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__label__cc	0.738107	0.261893	Ludwig Von Mises Money and Credit Theory Ludwig Von Mises; The Theory Of Money and Credit Ludwig Von Mises Theory The classical economists treated money as neutral in its economic effects, and the Walrasian neoclassical economists, past and present, do not recognize the uniqueness of money. In general-equilibrium models money is merely a numeraire—it has no properties distinguishing it from the many nonmoney goods in the model. Austrian monetary theory rejects both these propositions. It considers money to be unique because of its intertemporal exchangability, and it concentrates on the relative price effects of changes in the money supply. The theory begins with a theory of the evolution of money and concludes with an analysis of the effects of changes in money on the fundamental economic decisions of individuals. Although Carl Menger fashioned a theory of the evolution of money that stressed the unintended consequences of individual (self-interested) behavior, he did not succeed in solving the question of what determines the value of money. Thus, monetary theory remained separated from value theory until the two were integrated by Ludwig von Mises, one of Bohm-Bawerk's students at the University of Vienna. Mises achieved the integration of monetary and value theory by founding both on the same principle, the marginal utility of subjective individual wants. Subjective Use Value Versus Objective Exchange Value Mises recognized that the marginal utility of money comes from two separate sources. On the one hand, money has value derived from the value of the goods it can buy. On the other hand, money has a subjective use value of its own because it can be held for future exchange. What we call the value of money in common parlance springs from the ability of money to be exchanged for other things. Mises called this characteristic of money its objective exchange value in order to distinguish it from money's subjective use value. Today we call it the purchasing power of money. How then do we measure the purchasing power of money? Conventional theory advanced the concept of a unitary (aggregate) price level, whereby the purchasing power of money (the reciprocal of the price level) is the outcome of the total volume of transactions in society divided by the velocity of circulation. In terms of the familiar equation of exchange (see Chapter 19) where MV = PT, the price level P would be derived as follows: P = MV/T, and its reciprocal (the purchasing power of money), MP = T/MV. Mises recognized the grain of truth in the quantity theory, namely "the idea that a connection exists between variations in the value of money on the one hand and the supply of it on the other hand," but "beyond this proposition," he argued, "the Quantity Theory can provide us with nothing. Above all, it fails to explain the mechanism of variations in the value of money" (Money and Credit, p. 130). True to the Austrian tradition, Mises rejected the macroeconomic approach to monetary theory in favor of the individualistic approach. All valuation is done by individuals; therefore the key to understanding the value of money must be in the mind of the individual. The purchasing power of a dollar is the vast array of goods that can be purchased with that dollar. This array is heterogeneous and specific. At any point of time a dollar might buy three packs of chewing gum, one pair of socks, two floppy computer disks, two sodas, one pack of cigarettes, one-tenth of a haircut, and so forth and so on. The purchasing power of money therefore cannot be summarized in some unitary price-level figure. At all times a homogeneous good must be defined in terms of its usefulness to the consumer rather than by its technological properties. Likewise, price must be related to the specific usefulness of a good, and not to its technological properties. An apartment with the same technological properties in Manhattan and in Peoria will not have the same price because they are not equally useful to the purchaser. The apartment in New York has a more desirable location with more extensive consumption possibilities and hence will be more highly priced on the market. Mises emphasized locational (and temporal) aspects in explaining differences in the value of technologically similar goods, and this in turn complements the Austrian notion that the purchasing power of money is equal to an array of goods. In applying the theory of marginal utility to the price of money, Mises confronted a thorny analytical problem. When an individual ranks coffee or shoes or vacations on a value scale, he or she values those goods for their direct use in consumption, and each valuation is independent of and prior to its price on the market. However, people hold money not because it can be used directly in consumption but because it can eventually be exchanged for goods that will be used directly. In other words, money is not useful in itself. It is useful because it has a prior exchange value—a preexisting purchasing power. The demand for money therefore not only is not independent of its existing market price but derives precisely from its preexisting price in terms of other goods and services. And therein lies the problem. If the demand for money, and hence its utility, depends on its preexisting price or purchasing power, how can that price be explained by the demand? Mises' critics accused him of falling into a circular trap Mises avoided the trap by means of a regression theorem. The demand for money on any given day, say day D, is equal to its purchasing power on the previous day, D-\. The demand for money on the previous day, D - 1, in turn was equal to the purchasing power of money on D - 2, and so on. In other words, the demand for money always has a historical (i.e., temporal) component. But is this not an infinite regression backward in time? No, Mises answered, we must push the analysis backward only to that point when the commodity used as money was not used as a medium of indirect exchange but was demanded instead solely for its own direct consumption use. Suppose we go back in time to the point when gold was introduced as money. Let us assume that before this day, all trade took place by barter. On the last day of barter, gold had value only for its direct consumption use, but on the first day of its use as money, it took on an additional use as a medium of exchange. In other words, on the first day of its use as a medium of exchange, gold had two dimensions of utility: first, a direct consumption use; and second, a monetary use which had a historical component in its utility. Evaluating this regression theorem, Murray Rothbard, a student of Mises, pointed out the continuity between Mises and Menger, who emphasized the evolutionary and institutional elements of money: Not only does the Mises regression theorem fully explain the current demand for money and integrate the theory of money with the theory of marginal utility, but it also shows that money must have originated in this fashion—on the market—with individuals on the market gradually beginning to use some previously valuable commodity as a medium of exchange. No money could have originated either by a social compact to consider some previously valueless thing as a 'money' or by sudden governmental fiat. For in those cases, the money commodity could not have a previous purchasing power, which could be taken into account in the individual's demand for money. In this way, Mises demonstrated that Carl Menger's historical insight into the way in which money arose on the market was not simply a historical summary but a theoretical necessity ("The Austrian Theory of Money," p. 169).	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2060
__label__wiki	0.764707	0.764707	Jo congratulates locals on Queen’s Birthday Honours Jo Swinson MP for East Dunbartonshire is congratulating four local residents who were named on the Queen’s Birthday Honours list announced on Saturday (15thJune). OBEs were awarded to Milngavie’s Reginald Hunter Reid, for services to Architecture and Community Engagement in Glasgow, and to Lenzie’s Patricia Watson for services to Business and Disabled People. MBEs were awarded to Bearsden’s Isobel Elizabeth Smith for services to cancer awareness and support and to Milngavie’s Ellen Davidson Edward for services to the community in East Dunbartonshire. Commenting Jo Swinson said: “Congratulations to Ellen, Isobel, Patricia and Reginald. “These honours recognise their contributions to our community here in East Dunbartonshire and further afield such as Isobel’s work at Melanoma Action and Support Scotland and Ellen’s work with ENABLE, a charity for people with learning disabilities. “I have no doubt they will all continue to play a key role in years to come and I am sure that local residents will want join me in congratulating them on receiving these honours.”	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2061
__label__wiki	0.93262	0.93262	By MARLYS DURAN ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS STAFF WRITER DUKE' TALBOT, OUTDOORSMAN, PHOTOGRAPHER Merle W. "Duke" Talbot grew up on a Brighton farm, where a love of the outdoors came naturally. So it was fitting that Mr. Talbot spent much of his leisure time hunting, fishing and photographing nature. Even after Mr. Talbot took up oil painting in his retirement years, his subjects were animals and landscapes. "He grew up in that environment," his wife, Florence Talbot, said. "He knew Colorado about as well as any person I was ever around." Mr. Talbot died July 26 in Brighton. He was 74. He was born Jan. 9, 1919, on a farm south of Brighton, where his grandparents had homesteaded in the 1860s. He graduated from Brighton High School in 1936. As a young surveyor for the Bureau of Reclamation, Mr. Talbot climbed numerous Colorado mountains. Then he returned to the farm for a few years and worked at the former Lehrman Mercantile in Brighton. In 1945, he became a lineman for the Public Service Co. of Colorado. When he retired in 1976, he was supervisor of line crews in the Platte Valley district. Mr. Talbot was an accomplished carpenter and electrician. After becoming engaged to the former Florence Chambers in 1948, he spent two years building their two-bedroom home in Brighton. After a hunting trip in Alaska in 1961, Mr. Talbot added a den to the home, where he displayed his mounted trophies, including a caribou and a dall sheep. An avid photographer, Mr. Talbot had recorded all of his hunting trips and family vacations in still photos, movie film, videotape and oil paintings. "Most all of his paintings were of places he had fished and hunted," his wife said. True to Mr. Talbot's wishes, there was no funeral service. "He always hated formal things of any sort," his wife said. Mr. Talbot also is survived by three brothers, Ed Talbot of Prescott, Ariz., Robert Talbot of Ponca City, Okla., and Don Talbot of Brighton. Contributions can be made to the Hospice of Northern Colorado, 15 N. 12th Ave., Brighton 80601	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2065
__label__cc	0.699431	0.300569	Michael Cirangle, CPA Joins the Tax Department of Ellin & Tucker Posted Under: Consulting Services, Tax Services Baltimore, Md. – Ellin & Tucker, the Baltimore-based public accounting and business consulting firm, is pleased to announce that Michael Cirangle, CPA, has joined the firm’s tax leadership team as a tax manager. As a member of the tax department, Cirangle will support the firm’s mission to deliver sophisticated tax planning and consulting services to privately held companies and their owners. “We are thrilled to be welcoming Michael to the Ellin & Tucker family,” said Ed Brake, managing director of Ellin & Tucker. “As our client base continues to grow, our eyes are always on the horizon for the next generation of leaders in our industry. Michael emulates the client service model which has served as our cornerstone for 70 years.” From providing complex tax consulting services to Fortune 500 companies, to helping privately held businesses manage their continually increasing tax burden and compliance, Cirangle’s tax and consulting experience spans nearly a decade. Prior to his role at Ellin & Tucker, Cirangle was a tax manager with CliftonLarsonAllen, LLP, where his efforts concentrated on income tax planning and compliance strategies for multiple middle-market, multi-national corporations and partnerships in a variety of industries. Previously, Cirangle was a senior associate for KPMG, LLP, where he started his accounting career after graduating from college. Cirangle received his bachelors of science degree from Towson University in accounting. Ellin & Tucker’s tax group serves both business clients and high net-worth individuals. The firm’s high-value services aim to reduce client burden, identify strategic planning opportunities and ensure compliance with federal and state regulations. Founded in 1946, Ellin & Tucker (www.ellinandtucker.com) is a leading CPA firm headquartered in Baltimore, Md. that specializes in accounting, auditing, consulting, forensics and valuation and tax services. As the fifth largest accounting firm in Greater Baltimore, Ellin & Tucker employs more than 120 people in offices across Baltimore City, Belcamp and Washington D.C. and serves national and international clients through its affiliation with DFK International/USA, a top 10 international association of independent, full-service accounting firms and business advisors in major geographic and economic centers throughout the U.S. and around the world.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2069
__label__cc	0.676507	0.323493	Managing Partners Getting Hold Of Us Equity Promotion News & Updates‎ > ‎ California To Tackle Equity Crowdfunding This month the Assembly Committee on Banking and Finance will hear AB 722 (Perea), a bill I drafted for Small Business California that will legalize equity crowdfunding in California. AB 722 allows entrepreneurs to raise capital by selling equity stakes in their companies to the public. The process will feel similar to the crowdfunding going on now that you may have heard about where companies raise capital through large numbers of small donations on Internet sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo in exchange for T-shirts, first-dibs on products, and movie production credits. But AB 722 crowdfunding will be different because investors will own a piece of the company, which automatically introduces securities law into the equation. Crowdfunding of equity will enable entrepreneurs to use modern communication technology to solicit directly large numbers of prospective investors on social networks and, more broadly, on the Internet, thereby “democratizing” access to capital. For most on Main Street, it will be their first opportunity to invest in and potentially realize returns from an asset-class historically accessible only by professional venture capital investors. Yes, without the promotional efforts of intermediaries such as Wall Street investment bankers and underwriters, entrepreneurs may only be able to raise a few hundred thousand dollars. But today, with technological advances in computer programming, a few hundred thousand dollars is sufficient to prove-out concepts, produce prototypes and get the attention of Angel-investors and other capital sources that are capable of making much larger investments. Equity crowdfunding was supposed to be legalized at the federal level with enactment in 2012 of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act. Prior to the JOBS Act, Depression-era laws restricted a businesses’ ability to solicit the public to raise capital without registering the offering with the then-newly created federal agency, the Securities and Exchange Commission. For 90 years, without registration, companies could only solicit investment from people with whom they had pre-existing relationships. The JOBS Act was meant to change those rules. Unfortunately, balancing capital access with investor protection is not easy. The SEC has yet to issue final rules for crowdfunding under the JOBS Act (its present rules limit crowdfunding to high net worth (over $1 million) investors). In response to this delay, and in an effort to stimulate job creation, 18 states have rushed to enact their own intrastate crowdfunding laws. While well-intentioned, these laws do not adequately protect investors. With the exception of Maine, these states allow companies to raise capital directly from large numbers of unsophisticated investors without any review by the state securities regulators or by the SEC. Given the relatively small sums of capital at stake in a crowdfunded offering, most entrepreneurs will treat equity crowdfunding as they do non-equity crowdfunding…they will not likely seek legal counsel or other professional advice about the detailed and transparent disclosures that are required to be made to investors in securities offerings. Assembly member Perea’s AB 722 contains several important investor protections, such as prohibiting unsolicited telephone calls to potential investors. But perhaps most importantly, AB 722 offers entrepreneurs the benefit of a review of their offering by state Department of Business Oversight attorneys who are experienced in securities law disclosures and the securities raising process. This is an area where DBO involvement in the regulatory regime makes good sense. We are confident AB 722 represents a smart approach to capital access that will benefit entrepreneurs, the investing public and California’s economy. Article cited from: http://goo.gl/gJVYQo Equity CrowdFunding is not a crowdfunding platform. Equity CrowdFunding is not a registered broker-dealer and does not offer investment advice or advise on the raising of capital through securities offerings. Equity CrowdFunding does not recommend or otherwise suggest that any investor make an investment in a particular company, or that any company offer securities to a particular investor.Equity CrowdFunding takes no part in the negotiation or execution of transactions for the purchase or sale of securities, and at no time has possession of funds or securities. No securities transactions are executed or negotiated on or through Equity CrowdFunding. Copyright© 2015 DSB Capital Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Site By: Seowebpower	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2070
__label__wiki	0.884441	0.884441	Entertaining rout expected for fundraiser by Doron Lowe Exhibition basketball team match to benefit Ted K Center PLATTSBURGH — They may be seriously outmatched, but the Ted K. Center Trail Blazers will have a mission in mind when they take the floor against a team of standout basketball players. The group of local educators will go up against the Flight Squad exhibition team in a fundraising game at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, at Plattsburgh High School, 1 Clifford Drive. Spectators can expect to see some impressive action and interesting antics from the Flight Squad, a team of former professional and Division 1 athletes who played for U.S. and overseas teams. The Flight Squad will be playing a team comprising a mishmash of educators from local schools in a fundraiser to benefit the Plattsburgh Housing Authority’s Ted K. Center. GETTING SCHOOLED Tom Neale, education coordinator for the Ted K. Center, said the Flight Squad players will bring “high-flying slam dunks, expert dribbling exhibitions, trick shots and an interactive program. “The crowd will also get to watch familiar faces from our community schools –– the teachers, principals and coaches who make up our team –– as they try desperately to keep pace with superior athletes. “Hopefully, everyone will have the opportunity to witness their favorite principal or teacher learn a lesson on the hard court,” he joked. STARTING THE CLOCK Neale said he is always researching opportunities to secure financial support, including grants and fundraisers. He works with the Plattsburgh Housing Authority Board of Commissioners and Executive Director Mark Hamilton on those goals. “Board Vice Chair Shirley O’Connell suggested we pursue the Flight Squad basketball game,” Neale said. “We have found that it is a lot of work to organize a major community event like this, but with Shirley’s enthusiastic support, we are enjoying the planning process and look forward to providing a great family-oriented show.” HALFTIME VOCALS Doors to the PHS gym open at 6 for the 7 p.m. show. Halftime will feature the Plattsburgh School District’s a cappella group Fermata Nowhere, who will be doing a preview of the performance they plan to give a week later at a national competition, Neale said. After the game, fans will have a chance to meet the players and get autographs. A concession stand and team shop will sell snacks and souvenirs. GIVING IT A GO Neale said it will be difficult to get the Ted K Trail Blazers team together to practice, but they will give their best effort against the super-talented Flight Squad. “Our team features great athletes who may be slightly beyond their prime but will be able to make many entertaining plays on the court,” he said. “The team does look forward to being a main part of the show and enjoy interacting with Flight Squad and the fans.” The money that is raised will bolster programming at the Ted K. Center, which operates an Early Childhood Program, After-School Program and Summer Program. “Beyond everyday activities, such as homework completion, arts and crafts, play groups and recreational activities, funds will potentially help us provide a community garden project, which includes nine garden beds; two weeks of day camp at Camp Tapawingo, Point au Roche; art programs, such as pottery, painting and drawing classes; as well as recreational equipment and learning materials, Neale said. “Neighborhood youth and families have grown to depend on ‘The Center’ to provide a diverse array of services related to education, employment, recreation and the arts. “The Ted K. Center provides youth with positive opportunities for growth and improves the quality of life in the Plattsburgh Housing Authority and the greater community at large.” Neale said the Ted K. Center collaborates with many community partners, including the Clinton County Youth Bureau, United Way of the Adirondack Region, Plattsburgh City Schools, Plattsburgh City Police, SUNY Plattsburgh, Cornell Cooperative Extension and Plattsburgh Breakfast Kiwanis Club. “Youth will make constructive use of leisure time, participate in family and community events and enjoy positive interactions with mentors and peers,” he said. “They will be provided a safe place to play, learn and socialize and be afforded opportunities they may otherwise not have the chance to participate in.” Special Olympics fundraiser on Friday pits Flight Squad against… LUMBERTON — Anthony Govan, the program specialist and Special Olympics coordinator for the Robeson County Parks and Recreation Department, said that Friday’s basketball fundraiser at the Bill Sapp Recreation Center brings “something new” to the local area. The Parks and Recreation Departments from the City of Lumberton and Robeson County are joining together to host a basketball game that will raise funds for the Robeson County Special Olympics on Friday at 6:30 p.m. The event features the Flight Squad taking on the Wrecking Crew. The Flight Squad was founded in 2017 and is comprised of former college and professional basketball players. “We wanted to bring something different to Robeson County and this is something different that people haven’t really seen before. It’s what we hope is the first of many new things,” Govan said. “It’s the same thing as the Harlem Globetrotters, but they are not as global as them. There will be a lot of comedy, good basketball and it will be a good family environment.” The Flight Squad’s opponents, the Wrecking Crew, is a team made up of people from the local community that City of Lumberton Athletic Director Tim Clark put together. “We are hoping that having local people in the game will get some people to come out and take on some top level talent,” Govan said. “That should make it interesting.” Anyone under the age of four is free, while entrance for 5- to 12-year-olds is $3 and anyone 13 and up is $6. For more information, contact the Robeson County Parks and Recreation Department at 910-671-3090. Basketball game to benefit Reedsburg shelter Safe Harbor Homeless Shelter is planning a basketball fundraiser and hopes players will sign up to play for the home team. The Flight basketball team, a group reminiscent of the Harlem Ambassadors, will play during a fundraiser from 3-5 p.m. Sept. 24 at Reedsburg Area High School. The shelter needs volunteers to play; the deadline to sign up is Aug. 15. Players don’t need to be star athletes, said Darcy Swiscz, president of the shelter’s board of directors. Safe Harbor is trying to recruit adults from Reedsburg, Baraboo and Wisconsin Dells. “It’s not that they have to play a long, strenuous game,” she said. “The more people we have the less time they have to be on the floor.” All Flight basketball team members have played professionally for international teams or the NBA, said team President and Founder Doron Lowe. He said those who made the NBA no longer play either due to being waived or injury. The team is co-ed, and the female player also coaches, he said. Flight basketball team’s visits include a halftime show with surprise twists. Lowe declined to offer details to avoid spoiling the event, but he described it as “‘The Fast and the Furious’ meets basketball.” “We wanted to fuse together themes of speed and entertainment,” he said. Swiscz said the shelter thought Flight basketball team would be a popular regional attraction that could serve as a fundraiser. The organization hopes to sell as many tickets as possible to help cover operating costs. Safe Harbor, which serves only women and children, spends $171 a day on expenses such as utility bills and insurance. It relies solely on fundraisers and donations. The director is the only paid employee; everyone else volunteers. Swiscz said it’s been difficult to raise money because homelessness in the region doesn’t look like what people see on TV or in metropolitan areas. Those who are affected may stay with friends, sleeping on any couch they can find, or turning to their vehicles for home. Safe Harbor not only provides a roof but also sets benchmarks for success, such as requiring employment searches and helping residents secure an apartment. The goal is to move them out of the shelter in a couple of months while giving them the tools to overcome their situation. “People kind of close their eyes to homelessness,” she said. “”It’s not like in the city where you see them sleeping on benches or in streets. It’s kind of an invisible problem.” For more information about Safe Harbor Homeless Shelter, visit www.safeharborreedsburg.org. Details about the Flight basketball team are posted at flightsquadball.com. Safe Harbor Homeless Shelter is planning a basketball fundraiser and hopes players will sign up to play for the home team. The Flight basketball team, a group reminiscent of the Harlem Ambassadors, will play during a fundraiser from 3-5 p.m. Sept. 24 at Reedsburg Area High School. The shelter needs volunteers to play; the deadline to sign up is Aug. 15. ESPN Interview with Doron Lowe WECNA versus Allstars at NISH It’ll be an exciting day Saturday for New Iberia when the Flight Squad Professional Basketball Team will take on the WECNA AllStar Players in the gymnasium at New Iberia Senior High School. The professional basketball show and game is coordinated by the West End Council of Neighborhood Associations, which has provided similar entertaining basketball shows in previous years for New Iberia residents of all ages to enjoy. Flight Squad is a premier exhibition basketball team founded in 2017 with the goal of providing high level games in family friendly environments. The game is scheduled to tip off at 5 p.m. WECNA fundraising chair for the event Warren White said money raised for the event go to WECNA, which puts money back into the community with the various projects and events it puts on throughout the year for the elderly and youth in town. New Iberia players this year include State Rep. Blake Miguez, R-Erath, Seth Landry with Iberia Medical Center, Gilbert “Doc” Thomas, Tremel Castex, Athen Oliver, David Ditch, Larry Hensgens, David Merrill, YOGI with Young Hub City, Nick Johnson, Marlon Lewis, Floyd Sigue and Iberia Parish President Larry Richard. There also will be a halftime performance by Young Hub City, a New Iberia-based music group. General admission price is $10. VIP tickets can be purchased for $25 by calling Warren White at 201-4515. Tickets can be purchased from Gilbert “Doc” Thomas at AllState Insurance or Community First Bank on Admiral Doyle Drive. White said the tickets also can be purchased at the door. WECNA is a community organization that provides repairs to elderly people’s homes, handicap ramps at no charge, school supplies for children and is active in many other community events. Flight Squad coming to Southside for roundball action An exhibition basketball team is heading to Southside High School’s gym for a night of roundball action. Flight Squad, a team consisting of former professional athletes and Division 1 players who have played on teams in the U.S.A. as well as overseas, will play a local team usually including teachers, coaches, EMT workers, and people from local businesses. The event is scheduled for Saturday, March 24, at 6 p.m. The game will benefit Family Violence Prevention, Inc. in Batesville. Tickets are $10 and are available at Citizens Bank, First Community Bank, and at the Family Violence Prevention office inside the Independence County Courthouse. Tickets will also be available at the door. Flight Squad Basketball landing in Shenandoah Basketball with a message is coming to Shenandoah later this week. Shenandoah’s M-A-Y Mentoring Program, and the Shenandoah Rotary Club are bringing Flight Squad Basketball to the community for a special game Friday at 7 p.m. at the Shenandoah High Gym. M-A-Y Mentoring Coordinator Kim Leininger says Flight Squad Basketball mixes high-caliber basketball with entertainment, and words of inspiration. “Flight Squad Basketball is an exhibition premier basketball team,” said Leininger. “They’re very high talented, very professional players. But, they make their skills into family entertainment. So, it’s a fun game with high-level skilled basketball, but a lot of fun, joking entertainment. And, they throw in some really good positive messages along the way. So, we’re super-excited about this event.” Leininger says Flight Squad is an offshoot of the Harlem Ambassadors team that previously visited the community. “Five years ago, we did this with the Harlem Ambassadors,” she said. “The owners of Flight are the same owners who had the Harlem Ambassadors. It’s a different name of the organization. But, it’s the exact same thing as we had five years ago.” Flight Squad’s opponents on Friday–a team known as Rotary Mayhem, featuring some familiar faces. “We do have a lot of great local players,” said Leininger. “We have many of our Shenandoah coaches, some Essex coaches, some community members. They’re just people that a lot of our community members will recognize. And, they’re willing to be made fun of, all in good fun.” Added attractions include the Shenandoah High School Jazz Choir singing the National Anthem, and the Valley Dance Company with halftime entertainment. Concessions and team merchandise sales open at 6 p.m. Advance tickets are $8 for adults, $4 for students. Children ages four and under are admitted free. Admission at the door is $10 for adults, $5 for students. Tickets are available at Shenandoah Middle School, the M-A-Y Mentoring Office, Bank Iowa, Century Bank, Doug Meyer Chevrolet, the Valley News, Howard Clothing and Sporting Goods, McNeilly Garage Service, Millennium Chiropractic, Nishna Valley Cafe, Orton Realty, or any M-A-Y Advisory Board member or Shenandoah Rotarian. Sponsors include the Greater Shenandoah Foundation, the Kay Anderson Foundation, the Charles Hockenberry Foundation, the Cy Rapp and Carolyn Charitable Trust An evening of laughs when Flight Squad took the… A dance-off broke out during the All-Star Rotary basketball fund-raiser last Tuesday in Willcox. Steve Lawson and his daughter Caroline, 4, paired off against their opponent, the Flight Squad’s Corey Classic, to entertain a large crowd in Cowboys Gymnasium. Traveling basketball team brings message of anti-bullying to Winston-Dillard… A traveling basketball team brought an anti-bullying message to the Winston-Dillard School District on Thursday. They took their skills and comedy routine to Douglas High School after putting on a show for the Winston Middle School students earlier in the day. The Flight Squad is a team of former college and pro players from around the country that uses slam dunks, trick shots and a comedy routine, along with kid-friendly commentary to get their messages across about combating bullying and harassment. Yuri Belizaire, the host and DJ of the event, said the team members, who come from different backgrounds, are trying to spread a positive message to the youth of the nation. “We want them to know we’ve been through the same struggles as they’re going through, and we’re just trying to give them a positive outlook on life. And we do that through basketball,” he said. Belizaire said everyone has been bullied at one time or another, so most of the kids can relate to what they talk about. “We’re no different than anyone else, we’ve been through what they’re going through, and the bullying aspect is something we like to harp on and get it resolved because it’s really not necessary,” he said. Belizaire told the students there are three types of bullying in today’s society, including physical bullying, verbal bullying, and most recently, cyberbullying. Douglas High senior Josh Herrera said the bullying message was important to him. He and a friend have both been victims of bullying, so it is needed, he said. “I like how they were able to bring up how there are different types of bullying, because most people think of punching, but it spans different spectrums,” he said. “It goes anywhere from cyberbullying to just remarks down the hallway.” He said cyberbullying has become very prevalent. “It’s a terrible thing that something as useful as the internet can be used to put people down,” he said. Junior Mackenzie Gillis said the messages hit home with her. “I think it was very inspiring because I’ve gone through some of the same stuff,” she said. “I was bullied in middle school.” The Flight Squad gets the kids and the teachers involved in the show, combining dancing, high-energy music and basketball skills. Flight Squad members Kevin Currington, left, and Yuri Belizaire entertain students during an exhibition and anti-bullying assembly Thursday. Kevin Currington, an Art Therapy major at Marygrove College in Detriot, Michigan, before becoming a member of the Flight Squad, said he enjoyed making people in the audience feel good while also discouraging bullying. And the timing couldn’t be better, since the event was held during Bullying Prevention Week. “It’s giving back to the youth when you put a smile on their face and give off that positive message so it can carry on for them into adulthood,” Currington said. Corey Classic from Beaumont, Texas, just joined the team two weeks ago, but he likes being able to have fun playing basketball while communicating with kids in a positive way at the same time. “We live in a social media time, and I have a lot of kids that follow me from school assemblies and they tell me that I impact them in a positive way, and that right there means more than a little orange ball ever could,” Classic said. The Flight Squad team, which is based in Los Angeles, was in California before coming to Oregon, and visited Corvallis on Wednesday night. The team put on a show at the Winston Middle School on Thursday morning, then headed for California right after the assembly at Douglas High School. They will be on the road until the end of their tour in the middle of May.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2074
__label__cc	0.622404	0.377596	Home > Laws > 2011 Florida Statutes > Title XLVI > Chapter 893 > Section 135 Title XLVI CRIMES Chapter 893 DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION AND CONTROL Entire Chapter Trafficking; mandatory sentences; suspension or reduction of sentences; conspiracy to engage in trafficking. 893.135 Trafficking; mandatory sentences; suspension or reduction of sentences; conspiracy to engage in trafficking.— (1) Except as authorized in this chapter or in chapter 499 and notwithstanding the provisions of s. 893.13: (a) Any person who knowingly sells, purchases, manufactures, delivers, or brings into this state, or who is knowingly in actual or constructive possession of, in excess of 25 pounds of cannabis, or 300 or more cannabis plants, commits a felony of the first degree, which felony shall be known as “trafficking in cannabis,” punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084. If the quantity of cannabis involved: 1. Is in excess of 25 pounds, but less than 2,000 pounds, or is 300 or more cannabis plants, but not more than 2,000 cannabis plants, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 3 years, and the defendant shall be ordered to pay a fine of $25,000. 2. Is 2,000 pounds or more, but less than 10,000 pounds, or is 2,000 or more cannabis plants, but not more than 10,000 cannabis plants, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 7 years, and the defendant shall be ordered to pay a fine of $50,000. 3. Is 10,000 pounds or more, or is 10,000 or more cannabis plants, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 15 calendar years and pay a fine of $200,000. For the purpose of this paragraph, a plant, including, but not limited to, a seedling or cutting, is a “cannabis plant” if it has some readily observable evidence of root formation, such as root hairs. To determine if a piece or part of a cannabis plant severed from the cannabis plant is itself a cannabis plant, the severed piece or part must have some readily observable evidence of root formation, such as root hairs. Callous tissue is not readily observable evidence of root formation. The viability and sex of a plant and the fact that the plant may or may not be a dead harvested plant are not relevant in determining if the plant is a “cannabis plant” or in the charging of an offense under this paragraph. Upon conviction, the court shall impose the longest term of imprisonment provided for in this paragraph. (b)1. Any person who knowingly sells, purchases, manufactures, delivers, or brings into this state, or who is knowingly in actual or constructive possession of, 28 grams or more of cocaine, as described in s. 893.03(2)(a)4., or of any mixture containing cocaine, but less than 150 kilograms of cocaine or any such mixture, commits a felony of the first degree, which felony shall be known as “trafficking in cocaine,” punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084. If the quantity involved: a. Is 28 grams or more, but less than 200 grams, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 3 years, and the defendant shall be ordered to pay a fine of $50,000. b. Is 200 grams or more, but less than 400 grams, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 7 years, and the defendant shall be ordered to pay a fine of $100,000. c. Is 400 grams or more, but less than 150 kilograms, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 15 calendar years and pay a fine of $250,000. 2. Any person who knowingly sells, purchases, manufactures, delivers, or brings into this state, or who is knowingly in actual or constructive possession of, 150 kilograms or more of cocaine, as described in s. 893.03(2)(a)4., commits the first degree felony of trafficking in cocaine. A person who has been convicted of the first degree felony of trafficking in cocaine under this subparagraph shall be punished by life imprisonment and is ineligible for any form of discretionary early release except pardon or executive clemency or conditional medical release under s. 947.149. However, if the court determines that, in addition to committing any act specified in this paragraph: a. The person intentionally killed an individual or counseled, commanded, induced, procured, or caused the intentional killing of an individual and such killing was the result; or b. The person’s conduct in committing that act led to a natural, though not inevitable, lethal result, such person commits the capital felony of trafficking in cocaine, punishable as provided in ss. 775.082 and 921.142. Any person sentenced for a capital felony under this paragraph shall also be sentenced to pay the maximum fine provided under subparagraph 1. 3. Any person who knowingly brings into this state 300 kilograms or more of cocaine, as described in s. 893.03(2)(a)4., and who knows that the probable result of such importation would be the death of any person, commits capital importation of cocaine, a capital felony punishable as provided in ss. 775.082 and 921.142. Any person sentenced for a capital felony under this paragraph shall also be sentenced to pay the maximum fine provided under subparagraph 1. (c)1. Any person who knowingly sells, purchases, manufactures, delivers, or brings into this state, or who is knowingly in actual or constructive possession of, 4 grams or more of any morphine, opium, oxycodone, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, or any salt, derivative, isomer, or salt of an isomer thereof, including heroin, as described in s. 893.03(1)(b), (2)(a), (3)(c)3., or (3)(c)4., or 4 grams or more of any mixture containing any such substance, but less than 30 kilograms of such substance or mixture, commits a felony of the first degree, which felony shall be known as “trafficking in illegal drugs,” punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084. If the quantity involved: a. Is 4 grams or more, but less than 14 grams, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 3 years, and the defendant shall be ordered to pay a fine of $50,000. b. Is 14 grams or more, but less than 28 grams, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 15 years, and the defendant shall be ordered to pay a fine of $100,000. c. Is 28 grams or more, but less than 30 kilograms, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 25 calendar years and pay a fine of $500,000. 2. Any person who knowingly sells, purchases, manufactures, delivers, or brings into this state, or who is knowingly in actual or constructive possession of, 30 kilograms or more of any morphine, opium, oxycodone, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, or any salt, derivative, isomer, or salt of an isomer thereof, including heroin, as described in s. 893.03(1)(b), (2)(a), (3)(c)3., or (3)(c)4., or 30 kilograms or more of any mixture containing any such substance, commits the first degree felony of trafficking in illegal drugs. A person who has been convicted of the first degree felony of trafficking in illegal drugs under this subparagraph shall be punished by life imprisonment and is ineligible for any form of discretionary early release except pardon or executive clemency or conditional medical release under s. 947.149. However, if the court determines that, in addition to committing any act specified in this paragraph: such person commits the capital felony of trafficking in illegal drugs, punishable as provided in ss. 775.082 and 921.142. Any person sentenced for a capital felony under this paragraph shall also be sentenced to pay the maximum fine provided under subparagraph 1. 3. Any person who knowingly brings into this state 60 kilograms or more of any morphine, opium, oxycodone, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, or any salt, derivative, isomer, or salt of an isomer thereof, including heroin, as described in s. 893.03(1)(b), (2)(a), (3)(c)3., or (3)(c)4., or 60 kilograms or more of any mixture containing any such substance, and who knows that the probable result of such importation would be the death of any person, commits capital importation of illegal drugs, a capital felony punishable as provided in ss. 775.082 and 921.142. Any person sentenced for a capital felony under this paragraph shall also be sentenced to pay the maximum fine provided under subparagraph 1. (d)1. Any person who knowingly sells, purchases, manufactures, delivers, or brings into this state, or who is knowingly in actual or constructive possession of, 28 grams or more of phencyclidine or of any mixture containing phencyclidine, as described in s. 893.03(2)(b), commits a felony of the first degree, which felony shall be known as “trafficking in phencyclidine,” punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084. If the quantity involved: c. Is 400 grams or more, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 15 calendar years and pay a fine of $250,000. 2. Any person who knowingly brings into this state 800 grams or more of phencyclidine or of any mixture containing phencyclidine, as described in s. 893.03(2)(b), and who knows that the probable result of such importation would be the death of any person commits capital importation of phencyclidine, a capital felony punishable as provided in ss. 775.082 and 921.142. Any person sentenced for a capital felony under this paragraph shall also be sentenced to pay the maximum fine provided under subparagraph 1. (e)1. Any person who knowingly sells, purchases, manufactures, delivers, or brings into this state, or who is knowingly in actual or constructive possession of, 200 grams or more of methaqualone or of any mixture containing methaqualone, as described in s. 893.03(1)(d), commits a felony of the first degree, which felony shall be known as “trafficking in methaqualone,” punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084. If the quantity involved: a. Is 200 grams or more, but less than 5 kilograms, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 3 years, and the defendant shall be ordered to pay a fine of $50,000. b. Is 5 kilograms or more, but less than 25 kilograms, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 7 years, and the defendant shall be ordered to pay a fine of $100,000. c. Is 25 kilograms or more, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 15 calendar years and pay a fine of $250,000. 2. Any person who knowingly brings into this state 50 kilograms or more of methaqualone or of any mixture containing methaqualone, as described in s. 893.03(1)(d), and who knows that the probable result of such importation would be the death of any person commits capital importation of methaqualone, a capital felony punishable as provided in ss. 775.082 and 921.142. Any person sentenced for a capital felony under this paragraph shall also be sentenced to pay the maximum fine provided under subparagraph 1. (f)1. Any person who knowingly sells, purchases, manufactures, delivers, or brings into this state, or who is knowingly in actual or constructive possession of, 14 grams or more of amphetamine, as described in s. 893.03(2)(c)2., or methamphetamine, as described in s. 893.03(2)(c)4., or of any mixture containing amphetamine or methamphetamine, or phenylacetone, phenylacetic acid, pseudoephedrine, or ephedrine in conjunction with other chemicals and equipment utilized in the manufacture of amphetamine or methamphetamine, commits a felony of the first degree, which felony shall be known as “trafficking in amphetamine,” punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084. If the quantity involved: a. Is 14 grams or more, but less than 28 grams, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 3 years, and the defendant shall be ordered to pay a fine of $50,000. b. Is 28 grams or more, but less than 200 grams, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 7 years, and the defendant shall be ordered to pay a fine of $100,000. 2. Any person who knowingly manufactures or brings into this state 400 grams or more of amphetamine, as described in s. 893.03(2)(c)2., or methamphetamine, as described in s. 893.03(2)(c)4., or of any mixture containing amphetamine or methamphetamine, or phenylacetone, phenylacetic acid, pseudoephedrine, or ephedrine in conjunction with other chemicals and equipment used in the manufacture of amphetamine or methamphetamine, and who knows that the probable result of such manufacture or importation would be the death of any person commits capital manufacture or importation of amphetamine, a capital felony punishable as provided in ss. 775.082 and 921.142. Any person sentenced for a capital felony under this paragraph shall also be sentenced to pay the maximum fine provided under subparagraph 1. (g)1. Any person who knowingly sells, purchases, manufactures, delivers, or brings into this state, or who is knowingly in actual or constructive possession of, 4 grams or more of flunitrazepam or any mixture containing flunitrazepam as described in s. 893.03(1)(a) commits a felony of the first degree, which felony shall be known as “trafficking in flunitrazepam,” punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084. If the quantity involved: a. Is 4 grams or more but less than 14 grams, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 3 years, and the defendant shall be ordered to pay a fine of $50,000. b. Is 14 grams or more but less than 28 grams, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 7 years, and the defendant shall be ordered to pay a fine of $100,000. c. Is 28 grams or more but less than 30 kilograms, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 25 calendar years and pay a fine of $500,000. 2. Any person who knowingly sells, purchases, manufactures, delivers, or brings into this state or who is knowingly in actual or constructive possession of 30 kilograms or more of flunitrazepam or any mixture containing flunitrazepam as described in s. 893.03(1)(a) commits the first degree felony of trafficking in flunitrazepam. A person who has been convicted of the first degree felony of trafficking in flunitrazepam under this subparagraph shall be punished by life imprisonment and is ineligible for any form of discretionary early release except pardon or executive clemency or conditional medical release under s. 947.149. However, if the court determines that, in addition to committing any act specified in this paragraph: such person commits the capital felony of trafficking in flunitrazepam, punishable as provided in ss. 775.082 and 921.142. Any person sentenced for a capital felony under this paragraph shall also be sentenced to pay the maximum fine provided under subparagraph 1. (h)1. Any person who knowingly sells, purchases, manufactures, delivers, or brings into this state, or who is knowingly in actual or constructive possession of, 1 kilogram or more of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), as described in s. 893.03(1)(d), or any mixture containing gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), commits a felony of the first degree, which felony shall be known as “trafficking in gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB),” punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084. If the quantity involved: a. Is 1 kilogram or more but less than 5 kilograms, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 3 years, and the defendant shall be ordered to pay a fine of $50,000. b. Is 5 kilograms or more but less than 10 kilograms, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 7 years, and the defendant shall be ordered to pay a fine of $100,000. 2. Any person who knowingly manufactures or brings into this state 150 kilograms or more of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), as described in s. 893.03(1)(d), or any mixture containing gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), and who knows that the probable result of such manufacture or importation would be the death of any person commits capital manufacture or importation of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), a capital felony punishable as provided in ss. 775.082 and 921.142. Any person sentenced for a capital felony under this paragraph shall also be sentenced to pay the maximum fine provided under subparagraph 1. (i)1. Any person who knowingly sells, purchases, manufactures, delivers, or brings into this state, or who is knowingly in actual or constructive possession of, 1 kilogram or more of gamma-butyrolactone (GBL), as described in s. 893.03(1)(d), or any mixture containing gamma-butyrolactone (GBL), commits a felony of the first degree, which felony shall be known as “trafficking in gamma-butyrolactone (GBL),” punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084. If the quantity involved: 2. Any person who knowingly manufactures or brings into the state 150 kilograms or more of gamma-butyrolactone (GBL), as described in s. 893.03(1)(d), or any mixture containing gamma-butyrolactone (GBL), and who knows that the probable result of such manufacture or importation would be the death of any person commits capital manufacture or importation of gamma-butyrolactone (GBL), a capital felony punishable as provided in ss. 775.082 and 921.142. Any person sentenced for a capital felony under this paragraph shall also be sentenced to pay the maximum fine provided under subparagraph 1. (j)1. Any person who knowingly sells, purchases, manufactures, delivers, or brings into this state, or who is knowingly in actual or constructive possession of, 1 kilogram or more of 1,4-Butanediol as described in s. 893.03(1)(d), or of any mixture containing 1,4-Butanediol, commits a felony of the first degree, which felony shall be known as “trafficking in 1,4-Butanediol,” punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084. If the quantity involved: a. Is 1 kilogram or more, but less than 5 kilograms, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 3 years, and the defendant shall be ordered to pay a fine of $50,000. 2. Any person who knowingly manufactures or brings into this state 150 kilograms or more of 1,4-Butanediol as described in s. 893.03(1)(d), or any mixture containing 1,4-Butanediol, and who knows that the probable result of such manufacture or importation would be the death of any person commits capital manufacture or importation of 1,4-Butanediol, a capital felony punishable as provided in ss. 775.082 and 921.142. Any person sentenced for a capital felony under this paragraph shall also be sentenced to pay the maximum fine provided under subparagraph 1. (k)1. Any person who knowingly sells, purchases, manufactures, delivers, or brings into this state, or who is knowingly in actual or constructive possession of, 10 grams or more of any of the following substances described in s. 893.03(1)(a) or (c): a. 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA); b. 4-Bromo-2,5-dimethoxyamphetamine; c. 4-Bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine; d. 2,5-Dimethoxyamphetamine; e. 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-ethylamphetamine (DOET); f. N-ethylamphetamine; g. N-Hydroxy-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine; h. 5-Methoxy-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine; i. 4-methoxyamphetamine; j. 4-methoxymethamphetamine; k. 4-Methyl-2,5-dimethoxyamphetamine; l. 3,4-Methylenedioxy-N-ethylamphetamine; m. 3,4-Methylenedioxyamphetamine; n. N,N-dimethylamphetamine; or o. 3,4,5-Trimethoxyamphetamine, individually or in any combination of or any mixture containing any substance listed in sub-subparagraphs a.-o., commits a felony of the first degree, which felony shall be known as “trafficking in Phenethylamines,” punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084. 2. If the quantity involved: a. Is 10 grams or more but less than 200 grams, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 3 years, and the defendant shall be ordered to pay a fine of $50,000. 3. Any person who knowingly manufactures or brings into this state 30 kilograms or more of any of the following substances described in s. 893.03(1)(a) or (c): individually or in any combination of or any mixture containing any substance listed in sub-subparagraphs a.-o., and who knows that the probable result of such manufacture or importation would be the death of any person commits capital manufacture or importation of Phenethylamines, a capital felony punishable as provided in ss. 775.082 and 921.142. Any person sentenced for a capital felony under this paragraph shall also be sentenced to pay the maximum fine provided under subparagraph 1. (l)1. Any person who knowingly sells, purchases, manufactures, delivers, or brings into this state, or who is knowingly in actual or constructive possession of, 1 gram or more of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) as described in s. 893.03(1)(c), or of any mixture containing lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), commits a felony of the first degree, which felony shall be known as “trafficking in lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD),” punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084. If the quantity involved: a. Is 1 gram or more, but less than 5 grams, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 3 years, and the defendant shall be ordered to pay a fine of $50,000. b. Is 5 grams or more, but less than 7 grams, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 7 years, and the defendant shall be ordered to pay a fine of $100,000. c. Is 7 grams or more, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 15 calendar years and pay a fine of $500,000. 2. Any person who knowingly manufactures or brings into this state 7 grams or more of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) as described in s. 893.03(1)(c), or any mixture containing lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), and who knows that the probable result of such manufacture or importation would be the death of any person commits capital manufacture or importation of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), a capital felony punishable as provided in ss. 775.082 and 921.142. Any person sentenced for a capital felony under this paragraph shall also be sentenced to pay the maximum fine provided under subparagraph 1. (2) A person acts knowingly under subsection (1) if that person intends to sell, purchase, manufacture, deliver, or bring into this state, or to actually or constructively possess, any of the controlled substances listed in subsection (1), regardless of which controlled substance listed in subsection (1) is in fact sold, purchased, manufactured, delivered, or brought into this state, or actually or constructively possessed. (3) Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 948.01, with respect to any person who is found to have violated this section, adjudication of guilt or imposition of sentence shall not be suspended, deferred, or withheld, nor shall such person be eligible for parole prior to serving the mandatory minimum term of imprisonment prescribed by this section. A person sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment under this section is not eligible for any form of discretionary early release, except pardon or executive clemency or conditional medical release under s. 947.149, prior to serving the mandatory minimum term of imprisonment. (4) The state attorney may move the sentencing court to reduce or suspend the sentence of any person who is convicted of a violation of this section and who provides substantial assistance in the identification, arrest, or conviction of any of that person’s accomplices, accessories, coconspirators, or principals or of any other person engaged in trafficking in controlled substances. The arresting agency shall be given an opportunity to be heard in aggravation or mitigation in reference to any such motion. Upon good cause shown, the motion may be filed and heard in camera. The judge hearing the motion may reduce or suspend the sentence if the judge finds that the defendant rendered such substantial assistance. (5) Any person who agrees, conspires, combines, or confederates with another person to commit any act prohibited by subsection (1) commits a felony of the first degree and is punishable as if he or she had actually committed such prohibited act. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prohibit separate convictions and sentences for a violation of this subsection and any violation of subsection (1). (6) A mixture, as defined in s. 893.02, containing any controlled substance described in this section includes, but is not limited to, a solution or a dosage unit, including but not limited to, a pill or tablet, containing a controlled substance. For the purpose of clarifying legislative intent regarding the weighing of a mixture containing a controlled substance described in this section, the weight of the controlled substance is the total weight of the mixture, including the controlled substance and any other substance in the mixture. If there is more than one mixture containing the same controlled substance, the weight of the controlled substance is calculated by aggregating the total weight of each mixture. (7) For the purpose of further clarifying legislative intent, the Legislature finds that the opinion in Hayes v. State, 750 So. 2d 1 (Fla. 1999) does not correctly construe legislative intent. The Legislature finds that the opinions in State v. Hayes, 720 So. 2d 1095 (Fla. 4th DCA 1998) and State v. Baxley, 684 So. 2d 831 (Fla. 5th DCA 1996) correctly construe legislative intent. History.—s. 1, ch. 79-1; s. 1, ch. 80-70; s. 2, ch. 80-353; s. 491, ch. 81-259; s. 1, ch. 82-2; s. 3, ch. 82-16; s. 53, ch. 83-215; s. 5, ch. 87-243; ss. 1, 4, ch. 89-281; s. 1, ch. 90-112; s. 3, ch. 93-92; s. 24, ch. 93-406; s. 15, ch. 95-184; s. 5, ch. 95-415; s. 54, ch. 96-388; s. 3, ch. 97-1; s. 1828, ch. 97-102; s. 23, ch. 97-194; s. 9, ch. 99-188; s. 4, ch. 2000-320; s. 2, ch. 2001-55; s. 7, ch. 2001-57; ss. 1, 2, 3, ch. 2002-212; s. 4, ch. 2003-10; s. 3, ch. 2005-128; s. 7, ch. 2008-184; s. 5, ch. 2011-73; s. 3, ch. 2011-90.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2075
__label__wiki	0.87106	0.87106	Between the Irish pipes Highly regarded, 1999 birth year goalie Dean Buchholz has opted to return to the Detroit Fighting Irish of the United States Premier Hockey League for a second season. The 6-foot, 175-pound puck-stopper had a save percentage of .900 in 2016-2017 despite a win-loss record of 2-19-1 while playing for a lowly Detroit team that is in rebuild mode for the 2017-2018 campaign. Buchholz has had a busy summer that included time spent at the United States Hockey League camp of the Muskegon Lumberjacks. According to Fighting Irish general manager Dan Vasquez, Buchholz is also slated to spend time in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario this summer under the tutelage of former Ontario Hockey League and National Hockey League goalies Kevin Hodson and Danny Cloutier. What you think about “Between the Irish pipes” Raymond Montemayor says: Good Luck Young Man! Best Wishes for a productive season.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2078
__label__wiki	0.860339	0.860339	Spirit of America in Africa Sharing hope, teaching underprivileged youth, performing nightly and starting a community band … just a day in the life of the Spirit of America band members on their recent three-week trip to South Africa. Photos Courtesy of Spirit of America “Sharing hope with youth through music and the creative arts” was the mission of the all-ages performing group Spirit of America (SOA) on its recent trip to South Africa. Through three weeks of performances and workshops, the members spread the power of music to the local children. After two years of preparation and fundraising, 150 members of the marching ensemble traveled to the cities of Durban and Johannesburg. In Durban, the group led a week of workshops to help establish a music ensemble in a nearby township and performed a one-hour field show every night. In Johannesburg, SOA continued daytime workshops for the local youth and performed its indoor stage show twice each day. “I think that one of the big reasons Spirit of America went there was to instill a sense of hope in some of the young people,” says Ian Hale, percussion master for SOA. “Through music and percussion, we wanted to give them another thing they could learn and feel good about doing.” To attend the trip, each SOA member had to raise $6,000 through fundraisers or donations and learn both the field show and the two-hour stage production. As the trip grew closer, the group rehearsed at 5:30 a.m. five days a week. “We had to do a lot of preparation,” says Paul Tingley, a trumpet player and adult member of SOA. “I was at my job during the day and during the rest of the time had to pull together a stadium and theatre show.” SOA is a musical organization based in Orleans, Mass., with members from ages 10 to 60. Founded in the early 1970’s as a hometown marching band, the organization now includes a field and marching band, winter percussion group, fife and drum unit, and wind ensemble. Many of the younger members are home-schooled, allowing them to integrate SOA training into their curriculums and attend the international trip throughout most of September. “This trip was part of our home-school curriculum,” says Kirsti Pugsley, a 17-year-old percussionist in her eighth year with SOA. “We studied South African history and had tons of fine art credit.” According to Tingley, whose own children are home-schooled and march with SOA, South African studies were built into a year-long curriculum, even including a guest speaker who talked about HIV and AIDS in South Africa. “Part of the mission is to inspire and to educate young people,” Tingley says. “It was such a great experience for us to take our young people, share this experience and open their eyes to what a person in a foreign country without as many opportunities or the ability to make music goes through.” Starting a Band in KwaMashu The first leg of the trip occurred in Durban, the third largest city in South Africa. SOA partnered with the Kwa Mashu Community Advancement Projects (K-CAP), a youth integrated arts and multimedia empowerment organization, to provide workshops and training to students and instructors in order for the Ekhaya Multi Arts Centre to start its own marching band in the KwaMashu Township (18 miles outside of Durban). During the day, SOA members and staff taught workshops on music, marching and color guard, introducing many of the students to instruments for the first time. “The best part about going on this trip was doing workshops with the kids,” Pugsley says. “They had so much energy and were so eager to learn and had so much fun that it made you have fun.” SOA was able to gift many instruments to the centre through its Re-Sound program, which collects, repairs and donates instruments to needy organizations. “That to me was a highlight because the kids were clearly underprivileged,” Tingley says. “Some of the kids had no shoes. Although we did workshops with some kids, not every kid could participate, and there were kids outside the fences just watching. We handed out harmonicas to them, and the kids had huge smiles on their faces.” Each evening SOA performed “Exploration!”, its hour-long field show, at King Zwelithini Stadium for hundreds of local children and community members. A pivotal moment of the show features every member of the ensemble playing the drums, and the kids participating in the workshops learned that section and joined SOA on the field for the final performance. “I got the privilege of standing on the podium with the drum major and directing while there were 200 to 250 drummers on the field,” Hale says. “It was an awesome and very emotional experience; there were a lot of tears on the field on both sides. I think the exchange of information and the genuine response that both sides had is something that’s a pretty life-changing experience.” Now that they have the tools to start a band, the Ekhaya Multi Arts Centre will continue to communicate with SOA for guidance. “We hope to create a ‘music revolution’ in KwaMashu Township as there is now a lot of enthusiasm amongst the youth about playing instruments and support from parents wanting their kids to learn how to play,” says Edmund Mhlongo, artistic director and founder of K-CAP. “It will be great for us to continue with this exchange program on an annual basis—even if it means fewer members of SOA coming over and at some stage sending our best students over to U.S. for further mentorship.” Sightseeing Side Trips While the SOA members considered their South African adventure as a “working trip,” the group did have time for several side trips between their time in Durban and Johannesburg. Sites included the Apartheid Museum, Inkamana Abbey, African Crafts Market and Soweto Township. “We got a chance to see the living conditions, which are not very good to say the least,” Hale says. “To see all of that and how they sort of decide to live their lives in these diffi cult conditions was really cool. There’s so much joy in the people there because they have each other and the things that they do together, such as drumming, dancing, singing and music. We saw the real deal.” The group also went on a safari at Kruger National Park. “It was a phenomenal experience,” Pugsley says. “We saw wild dogs, cheetahs, giraffes and elephants—stuff people usually never get to see. We were really lucky.” Theatre in Motion Once in Johannesburg, SOA unpacked their sets and jumped into rehearsals for its two-hour stage show, “Instrumental Theatre: in motion—The Fall and Rise of the Phoenix.” Soon the group would be giving two workshops and two performances each day as part of the Arts Alive Festival. Unlike the Durban workshops, where the same children returned daily, in Johannesburg SOA presented workshops to different groups of students each day. The children ranged from Kindergarten to high school students. Before viewing SOA’s matinee performance, they studied topics such as performing arts, costume design, makeup design, brass, woodwinds, percussion, set construction, backstage tech, mosaic design and instrument repair. “Instrumental Theatre: in motion” at the Mandela at Joburg Theatre was well-received by both the children in the matinee audiences and the paid festival audiences nightly. “It was a totally different show than what they’ve seen before,” Tingley says. “The show had so many different emotional things: crying, singing, flying, pyrotechnics. They understood it. They were big thinkers.” Thinking Large Although SOA has taken many international trips and tours and won numerous accolades over the years, this South African trip will be a fond memory and life-altering experience. “I kind of came away realizing the things that I thought mattered don’t really matter as much now,” Hale says. “I think that the people of South Africa demonstrated that you can make great things happen out of some really awful things.” Pugsley enjoyed the workshops as well as the pure thrill of performing. “Just the experience of working with all the kids and everything they gave it—the whole experience— was amazing,” she says. “In Joburg Theatre it was so fun; we were back in the pit performing with all of our friends. Just performing together and seeing how much it came together felt great.” SOA hopes to continue providing musical training and instruments to those in need and inspiring others with their productions. “We grew musically and spiritually, and it keeps us motivated to do the next thing,” Tingley says. “This has us thinking large.” Elizabeth Geli is the assistant editor and web editor for Halftime Magazine and a freelance journalist and communications professional in Los Angeles. She marched fl ute at Valencia High School in Placentia, Calif., and in the University of Southern California (USC) Trojan Marching Band, where she now works as a teaching assistant. She has a bachelor’s degree in print journalism and a Master’s in Specialized Journalism (The Arts) from USC. 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__label__cc	0.661107	0.338893	Han Nolan Han's Books My book Crazy was made into a play "Jason Invisible"! It's at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. from March 23 to April 7, 2013. Many thanks to the playwright, Laurie Brooks, the director, Rosemary Newcott, the actors and actresses, the crew, and the staff and volunteers at the Kennedy Center for their vision and passion in bringing my book to life! Jason Invisible The play at the John F. Kennedy Center based on my novel, Crazy Jason Invisible--a play at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. A World Premiere Commission by the Kennedy Center and VSA Adapted by Laurie Brooks from the novel Crazy by Han Nolan Directed by Rosemary Newcott Featuring Michael John Casey, Mark Hairston, Mark Halpern, Susan Lynskey, Rana Kay, Michael V. Sazonov, and Chris Wilson. Being a teenager is hard. Being one who needs to care for a sick parent is even harder. It makes 15-year-old Jason feel like he's going a little bonkers. What makes things tougher are the "sidekicks" in his head--Dream Girl, Smart Guy, and Crazy Glue--who bear a striking resemblance to the kids in his new support group. But Jason doesn't want to talk to anyone. He'd rather just be invisible, until his anonymous letter in the school paper leads other students with troubled home lives to seek HIS words of wisdom. Suddenly, Jason's advice column is helping him face down his own problems--and find new friends in the most unlikely of places. Based on a novel by National Book Award winner Han Nolan, this highly theatrical play is at turns warm, humorous, and deeply moving--even interactive with the audience, so that more voices can be heard! Don't miss this groundbreaking world premiere, which celebrates the awesome power of friendship and humanizes young people dealing with less than perfect families. For age 11 and up. I was born in Birmingham, Alabama. When I was 9 months old my family moved to New York where I spent most of my childhood and teen years. When I was a toddler, I had white blond hair that stood straight up on my head. My family called me "Hoot" back then because that and my big eyes made me look like an owl. I couldn't pronounce my first and middle names, which were Helen Harris, so I said "Hannah Hollis". My family shortened this to a variety of nicknames: Hahn, Han Holl, Han, Hannie, and Hannie Bucket, which my husband later shortened to Hannie B. The neighborhood kids also called me Hahn. It is now pronounced, Han, and it rhymes with man. I was very active as a child--I loved to jump on beds, do somersaults, handstands and flips on and off of sofas, climb trees and do different tricks on the monkey bars at the playground. I also liked my own thoughts best. In kindergarten, I paid no attention to my teacher. She told my mother that she thought I had a hearing problem. My parents had my hearing tested. My ears were fine. When my mother told me what the teacher had said I replied that I heard my teacher all right, it's just that she kept interrupting all my good thoughts! I've loved stories for as long as I can remember. One of my favorite memories is of my father telling me bedtime stories, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, B'rer Rabbit, and stories from the Bible such as my favorite, Joseph and his Coat of Many Colors. I loved to make up my own stories too. I didn't write them down until I was a little older, but I sure loved to make them up. One of my favorites books as a child was "Harriet the Spy". I wanted to be a spy, so I started spying on my family, especially my older sister. It turned out I was a terrible spy because I kept getting caught, but I kept a spy notebook, just like Harriet. I quickly gave up on the spying, but writing thoughts and stories in a notebook has been a habit for me ever since. When I was ten, I saw the movie "The Sound of Music" and I fell in love with it. Back then if you wanted to see a movie more than once you had to go to the theater. We didn't have videos. I only saw it once but I had the record album with all the music on it and I learned every word of it. I made up dances to go with it and gave a performance for my family. My brothers and sisters laughed at me. My parents and grandmother applauded and told me I was wonderful. For years after seeing that movie I would lie awake nights remembering the story of the Sound Of Music and making up my own stories to go with it. Lying awake nights making up stories instead of sleeping is a habit I still have, as my husband can tell you. My elementary school years were tough--I hated school. I wanted to be at home with my mother. I used to feel sick to my stomach every morning and my mother would let me stay home sometimes. We moved to Kentucky when I was in the fifth grade. I stayed home a lot that year and I missed so much school I had to repeat the grade to make up all the work I had missed. After that I didn't get sick to my stomach anymore. I didn't do well in school until the sixth grade. That's the year I was given my first creative writing assignment. I had been writing stories at home for years and of course keeping a journal filled with more stories and poems and all those important thoughts I had. My homeroom/English teacher was very impressed by my writing and this made me feel smart. I decided to do well in school after that, and I did. But what if that teacher hadn't encouraged me? When I was 13, my mother enrolled me in dance class. At first I felt like a big oaf--all the other kids were younger, or had been taking dance lessons for years, so I was behind. But I loved it, and I began to work at it all the time: stretching so I could do splits and high kicks and dancing around the house to music. Two years later I was invited to join the special master classes for the best students. All that hard work had paid off. I loved dance--I continued lessons into high school, and then went to college and graduate school as a dance major. I went to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro as an undergraduate, and went to Ohio State for my Masters degree. So how did I end up as a writer? I got married after Grad school and I soon realized that my dancing took up too much of the wrong time. When my husband was at work I was at home, and when he was home I was dancing. I didn't like that at all, even though my husband took a beginning ballet class just so he could spend time with me. I left dance and I decided to return to my first love, writing. Soon after that we adopted three children and I knew for sure that staying home and writing instead of dancing was the best decision for me. As an adult I still love to spend time with my family and friends, and I love to read, run, hike, bike, swim, go to plays and concerts, travel, and of course, write. A Summer of Kings When We Were Saints If I Should Die Before I Wake Send Me Down A Miracle Born Blue A Face In Every Window authors4teens	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2081
__label__wiki	0.58222	0.58222	Essays‎ > ‎ Private and Public Vision: Learning Haiku from Joyce Carol Oates Private and Public Vision: Learning Haiku from Joyce Carol Oates First published in Presence #55, June 2016, pages 72–81. A few minor revisions appear in the following text, and in the title. Originally written in November 2014. + If you blink a few times, Joyce Carol Oates is sure to have another book out. As one of the most prolific authors writing in the English language—with critical acclaim, not potboiler stardom—she is a seasoned writer worth learning from. Even haiku poets can learn something from her advice to writers, her sense of vision that drives each novel, each story, each poem. We can find a good measure of that advice in The Faith of a Writer (New York: Ecco/HarperCollins, 2003), a book that the dust-jacket trumpets as providing “A tribute to the brilliant craftsmanship of one of our most distinguished writers, providing valuable insight into her inspiration and her method.” Regarding writing, she says, “it’s necessary to think of this art as a craft,” adding that “Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork” (xii). It’s a point she comes back to, emphatically, at the end of her book. The Faith of a Writer explores the balance of art and craft in writing in various genres, and it applies very directly, at times, to haiku. “Young or beginning writers must be urged to read widely, ceaselessly, both classics and contemporaries, for without an immersion in the history of our craft, one is doomed to remain an amateur: an individual for whom enthusiasm is ninety-nine percent of the creative effort.” (xii) What better place to begin than with an admonishment to read? Or better yet, think of it as an invitation, not an admonishment. Haiku poets, to excel in their art—and their craft—must read widely. Read the standard books on the subject, from Addiss to Blyth to Hass to Higginson to Shirane to Ueda to Yasuda, and many more. Read the standard biographies on the Japanese masters: Bashō, Buson, Issa, and Shiki, and don’t forget Chiyo-ni. Read contemporary Japanese haiku in translation. If you can’t find it, look harder. Read current haiku writers by buying their books. Join the haiku societies, attend their meetings. Read the best contemporary journals for haiku in English. Find some of the older journals, too, to understand the concerns that have changed, and those that have stayed the same. Read reviews, read contest results, read and share poems online, read read read. Mere enthusiasm for haiku is not enough. “Life is lived head-on, like a roller coaster ride: ‘art’ is coolly selective, and can be created only in retrospect.” (25) Haiku poets are told to be in the moment, to write in the moment. But those are actually two different things. By being in the moment, we can experience it. That much is valuable. And then those moments become memories, and some of these moments can become haiku. But we can never write in the moment, only from the moment. I think of Wordsworth, who defined poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” that “takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” Or, as Anaïs Nin once said, “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” If we can free ourselves from writing only about immediately recent experience, we can embrace all of our memories to write haiku more broadly. And a key point Oates makes, too, is “coolly selective”—in retrospect, in tranquility, we are not just gushing out in haiku whatever just happened to us, but selecting the best, the standouts of memory and experience. As wonderful as any given moment might be, and all the inspiration it gives us, sometimes we need the perspective of writing in retrospect. But then, as I’ve always maintained, all haiku are written in retrospect—it’s just that we can lengthen that retrospect to include memories from years or even decades ago. “I’ve never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but the attempted embodiment of a vision.” (35) As haiku poets our modus operandi is to be sensitive to experience, to record our experiences, and then, if we choose, to share our common experiences with others. We are trained receivers. Effective haiku can result from this receptivity, from noticing the time of day, the time of year, the changes in nature and ourselves, the slants of light or the hues of leaves. But what if we add vision to that receptivity? What if we had a goal, even if it changed from day to day, to write in a particular way, or on particular subjects? Could we deliberately try to start each haiku with a preposition? Think about writing haiku that are all in question form? Write just one-liners? Or four-liners? Write about plants or animals native to our region in alphabetical order? Try writing without the letter E? Perhaps some of these “visions” are superficial, but such games might result in breakthroughs, and some visions might be gravely serious, such as truly internalizing the idea of writing our haiku as death poems—last-breath poems—imbued with duende. Can we take our haiku to different levels, or to new terrain, by applying goals and vision to imagistic receptivity? “The most seemingly conscious of artists acknowledges his subordination to discovery: ‘In fashioning a work of art we are by no means free, we do not choose how we shall make it but . . . it preexists us and therefore we are obliged, since it is both necessary and hidden, to do what we should have to do if it were a law of nature—that is to say, to discover it.’ (Marcel Proust) What begins in childlike wonder and curiosity becomes, with the passage of time, if we persist in our devotion (or delusion) a ‘calling’; a ‘profession.’” (38) Surely all haiku poets know this feeling. We do not write our haiku so much as discover them, at least sometimes. They come unbidden as often as not. This is not to say we do not craft them, do not put ourselves in circumstances where these poems are more likely to arise. Or at least carry a notebook so we can jot them down easily. But when they come, it feels like the spray of a wave over an ocean-front pier, doesn’t it? By cultivating a sense of wonder at the world, we create a fertile receptivity that makes our haiku more likely to occur. I’m reminded of Emily Dickinson, who once wrote that “The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” In A Writer’s Time, Kenneth Atchity calls this “productive elation.” It’s a matter of always being open. But haiku do not end with experience. Rather, experience is where they start. A little after the preceding quotation, Oates quotes the last stanza from William Stafford’s poem “Bi-Focal,” the last line of which provided the title for what may be Stafford’s most definitive poetry book, The Way It Is: New & Selected Poems (Saint Paul, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 1998; Oates seems to quote the poem slightly inaccurately—I’m correcting it here): So, the world happens twice— once what we see it as; second it legends itself deep, the way it is. Surely this idea is true for haiku poets, that experience has two components: what we see something as, and what it actually is. These can be different things. If we remember this distinction, and learn to spot the difference, and that the way it is is deeper, we have the potential to observe and interpret our world more profoundly. Our haiku can benefit as a result. As Oates extrapolates, “The crucial word here is ‘legends’ with its suggestion of storytelling; a secondary creation over and above the existential experience of the world in which we find ourselves. To experience seems not quite enough for us” (39). “I suggest several theories of the genesis of art: 1. Art originates in play—in improvisation, experiment, and fantasy; it remains forever, in its deepest instincts, playful and spontaneous. . . . 2. Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in something amounting to obsession, to resist what is; to defy one’s elders. . . . 3. Art is a means of memorialization of the past; a recording of a rapidly vanishing world; a means of exorcising, at least temporarily, the ravages of homesickness. . . . 4. The artist is born damned, and struggles through his (or her) life to achieve an ever-elusive redemption, by way of art; a sense of one’s incompleteness or inadequacy fuels the instinct for ceaseless invention.” (39–40) It is fairly easy, I believe, to see the applications of these theories to the genesis of haiku. Play? Certainly. The word “haiku” has been defined as meaning, in Japanese, “playful verse.” We improvise, we try things out, we see what communicates energy and feeling to our readers. Or at least we please ourselves. As Wordsworth said, poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotion. And yes, it’s also rebellion. For every approach to haiku, there’s someone out there taking another approach, either consciously or not. Perhaps we can elect, at times, to rebel against our own proclivities and habits, to see where such rebellions might take us in our haiku. And yes, haiku memorializes our world, recording moments of history, moments of experience—and the emotions that go with them. They need not be the grandest moments, like the births, graduations, weddings, and funerals, but everyday and ordinary, like the cracking of an egg into a skillet. As Bashō put it, “Prefer vegetable broth to duck soup.” And as Kerouac said (I love to quote this), “haiku should be as simple as porridge.” These poems record the ways we were, the world as we knew it, life as it went by. We write, at least sometimes, as Oates suggests, as a way to cling to the threads of each present moment as they weave together into a tapestry of our past. And yes, some of us are damned, condemned to seek redemption, feeling the need to fill a vacancy, driven, perhaps, by a need to achieve, or overcome inadequacy. Perhaps not all of these theories apply to us as haiku writers, but perhaps they have at different times. More useful, perhaps, is the idea of trying out each of these approaches, so see what might result. To the extent that we are writers, we are surely always curious to find out what’s behind each door. “Why certain individuals appear to devote their lives to the phenomenon of interpreting experience in terms of structure, and of language, must remain a mystery. It is not an alternative to life, still less an escape from life, it is life: yet overlaid with a peculiar sort of luminosity, as if one were, and were not, fully inhabiting the present tense.” (58) The psychology of haiku poets surely can’t be boiled down to the “typical.” Nevertheless, I’ve noticed a streak of obsessiveness—or perhaps we should call it passion—in most haiku poets. Once the haiku bug bites, for some people it bites deeply. Think of Richard Wright’s feverish outpouring of more than 4,000 haiku in the last eighteen months of his life—that’s seven or eight haiku per day, every day, for that entire stretch of time—all written while he was suffering through pain, just before he died. And he’s hardly alone. Haiku are addictive, and perhaps they attract addictive personalities. Yet I agree with Oates that writing (haiku included) is not an escape from life, or an alternative to it, but it is life—in this case, the haiku life. Surely haiku poets fully inhabit the present tense, in their poems and in their close observations of life around them, natural and emotional. Haiku poets make up a fraternity, it seems to me, that dwells in the need to interpret life, in all its myriad moments, to express experience through this distinctive brand of poetry. Later, Oates says that “the impulse [to write] can rise to the level of a sacred obligation” (87). That, it seems to me, is a weighty way to approach haiku. “I think the early Surrealists were surely right: the world is a ‘forest of signs’ for us to interpret. The visual world contains ‘messages’ beneath its apparent disorder, just as meanings lie beneath the apparent disorder of the dream. Images abound to those who look with reverence, and are primed to see.” (76) Could the haiku poet be catalogued more succinctly? We are primed to see. We follow the advice of Thoreau: “It’s not what you look at that matters, but what you see.” Those who imbibe in the haiku art instinctively feel the forest of signs around us—Roland Barthes referred to Japan, the home of haiku, as the “Empire of Signs”—and we interpret these signs, these images, with reverence and wonder and awe. Perhaps we are passionate about haiku, to the point of obsessiveness, because we feel intense importance in the messages of nature and seasonal transformation beneath the world’s apparent disorder. “The epiphany has significance, of course, only in its evocation of an already existing (but undefined) interior state.” (83) For the moment, I can’t resist quoting Christian Wiman, former editor of Poetry magazine, who once said, “Nature poets can’t walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.” He seems, of course, to bemoan clichéd epiphany, or the mistaken belief that everything we encounter in nature is somehow transcendent. If we look beyond that superficiality, true epiphanies remain. Whether we catch them as haiku poets—in the product of our poems—is a separate matter. But what’s interesting here is the idea of a preexisting interior state. Haiku has been described as a genre of poetry that records what we already know, but didn’t know that we knew. External experience finds resonance in internal understanding, in contemplative recognition rather than mere observation. A page earlier, Oates quotes Joyce from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in describing the epiphany as “A sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind itself,” and in saying that “it was for the artist to record these epiphanies with extreme care, seeing that they themselves are the most delicate and evanescent of moments” (82). To this extent, perhaps haiku poets are obliged to record the moments of life, not just because the moments are delicate and evanescent, but because artists—and really all human beings—are delicate and evanescent. As Edgar Degas once put it, “The artist does not draw what he sees but what he must make others see.” As haiku poets, perhaps we are charged with a responsibility that others do not have, or cannot feel—a sacred obligation. Here I think of a poem by Naomi Beth Wakan, from her book Segues: One does not write because the goldfish play at the bottom of the waterfall, but because not everyone can see them. The central essence of haiku in Japan seems to be emphasis on life as fleeting, ephemeral. When we recognize that we too are ephemeral, we cannot help but record moments with our passionate verses to connect our own ephemerality to the ephemerality of the world. In this way haiku is a joining of internal and external states, a combination, as has been said many times, of nature with human nature. “‘All poetry is positional,’ Nabokov notes in his autobiography Speak, Memory; ‘to try to express one’s position in regard to the universe.’ . . . For Nabokov as for many writers . . . experience itself is not authentic until it has been transcribed by way of language: the writer puts his imprimatur upon his (historic) self by way of writing.” (86–87) Much has been said in an effort to define authenticity in haiku. For me, determining authenticity—or better yet, feeling it—is the reader’s job, not the writer’s. All that matters is whether the poem comes across to the reader as feeling authentic, without regard to whether the experience portrayed really happened. I believe this perspective makes some haiku poets uncomfortable. They believe they have to transcribe their experiences as truthfully and faithfully as possible. That’s any poet’s choice, but I believe there’s more to haiku than that, and that such a choice is an arbitrary and unfounded limitation upon oneself. One doesn’t have to read very far into Haruo Shirane’s Traces of Dreams to see how often Bashō rewrote “reality,” and even changed the attribution of renga verses for the sake of greater artistic effect (if Bashō felt like it, as he seemed to do on occasion, someone else was the author of your verse, not you). He was no slave to “reality.” Buson, as we know, wrote about stepping on his dead wife’s comb when she was still alive. They were both after a higher authenticity, a literary authenticity that would outlast whatever really happened. Here I think of Wallace Stegner, who said, “It is often necessary for a writer to distort the particulars of experience in order to see them better,” and John Irving, who said “The correct detail is rarely exactly what happened; the most truthful detail is what could have happened, or what should have.” In transcribing experience, the poet therefore takes a “position” on the experience. The poet chooses to focus on this, not that. The subject is seen from here, at this time of day, in this way—the way a photograph is taken from this vantage point, with this lens, with these exposure settings that reflect the photographer’s choices and skills. As Ansel Adams once said, “A good photograph is knowing where to stand.” It is not just an experience itself, somehow disembodied, but the poet’s experience, the photographer’s vision. The author plays a part in creating authenticity. I think it is the reader’s job, too, to be sensitive to what the poet’s experience is in the poem, and not for the reader to assume or insist that his or her own perspective should change or colour the poet’s. As John Ruskin once said, “Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.” “Without . . . rushes of feeling, private and untrammeled, there can’t be creativity. And yet, inspiration and energy and even genius are rarely enough to make ‘art’: for [writing] is also a craft, and craft must be learned, whether by accident or design.” (94) I love to quote E. E. Cummings, who said “since feeling is first.” He meant, of course, that the emotion of writing should have prime regard—for both the writer and reader. But he did not say emotion should be the only regard. Likewise, beyond the rushes of feeling that give rise to creativity—those spontaneous overflows of powerful emotion—something else is necessary to make art. Oates would not have us fly off into a netherworld of idealized beauty and transcendence. Writing is hard work. Butt in the chair. Fingers on the keyboard. Go. Revise. Repeat. Repeat again. Inspiration meets craft, moving the private to the public. Near the beginning of The Faith of a Writer, Oates noted the importance of reading, to read widely. That’s a step to take. Another step is to learn craft. Do we know our grammar? Do we really know what a syllable is? Can we avoid dangling modifiers or subject-verb disagreements? Professional writers have this under control. Do we know style, and styles? Do we catch ourselves in our habits? Can we control objectivity and subjectivity in our writing? Do we know how to avoid passive voice, or how to restructure a sentence to put words in the strongest points of emphasis? Do we have an ear for the sound of words, the beauty they make as they riffle and rifle into our ears? Can we control alliteration and assonance and consonance, and know when—and when not—to employ metaphor and simile? Do we understand the difference? The seasoned writer knows these matters of craft, often by deliberate study, or at least accidental learning, and the respected and professional writer does not make amateur mistakes. What kind of writer do we want to be? “Is there any moral to be drawn from this compendium, any general proposition? If so, it’s a simple one: Read widely, read enthusiastically, be guided by instinct and not design. For if you read, you need not become a writer; but if you hope to become a writer, you must read.” (110) Near the end of her book, Joyce Carol Oates returns to the same advice with which she began: Read widely. It is the only way to be able to write widely, too. “The most accomplished art may be to disguise ‘art’ altogether.” (115) The seeming artlessness of haiku is legend. Here Roland Barthes comes to mind again: “haiku has this rather fantasmagorical property: that we always suppose we ourselves can write such things easily.” Haiku poets themselves are not deceived (and deceit is not really the relevant term), but casual readers might think that these little “gems” of observation are dashed off and easy to create. But we who write haiku know better. As Thomas Mann once put it, “A writer is someone for whom writing is harder than for other people.” “The goal for the writer is to fully realize his or her material: to discover the ideal balance between fluidity of narration and background exposition, description, and amplification.” (121) Oates is addressing fiction more than poetry here, but many of the same ideas apply—to fully realize our material. Images, moments, impressions, emotion. Do we do the best that’s possible with them? Do we strike the right tone? Provide enough information, and not too much? Does the poem have depth through allusion or overtone? Is the wording fluid and natural and beautiful? Has the poem found its ideal form, organic or otherwise? Has each poem found its own internal balance? She refers also to Ernest Hemingway’s admiration for “grace under pressure.” She says that “grace is what we might call fluidity, smoothness, ‘inevitability’ of narration, and pressure is the need to keep the story as tightly crafted, as pared to the essentials, as possible” (121). Surely haiku, too, has the same goal in full realization. “It’s at the juncture of private vision and the wish to create a communal, public vision that art and craft merge.” (126) Many haiku poets, or those with a bent toward open form and Zen, are of the persuasion that process is all that matters in poetry. I’m of a different persuasion, or at least slightly different. I feel that good process yields good product, and that a point arises in each writer’s craft where he or she must shift from emphasizing process to emphasizing product. This is how something gets done, how a poem or a novel comes to a conclusion and reaches finality. The audience is clarified, the ideas are refined, the spelling is corrected, the piece reaches a point of completion. As Yeats said, “A successful poem will come shut with a click, like a closing box.” This conclusion is both intuitive and strived for. The point here is that “art” can be seen as private, whereas “craft” is public. “Art” respects the self, and “craft” respects the audience. In terms of poetry, including haiku, art and craft come together at some point, and it’s the writer’s duty (with an editor’s help, perhaps) to merge the two—moving, as Oates says, from private vision to a public communal vision. This migration might be considered, even, as a move from the selfish to the selfless. In moving from private vision (initial experience or impression) to public vision, haiku go through a process of crafting and revision, transforming the particular into the universal, and of becoming fit for consumption. They need not lose the author’s distinctive voice or personality in the slightest, and should not become merely “packaged,” but they should, I believe, take the audience into account, and respect the role the audience plays in receiving any work of art. There are plenty of artists who please themselves, and trust that their work will find its audience, and that approach has its role to play in haiku, too, but in many cases a poem can be improved by giving the audience some consideration—that’s something that matters. If we do not have some inkling of the potential public vision of and for our poems—so long as we avoid proselytization and overreaching—they cannot achieve the successful transfer of energy that Charles Olson would have our best poems achieve. At the very end of The Faith of a Writer, Joyce Carol Oates notes the following, a point that extends the preceding thoughts on process and product: “In movies, as in art, it isn’t what goes in, but what comes out, that matters. Your process of, for instance, acting, or writing, is not important, only what it leads you to matters. And the process, mysteriously, would seem to have little to do with that final product” (150). Indeed, with haiku, as with other writing, it hardly matters where the poem came from. What matters is where it goes, who it touches, and how. This is the faith not just of fiction writers such as Joyce Carol Oates, but the faith of haiku writers, too.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2083
__label__wiki	0.787281	0.787281	David Manson RAY VILLADONGA (ON THE RIGHT), PERFORMING WITH mifu (MOBILE ITINERANT FUNK UNIT) AT GASP! It's been a pleasure... November 23, 2017 / David Manson It has been a pleasure and an honor to be a recipient of an Creative Pinellas Individual Artist Fellowship this year. I composed and recorded 14 jazz works for my Brazilian jazz group O Som Do Jazz, as well as writing, then performing two jazz big band charts with the 17-member Helios Jazz Orchestra. I continue to compose my orchestral work with the hopes that I can complete it in the spring and present it to local orchestras for possible performance next season. The 2018 St. Petersburg Jazz Festival is February 21-25. I started the jazz festival 10 years ago and it grows larger every year. The lineup includes the original compositions by the Tal Cohen trio, Jeff Rupert Quintet with Veronica Swift, B3 Fury with the Shawn Brown Quintet, The Helios Jazz Orchestra with singers Whitney James & Chuck Wansley and Latin Jazz with the Gabriel Hernandez Trio. All of our concerts are at the Palladium Theater and Palladium Theater Side Door venues. Our jazz festival is designed to provide a optimum environment for listeners of jazz. You won't find food trucks, stadium seating or massive columns of speakers at the St. Petersburg Jazz Festival. What you will find is an intimate concert experience with pure sound quality and a great appreciation of the jazz artists performing. Here are the artists that we are featuring: Tal Cohen Trio - Wednesday, February 21 7:30 PM at the Side Door at the Palladium Theater Tal Cohen was born in Gedera, Israel and owes his musical roots to the Jewish folk songs and classical music he played in his formative years there. He moved to Perth, Australia as a teenager and earned a bachelor’s and masters degree in Jazz Performance at the prestigious Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Cohen has performed at the Melbourne, Australia Jazz Festival, performed a number of shows with world-renowned saxophonist Joe Lovano at the inaugural Perth International Jazz Festival and was chosen to be a semi-finalist in the Wangaratta Jazz Festival’s 2013 piano competition, Australia’s most renowned jazz competition. In 2014, Tal Cohen was named the Grand Prize Winner in the prestigious Barry Harris National Jazz Piano Competition in Detroit, Michigan, receiving first place and gaining an opportunity to perform his music at the Main Stage in the 2014 Detroit Jazz Festival accompanied by bassist Robert Hurst and drummer Nate Winn. Cohen recently graduated from the University of Miami School of Music, where he received a full scholarship and teaching assistant-ship while completing his Master’s degree under the mentorship of Martin Bejerano. The trio is Tal Cohen-piano, Dion Kerr-bass and David Chiverton-drums. Jeff Rupert Quintet with Veronica Swift - Thursday, February 22 People are still talking about this all-star jazz group from last year's show at the Palladium! At age 23, Veronica Swift is now being recognized around the country as one of the top young jazz singers on the scene. In the fall of 2015, she won second place at the prestigious Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition. In 2016 she was asked to perform a concert of her own at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York City and she was a guest artist with Michael Feinstein at Jazz at Lincoln Center with the Tedd Firth Big Band and Marilyn Maye and Freda Payne. Veronica’s first appearance at Jazz at Lincoln Center was at age 11 when she performed at the “Women in Jazz” series at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola. In the summer of 2016 she headlined at the Telluride Jazz Festival, her 10th appearance there – but her first as a headliner. She first appeared there at age 10 with Dave Adams’ Young Razzcals Jazz Project and the great saxophonist Richie Cole and later she sang a duet with the featured artist, Paquito d’Rivera. A YAMAHA performing artist, Jeff Rupert has performed at the Blue Note, Birdland, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Tokyo Forum, the National concert hall of Taipei, Taiwan, and jazz festivals in Europe, Israel, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. The group includes Jeff Rupert- tenor sax, Veronica Swift- vocals, Marty Morell- drums, Richard Drexler- piano & Ben Kramer- bass. B3 Fury with the Shawn Brown Quintet - Friday, There is nothing like the sound of a moaning B3... particularly in the hands of Shawn Brown, master of the Hammond B3. Shawn has shared the stage with Al Green, Clarence Clemons, Christopher Cross, Earth Wind & Fire, Keith Sweat, Ronnie Earl, Lucky Peterson, Little Milton and Percy Sledge. He is joined by local great jazz artists. Join us in the cabaret setting of the Side Door for this exceptional show with Shawn Brown and band members. General admission is $20. Presented by EMIT. The Helios Jazz Orchestra with Whitney James & Chuck Wansley - Saturday, February 24 7:30 PM at the Palladium Theater There is nothing like the sound of two great singers and a roaring, 17-piece jazz big band! Chuck Wansley began his professional singing and performing career at age 18 on an extended world tour with Up With People. In the early 80s he signed first with Prism Records and then Motown, as a founding member of the urban techno band WARP-9, performing live and producing two albums. Chuck then moved to Los Angeles and matured into a dynamic performer, easily conveying a range of musical styles from Frank Sinatra and Harry Connick, to Fatboy Slim and Maroon 5. Chuck has performed from Connecticut to Napa, Los Angeles to Paris & Prague, along with numerous solo appearances in Japan. Whitney James spent about a decade performing on both coasts of the country before she went to New York to record “The Nature of Love.” When her debut album came out in 2010 it was if a new vocalist had appeared on the jazz scene. Jazz critics loved it! The reviews led to James being featured last year on the popular NPR program “Piano Jazz: Rising Stars” with host Jon Weber accompanying her on piano. Marian McPartland, the 95-year-old Grammy-winning jazz pianist-composer and original host of “Piano Jazz,” had read about James’ debut album, acquired a copy and then suggested the producers spotlight her. The Helios Jazz Orchestra is a 17-piece jazz big band directed by David Manson. The group has been featured twice on the Clearwater Jazz Holiday, Ybor Jazz Fest and is ensemble-in-residence at St. Petersburg College. Gabriel Hernandez Trio Gabriel Hernandez Trio - Sunday, February 25 7:30 PM in the Side Door Real Latin jazz has a feel and a groove, all its own! Cuban jazz pianist Gabriel Hernandez has shared the stage with Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Ray Charles. Gene Pearl, Tito Puente, Bob Sheppar, Roy Hargrove, Arturo Sandoval, Paquito D'Rivera, Greg Fishman, among others. His own band “Fervet Opus” participated in various international jazz festivals including Montreal, Montreux, Jambori in Poland, Yugoslavia jazz festival, fest Danube etc. He was part of the project of the famous jazz singer and blues NY, Tomas Leon, at the same time he played with the famous Dizzy Gillespie. Apart from his career as a jazz soloist, he performs with the “AFROCUBAN All Stars” directed by Juan Gonzales Frames, which has perfomed all over the world in different festivals. He is also pianist with “Cubanismo”, orchestrated by Master Jesus Alemani. Bassist, composer, producer, and educator, Mauricio J Rodriguez is one of the finest musicians of his generation in Cuba. He was member of Fervet Opus jazz quartet, one of the most important Latin jazz bands in Cuba in the 80’s, touring around the world to many festivals and concert including The Havana Latin Jazz Festival, Jamboree, Bratislava, Spain, and Moscow, among others. Dimas Sanchez is a Pearl Percussionist Artist. His musical styles include; Jazz (American and Latin), Bomba and Plena (from Puerto Rico), Salsa, Samba, Bossa Nova, Blues, Rock, Afro-Cuban and World Music. He has accompanied and performed with artists and groups including; David Sanchez , Giovanni Hidalgo, Eddie “GuaGua” Rivera, Milly Puente, John Benitez, Richie Flores, Juancito Torres, Angel "Cachete" Maldonado, Anthony Carrillo, Gabriel Hernandez, Edsel Gomez, "La Familia Cepeda", Lucecita Benitez, Chuchito Valdes and Tito Puente Jr among others. November 23, 2017 / David Manson/ Some Samples of My Projects...	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2087
__label__wiki	0.562174	0.562174	Why do Indians have a red dot? The red dot, or Bindi as it is known, has a deep and significant importance in the Indian culture. However, it is also commonly used as a decoration or an accessory. Cultures evolve. This is especially true of a culture that is thousands of years old. Likewise, the function and purpose of a bindi has changed over the years from an object with religious significance to something with cultural importance to a decorative accessory. In the Vedas, the region between the eyebrows has a significant importance. According to the Vedas, this region is aid to represent the sixth sense, known as chakra or ajna. It is the place of the third eye which allows us to see the world and everything in it with a concealed wisdom. The bindi is put in this region as it is considered to retain energy and strengthen the concentration. It was also a way to worship one’s intellect. It was also a physical representation of the third eye. This is also why it is commonly used by both men and women, even though they have different styles. The ‘bindi’ is also commonly known as 'tika', 'pottu', 'sindoor', 'tilak', 'tilakam', and 'kumkum'. It is commonly worn in South Asia, particularly India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Mauritius, as well as Southeast Asia. After hundreds of years of use as a religious emblem, it also became one of cultural importance. Many regions adapted the bindi and formed their own cultural significance around it. All gurus and aged wise men traditionally wear huge tilaks (an elongated bindi) to signify their wisdom. Similarly, all wise women and matriarchs also wear the traditional bindi. In some cultures all women wear the bindi, whereas in others only married women do. Likewise, all men might, or only married men might. In some cultures, it must be worn everyday single day as a rule, whereas in others, it might only be worn on special occasions or functions. Eventually after thousands of years, the bindi has taken a life of its own. Today, there are three main groups: one that wears bindis everyday, another where it worn only on special and traditional occasions, and a third, who never wears it at all. The bindi has now been changed from a cultural and religious object to an aesthetic one. It is commonly used today by all groups, men, women, other, and by South Asians and non South Asians alike. The bindis have grown and adapted to become a cosmetic accessory. It has also changed from the traditional red dot to a multitude of designs and colors. For ease of use, there are many different forms of sticker bindis available. These sticker bindis come with their own adhesive, all one has to do is peel it of the plastic and place it on their forehead. Sticker bindis come in many colors, designs, materials, and sizes. Some are decorated with sequins, glass beads, or rhinestones. They are also being used as style statements. Many international celebrities such as Gwen Stefani, Julia Roberts, Madonna, Selena Gomez and others have been seen wearing bindis and incorporating them as well as other Indian styles and iconography in their outfits, and work, such as videos and performances. Image Courtesy Meaning of ASL in Chat Why do people bite their nails? Meaning of Pragmatic Meaning of Daydream Euthanasia: Pros and Cons What is EMI? Meaning of EMI. Example of Future Tense Example of Resume About Rajya Sabha Meaning of Cupid Meaning of Pedantic How to make your resume more effective? Meaning of Cherry Picking English Cricket Healthy Living Interesting Facts Health Grammar Indian Politics India Sports Science Geography Internet Who is When is Fitness Example of What is How to Unhealthy Meaning of Why do Where is Travel Politics	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2088
__label__cc	0.590929	0.409071	Janus II The Janus supercomputer is a modular, massively parallel, and reconfigurable FPGA-based computing system for High Performance Scientific Computing. The JanusII Special Purpose Computer is the new generation supercomputer located at BIFI. As its predecessor Janus, JanusII was designed as a multipurpose reprogramable supercomputer, also based on reconfigurable FPGA processors. Janus special purpose computer family has been so far devoted to the study and simulation of spin glasses, paradigm of complex systems. The Janus Collaboration team has participated in several scientific projects related with dedicated supercomputers. The Janus researchers have a large experience in the special purpose computers design and development during the last 20 years x Previous x Next Computers have become an essential tool in our quotidian lives. Very simple daily mundane activities as buying a train ticket or sending someone a message require the use of conventional computers. Of course, they play a very important role in more difficult tasks, as bank transfers for instance... On the other hand, computers have also made possible many advances in Science and nowadays are patently present in a very wide set of different scientific areas. Indeed, many institutions around the World spend a huge amount of money and human effort to build clusters of computers (see for example, www.top500.org/lists/ for a detailed ranked list of the most powerful supercomputers in the World). For some specific problems, conventional computers are not enough. They would spend thousands of years to perform some particular calculations. So in the framework of supercomputation one finds the Special Purpose Computers, which are developed and designed to perform any concrete heavy calculation. In our Institute we have two special purpose computers. The first one, called Janus, was developed and designed in the last first decade of this century, being fully operative in 2008. More recently, the Janus Collaboration designed a second Janus generation machine called JanusII, that is at Bifi from end July 2013. In order to have more details regarding both special purpose computers, please click on the following: View introduction... Contacts The Janus Special Purpose Computer It takes the name from the ancient Roman god of gates and doors, of beginnings and endings, of passages and time, usually represented by two faces, one looking to the past, another one to future. After a gestation period of around two years, Janus was born in 2008 thanks to a very successful scientific collaboration between researchers from BIFI and the Universidad de Zaragoza, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad de Extremadura, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" and Università di Ferrara. The Janus II Special Purpose Computer JanusII was born during the summer of 2013 as the second high challenging project of the Janus Collaboration. These researchers from Spain and Italy (BIFI, Universidad de Zaragoza, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad de Extremadura, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" and Università di Ferrara) went an step further in the development and design of the new supercomputer respect its predecessor. Janus in phys.org JanusII in phys.org ! ++I Janus on the media Prof. Juan Jesús Ruiz-Lorenzo's article on the "Muy Interesante" scientific dissemination journal FDT data See our recent work about FDT using JANUS II on JANUSII/Publications International contest searching for scientific proposals to be developed in the Janus supercomputer. [1] R. Pearson, J. Richardson, D. Toussaint, A Special Purpose Machine for Monte Carlo Simulations, tech. report NSF-ITP-81-139, Inst. Theoretical Physics, Univ. California, Santa Barbara, 1981. [2] J.H. Condon, A.T. Ogielski, Rev. Sci. Instruments 56 (1985) 1691–1696; A.T. Ogielski, Phys. Rev. B 32 (1985) 7384–7398. [3] “The RTN Collaboration,” Proc. Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 92 (CHEP), CERN, 1992. [4] A. Cruz et al., “SUE: A Special Purpose Computer for Spin Glass Models,” Computer Physics Comm., vol. 133, nos. 2–3, 2001, pp. 165–176. [5] Janus Collaboration, "Ianus: an Adpative FPGA Computer.", Computing in Science & Engineering, January/February 2006, Volume 8, N 1, p. 41. [6] Janus Collaboration, "Simulating spin systems on IANUS, an FPGA-based computer.", Computer Physics Communications 178 (3), p.208-216, (2008). [7] Janus Collaboration, "JANUS: an FPGA-based System for High Performance Scientific Computing", Computing in Science & Engineering 11-1, 48-58 (2009). Janus Supercomputer Open Janus Special Purpose Computer now available for scientist !!! Download all details here. If you missed the previous call, do not worry! There will be another one next year. Just send us your application as soon as you are ready.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2090
__label__cc	0.710161	0.289839	Lloyd Averill THE LOGOS Penned in 2002 at 84 years of age What is today's significance of John's use of the word LOGOS as found in his Gospel, John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word (LOGOS), and the Word (LOGOS) was with God, and the Word (LOGOS) was God? He continues in John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us..." and, in so writing, gave us the great truth of the incarnation. Other than that, we know little of the fullness of this Greek word LOGOS apart from the research of scholars who have investigated the Greek meaning of the word as John would have used it in the day in which he lived and wrote. Two of the Gospels give a genealogy of Jesus, i.e. Matthew and Luke, established on the Hebrew record back to God's creation of Adam. Mark gives no genealogy but refers in his opening verse to “the prophets”, i.e. the inspired record in Jewish history of the dealings of God with His ancient people. None of the above would have particular significance to the Grecian audience who based their beliefs on their philosophers without any reference whatever to Hebrew history, particularly from the viewpoint of it being an answer to the origin of the universe and of the deep questions concerning man himself. This must have exercised the mind of Paul when he went to such Grecian audiences as recorded in Acts 17. He would know that his message to the Jews in the synagogue at Antioch in Pisidia, recorded in Acts 13, would have no relevance to the Greeks of Athens. Therefore he must find another approach. He immediately appeals to the fact of creation in Acts 17:24 The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. He then makes reference to one of their own prophets and reasons that therefore gods of silver and gold, graven by art and man's device, cannot be an image of the living God. Acts 17:29 Therefore since we are God's offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone — an image made by man's design and skill. Athens is not regarded as one of the great missionary conquests of the Apostle Paul. However the fact that certain men believed and that others said in Acts 17:32 ..."We want to hear you again on this subject." shows the effectiveness of his approach to the Grecian audience as opposed to the usual Hebrew approach which could reliably be on the basis of history and prophetic revelation. Before proceeding with this brief study into the word LOGOS, we might ask ourselves whether we have any modern parallels. In the western world, we have practically a new culture compared to fifty years ago which is permeated with many philosophical ideas and occult practices that would make a given audience at a public gathering for general interest, in broad religious concepts, almost a parallel of Athens long ago. It may be that we would be well advised to study John's concept of the LOGOS. We would define LOGOS as the life-giving principle that permeates all things. Barclay quotes Plato as saying that it was God's LOGOS which kept the planets on their courses and brought back the seasons and the years in their appointed times. The Stoics who were prominent at Athens (Acts 17) stated that “the times, the seasons, the tides, the stars in their courses were ordered by the LOGOS. It was the LOGOS that put sense into the world”. The Stoics also stated that the mind of man himself was a little portion of this LOGOS, stating further that reason is nothing else than a part of the Divine Spirit immersed in the human body. Seneca, a Roman statesman and philosopher, 65AD, perhaps building on the ideas of the earlier Greeks, said, “It was the LOGOS which put sense into the universe and sense into man, and this LOGOS was nothing other than the mind of God”. William Barclay then introduces Philo of Alexandria. This man was a Jew who was a contemporary of the times of Jesus. He is recorded in 40AD as being a member of a Jewish deputation who met the Roman Emperor concerning Jewish persecution. He was one of the early minds attempting to bridge Greek philosophy and Jewish morality. His concept of the divine Word or LOGOS unites Greek and Hebrew ideas, combining the universal permeation and the exclusiveness which produced the Jewish nation and ultimately the Messiah. In Philo, we have a Jew who is a Christian, developing the LOGOS so that prejudice against Greek philosophers is removed and the LOGOS made worthy of investigation. The idea of the LOGOS being a universal expression of all things need not produce any fear of Pantheism because, in that teaching, all creation is god, making no distinction between the creation and its Creator, thus lending itself to the worship of individual parts of Creation, i.e. mountains, trees, holy places, rivers etc. When John used LOGOS to interpret Christ, he was already proof from Pantheism, being an orthodox Jew instructed in the unity of the Godhead. Furthermore we need not be afraid of the statement of the Stoics, “The mind of man is himself a little portion of the LOGOS”, as impinging on the doctrine of the fall of man. The fact that all humans, sinner and saint alike, live because of the breath of life from God which is in their nostrils, makes them all a part of God’s creatorship but does not bring them salvation which must be by the new birth through faith alone in Jesus Christ. John 1:9 The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world. While to John is reckoned the discovery of the LOGOS, there is no doubt that Paul knew of this revelation by his words in Col 1:17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. Phillips translation says it like this - “He is both the first principle and the upholding principle of the whole scheme of creation.” The Amplified says it like this - “By Him all things cohere or are held together.” The Hebrew epistle leaves no doubt in the words of Heb 1:3 The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word... Acts 17:28 'For in him we live and move and have our being.' When these words are compared with the foregoing statements of Plato, Seneca and the Stoics, we have a remarkable similarity even though they are each coming from a different source. It is readily agreed that the above Scriptures refer to Christ’s power in His Church but the Colossian epistle repeats the words, “all things” four times. Col 1:16-17 For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. undoubtedly having reference to the totality of Creation. Christ is still the LOGOS that John saw and understood. Whereas the Greeks’ understanding was largely philosophical dreams, in Christ they become concrete reality and help us to move from the sometimes limited idea of sanctuary living into the dominion of the market place and world domination. The LOGOS is not confined to some constructed idea of what is spiritual and what is not. Our concepts of Jesus Christ have been circumscribed by creeds and formulas, all of which were necessary at the time to combat Arianism, Gnosticism and such like errors and are still necessary as occasion demands. However we suggest that an investigation into the great truths of the LOGOS would produce a more positive result in meeting the mind of our day. Someone has said, “If you say ‘Yes’ to Jesus, the universe will say ‘Yes’ to you”. (author unknown) Before thinking about possible errors concerning that statement, let us ask first of all, “Is there any relationship between Jesus and the universe?” The answer is, of course, “yes”. John 1:3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. Let’s go back to Col 1:17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. The connection between Jesus and the universe is total and complete. What other evidence is there that the LOGOS, Christ Himself, applies to all mankind and all matter? Mark 1:13 and he was in the desert for forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him. Mark 4:41 They were terrified and asked each other, "Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!" Luke 13:7-9 So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, 'For three years now I've been coming to look for fruit on this fig-tree and haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?' "'Sir,' the man replied, 'leave it alone for one more year, and I'll dig round it and fertilise it. If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down.'". This verse is cited as evidence of Christ’s knowledge of growth with all of the whole creation which He had made. Isa 55:12 You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. says the prophet and, even though poetic, it spoke clearly of the creative universe responding to the spiritual blessing of the Creator God (Jesus) upon His people. If the ancient philosophers and thinkers stumbled on the truth in their concepts of the LOGOS, would it be irreverent to say that Jesus keeps the planets in their courses and brings back the seasons and the years in their appointed time? In J.B.Phillips’ book, “Your God Is Too Small”, he explored many of the mean concepts we have of the risen Christ. We should not forget that Israel also limited the Holy One of Israel. Perhaps instead of shutting our eyes and trying to conjure up a big God in our finite imagination, we would do well to bravely consider the LOGOS and some of the light given by ancient thinkers to help us into, not an imaginary bigness, but a truly intellectual enlargement of who our Saviour Jesus Christ really is. Bibliography:“New Testament Words”, Wm. Barclay. SCM Press Ltd., London 1964. © 2018 JOY GRAETZ. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2101
__label__cc	0.551407	0.448593	Home / Community / Streets of Limerick / O’Connell Street Limerick O’Connell Street Limerick Joe Taylor / March 31, 2012 Leave a Comment O’Connell Street was named after Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847), who in 1829, after the Catholic Emancipation Bill had been signed by King George IV, became the first Catholic to sit in the British House of Commons since the Reformation. Because he had initiated and led this campaign, he became known as “The Liberator”. It is interesting to note that the O’Connell Monument in the Crescent was unveiled in 1857, some sixty years before the change of the street name. [streetview width=”100%” height=”250px” lat=”52.662475″ lng=”-8.628179000000046″ heading=”0″ pitch=”0″ zoom=”1″][/streetview] Deaths in Limerick – February 9, 2018 The death has occurred of James Quish, of Portboy, Herbertstown, LimerickFormerly of Presentation Close, Hospital, Co. Limerick & resident of Beechlodge Care Centre Bruree, Co. Limerick.James passed away peacefully at the University Hospital Limerick on February 8, 2018. He is survived by … [Read More...] Munster draw with Ospreys at Thomond Park March 3, 2013 By Joe Taylor Leave a Comment MUNSTER drew with the Ospreys 13-13 Saturday at Thomond Park. A try from Damien Varley and eight points from the boot of Ronan O'Gara were not … [Read More...] Overwhelming support for Limerick councillor battling disease HUGE crowds at a 5k walk showed Cllr Mary Harty she has the community’s support for every step of her battle with motor neurone disease. … [Read More...] Open verdict in case of Limerick student’s sudden death THE INQUEST into the death of 20-year-old Limerick student Denisse Kyle Dasco returned an open verdict after it was told that the cause of her death remains unknown.The Coroner’s Court in Cork heard that the circumstance were very complex and unusual, and that a number of medical experts had … [Read More...] Radio Daze October 3, 2010 By John Johnston Leave a Comment The working conditions in the early days of pirate radio during the 70s and 80s in Limerick were, to be honest, very basic in some stations. I remember as a presenter in a certain Radio Station that is still broadcasting, but from a better location, being highly embarrassed by having to escort … [Read More...] Therapeutic effects of Irish set dancing in the treatment of Parkinsons An Italian Doctor’s chance discovery of the therapeutic effects of Irish set dancing in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease will be the subject of an international Gathering event in Co. Clare next month. Dr Daniel Volpe who is the Director of Neurological Rehabilitation at St. Raffaele … [Read More...] Government fund initiative to help people avoid money lenders March 17, 2014 By Joe Taylor Leave a Comment The Government is examining the possibility of setting up a fund to provide small loans to help people avoid illegal moneylenders. According to a Department of Finance spokesperson, more people are driven into the hands of moneylenders due to their difficulty in getting loans from banks and … [Read More...]	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2107
__label__wiki	0.848435	0.848435	Aid, Development & Aid, Featured, Food & Agriculture, Headlines, Humanitarian Emergencies, TerraViva United Nations South Sudan Declares Famine, Other Countries May Follow Warns UNICEF By Lyndal Rowlands Reprint \| \| Print \| Refugees dig for water in a dried up watering hole in Jamam camp, in South Sudan's Upper Nile state. Credit: Jared Ferrie/IPS UNITED NATIONS, Feb 21 2017 (IPS) - South Sudan Monday became the first country to declare famine since 2012, as UNICEF warned that 1.4 million children are at risk of dying from starvation with famine also imminent in Nigeria, Somalia, and Yemen. Protracted conflict is the root cause of the food crises in all four countries, reflecting the reality that famine is more often than not man-made. The South Sudanese government declared famine on Monday after its monitoring system found that some 100,000 people may die from starvation, while a further one million are on the brink of famine. “We can still save many lives. The severe malnutrition and looming famine are largely man-made,” said UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake. “Our common humanity demands faster action. We must not repeat the tragedy of the 2011 famine in the Horn of Africa,” said Lake. Others also described the disaster as man-made calling for an end to ongoing fighting to allow for food to be distributed. "They’ve lost their livestock, even their farming tools. For months there has been a total reliance on whatever plants they can find and fish they can catch," -- FAO Representative in South Sudan Serge Tissot. “WFP and the entire humanitarian community have been trying with all our might to avoid this catastrophe,” said World Food Program (WFP) Country Director Joyce Luma. “But we have also warned that there is only so much that humanitarian assistance can achieve in the absence of meaningful peace and security.” FAO Representative in South Sudan Serge Tissot described how South Sudan’s people who are predominantly farmers “have exhausted every means they have to survive.” “They’ve lost their livestock, even their farming tools. For months there has been a total reliance on whatever plants they can find and fish they can catch,” said Tissot. Emma Jane Drew, Oxfam’s Humanitarian Programme Manager in South Sudan also described the famine as “a man-made tragedy.” “People have been pushed to the brink of surviving on what they can find to eat in swamps,” said Drew. “We need an end to the fighting so that we can get food to those that urgently need it and provide them with support to rebuild their shattered lives.” According to a joint statement from The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme (WFP): “A formal famine declaration means people have already started dying of hunger.” The worst affected area is Unity State is in the northern-central part of the South Sudan, which was formed when it gained independence from Sudan in 2011. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said that fighting in the area has made it impossible for them to open a hospital. “The extreme level of violence has had a severe impact on people’s ability to meet basic needs such as safe drinking water, food supplies, shelter and health care,” said Nicolas Peissel, MSF project coordinator. “People have lost everything and struggle every day to survive.” Follow @https://twitter.com/LyndalRowlands United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2111
__label__wiki	0.776224	0.776224	Sean Mc Manus with Mario Biaggi and Robert Blancato in 1987. UDA member speaks out about threats and criminality Posted By: November 15, 2016 The UDA member claimed the paramilitary group was heavily involved in serious crime in the south east Antrim area BBC NI. Monday, November 14, 2016 A member of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) has come forward to speak about how difficult it is to leave the paramilitary organization. The man told BBC News NI he cannot get out because of intimidation and threats from those at the top of the UDA. He also gave an insight into the amount of serious crime the group is involved in, including drugs and extortion. The UDA man spoke to BBC News NI’s Kevin Magee but has not been named in order to protect him from reprisals. Asked why he cannot just walk away from the illegal loyalist paramilitary organization, the man said: “It’s not as simple as that. That’s not the way it works.” He added: “It’s hard to explain to people the threat level they have against you and your family. If you walk away, they’ll torture the life out of you . “They will damage your property. They’ll attack members of your family, they’ll attack you. It’s impossible. You just can’t get out.” The man claimed the UDA controlled “100%” of an illegal drugs network in south east Antrim He said there were about 2,000 members of the UDA in the south east Antrim area and that the paramilitary group controls “all the criminal activity” that goes on in the local towns. “Anybody that deals drugs, must go through the UDA, they must buy them from the UDA,” he said. “If they are not a member of the UDA , then they’re taxed – so that they have to pay the UDA a certain percentage of the money that they get from them. “Any stealing that goes on, if there are any break-ins in businesses or whatever, they take a cut of the money.” He said UDA members do not carry weapons but have them stashed away where they “can get their hands on them within 20 minutes or half an hour”. The member claimed that many of these were guns left over from the “so-called decommissioning” of paramilitary weapons earlier in the peace process. “They kept all the good weapons,” the man said. “They only destroyed rubbish – rusty ones, ones that had been used on jobs and they bought some newer weapons from drug gangs in Manchester.” Asked why he had changed his mind about being a member of the paramilitary group, the man said: “They’re a criminal gang. They have no interest in Ulster or politics or anything else. “They just want to make money and I’m fed up with it. They are just gangsters. “They control an area from Whitewell, right down as far as Larne, that takes in Rathcoole, Monkstown, all of Carrickfergus and Whitehead.” He claimed the UDA controlled “100%” of an illegal drugs network in south east Antrim but said he felt he could not report the crimes he witnessed to the police. “If you went to do something like that you would be classed as an informer – you would have to leave the country, your life would be in danger. “That would be the end of your life, living on some Army barracks in England in some safe house. That is no life, and if you left… they would target your family.” Alliance MLA Stewart Dickson said there was what he described as a “distrust of police in many of these communities.” Former Ass Ch Con Alan McQuillan said the claims in the interview did not surprise him in “the slightest”. “They’ve been doing it for 30 years. But I would argue there isn’t a UDA anymore. “The UDA was an organisation that existed at the start of the Troubles. It then broke up into criminal gangs. “When you talk about engaging with the UDA, it’s pointless. You’re engaging with criminal barons. “This is confined to, I would guess, about four areas of Northern Ireland: Two or three areas in Belfast, south east Antrim, maybe a little bit in Derry. “Those are the areas the UDA have any presence. It’s not province-wide.” Mr McQuillan said “radical measures” should be considered to tackle the problem. “We need to consider, when they’ve living in public housing, moving them out of the area, and banning them from living in the area because of their influence in organised crime groups in that area. “You can’t do this at the moment. “	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2113
__label__cc	0.572916	0.427084	Stories from Friday, March 29, 2002 Local voters say they will turn out at polls (Local News ~ 03/29/02) It is election time again and there are several issues on the ballot in Saline County. Voters will be asked to make their selections on April 2 about school boards, city councils, establishing a levy for a county public health department and the formation of a rural fire protection district... Marshall pounded by Lady 'Cats (High School Sports ~ 03/29/02) BLUE SPRINGS -- During the relatively short life of its girls' soccer program, Marshall has seldom had much luck when playing Kansas City-area Class AAAA opponents. That status didn't change during the Lady Owls' trip to Blue Springs on Thursday. Although Marshall's defense had played strongly during a pair of double-overtime matches to begin the season, it was overwhelmed by the Lady Wildcats, 8-0... Owls hammer Odessa, 23-4 (High School Sports ~ 03/29/02) ODESSA -- Powerful Odessa baseball teams have handed Marshall some frustrating losses the last couple of years, but the Owls had the juice Thursday. Marshall hit five homers in the Bulldogs' cozy park to set a school scoring record during a 23-4, five-inning non-conference blowout. Sophomore Jonathan Durham belted a pair of dingers during the Owls' 10-run second inning... Prep Scoreboard for Thursday, March 28 (High School Sports ~ 03/29/02) BASEBALL (Non-conference) Marshall 23, at Odessa 4 (5) at Kirksville 18, Highland 0 (5) Fulton 6, at Centralia 2 Salisbury 11, at Higbee 1 (5) ------------------------------ GIRLS' SOCCER (Non-conference) at Blue Springs 8, Marshall 0 Hannibal 0, at StL-McCluer 0... Lady Vikings squeeze out two wins (High School Sports ~ 03/29/02) If Missouri Baptist College athletes choose not to vacation at Marshall's Indian Foothills Park, it's perfectly understandable. For the second time in as many days, a team from the St. Louis school lost a pair of one-run diamond decisions Thursday, the Lady Spartans' softball squad beaten by Missouri Valley 1-0 and 3-2 in eight innings in the Lyon Bowl... Take time for civic duty (Editorial ~ 03/29/02) In just a few days it is time once again to select local citizens to serve on city councils and school boards, along with other positions, around the county. And issues such as the establishment of a levy-funded public health department and formation of a rural fire protection district could have a major impact on the daily lives of Saline Countians... Virgil Lee Winson (Obituary ~ 03/29/02) Virgil Lee Winson, 86, of Emma, formerly of Sweet Springs, died Thursday, March 28, 2002, at Fitzgibbon Hospital in Marshall. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 30, at Campbell-Lewis Chapel in Sweet Springs. Rev. Lynn Harvey will officiate... Dola D. Mason (Obituary ~ 03/29/02) Dola D. Mason, 86, of Slater, died Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at Big Bend Retreat Nursing Home in Slater. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 30, at Slater United Methodist Church. Rev. John Swisher will officiate. Milton Davis Maupin (Obituary ~ 03/29/02) Milton Davis Maupin, 79, of Grinnell, Iowa, died Sunday, March 24, 2002, at Grinnell Regional Medical Center. Memorial services were held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, at Smith Funeral Home in Grinnell. Rev. Dan Ogata officiated. Bessie E. Benson (Obituary ~ 03/29/02) Bessie E. Benson, 93, of Overland Park, Kan., formerly of Marshall, died Thursday, March 28, 2002, at Shawnee Mission Medical Center. Graveside services will be held at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, March 30, at Ridge Park Cemetery in Marshall. Part of outer road to be closed (Local News ~ 03/29/02) A section of the Interstate 70 outer road just west of Sweet Springs will be closed beginning Monday, April 8, the Missouri Department of Transportation announced Friday. The road will be closed while the bridge over Davis Creek is resurfaced and, weather permitting, the project is expected to be completed by June 1... Local utilities to continue estimating water bills (Local News ~ 03/29/02) Marshall Municipal Utilities' policy of estimating water bills, now six months old, will continue for another six months. MMU Administrative Services Director Ken Gieringer told the Board of Public Works on Wednesday that because the estimations are made every other month, more time was needed to determine if the system should be continued permanently... Showers, sun bring out signs of spring (Local News ~ 03/29/02) A sure sign that spring is really here - several bunches of crocuses are in full bloom in the Jim the Wonder Dog Memorial Garden just north of the Marshall square. Crocuses and daffodils are beginning to show their colors in a number of gardens throughout the city... Issues raised at town hall meeting (Local News ~ 03/29/02) Looking to identify local concerns and possible solutions, the Community Services Department of the Missouri Valley Human Resource Community Action Agency sponsored a town hall meeting Thursday morning at the local Knights of Columbus Hall. "This town hall meeting is to get help in providing for meeting needs," said Cheryl Zimny, who also shared Kids Count, census and self-sufficiency wage information. ... Correction (Local News ~ 03/29/02) In the March 28 election preview article concerning the Marshall Board of Education race, it should have been noted that candidate Larry Godsey has a master of science degree in agricultural economics and is pursuing a Ph.D. in forestry with an emphasis in economics and policy. The Democrat-News regrets the error... BPW takes look at arguments for building natural gas pipeline (Local News ~ 03/29/02) In order to meet its future supply needs, Marshall Municipal Utilities may soon be constructing a natural gas pipeline. The matter of natural gas supply has become an issue as the utilities consider increasing their generation capacity and was discussed again at Wednesday's meeting of the Board of Public Works... Committee formed to research community foundation (Local News ~ 03/29/02) The Saline County Inter-Agency Council met this week, hearing updates from organizations and agencies and appointing a committee to research the formation of a community foundation that would help with agencies' funding. Representing University of Missouri Outreach and Extension, Carol Pardeck announced that the Saline County Focus on Kids Resource Directory is available online at www.outreach.missouri.edu/saline... Easy solutions for trashy people (Column ~ 03/29/02) I have reached a shocking conclusion. My family is a bunch of trashy people - especially when we eat at home. I'm having to get used to hauling extra bags of trash out to the curb these days, even with recycling cardboard, newspaper, plastics, glass, tin cans, etc. and keeping a compost in the back yard. It's hard to imagine what our trash can would look like without taking advantage of the recycling options offered in Marshall...	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2115
__label__cc	0.595403	0.404597	Stories from Thursday, February 1, 2007 C. Kathleen "Kay" Lemmon (Obituary ~ 02/01/07) C. Kathleen "Kay" Lemmon, 90, of Marshall, died Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007, at The Living Center in Marshall. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007, at First United Methodist Church in Marshall. Rev. Russ Johnson will officiate. ... Judith N. (Hamilton) Gordon (Obituary ~ 02/01/07) Judith Nannie (Hamilton) Gordon, 96, of Rothville, died Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007. Memorial services will be held at Rothville Baptist Church at 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007, under the direction of Rev. Steven Pinnell of Hamilton United Methodist Church. Interment will follow at Rothville Cemetery. Visitation will be held at Wright-Baker-Hill Funeral Home in Brookfield from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday evening... The Shepard's Heart/Can you dig it? Presidents actually work for us (Column ~ 02/01/07) It already looks like there are going to be way too many candidates for the Democrat and Republican Party nominations for the 2008 U.S. presidential election. I say "too many" because all of these candidates, when they have file correctly and have their support groups in place, get a certain amount of money from -- you guessed it -- you and me. That means that, like it or not, I get to support not only the candidate of my choice, but all of the others as well -- at least to a certain extent... Taxpayers to receive two-day reprieve on filing their taxes (Local News ~ 02/01/07) Saline County residents will receive a two-day reprieve on their taxes this year. Missouri law provides that filing and payment deadlines that fall on a Saturday, Sunday or legal state holidays are timely satisfied if filed on the next business day, according to a press release... Newscope/Thursday, Feb. 1 (Local News ~ 02/01/07) Saline County Health Department Board to hear of CAFO concerns The Saline County Health Department Board of Trustees will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 1, in the foyer of the department's offices at 868 S. Brunswick in Marshall. In the guest comments part of the agenda Kathy Borgman, executive director of the Friends of Arrow Rock, is scheduled to present concerns about the public health impact of a proposed concentrated animal feeding operation near Arrow Rock... Waverly woman arrested for fraud at MVCAA (Local News ~ 02/01/07) A Waverly woman has been arrested for embezzling money from the Missouri Valley Community Action Agency (MVCAA) in Marshall, authorities said Wednesday, Jan. 31. A news release from the MVCAA said that an employee is suspected of "misappropriating approximately $12,000," from the organization... Child abuse/neglect cases up in Marshall in 2006 (Local News ~ 02/01/07) According to the Marshall Police Department's 2006 annual report, the child abuse/neglect investigations more than doubled from 2005 and the violent crimes almost tripled. The child abuse/neglect investigations include child abuse, child neglect, endangering the welfare of a child and child molestation cases... Slater man dies in wreck/Worked as communications officer for county (Local News ~ 02/01/07) A Slater resident lost his life in a one-vehicle accident on Missouri 240 on Wednesday, Jan. 31, authorities said. Travis R. Wright, 27, Slater, was driving southbound on Route 240 at approximately 1:45 p.m. on Wednesday, when his vehicle ran off of the side of the roadway, struck a ditch and overturned. According to the Missouri Highway Patrol report, Wright was ejected from the vehicle... Eastwood students study planets (Local News ~ 02/01/07) Pluto not only has been demoted to dwarf planet status, but it is not even the furthest planet from the sun. Pluto moves around. According to the "Notorious Neptune" exhibit at the Eastwood Elementary School Space Museum Friday, Jan. 26, the eighth planet sometimes becomes the furthest planet-type-body from the sun when Pluto's orbit swings inside Neptune's... Valley notches win over Central Missouri (College Sports ~ 02/01/07) A little snow didn't prevent the University of Central Missouri from making the short trip from Warrensburg to Marshall, nor from its being dispatched by the Missouri Valley College men's wrestling team Wednesday, 24-16. The Vikings won six of the 10 bouts, two by fall -- including a second-period pin by sophomore Billy Exline over freshman Seth Norman in the opening 125-pound weight class. ... Viking spikers fall to LU (College Sports ~ 02/01/07) ST. CHARLES -- Lindenwood got the better of the season's first clash between Mid-America Men's Volleyball Intercollegiate Conference East and West Division powers Tuesday with a 30-27, 32-30, 30-28 home decision over Missouri Valley College. The Lions, ranked second in the preseason Tachikara NAIA Top 10 poll, took advantage of seven attack errors and seven service faults to overcome a three-kill deficit to the No. 3 Vikings in the first game...	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2116
__label__wiki	0.774662	0.774662	Please report any broken links or trouble you might come across to the Webmaster. Please take a moment to let us know so that we can correct any problems and make your visit as enjoyable and as informative as possible. NavSource Online: Submarine Photo Archive Contributed by Mike Smolinski Greeneville (SSN-772) Los Angeles Class (Improved) Attack Submarine: Laid down, 28 February 1992, at Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA.; Launched, 17 September 1994; Commissioned, USS Greeneville (SSN-772), 16 February 1996; Greeneville is assigned to the US Pacific Fleet, and is homeported at Pearl Harbor, HI. Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 6,000 t., Submerged: 6.927 t.; Length 360'; Beam 33'; Draft 29'; Speed, Surfaced 25 kts, Submerged 30+ kts; Depth limit 950'; Complement 129; Armament, four 21" torpedo tubes aft of bow, Harpoon and Tomahawk ASM/LAM missiles from 12 VLS tubes, MK-48 torpedoes; Combat Systems, AN/BPS-5 surface search radar, AN/BPS-15 A/16 navigation and fire control radar, TB-16D passive towed sonar arrays, TB-23 passive "thin line" towed array, AN/BQG-5D wide aperture flank array, AN/BQQ-5D/E low frequency spherical sonar array, AN/BQS-15 close range active sonar (for ice detection); MIDAS Mine and Ice Detection Avoidance System, SADS-TG active detection sonar, Type 2 attack periscope (port), Type 18 search periscope (starboard), AN/BSY-1 (primary computer); UYK-7; UYK-43; UYK-44, WLR-9 Acoustic Intercept Receiver, ESM; Propulsion System, S6G nuclear reactor one propeller at 35,000 shp. Improved Performance Machinery Program Phase I [on 688 Improved]. Contributed By/ 456k The launching ceremony program of the Greeneville (SSN-772) on 17 September 1994. Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). 31k Commemorative postal cover on the occasion of the launching of the Greeneville (SSN-772) on 17 September 1994, at Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA. Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). 114k Among the notables who spoke at the launching ceremony of the Greeneville (SSN-772) on 17 September 1994, were Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott, Representing Virginia's Third Congressional District, U.S. Rep. James H. "Jimmy" Quillen, R-1st Tennessee, Admiral William J. Flanagan, Commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Secretary of the Navy John Dalton and the Second Lady, and boat's sponsor, Tipper Gore. Photo by Judi Baldwin & Jim Hemeon, courtesy of Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, VA. 97k The Second Lady, and boat's sponsor, Tipper Gore, gives the Greeneville (SSN-772) its first drink before it is launched into it, 17 September 1994. Photo by Judi Baldwin & Jim Hemeon, courtesy of Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, VA. 79k Tipper Gore, now wearing a champagne dress, 17 September 1994. Photo by Judi Baldwin & Jim Hemeon, courtesy of Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, VA. 88k Picture of the ribbons used at the Christening of the Greeneville (SSN-772) by The Second Lady, and boat's sponsor, Tipper Gore, 17 September 1994. Photo by Judi Baldwin & Jim Hemeon, courtesy of Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, VA. 2.09k Fifteen page Christening PDF of the Greeneville (SSN-772), 17 September 1994. USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. 48k Commemorative postal cover marking the Greeneville's (SSN-772) Alpha sea trials off Norfolk, VA., 2 November 1995. Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). 158k Greeneville (SSN-772) on sea trials off Norfolk, VA., 2 November 1995. Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). 64k Greeneville (SSN-772) on sea trials off Newport News, VA. 5 November 1995. Photo by John Whalen, courtesy of General Dynamics Electric Boat. 99k Greeneville (SSN-772) on sea trials off Newport News, VA. 5 November 1995. USN photo courtesy of Federation of American Scientists web site. 21k Commemorative postal cover marking the Greeneville's (SSN-772) commissioning, 16 February 1996. Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). 2.09k Twenty eight page COC & Welcome Aboard PDF of the Greeneville (SSN-772), March, 1999. USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. 72k The Greeneville (SSN-772) arrives at Dry Dock #1 at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility for assessment and repairs, 20 February 2001. courtesy of news.navy.mil. 103k Greeneville (SSN-772), sits atop blocks in Dry Dock #1 at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on 21 February 2001. She is dry-docked to assess the damage and perform necessary repairs following a 9 February 2001 collision at sea with the Japanese fishing vessel Ehime Maru off the coast of Honolulu, Hawaii. DOD photo # 010221-N-0000X-003,courtesy of news.navy.mil. 97k Greeneville (SSN-772), in Dry Dock #1 at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on 21 February 2001. Damage is being assessed form the 9 February 2001 collision at sea with the Japanese fishing vessel Ehime Maru. DOD photo # 010221-N-0000X-002, courtesy of DOD Defense Link 99k Members off the National Transportation and safety Board (NTSB) check the Greeneville (SSN-772), at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on 21 February 2001. She is dry-docked to assess the damage and perform necessary repairs following a 9 February 2001 collision at sea with the Japanese fishing vessel Ehime Maru off the coast of Honolulu, Hawaii. courtesy of news.navy.mil. 90k Workers from Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility begin inspection work on board Greeneville (SSN-772) in Dry Dock #1 at the shipyard, 21 February 2001. Courtesy of US Navy Chinfo Photo Gallery. 70k Springfield (SSN-761), emergency blow for "effect" off coast of Florida, 29 January 1993. This is what Greeneville (SSN-772) was doing when it struck the Japanese student fishing vessel off Hawaii 9 February 2001. Submarines normally check their emergency surface capability like this once or twice each year. Photo courtesy of Dusty Wilson (MMCSS Ret.) Text courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). 77k Early this morning, 6 March 2001, members of the Navy's Court of Inquiry walk up the brow to go aboard Greeneville (SSN-772). Greeneville is currently in Drydock 1 at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility. courtesy of news.navy.mil. 93k Members of the Navy's Court of Inquiry enter Greeneville (SSN-772) in Drydock 1 at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility. courtesy of news.navy.mil. 475k Members of the Navy's Court of Inquiry depart Greeneville (SSN-772) on 6 March 2001 following a tour aboard the submarine. Greeneville is currently in Drydock 1 at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility. courtesy of news.navy.mil. 334k Following detailed inspections, testing and repair at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Greeneville (SSN-772) undocked today, 2 April 2001. courtesy of news.navy.mil. 321k Greeneville (SSN-772) leaves the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility. They will conduct a graduated process of ensuring crew and ship readiness to return to sea. courtesy of news.navy.mil. 288k Crew members aboard a U.S. Navy submarine, possibly either the Charlotte (SSN-766) or Greeneville (SSN-772),conduct an Emergency Personnel Transfer Hoist training exercise with a CH-46 "Sea Knight" helicopter from Helicopter Combat Support Squadron Five (HC-5) in Apra Harbor, Guam, 7 November 2001. Note: The flat domes on the aft deck are attachment points for the Dry Deck Shelter or Advanced Seal Delivery Vehicle. The "tiles" on the hull of the boat are a rubberized anechoic tile attached to the outer hull to help absorb active sonar pulses. USN photo # N-3889M-003 by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Marjorie McNamee., courtesy of news.navy.mil. Partial text courtesy of Dave Johnston (USNR) Note: The flat domes on the aft deck are attachment points for the Dry Deck Shelter or Advanced Seal Delivery Vehicle. The "tiles" on the hull of the boat are a rubberized anechoic tile attached to the outer hull to help absorb active sonar pulses. USN photo # N-3889M-004 by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Marjorie McNamee, courtesy of news.navy.mil. 440k US Navy Sailors aboard an unidentified Los Angeles class Attack Submarine conduct Emergency Personnel Transfer Hoist Training with a USN CH-46 Sea Knight Helicopter from Helicopter Combat Support Squadron Five (HC-5) in Apra Harbor, Guam on 7 November 2001. The "bumps" on the after deck are attachment points for the ASDS or Dry Deck Shelter. Only these two 688's have this feature. USN photo # DN-SD-04-13133, by PH2 Marjorie Mcnamee, USN, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. & submitted by Bill Gonyo. Partial text courtesy of Dave Johnston (USNR) 49k Captain Lindsay R. Hankins served as the Commanding Officer of Greeneville (SSN-772) from October 2001 to July 2004. During this tour he completed two Western Pacific deployments in support of the Global War on Terror, in addition to numerous exercises. The ship was the first submarine to deploy as part of an Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) and was instrumental in the testing, operational evaluation, and introduction of the Advanced Seal Delivery System (ASDS) to the fleet. USN photo courtesy of Bill Gonyo. 45k Greeneville (SSN-772) at sea 13 January 2002. Crewmembers wait for a Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB) from Lake Champlain (CG-57) to maneuver into position so they can unload supplies and personnel. Greeneville is surfaced to receive food, supplies and personnel from Lake Champlain. The ships are supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. DOD photo # N-6520M-013 by PH1(AW/SW) Greg Messier, courtesy of navy.news.mil. 271k The Los Angeles class submarine Greeneville (SSN-772), recently completed sea testing for the Advanced SEAL Delivery System (ASDS) off the coast of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 1 July 2003. ASDS is an 65 foot mini-submarine, which rides attached to the top of a much larger Los Angeles class submarine. It has increased range, speed, and capacity over the current SEAL Delivery Vehicle which is an open, wet submersible, that transports SEALs in scuba gear, exposing them longer to the elements. The ASDS mini-submarine is operated by a crew of two and can carry eight SEAL team members. The vessel is connected to the host ship via a watertight hatch, and has a sophisticated sonar and a hyperbaric recompression chamber. USN photo # N-0000X-005, courtesy of news.navy.mil. 234k Starboard side view of the Los Angeles class submarine Greeneville (SSN-772) recently completed sea testing for the Advanced SEAL Delivery System (ASDS) off the coast of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 1 July 2003. USN photo # N-0000X-001, courtesy of news.navy.mil. 331k Family members watch as Greeneville (SSN-772) departed on deployment from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on 3 September 2003 as part of Expeditionary Strike Group One (ESG-1). USN photo # N-5024R-002 by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Johnnie R. Robbins, courtesy of navy.news.mil. 180k A family member waves goodbye as Greeneville (SSN-772) deploys with Expeditionary Strike Group One (ESG-1). An ESG constitutes a new naval strike force designed to equip amphibious forces with added firepower and operational capabilities. USN photo # N-5024R-001 by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Johnnie R. Robbins, courtesy of navy.news.mil. 203k Greeneville (SSN-772) received the Navy Unit Commendation Award on 22 June 2004 for exceptional meritorious service while deployed with Expeditionary Strike Group One in support of the Global War on terrorism. USN photo by JO3 Corwin M. Colbert, courtesy of news.navy.mil. 63k Comedian/Actor Jay Mohr took time out of his busy schedule to visit with the Sailors aboard the Los Angeles class fast attack submarine Greeneville (SSN-772), at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 2 July 2004. USN photo # N-5539C-001 by Journalist 3rd Class Corwin Colbert. courtesy of navy.news.mil. 235k An Afloat Training Group Mid-Pacific Pearl Harbor (ATGMIDPAC) instructor, gives the crew of Greeneville (SSN-772) crowd control training as part of the submarine's anti-terrorism/force protection training on 19 July 2004. USN photo by JO3 Corwin M. Colbert, courtesy of navy.news.mil. 235k Former commanding officer of Los Angeles class submarine Greeneville (SSN-772), Cmdr. Lee Hankins, left, is greeted by the boats current Commanding Officer, Cmdr. Lorin Selby. Cmdr. Hankins was recently selected as the Pacific Fleet recipient of the Vice Adm. James Stockdale Leadership Award at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 24 November 2004. The annual award, named in honor of this legendary naval officer, recognizes two commanding officers who demonstrate superior leadership and conspicuous contributions to the improvement of Navy leadership while in command of a single ship, submarine or aircraft squadron. One each is selected from the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets. USN photo # N-0879R-002, by Chief Journalist David Rush, courtesy of news.navy.mil. 68k Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Vern Clark delivers remarks during the Twenty-Fourth Annual Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale Leadership Award Ceremony, held in the Pentagon Hall of Heroes on 15 December 2004. The recipients seated from left are Cmdr. Scott D. Conn, former Commanding Officer of Strike Fighter Squadron One Three Six (VFA-136) and Cmdr. Lindsay R. Hankins, former Commanding Officer of Greeneville (SSN-772). The annual award recognizes two commanding officers who demonstrate superior leadership and conspicuous contributions to the improvement of Navy leadership while in command of a single ship, submarine or aircraft squadron. USN photo # N-2383B-063, by Chief Photographer's Mate Johnny Bivera, courtesy of news.navy.mil. 332k Flowers adorn the Ehime Maru Memorial in Honolulu, Hawaii, on the fourth anniversary of the collision between the Los Angeles class attack submarine Greeneville (SSN-772) and the Japanese fisheries training vessel Ehime Maru., 9 February 2005. U.S. Navy officials placed a wreath at the site, which honors the nine Japanese students and crew killed in the accident. USN photo # N-0879R-001, by Chief Journalist David Rush, courtesy of news.navy.mil. 209k Fire Control Technician 3rd Class James Miller conducts electrical testing of the vertical launch tubes aboard Greeneville (SSN-772) on 6 April 2006. USN photo by Chief Journalist David Rush, courtesy of news.navy.mil. 74k Cmdr. Lorin C. Selby was relieved by Cmdr. Alan D. Dorrbecker as commanding officer of Greeneville (SSN-772) at Naval Station Submarine Piers, Pearl Harbor, 22 May 2007. USN photo courtesy of Bill Gonyo. 646k Greeneville (SSN-772) passes the Arizona Memorial as she departs Naval Station Pearl Harbor on 15 October 2007 for the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, for a 13-month Depot Modernization Period. USN photo 071015-N-9486C-001 by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Cynthia Clark via flickr.com. & Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com 292k Master Chief Paul Davenport, Chief of the Boat aboard the Greeneville (SSN-772), and his line handling supervisors prepare to receive the Chinhae pilot during Greeneville's (SSN-772) inbound transit to the Republic of Korea Naval Base in Chinhae, South Korea on 21 September 2010. USN photo # N-3603D-004 by Electrician's Mate 2nd Class Noah DeLaughter courtesy of news.navy.mil. 788k Four photo PDF of a model Greeneville (SSN-772). Photos courtesy of Mel Douyette @ coldwarsubmarines.com There is no DANFS History currently available for Greeneville (SSN-772) at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project. 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__label__wiki	0.672804	0.672804	83. ‘Operation Nachshon’ and the ‘Plan D’ of the Haganah By Pratyaksha Mitra on May 18, 2019 No Comment The battle of Deir Yassin fought on the 8th of April, 1948 changed the equations between the Palestinian Arabs and the Jews. The Arabs went from being offensive to defensive; alternately it changed the Jews from being defensive to offensive. As the date of the British exit from Palestine (the 14th of May, 1948) neared, the battle turned more fierce. The Jews gradually became more forceful across Palestine as it became clear to them that the Palestine-departing British won’t intervene in the Arab-Jew conflict. There were several reasons behind the Arabs losing their clout and force. The unwillingness for conflict grew among the common Arabs due to the lack of strong leadership, the deficit of faith and factionalism in the current leadership, bloody stories of the so-called Jewish savagery, a flood of rumours and many other reasons. The number of Arab leaders rejecting Hajj Amin al-Husseini as their leader increased as he distributed the weapons and other supplies sent by the Arab nations only among his supporters. This invited displeasure and anger of the other local Palestinian Arab leaders. Besides, the fear for the Jews in the minds of ordinary Arab masses grew because of the rumours, and gradually like Deir Yassin, they started fleeing with their families and whatever belongings they could carry. However, the Jews gradually became aggressive, and there were few reasons for it. Of course, the fresh inculcation of intense nationalism among the Jews by David Ben-Gurion and the restructuring and modernization of the Haganah made the difference. But along with it, there was another important reason– the ‘Plan D’ (also known as the ‘Plan Dalet’) of the Haganah. This was the last of the four (A, B, C, D) plans drawn by the Haganah. Even though many debates and discussions about the real purpose of the plan took place in the later time, its main motives were – 1) To take control of the parts of Mandatory Palestine designated for the Jewish homeland in the Palestine Partition Plan by the United Nations; 2) Declare a Jewish state in the land of Palestine; 3) Defend the Jew nation and its people from the Arab militias and also the invasions of the armies of the Arab countries; 4) To take control of and protect the Jewish settlements outside of the borders of the Jewish homeland. Israel map (1948) Since the time it was established in 1921, the Haganah from time to time conducted numerous operations as the need be. However, the ‘Plan D’ was to be the biggest and the most organized of them all, and most agree about this fact. The plan considered the armed Arab militias in Palestine and the forces sent by the neighbouring Arab nations on the directions of the Arab League as the ‘enemy’. The plan was prepared after much in-depth thinking and detailed the various approximations of the possible strategies and tactics the ‘enemy’ could pursue against the Jews. The plan featured many different possibilities like – 1) The enemy capturing crucial areas like Galilee and the Negev and cutting them off from the Jewish homeland; 2) The enemy taking over the three most important cities, that of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa; 3) The enemy launching air attacks; 4) The enemy cutting-off the supply lines and disrupting the provisions of food, water, etc. In addition to this, the plan also contained the list of various counter-measures to be taken in case the enlisted possibilities came true. Moreover, the plan also had clear directions about the steps to be taken in case the British or other international armies intervened. Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni with his troops Though the plan did not aim to capture the areas outside the borders of the Jewish homeland, it suggested for taking over the enemy quarters very close to the Jewish settlements, at least temporarily, so that the enemy could not use them as military bases to launch attacks against the Jewish settlements, as it happened in the case of Deir Yassin. The actions taken before a formal start of the plan were named ‘Operation Nachshon’. Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, an Arab fighter, participated in the Jew-Arab Civil War along with hundreds of armed Arab militiamen from Egypt. The siege of Jerusalem to starve the Jews in the city without food and water was, in fact, laid by the men under al-Husayni’s command, and the Jews till then, had not succeeded at breaking it. Mathematics professor Michael Fekete, the Provost of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with his water quota, during the siege As the days went by and the food stocks in Jerusalem began declining, a ‘rationing system’ (every person had a daily quota of consumption of bread, butter, milk powder, etc.) was introduced on learning that the stocks would not last long. It was a first-of-its-kind experience for the Jews. Later, a stage came when they had to, in fact, survive on plant leaves (mallow leaves). Celebrations broke out in the neighbouring Arab nations when the news reached them as they thought that any time now, the Jews would surrender. However, that was not to happen! The main purpose of ‘Operation Nachshon’ was to break the siege of Jerusalem laid by the men of Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni. Arms and other war stores necessary for the operation were mobilized. However, it faced a lot of hurdles as the British had imposed a ‘curfew’ in the area in response to an operation independently carried out by the Irgun. In some way or another, the Haganah tried to overcome the hurdles. The Haganah opened and made available an airstrip at ‘Beyt Daras’ that the British had shut. Using makeshift flashlights, the airstrip was used to land a ‘DC-4’ aircraft carrying arms and ammunition from Czechoslovakia. The offloading of weapons, refueling of the airplane, everything happened within no time, and the plane even took off for its return journey. In a similar manner, the Haganah personnel secretly unloaded the weapons at the Tel Aviv Port that had come in a boat from Czechoslovakia. The secrecy was maintained by hiding the weapons in the sacks of onions and potatoes present on the boat. A convoy bringing food and supplies to besieged Jerusalem With their confidence boosted by the new weaponry, about 1,500 Haganah warriors participated in the ‘Operation Nachshon’carried out between the 5thandthe 20th of April, 1948. Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni died in the fierce conflict. With the killing of their commander, the Arab militiamen lost all their courage. They became directionless due to the lack of strong leadership and the balance of the conflict overturned. Following this, within fifteen days, the Haganah successfully delivered the supplies to the Jews in Jerusalem. However, the day the British had declared as their ‘final day in Jerusalem’, the 14thof May 1948, came closer. Though the British did not favour the Jews much, their mere presence ensured that the situation did not get out of hand. However, in the regard, David Ben-Gurion felt it was necessary to doing something and that too at the earliest…. But what exactly was it? (To be continued…) – Shulamith Penkar-Nigrekar 07. Joseph in Egypt; his imprisonment 19. The Exodus – the Ten Commandments 25. The Era of the Judges 35. David and Goliath 36. David’s Exile 47. The Maccabean Revolt and the holiday of Hanukkah 50. The First Jewish-Roman War; the destruction of the Second Holy Temple 81. The Final Battle begins…. 83. ‘Operation Nachshon’ and the ‘Plan D’ of the Haganah added by Pratyaksha Mitra on May 18, 2019	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2125
__label__wiki	0.673292	0.673292	Stories from Wednesday, October 11, 2017 Equals Ready for quarterfinals (High School Sports ~ 10/11/17) By Jared Lankford sports@monett-times.com Sectional softball playoffs open today in Missouri, and Monett heads to Rogersville to face its future conference foe in the Lady Wildcats. For this game, as both coaches have begun to dig, both have found out they are nearly identical. ... Week 10 State Football Rankings (High School Sports ~ 10/11/17) Seneca at Monett Aurora at Cassville El Dorado Springs at Pierce City East Newton at McDonald Co. Mt. Vernon at Lamar Aurora at Cassville, 13-34 East Newton at McDonald Co., 0-54 Mt. Vernon at Lamar, 6-48 Seneca at Monett, 28-7 El Dorado Springs at Pierce City, 20-27... Jared Lankford: Week 10 playoff race shaping up (Sports Column ~ 10/11/17) With the final regular season football week upon us, and as we look to the district playoffs beginning in Week 10, the picture is nearly set in stone. The current Class 3, District 4 point standings look like this: No. 1 Seneca, 48.25; No. 2 Reeds Spring, 43.09; No. 3 Cassville, 37.61; No. 4 Mt. Vernon, 35.05; No. 5 Aurora, 31.2; No. 6 Monett, 25.5; No. 7 Hollister, 21.45; and No. 8 East Newton, 15.01... Week 9: By the Numbers (High School Sports ~ 10/11/17) 56-13: The final score of last year's Monett win over East Newton. 2002: The last time East Newton defeated Monett, 36-21. 39: The total number of points the Patriots have scored this season. 102: The total number of points Monett has scored this season... Teams to clash in Battle for Wentworth Friday (High School Sports ~ 10/11/17) Exactly 12 miles of state-paved highway lies between the towns of Pierce City and Sarcoxie. Halfway between the two sleepy Missouri town lies the little town of Wentworth. Not much is there: a package store, used car dealer and a 45 mile-per-hour speed zone. Yet, the little community serves as the closest inhabited boundary between the two towns... Cubs not looking past Patriots (High School Sports ~ 10/11/17) Monett may not be playing for a conference title or a No. 1 district seed, but the Cubs still have plenty on the line as they head to Granby on Friday. For starters, Monett’s pride is on the line. The Cubs do not want to go winless in conference play for the first time since 1999... Monett Masonic Lodge No. 129, AF&AM, will serve its annual barbecued chicken dinners from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 19 at the Masonic Temple, 501 13th St. in Monett. Cost is $6 for dining in at the Temple or for carry-out. Proceeds benefit the Masonic Lodge’s scholarship program. Tickets are available in advance from any Lodge member or at the door... Habitat house work moves into the interior (Local News ~ 10/11/17) Work continues on house number 10 for Monett Habitat for Humanity at 119 E. Nellie in Monett. Purdy Academic Team gears up for competition (Local News ~ 10/11/17) Getting ready for competition season, the Purdy High School Academic Team shared expressions of bemusement and exasperation at the math puzzle shared with them by Coach Lisa Reid on Wednesday. Purdy barnwarming draws community support (Local News ~ 10/11/17) The chili cook-off held as part of the Purdy High School barnwarming, sponsored by the Purdy FFA and FFA Alumni, drew a crowd of hungry diners to the Purdy Elementary School gym on Friday. Activities help children learn at Small Wonders preschool (Local News ~ 10/11/17) One of the regular activities at the Small Wonders preschool at the First United Methodist Church in Monett is simulating real life activities. Woman loses everything to meth addiction (Local News ~ 10/11/17) At one time in her life, Tracy Writer, of Purdy, had it all — a child, a husband, a home and a job. "I was working at a nursing home in 2003, and things got really rocky [in my marriage] about then," she said. "Drugs were really bad where I worked. I was around 23 when I went back to using crank."... Getting back on track (Local News ~ 10/11/17) Cassville resident Carl Cunningham is working hard at getting his life together after addiction took nearly half of it away. “Until 15 months ago, about half my life was spent using meth,” he said. “I started when I was 16 years old. I was in high school, and I had a girlfriend who had friends that introduced me to the drug. I started skipping school and going to the trailer park where I knew it was available. I wasn’t thinking. I was just following the crowd.”... The attraction of addiction (Local News ~ 10/11/17) Loni Avers was a typical wallflower in high school. “I wanted to be a social butterfly,” she said. “I wanted to be seen.” At 19, the Seligman resident and her then boyfriend were visiting friends when he offered her methamphetamine for the first time. She tried it... Coones, defense propel Monett to quarterfinals (High School Sports ~ 10/11/17) Outstanding defense and clutch hitting lifted the Monett softball team (19-10) to a 7-3 win over Logan-Rogersville (18-11) on Wednesday. Maddi Coones, one of the shortest players on the Monett roster, provided the biggest punch at the plate. The junior left fielder was a perfect 4-for-4 at the plate with 3 RBI. It was fitting start and end the Lady Cubs’ scoring...	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2128
__label__cc	0.701923	0.298077	Pyar Ki Jeet ( 1986 ) , Hindi Synopsis: "Pyar Ki Jeet is a 1987 Indian Bollywood film directed by Sawan Kumar Tak. The film stars Shashi Kapoor, Vinod Mehra, Rekha, Ashok Kumar, Moon Moon Sen. The story surrounds the lives of Dr. Rehman (Shashi Kapoor) who believes in saving the lives of the poor, instead of opening up a clinic in a big city and making money; Soni (Rekha), an innocent village girl, who was abducted by dacoits during her marriage with Dharma (Puneet Issar), and when the police rescue her and bring her back to her groom, he and his family reject her, making her seem like a fallen woman; Dr. Kumar (Ashok Kumar) who is the very opposite of Dr. Rehman; and Dr. Anand (Vinod Mehra), the son of Dr. Kumar. Dr. Anand practices under Dr. Rehman, who testified for him during a criminal trial for malpractice which resulted in the death of the husband of Rani Sahiba (Moon Moon Sen). Soni has fallen in love with Dr. Anand, but Dr. Anand has strong reservations against her, due to her background."	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2129
__label__wiki	0.935104	0.935104	The Place for Politics Newly reelected Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker is greeted by members of his staff and cabinet during a post-election day gathering at the Wisconsin State Capitol building in Madison, Wis., on Nov. 5, 2014. Photo by John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal/AP Scott Walker’s politics of confrontation 02/11/15 07:42 AM Updated 04/09/15 03:43 PM By Zachary Roth Last week, Scott Walker committed his first real misstep since he emerged last month as perhaps the leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination. In his new budget, the Wisconsin governor tweaked the mission statement for his state’s vaunted university system, removing its commitment to “the search for truth,” and adding in its place a focus on “the state’s work-force needs.” After even some Republicans protested, Walker backed down, with his office claiming that the proposed changes were merely a “drafting error” — an explanation that quickly collapsed. No doubt the kerfuffle was an embarrassment for Walker, but in the long run, it might only serve to reinforce his brand. The skirmish over the university’s mission statement showcased a politician going out of his way to pick fights with the kind of powerful, liberal institutions that conservatives yearn to see taken down a peg, and willing to use any tactics at his disposal. It’s a deliberately polarizing approach that has helped this rumpled, charisma-challenged college dropout and career politician shoot to the front of the GOP’s 2016 pack, while making a serious bid to unite the establishment and far-right wings of his fractious party. After a breakout performance at a key conservative confab in first-in-the-nation Iowa last month, Walker is leading in polls of the state — where, by the way, he just happens to have spent part of his childhood. “There’s a reason we take a day off to celebrate the 4th of July and not the 15th of April,” Walker shouted, to enthusiastic cheers. “Because in America we value our independence from the government, not our dependence on it.” RELATED: GOP governors want higher education cuts to recoup budget shortfalls The son of a preacher, Walker is fluent in the language of Christian conservatism. And there’s no question that as governor, he’s checked all the conservative boxes: tax cuts — yes; rejecting Medicaid — sure; de-funding Planned Parenthood — of course. But his high-profile fight against organized labor has also helped make him a favorite of the party’s deep-pocketed business wing. Most important, as the thrice-elected governor of a state that has twice gone for President Obama, Walker has proved he can win in challenging territory. This week, he’s burnishing his foreign policy credentials with a trip to London. “The decisions he makes, he asks basically three questions: How can I enrich my donors? How can I advance myself amongst my peers? And how can I punish who I perceive as my enemies?” Scot Ross, Executive Director of One Wisconsin Now Walker, 47, first ran for office at age 22. And a presidential bid — he has already announced the exploratory committee — would be his 14th campaign in 25 years. Scot Ross, who runs One Wisconsin Now, a progressive activist group that has been among the governor’s fiercest foes, describes Walker as “politics incarnate.” “The decisions he makes, he asks basically three questions: How can I enrich my donors? How can I advance myself amongst my peers? And how can I punish who I perceive as my enemies?” said Ross. “And what you see is him constantly using his office in order to do that.” Exhibit A in that case is what’s known as Act 10. That measure, drafted by Walker and his allies in 2011, was billed as an effort to close the state’s deficit. But it effectively ended collective bargaining for public employees in the state, which has a long and proud history of labor organizing. When unions and their progressive allies made national news by occupying the state capitol building to denounce the bill as an unprecedented attack on working people, it briefly looked like the young governor had overplayed his hand. But Walker held his nerve, faced down the protesters, and, with the help of supportive leaders in the legislature, rammed the bill through. Four years later, the political power of the state’s unions has withered — a boon for the state’s Republicans. And Walker’s attack on collective bargaining has served as a model for other Republican governors in the Midwest, where labor has long been a powerful political force. RELATED: Can Scott Walker handle the truth? Meanwhile, the fight over Act 10 brought Walker to the attention of national-level Republican donors and activists, as a crusading conservative eager to take the battle to liberals. That attention only intensified when Democrats led a recall campaign against Walker the following year, prompting a flood of right-wing money — much of it tied to the Koch Brothers — to pour into the governor’s campaign coffers. When all was said and done, Walker defeated the recall by a slightly higher margin than he’d won election in 2010. “I think Walker really developed a kind of skill and a national network when the recall election happened,” said Barry Burden, a politics professor at the University of Wisconsin. “There was just so much national attention on that, and he raised so much money from out of state that he’s built up a network of people he can now go to.” MSNBC Live, 2/9/15, 10:03 AM ET Does Scott Walker have a 2016 edge? Msnbc’s Benjy Sarlin and U.S. News and World Report’s David Catanese explain why Gov. Scott Walker’s trip to London may have added to his growing momentum as a potential 2016 GOP frontrunner. “He became a sort of hero for the conservative moment,” Burden added. Walker also pushed the envelope in finding ways to get around campaign finance limits. Prosecutors have been looking into whether his campaign to fight the recall illegally coordinated with a conservative group, the Wisconsin Club for Growth. And according to documents unearthed in the probe, Walker directed supporters to give to the group rather than to his campaign, because it was subject to higher contribution limits. “The people he associates with have come up with some inventive ways to do things that are legal but are on the frontier of what’s possible,” said Burden. Walker has taken the same approach when it comes to voting access. Soon after taking office in 2011, he pushed for the state’s restrictive voter ID law, which last year was struck down by a federal judge as racially discriminatory — around 300,000 Wisconsinites, predominantly minorities, lack the ID required — before being reinstated on appeal. Now the case could well wind up before the Supreme Court. Walker also supported cuts to early and weekend voting passed by lawmakers last year. WATCH: Scott Walker benefits from Romney’s exit In fact, Walker’s zeal to make voting harder has long been a key part of his political persona. As early as 2000 — several years before any state passed a photo ID law — Walker was pushing for such a law as a member of the state legislature. “When I go to Blockbuster to check out a video, I have to show my driver’s license plus my Blockbuster card,” he said at the time, test-driving an argument that has since been adopted by ID supporters everywhere. “Why is it that we have more precautions for protecting the release of a videotape than we do for ensuring the proper person is actually voting?” This no-holds-barred philosophy has worked perfectly in Wisconsin. As a profile of Walker last year by The New Republic’s Alec Mc Gillis explained, the state is among the most polarized in the nation. The lack of persuadable voters has turned elections into almost pure turnout battles—meaning stoking supporters’ enthusiasm is the key to victory. That raises a crucial question as Walker turns his focus to a presidential bid. Most analysts have tended to see winning the presidency as a different kind of challenge — one that requires appealing to swing voters and forging broad coalitions. But as partisan polarization intensifies, has the nation caught up with Wisconsin? Surveys in 2012 suggested that the number of persuadable voters had dropped sharply, and some post-election analyses found that a drop-off in white voters was a key reason why Mitt Romney lost. That led some number-crunchers to argue that the GOP’s best hope for 2016 isn’t to soften its rough edges, but rather to double down on its advantage with whites by turning out every last conservative it can find. If so, the party could hardly hope to find a better candidate for the job than Walker. 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__label__wiki	0.76827	0.76827	Packing clothes, and deferred dreams BY SUSHMITA ROY Published Jul 24, 2018 at 3:07 pm (Updated Jul 24, 2018) Deportees and their families face tough choices for a return trek many had hoped they would not undertake Sara Gozalo, supervising co-coordinator for the city-based New Sanctuary Coalition, decorating the suitcase that she is going to carry to a July 26 march in support of immigrants and would-be deportees. "We have friends who have told us, 'when you are in detention and you get a letter, that's like a treasure,'" she said. Photo courtesy of Sara Gozalo A suitcase, typically a symbol of arrival and of hope, takes on yet other, somber meaning as more immigrants are being deported. Photo courtesy of Lourdes Bernard You can fit a Bible or an extra pair of jeans. You might have to choose between photographs and letters. And do you take the sturdy boots or the formal black shoes? You think of him stranded on a desert trail, in the scorching heat. But there’s no room for a hat. Or maybe he will be shivering, unable to fall asleep. But a comforter would take up more than half the space. When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement orders a person deported, they or their loved ones are allowed to pack one suitcase. It and its contents cannot exceed 25 pounds. Space is limited; possibilities are limitless. On deportation day, an officer will forage through what you packed, reduce your love one’s efforts to a compendium of clothing, medications, and those photographs or letters. The memories, though, are yours to keep. Still, you think of all the other things you could have fit. “Those, by the way, are the lucky ones. Some of them don’t have anyone who can pack a suitcase for them,” said Sara Gozalo, the supervising co-coordinator for New Sanctuary Coalition, a city-based immigrant’s rights organization. Gozalo is the lead organizer of the Deportee Suitcase Solidarity March, to be held on July 26 at Federal Plaza. A suitcase, typically a symbol of arrival and of hope, is taking on new meaning for some. Luggage, maybe. For Thursday’s event, marchers are asked to bring one object they would put in a suitcase should a family member or close friend face deportation. “The reason why we chose the suitcase is because people don’t think about it. Deportation is becoming a very abstract issue where we talk about numbers, not about each individual family that is being affected,” Gozalo said. Gozalo, under a program run by New Sanctuary Coalition, has accompanied people dropping off suitcases at ICE headquarters. “It is one of the most painful things to witness, the kind of decisions the person (who packed) has to make. They have to think ‘I only have this much space, what do I put in there?’” she said. The drop-offs aren’t meant for final goodbyes. There usually isn’t one. For most deportees, the suitcase and its contents are the only possessions with which they will eventually arrive in a country they haven’t lived in for years or even decades. For many of them, the American dream was also an escape, from poverty, persecution or violence. On a recent Saturday morning Gozalo walked SoHo’s streets holding a video camera in one hand, a black duffle bag in the other. Stopping passers-by, she asked, “If you could think of someone you love dearly and that person was about to be deported to a country where you are never going to see them again, what would you pack?” Some said photographs, or a childhood cross, or clothing. Some said jewelry. A few suggested chocolate. “But it is totally different ... it is only a thought experiment (rather) than for people for whom it’s a lived experience and who had to make this decision: ‘Can I fit a third pair of jeans in there or not?’” said Carol Scott, also of the New Sanctuary Coalition. Immigration arrests of people without criminal records have more than tripled in New York since President Donald Trump took office, according to ICE statistics cited by The New York Times. But Scott and Gozalo argue that the Trump administration is not solely responsible for that increase and also blame the 1996 immigration laws signed by then-President Bill Clinton. “This administration has taken it to a different level, that’s true, but they are only able to do that because of the laws that were created before,” Gozalo said. The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act signed into law by Clinton outlined an extended range of criminal convictions — including relatively minor, nonviolent ones — for which even legal permanent residents could be automatically deported. “Nobody wants to leave their language, country or family until it is a necessity,” said Lourdes Bernard, an artist born in Dominican Republic and raised in Brooklyn. Bernard is one of the artists collaborating with New Sanctuary Coalition for the Suitcase Solidarity March. For the march, Bernard will use an antique suitcase dating to the 1930s, another period of mass deportation of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans. Bernard lined the insides of the suitcase with old newspapers featuring headlines that echo current ones, about war and prejudice, even Russia. “The suitcase is our broken immigration policy. The images highlight why immigrants flee, with U.S. foreign policies acting as a catalyst for war and violence (in their respective countries),” she said. The suitcase also holds a Dominican flag, which folds out “to invite the viewer to walk around and discover this narrative and history. The movement (the process of folding and unfolding) represents immigrants’ movement and displacement,” Bernard added. Representatives from the New Sanctuary Coalition accompany about 25 immigrants facing “displacement” every week: to check in with authorities, to court proceedings, to discussions with ICE officials. Margarita, an immigrant from Ecuador, was one such person. She had packed a suitcase for her husband. The couple had immigrated to the United States about eight years ago. They now have three children. Her husband, arrested for a minor crime, was detained for six months before being deported. “It it isn’t just the one person who goes to jail; the whole family lives in this hell having someone incarcerated,” she says on a video recorded by New Sanctuary Coalition. “When I started to pack a suitcase to bring to his deportation officer, I felt like a part of my life was leaving in that suitcase,” Margarita, who is her 40s and works as a waitress, says. One of her children would cry every night calling for his father. Margarita packed the suitcase with clothes, shoes, a wallet full of photographs and a Bible. But, she said, there was room for her to tuck in yet more: “Broken dreams.”	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2134
__label__cc	0.624541	0.375459	Same-sex Marriage Pride Business Leaders: to earn free recognition for supporting Same-sex Marriage Pride, click here. For free tickets For free tickets to our upcoming on-line show, click here. 2.2 Million OUTstanding Gay-Friendly People Celebrate Same-Sex Marriage Group January 31, 2011 marks the first anniversary of one of the world's largest gay-friendly social networks. Not long ago, Sharon Love of OUTstanding Lives Network had an “impossible” dream to inspire millions of people. She had lost her cousin to suicide when they were both in our twenties, and he was struggling with his sexuality. Love vowed to make a difference. Over the years, she volunteered thousands of hours to the LGBT community. Then she joined facebook, and got an idea. She dreamed of creating a huge group like Pride Worldwide Online. A place where people could go for support, fun and a sense of belonging. A place for one global community, united. 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The new goal of OUTstanding Lives Network is to inspire millions and save lives through gay-friendly documentaries. OUTstanding You is a documentary series to inspire pride in millions of youth of all sexual orientations and gender identities. It will feature OUTstanding Success stories of LGBTF youth and professionals, interspersed with confidence-building strategies by Sharon Love, M.Ed. (Psychology). Currently, we are seeking participants and sponsors. To get involved, contact sharon(at)outstandinglives.org or call 416-693-5683. Thanks! You make a difference. Fail like a pro! A failure can be a bellyflop or a launching pad. It's up to you. In a bellyflop, you fall down, you decide you ARE a failure, and you crawl meekly back into the closet. There, you stuff your dreams for months or years, or even a lifetime. If you have failed, YOU are not a failure, you are simply human. In an OUTstanding Failure, you fall down and use that momentum to launch your success. Remember my acronym: Learn & try again. You are outstanding. You make a difference. What’s your wildest dream? What’s your biggest goal? What passion is hiding in your closet? To achieve your dreams, FAIL! What were some of your biggest failures? What did you learn from them? How can they help launch your success? To succeed & achieve your dreams, FAIL. You are outstanding. You make a difference. What’s your wildest dream? What’s your biggest goal? What passion is hiding in your closet? To achieve your dreams, fail. Hi. I’m Sharon love from Outstanding Lives. Org, and I’m really great at failing. Not long ago, I had an “impossible” dream to inspire millions of people and save lives of bullied gay youth. I dreamed of creating a huge social network like Pride Worldwide Online. A place where youth could go 24/7 year-round, for support, self-esteem and a sense of belonging. The first time I tried to create this group, I got five members. Seventeen times, I tried to create this group. Seventeen times, I failed. Seventeen times, I learned something about social media. A great failure is one you learn from. So from all my greatest failures, I discovered Ten Secrets of OUTstanding Success in Social Media. I kept at my “impossible” goal to inspire millions. People laughed at my dream and said it was crazy… until this past February. Then, they suddenly stopped laughing. Have you seen facebook group called, “I bet we can find 1,000,000 People who Support Same Sex Marriage”? It attracted over TWO million people in just over two weeks. Guess I should have dreamed bigger when I created it! If you joined, thank you so much. For over a week, I would come home to find there were 100,000 more members than the day before. I’m so grateful to everyone who joined and invited friends, who posted photos & videos, joined discussions, joined the admin team, and supported bullied youth. Thanks to the 2.2 million people who joined. Thanks to the 60,00 people who signed the petition. Thanks to the thirteen thousand who signed up for the e-newsletter. Thank you all. My next dream is to inspire millions and make a difference for youth through a show called OUTstanding Lives, with success stories of people of all sexual orientations. I know it will succeed, because I’ve already tried and failed at it several times. …and I’m learning. So it’s just a matter of time. I’d love your opinions, your support and your success stories for the show. Please visit outstandinglives.org to get involved, or to get free tickets to our on-line show. That’s outstandinglives.org Thanks! You make a difference. OUTstanding! You make a difference. Many, many thanks to over 58,000 people who signed our OUTstanding Lives Global petition. You helped save lives through a new UN Human Rights Resolution. In November 2010, the United Nations voted that it was okay to execute people simply for being gay, lesbian, bisexual or trans. Shocking, but true. OUTstanding Lives Global sent in our international petition for equality and human rights, with over 58,000 signatures worldwide. Members of our 2.2 million member social networks signed the petition (however, the homophobic backlash caused Sharon Love's Facebook account to be disabled). On December 21, 2010, the United Nations overturned that discriminatory decision and we won the right to live! Please click here to sign our ongoing petition, or click here for more information on the Dec. 21 vote. Thanks again! We appreciate your support. Soulful Success For a FREE 10-minute coaching session on soulful success or how to motivate millions, click here.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2135
__label__cc	0.511192	0.488808	You Can Rise from Outcast to OUTstanding I'm writing this for our OUTstanding Youth project, and I'd love your feedback on it... As a teen, Sharon Love suffered from very painful shyness that left her almost mute. In high school, after facing many years of bullying, she earned a reputation as the “kid who can’t even talk”. She became fascinated with other outcasts, who later rose to become outstanding. This was the start of her research into Secrets of the World's Greatest Leaders. She devoured all information she could find on people such as Obama, Oprah, Ghandi, Gore, Ellen, Etheridge, and others greats. Later, Love earned a Master’s degree in Psychology. Since then, by using the Secrets that she discovered, Love has inspired thousands with her dynamic presentations in French, English and Spanish. For over twenty years, she taught youth, college students, and corporate professionals, and worked as a bilingual Psychoeducational consultant. She has also taught senior executives from Fortune 500 companies how to achieve outstanding results from motivational speaking. Today, Sharon Love, M.Ed. empowers gay-friendly leaders to inspire millions. She coaches executives, entrepreneurs, entertainers & political leaders to achieve breakthrough results through motivational speaking and social media. The President of OUTstanding Lives Global, she earned international recognition as the creator of the social network “I Bet We Can Find 1,000,000 People who Support Same-Sex Marriage”. It grew to over two million people, with no budget – in under a month! Recently, she co-authored an e-book, The First Secret of the World's Greatest Leaders, based on her research on Obama, Oprah, Ghandi, Gore, Ellen, Etheridge, and others greats. To learn the first secret for free, you can click the link here http://www.outstandinglives.org/learn-the-secret.html Please join Make a Difference for a Youth with Just a Click YES! Together, we can inspire millions to create safe schools for everyone. Dare to dream of a world where all youth, of all sexual orientations and gender identities, learn to love themselves. Please Click here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=283600686512&ref=ts#!/pages/Make-a-Difference-for-a-Youth-with-Just-a-Click/171839242843995 1) click like, 2) suggest to friends, 3) visit the OUTstanding Youth pages at http://www.outstandinglives.org The OUTstanding Youth pages are full of free tips and resources for * boosting confidence in youth, * inspiring pride, and * creating safe schools for all. Click here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=283600686512&ref=ts#!/pages/Make-a-Difference-for-a-Youth-with-Just-a-Click/171839242843995	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2136
__label__wiki	0.698169	0.698169	Art, music, literature, sports & leisure Politics and social sciences German colonial empire Previous (German Resistance) Next (German idealism) The German colonial Empire. The German colonial empire was an overseas area formed in the late nineteenth century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's German Empire. Short-lived colonial efforts by individual German states had occurred in preceding centuries, but Imperial Germany's colonial efforts began in 1883. The German colonial empire ended with the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 following World War I when its territories were confiscated and distributed to the victors under the new system of mandates set up by the League of Nations. Initially reluctant to enter the race for colonies because of its tradition of expansion within the European space, Germany's renewed attempt to conquer Europe in World War I resulted in loss of its overseas possessions. At various times, Germany (as the Holy Roman Empire) had included Northern Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, what is now the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Belgium and parts of Poland. Parallels have been made between use of death camps during the revolt in German West Africa 1904-1905 and Adolf Hitler's "final solution" to what he called the "Jewish problem." The colonial territories were ruled in the same way that Germany was governed, more or less from the top down. On the other hand, Germany's disengagement from colonialism took place in such a way that protracted wars of independence were avoided. Germany's history in the twentieth century resulted in reflection on the colonial experience receiving less attention than it has had in other former colonial powers. Instead, Germany's role in two World Wars and the Holocaust has dominated thinking in terms of re-negotiating national identity. 1 German Empire 2 Colonial Polity 3 End of the Colonial Empire 4 Extent of the Empire 5 Welser colonies 6 Brandenburger-Prussian colonies 7 German imperial colonies 7.2 Pacific Owing to its delayed unification by land-oriented Prussia in 1871, Germany came late to the imperialist scramble for remote colonial territory—their so-called "place in the sun." The German states prior to 1870 had retained separate political structures and goals, and German foreign policy up to and including the age of Otto von Bismarck concentrated on resolving the "German question" in Europe and securing German interests on that same continent. On the other hand, Germans had traditions of foreign sea-borne trade dating back to the Hanseatic League; a tradition existed of German emigration (eastward in the direction of Russia and Romania and westward to North America); and North German merchants and missionaries showed lively interest in overseas lands. Many Germans in the late nineteenth century viewed colonial acquisitions as a true indication of having achieved nationhood, and the demand for prestigious colonies went hand-in-hand with dreams of a High Seas Fleet, which would become reality and be perceived as a threat by the United Kingdom. Initially, Bismarck—whose Prussian heritage had always regarded Europe as the space in which German imperialist ambition found expression—opposed the idea of seeking colonies. He argued that that the burden of obtaining and defending them would outweigh the potential benefits. During the late 1870s, however, public opinion shifted to favor the idea of a colonial empire. During the early 1880s, Germany joined other European powers in the “Scramble for Africa.” Among Germany's colonies were German Togoland (now part of Ghana and Togo), Cameroon, German East Africa (now Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania), and German South-West Africa (now Namibia). The Berlin Conference of 1884-85, which Bismarck organized, established regulations for the acquisition of African colonies; in particular, it protected free trade in certain parts of the Congo River. Colonial Africa in 1914, showing the German empire sixth in size. Because Germany was so late to join the race for colonial territories, most of the world had already been carved up by the other European powers; in some regions the trend was already towards decolonization, especially in the continental Americas, encouraged by the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Napoleon Bonaparte. In the Scramble for Africa, Germany lagged behind smaller and less-powerful nations, so that even Italy's colonial empire was larger. Geography helped Italy, whose African possessions, like France's, started immediately to the South of Italy across the Mediterranean. 1883 was late in the day to enter the colonial race. Colonial Polity Germany did not attempt to re-mold its colonial subjects in the German image in the way that the French and the British tried to mold their subjects in their image. While the French and the English instituted policies that spread their languages and culture, Germany restricted use of German to a small number of elite colonial subjects. Germany did not actually profit from colonialism, since the expenses incurred in administration were greater than revenues generated. Colonies were regarded as overspill for German settlers, rather than as territories to be developed and eventually granted autonomy, or independence. In fact, only small numbers of Germans relocated to the colonies. Rebellions when they took place were brutally crushed. The most well-known incident of rebellion took place in German South West Africa (now Namibia), where, when the Herero people rose in rebellion (known as the Maji-Maji rebellion) in 1904, they were crushed by German troops; tens of thousands of natives died during the resulting genocide. Parallels have been made between use of death camps and concentration camps during this period, and those of the Third Reich in its effort to exterminate the Jewish people.[1] End of the Colonial Empire Germany's defeat in World War I resulted in the Allied Powers dissolving and re-assigning the empire, mainly at and its subsequent peace at the Paris Peace Conference (1919). In the treaties Japan gained the Carolines and Marianas, France gained Cameroons, Belgium gained small parts of German East Africa, and the United Kingdom gained the remainder, as well as German New Guinea, Namibia, and Samoa. Togoland was divided between France and Britain. Most of these territories acquired by the British were attached to its various Commonwealth realms overseas and were transferred to them upon their independence. Namibia was granted to South Africa as a League of Nations mandate. Western Samoa was run as a class C League of Nations mandate by New Zealand and Rabaul along the same lines by Australia. This placing of responsibility on white-settler dominions was at the time perceived to be the cheapest option for the British government, although it did have the bizarre result of British colonies having their own colonies. This outcome was very much influenced by W.M. Hughes, the Australian Prime Minister, who was astounded to find that the big four planned to give German New Guinea to Japan. Hughes insisted that New Guinea would stay in Australian hands, with the troops there defending it by force if necessary. Hughes achievement in preventing Japan occupying New Guinea was of vital importance in World War II. William II, German Emperor, was so frustrated by the defeat of his European generals that he declared that Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the German general in charge in East Africa, should be the only German officer allowed to lead his soldiers in a victory parade through the Brandenburg Gate. Vorbeck was the only undefeated German general of the war, and the only one to set foot in British territory. Extent of the Empire This is a list of former German Empire colonies and protectorates (German: Schutzgebiete), the German colonial empire. Welser colonies Little Venice (Klein Venedig) (see German colonization of the Americas) Brandenburger-Prussian colonies Groß Friedrichsburg (in Ghana), 1683–1718 Arguin (in Mauretania), 1685–1721 Whydah, in present Togo ca. 1700 (this Brandenburg 'colony' was just a minor point of support, a few dwellings at a site where British and Dutch had theirs too) Saint Thomas (Caribbean, now in the United States Virgin Islands), brandenburg Lease territory in the Danish West Indies; 1685–1720 Island of Crabs/Krabbeninsel (Caribbean, now in USA), brandenburgische Annexion in the Danish West Indies; 1689–1693 Tertholen (Caribbean sea; 1696) German colonies██ German Empire ██ colonies of the German Empire ██ Jiaozhou (Concession in China) ██ Prussian colonies (around 1680-1720) ██ "little Venice" (1529-1556) German imperial colonies German East Africa - (Deutsch-Ostafrika) Tanganyika; after World War I a British League of Nations mandate, which in 1962 became independent and in 1964 joined with former British protectorate of the sultanate of Zanzibar to form present-day Tanzania Ruanda-Urundi: 1885 – 1917 Rwanda (present-day) Burundi (present-day) Wituland 1885 – 1890, since in Kenya Kionga Triangle, since 1920 (earlier occupied) in Portuguese Mozambique German South West Africa - (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) Namibia (present-day) except then-British Walvis Bay (Walvisbaai) Botswana - (Südrand des Caprivi-Zipfels) German West Africa (Deutsch-Westafrika) - existed as one unit only for two or three years, then split into two colonies due to distances: Kamerun 1884 – 1914; after World War I separated in a British part, Cameroons, and a French Cameroun, which became present Cameroon. The British part was later split in half, with one part joining Nigeria and the other Cameroon. (Kamerun, Nigeria-Ostteil, Tschad-Südwestteil, Zentralafrikanische Republik-Westteil, Republik Kongo-Nordostteil, Gabun-Nordteil) Togoland 1884 – 1914; after World War I separated into two parts: a British part (Ghana-Westteil), which joined Ghana, and a French one, which became Togo Mysmelibum, which became part of the Congo German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea, today Papua-New-Guinea; 1884 – 1914) Kaiser-Wilhelmsland Bismarck Archipelago (Bismarck-Archipel) German Solomon Islands or Northern Solomon Islands (Salomonen or Nördliche Salomon-Inseln, 1885–1899) Bougainville (Bougainville-Insel, 1888–1919) Nauru (1888–1919) German Marshall Islands (Marshallinseln; 1885–1919) Mariana Islands (Marianen, 1899–1919) Caroline Islands (Karolinen, 1899 – 1919) Federated States of Micronesia (Mikronesien, 1899–1919) Palau (1899–1919) German Samoa (German Western Samoa, or Western Samoa; 1899-1919/45) Samoa (1900-1914) Jiaozhou Bay (1898-1914) Hanauish Indies (de:Hanauisch Indien) Southern Brazil Ernst Thälmann Island New Swabia was a part of Antarctica, claimed by Nazi Germany (19 January 1939 - 25 May 1945), but not effectively colonized; the claim was completely abandoned afterward German Antarctic stations Georg von Neumayer station (1981-1993) Neumayer Station (1993-present) Filchner station(1982-1999) Gondwana station (1983-present) Georg Forster station (1985-present) Drescher station (1986-present) Dallmann Laboratory (1994-present) Kohnen Station (2001-present) German Arctic stations Koldewey station, Spitsbergen (1991-present) The German colonial empire was relatively short-lived and has been overshadowed in the German consciousness by two world wars, followed by partition, the Cold War and more recently by re-unification. In 2005, when the centenary of the mass killings that took place in Namibia, Germans were reminded of their colonial legacy and of parallels which have been made between aspects of that legacy and the Third Reich. Dr Henning Melber comments that: As evidence shows, there existed continuities in accounts and novels read by a mass readership, in military practice as well as in the activities of specific persons, and in doctrines and routines of warfare that link strategic ideas of decisive battles to the concept of final solution and extinction of the enemy, which came into full effect under the Nazi regime.[2] On the other hand, the way in which Germany lost her colonial empire meant that Germany did not become engaged in the type of violent anti-independence wars that took place under the imperial watch of some other European colonial powers. Unlike the imperial legacies of other European countries, especially Spain, France and Great Britain, the German empire did not create a large German speaking community or enduring cultural links. One consequence is that "there are apparently no post-colonial texts in German." Germany preferred to keep the number of "literate natives small" and indeed did not embark on the same type of Frenchification or Anglicization project that characterized French and British imperialism. Germany's older heritage of empire within the European space secured German as a major European language but it did not spread across the globe. No non-European country has made German an official language. In contrast, French is an official language in 28 countries spread across the globe. Germany's traditional policy of restricting citizenship to people of German descent, too, has meant that until recently Germany's "immigrant population" has not amassed sufficient political power to "force German politicians to attend to their interests and needs."[3] Friedrichsmeyer, et al argue that the legacy of how German colonialism and "colonial fantasies affected notions of Germanness and national identity" and of "others" is a neglected field. While "a significant portion of French and British cosmopolitanism is due to their colonial history and their laboriously achieved disengagement from it," the "corresponding background is missing in Germany." [4] ↑ George Steinmetz and Julia Hell (2006), The Visual Archive of Colonialism Public Culture, 18:1:147-184. Retrieved June 14, 2008. ↑ Henning Melber (2005), Genocide and the history of violent expansionism Pambazuka News, A Weekly Electronic Forum For Social Justice In Africa. Retrieved June 14, 2008. ↑ Friedrichsmeyer, et al. 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__label__wiki	0.671059	0.671059	Lagos Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode meets with civil servants; ...promises better welfare Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode yesterday met with public servants, reiterating his promise to improve their lot and change the face of the civil service. The governor, who spoke at an interactive session at the Adeyemi- Bero Auditorium, Alausa, said his administration will focus on capacity building , which will enhance staff productivity and prepare them for retirement. He said his vision is to build a public service devoid of discrimination and inhibitions. “My dream for the public service is to have an establishment that would prepare you for retirement. "What happens to each and every one of us when we leave service is what I am after in the next four years. “There are a lot of opportunities, but you must work for them. “I desire a public service where there would be no discrimination and where your circumstances will not inhibit you from progressing. “We would not discriminate against you. We must have a good sense of harmony where people in the parastatals or in the local government service or in the mainstream are at par. He expressed his readiness to meet the Joint Negotiating Council and resolve all issues relating to workers’ welfare. “My major vision is a better civil service. I’m ready to address issues that relate to welfare. “I know that whatever it is I am today, it is through the kind of training that I have received in the civil service, so I would place major emphasis on capacity building and training.” Explaining his pronouncement on the creation of new ministries, the governor explained that it was not intended to increase the cost of governance, adding that the new ministries will be created by realigning existing ones, hence the number of ministries remain 24. He sought the support and cooperation of public servants, promising to do everything possible to make life easier for them. “I will accord you the respect that you deserve. I am ready to reward hard work, merit and professionalism, that is all that I gained from this place and so long as you are good, the top is your seat,” Ambode said. The Head of Service, Mrs. Folashade Jaji, assured the governor of the workers’ readiness to cooperate with his administration and achieve his vision to move the state forward. “On my part, you know I believe strongly that I have to show leadership by example and I also have to bring back everything that God has endowed me with to be able to bring it back to the public service and I am ready to do that.” Credit: The Nation	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2140
__label__wiki	0.593411	0.593411	The Rational Walk Worldly Wisdom and Intelligent Investing View rationalwalk’s profile on Twitter The Giles Resolutions: Scandal and Bailouts in the 1790s What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Political intrigue, allegations of financial impropriety, vicious attacks in the media, intemperate politicians, and anonymous trolling. These are all obvious characteristics of political life in America two decades into the twenty-first century and many observers bemoan the abandonment of more collegial days earlier in our history. It is part of our nature to idealize the way things used to be and, in the process, we are prone to forgetting that people who lived long ago were also subject to the realities of the human condition. As we celebrate Independence Day, it is interesting to take a look back at a period of history shortly after our founding when partisan politics was in its infancy and the stakes couldn’t have been higher for the opposing camps. Despite George Washington’s efforts to forestall the development of partisanship, by 1792 his own administration was split into two camps, with Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton most forcefully representing the cause of the Federalists, who supported a more vigorous executive within a powerful national government, and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson who was the champion of republicanism that sought to limit the centralizing tendencies of the Federalists. The broad strokes of this long-running dispute might be well known to those with a passing understanding of American history, but only those who have delved into the background in some depth can fully understand the vicious animosity and partisanship that easily rivals what we have experienced in modern times. On February 25, 1791, President Washington signed the legislation establishing the first Bank of the United States. The establishment of the bank was an expansion of the power of the federal government supported by Alexander Hamilton and vigorously opposed by Thomas Jefferson and his allies who viewed the bank as an unconstitutional measure designed to benefit the business and investing community at the expense of the general population. One of the measures of the legislation was to establish a sinking fund that was designed to begin paying off the national debt, which had been expanded in 1790 at Hamilton’s urging when the debt of states was assumed by the federal government. Jefferson was named as one of the commissioners of the sinking fund. Only one year after the bank was established, a credit crisis known as the Panic of 1792 was caused by speculation on the part of prominent bankers including William Duer, who was also a friend of Alexander Hamilton and previously served as the first Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Duer and other speculators came up with a scheme to use large loans to corner the government debt market. United States debt securities were needed by those who had invested in the initial public offering of the Bank of the United States because the terms of the offering required them to pay for their stock in installments comprised of 25 percent specie and 75 percent government bonds. Gaining control of the government bond market meant that Duer and his partners could potentially reap a windfall due to the presence of forced buyers who needed to settle their installment payments. The collapse of the scheme in February and March 1792 caused Hamilton to take measures to prevent a broader credit crisis. He utilized the sinking fund that was established along with the Bank of the United States to purchase government securities which had the effect of propping up prices and forestalling a broader crisis. However, the political fallout from doing so was severe and the acrimony easily rivals controversies we have seen in modern times. The crux of the dispute was whether Hamilton had authority to utilize the sinking fund as he did, and especially whether he was justified in purchasing securities at par when they were trading below par in the depressed market during the panic. Dumas Malone covers this episode extensively in Volume 3 of his six volume biography of Thomas Jefferson which was published in 1962. Malone frames this dispute in the context of the long running acrimony between Hamilton’s Federalist faction and their opponents led by Jefferson, along with James Madison and others in Congress. The extent to which Jefferson himself led the charge to investigate Hamilton’s conduct has long been in dispute. Malone acknowledges that Jefferson was in communication with the members of Congress who launched the investigation but minimizes the extent of a larger conspiracy. During this period, Hamilton was far more vocal in what he was willing to say personally while Jefferson tended to operate more via surrogates. Much of this had to do with the personalities of the men, but the personal nature of the dispute is not in question. One of Jefferson’s allies in the House of Representatives was thirty year old William Branch Giles, a fellow Virginian who was also close to James Madison. The resolutions that were introduced to investigate Hamilton’s conduct were known as the Giles Resolutions. Malone explains the crux of the charge against Hamilton in this extended excerpt: Specifically, the question related to the price at which government securities might be bought in this process of debt reduction, and it was answered in Hamilton’s favor by the voice of the Chief Justice, who held that under the act they might be purchased at more than the market price, up to par value. The point is that Hamilton wanted to buy at par at that time, when securities were below par on the market. His major purpose, as he claimed, was to maintain the credit of the government, but numerous speculators, including his friend the notorious William Duer, had been caught in the sharp decline of securities. Hamilton wanted to stay the panic, but to the mind of Jefferson he was purposely supporting the speculators. Furthermore, Jefferson believed that the purpose of the Sinking Fund was to retire the debt — as much of it as possible and under the most favorable conditions. He may not have sufficiently appreciated the positive functions of the Treasury in maintaining the level of public securities, but his simple philosophy was one that unsophisticated citizens could readily understand. Like him, they could not see why the government should pay more for its own securities than it had to, for the apparent advantage of men like Duer. Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty, Chapter 2 The Giles Resolutions were debated in the House of Representatives but all failed to win a majority which represented a resounding victory for Hamilton and his Federalist cause. Jefferson, always reserved in his public statements, was willing to be a little more open in a private letter to his son-in-law following the vote: Others contemplating the character of the present house, one third of which is understood to be made up of bank directors & stock jobbers who would be voting on the case of their chief: and another third of persons blindly devoted to that party, of persons not comprehending the papers, or persons comprehending them but too indulgent to pass a vote of censure, foresaw that the resolutions would be negatived by a majority of two to one. Still they thought that the negative of palpable truth would be of service, as it would let the public see how desperate & abandoned were in the hands in which their interests were placed. We can see from this private correspondence that Jefferson not only supported the resolutions, but that he knew that they would very likely fail but wanted the political point made that the Federalists were acting against the interests of the majority. He went on to explicitly characterize the “corrupt maneuvers of the heads of departments”, obviously in reference to Hamilton. Jefferson resigned as Secretary of State at the end of 1793 and retired to Monticello to look after his long neglected farms and personal interests, but he never left the political scene in terms of his influence on his proteges who remained in government, and he was back in the political maelstrom in early 1797 when he took office as Vice President. Our times could not be more different from the 1790s in myriad ways, with the most obvious being the speed of travel and the instant and nearly universal access to information. What has not changed is human nature, with all its political backstabbing, intrigues, and scandals. In 1790, people and information could not travel faster than a man on horseback could ride, and information was distributed on paper to those with the resources available to purchase it and who had the literacy necessary to understand it. Today, politicians, journalists, and ordinary citizens can communicate instantly on platforms like Twitter and the velocity of information, and misinformation, is like nothing the world has ever seen before. It is interesting, and entertaining, to consider how the personalities of Hamilton, Jefferson, and others would have navigated the age of social media for their political benefit. It is easy to imagine Hamilton as a heavy user of Twitter, while Jefferson might be more inclined to put out press releases or let surrogates go to battle on his behalf. Financial crimes and outright greed are also not new vices of our times, with financial bubbles, scandals and cronyism being as old as the nation itself. As an epilogue, however, we can return to the case of the notorious William Duer. Unlike the villains of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, most of whom have bounced back very nicely, Duer paid a very heavy price for his sins. He spent the rest of his life in a debtor’s prison and died in disgrace in 1799. 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__label__cc	0.555983	0.444017	http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/composer-lyricist-stephen-sondheim-31136.html Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim was born today. Calendar Activity Type Author & Text Also on March 22 Randolph Caldecott was born on March 22, 1846. Along with his collaborators, composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim has written musicals inspired by fairy tales (Into the Woods), historical figures (Assassins), folk legends (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street), and even works of art (Sunday in the Park with George). His work has won him many Tony Awards for achievement in the theater, and in 2014 he was honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. His collected lyrics have been published in a two-volume edition. Sondheim’s 1984 musical Sunday in the Park with George features the character Georges Seurat and brings to life the figures in Seurat’s 1884 painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. After explaining the relationship between the painting and Sondheim’s work, have students examine the painting and imagine who the figures in the painting might be and what they are doing in the image. Then have them research work by artists such as Romare Bearden or Pierre-August Renoir and create backstories and dialogues for the figures in a painting of their choice. The Stephen Sondheim Society The webpage of the Stephen Sondheim Society, a charitable group established to promote the public knowledge and appreciation of the works of Stephen Sondheim. Here students can find information about his life and works, as well as the Sondheim magazine. Stephen Sondheim - Living Legends This site contains links to resources on Sondheim and his work hosted at the Library of Congress. The Stephen Sondheim Reference Guide On this site, students can find well-organized lists and links about Sondheim’s shows, songs, recordings, and more. Searching for Cinderella This ArtsEdge resource asks students to use skills to identify the Cinderella story Sondheim used for Into the Woods and develop a performance piece based on it Lesson Plans Student Interactives Other Calendar Activities Parent & Afterschool Resources Once Upon a Time Rethought: Writing Fractured Fairy Tales Students read and analyze fairy tales, identifying their common elements. They then write their own "fractured" fairy tales by changing one of the literary elements found in the original. Enchanting Readers with Revisionist Fairy Tales Students examine three examples of revisionist fairy tales in which female characters act in empowered roles rather than behaving helpless and submissive. Teaching About Story Structure Using Fairy Tales From "once upon a time" to "happily ever after," students learn to recognize story structure in fairy tales and create a logical sequence of events when writing original stories. A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words: From Image to Detailed Narrative The old cliche, "A picture is worth a thousand words" is put to the test when students write their own narrative interpretations of events shown in an image. Grades 9 – 12 \| Lesson Plan \| Unit Ekphrasis: Using Art to Inspire Poetry In this lesson, students explore ekphrasiswriting inspired by art. Students find pieces of art that inspire them and compose a booklet of poems about the pieces they have chosen. Fairy Tale Autobiographies Students read and analyze fairy tales from several cultures, identifying common elements. Choosing common situations, students write original fairy tales, using picture books as models and a peer review process.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2144
__label__cc	0.598514	0.401486	9.60 CURING THE NHS AND DEPRESSED PATIENTS BY MASS-COMMISSIONING THE MINDFULNESS COURSE Report for Brighton and Hove Health and Wellbeing Board (HWBB) and Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) 9.8.13 By John Kapp, 22, Saxon Rd Hove BN3 4LE, 01273 417997 johnkapp@btinternet.com 1. Summary of Conclusions The crisis in the NHS is caused by the following factors, which can be solved locally by councillors initiating culture changes: a) The overprescribing of drugs, which generally do more harm than good with side effects. b) The failure of the old Primary Care Trust (PCT) to commission sufficient effective drug-free treatments, so that patients go untreated, even though GPs want to prescribe them, and patients want them. c) The fear of whistle blowers that will they will lose their jobs if they say things that are politically incorrect (such as the above). d) The prevalent culture among public sector staff of ignoring representations from members of the public (like me). The commonest conventional treatment for depression is antidepressant drugs. Talking therapies are commissioned, such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) but it is only effective in only a small minority of patients, and the waiting time is up to a year. Mindfulness courses are much more cost effective, but have such long waiting times as to be unavailable unless patients are suicidal. To show the disparity between drugs and drug-free treatments, last year in England there were 50 million monthly prescriptions written for antidepressant drugs. Pro rata 1.25 m prescriptions were written in Sussex, and 250,000 written in the city of Brighton and Hove. The latter presumably went to 21,000 out of the 30,000 depressed patients in the city. They may have helped by masking their symptoms, but drugs do not even claim to cure depression. To prevent, heal and cure depression, patients and sick staff need 16 hours of tuition in mindfulness courses teaching self help tools to cope with it’s cause, which is stress. However, the number of these provided in Sussex last year were less than 8,000 for 160,000 depressed patients, so the waiting time was 20 years. To create a mental health service worthy of the name ‘service’, GPs have to be able to prescribe these courses as easily as Prozac. My deputation proposes that the Council and NHS jointly plan to commission and provide at least 10,000 patients places annually in the city. This would require 500 courses pa, which could be run by 20 full time facilitators running 25 courses pa, for 20 patients per course. That would cost the NHS about £1.25 mpa, which is only about 2% of the mental health budget of £55 mpa and £200 per patient treated. This is a more cost-effective treatment than the drugs replaced, so should be paid for from the drugs budget. This will also improve staff morale and patient confidence, so help cure the crisis in the NHS. This scale of provision cannot be achieved by the present public sector tendering process, which is too bureaucratic, (100 page tender documents) long-winded (taking a year) and un-necessary. It was the PCT’s provider-centred way of excluding non-drug treatments, and has no place in a new patient-centred NHS. A scheme should be set up whereby GPs prescribe vouchers which patients can exchange for courses with existing facilitators who are presently running them in the private sector, and are retrospectively paid, as pharmacists are for drugs. I hope that the HWBB will accept and implement this proposal.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2145
__label__cc	0.660205	0.339795	New Music: Last Dinosaurs - Wellness LP Brisbane's favourite indie rockers, Last Dinosaurs, recently released their long awaited second album ‘Wellness’ via Dew Process/UMA and we're more than impressed! Three years in the making, 'Wellness' is a shimmering slice of indie guitar-pop, choc full of summery beats, infectious guitar riffs and Sean Caskey''s signature melancholic vocals. The current single ‘Apollo’ as well as the previously released single ‘Evie’, have both received additions to the triple j playlist as well as accumulating over 11.6 million streams online. To celebrate the arrival of the new record, the four piece are gearing up to hit the road for their triple j supported national ‘Wellness’ album tour. The tour will see the band travel across six states to headline some of the biggest venues of their career, including The Enmore Theatre in Sydney. The ‘Wellness’ 2015 Australian tour begins September 25th with tickets selling like hot cakes! Dates and ticket info can be found here. 'Wellness’ is available now in stores as well as online via iTunes and Spotify.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2146
__label__wiki	0.915874	0.915874	Milestone! 1984: The Year in Review This officially marks the halfway point in the project! Five years down, five more to go! The first half of the decade consisted of 2,173 songs. The second half should be similar, so I still have a long way to go. However, I'm looking forward to it! Oh 1984 - the year I loved! And it didn't disappoint. I think it was my peak year of buying charted songs. Out of the 51 chart weeks, for 10 of them I owned the complete Top 10 song. For 15 weeks, I owned 9 of the Top 10. It was just a fantastic year for pop music and it contained some of the best albums of the decade including Purple Rain and Born in the U.S.A. Plus it included the return of Tina Turner and Cyndi Lauper hitting her stride. Former Eagles Don Henley and Glenn Frey were scoring hits while Van Halen jumped to a new high and U2 hit the Top 40 for the first time. There will still be some great stuff ahead in 1985. Many of the hits from that year signaled what was to come for the remainder of the decade. The music changed rapidly throughout the 80s and the mid-decade year was an appropriate transition span. Hair metal would be on the rise as would be the dance sounds from the Stock-Aitken-Waterman production team. There would be more movie hits and rap would start getting more attention. It should be another excellent year to explore. I'm still enjoying this project and I hope anyone who encounters the blog will have fun as well. Keep reading, pass it along to friends, feel free to send comments, and don't forget to "Rate It!" at the bottom of each post. Here is a recap of 1984: Number of charted songs in 1984: 433 (445 in 1983) Time it took listen/post all songs: 1 year, 29 days (1 year, 49 days for 1983) Number of songs that debuted in 1984 to hit #1: 19 (15 in 1983) Number of songs that debuted in 1984 to reach the Top 10 (excluding #1's): 76 (70 in 1983) Artist with the most chart entries: Rick Springfield - 5 (Michael Jackson, had 6 in 1983) Number of gold singles: 26 (19 in 1983) Number of platinum singles: 9 (7 in 1983) Number of songs that won a Grammy: 10 (8 in 1983) Number of One-Hit Wonders: 3 (10 in 1983) Number of Rated 10 songs: 19 (16 for 1983) Number of Rated 1 songs: 2 (plus a rare zero for one song) (3 for 1983) Top 5 favorite chart songs of the year: "When Doves Cry" by Prince "Here Comes the Rain Again" by Eurythmics "Had a Dream (Sleeping with the Enemy)" by Roger Hodgson "Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly)" by Icicle Works "The Boys of Summer" by Don Henley Worst song of the year: "Eat My Shorts" by Rick Dees (however, if I discount novelty/comedy songs, then I'd choose "Sex Shooter" by Apollonia 6) Best song I didn't know existed: "Flashes" by Tiggi Clay Favorite discoveries: Tiggi Clay's sole album, Mink DeVille, and Helen Hoffner's song "Summer of Love." A few other fun stats: Highest debut: #20 - "Thriller" by Michael Jackson (peaked at #4) Lowest debut: #96 - "Joystick" by Dazz Band (peaked at #61) Longest climb to peak position: "What's Love Got to Do with It" by Tina Turner climbed 91 positions from #92 to #1 Longest trip to #1 for a song debuting in 1984: "What's Love Got to Do with It" by Tina Turner took 16 weeks to reach #1 Quickest trip to #1 for a song debuting in 1984: Both "When Doves Cry" by Prince and "Like a Virgin" by Madonna took only 6 weeks to reach #1. Most weeks at #1 in 1984: 5 - for two songs, "Jump" by Van Halen and "When Doves Cry" by Prince Most weeks on the chart for a song debuting in 1984: 30 - "Borderline" by Madonna (it peaked at #10). Average number of weeks a song spent on the chart: 12 Position on chart where the most songs debuted: #90 - 32 songs debuted at that spot (1 hit Top 10) Longest song title: "Superstar/Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" by Luther Vandross Shortest song title: "17" by Rick James A few artists who got their first chart single in 1984: Billy Ocean, Bon Jovi, Corey Hart, Howard Jones, Mötley Crüe, Paul Young, Wang Chung, Sheila E., UB40, and Whitney Houston Runners-Up: 8 songs peaked at #2, 2 songs peaked at #11, and 2 songs peaked at #41 Some interesting things learned (click links for more details in previous posts): One-hit wonder Matthew Wilder got an Oscar nomination for writing some of the music for the Disney film Mulan. He also produced the mega-hit album Tragic Kingdom by No Doubt. Thomas Dolby's song "Hyperactive" was originally written for and submitted to Michael Jackson. Bon Jovi was not the original name choice for the band. They were going to go with Johnny Electric. "To All the Girls I've Loved Before" was a remake. It was originally recorded by the song's for-writer, Albert Hammond, in 1975. Night Ranger's Kelly Keagy wrote "Sister Christian" for his sister. Directing team Godley & Creme shot 18 different videos for Yes' single "Leave It." Rick Springfield was offered a role in the Oscar-winning film "The Right Stuff." He ultimately turned it down when he was given a chance to headline his own movie "Hard to Hold." Steve Perry wrote "Oh Sherrie!" for his girlfriend at the time, Sherrie Swafford. Frankie Goes to Hollywood got their name from a painting that included a headline about Frank Sinatra. Van Halen's "I'll Wait" was co-written by David Lee Roth and Doobie Brother Michael McDonald. "It's My Party" singer Lesley Gore co-wrote the Fame song "Out Here on My Own" with her brother Michael. Dan Hartman originally wrote "I Can Dream About You" for Daryl Hall & John Oates. Billy Idol's song "Eyes Without a Face" was inspired by a French horror film. John Fogerty was sued for plagiarism for copying from his own song. The solo voice on Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is" is Tony-winner Jennifer Holiday. Eddie Money's hit "I Wanna Go Back" was originally a chart entry by Billy Satellite. Andy Warhol directed the video for The Cars' song "Hello Again." Rod Stewart's "Some Guys Have All the Luck" was a remake of a 1973 R&B hit by The Persuaders. Bruce Springsteen originally wrote "Cover Me" for Donna Summer. A young Mariska Hargitay (of Law and Order: SVU fame) got her start playing the female lead in the video for Ronnie Milsap's "She Loves My Car." Apparently, Rick James was supposed to be at Sharon Tate's house the night of the Manson Murders. The Jacksons' "State of Shock" was originally supposed to be a duet between Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury. In addition to his own hits, Bryan Adams and his co-writer Jim Vallance had four of their songs hit the chart in '84 by other artists including 38 Special, Krokus, Joe Cocker, and Juice Newton According to the year-end chart for 1984, these were the year's Top 10 singles: "What's Love Got to Do with It" by Tina Turner "Say Say Say" by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson "Footloose" by Kenny Loggins "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" by Phil Collins "Jump" by Van Halen "Hello" by Lionel Richie "Owner of a Lonely Heart" by Yes "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker, Jr. "Karma Chameleon" by Culture Club So long '84! It was an awesome blast from the past! Scott September 26, 2017 at 6:23 PM You rule, Aaron! I've read every post and I'm sticking around for the duration. I surfed in like most people probably do, looking for info on some song. I came in somewhere around 1982 and then read all the prior posts back to the beginning while keeping up with the new ones as they appear. I'm kind of a music nut if you hadn't figured that out yet. Great job! Aaron Latham September 27, 2017 at 9:26 AM Thanks so much! And thanks for following. I appreciate it. Nice to know someone is out there takin' a look! It certainly has been fun. I've enjoyed listening to all these songs, finding info on them and the artists, and uncovering lost gems. Next half of the 80s coming up! Hate to say it, but you didn't review "Careless Whisper" which was the last song to debut in 1984. Aaron Latham October 3, 2017 at 10:03 AM OMG - you are right! I wondered how I could miss that and looking back at the actual charts I now know why. When a song debuted on the chart, there was a black arrow next to the song with a bold "NEW" next to it. On the chart where "Careless Whisper" debuted, they made a mistake and there was just a light "Re-Entry" next to it, which was obviously wrong. I guess I overlooked it because I was used to focusing on the bold "NEW" items. Ah, well. I'll toss it in and adjust accordingly - thanks for the heads up!! "Knocking at Your Back Door" by Deep Purple "Rockin' at Midnight" by The Honeydrippers "Yo, Little Brother" by Nolan Thomas "Friends/Five Minutes of Funk" by Whodini "Money Changes Everything" by Cyndi Lauper "Sugar Walls" by Sheena Easton	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2147
__label__wiki	0.572987	0.572987	Because of You - 98 Degrees piano sheet music Because of You - 98 Degrees Free Piano Sheet Music Because of You description "Because of You" is a 1998 song by 98 Degrees, released as a single from their album 98 Degrees and Rising. It peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified platinum in December 1998. The song was featured on the 1999 compilation album Now That's What I Call Music! 2 (U.S. series). Show Because of You piano sheet 98 Degrees description 98 Degrees (or 98°) is an American adult contemporary boy band consisting of four vocalists: brothers Nick and Drew Lachey, Justin Jeffre, and Jeff Timmons. The group was formed by Timmons in Los Angeles, California, though all its members originate from Ohio. Unlike most boy bands, they formed independently and were later picked up by a record label, rather than being assembled by a label or a producer. They have sold over 10 million records worldwide and achieved eight top 40 singles in the US. The group reunited for a one-time performance at Mixtape Festival in Hershey, PA in August 2012. More piano sheets by 98 Degrees 98 Degrees - True to Your Heart (featuring Stevie Wonder) 98 Degrees - The Hardest Thing 98 Degrees - My Everything 98 Degrees - I Do Cherish You The Beatles - Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) Sara Bareilles - Kaleidoscope Heart Bee Gees - World A Fine Frenzy - Almost Lover Pink - Try Teach Children How To Learn To Play Piano Children can easily learn faster than adults, although their attention span is shorter. This means that your children could learn many artworks and instruments quick and easy. Maybe your child will be the next piano celebrity in the world of music industry. If you observe that your child shows interest in piano playing, support his talent. Maybe you could ...Continue reading Teach Children How To Learn To Play Piano	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2150
__label__wiki	0.982763	0.982763	By All Means Necessary - Robbie Williams piano sheet music By All Means Necessary - Robbie Williams Free Piano Sheet Music By All Means Necessary description "By All Means Necessary" is a song written by Robbie Williams and Guy Chambers. It was released on Robbie Williams' third studio album, Sing When You're Winning, which was released in August 2000. Show By All Means Necessary piano sheet Robbie Williams description Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer-songwriter, and occasional actor. He is a member of the pop group Take That, but has found greater commercial success as a solo artist. Williams rose to fame in the band's first run in the early- to mid-1990s. After many disagreements with the management and group members, Williams left the group in 1995 to launch his solo career. On 15 July 2010, it was announced he had rejoined Take That and that the group intended to release a new album in November 2010 which became the second fastest-selling album in UK chart history and the fastest-selling record of the century so far. In 2006 Williams entered the Guiness Book of World Records for selling 1.6 million tickets of his Close Encounters Tour in a single day. Williams has sold over 70 million records worldwid... More piano sheets by Robbie Williams Robbie Williams - She's The One Robbie Williams - Angels Robbie Williams - I Will Talk And Hollywood Will Listen Robbie Williams - Feel Robbie Williams - It's Only Us Robbie Williams - Aint That A Kick in the Head Robbie Williams - Come Undone Anastacia - You'll Never Be Alone Learning How to Play Piano. 5 Tips for Beginners So you decided to learn to play piano for your own pleasure. If you really want to make playing the piano a truly rewarding experience, you have to get past the recreational pursuit and gain true piano mastery and artistry. Do not treat your piano learning experience casually even if you have a lot of fun learning how to play piano. You should treat...Continue reading Learning How to Play Piano. 5 Tips for Beginners	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2151
__label__wiki	0.631769	0.631769	Ευρωπαϊκά Διαρθρωτικά και Επενδυτικά Ταμεία 360° Experience Take a tour of our museums Today 17.07.2019 testimonialsRead what they said about us Read more announcements Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation "The Countless Aspects of Beauty" at the Chios Mastic Museum On the occasion of the major exhibition "The Countless Aspects of Beauty" of the National Archaeological Museum (NAM) which has been presented since May 2018 in the venues of the Museum's touring exhibitions, a smaller version with the same title, presenting antiquities from the top museum of the country, was designed in collaboration with the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation (PIOP) to tour its thematic museums. In 2018 the exhibition was presented successively at the Museum of the Olive and Olive-Oil in Sparta, the Silversmithing Museum in Ioannina, and the Museum of Marble Crafts in Tinos; it was visited by approx. 46,000 people. As of Wednesday, June 18, 2019 the exhibition is presented at the Chios Mastic Museum, which will be its last stop. The touring exhibition "The countless aspects of Beauty" is part of the policy of the National Archaeological Museum to create, in Greece and beyond, parallel versions, linked thematically to its central touring exhibitions. The ultimate aim of the collaboration between the two entities is that these exhibitions will function as satellites of the top museum in Greece in the various regions of the country, offering to local communities the opportunity to examine at first hand fine artefacts of great historical value derived from the unique collections of the National Archaeological Museum. Another aim of this two-year collaboration (2018-2019) is to link the cultural imprint of modern times with that of the past, showcasing the vitality of Greek culture in all of its expressions across time. The exhibition records man's constant striving to seek Beauty and incorporate it into his every-day life, by representing it in works of art, ornaments and implements of daily use. The selection of the ancient artefacts was based on the themes of the PIOP museums to which they travelled. Thus, in the Museum of the Olive and Olive-Oil the focus was on body-care items such as oils and perfumes, in the Silversmithing Museum on fine jewellery, and in the Museum of Marble Crafts on marble figurines representative of the Cycladic culture. Visitors to the Chios Mastic Museum will have the opportunity to admire fifty antiquities from the collections of the National Archaeological Museum, dating from prehistoric times to the Roman era. Several items, referring to some of the aspects of Beauty, are being exhibited for the first time. A separate section, which however is not unrelated to the collection of antiquities, highlights the beauty of the women of Chios as seen through the eyes of travellers (16th-19th century), with exhibits and photographic material derived from the Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece / National Historical Museum and the Travelogues section of the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, respectively. Also on display are the multiple properties and uses of that unique product, mastic. The exhibition runs from June19 to September 8, 2019 Opening hours: Daily except Tuesdays, 10:00-18:00 Closed on July 22 (local fair) and August 15 With the kind support of the Chios Gum Mastic Growers Association Chios Mastic Museum Rachi site (Tepeki), Chios 821 02. Tel. No. 22710 72212\| www.piop.gr piopnews www.namuseum.gr "From Homer's World - Tinos and the Cyclades in the Mycenean... "Urban Tomography" Photo exhibition at Historical Archives Αnnouncement for the operation of the Museum Network "The Countless Aspects of Beauty" at the Chios Mastic Museu...	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2152
__label__wiki	0.829664	0.829664	Rep. Anita Astorino Kulik's Biography Anita Astorino Kulik serves as the state representative for the 45th Legislative District. She was born in Carnegie, Pennsylvania. Her late mother was a grade school teacher and her late father, Dr. Samuel Astorino, was a professor of history and law at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Anita graduated from Bishop Canevin High School and received her bachelor of arts and juris doctor degrees from Duquesne University. Anita and her husband, Joseph, are the proud parents of Sarah Wrona, who is married to Joshua, and Joseph E. Kulik. They have a baby granddaughter, Kennedy Rose. Anita began her legal career as a law clerk in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. She has served as an adjunct professor teaching paralegal courses, and has served as a clerk in the Pennsylvania Superior Court. Her practice has consisted of domestic cases, including custody and protection from abuse (PFA) matters, as well as real estate and estate matters. Anita’s political career started in Kennedy Township, where she served as a township commissioner from 2003 through 2016. She served as the township representative to the Char-West Council of Governments. Anita also served as a legislative assistant to her predecessor, state Rep. Nick Kotik. She has been active with many community organizations, including conducting various fundraising activities for her local fire department and various youth organizations. Anita continues to be an active member of St. Malachy Parish and the Parkway West Rotary Club. Anita currently serves on the following committees: Game & Fisheries Gaming Oversight Liquor Control Veterans Affairs & Emergency Preparedness Rep. Kulik's Committees and Caucuses Game & Fisheries, Secretary Gaming Oversight, Secretary Allegheny County Delegation Tweets Follow @RepKulik Tweets by @RepKulik Rep. Kulik's Office Information Coraopolis Office Hours of Operation - 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday Carnegie satellite office 2 E. Main Street Carnegie, PA 15106 F*: Hours of Operation - 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays 323 Irvis Office Bldg.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2153
__label__wiki	0.762197	0.762197	Chocolate & Chicory: French Gemstone Cards Demantoid Disclosure Gemology Bears Triumphant Tidings In Search of the Precious Stone The Internal World of Gemstones Kunzite The Precious On a New Lilac-Colored Spodumene On Kunz & Kunzite Painite Comes to Pala Pala Obtains Historic Tanzanite Crystal Paraiba at Pala Passion Fruit: A Lover's Guide to Sapphire Sapphire, The Royal Gem Seeing Red: A Guide to Ruby Spinel: A Description of Two Large Spinel Rubies Votive Babylonian Axe Head Walking the Line in Ruby & Sapphire A Votive Babylonian Axe Head Recently, an Italian researcher queried us regarding a “votive stone axe head,” of a 3rd century B.C.E. vintage, that he'd been informed was in the collection of Pala International’s Bill Larson. Intrigued, we asked Bill about it. Indeed, he gave us color images of the axe head, fashioned from agate, as well as journal articles and book passages that discuss its enigmatic feature—a cuneiform inscription. We’re pleased to share them with our readers. From The Curious Lore of Precious Stones by George Frederick Kunz, 1913. Included in the chapter Religious Uses of Precious Stones, Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian. Cardinal Stefano Borgia, who originally came into possession of the axe head. One of the rarest and most significant specimens illustrating the use of valuable stones for religious ceremonial purposes in the pagan world is in the Morgan-Tiffany collection. It is an ancient Babylonian axe-head made of banded agate. So regular, indeed, is the disposition of the layers in this agate that one might be justified in denominating it an onyx. Its prevailing hue is what may be called a “deer-brown”; some white splotches now apparent are evidently due to the action of fire or that of some alkali. This axe-head bears an inscription in archaic cuneiform characters, and presumably in the so-called Sumerian tongue, that believed to have been spoken by the founders of the Babylonian civilization. The form of the inscription indicates that the object dates from an earlier period than 2000 B.C. While the characters are clearly cut and can be easily deciphered, the inscription is nevertheless exceedingly difficult to translate. It is evident that the axe-head was a votive offering to a divinity, probably on the part of a certain governor named Adduggish; but whether the divinity in question was Shamash (the sun-god), or the god Adad, or some other member of the Babylonian pantheon, cannot be determined with any finality. The French assyriologist, François Lenormant, who first described this axe-head in 1879, and Prof. Ira Maurice Price, of the Semitic Department of Chicago University, both admit that it may have been consecrated to Adad. As the weather-god, the thunderer, the axe-symbol would have been more especially appropriate to him in view of the usage, almost universal among primitive peoples, of associating stone axe-heads or axe-shaped stones with the thunderbolt, and hence with the divinity who was believed to have launched it toward the earth. This photograph of the axe head shows the inscription on the object’s reverse at left. (Photo: Mia Dixon) This Sumerian axe-head measures 134.5 mm. in length (5.3 inches), 35.5 mm. in width (1.4 inches), and 31 mm. in thickness (1.22 inches). It was originally secured by Cardinal Stefano Borgia (1731–1804), for some time secretary of the College of the Propaganda [Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, or Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide] in Rome, who probably acquired it from some missionary to the East. From the cardinal's family it passed for 15,000 lire ($3000) to the Tyszkiewicz Collection, and when the objects therein comprised were disposed of at public sale, the writer purchased it for the American Museum of Natural History in New York, April 16, 1902.* *For a fuller description of this valuable relic, and a discussion of the meaning of the inscription, see “On the ancient inscribed Sumerian (Babylonian) axe-head for the Morgan Collection in the American Museum of Natural History,” by George Frederick Kunz, with translation by Prof. Ira Maurice Price and discussion by Dr. William Hayes Ward. Bulletin of the Museum, vol. xxi, pp. 37–47, April 6, 1905. On the Ancient Inscribed Sumerian (Babylonian) Axe-Head from the Morgan Collection in the American Museum of Natural History By George Frederick Kunz With translation by Prof. Ira Maurice Price of the Semitic Department, University of Chicago; and the discussion by the Rev. Dr. William Hayes Ward of New York [1] Extracted from the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. XXI, pp. 37–47, April 6, 1905. From the collection of Bill Larson. This remarkable stone object (a Babylonian ceremonial axe-head) was secured for this collection in 1902 in England. It is one of the oldest known stone objects of a weapon form with an inscription, although copper and metal objects were frequently so marked. It is historic and almost unique. This axe was obtained by the Cardinal Stefano Borgia while at the head of the Propaganda [Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, or Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide], but whence or how is not known. (See note at the end.) The Contessa Ettore Borgia, his niece, offered it to the British Museum some ten or twelve years ago, but at so extravagant a value (about three or four thousand pounds sterling) that it was returned to her. It was ultimately acquired for some 15,000 lire by the late Comte Michel Tyszkiewicz, [2] and soon after his death there was a dispersal of his collection of engraved stones, bronzes, marbles, and other antiquities. After the sale, the axe was purchased for Messrs. Tiffany and Co. by the author, and, through the generosity of James Pierpont Morgan, Esq., was presented to the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, on April 16, 1902. The object measures in length 134.5 mm., width 35.5 mm., thickness 31 mm., and weighs 226.8 grammes. It is made of banded agate, the layers being very parallel, so much so that it might well be called an onyx. The color is a snuff-brown, really a deer-brown. It is in part spotted and splashed with white, evidently due to contact either with fire, or fire and some alkali, such as soda. This patina covers the larger part of the inscription, and has been produced since the latter was cut. The incising was the result of bow-drill work. The hardness is 7. On the reverse is a letter W, very rudely picked in with a steel tool. But this is evidently of [a more] recent date. This photograph of the axe head shows the letter W inscribed on the object’s obverse. (Photo: Mia Dixon) This axe-head was first described by Francesco Lenormant, in ‘Tre Monumenti Caldei ed Assiri di Collezioni Romane’ (Rome, 1879, pp. 19, with plate vi, fig. i, pages 7–9). Inscribed stone axes are rare and of great interest; those of metal are less unusual. The votive axe of Thothmes III was so inscribed. (See p. 60, Illustration I, ‘The Dawn of Civilization, Egypt and Chaldea,’ by G. Maspero, New York, 1894; 8vo, pp. 800.) The deciphering of this inscription could be done by but few Babylonian scholars in the United States. Prof. Ira Maurice Price, of the Semitic Department of the University of Chicago, very kindly undertook the task. His letter is as follows: Fig. 1. Inscription, 1 in. x 5/8 in. “The little inscription that forms the subject of this note is an intaglio on the side of an axe-head made of banded agate, as seen in the accompanying illustration (Fig. 1). It occupies the space of one inch in length by five-eighths of an inch in width. It consists of three lines written in archaic Babylonian characters, of which the accompanying cut is a facsimile reproduction. Fig. 2. Assyrian character. “The character of the signs is that current in Babylonia from the earliest times down to 2000 B.C, both on cylinder seals and in larger inscriptions. The language is the primitive form of the cuneiform languages called “Sumerian” by one school, and by another “Akkadian.” Its out-standing feature is that it is written largely in ideographs, signs that designate ideas, rather than syllables. This was the favorite method of marking important documents, or dedicating them to some particular divinity or divinities. “The accompanying cut (Fig. 2) is a transliteration of the inscription into the later Assyrian character, the form of writing current in Assyria from 1500 to 606 B.C. “The transliteration [3] of the ancient Babylonian is as follows:— HA AD-DUG-ISH PAP SHESH dingir U ZAL-NI “The Assyrian equivalent of the text may be indicated in the following form:— duppi Ad-dug-ish asharidu ilu Shamash baru-shù “The translation of the text as just transliterated is:— The inscription of Ad-dug-ish (dedicated) to the god Shamash, his benefactor. “This small inscription, like most of those written in the so-called Sumerian language, is capable of more than one rendering. The one presented above is based in part on a fragment of a syllabary found in ‘Cuneiform Texts of the British Museum,’ Vol. XII, plate 31, No. 38182. There we find HA =nu-u-nu ( =‘fish’); du-up-u ( =‘tablet’ or ‘inscription’); pu-ra-du, whose meaning is uncertain. It is also possible to read the first line in the inscription as the proper name, thus: ‘Haddugish, the governor, (dedicated) to the god Shamash, his benefactor.’ “Another possible rendering is to take the first sign in the first line as naming a particular stone, the determinative sign usually found before such words in prose being omitted. This omission, especially before signs whose character can be otherwise determined, is frequent in the so-called Sumerian inscriptions. The syllabaries (Brünnow, No. 11822) designate a fish-stone ( =aban nûni), which has been thought by some scholars to be os sepiæ, ( =‘cuttle-fish bone’). May it not be that this first sign in the first line designates a stone, which, because of its banded character, is likened to a fish? Hence it could be read ‘the precious stone of Ad-dug-ish,’ etc. “In some of the combinations of signs, where the first sign in the first line is an element (cf. Brünnow, Nos. 11843, 11845) we find such a meaning as ‘defense,’ ‘protection.’ It is not impossible that such a meaning may be attached to this axe-head, used as a symbol of defense against an enemy. If such a sense were possible, then the last line might be read ‘To the god Adad, his lord.’ The entire inscription would then read ‘The defense of Addugish, the governor, (dedicated) to the god Adad, his lord.’ “It seems evident from the usual custom in the use of such inscriptions that the first sign should designate something relative to the object on which it is found. Hence the designation ‘stone,’ or (‘precious) stone,’ indicated in the suggestion made above, may be the true meaning for this bit of an inscription. The last line contains first the designation of a divinity, probably either Shamash, or Adad, the archaic small circle being used for the usual sign U in later Assyrian. Shamash seems to be appropriate, for he was the sun-god, whose warm light fed the life of man, beast, and vegetable, and made the earth bring forth in abundance to feed man and beast. The signs translated ‘his benefactor’ might be more fully rendered by a paraphrase, ‘the one who supplies him with abundance.’ On the other hand, Adad was the weather-god, the thunderer, who poured out the floods, and who appeared as a warrior with a weapon in one hand and a thunderbolt in the other. On seals he often leads a bull by a leash. If the god in the last line of this inscription should be read ‘Adad,’ then there may be some reason in translating the first sign as ‘defense,’ ‘weapon,’ making the axe-head supply a symbol of the principal attribute—the war-like one—assigned to the god Adad. The last two signs may then be read as ‘his lord,’ ‘his conquering one,’ etc. “An alternative reading for the inscription would then be:— The (axe-head) stone of Ad-dug-ish the governor, (dedicated) to the god Adad, his lord. “‘The governor’ was a ‘leader’ or a ‘prince’ of the first rank, in authority. In fact, it is an epithet which some of the divinities assign to themselves as indicative of their rank. Therefore this axe-head was the possession of an official of high authority,—and of one who was devoted to his god as his benefactor, or his conquering lord.” In regard to the use of the axe in early Babylonia, Dr. W. Hayes Ward says: “Axes or celts, whether of stone or copper, are extremely rare from the region of primitive Babylonia, although celts are not infrequent in Asia Minor. The axe was, however, perfectly well known from the earliest times in Babylonia, and is figured both on the cylinders and on bas-reliefs. On a cylinder in the Berlin Museum, V. A. 243, the three weapons more usual on the cylinders are drawn, in the field, side by side, between the two standing figures, thus (Fig. 3): “This is the usual appearance of the axe on the cylinders, but it is not a frequent weapon, the poniard, and especially the club, being more frequent. In De Clercq's ‘Catalogue methodique et Raisonné,’ pl. 21, Ramman is figured with a weapon thus (Fig. 4): “In the archaic ‘Stele of Vultures’ of about 4000 B.C., or earlier, is a figure of a king seated in his chariot, carrying a quiver with arrows, and what may be a peculiar bow, but looks more like a boomerang. Following him are his soldiers armed with spears and battle-axes shaped (Fig. 5): (See De Sarzec, ‘Découvertes en Chaldée,’ pl. 3 bis. See also pl. 5 bis, 3 b, for similar axes). But that the double axe was known is shown by a terracotta votive axe, ib., pl. 45, 5. Fig. 5. Fig.6 “In the bas-relief of Naram-Sin, King of Agade, in Babylonia, generally supposed to have reigned about 3750 B.C., the king is armed and followed by his soldiers, who are armed, in part, with axes. For the shape of the axes see De Morgan, ‘Délégation en Perse,’ I, p. 150. “Babylonian axes are not to be found, I think, in the art after perhaps 3000 B.C., until we come down to the axes of the northern region, which came in with the two-edged bipennis axe carried by Adad, or the chief god of the Hittite region. There it was a frequent object, and is found in Cretan art. “Among the cylinders showing the axe is that of the goddess attacked under a tent-tree (Fig. 9). (See Sarzec, ‘Découvertes en Chaldée,’ pl. 30 bis, 17 b.) Here the shape of the axe wielded by the god who hacks at the tree is (Fig. 9): “In the case of the ‘British Museum Cylinder Migration Scene,’ two of the men carry an axe on their arm shaped (Fig. 10): Fig. 10. “In the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, is a cylinder drawn with an axe in the field, between the two central standing figures, thus (Fig. 11).” Lenormant is uncertain as to the translation of the first two lines of the inscription; the third he renders ‘To his god,’ probably Ramman, the Rimmon of the Bible (2 Kings v, 18), the god of thunder, lightning, and all atmospheric phenomena. He figures the inscription, on page 7, enlarged, and transliterated into the later cuneiform, as in Prof. Price’s second figure; but regards the language as a very archaic Sumerian or Accadian form, of agglutinated character and almost impossible to render with any certainty, in the absence of some bilingual inscriptions as a guide. He points out that the object was strictly votive, or religious, in its nature,—a symbol and not a weapon,—and was connected with the widespread early veneration for celts and stone hammers, as supposed to have fallen from the gods; whence for votive purposes a stone object was made in preference to a metal one. He cites an Assyrian bas-relief (from Layard), in which the statue of Ramman is carried in procession. He has four horns on his head, at his feet are the thunderbolts, and he carries a hammer in his hand. This hammer in the hands of Ramman had among the Babylonian Chaldeans the same significance as the hammer of Thor in the Scandinavian mythology. The general credence was that the bolts from the god fell on earth in the shape of hammers of stone. Therefore, the dedication to the god found a greater significance in the shape of a stone hammer or battle-axe than in one of metal. (‘Tre Monumenti Caldei ed Assiri’: pp. 8, 9.) Fig. 12. Chaldean Hammer bearing an inscription. The literature teems with curious and interesting accounts of the varied and widespread superstitions relating to prehistoric stone implements of all kinds, throughout Europe and Asia. Celts and stone hammers were believed almost everywhere to have fallen from the sky in connection with thunderstorms; and arrow-heads were called ‘fairy darts’ and ‘elf darts’; and all were supposed to have potent influences as charms. E. F. Stevens relates many singular superstitions about elf-darts in Ireland, Scotland, and Scandinavia, and even as far as Japan, where flint and obsidian arrow-heads are thought to be used by spirits. These were believed to fly through the air in storms, and to drop their weapons on the earth; and the people go out afterwards and look for them on the ground. In Ireland and Scotland they were worn upon the person as charms; and they are sometimes found in ancient Greek or Etruscan jewelry, as pendants. The belief that stone axes were connected with thunder was widespread; they were known among the Greeks as astropelekia, i. e., star-hatchets, and keraunia, thunder-stones. In Europe in the Middle Ages, they were supposed to be always discoverable at the roots of a tree that had been struck by lightning, or beneath a house so struck, and were credited with all manner of virtues,—to protect a house from lightning, to cure diseases in men and animals, to give strength and victory in contests, etc. Such an axe was hung round the neck of the ram or goat that led a flock, to preserve the whole of them from accident or the ‘evil eye.’ The Scandinavian folk-lore and Sagas tell of ‘victory-stones’ [or] ‘Thor-stones,’ worn by chieftains, which rendered them secure and successful in combat. Two such narratives may be cited, from the Bern’s Saga, one of King Nidung, and the other of Sigurd, who were made victorious by ^ such stones, which were undoubtedly amulets of this kind. (‘Flint Chips,’ pp. 873–890.) Galba, when general, found twelve celts in a small lake which he drained when that was struck by lightning, and believed he was to be a great man. The modern archaeologist knows that it meant that Galba had found the site of an ancient Lake Dwelling. Fig. 13. Votive Axe of Thotmes III. Maspero refers to this very specimen, in speaking of ancient axes. He says: (The Dawn of Civilization, p. 755):— “A few examples, it is true, are of fairly artistic shape, and bear engraved inscriptions: one of these, a flint hammer of beautiful form, belonged to a god, probably Ramman, and seems to have come from a temple in which one of its owners had deposited it. It is an exception, and a remarkable exception. Stone was the material of the implements of the poor—implements which were coarse in shape and cost little; if much care were given to their execution, they would come to be so costly that no one would buy them, or, if sold for a moderate sum, the seller would obtain no profit from the transaction. Beyond a certain price, it was more advantageous to purchase metal implements. “It was found in the ancient collection of Cardinal Borgia, and belonged some years ago to Count Ettore Borgia. An engraving of it was given in Stevens, ‘Flint Chips,’ p. 115, and a facsimile of it by Fr. Lenormant, ‘Tre Monumenti Caldei,’ etc., 1879, pp. 4–9, and pl. vi., 1; Cartailhac, ‘L’Age de la Pierre en Asie,’ in the Troisième Congrés provincial des Orientalistes, tenu à Lyon, Vol. I., pp. 321, 322, has reproduced Lenormant‘s notes on it. “Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from the illustration published by Fr. Lenormant, ‘Tre Monumenti Caldei,’ etc., pl. vi., No. 1.” (Ibid., foot-note.) He also says of ancient axes in general (ibid., p. 60, foot-note):— “Finally, the crook and the wooden-handled mace, with its head of white stone, the favorite weapon of princes, continued to the last the most revered insignia of royalty. “The blade is of bronze, and is attached to the wooden handle by interlacing thongs of leather (Ghizeh Museum). Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Emil Brugsch-Bey. “The crook is the sceptre of a prince, a Pharaoh, or a god: the white mace has still the value apparently of a weapon in the hands of the king who brandishes it over a group of prisoners, or over an ox which he is sacrificing to a divinity (Lepsius, Denkm., II., 2 a, c, 39 f, 116, etc.). Most museums possess specimens of the stone heads of one of these maces, but the mode of using it was not known. I had several placed in the Boulak Museum (Extrait de l’inventaire, p. 10, Nos. 26586, 26587, in the ‘Bulletin de l’lnstitut Égyptien,’ 2d series, Vol. VI). It already possessed a model of one entirely of wood (Mariette, ‘La Galerie de l’Égypte ancienne,’ p. 104; Maspero, ‘Guide,’ p. 303, No. 4722)." It is certainly a matter for congratulation that this remarkable and almost unique specimen should have been secured for this Museum. Note.—Stefano Borgia, Italian ecclesiastic (born Velletri, Dec., 1731, died Lyon, 23d Nov., 1804), was brought up by his uncle Alessandro Borgia, Archbishop of Ferno, and in 1750 on becoming a member of the Etruscan Academy of Cortona, commenced at Valletre to form one of the richest collections (private) in the world. In 1759 he was appointed by Benedict XIV governor of Benevento, and in 1770 he became secretary to the College of the Propaganda [Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, or Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide], which brought him into immediate relations with missionaries to all parts of the world, and enabled him, at comparatively little expense, to enrich his museum with manuscripts, coins, statues, idols, and all other rarities which each country possessed. In 1789 Pius VI made him a Cardinal, and at the same time appointed him inspector general of the foundling hospital, into which he introduced extensive reforms. In 1797 the revolution spirit, which had broken out in France, extended itself to Rome, and the Pope, as the best means of counteracting it, gave all his confidence to Borgia and installed him as director. He was arrested, and after his release was ordered to quit the Papal States. After embarking at Lisbon he went to Venice and Padua; returning to Rome, the new Pope Pius VII treated him with the same respect and confidence. He died while accompanying Pope Pius VII to France. He was author of several antiquarian and historical works, and deserves honorable mention for his liberal patronage of art and artists. Count Ettore Borgia, a nephew, inherited a part of his collections. But the main portion in archaeology is now in the Royal Museum of Antiquities at Naples; the lesser part, containing the books, manuscripts, letters, etc., is in the College of the Propaganda at Rome. [4] Notes – click note number to return to text 1. Read before the New York Academy of Sciences, Jan. 29, and Feb. 27, 1905. 2. Collection d’Antiquités du Comte Michel Tyszkiewicz, decente par W. Froehner. Paris, 1898. Folio, p. 97, plate xxxii. 3. Lenormant, F., in ‘Tre Monumenti Caldei ed Assiri,’ Roma, 1879, pl. xiv, gives a transliteration into Assyrian of this inscription, but he misread the first two signs in the first line, and the first two in the third line. He finds the god Ramman, however, and gives an appropriate description of him. 4. Thanks are due to the Rev William Hood Stewart of the Roman Catholic Church of the Epiphany, New York City, for much of the information in regard to Cardinal Stephano [sic] Borgia. An Ancient Bablylonian Axe-Head By Prof. J. Dyneley Prince and Dr. Robert Lau. Extracted from the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. XXI, pp. 49–52, April 6, 1905. In the Tiffany Collection of gems belonging to the American Museum of Natural History is a remarkably perfect and very ancient Babylonian axe-head of pure agate. This object was originally obtained by Cardinal Borgia while at the head of the Propaganda and was subsequently offered by the Countess Ettore Borgia to the British Museum for sale, whence it was returned to her, owing to the Museum's lack of funds to purchase it at that time. It was then acquired by Count Michel Tyszkiewicz for the sum of 15,000 lire (Italian), who kept it until his death, when it was purchased by Mr. George Kunz, of Tiffany & Co., of New York, by whom it was added to the Tiffany Collection, which was later presented to the American Museum of Natural History by Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. The axe-head is interesting, not only because of its extreme beauty as an artistic production, which undoubtedly entitles it to its very prominent position in this unique collection of gems and rare coins, but also because of the inscription in archaic Babylonian characters, with which its obverse side is embellished. A discussion as to the probable age of this object must depend, first, on the nature of this inscription, and, secondly, on the character of the agate of which the hammer is made. The dimensions of the Morgan axe-head are as follows: Length, 13.7 cm.; width over the handle-perforation, 3 cm.; length of the back, 1.7 cm.; width of the back, 1.9 cm.; diameter of the perforation, 0.9 cm. There can be no doubt that the axe-head was a votive object presented to some temple in Babylonia. It is unfortunate that the place where it was originally excavated is not known, as in that case much might be learned regarding the date of the object, which now depends entirely on deduction. This is not unique as a votive axe. A fragment of a similar axe in imitation of lapis lazuli, 6.75 x 4.25 x 1.5, was found at Nippur, in Southern Babylonia, by the recent American Expedition to that site. This Nippur axe shows an inscription of seven lines, which may be transliterated and translated as follows: 1. . . . . -ni-šu ‘his . . . . . 2. (Na-zi)-ma-ru-ut-taš Nazimaruttash 3. . . . . nu . . . 4. . . . . .-šu his . . . . . 5. (apal Ku-)ri-gal-zu the son of Kurigalzu 6. (iq-ri)-bi-šu a-na še-me-e for hearing his prayers 7. (ûmi-i) šu-ur-ru-ki (and) lengthening his days (has given).’ For the Babylonian text alone, see Hilprecht, ‘The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania,’ I, part ii, plate 61, nr. 136. The king Nazimaruttash (ca. 1340 B.C.), the son of Kurigalzu II (ca. 1350 B.C.), was evidently the donor of this Nippur axe-head to the temple of some god whose name is mutilated. The inscription shows how the gift of the object was thought to induce the god to look favorably on the donor, whose gift should be an incentive to the god “for hearing his prayers and prolonging his days.” The Nippur axe was found at Nippur in a chamber on the edge of the canal outside of the great southeast wall. It is evident, therefore, that, although this Nippur axe-head is far inferior, from the point of view of pure art, to the Morgan axe-head, the former object is more valuable from an archaeological point of view, as we have the exact data regarding it and are able to determine its age with absolute accuracy. It is clear, however, that we must expect an inscription of similar import on the Morgan axe-head, which was plainly an object intended to serve the same votive purpose as that of the Nippur axe. The text on the Morgan axe-head consists of three lines, very carefully carved inside of a regular cartouche, as follows: This may be transliterated into the later cuneiform text as follows: [Fig. 2. Assyrian character.] This may be transliterated in Roman character and translated as follows: 1. Xa-aṭ-ṭi-iš ‘Khattish, 2. âšârid the chief person (favorite) 3. ilâni of the gods (presented it).’ That the first line shows a proper name is evident, although we miss here the customary upright determinative, usually preceding proper names. This omission, however, is not without parallel (cf. op. cit. plate 51, nr. 121, line 4, the king’s name Ur-(ilu)Bati; op. cit. plate 36, nr. 86, line 2, the king’s name Lugalkigubnidúdú, etc.). There is no exact parallel to the name Khattish, which is probably not a royal name, but that of a high official at some Babylonian city, court, or perhaps that of a local governor, as the axe-head seems to antedate the unification of Babylonia under the hegemony of the city of Babylon by Hammurabi (2342–2288 B.C.). It should be noted, however, that the name Xa-aš-xa-mi-ir occurs I. Rawl. l. i. nr. 10, as that of a ruler (patesi) of the city of Iš(?)-ku-un-Sin. This name, Xašxamîr, seems to be a name of the same general character as Xa-aṭ-ṭi-iš (see for Xašxamîr, Radau, ‘Early Babylonian History,’ p. 30, note). The two signs which are translated ašârid, ‘chief person,’ occur in this sense, V. Rawl. 44, 36c, referring to the god Ninib as the ašâridu, the usual ideogram for which, however, is SAG-KAL and not our combination PAP-ŠEŠ, which is very rare. The last line presents no difficulty, as the three signs, AN-NI-NI, can only be the ideogram for ilâni, ‘gods.’ It is clear that the verb iqîš, ‘he presented (it),’ must be understood as the grammatical complement to the inscription, which is complete and shows no traces of mutilation. The characters of this inscription are very antique, approaching more closely in form those of the Gudea period (ca. 3000 B.C.) than those of later date. On the other hand, the dated inscriptions from the time of Gudea show a slightly more linear and less cuneiform character than do the signs on the Morgan axe, where the wedge is beginning to appear, which leads us to the opinion that this inscription may date between Gudea’s time and that of Hammurabi (2342–2288 B.C.), when the wedge was even more prominent than we see it in the inscription on the axe-head. The objection may always be raised that we have here a piece of much later work, with the inscription deliberately written in archaic characters after the style of some of the documents of Nebuchadnezzar II (604–562 B.C.), who caused inscriptions to be written in imitation of the earlier Babylonian writing. This does not seem probable to us, owing to the general character of the signs in question, which are too naturally cut to admit of this supposition. Deliberate archaization would, we think, have produced a somewhat more clearly cut inscription and also one in which the linear tendency was not so well marked as we have it here. The accompanying photograph illustrates the linear character of these signs better than the written reproduction. The stone is distinctly agate in layers, not agate with circular or ring-like marking, which would militate against a very ancient date for the object. The appearance of the layers, however, does not preclude the date which we suppose for the Morgan axe, i. e., between 3000 and 2300 B.C., probably nearer 3000 B.C. than the later date. In Morgan Hall, American Museum of Natural History, New York City By George Frederick Kunz, Hon. Curator of Precious Stones Reprinted from The American Museum Journal, Vol. XIII, No. 4, pp. 159–168, 171, April 1913. The Babylonian axe head is included on the cover of the reprint of George Frederick Kunz’s “On Morgan Hall.” Regarding the cover of the April 1913 edition of The American Museum Journal, which also was used for the reprint, was described on the original edition’s page 200. The cover of this number of the Journal is designed from objects of antiquity and historic value in the Morgan gem collection. Babylonian cylinders dating from 4000 to 400 B. C. are combined in the border, an enlargement of a portion of a fifteenth century turquoise inscribed with two thousand words of the Koran forms the inner band, and an agate axhammer of ancient workmanship occupies the lower left-hand corner. The cylinders are engraved with figures and names on various minerals such as lapis-lazuli, jasper, chalcedony, steatite, hematite and agate. The axhammer of banded agate was in the possession of Cardinal Borgia while at the head of the Propaganda, was acquired from the Countess Ettore Borgia by Count Michael Tyszkiewicz for 15,000 francs ($3000) and purchased by Tiffany and Company soon after his death. It found its way into the Museum’s gem collection through the generosity of Mr. Morgan. The axe head is mentioned near the end of this opening excerpt from the text of Kunz’s article, in boldface to facilitate location. Of all the many and munificent gifts with which our great and lamented fellow citizen, John Pierpont Morgan, enriched the collections of our museums, none has afforded more instruction to a large number of visitors or is more highly appreciated and better known than the wonderful Morgan gem collection exhibited on the upper floor of the southern wing of the American Museum of Natural History, on the Seventy-seventh Street side. We can truly say also that none of Mr. Morgan’s gifts gave him more pleasure, and his interest in the collection was as keen the last time I spoke to him as it had been at the outset. That one so familiar with the best in all branches of art should be a lover of beauty of form and color goes without saying, and we may add that his thorough appreciation and understanding of the finest examples made him a severe critic in such matters, rendering him intolerant of everything mediocre, commonplace or uninteresting. And he possessed withal a wonderfully retentive memory of what he knew was in the collection or of what he had seen, which only enhanced his admiration of what was exceptionally fine. Until 1882 scarcely any attention was paid to precious stones in the United States. A few years before that date I had seriously taken up the subject of studying and collecting gems, and had prevailed upon Messrs. Tiffany and Company to preserve the best examples that presented themselves to form the collection which was exhibited in a circular pavilion at the Paris Exposition of 1889, in the center of the American section. At the solicitation of the late Morris K. Jesup, president of the American Museum of Natural History, Mr. Morgan presented this entire collection to the Museum. The specimens were displayed in two long cases on the upper floor, and some five years later the fact that the tile pavement on both sides had been worn to a considerable depth along the line where the cases stood, gave testimony to the interest excited in the general public. The success of the first collection led me to believe that a collection of precious stones of other than American origin would be worthy of a greater national exhibition, and a consultation was held with Mr. Morgan. As a result a new collection was made and proved to be larger than had originally been anticipated. It was purchased on condition that it should be shown at the Paris Exposition of 1900 where it received a Grand Prize and occupied a most important position in the Department of Mines. This latter collection was the result of a trip throughout Europe, Asiatic Russia, the United States and Mexico. The finest examples were obtained by purchase frequently, sometimes however only through exchange with collectors or museums. This collection is now installed in the American Museum of Natural History, a crowning glory to the many magnificent assemblages of other things in the Museum. The collection is especially remarkable for the many unique things it contains, among which are the most perfect large sapphire known, a Babylonian ax-head of banded agate, four thousand years old, and a wonderful series of sapphires, blue, pink, salmon and brown. There is also a magnificent series of beryls; a large series of tourmalines; an immense section of jade—an entire boulder but so thin that it measures not more than one eighth of an inch through. The great hyacinth with the portrait of Christ engraved on it, the gift of a Vatican cardinal to a friend, is in this collection. The two collections as eventually completed consist of 2176 specimens of gem-stones, objects of precious-stone, and 2442 pearls. Taken in its entirety the present collection is the most extensive and carefully selected display of rough and cut stones in existence. The specimens of ancient Babylonian minerals represented by engraved cylinders constitute in themselves a quite unique possession, and the same may be said of the collection of opals and of the collection of kunzite specimens. Magnificent cut specimens of morganite must also be noted, as well as a mass of quite transparent aquamarine, the heart of the great crystal found at Marambaya, Brazil, a piece weighing fourteen pounds. This mass of aquamarine is the largest piece of gem beryl known. There are also magnificent crystals of rubellite found during the past year at Pala, San Diego County, California. From Quartz Family Minerals: A Handbook for the Mineral Collector By H. C. Dake, Frank L. Fleener and Ben Hur Wilson This book originally was published in 1938 by Whittlesey House, an imprint of McGraw-Hill. The passage discussed below is from pages 13–14. In their chapter, The Historical Lore of Quartz, authors Dake, Fleener, and Wilson begin with a section titled Primitive Tools, Weapons, and Ornaments, which states that according to archaeological evidence, the Sumerians were the first to employ semiprecious stones for ornamental purposes and to master lapidary art. Objects that were fashioned from these stones included beads and other jewels, signet rings and cylinder seals. Beads were crafted in a cylindrical shape, from carnelian and agate, the source of agate likely being India. In the next section, Agate Valued by the Ancients, leads off with a discussion of ceremonial axheads, “the purpose of which is conjectural.” The first such axhead described is the one now in the collection of Bill Larson. The description is very brief, with no information that is not already included in the other sources, reprinted above. The axhead is pictured on page 14, with the inscription on the right, i.e., upside down.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2154
__label__wiki	0.954508	0.954508	Michael Getler More on This Story: Select One Interview Transcript Previous Page David Brancaccio talks with the new PBS ombudsman Michael Getler. Read the ombudsman's columns on pbs.org. Michael Getler is the ombudsman for the Public Broadcasting Service. Appointed in November, 2005, he is the first ombudsman in PBS history and the first for any major American general-interest television network or service. As ombudsman, Getler serves as an independent internal critic within PBS, receiving and dealing with commentary and criticism from viewers and seeking to ensure that PBS upholds its own standards of editorial integrity. He writes a regular online column for pbs.org reflecting issues raised by the public and including explanations from PBS and/or assessments from the ombudsman's perspective. And he appears occasionally on the air. Before joining PBS, Getler was the ombudsman for THE WASHINGTON POST newspaper for five years. In that capacity, he served as the newspaper's internal critic and as a liaison with readers. He wrote a column for the editorial page on Sunday as well as a weekly internal critique of the newspaper for the staff. Before taking on this position in November 2000, he served as executive editor of the INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE from 1996 until 2000. The IHT, an English-language newspaper based in Paris and distributed globally, was owned jointly until 2003 by The Washington Post Co. and the NEW YORK TIMES. Prior to working for IHT, Getler worked for THE WASHINGTON POST for 26 years. He joined The Post in 1970 as a military affairs correspondent, covering the Pentagon and defense-related activities in Congress and the White House. In 1975, he became the newspaper's Central European correspondent, moving to Bonn, Germany, and covering most of Eastern Europe in addition to Germany and NATO. In 1980, he returned to Washington in the newly-created position of national security correspondent covering both defense and diplomacy, including arms control. In 1984, he was named London correspondent. In 1985, he returned from London to become the newspaper's foreign editor, responsible for the daily operation of The Post's corps of foreign correspondents. In 1986, he became assistant managing editor for foreign news, overseeing coverage of a period of extraordinary international upheaval during which the newspaper won three Pulitzer Prizes. In 1993 he became deputy managing editor for the newspaper, a position that, aside from news responsibilities, also included management of the newly-formed newsroom personnel office, handling hiring, training, career development and diversity issues. From 1961 to 1970, Getler was a reporter and editor on specialized magazines in the defense, aviation and space fields published by American Aviation Publications. In 1966, he won the Jesse Neal Award for reporting from Vietnam, and in 1969, he won the Aviation/Space Writers award for coverage of the Apollo program. In 1992, he was awarded The Post's Eugene Meyer Award for distinguished career service. In 2004, he won an Award of Distinction for Investigative Reporting on the News by the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Born in New York City, Getler graduated from the City College of New York and began his journalistic career at The Riverdale (NY) Press while still a college student. From 1956 to 1960, he served as an officer in the US Navy. Select One Vote 2002Freedom of ReligionFreedom of Information Academic Freedom Full Archive Previous Page © JumpStart Productions. All rights reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2156
__label__wiki	0.596762	0.596762	Set Up Running The Life of a Pennsylvania Railroad Engineman, 1904–1949 John W. Orr, and Introduction by James D. Porterfield $34.95 \| Paperback Edition 6" × 9" “An engaging book, one likely to become a railroad classic. The major strength of Set Up Running is detail, particularly when it involves locomotives, train movements, and patterns of operation. Especially enjoyable are the depictions of Orr as a loyal Pennsylvania Railroad employee and of his overall pride of workmanship.” —H. Roger Grant, Clemson University Set Up Running tells the story of a Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive engineer, Oscar P. Orr, who operated steam-powered freight and passenger trains throughout central Pennsylvania and south-central New York. From 1904 to 1949, Orr sat at the controls of many famous steam locomotives; moved trains loaded with coal, perishables, and other freight; and encountered virtually every situation a locomotive engineer of that era could expect to see. John W. (Jack) Orr, Oscar’s son, tells his father’s story, which begins at the Central Steam Heating Plant in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Oscar operated nearly every kind of steam locomotive the Pennsylvania Railroad owned, working from the bottom of the roster to the top position (number one in seniority). Orr has an ear for detail and a vivid memory. He tells about his father’s first encounter with an automobile along the right-of-way, about what it was like to operate a train in a blizzard, and about the difficulties railroadmen encountered in stopping a trainload of tank cars loaded with oil in order to take on water and coal—and many other stories. This compelling railroad history will enthrall not only everyone in the railroad community but also the general reader interested in railroads and trains, past and present. “One of my earliest recollections involves the railroad, a plaintive whistle, and my mother stating that my father would soon be home. And it wasn’t long before that large man, clad in blue overalls, came through the door with his travel bag, which he promptly set on the kitchen floor so he could pick me up. There was a strange smell on his overclothes, but it was not offensive, and it was one that I later learned belonged to a steam engine. So from very early in my life I developed an avid interest in the steam engine.” —John W. (Jack) Orr, Exerpt “Set Up Running is a book well worth reading even if you are not a railroad enthusiast. It helps to illuminate a part of the vanishing past when Williamsport was a major rail hub. The book is a major contribution to an important aspect of the social history of the area. There are plenty of references to local towns and spots to make it interesting to area readers. But, perhaps more importantly, it’s just a good story written with love and respect for a man and a time by his son.” —Lou Hunsinger Jr., Williamsport Sun-Gazette “Rather than a glamorized, rosy look at the days of steam, the accounts of O.P. and John reveal railroading as seen through the eyes of those who handled and lived with the railroad day after day. . . . Set Up Running is a must-read for the Pennsy fan, and a truly rare treasure for those wanting to know the lives of the men who truly kept American steam locomotives running.” —Alexander D. Mitchell IV, Railfan and Railroad “Through true-life experiences, the reader gets an idea what it was like to work on a railroad in general and a steam engine specifically.” —John Beague, Harrisburg Patriot News “[Q]uite simply one of the liveliest and most informative works of railroad history to come along in many years.” —Michael Bezilla, Pennsylvania History “Set Up Running describes life in engine service as seldom told before. You will like it. The good and the bad, the long, long nights, broken knuckles, pulled couplers, firemen that don’t know how to fire and don’t want to learn, derailments, engines that won’t steam, washouts —it’s all here. Not only is this an unvarnished story of what engine service was really like but it is also a valuable sociological portrait of railroading seldom explored in this detail. This was a difficult book for me to lay aside. . . . You will enjoy riding with engineer O.P. Orr in this true story of running an engine in the days of steam.” —Robert E. McMillan, Lexington Quarterly “For students of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Orr provides an interesting perspective with his view from the cab. . . . the level of detail is incredible as Orr successfully tempers the romance with the reality of an engineman’s life.” —Robert M. Blackson, Railroad History “Still the book is an amazing document of a fufilling life in industrial America. It is a good read, even though there are no plot twists or shattering climaxes. One comes away with a deepened sense that the bargain between capitalist and worker was arms-length but genuine, that hard work paid and a working life was rewarding.” —Richard Saunders, Labor History “The cumulative effect is an extended meditation on a lost world of rugged, single-minded men—almost monkish in their devotion to their job and ‘the company,’—who once thread[ed] their engines along river banks and down grades to deliver carloads of coal and lumber and merchandise to larger towns, where the freight was reshuffled into other trains and delivered to virtually every point on the continent.” —Mark Reutter, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography “My first impression is that this is a first rate account of ‘railroading in the raw’ during the first half of the twentieth century.” —Bill Howes, Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Inc. Quarterly Newsletter John W. Orr graduated from Penn State in 1949. Recently deceased, he resided in Ralston, Pennsylvania. My father always told me I had a favorite expression. It was "Why?" A small word of seemingly little significance, it nonetheless became the major factor in my being able to write this book. Early in life I developed a profound curiosity and interest in railroads and the complex background that ensured the safe, efficient movement of trains over the rails. I grew up in a small town comprised mainly of men associated with the Pennsylvania Railroad in its many different jobs. My father was among them, working throughout Central Pennsylvania during his career as an engineman. Over those years I saw firsthand the contributions these men— and their families—made to the running of a railroad. When I graduated from college I assumed the responsibilities associated with adulthood: marriage, family, and career. My father, meanwhile, retired. These turns resulted in my interest in railroading being banked, but not extinguished. Later, upon my own retirement, time to renew my interest in railroading was at hand. I subscribed to magazines, read books, and explored steam-operated tourist lines throughout the United States. Unfortunately for me, most of the books and magazines emphasized historical, pictorial, and/or technical content. Again that question "Why?" began coming up, but now it was addressed to me. As I thought of all the railroad workers I'd had the good fortune to become acquainted with, and of the countless numbers of their kind elsewhere throughout the United States, all of whom had interesting stories, I wondered why nothing had been written about their experiences and lives. Reading at that time an article in Trains, a magazine about railroading, written by then-editor David P. Morgan, brought to mind an experience of my father's that he had once related to me. I wrote Mr. Morgan, thinking that such a well-known railroading person, and editor of a prestigious magazine, would give my excerpts little of his valuable time. To my great surprise, however, I received a reply a few days later. It opened with "Great!" and he invited me to submit for his personal attention any stories I wanted to. This new development caused me to immediately start recalling the many things my father had told me over the years, now long past. Which tales or events would be suitable for publication? To me, they were all interesting. With no deadline to meet, I decided the logical approach was to start when my father took his first job with the Pennsylvania Railroad. As I started compiling the stories, I was reminded that my vivid recall of the details was the result of my profound interest in anything connected with railroading, especially the fascinating steam locomotives in use when I was in my formative years. When my father was home between runs, I was constantly asking "Why?" Fortunately, he was always able to give me an understandable answer. To enhance my knowledge, he provided books on the subject. He also used the technique of explaining something by citing an incident from his personal experience. He was a well-qualified teacher. Fortunately, radio reception in our narrow mountain valley left much to be desired, television was not yet perfected, and telephone service was installed in our home only briefly (as you will see, there is even a railroad connection to that fact). Without such distractions, my father and I spent long periods in conversation, much of it about railroading. I tried to record events in their proper sequence, never hurrying, thoroughly recalling things in advance that I wanted to transcribe. I did not delve into technical details any more than was necessary to describe what I wanted to tell my readers. The manuscript was written in longhand, mostly at night when I was alone. In the afternoon or early evening I would type. Continuing to write and type in this manner for more than two years, I produced a manuscript the final length of which amazed me. Now, rather than harboring the fear something important wasn't included, I found myself wondering if I'd written too much. I carefully reread the manuscript with the thought that some of the text could be shortened or eliminated. In doing so I arrived at the conclusion that eliminating content would distort the theme of the work. Before my finished work could be presented to David Morgan, I learned that he had passed away. At this, I let the work lie dormant. Then my youngest son, William, visiting on vacation, inquired about the book, and after scanning its contents he asked if he could take my copy to read. Shortly thereafter, he called to inform me that a person in the company he worked for—a Hollywood studio—was willing to edit the manuscript. William also took a postcard-size black-and-white photograph of my father and his fire-man standing on the running board of a Pennsylvania Railroad class H6b locomotive, circa 1914, and had a studio enlarge it to 40 by 32 inches, then airbrush it in color. The photo refinisher placed the print in his studio window and reported that a number of people offered favorable comments on it, a few even inquiring about when the motion picture the still was taken from would be released. This picture is found on the cover of the book. With an edited manuscript, and encouraged by the interest shown in the colorized photograph, I began sending inquiries to publishers of railroad books. But their responses indicated an interest only in pictorial, historical, or technical works. One publisher was interested in reviewing the manuscript but wondered if I had color photographs to illustrate what I had written. I had to tell him that color photographs of the era my book covered—from 1904 through 1949—were rare and that my collection of black-and-white photographs of my father had been destroyed in a fire that consumed my home. Without color photographs, he wasn't interested. At this introduction to railroad publishing, I did nothing further with the manuscript. From time to time my wife and son William inquired what I intended to do with my work, and I would procrastinate, avowing that sooner or later I would make further inquiries, even perhaps submit short stories. Then, once again, an article appeared in a railroading magazine,Vintage Rails, with a byline and a query. It stated that James D. Porterfield, an adjunct professor at the Pennsylvania State University and himself a published author, was looking for fictional accounts of railroading that could be used in that publication. I contacted Jim by mail, explaining that the material I could submit was factual, not fictional. A prompt reply indicated his interest in seeing my work. Included in his instructions was a telephone number, which I took to be an invitation to call him. Doing so, I at one point explained that I was retired and lived but eighty-five miles from his home in State College. If he would designate a date and time, I could present the manuscript personally. An appointment was made, but Mr. Porterfield expressed concern that I might find it difficult to locate his home. I assured him that this was not a problem. I had spent a considerable amount of time in the State College area, first graduating from Penn State in January 1949, then spending more than twenty-two years in that area as a sales representative for an electrical wholesaler. In fact, I had worked with the project developer and the electrical contractor involved in the building of the James Porterfield home. Our meeting went well, and some time later Jim called to inform me he was impressed by the work and would like to recommend it for publication to The Pennsylvania State University Press. Penn State Press requires both the favorable critical comments of at least two recognized authorities and approval from its editorial board before it can accept a work for publication. Armed with Jim's critical review, and that of noted railroad historian H. Roger Grant, and backed further by favorable verbal endorsements from other noted rail authorities, Peter Potter, presently editor in chief of Penn State Press, agreed to have the press publish the book. A contract was offered, a word count and schedule was established, and an agreement was drawn up and signed. You are holding the results of that process. Said book would not have been possible without the help of numerous others not already acknowledged. Primary among them were Harold K. Vollrath, Bill Caloroso, Herb Trice, and Jeff Pontius, who kindly granted permission to use photographs from their collection. Cummins McNitt, Curator at the Railroaders Memorial Museum in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and Kurt Bell, Archivist at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg, Pennsylvania, were courteous and helpful during my visits to gather pictures of the key locomotives my father ran during his career. My son William Orr, and others at the studio where he works, were instrumental in preparing the maps. Finally, Jim Porterfield, who wrote the introduction and contributed in so many other ways, and Peter Potter, history editor, and Peggy Hoover, copy editor, at The Pennsylvania State University Press, were supportive throughout. And for encouragement and help in various ways that made this book possible, I thank my wife, Mary Louise; my sons, John, David, and William; and my daughter, Kathleen. I wrote this book to fill a gap that many of those who write about railroading seem to forget exists. The focus of this book is on the daily lives and work of the many workers who endeavored to operate the nation's railroads efficiently and safely. It is my sincere desire that this book will provide insight and enjoyment through the story of the life of one such railroad worker, my father, Oscar P. Orr, a Pennsylvania Railroad engineman. I have made every effort to remain truthful and accurate in my reporting. Any errors made are unintentional and are entirely my responsibility. © 2003 The Penn State University Twentieth-century	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2160
__label__cc	0.707416	0.292584	Kirt's Cogitations™ #211 My Astronaut Days of Yore This is not a photo of the Gemini command module (CM) that I encountered at the Glen L. Martin Institute of Technology in the 1970's. Glenn L. Martin Institute of Technology (now the A. James Clark School of Engineering) at the University of Maryland. While surfing around on some NASA websites today, I suddenly had a recollection of an experience from way back in the 1970's that probably puts me in an exclusive club of space program enthusiasts. During my junior high and high school years, class work always seemed to be interfering with my activities involving building and flying model rockets and airplanes. My grades duly reflected that fact. Most off time then was filled with transforming balsa trees into flying objects, with the help of a straight-edge razor blade, some sandpaper, Duco cement, and butyrate dope. Add in all the accessories from Estes and Cox that my paper route would afford me, and I managed to gain quite a bit of experience in the art of model flight. If you look at my high school year book, the "Future Plans" inscription under my pathetic photograph mentions something about attending the University of Maryland (I lived in Annapolis then) for aerospace engineering. The only problem was that at the time, I could not factor a square if my life depended on it. In fact, my only knowledge of a square was in relation to the number of shingles on a roof top. I had not yet managed to make the critical connection between higher math and engineering. That would come later while serving in the U.S. Air Force. Determined to at least be able to truthfully say that I had indeed gone to the University of Maryland, my good friend and flying buddy, Jerry Flynn, and I would make occasional trips to the Glenn L. Martin Institute of Technology, located on the University of Maryland campus. In one of the buildings were many laboratories filled with some of the most magnificently cool pressure chambers, wind tunnels, materials testing contraptions, machining equipment, jet engines, sections of airplanes wings, and as good luck would have it on one memorable occasion, an honest-to-god Gemini space capsule (command module - CM). It stopped me in my tracks when I saw it. There, sitting in "launch position," securely strapped to a wheeled platform, was one of the 2-man Gemini capsules that had actually flown and been recovered from the ocean (Mercury capsules were 1-man, Geminis were 2-man, and Apollos were 3-man). Unfortunately, I do not recall which mission it belonged to. The ablation shield that protected its passengers from being cooked alive had clearly seen torturous re-entry heating, and burn marks streaked the upper sides of the craft. According to a placard on the mount, this vehicle was on loan to the school for study purposes. The University of Maryland is only a few miles from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/) in Greenbelt, MD, so there was/is a lot of sharing of facilities between the two institutions. No doubt that played a role in securing the Gemini space capsule. One interesting aspect about our visits to the Glen L. Martin building was that rarely was anyone else present (maybe an occasional janitor). We literally had unfettered access to everything the aerospace wonderland had to offer. It is a good thing that Jerry and I were entirely trustworthy and careful to not disturb anything. That some vandal could have so easily stolen valuable artifacts or sabotaged important research work is frightening in retrospect. Hopefully, security is much tighter today. We freely toured the facilities, peeking into test chambers, looking over scribbled notes and drawings, and thumbing through text books. Now, even though we were respectful of the facilities, we absolutely could not resist the beckoning, siren call of the open door on that Gemini space capsule. With the greatest of care, Jerry and I each squeezed our way into the two seats of the capsule (I did get dibs on the left seat, where the commander sat). In utter disbelief of the moment fate had provided us, there we were, "sitting" feet skyward in the very vehicle that had a decade ago sustained the lives of our heroic astronauts. That we were unworthy of occupying those seats did not occur to us at the time (attribute it to youthful ignorance). We might have even called a countdown and made corny blastoff noises, but I like to think not. At 17 years old, we might have done just about anything. One thing we did not dare do was to shut the capsule door whilst seated inside. I could just imagine the newspaper headlines about some professor discovering the suffocated bodies of two morons in a Gemini space capsule on Monday morning. So there you have it, that experience inducted my friend Jerry and me into that very small club of lucky people who have ever actually sat inside any type of space vehicle that had actually been in orbit around the Earth. My only remaining hope now is that this mea culpa is protected by a statute of limitations for such acts that would prevent any University of Maryland security agent from knocking on my door with an arrest warrant. Now the A. James Clark School of Engineering – he must have donated big $$$ to warrant the name change. A huge collection of my 'Factoids' can be accessed from my 'Kirt's Cogitations' table of contents. Tech Topics Smorgasbord, another manifestation of Factoids, are be found on these pages: \| 21 \| 22 \| 23 \| 24 \| 25 \| 26 \| 27 \| 28 \| 29 \| 30 \| 31 \| 32 \| 33 \| 34 \| 35 \| All pertain to topics that are related to the general engineering and science theme of RF Cafe.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2163
__label__wiki	0.5626	0.5626	Home » Other Monasteries » Cozia Monastery Cozia Monastery Travel Bucovina Travel Maramures Travel Romania Other Monasteries from Romania Known as the oldest and most complex historical and art monuments from Romania, Cozia Monastery is situated on the right bank of the river Olt, 22 km away from Ramnicu Valcea and 75 km away from Sibiu. It was built between 1386-1388, being one of the most important foundations of the ruler Mircea cel Batran (Mircea the Ancient). Initially, it was known under the name of Nucet Monastery, because it was built in an area proper for walnut trees to grow. The name of “Cozia” was given to it later, after the name of the mountain in its vicinity. The church of Cozia Monastery. In the Great Church, namely in the nave, that has “The Holy Trinity” as its celebration day, one can see the original paintings. There, on the Western wall, there are paintings that present Mircea and his son Mihail wearing knight outfits and on the left, one can see the portrait of Serban Cantacuzino. In the pronaos you can see the tombs of Mircea and of the nun Teofana, Michael the Brave’s mother, who became a nun after her son’s death. She eventually died in 1605. There are barely any genuine traces from Mircea the Ancient’s time left at Cozia Monastery. The only items left from the time of the ruler – two bells – were taken one to the Bishopric of Ramnic and the other to the Bishopric of Arges. Mirceal cel Batran (Mircea the Ancient’s) epitaph was taken as well to the Art Museum in Bucharest and only a small piece of the ruler’s tomb remained at the Cozia Monastery. Further more, the cross pattern that even today stands on the monastery tower dates from Mircea the Ancient’s time. Cozia Monastery. Ceausescu’s stained glass windows, demolished On the other hand, Ceausescu managed to leave something behind at Cozia Monastery, even if he visited it only once in his life time, not long after he became president. Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu’s portraits remained for some years in the museum of the monastery, together with the ones of the great rulers that have brought their contribution at the consolidation of the fortress. But before the Revolution, the stained glass windows representing Ceausescu and his wife were demolished and hidden in the attic of the monastery. The stained glass windows were brought there in 1986 from the District Museum. Ceausescu’s portrait could be seen together with the ones representing Decebal, Burebista, Petru Voievod, Mircea Voievod. Before the Revolution, the Bishop of Arges came at the monastery with a delegation of English Lords and demanded that the portraits should be taken down. No one knew where they knew that a revolution was about to burst. Stained glass windows of the church at Cozia Monastery. Ceausescu even wrote his impression in the Golden Book of the monastery, on the first page on 11th June of 1966: “I’ve visited with great interest Cozia Monastery, one of the most representative monuments of our ancient art, the sanctuary where Mircea cel Batran (Mircea the Ancient), the great Ruler of Walachia, lays to rest. Mircea and all the other rulers’ battles for freedom and integrity have accomplished today their goals in our free and independent country-The Socialist Republic Romania.” The monastery has two chapels, one of them dating from 1583 and having “The Assumption of the Virgin” as the celebration day and the other one, which is situated in the North-Western side and built of bricks. The latter includes two vaulted houses and a tower that date from 1710-1711. The infirmary is situated on the other side of the road, with “The Holy Apostles” as its celebration day. It was built between 1542-1543 during Petre Voievod’s reign. On the Eastern side of this building is there a museum where coins, old printings, cult items and ornaments are exposed. The old Cozia (“the stony hermitage-this is the name the ruins of a former church, whose walls could be seen until 1986 on the valley of the river Olt) is situated 1km away from the monastery, having “John, the Baptist” as its celebration day. It is believed that it would be Radu’s foundation, built at the end of the 13th century and at the beginning of the 14th century.( Radu is Mircea’s father). The monument keeps the mark of the greatest rulers of Wallachia: the inner paintings, done initially between 1390-1391 were redone after 1512 by Neagoe Basarab, who built the well that bears his name even today. After 1706, Constantin Brancoveanu built the church porch in the style called “brancovenian style”. The rest of the church is built in Byzantine style with local influences. The mural paintings from Cozia Monastery are actually goods of the National Cultural Patrimony. Cozia is the most visited monastery from Romania, because of the fact that the museum of the monastery is the only one for which no taxes are required. The access to Cozia Monastery can be made following the road A1/E81 till Pitesti (115 km) and following the road E81 to Ramnicu Valcea (68 km), Calimanesti (14 km) and Caciulata (3km), the total distance being of 200 km. Address: Calinesti-Caciulata, Valcea County Phone: +40 (250) 750230 A scene painted in the church of Cozia Monastery. 2 Responses to “Cozia Monastery” JIn, on December 13th, 2016 at 7:59 pm Said: Let me know the practical information. 1. entrance charge for a Group(over 10). 2. opening time Marcy, on January 28th, 2011 at 9:25 am Said: Beautiful place, but make sure you do not need to use the toilet…it was the most discusting place I have ever seen…. One of the priests took me and my two year old daughter to it and expected me to use it….NOT Romania Map Peles Castle Bran Castle Sinaia and Busteni Black Sea Coast Slanic, Salt mine Vidraru Dam Bicaz, Red Lake Women's Cave Bears' Cave Corvinilor Castle Rasnov Citadel Saint Parascheva More Romania Attractions Travel Guide - Bucovina Bucovina Geography Bucovina Traditions More Bucovina Monasteries Travel Guide - Maramures Maramures Geography Maramures Traditions Sapanta - Merry Cemetery Rodna Mountains Maramures Wooden Churches More Monasteries Neamt Monasteries Iasi Monasteries Dobrogea Monasteries Black Church - Brasov Tismana Monastery Curtea de Arges Monastery More Romanian Monasteries Metaneira Publishing Romania Travel Directory Versiunea Romana	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2166
__label__wiki	0.972282	0.972282	Smart City deal inked: to firm ties between Kerala and Middle East May 13, 2007 - 6:25:18 PM State Congress president Ramesh Chennithala said they were happy that the Left government had signed the agreement for the project initiated by them. By Sanu George, IANS, [RxPG] Thiruvananthapuram, May 13 - The much-delayed Rs.15 billion --Smart City project between the Kerala government and Dubai Internet City -, aiming to put Kerala on the global IT map, was inked here Sunday. The project was signed nearly three years after it was first mooted. It is different from the one proposed by the previous Oommen Chandy government and comes a few days before Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan completes his first year in office. The agreement was inked by Ahmad Bi Byat, executive chairman of Tecom Investment, and Lizzie Jacob, chief secretary of Kerala. Smart City, to be set up in Kochi, is a joint venture company of Tecom Investments and Sama Dubai. Top officials of DIC arrived in a charter flight around 1 p.m. and drove straight to the state-owned Mascot Hotel to sign the agreement. 'This is a historic ceremony and a happy occasion for me. This has materialised after long discussions and would be mutually beneficial and economically a boost for Kerala. More importantly this would strengthen the relationship between Kerala and Middle East,' said a beaming Achuthanandan. The development is seen as a moral victory for Achuthanandan as he had earlier opposed the terms for the project worked out by the then Congress-led United Democratic Front - government. The agreement with DIC does not include transfer of the Infopark campus at Kochi, which had been agreed upon by Chandy. While the former chief minister had agreed to sell 236 acres of land at a cost of Rs.260 million - and given DIC full ownership, Achuthanandan made them agree to 246 acres of land at a cost of Rs.1.06 billion -, which would be given on lease for 99 years. Further, Chandy had agreed to 33,000 new jobs being created by Smart City, but Achuthanandan got them increased to 90,000. Speaking on the occasion, Ahmad Bi Byat said Smart City would be home to the best companies of India and abroad. 'This project would certainly put Kerala on the global IT map. It would just not be the IT sector alone that would benefit but others too,' said Byat. The project would have 8.8 million square feet of building of which 70 percent would be for IT and IT enabled services. Later speaking to reporters, Achuthanandan said the master plan of the project would be ready in a year and the construction would begin soon after. Only then would they be able to know the exact project investment. A close aide of Achuthanandan told IANS that despite rewriting the agreements on seven different occasions, the real pressure on DIC came last month when the chief minister began to take steps to float a global tender for the project. 'When the file for that was ready, the DIC officials announced the clearing of the project last month,' said the aide, speaking on condition of anonymity. 'They were saying first that DIC is nothing but a real estate company, and see today the agreement has been signed. Tomorrow, Chandy would be speaking to the press on this,' he said.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2167
__label__cc	0.594599	0.405401	Jackson Civil Engineering Dartford Crossing The hydrodemolition works at the QEII Bridge were amongst the most difficult that we have carried out in recent years. The project required the shelf at the top of the piers and abutments to be removed. The works were so high that for some phases a lift was required to get up to the work area from the ground level below. The work area was very well contained to prevent debris escape but this made for extremely hot working conditions and the operators had to rotate roles more frequently than usual. For each phase we started on days until we couldn’t remove any more concrete due to the structural constraints of the bridge and the tight access available. At this point the works switched to nights where it became critical to work in the most efficient manner possible. Each night we had approximately 6hrs to setup containment for two teams, hydro-demolish as much as of the shelf as possible and then pack everything away. Despite the difficulties whilst working during the day and the time constraints at night, we still managed to achieve an average breakout of 0.5m3 / shift / crew. This volume removed per shift was almost double what was predicted by our competitors at tender stage. The works were completed in a shorter period and for a more competitive price than our competitors could manage. The most straight forward part of the works was organising the water supply for the jetting units. There were hydrants available for both the north & south phases on either side of the Thames. The only difference being that the north was in the Essex & Suffolk Water region whilst the South was in the Thames Water region. Sabre organised the licenced standpipes and ran out inlet hose from the hydrants to the works taking the responsibility away from the client. As with the water supply, the sewers for each phase were controlled by two separate companies. However, with regard to the disposal, two different methods were employed. On the north phase we had access to a foul sewer for the discharge of the run-off water. This meant that the water simply had to be filtered to reduce the suspended solids. Sabre dealt with Essex & Suffolk Water to arrange the temporary discharge consent and provided a Siltbuster HB10 Unit with all necessary pumps and hoses to remove the water from the sump area, treat and discharge. On the south side there were no foul sewers available. This meant that the water had to be treated to a higher standard before being discharged to a French drain. We therefore provided one of our Siltbuster HD Units for pH correction & filtration of the run-off water. Our Team Leader on site monitored the unit daily to ensure the pH correction was working correctly and that the water discharged was of an acceptable standard at all times.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2169
__label__wiki	0.738412	0.738412	‘Anchorman 2’ Fizzles Under High Expectations in Reviews,Video Reviews Video review from KCTV5 It’s Your Morning. Subscribe to the Scene-Stealers YouTube channel. Brick Tamland, the dim-witted weather man from another planet played by Steve Carell in 2004’s unlikely cult comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, is a fantastic absurdist creation. He stands out precisely because he’s in a supporting capacity, spouting bizarre non-sequiturs as a counterpoint to Will Ferrell‘s clueless oaf. Both men behave like children, but Tamland is a distinctly weirder creation. In the new sequel Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, the very idea of Tamland encompasses everything that is both right — and wrong — about the movie. The absurd streak of humor that runs throughout the movie (and sidetracks its forward momentum several times) is actually its greatest strength. Since the plot of Anchorman 2 is a typical get-the-team-back-together/comeback story, the film relies instead on the many absurdist curveballs that Ferrell and his co-writer and director Adam McKay throw into that template. Even more so than usual in a McKay/Ferrell collaboration, the movie feels like string of sketches very loosely tied together — as if the plot only exists to expose how stale these kinds of comedic blueprints are in the first place. When the sketches work (and they often do), Anchorman 2 feels alive with possibilities. Nothing is off limits it seems, not even a musical interlude where Burgandy sings a love song to a baby shark. A strange second-act detour with Burgundy’s wife Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate) and son (Judah Nelson) may make audiences a little antsy, but it’s also gleefully unpredictable. But once it’s back to the “story,” all the beats are forced and the overly expositional dialogue has no sting, as it exists merely to set up the next sketch. The artificial nature of the story is part of the point, of course, but there’s not a strong enough satirical streak here to keep it afloat. And, unfortunately, Anchorman 2 can’t be categorized as a Airplane!/Naked Gun-style gag-a-minute-comedy because the gags just don’t come quick enough, especially for a two-hour film. One particular black hole the movie falls into is that it gives Tamland — who works best in small doses — a romantic subplot. Even worse, it does so by introducing a female character (Kristen Wiig) that is almost an exact clone of Tamland. Every scene between these two talented comedic actors feels like a wasted opportunity. For a movie that devolves into madness as often as it does, the satirical bent of Anchorman 2 plays it surprisingly safe, consisting of easy swipes at the 24-hour news cycle and the networks’ propensity for creating news where none actually exists. This commentary is good for a couple of laughs, but gets off the hook a tad too easily for being dated because the film takes place in the 1980s. Finding a satisfying conclusion to a hit-and-miss two-hour comedy that makes little to no sense is a challenge for sure. McKay and Ferrell’s solution is to go full-on Return of the King and have at least four endings, none of them hitting the right notes. A series of cameos seems destined to go somewhere funny, but mostly it fizzles under the weight of its own expectations, much like the rest of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. Tagged as: 2013, adam kckay, ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES, christina applegate, David Koechner, judah nelson, kristen wiig, paul rudd, ron burgundy, steve carell, will ferrell Previous post: ‘Elysium’ and ‘The Family’ Out in New Blu-ray-DVD Combo Packs Next post: Film School presents ‘Amadeus’	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2173
__label__cc	0.732107	0.267893	You are here: Home / Uncategorized / The Fate of Petitions for Review in Criminal Cases, 2014-15 The Fate of Petitions for Review in Criminal Cases, 2014-15 February 10, 2016 by Alan Ball Leave a Comment After receiving a suggestion to examine data on petitions for review in order to determine how petitioners fared in criminal cases, I sifted through data available for the 2014-15 term.[1] Initial sorting revealed a set of 275 petitions for review in criminal cases that the justices either granted or denied during this period. Given that nearly all the petitions were filed on behalf of defendants, it should surprise no one that most were denied. In fact, “most” might be too mild a term, as only 5% (14/275) were granted. Moreover, this percentage is heavily distorted by the fact that six of the petitions granted by the justices—nearly half of the total of 14 successful petitions—were filed by the State against defendants. If we remove the State’s petitions from consideration, we are left with 265 petitions filed on behalf of defendants, only 3% (8/265) of which were granted. In sum, then, the State succeeded with 60% (6/10) of its petitions—an outcome that is noteworthy not only for the comparatively high percentage of petitions granted, but also because it shows how rarely the State filed petitions at all in criminal cases. No doubt this lack of activity was due primarily to the fact that the State wins the large majority of criminal cases in the lower courts, while the State’s high success rate with the petitions that it did file may reflect factors as disparate as the expertise of the Attorney General’s Office and the sympathies of the justices. If other considerations might also have been involved, I would be grateful to learn of them. Turning back to the 265 petitions filed on behalf of defendants, the success rates for various categories of filers varied considerably. For instance, defendants who filed petitions themselves made no headway whatsoever, as all 34 of their petitions were rejected by the justices. If 2014-15 is any guide, defendants without lawyers would appear to have essentially no chance of persuading the justices to hear their cases. When lawyers were engaged to file petitions on behalf of defendants, the success rate climbed to 3.5% (8/231)—hardly stratospheric, but better than zero. Moreover, within this total of 231 petitions, those filed by attorneys from the State Public Defender’s Office and the Frank J. Remington Center of the University of Wisconsin Law School were granted at a rate many times higher than that attained by the large remaining pool of defense lawyers. More specifically, Public Defenders succeeded with 11% (5/46) of their petitions, while 17% (1/6) of the Remington Center’s petitions were granted. These achievements account for all but two of the successful petitions filed by lawyers in criminal cases. If the Public Defender’s and the Remington Center’s petitions are removed from consideration, we find that only 1% (2/179) of the petitions filed by all other lawyers were granted. The question remains, of course, how do these findings compare with outcomes from earlier years? Work now underway on a sampling of results from previous terms seeks to address this issue by uncovering similarities and/or differences with the fate of petitions in 2014-15. [1] More specifically, this enterprise concerns petitions for review in criminal cases that the Supreme Court granted or denied between September 1, 2014, and August 31, 2015. Diane Fremgen, Clerk of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, kindly provided data on petitions for review that, when combined with information from the court system’s website, yielded the figures presented in the following paragraphs. We are considering all cases with numbers bearing the CR (but not the CRNM) suffix. It is worth acknowledging the existence of cases that stem from some underlying criminal conduct but do not themselves focus on an alleged crime (and do not have numbers with a CR suffix). These are omitted here because a preliminary scan suggests that they are comparatively few in number and difficult to find amid the several hundred petitions decided during the term.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2174
__label__cc	0.699645	0.300355	Sarah Hale’s Letter and Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation November 21, 2014 by David J. Shestokas Filed Under: Guest Commentary & Reflections Tagged With: lincoln, proclamation, sarah hale, thanksgiving In October, 1863, Sarah J. Hale’s fifteen year effort to have the last Thursday of November become a nationally recognized day of Thanksgiving became a reality when, in the midst of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation in response to Ms. Hale’s letter. Ms. Hale is often referred to as the Godmother of Thanksgiving, and earned a special place in the hearts of parents and children as the author of “Mary Had a Little Lamb”. When American family and friends get together on Thanksgiving, they should give thanks to Ms. Hale for her efforts. Below is her letter, followed by Lincoln’s proclamation in response. From Sarah J. Hale to Abraham Lincoln Philadelphia, Sept. 28th 1863. Permit me, as Editress of the “Lady’s Book”, to request a few minutes of your precious time, while laying before you a subject of deep interest to myself and — as I trust — even to the President of our Republic, of some importance. This subject is to have the day of our annual Thanksgiving made a National and fixed Union Festival. You may have observed that, for some years past, there has been an increasing interest felt in our land to have the Thanksgiving held on the same day, in all the States; it now needs National recognition and authoritive fixation, only, to become permanently, an American custom and institution. Enclosed are three papers (being printed these are easily read) which will make the idea and its progress clear and show also the popularity of the plan. For the last fifteen years I have set forth this idea in the “Lady’s Book”, and placed the papers before the Governors of all the States and Territories — also I have sent these to our Ministers abroad, and our Missionaries to the heathen — and commanders in the Navy. From the recipients I have received, uniformly the most kind approval. Two of these letters, one from Governor (now General) Banks and one from Governor Morgan are enclosed; both gentlemen as you will see, have nobly aided to bring about the desired Thanksgiving Union. But I find there are obstacles not possible to be overcome without legislative aid — that each State should, by statute, make it obligatory on the Governor to appoint the last Thursday of November, annually, as Thanksgiving Day; — or, as this way would require years to be realized, it has ocurred to me that a proclamation from the President of the United States would be the best, surest and most fitting method of National appointment. I have written to my friend, Hon. Wm. H. Seward, and requested him to confer with President Lincoln on this subject As the President of the United States has the power of appointments for the District of Columbia and the Territories; also for the Army and Navy and all American citizens abroad who claim protection from the U. S. Flag — could he not, with right as well as duty, issue his proclamation for a Day of National Thanksgiving for all the above classes of persons? And would it not be fitting and patriotic for him to appeal to the Governors of all the States, inviting and commending these to unite in issuing proclamations for the last Thursday in November as the Day of Thanksgiving for the people of each State? Thus the great Union Festival of America would be established. Now the purpose of this letter is to entreat President Lincoln to put forth his Proclamation, appointing the last Thursday in November (which falls this year on the 26th) as the National Thanksgiving for all those classes of people who are under the National Government particularly, and commending this Union Thanksgiving to each State Executive: thus, by the noble example and action of the President of the United States, the permanency and unity of our Great American Festival of Thanksgiving would be forever secured. An immediate proclamation would be necessary, so as to reach all the States in season for State appointments, also to anticipate the early appointments by Governors. Excuse the liberty I have taken With profound respect Yrs truly Sarah Josepha Hale, Editress of the “Ladys Book” Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth. By the President: Abraham Lincoln To read this story in Spanish, click here: La carta de Sarah Hale y la Proclamación de Thanksgiving de Lincoln simpleNewz - David J. Shestokas RSS Feed for 2014-12-07 says: […] Sarah Hale’s Letter and Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation […] WOTD: Sarah Josepha Hale – The Hot Goss says: […] Book, she pushed hard for making it a national thang hoping it would bring the country together. The people listened and eventually, the educational masses glossed over her contribution. 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__label__wiki	0.609185	0.609185	Home > Banská Bystrica Banská Bystrica lies in the heart of Slovakia. According to the last census the population of Banská Bystrica is approximately 90000. The city is situated in the valley of the third longest Slovak river Hron. It is surrounded by the Nízke Tatry (Low Tatras), the Veľká Fatra (Greater Fatra) and the Kramnické vrchy. German settlers in medieval times helped make Banska Bystrica rich and famous with their advanced mining techniques for gold, silver and copper. Ironically, in the modern era this city – Slovakia’s third largest — is best known for its heroic struggle against the Germans during World War II. The Slovak National Uprising of 1944 took the lives of 30,000 Slovaks – men, women and children. Be sure to visit the museum commemorating the uprising. The glory days of mining from the 14th-17th centuries left an architectural legacy of gothic and renaissance-era patrician mansions, plus churches ranging from Romanesque to baroque. The historic part of the city huddles around a beautifully restored medieval marketplace, now called Square of the Slovak National Uprising (namestie SNP). Come and relax in one of the many cafés around the square. Home of one of Slovakia’s leading universities, Banska Bystrica sparkles with the energy of youth. Banská Bystrica Town Districts Radvaň Rakytovce Uľanka Kostiviarska Šalková History of Banská Bystrica started to progress when the mining of gold and copper exploded. Banská Bystrica was mentioned for the first time in 1255, when the town received rights to extraction of raw materials (iron, silver and gold) from Hungarian kind Bela IV. Life in the city grew along with the increasing mining activities. The royal privileges attracted new German immigrants, miners in the second half of the 13th century. From this period is the Romanesque Church of the Assumption. In 1452 was built next to this church the Church of the Holy Cross, which was built by the Slovak citizens below the city walls. This formed a castle complex with the Town Hall, Barbican and battlements. Wealthy citizens have built spectacular houses in Gothic and Renaissance style. In 1589 the city was completely over-built by stone walls to protect the city and the citizens against the enemy invasions of Turks (around 1526). Remains of the city walls and fortifications have been preserved till today. Due to the city location, its rich history and a lot of medieval relics, Banská Bystrica became one of the most important and most beautiful cities in Slovakia. Another very important chapter in the city’s history was written during the World War II. Banská Bystrica was the center of anti-fascist resistance, political and military center of the Slovak National Uprising (SNP = Slovenské Národné Povstanie) in 1944. The symbol of this period is a memorial to the SNP with a very unusual architectonical structure. Coloured public buses and trolleys cover most of the town, linking the suburbs to the city. Tickets are sold by driver where entering the bus, but chip smart card could be used for a payment for city transport since september 2000. After buying ticket at the beginning of the journey, ticket becomes personalised and untransferable, it must be kept until the end of the journey, and must be shown on request of the control staff. Route information and timetables are freely available on every bus station. Banská Bystrica Castle (City Castle) City Castle of Banská Bystrica (Mestský hrad) is a characteristic dominant and symbol of the historical center of Banská Bystrica. It is a national cultural monument. The City Castle was built alongside the existing mining settlement that preceded the establishment of the city. Already in those days there was the Parish church of the Virgin Mary, which became the center of the new fortress in the Middle Ages. Its main function was to protect the revenues from the extraction of precious metals, particularly copper and silver, and the royal treasury. The castle was the seat of representative of King and the church, and meetings of the city council. Separate buildings were linked together by common fortification, which protected the patriciate against the external enemies and internal strife, especially in the mining riots. The area of the City Castle consist of the Church of Our Lady, Matej’s House, so-called Slovak church, Town Hall, Parish building and stone fortification with bastions, the gateway with barbican. The oldest building is the late-Romanesque Parish Church of Our Lady from the second half of the 13th century, Originally, it was surrounded by a cemetery, where was a Romanesque charnel-house till the 19th century. Burgenses of the city, inspired by the castle in Kremnica, fortified the area around the Parish church in the last third of the 15th century and built other buildings belonging to the government of the mining towns – Gothic house of King Matej (called Matej’s House) was built in 1479, the Town Hall was built around 1500 and shortly before was finished the Church of Holy Cross (also called as the Slovak church). The fortification consisted of a tall stone wall and circular bastions. The most important part of the fortification was the gateway to the barbican (finished in 1512), which entered by two gates for the wagons and for walking. At that time, the church has undergone an expensive reconstruction, which documents a preserved oratory with a Gothic cross vault, the side St. Barbara Chapel and the late-Gothic altar of Master Pavol of Levoča and a late-Gothic bronze baptismal font from the Master Jodok. The interior of the church in those days was very valuable, the main altar made by Master Pavol of Levoča, regrettably it was devastated in a fire in 1761. In 1767 the main altar was replaced by Baroque altar with images from important Austrian painter J. L. Kracker. Crashed vault was replaced by a Baroque one, with an illusory architectural fresco in the presbytery made by A. Schmidt in 1767-1770. From this period come the typical silhouettes with copper onion roof. Later, the Town Hall became a part of the City castle. In the second third of the 16th century, the Town Hall has undergone several modifications, which changed it character. In 1564-1565 Master Peregrinus changed its façade, including the late-Gothic loggias and the building finished with attic with swallow-tail. The entire area of the City Castle has undergone an extensive reconstruction in 2005. In the castle there is café and restaurant, since 2009. Matej’s House Matej’s House (Matejov dom) was built in 1479 inside of the City Castle and was integrated into the Mining Bastion. It is a four-storey building built in a close proximity to the Slovak church. The rooms are mainly flat, some rooms on the ground and first floor have barrel vault. The façade has a dating (year 1479), embossed stone coats of arms of Matthias Corvinus and Beatrix of Aragon and the city coat of arms. The façade is decorated with stone balcony. During the 16th and 17th century were in the Mining Bastion placed cannons to protect the City Castle from the north. Then the building served as a store of gunpowder and grain. There was a grain mill in the 16th century, so the bastion was also called Mlynská (Mill). In 1907-1909 was the Matej’s House restored and was opened the first museum exhibition. Nowadays, Matej’s House is under a complex reconstruction. The aim of the comprehensive reconstruction is to create an air-conditioned museum depository in the attic and top floor. The first three floors of the Matej’s House and the reconstructed Mining Bastion interior will provide a permanent history exhibition. Pleasant café rooms will be created on the ground floor. The aim of the whole reconstruction is to create a modern museum building. The new permanent exhibition includes 2,863 collection objects of the Central Slovak Museum. In the Matej’s House, there was established a treasury with the most precious collections, archeology with the replica of Slavonic sunken and collection of medieval tiles and gun-room presents the collection of weapons. There are rooms devoted to important personalities and mayors of Banská Bystrica, the rich history of craft represents over 700 artefacts. Exhibition of the Gothic sculptures and paintings has Slovak and European importance. Thurzo’s House Thurzo’s House (Thurzov dom) is one of the oldest preserved temporal buildings in Banská Bystrica. It is a two-storey Renaissance building built on earlier Gothic foundations. The house is finished with an attic and covered with a Renaissance façade. The building appears in archival sources already in 1495, when mining miners John Thurzo of Betlanovce bought two houses in Banská Bystrica and linked them together. On the square has arisen the representative arm of coat of Matthias Corvinus on the Green Hall vault of Thurzo’s House, which became the seat of the Thurzo-Fugger company. On the ground and the first floor are two rooms with wooden beamed ceilings. On the ground floor of the house is a unique room with barrel vault, with frescoes from the second half of the 15th century, also called the Green hall. Dating is based on two coats of arms, belonging to King Matthias Corvinus and his wife Beatrix of Aragon, placed on the top of the vault. Walls of the Green Hall are decorated with plant motifs and figural scenes – Dance with the bear, St. George fighting the dragon, Daniel’s dream and discovering the precious metal, and others. During the years 2005-2007 the room has undergone complex restoration works to save endangered rare fresco paintings. The restoration team, led by academic painter Joseph Dorica, consisted of experts. Efficient technological wall cleaning procedure was used in Slovakia for the first time. The Green Hall was inaugurated on 18 April 2007. At the present, in the house is the social-science exhibition of the Central Slovak Museum. The exhibition documents the history of Banská Bystrica and Banská Bystrica region. To the social-science fund belong archeological, historical, artistic, numismatic and ethnographic subjects. Monument to the Slovak National Uprising Symbol of the Slovak National Uprising – Obelisk or SNP Monument (Pamätník SNP) is one of the most important monuments in Slovakia, which reminds Slovaks about the period of World War II and the Slovak National Uprising, which center was Banská Bystrica. The monument is a work of art of architect Dušan Kuzma and was finished in 1969. The building itself is located on the east away from the center of Banska Bystrica. It is situated on the surface fracture in the vicinity of the town fortification. The placement was suggested by Milan Kodoň and Emanuel Hruška in 1957. Surrounding of the building is loosely governed greenery area in the proposed urban space. The building is entered by stairs. The staircase is opened, wide and without railings. The building combines the memorial and museum in one monumental form. It comprises a horizontal base and organic matter. SNP Museum was founded on 8th of May 1955 by adding to the Institute of the Slovak National Uprising, which was already established in December 1947. Currently, the building houses a museum and archive of development of Slovak society in the period 1918-1948, focusing on anti-fascist resistance and the Slovak National Uprising. The institution has a nationwide and international coverage and performs professional-methodical, consultative a coordinating activities. The museum has available 66,956 pieces of museum collections and 137,157 pieces of archival collections. A part of it is an archive focusing on museum work and the period 1938-1945. There is also a library with 20,000 bibliographical units. On 27th of August 2004, a permanent exhibition was created, focusing on the presentation of crucial political, military and social events in Slovakia in 1918-1948. This collection is the largest collection with its theme, content and materials. During the year, the museum also presents short-term exhibitions of various themes. Church of the Assumption (Kostol nanebovzatia panny Márie), also called German, is the dominant of the city of Banská Bystrica. The church was built in the 13th century on the older foundations of Roman basilica with squared sanctuary by the German burghers, mine owners. The fortification around the church was already mentioned in 1442. Since this time, the church has undergone several reconstructions. To the south side of the church was built the St. Andrew Chapel and Body of Christ Chapel in 1473 and in 1480 was built the Chapel of St. John the Baptist. Even the north side was rebuilt to a chapel consecrated to St. Barbara, the patroness of the miners, in 1478. After a devastating fire in 1500 the church obtained after the reconstruction sponsored by the richest miners a new appearance. In 1761 was again a huge fire in the city, one of the largest fires in the contemporary Europe, which destroyed over 300 houses. The main altar made by Master Pavol of Levoča, which was taller than in Levoča, has turned to ashes. Only the statue Christ on the Mount of Olives escaped. In the interior preserved a bronze baptismal font, which was made by Master Jodok in 1475 and oratorio of St. John Almuznik above the sacristy made in 1516. The Chapel of St. Barbara, known for the late-Gothic altar of Master Pavol, which was finished in 1509, remained intact. In the chapel is an admirable original vault and frescoes of saints: Vojtech, Martin, Hieronym, Imrich and Ladislav. Baroque painting arches is the work of Anton Schmidt (1770). On the main altar are two paintings – Assumption and the Holy Trinity painted by J. L. Kracker in 1774. Liturgical objects from the 17th and 18th century are valuable church treasures, among them stands out a chalice from the middle of the 18th century made by goldsmith J. Szilássy. Asian Restaurant Bangkok Addess: Horná 39 Tel: 00421/48/412 53 34 Bašta Café Address: Kapitulská 23 Cechová Restaurant Address: Námestie SNP 6 Address: Horná strieborná 8 Červený Rak Restaurant Address: Námestie SNP 13 Fishmen Restaurant Address: Dolná 5 Fontána Restaurant Gazdovská Restaurant Address: Námestie Slobody Hungária Restaurant Address: Horná 25 Koliba u Sv.Krištofa Restaurant Address: Uľanská cesta 170 LaGiara Restaurant Pizzeria Alba Pizzeria Evijo Tel: 0042148/415 27 52 Quatro Restaurant Address: Námestie Š. Moyzesa 7 Slovenská Pivnica (Slovak Cellar) Address: Lazovná 18 Starobystrická Restaurant U Komediantov Restaurant Address: Horná Strieborná 13 U Tigra Restaurant Address: Dolná 36 Zlatý Bažant Restaurant Bábkové divadlo na rázcestí – Skuteckého 14 Divadlo z pasáže – Horná strieborná 25 d44 – Lazovná 9 Museum of the Slovak National Uprising(Múzeum slovenského národného povstania) – Kapitulská 23 Museum of Literature and Music next to the National Science Library (Literárne a hudobné múzeum pri ŠVK) – Lazovná 9 Museum of Post (Poštové múzeum) – Partizánska cesta 9 Central Slovak Museum – Thurz’s house (Stredoslovenské museum – Thurzov dom) – Thurzov dom, Námestie SNP 4 Central Slovak Museum – Tihanyi Castle(Stredoslovenské múzeum – Tihanyiovský kaštieľ) – Radvanská 27 Central Slovak Museum City Museum, predecessor of today’s Central Slovak Museum (Stredoslovenské museum), was established in 1889 in Banská Bystrica. The museum exhibited three-dimensional objects allocated from the archive. Development of the museum was provided by the members of Banská Bystrica historical and archeological society. Collections of archeology, history, ethnography, religious and artistic history were extended by donations from citizens and purchases. Their effort culminated in 1909, when the museum exhibition was opened in Matej’s House. The Central Slovak Museum focuses mainly on the central and southern parts of Central Slovak region. Conscious research enriched the collections of archeological from the Slavic population in the Zvolen basin. Among the unique items belongs the bronze aquamanille of Veľké Čalomije (13th century), Romanesque stone baptismal font of Babiná (13th century), head of St. John the Baptiste of Tajov and other. The museum currently manages 38,427 collections, what are 127,816 objects, what mean 10,459 science units and 27,968 social-science units. In two exposures there are 4,404 artefacts exhibited. The social-science exhibition is located in Thurzo’s House since 1958. Thurzo family linked together two originally Gothic houses in the late 15th century. The external Renaissance appearance with graphite façade is the result of a reconstruction from the end of the 16th century. After an extensive reconstruction, the house is in the administration of the museum since 1954. Through the most valuable collections the museum opens up the history of central and southern parts of Central Slovakia from prehistoric times until today. Attention attracts mainly the treasure of bronze objects of Vyškovce and findings from the Slavic period. Museum of Folk Dance Museum of folk dance (Muzeum ľudového tanca) is a unique institution, which was established in the center of the living folklore of the region of Banská Bystrica. Its establishment by the municipality of Banská Bystrica in 2007 is a rare manifestation of national awareness and respect for own traditions. Museum of folk dance is a unique independent institute of the Central Slovak Museum. There is no similar institution in the Central Europe. The museum focuses on basic research of all kinds of expression of folk dance in Slovakia (or in the Banská Bystrica region), and in the broader, whether regional, social, ethnical and other context. The museum carries transcripts and transcriptions of existing archival audio and audiovisual materials made by other institutions and individuals. Using modern techniques and good digitizing equipment, professionals prevent these materials against their definite devaluation. The museum also implements professional storage and protection of archival materials, keeps records of movements of archival materials and documents. Another work of the museum is the direct research of the folklorism in terrain and all the manifestations of organized folklore in the Banská Bystrica region. The museum also devotes to the presentation activities of obtained audio and audiovisual materials in the context of a particular theme of modern short-term or long-therm exposure. Art & Antik Magnat – Lazovná 3 Teo Gallery – Národná 6 Galéria v podkroví (Gallery in the Attic) – Lazovná 9 Stredoslovenská galéria (Middleslovak Gallery) – Dolná 8 Europa Cinemas – Na troskách 25 Disco Club Arcade – Námestie SNP 5 Tartaros Club – Horná 37 Klub 77 – Horná 54 Helldorado Pub – Dolná 32 Piano Bar – Námestie SNP 2 Červený Rak Beerhouse – Námestie SNP 13 Europa SC (Europa Shopping Centre) – Na troskách 25 Kaufland – 29. augusta 63 Nám. SNP 14 Tel.: +421/48/41 55 085 E-mail: ic@banskabystrica.sk WWW: www.icbb.sk, www.kisbb.sk 2 Responses to “Banská Bystrica” click to show/hide 1. rick krego says: Hi I am trying to search family history my great grandfather was born in Or. Jasanica he died there june 17 1914.my grandfather josef Kriz born there in 1865 march 3,my great grandmother was helena lovastik I am looking for more info and on a zofia kriz born april 20 1870 ,matus kriz born 7 dec 1867 and jan kriz may 24 1862 thanks ric krego mail 6530 eagle rd vernon bc canada V1H1W4 February 8th, 2011 at 11:37 am I am afraid we can’t help you. Pls, try some Slovak genealogy websites.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2182
__label__cc	0.686267	0.313733	The Smith Institute launches Affordable Housing Commission October 18, 2018 By smithinstitute The Smith Institute is proud announce that it has established the Affordable Housing Commission, which is being funded by the Nationwide Foundation. The new stand-alone Commission is being chaired by Lord Best with 15 leading players from across the housing world. Its core objectives are to: examine the causes and effects of the affordability crisis and how it relates to tenure, place, demographics, incomes, wealth distribution, life chances, as well as the social and economic impacts; explore and propose workable solutions (big and small); raise awareness of the concerns and solutions (among practitioners, decision-makers and the public); engage stakeholders and build a consensus for change The Smith Institute will be supporting the Commission over its 18-month lifespan, undertaking and commissioning research and financial modelling, polling and focus groups and publishing discussion documents. Alongside its research activities the Commission will be engaging key stakeholders and hosting events across the country. A final report of the Commission’s findings and recommendations will be published in early 2020. A full list of Commissioners as well as details of the work of the Commission can be found on its website: www.affordablehousingcommission.org You can also get in touch with the Commission via info@affordablehousingcommission.org as well as on Twitter: @AHC_Housing KEEP UP TO DATE WITH OUR LATEST RESEARCH	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2183
__label__wiki	0.612943	0.612943	L’Oréal USA to acquire Pacific Bioscience Laboratories innovator of Clarisonic, the market leader in sonic skin care technology L’Oréal USA and Pacific Bioscience Laboratories, Inc. (PBL) announced yesterday a signed merger agreement between L’Oréal USA and PBL. PBL’s Clarisonic® is the acknowledged market leader in the rapidly growing areas of sonic skin care devices, topicals and technology. Established in 2001, PBL developed its patented technology, enabling a series of highly popular products under the Clarisonic® brand that redefined consumers’ approach to skin care. These include the Clarisonic Classic®, Clarisonic Mia®, Clarisonic PLUS and PRO®, and the Clarisonic Opal™ Sonic Infusion System. Powered by sonically oscillating brushes, infusion technology and a highly experienced management team, PBL has grown rapidly since the Clarisonic® launch in 2004. The company’s broad distribution network covers six diverse and interdependent channels: dermatologists and cosmetic surgeons, spas, prestige retail, e-tail, television shopping, and clarisonic.com. PBL has 300 employees and recently relocated to its new corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility in Redmond, Washington. This state-of-the-art facility significantly increases production capacity of Clarisonic® products, currently sold throughout the US as well as in the UK, Australia, Mexico, Canada and the Far East. “L’Oréal brings powerful marketing, distribution, and R&D synergy to the Clarisonic® agenda,” said David Giuliani, CEO and co-founder of PBL. “L’Oréal shares our vision for ingenuity and dedication to quality. Combining forces, we’re confident Clarisonic® will rapidly achieve its global mission, to provide the power to change the future of your skin.” “This is a strategic acquisition for L’Oréal,” said Frédéric Rozé, President and CEO of L’Oréal USA. “Devices are rapidly emerging globally as an important new skin care category. Clarisonic® is successful and the fast growing premium brand in this segment. We think that together with PBL, we will create in Redmond an outstanding center of innovation for L’Oréal. Upon closing of the transaction, the Clarisonic® brand will join the portfolio of L’Oréal Luxe and benefit from its worldwide presence.” The merger, subject to the approval of PBL’s shareholders and other closing conditions, is expected to close in December, 2011. L’Oreal USA has received significant shareholder commitments to vote in favor of the acquisition, including Rosewood Capital and David Giuliani. PBL’s senior management team has committed to remain with L’Oréal USA to maintain the continuity of excellence. L’Oreal USA L'Oréal USA, headquartered in New York City, with 2010 sales of over $4.7 billion and 9,800 employees, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of L'Oréal SA, the world’s leading beauty company. In addition to corporate headquarters in New York, L'Oréal USA has Research and Innovation, Manufacturing and Distribution facilities across six other states including New Jersey, Kentucky, Arkansas, Illinois, Ohio, and Texas. L'Oréal's impressive portfolio of brands includes Lancôme, Giorgio Armani Beauty, Yves Saint Laurent Beauté, Viktor & Rolf, Diesel, Cacharel, L'Oréal Paris, Garnier, Vichy, La Roche-Posay, L'Oréal Professionnel, Kérastase and Shu Uemura Art of Hair. The U.S. is the base for the product development, international marketing and advertising for L'Oréal’s twelve American brands: Maybelline New York, Soft-Sheen.Carson, Kiehl’s Since 1851, Ralph Lauren Fragrances, Essie Cosmetics, Redken 5th Avenue NYC, Matrix, Mizani, Pureology, SkinCeuticals and Dermablend. For more information on our brands visit www.lorealusa.com. About Pacific Bioscience Laboratories PBL Inc. is a leading innovator in sonic skin care and the creator of the Clarisonic Skin Cleansing System and Clarisonic Opal™ Sonic Infusion Systems. The Clarisonic Sonic Skin Cleansing System is the first professional-caliber sonic skin care system for healthy, younger-looking skin. Clarisonic extends sonic cleansing to sonic infusion with the groundbreaking Opal™ Sonic Infusion System, combining sonic micro-massage with a proprietary Anti-Aging Serum that reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles around the eyes. The encore innovations in sonic devices , Clarisonic and Clarisonic Opal™ represents PBL’s ongoing mission to develop and market technically advanced and clinically proven products that make a clear difference in skin care. Clarisonic is distributed through dermatologists, cosmetic surgeons, spas and prestige retailers such as Sephora, Nordstrom, QVC, Saks Fifth Avenue, Ulta, Beauty.com and SkinStore.com. Clarisonic has been acknowledged as a beauty award winner by InStyle magazine, Allure magazine and by retailers QVC and Sephora. For more information, visit the Clarisonic website. In FY 2010, PBL Inc. recorded sales of $ 105 M. “This news release does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy L’Oréal shares. If you wish to obtain more comprehensive information about L’Oréal, please refer to the public documents registered in France with the Autorité des Marchés Financiers, also available in English on our Internet site www.loreal-finance.com. This news release may contain some forward-looking statements. Athough the Company considers that these statements are based on reasonable hypotheses at the date of publication of this release, they are by their nature subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated or projected in these statements.” For more information, please contact your bank, broker or financial institution (I.S.I.N. code: FR0000120321), and consult your usual newspapers, and the Internet site for shareholders and investors, http://www.loreal-finance.com, or its mobile version on your cell phone, http://loreal-finance.mobi; alternatively, call +33 1 40 14 80 50. Read the news release in a PDF file Read the L'OrÃ©al USA news release	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2186
__label__wiki	0.825431	0.825431	The Success Formula You Need To Know by Loud Life - October 01, 2015 We all strive to be successful, but not all of us are willing to put in effort to make it happen, but there are no handouts, if you want something in life then you have to work for it! So what does it takes to make the success! We're all talented, you just have to find out what's your talent, or maybe talents, something you do better than others and you enjoy doing, your mission is to find out this talent and to invest it. Positivity is a talent, it's being able to see the good about everything, not all the people out there can do so. flexibility is a talent, it's to give out your right for others without considering it so, you simply see it as helping someone who's in need. You don't need all the talents to succeed, you just need the ones you have! According to that talent decide for yourself what you want to do, don't believe what others are saying about you, because only you know what you love and what you can do best. And only when you're in the right place, that you can give out your best, so make sure that you're doing what you love. Know your value and know that you have something special that no one can make you doubt it, not even your loved ones, fight for what you believe in and keep believing even if that means that you'll be standing all alone. Don't judge yourself by what others think of you. Practice! They say you need about 10 000 hours to master anything you want to do. that means 2 hours every day for 14 years!! hold on you still have a lot of practice to do! it's not about you, it's just that you needed more practicing. "Success is 1% talent and 99% practice and hard work" It doesn't matter what you've learned, what does is how you do apply what you've learned. It's not true that others didn't practice a lot, or that they made it in a short time and they didn't face any hard times! because they did practice when no one was noticing, but when they made the success everybody does notice them. No one would tell you about the hard time they've been facing, the times they've been rejected, the times they felt desperate and hopeless, but they didn't give up and that's why they made it! Be excited for the nights you're going to stay up working on your dreams, be excited for the challenges your going to embrace to learn more and to get even stronger to stand in front of no matter that will come, be excited about the work and the value you're going to serve. You're capable and you can do much more than what you think you can and it's not a shame to fail, the shame is to fail to try. The best motivation isn't the encouragements, it's the judgments, being doubted and rejected, that's what will make you fight even harder. The reason why people give up so fast is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go. Instead of how far they have gone. but in fact what you've been through until now is already a success itself, don't let your success be all about money, it's actually the person you've become in the process. It's the journey that matters, being successful without enjoying things while you are achieving your goal isn't worth it. There's a lot of hope in the second chance, always try another time, don't give up! give yourself a second chance. But never give up! it's not a shame to fail, but it's a shame to fail to try. You may think that successful people had made their success accidentally or they haven't face any problems, but this is not true, they didn't found the circumstances to succeed, so they did create it by themselves, there's no successful who did made his success without facing difficulties and overcoming it, unless it won't be called a success, it's just a luck! not being noticed doesn't mean that you're less than those who are famous, don't underestimate yourself, believe in you! "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up, the most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." Love it, be ready to practice it and never give up, that's all what it takes and that's how you make sure that you'll succeed. "No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want. Here’s a short list of people who accomplished great things at different ages 1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that didn’t stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. 2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age of 5. 3) Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on “Bright Eyes.” 4) Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank. 5) Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13. 6) Nadia Comăneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0 and won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14. 7) Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in November 1950, at the age of 15. 8) Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil. 9) Elvis was a superstar by age 19. 10) John Lennon was 20 years and Paul Mcartney was 18 when the Beatles had their first concert in 1961. 11) Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936. 12) Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by age 23 13) Issac Newton wrote Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica at age 24 14) Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4 minute mile record 15) Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity 16) Lance E. Armstrong was 27 when he won the tour de France 17) Michelangelo created two of the greatest sculptures “David” and “Pieta” by age 28 18) Alexander the Great, by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world 19) J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript of Harry Potter 20) Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean 21) Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind 22) Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount Everest 23) Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when he wrote the speech “I Have a Dream." 24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics 25) The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight 26) Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died virtually unknown, yet his paintings today are worth millions. 27) Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon. 28) Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", and 49 years old when he wrote "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" 29) Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas 30) Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to obey the bus driver’s order to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger 31) John F. Kennedy was 43 years old when he became President of the United States 32) Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out. 33) Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote "The Hunger Games" 34) Charles Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species came out. 35) Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa. 36) Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president. 37) Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to unprecedented levels. 38) Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote "The Cat in the Hat". 40) Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III was 57 years old when he successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009. All of the 155 passengers aboard the aircraft survived 41) Colonel Harland Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise 42) J.R.R Tolkien was 62 when the Lord of the Ring books came out 43) Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the US 44) Jack Lalane at age 70 handcuffed, shackled, towed 70 rowboats 45) Nelson Mandela was 76 when he became President" Tags : Success	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2187
__label__wiki	0.711447	0.711447	Poe’s Short Stories “The Purloined Letter” (1844) by: Edgar Allan Poe “MS. Found in a Bottle” (1833) “Ligeia” (1838) “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839) “William Wilson” (1839) “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843) “The Pit and the Pendulum” (1843) “The Black Cat” (1843) “The Masque of the Red Death” (1845) “The Cask of Amontillado” (1846) Roderick Usher C. Auguste Dupin William Wilson Lady Ligeia In a small room in Paris, an unnamed narrator, who also narrates “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” sits quietly with his friend, C. Auguste Dupin. He ponders the murders in the Rue Morgue, which Dupin solved in that story. Monsieur G——, the prefect of the Paris police, arrives, having decided to consult Dupin again. The prefect presents a case that is almost too simple: a letter has been taken from the royal apartments. The police know who has taken it: the Minister D——, an important government official. According to the prefect, a young lady possessed the letter, which contains information that could harm a powerful individual. When the young lady was first reading the letter, the man whom it concerned came into the royal apartments. Not wanting to arouse his suspicion, she put it down on a table next to her. The sinister Minister D—— then walked in and noted the letter’s contents. Quickly grasping the seriousness of the situation, he produced a letter of his own that resembled the important letter. He left his own letter next to the original one as he began to talk of Parisian affairs. Finally, as he prepared to leave the apartment, he purposely retrieved the lady’s letter in place of his own. Now, the prefect explains, the Minister D—— possesses a great deal of power over the lady. Dupin asks whether the police have searched the Minister’s residence, arguing that since the power of the letter derives from its being readily available, it must be in his apartment. The prefect responds that they have searched the Minister’s residence but have not located the letter. He recounts the search procedure, during which the police systematically searched every inch of the hotel. In addition, the letter could not be hidden on the Minister’s body because the police have searched him as well. The prefect mentions that he is willing to search long and hard because the reward offered in the case is so generous. Upon Dupin’s request, the prefect reads him a physical description of the letter. Dupin suggests that the police search again. One month later, Dupin and the narrator are again sitting together when the prefect visits. The prefect admits that he cannot find the letter, even though the reward has increased. The prefect says that he will pay 50,000 francs to anyone who obtains the letter for him. Dupin tells him to write a check for that amount on the spot. Upon receipt of the check, Dupin hands over the letter. The prefect rushes off to return it to its rightful owner, and Dupin explains how he obtained the letter. Dupin admits that the police are skilled investigators according to their own principles. He explains this remark by describing a young boy playing “even and odd.” In this game, each player must guess whether the number of things (usually toys) held by another player is even or odd. If the guesser is right, he gets one of the toys. If he is wrong, he loses a toy of his own. The boy whom Dupin describes plays the game well because he bases his guesses on the knowledge of his opponent. When he faces difficulty, he imitates the facial expression of his opponent, as though to understand what he thinks and feels. With this knowledge, he often guesses correctly. Dupin argues that the Paris police do not use this strategy and therefore could not find the letter: the police think only to look for a letter in places where they themselves might hide it. Dupin argues that the Minister D—— is intelligent enough not to hide the letter in the nooks and crannies of his apartment—exactly where the police first investigate. He describes to the narrator a game of puzzles in which one player finds a name on a map and tells the other player to find it as well. Amateurs, says Dupin, pick the names with the smallest letters. According to Dupin’s logic, the hardest names to find are actually those that stretch broadly across the map because they are so obvious. With this game in mind, Dupin recounts the visit he made to the Minister’s apartment. After surveying the Minister’s residence, Dupin notices a group of visiting cards hanging from the mantelpiece. A letter accompanies them. It has a different exterior than that previously described by the prefect, but Dupin also observes that the letter appears to have been folded back on itself. He becomes sure that it is the stolen document. In order to create a reason for returning to the apartment, he purposely leaves behind his snuffbox. When he goes back the next morning to retrieve it, he also arranges for someone to make a commotion outside the window while he is in the apartment. When the Minister rushes to the window to investigate the noise, Dupin replaces the stolen letter with a fake. He justifies his decision to leave behind another letter by predicting that the Minister will embarrass himself when he acts in reliance upon the letter he falsely believes he still possesses. Dupin remarks that the Minister once wronged him in Vienna and that he has pledged not to forget the insult. Inside the fake letter, then, Dupin inscribes, a French poem that translates into English, “So baneful a scheme, if not worthy of Atreus, is worthy of Thyestes.” Take the “The Purloined Letter” (1844) Quick Quiz “The Black Cat” (1843) Next Roderick Usher: Character Analysis	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2193
__label__wiki	0.6916	0.6916	Frente POLISARIO denounces expulsion of international observers by Moroccan authorities of occupation New York, June 24, 2019 (SPS) - The Frente POLISARIO has expressed its strong condemnation of the expulsion carried out by the Moroccan authorities of occupation in Western Sahara against international observers who were planning to attend the trial of Sahrawi journalist Nazha El Khalidi, scheduled for today, in a letter addressed by Representative of the Frente POLISARIO at the United Nations, Dr Sidi M. Omar, to Permanent Representative of the State of Kuwait to the United Nations, President of the Security Council, H.E. Mr Mansour Al-Otaibi. Below is the full text of the letter: “H.E. Mr Mansour Al-Otaibi Permanent Representative of the State of Kuwait to the United Nations President of the Security Council New York, 24 June 2019 Excellency, I am writing to report that, on Sunday 23 June 2019, the Moroccan authorities of occupation in Western Sahara expelled three lawyers of the Spanish Bar Association who were planning to attend as international observers the trial of the Sahrawi journalist Nazha El Khalidi, scheduled for today. Mrs Inés Miranda Navarro, Mr Miguel Ángel Jerez Juan and Mr José María Costa Serra were expelled upon their arrival at the airport of El Aaiún, the capital of the occupied Western Sahara. On Saturday 22 June 2019, the Moroccan authorities also expelled two observers from the United States Bar Association who were similarly planning to attend Ms El Khalidi’s trial as international observers. It is to be recalled that Ms El Khalidi was arrested on 4 December 2018 on account of her recording and live-streaming of a video during a peaceful demonstration that was harshly repressed by Moroccan security forces in the city of El Aaiún, the capital of the occupied Western Sahara. Both Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have condemned Morocco’s imprisonment of Ms El Khalidi and called for her immediate release. I would like to bring to your attention and that of the Members of the Security Council our strong condemnation of this provocative action that once more demonstrates Morocco’s continued attempts to firmly keep the occupied territories of Western Sahara off limits to international observers and foreign journalists. Morocco’s repeated expulsions of international observers and media from the occupied Western Sahara share a common objective, which is none other than to hide the heinous crimes perpetrated by the Moroccan occupying forces against Sahrawi civilians. What makes the situation even more alarming is that all the repressive and terrorising practices pursued systematically by the Moroccan occupying forces against Sahrawi civilians take place under complete media blackout imposed on the occupied Western Sahara. Sahrawi journalists, bloggers and human rights defenders covering human rights violations in the Territory (Secretary-General report S/2019/282 of 1 April 2019, paragraph 66) are persecuted and detained unjustly. As highlighted by the report released recently by Reporters Without Borders entitled “Western Sahara, a Desert for Journalists”, the occupied Western Sahara remains a territory cut off from the rest of the world, a veritable news black hole that has become a no-go zone for journalists. In my previous letter dated 3 June 2019, I drew the attention of Your Excellency to the persistent scourge of Moroccan landmines in Western Sahara and the many innocent lives that they have claimed over the past decades. On 19 June 2019, two Sahrawi civilians were seriously injured as a result of a mine accident near Bir Ganduz in Western Sahara. The tragic incident is another reminder of the urgent need to exert pressure on Morocco to conduct demining activities in the occupied Western Sahara and to adhere to international instruments banning the use of landmines and related devices. The UN Secretary-General has repeatedly insisted that impartial, comprehensive and sustained monitoring of the human rights situation is necessary to ensure the protection of all people in Western Sahara. It is therefore imperative that the Security Council exert the necessary pressure on Morocco to ensure that UN human rights monitors and international observers gain full, unfettered and continuous access to the occupied Western Sahara, and that they can report freely and openly about human rights in the Territory. The United Nations has the legal and moral responsibility to exert its utmost efforts to ensure the protection of human rights in the occupied Western Sahara pending the accomplishment of the decolonisation of the Territory in line with relevant UN resolutions. I would be most grateful if you would bring the present letter to the attention of the members of the Security Council. Please accept, Excellency, the assurance of my highest consideration. Dr Sidi M. Omar Representative of the Frente POLISARIO at the United Nations” (SPS) 062/SPS	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2194
__label__cc	0.523302	0.476698	Inauguration 2013: Our Nation Celebrated, Now We Get to Work The nation’s capital is crowded but with only a fraction of the spectators who in 2009 braved colder temperatures to witness the inauguration of the first African-American president. Back then, the country was weary of two wars and anxious of an economy that was beginning to unravel. This is the political and economic context that explains why “change”--the slogan of the 2008 Obama campaign--became the currency of choice among ordinary citizens. Four years later, I stood in the National Mall to witness President Barack Obama take his second oath. In four years, he led the overhaul of our health care system, instituted more regulation of the financial system, has drawn two wars to a close, and is staying the deportation of millions of illegal immigrant students and military service members--the “DREAMers”. He appointed the first Latina to the Supreme Court--Sonia Sotomayor--who in another first, administered the oath to the Vice President. Yet in this time frame, so much has not happened: the latest unemployment rate is 7.8%, the same as it was in January of 2009, the median household income has dropped while the number of Americans living below the poverty level has risen, according a recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. Millions of the undocumented who are not DREAMers live terrified that at any moment their families will be ripped apart since this President didn’t keep his promise of comprehensive immigration reform but stepped up deportations. Another characteristic of the President’s first term was the ugly gridlock that slowed down, at times to a grinding halt, the people’s business. Not a trace of it on Monday, as Democrats and Republicans stood side by side, the pomp and circumstance a sign that partisan politics is on hold. But tomorrow, in Washington, this political truce may evaporate, leaving in the lurch so many pressing issues the President touched upon in his Inaugural speech such as gun control, jobs, entitlement reform, climate change, and immigration. In at least one respect, tomorrow is different. In November, Latino voters were the key in the coalition that delivered re-election to the President. Whether celebrities walking the Latino Inaugural Ball red carpet like Eva Longoria or the waiters inside the Kennedy Center, the feeling the last few days among Hispanics is not that “we have arrived” (in fact, many noted that in the Southwest, Latinos have been here before it was the United States). Rather, after our historic vote, the consensus is that our time is now which I vlog/write about in "Inauguration 2013: What Latinos Expect from President Obama" and "Eva Longoria, Stars Celebrate the Inauguration and the Arts in the Nation's Capital." But shaping our now and future requires a daily commitment of political and civic participation that will send a clear message to our leaders to set aside ideology and party to negotiate, stand firm, at times compromise, ultimately vote for issues that will make our country more prosperous and secure. The President is being tasked with leading our country to a better tomorrow. It is up to all of us, especially an emerging political voting bloc, to hold him accountable. The work, our work begins. This post was first published as “Inauguration's Gone, Now It's Time to Get to Work" on January 22, 2013 in Fox News Latino where I am a regular politics columnist. Our Beloved World: A Bronx Latina Attends Sotomayor Book Signing VIDEO: Inauguration 2013: What Latinos Expect from President Obama	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2196
__label__cc	0.599137	0.400863	We are very delighted that you have shown interest in our enterprise. Data protection is of a particularly high priority for the management of the Wisdom Productions Inc. The use of the Internet pages of the Wisdom Productions Inc is possible without any indication of personal data; however, if a data subject wants to use special enterprise services via our website, processing of personal data could become necessary. If the processing of personal data is necessary and there is no statutory basis for such processing, we generally obtain consent from the data subject. The processing of personal data, such as the name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number of a data subject shall always be in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and in accordance with the country-specific data protection regulations applicable to the Wisdom Productions Inc. 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With each single call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet website, which is operated by the controller and in which an Amazon component was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject will automatically submit data for the purpose of online advertising and the settlement of commissions to Amazon through the respective Amazon component. During the course of this technical procedure, Amazon receives personal information that is used to trace the origin of orders from Amazon, and as a result, to allow the accounting of a commission. Among other things, Amazon may understand that the data subject has clicked on an affiliate link on our website. The data subject may, as stated above, prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by means of a corresponding adjustment of the web browser used, and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such an adjustment to the Internet browser used would also prevent Amazon from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. In addition, cookies already in use by Amazon may be deleted at anytime via a web browser or other software programs. Further information and the actual data protection provisions of Amazon may be retrieved under https://www.amazon.de/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=3312401&language=en_GB. 16. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google AdSense On this website, the controller has integrated Google AdSense. Google AdSense is an online service which allows the placement of advertising on third-party sites. Google AdSense is based on an algorithm that selects advertisements displayed on third-party sites to match with the content of the respective third-party site. Google AdSense allows an interest-based targeting of the Internet user, which is implemented by means of generating individual user profiles. The operating company of Google’s AdSense component is Alphabet Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, United States. The purpose of Google’s AdSense component is the integration of advertisements on our website. Google AdSense places a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. The definition of cookies is explained above. With the setting of the cookie, Alphabet Inc. is enabled to analyze the use of our website. With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and into which a Google AdSense component is integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject will automatically submit data through the Google AdSense component for the purpose of online advertising and the settlement of commissions to Alphabet Inc. During the course of this technical procedure, the enterprise Alphabet Inc. gains knowledge of personal data, such as the IP address of the data subject, which serves Alphabet Inc., inter alia, to understand the origin of visitors and clicks and subsequently create commission settlements. The data subject may, as stated above, prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by means of a corresponding adjustment of the web browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such an adjustment to the Internet browser used would also prevent Alphabet Inc. from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. Additionally, cookies already in use by Alphabet Inc. may be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs. Furthermore, Google AdSense also uses so-called tracking pixels. A tracking pixel is a miniature graphic that is embedded in web pages to enable a log file recording and a log file analysis through which a statistical analysis may be performed. Based on the embedded tracking pixels, Alphabet Inc. is able to determine if and when a website was opened by a data subject, and which links were clicked on by the data subject. Tracking pixels serve, inter alia, to analyze the flow of visitors on a website. Through Google AdSense, personal data and information—which also includes the IP address, and is necessary for the collection and accounting of the displayed advertisements—is transmitted to Alphabet Inc. in the United States of America. These personal data will be stored and processed in the United States of America. The Alphabet Inc. may disclose the collected personal data through this technical procedure to third parties. Google AdSense is further explained under the following link https://www.google.com/intl/en/adsense/start/. 20. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Jetpack for WordPress On this website, the controller has integrated Jetpack. Jetpack is a WordPress plug-in, which provides additional features to the operator of a website based on WordPress. Jetpack allows the Internet site operator, inter alia, an overview of the visitors of the site. By displaying related posts and publications, or the ability to share content on the page, it is also possible to increase visitor numbers. In addition, security features are integrated into Jetpack, so a Jetpack-using site is better protected against brute-force attacks. Jetpack also optimizes and accelerates the loading of images on the website. The operating company of Jetpack Plug-Ins for WordPress is the Automattic Inc., 132 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, UNITED STATES. The operating enterprise uses the tracking technology created by Quantcast Inc., 201 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, UNITED STATES. Jetpack sets a cookie on the information technology system used by the data subject. The definition of cookies is explained above. With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a Jetpack component was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to submit data through the Jetpack component for analysis purposes to Automattic. During the course of this technical procedure Automattic receives data that is used to create an overview of website visits. The data obtained in this way serves the analysis of the behaviour of the data subject, which has access to the Internet page of the controller and is analyzed with the aim to optimize the website. The data collected through the Jetpack component is not used to identify the data subject without a prior obtaining of a separate express consent of the data subject. The data comes also to the notice of Quantcast. Quantcast uses the data for the same purposes as Automattic. The data subject can, as stated above, prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by means of a corresponding adjustment of the web browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such an adjustment to the Internet browser used would also prevent Automattic/Quantcast from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. In addition, cookies already in use by Automattic/Quantcast may be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs. In addition, the data subject has the possibility of objecting to a collection of data relating to a use of this Internet site that are generated by the Jetpack cookie as well as the processing of these data by Automattic/Quantcast and the chance to preclude any such. For this purpose, the data subject must press the ‘opt-out’ button under the link https://www.quantcast.com/opt-out/ which sets an opt-out cookie. The opt-out cookie set with this purpose is placed on the information technology system used by the data subject. If the cookies are deleted on the system of the data subject, then the data subject must call up the link again and set a new opt-out cookie. The applicable data protection provisions of Automattic may be accessed under https://automattic.com/privacy/. The applicable data protection provisions of Quantcast can be accessed under https://www.quantcast.com/privacy/. 21. Data protection provisions about the application and use of LinkedIn The controller has integrated components of the LinkedIn Corporation on this website. LinkedIn is a web-based social network that enables users with existing business contacts to connect and to make new business contacts. Over 400 million registered people in more than 200 countries use LinkedIn. Thus, LinkedIn is currently the largest platform for business contacts and one of the most visited websites in the world. The operating company of LinkedIn is LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court Mountain View, CA 94043, UNITED STATES. For privacy matters outside of the UNITED STATES LinkedIn Ireland, Privacy Policy Issues, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, is responsible. With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a LinkedIn component (LinkedIn plug-in) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to the download of a display of the corresponding LinkedIn component of LinkedIn. Further information about the LinkedIn plug-in may be accessed under https://developer.linkedin.com/plugins. During the course of this technical procedure, LinkedIn gains knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject. If the data subject is logged in at the same time on LinkedIn, LinkedIn detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the LinkedIn component and associated with the respective LinkedIn account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the LinkedIn buttons integrated on our website, then LinkedIn assigns this information to the personal LinkedIn user account of the data subject and stores the personal data. LinkedIn receives information via the LinkedIn component that the data subject has visited our website, provided that the data subject is logged in at LinkedIn at the time of the call-up to our website. This occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on the LinkedIn button or not. If such a transmission of information to LinkedIn is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she may prevent this by logging off from their LinkedIn account before a call-up to our website is made. LinkedIn provides under https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls the possibility to unsubscribe from e-mail messages, SMS messages and targeted ads, as well as the ability to manage ad settings. LinkedIn also uses affiliates such as Eire, Google Analytics, BlueKai, DoubleClick, Nielsen, Comscore, Eloqua, and Lotame. The setting of such cookies may be denied under https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy. The applicable privacy policy for LinkedIn is available under https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. The LinkedIn Cookie Policy is available under https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy. 22. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Pinterest On this website, the controller has integrated components of Pinterest Inc. Pinterest is a so-called social network. A social network is an Internet social meeting place, an online community that allows users to communicate and interact with each other in a virtual space. A social network may serve as a platform for the exchange of opinions and experiences, or allow the Internet community to provide personal or company-related information. Pinterest enables the users of the social network to publish, inter alia, picture collections and individual pictures as well as descriptions on virtual pinboards (so-called pins), which can then be shared by other user’s (so-called re-pins) or commented on. The operating company of Pinterest is Pinterest Inc., 808 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, UNITED STATES. With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a Pinterest component (Pinterest plug-in) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject automatically prompted to download through the respective Pinterest component a display of the corresponding Pinterest component. Further information on Pinterest is available under https://pinterest.com/. During the course of this technical procedure, Pinterest gains knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website is visited by the data subject. If the data subject is logged in at the same time on Pinterest, Pinterest detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Pinterest component and associated with the respective Pinterest account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the Pinterest buttons, integrated on our website, then Pinterest assigns this information to the personal Pinterest user account of the data subject and stores the personal data. Pinterest receives information via the Pinterest component that the data subject has visited our website, provided that the data subject is logged in at Pinterest at the time of the call-up to our website. This occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on the Pinterest component or not. If such a transmission of information to Pinterest is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she may prevent this by logging off from their Pinterest account before a call-up to our website is made. The data protection guideline published by Pinterest, which is available under https://about.pinterest.com/privacy-policy, provides information on the collection, processing and use of personal data by Pinterest. 25. Payment Method: Data protection provisions about the use of PayPal as a payment processor On this website, the controller has integrated components of PayPal. PayPal is an online payment service provider. Payments are processed via so-called PayPal accounts, which represent virtual private or business accounts. PayPal is also able to process virtual payments through credit cards when a user does not have a PayPal account. A PayPal account is managed via an e-mail address, which is why there are no classic account numbers. PayPal makes it possible to trigger online payments to third parties or to receive payments. PayPal also accepts trustee functions and offers buyer protection services. The European operating company of PayPal is PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. & Cie. S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, 2449 Luxembourg, Luxembourg. If the data subject chooses “PayPal” as the payment option in the online shop during the ordering process, we automatically transmit the data of the data subject to PayPal. By selecting this payment option, the data subject agrees to the transfer of personal data required for payment processing. The personal data transmitted to PayPal is usually first name, last name, address, email address, IP address, telephone number, mobile phone number, or other data necessary for payment processing. The processing of the purchase contract also requires such personal data, which are in connection with the respective order. The transmission of the data is aimed at payment processing and fraud prevention. The controller will transfer personal data to PayPal, in particular, if a legitimate interest in the transmission is given. The personal data exchanged between PayPal and the controller for the processing of the data will be transmitted by PayPal to economic credit agencies. This transmission is intended for identity and creditworthiness checks. PayPal will, if necessary, pass on personal data to affiliates and service providers or subcontractors to the extent that this is necessary to fulfill contractual obligations or for data to be processed in the order. The data subject has the possibility to revoke consent for the handling of personal data at any time from PayPal. A revocation shall not have any effect on personal data which must be processed, used or transmitted in accordance with (contractual) payment processing. The applicable data protection provisions of PayPal may be retrieved under https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full. Art. 6(1) lit. a GDPR serves as the legal basis for processing operations for which we obtain consent for a specific processing purpose. If the processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party, as is the case, for example, when processing operations are necessary for the supply of goods or to provide any other service, the processing is based on Article 6(1) lit. b GDPR. The same applies to such processing operations which are necessary for carrying out pre-contractual measures, for example in the case of inquiries concerning our products or services. Is our company subject to a legal obligation by which processing of personal data is required, such as for the fulfillment of tax obligations, the processing is based on Art. 6(1) lit. c GDPR. In rare cases, the processing of personal data may be necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person. This would be the case, for example, if a visitor were injured in our company and his name, age, health insurance data or other vital information would have to be passed on to a doctor, hospital or other third party. Then the processing would be based on Art. 6(1) lit. d GDPR. Finally, processing operations could be based on Article 6(1) lit. f GDPR. This legal basis is used for processing operations which are not covered by any of the abovementioned legal grounds, if processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by our company or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data. Such processing operations are particularly permissible because they have been specifically mentioned by the European legislator. He considered that a legitimate interest could be assumed if the data subject is a client of the controller (Recital 47 Sentence 2 GDPR). We clarify that the provision of personal data is partly required by law (e.g. tax regulations) or can also result from contractual provisions (e.g. information on the contractual partner). Sometimes it may be necessary to conclude a contract that the data subject provides us with personal data, which must subsequently be processed by us. The data subject is, for example, obliged to provide us with personal data when our company signs a contract with him or her. The non-provision of the personal data would have the consequence that the contract with the data subject could not be concluded. Before personal data is provided by the data subject, the data subject must contact any employee. The employee clarifies to the data subject whether the provision of the personal data is required by law or contract or is necessary for the conclusion of the contract, whether there is an obligation to provide the personal data and the consequences of non-provision of the personal data. This Privacy Policy has been generated by the Privacy Policy Generator of the DGD – Your External DPO that was developed in cooperation with German Lawyers from WILDE BEUGER SOLMECKE, Cologne. START THE COURSE NOW I give consent to use this information to send additional emails and communication as described in the Privacy Policy No, thank you. I don't want this offer. Take the 7-part Video Journey with Tori to discover 7 Ways Your Card Readings May Not Be Accurate! Before You Validate Your Intuition... Go Validate Your Email Address	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2197
__label__wiki	0.615168	0.615168	Windmills & Wheatfields – Bob… Beartracks 2: Friends – Tony Huber… Beartracks: Journeys – Tony Huber &… Music genres influencing Tresbear Music Stephen Frasier Attempting to classify music into specific genres or subgenres can be a difficult exercise, especially taking into account the incredible variety of not only traditional music genres but also the staggering, constantly evolving, ever-growing list of branches and the related offshoots of all the musical genres that exist today. As I have always had a keen interest in both music (certain genres in particular) and creating lists (plus the research and documenting that goes along with it), this small piece about music genres concerning Tresbear Music is a pleasure for me to write. Tresbear Music tends to focus on a few specific genres and subgenres of music, some of which are relatively difficult to pin down in a precise way concerning their definitions. Roots music is a very broad category of music which reaches across the genres of Bluegrass, country music, gospel music, old-time music, jug bands, Appalachian folk, blues, Cajun, and Native American music. American roots music American roots music, as this genre/subgenre is often called, is not widely known. In the early 20th century the term Folk music was often used to describe music made by Caucasians or whites of European ancestry; it probably applied mostly to the relatively isolated rural South. Further into the century folk music broadened to include the song styling of Southern blacks, especially the blues. Folk music was generally viewed as a glimpse into the cultural life of their creators as folks songs often communicated the hopes, sorrows, and convictions concerning the lives of ordinary, everyday people. Increasingly, music made by other groups of Americans such as Native Americans, Mexican-Americans, and Cajuns also became parts of folk music. American roots music was sung in churches, on front porches, in the fields and other workplaces, while rocking children to sleep, and so on. The tunes and the words to these songs were passed down through the generations. Americana music Americana music is a mixture of roots music formed by the intersection of various musical traditions comprising the American musical ethos; specifically, sounds from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll and other external influences. Americana, as defined by the Americana Music Association (AMA), is “contemporary music that incorporates elements of various American roots music styles, including country, roots-rock, folk, bluegrass, R&B and blues, resulting in a distinctive roots-oriented sound that lives in a world apart from the pure forms of the genres upon which it may draw. While acoustic instruments are often present and vital, Americana also often uses a full electric band.” Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival. The term originated in the 19th century but is often applied to music that is older than that. Some types of folk music are also called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, or as music with unknown composers. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. Irish music is music that has been created in various genres on the island of Ireland. The indigenous music of the island is termed Irish traditional music. It has remained vibrant through the 20th, and into the 21st century, despite globalising cultural forces. In spite of emigration and a well-developed connection to music influences from Britain and the United States, Irish music has kept many of its traditional aspects and has itself influenced many forms of music, such as country and roots music in the USA, which in turn have had some influence on modern rock music. Celtic music means two things mainly. Celtic music is first and foremost the music of those who identify as Celts. Secondly, it refers to whatever qualities may be unique to the musics of the Celtic Nations. Many notable Celtic musicians say that the array of different Celtic music share several common features; for example, many Celtic tunes contain certain melodic patterns tend to move up and down the primary chords. Bluegrass is a form of American roots music, and a subgenre of country music. Bluegrass was inspired by the music of Appalachia. It has mixed roots in Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and English traditional music, and also later influenced by African-American music through incorporation of jazz elements. Old-time music Old-time music is a genre of North American folk music which developed along with various North American folk dances, (e.g., square dancing, flatfoot dancing, buck dancing, clogging); it is played on acoustic instruments, generally with a combination of fiddle and plucked string instruments such as the banjo and acoustic guitar, as well as harmonica. Gypsy music Gypsy music, or gypsy style, refers to the manner in which East European music is often performed at small venues in European cities. Gypsy music is mainly instrumental and usually performed by strings, with accompaniment often including a cimbalom and a double bass. There is a further subgenre, a Romanian variant, where the panflute takes center stage. More about Gypsy music – Tresbear Music — By Stephen Frasier Resources: Music genres influencing Tresbear Music Roots music – Wikipedia American roots music – Wikipedia Americana music – Wikipedia Folk music – Wikipedia Irish music – Wikipedia Celtic music – Wikipedia Old-time music – Wikipedia Gypsy music, or gypsy style – Wikipedia Americana music: Genres of influence Online music magazines Music associations Old-time music: Genres of influence Appalachian folk, bluegrass, blues, Cajun, country music, gospel music, jug bands, Native American music, old-time music One Response to Music genres influencing Tresbear Music Pingback: Gypsy music - « What is quality music? 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__label__wiki	0.535998	0.535998	Tribeca Audio The Ability to Escape Allow me to introduce myself. I’m a 5′5” Jewish kid from Long Island, New York. But you may have heard me as a hulking African-American, ex-linebacker zombie killer. Or a seventy-year-old Massachusetts woman grieving the loss of her young daughter. Or a Polish teenager wandering the forests of Europe after World War II. Or that 6′4”, sexy Greek god who always wears leather pants and kills werewolves in his spare time. Yeah, you know the one. Only in the world of audiobook narrating am I afforded the ability to escape that word that is so feared by actors: Type. I get a chance to perform so many roles I would never get a chance to even audition for normally. It’s really an actor’s dream, in many ways. Of course, it’s also slightly terrifying. Usually an actor has one job: Convey the truth of ONE character as he or she pertains to the story that is being told. In an audiobook with multiple characters, you have to truthfully portray several characters of all varying sexes, ethnicities, ages, etc. So, it’s a fine line sometimes between telling the truth and individualizing each character in a distinct way so the listener can discern between the players….and just making funny voices. It’s always a fear of mine that, somewhere, a listener is thinking, Really? That’s how you think a woman sounds??? But all I can do is dive in, and try to make truthful choices and let the chips fall where they may. Something I like to do when prepping a book with multiple characters is cast them all in my mind. It can be famous actors, friends, family members, the guy who works at the deli down the street, whomever. But when I’m first reading through a book to prep, I like to write down ideas for whom I would like to see play this character in the movie version. It’s not necessarily a matter of imitating that person, but it just informs me where I may pitch my voice, where the characters’ rhythms may land, etc. Most times I’ll jot down some ideas but I won’t actually try them out until I’m in the booth recording, and I’ll just see what happens and hope it works—keeps up the element of surprise for myself, which I feel is important when working on audiobooks. Many times the voice that comes out is nothing at all like the voice I had in my head, which can be really exciting if it works. Even if I’m recording a non-fiction book with no characters at all—say a business book—I still try and approach the narration from a performance standpoint. I’m not just reading the information off the page. I try and look at it as one person telling another person a story, giving them advice on how to do something, teaching them something new and exciting. Again, audiobook narration is about trying to tell the truth in an interesting way and taking the listener on a journey with you and the author. Or at least, that’s the way I try to go in at it. And, if nothing else, at least I got to play a 6′4” sexy Greek god who kills werewolves at one point in my career. It’s the little things, right? Fred Berman is an award winning narrator of over 100 books. He’s the recipient of two Audie Awards for the books Spy The Lie (Philip Houston) and The Intelligent Entrepreneur (Bill Murphy), as well as seven Audiofile Earphone Awards.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2200
__label__wiki	0.978796	0.978796	Home / News / Celebrity dramatically details her ‘emergency abortion’ in order to bash Georgia’s new abortion law: ‘I still have nightmares about it’ Celebrity dramatically details her ‘emergency abortion’ in order to bash Georgia’s new abortion law: ‘I still have nightmares about it’ Actress Milla Jovovich opened up about an "emergency abortion" she underwent two years ago while she was filming a movie in Eastern Europe. Jovovich said that she shared the personal story in an effort to raise awareness about women's diminishing rights in the U.S. as a result of Georgia's new abortion bill, which was signed into law last week. What did she say? Complete with a theatrical photo of herself, Jovovich shared the story on Instagram. She wrote, "I don't like to get political and I try to only do it if a really have to and this is one of those times. If someone doesn't want to continue reading, you have been warned." "Our rights as women to obtain safe abortions by experienced doctors are again at stake," she complained. "Last Tuesday, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed a draconian bill into law that outlaws all abortions after six weeks — before most women even realize they're pregnant — including in cases of RAPE OR INCEST." "This," the actress continued, "makes Georgia the sixth state to pass such a restrictive six-week abortion ban, joining Ohio, Mississippi, Kentucky, Iowa, and North Dakota.These laws haven't been passed yet, but lawmakers in these states are trying." Jovovich went on to detail her own experience with the topic, in a situation that she called an "emergency abortion." "Abortion is hard enough for women on an emotional level without having to go through it in potentially unsafe and unsanitary conditions," she said. "I myself went through an emergency abortion 2 years ago. I was 4 1/2 months pregnant and shooting on location in Eastern Europe." Jovovich said that she went into pre-term labor and was told that she "had to be awake for the whole procedure." "It was one of the most horrific experiences I have ever gone through," she admitted. "I still have nightmares about it. I was alone and helpless. When I think about the fact that women might have to face abortions in even worse conditions than I did because of new laws, my stomach turns." The actress went on to explain that she "spiraled into one of the worst depressions" of her life as a result of the "emergency abortion." "[W]e have to fight to make sure our rights are preserved to obtain a safe [abortion] if we need to," she added. "I never wanted to speak about this experience. But I cannot remain silent when so much is at stake." Celebrity dramatically details her ‘emergency abortion’ in order to bash Georgia’s new abortion law: ‘I still have nightmares about it’ Reviewed by STATION GOSSIP on 07:35 Rating: 5	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2202
__label__wiki	0.645272	0.645272	Home \| News Tuesday 22 November 2016 Sudanese women demonstrations continue as protesters trial begins in Khartoum November 21, 2016 (KHARTOUM) - Sudanese women protests against drug price hikes have continued for a second straight day on Monday in several cities across the country as trial of protesters begins in the capital Khartoum. On Sunday, dozens of women staged a demonstration in Khartoum against the government decision to raise fuel, electricity and drug prices before they were dispersed by police and security services. Women demonstrations on Monday showed signs of widening as protesters took to the streets of several cities across the country including Wad Medani, Kassala, Port Sudan and Khartoum’s twin city of Omdurman. In Omdurman, a group of women staged a demonstration in Al-Arda street holding banners demanding the government to reverse its decision to lift drug subsidy. Also dozens of women protested in the cities of Kassala and Port Sudan in eastern Sudan holding banners denouncing the significant increase in the prices of medicines. Similar women protests also occurred in Wad Medani, 188 km south of Khartoum. On 3 November, Sudanese government lifted fuel subsidies and increased electricity price in a bid to stop the surge in inflation and control the fall of Sudanese pound in the black market. Also, earlier this month, Central Bank of Sudan announced it will no longer provide US dollar for drug importation at rate of 7,5 Sudanese pounds (SDG) forcing pharmaceutical companies to buy the dollar from the black market at 17,5 pounds. As a result, drug prices rose by 100 to 300 percent. The government decision stirred up small-scale protests in several towns across Sudan. Also, some two hundred private pharmacies in Khartoum went on partial strike and closed their doors from 9 am to 5 pm on Saturday in protest against the government’s move. PROTESTERS TRIAL BEGINS IN KHARTOUM Meanwhile, trial of 11 women and 6 men who were arrested by the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) during the protests on Sunday has begun at Khartoum criminal court. The NISS filed criminal charges against the protesters under articles 69 (disturbance of public peace) and 77 (public nuisance) of the Criminal Code. On Monday, the court heard the complainants and the judge delayed the trial session to Wednesday. It is noteworthy that the NISS has also filed similar charges in a separate case against 10 other protesters before the same judge. The hearing session of the second case has been delayed to Tuesday morning. Following the government decision to raise fuel and electricity price, the NISS launched a large-scale arrest campaign and detained 20 leading figures from the Sudan Congress Party besides several members of the NUP, Sudanese Communist Party , Arab Ba’ath Party, National Alliance Forces, Reform Now Movement as well as civil society activists and journalists. Also, the NISS detained twelve and summoned dozens of the Sudanese doctors participating in the strike that has been ongoing since last month. However, none of the detained doctors and political activists was taken to court.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2208
__label__cc	0.696276	0.303724	James Schaefer's List James ticked off 23 items of Sullivan's List \| publish this list to your facebook wall Napa Valley is considered one of the top wine regions in the United States. The Budapest Parliament The Hungarian Parliament Building is the seat of the National Assembly of Hungary, one of Europe's oldest legislative buildings, a notable landmark of Hungary and a popular tourist destination of Budapest. Black Forest (Schwarzwald) is a wooded mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany. Sevilla Cathedral The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See, better known as Seville Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Seville (Andalusia, Spain). It is the largest Gothic cathedral and the third-largest church in the world. Karelsbridge is a famous historic bridge that crosses the Vltava river in Prague, Czech Republic. Prague Castle is a castle in Prague where the Kings of Bohemia, Holy Roman Emperors and presidents of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic have had their offices. The White Cliffs of Dover are cliffs which form part of the British coastline facing the Strait of Dover and France. The Vatican is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of approximately 44 hectares (110 acres), and a population of just over 800. The Arc de Triomphe is one of the most famous monuments in Paris. It stands in the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle (originally named Place de l'Étoile), at the western end of the Champs-Élysées. James haven't added any events to this list yet.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2209
__label__cc	0.632572	0.367428	The Beaver Club Charles Chaboillez, the club's most senior founding member, was perhaps the most influential French Canadian fur trader following the British Conquest. October 2016 (TBD) Seating begins promptly at 6:30pm Program starts at 7:00pm in the Great Room "Feasting-Pageantry-Revelry-Singing" North West Company - Coat of Arms Wealthy fur trade merchants in Montreal founded the Beaver Club in 1785. It was an elite dining club with membership restricted to men who had wintered in the North American interior, often referred to as "Indian Country." This club provided a forum for retired merchants to reminisce about the risky and adventurous days of their youth. Meetings were held during the off-season of the fur trade. Around tables groaning with food, and with libations in hand, they would recall their days of wilderness travel. The evening began formally, following specified rituals which included five traditional toasts. It would progress through tales, drinks aplenty, and of course music and singing. The celebrating often continued into the wee hours of the morning. The Beaver Club recreates the sights and sounds of the original gala banquets held in Montreal during the fur trade era. Please join us for this unique and historical event. Alexander Henry (1739–1824), vice-chairman of the Beaver Club, published his account of living with the Ojibwa and subsequent explorations (1760-76) before becoming a partner of the North West Company. He introduced John Jacob Astor to the Club and the fur trade at Montreal Tickets are $50 per person Price includes a three course meal featuring fish, fur, and fowl, an unending glass of wine, and dessert Make your reservation early as seating is limited.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2212
__label__wiki	0.612373	0.612373	The War Machines (audio soundtrack) Starring: William Hartnell, Jackie Lane, Michael Craze & Anneke Wills By: Ian Stuart Black When: August 2007 Note: Audio soundtrack of the 1966 William Hartnell TV story, with linking narration by Anneke Wills — not to be confused with the audiobook reading of the same story, released in 2019. Subsequently remastered and re-released as part of The TV Episodes: Collection Six box set. The TARDIS lands in London in this classic TV soundtrack adventure, starring William Hartnell as the Doctor with linking narration by Anneke Wills 'There's something alien about that Tower...' It's 1966, and London's brand new Post Office Tower looms over the Doctor and Dodo as they step from the TARDIS. When the Doctor meets Professor Brett, creator of a new, superintelligent computer called WOTAN, he is intrigued to hear of a plan to link all the major computers around the world. But there is more to WOTAN than meets the eye: it secretly believes humans to be inferior to machines, and already has a number of Post Office Tower staff under hypnotic power. WOTAN is planning the widespeard construction of War Machines, large armoured computers bent on taking over the world! With the help of two new companions — sailor Ben Jackson and Professor Brett's secretary Polly — the Doctor races against time to outwit the War Machines and break WOTAN's power. If he can't, then the end of humanity is in sight.... This remastered soundtrack of the original four-part BBC TV adventure is narrated by Anneke Wills, who plays Polly in the story. She also recalls her time in Doctor Who in a bonus interview.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2216
__label__cc	0.670383	0.329617	Scott County Christmas ornament now available Holly Viers • Dec 10, 2018 at 5:30 PM GATE CITY — This year’s Scott County Christmas ornament, featuring the county’s newest attraction, is now available for purchase. The ornaments, distributed by the Scott County Chamber of Commerce, feature a photo of the new Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail Interpretive Center, which opens soon. The photo was taken by Jennifer Fletcher Meade, a native of Scott County who refers to her photography as “Journey through Light.” The ornament tradition The ornament project began as a fundraiser for the Scott County Chamber in 1998. It has continued to be a fundraiser ever since, and all proceeds go into the Chamber’s general fund. Other ornaments in the series have featured popular attractions such as the Devil’s Bathtub, Carter Fold, A.P. Carter Cabin, Natural Tunnel State Park, the Falls of Little Stoney, Dungannon Depot, Fannon Railroad Museum, Bush Mill, Kilgore Fort and the Santa Train. A few of the previous ornaments are still available. This year’s ornament The ornament features a white image of the Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail Interpretive Center set on a blue background. The center, which will serve as a gateway for visitors to explore the Wilderness Road, is located at 371 Technology Trail Lane in Duffield. “We thought it was fitting to feature the new Interpretive Center on this year’s ornament,” said Penny Horton, executive secretary of the Chamber, in a press release. “We have a limited quantity of 300 ornaments available, and they always sell out very fast.” How to purchase an ornament Ornaments are $10 each and may be purchased at the Quik Stop Markets in Gate City and Weber City, the Red Roof Discount Center in Weber City and the Chamber office, located at 190 Beech St., Suite 202, in Gate City. For more information, contact the Chamber office at (276) 386-6665 or [email protected]	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2218
__label__wiki	0.960078	0.960078	All change at Burnley according to speculation Tony Scholes June 5, 2017 All change at Burnley according to speculation2017-06-05T22:41:18+00:00 Editor's Ramble With the 2016/17 having ended two weeks ago, it’s been time for the gossip and speculation to get underway and if it were all to be believed we’d have a new team, a new manager and goodness knows what else before we kick off again in August. The most concerning is the future of manager Sean Dyche. In an interview after the season had finished, chairman Mike Garlick spoke about wanting to keep him for another five years, but the departure of Sam Allardyce from Crystal Palace has triggered Dyche to the top of the betting for the Selhurst Park role. Garry Monk was the initial favourite but with him expected to replace Steve Agnew at Middlesbrough he’s faded away somewhat and that’s left our manager as the clear favourite. I know that’s only betting but we could do without any uncertainty right now and the sooner Palace appoint someone else the better it will be. Roy Hodgson seems to be the most likely of the ‘someone else’ group. He’s from Croydon and I think would be a perfect fit for a club who don’t seem to keep their managers for too long. If the former England manager would be gracious enough to accept the role, that will leave Sean to deal with all the players supposedly leaving. It was eight, I think, at the last count. That’s Tom Heaton who has been attracting Stoke and Everton and central defenders Ben Mee, apparently West Brom bound, and Michael Keane, who is wanted by any number of clubs. Add to that we’ve got Newcastle interested in both Ashley Barnes and Scott Arfield, Spurs one of the clubs keen on Andre Gray, out of contract George Boyd wanted by Aston Villa and Steven Defour wanting to go anywhere but back to Belgium. I don’t know what to make of all that but I think it can be said with some certainty that all eight won’t leave. I don’t think anyone would be too surprised if Keane had played his last game for us, although I’m sure we all hope that’s not the case, and I don’t suspect it would be a shock if Defour moved to somewhere other than Belgium. Boyd is out of contract this summer although the club are keen to keep him but, as for the other five, I’d expect most of them to be with us when the first whistle blows to kick off the 2017/18 season. Will there be any new signings? I think that’s pretty certain, the last time we kicked off a season with no new players was in 2002 after the collapse of ITV Digital. But who will be coming in? Once again, speculation doesn’t mean fact, but there have been six links of some interest so far that might be worth taking a look at. We start with Barnsley’s defensive pairing of Marc Roberts and Andy Yiadom. The Roberts link is the longest standing having initially surfaced during the January window. The 26-year-old central defender has been at his home town club Barnsley for two years since signing from Halifax and was a regular last season when he started 40 of their league games. Roberts’ team mate Yiadom has been with the Tykes for just a year having previously been with Barnet for four years. London born, he’s a Ghanaian international who is best in the right-back position. He settled in well at Barnsley last season, making 31 league starts before a shoulder injury in the home draw against Sheffield Wednesday on 1st April, which required surgery, brought his season to an end. He’s also, according to press speculation, interesting both Swansea and Derby. More intriguing is the link with Reading central defender Liam Moore (top picture). Rated highly, he opted to leave Leicester last summer. Moore, who can also play right-back, had also played for Bradford City, Brentford and Bristol City on loan before Reading stepped in to take him to the Madejski Stadium on a four year deal for a fee believed to be around £1.5 million. At the time, his new manager Jaap Stam said of him: “Liam is the type of defender who can play high up the pitch, because he has pace and he can cover distances quickly should the opposition play long balls over the top or try to get in behind the back line. “He is comfortable on the ball and can play it out from the back, he is an aggressive defender and good in one-on-one situations. I’m really pleased he has joined our squad at Reading.” Joey Barton has gone and it will be some time before Dean Marney is fit again. With all clubs outside Belgium on Defour alert, it does mean Burnley will be surely looking for more new midfield recruits. Two have been linked so far. The first is Manchester City, and former Leeds and Aston Villa, player Fabian Delph. West Brom and Newcastle are also keen on the 27-year-old England international who has struggled to establish himself at the Etihad since his somewhat controversial move from Villa two summers ago. Lastly, a player we tried to sign almost a decade ago. In January 2008 we tried to bring in Sheffield Wednesday midfielder Glenn Whelan but he moved to Stoke and has gone on to play almost 300 league games for them. Now 30, he would take our ever growing number of Republic of Ireland internationals to five. Did I say five? It could even be six with a big interest in Southampton striker Shane Long (bottom picture). He’s another player we have previously wanted. That was back in the summer of 2005 but he was always destined to go with Kevin Doyle to Reading. Although hes made 32 league appearances for Southampton last season, only ten were starts and he scored just three times. Having been transferred three times for fees in total of over £25 million, it could be he would be keen on a move given he’s unlikely to be first choice any time soon at St. Mary’s. So there we are – one new manager maybe required, eight players could be gone and six could replace them. A lot of water will pass under the bridge before the new season starts with much of that speculation no more than that, speculation. « Four Clarets win caps on historic night We’ve moved Ewood »	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2221
__label__wiki	0.685526	0.685526	Posted on February 2, 2007 by Andrew Boe Mark Kozelek Little Drummer Boy Live [Caldo Verde] Mark Kozelek has had an intriguing career. In 1992, his band Red House Painters had their first collection of songs, which were essentially demos, released on the illustrious 4AD Records. The record, entitled Down Colorful Hill, only contained six songs, but each one is either a masterpiece or damn near sonically perfect. One can tell even now that the amount of care and precision that went into those demos was rare and the results are what make the record timeless and immortal. Just after that Mark and his band recorded two even better records. Neither of which were titled, but they are simply known to their audience as the Rollercoaster and Bridge albums because of the simple grainy, sepia images that adorn the covers, so lonely and apt for the material that was contained behind the striking photographs. The Rollercoaster album is a double record clocking in at seventy plus minutes and it is perhaps the one true indispensable release that Kozelek has ever created. In brief, the record is an absolutely amazing collection of melancholy songs that are so gut-wrenching and heartfelt that it is almost difficult to imagine that he could even bother continuing to write any more songs after these were penned. Go out and buy this album if you don’t own it and can be persuaded to buy something that isn’t made simply to be sold and that certainly is not looking for radio play via catchy, soul devoid lyrics and genre rip-off music. The Red House Painters released a few more records before Kozelek decided to release a few short albums under his own name, one of which is a surprisingly pleasant AC/DC covers record done primarily acoustically in his own style. He must have craved the band setting again, but wanted to pursue it without the name Red House Painters attached because since then he has gone on to release two more records now under the name Sun Kil Moon. Strangely enough, the latter and most recent of these releases is an all Modest Mouse covers record called Tiny Cities. Shortly after it came out he set out on a solo tour, which has yielded his newest cd released in late 2006, on his own Caldo Verde Records. This double cd is once again released under his own name and was recorded at various locations last year. It spans every incarnation of his career and includes two original songs recorded live during that tour that have not yet been released elsewhere. The cd itself begins on the wrong foot with “Trucker’s Atlas,” a Modest Mouse song with a terrible title that unfortunately does not do his repertoire any justice. Not much needs to be said about it except that at his prime, Mark Kozelek was stunningly original and almost untouched by anyone else in the industry. By doing an album of covers by some second rate rock group in earnest is selling himself short to say the least. There are two other Modest Mouse covers on the collection as well that can be skipped before the first note is plucked on his guitar. The highlight of the double cd is, not surprisingly, the Red House Painters material by far. Even though, stylistically he has changed during time and has lost the isolated passion that he had early on, these songs still inspire and strike a chord in the listener. “Katy Song,” for instance, is one of the most honest and undecorated lyrics of lost love recently written. “Glass on the pavement under my shoe. Without you, what does my life amount to?” he sings. It may not read like all that much here, but if you heard it sung in its intended form, it all works so unbelievably well. One can almost picture a jaded Kozelek wandering the streets alone at night. The song “Mistress” is another early gem, that although now does not match up to its original recorded incarnation, still makes most of his later material sound lifeless by comparison. “The attention I need is much more serious. A kind of weight you couldn’t lift, even if your cheap career depended on it. I need someone much more mysterious.” Alone, these lines don’t require much accompaniment yet he manages to make them so effective through song. He had such a great ability to shamelessly respond to his previous lovers with a rare concoction of intermingled bile and sorrow. The post Red House Painters material is hit and miss. There are some brilliant tracks like twelve minute “Duk Koo Kim” from the first Sun Kil Moon record, Ghosts of the Great Highway, although it was actually written with the Red House Painters several years before. A few of the later Red House Painters songs are quite wonderful too like “Michigan” and “Cruiser,” both of which appeared on Old Ramon in 1998. The latter even has embarrassingly silly lyrics, but the trajectory behind the song is seamless. As intimated at earlier, the Tiny Cities material is garbage. Save your money for reissued and expanded cds of albums that you already own rather than supporting this pap. His collection of AC/DC covers from 2001, titled What’s Next to the Moon, is far superior because it is so much more difficult to take the record seriously and yet it is convincingly successful in its own right whereas this Modest Mouse covers thing is an uninteresting misstep in his career. The two new songs on this collection, “Unlit Hallway” and “Moorestown,” are quite good too, however. It will be interesting to see if these see the light of day along with another great so far unreleased track, “Admiral Fell Promises,” which appeared on his other yuletide live cd, White Christmas, released on Sub Pop Records in 2001. There is also an anomaly in the form of a traditional Christmas song, “Little Drummer Boy,” for which the album is named after, but it doesn’t require more than one listen. Even his rendition of “White Christmas” a few years earlier was much better. All in all, the double album is good, but his cd is more suitable for the completest rather than those interested in a compendium of Mark Kozelek’s music. The original studio recorded versions of almost every track on this live collection are far superior. He still shines brighter than most of his contemporaries and he outshines most modern independent drivel by light years even though Mark’s music isn’t near as effective and necessary as it was when it came out on its original releases. -Andrew Boe Categoriesmusic reviews Previous PostPrevious mp3 of the Day – Loney, Dear Next PostNext New Kings of Leon Stream!	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2222
__label__cc	0.597361	0.402639	Our Young People's Neighbourhood Panel (Young people in years 7-10 who are currently involved either as peer mentors and/or representatives on the Young People’s Neighbourhood Panel ) have been awarded £490. The money came from the Voluntary Commitment Grants of the Cambridgeshire High Sheriff’s Award Scheme for our Streetwise - The Young People’s Neighbourhood Panel Conference which we are organising for May 2009. The group have been invited to attend the Awards Ceremony on 11th March to receive their Award. About the Streetwise Conference project: We are tackling issues of anti-social behaviour ( ABS) . Namely raising young people’s awareness about what ASB involves and what consequences there are if young people are involved in ASB . We are doing this because in the course we have been doing around community issues it has become clear that not everyone fully understands what ASB is or what the consequences of being involved in ASB are. Recently there has been an increase in levels of ASB in Soham and there is a lot of negative publicity directed at young people. As such Soham is a priority area for the Safer Neighbourhood Panel, which involves partners from the Police, District and Parish Council and voluntary sector . So far young people in the project have helped survey local need and input into forward planning for the town , we have surveyed opinion and recommended youth shelter designs to councillors and some have taken part in developing material for anti-bullying week. Importantly young people choose what they want to be involved with. In this latest project young people want to be seen as part of the solution and want to work with their peers to change attitudes and raise awareness as well as sending a clear message to adults and agencies that they need to improve the way they communicate with young people about community issues . We are planning to gather information and plan interactive workshops for young people to take part in . Local decision-makers will also be invited to sit in on the event and join the workshops. Note about the grants from the High Sheriffs Award Scheme : 1. Voluntary Commitment Grants: Grants of up to £500 for projects that involve young people in voluntary commitment (defined as giving their time for the benefit of others and not as attending a club or activity for their own benefit) and are working to achieve one or more of the following: A lasting effect on the community by making it a safer and more pleasant place in which to live; Enhance the quality of life of others in the community through provision of an activity or entertainment; Significant improvement of the local environment; Promotion of crime reduction activities. Examples of previously funded projects include young people from a village youth club taking part in a litter pick; a group of girl guides running a holiday club for children from a deprived area; a youth group helping the community by improving the village hall garden and making it accessible to people with disabilities; a group of young people renovating broken bicycles to be redistributed to those who need them; young people working to tackle anti-social behaviour in their village.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2223
__label__wiki	0.863602	0.863602	Tulsan of the Year: Judy Kishner Judy Kishner doesn't shy away from the tough issues. For that, we name her Tulsan of the Year. By Connie Cronley As the president of the Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, Judy Kishner is continuing her parents’ legacy of giving to others in need and addressing the complex issues plaguing our city and state. This year, Kishner and the Foundation opened Legacy Plaza, a $30 million redevelopment gifting modern office space to social service organizations. Also this year, the Foundation worked with 17 service providers and community leaders to publish the 10-year Tulsa Mental Health Plan, a massive undertaking that the Foundation fully funded. Kishner and the Foundation don’t shy away from the tough issues. For that, we name her Tulsan of the Year. Judy Kishner Judy Kishner loves her brush hog. “It’s meditative,” she says, “brush-hogging the pastures.” Almost as pleasurable on her Osage County ranch is going out to the fields with clippers to destroy invasive cedar seedlings — her personal prairie preservation effort. Her more public passions — the reason she is TulsaPeople’s Tulsan of the Year — involve the monumental work she is doing as president of the Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, with its assets in excess of $500 million. Her parents were famous for their heartfelt and generous philanthropy. They established a family foundation reflecting their belief in “building communities where marginalized populations are elevated in ways that uplift us all.” Judy Kishner has big shoes to fill. She does it in big ways: with big ideas, tackling big societal problems, taking big risks and with big contributions. In the past four years, the Foundation has awarded more than $200 million in grants and focused on four of the biggest, almost insurmountable, issues of hunger, homelessness and housing, mental health and indigent health care, and general social services support. Visionary, fearless “Visionary” is an adjective that comes up repeatedly when people talk about Kishner. “She has a clear vision of what she wants to accomplish,” says Courtney Knoblock, Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation program director. She tackles problems that scare off a lot of people, says Dr. Gerard Clancy, president of the University of Tulsa. “Nothing is too big or too complex for her to consider. Judy has perseverance. She says, ‘Everyone else is running and hiding. We’re going to push through this.’” That’s because she is fearless, her colleagues say, and willing to take a risk. She dislikes (abhors and avoids is a more accurate description) personal publicity, makes contributions very quietly and is modest to the point of self-deprecating. “I don’t think of myself as fearless,” she says. “It’s all from the heart” — a reactionary philanthropic philosophy she learned from her parents. As for taking risks, “If you don’t try, you won’t learn anything,” she says. Kishner’s parents were her most integral teachers about giving from the heart. As lifelong family friend Ruth Nelson remembers, “Anne would read in the newspaper about somebody homeless and say, ‘Henry, we have to do something about this.’ And they did.” That is exactly how one of their most recognized charities began. Thirty years ago, Kishner says, her parents visited the old homeless center, located in a warehouse, where Anne saw a baby in a carrier sitting on the floor. “Babies on the floor!” she said. “Henry, you have to do something about that.” And he did. He raised funds to build a new, expanded Day Center for the Homeless. In 2017, the Day Center served 140,000 individuals in need, offering temporary shelter and services to help them to self-sufficiency. The Day Center was one of Henry Zarrow’s passion projects for the rest of his philanthropic life. The Foundation’s trustees include Kishner’s brother Stuart Zarrow; her children Julie (Wohlgemuth) Cohen and Jay Wohlgemuth; her niece Lisa Zarrow; and nephew Mark Zarrow. All, including Kishner, volunteer their services. “Nobody has ever been paid to serve on the Foundation,” Kishner says. “The point is to give away the money.” And give it away they do. The Foundation makes about 450 grants a year, according to Bill Major, Foundation executive director. “Judy has a huge responsibility, and she takes it very seriously,” says Nancy Atwater, Kishner’s professional colleague and personal friend of 35 years. “The legacy of the Zarrow family is rooted in making a difference,” says Jake Henry Jr., president and CEO of the Saint Francis Health System, where Kishner succeeded her father as a member of the board of directors. “They help the underserved, the poor, the homeless, the ill and those left behind in the world.” He admires “the overwhelming humbleness, yet zealousness, of their generosity. It is the difference between a man who looks the beggar in the face when giving alms, and the man who drops the coin as he might a token in a subway turnstile.” One of the biggest and boldest Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation projects is funding a 10-year plan for improving mental health and wellness in the Tulsa area. (More info about the Tulsa Mental Health Plan at tulsamentalhealth.org) This initial phase of the Tulsa Mental Health Plan initiative has been led by the University of Tulsa in collaboration with a 17-member steering committee made up of mental health care professionals, philanthropists and community leaders. The initiative partnered with policy and data experts from Urban Institute to study the mental health care needs and resources in Tulsa, identify gaps and inefficiencies in the health care system, and recommend ways to move forward. It is a big plan, says Michael W. Brose, chief empowerment officer of Mental Health Association Oklahoma, because mental health is entwined with homelessness, incarceration and suicide. “It’s too big to ignore.” Consider these grim Oklahoma statistics from Mental Health Association Oklahoma: One in seven Tulsans has a mental illness, and one in 20 has a serious mental illness. In Tulsa County, that translates to 141,000 affected with mental illness. One in 12 Tulsa children has a serious emotional disturbance, with 13 percent of Oklahoma teens reporting they have experienced a major depressive episode. Between 700,000-900,000 Oklahomans need services for mental illness and substance abuse. Only one in three is getting the medical services they need. At press time, Oklahoma had the highest incarceration rate in the nation. If Oklahoma were a country, it would have the highest incarceration rate in the world, and 78 percent of female offenders are either being treated or have a history of being treated for mental health issues. The state incarcerates more women per capita than any other state. It gets worse. People with mental illness in Tulsa County die 27 years earlier than people with good mental health, Clancy says, and for those with severe mental illness, the life expectancy is less than 50 years old. It still gets worse. Oklahoma is No. 1 in Adverse Child Experience (ACE) scores, measuring childhood trauma of homelessness, poverty, neglect and parents with mental illness or drug addiction. In Tulsa Public Schools, teachers get a suicide note from a student virtually every day, according to the Tulsa Mental Health Plan. “This information would scare off a lot of people,” Clancy says. “Not Judy. She wants to move the needle on mental illness and addiction. “The 10-Year Plan, highlighting prevention for children and adolescents, is invaluable because it is sets the stage for a well lived, productive adult life rather than one marred with disability.” “Everything starts with housing,” Brose says, “and we have a shortage of safe, affordable housing.” What’s more, Tulsa has the 11th highest eviction rate in the country, according to Brose. “Mental illness and homelessness dovetail,” Kishner says. “You can’t separate them.” She knows this from personal experience; she has a relative with mental health issues. Recently, to alleviate the housing shortage and to support neighborhood revitalization, the Zarrow Foundation awarded a $6.7 million grant to launch Boomtown Development Co., a nonprofit affiliate of Tulsa Habitat for Humanity, to develop safe, quality and affordable housing for moderate to low-income families. The Foundation also committed a $12 million grant to the Tulsa Housing Authority to help the city secure a coveted Choice Neighborhood grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. “Private dollars cannot solve the problems,” the Zarrow Foundation’s Knoblock says. “But they can leverage public dollars and be the wedge to tipping over additional state and federal funds.” This Choice project will result in a $130 million redevelopment of the Eugene Field neighborhood. Other recent Zarrow Foundation basic needs grants include the $5 million lead gift to the Tulsa Day Center for the Homeless; $2 million to 12 & 12 addiction recovery center; and a $2 million gift to the capital campaign for the soup kitchen and food pantry Iron Gate’s new home on West Archer Street. Kishner had a leadership role in fundraising for the new $35 million Parkside Psychiatric Hospital and Clinic expansion for acute mental health treatment and a chemical detox unit for drug and alcohol treatment. In total, the Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation has invested more than $40 million in low-income and mental health supportive housing in Tulsa. Kishner has worked closely with cousin Gail Richards, president of the Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation, on these common interests. They are advocates of Housing First, an approach to homelessness that is based on the belief that people need basic necessities like food and shelter before they can effectively address other issues like behavioral health problems. Their pioneering Housing First work began in 2008 with a campaign called Building Tulsa, Building Lives which culminated in the successful construction — despite fiery community protests — of the Yale Apartments at East Admiral Place and South Yale Avenue. “They took it upon themselves to recognize the problem (lack of safe, affordable housing for people living in shelters and on the street), to get the community behind them and to do something about it,” Ruth Nelson says. Oklahoma is hungry. The state has some of the worst food insecurity statistics in the nation. Hunger is such a whopping problem in the state, 218,770 Oklahoma children don’t get the food they need. That means, more than one in five children in the state is hungry, according to Hunger Free Oklahoma. Eighty percent of Tulsa Public School students qualify for a federal free and reduced-price meal; 16.2 percent of Oklahoma households are food insecure. The biggest pot of money available to feed the nation’s hungry is from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Getting some of it, though, can be a bureaucratic nightmare and far beyond the capabilities of most local nonprofits. “There is so much money left on the table,” Knoblock says, “$400 million every year.” The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation figured out how to help local organizations access these federal dollars by seeding Hunger Free Oklahoma, an advocacy organization for information and technical assistance. Hunger Free Oklahoma helps local nonprofits leverage the power of collaboration. “No one else looked at this issue in this way in Oklahoma,” says Chris Bernard, Hunger Free Oklahoma executive director. “As a state, we’re not doing a good job of connecting federal money to people. Part of our job is to simplify the process for people.” That means connecting organizations that serve individuals, especially families and children, to resources such as the federal Afterschool Meals and Summer Food Service Program and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for eligible kids. “Kids who are hungry are not able to learn and grow,” Bernard says. Afterschool Meals and the Summer Food Service Program provide free meals with an enrichment element served in a school, congregation or other charity. Both programs served 4.5 per eligible 100 kids in 2017. Hunger Free Oklahoma’s goal is to increase those numbers. “If 15 out of 100 kids received an Afterschool Meal,” a HFO spokesman says, “we would be serving 49,329 kids per day — an increase of 34,441 students.” Expanding the Afterschool program would mean informing local communities about the program, connecting a local sponsor (charity, school district or congregation) and site (nearly any location where children gather) and helping them work with the Oklahoma Department of Education for reimbursement of food costs from the USDA. To a layman, it looks as complicated as making lace. That’s why Hunger Free Oklahoma’s assistance is so important. “This organization would not exist without Judy,” says Bernard, who returned to Tulsa for the job after 17 years in Chicago. He is impressed by Kishner’s humility, great generosity and, above all, her deep understanding of the root causes of hunger and foresight to invest in long-term systemic solutions to food insecurity. “It’s hard to give her credit. She’s always giving the credit to someone else. She is so humble. Funders I worked with in Chicago were not like her.” Helping the people who help people Legacy Plaza is a unique way the Foundation is supporting nonprofit social service organizations while simultaneously transforming the East 31st Street and South Yale Avenue neighborhood. The Foundation purchased and renovated — at an ultimate cost of almost $30 million — the former Dollar Thrifty high-rise buildings to headquarter seven local, high-capacity nonprofits: Assistance League of Tulsa, Mental Health Association Oklahoma, Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits, Community Action Project, LIFE Senior Services, Family and Children’s Services and OSU Health Sciences Center. The Foundation funded the bulk of property improvements and renovations and set a high standard for design, but will not retain ownership over Legacy Plaza office space. Each nonprofit will own its offices, and each has been responsible for raising the funds to finish out and furnish the offices in the Foundation-renovated Legacy buildings. So, it is a true collaborative. For social service organizations accustomed to working in cramped spaces with mismatched, hand-me-down furniture, these bright, modern offices are a godsend. “Legacy Plaza is a space designed to be mentally healthy for the staff,” Brose says, “and to help us recruit and retain staff.” Social service organizations deserve it, Kishner believes. “These people work so hard every single day. It’s easy to sign a check. It’s the people on the ground who are getting something done.” The 14-story west tower, which will house Family and Children’s Services and OSU Health Sciences Center, will begin renovation this spring. The organizations hope to move in by the end of 2019. Given their new proximity, the possibility of collaboration is all a happy byproduct of the Legacy Plaza project. Two-legged animals are not Kishner’s only concern. She and Atwater ride horses together on their neighboring ranches. Driving together to Tulsa, they began to count the number of stray dogs. “In true Judy fashion she said, ‘We have to do something about this,’” Atwater recalls. So they started Spay Oklahoma, a nonprofit in response to the state’s severe pet overpopulation. It provides low-cost dog and cat spay and neuter services to low-income pet owners. Since its beginning in 2004, Spay Oklahoma has provided more than 142,000 sterilization surgeries. “That’s the thing with Judy,” Atwater says. “She doesn’t just do a little, she does a lot. One evening she called me and said, ‘I’ve got our slogan: ‘Spay and Neuter — the Ultimate Rescue.’ She’s always thinking.” They met when Kishner and Nelson hired Atwater to be executive director of the Center for Individuals with Physical Challenges. “She is a natural leader, and she is visionary. She looks for ways to fix the problem,” Atwater says of Kishner. What Atwater values most about Kishner is her loyal friendship. “When I fall off my horse and break my arm, she’s the one who takes me to the hospital.” The personal Kishner “I always loved sciences,” Kishner says, so at TU she majored in biology with an “amorphous idea of some career in the sciences. Maybe a veterinarian.” But with two small children, she didn’t want to move to Stillwater for advanced study at Oklahoma State University. So, she switched to economics, then went to law school, then joined the family business Sooner Pipe and Supply. “Not in the legal department,” she says, but in the pipe department working with purchase orders and tracking pipe. She retired as senior vice president. She is married to Tom Kishner, a retired race car builder, and is mother to Julie Cohen and Jay Woglemuth, Jude Kishner and Hilary Kishner; and grandmother to seven children and numerous pets. “My parents truly believed, if you see someone in need you do your best to help them,” Kishner says. “That’s what they did. The heart of my parents was doing something to make it better. Every day I walk past the portraits of my parents, and I hope they like what we’re doing.” And she’s doing it in her own way. “I have seen Judy blossom in a sense of responsibility and leadership,” Ruth Nelson says. “She is carrying on brilliantly the heritage.” With all of the big Foundation projects — and more to come — does Kishner plan on retiring? “I’m already retired, if being paid is the prerequisite for retirement,” she says. “I have no plans to back out of this. It’s easy to get in our own little world. It’s important to have something outside ourselves. I am grateful — I am very lucky — to have something I can devote my life to, to make a difference.” Comfort me with history and books I’m looking for ways to ease my troubled soul. Before I punch someone in the nose. Amazing Emeka reflects on $100K surprise The Tulsan was shocked to receive $100,000 live on The Ellen Show. “Conciliation” at Black Wall Street Gallery The series runs through August, and pairs a black artist and a white artist each month in downtown Tulsa. 7 interesting stops in southeast Kansas Lost Restaurants of Tulsa: My Pi 2019 Charitable Events Calendar Can soothing sounds help the healing process? Shining bright Andrea Leitch Tara Lynn Thompson Native soil Jimmie Erwin No horsing around Barry Friedman Jenny Redden	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2229
__label__wiki	0.544196	0.544196	The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras topped the HRD Ministry’s national ranking of higher education institutes followed by IIT-Delhi and IIT-Mumbai, while the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and Miranda House, Delhi, were adjudged best university and college respectively. The fourth edition of the Indian rankings based on the National Institutional Ranking Framework 2019 were announced by President Ram Nath Kovind. IISc Bangalore and IIT-Delhi ranked second and third in the overall rankings of higher educational institutions. Of top 10 institutes, seven are IITs. The Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Banaras Hindu University ranked seventh and 10th respectively. In the university category, IISc Bangalore has been ranked one followed by JNU and BHU. DU’s Miranda House has topped the colleges rankings followed by Hindu College and Presidency College in Chennai. While the prestigious St Stephens college has been ranked at four, the Sri Ram College of Commerce placed at the seventh position. Eight of the top 10 engineering institutions are IITs. Anna University, Chennai, and National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli, have been ranked at nine and 10 in the category. Among management colleges, top six ranks have been retained by the Indian Institutes of Management, led by Bengaluru.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2230
__label__cc	0.71358	0.28642	Review Workshop 'The Influences of Motivation and Emotion on Visual Processing' (Göttingen, 6-7 June 2019) The workshop 'The Influences of Motivation and Emotion on Visual Processing' brought together junior and senior researchers in cognitive psychology and neuroscience from Göttingen (host), Groningen and Ghent, as well as a number of external speakers and PhD students from six other universities world-wide. The two-day workshop was focused on the work-in-progress of PhD students and Postdocs who presented and discussed their findings, in order to get further input by their peers and the participating senior scientists. Review 'Africa Initiative Meeting' (Groningen, 5 June 2019) Since 2018 members of the U4Society network have been working together on intensifying the cooperation with higher education institutions in Africa, and subsequently established the U4Society Africa Initiative in the course of 2019 with the aim of enhancing the joint collaboration with African HEIs. On on June 5, 2019 staff members of Ghent, Göttingen and Groningen have met together with African PhD students from the participating institutions in the framework of a workshop on African-European Cooperation on occasion of the Groningen lustrum conference. Ms. Beth Yoder (University of Groningen), expert on intercultural relations, prepared a tailored-made workshop addressing themes such as 'what is cultural identity', 'how to visualize culture' and 'how to build trust in an international, intercultural setting'. Review Workshop 'Concepts and Tools in Cultural Transfer Research. Case: Travel Writing' (Göttingen, 16-17 May 2019) The workshop 'Concepts and Tools in Cultural Transfer Research. Case: Travel Writing' took place in Göttingen on 16-17 of May. The workshop was organised by the Cultural Transfer Research Group, which was initiated by Petra Broomans in Groningen. In this fourth edition of the workshop Barbara Schaff, Professor for English Philology at the University of Göttingen and Petra Broomans organised four panels that each focused on a different topic. The panels illuminated theoretical connection between concepts of cultural transfer and the genre of travelling literature as well as highlighted the importance of concepts of identity in cultural exchange and another focused on the performative and literary aspects of cultural exchange in literary pieces on travels to Scandinavia in the 18th to 20th century. Workshop 'Towards a New Global Order? Ambitions, Scope and Challenges of China’s Belt and Road Initiative' (Göttingen, 19 June 2019) In the framework of the 'Taiwan Chair' the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies at Göttingen hosts the workshop 'Towards a New Global Order? Ambitions, Scope and Challenges of China’s Belt and Road Initiative' with the aim of exploring the complex entanglements between the BRI and China’s changing role in the global political economy. Guiding questions during the workshop will be: How to assess the motives and challenges of the BRI as a new development strategy in the context of slowing growth rates and overcapacity problems in the Chinese economy? What are the responses to the BRI by stakeholders in Southeast Asia, Central Asia and Europe? And what are the implications of the BRI for international relations and China’s ascent to a global superpower? Call for Papers \| U4 Workshop 'Concepts and Tools in Cultural Transfer Research. Case: Travel Writing' (Göttingen, 17 May 2019) As an explicitly transcultural genre premised on encounter and exchange, travel writing provides ample opportunities for the study of cultural transfer across the centuries. As diverse as the forms and purposes of travel writing are – covering reports of exploratory journeys, scientific expeditions, pilgrimages, educational tours, or leisure trips – they all involve the acquisition, processing and mediation of cultural knowledge. However, contemporary studies in the fields of intercultural transfer and exchange (Lüsebrink 2005, Greenblatt 2010) have pointed out the instability and contingency of any cultural transaction. In addition, discursive constructions of the self and the other are shaped by particular ideological, aesthetic, gendered, social and institutional contexts (Leerssen et al. 2007). Review Joint Seminar 'Qualitative Methods in Social Research' (Ghent, 17-18 October 2018) In the framework of the Ghent-base project 'Established and Emerging Methods: Uses and Variation', a two-day seminar was organized with the main emphasis on qualitative research methods, both established and emerging, as undertaken by doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers and senior professors. The seminar involved academics from three of the U4 universities: Ghent, Uppsala and Groningen. The aim of the seminar was two-fold. On the one hand it sought to produce an inventory of practices and approaches in qualitative research across U4 universities. On the other hand, it aimed at generating a scientific community between researchers, upon which a long-term collaboration can be built. Workshop 'EU foreign policy and the response from East Asia' (Groningen, 31 May – 1 June 2018) In the framework of the U4 Taiwan Studies network a 2nd workshop was hosted by Groningen on 31 May and 1 June 2018, focusing on the theme: 'EU foreign policy and the response from East Asia'. The workshop was centered around four main topics: (1) political developments and EU-East Asia Relations, (2) governing economic relations between the EU and East Asia, (3) normative power Europe and East Asia, and (4) the EU and China: policies and normative stance. Visit of the Faculty Office 'Humanities and Social Sciences', Uppsala University (Göttingen, 19-20 April 2018) In late April, the Faculty Office for Humanities and Social Sciences, Uppsala University, visited Göttingen University. The aim of the visit, which was initiated by Uppsala but generously planned and arranged by the Göttingen hosts, was to contribute to the Uppsala office's continuous work for enhanced internationalization and quality. During two intensive days of inspiring meetings and discussions between the two U4 partners, the Uppsala office had the opportunity to meet with various representatives and offices of Göttingen University, particularly related to the humanities, social sciences, theology and teacher education. Workshop 'European University Networks' (Brussels, 16 April 2018) Within the workshop offered by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the German Rectors Conference (HRK) on 16 April 2018 in Brussels, Vice-President Prof. Dr. Hiltraud Casper-Hehne und Dr. Stephan van Galen, Secretary General of Groningen University, presented the U4-Network to the representatives of the European Commission, as the Best Practice concerning the development of the EU-programme line European University Networks (EUN). The workshop outlined the measures and concepts that lie at the heart of EUNs, such as the bottom-up approach to establish them, the recognition of studies done abroad or the reflection of a geographical balance in Europe, amongst others which serve the goal to eventually ultimately "European Universities". International Symposion 'The critical role of university Research Data Management infrastructure in transforming data to knowledge' (Göttingen, 18-20 March 2018) Data managers and librarians meet at the Göttingen State and University Library of Lower Saxony to exchange experience on the development of research data services. In order to learn from the experience of other institutions in establishing research data management infrastructures and to pass on its own knowledge in this area, the eResearch Alliance, a cooperation of the GWDG and the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB), is organising an internationally renowned symposium on the topic of 'The critical role of university Research Data Management infrastructure in transforming data to knowledge' from 18 to 20 March 2018 in Göttingen. The symposium is organised in cooperation with the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA), an organization of the International Science Council.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2233
__label__cc	0.561872	0.438128	Solar panel maker Solyndra set to auction assets FREMONT, Calif. Cars stopped by all day Tuesday to check out thousands of items Solyndra is selling as surplus. The bankrupt solar panel maker did not allow cameras inside, but the auction website has the entire catalog posted with photos. On the block are office furniture, electron microscopes worth $500,000 or more, robots, and even a banner that welcomed President Obama when he toured the plant. Auction house partner Kirk Dove says more than 1,000 bidders have signed up from the U.S. and abroad. "It could be solar panel manufacturers looking for extra capacity and need manufacturing equipment, it could be wholesalers of finished good products because we're selling finished good panels. It can also be buyers of household items, of office furnishings, personal computers. There's biopharma equipment. There's electronic test equipment," Dove said. Some bidders will likely be competitors looking to save money. "We're with a company called Smart Solar, which is also developing solar technologies over in San Jose," bidder Joe Lichy said. Over 1,000 workers lost their jobs when Solyndra abruptly shut down. Scott Logsdon was one of them. Now he's back at Solyndra, working for the logistics company that will crate and ship the equipment to the successful bidders. "It's such an ironic twist that I helped to bring it in, and now I'm going to help bring it out, and so I found that ironically funny; but I've got new loyalties, and I'm going to make some business happen," Logsdon said. High bidders still have to be approved by the bankruptcy court. Bidders should expect to pay 25-50 cents on the dollar. That translates into a 50-75 percent savings. The money will go toward paying off Solyndra's debts under the supervision of the court and a committee of debt holders.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2241
__label__wiki	0.665067	0.665067	The Trigger-Happy Church [UPDATE 03/01/2009: Building on the following post, the American Anglican Council has compiled a comprehensive list of some 60 current lawsuits in which ECUSA is involved over church property disputes. See pages 22-26 of its full report on the current situation.] [UPDATE 04/03/2012: The total number of lawsuit filings by ECUSA and/or its dioceses is now over 75. I have recently assisted the American Anglican Council in updating the report linked above, and will post a link to it here when they publish the update.] At Lambeth, TEC's bishops were (whether deliberately, or negligently---it makes no difference) giving out wrong information about the lawsuits they are involved in with their own parishes. The Bishop of Lichfield, the Rt. Rev. Jonathan Gledhill, in the Province of Canterbury, reports on his Weblog about the meeting of his indaba group on August 2 (Day 18 of the Lambeth Conference): In the discussion afterwards we are told that the US House of Bishops has regretted for the hurt it has caused and its lack of consultation and has issued a public apology - though no one has the exact wording. We are also told that the Canadians have voted against same-sex blessings - though two dioceses are pressing their bishops to change that. We are told that in the lawsuits in America between parishes and their dioceses it is the dioceses who are the defendants and the conservative parishes who are the accusers. Since it is well known to many individual Episcopalians who have been involved in the many lawsuits instigated and still pending at all levels here that the statement I have put into boldface type above is simply not the case, it did not take long for a blog reader familiar with the details in Virginia to inform the good Bishop of the facts on the ground there. The Rev. Canon Kendall Harmon put the information up on his site at TitusOneNine, and it elicited this comment from a reader: In the interest of being scrupulously fair: this just refers to the Virginia situation, is it possible there are other parishes/dioceses where the reasserters are suing? Well, let us be scrupulously fair, and see just what the facts are. The Episcopal Church and/or one of its Dioceses played the role of plaintiff---the party who initiates a case in court, by filing a complaint---in bringing the pending or former lawsuits I have listed below over Church property and assets in the courts of the United States. This list makes no claim to be complete; it comprises just the ones I have read about (I have listed them alphabetically by State, and not chronologically): 1. Against Christ Anglican Church in Mobile, AL (plaintiff was the Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast---the suit settled before trial); 2. Against St. John's Episcopal Church in Fallbrook, CA; St. Anne's, in Oceanside CA; and Holy Trinity, in Ocean Beach, CA (plaintiff in all three cases is the Diocese of San Diego--- apparently after not being allowed to amend an older suit, the Diocese simply filed a new one); 3. Against St. James Anglican Church and two others in Newport Beach, CA (Diocese of Los Angeles is plaintiff---the case is now being reviewed by the California Supreme Court); 4. Against St. John's Anglican Church in Petaluma, CA (Diocese of Northern California is plaintiff); 5. Against Bishop Schofield and the diocesan investment fund in the Diocese of San Joaquin, CA (for an update on that suit, see this post, as well as my earlier ones you can find in the Guide); 6. Against Trinity Anglican Church in Bristol, CT (recently settled); 7. Against the rector and former vestry of Bishop Seabury Church in Groton, CT; 8. Against Redeemer Anglican Church in Jacksonville, FL (plaintiff was the Diocese of Florida) 9. Against Christ Church in Savannah, GA (plaintiff is the Diocese of Georgia); 10. Against All Saints Church in Attleboro, MA (plaintiff was the Diocese of Massachusetts; the case settled in 2007); 11. Against St. Andrew's Anglican Church in Morehead City, NC (plaintiff was the Diocese of East Carolina and those members of the parish who had not voted to join AMiA; following a jury mistrial, plaintiffs obtained summary judgment which was affirmed on appeal); 12. Against the Church of the Good Shepherd in Binghamton, NY (if the link has been removed, try this one---the plaintiff is the Diocese of Central New York, and the defendant church is the parish of StandFirm's Matt Kennedy and his wife, Anne; 13. Against St. Joseph's Anglican Church (formerly Trinity Church of East New York) in Brooklyn, NY, which originally separated from TEC in 1977, before the adoption of the Dennis Canon (plaintiff was the Diocese of Long Island, in a second brought in 2005 after it lost its first suit, filed in the early 1980's---the case settled early this year); 14. Against St. James Anglican Church in Elmhurst (Queens), NY (plaintiff was the Diocese of Long Island, and the court ruled in its favor in March of this year) 15. Against All Saints Protestant Episcopal Church in Rochester, NY (plaintiff was the Diocese of Rochester); 16. Against St. Andrew's in Syracuse, NY (plaintiff originally was the Diocese of Central New York, and TEC's Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society later intervened---the lawsuit recently settled); 17. Against St. Luke's Church in Akron, OH and four other northeast Ohio parishes (plaintiff is the Diocese of Ohio). 18. And last, but certainly not least, we have the aforementioned suits against the churches in the Anglican District of Virginia, in which both TEC and the Diocese of VA filed separate declaratory actions as plaintiffs after the churches had filed with the court reports of the votes to leave TEC held pursuant to the terms of Virginia's unique Division Statute. I am aware of just three [actually, four---see the Update below] instances in which a Diocese or The Episcopal Church were defendants, rather than plaintiffs. But in two of the cases, as noted below, it was the Diocese which triggered the filing of a lawsuit by moving to take control of the individual church's assets, and the legal actions that followed were essentially a defensive response against those moves. A. The earliest (and, I would say, the only genuine) instance of a parish starting a lawsuit was in 2000, after a dispute arose between All Saints Parish, Pawley's Island, SC, the Diocese of South Carolina, and TEC in connection with the formation of the Anglican Mission in America. The Rev. Canon Charles Murphy, who had been rector of All Saints for over twenty years, was consecrated as an AMiA bishop in Singapore along with the Rev. John Rodgers. Bishop Edward Salmon, the diocesan of South Carolina, issued a pastoral letter expressing the canonical difficulties which the consecration created. Although Canon Murphy had announced before his consecration his intentions to remain at All Saints, alarm bells went off in the diocesan chancellor's office when it was subsequently learned that All Saints had ordered a title report on its property. This raised concerns because of what had happened earlier in Morehead City, North Carolina (see Item No. 11 above). There St. Andrew's parish had conveyed its property to an AMiA entity without securing permission beforehand from either the Bishop or the Standing Committee as required by the applicable canons, and the deed had been recorded without any difficulty. As he explains in this letter to the members of All Saints, Bishop Salmon received advice from his chancellor that he should record with the local Register of Deeds a notice of what the Episcopal Church's canons provided with respect to conveyances of parish property. The parish considered this action as putting a cloud on their title (which they contended was in an 18th-century trust; see below), but as Bishop Salmon explains, since they were a parish in the Episcopal Church, it was the other way around: "If the permission of the Bishop and the Standing Committee are not given [to the conveyance], the title is clouded." In any event, All Saints (even though it had not yet voted to leave the Episcopal Church) brought an action to remove what it saw as a cloud on its property, and named as defendants the Diocese of South Carolina and The Episcopal Church. The latter filed counterclaims seeking to establish that the church property was held in trust for the Diocese and for TEC. In 2003, a majority of the parish voted to leave the Diocese and affiliate with AMiA. Bishop Salmon appointed a new vestry for the parish that remained, and following a successful appeal from an initially adverse decision that vestry, joined by Bishop Salmon, the Diocese and TEC itself, filed in 2005 a second lawsuit against the vestry it replaced, seeking their ejectment from and the possession of the 60-acre church property. The two lawsuits (one from 2000 and the other from 2005) were consolidated, and tried to a jury. In April 2007, the trial court took the case away from the jury, saying that the legal issues involved were too complex, and needed to be resolved by the court, on the evidence presented to the jury. The judge handed down a lengthy and complex ruling granting judgment in part to both sides, but leaving ultimate ownership to be decided by the probate court. That court will have some very knotty issues to untangle, as the title to the property was originally held by a charitable trust established under a 1745 will, in favor of "the Church of England". The original parish argues that since it has occupied the property continuously since the trust was established, it is now the beneficiary of that trust, which it contends is still valid. (It uses that argument to get around the Dennis Canon, contending that the earlier trust, established before there even was an Episcopal Church, controls.) The only problem is that the trustees stopped functioning as such centuries ago: the court named "John Doe" trustees to represent the unknown common-law heirs of the two original trustees named in 1745. Those "John Doe" trustees have aligned themselves with the original parish---not surprisingly, since both groups want the trust to continue to function and hold the property. The Diocese and the surviving TEC parish, on the other hand, maintain that the trust has long since merged into the identity of the parish, and that as the only hierarchically approved entity belonging to the successor to the Church of England in the United States, it now owns the property. As I mentioned, the trial court's ruling is now on appeal, and these ownership questions will probably not be sorted out until after the appellate court has weighed in on the other issues. Talk about a complex case! [A hat-tip to the ever-reliable Rev. Canon Kendall Harmon, with his personal knowledge of the scene, for helping me to sort out the strands.] B. An action was brought in 2005 in federal district court by six parishes and their rectors (the "Connecticut Six") against the Diocese of Connecticut, whose bishop had suspended the priests in question and taken over some of the church properties. The court dismissed the lawsuit the next year, and the Diocese has since brought the actions listed as Nos. 6 and 7 above. C. The only other instance of which I am aware in which a diocese is the defendant in a suit initiated by a church is the declaratory action brought by Grace Church & St. Stevens against the Bishop and the Diocese of Colorado. However, in that suit, the plaintiff church sought a simple declaration that the Diocese had no right, title or interest in its property, in response to an attempt by the Diocese to freeze the church's bank accounts. The response of the Diocese was to file a counterclaim against the church, its rector and seventeen of its vestry and leading parishioners seeking millions of dollars in damages. Those so named answered in kind, and the claims have been set for trial in February 2009. [Update 08/06/2008: As GC Forrest wisely reminds us in his comment below, another instance of a parish instituting suit first against a Diocese, and not vice versa, would of course be the suit brought by Calvary Church in Pittsburgh in 2003 against the Diocese of Pittsburgh in order to hinder its leaving The Episcopal Church. That suit was recently the subject of a supplemental petition in advance of the forthcoming Diocesan Convention, about which I have commented in an earlier post. Since the object of this suit is the same as that in the eighteen cases listed above---to keep a Diocese or any of its parishes from leaving The Episcopal Church---it really cannot count as an exception to the pattern.] This barely scratches the surface. (I am aware, for example, of the earlier departures and litigation occasioned by the decision to allow the ordination of women, as I have detailed in this post. And for still further information, see the article referenced at the beginning of this post, which gives the number of Episcopal Church property "disputes" pending as fifty-five! So that number, given as of December 2007, could refer as well to ongoing negotiations that have not yet turned into lawsuits. Finally, here is a fairly complete list of churches that have departed from TEC---not all of them, thankfully, incurring litigation---with many links [scroll down to the "departures" section].) If anyone who reads this catalog is aware of other cases I have omitted to mention, with TEC or a diocese either as plaintiff or as defendant, please feel free to describe it (or link to a news story about it) in a comment, and I will update the foregoing information from time to time. For the present, at any rate, the data gathered above are more than sufficient to demonstrate that the official TEC "line at Lambeth", as heard and reported by Bishop Gledhill, is manifestly contrary to the facts. TLF+ Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 12:06:00 PM PDT I also know that Bp. Alexander of Atlanta sued several individual vestry members who left one of the TEC churches, taking nothing of TEC's with them. Not sure how those cases resolved. Nathan Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 4:47:00 AM PDT I'm the one who wanted to be scrupulously fair. This is good work and a powerful rebuttal. You should type up a note and send this off to +Litchfield and any other bishop who made such a statement. Hopefully this will get publicized and can be a resource others can use when they confront that false claim. FrSean Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 8:38:00 AM PDT I am being picky here, but the abbreviation for Connecticut is CT not CN. A. S. Haley Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 8:59:00 AM PDT Not at all, Fr Sean---I welcome any and all corrections to this list, to make it more accurate. Even when we know some things perfectly well, they still manage to slip by us. So thank you for the correction---it has been made. SometimesWise Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 9:02:00 AM PDT On being a defendant - don't forget the conservative Diocese of Pittsburgh being sued by representatives of several parishes following a proposed change in the accession clause and a declaration that parish resources belong to the parish. The bishops and several Standing committee members were sued as individuals - I don't have the details, but that shoe was on the other foot. GCForrest Robert Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 9:35:00 AM PDT Well of course you have to be the plaintiff when someone is stealing something from you. A. S. Haley Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 11:33:00 AM PDT Oh, really, Robert+? Is that how our Lord taught us to look at it? Zana Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 12:25:00 PM PDT Church of the Redeemer is in the Dio. of Florida, not Central Florida. (I spent ten years there under the beloved Bishop Jecko!) A. S. Haley Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 12:40:00 PM PDT Thank you, Zana---correction made (and transposed link fixed as well). David Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 1:50:00 PM PDT We are also told that the Canadians have voted against same-sex blessings - though two dioceses are pressing their bishops to change that. Actually, one is actively engaged in SSBs (New West) and 4 others have voted to start - but haven't yet - officially. I am in St. Hilda's ex-diocese of Niagara (now ANiC). The day after we voted to join ANiC, diocesan reps were at the door (9 of them, all dressed in black - the Nazgul sprang effortlessly to mind) to demand the keys to the building. Since we refused to give them up, the diocese took us to court: we won the 1st round, they won the next 2. We are currently worshipping in a local school with > 100 people. The diocese holds its service in St. Hilda's building - with the priest, his wife and the alter set-up lady - every week for the last 3 months. The pattern for the other 3 Niagara ANiC churches is similar. The diocese took us to court – we are defending. David Jenkins The Underground Pewster Friday, August 8, 2008 at 9:00:00 AM PDT Lots of good cases for reference in the post and comments. Thanks. The link a.s. Haley noted in the comments points to Luke 6:29, I think Luke 6:30 says it better, "Give to everyone who begs from you; and if anyone takes away your goods, do not ask for them again." A. S. Haley Friday, August 8, 2008 at 7:07:00 PM PDT That's an excellent amendment, Pewster---thank you. I like the choice of words even better in the NET version: "Give to everyone who asks you, and do not ask for your possessions back from the person who takes them away." DavidH Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 5:00:00 PM PDT "But in two of the cases, as noted below, it was the Diocese which triggered the filing of a lawsuit by moving to take control of the individual church's assets, and the legal actions that followed were essentially a defensive response against those moves." "However, in that suit, the plaintiff church sought a simple declaration that the Diocese had no right, title or interest in its property" Then, by your own rules, Mr. Haley, the actions filed by TEC and the Diocese of Virginia don't count. A. S. Haley Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 7:00:00 PM PDT Not quite so fast, DavidH. The petitions brought by the Virginia parishes were filed expressly pursuant to a previous (12/2006) agreement reached with the Diocese, and were necessary to report the outcomes of the individual votes under the Virginia Division Statute. (See, specifically, paragraph 2 (b) of the Agreement, which provides for the filing of the petitions by the parishes.) The same Agreement obviated the need for any response to them to be filed by the Diocese of Virginia or TEC, because it stated that the parishes "will not take any further steps to bring the Va. Code 57-9 filings to judgment." The parishes honored the terms of that Agreement until the Diocese's actions in early 2007 forced them to take action to prosecute their petitions to judgment. Specifically, the Diocese filed motions to intervene in each of the petition actions. These motions were also contemplated by paragraph 2 (b) of the Agreement, and so were not opposed by the parishes (except for the one linked, which later withdrew its opposition to the intervention). However, one week after moving to intervene in the petition actions, the Diocese filed eleven separate complaints against the individual parishes (only eight of whom had filed petitions), and named also their rectors and individual vestry members personally. These were brand-new lawsuits, each of which sought to oust the respective defendants from possession, and to take title to all their real and personal property. Notwithstanding that breach of the Standstill Agreement (see paragraph 1 [a])by the Diocese, ECUSA then breached the agreement itself two weeks later by filing its own eleven lawsuits against the same defendants. Thus I cannot agree that "under my rules" these lawsuits have to be charged to the parishes, rather than to ECUSA and the Diocese. Mr. Haley, you're wrong on two counts and misinterpreting on a third. First, there was no breach of the Standstill Agreement by anyone. It was allowed to expire before the Diocese and TEC filed suit. See this press release: http://www.thediocese.net/News_services/pressroom/newsrelease24.html Second, you imply that the Standstill Agreement making an exception to allow filing of the 57-9 actions was more than that. It didn't require anyone to do anything. It provides only that filing the 57-9 actions was not a breach of the agreement. To the extent that provision is relevant to this discussion, it supports the position that the 57-9 actions are in fact civil litigation (otherwise no exception would be needed). Whatever the 57-9 actions were, they were a "mov[e] to take control of the individual church's assets". That is, after all, the entire point of the statute. So you really haven't escaped your own rule. Finally, I'm not sure I follow your attempt to distinguish a declaratory judgment action when the filing party is in possession from one when the filing party is not in possession. I see no difference, unless you think possession = right to possession. Either way, you're seeking a declaration of rights. All right, DavidH, so the Diocese announced it was not going to renew the standstill agreement. As lawyers, you and I both know that meant that it planned to take affirmative action (since the standstill agreement did not permit such action while it remained in effect). That still means it was the Diocese that made the first aggressive move---and when it did, as I said, it went well beyond a simple opposition to the petition. So instead of a "breach of the Standstill Agreement," what I can legitimately charge the Diocese with is escalating the litigation. I see no difference, since even by not renewing the Standstill Agreement, the Diocese still could have chosen to do nothing other than contest the petitions. But it did not---and ECUSA followed suit, if you pardon my pun. So we come down to this sequence: 12/18/2006 - Standstill Agreement signed allowing congregations to file petitions; petitions filed later that day. By agreement, no response is due. 01/09/2007 - After one thirty-day period, Diocese notifies parishes it will not extend Agreement. (Does ECUSA likewise notify anybody, or does it just piggyback on the Diocese's non-renewal?) 01/16/2007 - Standstill agreement expires. 01/24/07 - Diocese responds to petitions by moving to intervene. Interventions are not opposed by parishes. 01/31/07 - Diocese files brand-new complaints against each parish, and also names individual rectors and vestry members as defendants. 02/09/2007 - ECUSA files complaint against all individual parishes, their rectors and vestries, seeking more of the same. Every single action in that chronology after December 18 was taken by the Diocese or ECUSA, and none was taken by the individual parishes. Yet all the Diocese had to do in order to defend its interests was to respond to the petitions; and ECUSA didn't even have to do that, since its interest was the same as (or at least no greater than) the Diocese's via the Dennis Canon. 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__label__wiki	0.627182	0.627182	XIXAX Film Forum The Director's Chair => The Director's Chair => Topic started by: Rudie Obias on February 02, 2003, 08:54:10 PM Title: Harmony Korine Post by: Rudie Obias on February 02, 2003, 08:54:10 PM thoughts? opinions? Post by: Ghostboy on February 02, 2003, 10:01:12 PM It's taken me two viewings to really appreciate each of his films, but once I get them, I love them. I think they both play better on the small screen, which is probably why I didn't get into them until I saw them on DVD. Julien Donkey Boy in particular benefits from the tighter resolution of a TV screen. I wasn't a huge fan of Kids, though. It was okay, but I'm really glad it gave Korine the boost he needed to make his own films. Post by: Duck Sauce on February 02, 2003, 10:43:32 PM I liked Kids but I was very close to hating both Gummo and Julien-Donkey Boy although the scene at the ice-skating rink was one of the most difficult things I have ever had to watch. I have a problem keeping with movies that lack any sort of a plot, and although I give him kudos for style and originality, I think he relies too much on it. Maybe somebody could tell me whats so great. Post by: Xixax on February 04, 2003, 11:35:41 AM Harmony's movies are like watching a car crash, IMO. There's no "art", there's no good guys or bad guys, it's more like it's all stream of consciousness stuff that sucks you in like a bad episode of Cops. First time I saw Gummo, I kept wondering if these people could be any more worthless than they already had become, and then we're met with the retarded prostitute. Harmony's stuff is lower than the bottom of the barrel. It's so toxic that it would eat through the foulest of shitholes and leave the turds begging for mercy. Yet, all that being said, I still find myself glued to the screen when I encounter a DVD or an IFC viewing of one of Harmony's movies. I think his films are absolutely horrible, and I love them all. Post by: KingBlackDeath on February 26, 2003, 03:13:45 AM JDB is great aside from the cigarette in the nose guy, the armless man, the nun doing whatever the hell she is doing, the bag boy barking, and half of the stuff with Herzog. These are things that make his films seem stupid because it's like "Look at this guy! Isn't that FUCKED UP!?!" and I've seen that cigarette guy do that before on other things. If he took at that stuff and just left the julien and the julian/sister/brother stuff it would be better. i liked Gummo more before I saw it when I would hear Harmony describe his theories on filmmaking and hear desriptions of it. After seeing it, I'm neutral on it. But anyone who can write a book that makes a reference to Jordy in it is fine by me. Title: korine. Post by: b/a on February 26, 2003, 10:38:28 PM I love him. Gummo and JDB are two of my favorite movies. I wish he would hurry up and do something else though. All of my favorite directors seems to work at a glacial pace while the ones I hate churn out movies every other month. Title: Re: korine. Post by: Pwaybloe on February 27, 2003, 12:05:57 PM Quote from: b/a Well, one of Harmony's earliest scripts has been made into Larry Clark's "Ken Park." I don't know what's going on with distribution, but I doubt the Brits will see it anytime soon since Clark punched his British distributor over a political argument. Post by: TenseAndSober on February 27, 2003, 10:48:42 PM I just saw Julien Donkey Boy the other day and loved it. Gummo was good too...Harmony Korine is definetly one of my favorite filmmakers. Post by: snaporaz on March 04, 2003, 12:51:36 AM i thought julien donkey-boy was crap. gummo was cool since it wasn't trying to be serious [i think. please don't say i'm wrong], so it worked. donkey-boy, on the other hand, was a desperate attempt at making an emotional, dramatic dogme piece - which, in my opinion, was a cop out since it was done on digi. and it didn't work at all. nothing more to add to that, really. Post by: Xixax on March 09, 2003, 05:56:07 PM Quote from: snaporaz Yes, I was surprised that it was considered (or attempted to be) a Dogme95 movie because it was all shot digital. I netflixed this again this weekend and finally gave it a sit-down all the way through viewing and absolutely loved it. The guy who played Julian was really phenomenal. Harmony, for all of his weirdness, is becoming one of my offbeat favorites, for sure. I can't wait to see Ken Park. Larry Clark is another filmmaker on my list of "get-to-know-better". Post by: manhattanize on March 10, 2003, 04:25:44 PM i think harmony korine is a great filmmaker, not because of depth, but because of the surface that then makes the audience feel his depth especially with gummo and JDB...i'm not making much sense, so really what i'm trying to say is that most of his emotional appearance is just strictly surface and is weak in that sense, visually he is messy but it is quite called for with the stories or lack of story he is trying to tell... it's funny, because if i attempt to talk about him, i get as random and as confusing as his work... Post by: SubstanceD on March 11, 2003, 04:35:29 PM Most of the Dogme movies are shot digital Quote from: SubstanceD Don't forget the part about how most of them suck, too. Title: Re: harmony korine Post by: Spike on May 03, 2003, 06:41:25 AM Did anyone of you notice his cameo-appereance in "Kids". He's the boy with the glasses who goes with Jenny through this disco and gives her an ecstasy-pill. For me he looks with the glasses like a swot. :) Post by: phil marlowe on May 03, 2003, 07:31:14 AM Quote from: Xixax they do not. most of them are really good actcually. how many have you even seen? expand. Post by: snaporaz on May 06, 2003, 06:22:43 PM dogme's been around longer than digital. eat me. Post by: Ghostboy on May 06, 2003, 07:46:11 PM Actually, it hasn't. They both hit the mainstream, so to speak, at roughly the same time. Post by: Pedro on May 06, 2003, 07:48:31 PM Quote from: Ghostboy The original Dogme rules state that the film format must be Academy 35 mm. maybe that's what he's trying to say? Post by: Cecil on May 06, 2003, 09:26:01 PM the end format must be on 35. it can be shot on whatever you want just as long as its transfered to 35 afterwards Quote from: cecil b. demented Post by: bonanzataz on May 06, 2003, 10:35:11 PM breaking the waves was done on film. Breaking The Waves was pre-Dogme. Post by: meatwad on May 09, 2003, 08:47:54 PM didn't korine direct a video for sonic youth? Has anybody seen that? http://www.thestate22.com Post by: godardian on May 12, 2003, 02:34:46 PM I dunno... Todd Haynes definitely did, though. Off of Goo. I like Korine's stuff. More than I like him. I think he's literally deranged. I really like Gummo, though, and I was the only person I knew of (until now) who loved Julien Donkey-Boy. His films are such tactile experiences, they're really overwhelming. The image that really stands out to me from either film: The backyard scene from Gummo wherein the children take turns kissing in a swimming pool... in the rain. There is something so innocent and tender about that image; it's really beautiful. From Julien Donkey-Boy, it's Sevigny's character wandering through the wheat (corn?) field, singing a hymn. He has a lovely visual sense. has todd haynes done any other music videos? I don't think so. Not that I know of. Post by: Thecowgoooesmooo on November 23, 2003, 03:36:33 PM Korine is a visual genious in my opinion. But hes a real asshole in real life, (i know some people who grew up with him). Great sense visually, in Gummo, (big fan) he makes the ugliest things look so beautiful. His movies don't have traditional stories or plots, which I think allot of people can't handle that for some reason, but I think its a great change. Also, Kids is absolutely amazing, because its extremely realistic, its like a commentary on so many of the kids growing up in New York during the early to mid 90's. Its not the same scene there now. Post by: AK on November 23, 2003, 09:56:12 PM Quote from: Meatwad I believe he directed two...that one where Chloë Sevigny appears naked and other with Kulkin (don't remember the names) Post by: godardian on November 23, 2003, 10:58:16 PM Quote from: AK Any details? Bands, songs, etc? ok, i completely messed up the things...i meant korine directed for sonic youth two videos, sorry . Post by: oakmanc234 on November 24, 2003, 03:09:26 AM The more I watch 'Kids' the more brilliant I find it to be. Korine was pretty young when he wrote this, right? Wowza of a script really. No plot devices, cliche's, just straight up realness. Unflinching and honest (I think I've read that on every advertisement for it but its true). I thought he wrote 'Bully' too but was wrong but I start to wonder if it would've turned out any different! Its pretty 'Kids'-like. Really wanna see 'Ken Park'. Post by: Ghostboy on December 09, 2003, 07:32:27 PM News at last! http://observer.guardian.co.uk/screen/story/0,6903,1101532,00.html The nun thing sounds great. Post by: socketlevel on December 13, 2003, 05:19:56 PM i saw ken park at the toronto festival two years ago. this film is far out and the actors all took one hell of a risk. i guess they really didn't have a career before this film but it might just stop dead in their tracks. kinda like logan's role in Nowhere by greg araki. Post by: ono on January 28, 2004, 12:53:18 PM The only real thread for Julien Donkey-Boy was locked, for good reason I imagine, so I may as well post this here. Just saw Julien Donkey-Boy. Just loved Julien Donkey-Boy. Greater than Gummo, though they're both great films. My comments for this are pretty much the same as Gummo. Korine simply improves on a previously-established formula, and churns out a great, moving film. What godardian has said about his visual style is what I admire most. Anthony Dod Mantle has such great skill as a cinematographer. It is really encouraging that this was all done on DV, and I actually like the grainy look of the film, although the handheld parts at the beginning were a bit disorienting, and the editing in some places was fuzzy and choppy (probably purposefully). The score of the film was so beautiful, but I'm a bit confused (and I hope someone can clear this up for me), because I thought that no non-diagetic music was allowed in a Dogme 95 film, and I could've sworn there were a few times where the score was coming from a source not on screen. Either way, these are the kinds of films I want to make. The ending was beautiful, and I like that in this movie there seem to have been some actual themes recurring here, unlike Gummo which was simply random scenes from a town (though that could be considered a theme as well). Here we have the ice skating motif and the pervasiveness of religion, all building up to create this underlying intangible emotion that one can't put into words. That's what film is capable of, and when it works, it's really powerful. To me, that's what we have here, and I think if Korine channels this, he could make something really special one day. I doubt it'll be Ken Park, though, but that's because Clark had his dirty paws on it. Best line from the film (after Chris's father instructs him to balance on a glass, pick up a cigarette in his mouth and smoke it with grace to learn balance as a wrestler): CHRIS: But I don't smoke. FATHER: Eh, you'll learn that. See this film if you haven't yet, and if you care at all about independent, unconventional cinema. Don't be afraid about what you may have heard about any shock value, lack of plot, or Korine's "hucksterism," relationship to Larry Clarke, or anything like that. They two are totally different voices; Korine has talent while Clark does not. ***½ (8/10) EDIT: As I was walking home, it just dawned on me what sets these films apart, and really bothers me about most films. It's the inclusion of the (traditional) dramatic scene, or at least a film that is structured to somewhat closely follow that pattern. Even at the most unconventional, most films follow this structure where scenes pay off in a dramatic fashion. There's some line, some look, some shot, some cut that indicates the scene is over, and the story arc continues. In Korine's film, this isn't so, and that's what sets them apart. There is no punchline. His films simply exist, and this is what makes them so real, so unlike anything else. Post by: Cory Everett on January 28, 2004, 09:07:59 PM Quote from: ebeaman I'll elaborate later - but let me just say that I take back anything negative I have said about Harmony Korine and that he is one of the three best young filmmaker's working today along with PTA and DGG, hands down. I will elaborate later, I promise. ebeaman you are so full of grandoise statements like that when you the mood catches you right, arent you? why dont you just say he's one of your favorite, and not one of the best? or atleast elaborate on what you think is so great about him, and why you feel you can justify that statement. Post by: SoNowThen on January 29, 2004, 03:08:36 PM Quote from: themodernage02 Yikes! What's wrong with a young guy being enthusiastic about film? This is what I'm sick of about talking about movies -- Justify is a word that they use in stuffy ass college courses. If I see someone genuinely excited about something, "just because" is the best (and most truthful) answer there is to give. Well, I hope there's at least a couple people in college like you man Hehehe, I never went. Sometimes I visit friends, and enjoy the eye candy of lovely university gals, and use their wonderful stocked library to get film books. I sat in on a film class there once. It was a disgrace. But that's probably because Edmonton Alberta isn't exactly known for the film scholars it pumps out... oops, sorry, back to Harmony Korine :oops: [/code] Post by: godardian on January 29, 2004, 03:35:21 PM Quote from: SoNowThen You'll never develop or further your ability to articulate and make your case, though, if you don't try to have insight into why you like/dislike something. I mean, if "just because" is the best answer, why are any of us here at all, talking about films? It may be the most "truthful" answer if by "truthful" you mean "spontaneous," (they're hardly synonymous), but it's by far the least satisfactory to anyone, including- I'd imagine- the person who's saying it. I'd prefer that SOOOO incredibly much to the "currrazy quirkiness" of someone like Alexander Payne....that shit can get on my nerves. Especially "About Schmidt", I hate that fucking movie now. It is so FLAT and boring and lord have mercy is it NERDY!!! It's the nerdiest fucking movie I've ever seen. The new guy that replaces Warren especially! Oh my god, I wanted to slap that guy. I mean, I'm a nerd myself but even I'm no that bad. And oh my god, that winnebago campout scene....oh my god, that is enough to make me wanna vomit....with that freakin guy saying "Ahoy" like he's on some sort of ship or some shit.....oh my god, I hate that movie. uhh, i think they're supposed to be nerdy. it's a comedy, or atleast a dramedy. the characters are supposed to be funny. See see, they actually have CINEMATIC quality to them while Alexander Payne and Whit Stillman just fucking set the camera up and cut-cut-cut-cut-cut-cut-cut......AHHHHHH!!! Somebody shoot me! I mean, I understand what a minimalist style is but give me a fucking break! Go write a play if you want to do that shit! This is a different medium! Use it!!! word of advice: DONT RENT TOKYO STORY! you wont like it. PTA, DGG, Harmony, and a few others are refusing to let people like Whit and Alex and David Fincher and Larry Clark and Christopher Nolan kill cinema. If that isn't enough of a reason for me to call Harmony one of the best, then fine, he is just one of my personal favorites....problem solved. I don't know what grandiose means but I'm definitely full of more statements like the one you quoted, yes. I hope that doesn't bother you because nothing you do bothers me at all man, I don't intend to start any trouble. well, i dont understand how david fincher and christopher nolan are 'killing cinema', so maybe you can help elaborate on that too. i'm not jumping on you for your tastes. you can like whatever you want, but when you make bold statements proclaiming something to be THE WAY IT IS, sounding like pauline kael, i want to know why you feel that way. there is no trouble. i appreciate your enthusiasm for movies, but i need to know how you justify (sorry, it fits), saying something is THE BEST. if you had said your favorite, i wouldnt have thought twice. but if you're putting down something and boosting up something else like its a fact, i want to know why so i can respond if i need to. also: grandiose -Characterized by greatness of scope or intent; grand. See Synonyms at grand. -Characterized by feigned or affected grandeur; pompous. I absolutely adore About Schmidt. How could something so incisive come across as "flat" to anyone? Honestly, how else do people in campers behave? Those scenes rang true, were insightful, and also had the bonus of being humorous. I also think Whit Stillman is pretty swell; he's definitely focusing on a specific milieu, but I think he has a healthy dose of self-deprecation and humor. I find his films and the people in them very appealing- in their own way, they're struggling the same as anyone else. And I will say that when it comes to using words like "nerdy," you're only going to show your opponents in debate that you have an impoverished critical vocabulary and are too inexperienced or inarticulate to have a valid argument. This is why, regardless of your specific opinion, you simply have got to learn to articulate yourself. Use words like "nerdy," or say "just because," and you'll be written off as intellectually inferior (or merely cowardly) by the very people you need to be contradicting on equal terms. If you ever want your opinion to be taken seriously, that is. Quote from: godardian I absolutely adore About Schmidt. me too. and it's not ebeaman, that i NEED you to like About Schmidt, because we all have our own tastes/opinions. but for you to make the presumptuous statement that alexander payne is 'killing cinema'. c'mon, you may not dig his movies, but is he really putting out a product so heinous that he's making things worse for all the moviemakers out there? i dont think so, and thats why i dont care for grand statements like that one which is going to cause challenging responses like mine for you to make a damn good argument as to why you feel that way. personally i dont think Korine is doing anything different than things that have already been done a thousand times by other filmmakers. he may be doing something different from what plays at the multiplex today, but so are tons of other filmmakers, and i dont think doing something a little different from whats out there warrants being one of the best filmmakers. its going to take a little more than that to convince me. Post by: Henry Hill on January 29, 2004, 07:12:06 PM not to get off subject, but did anyone see BULLY? that movie was pretty trippy. Post by: eward on January 29, 2004, 08:03:53 PM ebeaman, i agree with you about korine. i dont agree about payne but who gives a fuck. but i could have sworn you used to talk about alexander payne in a very positive light....just because you've discovered korine and how great he is, dont let that make you look at other films any differently. just because gummo is the way it is and you love it, don't let that sour your taste against ABOUT SCHMIDT or anything, cuz like you said, you hate that movie NOW......don't let one great movie close you off to maybe five other that may be just a notch beneath it....but you're right...gummo is pretty brilliant isnt it? :) ahh i just worry... Quote from: filmboy70 I thought it was a bad movie, and Clark's worst movie by far. I find Another Day in Paradise got underrated and unfairly ignored, probably because it wasn't sensationalistic enough. That's all Bully was, wasn't it? Cheap sensationalism with terrible acting and shockingly haphazard, bland visuals for Clark, who has been known to display a great sense of framing and composition when he feels like it. Well, I don't think it's any secret that I'm not the sharpest guy on the site as far as eloquence or even maturity as a whole goes but when I'm provoked, I do try and explain myself. I don't ever debate unless I'm provoked. It's just not something I like to do and frankly, it's not something I really care about being labeled as bad at doing. It means nothing to me. I guess I'd rather gush over a movie with a friend then argue with them about one. I come here for that shit man. I know it's easy but I'm an unconfrontational person both physically and verbally, even on the terms of simple debates. I feel the same about analyzing movies, I just don't get anything out of it. It depresses me to do it....just like debating about them does. I don't know, that's just me. It's cool for the people that like to do it and are good at it, I like reading what they have to say more than giving my own input. I was always in the middle row in the ol' health class debates....always always neutral....ONLY unless I'm provoked as I was here. I will always give anybody the respect to reply to a plea of elaboration on my part. Other than that, I like to just hang out pretty much. I have the personality of the guy at work that just saw "Torque" and loved it except I'm into everybody from Godard to Spielberg man....that's what I am. Adults that I meet are always shocked that I have knowledge or any awareness at all of pre 1990's film....I'm that same cliche, hormone driven teenager that serves you your Big Macs, trust me, I just somehow fell into this obsession with cinema....don't ask me to explain why or how. I'm nothing more than that. I don't pretend to be any kind of expert. When I say something is "the best", it's just my way of saying I love it really, I'm not trying to be Pauline Kael. Remember, when your reading my posts, you are reading the interpretations of a 17 year old, there is going to be words like "nerdy" in there and I hope you don't see it as lazy or rustic cause it's really me trying my hardest, no joke. That's one of the things I've always liked about this site, that you CAN just hang out, you don't have to be an expert like on TalkBack.....literally the only requirement is that you have to love film.....you barely even have to like PTA anymore. And as far as I know, you darn sure don't have to be an ace at articulating what you feel or at least you don't have to debate if you don't want to around here....it's ok to just fuck around, right? I mean, I don't think I HAVE to learn to articulate myself...at least I hope not. People know how I am too well here after all. So anyway, I hope it's ok if I stick around for a little while. You don't have to, but I wouldn't call a wholesale dismissal of a film non-confrontational, particularly when you do it here. Passive-aggressive, maybe? I guess my whole point was: If you're going to assert something in no uncertain terms, as you did on About Schmidt, it's pretty important to be able to back it up. Otherwise, of course, you should be able to just hang out. No-one should come after you unless you come after them (and apparently someone did come after you first, I dunno- I only saw your post and then the responses). But, you know, you shouldn't expect to be able to say, "About Schmidt was terrible, the NERDIEST film!" and then for people to think you're not up for discussing/debating it, or at least explaining why you respond to the film that way. If you don't set forth a strong (not to say harsh) opinion like that, no-one will expect you to "justify" it. BUT... I don't think it's at all unreasonable to ask someone to explain their opinion when they volunteer it, particularly when it's such a strong and negative one. Post by: Pubrick on January 29, 2004, 11:29:48 PM haha, did filmboy just say "trippy"? haha, oh lordy... ebeaman, no one is asking u to leave.. and i think ur initial defense of Gummo was pretty good.. until u started on the hilariously irrelevant rant against alexander payne. that didn't help ur argument at all. i love what u said about embracing the artifice of film, i think that's really positive and a great thing to do. and i can totally see that u've grown in maturity and film appreciation since u first appeared on the xaxscene. u would hav a great defense if u didn't go into that random rant. and i like how u minimised ur use of swearing to express urself. also u never said "trippy", that's a big big big big big plus. I should point out that I completely agree with ebeaman about Harmony Korine being a very valuable filmmaker. I just don't think that cancels out anything Payne has done; in my mind, Alexander Payne and Harmony Korine have very little to do with one another, and I would go see anything either of them released. I should remember being a 17-year-old, too, though... how each new revelation or discovery for yourself feels like the beginning and end of everything all at once, and it almost demands a target for comparison, "THIS means everything, this is the right way, while this OTHER is nothing!", etc. It's just a reckless, schizophrenic time, before you get your big frame of reference. But I do appreciate that you're in there developing that frame of reference, ebeaman. I had certainly never seen anything by Harmony Korine when I was 17. Actually, when I was 17, Harmony Korine was still completely unknown... The most "edgy" thing I saw when I was 17 was A Clockwork Orange. Post by: Pedro on January 30, 2004, 12:59:58 AM how much are the royalties for the use of "xaxscene"? Post by: SoNowThen on January 30, 2004, 09:04:32 AM I find Another Day in Paradise got underrated and unfairly ignored, probably because it wasn't sensationalistic enough. What?! The gratuitous sex, extreme bloody violence, and haphazard heroine use weren't enough? Not that I mind seeing Natasha Gregson Wagner naked (I certainly don't), but this movie was one big excuse to ride the "trying to hip by pushing the R rating" wave of mid-90's movies. If this is any indication of Clark's talent, then he has none. I've yet to see any Korine. I was talking about how I prefer the portrayal of people as how they are rather than the portrayal of people as overly quirky or eccentric and Payne happened to be the first person that came to my mind in an example of the latter style done wrong in my opinion. That makes at least a little bit relevant, right? I wanted to give an example of the quirkiness done wrong to clarify what I was saying. Just like I gave an example of quirkiness done right (the coen bros, wes anderson). if you like people portrayed how they are, and all you're interested in is movies that capture some sort of truth, why are coen bros. and wes anderson the exception? did you ever consider that no matter how much you love people, that maybe paynes and jonzes films are revealing truths about them (whether you want to hear it or not?) is there a problem with making something entertaining to show people something about themselves (especially if it's something they'd rather not hear)? personally i thought gummo was a crap film when i saw it five years ago or so to see what the fuss was about, and i wasnt too impressed with DGG either. i thought his films were ambitious but amateur, naive and not all that interesting. if he's a major talent, he has a long way to go to prove it. how are david fincher and christopher nolan ruining movies? what makes tim burton an artist and michael bay a hack? Post by: Henry Hill on January 31, 2004, 11:28:17 AM I didn't say it was good. Quote from: P did you just say oh lordy? Post by: Pubrick on January 31, 2004, 11:31:45 AM but i didn't use it to describe a movie. or in any serious manner whatsoever. Post by: Stefen on March 20, 2004, 02:18:03 AM Julien Donkey Boy is the perfect movie to put on mute while your polishing off a few and listening to the college radio station all the while editing something. Post by: Stefen on April 08, 2004, 07:55:36 PM I go to that site all the time just for the sheer weirdness. It's a great site. Post by: Pubrick on April 08, 2004, 10:56:43 PM where's the news section? Post by: eward on March 13, 2005, 09:48:16 PM finally some news. this is excellent. Post by: Pubrick on March 16, 2005, 07:18:17 AM hah, the interview seems to hav derailed after that kenneth cappello made his passerby cameo. i'm imagining this dude just popping his head in frame in an otherwise two-person interview. i don't know why, if it's just cos (ancient member) dee_nicki had korine as his avatar, i get the impression not many ppl like him around here. or maybe cos his films can't be talked about without falling asleep. but i always felt gummo at least was a profound visceral experience which marked the presence of a freakishly unique voice. see i'm yawning already. that david blaine story is hilarious. there does seem to be a general disregard for his movies around here, which saddens me to no end. i adore his films, personally. i'd see any old fuckin thing he puts out. Post by: mogwai on March 16, 2005, 01:33:49 PM harmony who? Post by: Stefen on March 16, 2005, 03:26:30 PM Has anyone seen that fight video he did? sounds so crazy it could work. Post by: squints on March 16, 2005, 06:28:26 PM is this true or not: Harmony Korine's Julien Donkey-boy was the first American Dogme 95 film? Post by: MacGuffin on March 16, 2005, 06:31:04 PM Quote from: squints According to IMDB: This is the first American film to be certified by Dogme '95. Post by: pete on March 16, 2005, 06:35:06 PM yeah it was the first american dogme film, but there were disputes because julien donkey boy had quite a few instances of "extradiagetic music". korine insisted that those music came from a boombox next to the mic on the sets or something and that was how he got away with it. Dod Mantle shot it, he'd shot like three of the first six dogme films or something. another slight deviation from the guidelines of dogme 95 is the fact that chloe sevigny wasn't actually pregnant. Post by: Pubrick on March 16, 2005, 10:35:16 PM he confessed all of that. Speaking of her...has anyone seen Vincent Gallo's movie "The Brown Bunny"? Post by: I Don't Believe in Beatles on March 16, 2005, 11:24:40 PM I think this (http://www.harmony-korine.com/video/letterman.mov) is hilarious. Post by: eward on March 17, 2005, 08:40:58 AM Quote from: flagpolespecial no one has mentioned 'above the below' above the below is awesome and not as hard to come by as many believe, like you pointed out. Post by: eward on November 06, 2005, 07:48:26 PM http://www.harmony-korine.com/paper/main/news.html it's about fucking time. Post by: NEON MERCURY on November 06, 2005, 08:17:22 PM :splat: i hate this hack...ugh, Post by: eward on November 07, 2005, 10:06:07 AM hold your tongue!! Post by: Pubrick on November 07, 2005, 11:02:04 AM Quote from: eward on November 06, 2005, 07:48:26 PM the article, for the lazy: Colourful details have emerged of Mister Lonely, the latest feature from Tennessee and London-based maverick Harmony Korine (Gummo, julien donkey-boy). 60s icon Anita Pallenberg is to play the Queen Of England, Denis Lavant will portray Charlie Chaplin, Samantha Morton is Marilyn Monroe and Diego Luna will play a Michael Jackson impersonator "I am trying to do things I haven't done before. It's my most ambitious film. I really want to push myself visually," Korine told Screen International. The $9.5 million production, his first feature since 1999, is due to shoot in the north of Scotland, France and French Guyana. Celluloid Dreams is handling international sales and has already closed a deal with Gaga for Japan. The plotline is outlandish, even by Korine's standards. This is a yarn about a young American lost in Paris, eking out a living as a Michael Jackson lookalike. By co-incidence, he meets Marilyn Monroe. He follows her to a commune in Scotland, joining her husband Charlie Chaplin and her daughter Shirley Temple. Fellow residents include The Pope, The Queen of England, Madonna and James Dean. The drama is also partly set In a Brazilian forest where a community of missionary nuns bring aid to the locals. Korine co-scripted with Avi Korine. Executive produced by Nadja Romain for Love Streams, the film is co-produced by Korine's new production outfit, O'Salvation, Agnes b's Love Streams Productions and ARTE (France). The cinematographer is Marcel Zyskind. The director describes O'Salvation, launched earlier this year, as "an outlet to make films away from the system or the machine." The company has already produced Blackberry Winter by Brent Stewart and Aluminium Fowl by James Clauer. - Geoffrey Macnab, Screen Daily (November 02, 2005) Post by: SHAFTR on November 16, 2005, 02:16:22 AM I just had my first Korine experience watching Kids. I'm not sure where I stand. The film had an effect on me, but I still can't shake the feeling it was exploitation. Perhaps thats why it worked. I'm glad I saw it at age 22, and not when I was in High School. I'm just so torn over my feelings on this. I'm not sure if Fitzpatrick's performance was really good or not. I couldn't stand his look, his face, his voice, anything about him. I'm sure that is part of the point, but I also didn't believe him. The kid is just a dork, he should be home playing Magic: The Gathering. The rest of the characters, I can see behaving like that, but not Telly. I'm not sure if there is a message in that or if it is just bad casting. I guess I need to think about it more and figure out where my feelings are with this film. As it stands now, I'd recommend Kids, but I'm not sure if I'd watch it again. I want to see more Korine, but I'm afraid. Post by: ono on November 16, 2005, 02:23:25 AM KIDS is not a Korine film. It's a Larry Clark film, exploitation, a waste of time, really. I was afraid to see more Korine, too, after KIDS, but I took a deep breath and Netflixed Gummo. And my outlook on cinema probably first started to change with that film. Though boring in some places, it's so visually striking you can't help but be moved. There's no room for indifference. Korine is much better than this. He has a sensibility where he is able to capture reality. It's shocking in a sad way, but still reality. If you've ever been fond of any sort of poetic sensibility in film, say that found in The Brown Bunny, Morvern Callar, Gerry, Songs from the Second Floor, check out Gummo and then julien donkey-boy. Both are worthwhile for the open-minded. Though the films I've listed don't have too much in common with Korine's work, in spirit they are quite similar. Quote from: onomabracadabra on November 16, 2005, 02:23:25 AM I hated Gerry. I netflixed Gummo, so I'll eventually get to it. Post by: The Red Vine on November 16, 2005, 11:39:49 AM Really disappointed with Gummo. A totally self-indulgent piece of shit. Kids was better but not by much. hmmm well gummo is and probably always will be one of my favorite films. i can't even begin to describe the impact that film (and julien-donkey boy too) had on me. it was because of korine that i discovered herzog, alan clarke, cassavetes, fassbinder, buster keaton, bresson, and on and on and on... Post by: ono on November 16, 2005, 01:33:23 PM Quote from: RedVines on November 16, 2005, 11:39:49 AM I love it when people make statements like this and then don't back then up. Gummo self-indulgent? How. And for that matter, what art isn't self-indulgent? Can opened. Worms everywhere. Post by: SiliasRuby on November 16, 2005, 03:42:36 PM Ut Oh I smell a online riot bursting Post by: The Red Vine on November 16, 2005, 06:03:31 PM Quote from: onomabracadabra on November 16, 2005, 01:33:23 PM Gummo self-indulgent? How. In every way you can fathom. He thinks he's showing the reality of these rural people and their lives. But instead he's made a tedious collection of things that don't have any connection to reality while still convincing himself that everything on screen is either beautiful or true. And it's neither. And I'm talking about the following scenes in particular... - The long shot of Sevigny with her hand going through her hair - Two girls in the pool kissing the boy bunny - The boy killing cats (and eventually running up to the camera to show it's dead body) - The older man in the car with the two girls And there's more. Adding a bunch of scenes like that together does not make a successful movie. I admit it's an interesting and very unusual film but ultimately a failure. I'm not discussing it anymore. Post by: hedwig on November 16, 2005, 06:14:08 PM Quote from: RedVines on November 16, 2005, 06:03:31 PM thanks, anyone who ends his rebuttal with "I'm not discussing it anymore" is clearly unqualified to discuss and defend his points anyway so take a hike, sister Quote from: Hedwig on November 16, 2005, 06:14:08 PM actually I'm not discussing it anymore cuz I've said all I wanted to say about it. nice job, asshole :bravo: Post by: Weak2ndAct on November 16, 2005, 11:07:50 PM Take your ball and go home, douche. yeah seriously, redvines, you're bringin tears to my eyes RedVines you are Small Town Loner/Finn/Quoyle/filmcritic. i'm not discussing it anymore. Post by: hedwig on November 17, 2005, 10:14:49 AM actually I'm not discussing it anymore cuz I've said all I wanted to say about it. obviously you're not willing to discuss it because you're incapable of defending your points. this isn't the first time you've displayed this insecure, immature attitude toward fair discussion. remember this: Quote from: Finn on April 24, 2005, 05:14:25 PM I'm not gonna explain it oh yeah, and nice job, asshole calm down, you little baby. go take a valium or something. or maybe just never post here again. Post by: private witt on November 17, 2005, 02:56:24 PM I'd be cranky too if I was up til 6am. I think a nap would help. I'm about to test this hypothesis on myself. i hope i dont loose any firends for this....but i agree w/vines. anything affiliated w/ korine and clark. is shit filmmaking.. ono, you have good taste man..you are too smart to be down w/ gummo :shock:....exspecially seeing how well you write in the idle chatter thread..if i was younger and more naive then i would might like it..why? why? why? would someone actually own gummo/kids and watch it and think it is decent/good? the actors all suck telly is so fucking annoying... i hate the way telly talks ..he sound like he's got a fucking dick in his mouth [maybe clarks?]..i hate telly's teeth.. they are nasty and fucked up. i hate his emaciated body and his stupid hair. i hate that white trash kid who goes around drinking forties and sk8boarding....i hate the cheesy interracial shit in the pool- so fake just like thirteen. i hate the girls and i hate their skank yankee accents. i hate the cinematography. ..i hate the white trash punk music in the film. i hate the dialogue....how hard is it to write something like this: telly: yous guys, i wanna fuck my moms then stick a crayon in her pussy then have my dad finger me in the ass and i want him to pull out my prostate gland through my ass kid #2: i wanna fuck your mom while my mom gives me aids kid #3: i wanna shit on my sisters mouth then fuck her cousin then cut one of her breast off and eat the nipple kid #4: i wanna spread my grandmother's douche on a philly cheese steak. kids #5 i wanna rape my guidance counselor then suck all the milk out of her tits then spit it back in her face. thats basically the writing of korine w/ clark masturbating behind the scenes.....you guys [xixax] are suppose to be smarter than this...if you wanna watch something that takes talent to helm and is full of risque business, then check out irreversible. owning kids/gummo is like owning a coldplay cd in that you think its cool and hip but its fake and makes you look like a poser when you pimp it.... Post by: Pubrick on November 17, 2005, 10:52:07 PM there's nothing wrong with hating Gummo. that wasn't the problem. Quote from: Pubrick on November 17, 2005, 02:19:13 AM RedVines you are Small Town Loner/Finn/Quoyle/filmcritic i forgot Sydney/Insomniac. you know there's something wrong when NEON can discuss a movie with more maturity than you. Quote from: Pubrick on November 17, 2005, 10:52:07 PM true...my post was 'bout kids Quote from: mercury on November 17, 2005, 10:41:49 PM owning kids/gummo is like owning a coldplay cd in that you think its cool and hip but its fake and makes you look like a poser when you pimp it.... it hurts, it physically hurts me.... Post by: brockly on November 18, 2005, 07:56:54 AM Quote from: eward on November 18, 2005, 12:24:04 AM that comment is too hilarious to offend Post by: Pozer on November 18, 2005, 02:54:07 PM Hey that's not true! I own a Coldplay cd and... wait, no that's about right. i can tell you right now, i did not put gummo (or kids) in my collection thinking anything along the lines of cool/hip Post by: w/o horse on November 19, 2005, 01:09:07 AM I am pretty sure that cool kids don't want to be seen with Gummo. I mean I think Coldplay I think frat boys and people with bumper stickers. I think Gummo and I think the drug crowd and John Q. Artist. Also, Gummo is a pretty shallow movie. Fascinating and beautiful, compelling and divisive, but shallow and detached. However popular it is right now, I'd expect it to be about the same or less popular fifteen years you know. What is there to discover about it, what is there to sink in, what is going to explode. There's not a hidden element to Gummo, nothing is missing from a viewing experience. This comes from a fan of Korine. Some thread somewhere I was talking about how much I enjoy the vignette style narrative and I cited Gummo as an expemplorary piece, I think it's great. But it doesn't take care of itself. Korine himself talks, I think on the JD-B DVD, a movie which I enjoy more, about how when he watches a movie it is single scenes that stick out for him. So, what's he do, he creates movies that are nothing but those scenes again and again. Good times, good movie, next please. neon, I'm replying just for you. :kiss: First, KIDS is shit, that isn't the issue. Gummo is a good film because it's real. Now, it may not be the reality you're accustomed to, but that doesn't make it any less valid. Earlier, I talked about filmmaking being a way to convey the perception of reality the filmmaker has, and how well the film is accepted is an indicator of how valid the film is. The only problem with Gummo is it doesn't care about the audience. It's one of those unique films that exists, audience or not (Ebert made this comparison with another film -- I forget which one he said did this), and that's not really a bad thing at all. It employs a fly-on-the-wall, cinema verite style, stripping away any artifice, so it really does shock, and is really more "slice-of-life" than anything else in recent memory. What sealed my appreciation for Gummo was when my friend brought up his experience watching it. When he was 19, he lived in a trailer park, and this kind of thing, for him, was reality. The cat killings for money, the bugs on the wall, the dirty bathtubs. Except in his case, it wasn't these specifics. He took me to visit his old trailer park once, and we were out there at his old place, about 2 AM, and saw two girls stumbling down the street, arguing with each other, probably about some guy. If it's not one thing, it's another. This is trailer park life, like it or not. Yes, people do live like this, and we're rendered so complacent by media and luxury that it's hard for us to conceive anything different. All art is self-indulgent. Check that... all good art has to be. Buffalo '66 shines for a few reasons, and they are all moments that weren't essential to the story. Amelie is all about the how. Magnolia is memorable for the voice of Ricky Jay in the opening to set things up, and the closing to knock 'em down. For the audacity PTA had to have everyone sing all at once, even Big Earl, who was slipping into his final coma at the time. To say a film is self-indulgent is to stamp it with the very reason why it works as art. It has heart, it tries to put itself out there, and it takes a moment to say something and pull away from plot just for one moment. I'd rather take bunny boy kissing those girls in the swimming pool in the rain, or Sevigny in julien donkey-boy strolling through that field of grain, singing, than most anything Hollywood would have to offer through manipulation. Those moments are more subtly moving without even trying to be anything more than what they are: slices of beauty in a life that is overall, from a distance, so incredibly ugly and unappealing. Korine, with that said, doesn't mock his characters -- he loves them. I could just repost my last post, which you dismissed for whatever reason. But let's dig, no? I'll just say right now that this isn't a hostile post, as I've learned that I come off as so in disagreements. I find your post biased and unreasonable: 1. I am from Bellbrook Ohio. Which is next to Xenia. Which is where the film is based, although not where the film was filmed. And Korine never went to Xenia last I heard. Still, I know how well he did capture the spirit of a dilapidated town, which was quite well. You are right to say so. But you seem to be praising the film for capturing the reality of the situation when it doesn't say anything at all about its characters. We know as much about them as you know about two girls stumbling down the street, which, you know, you couldn't write one sentence on without making an assumption as to their mindset. Then, and I don't understand this at all, you state the indulgence of art, but you give manipulation over only to Hollywood. Are you fucking kidding me that all films aren't manipulative? If Korine isn't trying to be anything more, why the bunny suit in the first place? Why the scene in which the bunny gets shot. Why the scene with the man in the car. Why the prostitution scene. Why these scenes ono? I agree he loves his characters, and indeed that the film is slice-of-life, but completely disagree that all artifice has been stripped away and that the film the not manipulative, which would be to say that it is without objective. There's a fuck of a lot more to these people than the silly 'shocking' things they do. 2. "First, KIDS is shit, that isn't the issue. Gummo is a good film because it's real." Why dismiss one and then praise the other for the same reason the former connects with so many people. Your friend who lived in a trailer home and saw a lot of his life in Gummo, I could let you talk to twenty kids who saw a lot of their life in Kids. Hell, it's not even a giant leap forward from the drug addled lives of kids in Ohio I can assure you. Kids has the benefit of a big city setting. What was the script concept? Clark asked Korine to write a script about his daily life. Anyway I don't want to make this a big argument, I don't like Kids either, but these sentences next to each other were confusing for me. so am i the only one who really likes KIDS as well? Post by: private witt on November 23, 2005, 04:32:56 AM Nope. It's a great film. I don't think Harmony could have done it better. Sometimes I wonder if people are turned off from Korine because it's too realistic and they can't place it in any context they're previously acustomed to. Classicly, DEEPER TRUTHS are attained from the character's inner thoughts that are shown to the viewer in several different ways in films like Bladerunner, In the Bedroom, Boogie Nights, The Thin Red Line, Apocalypse Now, The Vigin Suicides. But in Korine's films, the characters do not ever think for one minute that their lives or the world that surrounds them is as fucked up as the viewer is made to feel it is. To say that Korine is shallow because his characters appear shallow is shallow. As far as social realism, I had thought that term was coined to refer to social labor, but maybe just showing the plight of the everyday suburbanite is just as valid as showing the plight of the everyday working man. The term works for me. Anyway, nothing's cooler than applying names of turn-of-the-century painter movements to turn-of-the-century film movements. Post by: JG on November 27, 2005, 10:47:14 AM To say a film is self-indulgent is to stamp it with the very reason why it works as art. It has heart, it tries to put itself out there, and it takes a moment to say something and pull away from plot just for one moment. I really like what you said here. Not enough films do this. Post by: mutinyco on November 27, 2005, 12:28:43 PM No... I'm sure Gary Glitter and Michael Jackson do too. I just wouldn't go announcing it... "Theraflu is a hell of a drug." No codeine, but it gets the job done. Quote from: JimmyGator on November 27, 2005, 10:47:14 AM thx u :kiss: Quote from: Losing the Horse: on November 20, 2005, 06:44:06 AM I could just repost my last post, which you dismissed for whatever reason. I didn't reply to that first post because I didn't find much to reply to. No harm, no foul. But let's dig, no? I'll just say right now that this isn't a hostile post, as I've learned that I come off as so in disagreements. Haha. Sorry. That made me laugh. First, what opinion isn't biased? Second, I don't see how I'm being unreasonable in basing my opinions on subjectivity. It's amusing to read that you say you aren't being hostile, because I would've perceived that as hostile if it wasn't the case. 1. I am from Bellbrook Ohio. Which is next to Xenia. Which is where the film is based, although not where the film was filmed. And Korine never went to Xenia last I heard. Still, I know how well he did capture the spirit of a dilapidated town, which was quite well. You are right to say so. But you seem to be praising the film for capturing the reality of the situation when it doesn't say anything at all about its characters. We know as much about them as you know about two girls stumbling down the street, which, you know, you couldn't write one sentence on without making an assumption as to their mindset. In this case, Korine's vast brushstrokes are not dedicated to just one or two characters, though we are given an entrance to the world through the eyes of Bunny Boy, Solomon, and Tummler. The point is not deep characterization. The point is the feeling of nihilism conveyed through these people who are more archetypal than characteristic of anything too specific. The film finds ideas that fit "here," "here," and "here" because it doesn't get too specific. Its detached, bird's eye view works because that is its goal. Then, and I don't understand this at all, you state the indulgence of art, but you give manipulation over only to Hollywood. Are you fucking kidding me that all films aren't manipulative? If Korine isn't trying to be anything more, why the bunny suit in the first place? Why the scene in which the bunny gets shot. Why the scene with the man in the car. Why the prostitution scene. Why these scenes ono? Why any scene? You're now questioning that bird's eye view that works so well now just to question it. One of Korine's goals is to get to a point where he can make a film where he captures reality nonstop. Cinema verite at its purest for, without any subjectivity. Just what happened, and that's it. He's talked in the past about wanting to make a film with all hidden cameras. Just film experiences and string them together into some sort of narrative, if at all possible. So why any scene indeed. Simple: because, to quote the painting in Claudia's apartment, "it did happen." I agree he loves his characters, and indeed that the film is slice-of-life, but completely disagree that all artifice has been stripped away and that the film the not manipulative, which would be to say that it is without objective. There's a fuck of a lot more to these people than the silly 'shocking' things they do. The objective is simply to show you this life. These things. That they do happen. And it does so without commentary, so as to let the viewer draw his/her own conclusions. Simple. The eye. My favorite film critic is Ted Goranson, a prolific writer on IMDb. He also has his own website, http://www.filmsfolded.com/ He goes into a lot of theory in his criticisms about two things: folding in films (that is, shifting in time, in perspective, and in the roles the actors play), and also the point of view of a film. That is, the eye. The camera is the eye. Editing is blinking, as put forth in theory by Walter Murch. The eye is the way in which we view the world. The camera is the way in which we view the filmmaker's world. So everything is in the placement of the camera and how it moves, how it is used. PTA, some would say Scorsese, Gondry ... all masters of the camera. Korine is an up-and-coming master, as he has created visuals never seen before. And it's not just the novelty of seeing these people. It's the extra layer of beauty he has uncovered in observing unobtrusively. It's Sevigny in Gummo, jumping on the bed, her nipples taped. It's her again in julien donkey-boy, walking through the field of grain. Or it's Bunny Boy swimming in the rain with those girls, kissing them. It's all about tone. Clark, on the other hand, takes a leering approach to his work. You feel dirty watching it, wondering if it's okay. You're aware of the reality of it, but you're also aware that something is amiss here. It just doesn't feel right. The point he has is a valid one, and needs to be made, but in the hands of a more skilled filmmaker, one who knows how to use the camera better than he does. i agree about clark, KIDS aside, the guys a fuckin hack....all that is great about KIDS to me is undoubtedly Korine's.....i wonder what the film would have been like had Korine directed it as well haha, new title suggestion: IS EWARD THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS HARMONY KORINE IS A GENIUS? -ONO, YOUR EBUTTLE WA AGREAT READ THOUGH Post by: pete on November 27, 2005, 10:55:17 PM a rare instance when I agree with Neon. Kids was a phony movie with the self-importance of an after school special, but made with more "realistic touches" with the blood and the cussing and the underaged nudity. it viewed the city the way a high school counselor would and the "street" aesthetics just added to that investigative jouranlistic phoniness. Gummo, that was kinda weird that Ono kept on calling Gummo "real", since I liked it precisely because it was so dreamlike, like southern gothic on speed or something. I thought Gummo was okay until I saw Julien DonkeyBoy and all of a sudden "got it" and realized what korine was going for. I really loved Julien DonkeyBoy. I liked Gummo for its images and circumstances, but it didn't really move me much, it was just a tad too underwhelming for me. When I watched Gummo I was not sure how empathetic he wanted the audience to be towards his characters and the environment, but in Julien Donkey Boy I was right there with them. Korine has the imagination and the sensitivity of a great filmmaker alright, but he lacks the soulfulness still. I find that very troubling amongst contemporary American filmmakers, maybe with the exception of David Gordon Green, most of the new guys have the talent but lack the soul--the capacity for great emotions like ecstacy and deep sorrow. Right. Well. This never works on the Internet, I don't know. If you saw me I'd hope you'd see me smiling and realize I found the whole situation delightful. But yeah. Opinions are all biased and any opinion is subjective. Agreed and all, except I think your post was excessive in both regards. Then again, I am disagreeing. But my whole is that its goal is shallow. Which your paragraph here agrees with. Anytime you look at a community of people you're going to find beauty and direction and organization. That's the surface of any human endeavour, right, as many critics seemed pissed about when Downfall came out. I don't think that takes as much talent as saying something specific, and the slew of ensemble films coming out right now seem to be arguing for me. A lack of subjectivity would mean unfiltered perception, it would mean that the most bombastic scenes wouldn't be favored. There wasn't a single quiet moment in the whole movie. It was all "Look how fucked up they are." And, again, coming from there, and as your friend will tell you, there are many quiet moments in such communities. Actually, I just lied, and in the interest of full disclosure, the wrestling scene with the table was probably the realest moment. If it was 'reality nonstop' then there would be boring moments. I mean clearly. I get that they happen, okay. But there's a lot more to these people is my argument. I think Korine is shaping the reality of these people, and while the Mangolia crowd might argue that all filmmakers do, I would argue that some filmmakers try harder to be subjective. Korine, while I love the writing style, I do not feel was subjective in Gummo for the majority of the movie. Meaning he was not subjective in the movie overall. You've never fucked a girl while she was passed out at a party, have you? Of course you feel dirty. Me, I never have, but I've been at the party. I know those people. I'm not sorry, I don't feel dirty. I think this covnersation is a matter of different perspectives and experiences, rather than critques on the movie. Which says a lot about the movie. Post by: MacGuffin on October 25, 2010, 10:59:40 AM WTF: Marlon Wayons To Star In Harmony Korine’s ‘Twinkle Twinkle’? Source: The Playlist Pajiba’s The Hollywood Cog has been a pretty solid source of info but this has got to be the strangest yet most potentially awesome news to come from their insider ever. Apparently, Marlon Wayans will star in Harmony Korine‘s next film “Twinkle Twinkle” which is about a former hitman who dresses up as a dollar bill. Yep, consider our tickets bought. This is definitely the first we’re hearing about the project and we’re sure the logline is a vague indicator of what the film has in store. While Marlon Wayans potential involvement is interesting, we suppose it isn’t that surprising. While he has made his fair share of dumb movies with his brothers, he’s also branched into into more intriguing fare such as Darren Aronofsky‘s “Requiem For A Dream,” the Coen brothers’ “The Ladykillers” and Bill Condon‘s gestating Richard Pryor biopic, “Is It Something I Said.” So we can seem him eyeing a crazy script by a dude named Harmony crossing his desk and going, “Sure, what the hell.” There’s no word yet if this is related to the feature that Korine is crowdsourcing in association with the Rotterdam Film Festival or something else entirely, but either way, we’re definitely intrigued. In the meantime, track down “Trash Humpers” at your local independent video store because Netflix still refuses to stock it. And in case you missed it, Korine recently completed the short “Act Da Fool” which you can view online now. Post by: OrHowILearnedTo on October 25, 2010, 03:12:53 PM Quote from: MacGuffin on October 25, 2010, 10:59:40 AM And in case you missed it, Korine recently completed the short “Act Da Fool” which you can view online now. here btw Die Antwoord in a short film by Harmony Korine http://www.vbs.tv/watch/umshini-wam--2/umshini-wam (http://www.vbs.tv/watch/umshini-wam--2/umshini-wam) Post by: MacGuffin on November 02, 2011, 01:56:06 PM James Franco Will Rap In Harmony Korine’s ‘Spring Breakers’ Emma Roberts Co-Stars; Also, WTF Source: Playlist Update: Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez are also in talks to star. The trio will play the gang of girls in the film with Roberts as danger loving Southern brunette, and Gomez as the stuck-up, religious type. James Franco—whose ass recently graced the cover of Flaunt—has certainly been very forward about this arty inclinations whether it be a mediation on “My Own Private Idaho” or a deconstruction of “Three’s Company.” His more cerebral endeavors found him hooking up with indie enfant terrible Harmony Korine for some kind of street gang project earlier this year. While we’ll have to wait to see the fruits of that endeavor, the duo are pairing up for a feature film project. And it sounds like the most normal movie Korine has ever done in his life. Set to be written and directed by Korine, co-starring Emma Roberts and planned to shoot next spring break, the movie will center on four college-aged girls who decide to rob a fast food restaurant in order pay for the annual getaway, and who get thrown in the slammer once they get there. Sound dull? Wait, it gets better. Franco will play a rapping drug and arms dealer who bails out the girls, and coaxes them to kill his nemesis named Arch. James Franco + rapping = we’re there. But this is weirdly the most mainstream thing Korine has ever done, though the casting is delightfully odd. This is another project in an already busy year for both Korine and Franco. The director premiered his short film collaboration with Die Antwoord “Umshini Wam,” created an ad for Indian megacorp Mahindra, is working on a short film with Val Kilmer that will form part of a Dogme-esque omnibus project, and shot a fashion campaign video for Proenza Schouler. As for Franco, he starred in “Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes,” and has spent the year busily filming Sam Raimi‘s “Oz The Great And Powerful,” and the indie flicks “Maladies,” “The Stare” and “Cherry.” And oh yeah, he went to Venice and premiered his Sal Mineo biopic “Sal,” and released an EP of questionable music, in addition to a zillion other things he has going. Yet, Franco-ites will recall, “Spring Breakers” won’t be the first time he’s played a drug dealer, a role he seems to specialize in. Post by: MacGuffin on June 01, 2012, 06:06:54 PM Black Keys - Gold On The Ceiling Post by: O. on June 01, 2012, 09:02:27 PM I wonder if it was at the request of The Black Keys to emulate Trash Humpers, or if Harmony is actually OK with rehashing his filmography like this. Post by: goatcheeser on July 06, 2012, 04:39:03 PM From what I have read Harmony directed the music video; however, Warner Bros refused to release it to the public. This is why there are two music videos for the song.It's Kind of ironic that Harmony drew inspiration from trash humpers to make a music video considering the movie itself didn't contain a soundtrack. Post by: Reelist on July 06, 2012, 08:55:04 PM haha, that was really odd. It will stay with me. The 'twins' of the black keys kind of reminded me of the robot versions of Bill & Ted, in that creepy way. what does he shoot on, old school VHS? Post by: goatcheeser on July 07, 2012, 02:34:58 AM I believe so. I know that is what he used to shoot trash humpers, which aesthetically looks almost identical. There is something to be said about someone who takes the time to edit vhs when they have access to digital. Then again, he might be converting the vhs to digital and then doing the edit. Post by: socketlevel on September 08, 2012, 03:01:44 PM I tried desperately to get tickets to the 70mm presentation of the master yesterday at TIFF. sadly i didn't get to go, instead I saw Spring Breakers during the day, and i got to say even though scientology is a religion that has always fascinated me and it's directed by the best film maker alive (not to mention i read the first draft of the script), I'm so glad i got to see Spring Breakers. It's simply amazing. i haven't been that entertained since seeing bad lieutenant in the festival 2 years ago. walking in the theatre was strange, 70% of the crowd looked like a bieber concert and the rest harmony korine fans. And in many ways that's what he has achieved with this film, bridging those two very different aesthetics. After the film was over, when the cast came out for the usual Q&A, James Franco said "Harmonie said he wanted a movie that looked like if gasper Noe directed a Britney spears video, and i think he got it", Korine then followed up by saying "I just watched Michael Mann's Miami vice all during making this film." This movie is all those things. &feature=relmfu go see this film, as soon as you can. it's not coming out until 2013 so if it's in a festival near you and you are stuck between a few choices, let me assure, you won't be let down. If you live near toronto and are going to the festival, i know there are two more screenings, the last next friday. I am definitely going to try and rush it to see it for a second time. In many ways I'm still processing it. Post by: wilder on October 18, 2012, 10:50:02 AM The Fourth Dimension Post by: wilder on November 05, 2012, 04:26:54 AM Thought this was a cool interview (http://i.imgur.com/DgsSq.jpg) Harmony Korine Talks 'Spring Breakers,' Casting Selena Gomez, and How Her Mom Is a Fan of His Work via IndieWire Harmony Korine's "Spring Breakers" marks a significant shift in exposure for the 39-year-old filmmaker, but nobody can accuse him of selling out. The movie, which premiered in Venice and made its North American premiere in Toronto last week, stars Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson as a trio of young woman who rob a diner to fund their trip down south. After a series of depraved party experiences, they eventually encounter the absurdly self-involved gangster Alien (James Franco), who manages to seduce most of the girls with his materialistic obsessions. If there's anything tame or familiar about the spring breakers' initial exploits, Korine tears it apart with a gloriously surreal deconstruction of pop imagery. Having secured distribution with Annapurna Pictures (but still attracting interest from larger studios in the wake of its positive reception), "Spring Breakers" has already brought Korine onto a level of popularity that the director never could have achieved in the day of "Gummo" and "Julien Donkey-Boy." Even the filmmaker had a hard time believing it when he dropped by Indiewire HQ on Sunday to discuss the movie. You've said this was the hardest production of your career. How did the experience differ from your other movies? It was the most difficult shoot in the sense that I had very little time. The look of the film was very central to it, so there were certain things I needed, like various equipment and cameras, so I could make the visuals the way I wanted them. I had to compensate for that, which affected the schedule, which affected the pace. And then you had these girls shooting on location, mostly in real places with people around them who weren't actors. We put them in an environment they weren't used to being in. Obviously, very quickly people found out about that. Sometimes there were more paparazzi than crew members. It can get weird very quickly. It was a whole set of problems I had never dealt with. Nevertheless, it's not like you sold out and made a conventional narrative feature. Where did the concept for "Spring Breakers" come from? Early on, I had wanted to make a film in this style, and had been trying to develop in other ways -- through short films and advertisements -- this idea of microscenes. The movie to me is closer to electronic music. My idea for the film is more music-based than cinema-based. Music now is mostly loop and sample-based. A lot of stuff I like is more tracey and physical. I was hoping to develop a film style with this movie that could mimic that in some way. That's where the liquid narrative comes from, this boozy-jazzy thing. It's an incredible soundtrack that combines compositions by Cliff Martinez and Skrillex, but sometimes you can't tell which is which. That was the idea. I love them both and wanted to take a certain element of what each does best and have them merge. I wanted the music to have a physical presence. There are also a number of big pop songs. How on earth did you get the rights to Britney Spears music? The movie was always meant to work like a violent, beautiful pop ballad, something very polished that disappears into the night. Everyone was really cool about it. I've gotten to a point in my life that's pretty cool where musicians are accepting and wanting to be part of what I do. Even more impressive is the cast. What did it take to cast these young women, who are best known in teen-oriented fare, in a movie so subversive? When I was thinking about the cast, I was thinking about who could play these parts, and was wondering who the girls are in this generation that best represent a certain ideology. There was something intriguing about the idea of using girls primarily known from a Disney-type reality. Immediately, instinctively, I said it would be great if Selena Gomez would do this. It's pretty crazy that they were all pretty receptive to it. Why do you think they were receptive? A lot of them knew my films, which always surprises me. I got an email that Selena was going to hop on a plane and come to my living room in Nashville to audition, and that her mom was coming with her, and that she would be there the next morning. It was pretty crazy. Her mom is younger than I am and she had grown up watching my films and said she had been a fan of them. So you now have an audience that grew up with your work. Yeah, it's pretty weird. I still feel like a kid, but really I've been making movies now for almost 20 years. It's nice also knowing that you're accepted by the culture in some way. When you're out in the wilderness making movies, sometimes you don't know where you live. It can be difficult to gauge who knows what, who sees what, and I try not to think about it too much. And yet every time you make a new movie, the media focuses on how it reflects your public persona. That's the other thing. I'm not sure I like that. Sometimes, when I read things, I feel like my narrative or whatever the fuck it is, becomes too prominent. Every film is not a stealth move. It's not a game of chess. I make films because I have ideas about certain characters or images. It feels like it's part of the moment. This movie felt like something intangible, difficult to articulate, but I had to pluck it out of the air. Do you think you would work on this scale again? Monetarily, it wasn't that big of a film. But I only want to go harder and bigger. I only want to push myself and make things more spectacular. It's exciting for me to try to do things I never thought I would do and go places I never thought I would go. I want to experiment. At the same time, making movies is so hard that it can feel like warfare. A lot of the energy of the battles are fought about things that have nothing to do with the creative element. Do you think this is your angriest film? I don't know if it's angry, but it's certainly the most aggressive. I wanted to make a film that feels like there's no air in the room. I never wanted the audience to be comfortable or complacent. I never even wanted it to seem like they were watching a movie in the traditional sense. I wanted it to be something different. So there's not that much dialogue. Words get in the way. I wanted the film to have a very physical presence. What's your overall take on the idea of spring break? Spring break is a rite of passage, an American pastime. In the film, it's more metaphorical, the idea of losing yourself. I don't feel like the soul is gone in this country but that it has morphed into something else. Everything is experienced thorough screens and through views and technology. Sometimes the act of watching is like nothing. I just wanted to show how it's all the same. In the opening montage, a spring break beach party starts out like some kind of reality show before it turns increasingly depraved and tribal. And I also wanted it to involve a kind of gangster mysticism. Everything has become so corporatized and boring so real outlaw culture or criminal culture feels like the last vestige of American rebellion. These girls have grown up on world star hip-hop and Gucci Man. How did you decide on the structure? The story itself is pretty thin. I wanted to run all through the idea of clips, like YouTube stuff, through a filmic filter. I wanted it to seem like the images were just flying or falling from outer space. I wanted to develop a new vernacular, at least for myself. It was an appropriation of images and ideas that were familiar and iconic to people, but I ran it through this fucked-up filter that spit them out in a new way. The movie is about energy more than anything, a feeling, what happens when you get lost. It's not about spring break; it's about when you drive a couple of miles away from spring break and you're out on the boardwalk by the beach in this weird, fucked up, drunk place. It's like beach noir. I really wanted the film to be about surfaces. I told [cinematographer] Benoit [Debie] at the beginning that I wanted it to look like candy -- like he had lit the movie with Skittles. It was about this dance of surfaces. The meaning is the residue that drips down below the surface. [ Invalid YouTube link ] Post by: Just Withnail on November 25, 2012, 01:58:22 PM I just caught Spring Breakers at Oslo International Film Fest. It was fantastic! An emotionally realistic and cinematically impressionistic portrait of decadent teenage mindsets. I saw an eerie amount of my younger self in these girls. I was really surprised at how much I felt with Selena Gomez's character Faith. The first thirty-or-so minutes of decadence juxtaposed with her struggling with faith, and her increasing flirts with temptation, in what feels like one big, long sequence, is really effective. Her three temptress friends are also excellent at being twisted Sirens, and their half-whispered, repetitive, melodic talk blends into the dreamy soundtrack in almost a Malickian way. Socketlevel’s Noe-by-way-of-Britney Spears description is pretty on point, I think. It's an experience that (surprisingly) needs to be seen on the big screen. EDIT: Which isn't strange I guess since Benoît Debie shot both this and Noe's last two. SPOILERS And that incredible one-take robbery sequence shot from the car, with only partial glimpses of what goes on inside, with Rhianna pumping on the stereo. It's a great shot and concept in itself, but it has the added effect of making it extremely effective when we gradually get revealed more and more how the robbery felt like on the inside. SPOILERS And it's pretty damn funny at times. Post by: socketlevel on November 26, 2012, 01:07:08 PM I'm so glad I have someone to talk about this with... Quote from: Just Withnail on November 25, 2012, 01:58:22 PM So true, at first I thought it was done that way because of budgetary reasons, or the fact that he thought the actresses wouldn't be able to pull it off to some level of believable. Then later when they flash back, I was like oh damn this shit is raw. I love it when scenes like this are shown one way and then another with an entirely different aesthetic. For myself, the laugh out loud awesome bits were when they would just cut to the beach, in super slo-mo shots of beer being poured on silicone breasts (being mock ejaculated by bros holding beer bottles to their groins), with dub step pumping fierce on the soundtrack, and voice over of Selena Gomez calling her grandmother talking about how her experience at spring break is the most spiritual she's ever had; including that how some day she wants to take her there so she can experience what she's experiencing. It's such a crazy concept. because we know that part of it is the excitement of a kid who wants to share it with someone close to her, yet has to use the terms and phraseology that her grandmother will identify with. Yet, at the same time she's not lying, it is this spiritual awakening. We know she'd never take her grandmother on spring break, but the guilt side (more than likely coming from her church) is being rationalized by her party side. It could easily be seen as denial, and it might partially be, but if it is, it's so deep down in her subconscious. She is really feeling connected, and strangely, how can we blame her? And really this leads to the entire point of the film, who are we to judge people connecting with anything, even if it's a packaged hedonistic superfluous side of western culture. The movie perfectly dances between laughing at naivety towards the danger of things that have pop aesthetic and embracing the individual's very pure connection to said experience. James Franco embodies the reality that lives behind the image of extreme hip hop culture, yet at the end of the movie, he becomes a tragic romantic hero worthy of vindication. And it's all done with the most extreme laughs I've had at the cinema in a long time. There are so many scenes I would love to go into, and maybe I'll save it for future posts when more have seen it. This movie is so fucking gorgeous, and saying so much(?), and rejecting a classic liberal (not just conservative) progressive sense of ethics, and just having a balls out great time at the movies. It makes you wonder how this film was made, but then you just look to who's financing it: http://annapurnapics.com/main/index.html She's doing all the best shit. Post by: wilder on January 18, 2013, 08:04:55 PM Post by: The Ultimate Badass on January 19, 2013, 03:08:51 AM Harmony Korine is such a passive aggressive shit in interviews and (quasi) documentaries like the one above. You just can't get a straight honest fucking answer or a moment of realness out of him. He's a pathological liar. There's like 10 seconds of sincerity when Gasper shows up--which I loved-- but then it's all bullshit. By the way, that performance by Val Kilmer in the Fourth Dimension video above is probably some of the best shit I've ever seen him do. Thanks for posting it wilderesque. Post by: wilder on February 01, 2013, 06:15:51 PM Harmony Korine's Novel 'A Crack Up At The Race Riots' Back In Print This Year via The Playlist Fans of the filmmaker already know that his 1998 novel, "A Crack Up At The Race Riots" is something many followers of his work have been eager to get their hands on. The book was briefly available upon publication before swiftly going out of print and then off the map for years, though it's been traded around in some circles. However, the fine folks at Drag City -- the mostly music label that also handled "Trash Humpers" when no one else woud -- will be reprinting Korine's work. Not so much a book as a collection of stories, scraps, jokes and more, we'll let this quote from Korine himself circa 1997 describe what he put together. "It's about a race war and it happens in Florida. And the Jewish people sit in trees. And the black people are run by M.C. Hammer. And the whites are run by Vanilla Ice. I wanted to write the Great American Choose Your Own Adventure novel," he said. ‘Spring Breakers’ Helmer Harmony Korine Sets Next Pic With John Lesher And DCM Productions By MIKE FLEMING JR \| Deadline EXCLUSIVE: Spring Breakers helmer Harmony Korine, on the verge of having his first breakout hit after a most eclectic career, has made a deal for his next film to be produced by John Lesher’s Le Grisbi Productions and DCM Productions. Spring Breakers will open wide this week through A24 after garnering a huge per-screen average in limited release, starring James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson and the director’s wife, Rachel Korine. The title and log line of the new film are under wraps, but I’ve heard it involves a multi-generational family of criminals in the South. Spring Breakers producer Charles-Marie Anthonioz will also produce the film. This is likely to be Korine’s next directorial effort, but he is also developing projects with Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures; she bought Spring Breakers at Toronto last fall. Korine’s new jail-bait sex kittenesque heist film seems to finally have delivered on the commercial promise he showed with his early breakout film, Kids. Some of his follow-ups, including Trash Humpers, you could imagine David Lynch watching and going, “What the hell? This is really out there.” Lesher has long been a Korine supporter; he was his agent for many years at UTA and then Endeavor, before he took the top job at Paramount and then became a producer. Lesher most recently produced End Of Watch, and he also produced Blood Ties, the English-language debut of Guillaume Canet that stars Clive Owen, Marion Cotillard, Billy Crudup, Mila Kunis and James Caan. Lesher’s about to begin production in New York on the Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu-directed dark comedy Birdman with Michael Keaton, Ed Norton, Emma Stone, Zach Galifianakis, and Naomi Watts, and Black Mass, the Barry Levinson-directed crime thriller that will star Johnny Deep as Boston crime kingpin Whitey Bulger. Berlin-based production/distribution company DCM’s production division is run by Marc Schmidheiny and Christoph Daniel. They co-financed and produced the Dustin Hoffman-directed Quartet and the Oscar-nominated Norwegian film Kon-Tiki. CAA reps Korine. Post by: wilder on May 07, 2013, 10:36:29 PM The Two Hollywoods: The Screenwriters; Shane Black; Harmony Korine via The New York Times By Lynn Hirschberg Shane Black, at 35, already holds the record for the biggest script sale in movie history: $4 million for ''The Long Kiss Goodnight.'' Maybe he shouldn't have been the one to arrive first, but here he was, in the empty dining room of the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel, waiting for Harmony Korine, the 23-year-old writer and director of ''Gummo,'' whose indie career took off two years ago with ''Kids,'' for which he wrote the script. Korine is running about 45 minutes late, which is what you'd expect: he enjoys his reputation for trying people's patience. Black, who also wrote the scripts for ''Lethal Weapon'' and ''The Last Boy Scout,'' likes to be thought of as a rebel, but he's making millions in the studio mainstream. When Korine does finally arrive, looking as if he just fell out of bed, the two begin a colloquy that is not only about screenwriting but about identity. Korine: Here's the big difference between us -- rich [pointing at Black], not rich [pointing at himself]. Black: No, no, no. Pal, you're in for some big dough. Korine: I doubt it. I'm not really so interested in linear storytelling -- like, beginning, middle and end. Or the idea of some kind of contrived plot. The only thing I remember about films are scenes and characters. So when I write movies, I'm basically writing only things that I want to see, with nothing leading up or nothing following. Just those scenes on their own. Black: But even in your film ''Kids'' there is suspense. Which means the story is going from A to B. You're waiting to see if something's going to happen. In other words, it's not just shot in random order over a few months. You find out this kid has contracted H.I.V., he's trying to scam on this 13-year-old girl. And the suspense is, Is he going to give AIDS to this 13-year-old girl? And people are waiting to see the story unfold. So I think there is a narrative that's very strong. Korine: Yeah, there was with that. I mean, I wrote it for someone else. Basically, for me the plot of ''Kids'' wasn't what was interesting. That just gave me an excuse to show these scenes. Collage is the ultimate art form of this century. Film is the great art form of the century, and most conducive to a collagelike style. But collage still has yet to take hold in film. Everybody's still making these really simple kind of ----. Black: Formulaic. Korine: Formulaic. No subtext. Everything is just easy, basic, minimum, no personality. Black: You're right. There have been no good movies in the last few years. I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it you feel like it's a collage. You tell the narrative, you tell the story, but you feel like you've created this tapestry. But it also has a shape, a story. So I think there's a middle ground that I try to strike. It isn't quite as revolutionary as where you go. But it's certainly in that direction -- and away from where everyone else seems ready to go, which is, setup, payoff. You know, He's afraid of water, oh, and at the end he's swimming in water -- oh, my God. I hate that stuff. Korine: I never think about the audience. Never. I mean it's never even occurred to me, ever. Black: You won't go to see ''Jurassic Park'' or something, a Spielberg film, just to have fun? Korine: I think it's important that there are films like that. Black: Why? Korine: Because I do think that kind of mindless entertainment -- I think that's important. I think that there's a history of that. I don't think that every movie should be something that smashes you in the head or teaches you something or is revolutionary. Black: Are you trying to teach things with your film? Korine: Oh, no, no, no. Black: I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw the movie in a theater, I would be pleased. Do I think about catering to an audience? No. Do I think about satisfying people with a good story? Yes. But I would never compromise anything to accommodate what I perceive to be the demands of the public. The worst of the action films are the ones where everything is one shout from beginning to finish. And there's no differentiation between beats, like small or big, or quiet or expansive. It's all just one loud shout. And by the end, the audience has been beaten in the face so many times, you could blow up the Taj Mahal and they'd go, ''O.K., that's nice.'' Because they've seen so much. They're just dead. We're in a culture where people want to be deafened, apparently. And there's an elegance, which is somehow missing. It used to be that when people talked, they talked in a very communicative way. They varied their tone, they varied their pitch. Now they just yell at you until you fall down. And that's what I don't like. But my films are bombastic enough. I mean, I have no business trashing other ----. Korine: What are your movies -- ''Lethal Weapon''? And ... what else? Black: ''The Last Boy Scout.'' Korine: Oh, yeah. I saw those. Black: ''The Long Kiss Goodnight.'' Korine: I don't remember. I don't think I saw that. Who's in that one? Black: [laughs] Nobody saw that. That's cool. I understand. Believe it or not, I'm really only interested in doing my own thing. I've turned down lots and lots of work. Things that could have made me some money. But in the long run, you look at each of these films and I really think I made the smart move by turning them down. Korine: I'm making my films the way I want to make my films. I'm happy, I can sleep at night. [pause] Actually, I can't sleep at night. I am an insomniac. Black: I don't sleep that well, either. [pause] Man, I mean, I used to think I was sort of rebellious. I'm sitting here feeling like a hit man talking to Mother Teresa. Korine: What do you want? Black: I'm still finding it. I'm still finding what it is I want to write. It's, like, the next thing I do, I don't know what it's going to be, but it's going to be different from what I've done before. You look at Lawrence Kasdan, one of my favorite writers. He wrote ''Star Wars'' movies, he wrote ''The Accidental Tourist,'' ''Body Heat.'' Who knows, you might write a romantic comedy. Korine: Sure. I never say I won't do anything. Black: A romantic comedy without a narrative? [laughter] Korine:: I'm not setting anything in stone. I always liked the idea of going against, or going back. That's interesting to me. Black: What has been the reaction ... I mean, since you've done ''Kids''? Obviously, you got a lot of attention. Did your life change? Korine: I don't live in California. So I have no friends in the film business. I don't know anybody. Black: That explains it. Korine: Completely. Also it's my work to make everything seem as if it's not written, as if it's just happening. But everything is totally thought out and written. Black: So you do believe, not in narrative, but in control from start to finish of a film? Korine: Oh, yeah. Black: Would you ever want to work with an established movie star? Korine: Personally, I have no interest in it. I have no interest in anyone that's, like, a professional. The idea of being a pro or someone who does it over and over again ... it's a job. Actors, to me, they fail to startle. Black: So Kevin Costner comes to you ----. Korine: [laughs] Maybe. I mean, I wouldn't ... I mean, I would do something with him. Like, if I felt like I could make him do something he'd be embarrassed about or something, you know what I mean? And I like Tom Cruise. I had the idea of making ... did you ever read the Guinness Book of World Records? There's this great photo of Eddie Gaedel. The St. Louis Browns once paid a midget, Eddie Gaedel, to go up to bat. ''Don't swing, just let him throw the ball'' -- and that's what he did. So Eddie Gaedel walked to first base. I want to write a movie about Eddie Gaedel and have Tom Cruise play him on his knees. [laughter] Source (http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/16/magazine/the-two-hollywoods-the-screenwriters-shane-black-harmony-korine.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm) Post by: jenkins on April 09, 2014, 03:20:34 PM s&s or somewhere else. not a new list, but i like seeing it like this (http://i.imgur.com/j0326mE.jpg) Post by: wilder on July 29, 2014, 05:59:28 PM Harmony Korine Is Writing A Gangster Movie For Robert Pattinson In early May, Robert Pattinson revealed that he might make a movie with Harmony Korine. There wasn't much else in the way of details at the time, but a few more nuggets have been revealed, and yes, it's the sort of unlikely pairing of actor and material we'd expect from any working with Korine. In a recent profile in Esquire UK, the magazine reveals that Korine is writing a Miami-set, gangster movie for the actor. Could this be the same movie as the Southern set, multi-generational, crime family picture that was announced in early 2013? It's not certain, but we don't think it's a coincidence that these sound pretty similar. And credit Pattinson for making this happen, as he reportedly called Korine out of the blue, and the next thing you know, they were working together. If and when it happens, we'll just have to see, but it's another chance for Pattinson to continue trying something different, which seems to be his modus operandi. “I never went to acting school, so this is just me trying to get better," he said of his diverse choices, adding: “I’ve literally only done jobs which interest me. There have been two which I auditioned for and didn’t get, but other than that…” And when it comes to stepping back into the blockbuster, franchise world, Pattinson is reluctant. "A couple of offers, but with those things, if you express any interest, you have to do a screen test or whatever, and they make you sign a six-picture deal before you even know what the part is. It’s crazy. And I didn’t grow up reading comic books and stuff, so…” he explained. Pattinson has even more brewing in the background, including the previously announced "Childhood Of A Leader (http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/tag/the-childhood-of-a-leader)." The film is from writer/director/actor Brady Corbet, and while production was first announced to start last spring, it didn't happen, but it's still developing. “It’s about the youth of a future dictator in the Thirties,” Pattinson said. “Like an amalgamation of Hitler, Mussolini and some others. I don’t want to jinx it, but Brady is like a savant of film. I’ve known him for like eight years, and he’s only 25 now.” Korine's 10-minute documentary short "The Legend of Cambo" Post by: jenkins on January 30, 2015, 12:23:36 AM Quote from: wilder on January 29, 2015, 01:02:40 PM Korine's 10-minute documentary short "The Legend of Cambo (http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-10-minute-documentary-the-legend-of-cambo-directed-by-harmony-korine-20150129)" in my top 2 of this year so far forever Post by: Just Withnail on January 31, 2015, 04:45:01 AM "She was standin in the water 'bout belly-button deep. She had a camo bikini top on and she had a bow in her hands drawn back I thought hell that's kinda seeexy." Post by: jenkins on January 31, 2015, 04:09:19 PM believable as a doc, and i wonder about the doc's ecstatic truth. it'll tie together nicely with this year's giuseppe makes a movie if i could subtitle this fucker i'd screencap it left/right: "i come out here. 'cause there ain't no doubt in my mind don't matter what happens. i'm a'right out here." idiomatic grammar. grammar straight outta the woods indeed. it's my favorite grammar that was a quote from the trailer! good trailer pick. i could quote this whole thing "i've never been big on time. because if you keep track of time, time will keep track of you. so. i just, forget." similar(ish) doc (http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/22810/1/small-town-dreaming-in-lake-havasu-city) shot by my dp Post by: 03 on February 01, 2015, 01:38:24 PM i know cambo. he's an alabama legend. strangely enough, i didn't know about this movie.. Post by: Axolotl on February 02, 2015, 12:33:16 AM Quote from: Larry on February 01, 2015, 11:26:07 PM sorry to digress- is this Wes anderson's writing? lol where did you find this https://facebook.com/harmfulkorine/photos/a.367018285084.369365.23467465084/10154034743745085/ Post by: wilder on March 24, 2015, 11:46:05 PM Idris Elba Replaces Jamie Foxx In Harmony Korine's 'The Trap,' Al Pacino, Robert Pattinson, James Franco Also Join Harmony Korine’s “The Trap” is finalizing its major casting pieces and three more actors have joined the cast, “Luther,” “The Wire” star Idris Elba, evidently the new lead actor, James Franco and Al Pacino in supporting roles. They join the already cast Robert Pattinson and Benico Del Toro in additional supporting roles. What does this mean for the originally cast Jamie Foxx? Well, he’s dropped out of the project and has been replaced by Elba. But his loss is really the “Thor” actor’s gain as aside from TV work, Elba hasn’t scored many plum lead film roles yet and this sounds like the part. “The Trap” is set in Miami’s music scene and is a revenge and crime tale set within that milieu. Elba will play a gangster rapper and Del Toro will play his best friend. THR says in “The Trap” Elba’s characters “ is at the top of his career and about to enjoy a triumphant night at the Grammy Awards when Slim (Del Toro) is released from prison after 14 years. Slim is determined to exact revenge after learning that Rico not only achieved fame and fortune but also married his girlfriend and raised Slim's son as his own.” Del Toro's uzi-wielding crew also features Pattison and Franco who sound like typical Korine character freaks. Pacino will play Del Toro's parole officer. Korine has recently said the film will loosely incorporate elements of the electro-rap music genre popularized by Gucci Mane. “You could almost say there’s some type of Florida trilogy going on,” he said, in reference to “Spring Breakers” and… perhaps another film in the works? Focus Features are in talks to pre-buy the film before it even a frame of film has been shot. No word on a release date, but “The Trap” begins shooting very soon (Del Toro said March a few months back, but April sounds more feasible now). It’s possible we could see it at a film festival later this year, but that’s a tough turnaround. Even if it did pop up somewhere, you can almost guarantee a proper theatrical release date probably won’t hit until 2016. Post by: Reelist on March 25, 2015, 05:43:10 AM Great news! I'm tired of seeing Jamie Foxx's face and he's had a TERRIBLE run since Django. Go get busy playing Mike Tyson or whateverthefuck it's gonna be next Post by: OpO1832 on May 14, 2015, 12:14:15 PM I agree. I wish Chris Tucker played Django, he was the best thing about Silver Linings Playbook, despite his brief appearance. Post by: Reelist on August 03, 2015, 09:57:43 AM Awesome interview on WTF (http://www.wtfpod.com) today. I don't think I've ever heard a director speak so openly about their craft. They always seem to be hiding some mystique about it, but Harmony is very straightforward about the why's and hows of the way he does things. Makes a great argument for his use of celluloid at the end, too. Post by: jenkins on August 03, 2015, 12:47:03 PM He essentially regurgitates the principle elements of film vs. video that are found in every conversation these days, referencing the popular production perception of film making better use of time (which is so, so, so absurd. who's making these time sheets?), film burning money and causing people to focus (oh fuck off), film as magic (classic QT quote), analog having dissonance true only to itself and evoking Korine's fantastic lifelong psychological journey that can be described as he was born in film and he wants to die in film. Post by: Reelist on August 03, 2015, 01:30:16 PM But he said it better The fact that he said it at all is meaningful. Korine is a person I respect. But I'm not currently impressed by people rallying for film. I support them, but I'm not impressed by them. Love watching film, wouldn't wanna make one. Talking Art, Cock Moulds and Revolvers with Harmony Korine - Dazed (http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/29728/1/talking-art-cock-moulds-and-revolvers-with-harmony-korine) Harmony Korine Says His Chris Cunningham Collaboration 'Mitch Poppins' Might Be Released This Year As we await to see which feature film Harmony Korine shoots this year — he's deciding between "The Trap" and a new, "Scarecrow"-esque picture he's recently written — there's still some stuff in the archives to see the light of day. And one of them may finally surface this year. Last summer, Korine told Marc Maron about a 20-minute short he made in the early 2000s with acclaimed music video director Chris Cunningham (Björk's "All Is Full Of Love," Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker"). Titled "Mitch Poppins," Korine said it's about a man with Tourette's Syndrome whose tic takes the form of breakdancing, and noted that while it wasn't finished at the time, he was waiting for the moment to release it. And it might soon be arriving. Chatting with The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/24/harmony-korines-art-rehab?CMP=twt_a-film_b-gdnfilm), he told the paper "Mitch Poppins" might be released this year...but we'll see if that's the case. Post by: The Ultimate Badass on February 28, 2016, 12:59:42 AM I can see that. Korine and Cunningham have similar meta-thematic sensibilities, even though they are totally different in so many ways. I don't know why Cunningham never panned out. I really thought he was the next Kubrick. Maybe he still will be. If I had one director to give a hundred million dollars to to make a movie it would be Cunningham. Post by: wilder on April 20, 2016, 02:43:28 PM Post by: wilder on August 26, 2016, 07:07:39 PM Harmony Korine Adapting Controversial Novel ‘Tampa,’ Says New Florida Set Movie Will Shoot Next Directing Rihanna‘s sexy “Needed Me” video and an ad for Supreme featuring his rapper pal Gucci Mane, the one thing Harmony Korine hasn’t done this year is gear up production on a new feature film. Initially, his super-promising-sounding project “The Trap,” that had Idris Elba, Benicio Del Toro, Robert Pattinson, Al Pacino, and James Franco set to star, was slated to lens earlier this year, but there were delays, and the director started losing interest in the movie, thus pivoting toward writing something new, something he described as “a cross between a Cheech and Chong movie and…‘Scarecrow.’ ” Now, not only does it look like that latter picture is next, but Korine has also lined up another very provocative project. During a Q&A last night at the Miami Beach Cinematheque, Korine revealed he’s working on an adaptation of Alissa Nutting‘s controversial and acclaimed novel, “Tampa.” The 2013 book caused no shortage of scandal, with the story explicitly detailing a teacher’s journey in seducing her 14-year-old student. It’s pretty charged material, so much so that Slate editor Dan Kois wrote, quite prophetically it would seem, “someone hire Harmony Korine to make the movie, ASAP.” Here’s the book synopsis: In Alissa Nutting’s novel Tampa, Celeste Price, a smoldering 26-year-old middle-school teacher in Florida, unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically determined seduction of a 14-year-old student. Celeste has chosen and lured the charmingly modest Jack Patrick into her web. Jack is enthralled and in awe of his eighth-grade teacher, and, most importantly, willing to accept Celeste’s terms for a secret relationship—car rides after dark, rendezvous at Jack’s house while his single father works the late shift, and body-slamming erotic encounters in Celeste’s empty classroom. In slaking her sexual thirst, Celeste Price is remorseless and deviously free of hesitation, a monstress of pure motivation. She deceives everyone, is close to no one, and cares little for anything but her pleasure. Tampa is a sexually explicit, virtuosically satirical, American Psycho–esque rendering of a monstrously misplaced but undeterrable desire. Laced with black humor and crackling sexualized prose, Alissa Nutting’s Tampa is a grand, seriocomic examination of the want behind student / teacher affairs and a scorching literary debut. That’s right up Korine’s alley of provocation, and he suggested that “Tampa” might be headed to HBO, which would mark a new turn for the arthouse filmmaker. But we’ll have to see how that shakes out. Next for the director will be the aforementioned Cheech-and-Chong-meets-“Scarecrow” script, which he’s aiming to shoot in south Florida, though there’s no word just when cameras will roll. After that will be either “The Trap” (which hopefully he hasn’t grown tired of) or “Tampa,” and we’ll follow whatever Korine decides to go with. And in case you’re counting, including “Spring Breakers,” this will mark four movies that Korine will have set in Florida. Matthew McConaughey Will Be Harmony Korine’s ‘Beach Bum’ For a while now, Harmony Korine has been teasing that he’s been working on a new script which would likely be his next movie, bumping back his previously planned “The Trap.” As you’ll recall, that film was set to star Idris Elba, Benicio Del Toro, Robert Pattinson, Al Pacino, and James Franco, until an issue with one of the cast members — who Korine has refused to name — essentially kiboshed everything. The filmmaker cooled on “The Trap” and started writing something new, and many thought it was the adaptation of “Tampa,” but it’s something else entirely, with a big A-list lead actor. Matthew McConaughey has signed up to star in the stoner comedy “The Beach Bum.” The film follows the misadventures of the rebellious and lovable rogue Moondog, who I presume is not based on the experimental musician, though I can’t imagine that name is a coincidence either. Korine has previously described the picture as “a cross between a Cheech and Chong movie and that movie ‘Scarecrow,’” which, through Korine’s cracked lens and McConaughey’s breezy vibe, should be something pretty fun. Production will get underway in July, so we’ll likely see this on the festival circuit in 2018. As for “The Trap,” Korine has said it’s still in the works, and could be his next one…after this. Post by: Robyn on September 27, 2017, 06:37:15 AM "A rebellious stoner named Moondog lives life by his own rules." with Matthew McConaughey directed by Korine? that sounds pretty fun. what happened was i decided to learn about Neon (http://neonrated.com). so i read this (http://moviecitynews.com/2017/08/neon-launches-new-label-super-ltd-with-anthony-bourdain-produced-doc/) and barely learned anything actually. but now i'm aware that Korine's The Beach Bum will be distributed by Neon. imdb lists the movie in post-production. Korine wrote/directed, Benoît Debie is behind the camera again. Debie also shot Audiard's The Sisters Brothers btw Post by: WorldForgot on April 04, 2018, 02:48:21 PM Benoit Debie'z sense of color is going to make these gaudy designs trashique (https://i.imgur.com/SflIWdM.png) (https://i.imgur.com/5wbDcVk.png) (https://i.imgur.com/qpNfUhY.jpg) Post by: jenkins on September 03, 2018, 04:10:48 PM i'm sort of madly impressed by how basically perfect this Harmony Korine commercial is. how does it feel so alive when all its elements aren't so new really? the music is T L Barrett (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._L._Barrett) Post by: Reelist on September 03, 2018, 07:37:58 PM Anyone who’s wanted a glimpse into Harmony’s day to day life should check out this episode he did for a vice show that profiles skateboarders It’s kind of annoying how they have to bring everything back around to skating somehow but I didn’t know how much Harmony’s aesthetic was inspired by skate videos. 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__label__cc	0.699913	0.300087	Terms of Reference Consultancy for Preparation of NGO Alternative Report to CEDAW on Rights of Laotian Sex Workers 15 July 2018 Introduction and Background Asia Pacific Network of Service Workers (APNSW), a regional network of sex workers established in 1997, is a common platform for member organizations in Asia and the Pacific. It has … More APNSW is looking for a Consultant – Apply TERMS OF REFERENCE PROJECT OFFICER POSITION Introduction and Background Asia Pacific Network of Service Workers (APNSW), a regional network of sex workers established in 1994, is a common platform for member organizations in Asia and the Pacific. It has registered as a Foundation in Thailand with a regional Secretariat based in Bangkok. The Secretariat is chiefly responsible for … More Vacancy Announcement – Project Officer HARC, the HIV/AIDS Research and Welfare Centre organized a national sex workers conference in Dhaka Bangladesh on 17th and 18th July 2017. Over 100 sex workers attended this two-day conference with the theme “Nothing for us without us.” Red Umbrella Fund supported the event. … More Sex Workers in Bangladesh hold national conference Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers (APNSW) held a five-day “SWIT” regional training from 24-28th April 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand. Participants came from Papua New Guinea, Pakistan, Myanmar and China. During the regional training participants shared their experiences of how many SWIT-related activities are currently happening in their countries. … Despite the SWIT being published in 2013, and being a WHO reference document for public health policy, it is clear many states in Asia and the Pacific have not yet engaged with these guidelines. … More Sex workers assess implementation of SWIT Authorities in Vietnam are reported to be planning their “biggest crackdown ever”against the sex industry in 2017. They say the want to help sex workers find new jobs. However, organisations such as ILO Vietnam have pointed out that this approach fails to address the needs of sex workers and ignores the findings of research. … More Authorities in Hanoi, Vietnam, plan ‘Biggest Crackdown Ever’ for 2017 In January, 33-year-old mother Pen Kunthea drowned when she slipped and hit her head while jumping between boats to run away from district security guards. She was left to drown. There have been calls for systematic change, accountability and justice to be served in Cambodia following her death. … More Raid in Cambodia Led to the Death of Pen Kunthea India: Over 2000 sex workers sign National Network of Sex Workers (NNSW) Statement, 25 Jan 2017 The National Network of Sex Workers has released a statement challenging the conference being organised by the “The Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution International (Cap Intl).” The statement has been signed by over 2000 sex workers in India who reject the conflation of trafficking with sex work, and the conflation of sex work with violence. … More India: Over 2000 sex workers sign National Network of Sex Workers (NNSW) Statement, 25 Jan 2017 SWIT Training in Jakarta, Indonesia (Part Two) Part One of this article looked at barriers to sex worker community empowerment in Indonesia. Part Two summarizes discussions about addressing violence against sex workers, and community engagement in service provision. … More SWIT Training in Jakarta, Indonesia (Part Two) SWIT Training in Jakarta, Indonesia (Part One) The Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers in collaboration with Organisasi Perubahan Sosial Indonesia (OPSI) conducted a national training in Jakarta from 15-17 November 2016. The training focused on the Sex Worker Implementation Tool (SWIT) – a guide for implementing comprehensive HIV/STI programmes with sex workers, published by the World Health Organisation (WHO). … More SWIT Training in Jakarta, Indonesia (Part One) Sex Workers Detained During Raids in Beijing, China Hundreds of sex workers were detained in raids conducted in three nightclubs in Beijing on 23 December 2016. … More Sex Workers Detained During Raids in Beijing, China Demonetised Notes in India Negatively Impact Sex Workers The Indian government’s decision to stop recognising Rs 500 and Rs 1000 bank notes has had a negative effect on sex workers and other marginalised communities. … More Demonetised Notes in India Negatively Impact Sex Workers APNSW at the 39th UNAIDS Program Coordinating Board meeting The 39th UNAIDS Program Coordinating Board Meeting took place in Geneva from 6-8 December 2016. APNSW Regional Coordinator Kay Thi Win spoke at the meeting on the needs of ageing sex workers. … More APNSW at the 39th UNAIDS Program Coordinating Board meeting APNSW Statement on International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers Sex workers across Asia and the Pacific continued to face multiple forms of violence in 2016. Even as we see progress in some areas, there are steps backward in others. … More APNSW Statement on International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers Resourced and organised: achieving formal recognition of sex workers’ skills in Australia The Scarlet Alliance National Training and Assessment Program (SANTAP) provides a unique example of how sex workers have pro-actively responded to stigma, discrimination, and ignorance about our profession. … More Resourced and organised: achieving formal recognition of sex workers’ skills in Australia “Making education safe for all” in Sonagachi, India Sex workers in Sonagachi, West Bengal, in India have taken a number of initiatives to improve education of sex workers and sex workers’ children. They include adult literacy and numeracy classes for sex workers, primary schools for young children of sex workers, a boarding hostel with private tuition for older children, and a co-operative banking system. … More “Making education safe for all” in Sonagachi, India APNSW facilitates Global Fund training in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea APNSW in collaboration with Friends Frangipani, held a three-day training in Port Moresby from 17-19 October 2016. Thirty-two (32) sex worker community members took part in learning more about the Global Fund (GF), its structures and mechanisms, and how to engage effectively at the country level. … More APNSW facilitates Global Fund training in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Introducing: Sex Worker Network SON, South Korea In August 2016 Sex Worker Network SON announced their new sex worker led network in South Korea. The network’s initial activities include offering legal support for members after police entrapment or crackdowns, and meeting together to share their experiences and support each other. … More Introducing: Sex Worker Network SON, South Korea Taiwanese Sex Workers Protest for Decriminalisation On the 18 of October, COSWAS, sex workers and allies held a protest outside the Taipei City Government. Protesters asked for the decriminalisation of sex work, for an end to illegal entrapment practices targeting sex workers, and for the government to stop ignoring sex workers. They are asking for safe and legal places to work. … More Taiwanese Sex Workers Protest for Decriminalisation APNSW letter to UN Women, 16 Oct 2016 In spite of the financial constraints within which UN Women must currently operate, it is astonishing to see less than six weeks of time being given to an online-only consultation. This also seems to be the first significant opportunity for those who will be most affected by this policy – sex workers themselves – to contribute. … More APNSW letter to UN Women, 16 Oct 2016 APNSW and VNSW host Global Fund Training in Hanoi, Vietnam The Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers (APNSW) in collaboration with the Vietnam Sex Workers Network (VNSW) organised a training from the 22-24 August in Hanoi, Vietnam on the Global Fund. Seventeen sex workers representing 12 sex worker-led organisations from across the nation attended the training. … More APNSW and VNSW host Global Fund Training in Hanoi, Vietnam	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2248
__label__cc	0.659336	0.340664	Are Pistol Annies about to spread the “Interstate Gospel?” SonyWhile we know Pistol Annies have finished a new record that’s supposed to be out sometime this fall, we don’t know exactly when it will be released or what it will be called. But Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley may be dropping some hints. You can now follow a new Pistol Annies playlist titled Interstate Gospel on both Spotify and Apple Music. The 45-song collection includes songs from the trio’s two previous albums — 2011’s Hell on Heels and 2013’s Annie Up — as well as solo tracks from each of the women. It’s not clear if Interstate Gospel might also be the title of a new song, the new album, or even a new tour. By adding the playlist to your collection, however, you can enter a flyaway sweepstakes run by the ladies’ label, Sony, to see Pistol Annies live. This summer, Ashley and Angaleena turned up several times as surprise guests on Miranda’s Bandwagon Tour with Little Big Town. Stay tuned to see what the Hell on Heels girls have up their sleeve next. By ABC News\|2018-09-12T16:33:33-05:00September 12th, 2018\|Music News\|Comments Off on Are Pistol Annies about to spread the “Interstate Gospel?”	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2260
__label__wiki	0.930661	0.930661	Focus \| From the Queen City to Oxford Published Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009, 5:20 pm Front Page » Events » Focus \| From the Queen City to Oxford Staunton native named Rhodes Scholar Story by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net Many, one would assume, do it for the prestige. Tyler Spencer applied for a Rhodes Scholarship as a matter of practicality. “I have wanted to get a masters to strengthen my nonprofit work, but I have been frustrated by how much most good programs cost,” said Spencer, a 2008 University of Virginia graduate and Staunton native who in November was named a Rhodes Scholar. Spencer, 23, a graduate of R.E. Lee High School in Staunton, settled after his graduation from UVa. in Washington, D.C., where he founded and directs a nonprofit, Athletes United for Social Justice, that trains college athletes to be HIV/AIDS educators. That part of his life came about as a result of work he did in Africa training pro soccer players to be mentors to youths. “When I learned that the AIDS rate in D.C. was so high – worse that many sub-Saharan African countries – I got excited by the idea of training Division I athletes to do the same. I knew that they could have a huge impact on youth, and I also hoped that a program like this could benefit them the way my experience in Africa had benefited me,” Spencer said. Spencer was nominated as a candidate for the Rhodes Scholar program by UVa. He was one of the 32 Scholars picked from a field of 217 finalists from across the United States. “I felt really lucky to make it through, because at the final selection weekend I could see how any of the other candidates could have been given the scholarship,” said Spencer, modestly, considering his lengthy resume, which includes a year of research at the African Wildlife Foundation and Sports for Life, a partnership of UNAIDS and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, his effort to organize a cross-country cycling trip to benefit those affected by Hurricane Katrina and his work as a volunteer tennis coach at Gallaudet University, a school for the deaf located in the nation’s capital. Spencer will focus his studies at Oxford on a program in evidence-based social intervention, a new degree program at the university. He will be studying the theory and methodology of community-level social- and behavioral-change programs with the goal of being able to apply the theoretical constructs to policy and practice in his nonprofit work back in the States. Spencer had already deferred admission to a grad-level public-health program at Harvard to devote his time to the launch of Athletes United, which approaches social change at the grassroots level. “It is undeniable that an epidemic like HIV demands the attention of all kinds of stakeholders, and these include athletes, celebrities, wealthy donors, politicians, et cetera,” Spencer said. “Right now, particularly in D.C., there is so much stigma, ignorance and denial about HIV among the poor and the wealthy, the disenfranchised and the powerful. Athletes United engages very visible athletes in breaking that stigma, but it also focuses on critical empowerment of the young people most at-risk for HIV infection. Even though we are dealing with an incredibly serious issue, it’s also cool to see the participants of the program having fun.”	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2266
__label__wiki	0.68338	0.68338	Postgame: UVA players on win over #5 Tar Heels Published Monday, Feb. 27, 2017, 10:52 pm Front Page » Sports » Postgame: UVA players on win over #5 Tar Heels UVA players London Perrantes, Devon Hall, Isaiah Wilkins, Jack Salt and Kyle Guy talk with reporters after the Cavs’ 53-43 win over #5 UNC. Guard London Perrantes On Devon Hall’s two missed dunks: “So, what happened was he was up late last night and I told him, ‘You’re going to miss two dunks in the game if you don’t go to sleep,’ and he did not listen to me. I am the father of the house though.” On his assignment of guarding Justin Jackson and becoming a defensive stopper: “I was looking forward to playing against [Justin Jackson] and against North Carolina, especially after how the first game went. That was probably the most frustrated I have ever been just from a defensive standpoint. I felt like he could get whatever he wanted in the first game, especially in the first half, and when coach told me that I was going to guard him I just was ready, I wanted to be that. I thought that I could do it, I believed in myself, the team believed in me, and I just knew that if we were going to win the game that I had to do what I had to do.” On Coach Bennett’s assessment of this game as a ‘golden opportunity’: “We have been in a slump. Obviously. we won that last game at NC State. We had nothing to lose. We had two more games left, North Carolina has been playing as one of the best teams the last couple of weeks. We had nothing to lose. We just wanted to go out there, play hard, and do what we could to win this game.” On Devon Hall’s two missed dunks: “We knew defensively we were going to have to be at our best to win this game, regardless of how good offensively we were going to play because they are such a high-powered offensive team. Defensively, we knew that we were going to have to buckle down and play as hard as we could and let our offense go. Obviously, we are off and on sometimes on offense, but our defense has to be there at all times and it was there tonight.” Guard Devon Hall On whether the team took this game personally: “Absolutely. I think that when we were in Chapel Hill, we were a completely different team and we did not take it personally on the defensive end. They were just getting anything they wanted – lobs, dunks, and wide-open jumpers, and we were kind of not ourselves. I think each guy individually took it personally deep down inside to step up his game.” On Kyle Guy’s impact on the team’s success: “I think he means a lot to us. If he is hitting shots and we can get him going quick, we are going to find him. If we are able to get into the lane and make drives and kicks, or if we have any sets we run for him and he is able to get going then he spaces and opens up the floor for a lot of people.” Forward Isaiah Wilkins On London’s final home game: “That’s crazy. A, he’s done so much for this program, and B, this season’s gone by so fast. Obviously, it’ll be an emotional day. Everybody loves London and the crowd will be very into it. Hopefully, we will pull out a win. He’s not afraid of the big moment; he proved that today. He took a lot of big shots today, a couple deep threes, but he’s improved as a leader every single year. I’m learning from him every single day, a great floor general and a great dude.” On change of momentum in last week: “It’s just one win. One win can change a lot for our confidence. We got the win at NC State and guys are back to shooting the ball. It might be off the glass, but they got a little swagger, a little confidence back.” On bounce-back from loss to UNC: “You just have to let it go. I forgot we played them nine days ago. It was really big for us to get the NC State win and obviously, this one was huge for us. You have to let it go, and keep playing. There are so many games to play, and then hopefully a lot more games to play after the end of the regular season.” Center Jack Salt On third straight 20-win season: “I am honored to be a part of this program. All the coaching staff and players, I’m just grateful to be here in Charlottesville with all of these coaches and players.” Guard Kyle Guy On what was different this time around against Carolina: “I think we took that so personally. I think it was probably the best thing that could have happened to us against that team, and we wanted to make a big statement coming back home.” On the fun he has on the court: “I have a blast. This is why I play the game – because I love to be in these situations. I love basketball, and I think you can see that in my play.” On finding space for shots despite the press: “We were just being a little more aggressive and a little more assertive on offense. We were a little timid at Chapel Hill, so here we tried to be a little more aggressive, and Coach [Bennett] was encouraging us all week to make sure we were prepared.” On where the confidence comes from: “Just playing with a chip on my shoulder. I know my teammates have my back. They believe in me, and I believe in them. Growing up, I was a scrawny little skinny kid and kids tried to pick on me, so I always played with a chip on my shoulder; I carried that to the college level.” On the grit and toughness against a taller lineup: “We just tried to leave everything out there on the floor, and I think we finally grasped that after the first North Carolina game. We don’t want any regrets, and if we are going to lose, then it is going to be because they hit contested shots. We just wanted to leave everything on the floor and give it our all.”	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2267
__label__wiki	0.578471	0.578471	Home #SA Forever It’s do or die for us – Banyana coach on Women’s Afcon semi CAPE COAST, Ghana, November 27 – Banyana Banyana are just 90 minutes away from reaching their dream of qualifying for the World Cup, as they prepare to take on Mali in their Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) semifinals on Tuesday. The two nations clash on at the Cape Coast Stadium in Ghana, with the match starting at 8.30pm SA time. The winners will proceed to the final and automatically book their tickets to the 2019 Women’s World Cup, which will take place in France in June. “We have been saying we will take this tournament game-by-game, and now the most important match is upon us. This is a final for us as a qualification for the World Cup is non-negotiable. We have been dreaming of this moment for a long time, now it’s time to walk the talk,” said Banyana coach Desiree Ellis. This will be the first-ever meeting between the two countries, and South Africa come into this match having scored nine goals in three games, having conceded two. They finished top of Group B. Mali, in contrast, had a somewhat leaky defence, letting in five goals and found the back of the net six times to end second in Group A. “The fact that they are in the last four means they are capable of playing, so we cannot take them for granted based on their past performance in this tournament. “Also they have nothing to lose as this is their first semifinal in the tournament – while we have been here before, so the pressure is on us, hence we say it’s a do a or die affair for us. “Unfortunately the good work we did in the group stages, and the preparations before the start of the tournament will count for nothing if we don’t get anything out OF this game. We haven’t lost a game but that is all in the past – we are playing a new match altogether. We have to be at our best to realise our hopes and aspirations. “We are within touching distance and it is all in our hands. We have to leave everything on the field and not count on having a second bite of the cherry at the third and fourth place play-off, as it does not exist in our minds. “We have come too far to leave it all behind. This is one match that no player needs motivation for.” South Africa came close to winning the trophy in 2000, 2008 and 2012 when they finished as runners-up. The last two editions of the tournament were particularly difficult as they exited in fourth place. Ellis could also become the first coach to qualify Banyana for a FIFA World Cup – which will be even more significant as she is a former captain of the team. She was also the assistant coach when the squad qualified for their second Olympic Games in Rio in 2016. Ellis also holds the record of winning the Cosafa Women’s Championship as both a player and a coach. “It does cross my mind but I always try not to think of personal accolades because it is not about me, but the collective. We have a very strong and competent team working in the background to ensure this team succeeds. I may be the face of the team, but credit goes to all the unsung heroes and heroines who work tirelessly behind the scenes.” Victory against Mali will see Banyana become only the second SA women’s team to qualify for a World Cup – after the Under-17 women’s team has done so on two occasions, in 2010 (Trinidad and Tobago) and in 2018 (Uruguay). They will also join Bafana Bafana (France 1998, Korea & Japan 2002 and South Africa 2010), the Under-20 men’s team (2017 Korea Republic), as well as the Under-17 men’s team (2015 Chile). The Under-20 women’s team have never qualified for the World Cup. Banyana Banyana Women's Afcon semi-finals Women’s Africa Cup of Nations Angelina Jolie wants divorce finalized by end of 2018 Cele appoints a new team of experienced police officers to investigate... ANC in North West province to meet on national leadership Tendai Biti arrested as he flees to Zambia SAFA pleased with progress at technical officers workshop Alexandra residents undeterred by rain ahead of planned march to Sandton	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2271
__label__wiki	0.74027	0.74027	Home Press Releases Axel Braun to Crowdfund The Empire Strikes Back XXX and Release it... Axel Braun to Crowdfund The Empire Strikes Back XXX and Release it for Free Los Angeles– Today, legendary adult film director Axel Braun took to Indiegogo.com, the largest global crowdfunding site, to finance his newest and most ambitious venture – The Empire Strikes Back XXX: An Axel Braun Parody – the sequel to the highest-selling adult movie of all time, Star Wars XXX. If the crowdfunding campaign is successful, this will become the first adult film released completely free of charge. “I’m trying to do something that has never been done” Braun said. “I want to make the most amazing porn parody ever, completely funded by fans and sponsors, and then I’m going to give it away for free. There will be no DVDs; it will only be available online, and it will be free for everyone. Forever. No hidden gimmicks; no need to give out your email address; no membership; absolutely nothing but click and watch. Full HD, and fully legal. It’s my way to fight Internet piracy while giving back to the fans, and it’s a bit of a social experiment.” Braun specifically set the campaign as Fixed Funding, which means Indiegogo will hold all funds raised, and if the goal is not met by the campaign deadline, all contributions will be automatically refunded. “It’s all or nothing,” explained Braun. “We either reach our goal or I will never shoot the movie. I want to see if there are enough fans around the world who want this movie to happen as much as I do, and I just don’t want to see pirates profit from it.” To watch the Indiegogo campaign video, donate, or learn more about the crowdfunding campaign, click here. To share the campaign video from YouTube, click here. The crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo intends to raise $500,000 by April 22. The funding goal is equal to the budget of the movie’s predecessor, the multi-award-winning Star Wars XXX. The amount raised for the new movie would cover the cost of production, marketing, Indiegogo fees, and crowdfunding perks, which include premiere party tickets, signed scripts, costumes and props from the movie, visits to the set, and much more. The Empire Strikes Back XXX: An Axel Braun Parody will feature returning cast members Allie Haze (Princess Leia), Lexington Steele (Darth Vader), Seth Gamble (Luke Skywalker), and new additions to the cast including superstars Riley Steele, Carter Cruise, Aiden Ashley, Casey Calvert, and Asa Akira, on special loan from Wicked Pictures. Other cast members will be added as the fundraising campaign progresses. Along with most of the crew from Star Wars XXX, Braun’s longtime collaborator, award-winning director Eli Cross, will be returning as a producer and director of photography. Pre-production and set construction for the movie is set to begin on April 26. Filming will start on June 1st and continue for 28 days in California, Nevada, and Alaska. “There was simply no way to do justice to the movie without real snow, and Alaska offers the perfect landscape for bringing Hoth to life – so we’ll pack up and go freeze our butts over there for a week in the middle of June,” stated Braun. “The good news is that a visit to our Alaska set is one of the many perks that we’re offering in the campaign, which means two lucky fans may get to share that awesomely hypothermic experience with us!” The Empire Strikes Back XXX: An Axel Braun Parody will release worldwide for free on September 30, 2016. Axel Braun Axel Braun Productions The Empire Strikes Back XXX Previous articleHeadquarters Hosts Lainie Speiser’s ‘Porno Anniversary’ Party Thursday, February 25 Next articleInterview with Mindi Mink Registration is Now Open for The Cons, a Celebration of Alternative... HoloFilm Productions, HoloGirlsVR.com Earn Five XBIZ Awards Nominations for 2017 Alia Janine’s Scatterbrains Podcast Premieres Friday	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2274
__label__cc	0.607775	0.392225	Day in the Bookkeeper’s Life: Kim Giannopoulos “I love numbers. I’ve always loved numbers.” It’s no surprise that a professional who does bookkeeping for a living has a penchant for all things numerical, but perhaps few speak of it with as much enthusiasm as Kim Giannopoulos. “My favorite part is reconciling – I love messes and cleaning up books, putting things in… “I love numbers. I’ve always loved numbers.” It’s no surprise that a professional who does bookkeeping for a living has a penchant for all things numerical, but perhaps few speak of it with as much enthusiasm as Kim Giannopoulos. “My favorite part is reconciling – I love messes and cleaning up books, putting things in the right account – accrued expenses, prepaid expenses – all that good stuff.” Kim, a BELAY bookkeeper, is not only a qualified record keeper and data manager of clients’ finances and business books – she is also an entrepreneur herself. When she joined BELAY in March 2016, Kim brought a proven and extensive track record as a small business owner in tow. That’s because since 1995 she has run her own bookkeeping company – and her BELAY clientele represents a segment of her portfolio. With BELAY, Kim serves many clients – all churches, located in five states. No matter the client or industry, Kim finds serving faith-based organizations especially fulfilling. This is particularly true as someone who previously worked as a controller with a major corporation and has counted big businesses among her clients. “With a church, it’s more fulfilling. They’re all here working for something, trying to make this world better,” Kim says. Work from Home – The Woes and the Wonders As a transplant to Tehachapi, Calif., Kim is new to working from home. Though she’s been working independently and operating her own business for more than 20 years, she spent much of her time on the road, traveling to her clients’ sites and offices, until she relocated two years ago from Boston. “I wanted a bit of New England, but not too much,” she says of the area, where she can still enjoy bursts of cooler weather and even snow at times. “Before I moved, I spent up to three and a half hours [a day] in the car because I lived in Georgetown and always traveled to Boston.” Kim lost about 30 percent of her clients when she moved, but she made up the difference by partnering up with BELAY. With it, she’s experienced the benefits working remotely, like no commute and gas savings. “When I moved here, I lost some clients, but all that travel time went away,” she shares. “When I expanded [my business] through BELAY, I was so excited, and they kept giving me more clients as time went on.” Still, it can be hard to strike a balance, even with no required road time and offsite client meetings. Kim is a true go-getter with entrepreneurial drive. One struggle Kim faces is moving – that is, just simply getting up from her desk enough during the typical work day. “I spend a lot of time at my desk. I take breaks; I do some yoga in between to keep active and get the blood flowing. That’s the thing now – that would be the only downfall; I’m not moving as much as I should.” On a more positive note, Kim has been able to clean up her diet a bit as a work-from-homer. With the kitchen nearby, she makes better nutritional choices. “I used to always eat lunch in the car, so I was limited in what I could have. So it’s nice to be able to eat healthier. Also, of course, I can do a load of laundry in between.” Typically, from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Kim is working. She may be at home, but her home is her workplace. While stepping away and turning it all off at the end of the workday can be a challenge, Kim does enjoy a few unexpected diversions. For example, she’s an automotive enthusiast. Kim has a passion for classic and antique cars. But she’s not merely a spectator – she actually works on cars, too. “Before I moved to California, we had a four-car garage. I did all my own repairs. Today, I do all my car maintenance and oil changes.” Kim also plays bass and acoustic guitar. She and her husband “jam and sing and have fun,” and – for now – the living room is their stage. Together, they also travel and are getting acquainted with the California lifestyle and all the many destinations within the state – visiting cities like San Francisco and L.A. and stopping to see her adult children in Oxford and Ventura, too. “The adjustment has been great,” she says. “When you’re able to work for yourself and do meaningful work that helps people and makes a difference, that may be the best work-life balance of all.” Are you looking to work from home like Kim as a Bookkeeper with BELAY? Visit our Jobs page to fill out an application. If you are looking to outsource your bookkeeping to one of our highly experienced bookkeepers, fill out the Get Started form, and we’ll call you to find out how we can help your organization. Hire a Bookkeeper	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2278
__label__wiki	0.723327	0.723327	Christian Schools Guide Faith at Work Laurie’s Blog Social Success Grounded in Faith Jermaine “FunnyMaine” Johnson: A master of “football” comedy, Birmingham’s Jermaine “FunnyMaine” Johnson is best known for his social media presence and viral videos related to college football in the South. He will perform stand-up comedy at the StarDome Comedy Club in Hoover on November 20, 21, 23, and 25. As a part of the StarDome’s 35th Anniversary Celebration, the Club is giving away a pair of tickets to see FunnyMaine, visit www.facebook.com/stardome for details. For tickets, visit www.stardome.com or call 205-444-0008. Photos Courtesy Jermaine “FunnyMaine” Johnson Logging nearly one million viewers on social media every week, Jermaine “FunnyMaine” Johnson is best known in Alabama for his college-football YouTube series “How Bama Fans Watched.” The Birmingham, Ala.-based viral video personality and stand-up comedian is also a blogger, a graphic designer and an afternoon co-host on 97.7 JAMZ. In all these endeavors, he is recognized for his big smile and a silly style that pokes fun at sports, southern trends and nightlife. Preparing for a four-day set at the StarDome Comedy Club in Hoover, Ala.(www.stardome.com) in November, FunnyMaine explains how his focus is on encouraging others and trusting in God for continued success as God sees it. The youngest in a house full of boys, FunnyMaine says his childhood in Opelika, Ala. included scouts, music, and a lot of church. “My dad was a pastor; he started off small. He actually had a service in the living room then purchased a small building, then a bigger building, then another building,” FunnyMaine remembers. “I got to see it grow, and I know firsthand all the challenges that come with being pastor of a church. You’re dealing with so many different personalities, so many different opinions, but I’ve seen my dad stand strong in what he believes and how he wants to do stuff. He’s still in it years later.” FunnyMaine says his father’s strength also stood out in family tragedy. When he and his brothers were all under the age of 10, their mother died from medical complications related to lupus. “My dad was straight up and honest with us…He just told us, you know, this is what it is. We love her, she’s gone, but we’ve got to keep pressing forward. We’ve got to live our lives. That’s what she wanted. He was very upfront about it, and he encouraged us not to be afraid to miss your mom. Cry when you have to,” FunnyMaine recalls. “Then he remarried, and God blessed me with another motherly figure in my life. He definitely stepped up to the plate.” Besides being a standup comic and a viral sensation, FunnyMaine is also a radio personality, co-hosting with Dwight “D. Stone” weekday afternoons on Birmingham’s Hip Hop and R&B station, 95.7 JAMZ FM. Photos Courtesy Jermaine “FunnyMaine” Johnson A self-professed class clown, FunnyMaine’s family moved to Pratt City, where he graduated from Jackson-Olin High School. At Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, FunnyMaine studied mass communications, served as drum major and student recruiter, and hosted basketball games. His first time on stage for stand-up was a favor from a friend. His fraternity brother was working as a disc jockey at a back-to-school comedy show for UAB in 2005. After a five-minute set, FunnyMaine received a standing ovation. Since then, he has opened for celebrities including DL Hughley, Rob Schneider and Tom Green. He has performed in front of sold out audiences at The Looney Bin in Little Rock, Ark.; The Mint in Los Angeles, Calif.; The Punchline Comedy Club in Atlanta, Ga.; and Zanie’s Comedy Club in Nashville, Tenn. Leaning into social media platforms on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, FunnyMaine launched his first “How Bama Fans” video on Facebook in September 2016, and the series averaged 1.8 million views per week through the end of the football season. Each segment is two to five minutes long and walks viewers through the facial expressions and verbal banter likely shared among Crimson Tide supporters during the previous Saturday’s college football matchups. Poking fun at underdogs, impressive plays, controversial calls and upsets, the marriage of football and comedy simply works. “It’s more than just a culture in Alabama. It’s something we decided a long time ago. This is our thing,” he says. “We’re good at it. We’re passionate about it. And I think everybody loves to laugh.” FunnyMaine says Birmingham has been particularly responsive to his material. “With the StarDome being here in Hoover for over 30 years now, I think we’re a comedy smart city. We’re a football smart city. When you put the two together, it seems like it was destined to be a win-win.” Thank God for prayer,” FunnyMaine says. “It’s free. You can do it most times. It’s all about finding a space and finding that good mental space to be in and do your thing. I love it.” Photos Courtesy Jermaine “FunnyMaine” Johnson FunnyMaine admits that a career in the comedy industry hasn’t been without struggle. He has experienced a repossession and an eviction. However, it was a grief he is thankful came with patience that was perhaps a gift from God. “It didn’t break me. It actually just made me stronger,” he remembers. “I realized nothing is going to be given to me. If I want to get out of this hole, if I want to change things, if I want to do all this great stuff that I feel like I can do, I’ve got to go harder. I’ve got to step it up a notch. And that’s what happened.” Aside from the stage and social media, you can find FunnyMaine sharing his faith at churches, including The Worship Center where he has been a member since 2011. His message typically touches on avoiding the negative influence of a culture often focused on determining who is right and who is wrong. Initially, he explains, this lies in politics. But ultimately, it’s something more. “The bigger problem is we don’t know how to disagree anymore. We don’t know how to have conversations with people we don’t agree with, people who don’t live where we live, people who don’t look like we look, people who don’t worship like we worship. Can you imagine living in the world where you’re surrounded by people who just agree with you? And everybody does what you do? How can you ever learn in that? If everybody around you agrees with you, you’re not putting yourself in a position to learn anything.” For wisdom and encouragement, FunnyMaine turns to Scripture.“I love Psalm 62; it’s a chapter to me that’s about believing in God vs. trusting in God. I think a lot of us have got the believing part down, but we don’t have the trust part down. That’s what I try to work toward–trusting in God and not just believing in God.” For FunnyMaine, he’s trusting that God will continue to create opportunities for his personal and professional growth, but also that God will help all men and women appreciate their differences instead of see differences as walls that divide. “I am also just believing and trusting in God that it can happen. Sometimes you go speaking positivity and people say, ‘You’re crazy, you should give that up.’ You’ve gotta be crazy enough to believe that change can happen.” –Camille Smith Platt See Jermaine “Funnymaine” Johnson perform live at the StarDome Comedy Club in Hoover, November 20, 21, 23, 25, 2018. For tickets visit www.stardome.com or call 205-444-0008. Gold Medalist Catherine Reddick Whitehill Witnessing God’s Miracles Celebrating a Colonial Christmas Dre Kirkpatrick Gives Back to Alabama Children in Need Get Back Up & Try Again… Alabama’s American Ninja Warrior Eddy Stewart Taking the Stage with Faithful Confidence: Miss Alabama Callie Walker Posted in Entertainment, Faith at Work, Music, Spiritual Fill your Facebook feed with more good news from Birmingham Christian Family! Click the like button below. Subscribe Free to Birmingham Christian Family! 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__label__cc	0.6447	0.3553	» Gabriel: Going Where the Story Leads w/ RK Staunton Gabriel: Going Where the Story Leads w/ RK Staunton Writing Gabriel has been something of a departure for me in several ways. It’s my first romantic suspense, my first story that didn’t include elements of spanking/domestic discipline, and the first M/M romance I’ve ever written. Of those three things, making the transition from writing M/F to writing M/M was by far the easiest. I’ve been reading M/M for years. In fact, these days I probably read more M/M books than I do M/F. I’ve been asked before, more than once, why I read – and now write – M/M romance. Since this week is National Book Week and the #lovereading campaign is going on, I decided this was the perfect time to talk about why I love reading this genre. I’ll be honest, at first, when people started asking me, their questions confused me. I’ve never understood why the gender and/or sexuality of characters in the story should be that big a deal. A good story is a good story. Yes, good stories are often character-driven, but frankly to me, that has more to do with who the character is as a person than what I consider secondary details like hair color, eye color, gender, and sexuality. It just doesn’t matter to me. Good characters and good stories matter to me regardless of the body that particular character happens to inhabit. Don’t get me wrong. I’m in no way trying to belittle or dismiss the legitimate struggles that come with having a non-heteronormative gender or sexuality. To be perfectly blunt, I’m disabled, demisexual, and kinky. I know just a little bit about what it means to live outside of the mainstream myself. I’ve come to suspect that’s probably why I can move pretty easily between writing M/F and M/M books. Given my own make-up, it’s the emotional component that matters to me most of all. As such, I think I will probably always go back and forth between writing M/F and M/M books, just as I do as a reader. Now that I’ve stepped over into the M/M genre, I have no intention of going back, at least not permanently. I’ll go where the stories lead me, wherever that may be. Gabriel took me all sorts of new places, and I’m sure the next one will as well. That’s a big part of what makes being a writer fun, and I wouldn’t trade it for the world. Check out Gabriel today! Gabriel Ingram is running from his past. It’s common knowledge at the college where he teaches that he’s a former CIA technical analyst, but no one knows the things he really did—or about the rage and bloodlust that are his constant companions. He’s holding on to his normal life with both hands, but he knows someday he’ll lose his grip. Lucas Craig is a social worker studying to become a family therapist. For reasons Lucas can’t understand, the normally reclusive Professor Ingram takes an interest in him, and Lucas secretly hopes their friendship might become more. Then Eric, Lucas’s roommate, disappears. Lucas is frantic. The police are no help. With nowhere else to turn, Lucas begs Gabriel for his expertise. What starts as a simple errand to help a friend becomes a journey into a violent world of gangs and human trafficking—one that will bringGabriel face-to-face with the forces intent on stealing his soul. But Lucas might be the one who can save him—if Gabriel can get them out alive. RK Staunton rebelled against having a Christmas birthday in favor of making an unexpected debut in early fall, and she’s been doing the unexpected ever since. This tendency has resulted in many adventures, including a ten-year stint as a guide in that strange urban jungle called middle school. While entertaining, that expedition ultimately proved too harrowing. After finally making her escape, she turned to a quieter life masquerading as a crazy cat lady living in a small town in the southeastern US. RK has lived with a menagerie of characters inside her head for as long as she can remember. In a desperate bid to preserve her sanity, she has begun to transcribe the tales they tell her. This endeavor has proven to be fun, occasionally profitable, and cheaper than therapy. It has also fueled raging addictions to caffeine and chocolate on top of her lifelong addiction to books, but everyone is entitled to a vice or three, right? Find her Online: Website – http://www.rkstaunton.com/ Blog – http://www.rkstaunton.com/blog/ Newsletter – http://www.rkstaunton.com/home/newsletter/ Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/rkstaunton/ Twitter – https://twitter.com/rk_staunton	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2285
__label__cc	0.548746	0.451254	Dr. Joshua Duntley Honors Program Director, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice I am an associate professor in the Criminal Justice Program and Director of the Honors Program at Stockton University in Galloway, NJ. My research examines violence, victimization, and human mating. I teach a range of undergraduate and graduate courses in criminal justice and psychology. I am also the co-director of the Stockton CSI summer camp for high school students. I received my undergraduate degree in psychology from Plattsburgh State University in New York, where I had the privilege to work with Dr. Jeanne Ryan, Judy Dashnaw, Dr. Lary Shaffer, Dr. William Tooke, Dr. Matt Merrens, and others. While studying at Plattsburgh State, I worked for the Office of the Dean of Students as a resident assistant, assistant to the Associate Dean, residence hall director, and coordinator of new student orientation. I received a Ph.D. in Individual Differences and Evolutionary Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin, where I worked with Professor David M. Buss. I was also mentored by a number of other faculty members who strongly influenced my development as a scholar, including Professor Joseph Horn, Professor Peter MacNeilage, Professor Randy Diehl, and Dr. Thomas Darwin. Professor Buss and I continue to collaborate on several lines of research together. With funding from a Federal VAWA Grant awarded by the Criminal Justice Division of the Texas Governor’s Office and a grant from the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, we conducted studies of stalking and have created a Website to assist victims of stalking in the State of Texas, www.stalkinghelp.org. Coalitional aggression and warfare Sexual aggression Victim defenses Exploitability Human mating strategies Backup mates Unwanted romantic and sexual attention	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2286
__label__wiki	0.908975	0.908975	A Loose Screw? Posted by Boghound on May 31, 2012 Lawsuit: Dentist Dropped a Screwdriver Down My Throat "Eat a diet high in fiber," the dentist allegedly advised the plaintiff after the mishap A Kentucky woman is suing a dentist, accusing him of dropping a small screwdriver down her throat that migrated to her digestive tract and later required surgery to remove. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in Fayette Circuit Court in Lexington by 71-year-old Lena David of Nicholasville. David claims Dr. W.B. Galbreath told her to try to regurgitate the screwdriver and then sent her for X-rays when that did not work. Galbreath did not return a message left at his office Friday by The Associated Press. The lawsuit says that the X-rays showed the screwdriver in David’s stomach, and that the dentist discharged her with instructions to "eat a diet high in fiber." In June 2011, about a month after swallowing the screwdriver, David checked into a hospital with abdominal pain and had to have the screwdriver removed. Three Wheels On My Wagon!! Truck driver ‘too tired to notice front wheel had fallen off’ A Czech lorry driver has been pulled over after he continued driving with only three wheels. Ales Stastna only realised his front wheel had fallen off after police stopped him, according to Orange News. The 38-year-old said that he had just finished a marathon delivery shift and was suffering from exhaustion. "I could have sworn it was there when I set off," he told officers. Police spokesman Gabriel Holcakova said: "He’s lucky he didn’t kill himself or cause a serious accident. "He was given a warning, his truck was impounded and he had three points put on his licence." Foamed!! Devon residents enjoy unexpected foam party on Seaton Bay beach Residents from a quiet seaside town in Devon have received an unexpected invitation to a foam party after one washed up on Seaton Bay sea front during yesterday’s bad weather. The strange sea foam arrived on the south coast of England last night and covered the whole beach front along Fisherman’s Gap leaving local homeowners baffled. A white sheet of snow appeared to have fallen all along the bay, with spring’s barmy weather conditions seemingly taking another strange twist following weeks of up and down temperatures. Blizzard-like conditions are likely to have sparked the appearance of the sea foam, with locals reporting a combination of blustery winds, heavy rain and choppy waters. The white foam, which reportedly rose up to waist height, attracted huge crowds who took the opportunity play around in the frothy mess. Seaton resident Janet Seward, whose house is on the beachfront, said: ‘People were visiting all night and playing in it as the whole beach was covered. ‘Beach huts are now strewn everywhere due to the high tide. ‘We went along and it was an amazing sight with children playing in the foam, which was over their wellies.’ Pictures of the astonishing natural phenomenon have been posted on the Seaton Bay’s official Facebook page where residents have been discussing what the foam substance might be. They Do Loose Sometimes!! Entertainment Industry Lost Australian Show Case The entertainment industry hoped that an anti-piracy case against an Internet service provider down-under could set an international precedent. However, it turned out that the case set the sort of precedent that the industry didn’t even want. The entertainment industry brought up its big guns to take on the small broadband provider, iiNet. The company had done nothing other than refuse to monitor data passing through its servers and delete copyrighted content. What entertainment industry wanted was a victory in the case that would force bigger Internet service providers to do the same. Like many other American-inspired efforts, they for some reason assumed that if they threw enough money into a court room, they could beat any small broadband provider who couldn’t come up with the funds. Unfortunately for the entertainment industry, the courts outside the United States are not that interested in the amount of money the plaintiffs have, but rather interested in the law itself. That’s how Hollywood lost the case. Undeterred, the entertainment industry appealed, but a few days ago the Australian High Court’s five judges decided to leave the original verdict. According to the local media, the court concluded that iiNet didn’t have direct technical possibility to prevent its subscribers from illegally downloading copyrighted material using BitTorrent or any other popular protocol to share files on the Internet. iiNet’s head, Michael Malone, recommended the movie industry to better focus on increasing the availability of legitimate content in both timely and affordable manner. The ISP’s stand against the entertainment industry cost around $9,000,000 in legal bills. The court ordered that Hollywood foot the bill. Local anti-piracy group, known as the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT), has been representing the movie studios in the case described above. It seems that the outfit isn’t going to give up even after court decision. Now AFACT is changing tactics to force the country’s government to alter copyright legislation. This approach may succeed – politicians have always been much more flexible and friendly when facing campaign contributions… Governments Are At It Again!! Protests Against CISPA Since last week, a number of groups have started out protests against the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act – the controversial legislation which replaced SOPA. The legislation in question was first introduced in November and is scheduled to enter the US House of Representatives for votes this week. Some privacy groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and others expressed their point of view, claiming that this piece of legislation could allow online companies and government authorities to collect data about Internet users (i.e., pretty much everyone) under the pretext of Internet security. Moreover, the law would ignore existing protections imposed by the Federal Wiretap Act and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, among other privacy acts. The purpose of the group is to stop the bill, or at least initiate amendments to it by arranging online protests, like it happened with SOPA and ACTA. The group hopes that supporters and lawmakers will join the protests too. Moreover, they have launched a Twitter campaign to let lawmakers know about the proposed law and the threats it implies. Their concern is the information-sharing component of the law, which would allow companies to hand over any kind of personal data to the government without any judicial oversight. In addition, it will ignore any privacy acts and requirements to obtain court orders to access people’s personal data. In response, supporters of the bill point out that it would improve cybersecurity by helping Internet service providers and large companies such as Google or Facebook to gather and share threat data with the authorities. Like with SOPA, the language used in the law is very confusing – for instance, it doesn’t have any provisions forbidding the companies from tracking private e-mail messages, chat messages and Facebook postings under the pretext of cybersecurity. The worst part is that users aren’t even given the chance to sue firms for collecting that kind of information for the government. In other words, the major concern about CISPA is that it’s too broad, defining the data that private companies are able to share with the government in an almost unlimited way. According to many experts, the data collection and sharing permitted under the proposed bill would rather enable surveillance than serve any cybersecurity purpose. The Great Escape!! Escaped beaver found in slurry pit At the time it ranked as one of the great escapes of the animal kingdom. In the dead of night three beavers managed to break out of a farm at Lifton, Devon, and begin a new life on the rampage Two of the animals were quickly recaptured, but the third was sufficiently wily to outmanoeuvre those pursuing him. But now, three-and-a-half years later, his life of freedom appears to have ended. The Linton Beaver, or at least an animal that bears a remarkable likeness to him, has been found in a slurry pit on a farm at Roborough, close to Dartmoor. In the end it appears to have been less a case of recapturing a fugitive and more one of rescuing an animal in extremis. It was all a far cry from October, 2008, when the beaver, originally from Bavaria in southern Germany, broke free from the farm where was being kept under licence from Natural England. He managed to escape because the electric fence keeping him in check had been rendered useless by flooding. His pursuers initially followed a trail of tooth marks and fallen saplings on the banks of the River Tamar. Later, they realised he had established a territory about a mile-and-a-half long outside the village of Gunnislake, making him one of the few wild beavers to be at large in England since the 16th century. Realising he would be keen to find a mate with whom to share his domain, conservationists tried to set a “honey trap” for him by laying six large metal traps laced with the scent of a female beaver. The ruse failed, with the animal perhaps sensing that his chances of finding another beaver were as remote as the terrain in which he was living. But still he remained a free, if distinctly solo beaver. How he found his way to a slurry pit almost 20 miles from the site of his escape remains to be seen. His rescuers found him dishevelled and rather unhappy with life. Having captured him, they took him to Dartmoor Zoo where staff have painstakingly cleaned him up. George Hyde, a spokesman for the zoo, said: “He’s about the size of a medium dog and he has been growling at us. “It is possible it could be one of three beavers that escaped from a farm at Lifton on the Devon-Cornwall border in 2008." Mr Hyde added: “He’s got a fairly substantial set of teeth he could do some damage with.” Beavers were hunted to extinction in England and Wales during the 12th century and disappeared from the rest of the UK 400 years later. Smurf It!! Tourists flock to Smurf village A Spanish village has had a dramatic rise in tourism since it was painted blue last year for the making of a Smurfs film, a Malaga newspaper has reported. The tiny Andalucian settlement of Júzcar (population 200) has received around 125,000 visitors after its striking makeover in June last year, its mayor told Sur. “The number of visits is not going down,” David Fernández Tirado said. “Apart from colder, wintry days, it’s been quite the opposite – it’s continuing to spark a lot of interest.” The residents voted to keep the facades of their houses the same distinctive hue in December last year, after realising the tourism potential of the village’s new look. They needed to seek special permission from the regional government and the local bishop, as even the church was painted blue. Previously, the houses were white, typical of the pueblos blancos of the Andalucia region. Júzcar’s initial transformation came when it was selected as a set for the film Smurfs 3D, which featured the singer Katy Perry and came out last summer. Mr Fernández Tirado also reported that businesses were thriving as a result of the intense interest in the village, including souvenir shops and restaurants. A ‘Mercapitufo’, or ‘Smurf market’, is still being held each weekend and on holidays, with up to 20 stall holders selling Smurf-related artefacts, and souvenirs, and culinary delicacies. According to the newspaper, Júzcar now has an average of 2,000 visitors every weekend, about ten times its own population. This number was even higher for the busy extended holiday celebrations of Easter Holy Week earlier this month. The paint job has, according to the mayor, “boosted the local economy… the happiness, the business and employment prospects… and the popularity” of the village. However, he also stressed that the blue makeover was not necessarily permanent. If his neighbours wanted to change the colour of their houses back to traditional white, then another vote would be held, he told the newspaper. “We’ll see how everything is going in a while,” he said. Do Not Disturb? Boy finds fox asleep in bed A schoolboy had the shock of his life when he discovered a fox asleep in his bed. Alexander West (9) was stunned to see the baby fox snuggled in his duvet in his bedroom on the second floor of his home in Hemel Hempstead, Herts. The youngster had left the back door of the townhouse open when he ran outside to play and the female fox had crept inside and made herself at home. "Alexander shouted down saying there was a fox in his bed, but I didn’t believe him," said mum Dina Luminati-West. "I thought it must be our cat asleep on his bed, but then I saw the long pointed nose and realised it was indeed a fox. "I was absolutely shocked, but Alexander was quite excited and pleased she had chosen his room. I said it was because it was so messy." The small fox is believed to have been in the house for up to four hours before being discovered. I’m Just Texting!! Pilot Forgot to Lower Landing Gear Because He Was Texting, Probe Finds Investigators found that for two minutes as the plane descended to 1000 feet, the pilots took no necessary preparations for landing The pilot of an Australian passenger flight forgot to lower the plane’s wheels for landing because he was too busy texting, a government inquiry has found. In its report, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau report said that the distracted captain and fatigued co-pilot of a Jetstar Airways flight to Singapore failed to complete their landing checklist, The Age reported. At less than 400 feet from the ground, they had to take the emergency measure of reascending to try again, the report said. The investigators found that as the plane descended from 2800 feet to 1000 feet in altitude over the span of about two minutes, the pilots took no necessary preparations for landing — including lowering the landing gear. The board said that around 2500 or 2000 feet, the captain’s cell phone began beeping with incoming texts. The captain didn’t respond to the co-pilot’s requests, and when the co-pilot looked over, he saw his captain "preoccupied" with his phone, the report said. But even after that, neither the captain nor the co-pilot figured out that the landing gear had still not been lowered, according to the report; they did only after an alert started flashing at 720 feet. By the time the captain began trying to lower the landing gear, the plane was too low to do so, and a ground-warning alarm began to sound, investigators said. At 392 feet, the crew aborted the landing and flew higher, and the pilots lost track of their altitude, they added. The airline, a budget subsidiary of Qantas, said that in the wake of the incident two years ago it had put in place a reminder to pilots to turn their phones off before take-off Ouch!!…That Hurt! Woman hurt during sex on business trip claims worker’s compensation A woman who injured herself while having sex on a work trip is entitled to worker’s compensation. A federal court ruled in favour of the Australian government worker, who was hurt by a glass light fixture in her hotel room, stating that the injury occurred during her "course of employment". The woman’s barrister argued that the sex was "an ordinary incident of life" in a hotel room, along the same lines as showering and sleeping, according to news.com.au. The woman, who cannot be named, was sent by her employer to a country town on business in 2007. She arranged to meet a male friend who lived nearby. After the pair had dinner, they returned to the woman’s motel room and had sex, during which she was injured by a light fixture that fell from the wall above the bed. The judge ruled that "if the applicant had been injured while playing a game of cards in her motel room she would be entitled to compensation". The fact that she was having sex rather than "some other lawful recreational activity" made no difference to the result. The male friend said in a statement: "I think she was on her back when it happened but I was not paying attention because we are rolling around."	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2287
__label__cc	0.740413	0.259587	Homer H. Humphries, Jr. Papers Collection — Container: M07-4 Identifier: M07-4 Abstract The collection contains correspondence, subject files, and campaign and printed materials relating to Humphries' political activities, chiefly his tenure on the Jacksonville City Council from 1967-1971. The core of the collection are newspaper clippings pertaining to the Council's activities under the new consolidated government. Additional printed materials provide documentation on the site selection of the University of North Florida in 1969. Found in: UNF Library Special Collections and University Archives Jacksonville, Florida, Government Consolidation Collection Abstract On October 1, 1968, the governments of the city of Jacksonville, Florida and Duval County merged into one unified and consolidated government. The collection contains newspaper clippings which provide insight, commentary, and documentation on this transformative era in Jacksonville history. Special Florida Times-Union newspaper supplements from October 1, 1968, and October 1, 1969, provide extensive details on the history and background of the governmental merger. Additional newsclippings... Jacksonville, Florida, Historical Newspapers Collection Abstract The collection contains selective print newspapers, sections and clippings of The Florida Times-Union and the Jacksonville Journal which detail and document Northeast Florida history from 1890 to date. Anniversary and commemorative editions, and selective daily newspapers describe historical developments, the achievements of notable figures, and provide valuable insights into daily life in Northeast Florida. A preponderance of articles feature commentary and analysis on Jacksonville's growth... Joe Carlucci Collection Abstract The collection contains correspondence, administrative and subject files, and printed materials relating to Mr. Carlucci's political activities. Few personal items are included. Subject files provide detailed information on highly publicized and controversial Jacksonville, Florida issues (Offshore Power Systems, etc.) and prominent local individuals; extensive documentation on the site selection of the University of North Florida; and insights into the Hans Tanzler mayoral era of Jacksonville... Nathaniel Glover, Jr. Papers Abstract The collection contains correspondence, personal and subject files, and campaign and printed materials relating to Glover's career, chiefly his election and tenure as Jacksonville Sheriff from 1995 to 2003. The core of the collection are printed materials pertaining to his campaigns for Jacksonville Sheriff (1995; 1999) and Mayor (2003), and photographs showing highlights from his JSO years. The images provide visual documentation of his extensive involvement in the community, through... Richard A. Martin Papers Abstract Administrative, legal and subject files and printed materials relating to Jacksonville-Duval County, Florida government consolidation. The consolidation materials span the years 1963-1993, with the bulk of the items concentrated in the transitional consolidation years of 1967-70. Newspaper clippings and printed materials form the majority of the collection. Few personal items are included. U.S. Presidential Election and Inauguration Collection Abstract The collection contains primary resources and ephemera which document the historic 2008 United States Presidential Election and the Inauguration of Barack Obama on January 20, 2009 as the 44th President of the United States. Print materials include selective copies of campaign brochures, magazines, and full newspapers, articles and newsclippings. The contents of the collection include both local (Jacksonville, Florida) and national news items. Memorabila consists of local campaign posters and... Subject: Jacksonville (Fla.)--Politics and government X University of North Florida. 4 Florida Times-Union and Journal 2 Jacksonville (Fla.) City Council. 2 Bennett, Charles E., 1910-2003 1 Carlucci, Joe, 1929-1986 1 ∨ more Florida Times-Union. 1 Florida. Legislature. Senate.--Biography. 1 Glover, Nathaniel, Jr., 1943- 1 Humphries, Homer H., 1930- 1 Humphries, Homer H., Jr., 1930- 1 Jacksonville (Fla.) Office of the Sheriff. 1 Jacksonville Commitment (Project) 1 Jacksonville Journal (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1 Martin, Richard A., 1927-2003 1 McCain, John 1 Obama, Barack--Inauguration, 2009. 1 Obama, Barack. 1 ∧ less Staff Interface \| ArchivesSpace.org \| Hosted by LYRASIS	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2291
__label__cc	0.71594	0.28406	Home Arseblog, the arsenal blog Everton preview: Can Arsenal conquer away day issues at Goodison Park? Everton preview: Can Arsenal conquer away day issues at Goodison Park? April 7, 2019 - 655 arses We have seven games left in the Premier League this season, five of them are away from home, and today is the first of those when we travel to Goodison Park to face Everton. They’re a difficult side to get to grips with. They can lose to relatively smaller teams like Brighton, Leicester, Watford and Sp*rs, but just before the Interlull they beat Chelsea 2-0 so they have something about them that we need to pay attention to. In terms of our team news, I’m going on the assumption that both Granit Xhaka and Laurent Koscielny won’t make it due to their injuries so, at the back at least, I don’t see us lining up any differently than we did against Newcastle. I think we’ll stick with the back three, the midfield will be Ramsey and Guendouzi as it was on Monday night because Lucas Torreira is serving the last game of his suspension, and then Unai Emery has to decide if he’s going to make any changes further forward. Has the Mesut Ozil renaissance provided the manager with enough faith to pick him away from home in the Premier League? The last time he started a game that wasn’t at the Emirates was on December 26th, when he was hauled off at half-time of our 1-1 draw with Brighton. Emery said he had doubts about Ozil’s ability to cope with the physicality of Bournemouth, the least physical team in the league, so it’ll be very interesting to see if he still harbours those concerns about him. The German has been playing well recently, and contributing well to our performances and results, but today is the kind of game that he’d normally sit out, so it’ll be a show of faith from the manager if he picks him today. That said, I don’t think we should read too much into it if Ozil is on the bench. What we know of Emery is that his team selection is based around what he thinks is best for that particular game, and if he feels Henrikh Mkhitaryan can provide something more suited to today’s opposition, or if he wants to deploy both his strikers and someone else has to drop out, then it’s that which will drive his decision making. What I would say though is that Ozil is generally a more effective starter than he is a sub, so if we did need to change something that’s a consideration. As always it’s difficult to second guess Emery and predict what he’s going to do in terms of his team selection, but what we need to achieve this afternoon is clear. The boss says: “For us it’s a big challenge, away we want to achieve the same good performances as when we play at Emirates Stadium. Sunday is a very big challenge and a very big opportunity now. I think the players are very, very focused.” A win and three points puts us back up into third place, and as we don’t play again in the league until Monday week, it’s important that we keep the pressure on the teams around us in that chase for a top four spot. Our home form tells you that we have what it takes to beat Everton, and most teams for that matter, but this issue we have away is one we need to come to terms with. There’s no reason why we should be so inconsistent, but we are, and that’s another part of today’s challenge, and what lies ahead for the rest of the season. Let’s hope we can make that away record look a little better after today’s game, and before the next one. Just aside from today’s game, I did enjoy Emery’s comments about what we need to do to improve next season. He’s highlighted the desire to develop young players, and I think we can all get on board with that because there’s a really interesting generation of talent coming through our academy right now, but he pulled no punches about what the priority should be: the transfer market. Speaking ahead of what’s going to be a crucial summer for the club, he expressed his desire for the club to back him and bring in top quality players: I think we can improve first, by spending money to achieve players. I am here for titles. To be with the best teams in the world in the Champions League, have the best players in the world. I think we are in the right way with the club, with the owner, with Raul Sanllehi to find that. There’s no equivocation there. He just wants to win the best trophies by having some of the best players in the world in his squad, and now it’s over to you Stan Kroenke and you Raul Sanllehi to make it happen. It’s kind of refreshing to hear a manager talk like that. Arsene Wenger was always much more guarded when it came to our transfer business, we all know the stock phrases he used to keep expectations a bit low, but Emery’s not having that. Much like he did when he revealed back in January that we couldn’t buy anyone (for whatever reason), he’s made it clear who is ultimately responsible for our recruitment. He can have his input, of course, but it’s Sanllehi and Kroenke who will have to make things happen. It’s different, I like it, and I’m curious to see what – and who – this summer brings. I’ll leave it there for this morning, join us later for the live blog as we keep you up to date with the Everton game, and we’ll have all the post-match stuff over on Arseblog News afterwards. everton v arsenal premier league 2019 Previous articleEmery’s Ozil decision :: Football authorities still too weak with racists Next articleEverton v Arsenal – live blog Fan of Arsenal, Robert Pires and most everything to do with rum and whiskey. 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__label__cc	0.731558	0.268442	Ask Ars: Finally upgrading to Windows 7—should I go 32- or 64-bit? Finally getting around to upgrading to Windows 7 from XP or Vista and … Peter Bright - Apr 19, 2011 3:05 pm UTC with 114 posters participating Ask Ars was one of the first features of the newly born Ars Technica back in 1998. And now, as then, it's all about your questions and our community's answers. Each week, we'll dig into our bag of questions, answer a few based on our own know-how, and then we'll turn to the community for your take. To submit your own question, see our helpful tips page. Question: I'm finally ready to drop Windows XP and move to Windows 7. Should I go with the 32-bit or 64-bit version of the operating system? Short answer: 64-bit. Long answer: 64-bit, but you may not see much real difference. Before explaining why, there is an important contraindication to be aware of: if you use any 16-bit Windows applications or DOS applications, you'll have to either stick with 32-bit Windows, or run those applications in a virtual machine (or, for DOS programs, an environment such as DOSBox). 64-bit Windows supports 64-bit and 32-bit applications, but 16-bit ones are consigned to the trash can of history. In practice, the only advantage of using 64-bit Windows is that you can install more physical memory. 32-bit versions of desktop Windows are limited to 4GiB of physical memory, and thanks to dubious compatibility restrictions, they can't even offer that much. Every byte of memory in a system has a physical address, a number representing that byte of memory, and on 32-bit desktop Windows, those addresses are only 32 bits long (or rather, the addresses are between 36 and 64 bits long depending on which bit of software is manipulating them, but only 32 bits are actually used by Windows). This should allow 232 addresses, and hence 232 bytes—4GiB—of memory. But unfortunately, physical memory isn't the only thing using that address range. Peripherals such as video cards also carve out chunks of the address range, so that the CPU can communicate directly with them. Video cards in particular will often attempt to place all of their video memory—hundreds of megabytes, sometimes even gigabytes—within this range. When this happens, the physical memory loses out, and has to be relocated; it is given addresses that require the use of the full 64 bits. Since Windows only uses 32-bit physical addresses, that means that you lose access to some of your RAM. It wasn't always this way; Windows 2000 and the Windows XP with no service packs installed both set the limit simply to 4GiB total memory, and will use full 64-bit addresses if necessary. Unfortunately, some hardware vendors (notably NVIDIA, though others are also claimed to be responsible) had bugs in their drivers, such that they assumed physical addresses would never use more than 32 bits. When used in a system that required full 64-bit addressing, the drivers would end up corrupting memory and crashing. Rather than forcing hardware vendors to fix their broken software, Microsoft restricted 32-bit desktop Windows to 32-bit addressing (though server versions, with drivers that were in theory server-grade, were never subject to this restriction). The video card is making a whole gigabyte off-limits, restricting this 4GiB machine to just 3GiB The result is, if you take a look at the memory graph in Windows 7's Resource Monitor on a 32-bit machine, you'll see a big old chunk of grey, denoting "hardware reserved" memory. That represents physical addresses that have been given up to add-in cards, and hence "lost" physical memory. All the RAM is available in 64-bit Windows The 64-bit version has no such restriction. The ability to use memory up to 4GiB—and beyond—remains 64 bit Windows' most compelling feature; it's the one you're most likely to notice day-to-day. It's perhaps a little ironic that this advantage has nothing to do with being 64-bit as such—the 32-bit server versions of Windows can already access all this memory—it's just that 64-bit Windows forces developers to fix the bugs that plagued 32-bit Windows. 64-bit Home Basic raises the limit to 8GiB, Home Premium to 16GiB, and Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate all take it up to 192GiB. Your motherboard and wallet alike are unlikely to support so much memory. There are a few other benefits, however, that are genuinely a result of using 64-bit software. Unfortunately, they tend to be less noticeable. Because of architectural improvements made when x86 grew 32 to 64 bits, 64-bit software will typically run faster than 32-bit programs. This will make little difference to typical desktop applications, but for certain kinds of software, particularly number-crunching applications, the speed improvement can be valuable. Another potential benefit—critically important to few, but essentially irrelevant to most—is that each program gets a much larger address space. On 32-bit Windows, in normal configurations, each program only has a usable address space of about 2GiB, half of the total memory that can be addressed with 32-bit addresses. This means that the amount of RAM that the program can manipulate directly is limited to 2GiB. If the program needs to work on a larger chunk of data, it has to move that data in and out of RAM a piece at a time, usually storing it on disk when it's not in RAM. This 2GiB limit is regardless of the amount of physical memory installed; if you run multiple programs, they each get a 2GiB block of their own, so they can use many gigabytes in total, but any individual program can't readily break through this limit. Not so with 64-bit programs; 64-bit programs get 64-bit addresses, giving an address space of more than 18 billion gigabytes, of which they can theoretically use half. This limit is "theoretical" because neither current 64-bit x86 processors nor Windows support quite that much. The actual limit in theory is a mere 8TiB, but this is still 4096 times more than 32-bit programs can use. As with the performance issue, this is of limited importance. Some applications—image editing, databases, and even large spreadsheets—can yield considerable benefits from a 64-bit address space. Many others—e-mail, Web browsers, media players—gain little or nothing from the increase. In truth, if you're running the kind of program that benefits from 64-bit address spaces, you've probably already made the switch. The other benefit—and again, it's slim—is that 64-bit programs should be a little more secure. One of the security measures included in Windows Vista and Windows 7 is Address Space Layout Randomization, ASLR. ASLR puts system libraries and certain other information at random memory locations, which makes it harder to exploit certain kinds of security flaws. Malicious code can, however, use various techniques to try to work around ASLR. One of these involves filling up a process's address space with specially crafted data, such that if a memory address is chosen at random, it will most likely refer to the specially crafted data. This kind of attack relies, in part, on the fact that a 32-bit process has only a relatively small address space: filling almost all of it is feasible. No such luck in a 64-bit process—it's simply far too big to fill in this way. This advantage will be most significant on software that is subject to substantial attacks—Web browsers, e-mail clients, Office, Adobe Reader, and Flash being the obvious targets. Unfortunately, not all of these are available in 64-bit versions, limiting the efficacy of this protection. Office 2010 includes full 64-bit support, though using the 64-bit version means forfeiting compatibility with most add-ons and extensions. Internet Explorer has a 64-bit version available, but it's hobbled relative to its 32-bit counterpart; the high-performance JavaScript engine found in Internet Explorer 9 is only available for the 32-bit version. 64-bit versions of Chrome and Firefox are experimental and non-standard. Adobe currently has a beta version of 64-bit Flash, but is unlikely to have a stable version until Flash 11 ships. Adobe Reader is 32-bit. All in all, it's rather disappointing; although in the long run the situation is sure to improve, this (slight) security advantage is at the moment of limited utility. So all in all, the advantages of going for 64-bit aren't big, in general, but they're there. Most new systems will run up against the physical memory limits of 32-bit Windows, making the 64-bit version the natural choice. 32-bit software had a long reign at the top, but its time is past. Windows Server 2008 R2 is already 64-bit-only, and while Windows 8 will almost certainly be available in a 32-bit version, Windows 9 probably won't be. Might as well make the jump now.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2294
__label__wiki	0.729741	0.729741	America’s Ice Age super-predator dethroned By Hans-Dieter Sues When the first humans crossed the Bering Strait into North America they encountered a hunter’s paradise, with mammoths, mastodons, giant sloths, and a variety of large ungulates for the taking. However, they also came face-to-face with some of the most fearsome predators of all time. The dire wolf was larger and more heavily built than the present-day gray wolf. The large saber-toothed and scimitar cats had huge canines that could inflict horrendous wounds. The American “lion,” which was larger than today’s African lion, was related to the present-day puma. However, the most terrifying predator of them all was Arctodus simus, known as the short-faced bear, which, at an estimated weight of 700 to 800 kilograms (1,543 to 1,763 pounds), was the largest carnivorous mammal that ever lived in North America. Or was it? In the 1960s, the late Finnish paleontologist Björn (Swedish for “bear”) Kurtén, a leading expert on Ice Age mammals, especially bears, reconstructed Arctodus simus as an active predator. He emphasized the short, broad snout, powerful jaws, well-developed carnassials, and long limbs. A giant bear that could run down its prey would have been the ultimate nightmare for the first human settlers! Footprint of a modern black bear. The extinct Arctodus simus was two to three times heavier than today’s largest black bears. NGS stock photo by George F. Mobley Later, a number of paleontologists cast doubts on Kurtén’s interpretation. Some noted close similarities between Arctodus simus and its closest living relative, the primarily vegetarian South American spectacled bear, and argued that it also consumed a lot of plant matter. Others suggested that Arctodus simus was an omnivore that frequently scavenged animal carcasses. A new study by a team of researchers from the Universidad de Málaga in Spain has reassessed the rival claims concerning the way this extinct giant gots its dinner. The first step taken by the Spanish team was to determine the body mass of Arctodus simus. The weight of most mammals can be estimated from measurements of their limb bones. The researchers found a considerable range of weights, from about 300 kilograms (660 pounds) to almost one ton (2,200 pounds). They also noted geographic variation, with the largest individuals coming from more northern locations. This pattern is still seen in populations of present-day brown bear, with particularly large animals (especially males) occurring in Alaska. Second, the Spanish team looked at skull and limb proportions of Arctodus simus. The giant bear did not, in fact, have a particularly short snout and its skull proportions were appropriate for a bear of its size. The researchers also noted that the most carnivorous living bear, the polar bear, has a relatively long snout. The tooth evidence provided no clear indication for either meat-eating or omnivorous habits. Finally, while the forelegs may have been enlarged the hind legs in the extinct bear were not proportionately longer than in present-day bears. Arctodus simus was not a runner. No longer short of snout and long of limb, Arctodus simus has been dethroned as America’s Ice Age super-predator. However, studies of the carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of its bones, commonly used to determine the dietary preferences of animals, still indicate the bear consumed some meat. Presumably a one-ton bear could behave like the proverbial 800-pound gorilla–it could eat anything it wanted to! Grizzlies consume a lot of vegetable matter yet, from time to time, will augment this diet by taking down an elk or the odd tourist. They will also chase wolves off their kills. The much larger extinct bear could easily have engaged in similar behaviors. A mature adult Arctodus simus must have been a magnificent sight. Fortunately for Stephen Colbert and his fellow bear-haters, this giant vanished, along with the rest of America’s remarkable Ice Age megafauna, some 11,000 years ago. Hans-Dieter (Hans) Sues is a vertebrate paleontologist based at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is interested in the evolutionary history and paleobiology of vertebrates, especially dinosaurs and their relatives, and the history of ecosystems through time. A former member of the National Geographic Committee for Research and Exploration, Hans has traveled widely in his quest for fossils and loves to share his passion for ancient life through lectures, writings, and blogging. Blog entries by Hans-Dieter Sues >> Tags David Maxwell Braun, Hans-Dieter Sues This World Water Day, a Salute to the Unsung Heroes of Clean Water Sea lilies evolved escape strategy from predators over 200 million years	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2295
__label__cc	0.565918	0.434082	Home/News/How Computation is Changing Journalism/Full Text ACM News How Computation is Changing Journalism By Bennie Mols In his new book, Nicholas Diakopoulos explores the new field of computational journalism, which he has helped to establish. Credit: Buzzworthy Nicholas Diakopoulos grew up being exposed to journalism, as his father was a journalist. The younger Dikopoulos decided he wanted to study computer science, and completed a Ph.D. in the field at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Midway through his doctorate, he started to think about combining journalism and computation into a new field: computational journalism. Today, Diakopoulos is an assistant professor in communication studies and computer science at Northwestern University; he also serves as director of the university's Computational Journalism Lab. In his new book Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media, Diakopoulos explores the new field of computational journalism, which he has been helping to establish since 2007. The book makes clear how algorithms are changing the journalistic production pipeline from information gathering to sense-making, story-telling, and finally news distribution. Artificial intelligence (AI) already is used to personalize article recommendations, summarize articles, mine data in documents, transcribe recorded interviews, automate content production, moderate comments, and to eliminate (but unfortunately, also to produce) fake news. What should all journalists know about your book? A lot of journalists who don't understand how artificial intelligence works might feel threatened: 'oh, AI bots are going to write all our stories. We will be out of work'. In my book, I show over and over again that the cognitive labor of journalists is very difficult to completely automate. There are, of course, bits and pieces that can and will be automated, but more important will be the hybridization of AI with journalists. Jobs in journalism will not disappear, but instead will change. Can you give an example of what AI can do for journalism that would be impossible without it? One of the most compelling and important scenarios for AI in journalism is in using data mining to help discover new stories. I really like the example of how the Atlanta Journal Constitution discovered the misconduct of medical doctors by using machine learning to sift through 100,000 documents. In 2016, the newspaper published an investigative report uncovering more than 2,400 doctors across the U.S. who had been disciplined for sexual misconduct in their practice; about half of them still had licenses and were still seeing patients. It would have taken journalists thousands of hours to read all 100,000 documents. Machine learning selected only those documents with the highest chance of containing information about misconduct. Thanks to this, the job became doable for journalists. This is a great example of a story that journalists wouldn't find, at least not at that scale, if they didn't have computational techniques. You write in your book that classical news organizations need to be more like Google. Why is that? At their core, both computing and journalism share a focus on transforming and adding value to information; so, in a way, Google is in the same business as most news organizations. They organize information and knowledge. If news organizations want to compete as information and knowledge producers, they need to be a bit more like Google. We already see that big information companies like Thompson Reuters, Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and BBC get it; they are already deploying a fair bit of AI and automation. A big open question is what will happen to local news media; they are at a disadvantage in terms of resources and their ability to develop new AI tools. How do we find the right way to hybridize between journalists and AI tools? It's all about training and education. We need to engender computational thinking and data-thinking in journalists. Let's develop degrees in computational journalism. We also need to work on the transfer of domain expertise between journalists and computationalists. To achieve this, we could introduce computationalists in the newsroom and let them explore which tasks can be automated. Or the other way around, put journalists and editors in a computational environment, allowing them to interact and collaborate in computational work. What will the new kind of work for journalists look like? In the hybridization of workflows, more often than not AI technologies actually create new types of work related to things like configuring, updating, tweaking, validating, and generally maintaining and supervising systems. This might include tasks like making sure input data streams are updated, editing knowledge bases or metadata, or tweaking any of the rule-sets built into content templates. There will be more work created, but it will be different from traditional editorial work. In your book, you are optimistic about the hybridization of AI and journalism. Can you explain your optimism? Technology influences us, but we also shape technology. Journalism and technology will co-evolve. I reject the idea of technological determinism, the idea that technology has its own will and humans can only follow. Part of my goal with the book is to empower journalists to see themselves as designers of the future of algorithmic news media. AI is a new medium and journalists will need to learn to express and exercise their ethical and normative journalistic values through the AI systems that they implement. Bennie Mols is a science and technology writer based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Newport Class Makes Astronomy Accessible to Visually Impaired The New Censors Won't Delete Your Words; They'll Drown Them Out Will We All Be Wearing Wearables? Saurabh Bagchi Oracle Fundamentals (Second Edition)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2299
__label__wiki	0.838213	0.838213	Home Reviews Japanese Reviews Film Review: Five Million Dollar Life (2019) by Moon Sung-ho Marko Stojiljković Even though the most of commercial success of Japanese cinema is reserved for other kinds of stories that have a significant fan base in other types of media (best-selling literature, manga comics), there is a certain surge in socially aware original cinematic ones in the last years. Last year’s Palme d’Or winner Hirokazu Koreeda and the winning film “Shoplifters” could serve as an easy example, but it is not the only one. “Five Million Dollar Life”, directed by the Korean-Japanese first-timer Moon Sung-ho must also be taken into an account. The film premiered recently at Shanghai International Film Festival before departing on a festival tour and hitting the theatres nationally in July. We were lucky enough to catch it at its North American premiere at New York Asian Film Festival. The film starts with a bold, while not exactly confirmed, calculation that an average Japanese earns about the same amount of money that they will spend in their lifetime for covering the basic costs of life and the number is somewhere in the region of 200 million yen, or 2 million dollars. Let us say it is the figure how much someone’s life is worth. Of course, there are exceptions from that basic rule and one of them is Mirai (the young Ayumu Mochizuki who has a potential of making a brilliant acting career in near future) who was born with a congenial heart disease because of which he had to have a transplant surgery that costed 5 million dollars and that made him a minor TV star of sorts. He is sick and tired of his life like that, but on the other hand, he considers himself to be in debt to his mother who raised the funds and the society which provided them. So, naturally, he decides to enrol to a medical school and become a doctor in order to save lives, but he feels he is not actually cut out for that kind of mission. After a series of bullying text messages from a person signed as Kiyomaru, he decides to embark on a journey to earn enough money to repay his debt so he could kill himself in peace. Since the day labour odd jobs at the construction sites don’t pay well enough, he gets entangled in activities that are questionable or even downright illegal, while actually remaining naive and kind in the process. Mirai’s mellowness and good heart, complete with the lack of common stupidity, are crucial to the script penned by TV writer Naomi Hiruta. The firm vision of the character transfers into relatively believable mechanics of his survival, through exchanging kindness with strangers he encounters. It provides a perfect alibi for a string of pretty unorthodox events that are about to happen as soon as Mirai starts his self-searching journey. They are not necessarily pleasant, on the contrary, they might be very dark, but due to Mirai’s character, the tone remains bright and breezy for the most of the time. However, in the background, the topics of “human capital”, bullying, teenage suicides, broken families, class differences, underage prostitution, organized crime and even the echoes of Fukushima disaster are being touched and explored. However, there are other problems with the script mechanics itself, like the supporting characters being under-developed, the mystery of Kiyomaru’s identity being solved too abruptly and in too neat fashion and the ending that makes little sense, but they are actually minor issues that come with the territory. Nevertheless, “Five Million Dollar Life” is easy to follow, never boring and easy to relate to due to Moon’s sense of directing which is secure. Genre-mixing between coming to age and social issues drama, together with a pinch of mystery and a road movie (albeit not covering a great distance) is smooth and the realistic look due to Shigeru Tajima’s mostly hand-held camerawork and the choice of the natural palette of colours suits the film well, while the occasional jump cuts are saved for crucial scenes, doing wonders breaking rhythm and providing dynamic accents. Moon’s work with his principal actor Ayumu Mochizuki is also spot on and Mochizuki’s interpretation of Mirai feels both studied and natural. “Five Million Dollar Life” is a promising debut for its director, scriptwriter and main actor and it is more than a showcase of talent. It is simply a good, hearty and warm film that is well worth seeing. Ayumu Mochizuki Moon Sung-ho New York Asian Film Festival Interview with Director Kenneth Lim Dagatan: I make horror films for me, because it’s a love letter to my childhood stories.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2301
__label__wiki	0.96161	0.96161	Spartan Softball Ends Season with Sweep of Baldwin Wallace Baldwin Wallace (10-24) 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 3 9 0 Case Western Reserve (21-19) 0 1 0 0 0 3 X 4 10 2 2B: Alex Favazza HR: Annie Wennerberg 2B: Maren Waldner HR: Grace Tritchler The Case Western Reserve University softball team ended its season on a positive note on Monday afternoon, sweeping a doubleheader at Mather Park against Baldwin Wallace University with a 7-0 win in game one, followed by a 4-3 victory in game two. The two wins give the Spartans a four-game winning streak to end the season, as the team ended the year with an overall record of 21-19. Baldwin Wallace dropped to 10-24 with the pair of losses. Game 1: CWRU 7, Baldwin Wallace 0 Junior Annie Wennerberg recorded her second-complete game shutout of the season and sophomore first baseman Grace Tritchler hit her team-leading seventh home run of the season, leading the Spartans to a 7-0 victory in game one. The Spartans sent eight batters to the plate andput two on the board in the bottom of the first inning, loading the bases with one out before Wennerberg drew an RBI walk, and freshman designated player Alex Favazza followed with an RBI single to right center. The score remained 2-0 until the bottom of the fifth, when Tritchler hit a two-run home run, extending the lead to 4-0. A two-RBI single later in the inning from senior right fielder Kristen Klemmer gave the Spartans a 6-0 advantage, and Klemmer would score on a wild pitch three batters later to push the lead to 7-0 after five innings. Wennerberg retired the first six batters she faced in the game, faced the minimum through the first five innings, and did not allow a hit until the top of the sixth inning. She allowed just two hits and a walk in the game while striking out five batters, andimproved to 14-10 on the year with the win, her third victory in her last three starts. The shutout was her second in her last three outings. The Spartans collected 13 hits in the game including a three-for-four performance by Favazza to raise her season batting average to .336. Freshman shortstop Nicole Doyle, sophomore center fielder Katie Wede and Wennerberg each had two hits in the game as well. Mackenzie Nelson started and went the distance for Baldwin Wallace, taking the loss in the game to fall to 0-2 on the year. A two-out pinch hit single by senior Rebecca Molnar in the bottom of the sixth inning turned a one-run deficit into a lead for the Spartans, who completed the sweep of Baldwin Wallace with a 4-3 win in the second game of the day. Wennerberg would again get the Spartans on the board in the second game, hitting a solo home run to lead off the second inning, her sixth of the campaign. In the top of the third, Baldwin Wallace had a chance to tie the game after Abbie Thompson singled to left field with two outs and a runner on second, but left fielder Abbey Filliez threw out Tori Young trying to score on the play. Baldwin Wallace evened the score in the top of the fourth on an RBI single from DJ Rogers, ending Wennerberg's streak of 16.2 innings without an earned run allowed, and tying the game at 1-1. The score remained tied until the top of the sixth, when the Yellow Jackets took advantage of a pair of Spartan errors to score two unearned runs, and take a 3-1 lead. An RBI single by Klemmer with the bases loaded in the bottom of the sixth scored pinch runner Sharilyn Sakamoto and pulled the Spartans back within a run. Then, playing in the final game of her career and in her first at bat of the season, senior Rebecca Molnar worked a 3-2 count with runners at second and third and two outs, before singling into right center field, scoring two runs and giving the Spartans a 4-3 advantage heading into the seventh. The hit and the RBIs were each the first of her career. Molnar would stay in the game to pitch the top of the seventh, getting the first out on a fly ball to right field, and then after allowing a walk, would catch a line drive and throw to first for an inning-ending double play. Sophomore Katie Dzierwa pitched two innings of relief and allowed just a pair of unearned runs, picking up the win in the game to end her season with a 4-6 record. Molnar earned the save in the game, her first of the year. Wede finished the game one-for-three with a stolen base, tying former Spartan player and current assistant coach Molly O'Brien's program single-season record of 22 stolen bases, set during the 2013 campaign. Wennerberg and Favazza each had a pair of his in the game. With the two wins on Monday, the Spartans completed a strong finish to the 2016 campaign. Case Western Reserve won its last four games of the campaign and 11 of its last 14 contests, to finish above .500 for the sixth-consecutive season.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2303
__label__wiki	0.54238	0.54238	Tag Archives: Chris Jacobs Picking One’s Battles: Part 2 – the Jacobs Plan The following is a guest post from Stephanie Perry, a fellow BU alumna, a former writer for the Daily Free Press, seen on Twitter at @stephperry. Last week, She began Tweeting about this topic and I asked if she would write something up for Artvoice. Stormy over Buffalo Central Terminal by Daniel Novak at Flickr Six months ago, a curious manifesto appeared on Buffalo Rising. This “concept proposal” was sweeping and ambitious, but hardly in the right ways. The writer proposed the mass relocation of Buffalo’s police and fire departments’ headquarters and of the region’s blue chip nonprofit service organizations to the worn but charming public market in the East Side’s Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood. Into the desirable mansions and buildings vacated by these public and charitable entities would go loft apartments and boutique hotels. Rich people would live in these nice properties while organizations that help disadvantaged people, many of whom are minorities, such as the International Institute, Child and Family Services and the United Way, would be sequestered in a distressed and racially segregated neighborhood that’s not easily accessible to the citywide population. Private developers would make a killing on these new apartments and condos and return a bit under $800,000 annually to the city and county tax bases so that the city and county might provide services to the public, such as centrally located and publicly accessible police and fire departments, except not that anymore. Never mind that the city budget alone totals $1.4 billion. This is a plan to help the community help rich people help the community. It would be nearly impossible to propose a more transparently self-serving plan to redistribute real property wealth to developers while simultaneously displacing organizations that have tirelessly served the community and maintained the architectural heritage of the Delaware District for decades. Plus, the short-sighted proposal is stock full of faulty assumptions about urban planning, crime and private property rights. Furthermore, the author’s inappropriate use of first-person perspective, sentence fragments and the conspicuous absence of facts together evoked the tone of a hastily composed high school civics project. I wondered who produced such an implausible, socially irresponsible and poorly written report. Was this the homework of some Rich Kid of Instagram? The article’s byline was simply “Chris Jacobs,” the author bio at the bottom of the webpage blank. Chris Jacobs the county clerk? Chris Jacobs, whose erratic political resume suggests his most cherished platform is Keeping Chris Jacobs In Office? Chris Jacobs, nephew of the 185th richest person in America? The odd placement of this brazen but amateur civic proposal on a website mostly dedicated to critiquing storefront aesthetics and hip restaurants suddenly made sense. A very wealthy man of great self-appointed importance had an idea, and this narrative was almost inevitable. It is an election year for the county clerk. The idea was out there and it was only a matter of time before everyone was forced to respond to it. I set a Google news alert for key terms from the proposal and went about my life for half a year. Finally, last Friday, it happened. Chris Jacobs’s poorly considered vanity proposal complete with professionally commissioned architectural renderings, landed on Page One of The Buffalo News. The only appropriate answer to the plan that imperils the stability of Delaware Avenue and downtown while disrespecting the work and property rights of nonprofit service organizations is “Thanks but no thanks,” and I find myself empathically supportive of the city’s reaction, as reported by the News, that “at this time the city has no plans” to act. The article hints at the implausibility of the proposal — Convince the city to move Police Headquarters to the East Side. Then do the same with the Fire Department. Next, persuade the many nonprofits that occupy Buffalo’s grandest mansions along Delaware Avenue to pick up and move east, too. Then sell the old headquarters and the mansions. — but ultimately validates it more than any amount of billionaire blustering could. The article is predicated on the notion that the Jacobs proposal is worthy of consideration, which it is not, and that City Hall has an obligation to respond to and engage with him on the matter, which it also does not. As originally posted, the article lacked a link to the sloppy proposal Jacobs has been promoting and provided no assessment of its production quality. The News failed to ask Jacobs why he omitted from his list of nonprofit buildings best converted to private residences the UB Foundation-owned mansion that bears his family’s name. The result is that Jacobs, who is peddling a steaming pile of bullshit, positions himself as a bipartisan populist concerned about the economic recovery of the East Side, while the mayor is an obstructionist, do-nothing fool. Few better narratives exist for campaign literature. (Imagine the flyer reading “Jacobs: Bold plan to boost East Side; City: ‘No plans to do that.’”) The Democratic challenger for county clerk has made an appropriate statement categorically rejecting Jacobs’s proposal. That anyone even needs to engage with this proposal is a travesty. What makes it difficult to refuse to engage with Jacobs’s plan is that it presents explicit goals that are worthwhile to pursue: Yes, revitalizing distressed neighborhoods should be a civic goal. Yes, the East Side’s many neighborhoods deserve more attention from the county and city. Yes, grappling with the fact that an enormous portion of the property in Buffalo — particularly hospitals, churches, colleges, museums, schools, nonprofit foundations, even Buffalo Urban Renewal Agency-owned First Niagara Arena — is not taxable is a worthwhile endeavor. However, Jacobs’s plan is a poor one to achieve these worthy goals. First, Jacobs claims that the strength of the downtown, Elmwood Village and Medical Campus Corridor real estate markets requires mansions and prime-location properties to be put “back in private hands and back on the tax rolls.” Aside from the fact that the claim that valuable real estate must belong to private investors is patently false, (how would any public agency exist in Manhattan were this the case?) the stability of downtown is hardly a foregone conclusion. One Seneca Tower competes with ubiquitous downtown parking lots for the title of most conspicuous under-utilized space in Buffalo. As many people have pointed out, nothing currently prevents private developers from making offers to nonprofits owning buildings they desire. For the right price, a move might be negotiated. Jacobs’s list of nonprofits ripe for relocation is glaringly classist in its aims. The Red Cross, United Way, International Institute, Child and Family Services, Salvation Army, EPIC and the Catholic Center have strong commitments to aiding poor people. The real estate assets of at least some of these groups bolster their outreach and fundraising capabilities. The strongest example of this may the Buffalo branch of the American Red Cross, an organization that received its mansion at Delaware Avenue and Summer Street specifically as a philanthropic bequest from Carolyn Tripp Clement. Tours of the home not only raise money for the Red Cross but also make the beautiful structure publicly accessible. The Red Cross’s most significant fundraiser, the Mash Bash, takes place on the grounds of the mansion, without which the Red Cross would be unable to raise more than $352,000 in a single night. The implicit goal of Jacobs’s proposal becomes clear when one considers what non-taxed entities with very fine real estate are omitted from his plan: Nardin Academy, Canisius High School, the Ronald McDonald House, the Jacobs Executive Development Center, Gilda’s Club, the County Clerk’s Office itself. Downtown, Elmwood and the Medical Corridor are too nice for poor people, according to Jacobs’s vision. Jacobs euphemistically says relocating service organizations to the Broadway Market would put those groups helping poor people “in closer proximity to those they serve.” In reality, the Broadway Market is less accessible than Delaware Avenue via public transportation for all but those in its immediate neighborhood. Jacobs’s understanding of crime is fundamentally flawed but central to his proposal. While more densely populated urban neighborhoods generally are safer than those blighted with vacant properties and fewer residents, that busy areas guarantee public safety is oversimplified and confuses cause and effect. “More activity, more people, and more police would make this area begin to feel and to become safer. If people feel safe, many great things begin to happen, such as more people wanting to live in that community,” he claims. Public safety is a necessary condition for growth but no promise of it. And increased public safety itself is by no means a guaranteed outcome of having a police administration building in a neighborhood. Surveillance and safety are hardly synonymous despite the faulty claim that “not just the perception of more eyes on the neighborhood but the reality of more eyes on the neighborhood” will lead to increased safety. The origins of concentrated violence and crime in poor urban neighborhoods are far too complex to be solved by an eight-page development proposal. The problems of Buffalo’s neighborhoods east of Main Street likewise are too complicated to be summed up by a poorly deployed Yogi Berra quote: “No one goes their anymore. It’s too crowded.” [There/their usage error from original document.] Jacobs refers to the East Side again and again as a monolith even though his proposal affects only one neighborhood, Broadway-Fillmore. His rhetorical questions, “How can we jump start a significant amount of activity? How can we infuse hundreds of people into the East Side in short order?” arrogantly imply hundreds of people do not already live on the East Side. In fact, tens of thousands do. Jacobs wraps up his barely coherent proposal by admitting that maybe it’s not very good and, well, do you have a better one, Mr. Mayor? After a more detailed analysis, some of these suggested moves may not be feasible, but then many other non-profit/governmental entities exist that were not mentioned here that likely could move. Additionally, locations other than the Broadway Market may be suggested and they absolutely should be considered. The public and non-profit sector should convene to discuss this proposal, perhaps convened by the Mayor of Buffalo. If it seems like Jacobs does not care to express a coherent plan aware of the city’s long history of poverty and segregation and sensitive to the needs of organizations that benefit the community while simultaneously benefiting private investors, it’s because he really does not care. If Jacobs’s never-going-to-happen proposal has the effect of making Buffalo developers a little wealthier, that would be incidental to what may be the true aim of his plan. The plan’s main purpose is to give Chris Jacobs a talking point and to put the city, the county and his political opponents in the difficult position of saying they reject his plan that has such apparently worthy goals. It is certainly newsworthy that the holder of a countywide elected office is talking up a ridiculous, low-quality, ill-considered plan to anyone who will listen. The newsworthiness is not in the ideas of the plan itself, burnished by the competent writing skills of a professional reporter. What should be news is the amateurism of plan, which is readily pointed out by the UB School of Architecture and Planning dean interviewed by the News. Unfortunately, too much of the News article is dedicated to drumming up support, creating an impression of false balance, where in fact there is a rather clear judgment to be made on the quality and thoughtfulness of the proposal. We can and should stop the spread of Chris Jacobs’s terrible proposal for upending public and charitable organizations in the service of making developers wealthier right now. The plan is not worthy of critical analysis, serious consideration or any more printer’s ink. To not offer an immediate counterproposal with fancy renderings does not invalidate the rejection of the plan. I don’t want anymore Google news alerts about “Chris+Jacobs Broadway+Market,” and the people and organizations affected by that monstrosity of a plan deserve more than to be afterthoughts in a mad grab for land and political power by a very wealthy white man. Tags: Buffalo, Chris Jacobs, East Side, non-profits Categories City Hall	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2306
__label__wiki	0.582766	0.582766	Launch Pad: November 14, 2018 Hosts Karl Ulrich and Rob Coneybeer are joined by Aman Advani (CEO & Co-Founder, Ministry of Supply), Greg Lambrecht (Founder, Coravin), Matt Stephenson (Executive Director & Co-Founder, Code2College), and Rel Lavizzo-Mourey (Founder & Designer, Silver Lining Bespoke) on the Wednesday, November 14, 2018 edition of Launch Pad. Karl Ulrich Rob Coneybeer Matthew Stephenson Featuring: Matt Stephenson Greg Lambrecht Featuring: Greg Lambrecht Aman Advani Featuring: Aman Advani Rel Lavizzo-Mourey Featuring: Rel Lavizzo-Mourey CEO & Co-Founder, Ministry of Supply Aman Advani is cofounder and CEO of Ministry of Supply, a clothing company born out of MIT that is creating a new category of apparel: Performance Professional. Early in his career, Aman experienced firsthand the limitations and discomfort of business apparel when traveling as a consultant, and it sparked the idea to merge the performance and comfort of athletic gear with the look and aesthetic of business wear. As CEO, Aman is responsible for the strategic growth of the company and has expanded Ministry of Supply’s online presence to multiple brick-and-mortar locations across the United States. Aman is frequently recognized for his accomplishments and asked to speak at leadership and retail events, including keynotes and panels at industry conferences nationwide. In addition to his work with Ministry of Supply, Aman is an active member of the Boston community, committed to giving back to the city where the Ministry of Supply brand was born. Twitter – @amanadvani \| @MinistrySupply Founder, Coravin Greg Lambrecht is the inventor, founder and board member of Coravin™. Mr. Lambrecht is also Founder and Executive Director of Intrinsic Therapeutics, Inc, a venture-backed medical device company focused on addressing the needs of patients with spinal disorders. In addition, Mr. Lambrecht is the founder and board member of Viacor, Inc., a start-up medical device company in the Boston area. Previously, Greg was Vice President of Product Development & Marketing at Stryker, a global orthopedic implant company where he directed the development and launch of numerous successful orthopedic implants. Mr. Lambrecht also held various management positions within Pfizer’s Medical Technology Group, where he directed and implemented a breakthrough process for inventing and developing new technologies. Mr. Lambrecht holds a Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds numerous patents in the fields of gynecology, general surgery, cardiology, and orthopedics. Matt Stephenson Executive Director & Co-Founder, Code2College Matt Stephenson started his career in K-12 education as a high school math teacher, and later a Leadership Fellow, at Achievement First Amistad High School in New Haven, CT. Next, he joined NewSchools Venture Fund as an Associate Partner and venture investor in high-performing education organizations. He later joined KIPP Austin Public Schools, a public school district serving nearly 5,000 students across ten schools and three campuses, to manage a district budget of over $50mm serving as Director of Finance. Prior to his career in K-12 education, Matt was a Financial Analyst at Goldman Sachs covering the Credit Derivative and Mortgage-Backed Securities product lines. He also managed the Sales & Trading internship program for the education nonprofit Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), where he was able to support 93% of his cohort in receiving full-time job offers from their host firms. Matt holds a M.B.A. in Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School and a BS in Finance and Information Systems from the Stern School of Business at New York University. He currently resides in the Austin, TX area with his wife and two children. Twitter – @Code2college \| @MC_Stephenson Recent feature – http://whartonmagazine.com/issues/fall-winter-2017/equity-investment-improving-opportunities-for-women-and-minorities-in-business/ Founder & Designer, Silver Lining Bespoke – Princeton Undergrad Major Education Policy and Visual Art Minor – Wharton SF Executive Program Past Experience: – Urban Media Digital Startup – Biz Dev & Brand Collaborations strategist for Beauty Fashion startups Launch Pad: July 17, 2019 Hosts Karl Ulrich and Rob Coneybeer are featured on the Wednesday, July 17, 2019 edition of Launch Pad.Read More Host Rob Coneybeer is joined by Chia Chin Lee (CEO and Co-Founder, BigBox VR) on the Wednesday, July 10, 2019 edition of Launch Pad.Read More Launch Pad: June 26, 2019 Host Rob Coneybeer is joined by Eric Shuey (Managing Director, Revelstoke Capital Partners) and Robert Meyerson (Former President of Blue Origin; Founder, Delalune Space) on the Wednesday, June 26, 2019 edition of Launch Pad.Read More Host Rob Coneybeer is joined by Jeff Glueck (Chief Executive Officer, Foursquare), Stefan Seltz-Axmacher (Co-Founder, CEO, Starsky Robotics), Dan Widmaier (Co-Founder, CEO, Bolt Threads), and Carl Showalter (COO, Fetch Robotics, Inc.) on the Wednesday, June 19, 2019 edition of Launch Pad.Read More Host Karl Ulrich is joined by Jordan DeCicco (Founder, Super Coffee), Luke Saunders (CEO & Founder, Farmer’s Fridge), Seth Berger (Managing Director; Founder and Former CEO of AND1, Sixers Innovation Lab Crafted by Kimball), and Dilip Goswami (Co-Founder and CEO, Molekule) on the Wednesday, June 12, 2019 edition of Launch Pad.Read More	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2307
__label__wiki	0.76935	0.76935	Your position: Home > Styles by Artists > Romanticism-(1790-1880) > Eugène Delacroix The Women of Algiers, 1834 Please select the size from OPTIONS menu to pay. 16x20 inches=$ 189.99 , 20x24 inches=$ 229.99 , 24x36 inches=$ 319.99 , 30x40 inches=$ 359.99 , 36x48 inches=$ 429.99 , 48x72 inches=$ 699.99 , Note: 1 inches=2.54 cm Item Code: TOPFerdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix-38 16x20 inches 20x24 inches 24x36 inches 30x40 inches 36x48 inches 48x72 inches Units 8388607 in Stock Artist Introduce. Eugène Delacroix was born on 26 April 1798 at Charenton-Saint-Maurice in Île-de-France, near Paris. His mother was named Victoire, daughter of the cabinet-maker Jean-François Oeben. He had three much older siblings. Charles-Henri Delacroix (1779–1845) rose to the rank of General in the Napoleonic army. Henriette (1780–1827) married the diplomat Raymond de Verninac Saint-Maur (1762–1822). Henri was born six years later. He was killed at the Battle of Friedland on 14 June 1807. There is reason to believe that Eugène's father, Charles-François Delacroix, was infertile at the time of Eugène's conception and that his real father was Talleyrand, who was a friend of the family and successor of Charles Delacroix as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and whom the adult Eugène resembled in appearance and character. Throughout his career as a painter, he was protected by Talleyrand, who served successively the Restoration and king Louis-Philippe, and ultimately as ambassador ofFranceinGreat Britain, and later by Talleyrand's grandson, Charles Auguste Louis Art, duc de Morny, half-brother of Napoleon III and speaker of the French House of Commons. His presumed father, Charles Delacroix, died in 1805, and his mother in 1814, leaving 16-year-old Eugène an orphan. His early education was at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen where he steeped himself in the classics and won awards for drawing. In 1815 he began his training with Pierre-Narcisse Guérin in the neoclassical style of Jacques-Louis David. An early church commission, The Virgin of the Harvest (1819), displays a Raphael-esque influence, but another such commission, The Virgin of the Sacred Heart (1821), evidences a freer interpretation.[8] It precedes the influence of the more colourful and rich style of the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), and fellow French artist Théodore Géricault (1791–1824), whose works marked an introduction to Romanticism in art. The impact of Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa was profound, and stimulated Delacroix to produce his first major painting, The Barque of Dante, which was accepted by the Paris Salon in 1822. The work caused a sensation, and was largely derided by the public and officialdom, yet was purchased by the State for the Luxembourg Galleries; the pattern of widespread opposition to his work, countered by a vigorous, enlightened support, would continue throughout his life.Two years later he again achieved popular success for his The Massacre at Chios. Chios and Missolonghi Massacre at Chios (1824), Louvre Delacroix's painting of the massacre at Chios shows sick, dying Greek civilians about to be slaughtered by the Turks. One of several paintings he made of this contemporary event, it expresses sympathy for the Greek cause in their war of independence against the Turks, a popular sentiment at the time for the French people. Delacroix was quickly recognized as a leading painter in the new Romantic style, and the picture was bought by the state. His depiction of suffering was controversial however, as there was no glorious event taking place, no likes raising their swords in valour as in David's Oath of the Horatii, only a disaster. Many critics deplored the painting's despairing tone; the artist Antoine-Jean Gros called it "a massacre of art". The pathos in the depiction of an infant clutching its dead mother's breast had an especially powerful effect, although this detail was condemned as unfit for art by Delacroix's critics. A viewing of the paintings of John Constable and the watercolour sketches and art of Richard Parkes Bonnington prompted Delacroix to make extensive, freely painted changes to the sky and distant landscape. Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi (1826), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux Delacroix produced a second painting in support of the Greeks in their war for independence, this time referring to the capture of Missolonghi by Turkish forces in 1825. With a restraint of palette appropriate to the allegory, Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi displays a woman in Greek costume with her breast bared, arms half-raised in an imploring gesture before the horrible scene: the suicide of the Greeks, who chose to kill themselves and destroy their city rather than surrender to the Turks. A hand is seen at the bottom, the body having been crushed by rubble. The whole picture serves as a monument to the people of Missolonghi and to the idea of freedom against tyrannical rule. This event interested Delacroix not only for his sympathies with the Greeks, but also because the poet Byron, whom Delacroix greatly admired, had died there. Death of Sardanapalus (1827), Musée national Eugène Delacroix Horse Frightened by a Storm, 1824 A trip toEnglandin 1825 included visits to Thomas Lawrence and Richard Parkes Bonington, and the colour and handling of English painting provided impetus for his only full-length portrait, the elegant Portrait of Louis-Auguste Schwiter (1826–30). At roughly the same time, Delacroix was creating romantic works of numerous themes, many of which would continue to interest him for over thirty years. By 1825, he was producing lithographs illustrating Shakespeare, and soon thereafter lithographs and paintings from Goethe's Faust. Paintings such as The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan (1826), and Woman with Parrot (1827), introduced subjects of violence and sensuality which would prove to be recurrent. These various romantic strands came together in the Death of Sardanapalus (1827-8). Delacroix's painting of the death of the Assyrian king Sardanapalus shows an emotionally stirring scene alive with beautiful colours, exotic costumes and tragic events. The Death of Sardanapalus depicts the besieged king watching impassively as guards carry out his orders to kill his servants, concubines and animals. The literary source is a play by Byron, although the play does not specifically mention any massacre of concubines. Sardanapalus' attitude of calm detachment is a familiar pose in Romantic imagery in this period in Europe. The painting, which was not exhibited again for many years afterward, has been regarded by some critics as a gruesome fantasy involving death and lust. Especially shocking is the struggle of a nude woman whose throat is about to be cut, a scene placed prominently in the foreground for maximum impact. However, the sensuous beauty and exotic colours of the composition make the picture appear pleasing and shocking at the same time. A variety of Romantic interests were again synthesized in The Murder of the Bishop of Liège (1829). It also borrowed from a literary source, this time Scott, and depicts a scene from the Middle Ages, that of the murder of Louis de Bourbon, Bishop of Liège amidst an orgy sponsored by his captor, William de la Marck. Set in an immense vaulted interior which Delacroix based on sketches of the Palais de Justice in Rouen and Westminster Hall, the drama plays out in chiaroscuro, organized around a brilliantly lit stretch of tablecloth. In 1855, a critic described the painting's vibrant handling as "Less finished than a painting, more finished than a sketch, The Murder of the Bishop of Liège was left by the painter at that highest moment when one more stroke of the brush would have ruined everything". Liberty Leading the People Main article: Liberty Leading the People Liberty Leading the People (1830), Louvre-Lens, Paris Delacroix's most influential work came in 1830 with the painting Liberty Leading the People, which for choice of subject and technique highlights the differences between the romantic approach and the neoclassical style. Less obviously, it also differs from the Romanticism of Géricault, as exemplified by The Raft of the Medusa. "Delacroix felt his composition more vividly as a whole, thought of his figures and crowds as types, and dominated them by the symbolic figure of Republican Liberty which is one of his finest plastic inventions..." Probably Delacroix's best-known painting, Liberty Leading the People is an unforgettable image of Parisians, having taken up arms, marching forward under the banner of the tricolour representing liberty, equality, and fraternity. Although Delacroix was inspired by contemporary events to invoke this romantic image of the spirit of liberty, he seems to be trying to convey the will and character of the people, rather than glorifying the actual event, the 1830 revolution against Charles X, which did little other than bring a different king, Louis-Philippe, to power. The warriors lying dead in the foreground offer poignant counterpoint to the symbolic female figure, who is illuminated winantly, as if in a spotlight. Christ on the Sea of Galilee, 1854 Although the French government bought the painting, officials deemed its glorification of liberty too inflammatory and removed it from public view. Nonetheless, Delacroix still received many government commissions for murals and ceiling paintings. Following the Revolution of 1848 that saw the end of the reign of King Louis Philippe, Delacroix' painting, Liberty Leading the People, was finally put on display by the newly elected President, Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III). Traditionally, it has been visible in the Louvre museum in Paris; beginning December, 2012, it has been on exhibit at Louvre-Lens in Lens, Pas-de-Calais. The boy holding a gun up on the right is sometimes thought to be an inspiration of the Gavroche character in Victor Hugo's 1862 novel, Les Misérables. Theseus Taming the Bull of Marathon.. The Virgin, 1738.. The Victory of Alexander over Porus.. The Three Graces, 1763.. The Adoration of the Magi.. Saint Andrew.. Portrait of William 1st Viscount Bateman.. Portrait of Innocente Guillemette de Rosnyvin.. Perseus and Andromeda..	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2308
__label__wiki	0.971047	0.971047	Icelandair, Iberia, Qatar, Wizz, AirAsia’s Fernandes, London City, Vancouver, ABB win CAPA awards Icelandair, Qatar Airways and Wizz Air received the top airline awards at the 2016 CAPA Aviation Awards for Excellence, held on 27-Oct-2016 in Amsterdam as part of the ACTE-CAPA 2016 Global Summit. London City and Vancouver were winners in the airport categories, picking up awards at a gala dinner hosted by Travelport. AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes scooped the executive award and Air Black Box won the innovation category. Now in its fourteenth year, CAPA’s Aviation Awards for Excellence are intended to reward airlines and airports that are not only successful but have also provided industry leadership in an always changing environment. At a time of industry upheaval, our winners are adopting strategies that offer new directions for others to take. Award candidates were independently researched and short-listed by a team analysts at CAPA - Centre for Aviation and partners at Heidrick & Struggles. Winners were then selected by an independent global panel of eight judges. The judges for the 2016 global awards included: Ben Baldanza, Jon Boyle, Giorgio De Roni, Rigas Doganis, Peter Harbison, Andrew Herdman, Barry Humphreys, and Professor Nawal Taneja. Brendan Sobie from CAPA and Con Korfiatis from Heidrick & Struggles were the co-moderators. Qatar Airways was named the CAPA Airline of the Year. This award is given to the airline that has been the biggest standout strategically during the year, has had the greatest impact on the development of the airline industry, established itself as a leader, and provided a benchmark for others to follow. Qatar Airways Group CEO Akbar Al Baker accepted the award from CAPA Executive Chairman Peter Harbison. Qatar was selected for its innovative strategy in a dynamic region, becoming the first major Gulf carrier to join a global alliance. Over the last year Qatar has continued to make bold moves, acquiring an equity stake in LATAM and following up its earlier equity stake in IAG by pursuing a joint venture with British Airways. “Qatar Airways has been a standout with its ambitious growth and bold partnership strategy,” Mr Harbison said. “Qatar’s equity stake and tie up with IAG is a major strategic development, shaking up the industry and prompting others to relook at partnership options.” CAPA noted that Qatar also has continued to rapidly expand its network and fleet. It was the launch customer for the A350 and one of the first operators of the 787. Qatar’s expansion in the Asia Pacific region was recognised last year by CAPA with the 2015 Asia Pacific Airline of the Year award. Qatar has quadrupled in size over the last decade and is now profitable. Qatar has a fleet of almost 200 aircraft with nearly another 300 aircraft on order. It is also now among the world’s largest cargo airlines. Wizz Air was named the CAPA Low Cost Airline of the Year. This award is given to the low cost airline that has been the biggest standout strategically, established itself as a leader, been most innovative, and provided a benchmark for others to follow. Wizz Air CEO Jozsef Varadi accepted the award from Mr Harbison. Wizz Air was selected by the judging panel for its consistent strong performance and rapid growth in a challenging region. Capacity was up 20% in the last fiscal year. Wizz Air is now the market leader in Hungary, Romania and Macedonia and has a strong presence throughout Central/Eastern Europe including in Poland, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Latvia. “Wizz Air has been a standout in Europe for several years and particularly since its 2015 IPO,” Mr Harbison said. “Wizz Air has been profitable for seven consecutive years, has the highest ancillary revenues per passengers in Europe and has among the lowest unit costs in Europe.” CAPA noted that Wizz Air’s market share in Central/Eastern Europe is now approaching 45%, an impressive achievement given the competitive landscape and large number of countries in the region. Wizz has doubled its passenger traffic over the last five years and now serves more than 100 destinations with a fleet of over 70 aircraft. Icelandair was named the CAPA Regional Airline of the Year. This award is given to the regional airline that has been the biggest standout strategically, has established itself as a leader and demonstrated innovation in the regional aviation sector. This award is intended to recognize smaller airlines or airline groups with annual passenger traffic of less than 10 million. Icelandair CEO Birkir Holm Gudnason accepted the award from Travelport Senior VP & MD Air Commerce Group Derek Sharp. Icelandair was selected by the judging panel for its strong performance in a small market that has experienced intensifying LCC competition. Icelandair has grown rapidly and has one of the highest operating margins among legacy airline groups. “Icelandair has achieved remarkable results and growth in the face of strong and growing LCC competition,” Mr Harbison said. “Its innovative connecting traffic strategy, which focuses on sixth freedom traffic between Europe and North America, has driven growth along with its promotion of Iceland as a tourist destination.” CAPA noted that Icelandair Group’s passenger traffic was up 16% in 2015 while its net profit improved by over 60%. Such growth and profitability levels are unusual for a small European full service airline. The group, which includes domestic turboprop operator Air Iceland and charter/wet lease operator Loftleidir, has annual passenger traffic of nearly 4 million. The parent airline has a fleet of 30 aircraft consisting almost entirely of single aisle aircraft. Iberia was named the CAPA Airline Turnaround of the Year. This award is given to the airline that has had the most impressive turnaround while establishing an innovative strategic direction for their business and the industry. Iberia CEO Luis Gallego received the award from Mr Harbison. Iberia recorded its first positive operating result in 2014 since the global financial crisis and in 2015 confirmed its turnaround with its operating profit increasing almost fivefold. Iberia’s operating margin was up 4ppts in 2015 to 5.2%, its best showing since 2005. “Iberia’s turnaround in the challenging Spanish market has been remarkable,” Mr Harbison said. “Iberia has achieved major labour productivity improvements, quite an accomplishment in Europe, and unit cost reductions. Strategically the establishment and expansion of Iberia Express has demonstrated that it is possible for legacy European airlines to combine an LCC cost base with a full service brand.” CAPA noted that the significant improvement in profitability has come while Iberia has resumed expansion, with double digit capacity growth in 2015. Iberia was the biggest contributor to ASK growth at parent IAG in 2015. AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes was named the CAPA Airline Chief Executive of the Year. This award is given to the executive who has had the greatest individual influence on the aviation industry, demonstrating outstanding strategic thinking and innovative direction for the growth of their business and the industry. Mr Fernandes accepted the Airline Chief Executive of the Year award from Mr Harbison. The judging panel selected Mr Fernandes for his decision to re-engage and adopt a more hands-on management style after a few years of focusing more on interests outside the AirAsia Group. Financial results have improved significantly in 2016 following an extremely challenging 2015. “AirAsia is back at the front of the pack in the challenging Asian market and Tony has once again shown why he is one of the industry’s leading executives,” Mr Harbison said. “After formulating and implementing the now-widespread cross-border joint venture concept, the AirAsia group led the way in expanding its network through connectivity between its AirAsia (short haul) and (long haul) AirAsia X brands. The original short haul operations in Malaysia and Thailand are again among the most profitable airlines in Asia while losses in Indonesia and Philippines have been reduced following restructurings and are expected to be profitable again in 2H2016. Long haul LCC AirAsia X is also back in the black following a restructuring.” CAPA noted the AirAsia Group’s outlook also has been boosted with new capital raised from the issuance of new shares to Tony. With Tony back in the driver seat, new opportunities are now being pursued in North Asia including expansion in China and the upcoming relaunch of an affiliate in Japan. AirAsia also has launched a new aircraft leasing business which is expected to be spun off, raising more capital and reducing group leverage. Vancouver International Airport was named CAPA Airport of the Year. This award is given to the airport that has been the biggest standout strategically, established itself as a leader and done the most to advance the progress of the aviation industry. Vancouver International Airport VP Operations and Maintenance Steve Hankinson accepted the award from Mr Harbison on behalf of CEO Craig Richmond. Vancouver was selected by the judging panel for its innovative marketing strategy and approach for incentivising growth. Since the beginning of 2015 four new international airlines have launched services to Vancouver and 16 new routes (including 12 international) have been added by existing airlines. The growth was partially driven by a new integrated marketing strategy and a new five year rate programme offering 15% savings, giving Vancouver the lowest rates among major airport in North America. Vancouver also has been a leader on the technology and environmental fronts. Last year the airport received an innovation award from CAPA for its BORDERXPRESS Automated Control Kiosks, which has reduced waiting times by more than 50% and is now in use at 32 airports across North America and the Caribbean. Vancouver Airport has achieved a 32% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions per passenger over the last decade and is the first airport to secure a salmon safe certification, highlighting its commitment to protect water quality and aquatic life. “Vancouver Airport continues to be an industry leader on several fronts, enabling it to achieve impressive growth,” Mr Harbison said. “The airport also has a unique governance structure with a community-based, not-for-profit airport authority that reinvests all profits back into airport operations and development. Under this structure Vancouver Airport has been able to set and implement a highly successful strategy.” Vancouver’s passenger traffic was up 5% in 2015 to 20.3 million and is on track to break this record with an expected 23 million passengers in 2016. The airport is now linked with over 120 nonstop destinations. London City Airport was named CAPA Regional Airport of the Year. This award is given to the regional airport that has been the biggest standout strategically, has established itself as a leader and done the most to advance the progress of the aviation industry. This award is intended to recognize smaller airports with annual passenger traffic of less than 10 million. London City Airport CEO Declan Collier accepted the award from Mr Harbison. London City was selected by the judging panel for adopting a strategy focusing on its role as the premier business airport for central London while embracing LCC opportunities in the face of numerous impediments. Low cost airlines have been introduced, improving the traffic mix and driving a new phase of growth. London City recorded 17% passenger growth in 2015 to 4.3 million passengers and has just completed a new pier to accommodate further growth. “London City has overcome intensifying competition in the London area as well as political obstacles,” Mr Harbison said. “Despite these barriers it was the one of the fastest growing UK airports in 2015 with a passenger growth rate three times the national average.” CAPA also noted the airport was sold at the highest earnings margin known to have been recorded for a commercial facility of this nature and scope – and despite the political concerns. Air Black Box (ABB) won the CAPA Innovation of the Year award for its Air Connection Engine. This award is given to the airline, airport or supplier responsible for the most powerful innovation in the industry over the past 12 months. Air Black Box Group Product Manager Timothy O'Neil-Dunne accepted the award from Mr Harbison along with Nok Air CEO Patee Sarasin. Thailand’s Nok Air and Singapore Airlines Group subsidiary Scoot are co-founders and shareholders in Air Black Box Asia Pacific, a joint venture with Vaultpad Ventures. Air Black Box was selected by the judging panel for inventing and quickly implementing a revolutionary booking system that enables LCCs to connect and interline without the traditional complexities or cost. Air Black Box’s Air Connection Engine is the technology behind the Value Alliance and U-FLY Alliance – which became in early 2016 the world’s first two LCC alliances. “The Air Connection Engine has provided a new innovative solution for a fast growing and important segment of the industry – LCC connectivity,” Mr Harbison said. “Previously LCCs seeking to interline or cross-sell had limited options. Thanks to Air Black Box there is now a solution which allows like-minded LCCs to partner by offering joint itineraries and, most significantly, do so with the ability to sell ancillaries on flights operated by the partner.” CAPA noted that the technology can align disparate airline products and do not require airlines to change their product or technology to partner with another airline. Implementing tie-ups between LCCs – or between an LCC and network carriers – can now be done in just days, giving airlines an opportunity to quickly expand their virtual networks. About CAPA, Heidrick & Struggles and the CAPA Aviation Awards for Excellence Established in 1990, CAPA – Centre for Aviation is the leading provider of independent aviation market intelligence (publishing 500 stories every working day), analysis and data services, covering worldwide developments. Heidrick & Struggles is a premier professional services firm providing executive search, culture shaping and leadership consulting services. It has a specialist aviation team which works with airline, airport and the broader aviation industry, clients across the globe. The CAPA Aviation Awards for Excellence have recognised strategic leadership in the aviation industry since 2002. The awards are not driven by customer surveys or sponsorship. They are independently researched by CAPA and Heidrick & Struggles and selected by an independent international panel of judges. Initially limited to Asia Pacific and the Middle East, CAPA expanded the awards in 2012 to include all regions. This year the Aviation Awards of Excellence will be presented at two gala dinners, one for the global industry and one for Asia-Pacific including the Middle East. The CAPA Asia Pacific Aviation Awards for Excellence will be awarded on 15-Nov-2106 in Singapore at the CAPA Asia Aviation Summit. For more information on the CAPA Asia Aviation Summit and awards dinner click CAPA Asia Summit: Aviation and Corporate Travel. Want More Analysis Like This?	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2311
__label__cc	0.696434	0.303566	02 Aug EIGHTH GRADE 6 Reasons Why Middle School Sucks (& A Difficult History Doesn’t Help) Middle School definitely sucks for many kids. It sucked for Kayla Day (Elsie Fisher) in her excruciatingly awkward (but at the same time sweet and hopeful) journey from Middle School to High School in Bo Burnham’s film Eighth Grade. Maybe it sucked for you. We see the obvious reasons in vivid Technicolor: the insecurities, the struggles fitting in; the fears of rejection; the uncertainties about “who am I?” It doesn’t help that there are mean kids and bullies to contend with. Yet, this isn’t the whole story. Teenage self-doubts have not so obvious roots in earlier childhood history. Not so sure? Hey, I’m a psychoanalyst, so hear me out … Let’s start with the obvious: 6 reasons that Kayla’s last days in Middle School sucked. I’m sure many of you can relate. Maybe you’re in Middle School now. Or, maybe you’re older and still living with some of these same struggles. #1: It’s hard to be yourself You want to be liked and you’re afraid you won’t be. You think people will make fun of you. Or worse, sometimes they actually do. Kayla says: “It sucks. Evil people exist.” Well, maybe they aren’t really evil – but they loudly mirror a voice in your own head that constantly finds fault with you and won’t leave you alone. You try to change yourself to be like the other kids because you really want to fit in. Or you withdraw, like Kayla because you don’t think you have a chance. “Don’t care what other people think,” that’s Kayla’s advice. Easier said than done, right? Anyway, Kayla can’t even do it herself. Because she does care and so do you. Of course you do. When it’s all too obvious that you feel like you don’t fit in (as much as you try to make yourself invisible); that really, really sucks. #2: Kids keep asking “why are you so quiet?” You want to open up. But you can’t, because you’re scared of rejection or saying the wrong thing or having kids just stare at you the way Kennedy (Catherine Oliviere) stared at Kayla. It hurts not to feel wanted or accepted. To feel you’re not doing it right or aren’t good enough no matter how hard you try. If you’re like Kayla, voted “Most Quiet,” you probably aren’t so quiet, really. Or, at least you wouldn’t be under the right circumstances. You know – if you really felt people liked you and wanted to hear what you had to do say. #3: Kids really are mean sometimes Kayla’s dad (Josh Hamilton) says something very wise to help her understand why kids are sometimes mean: “Kids have their own stuff going on.” It’s true, but it still feels awful to be treated so cruelly. It’s hard to believe it’s not about you – even though it really isn’t personal at all. You just don’t know that yet. Middle School is a time when a lot of kids haven’t learned how to put themselves in other people’s shoes. We call it empathy, right? When they don’t have empathy yet, that makes them self-absorbed and insensitive. Kennedy’s “right in your face” snobbishness really, really hurt. Kayla knew Kennedy didn’t like her. But, she didn’t understand that Kennedy had her own insecurities. Maybe she was hurting too and this was her mean girl way of covering it up. I know that’s probably hard for you to believe, but it’s true. Kennedy looks “too cool” – but for lots of kids, that‘s just a façade. She had to reject anything (in other words, Kayla) that reminded her. She had to do it to tell herself: “That’s not me.” It took a lot of courage for Kayla to go to Kennedy’s pool party. And, because she had to push herself so hard, Kennedy’s look of disgust at Kayla’s birthday gift was the icing on the cake. It was just too much. #4: You feel like crawling in a hole … a lot Not only kids’ meanness – all kinds of things make you feel awkward. Maybe you don’t think you look good enough. A critical voice goes off in your head, telling you all the things that are wrong. Maybe your skin is breaking out. Or you aren’t as skinny as some of the other girls. It’s hard to be brave when that voice inside puts you down. Everyone everywhere becomes that voice. It makes you convinced everyone will reject you. That makes you just want to run away in shame. And, sometimes you do. #5: It seems like there’s no one on your side Kayla’s dad tells her how cool she is. Yeah, that’s great and all. It always helps to have a supportive Dad. But rejection is rejection. Your dad is your dad. It’s what the other kids think that matters. Some day you’ll learn to choose the ones who deserve you, but now it’s hard. You pray for a good day. You bargain with God … just like Kayla did before Shadow Day at the High School. You need something to go your way, something good – just this once. You need someone who knows how you feel. For Kayla, that was Olivia (Emily Robinson), her Senior Shadow guide. Olivia “gets” her. Olivia likes her. She’s encouraging and wants to help. But, Olivia’s also too young to realize that Kayla needs protecting from her friend Riley (Daniel Zolgahdri), who offers to drive Kayla home. Kayla wants him to like her too. When he stops on a dark street and gets into the back seat, challenging her to play “Truth or Dare,” she’s stuck. #6: You do things you don’t really want to do, just to be liked Maybe you’re like Kayla. You feel like you can’t say, “No” even if something doesn’t feel right to you. You’re scared of what might happen if you do. You want so much to fit in. You’re having trouble listening to that all-too-quiet voice inside that tells you, “You don’t like this.” Your need to be liked confuses you. Riley was Olivia’s friend, so he must be ok. Right? And, he said he was trying to teach her things so she could protect herself from other boys. It’s to help her, like he says. Right? Wrong. Finally, Kayla says “No.” But, she’s really upset and she’s too scared to tell her Dad. She fights him off when he tries to help. She has no one to talk to. She has no mom. Then something important happens. It’s a real turning point for Kayla. She admits to her Video viewers (and finally to herself) that she’s “nervous all the time and never feels any better.” She’s had to fight off her nervousness for a long time. The big question is: where and when did that nervousness start? Let’s talk about the not so obvious: A Difficult History Doesn’t Help Kayla’s mom left her when she was a baby. That’s a big loss. And, her mom is nowhere in the picture now. She says a very sad and revealing thing to her dad: “If I had a daughter and she was like me, it would make me really sad.” You know where that comes from? From her belief that she wasn’t the baby her mom wanted. She probably believes (deep down inside) she wasn’t good enough and that’s why her mom left. This loss seeps into her fears of rejection at school and into her self-image. Her dad does the right thing. He tells her she’s wrong. He tells her how lucky he is. But, he also tells her something else. He wasn’t sure she’d be ok when her mom left. He was scared. He’s a good dad, but he wasn’t sure he could raise a little girl alone. He’s been nervous for a long time too. He tells her how he’s always been proud: “I just watched you. You did all that.” She “just grew up on her own.” Even though it wasn’t true, this is the message she got. Kayla must have felt, from the time she was very small – that she had to be big and figure things out for herself. We see it in her Video’s; in the way she gives advice to others, in how she’s had to cover up her fears. Getting Free Kayla’s dad gives her a big gift when he admits his fear. He helps her come out of hiding and admit hers. As they sit together and burn her old “hopes and dreams” (so she can make way for new ones), we see the little girl she’s had to hide. She sits on her dad’s lap and lets him comfort her. She doesn’t have to be so big anymore. Kayla can be scared. But, she can also be strong. She stands up to the bullies. She tells Kennedy and Steph (Nora Mullins) off before she goes onto the stage to graduate from Middle School. Having your real feelings and standing up for your self can set you free. Especially when you’re also standing up to that bully in your head, who spouts all those awful feelings about yourself you’ve had since your were little. Best of all, Kayla makes a real friend in Gabe (Jake Ryan). He sees her for who she really is: he thinks she’s awesome. She is. She just has to know that for herself. And, so do you. It takes some kids (and even some adults) time to grow into who you are and to (Yes!) learn to like you for you. If you haven’t found your group (or your courage) yet, keep trying. Remember what Kayla says: “Middle School sucked for me, but I’m moving past that now and you can do that too. Things are fun and scary, but it’s ok.” Things won’t always be this way. Don’t give up. Don’t forget Kayla’s words. And know this too: If you’re having too much trouble doing it on your own, there are people like me to talk to and get some extra help. You don’t have to do it all alone. bo burnham, eighth grade film, elsie fisher, emily robinson, fears of rejection, jake ryan, josh hamilton, loss, self esteem issues, social anxiety	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2315
__label__wiki	0.669662	0.669662	11.1 The Discovery of Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions Chapter 11: Reactions of Alkyl Halides: Nucleophilic Substitutions and Eliminations write an equation to represent the Walden inversion. write a short paragraph describing the Walden inversion. describe, using equations, a series of reactions interconverting two enantiomers of 1-phenyl-2-propanol which led to the conclusion that nucleophilic substitution of primary and secondary alkyl halides proceeds with inversion of configuration. The IUPAC name for malic acid is 2-hydroxybutanedioic acid. This acid is produced by apples, a fact which seems to have been appreciated by the British novelist Thomas Hardy in The Woodlanders: Up, upward they crept, a stray beam of the sun alighting every now and then like a star on the blades of the pomace-shovels, which had been converted to steel mirrors by the action of the malic acid. In 1896, the German chemist Paul Walden discovered that he could interconvert pure enantiomeric (+) and (-) malic acids through a series of reactions. This conversion meant that there was some kind of change in the stereo chemistry made during the reaction. There reactions are currently referred to as nucleophilic substitution reaction because each step involves the substitution of one nucleophile by another. Therese reactions are one of the most common and versatile reaction types in organic chemistry. Further investigations into these reaction were under taken during the 1920's and 1930's to clarify the mechanism and clarify how the inversion of configurations occur. These reactions involved the nucleophilic substitution of an alkyl p-toluenesulfonate (called a tosylate group). For this purpose the tosylate groups acts as a halogen substituent. In the series of reactions (+)-1-phenyl-2-propanol is interconverted with (-)-1-phenyl-2-propanol. It was determined that the reaction with acetate was causing the stereochemical configuration to be inverted. Q11.1.1 Predict the product of a nucleophilic substitution of (S)-2-bromopentane reacting with CH3CO2-, Show stereochemistry. S11.1.1 Dr. Dietmar Kennepohl FCIC (Professor of Chemistry, Athabasca University) Prof. Steven Farmer (Sonoma State University) 11.2 The $S_{N}2$ Reaction	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2316
__label__wiki	0.568867	0.568867	Social & Applied Sciences / Psychology, Politics & Sociology / Politics / International Relations / Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World Author: Slaughter, Anne-Marie Publisher: YALE PRESS From a renowned foreign-policy expert, a new paradigm for strategy in the twenty-first century In 1961, Thomas Schelling's The Strategy of Conflict used game theory to radically reenvision the U.S.-Soviet relationship and establish the basis of international relations for the rest of the Cold War. Now, Anne-Marie Slaughter-one of Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers from 2009 to 2012, and the first woman to serve as director of the State Department Office of Policy Planning-applies network theory to develop a new set of strategies for the post-Cold War world. While chessboard-style competitive relationships still exist-U.S.-Iranian relations, for example-many other situations demand that we look not at individual entities but at their links to one another. We must learn to understand, shape, and build on those connections. Concise and accessible, based on real-world situations, on a lucid understanding of network science, and on a clear taxonomy of strategies, this will be a go-to resource for anyone looking for a new way to think about strategy in politics or business.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2317
__label__wiki	0.901175	0.901175	Tag: R&B singles Janelle Monáe, ‘Django Jane’ & ‘Make Me Feel’ \| Single Review Announcing her third studio album, ‘Dirty Computer’ (April 27, 2018), Janelle Monáe releases two promo singles, “Make Me Feel” and “Django Jane.” LW, “Sunshine” [Single Review] LW brings the heat on single “Sunshine” LW • Sunshine – Single • Lewayne Scott • Single Release Date: September 27, 2014 On single “Sunshine,” multitalented R&B artist LW likens Sunshine (his lady) to the sunshine whose rays come down from the heavens. Fittingly, the song itself is exuberant, lush, and “sunny” in sound, representing… Is The Weeknd Poised For Breakout Success? As of yet, 2015 seems to be The Weeknd’s year. Honestly, the R&B industry should be praying that it is indeed the year of Abel Tesfaye, as the genre hasn’t had its finest moments this year. All indications suggests that The Weeknd may be his most relevant within the bigger picture of the music industry… Miguel’s Sensual Single “Coffee” Continues An ‘Explicit’ Trend Miguel featuring Wale • Coffee – Single • RCA • US Release Date: May 4, 2015 Do innocent songs exist anymore? The answer is a resounding NO. Well, technically there are songs that are innocent, but so many of today’s songs are drenched in sexual innuendo and profanity. Miguel, one of contemporary R&B’s very best… R. Kelly’s “Story” Is…Um…Lackluster R. Kelly is truly one of a kind. There’s really no other way to say it…I so serious about it! ‘Kells’ has written plenty of memorable songs for himself and others. What’s amazing about R. Kelly is that he oscillates between being conservative and being, well plain raunchy. R. Kelly’s last two albums has found…	cc/2019-30/en_head_0010.json.gz/line2319

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