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__label__wiki	0.728026	0.728026	European history 1000-1450 Medieval Religious Rationalities A Weberian Analysis Author: D. L. d'Avray, University College London Date Published: September 2010 Paperback, eBook Inspired by the social theories of Max Weber, David d'Avray asks in what senses medieval religion was rational and, in doing so, proposes a new approach to the study of the medieval past. Applying ideas developed in his companion volume on Rationalities in History, he explores how values, instrumental calculation, legal formality and substantive rationality interact and the ways in which medieval beliefs were strengthened by their mutual connections, by experience, and by mental images. He sheds new light on key themes and figures in medieval religion ranging from conversion, miracles and the ideas of Bernard of Clairvaux to Trinitarianism, papal government and Francis of Assisi's charismatic authority. This book shows how values and instrumental calculation affect each other in practice and demonstrates the ways in which the application of social theory can be used to generate fresh empirical research as well as new interpretative insights. Unique approach to the study of medieval history, demonstrating a method for combining comparative history with social theory Case studies draw on previously unpublished manuscript data, illuminating and questioning rational and irrational features of medieval religion Companion to Rationalities in History by the same author which, as a package, will be of value to teachers of social theory and comparative history; this volume applies the theory laid out in Rationalities in History to the study of medieval religion Reviews & endorsements 'Medieval Religious Rationalities is a rich book, yet one that is not easy to sum up … [it] displays an impressive range of sources and covers an equally impressive array of issues relating to the history of medieval Christianity … [it] not only ventures into unchartered territory; it challenges some of the most powerful interpretations of the dynamics of medieval Christianity … [it] has the immense merit of demonstrating that religion can under certain conditions make an essential contribution to the intercultural dialogue - a precious reminder in a very timely book, indeed.' Martial Staub, Journal of Religion 'Medieval Religious Rationalities is a challenging but rewarding book. David d'Avray sets himself the task of applying to medieval religion Max Weber's categories for the analysis of reason … Throughout the book d'Avray's style is engaging, and he takes pains to explain technicalities for the benefit of non-medievalists.' Norman Housley, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 'D. L. d'Avray excels at inquiring into networks of conviction … [he] has special expertise in the study of preaching, scholastic [thought], the papacy, and marriage in the late Middle Ages, and many of his very well-chosen illustrations reflect this … a rich mine of information about medieval mentalities and procedures.' David Luscombe, The American Historical Review 'Unlike those historians who prefer to remain the prisoner of theories which are held unconsciously, David d'Avray's aim … is to engage explicitly with the 'ideal types' of rationality catalogued in Max Weber's work in order to show their empirical value in the study of the religion of the medieval West … constitute[s] a model of how historians can engage with social theory … clearly and wittily written and resort[s] to technical jargon in order to clarify the argument rather than to obscure it … logically structured and address[es] issues which are of interest not just to medievalists but also to historians of other periods, as well as to philosophers, anthropologists, sociologists and social theorists … draw[s] effortlessly on an impressive range of empirical examples and [is] the product of wide reading in philosophy and social science.' S. H. Rigby, English Historical Review 2. Medieval values: structures 3. Medieval values: dynamics 4. The value-instrumental interface in the Middle Ages 5. Formal rationality and medieval religious law 6. The formal-substantive interface and the dispensation system General conclusion. Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses Theory and Methodology of Religious History D. L. d'Avray, University College London D. L. d'Avray is Professor of Medieval History at University College London. A fellow of the British Academy since 2005, d'Avray has published widely on his research interests in medieval history. This title is available for institutional purchase via Cambridge Core Cambridge Core offers access to academic eBooks from our world-renowned publishing programme. 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__label__cc	0.660092	0.339908	» Regions & Countries » N C America Disaster risk reduction at farm level: multiple benefits, no regrets This report assesses and identifies solutions with special relevance for smallholder farmers: DRR good practices that work at farm-level and which, with small investments, can have a significant positive impact on the resilience of their livelihoods. Source: FAO Disaster Management, Agriculture, Farmers, Cost Benefit Analysis, Uganda, Laos, Bolivia, Jamaica, Haiti The financial cost of natural disasters around the world A new report on natural disasters over the past 20 years by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction suggests Africa is not the continent when it comes to natural disasters wreaking ha Source: Africa News Natural Disasters, Africa, Global, Economy, GDP, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Cuba, Eq Guinea Evaluating the effectiveness of sexual and reproductive health services during humanitarian crises: A systematic review An estimated 32 million women and girls of reproductive age living in emergency situations, all of whom require sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information and services. This systematic review assessed the effect of SRH interventions, including the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) on a range of health outcomes from the onset of emergencies. Author(s): Neha S. Singh, James Smith, Sarindi Aryasinghe & et al Source: PLoS ONE pp: Women, Maternal Health, Health Care, Conflicts, India, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Pakistan, Family Planning, Afghanistan Looking beyond government-led delivery of water supply and sanitation services the market choices and practices of Haiti’s most vulnerable people The Haiti water supply, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) Poverty Diagnostic seeks to inform how to maximize the socioeconomic impact of the scarce fiscal resources channeled to the sector. The study assesses the linkages between improved access to WASH services, poverty, and health outcomes. Source: The World Bank Water Supply, Sanitation, Health, Poverty, Haiti, Waste Management, Private Sector, Environmental Health Five dead, 19 missing after Haiti rains, flooding - officials Five people were killed and 19 went missing after torrential rains and flooding hit Haiti, its Department of Civil Protection said on Thursday. Natural Disasters, Floods, Haiti, Rainfall Effectiveness of insecticide-treated bednets in malaria prevention in Haiti: a case-control study Insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) are effective in preventing malaria where vectors primarily bite indoors and late at night, but their effectiveness is uncertain where vectors bite outdoors and earlier in the evening. We studied the effectiveness of ITNs following a mass distribution in Haiti from May to September, 2012, where the Anopheles albimanus vector bites primarily outdoors and often when people are awake. Author(s): Laura C Steinhardt, Yvan St Jean, Daniel Impoinvil & et al Source: Lancet Global Health Malaria, Vector Control, Vector Borne Diseases, Haiti Measuring Haitian children's exposure to chikungunya, dengue and malaria The objective of the study was to differentiate exposure to the newly introduced chikungunya virus from exposure to endemic dengue virus and other pathogens in Haiti. Author(s): Mathieu JP Poirier, Delynn M Moss, Karla R Feeser & et al Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization Vol: Chikungunya, Dengue, Malaria, Vector Borne Diseases, Haiti, Child Health Mayaro virus in child with acute febrile illness, Haiti, 2015 Mayaro virus has been associated with small outbreaks in northern South America. We isolated this virus from a child with acute febrile illness in rural Haiti, confirming its role as a cause of mosquitoborne illness in the Caribbean region. The clinical presentation can mimic that of chikungunya, dengue, and Zika virus infections. Author(s): John Lednicky, Valery Madsen Beau De Rochars, Maha Elbadry & et al Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases Vector Borne Diseases, Haiti, Chikungunya, Zika Virus, Brazil, South America Real-time projections of cholera outbreaks through data assimilation and rainfall forecasting Although treatment for cholera is well-known and cheap, outbreaks in epidemic regions still exact high death tolls mostly due to the unpreparedness of health care infrastructures to face unforeseen emergencies. In this context, mathematical models for the prediction of the evolution of an ongoing outbreak are of paramount importance. Here, we test a real-time forecasting framework that readily integrates new information as soon as available and periodically issues an updated forecast. Author(s): Damiano Pasetto, Flavio Finger, Andrea Rinaldo & et al Source: Advances in Water Resources Cholera, Waterborne diseases, Rainfall, Epidemics, Weather Predictions, Haiti IEP News Clipping (82) Apply IEP News Clipping filter Reports and Documents (10) Apply Reports and Documents filter	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line8
__label__wiki	0.658788	0.658788	Submissions open for the 2019 Sandra Bates Director’s Award September 3, 2018 - Creative Industries, Latest News Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre has announced that the 2019 Sandra Bates Director’s Award (SBDA) is now taking submissions from emerging directors across Australia who would like the opportunity to work alongside Ensemble Theatre’s directors on two plays throughout next year. Mark Kilmurry initiated the Award as a legacy to former Artistic Director Sandra Bates, after she retired from her 30 years at the helm of Ensemble Theatre. “The Award nurtures emerging theatre directors by giving them the opportunity to work as Assistant Director on two Ensemble Theatre productions each year,” says Kilmurry. “The Award offers a wonderful opportunity for emerging directors to work with established professional directors to help develop and fine tune their craft.” Each year the two winners are offered a paid position of Assistant Director on two of Ensemble Theatre’s main stage productions and then assist in the delivery of Ensemble Theatre’s Boatshed program, each directing a staged play reading and helping with other Boatshed initiatives. The $16,000 Award is offered to two people who will each receive $8,000. One of last year’s recipients was Liz Arday who was Assistant Director for the hugely successful play, Unqualified, directed by a previous recipient, Janine Watson. Liz then directed a rehearsed reading of Tracey Trinder’s new work, Killing Katie: Confessions of a Book Club, and she will be Assistant Director for The Norman Conquests trilogy opening in October. Previous recipients, Shaun Rennie will direct Tennessee Williams’ Baby Doll and Priscilla Jackman will direct Melanie Tait’s The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race in 2019. Submissions for the 2019 Sandra Bates Director’s Award are now open and close on Friday 21 September. The two winners will be announced on Thursday 18 October 2018. For more information, visit: www.ensemble.com.au for details. Image: Liz Arday (left) a recipient of the 2018 Sandra Bates Director’s Award and (right) Janine Watson, 2016 recipient with Genevieve Hegney and Catherine Moore in the recent Ensemble Theatre production, Unqualified. Final 2019 Helpmann Award winners announced! The 2019 Helpmann Awards Act II last night (Monday 15 July) was a star studded black-tie gala event hosted by the fabulo... First 20 prestigious 2019 Helpmann Award winners a... This year, for the very first time, 43 Helpmann Awards are being presented across two nights and two events at Arts Cent... Ballarat International Foto Biennale announces fin... The Ballarat International Foto Biennale has announced the finalists for the $15,000 Martin Kantor Portrait Prize for 20...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line10
__label__cc	0.634928	0.365072	See Photos: Western Railw... Freak roller-coaster ride... Ramlal congratulates BL S... BMC bans online access fo... Mumbra woman dies at KEM ... Man Killed After Throwing "Incendiary Devices" At Detention Centre In US Rahul Bhatia's IGE alleges Rakesh Gangwal 'missing in action', wanted to sell IndiGo Four Years' Hard Work Pays Off For England World Cup Hero Ben Stokes International Film Festival Of India 2019 Steering Committee This Year Includes Karan Johar, Siddharth Roy Kapur And Others Google Is Bringing 'Shoelace', will give competition to Facebook? NTA UGC-Net June 2019 Result Declared, Candidates Can Check Official Website China Urges US To Cancel Potential Weapon Sales To Taiwan Beijing,10,July,2019 China asked Taiwan to immediately cancel the possible sale of $ 2.2 billion weapons including war tanks and aircraft-piercing missiles from the US. This move of China has raised the tension between the two great powers. The US later responded by removing China's complaints that these tools would be helpful in 'peace and stability' in Asia. It is notable that relations between the United States and China are already tense due to their trade war. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang (in the picture) said in a regular press conference, "America violates the China-China Warranty of China war crimes and is widely interfered in internal affairs of China. And weaken China's sovereignty and security interests. ' Geng said that China has already filed formal complaints by diplomatic channels expressing 'gross discontent and strong opposition' for this move. He said, "China urges America to immediately stop the proposed sale of arms to Taiwan and to end military relations with it to protect China-US relations from harm." According to the US Defense Security Assistance Agency (DSCA), this deal includes 108 M1A2 T Abram Tank, 250 'Stinger Portable Anti-Aircraft Missile' and related equipment. Meanwhile, the Taiwanese Foreign Ministry said in a statement, "Taiwan is standing in the border of China's ambitious propaganda and is facing heavy threats and pressure from it." The Ministry said, "This M1A2 tank and this sale of various missiles will help a lot in enhancing our protective capabilities." Lieutenant General Yang Hei-Ming of the Taiwanese Army told reporters, "The M1A2 tank is quite reliable and due to our maneuvers, our land will become an essential part of defense." He said, "With the arrival of M1A2 tanks in place of our old tanks, our defense capacity will increase rapidly and effectively." The US State Department responded by saying that this deal will not change America's attitude towards the Chinese government. Ministry spokesman Morgan Ortagas told reporters, "Our interest in Taiwan, especially the purpose of these military sales, is to promote peace and stability throughout the region." "There is no change in our long term China policy," he said. It is noteworthy that since the end of the civil war in 1949, Taiwan has been separated from China and has been self-governing, but China has considered it a part of its territory.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line12
__label__wiki	0.546848	0.546848	« NFL Draft projections for the UCF Knights Shaquem Griffin drafted 141st by the Seattle Seahawks » Mike Hughes drafted 30th overall by the Vikings The pick is in. After deciding to forgo his senior season at UCF, cornerback Mike Hughes’s NFL dreams came true Thursday night. With the 30th overall pick in the 2018 NFL Draft, the Minnesota Vikings selected Hughes. This is the highest a defensive player from UCF has ever been selected. This is also the first UCF player taken in the first-round since the 2015 draft when wide receiver Breshad Perriman was selected 26th overall by the Ravens. UCF becomes just one of 16 schools to have 3 first-round picks in the last five years. Welcome to the #Vikings, @_Bigmikee1! pic.twitter.com/XqAfNe4Br8 — Minnesota Vikings (@Vikings) April 27, 2018 NFL Network analyst Daniel Jeremiah said of Mike Hughes, “He’s my 15th-overall player. That’s a heck of a value for the Vikings.” Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins shared his reaction on Twitter and welcomed Hughes to the team: Welcome to the team @_Bigmikee1! Looking forward to competing in practice. #skol — Kirk Cousins (@KirkCousins8) April 27, 2018 During his lone season at UCF, the 5’11, 185-pound Hughes picked off four passes last season while helping the Knights go undefeated last season while defeating Auburn in the Peach Bowl. Hughes is the 18th UCF defensive player selected in program history and the 11th UCF defensive back taken in the draft, according to the school. NFL Network analyst Bucky Brooks believes Minnesota is a “terrific spot” for Hughes. Mike Hughes lands in a terrific spot with @Vikings . He is one of the most polished cover corners in the draft with a lot of technique variety. Nice fit in the scheme as a possible nickel or outside CB. #NFLDraft — Bucky Brooks (@BuckyBrooks) April 27, 2018 Hughes was also a dangerous returner on special teams, returning two kickoffs for scores while averaging 31.7 yards per return last season. He also averaged 16.6 yards per punt return last fall. Like Cousins above, current Vikings safety Jayron Kearse welcomed Hughes to the Vikings: Welcome to the DB room @_Bigmikee1 — HeSaidAKearseWord (@Jayronkearse8) April 27, 2018 Hughes is the third Knight selected by Minnesota in the NFL Draft. Quarterback Daunte Culpepper (1999) and defensive back Josh Robinson (2012) were both selected by the Vikings. Hughes is now the 13th UCF player drafted in the last 10 years. The Knights have had a player drafted in 12 of the last 13 years. This entry was posted in Football, UCF Football.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line26
__label__cc	0.655789	0.344211	I read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called Data visualization: The big picture of big data and is located at http://analytics-magazine.org/data-visualization-the-big-picture-of-big-data/. Analytics Magazine Data visualization: The big picture of big data By Nana S. Banerjee The 1977 film “Powers of Ten” portrays the universe as an arena of both continuity and change. The short documentary, selected by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant,” and written and directed by Charles and Ray Eames, begins with a 1-meter distant shot of a man laying by a picnic setting and steadily moves out until it reveals the very edge of the known universe. Then, at a rate of 10-to-the-tenth meters per second, the film rushes us back toward Earth to the reclined man’s hand and further down to the level of a carbon atom on his skin. That fascinating journey into the macro and then micro demonstrates visually the importance of scale and, in a metaphysical sense, the importance of visualization itself. The importance of data visualization becomes more obvious when viewed within the context of how the human brain works. Much has been written in recent years about how the processes of the brain and how understanding those processes can provide profound insights. In his best-selling 2012 book “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman introduces the terms System 1 and System 2. The terms differentiate between the information processing that occurs in the human subconscious and conscious minds. System 1 addresses the functions that are uncontrolled and effortless. System 2 comprises functions that are controlled and require effort to engage. In action, System 1 allows us to instantaneously recognize facial expressions – visual processing. In contrast, System 2 allows us to make complex decisions or apply reason. A little more than a decade before the release of Kahneman’s book, Danish physicist Tor Nørretranders, in his book “The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size,” converts the “bandwidth of human senses” to computer terms. He explains just why data visualization (a manifestation of System 1) is perhaps the most powerful form of data interpretation. Nørretranders demonstrates that when assessing the “language of the mind,” the sense of sight simply operates at an order of magnitude faster than the sense of touch (similar to the bandwidth associated with a network of computers), which in itself operates at an order of magnitude faster than the sense of smell. As such, the sense of smell operates at an order of magnitude faster than the sense of taste (which has a bandwidth similar to a calculator)! Figure 1: Natural log of relative operating speeds. Source: “The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size,” by Tor Nørretranders (Penguin Press Science) Realizing how quickly we understand and internalize what we see is at the foundation of what makes data visualization such an important aspect of how we analyze information and make better decisions. That said, the mechanisms behind data visualization create a powerful tool to design effective visualizations to suit any context – whether that tool is a simple, static bar chart or something vastly more complex, multidimensional and interactive. As such, the science behind data visualization ranges from the fundamentals of how we literally see to the complexities of cognitive psychology. Combining the science with the art – how best to portray the intent of any particular visualization – winds up somewhere on a curve between presentation and exploration. The difference between presentation and exploration can be described as the difference between presenting a known story in a data set using analysis and exploring a not-yet-understood data set using a visual examination. Henry David Thoreau said, “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” With data visualization, the significance of the quote is quite literal. It’s a fully formed discipline that requires multiple skills – among them, the knowledge of statistics, ideas of space, design and topography, and a deep subject matter expertise in the sector being served. Currently, for any company that deals with a titanic amount of data, data visualization is and will remain an absolutely fundamental tool. Verisk Analytics is a prime example – collecting and maintaining highly granular data on several billions of insurance policies and claims, credit card and debit card transactions, real estate, health services, government and human resources. While many consumer-centric firms have long been skilled in collecting information, they now generate and acquire exponentially growing, disparate and complex quantities of data – and depend on that data in many ways for their very survival in today’s marketplace. Much of the talk today about data management and analysis and its effect on how business gets done targets the science of analytical modeling. In that pursuit, many firms indeed have come far, and yet they still have farther to go. Large, well-capitalized firms (such as banks, insurers, retailers) spend considerable resources and energy collecting and storing data, not just because they produce a lot of it but more likely because the regulatory environment mandates storing much of it. These firms haven’t spent nearly enough effort aggregating their data across functional silos, integrating internal data with third-party data, analyzing the data, and distributing the resulting insights to people who can take action on it. As an example from the retail sector, imagine that a retailer is looking to assess the effectiveness of a particular promotional campaign at its retail stores through the holiday season. The management team at the retailer would invariably want to know: Do we know the baseline sales at our stores and our competitor stores before the promotional period? Let’s say maybe. Do we know how shoppers at our stores respond to promotional offers in the regular season? That’s another maybe. Do we know what the weather was like and if it played a role in affecting shopper turnout at our stores during the campaign period? That’s one more maybe. Would all those pieces of information come together at the same time and be presented to management in a manner that’s easy to analyze? That’s highly unlikely. And that’s a great example of where visualization becomes so helpful. As consumers of information, we’re all demanding visualization in our own way. We’ve started to reject the culture of sound bites and nonsynthesized statistics that agenda-driven interest groups have inundated us with in the last two decades. Visualization allows us to map the information in a way that leads to better decision-making – easier and faster. The 2012 InformationWeek Business Intelligence, Analytics and Information Management Survey, conducted in late 2011, indicated nearly half (45 percent) of the 414 respondents cited “ease-of-use challenges with complex software/less-technically savvy employees” as the second-biggest barrier to adopting business intelligence/analytics products – fractionally behind the biggest barrier, “data quality problems,” cited by 46 percent of respondents. Figure 2: A detailed inundation map of the New England coastline depicted in Figure 2 shows the surge footprint of Hurricane Sandy in blue. The orange circles represent clustered locations by actual number, with the largest circles containing the most individual locations. Where the blue and orange overlap, the map illustrates where Sandy had the greatest impact. Such maps help companies determine the extent of floods and resulting losses. Source: AIR Touchstone® zoomed-in surge Mother Nature’s Infographics Catastrophe risk management has come a long way in its 25-year history, and the sophistication of those analytics goes well beyond the numbers in a database. The end result has been fast, intuitive insight into what drives risk. Looking back to Superstorm Sandy, healthcare officials in New York City, in advance of the storm, were trying to decide whether to evacuate hospitals. In the end, many chose not to move patients before the storm. Unfortunately, numerous hospitals were then catastrophically flooded, and patients had to be moved during the worst of the deluge. Certainly, myriad factors go into assessing a situation like that, but as analytics and their visualization become increasingly sophisticated, they’ll be able to help risk-bearing organizations, including insurers and local authorities, develop appropriate prescriptions for mitigating risk – by providing the contextual detail for better-informed decisions. Today’s advanced climate models are capable of effectively projecting the impact of storms as they get closer to coastlines or geographic regions. Such models can assess the total number of homeowners expected to be affected, when an event is expected to worsen, and when it will be safe for insurance personnel to move into the area. The visualization models enable the decision-maker or assessor to evaluate locations at the individual building level. That capability facilitates a preplanning process and allows companies to communicate proactively with policyholders so they can take certain loss control measures – such as boarding windows, reducing chance of fire, and so on – to mitigate damage. Such models are also allowing insurers to readily project and visualize the impact of fallen trees on power lines serving a group of policyholders. Given the complexity associated with climate change and the inherent difficulty in the assimilation of evolving and interdependent data, our dependence on a sophisticated and constantly improving visualization capability is far too great to be denied. The Sight in Business Insight Unquestionably, the tried-and-true bar, line and pie charts have served us well. But when the complexities of relationships are more nuanced and the data becomes more unstructured, visual analytics need to become more dynamic, multidimensional and customized. For lenders and insurers, visualization can help identify a range of data issues quickly – from a high-level view of exposure location to exposure composition and completeness, including breakdowns by profile of the entities at risk (customers, businesses, properties, vehicles and so on). Visual link analysis technology helps discover critical, previously hidden connections within data. Seeing those connections – within proprietary data, in data from external sources or through a combination of sources – provides insight and knowledge to make decisions. The technology finds all data elements applicable to a question and draws a picture of the connections among those elements, revealing previously invisible relationships. The contextual approach provides a multidimensional understanding of profitability, customer behavior, and industry trends. Data integrity can be a significant problem for large organizations, especially where multiple, complex databases are involved. Mapping techniques often find thousands of errors in a fraction of the normal time. Mapping also finds red flags in claims data. Fraud investigators at financial institutions often use visual link analysis to assist in their inquiries. For example, a money-laundering investigator monitors each check, credit card or ATM withdrawal over a specific threshold, and the technology helps in instantly flagging irregular patterns, revealing potential sources of fraud or money laundering. Seeing those connections – within company data, in data from external sources or through a combination of sources can give claims investigators insight and knowledge to help make better decisions. Visualization is useful in insurance for commercial fleet and personal auto policyholders. Telematics programs use sensors to determine factors as simple as distance (vehicle miles traveled) and as sophisticated as camera-based recording. Devices transmit and store the resultant collection for immediate or deferred analysis, meaningful interpretation and visualization. Although the use of telematics data and visualization is in its early stages, the usage-based insurance (UBI) opt-in rate is expected to increase to 20 percent over the next five years, according to one recent industry poll. Other polls consistently show that two-thirds of consumers are open to telematics-based insurance policies, especially if there’s the potential for premium discounts. Among newer consumers of vehicle insurance — the Gen Ys and the Millennials — the use of telematics and visualization technology is almost expected. While throughout history and in the present day there is always that rare breed with the unique and innate ability to quickly make sense of disparate sources of information and data, the mortals among us are blessed to be living at a time replete with the data and tools to make those connections for us in a fraction – enabling us not only to make better business decisions but maybe even allow us to see the as yet unforeseen. Dr. Nana Banerjee is a group executive of Verisk Analytics. He serves as president of Argus Information and Advisory Services and as chief analytics officer of Verisk Analytics. January/February Cybersecurity: new threats, new solutions The IOT and related, hidden security risks Can analytics save U.S. healthcare system? 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__label__cc	0.56326	0.43674	← Fic: A Taste for Scandal (SGA, Sheppard/Weir) Fic: Simple Beginnings (SGA, gen) → Fic: Songline (SGA, gen) by Azar Posted on March 31, 2014 Author’s Note: Written after the episode “Critical Mass” aired. Like “Beauty for Ashes,” this story came out of my fascination with the Athosian culture and frustration with how little the show itself seemed to want to explore it. Song names and other Athosian words are loosely taken from Latin, to imply an Ancient origin. The title of the story is shamelessly stolen (with her blessing) from a series of Sentinel stories by Medie, who also provided a last-minute beta. Thanks also to Christina for the moral support she provided. “These are the songs of our people, Teyla. Learn them well, for they will be your companions in both sorrow and joy.” It was a saying among their trading partners that Athosian children learned to sing before they learned to speak. Each culture had a different reaction to the constant threat of the Wraith, and the Athosians responded by embracing the beautiful things in life: surrounding themselves with art, music and ritual. Most of them were nursed not only on their mother’s milk, but also upon the melodious sound of her voice. Teyla Emmagen never knew either one. She was born in the midst of a culling; her mother, too weak from the birthing to make it to the caves, handed their child to her father and begged him to save her life. Tegan did as she bade him, and never saw his wife again. It was assumed she was culled by the Wraith, along with the mother–Teyla’s grandmother–who refused to leave her daughter’s side, even though at the age of forty she was considered nearly honorata, one blessed by the Ancestors with a long life unseen by the Wraith. She sacrificed that honor to die by her daughter’s side, just as that daughter gave up her life to save her own child. The people of Athos mourned Emma Teryagen and Terya Aryngen, but they adopted young Teyla as one of their own: as was tradition for a child born during a culling, she was hailed as a blessing and a talisman of good fortune, life snatched from the grasp of death. The people of her village vowed to share the responsibilities that would have fallen to the mother she had lost. So it was that Charin Martagen came to be young Teyla’s tutor, chosen to teach her the ancient songs of her people. “First, the Laments: the songs of mourning for those lost to the Wraith. There are nine: one for a parent, one for a child, one for a sibling, one for a cousin, one for a friend, one for a lover, one for an honorata, one for a family, and one for a village. Learn them well, Teyla, and perhaps if you are fortunate, you will live to see a day when they are no longer needed.” Strike. Block. Spin. Feint. Teyla moved through the familiar patterns, all her thoughts focused on the sticks in her hands, on the burning in her muscles that was so much less than the steady ache of pain in her chest. Closing her eyes, she could see her father’s face–hear him coaxing, scolding, reminding her to flow as though the weapons in her hands were part of her body. She wished for a while to forget that she it was something she would never see again. Strike. Block. Spin. Feint. Do not think about the elders, shut up together in Maron’s doma, arguing in low whispers about her request–no, demand–that she be chosen to sing the Laments for those lost in this culling. She is too young, one would argue. Yet she is Tegan’s daughter, another would respond (she hoped). If he lived, he would be the one to sing Lament for the culled–it is only right that his daughter should be granted the honor, at least until a new leader can be chosen. Especially since if she had not sensed the Wraith coming, many more would be lost… But she has not even marked her thirteenth year. She is too young… Teyla did not feel young. Her life, her girlhood felt as fleeting as an Athosian day when compared with the days on other worlds, where the sun hung in the sky so long it began to seem as though it would never fade to night. This night had come too soon, and she felt as though she had been thrust into it unaware. Her father was gone. Taken by the Wraith, just as her mother had been so long ago. Had she sensed their approach then, too? Cried warning with her first breath, only to be ignored until it was too late because no one understood the language of her infant tongue? It did not matter. It did not matter–not at the moment, at least–that she had saved lives, perhaps most of their village, by her warning. She had failed to save the one who mattered most. She heard the sound of canvas striking canvas and spun instinctively to face the intruder, both hands with their batons raised before her body in a posture of defense. Charin, emerging from Maron’s doma, raised both her hands as well in a gesture of surrender, a twinkle in her eyes. “Be at ease, Teyla. There is no need to beat the council into submission–we have made our decision.” The others stepped out behind her, and Teyla lowered her hands, a flush of embarrassment creeping into her face. “I…I apologize, Charin. I was…I did not mean…” Charin calmed her with another gesture. “I know you did not. I, too, would gladly occupy my mind with…other things if I could.” She glanced behind her to where Maron and the rest of the council were standing. Maron stepped forward. “Teyla Emmagen–” “Do not call me that,” she interrupted sharply. “I am Teyla, daughter of Tegan. Emma was no one to me.” “She was your mother,” Charin chastened her softly. “She gave you birth, and saved your life, Teyla. Which is why we honor our mothers so.” The girl dropped her head, ashamed by the truth in her mentor’s words. Charin glanced at Maron and nodded. Looking faintly amused, he spoke again. “Teyla Emmagen, daughter of Tegan, the Council has considered your request to sing the Laments at the Ceremony of Remembrance…” “Yes?” Teyla asked breathlessly. “…and we have decided to grant it.” “Then there is the Domicilus, the song of joining. It is a dangerous thing, Teyla, to choose to love another when death lies always waiting just the other side of the Ancestors’ Ring. But how could we say we were living if we did not brave that danger?” “Teyla!” Teyla looked up from her work with a frown. At first, she did not recognize the woman with dark brown hair who waved to her from far across the field, but then she drew closer. “Miri!” As much as she wished to just drop the faru vine in her hands, she forced herself to finish tying it to the stake with bits of twine before hurrying across the field to greet her friend. They met in the middle in a warm embrace. “I do not understand,” Teyla exclaimed, delighted. “Do not think I am not pleased to see you…but I had understood that there was much work to be done to rebuild Yarra. Is it done so quickly?” A secretive smile crossed Miri’s face. “No, the work is far from complete. Oh, Teyla, I have so much to tell you! Look!” She held out her wrist, and Teyla’s stomach grew cold at the sight of a woven leather band tied around her friend’s wrist with an elaborate knot. She forced cheerfulness into her voice. “You are betrothed. To whom?” Miri’s smile turned blissful. “To Halling Ryagen.” Halling–the man who had come to them asking aid to restore his village, which had been especially devastated in the latest culling. No wonder Miri had returned so soon–after the joining, she would probably be returning to Yarra to stay, so she would have the remainder of her life to finish the task of rebuilding it. Teyla nodded numbly. “Who is to be the third?” “No one,” Miri beamed. The cold in her stomach turned to ice. “But if one of you cannot bear children–” “Then we will do without,” her friend replied joyfully. “Halling is a dutiful man and devoted to the Ancestors, but he says there are other ways to honor them than simply bearing children. Like loving each other.” “A tercet can be a love match,” Teyla objected, not even sure why she did so except that if Miri found a third here in their village, then perhaps two could more easily than one persuade this Halling to join them rather than taking Miri away. “Sometimes, yes, but you and I both know there is no one here for me, and there is no other in Yarra for Halling.” Yes, she did know that Miri had found no one in their own village about whom she spoke with such warmth, she merely wished to deny it. Swallowing hard, Teyla forced herself to smile. “Then you will be leaving us again.” “Ah, no, is that what frightens you so?” Miri laughed, impulsively embracing Teyla again. “You are my closest friend, Teyla. I could not leave you behind.” “Then Halling is willing to give up his village and join ours?” she couldn’t quite keep the incredulity out of her voice. “Men have done so before,” Miri teased. Teyla flushed. “Yes, but rarely leaders.” The other woman clapped her hands together and laughed. “That’s why I sought you out. There are not many left in Yarra after the last culling. I have spoken to the council of elders, but they say the final decision is yours–” “What decision?” Teyla asked, confused. “Halling wishes not to leave his village, but to bring them with him.” Miri seized her friend’s arms, her voice eager. “Oh please, Teyla–there are so few left, they will not be too great a burden on our resources, I promise!” Instinctively Teyla wanted to pull away. For a moment, she felt an irrational anger towards Miri, that her friend should place such a decision in her hands–even if the elders had been leaving more and more such decisions to her as time passed, and seemed pleased with the choices she had made. Still…part of her hated the mantle of leadership that seemed to have fallen on her from her father’s shoulders, all because she could sense the Wraith as he had. Even Miri, at seventeen two years her senior, was barely considered out of childhood, and though Teyla had not felt like a child since her father’s death, she sometimes despised the responsibility she had not been prepared to take on in its aftermath. But then…if the people of Yarra did join her own… “Halling is leader of his village. Surely he will not wish to concede that leadership to one so much younger than he is,” she pointed out. Truthfully, it would be a relief to hand the task over to him. To her dismay, Miri shook her head. “No. I spoke to him, and he greatly admired your courage and wisdom when he met with you and the elders to ask for our help.” There seemed to be no way to win. If she refused, then Miri would return to Yarra with her betrothed to help his people rebuild. If she accepted…the already difficult task of leading a people she did not trust herself to protect would be further complicated by doing so under the watchful eyes of one far more qualified than she. It was unfair, but if Charin had taught her anything it was that life was seldom fair. “How can I say no? As you said, Miri…you are my closest friend. How could I allow you to go?” Miri smiled like the sun, and threw her arms around Teyla. “Then I have only one thing I must ask, and I pray that you will agree just as readily–will you sing the Domicilus for our joining?” This question was far easier to answer. “I would be honored.” “Next, we come to the Natalus, the song of birth. If we court grief by loving, Teyla, then even moreso do we embrace danger when we create a new life. When I discovered I was with child, all those years ago, I knew I took the chance that my child would one day be culled, and I was afraid. I thought of using certain herbs I knew to flush it from my womb, yet even though my fears did eventually come true I do not regret that I chose to bear my son. I may have lost Santo to the Wraith, but I would have lost so much more had I allowed my fear of them to cause me to give up the chance to know him. We seize our small victories from the Wraith not by giving in to fear and destroying ourselves before they can, but by living life to the fullest and praying with every word of the Natalus that the child it honors will live to see a day when the Wraith are no longer a threat.” If not for the absence of Wraith darts in the sky, it would have seemed to be the night of her own birth repeated. In his father’s arms, Miri’s son wailed as though he too grieved for the mother he would never be fortunate enough to know. Halling had a haunted look in his eyes that suggested the infant’s cries were all that kept him aware of this world. If the boy too had perished, she had little doubt that he would have known nothing but his anguish. Miri was dead. For all Charin’s skill, some of which was said to have been passed down from the Ancestors themselves, she had been unable to save her. Teyla blinked hard to fight back her own tears. Around her, she could hear the low voices of the midwives as they murmured words that were supposed to comfort Halling–Miri had been spared a death at the hands of the Wraith, and for that, despite her youth, she would be remembered as honorata. She had given her life to the Ancestors in exchange for that of her son; surely that was an omen that he would grow to be a great leader of his people. She knew from Charin that people had spoken similar words to her father about her after her own mother’s death, and could not help but wonder if they had provided as little comfort for him as they did for her. Regardless of the manner of Miri’s death, the dearest friend of her childhood was still gone. Even if she had not been taken by the Wraith, she could not return to them any more than those like her mother and father who had been culled. She studied Halling’s face, a sharp knife of envy piercing her heart as she saw the peace that seemed to creep into his eyes at the words of the other women. He was a deeply spiritual man–this she knew both from Miri and from her own limited time with him–therefore he would rest easier believing that his wife was assuredly with the Ancestors. Teyla wished that she could take the same comfort. A hand fell on her shoulder, and she pivoted sharply to see Charin’s kind face watching her. “I am sorry, Teyla. I would have saved her if it was in my power.” Teyla nodded, once again fighting back tears. “I know, Charin.” The old woman glanced at the little cluster of women around Halling, like marsh hens drawn to the scent of death. Scavengers, Teyla thought bitterly, just as much as if they truly were marsh hens. Though Halling was oblivious, to her it was obvious that they did not seek to ease a widower’s grief so much as gain a foothold with a suddenly available man who had already proven himself capable of seeding a fertile field. Charin turned back in time to see the dark look in Teyla’s eyes before she quickly schooled her expression. “They are young, Teyla,” she pointed out kindly. “And the young are often foolish.” “Am I too, then?” Teyla asked with a trace of bitterness in her voice. “That I cannot be glad that my friend did not lose her life to the Wraith, only that it was lost?” “No,” Charin brushed a stray hair away from Teyla’s face and smiled a sad smile. “We all grieve in our own ways, Teyla. It is no more wrong to find no comfort in the promises of others than it is to take that comfort.” The younger woman’s shoulders sagged under her mentor’s knowing eyes. She had not realized how much she resented Halling for accepting that comfort. “It is…hard, Charin. Everyone says we should be grateful, but I cannot feel so.” “Can you feel grateful for the time you and Miri did share?” Charin asked instead. “There is little of her life that you were not part of: even her husband cannot say as much, nor will her son be able to once he is old enough to speak.” Teyla lifted her eyes and looked across the room, seeing father and son as if for the first time. She had been so lost in her own grief that she had forgotten how recently Halling had come into their lives. From the time he and Miri had met to this night was little more than a year. Squeezing Charin’s hand, she forced her own grief for a moment into a corner of her heart, and crossed the doma to where Halling still stood with his son and hangers-on. One sharp look from her–imbued with all the authority the elders had given her–sent the marsh hens scurrying, and when they were gone she laid one hand on his arm. “I grieve with you, Halling Ryagen,” she stated in the formal words of their people. He looked at her, and she saw how hollow his eyes were. “And I with you, Teyla Emmagen,” he answered in a rough voice. For a moment, she saw him with Miri’s eyes, saw the compassion that allowed a man immersed in his own grief to still think of another. This glimpse, coupled with Charin’s words, steeled her resolve. She could not give him Miri back…but she could give him the Miri he had never known, the friend of her girlhood. Maybe in time she would come to call him friend as well. “Miri and I were friends for many years,” she stated quietly. “I do not know how much she told you of our childhood, but if you ever wish to speak of her…it would be my honor.” A sad smile broke slowly across his face. “It would mean a great deal to me, and to Jinto. Thank you.” Jinto. Teyla’s throat closed at the name he had bestowed on his son–the name of Miri’s own long-dead father. “Would you grant me one more thing, as well?” he asked then, cradling the baby who had finally subsided from tears into quiet hiccups. “I know Miri would have wanted you to sing the Natalus…” Teyla nodded, no longer trying to quell the tears. “I would be glad to.” Halling offered her another weak smile, and carefully passed the child over to her. Taking a deep breath as she took Jinto into her arms, Teyla pushed aside the door flap of the doma and stepped outside to where the village was waiting. She lifted her voice in the customary words of presentation, projecting it into the crowd as Charin had taught her. “For the future of our people, in the hope of a day when the Wraith will haunt us no more, I present to you Jinto Mirigen, son of Halling…” Then she began to sing. “Finally, there is the Vicci. You asked if we have any happy songs, Teyla? I believe this is the happiest of all. Why? Because death is not always to be feared, not if one is blessed to live a long life, to become not only honorata but to die because the years, not the Wraith, have sapped all the strength from the body you wear. You may never have the opportunity to sing this song, Teyla, but if you do…if ever you are privileged to perform the Ring Ceremony, sing with all your soul. Sing with pride, with joy, not with sadness. For I can think of no greater honor, no greater joy or victory than to journey to the Ancestors in one’s own time.” This entry was posted in Gen, Het, Stargate Atlantis and tagged angst, athosian culture, backstory, character study, charin, gen, halling, halling/oc, het, jinto, original characters, pre-series, stargate atlantis, teyla emmagen, worldbuilding. Bookmark the permalink.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line35
__label__cc	0.701629	0.298371	Astropost Welcome on Astropost, a magazine about astrology to show you how the natal charts, transits and progressions reflect real life events. Recommended per 2015-12-08 Method/Vocabulary Breaking news items The Duchess and astrology Yesterday evening I watched "The Duchess" , the movie. It is the story of the love life of Georgiana Cavendish, born June 7, 1757. Her life is so much in line with her chart, that I have to tell you about it! Here is the picture of the ancestor of Lady Diana Spencer. SOCIALITE: SUN VENUS JUPITER She was born with Sun exactly conjunct Venus. Sun and Venus were biquintile Jupiter. Venus and Jupiter are there were the party is? This is the combination for the popular socialite, on her way to the next party. With Venus opposition Pluto you get the picture of the big spender. When she died, age only 49, she left today's value of almost 4 million pound in debts! SUN INCONJUNCT CERES: giving up on a child But her life wasn't only drinks, gambling and dancing. She lived in the age of the French Revolution, when there weren't equal rights for women, even not for those with an Aquarian Moon. She was married on her 17th birthday. She was supposed to give the Duke a son, an heir, and it took her until 1790 to give birth to the next Duke. In 1792 she gave birth to an illegitimate daughter. The father was the later Prime Minister Charles Grey. His family raised the child, because Georgiana was forced to give the girl up. (She has Sun inconjunct Ceres in the natal chart. The inconjunct (quincunx) is the symbol of loss. Ceres is the symbol of dynasties, motherly love and genes. URANUS-SUN RELATIONSHIPS When she married she was only 17 and her husband was 8 years older. Her progressed Venus was conjunct progressed Juno in the year of her marriage. His Saturn was inconjunct her Sun and hers sextile his. Her Uranus was square his Sun. ((Saturn and Uranus: the combination of limited freesom... And protocol) Saturn refers to obligations, duties and distance, something standing between them. There was no match between them. He was born December 14, 1748, a Sagittarius (she was a Gemini). Their Mercury,Venus and Mars failed to make pleasant aspects,too. Her Uranus square her husband's Sun and ... her Uranus conjunct her lover's Sun! Her husband was her first sexual partner. Her lover was the first man she fell in love with). His Venus is square her Neptune. The Venus-Neptune combination is the combination of love affairs. They both had them. Society in those days didn't mind much about the menage a trois that they had with his later second wife, who was the friend of Georgiana first. It was a different case for women... Her lover Charles Grey (think of Earlgrey tea!) was younger than she was. Her Uranus was conjunct his Sun. And her Mars was inconjunct his. They also didn't match much, but there was a whole lot of fire between them, until William forced her to give him up,threathening to keep her away from her children, forever, and to destroy grey's reputation so that he would never reach his goal: being the PM. She found out later that she was pregnant. She had to turn the child over to the family Grey. That was with progressed Sun inconjunct her natal Pluto, a tragic moment of lost self esteem and being overwhelmed by authorities, like her husband. She stayed with him and his lover Bess, until she died. Her death was also related to Pluto. It was with Sun sesquisquare Pluto in progression. She died age 49 . Just before, she gave Bess and William her blessing. Had she been born in our days, she would have divorced and got a few millions to continue her lifestyle... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgiana_Cavendish,_Duchess_of_Devonshire#Husband_and_children ) Also visit: Astromarkt.net for example about the synastry of Sun Uranus: http://www.astromarkt.net/sun-uranus.html Geplaatst door Astromarkt op 12:15 PM Chart dimensions... CTR + Tap or click in the chart, open new window and maximize the size! Visit my site Astromarkt! Astromarkt op Twitter Astromarkt op Facebook Astromarkt website Love and astrology Art&astrology My Astrology Blogs ElsaElsa.com Shadowbanned: Pluto in Capricorn To Astromarkt by QR More astrology.... Total Pageviews in 30 days Followers: thank you! My idea about declinations: What is your favorite house system? Tweets by @Astropost Guess what happened in 1958 Saturn conjunct Saturn: sorry, it's memento mori Mars-Saturn and overcoming difficulties Mars-Uranus-Pluto + Neptune! Neptune and media Mars, Pholus and Phallus: male supremacy The 'guess what' chart of a nobleman Chart of Mick Jagger Luxury problems with transit Venus Another lottery winner's chart (t&p's) No Mercury aspect, sometimes no contact Guess what happened...a more complicated number tw... Transits today... Most Popular Posts ever... Astrology and winning the lottery Did you ever win the lottery? I did not. But I happen to know the charts of 2 lucky birds and the day of birth of another one. So now I can... Love and Venus in the progressed chart When love is in the air, love is in the sky above. This must be the conclusion when you see the examples of charts in times of marriage ... Charts of beautiful women and Venus-Saturn-Pluto Attractive modern entertainers and actors, (those males who know and use their appearances), often have the hot planet Venus in a cool si... Astropost, all rights reserved. Picture Window theme. Powered by Blogger.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line37
__label__wiki	0.637762	0.637762	The Outfall of a Helium-3 Crisis Posted by News Fetcher on February 20 '11 at 09:00 PM By samzenpus from Slashdot's deptartment: astroengine writes "The United States is currently recovering from a helium isotope crisis that last year sent low-temperature physicists scrambling, sky-rocketed the cost of hospital MRI's, and threw national security staff out on a search mission for alternate ways to detect dirty bombs. Now the panic is subsiding, what is being done to conserve, or replace, helium-3?" Automatic Life Jacket Detection For Drones garymortimer writes "Sentient, an Australian company that makes drone software, has given UAVs the ability to search for small, high visibility objects such as life jackets. From the article: 'Kestrel Maritime is a software solution that processes electro-optical (EO) and infrared (IR) full motion video (FMV) from manned and unmanned vehicles (UAVs). The Life Jacket Detection enhances Kestrel Maritime EO capability to automatically detect small, high visibility objects whilst searching wide maritime areas.'" Science Channel Buys Rights To Firefly citking writes "The Science Channel has purchased the rights to Firefly and plans to air all episodes in order and in high definition. In addition, physicist Dr. Michio Kaku will appear to explain the theoretical science behind the show's sci-fi concepts. There's a brief interview in the article as well with Nathan Fillion, who chimes in with his thoughts on Firefly and playing Mal." The Death of BCC An anonymous reader writes "An interesting op-ed at NeoSmart discusses the demise of BCC in emails at the hands of Facebook and the like. It discusses how certain technologies that are slowly being supplanted by 'cooler' yet less effective alternatives have actually been spoiled for all, since they rely on a basic community-wide awareness regarding these technologies for them to work." GeoHot Asks For Donations To Fight Sony mede writes "In an interesting turn of events, Sony might have stumbled into a tough nut to crack. George Hotz (aka GeoHot) famous for his iPhone hacking achievements, is planning on fighting the big corporation on removing his free speech rights at utilizing his fully paid for hardware. Hotz has always claimed being anti-piracy (since iPhone activities) and expresses has never pirated any game or even signed to PSN agreements. He's asking for donations to fight Sony back and try to achieve something similar to what was previously accomplished by the EFF in regard to cellphones. I've already donated." Chrome May Drop the URL Bar An anonymous reader writes "There isn't much Google can still eliminate from the browser's interface. Yet Google appears to be considering a drastic step to free up space in the UI: It may simply kill the URL bar. Instead of showing the URL bar all the time, it be hidden within tabs. There are some other features coming as well. For example, Google will allow users to be logged in different Google accounts at the same time, as long as you use those accounts in different windows." Will Google Oppose DRM On HTML5 Video? Posted by News Fetcher on February 20 '11 at 10:45 AM Anonymous Coward writes "Mozilla has committed to not implement DRM in Firefox for WebM HTML5 video even though it is theoretically possible. Microsoft has asked Google and the WebM community several other questions that still have not been answered, but this one seems more important: will Google commit to keeping WebM in Chrome DRM-free? Does our community think that is important for the open web and free software?" Iceland Eyes Liquid Magma As Energy Source An anonymous reader writes "Scientists in Iceland have been studying and utilizing the power of geothermal wells for years. In 2009 one such study hit a standstill when a group ran into magma halfway into their dig. The roadblock has become a blessing in disguise, as recent research has shown that the magma can act as a potent new source of geothermal energy powerful enough to heat 25,000 to 30,000 homes." The Inner World of Gov-Sponsored White-Hat Hacking romanval writes "Anonymous leaked emails of white-hat hacker firm HBGary shows how it develops and markets products to government agencies. From the article: 'In 2009, HBGary had partnered with the Advanced Information Systems group of defense contractor General Dynamics to work on a project euphemistically known as "Task B." The team had a simple mission: slip a piece of stealth software onto a target laptop without the owner's knowledge. They focused on ports—a laptop's interfaces to the world around it—including the familiar USB port, the less-common PCMCIA Type II card slot, the smaller ExpressCard slot, WiFi, and Firewire. No laptop would have all of these, but most recent machines would have at least two.'" Feds Pay Millions For Bogus Spy Software By Soulskill from Slashdot's deptartment: gosuperninja writes "The US Government paid tens of millions of dollars to Dennis Montgomery because he said he had created software that could decode secret Al-Qaeda messages embedded in Al-Jazeera broadcasts. Even though the CIA figured out that his software was fraud in 2003, other defense agencies continued to believe in it. To date, the government has not prosecuted Montgomery, most likely to save itself the embarrassment." Police Chief Teaches Parents To Keylog Kids Hugh Pickens writes writes "LiveScience reports that James Batelli, the police chief of Mahwah, NJ, and his detectives conduct seminars that teach parents how to outfit a computer with keystroke logging software, giving them access to the full spectrum of their kids' online activities. Batelli explains that kids put themselves in potentially dangerous situations online every day, especially on Facebook, where they run the risk of coming into contact with child predators who troll the social networking site. 'When it comes down to safety and welfare of your child, I don't think any parent would sacrifice anything to make sure nothing happens to their children,' he says." Milky Way Stuffed With an Estimated 50 Billion Alien Worlds astroengine writes "Using data extrapolated from the early Kepler observations of 1,235 candidate exoplanets, mission scientists have placed an estimate on the number of alien worlds there are in our galaxy. There are thought to be 50 billion exoplanets, 500 million of which are probably orbiting within their stars' habitable zones." Can Android Without Dalvik Avoid Oracle's Wrath? jfruhlinger writes "Despite the fact that Oracle is suing Google over claims that Android violates Java IP, Android is roaring ahead in the marketplace. Still, some groups are wondering if they can implement Android without incurring Oracle's current or future wrath by avoiding the Dalvik VM. A project called IcedRobot aims to create a GNU-compatible version of Android, and rumors abound that RIM is planning on putting an OpenJDK-version of Android on its upcoming PlayBook tablets." FBI Complains About Wiretapping Difficulties Due To Web Services c0lo writes with news that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is lamenting the difficulty in executing wiretaps because of "web-based e-mail, social-networking and peer-to-peer services.""President Barack Obama's administration is debating ways to deal with Web-based services not covered by traditional wiretap laws, including incentives for companies to build in surveillance capabilities, said Valerie Caproni, general counsel at the FBI. Many Internet services are not covered by the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), which requires traditional telecom carriers to allow law enforcement agencies real-time access to communications after a court has issued a wiretap order, she told members of a subcommittee of the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. But Caproni told lawmakers she was not asking for expanded CALEA powers. And she stopped short of calling for rules requiring Web-based communication providers to build in so-called back doors allowing law enforcement access to their software, although she said she's optimistic the US government can find incentives for companies to 'have intercept solutions engineered into their systems.'" Industry IT Security Certification Proposed Roberto123 writes "The US can build defenses against 'cyberwar' by having government and the private sector work together to confront the threat, a panel of experts said at RSA Conference 2011 in San Francisco this week. 'Chertoff called for a regulatory framework where company executives and board members sign on the dotted line, certifying what steps they have taken to secure their network, what backup systems they have in place and what level of resiliency is built into their IT system. “People take that seriously. Is it dramatic? No, but it moves the ball down the field,” Chertoff said. Schneier concurred, noting that holding individuals at a company accountable for certain protections has worked with environmental regulations and Sarbanes-Oxley, the post-Enron law that requires directors and executives to certify their financial results.'" Facebook Develops HTML5 Gaming Benchmark An anonymous reader writes "A couple of Facebook engineers are developing an HTML5 gaming benchmark. They write, 'Two weeks ago Bruce and I released JSGameBench version 0.1. Today marks the release of version 0.2, a much faster and cleaner version. We continue to learn both from tightening the code and from the strong HTML5 community. Version 0.2 reinforces our belief in HTML5 as a strong, horizontal platform for games and highly interactive applications across the web.'" Musician Jailed Over Prank YouTube Video An anonymous reader writes "Evan Emory, a 21-year-old aspiring musician, edited together video of him singing a G-rated song to a bunch of giggling school kids with video of him singing a song with sexually explicit lyrics, and posted it on YouTube. For this stupid joke, done many times by professional comedians (all NSFW, obviously), and admittedly done without getting permission from the children shown 'hearing' him sing naughty words, he was arrested and could face 20 years in prison as a sex offender. On the pretext of looking for 'souvenirs' of child sexual abuse, his house has been searched by police, and the Muskegon County (Michigan) Prosecutor has insinuated (with no further evidence) that Emory actually wants to have sex with children and claims he 'victimized every single child in that classroom.' Emory insists he had no such intention." Judge Rules Against China In 'Green Dam' Suit An anonymous reader writes "About a year after Cybersitter sued the Chinese government and several Asian OEMs for allegedly copying its code to create the 'Green Dam' software, a US federal judge has allowed the $2.3 billion suit to proceed. Judge Josephine Staton Tucker, a California district judge, entered a judgement of default against the People's Republic of China on Wednesday, after PRC officials failed to respond to the ruling. Although the PRC's embassy sent a letter to the US State Department protesting Cybersitter's suit, such a letter did not qualify as a formal response." Scientists Aim To 'Print' Human Skin suraj.sun sends this excerpt from CNN:"Scientists at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, inspired by standard inkjet printers found in many home offices, are developing a specialized skin 'printing' system that could be used in the future to treat soldiers wounded on the battlefield. 'We started out by taking a typical desktop inkjet cartridge. Instead of ink we use cells, which are placed in the cartridge,' said Dr. Anthony Atala, director of the institute. The device could be used to rebuild damaged or burned skin. ... Burn injuries account for 5% to 20% of combat-related injuries, according to the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine. The skin printing project is one of several projects at Wake Forest largely funded by that institute, which is a branch of the US Department of Defense. Wake Forest will receive approximately $50 million from the Defense Department over the next five years to fund projects, including the skin-creating system. Researchers developed the skin 'bio-printer' by modifying a standard store-bought printer. One modification is the addition of a three-dimensional 'elevator' that builds on damaged tissue with fresh layers of healthy skin." Employer Demands Facebook Login From Job Applicants Hugh Pickens writes writes "Alex Madrigal reports in the Atlantic that the ACLU has taken up the case of Maryland corrections officer Robert Collins, who was required to provide his Facebook login and password to the Maryland Division of Corrections during a recertification interview so the interviewer could log on to his account and read not only his postings, but those of his family and friends too. 'We live in a time when national security is the highest priority, but it must be delicately balanced with personal privacy,' says Collins. 'My fellow officers and I should not have to allow the government to view our personal Facebook posts and those of our friends, just to keep our jobs.' The ACLU of Maryland has sent a letter to Public Safety Secretary Gary Maynard (PDF) concerning the Division of Correction's blanket requirement that applicants for employment with the division, as well as current employees undergoing recertification, provide the government with their social media account usernames and personal passwords for use in employee background checks. After three weeks the ACLU has received no response."	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line39
__label__wiki	0.592153	0.592153	New York Times Best Seller of Hardcover Fiction This book list contains 30 New York Times Best Seller of Hardcover Fiction. Click Read Review to read book reviews on Amazon. You can also click Find in Library to check the item availability at your local library. If the default library is not correct, please follow Change Local Library to reset it. Visit Complete List of New York Times Best Seller of Hardcover Fiction to seel more. 1. The Woman in the Window: A Novel by: A. J. Finn 2. The People vs. Alex Cross No. 1 Best Seller on Friday, December 1, 2017. 3. Oathbringer: Book Three of the Stormlight Archive by: Brandon Sanderson No. 1 Best Seller on Saturday, November 25, 2017. 4. The Midnight Line: A Jack Reacher Novel by: Lee Child 5. The Rooster Bar by: John Grisham No. 1 Best Seller on Friday, November 3, 2017. 6. Origin: A Novel by: Dan Brown No. 1 Best Seller on Friday, October 13, 2017. 7. Sleeping Beauties: A Novel by: Stephen King, Owen King No. 1 Best Seller on Friday, October 6, 2017. 8. The Cuban Affair: A Novel by: Nelson DeMille No. 1 Best Seller on Saturday, September 30, 2017. 9. A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge) by: Ken Follett 10. A Legacy of Spies: A Novel by: John le Carré 11. Glass Houses: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel) by: Louise Penny No. 1 Best Seller on Friday, September 8, 2017. 12. Y is for Yesterday (A Kinsey Millhone Novel) by: Sue Grafton 13. Seeing Red by: Sandra Brown No. 1 Best Seller on Friday, August 25, 2017. 14. Any Dream Will Do: A Novel by: Debbie Macomber No. 1 Best Seller on Saturday, August 19, 2017. 15. The Late Show by: Michael Connelly No. 1 Best Seller on Friday, July 28, 2017. 16. House of Spies: A Novel (Gabriel Allon) by: Daniel Silva No. 1 Best Seller on Thursday, July 20, 2017. 17. Camino Island: A Novel No. 1 Best Seller on Saturday, June 17, 2017. 18. Come Sundown 19. Into the Water: A Novel by: Paula Hawkins No. 1 Best Seller on Saturday, May 20, 2017. 20. 16th Seduction (Women’s Murder Club) by: James Patterson, Maxine Paetro 21. Golden Prey (A Prey Novel) by: John Sandford No. 1 Best Seller on Thursday, May 4, 2017. 22. The Fix (Amos Decker series) No. 1 Best Seller on Friday, April 28, 2017. 23. The Black Book by: James Patterson, David Ellis No. 1 Best Seller on Saturday, April 8, 2017. 24. Mississippi Blood: A Novel (Natchez Burning) by: Greg Iles 25. The Cutthroat (An Isaac Bell Adventure) by: Clive Cussler, Justin Scott No. 1 Best Seller on Friday, March 24, 2017. 26. Dangerous Games: A Novel by: Danielle Steel No. 1 Best Seller on Saturday, March 18, 2017. 27. Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by: George Saunders No. 1 Best Seller on Friday, February 24, 2017. 28. Norse Mythology by: Neil Gaiman 29. Right Behind You by: Lisa Gardner No. 1 Best Seller on Saturday, February 11, 2017. 30. Never Never No. 1 Best Seller on Saturday, January 28, 2017. Last updated on Friday, September 28, 2018	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line41
__label__wiki	0.909622	0.909622	New York Times Best Seller of Manga This book list contains 236 New York Times Best Seller of Manga. Click Read Review to read book reviews on Amazon. You can also click Find in Library to check the item availability at your local library. If the default library is not correct, please follow Change Local Library to reset it. Visit Complete List of New York Times Best Seller of Manga to seel more. 1. The Legend of Zelda: Legendary Edition, Vol. 2: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages by: Akira Himekawa 2. One-Punch Man, Vol. 10 by: ONE, Yusuke Murata 3. Attack on Titan 20 by: Hajime Isayama No. 1 Best Seller on Saturday, January 7, 2017. 4. Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 10 by: Sui Ishida 5. The Legend of Zelda: Legendary Edition, Vol. 1: Ocarina of Time Parts 1 & 2 6. One-Punch Man, Vol. 9 7. Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 9 No. 1 Best Seller on November 6, 2016. 8. Yona of the Dawn, Vol. 2 by: Mizuho Kusanagi 9. Fairy Tail 56 by: Hiro Mashima 10. One-Punch Man, Vol. 8 11. Monster Musume Vol. 9 by: OKAYADO 12. Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 8 13. My Hero Academia, Vol. 5 by: Kohei Horikoshi No. 1 Best Seller on August 21, 2016. No. 1 Best Seller on July 24, 2016. 16. orange: The Complete Collection 2 by: Ichigo Takano 17. Yotsuba&!, Vol. 13 by: Kiyohiko Azuma 18. Monster Musume: I Heart Monster Girls Vol. 1 20. Akame ga KILL!, Vol. 6 by: Takahiro No. 1 Best Seller on May 8, 2016. 22. The Ancient Magus’ Bride Vol. 4 by: Kore Yamazaki 23. Attack on Titan 18 No. 1 Best Seller on April 24, 2016. 24. Nichijou, 1 by: Keiichi Arawi 25. No Game No Life, Vol. 4 by: Yuu Kamiya 26. Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 1 by: Inio Asano No. 1 Best Seller on April 3, 2016. 27. Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal, Vol. 8 by: Shin Yoshida, Naohito Miyoshi by: Yusuke Murata 29. Tokyo Ghoul No. 1 Best Seller on March 6, 2016. 30. Monster Musume 31. My Hero Academia by: Kohei Horikoshi, Caleb D. Cook 32. Akame ga KILL! 33. One-Punch Man by: ONE 35. Assassination Classroom by: Yusei Matsui 39. Naruto by: Masashi Kishimoto 40. Mobile Suit Gundam: The ORIGIN, Volume 11: A Cosmic Glow by: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Yoshiyuki Tomino, hAJIME Yatate 46. The World’s Greatest First Love, Vol. 2: The Case of Ritsu Onodera by: Shungiku Nakamura No. 1 Best Seller on August 2, 2015. 47. Sword Art Online: Girls’ Ops by: Reki Kawahara 48. Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin, Volume 10 by: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko 50. Naruto, Vol. 70 51. Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past by: Shotaro Ishinomori 52. Mobile Suit Gundam: THE ORIGIN, Volume 9: Lalah 54. Big Hero 6 55. One Piece, Vol. 74 by: Eiichiro Oda 59. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Part 1–Phantom Blood, Vol. 1 by: Hirohiko Araki 60. Neon Genesis Evangelion, Vol. 14 by: Yoshiyuki Sadamato 61. Assassination Classroom, Vol. 2 No. 1 Best Seller on February 8, 2015. 63. Finder Volume 7: Desire In The Viewfinder (Yaoi Manga) by: Ayano Yamane 64. Sword Art Online: Fairy Dance, Vol. 2 – manga (Sword Art Online Manga) 65. 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No Matter How I Look at It, It’s You Guys’ Fault I’m Not Popular!, Vol. 3 by: Nico Tanigawa 91. Naruto, Vol. 65: Hashirama and Madara 92. Mobile Suit Gundam: THE ORIGIN, Volume 5: Char & Sayla by: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Hajime Yatate, Melissa Tanaka 93. Attack on Titan: Before the Fall 1 by: Ryo Suzukaze, Hajime Isayama, Satoshi Shiki by: Eiichiro Oda, Eiichiro Oda 95. Blood Lad, Vol. 4 by: Yuuki Kodama 96. Bleach, Vol. 59 by: Tite Kubo, Tite Kubo 98. Naruto, Vol. 64: Ten Tails 100. One Piece, Vol. 69 101. Sailor Moon Short Stories 2 by: Naoko Takeuchi 102. Yotsuba&!, Vol. 12 103. Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s, Vol. 5 104. Black Butler, Vol. 15 105. Monster Musume, Vol. 1 106. Attack on Titan 1 107. Bleach, Vol. 58 108. Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin, Vol. 3- Ramba Ral by: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Melissa Tanaka, Hajime Yatate 111. Naruto, Vol. 62: The Crack 113. Sailor Moon 12 114. Blue Exorcist, Vol. 10 by: Kazue Kato 115. Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin, Vol. 2- Garma by: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Melissa Tanaka, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Hajime Yatate 117. Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal, Vol. 3 119. Naruto, Vol. 61: Uchiha Brothers United Front 120. Negima! 38 by: Ken Akamatsu by: Tite Kubo 124. Rosario+Vampire: Season II, Vol. 11 by: Akihisa Ikeda, Akihisa Ikeda 125. Battle Angel Alita: Last Order 17 by: Yukito Kishiro 126. Skip Beat!, Vol. 30 by: Yoshiki Nakamura, Yoshiki Nakamura 127. Naruto, Vol. 60: Kurama!! 128. Sailor Moon 9 130. Missions of Love 2 by: Ema Toyama 132. Maximum Ride: The Manga, Vol. 6 by: Kazuki Takahashi, Shin Yoshida, Naohito Miyoshi 134. Alice in the Country of Clover: Cheshire Cat Waltz, Vol. 3 by: QuinRose, Mamenosuke Fujimaru 135. Soulless: The Manga, Vol. 2 (The Parasol Protectorate (Manga)) by: Gail Carriger, Rem 136. Naruto, Vol. 59: The Five Kage by: Naoko Takeuchi, Naoko Takeuchi 138. Tenjo Tenge, Vol. 9: Full Contact Edition 2-in-1 by: oh!great 140. Dance in the Vampire Bund, Vol. 13 by: Nozomu Tamaki, Nozomu Tamaki 141. Sailor Moon 142. Naruto, Vol. 58: Naruto vs. Itachi 144. Soul Eater, Vol. 10 by: Atsushi Ohkubo 145. Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Vol. 9 by: Naoyuki Kageyama, Naoyuki Kageyama 146. Naruto, Vol. 57: Battle 150. Bakuman., Vol. 11 by: Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata 151. Fairy Tail 19 152. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project, Vol. 11 by: Osamu Takahashi, Carl Gustav Horn, Michael Gombos 154. Soul Eater, Vol. 9 156. Naruto, Vol. 56: Team Asuma, Reunited 157. Pokémon Black and White, Vol. 7 (Pokemon) 158. Negima! 34: Magister Negi Magi 159. Tenjo Tenge, Vol. 6 (Full Contact Edition) 161. Rosario+Vampire: Season II, Vol. 8: The Secret of the Rosario 163. Naruto, Vol. 55: The Great War Begins 164. xxxHolic, Vol. 19 by: CLAMP, CLAMP 165. Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys by: Naoki Urasawa 166. Bleach, Vol. 38: Fear for Fight by: Osamu Takahashi, Osamu Takahashi, Michael Gombos 170. Naruto, Vol. 54 171. 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Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, Vol. 26 by: Clamp 215. Naruto, Vol. 47: The Seal Destroyed 218. Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Vol. 4: The Semifinals Begin! 220. Warriors: Ravenpaw’s Path, No. 2 – A Clan in Need 221. Vampire Knight, Vol. 8 222. Negima!: Magister Negi Magi, Vol. 24 223. Naruto, Vol. 46: Naruto Returns 224. Chibi Vampire, Vol. 14 by: Yuna Kagesaki 228. Fruits Basket, Vol. 23 by: Natsuki Takaya, Natsuki Takaya 229. Naruto, Vol. 45: Battlefield, Konoha 230. Manga: The Complete Guide by: Jason Thompson 232. Naruto, Vol. 44: Senjutsu Heir 233. Naruto, Vol. 43: The Man with the Truth 234. Mise à jour de la 21e Classification Décimale Dewey by: Collectif 235. Naruto, Vol. 40: The Ultimate Art 236. classification décimale dewey (22e édition) Last updated on Thursday, October 4, 2018	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line42
__label__wiki	0.691811	0.691811	By Nafkam CamCancer-hovedmeny Evidence-based summaries Dietary approaches Manipulative/body-based Mind-body interventions Other CAM The use of placebo in cancer research Cancer patients seeking CAM treatment abroad? CAM-Cancer’s position paper on terminology Aims and organization Propagermanium Markus Horneber, Elke Wolf and the CAM-Cancer Consortium \| Published 08/01/2019 Abstract and key points Propagermanium is a synthetically produced organic compound containing the element germanium. There is no reliable evidence for its efficacy in the treatment of cancer patients. Inorganic germanium compounds are associated with severe organ toxicities. Possible contamination of propagermanium with inorganic germanium compounds and confusion due to false labelling represent possible fatal hazards Propagermanium is an organic germanium compound. Germanium compounds are popular as nutritional supplements and proponents advertise beneficial effects on the course of a multiplicity of illnesses. Propagermanium is approved for the treatment of hepatitis B in Japan and is thought to have anticancer effects through induction of endogenous interferon-γ production and augmented NK cell activity. However, there is not enough evidence from clinical trials to judge its efficacy in cancer treatment.Several cases of severe organ toxicity including acute renal failure after oral ingestion of germanium compounds have been documented. These cases were caused by inorganic germanium compounds. However, labelling of products containing germanium compounds is often misleading and even in scientific literature, substance as well as product names of germanium compounds have been confounded. Therefore and given the risk of possible contamination with inorganic forms organic germanium compounds including propagermanium should be avoided outside clinical trials. Assessed as up to date in January 2019 by Barbara Wider. Assessed as up to date in April 2016 by Barbara Wider. Assessed as up to date in March 2015 by Barbara Wider. Assessed as up to date in January 2013 by Markus Horneber. Summary first published in April 2011, authored by Markus Horneber. Markus Horneber, Elke Wolf, CAM-Cancer Consortium. Propagermanium [online document]. February 28, 2017. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC): 3-[(2-Carboxyethyl-oxogermyl)oxy-oxogermyl]propanoic acid. International Nonproprietary Name (INN): Propagermanium. Other names/brand names: 2-carboxyethylgermasesquioxane, Ge-132, SK-818, Serocion, germanium sesquioxide, proxigermanium, repagermanium, organic germanium. History / chemical structure / properties The element germanium was discovered by the German chemist Clemens Winkler in 18861. It is located in the fourth main group of the periodic table of elements and detectable as a trace element in soil, seawater, plants, animals and carbon2-5. Germanium is not considered an essential trace element as no vital biological functions and no syndromes of deficiency are known6. The Russian chemist V.F. Mironov first published the synthesis of an organic germanium compound in April 19677. This compound was a polymer of subunits with the formula [(GeCH2CH2COOH)2O3]n which today has the international non-proprietary name propagermanium. Propagermanium has been produced and branded over the years with a confusing number of names by various manufacturers (see above). However Kaplan et al. refer in their review that all of these substance represent polymorphic forms of propagermanium, which are identical in aqueous solution8. Some other germanium compounds should not be confounded with propagermanium and are briefly addressed in the following. Spirogermanium In the late 70ies and 80ies, a completely different organic germanium compound was investigated for the use in cancer therapy: Spirogermanium (chemical name: 8,8-diethyl-N,N-dimethyl-3-aza-8-germaspiro[4,5]decane-2-propanamine). This substance was synthesized in 1974 and represents an azaspiran-germanium compound which was tested in various phase I/II trials to examine its antitumour effect. Due to a markedly negative risk-benefit profile, in particular neurologic toxicity, spirogermanium was abandoned (reviewed by Kaplan et al.8). Inorganic germanium compounds Two inorganic germanium compounds have been associated with renal damage: germanium dioxide (GeO2), which was contained in germanium supplements and elixirs sold over the counter as ingredient or contamination9 and germanium lactate citrate, a chelated form of GeO2, sometimes erroneously referred to as organic germanium compound (reviewed by Kaplan et al.8). Claims of efficacy / mechanism of action / claimed indication Germanium compounds have been popular as nutritional supplement since the 70ies9-10. K. Asai, a Japanese scientist, first advertised beneficial effects on health in general and on the course of a multiplicity of illnesses, amongst others cancer2. Present-day providers and proponents of propagermanium mostly refer to the theoretical concept of K. Asai, who marketed propagermanium, which he claimed to have first synthesized and regarded as “the fountain of life, which animates the entire universe” under the name “Ge-132”. In his concept, Asai proclaimed a lack of oxygen due to stress and wrong nutrition as common causes of all diseases. He deduced from the chemical structure of “Ge-132” an ability to enrich the body with oxygen and to reduce hydrogen radicals, thus effectuating a detoxification and normalization of a disturbed electric potential in diseased organs2. These theories never have been proofed, however preclinical studies in animals and healthy humans suggested a dose-dependent induction of interferon γ and an activation of macrophages and NK cells11-15. Pharmacological aspects An absorption rate of about 30% after oral administration of Ge-132 and rapid urinary excretion in a largely unmetabolized state was observed in a pharmacokinetic study on a small group of healthy adults15. Propagermanium is usually sold as a powder or in capsules for oral administration. Dose recommendations vary highly among providers (100 to 6,000mg/day). In a case series doses of 30 mg/day16, in one clinical trial 3,500 mg/day were applied17. Aspects of pharmaceutical drug and law regulations In most countries propagermanium falls under the regulations of dietary supplements. An import alert on germanium products was imposed by the U.S. FDA in 1988, because of possible injury to health18. In Germany governmental institutions warned consumers of possibly fatal kidney damage19. In the UK supplements containing germanium were voluntarily withdrawn by the industry6. In Japan propagermanium is approved for the treatment of HBe positive chronic hepatitis B20. Costs and expenditures The monthly costs for a daily dose of 30 mg are 30 €, daily doses of 6,000 mg add up to about 1500 € per month. Evidence concerning the efficacy of propagermanium comes from two clinical trials17, one review including seven case series21, a case series16 and one case report22. The clinical trials were reported with fragmentary data and a few sentences in a conference report17. One of them was a controlled study comparing two concentrations of propagermanium in 35 lung cancer patients. Higher survival rates were alleged in patients who received a not further specified dose above 20 mg/kg/day. The other study was referred to as a placebo controlled trial in patients with lung cancer during chemotherapy. Higher response and survival rates after 3 months were alleged in the propagermanium group. The sparse data given in the conference report do not allow any serious judgement and a more complete publication was not traceable. A 1987 review summarized results of seven case series in which propagermanium was given during chemotherapy or radiotherapy. According to the authors, the clinical courses suggested ”antitumour efficacy” and “a reduction of tumour-associated pain in several patients”21. A further case series describes the outcome of 10 patients with multiple myeloma being treated with daily doses of 10 to 40 mg propagermanium. Authors refer complete or partial responses in four patients as measured by decreases or normalisations of paraprotein levels. In the two complete responders bone marrow biopsy showed also a reduction of plasma cells16. Time points of measuring were not reported and in three of the patients the interval to former chemotherapy treatment was rather short. Therefore it is debateable whether the effect was truly attributable to propagermanium. A well documented complete remission of a rare form of lung cancer (spindle cell carcinoma) refractory to radiation therapy and various chemotherapies in a female 47-year-old patient was published in 2000. After 5 months of self-medication with propagermanium, the patient achieved complete remission, which at the time of the report had lasted more than four years22. A review from 1997 reported on 31 cases of organ toxicity related to different germanium compounds, including GeO2, germanium-lactate-citrate and propagermanium (Ge-132), which were ingested over a period from two to 36 months. In the two cases of propagermanium intake contamination with GeO2 was detected9. All cases showed renal impairment in terms of chronic or acute renal failure, which caused death in nine cases. Other clinical findings were anaemia, which occurred in all cases, gastrointestinal disturbances, weight loss, myopathy and liver dysfunction9. If at all, renal function improved very slowly and remained impaired in some patients observed as long as 40 months23-24. As a consequence, governmental institutions of several countries imposed alerts because of possible injury to health. According to data from animal studies, inorganic germanium compounds cause renal toxicity, whereas propagermanium does not25. However, French investigators found evidence that at least in rats, higher doses of propagermanium could also cause structural changes in the kidneys26. In a case series with 10 myeloma patients, depression was seen as an adverse effect attributed to propagermanium in two patients16. In a double-blind placebo-controlled trial on the treatment of chronic hepatitis B with daily doses of 30 mg propagermanium including 182 patients, no adverse events attributable to propagermanium were reported. A post-market survey including 32,700 patients with chronic hepatitis B reported liver enzyme flares in 4% of patients treated with propagermanium. As a consequence, severely impaired liver function is regarded a contraindication for the application of propagermanium in Japan20. Quality problems Germanium dioxide (GeO2) represents an intermediate product in the synthesis of organic germanium compounds9. Thus contamination of organic germanium compounds is possible if manufacturers do not safeguard the purity of their products. A new Element: Germanium. Lancet 127, 562 (1886). Asai, K. Organisches Germanium - Eine Hoffnung für viele Kranke. Semmelweis-Verlag, 27316 Hoya (2001). Schroeder, H. A. & Balassa, J. J. Abnormal trace metals in man: germanium. J Chronic Dis 20, 211-224 (1967). Hara, S. et al. Determination of germanium in some plants and animals. Z Naturforsch [C] 45, 1250-1251 (1990). Lewis, B. L., Frolich, P. N. & Andreae, M. O. Methylgermanium in natural waters. Nature 313, 303-305 (1985). Expert Group on Vitamins and Minerals. Safe Upper Levels for Vitamins and Minerals: Risk assessment Propagermanium, 2003. p. 197. Accessed 29th January 2019 Mironov, V. F., Berliner, E. M. & Gar, T. K. Reactions of Trichlorogermane with Acrylic Acid and its Derivatives. Zhurnal Obshchei Khimil 37 Nr. 4, 962. 1967. Kaplan, B. J., Parish, W. W., Andrus, G. M., Simpson, J. S. & Field, C. J. 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Propagermanium: a nonspecific immune modulator for chronic hepatitis B. J Gastroenterol 38, 525-532 (2003). Brutkiewicz, R. R. & Suzuki, F. Biological activities and antitumor mechanism of an immunopotentiating organogermanium compound, Ge-132 (review). In Vivo 1, 189-203 (1987). Mainwaring, M. G., Poor, C., Zander, D. S. & Harman, E. Complete remission of pulmonary spindle cell carcinoma after treatment with oral germanium sesquioxide. Chest 117, 591-593 (2000). Hess, B. et al. Tubulointerstitial nephropathy persisting 20 months after discontinuation of chronic intake of germanium lactate citrate. Am J Kidney Dis 21, 548-552 (1993). Sanai, T. et al. Germanium dioxide-induced nephropathy: a new type of renal disease. Nephron 54, 53-60 (1990). Sanai, T. et al. Chronic tubulointerstitial changes induced by germanium dioxide in comparison with carboxyethylgermanium sesquioxide. Kidney Int 40, 882-890 (1991). Anger, F., Anger, J. P., Guillou, L., Sado, P. A. & Papillon, A. [Subacute and subchronic oral toxicity of beta-bis carboxyethyl sesquioxide of germanium in the rat]. J Toxicol Clin Exp 11, 421-436 (1991). Give us feedback on this site CAM Cancer is hosted by NAFKAM Norway's National Research Center in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Les mer om NAFKAM Other websites from NAFKAM: NAFKAM CAM Regulation National Research Center in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NAFKAM), UiT The Arctic University of Norway 9037 Tromsø, Norway Phone number: +47 77 64 66 50 NAFKAM.NO	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line45
__label__cc	0.744239	0.255761	Centre for Learning & Teaching Subscribe to Centre for Learning & Teaching sbw25 Tuesday Ten: 10 questions we ask L & T experts Katharine Fraser (Kate) is a lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bath. Kate teaches Computational Fluid Dynamics and Medical Engineering to the final year students and her research is in cardiovascular engineering, with a focus on the design and development of artificial hearts. This year, Kate won the University's John Willis award. What can you see outside of the window? The mechanical engineering quad which has a big tree with a few magpies in it. What does your average day at work involve? This morning I marked a final year student’s project report, then had a meeting with a company in Paris via skype, and went to the lab to do a bit of sorting out. We then had research group meeting where the PhD students updated myself and the other cardiovascular engineering lecturer, Dr Andrew Cookson, on their progress. That involved discussion of results and issues surrounding experiments and numerical simulations. This afternoon I have a meeting with my personal tutees and will spend the rest of the time marking final year projects. I also need to spend a few minutes preparing for a trip to Stockholm on Sunday/Monday to meet a company I am collaborating with. Why do you think teaching at your university is important? The next generation are going to take the world forward in bigger and better ways, we’d better teach them well so they do a good job! What do you hope the impact of your teaching will be? I’d like all the students to know more about the subjects I teach than when they started, and for at least some of them to be inspired to take the subjects further, for example in their project or career choices. Who has inspired you most in your teaching career? I’ve seen some great lecturers while I’ve been at Bath, but overall, I’d say the most inspiration has come from the students. When did a lecture go wrong and how did you overcome it? Last year I’d arrived early for a lecture as I had a slightly complicated MATLAB demonstration and a TurningPoint quiz to set up on the computer. Having got everything working, I switched on the projector and went to dim the board lights, only to discover they would not dim at all. (They worked perfectly for every other lecture.) The contrast was so bad it was impossible to see anything on the projector screen. After a few (well meaning, I’m sure) students had also attempted to dim the lights, I had to explain the whole lecture using only the handouts and the white board. (I did the MATLAB demo and quiz in the following lecture.) Recommend a book, film or album from the past year. I managed to progress beyond “Zog” to “Zog and the Flying Doctors” (both Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler) but I’ve not had a lot of time for books other than children’s books. I did read “The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations” by Thomas Morris which I really enjoyed, and watched “Hidden Figures” which was excellent. What is the biggest change that you've made to your teaching since you started your career? I go through derivations at what sometimes feels like a mind numbingly slow pace. I didn’t think students would want that, but it turns out they do. What piece of advice would you give to someone just starting out in teaching at your university? Make time to go and watch a range of academics teach, don’t try to be too adventurous too soon, and keep in mind the KISS acronym, oh, and check the lighting as soon as you arrive, and don’t skip over the derivations. What three things would you take to a desert island? Snorkel, sun cream… and laptop (with a solar powered charger.) Award winning lecturer heads to EuroPLAT conference Ahead of his trip to the European Psychology Learning and Teaching Conference, we caught up with Richard Joiner, recent winner of the University's prestigious Mary Tasker award. Richard will be live tweeting and posting video interviews direct from the... Join the Guardian's Rachel Hall for launch of CLT talk series Monday 9 October, 3.30pm \| BOOK YOUR PLACE It’s a tough transition: why universities must plan for generation alpha The Centre for Learning & Teaching is excited to welcome Rachel Hall, Editor of the Guardian Higher Education Network, on Monday... Technology-Enhanced Learning Surgery In preparation for the new academic year, staff from the Technology Enhanced Learning and Audio Visual teams have arranged a number of drop-in sessions for staff. Colleagues with questions about any aspect of e-Learning provision are invited to join the...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line48
__label__wiki	0.700221	0.700221	Rockies scout Freddy Garcia; wait out the rain By Troy E. Renck bullpen, Coors, Freddy Garcia, Jeff Francis, NL West, Rain, Torrealba Even before they were awarded the claim on Livan Hernandez, the Rockies continued their hunt for starting pitching. They were among several teams who scouted Freddy Garcia’s workout Tuesday in Miami. Garcia has not pitched this season. He’s 11 months removed from shoulder surgery, and the two bullpen sessions amounted to an audition for contenders. Agent Peter Greenberg told me Wednesday night that he would like to have Garcia signed by this weekend. “I hope so. If the right situation presents itself,” Greenberg said. “We will have to two see.” The Rockies are considered a longshot after getting Hernandez, but the Cardinals, Mets and Yankees are among those seeking rotation depth. 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__label__wiki	0.894846	0.894846	Dems introduce redistricting bill that Republicans still blast as unfair By Lynn Bartels Dan Pabon, Frank McNulty, Greg Brophy, Redistricting [media-credit name=”Colorado General Assembly” align=”alignnone” width=”495″] [/media-credit] The proposed map in Senate Bill 268. A Democratic redistricting bill introduced today still pairs Grand Junction with Boulder but puts Parker in a district with portions of El Paso County. Other Democratic proposals had Parker in the 3rd Congressional District, a move that outraged the Western Slope and Republican lawmakers and even puzzled some Democrats. Republicans say the map presented in the bill still is unacceptable because it splits communities of interest and makes dramatic changes to congressional boundaries in effect for nearly a decade. And they charged it now is clear to them Democrats never planned to work with Republicans to redraw a map to reflect 2010 census shifts. “They had no intention of negotiating in good faith with us,” said Sen. Greg Brophy, R-Wray. “It appears to me that all the public hearings, all the talk about listening to the people, it was all a ruse.” Rep. Dan Pabon, D-Denver, said that’s nonsense. “We offered fair maps,” he said. “We want to work with them.” Pabon and Brophy were among the 10 lawmakers on a bipartisan committee charged with redrawing Colorado’s seven congressional districts. The committee disbanded after being unable to agree on a map, and the Democratic bill was introduced today. Speaker Frank McNulty, R-Highlands Ranch, said it was “disappointing” that Senate Democrats decided to introduce their own partisan map. “The Democrat maps are not only an insult to the law, but also to the thousands of Coloradans who have testified, sent emails and made phone calls asking for a map that is fair and protects Colorado communities,” he said. Democrats have charged the five maps Republicans drew were designed to ensure the GOP won five congressional seats, while the six maps they presented create five competitive seats. Republicans argue the Democrats’ own data shows that’s untrue. They pointed to a Democratic and Republican map for Congressional District 4, now represented by U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma. Under one Democratic configuration, the voter registration breakdown was 27 percent Democrat, 36 percent unaffiliated and 36 percent Republican. Democrats labeled that map “competitive.” But Democrats labeled a GOP map for the district as a “safe” Republican seat although it had nearly the same registration makeup — 27 percent Democrat, 35 percent unaffiliated and 37 percent Republican. Brophy said he took Democrats on their word they wanted to negotiate a map, but in hindsight there were clues Democrats wanted to go in a different direction. “We started getting emails in early February from people in Estes Park saying, ‘Don’t put us in Boulder.’ And no one had had talked about that,” he said. “I’m thinking that the Democratic plan had leaked to a Democratic activist in Estes Park who didn’t want to be in with Boulder.” Brophy said a Coloradan who attended all the public hearings statewide asked the committee to take Greenwood Village out of the 6th Congressional District so it would be more competitive. The Democratic put Greenwood Village in with Denver in the 1st Congressional District. Brophy also said two Democratic activists from Glenwood Springs went to the Grand Junction hearing to suggest northwest Colorado should be put in the 2nd CD with Boulder. “That was so outlandish it stuck out in my mind,” Brophy said. He said he later asked county commissioners from Rio Blanca and Moffat if they wanted to be in a district with Boulder, and they said “no.” The Democratic maps put Boulder in with northwest counties. And another telling moment, Brophy said, was a post in the liberal blog ColoradoPols before the maps were made public. The blog pointed out that Colorado at one point had a congressional district ran along the entire southern border of the state. The Democratic maps create a 3rd Congressional District that covers the southern boundary. The redistricting committee met on April 20 with the goal of Republicans and Democrats working together draw a map together as they both has panned the other party’s maps. But that never happened as Sen. Rollie Heath, D-Boulder, continued to ask questions about the GOP maps. “Can we draw a map?” Brophy repeatedly asked, his frustration mounting as the night wore on. But the committee adjourned and Heath announced Monday, its efforts were over. Today’s bill was assigned to a Senate committee Heath oversees, but it’s unclear when it will be heard. The session must adjourn by May 11. The map that is included in the bill is what was known as the Democrats’ “city integrity 4.” It also puts Teller County, which is now in the 5th Congressional District with Lamborn, in the 3rd District, represented by U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez. Kit Carson County, in the 4th District in several Democratic maps, now is in the 3rd District. Categories: Colorado Legislature, Colorado Politics Key business group tells GOP to stand up to Tea Party on health care exchanges Jeff Peckman argues that web searches are a better vote-predictor than polling True – the “clues” have been around since at least the end of the last legislative session, when Democrats passed the “Mary-mandering” bill to un-tie the hands of the courts and allow “non-neutral factors” (such as partisan affiliation and voter trends) to be considered by the courts in reviewing district maps: http://www.clearthebenchcolorado.org/2010/04/26/mary-mandering-redistricting-by-courts-in-colorado-gets-boost-from-colorado-legislature-updating-political-lexicon/ The Democrat legislative leadership appears to be once again intentionally abdicating their responsibilities to pass redistricting legislation, and are again deliberately throwing the issue to the courts – not as a response to an impasse in negotiations, but as the planned approach all along. At this time last year, partisan Democrat Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey – who had handed Democrats the advantage in both Congressional Redistricting by usurping legislative authority in the Salazar v. Davidson case (http://www.clearthebenchcolorado.com/wp-content/themes/techland/caseSummary/summary_salazar_davidson.html) by essentially declaring the Colorado Supreme Court to be “part of the General Assembly” and also by stacking the Reapportionment Commission to give a 6:5 Democrat majority – had still not resigned due to the mounting momentum of the Clear The Bench Colorado movement: http://www.clearthebenchcolorado.org/2010/06/14/monday-media-week-in-review-did-clear-the-bench-colorado-influence-colorado-supreme-court-chief-justice-mullarkeys-retirement/ In any case – as numerous observers, including the Denver Post itself (http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/2010/11/11/who-holds-the-key-on-redistricting/18542/) have noted, the balance of power in ultimately deciding the outcome of both Congressional redistricting and state legislative reapportionment remains, unfortunately (for our democratic institutions and for our rights as citizens) with the largely unaccountable politicians in black robes on the Colorado Supreme Court: http://www.clearthebenchcolorado.org/2010/11/16/balance-of-power-on-congressional-redistricting-legislative-reapportionment-rests-with-bender-colorado-supreme-court/ Hate to say I told you so, but… should’ve Cleared The Bench, Colorado! (while you had the chance…) http://www.clearthebenchcolorado.org/ Comment by CTBC Director — April 29, 2011 @ 12:37 am Lynn, I believe that the comment quoted above needs to be clarified. As far as I know, the only group that testified to this was CITIZENS FOR CD 6 (CO). I obviously was their spokesperson throughout the public hearings, but there were others in our group that testified – one in Ft. Morgan & several in Castle Rock. Sen. Brophy is incorrect, in the reference here, that this may have been part of a Democratic strategy. It could not be further from the truth. We were certainly aware that there were groups on both the Democratic & Republican sides that were submitting maps to the committee. We had no involvement with any of these & came to our position statements through discussions with our candidate in 2010 & experience from campaign staff & volunteers. Comment by Mikelwhhitney — April 29, 2011 @ 9:32 am And, if the Republicans introduced a redistricting bill, the Dems would ‘still blast it as unfair’. The use of the term ‘still blast as unfair, communicates an obvious DP bias. Comment by Anonymous — April 29, 2011 @ 4:33 pm This is what happens when you have week leaders in the GOP… http://whoisdestroyingdenver.com I spoke James Mejia and told him of these videos. i spoke to him at a church service I attended, but he showed up after words. He told me he would call me to discuss these problems… WHAT A LIAR! He might have worked for other Mayors but things are not the way they were when he worked with these Mayors; Or are they? If you really care about your future vote! Comment by Marcus Giavanni — April 30, 2011 @ 3:24 pm	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line50
__label__cc	0.645468	0.354532	Meet the Editorial Board A Ray of hope in Tampa Bay Josh Geller Last November, the Tampa Bay Rays introduced a new nickname, new uniforms, and a promise for new winning ways. This November, the Rays may be introducing something else: a trophy to St. Petersburg. When this month was ushered in, the perennial cellar dwellers had the best record in the majors and had gone from fluke to pretender to contender to a team controlling its own destiny. No longer is Tropicana Field a desolate pit of despair. The fans come out and show their support for the home team. The atmosphere is electric, ringing with the team-symbol Cowbell. The team has performed under these conditions, going 18-1 when playing for crowds of 30,000+ at home. No longer are people embarrassed to wear Rays gear; they are proud. It’s hard to say what facet of their game is most significant to their success. After a bullpen ERA that was the worst in Major League history last year, their bullpen is fourth best this year at 3.41. Grant Balfour has a superb ERA under 1.5. The team has 10 walk-off victories, second only to the Marlins, with Gabe Gross, a defensive-minded outfielder acquired in a trade mid-season, hitting 3 of those 10. The team’s defense has greatly improved, with Gold Glove and Rookie of the Year contender Evan Longoria at third base and defensive wizard Jason Bartlett at shortstop. Or the most impressive stat of all: every start this year by a Ray has been by a pitcher at the age of 26 or younger. The winning percentage for teams when starting a player at age 26 or younger in the majors this year is .497. For the Rays it’s .622. Perhaps the greatest moment of all is the return and success of Rocco Baldelli. Once dubbed the future franchise player and given Joe DiMaggio’s #5 to boot, Baldelli found himself stricken with a mitochondrial disorder in spring training that made recovering from exercise near impossible. It was strongly questioned if he would ever play again. Yet in August, Baldelli returned to fill a void on the team, and as of September 3rd, he was batting .351 in 13 games, including a game winning double on August 30th. Heading into this year, the predictions nearly across the board were simple. The Red Sox and the Yankees would contend to win the division. Toronto and Baltimore would be average. The Rays would be weak again. Yet looking now, this isn’t true at all. The Rays hold a lead over the Red Sox for the division. 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__label__cc	0.717635	0.282365	Valuations - what is your 280 worth? for Selling and Agreed Insurance Valuations - click here (Updated 22nd October 2011) DVD to commemorate the Capri 280. This is a unique and exclusive look at the official Ford Press day photographs taken on the last few days of production of the Capri 280 at the Cologne plant Germany in December 1986. All pictures have been produced as a moving 'photo-montage' (rostrum style) presentation, together with other images of the Capri 280. The DVD is professionally narrated throughout and is approved by Ford UK. No other person is auhorised to produce this informative DVD. To date the use of the Ford Press Day pictures has been witheld, so this is truly an opportunity to view the 60 plus official Ford photo's. CLICK IMAGE FOR HOW TO ORDER YOUR DVD It lasts about 15 minutes and shows the Capri 280 being assembled and finally the last one off the assembly line. Plus lots of full colour pictures of Capri 280's that have been re-finished over the past decade or so. As the very last Capri 280 numerically was not the very last one off the assembly line it's possible, just possible that your very own 280 is the one being assembled in these photographs!! This DVD will be offered for sale either via this site, or at the Capri Power event at Malvern on 31st July. The price is a nominal £10 which includes postage - bargain!! Ford Motor Company has stipulated that only a set amount of DVDs may be distributed and only Capri owners should be the customers. Once they're gone, they're gone. NB - there is no video footage of moving cars - this is an historic look at the Press Day photo's but produced in such a way as to imitate movement with style, music and narration. How to obtain a DVD - just Send Dr Brooklands an email via this site to order your DVD, or catch up with us at Gaydon and Malvern. I'll make sure you don't miss us at the shows. I will see how they go and maybe advertise the DVD on selected Capri websites in the UK and maybe Europe. This is mainly of interest to Capri 280 owners but as it was the last of the 1.8 million Capri's to be built the DVD is offered to all Capri owners. It makes you think..... As we draw nearer to the decades of austerity starting in January 2011, I did a quick check on what has happened to the cost of motoring in the UK over the past 10 years. Mainly the costs of fuel. It was eye opening to note that in December 2000 the price of petrol at the pump was 75.6p per litre ( those of us who can recall when petrol was priced per gallon will know that the litre pricing was done to mask the true cost of increases - we were never supposed to do the mental arithmetic of multiplying every increase by 4.56 to get the true cost). Anyway, petrol stayed in the 70-76p bracket for 5 years, then in 2007 it rose to 103p p/litre. By December 2010 the price of unleaded is now at least 122p /litre. That's a rise of 61% in ten years. Those rises also didn't include the fuel escalator that the Tories imposed ( because clearly we were not paying enough for our fuel - even though the most expensive in Europe!). Now that the Tories/LibConDemServatives are in - guess what? The fuel escalator makes a heroic return, plus the oil increases and yes VAT, making our petrol the most expensive anywhere in the civilised world. The US citizens are balking at paying $2 per gallon! - I wish. OK why do I mention this? Well, I am amazed we all accept this without the slightest notion as to how we combat it. We are well and truly ripped-off, they know it, we know and they know we do nothing but pay up. The £10 a gallon price of petrol can't be far off. The rises are not a straight line graph, but will exponentially rise (like energy prices) without control and without a care. If petrol only rises by the same 61% over the next 10 years it will mean £8.90 per gallon. Never thought you'd read that eh? So, include the fuel escalator and oil and VAT, whatever, and £10 a gallon is knocking on the door. Enjoy motoring while you can. There has never been a better time to enjoy a classic car, because, as we've seen it only get more and more expensive each successive year. There is no reason for the extortionate pricing other than they know we'll pay. That's how the market works - you price according to what the customer will pay. When they stop paying you drop prices like mad. As always I am happy to meet your Classic Ford motoring needs for 2011 onwards. It's not all doom and gloom, but neither is it going to get better. Have a great Christmas everyone. Remember the good old days and the true meaning of this Christmas season, and I don't mean stuffing yourself with turkey and flashing the plastic in John Lewis and Debenhams either! Always here at the end of a phone for your Capri 280 motoring needs - Ho Ho Ho............. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ November 2010 - Recently had an email from a guy enquiring about one of my 280's. I gave him the prices and his reply sort of took me by surprise. He said he couldn't possibly bring himself to pay 'more than the car cost originally'. Now I didn't know exactly how to explain to him that most if not all classic cars are worth anything from twice to three times what they were originally, and even up to 20 or 30 times! There's E Type Jags for sale in Newark for £100,000. TR5's for £25,000 etc. When you think a Capri 280 was listed at 11,999 - and now 24 years later are selling for prices in the region of 15-17k that's really quite low considering the awsome nature of the car - full leather, V6 motor, special paint, LSD axle, low profile tyres and a place in motoring history. Each year we lose more of them, thus making them more attractive and rarer than ever. I suppose the right answer would have been - ' I think classic cars are maybe not for you..............' This is why you cannot believe a single word or even a syllable that emanates from the lips of a politician 29th June 2009. Government abandons national road pricing scheme "Not the time to be putting that before the British people," says transport secretary 24th July 2009. MPs call for drivers to take part in 'voluntary' road pricing scheme. They couldn't even conceal this lie for more than 3 weeks. The last time I looked I WAS being road priced. Every time I drive I pay 70% tax on my fuel. The more I drive the more tax I pay. That's road pricing isn't it? Or are we drivers now expected to be at the forefront of the 'War on Recovery from the Reckless Use of Public Money' yet again? Don't you just feel that the Cash Cow Piggy Bank of British motorists will be squarely in the cross-hairs of those seedy Govt ministers who use the Motoring Ready Reckoner to balance MPs coffers everytime they are short, which of course, is It's that time again when warnings are needed. Beware fake Capri 280's If you ever see a Capri advertised anywhere as a 280 or Brooklands always ask the following questions:- 1. When was it registered? - all 280's were completed Dec 1986 and none were regstered before 1987. 2. What is the VIN or at least the last 7 digits? They must begin 'GG' and have 5 numbers after that. If not, - not Brookie. 3. The colour code on the VIN plate must state T7. This is a pretty sure way to find out who is genuine and who is conning you. If you know of anyone contemplating a purchase that you think is iffy - point them to this site it'll save them thousands and maybe a Civil Action. Not only fake Capri 280's but fake wheels and parts are auctioned from time to time. If you see wheels and tyres or indeed any part that advertised as from a Capri 280 or Brooklands - before you buy check out whether there's a Ford Motorsport stamp on the wheel or Ford logo on the part. I have pictures of just about all parts that are worth bothering with for the 280 - it will save you loads of mis-spent cash. For example, the 15 inch wheel on a Capri 280 will look like this:- If it doesn't look like this then chances are it's a fake. Also the tyre fitted will be a Pirelli P7 195x50-15 that looks like this:- Just send me an email if in doubt and I'll try to help. BTW - it's a criminal offence to advertise something as genuine which you know is not. Ignorance is not much of a defence, especially if someone has told you the part is fake in advance. At last an answer to the perennial question that people keep asking me! "How many Brookies are there left?" So what is the answer? I have made enquiries with the only place that has up to date records of such things (correct at 16th June 2009) Capri 280's taxed at end of December 2008 = 234 Capri 280's currently SORN = 229 So there we have it 463 Capri 280's known to the DVLA Unregistered = I only know of 3 for certain - can't possibly tell you where they are though........... So, I hope that settles the matter for most of us? Now, all I have to do is find all these owners and ensure they are providing sufficient TLC to these rare beauties! You heard it here first - at the Doctors Surgery. (This list won't include those 280's abroad inc Ireland) 280's that are scrapped, dead or Cat C and D Ins write-offs are not known. There are one or two in New Zealand and Oz - if you know of any in Europe give me a shout. Cars only have to have SORN submitted after 1989 I think - so there's a good possibility that some 280's will be off the road and unknown to DVLA. I think it's fair to say that around 50% of all 280's are alive today. New Government scheme - Scrappage How it works is this. Whatever vehicle you currently own NuLabour will give you a brand new vehicle in it's place. There's only one snag..................... Yes, I'm afraid under the new Speed Limit changes you'll have to drive a Hearse. Two reasons 1. It's the only vehicle designed to crawl along the highways at 20mph or less; 2. It will be a fitting tribute the the death of motoring as we know it and the timely passing of NuLabour. Be afraid, be very afraid............ You won't realise what's happening til it's too late - this hair-brained scheme will be as effective as the last targets they set 11 years ago and in the process devastate our wonderful roadways and travelling in general. why this picture? Read below......... European Traffic Police Network (TISPOL). Non elected bureau in EU. April 2009. Well I did warn you. The New World Order, NuLabours masters, in Europe have sent a decree to British Police to nail as many of us as possible this week. Please don't be shocked or surprised at this speed feeding frenzy of trying to appease our masters in Europe. Even though Labour will be just a distant memory by the time our roads have been decimated, the damage will have been done and no Tory Govt will reverse this ludicrous 'One size fits all policy'. Look at USA in 1973. They introduced the 55mph limit as a measure to reduce oil consumption when the Oil Crisis began. Funny how 36 years later they still have the limit that was never intended for Road Safety even thought the pressure groups say it was and claim it as their own idea. Labour has caved and under the direction of the ex-Fireman Jim Fitzpatrick, virtually every speed limit especially on urban and countryside roads (ergo, every road in Britain) will have reduced limits. The failed policy in 1997 to reduce 50% RTA for children and 40% adult RTAs failed abysmally because they threw everything at Speed, which it turns out is not the major cause of RTAs and fatalities. Not deterred by the facts they cower from EU directives and try to ruin even further our liberties and freedoms by over constraint, over regulation and suppressive controls. All in the name of safety you understand. First they weren't going to mess with speed limits (Tony Blair 1998) Then they start to rake in millions a year with Scameras so they meddled with speed limits to lower them where revenues were falling, or should I say speeding was lowered (but wasn't that the aim?) Anyway, last count the rake in was £100m per year. Not content with putting a blanket 50mph across the nations free and flowing A roads, they are starting to lay plans for 20mph on the built up areas, or residential areas as they call them. Well apart from Motorways and some rural dual carriageways nearly every road passes through a 'residential area'. The ex Fire Officer, who must now be an expert on Road Safety (obviously, or else he wouldn't have such a high profile job eh?) and is the Transport Minister, now thinks that the answer to all pedestrian related RTAs is to slow vehicles to 20mph or less. Now, call me cynical but after driving for 39 years, being a Police Advanced Grade 1 driver, an ex Road Safety Officer and Traffic Cop I think, yes I think, that pedestrian accidents in almost 100% of cases are caused by people walking or running in the carriageway. If that is the case, and cars are not travelling the pavements and footways, then the problem is people on the roads not cars on the pavement. If people on the highway is the problem, then apart from banning cars altogether (and I'm not sure that isn't NuLabs ultimate plan) why for pity sake is the solution being aimed at the driver and not the root cause i.e. the Pedestrian? Could it be that the technology to crush the motorist and get penalties is already here and able to be (mis) used at the drop of a hat? Or could it be that enforcing Jay Walking by errant pedestrians is just too time consuming and non cost effective i.e. can't issue as many penalty tickets? Either way the upshot is this. National speed limits on perfectly fine roads down to 50mph, built up areas down to 20mph, drivers will get so used to a walking speed kind of driving that 50 mph will seem like a trip to a NASCAR circuit, thus the psychological effect will make crawling and jerking along at less than 20mph seem less awful when we can really open the motor up to 49mph and even consider 2nd or 3rd gear. Whoopdeedoo! Drivers behave best when they are travelling at appropriate speeds for the road and their vehicle. Fact. Cars have never been safer regarding brakes, visibility and impact crumple zones. Fact. Drivers get justifiably schizoid when treated like idiots and serial killers due to either the actions of a few, or worse the actions of pedestrians and cyclists who breach all codes of safety and common sense but are never the target of Gordon's Storm Troopers. Answer? If you want to prevent pedestrian casualties on our drivers roads, then target the cause - i.e. the pedestrian. Apply the same draconian and relentless policy that is applied to the driver - problem solved and no needless restrictions on the driver, again.......... Of course it's impossible to expect targeted action by this conglomerate of misfits - none of them are 'Fit for Purpose'. Oh and what happens when the RTA rate increases as it surely will? 10mph, 5mph, 0mph? It's the only logical solution when a crass and sledge hammer policy is aimed NOT at the cause of the problem. It gets worse - Wait til those little 'lectric, silent killers are silently whirring along the roads causing chaos, batteries going flat on bends corners and crossings and blithely running over people who's last words were, 'I never heard it coming officer............. gasp, splutter' (This assumes that an Officer would actually attend such an event in the future). Not to mention the sting in the tail - that is the cost of your leccy bill, the cost to the carbon output of the country by massive drains on the national grid (see they've even got me talking about carbon now!) And best of all when they've sucked you all in to the leccy car gimmick - watch those bills and incentives go up and disappear respectively. Like they did with the diesel revolution and like LPG is going. Bottom line. Drivers need appropriate speed limits. Higher on most roads not lower. Reduced outside schools, hospitals and high pedestrian activity maybe. 50mph is bad enough but 20mph will drive everyone nuts but the Govt stats will 'prove' beyond doubt that they saved something from happening somewhere on the road network. The damage to your engine at low speeds is a known fact, longer to warm up, neat fuel washing the bores, exiting through the exhaust and wrecking your Catalytic converters and pushing more emissions out............. hey Gordo, good plan mate. Don't believe me? Have a try driving at 20mph or less through every part of your built up area, housing estate, in fact anywhere that is not a dual carriageway - see the chaos it causes, see how your car reacts and see what happens to fuel consumption, engine wear and emissions - not to mention the 'anger' it will introduce to you and other drivers. Modern vehicles and our roads have never been better or safer. Yet in 2009 we are creating un-natural road hazards called 'Speed moderators' (Traffic Calming - yeah right, how calm do you feel negotiating the minefield of road humps? I drive to the opposite side of the road to avoid them as my daily driver is too low for these monstrous car killers) [sorry where were we?].... such as huge lumps of rubber, plastic or tarmac which wreck tyres, suspension and nerves, thus ruining the highway. Our progress is impeded more by lower limits, higher penalties and the driver is seen as the source of endless punishment and revenue. 21st Century progress? Slower, slower, stop. We've advanced to a state of crawl. The average speed through London 120 years ago was 10mph, it's now 8mph. Targeting the worst offender has been an option always open to use. But no, NuLab Stasi consider a blanket punishment on EVERY driver from the outset is much better than catching an offender and punishing him/her when necessary. This will only get worse and worse because not only do they impose wrongly targeted scam/schemes - they never admit they're wrong and refuse to reverse banal restrictions. It takes Local Auth Chief Execs to dump funding Scameras 'as they are no use in Road Safety' (Swindon). Expect nothing to change for the better - wrong people in wrong jobs metering out wrong policies in the wrong direction. (This article will go to News and Articles page in a few days, or as soon as the next idiot in Government pops his/her head up with another winner!) ps don't you wish the Govt had technology to catch poor, inattentive, dangerous, reckless, inconsiderate drivers who really cause RTA's? Yeah, don't hold your breath. That option is at the bottom of the Govt basket marked 'Too Hard'. Ed. I make no apologies for devoting major space on my website to this subject - I seem to be saying what a lot of other s are thinking. I value travelling freedoms and proper safety. There's not a single policy I've witnessed in recent times that gives me any hope for better days ahead. We've lived through the good days of motoring and you can be sure that NuLabour will divest you of the very last drop of enjoyment and freedom whilst at the same time extracting revenue from you for every inch you drive, infringe crazy rules and dare to stop. What is sad is that you and I will just roll over and let them do it. Government of the people, by the people, for the people? In your dreams................... "Nanny knows best, there, there". Dictatorship ethos: 'Constraint, Restriction, Regulation, Suppression and Penalty' sound familiar or did you only just move to StalagGB? Who was it that said 'when democracy finally fails dictatorship is the only logical step'? I'm speechless (almost) ........................... I asked why this picture? Well, Gordon Brown commented recently after the death of David Cameron's son that 'Every life is important', and of course he's right. Now the hypocrisy. Since NuLabour have been in office, sorry, power (they like that word) Gordon Brown has presided over the slaughter of, wait for it, 1,992,900 young babies in their mothers wombs in the UK. So when you hear Gordo bleating on about every life important, and 'we must stop deaths on our roads' forget it, he doesn't lose a wink of sleep knowing that 'on his watch' the UK has 'lawfully' butchered more children than were destroyed in the Holocaust. Plain fact is this - the UK is broke, the Govt has sold us down the river, they need more funds and you can't get that by putting a Cash Camera in the abortion clinics, however you can get 100's of millions from drivers. The morality is clear. There is no morality. April fuel? you'll wish it was a joke It's no joke - yet again this Band on the Run Government has gone against the flow, dismissing the voters wishes and they've hiked up motor fuel duty again. If petrol was given away at the pumps we will still have to pay nearly 80p per litre to the Government light fingered brigade. Still, we're British (not European) and in 2009 we lie down and accept everything this bunch hurl at us. They don't have to do it, they want to do it, and, as we know, they can do anything they like with your money. I'm guessing some hefty 'expenses' are due in Parliamentary circles and some April Fools have to pay for it. Yup, you and me. Fools we are......... Just me? I'm afraid they're at it again, only worse this time. This unbelievable Government is throwing yet another huge blanket at a problem that is caused by a tiny percent of bad drivers. I refer of course to the National Speed Limit being reduced from 60mph, to 50mph. What will this achieve? Well, it is bound to increase RTA's. Most accidents are caused by poor, aggressive or inattentive drivers. They are not caused by speeding drivers per se. Not even this ludicrous Government and it's pitiful array of Transport Ministers will argue that point. (see my Articles and News page) As an Ex Traffic Cop and Road Safety Officer and Traffic Management Consultant, I can safely say that trying to reduce still further, inappropriately low speed limits will make the situation worse. Drivers caught in and endlessly winding mobile traffic jam by someone doing 40-44mph along rural roads will be frustrated when they see open roads reduced to a crawl. Result? Normally courteous and conservative drivers will now seek out the slightest passing opportunity and therefore increase risk of conflict. Overtaking will be seen as Anti-social. Plus, we all know that over-taking on double white lines, on bends, approaching cross roads, junctions etc are the real causes of serious RTA's - including the drugged and drunken drivers. In 1981,82 and 83 when I was Road Safety Officer there were between 3,100 and 3,400 deaths on the roads of Britain each year - nothing the Government did reduced that figure. Since we now have much better cars, clearer all-round vision, ABS brakes, better tyres and suspension, coupled with road-humps, more road signs, traffic lights and more Speed Cameras than you can count - what is the result? The same number of deaths - perhaps even more so. Everything the Govt. does to slow us down has a net effect of more congestion, more frustration, even more public alienation (if that ere possible given this bunch!) The real fact is Speed alone is no problem. Every RTA involves speed i.e. if you travel faster than 0mph you are travelling at speed. Nu Labour have made Speed a swear word. In my experience, poor, aggressive and dangerous driving is the problem. However there is no revenue raising technology to detect that is there? Ah hem, do we smell a rat here? Tony BLiar said in 1999 that Labour would "not interfere with the current speed limits as they were appropriate" - OK stop laughing will you. There is a serious case for raising limits on dual carriageways and Motorways. Even raising it on rural roads in a lot of areas. The latest ruse is to achieve the stealth technology SPECCS etc, to get the infrastructure in place to monitor and charge you for every mile you drive. All average speed cameras have ANPR technology that can ID your car and Registered Keeper. Always look for the Trojan Horse - nothing is what it seems. They say it's for Road Safety but as we all know even with 6000 fixed speed cameras out there, fatal RTAs keep occurring - thus proof that Speed Does Not Kill - INAPPROPRIATE Speed and bad driving kills. Quite why the British drivers, the voting public allow these non-driving, hidden agenda, stealth taxation people to keep crushing the spirit of the motorists in the UK I will never understand. In 5 years time I'll update this blog (which will be archived on my Articles and News page shortly) and I can be pretty confident that the net effect of NuLabours (and probably the copycat Tories if they go along with this scam) ridiculous draconian policy on speed, will be - yup more drivers disqualified, more RTAs bourne out of frustration and the casualty figures will be the same or worse. Doomsday merchant? Me? No not a bit. I have seen what goes on behind closed doors. Faceless wonders in Europe throw down a dictat to the puppy dog UK about RTA figures. NuLabour sit up and beg - and create unachievable targets to please the un elected 'hero's' in Brussels. They did this in 1997 when they set out to reduce Child fatalities by 50% and Adult fatalities by 40% - both targets missed completely because they used a big Hammer called the Speed Camera and every nail they hit just picked out the errant, and day to day drivers and hardly reduced a casualty. The Government approach to Road Safety is like the Government approach to Airport Security - 'don't profile and target the real perpetrators and hit them hard, just blanket frisk everyone and lasergun everything that moves.' For 30 years I saw how targetting crooks and rogue drivers really worked. For the last 12 years I've seen how a One Size Fits All approach by NuLabour has caused grief, alienation, frustration amongst the driving public. Also it has ruined the one last bastion of freedom in this nation the freedom to take a drive as a past-time and for Social, Domestic and Pleasure purposes. Remember those quaint words? SD&P. I am so surprised that NuLabour hasn't officially replaced those words with Anti-Social, UnDesirable and Pleasureless driving. Well they've done that in all but name anyhow. You see some of us don't NEED a car to get back and for to work - some of us enjoy a trip out and we drive appropriately. All we can look forward to now, despite increased technology - better roads etc is a much lower average speed, increase in stress levels and more man made obstructions on our journey. So much for progress. Motto - "if you cannot set realistic targets - just keep throwing a bigger and heavier blanket over the situation until you get a result". Nu Labour 21st Century. Ed's note: Yes I'm afraid I belong to the most persecuted and discriminated against group in Britain. White, male, married, Small Business owning, Christian believing, heterosexual, tax-paying motorist, er, with savings................ In many years of Internet useage I've never, ever had such cause to give vent to spleen as I have since 1997 - go figure. Just popping out in the old TwinTurbo for a blatt - Oh no, Carbon Footprint, global warming, climate change, coast erosion, depletion of the natterjack toad...................... ps just read about the Traffic Cop in Merseyside who stopped a driver last week for, wait for it, 'Laughing too much at the wheel'. The driver was on handsfree phone and laughing at a friends conversation - I did tell you there would be an offence of Grinning with Intent didn't I? Trouble is I was joking. Beam Me Up! pps - before anyone rushes to judgment over this editorial - after 15 years of Traffic Patrol I have probably dealt with more RTAs and fatalities than most people visiting my website - so I do know what I'm talking about and I know the real causes of collisions. Competition - no prizes (not in this game!) Ever wondered why you, the British driver feel as if the motorist is the most hated form of UK citizen? Ever wonder why you are penalised at every turn? Ever stop to think why only 5% of the billions you pay each year in road taxes goes back to road improvements? Did it occur to you that the answer lies in the common denominator below:- What do all these people have in common? Well? Clue - did you ever see one of these driving a car? No? OK getting warm. At least 4 of these never bothered to learn to the basic rudiments of driving let alone take a test, never pulled up at a fuel pump to mutter the words, 'Look at the price of petrol' - so couldn't relate to you or me in any conversation about the cost of motoring, let alone say 'We know how the motorists feel'............ Everyone of these either can't drive, couldn't drive, won't drive - and ALL are/were involved in Transport Policies for the UK motorist at some point in their careers. All either hate cars, drivers (except their money) and none have done anything to ease the relentless attack on our motoring costs. Byers, Dunwoody, Livingstone, Brown, Ladyman and Cameron. Do you think it's a coincidence that each time Transport Policy is under review there's a Car Hater at the helm? Well, if you did, you don't now. Until we get a real driver, who understands and even enjoys motoring (instead of just dipping into motorists pockets) I'm afraid we are going to be hung out to dry. Don't expect sympathy - you are seen as a source of revenue. And in keeping with the car hating theme we now have Geoff Hoon - the new Sec of State for Transport - ushering in Road Pricing at break-neck speed (even though his predecessor Ruth Kelly gave up the idea ) I only posted this to take your mind off the fact that petrol just went up 9p a gallon despite the recession. I will move this to my Articles and News section within a few days - if 'they' don't get me beforehand.................. Petrol will never decrease in price under the Tories - not even if oil went down to $10 a barrel!!! It's a 'see-saw' fuel duty that says 'when oil is lower we'll put the fuel duty up - and when oil is higher we'll drop the duty a tad. Either way you motoring suckers will pay and pay dearly................ Tory answer to your high petrol bills - announced 6th July by George Osborne - Tory shadow Chancellor - "The plans, unveiled by shadow chancellor George Osborne yesterday, would link fuel duty levels directly to oil prices – so as fuel prices rise, duty decreases. Osborne said if the ‘fair fuel stabiliser’ had been implemented in the last budget, duty would currently be 5p lower. (Um, diesel would be £1.32 a litre instead of £1.37 - Oh heck you are too generous me old mate - what we want is that crippling duty reduced by about £25 p a litre NOW) “It’s a common sense plan to bring stability to public finances and help the environment by making the price of carbon less volatile,” he said. Graeme Leach, chief economist and head of policy at the Institude of Directors (IoD), indicated Osborne’s proposals were unrealistic. Now is it just me or is this con of gigantic proportions? Look at it. As oil prices surge - the fuel duty slides down. As oil drops the fuel duty soars back up. Now call me cynical but either way we pay the same high prices with NO chance of petrol ever getting lower priced again. Logic says that if petrol is £2 a litre and the price of oil goes up, then instead of the pump price going to say, £2.25 per litre (yes I'm not kidding) - the duty level would drop by perhaps a similar amount. Thus making the price of petrol remain a ridiculous £2 per litre. Using the same see-saw scale - if oil prices dropped drastically then the fuel escalator would kick in and the fuel duty would rise from about £1.25 per litre to say £1.50 a litre making the drop in oil invisible to the motorist. Taken a step further if oil dropped to zero dollars a barrel - then instead of petrol being about 60p per litre it would still be £2 because the Tory fuel duty would rise to the opposite extent that oil dropped. What I'm saying is it's a lose lose situation for us because the Government will always counter balance oil / fuel / duty etc. Hey Mr Osborne - thanks but er, no thanks. We understand your DelBoy initiative and we laugh at it. Capri 280's any point? Yes, believe it or not - people are still wanting one, still contacting me and not letting the below mentioned stuff scare them off completely. People are feeling the pinch but still not letting the squeeze stop them from enjoying life with a classic Ford. My last sale was the G Reg 280 - sold to a hard working guy up north. Decided that he wanted the car he always promised himself and he's a happy bunny. A super car that can return 31-32 on a run in style - can't be bad eh? Read on and you will get depressed but once you are, have a strong cup of coffee and then make sure they don't grind you into the ground!! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ When your car tax goes up to £400 a year pretty soon, bet you wish you had a pre-2001 car to drive eh? Still, at least you'll sleep safe in the knowledge that this Govt will spend 9 million x £400 wisely and 'save the world'. Yeah, Wolverines make good house pets too............................. I mean surely Labour wouldn't lift even more cash out of your pockets for dubious and spurious causes would they? Latest - OIL June 2008 - is expected to hit $250 a barrel fairly soon - that will mean £2.30 per litre in the UK. Never thought it could happen did you? Who would have said that the past 2-3 years were 'the good old days'? Not me. But there's a lot of players out there all fixing and manipulating markets. The speculators have done their worst with the financial markets hence the credit crunch - now they are gambling on oil futures hence there's panic and increases even when there's no actual change in the supply or demand. It's fast approaching a time when to travel will be a past time of the seriously rich and the rest of us will have tin cans occupying our driveways and garages. It's a bit depressing but that's about it. There worst part I suppose is this - the crooks in the treasury take 70% of every tanful of petrol as tax. They spend or squander it away of many different things, mainly failed computer systems, propping up excess management structures in organisations and education establishments. Which means this. The British driver is now using 20% less fuel due to crippling costs so the exchequer is getting 20% less tax. Getting the picture? What will the Cash Guzzler Darling do when his ATM (the motorist) is down on funds? Well you work it out. They want us supposedly to drive less, use less oil / fuel etc. But when we do they get less tax to fund scandalous schemes. Outcome? You guessed it. If we do what they want, and spend less at the pumps coz we are being crushed, then they get less income and will hit us again somewhere else. And once we get hit elsewhere, it won't matter if oil reduces because the extra taxes will just stay. Bit like the price of chips at the chip shop - spuds were in short supply one year in the 80's - so up went a bag of chips from 30p to 85p. Spuds got plentiful later but chips stayed high. So it is with this oil / fuel / tax on motoring. Who will get us out of this? Labour? Tories? The choice my friend is Hobsons. It's like being asked if you prefer to be assaulted by Mike Tyson or Evander Holyfield - who you going to choose? Enjoy your car while you can - won't be long that's for sure. The £10 gallon is just round the corner and I recall when we protested at 87p per litre - happy days. HOW TO ESCAPE THE RECESSION You can escape the coming financial crash and the economic disaster helped along by 'Prudence' Brown and his bunch of £100 grand a year (without expenses and Gold Plated pensions) cohorts. Here's how:- 1. Don't buy food 2. Don't have a mortgage 3. Don't drive 4. Don't heat your water or your home 5. Don't fly 6. Don't use public transport - esp trains There - saved you a fortune - no charge for this advice.................. Oh yes, nearly forgot, whatever you do, do NOT grow old in Britain. Yup it's a crisis. Crude hits $135 a barrel May 2008. The 200 dollar barrel is not too far away. Britain is fast becoming a 3rd world entitiy. Hardly any influence and bidding against the new economies of China and India. We cannot sustain our use of oil. Petrol prices will go through the roof and we will look back on 2008 as a time of, er, cheap fuel prices. Why keep mentioning this? Like I said dozens of times before. Classic cars will be ornaments before too long - read the headlines and the small columns. Our fabulous Capri's will soon be thought of as unsocial and everyone will be expected to drive an electric food mixer. Not because it saves the planet, but because we just won't be able to afford petrol. Answer? I actually do not know. All I can say is - if you want a classic Ford the only time to buy and enjoy one is now. Not tomorrow, not next week, but now. This is not doom and gloom it's fact. The upside is your wallet will not be weighing you down quite as much as in previous years. Who is a buyer and who is a dreamer? There are a number of good indicators as to whether you are a buyer or a wishful thinker. Sometimes it helps to know. I have seen the signs over the years. Here's a few pointers that will see which camp you fall into:- You know you'll never buy a Capri 280 when:- (I have proved every one of these points except number 10) 1. You send emails only and never make a phone call to discuss the car. 2. You say you'll come and see the car but never do. 3. You are only concerned with the price. 4. You don't spend many waking hours and sleeping hours thinking about the car. 5. You consider also looking at Escorts, MGs and Audi's. 6. You think 100 miles is too far to travel to test drive. 7. You wait longer than a week to make your mind up. 8. You are thinking of importing to your country. 9. You consider it's a toss up between double glazing, a new kitchen or a Capri. 10. You work for Northern Rock! So how did you fair? If more than 2 of the above apply to you - then you are not a buyer. There, just saved us both a lot of time. A Buyer on the other hand is one who:- 1. Has the budget to meet his/her dreams. 2. Is aged 40 plus 3. Businessman, usually. 4. Just had an insurance payout, shares cashed in or can't stand Euro-shaped tin cans. 5. Always promised himself one of these for the last 15 years. 6. Can't stop thinking about it. 7. Visits my website at least 7 times a week. 8. Has pictures of a 280 as screen saver or wall paper 9. Just promised to take the family / wife on a smashing holiday or get the new kitchen as well 10. Able to convince himself and the wife that this is a form of investment. Well, he actually doesn't need convincing............... Ticked more than 3 of these? Sorry you're hooked give us a call. (If you think this is made up, think again - the chap who bought my G Reg said he looked at the list, ticked off more than 3 and rang me to say "I'm hooked" and he bought the car) Turbo Technics to re-release their legendary F9, & F26 kits for the 2.8i - 280 Capri !! Here's the deal: Turbo Technics have said if they get 10 orders, with a 20% deposit for each kit they will re-produce them. I'm not certain of the pricing - but I did hear 'less than 3 grand' - better ring Hamish or Sales at Turbo Technics. This is the press release from Turbo Technics:- "This kit is identical to the famous kits we produced in the 80's and 90's which when fitted to the new Capri's would make 200bhp. Producing power at high speed is relatively easy, but the aim of the development programme was to build an engine which would also produce a high level of torque from very low speed. The key to achieving this is the exhaust manifold and Turbo Technics design expertise has produced a technically advanced pulse separation configuration, using a single turbo. In conjunction with the carefully matched Garrett T3 turbocharger, excellent low speed response is achieved, with minimal turbo lag. The resulting engine not only gives exhilarating performance, but does so in a totally fuss-free manner, with no perceptible transition to "boost" conditions. Economy is virtually unaffected, and an effective intercooler in conjunction with a carefully integrated system ensures a very high degree of reliability, for which Turbo Technics have established a trend-setting reputation. The kit uses the standard compression ratio and runs with standard transmission and consists of a T3 turbocharger, manifold, intercooler, vacuum capsule, fuel enrichment air cone block, oil feed and return pipes, cross pipe and a down pipe from the turbo as well as all the pipe work and clips to plumb everything in. The only part not included from the original kit is the complete exhaust system see fig13 in drawings. The Turbo system can be fitted in a few days by any competent DIYer and does not need to be carried out by specialists. However, it is important that the engine is in good mechanical condition before the kit is installed, especially if it has covered high-mileage." Engine Power Output. Maximum power = 200BHP (149Kw) @ 5,500r/m Maximum torque = 247 Lbf-Ft (320Nm) @ 3,800r/m Typical Performance Figures Capri 200BHP 0-60 ml/hr 6.5 0-100 ml/he 14.8 Max speed 143 ml/hr on the standard final drive Your order will be taken with a 20% deposit. Please call Turbo Technics sales department on 01604705050 for further information 2 Sketty Close Brackmills NN4 7PL Ed: Dr B has owned 4 Turbo Technics Capri 280's and they are without a doubt the most stunning drive ever! If only Ford had put this conversion on as standard......... but then everyone would have one wouldn't they? Original diagrams: Don't know quite how to arrange a Group Buy of at least 10 units but I guess if enough interest is shown they'll be swamped with orders. Pass this on to all your Capri nutters out there. Remember Norman Bates would have a kit - how is that for a recommendation? FUEL PRICES - MORE INFO TO DEPRESS YOU - This is the way that the Government fleeces you every day. Link to Petrol Prices.com The Last Capri 280 ever built Did you know - that the first Capri 280 ever built was stolen and never recovered? Did you know that Ford Europe kept the last one made Reg Number D194 UVW and it's in Gaydon plant today? Did you know that the engine/chassis number of the last 280 ever made has the unique number GG11896? Did you know that the last Capri 280 ever to be registered is a G REG and is featured on my website? Did you know that the last 280 to physically roll off the assembly line in Cologne is NOT considered to be the last one ever made. It is official that the last one ever made is final chassis number GG11896. Even if you have the work ticket that is time and date stamped as the last one off the assembly line - unless it is GG11896 it just ain't the official last one. Any doubts? Call the Doctor! Just thought I'd put this on in case anyone tries to offer you the 'last one ever built'. There are still at least 3 Capri 280's in England that have not been registered. I know the towns where they are but that's all I can say. Imminent war in Middle East - all indications are that a huge conflagration in the Middle East will kick of fairly soon. This will have devastating effects on lives, the economy and for all us petrol heads - the price and supply of petrol, heating oils etc. Only mentioning this as we often think we are an Island and what goes on a couple of thousand miles away doesn't really affect us. I have numerous up to date links on the political and military positioning in the M.E. if anyone wants the links. Road Pricing and the Spy in your Car click here As predicted over 3 years ago on this site - the government plans to give police access to all camera and private individuals road journeys. That means exactly what we told you - as soon as nationwide road pricing comes in every scrap of privacy goes out the window and govt. agencies and departements, CSA, DWP, Soc Services, Customs & Revenue, VAT, Specail Branch, MI5, MI6 etc will all have potential to know exactly where you went, with whom, what time, where you stopped and how fast you did it all!!. Good to know 'they' care about you so much................... click here 1. What happens when an executive gets fed up with the Company Jag?? Click here to find out 2. UPDATE May 2008: Who's got the only G Reg then or should I say who's got it now?? click here to find out 3. Want to find the Build number of your Capri 280? Just click on BUILD CALCULATOR in the menu above - put in the 5 digits that appear after the letters GG in the engine or chassis number - click 'Calculate' and there you are! This is the only site in the world offering you this facility. 4. Ever heard of the 419-ers? No thought not. They are the overseas scammers who target a lot of people selling classic cars in the UK. In their extreme ignorance they think that if you own a classic car you are desperate for cash and will therefore fall prey to their infantile and zero IQ scams. Started by Nigerians but any number of morons from other nations try it on. There's even a website set up by folk to Bait the Scammers and cause them no end of problems! What great sport if you have the time. You will know their emails because they refer to your advert in a sort of generalised fashion such as ' I am very interested in the car - please give me the firmest price and I will get my agent to contact you very soonest' etc etc.They have no idea about the car they don't care about your car. It's a means to an end. They want you to give bank details - they promise to send you a deposit - then when you've banked it they want you to return the deposit on promise of the full amount. (they won't even have seen the car or shown any true interest in it). When you send back the deposit you find that their money was fraudulant and you are out by thousands of pounds. How do you deal with them? Simple. You reply to their email without disclosing anything about yourself, your car or your name. You ask for a UK tel number, a post code and their full name. It never comes. To add weight to this you can say that you will pass the email to Interpol if no reply within 12 hours. Always works. Their emails have a plausible looking name but nearly always are on a Yahoo account with numbers after the name. The wording is bland and generic and always refers to money, banks and shipping. Time of day is usually early hours of the morning GMT. Spelling of words like 'check' instead of cheque are dead give aways. You have been warned. A good link to see what's happening is this Internet Fraud and 419 scammers 5. Oil Crisis? Think we'll be driving forever? Think you can afford it? What about the 'Spy in Your Car'? Click here Remember you read it here first - I told you that the Tories would bring back the fuel escalator tax so that no mstter what price fuel was the tax would rise exponentially. Well, now the other tax 'em til it hurts ruffians are saying they will maintain the price of petrol artificialy by claiming the difference between reduced petrol costs and the existing price of petrol by calling it a green tax. In other words petrol drops 10p due to low crude prices and Labout Govt - keep the price of fuel at the same price anyway and keep the difference. I think they call it robbery, fraud, scamming or something like that. I believe we voted these clowns in to represent the majority didn't we? Well they are pandering to the greenies and conning us left right and centre regarding the Global Warming con and other similar tax scams. Look out pockets they getting emptier by the week. 6. Road pricing - the new way to print money for failed Government schemes and projects CLICK HERE Not just me talking about this - me and 1.8 million others CLICK HERE 7. Read that The Conservatives will re-introduce the Fuel Escalator Tax on petrol. No worry - all it means is that it will be set at 3% above inflation each year, so that if inflation is, say, 3% then petrol TAX will go up by 6% a year each year, every year and NEVER come down again - even if they gave petrol away for nothing the government would still be around 80-90p per litre. So now you know who to vote for next time around? Glad you do coz I don't. It seems the motorist is yet again seen as the ointment that will cure all the financial ills of poor governments. Governments are elected by the people to represent ALL the people not just key, loud pressure groups. Way to go to be PM CMD! (Call Me Dave) follow the greenies and the pressure groups - get your extra votes and then stay in opposition. We thought we could rely on a new opposition to come up with something better than Lib Left Weak green stuff. We see the trick here - drop direct taxes slightly then take it all back and more with indirect taxes. The rich of the nation will not curb their spending on fuel. The poorer ones will go slowly broke trying to pay all the taxes and nothing will change globally except the coffers of the chancellors office. Now he's attracted the Green Vote, just wait for the next 'vote'. CMD will offer petrol credits for all single mothers and same sex couples who are having IVF, want men to conceive & drive pink cars with sequinned air-bags........... I'm going for a lie down.................... At least Attila the Hun would have driven a Hummer on Nitrous - as long as we ignore the rest of his behaviour. Ah no, he 'sacked the Roman Empire (i.e. the EU) didn't he? hmm................. © 2006 Capri - The Legend Lives Ltd. 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__label__wiki	0.628892	0.628892	Visit to village show proves a telly smart move for one Allendale resident thanks to iNorthumberland Nathan Fuller from iNorthumberland with Ben Baldock One Allendale resident is looking forward to watching all the latest shows this year on a state-of the-art Smart TV, thanks to iNorthumberland. Ben Baldock visited Whalton Village Show and while he was there stopped at the iNorthumberland stall for a chat and entered a competition to win a 32 inch Smart TV. Luckily for Ben, his name was pulled out of the hat and he will now be able to watch the latest films in HD, download his favourite box sets and use a range of apps and catch up TV. Ben said: “I entered the competition, but never expected to win so it was great news to find out I had. There’ll be no more worries about who’s watching what in my house this year.” Around 1,000 homes and businesses in Allendale and nearby Allenheads now have access to fibre broadband, including Ben’s, so he will be able to maximise the benefits of having a Smart TV. From downloading an HD film in minutes to streaming a TV show without the annoying buffering and watching YouTube videos with no screen freeze the fibre technology means you can enjoy all the features of a Smart TV. Ben added: “There are some great pubs and a real community spirit in Allendale. This year I’ll either be glued to the new TV or joining in safe in the knowledge that I can catch up on TV later.” More than 146,000 households and businesses in Northumberland are now able to connect to fibre broadband as a result of the iNorthumberland programme and BT’s commercial roll-out of the high-speed technology. BT was awarded the iNorthumberland contract in April 2013, whilst the second phase contract was signed in June last year. It will see more than £4.1 million invested in the programme area in addition to the £18.9 million initially invested by Northumberland County Council, the Government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) fund, BT and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). 1The majority of premises in Northumberland will be getting access to some of the best broadband speeds in the UK via iNorthumberland and the commercial roll-out of fibre by BT’s local network business, Openreach. Openreach’s network is open to all broadband service providers on an equal wholesale basis and so Northumberland households and businesses can benefit from highly competitive products and pricing from a range of providers. For up to date information on the roll-out visit www.inorthumberland.org.uk iNorthumberlandyorkshire and the humber negwwsvprovfomim@bstt.gdcorzmfv	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line61
__label__cc	0.524414	0.475586	Canes Beat Senators in Exciting Overtime Win November 10, 2015 /in Canes, Featured, Hockey, News /by Bob Fennel Raleigh, NC — The Carolina Hurricanes won an exciting game in overtime against one of the better teams in the NHL, the Ottawa Senators, on Saturday, November 7, 2015 at the PNC Arena. Even strangers high-fived at the end of this game. Canes’ Desperation Play Leads to OT Win The Senators are a solid team, but the Canes seem to have their number in Raleigh going 11-0-2 in the past 13 games. Coach Bill Peters wanted the Canes to play with a sense of desperation as, when they do, they do play better. Not that it was total desperation, but the Canes’ play at the start of the game was noticeably different and noticeably better than the night before. Canes Start On Time Their forechecking and speed were both up a few notches. Cam Ward made a quick pad save off a redirection that was much more difficult than it appeared. The Canes’ defense picked up the loose puck, clearing the zone and starting what became a solid two minute onslaught of possession and shots in the Senators’ end. At one point, EStaal circled the Sens’ zone twice waiting for the perfect pass. Nothing materialized other than the Caniacs begging for another shot. I’m not sure if it was the Canes dominating the possession combined with the perceived confidence the Sens expected, but, by the end of the first period, there were some chippy plays between opposing players off the puck. One benefit of attending a game is to watch a certain player for the whole time or to watch the action of the puck. Sometimes it’s a game within a game. Faulk Adds to NHL PPG Lead Early in the second, it didn’t take but four seconds for Justin Faulk to add to his NHL leading power play goals for a defense man. Victor Rask easily won the face-off back to Faulk. Faulk moved from the left point towards the mid-blue line and then left a bomb just as he saw EStaal heading towards the net for traffic. That was all he needed, as the puck went top shelf stick side for a 1-0 Canes lead. About 10 minutes later, the Sens had their first after Faulk sent the puck into the stands for a delay of game penalty. The Sens scored on a powerplay that had an eerie similarity to a goal scored against the Canes the night before by the skater getting behind the defense then crashing the net. Four minutes later, the Canes did a poor and unsuccessful job of clearing the puck from their end. The Sens wasted no time in converting the turnover into another first NHL goal by a Canes opponent – this time by Chris Wideman. These memorable first goals by opponents and a nap by the Canes at some point in the game had to stop. Skinner Scores, 3.3 Seconds Left The Canes started the third with a little more edge than they had ended the second with, and more was needed indeed. While the Sens didn’t exactly turtle into a defensive shell, they mostly sent just two forwards deep into the Canes’ end. As the period went on, it appeared that Coach Rod Brind’Amor noticed the shift in the Sens’ play and started talking to more players as they came back to the bench. There’s a good chance that he gave instructions for a responsive shift to widen the ice and carry the puck, rather than to dump and chase, into the Sens’ zone. That strategy paid off, as the Canes again regained time of possession. There were plenty of shots but no results. Late in the game, the desperation Peters wanted appeared with about two minutes to go when Ward was pulled for the extra skater. The Canes must have attempted 10 shots during that time, with the Sens icing the puck twice to escape the pressure. Then, with 10 seconds left, Faulk won the sprint to the icing dot. Peters had five forwards and Faulk on the ice. JStaal won the face-off with Skinner charging the dot to get the puck. EStaal was charging down the right, but Skinner elected for a backhand shot. Hamburglar made the save but gave up a rebound that resulted in hack and whack by whoever could get a stick on the puck. With 3.3 seconds left, Skinner found the puck and lifted in top shelf to tie the game Even Strangers High-Five Seeing strangers high-fiving everyone, including ushers and having the Caniacs get loud again, was something to see firsthand. The Canes kept their unbeaten streak as JStaal sent a wrister from the left face-off dot with 2:31 gone in the OT on assists by JStaal and Faulk. More high fives, and the best ones to see, were the ones by folks wearing college hats in red high-fiving ones in blue. Next Home Game The Canes’ next home game is Thursday, November 12, 2015 against the Minnesota Wild. Great tickets are still available. Canes coverage by Bob Fennel. Photo from Facebook. Read more Canes coverage. 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__label__cc	0.5892	0.4108	Crewless Drone Ships Look Set to Uberize the High Seas May 10, 2016 Procurious HQ From crewless drone ships, to matchmaking between procurement and marketing departments, there are game-changing strategies afoot! In the past week, SpaceX have successfully landed a rocket on a drone ship, and both Coca-Cola and Target are playing match maker between procurement and marketing departments. Uber-izing the High Seas It’s a hot topic in the news when a rocket lands on a drone ship. Last year Amazon raised eyebrows when it announced plans to start drone deliveries. More recently they released a video showcasing a prototype of one if its delivery drones. Drone technology is rapidly evolving and just this Friday, SpaceX successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket on a crewless drone ship at sea. This is an even more impressive feat, given that the odds of a successful soft-landing were slim, due to the mission requirements for this particular launch. Even SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, expressed his doubts ahead of the launch on Twitter: To date, SpaceX has completed two successful rocket recoveries on a moving drone ship, and another when they successfully landed a rocket on a landing pad on stable ground. The next important step, of course, is reusing a recovered rocket, which Musk has stated they hope to do in the next three or four months. And while drone deliveries have been making the headlines for sometime, remotely controlled drone ships are just as much a game-changer for the shipping and logistics industry. It’s a bet FTSE 100 Company Rolls-Royce are willing to make, backed by Tekes, Finland’s technical research funding agency. Rolls Royce is working with offshore engineer Deltamarin, marine certification body DNV GL, and Inmarsat, to develop the technology needed for commercial drone ships. Speaking to The Guardian, Oskar Levander, Head of Innovation for Rolls Royce’s marine unit, says: “Drone ships will will support existing players to make their businesses more efficient and enable new entrants with new business models to the sector, with a potentially similarly disruptive effect to that caused by Uber, Spotify and Airbnb in other industries.” Matchmaking Marketing And Procurement Marketing is often seen as the creative, playful, visionary behind a big brand, while procurement is all too frequently positioned as it’s more serious, strict counterpart. Marketing wants to spend the money on the big idea, while procurement wants to save as much money as possible. If marketing and procurement can’t see eye to eye, one party is bound to suffer. Speaking at the ANA’s Financial Management Conference, Target EVP and CMO Jeffrey Jones acknowledged a serious cultural difference between marketing and finance and called out addressing this divide as “one of the top three issues [the business] has to solve.” Jones criticised marketing departments for not really understanding how their own company makes money, which is a fundamental problem for a department with one of the highest spends in most organisations. Jones believes that Marketing needs to take account of every dollar it spends in order to demonstrate greater cost consciousness. By taking this strategy, it allows Procurement to be part of the process. However, Jones also believes that Procurement could loosen up a bit, and understand that sometimes monetary investment is required in order to deliver results, and time is needed to deliver proof of concept. Jones highlights a simple solution: “Marketing needs to learn more about business; and finance – and through it, procurement – needs to take risks they can’t always calculate.” A United Front While Target continues to work out the kinks between marketing and procurement, Coca-Cola have already put the wheels in motion to unite the two departments. Christina Ruggiero, CPO, Coca-Cola, has taken the step to move her marketing procurement team from the procurement department, into the marketing department. This has facilitated cross-functional learning opportunities, and enabled Procurement to get a grasp on Marketing’s priorities. As a drone and robotic technology continue evolve, is this innovative technology disruptive to the supply chain. And what will be the repercussions on procurement? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below. Meanwhile, we’ve been scouring the news to find the top procurement and supply chain headlines this week… Maersk Predict Meagre Growth in 2016 The parent company of shipping giant Maersk Line is projecting meagre growth in demand this year. Danish conglomerate, A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S’s shipping unit, the world’s biggest container line, saw underlying earnings of $32 million in the first quarter, far below the $710 million contribution a year ago. Maersk’s shipping volume grew 7 per cent in the quarter, against 1 per cent growth for the broader industry, and Group Chief Executive Nils Andersen says there is no relief for weak demand and falling freight rates on the horizon, and admitted the carrier will look more to the spot market to provide a revenue boost. Read more at the Wall Street Journal Billions Stolen in Nigerian Fraud $15 billion, equal to about half the country’s foreign currency reserves, has been stolen from Nigeria’s public purse through fraudulent arms-procurement deals. Africa’s top oil exporter is going through its worst economic crisis in decades due to the drop in global crude prices, and ministers say these problems have been exacerbated by the impact of fraud under previous administrations. Endemic corruption over decades has enriched a small elite but left many Nigerians mired in poverty despite the country’s oil wealth. Read more at the African Independent Nordic Defence Procurement Agreement Representatives of the major Nordic nations have come together to sign a new agreement relating to defence procurement. An update to an agreement originally signed in 2015, it aims to promote joint development between Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. The agreement does not obligate a country to sign to any specific deal, but allows for greater collaboration between the nations. Read more at Jane’s Defence Weekly Previous PostSmall Businesses Suffering Brain DrainNext PostCloud Computing – Don’t Get Stranded with Sharks	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line71
__label__wiki	0.871896	0.871896	IT'S BRITNEY, BITCH MTV Just Embarrassed Britney Spears at the VMAs It was supposed to be Britney’s triumphant return to the VMAs stage. But in scheduling her performance right after Beyoncé, they only exposed her biggest artistic flaws and failings. Kevin Kane Why does MTV hate Britney Spears? Nine years after the star’s disastrous performance of “Gimme More,” Spears was, as presenter Kim Kardashian said, “making her triumphant return to the VMAs stage.” At least it was supposed to be triumphant. It ended up actually being a little sad. MTV made this big deal about Britney Spears performing Sunday night, and then they go and schedule Beyoncé’s incredible performance literally right before her. It’s like they were setting her up to fail. Not that Spears failed. No, her performance of “Make Me” from her new album Glory was… adequate. It might have been good, even. Contrasting it against that last “Gimme More” go-round—an unfocused, sluggish, poorly rehearsed performance by a troubled celebrity practically dead in the eyes—it actually should be considered a triumph. Spears looked great, pulled off the choreography, and had real life in her eyes. The star quality that made Spears’s performances of “Oops!… I Did It Again” and “I’m a Slave 4 U” so iconic had returned. But nothing Spears could do would compare to the tour de force Beyoncé had pulled off minutes before her. There was no chance. It’s a wonder Spears didn’t call an Uber from her dressing room and high-tail it out of there two minutes in to Bey’s performance. Ms. Knowles performed for so long that Spears could’ve been well on her way to LaGuardia by the time she soaked in her final applause. Beyoncé dropped the mic. Spears had to sheepishly pick it up and lip-synch into it. When Beyoncé kills a 16-minute re-creation of much of Lemonade, nailing every note while dancing her ass off, how can you look at Britney Spears lip-synch her way through a song—often missing the words—and not be a little embarrassed for her? It’s rather unfair because if we were being generous—and when it comes to Britney Spears, the survivor, she deserves our generosity as she mounts a comeback—the performance probably would have garnered great reviews had it been able to stand on its own and not suffer immediate Beyoncé comparisons. As far as its staging, it was probably the most artistic Spears had crafted in a number in years, and certainly on the VMAs stage. But then, of course, Beyoncé had just re-created Lemonade, flooding the stage with powerful imagery of blackness, feminism, and empowerment. Artistry is being judged at a whole other level once Beyoncé walks into a room. Dancing in front of white screens, a series of hand shadows suggestively moved behind her. It was a pretty effect in theory, though one has to wonder about the tone deafness on the part of the Spears camp to create the illusion that other people’s hands are trying to manipulate or grab at her. Spears is, after all, living under a conservatorship in which she was deemed unfit to make any legal, financial, or, in tandem with those two things, career decisions for herself. Still, her bright yellow leotard did wonders for her body, and there was some carefully rehearsed enthusiasm that seemed almost genuine when rapper G-Eazy came out to make his cameo. Spears only had a look of panic in her eyes maybe once when it came time to mime chemistry with him. While I’d say that there was an overall level of stiffness to her performance, there was also more polish than we’ve seen from her since her MTV glory days. Kim Kardashian is right. That is something triumphant. It’s Britney, bitch! It’s interesting to compare that fateful night in 2007 when Spears somnambulantly marked her way through “Gimme More” to Sunday night’s VMAs homecoming, and that so-called triumph. That year Rihanna performed on the VMAs stage for the first time, and was coronated pop’s next great superstar with her performance of “Umbrella.” Kanye West performed multiple times. Beyoncé had a handful of nominations for “Irreplaceable” and “Beautiful Liar,” not quite the musical powerhouse she has become. The reaction to Spears’s performance that night solidified that 2007 was probably the worst year of her life, and certainly of her career. There’s a reason that meme “If Britney can survive 2007 then we can make it through this day” is so popular. And then look to Sunday night’s show. Rihanna performed twice, opening the night with a medley of greatest hits to celebrate her career achievement Moonman. West has become so valued by the MTV contingent that he was basically gifted a State of the Union slot to monologue his musings. Beyoncé delivered what should rightfully be considered one of the greatest awards show performances of all time. If nothing else, the sheer scale of it cements her as music’s most ambitious artist. The nine years since that 2007 show has seen these three performers, each on the rise back then, reach respective peaks as far as their music, artistry, and regard in the industry is concerned. Spears has had the opposite trajectory. Perhaps she had peaked when she donned the snake. Or maybe when she locked lips with Madonna, a veritable passing of the Queen of Pop torch in typical provocateur fashion: the swapping of spit. But that night, marked by three other artists on their rise, was Spears’s professional low point. We think of Britney Spears with such fond nostalgia because of those great moments, that star quality, that bubblegum pop perfection. But in these past nine years she has been usurped by the artists who, perhaps at one point, measured their MTV and VMAs successes against hers. The rhetoric around Spears’s return to the VMAs stage insinuated that she is some elder statesman, maybe a retiree coming back to the field for a special event. But Beyoncé and Britney Spears are the same age. These are her contemporaries. When they’re executing on such a higher level, how much slack do we give Britney Spears? I wrote about this a bit in my admittedly charitable review of Glory, which is certainly Spears’s best album in over a decade but, while a welcome return to musical form for Spears, is a far cry from the artistic masterpieces that Rihanna, Kanye West, and Beyoncé released this past year. There was no grand ambition, or meaningful cultural statement being made. It was just music that sounded like something Britney Spears would make, and that is fun and fine. That she could make music that seemed sort of her, that was uncomplicated, and sound like she was actually having fun doing it, was wonderful. It meant that she was back. That “Make Me” performance seemed very much like the old Britney, too. Right down to the distracting lip-synching. It’s unfortunate that Beyoncé performed right before her, thus inviting comparisons. But the jarring contrast in the quality and difficulty of their performances raises a question about the kind of entertainment Spears offers and, however nostalgic we might say we are for it, whether there’s still a place in the evolving pop landscape for it. Who are we kidding, though? Of course there is. It’s Britney, bitch!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line75
__label__cc	0.698059	0.301941	Ariana Grande Feat. Nicki Minaj –... Ariana Grande Feat. Nicki Minaj – “Side To Side” August 29, 2016 by Jonathan Joseph Fresh off their performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, singer Ariana Grande decides to release the high-anticipated visuals to her track, “Side To Side” featuring Nicki Minaj. The video is directed by Hannah Lux-Davis, who has been a frequent collaborator with both the pop princess and the superstar rapper. The clip hones on the fitness theme as Ariana and Nicki sport pink-fitted work-out attire. As they perform the song, they move to the locker room, sauna and showers for some seductive and fun-filled action. Her single, “Side To Side” will be the latest single from her recent body of work, “Dangerous Woman“. So far, she’s released videos for songs such as the title track, “Let Me Love You” featuring Lil’ Wayne and “Into You“. In addition to her new video, you can peep her performance at the VMAs below. Tags: Ariana Grande, Dangerous Woman, Hannah Lux Davis, Nicki Minaj, Side To Side Willow Smith Covers Adele Skyfall – Video ALBUM REVIEW: Awolnation – ‘Run’ Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – White Walls Featured Interview: Interview With Bebe Rexha Interview: Alec Benjamin Boots & Hearts 2019 Starter Playlist Interview: Brandon Lay	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line79
__label__cc	0.664147	0.335853	Home » Are neighbourhood characteristics associated with depressive symptoms? A review of evidence Are neighbourhood characteristics associated with depressive symptoms? A review of evidence Mair, C.; Diez Roux, A. V.; Galea, S. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health;Nov2008, Vol. 62 Issue 11, p940 A review of published observational studies of neighbourhoods and depression/depressive symptoms was conducted to inform future directions for the field. Forty-five English-language cross-sectional and longitudinal studies that analysed the effect of at least one neighbourhood-level variable on either depression or depressive symptoms were analysed. Of the 45 studies, 37 reported associations of at least one neighbourhood characteristic with depression/depressive symptoms. Seven of the 10 longitudinal studies reported associations of at least one neighbourhood characteristic with incident depression. Socioeconomic composition was the most common neighbourhood characteristic investigated. The associations of depressive symptoms/depression with structural features (socioeconomic and racial composition, stability and built environment) were less consistent than with social processes (disorder, social interactions, violence). Among the structural features, measures of the built environment were the most consistently associated with depression but the number of studies was small. The extent to which these associations reflect causal processes remains to be determined. The large variability in studies across neighbourhood definitions and measures, adjustment variables and study populations makes it difficult to draw more than a few general qualitative conclusions. Improving the quality of observational work through improved measurement of neighbourhood attributes, more sophisticated consideration of spatial scale, longitudinal designs and evaluation of natural experiments will strengthen inferences regarding causal effects of area attributes on depression.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line88
__label__cc	0.7364	0.2636	Analyst Say Dish Network Stocks Can Go Up With Sling TV Sling TV Offerings Dish Network Corporation offers one of the many satellite television options for the various television users across the US. Dish also owns one of early leaders in over-the-top television services and cord cutting, Sling TV. Sling TV service was launched in 2015 and has an estimated 760,000 subscribers at the present. The main revenue of Dish Network faces much pressure in the fast changing telecommunication industry, but they are well positioned with the Sling TV service. Once known as a sports service, Sling TV has done a nice job by diversifying their offerings and contents. The service now offers channels from production companies like Walt Disney Co, Viacom Inc, AMC Networks INC, NBC, and 21st Century. Sling TV offers great cord-cutting options to their customers, as they cater channels that appeal to women, men, and kids alike. Sling has also added more sports programming to their lineup. It was the first OTT network to add NHL Network recently, and they have also signed deals with Fox and Pac 12 Network to include their regional sports networks in their lineup. Sling also offers two initial packages and many add-on packages. Sling Orange is available for twenty dollars a month and offers channels like ESPN, AMC, ESPN2, TNT, TBC, and Disney Channel, whereas Sling Blue is available for twenty five dollars a month and includes channels like NBC Sports, Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2, AMC, NBC Sports, Nick Jr, NFL Network, NBC, and FOX On Demand programming. Sling Blue also features regional sports networks from Fox Sports. Users can buy both Sling Blue and Sling Orange bundled for forty dollars a month and avail a big library of channels. Add-on offerings from Sling TV include packages like Kids Extra, New Plus, Sports Extra, Lifestyle Plus, Caribe, Spanish, Espana, Sudamerica, World Music, Chinese, and World Cricket. Users also have the option to add premium channels like STARZ, HBO, and Cinemax as extras. Sling TV has been advertising and hosting special events to get its name and content to the viewers. Ads were also posted in Facebook to let people know that Sling TV carries the AMC channel. This advertisement also reminded the potential buyers about the free seven-day trial offering. ctp2016 Posted in Dish Dish Network Channels, Dish Network Packages Leave a comment ← Sling TV Crosses One Million Subscribers Local Live Streaming Of NBC And ABC Networks Will Be Available On DirecTV Now →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line89
__label__cc	0.520766	0.479234	Verse (39:40) - English Translation Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 40th verse of chapter 39 (sūrat l-zumar). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology. Verse (39:1)Verse (39:2)Verse (39:3)Verse (39:4)Verse (39:5)Verse (39:6)Verse (39:7)Verse (39:8)Verse (39:9)Verse (39:10)Verse (39:11)Verse (39:12)Verse (39:13)Verse (39:14)Verse (39:15)Verse (39:16)Verse (39:17)Verse (39:18)Verse (39:19)Verse (39:20)Verse (39:21)Verse (39:22)Verse (39:23)Verse (39:24)Verse (39:25)Verse (39:26)Verse (39:27)Verse (39:28)Verse (39:29)Verse (39:30)Verse (39:31)Verse (39:32)Verse (39:33)Verse (39:34)Verse (39:35)Verse (39:36)Verse (39:37)Verse (39:38)Verse (39:39)Verse (39:40)Verse (39:41)Verse (39:42)Verse (39:43)Verse (39:44)Verse (39:45)Verse (39:46)Verse (39:47)Verse (39:48)Verse (39:49)Verse (39:50)Verse (39:51)Verse (39:52)Verse (39:53)Verse (39:54)Verse (39:55)Verse (39:56)Verse (39:57)Verse (39:58)Verse (39:59)Verse (39:60)Verse (39:61)Verse (39:62)Verse (39:63)Verse (39:64)Verse (39:65)Verse (39:66)Verse (39:67)Verse (39:68)Verse (39:69)Verse (39:70)Verse (39:71)Verse (39:72)Verse (39:73)Verse (39:74)Verse (39:75) Chapter (39) sūrat l-zumar (The Groups) Sahih International: To whom will come a torment disgracing him and on whom will descend an enduring punishment." Pickthall: Who it is unto whom cometh a doom that will abase him, and on whom there falleth everlasting doom. Yusuf Ali: "Who it is to whom comes a Penalty of ignominy, and on whom descends a Penalty that abides." Shakir: Who it is to whom there shall come a punishment which will disgrace him and to whom will be due a lasting punishment. Muhammad Sarwar: who will face the humiliating torment and suffer everlasting retribution". Mohsin Khan: "To whom comes a disgracing torment, and on whom descends an everlasting torment." Arberry: to whom will come a chastisement degrading him, and upon whom lights a lasting chastisement.' Verse (39:40) Morphology - description of each Arabic word	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line92
__label__cc	0.620643	0.379357	Thread: The C2 implications of Team of Teams Some quick thoughts on the implications of GEN (Ret) Stanley Chrystal’s book Team of Teams. IMO this book goes well beyond the importance of trust, common purpose, shared awareness, and empowerment to act, which is what most of the reviews I have read have focused on. Those aspects are absolutely necessary for his concept to work, but looking beyond that what is the value of his concept? Why did he push his Task Force (TF) to develop an adaptive network structure in the first place? McChrystal points out that it was al-Qaeda’s structure, not their plan, that was their strategy. They had a resilient structure that his TF was having limited success against until he adapted their structure and management style. That story is fairly well known, I think the question now is how relevant is this approach for the future? The recently released 2015 National Military Strategy emphasizes the importance of globally integrated operations (GIO), a concept described in detail in the Capstone Concept for Joint Operations (CCJO): Joint Force 2020. It emphasizes that we must adapt to an increasingly complex and uncertain security environment, with multiple threats to our interests around the globe. To deal with this uncertainty it proposes an overarching concept, called Globally Integrated Operations, summarized as: “This concept requires globally postured joint forces to quickly combine capabilities with itself and mission partners across domains, echelons, geographic boundaries, and organizational affiliations. These networks of forces and partners will form, evolve, dissolve, and reform in different arrangements in time and space with significantly greater fluidity than today’s Joint Force.” Sounds a lot like of Team of Teams. I think the Team of Teams concept is a method to make these integrated operations possible, but only if conventional forces, legacy SOF organizations that are not currently as agile as Task Force, and civilian leaders in Defense and other interagency members are willing to change their management style. DOD’s management style in many ways still has one foot in the industrial age. McChrystal writes that management, obviously current management systems, is one of the limiting factors in the quest of human progress. While McChrystal hailed Winslow Taylor’s work on scientific management to increase production in the industrial age. It proved highly effective at enhancing production efficiency for execution of known and repeatable processes at scale. Now Taylor’s processes are part of the problem, because the real world is full of complex interdependencies, and linear management processes can’t force the complex to conform to the rules meant for the merely complicated. It is not my intent to point out all the examples in Team of Teams on how they transformed the TF's structure and management. Rather I just want to use the book as a sag way on how management systems influence how we fight wars. If these systems don’t evolve with the time, they can become a considerable hindrance, and probably a more significant impact on our success than whether or not we get the latest jet fighter or tank. Samuel J. Palmisano, the former CEO of IBM, discussed how the forces of globalization and new technologies have forced the business world to embrace new paradigms for conducting their operations to remain competitive. Hence, businesses are flatter and increasingly use lateral and vertical collaboration over top-down directive management. In fact, in many cases transformation of business processes is often more important than the product (read management) they produce or the services they provide to gain a competitive edge. The transformational power of management is hardly a new concept, the historian Michael Howard pointed out that the greatest military innovation of the 19th century was not technological, but the development of the general staff for managing the challenges of waging large scale war. Now we’re waging a global netwar, and need to consider a DOD wide change in management, not just for the TF. Size of the Platoon and Company By tankersteve in forum Trigger Puller Should you merge Advisors with PRT's? By TROUFION in forum FID & Working With Indigenous Forces Human Terrain Team study By Michael Davies in forum RFIs & Members' Projects CSA Sends - Transition Team Commanders By SWJED in forum FID & Working With Indigenous Forces management, mcchrystal, team of teams, transformation	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line93
__label__wiki	0.834206	0.834206	For Honor Closed Beta Impressions By No Instruction Required on February 2, 2017 on Coming Soon, Impressions, Video Games 3rd Person, Action, Beta, For Honor, Impressions, PC, Preview, PS4, Ubisoft, video games, Xbox One Disclaimer: The For Honor impression provided below is for the PC closed beta. David’s PC, used here, has an Intel i7 4930K processor, nVIDIA GTX 1070 video card, dedicated WD VelociRaptor HDD, 16GB DDR3 RAM, and is running Windows 10 Pro 64-bit. Ubisoft wants you to remember, this isn’t the full game. With less than three weeks until launch, Ubisoft opened a closed beta for its newest title For Honor. For Honor is a third-person melee combat game which pits an unlikely trio of knights, Vikings, and samurai against each other to capture and hold territory for reasons yet to be fully explained. The final game will feature a campaign as well as an expanded competitive multiplayer component. In the closed beta, players have access to 9 of the 12 characters from the full roster (three for each faction) and are restricted to multiplayer game modes which consist of 1v1 Duels, 2v2 Brawls, and 4v4 Dominion matches. 1v1 and 2v2 game modes are single life death matches which feature a best of 5 rounds system. Dominion is played by attacking and holding three points labeled A, B, and C. A and C are stand-alone, but B is captured by helping your cannon fodder fight their way through the enemy AI soldiers. The AI soldiers aren’t particularly interesting to deal with and the chaos of clunkily mowing down cannon fodder (who cannot be locked onto) allows for players to get ambushed regularly. I mostly played as Orochi, but I did sample the other characters. Leveling progress stopped being recorded over the weekend due to server issues. After installing the game, the opening cinematic introduces the players to a massive earthquake striking the lands of the knight faction—the game alludes to the same happening to the Vikings and samurai, leading to world conflict. Once the cinematic closes, players are prompted to pick a faction. This choice has little impact in general gameplay, as it does not limit the playable characters, but the faction chosen is the one the player represents on the game’s territory map. After each match, the player is given the opportunity to deploy “War Assets” to attack or defend territory from the two other factions. The territory map shows the game modes as well as contention points and contested zones. These are mostly cosmetic and you can deploy assets on any zone contested by your faction once after each match. Also, no one likes knights. Once a faction is selected, players are sent to play through a brief tutorial which serves to, rather bluntly, introduce the general combat mechanics unique to For Honor. From a high level, combat is broken into offense and defense. Each character has two attacks, a block, and a stun move called “Guard Break.” Attacks and blocks are done in one of three directions. Guard Breaks are non-directional, but you can double guard break to shove an opponent backward, left, or right. While three directions and three offensive options don’t seem like much, it provides a reasonable level of depth to the combat without getting too complex. Expanding on these mechanics, markers appear during combat that indicate the direction the enemy is blocking or attacking. A white marker is displayed when defending and red when attacking. If timed correctly, a block becomes a parry, allowing in a quick swipe or two. Attacks are given a hierarchy, with light strikes taking priority over heavy strikes and Guard Breaks having the lowest priority. This feels a bit off in practice, however, as light strikes can interrupt heavy strikes but Guard Breaks cannot. Customize your character’s gear here. Appearance changes genders, color and patterns on armor, and other basics. Abilities includes skills, taunts, and executions. Customization in this game is fairly extensive. Each character has multiple armor and weapon load outs that can be adjusted and customized with unlocked equipment to match your desired playing style. Along with armor and weapon mods, the appearance of each can be adjusted. An interesting addition to the customization in For Honor is the ability to set the gender of some characters. This is purely cosmetic and provides only slight variations in the way characters look and sound. Party play is available, but as I’m the only Dashing Nerd with beta access, I haven’t used it and can’t comment. Social group page. I don’t have friends, so… Solo queue for me. It’s clear the combat was designed around 1v1 fights with everything else in the game taking a back seat. In the 2v2 Brawls, combat quickly devolves into to a 1v2 match and the solo player is unlikely to survive. This ultimately comes down to the fact that the animations are a bit clumsy outside of 1v1 encounters and the combat wasn’t designed to help you defend against multiple opponents. the 4v4 Dominion games are also presently a bit of a mess as people figure out how to play and network issues get addressed. I started on day one of the beta and played a lot of Dominion and Brawl. The gameplay was smooth and I had zero issues. As the weekend went on, the number of players dramatically increased and overall game performance decreased on my end. Constant network issues when playing with humans led to a lot of frustration as your network performance seems to be tied to your frame rate and a low frame rate creates input lag. Also network lag doesn’t affect the AI, so often you’ll be attacked in the middle of a lag spike without the ability to defend yourself. This led to me dropping Dominion and Brawl for the rest of the beta to play 1v1 with the AI as that seemed to be impacted the least. Eventually settled on 1v1 against AI. They provide a reasonable challenge. Overall, For Honor’s combat system is fairly well thought out for 1v1 duels, but feels incredibly clunky when fighting multiple opponents. The inability for you to turn when not locked on in Guard Mode also creates frustration when fighting cannon fodder. Lack of prioritization of the Guard Break move makes using it extremely situational, but absolutely satisfying when you successfully kick, shove, or tackle an opponent off of a cliff. Performance, when not hindered by overloaded Ubi-servers, was good. But when the servers are stressed, the game becomes nigh unplayable. If history repeats itself, as it tends to do, the first several weeks after the release of For Honor will be rough. This was a regular occurrence, so no EXP, items, or points for me… Overall, I’m pleased with what Ubisoft has provided gameplay-wise. For Honor is interesting from a mechanics standpoint and delivers a satisfying 1v1 melee combat experience. At the same time, it’s held back by the inflexibility of that very system to perform well outside of the 1v1 environment. Couple that with Ubisoft’s less than stellar launch infrastructure and you’re left with a title that should probably not be a day one purchase. Keep an eye out for For Honor when it sieges store shelves on February 14, 2017. Overwatch’s Newest Hero Introduced: Orisa! Breaking News: Gamestop outs Overwatch consoles! 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__label__wiki	0.959658	0.959658	CyrusOne signs up to Host In Ireland initiative Real estate investment trust (REIT) data centre provider CyrusOne has announced that it has become a new member of the Host In Ireland initiative. Of course, this comes after CyrusOne was given the go-ahead late last year for its two massive data centres in Grange Castle Business Park in Dublin, together spanning around 35,000 square metres and expected to cost around €400 million. Headquartered in Dallas, CyrusOne currently maintains more than 45 data centres around the world and has being making significant waves in Europe recently with several new data centre announcements including the acquisition of Zenium and its existing facilities, and a new hyperscale campus in the Netherlands. “We are excited and honoured to be part of Host in Ireland executive council this year. Over the last four years, Ireland has established itself as one of the fastest growing economies in Europe, with a dynamic technology and business environment that is driving a particularly strong data centre market,” says CyrusOne Europe president Tesh Durvasula. “Our commitment to the region forms a fundamental component of our ongoing expansion strategy across Europe. I look forward to working with partner members as we come together to cement Ireland’s place as a great data centre destination.” Joining CyrusOne, Host In Ireland is welcoming new members Mitchell McDermot, E+I and The Dataplex Group. inclusion of members from the supply, design, build, and operations in the data centre space is aligned with Host In Ireland’s dual mission to promote Ireland as an optimum location to host data from and to support companies in expanding globally. This expansion will see key leaders in the industry join the Host In Ireland executive council. New members include Eddie Kilbane CEO of the Dataplex Group, Anthony McDermott, Director Mitchell McDermott, Tesh Durvasula, President – Europe CyrusOne and Philip O’Doherty, Founder and Managing Director of E+I. The executive council is instrumental in the direction and success of the initiative. Host In Ireland president and founder Gary Connolly says there is tremendous technology growth in the country at the moment ‘Ireland is a thriving data centre hub right now. Creating high quality jobs, a rich foundation for inward investment and an ecosystem of supporting services that are now being exported all over the world. The continued expansion of Host In Ireland re-enforces the country’s position as an optimum location to host digital content. It’s a testament to growth in the industry and the initiative,” says Connolly. “With the world's leading data centre operators and technology players locating in Ireland, we're seeing increasing demand in support services and products that are not only servicing the Irish market but as an exporter of high-quality data related services and products all over the world.’ Backing up Connolly’s claims, the most recent Q3 report produced by Host In Ireland in association with Bitpower found that over €9 billion is expected to have been invested in data centres in Ireland by 2021. Western Digital welcomes in zettabyte-scale era with Zoned Storage HPE to offer entire portfolio as-a-Service by 2022 Western Digital goes all in on Zoned Storage to face zettabyte era Hyperscalers Hyperscale CyrusOne Host In Ireland	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line101
__label__wiki	0.791835	0.791835	Charles Richards Herbert Hersee Bill Engel Christina Forbes Ann Fowler Robert Adam William Brooks Colin Allen Fletcher Booth Laura Booth Diana Ashley Nola Colefax Billie Sinclair James Ashley Peter Bonser Ernest Quinnell Paul Briscoe Charles Christie Robert Dey Ella Doran John Fitzgerald Benjamin Taylor Beryl Taylor Peter Cipollone John Carmichael Ron Wild Carol-Lee Aquiline Betty Bonser Caroline Conlon Kim Curtis John Doran Marion Fairweather Elvira ‘Ella’ Doran was born in Petersham, Sydney in 1907, the hearing daughter of deaf parents, John Doran and Rosa Minna von Bertouch. Ella first began interpreting at the age of 14 at the Annual General Meeting of the Deaf Society, when the deaf people sitting in the gallery of the hall couldn’t see the official interpreter and so Ella’s father asked her to sign for those nearby. This was the beginning of what was to become a long career in interpreting and work for the Deaf Community. Ella was employed by the Dunlop Rubber Company in Sydney from 1928 to 1930. She then began paid work at the Deaf Society. She started as an interpreter for Sunday church services and later worked as a teacher, welfare officer, committee member and even as a cook for the Deaf Society. In 1937, Ella left the Deaf Society as a result of disagreements with its superintendent Alfred Lonsdale and his methods of management. She went on to have a career in the NSW Child Welfare Department and whilst employed as a child welfare officer her interest in deaf children brought her back into contact with the Deaf Community. In 1956, she became the establishing superintendent of Winlaton, a Girls Home in Melbourne for wards of the state. Ella later moved to Canberra to work in the Royal Canberra Hospital, and she lived there for the next 30 years. In 1993 Ella attended the launch of an organisation called CODA Australia. Ella was delighted to finally identify her experience as being that of a CODA, a ‘Child of Deaf Adults’. Ella was one of many CODAs who, because they were hearing and grew up in the Deaf Community, were called on to offer their services to deaf people either through paid work or more often as volunteers. In 1998 Ella wrote and published the book Hand in hand with time and change: The life of Ella Doran and her work with the deaf in Australia. Ella Doran died in Canberra in 2001 at the age of 93. The Sunday Sun and Guardian 7 January 1934 Book ‘Hand in Hand with Time and Change’, Ella Doran, 1998 Canberra Times 8 June 2001 Image – Ella Doran	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line105
__label__cc	0.713501	0.286499	Home News Feed Powered by DMLNewsApp.com REPORT: Teen Breaks Into Home, Asks Couple For WiFi Password REPORT: Teen Breaks Into Home, Asks Couple For WiFi Password As the most reliable and balanced news aggregation service on the internet, DML News offers the following information published by CBSLOCAL.COM: PALO ALTO, Calif. (CBSLocal) – A teenager is in serious trouble after going on a bizarre crime spree when his phone reportedly ran out of data. The 17-year-old suspect from Palo Alto was arrested after allegedly breaking into an area home, waking up a sleeping couple, and asking them to give him their WiFi password. “The male victim got out of bed, confronted the suspect, and pushed him down the hallway and out the front door of the house before calling police. No one was injured,” Pal Alto police said in a news release. The couple – both reportedly in their 60s – told officers that two kitchen knives went missing from their home during the teen’s alleged break-in, however police didn’t find any weapons on the suspected burglar when he was caught. News Release: Police arrest juvenile suspect for overnight occupied home burglary https://t.co/IRIGuQ0cTV pic.twitter.com/edhKdxskyP — Palo Alto Police (@PaloAltoPolice) July 25, 2018 Below is the full press release from the Palo Alto Police Department: Palo Alto, CA – Police arrested a 17-year-old burglar last weekend after he entered an occupied residence overnight and awakened the sleeping residents. Officers later connected him to a nearby bicycle theft that had occurred the same night. On Sunday, July 22, 2018, at about 12:31 a.m., our 24-hour dispatch center received a call from a couple in their sixties reporting they had just awakened to a stranger in the bedroom of their home in the 700 block of East Charleston Road. The male victim reported he had shoved the suspect out of his house and then called police. Officers responded immediately and detained the suspect without incident about a block away. The investigation revealed that the couple had been asleep in their bedroom when they were awakened by the unknown suspect speaking to them and asking to use their WiFi network. The suspect was wearing something covering over his face. The male victim got out of bed, confronted the suspect, and pushed him down the hallway and out the front door of the house before calling police. No one was injured. When officers found the suspect, he had a black T-shirt wrapped around the back of his neck under his sweatshirt. Officers believe that was what had been covering his face during the burglary. Officers determined the suspect had climbed into the home after cutting a screen covering an open window in the side yard. The suspect initially lied to police about his identity. The suspect’s motive for entering the home is unknown, but the victims reported that two kitchen knives were missing from a kitchen drawer. Police did not recover any weapons (including those kitchen knives) in the possession of the suspect. Police arrested the suspect, a 17-year-old male from Palo Alto, for residential burglary (a felony), prowling (a misdemeanor), and providing false information to an officer (a misdemeanor). Officers transported him to Santa Clara County Juvenile Hall. In accordance with our standard release of information procedures, no additional information on the suspect is available since he is under the age of 18. We do not release booking photographs of juveniles in such situations. During the afternoon of July 22, our 24-hour dispatch center received a call of a bike theft from a backyard that had occurred overnight at a home in the 3800 block of Middlefield Road. Officers learned that at around 11:45 p.m. on July 21, a resident in her twenties noticed the suspect was outside her bedroom window, standing in the home’s side yard, and motioning that he wanted to talk to her. The woman notified another resident of the home, an adult in his late teens, and together the two of them confronted the suspect in the side yard. The suspect asked to use their WiFi network because he was out of data. The residents ordered the suspect to leave, and they watched him ride away on a bicycle. They did not notify police at the time. The following morning, the male resident realized that his bicycle, which had been in the backyard, was missing. The residents reviewed their surveillance video and saw the suspect stealing the bike from the backyard and moving it to the front of the home prior to returning to the side yard and making contact with the female resident. Officers checked the area for the stolen bicycle and found it near the location where police had detained the suspect. Officers returned the bicycle to the victim and are recommending that the District Attorney’s Office add a charge of misdemeanor petty theft against the suspect. Overnight burglaries of occupied homes are very rare in Palo Alto. Police recommend securing side yard gates with a padlock, and promptly reporting any suspicious behavior to authorities. Detectives are investigating to see if this suspect may be connected to any other crimes in Palo Alto or the surrounding area. To weigh in on this information provided by CBSLOCAL.COM, engage in our LIVE CHAT below. Scroll down. Previous articleOpEd: How Hillary Clinton used Christopher Steele’s Trump-Russia dossier that campaign paid for Next articleREPORT: Dem megadonor alliance transfers millions to 10 key races in effort to flip the House	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line107
__label__cc	0.73183	0.26817	Chester County currently has over 500,000 people and 300,000 jobs and has a wide range of urban, suburban, rural, and agricultural landscapes. Significant new development is expected because of the county's growing population and job base. This web page provides information on the Vision Partnership Program, plan review procedures, and land use tools. Programs and Projects The Planning Commission is responsible for a wide variety of mandated planning reviews including subdivision and land development reviews under the Municipalities Planning Code and sewage facilities reviews under Act 537. View complete information on CCPC reviews. This competitive grant program provides both technical and financial assistance to municipalities in the preparation of comprehensive plans, ordinances, official maps, and special planning projects, such as connectivity plans, open space plans, economic development studies, historic surveys, and corridor plans. Learn more. Land Use Studies — Commercial Landscapes The Commercial Landscapes planning series highlights the importance of repurposing significant commercial areas in Chester County with realistic strategies, recommendations and best practices. This was a collaborative effort between county agencies and a task force that included municipal representatives, developers, consultants and others concerned about the future of commercial properties. Learn more. Planning Toolbox — Land Use The goal for land use is to preserve and enhance the diversified mix of land uses within the urban, suburban, rural, agricultural and natural landscapes to maintain the balance between growth and preservation. View tools that can help achieve this goal at the municipal level through sustainable and energy conservation practices. Planning Education Services Attending community planning courses can help you become well informed by learning the basics. There is a series of planning courses available to you here in Chester County. Learn more. County-wide Planning Policies Landscapes3 is the comprehensive plan for Chester County, and renews the county's commitment to balancing growth and preservation to foster vibrant communities. Landscapes3 is organized around six goal areas: Preserve, Protect, Appreciate, Live, Prosper, and Connect, and addresses land use, growth, and preservation as part of the Landscapes Map. Land use is addressed primarily as part of the Landscapes Map within Landscapes3, with additional discussion within Preserve, Protect, Live, and Prosper. Chester County Land Use Analysis Summary Learn more about existing land use in the county, general changes over the past twenty years, and major trends. Planning in Pennsylvania It is important that you become familiar with the rules that guide planning in your municipality. State enabling legislation has been passed that governs planning in Pennsylvania. It guides how local planning commissions operate, as well as the plans and ordinances that are developed to implement the plan. Learn more. Subdivision and Land Development Activity Reports These reports list proposed subdivision and land development application submissions for review under the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code (MPC), Act 247. View reports. Review some successful planning projects around the county. View a list of our partner agencies.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line112
__label__cc	0.634463	0.365537	September 27, 1996 Cape Gazette PAGE 6 (6 of 84 available) PREVIOUS NEXT Full Size Image d - APE G2iTI, Frldlay,'epteml/er 2"1. Octoler 3, 1996 VIEWPOINTS Editorial Attempting to reverse domestic violence Recent statistics estimate that more than 1,500 women die each year in the United States at the hand of their husband or boyfriend. The Wiers-Millman murders-suicide and the Holland murder- suicide in recent months focused considerable attention on the problem of domestic violence in our society. Delaware has responded with a close re-examination of the com- munication system in place for responding to calls for help. That's a first step and at least temporarily should result in a heightened sensitivity from dispatchers and law officers to those crying for help. Taking the response further, Delaware State Police officials in conjunction with federal programs have initiated, in thepast two weeks, a training program to better prepare officers for dealing with domestic violence. We also understand that a pilot program is being considered which would provide for intensive training of a limited number of officers whose sole duty would be to respond to domestic violence complaints. For the greatest part of this century, our society has treated domestic violence as a problem somewhat outside the arena of tra- ditional law enforcement. "Those are problems that should be worked out within the walls of the home," is a statement that typi- fies a prevailing attitude. That attitude however has too often resulted in human beings suffering great physical suffering and death in numbers far greater than a more enlightened perspective would allow. In addition to specific training for police officers to deal with domestic violence, state officials plan also to expand efforts to make the general public aware of domestic violence problems and the avenues of help available. The training should help officers deal with specifi c cases; the education should prepare, to some degree, our communities served by the officers so that help is sought before the crisis level is reached. Our nation's violent nature is a daunting problem and domestic violence represents a large portion of the problem. Recent steps taken by the state certainly won't reverse the situation but will begin moving us in the proper direction. Letters Ross belongs in the debates Over the past several years Ross Perot, as a third party presiden- tial candidate, served his nation well by drawing national attention to problems created by the huge budget deficit. When Perot arrived and began explaining the deficit ramifications in plain language, members of Congress and the country's administration finally took real steps to reduce the deficit. The American people should sup- port his efforts to be included in the coming presidential debates. His perspective would add constructively to the election process. Bill Hyland of Port Lewes sinks a ball as a deer shares his space in the Delaware State Park. ---,. @ @ Last Quarter New Moon First Quarter Full Moon Oct. 4 Oct. 12 Oct. 19 Oct. 26 Every year about this time, a mass beheading takes place on our local streets... ...and no one protests, and no one mourns. My stands are based on my principles After my recent campaign for Sussex County Council ended, I had hoped to retreat out of the spotlight for a while. In the last issue of the Cape Gazette, how- ever, there is yet another letter that total- ly mischaracterizes and distorts my posi- tion on the development issues that have dominated the public discussion of east- ern Sussex for many months. This letter uses the polarizing phrases "raw development, encroaching on the environment, threatened by uncontrol- lable and unwanted development, quick kill, despoil other locations and perni- cious slash-and-burn mode of enrich- ment," all in an attempt to demonize my positions. Perhaps it would have been easier, Mr. Nolting, to have put in a drawing that had me holding a pitchfork, and horns growing out of my head. By contrast, the two members of the Citizens Coalition that were mentioned could have been depicted with angels' wings. The warm and fuzzy phrases that were used to describe them were "safe- guard the public interest by imposing sensible controls over development, guardians of our national heritage, and unspoiled and peaceful environment." I would have no problem with these characterizations if they were remotely accurate, but they are not. Let me set the record straight. I have NOTHING to gain personally from development! I have never devel- oped anything, nor do I earn any income as a result of development. At the pre- sent time, I have no plans to develop anything in the future. I farm approxi- mately 400 acres of land, but don't own any of this land. Many of the farms that I rent are in the path of development, as they are mostly located on or near Route 1. These include the farms where the Walmart and the Tanger Outlets would have been located. Each time one of these farms is devel- oped,I lose land to farm and money out of my pocket. The only land I own is the two acres I live on and a small rental house, neither of which can be subdivid- ed. I have lived in Sussex County all my life, and I have no more desire to be stuck in traffic jams or to see all our county roads eaten up by strip develop- ment than any member of the Citizens Coalition. I am aware, however, that I live in a house that is the result of devel- opment, just as all the members of the Citizens Coalition do. I am also aware that every job in Sussex County is in some way dependent on development. My stands on the issues are based on the principles, rights, and responsibilities found in the constitution. I feel that the single most important issue today is to find a way for ALL the citizens of Sus- sex County to have the maximum oppor- tunity for financial success, while infringing on the rights of others the least that is possible. It is WRONG for a citizens coalition to band together for the purpose of forcing government to take away rights from another group. The Constitution and the traditions of our country are about protecting the rights of the minority from the tyranny of the majority. In any event, I can assure you that the Coalition does not represent a majority, even in the Lewes-Rehoboth area, much less the rest of Sussex Coun- ty. Now let's talk about the practical Continued on page 8 Volume 4 No. 19 Publisher Dennis Fomey Editor Trish Vemon News Editor Michael Short News Kerry Kester Rosanne Pack Jan Ellingsworth Janet Andrelczyk Denise Marshall Photographer Angle Moon Sports Editor Dave Frederick Advertising Director Carol Mawyer Fohrenbach Advertising Cindy Roberts Nancy Stenger Roberts Madann Wilcox Classified Sandy Barr Office Manager Kathy Emery Production Staff Susan Porter Deidre Sudimak Chris Wildt Contributors: Tim Bamforlh Susan Frederick Nancy Katz Geoff Vernon The Cape Gazette (USPS 010294) is pub- lished by Cape Gazette Limited every Friday at the Shoppes of Camelot, 4375 Highway 1, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware 19971. Sec- ond class postage paid at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Address all correspondence to Cape Gazette, P.O. Box 213, Lewes, Delaware 19958. Telephone: (302) 226-2273. FAX - 226-2277. E-maih capegaz@dmv.com Subscriptions are avail- able at $25 per year in Sussex County; $40 elsewhere. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Cape Gazette, P.O. Box 213, Lewes, Delaware 19958. *Then summer fades andpasses, and October comes. Will smell smoke Ihen, and feel an unsuspected sharpness, a thrill of nervous, swift elation, a sense of sadness and depature." - Thomas Wolfe You Can't Go Home Again	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line114
__label__cc	0.505205	0.494795	Passports on the Cal Zephyr I am a news junkie, and salute Bloomberg News for a great beat this morning: The grand poobahs of Silicon Valley—the founders and CEOs and CFOs and financiers of the tech businesses centered near Palo Alto—are so upset at the result of the presidential election that they are plotting a secessionist movement. That’s right, create the Republic of California. I’m all for it. Oregon, too (citizens of Portland are seeking a vote on succession). Been good to know you and all th... Rail Pundit, we'll not forget you Edited 9:30 pm, November 11 For several years, it’s been a poorly kept secret that a frequent responder to my blogs was my friend and fellow journalist Larry Kaufman. His handle was Rail Pundit. OMG, but he could raise hell! I would read his posts taking one after another of you to task for your alleged stupidities and think, geez, should I step in? One time I did intervene after Larry and another participant got really hot and personal with each other. Off list, I emailed them and ... A busy day at Rigby Yard, 1981 Stories of Dave Fink in the days when he ran the former Boston & Maine and Maine Central for majority owner Tim Mellon could fill a book, and probably should. Let’s just say the man was direct, in your face, and unafraid of a fight—you punch him, expect to be flattened in the counterattack. A bit like Donald Trump, maybe, and Dave made a lot of enemies. I’ve always thought you had to have a certain amount of those characteristics to survive in running a big New England rail... A Canadian diary, in a nutshell In my blog describing VIA Rail Canada’s new Prestige service on its Canadian between Toronto and Montreal, I told you everything about Prestige-class service and nothing about the trip itself. So here it is, fast and dirty. We got the usual handling on VIA #2, the eastbound Canadian. That is, we took the siding for 95 percent of the opposing freight trains we met. This has always been standard practice. So the variable becomes this: Is Canadian National having a relatively good day, its f... My wacko day (and night) I write in my column in the December issue of Trains (soon to arrive in your mailbox) that I look upon every trip by train as an adventure. I’ve just had another adventure, one worth sharing. It began when I booked a trip from New York City to Jacksonville, Fla., on the Silver Star. As you know, any extended trip on the Star is by definition an adventure, because it now lacks a dining car and therefore fresh food. My strategy on food became twofold. First, I didn’t really leave Goth... The lowdown on Prestige Half a dozen years ago, the folks at Via Rail Canada asked what was needed to attract the 1 percent crowd to their flagship, the Toronto-to-Vancouver Canadian. That is, the 1 percent of us with the most money, who can have about any travel experience they want. Back then, they weren’t getting these people. Well then, they decided, let’s create something that will cost the big bucks but will leave people thinking they got something really impressive in exchange. Thus was born, in 2014... Jim McClellan, in his own words “Frailey? McClellan here!” Those words, spoken over a telephone every couple of weeks, were my signal to put aside whatever I was doing and indulge myself for 20 or 30 minutes in the wit and wisdom of Jim McClellan. Of this man, Rush Loving wrote in The Men Who Loved Trains: “Ambling from job to job, often by misadventure and sometimes even by getting fired, McClellan had happened into the center of every major event in the railroad industry. ‘I call myself the Forrest Gu... For God so loved cows In my youth in Hopkins County, Texas, which proclaimed itself then the dairy capital of America, cattle were sacred. Ever so often a farmer’s fence would go down and milk cows would placidly chew grass on the Cotton Belt’s right of way, until struck by a passing train. In the inevitable lawsuit, those aging milk providers would be mysteriously transformed into prize breeding cattle that would still be working for the benefit of the children of Texas but for Cotton Belt’s neglig... PTC or meds for Grandma? If it’s a safer railroad environment you want—as we do—the signs are not good. Let’s start with Positive Train Control (PTC). Not so long after Congress voted in 2008 to mandate it, I admit I was skeptical. I questioned the huge amount of private capital required per life saved and I criticized Congress for not giving railroads a life preserver of their own in the form of tax credits. Well, I’m entitled to change my mind, and I have. We have witnessed terrible trag... About Amtrak's new leader It’s safe to say that everyone who cares about the future of the American passenger train breathed a sigh of relief today. Welcome to Amtrak, Wick Moorman. When he and I spoke months ago, the just-retired chief executive of Norfolk Southern said the challenge of running (and changing) Amtrak attracted him, but that he had promised his wife he would devote his time to her and their family. So maybe the hero of the day is really Bonnie Moorman. Charles (Wick) Moorman brings some big strengt... On crew size, I smell a rat I fully realize that it’s an article of faith among the readers of this blog who operate trains that the Federal Railroad Administration’s proposed rule mandating two people on all trains is an urgent safety issue. And maybe it is. The problem I’ve had all along is that the two-person rule is being treated by FRA in such a political manner as to cause me to question the agency’s sincerity. Now the Association of American Railroads, which of course represents the employers... Amtrak's acting president? An acquaintance of long standing, with a reputation for seldom being wrong, passed on an interesting tidbit just now that I’ll pass on to you. I’ve blogged a couple of times about people who might become (or ought to become) Amtrak’s next president. My colleague Don Phillips wrote a Trains Magazine column on this same subject. The months go by and still no decision, however. The incumbent CEO, Joe Boardman, plans to retire in September. So this is the tidbit whispered in my ea... What happened to the Sprints? It’s my turn to ask questions. Those of us of a certain age, survivors of the era of full crews, surely recall the spate of trains that blossomed in roughly the early to mid 1980s. Sprints. Slingshots, Texas Special North/South and what-have-you. Santa Fe had a small network of Q-type trains. What bound them together was that they mostly trailer-on-flatcar intermodal trains operated over fairly short distances on extended crew districts with only an engineer and conductor and without the t... How to revive growth Railroad revenue declines are not just in coal and crude oil, but across the board. Take Union Pacific’s second quarter versus 2015: Chemicals, down 5 percent; automotive, down 13 percent; industrial products, down 14 percent; intermodal, down 16 percent; coal, down 27 percent. The whole industry is contracting while the economy is growing. I spoke the other day with Tom Hoback, the recently retired founder and chief execu... Amtrak: Connect the dots Any time now, Amtrak’s directors will elect a new president and chief executive, to replace Joe Boardman, who is retiring. I’ve talked to people who have been approached by the executive recruiting firm looking for this person. The recruiter is telling people Amtrak wants an experienced railroad manager in the top job. I’ve also blogged my ideas of some good prospects: Ron Batory (Conrail Shared Assets), Wick Moorman (Norfolk Southern), Matt Rose (BNSF), and John Fenton (Patrio... Old King Coal is back HAS ANYONE NOTICED the surge in coal traffic, particularly from the Powder River Basin? BNSF Railway’s loadings jumped from 3,235 cars per day the week of April 3-9 to 4,525 per day June 12-18, the most recent week reported. That’s an increase of 1,290 cars per day, or 39 percent—or if you will, 10 additional 129-car trains per day. All I can say is, WOW! What a difference 10 weeks make. And it’s not just a BNSF thing, because in percentage terms, Union Pacific’s c... Bring back Al Perlman I keep looking for a major railroad to break away from the pack. Railroading today is beset with problems, starting with the collapse of its coal franchise, which had been the industry’s number-one commodity. Equally troubling, the carload business in general continues to slowly erode. We could be on the verge of driverless trucks, which would destroy the cost advantage of rail over road, at the very time that the federal government prepares to mandate two-person crews aboard locomotives. ... Night Journey A real change of pace today. My friend Joe Swanson of Northwestern University sent me this poem, "Night Journey," by Theodore Huebner Roethke [1908-1963], one of our last century's great writers and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. I was so taken by the imagery that he put into these few words that my eyes misted over (blame it on my old age). What better tribute to such good writing than to share it with you.--Fred W. Frailey Night Journey Now as the train bears west, Its ... Magnificent machines I'm not talking about locomotives, but something possessed by every mammal: Our hearts. These little, simple mechanisms go to work not long after we are conceived and never stop functioning until the instant we leave this realm. Take good care of them, and they will take good care of you, making you feel, even in old age,invincible, indestructible. But sometimes our hearts fail to work correctly, and then you lose confidence that you are well anchored to life. In other words, we know intuitively... When Lou saved a Zephyr In his long railroad carrier, Louis Menk ran four big railroads: Frisco, Burlington, Northern Pacific, and the newly created (in 1970) Burlington Northern. He was unafraid to make momentous decisions and comfortable with his opinions. One oft-repeated opinion he voiced to me late in his life was this: “You couldn’t make money then, can’t make money now and won’t make money ever on intercity passenger trains. That’s all there is to it.” At the Frisco, Menk sou... The four big U.S. railroads share the same problem this spring: the urgent need to resize themselves to match the business they have. Coal is an obvious problem. The collapse of this traffic has been swift and unrelenting. Let me give you some numbers. Union Pacific in November of 2014 loaded 28 unit coal trains a day in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming. Last month it averaged but 12 trains a day. Rival BNSF Railway loaded 46 trains a day in the PRB in November of 2014, but last month, a mere 2... Inside the mind of Michael Ward Sometimes you wonder why you ever wanted the job. What a fix your company is in today. And it’s not just about CSX Transportation. You could as easily be Lantz Fritz or Jim Squires or the chief executive of any other U.S. Class I railroad. We’re all running enterprises that are in a world of hurt—running on fumes, even. The bottom has fallen out of your businesses. What in the heck are you going to do? You have done all the easy things. You laid up locomotives (and gosh does i... Why your fried chicken ate Brazilian corn Get this: It’s now cheaper for a hog farmer or chicken raiser in North Carolina to buy corn grown in places like Brazil or Argentina than in the U.S. Midwest. A host of reasons account for this anomaly, but not the least of them is the price charged by American railroads. The strange occurrence will be seen more frequently in 2016. First of all, the world is awash today with commodities of all kinds, from really hard stuff like iron ore to greasy goo like crude oil to crunchy things like,... Advice for the NEXT rail merger I’ve been working on a book, a tiny piece of which involves examining the failed attempt by Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Canadian National railways to merge. That was in 1999-2000. And the more I lift the dead leaves off that failed enterprise, the more startled I became. The parallels between Canadian Pacific+Norfolk Southern in 2015-2016 and BNSF+CN in 1999-2000 are striking. Granted, BNSF+CN was a friendly affair between those two railroads, whereas CP+NS is quite the opposite. But... Hunter's grand plan revealed Mr. Harrison’s office, Irma speaking. How can I help you? Irm, this is Jim Squires at Norfolk Southern. May I speak with Hunter? Sir, my name is not Irm. Mr. Harrison says he has nothing to say to you. You have hurt his feelings. But Joyce . . . Irma . . . Irma, I want to speak to him. My board of directors now says we need to talk, Hunter and I, like adults. Mr. Harrison says . . . just a minute . . . what did you say, Mr. Harrison? . . . he says you need to spend some time with you... What if Donald wins? Hillary? It's not too soon to be thinking about how railroads will be affected by the election of our next president. Let's start by imagining President Donald Trump. Every U.S. chief executive since the creation of Amtrak in 1971 has done no better than to give the passenger train company lip service. Most (I'm tempted to say all) Republican presidents sought to end its federal subsidy, which would have led to its demise. I can see a President Trump possibly making one big difference in the other direct... 60 minutes in the life of EHH “Hunter Harrison here, Michael. How are things in Jacksonville? And when are you going to come down to Plantation and see my horses? . . . Whatdaya mean, you’re pissed at me? . . . Yeah, I told the Journal about our offer to buy CSX, and yeah, I know the Journal said I offered $20 billion and you heard me offer you a lot less. Michael, this is the real world and I just wanted to apply some public pressure. But if you’ll come to the table we can get the deal to $20 billion. I ca... Requiem for the Tidewater Turn In the larger picture of coal’s demise as a source of electric power (and railroad tonnage), what happened this week in Northeast Texas carries little meaning. But it means a lot to me and to a circle of my friends, including Nathan Bailey. So let me explain. When I grew up in the little town of Sulphur Springs, what is now called Kansas City Southern Railway’s Greenville Subdivision, between Shreveport, La., and Dallas, was in a world of hurt. Two freight trains a day each way beca... Ever feel you're being stalked? That uncomfortable feeling must be going through the mind of Norfolk Southern chief executive Jim Squires. Until two weeks ago, the prevailing assumption had been that the stalker, Canadian Pacific, would mount a proxy contest to elect its directors to the NS board and thereby hasten a friendly merger between the two railroads. Then CP abruptly changed direction. In an interview with me on February 3, CP chief executive Hunter Harrison raised two issues that he claimed would keep his company fr... Is Hunter too old to run NS? Hunter Harrison raised the issue in an interview we did yesterday: He fears winning a proxy battle for control of Norfolk Southern’s board of directors and not being able to go there as its chief executive. You can read the Trains News Wire story here. Now that Harrison has brought the subject out of the realm of email and blog debates and fully into public view, let’s examine it. What Canadian Pacific Railway has proposed is to buy Norfolk Southern. NS directors have rejected three... 1234567Last »	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line116
__label__cc	0.740917	0.259083	Malea Powell Lead Researcher, Digital Publishing Lab (WRAC) 434 Farm Lane, 235 Bessey Hall Malea Powell is Professor and Chair of the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures at Michigan State University as well as a faculty member in American Indian and Indigenous Studies. She is lead researcher for the Digital Publishing Lab at MSU, director of the Cultural Rhetorics Consortium, editor-in-chief of constellations: a journal of cultural rhetorics, past chair of the CCCC, and editor emerita of SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures. A widely published scholar and poet, her current book project, This Is A Story, examines the continuum of indigenous rhetorical production in North America, from beadwork to alphabetic writing. Powell is a mixed-blood of Indiana Miami, Eastern Shawnee, and Euroamerican ancestry. In her spare time, she hangs out with eccentric Native women artists & poets, and does beadwork. LocationAmerican Indian & Indigenous Studies Program College of Arts and Letters Department of Writing Rhetoric and American Cultures GroupsArchiving Core Faculty Faculty Literature Publishing Writing Joseph Cheatle Kathleen Fitzpatrick	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line127
__label__cc	0.510986	0.489014	Discuss The Knowledge The community pages for The Knowledge, a book by Dr Lewis Dartnell Board index ‹ General ‹ How quickly could you accelerate a reboot of civilisation? Revival Timeline - is it even probable? by TheGreek » Thu Jul 31, 2014 8:11 pm Let's say that you find yourself in the ideal situation for this thought experiment. The world as we know it as ended, and the vast majority of humanity is gone. There has been a period of turmoil after the apocalypse, but order has now been restored by a ruler. You are a member of a surviving community of a few thousand people, in a largely peaceful society. Given the appropriate guidance, what do you think is the quickest that such a society could progress from rudimentary means to a technologically competent civilisation with, say, electricity, radio, and engines? Sadly, I think that the ideal situation is one of pure fantasy. It feels like the only way the scenario could occur is if there was some group of people actively preserving the knowledge needed to rebuild society and then doling out the wisdom when we were ready for it again. -Read a A Canticle for Leibowitz. Let's look at the world today and why it dims our chances. 1. Very, very little is actually built to last. - What's left after 20, 50 or 100 years of decay? By that time what machinery/technology would be left that could be revived through some blood, sweat and tears? Pre-plastics revolution machinery and mechanically powered machinery is gone. Capitalism, or what we perceive to be capitalism has created such fast production cycles for nearly everything in society that nothing built now is meant to last beyond the next cycle or 2. Keep them buying to keep them happy.... 2. No minerals, oil, metal ore is abundantly available from surface collection. -As mentioned elsewhere, all fossil fuels have been surface mined decades ago. Without advanced technology we cannot dig deep enough to mine ore, or fossil fuels with pre industrial revolution methods. 3. Majority of the developed world inhabitants are too specialized in their knowledge base/education - Not enough people will survive with knowledge and skills required to fix anything, build anything or that know how to live off the land. 4. Books containing knowledge on building or repairing machinery etc.. will be extremely difficult to find intact as the libraries that house them will have most likely been ransacked or decayed into ruin. The books will have probably been burnt for heating/cooking. 5. Much of the world's most fertile land will be ruined because it's also where we have built all of our cities and industry. It will be covered in large swaths of pollution from decayed industrial sights, untreated sewage and polluted waterways, nuclear fallout(either from war or from reactor failures), fossil fuel spills(destroyed oil rigs, tankers and pipelines) Lastly, although I am sure that others may want to chime in on my fatalistic views, I'd like to turn it over to Thomas Hobbs,http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hobbes-moral/ There would be “no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain; and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by Sea; no commodious Building; no Instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no Knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; and which is worst of all, continuall feare, and danger of violent death; And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.” If this is the state of nature, people have strong reasons to avoid it, which can be done only by submitting to some mutually recognized public authority, for “so long a man is in the condition of mere nature, (which is a condition of war,) as private appetite is the measure of good and evill.” Re: Revival Timeline - is it even probable? by lewis » Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:17 am Hi, thanks for your thoughts! I agree with you totally that if civilisation is to have any chance of a rapid bounce-back after a global catastrophe then it would be best to preserve as much knowledge as possible. Canticle for Leibowitz is a great read and one of my recommended books, but as Walter M. Miller, Jr. discusses, without understanding that knowledge is useless and the monks end up copying scrolls without comprehension and practical application. So I think you're right, it would need more than just the texts to be preserved, but an active community or society of people who continue to practice these processes and skills, and such practical, hands-on expertise is lamentably rare amongst most people in the modern developed world, although not absent. I suspect, though, that you are being overly pessimistic about the availability of viable agricultural land after a disaster, and you wouldn't need to mine metal ore because you could scavenge what you need. Unlike oil, the metal already extracted from the ground is still here, lying around on the surface and can be reclaimed. by Strongbow » Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:31 am I think the first priority would be the immediate start of a food growing/gathering cycle. Any initial agricultural projects would be most likely have to be done by hand. The sea would provide if you were near it. You would also probably want to sent out parties to source what was left and to find an ideal location to start up civilisation again. Once this was done, I would imagine something as basic (by current standards) as a steam engine to assist your developments, then that would be utilised from what ever priorities you would have. We might never have electricity manufactured on a huge scale again…. Return to How quickly could you accelerate a reboot of civilisation? Jump to: Select a forum ------------------ Welcome Read me first New members General What might collapse civilisation? Can you prepare for the apocalypse? 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__label__cc	0.726301	0.273699	Home → Consumer Empowerment American Decline can be Reversed through Practical Grassroots Action Public education has been decaying on the inside for decades. Educators blame poverty, poor parenting, changing demographics, the growth of hedonistic popular culture, insufficient funding, and myriad other factors. Seldom mentioned, however, is education’s failure to adapt and overcome these conditions. In the view of most educators, schools are doing all they can-an explanation that is contradicted by the visible differences in effectiveness between teachers within the same school and between schools within the same district. Value-added assessments show that high performing teachers and schools can bring about twice as much achievement gain per year as low performers-and that is a level-playing field comparison. In truth, public education was created as a means of affording each new generation of Americans an opportunity to succeed regardless of the conditions of their birth. If schools can’t overcome these conditions, they are failing at their basic mission. Thankfully, not all schools and districts indulge themselves in excuses. Instead, they recognize their historic mission and reach their goals despite adversity. Probably the clearest example of such schools today are the KIPP Academies. They take students whose demographic status predicts failure and turn out competent graduates. How they reach that end is another discussion, but the point that parents, officials, and citizens need to recognize is that effective schools can overcome most of the barriers and that it all starts with leadership. In a democracy, however, leadership must enlist the grassroots, and that is where the breakdown of American public schooling begins. Schools and districts all over the United States are marginally fulfilling their mission because of weak leadership at the school district level, i.e., boards and superintendents. The underlying issue is that electorate and the board are frequently in the dark about the true state of their schools. The result is that few citizens pay attention, voters are disengaged, school board elections controlled by narrow special interests, and school leadership is largely unaccountable for results. Reform is Attainable These circumstances and the poor student outcomes that they produce are neither inevitable nor irreversible; but change does require grassroots action, and that begins with a critical mass of informed citizens. School reform–as old as public schooling itself—has most often failed because reformers have not done their homework and accepted good intentions for sustained results. The articles and other items listed on this page pertain to various features of the local school reform process: Why the public officials and local citizens are often in the dark about their schools Why school boards can are often captives of special interests How to form a grassroots school reform organization How educational failure originates in the earliest grades An example of the barriers faced by reform efforts An example of how local officials equipped with consumer-friendly tools can take action Why the lack of effective reading instruction is arguably the greatest barrier to better schools Americans Know Very Little About Local School Quality In an Investors Business Daily op ed, the president of the Education Consumers Foundation maintains that Americans are largely kept in the dark about the performance of their local schools. Without a convenient and understandable scoreboard, there… Organizing to Improve Local Schools What is an Education Consumers Association? An Education Consumers Association (ECA) is local or state level citizen group that is dedicated to empowering parents, school board members, employers, and all others who have a consumer’s… Reaching Workforce Preparedness Aims Requires Effective Teaching – Beginning in Preschool! On November 15 and 16, ECF led breakout sessions for 200 Tennessee school board members on the link between workforce preparedness and early childhood education. You can review the entire presentation, including slides, comments, and links… KIPP in charter tug-of-war The Tennessean reports on the challenges KIPP Academy Nashville has had in getting additional charters approved within Metro Nashville Schools, based in part on the assertion that KIPP is not performing as well as others in… A Mayor Uses Consumer-Friendly Charts to Make his Case Are Tennessee’s Children Learning to Read? Mayor Tim Burchett Asks the Question in Knoxville. 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__label__cc	0.705234	0.294766	Street Light and Traffic Signal/Energy Efficiency Conference – May 7 & 14 calsla, streetlighting This conference is presented at no cost to employees of California cities, counties, special districts and Associate Members, who are JPAs, vendors and service providers to local government. The conference provides an excellent opportunity for networking and discussion of issues related to street lights and traffic signals. Attendance is limited, and registration is on a… WRCOG Regional Streetlight Program best practices, EE municipal programs, energy efficiency, Local Governments in Action, southern california, streetlighting The Western Riverside Council of Governments created the Regional Streetlight Program to provide their member cities with energy efficient streetlighting options. WRCOG also created a demonstration area in the City of Hemet so residents can have input in the type of lighting that they want in their own communities. Click here to learn more about… Whittier Leverages Incentives and Support for Municipal Retrofits – Including Streetlighting, Lighting, HVAC, and VFD Upgrades best practices, EE municipal programs, energy efficiency, HVAC, incentives, lighting, Local Governments in Action, Regional Energy Networks, SCE, streetlighting As covered in the Whittier Daily News: the City of Whittier is going green. It’s spending about $2.1 million on ways to make street lights and city buildings more energy efficient, a move that will pay for itself in about four years and save hundreds of thousands of dollars afterward, officials said. (more…) Savings Results from Grass Valley Energy Efficiency and Solar Project best practices, building envelope, buildings, EE municipal programs, energy efficiency, ESCOs, lighting, Local Governments in Action, northern california, sierra nevada, solar, streetlighting The City of Grass Valley’s June 28th City Council meeting celebrated the completion of a number of municipal energy efficiency and solar projects through an energy performance contract with Opterra Energy, including new solar generation, LED (more…) Corte Madera Adopts Climate Action Plan best practices, buildings, CCA, climate action plans, climate change, codes and standards, commercial, EE municipal programs, energy efficiency, evaluation, green building, HVAC, lighting, local government partnership, Local Governments in Action, measurement & verification, PACE, permitting, reach codes, renewables/DERs, residential, solar, stakeholder engagement, strategic planning, streetlighting Earlier this month, the Town of Corte Madera adopted and published its new Climate Action Plan, making Marin County a county where all cities and towns – and the County itself – have a climate action plan in place. (Click here for links to all of Marin County’s climate action plans.) The Plan reviews the Town’s greenhouse… San Francisco LED Streetlights Replacement Interactive Map bay area, best practices, EE municipal programs, energy efficiency, lighting, Local Governments in Action, northern california, streetlighting This year, San Francisco will be replacing 18,500 of its City-owned cobra head streetlights with LEDs, saving the City energy, money, and maintenance – the new bulbs will use approximately half as much energy, and last four times as long. More information is available on the City’s website here, and an interactive map showing planned… Video: City of Long Beach’s LED Streetlight Upgrade Project Kicks Off: Plans for 25,000 Streetlights in 12 months best practices, energy efficiency, lighting, Local Governments in Action, procurement, Regional Energy Networks, southern california, southern coast, streetlighting Click below to learn about the City of Long Beach’s LED streetlighting project, which will improve light quality and public safety and reduce energy use by 50%: The Energy Network (Southern California Regional Energy Network, or SoCal REN) provides a one-stop project delivery approach so that City agencies spend less time worrying about procurement and administration.… City of Palo Alto Completes Three Phases of High Pressure Sodium to LED Streetlighting Upgrades bay area, best practices, EE municipal programs, lighting, Local Governments in Action, northern california, streetlighting A total of 5,560 high pressure sodium cobrahead streetlights have been replaced with high-efficiency LEDs in the first three phases of the project. The electric savings translate to a 7 year project payback. A map of the project is available on the City of Palo Alto’s website. Staff will investigate a possible Phase 4 replacement… City of South Gate Reduces Energy Use, Applies Best Practices, and wins Beacon Award Beacon Program, benchmarking, best practices, climate action plans, energy efficiency, Local Governments in Action, retro-commissioning, SEEC, southern california, streetlighting The City of South Gate is first city in Southern California to win the Beacon Award, presented through Institute for Local Government and Statewide Energy Efficiency Collaborative (SEEC). As shared by the Institute in its press release, “It is an honor to be the first Southern (more…) Oceanside Named 2015 Energy Champion by SDG&E anaerobic digester gas, best practices, building controls & analytics, energy efficiency, lighting, Local Governments in Action, renewables/DERs, SDG&E, solar, southern california, southern coast, streetlighting, water energy nexus The City of Oceanside has been named the 2015 Local Government Energy Champion for by SDG&E for its energy efficiency and conservation efforts at their 10th Energy Showcase (more…) SCE Advice 3241-E (Establishment of New Optional Tariff Provision, Option E, Energy Efficiency – Light Emitting Diode Fixture Replacement in Schedule LS-1, and its Associated Agreement, Form 14-965, in Compliance with Assembly Bill 719 and Public Utilities Code Section 384.5) CPUC, EE municipal programs, energy efficiency, lighting, SCE, streetlighting On June 30, 2015, SCE filed Advice 3241-E with the Commission. Title: Establishment of New Optional Tariff Provision, Option E, Energy Efficiency – Light Emitting Diode Fixture Replacement in Schedule LS-1, and its Associated Agreement, Form 14-965, in Compliance with Assembly Bill 719 and Public Utilities Code Section 384.5 (See attached file: 3241-E (Part 1… City of San Diego Honored for Energy Efficiency, Demand Response, Electric Vehicles, and Renewables anaerobic digester gas, best practices, buildings, demand response, EE municipal programs, electric vehicles, energy efficiency, green building, HVAC, lighting, local government partnership, Local Governments in Action, renewables/DERs, SDG&E, streetlighting, water energy nexus This City of San Diego press release contains a great list of programming that the City has implemented in pursuit of its energy efficiency and sustainability goals – programming that has saved the City energy, money, and led to the City being honored at SDG&E’s recent Energy Showcase Event. Activities undertaken by the City include: Installation… Sharing Best Practices: ZNE Best Practices Connect Lancaster and Hermosa Beach best practices, community leaders, energy efficiency, green buildingw, lighting, Local Governments in Action, renewables/DERs, SCE, southern california, streetlighting, transportation, water energy nexus, zero net energy (ZNE) The City of Hermosa Beach and the City of Lancaster met over Earth Day to review best practices in going carbon neutral. The City of Lancaster is aiming for carbon neutrality by (more…) City of Watsonville Adopts Ordinance for Carbon Fund Program best practices, building controls & analytics, buildings, CCA, central coast, climate action plans, climate change, codes and standards, energy efficiency, lighting, local government partnership, Local Governments in Action, measurement & verification, PG&E, renewables/DERs, revolving loan fund, solar, streetlighting The City of Watsonville in Santa Cruz County made an innovative move earlier this week, and adopted both its new Climate Action Plan (CAP), and a Carbon Fund Ordinance to (more…) Sacramento County Moves to LED Street Lights, Saves $477,000 Per Year best practices, central valley, EE municipal programs, energy efficiency, financing, lighting, Local Governments in Action, streetlighting Sacramento County is utilizing a zero-interest loan from the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) to replace 7,500 old streetlight fixtures with LEDs. The electric savings of the project is estimated at $477,000 per year, or enough to pay off the project’s loan in six years.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line140
__label__cc	0.580155	0.419845	»Proposal Text »AB445: Bill Text AB445,45 3Section 45. 230.90 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read: AB445,20,114 230.90 (1) (c) “Governmental unit" means any association, authority, board, 5commission, department, independent agency, institution, office, society or other 6body in state government created or authorized to be created by the constitution or 7any law, including the legislature, the office of the governor and the courts. 8“Governmental unit" does not mean the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and 9Clinics Authority, the Badger Health Benefit Authority, or any political subdivision 10of the state or body within one or more political subdivisions which is created by law 11or by action of one or more political subdivisions. AB445,46 12Section 46. 635.18 (1) of the statutes is amended to read: AB445,20,1413 635.18 (1) Every Any small employer insurer shall may actively market health 14benefit plan coverage to small employers in the state. AB445,47 15Section 47. Chapter 636 of the statutes is created to read: AB445,20,1716 chapter 636 17 health benefit plan exchange AB445,20,1918 subchapter I 19 general provisions AB445,20,20 20636.01 Definitions. In this chapter: AB445,20,21 21(1) “Authority" means the Badger Health Benefit Authority. AB445,20,24 22(2) “Educated health care consumer" means an individual who is 23knowledgeable about the health care system and who has background or experience 24in making informed decisions regarding health, medical, and scientific matters. AB445,21,4 1(3) “Federal act" means the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 2P.L. 111-148, as amended by the federal Health Care and Education Reconciliation 3Act of 2010, P.L. 111-152, and any amendments to, or regulations or guidance issued 4under, those acts. AB445,21,7 5(4) (a) Except as provided in pars. (b) to (e), “health benefit plan" means a policy, 6contract, certificate, or agreement offered or issued by a health carrier to provide, 7deliver, arrange for, pay for, or reimburse any of the costs of health care services. AB445,21,88 (b) “Health benefit plan" does not include any of the following: AB445,21,109 1. Coverage only for accident, or disability income insurance, or any 10combination of those. AB445,21,1111 2. Coverage issued as a supplement to liability insurance. AB445,21,1312 3. Liability insurance, including general liability insurance and automobile 13liability insurance. AB445,21,1414 4. Worker's compensation or similar insurance. AB445,21,1515 5. Automobile medical payment insurance. AB445,21,1616 6. Credit-only insurance. AB445,21,1717 7. Coverage for on-site medical clinics. AB445,21,2018 8. Other similar insurance coverage, specified in federal regulations issued 19under P.L. 104-191, under which benefits for health care services are secondary or 20incidental to other insurance benefits. AB445,21,2321 (c) “Health benefit plan" does not include any of the following benefits if they 22are provided under a separate policy, certificate, or contract of insurance or otherwise 23not an integral part of the plan: AB445,21,2424 1. Limited scope dental or vision benefits. 12. Benefits for long-term care, nursing home care, home health care, 2community-based care, or any combination of those. AB445,22,43 3. Other similar, limited benefits specified in federal regulations issued under 4P.L. 104-191. AB445,22,115 (d) “Health benefit plan" does not include any of the following benefits if the 6benefits are provided under a separate policy, certificate, or contract of insurance, 7there is no coordination between the provision of the benefits and any exclusion of 8benefits under any group health plan maintained by the same plan sponsor, and the 9benefits are paid with respect to an event without regard to whether benefits are 10provided with respect to such an event under any group health plan maintained by 11the same plan sponsor: AB445,22,1212 1. Coverage only for a specified disease or illness. AB445,22,1313 2. Hospital indemnity or other fixed indemnity insurance. AB445,22,1514 (e) “Health benefit plan" does not include any of the following if offered as a 15separate policy, certificate, or contract of insurance: AB445,22,1716 1. Medicare supplemental health insurance as defined under section 1882 (g) 17(1) of the federal Social Security Act. AB445,22,1918 2. Coverage supplemental to the coverage provided under the Civilian Health 19and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services 10 USC ch. 55. AB445,22,2120 3. Similar coverage supplemental to coverage provided under a group health 21plan. AB445,23,3 22(5) “Health carrier" means an entity subject to the insurance laws and rules 23of this state, or subject to the jurisdiction of the commissioner, that contracts or offers 24to contract to provide, deliver, arrange for, pay for, or reimburse any of the costs of 25health care services, including a sickness and accident insurance company, a health 1maintenance organization, a nonprofit hospital and health service corporation, or 2any other entity providing a plan of health insurance, health benefits, or health 3services. AB445,23,5 4(5m) “Minimum essential coverage" has the meaning given in 26 USC 5000A 5(f) (1). AB445,23,7 6(6) “Qualified dental plan" means a limited scope dental plan that has been 7certified in accordance with s. 636.42 (5). AB445,23,11 8(7) “Qualified employer" means a small employer that elects to make its 9full-time employees eligible for one or more qualified health plans offered through 10the SHOP Exchange and, at the option of the employer, some or all of its part-time 11employees, provided that the employer satisfies any of the following: AB445,23,1412 (a) The employer has its principal place of business in this state and elects to 13provide coverage through the SHOP Exchange to all of its eligible employees, 14wherever employed. AB445,23,1615 (b) The employer elects to provide coverage through the SHOP Exchange to all 16of its eligible employees who are principally employed in this state. AB445,23,19 17(8) “Qualified health plan" means a health benefit plan that has in effect a 18certification that the plan meets the criteria for certification described in section 191311 (c) of the federal act and s. 636.42. AB445,23,21 20(9) “Qualified individual" means an individual, including a minor, who satisfies 21all of the following: AB445,23,2322 (a) The individual is seeking to enroll in a qualified health plan offered to 23individuals through the exchange under subch. II. AB445,23,2424 (b) The individual resides in this state. 1(c) At the time of enrollment, the individual is not incarcerated in a correctional 2facility, other than incarceration pending the disposition of charges. AB445,24,53 (d) The individual is, and is reasonably expected to be for the entire period for 4which enrollment is sought, a citizen or national of the United States or an alien 5lawfully present in the United States. AB445,24,7 6(10) “Secretary" means the secretary of the federal department of health and 7human services. AB445,24,9 8(11) “SHOP Exchange" means a small business health options program 9established under s. 636.30 (1) (q). AB445,24,11 10(12) (a) “Small employer" means an employer that employed an average of not 11more than 100 employees during the preceding calendar year. AB445,24,1212 (b) For purposes of this subsection, all of the following apply: AB445,24,14131. All persons treated as a single employer under section 414 (b), (c), (m), or (o) 14of the Internal Revenue Code shall be treated as a single employer. AB445,24,1615 2. An employer and any predecessor employer shall be treated as a single 16employer. AB445,24,1817 3. All employees shall be counted, including part-time employees and 18employees who are not eligible for coverage through the employer. AB445,24,2219 4. If an employer was not in existence during the entire preceding calendar 20year, the determination of whether that employer is a small employer shall be based 21on the average number of employees that it is reasonably expected that employer will 22employ on business days in the current calendar year. AB445,25,223 5. An employer that makes enrollment in qualified health plans available to 24its employees through the SHOP Exchange and that would cease to be a small 25employer by reason of an increase in the number of its employees shall continue to 1be treated as a small employer for purposes of this chapter as long as it continuously 2makes enrollment through the SHOP Exchange available to its employees. AB445,25,43 subchapter II 4 operation of exchange AB445,25,8 5636.25 General matters. (1) The authority shall establish and operate a 6Wisconsin Health Benefit Exchange and shall make qualified health plans, with 7effective dates on or before January 1, 2018, available to qualified individuals and 8qualified employers. AB445,25,10 9(2) (a) The authority may not make available any health benefit plan that is 10not a qualified health plan. AB445,25,1511 (b) The authority shall allow a health carrier to offer a plan that provides 12limited scope dental benefits meeting the requirements of section 9832 (c) (2) (A) of 13the Internal Revenue Code through the exchange under sub. (1), either separately 14or in conjunction with a qualified health plan, if the plan provides pediatric dental 15benefits meeting the requirements of section 1302 (b) (1) (J) of the federal act. AB445,25,22 16(3) Neither the authority nor a health carrier offering health benefit plans 17through the exchange under sub. (1) may charge an individual a fee or penalty for 18termination of coverage if the individual enrolls in another type of minimum 19essential coverage because the individual has become newly eligible for that 20coverage or because the individual's employer-sponsored coverage has become 21affordable under the standards of section 36B (c) (2) (C) of the Internal Revenue 22Code. AB445,26,2 23(4) The authority may enter into information-sharing agreements with federal 24and state agencies and entities operating exchanges in other states to carry out its 25responsibilities under this chapter, provided that such agreements include adequate 1protections with respect to the confidentiality of the information to be shared and 2comply with all state and federal laws and rules and regulations. AB445,26,5 3636.30 Exchange duties and powers. (1) In addition to all other duties 4imposed under this chapter, the authority shall do all of the following relating to the 5exchange under s. 636.25 (1): AB445,26,96 (a) Implement procedures for the certification, recertification, and 7decertification, consistent with guidelines developed by the secretary under section 81311 (c) of the federal act and s. 636.42, of health benefit plans as qualified health 9plans. AB445,26,1110 (b) Provide for the operation of a toll-free telephone hotline to respond to 11requests for assistance. AB445,26,1312 (c) Provide for enrollment periods, as provided under section 1311 (c) (6) of the 13federal act. AB445,26,1614 (d) Maintain an Internet site through which enrollees and prospective 15enrollees of qualified health plans may obtain standardized comparative 16information on such plans. AB445,26,2117 (e) Assign a rating to each qualified health plan offered through the exchange 18in accordance with the criteria developed by the secretary under section 1311 (c) (3) 19of the federal act, and determine each qualified health plan's level of coverage in 20accordance with regulations issued by the secretary under section 1302 (d) (2) (A) of 21the federal act. AB445,26,2422 (f) Use a standardized format for presenting health benefit options in the 23exchange, including the use of the uniform outline of coverage established under 42 24USC 300gg-15. 1(g) Establish quality improvement standards for health benefit plans offered 2through the exchange. AB445,27,43 (h) Establish a system for enrolling eligible groups and individuals, using a 4standard application form developed by the commissioner under s. 636.46 (2). AB445,27,65 (i) Establish procedures for collecting premiums and remitting premium 6payments and providing enrollment information to health carriers. AB445,27,97 (j) Establish, in consultation with the commissioner, the method for 8determining the amount of the surcharge under s. 636.45 (1) and establish the 9procedure for imposing and collecting the surcharge. AB445,27,1110 (k) Establish a plan for publicizing the exchange and the eligibility 11requirements and enrollment procedures. AB445,27,1312 (L) Establish and operate a service center to provide information to small 13employers, individuals, enrollees, and insurance intermediaries about the exchange. AB445,27,1514 (m) Establish a mechanism for regular communication and cooperation with 15insurance intermediaries. AB445,27,1716 (n) Establish an independent and binding appeals process for resolving 17disputes over eligibility and other determinations made by the authority. AB445,27,2218 (o) In accordance with section 1413 of the federal act, inform individuals of 19eligibility requirements for Medical Assistance under subch. IV of ch. 49 or any other 20applicable state or local public program and if, through screening of the application 21by the authority, the authority determines that any individual is eligible for any such 22program, assist that individual to enroll in that program. AB445,28,223 (p) Establish and make available by electronic means a calculator to determine 24the actual cost of coverage after application of any premium tax credit under section 136B of the Internal Revenue Code and any cost-sharing reduction under section 21402 of the federal act. AB445,28,63 (q) Establish a SHOP Exchange through which qualified employers may access 4health care coverage for their employees and that shall enable any qualified 5employer to specify the level of coverage at which its employees may enroll in any 6qualified health plan offered through the SHOP Exchange. AB445,28,97 (r) Perform duties required of the authority by the secretary or the federal 8secretary of the treasury related to determining eligibility for premium tax credits, 9reduced cost sharing, or individual responsibility requirement exemptions. AB445,28,1310 (s) Select entities, which may include insurance intermediaries, that are 11qualified to serve as navigators in accordance with section 1311 (i) of the federal act 12and standards developed by the secretary, and award grants to enable navigators to 13do all of the following: AB445,28,1514 1. Conduct public education activities to raise awareness of the availability of 15qualified health plans. AB445,28,1916 2. Distribute fair and impartial information concerning enrollment in qualified 17health plans and concerning the availability of premium tax credits under section 1836B of the Internal Revenue Code and cost-sharing reductions under section 1402 19of the federal act. AB445,28,2020 3. Facilitate enrollment in qualified health plans. AB445,28,2521 4. Provide referrals to any applicable office of health insurance consumer 22assistance or health insurance ombudsman established under 42 USC 300gg-93, or 23to any other appropriate state agency or agencies, for any enrollee with a grievance, 24complaint, or question regarding the enrollee's health benefit plan, coverage, or 25determination under that plan or coverage. 15. Provide information in a manner that is culturally and linguistically 2appropriate to the needs of the population being served by the exchange. AB445,29,53 (t) Assist in the coordination of any necessary administrative operations 4between the department of corrections and the department of health services to 5ensure all of the following: AB445,29,86 1. That an individual, upon placement in a correctional facility, is disenrolled 7for the duration of his or her incarceration from any health care coverage in which 8he or she is enrolled. AB445,29,139 2. That an individual who is incarcerated in a correctional facility, but 10scheduled to be released from incarceration in the near future, is enrolled prior to 11release, through the exchange and effective upon the date of his or her release, in 12Medical Assistance, a qualified health plan, or some other form of minimum 13essential coverage on the date of his or her release from incarceration. AB445,29,1914 (u) For those persons whose alcohol or other drug abuse or mental health 15treatment is not covered by a federally administered program, coordinate the 16relationships among the Medical Assistance program, the exchange, and the county 17departments under s. 51.42 or 51.437 to provide outpatient and inpatient mental 18health and alcohol or other drug abuse treatment with all of the following goals for 19the coordination: AB445,29,2120 1. 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__label__wiki	0.777614	0.777614	Make "Afghanistan.ru" your Homepage! \| Add to Favorites \| RSS \| About us English \| فارسی \| Russian /Home/ Analysis/ Taliban Prepares for Storm the Sky Afghanistan.ru - 12.8.2007 Andrei Serenko (Photo: Aleksei Serenko) By Andrei Serenko, Russian political scientist. Western coalition in Afghanistan is under pressure to change the strategy of its control over Afghan sky. On the contrary, it may most likely lose its monopoly in current domination in sky. According to official an unofficial reports, NATO lost 2 Chinook military helicopters and 2 war planes in less than seven summer weeks. Such a significant loss in air force is a distinguish character of the current fighting season in Afghanistan. This means, NATO and American forces lost a military aircraft in every two weeks. This happened quite frequently and it is impossible to write off all crashes pointing to technical failures or bad weather. The first incident occurred near Kaszhaki in the southern province of Helmand on the 30th of May when an American Chinook helicopter crashed killing, according to NATO seven ISAF servicemen, five Americans, a British national and a Canadian, while Taliban said 35 servicemen from the Western coalition were killed. A representative of the Islamists said on the same day that the NATO helicopter was shot down using a new air defence system allegedly acquired by Taliban militant groups. On the 26th of June, Taliban said they shot down two foreign military aircraft. NATO command dismissed the report but a senior police officer in the eastern province of Nangarhar confirmed that an aircraft crashed in Hogiani. Two weeks later on the 10th of July, a Taliban official again said that its militants had shot down a Chinook helicopter in neighbouring Lagman province using a new weapon launched from the ground. Although NATO rejected the report Taliban had stick to its affirmation. Significantly, NATO helicopter and aircraft crashes in the Afghan sky had coincided with the announcement by Taliban about the acquiring of some kind of new air defence weapons and the statement by Pentagon that it had been discovered that the Islamic movement has a new Chinese-made weapon. A US Defence Department official announced the public opinion about Chinese involvement in Afghanistan on the 8th of July, two days before Taliban shot down a NATO military helicopter in Lagman province. It is quite possible that this is not an accidental coincidence and armed opposition of Afghanistan has Chinese-made shoulder-fired missiles and Taliban has already started to use them in fighting against Western coalition, especially in the southern and eastern provinces. If reports about acquiring new air defence system by Taliban were confirmed the military and political situation in Afghanistan changes radically, this will stir up a crisis in the ISAF mission and balance of strength between Kabul and the armed opposition will upset in favour of the latter. The present NATO military strategy in Afghanistan is significantly being built on the unconditional dominance in the sky. American and British military aircraft and helicopters are decisive argument in fighting against Taliban militants. If these forces are not being backed by them the loss of coalition forces would have been much greater. When taking into account insensitivity of European public opinion undoubtedly these losses might make the ISAF mission impossible. In short, the success of the NATO operation in Afghanistan is based on the Western coalition’s ability to maintain dominance in the sky and put the Afghan air space under its full control. An important condition for preserving NATO’s aviation dominance is the prevention of effective air defence systems falling into the hands of Taliban. Both Washington and Brussels respond sharply to any rumours about the possibility of acquiring portable air defence missiles by Islamic militants. It is sufficed to remember an incident a year ago when Islamic militants said that they had an access to Stingers which had remained intact from the times of Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. At the time, those rumours were spread by Gulbuddin Heckmatyar, the leader of the Hezbi Islami Party of Afghanistan hinting that he was the happiest possessor of the American shoulder-fired air defence missiles, which were supplied to him in the 80s. The ghost of Stringers provoked a real panic in the US and NATO last year because NATO forces could face a hard time in case if Heckmatyar handed over the missiles to Taliban. However, Stingers were not used in several provinces where fighting was going on at the time. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, Heckmatyar could simply bluff and had no legendary American shoulder-fired air defence missiles at all. Secondly, the leader of the HIP, who is keen on the resumption of his political carrier in Kabul, demonstrated that he was not frostbitten and knew the rules of the game that would not allow banned methods. In fact, Stinger was a banned method. Heckmatyar made it clear what he could do but he would not since he had no desire to burn all bridges, despite the fact he had been placed on the UN Security Council list of international terrorists. However, Taliban failed to get effective air defence systems last year. But the situation started to change in the middle of this year when reports said that Islamic insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan had started to use not only Iranian weapons but also Chinese ones. A statement by a Pentagon’s official is linked with this report about the supply of Chinese-made weapons to Taliban. In fact, China, unlike some other countries has refused to sign an international agreement that restricts its right to export portable air defence missiles. There is another incident witnessing the possible links between NATO air disasters in Afghanistan in summer, Pentagon’s anti-Chinese demarche and statement by Taliban about getting air defence systems. On the 18th of July, the US officially said it would start deploying a squadron of drones in Afghanistan exactly ten days after the American Defence Secretary paid a visit to China. Until recently, US forces in Afghanistan used drones for surveillance purposes and launching attacks on special targets. Now the US puts on combat duty Ripper unmanned aerial vehicle capable of launching large-scale attacks. A computer centre in the state of Nevada will establish control over these drones from about 10 thousand kilometers away. The operator using advanced system of virtual presence guides the unmanned aerial vehicle using military communication satellites and launches attacks on Taliban positions or militant groups. The transition to use the unmanned aerial vehicles for launching attacks by American forces could be explained only by the appearance of effective air defence systems in the hands of Islamic militants or possible appearance in the near future and the possibility of denying the NATO aircraft an access to sky. Understanding the growing threat posed by the shoulder-fired-missiles Americans have no desire that their pilots run the risk of being attacked and are determined to change the technology of establishing control over the Afghan air space radically at the cost of unmanned aerial vehicles. However, ISAF cannot depend on the service of these vehicles alone. The need for ordinary war planes and helicopters remains. Most likely, Afghan pilots will have to fly these aircraft. On the 20th of July, a NATO official Robert Durbin announced in Kabul that work aimed at forming an air force of the Afghan army had been stepped up. According to Durbin, the realization of the programme in this area will be started shortly, and the Afghan army will be handed over about 100 helicopters as a part of the programme. The Afghan army will get the first 6 helicopters in August. In fact, currently, helicopters are the irreplaceable weapon in the fight against Taliban militant groups. Missile attacks launched from the helicopters decide the outcome of local clashes and hours-long fights in which neither NATO forces nor Afghan units can achieve victory over militants individually. Undoubtedly, Taliban will launch main attacks on these helicopters using the shoulder-fired-air defence missiles. In fact, Afghan air force has already carried out its first independent operation against Taliban. Afghan Defence Ministry refused to mention the exact place where Afghan pilots fought their first fight saying the incident occurred in one of the southern province. However, indirect evidence says that the Afghan air force carried out the operation near the village of Sansar near Kandahar on the 15th of July and killed 15 Taliban militants during the bombardment. Analysis of the situation of the Afghan sky paves the way for making following conclusions. The transformation of control over Afghanistan’s air space that existed in 2001-2006 started in the middle of 2007. It is stipulated significantly by the threat posed by gaining direct access to portable air defence complexes and other systems by the Taliban militant groups. The new system of Western air force presence in Afghanistan will be more complicated that that exists now. It provides for the broader use of unmanned-aerial-vehicles, bombers by the American air force (strategic aviation control) and handing over of a significant part of military functions to the Afghan air force (tactical aviation control). The stem of Afghan air force consists of helicopters that guarantee fire support to NATO and Afghan ground forces during the operations against Taliban militants. Western coalition will try to preserve its control over strategic Afghan air space and at the same time it will try to avoid losses in American and NATO air forces by using drones and handing over risky operations to the Afghan air force. If NATO’s new air space control system is proved to be ineffective than the use of shoulder-fired air defence complexes and other air defence systems of Taliban this will shortly lead to the growth in losses of US and NATO ground forces, the fall of quality of military operations carried out by the North Atlantic alliance, a deep crisis in foreign military presence in Afghanistan and the ISAF mission as a whole. Consequently, the crisis poses a direct threat to the existence of President Hamid Karzai’s government in Kabul. /Latest publications/ 12.12.15 Afghanistan will buy 150 thousand tons of natural gas from Azerbaijan 4.12.15 Russia will supply 10 thousands AK assault rifles to Afghanistan 1.12.15 Chairman of Afghan Meshrano Jirga discussed security problems with Valentina Matvienko 24.11.15 India will send Afghanistan some Russian helicopters 23.11.15 Afghan ecologists are upgrading their skills in Volgograd 23.11.15 Nursultan Nazarbayev held talks with Afghanistan President in Astana 23.11.15 Afghanistan and Turkmenistan agreed on trade and economical cooperation 5.11.15 Russian Ministry of Defense is concerned about IS fighters presence in the northern Afghanistan 5.11.15 “Al-Qaeda” worries about Russian fight with Islamic State group 5.11.15 Russian envoy in Kabul hopes to renew cooperation with NATO in Afghanistan 29.10.15 Mi-35 delivery proposal resulted in pro-Russian sentiments growth in Afghanistan 29.10.15 Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to Afghanistan and Pakistan 27.10.15 Zamir Kabulov: Russian government is able to communicate with “Taliban” 27.10.15 Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations is ready to help Afghanistan after recent earthquake 19.10.15 MoF of Russia: ISIS could use Afghanistan to find way into China and CIS countries 19.10.15 MoF of Russia: delay of USA forces pullout from Afghanistan demonstrates their campaign failure 19.10.15 Dr. Abdulla: Afghanistan welcomes Russian help against terrorism 17.10.15 Vladimir Putin expressed dismay at growing terrorists’ influence in Afghanistan 17.10.15 Alexander Mantytsky: Russia could help Afghanistan to fight terrorism 17.10.15 Russia is ready to supply Afghan aviation with helicopters 11.10.15 International conference devoted to Afghanistan security threats continues in Moscow 11.10.15 Afghanistan and Russia talked over further economic cooperation 11.10.15 Russian and Tajikistan presidents discussed Afghanistan security problems 7.10.15 Zamir Kabulov: USA failed to train Afghan security forces properly 7.10.15 Abdul Rashid Dustum visited Grozny to meet Ramzan Kadyrov 7.10.15 Russian MFA condemns NATO aistrike at Kunduz 30.09.15 Famous photo “Afghan girl” by Steve McCurry will be displayed at the Hermitage 21.09.15 Alexander Mantytskiy: Russia calls for joint anti-terrorism efforts in Asian region 17.09.15 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation calls for more efforts in Afghanistan 16.09.15 Vitaliy Churkin: “Islamic State” controls part of drug traffic from Afghanistan 16.09.15 Afghan delegation visits Moscow to discuss further economic cooperation 15.09.15 Collective Security Treaty Organization is concerned about “Islamic State” presence in Afghanistan 10.09.15 Hamid Karzai reflects on his presidency 8.09.15 Russia will help Afghanistan to maintain Mi-8 helicopters 7.09.15 Abdul Rashid Dustum seeks for Russian support to handle regional problems 12.09.13 Putin, Karzai to discuss military technical cooperation on sidelines of SCO 10.09.13 Afghanistan needs support from international community 9.09.13 Russian Foreign Ministry condemns NATO attack killing Afghan civilians 9.09.13 Afghanistan and Russia pay tribute memory of Ahmad Shah Masood 8.09.13 Afghan immigrants follow Russian language courses free-of-charge in Stavropol 11.07.13 Azerbaijan, Afghanistan discuss bilateral cooperation 11.07.13 Turkmenistan, Afghanistan sign agreement on gas supply 5.07.13 Americans to continue fighting terrorism in Pakistan 21.05.13 Terrorist attack masterminded in Afghanistan and Pakistan averted in Moscow 20.05.13 Afghanistan plans to buy Russian planes for army 20.05.13 Russian forces in Tajikistan will not guard border with Afghanistan 10.05.13 Most influential politicians in Afghanistan: April 2013 28.04.13 Almaty hosts Istanbul Process Conference 28.04.13 Kazakh President rejects possible negative developments in Afghanistan 24.04.13 Russia-NATO Council discusses corporation on “helicopter package” Copyright © 2006 Afghanistan.ru. 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__label__wiki	0.741411	0.741411	Callandra Tyrol Revision as of 13:00, 21 April 2008 by Popsi-cally (talk \| contribs) Birth place {{{birthplace}}} Birth Name Cally Henderson Birth Date {{{birthdate}}} Nickname {{{nickname}}} Introduced Miniseries Death Released out of an airlock (The Ties That Bind) Children Nicholas Tyrol Marital Status Wife of Galen Tyrol Family Tree View Role Deckhand, Deck Crew 5, Battlestar Galactica Rank Petty Officer 2nd Class Serial Number {{{serial}}} Portrayed by Nicki Clyne Callandra Tyrol is a Cylon Callandra Tyrol is a Final Five Cylon Callandra Tyrol is a Human/Cylon Hybrid Callandra Tyrol is an Original Series Cylon Callandra Tyrol in the separate continuity [[Image:\|200px\|Callandra Tyrol]] 2 Character History at a Glance 3 On New Caprica 4 After New Caprica Specialist Cally Henderson Tyrol is a young woman who joined the Colonial Fleet as a means to pay for dental school (Fragged). Cally is not fond of FTL jumps (Miniseries), possibly because she suffers nausea during them (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I). Cally, as well as her boss, Chief Tyrol, seems prone to anger after a terrible event. Unlike the Chief, Cally tends to take decisive action as a result of her anger, rather than becoming immobile or overly irrational. Cally is particularly adept at finding ways around the lack of replacement parts aboard Galactica. As Chief Tyrol often comments, Cally's small stature allows her better access to smaller spaces in the Vipers and Raptors she repairs. Character History at a Glance Cally (who is never refered to by her surname) is a deckhand aboard battlestar Galactica, working under the supervision of Chief Galen Tyrol at the time of the battlestar's scheduled decommissioning. Cally is attached to Deck Crew 5 and responsible for Viper and Raptor maintenance (Miniseries). Cally survives the initial attacks to Galactica in the wake of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, but loses many friends, including Prosna, a fellow deckhand, after the battlestar manages fire damage after being struck by a nuclear missile. During an ill-fated mission to the Astral Queen, Cally is nearly raped by prisoner Mason. He shoots her after she bites his ear off in defense. Cally is returned to Galactica's sickbay for treatment, where she is given the nickname "Specialist Lazy" in jest by her comrades. Along with the rest of the deck crew, Cally lies under oath to protect Chief Tyrol during a tribunal on a Cylon infiltration and attack (Litmus). For the next several weeks, Cally assists Chief Tyrol in examining the captured Cylon Raider brought aboard Galactica (Six Degrees of Separation). On a Raptor Scout team bound for Kobol (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I). Cally's Raptor is attacked upon emerging from a Jump, resulting in a crash on Kobol. As one of the few that was relatively unhurt, Cally later returns to the crash site with Chief Tyrol and Tarn, and barely makes it back alive with a forgotten medkit for Socinus (Scattered). However, the recovered medkit is too late to save Socinus, which greatly saddens Cally (Valley of Darkness). Crashdown gives Cally an assuredly suicidal order as part of his attack to disable a Cylon anti-missile battery that threatens their expected SAR rescue. Cally is so terrified that she freezes in place. Losing control, Crashdown threatens to shoot her if she does not obey. Just before Crashdown shoots Cally, Dr. Gaius Baltar shoots him in the back, killing Crashdown instantly. Seelix is shot in their retreat, but Cally saves her life by carrying her further ahead. A rescue team of Raptors arrives, and Cally returns to Galactica with the survivors (Fragged). Cally's anger transfers to Gaius Baltar when the Chief is arrested and accused of being a Cylon himself due to his past relationship with Boomer, and threatens to reveal Baltar's part in Crashdown's death if Baltar does not act to clear Tyrol's name. Outraged by Tyrol's plight, Cally shoots and kills Boomer (Resistance). Cally is imprisoned in the brig but, at Tyrol's request, Commander Adama gives her a lenient sentence of 30 days for "discharging a firearm without permission" (The Farm). Various crew members throw a party for Cally's return to normal service. Released from the brig, the deck crews give Cally a welcome back party. Chief Tyrol is still upset with her for killing Boomer, although Cally is grateful to the Chief for putting in a good word for her with Adama. She aids Tyrol in the construction of the Blackbird. By the time they finish construction, Tyrol reconciles with her (Flight of the Phoenix). Cally is disgusted when several drunken Pegasus crewmen brag about repeatedly raping the captured humanoid Cylon known as Gina, a reaction probably made stronger for her because Cally herself survived an attempted rape. Cally pleads with Commander Adama to do something about the incident where Chief Tyrol and Helo are arrested by Pegasus command for the death of an officer that attempted to rape Caprica-Valerii. After Commander Adama visits the hangar deck to confer with Laird on the status of the preparations for the planned attack, Adama takes Cally aside and questions her about Laird. Cally reveals Laird's origins that enforce Adama's increasing suspicions about Pegasus commander, Admiral Helena Cain. Cally and Chief Tyrol later discover sabotaged Viper ammo by the Cylon-sympathizer Demand Peace movement (Epiphanies) as well as a storage crate with a stowaway inside (The Captain's Hand). Cally wakes a sleeping Chief Tyrol up while he was in the midst of a suicidal nightmare. The delusional Tyrol gives Cally a savage beating, quickly pummeling her into a bloody mess and knocking her unconscious. After a moment, Tyrol comes to his senses, shocked by what he had just done, and takes Cally to sickbay, carrying her in his arms (Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I). Cally's jaw is wired shut to heal, but she forgives Tyrol and says she always cared about him. Interestingly, her feelings for Tyrol were apparently known to Cavil prior to his exposure as a humanoid Cylon (Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I). On New Caprica Cally on New Caprica before becoming obviously pregnant (Unfinished Business). A year later on New Caprica, Cally is married to Tyrol (taking his surname) and is pregnant with his child (Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II). Their son, Nicholas (named after her grandfather), is born and lives with the couple as of the 67th day of the New Caprica occupation by the Cylons (The Resistance, Episode 1). Knowing her husband's test of faith after discovering that Brother Cavil was a humanoid Cylon, Tyrol is pleased for plans of a dedication ceremony for her new son (The Resistance, Episode 4). Following suicide attacks by the insurgency led in part by her husband, Cally Tyrol is picked up by members of the New Caprica Police in a night-time raid. Jammer, in his role with the NCP, discovers that she has been earmarked for execution, and asks Boomer to save her life. Boomer remarks that she does not know what she can do, as internal security is under the proviso of a different ministry. Cally angrily tells Boomer to "go away and leave us alone" if she can't help her (Precipice). Jammer later cuts her bonds and allows her to escape from the detention group slated for execution in a remote location. Chief Tyrol, arriving with a resistance sniper team, pushes his running wife out of the resistance's line of fire as they destroy the Cylon Centurion firing squad. She and her son currently hide in the resistance's underground bunker (Exodus, Part I). After New Caprica Cally Tyrol and her family are evacuated along with most of the human population of New Caprica. She is next seen resting on a bunk with her son in a room overcrowded with refugees. Her husband visits her after he and the Circle secretly execute Jammer for having collaborated with the Cylons. Before his death, Jammer tells Galen Tyrol that he saved Cally on the planet. Tyrol inquires as to how she escaped the execution and if anyone helped her, and she replies that "one of these goons" set her free. She asks her husband how he knows about that, apparently unaware of his role in The Circle (Collaborators). Later she is working alongside Chief Tyrol on the hangar deck again. It is unknown specifically who babysits their son Nicholas when both parents are working (Torn), but formal daycare arrangements seems to have been established for families with dependent children (A Day In The Life) that the Tyrols use. She attends the ship-wide boxing match with her husband and son and watches from the sidelines as her husband fights and defeats Admiral Adama (Unfinished Business). She is recovering from decompression sickness injuries sustained in an explosive decompression incident while being rescued from a depressurizing airlock along with her husband (A Day In The Life). Cally's relationship with her husband deteriorates as he becomes consumed with his discovery, unknown to her, that he is a Cylon. She grows angry at his constant absence, some of which is due to his meeting with fellow Cylons Foster, Tigh, and Anders. Moreover, she develops a sleeping disorder and becomes reliant on medication. Awakening one night to find him out of bed and out of their quarters, she finds him in Joe's bar with Foster and witnesses Foster making a pass at him. Cally confronts him in a rage, assuming that he is having an affair. Later, she finds a note in their cabin with instructions for a time and place for a meeting. Thinking that is a note from Foster, she goes to the place of the rendezvous, only to discover her husband, Tigh, and Foster going into a weapons locker together and closing the hatch. She opens a panel in the corridor and squeezes into a crawlspace where she can hear what her husband and the others are saying. To her horror, she discovers that her husband is a Cylon. She makes a noise, which the others hear. In her flight from the crawlspace, Cally leaves the wall panel ajar, which Foster discovers. When Galen returns to their cabin, she knocks him unconscious with a heavy wrench and then takes Nicky to the hangar deck, intending to commit murder-suicide by expelling him and herself out a Viper launch tube. Before she can do so, Foster shows up, convinces her to stop, and then offers to carry Nicky. As soon as Cally turns her son over, however, Foster knocks her down and takes Nicky into the control room, from which she expels Cally into space. The scene ends with a final shot of Cally's frozen, dead face drifting in space, thus becoming a popsi-cally.(The Ties That Bind). Cally's full name was not known during the first 2 seasons of the series (even though she is a character that has appeared since the opening minutes of the Miniseries), and during this entire time was known simply as "Cally". It was unknown then whether "Cally" was her given name or her surname; many assumed it was her surname and referred to her as "Specialist Cally" (in "The Farm", Chief Tyrol referred to her as "Specialist Cally"). However, actress Nicki Clyne, who plays Cally, has said she always thought of it as her character's given name. Her full maiden name, "Cally Henderson", won't appear until Season 3, when labeled on props such as her locker, etc. She took on Chief Galen Tyrol's surname after marrying him according to the events shown at the end of season 2. The Miniseries novelization (which is treated as a separate continuity source) gives her full name as "Jane Cally". However this was made up without the input of the BSG writing team, who later decided that Cally was actually her first name. According to Ronald D. Moore's blog, Henderson's term of required service ended at the same time that Galactica was to be decomissioned. She was about to be honorably discharged and return to civilian life when the Cylons attacked, ending those plans. In the DVD commentary for "Bastille Day", David Eick and Ron D. Moore elaborate on the increased role of Cally as the series progressed from the Miniseries through season 2: Eick: Nicki Clyne, who you see here playing Cally, was somebody who in the Miniseries, I remember Michael (Rymer) and I cast just on the basis of her look, 'cause we thought she was really cute, she kind of reminded us of a young Shelley Duvall. [...] she turned out to be so good that we— in launching the series we started talking about ways to involve her and I'm very proud of a moment coming up where she does something rather nasty, that... RDM: Well she almost died! She was gonna die in the intial drafts of this. Eick: That's right! He kills her! He rapes and kills her! And they're telling us we're too dark this year. RDM: Oh, I know. The second season is so much darker. And I don't think they even care. Yeah, Cally, Nicki, I hate to tell ya, but the bullseye was on Nicki here. And I can't even tell you why we decided it was, no I take that back I think it was your note; you said you wanted Cally to fight back and really show some balls in this scene. She bit his ear off... Eick: I said, "She bites his frakking ear off" and I was totally being...you know, just illustrative! I didn't really mean it! RDM: And I wrote, "she bites his ear off"! Eick: "And I got the draft, and she bites his ear off! I was like "that's great!" RDM: And from that moment on, I think, she really became part of the show. In a real sense, once she had gone through that and survived, and you know Tyrol and the gang come in and see her in the hospital at the end you kind of felt like she is one of the family. Eick: Yeah, and she's taken on, in season 2 actually, a much, much, much more prominent role. You have no idea how prominent a role. RDM: Which is really illustrative of the rise and fall of characters. I mean Boxey we thought going in was just going to be part of the show, and we just never really got our feet underneath us in terms of his storyline and really how it fit into it, and Cally who's just this 'other mechanic' at the beginning, who's just hanging around with Tyrol becomes a key element and part of the fabric of the show itself. In the DVD commentary for "Bastille Day", RDM revealed how he came up with names for deckhands Cally, Socinus, and Prosna: "They were all names I pulled out of an 'ancient names internet site'. I literally, I found something on the internet that would give me like 'ancient names', I went through it and found those names. It was like ancient Greek and Roman...somethings. They might be, for all I know they're names for utensils, or something like that..." "Calli" is a word from ancient Greek, meaning "beautiful". Henderson's ID tag is marked "P. Cally/ser 557067. Sources for this page may be located at: Sources:Callandra Tyrol Characters in the Re-imagined Series Main: William Adama \| Laura Roslin \| Kara "Starbuck" Thrace \| Lee "Apollo" Adama Gaius Baltar \| Number Six \| Number Eight Supporting: Saul Tigh \| Galen Tyrol \| Karl "Helo" Agathon \| Felix Gaeta \| Anastasia Dualla \| Cally Tyrol Samuel Anders \| Tory Foster \| Ellen Tigh \| Billy Keikeya Recurring: Hera Agathon \| Jean Barolay \| Helena Cain \| Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza \| Sherman Cottle Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson \| Elosha \| Anthony Figurski \| Jack Fisk \| Louis Hoshi \| Louanne "Kat" Katraine Aaron Kelly \| Romo Lampkin \| James "Jammer" Lyman \| Hamish "Skulls" McCall \| Number One \| Number Two Number Three \| Number Four \| Number Five \| Alex "Crashdown" Quartararo \| Paulla Schaffer \| Diana Seelix \| Tom Zarek List of Deceased Characters v·d·e Retrieved from "http://en.battlestarwiki.org/index.php?title=Callandra_Tyrol&oldid=156912" Characters (RDM) Recurring Guest Characters (RDM) All text content is available under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0. 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__label__wiki	0.595197	0.595197	VFX Education PREVIEWGA The previsualization system for artistic filming in a specially designed virtual environment PREVIEWGA is a system for professional virtual reality which allows to conduct artistic video shooting in a specially designed virtual environment. By means of PreViewGA operators and directors are free and independent of VFX-specialists to create realistic cameras in Full-CG shots using a device that is structurally similar to the usual camera rig. Moreover, PreViewGA gives freedom to do an imitation of the natural camera's movement and a smooth change of shots. PreViewGA offers the following features real-time virtual production shooting of computer 3D-spaces using a virtual camera creation of shot’s previsualization of feature films on pre-production shooting of animation projects and cartoons without manual camera animation operator’s and director’s independence by shooting of Full-CG shots from VFX-specialists conducting artistic video shooting in a unlimited virtual environment while physically being in a small room PreViewGA’s device is structurally similar to the using of operators and directors camera’s rig accuracy and reliability of the virtual camera tracking is provided by optical and inertial sensors that determine their position by means of special markers integration with game engine technology (Unreal Engine 4) automated on-set metadata collection from the set necessary for the creation of CG on post-production PreViewGA was used in the Russian feature film “The crew” conducting artistic video shooting in a virtual environment. By means of PreViewGA many Full-CG shots were shooted by movie’s director. For example - a place of disaster and an airplane crash site. The film premiered in April, 2016. PreViewGA was also used in the Russian feature film “Spacewalker” conducting artistic video shooting in a specially designed virtual environment. By means of PreViewGA a lot of Full-CG shots were made, such as the open space, the view of the Earth etc. The animation short film “Tweet-tweet” was shot by means of PreViewGA’s virtual camera. Thanks to using of PreViewGA the one turned out to be more realistic and is perceived by the human eye as more natural. The film premiered in March, 2018. Currently PreViewGA is involved in a large feature film “The Little Hunchback Horse” to create of shot’s previsualization of future films on pre-production Date of the premiere will be determined later. We are open for collaboration! For all questions and suggestions, please contact us: viewga@cgfww.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line154
__label__wiki	0.734875	0.734875	Google Android software spreading to cars, watches, TV Posted by pakin On June - 26 - 2014 San Francisco – Google is expanding its empire to cars, watches, businesses and televisions. The technology titan laid out a sweeping vision at the opening of a sold-out developers conference in a keynote presentation streamed online to millions of people across the world. “We are beginning to evolve our platforms beyond mobile,” Android and Chrome teams chief Sundar Pichai said of how Google’s twin operating systems are being adapted to work with one another and with new types of computing hardware. Google’s goal, according to Pichai, is to have its software be a foundation for applications, services or digital content delivered seamlessly across the increasingly diverse array of Internet-linked screens in people’s lives. A new LG G smartwatch and a freshly-announced Gear Live smartwatch by Samsung that both work with the “Android Wear” platform debuted Wednesday at the online shop Google Play. On-stage demonstrations included ordering a pizza in seconds, fielding reminders and messages, and using voice commands on smartwatches. An eagerly awaited Moto 360 smartwatch is due to join the Android Wear lineup later this year. “These are the first three watches, but there are more on the way,” Pichai said. – Android on the road – Android Auto software for cars, synching smartphones with in-dashboard screens and controls, is being shared with automakers, and vehicles are set to be equipped by the end of this year. Android Auto brings apps like Google Maps and Spotify music service to an “interface built for driving,” according to a freshly formed coalition of technology and car companies called the Open Automotive Alliance. Google also announced another shot at smart televisions with Android TV software for what are typically the biggest screens in homes. Google is giving televisions “the same level of attention that phones and tablets have enjoyed,” according to Android engineering director Dave Burke. Android smartphones, complete with voice command features, could be used to direct searches and more on television screens, an on-stage demonstration showed. Games from the Google Play shop could also be played on televisions. – Expanding Google empire – “The Google empire is trying to grow,” Gartner consumer technology research director Brian Blau told AFP on the sidelines of the San Francisco keynote presentation. “Google is trying to be more like Apple; create more consistent experiences with devices that work together.” Handset or tablet makers are free to customize free Android software to suit hardware and set themselves apart from rivals, but this has resulted in popular applications working on some gadgets and not others in a situation referred to as “fragmentation.” Apple, on the other hand, so tightly controls software powering iPhones, iPads and iPod touch devices that developers can more easily target broad audiences. Improving how well popular services or applications work across Android devices should also entice users to “lock in” to the platform the way Apple devotees remain loyal to the Cupertino, California company’s gear, according to Blau. “Lots of variations of Android make developers work harder to support all those devices,” the analyst said. “A consistent experience will help Google in the long run.” Google also showed off steps it is taking to make Android devices along with its services offered in the Internet “cloud” amenable to workplaces. Improvements include tools for separating personal and company uses of mobile devices, as well as better handling of files made using Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint programs. Outside the convention center, protesters dressed as “Star Wars” film bad guy Darth Vader to remind Google of its founding vow not to be evil. Protests did not disrupt on-stage presentations, and Pichai made a point of addressing criticism that women engineers are scarce in Silicon Valley firms. Among those watching the conference online was a group of female developers in Nigeria, said Pichai, who noted that more than a fifth of those taking part in the conference are women. “We are working hard to elevate women in computer sciences,” Pichai said.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line155
__label__wiki	0.794191	0.794191	Front page About the Museum News Large Viking Hall Found on Munkebo Hill Large Viking Hall Found on Munkebo Hill 26. October 2018 \| Viking Museum Ladby The largest Viking-era house on Funen bears witness to the strategic importance of Munkebo Hill. With a width of 10.5 m. (34.5 ‘), the recently uncovered house sets itself apart from other Viking-period remains of houses found earlier on Munkebo Hill. A large palisade-type fence around the building indicates, possibly, that there was a special significance to the area. The building represents a great many resources (materials) used in its construction, and the site undoubtedly played an essential role in the Viking period. The large, mansion-sized building lay with other houses on the site between two burial mounds from the early Bronze Age, at the top of the hill. The two mounds framed the site and added a monumental dimension to the landscape. Archeologists have not previously found prehistoric buildings of this size on Funen. Open map of the excavations on Munkebo Hill A mansion from the Viking period Finds from the hilltop can be broadly dated to 825-1000 AD, thereby including most of the Viking period. The “mansion” on Munkebo Hill could certainly have been in use during the reign of the Ladby king, during the first decades of the 900’s. Carbon 14 dating results will hopefully reveal a more precise date, to help us to understand the context of the site and its significance. Landscape of power Just at the foot of Munkebo Hill, traces of an underwater blockage were previously found, across Kerteminde Fjord. This also points to the strategic importance of the hilltop site for the area. At the same time, the large buildings and the palisade-type fence could also be seen at a distance, which was doubtless just as essential. Visibility has always been an important consideration if one wanted to control an area. From Munkebo Hill, there is a clear view to Ladby, across the fjord, where the Ladby king was buried in the 900’s in his ship. It is therefore a natural conclusion to consider Munkebo Hill as a crucial place for the Ladby king.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line156
__label__wiki	0.521379	0.521379	Faculty History Project Search Faculty The Faculty History Project documents faculty members who have been associated with the University of Michigan since 1837. Key in this effort is to celebrate the intellectual life of the University. This Faculty History Website is intended as a component of the effort to document the extraordinary academic achievements of Michigan’s faculty in building and sustaining one of the world’s great universities. It provides access to a comprehensive database of information concerning the thousands of faculty members who have served the University of Michigan. Literature, Science & the Arts View All Schools & Colleges SCHOOL OR COLLEGE Architecture and Urban PlanningArt and DesignBusinessDentistryEducationEngineeringHomeopathic MedicineInformationKinesiologyLawLiterature, Science, and the ArtsMedicineMusicNatural ResourcesNursingPharmacyPublic HealthPublic PolicySocial Work The Bentley Historical Library serves as the official archives for the University. Carolyn M. Johnston Years at Michigan: 1990 - 2018 \| Obstetrics and Gynecology \| Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinical Professor Emerita Faculty Member Resources Regents' Proceedings Regents UM 1817-2017 Faculty Memoir Project Millennium Project © 2011 Millennium Project, University of Michigan	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line166
__label__wiki	0.5514	0.5514	Today on Far Future Horizons we examine some intriguing evidence that the Japanese developed their own atomic bomb and detonated it days before they surrendered? Since the end of the Second World War, conventional wisdom claimed that Imperial Japan was years away from building an atomic weapon. Today’s documentary feature shatters that view. Japan’s Atomic Bomb examines the evidence which suggests Japan was just weeks behind the United States in the race to build the bomb. Using once-secret Japanese wartime documents, this special offers evidence that Japan had world-class nuclear physicists, access to uranium ore, and cyclotrons to process it. They devised an innovative way to deliver the bombs using 400-foot long Sen Toku submarines, capable of carrying and launching airplanes. Most startling, just six days after Hiroshima, Japan tested its own atomic device on a small island 20 miles off the Korean coast! The sobering conclusion is that Japan may have been just weeks behind the U.S. in the race for the bomb. Japan’s Atomic Bomb is available on DVD from the History Channel’s online store and Amazon.com. Labels: Alex Michael Bonnici, Alternate History, Alternative History, Atomic Bomb, Hitler Victorious, Japan, Japan’s Atomic Bomb, Nuclear War, Second World War	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line168
__label__cc	0.736281	0.263719	Board index » General Discussion » Mail From Home: Off Topic The Predator movie Moderator: bigbisont WweylandWarez Post subject: The Predator movie Is anyone going to see this? I am going tomorrow to see a 2D screening of IMAX. I don't have my hopes up that much, the first reviews are not that positive. Also assembled a quick Predator Timeline on my site in preparation for the movie. https://www.avpcentral.com bigbisont Service Number: A03/TQ2.0.02146E1 I do plan to watch it. It probably won't be opening weekend though. The whole "there is an even bigger stronger one out there!" sequel/reboot foundation is pretty played out and I don't expect it to be good. I do see a bit of irony here though, as this is partly all James Cameron's fault! What he did with the queen in Aliens and the T1000 in terminator set the template to deviate from the original source material and juice up the bad guy for the sequel! That said, Cameron did it WELL with great story telling, great pacing, great characters and a plot that makes sense. Most everyone else just slap dashes crap together and hopes a bigger meaner monster will sell the movie by itself while mailing in all other aspects. With Predator, I still think the first movie was the best and the ones that followed were considerably worse. Of course I'll see this, but probably once it's out on Blu-Ray. I don't expect much from it to be honest, but I hope it will at least entertain. agg cook Location: oxfordshire UK its was ok film but the last 5 minutes I will never forgive total crap ending Blivet Post subject: Re: The Predator movie I don't want to give any spoilers, but my two cents are: Acting, dialogue, and characters: A+ Plot: F-, as in fire, as in dumpster fire. Shane Black did NOT come up with that story; I refuse to believe it. Plot holes big enough to drive a Bison-class tug through (WITH cargo platform), and painfully-obviously contrived coincidences, as well as the plot contradicting itself in a few places. I'm going to see it again this weekend to see if maybe I just missed something, but I did hear several people in the audience say things like "Whaaaaaaaaat?" or just groan. (Alarmingly enough, there were only eight people in the theater for the 7:10 show-time; I counted...) Red_2 Ugh, watched last night. It was silly. What a wasted opportunity. There were honestly some seriously good concepts that could have been focused on. I love Predator as much as I love Aliens, but man, I doubt we'll ever get a contemporary film made that's not completely cheap on story and structure. "I'm working on it ... " Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2018 12:57 am Im not long home from seeing it. Gonna let it digest some more before I comment. Blivet wrote: That sounds rough. When movie scripts turn out terrible, I usually can't help and feel that maybe studio meddling had something to do with it. TazVader Location: Tasmania, Australia Well...my firend and I were one of the people that uttered "what!" Seriously wasted this film was. So many good concepts. It's like it turned into a whole other movie after the first 25-30 minutes. Which werent too bad. Dont talk to me about the big surprise at the end as it was simply ridiculous. I'm sure they had Michael Bay consult on this......... I was so angry when I left the cinema. First I feel like they ruined Star Wars now predator. I can only hold out that Jim Cameron can save us with the new Terminator franchise:( Anyways...my two cents lol boreas wrote: Excellent point, Boreas - Shane Black could not have written this plot. He definitely wrote the dialogue - it was brilliant - but I feel sure that somewhere a committee of studio executives forced that plot on him, especially the ending. Speaking of the ending, there are a couple of very strong clues/proof that the very end was radically changed from what was originally intended. I'm certain I'm not the only one that noticed them, but I don't want to give away any spoilers. Giraffes. Talk to me. I enjoyed it, but the I enjoyed AVP, and cab even fund good things to say about Requim. On the down side; I'm not a massive fan of the super Predator as a concept. Why was it even necessary, it was a Predator movie, we don't need complicated backstory for the Preds. I don't want to know what they are saying to each other, and if kind of felt like they held off in the human casts deaths for longer than necessary. The actual ending just felt like them wedging open for a sequel. I found my attention drifting in the last fight sequence On the plus side People who were neural-typical getting significant screen time without being the comic relief. And to be honest I liked those assholes. Some kick ass action sequences, particularly early on. The return of Gary "Lions, and Tigers, and Bears. Oh my!" Busey. There were a couple of other references to the first two Predators which made me happy. The pacing was about on par. The 3D worked really well in the first half of the movie, but it probably wasn't worhbthe upgrade. The chrome Predator. Oh dear gods yes. I want this build, it was beautiful. This has possibly replaced the City Hunter as my favourite Predator. The first half of this film made me laugh like Billy Sole. Things I'm ambivalent about: The dog. Cpl. JK "Hybrid" Knight. A07/TQ0.0.52137E1 XO HMS Valhalla; 13th Regt. 1st Batt. "Freebooters" - USCM Flight School "Bus drivers". "I'm not saying it was Aliens but...." I freely admit to liking AvP and Requiem too; they're in my "go to" rotation of movies to watch whenever leisure time allows, along with the four Aliens movies. I actually enjoyed everything about this new Predator movie except the plot - I'm still convinced it was a corporate committee hack-job that doomed the screenplay. As evidence, I submit to you the fact that there was to be an Army general - played by Edward James Olmos - that was written out of the story. (But I think that was just a sub-plot, not a major part of the screenplay.) Perhaps more tellingly however, at some point there were to be multiple Predators as well, allied with human soldiers, as was shown in a production photo - https://www.fandimefilmu.cz/clanek/10440-the-predator-blizsi-pohled-na-nove-predatory - fighting on an APC, which looks like a MAJOR difference in the final story/screenplay. Oh no! Thank the Lords of Kobol they ditched that idea. I'm also thinking the Predator back stories clashes with the previous movies and makes no sense. Dropshipbob Mad Cat Location: Active duty: USS Catalpa Service Number: AO3/TQ6.0.79749E8 Yeah, saw it Saturday....I think this one is making me swear off seeing another Predator movie in theaters unless I hear some absolutely glowing reviews of it first. One of my big WTF's was seeing Tom Jane in a side role. I thought his career was moving up, but then I see him in this??? He either pissed someone off or is/was having drug problems. "Awww, someone tell me that's a boot! It's a boot!" III drops SimonT Officers - Making simple s**t hard since 1775 Location: Boston, Lincolnshire, UK. Saw this last night. Really liked it. HOWEVER, seemed like a generic action film, with the Predator(s) being more of a sub-plot. Predator needed more screen time. Not sure about the humour and the one-liners. This is Predator, not Leathal Weapon. I'll give it a rewatch when it hits disc, I often find my final opinion changes somewhat upon a second viewing. Some flaws here and there but overall I gotta support good or bad anything that comes from the alien universe. U.S.S FREMONT 9th Battalion 31st Regiment USCM Monarchs "Ready man, ready to get it on" Bill Paxton R.i.P Saw the movie in IMAX although thankfully not in 3D. I reallly liked the first half, then it went downhill fast after a certain character died. The reshoots were quite obvious.l Paul123 I haven't watch this film, is it good? Paul123 wrote: Not...really. My 2 cents: -I think people who have not seen the originals, don't like the originals, or can turn their brain off and consider this its own unrelated thing may find things to enjoy. Humor, lots of mindless action, 'pretty people'...a lot to enjoy from someone with no expectations. -On the flip side, anyone with an expectation based on their love of the first 2 movies is fairly likely to come away from the experience angry. It has none of the feel of the classics and even less in-universe connection. Just seems ridiculous and implausible at multiple points and some might even call it a bastardization of the source material. bigbisont wrote: I got your point.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line181
__label__cc	0.654395	0.345605	General Damage norbert88 Post subject: General Damage Posted: 2007-Sep-20 7:38 pm How do you guys keep track of general damage? Philatio Joined: 2007-Jun-04 6:34 am Location: Gainsville, FL In a duel, I just put a die on each general. In multiplayer, in our playgroup, each player just keeps track of their own damage from each general themselves. Some use different dice, some use paper. Whatever works. Posted: 2007-Sep-20 10:47 pm Seems too complicated, my group has just been playing normal multiplayer without the general damage rule. Oh, ok. That's not EDH. That's hundred card highlander. That's cool. EDH Rules Committee The biggest difference between 100 card Highlander and EDH is the fact that you've got a general that you can cast from RFG, and that your deck is limited by that creature. General damage is just a small, cool bit of flavour that goes along with it. I guess my point is, why the hostility, Philatio? Admittedly, his reply seems a bit ignorant, especially considering he asked for the response that you graciously gave, but he is playing EDH. Blog - Twitter We are playing 100 card highlander EDH, just without the general damage rule. Is the general damage rule supposed to speed the game up or something? or just a flavor thing? I don't think my post was hostile - sorry if it was interpreted as such. Yeah, I've lost some games to general damage when I've been at 60+ life. Evasive or trampling Generals are REALLY good for that reason. I think it is a big part of the game, beyond just the flavor aspect (which, admittedly, is awesome). In multiplayer, if one player is dominating the table, but has a lot of damage from one general, sometimes our playgroup will try to help out the player with said general so he/she can knock the strongest player out of the game. It adds a depth of strategy not otherwise available. I personally think, from my play experience, that general damage is a distinguishing aspect of the format, and it is often relevant in games. Joined: 2006-May-21 9:45 am EDH tends to be more about introducing zany game scenarios than what most usual other methods can provide. The fact that a player in our group has killed us with 21 general damage (not once, but twice!) from Xira Arien is a good example of this. The general damage rule tries to make it more appealing to play the game with your general, and not just any awesome creature that happens to be in your colors. The rule is not necessarily meant to speed the game up, but that can be a positive side effect. It tries to make generals matter - not just act like ambassadors who declare your colors but never make an appearance. Its really what sets EDH apart from 100-card Highlander. Just my take on it, anyway. matthew wrote: It tries to make generals matter - not just act like ambassadors who declare your colors but never make an appearance. Yeah, exactly! When I play my general, it's like that scene in The Fellowship of the Ring when Sauron shows up on the battlefield, and everyone else is like, "oh crap," as they start getting tossed in every direction. Or, at least, that's how I like to think about it: an epic thud as your most powerful warrior plummets from the heavens into a pitched battle to go kick some serious ass (or cause serious shenanigans - I'm looking at you - Momir Vig, Savra and Catain Sissay).	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line190
__label__wiki	0.773702	0.773702	www.sanfrancisco49ersteamonline.com - WWW.ORAGIE.COM - ОРЪЖЕЕН И ИНТЕРНЕТ ОРЪЖЕЕН МАГАЗИН - Форуми -> Газово и сигнално оръжие hongwei28 Регистриран на: 21 Дек 2018 Пуснато на: Вто 26 Мар, 2019 7:44 am Заглавие: www.sanfrancisco49ersteamonline.com It’s the time of year when World Cup skiers get worn down with flu Authentic Mike McGlinchey Jersey , fever and general fatigue – and all of the protagonists in Tuesday’s giant slalom were affected by it in one way or another. Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany returned from two weeks in bed to claim her third win of the season while overall World Cup leader Mikaela Shiffrin cited fatigue as a factor after an uncharacteristic fall in the first run ”It’s Day 7 on snow in a row and Day 11 or 12 on snow with only one day off,” Shiffrin told The Associated Press. ”So it’s a lot. It’s definitely a point in the season where fatigue is starting to build up.” Sitting third after the opening leg, Rebensburg had the fastest second run to finish 0.03 seconds ahead of first-run leader Ragnhild Mowinckel of Norway amid perfect conditions at the Kronplatz resort. ”After this period when I was lying at home on my couch watching other girls ripping it wasn’t easy to stay patient,” Rebensburg said. ”But now I’m 100 percent healthy.” Mowinckel was 0.21 ahead of Rebensburg at the final checkpoint but lost speed through the final gates. Still, it was the Norwegian’s best career result and she celebrated as if she had won. Defending champion Federica Brignone of Italy finished third, 0.66 behind, despite a fever that kept her out of Sunday’s super-G in Cortina d’Ampezzo. ”In between runs I was almost asleep,” Brignone said. ”But I tried not to think I’ve been sick the last few days and lying in bed all day long. … I tried to give everything in front of my people.” Shiffrin lost control of her inside ski coming around a turn as she entered the toughest section of a slope named Erta, which translates as steep. With a gradient of 61 percent in that section, Shiffrin slid a long way down the course but immediately got up and was not injured. ”I got on my inside ski going over that breakover and it was the one turn that I knew like, `Have some direction, it gets really steep after this. It’s a short breakover. And you just want to make sure you’re on point on this turn,”’ Shiffrin said. ”And I was going into it really aggressive but fine. ”It happens,” Shiffrin added. ”One of the things I’ve been working on the most is putting the pressure on my outside ski so I don’t boot out like I did.” After missing a gate on Sunday in the Cortina super-G Authentic Dante Pettis Jersey , it marked the first time in more than six years that Shiffrin failed to finish two consecutive races. The last time came in back-to-back slaloms in Courchevel, France, and Flachau, Austria, in December 2011 – before the American registered her first World Cup podium. It was the 16th career World Cup win for Rebensburg, who also won the giant slalom at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Rebensburg’s other wins this season came in the season opener in Soelden, Austria, in October and then in Killington, Vermont, in November. Marta Bassino of Italy finished fourth and Sara Hector of Sweden was fifth. Shiffrin still holds a massive 843-point lead over Rebensburg in the overall standings. In the GS rankings, Rebensburg moved 37 points ahead of Shiffrin. ”That’s how it goes when you’re pushing the limits,” Shiffrin said. ”I’ve been exploring that mentality of pushing my limit. I like to step in the race course to know that my skiing is good enough that I could ski at 90 percent but it’s more fun when I’m really hammering. ”And with GS there’s a lot of really awesome competition,” Shiffrin added. ”When I watch these girls I know they’re not holding back.” Shiffrin had been undefeated this year in the technical disciplines of GS, slalom and parallel slalom with five straight wins. She has two more technical races in Lenzerheide Authentic Vita Vea Jersey , Switzerland, next weekend before she travels to South Korea for the Pyeonghchang Olympics. This story has been corrected to show that Shiffrin has failed to finish two consecutive races before. More AP Olympic coverage: After an anemic first couple months of the season, the Dodgers are powering balls out of the stadium at a near record rate. Max Muncy and Cody Bellinger each hit a solo home run, Joc Pederson added a two-run shot and Los Angeles defeated the Chicago Cubs 7-5 on Wednesday night. The Dodgers improved to 17-6 in June and have slugged a major league-leading 51 homers this month. That’s the second-most during any month in franchise history. With three days remaining, they have a chance to overtake last year’s team that set the record with 53 while the single-season record of 58 in a month is within reach, too. ”It just seems like they’re taking really good swings,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. ”When there’s a mistake in the strike zone, we hit it hard.” The Dodgers hit 25 home runs in late March and April and 31 in May. The current surge is being generated by a variety of players. ”It’s scary facing us,” Bellinger said. ”We’re clicking right now.” After not homering in a 9-4 loss to the Cubs on Tuesday that snapped their four-game winning streak, the Dodgers got going early despite not having Matt Kemp in the lineup. The outfielder, who is hitting .311, served a one-game suspension after losing his appeal with Major League Baseball for a scuffle with Texas catcher Robinson Chirinos on June 13. Muncy homered over the center-field wall in the first for his ninth long ball this month and 16th of the season. The ball hit something beyond the wall and bounced back onto the field, grazing center fielder Albert Almora Jr. in the head. Later in the inning, Yasmani Grandal’s two-run double with two outs gave the Dodgers the lead for good Authentic Ronald Jones II Jersey , 3-2. Pederson followed in the second with his 10th homer of the month to make it 5-2. Enrique Hernandez extended the lead with an RBI single. Alex Wood (4-5) allowed three runs and seven hits in seven innings to earn his third straight win. The left-hander struck out six and walked none, retiring the final seven batters he faced. Kenley Jansen earned a four-out save, his 21st of the season. Chicago made it close after Wood exited. He was replaced in the eighth by Scott Alexander, who walked Jason Heyward and gave up a single to Javier Baez before Willson Contreras hit a two-run double to pull the Cubs to 6-5. Ben Zobrist grounded back to Alexander, putting the potential tying run on third, but Jansen came in and struck out Addison Russell to end the inning. ”The at-bats had great approaches,” Cubs manager Joe Maddon said. ”I thought we hit the ball all over the place. Javy hit it to right and right center. Same with Contreras. Good approaches. We played our butts off, we just didn’t get it.” Bellinger homered leading off the eighth against Randy Rosario, tying Muncy for the team lead with 16 homers and making it 7-5. Cubs starter Kyle Hendricks (5- gave up six runs and eight hits in 2 2/3 innings, failing to go at least five innings for the first time in 16 starts this season. The team has lost five of his last six starts. ”I’m just searching right now, it’s just bad,” Hendricks said. ”I don’t know mechanics and I’m trying to focus mentally and go pitch-to-pitch. Something is just off. I’ve had troubles in my career, but this is up there as one of the toughest.” Chicago took the lead in the first on a two-run homer by Contreras. In the fifth, Heyward reached on an infield single that Wood raced to pick up along the first base line. He flipped to Bellinger Authentic M.J. Stewart Jersey , and first base umpire Alan Porter signaled that Heyward was out. But the ball came loose and second baseman Logan Forsythe, backing up the play, fired to the plate. Ian Happ, who singled leading off, was called safe to leave the Cubs trailing 6-3. Cubs: Chicago closer Brandon Morrow (lower back tightness) was activated off the DL. He had been sidelined since June 20 after experiencing back spasms while taking his pants off. … RHP Tyler Chatwood will be available soon. Chatwood has been on paternity leave after his wife gave birth last Sunday. Dodgers: RHP Walker Buehler (right rib microfracture) will throw three innings in a rehab start at Triple-A Oklahoma City on Thursday. If it goes well, he will have a bullpen session this weekend and could possibly return to the rotation next week. … INF-OF Chris Taylor (left hamstring) wasn’t in the lineup for the sixth straight day but pinch hit in the seventh and will start on Thursday. Cubs LHP Jose Quintana (6-6, 4.26 ERA) starts the series finale against LHP Clayton Kershaw (1-4, 2.94). Quintana is better on the road (3.22 ERA) than at home (6.00). 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__label__wiki	0.631974	0.631974	→ Entertainment → Multimedia (movies, TV, books, comics, etc.) Started by Spark, Jun 05 2014 02:47 AM #1 Spark "I think we're just getting started..." Nova Member "...maps used to say there be dragons here, now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there." OK, is anyone else seriously enamored by this show? I haven't seen a whole lot of discussion about it here, and I thought to myself, "Well, jeez, that's highly irregular for such a nifty picture show, I gotta do something about that." What's not to love? It's deliciously malevolent while being gut-bustingly funny. It's got Bilbo Baggins. It's got Billy Bob Thornton with a really wacky haircut and an impressive assortment of creative ways to kill or unsettle people. And most importantly, it captures the feel of the original Fargo while telling a completely mostly separate story from the former. The writing and plot pacing are incredible. I don't think even Breaking Bad could be this complex with its web of plot threads. (Hopefully) A second season will be worth it, given that they are seriously considering this as an anthology series, in the vein of True Detective and American Horror Story. But seriously though... Martin Freeman is sooooooooooooooooooo good at being bumbling, yet suave, slimy, and completely, deliciously EVIL. You won't know whether to cheer of gasp in shock at the lengths he'll go to cover up his crimes. EDIT: Fixed broken image. Edited by Spark, 08 January 2015 - 03:41 PM. Horatius likes this Your Resident Halo Nerd The New Halo Thread Halo: The Master Chief Collection is coming to Steam Halo Infinite - Holiday 2020 (PC/Xbox One/Xbox Scarlett) "The Reclamation has begun...and we are powerless to stop it." -Shadow-of-Sundered-Star "The Didact" (Halo 4, 2012) #2 Ocelot NOW I'm a little motivated It took me a few episodes to really get on board with this show. I was railing against Billy Bob's ridiculous fringe, Martin Freeman doing a Minnesoooota accent (he nails it, obviously, but it was just so jarring), and it just felt like they were forcing that Coen Brothers Quirk a liiiiittle bit too hard. I really love Fargo the movie, and I guess I was just predisposed to be overly wary about anyone trying to horn in on that same world. But it's totally won me over at this point. I think they've found their feet, found their own identity, and they're just turning out fantastic episodes every week. That shootout in the blizzard was one of the most gloriously tense scenes I can remember from any TV show, and I just love the direction the story's taken in the last couple of episodes. I was kind of anxious about how they were going to stretch out what they had for a full season, whether Lester was just going to keep narrowly evading Molly every week, but turns have been taken, to say the very least. They even sold me on Billy Bob's stupid hair! There was an early scene where someone's trying to describe Billy Bob's character to someone else, being kind of vague and saying things like, "Not tall, not short, not fat not skinny," and I was practically screaming at the TV, "WHAT ABOUT HIS FRINGE? HE'S THE ONLY PERSON IN THE WORLD WITH HAIR LIKE THAT!" Then, like two episodes later, they explain the whole thing: he can just sweep the hair back over his head and change into a different person on cue. Oh. Yeah. Of course he can. Why didn't I see that? And, yeah, Martin Freeman is incredible. Between this and his work on Sherlock, he's pretty much my favourite actor at the moment. He just has such a brilliant face, y'know? It's so full of character, and it seems like he has virtuoso-like control over every little bit of it. For a long time I thought he just was that bumbling, awkward, perpetually embarrassed and very English character he used to play all the time, but recently he's shown that he can be pretty much whatever the script calls for. I still think about that scene when he sees Sherlock back from the 'dead' in the most recent season, and he's just so furious that he can't even get any words out, and it's chills down my spine every time. Acting, am I right? That guy knows how it's done. Oh my god, Lester is so despicable. He's out-Heisenberging Heisenberg now. Also, Malvo. He's easily one of the scariest individuals on TV right now. #4 Sir_Muffonious Sir_Muffonious Rock on, gold dust woman. Man, this show was great but that finale left me sour. The reckoning between Malvo and Lester was really disappointing, Malvo's death was anticlimactic, Lester downfall was far too swift, and overall the whole episode was lacking in the dark, philosophical themes that had established the show to that point. I still loved this season and plan to tune in for the next one (and watch this one again), but I was let down. Anyone else think this show sometimes has more in common with No Country for Old Men, rather than Fargo? Malvo gives me Chigurh vibes. I think they were going for a general Coen Bros. feel, rather than strictly adhering to Fargo's tone. You're right though, I think Malvo was indeed inspired by Chigurh, and had some elements of Grimsrud from the Fargo film. Apart from that, Malvo was above all else the single most destructive and magnificent troll of all time. If he didn't kill 'em, he corrupted nearly every single person he came in contact with, as demonstrated by Lester, poor Stavros, and all those people he had recordings of in that briefcase that he kept listening to throughout the series. I suppose, fittingly, the only time his corruption was a positive effect on someone was Gus, which lead him to finally taking down Malvo...eventually (Seriously, how many bullets did it take to kill this guy??) But I also agree with some feeling of disappointment, but I can't put my finger on it. Lester died exactly as he was supposed to: a coward and an idiot. Malvo was taken down by an 'unseen predator' of his own creation. It doesn't matter how much Lorne Malvo corrupted these folks, they were still ultimately themselves, they just had that extra little push to go through with their desires. I really wanted Gus to fire that last bullet. That look that Malvo gives him with three bullets in his torso and blood all over his teeth was legitimately chilling, but Gus only ended up firing five shots from a six shooter and I was just waiting for Malvo to stir again. The thing that made Malvo seem more threatening to me than Chigurh or maybe Randall Flagg was that he seemed to be able to 'turn it off' like a switch. Most of those kinds of devil-personified characters are described as being deeply unsettling to be near, upsetting the fabric of daily life wherever they go, but Malvo blended in. Combing back the weird fringe to fool the dopey police department into "Oh yah"-ing him out of custody was one thing, but after the time skip we see that he just went and built a new life for himself out of nothing, with friends and a fiancee and everything. He's not just a monster, he's a monster that's learnt to perfectly replicate human behaviour. Or maybe he didn't learn it, it's something he always knew, which might be even worse. I actually didn't realise this was the final episode until the very end (I thought they were going to do thirteen, not ten), but I think it's safe to say they left it fairly unsatisfying on purpose. You knew someone's leg was going in that bear trap from the moment they showed it, but I'd forgotten about it by that point so it still came as a surprise. I was expecting Martin Freeman to do the William H. Macy freakout from the movie as he was dragged off to prison, but I like the way he went out all the same. Plenty of symbolism to read into with him treading on thin ice, walking a fine line, being up to his eyeballs in lies, etc etc. I know there's more to it that I'm too dumb to see, too, like Molly's glove story and why Gus brings up the shades of green metaphor at the end. The phone call Molly gets to let her know when it's all over is probably the Coen Brothers-iest moment of the whole series, just a "Well, I guess that happened" kinda thing. Regardless of it, Malvo's final scene is probably gonna be haunting my dreams for a while yet: Small bump, but a bit significant. Fargo renewed for Season 2. Confirming what we all probably guessed, a new story, basically reclassifying Fargo as an anthology series. And it gets better, any attentive viewers might be familiar with the plot of the new season. It's going to be set in 1979 and will deal with the mysterious 'Sioux Falls' incident alluded to by Lou Solverson in the closing chapters of the first season. That being said, this season will indeed star a younger version of Lou. Small bump to do an update on Fargo Season 2. The cast is being rounded out quite nicely, and man, it is looking strong. Season 1 had a few big names here and there, but nothing too overtly special aside from Martin Freeman and Billy Bob Thornton. Season 2 seems to be a whole different beast when it comes to star power. Check it out. #10 Spark Digging this up. Fargo Season 2 premieres in September. #11 Ocelot Alternate link for those videos, since they aren't working for me. I'm really looking forward to this, though I have to admit I'm skeptical about starting over with a whole new cast. I can't really think of any other show that's done that. Obviously it makes sense from a story perspective, and I don't want the writers to have to conjure up some new Molly story just because we all like Molly, but I imagine it'll take some getting used to. I'm ready, though. I'm not even going to type a big screed about what a silly idea it is to promote your show with two thirty second ads that don't give you any idea about anything #12 broons I'm really looking forward to this, though I have to admit I'm skeptical about starting over with a whole new cast. I can't really think of any other show that's done that. True Detective. Other than that, not many that I can think of. Someone say new trailer? Pretty sure I heard someone say new trailer: Posted 12 October 2015 - 09:59 PM The beautiful gods of television have seen fit upon this evening October the Twelfth, Year of our Lord Two Thousand and Fifteen, to grant us the gift of Fargo Season 2. And it was good. So, yeah. Discussion of Season 2 commences here. So......Anyone else been watching besides me? I loved Season 1, but hot damn this season is on fire. The tension this show gives off could boil off all the snow on the screen. Patrick Wilson, Nick Offerman, Jeffrey Donovan, and especially Bokeem Woodbine have been knocking it out of the park and into interstellar space. Extremely brief demonstration: Also, the cinematography is just amazing (not to mention excellent choices in 70s music) I totally forgot we had a thread for this! I've only seen up to episode 4, but it's really starting to get going. Some magnificently tense scenes, like the Mike Milligan/Kitchen brothers one you posted, and I imagine it's only going to get better from here. At the point I'm up to, with the Gerhardt family going to war and Kirsten Dunst and Meth Damon not taking Molly's Dad's offer of protection, it seems like everyone is determined to make the worst possible decisions in the Fargo-est possible way. I don't want to shock you with my precognitive skills, but I'm pretty sure everyone is going to die Current Live state is at Ep. 6 (7 airing next week here). Let's just say...you have not seen anything yet. Ocelot likes this I'm going to make my girlfriend finally start the second season of this with me tonight. I accidentally DVR'd it in standard def, though. Hopefully all the eps are On Demand. k, I'm all caught up to episode 6, and oh boy everything just got real! I honestly don't know how they're going to get four more episodes out when the tension is this high already. I feel like main characters are just going to start dropping like flies at any moment, and honestly I've been feeling like that for the last couple of episodes. It's just so deliciously tense! And I've found myself getting so emotionally invested, too. I'm squirming through all the scenes where Molly's Dad and Sheriff Ted Danson find themselves on the wrong end of some bad guy guns, and, jeez, there hasn't been a TV show character I've wanted dead more than Dodd Gerhardt in a long, long time. I hate that guy, like seriously. I only imagine what'll happen to Dodd Now that Peggy has him under tight cattle-prodded control in her basement. Also, Otto's totally dead for reals now. He was the only one (relatively) standing up during the assault on the Gerhardt ranch. I actually sorta hope Floyd gets out of this and washes her hands of all her conniving children and grandchildren (save for Bear, because Bear is awesome.) Also, Nick Offerman is a world treasure. One more few things to do with music. Heading back to the first episode, I love love love that they used a dolled up version of Wrench and Numbers from Season 1. And then the ending of Ep 2 had this lovely thing playing over the final minutes/credits: Oh, speaking of that What do you guys think of these UFO things? Metaphor? or something truly weird going on? Back to Multimedia (movies, TV, books, comics, etc.)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line197
__label__wiki	0.503732	0.503732	Happy 2019-2020 Toastmasters New Year Written by Lori Shapiro Hello fellow Founder’s District Toastmasters! July 1st, 2019 is the beginning of the 2019-2020 Toastmasters Year. It’s time to celebrate our successes and plan for our future. We finished strong, with 73 of 138 clubs distinguished. We had 15 Distinguished, 9 Select Distinguished and 49 President’s Distinguished. WOW that’s over 50% of our clubs. Congratulations to all of you. This year, through the Magic of Collaboration, we will focus on building strong new clubs, supporting our 138 existing clubs by offering a lot of training opportunities for the new club officers. Pathways adoption by clubs and members will be a key focus. This is the last year that those working through the legacy manual system will be recognized for completion of those education awards. If you want a DTM, then you must complete all requirements by June 30, 2020. We want to provide support for clubs that want to strengthen their membership and grow their clubs. Stay tuned for more information on new and exciting incentives and recognition programs.Our goal will be to bring Founder’s District to Smedley Distinguished by June 30, 2020. Let’s work together as a district TEAM to make that happen. Today is Founder’s District’s 75th Anniversary! Founder’s spun off from District 1 on July 1, 1944. We will be celebrating on Sept 7th, 2019, in Irvine. Save the date! Founder's District Contestants Shine in Table Topics and International Speech Contests Written by Jeanne Cassidy Photo by Lawrence Crandall Daniel Midson-Short (left), David Moore (middle), Cliff Shimizu (right) Fierce, yet friendly competition in the District contests showcased talented Founder’s District Toastmasters representing the best in all seven divisions. Their impromptu and prepared speeches took the audience on an emotional ride; laughter, tears, heartbreak and inspiration. The district speech contest was held on May the 4th, 2019 at the Business Expo Center in Anaheim, California. The conference theme was "Harness the Force". Congratulations to Founder’s District International Speech contest winners! Finishing in first place was 5 time winner, Daniel Midson-Short, from Coastmasters Toastmasters Club in Division G with his speech titled "Not My Problem." The second place trophy goes to David Moore with his speech "Impossible". David is from B Braun Toastmaster Club in Divison D. Cliff Shimizu representing MeridianMasters in Divison B with his speech "Don't Do It To Win" took third place. Daniel Midson-Short advances to the region quarterfinal round of the contest, vying for one of 14 spots in the semifinals, to be held at the Toastmasters International Convention Thursday, Aug. 22 in Denver, Colo. From there, six contestants will advance to the World Championship of Public Speaking,® which take place at the convention Saturday, Aug. 24. Photo by Lawrence Crandall Left to right: District Director Diana Dee, 1st place Diane Baughman, 2nd place Stephanie Courtillier, 3rd place Steve Babyak The seven divisions of Founder's District also competed in the Table Topics competition. The first place title goes to Diane Baughman of Tools 2 Lead Toastmasters Club in Division A. The second place trophy goes to Stephanie Courtillier of Rancho Speech Masters Toastmasters Club in Division G. Steve Babyak from Newport Center Toastmasters Club in Divison E took the third place trophy. 2019-2020 District Officer Nominations Written by Daniel Cossack In accordance with Article VII, Section (d) of the District Administrative Bylaws, the District Leadership Committee, comprising of Daniel Cossack, DTM, IPDD, Silvia Swigert, DTM, Vijay Chidambaram, DTM, Steve Itzkowitz, ACS, ALB, Pan Kao, PDD, DTM, Susan De La Portilla, ACS, ALS, Jeffrey Lee, DTM, and John Muse, DTM, has nominated the following candidates for the 2019-2020 District Officers, in order by office and then alphabetically by last name if there is more than one candidate per office: DISTRICT DIRECTOR Lori Shapiro, DTM PROGRAM QUALITY DIRECTOR Christine Brady, MS3 CLUB GROWTH DIRECTOR David Hosmer, DTM Ann Shimizu, DTM DIVISION A DIRECTOR Gisele Nguyen, ACB, ALB DIVISION C DIRECTOR Lillian Copeland, ACB, ALB DIVISION D DIRECTOR Patrick Bui, CC, ALB DIVISION F DIRECTOR Joel Sax, VC3 DIVISION G DIRECTOR Jean Tanquary, PL2 Sherry Tomasula, DTM Reported by Daniel Cossack, DTM, IPDD, Chair, District Leadership Committee John Angiolillo Receives Spirit of Excellence Award Written by Diana Dee Diana Dee (left) presents award to John Angiolillo (right)Past District Governor and Distinguished Toastmaster, John Angiolillo, receives the Spirit of Excellence Award. Current Founder's District Director, Diana Dee, presented the award at the District Executive Council meeting on Februrary 14, 2019. Angiolillo recognized the crucial need to keep club and district officer contact data current and, for many years, has volunteered to maintain the District Directory and update vital officer training data throughout the Toastmaster year. For example, the day after club officer training at the Leadership And Communication Experience (LACE) event last January, John swiftly compiled the officer training data and made it available to the district leadership. Those in district leadership positions know that John is consistently dogged in pursuit of the data needed for the District Directory. John's positive, proactive spirit goes above and beyond expectations by providing outstanding service to the district. We thank John for his hard work and dedication. The Spirit of Excellence Award is given to recognize a member who has had a big impact on many members throughout the District. Recipients embody the qualities of mentoring, leadership, service, outreach, and most of all, a Toastmaster's heart. The District Directory and Calendar is painstakenly updated twice a year and hard and soft copies are provided to district leaders and chairs. The club officer training results are published on the Founder's District web site and updated in near real-time during the two training periods each year. Written by Giselle Nguyen Founder's District celebrates 75 years of producing leaders and enriching the lives of members from around the world. It all started in Orange County, California on July 1, 1944. As the birthplace of Toastmasters, Founder's District is the first of nearly 130 districts founded across 143 countries worldwide. In 2019, Founder's District serves as the creative catalyst, preparing members for their future with seven divisions, supporting 135 clubs, and serving over 2500 members across Orange and Los Angeles County. Toastmasters' long-term success and sustainability reflects the effectiveness of our hands-on, experiential learning as envisioned by Dr. Ralph Smedley, "Toastmasters is a laboratory where members experiment with words, ideas, voice inflection, body language and emotional connections." With a collaborative and communicative mindset, our leaders and members continue to engage, expand and evolve Toastmasters into an inclusive and interconnected network of members infused with creativity and positivity. Toastmasters is a human connection ecosystem that enables people from different cultures, backgrounds and professions to converge weekly or bi-monthly in a fun, friendly and supportive atmosphere. A club meeting or district event is where members can "turn fear into opportunity" and "strangers turn into friends". With opportunities to lead and collaborate throughout the organization, members gain as much energy as they exert. Members choose to co-create with each other or co-develop a special project to elevate themselves, the club, and/or the organization. As a result, everyone rises together. Looking ahead, John Kotter, author of Leading Change states, "The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades." The rapid rate of change can be intimidating for any one person. Toastmasters can ease the rapid transformation pressures by providing a relaxing and fun environment in which members can experience: 1) personal transformation 2) professional development and 3) social skills to improve themselves and ultimately, 4) to be of service others. As a member since 2016, I have observed the transformational powers of the Toastmasters process. I've grown first from the inside, and Toastmasters has left an indelible mark in my life. Over the next few months, I will interview and share stories from visionary leaders and members within and outside of our district to cast a net of ideas, thoughts and actions with you. By sharing our stories, we can uplift, inspire and become the creative catalyst for others. Happy 75th Anniversary, Founder's District! Contributed by: Gisele Nguyen, President Sensational Salesmen Toastmaster, Club 417 TEDx vs. World Champion of Public Speaking Written by Josephine Lee Just like there are different genres of dance, like jazz, ballet or hip hop, there are different genres of speeches. There are fun and heartfelt wedding toasts, inspiring 45 minute keynotes, persuasive campaign speeches and countless others. Each speech genre has a different tone depending on the audience, content and performance. I've given speeches to audiences of various sizes, cultures and ages. I remember all of them, but there are 2 that stand out to me the most: the Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking and TEDx. In 2016, I surpassed 35,000 contestants to place 3rd place in the World Championship of Public Speaking. Since then, I have been invited to speak all around the world including, India, 4 countries in the Middle East, China and Russia. Which led to an invitation to TEDx on January 2018. The two genres are drastically different and I had to adjust my speaking style and writing in each. Here is a breakdown of the main differences. TEDx: https://youtu.be/FGEeJy18elE Audience: U.S. The TEDx was set in Culver City, CA. An audience of about 120 that consisted of mostly native English speakers. They shared my culture and humor and I didn't have to adjust my jargon to be understood. Content: Research based. Credibility should be established through research. Although, I included a personal story to emphasize my pointe, the subject should be rooted in solid arguments. Structure: Simple. I used an easy to follow structure that had 3 examples to support my argument. Humor: Not essential but appreciated. There are a few sprinkled here and there but I didn't bury the content under humor. Type: Inspirational/Educational. The audience should walk away with a new piece of knowledge. Performance Style: Casual. Much more conversational and intimate. World Championship of Public Speaking: https://youtu.be/miek-FY0flg Audience: International. There are about 2,000 members in the audience from 142 countries. I had to focus on a common human experience (friendship, appreciation, work ethic etc) that speaks across all cultures. Content: Story based. I used stories from my own life to support a single message. Structure: Artistic. I used many literary tools like foreshadowing, call backs and metaphors in my speech. At this level of competition, there must be some technical skills that go beyond just a message. Humor: Frequent and well timed. Humor is an unwritten requirement in a Championship speech. I averaged at about 7 laughs per minute. Type: Entertaining/Inspirational. The audience should walk away uplifted and inspired. Performance Style: Dramatic. Facial expressions, acted out dialogue and staged choreography. Championship speeches have evolved into an almost theatrical performance. Although there are many types of speeches, if you can master one, you can master them all. Just like dancing, you can learn all the tools, but the most important part is to actually practice them. And that is exactly why Toastmasters is so valuable. Josephine Lee is an industry leading entrepreneur and an award winning public speaker. Follow her on https://www.instagram.com/josephineylee/ https://www.facebook.com/josephineylee At your service, Josephine Lee The Pointe Shop 200 E. 3rd Street Santa Ana CA 92701 Website: www.thepointeshop.com KABC: https://youtu.be/ykA0ELXZUfY Pointe Magazine: https://www.pointemagazine.com/community/josephinelee OC Register: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/lee-631620-shoes-pointe.html Toastmasters Changed My Life Written by Bob Bone After 20 years with the same company, it sold, and I was out the door; 60 years old, out on the street, resume in hand, looking for work. My self-esteem gone. When I was about at my lowest, a good friend asked me to attend a Toastmaster meeting with him. I told him, 'I need a job, not a meeting.' But he kept asking. Finally, I decided to humor him and gave in. That morning changed my life. When we got to the meeting, I found the room bursting with positive energy. These people seemed going somewhere in life. I left that meeting with a membership application in hand and my heart was beating again. I joined, and jumped in with both feet, achieving my Competent Communicator pin in short order. As I did, my self-confidence began to return. And something else: an old ambition of mine was awakened. I had always wanted to start my own business, applying some of my own ideas and using my new Toastmasters skills. After a year with Toastmasters, and my wife's total support, I begged, borrowed from our IRA and a good friend, and started my own Company. I had to get out and sell people on my idea and convince them to buy it and become part of my company. I held meetings all over California. I spoke everywhere and anywhere I could get in the door - service clubs, chambers of commerce, - sometimes 3 times a week. My Toastmasters experience was pushing me forward! Once I recruited franchisees, I had to go back to their offices and train their sales team using all the skills I learned at Toastmasters. Where did I get the courage and confidence to do it? You got it: Toastmasters! One thing I know: Whatever your ambition, if you want to be the best you can be, you will never outgrow your need for Toastmasters. Published in Success Stories Sunday, 29 April 2018 14:11 Harry Yan Receives Gene Beckwith Award Photo by Jimmy Khath Harry Yan Receives Gene Beckwith Award The Gene Beckwith Memorial Trophy was established at the Founder’s District Fall Conference in 1981. The Founder’s District Director selects the Toastmaster who best exemplifies the humor, wisdom and leadership qualities of Gene Beckwith, DTM, PDG. The first recipient of this award was Roy D. Graham, DTM, PID. I've never met Gene Beckwith so I have no idea how to compare his humor, wisdom, and leadership qualities. Our only option is to compare such qualities with those of recent past recipients of this award. This is the most prestigious award the district will bestow on a member so this selection is not taken lightly. Not one, but multiple years of contributions are considered. This year's recipient began his venture into leadership by serving as a simple club coach for a struggling club. Ten years ago this club had 7 members and on its last leg. Through hard work and perseverance he helped the club grow its membership year after year up to 37 members and is consistently Presidents Distinguished every year. He remains a member of the club today. He found his passion in pursuing leadership positions that involved coaching clubs, teaching others to coach clubs, building new clubs, and especially youth leadership programs. As Lt. Governor of Marketing, a position we now call the Club Growth Director, he was largely responsible for building enough clubs to achieve distinguished district status, a rarity in Founder's district for the last 20 years. Two years later as district governor, leading his team under the theme "Pursue Your Passion", he incredibly achieved for the first and only time in the history of the district, select distinguished status. His leadership skills and wisdom are incontrovertible. As far as humor ... well, if you've ever heard him speak and tell the story about the tortoise and the hare, you would agree that he has no problem with humor. And even more importantly, he is inspirational. Congratulations Distinguished Toastmaster, past district governor, Harry Yan. 2018-2019 District Leadership Committee Report In accordance with the Article VII, Section (d) of the District Administrative Bylaws, the District Leadership Committee, comprising of Bob Hudack, DTM, PDG, Cliff Shimizu, ACS, CL, Frannie Stein, DTM, Harry Yan, DTM, PDG, Kathy Hughes, ACS, ALB, Linda Robinson, DTM, Norm Stein, DTM, and Randy Kleinman, DTM, has nominated the following candidates for the 2018-2019 District Officers, in order by office and then alphabetically if there is more than one candidate per office. Diana Dee, DTM Christine Brady, ACB, ALB David Hosmer, ACS, ALS John Christopherson, ACS, ALB Division B Director Brent Felsted, ACS, ALB Minh Le, ACB, ALB Mike Sato, ACB, ALB Division E Director Julie Murphy, CC, ALB Steve Saffell, CC, ALB Reported by Siri Payakapan, DTM, PDD, Chair, District Leadership Committee Sunday, 04 March 2018 23:34 Karen Lucas - Spirit of Excellence Karen Lucas joined Toastmasters as recently as 2007 and has accomplished quite a bit in the last nine years. She is a charter member of Caltech Toastmasters, reviving the club as the sole remaining member and awarded the Caltech Toastmaster of the Year in 2011. She simultaneously served as an Area Director in two districts, completing her DTM in 2015, and became a Qualified Speaker of the District 12 Speakers' Bureau and the District 100 Speakers' Bureau. While serving as an Area Director in Founder's District, she was a powerful force in the club building effort assisting other area directors across areas, divisions, and even districts. Her reach into the inner workings of Toastmasters International finds her building key relationships into the upper echelons of the organization. She is currently serving as the first Director of District 100 and we would not be surprised to one day see her serving as the International President, but we suspect her ambitions are much higher than that. Outside of Toastmasters she is a maverick in her community. For the Pasadena Tournament of Roses, she was selected as a White Suiter on her first try, served on the Street Committee, and is the youngest member to be appointed to the Heritage Committee. She is a former Board Member of the Pasadena branch of the United Nations. In planet Toastmasters, her approach to leadership is novel, sometimes controversial, but definitely innovative. Above all, her dedication to enriching the lives of every Toastmaster member is worthy of recognizing her has having a Toastmaster's heart. Founder's District proudly recognizes the February 2018 Spirit of Excellence Award recipient, Distinguished Toastmaster, District 100 Director, Karen Lucas. The “Founder’s District Spirit of Excellence” award was set up by past District Governor, Linda Ulrich, to recognize and thank some of our members who have made the biggest impact on the greatest number of members throughout our District and the organization. The first recipients of this award were Richard Elliott, Chris Gregory, John Latin, Ed Mihalka, and H. Al Richardson. These persons embody the qualities of the "Spirit of Excellence" -- mentoring, leadership, service, outreach, and most of all, a Toastmaster's heart. Bob Hudack - Spirit of Excellence In 2007-2008 Bob Hudack served as the District Lt Governor and recognized for Excellence in Education and Training at the International Convention in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. In 2008-2009 he served as the District Governor and initiated the electronic distribution of The Founder newsletter and district directories, resulting in thousands of dollars in savings to the the district. Having superior technical skills and district knowledge, he continues each year serving as the alignment chair for the district in what is a very monumental task. In 2015 he served on the District Reformation Committee contributing to a successful negotiation in the heated debate of splitting the district. He has always been an outspoken champion for the Toastmasters member and every decision and action is made with the individual member in mind. When he speaks, you should listen. For his ongoing mentorship, proven leadership, dedicated service, and devotion to transforming members, he is without question, a Toastmaster with a big heart. Founder's District proudly recognizes the February 2018 Spirit of Excellence recipient, Distinguished Toastmaster, Past District Governor, Bob Hudack. Founder’s District Congratulates Our Newest Distinguished Toastmasters! Written by Cliff Shimizu Founder’s District is proud to recognize the following members for achieving their Distinguished Toastmaster award. Achieving the designation of DTM requires each member to earn the following education and leadership awards: Competent Communicator, Advanced Communicator Bronze, Advanced Communicator Silver, Advanced Communicator Gold, Competent Leader, Advanced Leader Bronze, and the Advanced Leader Silver (which includes the High-Performance Leadership (HPL) Project). Please help Founder’s District in congratulating: Donald T. Baliaba Donald joined Toastmasters in January 2015 and his journey has been amazing. He initially joined Toastmasters to improve his speaking skills, but with the help (or sometimes push) of his mentor, Chris Gregory, he became more involved in the program. He first served as a club officer and then as the Area C1 Director. He became a DTM two and half years after joining the program because he had great mentors who challenged him and provided support. He can't thank them enough! Maybe the best decision he made was to join Helmsmen Club #770 in Huntington Beach, one of the best clubs in the world. Donald believes strongly that it's better to teach people how to catch fish rather than feeding them. With the help of several people, including his Founders district family, he started a Toastmasters club in Yaounde, Cameroon in Africa more than 8,000 miles away from here. Today, many Cameroonians are enjoying and benefiting from this fantastic program. As a DTM, he is planning to use his newly acquired skills to continue to learn… and more importantly, to assist and help others to succeed, as well. This is just the beginning. Arnie Lynn Bengo Arnie was first introduced to Toastmasters by Jeanne Cassidy. Jeanne was the catalyst that began her journey as they chartered the 3030 Communications club at Working Wardrobes. It was at that point that she took on the role of VP of Education. In the year that she served as VPE, she earned her CC and CL in hopes of inspiring other members to achieve both leadership and education awards. She quickly immersed herself in the Toastmasters World after seeing her public speaking skills improve. Arnie then took on the role of President and eventually became the Area Director for J-2. It took a little over 2.5 years for her to earn her DTM, an award she desperately sought out since becoming a charter member. Lou Ann Frederick Lou Ann is occasionally asked, “Why another DTM?” The answer is about how committed she is to both setting and achieving goals. It is important on an individual level but even more important when she participates as a member of her club to achieve Distinguished Club Status. This is Lou Ann’s 4th or 5th Distinguished Toastmaster award and while the first one was the most notable, the work done for each successive award is equally important. Every new club that was developed, every speech project she devoted herself to, every relationship as she worked through leadership, it all added a positive dimension to her. As she joyfully ages, she sees the need to step into a new phase of her life:to move out of the way so the newer members can fill roles and enhance their own futures. January will mark her 35th year in Toastmasters. It has been a great journey and Toastmasters helped Lou Ann achieve things in her career that were not possible otherwise. Connie C. Haddix Connie joined Toastmasters as a charter member of Quote Masters, in January 2009, because she needed a change from a season that was difficult, at best. She had lost her husband three months prior and her father just 6 weeks after that. She needed a way to re‐direct her grief. Toastmasters delivered on that promise and then some! She found camaraderie amongst the members, creation of new goals and vision for her life, and an exciting adventure as a Toastmaster. This will never change for her. Her DTM journey has been intentional and she is very pleased to reach that goal. However, the best part has been engaging with other members, by mentoring and holding each other accountable. Her heartfelt thanks goes to the Toastmasters International leadership and staff for continuing to strive for excellence in all facets of resources, educational platforms, and member engagement. You have served your global community well, with a compassion than lingers. Claudia Kabot Claudia began her Toastmasters journey eight years ago. At first, it was about improving her own communication and leadership skills. But, as time went on, she gained even more from helping other members. Claudia became very active in her club by initiating and organizing successful club events; representing her club at area and division contests as a speech contestant; sponsoring and mentoring many new members; and attending all business meeting at District Conferences. As an Area Governor, she built relationships with her area clubs. She chaired division contests and brought many of her Tools 2 Lead club members to serve at Area and Division contests. Earning her DTM marks not the destination of her Toastmasters journey, but the beginning of many more great accomplishments. Kimberly M. McFee Kimberly joined Helmsmen Club #770 Toastmasters in May 1995. She joined because during a work performance review she was told that she needed to work on her platform skills. Her goal was to join a club and get through her first ten speeches and get her competent communicator award and then quit. That was over 20 years ago. Her bucket list goal with Toastmasters was to, one day, achieve her DTM. Because of work commitments and life, time got away from her. Fast forward to 2 years ago she pushed herself to run for club president, become an area director, and complete her HPL. Finally, she achieved the DTM in July 2017. Mission accomplished! Jodi Rifkin Jodi Rifkin has been a Toastmaster since she was a teenager. Back then she was shy but after years with Toastmasters she grown to be more confident and outspoken. She is a proud member of Unimasters and is a Speakers Exchange Coordinator. Her career in E-commerce has been enhanced by the skills she honed at Toastmasters. She enjoys traveling, being a Girl Scouts Brownie Leader and Girl Scouts Trainer. She aspires to fulfill a childhood dream to carry the Olympic Torch. Olimpo Salmoran Palomino Olimpo got passionate with Toastmasters when he attended his first contest in 2009. At that contest Olimpo was impressed by the level of engagement and the spirit of service and professionalism of everyone involved! Since that remarkable event in 2009, Toastmasters has been an inspiration for his life! The thing that he loves most about Toastmasters is that Toastmasters International improves the life of all members in one way or another. Olimpo’s commitment in the future is to continue to support Toastmasters members in achieving their objectives and to improving their lives. Anna Shcherbak Anna has been on an amazing 8-year journey to achieve her DTM award. Along the way, she met many remarkable people, established life-long friendships, and gained the confidence to pursue her passion of teaching children. The Toastmasters community has influenced her life in many positive ways and she is forever grateful for the support, love, and encouragement she has been shown by her fellow Toastmasters. It’s time to hold club officer elections and submit your club officer lists! Written by Christine Brady For all clubs with semi-annual officer terms, new club officer lists need to be submitted by December 31. Clubs who submit on time receive credit towards their Distinguished Club Program. You want to be sure to submit club officer lists for the “future term” otherwise you may be updating the current term list. You can use the instruction link below to submit your list through Toastmasters.org using “Club Central.” Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:12 Written by Chris Gregory, DTM, PRM As Public Relations Manager for Founder’s District I have a motto which I wish all to follow: Make History, Not Lose History The reason I have this motto is that I feel that there have been opportunities that we’ve missed to celebrate over the last few years. We’ve missed out on the opportunity to document, photograph and write articles on certain special anniversaries of either clubs or club members. In an effort to curb that, I have implemented a few changes to the Public Relations Team, which include recruiting Christine Brady as the Talent Scout and David Moore as the Special Events and Anniversaries Scout. Both are asked to scout throughout the district and through our available data to “go where no person has gone before” in order to find pertinent information and share it with the right people who can share it with the appropriate Toastmasters world. Their information will be passed both to the Division Directors and to either FDTV for talent or Social Media for Special Events. We need your input to help make this happen. If you have information for Talent or Events, please give to Christine for Talent or David for anniversaries or events. I encourage more participation across the board in the Public Relations arena both from the Public Relations Team and from the Toastmaster members. All Public Relations members are also included in this offer which includes the Division PRM’s plus their teams. Also encouraged to participate is any individual member who either brings an outstanding article or brings light on something that is happening within Founder’s District. Each month, I will be looking for those whom I believe have gone above and beyond their Toastmaster expectations and I will be rewarding 2 members a $25 Toastmaster gift certificate. The 2 individuals I’ve chosen to recognize under that program initially include: Avis French, who even while ailing, remained liaison between Founder’s District and the local community. Avis continually works to make sure we have opportunities to serve as local judges for local school and community speech events. These events weigh heavily on Toastmasters participating as they see us working to our core values of integrity, respect, service, excellence. Avis is also looking to our Toastmasters community for someone who may want to help out and possibly transition through the next few years. Thank you, Avis. Steve Itzkowitz, who worked up until the final hours before being admitted to the hospital for his surgery. Steve is a real trooper and is always the first in line to help make it happen. After the awards night, Steve took on doing a lot of the articles. I love him for all he does and now need him to concentrate more on delegating. Thanks for all your work, Steve. Here are a few other mentions of individuals that I really appreciate stepping up to the plate: Lawrence Crandall, who is always there when you need him and then some Jeff Lee, for stepping up when Steve was ailing given how much we had to cover. David Shostak, the man of the hour, who is setting the way as an example for everyone. Mike O’Neil, who has been my right hand man in the Tech Team. George Day, who has been doing amazing programs and software in the background that have made a big difference. We need you back. I could go on but let’s save some for next month.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line200
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__label__cc	0.691822	0.308178	Shades of Rwanda, Only With More Factions There are two parts to this post. The first, a kind of Prologue, was written in March, 2003. The second, a Commentary on the failure of the war, was written in August, 2003. None of this is new material. But a lot of us weren’t blogging or reading websites as much back then as we are now, so perhaps you didn’t see this account. And certainly we were playing catch-up regarding the factions in Iraq which would turn out to be the ingredients for a tar baby to which America found itself glued. We are still stuck, and the recent Study Group proposals to melt that tar have all the vigor of limp spaghetti. And they have all the nuance of…of a Donald Duck cartoon. If their solutions tempt you in the slightest, perhaps these three year old documents will make you see why the report is worthless. Even three years out, though, the points Ken Joseph makes are germane — especially given that new folks are in charge. Will the new amalgam on Capitol Hill do any better in its handling of Iraq? Will the new Secretary of Defense prove to be competent enough to pull off a change in observation, orientation, or direction? These documents are epistles in the true sense of the word. They was written by Ken Joseph, a wannabe “human shield” volunteer in Iraq. An Assyrian Christian (the indigenous people of Iraq, who were there before the Arabs arrived), Mr. Joseph had been raised in Japan by his Christian missionary parents. The “I Was Wrong” letter grew out of a personal culture clash: the protected missionary culture of democratic Japan in which Mr. Joseph was raised, and the reality of his fellow Christian Assyrians in Iraq. He arrived in a hubristic “Blessed are the peacemakers” mode to offer himself as a human shield. In short order, the hubris was eaten away by the acid reality of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. First the prologue, part of a Newsmax post dated March 28th, 2003: A few weeks ago, I traveled to Iraq with supplies for our church and family. This was my first visit ever to the land of my forefathers. The first order of business was to attend church. During a simple meal for peace activists after the service, an older man sounded me out carefully. Iraqi: ‘We Want the War’ Finally he felt free to talk: “There is something you should know — we didn’t want to be here tonight. When the priest asked us to gather for a peace service, we said we didn’t want to come because we don’t want peace. We want the war to come.” “What in the world are you talking about?” I blurted. Thus began a strange odyssey that shattered my convictions. At the same time, it gave me hope for my people and, in fact, hope for the world. Because of my invitation as a “religious person” and family connections, I was spared the government snoops who ordinarily tail foreigners 24 hours a day. This allowed me to see and hear amazing things as I stayed in the homes of several relatives. The head of our tribe urged me not to remain with my people during its time of trial but instead go out and tell the world about the nightmare ordinary Iraqis are going through. ‘We Live Like Animals’ I was to tell the world about the terror on the faces of my family when a stranger knocked at the door. “Look at our lives!” they said. “We live like animals: no food, no car, no telephone, no job, and, most of all, no hope.” That’s why they wanted this war. “You cannot imagine what it is to live like this for 20, 30 years. We have to keep up our routine lest we would lose our minds.” But I realized in every household that someone had already lost his or her mind; in other societies such a person would be in a mental hospital. I also realized that there wasn’t a household that did not mourn at least one family member who had become a victim of this police state. I wept with relatives whose son just screamed all day long. I cried with a relative who had lost his wife. Yet another left home every day for a “job” where he had nothing to do. Still another had lost a son to war and a husband to alcoholism. As I observed the slow death of a people without hope, Saddam Hussein seemed omnipresent. There were his statues; posters showed him with his hand outstretched or firing his rifle, or wearing an Arab headdress. These images seemed to be on every wall, in the middle of the road, in homes. “Everything will be all right when the war is over,” people told me. “No matter how bad it is, we will not all die. Twelve years ago, it went almost all the way but failed. We cannot wait anymore. We want the war, and we want it now.” The People Don’t Want the U.N. When I told members of my family that some sort of compromise with Iraq was being worked out at the United Nations, they reacted not with joy but anger: “Only war will get out of our present condition.” This reminded me of the stories I heard from older Japanese who had welcomed the sight of American B-29 bombers in the skies over their country as a sign that the war was coming to an end. True, these planes brought destruction, but also hope. ‘I Felt Terrible About Having Demonstrated Against the War’ I felt terrible about having demonstrated against the war without bothering to ask what the Iraqis wanted. Tears streamed down my face as I lay in my bed in a tiny Baghdad house crowded in with 10 other people of my own flesh and blood, all exhausted, all without hope. I thought, “How dare I claim to speak for people I had not even asked what they wanted?” Then I began a strange journey to let the world know of the true situation in Iraq, just as my tribe had begged me to. With great risk to myself and those who had told their stories and allowed my camera into their homes, I videotaped their plight. But would I get that tape out of the country? To make sure I was not simply getting the feelings of the oppressed Assyrian minority, I spoke to dozens of other people, all terrified. Over and over they told me, “We would be killed for speaking like this.” Yet they did speak, though only in private homes or when other Iraqis had assured them that no government minder was watching over me. I spoke with a former army member, with someone working for the police, with taxi drivers, store owners, mothers and government officials. All had the same message: “Please bring on the war. We may lose our lives, but for our children’s sake, please, please end our misery.” ‘Soldiers Hated Their Work’ On my last day in Baghdad, I saw soldiers putting up sandbags. By their body language, these men made it clear that they dared not speak but hated their work; they were unmistakably on the side of the common people. I wondered how my relatives felt about the United States and Britain. Their feelings were mixed. They have no love for the allies — but they trust them. “We are not afraid of the American bombing. They will bomb carefully and not purposely target the people,” I was told. “What we are afraid of is Saddam and the Baath Party will do when the war begins.” The final call for help came at the most unexpected place — the border, where crying members of my family sent me off. The taxi fares from Baghdad to Amman had risen within one day from $100 to $300, to $500 and then to $1,000 by nightfall. My driver looked on anxiously as a border guard patted me down. He found my videotapes, and I thought: It’s all over! For once I experienced what my relatives were going through 365 days a year — sheer terror. Quietly, the officer laid the tapes on a desk, one by one. Then he looked at me — was it with sadness or with anger? Who knows? He clinically shook his head and without a word handed all the tapes back to me. He didn’t have to say anything. He spoke the only language left to these imprisoned Iraqis, the silent language of human kindness. That was his first taste of the real Iraq. Then there is the commentary, from Mr. Joseph, on AssyrianChristians. com, five months later. In some ways it is outdated, in others, prescient. It gives his view, five months after the start of the war, on why it has been lost…lost three years ago. It is well worth making your way through all of what he has to say. You will note where his hopes did not bear fruit, and you can tell, in hindsight, what he didn’t — couldn’t anticipate. Nonetheless, it is riveting to get a report from someone who is part of a vanishing minority: an Assyrian Christian, someone whose liturgical practices predate our American Christian theology and liturgy by more than a thousand years. I am putting up the whole commentary as it appears. However, I will note that a book he alludes to having written, or being in the process of writing, does not appear to be available. At least I couldn’t find it. As the dust begins to settle around the dream that was Iraq, the finger pointing is beginning. "Who lost Iraq?" is the simple, but profound question that many are beginning to ask. As one who was in Iraq during the time of Saddam and has been their since as an Assyrian Christian, the indigenous people of Iraq the answer to that question is not just academic — it directly relates to the future of our people, the Assyrian Christians who are the original people of Iraq long before the Arabs came. We are the people of Nineveh to whom Jonah came and comprise one of the last remaining major Christian communities in the Middle East. First, is the question of Saddam. I was there. In an upcoming book entitled “I Was Wrong,” I describe what life was under Saddam. I was originally against the war, but when I saw the terror that was Saddam and the pain my family lived under I was quickly brought back to reality. It was terrible under Saddam Hussein! The real Abu Ghraib prison was a place where my relatives were beaten every day — after Lunch and Dinner. Monday and Saturday were the days people were hanged. My relatives reaction to the Abu Ghraib “scandal”? They were angry — angry at the fact that the Americans could not do anything to try and get the truth out of those who oppressed them! Chemical weapons? I was there! The great fear of the residents of Baghdad in the days leading up to the war were not the Americans — they were afraid of Saddam and all the weapons they believed he had and how he would unleash them on them when cornered. Everybody believed he had every possible weapon to obtain and would unleash it all! Second, the deep appreciation for the Liberation of their country from Saddam. I was there! Imagine for the first time in your life being able to use a cell phone, surf the internet, speak on the telephone without fear, talk to your neighbors without being afraid, watch ‘normal” TV, wake up in the morning without having to see Saddam everywhere! Happy? They were delirious to have him gone! Third, though is the real question. Why has Iraq gone so badly? The answer is a bit complicated, but there is an answer and it is still not too late. Simply put Iraq was lost by Americans. Essentially two types of Americans who ruled Iraq in the days and months following the fall of Saddam. In my upcoming book, “I Was Wrong”, I detail the many experiences we had firsthand. The first type was what I call the “good guys”! If Americans have one major fault it is that they are so positive and forward looking and good that they have a hard time understanding how evil Evil really is! That was the lesson I learned under Saddam. Yes, he was really that evil and yes, in the 21st century there is such evil! The good guys, were the “aw shucks” Americans that came into Iraq and did their best to organize, fix and restore Iraq. They could not imagine that anyone would purposely try to work against what clearly the Iraqis wanted. I watched them, many times with tears in my eyes as they worked so hard, under such terrible conditions to make things better for Iraq. “Why are you here?” I would ask over and over. The answer was always the same: “I just want the Iraqis to have what we have. Just doing my job!” How simple, how naïve and yet how powerful. A half century my own parents came to Japan following the end of the war with Japan and are still there. In talking to the men and women risking their lives to see Iraq restored I kept flashing back to my own parents. A half century after he had first gone to Japan I asked my own father, “Why, Dad did you come to Japan?” His answer? “Because Japan needed help!” DAD! That’s all? You have been here for 50 years now. No matter how hard I push him that is all the answer I can get. “Because they need help”? How foolish! How naïve! How powerful! The first group that “lost Iraq” are the “good guys” — the men and women who gave of their lives and their time to rebuild Iraq so the Iraqis could be free. As my father, a half century after he first came they cannot understand or fathom how evil people can be that they would work against progress, blow up children, rape women and destroy oil fields. They just don’t understand! The second group? “The opportunists”. These were many of the people working in the CPA — Coalition Provisional Authority who were there not to see Iraq restored, but simply to get a good line on their resumes and to get a job in the new administration. A year ago those who were hoping for a job in a Kerry Administration had every incentive to see Iraq fail. While it is very difficult to point to specific instances, put yourself in the position of a staffer desperate for a job in a Kerry administration in January. The best way to insure it? For Iraq to fail! Did it happen? I am absolutely confident it did. I saw it every day! I am putting out a call to all who were working at CPA headquarters and others to come forward with details of how the “opportunists” worked against success simply to insure they would have a job in January! A “forgotten” poster which was supposed to be posed all over the country announcing the plans of the CPA. “Accidentally” delayed telephones, computer systems and a host of other supplies we saw daily. A whole class of staffers working subconsciously and often consciously to in their own little small way have Iraq “fail” so they could get a job in a new administration which would be directly linked to the failure of Iraq. The third group? The mostly British “moslem experts” dispatched to “guide” the CPA. I met them everywhere. They were and continue to be evil personified . With beautiful British accents, though they always bowled over the Americans, enamored at the “class” that the Queen’s English always provides. Outwardly liberal, democratic, free-loving, they were in actuality evil, promoters of the Islamic Republic of Iraq, always smiling and deceiving the “nice guys” who trusted the “advisors” as they interpreted, explained the “culture” and in as many ways as they could worked against any success that the CPA might attain by working in a calculated way to deliver Iraq to their paymasters in the evil empire which is radical islam. Who betrayed Iraq? The “good guys” who naively believed, the “chasers” who desperately hoped Iraq would fail for their simple job needs and the “experts” who systematically dismantled all the good done for the Iraqi people. In particular, who betrayed Iraq? In contrast to the no-nonsense Military Officer Jay Garner, I had the honor of meeting, I confronted Paul Bremer, his pathetic successor who personally betrayed the people of Iraq by turning it over before it was ready just to personally get out. Unacceptable! Is it too late? No! We still have time to remedy the mistakes and deliver Iraq once again to is long suffering people. The most important tool still remaining is the Constitution. Former Ambassador Paul Bremer betrayed the Iraqi people when in spite of the Iraqi Constitutional Committee voting that there “should be no mention of religion or ideology” in the new Iraqi Constitution, pushed on it article 7 which reads “slam is the religion of the state.” Imagine, fighting a war, sacrificing so many to create “The Islamic Republic of Iraq.” The United States and fellow donors in the EU and Japan must absolutely demand that the Iraqi Constitution be secular with no mention of religion or ideality as the Iraqi people who are throughout secular want. Second, is realizing that Iraq is in fact four countries — “Shiastan” in the south, “Sunnistan” in the middle, “Kurdistan” in the Northeast and “Assyria” in the North. The secret to success in Iraq? Providing maximum local autonomy and self government in the four “states” that constitute Iraq. The way to preserve the whole, as the United States has shown the rest of the world for over 200 years is to provide maximum autonomy to the states. Can Iraq succeed? Yes it can! It is succeeding fabulously! Internet service everywhere, freedom to speak, talk on the telephone, business is booming and the list goes on. Over a half century ago when my parents first came to Japan America succeeded and an enemy — Japan — went on to become a friend and a partner. Why? Because the US absolutely insisted on a secular and democratic constitution. The pressure was tremendous to compromise and give in, but the US prevailed and the results have “stuck” for 60 years! We can do the same in Iraq. Follow the example of Japan and absolutely insist that 1800 brave young Americans did not give their lives for “The Islamic Republic of Iraq.” but for freedom, democracy and the rule of law. An absolute insistence on a secular constitution and local autonomy for the distinct people groups in Iraq is the way forward. A successful Iraq will “domino” thought the region and the world. After all, freedom is the cry of every man and woman. If we fail, “The Islamic Republic of Iraq” — an Iranian clone, but with the second largest oil reserves in the world will be unleashed onto the face of the earth in a manner that will pale in comparison to Saddam and Iran. Stay the course! Insist on freedom, democracy and the rule of law! There is still time before the October 15 vote on the constitution to not ask, not urge, but as America did in Japan 60 years ago insist that the Constitution be secular and democratic with a bill of rights and complete local autonomy to the states so the whole can be preserved by the maximum autonomy of the parts. As the very simple question, whether you were for or against the war Did 1800 plus brave young men and women give their lives to create The Islamic Republic of Iraq? The Answer is clear! It’s been more than three years since Mr. Joseph wrote these words. I am studying the continuing plight of minority groups like the Assyrian Christians (regularly persecuted by the Kurds and other Sunnis), and the gypsies. When I have more to report, I’ll let you know. Daily, the picture grows more complex. The Assyrians are fleeing to Syria. Some of them had run from Iran to Iraq only to be further persecuted there. Meanwhile, in the beginning flames of the Sunni - Shi’ite conflagration, Israel may be playing both sides against the middle in the hope of surviving these ancient hatreds. And the Kurds in Turkey and Iraq and Iran continue to push for their own sovereign nation. Shades of Rwanda, only with more factions. Posted by Dymphna at 12/20/2006 08:38:00 PM Bisaal said... That about the British experts and what evil they did-very sketchy--more detailed needed to be really understood. -== mist ==- said... It's difficult to say with certainty, but the total population of Assyrians in Iraq is probably less than 1 million. There is no way they have enough people left to get their own autonomous region. Their best bet is to remain with the Kurds up north and do what they are currently doing: occupying their own cities and avoiding the Kurds as much as possible. The largest Assyrian city is Ankawa, which is a small enclave outside the Kurdish capital of Erbil. It consists of around 100 thousand Assyrians and it is thriving. It is also home to one of the very few churches which prominently displays a cross on the steeple. St. Joseph's Catholic Church seats about 700 people: Picture of St. Joseph's Church in Ankawa House rent in Ankawa is ridiculous; you are seeing people pay 500-1000 a month for 1/2 of a villa. They can afford that because there is so much construction and western money pouring into the economy (Kurdish areas get a ton of NGO and AID support simply because it is not dangerous for the workers in the north). Additionally, there are so many family members who illegally defected to Europe, that they have a large income base from that as well. I would also guess that the majority of Assyrians who flee to Syria are not moving there, but trying to get to other countries (Europe, Australia, USA). It is nearly impossible to legally get to those countries from Iraq. But, if you move to Syria it becomes much easier. I personally know 2 families who did exactly this in order to get to Australia. Finally, the Kurdish region already operates 100% autonomously from the Iraqi Govt. in Baghdad. They provide all of their own services, government functions, military, education, etc. They are completely separated from the rest of Iraq by border control checkpoints, and if you aren't Kurdish, you better have a damn good reason why you are going into Kurdistan. So, for all intents and purposes, they are their own country. Vol-in-Law said... Syria seems to be the place people flee to these days - a family friend's daughter was visiting cousins in Lebanon recently and got caught in the Israeli attack, she & the cousins escaped via Syria. My impression is that the Syrian dictatorship is becoming an island of stability (and absence of religious persecution - being run by Alawites helps) in the MME. As a Brit I too would like to know more about those evil British advisors. Are they really pro-Islamist? Before the invasion, old-style realists here were warning that Arabs weren't capable of liberal democracy. At the time we mocked them as racists, but they seem to have been proved right. I'm now sceptical of the notion that Iraq was equivalent to postwar Japan (or Germany); Japan's Emperor had surrendered and ordered his people to cooperate with the occupiers. Plus Japan is a very homogenous society, and Japanese like Germans have a very 'can do' attitude that both made them a powerful military threat, and enabled them to transform their societies along American lines. Arab societies seem the exact opposite; Iran lies somewhere between the two extremes. robert in england said... I wonder how many of those 'evil British advisors' are named mohamed. james higham said... I think, in the end, the problem is in the Arab psyche. They really are a troublesome people and do not seem to have progressed much beyond the time of Mohammed in terms of international social responsibility. Don Miguel said... "I think, in the end, the problem is in the Arab psyche. They really are a troublesome people and do not seem to have progressed much beyond the time of Mohammed in terms of international social responsibility." I think you mean Muslim Arabs. Christian Arabs around the world continually prove that theory wrong. anti said... As much as I have read on this issue I feel somewhat stunned that Bremer forced the issue of Islam being the official religion. If that is so, no wonder none of this is working out. What in the hell were they thinking? Whoever crafted that decision should explain their reasoning. Dymphna said... anti-- Bremer's gone and he doesn't have to explain anything. Neither do the time-servers and undercutters who hoped to fail Iraq and get Kerry in. Sadly, I believe you are correct. I now vow that if my children follow my political insight, I will attempt to gear them to one of three fields; journalism, arts, or law. 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__label__wiki	0.680825	0.680825	Home > Local History Society > Recent Talks & Visits > The Geology and Landscape of Hertfordshire > The Geology and Landscape of Hertfordshire Simplified outcrop map of the Chalk formations exposed in Hertfordshire Hertfordshire Geology and Landscape, published by Hertfordshire Natural History Society, 2010 John Catt, centre, with colleagues, at Reed Pit (TL 359370), showing Glaciotectonic thrust slcie of Lewses Nodular Chalk Formation Hertfordshire Geology & Landscape, ed. John Catt, 2010 Talk by John Catt to April 2012 meeting of the Society Report by John Wassell John Catt was the general editor of Hertfordshire Geology and Landscape published in 2010 by the Hertfordshire Natural History Society. He noted that the book had been proposed in 1950 with each chapter written by a different author and pointed out that had only been the editor since 1973 and that the last chapter was received in 2010! The main features of the Hertfordshire landscape result from the sequence of sediments (Chalk, Reading Beds, London Clay), which were gently folded during the later geological periods. 50 million years of erosion removed most of the early Palaeogene deposits from northwestern parts of the county, leaving a thin veneer of Plateau Drift over the Chalk of the Chiltern Hills. About 0.5 million years ago a glacier invaded the Vale of St Albans, which had been the valley of the Thames since about 2.5 million years ago. This diverted the Thames into its present course through London. The local puddingstone was described (flint pebbles cemented by silica) and he noted that the precise origin of flint is not known although several theories exist. The coprolite deposits that are found in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and the northern edge of Hertfordshire are natural phosphates and not dinosaur droppings! Copies of the book Hertfordshire Geology and Landscape (2010, Herts. Nat. Hist. Soc.) were available for sale (£34) at the meeting. This page was added by Rosemary Ross on 05/06/2012. Recent Talks & Visits Childwickbury - a short history of the estate, the stud and its owners Childwickbury Stud From Arkwright to Mayor The First Battle of St Albans Maps in the last 300 years The College of Arms Next exhibition	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line211
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__label__cc	0.745531	0.254469	Evidence that I really ought to keep things in better perspective I don't watch horror or slasher movies. I just don't see why I should pay money to be frightened out of my own skin. If I wanted to pay to be scared, I could put some money in one of those speak-your-weight machines, but I wouldn't do that either. Call it denial, but whether it's extreme violence, or finding out that the diet of chips, cheese and chocolate isn't doing much for my ambitions to be J-Lo's body double, I just don't want to know. J-Lo was thinking, 'I wonder how Fran's getting on with her diet. I could do with a day off soon.' But sometimes you see horrific things by accident, and it's too late to look away. I was in a toy shop on Friday, browsing to find a present for someone. There was this little cherub-like blonde girl, trailing around behind her a toy donkey on wheels attached to a pull-along stick which she'd taken off one of the shelves. It was a clever toy because the donkey kicked its legs about while it moved, and looked quite realistic, as well as making convincing donkey sounds. Ah, how innocent a scene, I thought, watching the child pull it along affectionately, urging it to 'come on, donkey, come on'. It would not have looked out of place in one of those 18th century paintings of rich children playing in the nursery, all dressed in royal blue silk even at 4pm, with cheeks like beetroot, rolls of fat round the wrists and ankles, and a towering bowl of sweetmeats on a table with bandy legs. Anyway, back to the toy shop. Two minutes later, Cherub Child had abandoned the donkey to its fate and bogged off to find something else to play with. And there the donkey lay, rejected, on its side, where anyone could have trodden on it, its legs kicking uselessly, and with sounds like 'ungh ungh' coming from it. It was a scene from Texas Hee-Haw Massacre. Having said everything I've just said about not watching violent videos, what I really really want to do now is google 'dying donkey' and find you a video clip to illustrate the way the donkey looked, but this would be distasteful. As is, no doubt, even just TELLING you I feel like doing that. But I think you can visualise the scene. In fact, think 'dying fly' and just superimpose donkey features on the scene. It shouldn't be hard. You need grey, not black. Then you need mammalian features, not insectian. Then you need massive ears ... No, this isn't working. I feel really bad about the dying donkey video comment now. I should never have said it. Here's a nice picture of some flowers instead, to get your mind off it. Talking horror, I was once walking along with my daughter, who was about 6 at the time. (Queen Victoria had just been crowned.) Suddenly, she stopped, looked at something which had been discarded in the gutter, and cried, 'Aarrghh! A dead apple!' You see, horror is all about perspective. I've never, ever been able to look at an old apple core since then and not think Fruit Corpse. Thanks, kid. Stephen Hayes 24/10/11 17:03 The gutter is full of interesting stuff. When our son was small we took him to Washington D. C. to see the sights and all he cared about seeing was a cockroach. You see, we don't have them much here in Oregon and a friend told our son D.C. was filled with them. We didn't seet any on the trip but I spotted a dead cricket in the gutter near our hotel and told our son it was a cockroach. It was the highlight of his trip. I can really imagine this poor little donkey. Poor thing. broken biro 24/10/11 22:37 My brother has always loved horror movies, but is terribly squeamish about rotten fruit... go figure! Steve 24/10/11 23:35 I assume you would not be interested in seeing photographs of the contents of my compost bin? I assure you I only take them for scientific reasons... Fran Hill 25/10/11 00:07 Stephen - you say 'we don't have cockroaches much here in Oregon' in such a wistful way, like 'we don't have beautiful mountain scenery' or 'we don't have very good weather'. Love it. broken biro - and you SPEAK to this person? Steve - I will call you for the pictures at any point I feel my life is lacking excitement. Rely on it. elizabethm 25/10/11 13:41 Just had a big catch up of your blogs. What a treat. Loved the hippo/flamingo bit. Been there. Elephant's Eye 25/10/11 13:54 (does your maligned daughter read your blog??) Fran 25/10/11 14:15 elizabeth - thanks for coming over and reading. yes, the hippo/flamingo image seems to have struck a chord with a few! Elephant's Eye - maligned? Maligned? You haven't heard the HALF of it! Anonymous 27/10/11 04:37 Dear Elephant's Eye, Yes, she does. And thank you for your kind comments on my mental state. Also, thank you mother for sticking up for me there. By the way, I'm 28, so I think Mum got her dates and Queens mixed up. Never was very good at numbers. Was going to write something nice about being good with words, but in view of the comments above have refrained from doing so. Having worked for the last 10 years for a bereavement charity, I can confirm that one person's view of death is unique and individual; therefore it WAS a dead apple. PS I have no idea why it won't let me post on here as me, unless you've blocked me!!! sausage 27/10/11 05:06 Ooooh I think I've worked out how to! Yay!! sausage - of COURSE it was a poor dead apple, dear. That's why we stopped to pick it up and then buried it along with all the gerbils in the garden. Don't you remember? Oh, very funny.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line237
__label__wiki	0.878245	0.878245	Cobell \| Opinion Opinion: Cobell case settled for pennies on the dollar "In 1994, as mineral and gas corporations were discovering new reserves of oil and gas on tribal reservations across the West, a feisty middle-aged Blackfeet woman named Elouise Cobell decided the time had come to begin a long-overdue accounting of mineral royalties on tribal lands. In December 2009, this sordid scandal inched its way toward closure when Cobell and her lawyers, along with their new counterparts at the Justice and Interior departments, announced they had arrived at a $3.4 billion settlement. The final paperwork will take months to get through Congress, but translated into real-world numbers, the deal amounts to a $1,000 payment to every plaintiff in the case. It also establishes a $60 million account to enhance educational opportunities for Native students. "I spent a lifetime trying to get justice," Cobell, now 64, said last week. "This has been with me since I was a child, hearing about people not having money, hearing people say, 'If I had money I would buy clothing for my child.' I feel very fortunate that I was able to fight for the underrepresented." Like the plaintiffs, President Barack Obama viewed this suit as a stain on the nation, and he came to the White House determined to see it settled. "When he campaigned in Indian country, he listened to us," Cobell says. "He was true to his word." Obama hailed the settlement as "an important step toward sincere reconciliation between the government and the Indians." We'll see. After spending 20 years in the West dealing with white settlers and tribal chiefs, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman described tribal reservations as "a parcel of land -- set aside for the exclusive use of Indians -- surrounded by thieves." If you happen to live in White Shield, N.D., Window Rock, Ariz., or Lame Deer, Mont., in 2010, you're left to ask: "So what's changed in a hundred years?"" Paul VanDevelder: This confederacy of thieves (The Oregonian 2/7) Agreement \| Press Release \| Q&A \| Audio Opinion: Cobell trust settlement addresses land issues (02/01) Deadline approaches to approve trust fund settlement (02/01) Dennis Gingold: The facts behind trust fund settlement (1/29) Bill Martin: No rubber stamp for trust fund settlement (1/26) Editorial: Congress must act fast on Cobell settlement (1/22) Chickasaw firm secures land consolidation contract (1/21) Opinion: Indian trust beneficiaries finally getting paid? (1/20) Interview with Elliott Levitas, attorney for Cobell case (1/18) Millions coming to Montana under Cobell settlement (01/07) Congress gets more time to act on Cobell settlement (1/6) Editorial: A long overdue settlement to Cobell lawsuit (1/6) Letters: A good settlement to Indian trust fund case (12/21) Cobell urges Senate to move quickly on settlement (12/18) Column: Free Indians of federal government control (12/18) Column: Cobell deal not so great for Indian Country (12/18) Editorial: Cobell deal corrects century-old old wrong (12/18) Editorial: Settlement and accountability in trust fund (12/18) Witness List: Senate hearing on Cobell settlement (12/16) Mary Pember: The small picture of the Cobell deal (12/16) Opinion: Deal won't change much in Indian Country (12/16) Editorial: Settlement in Cobell case is long overdue (12/16) Editorial: Act quickly to approve Cobell settlement (12/16) Bill Means: Cobell settlement a rip-off for Indians (12/15) Editorial: At last a settlement in Cobell trust case (12/15) North Dakota tribes back settlement in Cobell case (12/14) Opinion: Indian plaintiff won't see trust settlement (12/14) Column: Navajo woman helped resolve Cobell case (12/14) Editorial: Preventing future trust mismanagement (12/14) Editorial: Approve settlement to Cobell trust case (12/14) Senate committee sets Cobell settlement hearing (12/11) Washington tribes react to Cobell case settlement (12/11) Editorial: Land consolidation program 'worrisome' (12/11) Lynne Harlan: A new era in federal Indian relations (12/11) Column: Cowboy banks got paid more than Indians (12/11) Editorial: Settling more than a century of injustice (12/11) Editorial: Support settlement for Cobell trust case (12/11) Editorial: Acknowledge past mistakes in trust fund (12/11) Editorial: A long overdue settlement to Cobell suit (12/11) NARF welcomes settlement in Cobell trust lawsuit (12/10) Cobell hailed as warrior as she returns to Montana (12/10) Billings Paper: Cobell deal sends $27M to Montana (12/10) Editorial: Cobell settlement fair for Indian Country (12/10) Editorial: Welcome settlement to Cobell trust case (12/10) Mostly praise for $3.4B settlement to Cobell lawsuit (12/9) Editorial: Act quickly on Indian trust fund settlement (12/9) Twitter Recap of Cobell settlement with Photos (12/8) Statement by President Obama on Cobell settlement (12/8) Statement by Sen. Dorgan on Cobell settlement (12/8) Statement by Sen. McCain on Cobell settlement (12/8) Statement by Sen. Tester on Cobell settlement (12/8) Statement by Rep. Rahall on Cobell settlement (12/8) Statement by Rep. Cole and Rep. Kildee on Cobell settlement (12/8) 'Major' announcement on Indian trust management (12/8) USET, NIEA on schedule despite big snowstorm in DC Torres Martinez Tribe behind on $1.54M fine for TANF	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line238
__label__cc	0.51586	0.48414	Queens Of The Stone Age, Vampire Weekend Headline Squamish Valley Music Festival July 16, 2013 Yasmine Shemesh age cd, august 10, august 8, ballantynes, bentall, bentley, booms, canada check, concert tickets, fricot, infectious magazine, mangan, queens of the stone age, ryan lewis, squamish valley music festival, tantrums, valley music festival, vampire, vampire weekend, whale0 comment Queens Of The Stone Age and Vampire Weekend are headlining the Squamish Valley Music Festival. The fifth annual three day celebration of music is held on Aug. 8, 9 and 10 in Squamish, BC, Canada. Check out the full line-up after the jump. You can buy concert tickets here. Purchase a CD from Queens Of The Stone Age here and a CD from Vampire Weekend here. Please follow and like us: Asking Alexandria, Escape The Fate To Play Dirt Fest July 11, 2013 Tony Nappa alexandria, asking alexandria, august 10, august 10th, birch run, birch run mi, concert tickets, destiny, dirt, dirt fest, escape the fate, fate, From Death To Destiny, infectious magazine, music, ungrateful0 comment Asking Alexandria and Escape The Fate have both been confirmed to play at Dirt Fest in Birch Run, MI on August 10. You can buy concert tickets and find out more info here. Purchase a CD of Asking Alexandria’s From Death To Destiny here. Purchase a CD of Escape The Fate’s Ungrateful here. Please follow and like us: Laura Jane Grace (Against Me!) Announces Solo Tour July 2, 2013 Aidan Keefer Against Me!, august, august 10, bowery ballroom, Brighton Music Hall, brooklyn, fete lounge, florida, infectious magazine, knitting factory, laura grace james, laura jane, milkboy, month of august, music, music hall, punk, rock and roll, roll hotel, solo tour, Transgender Dysphoria Blues0 comment Laura Jane Grace, lead singer of Florida punk band Against Me!, has announced her own short solo tour for the month of August. The tour, named after the band/singer’s upcoming concept album Transgender Dysphoria Blues, begins Aug. 10 in Philadelphia. The rest of the dates can be found after the jump, and you can buy concert tickets here. You can purchase a CD here. Please follow and like us:	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line239
__label__cc	0.620303	0.379697	Lakers 113, Knicks 96 By Jim Cavan - Published: 02/12/2011 - 17 Comments For the second time in three nights, the Knicks played a team from Los Angeles who came into the Garden on the second game of a back-to-back. And, for the second time, the Knicks looked like the more tired team. With their 11th loss in their last 15, the Knicks dropped to .500 for the first time since November 28th, while remaining a game and a half ahead of Philly for the 6th seed in the Conference. But while Phil Jackson certainly brought a more tested and talented squad to the World’s Most Famous, the Garden’s Charmin-soft rims didn’t seem to know the difference: the Lakers shot a very loud 54%, including a solid 6 for 15 from distance. In fact, of the players who took more than one shot, only Ron Artest (2-9) and Steve Blake (2-5) managed to shoot below 50% from the field. It was the 5th time in 6 games the Knicks have surrendered over 50 for FG%, with the lone exception being a 100-98 loss at Philly a week ago. Meanwhile, the Knick’ shooting woes continued, as they once again mirrored their opponents’ proficiency with a head-scratching under-50% outing for the 4th time in 5 games. Overall the Knicks shot 41% from the floor, including 5-20 from downtown. The lone bright spot – at least statistically – was Raymond Felton, who banked 20 with a gaudy TS% of 75%. Stat, meanwhile, again had trouble getting to the rim against the Lakers staunch interior, netting 24 on 20 shots. Ironically however, and despite playing in the veritable Laker forest of bigs, Stoudemire managed to grab 10 boards for the first time since pulling down 12 against the Thunder on January 22nd – a string of 8 games that has coincided with an equally confounding overall rebounding famine for the Knicks. Despite the co-captains being somewhat effective, the rest of the rotation struggled to find a rhythm. Though continuing to show an increasing acumen for taking it to the tin, on this night the whistles were silent for Gallo, who went 4 for 15 (including 0 for 6 from deep) and finished with 12 points and 6 boards in 38 minutes. Fields, who seems to have hit at least a few bricks on the “Rookie Wall” the last few games, was deafeningly silent, going 2 for 6 (0 for 1 from 3) en route to a +/- (-17) that was second only to Wilson Chandler’s -18. For his part, Chandler – who had the unfortunate task of guarding Gasol for much of the night – played with slightly more confidence than we’ve seen in the last few games, netting 13 (5-10 from the field), 5 rebounds and 4 assists in a heavy 34 minutes off the bench. Kobe did his Kobe thing in the first quarter, picking his spots and channeling performances past in tossing up 19 on 5-7 shooting, before finishing with an irritating 33 and a TS% of 82. For a while the Knicks kept up, and trailed by only 2 at the end of 1. For much of the first quarter and the first part of the second, the ball was moving on O, guys were getting open looks, and Ray in particular was honed in, scoring 14 and dishing out 4 assists en route to a lone-bright-spot kind of night. Then the second quarter happened. Felton and Stat went to the bench – as did Kobe and most of the Laker starters. Mozgov, who played a rough-but-passable game en route to 7 points and 11 boards on 3-9 shooting, quickly to into foul trouble, opening up the middle for the Lakers, who began exploiting the Knicks weak interior D. This episode featured 6’8” Wilson Chandler stranded helplessly on Pau Gasol, with Amar’e guarding Bynum. It was also around this time that the Knicks apparently figured “we’re having such a swell time playing defense, why don’t we turn the ball over 9 times in the quarter and 4 times in 5 possessions?” The result was a 14-point halftime lead that found both the Garden crowd and the KB forum eerily silent. The Knicks actually outrebounded the Lakers 44-41, including 13-7 in OREBs. While there were a few inevitable lapses – which happens when you’re playing against two smart, athletic 7-footers – the Knicks also showed at least a tentative propensity for boxing out, all but eliminating by the third quarter what was, in the first half, a sizable rebounding margin. Still, particularly in the first half, it seemed all of L.A.’s offensive boards came at times when the Knicks needed a change of possession the most. New York never made a serious run in the second half, closing to within 10 only once, and the Lakers pulled away early in the 4th as Luke Walton led the team down the home stretch. Actually, I don’t know what happened in the last three minutes. ESPN actually spirited me away to overtime of the Cavs-Clippers game. Apparently, “relevance” only begins where 26-game losing streaks end. Despite perhaps the worst coupling of games this year, if the last two LAX-fests have taught us anything, it’s that the end of a back-to-back can actually turn out favorably. With the Sixers and Bobcats lurking in the shadows, tonight’s game in Newark presents a definite litmus test for our faltering cagers. Fall below .500, and get ready to hear the Chris Sheridans and Ric Buchers of the world play the gut-‘em guitar for the next two weeks. Go in and dominate in an arena that just weeks ago was selling last-minute Nets-Cavas tickets for 50 cents, well, that’s what good teams do. Liked it? Take a second to support Jim Cavan on Patreon! Tags: Amare Stoudemire, Danillo Gallinari, Landry Fields, Raymond Felton, Timofey Mozgov, Wilson Chandler « 2011 Game Thread: Knicks vs. Lakers 10 Greatest Knick All-Star Moments: #9 » 17 comments on “Lakers 113, Knicks 96” Jimmy C Post author February 12, 2011 at 9:38 am http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/nba/columns/story?columnist=sheridan_chris&id=6115065 http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/nba/columns/story?columnist=oconnor_ian&id=6115099 Sheridan and O’Conner are both in rare form today. Sheridan parrots the usual “if you think giving up both Fields and Gallo on top of the other assets already dangled, then you’re a moron”, while O’Conner pretty harshly calls out D’A. But Sheridan’s column in particular really has me wondering: are we — along with a few other Knicks blogs out there — really the only ones left who think giving up four starters, a prospect and a fat contract for one player would be an unwise move? Sheridan makes this particularly assenine remark: “If the Knicks don’t make this trade, they can look forward to slipping back into the same state of irrelevance they occupied for the better part of the past decade.” ….What!?!?!?? I thought the irrelevance of the last decade was a biproduct of handing out absurdly large contracts and making lopsided trades for players who didn’t deserve it? Obviously Melo is a rare breed, and better than anything that’s come across our radar screen in a while. But shit, even MARK JACKSON said during last night’s telecast that, at this point, it would be wise to just wait out the season and let Melo come to us, rather than end up with two tall pillars with very little in the way of support around them. Ugh. Please get a win tonight. Brian Cronin February 12, 2011 at 9:53 am I dunno, I think these guys just desperately want to get hits, so their go-to emotion is outrage/fear. I don’t even necessarily blame them. But you can’t expect any sort of consistency out of them besides the fact that they will freak out daily over pretty much anything. Take Wojo for example. During the offseason he was ripping on Donnie Walsh for not doing a good enough job getting Lebron. Then a couple of weeks ago, Dolan is a moron for not extending Walsh now instead of waiting until Walsh’s option has to be picked up. They basically take whatever position best suits them to make over-the-top statements that gets people to pay attention to them. Brian Cronin February 12, 2011 at 10:04 am But yeah, that line from Sheridan was particularly bad, I will admit. Man, if I went to myself in 2002 and said, “Hey, 2002 Brian, which Knick team do you think is better prepared for the next five years? An extremely capped out team with a starting lineup of… 30 year old Eisley 31 year old Houston 32 year old Sprewell 32 year old Weatherspoon 30 year old Thomas and a bench of 29 year old Othella Harrington 32 year old Ward 29 year old Shandon Anderson 25 year old Doleac Or a team that has cap room and a starting lineup of… 26 year old Felton 22 year old Fields 23 year old Gallinari 23 year old Chandler 28 year old Stoudemire with a bench of 24 year old Douglas 28 year old Turiaf 24 year old Shawne Williams 24 year old Mozgov?” 2002 Brian would kill for the 2011 Knicks for the next few years. This notion that you’re going to condemn a team PERIOD for their future when they are a young team at .500 in their first year together is preposterous, but the notion that you are going to then doom them to irrelevance for the rest of the decade if they don’t trade three 23 year old and younger starters plus two draft picks for a 26 year old star? That goes way past preposterous. totti February 12, 2011 at 10:21 am Nashless dantoni failed once again to give an identity to his team. This for the third consecutive year. Non existent defense and senseless offense, no matter what adv stats say, the third version of knicks is still far far away to be relevant again despite 100mil Stat and felton and DW is a great GM bla bla bla. They play today the most important game of the season, a loss could open a very deep crisis with unexpected developments. A decade of shit has destroyed the capacity of evaluating facts of many of you. Open your eyes folks: don’t judge DW in comparison with isiah! Remember that the goal is the title not the present mediocrity. Doug February 12, 2011 at 10:32 am totti: A decade of shit has destroyed the capacity of evaluating facts of many of you. We are not winning a title this near no matter what moves we make, so if you feel that this is torturous “mediocrity”, you’re going to have to deal with it. are you happy with the team not playing hard night after night as they should, are you happy with a defense that makes of all the de andre jordans of the world a champion, are you happy with the offense based only on three points accuracy? Do you really think Dantoni is doing a good job? This is the third year of rebuilding project and i agree that DW had success off court saving a lot of money and assuring 12 mil flexibility for next year. I can imagine that all of this sounds great for many of you knicks fans, after all the humiliations of the decade. Hey, infact you think of isiah years and you say “wow, what a genius is DW” you have a justification for everything happening on the court. You simply say “cool down my friend and stay patiently, we will be relevant again”. Only illusions, mere illusions. Have you seen the way the lakers treated us like little childs? Reality is: nba title is very far away, even with 12 mil to spend. I prefere a decade of shit where at least dolan’s money has been largely spent…. d-mar February 12, 2011 at 11:36 am @3 Well said, Brian. At the beginning of this season, if we had said that on 2/12 we’d be .500, 6th in the East, Stat would be starting in the All Star game and we’d have the 2nd best rookie in the NBA, we’d all have jumped for joy. Let’s remember that when we went on our 13 of 14 streak it was against mediocre and bad teams, and we were not going to maintain at 7 games over .500. And regarding BBA’s earlier post about Gallo, he really does need to be called out, just like everyone dumped on Felton for his streak of poor play. If Gallo was making 3’s at anywhere near an acceptable rate the last few games, we probably beat the Clips and at least keep the Laker game under control. I’m glad he’s driving to the basket and drawing fouls, but as BBA said, this idea that we should give the ball to Gallo in crunch time and let him go to work is a little absurd when he can’t even make an open shot. ess-dog February 12, 2011 at 11:37 am We are just too green. It’s hard enough integrating one young player into a lineup, much less 4. This team needs more veteran leadership in the starting lineup plain and simple. Too bad Turiaf can’t stay healthy. He’s not amazing or anything, but he really could keep everyone’s head level. Stat and Ray are both good players, but they don’t look to correct the young players like a Grant Hill or a KG would. Just adding a guy like that would be priceless to this team. At first I thought Camby would be the right trade, but now I’m not so sure. Maybe Coach D is at his best when Stat is at center? Our losing has coincided with a lot more rebounds. Why is that? Maybe because we’re missing more shots? Maybe a vet wing like Dunleavy or Tay Prince would help? Even a Troy Murphy. Jimmy C Post author February 12, 2011 at 11:43 am totti: I prefere a decade of shit where at least dolan’s money has been largely spent…. Spending the money you have is one thing. Spending it stupidly, and just because you can, is an entirely different matter. I for one would rather a time machine fall directly on my head than have it take me back to 2005-2008. Nick C. February 12, 2011 at 12:48 pm Ditto to what Brian said about these endlessly histrionic articles. I’m waiting for the first article you seriously look at what the team would be if their Gallo Fields Chandler and more for Melo went down. I mean really those two can get 60-60 every night and then what. NateRobinson February 12, 2011 at 12:57 pm @ 3 Gallo is 22 he turns 23 by next season! We have obviously hit a shooting rut. Our offense is not nearly as fluid as it was when we had the winning streak. The PnR is literally non existent with STAT and teams are out-hustling us with fastbreak points and tip ins. We seemingly cannot put 4 consistent quarters. Last night was a prime example of it, our defense was disruptive in the 1st but afterwards every Laker got open shots. Plus our TOs really hurt us and we never recovered. But at the end of the day, its our defensive focus that’s hurting us. Teams just get the looks that they want every single game. danvt February 12, 2011 at 1:51 pm We definitely need to improve. We probably need to upgrade our talent. Carmelo may not be as good as LBJ but I think, but, from what I’ve read, he’s undervalued on this board because of his relatively low FG percentages, perceived lack of defense, pedestrian rebounding, etc. Still, his teams have been winners and this, to me is the most important stat. I would give up more to get him now. It’d be fun to see it happen So, I can’t help but think Carmelo would. Improve the team immensely, but not at any cost. Particularly, not at the cost of the possibility of cap space for 2012 and a shot at Chris Paul. I think our situation is good, Melo or not, because we are in a position to upgrade and that can take many delightful forms. We have cap space and assets that people want. My worry is that Dolan will get rid of Walsh if he doesn’t make a trade for Carmelo right now. gbaked February 12, 2011 at 2:03 pm Sports tend to be good for making metaphors about life. Its kind of a pressure cooker for human emotions. The same can be said for sports media. The same issues that face our national media, are tenfold in sports. Lack of accountability (my sources tell me that LBJ will be going to chicago, no miami, no NY, no he is staying in cle… well… i dont have sources but I still have my job and nobody seems to care) and a goal of hits rather then accuracy is what is wrong with so many things. Screw the media. They can whine and complain all they want. They will do so right until the knicks are where they want them to be. They will hold no accountability to what they said previously, but will take all the credit in the world if one thing they said months ago turns out to be right. Donnie is doing this right. We know it, he knows it… thats all that matters. Tufumbo February 12, 2011 at 2:39 pm im appalled as a knicks fan that you would rather go back to expensive knicks teams with no future or direction over a young and exciting team. This is really the first year of MDA since the past two seasons were throw away seasons (and everyone knew and accepted that) with no goal other then to get cap flexibility. This is a young team with no real size, very little depth , and poor defense so tough stretches are going to happen, don’t trash everything already. Every team goes through a slump in a regular season that is way too long. The All-Star break and some rest will be good for them. This team is very young team and are still a work in progress, but the fact that they ARE better and finally have direction is enough for me for this season. This is just the beginning of the long road from out of the darkness. Teams dont rise from the gutter over night. Give it some time NateRobinson February 12, 2011 at 3:05 pm Tufumbo: This is a young team with no real size, very little depth , and poor defense so tough stretches are going to happen, don’t trash everything already. The size can be attributed to MDA preferring tweeners, that is why we have Extra E instead of Barron or any type of big. Also can be attributed to MDAs negligence of size in his bench (Randolph happens to be a terrific ‘bounder at 6’11”). Depth can be attributed to MDAs love for a short rotation. There is no real step off from TD, Extra E, Randolph, Rautins, Mason. Poor defense is what he teaches, unless he finds D’Antoni type of players who can shoot threes like Ray Allen, rebound like Barkley and defend like Bowen all while being small and quick we will not defend. I remember watching the open practice and notice how Patrick Ewing Jr blocked STAT 3 times and play good defense. STAT mauled the rest of the Knicks like schoolgirls and Extra E did nothing but give effort and hit the occasional 3. Thats all he needed to pick Shawne over Junior.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line242
__label__cc	0.677818	0.322182	Milk in tea could prevent weight loss Posted by Elizebath Bijoy Thursday, March 31, 2011 0 comments Beware, especially if you want to lose weight - don't add milk to tea, or you would pile on the pounds. Scientists have discovered that tea contains high levels of compounds that help reduce the amount of fat but proteins found in cows' milk neutralise this fat-fighting ability. New research has shown that the compounds, called theaflavins and thearubigins, prevent obesity when given to rats that were also on a high-fat diet. Researchers now believe this could explain why people in Britain appear not to benefit from the healthy affects of tea despite being among the world's biggest consumers of the beverage, the Telegraph reports. Devajit Borthakur, a scientist at the Tea Research Association at Jorhat in the Indian state of Assam, said: 'When tea is taken with milk, theaflavins and thearubigins form complexes with the milk protein, which causes them to precipitate.' 'It means that we don't get the health benefit from these compounds nor from milk protein. Therefore, it is always advised to take tea without milk.' A study by scientists in Japan, reveals that extracts from tea leaves inhibit the absorption of fat in the guts of rats being fed high-fat diet. These rats also had less fat tissue on their bodies and lower fat content in their livers, reports the Journal of Nutrition. Hiroaki Yajima, a scientist with the Kirin Beverage Company in Japan who carried out the Japanese research, said: 'Black tea extracts may prevent diet-induced obesity by inhibiting intestinal lipid absorption Health tips \| \| Longer breast feeding helps babies develop bigger brains Posted by Elizebath Bijoy 0 comments London: Breast feeding for longer stretches could be a safe way to help babies develop bigger brains. A three-year study of 128 mammal species, including humans, found that longer pregnancies and longer suckling times produce bigger brains in babies, possibly leading to a higher IQ. The study suggests that women who breastfeed their babies for up to three years following nine-month pregnancies have a long period of dependency because it is required to support the growth of 1,300cc brains, the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports. But animals such as fallow deer, which have roughly the same body weight as humans, are pregnant for just seven months with a suckling period of up to six months. This results in 220cc brains, six times smaller than human brains, according to the Daily Mail. Robert Barton, anthropologist from Britain's Durham University, said: 'We have discovered that brain growth in babies is linked to the amount of time and energy mothers invest in their child.' 'There is a strong relationship between specific issues in the way a mother invests in producing her offspring and a link between growth of the foetus and length of gestation.' The scientists focused on brain and body size, maternal investment and life history variables in mammals such as gorillas and whales. Pregnancy \| \| Eat right for a glowing skin Posted by Elizebath Bijoy Tuesday, March 29, 2011 0 comments Most of us would like to have glowing skin, especially as we get older. The good news is that one doesn't have to wait until summer to catch some healthy sun rays. A recent research suggests that tucking into vegetables and fruits gives you a healthy glow and makes you more attractive than through a suntan. The study, led by Dr Ian Stephen at The University of Nottingham, showed that people who eat more portions of fruit and vegetables per day have a more goldencomplexion, thanks to carotenoids. Dr Jamuna Pai, cosmetic physician, says, "Plants are packed with the goodness of high-quality nutrients, which are beneficial for immunity andskin repair. Plant foods contain thousands of other compounds in addition to complex carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals that are known as phytonutrients, which are beneficial to humans." For a healthy, natural glow, a daily minimum intake of five portions of fruit and vegetables is a must. Proper nutrition comes from a healthy diet. Dr Eileen Canday, chief dietician, Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai, suggests, "Colour your food with red, orange green, white and purple. If you have pink grapefruits, watermelons or red tomatoes, you are consuming lycopene. Besides, berries and grapes also give you red-purple anthocyanins and polyphenols. If orange makes you feel good, then freak out on carrots, mangoes or pumpkins rich in B- carotene. White is the colour of onions and garlic, which contain flavonoids." Mickey Mehta, holistic fitness guru, warns, "Don't neglect your veggies as it is because of them that you are flaunting your silky tresses or youthful complexion. Vegetables not only add colour to your skin making it porcelain-like, but also help in cleansing your system." Do your skin and body a favour and only eat fresh foods. Fresh fruits in summer like plums, peaches or nectarines are rich sources of phytonutrients and antioxidants, says homeopath Dr Shreepad Khedekar. Dark green leafy vegetables like spinach are the main source of antioxidants. Eat carrots, tomatoes, sweet potato, kale, broccoli, spinach and red peppers. Advises Dr Khedekar, "Vegetable juices can be made using spinach, beetroot and amla, among others." Lice no more! Is your hair laced with lice? Lisa Antao tells you how to deal with this problem It's a common problem amongst children and teenagers but sometimes even adults get affected by it. The problem sometimes is confused with dandruff. We're talking about headlice. There are numerous shampoo advertisements promising to deal with dandruff but rarely for headlice. Read on to find out more on this problem... Headlice or louse are tiny wingless parasites biologically known as pediculus humanus capitis that inhabit and thrive on hair and the scalp. They feed on very small amount of blood that they draw from the scalp. Dermatologist Dr Prakash Seth says, "Head lice problem occurs more in women than men, because women usually have longer hair. Loose long hair is more susceptible to lice. And managing a lice infestation is more difficult on a long-haired person, as it is difficult to comb, inspect and treat." How do they spread? Headlice are passed from person to person by direct contact with the hair of an infested person. Cosmetic dermatologist and trichologist, Dr Sadhana Deshmukh says, "Anyone who comes in close contact with someone who already has head lice, or even their contaminated clothing and other belongings, such as hats/caps, scarves, coats, sports uniforms, or hair ribbons is at risk of an infestation too." Personal contact is common during play and sports activities, and at school/college, home, slumber parties, or camps amongst children and teenagers. One should refrain from using infested combs, brushes, or towels and avoid lying on a bed, couch, pillow, carpet, or keep away from stuffed animals that has recently been in contact with a person with lice. Can they damage the hair and scalp? Trichologist Dr Apoorva Shah says, "Lice aren't dangerous and don't spread any particular disorder, but are contagious and cause itching that can be terribly annoying and embarrassing. Lice bite may cause one's scalp to become itchy and inflamed, and persistent scratching may lead to skin irritation and even infection. It can lead to a bacterial infection which causes the skin to become red and tender and also involves crusting and oozing of pus along with swollen lymph glands." Dr Deshmukh says that the most common symptom of infestation is itching on the head which normally intensifies three to four weeks after the initial infestation. Head lice infect hair on the head. They are easiest to see on the neck and over the ears. Tiny eggs on the hair look like flakes of dandruff. However, instead of flaking off the scalp, they stay put. Typically, only the head or scalp of the person gets infested, although in some cases lice can occur in other hairy parts of the body, like eyebrow, underarm, legs and genital hair. Headlice can also have repercussions on one's social relationships, as this problem can be embarrassing. People tend to avoid coming in close contact with people suffering from headlice. Also, in some cases, children and teenagers in school/college could get teased by their peers. People also tend to question the hygiene habits of one infected with headlice. In order to deal with headlice proper care of hair and scalp should be taken. Dr Seth recommends the following remedies: - Wash your hair everyday. You may shampoo it once in three days, but be sure to pass water through the hair daily. While washing the hair, massage at the roots of the hair, and not at the tips of the hair as it serves no purpose. - Always wash your hair after you return home from a long journey where you have been in contact with crowded places. - Clothing and bed linen can be washed in hot water with detergents. - Objects like combs and brushes, hair bands and clips should be soaked in hot water or medicated shampoo, or both, or they could simply be replaced. - Intense itching of the scalp. - Small, red bumps on the scalp, neck, and shoulders (bumps may become crusty and ooze). - Tiny white specks (eggs, or nits) on the bottom of each hair that are hard to get off. Studies reveals \| \| Tap away your negative emotions Posted by Elizebath Bijoy Monday, March 28, 2011 0 comments When businesswoman Janet Thomson walked away from her marriage after 25 years, she was wracked with guilt. But she was able to free herself from the past with an extraordinarily simple technique — tapping. Here, Janet, 48, from Leicestershire, explains ... Driving past the beautiful home where I had raised my children, I expected to be overwhelmed with emotion. There was so much to remember: my boys running endless races on the lawn. My daughter wheeling her dolls' pram up and down the drive. The summer parties. The birthdays and Christmas celebrations. The list was endless and every memory was a reminder of what I had lost. My home, with its six bedrooms, its pool room and breathtaking conservatory, now belonged to strangers. I had been forced to sell it after a divorce. But while I could remember every detail of my former life, I was amazed to discover that I didn't feel even the faintest flicker of emotion. Every bad feeling had evaporated. I could look back on my old life and all the trauma of my divorce — without a single tear. In fact, the only thing I felt was immense relief to know I had cured myself of heartache. I had managed this not by months of soul-searching and expensive therapy but by the simplest means imaginable. I literally tapped my emotions away. Simple yet powerful I'm no fool — I'm a successful businesswoman with a masters degree. But I am convinced that, while it may sound absurdly simple, Thought Field Therapy (TFT) is a powerful tool. Tapping various parts of your body while concentrating on the event that's troubling you, you eliminate the effect of those memories. When you have a trauma, you hold a memory of that trauma in your body in the form of a code that your body uses to re-assess the negative feelings. These codes are stored in your meridian system — the pathways through which energy flows in the body. The codes lie dormant until activated by certain situations or thoughts. Then they open like a computer file. The negative thoughts often trigger physical symptoms such as headaches, stress or increased heart rate. Using TFT, you can collapse the code and all the symptoms disappear. When my husband Martin and I moved into our dream home outside an idyllic Leicestershire village in 1992, life could not have been better. I had landed a job helping diet guru Rosemary Conley establish her fitness classes around Britain. I earned £43,000 (Dh255,364) — a fortune in those days. I adored my job. I have a degree in nutrition and exercise science, and am passionate about promoting good health. Martin, 48, ran his own tiling business and together we juggled caring for our three children: Harry, then 8, Jack, 6, and Lauren, 2. But, happy as things seemed, strains were beginning to show in our marriage. Quite simply, Martin wasn't as driven as I am. We rowed endlessly about the smallest things. But we never had the courage to admit the real problem. We weren't making each other happy. I retrained as a life coach. It was through my training that I discovered TFT in 2004. I was on a two-day counselling course in London. The trainer asked us all to think a happy thought. I couldn't find even one. All I remembered was the huge family row the previous day. In tears, I made my excuses to one of the assistants and prepared to leave. She asked if I could spare five minutes to try a technique she thought might help. To my relief, she didn't ask what was troubling me but asked me to think about the problem — whatever it was. Then she started tapping specific points on my face and hands. As she did so, i felt a shift physically and emotionally as the almost paralysing negative emotions fell away, like a snake shedding its skin. It was extraordinary. You use the first two fingers of either hand to gently tap specific points related to the different meridians. For anxiety, you tap three points in succession, under your eye, under your arm and your collar bone. Ten minutes later, I was able to talk about the row objectively. The tears and shaking were gone. I even tried to get the feeling back, thinking perhaps it was just because she had distracted me. I couldn't. Intriguing practice I was so intrigued, I enrolled on a specialist course and began to practise on friends. As I got better, the success rate improved. I know most people will be sceptical — I was at first. However, I never realised just how valuable tapping would prove to me until our marriage finally ended. For all the relief, I also felt devastated and a terrible, crushing guilt. The only thing that kept me going was tapping. Each time I received an unpleasant legal letter or saw Lauren's pained face, I would sit down and tap. Amazing discovery The practice was created 40 years ago by psychology professor Dr Roger Callahan. He discovered he could collapse negative emotions by tapping his patients' meridian points. He used tapping to treat everything from needle phobias to grief and found it is useful for eradicating anxiety. Tapping has no negative side-effects. It's not about eradicating memories, it's about eradicating the effect of those memories. So, although closing the door for the last time on my family home in August 2006 was painful, I tapped all the emotions away. I have moved to a cottage a few miles away and regularly pass my old home without feeling any sorrow. It's the same when Martin and I meet. The best way I can explain it is that I feel aware of the absence of any negative emotion. The great comfort is that tapping is at my fingertips whenever I need it. Access the thought you want to eliminate. Make a picture in your mind of the event or what you fear might happen. Remember any sounds connected with it. Or focus on the feelings you get in your body when you think about the problem. You must hold this thought the whole time you tap. If you have a dog phobia and are thinking about what you are cooking for dinner, you won't eliminate the anxiety. Assess the level of emotion before and after the treatment to gauge your progress. Use a scale from one to ten — with ten being the strongest. Holding the thought, tap the following points with your first two fingers for eight to ten seconds. Don't count — it doesn't matter if you tap for too long. Side of the hand, under the nose, eyebrow, undereye, underarm, collarbone. Tap the gamut spot — between the small knuckle and the ring-finger knuckle on the back of your hand continually and do a slow blink. Keeping your head still, look down to the right, then to the left, then make a circle with the eyes. Then circle the eyes the other way around. Now hum a few notes out loud. This isolates the right, visual, side of the brain. Count out loud to five. Hum again. Repeat all the tapping points above. Using the scale one to ten, assess your emotion. It will probably have gone down. If so, repeat the process. If you find the thought or emotion has changed, hold the new thought. Early-warning diabetes test hope Posted by Elizebath Bijoy Sunday, March 27, 2011 0 comments Experts believe a simple blood test could spot diabetes up to 10 years before the first symptoms of the disease occur. By looking at levels of five amino acids in the blood US researchers were able to correctly identify people who went on to develop type 2 diabetes. Ultimately the Harvard team hope a test like this could be used to screen for type 2 diabetes, Nature Medicine says. Early detection can help prevent related complications like blindness. Risk prediction Dr Victoria King, head of research at Diabetes UK, said: "Early diagnosis and effective management of type 2 diabetes are crucial in reducing the risk of developing diabetes complications, such as heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, blindness and amputation. "Therefore finding ways to identify those who are at risk of developing the condition are important. This research, in future, could lead to ways to help us identify those at risk as well as giving us new insights into how and why type 2 diabetes develops." The risk of developing type 2 diabetes is strongly linked to being overweight, leading a sedentary lifestyle and eating an unhealthy diet. In many cases the condition can be prevented or delayed by maintaining a healthy weight and lifestyle, Dr King said. Aside from keeping an eye on a person's weight and blood sugar, doctors have had little else they can use to identify at risk individuals. The test used in the study looks for levels of small molecules in the blood. Among the 2,422 health volunteers tested, 201 later went on to develop diabetes. And the researchers found that the early blood tests readily identified these patients years before they developed any symptoms. Those with the highest levels of amino acids in their blood were five times as likely to develop diabetes within the following 12 years of the study. Dr Robert Gerszten and colleagues who carried out the work say more studies are needed before the test could be recommended for general use. Diabetes is a condition where the amount of glucose in your blood is too high because the body cannot use it properly Type 1 diabetes develops when the insulin-producing cells in the body have been destroyed and the body is unable to produce any insulin Type 2 diabetes develops when the body can still make some insulin, but not enough, or when the insulin that is produced does not work properly Type 2 diabetes accounts for between 85-95% of all people with diabetes and is treated with a healthy diet and increased physical activity. Some may also need medicaton and/or insulin Antibiotics in meat harmful to health Posted by Elizebath Bijoy Saturday, March 26, 2011 0 comments With its blunt warning that antibiotics in meat "pose a serious threat to public health", the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has acknowledged what many scientists have been saying for a long time. For years, evidence has been mounting that extensive use of antibiotics in livestock, particularly to promote growth or prevent the spread of disease in crowded pens, has resulted in the development of drug-resistant bacteria. The issue is not that the meat itself is infected or that consumers are ingesting antibiotics with their protein but that the overuse of antibiotics is diminishing the efficacy of crucial medications needed for human use. Estimates are that 70,000 Americans each year die from infections that once could be treated with common medications. The European Union has banned the use of antibiotics in livestock except to treat illness but similar efforts in the US have stalled. So recently, when the FDA issued a "draft guidance" urging meat producers to employ antibiotics judiciously, asking them to voluntarily limit their use to instances of "medical necessity" or to administer them with the oversight of a veterinarian, it was a step forward. Sort of. However, the draft has no teeth and proposes no regulations that might become law. What's more, it doesn't discourage the prophylactic use of antibiotics in livestock to prevent disease, which is a big part of the problem. It should have allowed the use of antibiotics only to treat animals that are sick. It is difficult to tell where all the stakeholders stand. The American Veterinary Medical Association welcomed the FDA's action and vowed to work with the agency. The National Cattlemen's Beef Association issued a statement asserting that the causes behind drug-resistant infections are complex and solutions should also take into account human misuse of antibiotics. It's harmful to public health to use antibiotics preventively or to promote growth. No longer is the question whether antibiotics in meat farming should be curtailed but how best to go about doing it. Source: http://gulfnews.com/life-style/health/antibiotics-in-meat-harmful-to-health-1.718477 Marmite can cure diabetes London: Marmite, a brown-coloured spread made from yeast, could save the lives of millions of people �because it contains a vitamin that protects against some potentially fatal heart conditions and diabetes, scientists have claimed. Tests show that vitamin B1, which occurs naturally in yeast-based foods, may prove to be a potential lifesaver for �people with diabetes, reports express.co.uk. The discovery could offer fresh hope to people who have diabetes and face an increased risk of heart problems. Scientists from Bristol University have shown that a form of vitamin B1 protects heart cells from damage. Although the tests have only been carried out in mice, they hope that further trials will show that the compound - also known as benfotiamine - can also work in humans. Paolo Madeddu who led the study, said: 'Supplementation with benfotiamine from early stages of diabetes improved the �survival and healing of the hearts of diabetic mice that have had heart attacks.' 'We conclude that benfotiamine could be a novel treatment for people with diabetes, and the next step in this research will be testing whether similar �effects are seen in humans,' he said. Health Secrets \| \| Mobile use in pregnancy ups risk of kid's bad behaviour London: Pregnant women who regularly use mobile phones are likely to up the risk of bad behaviour in their children. If their offspring then start using the devices at an early age, the chances of problems rise to 50 percent, according to researchers. They found that those exposed to mobile phones in the womb had a 30 percent rise in behavioural difficulties at the age of seven, reports the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, which also mirrored an earlier study by the survey team. Leeka Kheifets from University of California in Los Angeles who led the study said both sets of results 'demonstrated that cell phone use was associated with behavioural problems at age seven years.' Those exposed before birth and in their childhood were 50 percent more likely to have behavioural problems than those exposed to neither, according to the Daily Mail. Children who used mobiles but were not exposed in the womb were 20 percent more likely to display abnormal behaviour. However, some British scientists were sceptical, saying the findings may be due to lifestyle factors rather than mobiles. In the study of 29,000 youngsters, mothers provided details of their lifestyle, diet and environment during and after pregnancy. What you eat can trigger mental illness Washington: A change in diet is known to ease abnormal behaviour in the mentally ill. But a study in the US shows that diet might also trigger the onset of mental illness. Joseph Garner, Purdue University associate professor of animal sciences, fed mice a diet high in sugar and tryptophan that was expected to reduce abnormal hair-pulling, the journal Nutritional Neuroscience reported. Instead, mice that were already ill worsened or started scratching themselves. The seemingly healthy mice also developed the same abnormal behaviour, according to a Purdue release. 'This strain of mouse is predisposed to being either a scratcher or a hair-puller. Giving them this diet brought out those predispositions,' Garner said. Garner studies trichotillomania, a disorder in which people pull out their hair. The disorder, which disproportionately occurs in women, is thought to affect 2-4 percent of the population. Mice that pull their hair out have been shown to have low levels of serotonin activity in the brain. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that affects mood and impulses and is made from the amino acid tryptophan, which is found in diets. Garner hypothesised that increasing serotonin activity in the brain might cure or reduce trichotillomania. The problem is that tryptophan often doesn't cross the barrier between blood and the brain because other amino acids essentially block the door for tryptophan. Garner modified a mouse diet to increase simple carbohydrates, or sugars, and tryptophan. The sugars trigger a release of insulin, which causes muscles to absorb those other amino acids and gives tryptophan a chance to make it to the brain. Using eight times as much sugar and four times as much tryptophan, Garner observed a doubling of serotonin activity in the brain. But the mice that barbered did not get better. 'We put them on this diet, and it made them much, much worse,' Garner said. Constipation more likely in kids avoiding green diets London : Children who avoid greens in their diet are 13 times more likely to be constipated, says a new study. The research also found that drinking less than two glasses of water daily increases the risk significantly. Constipation is an often painful condition when bowel movements are infrequent or hard to pass and can lead to more serious bowel obstructions, reports the Journal of Clinical Nursing. Moon Fai Chan at the National University of Singapore and Yuk Ling Chan from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University studied the dietary habits of 383 primary school children in Hong Kong, according to the Daily Mail. The team found that seven percent of the eight to 10-year-olds had 'functional constipation' - which is constipation without a physical or psychological cause. Those who did not like fruits or vegetables were 13 times more likely to struggle in the toilets while children who did not drink enough water were eight times more at risk. Chan said: 'A number of studies have suggested that functional constipation is getting worse among children.' 'It is estimated that functional constipation accounts for 95 percent of cases of constipation affecting children once they pass infancy.' Does cinnamon beat heart disease, diabetes Posted by Elizebath Bijoy Wednesday, March 23, 2011 0 comments London: Could cinnamon help prevent diabetes and heart disease? A study indicates that a cinnamon-water solution contains anti-oxidants that can slash chances of getting either disease by up to 23 percent. The Centre for Applied Health Sciences researchers in Fairlawn, Ohio, US, studied a group of 'pre-diabetic' obese people. Pre-diabetes preceds full-blown diabetes, reports the Daily Mail. Half the participants were given 250 mg of water-soluble cinnamon to take daily, the other half had a placebo. Sufferers become resistant to higher-than-normal levels of insulin -- the hormone used to regulate blood-sugar levels -- produced by the pancreas. Blood was collected at the start and end of the survey, published by the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, with cinnamon drinkers recording a 13 to 23 percent increase in antioxidants linked to lowering blood-sugar levels. Richard Anderson, who led the study for the US Department of Agriculture, said that more research was needed into the effectiveness of cinnamon juice in preventing diabetes and heart disease. Turmeric helps fight cancer London: Curcumin, an extract of root turmeric, could destroy chemotherapy-resistant cancer cells and help fight the disease. This could improve the effectiveness of chemotherapy and also help prevent the condition from returning. Researchers at the University of Leicester in Britain have been using curcumin to target chemo-resistant cells. The aim is to use the extract in colorectal tumour tissue, which kills far more than 600,000 people every year and is the third leading cause of cancer deaths in the western world, reports the Daily Mail. Lead researcher Karen Brown, said: 'Following treatment for cancer, small populations of cancer cells often remain which are responsible for disease returning. These cells appear to have different properties to the bulk of cells within a tumour, making them resistant to chemotherapy.' 'Previous laboratory research has shown that curcumin not only improves the effectiveness of chemotherapy but also reduce the number of chemo-resistant cells, which has implications in preventing the disease from returning. 'We hope that our work will lead to a better understanding of the mechanisms through which curcumin targets resistant cells in tumours. It should also help us identify those patient populations who are most likely to benefit from curcumin treatment in the future,' Brown added. Turmeric, part of the ginger family, is best known as an orange/yellow powder used as a spice for curries but has been used for medicinal purposes for centuries. Its potential use in Alzheimer's, arthritis and other disorders is also being investigated around the world. Fellow researcher Lynne Howells said money from Hope Against Cancer, which funds research fellowships at the university, had been key to furthering the research. Diet Zone, Health Secrets \| \| Humble red onion may be good for heart London: Red onion, commonly used in Indian and Middle Eastern cuisine, could help prevent heart disease. Scientists have discovered that it helps remove bad cholesterol - which can cause heart attacks and strokes - from the body. At the same time, red onions retain the body's good cholesterol, which helps protect against heart disease. Scientists in Hong Kong fed crushed red onions to hamsters which had all been put on a high cholesterol diet, reports the Daily Mail. They found that after eight weeks, levels of bad cholesterol, or low density lipoprotein (LDL), had dropped by an average of 20 percent. But over the same period, there was no reduction in the hamsters' high cholesterol levels, also known as high density lipoprotein (HDL). Zhen Yu Chen, who led the research at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said: 'Despite extensive research on onions, little is known of how their consumption interacts with human genes and proteins involved in cholesterol metabolism within the body.' 'Our study was, therefore, undertaken to characterise the interaction of onions with enzymes in an attempt to explore the underlying cholesterol-lowering mechanism,' Zhen said. 'This study is the first of its kind to investigate the interaction of red onions with biological functions. This results support the claim that the regular consumption of onion reduces the risk of coronary heart disease.' Although white onions are by far the most popular type in Britain, red onions are widely used in India, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. They are far sweeter than the white variety and are often used raw in salads. Diet Zone, Health tips \| \| Paralysed patient gets stem cells to walk again London: A paralysed patient has become the first person to receive a shot of human embryonic stem cells to help him walk again. Doctors believe stem cells will help nerves in a newly-damaged spinal cord regenerate before the disability becomes permanent. The patient has had millions of stem cells injected into the site of his injury in an effort to find a revolutionary cure, according to the US firm carrying out the hugely controversial experiment. The study has been described by University College London professor Chris Mason as 'the dawn of the Stem Cell Age'. It is likely to reignite a fiery debate over the ethics of the treatment, which uses cells derived from three-to-five-day old fertilised embryos discarded by in vitro fertilisation (IVF) doctors, the Daily Mail reported. It offers hope to patients suffering from devastating spinal injuries and blindness - the two specific areas being targeted by the US tests. Researchers are also looking to unlock the potential of stem cells for new ways to treat cancer, Parkinson's disease and a host of other illnesses. In animal experiments, paralysed rats were able to walk again after being injected with the cells, but the effect on humans is still unknown. The landmark test at a hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, by US biotech giant Geron comes after America's Food and Drug Administration eased restrictions on stem cell research. Geron president Thomas Okarma said it will take some time to get the results. 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__label__cc	0.593218	0.406782	ENGR 3390 SPIRAL 1 REPORT: Project Turtle-duck by Juan Carlos del Rio, Jayce Chow, Christina Segar, Paul Nadan, Tony Kim, Shopia Nielsen For this project we were tasked with creating an autonomous, robotic bio-inspired,vehicle in the span of 4-5 weeks in teams of 5-6 people from various disciplines. The success or failure of any vehicle would be judged by the following metrics: It would have to be able to float fair and level without assistance, move under its own power, be able to travel in a straight line with a range of ± 1ft, turn to avoid obstacles and continue in a straight line three times, have clean wiring, and be aesthetically pleasing. Since this was the first in a series of spirals of increasing complexity the vehicles would have to be relatively simple in order for the team to be able to concentrate on integration and assembly rather than complicated electro-mechanical systems. Additionally, in order to foment learning, every member of the team would have to take part in some way in the design, fabrication, and testing of each system. MECHANICAL SUB-SYSTEM The overarching theme for this design spiral was simplicity. A simpler design would allow the team to focus on making a well integrated/ working final product rather than debugging complicated systems. Therefore, for our design we attempted to follow this underlying principle by using a standard boat hull shape (rather than going for a more bio-inspired design), having a single propulsion nozzle, and steering with a differential steering system that was easy to control. The propulsion system for the duck consisted of a 500 Gph bilge pump that would take in water from the front of the boat. A high flex 1 in PVC tube would then run the water from the exit nozzle of the pump to a rudder in the rear to provide some thrust vectoring. We ran the pump at 8 V rather than its full 12V to decrease the output so that it would propel the Turtle-duck at slow speeds decreasing the power consumption and minimize the effect of hydrodynamic instabilities in the system. The steering system for this robot was comprised of two main systems: the vector thrust and the flipper differential. As we previously mentioned the thrust provided by the pump can be directed to aid turning. The maximum angle the rudder could achieve was 10° either direction from center. Therefore to ensure a tight turning circle we added the wings as steering. Figure 4 shows how a single wing can be lowered in order to create drag in the desired turning direction. By doing so the center point of the wing becomes the center of the turning circle and thus the turning circle is significantly decreased. This also has the effect of significantly lowering the speed of the duck thus reducing the possibility of hydrodynamic instability hampering our ability to continue in a straight line after the turn. The hull was designed in two sections and the overall shape was meant to be streamlined while providing ample buoyancy. The top of the hull features small pockets for the servos and flippers and a large pocket for the tupperware to nestle into. A single large bore in the center accommodates the bilge pump and a small protrusion allows for the pump’s cables to be routed to the electronics box. On the bottom side a channel was cut out to route the rudder nozzle from the pump’s off center exit to the the rudder. Six holes were also placed to aid with alignment between the two halves using dowel pins. The bottom half of the hull has a cutout at the front to serve as a water scoop to the bottom of the pump. Five pockets were included to help lower the center of gravity of the system below the center of buoyancy using stainless steel ballast plates. Before gluing the two halves together the hull was covered in a layer of fiberglass and a separate layer of epoxy to stop the foam from breaking during the assembly process. The entire hull was then spray painted yellow to give it a duck like appearance. The hull then attaches to a wooden baseboard using countersunk ¼ -20 screws. To ensure the boat would float fair and level the we performed some preliminary ballast calculations. The natural layout of the heaviest components such as the pump and the electronics box helped distribute the mass fairly evenly front to rear. We then added ballast plates to help compensate for any discrepancies between the center of mass and center of buoyancy along the length of the robot and lower the center of mass. We assumed that due to the symmetry of the design we would be dead center on the lateral weight distribution. However, since the weight inside the electronic box was not distributed evenly and was above our center of mass the robot toppled sideways in the water. A steel keel approximately 1.2 ft x 6 in was then added to help stabilize the hull in the water. By doing so we also added weight and lowered the center of the mass. Center Of mass Center of Buoyancy Mass/Buoyancy Potential 3.13 kg 4.44 kg (1.42 FOS) Location (X,Y,Z) mm (- 185.38 , - 41.19 , 0) (-179.33, -39.51,0) Ultimately there were several issues with the implementation of our mechanical system. The propulsion of the boat worked fairly well and propelled out duck at reasonable speeds. However, as our robot picked up speed it would begin to around a center line increasing in amplitude with every turn and eventually turn away from the center. We believe that this instability was caused by the keel not being epoxied centered on the bottom the hull. It was centered enough that it kept the duck floating level on the water but as the boat picked up speed the combination of the weight offset and the hydrodynamic effects it caused it to veer left. We attempted to correct this instability by adding flaps and compensating with the nozzle vector but the complex nature of the instability thwarted us. We then attempted to lower the output of the pump to stop us from reaching the velocity at which the instability presented itself but the pump would not run at lower voltages. Hence, we were not able to achieve a relatively straight line for any reasonable period of time or distance. Another system that did not quite function as expected was the rudder. Despite the tube being relatively compliant the servo still struggled to keep it straight and had to continuously fight against the tube’s natural bend. The steering system worked well overall, we doubled the surface area of the wings before demo to compensate for the short range of our IR sensors and it helped us turn tightly enough to narrowly avoid walls when the sensors we working properly. ELECTRICAL SUB-SYSTEM The project guidelines dictated that apart from powering our propulsion and steering systems the electrical system should aso include a number of safety measures such as a fuse for the battery and an E-stop switch that would cut power to all moving components. Additionally a blinking light would indicate that the control program was running and another solid light would indicate the electrical system was operational. In order to understand the power requirements of our system we created a power table (Figure 8) where we listed the most power consuming components of our system and ensured our battery would be able to power all of them simultaneously. Additionally using this table we calculated the estimated battery life of our system. The power table indicated that we would be able to power all of our electronics would be able to run with our battery for around 15 minutes. Battery life was a key feature as it would enable us to test for longer without having to open the electronics enclosure to swap out the battery. We used an expansion shield to connect the IR sensors, servos and the motor shield connected to our pump. In order to obtain our desired voltage to the arduino and the pump we used a DC/DC converter. In order to keep the wiring inside the electronics box we laser cut a thin piece of MDF to which we screwed down the arduino, DC/DC converter and strpped in the battery. We opted for a relatively shallow tupperware which meant that we had little clearance for the connectors so we had to allow the top of the tupperware to bulge up using a heat gun. Small slits in the corners of the box allowed connectors to run outside the enclosure for the servos, switches, pumps, and indicator lights. These slits were waterproofed after the fact to ensure the integrity of our sensitive electronics in the case of a rollover. The wires ran in between the baseboard and the hull where possible to minimize their visual impact on the final design. UTCOME Due to the tight packaging of the electronics it was hard to cleanly route all the wires cleanly, especially since were were testing and debugging up to demo day. The main issue in our system was the left IR sensor was faulty causing us to to turn into walls on our left side. Smaller issues also arose which we were not able to completely debug. The solid run light we installed would not turn on and so we had to to use the one on the arduino which was not very visible. The on/off switch worked well but the killswitch failed to cut power to all the systems it needed to causing handlers to get whacked by the wings sometimes. There were some issues powering the pump which would then cause the system to go haywire when the battery was low. SOFTWARE SUB-STEM The software was broken down into three key sections: sense, think, and act. Using these three principles an Arduino uno would then control the electrical and by extent the mechanical systems to avoid the walls and travel across the pool efficiently. Figure 10 demonstrates the basic structure the code used by the turtle-duck to perform these actions effectively. The sensing section of the code is relatively simple. In this section the arduino stores the values of the left and right IR range finders and both bump limit switched located in the bow ow the boat. The IR sensors return a range of values while the limit switches have high and low states. A debugging stage averages the five last values coming from the range finders to ensure the robot reacts to the walls/obstacles only and not to a random anomaly. With the inputs received from the sensors the code then proceeds to its thinking stage. The first thing it will check for is if it has crashed. If either of the limit switches have been activated it will shut off the bilge pump. If it did not E-stop then it will proceed to go straight if it was not within a turn timmer. The code then proceeds to determine if its got a wall coming up on either side. If it detects a wall consistently it will then inform the act loop which direction it should turn to (logically the opposite direction of the wall its detection). When the think section detects a wall the act code proceeds to turn by lowering the wing located on the side of the turn and turning the rudder servo in the same direction to vector the thrust in the appropriate direction. It does so for a set amount of time which we determined during testing. The act portion also ensures that within this loop the LED is blinked to indicate that the system is running. If the E-stop is triggered then the LED is set to high and will no longer blink. The software worked fairly well but it was hampered by the faulty measurements it obtained from the left IR range finder. It was also thrown for a loop when the voltage of the pump varied causing the flips to alternate. We attempted to correct some of the instability with a piece of code that would dip the right wing periodically to counteract and leftward motion caused by the keel but it was not useful. We had issues setting the center for the rudder as the value the servo believed to be center did not appear to be so. AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT The immediate area where we could make a massive improvement on this design is in the keel. Had we given this a little more forethought we could have routed a slot of the correct thickness at the center of the hull. Also had we placed the keel closer to the trailing edge it could have helped it center the boat along its path. We would also do well to switch the range finders to those used by other teams to allow for wall detection further out and more reliably. Spending some more time laying out the wire could have helped us debug our electrical issues such as the E-stop and the malfunctioning LED. Given a camera we could’ve actively corrected for deviation using a variation of the dip code we mentioned and the duck could go in a straight line by dipping its wings until it finds the center of a target.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line247
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__label__cc	0.673798	0.326202	The best case of provenance that I have ever seen is the Ramey Memo. We have a picture of Ramey holding the document, we have been able to interview the photographer, and we know the date on which it was taken because we have not only a dated document that was transmitted with the picture, but it appeared in newspapers around the country the next day. The only point of dispute is what the memo actually says. Parts of it are easily read and others are obscured to the point where it is sometimes just a best guess. If the memo could be completely deciphered it might provide a clue about what fell near Roswell and would be some of the best documentation available. This might be the first time that the entire negative' has been printed in decades. Photo copyright University of Texas at Arlington, Special Collections. The answer always seemed tantalizing close but just out of reach. The ability of equipment and software to pull information off the photograph just wasn’t good enough to do it in the 1990s. Scans had been made years ago from the original negatives but newer equipment and better software might have changed all that. Martin Dreyer, a researcher living in New Zealand, was interested in the memo and believed that modern equipment might be able to pull something new from the negative. He began to work toward that aim. For almost two years, he talked to various experts in photography, software and those who had great experience in recovering information hidden in photographic negatives. The consensus seemed to be that it would be possible to extract more and better information from the memo using a variety of these new and modern techniques. The next step was to learn if the University of Texas at Arlington Special Collections would allow the negative to be subjected to another round of scrutiny. Although interested in learning what might be found, they were also concerned with the process. They didn’t want to damage negative any further. The handling of it as well as subjecting it to scans in the past caused it to acquire some scratches and a little dirt but they were assured that this new analysis would be nondestructive. Brenda S. McClurkin was the contact at UTA and provided a great deal of assistance in getting the permissions to have the negative scanned using a variety of techniques and equipment. She arranged for the use of photographic microscope at UTA that could read the negative. At the end of April 2015 David Rudiak traveled to the Dallas – Fort Worth area and to the University of Texas at Arlington. Working with those at UTA, as well as some independent experts in photography and forensic analysis, they made dozens of new scans under a variety of conditions hoping to clarify the memo enough that a consensus of the wording could be formed. Some of the letters were lost in the debris on the negative and in the fact that the memo was slightly folded and parts of it were not directly facing the camera. Had J. Bond Johnson, the original photographer, been a foot closer the image might have been easily resolved. It had been hoped that the new techniques would produce immediate results but that didn’t happen. The photographic process used only cleaned up the memo marginally. There was no new and great revelation. That suggested that the application of software was needed, which, unfortunately could lead to claims that the image had been manipulated to produce specific results. After the disappointment with the results, and after seeing the results of the Roswell Slides Research Group’s success in reading the placard in front of the image on those slides, it was decided to open the analysis to a wider audience. The original idea had been to release the best results with all the information about the resolution of the image but now that moved into a new arena. With the cooperation of those at UTA, and at their suggestion, the best of the scans will be posted to various locations on the Internet, and as soon as possible to this blog along with the links to those other images. Again, the work has been less than spectacular. It seems that the image has been cleaned up to a small degree but not to the point where what are considered the critical areas could be read. Work is continuing, but it is painstakingly slow and as mentioned, disappointing. The hope now is that if the images are put up in open source that the same thing that happened with the (Not) Roswell Slides can be accomplished with the Ramey memo. Maybe someone will have the right software or have a new idea about the way to attack this that will allow the memo to be read. At the moment we are not much closer to a solution than we were. It is still just beyond our grasp. Labels: BG Roger Ramey, David Rudiak, J. Bond Johnson, Martin Dreyer, Ramey Memo, University of Texas Arlington Wow, I didn't realise there was another effort taking place to try and decipher the memo. Its so painfully tantalisingly close, if only a few more words could be deciphered. Thanks so much for your great work Kevin, these Roswell updates are fantastic. Call me naive but would it have been protocol or even wise to be holding a potentially top secret memo at a press conference in front of photographers? Stephen - That is precisely the argument I have raised in the past. It seems unlikely, but then before David Rudiak can remind us, there have been examples of highly classified documents in the hands of highly placed government officials that have been inadvertently photographed by the press compromising code words and classified information. There is enough easily readable on the memo that we know it relates to something at fort Worth and there is a mention of weather balloons. There is general agreement that the word disk appears on the document. It just seems if we could read what it said with any degree of agreement, we might find an answer to some of our questions... so the attempt is being made. We hope to resolve the disagreements but I fear that we're just a little short of being able to do that. If anyone including DR is convinced Ramey is holding a top secret memo at a press conference he ordered with an intention of a massive alien spaceship coverup then by reason of that logic one simply is endorsing "the druling idiot" scenario they claim isn't possible. Brice said... Brian said : "If anyone including DR is convinced Ramey is holding a top secret memo at a press conference he ordered with an intention of a massive alien spaceship coverup then by reason of that logic one simply is endorsing "the druling idiot" scenario they claim isn't possible." One would indeed believe it would be quite unlikely. Now as for me, Kevin said it all above. Since the work has already got started and that it showed there is some general agreement on "key words" contained in the memo, it appears to be a track worth pursuing, whatever it would lead to. One simple matter: If perchance this infamous piece of paper DOES contain information of cosmic importance (i.e. revealing the presence of ETs on our planet), is it not almost certain that it would have been retained and is still available somewhere, rather than just destroyed? What about an FOIA request for it, or has that already been done? Also, what about the myriad of other, related, cosmic documents that surely exist on this incident? Where might they be? Any ideas? Actually, this wasn't a press conference but a single reporter in the room at the time. It might be that what Ramey holds is nothing more than the teletype message that came over the news wire and that J. Bond Johnson brought with him. It might be something from the military message center that refers to what is being discussed by the news media at the time or it might be something of a more interesting nature. The thought is, if we can read it with any degree of certainty then we might find something interesting or we might learn that it has little real value. Do not understand the negativity here since we're attempting to resolve this one little mystery now... And FOIA has an Achilles Heel that is known as national security. By invoking national security those holding the documents are not required to release them. Of course there is always the question of which agency to FOIA, which office to FOIA and what specific question to be asked. Without that they can also claim that they hold no documents that are relevant to the claim. I agree with Kevin that the said document may contain information of interest to Roswell researchers, i.e. something that was perviously unknown. Therefore it possibly is worth deciphering, even now. It is this obsession with it being top secret and of 'cosmic importance' that really gets me. How can vital secrets of the universe be contained in this one flimsy piece of paper that an AF general has in his hand and is now nowhere to be found? What causes people to believe such preposterous nonsense? These people ought to concentrate on locating the real documents, if such exist. But of course they don't exist, do they? And no they would not still be top secret after nearly 7 decades either. Not on a topic of this nature and importance to science. Isaac Koi said... Kevin Randle wrote in response to Stephen Jackson : " before David Rudiak can remind us, there have been examples of highly classified documents in the hands of highly placed government officials that have been inadvertently photographed by the press compromising code words and classified information". For Stephen's benefit, I thought I'd just pop in here to give a link to one of the places where David Rudiak had previously posted "instances where people who were very security conscious blurted out high secrets or allowed sensitive material to be photographed" : http://kevinrandle.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/ramey-memo-and-barry-greenwood.html?showComment=1253319212749#c4936551920580185303 As stated before there are still problems even if the memo was fully deciphered: 1) "...you forwarded..." 2) "..victims..." 3) "..disk.." "Disk" doesn't mean "alien spaceship". "Victims", if it's even there, is not a word commonly used in military terminology for air crew of any kind, but is a word used by media quite frequently. And of course "...you forwarded.." Makes no sense at all. But it will be interesting to see if anything more becomes of it. No negativity here, I look forward to seeing some progress made with the Ramey memo. I just hope that whatever it says can be deciphered conclusively like the (Not) Roswell Slides placard otherwise we will be back to arguing different interpretations of the findings. Kevin - Thank you for the reply. I have another question for you if you don't mind. Are you ready for an answer if the memo yields one? I'm on the fence with what happened at Roswell. The fantastical idea that aliens crashed and a coverup ensued is captivating. The "Did they, didn't they" mystery keeps Roswell as a story I like to follow. Having an answer will kind of spoil it for me, unless of course the answer is ET's. How would such a revelation impact you and would it spoil the saga for you and feel something missing in ufology if it was something mundane? Jeanne Ruppert said... Ron Regehr and a coauthor (whose name I don't recollect) are reportedly nearing completion and publication of a book on Roswell in which the Ramey memo is further analyzed and which also includes analysis of an eighth photograph of debris in Ramey's office that has (possibly) not been analyzed before. Jeanne, I listened to an interview of Regehr on the Paracast. He is definitely an ET advocate for Roswell but I'm interested in what, if anything, he finds in regards to the photos or the Ramey memo. Jeanne Ruppert said "Ron Regehr and a coauthor (whose name I don't recollect) are reportedly nearing completion and publication of a book on Roswell in which the Ramey memo is further analyzed". The name of Ron Regehr's co-author that Jeanne could not recall is Neil Morris of the UK. Neil Morris used to have a UFO website, some of which can be recovered using the Wayback Machine's Internet Archive at https://web.archive.org/web/20001109181900/http://adm2.ph.man.ac.uk/ Also, Neil was a member of RPIT (the "Roswell Photo Interpretation Team") - which has a small website at: http://www.abcfield.force9.co.uk/rpit/index.html Paul Young said... CDA..."And no they would not still be top secret after nearly 7 decades either. Not on a topic of this nature and importance to science." As I've mentioned previously, it's not unusual for our governments to keep files secret from the public for decades. Only recently I was reading that there are plenty of files regarding the assassination of U.S President Kennedy that are locked away despite many request that they be open. The UK's "30 year rule" only applies when the "powers that be" LET them apply. (As we discussed on a previous thread here concerning the Whitechapel Murders...aka Jack the Ripper)...where the files have been kept secret since 1888. Basically, they can prevent us looking at files indefinitely. (and we, supposedly, live in the free world.) Need to Know is the name of the game CDA...and you and me, unfortunately, aren't deemed to have it. gilgamesh_says said... In regards to whether or not the General should be holding a "top secrete" memo while at a press conference I offer the following: It had always occurred to me that the reason he was holding that in his hand was because it contained specific instructions as to exactly what was supposed to take place at that press conference. In fact, the way in which he is holding it suggests he may be referring to it as a guide to make sure he hits certain talking points throughout the press conference. @ Gilgamesh Indeed a possibility. IMO the telegraph is something media related, not a TS goverment correspondence. albert said... "...The handling of it as well as subjecting it to scans in the past caused it to acquire some scratches and a little dirt but they were assured that this new analysis would be nondestructive...." I've developed and printed hundreds of negatives as a photo lab tech and photographer. This makes me wonder about the degree of expertise, if any, of the previous 'handlers'. IIRC, it's a 4 x 5 negative. They are quite easy to develop and handle, and still keep dirt and scratch free. I do look forward to the results. Can we say this new analysis is a direct result of the Not Roswell Slides Debacle? If so, then that's one positive result. . .. . .. _ _ _ Kevin wrote: (1 of 2) Again, the work has been less than spectacular. It seems that the image has been cleaned up to a small degree but not to the point where what are considered the critical areas could be read. I wouldn't word it quite that way. As far as I'm concerned, some critical areas HAVE been read, in that there is consensus (sometimes unanimous) on what the words are from about 10 different readers. Rather it is a case that that it can't be read to EVERYONE'S satisfaction. No matter what is done, I seriously doubt the skeptobunkers will ever acknowledge certain readings. (Of course the most critical ones being "THE VICTIMS OF THE WRECK" and "IN THE 'DISC'", though there are other important words.) In addition, rather than just going on human eyeballs and possible prejudice, I have done a very time-consuming read by computer with an optical character recognition program to rank relative probabilities of letters, and from that deduce the relative probability of proposed words. This is as close to an objective read as you are going to get, because computer programs don’t have emotional stakes in the outcome. One test of whether the program was working properly or not was to run controls on unanimously agreed upon works/phrases "WEATHER BALLOONS" and "AT FORT WORTH, TEX." For "WEATHER BALLOONS" (WB), 7 out of 8 letters tested in the top 2 probability letters. Only the "H" tested poorly (#13). "BALLOONS" wasn't as good, but still 3 letters tested #1 and one letter #3. Overall, 6 of 8 letters were in the top quarter (top 6 letters). Only one tested very poorly at #19 (the second very indistinct "O"). The overall average letter ranking from both words was 5.2. If you tossed out the two worst letters ("H" and "O") as not being representative, then the average letter ranking was 3.5. I got very similar results for "AT FORT WORTH, TEX." (AFWT) Average letter ranking was 4.8 and tossing out two poorly correlated outliers, the average was 3.1. What I found from experience was that with the Ramey memo, if 2/3’s or more of the letters tested in the top quartile and the overall average was about 5.0 or better, it should be treated as a serious candidate word if it made sense in the context of the letter and words around it. (Thus one can filter out improper parts of speech or words that make no sense in proper context.) Applying the same to the "VICTIMS" word, VICTIMS gave very similar results as WB and AFWT of 5.1 average and 2.8, if the the completely indistinct, unreadable 4th letter was tossed out as skewing the results of VICTIMS as well as most competing words. What about competing words that have been (seriously) proposed, including two very similar nonsense words used as controls (VIRGINS and VIOLINS)? Here are the relative rankings, first using all letters, including the 4th letter, then tossing out the 4th letter: All letters: VIRGINS (4.7), VICTIMS (5.1), FINDING (5.6), VENTING (5.7), REMAINS (8.3), VIOLINS (8.4), VIEWING (8.6) Without unreadable #4 letter: VICTIMS (2.8), VENTING (3.5), VIRGINS (4.7), FINDING (5.2), REMAINS (5.8), VIOLINS (6.2), VIEWING (7.0) It is notable here that VICTIMS has the highest number of top-ranking letters of all these words, with 6 of 7 letters testing in the top 5, 4 of 7 testing top 3. It gets dragged down a bit because the "T" at the #4 unreadable letter position tests poorly at #19 (also drags down VENTING). Nonsense word VIRGINS gets pulled up because its #4 letter tests well (#5), skewing the average. The letters are ranked relative to one another, so a bad data point, like the #4 letter ranking can skew results. E.g., if you look at a similar 7-letter word WEATHER, 6 of 7 letters are top-2 letters, with "H" testing #13, dragging the average down to 3.0 (still very good). Toss out "H", and the average is a stellar 1.3. Scientific experiments commonly throw out apparent outliers as spurious results, but whether such data is retained or not in computing statistical averages and margins of error is a judgment call. Next note that the more commonly proposed mundane words of REMAINS, FINDING, and VIEWING do not test nearly as well as VICTIMS (especially REMAINS and FINDING). VICTIMS is far superior to all of them if you toss out the #4 letter. There is a lot of overlap in the letters of all these words (which alone indicates people aren't just reading by prejudice but by what they think they see, otherwise ANY 7 letter word would have been proposed here). It is notable that a key discriminating letter in FINDING and REMAINS vs. all the other words starting with "V", namely the first letter, tests poorly compared to "V": "F" is #11 and "R" is #8, while "V" is #2. People aren't just imagining seeing a "V" there. VIRGINS and VENTING are the two top competing words to VICTIMS, VIRGINS varyiing by only 3 letters in spelling, VENTING by 4. VIRGINS can be readily filtered out by context. It obviously doesn't belong here. This leaves VENTING as the top competing word. But then you have to ask the question, if this were a balloon/RAWIN target being discussed, why would there be discussion of the venting of a RAWIN (which doesn't vent) ? Weather balloons can "vent" when filled with helium gas, but why would such a trivial and unimportant thing be discussed here? Ramey's balloon wasn't even inflated. On the other hand, if something like a wrecked craft were venting something noxious, like radiation, yes, that would be a topic of importance and possible discussion, making VENTING a possible choice (at least in isolation from the rest of the message), but then we are a VERY long way from the deflated weather balloon and radar target balsa wood kite in Gen. Ramey's office. We are into Brian Bell’s (and others) “secret military experiment” theory. (Now if only they could provide something called evidence to support that.) Of course, something else entirely like “THE ‘DISC’”, discussed in the next sentence of the message, might also vent something noxious. (Yes, and “DISC” is absolutely there whether the skeptobunkers want to acknowledge it or not). KEVIN: "...The handling of it as well as subjecting it to scans in the past caused it to acquire some scratches and a little dirt but they were assured that this new analysis would be nondestructive...." ALBERT: "I've developed and printed hundreds of negatives as a photo lab tech and photographer. This makes me wonder about the degree of expertise, if any, of the previous 'handlers'. IIRC, it's a 4 x 5 negative. They are quite easy to develop and handle, and still keep dirt and scratch free." The Ramey memo negative has been handled extensively to make new prints and blowups of the message because of high demand. In fact, it is the single most requested photo out of the millions that the Univ. of Texas, Arlington, has archived. This has resulted in some scratches (which haven't done serious damage) and dirt (partially obscured one or two letters while we were there). One of our photo experts ("Jerry"), wanted to clean the negative first, but this was refused for fear of causing damage to the negative (though Jerry said it wouldn't). When we put it under a biomicrosope, they were also hesitant for Jerry to use his LED lightbox underneath until he demonstrated it was a "cool lightbox" and put out no heat of note. They are VERY protective of the negative, but extensive handling over the last 20 years by who knows how many photo techs in the university photo lab has caused a little bit of damage. Visual examination by our two experts of all the Ramey/Roswell negatives (four) that UTA has in their collection revealed that they are all in early stages of deterioration, with the edges beginning to fog and with the film giving off a slight vinegary smell of acetic acid from the deteriorating acetate film base. Nonetheless, the memo portion near the center of the film is still in very good shape showing no signs of deterioration. To slow deterioration of all their old negatives, we were told UTA was nearing completion of a refrigerated room with humidity control which head archivist Brenda McClurkin informed us should extend the lifetime of the negatives to 500 years! "I do look forward to the results. Can we say this new analysis is a direct result of the Not Roswell Slides Debacle? If so, then that's one positive result." Some image processing has been done by one of our experts (with what I would say is only marginally improved results) and further analysis will be done by me at least. This newer effort by us only coincidentally occurred during the Slides debate and would have been done even without it. Lance has privately expressed interest and I have already given him access to what I consider are the best of our new images (off a very high resolution digital microfiche machine in multiple steps of lightness). This was after I pointed out to him that they were claiming (and getting) very high success in reading the entire "Roswell" slide placard even though most of the words were not particularly distinct and they were using the same sort of linguistic reading of text (grammar, spelling, word length, commonly used short words (the, of, in, etc.), context (knowledge of this being a description of a mummy in a museum), sensibility, etc. that I said could also be applied to the Ramey memo to resolve ambiguity of readings (and which I have advocated and used for a long time). "I listened to an interview of Regehr on the Paracast. He is definitely an ET advocate for Roswell but I'm interested in what, if anything, he finds in regards to the photos or the Ramey memo." I'm more interested in what he knows about the history of ufos ('uncorrelated phenomena'in NORAD and DSP terms) that inclines him to pursue the question of what happened at/near Roswell. "I'm more interested in what he knows about the history of ufos ('uncorrelated phenomena'in NORAD and DSP terms) that inclines him to pursue the question of what happened at/near Roswell." 'Uncorrelated phenomena'is not the NORAD/DSP language, which is instead 'uncorrelated targets'. I think the word 'phenomena' {i.e., phenomena uncorrelated with objects recognizable to us} would be more precise, and what I think crept into what I wrote. Gilgamesh wrote: (1/2) In regards to whether or not the General should be holding a "top secrete" memo while at a press conference I offer the following: It had always occurred to me that the reason he was holding that in his hand was because it contained specific instructions as to exactly what was supposed to take place at that press conference. In fact, the way in which he is holding it suggests he may be referring to it as a guide to make sure he hits certain talking points throughout the press conference. Thank you for your comments. First I would like to note that there are four known public photos of Ramey holding the paper. (Two of Ramey alone, two of Ramey with his chief of staff Dubose) In one of these (Ramey alone), he has the paper scrunched up in his hand creating curves in the paper, which can be seen in the Ramey/Dubose photos but not in the other Ramey alone photo. (Thus we can sequence the photo order based on this detail alone.) In three of these (both Ramey alone and one Ramey/Dubose), he has the back to the camera. Only in one has he placed the message approximately horizontal as if to sneak a glance at it. (Thus from Ramey's vantage point, the text was still facing him, not outward to the camera.) This enabled the photographer, J. Bond Johnson, standing up, to get an angle on the front of the page. (Johnson didn't even realize this was true for another 50 years, when he decided to take another look at it, resulting in the first serious concerted effort to read it--the so-called Roswell Photointerpretation Team (RPIT)). So one point is that Ramey certainly was not trying to show the text to the camera. It was an accident, a momentary slip-up, which Ramey likewise probably didn't realize had happened. To him, he always had the text concealed or facing him. This begs the question you raised why Ramey might have been trying to read the message again, especially if he had written it (as I and others have long thought he did, based on the signature line looking very suspiciously like "RAMEY"). One thing I noticed a long time ago is that there seemed to be some handwriting at the bottom of the message. I have a sample of Ramey's signature, which is all very tight, non-loopy letters, but this handwriting is "loopy". So I don't think it is Ramey's writing but someone else's, an aide perhaps. Two more things to consider, Ramey's Rayban aviator sunglasses are being held in his hand left of the message (a detail I completely missed until somebody pointed it out), suggesting maybe Ramey had been outdoors before walking into his office, perhaps over at the communication center picking up a COPY of the sent memo, or maybe it was handed to him as he walked into his office. (Making such an archival copy would have been SOP.) The second thing was who was the addressee? The address header is sharply tilted away from the camera and mostly in shadow, but down near the bottom clearly sticking out at left margin are the clear letters "VA". This has led me to believe the message was directed to acting AAF Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg at the Pentagon, who newspapers reported was in contact with Ramey after the base press release because of all the furor it had raised. (Chief of Staff Gen. Spatz was out of town.) The point here is that after the message was sent to Vandenberg, telephone follow-up may have occurred with one of Ramey's men, and some of the response may have been written down at the bottom by the aide. The bottom two lines of the memo it is generally agreed (though different people have different readings) have to do with how to publicly deal with the situation and cover it up, giving context to how "weather balloons" is used in the memo (as part of the cover story, not what was found). As I read the last two lines, it reads close to "...NEXT SENT OUT PR [press release] OF WEATHER BALLOONS WOULD WORK (or TAKE or FARE) BETTER IF PHOTOS USED AND LAND DEMORAWIN TEAMS. (The "demorawin teams" being the rawin demonstrations the military carried out the next few days to further debunk the flying discs, as reported by the newspapers again, also reporting the military was running a "concentrated campaign" to stop all the rumors.) Under this may be the handwriting, "photos yes", giving the official OK to the use of photos to bolster the weather balloon story. Thus my conjecture is that Ramey, pressed for time to get to his photo shoot, hadn't had time to read the follow-up or plan what he was to do next. During the photo shoot, he snuck a glance maybe to ponder his next moves. Of course, this is all pure speculation. We will never know for sure why Ramey glanced at the page or what he was thinking at that moment. I definitely do NOT think it was a page of instructions on how to conduct his press conference. That is not how anyone reads it (including some skeptics) and that is not the format, which is address header and two paragraphs, two sentences following another in the first paragraph, and three sentences for the second, followed by the signature line. That is the format of a brief telex message from one party to another, not a list of instructions, which I would expect to be in bulleted or numbered form. The message is definitely not in this latter type of format. David Rudiak wrote: " . . . Thus my conjecture is that Ramey, pressed for time to get to his photo shoot, hadn't had time to read the follow-up or plan what he was to do next. During the photo shoot, he snuck a glance maybe to ponder his next moves. Of course, this is all pure speculation. We will never know for sure why Ramey glanced at the page or what he was thinking at that moment." I would say it's not 'pure' (in the sense of ungrounded, abstract) speculation. Our speculations always take place within a context of what we only partially understand or know. To stand up to our own and others' critiques, our own speculations need to be coherent with what is partially understood about the context of processes, events, significations involved in the situation we are speculating about. Your speculations here are coherent not only with what you and others have been able to read in the visible text Ramey is holding but also with what we would expect to be the pressure of the situation he was in -- i.e., responsible [in the chain of command] for the press release that came out of Roswell and responsible to his superiors in the Air Force and at the Pentagon for undoing the damage done by it. There were not days in which to provide and receive information back and forth among the principals involved in the developing situation in which to contemplate what should be done. There were only hours in which decisions had to be made and explicit instructions ordered, an hour or two or less for Ramey to receive those instructions from his superiors and to react in accordance with them. Those had to have been frantic hours for all directly involved in resolving the crisis created by the issuance of the first press release from Roswell (not to mention the larger crisis that would have been realized at the point when anomalous bodies were reported to be found at one of the crash sites). I think your speculations about the memo Ramay was carrying around during the photo shoot and press conference are well-founded in the widely understood context of these events. Your claim that Ramey was given instruction by telegram on what to say or how best to cover an alien spaceship crash is only one possibility. You also claim the order to conduct orchestrated balloon demos may be contents as part of cover up. Equally viable is the possibility the memo contains instructions on how to use a common weather balloon as a cover story for a secret project that happened to use such balloons, coupled with the need to demo balloon launches for the public to eliminate any fear of alien invasion given a bogus and incorrect press release. There is no reason to jump to the conclusion that the memo references a crashed alien spaceship. The noun "disc" may simply be in reference to the original and incorrect statements made in the first press release. Given that nine years earlier Welles' Mercury Theater drama caused wide spread panic (and deaths) concerning a Martian invasion, combined with a growing fear of war with the Soviets after just concluding the second largest global war in history, gives ample reason why the military would want to rescind their initial faulty press release while also maintaining secrecy regarding a project they didn't want disclosed to the Russians. Would you care to name your sources on this? While newspapers of the time did play up the panic, the evidence for a wide spread panic seems to be anecdotal and not borne out by research. Yes, people called the newspapers, the radio stations and the police, but it seems that they were trying to gather additional information. They were not in the streets or running around armed blasting away at anything that moved. Research conducted over the decades revealed the audience for the program was relatively small, some of the reports of panic greatly exaggerated, and when the cast, which had been holed up at the CBS studios finally returned to the streets, they saw no evidence of this panic. Good solid studies published by a number of reputable organizations found that the tales of panic were inspired by newspapers that weren't being as accurate as they could. Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction caused more media activity than Welles' War of the Worlds. And could you please provide a source about anyone dying as a result of the program. Seems that none of those deaths can be verified... though some were seem to have been reported. Oh, and what Ramey is holding is not a telegram, but more likely a teletype message, if not from his own message center then possibly from the Star-Telegram news wires. The source of the document in his hand has not been located. Jim Bender said... BB's actual sources are from his alter ego that pumps out thousands and thousands of his own daily press releases. Listen, all bloggers that can spend some time studying the mega Roswell testimonials and other facts can easily and objectively rationalize that the Roswell event of 1947 was indeed an ET event, and has nothing to do with the made up fairy tale Project Mogul(project mogul was a complete farce in the year 1947} DEBUNKERS?SKEPTICS ask yourself why the US government waited until the mid 90's to state that there were also crush dummies included with the weather balloon debris. lololololol UFO debunkers/skeptics are dying breed and are dying a slow death, my gosh there is even free flowing water on our closest planet Mars, I GOT NEWS FOR YOU, LIFE IS SPREAD THROUGH OUT OUR UNIVERSE AND THERE ARE BILLIONS OF PLANETS MUCH OLDER THAN EARTH, INTELLIGENT LIFE IS OUT THERE AND THEY HAVE VISITED EARTH. goldfive said... Fellas, Though I am loath to admit it as a pro-ETHer, I found Brian's last post to be quite reasonable. There were no insults hurled, and no "digs" at believers or their positions. I think it's only fair to give credit where it's due. His argument, though I do not think it comports with the totality of the circumstantal evidence, remains a possible scenario. It's true that the word "disc" could be referring to the object everyone in Roswell was (inexplicably, but possibly I suppose) confused about, rather than an actual "disc" per se. If the rest of the document could be conclusively read, we would know one way or another. But it is still open to debate, unfortunately. Furthermore, I was always under the impression that the Orson Welles broadcast was one of the possible motives for covering up the saucer crash, i.e. avoidance of public panic over "martians invading". If I'm not mistaken, I think Stanton Friedman may have speculated along these lines in his various Roswell writings. Based on what Kevin has said, however, it seems that both skeptics and some pro-ETHer's (myself among them) should consider discarding the Welles broadcast as a possible impetus for the military's secretive actions in July 1947. Jim - "I GOT NEWS FOR YOU, LIFE IS SPREAD THROUGH OUT OUR UNIVERSE AND THERE ARE BILLIONS OF PLANETS MUCH OLDER THAN EARTH, INTELLIGENT LIFE IS OUT THERE AND THEY HAVE VISITED EARTH". Been abducted lately Jim? Just wondering what sources you have that can verify this other than your delusions. Just saying... Before you ask others for sources, don't you think you should answer that question yourself? Regarding the Orson Welles broadcast I agree that, according to analysis by later writers, the so-called 'panic' was a lot less than the newspapers claimed. One writer on this was Curtis Peebles, who also wrote a skeptical UFO book. But even Ray Palmer (a big UFO devotee) wrote that this panic, as far as he could tell, was almost non-existent, and that only a few were genuinely fooled. Another point is that during the broadcast there were the usual commercials, I believe. Hardly the sort of thing you would expect if the earth was really being invaded by Martians! Perhaps it was only, or mainly, those who tuned in late that were fooled. I don't know the answer. Having said this, I admit I have never listened to the broadcast myself, or a repeat thereof. Not really Kevin. And for the record here's why. Most of what people are asking for is already either obtainable with a little bit of effort, or they're just trying to be crass and annoying by asking someone to go chase down a rabbit hole for information so they can in return then dismiss their comments or discourage them from any further posts. It's a nice tactic if you want to get somebody off your back. You just say, "oh go away until you find me a bunch of sources because I don't believe you anyway." It's a dismissal tactic for people interested in ignoring what they don't want to consider. Given that on your blog even you have conjectured without any documented sources, I don't think conjecture in the conversation regarding Roswell requires absolute definitive and detailed verification of absolutely every single CONJECTURED point when it comes to ALTERNATIVE THEORY based on some factual information. Bear in mind it's you and all of your followers who believe Roswell was the cosmic event of all time, but who also have the burden of proof on your backs. Not mine. I think we may have pointed that out a dozen times already. If you want to convince the world, or me, that what you claim actually happened you can't tell people (or me) who don't believe your claim that we or I have to prove it never did happen. Of course that's what believers like to do: "I claim ET has arrived, I have no definitive proof only conjecture, but if you don't believe it's true because I say it is, then you have to prove my conjectured truth claim wrong." That strategy is just gaming your hypothesis to suit your needs. If you really want a "different perspective" stand back and let people have a go at legitimate and logical counter discussion and alternative theories which are very much linked to factual data instead of trying to get them to shut up by telling them to chase down rabbit holes to prove what you believe happened or didn't happen because it doesn't match your truth claim that has not even been proven. If anything your knowledge of Roswell should be used in a consultative, unbiased, and open dialogue fashion, rather than as a baseball bat used to intimidate others into believing what you insist must be true despite no physical evidence. Other researchers like yourself pondered the same conundrum with the greatest of frustration. But, they ended up concluding the very same thing you call skeptics are claiming can't be so. What happened at Roswell most definitely leans toward prosaic when all credible information is examined. If ET exists the evidence so far indicates didn't nose dive his spaceship into the sand on the Foster Ranch. You're a smart guy Kevin, you should be able to understand that. But I think you're way too close to the subject to have any true unbiased objectivity. This blog may be about you stepping back and thinking about all of the decades you've put into Roswell, but on a scale of reflective thought I think you only moved about 2 mm away from where you were in the 1990s. Much of your anchor points fell apart when witnesses identified they had lied about the cornerstone of the very story you claim is real. Of course you and others base much of your remaining claims on 2nd, 3rd, and sometimes 4th hand memory deficient recollections or witnesses and researchers who still manipulate their comments to suit their agenda. Of course not finding what you want is disappointing for anybody who spent decades of research on something they think is real. But regardless, you and others deflect, ignore, defer, minimize or sanction certain legitimate topics or conversation points as not being eligible for commentary. Why? I can only conclude because you're trying to control the data. In other words your bias is your Achilles heel. @David, Thanks for the negative details. -We- were taught to treat every negative as a precious gem, but it only takes one ham-handed idiot.... DR: Do you think the phrase "victims of the wreck" is the sort of wording that would be used in a memo (or teletype) written by someone who was reporting on a crash of an aerial craft? Is it not a bit artificial or concocted? I suggest a phrase like "bodies found in the wreckage" would be a far more likely choice of words. The word 'victims' looks artificial and out of place here, as there was no way Ramey would know whether they were indeed victims, or pilots or passengers. He might even have used the word 'humanoids'. For example the ETs may have been kamikaze pilots who deliberately crashed their craft, knowing they would perish. (Who are we to say otherwise?). Because of this I do wonder if 'victims' is simply a word that fits (or appears to fit) the letter count, spacing and APPROXIMATELY the letter shapes that are barely visible; the main reason for believing it was 'victims' being the natural bias towards anything suggesting alien bodies. What I am saying is that if it could be finally shown that the word was something else entirely, the case for this memo holding the great ET secret would be dashed forever. Hence the desperate attempt for ETHers to hold onto the word. I do not, however, expect any finality on deciphering this phrase, or memo, at any time. What I am certain of is that if this memo indeed gives details of a genuine ET crash it would still be available, along with a myriad of other papers on the topic. It is inconceivable, and a preposterous notion, that such evidence would STILL be top secret, and held by the military of one country. Yes I agree that Jim Bender is also living in cloud cuckoo land. Neal Foy said... I was taught the same thing but these lab techs may be students, who haven't learned proper care of negatives. I wonder about how the film was developed, as you know Kodak recommends temperature at 68 to 72 degrees F. Newspapers were known to exceed that in order to reduce the development time in order to meet deadlines. It's called hot souping and doesn't do the contrast curve any good and can result in reticulation that may affect fine detail. Newspapers didn't care because of the screen size they used and printing on newsprint has been compared to writing on toilet paper with a Sharpie. Considering July heat in Fort Worth/Dallas and possibly lack of air conditioning in the darkroom, I think it's possible the film may have been abused in processing. If it was hot souped detail may be lost forever. Sorry Brian but you're wrong. First, I'm under no obligation to remain neutral in these discussions and I don't understand why you would think that. I have a point of view and plan to express it. Second, while those of us who think the alien explanation is the best answer for Roswell have an obligation to present the evidence that leads us to that conclusion, that does not absolve you of the responsibility to provide your sources when challenged. You claimed people died during the "War of the Worlds" panic but have provided no documentation for that claim. In other instances, you were challenged and others provided the sources for you showing that elements of your claim were inaccurate. So, while it is true that we must provide sources for our claims, you have the same responsibility for yours. Instead of answering the questions, you divert the conversation into other arenas, pose other questions and cite other alleged facts. You complain that I stop discussions but the fact is, you often divert the topic of the post. Here, the discussion was about the Ramey Memo and you are off into the War of the Worlds. In other cases you have brought up Project Mogul when it had no relevance to that discussion. I let things range a little wide here, for which I have been criticized, but when they divert too far, I will stop them. Maybe some time, when I have nothing else to do, I’ll throw up another Mogul post and then you and David Rudiak and the others who wish, can restate all your arguments, overlooking the facts that don’t fit with your world views. You attacked Marcel’s credibility by saying that he had claimed on a radio program that he had said he hadn’t considered that until UFO researchers called him, but the quote was not from the radio show but from a posting by Kal Korff in a news group. Have you now realized that Korff is not a credible source? And this in a posting that had nothing to do with Marcel or such matters. When challenged you took your ball and went home. And finally, stop attempting to moderate this blog. If you wish to be a moderator, start your own where you can pontificate at will without having to worry about getting the facts right. It is so funny how all the skeptics/debunkers try to discredit all the military personnel and other creditable intelligent people who have made statements regarding the Roswell event of 1947 was indeed a real ET event. We have confirmed that the Ramey memo does have the following words included in the memo (Victims, and DISC)Many of Skeptics/debunkers now try to now discredit the significance of these words being included the Ramey memo (this is laughable) As the Skeptic/debunkers continue to be back themselves into a corner they will come up with even more outrageous statements (not unlike the Roswell slide team) As CDA makes laughable posts I take note of what Steven Hawking just stated TODAY!! ""Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach," Hawking told El Pais. "To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like." I will take Steven Hawkings rational and analytical mind over the ever so fading CDA,BB, and Lance posts anytime. JB: Why not ask Hawking what his views are on Roswell (or any other UFO report), instead of assuming his views would support yours. He is most probably laughing at you, not me. He may well believe in ET life elsewhere in the universe, but this certainly does NOT mean he accepts the Roswell yarn as propagated by the pro-ET writers. None of your "creditable intelligent people " (presumably you meant "credible") would have the slightest idea of what a real ET (or an ET craft) looks like, so their views are worthless. You have confirmed nothing whatever about the word 'victims' in the Ramey memo. Neither has anyone else. Which is it - fantasy land or cloud-cuckoo land? ya sure thing, whatever you say I love to feed your GIANT EGO, its beyond comical. Your posts mean nothing, but unfortunately for you the ET event at Roswell still lives on, and like I have been saying UFO/Debunkers are a dying breed, but by all means keep your entertaining posts coming, CDA its better then stand up comedy!! What happened in Roswell? As for the Roswell incident, nearly two-thirds of the respondents to the poll said they believed that a UFO crash-landed in a field outside the New Mexico town. In one of the most famous UFO "sightings" in U.S. history, Roswell residents in 1947 saw lights in the night sky, followed by a loud explosion. A rancher found the "crash site" and removed a large piece of debris, storing it in his shed. Kevin Randle wrote to Brian Bell: "And finally, stop attempting to moderate this blog. If you wish to be a moderator, start your own where you can pontificate at will without having to worry about getting the facts right." An excellent idea. I've been wondering why BB, cda, and lance don't pool their resources and put up a website of their own where they can document the evidence supporting their Roswell hypothesis. Or take the time and trouble to write a book doing the same. Of course that could be hard work, unless their evidence can actually be laid out in a magazine article, which seems likely. @DR: So, this reexamination and reanalysis of the JB photo negs from Ramey's press conference that you've been involved with since April, based on what you've indicated here, has derived some modest new results. Will there be an analytical report issued from the parties, like you, who have been doing this new reexamination? If so, when might it be coming out, assuming there is such a planned report to hopefully be issued soon? I'd be interested in reading any such new analysis/report. Steve - There is a journal article in preparation so that the analysis can be peer reviewed. The problem is that the analysis is slow going with the experts, who will be identified in the article, operating on their own time. I had hoped that this would be completed long before now. But, when you must rely on volunteers donating their time and expertise, sometimes their jobs get in the way. CDA said: Do you think the phrase "victims of the wreck" is the sort of wording that would be used in a memo (or teletype) written by someone who was reporting on a crash of an aerial craft? "Victims of the wreck", if you do electronic searches of such things as modern /old newspapers is a very common description of people injured/killed in crashes of many kinds: cars, ships, trains, aircraft, etc. I suggest a phrase like "bodies found in the wreckage" would be a far more likely choice of words. Bit of a mouthful, especially for a telex? That there are ”victims” automatically tells someone that there are casualties, dead or alive. The next line, BTW does bring up something "IN THE 'DISC'", the word in front I now believe to be CA)DAVERS. The line goes on to mention whatever was "IN THE DISC" was being PREPed, likely by the "T)EAM AT FORT WORTH" who the "VICTIMS " were being forwarded to. ("PREP" popped out from the computer analysis, replacing the much less probable SHIP or SEND that had been previously proposed.) There is yet another key word on the following line again likely involved with body recovery. So it isn't all just "VICTIMS". There are other words in the memo pointing to the first part of the memo dealing primarily with body recovery and handling. The word 'victims' looks artificial and out of place here, as there was no way Ramey would know whether they were indeed victims, or pilots or passengers. Fail to see what difference it would make. Pilots or passengers can be victims too. They were dead or injured, whatever, but there were casualties. That's conveyed by the pithy word "victims", as in this definition: "a person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action." He might even have used the word 'humanoids'. He might have. He might also have used Martians or space men. Now you have Ramey knowing the details, while just telling us there was "no way" he could have known. In the end, the memo is what it is and Ramey used what he used, whether CDA finds it comprehensible or not. For example the ETs may have been kamikaze pilots who deliberately crashed their craft, knowing they would perish. (Who are we to say otherwise?). Or trapeze artists or flying monkeys. Who's to say? How dare Ramey use the very common, generic word "victims" to describe them. Because of this I do wonder if 'victims' is simply a word that fits (or appears to fit) the letter count, spacing and APPROXIMATELY the letter shapes that are barely visible; Let's see, right word length and letters that appear to be of the right letter shape. I believe that's called reading. BTW, it doesn't "appear to fit" the letter count. More ignorance on your part. Most of the words can be assigned EXACT letter counts. Old impact printers like typewriters and telexes use non-proportional font where each letter, thin or wide, occupies the same space. Columns of text line up underneath one another, so even if you can't necessarily make out exactly where each letter is (but at least see where the spaces between words are), you can line up the columns and with 100% accuracy count the letters in a word. Here is an example: http://www.roswellproof.com/Ramey_memo_letter_counts.html the main reason for believing it was 'victims' being the natural bias towards anything suggesting alien bodies. The main reasons are 1) That is what MOST people see (called reading again), 2) It has been tested by computer against other proposed words and is the best fit, 3) It is supported by other words in the memo suggesting bodies involved, 4) Yes, and it makes sense in the Roswell context (instead of similar words like VIRGINS or VIOLINS that make no sense) in that now we have many witnesses telling us of bodies recovered. "In other instances, you were challenged and others provided the sources for you showing that elements of your claim were inaccurate." Yes, as they see it, or as as their agenda would have it. Perhaps minor errors but that's not uncommon when responding quickly to conversational posts. But this isn't a court trial where every detail is presented to convict someone - or is it? And besides, I wouldn't say your believers never do this themselves. Your blog is not a peer reviewed research journal, a court, scientific forum or any thing like them - it's a blog. For some it's probably a place of open dialog, counter opinions, inquiry, entertainment, debate, conjecture and so on. Many have said that directly in their posts. Credibility: Your attempt to paint all of my comments as entirely fictional is a bit ironic. You doubted my post about Schmitt claiming he purposely lied to mislead investigators to the wrong site, and when I posted the video your disbelief magically turned into a claim that you just wanted it documented on your blog. The same can be said of your suspicion of Marcel's additional RDR comments I quoted and which CDA clarified. I can say equally that posting believers have been challenged and frequently cite nothing concrete to back up their positions, or they insert commentary such as yours below to misrepresent: "They were not in the streets or running around armed blasting away at anything that moved." Correct, and I never said that Kevin - you added that yourself. Double Standard: Jim Benders' "I got news for you" statement is a good example. You accept that comment without evidence, but that's OK 'cause it fits your worldview. And then you delete posts when they mention a certain flight of balloons while letting Rudiak post endlessly counter opinions referencing the very same flight by name. Evidence & Claims: If anything the evidence for ET at Roswell is circumstantial without photographic, physical, or biological proof of any kind that supports an alien conclusion. So when you write things like: "You claimed people died during the "War of the Worlds" panic but have provided no documentation for that claim." I have to wonder why you don't apply that same standard to the believing crowd and yourself. You may indicate that you do, but not really in practice where certain ET beliefs are espoused. If you don't want anyone to question, critique, or challenge your assumptions and beliefs regarding Roswell, you might do well to consider making the blog exclusive for believers only, where they can banter about Roswell details (or lack thereof) that remain forever burned into their belief system. Jeanne: "An excellent idea. I've been wondering why BB, cda, and lance don't pool their resources and put up a website of their own where they can document the evidence supporting their Roswell hypothesis. Or take the time and trouble to write a book doing the same. Of course that could be hard work, unless their evidence can actually be laid out in a magazine article, which seems likely." Don't you think there are far too many blogs, websites, magazines and books on this Roswell affair already? There is no need for "hard work" either. More than enough work has been done on this affair without any definitive conclusion. Moreover, there is absolutely no prospect of ANY conclusion, at any time, being reached. So in 2065, 2115, maybe even 2165 people will STILL be debating Roswell. Aren't you looking forward to it? OK so let us suppose this infamous memo contains the words you say it does. What do you think happened to this memo? Was it inadvertently destroyed, despite being the very first, as far as is known, written record of an ET visit to planet earth? Further, where are all the myriad of similar documents, of all kinds, from the military, from scientific committees, from politicians, etc. that undoubtedly exist? Were they all mysteriously destroyed too? Your duty, and that of all ET proponents, is to produce the hard evidence, and pretty soon. But documentation is only one piece of this hard evidence. ETHers have produced precisely nothing so far, of any use whatever, despite various attempts at it (e.g. the slides and the Santilli 'autopsy' film). As to the analysis of this Ramey memo now going on, I do not believe for a moment that it will resolve anything regarding the great Roswell 'truth'. Do you? Jeanne - I'm in agreement with CDA when he states: "Don't you think there are far too many blogs, websites, magazines and books on this Roswell affair already?" Indeed there are. A quick and verifiable search on Google (for those who need source verification that's www.google.com) yields the following hits: Roswell UFO - 1.6 million Roswell Saucer - 426,000 Roswell Alien - 1.3 million Roswell Skeptics - 74,000 Oh...Roswell Ramey Memo - 10,000. What? Why so few, what on earth (or space) is up with that? Huh? That's the best evidence ever. Ramey Memo - 77,000 now that's better. But a Ufologist said it's not really a memo its a "teletype"....... Ramey Teletype....7,990....WHAT? Humm...well it's some sort of conspiracy I'm certain of that. Those buggers just don't want to admit the truth. And for the record, CDA is correct when he says your grandchildren's grandchildren's grandchildren will still be searching for answers to this conundrum. That is if Ufology can survive that long. CDA - Regarding your question to DR, I submit that they don't have to produce that documentation. It's a given Roswell was an alien crash...come on! Nearly 1,000 first hand eye witnesses were interviewed and that is exactly what they claimed. Isn't that proof enough? Never mind having to produce: 1) Cross referencing collaborative documentation between military and government sources. 2) Peripheral yet supporting documentation of personal correspondence, teletypes, note books, diaries, letters or personal snap shots of the crash itself sent to loved ones and mom back home. 3) Official military photography of the dual crash locations including the craft itself and living or dead aliens. 4) Official military motion picture film of the crash retrieval. 5) Official records or orders for trucks, aircraft, and troops to be deployed to clean up the mess. 6) The craft itself, or egg, or boot heel shaped thing, or bat winged object whatever it was. 7) Parts or portions of the actual material the craft was made from that was scattered on the "one mile square" debris site. 8) Documentstion the crash site was tested for radioactive debris and declared not "hot". 9) The body of a living or deceased 4 foot being with large head, slit for a mouth, lump of a nose, and very, very big black eyes. I mean you don't need that stuff CDA. You really don't. That Ramey Teletype is all anyone needs coupled with 1,000 first hand witnesses to easily prove in any court of law in any country that aliens bit the dust in 1947. Sheesh! When will you ever understand... Rusty Lingenfelter said... The discussion in the last few stories has been pretty tiresome, but I can't resist a little input. @Brian said most recently, but he chants a familiar mantra about Kevin or others (insert whatever derogatory term for those who consider an ETH explanation) who "want to convince" someone of an ETH for Roswell. I admit I have not read every story, post, etc., but I have never heard Kevin state that convincing anyone of anything was his goal. If it were, I think he might have admitted defeat long ago as the skeptics here only rarely concede even an esoteric point. Now if Kevin came to one of the skeptics blogs, I agree that might indicate he wanted to convince someone. I've visited a few of the sites of some of the skeptics here. Minimal content and even fewer contributors. I speculate that is because they have no positive point of view that really starts a discussion. They are forced to wait for someone to move their pawn in order to countermove. I don't really understand the motivation, but that is one of many things I don't understand, including what (if anything) happened at Roswell. I do continue to be amused that people will argue with or agree with non-entities. In an Ender inspired moment, I can't help help but imagine there is one person who actually writes for all these "personas". It is even more entertaining when these personas challenge someone else's integrity. Maybe I'm the only one who sees the irony. Let the schoolyard slapfest continue... Please supply the source for your claim that there are 1000 first-hand witnesses. I know that I have talked so some 500 people that range from first-hand witnesses to those who were on the base or in the town who saw nothing at all but very few of them knew anything from personal observation. And, I'm not sure what your problem is with the research into the Ramey memo. Let us say that there is a consensus on what it says. Let us say that that consensus is that the message is somewhat benign. Let us say that the source is actually the news wire and that Johnson brought it into the office with him. Now, what have we learned? That the memo confirms an event, which we all agree to, but it provides no insider information about a craft or alien "victims." Isn't that better than the continuing speculations about what it might say. Let us say that David is correct in his reading of the memo. Let us say that it actually does say, "Victims of the wreck." while that is not absolute proof of alien visitation, at least we don't have to argue about provenance. We know exactly where the document surfaced. Again, isn't this preferable to endless speculation about the text. We can move the argument to another arena. I will say here that I'm an agnostic on the memo. I don't know what it says (other than some very obvious words) and hope that we can resolve this... good or bad (for the skeptics or for the rest of us). I'm hoping that we can reach a reasonable conclusion here. Yes we can all treat Roswell in a light-hearted manner. I do myself at times. On the serious side, I wonder what Gen Ramey's true reactions would have been on that afternoon if he and his gang really thought what was brought into his office was a crashed spaceship from afar. How would he, or anyone else for that matter, have handled this sudden and absolutely astonishing situation? Would he have been so frightened and so dumbfounded by it all that he would have gone out of his mind? And how would his superiors in Washington and his juniors at Ft Worth have reacted? The mind boggles at the thought. But we shall never know. Another related matter: I am certain Kevin does not really think the Ramey memo contains anything of importance to science. I agree that if at all possible we should try and decipher it, if only to finally lay it to rest. But really the idea that this scrap of paper will ever unlock the greatest scientific event of all time is laughable. It just won't happen. So yes you are right, it is all a bit of a comedy. One other thing. Bill Moore claimed, perhaps by using psychic powers, that this sheet of paper merely contained the text of the radio broadcast Ramey was going to give that evening (see THE ROSWELL INCIDENT, p41 UK ed). Does anyone, anywhere, have a recording of this broadcast? It might, just might, provide the final definitive answer. But don't bank on it. Kevin, the claim of a thousand witnesses is not yours, it comes from the verbal testimony of Schmitt and Carey and via commentary they have provided on their book "Witness to Roswell". Videos, radio, and if I recall correctly even some marketing related language. Over time, as you know, we have moved from something like 300 to 900 with witnesses with added commentary by some investigators that says we are now around 1,000 people. Despite the fact many of these witnesses are deceased, the number of interviews with people who claim to have witnessed something extraordinary has grown exponentially. Is that the result of truly uncovering more and more witnesses? Or is it due to a mythos that keeps growing and growing when Schmitt, Carey, and even Friedman continue to "investigate" people who Schmitt says are important players since they are "the children of the witnesses to Roswell", which just happens to be their honest to goodness planned sequel to "Witness to Roswell." As I once humorously posted on another blog, I can envision a Roswell trilogy with the third installment entitled, "The Pets of The Children Of The Witnesses To Roswell". The back slip cover might read, "Buffy was just a fun loving poodle in July of 1947 but that all changed when MP's took away her favorite fetching stick. A stick made of memory metal bearing purple hyroglyphics from another world." "Don't you think there are far too many blogs, websites, magazines and books on this Roswell affair already? There is no need for "hard work" either. More than enough work has been done on this affair without any definitive conclusion. Moreover, there is absolutely no prospect of ANY conclusion, at any time, being reached. So in 2065, 2115, maybe even 2165 people will STILL be debating Roswell." I agree that there are far too many blogs on the internet, on this subject and on others. But if you want your interpretation of what happened at Roswell to be taken seriously by others, I think you have to lay out your interpretation with its supporting evidence in a coherent presentation, as has been done by Roswell researchers who have found and articulated grounds to support the event as having been anomalous [in the context of other events during the ufo wave of 1947 and earlier, during WWII and before that over atomic power facilities such as the one at Hanford, Washington]. Roswell did not take place in a vacuum but rather in the context of other ufo events well-known to the military and the government in the US and also elsewhere. The ETH was first proposed by high-level figures in the Air Force and well-informed members of think tanks such as Rand and Battelle. I've always said that it was smart of Rudiak to take a gander at that memo. I don't know if he as the first but assume he was. I've said that publically on your blog in the past (don't ask me to go collect it). The outcome thus far, as you have truthfully stated, is not very promising. I think we can actually agree on that. We could also question the past methods Rudiak used while attempting to read it. No worries, it's a grand idea to open up the process to others who can apply a similar or different approach. As long as they manage their bias in the process. What I'm addressing is the belief the memo is the ONLY thing which can prove one way or another what actually happened. Believers, including David himself, have already decided in some way what it indicates. That combined with an ingrained bias toward alien visitation leaves little doubt in my mind that even if the teletype confirms nothing but gibberish, or confirms a prosaic explanation, like other evidence it will simply be brushed under the rug, ignored, and vehemently defended as still containing proof of alien life. As David reluctantly wrote in his own commentary, he abhors the notion that it might actually indicate the entire event is linked to existing circumstantial data suggesting unwilling people were used in some form of chemical/biological dispersal experiment and thus became "victims". Or alternatively that cadavers were "prepped" at a location and inserted into some newly crafted gondola designed to test the effects of high altitude exposure or radiation on human physiology. No, I don't have a government document which absolutely confirms Roswell was such an event, but there are real documents from spring 1947 and well after which state such experiments were conducted and ordered to be hidden from public eyes at all costs. Including tests with unwilling humans at altitude. But again, you don't like alternative hypothesis so we should stop there. BB wrote: "But this isn't a court trial where every detail is presented to convict someone - or is it?" That seems to be the way you (and a few others) attempt to use this forum, BB. Your own verbal behavior adopts the tone and style of a prosecuting attorney with a vengeance. "No, I don't have a government document which absolutely confirms Roswell was such an event, but there are real documents from spring 1947 and well after which state such experiments were conducted and ordered to be hidden from public eyes at all costs. Including tests with unwilling humans at altitude." It occurs to me that you're stuck between a rock and a hard place, BB, since the only support you can provide for your comparatively prosaic hypothesis concerning Roswell would require you to reveal those 'documents'that you claim reveal human outrages committed by the military and government scientists in New Mexico in 1947. If you don't work for the military or other agencies of the government of the US, you might as well be working for them since you feel the need to protect them from disclosure of one lie or another. Just to pick a nit, because, well, that's sometimes fun. I notice that you have backed off your claim of a thousand first-hand witnesses, suggested that Tom and Don upped the ante to somewhere around 900 but that includes second-hand witnesses and children or grandchild of those in Roswell in 1947. So, there really isn't a source for this, except maybe someone decided it was close to a thousand and someone else decided to leave off the qualifier. Oh, I forgot to mention, David was not there in charge of the investigation, but as someone who could answer detailed and specific questions about what had happened in Ramey's office and possibly suggest other avenues to search. I would have been there as well, but became ill and couldn't make the trip. The point is, that the scans will be posted to various sites as soon as the copyright can be cleared and we get permission from the University of Texas at Arlington. It has always been our intention to make everything available so that others would have the opportunity to review what we did, study the scans, and maybe suggest a new way to clear up the text of the teletype. Paul Young wrote an excellent post, which I have "tweaked" below... For myself & Paul Young, I can't help being very impressed with KR's and DR's knowledge and attention to detail on the whole "Roswell Incident" subject. I think many people visiting this blog, who are understandably skeptical, would be much more swayed by the arguments put forward by them than by, say, arguments put forward by cda (and bb who also hasn't been to Roswell or interviewed any of the witnesses), that basically boils down to "it can't have happened...because the govt wouldn't keep it secret after 70 odd years...because they're so honest about, errr, stuff" And to be fair...sitting back and watching CDA, BB & to a lesser extent Lance attempting to joust with David or Kevin...is akin to watching a one legged man in an arse kicking contest. That's not to say that on occasion, they make some good points (although I can't think of many off the top of my head) Either way, it makes for wonderful pantomime. And here's a good ole' Lancashire saying, for the next time you feel down and out after a DR/KR drubbing..."Keep plugging away, lads." Kevin, you replied to me in response to the question I asked about when and where the current Ramey memo re-analysis would be published as follows: "There is a journal article in preparation so that the analysis can be peer reviewed. The problem is that the analysis is slow going with the experts, who will be identified in the article, operating on their own time." It's interesting to me that part of the article prep involves peer review, I assume by some kind of photo or other kind of experts who aren't involved in research or writing about the Roswell incident themselves -- is that correct? And, in reference to your mention of a "journal article," does that mean the article will eventually be published in the SSE's "Journal of Scientific Exploration" or their newer "EdgeScience" publication, or is the article to be published in some other peer-reviewed journal, and if so, can you name the journal involved? Jim Bender wrote "We have confirmed that the Ramey memo does have the following words included in the memo (Victims, and DISC)" Who is "We" Jim? CDA wrote "You have confirmed nothing whatever about the word 'victims' in the Ramey memo. Neither has anyone else." On this occasion CDA is correct - the word "victims" has not been confirmed 100%, but it is without doubt a "favourite" and the choice of one of the people in "David's team" - a skeptic) that visited the University of Texas earlier this year Your reasoning is extraordinary about who knows what and about skeptics who have never visited Roswell and never interviewed any witnesses are not fit to debate DR and KR. As it happens I have never been to Desert Center in California, have never been to Venus, and never spoke to George Adamski or any of his six witnesses. Would you say that therefore I (or anyone skeptical of the case) was not fit to pronounce on whether Adamski's claims to have met a Venusian were true or false? Or that none of us are fit to pronounce on a case like the Hill abduction because we never met the Hills and never visited the spot where their supposed abduction occurred? "Or that none of us are fit to pronounce on a case like the Hill abduction because we never met the Hills and never visited the spot where their supposed abduction occurred?" I think it would help the investigation (not debate - you enjoy using the word debate) and your understanding of the case, if you had met the Hills and been to the spot of their supposed abduction. But again we are off topic... I haven't backed off if that is your perception regarding the 1,000 witness statement. If you care to verify this listened to the dozens of radio and conference videos where Schmitt speaks endlessness off the same rehearsed script. It's there if you investigate it. Nitram, again if this really is your name, I can't help but wonder why your opinions can be so confidently expressed when you choose not to reveal your identity. Someone on this blog once stated anonymity was justified because people lose their jobs over this stuff. Well if you're so confident why are you hiding? Or what are you hiding? Since we're into picking nits you referenced and modified an original CDA comment: "...it can't have happened...because the govt wouldn't keep it secret after 70 odd years...because they're so honest about, errr, stuff." I never said "it can't have happened", I'm just saying what you claim happened never happened. You and they haven't proven it. Also, if you and other conspiracy minded people distrust your governments so much, why the heck do you want them to "disclose" the truth to you? You don't believe them now, so why would you believe them if they revealed today it all happened just as you claim it did? Circular reasoning in my book. "They're a pack of liars, but if they admit this we'll believe them by golly, we WILL believe them!" You also wrote: "And to be fair...sitting back and watching CDA, BB & to a lesser extent Lance attempting to joust with David or Kevin...is akin to watching a one legged man in an arse kicking contest." I understand these guys are flag bearers for your cause and, as mentioned, your unproven claims. As such I know you adore and worship every iota they write. And as I have written before, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." Blind follow ship in something unproven is never a great idea. The challenges I think skeptic's offer are in fact valuable to you and your cause because it forces them to validate and contemplate what they believe, something which has yet to offer physical proof of any kind. It should be appreciated rather than mocked. That also goes for your personal theory that Roswell was an interdimensional human piloted time machine from the future. You say that Nitram, or Martin, is of the view that "Roswell was an interdimensional human piloted time machine from the future." A machine from the future, eh? If so he has a bit of a nerve criticizing us skeptics who at least stick to 3 dimensions and the present or past. If he is correct in his unorthodox ideas, I look forward to travelling back to the past, then viewing the future, when we shall learn the truth about it all - finally! Well yes, at least he posted such a comment several months back during the slides fiasco. On this blog too. Nitram you would be better at explaining your comment than me. Something about fervent belief it wasn't ET but people from our future - short big headed folks with large eyes. Again, if I recall correctly he made mention they are the product of our evolution. Nitram please clarify your comment to ensure I am properly representing your viewpoint. Maybe you can also explain the debris field size relative to time travel machines and how they might crash if the pilots haven't properly attended their distracted driver courses. I mean for heaven's sake how could they have missed hitting that balloon when they clearly could have read archived versions of this blog before departing home! And I do agree, perhaps when our conspiracy laden governments finally come clean, we can ditch our combustion engines and migrate to anywhere in human history. Just as shown in one of those classic Star Trek shows. You said, "Nearly 1,000 first hand eye witnesses were interviewed and that is exactly what they claimed." And then you said, "Over time, as you know, we have moved from something like 300 to 900 with witnesses with added commentary by some investigators that says we are now around 1,000 people." But, first-hand, eyewitness is something different than 900 witnesses, and then some commentary by some investigators that brings the number to 1000, which, of course was not your original claim. So, you have backed off of the original claim of 1000 first-hand, eyewitnesses to something other than that. You suggest that Don Schmitt is using the number, but I suspect he is saying witness as opposed to eyewitness, and he is counting interviews conducted over 25 years with people who were at Roswell but who said they had seen or heard nothing, people who had heard stories but saw nothing themselves and family members who remembered fathers, uncles, cousins and the like saying something about the case. I also suspect he counts people such as the geologists contacted in the search for Gerald Anderson's moss agate. Or, in other words, the number might be close to a thousand and maybe he should adopt the FBI tactic of talking about interviews conducted, in which case I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a number as large as 1000... and if we talk of interviews conducted, then the number creeps up from there. However, your original claim of first-hand, eyewitnesses is inaccurate. "but I suspect he is saying witness as opposed to eyewitness, and he is counting interviews conducted over 25 years with people who were at Roswell but who said they had seen or heard nothing, people who had heard stories but saw nothing themselves and family members who remembered fathers, uncles, cousins and the like saying something about the case. I also suspect he counts people such as the geologists contacted in the search for Gerald Anderson's moss agate." You might want to ask him. If you agree that even more than a thousand interviews has taken place, then the number is confirmed. As far as "eye witness" vs "witness" or "interview" goes the difference to a listener may not be much at all. Especially the way Schmitt lines up his talks which usually have statements like this consistently spoken (this is paraphrased): "The Air Force has given four completely different stories and still can't get it right.." "That's right...it's a cover up of ignorance..." "We've spoken to nearly a 1,000 people who claim something landed that was extraordinary...and not of this earth." "We've been told that if we took all of this evidence and testimony to any court in the country we would win hands down.." These are typical (although paraphrased by me) comments that are part of his usual and nearly identical script spoken one event to the next. Does it matter if he is citing 1,000 witnesses interviewed over a span of 25 years or 25 days? What he is doing is selling a false statement for effect. That was my point. The jargon is intentionally combined with qualifiers that reinforce this 1,000 (or implied near thousand) to audiences who want to hear there are an amazing number of witnesses to the Roswell alien crash. He never says, "Over the last 25 years Friedman, Carey, Randle, myself and others have conducted nearly (or more than or close to) 1,000 interviews of which 95% yielded nothing, or just anacdotal and circumstantial evidence only, with the remainder being something that clearly indicates the witnesses were part of an alien crash and cover-up." Why not? Because when you're selling a myth in your verbal message you leave details out as means to influence the crowd and impress them with your (non) evidence." This is salesmanship well known in Ufology but rarely addressed and certainly not admitted by saucer lovers. Your original number is not confirmed because you claimed first-hand eyewitnesses which is different than what you say now. You quote Schmitt as saying, "We've spoken to nearly a 1,000 people who claim something landed that was extraordinary...and not of this earth." This is not what you claimed he said. You were selling a false statement and were caught doing it. Everyone understands that these interviews were conducted over years rather than days, and I have no reason to suspect that he and Carey haven't conducted nearly a thousand interviews with many, many people. Nothing you have presented underscores your original claim. Instead you attempt to move the goal posts by citing what you believe to be additional problems, but all you are really doing is proving that when you paraphrase you change the original meaning. Kevin, if you or anyone else were to stand in front of any audience and say that you have interviewed 300, 500, or a thousand witnesses or conducted 300, 500 or a thousand interviews with as many witnesses to back up your claim it would be false without qualifiers. Plain and simple. Saying such a thing directly conveys one thousand people can verify the claim through first hand knowledge. This isn't true no matter what anyone says. Even in your own books you state you have conducted several hundred interviews without qualifying it by saying something like they were conducted with only 41 people dozens of times each or that only 41 could verify your conclusions from 271 actually interviewed. Without qualifiers it's just false advertising. If anything the people who do this are really the ones getting caught manipulating the information to sell a point. This is a common example posted on book reviews and told at conferences: "Kevin Randle, a free-lance writer and UFO investigator, and Don Schmitt, associated with the Hynek Center for UFO Research, interviewed hundreds of witnesses...." Hundreds of "witnesses"? So it's no surprise then that Schmitt would say "a thousand witnesses were interviewed". They are not really witnesses are they? Just as silly is when we read something like: "these witnesses have all stated it was something not of this earth". Yes of course these 'witnesses' know all about what comes from this earth and what does not. The simplest response to anyone who claims this is to tell them that there is NOTHING known to science which is "not of this earth", other than meteorites. Anything else can only come from science fiction. And the way it plays out is investigators tell people that witnesses claim it was something not of this earth....then follow-up with a statement that says they know because they have conducted hundreds or thousands of interviews or even a thousand interviews with witnesses. Game play. Even MUFON says this on their website regarding UFO Crash @ Roswell: "Approximately 271 people are listed in the book who were "contacted and interviewed" for the book, and this number does not include those who chose to remain anonymous, meaning more than 300 witnesses were interviewed, a figure Pflock said the authors frequently cited. Of these 300-plus individuals, only 41 can be "considered genuine first- or second-hand witnesses to the events in and around Roswell or at the Fort Worth Army Air Field," and only 23 can be "reasonably thought to have seen physical evidence, debris recovered from the Foster Ranch." Of these, only seven have asserted anything suggestive of otherworldly origins for the debris." "....only four people with supposed firsthand knowledge of alien bodies were interviewed and identified by Roswell authors: Frank Kaufmann; Jim Ragsdale; Lt. Col. Albert Lovejoy Duran; Gerald Anderson." Now that these folks have been duly discredited, ETers simply back the second hand testimonies of people who claim they heard from others all about alien bodies. I guess second hand testimony is good enough - why bother with physical evidence? Since you have failed to prove your original claim and have diverted the conversation far enough, I declare this over. I will entertain no more discussion about your opinion about the witnesses and the way they have been categorized. Chris Bendas said... Another thing about the note is that he intentionally wanted everyone to know that it is a cover-up without saying a word. Yes, I am now violating my own edict by saying that LTC Albert Duran has not been discredited just because you say so. I have found his name in official government documents, so he did, in fact exist. It's not my fault that (a) Karl Pflock couldn't find him and (b) that he knew nothing about him other than what was said in the footnote. Mark Reynolds said... Kevin...what is your opinion of the 1950 Hottel memo? Mark - It refers to the Aztec crash and was based on the rumors circulating about Scully and his book. The memo is real but the events described are not. nsurround said... Well gee wizz. Based on the description of what Mac Brazell said he found on the Foster ranch, it would seem to fit fairly well with the construction components of a Project Mogul balloon. The Ramey photo(s) show some balloon material of some kind. The photo could be a deception cover story but with the Brazel description it does seem logical. On the other hand Mr. Brazel could have been intimidated to change his story but a newspaper person who interviewed him early on wrote a description of the debris similar to a what became known as Project Mogul. However with the Ramey memo now up for discussion and analysis it throws a new mystery into the case. I myself always leave the options open on the Roswell incident. No one to my knowledge has definitively bagged this one and probably never will. However there are so many credible UFO phenomena observations that have come afterwards that this case does not seem as important as it once did. However it is still a really cool story even if no one has all the answers.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line253
__label__wiki	0.73059	0.73059	Relatively Current Videos Relatively Current Photos FLYERS/LOGOS Erik & Friends Lawn Chair Kings Lawn Chair Kings have been on the Durango, CO music scene since 2000. They have celebrated a “western garage” flavor, with country, rock, pop, and punk influences. Known for their catchy tunes and good-time performances, Lawn Chair Kings have been a steady force in the Four Corners Region. Currently, Lawn Chair Kings feature acoustic and electric sets, made possible by the addition of Pat Dressen, who joined the band in the spring of 2013. Pat plays the mandolin and drums. While some folks in the bluegrass scene would have it otherwise, Pat began as a drummer and crossed over to the dark side as he began to appreciate whiskey and Bill Monroe. Dan Leek, an original member of Lawn Chair Kings, plays the vertical and horizontal bass. In addition to being the unofficial champion of various mobile word games, Dan cooks his meat within large eggs and enjoys eating crawdads. Erik Nordstrom rounds out Lawn Chair Kings and plays guitar, harmonica, and sings. Erik’s influences include Hank Williams, The Ramones, Camper Van Beethoven, and Howlin’ Wolf. His guilty pleasures include Steely Dan, boxed cheese products, and leftover news articles from the Weekly World News. Lawn Chair King alumni include Hap Purcell (banjo, guitar), Alissa Wolf (fiddle), Chris Di Pietro (drums), Jeff Moorehead (dobro, banjo, guitar), Steve Mendias (drums), Kelly Rogers (lap steel, guitar), Steve Stokes (guitar), and Eric Hopper (drums). Matt Joyce, the original drummer of the band, should be credited for the band’s name. Known for his amazing shoulder rolls and occasional wearing of a burka, Matt (now in Austin via Wyoming) discarded such notions as “Ramblers”, “Peddlers”, and “Trapeze Artists” in favor of “Kings”. The notion of a “Lawn Chair” fit the original country/urban=suburban mood perfectly, and the newly-formed band set out in earnest to collect materials from local thrift stores to make a stage show worthy of attention. Astro-turf coasters fit in splendidly with the pink flamingos, magic eight ball, glitter lamp, and bass fishing trophy. Dan, the real winner of the bass trophy, often amused himself with strobe lights focused on various body parts. Erik thought it clever to have a real TV playing nothing but static. In a particularly horrific dance floor moment at the Hollywood Bar in Dolores, CO, the television came careening down from a speaker, knocking out its ability to play static. Fixing the TV is among the many priorities of the band nowadays. Whether the TV ever gets fixed or not, Lawn Chair Kings bring good times to any occasion! Get updates about upcoming Lawn Chair Kings shows, recordings, and more! 8/3 Durango, CO © 2019 Lawn Chair Kings. All Rights Reserved. Powered by HostBaby.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line266
__label__wiki	0.69628	0.69628	LAZYGIRLZ™ Quick Facts Janet Marie Founder, LAZYGIRLZ™.net Janet Marie began studying modern dance at age five Grad from Theatre Arts/ Dance Dept., A longtime veteran of the I hope to inspire you to join the laziest gal of all Reaching out to women over 40… like herself “Your book is a delightful read.” C. M., Fairfield, CT Art Teacher... “I love your promotional video! Your personality and sense of humor really come through; it reminded me of chatting with you. I think I may buy... Judith: “You look fabulous and are a great role model.” Janet replies: “Judith, this is such a lovely compliment, and yes, I would like to be... About the Instructor and Founder of LAZYGIRLZ™ Janet Marie began studying modern dance at age five in her hometown of Ridgewood, New Jersey. Her very first recital at age five was a solo performance to Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of Animals (“Le Carnaval des Animaux”) doing donkey kicks! We’re not sure why that’s totally relevant but we do find it quite funny, actually. OK, let’s get serious. Janet Marie is an Honors graduate of the Theatre Arts/ Dance Department of Smith College. While there, she had the opportunity to take master classes with some of the top modern dance companies in America. Her core dance training includes improvisational dance, modern dance, classical ballet including pointe as well as jazz and some tap. Additionally, Marie has studied yoga, Tan Soo Do Karate, boxing and Tai Chi. She has taught both dance and group fitness professionally and, over the years, spent way too much time at the gym! A longtime veteran of the entertainment industry who also holds a Masters in Business Administration degree, Marie has extensive experience both behind and in front of the camera. Her behind-the-camera experience includes five years working at ABC-TV on major network shows. Her on/camera and radio experience includes voice/overs on over 70 TV commercials, reality TV shows, radio show hosting, and feature parts on soaps. This experience allows her to share her considerable Hollywood savvy toward helping you look and feel great. As the Executive Producer of the upcoming “SHED IN BED™” video series, Janet Marie would like to assure you that this is a true labor of love based on her sincere desire to reach out to women over 40… like herself. “I’m not getting any younger, and unfortunately, I didn’t have a child to pass on the knowledge I’ve acquired over a lifetime, so it came to me that now was the time to share my secrets with the world. It’s funny because sometimes I don’t know how I know all the things I do about fitness, beauty, looking good for camera, eating right, and so on, but I do. So now, I’d like to share my tips and secrets with you, and hopefully provide a few laughs along the way. You know, I’ve learned as much from my failures as I have from my successes, and I’ve truly absorbed that’s it’s all good. I now think of failure as just a sentence, as in, ‘Oh, yeah, I messed that one up, alright’. I mean, so what, right? Failure is just a sentence, so put a period on it, and move on. The most important thing to know is that the people who love you will love you no matter – whether you fail… or succeed.” Janet Marie, Founder of LAZYGIRLZ™ Get Your Free Magnet with Purchase! Tweets by @GOLAZYGIRLZ Privacy & Positive Policy LAZYGIRLZ™ .net © Copyright 2013 LAZYGIRLZ, LLC	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line267
__label__wiki	0.627669	0.627669	Templeton Awards Francisco Ayala Creation according to Francisco Ayala. Image courtesy of José-Manuel Benito Álvarez, Wikipedia. The Templeton Foundation uses a variety of avenues to promote dialogue between science and religion. Or at least it says it does. Established by the late investor and philanthropist Sir John Templeton, it annually awards a 1.6 million dollar prize to a “living person who has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life's spiritual dimension, whether through insight, discovery, or practical works”. This year’s laureate Francisco Ayala is a biology professor known for his outspoken opposition to creationism and intelligent design. He regards God’s direct involvement in creation as blasphemy. This might be Ayala’s way of explaining why bad things happen in the world. A former Dominician priest, he chooses to believe in unguided Darwinian evolution instead of anything that suggests God would have planned life as we know it. There is a better way of explaining why there are imperfections in living beings. The book of Genesis describes the creation of a very good world. However, Adam and Eve chose to disobey God’s explicit commandment. What we see in living beings are the consequences of this fall. A truly biblical worldview explains reality much better than Ayala’s version. Bhattacharjee, Yudhijit. 2010. Latest Prize Bolsters Templeton's Shift to Mainstream. Science 327: 5973, 1565. 2010 Templeton Prize Laureate Francisco J. Ayala. http://www.templetonprize.org/ (25 March). Tunnisteet: Adam and Eve, evolution, Francisco J. Ayala, Genesis, Templeton Prize, the Fall When evolutionists debate the future of God The debaters had no need for this scenario. Michelangelo: Creation of Adam. Image courtesy of Wikipedia. Recently, two atheists and two new age advocates had a debate on the future of God. Michael Shermer and Sam Harris presented the atheist position while Deepak Chopra and Jean Houston defended the new age view. In a rambling debate held at Caltech on March 14, the participants occasionally forgot what they were supposed to talk about. Shermer brought up his understanding of religions being primitive explanations of reality. He has no use for angels, demons or anything that cannot be explained by materialistic science. Echoing the idea introduced by Ludwig Feuerbach, he said, ”We created God”. Chopra replied by affirming his trust in science and denied believing in ”primitive theology”. Harris used the event to criticise Christianity, and Houston promoted her views of the need to change the world through new age spirituality. When one side rejects the existence of consciousness as being independent of our brains and the other side affirms new age spirituality, any debate is bound to be interesting – and this was no exception although the debaters did not always speak the same language. The debate had nothing to do with traditional Christianity. The participants acknowledged their trust in evolution and Big Bang cosmology. However, both concepts are foreign to a truly biblical worldview in which the Creator God wants to have a personal relationship with man whom he created in His image. Far from being primitive, Christianity is still a dynamic force that changes people all over the world. As the apostle Paul put it, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” (2 Cor. 5:17) Does God Have A Future? http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/FaceOff/ Tunnisteet: Deepak Chopra, Jean Houston, Michael Shermer, religion, Sam Harris Hello? Anybody there? Paul Davies discusses intelligent life in his new book. Image courtesy of Wikipedia. Yesterday, as I was reading Nature, Chris McKay’s review of Paul Davies’ book The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence/ Are We Alone In The Universe? caught my eye. In Eerie Silence Davies discusses the SETI project that has used radio telescopes to scan the skies for signs of extraterrestrial life. After 50 years of searching, they have found absolutely nothing. Not a single signal that would suggest intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe. Davies discusses the possibility that intelligent life might be very rare outside the Earth. However, Davies also ventures into the brave new world of science fiction, speculating that in the distant past aliens might have left a message in our DNA. He thus acknowledges that DNA looks like it has been designed. Perhaps there is a more traditional solution to this dilemma. Might the answer be found in a book called Genesis? McKay, Chris. 2010. Is Anybody Out There? (Review of Paul Davies’ book The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence/ Are We Alone In The Universe?) Nature 464: 7285, 34 (4 March). Tunnisteet: aliens, design, DNA, Paul Davies, The Eerie Silence It's been an unusual week If you tried to access my blog during the past week, you were probably unable to do so. Blogger locked all my Google sites on Saturday, March 13th. The reason remains a mystery for me. Yesterday they finally unlocked my blogs. I apologise for all inconvenience and hope you will continue reading my posts. I have a backup site at Weebly.com so if you’re unable to access this blog, please try that instead. The cathedral that God made Some songs have a clear creationist message. One of my favourites is My Cathedral, especially this version by the late country star Jim Reeves: As the wise king Solomon wrote, “He has made everything beautiful in its time”. There are still things in this fallen world that remind us of the very good world of Genesis. Tunnisteet: country, creation, Jim Reeves, My Cathedral Popeye the Sailor Monkey? Charles, we have a problem. The origin of South American monkeys is a big mystery for Darwinists. They believe that these monkeys originally evolved in Africa. Molecular and morphological studies suggest that the old world monkeys later found their way across the ocean to America. The view is not entirely free from problems, however. According to conventional plate tectonics theory, Africa and South America separated about 100-120 million years ago and South America was an island roughly 3. 5 - 80 million years before our days. Molecular studies nevertheless suggest that South American monkeys (Platyrrhini) diverged from African monkeys (Catarrhini) about 35 million years ago. The monkeys must have found a way to cross the ocean. Darwinists thus believe that the plucky simians travelled on rafts. And since no orthodox evolutionist will doubt the reliability of dating methods, the only viable explanation is that at least some old earth monkeys were fearless sailors. Luskin, Casey. 2010. Sea Monkey Hypotheses Refute the NCSE’s Biogeography Objections to Explore Evolution. Evolution News and Views. (2 March.) http://www.evolutionnews.org/2010/03/sea_monkey_hypotheses_refute_t.html#more Tunnisteet: Catarrhini, evolution, new world monkeys, old world monkeys, Platyrrhini The mother of all bats could probably echolocate like modern bats Bats have hardly changed their habits. Image courtesy of Wikipedia. Last week, Nature published a study on bats that challenges current views of the ability of the earliest bats to use echolocation. Previously, researchers had assumed that the oldest bat Onychonycteris finneyi, dated at “52 million years", was unable to echolocate. Nina Veselka and her colleagues examined 26 modern bat species using microcomputed tomography and compared them to the mother of all bats. They concluded that even Onychonycteris finneyi could probably echolocate since ”its stylohal bones may have articulated with its tympanic bones”, i.e. its bones in the throat were probably connected to its bone in the ear region just like in modern bats. Once again we notice that many species tend to have very conservative habits. They remain unchanged for surprisingly long aeons. Veselka, Nina, David D. McErlain, David W. Holdsworth, Judith L. Eger, Rethy K. Chhem, Matthew J. Mason, Kirsty L. Brain, Paul A. Faure and M. Brock Fenton. 2010. A bony connection signals laryngeal echolocation in bats. Nature 463, 939-942. (18 February) Tunnisteet: after its kind, bats, ecolocation, evolution, Onychonycteris finneyi Could Adam’s sin have retroactive effects? In his new book, William Dembski discusses whether sin could have an effect on creation before Adam’s Fall. In his letter to the Romans, the apostle Paul explicitly writes that death came to the world because of man’s sin. For those who believe in an old earth this causes a problem since the fossil record suggests that many animals died long before Adam and Eve chose to disobey God. William Dembski, who is known for his contributions to the ID movement, addresses this issue in his new book The End of Christianity: Finding a Good God in an Evil World. Dembski, a professor of philosophy, says that Christians are faced with a hard choice: "They can go with a young earth, thereby maintaining theological orthodoxy but committing scientific heresy; or they can go with an old earth, thereby committing theological heresy but maintaining scientific orthodoxy." Dembski’s solution is a creative compromise. He points out that the Greek New Testament has two words, kairos and chronos, that refer to time. He thinks that God’s idea of time differs greatly from ours. This, as such, is a logical conclusion. It is actually an old idea that goes back to the writings of Augustine of Hippo. However, Dembski then builds a hypothesis on the basis of these words. He suggests that while human sin causes death, it can also have retroactive effects. Thus, animals could die because of Adam’s sin before the Fall. Terry Mortenson has shown that Dembski’s hypothesis has serious theological problems. The New Testament often uses the words kairos and chronos in the same sense. Moreover, the Bible does not lend support to the view that God would punish anyone before they do wrong. Dembski’s book is well-written and it addresses profound theological issues, making the reader think about the gravity of sin but it does not solve the problem of pain. I’d still follow Paul. Dembski, William A. 2009. The End of Christianity: Finding a Good God in an Evil World. Nashville, TN: B & H Publishing. Mortenson, Terry. 2009. Christian Theodicy in Light of Genesis and Modern Science. A Young-Earth Creationist Response to William Dembski. Answers Research Journal 2, no. 1:151-167. http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/arj/v2/n1/dembskis-theodicy-refuted Tunnisteet: chronos, kairos, Paul, Terry Mortenson, The End of Christianity, the problem of pain, William Dembski Intelligently designed In Charles Darwin’s day the watch was seen as evidence for intelligent design in nature. William Paley (1743-1805) taught that a watch needed a watchmaker. Later-day Darwinists, however, especially Richard Dawkins, would want to explain everything by resorting to natural processes. Dawkins thinks that the watchmaker is first of all blind and second, he does not even exist. The Cog is a two-minute video clip that suggests that building a Honda requires design and co-ordination. A Honda might be designed intelligently but it pales in complexity when compared to a cell. The cell, with its countless simultaneous processes, certainly looks like it has been designed very intelligently. Tunnisteet: Honda, intelligent design, Richard Dawkins, the Cog, William Paley The mother of all bats could probably echolocate l...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line269
__label__cc	0.742702	0.257298	Who created? The names of GOD Image of GOD 1 John 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. Select Language English Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Catalan Cebuano Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Esperanto Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hausa Hebrew Hindi Hmong Hungarian Icelandic Igbo Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Khmer Korean Lao Latin Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Maltese Maori Marathi Mongolian Nepali Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Somali Spanish Swahili Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish Yoruba Zulu Last Updated: Saturday, 09 July 2016 08:33 Is 1 John 5:7 a valid verse for the trinity doctrine? 1 John 5:7 is a verse used by the Christian world to prove the trinity doctrine. Most honest pastors, theologians and scholars would not use this verse as they know the problems with it. Unfortunately, they are not honest enough to tell the members of their churches! You have to go to their theological books to find out that there is a problem with this verse. I still don't understand why these people will lie to their members just to keep a false belief in who GOD is? This is deception and is breaking one of the commandments. Exodus 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Here is the verse under question. This is what Adam Clarke said about this verse: "There are three that bear record - The Father, who bears testimony to his Son; the Word or Λογος , Logos, who bears testimony to the Father; and the Holy Ghost, which bears testimony to the Father and the Son. And these three are one in essence, and agree in the one testimony, that Jesus came to die for, and give life to, the world. But it is likely this verse is not genuine. It is wanting in every MS. of this epistle written before the invention of printing, one excepted, the Codex Montfortii, in Trinity College, Dublin: the others which omit this verse amount to one hundred and twelve. It is wanting in both the Syriac, all the Arabic, Ethiopic, the Coptic, Sahidic, Armenian, Slavonian, etc., in a word, in all the ancient versions but the Vulgate; and even of this version many of the most ancient and correct MSS. have it not. It is wanting also in all the ancient Greek fathers; and in most even of the Latin. The words, as they exist in all the Greek MSS. with the exception of the Codex Montfortii, are the following: - "1Jo 5:6. This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness because the Spirit is truth. 1Jo 5:7. For there are three that bear witness, the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree in one. 1Jo 5:9. If we receive the witness of man, the witness of God is greater, etc." The words that are omitted by all the MSS., the above excepted, and all the versions, the Vulgate excepted, are these: - [In heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one, and there are three which bear witness in earth]. To make the whole more clear, that every reader may see what has been added, I shall set down these verses, with the inserted words in brackets. "1Jo 5:6. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. 1Jo 5:7. For there are three that bear record [in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one. 1Jo 5:8. And there are three that bear witness in earth],the Spirit, and the water, and the blood, and these three agree in one. 1Jo 5:9. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater, etc." Any man may see, on examining the words, that if those included in brackets, which are wanting in the MSS. and versions, be omitted, there is no want of connection; and as to the sense, it is complete and perfect without them; and, indeed much more so than with them. I shall conclude this part of the note by observing, with Dr. Dodd, "that there are some internal and accidental marks which may render the passage suspected; for the sense is complete, and indeed more clear and better preserved, without it. Besides, the Spirit is mentioned, both as a witness in heaven and on earth; so that the six witnesses are thereby reduced to five, and the equality of number, or antithesis between the witnesses in heaven and on earth, is quite taken away. Besides, what need of witnesses in heaven? No one there doubts that Jesus is the Messiah; and if it be said that Father, Son, and Spirit are witnesses on earth, then there are five witnesses on earth, and none in heaven; not to say that there is a little difficulty in interpreting how the Word or the Son can be a witness to himself." It may be necessary to inquire how this verse stood in our earliest English Bibles. In Coverdale's Bible, printed about 1535, for it bears no date, the seventh verse is put in brackets thus: - And it is the Sprete that beareth wytnes; for the Sprete is the truth. (For there are thre which beare recorde in heaven: the Father, the Woorde, and the Holy Ghost, and these thre are one.) And there are thre which beare record in earth: the Sprete, water, and bloude and these thre are one. If we receyve, etc. Tindal was as critical as he was conscientious; and though he admitted the words into the text of the first edition of his New Testament printed in 1526, yet he distinguished them by a different letter, and put them in brackets, as Coverdale has done; and also the words in earth, which stand in 1Jo 5:8, without proper authority, and which being excluded make the text the same as in the MSS., etc. Two editions of this version are now before me; one printed in English and Latin, quarto, with the following title: - The New Testament, both in Englyshe and Laten, of Master Erasmus translation - and imprinted by William Powell - the yere of out Lorde M.CCCCC.XLVII. And the fyrste yere of the kynges (Edw. VI.) moste gratious reygne. In this edition the text stands thus: - And it is the Spirite that beareth wytnes, because the Spirite is truth (for there are thre whiche beare recorde in heaven, the Father, the Worde, and the Holy Ghost, and these thre are one.) For there are thre which beare recorde, (in earth), the Spirite, water, and blode, and these thre are one. If we receyve, etc. The other printed in London "by William Tylle, 4to; without the Latin of Erasmus in M.CCCCC.XLIX. the thyrde yere of the reigne of our moost dreade Soverayne Lorde Kynge Edwarde the Syxte," has, with a small variety of spelling, the text in the same order, and the same words included in brackets as above. The English Bible, with the book of Common Prayer, printed by Richard Cardmarden, at Rouen in Normandy, fol. 1566, exhibits the text faithfully, but in the following singular manner: - And it is the Spyryte that beareth witnesse, because the Spyryte is truthe. (for there are three which beare recorde in heaven, the Father, the Woorde, and the Holy Ghost; and these Three are One) And three which beare recorde* (in earth) the Spirite, and water, and bloode; and these three are one. The first English Bible which I have seen, where these distinctions were omitted, is that called The Bishops' Bible, printed by Jugge, fol. 1568. Since that time, all such distinctions have been generally disregarded. Though a conscientious believer in the doctrine of the ever blessed, holy, and undivided Trinity, and in the proper and essential Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, which doctrines I have defended by many, and even new, arguments in the course of this work, I cannot help doubting the authenticity of the text in question; and, for farther particulars, refer to the observations at the end of this chapter." Here we have a trinitarian believer that does not use this verse to defend the trinity doctrine! Darby's translation is thus: 1 John 5:6 This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus the Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears witness, for the Spirit is the truth. 1 John 5:7 For they that bear witness are three: 1 John 5:8 the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the three agree in one. American Standard version: 1 John 5:6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. 1 John 5:7 And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is the truth. 1 John 5:8 For there are three who bear witness, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and the three agree in one. The Pershitta Bible, which is from the Aramaic texts is as follows: 1 John 5:6 This is He who came by water and blood, even JESUS CHRIST, not by water only, but by water and blood. 1 John 5:7 And the Spirit testifies that that the very Spirit is truth. 1 John 5:8 And there are three to bear witness, the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three are one. As you can see from the above. This verse can't be used in defence for the trinity doctrine. As Christians we need to search for the truth, no matter how hard it is. Once we find the truth we need to embrace it and thank GOD for showing us the truth. As the Father showed Peter the truth about His Son. Matthew 16:15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Matthew 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. Matthew 16:17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. It is the Father that reveals the truth about His Son to us. All we need to do is accept the truth. No matter the consequences! Tweets by TrueGODJohn173 questions@john173.org Bible studies added We are continuously adding new studies! Software we use 414 spam blocked	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line270
__label__wiki	0.528876	0.528876	Julian Hyde on Streaming Data, Open Source OLAP. And stuff. Pentaho Analyzer Pentaho today announced a new OLAP viewer, called Pentaho Analyzer Enterprise Edition, based on LucidEra's ClearView component. This is great news for Pentaho customers, the community, and the BI world at large. While Pentaho Analysis (Mondrian) is one of its strongest components, the current OLAP viewer (based on JPivot) has been one of its weakest. The new viewer puts Pentaho at the top of the heap, in competition with best-of-breed OLAP viewers. It is designed to be intuitive for business users (yes, those people who don't speak MDX!), is built using the latest web technologies, and integrates seamlessly with Mondrian and the rest of the Pentaho suite. It is going to revolutionize the experience of using OLAP within the Pentaho suite. Naturally, there are concerns. First, the new viewer is only part of Pentaho's Enterprise Edition (EE) suite. If Pentaho is committed to open source BI, why not release it open source? Second, what will happen to Pentaho Analysis Tool (PAT), the successor to JPivot being developed by the Pentaho community? I'd like to take the opportunity to answer these concerns, because I think this is news that everyone should be celebrating. Why is the new Analyzer not open source? There's been a lot of talk about open source business models, 'open core', good and evil, and all that. Releasing ClearView as part of Enterprise Edition is perfectly in sync with Pentaho's business model and with my intuitions about what makes sense for open source. Here's my rationale. If you release a piece of software open source out of sheer, 'I love the world!' altruism, you won't necessarily see much benefit. Pentaho is a for-profit business, and they are savvy about leveraging the benefits of open source software. And let's not kid ourselves, there are considerable downsides to releasing something open source. Your competitors can pick up the software and incorporate your hard work into their suite. And your customers may decide that the free version is so good that they aren't going to give you any of their money. Open source allows you to bring a component to a wider audience, an audience that will test, document and improve the component, and will support each other on the forums. Only the Community Edition (CE) components get that boost. Therefore, Pentaho's strategy is to release the core functionality in CE. That means the high-performance core of the system, the code paths that get run trillions of times an hour, and that means all the components that are necessary to build a functional and useful BI application. In particular, people ask me whether there is a high-performance 'Mondrian on steroids' in EE. No there isn't. None of us want to maintain alternative code-paths, because the extra complexity would slow down future development. If I were to create a performance optimization in EE, the community would probably replicate that optimization in CE within a few weeks. Improving the core Mondrian system for everyone brings more people into the community, and that brings more people to EE. And by the way, this doesn't just apply to the Pentaho Analysis part of the suite. Pentaho adds major new functionality to the suite each release, and most of that goes into open source components. So, what's left to go into EE? Bells and whistles, things that make the product easier to use, easier to manage, and things that make your boss want to reach for his or her checkbook. And of course support, releases that are certified and indemnified, and more regular. I don't think that's a bad deal, however you look at it. It also helps if the components are delivered under a business-friendly license like LGPL or EPL. Otherwise you will not attract contributions from OEM vendors, who are the companies with the skills to extend components as complex as Mondrian or Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle). Once again, Pentaho is taking a risk by using business-friendly licenses, because there is always a chance that Pentaho's competitors will scoop up the fruits of its labors. (As in fact they do.) But Pentaho's faith in the open source process pays off. ClearView is proof of that. If Mondrian had not been available under a business-friendly open source license, LucidEra would probably have written it on top of another vendor's engine, and Pentaho would not have been able to use it. Incidentally, LucidEra has contributed many important enhancements to Mondrian in areas of both performance and functionality over the past three years. This has improved Mondrian for everyone, and we know that ClearView performs very well against Mondrian. What will happen to PAT? To restate what I said above, there is a network effect when you make a component open source. The more people that use a component, the more people are going to contribute to it. We want as many people to use Mondrian as possible, and in particular we want the right people to use it (the people who are going to make major improvements). So, for Mondrian's continuing health as an open source component, we need the Community Edition of Mondrian to be good enough to build business applications on. For that, we need to make PAT successful. I personally have been laying the ground work for PAT for a number of years. I spearheaded the olap4j API, knowing that the community would be more likely to write the next generation OLAP viewer if it was guaranteed to be portable across OLAP engines. Then I kicked off the halogen project, a collaboration between Pentaho developers and the community to build a viewer using olap4j and GWT. Pentaho developers contributed code and user interface design to that project, even working in their spare time when the current Pentaho sprint used up all of their 'official' cycles. And the PAT project used the halogen code, and the knowledge of the halogen developers, as a starting point. It's not healthy to have too close a relationship between an OLAP server and viewer. There should always be room for competition, an opportunity to use a new viewer or (gasp!) different OLAP server if the 'standard' one isn't ideal. I created olap4j with competition in mind, and the experiment seems to be working: PAT can run against Mondrian's native interface, Mondrian's XMLA server, and against SQL Server Analysis Services via XMLA. I want to make it easier to build alternative front-ends on top of olap4j, so I have been encouraging PAT developers to contribute to olap4j's query model and library of transforms. I would like to see Analyzer move to olap4j internally (it currently uses Mondrian's native API), and perhaps migrate some of the logic in Analyzer to olap4j so that we can share the costs of maintaining it with the community. Lastly, as I realized at the recent community meetup in Barcelona, we have a great team, and we need to harness their energy. After a beer or two with PAT developers Tom and Paul, some inspiring demos from Pedro and Daniel, we hatched ideas of incorporating spark lines and writeback into PAT, and I'm sure the ideas will keep on flowing. With this much inspiration and hard work coming from the community, how can we possibly fail? Labels: pentaho analyzer jpivot pat open source olap viewer Caio Moreno de Souza said... Thanks for your explanation about PAT and the new Pentaho Analyzer. I hope you guys could put more effort in the PAT Project, so the Community will also have a good olap viewer. Tom Barber said... Hi Caio, have you seen the new developments since Barcelona? http://pentahomusings.blogspot.com We're certainly heading the right way at a decent rate. Although a big sticking point currently is drilling, but we'll work it out. Sebastian Beca said... Great explanation, and I hope PAT keeps going so the community can have a good analysis tool. I hope they are also inspired by Tableau. On another note, looking at the Jasper Analysis which seems to be built on Mondrian, they seem to have connected it to Excel, ala Pentaho Spreadsheet Services. Does this work? Is it possible to connect Excel's dynamic tables to Mondrian? This would solve alot of the problems our clients have on working with JPivot. Julian Hyde said... Sebastian, you should nag Jaspersoft about that. As far as I know, their extensions to Mondrian are not released open source. A lot of hot air about open source goodness comes from that company, but all of the code they release seems to be proprietary. Sherman Wood said... Jaspersoft ODBO Connect can be used for Mondrian, Microsoft Analysis Services and JasperAnalysis. Like most (all?) ODBO drivers, it uses XML/A to communicate to the OLAP server. It is a commercial product, and is not related to Pentaho Spreadsheet Services at all. I don't think Pentaho Spreadsheet Services exists anymore. JasperAnalysis uses an unmodified version of Mondrian. Any mods or bug fixes Jaspersoft has done to Mondrian have been contributed back to Mondrian. The OLAP UI in JasperAnalysis is based on JPivot. "A lot of hot air about open source goodness comes from that company, but all of the code they release seems to be proprietary." This is dead wrong. Jaspersoft has the JasperReports, iReport, JasperServer/JasperAnalysis open source projects. We have commercial editions of these, with a variety of functional enhancements, which come as "visible source" - you get the source for the Jaspersoft commercial components with the commercial subscription. "Visible source" isn't open source, and you know that, Sherman. I said "All the code they release is proprietary" because I haven't seen Jaspersoft create any new features in the open source versions of their products in the last two or three years. Sure, their releases contain a lot of open source code, but it's either old code, minor bug fixes, or code written by someone else. New features written by Jaspersoft are released under a proprietary license, not open source. JasperAnalysis is a flagship product of a self-proclaimed "open source" company, yet Jaspersoft has never contributed anything beyond bug-fixes. The code contribution log speaks for itself. Over the last two years the contributions have been no more than minor bug-fixes. Meanwhile, Pentaho continues to invest in all of its core projects, including Mondrian, releasing a lot of features, the vast majority of them under a permissive open source license. For two companies that both call themselves "leaders in open source BI", the contrast could not be more striking. Quote: "All the code they release is proprietary" because I haven't seen Jaspersoft create any new features in the open source versions of their products in the last two or three years. This is patently not true. JasperReports, iReport and JasperServer/JasperAnalysis open source versions have changed dramatically over that time. JasperAnalysis uses Mondrian and JPivot, adding value with improved UI, integration, repository, security etc. We have not had a need to add additional features into core Mondrian because it works so well, though I will be providing a major lift to the workbench soon. I'd say the contrasts between Jaspersoft and Pentaho in terms of business model and approach to community are reducing, as Pentaho is developing a wider split between their open source and commercial versions. It is not just the Pentaho Analyzer - Pentaho v3.0 has many commercial only features. sethladd said... Thanks for the insight. We're just getting into a Pentaho, and thus Mondrian, deployment. I've downloaded Pentaho 3.5RC2, but do not see this new enhanced OLAP browser. Your post hints that it will replace jPivot. Do you know when or how that will happen? Thanks! Still finalizing Analyzer for release. Expect to see a release candidate in the next month or so. diega said... Hi Julian, I wanted to know a little bit more about the Analyzer, specially about it's filtering capabilities. Our customers find it very dificult to search for a specific member to use as a filter, when there are thousands of them in a Dimension. Is there a better way in the Analyzer to do this that is not browsing and endless list like JPivot does? Paul Stöllberger said... we have a dimension browser in PAT that can filter for a specific member in your dimension. don't know exactly but i think clear view can do it as well Benny said... Analyzer supports many filters including equals, not equals, contains and not contains. You can also combine them for example give me all products that contain "Hardware" (case insensitive) but exclude "Trial Hardware". When creating equals/not equals filters, the filter editor dialog will show only 200 members max but the user can use a "Find" box to search for other members. Analyzer has many other types of date based filters like Current, Next, Previous, 90 Days Ago, 4 Weeks Ahead, YAGO, QAGO, Before, Between, etc. However, these won't make the current release. mmflynn said... Hi Julian -- just checking all your good work now. I have to say it's very impressive. I don't think you're being fair to Jaspersoft, however. Lots of companies build product on top of the Mondrian community-based project, and Jaspersoft (Sherman Wood exceptionally so) contributes back. You also know that Pentaho doesn't own all the copyrights, and therefore doesn't and cannot "own" Mondrian (though they are good stewards under your administration). I don't think Jaspersoft provides "hot air" about open source. Your justifications for commercial open source are exactly the same as Jaspersoft's (and Pentaho's and many others'). Enterprise and OEM customers appreciate the commercial open sorce model -- they know we're capable of supporting them, that we're going to be in business for the long-haul AND they can get the source code without legal delays. (Enterprise customers commonly request "closed" source code be put into escrow in case the software vendor goes out of business or forces an unwanted upgrade, for example. This is a hassle for everyone.) Jaspersoft has smart, experienced, dedicated people working to make the community edition releases robust, stable, and easy to install. This software is delivered by senior people and they are GOOD. So please don't denigrate the efforts of our engineers, QA, tech pubs, and the execs who insist on delivering high-quality open source community projects at the expense of closed-source bells-and-whistles. Believe me -- we invest in the community. Mary Flynn Give me a break, Jaspersoft. "JasperSoft Subscription License Agreement" is not Open Source. If you pride yourself as an Open Source company, then please explain to me why a simple 200 lines CSVServlet.java has to be released under "JasperSoft Subscription License Agreement"? You are absolutely, 100% correct. The Jaspersoft subscription agreement is not open source. It is very clearly a proprietary license. Our community edition builds are released (full binary installations and open source code) under the GNU GPL. Why? We can do this because we own the copyrights. Why don't ALL open source companies follow this model? Because they can't -- they don't own all the rights. And yes, there are opinions on this: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#ReleaseUnderGPLAndNF. I'm not going to defend either point of view. It is what it is. Jaspersoft is a Commercial Open Source company. Supporting our community is a fundamental aspect of our business. We're not religious about who is "better" or "more" open source. We just are. And that's it. As for CSV exporter. You got me stumped. P.S. Here's the code you wanted: http://jasperforge.org/scm/viewvc.php/tags/js-3.5.0/jasperserver-war-jar/src/main/java/com/jaspersoft/jasperserver/war/CSVServlet.java?root=jasperserver&view=markup. It looks like the header is quite wrong, but the source is clearly open and accessible. I'll enter a bug report so it uses the correct GPL header. Here's the bug report: http://jasperforge.org/projects/jasperserver/tracker/view.php?id=4389. You're not making much sense to me. You say you're not religious about who is "better" or "more" open source. Are you saying that anyone who points out that an awful lot of what Jaspersoft -- a self-proclaimed open-source company -- releases is not actually open source just being pedantic? Whether something is open source actually very important. And the open source community agrees. That's why they went to the trouble of creating the Open Source Definition, to spell out precisely what can be called open source. I see you're trying to whip up some FUD about the fact that Pentaho doesn't own copyright. Copyright is not all it's cracked up to be. It gives the owning company power -- mainly the power to release under a license, in particular under a commercial license -- but also gives that company power to do things not in the interests of the community, such as taking the whole project closed source, or refusing to grant commercial licenses to partners that it now considers competitors. A commercial open source company can be successful without owning copyright: for instance, Redhat does not own the copyright on the Linux kernel. Linux is in good shape because its copyright is spread among thousands of contributors. Contrast that with MySQL, whose future is in doubt because Oracle now owns 100% of its copyright. Regarding CSVServlet.java. It sounds like there was an honest mistake in the header, and thanks for fixing it. But your remark "the source is clearly open and accessible" betrays your ignorance of software licensing and open source licensing in particular. Just because a piece of code is released to the public and is accessible on a web site does not mean that it can be freely. (Sun's JDK ships with full source code but was not, until recently, open source.) It would be irresponsible for a developer to use any of that code in an application. That is why the license is so important. The point I was trying to make in my original post was that an open source project has significant advantages over one that is not open source -- in that it attracts contributions in the form of features, bug fixes, testing, documentation and support from the community -- but that those advantages dry up pretty fast if important parts of the project are taken closed source. Commercial open source companies, including Pentaho, have to deal with that dilemma. I am not "denigrating" Jaspersoft's engineers, QA and tech pubs. Jaspersoft's management have made the decision to put less and less code into open source, and they have every right to do that, but as less of value is placed in the community edition there will inevitably be fewer contributions from the community. As you put it, "it is what it is", or to paraphrase, "you reap what you sow". First, I want to reiterate my original comment -- I am very impressed with the work you do and am disappointed we're in an argument. Frankly, I'm trying to get out of the tit-for-tat. I suppose my objection is that you are a very respected architect and your words have a lot of weight. Because of that, when you put out a strong opinion about Jaspersoft, I feel there needs to be a voice to represent the other point of view. I'm not trying to convince you or anyone else that you're wrong or I'm right -- we just take different approaches. I was a contractor working independently with several different vendors for a number of years. I took on full time work with Jaspersoft in March because I believe in the products and the company. And yes, the open source business model is difficult. You yourself made a justification for close-sourcing some of your recent code. It's no different. What fud did I put out there re: Pentaho? I try to be respectful. I just mentioned that Pentaho does not own all the Mondrian copyrights which is absolutely significant when you look at the licensing options. And no, I'm not ignorant. That was a cheap shot. Anyway. I honestly don't think this level of vendor bickering is good for the community. I'm not going to go out of my way to complain about other products or companies, but I will continue to provide another point of view when I feel it's necessary. I'm sure we'll meet in person at a trade show someday. 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__label__cc	0.628072	0.371928	Five Key Questions For The 2019 Season With the Mets hiring an agent as opposed to a front office baseball executive, you knew Brodie Van Wagenen was going to have a learning curve. As such, he was going to make some bad moves, and certainly, you knew he was going to make some curious decisions. Some may inure to the Mets benefit while others may not. If these questionable decisions do work out for the Mets, then a World Series may very well be in the team’s future. Why Isn’t Cano Playing First Base? Robinson Cano was the big bat the Mets acquired this offseason, and the plan is for him to be a fixture in the Mets lineup. However, that is for as many games as he is able to play. To his credit, Brodie Van Wagenen has been quite vocal about the need to give Cano more days off than he is accustomed due to Cano being 36 years old. If we harken back to 1999, Bobby Valentine did this with a 40 year old Rickey Henderson to get the last good season out of Henderson. That also led to the Mets claiming the Wild Card and going to the NLCS. For Cano, it is not just his age, but it is also his position. Players who play up the middle play the more taxing defensive positions in baseball. That takes more of a toll on a 36 year old player. Given Jed Lowrie‘s presence on the team, you have to wonder why the team doesn’t make Lowrie the second baseman with Cano playing first. Putting Cano at first would be putting him in a position where he would not be as subject to fatigue over the course of the season. It should also be noted with Cano already 36 years old and his signed for five more seasons, it is a position switch he will eventually have to make. If he is going to have to make the switch, why not do it now so the Mets could coax more at-bats and games from him over the course of the season? Where Is Davis Getting His Opportunity? With J.D. Davis‘ minor league stats, you could make the argument all he needs to succeed at the Major League level is an opportunity to play at the Major League level. Certainly, it’s a fair point to raise when someone hits .342/.406/.583 in 85 Triple-A games and .175/.248/.223 in 42 MLB games. The problem is you’d be hard-pressed to where exactly he would get that opportunity. He’s behind Todd Frazier and Jed Lowrie at the third base depth chart. He’s behind Peter Alonso and Frazier on the first base depth chart. He’s a right-handed compliment to right-handed hitters. He’s not suited to play outfield in the majors, and even if he was, he’s buried on the outfield depth chart as well. Combine that with Lowrie and Jeff McNeil being the versatile players on the roster, and you have to wonder where he gets hit at-bats. After you are done contemplating that, you are left to wonder why the team would trade three good prospects in Luis Santana, Ross Adolph, and Scott Manea for him when they could’ve just as easily signed Mark Reynolds or Matt Davidson. Was McNeil Playing LF the Original Plan? One of the benefits of having McNeil on the roster is having a versatile player on the roster. Despite the team’s initial reluctance last year, he is someone who has received playing time at all four infield positions, and he has always trained in the outfield. To that extent, penciling him as the team’s starting left fielder, even against just right-handed pitching made a ton of sense. That plan made even more sense when you consider Michael Conforto and Brandon Nimmo are both capable center fielders with Juan Lagares being the best defensive center fielder in the game. Really, breaking it down, moving McNeil to left field was probably the best way to handle the Mets resources. However, the plan to move McNeil to left field does raise some interesting questions. For example, why didn’t the team send him to winter ball to play outfield. Also, why would the team expend resources to obtain Keon Broxton only to make him a fifth outfielder? Moreover, if McNeil is your outfielder, shouldn’t the team have a better insurance option against his inability to play left field than Broxton? What’s the Plan for Backup Catcher? When the Mets traded Kevin Plawecki to the Indians, they were effectively announcing Travis d’Arnaud was healthy enough to be the backup. That was called into question when Mickey Callaway said Devin Mesoraco signed with the Mets because of his relationship with Jacob deGrom. It would seem if the Mets signed Mesoraco to catch deGrom the team now has one catcher too many. Does this mean the team is planning on moving him on the eve of Opening Day, or is Mesoraco willing to catch in the minors until the inevitable injury to d’Arnaud or Wilson Ramos. If that is the case, what impact does this have on Tomas Nido, and his future? On the bright side, the Mets have good depth at the catcher position, but that only remains true to the extent they are keeping everyone. If they are the challenge is then to keep everyone happy and sharp, which is much easier said than done. Where’s the Starting Pitching Depth? With Jason Vargas struggling since the 2017 All-Star Break, you would have thought the Mets would have done more to address their pitching depth. That goes double when you consider the team traded Justin Dunn, their best starting pitching prospect, and with David Peterson and Anthony Kay being at least a couple of years away. With the health issues facing Noah Syndergaard and Steven Matz, you would’ve thought the Mets would have been pressed more to add starting pitching depth. When you couple that with Van Wagenen knowing Jeff Barry councils his pitching clients to limit their innings, you would believe the Mets would have pressed to go more than four deep in the pitching rotation. But the Mets haven’t. Not really. Their depth is essentially the same group who posted an ERA over 5.00 as MLB staters along with Hector Santiago, a pitcher now better suited to the bullpen. When you look at this rotation the best health they had was in 2015, and that was a year the team needed 10 starting pitchers to get through the season. This team has nowhere near that type of depth. As it turns out, more than anything, it may turn out to be the pitching depth which is the biggest key to the 2019 season. If the team is healthy, and deGrom and Syndergaard go against their agent’s advice, it is possible the team has enough pitching to get through the season. If the pitchers do impose pitching limits and there is more than one pitching injury, the team’s hopes of winning anything may be done, and that is even if the other questions are answered in the affirmative. Anthony Kay , Bobby Valentine , Brandon Nimmo , David Peterson , Devin Mesoraco , Hector Santiago , J.D. Davis , Jacob deGrom , Jason Vargas , Jed Lowrie , Jeff McNeil , Juan Lagares , Justin Dunn , Keon Broxton , Kevin Plawecki , Michael Conforto , Mickey Callaway , Noah Syndergaard , Peter Alonso , Rickey Henderson , Robinson Cano , Ross Adolph , Scott Manea , Steven Matz , Todd Frazier , Travis d'Arnaud , Wilson Ramos 4 thoughts on “Five Key Questions For The 2019 Season” 1 Cano isn’t playing first base because he practically demanded he only play second at his introductory press conference and said he had “bad memories” of his brief stint at first. He didnt quitttttte say that it was conditional on the record on waiving his no-trade, but you say that you said it all. He is pretty close to a lot of all time second base records could be part of it. https://www.sny.tv/mets/news/watch-robinson-cano-talks-mets-trade-suggests-he-wants-to-play-only-second-base/301431014/ Also, Lowrie is no spring chicken either, 34, and has a negative dWAR for his career, and Cano is plus 69. He is indisputably the better second baseman defensively. That cover that one? 🙂 2. Twofer. You say there is “insufficient OF depth”, and that “JD Davis not a major league OF.” Davis didn’t play much OF in the minors, but then again he didn’t play much of anything, only two seasons so far. He had 26 innings out there without an error, has a gun, and both Brodie and Callaway has said he is an OF option. I’m excited about Davis, PCL batting champ last year, and I’m not sure that he was acquired as a major piece for 2019, necessarily. He was a pitcher until 2014 and maybe needs more time to find himself defensively, but he was out of minor league options in Houston. He isn’t a free agent until 2025 (jaysus) so he may just be a longer term plan. And Brodie talked about a lot about his pitching, for what that is worth. Davis was moved all around in Houston and pinch hit late against closers. He only had 181 ABs. Coming off the batting title, if he had like ten more hits spread around in the majors, he be considered a future star. I mean 2018 AAA batting title, elire piwer, three positions and pitches? 3. Backup catcher. No way when they traded Plawecki they were relying on TDA’s Tommy John arm to be the sole backup, not with Ramos injury history. Plawecki had value so they traded him, but I think the plan was always to get an older veteran who wouldn’t chafe on the bench. And I really like Mesoraco. 4. It’s not really true that Vargas has struggled since the 2017 AS break. He was injured and missed spring training and sucked the first half of 2018, but he was effective in the second half, 3.81 ERA, (much better than Matz) and en fuego in his last seven starts on the year 6-1, 2.56 ERA, averaged six innings a start, beat the Phillies, the Cubs and the Nats twice. I agree whole heartedly that a solid 3-4 guy would be an awesome addition, and I bet there will be an acquisition before opening day…..but frankly Matz worries me more than Vargas. Or, of course, we can look for a strong middle reliever and move Lugo into the starting rotation, Brodie has said a lot recently that Lugo and Gsellman are still rotation possiblities. Lugo is great in the bullpen, everybody seems fixated on that….but we added talent there, and he surely isn’t irreplaceable. 1. Cano demanding he play 2B is another strike against that trade because I’d much rather Cano 150+ games than 130+ games. 2. Davis is a Four-A player. 3. Mesoraco is bad 4. It’s very true he has struggled since the 2017 All-Star Break. Just look at the stats. 1. We need another corner IFer like a hole in the head. Maybe we could have an extreme shift, and have Cano, Smith, Alonso, Frazier and Davis all play first, and go with two outfielders. Maybe D’Arnaud at first too. From 2007 to 2017 Cano averaged 159 games. 159. His fielding was above average last year and certainly above Lowrie. You read the article I linked? He is a Hall of Famer, and he doesn’t want to play first, Brodie is his pal, and he waived his no trade after a discussion. You can hate the trade, but this is reality. You asked why he isn’t playing first. 2. If Davis is AAAA, you changed your viewpoint from above I guess. 3. Mesoraco is going to be deGrom’s catcher. Caught him today. That’s the plan. 4. I don’t have to look, I just listed Vargas most recent stats. What did you dislike about his 2nd half? I hope they add another pitcher too, but Matz was the disaster second half of last year. 1. Cano not wanting to play first costs games now and in the future. 2. I’ve always had that opinion of Davis. 3. That’s a bad plan. 4. You should look at the larger sample. Trivia Friday: Won Home Run Derby And Led League in Homers	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line287
__label__wiki	0.63318	0.63318	The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer Richard Whittall: The Globalist's Top Ten Books in 2016: The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer Middle East Eye: " The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer is one of the weightiest, most revelatory, original and important books written about sport" “The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer has helped me immensely with great information and perspective.” Bob Bradley, former US and Egyptian national coach: "James Dorsey’s The Turbulent World of Middle Eastern Soccer (has) become a reference point for those seeking the latest information as well as looking at the broader picture." Alon Raab in The International Journal of the History of Sport: “Dorsey’s blog is a goldmine of information.” Play the Game: "Your expertise is clearly superior when it comes to Middle Eastern soccer." Andrew Das, The New York Times soccer blog Goal: "No one is better at this kind of work than James Dorsey" David Zirin, Sports Illustrated: "Essential Reading" Change FIFA: "A fantastic new blog' Richard Whitall of A More Splendid Life: "James combines his intimate knowledge of the region with a great passion for soccer" Christopher Ahl, Play the Game: "An excellent Middle East Football blog" James Corbett, Inside World Football Qatar unwittingly forces potential improvement of soccer governance FIFA executive Theo Zwanziger addresses the European parliament By James M. Dorsey This is hardly how Qatar would have wanted to do it, but the Gulf state has unwittingly contributed to a potential improvement in the governance of soccer and word sports as a result of mounting controversy over its labour standards. . The controversy in which Qatar has sought to evade political demands for granting workers full political rights, including the right to organize freely and bargain collectively, by adopting significantly improved standards for their living and working conditions is forcing international sports associations to make human and other rights part of their criteria for awarding in future a country the right to host a mega sporting event. "We need to rethink this and give human rights a much higher status," Theo Zwanziger, speaking on behalf of world soccer body FIFA, told a European parliament hearing on Qatar this week. Mr. Zwanziger’s statement follows last year’s rejection by the International Olympics Committee (IOC) of Qatar’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics, in part, according to labour activists, because of workers’ conditions in the Gulf state. Mr. Zwanziger admitted in his testimony that the plight of foreign workers, who constitute a majority of the population of the tiny energy-rich state, had not been a consideration in the awarding three years ago of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. That has now backfired and put both Qatar and FIFA on the defensive. Neither Qatar nor FIFA recognized at the time that the awarding would not only enhance the Gulf state’s prestige but give leverage to activists like the international trade unions which they had lacked prior to Qatar’s successful bid. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has campaigned for the last three years against the kafala or sponsorship system, prevalent not only in Qatar but also other Gulf states, that effectively restricts workers’ freedoms, including travel and the ability to seek alternative employment, and makes them dependent on their employers. To Qatar’s credit, it has sought to structurally address concerns about material living and working conditions and actively engaged with the International Labour Organization (ILO), a United Nations agency, and human rights groups like Amnesty International. The Qatari committee responsible for delivering World Cup-related infrastructure this week issued in advance of the European parliament hearing its most detailed workers welfare standards to date yet, a 50-page document to be included in all tournament-related contracts. Although denounced by the ITUC as too little, too imprecise and failing to address the fundamental sponsorship issue, the standards, if properly implemented and policed, do in significant ways improve workers’ living and working conditions. In contrast to the ILO and Amnesty, which endorsed the standards as a step forward while insisting that Qatar still has to address the far more invasive and painful issue of sponsorship, Qatar’s relationship with the ITUC has remained acrimonious. Qatari officials say the trade unions have been far less sensitive to the fact that Qatari reluctance to address those issues are not simply the recalcitrance of an autocracy, albeit an enlightened one. Unlike in other countries where the citizenry accounts for a majority of the population, granting rights of any kind to foreigners raises the spectre of the minority Qatari population losing control of its country, society and culture. This is not to say that foreigners, and in this case workers, should not have those rights. What it does say however is that change is a far more existential, intrusive and gut-wrenching process Failure to recognize that risks hardening dividing lines rather than creating an environment in which interests of all parties are taken into account, fears are addressed and the pain involved in fundamental change is eased. By the same token, the ITUC’s hard line ensures that the larger issues that go beyond the immediate living and working conditions of foreign workers remain on the table. The stakes for all parties are high and perhaps highest for the Qatar. Privately, many Qataris recognize that evading the demographic issue is unsustainable even if they don’t know what the solution is. To be fair, Qatar’s grappling with some aspects of fundamental issues while seeking to evade others has already produced change. In a region governed by autocrats that more often than not refuse to seriously engage with their critics, Qatar has set a precedent with its engagement with international organizations like Amnesty. Human rights, trade union and media focus on the plight of foreign workers has put fundamental rights firmly on the agenda of international sports associations at the cost of considerable reputational damage to Qatar that threatens its goal of employing sports to acquire soft power. It has made FIFA as much a party pressuring the Qataris for change as are the trade unions or human rights groups. Depending on proper implementation and policing, significant aspects of foreign workers’ living and working conditions will be addressed. Qatar is also already looking at ways of tackling other equally onerous stages of a worker’s migration cycle, first and foremost the frequently corrupt recruitment process that puts labourers into high debt even before they set foot in the Gulf state. All of this widens cracks in the door. The trick now is to carry that process forward. To do so, an international division of labour with good and bad cops may well serve its purpose. There is no guaranteed outcome. But the choices that Qatar and ultimately other Gulf states face have never before been posed in starker terms. Awarding the World Cup to Qatar was “a risk and a chance... (that could) help improve the human rights situation," Mr. Zwanziger told the European parliament. James M. Dorsey is a Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University. He is also co-director of the University of Würzburg’s Institute for Fan Culture, and the author of The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer blog and a forthcoming book with the same title. 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__label__cc	0.51206	0.48794	House Republicans Kick Off 2018 Campaign St. Paul, Minn.—House Republican Leaders announced a strong team of candidates Tuesday at a mass filing event as they filed for office seeking to build on the historic accomplishments from the 2017-2018 session. Speaker of the House Kurt Daudt (R-Crown) introduced several candidates at a press conference on the front steps of the State Office Building as House Republicans kicked off the 2018 election cycle. "Over the past two years, House Republicans led on the issues Minnesotans care about; we lowered health care costs for the first time in years, passed into law the largest tax cut in nearly two decades, and invested record amounts into road and bridge infrastructure," Speaker Daudt said. "We have a team of Minnesotans from all walks of life that are ready to run, ready to win, and ready to serve their communities and build on those accomplishments when they're elected this November." House Republicans are working to maintain and grow their historic majority. Last fall, House Republicans grew their majority to a historic 77 seats, the most after a Presidential election in modern history. SUPPORT THE HRCC Connect with MNHRCC House Republican Campaign Committee PO Box 17400, St. Paul, MN 55117 PREPARED AND PAID FOR BY THE HRCC 525 PARK STREET SUITE 245 St. PAUL, MN 55103	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line291
__label__cc	0.593118	0.406882	Numbers and Exponents Inquiry #2: The Watch How does one forgive the people from the past? Forgiving is hard to do. Just like in the picture above, the path to forgiveness is far, hard and confusing while the path to bitterness looks like a straight road. Every person makes mistakes and you have to let go of the disappointment, anger or whatever feelings you have towards the person who made the mistake. But some mistakes are so large, how are you expected to forgive and forget about them? In the story, the boy, Elie Wiesel, is taken by the Nazis and he has to let go of his life post-Holocaust. Before Elie is taken, he hid his Gold Watch which he recently had gotten from his family for his Bar Mitzvah. Fast Forward 20 years, and Elie has survived the Holocaust and has returned to his home from before the Holocaust to search for his watch. He remembers that he hid it “in a deep, dark hole, three paces from the fence, under a poplar tree.”(221) He took the watch out, looks at it and decides to “tplace the watch back into it’s box, close the cover” (224) and put the watch back in the ground. But why did he do this? Because he wanted to leave himself behind as a reflection of his presence. He did this because he wanted to forget about his past. He wanted to move on from his dark past. It was hard for him to see the watch because it reminded him of his memories and he didn’t wish to see them because he could never forgive and forget about what the Nazis did to him. It was hard for him to let go by he knew he had to because otherwise I feel like he would be practically saying that he forgave the people who caused him harm. The way to forgive the past and the people from the past is to accept what had happened, try to understand why it happened to you and what caused it, and also let go of what happened. It is hard to forgive but it’s even harder to forget. In the picture there is a path that says “Firgiveness Peak” which points to a very high mountain with rain, snow and lightning which I believe shows challenges along the way to forgiveness. The other path with a sign that says “Bitterness Road” looks really easy and smooth. This shows that Forgiveness is not easy to do but in the end is worth it, unlike bitterness, which is easy but won’t take you anywhere. By Simran M 07.03.16. No Comments on Inquiry #2: The Watch English 10, Grade 10 IP The Watch ← Previous post: Inquiry #1: Harrison Bergeron Next post: Nuclear Disaster → Reporting Out On Your Career Planning Capital Punishment Paragraphs Ice Cream Lab Atomic Structure and Periodicity in Properties Life is a Bowl of Butter Chicken 10 Amazing Canada AskewDancePE10B Black Californium Canada Digital Autobiography DNA Earth EA Sports EASports Eclipses Elements Exponents FR Glog Glogster Grade 10 IRRATIONAL Math 10 Native Numbers Origami Planning Planning 10 Poll Poster PowerPoint Presentation Rebellion Refugees Results Science 9 Seasons Socials Socials 10 Space Stars Sun Thomas Jones US Versailles Vet Veterinarian Windsor Back To Top Simran's Blog \| Proudly powered by WordPress \| Theme: Cherish by Carolina	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line297
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__label__wiki	0.694145	0.694145	Lodge 49: Season 1 Watch on AMC.com / iTunes Oh my god is this a weird show. The whole thing seems to operate in a weed haze, a cloud of smoke. Its overly-languid pace and its plot that seemingly goes absolutely nowhere is so ridiculously antithetical to life these days that in its weirdness, it presents a life that doesn’t seem all that bad. But, somehow, the show’s creators have us tuning in week after week expecting and hoping that something, anything, will actually happen, only to be disappointed time after time. But, also, not disappointed. And that’s where the weirdness comes in. I mean, what other show could get away with ten episodes of nothingness (but not in a Seinfeld kind of way) in today’s plot-driven television world? So, this show is not only named after the Thomas Pynchon novel, The Crying of Lot 49, one can draw a direct line from the plot of that novel to the vague plot of the show. And when I say “vague,” I truly mean vague. Both involve a mysterious society into which a rudderless individual is thrown. In this case it’s the surfing pool boy, Dud (Wyatt Russell), who happens upon the Order of the Lynx, which is essentially a Mason-like fraternal order whose local lodge is number 49. He was once an employee of his dad’s pool business, but has fallen on hard times since his dad died, the business bankrupted and he was bitten by a poisonous snake on a surfing trip, which has ruined his ankle and his surfing life. He drives a Volkswagen Thing, is constantly drinking out of a thirsty-two ouncer plastic mug and has about as little motivation as any loser inhabiting the low, sun-bleached Long Beach community in which he wanders. I wish I could even describe the narrative further, but there’s honestly not much to it. He discovers this lodge, which is filled with relatively normal men and woman, and feels in some way that joining it will somehow give his life purpose. But, really, it doesn’t. But maybe it will. Although every time we think that maybe some of the magical elements the show hints at will come to the surface and the mystical connection that Dud has to the lodge will be revealed, the show pulls back and we’re left watching him work a temp job, pawn stuff and fight with his sister (Sonya Cassidy). His sister, who is a waitress at a Tilted Kilt kind of joint, and is self-destructive, cynical and nihilistic in the same way Dud is weirdly optimistic and incredibly earnest. I’m going to go ahead and assume there is all sorts of underlying myth going on with this show. Some biblical allegory or connection to some literary thing (besides the Pynchon novel) that I don’t understand. Maybe Dud is like Jesus and the lodge is the ancient world or something. Or maybe he’s Odysseus and the lodge is, uh, Ithica. Maybe it’s like O Brother, Where Art Thou? or some esoteric thing that’s beyond my understanding that parallels something. Or perhaps it’s just completely original and completely weird. All I know is that it kept me watching because every time I think it’s going to zig, it zags. But it never zags hard. It just kind of meanders off in the opposite direction of where I wanted it to go. Like a stoner following a leaf while you’re trying to direct him to some event. The whole thing just has this particular and peculiar way about it that is so unlike anything else on TV that in and of itself makes it interesting. It’s like that odd Norwegian slow television thing, but with more donuts and the occasional rodent resurrection. The series has already gotten a second season from AMC, so it’ll be super-interesting to see if they keep up the pacing or if they get a nudge to up the ante just a little bit. Odds are we’re in for another season of hoping for something, expecting something and being disappointed on a weekly basis (but also excited because the show completely submarines our expectations). Adam GodleyAMCBrent JenningsBrian Doyle-MurrayBruce CampbellComedy-DramaSonya CassidySupernaturalWyatt Russell The Waking Dead: Season 7 & Still Sucking The Umbrella Academy: Season 1 Forever: Season 1 The OA: Season 1 The Haunting of Hill House: Season 1	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line305
__label__cc	0.502324	0.497676	Donald Frederick Pratt Donald Frederick Pratt was born in 1908. He left England for Malaya in 1927. He was Assistant Planter, on Rengam Estate, Johore. During the 1930s he was a member of the Johore Volunteer Engineers. He also played Rugby for Johore. Pratt – Rice-Oxley Engagement 14 November 1935 He married Mary Eva Rice-Oxley on 11 April 1936 at St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Singapore. Before the Japanese invasion of Singapore took place, Mary was safely evacuated from Singapore with son Anthony on Orion, arriving in Freemantle, Western Australia, on 6 January 1942. Donald was evacuated from Singapore aboard the Mata Hari but was later captured along with all the other passengers and crew of that ship. He thus became a civilian internee at Palembang and Muntok. Donald was master of ceremonies/compere for various internment camp entertainment productions. He also became one of the camp’s barbers thereby earning an income and bettering his life somewhat. He is mentioned occasionally by William McDougall in his diary published as ‘If I Come out Alive’. Donald died in captivity on 1 May 1945 aged 37 at Muntok. His grave is E15 on the Graves page and a photograph of it appears at the end of this page. [Donald was the nephew of the English actor William Henry Pratt who was better known by his Hollywood name, Boris Karloff.] Donald’s Probate: Below are three letters sent to Donald’s widow Mary Pratt after the war. The first one is from D. C. Thomson, the second from Geoffrey Husband, and the third from John Drysdale. All three were interned with Pratt at Palembang and Muntok. c/o The George Hotel, Perth , W. A. 1st February 1946. Dear Mrs Pratt, As we are leaving for England in a few days time I am doing what, so far, I have hesitated to venture but, arising out of a few minutes conversation which Mr Coales had with me the other evening I am reassured that you would find a short account of things acceptable. I was so surprised that Husband had only given the scantiest details because he was, as you can imagine, closest to your husband throughout the period and, as I will describe stood by him in the most admirable fashion. Donald left Singapore in company of Husband on, I believe, the “Mata Hari” about the 13 Feb ‘ 42. As it was undamaged and was the only ship to arrive at Muntok, Banka Island, capable of being sailed away, subsequently, by the Japs all the passengers left the ship in orderly fashion with their luggage – which was unique in most of the cases landed there. Some 800 survivors were housed in a group of buildings at Muntok – women, men and children of civilian and services alike, and for the first few weeks there we remained. About the middle of March everybody was transferred to Palembang, Sumatra where civilians and services were separated and a group of about 165 British civilians spent a month doing forced work at Pladjoe near the oil-refineries. I can remember Donald had a slight recurrence of his kidney trouble then but it was the only, as far as I can remember, sickness he had during the next 18 months. We were then transferred to Palembang Gaol where we shared a crowded building with about 260 Dutch internees. Donald shared quarters with a “Kongsi” :- Bob Meldrum (Johore Mach Inspector), McGuffin (Surveyor of Ships S’pore), Hugh Sym, Maurice Kirke and David Matheson (F.M.S. Police) and Husband. Donald and Bob Meldrum were operating early as camp barbers, a job which they continued right through whilst fit enough. After spending some months in the Gaol we were moved to a new camp on the outskirts of the town in January 1943 where our conditions were quite good and it was still possible to buy extra food at reasonable prices. The camp organisation was quite good and a communal fund operated to the benefit of all including the most penurious Britisher. As Block-leader of the group which contained the “Kongsi” referred to I can vouch for the fact that they were as happy – outstandingly so – as people could be in those conditions. We remained there until September 1943 when we were suddenly all sent back to Muntok where we were painfully overcrowded in the Gaol there. Some features of food were new and pleasant for a few weeks,particularly the advent of fresh fish, but as absolutely nothing could be bought the shortage of food began to really make itself felt. At the beginning of 1944 the rations were deplorable and a few weeks dietary of a glutinous mess concocted with tapioca flour was the foundation of deficiency diseases. Malaria was rife and although of a mild type was , nevertheless, a very grave cause of extensive death. Young and old, delicate and strong were alike affected and the “Kongsi” was without one exception in sufferers. There was an absolutely inadequate supply of quinine given and the doctors – Dr G.F. West and a Dutch Dr Boerma – unable to get anything satisfactory despite continual representations to the Japs. Donald with his son Anthony Malaria, as you know,will give the victim respite at at frequent intervals so that camp duties were still carried on uninterruptedly. Donald and Bob Meldrum were camp “personalities” and your husband was associated with some variety entertainments as well. He and H. Hammett (M.C.S.) put on a “Western Brothers” show on two occasions. Hammett incidentally, was our elected British Representative who kept the records. Husband knows him intimately. When funds became short individual camp members resorted to all kinds of ingenious ways of raising money. As a certain amount of extra food could be bought in pitifully small quantities this show of initiative was worth while. Husband was admired by many for the way he went about this problem and amazed many of us by his “grit”. After a period of caring for each other it was necessary to admit Donald to the camp hospital which was run by ourselves and predominantly British. That, I think was in September and after a few weeks he recovered and was back at camp duties again but only to return again after a week or two. It will be no surprise to you, but I must mention that for sheer “guts” Donald was outstanding and we all had the greatest admiration for his courage in those grim days. Camp life, where an undercurrent of desperation showed up the individual qualities , placed most value on those who could “take it”. Circumstances had pitched us into what was one of the worst camps for mortality, due, primarily, to under-nourishment and we had every opportunity of “weighing’” each other. Bob Meldrum joined Donald in the hospital and he also was a courageous soul. Husband throughout, struggled to raise the food level for your husband and succeeded phenomenally but, of course, inadequately low as the ration was. There was always a group of individuals who were willing to sell part of theirs at ”black market” prices which, of course, was quite suicidal. I mention this as you will be puzzled as to the source of purchasable food. Meldrum died and by this time one or two of the “Kongsi” had gone but there was always hope that Donald, though in low health, would get through. On the 12 March the camp was transferred to a camp in the interior of Sumatra near Bencoelen but about 20 hospital patients considered too ill to move were left at Muntok along with sufficient of our own staff and a very good Eurasion (Dutch) doctor and Donald was one of those who remained. He is buried in the Dutch cemetery along with about 260 of his camp fellows after a regulation burial conducted by those who remained behind. Husband did as much as was possible nd that, I can assure you , cannot be underestimated. He himself only just managed to survive after a very serious illness and although he is not a person with whom I could find much in common, his conduct in the later and grimmer days has my greatest admiration. Well Mrs Pratt, I do hope i haven’t wearied you with this rambling effort of mine but it has been my sad task to contact the other widows and I felt that any gaps in your own knowledge of the events subsequent to Feb ‘ 42 might be usefully filled by me Please do not feel yourself incumbent to acknowledge this and Allie and myself offer our sympathy and best wishes for the future in a concluding note D. C. Thomson. Letter to Mary Pratt from Geoffrey Husband Rengam Estate Johore Aug 31st My Dear Mary I met in Johore last week and had a long talk with him. He told me you were now on your way home, so I am writing to you c/o Gillian .I must explain that I always was going to write to you when I was in England, but each time I met anyone, they always told me you were just about to sail for England and so I waited to see you. I am terribly sorry I missed you as I could have conveyed so much to you in a long talk, whereas it is all so difficult to write. So I hope you will forgive me for not writing before. Unfortunately I got rocketed out of England at very short notice and I had no time to say goodbye to anyone. Now that I have missed you I want to put you in touch with two fellows who were great friends of Donald’s in the camp at Palembang and they have both promised me they will go and see you and tell you all they can. The first is: J.A. Barton Esq Maidenhead Court Should he have left there and you get no reply, write again to him c/o Harrisons and Crossfield Great Town Street London E.C.3 and ask them to forward your letter. He is a very nice fellow, a planter from Wherib (?) near port Dickson and he travelled out with Donald on the same ship when they were both coming out here for the first time. He has had a terrible time and when he left the Camp was paralysed from the waist down, the Doctors thought he would never walk again. He was however well on the road to recovery when I last saw him and I hope he will be fit enough by December to return here. The interior of the clubhouse on Rengam estate The other is Maurice Kirke of the F.M.S. Police who has also had a bad time in South Africa, but is on the road to recovery now and should be leaving for England shortly. I have written to him, and when I get his reply, and know his address I will let you have it. I am writing to Barton by next Air Mail. When I went to say good-bye to Donald, before I was taken away to another Camp and he was left behind, being too sick to travel, he said: “I am going to do everything I can to recover and to live through to get back to Mary and Anthony”. He had some snaps of you at this time. But he continued – “Should I not live through and I realise that I have not much more than a 50 – 50 chance, tell Mary and Anthony that I shall be thinking of them at the last”. I tried to cheer him up and convince him that he would pull through,and so naturally we never discussed the matter further. I could see that he hated talking to me like that, and being Donald, thought I might think he was giving in! Hence I tried to reassure him and we dropped the subject. He however asked me to look after you and see that you got what you should from Yule Cattos. I had therefore hoped I should be in England when you went to see them! Now I can only suggest that if you are not satisfied with what they offer, you let me know and I will thrash the matter out both with you and for you. During better times – Donald relaxing You will have heard of the wonderful fight Donald put up from the day of his capture up to his last moments. He was very popular with the Britishers and especially with the Dutch, whereas 90% of the Britishers weren’t! He was always cheerful and worked too hard, was a fine example to everyone and finally sacrificed himself through over-working. The real thing which caused his breakdown was his Nephritis. Early on, hr overworked in the oil fields and had a breakdown. Luckily I was running the Camp Hospital as we had no Doctors then, and I took him in with a temp of 104. I thought he might have dysentery and got him an ingestion of E———fine, and then bought him round with Barley Water, Kinji. Quaker Oat, Eggs and Milk. He made a quick recovery and I refused to let him go back to work and gave him a job in my Hospital. He then became Camp Barber with the one and only pair of hair Clippers, and he cut thousands of heads of hair.I don’t mind telling you that he cut mine better than anyone has since! Those clippers I handed to Mr Pratt for you. I am afraid it was one of the only mementos he had left at the end. He was very well indeed right through till Sept 1944, but from then on, due to strain, his nephritis returned, bringing Cura line(?) Beri – Beri with it. He then got Malaria which he could not shake off. But he fought so well that he kept getting better, only to relapse again. We had no proper medicines But the Vitamin B injections which he needed. I was able to buy at Black Market prices and —– — pulled him round. Then I had to leave him. He rallied for a short time after I left, but after again getting malaria, black -water fever, and dysentry, he finally died of the latter, quite peacefully in his sleep at 2.a.m on May 1st 1945. He was a wonderful friend to me and I hope I was to him. I missed him terribly also. He took to religion in the Camp and sometimes read the lessons in Church. He also longed to be confirmed. You and Anthony will now be missing a husband and a very proud father, and with you I mourn the best friend I ever had. He was a marvellous companion and a true friend, and one who certainly should have been spared to come through as we could ill afford to spare him. You will appreciate therefore how real my sympathy is both for you and Anthony and I hope you will never hesitate to seek my help whenever you may wish. Olivia also sends her love to you both. Geoffrey Husband The interior of the club-house on Rengam Estate Letter to Mary Pratt from John Drysdale: Mrs D. Pratt 36 Park Road 8,Gefroy Flat Bowral Outram St N. S. W 14th Feb. 46 I met Mr Coales in Sydney the other day, he told me you hadn’t had much news of your husband who was interned with me in Sumatra, and asked me to drop you a line. Your husband’s closest friend in camp was a Mr Husband and I believe he undertook to look after your husband’s affairs and to communicate with you, which I understand he has done. During better times – Donald with tennis partner I will now tell you what I recollect about your husband, but if there is anything further you would like to know, please write and ask me and I shall let you know if I can. Donald Pratt I did not know your husband in Malaya and i met him first in the internment camp in Muntok, Banka Island, in February 1942. I cannot recollect on what ship he came on from Singapore or how he fared on the journey. Many of us had very unpleasant experiences during that trip. We were all interned in a native immigration camp in Muntok for one month after capture and our food and quarters were very poor. At the middle of March 42,we were transferred to Pladjoe, the site of the oil refineries at Palembang jail where we remained until Jan.43. W e did very little work there, other than the usual camp duties which comprised everything from cooking to washing. Fortunately, we had some books to read that helped us to pass our time. In Jan 43.we were taken to an attap camp about three miles outside Palembang, built specially for us, and there we remained until Sept 43. That was the best camp we had, and we didn’t do too badly there. From there we were taken back to Muntok and took up our abode in the jail there, and your husband died in the camp hospital early in May 1945.I cannot recollect the actual date, as I was not there at the time, most of us having been transferred to a camp at Belaloe, Loebock Linggau beyond Lahat Sumatra, in March that year. I visited your husband several times in Hospital and he maintained a wonderful spirit during his illness, Beri-Beri was his trouble. He kept remarkably fit for a long time, but like many others succumbed to Beri-Beri in the long run. When we made our move to Belaloe in March ’45, the worst of the sick were left in Muntok hospital in the care of one of our best doctors and his hospital staff; the idea being that they would follow us when fit to travel. Some of them did not recover and unfortunately your husband was one of them. Everything possible was done for him and near his end he was given the two blood transfusions, but without avail. He was buried in the cemetery at Muntok and his grave is marked with a cross bearing his name and date of birth. He was well liked in camp and took part in several of the concerts and cabarets we got up for our amusement. Like the rest of us he received no letters until Sept. 1944 and then he received several again in Nov. and Dec. letters arrived. The last lot we received was in Feb or March 1945. We were allowed to write postcards on three occasions, but from what I have learned only one was delivered and that about Dec.43. I do not think there is much more that I can tell you, but as I have already said, please write me if you have anything in mind you think i could tell you. In Malaya I lived in Kuala Lumpur and my wife and family came here in Jan 42. I joined them here in October last year and travelled down from Singapore with Mr Coales. John Drysdale As a matter of interest 58% of the Britishers in our camp died; only 42% came through and many of those were very sick. JD Donald’s grave at Muntok.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line307
__label__wiki	0.737564	0.737564	The Rise and Fall of Little Voice - Theatre by the Lake Eric Potts, The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice, Jim Cartwright, Theatre By The Lake, Emily Pithon, Chris Porter Georgina Ambrey Jim Cartwright is a genius at capturing the gritty real lives of working-class northerners. His quick wit lines, summing up a painful existence and delivering a reality which is both funny and deeply sad. The Rise and Fall of Little Voice is one of his classics, writes Karen Morley-Chesworth. This play tells the story of LV - Little Voice who spends all her time in her bedroom with her late father's records, recreating the voices of the women he loved to listen to. This is an activity her alcoholic, man-eating mother cannot and will not understand until her latest boyfriend sees the potential of making money out of LV's bigger singing voice. It's a tough act to follow for any actors to take on these iconic roles, made famous in the film adaptation Little Voice starring Jane Horrocks as LV, Brenda Blethyn as her mum Mari and Michael Caine as the mum's boyfriend and club act agent Ray Say. The true star of this production is Georgina Ambrey's voice - bringing Shirley Bassey, Lulu, Judy Garland, Gracie Fields to name a few to her bedroom and stage. This is definitely a production of two very separate halves. The first half takes the comedy to a slap-stick level, and Emily Pithon as Mari going over the top as well as over the sofa with boyfriend Ray Say played by Chris Porter. The balance of emotions Cartwright's words delivers I feel are lost in the over-reliance of physical humour rather than giving space for his clever words to ring in the laughter. The broken relationship which results in the silence between mother and daughter is lost in the over-enthusiasm to create a larger than life character. The sadness of the ageing Mari is also lost as the part falls into a comedy farce. I've always thought the relationship between LV and Mari was akin to another great northern mother-daughter play, A Taste of Honey. Drunken, man-mad mother looking for stability in the most unreliable men and daughter quiet, unassuming and left behind, unloved. The grief LV is going through, following the death of her father, is brought out beautifully, through the relationship with Billy - the BT technician played tenderly by Luke Murphy. Ambrey and Murphy's scenes together give this production the contrast it needs to start to counterbalance the other performances. Eric Potts as working men's club owner Mr Boo perfectly walks the fine line between over the top and in your face, northern humour. His scenes in the second part of the play, in his club, really do turn this beautiful modern theatre into a back-street concert room for a brief time. His timing is perfect, his delivery authentic. The second leading lady in this production is the set in the second half and lighting designer. There are superb final scenes to enjoy - and the hydraulic platform a very funny addition. For a younger member of the audience, it must be unimaginable the excitement of having a landline installed in the home - and to be tied to the one spot, waiting for a call. This play first performed in 1992 and made into a film in 1998 captures a club culture that may have been lost forever but which brought great joy to people's dark lives. Ambrey's performance in this production, brings back to a stage near you that light of hope and joy for a couple of hours. The Rise and Fall of Little Voice is at Theatre by the Lake, Main House until 1st November 2019. https://www.theatrebythelake.com/ Reviewer: Karen Morley-Chesworth Reviewed: 14th June 2019 North West End Rating: ★★★★	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line313
__label__cc	0.54522	0.45478	Samsung Offers Discounts To Note 7 Owners / Oct 29 2016 This is the first indication that the Samsung Galaxy Note name won't be retired, despite the fact that it's tied to several battery explosions and two recalls. Samsung was asked if other markets would be accorded with the same deal, but the company replied by saying it would depend on "the situation in each country". Volkswagen reveals Tennessee-built Atlas SUV If you felt bad for not getting the Škoda Kodiaq, cheer up, because this is the same auto based on the MQB platform with a different design and no diesel option in sight. 2018 Atlas is a huge step by VW to bring bigger vehicles when the gasoline prices are cheaper. However, the new SUV is significantly larger than its stablemate, stretching to 4922mm in length. Mac Computers Get Refresh With Keyboard Touch Functions The MacBooks come with four USB-C Thunderbolt 3 ports , which, with a cable or adapter, can be used interchangeably with USB, Lightning, HDMI, VGA and DVI connections, even the computer's power supply. Under the hood, you've got the 6th generation quadcore Core i7 option in the 15-inch version, while the 13-inch version has a dualcore Core i5 and i7 option. Windows 10 to bring 3-D to two-dimensional experiences But the biggest unveiling, of course, was Surface Studio, something we've been following ever since it was codenamed Surface Cardinal. The new desktop PC, called Surface Studio , features a 28-inch ultra-high-resolution touch-screen display with a hinge that lets the screen adjust from desktop to studio mode. MacBook Pro Unveiled With Touch Bar at the Apple Event The company called it the "touch bar," which replaces the long-standing function keys at the top of the keyboard with a tiny, long touch-screen. In addition to its ground-breaking new MacBook Pro which eschews traditional function keys for a new adaptive Touch Bar, the company is also debuting a 13-inch MacBook Pro with traditional function keys. Second leak: Apple MacBook Pro images with OLED touchbar leaked The leaked images show a 13-inch MacBook Pro complete with the new "Magic Toolbar", a Touch ID fingerprint scanner, and more besides. MacBook Pro models shown off at a special event at Apple's headquarters in Silicon Valley touted keyboards that had "Touch Bar" controls where function keys have traditionally been positioned.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line319
__label__wiki	0.601286	0.601286	FEATURES • The New Castle Record Volunteers pick up loads of trash from shooting range Gwen Johnson CRAIG COUNTY – About a dozen volunteers turned out to pick up Bobcat loads of trash at the popular Potts Slope Shooting Range. The range is located one-half mile off Rt. 311 in Craig County and the volunteers were helping with a quarterly clean-up day on April 9 scheduled by Eastern Divide District Ranger Cindy Schiffer. “The folks who showed up really worked hard and the range really looks fantastic,” Schiffer said. “Now let’s hope it continues to stay that way and that people will start cleaning up after themselves.” Sheila Rigney of Salem helps rake up some of the 15-20 skid-steer bucket loads of trash collected from the Potts Slope Shooting Range during a recent quarterly clean-up day. Volunteers who came were from Craig and surrounding areas. “Some of the same people who helped clean up the shooting range in Craig that Tuesday were also on hand that Monday to help clean the Blacksburg range,” Schiffer said. Among the volunteers was John Wilburn, a VCDL Executive Member from Blacksburg. The Virginia Citizen’s Defense League became involved after a Craig County Board of Supervisors meeting back on Feb. 6 when Schiffer addressed the trash situation at the range. In addition to the allowed paper and cardboard targets left lying on the ground, other items are routinely left behind by individuals who bring them in to use as targets, then just leave them rather than putting them in trash cans. “We got about 15-20 bucket loads of trash out of there via a skid-steer Bobcat,” Wilburn said. “It’s a great place to shoot and now has more natural scenery to match.” Some of the items picked up included everything from bowling balls to computers, he said. “The range is currently free to those who want to use it Schiffer said. “However, the more work we have to do the more it is going to end up costing.” Schiffer told supervisors at the February meeting that the range was normally cleaned once a week but was not closed at the time of the cleaning so perhaps it didn’t get cleaned as thoroughly as it should. She said she would address the issue by closing the range for a few hours on Tuesdays so the whole area could be cleaned. At the same time, she asked for volunteers to help with the clean-up. Following the meeting several people volunteered to help; one of them was Phillip VanCleave from Richmond, President of the VCDL. VanCleave offered the Forest Service help with clean-up at the shooting range on a quarterly basis with no cost to rangers or the county. County leaders pointed out that Craig County has nothing to do with the range which is on National Forest property. “I am meeting with some folks who are interested in being volunteer Range Masters,” Schiffer added. “Their primary goal will be to oversee that the range is kept safe and clean.” The Potts Slope Shooting Range is closed every Tuesday morning around 9 a.m. for cleaning. Schiffer says anyone who would like to help is welcome. TagsBlacksburg Bobcat load Craig County Craig County Board of Supervisors Eastern Divide Ranger Cindy Schiffer Forest Service National Forest Potts Slope shooting range trash Virginia Citizens Defense League School Board preparing for upcoming school year Paint Bank Fire Department celebrates Fourth of July Gwen Johnson loves living in New Castle. She moved from the Richmond area to be near children and grandchildren. She is a feature writer who also covers the Craig County Board of Supervisors, and is a member of the Craig County Tourism Commission. Tourism Commission selects map points of interest Council ‘disgusted’ by state, feds lack of support for schools Thousands remembered at Bedford D-Day W.E. Skelton 4-H Educational & Conference Center holds Craig County Junior 4-H Camp	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line324
__label__cc	0.58441	0.41559	Buber, Martin 18 Aquinas, Thomas, Saint 11 San Francisco, Calif. 8 Bombay, India 6 Calcutta, India 6 Ghettos 23 ''The Future of Integration,'' Address delivered at Ohio Northern University Ada, Ohio Columbus, Ohio: Ohio Northern University, Mus-I-Col Inc. ''A Knock at Midnight,'' Sermon delivered at Riverside Church on 8/9/1964 West Park, N.Y. Holy Cross Magazine 75 (December 1964): 473-481. Jersey City, N.J. The Neurotic Personality ''Yes, We Shall Overcome,'' Address on 11/20/63 Garden City, N.J. Gayle Addison, ed. Bondage, Freedom, and Beyond, Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday: 1971, pp. 142-147. King, Yolanda Denise A.G. Gaston Motel Bondage, Freedom, and Beyond The Challenge of the Hour The Pursuit of Excellence in the Realm of Human Relations ''Address at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom on 5/17/1957'' Congressional Record 103 (28 May 1957): 7822-7824. Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom Give us the Ballot Address at the Americans for Democratic Action 17th Annual Convention Riesman, David ''America's Chief Moral Dilemma,'' Address delivered at the University of California, Berkeley Hartke, Vance Commanger, Henry Steele Kai-shek, Chiang 12/1/2010 alexmw ''Excerpt From A Speech Given by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Convention Held by the California Democratic Council on 3/16/1968'' California Democratic Council Dow Action Committee Anaheim, Calif. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Assassination SCLCF-CLSCLS 20th Century Organizations, Southern Christian Leadership Conference File, Southern California Library for Social Research, Los Angeles, Calif. ''The Future of Integration'', Address delivered on 11/9/67 Reprint of 3/68-4/68 The Humanist. Moss, James A., ed. The Black Man in America, New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1971, pp. 31-42. Brooks, Edward Hatcher, Richard G. Gary, Ind. The Humanist The Negro Complaint ''The Death of Evil Upon the Seashore,'' Sermon preached at Cathedral of St. John the Divine on 5/17/1956 National Baptist Voice (June 1956): 10, 14. Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York, N.Y.) The Death of Evil Upon the Seashore The Battle-field ''Nonviolence: The Christian Way in Human Relations'', Address on 12/4/1957 Presbyterian Life 11 (8 February 1958): 11-13. Wieman, Henry Nelson Box 85, folder 6; Box 102, folder 2	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line331
__label__wiki	0.605326	0.605326	Reid, Milton A. 20 Wood, Virgil A. 9 Griffin, L. Francis 8 Smith, Kelly Miller 8 Cotton, Dorothy 7 Coulton, Herbert V. 7 Williams, Samuel W. 7 Bennette, Fred C. 6 Bevel, James L. (James Luther) 6 Calhoun, John H. 6 Harris, Curtis W. 6 Henry, Aaron 6 Lowery, Joseph (Joseph E.) 6 Petersburg, Va. 6 Southern Christian Leadership Conference--staff 7 name:(Reid, W. W.) Reid, Milton A 12/19/1962-1/2/1963 Reid, Milton A. [Southern Christian Leadership Conference] Harris, Curtis W. [Southern Christian Leadership Conference] Wood, Lillian LaGarde, Frederick H. Reid, Milton A. First Baptist Church (Petersburg, Va.) Jeggets, Meredith W. Beverly, James B. Virginia. General Assembly. Senate. Virginia. Office of the State Register Dinwiddie County, Va. Nottoway County, Va. Burkeville, Va. Itinerary for ''People to People'' Tour Williams, R.G. Wood, Virgil, A. Coulton, Herbert V. Gunter, David Scott, C.C. Taylor, Bob Watson, Roy Edwards, A.G. Thomas, Doyle Griffin, L.F. Banks, W. Lester Brown, O. D. Henderson, T. H. Holt, Len Shandie, E.D. Boddie, F.J. Henderson, J.B. Press release, ''SCLC's People To People tour touches 10,000 in Virginia's black belt'' Maynard, Gould Harris, Curtis W. Cotton, Dorothy [Citizenship Education Program] Moran, Chuck Griffin, L. Francis [First Baptist Church (Farmville, Va.)] Williams, R. G. Zion Baptist Church (Petersburg, Va.) Virginia State College First Baptist Church (Farmville, Va.) Hopewell, Va. The Tragedy of Sleeping Through A Revolution 10/25/2011 jmkunz Memo to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union. Local 1199 Drug and Hospital Employees Union (New York, N.Y.) Britts Department Store (Birmingham, Ala.) S. H. Kress & Co. (Birmingham, Ala.) F. W. Woolworth Department Store (Birmingham, Ala.) H. L. Green Company (Birmingham, Ala.) Loveman's Department Store (Birmingham, Ala.) Pizitz Department Store (Birmingham, Ala.) Bridgeport, Conn. Camden, N.J. Trenton, N.J. Form letter to Clarence B. Jones Harding, Vincent Wachtel, Harry H. Fauntroy, Walter E. [New Bethel Baptist Church (Washington, D.C.)] Rustin, Bayard [Council for United Civil Rights Leadership] Council for United Civil Rights Leadership New Bethel Baptist Church (Washington, D.C.) In-the-Oaks Episcopal Center (Black Mountain, N.C.) Black Mountain, N.C. Press release, Church members urged to attend contempt trial Moss, Otis Lane, T.L. Booth, L. Venchael Calhoun, John H. Billingsley, Ozell Parker, Joseph C. Revelation Baptist Church (Cincinnati, Ohio) Tasty Coffee Shop ''Fifty-three Hours with Martin Luther King Jr.'' Reid, Milton A. [Virginia Christian Leadership Conference] Banks, Walter L. Brooks, John Mitchell [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)] Jackson, F.G. Henderson, Scott Diamond, Dion Freedom Corps Gillfield Baptist Church (Petersburg, Va.) Virginia Christian Leadership Conference E.C. Glass High School Farmville, Va. Savanah, Ga. Harrington, Michael Trammell, Theodore United Christian Movement Shreveport, La. Cleveland, Miss. HRECR-WHi Highlander Research and Education Center Records, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. MCMLK-RWWL, Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection, Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library Archives and Special Collections, Atlanta, Ga. Form letter to Roy Wilkins Logan, Arthur C. Lawrence, George W. Dudley, Ed Kilgore, Thomas [Friendship Baptist Church (New York, N.Y.)] Reid, Ogden R. (Ogden Rogers) Sullivan, Ed Taylor, Gardner C. [Concord Baptist Church (Brooklyn, N.Y.)] Wolcott, Joe Powell, Adam Clayton [United States. Congress. House of Representatives] Cassell, Howard [American Broadcasting Company] Greenburg, Jack [NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund] Carter, Robert L. [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)] Wagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand) Concord Baptist Church (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Friendship Baptist Church (New York, N.Y.)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line332
__label__cc	0.551526	0.448474	Amtrak Service Disrupted South Of DC \| News Amtrak Service Disrupted South Of DC Friday, August 6th, 2010, 10:02pm WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -- Amtrak says several major services along the east coast will resume normally on Saturday. The railroad south of Quantico, Va. reopened Friday afternoon after a CSX coal train derailed there a day earlier, blocking all tracks. Virginia Railway Express reports that seven train cars fell and ripped up the tracks. Canceled trains on Thursday and Friday have affected thousands of riders. Trains running between Washington and Newport News, Va., and from New York to Miami, Charlotte, N.C., and Savannah, Ga. have been affected by the track closure. Amtrak's Silver Star Train No. 92 from Miami to New York remains canceled for Saturday. VRE will resume service on Monday. The derailment affected 4500 of its passengers, Thursday. And it canceled all service Friday. VRE has an average of 9000 passengers daily. Amtrak will resume service, on Saturday, after canceling trips south of Washington, DC. Thousands on top of the 23 hundred passengers have been impacted. Although, CSX workers opened up the tracks, they need to make sure the tracks are stable. CSX is still investigating what caused the derailment. Amtrak provided charter buses for people trying to get to their destination.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line346
__label__cc	0.650368	0.349632	You are readingShadow of Destiny PSP Game Follows You Wherever You Go December 25, 2009. By Jeremy Shadow of Destiny PSP Game Follows You Wherever You Go Shadow of Memories was released on the PC and Xbox in 2002, and also for PS2. It is now being launched on the PSP as well, and in the U.S.A it would be rechristened Shadow of Destiny. The theme if the game is to turn back the clock of fate and also cheat death. The game dwells on the man’s eternal quest to achieve immortality and change one’s destiny in a significant manner. You could travel time across 500 years and visit different places in the world in different eras in order to ascertain and solve mysteries and deaths. There are about 5 multiple endings which make it a lot more fun to play the game again and again. When you unlock all the 5 endings, you would be able to experience try true ending which I bet is going to be mind-blowing. Shadow of Destiny is expected to be released on the 26th of January and would cost $29.99 for the PSP. You can check out other PSP games that we had written about earlier like the Army of Two, which is set in a war ravaged Shanghai. You could also try and play the ever cool Uncharted 2, which unravels the mysteries of Marco Polo’s adventures in the Far East. tags: Playstation Games, shadow of destiny, shadow of memories, shadows of destiny psp, time travel, time voyage, travel the earth 4 thoughts on “Shadow of Destiny PSP Game Follows You Wherever You Go” Pingback: Playing Star Ocean Could Be Your "Last Hope"! \| Ps3 Maven Pingback: Metal Slug XX: An Uber-cool Arcade Experience \| Ps3 Maven Pingback: Unfold the mysteries of Netherworld with Disgaea Infinite \| Ps3 Maven Pingback: Find out the legend of the Naked Snake with Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker \| Ps3 Maven	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line351
__label__cc	0.635907	0.364093	Tag Archives: body horror June 7, 2019 Horror filmsbody horror, David Cronenberg, exploitation, slasher moviesreallyawfulmovies Cold. Calculating. American Psycho is an infamous flick adapted from an even more infamous book. On this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, a deep dive into the 2000 feature, starring the incomparable Christian Bale. He plays Patrick Bateman (a surname allusion to Hitch’s Psycho). He’s a narcissistic manipulator enjoying the high life in Manhattan. We chat about the book’s origins, the different actors attached to the film, the trio of high-profile directors, the locations, and the stockbroker profession. Also in this episode, we talk Leo Di Caprio, Wolf of Wall Street, Maniac, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Batman, Tom Cruise, and The Machinist (it’s quite a smorgasbord!) Join us, and please subscribe to the show. Really Awful Movies: Ep 250 – Heavyweights November 30, 2018 Comedybody horrorreallyawfulmovies A Disney movie where Ben Stiller runs a fat camp? What’s this movie called, “Box Office Poison”? (to quote an infamous Norm MacDonald appearance on Conan O’Brien). It’s hard to believe someone actually green-lit Heavyweights (or Heavy Weights as it’s sometimes known). This 90s-era comedy came and went with little fanfare. Like many flicks that are not successful theatrically, the film has since garnered a cult following, probably because of the involvement of co-writer Judd Apatow along with Stiller. Ben Stiller plays fitness guru Tony Perkis, an excitable send-up of infomercial gym hucksters. He’s also a yoga aficionado as well as an up-with-people peddler of lifestyle trends As a new owner of a fat camp (which he has purchased from a kindly, if ineffectual elderly duo), Tony Perkis is tasked with whipping a bunch of teen boys into shape. The boys (who include among their ranks, Fat Albert and Saturday Night Live standout Kenan Thompson) are none too happy about this and decide to stage a coup along with camp counselor and co-conspirator, Pat (played by Frasier’s Tom McGowan). This is a movie that is being pulled in opposing directions. As a New York Times critic put it, “One…is a no-holds-barred spoof of a Tony Little- or Susan Powter-style fitness merchant […] The other …a conventional family comedy that pokes lighthearted fun at the chubby young campers.” It’s tonally very odd, but it’s also an interesting look at the comedy star Ben Stiller would soon become. Perkis’ is a fantastically over-the-the-top workshopping of a character. When Heavyweights focuses on him, the film comes to life, otherwise, it sags. Still, there is surprisingly enough to recommend it even if it falls into the trappings of other summer camp-type movies, Meatballs, etc. Join us on this unique episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line357
__label__cc	0.621905	0.378095	Tag Archives: Italian horror Really Awful Movies: Ep 271 – Hatchet for the Honeymoon April 19, 2019 Horror filmsFamous directors, Italian horror, slasher moviesreallyawfulmovies We are not in flavor country, we are in Bava Country. And on this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, Mario Bava’s fun giallo, Hatchet for the Honeymoon. The film was lusciously shot in Barcelona and Rome with the working title Un’accetta per la luna di miele. And Bava completed shooting in October 1969. The setting is wonderful: a sprawling villa with immaculately kept grounds. It follows the misadventures of John Harrington (Stephen Forsyth), who, with the assistance of his estranged wife, runs a boutique wedding fashion house. He tends to a small hot house flower garden as well. John though, has a wandering eye…and also an eye for killing models. As models start to go missing, Inspector Russell begins poking his nose around. Hatchet for the Honeymoon is not a true giallo (there’s no black glove killer, for example, and the killer’s identity is revealed right off the bat). However, there are little touches of yellow flavoring throughout. Fans of Mario Bava will get a kick out of this, and fans of genre film as well. Tune in, and don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast (and tell all your friends). And also, help support the show by picking up a copy of our acclaimed book, Death by Umbrella! The 100 Weirdest Horror Movie Weapons. Really Awful Movies: Ep 251 – Killer Crocodile December 7, 2018 Horror filmsanimal attack movies, Italian horrorreallyawfulmovies A Killer Crocodile creature feature, that’s Italian to boot? No need to say that twice. We’re there. As straightforward a concept as you could possibly devise, this one is about…you guessed it…a killer crocodile (lest you thought this was a rom-com about a shy teacher who meets a beau in fin-du-siècle Paris). In an undisclosed location (wherever was cheapest to film in 1989) Killer Crocodile was directed by the multi-named Fabrizio De Angelis (sometimes rendered as Larry Ludman), an oft-collaborator with Italian genre legends, Umberto Lenzi, Lucio Fulci, etc. An amorous twosome is on a beach. The guy breaks out a classical guitar and woos his lady friend with song. But Leonard Cohen he is not, and she doffs her top and runs into the water. Bad move. There’s a…well…killer crocodile about. Radioactive waste is discovered in a swamp: in barrels marked “toxic waste,” so there can be no confusion whatsoever. Ecologists are floating down the river Joseph Conrad-style, collecting samples of river water. And when the body count begins to rise, they surmise that the radioactivity created a monster-sized croc. What a croc! The film stars Richard Anthony Crenna (son of actor, Richard Crenna) and was followed by an unheralded sequel, Killer Crocodile II, in 1990. There’s atonal weirdness lost in translation, gobs of bal-peen hammer exposition, a croc that looks like it was constructed as an after-thought for a soap box derby, and a wildly unhinged investigative journalist. In other words, extraordinarily fun. So, how does this one fare as compared with Lake Placid, Alligator, or Rogue? That’s where you come in, dear listener. On the Really Awful Movies Podcast, we absolutely love nature run amok movies, aka natural horror flicks. They’re so wonderful, even if they unabashedly rip off the Top Dog of the genre, Jaws. Send us suggestions for animal attack movies we should cover!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line358
__label__wiki	0.632145	0.632145	Quotes By The Greatest Literature in History Proof Reading Website localization service Read some of the latest and historic literature in the world Poets, Novelists, Screenplay Writers & More Creative writing competition MUST: 1. Be the sole work of one writer (illustrations and introductions excluded) 2. Be published for the first time in the calendar year preceding the award 3. The author must be living at the time the book is submitted for the Award. 4. Be comprised substantially of work which has not been previously published in individually authored collections 5. Be a work of poetry, fiction or creative non-fiction (see note below) 6. Be published by an established publishing house, which is here defined as a house that publishes a list of titles by a range of authors and distributes its books through recognised booksellers. Self-published books are not eligible. 7. Be intended for an adult readership PLUS AT LEAST ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: 1. Be written in the English language 2. Be written in English , or someone who was schooled in the UK 3. Be of clear relevance to England and English culture (see definition below) literary non-fiction Creative non-fiction is defined as prose writing which is either primarily creative in nature or discursively engages with other’s fiction, non-fiction or poetry. This includes all literary criticism, as well as other prose where the creativity of verse is central to the nature of the work. Types of books which COULD fall under such criterion include travel writing, autobiography/biography and social history. Definition of works which are of clear relevance to England and English culture Titles which discuss and/or add to themes which have a tradition of discourse in English literary fields can, on occasions, be determined eligible for consideration despite the writer having no linguistic, residential or adolescent links with England. Work published within anthologies of multiple writers is not eligible for consideration. Translations are not eligible for consideration unless they are deemed to be of major significance to English literature far beyond existing versions of the source material. Website Localization services 2 thoughts on “Creative writing competition” Pingback: Website Localization services – Quotes By Pingback: Article writing – Quotes By Last 24 hours: 45 Last 7 days: 261 Last 30 days: 722 What We Do At Quotes By Our work consists mainly of article, copy writing, proof reading and translation either for the Web or print media and ranges from short advertising texts and press releases to 2,000 word feature articles and complete website copy. Tweets about Literature Quotes By \| The greatest publications throughout history	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line367
__label__wiki	0.977128	0.977128	Springboks Rugby World Cup victor James Small dies, aged 50 Tour de France: Ciccone rewarded with contract extension at Trek-Segafredo Chelsea New Boss Names Player He Can't Wait to Work With Barcelona Pay Antoine Griezmann's Atletico Madrid Release Clause Ahead of Official Announcement Marcus Morris to sign $15 million deal with New York Knicks Hamilton unhappy British GP will clash with Wimbledon and Cricket World Cup Klopp plans quiet end to the transfer window Rafael Nadal Shares His Profound Memories From Wimbledon Koscielny refuses to travel on Arsenal's pre-season tour to the USA Halep becomes first Romanian woman to reach Wimbledon final Amazon’s Jeff Bezos binged Netflix’s Stranger Things. People are saying… It'll be serving themed ice cream flavours including gloriously retro Coke Float, Cherries Jubilee, Banana Boat and July 4th. TVLine founder Michael Ausiello reports that Harbour is contracted through a potential fourth season of " Stranger Things ". Barcelona Pay Antoine Griezmann's Atletico Madrid Release Clause Ahead of Official Announcement Atletico Madrid and Barcelona have been negotiating over the transfer of Griezmann since the start of the summer window. Griezmann is the fourth French player in the current first-team squad behind Lenglet, Dembélé and Todibo. US Coast guardsmen jump onto homemade submarine filled with cocaine The Coast Guard says the drugs have an estimated street value of $ 569 million in operations over the last couple of months. Footage shows another boat approach the submersible with crew members on board shouting as they edge closer to it. Ocasio-Cortez suggests eliminating Department of Homeland Security Just look at what AOC's Chief of Staff Saikat Chakrabarti said in a (now-deleted) tweet. They're four people and that's how many votes they got". Pair of Supermassive Black Holes Discovered on a Collision Course The astronomers selected this galaxy to prove the accepted models of low luminosity galaxies and their starving black holes. The black hole at the center of NGC 3147, about 130 million light-years from Earth, is kind of in a bad way. Fed's Williams says case for a U.S. rate cut is stronger The hearing, part of the Fed chief's semi-annual testimony on monetary policy to Congress, took place against the backdrop of U.S. But Powell hinted that the Fed might need to decrease borrowing costs through rate cuts in order to sustain the expansion. Descendants 3 red carpet premiere canceled in wake of Cameron Boyce's death His sudden death prompted an outpouring of love from celebrities, including his former cast members Peyton List and Adam Sandler. Most recently, his father, Victor Boyce , shared an emotional post featuring a photo of Cameron hours before he was gone. 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German inflation moves closer to ECB target, revised data shows The commission confirmed its prediction that economic growth in the euro zone would slow this year to 1.2% from 1.9% in 2018. Investment is expected to remain robust over the forecast horizon, supported by planned infrastructure and health projects. Futures higher after rally on Powell's dovish remarks Many Fed officials historically would then support raising interest rates to forestall what was called a "wage-price spiral". There was a 1.1% surge in the cost of dental services, but prescription drug prices fell 0.6%. Google uses humans to review Google Assistant queries, report says To disable this setting, head to Google's Voice & Audio Activity page while signed into your account, then switch the toggle off. Google responded to the report admitting that this is how language experts help to improve its speech technology. Tour de France: Ciccone rewarded with contract extension at Trek-Segafredo The Slovakian edged rising star Wout Van Aert of Belgium and Italy's Matteo Trentin to win the stage in 4:02:33. In a gruelling final climb, Thomas beat yellow jersey holder, Julian Alaphilippe, to the finish. ISRO conducts checks at launch pad ahead of Chandrayaan-2 launch The mission also has one passive experiment from the USA space agency NASA . "So you get what you pay for", concluded Hubbard. In addition, South Pole region has craters that are cold traps and contain a fossil record of the early Solar System. Despite semi-final exit, Rohit Sharma remains on top Google Translate’s instant camera gains support for 60 new languages today US House Committee Authorizes Subpoenas of Trump Officials AT&T provides new option to help block spam calls Donald Trump says kidneys have special place in the heart Turkey defies USA as Russian S-400 missile defence arrives ASAP Rocky cancels his performances in July due to detention in Sweden Pooja Batra Might Already Be Married To 'Man Crush' Nawab Shah Published: Fri, July 12, 2019 Sport \| By Wilson Duncan Kyrie Irving Brooklyn Nets Trade Deal Officially CONFIRMED The two-time NBA Finals MVP had previously worn the number 35 at every level of competition, from his college career at The University of Texas to his most recent stint at the Golden State Warriors. The perennial All-Star and two-time National Basketball Association champion, ranking third among active players with 22,940 points, has been National Basketball Association top scorer on four occasions, but last season suffered a calf injury and then an Achilles rupture which will rule him out of playing next season. "Kevin is a champion, perennial All-Star, and one of the great players of this, or any, generation", Nets general manager Sean Marks said in a statement. The four-time National Basketball Association scoring champion revealed on social media that he'll be sporting No. 7 with Brooklyn. He missed most of this past season's playoffs, first with a calf injury and then the Achilles rupture during the NBA Finals - a series Golden State lost to Toronto in six games. Russell got a $117 million, four-year contract from the Warriors. Over eight seasons with Boston and Cleveland, Irving has averaged 22.2 points, 3.6 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 1.3 steals over 508 career games. "We wish him, Shabazz and Treveon nothing but the best in the years ahead". Was Kyrie Irving's decision to sign with the Brooklyn Nets known before it even happened? "His ability to play both ends of the floor in addition to his exceptional shooting will make him an integral contributor to our franchise and our postseason goals". While the Nets lost those series against the Los Angeles Lakers and the San Antonio Spurs, Irving hopes to bring a championship to his "hometown" franchise in the very near future. 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__label__wiki	0.924706	0.924706	Watch live as ISS astronauts return to Earth tonight Astronomy Magazine - Mon, 06/24/2019 - 04:00 Three crew members are scheduled to depart the space station for Earth after more than six months in space. Categories: Astronomy Saydean Zeldin: Guiding Apollo’s engines From programming the computer that helped Apollo fly to developing novel software engineering techniques after leaving NASA, one woman has had a major hand in the way technology works today. NASA selects PUNCH, a new mission to study the Sun Astronomy Magazine - Fri, 06/21/2019 - 04:00 Made of four individual spacecraft, this mission will survey the Sun and help scientists better understand solar weather. Elaine Denniston: The woman who corrected Apollo's code Although her job description ended with punching programs into cards to be run by the computer, this sharp-eyed keypuncher corrected programmers' code on her own to ensure it ran properly. What did the Apollo astronauts leave behind? Although science wasn’t the main reason we went to the Moon, it nevertheless provided valuable benefits. What the Apollo Moon rocks told us Buried within the Apollo samples that came back to Earth were the clues of lunar origins. The Sky This Week from June 21 to 30 Mercury climbs well above the western horizon during evening twilight, while Jupiter and Saturn vie for attention in the late evening sky. Hacking Apollo 14: How an MIT computer scientist saved a lunar landing All of the Apollo missions placed NASA and the astronauts under extreme pressure to succeed, but Apollo 14 faced unusual challenges even before it launched in February 1971. Coming on the heels of the nearly disastrous Apollo 13 mission, NASA was eager to show the United States and the world that it could bounce back. Another successful moon landing would restore the prestige of the agency and to help ensure funding for future Apollo and post-Apollo missions. The Apollo 14 crew consisted of Co The Event Horizon Telescope's possible next target? Blazars Astronomy Magazine - Thu, 06/20/2019 - 04:00 The Event Horizon Telescope made history on April 10 when it captured the first image of a supermassive black hole’s event horizon at the heart of galaxy M87. While there’s only one other target close enough to image that way – the black hole at the center of our own Milky Way – there are plenty of other targets where EHT’s sharp gaze can still make breakthroughs. Astronomers are proposing to use EHT to image the jets of a blazar called PKS 1510-089 more than 4 bill Record-breaking astronaut Peggy Whitson says it’s an exciting time for space exploration The U.S. space endurance record holder breaks down the biggest challenges she faced on the space station, and why we need to lead the future of space flight. ESA plans mission to intercept a 'pristine' comet The spacecraft will launch in 2028 and then lie in wait for the right target – one untouched by the Sun’s rays – to fly near. Astronomers discover a new stage of galaxy evolution — the ‘cold quasar’ These galaxies should be done making stars, but they're not. What to know before the next Falcon Heavy launch Astronomy Magazine - Wed, 06/19/2019 - 04:00 The third launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket will ferry up a number of new and innovative experiments. The Hubble Telescope's successor inches closer to launch After successfully testing its ability to withstand extreme temperature swings and the vacuum of space, the James Webb Space Telescope is now one step closer to its planned launch in 2021. Scientists read the Sun’s history in Moon rocks Astronomy Magazine - Tue, 06/18/2019 - 04:00 Moon rocks have revealed our young Sun spun once every nine to 10 days, and it's the reason life evolved on Earth but not on our closest neighbor planets.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line372
__label__wiki	0.615001	0.615001	East Godavari villages to be banked soon After long years of wait, the villages of East Godavari basin are expected to be touched by banking facilities soon. It has been decided that all 1016 panchayats in the region will be facilitated with banking amenities. The financial inclusion guidelines of Reserve Bank of India has asked for banking facilities to reach all villages pan India having population of 2000 and above. But the drive in the EG basin villages was on a halt owing to dilemma in selection of the mode in which the service would be extended to these villages. 17 banks, 15 of which are public sector ones and the remaining in the private sector category have been assigned the task of getting these villages financially included. The banks in this list include State Bank of India, State Bank of Hyderabad, Andhra Bank, Union Bank of India, Central Bank of India, Canara Bank, Indian Bank, Corporation Bank, BOB, BOI, BOM, Indian Overseas Bank, Chaitanya Godavari Grameena Bank and Vijaya Bank. The two private sector banks are ING- Vysya and South Indian Bank. It is said that in the first phase of the project business correspondent model will be adopted by banks to increase penetration in these unbanked areas. Now, Do Banking on Social Media Sites Know about Personal loan against fixed... Benefits and drawbacks of personal loans... Pros and Cons of Personal loans	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line375
__label__cc	0.620858	0.379142	Free number lookup cell phone name Information about cell phone frequencies 2014,search name for a phone number,how to find my routing number online citizens bank - Easy Way Angela Columbian David Dolcelula G-Man John LauraN Marcy Milo Mom rob k Rodney SAMamerican Spammer Steve Steve R. Back yonder ’round about 1998, when I finally dove into the world of the PDA (Personal Digital Assistant, otherwise known as a PIM (Personal Information Manager)), I bought a new but discontinued Newton, the MessagePad 100. Some time after I got my Newton, I got my first cell phone, a Qualcomm thing where you could slide the earpiece to answer and end calls. A year or two ago, I was tired of keeping two sets of records, so I stopped using my Palm for contacts and moved everything to my Mac. When rumors of an Apple phone started to surface years ago, you can understand why I was so intrigued. I wish I had a video of myself and Ben at that keynote, because the iPhone, as Steve was revealing its many wonders, turned out to be far more exciting and fantastic and brilliant than I had ever imagined it would be; Ben and I were excited beyond reason. Between the Newton and the iPhone, I had probably 8 years of simply passable PDA experiences. Of course, there is another similarity between my old Newton and my new iPhone: both are early version products. For a great set of beautiful pics that inspired me to dig out my own Newton, go visit philcarrizzi at Flicker. Fatih Sarioglu, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, holds a hybrid microfluidic chip that uses a simple circuit pattern to assign a unique seven-bit digital identification number to each cell passing through the channels. Phone calls and text messages reach you wherever you are because your phone has a unique identifying number that sets you apart from everybody else on the network. The technique uses a simple circuit pattern with just three electrodes to assign a unique seven-bit digital identification number to each cell passing through the channels on the microfluidic chip. The research, reported in the journal Lab on a Chip, could provide the electronic intelligence that might one day allow inexpensive labs on a chip to conduct sophisticated medical testing outside the confines of hospitals and clinics. Microfluidic chips use the unique biophysical or biochemical properties of cells and viruses to separate them. The new technique, dubbed microfluidic CODES, adds a grid of micron-scale electrical circuitry beneath the microfluidic chip. This impedance change has been used for many years to detect the presence of cells in a fluid, and is the basis for the Coulter Counter which allowed blood counts to be done quickly and reliably. The positive and negative charges from the intermingled electrical circuits create a unique identifying digital signal as each cell passes by, and that sequence of ones and zeroes is attached to information about the impedance change. Because the cells sorted into each channel of a microfluidic chip have certain characteristics in common, the technique would allow the automated detection of cancer cells, bacteria or even viruses in a fluid sample. Close-up image shows a hybrid microfluidic chip that uses a simple circuit pattern to assign a unique seven-bit digital identification number to each cell passing through the channels. The underlying principle for the cell identification is called code division multiple access (CDMA), and it's essential for helping cellular networks separate the signals from each user. The next step in the research will be to combine the electronic sensor with a microfluidic chip able to actively sort cells. The computing requirements of the system would be minimal, requiring no more than the processor power of smartphones that already handle decoding of CDMA signals. Ultimately, the researchers hope to create inexpensive chips that could be used for sophisticated diagnostic testing in physician offices or remote locations. Ruxiu Liu et al, Microfluidic CODES: a scalable multiplexed electronic sensor for orthogonal detection of particles in microfluidic channels, Lab Chip (2016). Providing vital health care services to people in developing countries without reliable electricity, refrigeration and state-of-the-art medical equipment poses a number of challenges. The researchers show the ability of a micromilling machine to manufacture microchannels down to 30 Aµm and also the ability of a microfluidic device to perform partial separation of red blood cells from plasma. Scientists using a technology called cryo-EM (cryo-electron microscopy) have broken through a technological barrier in visualizing proteins with an approach that may have an impact on drug discovery and development. US biochemical engineer Frances Arnold on Tuesday won a million-euro technology prize in Finland for her work on "directed evolution", a method of rewriting DNA to improve medicines and develop green fuels. Using a powerful combination of techniques from biophysics to mathematics, researchers have revealed new insights into the mechanism of a liver enzyme that is critical for human health. A family of compounds known as perovskites, which can be made into thin films with many promising electronic and optical properties, has been a hot research topic in recent years. Borides are among the hardest and most heat-resistant substances on the planet, but their Achilles' Heel, like so many materials', is that they oxidize at high temperatures. It was fairly inexpensive, as Newtons went, and I could not afford any of the newer models. It was small, incredibly simple, sipped on battery power, and was perfectly suited for my needs. The Tungsten had a color screen, a fast processor, Bluetooth, but was still limited by Palm’s unchanged app designs and inability to sync properly with my Mac. OS X kicked ass, and Mac hardware itself was becoming utterly sick, as the kids these days might say. I was definitely a Nokia fan, as you can see, because their interface was the most well thought-out, in my opinion. Many was the time I had been tempted to buy a used Newton 2100 and spend the time to hack it to work with OS X. Had I been able to own a newer Newton back in 1998, I’d have had a more refined product, with less quirks and a very mature feel. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are using a similar principle to track cells being sorted on microfluidic chips. The new technique also captures information about the sizes of the cells, and how fast they are moving. The technology can track cells with better than 90 percent accuracy in a four-channel chip. For instance, antigens can be used to select bacteria or cancer cells and route them into separate channels. Current flowing through the circuitry creates an electrical field in the microfluidic channels above the grid. The unique identifying signals from multiple cells can be separated and read by a computer, allowing scientists to track not only the properties of the cells, but also how many cells have passed through each channel. Sarioglu and his students have demonstrated that they can track more than a thousand ovarian cancer cells with an accuracy rate of better than 90 percent. The microfluidic channels are fabricated from a plastic material using soft lithographic techniques. Beyond cancer cells, bacteria and viruses, such a system could also sort and analyze inorganic particles. The proof-of-principle device contains just four channels, but Sarioglu believes the design could easily be scaled up to include many more channels. The new OS improved and began to offer wonderful features combining integrated use of calendar and contact data. Believe it or not, people out there still hack the Newton, and you can find solutions to make a now-ancient MessagePad sync with any modern Mac. That identification and information could allow automated counting and analysis of the cells being sorted. But to obtain information about the results of the sorting, those cells must now be counted using optical methods. When a cell passes through one of the microfluidic channels, it creates an impedance change in the circuitry that signals the cell's passage and provides information about the cell's location, size and the speed at which it is moving through the channel. It had frustrating limitations based on OS design choices, and, worse, synced very poorly with my Mac. With .Mac syncing, I had my contact info on my home Mac and all of my work Macs, and if for some reason I needed the info on the road, I could look it up on my Nokia or iPod. I forgot it was there, and when I closed the door to the shelf, the phone came sliding off, and it smashed my Newton’s screen. The January 2007 Macworld keynote will, of course, be the one that goes down in history, because it’s when Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone. I could access the info via the Palm Desktop app for the Mac, but it was such a terrible program, I simply never bothered. You should only ever have one place for personal information, otherwise confusion and mismatched data will ensue. What’s so fantastic about both the iPhone and the Newton is that Apple got the basics right from the very beginning. However, technology was not allowing me to work this way, so I made a valiant and very successful effort at managing two contact lists. The concepts were sound, the designs were top-notch, and intelligence just oozes out of both products. As the iPhone gets updated over the next few years, I know Apple will fix some things, add others, and the iPhone will only get better. Cell phone number search mumbai Cell phones for sale on amazon Phone book cell phone numbers free online Phone number search uk by name 2014 Category: Locate Phone Number Comments to Information about cell phone frequencies 2014 They never get to take any telephone number. The procedures to you - you may want particular agency, we will normally. 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Fiona MacNeill is not only an exception a€“ a female surgeon in a male-dominated profession a€“ shea€™s also at the forefront of radical breast-cancer treatment. Salcombea€™s first development of new properties right on the watera€™s edge for almost twenty years. A special rabbit doctor has been appointed in Edinburgh following a surge in popularity of the furry pet. Brigitte Reusch has taken up the role as lecturer in rabbit medicine and surgery at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies. Ms Reusch, who has several years of experience in treating rabbits, will also run a dedicated rabbit clinic. Edinburgh University said it was the first post in Europe for a lecturer in rabbit medicine and surgery. It is estimated that there are more than 1.4 million pet rabbits in the UK, which are either kept indoors as house pets or outside. Ms Reusch said: "An increasing number of people are buying rabbits as pets, with what is very much becoming a lifestyle decision. One of the most common problems relating to rabbit welfare is poor diet, as owners may not realise that simply feeding them breakfast and dinner is not good for wearing the rabbits' teeth down as they need to eat hay or grass throughout the day. It is also important to ensure that pet rabbits, which have evolved from the European wild rabbit, are not kept too warm to avoid them becoming over heated. Ms Adam said: "I got Humphrey as looking after a rabbit is easier than say, for instance, looking after a dog or a cat. Background Dr Wong is a consultant general surgeon with a special interest in colorectal surgery currently practising in Gleneagles hospital. Dr Wong was part of a medical team during operation Desert Storm in 1991 in the gulf war for 2 months attached to the 205 Territorial Army Surgical Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He completed his FRCS (Edinburgh) and MMED (Surg) post graduate qualifications in 1993 and was awarded the Chapter of Surgeons Gold Medal for distinction in the examination. Dr Wong has special interests in anorectal surgery, laparoscopic colon surgery and endoscopy. From scuffling in the clubs and studios of late-'50s New Orleans, to his reinvention as Dr. The erstwhile Mac Rebennack goes through a lifetime in music from New Orleans, via Los Angeles, to the world: the music, the drugs and the whole cast of characters, including James Booker, Doc Pomus, Phil Spector, Allen Toussaint and Sam Cooke. FREQUENTLY, we receive letters from readers' asking us to write about the people behind the scenes in our music. WHEN DR John was coming off heroin some time ago, it was suggested that a visit to a faith-healing meeting might help in the cure. WHEN DOCTOR John failed to deliver a hit single (and album) to follow the success of 'In The Right Place' Atlantic promptly ditched him. WELL, IT WAS the summer of '74 and all in all life was reasonably comfortable but pretty boring. DR JOHN is clean (and mean) and on the scene; so Hail on Mac 'cause it's a stone fact (y'all), the gritty gumbo hustler's back. THERE ARE GROOVES and there are grooves: that which is laid down by the Meters is definitely one of the latter. John Sinclair: First things first: everybody wants to know who did your hair for the record cover of Television? MAC REBENNACK'S music continues a 40 year long mardi gras of the mind, a sound that never gets old, never gets tired. NEW ORLEANS-bred musician Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr John, has seen a lot hair-curling sights during his forty year career on the fringes. THERE IS no native son of New Orleans more fiercely native than Mac Rebennack, known professionally now for almost 40 years as Dr. Many people, for instance, are deciding to have rabbits as house pets as this fits in better with their busy working lives than having other pets. 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__label__wiki	0.960267	0.960267	Founder and President Julia H�usermann, MBE International Patrons: HH The Dalai Lama HRH Prince EI Hassan bin Talal Dadi Janki Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Patron of WHEN! Mrs Cherie Blair Chair: Mrs Julia H�usermann MBE, Founder and President, Rights and Humanity, Switzerland Ambassador Anja-Riitta Ketokoski-Rexed, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland Mr Philip Watkins, Partner, Katten Muchen Rosenmann, UK LLP, UK Mrs Jennifer Godwin, Chairman and General Manager, Anglo-European Services Ltd, UK, Secretary Ms Louise Madden, FCA, UK, Treasurer Mr Gerry Van der Sluys, The Netherlands, CEO, Business Investments AG, Switzerland Founded in 1986, Rights and Humanity is the brainchild of its' Founder and President, Professor Julia H�usermann MBE, a visionary pragmatist. Rights and Humanity is the pioneer of the Human Rights Approach to Development and over the last three decades has had a considerable influence on global policy and practice, which in turn has helped millions of poor and disadvantaged people across the world to realise their human rights and dignity. It's current focus is on the rights to water and sanitation, promoting a human rights approach to the global economy and promoting peaceful solutions to issues of conflict. Rights and Humanity Videos Rights and Humanity's Achievements through the voices of our Patrons About Rights and Humanity - A Global Pioneer \| Print \| E-mail Accessibility FAQ Links Site Map Terms and Conditions Privacy Policy � Rights and Humanity 2008 Established as a not for profit association under Swiss law in 1986. The UK Association of Rights and Humanity is registered as a Charity Registration No. 1001555, and as a Company Limited by Guarantee No. 2541095. Website designed by Frameworks	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line380
__label__wiki	0.832589	0.832589	HomeComics‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ Comic Series Announced! ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ Comic Series Announced! June 9, 2018 admin Comics 0 ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ and the Dark Horse the crew are entering the realm of comic books! The hilarious franchise known for riffing on our favorite films and TV shows is coming to comics in a new series titled ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000 The Comic.’ Simple, yet effective! The comic series will be led by original ‘Mystery Science Theater’ host Joel Hodgson, and the rest of our favorite characters will join him as Crow T. Robot, Tom Servo, and Gypsy will take to riffing on some of the most popular comic series! The series will have six-parts and will launch with two covers. The first cover is drawn by Todd Nauck, while the other shows off the artwork of Steve Vance, who also created the covers for ‘’Shout! Factory’s Mystery Science Theater 3000’ DVD and Blu-ray collections. Take a look at the covers below: Check out the official description for the series: “The riffing hilarity loved by fans of ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ since 1988 is taking on a whole new medium…comics! Created for comics by series creator Joel Hodgson, Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Comic finds Jonah Heston, Crow T. Robot, Tom Servo, and Gypsy thrust into the 2-D world of public domain comics, with riffing as their only defense! But trust us, these comics have it coming. Featuring a variant cover by longtime MST3K DVD artist Steve Vance (among others), ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Comic’ is a perfect companion to your favorite original episodes and the hit Netflix show!” The series recently found a new home on Netflix following a successful crowdfunding campaign and has already been given a second season on the streaming service. The original show was created by Hodgson in 1988 with the premise of a janitor being trapped by two mad scientists and being forced to watch B movies. To help keep himself sane, he developed robot companions to accompany him in riffing on the films he had to watch. ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Comic’ issue #1 hits shelves on September 9, and is available for pre-order at participating comic shops! ‘Luke Cage’ Showrunner Discusses Bringing Danny Rand Onto The Series Sense8: The Series Finale review: Was it worth it? \| SciFiNow The Meg fun facts: everything you could ever want to know about the megalodon \| SciFiNow MEGS – REEL AND REAL The principal megalodon in The [...] Morbius adds Jared Harris and Tyrese Gibson to the cast \| SciFiNow Jared Harris and Tyrese Gibson join the cast of Sony’s [...] Jessica Jones renewed for Season 3 \| SciFiNow Marvel’s Jessica Jones might be filled with twists, but this [...] David F. Sandberg Describes The Evolution Of The ‘Shazam!’ Costume There has been a lot of attention paid to Zachary [...] Luke Cage Season 2: Cheo Hodari Coker on THAT ending \| SciFiNow WARNING – SPOILERS FOR ALL OF LUKE CAGE SEASON 2 [...]	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line387
__label__cc	0.728191	0.271809	The Kingdom Hearts Roleplay Roleplay about one of the greatest anime video game crossovers in the world. Kingdom Hearts The Kingdom Hearts Roleplay :: Welcome :: Claims :: Canon Lists Share Roleplaying Tiers Adventurer III Heart Points : 102634 Location : My Castle Oblivion Subject: Roleplaying Tiers Fri Nov 29, 2013 11:02 pm These are the tiers that are used to tell Roleplaying experience. Use this for your character application and for completing a canon application. APL: Average Post Length APL: About 1-3 Paragraphs (Short-Medium L Paragraphs) No real measure of experience required Easy character to obtain Xemnas saw the girl block the attack and he was now fueled. "Sayuri, what the hell are you doing?! She's with Sora! Don't you get they're trying to stop our plans?! You must be punished!" Xemnas screamed at her. He built up his power and made an attack that involved all of the organization's elements. It was irreversible because all of their moves hurt one half of the whole first district. The opposite half of the burning cafe where Sora was still held. After the attack Xemnas felt like he could finally speak calmly and normally again. You're supposed to be helping our team, not theirs." Xemnas explained to her. His voice was calming but deep down he was seething with rage. Experience is somewhat required, at least experience in previous sites. Akiharo could see Sayuri staring at him and he knew why Akiharo's eyes were still blood red. Akiharo closed his eyes and sighed when he opened them they were back to normal. "Sorry about that it happens when I'm mad and don't worry I am not mad at you. I just can't stop all the pictures that are going through my head right now." Akiharo kept seeing a picture of Akira every time he looked at Sayuri. Could it be, is Sayuri Akira's nobody? It would make sense and it explained why she sounded so much like Akira when he was in trouble. Akira was like his sister. He had her back and she had his. Akiharo was still sitting on the floor. "Do you remember anything that happened before you were in the organization? A name or place? I do and that is why my eyes turn blood red my past makes me mad and I don't even know if it is my past. I just black out and see these things in my head and they get stronger and stronger when I'm with you and I don't know why. I fall asleep and I keep seeing the same thing over and over. Akiharo looked at the floor for a while but when he looked up his eyes were blood red again and he couldn't control himself when he was mad so he just ran again, but this time he wasn't sure if Sayuri would follow him. A part of him wanted her to follow but he did not want to end up hurting her as he was sure he was going to do. Akiharo did not want to talk, he knew that if he did she would follow him and he would say things he wasn't supposed to or that he didn't want to say to her. Now he knew it was her; Sayuri was Akira's Nobody. APL: About 1-4 Paragraphs (Long Paragraphs) Experience required Trust of Administrators (and fellow members) somewhat required An almost unnoticeable smirk was spread on Karin’s face as she heard the keyblade bearer send the orbs back at the Reaver. She was busy killing off the rest of the smaller pray, they were annoying little creatures that enjoyed dodging almost every attack she made. They were frustrating. Karin’s smirk faded as the giant monster finally landed on ground, seeing it stand up again was just a pain. Rolling her eyes she turned to face it, the light that was forming inside of it was getting bigger by the second. They had to do something, quick. Or else Traverse Town would be dead in only a few minutes. As it stood up Karin held back, she wanted him to do orb blasts again. If only they were to burst while being created his arm would probably get blown right off. But climbing up his body again would result a problem, so something had to be thrown at it so that they would be activated. She performing a roll to evade a punch that was directed at her and failing to notice the tentacle emerging from that mouth, she was grabbed by it. The Reaver brought her up in the air; the tentacle began to harden its grip on Karin, trying to kill her. While it got on its two front legs the Reaver used its large hind one like a sort of stinger and began attacking the Nobody. Trust of Administrators (and Co-Workers) required She didn't want to be mad. At least not at Akiharo. But he was making that seemingly impossible. He kept going on about him being a jerk, how he was only nice to her and he wouldn't be able to make any other friends besides her. He had everything wrong, even if he did act like a jerk, that didn't mean no one would ever like him. Just like she always acted serious or seemingly antisocial, she was able to make friends with him. He was saying that she could make friends, just like that, but she really couldn't. If she could, why did he see her with other friends? Because she didn't have any others. "Shut up." she said quietly at first. She didn't want to keep hearing him say those things. Things that were completely false. Sayuri wasn't that type of person - not that she was even actually one - to just make friends with any and everyone. She was too skeptical about everything and everyone around her to even trust someone enough to say more than her name half the time. She barely trusted Xemnas when he'd first found her, and now she didn't trust him at all. She didn't trust the Organization at all anymore. The people that had once been her comrades and guides, everything was gone. They were nothing but strangers who wanted to use her powers for a selfish gain to her. "Shut up. SHUT UP AKIHARO!" she kept saying until she finally screamed it out to him as they entered Twilight Town. No one was around and she was grateful for that so they didn't hear her outburst. "You don't get anything! I can never make real friends, none of this is real at all anyways. We aren't meant to exist, so even if I make friends as soon as I disappear all their recollections of me will disappear along with me! There's no point in making any other friends. I don't want to make any others...You're my only friend! I don't want that to change. Ever." she said, tears in her eyes, trying to calm down. "You obviously won't understand what though! You're too engulfed in the thought that you're nothing but darkness, right? Well fine. I don't care what you think you are anymore, you'll eventually see you're wrong anyways." she told him and she turned around. "I just want to be away from the castle..." she responded to his question and started to walk away. 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__label__wiki	0.736854	0.736854	07162019What's Hot: Trump to freshmen Dem congresswomen: ‘If you’re not happy, you can leave’ 20 mins ago ‘Bile of garbage’: Progressive squad tears into Trump 3 hours ago How Trump aides rushed to repackage the ‘go back’ tweets 6 hours ago INFO SHOOTER Politics Analytics Chronicle Ontd Political HumanEvents PolitiCartoons Talk Politics WA Times Home NY Times Trump, Kim Jong-un to Hold Second Summit Meeting Next Month Trump, Kim Jong-un to Hold Second Summit Meeting Next Month Posted 6 months ago \| 0 comments WASHINGTON — President Trump will meet with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, in late February, the White House announced on Friday, continuing a high-level diplomatic dialogue that has eased tensions but shown little progress in eliminating the North’s nuclear arsenal. The announcement came after Mr. Trump met for 90 minutes in the Oval Office with Kim Yong-chol, the former North Korean intelligence chief who has acted as the chief nuclear negotiator for Mr. Kim. The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said the date and the location of the meeting would be announced later, suggesting that the two sides were still haggling over the site or other logistical details. Vietnam, Thailand and Hawaii have all been mentioned as potential sites. The very fact that Mr. Trump is agreeing to a second summit meeting with Mr. Kim, after North Korea’s failure to begin denuclearization following their first meeting in Singapore last June, is a sign of how quickly the president has backed away from his initial insistence on fast action by Pyongyang. The first step the North Koreans were expected to take after the June meeting was a detailed inventory of their nuclear assets. That was to include the number of weapons they have produced — variously estimated at 20 to 60 — the locations of those weapons, any nuclear materials used to produce new weapons and a detailed list of their missiles and missile launchers. The United States wanted to use the list to truth-test the North, comparing it to what American intelligence agencies have gathered over the past 30 years. But the North Koreans have complained to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other visiting Americans that the inventory would amount to a targeting list, telling the United States what to attack should Mr. Trump ever order a pre-emptive strike. For months that issue produced a stalemate in diplomatic talks, along with the American insistence that major steps toward denuclearization would have to precede any initial lifting of sanctions. But in November, Vice President Mike Pence began to loosen the conditions, telling NBC News that North Korea did not have to turn over its inventory in order to secure a second meeting with Mr. Trump. At the time, Mr. Pence seemed to acknowledge that the Singapore meeting had resulted in agreements so vague that they allowed the North to drag its feet. “I think it will be absolutely imperative in this next summit that we come away with a plan for identifying all of the weapons in question, identifying all the development sites, allowing for inspections of the sites and the plan for dismantling nuclear weapons,” Mr. Pence said, noting that it was time to “see results.” This month, Mr. Kim spent three days in Beijing, where President Xi Jinping of China and his wife, Peng Liyuan, hosted a dinner for Mr. Kim and his wife, Ri Sol-ju. The visit coincided with what is believed to be Mr. Kim’s 35th birthday, though North Korea has never confirmed that date. During previous visits to China by Mr. Kim, Mr. Trump has complained that Mr. Xi was encouraging the North Korean leader to drive a hard bargain with the United States over his nuclear weapons. Source: NYT > World Tags: hold, Jongun, meeting, month, Next, Second, summit, Trump See all publications of the author admin → Trump to freshmen Dem congresswomen: ‘If you’re not happy, you can leave’ ‘Bile of garbage’: Progressive squad tears into Trump How political and economcal situation in the US will change after presidential elections? Will get better Will get worse Won't change at all It depends on world politics Polls archive >> © 2019 INFO SHOOTER. All rights reserved. RSS posts · RSS comments · download music without registration	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line393

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