Spector Honored with National Public-Private Partnership (P3) Awards ARTBA hosts the 2017 P3s in Transportation Conference, on Thursday, July 13, 2017, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Leslie E. Kossoff/LK Photos) (WASHINGTON)— The I-595 Corridor Improvements Project in Florida and David Spector, director of the Colorado High Performance Transportation Enterprise (HPTE), have been recognized as models of excellence in innovative transportation financing by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA). The awards were presented July 13 in two categories during ARTBA’s 29th Annual Public Private Partnerships (P3s) in Transportation Conference, held in the Nation’s Capital. P3 Entrepreneur of the Year: David Spector. This award is given to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the forward progress of P3s in the U.S. transportation industry. The HPTE is a division of the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) that uses P3s, tolled managed lanes, and other innovative methods to finance and improve the state’s surface transportation infrastructure. Spector’s career has been focused on providing strategic direction and advice on high-profile public-private infrastructure projects. While at HPTE, he has been featured at P3-related conferences and is a resource to other state and local governments seeking to learn more about these initiatives. In the next year, Spector will be leading HPTE’s efforts working with academic institutions to educate state and local elected officials, governments considering P3s, and other stakeholders about the realities, myths and implementation of P3s, to help them understand how they can be used for a variety of infrastructure needs. Spector has been a leader for the advancement of P3s for both CDOT and other public agencies. He oversaw the completion of the U.S. 36 Express Lanes P3 project, which ARTBA named 2016 P3 Project of the Year, and is currently in the midst of the procurement for the Central 70 Project. He also led HPTE through several organizational and structural changes, aligning operations more clearly with CDOT’s strategic goals, including the focus of its role as toll operator of Express Lanes, and integrating with other divisions within CDOT. He has refined several business rules, including establishing a PR Procurement Management Manual so that current and future P3 projects will benefit from clear and consistent internal and external processes. In the process, HPTE has evolved from a start-up P3 delivery organization to an established business which can serve as a model for other agencies as they endeavor to enter or grow their own programs. P3 Project of the Year: I-595 Corridor Improvements in Florida. The award annually spotlights a project that demonstrates the value P3s bring to U.S. transportation development. The I-595 Corridor Improvements is the state’s largest transportation project and also its first P3. I-595 is part of Florida’s Strategic Intermodal System that serves the major east-west link in Broward County. Since the mainline opening in 1989, I-595 endured a steady increase in traffic volume that led to congestion. To ensure sufficient capacity, Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) and its team developed several improvements to help sustain the region’s growth, including reconstructing and widening the Turnpike, improvements and modifications to nine interchanges, and reversible express lanes that are tolled at varying rates throughout the day. The improvements were successfully completed on time while minimizing disruptions of the 200,000 vehicles traveling the corridor daily. The $1.8 billion deal reached financial close in March 2009, also making it the first in the U.S. transportation sector to use an availability payment compensation structure, helping to pave the way for future P3 projects in Florida and the U.S. The design, build, finance, operate, and maintain (DBFOM) project opened to traffic in March 2014 and epitomizes the benefits of P3s by advancing much needed transportation improvements and allowing private financing to make up the state’s funding shortfall that could have delayed work by 20 years or more. The project team included FDOT, RS&H, Nossaman LLP, Interstate 595 Express, Dragados USA, ACS Infrastructure Development, Inc., and AECOM. For nearly three decades, ARTBA’s P3 conference has been the private infrastructure investment community’s premier opportunity to connect with hundreds of key decision makers, project sponsors, private sector finance executives, consortium leaders and officials from all levels of government. By \| 2017-07-13T15:48:41+00:00 July 13th, 2017\|Press Releases\|Comments Off on Florida I-595 Corridor Improvements Project & Colorado DOT’s David Spector Honored with National Public-Private Partnership (P3) Awards ARTBA Foundation Announces Latest Group to Earn Transportation Project Safety Certification ARTBA Announces 2017 Division Award Winners ARTBA Announces 2017-18 Officers During Annual Business Meeting of Members A. Morton Thomas, Lea & Elliot Executives, ITR Concession Company & Two College Students Honored with ARTBA’s Women Leaders Awards AECOM Executive Vice President Matt Cummings Elected 2017-2018 ARTBA Chairman	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1052
__label__wiki	0.822704	0.822704	Posted on November 11, 2015 June 22, 2019 by James Colasanti, CogitoPR Bingham looks to find lost focus ahead of UK Championship STUART BINGHAM says he will draw on all of his experience to comeback from a testing start to the season as he continues to readjust to life as the world champion. Ball-run has had a bad start to November with early exits at the Bulgarian Open in Sofia and the Champion of Champions in Coventry and admits he will be knuckling down on the practice table ahead of the Betway UK Championship later this month. He said: “I think that defeat in the Champion of Champions means that I have now only won one decider out of six so far this season, and that sort of statistic is the difference between having a good run or a bad one. “Most of those matches I could have won the match before it got to a decider, and that is something I need to work on. “The problem is I am not staying fully focussed. I was 3-1 on Tuesday and then started to think ‘what if I lost it from here again?’ And you just can’t do that. “Six months ago I was literally on top of the world but at the moment it does all seem like hard work to even win a match. “But I have been a professional for over 20 years and I have come through difficult periods like this before and that is what I will be trying to do again now.” Bingham lost his opening match at the Ricoh Arena 4-3 to new Chinese starlet Zhou Yuelong, and the Essex pro says the 17-year-old certainly has the potential for a big future in the game after just 18 months on the Tour. Bingham made a solid start at the Bulgarian Open with a 4-0 win over young Irishman Josh Boileau, which came with a re-spotted black in the last frame. But he lost in the next round as Mark Allen came from behind to beat him in a deciding frame again in the best-of-seven encounter. Allen went on to win his first title in 15 months with a 4-0 victory over Ryan Day in the final but Bingham said it was no consolation to lose to the eventual winner. He said: “I don’t take any comfort from that because the match against Mark was one I had a good chance to win. “And there was a frame that just sums things up for me at the moment where I missed good chances to pot a black for the win. It was bizarre. “In the next frame I potted 10 reds and 10 blacks and was on for a maximum, so it shows how inconsistent I am at the moment.” Bingham will return to action in two exhibition matches with five-time world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan in Romania on November 21 and 22. Then it is on to the York Barbican for the UK Championship, which runs between November 24 and December 6, and Bingham says – if nothing else – he will be dressed to impress. He explained: “During the World Championship, at the quarter-final stage, all the players got letters in their hotel rooms with the offer of free shoes from a cobbler in Sheffield. “It is run by a guy called Peter Bullock and he has a shop on the High Street, and I think it came after Ronnie complained about how comfortable his shoes were. “So I popped along and he made me a brilliant pair of hand-made shoes – and I’ve got four pairs now! The latest ones are alligator or crocodile skin or something and they’ll certainly be on show in York.” Bingham wary of Hamilton threat in Wales Bingham admits he didn't take his chances in Yan defeat Bingham refreshed by 'incredible' Romania trip ahead of UK campaign TagsChampion of Champions Previous PostPrevious Bingham delight at BBC Sports Personality invite Next PostNext Bingham refreshed by ‘incredible’ Romania trip ahead of UK campaign	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1053
__label__wiki	0.831967	0.831967	Stimulus grantees cited for poor oversight of federal funds by Anu Narayanswamy The Carson City Airport Authority, which has benefited in the last four years from more than $13 million in federal funds, is now slated to receive another $9.6 million in stimulus money, even though an independent auditor cited problems earlier this year with how it manages its federal grants. The airport authority, which saw a board member resign in 2008 while calling for an independent investigation into the authority’s directors, is one of dozens of organizations that received funds from the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act despite having flaws in their management systems. Overall, federal agencies administering stimulus funds have awarded $119 million to 106 recipients that independent auditors cited in 2009 as having “significant deficiencies” in their ability to administer federal programs, a Sunlight review of Recovery.gov and Federal Audit Clearinghouse data has found. Government regulations require nonprofits and state and local government agencies that annually spend more than $500,000 in federal funds to undergo audits (called “single audits“) to ensure these grantees are able to administer taxpayer funds effectively and efficiently, can detect and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse; and reliably report how they spent the funds. Summary data from the audits are collected and published by the Federal Audit Clearinghouse, Web site published by the Census Bureau, including whether a federal grantee has significant deficiencies in its management of federal funds. Significant deficiencies can vary from failing to file required documents to serious mismanagement of funds and even fraud. To get details on the seriousness of a significant deficiency, one must obtain the complete single audit report, which many agencies will release only after a formal request under the Freedom of Information Act. According to Office of Management and Budget guidance, single audits are one of the tools that will be used to drive accountability for Federal awards under the Recovery Act. Yet millions have been awarded to recipients that have been flagged for having problems. “We’ve been on this for awhile,” said Ed Pound, director of communications for the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, which tracks stimulus spending and looks for waste, fraud and abuse in the program. “The Federal Audit Clearinghouse is one of sources we look at to measure past performance…we’re definitely aware of the issue.” Among the institutions that had significant deficiencies were housing authorities in North Carolina, Georgia, Illinois and California; health care facilities in Pennsylvania, Florida, Washington state, Wyoming and North Dakota; and higher education institutions in Maine, Minnesota, New York and Iowa. For the list of stimulus fund recipients that have had significant deficiencies cited in 2009, click here. To download the data, click here. Many of the grantees that were cited in 2009 have been receiving federal funds for years. The Carson City Airport Authority has benefited from millions in the past decade even though the city it serves, Nevadas state capital, is only 30 miles away from a much larger airport in Reno that has regular commercial airline traffic. Carson Citys airport, which has no commercial traffic, has received more than $14 million in federal grants since 2000, including $2.9 million in federal funds earmarked by Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev. Auditors reviewing the airport authoritys expenditure of money awarded through the Airport Improvement Program, which is managed by the Federal Aviation Administration, found two problems with the authoritys oversight: the majority of accounting functions were performed by a single personauditors warned that errors and fraud could occur and not be detected in a timely manner. The auditors also found that the authority failed to report all its expenditures to the federal government in a timely manner. The airport authority responded that its limited resources left it unable to hire staff or consultants to mitigate the auditors concerns, though they did agree to implement some of the procedures to reduce the potential for fraud recommended by the auditors. Neal Weaver, a former board member of the airport authority, resigned his position in 2008 while calling for an independent investigation of how the board oversaw the authority, which he charged with conflicts of interest and operating in violation of the states open meeting laws. He told a reporter for the Carson Times that the board “gets to play with tens of millions of dollars without oversight.” Weaver questioned the necessity of directing stimulus funding to the airport. The funding from the Airport Improvement Program was adequate to maintain and rebuild the runway, he told Sunlight, adding, “We had an airport before this and will continue to have an airport, it has done nothing to add to the community. An FAA spokesperson refuted Weavers claims and said that funding for the airport is essential to ease the traffic in Reno and that the runway work would be stalled until 2010 if there was no stimulus funding. As of October 2009, $2.3 million of the $9.6 million in stimulus funds awarded to the Carson City Airport Authority have been paid out by the FAA, creating 35 jobs for the construction of the runway. When the entire project is finished, it will create 300 jobs and bring in as much as $20 million annually to the community, according to an earlier economic impact study conducted by the airport authority. The figure of 35 jobs does not represent the number of full-time workers on site. It includes part time construction workers employed by Granite Constructions that was awarded a contract earlier this year. “At any given point of time there are at least 100 people from the construction company that work here, but we’ve reported lower numbers because not all of them work here full-time,” said Casey Pullman, the airport manager in Carson City. “Federal reporting requirements are different and they look at the number of hours employees worked, so the numbers are much lower,” he added. Sunlight has requested other audit reports for stimulus grant recipients and will post these online as we receive them. Tags: Earmarks	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1056
__label__wiki	0.745404	0.745404	MoviePass: Watch a Movie Every Day at the Theater for Under 10 Bucks a Month By Melissa Maize September 12, 2017 Image courtesy of Shutterstock * Watch up to one movie a day in theaters for only $9.95 a month * The MoviePass price has been slashed from $50 * Cancel at any time with no added fee Sick of shelling out cash every time you go to the movies? MoviePass is a new subscription service that allows you to see up to one film a day in theaters, for less than 10 bucks a month. Seriously. Though it launched in 2011, the company — run by Netflix co-founder and former Redbox president Mitch Lowe — didn’t really pick up steam until it announced last month that it had slashed the price of its all-you-can-watch pass from $50 to $9.95 per month. There really are no catches, either. Simply sign up and a debit card is mailed to you in five to seven days, which you present at the box office instead of a ticket. Image Courtesy of MoviePass.com Buy: MoviePass $9.95 The company says the pass works at more than 4000 theaters across the country (that’s about 91% of theaters), and you can see one movie a day, with no blackout dates. You can even see a new release movie on opening night. At $9.95 a month, you only need to watch one or two movies a month to make the deal worth it — though we wouldn’t hold it against you to see as many as you can. Search the nearest theater to you by using their app or website. While you can’t see any IMAX or 3D movies with MoviePass, you can basically get a ticket to everything else, from blockbusters to indies. Just make sure you’re buying the ticket on-site; online purchases aren’t valid with this deal. The service can be cancelled at any time with no termination fee, though if you’re a movie buff, we’re not sure why you’d really want to. Related: Rotten Tomatoes' Best Movies of the Summer Gadgets Audio & Video Monthly Subscriptions movies tickets	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1059
__label__wiki	0.954371	0.954371	Verkhovna Rada adopts law on Ukrainian as the only official language The provisions of the document stipulate that all citizens now have to use the Ukrainian language in all the spheres of their life © Piotr Sivkov/TASS KIEV, April 25. /TASS/. Verkhovna Rada members adopted the law "Providing the functioning of the Ukrainian language as the official one," which enshrines its exclusive rights against the other languages in the country. This decision was backed by 278 MPs, with the minimal needed number being 226. Before the start of the voting, Verkhovna Rada Speaker Andrei Paruby stated that former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and former head of the dissident Kiev Patriarchy Filaret are present in the room. Participants of the military operation in Donbass and writers, performers and other political figures who support the idea of the total Ukrainization of the country were also present in the session room. Presidential hopeful speaks in support of Russian language in Ukraine Paruby called on those present in the room to vote for this historical draft law, as he called it. Incumbent President Pyotr Poroshenko wrote on Facebook immediately after the announcement of the voting results, calling today’s decision a historic one. He compared it with the restoration of the Ukrainian army and the reception of autocephaly by the so-called Ukrainian Orthodox Church. "The Ukrainian language is a symbol of our people, our state and our nation," Poroshenko wrote. "It is another important step on the way toward our mental independence." Co-founder of the "Opposition Platform - For Life" Yuri Boiko earlier called the specified language law "punitive." "I think that this draft law splits the society and spoils our relations with the neighbors," he stressed. The opposition politician also noted that Ukraine’s multi-national people speak 79 languages, and the current authorities are creating an atmosphere of intolerance to language diversity. The document gained resonance in the country and abroad. So, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatovic addressed the parliamentary members, asking them to suspend the work on the draft law for the period of election and provide participation of representatives for national minorities in its development. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that Russia is concerned about violations of the language and educational rights of national minorities by Ukraine’s authorities, in light of which Moscow addressed the EU, the Council of Europe, the OSCE and NATO. The language law Verkhovna Rada adopted this law on October 4 last year at the first reading. About 2,500 amendments were suggested for the second reading in total, most of which were finally rejected. The law "Providing the functioning of the Ukrainian language as the official one" stipulates that Ukrainian is the sole official language in the country. Attempts to introduce official multilingualism are recognized as "directed at the forcible change or overthrow of the constitutional regime." The term "public degradation of the Ukrainian language" was introduced. It is regarded as an "illegal action which equals abuse of the state symbols of Ukraine and is punished under the law." The law stipulates the creation of the position of commissioner for the official language protection whom the cabinet of ministers will appoint and dismiss. His task is to protect the Ukrainian language, as well as the citizens’ rights to receive information and services in all spheres of public life on Ukrainian territory in the official language. "Language inspectors" will monitor the execution of the law. They will be present at sessions in any state bodies, demand documents from public organizations and political parties and issue fines. The National Commission for Official Language Standards will develop and approve the language norms. It will also develop methods to check the level of the Ukrainian language, in particular for gaining citizenship or occupying certain positions. The state certificate is a document that confirms the level of the Ukrainian language that will be issued by the Center for the Ukrainian Language after examination. The law also determines a circle of people who have to be proficient in the official language. It includes the Ukrainian president, Verkhovna Rada speaker and his deputies, members of the cabinet of ministers, heads of central executive bodies that are not members of the government and their deputies, chairman of the Security Service, prosecutor general, head of the National Bank, members of the Audit Chamber, Verkhovna Rada commissioner for human rights, commissioner for official language protection, parliamentary members, members of local councils and village, town and city heads. Public employees, contract soldiers, diplomats, lawyers, notaries, personal care attendants, heads of state and municipal educational facilities, teachers and research members of educational facilities, medical employees of state and municipal healthcare facilities and other people have to be proficient in the Ukrainian language. Ukrainian is proclaimed to be the language of record management, judicial proceedings, elections and referendums, international negotiations, labor relations, the language of education, science, culture and sports, the language of the media, advertisement, book publishing and program interface, as well as the language for servicing consumers. Half of all newspapers, magazines and books should be in Ukrainian. The law does not cover the sphere of personal life, and it is possible to use any language there. Those who violate the language law norms may face fines of up to 11,900 hryvnias ($450) and even imprisonment in case they try to introduce multilingualism in Ukraine, which is considered equivalent to the overthrow of the constitutional regime. Lavrov hopes Ukrainian leader to implement Minsk deal after parliamentary polls "So far, almost nothing was done in order to cease the fire, and shelling attacks continue," Lavrov said	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1063
__label__wiki	0.80621	0.80621	Tag Archives: Ray Ellis Missing Rings: The 1987 Cleveland Browns October 26, 2013 by The Chancellor of Football When it comes to talking about Super Bowl Rings of NFL champions gone by, we think of great teams. Yet within each team, there are individuals who have their own story to tell. If becoming a champion is the crowning jewel for a lifetime achievement then how monumental is the chase itself?? Enter Marty Schottenheimer and the 1987 Browns. It all began on a dark foreboding afternoon on January 11, 1987 in the 1986 AFC Championship Game. After holding the Denver Broncos to only 216 yards of offense and 13 points in the first 55 minutes of the game, scored to take a 20-13 lead, then pinned the Broncos to their own 2 yard line after the kick. The crowd was rocking as Browns fans were throwing confetti and were just a series or two away from Super Bowl XXI. Decades of NFL futility were about to come to a close as John Elway and the Bronco offense took the field. Yet in one of the NFL’s greatest ever playoff drives, John Elway drove the Broncos 98 yards to the tying touchdown. Then the game winner in overtime. The 23-20 thriller ended a season that had been the most accomplished in the modern history of the franchise. Mark Jackson celebrates the touchdown at the end of “The Drive”in the ’86 AFC Championship Game. In 1985, the Browns were a limited team that was easing their prized rookie quarterback, Bernie Kosar, into the game plan. This earthbound run oriented outfit was the first division winner in NFL history with a .500 record. Both Earnest Byner and Kevin Mack rushed for 1,000 yards during the season. These shortcomings came back to haunt them in a 24-21 loss to Miami in the playoffs. A game in which Cleveland was up 21-3 at one point. Once the Dolphins focused on the ground game, Kosar was ineffective in his first road playoff game. So in 1986, third year Head Coach Marty Schottenheimer brought in passing guru Lindy Infante to open up the offense and personally develop Cleveland’s kid quarterback. Kosar developed into an upper level quarterback throwing for 3,500 yards and 17 touchdowns. Along with the Dawg defense they paced the conference and wrapped up home-field advantage with a 12-4 record. As the playoffs neared, pundits were mixed with what they expected of Bernie. Although he finished with the NFL’s lowest interception ratio per pass attempt, many felt a 23 year old quarterback would fold under pressure. Marty Schottenheimer In the AFC divisional playoff contest with the New York Jets, Kosar completed 33 of 64 for an NFL playoff record 489 yards in a come from behind 23-20 win. The game went to double overtime before Mark Moseley kicked the Browns to a victory. Then came the loss to Denver and depression set in state wide. It wasn’t the fact the Browns lost, it was the heartbreaking way they lost it. Yet with a developing quarterback and one of the AFC’s best defenses, they vowed to make amends the following season. Going into 1987, Cleveland started tinkering with their defense. They parted ways with high profile linebacker Chip Banks and altered their 3-4 defense in the early portion of the season. With two Pro Bowl cornerbacks in Frank Minnifield and Hanford Dixon, the Browns could go man to man against anyone. Results were mixed as Cleveland had issues rushing the passer. Minnifield and Dixon started in the Pro Bowl for the 2nd straight year, so coverage wasn’t the issue. The offense continued to diversify as Kosar elevated his game to a higher degree. In 1987 he had the second lowest interception percentage of all NFL quarterbacks (2.3%) as he threw for 3,033 yards, 22 TDs with only 9 interceptions. His 62% completion percentage (241 of 389) was among the best in pro football. Although he was a bit awkward as a quarterback he started to win some acclaim. He made the Pro Bowl and was voted the People’s Choice MVP that year. Keep in mind these numbers came from only 12 games thanks to the players strike that year. He still had future Hall of Fame TE Ozzie Newsome to go with his receivers Webster Slaughter (47 rec./ 806yds / 7 TDs) and Reggie Langhorne. However third receiver Brian Brennan (43 rec/ 607 yds / 6TDs) out of the slot was Wes Welker before Wes Welker. Running backs Earnest Byner and Kevin Mack were no longer the 1000/1000 tandem. Mack was the straight ahead freight train and Byner became a combination runner and receiver out of the backfield. Ancient Cleveland Municipal Stadium was remembered fondly by those from Ohio. Yet to the outside world it was an antiquated unattractive place. To the casual football fan this team was put together in a hodge-podge sort of way. Very few of the Cleveland Browns were blue chip players. Kosar and Mack were supplemental selections. Inside Linebacker Mike Johnson and All Pro Cornerback Frank Minnifield came from the USFL. Spot time starter Felix Wright #22, came from playing several years in the Canadian Football League. The year before, the Browns brought in former Ohio St alums LB Anthony Griggs and SS Ray Ellis. Each of which were let go by the Philadelphia Eagles when Buddy Ryan took over. Starting DEs Al “Bubba Baker” was a former Cardinal and Carl “Big Daddy” Hairston was in his 12th year was a former Philadephia Eagle from an even earlier regime than Ellis and Griggs. Now Pro Bowl Cornerback Hanford Dixon and Pro Bowl Linebacker Clay Matthews were 1st round selections fully entrenched as starters.Yet it was this unlikely group that fought as a unit to bring prestige and respectability to Cleveland. Their stadium was ancient and unattractive when you compared it to other teams around the league. Yet all of this fueled the furnace that was the spirit of those 1987 Browns. It fueled the fans as well. Hanford Dixon coined the “Dawg Defense” and the bleacher zone the “Dawg Pound” and that took on a league of it’s own. People dressed in dog masks, chewing on dog biscuits, throwing them on the field. In fact, in 1989 playing the Denver Broncos, the fans were so rowdy throwing biscuits on the Broncos huddled in the endzone, the referees switched sides. It was the first time in NFL history that had happened. Did I just mention the Broncos?? Well back to 1987… Wide Outs Webster Slaughter and Reggie Langhorne embodied the spirit of the Browns of that era. After posting a 10-5 record and winning the AFC Central, the Browns beat Eric Dickerson’s Indianapolis Colts 38-21 to set up the rematch they had waited for all year with Denver. This time the AFC Championship would be held in Mile High Stadium. Yet the Browns didn’t care. They had to exorcise the demons from “The Drive” and losing the AFC Championship the year before to the Broncos. When in fact it was a morality play when you thought of the two cities and the two teams. Cleveland was the unattractive “Mistake By the Lake” and Denver was the sprawling western urban city with mountains to ski off in the distance. Even the quarterbacks took on the embodiment of their towns. John Elway was the prototypical glamour quarterback. First round draft pick with a rocket right arm who was on the cover of magazines and gained much of his fanfare from the previous year’s championship game. Where Kosar was the physically awkward antithesis to Elway’s athleticism, he didn’t have John’s polished ready for television demeanor and looks either. However there was an assassin beneath the surface. This was the kid who won the 1983 National Championship at the University of Miami (The [[_]]) as a redshirt freshman. The 31-30 upset of the #1 ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers that were averaging 52 points a game. So Kosar didn’t shrink under intense pressure. How about the Head Coaches?? Well in one you had the polished, always in a shirt and tie Dan Reeves v. the bland “V-Necked”sweater or brown overcoat wearing Marty Schottenheimer. Reeves came up as a golden child on one of the NFL’s glamour teams playing for Tom Landry’s Dallas Cowboys. Then coming up through the coaching ranks and winning a ring as a coach (Super Bowl XII) just as he had as a player in Super Bowl VI. He was a highly sought coaching commodity when Denver hired him in 1981. Schottenheimer?? He had been a back-up linebacker and special teams player for the Buffalo Bills over in the “other league” known as the AFL. He had been a mid-season replacement for embattled coach Sam Rutigliano for whom he coached the defensive backs in 1984. In ignominious fashion it was his secondary who gave up one of the Browns biggest gaffes ever in 1980 when they allowed a Hail Mary to Ahmad Rashad in the final seconds to the Minnesota Vikings. In short Cleveland was the antithesis of everything they felt the Broncos were not. Gritty, tough, fighting for respect from the establishment. It tapped into the inferiority complex of the Browns fans and together they lived with the pain of “The Drive” from 1986 ripping at their souls. As for the ’87 AFC Championship?? The largest come from behind game in NFL postseason history was the 20 point comeback by the 1957 Detroit Lions in a 31-27 win over the 49ers. At least up until that time. That was against a 49er team that couldn’t win the big game. This comeback by Cleveland, down 18 twice, was performed against the team with the best home record of any NFL team (75% 1960-1987) during those years. Against the backdrop of the emotion from the previous year?? It was the epitome of a never say die attitude that should be taught to kids everywhere. To have such a monumental performance come up short like that doesn’t take away from it’s brilliance. Earnest Byner had rushed for 67 yards and caught 7 passes for an additional 120 and 2 touchdowns. Did you know this was only the 2nd time a team scored 30 points in any NFL championship game and lost?? The Browns scored 30 in just the second half!! They were down 21-3 at the half and lost 38-33. We’re talking 178 games of AFC /AFL Championships, NFC / NFL Championships and Super Bowls. The other times came when Dallas lost Super Bowl XIII to the Pittsburgh Steelers and when the 49ers lost XLVII to the Baltimore Ravens. Yet the overwhelming feeling after Byner’s fumble was the best team didn’t win that day. All the media talked about was John Elway who passed for 14 of 26 for 281 yards 3 TDs and 1interception. When the best player on the field that day was Bernie Kosar who threw for 361 yards (26 of 41) for 3 TDs and 1 pick. Which was the record for any championship quarterback playing on the road. Browns fans had to watch in disbelief when Washington blew out the Broncos 42-10 in Super Bowl XXII knowing their team was better. In fact the following year Cleveland won in Washington 16-10 on the road to knock them out of playoff contention in 1988. So could they have beaten them in a Super Bowl?? Probably. The year before when they lost “The Drive” to the Broncos, they had to watch the Giants pull away from the Broncos 39-20 in Super Bowl XXI. In 1985, the Browns beat the Giants 35-33 in the Meadowlands in the 13th week. Are we sure the Giants would have won at a neutral site Super Bowl?? Remember we’re talking about a pre- free agency NFL back then. However for one magnificent evening, Marty Schottenheimer and the Cleveland Browns taught fans everywhere a lesson in not giving up. Working your way out of a hole borne from self induced mistakes and putting on a Herculean effort that shouldn’t be forgotten. Thanks for reading and please share the article. Posted in Missing Rings. Tagged 1987 AFC Championships, 1987 Cleveland Browns, Bernie Kosar, Bob Golic, Clay Matthews, Earnest Byner, Eddie "Assassin" Johnson, Felix Wright, football, Frank Minnifield, Hanford Dixon, Marty Schottenheimer, Mike Johnson, NFL, Ozzie Newsome, Ray Ellis, sports, The Fumble, Webster Slaughter	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1064
__label__wiki	0.740241	0.740241	Tag Archives: Obvious Child 1/3/15 (Part Three): Her Choice abortion, best friends, Best of 2014, Chris Teague, cinema, comedies, David Cross, directorial debut, divorced parents, Donna Stern, dramas, favorite films, feature-film debut, film reviews, films, Gabe Liedman, Gaby Hoffmann, Gillian Robespierre, Jake Lacy, Jenny Slate, mother-daughter relationships, Movies, Obvious Child, one-night-stands, parent-child relationships, Paul Briganti, Polly Draper, Richard Kind, romantic-comedies, stand-up comedians, Stephen Singer, strong female character, writer-director Of the many subjects and issues that continue to be hot-button topics in our modern world, few have remained as controversial and divisive as the subject of abortion. Regardless of which side of the debate one finds themselves on, there can be no denying that abortion is a deeply personal decision for any woman to make: separated from notions of religion, politics or societal constraints, abortion is, fundamentally, about a woman’s body…it doesn’t get any more personal than that. While Hollywood has had no problem dealing with the subject of abortion, any films about the subject are, for obvious reasons, usually dramas. To my knowledge, there’s really only been one abortion-themed comedy and that was Alexander Payne’s explicitly political satire Citizen Ruth (1996). This makes writer-director Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child (2014) even more of marvel: for what must be the first time, we have a brutally honest, romantic-comedy about a woman deciding to get an abortion that completely excises any notion of politics or outside factors. It’s simply a film about a woman navigating through life and the choices she makes along the way. It could have been a lot of things but Obvious Child ends up being genuinely funny, heart-felt, emotionally resonant, sweet and quietly insightful. Donna Stern (Jenny Slate) is a stand-up comic who specializes in relationship-based material, along with a heaping helping of bathroom humor. When we first meet her, she’s just finished her set and her boyfriend, Ryan (Paul Briganti), has just dumped her: he blames the breakup on Donna’s hectic schedule and her constant airing of their dirty laundry on stage, although he also casually mentions that he’s sleeping with someone else. Whatta guy! To make matters even worse, Donna finds out that she’s losing her job at a bookstore due to the landlord evicting them. Good thing she has the best support system in the entire world: best friend Nellie (Gabby Hoffmann), a hardcore feminist with a snarky sense of humor and zero tolerance for anyone who wants to mess with Donna. Donna’s parents are also in the scene, albeit divorced from one another: her mother, Nancy (Polly Draper), is an uptight professional who disapproves of Donna’s act, while her father, Jacob (Richard Kind), is laid-back and tells Donna that “adversity makes great art.” In this case, however, Donna’s “adversity” leads her to get roaring drunk before her next performance and she delivers the kind of bitter, venomous and wildly offensive set (Holocaust jokes abound) that sends the audience heading for the door. Hanging around after the set with her gay comic friend, Joey (Gabe Liedman), Donna happens to run into a nice but nerdy computer programmer, Max (Jake Lacy). After a night of drunken shenanigans (the scene where Max and Donna pee outside is a minor classic) and some silly dancing, the couple wakes up in bed, the next morning. Flash-forward a few weeks and Donna gets the news that she’s pregnant after her one-night-stand with Max. Although she immediately tells her doctor that she wants an abortion, Donna needs to wait a few weeks, since she’s only three weeks pregnant. This would put the procedure on Valentine’s Day, a bit of irony not lost on Donna after Max suddenly reappears in her life. He knows nothing about the pregnancy or Donna’s intended abortion but he’s sweet on her and wants to take her out for a “legitimate” date. As the date of her procedure approaches, Donna tries to navigate around Max, her friends and parents, all while trying to figure out what she really wants. Obvious Child is really quite an extraordinary film: any synopsis of the movie, no matter how detailed, will always fail to convey all of the myriad little ways that it’s so special. Indeed, it’s all of the little details and elements of Robespierre’s debut feature that make it such an insightful, enjoyable and, ultimately, sweet film. In a year that was ridiculously rich with great debut films, Robespierre still manages to stand out with this completely self-assured bit of filmcraft. The film has a whimsical quality that’s handily reflected in Chris Teague’s excellent cinematography: rather than resembling the stereotypical indie rom-com, Obvious Child looks great. In fact, some of the shots are actually quite beautiful, displaying a really nice sense of framing and space. It seems like an odd thing to hammer home, but the film really does look fantastic: it’s one of the first things I noticed and really made an impression on me. Performances are key in something like this, however, and Robespierre gets some absolutely first-class work from a really great cast. Draper and Kind are both lots of fun as Donna’s parents: Draper, in particular, strikes just the right balance between disapproving authority figure and loving mother. Lacy is perfect as Donna’s one-night stand, managing to be equal parts nerdy, sweet and naive. Rather than coming across as the usual “white knight” cliché, Max always seems like a real person. Part of the film’s success from the authentic feel of Donna and Max’s halting courtship: if we didn’t buy Lacy as being genuinely nice, it wouldn’t give the film as much sting as it has. As Donna repeatedly states, Max was the nicest possible one-stand-stand she could have had…but he was still just a stranger. Lacy really plays out that facet of the character and it works beautifully. There’s also a really funny appearance by David Cross as an asshole who tries to seduce Donna, leading to one of the film’s funniest setpieces. Let’s take a few moments to extol the virtues of Gabby Hoffmann’s slam-bang turn as Nellie, shall we? Hoffman has had a pretty extensive career in film, stretching all the way back to her big-screen debut in Field of Dreams (1989), but she’s rarely been as likable as she is here. Quirky, sarcastic and unflinchingly loyal, Nellie is the perfect complement to Donna and, quite frankly, one of the funnest characters in some time. The two really do come across as best friends, which lends the whole film an air of authenticity that really makes the emotional beats hit hard. Were it not for Slate, Hoffmann would handily steal the film: any scene with her is a highlight and her performance is just more testament to what a talented actress she is. But, ultimately, Obvious Child belongs to Jenny Slate. I’ll admit to being less than a fan of Slate’s stand-up work, although I’ve enjoyed a lot of her various voice gigs. Going into the film, I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to connect, since I’m not a particular fan of Slate’s style: these fears were completely dashed within the first few minutes of the film. Quite simply, Slate is astounding in this, a complete and total revelation. I can’t really recall the last time that a performance so completely transformed my opinion of a performer, which might make Slate’s turn as Donna a bit of a first, in my book. Slate’s performance is multi-faceted, subtle, low-key, impossibly sweet, suitably edged and never anything less than riveting. While Slate handles the overtly humorous material with ease (her various stand-up routines are great and her back-and-forth with Nellie is hilarious), it’s the serious stuff that really surprises and impresses. The moment where Donna finally breaks down and crawls into bed with her mother is incredibly powerful and her final stand-up routine, where she discusses her upcoming abortion with a suitably surprised audience, is a real tour-de-force. As Slate guides the scene from awkward spoken-word to a legitimately funny stand-up routine, it’s like we’re watching Donna’s entire journey unfold before us, in condensed form. I’m not surprised that Slate wasn’t nominated for any awards this season but I am incredibly disappointed: her performance was such a masterful blend of innocence and edge, pain and good-nature, that it really stood out in a very crowded field. One of the most impressive aspects of Robespierre’s film is how light and breezy the whole thing is, despite the weighty, hot-topic subject matter. This isn’t about the legal ramifications of abortion, the “right and wrong” of it or any political aspects: quite simply, Obvious Child is about a woman who matter-of-factly decides to get an abortion because that’s what she wants, regardless of what anyone else might think. Obvious Child seems almost revolutionary for the way in which it reduces such a controversial subject to such a completely human level: there are no “talking points” here, no “agenda.” This is just about humans being human, with all of the messy stuff that always entails. In closing, I absolutely loved Obvious Child: it was easily one of the best films of the year and Slate’s performance was, likewise, one of the best. I can certainly understand the film serving as a lightning rod for both opponents and proponents of abortion-rights but I really wish folks would just come to it with an open mind and see it for what it really is: an intensely honest, funny and smart look at one young woman’s journey through life, with all of the joy and sorrow that comes with it. When Robespierre’s film is funny, it’s a dirty, goofy little riot. When it’s time to get serious, however, she proves such a deft hand that there are never jarring tonal shifts: if anything, Robespierre has already managed to perfect Wes Anderson’s patented brand of cheerful glumness on her very first try: my mind absolutely boggles at what the future holds for her. With any luck, Gillian Robespierre will prove to be the new cinematic voice that her debut promises: we absolutely need more filmmakers like her, making more films like this. The Year in Review: The Best Films of 2014 (Part Two) 2014, Best of 2014, Borgman, Calvary, cinema, favorite films, film reviews, films, Grand Piano, Housebound, Jodorowsky's Dune, Movies, Nymphomaniac, Obvious Child, Rhymes For Young Ghouls, Under the Skin, Wrong Cops, year in review, year-end lists We began with ten of my picks for the best films of 2014 and will now end with the other ten: proving how fluid these types of lists are for me, I’ve already whittled one film off in order to make the list an even twenty…life, as we know, is a constant state of flux. As with the first half, none of these are specifically ranked, with the exception of the final listing. Let’s do this. The Best Films of 2014 (cont.) Borgman Coming across as a particularly cold combination of Michael Haneke’s misanthropic odes to the futility of modern life (particularly Funny Games) and the bizarrely Dadaist films of Greek eccentric Yorgos Lanthimos, Dutch genius Alex van Warmerdam’s newest film, Borgman, is a weird, creepy little marvel that almost defies description. A mysterious vagrant insinuates himself into a well-to-do family’s life, ala Down and Out in Beverly Hills, and ends up destroying them from the inside-out. The elevator pitch doesn’t sound particularly odd but Warmerdam isn’t the kind of filmmaker who does anything by the book: blackly comic, surreal, oppressive, nightmarish and oddly fairy-tale-like, Borgman worms its way into your brain and latches on like a pit bull with lockjaw. The absolute closest thing to Hitchcock since the Master of Suspense shuffled off this mortal coil (put your hand down, DePalma), Eugenio Miro’s relentless Grand Piano was one of the biggest surprises in recent memory. The setup is so simple that it seems impossible to carry across a full-length film: a retired concert pianist reemerges to play a concerto on his dead mentor’s prize piano, only to receive messages from a mysterious person during the packed performance that indicate he’ll be shot dead if he stops playing or makes a mistake. From this intriguing, if limited premise, Miro shoots for the moon and winds up somewhere in a far, undiscovered galaxy. Elijah Wood, who’s quickly becoming one of my favorite genre actors, is perfect as the pianist but the real star of the film is Miro’s flawless direction and a ridiculously air-tight script by Damien Chazelle. Grand Piano is full of so many amazing setpieces and thrilling scenes that I was, literally, on the edge of my seat for the entire film: one of the most nail-biting moments I witnessed all year involves nothing more than sheet music and a cell phone and it’s astounding. The fact that this film didn’t open huge and play to massive audiences is one of the best indications that the future of cinema lies in the margins, with the truly unique outsiders, rather than anything that plays the multiplexes. Rhymes For Young Ghouls A coming-of-age film…a period piece about life on Canadian Indian reservations during the ’70s…a heist film…a family drama…a revenge drama…Rhymes for Young Ghouls is all of these things and so much more. Anchored by the amazing performance of Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs as the hard-nosed, resilient and, frankly, awesome Aila, writer-director Jeff Barnaby’s feature-length debut is nothing short of inspirational. I was never less than enthralled by anything that happened in the film (the brief animated segment, by itself, is one of the coolest cinematic moments of the year) and was frequently caught with a giant lump in my throat: when Rhymes For Young Ghouls is firing on all cylinders, there’s an epic quality to the filmmaking that actually echoes Scorsese. I went into Rhymes for Young Ghouls knowing nothing about the film whatsoever and left with my head on backwards. The fact that I really haven’t seen the film mentioned anywhere is testament to the fact that some awfully amazing gems seem to be falling through the cracks lately. An utterly vital, essential debut. Lyrical, lush, atmospheric and experimental, Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin was probably one of the most beautiful films I watched all year. There’s something almost hypnotic about the way Glazer blends eerie surrealism with the quiet, hushed tone of the film. Johansson is actually perfect as the mysterious, other-worldly woman who picks up guys on the nighttime streets of Glasgow and then…well, what, exactly? One of the supreme joys of Under the Skin is how little Glazer holds viewers’ hands: there’s never an “info dump,” no tedious flashbacks to over-explain twists and precious little dialogue to intrude on the near suffocating stillness. When the film jets off into the unknown, as in the “assimilation” scenes, Glazer’s film stakes out territory that puts it in the company of pioneers like 2001, albeit on a much smaller scale. Under the Skin is the kind of film that cinephiles can (and should) think about and digest for years to come. As my pick for the best horror film of 2014, Housebound still wasn’t a shoe-in for my overall list: as I mentioned elsewhere, I used very different criteria to determine the “horror” vs “overall” lists and many films that made my horror list didn’t carry across to the other. Housebound did for a simple reason: it’s not only the best horror film of 2014, it’s one of the best films of the year, period. Extremely well-balanced, with an expert mixture of humor and horror, I could see Housebound appealing to any and everyone, not just the horror-hounds in the audience. Morgana O’Reilly and Rima Te Wiata are outstanding as the mother-daughter ghost-hunting duo, giving us plenty to care about amidst the usual spooky high-jinks and haunted house tropes. To make it even better, O’Reilly’s Kylie Bucknell is an instantly iconic female ass-kicker, a strong-willed, take-no-shit woman who needs a white knight like she needs a hole in the head. When I wasn’t laughing, I was cheering: when I wasn’t on the edge of my seat, I was karate-kicking the ceiling fan. Housebound is an absolute blast to watch and is only writer-director Gerard Johnstone’s first film: I absolutely can’t wait for his next fifteen movies. Jodorowsky’s Dune So many films have been made since the advent of cinema, so many more than any of us will be able to see in a lifetime, that it seems a little strange to celebrate and discuss a movie that was never made. When the film is question is Alejandro Jodorowsky’s proposed adaptation of Dune, however, a film that was actually posited as a source of enlightenment for humanity and a way to help it achieve another level of spiritual evolution…well, it seems like we could probably take a few minutes to reflect on that, dontcha think? There was nothing conventional about Jodorowsky’s plans for Dune whatsoever: from casting Salvador Dali as the Emperor of Space to commissioning Pink Floyd to provide the music for one of the planets (not for the entire film, mind you…just as a theme for one particular part) to utilizing one of the most famous graphic artists of the era as a storyboard artist, Jodorowsky followed his muse at every step. His only intention was to create pure art and enlighten humanity: compare and contrast that with our current glut of superhero films and it’s clear that Jodorowsky wouldn’t even fit into our modern era, let alone in his. Fascinating, inspirational and full of so many amazing stories and anecdotes that it almost becomes overwhelming, Jodorowsky’s Dune is anchored by the man himself, Alejandro Jodorowsky, 84-years-young at the time of filming and so much more alive and vital than most people a tenth of his age. More than anything, the amazing documentary is a testament to the notion that you should never stop reaching for the stars, even if your feet are firmly stuck on terra firma. Nymphomaniac Vols 1 & 2 Sprawling, messy, over-the-top, frequently unpleasant and always impossible to look away from, auteur Lars von Trier’s epic-length ode to female sexuality (a staggering 5.5 hours in the director’s cut, which is definitely the way to go, if you’re going at all) is a stunner in every sense of the word. The film doesn’t always work and von Trier is up to all of his old provocateur antics here but it’s impossible to deny that Nymphomaniac is one of the most awe-inspiring films of the years. There’s a level of ambition here that’s daunting: at times, the film’s endless digressions, footnotes and asides begin to feel like a pornographic version of House of Leaves come to bold, colorful life. This will absolutely not be for everyone…hell, it probably won’t be for many people, to be honest: when the film is raw, it’s in-your-face raw and the frequent (real) sex can be a bit numbing after a while. There’s also the underlying question of whether von Trier actually has any business discussing female sexuality at all: it’s a valid concern, to be honest, and one that actually feels like it gets addressed, internally, as the film progresses, almost as if the writer-director is working out his own thoughts and beliefs as the story unfolds…it’s a complex issue and one that demands to be discussed at length and out loud. While I haven’t always seen eye-to-eye with von Trier cinematically (or personally, although that’s a discussion for another time and venue), there’s no denying that his last three films, Antichrist, Melancholia and Nymphomaniac, have been bold, visually stunning and thoroughly unique works of art. Love him or hate him as a person but ignore him at your own risk: for folks that can handle it, Nymphomaniac is nothing short of essential. John Michael McDonagh’s debut, The Guard, was a massively fun, ridiculously engaging film that featured a whirlwind performance from Irish national treasure Brendan Gleeson at its center and had one of the freshest, tightest scripts around. For the followup, Calvary, McDonagh opts to stick with Gleeson and the results are nothing short of cinematic perfection. There’s an overlying air of regret and fatalism to this story about a happy-go-lucky, small-town Irish priest who’s told by an unknown man, during confession, that’s he’s to be killed at the end of the week as revenge for the Catholic Church’s child molestation scandal. As Gleeson’s Father James runs about the town, conducting his own unofficial investigation in order to discover the identity of his would-be assassin, he uncovers a hidden world of resentment, anger and hatred, much of it directed at the clergy. Unbelievably powerful and bleak, Calvary is an absolutely stunning film with a conclusion that punches you right in the face. In a lifetime filled with more amazing roles and performances than seems humanly possible, Gleeson, somehow, manages to top himself, once again. For my money, Calvary was probably the single best drama of the year, a purely old-fashioned and cinematic marvel that reminds us of the time when all you needed to flatten an audience was tremendous acting, a remarkable script and a filmmaker with the patience and vision to make it all happen. This is powerful, moving cinema as its very best. Obvious Child When it came time to put together my Best of 2014 list, I instantly knew that Gillian Robespierre’s debut, Obvious Child, was going to be there: the only real question was “top spot or lower.” While it didn’t go on to take the top honors, there was nothing easy about the decision at all…in fact, I’m still agonizing about it as I continue to type out this particular missive. Into a year that seemed hellbent on declaring out-right war on women (threats of violence against female journalists, widespread denial of rape allegations, Stone Age legislative rulings regarding women’s health and reproductive rights) came Robespierre’s bittersweet Obvious Child, an honest-to-god abortion comedy (the only other one I can even think of is Citizen Ruth), a smart, funny, sweet honest and uncompromising film that was the furthest thing from a stereotypical rom-com, yet held enough of the DNA to still be identifiable as such. At the center of it all is stand-up comedian/voice actor Jenny Slate, in a role that should guarantee her status as a star: Slate is simply perfect in the film, displaying a range and depth that would be impressive on a “professional” actor, much less a stand-up comedian. Nothing about the movie is obvious (despite the title) and anyone expecting a typically Hallmark resolution will probably be pleasantly surprised: there’s too much honesty here for any of the characters to delude themselves as far as that goes. By turns hilarious, heartfelt and always authentic, Obvious Child was that rarest of finds in 2014: a film that I wished would just keep going on, into infinity. Here’s a little future forecast for all of you fine folks: Gillian Robespierre will be one of the world’s foremost filmmakers in a remarkably short amount of time, mark my words. Nineteen films down, one to go. While everything that preceded this could be considered unranked (although Obvious Child would still be very near the top), my final selection is very definite: I saw this particular film all the way back in April of 2014 and it never left my head throughout the year. At times, scenes would just pop into my brain out of nowhere, as if my subconscious was happily rewatching the film, internally, without my express written consent. It’s a film that I can look at from end to end and find nothing worth complaining about, nothing that detracts from the overall massive awesomeness. When I look back at my absolute favorite films over the years, movies like The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, The Godfather, Goodfellas, 2001 and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, there’s a unity of vision to them, a sort of perfect totality of world building that makes them impossible to escape (for me, at least), similar to shiny, jangly things for a jackdaw. I may like quite a few films and probably love a few more than most people do but there’s a very fixed, specific list of films that I consider to absolute, stone-cold classics. It has nothing to do with age, notoriety, “hip-factor” (or lack thereof), indie vs studio or any such easy distinctions. When a film is an utter classic, a little voice goes off in my head and that’s pretty much it: I can give great reasons, rationales and critiques until the cows come home but it all comes down to that little internal guide, that quiet little voice that hasn’t steered me wrong in some 30-odd years of cinematic obsession. With all of that being said, my choice as the single best film of calendar year 2014 is… Wrong Cops In a year filled with such stunning, critic-proof films as The Grand Budapest Hotel, Under the Skin and Obvious Child, what right do I have to select this incredibly gonzo little oddity as the best of the best? Let me see if I can’t try to break it down a little, before we circle around to that whole “internal voice” thing. Right off the bat, French musician/film auteur Quentin Dupieux is one of the most unusual, singular and amazing filmmakers currently living: it’s absolutely no hyperbole to place him in the same impressive echelon as folks like Luis Bunuel, Alejandro Jodorowsky or David Lynch. For my money, what makes an auteur is a singularly unified vision, the kind of vision that can be instantly recognized from film to film without falling into the territory of slavish duplication. In particular, I think of filmmakers like Wes Anderson or Scorsese: their films may (for the most part) be very different from each other but there’s always the overriding notion of returning to a particular universe. Beginning with his 2002 debut, Nonfilm, Dupieux has been quietly and confidently blowing minds for the following decade plus. The hallmark of a Dupieux film is an amazing synthesis of the absurd and comic with the dark and deranged: his third film, the astonishing Rubber, is about a sentient tire (as in, the kind that goes on the wheel of a car) that “wakes up” with the ability to blow things up with its mind, falls in love with a human woman and sets out on a mission of revenge, all while the film’s “audience” (ie: us) watches the proceedings from the sidelines. The followup, Wrong, concerns a mild-mannered nebbish who loses his dog and stumbles into a bizarre world of pet cults, psychic pooches, the evolution of mankind and more repeated insanity than a thousand Groundhog Days stacked end to end. While Dupieux’s previous films were mind-blowing, unforgettable pieces of cinematic insanity in their own rights, Wrong Cops is like Dupieux decided to just take it all to the next level, cut out the safety net and just go for it. On the surface, there’s nothing about Wrong Cops that should work: the cast is full of comics, which doesn’t always guarantee the sturdiest acting; Marilyn Manson plays a nerdy teenager; the humor is crude, scatological, politically incorrect and often outrageous (one of the main characters is a happily married father who stars in violent, homosexual porn as a side gig); there’s a sense of absurdity that can be downright confounding and the film is in constant motion, so jittery and kinetic as to be the cinematic equivalent of a facial tic. No one in the film can remotely be considered a “good” (or even sympathetic character) and the notion that Dupieux is constantly winking at us is never far behind. And yet…and yet, for all of this marvelous insanity, Wrong Cops works so astoundingly well that it almost makes me misty-eyed. Dupieux is such an assured master of the surreal and bizarre, ala Bunuel, that we trust him with the wheel, even though we have no idea where he’s driving. Bits that seem like throw-away jokes (one of my favorites being the grievously wounded fellow who’s dragged all the way to a record exec’s office just so he can weigh in on whether a particular track is “cool” or not) all pay off, in the long run, and everything in this nonsensical universe eventually makes sense, even if it’s not in any conventional sense of the term. More than any film this year, Wrong Cops is a film that boldly says “Trust me: I know what I’m doing” and then goes on to prove that fact. While the surreal filmmaking and script are sheer perfection, this would all collapse like a bad souffle if there weren’t such a rock-solid, amazing ensemble to hold it all together. The incredibly game cast, while includes Mark Burnham, Eric Wareheim, Eric Judor, Ray Wise, Steve Little and Arden Myrin, give it their all: when everyone involved seems this invested, it’s impossible not to get swept up in the madness. Hell, even Marilyn Manson puts his performance square between the goal posts: his scenes with Mark Burnham are a perfect combination of creepy, weird and sweet and pretty much form the bedrock of the film (the movie is actually an expansion of a short that primarily featured that relationship). Combine this with a truly awesome, trippy soundtrack, courtesy of good ol’ Dupieux (he’s also a famous French electro-artist who performs and records under the name Mr. Oizo) and Wrong Cops folds you up in its crazy, multi-colored, batshit world and never lets you go. There were many films this year that I respected and plenty of films that I loved. Wrong Cops, however, was one of the few films that I actually felt like I “needed.” As someone who’s addicted to outsider fare like Taxidermia, Dogtooth and the like, I often find it incredibly difficult to get my “fix”: I might go years between truly astounding finds and, sometimes, it can feel a little like wandering through a desert in search of an oasis. Ever since I discovered Dupieux, however, I can finally get that jolt that I need so badly, on a semi-regular basis: in many ways, Dupieux is a filmmaker that seems to be making films just for me…how the hell could I not consider that the greatest thing ever? Will Wrong Cops have any relevance to non-acolytes of the Church of Quentin? If you appreciate bold, uncompromising, exquisitely made films with a surreal bent and zero desire to coddle, there is no way you won’t completely fall in love with Dupieux and his filmography. For my money, one of the single most important qualities for a true lover of film to have is an open mind: you will not and cannot experience anything new and wonderful unless you’re willing to step outside your comfort zone and take that leap of faith. When it all comes together, like some sort of cosmic plan, the results can be life-affirming. For all of these reasons and so many more, Quentin Dupieux’s Wrong Cops is my selection as the single best film of 2014, topping a crowded field and nineteen other contenders. Stay tuned for the final wrap-up on 2014 as we prepare to return to our regularly scheduled broadcast here on The VHS Graveyard. It’s been a long journey but we’re finally home.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1070
__label__wiki	0.8712	0.8712	Arts & Culture / Web Exclusives Carly Rae Jepsen Hasn’t Earned Your Scholarly Scrutiny Contemporary culture writers warp their subjects out of proportion by applying more gravitas than is warranted by the source material July 27, 2017 October 6, 2018 - by Jason GurielJason Guriel Updated 11:52, Oct. 6, 2018 \| Published 13:59, Jul. 27, 2017 City Year A few weeks ago, Slate’s Culture Gabfest turned its considerable attention to the new Lorde album, Melodrama. The podcast is the finest of its kind, in which several talking heads (each well stocked with opinions) stake out a position on some cultural product or occasion. The Gabfest’s three critics, led by Stephen Metcalf, have wandered the Whitney Museum, marked the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman, and leaned into the swerves in philosopher Robert Nozick’s thinking. The discussion of a twenty-year-old’s pop album should’ve been par for the podcast. Still, it was hard not to feel that my favourite pundits, who had been joined by Slate’s music critic Carl Wilson, were overanalyzing the text at hand. When Dana Stevens, an otherwise thoughtful film reviewer, sincerely wondered, “How does [Melodrama] fall in the pantheon of breakup albums, or would you deny that it is one?”, the music critic took pains to deny. “I think it’s kind of a heartbreak album,” he said, with a slight note of hesitance, as if this was rich, unsettled turf to tussle over. Perhaps the “breakup” and “heartbreak” binary is as consequential a distinction in pop criticism as “ode” and “elegy” in poetry. Perhaps these very smart adults needed finer hairs to split. Let me hasten to add: I’ve been consulting the Culture Gabfest religiously since it began a decade ago. I love the spectacle of pop culture critics being brainy—provided they top up their thoughts with a foamy dollop of wit and style. But the trend these days is to tread heavily; increasingly, pop culture critics are bringing more brains to bear upon their modest subjects than seems required. The result often reads like a parody of criticism, freighted with gravity as if filed from Krypton. Here’s the New York Times’s Jon Caramanica on boy-band alumnus Harry Styles: And so the self-titled solo debut of Harry Styles, one of [One Direction’s] two breakout stars—the other being Zayn Malik—is both an answer to his past and a template for his future. Mr. Malik, who makes mildly sludgy pop-R&B, got to market first, and also seems at least tangentially interested in the market. Mr. Styles would like to be excluded from that narrative. So goes this sometimes great, sometimes foggy album, which is almost bold in its resistance to contemporary pop music aesthetics. If you didn’t know any better, you’d assume Caramanica was talking about John Coltrane seizing control of the “narrative” by parting ways with the Miles Davis Quintet. So seriously does he take his aspiring man-boy—fomenting a “resistance” to “aesthetics,” no less—you can practically hear his highbrow furrowing. Even when he means to wink, Caramanica comes on dry and grave. “First post-boy-band albums,” he explains, “are also where symbols of maturity are dangled: Mr. Styles would like you to know he has been debauched, or something like it.” Perhaps this is what Northrop Frye sounded like when faced with having to close read yet another post-boy-band, symbol-rich resurrection myth. In any case, Mr. Caramanica would like you to know he has been critical, or something like it. There’s a long history of first-rate minds taking the seemingly second rate very seriously. Roland Barthes’s classic monograph Mythologies (1957) was one of the first attempts to flush out into the open the meaning of such ephemera as soap, detergent, and wrestling. Later, Pauline Kael threw her byline behind lurid Brian De Palma thrillers. Greil Marcus detected great depths in Elvis’s performances, and duly dragged them. I worshipped Elvis and, for a time, Marcus’s 1975 book Mystery Train, which contains passages like this one: Elvis has survived the contradictions of his career, perhaps because there is so much room and so much mystery in Herman Melville’s most telling comment on this country: “The Declaration of Independence makes a difference.” That would’ve struck me as pretty cool when I was younger—not for what it revealed about Elvis, which was not very much, but for the sheer moxie of muscling the King of Rock and Roll and the author of Moby Dick into the same weighty sentence. That was a move on par with a lip curl. In time, however, I came to prefer the froth-fine touch of writers like Clive James, Troy Patterson, Fran Lebowitz, and Anthony Lane. Here’s the latter on Wonder Woman’s digs: The name of the island is true to myth, which suggests that someone at DC Comics has been knuckling down to Herodotus and the Greek tragedians. In “Prometheus Bound,” written in the fifth century B.C., we are told that Themiscyra is the home of the Amazons, “who loathe all men.” In the movie, directed by Patty Jenkins, the islanders don’t get much of a chance to work on their loathing, because men are blissfully absent and, by definition, superfluous. The women are thus free to practice their homely skills, such as leaning sideways from the saddle of a galloping horse until their heads are on a level with their stirrups and then, from this comfortable position, loosing off an arrow at the target. The scholarspeak cut by the colloquial (“knuckling down to Herodotus”); the light way with a logician’s weighty turn (“thus”); the eye for unexposed clichés (that tendency of action heroes to go horizontal to horse); the stylist’s apt, unimpeachable phrasing (“loosing off an arrow”). Lane is too serious about what he’s doing to take his subject too seriously. Compared to this, Marcus, peering solemnly down the decades at Melville, has lost perspective. And yet, after the Culture Wars of the 1980s—which razed the Western Canon and blew out the dimensions that defined where a critic could roam—it made for a good career move to lose perspective. By the 2000s, critics were engaged in an escalating arms race to make the most explosive claim on behalf of unfissionable material like Limp Bizkit or Star Wars prequels. What’s notable about these essays is their tendency to apply more smarts and style than seems warranted by the source material; to over-analyze and out-write. Consider how Jonah Weiner, in his spirited defence of Limp Bizkit, takes note of frontman Fred Durst’s “infelicities on the mic,” or “the knuckle sandwich [that] is his emotional lingua franca,” or the “critique” that “bubbles up between his lines.” Jesse Hassenger, defending the Star Wars prequels, also overreaches. “This could turn into what fiction writers might call an imitative fallacy,” he writes, “where the prequel trilogy is made intentionally (and unproductively) boring to depict its less immediately exciting subject matter.” But like most things overdone, the trick of overanalyzing isn’t hard to master, and can be applied to virtually anything. Because there isn’t a knot of allusions to undo in a Carly Rae Jepsen song, the contemporary critic (Barthes’s knowing heir) tends to pore over the object’s sociological aspects and ideological missteps—how it’s handling gender, say. But why the earnest focus on Carly Rae Jepsen? Because, well, it’s easy! It’s easy to write about things that don’t have a ton of depth to them. It’s much harder to scale a Daryl Hine poem than look down upon Scarlett Johansson’s Ghost in the Shell—which is why many writers have forsworn criticism for culture writing. Culture writing caricatures the outward trappings of criticism (the seriousness, the lingo) but largely waves off aesthetic judgment, and doubles down on the sociology. The result is funhouse prose that warps its subject out of all proportion. Consider the opening of a recent New Yorker essay, in which a new Chinese boy band is said to “renovate the form.” Renovate the form! That’s a small phrase, but a conspicuous one, meant to confer the gravitas that attaches to heroic couplets and wonder cabinets, I suppose. Or consider, again, Caramanica who elevates a Taylor Swift song about her love life with the word “metanarrative,” and describes Swift herself as a “transgressor.” Or Jody Rosen’s 4400-word defense of schlock, in which he insists that “schlock is too important a tradition not to take seriously and that taking it seriously means making astute judgments about that tradition.” You can plot all this on a curve, beginning with figures like Marcus, that founding Freud of pop overanalysis—pop culture criticism has reached peak seriousness. None of this, I should point out, is meant to advance some silly value system pitting high art against pop culture; I’ll take the John Travolta vehicle Blow Out over Antonioni’s Blow Up any day. The point is to judge the critic, not the cultural product. Perhaps there’s someone out there capable of making an album by that “transgressor” Swift sound as subversive and lyrically substantial as Patti Smith’s Horses. But a critic like Caramanica or Rosen probably won’t be the one to do it. You just don’t trust them to know the difference. They treat every pop album the same way—as automatically worthy of scholarly scrutiny. That said, if what you’re working with is the Carly Rae Jepsen Songbook, aren’t your critical responses going to be somewhat limited, even predetermined? Aren’t you likely to either inflate the object’s worth, grabbing for all the gravitas you can, or put a pin to it? And if it’s the latter, aren’t you apt to conclude, as some killjoy at The New Republic recently did, that Jepsen’s music “reduces the experience of teenage girls to fantasy instead of taking them on their own terms as actors in this world”? (What was the critic expecting from the co-author of the delightful “Call Me Maybe”? A Kathy Acker cut-up?) Moreover, if the assigned text is an exploitative dating show like The Bachelorette, you’re apt to discover, as a critic at The Atlantic recently did, that The Bachelorette is, well, an exploitative dating show! It’s not that these pundits are off base in taking shots at teen pop and reality TV; their critiques are accurate enough. It’s that they’ve brought their phonebook-thick Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism to a pillow fight. And if a critic can’t tell that their ambitions are disproportionate to their airy subjects, then they have no business toying with trifles. Jason Guriel Jason Guriel is a writer based in Toronto. His work has appeared in Elle, The Atlantic, and Slate. Previous Article The Unbearable Whiteness of CanLit Next Article Can Police Help Solve the Opioid Epidemic? Type: Opinion Opinion: Advocates for ideas and draws conclusions based on the author/producer’s interpretation of facts and data.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1071
__label__wiki	0.843316	0.843316	World Series Preview — Dodgers vs. Astros Is a True Heavyweight Fight Chris Chaberski Late on Tuesday afternoon in Southern California, the 2017 Major League Baseball World Series will begin, with the hometown Los Angeles Dodgers facing the Houston Astros. For baseball fans, this is a fantastic contest, featuring the best pitcher in the world (Clayton Kershaw), the likely American League MVP (Jose Altuve), and two teams that each won more than 100 games this year — the first time that's happened since 1970. This is a genuine clash of baseball titans, the winner without doubt deserving the title of World Champion. This year's World Series, despite having two excellent teams facing off, has a lot to live up to after last fall's instant classic between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians. Those two teams, going in, hadn't won a World Series in a combined 170 years. It's been 29 years since the Dodgers took home the Commissioner's Trophy and, as you'll surely hear Fox play-by-play man Joe Buck repeat numerous times, the Astros have never in their 55-year existence won the whole thing. It's the franchise's second appearance overall (the first was in 2005). If these two can give fans a long, hard-fought series with a few nail-biters and memorable moments, it has a chance to maybe even surpass Cubs-Indians, which would make this one an all-time great World Series. Here's hoping! How They Got Here: Los Angeles Dodgers It's the first time L.A. has been to the Fall Classic since 1988, a surprisingly long break for such a storied franchise. They enter the series as slight favorites, but as anyone in baseball can tell you, you just never know what can happen in a seven-game series. Today also happens to be the 29th anniversary of Kirk Gibson's famous game-winning home run off the bench that gave the Dodgers an early lead in their series against the Oakland A's. Let's review that moment of baseball lore, shall we? The 2017 Dodgers were an absolute force, winning 104 games, tops in the Majors. Then they playoffs started, and they got even better. After sweeping the Arizona Diamondbacks in the Division Series, they knocked off the defending champion Chicago Cubs in five games. The D-backs and Cubs won 93 and 92 games, respectively, and the Dodgers absolutely smoked both of them, outscoring them by a combined 48–19 count. That is sheer dominance during what are supposed to be the most challenging games of the year. On August 25, the Dodgers were an astounding 91–36 — that's 55 games over .500. If not for an inexplicable 11-game losing streak at the beginning of September, we might be talking about them as maybe the best team of all time —as long as they finish things out by winning the World Series. Otherwise, it's just the 2001 Seattle Mariners all over again. How They Got Here: Houston Astros As good as the Dodgers were this year, it was actually the Astros who everyone was marveling during the early parts of this season. On June 5, the Astros were already 42–16, running away with the American League. Over the next few months, they came back to Earth, kind of, finishing the season 59–45 and winning the A.L. West by 21 games. The 'Stros are powered by a mix of young talent and veteran leadership, with 2B Jose Altuve and SS Carlos Correa making for the best up the middle infield in the game (sorry, Cubs). Houston acquired starter Justin Verlander at the trade deadline, and all he did was put up a 1.06 ERA over five starts down the stretch and then claim the ALCS MVP with two lights-out performances over the Yankees. Forty-year-old DH/OF Carlos Beltran may have had a down year during the regular season, but the guy is one of the best postseason hitters of all time, and he's still hunting for his first ring. A special moment over the next week or so would be a heck of a way to cap a great career, but he'll need to have the opportunity first. Pitching Matchups & Game Schedule Not everything is set yet, but here's what we have so far. All games will be broadcast on Fox (all times Eastern): 8 p.m. World Series Game 1: Houston Astros at Los Angeles Dodgers Dallas Keuchel (14–5) vs. Clayton Kershaw (18–4) 8 p.m. Game 2: Astros at Dodgers Justin Verlander (15–8) vs. Rich Hill (12–8) 8 p.m. World Series Game 3: Dodgers at Astros Yu Darvish (10–12) vs. TBD Pitching matchup TBD vs. TBD 8 p.m. World Series Game 5: Dodgers at Astros TBD vs. TBD 8 p.m. World Series Game 6: Astros at Dodgers Wednesday, November 1 * if necessary Prediction Time Dodgers in six. READ OUR NLCS RECAP HERE Source: World Series Preview — Dodgers vs. Astros Is a True Heavyweight Fight Filed Under: MLB	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1074
__label__wiki	0.9171	0.9171	A fire tore through a hot springs hotel in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin before dawn on Saturday, killing 19 people and causing 23 others to be taken to hospital, city officials said. Authorities are investigating the cause of the blaze at the four-storey Bailong Hot Springs Leisure Hotel, an inexpensive spa resort visited mainly by domestic tourists, which broke out just after 4:30 am (2030 GMT Friday). The People's Daily newspaper cited fire officials as saying the blaze had started in a kitchen on the second floor. Flames swept through an area of about 400 square metres (4,300 square feet) before being extinguished after three hours, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported. Footage showed rescue workers picking through the charred building. Casualties treated in hospital were in the 40s to 70s age range, the newspaper said, citing the Harbin First Hospital. Further details about those who were killed were not immediately available. An earlier death toll of 18 rose by one after a victim died in hospital, officials said. China has a patchy record for building safety regulations, and the country's Ministry of Emergency Management said it would launch nationwide fire safety inspections in buildings such as hotels, sauna, hospitals, schools and shopping malls, CCTV reported on Saturday. Beijing's municipal government launched a 40-day "special operation" targeting fire code and building safety violations after an apartment fire in the Chinese capital in November killed 19 people. Harbin, in the far northeast of China and home to a large Russian population during the early 20th century, is famous for buildings dating from that era as well as a popular winter snow and ice festival.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1075
__label__wiki	0.594365	0.594365	EIF hosting forum on inclusive trade for Least Developed Countries Deanna Ramsay At the WTO from 13-14 June, the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) is convening its first Global Forum on Inclusive Trade for Least Developed Countries (LDCs), with representatives from more than 40 of the 51 LDCs and recent graduates coming together to act on trade. Free trade in Africa, the agriculture and trade combination, and trade strategies for women are just a few of the topics to be discussed at an upcoming event at the WTO. Considering the growing trade gap between developed nations and the world's poorest countries, 2018 is a turning point for LDCs and trade, and the time is now to generate momentum to further integrate LDCs into an inclusive trading world. "Many LDCs have great potential to increase trade. But potential means nothing unless you can transform it into action," says Ambassador to the Permanent Mission of Sweden to the WTO and EIF Steering Committee Chair Daniel Blockert, who will be part of the event's Closing Ceremony. The Global Forum on Inclusive Trade for LDCs will bring together leaders from governments, international organizations, the private sector, NGOs and more to foster trade action in LDCs. Reflecting on the progress of trade development in LDCs over the last decade, the event will foster deeper collaborations, strong commitments and proposals for the future. Featured speakers will include Vice President of The Gambia Fatoumata Jallow-Tambajang, Her Royal Highness Princess of Burkina Faso Abze Djigma and Secretary General of the Commonwealth Secretariat Patricia Scotland. Discussions will center on three themes: "Inclusive trade and economic growth", "Multilateral and regional trading systems", and "Global agricultural value chains." Inclusivity is key in building resilient trade, for women, for small businesses and for youth in countries so they are not left behind, so to speak. And the way that inclusivity is nurtured along with trade prospects will be a key element of the discussions. For EIF Executive Director Ratnakar Adhikari, "To best foster inclusive trade in LDCs, technology needs to be made accessible, affordable and utilizable for all. Increasing the use of tech in LDCs would increase competitiveness in the global market, speed the move up the value chain, and help countries create decent jobs for women and youth." Many of the day's dialogues will focus on how to include women, who may be part of informal economies and or out of the workforce entirely. "Including women is not just the nice thing to do, it is the smart thing to do. Empowered women rise an economy. Empowered young women rise a country," says Ariane Moza, Girl Ambassador for Peace from the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders and a speaker at the Forum. With Moza, who hails from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and a diverse range of speakers and panellists, a knowledge-sharing pavilion in the WTO Atrium featuring partner presentations, a photo exhibition of LDC trade work on the ground, and an innovative panel of female entrepreneurs pitching investment opportunities backed by concrete results, the Forum will be the key and only place to talk LDCs and trade. Registration for the Forum is open to the public here. Amid slowing global growth, six countries announce nearly US$13 million to support trade in the world’s poorest countries Detoxifying crops in The Gambia, from the ground up	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1076
__label__wiki	0.715059	0.715059	Expect Surprises And Much More On A Joyful Jaunt Through Jordan The usual suspects aside, Jordan springs delightful revelations at every corner, leaving you wonderstruck. By Neeta Lal After ooh-ing and aah-ing over Petra and Wadi Rum—the big daddies of tourist attractions—we thought we’d seen it all. Then along came Ajloun. From our hotel in Amman, the capital city of Jordan, we drove south towards the Syrian border and the hill-fringed town of Umm Qais, where history whispers from every corner. The 90-minute journey took us through pine forests and the olive groves of the Ajloun–Dibeen highlands. The region around Ajloun has an almost Mediterranean feel to it. The air is fresh and crisp, perfumed with evergreen oak, pine, wild pistachio and wild strawberry trees. Birds conduct their own raucous orchestra from the treetops. At roadside stalls, plump olives—in different hues and sizes—winked back at us from their jars. A cornucopia of colourful fruits and vegetables sold by the local Bedouins added more heft to the streetscape. Hamdi, our avuncular Jordanian driver-cum-guide, killed the engine and stopped for us to try some deliciously sweet bananas and mangoes. Soon, we reached Ajloun to view its famous Qal’at Ar-Rabad (Arabic for ‘hilltop castle’). Tickets bought, we ambled past kiosks selling touristy tat and a moat bridge that cut a swathe through the castle’s east wall. A long, sloping passage led up a gradient to an older, arched entrance, embellished with carvings of birds. Stepping inside was like walking into a vintage painting, with the dun-coloured fortification’s soaring towers, chambers, alcoves, and galleries silhouetted against an azure sky. As we nipped up to the top, vistas of the Jordan Valley opened out before us in shades of emerald and sherbet like a cinematic landscape. The hill on which the castle sits, Jabal Auf, overlooks three major wadis or valleys. The castle’s warren of chambers and galleries is perfect for exploration. The kids loved the castle—capacious rooms to scamper about, and plenty of selfie points with a chiaroscuro playing out in its cavernous innards. Treasures from long ago—artefacts like broken urns, weapons, and utensils from various periods of the castle’s history—tell stories of the past. Hamdi explained that the castle was formerly the site of an isolated Christian monastery, home to a monk named Ajloun. “By 1184, in the midst of the Crusades, the monastery had fallen into ruin. An Arab general, Izz ad-Din Usama, seized this opportunity to build a fortress on the ruins,” Hamdi narrated, as we perambulated the castle’s stony ramparts peppered with debris and the occasional whirring machine deployed for its restoration. Usama’s idea behind building the castle was to limit expansion of the Crusader kingdoms, protect the rich iron mines of the nearby hills, and exhibit his clout to the warring clans of the local Bani Auf tribe. According to legend, Usama invited the sheikhs of the tribe to a lavish banquet in the castle. After entertaining them, he threw them into the dungeons. Later, the castle was partly destroyed in the invasions of the Mongols in 1260, but was rebuilt quickly afterwards. Ottoman troops were garrisoned here during the 17th and 18th centuries. Today, Ajloun Castle stands partly restored after damage by two massive earthquakes in 1837 and 1927. Consolidation work on the surviving structures continues in a bid to preserve its rich legacy. A short drive northwards from Ajloun lies the ancient city of Jerash, one of Jordan’s most visited attractions. We stopped midway at a local Bedouin restaurant for lunch, a Jordanian buffet of pita bread, salads, rice, and meats. No Michelin stars for the food, but it was fresh and wholesome, unblemished by ‘modernity,’ and we washed it down with our favourite mint-infused lemonade, or limonana. Tucked into a quiet valley among the Gilead mountains, Jerash is a city with personality. It sits upon layers of history, each one more complex than the other. Within the city’s walls, archaeologists have stumbled upon ruins of settlements dating back to the Neolithic Age, indicating human occupation as long back as 6,500 years ago. Founded by Alexander the Great, or perhaps one of his generals, the metropolis was buried for centuries under sand until it was excavated and restored over the course of a century. It flourished between the first and third centuries AD, enjoying robust trade relations with the Nabateans or ancient Arabs. “Jerash is considered one of the world’s largest and most well-preserved sites of Roman architecture outside of Italy,” the local guide said, as we entered the city through its spectacular gateway, Hadrian’s Arch, built to honour the visit of Emperor Hadrian of Rome in 129 AD. The Romans Hellenised the city’s Arabic name to Gerasa, which was again changed at the end of the 19th century to the Arabic Jerash, and the moniker stayed. A melange of Greco-Roman styles as well as influences from the Orient, the city’s architecture and city planning highlight its embrace of different cultures and artistic styles. We ambled around the handsome city admiring its well-paved and colonnaded streets, exquisite hilltop temples, expansive plazas and squares, baths, fountains, and city walls pierced by towers and gates that remain in exceptional condition. We captured the city’s myriad sites on camera, spoilt for choice in terms of remarkable photo ops. As we took in the visual theatre, our guide told us that Jerash was one of the great metropolises of the Decapolis, a clutch of cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in the first centuries BC and AD. Today, however, Jerash is most famous for hosting the Roman Army and Chariot Experience or RACE, the biggest show of pageantry of any kind in the Middle East. The spectacle includes 24 fully equipped legionaries demonstrating their battle formations and tactics, gruesome gladiator fights, and a chariot race with laps around its spina or the middle barrier. Despite yearning to spend more time in Jerash, unearthing the mysteries of this fascinating city layer by layer, our next destination beckoned. History and religion intertwine so seamlessly in Jordan, it’s tough to known where one ends and the other begins. This thought sprang to mind as we soaked in a jaw-dropping view of Jordan, Israel, and the West Bank from the summit of Mount Nebo. The 710-metre Mount Nebo, the zenith of a ridge known as Pisgah, is where Moses viewed the Promised Land just before his death and his burial here. Its breathtaking panorama extends from Jericho all the way to Jerusalem, and to the Jordan Valley in the North. In the distance looms the Mount of Olives in western Jerusalem. As we trained our eyes further, we could also glimpse the northern tip of the Dead Sea and the rolling hills of the surrounding valleys. “One of the world’s most important Christian holy sites, Nebo was visited by Pope John Paul II in 2000,” the guide said as we inspected the olive tree, now lush with foliage, the pope planted here as a symbol of peace. In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI’s visit further burnished Mount Nebo’s reputation as a salient holy site. Next to the viewpoint, on a raised platform, is a modern sculpture by the Italian artist Giovanni Fantoni representing Moses’ staff and Jesus’ words in John 3: “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up.” As we moved ahead to view the Memorial Church of Moses, we were told it is infused with elements of a Byzantine basilica uncovered by archaeologists in the 1930s. Its excavated Old Baptistery is inlaid with some of the most gorgeous ancient mosaics. In the far right corner of the church is the New Baptistery, previously a funerary chapel, that is in remarkable condition despite dating back to 597 AD. It also includes a tiny mosaic originally from the threshold bearing the greeting, ‘Peace to all’. Later, we visited the small museum and gift shop to buy some holy relics and souvenirs, including holy water in pretty vials and a book about Jordan’s biblical history. Nothing prepares you for Petra. Not the glossy brochures that feebly capture the blushing glow of its rocks. Nor television shows that fail to evoke the tangible magic of this spectacular UNESCO World Heritage Site. And definitely not your friends, whose florid descriptions of one of the New World’s Seven Wonders are likely cliche-ridden. And so, I must paint a first-hand-witness account of it, despite its popularity. Set in the Titanic jebels of southern Jordan, between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba, Petra is an enchanting ensemble of hand-hewn caves, palaces, Roman amphitheatres, temples, and tombs crafted from pink sandstone 2,000 years ago. We arrived in the ancient city from Nebo after a bumpy drive on a cold, wintry morning. And dived right in, starting with Bab Al Siq, a natural 1.2-kilometre-long gorge of red sandstone, formed after the mountains split. As we ambled past the canyon walls and towering rocks marked with multi-hued striations, our local guide Sam told us that Petra was also known as the Rose City due to its pink rocks. “The city is basically an ode to a lost civilisation—the Nabateans—a Semitic desert tribe about whom little is known and whose kingdom lay among these cliffs and peaks,” he said. As gifted architects, artisans, and engineers, the Nabateans lived in the valley from the seventh century BC to the second century AD, and prospered until trade routes changed. The arrival of Romans in 63 BC brought expansion as well as ostentation. They erected some of the city’s most impressive façades, including a theatre that could seat 4,000 spectators—the world’s only theatre carved into rock. Petra thrived till an earthquake ravaged it in the fourth century AD and was abandoned thereafter until a Swiss explorer called Jahannes Burckhardt rediscovered the ruins in 1812. Burckhardt, dressed as an Arab, asked the local Bedouins to show him around. So enchanted was he that he kept revisiting the city, spurring global interest in Petra that continues till date. The Siq tapers off to a few feet and then opens out dramatically at the 40-metre-high Treasury or Al Khazana, swarming with tourists, kiosks, cafes, and camel riders. Local Bedouins approached us to offer guide services or to sell necklaces and souvenirs. Shops selling ‘Bedouin kohl’ seemed especially popular. Experts are divided over what the Treasury’s exact function was. “Some say it was temple while others contend it was a tomb,” we were told as we marvelled at the structure’s still lustrous Corinthian pillars, friezes, and mammoth sculptures with distinct Hellenistic and Middle Eastern architectural influences. From the Treasury we walked past ancient temples, a marketplace, and an expansive Greek-style amphitheatre. Interspersed through the rock formations, rising in the distance, are remnants of over 800 tombs. “The Nabataeans buried their dead in intricate tombs carved exquisitely from the mountain sides,” our guide explained, as we struggled to understand how the structure was crafted in such complex detail centuries ago. Given Petra’s bewildering expanse, archaeologists even today have explored only a fraction of it. Excavations, facilitated by satellite imagery, unearthed a monumental structure buried in the sand as recently as 2016. For the last half of the hike, we nipped up 800 steps through the cliff face to the vast, temple-like monastery—Ad Deir. It crowns a craggy mountain with sweeping views across Israel and Palestine. We soaked in a stunning panorama of palm trees, surreal rock formations, and camel caravans navigated by Bedouins below us. When we returned to the Treasury an hour later, it was bathed in the salmon-pink glow of early evening. We stood transfixed yet again till Sam reminded us that our escort was waiting to take us back to our hotel. Reluctantly trooping back, the French novelist Gustave Flaubert’s words echoed in my mind: “Travelling makes one modest—you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” Having experienced diminution time and again in Petra’s elemental vastness, you can’t help but concur. A TREASURE HUNT FOR THE FAMILY Go beyond the usual tourist attractions in Jordan, and you’ll be pleasantly surprised at the jewels it holds. Go for a curated tour, or sketch out your own itinerary—there’s something here for every family member. GETTING THERE & AROUND Several airlines like Gulf Air, Oman Air, and Etihad Airways operate one-stop flights to Queen Alia International Airport in Amman. Travelling within Jordan is easy and relatively cheap as most cities are well-connected through a fine road network. Ajloun Hotel: The hotel has a garden with an outdoor pool, and offers air-conditioned rooms with free Wi-Fi. It has a 24-hour front desk and a free shuttle, but its location—one kilometre from Ajloun Castle—is its most fetching detail. Rooms from INR 5,000 Olive Branch Hotel: Nearly four kilometres from Jerash, located on a hill overlooking Dibbin Nature Reserve, Olive Branch offers spacious rooms and an outdoor pool with a sun- lounger terrace. Rooms from INR 7,000. Mosaic City Hotel: Around eight kilometres from Mount Nebo, Mosaic City Hotel is a small, friendly property in the heart of Madaba, within easy walking distance of the Church of St George and the famous mosaic map of the Holy Land. Doubles from INR 6,000. Mövenpick Resort Petra: Located right at the entrance to Petra, it is crafted from natural stone, handcrafted wood, and Middle Eastern fabrics. The hotel offers 183 rooms and suites, seven restaurants, and a fitness and wellness centre. Rooms from INR 15,000. Amman-based Jordan Select Tours is conscious about the region’s environment and organises an array of cultural tours, including an eight-day Nabatean Wonder Itinerary. It also curates tours for groups with specific interests—from culinary arts to wine-tasting tours and birdwatching. +962-65930588. Enjoy Jordan organises a variety of tours, from diving in Aqaba to a 10-day family itinerary and trekking programmes. +962-65534544. Related: The Middle East in 8 New Ways Kumar Shree	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1077
__label__wiki	0.962488	0.962488	Eaton Corporation PLC (ETN.N) ETN.N on New York Stock Exchange Craig Arnold 58 2016 Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer Uday Yadav 54 2017 President and Chief Operating Officer - Industrial Sector Richard Fearon 63 2009 Vice Chairman of the Board, Chief Financial and Planning Officer Brian Brickhouse 55 2018 President - Electrical Systems and Services Group Nandakumar Cheruvatath 57 2015 President - Aerospace Group Richard Eubanks 46 2015 President - Electrical Products Group Joao Faria 54 2017 President - Vehicle Group Curtis Hutchins 53 2015 President - Hydraulics Group of Eaton Corporation Heath Monesmith 48 2017 Executive Vice President, General Counsel Ken Semelsberger 57 2013 Senior Vice President, Controller Christopher Connor 63 2016 Lead Independent Director Todd Bluedorn Michael Critelli Arthur Johnson Deborah McCoy Gregory Page Sandra Pianalto Dorothy Thompson Mr. Craig Arnold is a Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Mr. Arnold joined Eaton in 2000 as senior vice president and group executive of the Fluid Power Group. He was Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of the Industrial Sector until August 2015 and President and Chief Operating Officer until June 2016. He currently serves on the boards of Medtronic plc and University Hospitals Health System and is a member of The Business Roundtable and The Business Council. Mr. Arnold serves as a director of The Greater Cleveland Partnership and the United Way of Greater Cleveland, and as an advisory board member of the Salvation Army of Greater Cleveland. Mr. Uday Yadav is President and Chief Operating Officer - Industrial Sector of the Company. He is chief operating officer, Industrial Sector, for Eaton, a power management company. In this role, Yadav is responsible for the company’s Aerospace, Hydraulics, Vehicle, Filtration and Golf Grip businesses, as well as the company’s operations in the Asia Pacific, Central and South American regions. Most recently, Yadav served as president of the company’s Aerospace Group. Since joining Eaton in 1994, Yadav has served as executive vice president of the Eaton Business System, president of the Asia Pacific region for the Hydraulics Group, vice president of Supply Chain Management for the Fluid Power Group, director and general manager of Eaton’s Global Hose division and local managing director for Eaton in India. In addition, he has held leadership positions in the Automotive Fluid Connectors business and Aeroquip’s European Operations. Prior to joining Eaton, Yadav worked with Lucas Engineering and Systems and Aeroquip Vickers. Yadav holds a double degree with honors in engineering and business from Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom. Yadav is a member of the Board of Directors of Hopewell, which provides an opportunity for adults with serious mental illness to experience a self-reliant and satisfying life through participation in a vibrant residential therapeutic farm community. Mr. Richard H. Fearon is Vice Chairman of the Board, Chief Financial and Planning Officer of the Company. Mr. Fearon has served as Chief Financial and Planning Officer of Eaton since April 2002 and Vice Chairman since January 2009. He is responsible for the accounting, control, corporate development, information systems, internal audit, investor relations, strategic planning, tax and treasury functions of Eaton. Prior to Eaton, Mr. Fearon worked at several large diversified companies, including Transamerica Corporation, NatSteel Limited and The Walt Disney Company. He currently is the lead director for PolyOne Corporation and also serves on the boards of The Cleveland Museum of Art and Manufacturers Alliance, a trade organization of leading manufacturing companies. Mr. Brian S. Brickhouse is President - Electrical Systems and Services Group of the Company. He was President, Asia Pacific Region, Electrical (May 15, 2015 - June 30, 2018). He was President, Power Quality Division, Electrical Sector - Americas (August 15, 2012 - May 14, 2015). Mr. Nandakumar Cheruvatath is President - Aerospace Group of the Company. He was Executive Vice President, Eaton Business System (August 1, 2012 - August 31, 2015). Mr. Richard M. Eubanks is President - Electrical Products Group of the Company. He was President, Eaton Lighting Division (February 1, 2010 - August 31, 2015). Mr. Joao V. Faria is President - Vehicle Group of the Company. He was Vice President and General Manager, Latin America, Electrical Sector and President, Latin America (August 1, 2013 - April 30, 2017) and President, Americas, Hydraulics Group (July 1, 2010 - July 31, 2013). Mr. Curtis J. Hutchins is President - Hydraulics Group of Eaton Corporation of Eaton Corporation of the company. he served as President - Hydraulics Group of Eaton Corporation since August 1, 2015 . President - Asia Pacific Region of Eaton Corporation since September 1, 2009 - July 31, 2015. Mr. Heath B. Monesmith is Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the Company. He was Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Eaton Corporation (May 15, 2015 - March 1, 2017). Vice President and Chief Counsel - Litigation of Eaton Corporation (November 30, 2012 - May 15, 2015). Mr. Ken D. Semelsberger is a Senior Vice President, Controller of Eaton Corporation Public Limited Company. From February 1, 2009 to October 31 2013, he served as senior vice president of finance and planning for Eaton’s Industrial Sector and from February 22, 2006 to January 31, 2009, he was senior vice president, Corporate Development and Treasury. Prior to that he served as vice president, Strategic Planning and director, Corporate Development. He joined Eaton in 1988. Prior to joining Eaton, Mr. Semelsberger was a consultant for Coopers & Lybrand. Mr. Christopher M. Connor is an Lead Independent Director of Eaton Corporation Public Limited Company. Mr. Connor is the retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Sherwin-Williams Company, a global manufacturer of paint, architectural coatings, industrial finishes and associated supplies. Mr. Connor held a number of executive positions at Sherwin-Williams since 1983. He became Chief Executive Officer in 1999, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 2000, and Executive Chairman in 2016, and retired as Executive Chairman in December 2016. Mr. Connor currently serves on the boards of Yum! Brands, Inc., International Paper Company, University Hospitals Health System, and Playhouse Square Foundation. He is chairman of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Mr. Todd M. Bluedorn is an Independent Director of Eaton Corporation Public Limited Company. Mr. Bluedorn is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lennox International Inc., a global provider of climate control solutions for heating, air conditioning and refrigeration markets. Prior to joining Lennox International in 2007, Mr. Bluedorn served in numerous senior management positions for United Technologies Corporation since 1995, including President, Americas — Otis Elevator Company; President, North America — Commercial Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning for Carrier Corporation; and President, Hamilton Sundstrand Industrial. He is a director of Texas Instruments Incorporated and a trustee of Washington University in St. Louis. Mr. Michael J. Critelli is an Independent Director of Eaton Corporation Public Limited Company. Mr. Critelli serves as the Chief Executive Officer of MoveFlux Corporation, an artificial intelligence software company. Prior to joining MoveFlux in April 2018, he served as the Chief Executive Officer and a director of CloudParc, Inc., a smart cities and transportation technology company, during 2017. Mr. Critelli was the Chief Executive and President and a director of Dossia Services Corporation, a personal and population health management systems company, from 2011 until 2016. He is the retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pitney Bowes Inc., a provider of global mailstream solutions. Mr. Critelli served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pitney Bowes from 1997 to 2007 and as Executive Chairman from 2007 to 2008. He also served as a director of ProHealth Physicians, Inc. from 2012 until 2015. Mr. Arthur E. Johnson is an Independent Director of Eaton Corporation Public Limited Company. Mr. Johnson is the retired Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategic Development of Lockheed Martin Corporation, a manufacturer of advanced technology systems, products and services. Mr. Johnson was elected a Vice President of Lockheed Martin Corporation and named President of Lockheed Martin Federal Systems in 1996. He was named President and Chief Operating Officer of Lockheed Martin’s Information and Services Sector in 1997 and Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategic Development in 1999. Mr. Johnson currently is a director of Booz Allen Hamilton and during the past five years was a director of AGL Resources, Inc. He is an independent trustee of the Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds of Fidelity Investments. Ms. Deborah L. McCoy is an Independent Director of Eaton Corporation Public Limited Company. Ms. McCoy is an independent aviation safety consultant. She retired from Continental Airlines, Inc. in 2005, where she had served as Senior Vice President, Flight Operations since 1999. During part of 2005, Ms. McCoy also briefly served as the Chief Executive Officer of DJ Air Group, a start-up commercial airline company. Mr. Gregory R. Page is an Independent Director of Eaton Corporation Public Limited Company. He is the retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cargill, an international marketer, processor and distributor of agricultural, food, financial and industrial products and services. He was named Corporate Vice President & Sector President, Financial Markets and Red Meat Group of Cargill in 1998, Corporate Executive Vice President, Financial Markets and Red Meat Group in 1999, and President and Chief Operating Officer in 2000. He became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 2007 and was named Executive Chairman in 2013. Mr. Page served as Executive Director from 2015 to 2016, after which he retired from the Cargill Board. Mr. Page is a director of 3M and Deere & Company and is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Agriculture Division of DowDuPont, Corteva. He is past Chairman and current board member of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. Mr. Page is a former director of Carlson and the immediate past President and a board member of the Northern Star Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He is a member of the board of the American Refugee Committee. Ms. Sandra Pianalto is an Independent Director of Eaton Corporation Public Limited Company. Ms. Pianalto served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland from February 2003 until her retirement in June 2014. She joined the Bank in 1983 as an economist in the research department and was appointed Assistant Vice President of public affairs in 1984, Vice President and Secretary to the board of directors in 1988, and Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in 1993. Before joining the Bank, Ms. Pianalto was an economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and served on the staff of the Budget Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. She is currently a director of The J.M. Smucker Company, Prudential Financial, Inc., and FirstEnergy Corporation. Ms. Pianalto is chair of the board of directors of University Hospitals Health System and past chair and life director of the board of United Way of Greater Cleveland. She is an Executive in Residence at the University of Akron and serves on the board of College Now Greater Cleveland. Mr. Gerald B. Smith is an Independent Director of Eaton Corporation Public Limited Company. Mr. Smith was a director of Cooper Industries plc from 2000 until 2012 and served as lead independent director of Cooper Industries plc since 2007. Mr. Smith joined the Board effective upon the close of the Cooper acquisition. He is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Smith Graham & Co., an investment management firm that he founded in 1990. Prior to launching Smith Graham, he served as Senior Vice President and Director of Fixed Income for Underwood Neuhaus & Company. He is a member of the Board of Trustees and chair of the Investment Oversight Committee for The Charles Schwab Family of Funds. Mr. Smith also serves as a director and chair of the Investment Committee of the New York Life Insurance Company. In the past five years, Mr. Smith was a director of ONEOK Inc. and ONEOK Partners MLP. He serves as Chairman of the Texas Southern University Foundation and a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He is a former director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Houston branch. Ms. Dorothy C. Thompson is Independent Director of Eaton Corporation Public Limited Company. Ms. Thompson is the retired Chief Executive and director of Drax Group plc, an international electricity and energy company, where she served from 2005 until her retirement in 2017. Before joining Drax, Ms. Thompson managed InterGen NV’s European power business, was assistant group treasurer at Powergen plc and worked at CDC Capital Partners, the private sector arm of the British Government’s aid programme. Ms. Thompson is a member of the Court of Directors of the Bank of England, where she is also Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee and Senior Independent Director. She also serves as the non-executive chair of Tullow Oil plc, the London Stock Exchange listed oil exploration and production company. She was a director of Johnson Matthey Plc from 2007 through 2016. Semelsberger Ken D Faria (Joao V) Arnold (Craig) 16,221 $0.00 7,276 $74.58 Leonetti Olivier C Thompson (Dorothy C.) Hutchins (Curtis J) 12,000 $80.60 Eubanks Richard M Jr Brickhouse (Brian S)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1084
__label__wiki	0.995147	0.995147	Kentucky Law Journal UKnowledge > College of Law > Law Journals > Kentucky Law Journal > Vol. 46 > Iss. 1 (1957) Illegal Search and Seizure--Power of a Federal Court to Enjoin a Federal Agent From Testifying in a State Court Linza B. Inabnit, University of Kentucky Inabnit, Linza B. (1957) "Illegal Search and Seizure--Power of a Federal Court to Enjoin a Federal Agent From Testifying in a State Court," Kentucky Law Journal: Vol. 46 : Iss. 1 , Article 12. 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__label__wiki	0.858585	0.858585	Hardy echoes down the years Posted on June 18, 2019 by andrew in Books, History and Heritage THERE’S such a deep melancholy about so many of Thomas Hardy’s novels that it’s almost a relief to re-read Under The Greenwood Tree, one of his earliest and gentlest works. And yet there’s still something haunting about this relatively short love story between Dick Dewy and Fancy Day, traced through the course of the four seasons during one Wessex year. One reason for revisiting the 1872 novel is to take temporary refuge from the travails of modern existence in a simpler earlier age – and who better to capture the English country scene of the early 1800s than a novelist famed for his pastoral depictions of rural life? Actually, there’s remarkably little in-depth description of the countryside in this novel, apart from the atmospheric opening pages when we first meet the Mellstock Choir on a lonely country lane through the woods and learn how to wood dwellers, every species of tree has its own “voice”, from the sob of the fir to the whistle of the holly and hiss of the ash. But Hardy’s second published novel, which takes its name from Shakespeare’s poem in his pastoral comedy As You Like It, is an extraordinary rural idyll which introduces some familiar themes which will recur in his later fiction – not least a fickle heroine struggling to choose between suitors of different social status. And if it’s not stand-out descriptions of the scenery which make the novel memorable, Hardy achieves such an extraordinarily intimate depiction of the colourful characters in the choir that they all come instantly to life across the centuries, their banter and mannerisms as real and true as if we had bumped into them in the village pub at lunchtime. Perhaps that’s not so surprising given Hardy’s familiarity with this world. Both his father and paternal grandfather were members of the local parish choir and this book was written in the cottage next to Thorncombe Woods where Hardy was born in 1840. Bearing a remarkable resemblance to the tranter’s cottage, Hardy’s home – built of cob and thatch by his great-grandfather and little altered since the family left, is now owned by the National Trust and is open to the public. It’s just one of a number of autobiographical elements in the book, including the author’s love of old rustic musical instruments, which he inherited from his father, a keen violinist. You can almost imagine Hardy as part of the group as the choir makes its way up the chilly country lanes with their instruments and lanterns for that Christmas tour of the village in the book’s opening pages. Village musicians reappear in Hardy’s later novels, reflecting his childhood memories of rural music and dance, and there’s already that sorrowful sense that old traditions are being lost or challenged by new ways of doing things. It’s the same feeling you get when you visit the Chiltern Open Air Museum and start taking a journey back to a simpler age, where there’s a solidity and authenticity about the buildings and equipment that’s echoed in Hardy’s more colourful characters, like Gabriel Oak. Already in Under The Greenwood Tree we can see a clash between the old and new order – in this novel reflected in the vicar’s attempt to replace the choir with a new mechanical church organ. That emphasis on modernisation and the decline of traditional English country life anticipates Hardy’s later novels, particularly The Mayor of Casterbridge. Not that Hardy was naive about the gruelling realities of agricultural life in the early part of the 19th century, when working hours were long and poverty was widespread. But he was vividly aware of how industrialisation was sweeping away the old ways, as labourers moved to the cities and the railways began to transform the rural landscape. And that was something he reflected on in his 1896 preface to Under The Greenwood Tree, in which he pays personal tribute to the merry band of church musicians of whom he has written, and in a further note from 1912 which appears to lament having treated the choir so “flippantly”. The book has been filmed on three occasions: in 1918 and 1930, and in 2005 was adapted for television, starring Keeley Hawes as Fancy Day. But if the story is a little slow for modern tastes and Fancy a little too infuriatingly fickle, the novel still provides a wonderful glimpse into a long-lost way of life – to the extent that on a lonely path through the woods on a chill winter’s eve, you might just fancy you can hear a few strains of fiddle music from the Mellstock choir on the chill night air. Numerous different editions of the book are available online and in booksellers, with the 2005 series available from BBC Video. Tagged BBC Video, hardy, National Trust, novel, wessexLeave a comment	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1086
__label__cc	0.638157	0.361843	Hillary Clinton knowingly used unsecured phone It doesn’t get any clearer than this. Hillary Clinton not only had blatant disregard for national security in her emails, but also in her phone usage. According to Judicial Watch by the Freedom of Information Act, part of the hidden records that Hillary Clinton and her minions attempted to cover up had to do with an email exchange that took place on February 22, 2009 between Clinton and her then-Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills. The two attempted to communicate over a secure line after Clinton returned from a trip to Asia, based on the content of the email. Unable to set up a secure communication, the woman who wants America to believe she’s competent enough to be president, Hillary “Crooked” Clinton told Mills, “I called ops and they gave me your ‘secure’ cells… but only got a high-pitched whining sound.” In response, Mills suggested that Clinton try the secure line again. Clinton responded to Mills, “I give up. Call me on my home #.” This is definitive. No wiggle room, no gray area, no equivocation. Hillary Clinton knowingly violated State Department protocol, and national security. Here is the video of Judicial Watch’s President, Tom Fitton discussing the revelation on FOX News.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1087
__label__wiki	0.568572	0.568572	Andrea Bocelli Recovering After Falling From Horse Sep 14, 2017 at 13:09 pm UTC / Last Updated at Jun 10, 2019 at 23:32 pm UTC By TheBlast Staff Andrea Bocelli was airlifted to the hospital after he fell off a horse and hit his head, but the singer wants everyone to know it was no big deal. The legendary tenor was horseback riding Thursday in Italy when he took the nasty tumble. He was immediately airlifted to a nearby hospital and treated. Bochelli, who has been blind since age 12, lives a famously active lifestyle including skiing and windsurfing. He reportedly learned to ride horses when he was seven-years-old. Shortly after the accident Bocelli posted a message (in Italian) letting everyone know he was doing fine, "Dear friends, I would like to reassure you and tell you that I feel great: it was just a trivial fall from a horse. I embrace you."	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1088
__label__cc	0.733309	0.266691	Stroh Brewing: A Reminder That You Only Have To Get Rich Once If you frequently read articles about personal finance, every columnist, pundit, and article writer will list as abstract advice that you must practice diversification. At some point, though, diversification became such a buzzword that it became devoid of meaning and no longer discussed diligently. For instance, I view diversification as a sliding scale in which owning diversified cash-generating streams become more important as you age and take on permanent obligations that carry significant fixed costs (kids, mortgage, etc.). Furthermore, the consequences of failure need to be taken into account as well—an eighty year-old woman losing 40% of her net worth is going to have much more significant lifestyle ramifications than a twenty-five year old dealing with the same percentage loss. That’s why I’d react much more differently to a single thirty-something telling me that he has 35% of his wealth in Visa stock compared to a retiree telling me the same thing. When you are trying to build wealth—that is, turn $200 dividend checks into $1,000 dividend checks, and then turn $1,000 dividend checks into $10,000 dividend checks—it is okay to be more aggressive and make big bets, provided you understand the probability of loss and can make peace with that. It’s intelligent risk-taking with a purpose: you have a clear idea of the substantial differences in lifestyle between generating $45,000 in dividend income compared to $4,000 in annual dividend income, and the probability of the failure that comes with focused investing is a necessary risk to accomplishing your goal. However, once you’ve made it, which I loosely define as having a portfolio that generates $30,000-$45,000 (in which simply reinvesting the dividends adds $1,000+ to your annual income without even assuming any dividend growth, rental income growth, or something of that sort), your orientation towards investing should change. That’s the point when wealth preservation should start to be a primary consideration over wealth creation—your attitude towards beverages should be “give me Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Dr. Pepper,” your attitude towards healthcare should be, “Give me Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline, Abbvie, and Abbott Laboratories.” Your attitude towards energy should be, “Give me Exxon, Chevron, Conoco, Total SA, Royal Dutch, and BP.” Your attitude towards food should be, “Give me Nestle, Kraft, Mondelez, and General Mills.” Your attitude towards brewing should be, “Give me Anheuser-Busch, Brown Forman, Diageo, and Heineken.” And across the sectors it goes. You should be entering fortress mode, in which case the focus should be on acquiring the forty or fifty highest quality names in business rather than worrying about the academic concern of trying to beat the S&P 500 by a point or two. NO, you’re in a position to have an awesome life as long as you don’t make a big bet and fail—the interest of not being stupid should replace the interest of trying to be particularly clever. It’s probably easy to read something like this and agree in the abstract, “Of course, if you have $2,000,000, you shouldn’t put it all in stock X.” It’s harder if you’re in the moment. It’s harder if you’ve put all of your money into a business you started, and you successfully grew sales to $200,000 then $800,000 and then $1.6 million. You can always see that next avenue of growth ahead, and unless you’re the kind of person who takes long walks to come up with deliberate life strategies, it can be hard to know when to draw a line in the sand and say, “It’s time to diversify even if it means less future growth.” You don’t want to be like the Stroh brewing family. In 1980, Stroh’s became the third largest brewing business in the United States when Bernhard’s great great grandson Peter Stroh became CEO and purchased F&M Schaefer and Joseph Schlitz Brewing. The family’s new fortune saw them make the Forbes list of the richest families in the country, worth $700 million in 1988. But then something went wrong. Family members confessed to Forbes that acquiring Schlitz, a beer company with six plants to Stroh’s one, overwhelmed the business and they didn’t have the marketing prowess to keep so many different brands up with rivals Anheuser Busch and Miller. According to Forbes, Peter Stroh continued his disastrous acquisition spree among other moves but still the company failed… By 1999, the company was worried it wouldn’t even be able to make the interest payments on its debt, so it sold itself for scraps, brand by brand. Miller Brewing bought some, while Pabst bought the rest at around $350 million. Some $250 million went into debt service and employee pension fund liabilities while the remaining $100 million went into a fund for the family, but ran out in 2008. You had this terrible situation where all of these escalation tendencies started to reinforce each other—Peter Stroh was overwhelmed by the Schlitz purchase, so he sought to make it right by taking out lots of debt to make real estate and biotechnology investments. The problem is: these were desperate beer barrons calling the shots, and when the real estate and biotech investments didn’t produce cash flow, the debt proved ominous. It swallowed up a fortune that was approaching $1 billion. If you are acquiring something you can’t handle, you: (1) look to outsource the merger to someone who can handle it, and accept the partial loss of power, (2) you spin-off the Schlitz brewing company you just acquired, and even though you’ll get made fun of a bit, shareholders ultimately love receiving another “free” company as a spinoff, so they’ll forgive you, (3) if the first two don’t work, you sell the brewer you had just bought. Yeah, it looks bad and raises questions about your competency, but I’d rather be mocked and have $700 million than be broke and open the local newspaper to see which Shakespeare character I’m being compared to today. What you shouldn’t do is try to undo your mistake by acquiring businesses outside your core competency, and take on substantial debt to put your family’s wealth that had been built up over the centuries on the line. This money didn’t have to be blown. There is a point at which you stop investing into the business—even if it’s the family business—and stop so that you can inventory your profits and build a portfolio of blue-chip stocks and government bonds (that offered much better rates than what you’d get today). There aren’t a whole lot of things you can buy with $100 million that you can’t get with $50 million, or that you can get with $500 million that you can’t get with $250 million. Diversification is the premise upon which wealth preservation is built, and generally, those with family businesses that have been historically successful are the least likely of the affluent to appreciate that lesson. Money is a tool to a better life, and once the good life is achieved, the shield rather than the sword should become your weapon of choice. 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__label__wiki	0.527309	0.527309	Why getting medical information from Wikipedia isn’t always a bad idea May 24, 2016 8.04am EDT Gwinyai Masukume, University of the Witwatersrand, James Heilman, University of British Columbia Gwinyai Masukume Medical Doctor, Epidemiologist and Biostatistician: University College Cork, University of the Witwatersrand James Heilman Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia Gwinyai Masukume is the assistant to the editor-in-chief of the Wikiversity Journal of Medicine and is a Wikipedian. James Heilman is affiliated with the Wikiversity Journal of Medicine, Wikipedia, Wiki Project Med Foundation, and the Wikimedia Foundation. University of British Columbia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of British Columbia provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. University of the Witwatersrand provides support as a hosting partner of The Conversation AFRICA. More medical experts should contribute to Wikipedia to ensure its health pages are accurate. Gary Cameron/Reuters Wikipedia’s detractors will tell you that the site is inaccurate, incomplete and unreliable. Many universities won’t allow students to use Wikipedia as a reference in essays or assignments. So it may come as a surprise to learn that it’s the most commonly used source for obtaining medical information online – even among medical students and doctors. In fact, research has found that Wikipedia is more popular for this kind of information than reputable bodies’ websites – including those belonging to the World Health Organisation and the US’s Centres for Disease Control. In some settings, researchers have discovered, more than 90% of medical students and 50% of doctors turn to Wikipedia at some point. But the academic medical community largely views Wikipedia with suspicion. This appears to be because the site doesn’t adhere to traditional peer-review mechanisms. There’s also no reward for a busy academic or medical practitioner who takes the time to improve existing Wikipedia pages and ensure that medical information is accurate. Some traditional journals and medical schools are starting to take Wikipedia more seriously, but we wanted to take things a step further by marrying Wikipedia and a traditional journal model. That’s how the Wikiversity Journal of Medicine was born. Attitudes starting to shift Most journals are expensive, hard to access and considered quite elite. They also aren’t read by very many people beyond academia and research houses. Research has suggested that medical journals need to increase their social impact by actively promoting knowledge sharing on sites like Wikipedia. This offers scope for people all over the world and from a variety of language groups to get more reliable information about health and medicine. Some journals have heeded this call. PLOS’s Computational Biology, for instance, requires any author it publishes to also write a Wikipedia page on the topic. The journal article is static, referenced and unchanging. The Wikipedia page is changeable and invites contributions. Another journal, RNA Biology, requires the same approach. There have also been experiments that have seen a Wikipedia article put through traditional medical journal quality control processes. It is then formally published in the journal and the original Wikipedia article is updated. A few medical schools are embracing this new approach, too. The University of California San Francisco has introduced a course into its curriculum that teaches medical students how to contribute to Wikipedia. These are all laudable efforts that point to a growing open-access movement in the world of scholarly communication. Challenges and successes The Wikiversity Journal of Medicine, which was launched in 2014, is hosted directly by the Wikimedia Foundation, the same organisation that hosts Wikipedia. It uses the same software, MediaWiki, which makes editing and processing very easy. The whole service is free to authors and readers; as with Wikipedia our operating costs are covered by donations from around the world. The Wikiversity Journal of Medicine follows standard international best-practice guidelines for medical journals, drawing from such reputable bodies as the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Submission and acceptance follow the traditional medical journal processes, including peer-review by experts on the topic that’s being written about. One important difference is that authors have the option of submitting their article directly onto the journal’s site. This option was designed to enhance transparency and has been taken up by some authors. Others have been more hesitant, as other journals may consider a paper that’s on Wikiversity to be already publicly available and may reject it as a result. The editorial board includes people from three continents: Africa, North America and Europe. Among them are the editor-in-chief, Sweden’s Dr Mikael Häggström. He’s made extensive image contributions to Wikipedia – for example, the site’s Ebola page features his images. Dr James Heilman is another board member. He’s arguably the world’s leading expert on Wikipedia and medicine. So far the journal has published 16 articles about diverse medical topics. We believe that the journal’s association with Wikipedia has created the false notion that anyone can edit an accepted journal manuscript. There are two versions of each published article. One is a PDF that cannot be edited and stands as the version of record. The second is a wiki and can be edited by anyone. The board monitors these edits. The journal’s model has potential, though. A US physics professor, Guy Vandegrift, has established a second wiki-based journal. This, along with the broader debate around open access to medical information, suggests that the Wikiversity Journal of Medicine provides a feasible, scalable and sustainable model. Of course, it should not be the only source of information – in the same way that no single article in any format should ever be one’s only source. We hope that even if medical experts and researchers don’t contribute to the journal, they will start to take Wikipedia more seriously and, where necessary, to improve it so that people have access to more reliable information. Such initiatives can, we believe, help to further address the profound inequities in the global knowledge economy that greatly hamper public health. This article was co-authored with Dr Mikael Häggström, a medical doctor in Sweden who is also the editor-in-chief of the Wikiversity Journal of Medicine. Wikipedia - it’s a work in progress. 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__label__wiki	0.796562	0.796562	Everett Family Tree Otis Everett, 1803 – 1886 South End Development: Neighborhood Changes Around the Everetts Elizabeth Blake Everett, 1803-1883 Upstairs, Downstairs: Class Distinctions in the mid-19th Century The Anthony Burns Case of 1854 Through the Eyes of Elizabeth Everett Otis Blake Everett, 1829-1859 Life in India Death Abroad: Cholera Among Merchants Thomas Blake Everett, 1831-1910 Louisa Everett, 1832-1840 Victorian Illness and “The Good Death” Percival Lowell Everett, 1833-1908 About the South End Historical Society The Everett Family Middle Class Life in Boston's South End, 1851-1859 In the early 1800s, the addition of new streets heading south towards Roxbury led to a dramatic widening of the Boston Neck. Seeing an opportunity, lawyers, merchants, and businessmen formed the South Cove Corporation with the intent to continue filling the land for use of railroad terminals from Worcester and Providence. The South End became prime real estate as new land was added and the downtown business district continued to expand, and the area rapidly expanded in the 1850s. Although there were some residents already living in the South End, like the Everetts, the area started to attract residents who desired larger plots of land around their homes. According to historian and Director and Librarian of the Boston Athenaeum, the rapid growth of the 1850s turned the South End into a “region of symmetrical blocks of high-shouldered, comfortable red brick or brownstone houses, spacious avenues, intersected by cross streets that occasionally widened the tree-shaped squares and parks, who central gardens were enclosed by neat cast iron fences.” Row houses, now so popular in the South End, had a building boom between 1850 and 1872. Consequently, the South End is still one of the largest Victorian residential neighborhoods in the United States. The homes built were all similar in layout but it was the architectural details and ornaments that gave them their individuality. The row houses reflect six distinct architectural styles: Greek Revival, Italianate (the predominant style in the South End), Renaissance Revival, Victorian Gothic, Flemish Revival, and Neo-Grec. The Everetts’ original home on Blake’s Court was built in the late 1790s and reflected the Federal style that dominated city architecture at the time. However, when they moved to Shawmut Avenue, they moved to a Italianate home that was built during the building boom of the 1850s. These new homes came at a premium price, a price that was too rich for newlyweds Thomas Everett and Sarah Green Everett. The average home in the South End in the 1850s ranged from $5000 – $10,000 ($155,000 – $300,000 when adjusted for 2017 inflation) and the price increased based on the proximity to its closest park. For a young man struggling to establish himself as a merchant with a young wife, Thomas Everett made the decision to set up housekeeping in Roxbury, where the streetcar made it easy for him to commute to work on the waterfront. 8 August 1864, “I suppose you will hardly realize the fact, if I write it ever so plain, that Tom intends to be married this fall. He found it impossible to obtain a house in this neighborhood, that came within his means, that he would live in, and he preferred going to Roxbury to living in any but the South End part of Boston. Father heard of a nice little house in St. James Street, nearly opposite Uncle John’s, which was for sale, but not to let, and, as he was thinking of changing some of his investments, he purchased it for five thousand dollars and lets it to Tom, thus giving father a safe and sure percentage and Tom a moderate rent.” Image courtesy of the South End Historical Society. Thomas and Sarah Everett located themselves in the Roxbury Highlands during Roxbury’s industrial and building boom. While the lowlands were reserved for mill workers and other working class residents, the Highlands was built for suburban fashion and contained mainly city dwellers’ summer homes and gentlemen’s estates. Thomas and Sarah Everett remained in Roxbury for several years until they moved back in with Otis and Elizabeth Blake on Shawmut Avenue. Although we do not know the exact reason for this move, we can speculate that it was a financial move, or to help out Thomas’ aging parents. The street pattern of the South End actually reflects two different style periods. The Federal style, from the early 19th century, reflects a gridiron street pattern that orients all streets towards Washington Street and Franklin and Blackstone Squares. But style changed as the development of the neighborhood progressed and a more Victorian look emerged. Street planning used oval parks laced among the tree lined streets and isolated row houses from the traffic. Parks became elongated and rounded unlike the rectangles that were seen in the Federal style. The squares and parks became a critical aspect of the design of the South End when Charles Bulfinch predicted that the South End would become the next fashionable neighborhood in 1801. Squares were created to encourage the middle and upper middle class residents to stay in the city. As the downtown area began to be more populated, these planned parks were successful at attracting new homebuyers and the city began to build Chester Square, Union Park, and Worcester Square, and well as improving Blackstone and Franklin Squares. The parks were developed even before the homes were built and sold and the Everetts bore witness to the rapid developments around them. 23 September 1851: “The South End market progresses rapidly. The street has been paved from Dover to Brookline streets, and Union Park is having an iron fence erected round it, and preparations for a fountain, so we shall look in nice order when you return.” Image courtesy of the South End Historical Society 29 May 1855: “Many new houses are going up at the South End, and our location will be quite central when you return.” Image courtesy of the South End Historical Society. “Calcutta, 6th August 1855 My dear Father, Your letter of 29th May, also mother’s, was duly received. I notice what you say about the new improvements and nuisances on the Neck. The place must be quite an aristocratic looking place.” Image courtesy of the South End Historical Society. Next: Elizabeth Blake Everett, 1803 – 1883	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1093
__label__wiki	0.686675	0.686675	Village of Manchester Brush and Leaf Collection Planning / Zoning Brush Chipping and Leaf Collection Frequently Requested Ordinances Manchester Community Schools Manchester Library Municipal Rooms Prop. Taxes / Water Acct. Online Village Forms Village Ordinance Joint Planning Commission Village Commissions Community Systems The existing and proposed circulation system is shown on the 2003 General Development Plan (available at the Village office). Descriptions of the principal and minor arterioles, major and minor collectors, and local streets are given. Michigan highway #M-52 jogs through the center of town, running north to interstate #I-94 near the Village of Chelsea and south to Adrian. Two vacated railroad right-of-ways crisscross the Village with some of the land in public ownership. The Manchester Senior Citizens Council operates a transportation service, using a bus with a handicap lift and sometimes using private vehicles, enabling people, particularly handicapped and senior citizens, to have door-to-door transportation to doctors, dentists, and shopping. The Council also provides home delivery of meals to shut-ins. The Village is approximately two square miles. Most residents are within one-half mile of the Main Street Bridge; others on the eastern edge are slightly more than three-quarters of a mile from the bridge. A stroll through the Village is pleasant for many. Bicycling is a popular means of transportation. Most families own a car, and there are some parking limitations in the business district. SEWER AND WATER SYSTEMS Sewage and Waste Water: The sewage system’s coverage capacity extends throughout most of the Village’s platted areas, although there are some exceptions. The system was designed to allow for moderate growth over a 15 to 20 year period from 1989. Storm Sewer: The disposal of storm water runoff presented a problem to Manchester for a number of years, due to a combined sewer system. However, a complete separation of the storm sewer from the waste sewer was completed in 1990. The result has been a significant decrease in combined sewer overflows into the River Raisin. Drinking Water: The service area of Manchester’s public water system extends through the platted areas. The Village receives its water from three alternating wells with a pumping capacity of more than 800 gallons per minute. MANCHESTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT The Manchester Community School District is comprised of portions of Sharon, Freedom, Bridgewater and Manchester Townships in Washtenaw County and the smaller areas of Norvell and Grass Lake Township in Jackson County. All of the school buildings are within the Manchester Village High School limits, as are the athletic fields. Since 1976, the School Board has followed the “community schools” philosophy, which makes school buildings and grounds available to the general public after the needs of the K-12 programs are satisfied. Classrooms, gymnasiums, and study/auditoriums may be reserved through the Continuing Education Director. A special note of interest is the fact the Manchester School District recently received voter approval to obtain funds to build a new high school. Land has been purchased for the new facility and construction is under way with and August 2004 opening. Copyright © 2019 · Village of Manchester · 734-428-7877 · Designed by Moxie Grafix, LLC	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1094
__label__wiki	0.52733	0.52733	Civic Journalism Publishing Policy Rights and Permission SLU-TV The University News Staff Manual The University News About UNews Filed under Commentary, Opinion Why Local Elections Matter Jakob Benedetti, Staff Writer\|April 19, 2018 Among all the drama of the Trump presidency, and with the Fight for Our Lives in full swing, voters in the United States are activated and excited about politics in a way that people have not seen in many years. Despite the surge in people registering to vote and actively participating in the national political discussion, America’s democratic system is still nursing one of its best-kept secrets: No one actually votes. As much as pundits and politicians alike are often seen encouraging people to do so, the latter usually preceding raucous applause, it seems as if very few people actually take their advice seriously. Although the US has one of the higher rates of voting according to the number of registered voters who actually show up on election day at 86.8% in 2016, it has one of the lowest voter rates among all eligible adults at 55.7%, according to Pew Research Center. For comparison, 82.6% of all voting-age Swedes showed up to vote in their last election, as did 72.9% of Koreans and 67.9% of French adults. Especially when you consider that turnout was considered by the French to be particularly low in their last election, and it was still higher than it’s been in the US since 1900 (when women and most minorities weren’t allowed to vote), it doesn’t take a professional pundit to figure out that America has a democracy problem. This isn’t just a problem in presidential or midterm elections, however. The numbers in state and local elections are even worse, with the average turnout in local elections standing at merely 30%—half of a presidential year turnout, which was itself considered way below average, according to the U.S. Vote Foundation. This is particularly alarming, as although local government would seem to be the least important level of government, it’s probably the most impactful to people’s everyday lives. At the end of the day, whatever drama is going on in Congress or in Trump’s White House probably isn’t going to affect your daily routine or the problems you have to deal with on a day-to-day basis. The decisions that state and local government make, however, can. For example, while a plan to rebuild and expand our nation’s crumbling infrastructure is something both major parties supposedly support, there hasn’t been one even debated on the floor of Congress since 2009. Meanwhile, the decision by officials in the Flint, Michigan city government to replace the city’s water system with cheap materials and drawing off an untested water source in April 2015, had an almost immediate impact on the city’s 100,000 residents. The cheap piping and tainted source led to mass contamination of the city’s tap water, leading to a widespread outbreak of lead poisoning and other diseases that still persist to this day. Through the apathy of city officials and the misconduct of state environmental regulators, several of whom lost their jobs, thousands of people have fallen ill and the entire city has been forced to drink only bottled water for over 2 years. Although every city isn’t a Flint or a Denver—which is facing similar problems along with nearly 20 other American cities—we can see how the decisions of state and local officials can have a drastic, immediate, and constant impact on the daily lives of their constituents. And maybe the drinking water in your town is safe, but maybe it won’t be someday. When that day comes, you’d want to know who is dealing with it. You’d want to feel comfortable with the elected officials you’ve helped choose to serve you and your community, and rest easy with the knowledge that if they don’t fix the problem, you’ll know exactly who not to vote for next time around. The reality, though, is that really the only people who vote in state and local elections, which make up the vast majority of all elections in the US, is a fraction of the elderly population and an even smaller fraction of the middle-aged population. If young people and activists really want to change politics in America in a lasting way and fundamentally alter the power structure in the country, we should emphasize participation in elections for local positions like city council, school board and mayor; state elections for the legislature and supreme court; and governor and statewide office. Until we do, no matter how much Washington changes, politicians that do not represent the majority of America will continue to hold most of the levels of power. Jakob Benedetti, Staff Writer Jakob Benedetti is a freshman student living in Gries. Originally from Kansas City, he is currently studying political science and economics, with a minor... One Response to “Why Local Elections Matter” Christopher Wilcox on April 19th, 2018 2:07 pm Great piece! So much slips through the cracks at a local and even state level. Local and state governments are where the decisions that effect you are made. Other stories filed under Commentary Abolish the electoral college Psych meds saved my life The ‘swamp’ in action: Josh Hawley Nike, they did it Other stories filed under Opinion Pause for Opinion: Episode 9 The benefits of studying math Many people stress over the fact that they have to take mathematics in high school or college. Students do not want to find the roots of a quadratic e... 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__label__wiki	0.502623	0.502623	Home Business Grexit Is Bad for American Startup Grexit Is Bad for American Startup Katerina Papathanasiou Greece’s future was not the only one at stake during its agonizing efforts to reach an agreement over a new cash-for-reforms plan proposed by its international creditors in order to avoid a painful exit from the Eurozone. A firm called GrexIt from Palo Alto, California, was also standing on the edge of the global software market because of its name. GrexIt, which started to operate in 2011, facilitates business teams to share and sync email conversations with their colleagues and work together on projects relevant to hiring, operations, project management, sales, and support using labels in their Google Apps email. During the last few weeks, the software company had noted a serious 20% boom on its website’s traffic, benefiting from the world’s interest to stay up to date with the Greek crisis‘ recent developments. However, the startup company’s association with the Greek financial drama is not the evolution the firm’s inspirers were wishing for: “We’re getting irrelevant traffic that’s just bouncing off and messing with our conversion rates,” GrexIt cofounder Nitesh Nandy said. “It was not possible to predict when we came up with the name in 2010, it’s just bad luck I guess,” the company’s founding member stated, revealing the team’s recent decision to start a brainstorming process on name change and rebranding. In reality, the software company’s name is a combination of the English word “it” and the Latin word “Grex,” which according to its people, refers to the words flock or herd in their effort to imply their software’s ability to connect people. Greek bailout Nitesh Nandy US State Dept approves possible $600 million sale of MH-60R Seahawk helicopters to Greece Giannis Antetokounmpo Named Best Male Athlete in the U.S. (video) U.S. State Department Denounces ‘Provocative’ Turkish Drilling Off Cyprus Thousands Chant “MVP” as Giannis Antetokounmpo is Honored (video)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1101
__label__wiki	0.95548	0.95548	Read Next: Michael B. Jordan's 'Just Mercy' Moves to Awards Season Slot December 19, 2017 3:57AM PT Ian McKellen Hints at Possible Gandalf Reprise in Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ Series Veteran actor also weighs in on harassment in the entertainment business By Stewart Clarke Stewart Clarke International Correspondent @varietystewart FOLLOW Stewart's Most Recent Stories Armando Iannucci’s ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’ to Open London Film Festival Netflix Boards BBC’s ‘The Serpent,’ Starring Tahar Rahim as Serial Killer (EXCLUSIVE) ‘The Lion King’ London Premiere Brings Out Meghan Markle and Beyonce CREDIT: Kristina Bumphrey/Starpix/REX/Shutterstock Ian McKellen has dropped a strong hint that he would like to reprise his role as Gandalf in Amazon’s “Lord of the Rings” series, stepping back into the shoes of the wizard he immortalized in the film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy epic. The star was asked about the prospect of “there being another Gandalf in town” in the mega-bucks TV series. Speaking to Graham Norton on his BBC Radio show, McKellen replied: “What do you mean another Gandalf?” He added: “I haven’t said yes because I haven’t been asked, but are you suggesting someone else is going to play it? Who would be suitable?” McKellen, who played Gandalf in the “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” movies, went on to say that at 78 he was still young for the role. “Gandalf is over 7,000 years old, so I’m not too old,” he told Norton. Amazon has made a multi-season production commitment to “Lord of the Rings,” which looks set to be the most expensive series ever made. The deal also covers potential spinoffs and will be produced by Amazon Studios in cooperation with the Tolkien Estate and Trust, HarperCollins and New Line Cinema. McKellen also weighed in on the debate around harassment and abuse in the entertainment industry while speaking at Oxford University earlier this month. The film, TV and theater star related a story from when he started out in the business in the 1960s. A director showed him photographs sent to him by women who had written the letters “D.R.R.” on them, which stood for “Director’s Rights Respected” – a euphemism, the director said. “In other words, ‘if you give me a job, you can have sex with me,'” McKellen explained. “That was commonplace. So people had taken advantage of that and encouraged it, and it absolutely will not do. I just assume nothing but good can come out of these [recent] revelations, even though some people of course get wrongly accused and there is that side to it as well.” See the video of McKellen’s address here (comments on Hollywood abuse start at about 40 minutes in).	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1103
__label__wiki	0.9538	0.9538	Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Press Pool/Getty ImagesPhoto: Kevin Dietsch/Press Pool/Getty Images Trump Administration Can Sift Through User Data of Inauguration Protest Website, Judge Rules Alex Emmons August 24 2017, 11:46 p.m. Defying First Amendment concerns, a judge in a Washington, D.C., trial court has upheld a controversial search warrant that would allow the government to sift through data from a major protest website. Prosecutors allege that the website, DisruptJ20.org, was used to coordinate a riot on Inauguration Day, which led to property damage at multiple businesses in downtown Washington. But the vast majority of the actions and protests the site coordinated were peaceful. It’s unclear what connection, if any, the site had to the violence. Robert E. Morin, the chief judge of the D.C. Superior Court, ruled in favor of the government. But Morin added additional protections, ordering that the government must, before executing its search, file special affidavits describing its procedures. “I’m going to be supervising their search,” he said. The data that investigators don’t identify as criminal evidence would be filed with the court and placed under seal, according to the ruling. Morin forbade the investigators from sharing that data with other government agencies. Earlier this month, the Department of Justice received pushback from privacy and free-speech organizations after it obtained a search warrant against the website-hosting company, DreamHost. The original warrant order was incredibly broad, requiring the company to produce all of its data on the website – including visitor logs from all 1.3 million people who viewed it. DreamHost challenged the warrant, saying that the information could be used to identify people’s political preferences, and that the request for so much data couldn’t possibly be legal under the First Amendment. On Tuesday, the Department of Justice dropped its request for visitor logs, but still demanded communications and group email lists from the organizers — information that DreamHost says could still be used to identify the political beliefs of innocent people. At a hearing on Thursday, Raymond Aghaian, a lawyer representing DreamHost, said that DisruptJ20’s emails and email lists were “essentially tantamount to the membership list of an advocacy group.” Aghaian also argued it was unconstitutional for the government to be able to search through so many email accounts with one warrant, without presenting evidence that any specific account was connected to criminal activity. “What they’ve done here is essentially obtained a general warrant,” he said. Despite the First Amendment concerns, the government is insisting on its right to search the data itself. At Tuesday’s hearing, Washington prosecutor John Borchert called the alternatives “unworkable” and said, “We can’t have DreamHost be deputized to do the search for us.” Morin said his ruling struck a balance between privacy and First Amendment concerns, and the government’s desire to collect information about potential crimes: “This is my view of how I can protect both legitimate interests.” Aghaian asked for a stay of the ruling in case DreamHost decided to appeal, but it is unclear whether their lawyers will choose to do so. The hearing also addressed the government’s modification to its original search warrant. Borchert claimed that the authorities were never really interested in the website’s visitor logs. “We weren’t aware of these matters until DreamHost filed in opposition,” he said. Aghaian said that was implausible: the the original warrant specifically requests them. “For them to now say that this is not what they wanted, that they never intended to ask for this, is somewhat incredible,” he told the judge. Chip Gibbons, legislative counsel for free-speech group Defending Rights and Dissent, told The Intercept that the ruling could set a precedent for searching other protest sites. “Regardless of what minimization procedures are put in place, or if the bulk of the information is placed under court seal, turning over membership lists, information about political views, or associations to the government is by its very nature chilling,” Gibbons said. Top photo: Protesters demonstrate as President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk in the inaugural parade after being sworn in at the 58th Presidential Inauguration on Jan. 20, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Alex Emmons[email protected]theintercept.com@AlexEmmons	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1105
__label__cc	0.586831	0.413169	The Intermundia Press, LLC Nestled Between the Worlds of Digital and Print K. Thomas Greene K. Thomas “Tom” Greene received his MDiv, ThM, and DMin degrees from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He completed post-graduate studies at Regent’s Park College at Oxford University; Wake Forest Divinity School; Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia; and Princeton Theological Seminary. He also spent extended time at Gethsemane Monastery in Bardstown, Kentucky. Tom has served at Princeton Baptist Church in Princeton, North Carolina; Madison Avenue Baptist Church in Goldsboro, North Carolina; Greenwich Baptist Church in Greenwich, Connecticut; and Triangle Baptist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina. He has also served as Director for Front-Line Outreach in Dallas, Texas. Hello God—It’s Me Again: The Musings of a Wholly Man This volume of 366 devotionals for an entire year is designed for people with Parkinson’s disease and their caregivers, but it is also so full of wisdom and heartfelt spirituality that anyone who dips into or pores over its pages will find deep comfort and hints for a fuller spiritual life. Portions of the proceeds of Hello, God—It’s Me Again will benefit both the St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, and the National Parkinson’s Foundation, which is located in Miami, Florida. $22.95 ISBN 978-1-887730-38-9 paper, 498 pp. PayPal.Me/EricKillinger Just the FAQs . . . Al Staggs Anne Kathryn Killinger Charles Maynard Charlotte Barr Edward L. Felton Jr. Elaine P. Morgan Quincy Scott Jr. Robert Moon Eric Killinger	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line1106

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