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__label__wiki	0.828776	0.828776	QuickLesson 16: Speculation, Hypothesis, Interpretation & Proof Historians are expected to interpret what they find. That’s part of the job description. It’s also one of the most misunderstood aspects of the job. Where do we draw the line between “interpretation” and “speculation”? What relation does either have to the popular buzzword “hypothesis”? At what eventual point does interpretation qualify as “proof”? Regardless of the field of history in which we labor, reliable proof is built on common expectations. QuickLesson 8 (“What Constitutes Proof?”) examines the eleven basic building blocks of proof. Here in QuickLesson 16, we narrow that focus to five: When we neglect any of these building blocks, we are likely to fall short of reliable proof. Whether our result then qualifies as a reasonable interpretation, an hypothesis, or mere speculation will depend upon how far short we fall. Merriam-Webster offers two relevant definitions for “speculate”: to meditate on or ponder a subject to review something idly or casually and often inconclusively Neither definition satisfies any standard for sound work in history. Simply meditating or pondering, without valid evidence, is meaningless. Reviewing a subject “idly or casually” before making an assertion does actual damage to the public’s understanding of our world, because of the false conclusions that are typically broadcast. By contrast, Merriam-Webster defines “interpret” this way: to explain or tell the meaning of : present in understandable terms to perform … in a way that conveys one’s understanding of the creator’s ideas The key concept in both definitions of “interpret” is understanding. This means a thorough knowledge of our subject and the context of the place and time. As students of history, we arrive at that kind of knowledge, that understanding, by working our way through all those building blocks of proof. At variable points between speculation and understanding, historians typically arrive at one or more hypotheses. Merriam-Webster defines “hypothesis” in two ways: an assumption or concession made for the sake of argument [and] taken as the ground for action a tentative assumption made in order to draw out and test its logical or empirical consequences Hypotheses allow us to evaluate our level of understanding. Whatever the issue we are researching, when we feel we have a likely interpretation of the “facts”—when the evidence seems to point toward a logical conclusion—it is time to play Devil’s Advocate. We reevaluate our evidence, trying to disprove our interpretation as intensely as we have tried to prove it. In this process, we go back to the information we have gleaned. We often go back to our sources, as well. We put ourselves into the mental framework of our critics and pick apart our own reasoning. We argue with each piece of information we have found and each deduction we have made. We try to link details in different combinations, in an effort to see them in a different light. We study the work of others who write on similar subjects, applying their perspectives to our conundrum. Often this process suggests new research paths to pursue and new sources to consult. Not until we feel that our conclusion can withstand all critical analyses, should we propose our interpretation as likely proof. In Sum As historical researchers, we might draw the following distinctions between speculation, hypothesis, interpretation, and proof: Speculation is typically presented as an end-point to a disappointing research process, at which point the researcher has run out of ideas. Often, its presentation is prefaced by an assertion such as, “No evidence exists to prove this, but … .” Typically, the assertion will carry no documentation or, as a smoke screen, will cite material that—when examined—does not support the assertion at all. Hypotheses represent an interim state—one in which we recognize that our research and analyses are still seriously incomplete. We accept our hypotheses only as possibilities to be further tested and soundly proved before we can validly assert an opinion. Interpretation is an impermanent conclusion we reach after we feel we have adequately applied all the building blocks of proof. The strength of our interpretation will depend heavily upon the investment we have made in our study of context. We consider our interpretation to be impermanent because we recognize that the discovery of new evidence or the application of new insights or other research methodology might require altering that interpretation. Proof is the body of evidence and reasoning that we offer to support our interpretation. The quality of the work that creates this body of evidence usually determines the sustainability of our conclusion. The following case at point illustrates these stages, starting with a record and a need to identify the person discussed in that record. The case presents a published speculation, develops two hypotheses, and applies several targeted tests to each. After all available evidence is extracted from extant records, correlated, and analyzed, we demonstrate how to construct an interpretation that resolves the identity question and places the evidence into a meaningful historical context. The body of evidence and reasoning that goes into our interpretation then becomes our "proof" for the identity that we propose. CASE AT POINT Identifying “Coin Coin” of the 1820 U.S. Census The colonial Louisiana outpost of Natchitoches produced an extraordinary African-American woman whose life has been studied by scholars from many fields: Marie Thérèse dite 1 Coincoin, born and baptized in August 1742.2 Dozens of original records chronicle her life as both a slave and a freed woman, from her infancy through her declining years. No record exists for her death or burial. The 1820 census of Natchitoches Parish includes a household headed by someone called, simply, “Coin Coin.” The one-line entry recorded for this household gives us the following detail for the "Coin Coin" household:3 1 free colored male, aged 45 and over 2 free colored females, aged 45 and over 1 free colored female, aged 26 through 44 1 person engaged in agriculture 4 free colored persons, total The Speculation A widely published project by respected scholars has concluded that Marie Thérèse Coincoin was still alive in 1820 and cites this census entry as “proof.” The published studies explain no reasoning for their conclusion that the census householder called “Coin Coin” was Marie Thérèse. They offer no explanation why that interpretation violates a social norm for their era: Given that the household includes a male aged 45 or older, why would a female be treated as the head of household? Apparently the conclusion that Marie Thérèse was the householder “Coin Coin” was based on the premise The name’s the same. 4 Several facts known about Marie Thérèse might support this “interpretation” of the evidence. She was born in 1742, meaning she would have been almost 78 at the time the census credits the “Coin Coin” household with two females over the age of 45. She had 15 children and several dozen free grandchildren. Hence, the three other free people of color in her household could easily be her offspring. She was a landowner and slaveowner who had, in May 1816, divided her slaves among her children and sold two of her three tracts of land. Because she still owned one tract, she could have continued to maintain her own household. Because she had disposed of her slaves, there were no enslaved people enumerated in the “Coin Coin” household. Ergo, all details fit. No, they don’t. The published “interpretation” of the census evidence was premature and proved invalid. 5 It qualifies for speculation because the record was “reviewed casually,” to use Merriam-Webster’s definition. It was not underpinned by thorough research, critical analysis, or correlation of a body of evidence. Instead, the source of the speculation is offered as "proof"―skipping totally over three critical steps: Formulation and testing of an hypothesis; Contextual interpretation of the evidence; Construction of a proof argument to explain how the evidence proves the researcher's conclusion. Let’s examine the evidence, pose multiple hypotheses, test them, and see if we can reach a valid interpretation. When this hypothesis is tested, it can be disputed by both direct and indirect evidence. Test 1: Direct Evidence: In researching the life of a woman, the first building block of proof—thorough research—means we must also thoroughly study each child that woman bore. We must reconstruct the life of each of those children, seeking out all records they created. Any one of those records might reveal critical information about the mother. That is exactly the case in the case at hand. In December 1817 a middle-aged son of Marie Thérèse, Pierre Metoyer Jr., married for the second time. The church record of his marriage—easily accessible information, because it has been translated and published—names his prior wife. It does not name his parents.6 Being a man of considerable property at that time, he did what French Catholics of some means (including the Afro-French) customarily did: he went to a notary and executed a marriage contract.7 That civil record also exists. However: It is not included in the parish index to marriages, because it did not document a marriage. No marriage had yet occurred. Realistically, the creation of a marriage contract is no guarantee that a marriage eventually took place; breaches of contract did occur.8 It is not indexed with the recorded property records (conveyances, donations, etc.) because the couple did not pay to have it recorded at the courthouse. They paid a notary to draft the document and, as was customary under civil law, the notaries maintained their own archives. It is not filed within the parish probate, civil, or criminal court records, because no court action was involved. The records of the neighborhood notary, for that time frame, do survive and were later deposited with the clerk of the civil parish. However, they were not included with courthouse records filmed in the 1960s, because they were not part of predefined list of record types that the filming project would cover (registers of conveyances, marriages, probates, and civil and criminal court actions). Perhaps for all the above reasons, these notarial records were also missed by the research team, who thereby fell short of the first standard of proof: thorough research. Because they missed this one marriage contract, they reached a totally erroneous interpretation of a quite different record: the census. What direct evidence did they miss? In his marriage contract of 3 December 1817, Pierre Metoyer Jr. explicitly identified himself as “son of the deceased Marie Thérèse Coincoin.”9 VERDICT: Hypothesis 1 has failed its first test. Test 2: Indirect Evidence A reliable interpretation of any situation always requires evaluating the evidence in context. When using census information, the most obvious context we have to work with is the neighborhood of our person of interest. The 1820 census return did not identify Coin Coin’s neighborhood by any community term in use today. That 10-page census groups entries into five districts:10 Unlabeled section, whose householders are known to have been residents of the “Neutral Strip”―an area west of the town of Natchitoches that paralleled the Sabine River.11 “East of Rio Hondo,” a river that ran diagonally northwest of the town of Natchitoches. “Town of Natchitoches.” “Continuation of Natchitoches Proper”— i.e., the countryside first settled by the French, immediately east and south of the village. “The lower line of Emanuel Prudhomme’s plantation to the … Rigolet de Bon Dieu”—i.e., southward from the district above, running down Red River to the dividing line between Natchitoches and Rapides parishes. Coin Coin was enumerated in District 2, north of the town of Natchitoches. Meanwhile, all three tracts of land owned by Marie Thérèse Coincoin lay ten or so miles south of the town. All the planter families who were her neighbors from 1780 to 1816 are enumerated in Districts 4 and 5 of this 1820 census. VERDICT: Hypothesis 1 has failed its second test. Test 3: A Process of Elimination Given the evidence that the original Coincoin, Marie Thérèse, had died by December 1817, logic suggests a survey of potential candidates. Specifically, we need to (a) identify each of her offspring who would have been about 45 or older in the year 1820; and (b) determine which ones are positively identifiable elsewhere on the census. Marie Thérèse Coincoin at this time had nine surviving children in the parish, aged 36–59. Her oldest free grandchild in the parish was thirty. The nine possible candidates for Coin Coin of 1820 were these:12 Black children born of a slave father: Marie Françoise, born ca. 1761, freed in 181913 Nicolas, born ca. 1764–65, freed in 179714 Multiracial children (born 1768–84), all of whom who used surnames: Nicolas Augustin Metoyer Marie Susanne Metoyer, a sole feme and planter like her Metoyer brothers Louis Metoyer Pierre Metoyer Jr. Antoine Joseph Metoyer François Metoyer Pierre Toussaint Metoyer In 1820, all of Marie Thérèse’s free children are enumerated in Districts 4 and 5, south of the town—except the eldest son Nicolas, who does not appear as a householder on that census. VERDICT: Hypothesis 1, in its third test, suggests a new hypothesis. Test 1: Is known data for Nicolas compatible with this hypothesis? In 1772, when Nicolas was about seven, his heavily indebted mistress sold him illegally to Colonel Antonio Gil y Barbo at the nearby capital of Spanish Texas: Los Adaës near present Robeline, Louisiana.15 Shortly thereafter, Spain closed that post and ordered its inhabitants to pull back into the region that became modern Texas. For seven years, the Adaësanos would shuffle through several Texas settlements, led by Gil y Barbo, before eventually being allowed to settle at the site of the Nacogdoches tribe, about a hundred miles from Natchitoches. There, in 1793, Nicolas’s mother and his newly freed younger half-brother Augustin Metoyer (see gallery photo, above) made a down-payment on Nicolas’s manumission.16 Annual censuses in 1794 and 1795 show Nicolas living as free—at Nacogdoches, not Natchitoches.17 In 1796, Gil y Barbo fell into political disfavor. He was imprisoned, his property was seized, and Nicolas was remanded to slavery because his price had not been fully paid. Augustin made another trip to Nacogdoches as representative of his mother and paid the remaining debt. However, Gil y Barbo’s trustee refused to relinquish Nicolas, saying he had the authority to receive money due to the confiscated estate but no authority to manumit a slave.18 Nicolas continued to appear on the Nacogdoches censuses through December 1798, not as a free man but as Gil y Barbo’s property.19 In 1799, the Spaniard reconciled his political problems and was released from jail on the condition that he remove himself and his household, including his enslaved people, from the province of Texas. At their departure on 3 October 1799, they headed across the Sabine into the jurisdiction of Natchitoches. The aged Gil y Barbo would eventually be allowed to return to his Texas ranch;20 but there is no evidence that Nicolas went back with him. As a free man, he could choose his own place of residence. When the U.S. government opened its first land office in Louisiana in 1806, Nicolas’s half-siblings, the Metoyers, filed a slew of claims for land grants and concessions they had acquired under the Spanish regime. Someone also filed, in the name of the illiterate 42-year-old Nicolas, an occupancy claim (“squatter’s claim,” in common parlance) on a tract of backwater land adjoining Augustin, the brother who had secured his freedom.21 Thus was created the only known set of records that connects Nicolas to the south-of-Natchitoches region. An 1813 affidavit made in the claim case by a white representative of the Metoyers identified Nicolas as “over fifty,” declared that he had “inhabited and cultivated the land for eighteen consecutive years preceding” (a demonstrably wrong assertion), and called him the “head of a family.”22 In December 1818, shortly after the U.S. Land Office confirmed Nicolas’s title to that south-of-Natchitoches land, he sold it to Augustin who had by then achieved wealth and prominence in that plantation region.[23 Nicolas would live—somewhere—for another thirty-two years. In that meanwhile, he bought no land and was never accused of a crime or debt. No tax records survive to track him through poll assessments. No known church records for those years identify him as either a father or a godparent. Only twice in those years did he appear again in any known record. In 1838, when a neighbor of Augustin Metoyer contested Augustin’s ownership of Nicolas’s land, Nicolas went before the parish judge to certify that he had, indeed, sold that land to Augustin.24 At his death in 1850, Nicolas’s burial record would identify him only as “brother of Augustin Metoyer.”25 One earlier record does point to associations for Nicolas―not amid his half-siblings below Natchitoches, but above the town. In June 1805, he served as a godparent to a daughter of the “free mulatress” Marguerite. That baptismal record does not cite either a location or surnames for the participants. However, the event was one of seven baptisms held that day for children born to families in the Campti–Grande Ecore region north of Natchitoches, and some twenty miles from the site of Nicolas’s land claim.26 The mother who chose Nicolas to sponsor her child that day was the tri-racial Marguerite Grappe, daughter of the legendary Indian trader and rancher, François Grappe dit Touline.27 Nicolas’s association with the Grappe family is not surprising. Six years earlier, his half-brother Louis Metoyer had fathered a child by Marguerite’s sister Madeleine. The two families would continue to associate and intermarry in every subsequent generation. The Grappe community, moreover, was heavily interlaced with French Creoles and Americans who traded at Nacogdoches, as well as Indio-Spanish Tejanos Nicolas had known from childhood. VERDICT: This hypothesis passes its first test. It connects Nicolas to the area north of Natchitoches—albeit 15 years earlier than the census in question. Test 2: Can the 1820 neighborhood be identified precisely? Test 3: Can the residence of “Coin Coin” be placed in that neighborhood? Test 4: Can the 1820 residence of “Coin Coin” be connected to Nicolas? The “East of Rio Hondo” district in which Coin Coin was enumerated in 1820 sprawled across more than a thousand square miles. No federal land records or local land conveyances grant or sell any tract to anyone named “Coin Coin” or “Nicolas, free Negro.” However, the 1820 residence of Coin Coin can be identified by studying the landholdings of those enumerated around him on that census. The table above lists sixty of those “neighbors” in household sequence: thirty before and thirty after. Because the census does not number households, this table assigns a number-letter combo that designates each household’s position above or below Nicolas. Within the cluster from 24a down to 14b, eighteen of the householders can be identified as 1820 landowners in the same residential sequence as the census visitations. Each resided in the six-miles-square survey township known as 10 North, Range 7 West, Northwestern District of Louisiana. The above map of T10N R7W plats the locations of those households and depicts, as well, the path of the census taker. The original plat map was created in 1825 to show the bounds of all the landholders whose Spanish-era claims had been approved by the U.S. government. Local deed records—nearly a hundred of them—show that between 1806 (when the claims were lodged) and late 1820 (when the census was taken) many of the tracts had changed hands. Older landowners had died. Sons and sons-in-law had taken over. Most of the families were, by 1820, intermarried in intricate ways. Some had swapped lands to better consolidate their holdings. For all cases in which the census household name differs from the original land owner shown on the map, notes have been added at the bottom of the map to identify the key transactions. This exercise yielded five points critical to the identification of “Coin Coin.” The township lies immediately above Natchitoches in the Campti-Grande Ecore region where Nicolas served as godparent in 1805. Two of the earliest settlers of that region—both still alive in 1820, with extensive lands on which they lived as patriarchs of a large family of multiracial offspring—were François Grappe, the grandfather of the 1805 child; and Athanase DeMézières Jr. whose father, as commandant, had helped his sister-in-law sell the young Nicolas away from his mother. As shown on the 1825 map, Nicolas’s brother Augustin Metoyer was also a land claimant in this township—an aberration, given that all his other landholdings lay south of town on Isle Brevelle. According to 1811 testimony provided in the claims case for Augustin's north-of-Natchitoches land, it was not personally occupied by him. Someone else in his employ had “inhabited and cultivated” the land for about “fifteen consecutive years immediately preceding.”28 The reason why Augustin chose to develop this land, some twenty-five miles from his plantation lands and residence, goes unexplained in the records. The fact that it lies scarcely a mile from the site where the 1820 census places Coin Coin is surely not a coincident. On the 1820 census, Coin Coin is flanked by two landowning “free Negroes”: Louis Lamatte, and the one-named Guillaume.29 Local deeds document the acquisition of each man’s land and allow spotty tracking of the titles back to the original claimant.30 Lamatte, in 1820, owned the lower part of Section 31.31 Guillaume owned Section 32.32 As shown on the township map, Section 31 had been claimed, by right of occupancy under the Spanish by the former Grappe slave “Augustin, Free Negro.”33 Section 32 on the township map had been granted in 1789 to "Jean Pierre, Free Negro," also a manumitted slave of the Grappe family.34 These two men, on or near whose land Coin Coin lived in 1820, were father and son—former slaves of François Grappe’s mother.35 The exact position of Nicolas “between” the 1820 landowners Guillaume and Louis Lamatte can be established by correlating several documents: Our annotated 1825 plat map of the township. Several subsequent plat maps of landholdings in the township: 1843, 1845, 1848 and 1859. These re-surveys correct problems in the original survey—including an issue critical to our analysis: The 1825 survey presents Section 72, which lay across the river from Sections 31 and 32, as an open neck of land shaped by Red River and Bayou Pierre. The corrected maps show that Section 72 was actually an isle completely surrounded by water on all sides.36 An 1826 deed by which Joseph Irwin donated a tract of land to his godson, Edward Irwin Fleming. There, Irwin states that the land was located “at the place called Île à Nicolas” (Nicolas’s Isle).37 The attachment of Nicolas’s name to the site where Coin Coin was enumerated adds significantly to the evidence that the two men were one and the same. As the 1859 map shows, the island designated Section 72 was land claimed by Athanase DeMézières. Despite that man’s status as a slaveowner and despite his father’s complicity in selling Nicolas away from his mother, DeMézières and the other members of his family did, in many ways, help the Coincoin-Metoyer offspring establish themselves as freedmen.38 For Athanase Jr. to hire Nicolas, or otherwise allow him to live on the island, would have been entirely in character. VERDICT: Hypothesis 2 has passed its Tests 2, 3, and 4, with conclusive results. Test 5: Would a male freedman use his mother’s dite as a surname? This test is a simple one. Records of both the civil and church parish are rife with such cases. As in most societies with surnames typically derived from the father, when a child was born out of wedlock and the father was not publicly identified, the child grew up using his mother’s surname. As two examples that span Nicolas’s lifetime: In his own family, his aunt Gertrude used as a dite the African name Dgimby (with variant spellings). Her one child, François, as an adult, was also known as François dit Dgimby (with variant spellings).39 Similarly, in 1829, the daughter of Pelagie Grappe married a freed quadroon named Noël Mézières. No record identifies his father; the surname used for him in this marriage record and throughout his life was that of his mother, “Marie Jeanne dite Mézières.”40 This pattern was the norm, not an aberration. VERDICT: Hypothesis 2 has passed its fifth and final test. Our Interpretation “Coin Coin” of the 1820 census was Nicolas dit Coincoin, eldest son of the deceased Marie Thérèse Coincoin. His residence in the ranching region of Campti–Grande Ecore, north of Natchitoches, rather than the plantation region south of town, speaks to both his life as a slave and the many disparities between him and the half-siblings who became wealthy planters. Those differences prompted him to choose a residence outside their domain, although his younger brother Augustin—the Metoyer family patriarch—would retain a sense of responsibility for Nicolas until his end days. Ethnically, culturally, and economically, Nicolas and the Metoyers had little in common. At the time Nicolas was taken from his mother, she had been hired out to the French immigrant Pierre Metoyer. Nicolas, having been weaned by the start of that relationship, would have stayed with his mistress to labor for her, in one of the capacities that enslaved children served.41 Nicolas, realistically, would have had little association or attachment to his mother’s new babies. Moreover, during twenty years in the company of Tejanos, his daily language would have been Spanish; and the French of his young childhood was likely forgotten. At Natchitoches, his siblings grew up speaking French, even during the Spanish regime. Those siblings also had a father who recognized them and allowed them to use his name. Nicolas lacked that social and economic advantage.42 The fact that the landowning Metoyers of color were half white would have created another cultural divide within their family. Unlike Spanish Texas with its sizable mestizo population and no laws against racial intermarriage, in French Louisiana color was a legal, economic, and social issue. “People of color” (i.e., multiracials) enjoyed privileges that nègres (full blacks) did not, as well as a greater degree of acceptance in everyday affairs. Nicolas’s phenotype was radically different from that of his siblings—so much so that a parish judge would later, gratuitously, describe Nicolas in a court case as a black man “appearing to be a real African.”43 Arriving at Natchitoches in 1799, Nicolas lived out his years there under the burden of yet another layer of discrimination. The new waves of Anglo-Americans who flooded the territory after the Louisiana Purchase were disturbed by the racial leniency that surrounded them. Many felt threatened by the privileges granted to free Creole blacks and multiracials. Once the newcomers secured positions in the legislature, they increasingly restricted the legal rights of not only slaves but also free blacks and free Creoles of color. Survival for the multiracial Creoles required them to assert themselves as a third caste, neither black nor white. Maintaining that caste difference, with its tenuous legal rights, also meant severing themselves from social intercourse with their black kin.44 For Nicolas, the north-of-Natchitoches region would have been a retreat to a more compatible society. Its native families—the interrelated Grappes, DeMézières, Trichels, and Perots enjoyed significantly less prosperity and limited opportunity for advancement, in no small part because they did mingle freely across all color lines. Relatively few Anglos settled amid them to challenge their culture and most who did buy into the region were speculators or engaged in trade with Spanish Texas. Many newcomers to the region were, in fact, Tejanos themselves, generally from Nacogdoches where Nicolas had spent nearly two decades. Economically, the north-of-Natchitoches region was also more suited to the skills for which Nicolas had been trained: ranching, rather than farming. The location of the tract that carried Nicolas name in the 1820s—Île à Nicolas—also speaks to the means by which he likely supported himself. Throughout not just Louisiana but the rural South, small tracts that were waterlocked were prime lands for raising cattle; they needed no corralling. No credible evidence places Nicolas in residence amid his half-siblings in the plantation region below town. Although a hired witness in the land claim filed in his name asserted that he had lived on the claimed land for 18 years before 1813, that assertion is disproved by the documents created for Nicolas at Nacogdoches between 1793 and 1799. The 1830s-era legal suit over Nicolas’s land claim also documents the fact that even before Nicolas sold the claim to his brother Augustin Metoyer, Augustin had put another man on the land to begin clearing and cultivating.45 The only known record Nicolas personally created during the years spanned by his land claim was the 1805 baptismal record that placed him amid the Grappes of Campti–Grand Ecore.46 Other records suggest indirectly that he remained there. When, in December 1818, Nicolas sold his land claim to his half-brother Augustin, and again in November 1838, when Nicolas confirmed that sale, neither document was executed by the south-of-Natchitoches notaries who customarily went to “the home of Sieur Augustin Metoyer” to draft the documents he needed. Instead, both times, Augustin journeyed some 20 miles to Natchitoches where he and Nicolas transacted their business in the courthouse office of the parish judge47—an intermediary point between Augustin’s south-of-town residence and the north-of-town site where Coin Coin was enumerated in 1820. Perhaps Nicolas's decision to live in the ranching community of Campti and Grande Ecore, rather than the south-of-town plantation country, stemmed from his choice of spouse. The type of record in which he appeared in 1805 does typically reflect kinship or marital choices. It is also possible that, having shucked servitude, he had no desire to live in a state of dependency upon largesse offered by his half-white half-brother. One last document suggests that Nicolas did spend his final days amid his younger half-siblings on Isle Brevelle. On Nicolas’s deathbed in April 1850, Augustin Metoyer—himself an octogenarian at the time—called a priest to administer final rites to Nicolas. After the black brother’s death on 11 April, Augustin took him to the parish church the following day for burial. The identity of the priest silently tells us that Nicolas had left his north-of-Natchitoches home. Had he still been there, the nearest priest—just six miles away—would have been the Reverend August Martin of the town of Natchitoches; and the churchyard used for burial would have been that of the Chapel of the Nativity at Campti. However, the priest that was summoned was Father H. Figari of Cloutierville—a village some twenty-five miles below Natchitoches and more than thirty miles distant from Campti. Rev. Figari, as pastor of St. Jean Baptiste des Cloutierville, also tended the Metoyer chapel of St. Augustine on Isle Brevelle.48 Jack Webb, the famed Dragnet detective, consistently called for “Just the facts, Ma’am, just the facts.” That stance, a wise one for detectives, has its counterpart among historical researchers who recognize the difference between documented “facts,” speculation, and interpretation. Facts, viewed in isolation, do not tell a reliable story. Webb did seek unembellished facts, but he then correlated and interpreted them. As historians, we need to seek those unembellished facts also, using unadulterated records to every extent possible—originals or those that have undergone the least amount of processing. Like Webb, we need to identify, correlate, and analyze all the evidence in order to reliably understand it. We need to pose hypotheses and test them in every conceivable way, attempting to disprove the theories we form. When our hypotheses withstand all plausible tests, with no contrary evidence left unrebutted, we assemble our proof. At that point, it is indeed our job to put our evidence into a meaningful context that we express as an interpretation of the event or situation. Nowhere in this process, however, is there room for mere speculation. 1. Both New World and Old World French of Coincoin’s era used dits (masculine) or dites (feminine) as a nickname that substituted for a surname. Among Africans in French colonies, a dit(e) was often the individual’s African name or an African name given to a child by African-born parents. When freed, one’s dit(e) often became the surname. The dite Coincoin (aka Coin Coin) is a nineteenth-century phonetic standardization. Original documents of the colonial and early American regimes, created by and about this woman, wrote the name in a variety of ways: CoinCoin, Coin Coin, Coinquin, Coinquoin, Connequoin, Coucan, Cuencuen, KuenKouen, Qoinquin, Qucouan, and Quen quen. 2. For two somewhat variant perspectives on this freedwoman, see Elizabeth Shown Mills, “Marie Thérèse Coincoin (1742–1816): Cane River Slave, Slave Owner, and Paradox,” in Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, Janet Allured and Judith F. Gentry, eds. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009), 10–29; and H. Sophie Burton, “Marie Thérèze dit Coincoin: A Free Black Woman on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier,” in Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands, 1760s–1820s, Gene Allen Smith and Sylvia L. Hilton, eds. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010), 104. The Mills essay provides the documentation for all statements made about Coincoin in this QuickLesson, unless otherwise noted. For proof of Coincoin's birth and ethnicity, see E. S. Mills, "Documenting a Slave's Birth, Parentage, and Origins (Marie Thérèse Coinoin, 1742–1816): A Test of Oral History," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 96 (December 2008): 245–66; archived online at E. S. Mills, Historic Pathways (http://www.HistoricPathways.com/download/coincoin.pdf). 3. 1820 U.S. Census, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, p. 95 (stamped), line 65, “Coin Coin.” 4. For additional details about the published error and the evidence that corrects it, see Elizabeth Shown Mills, “Demythicizing History: Marie Thérèse Coincoin, Tourism, and the National Historical Landmarks Program,” Louisiana History 53 (Fall 2012): 402–37, particularly 413; archived at Historic Pathways (https://www.historicpathways.com/download/Demythicizing-LHfall12-ocr.pdf). For more information about Nicolas and the family at large, see Gary B. Mills and Elizabeth Shown Mills, The Forgotten People: Cane River’s Creoles of Color, rev. ed. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, Fall 2013). 5. The issue at hand is a valuable reminder to researchers of the need to reevaluate published conclusions, rather than merely accepting them. Premature conclusions of this type appear in many scholarly publications, where researchers have limited access to records and are under pressure to publish frequently. When we build on the work of others and “trust” that a prior researcher reached an accurate conclusion, we can undermine the validity of our own work. 6. Elizabeth Shown Mills, Natchitoches, 1800–1825: Translated Abstracts of Register Number Five of the Catholic Church Parish of St. François des Natchitoches in Louisiana (New Orleans: Polyanthos, 1980), entry 784. 7. Natchitoches Parish, “[Notarial] Books 2 & 3, Marriage & Misc. (1816–1819),” 122; Office of the Clerk of Court, Natchitoches,. 8. The purpose of a marriage contract, which occurred prior to nuptials, was to establish the financial terms of the marriage. It identified the property each spouse would bring into the marriage and it set the parameters for the distribution of their property whenever the marriage was dissolved by death. When a prior marriage had produced children, as Pierre’s had done, the marriage contract protected the inheritance rights of that first set of children from usurpation by a second spouse. 9. Natchitoches Parish, "[Notarial] Books 2 & 3, Marriage & Misc. (1816–1819),” 122. 10. Researchers who use Ancestry.com to access the 1820 census of Natchitoches should be aware that its database has inaccurately rearranged pages of this census to create two (not five) arbitrary and misleading divisions: A. “Natchitoches, which consists of the first page of the unlabeled district (stamped p. 91) and the first page of “Town of Natchitoches” (stamped p. 96). It omits the last half-page for the town of Natchitoches (top of stamped p. 97). B. “Not Stated,” which consists of the remainder of the unlabeled District 1 (stamped pp. 92–94); District 2, “East of Rio Hondo” (stamped pp. 94–95); Dist. 3, last half of “Town of Natchitoches” (stamped p. 97); District 4, “Continuation of Natchitoches Proper” (stamped pp. 97–98); and District 5, Prudhomme Plantation to Rapides (pp. 98–100). By reconstructing the pages of the census, one can follow the census taker as he began canvassing the Neutral Strip between Natchitoches and the Sabine River, working his way northward. When he reached the last of the outlying settlements in that district, he turned east to cover the households north of the town―after which he returned to the town and enumerated its population before he headed downriver to the parish’s southern boundary 11. The region was called the “Neutral Strip” at this time because, after 1803, its ownership was claimed by both the U.S. and Spanish Texas. Until the execution of the Adams-Onis Treaty in 1821, both countries agreed not to send administrative officials into the region. Census takers ignored that agreement. 12. Coincoin’s children and grandchildren are documented in Elizabeth Shown Mills and Gary B. Mills, “Slaves and Masters: The Louisiana Metoyers,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 70 (September 1982): 163–89; archived online at Historic Pathways (http://www.historicpathways.com/download/slavnmast.pdf). E. S. Mills, Isle of Canes (Provo: Ancestry.com, 2004), provides extensive charts that update their personal data. Coincoin also had a freed daughter and grandchildren who were permanently established in St. Landry Parish, the daughter having been taken there by Coincoin’s former owners after Coincoin was bought and manumitted by the French immigrant Pierre Metoyer. 13. This daughter’s freedom has not been reported or documented in any previously published writings on the family. For her manumission see Natchitoches Parish, Conveyance Book 8:104, 23 July 1819, Alexis Cloutier to Françoise. 14. The team of scholars who misidentified Marie Thérèse Coincoin as “Coin Coin” of the 1820 census appears not to have been aware of this first-born son. Their publications cite published research from the 1970s that identify Coincoin as the mother of fourteen children. They apparently missed the 1982 genealogy of her family, which introduced the discovery of the fifteenth child. For this first published record of Nicolas, see Mills and Mills, “Slaves and Masters,” 171–72. 15. Under colonial Louisiana’s Code Noir, enslaved children under the age of fourteen were not to be sold away from their parents. Nicolas and his mother belonged to a daughter of the founder of Natchitoches. That lady’s brother-in-law, Athanase de Mézières Sr., was the post commandant who assisted the slaveowner in making the illegal sale. For that transaction, see Natchitoches Parish, Archive Conveyance Records, no. 757, November 1772; Office of the Clerk of Court, Natchitoches. Nicolas’s birth and baptism occurred in a period for which the baptismal records have been destroyed. His age is extrapolated from the annual censuses of Nacogdoches, Texas, cited below. 16. Carmen Leal, Translations of Statistical and Census Reports of Texas, 1782–1836, and Sources Documenting the Black in Texas, 1603–1803, 3 rolls (San Antonio: Institute of Texan Culture, 1979), roll 3, frames 826–29, for Gil y Barbo to Nicolas Augustin [Metoyer], “Proceedings Concerning Nicolas Augustin’s Petition to Redeem His Brother Nicolas Chiquito, a Negro Slave of Antonio Gil y Barvo [sic].” The portrait of Augustin Metoyer, which introduces this QuickLesson, is a full-length oil painted in 1835 or 1836 by the New Orleans artist known only as Feuille. The image used above is a snippet of a photo made of the original by E. S. and G. B. Mills. 17. Ibid., roll 1, for censuses of 1794 and 1795. 18. Leal, Translations, for “Proceedings Concerning Nicolas Augustin’s Petition.” For the misfortunes of Gil y Barbo, see Donald E. Chipman and Harriett Denise Joseph, Notable Men and Women of Spanish Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999), chapter 9, 178–201. 19. Leal, Translations, roll 1, for censuses of 1796 and 1797. 20. Chipman and Joseph, Notable Men and Women, 200. 21. Nicolas, Free Negro, Claim R&R 307, Old Board No. 820, Sections 68 and 114, T8N R6W; Private Land Claim Files, Louisiana Office of State Lands, Baton Rouge. 22. Affidavit of Pierre “Carey” [Quierry], in ibid.; abstract published in American State Papers: Documents Legislative and Executive of the Congress of the United States, Public Land Series, 8 vols. (Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1832–62), vol. 3 (1834), 199. 23. Natchitoches Parish, Conveyance Book 7: 83, for Nicolas, free Negro, to Nicolas Augustin Metoyer, free man of color, 18 December 1818. 24. U.S. District Court, Natchitoches, Roubieu vs. Metoyer, bundle 59, case 1395, and Metoyer vs. Roubieu, bundle 74, case 1473 (consolidated 1836); Clerk of Court’s Office, Natchitoches. These consolidated cases also contain affidavits by three parish residents (Antoine Prudhomme, Neuville LeMoine, and Judge A. E. Greneaux) who reference Nicolas as someone they recalled in a peripheral capacity. No one who resided in the neighborhood of his land said that they knew him personally. 25. St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (Cloutierville, La.), “Ecctcl Burials A.D. 1847 to A.D. 1906,” unnumbered p. 17, for 12 April 1850 entry reporting the burial of “________ [no name, just a gap], brother of Augustin Metoyer, who died yesterday, aged 85 years, after having received the sacraments.” The deaths of all other adult brothers of Augustin Metoyer have been documented. Nicolas is the only candidate for the unnamed brother. 26. Mills, Natchitoches, 1800–1826, entry 150. 27. For an identification of the children of the French and Chitimacha François Grappe dit Touline by Henry Trichel’s black slave Marie Louise, see Natchitoches Parish, Archive Conveyance Records, doc. 2724, being Grappe’s 1796 manumission of his placée and their offspring; and doc. 1145, being the 1775 succession of Henry Trichel. 28. Testimony of Nicolas Gallien [white], 16 November 1811, in Augustin Metoyer Claim B-1955, Sec. 41 and others, T10N R7W, Private Land Claim case files, Louisiana Office of State Lands. The time frame stated for the occupancy of this land falls closer to the time frame that Nicolas was retrieved from Texas. 29. Some of the racial designations used in the time frame under study are terms no longer considered appropriate. However, in reporting details from historical documents, it is essential that we preserve the exact term used in each record. These terms are important descriptors that help us differentiate between same name individuals. 30. In this era, Louisiana deeds rarely cited land by American section numbers. Rather, they continued the old practice of identifying arpentage along the waterway, sometimes the total arpentage or acreage, the side of the river on which the land lay, the adjacent neighbors, and sometimes prior owners. Because many landowners held multiple tracts, researchers typically have to research chains of title to adjacent tracts in order to ascertain the exact location of any tract being conveyed. Some 100 or deeds were consulted in this case. To keep the discussion focused here, citations will cover only key documents for Lamatte, Guillaume, and the two other men to whom their lands were granted. 31. This Louis Lamatte (var. Lamathe, etc.) should not be confused with a white neighbor, Louis LaMalathy (various spellings), who lived slightly upriver. For Lamatte’s landowning, see Natchitoches Parish Conv. Book 5:312, 12 March 1818, John Sibley to Louis LaMatte, sale of 3 arpents on east side of Red River between Grande Ecore and Campti; bounded below by land of Athanase DeMézières and above by land of Augustin. A second deed establishes that Lamatte was still there in 1823 and that this land was his residence; see Conv. Book 13:97–98, 28 Jan. 1823 [according to index], Louis Lamathe to Rose Mathilde Dalamande, land at Campti on right side of Red River, bounded north and west by Lamathe, south by DeMézieres, and east by Guillaume, F.N., being part of “the habitation on which Lamathe now resides.” 32. For Guillaume’s land, in addition to the Lamathe-Dalamande document just cited, see Conv. Book 20:133–34, 3 Aug. 1815, Jean Pierre, F.N. (then of Baton Rouge), to Bmy. Fleming and Joseph Irwin [surveyor], 5 arpents frontage on both sides of Red River about 3 leagues (6 miles) above Natchitoches, bounded below on left [ascending] bank by lands of Mr. A. DeMézières and above by “land occupied by Augustin, free Negro.” The reference to “occupied” reflects the fact that Augustin had already sold his land to the Opelousas-based surveyor and speculator Joseph Irwin, but was allowed to remain on the land. 33. As a starting point for the Spanish concession to Augustin, Free Negro, see American State Papers, Public Lands Series, 3:200. On 11 Aug. 1813, when Irwin visited the land to perform the U.S. survey, he offered to buy it, as he frequently did for prime tracts, and the freedman agreed to sell. See Conv. Book 3:113, “Augustin, Free Negro” to Joseph Irwin, 640 acres on both sides of Red River, bounded above on both sides by Joseph Gagnier. [Gagnier was son of Pierre Gagnier, the original claimant for Section 30, as shown on the 1825 survey map.] The Augustin-to-Irwin sale is also referenced in Conv. Book 20:132, dated 21 Nov. 1826, wherein Irwin sells, to his partner Bartholemew Fleming, Irwin’s half of Augustin’s 640 acres. 34. As a starting point for the 1789 order of survey and settlement to Jean Pierre, Free Negro, see American State Papers, Public Lands Series, 3:177.. 35. Mills, Natchitoches, 1800–1826, no. 1786. From his age, his ethnic identity, and his request for land amid the Grappes, we can identify him as the former Grappe slave of that double-name who was allowed to legally marry before the church door at the post on 15 June 1774. The priest also legitimated on that day seven children Jean Pierre had fathered by his new wife, the black Grappe slave Marie Thérèse. The youngest child at that time was Augustin who would, as an adult, claim land next door to his father. For Jean Pierre's marriage and the legitimation, see E. S. Mills, Natchitoches, 1729–1803: Abstracts of the Catholic Church Registers of the French and Spanish Post of St. Jean Baptiste des Natchitoches in Louisiana (New Orleans: Polyanthos, 1977), entry 1023. 36. For these and additional plat maps of Louisiana townships, digital images are available in the “Search Historic Documents” module, State of Louisiana, Division of Administration (https://wwwslodms.doa.la.gov). 37. Natchitoches, Conv. Book 20:138, dated 1826, Joseph Irwin of St. Landry Parish, donation, to Edward Irwin Fleming, “minor under the age of puberty, legitimate son of Bartholomew Fleming and his wife Constance.” The land was described at lying “at the place called Île à Nicolas, being the land Irwin bought of François Laurends in October 1823 before notary J. P. M. Dubois of Cloutierville.” The actual deed of sale from Laurends to Irwin and the deed by which Laurends acquired the land, apparently were not submitted for recording at the courthouse. 38. The forthcoming revised edition of Forgotten People develops this point in considerable detail. 39. The original records (not typescripts that could reflect misreadings) spell Gertrude’s dite variously as Dgimby, Dhimby, Jinby, and Chimba. Documents for her son François add the variants Gimbeau and Gombeau. For Gertrude, see the various lists in the 1756–58 succession files of her master and mistress, St. Denis and Wife, being Archive Conveyance Records no. 176, 178, 205, 212, 215. For the son, see Rex vs. François Gimbeau, 1781, originally created as Archive Conveyance Record 1533, now doc. 550, Melrose Collection, Cammie G. Henry Research Center, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches; also Slave Inventory of Joseph Dupré, 1782, doc. 2780, Archive Conveyance Records; and Marie (Derbanne) Varangue to son Athanase Dupré, Sale of François dit Gombeau, 1800, originally created as Archive Conveyance Records, doc. 2940, now available only in transcript as “Old Natchitoches Data,” 2:72, Melrose Collection. 40. Elizabeth Shown Mills, Natchitoches Church Marriages, 1818–1850: Translated Abstracts from the Registers of St. François des Natchitoches, Louisiana (1985; reprinted, Bowie, MD: Willow Bend Books, 2004), entry 149. 41. The evidence also suggests that the child Nicolas was being cared for, on the owner’s farm, by Coincoin’s sister Gertrude. In the document by which he was sold at age 7, he was called “son of Gertrude.” His manumission proceedings clarify the point that he was, instead, the son of Marie Thérèse Coincoin and brother of Coincoin’s son Augustin Metoyer. 42. No record identifies Nicolas’s father. When his brother Augustin sought to purchase him at Nacogdoches, the document identified Nicolas as “Nicolas Chiquito,” an identity that would literally translate as “Nicolas, the Little Guy.” No other known document provides a nickname or a surname for him. It's worth noting that one record created by his mother similarly refers to her as a notably small person. The actual document is now missing, but is included in the courthouse index to colonial records as "1790, Bernarde, fwc, of Le petit Qucouan, Sale of Land"; the index entry cites Archive Conveyance Record 2239. 43. Affidavit of Judge C. E. Greneaux, filed in the previously cited consolidated cases of Roubieu vs. Metoyer and Metoyer vs. Roubieu. 44. Those interested in the evolving status of blacks and multiracial Creoles in Louisiana, might begin with these three studies: Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992); Kimberly S. Hanger, Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769–1803 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997); and Shirley Elizabeth Thompson, Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009). The emphasis upon New Orleans is typical of the literature, but—in various ways—atypical to the experiences outside the urban environment. In addition to the previously cited Forgotten People, the only other study of rural Creoles of color is Carl A. Brasseaux, Keith P. Fontenot, and Claude F. Oubre, Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994), which helps to localize the urban interpretations made by Hanger and Thompson. Studying the actual statutes passed from 1806 forward provides a clearer understanding of the changes wrought in the lives of Louisiana’s Creoles of color after the Purchase. 45. Testimony of Manuel Llorens, consolidated cases of Roubieu vs. Metoyer and Metoyer vs. Roubieu. 46. Mills, Natchitoches, 1800–1825, entry 150. Marguerite Grappe, for whose child Nicolas served as godfather, was not a head of household on the 1820 census but is documented as a parishioner of the region as late as 13 March 1818 when she served as godmother to a sister’s child; see ibid., entry 2618. Given the 1813 testimony in the land claim that Nicolas was head of a family, one might hypothesize that Marguerite might have been his common-law wife and the 1805 infant his own child. Some fathers of “natural” children did fill godparental roles for their children. No evidence has been found to identify the father of Marguerite’s two known children (Jean Baptiste, born before 1796; and Marie Jeanne, born 1804). Marguerite was of age to be one of the females aged 45 or older in the 1820 Coin Coin household. That household does not allow for the daughter born in 1804. It is possible that the age cited on the census for the younger female (26–40) erred—or that the daughter, who was now of marriageable age, lived elsewhere. For basic vital records on Marguerite and her two known children, see the previously cited 1796 manumission; Mills, Natchitoches, 1729–1803, entry 2724 (Jean Baptiste); and Mills, Natchitoches, 1800–1826, 150 (Marie Jeanne). Much work remains to be done before this possibility might be proved or disproved. 47. Natchitoches Parish, Conveyance Book 7:83, Nicolas to Augustin Metoyer (1818); and Same to Same (1838) filed in the consolidated cases of Roubieu vs. Metoyer and Metoyer vs. Roubieu. 48. “Ecctcl Burials A.D. 1847 to A.D. 1906,” unnumbered p. 17, entry dated 12 April 1850. How to Cite This Lesson Elizabeth Shown Mills, “QuickLesson 16: Speculation, Hypothesis, Interpretation & Proof,” Evidence Explained: Historical Analysis, Citation & Source Usage (https://www.evidenceexplained.com/content/quicklesson-16-speculation-hypothesis-interpretation-proof : [access date]). Posted 21 March 2013 QuickLesson	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1258
__label__wiki	0.937153	0.937153	Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, and the new class of A-list actresses on TV By Seija Rankin October 30, 2018 at 01:36 PM EDT Each product we feature has been independently selected and reviewed by our editorial team. If you make a purchase using the links included, we may earn commission. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images; Steve Granitz/WireImage(2); Samir Hussein/WireImage; Kevin Winter/Getty Images ; Tara Ziemba/WireImage; Kristina Bumphrey/REX/Shutterstock It’s been years since Reese Witherspoon took her talents to TV and turned a casting move into a full-on power move — and a major trend. For years, movie actors existed in a tier above television actors: The big screen came with paychecks and prestige that the small screen could never match. But with the rise in prestige television came a rise in desirable (read: well-rounded, complex, more than just a set piece) roles for women, and that led many of cinema’s biggest names to follow suit. 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She’s highly neurotic and also on the verge of complete mental collapse, and is tasked with organizing highly-unpleasant icebreakers and workshop activities for a group of fellow crazies. It’s a thinking person’s comedy in every sense of the word and is going to allow Garner to flex the comedy muscles we all know she’s been keeping right and tight. Surely the world will soon learn the lesson: Never sleep on Jennifer Garner. Regina Hall in Black Monday Miller Mobley/Showtime What would you say if we told you the creator of Happy Endings made a series for Showtime? What if we told you it was kind of like Sorry to Bother You meets The Wolf of Wall Street, but with even more surrealist aspects? You’d probably be a little bit confused. But let us reassure you with the fact that it stars Regina Hall, Don Cheadle, and Andrew Rannells. There, that’s better. 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But now it's time for perennial POTUS hopeful Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and her doomed cohorts to prepare their final address, as the seven-episode final season begins Mar. 31 on HBO. The writers have fracked so many gaffes and laughs from these tragically flawed characters, but surely there’s some story or joke that the Veep actors had always hoped would happen, but the clock ran out and it never did. (Or maybe it was just too bananas.) Here, Louis-Dreyfus & Co. spill the dream scene that remained just that. For more on Veep, pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly on stands Friday, or buy one — or all 12 — of our special Veep covers featuring Selina, Gary, Jonah, Amy, and more. Don’t forget to subscribe for more exclusive interviews and photos, only in EW. Tony Hale (Gary) “When Selina was highly medicated and she started professing her care and love and dedication to Gary, that was just his nirvana," says Hale. "I remember thinking, ‘Wouldn't it be fun if something happened where there was a dream sequence where Gary’s dream came alive? Her just nurturing him and wanting to spend the rest of her life with him — and at least seeing value in him.' I remember one scene, I was sick and she was feeding me food and you thought, ‘Oh that's nice,’ and then it comes up to find out all she did was cut up a chicken sandwich and put it on top of old pasta. But there's this crazy dream sequence of his ideal world with Selina. And I think it would still be serving her, but she would have such mutual adoration and appreciativeness and love and care, because he's always chasing that carrot. It's just like that: One day she'll see him. So that would have been a fun dream sequence to have. And it would be like a virtual reality experience. I bet he would have his own virtual reality experience of an ideal world with Selina in his apartment, and then the sad times where he has to turn it off and step back into his abusive reality.” Lacey Terrell/HBO Sam Richardson (Richard) While Richardson would liked to have seen the ever-pleasant Richard be mean to someone, he really would have played more with the idea of Richard being obsessed with Area 51. "That would have been a fun thing," he says. "Either he finds out that there's something to it and he's almost mad at being unable to tell anyone, or that it's not true and him being like, "Well, it's gotta be true!’ and being bummed or flummoxed about that: ‘Well, no, I've seen something!’" Anna Chlumsky (Amy) “This is from years [ago], but I always had this imagined backstory that Amy had an affair with her professor," says Chlumsky. "I always relished the idea of that professor coming back in her life in some way, like him ruining her life in some way. He was her first Selina, basically. Some kind of ‘Yes, of course I'll sabotage the campaign for you,’ or something. He would definitely play on her torch for him and then completely betray her because, you know, it's Veep.” KEVIN DUNN (Ben) “I joked with the writers for the last season that we find Ben out on a ledge of a building, ready to end it," shares Dunn. "Then Selina comes and tries to talk him out of it, and she succeeds, and he's going to come back in. Selina looks and says, ‘Okay, he's coming back in!’ And she goes out to give him a hand… and he's gone. He jumped.” Sarah Sutherland (Catherine) “Part of what I loved about the introduction of Marjorie [Clea DuVall] is you got a window into Catherine's personal life outside of her dysfunctional relationship with her mom," says Sutherland. "Getting to see Catherine's personal life in college when she was studying experimental theater sounds bizarre and interesting — and you would see a different side of her than what you've seen in the show. It probably goes in line with her hippy parenting.” Reid Scott (Dan) “I started pitching it season 3, season 4, like, ‘When the show wraps up, I want Dan to catch a stray bullet,'" says Scott. "That's the only fitting end for Dan — he can be murdered by a high-powered carbine rifle at distance.' Everybody laughed and rolled their eyes because that's sort of how I feel about Dan. Wonderful to play, but what a horrible piece of sh—." Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Selina) “It would have been nice if we could have seen Selina crowned queen," says Louis-Dreyfus with a laugh. "I would have loved to have had a crowning ceremony for Selina Meyer. I understand we don’t have a monarchy, and it wouldn’t have made sense from a political point of view and from a historical point of view, but if there was a way in which we could’ve woven that into the fabric of our show — the crowning of Queen and President Selina Meyer — the coronation would’ve been a magnificent moment.” Matt Walsh (Mike) "It’s more of a joke, but the one scene that was always pitched back [in earlier seasons] was that Mike had a monkey on his shoulder, and he would punch it in the face and say, ‘Shut up, monkey,’" recalls Walsh. "There was a whole Veep beta show for a while — things that would never air.” Gary Cole (Kent) “Kent gives a toast that goes horribly south," says Cole. "Not one of his strong points.” Clea DuVall (Marjorie) “I wish I had had scenes with Tim," she says. "Tim and I were in a couple of the same scenes but didn't really get to interact. I [would love to see Jonah and Marjorie] being stuck together, just waiting for something that is taking a long time to happen, like Jonah trying to make conversation — guy talk with Marjorie. Obviously, Marjorie has so much more experience with women than Jonah, so then just engaging him and asking him questions, and he very obviously is lying with all of his answers. Trapping him into revealing how little experience he has with women.” Tim Simons/Twitter Timothy Simons (Jonah) “At the end of season 3, we're shooting this unbelievably long day," says Simons. "Selina was debating Governor Chung [Randall Park] as well as a few other people. I always wanted to do this bit where I stood in front of the 'Chung for President' sign, and if you stand in front of it in the right way, it says ‘Hung President.’ [Laughs.] And I fought so hard that day, and I almost made an ememy out of [writer-producer] Tony Roche and [director] Chris Addison, who are good friends of mine to this day. I almost burned both of those bridges being like, ‘Put a camera on it. Have Amy walk by and I'll make a face and then we're done!’ And they were like, 'We are shooting 33 pages today. We cannot do it.'" (At least you can enjoy it in photo form, as seen above.) Get your EW TV news Subscribe to EW TV for the latest TV news. More from EW.com Netflix alters Hannah's graphic suicide scene from '13 Reasons Why' season 1 Watch 'The Neverending Story' star do Millie Bobby Brown's viral 'Stranger Things' challenge Jennifer Morrison says directing Maddy's 'Euphoria' episode 'was one of those kismet situations' 'Big Brother' producer reacts to Cliff's big mouth Starz dystopian drama 'The Rook' promises secrets, lies, and a little sci-fi # Veep # Comedy All products featured were editorially selected. EW.com may receive a percentage of sales for items purchased from these links. © 2018 Meredith Corporation All Rights Reserved. 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__label__wiki	0.767231	0.767231	Home News Buhari, Buratai to be dragged to US Supreme Court over alleged killing... Buhari, Buratai to be dragged to US Supreme Court over alleged killing of Biafra activists •Attorney Bruce Fein A case against the Nigerian Government of President Muhammadu Buhari over the alleged mass killing and torture of unarmed and defenseless pro-Biafra activists peacefully protesting their religious and ethnic persecution as well as other defenseless Igbo-Nigeria citizens going about their legitimate businesses, “is headed for the United States Supreme Court,” US lawyers handling the case said on Sunday. The Law Firm of Fein & DelValle PLLC had on 4th August 2018 asked the federal district court to reconsider and reverse its prior MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER dismissing a lawsuit to redress the Nigerian Government of President Muhammadu Buhari’s mass killings and torture of unarmed and defenseless pro Biafra activists peacefully protesting their religious and ethnic persecution as well as other defenseless Igbo-Nigeria citizens going about their legitimate businesses. The suit (civil claimant suit) was originally filed on 30th June 2017 pursuant to the US Torture Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of March 1992, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in DOE 1, ET AL. v. TUKUR YUSUF BURATAI, ET AL, Civil Action No. 17-1033 (DLF). The District Judge (Dabney L. Friedrich) refused to reverse herself on 31st October 2018.“We have filed a notice of appeal of Judge Friedrich’s judgment in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. If necessary, we will appeal all the way to the United States Supreme Court to vindicate the TVPA claims of Nigerians in the Eastern Region that have been murdered or tortured under authority of Nigerian law as it currently exists under the murderous and genocidal regime of President Muhammadu Buhari. Justice will forever defeat tyranny. This lawsuit will strengthen the resolve of the people of Nigeria to defeat the murderous tyrant Buhari,” the Law Firm of Bruce Fein & DelValle said today in a statement issued in Washington DC. The statement described the verdict of United States District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich in Doe 1 et al. v. Buratai et al. as “the terrifying Halloween interpretation of the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991 (TVPA).” According to the statement, “On October 31, 2018, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s military or security thugs may kill or torture Nigerians in the Eastern Region at his direction with impunity. If there are worse judicial decisions that insult human rights and the rule of law, they do not readily come to mind. It would seem that Judge Friedrich’s decision would immunize Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman from TVPA liability for orchestrating the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Turkey and henceforth any and all other “extrajudicial killing(s)”… “under actual or apparent authority or color of law, of any foreign nation”, notwithstanding the clear and unequivocal language of the TVPA holding otherwise.” Fein & DelValle stressed its determination to pursue the case to its logical conclusion at the US Supreme Court if the Appeal Court does not render judgement in the favour of its clients. Previous articleFIFA president Gianni Infantino threatens to ban Ronaldo,Messi and others Next articleNigerian assets that may be taken over by China ‘You are a failure’ – Okorocha blasts Victor Umeh Nnamdi Kanu Set To Release Damning Documents Proving ‘Buhari’s Death’ IGBO’S DECLARES WAR ON ISLAM: Prayer In Mosques in igbo land... THE REAL TRUMP: Former Miss USA speaks out about the US... Fans Drag Timaya For Calling Himself The “Best Baby Daddy Ever” Why Does Mom Say a Big NO to Junk Food? Boko Haram: Army GOC harps on joint military cooperation with Cameroon Court Sacks Rivers APC Exco, Annuls Primaries How Buhari Wants To End Christianity In Nigeria Nigerian Army open applications for Direct, Short Service Commission	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1262
__label__wiki	0.908206	0.908206	Home News EFCC speaks on freezing of Peter Obi’s accounts EFCC speaks on freezing of Peter Obi’s accounts The anti-graft agency, Economic Financial and Crime Commission, EFCC, has reacted to the freezing of the account of the former Anambra State governor, Mr. Peter Obi. The EFCC was reacting following a statement that it froze Some accounts belonging to Obi in some Nigerian banks. Obi who is the running mate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, was said to have had all his accounts in the country placed under surveillance and scrutiny by security agents for some time now before some of them were finally frozen. When contacted on telephone last night, Obi’s media aide, Mr Valentine Obinyem, confirmed that some of the former governor’s accounts in the country have been frozen. “Yes, the freezing of His Excellency’s accounts is real. As usual, he is taking it with philosophical calmness, always believing that without a skeleton in one’s cupboard, there is no reason to be panicky,” Obinyem said without giving details. However, when contacted, the acting Head, Media and Publicity, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Tony Orilade, said that nobody should cry wolf where none exists. “I have read the statement. There is nowhere the EFCC is mentioned in the statement. The EFCC is a law abiding agency and committed to ridding the nation of economic and financial crimes. That we would not relent to do. But let nobody cry wolf where none exists. Please direct your question to the author of the statement; and please let us not speak in parables. And let the media not interpret it out of context,” he said. Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organization (PPCO), yesterday decried the alleged freezing of the accounts of its Vice Presidential candidate, Obi, his wife, Margaret, and other family members. The party in a statement signed by Kola Ologbondiyan, director, Media and Publicity of the campaign council, said that Obi has been facing all manner of threats and blackmail, “including threats to his life and those of his wife and children,” since his nomination as vice presidential candidate. Previous articleEXPOSED!! See The House Of REPS Member Who Was LANDLORD To BOKO HARAM Leader SHEKAU Next articlePowerful Group Explodes In Anger, Shuts Up The Entire PDP, Exposes Atiku Before The Whole World ISIS fighter learns the hard way that terror doesn’t pay –... BE READY TO KILL US ALL, IPOB REPLIES OHANEZE NDIGBO. Benitez urges Magpies to manage games JUST IN: 2019 Historic Victory For President Buhari, As Federal High... Massive Islamic terror attack planned for July 8th has been thwarted... I Am Baffled By The Conversation, Plot To Eliminate Me, Fayose... No escape for corrupt former governor as court sentence him to... Five Die In Terrible Accidents In Lagos (Photos) Khadijat’s death: 3 men killed Ondo ex-deputy governor’s daughter – Police	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1263
__label__wiki	0.756557	0.756557	Aniah McKenzie Filed under Staffers (2015-2016) Born in San Diego, California, returning sports writer Aniah McKenzie is starting her second year on the Dragon Press while beginning her junior year. Since last year with Credit: Rachel Horiuchi/The Foothill Dragon Press Born in San Diego, California, returning sports writer Aniah McKenzie is starting her second year on the Dragon Press while beginning her junior year. Since last year with the full fledged launch of the sports section, Aniah has watched it develop, and describes the first year as “the hardest part,” which “we’ve gotten past.”After taking Mr. Li’s class as a sophomore, Aniah’s love of writing strengthened, inspiring her to join journalism. Her class was given an assignment to write about anything, which she really enjoyed and prompted her to write more. English is one of her favorite subjects, along with history. Before high school, Aniah played softball, basketball and ran track. Upon entering freshman year, she joined Buena colorguard. “It completely consumes your life. It’s basically selling your soul to the sport,” she said. When she’s not at practice, Aniah follows her passion for music. She listens to a variety of genres including pop and rock, but has a love for classical. She grew up with musically trained aunts and uncles, leading her to pick up a flute in seventh grade. She’s still in the midst of college searching and deciding on a major, but Aniah currently has an interest in pursuing a career in communications. Tags: Aniah McKenzie, Staffers 2015-16 Staffers (2015-2016) Emily van Deinse Branden Padilla Julia Fickenscher Jessie Snyder Ela Yasa Julie Knowles Kathryn Brandi Suvee Ranasinghe Riley Knouse Carrie Coonan	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1268
__label__wiki	0.538071	0.538071	The Hair Studio Cut A Thon To Benefit Junior League of Berkshire County Proceeds to Benefit Junior League’s Literacy Programs in Area Schools Pittsfield, Massachusetts – In an effort to improve literacy in Pittsfield school aged children, The Hair Studio is sponsoring a Cut-A-Thon Sunday May 5th from Noon to 4pm at their salon on 10 Bank Row, downtown Pittsfield MA, in support of the Junior League of Berkshire County’s ‘Curl Up With A Good Book’ program. Anyone 12 or older who donates $20 to the Junior League of Berkshire County during the Cut-A-Thon will receive a free haircut from the stylists at The Hair Studio. Haircuts include a consult, wash, cut and blow dry and no appointment is necessary. “I think what the Junior League is doing to help our school kids is just great, we all do”, said owner Frank Napolitano. He continued to say “we don’t normally work Sundays but all of my stylists were happy to volunteer their time because it’s such a great cause”. The JLBC visits elementary schools in Berkshire County in an effort to promote literacy to children and their families. This will mark the 8th year that the Junior League has read aloud to children, led discussions about the books and then distributed those books to local schoolchildren. About The Hair Studio: The Hair Studio has operated on Park Square in Pittsfield since 1977. In addition to hair styling, cuts, and spa services, the Hair Studio is a full service hair salon that specializes in corrective coloring and wigs. Owner Frank Napolitano is a Master Stylist & Colorist, is on the American Board of Certified Colorists, and has studied with Sassoon, Paul Mitchell, and other leaders in the field. For additional information, contact owner Frank Napolitano at 413-442-6570 or through The Hair Studio’s web site at www.frankshairstudio.com. About the Junior League of Berkshire County: The Junior League of Berkshire County has been committed to serving the needs of families and children in Berkshire County for more 75 years. Their programs provide funding for various initiatives such as the literacy programs Curl up With a Good Book in local elementary schools and Kids in the Kitchen teaching children smart nutrition choices to address the growing problem of childhood obesity. They partner county-wide with organizations such as the Gladys Allen Brigham Center, Hillcrest Education Center, and the Department of Social Services. For more information contact the Junior League of Berkshire County 413-443-5151 or www.jlbc. info.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1271
__label__cc	0.615924	0.384076	Stuff to be excited about in 2013 Go to page Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ... 19 Next Still waiting on Gorguts as well. Otherwise, 2013 is all about new WORMED! IX Leviathan Bepsi It'd be nice to see something new from Persuader and Quo Vadis. Although the former, I can't see happening and they've been dragging it on for going on 5 years now, and the latter has sort of become irrelevant. Would be awesome to hear some new Immolation and apparently Rotting Christ are also in the process of writing a new album, so I'm pretty pumped to give both of them a listen. I'm not too big on the direction Rotting Christ took with their last few albums (aside from Theogonia but they've supposedly been playing a lot of their old stuff live lately if that's any indication of anything (probably not, but I can hope!). Oh, new The Project Hate as well, Bleeding the New Apocalypse was excellent and a new release from them is always welcome. Last.fm // RYM always poor // never bored Like holy shit can't you get black out drunk and fist fight someone over a value pick burger in the drive thru and not hear about it for the rest of your life? Supposedly Cobalt will be releasing a new album called "Slow Forever". I can't wait, don't know how the hell they'll follow up an album like Gin though. Zerberus Location: Silkeborg, Denmark Come to think of it, Electric Wizard might release a new album aswell. That single Legalize Drugs and Murder certainly points in that direction. Reviews: http://tonewoodmusic.blogspot.com/ TONEwood music site - Reviews, articles, news and more Zerberus wrote: Yeah, I think Black Masses was a huge mistake for them. The only tracks I like on that album are the bookend tracks, and this is coming from a huge Electric Wizard fan. Legalize Drugs and Murder was a big step up from that. Hopefully they will be able to redeem themselves with their next one. I liked Black Masses, it was just much rockier. I don't think EW are capable of making a bad album. OneSizeFitzpatrick wrote: Ozenrol wrote: New albums from Thorns and Dawn (Swe). I had no idea Dawn was working on a new album... This post is the only one that caught my eye in this thread. 2013's shaping up to look pretty sad at this point, but a new Dawn album might tide me over for a couple weeks if it's anything like Slaughtersun. If Asklund is doing production (which isn't too improbable), then the new Dawn album is screwed. Drahkarg Time II Lylusay Tateros Volt Sids Lucifer! The Orgasmitron on Tumblr Kigo7 The new Black Sabbath album. If anything just to see/hear if the hype surrounding it has been justified or not. I'll probably be hunting around for albums next year anyway..... maxxpower I hope you guys aren't just throwing names around. I got excited reading about a possible new Twilight album. maxxpower wrote: According to their Facebook page, they've already started to record the new album - maybe even are finished doing that - and it should only be a matter of time that it will be released. It might even will be out this year already, considering the date of their last statements on the recording process. If this one tops "Monument To Time End", it will easily be my album of the year. You gotta keep the devil way down in the hole / Possession Is The Medicine lord_ghengis Still Standing After 38 Beers... hic Looking at the wikipedia page for 2013 there isn't a whole lot of stuff I'm super excited about, a few things I'm interested in hearing, but not actually anticipating anything great. As for the really anticipated stuff you've got Autopsy, Macabre Eternal was badass, and hopefully that can keep the run time to 45 minutes and serve up another slab of DM that great. Mitochondrion, it's only an EP which is a bit underwhelming, but the band kicks ass so it'll do me. Other than that, there is nothing. Well, not quite nothing, there are a few things I'll be sure to check out, but I'm not actually expecting much from. Alcest's last album sucked, and I'm not exactly hopeful for him really nailing it again, Suffocation are in the same boat, !T.O.O.H! have me a bit concerned for no real reason whatsoever. And there are others, but I'm too bored by them to actually write them out. Naamath wrote: No comments, no words need it, no BM, no compromise, only grains in her face. MikeyC Official Greeter of Broken Hills lord_ghengis wrote: !T.O.O.H! have me a bit concerned for no real reason whatsoever. Let's hope these concerns are unfounded because I'd like to hear something good from these guys. The Lions Den wrote: Just vegan and faggots melo-tech-death for dad's fancy-ass. Fuck!!! When Black Masses came out I wasn't all that into it either, but certain songs on the album sorta grew on me, mainly Patterns of Evil, The Nightchild and Black Mass although I'm still not too happy about the production. Let's hope their future material has some "warmer" qualities MikeyC wrote: For the life of me I can't think of a logical reason that it won't be good, but I still can't get excited by it. conquer__all Amorphis, fen, moonsorrow, tyr, king diamond CHAOS REIGNS!!! Shadoeking In actually doing a search for albums already with release dates and submitted here, I am also looking forward to Holy Grail and Voivod. I really liked the most recent Holy Grail album even though it was not well-received by a lot of people. And of course Voivod will be interesting. The first song is terrific and definitely sounds like a return to form from their last couple of releases which have not been nearly as good. http://metallattorney.blogspot.com Gore__Grinder ive also heard immolation planning on releasing an album next year, which immediately becomes my most anticipated album, new gorguts if it comes out will be great too. and of course defeated sanity, and i believe lost soul too. and i think read something about a new vengeful EP along with rerecorded version of their karma album, stoked about those too. Death metal from Sydney: http://www.facebook.com/GolgothanRemains Debut full length album out now: https://golgothanremains.bandcamp.com/a ... o-the-void Varth Immolation will always have my attention despite I don't think they've come close to topping Close To A World Below and have even stepped it down a bit, it's great to see them soldier on and tour. They'll always have my support. However I think I would be drooling at the mouth waiting for a new album by The Chasm who might be done, I think they deserve some attention from those that shower Immolation with unconditional praise, especially for their last album Farseeing The Paranormal Abysm. It wasn't just another release, that was a damn fucking great Death Metal album. Nothing else has me waiting with baited breath. To be cheese, I want my breath taken away by something, or something to just grab my interest with a death grip. UNCHAIN_THE_WOLVES Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:40 pm #1 for me has to be the same thing I most anticipated about 2012 and that was the possibility of a new Destroyer 666 album... one was talked about for this year but it didn't happen so hopefully the post-shrapnel D666 can deliver one in 2013... Same goes for Abyssic Hate, would fuckin' kill for a new album... might be pissing against the wind with that one tho... Well those are the main two... I could list all my favourite bands and state a hope for new material but other than that there is nothing of interest scheduled for 2013 that I know of... well except one album but not sure if I can mention that... a new album from my favourite English BM band anyway... Subcide Hanging out for new: - Godflesh - Diocletian - Suffocation - Incantation CoF wrote: Thanks for the info man. Yeah if they can top Monument To Time End, especially songs like 8,000 Years then this album will be played on repeat for weeks. rbrnflms Zemial- Nykta Insision(SWE)- new album Katalepsy Defeated Sanity Severe Torture 7 H. Target Pyrexia Disgorge (US) ...to name few. I'll think of some more, but those are at the forefront atm. Gore__Grinder wrote: ive also heard immolation planning on releasing an album next year, which immediately becomes my most anticipated album, new gorguts if it comes out will be great too. and of course defeated sanity Immolation, Gorguts, and Defeated Sanity - it's already going to be a great 2013. rawsewage Location: Shamokin, PA Manilla Road. I believe the new one won't be out til early next year. slavonic777 Gorguts (no more tickling please) Mithras Aosoth Prosanctus Inferi Shroud of the heretic (!) Nattsol And am looking forward also to see live Solefald and !T.O.O.H.! between others Looking at what I just wrote, I have to say it could be epic year as fuck Rustneversleeps Summoning! lennonlikesmetal My Bloody Valentine. oogboog Wait, they are? Sweet, I hope it'll be as great as Fast-Slow Demolition, if not better. aaronmb666 Suffocation, Immolation, Deicide, Dark Funeral, Slayer, something by Danzig, Vital Remains percepticide wrote: Wintersun- Time 2 The title of the thread was 2013, not 2020 Pagan Altar, which was on my list of top of things to look forward to this year. It was originally due out mid year this year. Here's hoping it sees the light of day soon. DraakUla Most excited for new albums by: SkinMM Jesus Loves Me (More than You) FirebathDan wrote: Alcest has a new record due in 2013, which is being recorded in Iceland at Sigur Ros' studio and is said to be abandoning metal elements altogether. The latter is fine with me as, I've always thought that most of the BM elements were the weakest elements in their overall sound. But the former has me excited at the thought of a whole new dimension to their sound as well as the thought of any potential Alcest/Sigur Ros collaboration (although nothing is confirmed at this time). I think Alcest can definitely do without blastbeats and screamed vocals(although they provide a nice contrast at times) but the music would lose a lot of depth if the distortion was ditched.Hopefully Jonsi is nowhere near the next album. Audrey Sylvain, on the other hand... As you can possibly tell, I'm hoping for 'Souvenirs..' part 2. Last edited by SkinMM on Sun Nov 11, 2012 2:13 pm, edited 1 time in total. nosferatu1234 What's up with Dead Congregation? Next year will be 5 years since Graves of the Archangels was released. I haven't heard a damn thing about them since. Has anyone heard anything? Gelseth_Andrano wrote: You'd think people who would be on a journey to convert those to their beliefs would be a bit less face-rapey about it. Most people don't usually like the face rape. Mayhem - interested to hear what these guys have come up with. I hope it is good as I personally thought they should have split up after blasphemer left. Gorguts - Not the biggest fan, of their latest stuff, but I love their debut and some songs of obscura. So this might be an interesting listen. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Not metal by the archives standards, but I love this band. Listened the last album to death. And wonder if they are able to top it. Faith No More - Rumour has it that they have a new album in the works. Kind of worried about this one, as I doubt they can live up to their legacy. Carcass - Same as the above. But I am really curious as to what they can come up with. I'm interested to hear how Carcass will be able to handle a new record without half of their classic lineup. Sure, the first two records didn't have Mike, but Ken was still on them. I'm also eager for new Autopsy, Electric Wizard, Slayer, Megadeth (?), Black Sabbath, Gorguts, Sodom, Alice in Chains, and Darkthrone. Metallica are looking to release in 2014, but that's far away. soulonfire Motorhead have a new out coming out in the summer I think. Pagan Altar, Hell, and Ghost are all at the top of my list. And of course, new Megadeth is always good. Hircine wrote: Step 1 for 'How not to create evil atmosphere on a death metal album': Use Baloo and calypso music. I forgot about Solefald and Finntroll, as well as Alestorm Cruciphage Location: Standing right behind you Ulcerate have been working on new material since March and are now focusing on it. According to their Facebook page and website, they already have 4 songs finished. I've been listening to Everything Is Fire and The Destroyers of All almost exclusively for the past week, so I've kind of got my fingers crossed about the next one coming out next year. The new Devourment seems promising. I loved the darker direction they took on Unleash the Carnivore and I hope the next one follows that path. Eh...I see these names tossed out year after year and nothing ever materializes. I want to see new albums as badly as the next guy, but I'm calling bullshit until I see something official from a label. Incidentally, Ruben Rosas has very nice handwriting. The soul of a poet, one might say. Users browsing this forum: DMac77, Ontsarguiz, Stern Disgust and 15 guests	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1276
__label__cc	0.738787	0.261213	Hennepin Avenue Reconstruction (Douglas to Lake St) twincitizen Location: Standish-Ericsson Re: Hennepin Avenue Transit (Uptown to Downtown) Postby twincitizen » December 12th, 2016, 4:37 pm It's still probably too early for an "E Line" topic, but given the announcement in the aBRT general thread, I moved some conversation here. Something that gives me pause is that reconstruction of Hennepin Avenue is not yet in the Capital Improvements Project plan. That means it is extremely unlikely to take place before 2021 (the furthest out year of the current plan). If you assume the B Line (Lake St) and D Line (Chicago-Fremont) open around 2020-2021, that would put the E Line in 2022 at the earliest. Metro Transit wouldn't want to open an aBRT line on a street that has an impending reconstruction, so you have to assume there will be some attempt to time the two projects. Has anyone heard anything about getting Hennepin (bottleneck to Lake) reconstruction scheduled for the early 2020s? Recall that earlier this year the City started holding meetings about Hennepin Ave downtown (Washington to 12th St), even though that is scheduled for 2020 construction. thatchio Joined: August 2nd, 2012, 6:49 am Postby thatchio » December 13th, 2016, 12:03 am Let's not sell bus improvements short. The A line was a small investment in the grand scheme of things and there is no reason why bus improvements have to come in the form of the full suite of improvements. Cities, counties, and transit agencies could invest strategically to improve key problem spots. For example, bus shoulders/lanes through key congestion points would be a political investment with modest amounts for signage and paint. Traffic signal priority, depending on how it is executed, at key intersections is not as expensive as you'd think. Doing it along an entire corridor is more expensive and certainly is influenced by existing traffic signal equipment and the type of priority being provided. What would likely be in the more expensive bucket is specialized bus fleet, major shelter construction, and off-vehicle payment vending. While these items help take bus service to the next level, if resources are constrained (which they are), focus should go toward looking system-wide for the types of improvements that could be afforded. In Minneapolis, the city could propose creating a program to improve bus operations by investing in traffic signal improvements/detection devices, signage, and paint. As a program, it could target key opportunity spots instead of trying to geographically target the investment to strictly one corridor that really ought to be addressed as a part of a major rebuild of the street. mattaudio Stone Arch Bridge Location: NORI: NOrth of RIchfield Postby mattaudio » December 13th, 2016, 9:50 am Additionally- I think the city and/or county could take a larger role in improving transit amenities on rebuilt corridors. The projects I've seen involve agencies making assumptions about how buses work, or assuming the status quo, and then Metro Transit jumps in at the end. Could the lead agencies on street rebuilds be a little more active on pushing stop consolidation, far-side stop locations, bus bulb/larger amenity-zone space, etc? Postby twincitizen » April 12th, 2018, 8:28 am So who went to the open house last night, what did you see, etc? Where are the aBRT stops? How many lanes, any transit priority? Here's the City's project page: http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/cip/fut ... nepinSouth Flyer for last night's meeting: http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/www/gro ... 209903.pdf 2023 construction Re: Hennepin Avenue Reconstruction / E Line (Uptown to Downtown) Postby Tcmetro » April 13th, 2018, 4:52 pm The layout shows three "E Line" stops along Hennepin, at Franklin, 25th, and Uptown TC. The rapid bus study from 2011 recommended 24th and 26th, although I suppose there is plenty of time to change the locations. Hopefully the E Line can start when the construction wraps up in 2023! Postby mattaudio » April 13th, 2018, 6:45 pm They really need to do a full transitway with a few more stops than that, and use it for all local bus routes on Hennepin. Stops at Franklin, 22nd, 25th, 27th, and Uptown TC. Postby grant1simons2 » April 13th, 2018, 11:55 pm ... and a big old university is forgotten about EOst Location: North End, Saint Paul Postby EOst » April 14th, 2018, 12:24 pm ^Pretty mystifying to me that the E Line plans don't involve an extension along the 6U route to Stadium Village. Postby twincitizen » April 14th, 2018, 4:28 pm Let’s try to keep this topic limited to the portion of Hennepin being reconstructed (and the E Line stations that will be built as part of the project). Was there something at the meeting confirming that the E Line plan was identical to the 2012 ATCS study? Or are y’all just assuming so? The E Line planning effort doesn’t really begin until 2019-2020 so I’d urge caution on assuming anything. On one hand, Franklin-25th-Uptown is pretty aggressively far apart for what will be the “main” frequent service in this corridor. That’s probably close to how subway/LRT stations would be spaced in this environment. The downside is that wide station spacing is too far to eliminate local stops entirely. While aBRT isn’t going to have stops exactly every 1/4-mile, an alternate of Franklin - 24th - 26th(or midblock 26th/27th) - Uptown might be a reasonable distance that would still allow elimination of remaining local stops in this stretch Postby EOst » April 14th, 2018, 5:33 pm It doesn't mean a ton, but this map from their rapid bus page (map updated a month ago, according to the filename) still has the E Line terminating downtown: mamundsen Postby mamundsen » April 14th, 2018, 9:36 pm This map would look a lot more complete with the Riverview, Rush, Gold Line and something along 36 or RT 3 (enhanced). Postby thatchio » April 15th, 2018, 10:05 am If there were ever a subway, there would likely be only one station in between Loring Park and Uptown Transit Center. Stations are expensive. That said, aBRT is not as capital intensive. Things to consider: how should surface transit operate in this section, especially if there are both local and aBRT routes? aBRT will need to occasionally pass local buses. I would hope that Hennepin improvements would include at least: - buses the ability to get in front of the general purpose traffic, such as bus only signals with leading interval timing. - bus only lanes between Franklin and 25th, at least. - removal of the bus stops at 28th and 22nd - no beg buttons - improved crosswalks that make it much more clear to drivers that they should stop further back and that they shouldn't queue in the intersection - additional left-turn restrictions - managed public parking on the side streets for first block between Hennepin and adjacent streets to off-set lost parking along Hennepin Postby grant1simons2 » April 15th, 2018, 11:14 am "beg buttons" are required by ADA. Many are hooked up incorrectly and require a push to cross. We just need to be sure they get connected. Postby Anondson » April 15th, 2018, 1:07 pm You know how car washes have sensors that alert drivers to back up when you pull in too far? Heavily used crosswalks should get this to buzz at drivers who stop on crosswalk paint. Does the ADA require beg buttons even if the walk light is set to always happen like the vehicle traffic lights always cycle even when no cars are present? intercomnut Joined: April 23rd, 2015, 1:04 pm Postby intercomnut » April 15th, 2018, 1:14 pm April 15th, 2018, 1:07 pm Yes, because the buttons contain audible and tactile (the button vibrates) cues to tell people who cannot see and/or hear when to cross. Silophant Location: The Gateway Postby Silophant » April 15th, 2018, 1:15 pm I believe so. As I understand it, the beg buttons have to be at the far side of the crosswalk from their parallel street, and that's where the speakers for the audio cues have to be located. At least, that's the explanation I got for why the new Nicollet crosswalks have beg buttons (that can't actually be pressed, because the walk signs always come on) on separate poles from the actual stoplights, even though the stoplight poles have covered cutouts that are very clearly intended to be where the beg buttons are mounted. Joey Senkyr joey.senkyr@outlook.com Joined: December 4th, 2012, 11:41 am Re: RE: Re: Hennepin Avenue Reconstruction / E Line (Uptown to Downtown) Postby David Greene » April 15th, 2018, 2:33 pm thatchio wrote: If there were ever a subway, there would likely be only one station in between Loring Park and Uptown Transit Center. Stations are expensive. That said, aBRT is not as capital intensive. Things to consider: how should surface transit operate in this section, especially if there are both local and aBRT routes? aBRT will need to occasionally pass local buses. Agree with everything you said except this. There's a senior mid-rise at that intersection. I'd prefer a stop there rather than at 27th. Yes, it's close to the transit center but the disproportionate number of transit-dependent people there justifies it. Bus-only lanes should go all the way to Lake. Opening then to carpools would also be fine. They would need to be enforced. Postby thatchio » April 15th, 2018, 9:19 pm Point taken about the audio-alerting functions of the beg button. I was intending more that one shouldn't have to press the button to get a walk. As for 28th bus stop, it'd be useful to get some data on how many mobility restricted individuals use it. I found that stop extremely frustrating as it rarely seemed to have seniors or others with clear mobility needs. Minneapolis has far too many bus stops in general. Makes the 6 extremely frustrating to use if you're going south of Uptown. If I were to be more bold, I'd say get rid of stops at 22nd, 25th (except if that's where the E line stop is), 28th, and Lake Street. If 25th is for the E, then get rid of 22nd, 24th, and 26th, and keeping 27th. Postby Anondson » April 16th, 2018, 10:31 am Not to continue the tangent, but how do countries that don’t have the ADA handle handicap accessibility at pedestrian crossings for the blind? I guess it depends on the definition of "mobility limited." Many such people don't have obvious physical disabilities. I'd like to see data too. More may use the stop off-peak, which I don't have a lot of anecdata about.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1279
__label__wiki	0.789903	0.789903	Led Zep Live Knebworth or Earl's Court? Which is the better concert By JonF, January 28, 2016 in Led Zep Live JonF Location:Kenmore, WA I purchased the Led Zeppelin DVD as soon as it came out around 2005. I feel the 1979 Knebworth show is even better than the Earl's Court show. What really surprises me, is that I have read the Cole, and the Stephen Davies biographies, and heard what the reviewers have said about the two Knebworth shows, and how they sounded like dinosaurs, and such, but in my view Zeppelin's Knebworth performance on the DVD is awesome! I was wondering what others on the LZ forum think? SteveAJones The Alchemist's Archivist Location:Tokyo Personally, I think the 1975 Earls Court performances are among the best - by any band - in rock history. The Knebworth Festival performances are solid but there's just no comparison to the Earls Court shows. Earls Court 1975 wins by a mile! Crimson Avenger Location:circular rubbing motion Tricky one, they are two quite different sets of shows. Both were huge events, especially here in the UK. They played better musically at Earls Court, especially Jimmy. But on the other hand, Robert is stronger at Knebworth... he's a bit squeaky on the last two Earls Court nights, which are the source for the DVD material. I also prefer the 1979 set list. So, if I could only have attended one... I'd have gone to Knebworth. Both sets of shows would benefit from a fuller official release, which I doubt we'll see any time soon. The seond and third EC shows especially are neglected because we don't have professional recordings of them, but it's likely they exist, at least in part. Knebworth on the DVD does sound far better than the bootlegs; it's all from 4th August, but I suspect that a pro job would make much of the 11th August show sound far better too. By the way, I wouldn't place any store by anything written by Stephen Davis. His books are riddled with errors, and his opinions aren't obviously informed by verifiable fact either. Listen to the music and make up your own mind! Robert was happily surprised by what Jimmy had done to the Knebworth sound and footage for the DVD - because, in his own words, 'that was a crap gig'! The Old Hermit Location:Over the hills and (very) far away... 3 hours ago, SteveAJones said: This. It isn't even close; Earl's Court was the sound of an extraordinary band at their very peak, Knebworth is the sound of that same band four years later after devastating personal tragedy and rampant substance abuse had ravaged them, they were still great, and the first Knebworth show is immeasurably better than the second one, but they were a band whose peak had passed by that point, and unbeknownst to them, the end was nigh. And after the horrific events of July 1977, when the band reemerged two years later, the swagger and bravado had gone, as had the long, improvisational onstage jams, 1977 didn't only very nearly kill the band outright, it crushed something inside that never grew back... they were never the same band again. 1 hour ago, Brigante said: Yeah, it's called studio tinkering, the raw boots of 4/8/79 don't sound so polished... and I'm not talking sound quality either. Robert Plant is often his own worst critic, 4/8/79 wasn't too bad, a solid show overall ('Kashmir' was one for the ages though... WOW!), the second one was... uh, not as good. Screw DVD (and it's only-six Earl's Court numbers), I'm still holding out for an official Earl's Court live album sometime in the future... hell, I'll not even mind if Kevin Shirley is back behind the mixing desk ... those shows are simply too fantastic and too iconic to simply lie in the archives. Personally while the Earls Court shows may be better, they can sound a little weak at times. This is because the soundboard recording that is available is so lacking in depth or bottom end. Jimmy's guitar (which had a very bass-lite tone to begin with in 1975) is way ahead in the mix, and it makes the band sound tired I think. The songs from EC that are placed on the dvd sound much better simply because of the superior mix. juxtiphi Location:Ma. There is no comparison between Knebworth and Earls Court. Earls Court is by far the superior. bluecongo Location:WNC Earls Court! The band had so much swagger and confidence. Jimmy was really playing well, too. the first Knebworth is a good show, lots of highs, a few clunkers, but overall very good. the 2nd Knebworth is in my book, an unmitigated disaster. Jimmy was completely lost and unglued and barely able to play. Quite possibly his worst performance ever. duckman Location:belgium Knebby on DVD works because it was edited in a concise way... The raw complete footage available is a much harder to digest. IMHO Earls Court rules because of the musical highpoints. One can easily compile a superb 3 CD album from the five EC multi's....Knebworth is only a (very nice ) single disc IpMan Location:Citizen of the World The Old Hermit hit the nail on the head, EC hands down for the reasons stated. KellyGirl Location:U S A Because we have video and not just audio - the visual aspect plays a part in why I'd check the box next to Earl's Court. Musically the stuff with Knebworth on the DVD isn't horrific by any means - however I find watching it bittersweet, more bitter than sweet. Like somebody said: A certain element appeared missing that had been there previously. When you look at the footage from '79 - it looked liked the band had aged so much more than 2 years. Maybe it's the fact I know Plant's son had passed and also Jimmy was swimming in herion very badly at that point. The signs were there in '77, but come 79 it had taken a toll on him physically. It was a sign of how rough it was going to be into the early 80's. I guess the Knebworth gigs are a bit of a reminder that the end was closing in on the band. Le sigh.... ArmsofAtlas1977 It's a lot closer than people are making it out to be, and I also believe that Knebworth is stronger. Yes, the band was more consistent at Earls Court, but I don't think any of the shows were exceptional. Worse, I don't think any specific performances were exceptional (closest would probably be Stairway to Heaven on 25th or Kashmir on the 24th.) These shows were by-the-numbers, and were outshone even by other shows in 75. Vancouver, Seattle and New York all come to mind as runs that were better than Earls Court that year. Although there were some poor performances at Knebworth on the 11th, the 4th was a stronger show than anything seen at Earls Court in 75. Here were exceptional performances! Kashmir, Achille's Last Stand and Sick Again could be argued to be the best performances of any of those songs they ever did. I've also seen people mention No Quarter and Since I've Been Loving You as "best ever" renditions. Earls Court didn't have low points like Knebworth, but it didn't meet any of the high points either. Garden Wanderer Location:Rochester, NY I vote for Earls Court. All I have to do is listen to the songs they played at both- For some reason the EC footage leaves me feeling cold. I've always enjoyed watching the Knebworth footage more. For all its failings I find it more entertaining. Probably down to the multiple camera angles and sense of occasion. In terms of just audio, I think that Seattle and other shows on the US tour are much better than EC. Especially Bonzo, who is unusually restrained in the EC shows. Location:Down By The Seaside EC, hands down. Better playing, set list, and vibe. They were a band still at EC, at Knebworth onward they didn't seem that way to me. The humor, camaraderie, and magick were gone. Knebworth, and most shows going forward, felt like a reunion show to me. Earls Court for me as well.From the videos and audio we have Knebworth seemed to have its inspired moments especially the first night. Id like to hear someones opinion who was actually at Earls Court and Knebworth.Attending these string of shows Im sure gives a much different perspective and brings Knebworth much closer to Earls Court. JohnOsbourne Location:The Darkest Depths of Mordor Although personally I think the Earls Court shows are overrated (there are definitely much better shows from the West Coast US tour in March, and the mid-Feb shows from the first leg are also better), I agree with others here, this isn't even remotely close. Earls Court are the last really good Zeppelin shows, and Knebworh was the band's dying breath. 45 minutes ago, JohnOsbourne said: Earls Court are the last really good Zeppelin shows, and Knebworh was the band's dying breath. Someone hasn't heard Copenhagen 79. I can understand where people are coming from when they say that the band lost some essential creative element later on in touring, but if you're making that argument you must admit the "breaking point" was the end of the 73 tour, certainly no later than that. 1 hour ago, ArmsofAtlas1977 said: Yes, I've heard the Copenhagen shows, I'm not impressed. And I've always believed, Zep peaked in '73, but there were still sufficiently many good (sometimes great) performances in '75 to qualify as part of their golden era. After that, not much really. It wasn't just reduced creativity, either ('75 shows had problems in this regard), it was far too much poor playing (esp. by Page). Not sure what point you're making? Nutrocker Location:The Beautiful Okanogan "Which is better, Earls Court or Knebworth?" IMO, neither. As others have pointed out, they played better shows in 1975 than any of the Earls Court gigs, and either of the Copenhagen warm up shows (particularly the second night) wipe the fuckin' floor with either of the Knebworth shows. I mean, don't get me wrong- if Page deigned to release an Earls Court or Knebworth performance in their entirety, and not merely the 'teasers' we got on the 2003 DVD, it'd be great, but I think a large part of the accolades those shows get is because they happen to be some of the few where pro shot/multitrack footage exists. In a perfect world we'd have pro-shot footage of, say, the March 21 '75 Seattle show and the July 24 '79 Copenhagen show. Edited January 29, 2016 by Nutrocker 9 hours ago, ArmsofAtlas1977 said: Or the L.A. Forum shows from '77. Marko_Zoso Earls Court without a shadow of a doubt. chillumpuffer Location:The Countryside It's horses for courses. Earls Court was a triumph for a band who had not toured the UK in 2 years. Knebworth was a further 4 years down the line and was slated by the press (naturally) but not from the fans who attended. The band had changed dramatically in those years The last 2 nights at EC are terrific if not a bit overlong but what would you expect? We didn't have large arenas here at the time so naturally 5 nights at the largest indoor venue in the Capital was going to be big. I feel they pulled it off - but don't judge them on the sound that comes from the audio or DVD bootlegs. I am not keen on the sound that these have. If you really want to hear what the sound was like, check out the audience recording from the No Quarter ( Red Devil) boot. It is fantastic - especially the "woodstock" segment for Dazed. It is eerily good and very powerful Earls Court was an inside big show - it was the first time the band had used the full Showco set up here and it blew everyone away. The Physical Graffiti stuff was new to most ears and they played with pride to the home crowd Knebworth on the other hand was their first appearance for 4 years and a lot of new music had appeared in that time - the Punk and new wave movement was a complete change, especially in the UK, as was Zeppelin's sound. No wonder the band felt nervous. But too be fair loads of punters turned up at Knebworth for the first show, me included, and I still rate the show as a highlight of my life music wise. I bet no one who was in that field came away thinking "not that great" The set list at EC would never had worked at Knebworth anyway. 35 minutes of Dazed? err no. Take the shows for what they are and the timeline in which they were played. 4 years is a long time in music. 1 hour ago, chillumpuffer said: Good points.Good post! Azapro911 My own personal preference: Earls Court, with 'Achilles' Last Stand' from Knebworth thrown in.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1281
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Worse, the handset manufacturers seem to be using Android version upgrades as an excuse to shift new handsets, rather than adequately supporting their existing user base with timely, reliable updates. My Atrix was effectively "end-of-life'd" by Moto only a few months after I purchased it. Its replacement, a HTC, is stuffed with gimmicks and bloatware that cannot be uninstalled. On that basis, I'm not convinced that the Android ecosystem for me long term. As an Apple desktop user, I will probably move to iOS. If I were a Windows user I'd definitely move to Windows Phone, dare I say probably a Nokia. I'll be interested to see if I am representative of the market over the next 12 months. I agree that it is good for competition and I dearly hope that Apple will implement a more ICS-like notifications screen, and a proper 'services' hooks to allow inter-app sharing / integration like Android does so well. Dealer bosses jailed for flogging fake Cisco kit Tuesday 8th November 2011 21:20 GMT Chris J The trouble is that software is even easier to pirate than hardware. Ford unwraps Evos cloud-connected concept car Thursday 1st September 2011 13:11 GMT Chris J Clearly Ford were inspired by... http://www.astonmartin.com/cars/v12-vantage Game gears up for Mac OS X Lion release with... Panther Tuesday 12th July 2011 10:48 GMT Chris J If no-one notices that they're obsolete... ... the beancounters can still count them as assets. £99 iPhone stunt backfires Wednesday 7th July 2010 00:26 GMT Chris J ...there is a law against this! It is an unfair commercial practice according to the nattily titled "Directive 2005/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices in the internal market" (also known as the ‘Unfair Commercial Practices Directive’). This is implemented into UK law by The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008. In particular, Schedule 1 para 5 provides that "Making an invitation to purchase products at a specified price without disclosing the existence of any reasonable grounds the trader may have for believing that he will not be able to offer for supply, or to procure another trader to supply, those products or equivalent products at that price for a period that is, and in quantities that are, reasonable having regard to the product, the scale of advertising of the product and the price offered (bait advertising)" is considered automatically unfair. It's late, I can't sleep, but I don't feel the need to set out the consequences of unfair trading. Knock yourselves out... http://lmgtfy.com/?q=The+Consumer+Protection+from+Unfair+Trading+Regulations+2008+(No.+1277) School IT quango to be expelled Tuesday 25th May 2010 09:22 GMT Chris J The world needs more spreadsheet monkeys than coffee machine engineers. http://www.bing.com/search?q=how+to+fix+coffee+machine Steve Ballmer's Windows 7 dance party Friday 23rd October 2009 13:05 GMT Chris J My favourite para from a Reg article for a while... "Sadly, Ballmer was a lot less, um, energetic we usually find him at such public appearances. He didn’t yell. He didn’t turn red. He didn’t even stomp on an iPhone. He seemed very, believe it or not, scripted." ISP redesign unites the web in nausea Friday 24th July 2009 00:09 GMT Chris J Looks good to me I actually really like this design. Courier is underrated. Minimalist is underrated. All the info is there and it looks different, not JustAnotherWebsite. Asus Eee Linux-based Skype Videophone Monday 6th April 2009 08:37 GMT Chris J Is it simple enough to be used by Grandma? As that is the only real point of this phone as far as I can tell. SanDisk Sansa Clip MP3 player Wednesday 30th July 2008 20:59 GMT Chris J Have a look at iRiver LPlayer In a fit of "antiPod" sentiment, I recently purchased an iRiver LPlayer. It is a little larger (approx 6 x 4 x 1.2 cm by my ruler) but is still smaller (though fatter) than the iPod nano. It might be a good alternative to the reviewed player. It has a 2" LCD screen and a nifty control system whereby you click the edges of the screen. Sound quality is very good as long as you are using decent headphones. I use Sennheiser CX300 - the genuine ones not the fake £8 ebay ones - and they sound great for the price. It reads a whole host of formats including mp3, ogg and flac. No AAC though. There is a little bit of a hiss at low volumes but this only starts when I play an mp3 so it may well be the fairly low quality encoding of my tunes. Most of my music is downloaded from eMusic at 128kbps. It's not an iPod and won't win any awards when compared on the iPod's traditional strengths: user inferface and software integration. That said I use it on a Mac in drag and drop "MSC" mode, but I am told that on Windows it comes with a nice client called iRiver Plus 3, which works in MTP mode. Either that, or apparantly it will sync with Windows Media Player. Personally I am very happy to leave it in drag and drop mode and use it as a USB drive too. That, and the sound quality, makes it a worthwhile purchase and perhaps an alternative to the Sansa range? Monday 21st July 2008 07:42 GMT Chris J Nice device shame about the operator After queueing for two hours and spending another hour trying to get o2's systems to accept my address, I gave up trying to buy the iPhone. Apparently if your address is incorrectly registered with the Royal Mail then you don't stand a hope in hells chance of passing the credit check. (This is despite my having been recently approved for a credit card to the same address, having a bank statement and a driving licence proving that address, and already having a mobile phone contract with another operator to that address.) Even the Apple Store employees claimed they were amazed at how picky o2's systems were being (when they were working, which they weren't for much of the time I was trying to purchase the phone). There was a general sense of embarrassment on the part of the staff. Hilariously, for example, they were using Microsoft Windows (via VMWare) to access to the o2 registration system! I bought an iPod Touch instead. Got it home - it asked me to pay an extra £5.99 for a software update, which I reluctantly did, and now it's dead as a dodo (after telling me there was an unknown error - helpful). I've since followed every instruction on the internet to no avail. Bad day for Apple. I am going to take it back, get a refund, and consider my options. I've been a fan of Apple products but the shine is definitely wearing off. Police seek two for C&W network robbery Thursday 17th July 2008 08:27 GMT Chris J I know a man who fits that description perfectly... He's a white man with short brown hair, between the ages of 20 and 30, wearing blue jeans and a white t-shirt. I saw him in the mirror recently. easyJet warns 'several websites' to stop selling its flights Re: Pictures instead of number woldn't work... Tony - it would be easy to write a script that generated images with a unique URL. Not every URL is a file - many (most?) are caught and the content is generated automatically by a script. This can be done with images too. Chris - it isn't illegal to use text only as graphics. The law says the site operator must make 'reasonable adjustments' to make it suitable for disabled users. If there is evidence that the site is being 'scraped' - it might not be reasonable to make the prices available as text (unless there was a better way to stop the site being scraped). Even then, websites could allow alternative methods - e.g. a button that will play a sound file of the price. As EasyJet.com is a very well known website, EasyJet would have to be careful to make sure any changes they make complied with the law, but - as ever - nothing is black and white. Apple ships Air Re: Why would you hate a computer? I agree - the amount of hatred this computer seems to have drummed up is crazy. It's also a bit suprising that people are talking as if this is revolutionary product. It seems to me that the concept (thin, light, easy to carry around) and the implementation (no optical drive) is very similar to the Toshiba Portege 2000. If you're familiar with other Portege models, search for this one - it was significantly thinner and smaller than even other models in that series (except the Portege 2010, which was identical in form factor). I owned that computer around 2001 - 2006. Like the Air, it was less powerful than its contemporaries and, as it got older, it struggled to keep up with newer applications designed for faster machines. But it was perfect for carrying around and using in the places you're likely to need a laptop (at clients', in coffee shops, on the sofa etc). I was a student and a freelance developer at the time; the Portege was powerful enough to run Word and my IDE of choice (can't remember what it was, mind). Perfect. I understand why people get irritated with Apple but there are plenty of alternatives. If you don't want the Air but fancy a small laptop you have plenty of options from Toshiba, Sony, Samsung etc. Likewise if you want screaming performance you probably need a desktop (or at least a "desktop replacement" laptop). Personally I think OS X is an excellent operating system (Unix + usability = perfect) and am happy to pay a slight premium for the hardware to gain access to that, not to mention the creative software and ease of use it offers. I don't need one right now, but the Air will sell in crate-loads to its presumed target audience of designers and media executives! The Air isn't an innovation or a revelation; it's just a skinny computer.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1283
__label__wiki	0.559881	0.559881	Lazio fans clash with police ahead of Coppa Italia final Date: 15th May 2019 at 8:16pm Written by: Adriano Boin The lead up to tonight’s Coppa Italia final has been marked by clashes between Lazio Ultras and police. Kick-off between Atalanta and the Biancocelesti is scheduled for 20:45 local time, though the focus has certainly been turned to matters outside the stadium. While Atalanta supporters have already made their way to the Stadio Olimpico, Lazio Ultras have engaged in clashes with local police. A group of close to 200 have been caught on video throwing bottles and fireworks at authorities, who responded with water cannons and tear gas. Clashes have resulted in one injured police officer, while a police vehicle was set on fire. A preliminary blockade set-up by authorities also resulted in the arrest of two Lazio Ultras, one of whom was already previously banned from the stadium. The two were stopped in a vehicle carrying 78 flares, 45 rambo k33 firecrackers, 16 fireworks, a firework capable of shooting off 100 times, a pair of scissors, a concealable portable blade and a 45cm piece of lumber.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1284
__label__cc	0.708112	0.291888	2.1 How Do We Find Innovations? Introduction to the Design Process Social Impact Strategy: Tools for Entrepreneurs and Innovators Université de Pennsylvanie 4.7 (419 notes) \| 15K étudiants inscrits This course offers an introduction to social impact strategy and social entrepreneurship, including key concepts, an overview of the field, and tools to get started as a changemaker. Students will learn how to innovate and design new ideas and new organizational forms to implement those ideas. Students who take this course will be better prepared to launch social impact organizations of their own invention. By moving through four stages, Define, Design, Pilot, and Scale, students will turn their passion for changing the world into concrete plans for launching a nonprofit or for-profit venture designed to achieve a social goal. This course will allow students to systematically think through problems; develop and test an innovative solution; assess risk, competition, and performance; and spread impact in a way that is financially sustainable. Students who complete the course become eligible to apply for an in-person educational experience, called the Global Social Impact House. GSIH is a seven-day residential program that provides fellows with the tools, community and training they need to advance their ventures. Workshops are customized to the needs of fellows and explore advanced concepts in business models, design thinking and leadership. The program is also designed to help fellows build meaningful, global connections while living together in an inspirational host location. For more information on the Global Social Impact House, please visit: socialimpactstrategy.org/residential/gsih Market Analysis, Business Model, Business Modeling, Social Entrepreneurship 4.7 (419 notes) In-depth knowledge of social impact with relevant examples and handy tools and frameworks. The course provided structure to my approach towards social impact. Highly recommended. Great course to gain an insight of the world of social entrepreneurship; gives you a solid framework to get your social enterprise started on the right footing. thanks Define and Design Learn the inputs and basic blueprints of a well-articulated vision. Develop an understanding of the design process, and learn to use an empathy map and a mind map for client-oriented innovation. Learn to build a logic model, which will help you articulate your innovation's theory of change from resources (inputs) to activities to impact. We encourage students to apply these tools immediately, to an active or idea-stage social initiative, that you are working directly on or that you admire. 2.1 How Do We Find Innovations? Introduction to the Design Process6:36 2.2 Why is Design Thinking Important for Social Innovation?4:20 2.3 How to Design Part 1: Spark Useful Insights by Listening with Empathy5:25 2.4 How to Design Part 2: Identify the Most Powerful Insights and Potential Solutions by Building a Mind Map6:00 2.5 How to Design Part 3: Prototyping3:22 2.6 Embracing Creativity and Innovation3:45 2.7 Articulating your Roadmap to Impact: The Logic Model3:19 2.8 The Logic Model: Critical Elements6:02 2.9 The Logic Model: How to Use It7:09 2.10 Three Examples of Logic Models10:11 2.11 Tips for Building a Strong Logic Model2:17 2.12. Carlos and Coco Define and Design (Part 1: Listening with Empathy, Empathy Maps, and Mind Maps)7:02 2.13. Carlos and Coco Define and Design (Part 2. Prototyping and Logic Models)4:44 Peter Frumkin Today's topic is design thinking for social innovation. We are going to cover today how you might use tools and techniques from other creative sectors in the social sector to find and discover innovative approachs to public problems. Our work today is going to be broken into two parts. In the first section, we're going to talk about what does field of design thinking really is? How do we understand the generic contours and techniques of this field. And then the second part we're going to move into the question of how do we actually do this work? Why and how would you go out into the world to find solutions and what tools could you take with you. So let's get started with the basic question of what is innovation, and where do we find it? This is a deeply mysterious question. If we all knew where innovations lay, we'd be ahead of the game, but innovations often are uncovered. They require discovery. At the core of the design thinking approach is the idea that at the start of the process you want to go very broad. You want to start to generate as many possible ideas as you can, come up with as many possible versions and visions of value as possible. And only after you've laid out a large number of possibilities, then do you begin to narrow and constrain and make some choices about which ones are best. So the core idea of innovation is you don't search for innovation by going online and Googling new idea, innovation, fresh start, or some combination of words, and hope that the search engines are going to generate some ideas for you. We take a completely different approach here. Today, we're going to talk about innovation that something you can do. But it requires a lot of field work, hand work and deep spadework to uncover innovation. Let's think about the design process, this design thinking process as four parts. And we're really going to focus today on the first three. There's a first phase where you are listening, dreaming, taking in all types of input, thinking about all the possible ways in which you can solve a problem. The second part is when you start to analyze and think through. What do all these imputs really mean? How can I pull it all together? How do I understand the order and meaning of everything that's going all around me. In the third part you're going to start to test, prototype, experiment, try different approaches and see if they might work. And finally, once you've gotten past those first initial stages of Inspiration, Ideation, Iteration, then you'll move to the process of Implementing. But throughout this whole process, what we're talking about is a process of generating lots of ideas and then narrowing and tightening down on the ones that are most potentially valuable. So design thinking is already being applied in many of the creative sectors. Architects, artists, musicians, inventors all use some version of this process. It's only recently that this approach, is finding its way into the social sector and into social entrepreneurship. So let's take a look at a little bit of what this creative process looks like and then I'm going to make the argument that these techniques and tools, even though they may seem foreign, they may seem as if they belong in the creative sector, they actually have a place in the work of social entrepreneurs. So let's think about one of the greatest architects today. Frank Gehry. He is the man who designed Bilbao in Spain, the incredible curved titanium museum. He has designed the incredible Disney Center. He is one of the most creative architects in the world in the sense that he has visions that are completely counterintuitive and shocking. Interesting question is where does he come up with his ideas? How does he come up with these building designs that no one's ever thought of. And the answer is he comes up with them through a process of experimentation and iteration. He sits in his studio with cardboard, paper and scissors and starts crumpling up paper and mounding it up in the shape of a building. His buildings often have incredible contours and shapes. The reason he gets to those very clever moves and techniques is that he is experimenting in the studio with pieces of paper and tin foil, other things that he finds and he is just little by little accumulating ideas. Possibilities, range of possible architectural design moves that he could use, and only after he tries a lot of different small moves, will he slowly gravitate towards what he thinks is the highest and best use of the materials. Frank Gehry once said, there's some obvious things where the entrance should be, where the cars need to go in. And then you start to get the scale, you start to get the sense of how it's all going to fall into place. In the end, he says, you have to rise above these constraints. You have to solve problems, you have to bring an informed aesthetic to a visual problem. And so his approach involves starting very broad with a few fixed items, and then narrowly kind of tightening up the range of possibilities until he finds the highest and best design available. Other creative people like the film director, Tim Burton, starts out with a sketch book. He starts doodling. He starts drawing pictures, then he evolves them. And then he starts to get a sense of what his film, what his movie is going to look like. In the case of Alice in Wonderland, he had a vision of what this key character would look like. But it only came about after he iterated. He tried some sketches, he doodled, he came up with some possible visions, and then he enacted it in reality. Sketches are the moment where he starts to explore possibilities. And so what I want to get to is this idea that creativity and innovation doesn't come all at once. It comes through a process of brick collage, of trying little things here and there and eventually experiment until you find something that actually works well. Think about the musician Paul Simon, he doesn't sit down and write great music. He starts down by sitting out and sitting down and throwing out some words. Often they're cliches, often they're ones that he thinks are foolish. But he'll start somewhere, start with the melody, throw out some words, weave it together and then little by little he start to see a few interesting things. And he start to organize those interesting word and phases and eventually he gets powerful, incredible songs out of it. But he doesn't sit down and just write it from the start, he goes through a process of throwing out words, trying different combinations and eventually narrowing it down until he finds something that works.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1285
__label__wiki	0.689408	0.689408	Live Poll: TV Series Comeback Which one of these classic TV series would you like to see a remake of? List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls024048509/ Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/mSQF4ZgpvLM/ NoPantsBatman™ ACT_1 Poll suggestion: TV Series Comeback by NoPantsBatmanTM Joined on December 7, 2017 https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/people/nopantsbatman Good list of great shows None could / should be remade without the original cast (and now dead or too old) attemp ? Hawaii Five-O (1968-1980) The investigations of Hawaii Five-0, an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police Jack Lord ... Det. Steve McGarrett (281 episodes, 1968-1980) James MacArthur Danny Williams (259 episodes, 1968-1979) Kam Fong ... Chin Ho (241 episodes, 1968-1978) Hawaii Five-0 (2010- ) Steve McGarrett returns home to Oahu, in order to find his father's killer. The Governor offers him the chance to run his own task force (Five-0). Alex O'Loughlin ... Steve McGarrett (193 episodes, 2010-2018) Scott Caan ... Danny Williams (193 episodes, 2010-2018) Daniel Dae Kim ... Chin Ho Kelly (168 episodes, 2010-2017) Hawaii Five-O (1997) 1h \| Drama \| TV Movie Gary Busey ... Jimmy Xavier Berk Status: development unknown I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you intend with your comment If When they bring back these old shows they will have to have all new cast and crew and that may not be as good as the originals we all liked to watch Stephen N Russell True but we have CG, video archieves, fan base to make show better than orig Today.Only if fans ignored IE Will Smith Wild Wild West movie. It's true. A remake is always a risk, especially when the series had a big impact and has a large fan base. But, sometimes, people would like for their favorite series to come back to life, even with the risk of them failing. This is just to see which one people would really like to relive, even with a different approach Wild Wild West, Combat, 12 O Clock High, Search, Hill St Blues, Ivanhoe, 6 Million Dollar Man, Primus, Time Tunnel ( setting Area 51 NV vs AZ from orig serial) I did some search on the series you recommended me to add to the list, but I only saw one that I think should go there (Wild Wild West). The other ones don't have a good score or don't have a number of significant votes from users And I couldn't find the series 12 O Clock High In the meantime, I added Wild Wild West to the list I forgot, Hill Street Blues was already on the list all above shows on DVD, 12 O Clock High WW2 Europe. MASH, Cheers, MASH setting Iraq, Cheers (new city, bar). Oh Yes Wild Wild West setting: from 1880-1914. Nikolay Yeriomin (Mykola Yeromin), Champion There was a discussion on MASH subreddit a month ago regarding whether reboot will work and people got to inevitable conclusion that since in Korean war everyone was there against that will and in most latter cases inclusing Iraq it was hardly the case, it won't quite have the same appeal. However, we've seen some recent TV remakes working astonishingly well, so who knows. adding more shows, thats all. In Search of... Status Updated: 16 Jul 2018 Documentary series hosted by Zachary Quinto based on the 1970s series that examined unexplained phenomena from all over the world. Zachary Quinto - Himself - Host (unknown episodes) https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0704270/ https://www.imdb.com/news/ni62140860 Zachary Quinto Talks ‘Paying Homage’ to Leonard Nimoy for ‘In Search Of’ Reboot Each episode of the docu-series explores unexplained conspiracies and phenomena with Quinto at the helm, collecting info from various expert and amateur sources firsthand This will be the second time that Zachary Quinto fills a role originated by Leonard Nimoy, the first being in the Star Trek movies playing Mr. Spock. https://tvlistings.zap2it.com/ In Search Of Season 1, Episode 1 • Premiere 10:03 PM on HISTORY TV-14 • CC Zach sets out to discover whether aliens exist and what evidence we have to prove it; Zach meets with the world's leading scientists at SETI and they show him the methods they employ to communicate with potential other-worldly visitors. Zachary Quinto host Eddie Schmidt Director ACT_1: Zach sets out to discover whether aliens exist : ask Mr. Spock ?!? In Search of... (1976-1982) Leonard Nimoy hosts investigations into various mysteries Leonard Nimoy ... Himself - Host (127 episodes, 1977-1982) Yes, that can work with CG, new FX, modelling & actual models, sets etc I say Yes to a new In Search of docu serial. Bravo. Corrections: What a stupid mistake. Thank you for pointing that out, I updated the description on the list. It looks like you didn’t fix everything: ‘with’ should be ‘would’: Which one of these classic TV series with you like to see a remake of? You're right, can't believe I missed it. I made the change, thank you for pointing that out. TV Series Comeback Murphy Brown (TV Series) Candice Bergen ... Murphy Brown (248 episodes, 1988-2018) Respect (1988) Season 1 \| Episode 1 \| 14 Nov 1988 Never Can Say Goodbye: Part 2 (1998) Season 10 \| Episode 22 \| 18 May 1998 Episode #11.1 (2018) Season 11 \| Episode 1 \| 27 Sep. 2018 How did I miss that one? Thank you for pointing that out, I removed the series from the list, since it has already new episodes on the way. Or how about these TV shows: Emergency, Lawman( John Russell), Adam 12, Ironside?, It Takes a Thief, Highway Patrol, Ripcord, Ripcord, It Take a Thief can involve ex Sp Forces types. Those were really good suggestions. I added them to the list, except for Ironside, since it has some sort of a recent remake, and apparently it failed. Update Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: but No aliens, IE goofy monsters but examine real life accounts of sea creatures & new Seaview is 800 ft X 400 ft & can cruise at 50 knots submerged & link to Seastead colonies & undersea bases worldwide, Year: 2033? Update control room from Hunt Red Oct, JAG TV show etc? NIMR is a Non profit research firm, New cast grandkids from orig cast? NIMR still in Santa Barbara but locales worldwide?? See Season 1 for best plots & storyliones & Season 2 episode 1.?? Use Seaquest DSV FX. See Seasteading.org, Blue Frontiers.org as guide models & Pinterest. More shows: The Avengers UK, Stingray/UFO from Gerry Andersen kidvid 60s but use CG, new models, sets, costumes. Retain SHADO under movie studio setting, update Strakers car etc. Persuaders: update cars & set in Europe, Caribbean?? New cast takes Rodger Moore & Tony Curtis role, The Best of Brit TV alone then. I added The Avengers to the list. Thank you for your suggestion. Garrisons Gorillas, Primus, Sea Hunt, Adventures in Paradise but have charcter ex Navy SEAL & use yacht charter as front for aiding in local Operations (setting Caribbean), Garisons Gorillas set in WW2, Sea Hunt can update from orig TV serial. Would the Old Westerns be popular now ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westerns_on_television#/media/File:Warner_Brothers_television_westerns... 1959 series leads Will Hutchins (Sugarfoot), Peter Brown (Lawman), Jack Kelly (Maverick), Ty Hardin (Bronco), James Garner (Maverick), Wayde Preston (Colt .45), and John Russell (Lawman) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westerns_on_television early 1960s: Notable TV Westerns include The Lone Ranger, The Gene Autry Show, Gunsmoke, Cheyenne, Have Gun – Will Travel, Sugarfoot, Wagon Train, Maverick, Trackdown, Wanted Dead or Alive, Bronco, The Rifleman, Rawhide, Bonanza, Laramie, The Virginian, The Big Valley, The High Chaparral, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_westerns_on_television Westworld has a big part with a Western vibe, and it's successful. But use HBO model or mix from orig movie which had guests fly into Theme park vs Im told in HBO use some RR train to enter Westworld vs the whole park complex. the longest running (Western) series in the history of television .. ? ? Gunsmoke (1955-1975) Seasons: 20 James Arness ... Matt Dillon (635 episodes, 1955-1975) In the show's twenty-year run, James Arness was the only actor who appeared in every episode. Denver Pyle and Raymond Burr were considered for the role of Matt Dillon. This show, along with The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955), helped usher in great era of the television western. Westerns became so popular on television, that by the end of the 1950s, there would be as many as forty of them airing in primetime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunsmoke Bonanza (1959-1973) Seasons: 14 Lorne Greene ... Ben Cartwright (430 episodes, 1959-1973) Michael Landon ... Joseph 'Little Joe' Cartwright (427 episodes, 1959-1973) and then he lived in a Little House on the Prairie (1974-1983) Seasons: 9 Michael Landon ... Charles Ingalls (187 episodes, 1974-1983) Cartwright but not a western The Simpsons (1989- ) Seasons: 30 Nancy Cartwright ... Bart Simpson (648 episodes, 1989-2018) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-running_United_States_television_series Skip over News and Sports and Soaps and Games and Talkies for prime-time drama series Law & Order (1990-2010) Seasons: 20 With the airing of its twentieth season, beginning September 25, 2009, this show tied the record held by Gunsmoke (1955) for the longest running prime-time drama series on U.S. television (other shows, such as Saturday Night Live (1975) and The Simpsons (1989) have lasted longer, but in other genres). However, it was announced in May 2010 that the series was not renewed for the 2010-2011 season, so the "Gunsmoke" tie remains unbroken. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_%26_Order Yes but update, see Magnificent 7 TV serial from 90s. could have Maverick/Lawman/Dead or Alive & Wild Wild West merger for some TV movie alone. & use High Chapperal as base for action in area. Peter Gunn, Mannix, Rockford Files PI mashup?? Honey West: next gen Honey & buddy updated with Anne Francis as walk on or video cameo?? Hawaiian Eye 2. Man from Atlantis: revise & add to NIMR ( Voyage), probe true life sea tales? update tech & FX IE Seaquest DSV. New serial from movie: Colussus World: from movie Colussus Forbin Project, look 30 years ahead to end sequence of Colussus Forbin Project?? Magnum, P.I. (1980-1988) Thomas Sullivan Magnum, IV is an ex-Navy "NIA" (ONI) Lieutenant, and Vietnam Special Ops veteran Tom Selleck ... Magnum (158 episodes, 1980-1988) John Hillerman ... Higgins (158 episodes, 1980-1988) Roger E. Mosley ... TC (158 episodes, 1980-1988) Larry Manetti ... Orville 'Rick' Wright (158 episodes, 1980-1988) Magnum P.I. (2018- ) An ex-Navy SEAL returns home from Afghanistan and uses his military skills to become a private investigator in Hawaii. Jay Hernandez ... Thomas Magnum Stephen Hill ... TC Calvin Zachary Knighton ... Rick Wright Blue Bloods (2010- ) Revolves around a family of New York cops Tom Selleck ... Frank Reagan (177 episodes, 2010-2018) The Facts of Life Reboot in the Works An updated take on The Facts of Life is currently in development, our sister site Deadline reports, with Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Jessica Biel’s Iron Ocean Films in talks to produce. The Facts of Life (1979-1988) A group of girls, attending a boarding school, tackle issues throughout teenage life and later adulthood. Charlotte Rae ... Edna Garrett (155 episodes, 1979-1986) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Rae Charlotte Rae Lubotsky (known professionally as Charlotte Rae; April 22, 1926 – August 5, 2018) was an American character actress of stage, comedian, singer and dancer whose career spanned six decades In 1982, Rae had a pacemaker implanted in her chest. In 2009, due to the frequency of pancreatic cancer in her own family, Rae was screened, diagnosed early, and became cancer-free after six months of chemotherapy. Her mother, an uncle, and her elder sister Beverly all reportedly died from pancreatic cancer. However, in 2017, aged 91, Rae was diagnosed with bone cancer Rae died at her home in Los Angeles on August 5, 2018 Edwin, please stop posting abuse. https://www.imdb.com/poll/mSQF4ZgpvLM/ Congratulations NoPantsBatman on your 5th live poll! As of 8-Aug-2018 11:21 PM Pacific your polls have 9,083 or more votes, for an average of 1,817 votes per poll. 6743rd Live Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/mSQF4ZgpvLM/ Seen: http://www.imdb.com/seen//ls024048509 This is the 2,989th Title poll. Such polls have a total of 7,298,347 votes for an average of 2,442 votes per poll. Projected Date of 20 Million Votes 17-Jan-2020 This is the list of NoPantsBatman's polls as of 2-Aug-2018: Sorted Alphabetically http://mypollwatch.blogspot.com/2014/05/imdb-polls-alphabetical-by-author.html#NoPantsBatman In Decreasing Order of Votes http://mypollwatch.blogspot.com/2015/03/imdb-polls-descending-order-of-votes-by.html#NoPantsBatman	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1286
__label__cc	0.688634	0.311366	Your application meets the criteria: Kindly wait and your request will be answered once it’s too late Translated by Gisha Here’s a story for you: About a month ago we asked the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) to allow a young journalist from Gaza to exit the Strip so she could meet with the editors of the Israeli magazine she writes for, and participate in a workshop on photography, editing and content publishing. According to the criteria for Palestinians’ exit from Gaza via Erez Crossing, foreign journalists may exit and in cases such as hers, a request must be submitted to the COGAT spokesperson, which is what we did. A few days later, when we called to see where things stood with the application, we were told that the COGAT spokesperson had transferred it to the COGAT public liaison department. On Thursday, we received their response: please contact the COGAT spokesperson. In any case, in all the back and forth, the workshop the journalist had hoped to attend came and went. We often write about how the criteria for Palestinians’ exit from the Strip are narrow and bizarre to the point of arbitrariness. We recently shared the story of Nader al-Masri, a marathon runner whose request to race in the Palestine Marathon in Bethlehem was denied even though soccer players feature in the list of individuals who may exit Gaza. We also recently posted a short film highlighting that while the criteria allow for a person to visit her ailing mother in the West Bank, they forbid a grandchild from visiting her grandmother. Even those who do meet the criteria and against whom no security claims are raised go through a long and complicated bureaucratic ordeal which doesn’t always guarantee they’ll actually get to travel. This entry was posted in Movement of people out of Gaza and tagged Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, Criteria, Erez crossing, Gaza, gaza strip. Bookmark the permalink. ← Gaza Access and Movement: 2013 Summary Wait, so when do we shoot? →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1288
__label__cc	0.65132	0.34868	Adventist Chaplains Carry Good News June 01, 2012 \| Darold Bigger We're used to seeing our pastors on Sabbaths and at prayer meetings, funerals, camp meetings and other spiritual events. We even expect to see Adventist pastors in hospitals and on the campuses of our denominational schools, and we call them "chaplains." But there are hundreds of Adventist ministers whom we seldom see on the platform of Adventist churches or in the halls or walkways of Adventist institutions. They too are chaplains but minister in places where our church has little or no influence. Employed by state or federal governments, businesses, corporations and industries, they are chaplains for inmates and staff at correctional facilities, for business employees and their families, for military personnel and their dependents during peace and war, for government officials and staff, for hospice agencies, and for patients and providers at other-than-Adventist medical facilities. Some work quietly with little public notice. Others are often in the public eye, like Barry Black, United States Senate chaplain. In addition to employed chaplains, a growing number of Adventist pastors volunteer to provide spiritual, moral and emotional support to emergency and community agencies such as police, sheriff and fire departments, and the Civil Air Patrol. Chaplain numbers are exploding, and now hundreds of Adventist pastors in North America are assigned to chaplain work! They provide vital spiritual support to needy persons, many of whom would have no other contact with Adventists or Adventist ministers. They augment our evangelistic outreach to settings in which we would otherwise have very little if any impact. Even though they are not paid by Adventist conferences, they gladly represent Adventist Christianity. They play a crucial role in our Adventist mission. Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries (ACM) supports and promotes the work of chaplains worldwide. In recent years, as the number of chaplains has exponentially increased, ACM has significantly expanded its reach and involvement in training and facilitating the work of Adventist chaplains. In spite of phenomenal growth in their assignment, a ministerial staff of only two oversees chaplain work worldwide. In North America three regional representatives assist those two and have the daunting task of staying in touch with chaplains and military service members over huge areas. Larry Roth, our Northwest ACM field representative, covers 14 states as well as all of western Canada — a huge and daunting assignment! Featured in this issue of the GLEANER are just a few of the 33 Northwest chaplains. They represent hundreds of other devoted Adventist chaplains who carry the good news of God to a needy world. Their assignments often distance them from their Adventist pastor colleagues. Their assignments can be lonely and challenging. Those who work for other-than-Adventist employers sometimes feel isolated from their Adventist roots. Because all of them are part of us, we reclaim and reaffirm our support for them, for their calling and for their part in the mission of the Adventist Church. Thank you, Adventist chaplains, for enthusiastically representing your God and your church! They gladly represent Adventist Christianity. Darold Bigger Walla Walla University religion and social work professor Darold Bigger, Walla Walla University religion and social work professor featured in Jun 2012	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1290
__label__cc	0.672314	0.327686	To the Fuze Ceremonies Summer Ball The Fuze Ceremonies Summer Ball “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes” Unfortunately, Benjamin Franklin was spot on when he penned a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy back in 1789, which included this famed line about death and taxes. While it’s only natural to want to bury our heads in the sand when it comes to considering the death of either ourselves or a loved one, death is inevitable and it’s something we’re all going to have to face at some point. When the inevitable happens, we know first hand how healing and uplifting a meaningful funeral service can be for bereaved family and friends; however, what happens if this isn’t possible, not through choice, but because of poverty? That’s why in 2012, Fuze Ceremonies set up the Fuze Foundation with the aim of tackling funeral poverty by conducting meaningful ceremonies for no set fee. So, what is the Fuze Foundation? The Fuze Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation with the primary purpose of assisting families who are unable to afford a Funeral Celebrant. Fuze are doing something very practical – supporting struggling and bereaved families by providing a Funeral Celebrant in exchange for a no-fixed-fee donation. Our ultimate aim is to raise enough money to be able to cover the cost of an entire funeral for those who are most in need. We also provide advice on low cost alternative funerals and memorial ceremonies. Help us help others! In order to continue providing this service and to achieve our ultimate aim, we need to raise much needed funds and there’s no better way to raise money than by throwing a glamorous Charity Summer Ball and guess what? YOU’RE ALL INVITED! If you’re feeling charitable and you like a good party, the Fuze Summer Ball will be right up your street! Enjoy welcome drinks, delicious food, electric entertainment and be in with a chance of winning some AMAZING prizes all for just £50. So what are you waiting for? If you’re free on Saturday 31st August at 7pm and can get yourself to the Merchants Hall in Glasgow, get in touch to book your ticket. If you can’t make the Summer Ball, but you’d like to help our cause, why not make a donation by clicking here? paulaw2019-07-10T09:37:32+01:00Alternative Celebrations, Awards, Celebrations, Charity, Events, Foundation, Funerals, Humanism, News\| Thursday Thoughts: Plan for Brilliance Win a Romantic Dinner for Two Thursday Thoughts: Obstacles Are What You See When You Take Your Eyes Off Your Goal Thursday Thoughts: See it; Say it; Trust it An A-Z of Incredible Scottish Wedding Venues: Prestonfield House LEGO[MG]!! 😍 After seven years of celebranting our socks off, we thought we'd almost seen it all! That was until A… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… FLORAL ARCHARAMA 😍🌺🌼 What better way to enter married life than through a shaggy Delphinium, Hydrangea, Rose & Thi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… If you're considering booking the Parsonage at Dunmore Park for your 2020 wedding venue, we recommend heading along… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1295
__label__wiki	0.558029	0.558029	GAIA & EROS Economics for the Planet and Passionate People About Rickey Gard Diamond About Gaia About Eros About Recent History About Economics About the Federal Reserve System and monetary reform The Eros Economy: Becoming Gaia’s Partner You are currently browsing the category archive for the ‘MAKE ECONOMICS SEXY: Get Mad, Join Up’ category. Why Fixing Student Debt is a Woman’s Issue–and a Banking One November 17, 2014 in MAKE ECONOMICS SEXY: Get Mad, Join Up, Uncategorized \| Leave a comment by Rickey Gard Diamond This post first appeared in Vermont Woman, (Holiday, Nov/Dec) 2014. I remember when I decided I had to get my college degree: A working mom with three kids at the time, when I graduated I would owe about $8000, or in 1980, the equivalent of what I might pay for a car. I decided to invest in me, knowing the degree would open doors that would stay shut otherwise. Remarried, about five years later I got bad news; my husband’s job was eliminated. We contacted all our creditors and arranged partial payment plans while he looked for employment. Everyone was understanding and nice—except one. The ironically named People’s State Bank that held my student loans was nasty. I had faithfully all but repaid, but in response to my story, their man refused any half-measures and threatened penalties, or else. We paid them somehow the next few months. And I still remember the satisfaction I felt, placing my last check payment inside an envelope I addressed to: The People’s State Bloodsuckers. Ever since, we’ve made it our practice to use local, community banks and credit unions. How Much, Too Much People’s State Bank became Pinnacle Bank became Civitas Bank became Citizens Bank of MidAmerica and is now the absurdly named Fifth Third Bank. Our era has given us overly complex bank upheavals. And student bank loans have gotten much bigger and been used by an increasing number of students. A recent Senate hearing heard testimony that about eight banks dominate that market—shades of too-big-to-fail? Student debt nationwide now outranks our nation’s credit card debt for the first time, at over $1.2 trillion. A trillion is a thousand billions, each billion a thousand millions. With universities running themselves like profit-seeking corporations, and more importantly with the nation’s state governments encouraging the trend by reducing state education funds, college costs for students have skyrocketed. The national college boards publish tuition trends at their website, and from 1990-91 until 2013-14, national tuition costs on average more than doubled. Family incomes did not. Here in Vermont, 63 percent of our students now need loans. Part of that might have to do with UVM’s ranking seventh in the top ten most expensive state schools (U.S. News & World Report, Oct. 28, 2014). This year’s in-state tuition costs $16,226. (University of Pittsburgh came in first at $17,772.) Board members at UVM and your local legislator need to drive some back roads in Vermont and look around. This year’s average Vermont student debt is $28,299. We rank #13 in debt amount nationally, and not all students finish. The Project on Student Debt says the national average debt of graduates is $29,400, and from 2008 to 2012, average debt of combined government and private loans grew by 6 percent a year. Since Vermont’s tuition is relatively high, we should assume future state grads will be looking at considerably more, not less, than the state average most recently reported. Loan Zombies The mean fellow I met at People’s Bank years ago might have gone on to work in Washington, D.C., because by 2005 the bankers’ lobby had successfully changed the bankruptcy law to make banks’ student loans “non-dischargeable.” Bankruptcy, the last-ditch chance that people have when bad things happen—when their health fails, or the economy crashes—goes back to ancient times and literal slavery or “jubilee,” the forgiving of debt. In modern times, debtor’s prison was replaced by a court of law that could find debts impossible to repay. But since 2005, declaring bankruptcy in court will not free you from student loans: Not even your death will free your poor co-signers from your debt obligation. I think maybe this explains the appeal of all those zombie movies. You can’t kill these loans. You can’t buy a home or start a business with these loans. They turn you into the walking dead. Equal Output The American Association of University Women (AAUW) came out with a new study in July, adding new light to the issue for women, saying: “Although women and men pay the same tuition for higher education—and tend to take out the same amount in loans—women are more burdened by their student loan debt after graduation. Just one year after graduation, women are paid on average 82 cents for every dollar their male counterparts are paid,” an 18 percent wage gap. Even controlling for factors like chosen major, type of job, number of hours worked each week, AAUW still found a 7 percent wage gap, no matter the field. They invited Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to their study’s press conference, and she called it “a one-two punch…. Women take on big debts to go to college, but they have less money to pay off those debts.” http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/06/04/Female-senators-tie-college-loan-push-to-equal-pay/2071401890697/ That’s not even mentioning what happens later, should a female graduate be foolish enough to want to start a family. Without paid family leave or help with childcare costs, she’ll be a debtor further handicapped. A Different Approach But if we’ve been persuaded that banks lending money is the only way forward for education, then at least let it be the lending of our own money, set at an interest rate with terms we can control. The only bank in the country now capitalized by its own state tax revenues, (and aimed at supporting local banks and employment) The Bank of North Dakota began offering state students a refinance rate of 5.34 percent fixed, or 1.73 percent variable (with interest not varying more than 1 percent a year). For students locked in at higher rates, refinance was a godsend. But BND also sponsors and talks freely about four loan deferment programs, including for economic hardship and unemployment, and three loan forgiveness programs, the latter encouraging debt-reduced careers in teaching and STEM. They offer scholarships awarded to the top fifth of their high school students who qualify and choose to attend school in North Dakota. Comparatively speaking, North Dakota’s tuitions are a bargain at $7,265 in 2014—at least partly because the BND returns dividends to the state’s general fund. Quick. Somebody tell AAUW and Elizabeth Warren. Student debt is a woman’s issue—and public banking gives states a chance to revive education and a future. Local legislators should look to this state solution. Rickey Gard Diamond is editor of Vermont Woman and is on the board of The Public Banking Institute. The Skewed Language of Economics or How We Can Grow a Sexy Economic Ecology May 8, 2014 in MAKE ECONOMICS SEXY: Get Mad, Join Up, MAKE ECONOMICS SEXY: Love Your Life, MAKE ECONOMICS SEXY: Remember Gender, Uncategorized \| Tags: economics, gaia and eros, GNH2014, gross national happiness, Gross National Happiness Conference, mystifying language, passionate people, Second Sight: A Novel; Discover Jazz Festival Burlington Vermont, sexy economy, UVM, Vermont College, workshop presentations \| Leave a comment Eros was Gaia’s sexy counterpoint in the beginning, not baby Cupid. Gaia created the earth, said the Greeks. I’ll be presenting my Eros theory of the economy at the Gross National Happiness Conference at UVM in Burlington, Vermont, on May 29 & 30. I’m one of many dozens of presenters, and it looks like two (or four) great days focused on creating a movement. Learn about economics for passionate people and the planet. And then visit the Discover Jazz Festival in Burlington, a short walk away. My workshop aims to empower those intimidated by economics. I devised a basic primer during my work with adult students as a professor of liberal studies at Vermont College; while my training is in writing and literature, I was concerned about language that shapes our thinking about economics, while mystifying it. Literature’s powerful stories are often entwined with changing perceptions of value and money. As a journalist I have frequently written about economic policies and the persistent poverty of women; I’ve published a novel, Second Sight that examines the uses of violence, including economic violence, to control us. Women in particular tend to be intimidated and avoid economics. Yet few of either gender relishes admitting to what isn’t understood in a climate of experts’ mystifying language. Gross National Happiness as a counter to the Gross National Product had long been part of my presentations at colleges and conferences. I’m excited about Genuine Progress Indicators recently being added to Vermont’s measures of how we’re doing, and the development of public banking. There’s much to celebrate when you understand what’s at stake and how many are already proposing new paths to a happier future. Using images, I’ll show blind spots in male-dominated economic thinking, especially one big omission—biology—ours and the earth’s. I love to deconstruct economics, and have fun unlocking the subject through language and story. For instance, the earliest creation story of the Greeks said the goddess Gaia created the earth and its life. And next came Eros whose ability to inspire passion and love assured life would continue. The ecological Gaia theory is now widely recognized: we have “green economists.” But I argue that Eros must not be forgotten as Gaia’s counterpart. Eros is defined in the dictionary as sexual and creative drive, but also as “the sum of all instincts for self-preservation.” What might Eros mean to Gaia and our monetary economy? How might we reshape conversations about the economic realm? Is the economy really a war? Or, like our planet Gaia, a complex, self-regulating organism engaged in many sexy exchanges—our actual lives the real bottom line? Check out the schedule for a two full days of learning–and have fun doing it. Come help build a movement, along with other terrifically happy and inventive, passionate people who care about our planet and all of its lifek–including yours! Here’s the link to what’s happening–register and please pass the news along. http://www.gnh2014.com An Economy of Our Own (Part 6): Avoiding Another Jack-Ass Monetary Crisis November 15, 2011 in MAKE ECONOMICS SEXY: Get Mad, Join Up, Uncategorized \| Tags: economic, local economy, monetary, money, public banking, women \| Leave a comment The great feminist Andrea Dworkin put it this way in 1981. “Money speaks,” she said, “but it speaks in a male voice.” We know this better than ever since 2008. As the financial fog begins to lift on the fraud and gobbledygook of economic Wall Street and Washington, it feels a little like walking in uninvited on a jack-ass frat party. Eeee-ooooh. You actually do that?! How can anyone be so stupid??!! Feminists aren’t the only ones to notice how male-dominated this crisis has been. Ken Hirschhorn, a trader at Long-Term Capital Management, a prominent hedge fund whose collapse in 2000 foreshadowed 2008’s melt-down, told Sheelah Kolhatkar of New York Magazine, “I don’t think greed is gender specific. But if you ask me whether Long-Term Capital Management would have blown up if there were more women involved in the decision-making process? A woman might have said, ‘Let’s not assume we’ll never be wrong.’ ” Kolhatkar also talked to Joe Herbert, a neuroscientist who studies finance at Cambridge University. He said, “The banking crisis was caused by doing what no society ever allows, permitting young males to behave in an unregulated way. Anyone who studied neurobiology would have predicted disaster.” The question is what to do about the reeking mess left behind. How do we prevent another monetary jack-ass crisis? Growing numbers of critics agree we cannot continue to do more of the same. But how can women make a difference? NO GIRLS ALLOWED! Financial headlines in September sounded an alarm about the small ranks of women in high places shrinking even further. When Sallie Krawcheck, CFO at Bank of America, left without explanation, Nathaniel Hopper at The Los Angeles Times, wrote: “Krawcheck joins a string of other top female bankers to leave the upper echelons of financial companies in recent years. Other notable exits include Heidi Miller, who in June stepped down as one of two women serving on JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s operating committee…Citigroup Inc.’s Terri Dial last year stepped down as head of the company’s consumer banking operations; former Morgan Stanley co-President Zoe Cruz resigned from the investment bank in 2007; and Lehman Brothers Chief Financial Officer Erin Callan was pushed out just before the firm collapsed.” In another corporate story in September, New Yahoo CEO, the respected and outspoken Carol Bartz, got an unprecedented surprise, fired by her board on the phone. Bartz responded to reporters with rare candor: “These people f***ed me over,” she said. Nor do Washington women fare better. In a late-September interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air, author of Confidence Men, Ron Suskind of The Washington Post, reported a “hostile environment for women” in Obama’s White House and “not just on economic matters.” Christina Romer, who stepped down as chair of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors in August of 2010, told Suskind there were alternative views (like hers), not listened to. Elizabeth Warren, head of FDIC who expected to be placed at the head of the new consumer protection agency she designed, instead got run out of town. She’s now running for the Senate from Massachusetts. Overly influenced by a testosterone-ruled Wall Street, Washington appears too polarized to work and too moneyed to represent most women. Last year’s Supreme Court “United Citizens” ruling monetized speech in our political process; that’s as good an explanation as any for Occupy Wall Street’s move to give the 99 percent a voice. It is hard to discover how many women number among the protestors, but clearly many are reaching for change. (See Occupy sidebar.) TWO WOMEN ADDRESS MONEY CREATION While protests happen, real economic solutions for preventing another crisis are being offered by two unlikely women, neither of them economists: lawyer Ellen Brown of California and city planner Gwendolyn Hallsmith of Montpelier, Vermont. Both women propose creative and local solutions, which are exactly the kind of economics that women can most easily access. Their ideas promise a common meeting place closer to home, and big economic changes that could provide greater security and a role for revitalizing state democracies. To introduce Brown and Hallsmith’s ideas, it’s important to understand that both women critique our current method of creating money. You may not have realized it, but none of the world’s governments now directly issues its own currency—including our U.S. dollars. Instead, a global system of central banks (like our privately owned Federal Reserve) trade in government bonds with global investment banks. (For more on this, see the September/October issue of Vermont Woman for “Dollars on the Make,” or www.gaiaeros.com/2011/10/17/the-federal-reserve-and-dollars-on-the-make/) Government bonds create loans to our nation’s Treasury. The Treasury then authorizes the issue of Federal Reserve notes, essentially IOUs, or the dollars in your wallet. Banks also create dollars when they loan to businesses, mortgagees, states or municipalities. Dollars are created by banks and backed by the Fed – but only through debt. The Fed would argue this is a good thing. They call it “the multiplier effect.” A bank need only hold cash (or Federal Reserve deposits) equal to about 10 percent of its total customer deposits; the rest can be loaned. Thus, each dollar soon becomes $9. However, as Charles Eisenstein recently wrote in Reality Sandwich, “[I]n the last decade various kinds of non-bank lending have skirted the margin reserve requirement through the alphabet soup of financial instruments you’ve been hearing about in the news. The result is that each dollar of original equity has been leveraged not to nine times its original value, as in traditional banking, but to 70 times or even more.” Both Brown and Hallsmith argue this financial gaming has little to do with the real economy where you and I live. Money based on leveraged air creates a currency and financial debt-products, essentially a pile of IOUs. Everyone must pay the principal and somehow find added interest. This demands the economy constantly grow until it collapses. Periodic crashes are inevitable with this kind of scheme. Numbers grow exponentially without limit, yet the planet and human beings cannot. As Hallsmith said to me recently, “The trouble with this system is that it requires some people to lose.” BROWN’S PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP BANKING Ellen Brown had written a number of books about health before she wrote about our money system. Confronting a corporate healthcare industry seeking profits introduced her to economic realities here in the U.S. “There can’t be anything more inefficient,” she said in a recent interview. “You’re going to private hospitals, private doctors, using profit-seeking drug corporations, and they all have a vested interest in sickness.” Brown’s most recent book, Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth about our Money System and How We Can Break Free,makes money an understandable subject. Her protagonist is a young girl we all know, Dorothy from Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz. Brown’s illustrations from Oz help to make monetary history and theory both readable and inspiring. While Brown knows the history of the Federal Reserve System’s behind-closed-doors secrecy, and while she outlines long-term reforms, she is after efficiency. She envisions a more immediate way to circumvent debt. In 2011, she founded the Public Banking Institute. Its goal is to persuade states to better utilize the existing banking system for the public good. During her research, Brown had discovered a surprising exception to the rule of Wall Street. The nation has only one state-owned bank, the Bank of North Dakota (BND), founded in 1919, about the time when the Wizard of Oz and monetary issues were both popular. BND’s existence has made all the difference to North Dakotans. What difference exactly? The only state in the union to maintain a continuous budget surplus since the 2008 Wall Street crisis is North Dakota. While other states like Minnesota and California suffer near-bankrupt crises, and 48 states, including Vermont, suffer shortfalls, profits from BND have contributed more than $300 million to North Dakota’s state coffers during the past ten years. That’s a sizeable amount for a state with only 25,000 more people than Vermont. Brown reported recently in The Huffington Post, “[North Dakota’s] balance sheet is so strong that it recently reduced individual income taxes and property taxes by a combined $400 million and is debating further cuts. It also has the lowest unemployment rate, lowest foreclosure rate and lowest credit card default rate in the country, and it hasn’t had a bank failure in at least the last decade.” North Dakota does produce oil, but she says a study done by the Center for State Innovation, from 2007 to 2009, revealed the BND added nearly as much money to the state’s general fund as oil and gas tax revenues did. Brown says, “North Dakota is a conservative red state, not the sort you would expect to be engaging in government enterprise. But the conservative justification for a state-owned bank is that it preserves state sovereignty, allowing the state to be independent of Wall Street and the Feds. The BND is not a business competitor of the local banks but partners with them, helping with capital and liquidity requirements. It participates in loans, provides guarantees, and acts as a sort of mini-Fed for the state.” Not only does the BND return its profits to the state’s general fund, it helps to build the state’s tax base by funding local businesses and the infrastructure that attracts and supports them. Brown explains. “Among other resources, it has a loan program called Flex PACE that allows a local community to provide assistance to borrowers in areas of jobs retention, technology creation, retail, small business, and essential community services. The BND also furnishes a credit line to the state itself, one that is effectively interest-free, since the state owns the bank.” Typically, credit lines get extended in times of emergency or whenever state department budgets or municipalities face unforeseen circumstances. Vermont’s recent budget deficit and the flooding due to Hurricane Irene would be good examples. Having a credit line to the state’s own bank allows state and local governments to avoid exorbitant rates on Wall Street and answers pressures to privatize or reduce services in order to avoid downgrades from rating agencies. STRENGTH IN LOCAL DIVERSITY Brown’s vision is to help establish a network of state and local publicly owned banks, which can create affordable credit and provide a sustainable alternative to the current high-risk centralized private banking system on Wall Street. Such a network, she says, would act in the public interest to stabilize credit crises like our current one. It would also resist asset devaluations, build infrastructure, and fund expansion of critical industrial-productivity capacity – most importantly, education and local jobs, which could be adopted as bank mandates. Her most recent research examines a network of state and municipal public banks in Germany. These were created in the shadow of post-World War II economic devastation and are credited with helping Germany make its remarkable recovery. In 2010, while the rest of Europe staggered, Germany reported a 3.6 percent increase in its economic growth. Its exports led the world until 2009, when China (population 1.3 billion) narrowly overtook Germany (population 82 million.) How was Germany able to do this? Brown writes, “One overlooked key to the country’s economic dynamism is its strong public banking system, which focuses on serving the public interest rather than on maximizing private profits. After the Second World War, it was the publicly owned Landesbanks that helped family-run provincial companies get a foothold in world markets.” Municipal banks administered by state banks are all part of this system. Thanks to growing interest in public banking, Brown’s own state of California just passed a bill to study the feasibility of a state-owned bank like North Dakota’s. California’s economy is the largest in the nation and surpasses all but eight countries. A California State Bank in the public interest would have huge influence nationally. Governor Jerry Brown vetoed the bill, preferring to use the existing legislative committees on banking, rather than establish another “blue ribbon” commission. About this Brown says, “I think it’s a good thing. Commissions are where ideas go to die. We don’t need a study, we need a public bank.” Fourteen other states have submitted bills to create banks similar to North Dakota’s, and Brown monitors them all. You can learn more about public banking and legislative developments, and imagine its potential for the people of Vermont, at www.publicbankinginstitute.org/. Gwendolyn Hallsmith HALLSMITH’S NEW CURRENCIES AND LOCAL MUTUAL CREDIT Gwendolyn Hallsmith of Montpelier has worked on environmental and sustainability issues for more than 20 years. Working with citizen-action groups and Greenpeace, she began to realize protesting wasn’t enough. “We had to have a concrete, alternative way to do things,” she said to me recently. Her books, The Key to Sustainable Cities: Meeting Human Needs, Transforming Community Systems and the workbook Taking Action for Sustainability, draw on substantial local and international work experience. At their core is the idea that systems can either integrate or disintegrate communities unaware of their power. Hallsmith had long struggled to understand economics in her sustainability work. She came to see it as a global system only recently, while living and working overseas. “I actually lived through the currency crash in Kazakhstan,” she says. “I was still getting paid in U.S. dollars, so it didn’t have the same effect on me as it had on my neighbors. We were working closely in neighborhoods and the woman next door saw her pension – which had been enough to cover her rent and her heat and her food – become enough for a loaf of bread. It was devastating.” Hallsmith’s most recent book, Creating Wealth: Growing Local Economies with Local Currencies, tackles economics more directly. She met her co-author for this work, the Belgian economist who helped create the Euro, Bernard Lietaer, when organizing a national sustainability conference. Lietaer objected to an imposition of a 20-minute time-limit on his talk; it would take him much longer to explain why our monetary system cannot help but undermine sustainability. Hallsmith later asked if he would explain it to her. “He paused, and I could hear him sigh,” she recalls with a laugh. Then he proposed she commit to monthly hour-long phone conversations for at least six months. She agreed. Lietaer recently told me he believes women will be key actors in redesigning a more livable economy. “Right now the economic structure is hypermasculine,” he said. “But that doesn’t mean it has to remain that way. Women can change it.” It was during those mentoring sessions with Lietaer that Gwen learned about money creation. “Debt-money” is their name for the dollars we take for granted as national currency. In their book, Hallsmith and Lietaer propose several currencies that could work in partnership with dollars, depending on a community’s needs. Wealth, they explain, can be created locally by developing and supporting real resources, such as small business systems, energy systems and food systems in communities, by setting up asset exchanges, electronically tracked. One currency they discussed at a recent presentation at Montpelier’s City Hall is called a Commercial Credit Circuit, or “C3.” It confronts small business owners’ most pressing problem, cash flow. Small businesses invest in products or services, yet when a sale occurs, payment from a vendor may not come for 90 days. C3s utilize invoices, insured and tracked by a bank, as cash. The invoices can be converted to dollars whenever needed, but a supply chain paid by this currency need not wait for payment. This creates money without debt, rewarding small business initiatives. Uruguay and Brazil are already successfully using C3s; recently Uruguay even moved to accept C3s as payment of taxes. Another business currency they discuss is the 75-year-old Swiss WIR, which means “we” in German. The WIR enables businesses to freely exchange goods and services, helping each other to thrive, instead of only competing. In 2008, the value of WIR trades among its 65,000 members amounted to $1.58 billion. Creating Wealth is not an easy read from cover to cover, but its ideas can be sampled depending on your interests. Each area seems well supported by real community endeavors put into practice by Hallsmith and others. This isn’t so much economic theory as application in action. The authors discuss food currencies to support local food production and farmers, an arts currency to underwrite creative endeavors and even an educational exchange that enables young students to gain money for college tuition through tutoring younger students. Hallsmith’s work in Montpelier has already helped to create two time banks—dollar-free exchange systems in which services are measured according to the time they take to render. The Onion River Exchange in Washington County (www.orexchange.org/) has more than 400 participants who have traded 6,000 hours of service in 75 different categories. Coordinator Allison Underhill said she couldn’t easily translate those hours into dollar amounts because the services range so widely, from legal advice to sewing, from house-painting to childcare. The other time bank is more specific: the REACH Care Bank (www.reachvt.org/contact-us/), administered by the Coalition of Vermont Elders (COVE), allows for the exchange of eldercare services. Hallsmith, whose father is an enthusiastic new member, points out that time currencies supply difficult-to-value human connections that people need to be healthy and happy. One member’s testimonial reads, “I gained not just the hours I banked, but I also met two wonderful people.” The underlying philosophy here counts people as assets and assumes everyone has something to offer. It redefines caring work as beyond price and still values reciprocity. Hallsmith has succeeded by valuing networks and helping others to understand systems. Most recently she has put together a monetary policy group for Vermont intended to develop concrete recommendations for Governor Shumlin and the legislature. The committee, which includes a legislator and well-known business leaders, will explore state banking in the public interest; complementary currencies that Vermont communities might be wise to develop; the possibility of moving deposits to local Vermont banks; and financial innovations successfully used in other strapped states. Monetary reform of the Federal Reserve is another of the committee’s concerns. Hallsmith takes the crisis in our monetary system seriously. While she values a diversity of approaches, she also works with a sharp sense of humor: “I’ve got a set of metaphors that describes different monetary strategies: Moving your money from Wall Street to a local credit union is a little like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titantic. Public banking is a way of cashing in on a portion of the Titantic’s ticket-sales, but creating local Vermont currencies? That’s like making ourselves life-rafts.” First published by Vermont Woman, Nov-Dec 2011 See http://www.vermontwoman.com/articles/1111/monetary.shtml Public Banking Institute http://publicbankinginstitute.org/ Bank of North Dakota http://www.banknd.nd.gov/ Germany’s Public Banking http://www.opednews.com/articles/THE-PUBLIC-OPTION-IN-BANKI-by-Ellen-Brown-111014-55.html Reach Care Bank, Montpelier http://reachvt.org/about-us/ Onion River Exchange, Montpelier www.orexchange.org/ Creating Wealth: Growing Local Economies with Local Currencies http://www.newsociety.com/Contributors/H/Hallsmith-Gwendolyn/ Nothing’s Deadlier than a Woman’s Laughter August 13, 2009 in MAKE ECONOMICS SEXY: Get Mad, Join Up \| Leave a comment If you’d like an informed woman’s view of Wall Street history and culture, but can’t stand to read all their blather, I urge you to visit Eva Chrysanthe’s website, PimpMyAdamSmith.com. Just click on the link to her site, listed to your left. I love all of her work for its serious economic fun. My Life in Shadow Banking tells Eva’s personal New York encounter with the repeal of Glass-Steagall, a bill established post-Great Depression to separate the contradictory aims of banking for protection and the stock market’s risk-taking. Mixing the two had led to the 1929 Crash and Glass-Steagall ended the temptation of a bank’s overselling certain worthless securities because of “compensation.” That bill was skirted by the Federal Reserve under the leadership of Alan Greenspan, who had been a director for J.P. Morgan just before he got on board at the Fed in 1987. Banking lobbies had failed at getting Congress to repeal Glass-Steagall, but after two years under our Uncle Alan, the Fed’s board narrowly decided to double the original limit on revenues banks could earn selling securities. Neatly done—and without pesky legislation. In 1990, J.P. Morgan became the first bank granted permission to underwrite securities, so long as it didn’t exceed 10% of revenues. Coincidence, huh? The door was opened. The pigs came into the kitchen. You can see all their shit on Frontline, which names names, if you’ve the stomach for it. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gsearch.html?q=wall+street&x=0&y=0 But first go to Eva’s site for a mean laugh at our naivete and Clinton’s. Whether it’s Endless Desire, her brief history of luxury, or her sassy accounts of Adam Smith and Milton Friedman, you’ll get some relief from economic dyspepsia. For instance, about Godfather Poppa Friedman and his era of “Greed is good,” (a view shared by Uncle Alan), she says: Like the biblical fall of man in reverse, Milton Friedman allowed us to bid our shame goodbye because, as we learned from Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics, the pursuit of our own wealth could be good for our fellow man. It was like finding out that french fries were “slenderizing. www.pimpmyadamsmith.com/WhoWasSmith.html Adam Smith, of course, is the most important demi-god of economics. He wrote The Wealth of Nations the same year the Declaration of Independence was signed by our founding fathers. But as Eva reminds us, he was no god, but a man who lived with his mother. She says few who quote him today have read his 620-page mind-numbing tome. Milton Friedman, Reagan and Bush’s economic advisor, who resuscitated Smith’s “invisible hand,” left a lot of his other parts dead and buried. His contemporaries thought he was dangerously liberal. Smith believed in government regulation. Eva Chrysanthe is an accomplished artist and writer at work on a graphic novel whose working title is Adam Smith: An Economist Falls in Love with the Universe. Come home, Obama, Nancy and Paul–and clean up the mess June 19, 2009 in MAKE ECONOMICS SEXY: Get Mad, Join Up, MAKE ECONOMICS SEXY: Partnership, not Domination, Uncategorized \| 1 comment I love Obama, yet it’s disappointing to hear about his new economic plan—namely putting some regulation back in place to protect the status quo for the biggies. Okay, he is creating a new agency for protecting financial “consumers,” which I suppose is a nicer term than “debtors.” Still, why not call it a Citizen Protection Agency? Worse, he now seeks more responsibility be given to the Federal Reserve. Hey, wasn’t the Fed and its board busy meeting behind closed doors the whole time our economy “approached the brink?” For years? For those millions of Americans losing their jobs, the economy has already gone over the brink and down a dark hole. Economist Paul Krugman, who seems controversial because he’s at least aware of this, told PBS NewsHour June 17 he wanted a stronger plan, especially on financial compensation schemes. He was countered, in the ping-pong style that often poses as “objectivity,” by a banking lobbyist. Yet as writer Cynthia Kouril at FireDogLake points out, they agreed on one item, something I noticed, too: Ms. Casey-Landry [the lobbyist] repeatedly made the point that major features of the financial crisis were not caused by regular banks or savings and loans, but rather by unregulated mortgage companies, or what she called “shadow banks,” and by the role of players like AIG, and by what she called “systemically significant institutions” (which I took to mean anybody deemed “too big to fail”). See Cynthia Kouril’s article and links at http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/18/financial-re-regulation-grades-are-in-and-obamas-plan-gets-a-d/ It’s “systemically significant institutions” closely tied to the Fed to worry about. This system weighs most of us and the nation with debt impossible to pay. Who will regulate the biggest boys, who still bet on and play volatile games with currency values in international hedge funds? They “systemically” bring nations to their knees, only “normally” it’s been other nations. (If those are any example, hyperinflation will come next.) Kouril thinks millionaire Democrat and Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is right. We need a big investigation. Now that S.386 has passed, write to your elected representatives and help make them do it right. http://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/legislation?id=0306 While you’re at it, check out bill H.R. 1207, The Federal Reserve Transparency Act, first proposed by Ron Paul, a Republican millionaire on the far right. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-1207 I’ve yet to see how Paul’s retro ideas about re-establishing a gold standard for money-creation would help women “consumer” citizens, who are now being urged in TV ads to cash in their gold jewelry to pay bills. But holding the Fed accountable is a first step toward a financial housecleaning we badly need to have. The Fed board now needn’t report out to the public what they decide at their board meetings or even who they loan billions to—given they are not really a government agency, but a system of private banks, posing as one. They create money as debt notes out of thin air. Paul wants audits at least. On that note, William Grieder, a courageous writer, one who makes economics readable, has been critiquing a financial aristocracy for decades. He says he’s felt like “a bag lady out on the street corner, waving a placard to passing crowds.” So, hey, he relates. But now he has a new book—out from Rodale, not a NY publishing house. He believes this may be the crisis to wake us up from our slumber. If you find yourself feeling cynical and hopeless, William Grieder feels your pain, but says, Get up off your butt! We’d better, before the thieves go on to the next robbery. Read an excerpt here and then go get Come Home, America. http://williamgreider.com/comehomeamerica Just Say No to Big Bank/Treasury Games April 5, 2009 in MAKE ECONOMICS SEXY: Get Mad, Join Up, MAKE ECONOMICS SEXY: Partnership, not Domination, MAKE ECONOMICS SEXY: Remember Gender, Uncategorized \| Leave a comment This is one of the posters being distributed by A New Way Forward, an organization calling for a national day of protest against CEO and Bank Bailouts on April 11th. Their website will help you discover what is happening in your area. Go out into the streets with your pitchforks and rolling pins! http://anewwayforward.org/demonstrations/ I chose this poster, designed by Eva Chrysanthe, because it’s so rare to see a female figure in the Investment Banking Bailout scandal. Her No and Section 382 refers to a tax law that was illegally overthrown last year by then-Treasurer Paulson, in a memo providing a tax windfall for his banking buddies who were already getting $700 billion from TARP. I love the poster’s aside, commenting on women’s disadvantage: “Paulson played Defensive Lineman at Dartmouth, 1967. You: Did not.” Women aren’t at the top of the insider-clubhouse of the nation’s nine biggest banks, or at AIG and their ranks on Wall Street are shrinking. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/business/01wall.html It’s easy to decide the crisis has little to do with us. So why then do women always get the short end of the financial stick? (or is that dick?) If women educated themselves about the Wall Street Meltdown and the finance culture of male one-up-manship, we might get the structural reform on Wall Street and in Washington we so badly need. Without women’s voices pressing for big change, Obama won’t have what he needs to accomplish it. A recent Bill Moyer interview, which I very much recommend, presented a lawyer-banking regulator who worked on the Savings and Loan debacle back in the 80s, William K. Black. Black said the nation needs a high-profile Congressional Investigation, as happened after the Great Depression–ideally one headed by an elected woman, he added. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04032009/profile.html Another recent radio interview of the author of House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street, William Cohan, asked this former Bears and Stearn investment banker, Did he think this would have happened if some intelligent women had been part of their management team? (I missed the male interviewer’s name, but loved his asking.) Cohan laughed and answered the culture was definitely one of Alpha males gone wild. What if a million women asked the Fed and the Treasury and all their Wall Street game-playing line-men–what on earth were you thinking? Get real! What Is the Federal Reserve? March 23, 2009 in MAKE ECONOMICS SEXY: Get Mad, Join Up \| Leave a comment One of my favorite readers wrote to pose this excellent question. Where does our money come from? Who owns the dollar? We the People-or those Chinese we keep hearing about? Few of us really understand our dollar isn’t just issued by our government and then printed at the U.S. Mint. It is financed as a debt by the Federal Reserve System, a Banking system, and when you learn about its function and its history, you can hardly believe it. So I’ve created a new page on the subject. In the meantime, though, take a look at your dollar bill. What does it say? Issued by the U.S. Mint? Nope. It is signed by the Treasurer of the United States, not to be confused with the second signature, the Secretary of the Treasury. Huh? My page on the Federal Reserve explains this. Note the dollar is labeled a Federal Reserve Note. The Treasury goes to the Federal Reserve and says, hey, we need this much money to pay the nation’s bills. The Federal Reserve then writes a check whose account is never reconciled, like yours and mine, and prints up these debt-notes. Every dollar we use costs Americans a dollar plus interest, the reason for inflation and rising prices. We pay a growing percentage of interest each year in the federal budget-and to whom? To private financiers, including some nations’ banks, who “buy” U.S. bonds, auctioned off internationally by the Federal Reserve. Like many financial terms, the “buy” part of this is misleading. These buyers are actually “loaning” us money, at an interest price determined by the Fed, a private banking system in touch with world bond and currency “markets.” How much will the market bear? How long will the Fed keep writing us checks and running up the Treasury’s credit card? If big money, behind even Central National Banks and the IMF, is buying anything, it’s buying a piece of us. Americans are being sold into debt-slavery, similarly to other nations’ citizens who have been auctioned off before us. (See Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine.) What fascinates me today about currency and monetary issues is the way only the far edges of our political spectrum, both left and right, have picked it up. I can’t believe my page on the Federal Reserve recommends you watch a lecture delivered to the John Birch Society! I’m a leftie! But in this political climate, with this media framing the issues, we must not stay confused. To Americans any “socialism” is bad, except when the rich owners of corporations or banks benefit. Yet some on both sides of the aisle are talking about the same systemic problems, however different their approaches. Shouldn’t American women citizens understand this conversation? Meanwhile, mainstream politics continues to leave the Federal Reserve issue completely alone. Why? Maybe because potentially, it’s incendiary. We women, who have been encouraged not to worry our pretty little heads about the nation’s budget and big finance, are the very ones who might bridge this political gap between the far left and the far right and promote public education about the usury that threatens to bankrupt the nation. All the candidates for President in the last election were millionaires, with the exception of one, which might explain why this present system doesn’t seem to bother too many of them. Do you know the one non-millionaire who ran? The answer is in the middle of my new page, About the Federal Reserve. Check it out! Economic Bully-Boys No Longer a Secret November 19, 2008 in MAKE ECONOMICS SEXY: Get Mad, Join Up, MAKE ECONOMICS SEXY: Partnership, not Domination \| Leave a comment This review of SHOCK DOCTRINE originally appeared in the April 2008 issue of Vermont Woman under my byline At the end of my review here, you’ll find links to Naomi Klein and her views on economics since publication, and a video of her if you haven’t got time to read her astonishing book. Canadian writer Naomi Klein strikes lightening at dark corners of contemporary U.S. history with her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Her work, while not easy to read, brings cathartic relief. She makes terrible sense of the worst pictures of recent America: the Twin Towers, Abu Ghraib and New Orleans’ Katrina. She lights images flashed world-wide over the past generation, ranging from the fall of East Germany’s wall to Tiananmen Square, from Walesa’s solidarity vault over a fence in Poland to the overthrow of Russia’s “White House,” from the end of apartheid in South Africa to Africa’s impoverishment. All have economic bullying in common, an element seldom reported. Klein connects the dots between “free-market” economics and a foreign policy underpinned by the CIA and outsourced military forces, both of which exploit poverty to guard global financial interests, joining terror with yet more terror. If this begins to sound like a conspiracy theory-it is. But it’s one the perps themselves acknowledge. These are the men who manage international trade, leverage currencies and develop economic policies of governments world-wide. They meet in the cabinet backrooms of presidencies and dictatorships around the world and apply pressure from The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to enforce private takeovers world-wide. Klein follows this fraternity’s mind-meld, dancing in their macro-economic circles. Klein’s tale reads like a mystery, linking two influential thinkers: the first an American psychiatrist, and the other, an economist, both with grandiose views of humanity’s need for their radical makeovers. Both were “professionals,” who used remarkably ruthless means. Klein begins the tale with a cold war scenario close to Vermont. Former president of the American Psychiatric Association, Ewen Cameron, began experiments in the late 1950s. His institute, associated with McGill University in Montreal, sought to remake human personality, wiping the slate clean to recreate a new, improved person. An epigraph from Orwell’s 1984 aptly describes his aim, which was funded by the CIA. “We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.” Cameron used electric shock methods, but far more intensely than his peers. He combined this with sensory deprivation to prevent patients from knowing time or space, as well as hallucinatory drugs, disruption of sleep patterns, messages played over and over, loud noises or padded silences. Patients were stripped of clothing or any reminders of identity and memory. They and their families had no idea Cameron was experimenting on them. His patients “regressed” to a dependent and malleable state, transformed into frightened children. They suffered terrible long-term harm and trauma-induced physical symptoms. By the 1970s, patients and their families had exposed Cameron’s secret and brought a lawsuit against the CIA. News in the Canadian press, this case was aided by the Canadian government and finally settled by the CIA, quietly, in 1988. The CIA got their money’s worth. Cameron’s methods became part of the agency’s KuBark manual for interrogation, which is still in use. It ultimately found its way to military training facilities and to Abu Ghraib. Wherever KuBark went, electrical wires and psychological shocks showed up. Meanwhile in another realm, a “free-market” economist named Milton Friedman, sought to wipe more slates clean, this time to remake economics. Friedman preached one idea for over 30 years: “Only a crisis-actual or perceived-produces real change.” He called his economic strategies “shock treatments.” Friedman’s methods also called for quick jolts, rapid-fire transformation: tax cuts, no-holds-barred “free trade” for international corporations, privatized contracts to replace government functions, cuts to social spending, deregulation, and increases in military budgets. The last was essential. A charismatic teacher, Friedman ultimately headed the economics department of the University of Chicago and charmed an elite male following. His students included Donald Rumsfeld, who twice became Secretary of Defense, both times under Presidents Bush. Rumsfeld called his strategy for the Iraq war, “Shock and Awe.” Friedman’s followers called themselves “The Chicago Boys.” Like Cameron and the CIA, Friedmanites were comfortable with erasing identities, even national ones, to remake the world in their image. Economic shocks administered by governments they counseled commonly roused terror in the public, resulting in a regression similar to the patients in Cameron’s care. Strip a nation of business-as-usual, its currency, its livable livelihoods, and people regress, becoming fearful, more malleable. Klein doesn’t say this, but I was struck by their nickname for themselves in the context of coming to power in the 1970s. The Chicago Boys seems an affectionate nickname, until you remember women’s protests of the good-old-boys-network in those days and the male-only clubiness that patronized women-as-children. Collectively American women were making grown-up demands. They wanted to be involved in economic decisions that affected their lives. They wanted a social safety net, child care and maternity leave, and government involvement in alleviating women’s poverty. The leading economist back then, the one Friedman eventually displaced, John Kenneth Galbraith, was a Keynesian mixed-economist, who thought government should take an active role in the economy. Galbraith encouraged Marilyn Waring’s important economic critique: Who Counts: Economics as if Women Mattered. She argued reproductive and caring work of family and community, as well as Mother earth’s work reproducing clean water and air, needed to be included in our GNP (Gross National Product). It wasn’t. It still isn’t. Macro-economists use a national accounting system that counts weapons-making an economic plus, while weapons-use and war’s destruction never counts as a minus. Wasn’t this insane, Waring asked? The Chicago Boy’s economic methods eschewed all such questions. Weapons contracts and weapons-use became the baseline of their operations. When Friedman had his first opportunity to apply his economic shock treatments in 1975, it was no accident it happened in Latin America, where mixed economies had been thriving, though resisting U.S. control Who was Friedman’s first client? A military dictator named Pinochet, who had overthrown the elected President. Friedman’s work in Chile erased economic protections and compounded the misery of Pinochet’s prisons. Yet Klein notes this first project of his was barely mentioned in any of the obituaries lauding his reputation when Friedman died in 2006. More Latin American writers understood Friedman’s “Chicago Revolution” went hand-in-glove with the torture of protesters and their “disappearances,” and administered first in Chile, then in Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil and Guatemala. As Claudia Acuna, an Argentine journalist, told Klein, “Their human rights violations were so outrageous, so incredible, that stopping them became the priority. But while we were able to destroy the secret torture centers, what we couldn’t destroy was the economic program the military started and continues to this day.” Thirty years later, Iraq would fall to a similar two-pronged shock, military and economic. I won’t attempt to describe here those more recent events but instead urge you to read the economic details yourself. Friedman ultimately led Reaganomics’ trickle-down theories. His free-market ideology was revered by both Bush presidencies and influenced Bill Clinton in between. It’s worse than ironic that Friedman won the Nobel Prize in economics the same year that Amnesty International won it for their work with growing numbers of the tortured. Only a few witness-writers linked the economic violence of The Chicago Boys with government killing and jailing, but the result was a “free” market enjoyed by only a few, coupled with terror for the many. “Torture is sickening,” Klein admits, wishing she hadn’t found this connection. “It is often a highly rational way to achieve a specific goal; indeed, it may be the only way to achieve it,” the reason robbers carry guns, she remarks. Klein’s shocking claims are made the more shocking by her careful documentation. For the Chicago Boys, elections serve as useful distractions, whatever the political theater, wherever the country, as long as economic decisions about peoples’ fates get decided by their decidedly small group. That group continues to be dominant in the global economy, having evolved to become “The Washington Consensus.” Friedman’s free-market ideologues refined their method of moving in quickly on crises and human misery, finding opportunities for shock treatments and radical change. Simply translated, their methods transferred enormous national treasuries, and the decisions about it, from the many to the few. Near the end of his life, when Katrina had wiped out New Orleans’ infrastructure, Friedman quickly proposed (and George W. Bush quickly funded) millions of dollars be used to replace the city’s public schools with privately run “charter schools.” To Friedman, a state-run school system reeked of socialism and its overthrow was a good thing. It is highly doubtful, however, such a clean wipe of the slate for New Orleans’ schools would ever have happened in any open, democratic debate. Shocks, like Katrina and a FEMA that showed up too late, and too little, overwhelmed state and local governments to compliancy. The Chicago Boys’ record, the Washington Consensus and its record, the global policies of the IMF and the World Bank and its statistics, all show us a world where growing numbers grow poorer and a very few grow very rich. Yet Klein ultimately ends her book on a positive note. World-wide, there’s growing resistance to the free-market’s shocks, a reason for us to hope for a better future-but only if we hold American bully-boys accountable, and only if we educate ourselves about our nation’s budget and policies. http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine A $700 Billion Bailout–But Every Year? October 31, 2008 in MAKE ECONOMICS SEXY: Get Mad, Join Up \| 1 comment We’ve been upset the past few weeks by Treasury Sec’y Paulson’s dashed-off request to Congress for $700 Billion to bailout investment banks “too big to fail.” But as an article in the International Herald recently pointed out, we hear no discussion by either Presidential candidate of the $700 Billion forked over to the Pentagon year after year, to maintain its humongous global operations. Any Democrat’s mention of any cuts to their bloated budget leads to accusations of being unpatriotic or even not-real. Excuse me, but $700 Billion here, $700 Billion there, it begins to add up. Can we really afford to police the world? Should we? Money can’t make up for smarts and frequent reality-checks. Americans didn’t die for the privilege of taking on the role of policeman. Freedom and democracy go hand-in-hand with peace-making and enabling others’ empowerment. This is a legacy we can all celebrate, especially our soldiers–but not without the support of courageous and skillful diplomacy. We need an adequate State Department budget and the political will to use it, as Ed Carroll points out–and also checks and balances on those secret budgets of the CIA, which Carroll doesn’t mention here. www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/06/opinion/edcarroll.php Flight or Fight? October 23, 2008 in MAKE ECONOMICS SEXY: Get Mad, Join Up \| 5 comments Most of us are bored by economics, or scared of it. Our eyes glaze over at the abstract language. When we can’t understand, we feel stupid. We turn away or get angry. Getting angry may be the healthier response. Americans have gotten angry lately, learning about mortgage frauds and the financial wizards who sold these around the world with obscure language no one was sure they understood. Who benefits form complex financial schemes? Not you and me. We just got stuck with another $700 billion bailout for investment banks, demanded by the same Wall Streeters whose political party rails against “socialism.” Here’s some enlightening graphs that show the phenomenal increase in the net worth of millionaires and billionaires since 1983, about the time when conservative economist Milton Friedman first influenced “neo-liberalism” worldwide. Pay special attention to the long blue bar on the right. http:www.theglobaleducationproject.org/earth/wealth.php The weathiest 2% now own nearly half the world’s wealth, thanks to a so-called free market that favors the “redistribution” of money upward. Friedman’s ideas influenced Reaganomics here over 20 years ago. In the days of kings, neo-liberalism used to be called laissez-faire economics. Both reject regulation and interference with the rich. However, now that the richest banks are in trouble, these same neo-liberals run to us taxpayers. Those of us who believe in a more democratic economy (like Paul Krugman, I hope) think this is a good idea–but not with a continued sense of royal privilege for CEOs and speculative investors. Here’s a link to a quote from John Maynard Keynes, an early 20th century economist whose ideas were overthrown by Friedman: “Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.” http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/?8dpc Vermonters for a New Economy Juicy Educational Sources Eva Chrysanthe's Economic Manga James Robertson, British Economic Reformer Take Back Your Time The Center for Popular Economics The Global Education Project The Institute for Women’s Policy Research WAND, Tools for understanding U.S. Militarization Women and the economy RGD's Professional Links Calyx Journal and Calyx Books Vermont Woman Newspaper	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1296
__label__wiki	0.641008	0.641008	On Veterans Day, Trump Tells Florida Officials to Ignore Military Ballots Home /State Government/On Veterans Day, Trump Tells Florida Officials to Ignore Military Ballots By: Tom Cahill State Government \| The ongoing Florida recount includes many military ballots cast by servicemen and women overseas, but on Veterans Day, President Trump is urging for the results to be certified without counting all ballots — including those from military members. In a tweet sent before 5 AM on Monday (Veterans Day), Trump said the recount should end and the incomplete results from Tuesday night (in which Trump supporters Ron DeSantis and Scott were the top vote-getters) be made official. “An honest vote count is no longer possible-ballots massively infected,” Trump said, hinting at the possibility of voter fraud without any evidence. “Must go with Election Night!” The Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged. An honest vote count is no longer possible-ballots massively infected. Must go with Election Night! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 12, 2018 Of course, calling the election now would be premature, as there as still outstanding ballots to be counted in deep-blue Democratic strongholds like Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, and Broward County. The Tallahassee Democrat reported that Senator Bill Nelson (D-Florida) was trailing Rick Scott by roughly 13,000 votes out of more than 8.2 million ballots, and Democrat Andrew Gillum (who withdrew his concession) is trailing Ron DeSantis by just 34,000 votes. And with a full recount underway, many of the votes that could make the crucial difference could come from thousands of military ballots still outstanding. As The Washington Post’s Adam Weinstein wrote on Monday, the right of men and women serving in the military overseas was a hard-fought franchise, and Florida actually has the highest number of military voters than any other state in the union. He suggested that the President of the United States urging for the election to be called without military ballots being counted on Election Day is not a great look — especially on Veterans Day — with many ballots possibly not coming in the mail until the end of the week: “[Florida] is one of the friendliest states of the union when it comes to accommodating overseas and military voters: It requires ballots to be sent to deployed service members at least 45 days before Election Day, and it counts those votes as long as they’re postmarked by Election Day and received in the voter’s home county within 10 days of the election — in this case, Nov. 16.” The recount isn’t just facing obstacles from President Trump — in fact, Rick Scott, who is planning to finish his second term as governor as a U.S. Senator, is suggesting that election officials in heavily Democratic counties of Broward and Palm Beach should be investigated for fraudulent activity, hinting that they may have attempted to over-count Democratic votes despite there being no evidence. In fact, the fraudulent activity that may be taking place is from Republican Secretary of State Ken Detzner. As Grit Post previously reported, thousands of Florida ballots are being rejected due to arduous signature match requirements — including one ballot cast by former Democratic Congressman Patrick Murphy. Tom Cahill is a contributor for Grit Post who covers political and economic news. He lives in Bend, Oregon. Send him an email at tom DOT v DOT cahill AT gmail DOT com. VA Secretary “Loves Canines”, Will Continue to Experiment on Dogs Alleged Parkland Shooter Registered To Vote As A Republican While Incarcerated TAGS: Andrew Gillum Bill Nelson featured Florida military ballots military members overseas recount Rick Scott Ron DeSantis Trump veterans Virginia Is Officially the Best… California to Pass Bill Making… Republicans Team Up with Right-Wing… State with the Most Draconian… Michigan Dismisses 8 Criminal Cases… Qasim Rashid Is the First… Alabama Law Currently Allows Rapists… Donor to Georgia Governor Brian… Texas Secretary of State Resigns… SCOTUS Rules Gerrymandered Maps in…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1315
__label__cc	0.556019	0.443981	Guideroot - guides and root tutorial, firmware, reviews for smartphones » Android in 2018 » ZTE Nubia devices present at the end of the month ZTE Nubia devices present at the end of the month ZTE Corporation is one of the largest technology companies in China. The manufacturer presented a lot of interesting devices in the past year, and their line of Axon and Nubia, certainly interest many users. Although Nubia line is more focused on the Chinese market, ZTE Corporation intends to change that this year, at least, so they said, that during the CES more consumer electronics in January. We do not know when it will happen, but the official website of Nubia is ready, so all we are waiting for more information from ZTE. And while we are waiting for Nubia in the international market, it seems the company is preparing to launch a new device or devices. The company has released a new teaser on its official page on Weibo, and judging by the picture, ZTE scheduled a press conference on the 29th of March. Also, the teaser page appeared to Nubia and it is, of course, assumes that we will see new devices Nubia after a couple of days. So, what ZTE announces? Well, according to the latest leaks, it is possible that ZTE plans to release a new line device Z. The company introduced the Nubia Z9, Z9 Mini and Z9 Max back in March of last year, so it is likely that this time they are going to run the line of Nubia Z11. Nubia Z11 Mini TENAA already appeared in a mysterious device from ZTE with Snapdragon 820 appeared recently in Listing benchmark GFXbench. The new devices will be announced in China, but most likely we will see them launch globally later this year. 8-core processor and a FullHD display, for $ 115? Announcement Owner OnePlus, OPPO and Vivo unveil the new brand Kodak preparing to release a new smartphone ZTE announced the results of its sales Tagged month, nubia. « AMOLED LCD surpassed in value HTC 10 on a new photo with the test in the benchmark »	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1319
__label__cc	0.589284	0.410716	Positive interim results from APeX-1 trial BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has announced results from an interim analysis of its Phase 2 APeX-1 trial in HAE. APeX-1 is a dose ranging trial designed to evaluate the efficacy, safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of orally administered once daily (QD) BCX7353 for 28 days, as a preventative treatment to reduce the frequency of attacks in HAE patients. “The results of this interim analysis are extraordinarily encouraging,” said Dr. Emel Aygören-Pürsün, MD, principal investigator for the APeX-1 trial and Head of Interdisciplinary Competence Center for HAE, and Specialist in Internal Medicine and Hemostaseology Department of Child and Adolescent Medicine, Goethe University Hospital Frankfurt. “Confirmation of the results would lead to a huge step forward in the treatment of HAE, towards an effective, safe and easy to administer prophylaxis for the debilitating attacks connected with this condition.” “We are extremely excited to have such a strong treatment effect in reducing HAE attacks with our once daily oral therapy,” said Jon Stonehouse, CEO & President of BioCryst. “What is even more encouraging is the dramatic benefit seen in the reduction of peripheral attacks and mixed peripheral and abdominal attacks. A once daily oral therapy with an 88% reduction in these attacks has the potential to make a huge difference in HAE patients’ lives.” Twenty-eight subjects, randomized equally to receive BCX7353 350 mg QD or placebo for 28 days, were included in the interim analysis. The baseline attack rate was approximately 1/week, and average C1 inhibitor levels were less than 20% of the normal mean, indicating a severely affected patient population. Baseline characteristics were generally well balanced between the two groups with the exception of prior androgen use, which was more common in the BCX7353 group (11 of 14 compared with 6 of 14 on placebo). Compliance with study drug dosing was excellent ( > 98%). The pre-specified per-protocol (PP) interim analysis included data on 24 subjects with confirmed Type 1 or Type 2 HAE completing 28 days of treatment (11 treated with BCX7353 and 13 with placebo). The mean rate of independently-adjudicated angioedema attacks for the pre-defined effective dosing period (weeks 2 through 4) in BCX7353-treated subjects was 0.34/week compared to 0.92/week for placebo, a reduction of 0.57/week (63%), p = 0.006. In the intent-to-treat (ITT) population of 28 subjects, the rates of attacks for the effective dosing period for BCX7353 and placebo groups were 0.44/week and 0.91/week, a reduction of 0.47/week (52%), p = 0.035. A pre-planned analysis of peripheral and abdominal attacks showed reductions of 88% and 24%, respectively, for BCX7353 compared with placebo (PP analysis, weeks 2 through 4). To understand this difference, patient diaries were reviewed and abdominal attacks (n = 9, BCX7353 and n = 14, placebo) were subdivided into two groups: attacks with abdominal symptoms only and attacks with a combination of abdominal and peripheral symptoms (mixed attacks). This post-hoc analysis showed that there were 2, 2 and 7 peripheral, mixed and abdominal-only attacks on BCX7353 compared with 22, 12 and 2 attacks, respectively, for placebo. Based on this distribution, it is likely that subjects recorded transient abdominal adverse events as HAE attack symptoms in their diary. Steady state BCX7353 plasma levels in HAE subjects were similar to those in healthy subjects administered the same dose in a previously completed Phase 1 trial. Steady state trough drug levels (24 hours after dosing) were 11 – 32 times the 50% effective concentration (EC50) for plasma kallikrein inhibition. Daily oral dosing with BCX7353 strongly inhibited plasma kallikrein throughout the 24 hour dosing interval; the degree of inhibition was similar to that seen with this dose in the healthy subject Phase 1 trial. Oral BCX7353 350 mg once-daily for 28 days was generally safe and well tolerated in subjects with HAE. There were no serious adverse events (AEs) and no related severe AEs. Two subjects in the BCX7353 treatment group discontinued study drug before day 28, one due to an unrelated pre-existing condition, and one due to an adverse event of gastroenteritis associated with elevated liver enzymes. Treatment-emergent adverse events occurring in at least 2 subjects overall, enumerated by treatment group (BCX7353 [n=14] and placebo [n=14]), were: common cold (3, 4); diarrhea (4, 2); flatulence (2, 0); and fatigue (2, 0). No clinically significant changes in hematology parameters, renal function tests, electrolytes, or urinalysis were observed. One subject treated with BCX7353, with pre-existing colitis, hepatic steatosis (fatty liver) and more than 20 years of prior androgen use, had an elevation of alanine aminotransferase (ALT) > 3 times the upper limit of normal at the end of treatment, which resolved. The efficacy, safety and tolerability profile of BCX7353 observed in this interim analysis strongly supports its continued investigation as a prophylactic treatment for HAE. The steady state drug levels observed far exceeded the proposed therapeutic target range of 4 – 8 times the EC50, supporting evaluation of lower doses. Therefore, the APeX-1 trial has been amended to add a 62.5 mg QD dose level and to increase the number of subjects at the 125 mg QD and 250 mg QD dose levels, in order to more fully characterize dose response. (Source: BioCryst) Steen Bjerre2017-02-28T09:24:39+02:00February 28, 2017\|HAEi News\|	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1328
__label__cc	0.54842	0.45158	← India says no to HPV vaccines What women must know – the untold dangers of gardasil, the cervical cancer vaccine with joan shenton and helen lobato → January 20, 2018 · 20:52 Many anti-GMO activists are convinced there is a connection between glyphosate along with genetically engineered foods, and the increasing levels of autism in children. My research has led me to put the blame for autism and other developmental disorders at the feet of the vaccine industry but in reality I think that both the biotechnology and the vaccine industries are implicated in the exponential rates of these diseases and other adverse health events. Jeffrey Smith is the author of Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You’re Eating, and Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of Our Lives. In a presentation called The Real Truth about GMO’s he speaks about how the consumption of genetically modified foods are causing all sorts of health issues such as gut problems, brain fog, allergies, skin rashes, fatigue, asthma, and autism and that these conditions improve when eating GMO food ceases. In fact, thousands of US doctors are now prescribing GM free diets.The revolution is beginning. However a few notes on how we have arrived at this point are in order. Tragically, Monsanto, otherwise known as the “most evil corporation on Earth” with their dirty products such as Agent Orange and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB’s), is in charge of our food supply. This is a company which along with Archer Daniels Midland, Sodexo and Tyson Foods were responsible for The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009: HR 875 which gave the corporate factory farms a virtual monopoly to police and control all foods grown anywhere, including one’s own backyard The FDA declares that testing of these novel genetic modifications is not required before they are released. Monsanto merely needs to tell the FDA that their products are safe. That is all that is needed before they are sold, and then eaten by the public. However many studies show very real problems in animals fed GM food. One of these independent studies found that buffalo, goats and sheep in India are dying after grazing on Bt cotton plants. Those who care for the animals are also getting sick with skin rashes and respiratory issues. Jeffrey Smith describes the production of a genetically modified organism (GMO) A bacterium such as Bacillus thuringiensis is used to create a corn plant that is able to produce its own toxic insecticide. The Bt toxin from the bacillus makes holes in the cell walls of insects to kill them. From there the gene from the bacterium is used to make millions of copies which are shot via a gene gun into millions of corn cells – with the hope that genes find their way into the DNA of some of the cells, which are then cloned, becoming Bt corn. Massive damage is caused to the DNA of the plant by this process of insertion and cloning in that 2-4% of the DNA is changed. This is significant, for these changes may result in an increase or decrease in the amount of proteins in the plant. The changes may also mean that some genes are shut off or that silent genes are turned on. But did the regulators and the biotech industry look for these changes before the GM corn went on the market? Incredibly and inexcusably they did not. With the GM corn already in the food supply an independent scientist found there were 43 proteins that had changed in the process of creating the corn. One gene that was previously silent had been switched on and was a known allergen, able to cause allergy or death in the susceptible consumer. There were also other proteins that during the process of cloning had changed shape. According to Smith such changes are important and can cause no harm or can be lethal. And yet the regulators don’t believe this experimental stuff needs testing. This is really alarming in that greater than 90% of all soybean, cotton and corn acreage in the U.S. is used to grow genetically engineered crops. Other approved novel foods include sugar beets, alfalfa, canola, papaya and summer squash. Of this runaway technology Jeffrey Smith claims: We are taking the products of this immature science causing massive damage to the most compactified level of nature – the DNA. But in the eyes of Monsanto the ideal future looks like this: One hundred per cent of all commercial seeds would be GM and patented. As Jeffrey Smith has said: They are planning to replace nature. This is a pivotal time. The main reason for genetically engineering plants is to sell more herbicide. Yes, this gamble with the very basis of life is so our food can be sprayed with poison. Every year 2 billion kilograms of the water soluble carcinogen – Glyphosate is used worldwide. It’s in our air, in our rainfall, in the plants, our food and in our bodies. Glyphosate binds with plant minerals so these nutrients are unavailable for the plant. In the process, plants are made deficient in nutrients and become weak and sick and so do the animals who eat the plants. We eat the crops and the sick animals and it’s no surprise that we too, fall ill. The reason it is such a successful herbicide is because it deprives the plants of nutrients and creating diseases in the soil around it. As to how the consumption of Glyphosate affects humans… Glyphosate blocks the shikimate pathway in our gut. The bacteria in our bodies use this important pathway to create L-Tryptophan, an essential amino acid that is so important to our well being. Mood and behaviour are improved when we switch to organic foods. The currently accepted dogma is that glyphosate is not harmful to humans because the shikimate pathway is absent in all animals. However, this pathway is present in both human and mammal’s gut bacteria, which play a massively important and heretofore largely overlooked role in human physiology Some actions we can take to remove our food supply from this corporate power: Ensure that what we eat is natural Grow our own food Ask restaurants whether their food is GM. Menus are now gluten free so how about asking for a GM free menu. Sharing information about GM foods and how to avoid them And as we spread the word about GMO’s we must also protest the number of chemically laden vaccines our children now receive. In the US the number of vaccines given to children from birth to the age of 18 years is now 74 doses. The wise words of osteopathic physician and anti-vaccination activist Dr Sherri Tenpenny come to mind: True health cannot come from a needle. Injecting people with something to try to keep them well is a 200 year mistake. The rate of autism in the US is now 1 in 25. Of course autism isn’t the only adverse event that frequently occurs after vaccination. Chronic pain conditions, seizures, gastro-intestinal disorders, arthritis in its many forms, diabetes and infertility are among the huge and ever growing list of side effects. A vaccine that has the highest number of adverse events of any vaccine is Gardasil the HPV vaccinethat is marketed as preventative against cervical cancer even though there is no proof that the vaccine has ever prevented a single case of cervical cancer in the world. Brian Hooker, father of a vaccine-damaged child speaking in Vaccines Revealed calls it: A dirty vaccine…loaded with aluminium. Aluminium doesn’t belong in the human body. But in spite of the fact that there are now over 81,000 recorded adverse events following the administration of Gardasil the manufacturers are trialling it on babies. This sadly is true. We urgently need to turn this around. But not before a new cohort of 12-13 year-olds are injected with the latest HPV vaccine. Gardasil 9 has 5 more antigens and more than twice the amount of aluminium per shot than Gardasil. From the start of this school year Australian teenagers will be injected with Gardasil 9 replacing the quadrivalent Gardasil. Lack of safety studies on Gardasil 9 In 2014 the US FDA approved the use of Gardasil 9 for females ages 9 to 26 years and males ages 9 to 15 years for prevention of vulvar, vaginal, anal, and cervical cancers. Gardasil 9 is marketed as protective against nine HPV types: 6, 11, 16, 18, 31, 33, 45, 52, and 58. Even though the vaccine is new, the approval by the FDA was completed without the usual review given by the VRBPAC (the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee). The committee is responsible for reviewing and evaluating the safety of vaccines and other health products. A letter to the FDA from Marion Gruber, Director of Office of Vaccines Research and Review CBER gives the reason for their decision: Our review of information submitted in your BLA (biologics license application) including the clinical study design and trial results, did not raise concerns or controversial issues which would have benefited from an advisory committee discussion. But there is much evidence to suggest that this review needed to be done. Rather than use an inert placebo such as normal saline, Gardasil 9 was compared directly to the quadrivalent Gardasil in two of the studies. A comparison with Gardasil is hardly reassuring for there have been thousands of adverse events and hundreds of deaths following its administration. These are 2 very different vaccines. Gardasil 9 has 5 more antigens than the quadrivalent Gardasil. Also in Gardasil 9 the HPV antigens 6, 16, and 18 have been increased. Gardasil Gardasil 9 How do the changes to the number and strength of the antigens affect the recipients of this new vaccine? Increased amounts of the aluminium adjuvent Gardasil 9 contains 500 mcg of aluminium per dose. This is more than double the amount of aluminium contained in a dose of Gardasil which has 225 mcg. It is alarming that this huge amount of aluminium is to be injected into young bodies. This is because aluminium causes the body to turn against itself. This is what we are seeing in many of the girls who have had their lives severely affected after their Gardasil shots. One of the severe adverse events is premature ovarian failure in young teenage girls. POF occurs due to the destruction by aluminium of the maturation process of the eggs in the ovaries. Shockingly this condition is underreported at the present time because many girls are on the contraceptive pill but once they stop the damage will be obvious. This is very serious, more infertility and loads of heartache to follow. Disturbingly the aluminium adjuvant in these vaccines does not require clinical approval. Gardasil and Gardasil 9 contain amorphous aluminium hydroxyphosphate sulphate (AAHS) a new form of aluminium which causes the immune system to become 104 times more powerfully stimulated than would occur naturally. It is important to be aware that this HPV vaccination program continues despite the fact that there is no scientific proof that the vaccines have ever prevented a single case of cervical cancer. And the adverse events continue to increase after administration of the HPV vaccines. In FDA approved Gardasil 9: Malfeasance or Stupidity? researcher Norma Erickson has examined the Gardasil 9 package insert where she found that the rate of serious adverse events in the trials of Gardasil 9 was 2.3 %. This means that for every 100,000 people who are given Gardasil 9 there will be 2300 serious adverse events and yet the cervical cancer rate in the US is around 7 women per 100,000. Talk about insanity! And that’s not all she found when she examined the insert package. During the trials 2.4% of the recipients developed an autoimmune disorder which means that 2400 people could now be suffering from new diseases just because they had this new Gardasil 9. And there’s more to be learnt about the development of autoimmunity. Norma Erickson explains the process of molecular mimicry as it applies to Gardasil in a presentation Humphries/Erickson – What Biologically Plausible Mechanisms of Action are Health Agencies Ignoring? Within the many proteins found in our bodies there are 82 peptides. One of the antigens in Gardasil, the HPV 16 LI protein, almost identically matches 34 of these peptides. The importance of this information is as Erickson explains: It is extremely possible that when you develop an antibody to the HPV 16 protein you are also developing an antibody reaction to your own system in multiple locations. The number of viral matches and locations makes the occurrence of autoimmune cross reactions in the human body following HPV 16 vaccination almost unavoidable. We need to keep protesting the under-reported tragedy that is the theory and practice of vaccination. Our recent ancestors managed to live healthy lives without genetically engineering their food supply and over vaccinating their children. Let’s turn this around. This article was first published by Collective Evolution Filed under environment, gardasil, GMOs, health, history, Media and health, news, pharmaceuticals, social change, vaccination Tagged as gardasil, Gardasil 9, glyphosate, GMOs, Jeffrey Smith, vaccines	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1338
__label__wiki	0.849666	0.849666	HRD ministry rules out ranking of Kendriya Vidyalayas Submitted By: Loknath Das March 29, 2018 No Comments The government on Monday ruled out any plan to rank Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) in the country on lines of universities and colleges. Photo: Hindustan Times New Delhi: The government on Monday ruled out any plan to rank Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) in the country on lines of universities and colleges. “No such proposal is under consideration at present to rank the Kendriya Vidyalayas,” minister of state for human resource development (HRD) Upendra Kushwaha said in response to a written question in Lok Sabha. The HRD ministry was earlier mulling ranking its over 1,000 Kendriya Vidyalayas with an aim at improving the institutes by holding a competition among them on lines of its National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF). The ministry officials had said last year that with a maximum 1,000 points, the KVs would be graded under four categories, with 80% and above (excellent) under A category, 60-79.9% (very good) in B category, 40- 59.9% (good) in C, and below 40% (average) in D. ALSO READ: Up to states to ‘adopt or adapt’ to plan to reduce NCERT curriculum: HRD ministry It was suggested that over 1,000 KVs would be assessed under seven parameters, including academic performance, which will carry the highest weightage of 500 points, followed by school infrastructure (150 points) and school administration (120 points). [“Source-livemint”] Schools face cuts of £3bn, says watchdog AIPMT 2015: CBSE files complaint about alleged ’email leak’	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1346
__label__wiki	0.689798	0.689798	Home » Prince Discography » Related Artists » 1-800 NEW FUNK Child Of The Sun 1-800 NEW FUNK NPG Records Compilation of artists signed to Prince’s label, NPG Records. All the songs have been written by Prince, except George Clinton’s Hollywood1. 1-800 NEW FUNK gave its name to Prince’s soon to be launched merchandse website 1800newfunk.com and as the phone number order line to that same store. 1-800 NEW FUNK was released to coincide with Warner Brothers’ release of Come but also, quickly, because the artists were signed to Paisley Park Records of which was a subsidiary of Warner of whom was about to close down. Prince then established NPG Records and appears under the name Prince love symbol. MPLS [performed by Minneapolis] (4:28) 1 Hollywood [by George Clinton] (4:33) Love Sign [feat. Nona Gaye and Prince] (3:32) If Eye Love U 2night [performed by Mayte] (4:20) Colour [performed by The Steeles] (4:21) 2gether [by The NPG] (5:08) Standing At The Alter [performed by Margie Cox] (3:55) You Will Be Moved [performed by Mavis Staples] (4:12) 17 [by Madhouse] (5:24) A Woman's Gotta Have It [performed by Nona Gaye] (4:31) Minneapolis [Reprise] [performed by MPLS] (0:49)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1350
__label__wiki	0.612824	0.612824	Home » Newsroom » Prince is writing his memoir. Due out 2017 Prince is writing his memoir. Due out 2017 Prince’s highly personal Piano & A Microphone Tour seems to have inspired a new outlet for all that personal reflection he's been treating fans to during the current tour. Groovy potential – Prince is writing own memoir Prince’s highly personal Piano & A Microphone Tour seems to have inspired a new outlet for all that personal reflection he’s been treating fans to during the current tour. Just maybe it was all for higher purpose, a literary one in fact. On March 19 Prince summoned 200 music reporters and book industry insiders to New York’s, Manhattan club Avenue to hear him personally deliver a very tantalising announcement from the club’s balcony. “The good people at Random House have made me an offer that I can’t refuse,” Prince is working on his memoir. The book, currently under the working title The Beautiful Ones, will in his own words chart Prince’s life, “from my first memory … all the way to the [2007] Superbowl.” He teased that it will be ‘unconventional’ (naturally) and is working tirelessly to complete as the book is due out in the autumn of 2017 under an imprint of Random House, Spigel & Grau. The memoirs will take in his family life and reveal the stories that inspired some of his most famous songs. Let’s hope it will not be unconventional enough to include a CD, as he did in 2008 with 21 Nights, with new songs, or free some long hidden gems from Paisley Park’s fabled vault. You all still read books, right? In typical Prince-style he did not the announcement simply at that. One hour later he returned and treated the attendees to a 30-minute jam featuring hits which spanned the dazzling career he is at last putting into his own words for the release of what will no doubt see one of music’s most eagerly awaited autobiographies yet: from Let’s Work, to D.M.S.R., Sign O’ The Times, to The Most Beautiful Girl In The World. As if they were not excited enough already. “We wanna thank Random House,” Prince said midway though his set. “Ain’t nothing random about this funk.” Read other articles tagged: General Read our unique and complete Prince biography, charting his life, early career success, split with Warner Brothers, resurgence as an independent artist, and his shocking and untimely death in 2016. Prince biography 'Breathtaking' Piano & A Microphone tour entrances Australia New @prince account confirms end of 3rdEyeGirl? Prince deletes @3RDEYEGIRL Twitter account NPG Music Publishing to oversee Prince’s music legacy	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1351
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__label__wiki	0.561446	0.561446	Gotta Go Bringing you recommendations, reviews, and photos of all the best places to go, eat and travel. Theater Review: Beef and Boards: Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story Maybe it is because I grew up hearing the Don McLean song, American Pie, but I have always had an interest in Buddy Holly. Now, Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre, Indianapolis, is featuring Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story on stage through Aug. 18. Although McLean's lyrics were woven throughout more than a decade of disappointments, they all started because of that fateful night when Holly, an early pioneer of the Rock 'n' Roll genre, was killed at age 22, in a plane crash. The crash included other up-and-comers Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, Jr. Kyle Jurassic dons the iconic black-rimmed glasses portraying Holly with enthusiasm and deft ability. Drawing you in with his exuberance and pace. Jurassic matches Holly's style perfectly. Valens is portrayed superbly by Edward LaCardo, while Chuck Caruso turns in an impressive performance as The Big Bopper. Tarra Conner Jones and Joshue L.K. Patterson rock the audience as performers at the Apollo Theatre when Holly and The Crickets perform due to a misunderstanding that Holly and crew were African-American. D.J. Hipockets Duncan, portrayed by Indy favorite John Vessels, brings his radio listeners (and the audience) updates on Holly's life and career throughout the show. In just under three years, Holly rocketed to the top of the charts, producing hit singles, albums and appearing in top television shows American Bandstand and The Ed Sullivan Show. Touring was added in to reach audiences across the nation. With a frantic pace and bitterly cold winter conditions, Holly chartered a plane to take himself, Valens and Bopper to the next location. Just after takeoff, the plane plunged into the frozen ground immediately killing all upon board. Featuring almost two dozen of Holly's hits, including Peggy Sue and Rave On, Valens' La Bamba and Bopper's Chantilly Lace, this production is easy to get lost in. It is family friendly, which means it is safe to take your grandma and older children. Bottom Line: Beef and Boards' Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, with its powerful talented cast, is certain to become a summer hit. Elizabeth J. Musgrave writes magazine food and wine columns: Destination Dining and White Linen & Corks,and is a travel, features, food and wine writer, travel and food photographer, and performing arts and restaurant critic. Catch her as the Travel & Leisure Adviser on FOX59 Morning News Show. She also is a radio and television guest and host. Follow her on Twitter @GottaGo, LinkedIn and Facebook. Posted by Elizabeth J. Musgrave No comments: Links to this post Labels: beef and boards. dinner theatre, buddly holly, Indianapolis, Indy, live, Review, theater, things to do, top 10 Theater Review: Beef and Boards: ELF the Musical Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre continues on the path toward reinventing itself by switching its typical variety-style holiday production with a modern holiday classic: ELF the Musical. The musical (and well known film, ELF (2003), starring Will Ferrell, Bob Newhart and Zooey Deschanel), retraces the life of an orphan human named Buddy, portrayed brilliantly by Dan Bob Higgins, who is raised by elves at the North Pole. Walter Hobbs, Buddy's birth father, is given top-notch treatment as an insensitive and stressed out corporate executive by Mark Epperson. Bringing an (at first) subdued-but-increasing exuberance match to the holiday-happy personality of Higgins' Buddy, is Lanene Charters as Hobb's personal secretary Deb. She and the elf are kindred spirits and Charters shines as Buddy allows her to show Christmas spirit once again. Jonathan Fluck is spectacular in his explosive, and too short, appearances as Hobbs' angry boss Mr. Greenway. Love interest Jovie, a young woman who has stopped believing in anything happy or Christmas-y, is played by Emily Grace Tucker. Tucker knocks it out of the ballpark with her solo, "Never Fall in Love." A few differences from film to stage include Santa (Doug E. Stark), rather than the top elf, shares Buddy's tale. Also ... there isn't an angry elf racing across the boardroom table to throttle Buddy. Disappointing certainly, however Peter Dinklage is committed elsewhere these days (Game of Thrones, anyone?). This zany and delightful production runs through December 31 at the north-side venue. However, if you plan on getting a table, buy tickets immediately. At last check there are verrrry few tickets left. There's definitely a transformation this season at B&B. New talent, new shows and a new direction aimed at retaining its core audience while attracting the younger demographic. Check out the 2019 season lineup by clicking here. Bottom Line: Beef and Boards' Elf: The Musical is the perfect family show to capture the holiday spirit. Don't miss it. Images: JulieCurryPhotography.com Elizabeth J. Musgrave is a fine-living, travel, features, food and wine writer, travel and food photographer, performing arts, wine and restaurant critic. She also is a radio and television guest and host. Follow her on Twitter @GottaGo, LinkedIn and Facebook. Labels: 10 things to do, 2018, Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre, buddy the elf, cost, elf the musical, Indianapolis, Indy, loive theater, Review, sold out, tickets, when, where, will ferrell Theater Review: Beef and Boards: Man from La Mancha Beef and Boards, Indianapolis, steps out of its goody-two-shoe image to bring the dark comedic production of Man of La Mancha to the north-side stage. Also taking things up a notch the powers that be brought in Disney film talent Richard White. White grabs the audience's attention as soon as he steps onto the stage and doesn't let go. Smoothly doubling as both Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quijote de la Mancha, awaiting his fate in the depths of a castle prison, and Alonso Quijano, slipping from the book's pages into the dismal prison. Set during the Spanish Inquisition, Cervantes acts out the story of Quijano, whose greatest desire is to be knighted as Don Quixote, rescue lovely maidens and provide chivalrous services. Unfortunately, he has so become immersed in the life he wishes to lead, his grasp on reality has slipped more than a little. White's soothing baritone brings joy to "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)," providing goosebumps to more than one person, I am certain. Sidekick and faithful servant, Sancho Panza, is portrayed delightfully by Eddie Curry, bringing comedic relief to the tale. In fact, this story line and character remind me of another Curry role many years ago ~ Shipwrecked ~ (read review here). Bar wench/prostitute/rape victim Aldonza/Dulcinea is brought to life by Erica Hanrahan-Ball. As Quixote's love interest, Hanrahan-Ball tries too hard in the beginning, seeming to try to outdo her male counterpart, bringing a sharpness and unnecessary volume to early songs. She shines brightest when she shares a softer side to the character, allowing her vocals and acting chops to complement the others on stage, rather than compete. Portraying Innkeeper, and reluctant knight-bestower, Chuck Caruso brings a droll humor to the role, drawing the audience into his angst of being forced to play along with the delusions of White's Quixote. The pair were absolutely harmonious with their interactions. Special Note: Costumes by Jill Kelly and set design by Michael Layton are to be applauded as well as the cast of talented performers. Bottom Line: Beef and Boards breaks its own barriers with the production style and level of talent in its version of Man of la Mancha ~ well done. Labels: Beef and Boards, Chuck Caruso, eddie curry, Erica Hanrahan-Ball, Indianapolis, Indy, Man from La Mancha, Richard White, Theater Review, things to do Broadway in Indianapolis: 2018-2019 Season Far off lands, dancing in numerous locations and learning to live the life you want, are all included in the Broadway in Indianapolis: 2018-2019 Season. Lions, Mormons, and waitresses find love, life and lasting friendships with strangers and loved ones. I am truly liking the diversity in this year's lineup. We have classics (The King and I), children-friendly (Lion King, Grinch), new to Indy (School of Rock, Waitress), and fan favorites (Mormon). Disney’s THE LION KING Winner of six Tony Awards®, including Best Musical, THE LION KING brings together one of the most imaginative creative teams on Broadway. Tony Award®-winning director Julie Taymor brings to life a story filled with hope and adventure set against an amazing backdrop of stunning visuals. THE LION KING also features some of Broadway’s most recognizable music, crafted by Tony Award®-winning artists Elton John and Tim Rice. DR SEUSS’ HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS! THE MUSICAL November 27-December 2 Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical is the record-setting Broadway holiday sensation which features the hit songs, “You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch” and “Welcome Christmas” from the original animated special. Max the Dog narrates as the mean and scheming Grinch, whose heart is “two sizes too small,” decides to steal Christmas away from the holiday-loving Whos. Magnificent sets and costumes inspired by Dr. Seuss’ original illustrations help transport audiences to the whimsical world of Whoville and remind us of the true meaning of the holiday season. SEASON OPTION This outrageous musical comedy follows the misadventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, sent halfway across the world to spread the Good Word. Now with standing room only productions in London, on Broadway, and across North America, THE BOOK OF MORMON has truly become an international sensation. Contains explicit language. January 29-February 3, 2019 Based on the hit film, this hilarious new musical follows Dewey Finn, a wannabe rock star posing as a substitute teacher who turns a class of straight-A students into a guitar-shredding, bass-slapping, mind-blowing rock band. This high-octane smash features 14 new songs from Andrew LLoyd Webber, all the original songs from the movie and musical theater’s first-ever kids rock band playing their instruments live on stage. Rodgers & Hammerstein’s THE KING AND I Two worlds collide in this musical, set in 1860’s Bangkok. The musical tells the story of the unconventional and tempestuous relationship that develops between the King of Siam and Anna Leonowens, a British schoolteacher whom the modernist king, in an imperialistic world, brings to Siam to teach his many wives and children. One of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s finest works, THE KING AND I boasts a score that features such beloved classics as “Getting To Know You,” “Hello Young Lovers,” and “Shall We Dance." Inspired by Adrienne Shelly's beloved film, WAITRESS tells the story of Jenna - a waitress and expert pie maker, Jenna dreams of a way out of her small town and loveless marriage. A baking contest in a nearby county and the town's new doctor may offer her a chance at a fresh start, while her fellow waitresses offer their own recipes for happiness. But Jenna must summon the strength and courage to rebuild her own life. Season tickets for the 2018-19 Broadway in Indianapolis Season are on sale with three convenient ways to purchase season tickets: 1. Select your seats in person at the Broadway in Indianapolis Box Office in the Old National Centre at 502 N New Jersey Street, Monday – Friday, 9:30am-5:00pm 2. Order online 7 days a week/24 hours a day at BroadwayinIndianapolis.com 3. Call the Broadway Across America toll-free Indianapolis Season Ticket Hotline at 800-793-7469. The Hotline hours are Monday – Friday, 9am-5pm. Photos/Broadway in Indianapolis Elizabeth J. Musgrave is a travel, features, food and wine writer, travel and food photographer, and performing arts and restaurant critic. Catch her as a radio and television guest and host. Follow her on Twitter @GottaGo, LinkedIn and Facebook. Labels: 2018 2019, book of mormon, Broadway Across America, Clowes, how the grinch stole christmas, Indianapolis, lion king, murat theatre, old national, school of rock, the king and i, top 10 things to do, waitress Sunday, September 9 Theater Review: Cirque du Soleil: Corteo All good things must come to an end at some point. Even life. Mauro the clown has passed on and his friends and family gather to celebrate his life and career. Cirque du Soleil: Corteo reveals what goes through the mind of a parade clown when his time has come. Will he go to Heaven and receive wings to become an official angel, or slide down into the hotter location? Climbing ladders into the skies, silk performers, chandeliers and bouncy beds are all brought into the mix as this classic is renewed for today's audiences. Having seen several Cirque shows, this ranks No. 2 on my list of favorites for the story line and addition of the chandeliers and more multi-performer sets. (No. 1 still is Quidam, about the stranger on the street whom you never notice.) Although I do not expect perfection, and understand these are skilled gymnasts and acrobatic performers, a few slips and drops in this show made it seem as if a few more rehearsals were needed. Upcoming shows within the one-tank distance from Indy, include: Evansville and Detroit. Elizabeth J. Musgrave is a travel, features, food and wine writer, travel and food photographer, and performing arts, hotel and restaurant critic. Follow her on Twitter @GottaGo, LinkedIn and Facebook. Labels: 2018, cirque du soleil, Corteo, detroit, evansville, Indianapolis, Indy, Theater Review Monday, January 1 Flying children, a boy with his tongue frozen to poles, and a green-faced young girl are just a few of the reasons Broadway in Indianapolis' 2017 - 2018 season is interesting this year. Returning for a tour is Rent, new shows are a majority of the list, and the musical numbers are well known in more than one show. Below is the schedule, with ticket information following. Broadway in Indianapolis 2017-2018 SEASON SHOWS Finding Neverland tells the incredible story behind one of the world’s most beloved characters: Peter Pan. Playwright J.M. Barriestruggles to find inspiration until he meets four young brothers and their beautiful widowed mother. Spellbound by the boys’ enchanting make-believe adventures, he sets out to write a play that will astound London theatergoers. A Christmas Story, The Musical November 28-December 3, 2017 A Christmas Story, The Musical chronicles young and bespectacled Ralphie Parker as he schemes his way toward the holiday gift of his dreams, an official Red Ryder® Carbine-Action 200-Shot Range Model Air Rifle (“You’ll shoot your eye out kid!”). The Carole King Musical Long before she was Carole King, chart-topping music legend, she was Carol Klein, Brooklyn girl with passion and chutzpah. She fought her way into the record business as a teenager and, by the time she reached her twenties, had the husband of her dreams and a flourishing career writing hits for the biggest acts in rock ‘n’ roll. It wasn’t until her personal life began to crack that she finally managed to find her true voice. Beautiful tells the inspiring true story of King’s remarkable rise to stardom, from being part of a hit songwriting team to becoming one of the most successful solo acts in pop music history. Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, Les Misérables tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption – a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit. Seen by more than 70 million people in 44 countries and in 22 languages around the globe, Les Misérables is still the world’s most popular musical, breaking box office records everywhere in its 32nd year. RENT 20th Anniversary Tour In 1996, an original rock musical by a little-known composer opened on Broadway... and forever changed the landscape of American theatre. Two decades later, Jonathan Larson’s Rent continues to speak loudly and defiantly to audiences across generations and all over the world. And now, this Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award®-winning masterpiece returns to the stage in a vibrant 20th anniversary touring production. A re-imagining of Puccini's La Bohème, RENT follows an unforgettable year in the lives of seven artists struggling to follow their dreams without selling out. With its inspiring message of joy and hope in the face of fear, this timeless celebration of friendship and creativity reminds us to measure our lives with love. April 25-May 13, 2018 *Old National Centre Wicked, the Broadway sensation, looks at what happened in the Land of Oz...but from a different angle. Long before Dorothy arrives, there is another young woman, born with emerald-green skin—smart, fiery, misunderstood and possessing an extraordinary talent. When she meets a bubbly blonde who is exceptionally popular, their initial rivalry turns into the unlikeliest of friendships...until the world calls one “good,” and the other one “wicked.” GROUP SALES AND SINGLE TICKETS Group sales information is now available for all shows. Reservations may be made by calling Group Sales Manager, Chris Schneider, at 317-632-7469 x 103 or email at Chris.Schneider@BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com. For more information visit BroadwayInIndianapolis.com Tickets for individual shows typically go on sale to the general public 4-6 weeks prior to the opening of the show. Elizabeth J. Musgrave is a travel, features, food and wine writer, travel and food photographer, and performing arts and restaurant critic. Follow her on Twitter @GottaGo, LinkedIn and Facebook. Labels: 2018 season, america, Beautiful The Carole King Musical, broadway in indianapolis, butler, downtown, Indy, les mis, Les Misérables, murat, tickets, when, where, wicked Goelzer Investment Management Donates 70,000 meals to Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana Food presentation to be held at Hurst Bean Field Tues., Nov. 21 to kick off the 2017 Holiday Season Goelzer Investment Management will donate 70,000 meals to the Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana again this year to feed Hoosiers in need. This year will bring the total number of meals donated close to the halfway mark of Goelzer’s pledge to contribute one million meals by 2026. In continuing the firm’s long legacy of giving back to the community, Goelzer has committed to donating six skids of NK Hurst beans each year to reach its ultimate goal of providing one million meals to families in central Indiana. Since the program began in 2006, Goelzer has donated 430,000 NK Hurst meals to Gleaners. The donation event will take place with representatives from Gleaners, Goelzer Investment Management, and NK Hurst Beans Tues., Nov. 21 at 11 am at the NK Hurst Bean Field located at 230 W. McCarty Street (directly across from Lucas Oil Stadium). “Hundreds of thousands of families are still struggling to put food on their tables,” said John Elliott, president and CEO of Gleaners. “We’re committed to feeding them, but also looking at not just the amount of food we provide, but the quality and nutritional value of that food. The complex carbohydrates, protein and other nutrients in beans are of high value to those we serve.” Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, a member of the national Feeding America Network of food banks, was founded in a three-and-a-half car garage in 1980 with the purpose of fighting hunger in our community. On an annual basis, Gleaners provides food and critical grocery products for more than 260,000 people, providing more than 20 million meals. Gleaners also provides specialized programs for the most vulnerable populations—children and senior citizens including, BackSacks: Weekend Food for Kids, After-School and Summer Meals for Kids, School-Based Pantry programs, and senior-only Mobile Pantry and Food Pantry distributions. Specialty programs include CARR Mobile Pantries and Bags with IMPD and public safety offices, and ProduceHope, a component of the Feeding America Regional Produce Processing Center operated by Gleaners. Lean more at Gleaners.org Goelzer Investment Management provides high-quality investment advisory services to institutional and high-net-worth private clients. The firm manages discretionary and non-discretionary portfolios that can be customized to meet client-specific investment goals. Labels: feed the hungry, food bank, gleaners, goelzer, indiana, Indianapolis, Indy Theater Review: Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre: Ring of Fire At first glance, Ring of Fire, opening this past weekend at Beef and Boards, Indianapolis, looks to be a glorious night filled with a guy who sounds and looks a lot like music legend Johnny Cash. Be forewarned. It's not. It is not a Cash tribute band. It isn't an imitation of the Man in Black, with all of his hits performed fully while you reminisce about the times you saw him live. Featuring three female and five male performers, the group of eight walk you through his life, via both well known and some lesser known songs written by, sung by, and/or related somehow to Cash. Each musician plays no fewer than two, some as many as five different instruments in the show. Mandolins, fiddles, various guitars, drums and a ukulele are just a few of the instruments used throughout the production. Collectively, these eight are John R. Cash. The bio-musical skims the more well known personal bits of Cash's life, drug use, and the relationship and eventual marriage to June Carter Cash, delving more into the whys and wherefores. Melody Allegra Berger, Tim Drake, Brian Gunter, Jill Kelly Howe, Allison Kelly, Jeremy Sevelovitz, Travis Smith and Zack Steele bring their talents together, blending harmoniously with songs such as "Oh Come Angel Band," Standout duets and solos include "Ragged Old Flag" (Drake) and "Jackson" (Steele, Kelly). Bottom Line: Beef and Boards' Ring of Fire brings forth the more obscure songs of Johnny Cash with a healthy dose of instrumentals sharing the limelight. Images: JulieCurry.com Elizabeth J. Musgrave writes two magazine food and wine columns: Destination Dining and White Linen & Corks,and is a travel, features, food and wine writer, travel and food photographer, and performing arts and restaurant critic. She also is a speaker, consultant and trainer for hospitality, travel and luxury businesses, P.R., and tourism groups, as well as a radio and television guest and host. Follow her on Twitter @GottaGo, LinkedIn and Facebook. Labels: Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre, indiana, Indianapolis, Indy, johnny cash, live theater, ring of fire, tickets, top things to do, upcoming shows Theater Review: The Phoenix Theatre: The Open Hand Guest Review: John Simmons The Open Hand Phoenix Theatre Now Through May 14 Robert Caisley’s The Open Hand is a play filled with surprises – and that may be part of its undoing. The play opens simply enough with two friends, Allison (Leah Brenner) and Freya (Julie Mauro) lunching at an expensive Asian restaurant. When Freya rushes out to a super-important job interview, Allison is stuck with a check she cannot pay because she can’t find her billfold. Suddenly, a dapper middle-aged stranger named David Nathan Bright (nicely played by Charles Goad) appears and gives Allison both the money for the check and an umbrella for the rain that is pouring down outside … all without asking for a thing in return. After that, The Open Hand becomes a play in three parts. Part I channels the comic banter from classic sitcoms (the old Dick Van Dyke Show comes to mind) where we learn about the trials facing Allison in her relationship with her talented-but-edgy boyfriend, Todd (Jeremy Fisher), and Freya in her relationship with her laid-back-but-unhappy boyfriend, Jack (Jay Hemphill). Allison, in particular, struggles with expressing her emotions and accepting love from others. She also has a birthday fast approaching … but Allison never, ever celebrates her birthday. A chance meeting in the park with David Nathan Bright and Allison’s decision to invite him to her “not-birthday” party (two of the play’s somewhat awkward contrivances) lead us into the play’s hilarious and dramatic Part II. David’s seemingly endless affability and generosity lead to feelings of suspicion, jealousy and, finally, anger among his fellow party-goers, as they try endlessly to discern his “real” motives. Here, The Open Hand asks a great question: Have we become so insecure and competitive as a society that we can no longer accept simple acts of kindness from one another? Are we that cynical? That question goes unanswered, as the play’s closing act moves it away from being a comedy of manners and more towards a story about personal forgiveness. Allison’s birthday-averse behavior and emotional rigidity, it seems, are the results of a traumatic event from her past, an event that is so traumatic (and, like other plot twists, somewhat contrived) that it almost feels like “too much”. Phoenix’s The Open Hand is a marvelously well-told tale. The cast are all excellent, and Jeffrey Martin’s revolving set − which does quadruple duty as a restaurant, two city apartments and a townhouse – is a wonder to behold. It’s just that, with one too many plot twists on the part of the playwright, you may find yourself wanting a more satisfying resolution to the tale. Images: Phoenix Theatre Elizabeth J. Musgrave writes two magazine food and wine columns: Destination Dining and White Linen & Corks,and is a travel, features, food and wine writer, travel and food photographer, and performing arts and restaurant critic. Catch her as the Travel & Leisure Adviser on FOX59 Morning News Show. She also is a speaker, consultant and trainer for hospitality, travel and luxury businesses, P.R., and tourism groups, as well as a radio and television guest and host. Follow her on Twitter @GottaGo, LinkedIn and Facebook. Labels: Charles Goad, downtown, Indianapolis, Indy, live stage, Phoenix Theatre, Theater Review Theatre Review: Beef and Boards: My Fair Lady My Fair Lady, once a hit upon Broadway with Julie Andrews, became a film hit with Audrey Hepburn at the helm as Eliza Doolittle, the flower girl turned lady. Beef and Boards, Indianapolis, brings back to stage the classic tale of rags to silk ~ and “it's complicated” love ~ through May 14. Portraying the self indulgent, narcissistic, phonetic expert Professor Henry Higgins is David Schmittou. Flawlessly portraying the pompous know-it-all with zero clue as to his own feelings, Schmittou brings out the vulnerable side of the grammarian without losing his irritating side. Never wavering from correct form or accent, Schmittou brings the audience nearly to tears with his rendition of, “I've Grown (Accustomed to Her Face)” and to tears of laughter with “Why Can't a Woman (Be more like a man?). Kimberly Doreen Burns deftly nails Eliza, the flower urchin striving to better her “place” in life, brilliantly adopting the cockney accent ~ a difficult one to acquire. Daring to approach the rich and famous Higgins' for language lessons, Burns' wonderful portrayal of the “guttersnipe” is feisty, confused and (appropriately) enraged at the lack of empathy from her tutor. Burns best showcased her vocal talent in, “I Could Have Danced all Night.” Schmittou and Burns spar delightfully while Mark Goetzinger's portrayal of sidekick Colonel Pickering is equally enchanting. Buffering the insecure pupil from the overbearing Higgins' Goestinger's Pickering is the perfect balance to Higgins' and Eliza's polar opposite (yet somehow similar) behavior and expectations. Eddie Curry, portraying Eliza's father, Alfred Doolittle, is a pure joy to watch as he wallows in the low existence he has created, embracing his lot in life as a scoundrel and drunk. Womanizing, and shirking all responsibilities, Alfred is angry when he finds himself in the a world of middle class morality, bringing down the house with, “Get Me to the Church on Time.” Bottom Line: My Fair Lady is easily one of the TOP 10 shows I have reviewed at Beef and Boards bringing a classic to stage with one of the most cohesive casts assembled at the north-side theater ~ clearly a Must-See for the 2017 season. Labels: 2017, Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre, Indianapolis, Indy, my fair lady, Theater Review Theater Review: Beef and Boards: Buddy: The Buddy ... About Elizabeth J. Musgrave Elizabeth J. Musgrave Maybe it is because I grew up hearing the Don McLean song, American Pie, but I have always had an interest in Buddy Holly. Now, Beef and... 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__label__cc	0.636876	0.363124	HPFT Archive Unleash Your Fandom F.R.O.G.S. Hall of Fame Reviews For Error in the Cosmos Name: ReillyJade (Signed) · Date: 05 Mar 2019 08:43 PM · [Report This] Story:Error in the Cosmos Chapter: Leanna and Freddy Hi, there! I'm here with your requested review! I like that you fleshed out the characters a little more in this chapter, particularly Skyler. In the first chapter, as much as I loved him, I was worried he was going to fall into Gary Stu-territory, and that he would be nothing more than Lea's flawless sidekick. But, in this chapter, you gave him some background. I like that you showed how Lea was a disruption to him - not in a bad way, necessarily, but her coming into the picture did create some turbulence between him and the friends he already had. To add to it, he's obviously still trying to balance those friendships with his loyalty to Lea, and that's causing some realistic tension for him. Furthermore, I like how you made it a point to show how Freddie is kinder when he's not in the company of James or other friends. He seems like he gets so concerned with upholding a particular image (which, in his case, is "cool" and taking everything in stride), that there's actually a softer, more vulnerable side to him that he's not letting on. I genuinely believed him when he said he was sorry, solely for the reason that he was alone with Lea and not having to put on a show so to speak. Lea's responses to her Animagi quiz broke my heart. Out of ALL the things she could have rewritten in history, that's what she chose? It illustrates how little she thinks of herself and her own existence, and it's saddening to read. And it just gets worse when the one thing it seems like she actually liked about herself (her athletic ability) got tarnished by James and Fred's antics... gahhh, it's so sad! I do hopw that throughout this story, she regains confidence in herself and comes to learn that her hardships don't define her. I do think she forgave Freddie a little too easily, but she does come across to me as impulsive, so maybe that has something to do with it. Also, she seems to be yearning for friendship. Not to mention, could she be feeling guilty about how she's created tension between Skyler and his friends? She'd never admit that, of course, as she's far too proud for that, but it's a possibility. Great work, yet again! Name: StarFeather (Signed) · Date: 04 Mar 2019 07:55 AM · [Report This] ah, Adam's apple and voice changing, I remember my child's time. Boys change suddenly, I guess girls do as well, that's why Skyler or Freddie care much more about Selwyn who also must be changing to a woman from a little girl Potter or Freddie had bullied or they might have a feeling towards her since they were kids. To draw attention from her, they might have enchanted her broom when she tried flying. I predict a kind of triangle relationship from here: Selwyn, Skyler and Freddie or James Potter. You mentioned animagi, which I think interesting guessing they will be the new marauders doing animagi secretly or not? A party hosted by Potter let us expect more exciting scenes next. I wonder if Potter and Freddie will keep bullying Selwyn. I reckon they won't. Some of them may even escort her or dance with her...romance may be happening... or not? I am intrigued. Name: StarFeather (Signed) · Date: 28 Feb 2019 10:54 AM · [Report This] Story:Error in the Cosmos Chapter: So it begins 'Error in the Cosmos' is the unique title. I wonder if it indicates the protagonist's angst who apparently was not born with a silver spoon like the other purebloods such as Draco Malfoy or Pansy. Leanna's situation seems to be similar to Tom Riddle's, which might have made her Slytherin and I think of Harry's situation. I am very curious to know how Albus Potter will take a role to have friends with her in the future. James seems to have tried hating Slytherins generally, which I think he must have had the same characteristic as his mother, Ginny. I guess Albus who has more Harry-ish characteristic in him. It's intriguing to imagine how he will get involved in the endless rivalry between Gryffindors and Slytherins. I smiled while I spotted Neville and Hannah Longbottom. It is nice of his son to have chosen Slytherin House for Leanna in spite of the fact he was Hufflepuff through and through, at the same time I believe his Hufflepuff characteristic let him act like that, Hufflepuff thinks friendship very important. I think you did a great start. Let's do review swap again. Name: ReillyJade (Signed) · Date: 26 Feb 2019 07:58 PM · [Report This] Hi there! I'm here with your requested review! :) Despite this only being the first chapter, you set up a really interesting dynamic between your main characters. Truthfully, I have mixed feelings about them (except Skyler; I adore him lol). Both Lea and James are obviously very competitive, which isn't a bad thing in itself. However, they do get rather mean about it, don't they? With Lea going out of her way to analyze the inadequacy of James's defensive spells, and James's harsh comments toward Lea at the end, they're both very difficult to like. But at the same time, they are fourth-years, so they're only 14 or 15 years old. Kids aren't exactly saints at that age, and they can be very immature and impulsive. What I'm trying to say is that you've written these two in a realistic manner, so even though it might seem like I'm being negative about your characterization, it's actually a compliment! It's hard to write teenagers, and you've done exceptionally well in that regard. Despite me being not-so-fond of Lea at this moment in time, I still find her to be a compelling character. She's obviously been through a lot, and while that doesn't excuse her behavior, it does explain it (at least somewhat). I'm really intrigued by her, and she's definitely someone I want to learn more about. Because she's obviously not a bad person, you know? She's just... well, she's got a lot on her plate, and she throws up her shields quicker than others. She may not be entirely likeable personality-wise, but she's nonetheless well written, and I applaud you for that; it's hard to write characters that aren't 100% likeable and still make them interesting. My one concrit for this would be to keep an eye on punctuation, particularly with dialogue. I noticed several spots in which dialogue had quotation marks, but was lacking proper punctuation to end the sentence, be it a period or question mark. It's definitely not a huge deal, but it's worth keeping in mind for future chapters. All-in-all, this seems like it's going be an interesting story about growing up, maturing, and learning how to love not only others, but oneself. And coming-of-age stories tend to be some of my favorites, so color me intrigued! :) This was a great introduction to your story! Thanks for stopping by my request thread! Name: Noelle Zingarella (Signed) · Date: 26 Feb 2019 12:02 AM · [Report This] Hi Downbelow! I’m here for review swapping goodness. The first line of chapter one is such an excellent hook. “The truth of the matter is that Gryffindors are scum.” I had to stop for a minute right there and appreciate the beauty of the line. You have a nice tone to your writing. In this first chapter you’ve given us a nice picture of Leanna and Skyler. Leanna has a distinctive narrative voice and I’m already curious to know more about her. I also like some of the descriptive details you give us about the setting. This paragraph: “He props himself on his elbow…..Dragon incident he talks so much about” was excellent. You start setting this idyllic evening by the lake, but throw in a twist about the lake seeming a bit creepy. And I agree, who knows what Hagrid has got swimming in there. I already love Skyler and Leanna’s relationship. They seem so close and to really care about each other. I think they are lucky to have each other, especially as Leanna in particular seems to have a bit of trouble with other kids at school. I like how you show us her conflict with Potter and all of his many relatives. It would be hard to be at Hogwarts in this era and not be one of the “in” crowd, I imagine. There’s just so much history to live up to and around. Oh my, Potter is so mean to Leanna. Your line “What little he said he did so calmly, and it broke what it had to break perfectly.” punched me in the gut. Well written. I’m glad Leanna had Skyler to comfort her. And going from that scene into the reveal about her being abandoned—twice—I feel so bad for her and I want to punch Potter in the nose (and I’m a Gryffindor!). I am so happy that Neville and Hannah took Leanna in. I’m looking forward to more of the story. Nice start! Name: bsk (Signed) · Date: 12 Feb 2019 11:44 PM · [Report This] Don't mind me, just your neighborhood review swapper back for more. Ok, so I know I'm supposed to be sleeping but I literally couldn't stop reading. Also, side note you deserve more reviews. As I said before, your take on next gen characters is one that is quite refreshing and welcomed with open arms! Random question, but why does Lea refer to Mrs. Longbottom as Mrs. L and not by her first name or something? The story is moving along really well and easily, I almost forget I'm reading to be honest. I really like the way you portray Skyler and Lea, he's so protective of her and i really enjoy reading it. I almost feel bad for him, I mean it must be hard having to balance someone you care about so deeply with people that the person you care about doesn't really get on with. Of courseee James knows exactly what an Animagus is ahah. It kind of surprises me how easily she forgives Freddie even though he tormented her for a while. I'm sure bullying can have a lasting impact on a person's psyche and I suppose it shows what a kind person she is. I like that even though Freddie was a jerk he seems to have evolved in a way, he's at least aware that his actions weren't that nice. I will say though, that definitely couldn't be me! I kind of almost wished she'd exercise that Slytherin viciousness but in a way I'm kind of psyched to see where the rest of the story is headed. But I'm also really into the way you portray Slytherins, well done on another great chapter! So I told myself to go to bed instead of reading fics but of course here I am. What can I say? I'm a sucker for next gen fics and yours is really good! First of all I can already tell I'm going to really like Lea, she's so funny and complex.The first line got me hook line and sinker and it's really interesting. I really loved the setting of the chapter and your descriptions made the scene come to life very nicely. Lea is a likeable protagonist and I can't help but root for her. Her commentary is so funny and I love that she hates James Potter for some reason. I also died when she referred to them as the 'ginger clan'. I have to say, I'm a bit relieved she didn't automatically pine or swoon over him right away. I've got to be honest James seems so rude and arrogant. You've managed to explore a lot of his negative qualities in the first chapter itself and I really like that. Also this is probably the first fic I've read where Fred's interest in Potions actually exists and it's refreshing. I'm loving the friendship between Skyler and Lea! I literally need someone like him in my life. Your characterizations and dialogue have me hooked and I can't wait to read more. I really enjoyed reading this chapter and will definitely be back for more :) Name: galadriel (Signed) · Date: 08 Feb 2019 06:30 AM · [Report This] Hello! I'm here for our swap. So sorry for the wait. I always love reading Next Gen stories for the sheer number of possibilities that are present for the characters since we don't know much about them, and the opening line of this chapter got me hooked onto yours - who doesn't like a story with a bitter Slytherin perspective? Bring on all the angst. :D The first conversation between Lea and Skyler is so interesting, with the promise of a lot of drama to come. I have mixed feelings towards Lea. Initially, I was feeling sad for her because it's not nice being embarrassed by someone. But then the bit about her analysing Fred's defeat makes it seem like this is an ongoing war between them, with constant efforts to belittle one another. I'm curious to know how and why this started, and what pitted them against each other. I like how you've characterised Fred and his talent for potions coming from him father's interest in them. That was a wonderful bit of detail. And Slughorn seems as sluggy as ever with his blatant adoration of Fred. I wonder if we'll see the Slug Club come up some time in this story. :D I wonder what happened to Lea to make her less enthusiastic about gathering ingredients. Is she trying to cut down on her competitiveness? There seem to be undertones of some deeper insecurities here, I can't wait to find out more about her character. Ouch. That was downright nasty of James. I mean, it's one thing to analyse a battle or gloat over doing something first, but to someone so personally like that was just way too harsh. Poor Lea. I'm a little curious to know why she refers to Fred as Fred but James as Potter though. It would seem more natural to consistently use surnames/first names for both of them, unless I'm missing something here and there's something more to it? Skyler is an absolute angel and such a wonderful, genuine friend to Lea. I also sense he has deeper feelings for her, and downright hated the rumours going around about there being something between Lea and Potter. I hope they stay together this way, their relationship remaining as close as ever later on as well without anyone else getting in the way. The flashback to her childhood and how Lea ended up staying with the Longbottoms was so interesting and I'm really curious to know more about her backstory. I love the way you brought in her first use of magic as well. I wonder why she's unsure of Victoire's name at the end. Wouldn't Lea know who all the Prefects are? And since she lived with the Longbottoms, I doubt she'd be unaware of the Weasleys' names? I'm mostly surprised since she has a really good memory and it wouldn't be like her to forget names. Great first chapter, hun, I'm really curious to see where it goes next! Thank you for the swap. :) nim. Name: TreacleTart (Signed) · Date: 07 Feb 2019 01:22 AM · [Report This] I'm here for our review swap! I love seeing how different authors envision the next generation kids, so this looks like it should be fun. At first, I was very confused by the chip on Leanna's shoulder. She seemed bitter and angry and I couldn't figure out why, but as I read more of the chapter it started to make sense. After everything she's been through, I think anyone would feel a bit angry or like the world was against them. I have to say that James Potter is a huge jerk in this. I mean I know that Leanna wasn't exactly nice to him either, but what he said was way too mean. He could've teased her or even insulted her without cutting her that deep. I think he did that with the intention of making her cry. Skyler is a total sweetheart. Where do I find a best friend like him? I do have to say that I'm a bit confused by Leanna not being sure which Weasley reprimands her. If she was adopted by the Longbottoms, I'm sure she'd know the Potter and Weasley kids at least well enough to know their names. I mean Neville was very close with Ginny, Harry, Ron, and Hermione. All in all, I'm very interested to see where this goes next. I originally thought it would be a hate turned to love type thing, but after James' harsh words, it doesn't seem likely. Let me know if you'd like to swap again sometime. ~Kaitlin Name: javu (Signed) · Date: 29 Jan 2019 11:45 AM · [Report This] Story:Error in the Cosmos Chapter: Ginny Weasley So maybe you referenced this earlier, but I can't remember... why are Lea and Ginny so close? Isn't it a bit weird considering that Lea and James don't get along? Or maybe it's just weird for James? Does Lea know ancient Egyptian, or Arabic? that she can understand the voice and Ginny doesn't? I liked everything you made-up with Ginny's broom company. You have a knack for creating new fun things to add to the HP universe. Like, I never considered specialized broomsticks, but when I read this, I was like "well, why hasn't someone thought of this before?!" So yeah. It's offiial. It's a Lea/James shipped story. Ginny's comment about James liking but not having a girlfriend. But also: so James wants a girlfriend. Huh. I mean, why not, but like it's interesting to now know that he's activily wanting a girlfriend. I'm eager to see where this leads! For the nonverbal magic, in the future, I recommend making it more noticable. The arms in the last scene was more obvious, but in the shop it wasn't. When I went back and read it is when it became clear. Maybe have her think to herself, "Why are things flying at my face?" Or some sort of 'why is this happening' because she's not intentionally doing magic, so it shouldn't be flying at her face. Besides that, I do like the nonverbal magic aspect. I think it's really different and I don't think I've ever read someone doing nonverbal magic like this in a fanfic. I really feel like there's more to Skyler. Like he knows that he likes her, or something? He was so angry there in that last scene. Which I kind of get. Lea can barely tolerate gifts her whole life, but the second she gets some money, she buys everyone else gifts. Granted, she's showing love, but it's also a bit hypocritical. But it seems like she's growing :) James at the last scene... I'm not sure what to make of it. Does he like her? For reals? Hmmm... Alwynse for RvG January Go GOLD and Menagerie. Name: javu (Signed) · Date: 28 Jan 2019 06:49 PM · [Report This] Story:Error in the Cosmos Chapter: The Big Reveal Can I just say how much I LOVE the scene with her and Freddy in the owlry?!?!?!??! Forget James! Disregard Skyler! FREDDY ALL THE WAY! Ugh, and his character depth! I don't think I've ever seen someone write Freddy this deep! In fics he's always the jokester, the prankster, the promiscuous jock. But that line, "And here I am always feeling like a ghost because all my dad tries to see is his dead brother every time he looks at me. That's just half of it... the rest of time I feel second rated because James is the best at everything and the favourite of absolutely everyone -- being the reincarnation of a war hero and all." He's insecure. And I love it! I love how you painted him here. And he gets to be all vulnerable when Lea is feeling vulnerable and my heart is just like, "Yes. I will ship you forever." And it's going to break my heart when she and James get together. If he likes her (probably does already) and then James gets to be with her and Freddy doesn't no no no no my heart! But good job making me feel those things! And I love how Lea could open up to him. The reasonable, logical half of my brain is like, "No. Mental break-downs are bad. She should find a good coping mechanism. She should feel secure in who she is and that her adoptive parents love her and it doesn't matter about her bad parents." But the other half of my brain is like "Yeeesss! Cry! Open! Break! and LeT FreDdy LOVE YOU!" Why is Skyler angry? Is it to do with the fact that he's worried about Lea in that situation? Or is he jelly about her spending time with Freddy!? Homeboy better watch out. So my critique is that, I'm not sure how to explain it. But it's like there's a lack of meshy-melding between the interpersonal drama plotline and the Selwyn plotline. I'm reading along, and I'm just eating up the drama and the flirting and her growing friendship with Freddy. And Freddy apologizing about how he's treated her when he has no idea. But then like, it just feels like the whole thing with Neville hunting down her biological parents. And it's just a coincidence that Neville interrogated her father and such. (Well, there's that too. It feels not quite realistic. Chance happenings can happen -- and they should in writing, but I should feel like, "there was a one-in-a-million chance of that happening and IT HAPPENED!" Not like, "Well, of course Neville interrogated her father." Like, it feels like it should have been a plot twist, and you didn't write it as such?) Or... maybe (and I'm just speculating here) it was the order of events. First was her break-down, and then Freddy. And that was pretty big. Her reaction was huge. And she and Freddy grew closer as friends. Compared to that, her reactions to finding out she's an empath, that her adoptive dad found and interrogated her biological dad, and that her biological dad left her a letter and doesn't seem to be a total douchebag, were not as big. But maybe her new friendship with Freddy was more important than those things? Idk. Sorry for the critiques... Realistic character reactions/developments/consequences are my jam. Alwynse for RvG January and Menagerie. Story:Error in the Cosmos Chapter: Midnight surprise First of all, I love how long and meaty your chapters are. My ideal chapter length is in the 4k-5k range. Okay, to business. There were so many things that I loved about this chapter! It really pains me how Lea feels like she's a burden to the Longbottoms. They clearly want to just love on her. And I'm sure they'd have no problem buying her a broom and spoiling her rotten if she let them. But I'm happy that at the end of the chapter, she could open up more and accept gifts. The DADA scene = <3 Chang's lecture was interesting. But let's talk about the love triangle. Or love rectangle? She looked to James when she read "hottest guy in our class" !!! Though, I don't think that it's because she necessarily does think that, but more out of that she thinks he would consider himself to be the hottest, ya know? You balanced their dynamics well -- Lea peeking at James, but also laughing with Freddy and bonding with him. Why does Professor Chang glance at Lea for just a moment? Are the two death eaters in the story related to Lea somehow? Hm? I wonder. I'm impressed that Lea was able to talk about her feelings with Freddy. I feel like he wasn't expecting that emotional devulge from her. But she did it. And she was honest and sincere with him. Which shows that she is, and can be honest and sincere, she's just afraid and doesn't let her guard down with most people. I do hope she tries out for Quidditch. And that she completely wipes the smirk of James' face doing it. I do hope Freddy will keep up this "hottest guy in the class" line in future chapters. It makes me laugh. I like guys that are confident and funny like that. I heard someone say once that confidence isn't believing that you'll never fail; confidence is knowing you'll be okay even if you fail. That was in the context of love. I think it was in a vlog or something. They were comparing two different characters, and how one guy pursued this girl and she rejected him and rejected him, but he just rolled off the rejection. And that was confidence. I'm not saying I think Freddy is like that, per se, but his cockiness with "hottest guy in the class" reminds me of that :) As for who to root for... hm. I feel like she's going to end up with James. But at this point, I want her to end up with Freddy. But I'm like 95% certain it's going to be James. Name: potionspartner (Signed) · Date: 27 Jan 2019 06:14 PM · [Report This] I agree wholeheartedly with your opening statement. Gryffindors are jerks and disagree with chapter one’s end notes. Those boys are not just boys. They are bullies and the worst type. That wasn’t just a one time jinx at Leanna when she was on a broom. It was multiple times to the point it changed her belief in herself. In my opinion, she forgives Freddie way too easily after four years of bullying and keeping her grounded. Yes, it was an act of trust to give her his broom (and probably insanity because I would have walked over to the Whopping Willow with it.) but I find it hard to believe four years of malice would be erased with one ride on a broom. However, it creates a nice tentative friendship for which Lea to get to know the Marauders, 2nd Generation. Great introduction. It really grabs your attention and, unfortunately, for the perspective of some, so true. You bring up another valid pointin the first few sentences. Why do they perpetually put Gryffindors and Slytherins together knowing it causes so many problems. Maybe the teachers just like overseeing detentions. The thin line between love and hate. Which side is she on with Potter? Unknown at the moment, but you are right about one thing. Skyler is an angel. What a wonderful friend, better than she could ask for. (Honestly a friend who does more than give you the shirt off his back. He puts your type of (sorting) hat on his own head, but then I’m not too surprised. His dad was an angel too. Potter, despite the jerk he is, does make a good point. You need a lot more than the ability to remember information to be successful. Perhaps Leanna should depend less on her memory and work on her people skills. Name: ShadowRose (Signed) · Date: 20 Jan 2019 10:39 AM · [Report This] Okay, so I feel like we really start to get a good idea of Leanna’s softer side in this chapter? Especially getting the letter from Skyler’s mum, who signs her letters to Leanna as ‘mum’ anyways, because you kinda see just how unfamiliar she is with the idea of having people who genuinely care about her because of how she grew up, so she’s still freaking out about it a little bit. And her hesitancy to play Quidditch because she’d be too much of a burden too - I think it’s all starting to show that she’s a good bit softer inside than she appears at first glance. I hope that side of her will develop even more as the story progresses. Gah, I still love Freddy so much. Like, the whole signing the letter as ‘from the hottest boy in the class’ just to get Leanna to accidentally show that she thinks James is hot is hilarious, as is his comment after Leanna and James end up all over each other in the middle of class. (On that note, love that random moment of tension between the two of them during what’s clearly smack dab in the middle of a class.) Also omg I love Professor Chang - "Please do have the decency to fall on your face when you fall asleep next time, Selwyn.” is incredible, as is the whole lecture about defensive magic. And I like the snippet of James’ personality we get in this section as well, because at this point we’ve really only seen him being a bit of an ass to Leanna, but he’s also clearly really smart and cheeky as well. I love that Leanna now has an owl representative of her personality - that was incredibly sweet for Hannah to have gone through that effort for her, and a tiny, aggressive owl is perfect. The bracelet thing is also really interesting - I’m curious as to who she’ll end up getting a gift from, because I have a hunch that might end up being significant? One little question that I was a bit confused about - is there a theme for the Bunk Night? You mentioned that there was and that there wasn’t a few times, so that one detail got a little fuzzy. Anyways, lovely chap and I’m excited for future updates! -Taylor Written for the Magical Menagerie event and January RvG Name: Crimson Quill (Signed) · Date: 19 Jan 2019 05:11 AM · [Report This] OMG. WOW. this girl is tough, you really went straight into this story like head first which I like but I'm personally offended by the first line :P but I think Lea may have a slight biased against Gryffindor, you know just maybe. I kinda made me laugh how brutal she is. I do like Skyler though, he seems like the straight talking friend that Lea needs to balance her out a bit. I like that diymic they have as friends. Literally all your characters are totally savage, I kinda love it?? I live for the outrageous though so I'm pretty interested where you are taking these two characters. I guess in the second half of the story you flesh out a bit of Leanna's background which is interesting to starts to make her seem a bit more understandable I guess. She has been through a lot of in her life but she is lucky to have Longbottoms. Skyler is an angel, I love that he wanted to be Leanna. He is a true hufflepuff <3 - Abbi xo For: Magical Menagerie/RvG Hello! I’m back again for chapter 2! Man, Skyler really is in a weird position, isn’t he? Being friends with the Potter/Weasleys but also being close with Leanna, who hates all of them. That’s an awkward situation to balance, but it seems like he does it well enough. I also just really enjoyed this line as well - “I wouldn't simply die for him - dying is easy. I would kill for him. I would totally kill for him.” - because I think it kinda gets at Leanna’s character so far really well? She doesn’t seem to have a lot of confidence in herself (regardless of what she exudes) but is definitely a stereotypical Slytherin, hence the willingness to kill for Skyler, haha. I get the feeling this Bunk Night will be an interesting event - and the way James asked her to it is so fitting for their relationship thus far. Unrelated, but Freddy’s scoff at ‘best friend’ makes me wonder if maybe Skyler’s feelings go deeper than that? OoOoOooh I smell ~drama~ Also, on the note of Freddy, I like him already. I think he’s got an interesting character and yes, was a bit of an ass in first year for hexing Leanna the way that he and James did, but he seems genuinely remorseful for it now. And I feel like his comment in Transfiguration about how he, James, and Skyler were really close until she came along says a lot about their motivation to do what they did to her in the first place. It doesn’t justify their actions, but it does give them a clearer motive. But wow, I can certainly imagine how, when Leanna had built so much of her 11-year-old personality on being the sporty type, how that kind of prank would have much deeper implications than Freddy or James even anticipated. I love how happy she was by the end of this - after everything that’s happened in the first two chapters, I feel like she deserves at least something to cheer her up. I really like her dynamic with Freddy after all of this and am interested to see how that friendship develops throughout the story as well. Great chapter - I’m excited for the next update! Author's Response: Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyy :D So nice to see you back Taylor. Yesss! Leanna is a typical Slytherin. I might be in the process of changing the landscape of a typical Slytherin though (Evil smirk). But I promise I won’t make you regret. YESSSS! The Bunk Night is something you’ll never expect it to be, from the beginning to the end. I’m currently in the process of writing it and I’m super excited! Skyler’s feelings for Leanna… you don’t know the half of it Smirk Smirk (As you can see, people in my stories either smirk or chuckle a lot because… well… I do…) I will give more context into this hexing business as the story develops. I know it makes James seem really evil, but there’s always two sides to a story :D THANKS YOU SO MUCH ONCE AGAIN for the lovely review <3 Hi! This story caught my eye because omg there aren’t enough good JSP/OC stories out there, and I can’t believe I hadn’t read this one yet! Right from the start, I really think you’ve done a great job establishing your main character - she’s already got a ton of dimension in this first chapter, from the backstory you establish with her getting abandoned as a child and eventually taken in by the Longbottoms, which really leads into that constant desire to prove herself, even at the expense of other people (namely, James). And on that note, James is already such an interesting character already as well; I don’t particularly like him at this point in the story, although that’s probably because we see him from Leanna’s perspective, and it’s a bit difficult to point out positive qualities in someone you hate. I’ll be interested to see what he’s like in the rest of the story - if he ever softens up or matures a little bit, or if that streak of malice stays with him. I really loved this line - “What little he said he did so calmly, and it broke what it had to break perfectly.” It’s just a nice poetic end to that scene and really shows just how poignantly James’ comments absolutely hit everything about Leanna right on the head. And Skyler… well, your author’s note is truly right on the nose. He’s an angel already - I love that he intentionally chose Slytherin just to be with Leanna, and that he’s constantly her rock and source of support throughout this chapter. He seems like such a good person (although tbh, I’m entirely unsurprised that Neville and Hannah’s child would turn out like that, lol). This is off to a great start, and I’m excited to see how the story develops! Omg.. I can’t believe you're reviewing my story because OMG YOU WROTE COMPLICATED! THAT WAS ONE OF THE BEST FICS I HAD EVER READ! You probably don’t know me because I’ve left anonymous reviews and ratings in your story, because I didn’t have an account back then. If you really do get hooked, you'll hate James for a while (I know you LOVE James so please don't hate me). It's not that he's evil incarnate but well... you'll see why. Leanna's and Skyler's relationship is weird, to say the least. I didn't get into it that deeply yet. There'll be times when you totally wouldn't understand what he's doing and other times you'll be like "What's wrong with this author?" But I assure you, it'll all be ironed out eventually. I really hope I don’t give you cause to leave the story. Back for your request review! I just wanna say props to you for fleshing out a Slytherin so well. Lea is selective about her people and she's incredibly loyal to them. She's terrified that Skyler is going to ditch her in the future. She's okay with having her circle be small, but she's afraid to be alone and abandoned again. And the line, "I wouldn't simply die for him - dying is easy. I would kill for him. I would totally kill for him." I really like the scene between Lea and Freddie. It shows a vulnerable side to Lea, which I like. And then when Freddie gives her his broomstick, I feel like it's a healing moment for her. It's good! However, be careful. You said in your request that this is a JSP/OC ship, but I'm kinda rooting for Freddie/Lea at this point :/ And I'm definitely hoping for her to pick up Quidditch! It seems like it's a hidden/unknown talent and I hope it develops into something. She seems pretty competitive too. And if she plays the same position as James, that could really up the drama. Oho! Yes please! Can this happen?! A critique I have is that you could make character entrances clearer. There were several times that a character entered a scene but you didn't state who it was and I was left trying to guess who. There are times when it can be inferred, but usually that's when character idiosyncreses are established and it's obvious by context who it would be. So like the second scene where James finds her in the astronomy tower. In the scene before, the male was Skyler. So when I read the pronoun "he" I sort of just assumed it was Skyler. Plus it would make sense that he would chase after her.What clued me in that it wasn't Skyler was the fact that the speaker was rude to Lea. And then later with Freddie. The only reference that it's Freddie and not someone else is that she "craned her neck around Freddie." But she could be craning around him where he's standing ten feet away. I guess, to sum it up, it wouldn't hurt to throw in a name instead of all pronouns. Thank you so much for the review! You absolutely made my day. I'm especially thankful for the critique. I'll keep an eye out for that. Since I'm gonna start writing the next chapter today I'll definitely watch it this time. I do have an idea for the whole Freddy / Lea relationship and also for Quidditch. We'll see how this pans out. I really did want you to root for Freddy though :D So yay me! Again, thank you so so much for this. I'll leave cookies on your doorstep <3 Wow. Wow wow wow. I love this start!! It's not often that I get hooked on a story in the first chapter, but I really have! You have the perfect recipe for a Next Gen JSP focused love story. Main character is sassy, sarcastic, and at odds with James. She has a traumatic backstory which I'm anticipating seeing her own character growth through that. She has a male childhood best friend who's totally sweet and is crushing on her. That's going to blow up later - can't wait! And James is right - she's got a tough outer shell. But she's rather sensitive and vulnerable inside. Don't we just love those types?! At first I thought James was going to be the JSP that can be mean and cocky, but really has a soft underside. But no... he's mean. I'm eager to see where this goes and how he changes through the story. To answer your request, I'm giving this chapter a 10/10. I think you're conveying the story well. It's engaging and your pacing is good. I love long chapters, but this was good enough sized. You covered enough for the first chapter, I think. You introduced the main characters, the interpersonal conflict, and a bit about her backstory. I'm left wanting more. In fact, my biggest and only disappointment is that there's only two chapters out! When I was a third of the way through this chapter, I was like, "I wanna binge this." But, obvi, I can't. And that's sad. But it is what it is! Alwynse. Hiii!!! Gah I'm so sorry for the late response. Every time I see a review, I run to write the next chapter which is really bad of me :( But I really didn't want to give a one or two word response too, you know? So here I am for a full-blown conversation :D Haha yes! I've made James a bit bad on this. Leanna's emotions are also very very difficult to relate to sometimes. But her character as well as Skyler's are based on two real people. Leanna’s counterpart is the most empathic person I know whose mind and emotions work very differently to others. You’ll come across situations where you’ll say to yourself, “Huh? That just doesn’t seem right” but I assure you that it’ll be ironed out with her character development. I do hope you stick around (You’ve already reviewed so much! Please don’t leave me). Please do keep telling me if I don’t make sense at any point. I tend to do that. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND THE RATING AND EVERYTHING OMG I LOVE YOU. 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__label__cc	0.646061	0.353939	van wagner, isaac m. (12) pardo, jean (5) scott, john (4) mendelsohn, murray (3) davis, f.a. (2) bethlehem presbyterian church (1) blunt, edmund, 1799-1866 (1) newburgh (n.y.) -- history -- 18th century (18) land tenure (16) Description: Isaac St. Stephen's College Graduating Class of 1896 College students--New York (State); St. Stephen's College (Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.); Photographs; College graduates Members of the St. Stephen's College graduating class of 1896 pose in traditional cap and gown around St. Margaret's Well, built in memory of Margaret Bard. The St. Stephen's College Messenger covered Commencement exercises, reporting that the... Rhinebeck Post Office Mural: Sunday Morning Before Church Service, 1790 Rhinebeck (N.Y. : Town); Local history--New York (State); Rhinebeck (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc. Panel 7 of Rhinebeck Post Office Mural. From "Murals in the Rhinebeck Post Office." "Sunday morning before Dutch Reformed Church service. This building is drawn from the still standing clapboard Durch Reformed Church at Tivoli. Two walls of the... Sketch for Panel 7, 1790, Rhinebeck Post Office Mural Livingston family; Local history--New York (State); Rhinebeck (N.Y.)--History; Rhinebeck (N.Y.), Rhinebeck (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.; "Sunday morning before Dutch Reformed Church service. This building is drawn from the still standing clapboard Durch Reformed Church at Tivoli. Two walls of the present structure (built by John Coddington in 1809) are made of contributed stone, tow... Judgement against Peter Townsend, Isaac Townsend and John Springstead in favor of Anthony Yelverton Documents; Land grants; Judicial proceedings; This indenture documents the sale by Thomas Morris, US Marshall of property per decree against Peter Townsend, Isaac Townsend and John Springstead in favor of Anthony Yelverton. "Fieri Facias" is Latin for "that you cause to be done." This is a... Sketch of Chester village lots Maps; Villages Undated sketch of Chester village lots by surveyor, Fred J. Knight, (Scale of 18 Chains to 1 inch). Parcels labeled: Cartter & Vail, Charles Smith, Isaac Banker, Mansion House, Milton Hulse, S. J. Banker. Garden and Main Streets noted. pg000i_Index pg015_JeremiahOstrander pg016_DwightDivine pg053_JohnMcKnight pg065_IsaacJelliff pg272k_RecordOfBurial Paycheck to Isaac Roosevelt Checks; Politics & Government; Legislative bodies A paycheck given to Isaac Roosevelt for participating in the Constitutional Convention at Poughkeepsie, New York. Cornerstone of the New York City Dutch Church Cornerstones; Churches; New York City Reformed Protestant Dutch Church Cornerstone with the names Isaac Roosevelt, deacon and Jacobus Roosevelt, elder Portrait of Isaac Roosevelt I Portraits; Paintings; Men; Clothing & dress A color image of a portrait of Isaac Roosevelt I, the Great-great-grandfather of FDR. The original oil painting by Gilbert Stuart, shows him in a black suit and white cravat with long white hair, sitting in a leather chair with papers in his hand.... Isaac Blessing Jacob pendant necklace Jewelry; Round silver pendant necklace showing Isaac blessing Jacob. Will of Philip Dubois, 1764 Slaveholders; Huguenots Will of Philip Dubois. In his will he leaves all of his slaves, stock of horses, and money to his daughter, Esther, and five grandsons, Philip, Cornelius, Isaac, Jacob, and Ludewick. Court of sessions, September 3, 1707 Slavery--Law and legislation; Isaac Hasbrouck of New Paltz was accused of assaulting Hugo Freer. He beat, wounded, and bruised Hugo Freer so that his ear bled. Hasbrouck pleaded guilty and threw himself upon the Court. He was ordered to pay 20 shillings. During the same session... Will of Isaac Lefever, 1753 Will of Isaac Lefever, resident of New Paltz, NY. In his will he left all of his belongings, including a female slave named Bat, to his wife, Mary. 1863-06-10 letter from James Thitchener letter to his aunt United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Correspondence; James tells his aunt that he has been left behind by his regiment since he was unable to travel. He thinks a big battle is about to happen and hopes to be excused from fighting. General Hooker is unsure of the whereabouts of the rebel army, but... Stern's Castle, (Irvington, N.Y.) Mansions; Stone buildings; Abandoned buildings View of upper stories and circular tower with parapets, Stern's Castle, Irvington, N.Y. Stern's Castle was built by Isaac Stern, the owner of	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1365
__label__cc	0.67395	0.32605	Children Enjoy Pets’ Company More Than That Of Their Siblings, According to Scientists ConsciousnessSOCIETY By Dimitar Dimitrov On Apr 30, 2019 Children get deeper and longer-lasting satisfaction from their relationships with pets than with their siblings, a study by Matthew T. Cassels, Naomi White, Nancy Gee and Claire Hughes published in Volume 49, March–April 2017 of the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology reads. Their research highlights the influence that pets may have on a child’s development, and suggests that forming a bond with a four-pawed pal at an early age could have a positive impact on children’s social skills and emotional stability. Given the popularity of pets in western households, including some truly extreme cases, it comes as a surprise that pet-children relationships have been little explored in the past. Matt Cassells, a Gates Cambridge Scholar at the Department of Psychiatry, who led the study, told CombridgeshireLive: “Anyone who has loved a childhood pet knows that we turn to them for companionship and disclosure, just like relationships between people.” “We wanted to know how strong these relationships are with pets relative to other close family ties. Ultimately this may enable us to understand how animals contribute to healthy child development,” he added. The study was carried out in partnership with the WALTHAM Centre for Pet Nutrition with the financial support of the Economic and Social Research Council. Cassells and his team surveyed 12-year-olds from seventy-seven families with one or more pets of any type and more than one child in the household. The polled children reported strong relationships with their pets compared to that with their siblings. The study also revealed that of all other kinds of pets, dogs and children make the greatest of friends. “Even though pets may not fully understand or respond verbally, the level of disclosure to pets was no less than to siblings,” says Cassels. “The fact that pets cannot understand or talk back may even be a benefit as it means they are completely non-judgmental.” “While previous research has often found that boys report stronger relationships with their pets than girls do, we actually found the opposite. While boys and girls were equally satisfied with their pets, girls reported more disclosure, companionship, and conflict with their pet than did boys, perhaps indicating that girls may interact with their pets in more nuanced ways,” he went on. “Evidence continues to grow showing that pets have positive benefits on human health and community cohesion,” says Dr Nancy Gee, Human-Animal Interaction Research Manager at WALTHAM and a co-author of the study. “The social support that adolescents receive from pets may well support psychological well-being later in life but there is still more to learn about the long term impact of pets on children’s development,” she added. childrendogs and childrenpet-children relationshipsPets’ Companyscientistssiblings Scientists Can Now Read Relationship Satisfaction in Our Eyes Waves of Shock Rip Through Hollywood as John Singleton, Director of “Boyz N the Hood,” Dies aged 51 Do You Remember Octomom Nadya Suleman? Recent Updates Show What The Mother Of 14 Is… A Father’s Post About His Ex-Wife Has Gone Viral And People Are Loving It How Pregnancy Incredibly Changes A Woman’s Brain 7 Reasons Why Grandmothers Are So Special For All Of Us Top 7 Tips to Raise a Good Kid, According to Harvard Psychologists 5 Harmful Parenting Practices to Avoid with Your Children	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1367
__label__cc	0.613298	0.386702	Home Articles Herbal support for geriatric animals Herbal support for geriatric animals By: Nancy Brandt, DVM Health issues, from cognitive to musculoskeletal to cardiovascular, often arise in our geriatric patients. Herbs offer beneficial affects to a variety of body systems to help prevent these problems. Gerontology is the study of declining function as an individual ages. The big picture approach to geriatric health in veterinary medicine involves supporting the ongoing effort to maintain and repair body tissues as they become more and more inefficient. A variety of herbs can play an important role in the mitigation of aging in veterinary patients. Causes of age-related illnesses There are many theories of aging. According to an Anatomy & Physiology textbook1 used to teach OMD (Oriental Medical Doctor) students, aging from a Western perspective may be caused by one or a combination of the following: Limit on cell reproduction Nutrition, injury, disease and environmental factors (epigenetics) Slow-acting “aging” viruses The “aging” genes that regulate apoptosis or other cell functions (pre-programmed aging) Autoimmunity, when the immune system attacks its own tissues Mitochondrial degeneration, which means less ATP and an increase in free radical production. The prevention of aging Western and Traditional Chinese herbs have a strong tradition of increasing longevity and preventing aging. For centuries, they have been used as elixirs of longevity. Western herbal supplements are now routinely started in older patients; an example is the use of glucosamine for the prevention and palliation of arthritic symptoms. What more could we start recommending to our animal patients to delay the aging process before symptoms arise? Many body systems will begin to show wear and tear as animals age. The integrative veterinarian can slow this “inevitable” decline by choosing from an herbal smorgasbord of system-supportive ingredients. The primary systems needing support in aging pet include: Cognition/special senses Poor cognition in many pets will manifest as abnormal gaits, vocalization or incontinence, and may even be overlooked as a primary cause. Herbal preparations like Ginko biloba, Rhodiola rosea or Bacopa monniera should be part of a preventative program. Special senses like hearing, sight or even smell may diminish and suffer poor repair, declining slowly and unnoticed. Antioxidants play a major role in slowing aging within all tissues, especially the special senses. Neuroendocrine/adrenal Neuroendocrine and adrenal support is crucial to a healthily functioning autonomic nervous system. Rhodiola rose, Panex ginseng, Ashwagandha and Eleutherococcous can support the overall system of regulation and control. Use tonic herbal blends for everyday support and repair. Free radical damage/mitochondrial Free radical prevention and repair is crucial to the anti-aging process. Mitochondrial support is needed to continue supplying an ample amount of ATP, or “Chi” for the body. Herbs like bilberry, milk thistle, grape seed extract, green tea extract and lycopene taken as prophylactics can both prevent and repair the decline in these aging mechanisms. Support can delay congestive heart disease, even in inherited mitral murmur cases. Feed the organ system vital nutrients in the form of herbs such as lycopene, hawthorn berry, Astragulus and Coleus forskolii. The immune system is often treated as overactive, using immunosuppressive drugs. Adaptagenic herbs like green tea extract, Astragalus, Larch arabinogalactian and a variety of medicinal mushrooms can support an often-overloaded immune system. Hepatic/detoxification management Support is crucial for keeping waste products from building up in the body. Many pets are subjected to multiple pharmaceutical and chemical products throughout their lifetimes, which stresses these pathways. Gentle herbal tonics like green tea, turmeric, dandelion and milk thistle can repair and keep these systems operational. The gastrointestinal system is subjected to a variety of foods, often not from the diet of natural selection, so it can become less and less functional as the years pass. Chronic inflammation in the digestive tract can lead to malabsorption, maldigestion, cancer and many other GI mishaps. How many pets are put down because of digestive issues like anorexia and chronic diarrhea? Administration of herbs like marshmallow, rosemary, cinnamon, ginger and slippery elm, along with antioxidants can increase the health of pets significantly. Many other microbiome-supporting supplements can be very beneficial. Musculoskeletal/connective tissue Supporting these tissues with herbs like boswellia and turmeric may enhance the properties of glucosamine products and Adequen®. The renal system is often neglected, yet in most humans, over 50% of functioning nephrons are lost by the age of 50.2 The kidneys serve as the organ of excretion for the majority of pharmaceuticals used over the lifespan of our patients, aging the nephrons even faster. Supportive herbs include Rheum officinale, Codonopsis and Eleutherococcous. Top 3 aging issues most likely to lead to euthanasia Anorexia of aging/wasting disease Lack of energy/disorientation Musculoskeletal deterioration Top 10 herbs for longevity and preventative medicine programs 1. Rosemary Rosemary has positive effects on appetite, memory and hair growth. Processing meats at high temperatures (especially for dry food) creates HCAs (heterocyclic amines), potent carcinogens implicated in several cancers. HCA levels are significantly reduced when rosemary extract is mixed into beef before cooking, say Kansas State University researchers. “Rosemary contains carnosol and rosemarinic acid, two powerful antioxidants that destroy the HCAs,” explains lead researcher J. Scott Smith, PhD.3 Rosemary extract helps prevent carcinogens that enter the body from binding with DNA, the first step in tumor formation, according to several animal studies. “Rosemary has shown a lot of cancer-protective potential,” says study author Keith W. Singletary, PhD.4 Turmeric is a strong antioxidant for the GI system and helps prevent gastritis and arthritis symptoms. Turmeric contains curcumin, a powerful anti-inflammatory that works similarly to Cox-2 inhibitors, drugs which reduce the Cox-2 enzyme that causes the pain and swelling of arthritis.5 According to a small clinical trial conducted by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, curcumin can help shrink precancerous lesions known as colon polyps.6 Researchers at UCLA also found that curcumin helps clear the brain of the plaques characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease.7 Both these studies indicate anti-inflammatory properties tissue-wide. More studies need to take place in animals to fully substantiate these correlations. Ginger affects metabolic vigor and tonifies digestion. A powerful antioxidant, ginger works by blocking the effects of serotonin, a chemical produced by both the brain and stomach when you’re nauseated, and by stopping the production of free radicals, another cause of upset in the stomach.8 4. Rhodiola rosea Rhodiola rosea is helpful in maintaining muscle mass.9 This herb is also used for fatigue, poor attention span and decreased memory. A review published in the American Botanical Council’s journal reported that numerous studies in humans, animals, and in cells have shown that Rhodiola helps prevent fatigue, stress and the damaging effects of oxygen deprivation. The evidence suggests that Rhodiola has an antioxidant effect and enhances immune system function.10 5. Cordyceps sinensus According to Andrew Weil, MD,11 Cordyceps sinensus is used as a tonic and restorative. This Chinese fungus can help overcome general weakness and fatigue and increase physical stamina, mental energy, vigor and longevity. 6. Eleutherococcus senticosus Eleutherococcus senticosuscan help address lethargy, fatigue and low stamina, according to Dr. Weil.12 Both Cordyceps and Eleutherococcus have a long history of use in TCM. 7. Milk thistle Milk thistle extracts have been used as traditional herbal medicine remedies for almost 2,000 years. Milk thistle contains high levels of bioflavonoids that increase immunity and slow down oxidative stress. The herb is also used for its anti-inflammatory properties. It can aid digestive function, increase bile production, boost skin health, fight the appearance of aging and help detoxify the body. A review of clinical trials evaluating the safety and efficacy of milk thistle found that it has protective effects in certain types of cancer; data shows it can also be used for patients with liver diseases and hepatitis. Milk thistle extracts are known to be safe and well-tolerated.13 8. Green tea extract Studies have shown that tea polyphenols offer a protective effect against free radicals, cardiovascular damage, some cancers and infections. 9. Boswellia Boswellia is known to reduce pain and inflammation in both the joints and tendon and ligament attachments. It is also known to strengthen connective tissue resiliency. Boswellia serrata offers many benefits, such as reducing body inflammation and helping to treat conditions like osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritisand inflammatory bowel disease. It’s also a painkiller, and can help inhibit cartilage l Boswellia can be used to alleviate asthma and may have protective effects against diseases like leukemia and breast cancer.14 10. Ashwagndha and Astragalus These are adaptogenic herbs. In TCM, Astragalus is used as an immune adaptogen. It is strongly antioxidant, antimicrobial and heart protective. Ashwagandha is used in Ayurvedic medicine for its high antioxidant levels and infection-fighting properties, and is also used to address depression and reduce the effects of stress. In addition to the herbs discussed above, nutritional supplements like CoQ10, probiotics and vitamin D3, as well as TCVM herbal tonics like Liu Wei Di Huang Wan or Sheng Mai San, are routinely used in longevity medicine. The best cure for aging issues is prevention, so offer these herbs and supplements to your clients early on. Look for quality products Herbal supplements are classified as dietary supplements by the U.S Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, which means they’re not tested to prove their safety and efficacy, unlike prescription drugs. Some manufacturers sell herbal products that aren’t completely pure. When buying herbs, investigate the company’s GMP and QC. This ensures you get high quality products that aren’t weakened with less expensive additives, or grown with pesticides or contaminated with heavy metals. Botanical medicine may also cause allergic reactions or interact with conventional drugs. 1Patton and Thibodeau. Anatomy & Physiology, 8th edition, Elsevier 2013. Pages 1118-1119. 2Patton and Thibodeau. Anatomy & Physiology, 8th edition, Elsevier 2013. Page 1120. 3Kanithaporn Puangsombat and J. Scott Smith. “Inhibition of Heterocyclic Amine Formation in Beef Patties by Ethanolic Extracts of Rosemary”, Journal of Food Science, 75, 2, (T40). 4Keith W. Singletary, Joan T. Rokusek. “Tissue-specific enhancement of xenobiotic detoxification enzymes in mice by dietary rosemary extract”. Feb 1997, Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 5Prevention Magazine, June 2007, Page 195. 6“Curcumin in Treating Patients With Familial Adenomatous Polyposis”. National Cancer Institute (NCI), Johns Hopkins University/Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21287, September 2017. 8Suzanna Zick. “Can Ginger Ale Really Soothe Nausea?” The Atlantic, October 30, 2016. 9Frank Mayer, et al. “The Intensity and Effects of Strength Training in the Elderly”. Deutsches Aerzteblatt international, May 2011 DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.2011.0359. 10Richard P. Brown, Patricia L. Gerbarg, Zakir Ramazanov. “Rhodiola rosea: A Phytomedicinal Overview” HerbalGram. 2002; 56:40-52 American Botanical Council. 11Andrew Weil MD, drweil.com/vitamins-supplements-herbs/herbs/cordyceps/. 12Andrew Weil MD, drweil.com/vitamins-supplements-herbs/herbs/siberian-ginseng/. 13Andrew Weil MD, drweil.com/vitamins-supplements-herbs/herbs/milk-thistle/. 14Dr. Mercola, articles.mercola.com/herbs-spices/boswellia.aspx. Previous articleHospice home care products for pets Next articleA successful and healthy veterinary practice using an indigenous healers’ approach Nancy Brandt, DVM Dr. Nancy Brandt graduated from the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine in 1990, and later began her studies in acupuncture, Chinese medicine, chiropractic medicine, and naturopathic modalities. In 1999, she founded her practice, Natural Care Institute. In 2017, Dr. Brandt founded UnBound Center for Animal Wellness, for special needs pets. She pioneered the field of Veterinary Medical Aromatherapy® and founded the Veterinary Medical Aromatherapy Association (nancybrandtdvm.com and sparkeducationonline.com).	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1371
__label__wiki	0.609517	0.609517	Ferrari 365 GT4 Gives You the Fastest Brown in Town for $39,500! 1973 ferrari 365 GT4 2+2 prancing horse The 365 GT4 2+2‘s predilection for automatics meant a reputation for it being considered soft. Not all were slushboxes however, and this Nice Price or Crack Pipe contender's five-speed may make your choice today kind of hard. Price and condition were overwhelmed yesterday by miles and Focus-ness, as the atomic orange SVT fell in a narrow 53/47 Crack Pipe vote to open the week. After five straight Nice Price wins last week, it feels good to get back on the crack. Focus in on an SVT Ford for $3,995! Myopia being one of the most common eye problems in the world, many people might not be able to… In 1963 - not while on crack, but probably following a two-martini lunch - Henry Ford II contemplated the purchase of Ferrari as a quick inroad to racing success. It was Henry's hubris that quashed the deal, and set Ford on the path to beat the Italians at any cost. Historically, that's as close as yesterday's Focus and today's contender will ever come. And while that little Ford was a hotted-up version of a mundane daily driver, today's 1973 365 GT4 2+2 was the era's most sedate and toned-down example of the Ferrari bloodline- as close to a daily driver as a prancing horse-badged car got. Well, daily driver or not, it's still a Ferrari, and if any brand didn't need a buxom bikini model to draw attention to them, it's the Prancing Horse. Despite that, you can never go wrong with a model that has bigger headlights than your car. And what a car that is. One of only 521 cars built (excluding the later 400 and 412 cars) this brown beauty is a rare example blessed with three pedals in the driver's footbox. The vast majority of the 365/400/412s had a little bit of GM in them, as a turbohydromatic countered all the exotica in sort of a vanilla sorbet to the rest of the car's acceglio-infused gelato. But that's not the case with this one. That 8-ball-topped chrome lever sprouting from the sweeping center console actuates a five speed box, however the console's height precludes the traditional exposed gate. Mated to the front of the transmission is a single-plate clutch and ahead of that is Ferrari's glorious 4.4-litre DOHC all-alloy V12. The aircraft-like hoodline of the 365 is made possible by moving the intake to the underside of the top cam and laying the six 38 DCOE Webers out horizontally. The seller of this car claims that it has undergone a minor tuneup, including the synchronizing of those carbs, as well as replacement of the plugs. While they say they have maintenance records dating back to 1990, I'm not familiar enough (meaning not at all) with this dealer to know if they should be trusted to even be touching this Colombo-derived marvel. As the car is showing 62,000 on it clock, the maintenance records are of utmost importance in revealing the history hidden in those miles. Inside, the car is swathed in more dead cow than the Gimp from Pulp Fiction. It's all remarkably clean and shows only minor crazing in the leather, notably on the door arm rests and seat bolsters. The back seats are as roomy as you're ever going to get in a Ferrari, and look down-right inviting. Underneath, there's surprisingly little surface rust and everything looks like it's in the same place it was when it left Maranello. You'd think that the Tipo F101 AL chassis-being welded tube frame and body panels, along with that huge V12, would make this prancing horse a pig, but surprisingly it tips the scales at less than 1,500kg (about 3,300 lbs) dripping wet. That, along with the engine's 340-bhp mean sixty is only about six and a half seconds from a standstill, and a top end of over 150-mph is achievable. It's hard to envision the 365 GT4, or later 400 and 412 derivations, without the Playboy mansion in the background, and maybe a guy in a turtleneck sweater, skinny white jeans and ankle-high shoes with zippers on the sides, leaning against it and lighting a Camel. But despite the heavy layer of ‘70s schmaltz that's inherent in these cars, they're still very good looking in a conservative, old-fashioned STD kind of way. And while you may have discounted them for the expected GM slushbox, the presence of a five speed makes this a prancing horse of a different color. As it's a '73, the fact that it was never officially imported is moot, and you should be able to register it where ever you are without problem. What might be a problem for some is the asking price, which at $39,500 doesn't seem a lot for a V12 Ferrari, but is a lot cheddar for those of us more used to eating government cheese. But what do you think? Does that $39,500 make you want to become a Maranello maniac? Or, is that too much to pony up for this prancing horse? Nice Price or Crack Pipe: 1973 Ferrari 365 GT4 2+2 for $39,500.surveys eBay or go here if the ad disappears. Help me out with NPOCP. Click here to send a me a tip, and remember to include your commenter handle.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1376
__label__cc	0.573133	0.426867	Interactive Mapclick to see geographic support for Deporting Criminal Immigrants Should immigrants be deported if they commit a serious crime? Results from Fratelli d'Italia voters Votes from: \| All \| Fratelli d'Italia Last answered 1 day ago Distribution of answers submitted by Fratelli d'Italia voters. Yes, but after they have finished serving their sentence No, only if they have entered the country illegally Yes, as long as it is safe for them to return to their country Data includes total votes submitted by visitors since Jan 6, 2017. For users that answer more than once (yes we know), only their most recent answer is counted in the total results. Total percentages may not add up to exactly 100% as we allow users to submit "grey area" stances that may not be categorized into yes/no stances. Nuovo Centrodestra Sinistra Ecologia Libertà Scelta Civica Conservatori e Riformisti Fratelli d'Italia Learn more about Deporting Criminal Immigrants In 2015 the U.S. House of Representatives introduced the Establishing Mandatory Minimums for Illegal Reentry Act of 2015 (Kate’s Law.) The law was introduced after San Francisco 32 year old San Francisco resident Kathryn Steinle was shot and killed by Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez on July 1, 2015. Lopez-Sanchez was an illegal immigrant from Mexico who had been deported on five separate occasions since 1991 and been charged with seven felony convictions. Since 1991 Lopez-Sanchez had been charged with seven felony convictions and deported five times by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Although Lopez-Sanchez had several outstanding warrants in 2015 authorities were unable to deport him due to San Francisco’s sanctuary city policy which prevents law enforcement officials from questioning a resident’s immigration status. Proponents of sanctuary city laws argue that they enable illegal immigrants to report crimes without the fear of being reported. Opponents argue that sanctuary city laws provide encourage illegal immigration and prevent law enforcement authorities from detaining and deporting criminals. See recent criminal immigrants news Migrant Children... Muslim Immigrants...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1379
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__label__wiki	0.948779	0.948779	Church: Pope Had Role in Moving Molesting Priest March 31, 2010 March 13, 2010 by Infinite – Pope knew priest was paedophile but allowed him to continue with ministry (Times) – Pope will struggle to survive abuse scandal (Irish Independent) – Benedict’s involvement ‘shows extent of cover-ups’ (Irish Independent) – Sinead O’Connor: I’d help Jesus to burn down the Vatican (Irish Independent) – RIGHTS-GERMANY: ‘Catholic Church Protects Paedophile Priests’ (IPS) – Child abuse claims sweep Catholic Church in Europe (AP) Pope Benedict XVI prays in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on May 15, 2009. Photographer: Yannis Behrakis/Pool via Bloomberg News March 12 (Bloomberg) — Pope Benedict XVI, during his tenure as archbishop of Munich, played a role in a decision to move a priest accused of sexual molestation to his diocese to undergo therapy, the church said today. The priest was later reassigned by another church official and committed more abuse, the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising said in a statement on its Web site. Benedict, at the time Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger, “was involved” in a 1980 decision to move the priest, identified only as “H.,” from a church in Essen, Germany, to a rectory in the Munich region for treatment, the diocese said. A former vicar-general in the church administration, Gerhard Gruber, subsequently allowed the accused priest to continue pastoral duties, during which he committed abuse and was convicted by a court in 1986. Gruber said in the statement that the decision to re-post “H.” was his alone. “The repeated employment of ‘H.’ in pastoral duties was a serious mistake,” Gruber said. “I take full responsibility for this and I deeply regret that this decision led to offenses against youths — I apologize to all those who were harmed by this.” A wave of allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic priests has emerged in Germany this year, beginning at an elite Jesuit high school in Berlin, Canisius-Kolleg. The head of the German Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, last month issued an apology to more than 100 pedophilia victims, echoing Benedict’s statement that such abuse is a “heinous crime.” ‘Deeply Upset’ Benedict met with Zollitsch today in Rome, after which the German archbishop told reporters that the 82-year-old pontiff “listened with great distress and interest” to his report on the abuse and was “deeply upset” by the sexual crime. Benedict has struggled to contain the damage to the church’s reputation from European sex-abuse scandals. He was accused by victims’ rights groups of being slow to respond to Irish investigations last year that documented “endemic” abuse of children since the 1930s by priests in Ireland. A spokesman for the Vatican, Federico Lombardi, said the pope was “extraneous” to the events in Munich and referred to the statement issued by the archdiocese. “The statement was clear about Gruber assuming full responsibility for what happened,” Lombardi said by phone. The story was reported earlier by the Sueddeutsche-Zeitung. Relationships With Boys When Ratzinger’s church made the initial decision to transfer H. for therapy, documents show that the decision-makers likely knew the treatment involved H.’s “sexual relationships with boys,” the archdiocese said in the statement. According to the church in Munich, police later began to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct committed by H. while he was a pastoral care assistant near Munich in 1985. After his removal from service, he was sentenced to an 18-month suspended sentence and fined 4,000 deutsche Marks ($2,815). He continued to be active after undergoing psychological treatment and from October 2008 worked in pastoral care for “health treatment and tourism,” though wasn’t permitted to work in youth activities, the Munich archdiocese said. An assessment ordered by the current archbishop, Reinhard Marx, “does not justify” H.’s service in church duties. Pope’s Brother The abuse scandal’s spread to the Bavarian-born pope’s homeland was highlighted this week when his older brother, 86- year-old Georg Ratzinger, responding to abuse allegations in his diocese, said he regretted slapping students when he was director of the Regensburg Cathedral choir. In an interview with the Passauer Neue Presse, the older Ratzinger said he’d always had a “bad conscience” about hitting boys, though allegations of sexual abuse had never been raised while he was in office. Joseph Ratzinger, who became pope in 2005, was appointed archbishop of Munich in 1977 at age 49, after spending most of his life as a theology professor and Catholic intellectual. He served the Bavarian church until Pope John Paul II transferred him to Rome in 1982 to oversee the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith, which polices church dogma. The leader of more than a billion Catholics, Benedict has made some efforts to deal with child-abuse scandals since he became pope in April 2005. He visited the U.S. and Australia for the first time in 2008 and apologized to victims of abuse, becoming the first pontiff to do so. To contact the reporters on this story: Patrick Donahue in Berlin at at pdonahue1@bloomberg.net; Flavia Krause-Jackson in Rome at fjackson@bloomberg.net Last Updated: March 12, 2010 15:09 EST – Chief exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth says Devil is in the Vatican – Vatican Hit By Gay Sex Scandal –‘Systematic’ Sexual Abuse at Berlin Catholic School – Pope Benedict XVI Summons Irish Bishops Over Child Abuse Scandal – Irish Catholic Bishops Resign Over Church Cover-Up of Child Abuse – 80 new cases of child abuse by Catholic priests in Ireland: Inquiry – Supreme Court Refuses to Block Release of Catholic Church Sex Abuse Papers – Pope Benedict XVI Calls for NEW FINANCIAL ORDER With ‘Real Teeth’ – Final report: Endemic rape and abuse of more than 30.000 Irish children in Catholic care – Dublin archbishop: Sex abuse report will shock Nice handsign! Don’t tell me that the pope is also from Texas! Categories Global News, Society Tags Abuse, Catholic Church, Children, Church, Crime, Germany, Global News, Pope, Pope Benedict XVI, Rape, Religion, Society, Vatican Post navigation Ireland: NAMA Chairman to Get 70% Pay Increase Gerald Celente: ‘It’s the greatest bank robbery in world history and the banks are doing the robbing.’	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1391
__label__wiki	0.636297	0.636297	Researchers use biomarkers for monitoring mercury contamination Experts seek a way to assess the presence of mercury in the environment and organisms before it becomes toxic. Brazil finds giant destruction by mining in reserve Deforested area corresponds to more than a thousand football fields, says IBAMA. A joint operation disabled mining, and equipment was burned. Documentary shows the “human cost” of conflict in the Peruvian Amazon The “Human Cost” is a documentary that shows the struggle that Peruvian indigenous uphold to avoid deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. Solar energy against the Amazon darkness and slums The Mamirauá Institute is developing a project to provide electricity through solar panels to dozens of Amazonian communities of fishermen and farmers. Hydroelectric dam Belo Monte on the Xingu river, Brazil, began to operate The first turbine of the Belo Monte dam began to operate in pre-operational phase. It happened just over five years after the start of construction of the plant, projected to be the fourth largest in the world. Emergency in 11 districts of Madre de Dios, Peru, by mercury contamination Document shows mercury contamination in rivers, hydrobiological species and population exceeding the maximum permissible limits due to artisanal mining. Justice suspends repeal of protected areas of Rondônia state, Brazil Decision revoked act of the Legislative Assembly of the state, which abolished the decrees of creation of four protected areas of sustainable use. Ecuador will explore oil in Tiputini field, in the Yasuni ITT block, in July Tiputini, which is outside the Yasuni, includes in the ITT block about 920 million barrels of oil, 20% of Ecuador’s reserves. International certification organization orders Peruvian palm oil plantation to stop According to the RSPO’s complaints panel, Plantaciones de Pucallpa is failing to respect customary land rights and clearing primary forest.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1393
__label__wiki	0.913417	0.913417	Dahil sa pag-out? Mark Bautista rumored to be banned in ABS-CBN Author: Daisy Mabini Updated: a year ago Category: Latest PH Entertainment News - Philippines SHOWBIZ News - Mark Bautista published a tell-all memoir - In his book, Mark revealed that he loves both sexes - Because of the controversial coming out, rumors that he is banned from the Kapamilya network surfaced PAY ATTENTION: Click "See First" under the "Following" tab to see KAMI news on your News Feed! Mark Bautista finally set the record straight about his love life and gender. His tell-all book Beyond the Mark sold out within days of its release. The singer was lauded for his bravery in revealing his intimate relations with another man and speaking his truth. But it also lead to rumors saying that the Kapamilya network barred him from entering the premises and from appearing on ABS-CBN shows. However, showbiz columnist Ricky Lo put an end to those rumors by getting an answer directly from Cory Vidanes, ABS-CBN's COO of Broadcast. In a text message, Cory denied the rumors that Mark is banned. "No. It's not true," said Cory to Ricky Lo through text. The columnist also interviewed Mark about the rumored ban. He said he has no idea why people would assume he could be banned from ABS-CBN. "I wouldn't know. I have no idea," said Mark. Despite the controversy brought by his revelations, Mark said he felt relieved after getting the book out. "Relieved that I was finally able to get the load off my chest; lumuwag ang pakiramdam ko na nailabas ko na sa dibdib ko. The question on my mind is, what comes next? What will happen next? But I have no regrets, wala akong pinagsisihan. It's not something that, you know, what if this doesn't work? There has been no hesitation. All I can say is, thank God, I made this move!" Mark knew publishing the book would impact his career, but he was willing to take the risk. "When I wrote the book, wala akong inisip na ibang intensyon aside from letting it out of my chest. "After I wrote it, ang daming nagsabi sa akin, ‘Mark, you are taking a big risk.’ My friends in New York did warn me about how the book would affect my career. And yes, I did fear about losing everything. "But whatever happens, I am ready. I leave it all to God. His will be done. All I can say is that I feel liberated that I have unburdened a heavy load from my chest. I feel free." Mark entered showbiz after coming in second place behind Sarah Geronimo in the TV talent search Star for a Night in 2003. He signed on under Viva Records as a recording artist. In 2004, he signed a contract with ABS-CBN and became a regular performer in ASAP. He moved back to GMA in 2010. In 2014, he performed in the musical Here Lies Love as Ferdinand Marcos. The musical was staged at the Royal National Theatre in London. On February 2, Guhit Pinas member and artist Aubrey So took away her life due to depression. This video is to pay tribute to Aubrey and to raise awareness about mental health. Rest in peace, Aubrey. Depression has no face \| Kami Stories - on KAMI YouTube Channel Mark Bautista jelai andres and jon gutierrez norman crisologo business funny memes tagalog kapuso stars Julia Barretto, pinag-uusapan ang "get unready with me ft. mom's bathroom" video sa socmed Julia Barretto, pinag-uusapan ang "get unready with me" video sa socmed	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1397
__label__cc	0.701486	0.298514	Secretary (Construction) Calford Seaden Secretarial, Admin, PA calfordseaden is a leading multi-discipline construction and property consultancy. We provide a definitive range of services to the UK building and construction industry covering chartered building & quantity surveying, project management, architecture & master planning, civil & structural engineering, mechanical & electrical engineering, sustainability and health & safety. Position: Secretary Location: London (close to London Bridge) Job type: Part Time, 9 Months Temporary Contract Maternity Leave Hours: 28 hours per week, 4 days per week, Mon - Thu Salary: £Competitive About the role: You will be working within a busy group of Secretaries and Commercial Building Surveyors close to London Bridge Station - Word processing from audio e.g. letters using mail merge, memos, specifications, reports, minutes, contract instructions, final accounts, schedules, employer’s requirements and other documents. - Excel Spreadsheets and multiplication of data. - Copy typing. - Transmission of emails. - Answering the telephone, dealing with queries / taking / relaying messages. - Planning and maintaining group appointments / schedules. - Assist with administration tasks arising. - Any other reasonable duties that may be relevant to this post. - Experience of working with Building Surveyors in the construction industry. - Minimum of 60wpm typing speed. - Extensive experience of Audiotyping. - Good attention to detail. - Good command of English (spoken and written). - Mature and professional attitude. - Flexible approach to work. - Enthusiastic, Innovative, Organised. Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006: List of Documents The Practice is required under this Act to ensure that all Employees have the right to work in the UK and the right to do the work offered. At interview all potential Employees must provide one of the original documents set out in List 1 or two of the original documents in the combinations given in List 2 (as attached to the application form). It is not necessary to produce documents from both lists. Photocopies of documents provided will be retained on the successful applicant's file. This job description will be subject to review in the light of changing circumstances and may include other duties and responsibilities as may be determined. It is not intended to be rigid or inflexible but should be regarded as providing guidelines within which the individual works. The appointment is subject to proof of the attainment of any qualifications deemed essential to the post and used as a basis for shortlisting and selection. Failure to provide evidence of the required qualifications will result in the offer of employment being withdrawn. calfordseaden are an Equal Opportunities Employer and are committed to and support the principles of equality of opportunity in employment, training and service delivery. You may have experience of the following: Office Administrator, Admin Assistant, Office Admin, Administrator, Administrative Assistant, Office Assistant, Team Administrator, Team Support, Secretary, PA, Personal Assistant, Construction, Team Secretary, etc. Administrator (Asset Management) £22,525 to £26,500 (salary dependant on experience) Salvation Army Housing Association Coach Accreditation & Engagement Coordinator Roehampton, London £23-25,000 per annum, dependent on experience The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) Flexible Working Opportunities National Tennis Centre, 100 Priory Lane, Roehampton, London, SW15 5JQ Dependent on experience Secretarial, Admin, PA jobs in London (Greater)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1401
__label__cc	0.657165	0.342835	Tag Archives: The Simpsons The Simpsons Take The Hollywood Bowl! (part two) Posted on Wednesday 24 September 2014 by joshwilltravel The Simpsons Take The Hollywood Bowl! NOTE: I had a bit of “blog burnout” last week. Here is part two (still under construction): Well, traffic was F* CKED of course! And I stack parked for $18. But I made it just in time!!! SHOWTIME! Orchestra Tuning! The incredible Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in concert! Some of the female musicians were wearing Marge’s blue hair-hats! Animated sequences from The Simpsons television show and movie were shown on the big screen and accompanied by the orchestra and other performers throughout the night. The lighting and animated projections on the bowl were perfectly designed for each act! The Simpsons take the Hollywood Bowl (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel) The National Anthem “The Star Spangled Banner” is played before every concert. Welcome by Matt Groenig and hello to Hank Azaria, the evening’s Host! Apu sings “Who Needs the Kwik-E-Mart?” (with Dancing Hot Dogs!): Kwik-E-Mart! The Simpsons take the Hollywood Bowl (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel) Beverly D’Angelo in costume as Lurline Lumpkin sings “I Gotta Homer”: The Academy Award winning short film “The Longest Daycare” was shown accompanied by musical director and composer Hans Zimmer and the L.A. Philharmonic: The Simpsons “The Longest Daycare” at the Hollywood Bowl (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel) Hey, it’s Weird Al singing a “Little Ditty ’bout Homer and Marge” to the tune of John Cougar Mellencamp’s “Jack and Diane” and soloing on the accordion: Weird Al! The Simpsons take the Hollywood Bowl (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel) The Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles sang “Spider-Pig”, “See My Vest” and “We Do!” and then accompanied other performers throughout the night. “Spider-Pig!” The Simpsons take the Hollywood Bowl (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel) “See My Vest!” The Simpsons take the Hollywood Bowl (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel) https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=968152809877952&set=vb.100000497266600&type=2&theater AND FIREWORKS! LIKE & FRIEND us on Facebook> http://www.facebook.com/joshwilltravel FOLLOW us on Periscope> http://www.periscope.tv/joshwilltravel FOLLOW us on Twitter> http://www.twitter.com/joshwilltravel The “JoshWillTravel AdventureScope” is now available on Youtube! Posted in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Southern California, USA, West Coast \| Tagged Beverly D'Angelo, bowl, CA, Cali, California, coast, Conan, Conan O'Brien, concert, event, GMCLA, Hank Azaria, Hollywood, Hollywood Bowl, L.A., LA, Los Angeles, Nancy Cartwright, performance, Southern, Southern California, The Simpsons, US, usa, Vaud and the Villians, Weird Al, west, Yeardley Smith \| 1 Reply THE SIMPSONS take the Hollywood Bowl! (part one) Posted on Tuesday 16 September 2014 by joshwilltravel THE SIMPSONS take the Hollywood Bowl! Saturday night in Hollywood. Fireworks! The Simpsons take the Hollywood Bowl (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel) 25th Anniversary Celebration! – 3 Nights at the Hollywood Bowl Sept 12, 13 & 14, 2014 Get off the couch! The Simpsons take the Hollywood Bowl! Traffic! The Simpsons take the Hollywood Bowl (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel) A SOLD OUT SHOW means terrible traffic if you’re going to the Hollywood Bowl, or if you’re unfortunate and get caught in the mess on the 101 freeway, Cahuenga, Highland, Franklin or Hollywood Boulevard before or after the performance. Hollywood! The Simpsons take the Hollywood Bowl (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel) We got a late start, usually we like to arrive very early, and so it took 30 minutes from the Highland freeway offramp and cost $18 to finally park in the very full stacked parking lot. It was definitely a PARTY CROWD! There was excitement in the air! People came to have a good time and I wasn’t the only one stuck in traffic, so there were a lot of people hurrying for their seats at 7:45pm. The Hollywood Bowl was decorated for the event! Inflatable donuts, the Duff Blimp, and a Giant Inflatable Three-Eyed Fish photo op greeted guests in the courtyard area! The ticket takers were wearing Sideshow Bob hair-hats. Cutout characters, an “Evolution of Homer” mural and a Simpsons Couch photo op lined the hillside as you entered. Inflatable Donuts everywhere! Going in the ticket gate. Cutouts and Fun Stuff decorating the Hollywood Bowl! Have your picture taken on the couch with The Simpsons! (but the line was too long) “Evolution of Homer” Mural! Get out the vaseline! Hollywood Bowl prices: $ 4.00 plus tax for a Dasani Bottled Water. Really? $4.00 + Tax for a bottled water at the Hollywood Bowl (copyright 2014 JoshWillTravel) This is a great sign! And they mean it too. Saturday was a warm summer night in September, (we’re having a serious heatwave) and just perfect weather for an evening concert! The decorations and ambient entertainment really created a sense of event and added to the excitement as the crowd headed for their seats at 8pm. SHOWTIME! (Continue to part two) PART TWO: https://joshwilltravel.wordpress.com/2014/09/24/the-simpsons-take-the-hollywood-bowl-part-two/ http://www.facebook.com/joshwilltravel – http://www.twitter.com/joshwilltravel Posted in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Southern California, USA, West Coast \| Tagged Beverly D'Angelo, bowl, CA, Cali, California, Conan, Conan O'Brien, concert, event, GMCLA, Hank Azaria, Hollywood, Hollywood Bowl, L.A., LA, Los Angeles, Nancy Cartwright, performance, Southern, The Simpsons, US, usa, Vaud and the Villians, Weird Al, Yeardley Smith \| 1 Reply	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1406
__label__cc	0.6767	0.3233	When you come to Kenya, Run with a Kenyan Kenya is full of talent, magic, and beauty and amongst all of it, two things especially make Kenya famous: the best runners in the world and the best wildlife experiences anywhere. Many tourists who come to Kenya from around the world are drawn by the amazing wildlife, but with limited time, are forced to make a choice between wildlife and running. But it doesn’t have to be an either/or choice anymore. We are launching a new partnership with Angama Mara to make sure runners and wildlife enthusiasts can spend their days doing what they love with the Angama Run with a Kenyan program. Guests at Angama Mara will have a chance to join one of the runners on their in-house running team for a morning or evening run. Distance is up to the guest, and at the end, you receive a 100% Kenyan made Enda running T-shirt exclusive to Angama reading “I ran with a Kenyan – and survived”. You’ll also find our Enda Itens in the Angama gift shop, with a special offer: for every pair purchased, a pair is matched with it and donated to a member of the Enda Elite team to help them pursue their running career. We’re thrilled to be launching this partnership as it’s a new way for runners to connect with Kenyan running culture, helps support athletes in need, and supports runners and community in the Matunget community around Angama Mara.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1414
__label__cc	0.585446	0.414554	Home travel Medieval-Modern Design Under the Tuscan Sun Medieval-Modern Design Under the Tuscan Sun Let’s play a game of ‘Real Life or Movie Plot’. High-powered executive leaves NCY for a vacation in Italy, falls in love with Tuscany, finds an old ruined farmhouse, and moves to Italy to restore the property and open a country inn. I have definitely seen that movie, or at least, something similar. In the true spirit of life imitating art, former Vice-President of International Marketing for Sony Music, John Voightmann, bailed on his dream job and life in the Big Apple for a new dream. In 2007 he opened La Bandita, an acclaimed eight-room country resort in Val D’Orcia, Tuscany. In 2013, he opened La Bandita Townhouse, a boutique hotel in the UNESCO Heritage village of Pienza. “The truth is, I chose Pienza because I live here, and I love it,” said Voigtmann. “I wanted to create a way to experience something that is often overlooked: the gentle sweetness of daily life. This gives one a chance to experience the simple rhythms of an authentic village that has changed little over the centuries.” To make his dream a reality, Voightmann turned to Florentine architects and designers Ernesto Bartolini and Arianna Pieri to peel back many centuries of previous renovation work to expose original beams and stone walls and transform a dilapidated 500-year-old convent into a place that captures the true essence of Tuscany. The design aimed for comfort, local immersion, and style, fashioning a place where one can relax, eat well, and get caught up in the rhythms of everyday life. Going a step beyond modern-rustic, the hotel is medieval-modern with the wood-beam ceilings and centuries-old stone walls setting the palette for the designers to build upon. The nun’s cells have been replaced by 12 large guestrooms with high ceilings and large windows. The new cream parquet floors and modern furnishings contrast with the exposed stone walls. The hotel has a lounge/library with the same mix of modern furniture and museum-smooth white-plastered inner walls inside a medieval shell or stone and wood beams. As a nod to Voightmann’s past, there is a record player in the room with a selection of vinyl. The Townhouse Caffe is a small restaurant and wine bar on the property. The restaurant features indoor and covered outdoor seating with an open kitchen where guests can have direct interaction with the chef creating a set menu of Tuscan seasonal classics made with local ingredients. The gut renovation wasn’t without its challenges. Italy has a plethora of regular building laws and exponentially more when it comes to historic preservation. The doors and windows couldn’t be enlarged and not a single square foot could be added. They even had to lift a crane into the old village with another crane. However, the results reaffirm all of Voigtmann’s life choices. “One has a truly authentic village experience here,” he said. “You can feel Italian life happening all around you.” La Bandita Townhouse is a member of DesignHotels. [Photos courtesy of La Bandita Townhouse] Previous articleBlending Public and Private Living in Colonia Roma Norte Next articleBreaking Outside the Right Angle The Real Reykjavik Experience at Ion City Interior Design That Celebrates the Beauty of Change Kyiv Modernist Apartment Renovation by Sergey Makhno Masquespacio Brings the Back Alleys of Tokyo to Spain The Design Legacy of Zaha Hadid Zn House or Zinc House for the Science Geeks Origami Architecture at a Luxembourg Beach House Madison Avenue (Doll)House	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1422
__label__wiki	0.870442	0.870442	Northcote Parkinson, C Cyril Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993) is rather better known for being the inventor (or codifier) of Parkinson’s Law: that 'work expands to fill the time available for its completion.' He was a naval historian, and after being demobbed in 1945, was appointed lecturer in history at the University of Liverpool. In 1950 he became Raffles Professor of History at the University of Malaysia in Singapore. He wrote extensively: there was an adult naval series as well as naval history, and biographies of Jeeves and Hornblower. He wrote one children’s book: Ponies Plot. At the time he wrote it, he was living in Guernsey, where the household included : 'three children, two ponies (Fairy and Spice), one dog (Shandy) and one ginger cat called Sherry. Fairy is a Welsh Pony so musically talented that she might have had a career in Grand Opera. Spice is very small, comes from Dartmoor, and is popular in the Pony Club. Shandy is believed to be Dalmation in parts but these are not the parts you see. Sherry once caught a mouse, or so he says. Spice, to whom this book is dedicated, was given the first copy; and ate it.' Ponies Plot is unlike virtually every other pony book. As C Northcote Parkinson says in the preface: 'In the ordinary run of pony books the story centres on a small girl who dreams of ponies, wants a pony, secures a pony for nothing (saving it from ill-treatment in a gypsy encampment), rides it with growing confidence and ends with First Prize in the Hunter Trials. Among ponies, however, the same story would be told with the pony as hero. Ill-treated and underfed, Blackie dreams about children, wants a child for himself, plans to attract Brenda’s attention, defeats the scheme of a rival pony, saves the girl from drowning, wins over the reluctant parents and finally (guess what?) wins First Prize in the Hunter Trials.' Finding the book The book is very easy to find in its Puffin incarnation; and certainly not impossible as a hardback. Ponies Plot The Wikipedia article on C Northcote Parkinson	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1430
__label__wiki	0.547743	0.547743	Cheapo Guides Japan ▾ JR Tickets REthink Tokyo Home ✕ All Guides » Jobs with Visas Jobs in Tokyo Pic: LizardJedi used under CC Opening the Gates of Kyoto’s Imperial Palace by Bjorn For ten days a year, five in spring and five in autumn, the gates of the Imperial Palace in Kyoto are open to the public without the need for any special tour reservation and application. These days are truly a special experience, as you can take all the time you want to admire the amazing architecture and lush gardens hidden within the palace’s walls. Update: The Kyoto Imperial Palace can now be visited freely without special tours or arrangements. It is open from 9am-4pm, with hours extended to 4:30pm in September and March, and 5pm from April – August. It’s closed Mondays, Dec 28 – Jan 4 and on special occasions. Photo by Bjorn In 2017, the Kyoto Imperial Palace will be open to the public from November 1-5, with admission from 9am-3:20pm daily. Performances of gagaku (see below) are scheduled for 10am and 11am on November 3-4, while kemari (see below for this one too) is planned for 10am and 11am on November 5. Here’s what to expect. Walking along the Emperor’s path Your visit to the Kyoto Imperial Palace will follow a set path that takes you past the Seiryoden, Shishinden, Kogosho, Ogakumonjo and Otsunegoten buildings. When you enter through the Gishumon, you will first come across the impressive entranceways for officials who were visiting the palace for an audience with the Emperor. Near the largest entranceway you will also see several large ikebana (Japanese flower arrangement) pieces, which have been specially chosen (for being the best in Japan) to be displayed during the open days. Photo by Bjorn Koolen The inner courtyard with its vast gravel field looks out upon the Shishinden, which is the main ceremonial building as it hosted the enthronement ceremonies of Emperor Taisho and Showa. You will notice two trees planted in front of the hall; a cherry blossom tree on the left and an orange tree on the right, representing eternity and change. A great deal for independent travellers who need accommodation and transport, but can find things to do on their own. The package includes round-trip tickets for the – click here for details Suggested Activity Exiting the inner courtyard, you will come across the Seiryoden. Taking a satellite view of the palace, the Seiryoden lies behind the entranceways for officials, as the Emperor received dignitaries and aristocrats coming to conduct any formal affairs in this building. As you may know, Japan was also ruled by the shogunate under the Emperor during feudal times, and the Emperor would receive the shogun’s bannermen in the Kogosho looking out on the Oikeniwa pond garden. In contrast to these reception buildings, the Ogakumonjo and Otsunegoten were the Emperor’s private quarters, where he studied and lived until the capital of Japan—and with it the Imperial court—were moved to Tokyo by Emperor Meiji in 1869. Although it is not possible to enter these buildings, the opened sliding doors highlight the stunning drawings in the rooms. The Otsunegoten and surrounding buildings look out on a private garden. While the public days in spring are the most popular as the garden’s flowers are in full bloom around that time, the changing leaves in autumn are a fantastic sight in their own right. Witnessing live Imperial Court performances During the public opening, several performances of Imperial Court games, music and dance take place. A popular performance to watch is gagaku, literally meaning “elegant music” in Japanese, which is characterized by slow music and careful dance movements. For centuries, gagaku has been performed during Imperial banquets and ceremonies, featuring ancient Japanese songs, instrumental music as well as folk songs and poems. UNESCO has added it to its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity due to its importance to Japanese identity and history. Another “performance” is kemari, an ancient football game of the Imperial Court. Don’t expect any famous football players to come along and play kemari, though. The game is not about winning or losing, but about cooperation as all players together must keep the ball in the air using any body part except for their hands and arms as they pass it to each other. Sound easy? Well, try doing it while wearing elaborate Heian-period clothing. Can’t make it for the public opening of the Kyoto Imperial Palace? If you cannot make it to Kyoto on the public opening days, there is no need to worry. You can always apply for a special guided tour in English or Japanese to visit the palace through the Imperial Household’s website. However, be aware that although free, these tours do have to be booked in advance and they are limited in terms of time to about one hour. The Imperial Park surrounding the Palace itself is also worth visiting for a stroll or to visit the Sento Imperial Palace, which served as the residence for retired Emperors and is located south of the Palace within the park. This post was originally published on November 10, 2015. Last updated by Carey Finn on October 3, 2017. Written by: Bjorn Filed under: Things to Do Tags: Autumn Leaves, History, Imperial Palace, Kyoto, Spring Comments or questions? Start a thread on our community forum Open with Google Maps Pricing info: 3 Kyotogyoen, Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture 602-0881 Kyoto, http://sankan.kunaicho.go.jp/english/guide/kyoto.h... 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__label__wiki	0.778213	0.778213	marky star JAPAN THIS! About Japan This! 💛 Japan This! Podcast 💛 🌌 Japan This! Tours 🌌 Execution Grounds of Edo Explore the Ōedo Line Explore the Yamanote Line Graves of the Tokugawa Shōguns Japanese Eras Rivers of Edo-Tōkyō Sankin-Kōtai Tōkyō Train Names Yamanote VS Shitamachi? Posts Tagged ‘momijiyama’ aomori, chichibu, chiyoda, edo castle, edo clan, edo katsutada, edo shigeyasu, keigenji, kitami, kitami shigemasa, kumagaya, late hojo, minamoto yoritomo, momijiyama, nanbu, ota dokan, samurai, sengoku, setagaya, tokugawa tsunayoshi What does Kitami mean? In Japanese History on February 2, 2015 at 9:49 am Kitami (seeing abundant joy) In 2012, Kitami Station was voted Best Place to Park a Bicycle. We’ve been exploring the Setagaya and Meguro wards recently. This area includes a place called 喜多見 Kitami. Long time readers of the blog may recall this name from when I wrote about the origin of the name of Japan’s greatest city, 江戸 Edo. Spoiler alert: there isn’t much known about the place name itself, but the backstory speaks volumes about what sort of city Edo was before the Edo Period. It also speaks volumes about a culture that was transitioning from the Sengoku Period to something completely new. Also, for my readers who are interested in samurai and samurai battles, we’ve got plenty of ‘em this time. As always, I’ve included extra information in the footnotes and links to older articles on JapanThis! as well as other outside sources – there are actually 27 fucking footnotes to this article. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, but if you’re not sure who some of the people or events are that I refer to, I suggest you look them up on Samurai Archives – the rock stars of Japanese history on the internet™. Oh, wrong Kitami….. OK, Let’s Get the Kanji Out of the Way 喜 happiness, pleasure, rejoicing many, much, often seeing, hopes, chances At first glance, this place name seems to mean “seeing much happiness.” It’s clear that the meaning is auspicious and – in my opinion – it’s obvious that the kanji are intentional[i]. To be sure, this place existed well before it was written down[ii], however, from the very beginning it seems to have been 当て字 ateji – kanji used for phonetic reasons[iii]. As such, this place name is a construct of the Kamakura Period and the Azuchi-Momoyama Period. Anyways, I have no etymology to give you so I’m sorry for that. But I’ll give you a quick overview: During the Kamakura Period, we see the place name for the first time – in 1247, to be precise. The writing was finally standardized in the 1500’s, but from the 13th century to the 16th century the name seems to have been written several different ways. 木田見 Kitami tree, field, see north, see 木多見 tree, abundance, see 喜多見[iv] rejoice, abundance, see Get ready to talk about samurai. Shit’s about to get real, son. OK, So Let’s Talk About The Area! As I said before, people have been living in the area since time immemorial and the origin of the place name is a mystery. However, at the end of the 12th century, samurai of the 秩父氏 Chichibu-shi Chichibu clan began to move into this area[v]. They had been granted 7 fiefs in the area including 江戸郷 Edo-gō Edo Hamlet and 木田見郷 Kitami-gō Kitami Hamlet by the first Kamakura shōgun, 源頼朝 Minamoto no Yoritomo, in return for helping him fight the 平氏 Hei-shi Taira clan[vi]. Longtime readers will know some of this story from my article on Edo. 秩父重継 Chichibu Shigetsugu took up residence in Edo and changed his name to 江戸重継 Edo Shigetsugu, thus establishing the 江戸氏 Edo-shi Edo clan. He gave the Kitami fief to his son 江戸重長 Edo Shigenaga who fancied calling himself 木田見重長 Kitami Shigenaga. Shigenaga established a 菩提寺 bodai-ji family funerary temple called 慶元寺 Keigen-ji Keigen Temple which still maintains the graves of the Edo clan[vii]. Graves of the Edo Clan. This temple is HIGH on my places to visit list this year. The Chichibu clan had been longtime rivals of the 熊谷氏 Kumagaya-shi clan[viii] and it seems they continued fighting over control of the area well into the 1400’s when the Kitami-Edo finally established lasting control over the area. I’m not completely clear on the timeline or circumstances but sometime in the 1400’s the Kitami became retainers of the 吉良氏 Kira-shi Kira clan[ix]. I’m guessing it had something to do with bad ass samurai warlord 太田道灌 Ōta Dōkan descending upon the area and then thoroughly skullfucking it into submission. Monsieur Dōkan, as he is known in French, attacked the Edo clan’s fortress in 千代田 Chiyoda in 1457. 江戸城 Edo-jō Edo Castle, as it’s known in Japanese, fell and the head of the family, 江戸重康 Edo Shigeyasu surrendered to Monsieur Dōkan. Shigeyasu’s life was spared and he moved his family in with his relatives in Kitami. The more I do this blog,, the more I love Ōta Dōkan. He’s like a Sengoku version of Captain Japan (Yamato Takeru). Kitami Katsushige – The Bad Ass Samurai You’ve Never Heard Of We don’t really hear much about the clan or the area until 1590, when a certain 江戸勝忠 Edo Katsutada, a retainer of the Kira, who were in turn retainers of the 後北条 Go-Hōjō Late Hōjō[x] is mentioned fighting on the Hōjō side against 豊臣秀吉 Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Fans of the Sengoku Period know that the Hōjō obstinately refused to submit to Hideyoshi’s efforts to unify the country under his control to a stupidly tragic end. Not complying with Hideyoshi resulted in the complete eradication of the Hōjō. So… yeah, that didn’t work out so well for Katsutada. Edo Katsutada’s funerary picture. But don’t worry. He’s not dead yet. But luckily for him, this was the Sengoku Period and samurai always had a fancy trick up their sleeves called “changing sides to save your ass.” Edo Katsutada played his hands right, submitted to Hideyoshi, and in 1591 found himself in the Tōhoku region of Japan. He went there to help Hideyoshi put down the so-called 九戸政実の乱 Kunohe Masazane no Ran Kunohe Masazane’s Insurrection. Masazane was a retainer of the 南部氏 Nanbu-shi Nanbu clan in 盛岡 Morioka (modern day 青森県 Aomori-ken Aomori Prefecture)[xi] and like the defeated Hōjō he just wasn’t ready to submit to a dirty, monkey-faced, millet grubbing farmer like Hideyoshi[xii]. And also just like the Hōjō, Masazane and his cute little rebellion were beaten into cruel submission like little baby dolphins at Taiji. This defeat paved the way for Hideyoshi’s ultimate hegemony over the country. That, that dude looks like a monkey! With the Hōjō gone, Hideyoshi granted 徳川家康 Tokugawa Ieyasu control of the 関八州 Kanhasshū 8 Kantō Provinces. Ieyasu became the supreme power in Kantō and took control of Edo Castle in 1593. At this time he did a survey of his new territory and required oaths of fealty from all the local warlords. Edo Katsutada was one of the local lords forced to submit. Ieyasu was now the lord of Edo Castle and he couldn’t allow some local yokel to bare the name of his castle, so he abolished the Edo clan and required them to only use the Kitami name. Accordingly, 江戸勝忠 Edo Katsutada became 喜多見勝忠 Kitami Katsutada. He later changed his name to 喜多見勝重 Kitami Katsushige, adopting the family kanji 重 shige. In 1600, Edo Katsutada (Kitami Katsushige) supported Ieyasu at the 関ヶ原の戦い Sekigahara no Tatakai Battle of Sekigahara. In 1603, Ieyasu was made shōgun and Edo Katsutada (Kitami Katsushige) was now officially a 旗本 hatamoto direct retainer of the 徳川将軍家 Tokugawa Shōgun-ke Tokugawa Shōgun Family – not a bad rank to hold in those days. Katsutada (Katsushige) accompanied shōgunate forces in either (or both) the 1614 (winter) Siege of Ōsaka and/or the 1615 (summer) Siege of Ōsaka. Both campaigns secured Ieyasu’s legendary status in the eyes of his new subjects in Kantō and throughout the country. For someone you’ve probably never heard of, Edo Katsutada had a pretty epic military career at the end of the Sengoku Period. Ōsaka Castle. No easy task to take it down. Today the castle is a shadow of its Sengoku Glory – a shadow with an elevator. The Rise & Fall of Kitami Shigemasa The family carried on as powerful hatamoto until 1680, when they had an amazing stroke of good luck. In that year, 徳川綱吉 Tokugawa Tsunayoshi assumed headship of the Tokugawa family and became the 5th shōgun. Tsunayoshi “took a liking”[xiii] to 喜多見重政 Kitami Shigemasa, the head of the Kitami family. Almost immediately we see him bestowed with gifts and honors by the shōgun. By the next year, 1681, Shigemasa’s court rank and stipend were raised substantially. In 1683, his rank and stipend were raised again, putting him at the same court level as 譜代大名 fudai daimyō[xiv]. His position was raised yet again in 1685. Tokugawa Tsunayoshi preferred the company of men. Not an inherently bad thing. Just a little tricky for keeping up that dynasty thing Kitami Shigemasa must have sucked a mean dick because in 1686, Tsunayoshi elevated him to daimyō status and elevated his fief to 藩 han domain status. The Kitami residence was officially elevated to 陣屋 jin’ya status – which means from the government’s perspective it was a castle[xv]. It served as the center of government for the new domain and would have been an appropriate venue for entertaining the shōgun or other daimyō[xvi]. In return for this honor, Shigemasa supported Tsunayoshi’s first wacky 生類憐みの令 Shōrui Awaremi no Rei Compassion for Living Things Decree[xvii] in 1687. The law protected stray dogs. In order to support the edict, Shigemasa built a huge kennel to protect stray dogs in his newly created domain[xviii]. Shigemasa’s meteoric rise didn’t sit well with all. He was considered 寵臣 chōshin a favored retainer – a term that could be interpreted sexually. Jealous shōgunate officials, one 柳沢吉保 Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu in particular, argued that he disrespected the shōgun’s intentions or just wasn’t up to the task of being a daimyō[xix]. So when some monkey business went down in 1689, shōgunate officials used the opportunity to take Shigemasa out. At the residence of his cousin (or grandson, it isn’t clear), 喜多見重治 Kitami Shigeharu and his sister’s husband 朝岡直国 Asaoka Naokuni got into an argument that led to a sword fight. In the end, Shigeharu killed Naokuni. The details of the fight aren’t preserved, but Shigeharu was evidently deemed to be in the wrong and was beheaded[xx]. Shigemasa, already on the rocks with the shōgunate, got kaiekied (改易された kaieki sareta[xxi]), ie; he was stripped of his rank and titles and placed under house arrest as a hostage of 松平定重 Matsudaira Sadashige, lord of 伊勢国桑名藩 Ise no Kuni Kuwana Han Kuwana Domain, Ise Province (modern Mie Prefecture). Shigemasa, apparently went crazy and then died in 1693. The family temple at Keigen-ji. A second theory states that the sword fight incident – regardless of whether it really happened or not – had nothing to do with Shigemasa’s dismissal and house arrest. According to this story, once the first Compassion for Living Things Edict had been put into effect, Shigemasa realized it was actually a pretty stupid law. Basically, it was now against the law to kill dogs. Because of this stray dogs were out roaming the streets everywhere. More edicts were promulgated protecting other animals and things were bound to get out of hand[xxii]. To make matters worse, Tsunayoshi had found a new plaything, the aforementioned Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu[xxiii], daimyō of 川越藩 Kawagoe Han Kawagoe Domain. Apparently, he was a spiteful little bitch and turned the shōgun and the senior councilors against the johnny-come-lately, Shigemasa. So if you ever thought the women in the movie 大奥 Ōoku! were back-stabby, well, welcome to men’s version of that[xxiv]. Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu – brilliant daimyō or petty little bitch? You be the judge. In short, the jealous Yoshiyasu stole the shōgun’s heart, stole Shigemasa’s position[xxv], turned the shōgun against him, turned the entire shōgunate against him, stripped him of all rank, confiscated his property, and essentially ran him out of town to die disgraced in a faraway land. If this account is true, it’s no wonder Shigemasa went insane while in exile. It also makes Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu look like a total cunt. The grave of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu (Matsudaira Tokinosuke). Located in Kōfu. After The Edo Period Kitami, like other parts of Setagaya, remained rural until quite recently. After the 関東大震災 Kantō Daishinsai Great Kantō Earfquake in 1923, the area experienced a population explosion as people relocated away from the devastated urban center. In 1926, 成城学園 Seijō Gakuen was split from 成城学校 Seijō Gakkō in 牛込 Ushigome[xxvi] and moved to Kitami. Part of the former Kitami area now bears the name Seijō. Interestingly, in 1927, the 小田原急行鉄道株式会社 Odawara Kyūkō Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha[xxvii] opened train service to the area which reminds me of the connection between the Kitami-Edo clan and the Late Hōjō of Odawara. The presence of the station guaranteed growth in the area as it was now connected with central Tōkyō… and everyone lived happily ever after. Except for that one guy. There’s always one. It Doesn’t Write Itself ⇨ Click Here to Donate ⇦ ⇨ Click Here to Buy Awesome Nerdy J-History Goods ⇦ [i] This reeks of 当て字 ateji, ie; the kanji were added or modified later for phonetic reasons and don’t reflect any etymological history. They were easy to read and looked pleasant. That’s it. [ii] Archaeologists know the area has been inhabited since the Final Jōmon Period (about 1000 BCE). This means the place name could be fairly ancient – perhaps dating from as far back as the first century CE. [iii] There’s a possibility that the name goes way farther back in time, but no one seems to have taken a stab at it. [iv] The temple called 北院 Kita-in, literally the North Temple, in Kawagoe was renamed 喜多院 Kita-in Temple of Abundant Joy by the 3rd shōgun, 徳川家光 Tokugawa Iemitsu. These are the same kanji. Remember that city name, Kawagoe. We might come back to that. [v] The clan originally held lands in modern 駄埼玉県 Dasaitama-ken Saitama Prefecture. [vi] Ironically, the Chichibu clan was actually descended from the Taira. [vii] The temple seems to have originally been located on 紅葉山 Momiji-yama Momiji Hill on the grounds of Edo Castle, but was relocated here in 1451. The temple was originally established in 1186. [viii] This is hilarious to Tōkyōites who hate Saitama, because today Chichibu and Kumagaya are about the lamest places in the country. [ix] Yes, the same Kira clan whose descendant would play a role in the story of the 47 Rōnin. See my article on Setagaya. [x] The Late Hōjō had become the primary power in Kantō and ruled from 小田原城 Odawara-jō Odawara Castle. [xi] His family name 九戸 Kunohe literally means the “9th Door.” This unique name and its unique reading are… um… unique to Aomori. If you meet an 一戸さん Ichinohe-san or 七戸さん Shichinohe-san, you can rest assured, they have roots in Aomori. You can read about the castle that Katsutada attacked here at Jcastle. [xii] All rights reserved, Samurai Archives. [xiii] In a very #TeamIenari sort of way, Tsunayoshi seems to have “taken a liking” to a great number of samurai, elevating the status of all sorts of, ehem, “qualified men.” [xiv] Fudai daimyō were the daimyō families that had sided with Ieyasu at the Battle of Sekigahara. These daimyō families were among the most prestigious in terms of rank. [xv] Supposedly, this was the only jin’ya located within the present 23 Wards. [xvi] A hatamoto’s residence, no matter how grand it may have been, would not have been appropriate. I guess this means Shigemasa and the Tsunayoshi could have sleepovers now. [xvii] This is the decree that earned the shōgun the laughable nickname, 犬公方 Inu Kubō “Dog Shōgun” because he especially wanted to protect dogs. [xviii] The other kennels were in 大久保 Ōkubō and 四ツ谷 Yotsuya, and the main kennel was in 中野 Nakano. I have an article about Nakano here. [xix] A job that, let’s be honest, wasn’t too difficult anyways. [xx] Remember, beheading was reserved for criminals or samurai who had committed an act so egregious that 切腹 seppuku ritual disembowelment was disallowed. [xxi] 改易 kaieki is the Japanese word for “sudden dismissal and deprivation of position, privileges, and properties.” [xxii] And indeed, things did get out of hand. [xxiii] Yoshiyasu’s 吉 yoshi was given to him by Tsunayoshi. The shōgun later promoted him to daimyō of 甲府藩 Kōfu Han Kōfu Domain in the former lands of 武田信玄 Takeda Shingen. He also granted him a courtly name that essentially made him an honorary Tokugawa, 松平時之助 Matsudaira Tokinosuke. Yoshiyasu was given land in 駒込 Komagome to build a new 下屋敷 shimo-yashiki lower residence. He built an elaborate garden there called 六義園 Rikugien. The garden still exists today in Tōkyō. [xxiv] This doesn’t show the back-stabby stuff, but this is the movie I’m referring to. [xxv] His position in the shōgunate was 御側御用人 o-soba go-yōnin, which is usually translated as “lord chamberlain” and called 御側 o-soba for short. The o-soba was the shōgun’s closest advisor and it was his job to report the shōgun’s commands to the 老中 rōjū senior councilors. In the case of Shigemasa and Yoshiyasu, the o-soba also served as the royal penis cleaner. [xxvi] I have some articles about Ushigome. [xxvii] This train line was the forerunner of the present 小田急電鉄株式会社 Odakyū Dentetsu Kabushiki-gaisha Odakyu Electric Railway Co., Ltd. ▶ View 10 Comments edo, edo castle, grave, hidetada, iemitsu, ietsuna, ieyasu, kunozan, momijiyama, nikko, tokugawa, tokugawa grave, toshogu Toshogu In Japanese History, Japanese Shrines & Temples, Tokugawa Shogun Graves, Travel in Japan on May 27, 2013 at 3:34 pm 東照宮 Tōshō-gū (Divine Prince of Eastern Light) ―代将軍徳川家康公 1st Shōgun, Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu Kunōzan, Nikkō, Tōkyō (Kan’ei-ji, Zōjō-ji), etc. Grave containing Tokugawa Ieyasu’s remains (Nikko) Nikkō Tōshō-gū is one of the most famous shrines in all of Japan. It’s one of the biggest tourist attractions in the whole country. It’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site and it’s kept in excellent condition, so it’s well documented in books and on the internet. For that reason my descriptions of Tōshō-gū probably won’t be long. If you want more info about Nikkō Tōshō-gū (or some other Tōshō-gū), I’ll give some links at the end of the article. What the hell is a Tōshōgū? This name marks the enshrinement of the kami named 凍傷大権現 Tōshō Dai-Gongen, the deified Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa shōgunate. The name roughly translates as “The Supreme Incarnation of the Divine Prince of Eastern Illumination” (or “Light”). Technically speaking, Ieyasu was only shōgun for about 2 years. Although he was the de facto ruler of Japan from 1600, he officially became shōgun in 1603. He retired in 1605 and became an 大御所 ōgosho (retired guy pulling the strings from behind the scenes). He did this to establish a clear dynasty and try to oversee the succession of his shōgunate for as long as he could. Around 1607 he moved into 駿府城 Sunpu-jō Sunpu Castle in Shizuoka where he was running things from behind the scenes. Ieyasu finally kicked the bucket in 1616 and was buried and enshrined at nearby 久能山 Kunōzan Mt. Kunōzan. Kunōzan Tōshō-gū is still very much active today. Kunozan Toshogu. The original! As per Ieyasu’s express wishes, on the one year anniversary of his death, the second shōgun, Tokugawa Hidetada, moved the remains to the mountains of Nikkō and built a modest temple and shrine complex there where Ieyasu was deified as the divine protector of Japan. The third shōgun, Tokugawa Iemitsu idolized Ieyasu and threw wads of money at Tōshō-gū for expansion projects which developed the site to the size that it is today. I’ve heard that Iemitsu’s building project cost about $400,000,000. Main gate of Nikko Toshogu. While there are many iconic buildings at Nikkō Tōshō-gū, 2 pieces of artwork achieved international renown after Japan opened up in the bakumatsu; 三猿 sanzaru the 3 “wise” monkeys and 眠ﾘ猫 nemuri neko the sleeping cat. There is a useless proverb in Japan, 日光を見ない中は結構と言うな Nikkō wo minai uchi wa kekkō to iu na, which always comes up in regards to Nikkō Tōshō-gū. I can’t think of any situation where a person would use this proverb except when they go to see Tōshō-gū and some old person quotes it. It translates as “Don’t say 結構 kekkō until you’ve seen 日光 Nikkō.” The gist of the expression is “you ain’t seen shit ‘til you seen Nikkō Tōshō-gū.” The stupid thing about this proverb is that there’s some kind of half-assed ‘rhyme’ based on the last syllables of both words こう kō. But in modern Japanese, 結構 kekkō is a pretty blasé term. It means “decent” or “that’s fine” or even “no thank you.” Maybe in the Edo Period the meaning was stronger – and maybe people had a higher tolerance for trite expressions. Also, there’s no situation that I can even imagine where saying this would be appropriate, except when you visit Nikkō Tōshō-gū – and even then surely there’s something better to say…. like “wow!” Ueno Toshogu in the bakumatsu or very early Meiji. The phrase いまいちだ imaichi da (“close but no cigar”) is said to be derived from this area. There was a small town next to Nikkō called 今市 Imaichi. As Nikkō developed into the fantastically beautiful pilgrimage site that it is still today, the neighboring town of Imaichi stayed the same, a backwater mountain town. People would be blown away by Nikkō and then see Imaichi and be all like “Meh.” And so now the word いまいち imaichi means something like “almost” or “not bad” or… well, I think “meh” pretty much sums it up. Senba Toshogu (Kawagoe) Fans of the Shinsengumi might be interested to know that after the Boshin War, Matsudaira Katamori, lord of Aizu, was made Chief Priest of Nikkō Tōshō-gū. In this capacity, he continued to serve the Tokugawa despite the fall of the shōgunate. Various Tōshō-gū were erected around Japan. I’ve mentioned the first two, in Kunōzan and Nikkō. In Tōkyō, there is one in Ueno Park, former Kan’ei-ji, which is very nice. There is another one in Shiba Park at Zōjō-ji, which was rebuilt after the firebombing in WWII. There is a huge gingko tree said to have been planted by Tokugawa Iemitsu which survived the bombing and is a cultural asset of the Tōkyō Metropolis. Kawagoe has a somewhat famous Tōshō-gū. Nagoya also has a famous Tōshō-gū. This spring I was in Gyōda, Saitama, which is the straight up boonies and even they had a Tōshō-gū. There was also a Tōshō-gū in 紅葉山 Momijiyama, one of the gardens on the premises of Edo Castle. In fact, all the shōgun’s were enshrined in Momijiyama. But when the Meiji Emperor moved into Edo Castle, he fucking tore all of them down. Dick move, bro. Dick move. Momijiyama Toshogu (Edo Castle Toshogu, Tokugawa Shogun Cemetery). This picture depicts Momijiyama and you can see Tokugawa Iemitsu returning by palanquin from veneration at the shrine. In the Edo Period there were nearly 500 shrines called Tōshō-gū throughout the country, there are thought to be about 130 today. The shōgunate expected daimyō to venerate Tōshō Dai-Gongen (Ieyasu) routinely. But daimyō processions were extremely costly. This is the reason that so many Tōshō-gū were built all over the country. Of course, under the best of conditions, Nikkō Tōshō-gū was the preferred destination for adoration of Ieyasu. But sometimes things didn’t work out, and in those times, daimyō could attend to their veneration duties at a local Tōshō-gū. Hiroshima Toshogu For More Information About Nikkō Tōshō-gū List of Tōshō-gū Shrines (Japanese only): http://www.toshogu.net/list.htm (This site includes links to websites/contact information for many Tōshō-gū) Nikkō Tourist Association has some good information on the sites of Tōshō-gū in English, albeit a fairly clumsy translation: http://www.nikko-jp.org/english/toshogu/index.html bunkyo, chiyoda, edo castle, etymology, harem, history, iemitsu, inaba, kasuga, kasuga no tsubone, kawagoe, kitain, momijiyama, rinshoin, saito, tokugawa Why is Kasuga Street called Kasuga Street? In Japanese Castles, Japanese History, Travel in Japan on May 17, 2013 at 1:44 am Kasuga Dōri (Kasuga Street) the fabulous pink colored street is kasuga street! Anyone who has visited Tōkyō learns very quickly that there are few streets with names. So when a street actually does have a name, it’s a significant detail. Unnamed, meandering streets are characteristic of Japanese castle towns. If an enemy tried to attack the castle, they’d have to wander around endless street that wrapped around hills and often dead ended in rivers or residences. Only the locals would understand the layout of the town. In the Meiji Era some major thoroughfares were named and so there are a handful of named streets now. One of these is Kasuga Street. Kasuga Dōri is made of 2 words: 春日 Kasuga (a woman’s name) 通り dōri street If you’re familiar with the early shōgunate, then you probably know the name Kasuga. For those of you who don’t, she was the wet nurse of the 3rd shōgun, Iemitsu. Her original name was お福 O-fuku (sometimes without the honorific お o as just 福 fuku) and she was a daughter of Saitō Toshimitsu. She was married to Inaba Masanari, a dude whose retainership drifted from the Oda to the Toyotomi and eventually to the Tokugawa. (Well played, sir.) After giving birth to Masanari’s successor to the family in 1597, O-fuku’s ass got divorced by old man Inaba. She was eventually brought into the service of the Tokugawa in Edo Castle. Kasuga no Tsubone looking suspiciously like an お巫女さん(shrine girl) O-fuku was totally motivated, tho. She helped midwife the birth of Iemitsu and after his real mother died, she handled his official business and was always looking for fine pieces of ass for the shōgun to tap. She spent much of her time locating beautiful women from the elite families and bringing them into the castle. This collective of women was concentrated in the innermost sanctum of the castle, the so-called 大奥 Ō-oku, usually translated as “the great interior” or “the great inner chamber,” but most easily understood as “the shōgun’s harem.” Yes. It’s good to be the shōgun. the ō-oku in the time of the 7th tokugawa shōgun, ietsugu, as portrayed in a movie. the middle girl is actress nakama yukie. i looooooooves me some nakama yukie! In 1629, she was granted Imperial rank by the Emperor and was thenceforth known as 春日局 Kasuga no Tsubone. In 1630, she was granted ownership of an undeveloped field in present day Bunkyō Ward (near present day 春日駅 Kasuga Station) which she used to build a grand residence. Over time, the area around her residence came to be known as 春日殿町 Kasugadono-chō Lord Kasuga Town and later just 春日町 Kasuga-chō Kasuga Town. The station takes its name from this old town name. The street in turn, takes its name from the station and town. There’s not a lot of material in English on her life, which is disappointing because there is a lot written about her in Japanese. I only know a little bit about her, but in researching this article I’ve become kind of intrigued. We don’t hear much about women from the pre-modern period except as baby machines and ways to seal political deals (ie; they were like property), so it’s exciting to hear about such a powerful and influential Japanese woman. her grave is still well maintained by rinshō’in temple in bunkyo-ku, tōkyō. By the way, if you’re interested in her and the Tokugawa and Edo Castle in particular, I recommend visiting 川越市 Kawagoe City in Saitama. It’s a fantastic spot for history enthusiasts, but of particular interest is the temple called 喜多院 Kita’in. After a major conflagration that razed the city, Tokugawa Iemitsu, had parts of the 紅葉山御殿 Momijiyama goten disassembled and donated them to the temple*. Since portions of the castle were rebuilt many times over the years, this is one of the oldest extant portions of the original Edo Castle and the only extant portion you can enter and walk around in! They have Kasuga no Tsubone’s makeup room and the room in which Tokugawa Iemitsu was actually born. The temple’s drawing room, reception hall and kitchen are all original rooms of Edo Castle. They also have a bad ass set of Tokugawa Iemitsu’s armor. It’s well worth the trip from Tōkyō – about an hour from Tōkyō Station, if I remember correctly. kasuga no tsubone’s make up room in edo castle. Fans of the Sengoku Period will recognize this name as one of the douches who helped Akechi Mitsuhide ambush Nobunaga. 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__label__cc	0.54597	0.45403	New Release Alert: Hate Notes by Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward November 6, 2018 November 6, 2018 / Kim Golden Malmgren / Leave a comment A standalone romance novel published by Montlake Romance By: New York Times Bestselling Authors Vi Keeland & Penelope Ward Release Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 It all started with a mysterious blue note sewn into a wedding dress. Something blue. I’d gone to sell my own unworn bridal gown at a vintage clothing store. That’s when I found another bride’s “something old.” Stitched into the lining of a fabulously feathered design was the loveliest message I’d ever read: Thank you for making all of my dreams come true. The name embossed on the blue stationery: Reed Eastwood, obviously the most romantic man who ever lived. I also discovered he’s the most gorgeous. If only my true-love fantasies had stopped there. Because I’ve since found out something else about Mr. Starry-Eyed. He’s arrogant, cynical, and demanding. I should know. Thanks to a twist of fate, he’s my new boss. But that’s not going to stop me from discovering the story behind his last love letter. A love letter that did not result in a happily ever after. But that story is nothing compared to the one unfolding between us. It’s getting hotter, sweeter, and more surprising than anything I could have imagined. Something new. But I have no idea how this one is going to end . . . Photo/Cover Details: Photo Credit: Tijana Vukovic Model: Dusan Susnjar Teasers by: Luna Sol To read an excerpt of Hate Notes, click here. Add to Goodreads ➜ http://smarturl.it/xys920 Amazon ebook➜ https://amzn.to/2Q1U6xa Amazon Print (Currently on sale!) ➜ http://smarturl.it/x5h99h Amazon Audio ➜ https://amzn.to/2zR81AE Amazon print UK (Currently on sale) ➜ http://hyperurl.co/32k3q7 Please Note: Because Hate Notes is published by Montlake Romance, a division of Amazon, the ebook and paperback will only be available on Amazon. If you are an Amazon Prime or Kindle Unlimited member, the Hate Notes ebook will be free for both Prime and KU members on release day! Sign up for Penelope & Vi’s mailing list now and be the first one notified when it goes live! ➜ https://www.subscribepage.com/Vi&Penelope Vi Keeland is a #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author. With millions of books sold, her titles have appeared in over a hundred Bestseller lists and are currently translated in two dozen languages. She resides in New York with her husband and their three children where she is living out her own happily ever after with the boy she met at age six. Sign up for Penelope & Vi’s mailing list now and be the first one notified when it goes live! ➜ https://www.subscribepage.com/Vi&Penelope Do you like texts better than email? Receive text notices of Vi’s new releases by texting the word BOOKS to 77948 You will ONLY receive a text when a new book goes live – no other messages at all! 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Penelope Ward HATE NOTES – EXCERPT REVEAL Amazon print UK (Currently on sale) ➜http://hyperurl.co/32k3q7 Please Note: Because Hate Notes is published by Montlake Romance, a division of Amazon, the ebook and paperback will only be available on Amazon. If you are an Amazon Prime or Kindle Unlimted member, you should NOT pre-order the eBook. The Hate Notes ebook will be free for both Prime and KU members on release day! Grabbing my laptop, I searched my history and called up the last website I’d visited. Eastwood Properties is one of the largest independent brokerage firms in the world. We connect the most prestigious and exclusive properties with qualified buyers, assuring the utmost privacy for both parties. Whether you’re in the market for a luxury New York City penthouse with a view of the park, a waterfront Hampton estate, or an enchanting chateau escape in the mountains, or you’re ready for your own private island, Eastwood is where your dreams begin. There was a link to search properties, so I typed in the name of the place the woman had mentioned in the voice mail: Millennium Tower. Sure enough, the penthouse popped up for sale. For only twelve million dollars, I could own an apartment on Columbus Avenue with sweeping views of Central Park. Let me write you a check. After drooling through a video and two dozen photos, I clicked on the button to make an appointment to view the property. An application popped up, the top of which read: For the privacy and safety of our sellers, all prospective buyers are required to complete an application to view properties. Only buyers that meet our stringent prequalification criteria will be contacted. I snorted. Great prequalification criteria you have there, Eastwood. I wasn’t sure I had enough money to take the train uptown to get to that swanky place, much less buy it. God knows what I’d written that had qualified me. I closed the website and was just about to shut my laptop and go back to bed again when I decided to take one more peek at Mr. Romantic on Facebook. God, he was gorgeous. What if . . . I shouldn’t. No good ever came out of ideas formulated while drunk. I couldn’t. But . . . That face . . . And that note. So romantic. So beautiful. Cover Reveal: Hate Notes by Vi Keeland & Penelope Ward September 12, 2018 September 12, 2018 / Kim Golden Malmgren / Leave a comment Amazon print (Currently on sale for $9.99!) ➜ http://smarturl.it/x5h99h *Please Note: Because Hate Notes is published by Montlake Romance, a division of Amazon, the book will only be available in ebook format on Amazon. A pre-order will become available in October. Stay tuned for an excerpt of Hate Notes coming November 2nd! If you are a blogger and would like to sign up to participate in the Excerpt & Release Day Blitz, sign up here. ➜https://goo.gl/forms/94hZpkIucSnZv2Qn1 Dear Bridget, I Want You New Release: Rebel Heart by Penelope Ward & Vi Keeland May 22, 2018 May 19, 2018 / Kim Golden Malmgren / Leave a comment (Book Two in the Rush Series) A Contemporary Romance Duet New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Authors Penelope Ward & Vi Keeland Rush and Gia’s story continues in the gripping conclusion to Rebel Heir… How to screw up a great summer in the Hamptons: Sleep with your boss. Check. Blow all your money on a rental you can’t afford. Check. How to walk away from a man you fall in love with at the end of a summer: …I’ll let you know when I figure it out. Rebel Heir is the second book in the Rush Series Duet. Book One, Rebel Heir, is available for sale now. REBEL HEART AVAILABLE NOW Amazon ➜ Rebel Heart (Book Two) \| iBooks ➜ Rebel Heart (Book Two) \| B&N ➜ Rebel Heart (Book Two) \| Kobo ➜ Rebel Heart (Book Two) \| Google Play ➜ Rebel Heart (Book Two) How to kick off a great summer in the Hamptons: Snag a gorgeous rental on the beach. Check. Get a job at a trendy summer haunt. Check. Fall for the one guy with a dark leather jacket, scruff on his face, and intense eyes that doesn’t fit in with the rest of the tony looking crowd. A guy you can’t have when you’ll be leaving at the end of the season. Check. Check. Check. I should add—especially when the guy is your sexy, tattooed God of a boss. Especially when he not only owns your place of employment but inherited half of the town. Especially when he’s mean to you. Until one night when he demanded I get in his car so he could drive me home because he didn’t want me walking in the dark. That was sort of how it all started with Rush. And then little by little, some of the walls of this hardass man started to come down. I never expected that the two of us, seemingly opposites from the outside, would grow so close. I wasn’t supposed to fall for the rebel heir, especially when he made it clear he didn’t want to cross the line with me. As the temperature turned cooler, the nights became hotter. My summer became a lot more interesting—and complicated. All good things must come to an end, right? Except our ending was one I didn’t see coming. Amazon\| iBooks \| B&N \| Kobo \| Google Play \| Amazon Paperback She grew up in Boston with five older brothers and spent most of her twenties as a television news anchor. Penelope resides in Rhode Island with her husband, son and beautiful daughter with autism. With over a million books sold, she is a seventeen-time New York Times bestseller and the author of over fifteen novels, including RoomHate which hit #2 on the New York Times bestseller list and #1 on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list. Other New York Times bestsellers include Stepbrother Dearest, Neighbor Dearest, Drunk Dial, Cocky Bastard, Stuck-Up Suit, Playboy Pilot and Mister Moneybags (the latter four co-written with Vi Keeland). Connect with Penelope Ward Facebook Fan Group \| Facebook \| Website \|Twitter \| Instagram Vi Keeland is a #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author. With millions of books sold, her titles have appeared in over ninety Bestseller lists and are currently translated in twenty languages. She resides in New York with her husband and their three children where she is living out her own happily ever after with the boy she met at age six. Website \| Facebook Fan Group \| Facebook \| Twitter \| Instagram Cover Reveal: Rebel Heart by Penelope Ward & Vi Keeland April 18, 2018 April 17, 2018 / Kim Golden Malmgren / Leave a comment We are thrilled to bring you the cover for REBEL HEART the second book in the Rush Series Duet by New York Times bestsellers Penelope Ward & Vi Keeland, releasing on May 22nd! Model: Micah Truitt Photographer: Leonardo Corredor Cover designer: Sommer Stein, Perfect Pear Creative Website \| Facebook Fan Group \| Facebook \| Book Tour: Playboy Pilot by Penelope Ward & Vi Keeland Captain Carter and Kendall’s highly anticipated romance is finally here in Playboy Pilot by Penelope Ward & Vi Keeland! Amazon US: http://amzn.to/2d5XGHP Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/2cL3PWq Amazon Paperback: http://amzn.to/2ctOkoz iBooks: http://apple.co/1rGw4LB Nook: http://bit.ly/2caXPEK Google Play: http://bit.ly/2c5WiRm Also available on Audible: http://amzn.to/2cy0zl6 Add Playboy Pilot to your TBR list on Goodreads! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29533192-playboy-pilot From the New York Times bestselling authors of Stuck-Up Suit and Cocky Bastard, comes a sexy new standalone novel. Money or love? Which would you choose? You probably just answered the question in your head thinking it’s an easy decision. For me, it’s not. Did I mention it’s a lot of money? A hell of a lot. I needed to go far away to think it through. As I embarked on an impulsive trip, I hit a detour when I met sexy Carter in the airport lounge. We struck up a heated conversation. Then, he left. I thought I’d never see him again. But fate had other plans. Surprise! He was the pilot of my flight. The bigger surprise was the adventure that followed after the plane landed. Carter was dangerous and always on the move. Even though our connection was magnetic, I knew it was only temporary. He would give me tickets, and I would follow him around the world to exotic places. A bevy of flight attendant exes and rumors about Carter’s reputation were never far behind. I didn’t know what to believe. But I was addicted. Nothing else mattered anymore. And I was going to get hurt. Because a part of me wanted to be the one to finally ground the playboy pilot. At the very least, he was taking me on a thrilling ride. All good things must come to an end, right? “Carter? What are you doing?” I laughed under my breath and banged the back of my head against the wood. “Praying?” “Do you always breathe like that when you’re praying?” “It’s an intense prayer.” “What are you really doing?” “I think you might know what I’m really doing, Kendall.” “Can I come in?” Still fully erect, I tucked my cock back into my pants as best I could before opening the door. Her eyes trailed down to my massive erection. “I’m sorry….to make you resort to that.” “It’s okay. My hand and I haven’t spent time like this since I was a teenager. I think he missed me.” “What were you thinking about?” “Yeah…but what specifically?” “It was this fantasy of fucking you on the dance floor back at the club.” She looked down at me again. Her expression was serious when she asked, “You need some help?” “I thought you said we weren’t going to go there.” “I can’t have sex with you. But I want to touch you. I could take my clothes off, let you finish what you started. You know…help you.” Looking up at the ceiling, I shook my head. “You have no fucking clue, do you?” “How crazy you make me. There’s no halfway with you. Jerking off with your naked body right in front of me…not being able to do what I really want to you…would be torture. I don’t have that kind of willpower, not with you, not anymore. Even when I kiss you, all I can think about is burying myself inside of you. But you naked in front of me? Too much, Kendall. When you strip down for me, I want it to be when you’re ready to let me have you. Otherwise, it’s better if I don’t know what I’m missing out on.” Looking filled with remorse, she waved her hands. “Okay. I get it. I’m sorry…for interrupting.” “Go back to bed. I’ll be right there.” After Kendall left, I closed my eyes in regret. Was I crazy for turning her away like that? Now that she knew what I was up to in here, I couldn’t relax. Still needing release like a motherfucker, I turned on the shower and got in. 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Teaser: Playboy Pilot by Penelope Ward & Vi Keeland September 2, 2016 September 2, 2016 / Kim Golden Malmgren / 1 Comment Are you excited to read Playboy Pilot on September 19th? We have a link for you to read Chapter 1 NOW! Read Chapter 1 of Playboy Pilot early: http://www.subscribepage.com/i1a4m5 Exclusive pre-order on iBooks: http://apple.co/1Wb06Cf Paperback pre-order: http://www.amazon.com/Playboy-Pilot-Penelope-Ward/dp/1682304310/ Playboy Pilot will be available on Amazon, B&N, Kobo & Google on release day. Cover Reveal: Playboy Pilot by Penelope Ward & Vi Keeland (A standalone novel) A Contemporary Romance novel New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Authors Playboy Pilot releases on September 19th! iBooks exclusive pre-order: http://apple.co/1rGw4LB Paperback pre-order: http://amzn.to/23I1Wez Cover designer: Letitia Hasser, r.b.a designs Model: Sahib Faber Photographer: Greg Vaughan But fate had other plans. Surprise! He was the pilot of my flight. The bigger surprise was the adventure that followed after the plane landed. Carter was dangerous and always on the move. Even though our connection was magnetic, I knew it was only temporary. A bevvy of flight attendant exes and rumors about Carter’s reputation were never far behind. At the very least, he was taking me on a thrilling ride. Vi Keeland is a native New Yorker with three children that occupy most of her free time, which she complains about often, but wouldn’t change for the world. She is an attorney and a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, & USA Today Best Selling author. Over the last three years, eleven of her titles have appeared on the USA Today Bestseller lists and four on the New York Times Bestseller lists. Website \| Facebook \| Facebook Group \| Twitter \| Instagram \| Goodreads \| Pinterest Penelope Ward is a New York Times, USA Today and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author. She grew up in Boston with five older brothers and spent most of her twenties as a television news anchor before switching to a more family-friendly career. She is the proud mother of a beautiful 11-year-old girl with autism (the inspiration for the character Callie in Gemini) and a 9-year-old boy, both of whom are the lights of her life. Penelope, her husband and kids reside in Rhode Island. She is the author of RoomHate and Stepbrother Dearest, which hit #2 and #3 on the New York Times bestseller list respectively. Other works include the New York Times bestseller Cocky Bastard (co-written with Vi Keeland), Sins of Sevin, My Skylar, Jake Undone, Jake Understood and Gemini. 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When we finally came face to face, we found out opposites sometimes do more than attract—we consumed each other. Nothing could have prepared me for the ride he took me on. And I certainly wasn’t prepared for where I’d wind up when the ride was over. Amazon US: http://amzn.to/1DW9XpB Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/1WwPzkC iBooks: http://apple.co/1J7vbN0 Penelope Ward is a New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author. She grew up in Boston with five older brothers and spent most of her twenties as a television news anchor, before switching to a more family-friendly career. She is the proud mother of a beautiful 11-year-old girl with autism and a 9-year-old boy. Penelope and her family reside in Rhode Island. 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__label__wiki	0.52219	0.52219	HomeMediaAudioDedication Held at Future Site of Delaware County’s New Veterans Memorial Dedication Held at Future Site of Delaware County’s New Veterans Memorial May 22, 2016 Janelle Tucker Audio, Local News, Photos Comments Off on Dedication Held at Future Site of Delaware County’s New Veterans Memorial A small corner of Baum Park in Manchester will soon become home to Delaware County’s newest veterans’ memorial. A dedication was held Saturday afternoon at the future site of the Freedom is Not Free Memorial on the southeast corner of the park. Manchester veteran and city council member Ron Struble says the memorial has been in the works for the past two years. http://kmch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/New-Memorial-2.mp3 The new memorial will honor all Delaware County veterans, as well as those who have local ties to the area. The design will feature a circular base with five pillars and two granite walls and benches. That’s Manchester veteran Todd Tomlin, who says naming opportunities are also available for different features of the memorial. Around two dozen local veterans were on hand for the memorial’s dedication ceremony. It was the final stop on Saturday’s Manchester Sesquicentennial Honor Bus Tour, which took the veterans to Ryan, Hopkinton and Earlville to visit the veterans’ memorials in those communities. Al Wilson, a Vietnam vet from Manchester, was one of the veterans on the tour. He told KMCH it was an “awesome” day. Tomlin thinks so, too. They hope to have the new memorial finished by Memorial Day next year. If you’d like to donate to the new Delaware County veterans’ memorial, or if you’d just like more information, contact Dr. John Tyrrell or Todd Tomlin, log on to freedomisnotfreememorial.com or check out the Freedom is Not Free Memorial page on Facebook. Glimpse of Freedom is Not Free Memorial: Bird’s eye view of memorial at Baum Park: Naming opportunities: Manchester’s History Captured in Commemorative Sesquicentennial Book DNR Monitoring Stream Near Ryan after Herbicide Spill	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1447
__label__cc	0.662196	0.337804	Mystery Monday: Holy Toledo! The Prohibition Posted by Donna Mierzejewski-McManus under Prohibition, Przybylski, Seblaski \| Tags: Prohibition, Przybylski, Seblaski \| Earlier I had written a few posts about John Przybylski, son of Andrew and Frances Rochowiak. See here and here. What fascinates me about this man is why did he change his name? Family lore has it he was involved in running liquor from Canada. I do not know whether this is true. However, Ken Burns’ series on PBS this week, “Prohibition,” certainly got me thinking. The Detroit “Purple Gang” was quite active in Toledo. While we have no connection for John to the Purple Gang, his name change and exit from Toledo coincides with the organized crime and violence that stemmed from Prohibition. A couple of good reads to introduce us to what and who composed the “Purple Gang” is Detroit’s Infamous Purple Gang by Paul R. Kavieff and Unholy Toledo by Harry R. Illman. When Prohibition was in effect, it was pretty easy for bootleggers to use the narrow waterways of the Detroit River, St. Clair Shores, and also Lake Erie to transport liquor from Canada. One theory existed that it was quite easy to do so as a recreational fisherman or during winter when one could cross the frozen Detroit River into Windsor with little problem. Usually, the booze went to Chicago where Al Capone sold it under the “Log Cabin” label but market demand was strong too in Toledo. The Purple Gang seemed to be in direct competition with Capone–in essence, trying to tell Capone to keep his hands off of the eastern Michigan market. Toledo seemed to be strategically located as a stopover and hideout for gangsters. A United Press article located in The Southeast Missourian on March 24, 1936 summarizes the situation: I don’t think we’ll ever find a documented reason for John’s movements and name change. I don’t know if he were ever involved in bootlegging. But history does provides some interesting insight and this situation certainly does give credence to the family lore. My guess would be John Przybylski was not a violent person and the name change was due in part to avoid the violence and from being sought out. Rather because liquor was a commonly consumed without shame or guilt in Polish Catholic families (it is not a “sin” according to the Catholic Church and vodka is a cultural drink for Poles), a theory could be that John likely was seeking sources for personal consumption or possibly playing the role of transport for a while. He certainly was living in Detroit at the time, the 1920 census places him there. But by 1927, we find evidence of him living in Miami. Prohibition was in effect in the US for 13 years–1920 to 1933. It produced an empire built on crime and violence and created unique and colorful characters in our history such as Carrie Nation. (An interesting observation: A slogan used during Carrie Nation’s tirades was: “All nations welcomed except Carrie.”) A basis used to justify Prohibition was “immorality”–to combat drunkness and poverty. Instead, it created a monster composed of violence and crime. Reading about the Purple Gang certainly opened my mind–these gangs at first were primarily composed of immigrants who were combating severe poverty and discrimination. John Przybylski–a digital archeological dig Posted by Donna Mierzejewski-McManus under Przybylski, Seblaski, St. Hedwig, Uncategorized \| Tags: Krzyzaniak, Przybylski, Seblaski \| John Przybylski, son of Andrew Przybylski and Frances Rochowiak, proved to be elusive. Through correspondence with a few distant cousins, some details on his life became uncovered. I had stories about John, but found no evidence of his existence until locating his brother, Joseph’s, obituary published in the Toledo News-Bee on July 9, 1937. Family stories state that John had been running from gangs in Toledo and had been involved in obtaining liquor from Canada in the 1920s. I could not find any records of border crossings from Canada; however the 1910 census and the 1920 census indicates that he was living in Detroit during that period. Additionally, these census records indicate that he was married to a woman named Hattie. John’s occupation was listed as a molder; Hattie’s as a dressmaker. The 1920 census indicates the name change. I then located a marraige index from St. Hedwig’s parish in Toledo that states John had married a Hedwig Krzyzaniak on June 20, 1906. Hattie appears to be an Anglecized version of her name. While the 1920 census data reflects that John was born in Ohio, it’s likely this data is incorrect. His birthdate of May 7, 1878 was noted on his World War I draft registration card places him as the third child to Frances and Andrew, born before the fourth child, Rose, who was born in 1880. Through census data, I’ve noticed that the family emigrated to the US about 1880 0r 1881, and Rose was born in Poznan according to the 1900 census data that shows her with her husband, Casper Koralewski. So it is reasonable to assume that John also was born in Poznan. Family oral history also places John in Miami as a boat captain and states that he changed his surname from Przybylski to Seblaski to elude the gangs. It’s reasonable to assume that by the 1920 census, he was hiding his identity. At the time of 1917-1918 draft effort, John was already using the last name of Seblaski and has an address in Detroit. His World War I draft registation places him in Detroit and notes wife, Hattie, as his nearest relative. What is interesting to note here is that his birthplace is listed as “Austria?”. This is an angle to research later–we know the family was from Poznan and that Poland during that period was divided between Germany, Austria, and Russia. It is also possible that John hid his true birth place in order to avoid being traced. Also by the 1917-1918 draft effort, John was already using the last name of Seblaski. By 1927, there is evidence that John was living in Miami. An article in the Miami Daily News on June 12, 1927 mentions a John Seblasky. The article is located here and is transcribed below: Man Saved from Death by Train By Police Dog “King” Proves He Has More Than Ordinary Canine Sense in Heroic Feat “King” may be a dog, but he is no ordinary dog. He has more than common dog sense. He saved a man’s life Friday night. The man had gone out on a “party,” where a “good time was had by all.” It grew late and slowly and unsteadily he staggered homeward. A taxicable driver let the man out at Biscayne blvd., between N. E. Sixth and Seventh sts., and he started–a bit wobbly, to be sure, toward the bayfront, apparently intending to “make” one of the boats. But things sudenly became dark and the man fell across the railroad tracks. He didn’t seem to mind. He really didn’t know his precarious position. So he just slept. In the meantime, a freight train was slowly rumbling nearer and nearer. “King,” who was being taken out for a walk by his owner, John Seblasky, of the yacht “Hedwig,” moored at Pier 4, broke loose. He apparently sensed something wrong. later, the dog came back and by barking and jumping on Seblasky’s shoulder indicated something was wrong. Guided by the dog, Seblasky and an F. E. C. railroad watchman found the sleeping man. A few minutes after they dragged the body off the rails the freight train rumbled by. “King” is a Doverman Pincher German shepherd, commonly known as “police dog.” And he came to the United States in company with a dog which Senator James Couzens of Michigan, its owner, has insured for $8,000. The 1945 State Population Census of Florida places John in Miami as a boat captain but notes his birthplace as Michigan. Thanks to John Plenzler, a copy of his Captain of Port identification is available here and was issued also in 1945. Note that this identification provides his birthplace at Toledo, Ohio. John Seblaski passed away in 1950. John Plenzler related a story to me that his parents drove to Florida to visit John. When they arrived there, they learned John had passed away just days prior to their arrival. A Florida state death abstract for John Leo Seblaski states the year but no specific date. No further data is available yet for Hattie and no children have yet been identified. Below are a few photos of John Przybylski Seblaski, thanks to John Plenzler. Joseph, Frank, and John Przybylski (left to right) John Przybylski Seblaski (date unknown) More Przybylskis and more intrigue Posted by Donna Mierzejewski-McManus under Aumiller, Ertman, Lesiecka, Mruk, Plenzler, Przybylski, Rochowiak, Seblaski, St. Anthony \| Tags: Aumiller, Ertman, Lesiecka, Mruk, Plenzler, Przybylski, Rochowiak, Seblaski, St. Anthony \| This weekend, I was excited because I finally received the marriage records from Poznan, Poland for my great-grandparents and great-great grandparent: Eva Dauer and John Plenzler, and Andreas Dauer and Maria Aumiller (Eva’s parents), and for Joseph Plenzler and Mary Leiseick (John’s parents). I also received another Plenzler marriage record, one for Margaretha Plenzler and Michael Mruk (daughter of John Pleznler and Mary Leiseicka, my great-grandparents). These will be transcribed and I’ll get to posting more about Plenzlers in the near future. I thought the Plenzlers were prolific–every time I seemed to have located one, another two popped up. The Przybylskis are outdoing the Plenzlers. For sometime, I had reason to suspect that Frances and Andrew had more children than were documented here. John Plenzler had told me a few times that there were two other brothers: John and Joseph. However, I have not found records or any hints of these two until recently. Additionally, another sibling appears while I was looking for John and Joseph: Marianna. I located Marianna while searching for any marriage records I could through St. Anthony’s Parish. I was actually looking to see if I could locate records for John or Joseph–typically, it seems as if the clan remained together and migrated together and stayed together so it made sense to see if they married in the neighborhood. Lo and behold. I didn’t find any marriage records for John or Joseph, but I did locate a marriage record for Marianna, who married Joseph Ertman. I have not completely transcribe this record (it’s written in Latin and I’m very, very rusty with what little Latin I know); however, it’s clear to see that Marianna was the daughter of Andreas Przybylski and Francisca Rochowiak. Additionally, the marriage was witnessed and signed by Frank Przybylski. A bit more research led me to locate the Ertman family on the 1910 census, where they were living at 1610 Vance Street. Many of the Przybylskis resided on Vance. I did find some trace of John Przybylski. John Plenzler told me that he had changed his name and left the area to live in Miami, Florida to captain a fishing boat. The story goes he was running away from a gang. The names John Przybylski used were John Seblaski and Johnnie Bear. So, I managed to find two census records for John Seblaski: one in 1920 in Detroit, Michigan and another in a 1945 Florida census. The Florida census data does reflect that John Seblaski is a boat captain. I also reviewed some of Andrew Przybylski’s data just to see if there were more clues about his children. I have little data on Andrew; however, there is a hint. Andrew was listed in the 1892-1893 Polk directory for Toledo. That same directory reflects a Joseph Przybylski, who resides on Blum Street. More research needed! I also located data for John Przybylski. The 1900 census and the 1920 census both reflect him living at 1461 Vance Street with his wife, Teckla Mruk, and their family. Now, a lot of this doesn’t quite add up, though. Per Frances’ and Andrew’s marriage record from Chometowo, and the marriage abstract from the Pozan Project website, Andrew and Frances were married in 1873. Marianna was born in 1875. It’s possible one other child was born prior to Marianna. However, John’s estimated birthdate is 1869. If Frances were born on the date as stated in her death certificate, September 8, 1859–she would have been only 10 years old. That’s not really quite possible, she would not have been of childbearing age. However, her marriage record of 1873 states that she is about 26, meaning she would have been born about 1847. More mystery, more intrigue. Does this imply that perhaps Andrew was widowed and previously married? Does this imply a Polish shot gun wedding? Does this imply that perhaps Frances ran away to marry (that perhaps the age on the marriage record is inaccurate)? We may never know! And more research is needed on John, Joseph, and Marianna! But for now, goodnight to all and to all a goodnight!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1450
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__label__wiki	0.808427	0.808427	HeartGold and SoulSilver- a return to form or a lazy rehash? An analysis of the long-awaited remakes Column by YeOldeJacob This opinion piece has been written by YeOldeJacob. It expresses the views of the writer, not necessarily those of Bulbagarden networks. [url=//m.bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/wiki/HeartGold_and_SoulSilver-_a_return_to_form_or_a_lazy_rehash%3F] HeartGold and SoulSilver- a return to form or a lazy rehash?[/url] <a href="//m.bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/wiki/HeartGold_and_SoulSilver-_a_return_to_form_or_a_lazy_rehash%3F"> HeartGold and SoulSilver- a return to form or a lazy rehash?</a> It has been nearly a decade since the North American release of Pokémon Gold and Silver. It has also been nearly a decade since Game Freak and Nintendo wowed me with a new installment of the series. The follow-ups to Gold and Silver, Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, were the first real misstep in the series. The first games to have serious flaws. The first games in the series I found to be a chore to complete. Before the release of a true sequel, we saw the release of enhanced-remakes of the original Pokémon Red and Green, Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen. These games, being nothing more than the original games with a fresh coat of paint, confirmed suspicions I had while playing Sapphire; Game Freak had begun coasting. They had started to disregard what made the series so iconic, so acclaimed, so addictive. Pokémon had entered a common phase of widely popular series, one that many never get out of. Then came Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, the first games in the series for the Nintendo DS. Diamond and Pearl felt very much like experiments, which is to be expected, being that the DS is radically different than any console the series had appeared on to that point. While still not up-to-par with what their early predecessors accomplished, there were flashes of what makes Pokémon, Pokémon. When Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver were announced, I had strong trepidations toward the idea of Gold and Silver being remade. After the less-than-amicable treatment that was given to Red and Green, I felt as if Game Freak and Nintendo were going to have a difficult time releasing games that could be favorably compared to the best games in the series. Because that is just what Gold and Silver are; the best games in the series. Gold and Silver innovated the series. Perfected the series. They are the most well-rounded games in the series because they did the most for the series. Using the same successful formula that its predecessor used, these games still managed to step outside of the box enough to create a superior experience. Something that has been lacking since. Now, the remakes are here. They are the most acclaimed games in the series since Gold and Silver, and, as always, are doing gangbusters in stores all over the globe. The burning question; do HeartGold and SoulSilver return the series to form? The short answer; no. Don't misunderstand me, though, these are the best games in the series since those they are based upon. For the most part, HeartGold and SoulSilver amend most of what the series has done wrong over the last decade. They aren't plagued with an overwrought plot that doesn't mesh with the whimsy and simplicity the series established when it debuted. They return to the series' roots of being a fantastic meeting of the perfect casual gamer's RPG, while maintaing a deceptively deep game as a whole. They don't try to pile on unneeded or uninteresting new features and/or gadgets. But there is a reason these glowing positives are here. And in that reason lies HeartGold and SoulSilver's most glaring of flaws; they are remakes. I'm not against remakes, in fact I am perfectly fine with them. The inherent problem with them, though, is if not enough effort is taken to differentiate them from what they are making anew, there is no point in their existence in the first place (see: Gus Van Sant's Psycho). But at the same time, a balance has to be struck. Straying too far from what made something loved for the sake of remaking it is also a pointless exercise. HeartGold and SoulSilver almost strike that balance. Almost. The visceral reaction to the game when first played is how beautiful it is, even compared to Diamond, Pearl and Platinum (which only sheds more light on D/P/Pt's experimental nature). The Johto region is simply one of the most well designed in gaming, period. Not just in the Pokémon series. There is a fluidity there, and aesthetically, a fusion of actual culture and imagination that rarely is seen. HeartGold and SoulSilver contain a gorgeous version of this region. One that really brings to the surface the DS's capabilities. English HeartGold and SoulSilver logos As with FireRed and LeafGreen, each town, route, etc. gets its background music remixed for the DS. Most of these work perfectly (New Bark Town, Ecruteak City and Cianwood City stand out as pieces I'd listen to outside of the game), but there are a few (Goldenrod City, Vermilion City, and Cinnabar Island in particular), which have remixes that borderline annoying. These tracks don't take away from the core experience, though, so they aren't real detractions. I'm not a fan of Contests. They have never been refined enough to be anything more than distractions from the progression of the main game. The new Pokéthlon falls under this same description. Though I will say, given that there is more direct interaction though a series of mini games, it is a much more entertaining distraction than Contests. The new Pokéwalker is also a pleasant distraction. It isn't quite as perfected as it could be, but given that it is a new facet of the game, this is to be expected. The Pokéwalker has been compared to the Pokémon Pikachu, and Tamagotchi pets. Now while those are apt comparisons, I liken it more to the Sega Dreamcast's VMU Memory Cards. They were neat little ideas based on the electronic pet phenomena, and were more directly connected to the console and its games than the Pokemon Pikachu was to Gold, Silver and Crystal, much like the Pokéwalker is more prominently connected to HeartGold and SoulSilver. In the end, though, the Pokewalker is more of a well-played marketing scheme than anything else. Just like the VMUs. Where does HeartGold and SoulSilver stand in the grand scheme that is the Pokémon franchise? It is the closest we have to a replication of the charm and colorful ideas the series brought to the table years ago. Though the idea that Game Freak and Nintendo had to directly replicate the games that originated, and innovated much of what made Pokémon stand out among the rest of the RPGs out there is a little scary. Generation V has been announced, and that, obviously, means new games, a new region and new Pokémon. This is where we will learn whether this series will really return to form, or will only be great when reliving its past. Retrieved from "https://bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/w/index.php?title=HeartGold_and_SoulSilver-_a_return_to_form_or_a_lazy_rehash%3F&oldid=24695"	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1465
__label__cc	0.676329	0.323671	Historical Workstations From Livedoc - The Documentation Repository Big fat warning: This page contains outdated information, especially the imaging and runlevels stuff. Look at "See Also" for more up-to-date pages. 3 Weird Runlevels 4 /usr/csl/ 5 Workstation Generations 5.1 In the Beginning 5.2 Vectras 5.3 Transformers 5.4 Elements 5.5 Guitarists 5.6 Tragic Heroes 5.7 Volcanoes 5.7.1 AIs 5.8 Scifi Authors 5.8.1 Mathematicians 5.9 Aztec Gods 5.9.1 List 5.10 Muppets 5.10.1 List 5.11 Sci-Fi Starships There are currently 45 workstations for public use in the TJHSST Computer Systems Lab. There are 11 reserved machines; this number includes a presentation workstation, two faculty workstations, and several workstations reserved for Sysadmins. All workstations (except for the four Sun SPARC workstations) run a Gentoo build, synced from the golden client. We now keep a handy database of all the workstations and various bits of information about them. The Gentoo image came about at the end of the 2006-2007 school year. Before this, the workstations used to run a Debian image. They didn't always run Debian (or even Linux); we have run Slackware on the workstations, and I've heard SUSE was used as well, but that is probably not correct. The only job currently associated with the workstations is updating the packages and reimaging them; since they have run Debian Linux for a long time now, they are relatively stable running Debian's testing tree for the most part. Imaging used to be an inconvenient, manual process involving two floppy disks and a squad of sysadmins along with their helpers. Since the 2004-2005 school year, however, all you have to do is understand the quirks of the system. (This part may or may not be applicable in future times. Who knows?) To release an image, the Sysadmin must first make sure everything works on at least the golden client (currently Jett). Or else Jacob Welsh , the workstation admin will be very very sad. And you don't want that. In theory, you should release a beta image for testing to different kinds of workstations to test things before you image all the workstations with a full release. In practice, it is faster to image all the workstations often and fix problems as soon as they arise (non-classtime is good for this purpose, as essential lesson plans won't be ruined this way). Once again, test things before you force them upon the students. To release a beta image, run hydrogen:~# /usr/csl/sbin/sysbetaimg or to release a full image, run hydrogen:~# /usr/csl/sbin/sysfullimg (This is the w34k way to do it. Switch the runlevel to 4 or 5 to really impress people at parties.) Follow the onscreen directions, even up until you have to run the command king:~# syspullimg hydrogen (It wasn't always king, and it probably won't be king by the time you need to read this; knowledge is power!). Be sure to follow those instructions carefully, too. After we made the full switch to udev with all the changes that kernel v2.6.12 entailed, /dev didn't rsync over with the rest of the image, so you have to run the command sysfix or sysfix_b if you want the workstations to have /dev (hint: you definitely want them to have /dev). After that, you can run the command csl_reimage or init 9 on a workstation. Run # /usr/csl/sbin/syssetimage -b first if you want to use the beta image. You can set up sudo to include underclassmen that you deem worthy of being able to do you job for you. That is, you can let them run the csl_reimage command, and suddenly you don't have to do a lot of that work any more. Weird Runlevels We use all the runlevels we can ... use. 0 - Halt (Even with our unorthodox system, that's the 1337 way to shut down on any box) 6 - Restart (see 0) 7 - equivalent to csl_resetup, which ??? 8 - equivalent to csl_reconfigure, which runs all the /usr/csl/etc/sysconf/config files, and maybe even more. Useful if you messed up some configuration thingy or other, or if for some reason they're missing entirely (netbooted images, for example, will not have them, which is why you should be prepared to manually type in the boot options if you decide to netboot a workstation; run init 8 as root when you've done that, and then you have no problems! A good thing if you don't want to use floppies but the image is somehow non-functional). 9 - equivalent to csl_reimage, in that it reimages the computer. Run syssetimage -b as root if you want to use the beta image. After one serious incident of failure to think, the sysadmins decided to make sure you couldn't image the golden client unless you tried really, really hard (wink wink nudge nudge). S - Single user mode. Useful for ... uh, getting you unstuck from ucky situations. /usr/csl/ This was created sometime circa 2004. Nobody really knows how all the thingies inside work. Go on inside unarmed AT YOUR OWN RISK. No really. Some of the stuff in there is scary. --Alfie 02:01, 7 November 2005 (EST) Workstation Generations Before there were workstations, there were what are now known as 'terminals'. This used to be the only way to access computers if you were not >= technology demigod. Running a state-of-the-art computer laboratory using personal computers would have been a laughable thought in the 1980's, but today that's what we try to do. It might go back to be that way if computers keep improving at the same rate they are, but that's not my problem, see. Right now is the tail end of the Pentium 4 era. Know your roots. --Alfie 01:00, 7 November 2005 (EST) Okay, so for cursory knowledge you might like to know that we used to have serial consoles tied to VAXen in the machine room that existed in the Learning Parlor. I do believe that they were able to access the ETA10P 'remotely' if you so desired to access it that way, but don't hold me to that. We later were running IRIX somehow. Don't hold me to that, either. However, I have most of the evidence of any of this IN MY BASEMENT, so you probably will never know! (Also Alfie) Vectras The first generation of workstations was composed of the Vectras. The last of those were destroyed under the Moffingston regime. They're Pentiums, I believe. They stink. They pretty much are outclassed by the Vectras in the library (as of the time of this writing, anyway). Number of CPUs: 1 CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel Model: Pentium 75 - 200 Processor Speed: 132MHz Memory: 75 MB Hard Drive: 1083.13 MB The second generation of workstations are the Transformers. Originally thirty named after Transformers from the cartoon (...you guessed it!) Transformers, these have been rearranged, mexed miss-- er, mixed messaged up so many times it isn't even cool to use one for a personal project anymore. They were originally paid for with insurance money when the ETA-10P was damaged, since 30 new computers would be more effective and closer to modern supercomputing techniques than an obsolete supercomputer would. Originally, they had the icons of the Transformer they represented, but with some getting renamed with labels peeled and whatnot, this use has been forgotten. Fun trivia hughes, hawkeye, and resurrection are not actual Transformer names. Two are named after officers from Fullmetal Alchemist, and resurrection is just totally OOC. It's supposed to be armstrong, but since Eric fixed it I figure he can name it whatever the heck he wants. The TNT2 cards from the Transformer era seem to have this problem where they cause horizontally streaked video. This does not affect performance at all, however. The Transformers began major repairs during the 2002-2003 school year, and it was not finished until the 2004-2005 school year when all Transformers that did not work at all were dismantled. CPU Model: Pentium II CPU Speed: 400 MHz Hard Drive: 15179.28 MB Video Cards: Create TNT2 (32MB) First School Year: ??? RAM: Supposed to have 512MB after Eric upgraded all of the working ones. You really don't want less in today's workstations The third generation? They are the Elements, named after the first 16 elements ordered by atomic number. Shoddily built, as Eric or Alfie could attest. Some of them don't even power up correctly. Seriously, what's with that? You can access them by their chemical symbols as well as their hostnames Processors: AMD Athlon K7's, but maybe some of them run on Celerons or Durons. RAM: 512MB? Video cards: Matrox TNT2 Last school year: Well, the last of them was found 2009. Beryllium was found in the library Spring 2009, and was promptly put in the pile of old stuff to be carted off and trashed. At that point, it was basically scrapped, though it still had an ethernet card, 1 GB of ram, and a floppy drive left, aside from the case and mobo. The fourth generation are the Guitarists; 12 be their number, but wait! a surprise! There are actually 13! How'd that happen? Well, basically we just found one lyin' around not being used or asked for back after one whole summer (it was narfed by the Lab for JOSTI 2005), so it turned into dylan. Fun trivia: santana was supposed to be called buchanan originally, but someone (by which I don't mean Moffingston for once) had a memory lapse and didn't name it that, which caused no end of headaches when Supercomp students ran MPI programs. And now you know! They are all pre-built by (the now-defunct) Compaq, marking the first time the Syslab workstations weren't student-built. Processors: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4, 2.40GHz RAM: 256MB/512MB Video cards: They come with integrated Intel graphics (not the same kind as Heroes), but some of them have TNT2's just so that we weren't driven insane from the ugliness. First school year: ??? (I should know, I'm just too lazy to remember right now) Last school year: April 2008 - they are being replaced by the newest workstations, which are the same kind as the Volcanoes. Tragic Heroes The fifth generation are the Tragic Heroes (please call them Heroes for short, PLEASE), which are pre-built by HP Compaq. They aren't that much different from Guitarists, but they look a lot better, have convenient ports in front, and of course HP desktops are among the most reliable in the business. All 40 were named by Mr. Shane Torbert, marking the first time the workstations weren't named by students. Fun trivia: one was supposed to be named bigger, but that obviously wouldn't fly, so now it's odysseus They all die in the end. Whoops! Guess I spoiled it for you. Video cards: They come with integrated Intel graphics (not the same kind as Guitarists), but all of them have an additional nvidia graphics card (most of them have GeForce2's, although some have other things) which were cheap at the time and give you some relief from the sheer AGE of the TNT2 cards. First school year: 2004-2005 Last school year: 2007-2008 The sixth generation workstations are the Volcanoes, which are pre-built by HP Compaq. The main new thing about these workstations are that they have Intel Core2Duo processors. We have received 18 so far, with more on the TJ Partnership Fund wishlist. These workstations have silver sides, and black on the front, top, and bottom. All of these have front-side USB ports and audio jacks. Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz Video cards: Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator 3000 Last school year: Still in use Same specs as the volcanoes but they were received later and have a different naming scheme. Shodan was the first machine with an AI name, but it is a special, custom-built workstation with a ridiculously good graphics card (GeForce 8800 GTX anyone?). Not including shodan, there are 16 AI workstations. An interesting note: The AIs have Core 2 Duo E6300 processors, while the Volcanoes have Core 2 Duo 6300s (according to /proc/cpuinfo, at least). There does not appear to be any actual difference in performance between the two. Scifi Authors The seventh generation workstations are the Scifi Authors, received in 2008 during TJ summer school. These prebuilt HP Compaqs appear similar to the AIs and Volcanoes, though they are of a higher model number and have slightly nicer hardware inside, and they lack floppy drives and parallel ports. Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo E8300 @ 2.83GHz RAM: 2GB DDR2 800 Note: During inventory, we discovered that Pratchett and Vonnegut have E8200 processors instead of E8300. The difference is in clock speed--2.66 GHz versus 2.83 GHz, respectively. Received over Spring Break 2009. There are 17 of them, and they replace all but one of the volcanoes. They're also dc5800s, so we're assuming for now that they have the same specs as the Scifi Authors. This is the first series of workstations to exclusively use the 64-bit image. The Aztec Gods were HP dc6000's, received in 2011. They were decommissioned in November 2014. Amimitl Atlaua Camaxtli Coatlicue Ehecatl Huitzilopochtli Itzli Mixcoatl Nanahuatzin Opochtli Patecatl Teteoinnan Xilonen Xocotl The Muppets were HP dc6200's, received in 2012. They were decommissioned in November 2014. Fozzie Misspiggie Statler Swedishchef Sci-Fi Starships The Sci-Fi Starships, like the Muppets, are HP dc6200's received in 2012. They were decommissioned in November 2014. Spiritoffire Tantive Gentoo Image SystemImager Retrieved from "https://livedoc.tjhsst.edu/index.php?title=Historical_Workstations&oldid=5095" Obsolete Page	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1473
__label__cc	0.580767	0.419233	Happy Holidays to all “Northern Sky” http://www.mediafire.com/?5tvvzum2xgm The holidays are imminent. It may sound hokey, but my accumulating years have taught me to be truly thankful for all that is good in my life. I am a simple man and my foundation begins and ends with my wife and son. Therefore, I am always caught up in an emotional whirlwind whenever I hear the song that ushered me down the aisle to be married to my soulmate and mother to my little fellow. The lyrics are apt, and I am ecstatic to blow “blow your horn on high” and celebrate the reasons why they make sense of this erratic life every single day. Happy holidays to you all and those who give meaning to who you are. I never felt magic crazy as this I never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea I never held emotion in the palm of my hand Or felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree But now you’re here Bright in my northern sky. It’s been a long time that I’m waiting Been a long time that I’m blown been a long time that I’ve wandered Through the people I have known Oh, if you would and you could Straighten my new mind’s eye. Would you love me for my money Would you love me for my head Would you love me through the winter Would you love me ’til I’m dead Come blow your horn on high. Posted in Nick Drake, Uncategorized \| Tagged bryter later, marriage, nick drake, northern sky, pink moon \| Leave a Comment » Mark Fry-Dreaming With Alice Dreaming With Alice (RCA 1971) http://www.mediafire.com/?qdonqjhglzd Some albums effortlessly capture an era. Dreaming With Alice serves as a last gasp of the hippie mysticism and pastoral innocence of 60s English folk before it was co-opted by a more cynical decade. It celebrates the wide-eyed innocence and buoyant spirit of a psychedelic movement before hearts grew more calloused, drugs took their psychic toll and the promise of a technicolor society of flower power grew hollow and decayed. 1971 was a time of disillusionment with what wasn’t accomplished as everyone slowly realized the world was more troubled and complex than could be imagined. A song wasn’t going to change the world and the opponents of the counter culture were nibbling away at the lackadaisical corpse of the 60s. The era of arena rock and rock and roll as sheer spectacle were afoot and the time for a cycle of songs about paramours and playing a flute with a dude fingering the lute by the riverside while discussing their dreams was kind of passe by this point. Mark Fry recorded just one of many albums that could be described as a bittersweet farewell to the 60s. Even the album’s title evokes the imagery of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and champions his kinship with a psychedelic landscape that was being slowly choked by the weeds of cynicism. Maybe it’s because Mark Fry was a noted artist before he tried his hand at music that he retains the desire to paint an alternate universe when others chose to tackle the gritty realities that awaited them when they finally came down from their incessant high. It’s hard to discuss Dreaming With Alice without conjuring the singular namesake of Donovan. Although Fry’s voice and songwriting echoes the imagery and vibe of Donovan, Fry doesn’t just draw inspiration from the source, but opens it up wide and takes it to a psychedelic extreme. Where Donovan relied upon his pen to summon images of tangerine dreams and sunshine supermen, Fry’s take is far more whacked and visceral. Everything is full of echoes and shadow as he slows the pace of his idol to a crawl. It’s a slow-motion opiate epic that invokes a darkness amidst the light, love and lazy pace. How can you speak poorly of an album that begins with such a flourish? “Did you pass the glass mountain? Where Salome opened her dress. Did you see the dolphins feathered fountain? Oh the King made a bloody mess” This is just a stanza, but it speaks volumes about what is being attempted on this album. The subsequent song “The Witch” is a hypnotic paean to the power of dark magick and the power it wields. Amidst all of this dark hoodoo, Fry unleashes a raga-like jam for the ages. All at once, it invokes the lexicon on the 60s, but couches it in a context that is far more suited to a coven than a bed-in. It’s an album that lives in a limbo between the pagan and the pure as he crafts a narrative that straddles a line between the purity of a hippie ideal and the stains that marred it on the way down to earth. Posted in Mark Fry, Uncategorized \| Tagged acid folk, alice in wonderland, donovan, dreaming with alice, english folk, lewis carroll, mark fry, sunshine superman, tangerine dream \| Leave a Comment » World Party-Put the Message in the Box “Put the Message in the Box” from Goodbye Jumbo http://www.mediafire.com/?w2fle2z32z10o4j It’s a pain in the ass to write long-winded meditations on whatever album stumbles into my psyche. Sometimes I just want to write about a single song. To be honest, family, fatherhood and teaching are the prime real estate in my life these days and rambling meanderings fall somewhere near the excavation of my cat litter somedays. Therefore, I plan on offering some miniature dioramas of whatever song digs a hole in my heart on a more regular basis than once a week. Considering the fact that I have disappeared for entire years from this blog, my word in swiss cheese, but optimism is my forte. Anyhow, I always loved this song. At the time of its release in 1991, I was a misbegotten teen who somehow chased down the divergent pathways of Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions, Eric B. and Rakim as well as a maudlin fascination with the Smiths, Galaxie 500 and the Cocteau Twins. Those are just the good bands I listened to. I make no claims to premature cool. God knows I also owned albums by MC Hammer and the Dead Milkmen too. Anyhow, I found myself immediately transfixed by this song whenever it reared its derivative noggin on 120 Minutes on MTV one night. I purposely avoided all classic rock out of some misguided aesthetic of cool that was ill-defined and its eminently hummable 90s alt-rock take on Bob Dylan seemed like something kaleidoscopic and fantastical to my undefiled ears. “Put the Message in the Box”is a paean to optimism. It is an ode to speaking your mind no matter the consequence. God knows it is a timely theme that should be revisited today. However, the instrumentation transforms the hippie sentiments of the band into something more transcendent than mere encouraging words set to song. World Party is basically made up of one man, Karl Wallinger, and he was quite an effective chameleon for awhile. He basically summons all of the anthemic power of early 70s Dylan and marries it to country-rock by way of 120 Minutes and it somehow works despite itself. It’s a beautiful sentiment married to an equally beautiful song. That’s all I ask for in this world. Posted in Uncategorized, World Party \| Tagged 120 minutes, Bob Dylan, boogie down productions, cocteau twins, Galaxie 500, goodbye jumbo, Karl Wallinger, mc hammer, mtv, public enemy, World Party \| Leave a Comment » Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers-s/t s/t (Alligator 1971) http://www.mediafire.com/?2i0qzimjmyd It’s a goddamn shame that Hound Dog Taylor never recorded a full-length album until the ripe and raucous age of fifty-six. Although he plugged away on the blues circuit for years, Taylor only managed to release a few singles in the 60s despite a career whose genesis began in the 40s playing alongside Sonny Boy Williamson on a few radio sessions. Dig a little into his history and you’ll see why the unpredictable avenues of life led him on a rough and tumble pathway to a larger audience. A budding career as a bluesman was cut short when he was chased out of Mississippi by the KKK for sleeping with a woman of the caucasian persuasion. Understandably, his ambitions fell by the wayside and he spent the next fifteen years working odd jobs and building television cabinets until he decided to say goodbye to the straight life at age forty-two and reengaged with the world of blues as a changed man. No longer tied to the tried-and-true canon, Taylor chose one hell of an era to reestablish his career in a 60s where the blues had sired rock and roll and subsequently taken notice of its brash amplification and nasty streak. Taylor was a stone cold natural for this newly electrified and electric format and his fascination with the ramshackle bottleneck playing of Elmore James opened up his playing to a new way of approaching his instrument. The fact that he had a larger than life personality didn’t hurt either. The man gained the nickname of Hound Dog due to his incessant chasing of the female persuasion. The fact that he sliced off his sixth finger with a straight razor while drunk didn’t hurt his reputation as a feral force. Yes, he did have six fingers on both hands, which may or may not explain why no one plays quite like him. On his own, Taylor might have gotten lost in the sauce of the blues revival inspired by hippies infatuated with the B.B. King, Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf. However, Taylor was blessed with the best backing band of any blues act of the 60s and 70s. The Houserockers were a two-piece consisting of drummer Ted Harvey and guitarist Brewer Phillips. Harvey’s drumming puts the boogie back into the blues and his relentlessly sloppy and insistent beats really lend the three-piece the feel of one drunken mess of a band. Phillips is the perfect foil for Taylor as they compete to see who can let loose the most while retaining a hypnotic, repetitive drive that centers each song. They perfectly congealed as one unholy drunken mess of a blues act that is more interested in conjuring some bad hoodoo with a mean streak a mile wide instead of bemoaning lost love like a motherless child. Enough backstory, let’s get to the actual album. Released in 1971, their self-titled debut was recorded live over the course of two liquor fueled evenings and it sure sounds that way to these ears. Even Taylor’s take on his idol Elmore James’ “It Hurts Me Too” has a wild and deeply hurt vibe that replaces the pathos of the original with something more primal and angry. It’s a majestic version that drags its forefather through the mud and covers it with all of the grime it always deserved. However, Hound Dog Taylor wasn’t a man to wallow in misery for misery’s sake, so much of the album is fueled by more light-hearted spirits. You can see why they were such a popular live act in Chicago as their performances seem tailor-made for seedy stages surrounded by barflies and lively souls. “Give Me Back My Wig” might be one of my favorite blues songs even if it is just a song about repossessing a wig from a former flame. It’s a silly and bizarre concept delivered with fire and passion accompanied by a thoroughly electric performance that has no business being married to such lyrics, but it somehow conjures some true magic as these three men play like their lives depended upon it. It is the undistilled sound of having one too many and ranting about what its bothering your agitated mind. Ultimately, this is a perfect statement of purpose, which was to present the essence of bluesy raunch at 2 a.m. in a dimly lit club where the soused outnumber the sober. To that end, it is a perfect album since that grimy dart has most definitely hit the bullseye here. Posted in Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers, Uncategorized \| Tagged alligator records, blues, elmore james, hound dog taylor and the houserockers, hound dog tayor, sonny boy williamson \| Leave a Comment » Les Olivensteins-Ep http://www.mediafire.com/?mlehhgf3nyh I must resist the need to be verbose here since there is not much to go on here. All I know is that Les Olivensteins recorded a fairly amazing ep in 1979. I know they are from France and that this ep seems like a sturdy bridge from the utterly brilliant 70s French rock comp Tetes Lourdes(which can be found on this site) to its punk rock cousin. All I know is both releases emanated from France and never fail to capture a sense of urgency and sloppiness that is lacking from music today. Totally catchy with a nasty streak a mile wide, Les Olivensteins is okay with me anytime. Both Tetes Lourdes and this ep give me hope there is some undiscovered golden age in 70s French music that will someday be discovered by your truly. Please school me if I am deaf, dumb and blind to something brilliant beyond Metal Urbain. Posted in Les Olivensteins, Uncategorized \| Tagged france, french punk, punk, tetes lourdes \| Leave a Comment » Strawbs-Grave New World Grave New World (A&M 1972) http://www.mediafire.com/?q2ezq173o11kxr7 Amidst all of the psychedelic wayfarers of the 60s England, the Strawbs have always gotten lost in the shuffle of a deck stacked with Pink Floyds, Beatles, Cream, Incredible String Band and countless other seminal influences on modern music. All you need to know is that I discovered this album through the recommendation of my mother-in-law. Yeah, she’s a pretty cool mother-in-law to be sure, but it points to how their musical pollination never quite spread beyond a long-forgotten garden visited by far too few souls. That’s a shame because I’ve been dipping my toes into their pool and hate that they’ve become a criminally neglected footnote to the careers of original member Sandy Denny and later addition Rick Wakeman. Personally, I am enamored by the prospect of any band that combined the opposing viewpoints of the folks who sparked Fairport Convention and Yes, even if they contributed to different eras of the Strawbs. Sadly, the names of Denny and Wakeman obscure the legacy and immense talent of singer/guitarist Dave Cousins, who is the foundation of the band. Cousins’ voice kind of reminds me of a folksier, gentle version of Cat Stevens, but with a bit more passion, grit and urgency. Although the instrumentation of Grave New World straddles the line between pastoral English folk and the orchestral bombast of 70s prog, Cousins grounds it all with a earnest, pleading voice that wouldn’t sound out of place on a lonesome folk platter lost to general obscurity. His timeless voice and knack for imbuing each track with a sad, weary pathos can be derived from his time playing skiffle and obsessing over the heartbreaking catalogs of Leadbelly, Bob Dylan and Elizabeth Cotten. Most important was his devotion to Flatt and Scruggs who inspired him to pick up a banjo and dedicate himself to its mastery. Don’t expect any hoedowns and juke joint paeans to wayward lovers since the Strawbs were a far different band by the time Grave New World was released in 1972. Grave New World and its predecessor From the Witchwood are where the Strawbs really hit their stride. Folks tend to fixate on their debut with Sandy Denny, but it’s folk-rock sounds simplistic in comparison to their flights into the pretentious heavens of prog. Don’t fear–this is no Tarkus or The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Grave New World may be the most folksy, earthy prog album of the 70s and avoids the conceptual excess and pompous pitfalls of their brethren. At it’s core, Grave New World is 60s English folk album concerned with “lords of the forest”, changing seasons and the decay of true love. However, Cousins dalliances with prog enervates these tried and true themes and the familiar becomes electric. Just take a listen to “The Flower and the Young Man” and tell me that it doesn’t deserve a place besides “Calvary Cross” and “Come All Ye” in the sweepstakes for the penultimate English folk tune deserving of epic status. Awash in warm, buzzing organ, perfect harmony and a beautiful progression from serenity to frenetic guitar soloing, this song just nails everything I love about this era in music. Even the lyrics paint a perfect picture: While seasons change in timely way The salt sea ever flows Where open moors lie cold and bleak A single flower grows. Though winter snows fall deep and long The flower grows the while The weary traveller passing by Feels warmer for her smile. Sunshine and the tender flower Both melt the young man’s heart But he who lingers waits his turn Must learn to play his part. Through summer days of warmth and love The young man tends his flower But blinded by their colours bright Heeds not the passing hour. The autumn trees once clothed with gold Now frayed and sadly worn The flower bids a chill farewell The young man’s heart is torn. It’s a classic tale that wouldn’t sound out of place as a traditional folk tune recorded long ago, but their instrumentation places it in a different musical context and it is simultaneously a twist on time honored themes and a declaration of their individuality and unique take on what others fumbled or rehashed. I’m not saying Grave New World is some game changer that will leave you slack jawed, but is peppered with bouts of genius that deserves to be treasured by more than my mother-in-law and I. Posted in Strawbs, Uncategorized \| Tagged beatles, calvary cross, dave cousins, fairport conventions, grave new world, king crimson, prog, richard thompson, rick wakeman, sandy denny, strawbs, tarkus, Yes \| 1 Comment »	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1480
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Access to Justice Is Not Meant For All DEATH BY FUK-U-SHIMA Foreclosure Information Personal Disappointments July 28, 2015 by nootkabear ENENews: U.S. Pacific coast — Scientists: Mass die-offs of mammals, birds, fish… AP: Unprecedented deaths along U.S. Pacific coast — Scientists: Mass die-offs of mammals, birds, fish… “No one’s sure what happened” — Gov’t wants Unusual Mortality Event declared — Samples “being tested for radionuclides from Fukushima” (PHOTOS & AUDIO) Published: July 28th, 2015 at 10:23 am ET By ENENews http://enenews.com/ap-unprecedented-deaths-along-pacific-coast-scientists-reporting-mass-die-offs-mammals-birds-fish-govt-declared-unusual-mortality-event-being-tested-radionuclides-fukushima-one-sure-whats?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ENENews+%28Energy+News%29 (Associated Press/ABC News) AP, Jul 27, 2015 (emphasis added): Scientist says unexplained mass whale deaths off Alaska island may remain a mystery — Researchers may never solve the recent deaths of 18 endangered whales… 10 fin whales [and] eight humpback whales… scientists speculate the animals might have eaten something toxic… One test came back negative for one toxin that would be present in harmful algal blooms [Kate Wynne, a marine mammal specialist for the University of Alaska Sea Grant Program] said. “That’s my leading hypothesis,” Wynne said of an environmental toxin as a cause… “we never will find out what killed those whales, in my mind.” Other test results also are pending, however. A muscle-tissue sample is being tested for the possibility of radionuclides from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster… The deaths are an unusual occurrence, Wynne said. She said she’s never heard of anything similar occurring among large baleen whales in the U.S. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration also is looking into the deaths of a slightly larger number of whales over a larger area. NOAA is requesting the deaths to be designated nationally as an unusual mortality event… NOAA spokeswoman Julie Speegle said. Along with the dead whales, dead birds including murres and shearwaters were reported… Tests showed the shearwaters had a high parasite count and were starving, Wynne said. (Alaska Public Media) KUCB, Jul 27, 2015: Dead Fish, Wildlife In Aleutians… Scientists have been receiving reports of dead and dying mammals, birds and small fish in the Aleutian Islands. They think the killer might be toxic algae… “They’re a suspected cause for some of the mass deaths we’ve been seeing–the 10 fin whales that were spotted dead off of Kodiak Island; I know Adak has seen a lot of dead birds, King Cove, I believe (birds in) False Pass have been washing up. We don’t know the cause of that yet either,” [Melissa Good with University of Alaska Fairbanks] said… “No one that I know of is sure what happened.” This week, Good has been taking water samples around Unalaska and shipping them off to labs for full analysis… She’s also sampled the stomach and flesh of a Steller’s sea lion that washed up dead… Good said people in the Aleutians should be wary of eating clams or mussels… “We just don’t know if they’re going to be toxic or not,” she said. Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, July 2015: Pursuing Cause of Death in Gulf of Alaska Whales… Over the next six weeks more large whale mortalities were reported by mariners and pilots. Kate Wynne and Bree Witteveen began gathering NOAA Stranding Network data… a total of 10 fin whale and 8 humpback mortalities have been documented… Both whale species feed in groups on small fish and invertebrates, filtering them with their baleen… Wynne, Witteveen, and other biologists have pursued many possible human-influenced and natural causes, but as of mid-July the cause of death remains unknown… Biotoxins caused by warm water–induced harmful algal blooms are a possibility, although tissue from the sampled fin whale tested for domoic acid came back negative… Scientists have followed up on other possible causes… even radionuclides from the Fukushima reactor…. To pursue the radionuclide possibility Wynne submitted a muscle tissue sample from a dead fin whale for Cesium 137 analysis, with results pending… Wynne and Witteveen complimented the professional network of bird, fish, and mammal biologists in the Gulf of Alaska and the Bristol Bay–Bering Sea area, who have reported unusual events since the mortalities. http://seagrant.uaf.edu/news/fishlines/2015/july.php Posted in Alaska, Alert, americium, birth defects, bone cancer, California, censorship, cesium, Fukushima \| Tagged Alaska, alert, americium, California, censorship, cesium, Contamination, danger, dead, death \| Leave a comment Blood Bath at Faroe Islands, God Help Us All! I was reading about the Nuclear Plant in Missouri being shut down, and saw a link: obewanspeaks July 24, 2015 at 9:24 pm Log in to Reply There is no prayer that will save this Earth! Just read a few of these stories and weep.. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3173617/Fishermen-chase-250-whales-beach-Faroe-Islands-locals-leap-water-glee-stab-death-slaughter-turns-sea-red-blood.html So, I went to the sight, not knowing what to expect really. I have to agree with “There is no prayer that will save this Earth!” After sitting here and crying about the animals, I thought about what obewanspeaks had said: “There is no prayer that will save this Earth!” The horror that those whales had gone through, and all these people getting into the senseless slaughter. We are all doomed. How the hell anyone can think that these actions are Ok, I cannot imagine. People from Sea Shepard were arrested, they could not stand by and do nothing, so they tried, and were arrested. I am sure that there will be a special place in hell for people like those killing these whales. I am ashamed to be human after seeing that. I am disgusted at the human race, and ashamed that these animals have been so senselessy slaughtered. Who do these people think they are? These are not from the same cloth as most of us. Go see for yourself. I could not even watch the video, the pictures horrified me so: If ever there were any that would rot in hell, it is the people who did this: There are more pix, and a video, it sickened me so much, that I had to stop where I did without venturing further. God HelP Us All! We are going to need it! Posted in death, faroe islands, hell is too good for these, Sea Shepard, sick people, slaughter, whales \| Tagged death, faroe Islands, Sea Shepard, sick people., slaughter, whales \| Leave a comment ENENews: Local News: “Breaking… Alert… leak shuts down US nuclear plant” — Gov’t: Radiation levels ‘above normal’ — ‘Steam plume’ seen in reactor building, workers can’t find where leak is coming from due to safety concerns — Flood warnings issued for area Local News: “Breaking… Alert… leak shuts down US nuclear plant” — Gov’t: Radiation levels ‘above normal’ — ‘Steam plume’ seen in reactor building, workers can’t find where leak is coming from due to safety concerns — Flood warnings issued for area Published: July 23rd, 2015 at 7:00 pm ET ENENews http://enenews.com/newspaper-breaking-news-alert-leak-shuts-down-nuclear-plant-govt-radiation-levels-above-normal-steam-plume-reported-workers-find-leak-coming-due-safety-concerns-flood-warnings-issued-area US NRC Event Notification Report, Jul 23, 2015 (emphasis added): Callaway Plant initiated a shutdown required by Technical Specifications (TS)… TS 3.4.13 Condition A was entered due to unidentified RCS [reactor coolant system] leakage being in excess of the 1 gpm TS limit. The leak was indicated by an increase in containment radiation readings… A containment entry identified a steam plume; due to personnel safety the exact location of the leak inside the containment building could not be determined. At this time radiation levels inside [the] containment are stable and slightly above normal. There have been no releases from the plant above normal levels. http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/en.html#en51253 Power Reactor Event Number: 51253 Facility: CALLAWAY Region: 4 State: MO Unit: [1] [ ] [ ] RX Type: [1] W-4-LP NRC Notified By: WALTER GRUER HQ OPS Officer: JEFF HERRERA Notification Date: 07/23/2015 Notification Time: 04:21 [ET] Event Date: 07/23/2015 Event Time: 01:15 [CDT] Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY 10 CFR Section: 50.72(b)(2)(i) – PLANT S/D REQD BY TS 50.72(b)(2)(xi) – OFFSITE NOTIFICATION Person (Organization): HEATHER GEPFORD (R4DO) SCOTT MORRIS (NRR) JEFFERY GRANT (IRD) Unit SCRAM Code RX CRIT Initial PWR Initial RX Mode Current PWR Current RX Mode 1 N Y 100 Power Operation 0 Cold Shutdown Event Text INITIATION OF PLANT SHUTDOWN DUE TO RCS LEAKAGE “On July 23, 2015 at 0115 [CDT], Callaway Plant initiated a shutdown required by Technical Specifications (TS). At 2139 [CDT] on July 22, 2015, TS 3.4.13 Condition A was entered due to unidentified RCS leakage being in excess of the 1 gpm TS limit. The leak was indicated by an increase in containment radiation readings, increasing sump levels, and decreasing levels in the Volume Control tank (VCT). “A containment entry identified a steam plume; due to personnel safety the exact location of the leak inside the containment building could not be determined. “At this time radiation levels inside [the] containment are stable and slightly above normal. There have been no releases from the plant above normal levels. “The [NRC] Senior Resident Inspector was notified.” * * * UPDATE PROVIDED BY ROB STOUGH TO JEFF ROTTON AT 1757 EDT ON 07/23/2015 * * * “Callaway entered TS 3.4.13 Condition B at 0053 [CDT on July 23, 2015] for the subject leakage since reactor coolant pressure boundary leakage could not be ruled out by visual inspection. The estimated leak rate when the decision was made to shut down the plant was approximately 1.8 gpm. The plant entered Mode 3 at 0600 CDT. “Additionally, at approximately 1315, it was determined that the duration of the required outage would be greater than three days, thus requiring notification to the Missouri Public Service Commission. This offsite notification is reportable to the NRC [per 10CFR50.72(b)(2)(xi)], and the above table has been updated to reflect this reporting requirement.” The licensee notified the NRC Resident Inspector. Notified R4DO (Gepford). AP, Jul 23, 2015: Missouri Nuclear Plant Shut Down After ‘Non-Emergency’ Leak… Jeff Trammel, a spokesman for St. Louis-based Ameren, called it a “minor steam leak.”… Ameren officials are investigating the cause… it was unclear when the plant would restart… [NRC] inspectors are at the plant. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/missouri-nuclear-plant-shut-emergency-leak-32641600 Missouri Times, Jul 23, 2015: Unplanned Shutdown & Elevated Radioactive Levels at Ameren Missouri’s Callaway 1 Nuclear Reactor Containment Building… Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued an event notice for the unplanned shutdown of the Callaway 1 nuclear reactor… The NRC notes that radiation is above normal in the containment building. http://themissouritimes.com/20103/unplanned-shutdown-elevated-radioactive-levels-at-ameren-missouris-callaway-1-nuclear-reactor-containment-building/ Jefferson City News Tribune, Jul 23, 2015 at 2:26p: Alert – Steam leak shuts down Callaway… Alert: Steam leak shuts down Callaway Plant: Leak poses no danger, and is under investigation http://t.co/OUqUc2kE0V — NewsTribune JCMO (@NewsTribune) July 23, 2015 Jefferson City News Tribune, Jul 23, 2015: Breaking News – Steam leak shuts down Callaway Plant… Company officials are trying to determine the cause of the problem, which they said “has been contained.” https://archive.is/iKgdW ABC 17, Jul 23, 2015 — Callaway FLOOD WARNING: Issued at: 9:52 am CDT on July 23, 2015, expires at: 4:00 AM CDT on July 26, 2015. The Flood Warning continues for the Missouri River near Chamois until Friday afternoon. At 7:00 am Thursday the stage was 19.5 feet. Flood stage is 17.0 feet. Minor flooding is occurring. http://www.abc17news.com/weather/severe-weather/17736360?county=callaway_mo Previous event at Callaway: Emergency declared at US nuke plant: Fire shuts down reactor — “Reports of black smoke” — Company says no radiation release “above normal operating limits” Posted in aged, Alert, AlertsUSA, americium, birth defects, bone cancer, Callaway Plant, censorship, cesium, children, Danger, dead, death, destruction \| Tagged alert, AlertsUSA, americium, anencephaly, Callaway Plant, censorship, cesium, Contamination, criminal, danger, dead, death, Disaster \| 1 Comment ENENews: “Unprecedented emergency statewide fishing closures enacted in Pacific Northwest — “We’ve never had to do anything like this” It has begun. It was only a matter of time. Both Chernobyl and Fukushima shows it takes about four years to be visible in the wildlife. It has begun. It was only a matter of time. Both Chernobyl and Fukushima shows it takes about four years to be visible in the wildlife. Chernobyl was bad enough, but Fukushima has never ended. Shows you what we are in store for in the future. Slow death by Fukushima! The news media will not risk an all out panic by the masses, they will continue to lie to you, while you poison yourselves to death with radioactive foods. Now for the story, but don’t expect mainstream media to tell you the truth: Unprecedented emergency statewide fishing closures enacted in Pacific Northwest — “We’ve never had to do anything like this” — “Very alarming” mass die-offs linked to disease outbreak — Nearly 100% infection rate in some areas — Rotting gills, distended bellies — NOAA: It’s a ‘head scratcher’ (VIDEOS) Published: July 17th, 2015 at 2:26 pm ET http://enenews.com/emergency-statewide-fishing-closures-pacific-northwest-unprecedented-weve-never-anything-like-before-disease-causing-very-alarming-mass-die-100-infection-rate-areas-rotting-gills-distended?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ENENews+%28Energy+News%29 KTVZ, Jul 16, 2015 (emphasis added): Restricting fishing in Oregon streams and rivers for the first time ever… Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife announced it’s taking drastic measures… they’ve never had to do this before… ODFW: “We’re starting to see fish kills in more places than we typically do. This is a pretty extreme set of conditions.” http://www.ktvz.com/news/odfw-curbs-fishing-statewide-due-to-warm-low-water/34203106 Statesman Journal, Jul 16, 2015: [ODFW is taking] an unprecedented step… The move comes on the heels of multiple fish die-offs… “We’ve never had to do anything like this before — we’re in new territory,” said [ODFW’s] Bruce McIntosh. http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2015/07/16/afternoon-fishing-shut-oregon-rivers/30253113/ Mail Tribune (Oregon), Jul 16, 2015: Emergency fishing closures go statewide http://www.nbcrightnow.com/story/29568685/drought-conditions-prompt-fishing-closures-restrictions-on-numerous-rivers Spokesman Review, Jul 17, 2015: Washington Fish and Wildlife Department officials are enacting fishing restrictions involving 38 rivers… emergency rules take effect on Saturday. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/jul/17/drought-prompts-fishing-limits-on-38-rivers-in/ AP, Jul 9, 2015: Fisheries biologist Rod French said [dead salmon] appeared to have been infected with a gill rot disease http://bigstory.ap.org/article/d8eda6ab68f54cc8b35080ca1eac61c4/stress-heat-drought-fish-spurs-push-reduce-kills The Oregonian, Jul 10, 2015: Scores of dead salmon are washing ashore… mortality rates are rapidly rising for juvenile fish near John Day Dam… [French] said it appears the fish are dying from a bacterial infection… “It’s very alarming that we’re seeing them this early,” he said… [Paul Wagner, NOAA fisheries biologist] called it a head scratcher. The die-offs seem to be associated with disease, he said. http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2015/07/deschutes_salmon_deaths_add_to.html Siskiyou Daily (Calif.), May 19, 2015: Klamath Fish Health Assessment Team has raised its level of alert… due to an increased detection of a deadly disease…. Chinook salmon tested in two reaches of the Klamath River… reached a 100-percent prevalence of infection [for] one of the deadliest salmon diseases… [Juveniles] have been found with… distended bellies, pale-colored gill and gill erosion… [N]ear the Scott and Klamath rivers confluence… 86 out of 120 showing distended bellies and 87 out of 114 showing pale gills… http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/article/20150519/NEWS/150519690 OPB, Jun 9, 2015: More than half of the 3-inch long Chinook in the [Klamath River] trap are either dead or showing signs of a serious parasitic infection… nearly 100 percent of Chinook caught in this fish trap in early May were infected. (chinook all have bacterial infections that will kill them all) http://earthfix.info/news/article/salmon-killing-parasite/ KATU (Portland), Jul 10, 2015: Salmon and trout, even sturgeon, are dying like never before… on the Deschutes, Santiam, Mackenzie, Clackamas, and other rivers. KGW (Portland), Jul 7, 2015: It just seems like it’s getting worse… the issue certainly hasn’t improved since we reported on it 2 weeks ago… Chinook salmon, even some sturgeon, continue to wash up… Several fishermen I spoke with down here today, well they’re worried… Pretty much everywhere you look… dead fish… Starting last month, Chinook salmon began washing up… far short of their spawning grounds… It’s all the talk among local fisherman, “I’ve lived here about 25 years, and I’m an avid fishermen. I’ve never seen any fish like this on the bank as much as I’ve seen this year.” http://www.kgw.com/videos/news/local/2015/07/07/dead-chinook-salmon-continue-to-wash-up/29845937/ KOIN (Portland), Jun 19, 2015: Is this a really big concern right now? Very much so… “I’ve never seen it like that before“… The Chinook are on their way back from the ocean… Fishermen are coming up empty and are worried. http://koin.com/2015/06/19/warm-water-leads-to-chinook-salmon-deaths/ KGW, Jun 22, 2015: A startling site… Chinook salmon dying in the rivers… Biologists counted more than 100 on just a 3 mile stretch… We came down here this morning expecting to find 1, maybe 2, dead Chinook salmon. Boy, were we wrong — you can find them about every 20 yards… one after another… Have you ever seen that before? “Never, ever, ever, ever.” Jeannie Brooks has been fishing [here] with her dad for decades, never before had she seen this… “I looked all the way down and thought, what are all these dead fish doing here?” http://www.kgw.com/videos/news/local/2015/06/22/warm-river-temps-blamed-for-salmon-deaths/29141261/ KPTV (Oregon), Jun 19, 2015: One after another… “I never saw a dead fish, ever, here.” http://www.kptv.com/story/29364356/warmer-temps-leading-to-dead-salmon-along-willamette-clackamas-rivers KGW, Jul 9, 2015: [A diver] told us what he’s been seeing under the surface… there are salmon sitting dead in spots on the Clakamas River bottom… littered here and there. http://www.kgw.com/story/news/2015/07/09/salmon-warm-water-drought-fish-death/29908103/ Watch: KTVZ \| KATU \| KGW \| KOIN \| KGW\| KPTV \| KGW Posted in Alert, americium, birth defects, bone cancer, California, Carlsbad, censorship, cesium, Chemical, Chernobyl, children, corruption, Danger, dead, death, destruction, dying, Fukushima, Oregon, plutonium, polonium, strotium, Washington State \| Tagged alert, americium, anencephaly, California, censorship, cesium, Contamination, corruption, danger, dead, death, Disaster, Emergency, Oregon, Washington State \| Leave a comment ENENews: Former Japan TV News Anchor: The mutations have begun in Fukushima; Birds found blind, unable to fly Former Japan TV News Anchor: The mutations have begun in Fukushima; Birds found blind, unable to fly — Magazine: “Birds in tailspin 4 years after Fukushima… the proverbial canary in a coalmine” — Professor: Birds with mutations popping up all over in contaminated areas (VIDEO) Published: May 12th, 2015 at 1:04 pm ET http://enenews.com/former-japan-tv-news-anchor-mutations-begun-fukushima-birds-found-fly-magazine-birds-tailspin-4-years-after-fukushima-proverbial-canary-coalmine-professor-partial-albinos-popping-all-place-conta?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ENENews+%28Energy+News%29 (Katsuhide Okada revisits the Futaba Rose Garden after the triple disaster. \| COURTESY OF KATSUHIDE OKADA) Japan Times, Mar 8, 2015 (emphasis added): Katsuhide Okada… didn’t worry much about the power plant: It was so safe, Tepco told the Futaba community… [T]he roses that Mr. Okada cultivated over a lifetime — more than 750 varieties, nearly 8,000 bushes — have perished. Still, Okada has returned to Futaba 10 times… he was interviewed on NHK appearing grim and heartbroken… Maya Moore, a former news anchor and journalist at NHK, happened to catch Okada’s interview… she collaborated with Okada and the group in putting together the book “The Rose Garden of Fukushima.” http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2015/03/08/issues/labor-love-left-wither-die-fukushima#.VaXXHvmrStY The forward to ‘The Rose Garden of Fukushima’ was written by US Ambassador to Japan (2009-13) John Roos: “The incredible tale of Katz Okada and his Fukushima rose garden as told here by Maya Moore… gives you a small window into what the people of Tohoku faced” http://maya87mh.wix.com/rosegardenfukushima WHYY, Apr 24, 2015 – Interview with Maya Moore, former NHK news anchor and author of The Rose Garden of Fukushima (22:15 in): It’s just poisoned wasteland. The last time Mr. Okada actually went back in there, he found baby crows that could not fly, that were blind. Mutations have begun with animals, with birds. http://whyy.org/cms/youbetyourgarden/some-tips-and-tricks-to-fight-miserable-mosquitoes/ http://cricket.biol.sc.edu/chernobyl/papers/Mousseau-Caldicott-2015-sm.pdf Several studies have linked the Fukushima disaster to mutations in wildlife and specifically discussed negative effects on crow populations: Dr. Tim Mousseau, Professor of Biological Sciences at the Univ. of South Carolina, 2014 (pdf): We have studied biodiversity at Chornobyl since 2000 and Fukushima since 2011. Most organisms that we have examined showed significantly increased rates of genetic damage in direct proportion to the level of exposure… Many organisms showed increased rates of deformities, developmental abnormalities, eye cataracts, and even tumors and cancers. Smithsonian, Apr 30, 2015: Birds Are in a Tailspin Four Years After Fukushima — Like the proverbial canary in a coalmine… Mousseau and his team have assembled a grim portrait… their data show that bird species and abundances are in sharp decline, and the situation is getting worse… “where it’s much, much hotter, it’s dead silent. You’ll see one or two birds if you’re lucky.”… birds such as the carrion crow… demonstrated higher susceptibility… 2012, he began capturing birds [with] patches of bleach-white feathers… the patches have a high coincidence with… cataracts, tumors, asymmetries, developmental abnormalities… By 2013, the birds… had white patches big enough to be seen through binoculars. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/birds-are-tailspin-four-years-after-fukushima-180955134/?no-ist http://cricket.biol.sc.edu/chernobyl/papers/Moller-et-al-JO-2015b.pdf Journal of Ornithology (Moller, Nishiumi, Mousseau). Mar 2015: Recent seminal studies of butterflies… found strong evidence for increased mutation rates, developmental abnormalities and population effects as a direct consequence of exposure to [Fukushima] radionuclides… these unambiguously supported observations of the elevated mutation rates and phenotypic effects observed in the field. http://cricket.biol.sc.edu/chernobyl/papers/JORN-D-14-00257b.pdf Journal of Ornithology (Moller, Nishiumi, Mousseau), Feb 2015: [S]pecies showing the strongest negative correlated with level of background radiation level at [Fukushima] were Tree Sparrow [and] Carrion Crow… Journal of Heredity (Moller & Mousseau), 2014: Developmental Effects: Albinism, Asymmetry, Brain Size, Cataracts, Sperm, and Tumors — There is an increasing array of empirical studies in Chernobyl, and now Fukushima [documenting] consequences of exposure… white spots on feathers of birds and perhaps the fur of mammals (i.e., cattle in Fukushima)… first detected in Fukushima in 2012 [were] observed in increasing frequencies in 2013 and 2014. Presentation by Mousseau, 2014 (48:15 in): We’re actually starting to see these partial albinos popping up in Fukushima… They’re popping up all over the place in contaminated areas. See also: Emergency research underway in Japan after birds found with perplexing deformities — “Something unusual occurring inside their bodies” — Never reported in 500,000 exams before 3/11 — Now seen at every site across country, some over 1,000 km from Fukushima (PHOTO) http://enenews.com/emergency-surveys-in-japan-after-birds-found-with-perplexing-deformities-something-unusual-occurring-inside-their-bodies-never-reported-in-500000-exams-done-before-311-now-its-see WHYY broadcast with Moore here \| Watch Mousseau’s presentation here: Posted in Alert, americium, birth defects, bone cancer, Carlsbad, censorship, cesium, children, corruption, Danger, dead, death, Fukushima \| Tagged alert, americium, censorship, cesium, Contamination, danger, dead, death, Fukushima radiation, mutations \| 2 Comments ENENews: CIA Agent: “Gov’t covering up effects of radiation; I hope public becomes more aware of threat to their health” CIA Agent: Gov’t covering up effects of radiation; I hope public becomes more aware of threat to their health — Study: Actual radiation risks are “orders of magnitude greater” than official estimates; “Completely changes the picture… a serious public health hazard” (VIDEO) Published: June 13th, 2015 at 5:46 pm ET http://enenews.com/cia-agent-govt-covering-effects-radiation-hope-americans-become-aware-threat-public-health-study-actual-radiation-risks-orders-magnitude-greater-official-estimates-completely-picture-serious-public?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ENENews+%28Energy+News%29 The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine (pdf): http://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC2596024&blobtype=pdf Direct Estimates of Low-Level Radiation Risks of Lung Cancer at Two NRC-Compliant Nuclear Installations: Why Are the New Risk Estimates 20 to 200 Times the Old Official Estimates?, Dr. Irwin Bross, Director of Biostatistics at Roswell Park Memorial Institute, 1981 (emphasis added): Nuclear submarine workers at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNS), who were exposed to low-level ionizing radiation [face] serious hazards. The new risk estimates have been found to be much higher than the official estimates. CDC/NIOSH refused to retract or correct the conclusion [that] “we found no positive dosage response relationships between ionizing radiation dose and mortality for any cause reported.” [They used] an incompetent way to examine this data. [Our analysis] gives 189 lung cancer deaths per year per million persons per rem. This is over 100 times the official estimates and completely changes the picture. PNS workers received much less than the 5 rem per year currently permitted… about 0.5 rem per year. Yet this was enough to greatly increase their risk of lung cancer. Why does… data for the [Hanford] workers… show no lung cancer relationship? [When experts] analyzed the Hanford data they did find excess lung cancer and a doubling dose… similar to the corresponding estimate for the shipyard workers. Estimates of risk to nuclear workers are two logarithmic orders of magnitude greater than the official risks. When the actual risks are 100 times greater, the cost-benefit calculations or permissible levels or environmental impact statements based on the official estimates cannot protect the health and safety of workers or the public. Indeed, there are now more than 30 studies where the data show positive relationships in human populations exposed to low-level ionizing radiation. Scientific evaluation of radiation risks [should] replace the obsolete older estimates by the newer ones. That this did not happen in the latest BEIR report suggests that official estimates are no longer a scientific product but rather a political one. Radiation [studies] become bogged down in real or manufactured “controversies”… There is now much more than a prima facie case that NRC permits doses of radiation that are dangerous – a dose that doubles the risk of a fatal disease is a serious public health hazard. Jay Mullen, former CIA agent and professor at Southern Oregon Univ., Oct 2013 (15:30 in): When I was 19 years old, I was… a University athlete. I woke up one night and couldn’t move, it paralyzed me… it just baffled doctors… the Univ. of California Medical Center… determined it was the thyroid disorder that was paralyzing me… I had a thyroidectomy and as a consequence I wear what we call the Hanford necklace. (thyroid anaplastic thyroid carcinoma gross photo) There’s a good reason if you are an investor in the nuclear community to cover up the pernicious effects of radiation, because there’s profits in nuclear operations… There are strong ‘balance sheet’ reasons to continue the nuclear community, and therefore there’s a reason to discount the possible adverse effects of radiation. I was in the government, but I was in the government clandestinely. I was an undercover agent for the Central Intelligence Agency in Africa in the 1970s… I understand very well that the government covers up things that might in fact be embarrassing to the government. What could be more embarrassing to the government than the fact that they hazarded their own people by their operations in the atomic community? I would hope the American public becomes more aware of the effects that radiation can have on the public’s health. The thing I find most distressing is the dissembling and… the contempt that the government and its contractors have had for the people who they’ve in fact affected. Watch the interview here: Posted in Alert, americium, birth defects, bone cancer, California, Carlsbad, CDC, censorship, cesium, Chemical, children, corruption, Danger, dead, death, destruction, dying, Fukushima plutonium, plutonium, polonium, strotium, Yale \| Tagged alert, americium, anencephaly, California, CDC, censorship, cesium, crime, dead, death, Destruction, Fukushima radiation, plutonium, polonium, strotium, Yale \| Leave a comment ENENews: “Plutonium levels 10,000,000 times normal” Experts: Plutonium levels 10,000,000 times normal in water below Fukushima reactors — Plutonium hit record high off coast in 2014 — “Has been transported relatively long distances” – Every sample taken from rivers flowing into Pacific had Pu-239, Pu-240, Pu-241,and Pu-242 from plant http://enenews.com/experts-plutonium-levels-10000000-times-normal-water-below-fukushima-reactors-plutonium-ocean-japan-hit-record-high-2014-pu-transported-relatively-long-distances-every-sample-rivers-flow-pacific?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ENENews+%28Energy+News%29 Scientists from Japan’s National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Hirosaki University, and Peking University (pdf), May 2015 (emphasis added): Pu Distribution in Seawater in the Near Coastal Area off Fukushima… the amount of Pu isotopes directly released into the marine environment remains unknown. In the high level radioactive accumulated water collected at the FDNPP after the accident, high level radioactivities of Pu isotopes (ca. 10-3 Bq/mL) were detected. These values were 6 to 7 orders of magnitudes [1,000,000 – 10,000,000 times] higher than that of the seawater in the western North Pacific. In addition, a new study on Pu isotopes… suggested there was a potential sediment-borne Pu supply from Fukushima coastal rivers to the Pacific Ocean. Thus more attention should be paid to the contamination situation of Pu isotopes in the marine environment off Fukushima since the FDNPP accident… Pu isotopes in seawater… needs to be routinely investigated… There are two sampling sites close to the FDNP… 239+240Pu concentrations in seawater were reported in 2012-2014 and the range was from detection limit to 14 mBq/m3 except 31 mBq/m3 observed at T-2-1 site on 10 April 2014. http://www.radiochem.org/paper/JN151/jn15101.pdf Scientists from Japan, Belgium, and French gov’t (pdf), 2015: Tracing the dispersion of contaminated sediment with plutonium isotope measurements in coastal catchments of Fukushima Prefecture — The Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident led to important releases of radionuclides into the environment, and trace levels of plutonium (Pu) were detected in northeastern Japan… In this study, we measured Pu isotopic ratios in recently deposited sediments along rivers draining the most contaminated part of the inland radioactive plume… Results showed that the entire range of measured Pu isotopes (i.e. 239Pu, 240Pu, 241Pu, and 242Pu) were detected in all samples, although in extremely low concentrations. The 241Pu/239Pu atom ratios measured in sediment deposits (0.0017 – 0.0884) were significantly higher than the corresponding values attributed to the global fallout (0.00113 – 0.00008 on average in the Northern Hemisphere between 31-71 N)… These results demonstrate that this radionuclide has been transported relatively long distances… and deposited in rivers representing a potential source of Pu to the ocean. http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2015/EGU2015-6068.pdf See also: Plutonium-241 from Fukushima nearly 70,000 times more than atomic bomb fallout in Japan — Gov’t Labs: Large areas of oceans contaminated by plutonium from events such as Fukushima; Build-up in biosphere expected; Considerable hazard to humans: http://enenews.com/govt-expert-fukushima-emitted-67000-times-plutonium-241-japan-atomic-bomb-fallout-nuclear-lab-events-fukushima-resulted-plutonium-contamination-large-areas-oceans-officials-molten-fuel-particle Posted in Alert, americium, birth defects, bone cancer, censorship, cesium, children, corruption, Danger, death, Hirosaki University, Japan’s National Institute of Radiological Sciences \| Tagged Fukushima Daiichi, Hirosaki University, Japan’s National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Plutonium 10.000.000 Times Normal, PU-240, PU-241, PU-242, PU239 \| Leave a comment Headline Animator Follow Manifest Injustice on WordPress.com Black-Robe Mafia Pro Se Site Pro Se/Paralegal Services The Highest Courts in the Land For Paralegal Services, that can meet your every need Paraplegal Assistance 159 mph winds 35000 to 50000 sea lion pups dead 4-star Marine Corps Gen. 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__label__wiki	0.974462	0.974462	Google Launches Inbox to Reinvent the Email App Image: Mashable composite. Elizabeth Pierson By Pete Pachal 2014-10-22 17:35:30 UTC Google wants to change email for the better. To do it, it's launching a new email app, separate from Gmail, called Inbox. Announced via blog post, Inbox builds upon Gmail's relatively successful tabs, which introduced new buckets for Social updates and Promotions. The app features Bundles, which will group together similar kinds of messages, so things like bank statements and receipts are grouped together. Bundles will be user-customizable as well. See also: The 5 Best Email Apps for Power Users There's also Highlights, which puts important emails front and center — photos from friends, flight itineraries and event information all qualify. The app will even bring in "useful" information from the web that's not in the email, such as tracking info for a package. Inbox also features Reminders, Assists and Snooze: Users can create Reminders that will alert them about various tasks, Assists work with reminders to surface relevant information (a restaurant reservation will automatically attach a map to a confirmation email, for instance), and Snooze will let you dismiss both messages and Reminders temporarily. Google says Inbox was created by the Gmail team and was years in the making, but it's not an update to Gmail. It's a separate app that works with Gmail accounts, although Google says it'll honor any mail forwarding or POP/IMAP settings you’ve set up in Gmail. The thrust of Inbox appears to be a more email-centric realization of Google Now, which surfaces relevant personal information, such as flight itineraries and map directions, in an Android launcher or via an iOS app. Inbox also incorporates Material, the new design aesthetic set to debut with Android 5.0 "Lollipop." Inbox works on Android (version 4.1 Jelly Bean or later), iOS (7 or later) and the web (Chrome only), but isn't available for download yet; the service is invitation-only at start. You can ask to receive an invite by hitting up inbox@google.com. Both a tablet version of Inbox and support for other browsers are said to be in the works. Topics: Apps and Software, gmail, Google, Google Inbox, inbox, Tech	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1497
__label__wiki	0.563147	0.563147	Are you arguing with a bot? Here's how to know. Bleep boop. Image: Westend61/getty By Jack Morse 2018-02-21 02:04:21 UTC So, you live and breathe online and couldn't be happier about it. But maybe, just maybe, your daily digital interactions across the social web aren't quite as authentic as you thought. No, this time around it's not the algorithm's fault, but rather the result of a different kind of bad actor mucking up the works: bots. The automated scourge has invaded practically every platform you love, and isn't going anywhere any time soon. But you can fight back. SEE ALSO: Look at these dumb email accounts Russian trolls made to influence the 2016 election Despite what basically any quick scan of Twitter or Facebook might suggest, however, the surest way to beat the bots isn't to argue with them. Rather, it's to see them for what they are — manufactured fictions designed to manipulate both you and the larger conversation in order to further unknown (and sometimes known) agendas. That means you're going to need to be able to spot them in the wild. Bots, bots, everywhere These days bots are an inescapable part of online life. Just last year researchers estimated that Twitter alone was home to around 30 million of them. There are automated spam accounts on Instagram, Facebook, and pretty much everywhere else. Some appear designed to intentionally rile us up or to support specific political candidates, while others have purposes less clear. While the goals of their creators may vary, there are telltale signs that many bots share. If you can identify these, you can better armor yourself against their onslaught. Fair warning: Doing so isn't always easy. Spot the bot Some automated accounts will be easy to identify as such. For example, @EmojiMeadow straight up tells you that it is, in fact, a bot. "I am a bot" is literally the first sentence of its Twitter bio. We're not talking about that kind of bot, however. The automated accounts that you need help uncovering are the ones that are actively trying to trick you. Accounts like the now-suspended @jenna_abrams, which many — including certain media outlets — thought to be the account of a real person named Jenna Abrams. Spoiler: It wasn't. Thankfully, there are a few easy steps you can take to help you determine the authenticity of an account. Notably, none of these are foolproof, but a critical and discerning eye is something we're all going to need to develop and hone if we are to survive as a functioning society. So why not start here. Bringing the noise. First, check the account's bio. Does it read like it belongs to a real person? That's a start. Does it have a profile picture of a person instead of an abstract silhouette? Yes? Cool, now reverse image search that pic. The result should be telling. If the picture appears all across the web, it's probably recycled from somewhere else and suggests there may be some bullshit afoot. Next, check the account's history. If we're talking Twitter, for example, there are a few behaviors that scream automated account. Robhat labs, the team behind likely bot identifier botcheck.me, called out a few key ones. "Behavior such as tweeting every few minutes in a full day," the group explains, "endorsing polarizing political propaganda (including fake news), obtaining a large follower account in a relatively small time span, and constant retweeting/promoting other high-confidence bot accounts are all traits that lead to high-confidence bot accounts." Don't have the time to dig through the history of every last garbage account on Twitter? Try dropping the handle in the aforementioned bot-checking tool. It will give you back a report that says whether or not an account is probably (but not definitively) automated. So, you've found what you believe to be a bot. Good job! Seeing past the lie is an important first step. But what to do next? Not everyone has the time or inclination to thoroughly investigate every spammy account online, so getting the word out is important. Now, this does not mean you should start actively posting on that account's wall or whatever (seriously don't do this). Instead, try using the reporting mechanisms the platform provides to flag it. Twitter's definition of spam includes "many forms of automated account interactions and behaviors as well as attempts to mislead or deceive people," so deceptive bots fall right in that category. Report the account by going to the profile page, clicking the "overflow icon," selecting "report," and then choosing "they are posting spam." Both Facebook and Instagram also have defined ways to report platform abuse, and feel free to avail yourself of those. Keep in mind that the social media giant in question will in all likelihood not do anything about your report, buy hey, you never know. And anyway, you don't need to knock a bot offline to beat it. Realizing it's an automated account out to deceive you takes away its power to do so. Feel free to mute or block the account after you've reported it and return to going about your daily online business. Both you, and the internet, will be better off for it. WATCH: The internet trolled Trump for this roast-worthy habit during his SOTU Topics: bots, Facebook, instagram, social-media-companies, Tech, Twitter	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1498
__label__wiki	0.806368	0.806368	Home2015Jan Month: Jan 2015 On This Day 28 January – A look at what happened on this day in football through the years. Jan 28, 2015 matchofthedoy Blogging, Football, On this Day Denis Law, FA Cup, Liverpool It was always cricket that fans would hope would bring the early end to a possible humiliating defeat, but on 28 January 1961, it was football and Luton Town fans that would be praying for rain and hoping the gods would intervene in an FA Cup tie against Manchester City. Luton fans would be more than happy as a young Denis Law bagged all six goals as City lead 6-2 only to see the game abandoned due to a waterlogged pitch after 69 minutes. Not only would the smile be wiped from Law’s face, but in the rescheduled game and despite scoring, City would end up losing 3-1. It would be a double blow for Dens Law as the Scotsman would miss out on finishing out as FA Cup top scorer in the 20th century. Law would finish on 41 goals three behind Welshman and former Liverpool striker Ian Rush who would finish on 44 FA Cup goals. Those scrubbed off six goals would have seen Law finish with 47 goals and the FA Cup top scorer. 28th January 2014 saw Anfield play host to the Merseyside derby. Liverpool strolled to a thumping 4-0 win having taken a 3-0 lead after 35 minutes. It was two from Daniel Sturridge that sent the Reds on the way after Gerrard opened up the scoring. This win would help keep the red side of Merseyside keep in touch with the title race. He’s One of Ours – New from Dan Raywood Jan 12, 2015 matchofthedoy Blogging, Dan Raywood, FA Cup, Football Everton, Liverpool, One of our Own, Tottenham Hotspur The eponymous Matt Doy will be familiar with this feeling – that of having “one of your own” make it into your youth team. So yes some of Liverpool’s 1990s youth stars were Evertonians and I personally think that the abuse Wayne Rooney received (and probably continues to receive) from Everton fans is a disgrace, but having a youth team player make it as a first team regular is a rare delight. However the situation at Spurs this season has been rather positive – the return of Ryan Mason from an extensive loan period, most notably to Swindon Town, has seen the starting 11 contain a number of homegrown and improved players. Despite a promising start last season, Nabil Bentaleb looked like he had lost confidence when he was continuing to start. This season, with the experience of a World Cup behind him, he looks a much more complete player and rightly keeping the likes of Paulinho out of the starting 11. Also plenty has been written about Harry Kane, but it seems that Spurs finally have a goalscorer to be proud of. The lack of depth behind him in for squad is a concern, perhaps Coulthirst or Pritchard, currently on loan but showing plenty of potential, could offer that option from next season. There is a real delight in “one of your own” making it into the first team because it shows that the club is making the right decisions. If the club choose a youth team player over a multi million pound signing, at first the fans may not be happy, but when that homegrown player starts scoring and/or performing, the complaining stops. It also shows good nouse from the coach – if they are able to spot a rough talent that will not cost the club millions and is already trained and developed to the level that the management desires, then that player is already a step ahead of someone who needs to “bed in” to the club’s style. Finally it shows that the club is using its academy properly, keeping the board onside and showing that youth is the best tactic. See that successful youth team? That’s your next first team. It made Manchester United excited in the early 1990s, and look what that team achieved. From top of the world to mid-table in league one in 26 years – The debut of Dan Raywood Jan 10, 2015 matchofthedoy Blogging, Dan Raywood, FA Cup, Football Coventry City, FA Cup, Tottenham Hotspur Last weekend saw Spurs (my team, you’ll see me write about them primarily) play Coventry City in the third round of the FA cup. For the well remembered and stattos among you, or failing that those of you who read Saturday’s sport sections will recall, this was a replay of the 1987 final. It was watching the side of Hoddle, Waddle, Ardiles, Gough and Allen that swung me into following Spurs that day. You may feel that it is strange to choose the losing side and stick with them, but that is what I did and 26 years on, I am still with them. Although there has been some tough times, mainly called the 1990s, supporting Spurs is a joy. Most people like them as a second team, we play attractive football and have a reputation of having classy players: Gascoigne, Ginola, Defoe, Modric, Bale. However for Coventry, history has not served them so well. A famous exit in 1989 to Sutton United has been followed by relegation and financial issues, to the point that Saturday’s match was probably seen as an unwinnable cash-cow. The 3-0 win, with goals from Dempsey and Bale, seemed pretty academic from my Soccer Saturday standpoint. It also saw the return of Scott Parker and Benoit Assou-Ekotto to the first team but what was an academic win for Spurs was probably the biggest match of the season for our opponents. Times do change – look at the demise of Bradford City, Sheffield United and many others in the championship, but if there was a gulf of quality in 1987, it’s now an ocean in 2013. It’s not that I feel sorry for Coventry, they were one of the clubs that had the new stadium and having attended a match during Chris Coleman’s reign, a very nice one it is too. However this undoing is all too common now and while many clubs ‘need an Abrahamovic’, Coventry have been better served than many others, and need to realise where things went wrong post-1987. However I will not lie about it, I don’t have a lot of love for Coventry. They had a touch of the Wimbledon about them and in the way Arsenal fans still dislike York City and Wrexham, losing in such a style does hurt. So in a way, this does serve as some sort of recompense for me as a Spurs fan, and I hope the future is brighter from here on for the Sky Blues. The Curse of Africa on – Spurs – Dan’s second blog Jan 10, 2015 Jan 10, 2015 matchofthedoy Blogging, Dan Raywood, Football African Cup of Nations, Tottenham Hotspur This past week saw the two year mark of my good friend Dan Raywood’s contribution to my Strictly442/Match of The Doy blog. Having helped to make it what it is, this second blog in fact celebrates its second birthday. This week saw the unfortunate announcement that Emmanuel Adebayor is to be heading to the African Cup of Nations in week to represent Togo. Despite not really setting the world alight since his permanent move to Spurs, Adebayor is a talismanic striker with proven ability and strength – when he feels like it. So much like his predecessors Berbatov and Mido then. There have been some calls for him to start as the lone striker ahead of Jermain Defoe – not something that I am especially fond of as I feel the extra man in midfield (often Dempsey or Sigurdsson) adds a lot of the balance and attack of the team. Plus neither Adebayor or Defoe are the type to track back. But the impact of losing Adebayor on the team, despite his lack of goals and form, will be huge. Losing Pavlychenko, Keane and Crouch in the last 12 months and not replacing them has hit Spurs hard, and this month has seen us pick up a new left back (Fryers from Standard Liege) and midfielder (Holtby from Schalke) but a new striker is sorely needed. In a way, the return of Adebayor to Togo is remarkable after the shooting on the bus at the last tournament left the team visibly traumatised. Perhaps it is selfish, but to lose one of your key players is really going to hit spurs where they are the shortest – up front. The other concern is one of form. Spurs fans will recall Fredi Kanoute’s good form for Spurs after joining from West Ham, before he had an 11th hour decision to head to the tournament and play for Mali. Kanoute came back half the man he was and decidedly off form, so perhaps the off-form Adebayor will see the opposite effect, and rediscover the goal scoring form which saw him hit 17 for Spurs last season. Of course the most legendary story for Spurs fans and the African Cup of Nations is around the call-up (and subsequent injury to) Benoit Assou-Ekotto which allowed Gareth Bale to start at left back in his place. The rest is history, which I also hope Adebayor’s poor form for Spurs will also be. January moves, referee standards Jan 6, 2015 Jan 7, 2015 matchofthedoy Blogging, Football Arsenal, Chelsea, January transfer window, loan deals, referees The January transfer window may only be a handful of days old, but it hasnt stopped clubs getting in quick and signing players. So far most of the deals have been in the form of loan signings, the most notable so far being Lukas Podolski joining Inter till the end of the season. Mauro Zarate has made the short trip from East to West London as he joins QPR on loan from West Ham. Mark Schwarzer has departed Chelsea to join Leicester City on a free transfer. No major permanent deals as yet, but it has been reported that Man City are in talks with Swansea City over a deal to sign Wilfred Bony. A fee believed to be around £30 million. A deal that would see City with more firepower and Swansea with money to reinvest if they can find someone (Fabio Borini and Mario Ballotelli are available) to replace him. On the subject of standards, refereeing is once again in the spotlight. Following various questionable decisions over the Christmas, former referees boss Keith Hackett has said that officiating over the period was bordering on appalling and that the standards have dropped. Refereeing is of course not easy, but when they are now full time in the role, you would think that decision making would in fact improve. I guess though it is one of the things about the game that will keep us football fans talking.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1499
__label__wiki	0.884222	0.884222	First look at Pokémon's new mobile game, quietly released on Android By Johnny Lieu 2 months Guess what? There's a new Pokémon mobile game out, and Australians are again the first to get their hands on it. Pokémon Rumble Rush (also known as Pokémon Scramble SP in Japan) quietly released on Android devices on Wednesday. It's a freemium beat 'em up game, where you'll battle through a gauntlet of Pokémon on each level before facing a final boss. Much like Pokémon Go, the game controls are pretty simple: Tap your phone's screen furiously to attack, until you beat 'em all. Tap your phone's screen to attack opponents... Image: mashable screenshot ...until you get to the stage's boss. Along the way, you'll collect coins and catch new, more powerful Pokémon (measured by their CP, or combat power), which will help you battle against stronger opponents. There are items called Gears, which either boost your Pokémon's stats, or help pull in another Pokémon for battle. SEE ALSO: 'Detective Pikachu' brings childhood dreams to life On the Adventure screen, you can scroll through a map to access islands and stages which are brimming with better Pokémon to catch. You'll need an item called a Guide Feather to find new stages, and to get those you'll need to defeat bosses, who will intermittently drop them. There's also something called a Super Boss, which boast higher rewards but also more stringent requirements. To battle these Super Bosses, you might need Pokémon of a certain CP level, and to have caught a certain kind of Pokémon first. These Super Boss stages also come with a time limit: Your first boss, Raticate, needs to be defeated within 45 seconds. The Adventure screen lets you look for new Pokémon. The Super Boss requirements. As the name gives away, it's a mobile spin-off from Pokémon Rumble, a series of games developed by Ambrella, which were first released for WiiWare back in 2009. Aside from the cute Pokémon, it doesn't seem like to be a particularly interesting game, with the tap-to-attack mechanics wearing thin, real fast. According to the game's release page, the islands will be updated with new Pokémon every two weeks, so there's an incentive to come back every so often — if you're more into the business of catching Pokémon. At the moment, there's no date for a wider international release, but if it mirrors Pokémon Go's release plan, you shouldn't be waiting much longer. WATCH: 'Detective Pikachu' set for at least $50 million opening weekend TOPICS: Entertainment, Entertainment, Gaming, Mobile Games, Pokémon, Pokemon Rumble Rush The Elvis biopic has finally found its King of Rock n' Roll Explore the origins of the Kingsman series in the first trailer for 'The King's Man' Here's the 'Stranger Things 3' line that cracked up Stephen King Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have officially met (and hugged) Beyoncé and Jay-Z When the blackout hit NYC's famed theater district, some shows took to the streets	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1502
__label__wiki	0.975501	0.975501	20 July 2011 16:11pm By ISAF Athlete Participation Programme Sailors Come To The Forefront Cho Wonwoo On The Final Day In Zadar © Sime Sokota/ISAF Youth Worlds ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship 2011 Zadar, Croatia Throughout the 2011 ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship 27 young sailors from 13 nations were part of the ISAF Athlete Participation Programme benefitting from the coaching and experience of World Youth Sailing Trust Coach, Hugh Styles. Of the 27 sailors Cho Wonwoo (KOR) won the gold medal in the RS:X Boys and Nikole Barnes and Agustina Barbuto (ISV) picked up bronze in the 420 Girls. Wonwoo's gold medal was the first that Korea have picked up in the 41 year history of the ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship and Barnes and Barbuto picked up the first ISAF Youth Worlds medal for the U.S. Virgin Islands. Many of the other sailors improved on their performance from the 2010 ISAF Youth Worlds and those sailing at their first ISAF Youth Worlds saw steady progress throughout the week. On the coaching received throughout the week U.S. Virgin Islands 420 Girls crew Barbuto said, "It's helped because it gives you a perspective of the course and different coaches see everything differently." And helm Barnes enjoyed the competitive nature of the racing in Zadar, "I like competing more than just going for a stroll. "I love the tension between all the boats trying to figure out all the shifts and different angles and everything." View an interview with the U.S. Virgin Islands Girls here. Korea's Wonwoo finished second at the 2010 ISAF Youth Worlds in the RS:X Boys but bounced back to go one better and the interactive nature of the coaching certainly helped his cause, "The APP coach has taught me the wind shifting, wind condition and pumping tactics. "I like the sailing video because I see myself and the training is a very good programme." Cho Wonwoo spoke to Hugh Styles in Zadar. View an interview here. Puerto Rico's Alejandro Monllor sailed at his first ISAF Youth Worlds in the RS:X Boys, he said, "I've learnt a lot about my speed upwind and my pumping techniques and also in my downwind and how to maintain my speed. "I will go forward to campaigning for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games." View an interview with Monllor here. SL16 duo Jonathan and Kenton Shue (HKG) learnt from Styles' multihull experience after his sixth place finish with Adam May in the Tornado at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Sailing Competition, the pair said, "Coaching on the race course really helped us in the regatta. We've learnt how to read wind and which side of the race course is more favourable and how to get clean wind round the marks." View an interview with the Shue's from the final morning in Zadar here. Find out more information on the APP here. Full results can be viewed here. 'Like' the ISAF Youth Worlds on Facebook. Follow the ISAF Youth Worlds on Twitter.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1507
__label__wiki	0.879973	0.879973	Federation starship classes Akira class Forward dorsal view Starfleet Active: Phaser arrays, torpedo launchers Defenses: Deflector shields Aft dorsal view Forward ventral view The Akira-class was a class of Federation starship that was in service with Starfleet by the early 2370s. Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards was one of the sites at which this class was constructed in 2371. (VOY: "Relativity") Akira-class starships were featured prominently in the Battle of Sector 001 and the Dominion War. (Star Trek: First Contact; DS9: "Call to Arms", et al.) Several Akira-class ships were stationed near Deep Space 9 during the war. (DS9: "The Magnificent Ferengi", "Afterimage") As well, several were involved in most of the major battles of the war. In 2374, they saw action during Operation Return and the First Battle of Chin'toka, where at least two ships of the class were destroyed by orbital weapon platforms. (DS9: "Favor the Bold", "Sacrifice of Angels", "Tears of the Prophets") In 2375, they were involved in the Second Battle of Chin'toka and the Battle of Cardassia. (DS9: "The Changing Face of Evil", "What You Leave Behind") At least one member of the class was within a light year of Earth in 2378. (VOY: "Endgame") Technical data Edit Physical arrangement Edit Overview of design The Akira-class design ditched Starfleet's usual saucer-secondary hull-nacelle design, and more closely resembled the NX-class with its catamaran shaped hull. The engineering section was tucked under the main saucer, which housed the main deflector, and some of the ship's tactical systems. The nacelles were connected via long catamaran type structures, which in turn connected to a large weapons pod, housing several photon torpedo launchers. The catamaran pylons offered a degree of protection for the main bridge, which retained its traditional location at the top of the saucer. (Star Trek: First Contact; DS9: "Call to Arms", et al.) Tactical systems Edit The Akira-class design incorporated a multitude of tactical systems, including at least three Phaser arrays, and housed numerous Photon torpedo launchers along the port and starboard sides of the ventral primary hull, at least one launcher forward of the deflector, and several located on the aft weapons pod. (Star Trek: First Contact) Ships commissioned Edit USS Thunderchild (NCC-63549) Unnamed Akira-class starships TNG films: "Favor the Bold" (also on a computer display) "Statistical Probabilities" "Tears of the Prophets" "Afterimage" "The Changing Face of Evil" "What You Leave Behind" VOY: "Message in a Bottle" "Relativity" "The Voyager Conspiracy" (on astrometrics screen) "Endgame" The name of the ship class was never mentioned on screen but is derived from production sources. According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 14), the Akira-class was named after the anime fantasy film Akira. "Along with the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, the Akira-class starship helped to inspire Doug Drexler's design of the NX-class Enterprise from Star Trek: Enterprise." According to designer, Alex Jaeger, "This was my gunship/battlecruiser/aircraft carrier. It has 15 torpedo launchers and two shuttlebays - one in front, with three doors, and one in the back. I really got into it with this one, with the whole idea that the front bay would be the launching bay, and then to return they'd come into the back, because they'd be protected by the rest of the ship." (Star Trek: The Magazine, July 1999, Issue 3) A design sketch of the USS Akira shown the vessel bearing the registry NCC-2497. In an unpublished interview with author Larry Nemecek, designer Jaeger said he simply used the four-digit number of his then-phone extension for that registry; to conform to Starfleet practice, the number "6" was added by Mike Okuda and the film's art department to make "62497," a number then approved by producer Rick Berman. At the same time, Jaeger said, two other ship names and registries were approved as back-ups, if needed, to the USS Thunderchild actually seen on film as NCC-63549: the USS Rabin (named after former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin) as NCC-63293, and the USS Spector (NCC-63549). The ship scale sheet showing the back-up names and registries can be found on John Eaves' blog. Neither of the latter ships ever appeared on screen, although the CGI file used for the Akira-class seen in the Voyager episode "Message in a Bottle" was ostensibly the Spector, and was used by the Star Trek Fact Files. The ship allegedly appeared in one of the battle scenes from the sixth and seventh seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but this has not been verified. The scale of the CGI mesh, according to a January 20, 1998 post in the newsgroup alt.tv.star-trek.ds9, by DS9 Visual Effects Supervisor David Stipes, was 860 feet or 262.13 meters, the length used when he blocked shots in DS9. [1] However, the measurement used by Visual Effects Supervisor Gary Hutzel, according to an in-house chart dated 5/15/98, was 840 feet.[2] According to a size chart of Alex Jaeger, the Akira-class would be roughly 500 meters (1640.4 ft) in length. [3] Studio model Edit See: Akira-class model Technical Manual Edit The following information of specifications and defenses comes exclusively from the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual: Production Base: ASDB Integration Facility, Antares Fleet Yards, Antares IV. Type: Heavy Cruiser. Accommodation: 500 officers and crew; 4,500 personnel evacuation limit. Power Plant: One 1,500 plus Cochrane warp core feeding two nacelles; one impulse system. Dimensions: Length, 464.43 meters; beam, 316.67 meters; height, 87.43 meters. Mass: 3,055,000 metric tonnes. Performance: Warp 9.8 for 12 hours. Armament: Six type-10 phaser emitters; Two photon torpedo launchers. Novels Edit The Star Trek: The Dominion War novel Behind Enemy Lines features the Akira-class starships USS Carla Romney and the USS Sharansky. The Millennium novel The Fall of Terok Nor mentions two Akira-class starships, the USS Bondar and the USS Garneau, both named after Canadian astronauts. The Akira-class starship USS Gryphon features heavily in the DS9 novels set after "What You Leave Behind". The Gryphon was commanded by Elaine Mello. In Lesser Evil, Kira Nerys is given command by Captain Mello when the Gryphon is sabotaged. The USS Sentinel mentioned in DS9: "Treachery, Faith and the Great River" is described as an Akira-class starship that Lt. Commander Sonya Gomez served on during the Dominion War, according to Pocket SCE: War Stories, Book 1. The Star Trek: Destiny novel Gods of Night features the Akira-class USS Constant. The short story "On the Spot" in The Sky's the Limit features the Akira-class USS Korolev. Games Edit The Akira-class USS Perpetual as seen in the original Star Trek Online Akira-class ship from Starfleet Command III Akira-class ship from Star Trek Legacy The Decipher role-playing games supplement Starships lists several Akira-class starships, including USS Geronimo (NCC-62501), USS Osceola (NCC-62743), USS Black Elk (NCC-62878), USS Nez Perce (NCC-62891), USS Mateo (NCC-63002), USS Red Cloud (NCC-63306), and USS Susquehanna (NCC-63419). The Activision PC game Star Trek: Bridge Commander includes the USS Devore (NCC-64088), USS Geronimo (NCC-69302), and USS Kali. The Activision PC game Star Trek: Armada includes the USS Jupiter (NCC-71267) and USS Templar, as well as many others. In both this game and the sequel, Star Trek: Armada II, these vessels have an advanced weapon called the "chain reaction pulsar" which bounces a bolt of energy off of enemy shields, damaging several ships consecutively. The Jupiter was also a promotional card for the Star Trek Customizable Card Game, where it was listed as being "under the command of Captain Satelk." Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Dominion Wars includes the USS Singh. Star Trek: Away Team includes the USS Leyte Gulf (NCC-71427). The Akira-class is featured in the game Star Trek: Starfleet Command III, where it is classified as a heavy cruiser. The Xbox 360/PC game Star Trek: Legacy allows control of Akira-class ships as cruisers with names such as USS Akira, USS Spector, USS Rabin, and USS Thunderchild. The Akira-class is featured in Star Trek Online as a Commander level heavy escort. A slightly more powerful "refit" version is available as the Thunderchild-class which includes a point defense system. A second refit version, the Armitage-class is available at the Vice Admiral rank and is meant to pay homage to the designer's plans for the ship with a torpedo point defense system, and a fighter bay. The Armitage is significantly larger than the Akira, but the parts from both, and other sister classes, can be combined on the same vessel. Akira-class ship names from Starfleet Command III: USS Akira USS Aquino USS Begin USS Cristiani USS Galtieri USS Gorbachev USS Grant USS Kennedy USS Kravchuk USS Landsbergis USS Lincoln USS Mitterand USS Ramos USS Reagan USS Shamir USS Shevardnadze USS Sihanouk USS Thatcher USS Thunderchild USS Yeltsin Akira-class at Ex Astris Scientia – contains detailed notes and articles on the Akira-class Akira class at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works Akira class at Wikipedia Akira class Technical Manual – fan wiki on the Akira class starship Retrieved from "https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Akira_class?oldid=2350151"	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1508
__label__wiki	0.558531	0.558531	The latest tech from Amazon Find out more about Amazon's latest bevy of connected technology... Amazon’s latest connected technology What started out as a simple way to wirelessly play music in your home has quickly grown into a range of connected technology from Amazon. With the introduction of a variety of new gadgets recently, it’s not easy to keep up. So, we’ve rounded it all up in one handy article. Amazon Echo Plus Alongside a second generation of the Amazon Echo hub, now draped in cloth or wrapped in wood, is a bigger and better version – Amazon Echo Plus. And the main difference is the introduction of a smart hub. This means that you no longer need to have an independent hub for your Philips Hue lighting system, or Samsung SmartThings tech – it’s all run through Echo. All you need to do is ask Alexa to search for your smart stuff, and it takes the reins. Pre-order yours from Currys PC World today. Echo Buttons Echo Buttons are designed for fun family nights in. The hockey puck-sized glowing buttons were demoed showing users playing a quiz-type game, bashing the buttons to answer questions before the opposition. The new tech is part of something Amazon is called Alexa Gadgets. It’s thought the Buttons will be introduced around Christmas time – we’ll keep you posted. Echo glasses? Following a report from the Financial Times, Amazon is reportedly working on a pair of smart glasses featuring its virtual assistant, Alexa. Unlike Google Glass, there won't be a miniature screen, however, you will be able to talk to Alexa – headphone-free. Through a series of vibrations, it’s said that you’ll be able to interact with Alexa using ‘bone-conduction’ technology. There are also suggestions of there being some kind of AR involvement... watch this space. Amazon’s Echo Look is a relatively new device, which is only available online at the moment. And its primary function is to tell you whether the outfit you’ve chosen is working or not. It has a main camera lens surrounded by four LED bulbs, to take photos of you. It then sends your snaps to Amazon’s cloud system, which elects whether you need to start thinking about a new wardrobe. This is seemingly an effort to encourage more customers to start buying their clothes from Amazon’s website. The Echo Show is kind of the like the normal Echo hub, but with a 7-inch touchscreen and camera lens on the front. It’s designed to let you monitor your home’s security cameras, make video calls, and control whatever smart tech you’ve got dotted around the house with your voice. Order your very own from Currys PC World. Echo Spot If you like the sound of the Echo Show above, but want something a little smaller, meet Echo Spot. The circular-screened device is designed to do much of the same, but with less screen and a smaller price tag. It also comes with a range of clock faces, so could happily double up as your new bedside alarm clock. Echo Spot is expected to be available around Christmas. What do you think about Amazon’s new line of tech gadgetry? Leave us a comment below. Topics: Smart-Tech, Amazon, Amazon Alexa, Alexa Hands on with Amazon Echo Spot Amazon Echo Spot is available to buy from our sister company, Currys PC World from 24 Jan. This is w Creating a smart home for Christmas If you're looking to transform your home into a smart home this Christmas, these products are our to Sonos is about to get smarter Sonos has announced that you'll be able to control its wireless home speaker system with Amazon Echo This week's lowdown: Vodafone launches 5G in UK Vodafone has rolled out 5G coverage across the UK, rumours abound from Sony and Google.... See the latest news and events in mobile tech, including Facebook's new crypto wallets... This week's lowdown: Harry Potter on the go Here's a roundup of all the biggest mobile stories, featuring a Harry Potter/Pokemon... This week's lowdown: Pixel 4 leak and Pokemon Sleep Google’s Pixel 4 leaks and one new craze: Pokémon Sleep. We’ve got the latest mobile... This week's Lowdown: The big news from WWDC 2019 Get the Lowdown on all the big news this week, with the latest exciting announcements... This week's Lowdown: 5G to upgrade mobile gaming Find out what’s making the news this week in smartphones latest accessories and the... This week's Lowdown: Vodafone sets 5G launch date For some of the best stories from Google’s I/O 2019 event plus some other exciting... This week's Lowdown: Apple's new game delivers Apple’s first game in over ten years revamps an old-school classic, retweets get... This week's Lowdown: What's new in iOS 12.3? Get a roundup of the top mobile news from the last week. From the latest iOS 12.3... This week's Lowdown: Marvel hits Fortnite From a Fortnite mashup with Marvel to some timely password advice, here’s a roundup... This week's Lowdown: Facebook and Messenger to merge Facebook plans to fold Messenger back into the main app, plus Skype will start screensharing... The latest from Samsung's Galaxy A event Samsung unveiled a range of five Galaxy A-series phones, which included the Galaxy...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1519
__label__wiki	0.675361	0.675361	Behind Closed Doors: Upper St. Anthony Lock And Dam By Jason DeRusha May 15, 2019 at 10:36 am Filed Under:Minneapolis Lock and Dam, St. Anthony Falls MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — This month, the city of Minneapolis is opening doors to places the public typically can’t go. You probably have driven by the St. Anthony Falls, but how close have you really been? WCCO This Morning is taking you closer to the falls than you’ve ever been before: on top of the Minneapolis Lock and Dam. It’s where the Mississippi River goes from a trickle to a roar. The Upper St. Anthony Lock and Dam is where barges went from Minneapolis to the Gulf. Our city grew up around it. “It’s not that the falls are in downtown Minneapolis, its that downtown Minneapolis is at the falls,” said Dan Dressler with the National Park Service. Dressler is taking us as close to the St. Anthony Falls as you can get. On this rainy day, the falls are rocking — 24,000 cubic feet of water per second crash. “I never get tired of looking at the falls, especially when they’re high like this,” said Dressler. The juxtaposition is stark: the majesty of the falls next to the concrete and steel of the lock. Once a critical part of the Mississippi River’s infrastructure, the city closed it to boat traffic, partially to keep invasive Asian carp contained. Mike DeRusha just retired as the longtime lockmaster. The gravel and sand that used to travel down the river by barge through this lock now goes by truck. “It was kinda sad to see it end, but we were directed by the WRDA bill of 2014 and we follow our orders,” said DeRusha. Today the lock’s gate has been refurbished and repurposed to control flooding. Joe Minnis is the new lockmaster. “The flow could get so great, the falls couldn’t take the flow,” explained Minnis. “The banks of the Mississippi above us could slowly start to rise.” Change is constant on this river, as it is in the city. The falls and the lock give an up-close view of that constant ebb and flow. Jason DeRusha Jason DeRusha filed his first report for WCCO-TV on April Fool's Day in 2003. Since then, he's earned nine Emmy Awards, his food coverage was a...More from Jason DeRusha	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1520
__label__wiki	0.914436	0.914436	Anne Richardson Category: Brooke Jacobson Timeline illuminating Oregon’s three NEA advocates for regional film: 1962-1977 I recently drew up a timeline illuminating the minor cinemas of Oregon, 1910-1965 for Sheldon Renan. Before continuing the timeline in a second installment, I want to zoom in for a close up on a pivotal period in Oregon film history. I italicize events which take place outside the state lines. Some people don’t consider these events part of Oregon film history. I do. In 1962, Portlander James Blue makes his first feature, THE OLIVE TREES OF JUSTICE, in Algeria. It wins the Critics Prize at Cannes. In 1967, Portlander Sheldon Renan publishes the instant classic, An Introduction to the American Underground Film. In 1969, James Blue‘s A FEW NOTES ABOUT OUR FOOD PROBLEM is Oscar nominated for Best Documentary. He becomes Oregon’s first Oscar nominated film director. In 1970, James Blue and Sheldon Renan are appointed to the NEA’s first media funding panel. At the time, Blue was the founding director of Rice Media Center in Houston, Renan the founding director of Pacific Film Archives in Berkeley. From 1965 (the year of its founding) to 1970, the NEA directed all their film funding to AFI in Los Angeles. Once on the NEA media funding panel, Sheldon Renan immediately voices his objection to this. He proposes that the NEA support a network of regional film centers. Pacific Film Archives would be one. There would be three additional ones in Portland, Chicago, and Detroit. James Blue, a member of the founding faculty of AFI, was expected to vote against this idea, as it would drastically cut AFI’s budget. Instead, Blue voted in favor. Renan’s initiative is approved. In 1971, the NEA invites Portlander Brooke Jacobson, a leader of the Portland State Film Committee, to submit a grant accessing the funds set aside by Renan’s 1970 initiative. Jacobson and co-founder Bob Summers open the Northwest Film Study Center on Culpepper Terrace with a $15,000 NEA start up grant. Portland Art Museum is the fiscal sponsor. In 1973, Sheldon Renan organizes a national conference of regional film advocates, partially funded by the NEA. James Blue and Brooke Jacobson are in a study group which travels to film centers across the country. In 1974, Brooke Jacobson founds The Media Project in Portland, a non profit which acts as a resource for regional filmmakers. The Media Project distributes the films of Will Vinton, Gus Van Sant, Jim Blashfield, and others. In 1977, James Blue founds SWAMP (Southwest Alternate Media Project), a non profit which acts as a resource for regional filmmakers, in Houston. In 1977, the names of Sheldon Renan, Brooke Jacobson (then known as “Denise”), and James Blue appear on the list of authors of a commissioned report on the status, nationwide, of regional support for independent film. Three Portlanders, Sheldon Renan, Brooke Jacobson, and James Blue, worked together to advocate for regional, i.e. independent, film on a national level. Four regional film centers, proposed by Renan and supported by Blue, still exist today. Northwest Film Center, co-founded by Jacobson, is one of them. Pacific Film Archive, founded by Sheldon Renan, is one of them. Later, a fifth regional film center was founded by James Blue in Houston. It too, still exists. There is no scholarship about the behind the scenes work of James Blue, Sheldon Renan and Brooke Jacobson at the NEA. All information about this aspect of their intertwined careers came directly from conversations with Sheldon Renan, Gerald O’Grady (another member of the 1970 NEA media panel), and Brooke Jacobson. Support for Oregon Cartoon Institute’s ongoing research has come from projects funded by Kinsman Foundation and Miller Foundation. Kinsman Foundation’s support began with the Oregon Sesquicentennial Film Festival at Marylhurst University in 2009. Miller Foundation’s support began with the Mel Blanc Project, a partnership with Oregon Jewish Museum, in 2011. Timeline illuminating the minor cinemas of Oregon, 1910-1965 What role did the minor cinemas (newsreels, educational films, industrial films, experimental films, animation, home movies) play in Oregon’s overall film history? I drew up this timeline for Sheldon Renan, noting the early appearance of our regional specialty, the independent writer-director-producer. I italicize figures whose entire careers take place outside the state lines. Some people don’t consider these artists part of Oregon film history. I do. Three time Oscar nominee James Ivory made fourteen low budget independent features before his first Oscar nomination, for ROOM WITH A VIEW, in 1987. Part One: 1910-1928, Silent Oregon William L. Finley (1876-1953), Oregon’s first nationally distributed independent writer-director-producer, made nature themed newsreels. His name carried enough weight so that it appeared in endorsements for home movie cameras in national print advertising campaigns. His filmmaking was mission driven – he was an ornithologist and conservationist. Finley doesn’t wear his filmmaker hat in Larry Lipin’s OHQ article about his good roads advocacy. Jesse Sill (1881-1981), Portland based filmmaker specializing in local and national newsreels. He used the business model (later adopted by Lew Cook and Norm Dimick), of offering both filmmaking and film processing services. In addition to shooting regional events for national newsreels, Sill created an entirely local newsreel series for local movie theater audiences, the Webfoot Weekly. He was active in both the silent era and the sound era, eventually working as a cameraman for Portland television news stations. Amos Burg (1901-1986), was taught by him. Walt Dimick, Ron Finne, Gary Lacher all knew him. Ellen Thomas’ masters thesis, Commercial Motion Picture Production in Portland Oregon, 1910-1928, discusses him. Lewis Moomaw (1889-1980), writer-director-producer. One of the founders of American Lifeograph, a full scale film studio which opened in 1910 on SE Yamhill. Directed several Portland based live action feature length films. THE CHECHACOS (1924), shot on location in Alaska, has been restored and preserved. His last feature film in Portland, FLAMES (1926), was written by Alfred Cohn, who the following year was Oscar nominated for his screenplay for THE JAZZ SINGER. Eugene O’Brien, a big star, was the leading man in FLAMES; Jean Hersholt and Boris Karloff in supporting roles. The coming of sound moved Moomaw to Hollywood, not sure what he did there. Pinto Colvig (1892-1967), writer-director-producer. Born and raised in Southern Oregon, educated by a combination of Oregon Agricultural College and the circus, Pinto began animating in San Francisco. Some film historians list his lost film, CREATION (1916), as the first animated feature. Moving to LA, he did animated special effects for silent film, and then, with the coming of sound, the voice work which made him famous. Lew Cook (1909-1983) was trained by Jesse Sill to shoot newsreels while still in high school. He worked for Sill, then went out on his own. He made THE LITTLE BAKER, a stop motion animated short, in the 1920s. Spent most of his career in Portland, with the exception of his WWII years, and some post-WWII years, in the military. Founder of OHS Moving Image Archive, he selected and trained his successor, Michele Kribs. He mentored Homer Groening and Jim Blashfield, who later paid tribute to him in a ten minute profile for OPB. Every one of these filmmakers made work which was seen nationally. Not a farm team. When film was brand new, Hollywood did not yet have the monopoly on content. Part Two: 1929-1965, Sound Era Oregon The regionally made independent feature disappeared with the coming of sound. Too expensive! On the smaller screens, home movies thrived, as did films made for classrooms, sales conventions, and grange halls. Figures whose careers took place entirely outside the state are italicized. Luther Cressman (1897-1994) used film to document archeological field work. Arriving at UO in 1930 as a sociologist, by 1939 he was making films as an archeologist. In Bali, at the exact same time, his ex-wife Margaret Mead was doing the same thing. Lester Beck (1908-1977) used film to document UO psychology experiments, then started writing and “supervising” (does this mean directing? producing?) educational films. After HUMAN GROWTH (1947), a nationwide sex education hit, Beck became head of USC’s film department. USC film student James Ivory remembers fulminating against Beck’s emphasis on short, non fiction filmmaking. Beck left USC to teach psychology at Portland State College in 1955. He brought one of his USC faculty, Andries Deinum, future founder of PSU’s Center For The Moving Image,with him. Beck continued making educational films throughout the 1960s. From Malheur County. Stephen B. Kahn (1910-2007) combined the journalism he studied at UO and the law he studied at University of Tennessee as a PR man for Bonneville Power Administration. He hired Woody Guthrie to compose songs for THE COLUMBIA (recorded in 1941, film completed in 1949). Raised on radical politics in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Kahn’s last chapter of life was spent as a lumber man and philanthropist in Northern California. Norm Dimick (1910-1991) began making films while still in high school (as did Lew Cook, his near exact Portland contemporary.) Taking a page from the long career of Jesse Sill, Dimick Motion Picture Services on NE Sandy offered production, post production, and film processing services. The stability of Dimick’s diversified business model meant he was around to provide crucial assists to the re-emergence of independent film in sound era Portland. Viewmaster used his lab to process their film in the 1940s; brand new filmmaker Homer Groening hired Dimick for sound editing in the late 1950s; young Berkeley undergraduate Will Vinton came by for advice (and parts) crucial to an aspiring stop motion animator in the 1960s. Frank Hood (1912-1987) made training films and sales films for a brand new start up named Tektronix in the mid-1950s. He left Tektronix to found Teknifilm, a processing lab, in 1964. In Hood, we see the flicker of a return of the writer-director. When Hood moved Teknifilm into Portland’s Film Row buildings on NW 19th, he was bridging Portland’s silent and sound eras. His lenient approach to payment schedules made loyal customers of many Portland independent filmmakers, who located their studios nearby. Andries Deinum (1918-1995), writer-director-producer. Blacklisted in Hollywood, Deinum arrived in Portland in 1957, and opened PSU’s Center For The Moving Image, the first film school in the PNW, in 1969. His students included Brooke Jacobson and Bob Summers, who co-founded Northwest Film Center in 1971, music video pioneer Jim Blashfield, cinematographer Harry Dawson, and historian Michael Munk. Oregon Encyclopedia notes: “Deinum’s innovative television series Urban Mosaic, begun in 1965, offered “weekly scrutinies of our immediate environment and its impact on human values.” The mosaic consisted of discussions, confrontations, filmed reports and interviews assembled each week within a flexible time slot. He made the show a place where Portland’s officials, architects, realtors, and diverse citizens might encounter one another.” Deinum was invited to Portland by Lester Beck, his former boss at USC. Heather Petrocelli’s masters thesis, Portland’s “Refugee from Occupied Hollywood”: Andries Deinum, his Center for the Moving Image, and Film Education in the United States, examines his PSU years. Homer Groening (1919-1996) writer-director-producer. Exposed to filmmaking as an account executive at Botsford Constantine & Gardner, Groening struck out on his own in 1958, taking the Jantzen account with him. As Homer Groening, Inc., he made commercials, documentaries, industrial films, promotional films, and experimental short films. His merging of business success and artistic independence inspired the independent filmmakers who followed him: Will Vinton, Bill Plympton, Matt Groening. Harry Smith (1923 -1991), writer-director-producer. Born in Portland, raised in Bellingham & Anacortes. Experimental animator, music ethnologist, anthropologist. The second generation black sheep scion of a powerful salmon canning family, he was a disciple of Franz Boas, as was Luther Cressman. Too important to leave out of Oregon film history, so I always include him. Wildly influential. John Parker Jr (1925-1981), writer-director-producer. The son and heir of a Portland theater chain mogul, Parker made Oregon’s first sound era independent feature, DEMENTIA (1953), in Los Angeles. Highly stylized, low budget, black & white, with a score by George Antheil, Parker’s first and only film was made for a hybrid art house/exploitation audience no one else dreamed existed. James Ivory (b. 1928), writer-director-producer. Oregon’s most distinguished filmmaker. A titan in the history of independent film. Not often seen that way, because Hollywood distributed his (resolutely independent) films. Founded Merchant Ivory Productions in 1961. His decades long collaboration with producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala began with THE HOUSEHOLDER (1963), shot in Delhi. Ivory received Oscar nominations for ROOM WITH A VIEW (1987), HOWARD’S END (1993), and REMAINS OF THE DAY (1994). He graduated from Klamath Union High School in 1946 and UO (art history) in 1951. Classmate of James Blue. James Blue (1930-1980), writer-director-producer. Oregon’s first Oscar nominated filmmaker began making films at age 12. Like James Ivory, his career breakthrough happened overseas. THE OLIVE TREES OF JUSTICE (1962), shot in Algeria, was good preparation for the cultural and political complexities of THE MARCH (1963), shot on the Washington Mall. After the Oscar nomination of A FEW NOTES ON OUR FOOD PROBLEM (1969), Blue spent the last decade of his life teaching, making experimental documentaries, and advocating on a national level for regional film. He graduated from Jefferson High School in 1949 and UO (theater) in 1953. Classmate of James Ivory. Ken Kesey (1935-2001), writer-director-producer. Kesey’s home movies of his 1964 cross country bus trip were made during a time experimental filmmakers were pushing the boundaries of the medium. He continued to edit and re-edit the 1964 footage throughout his life, while continuing to document his live shows on film/video. I believe it is fair to describe Kesey as an experimental filmmaker. Paul Newman and Milos Forman adapted Kesey’s region-centric novels into feature films, but Kesey’s interests lay elsewhere – in film as a happening. I classify this part of his career as underestimated and misunderstood, perhaps even by himself. Graduated from Springfield High School in 1953, UO (speech & communication) in 1957. I will pick up the timeline as it continues into the 1970s, when independent filmmaking returns to Portland. I learned about Jesse Sill from Ellen Thomas, UO masters thesis; Pinto Colvig from Ben Truwe (2015 OFHI); Lew Cook from Michele Kribs; Lester Beck from Elizabeth Peterson (2017 OFHI) & Michael Aronson; Stephen B. Kahn from Libby Burke (2016 OFHI); Norm Dimick from Walt Dimick (2015 OFHI); Frank Hood from Robert Zurcher; Andries Deinum from Brooke Jacobson (2015 OFHI) and Heather Petrocelli, PSU masters thesis; Homer Groening from Lisa Groening & Matt Groening (OCI Mid Century Oregon Genius); Harry Smith from Sheldon Renan (OCI Harry Smith PDX, 2015 OFHI); John Parker Jr. from JD Chandler and Joshua Fisher; James Ivory from James Ivory (OCI Mid Century Oregon Genius); James Blue from Richard Blue (OCI Mid Century Oregon Genius, 2016 OFHI). Oregon Film History Invitational/May 8, 2015 Buster Keaton, Cottage Grove 1926 (Photo: Basil Wolverton) On May 8, 2015, Oregon Movies, A to Z is holding a one day Oregon film history conference specifically designed for educators, historians and museum professionals. Sheldon Renan, Pacific Film Archives 1970 What is the history behind, and the meaning behind, Oregon’s regional strength in creating independent film artists? Where does this longstanding strength fit within the overall intellectual and cultural identity of the Pacific Northwest? Three examples, among many others: Dark Horse founder Mike Richardson, twelve time Emmy award winner Matt Groening, and two time Oscar nominee Bill Plympton. All three artist-entrepreneurs move between film and print cartooning/comics, and are part of the history covered in Oregon Historical Society’s upcoming exhibit, Comics City, USA, in 2016. The conference is very low key and conversational. The point is just for people to hear about the wide variety of work being done. Here is the list of presenters. The day is split into two halves: Silent Era in the morning/Sound Era in the afternoon. Silent Era Steve Stone & Gary Lacher, authors of Theatres of Portland Electrified, movie mad Portland: Mapping the 1910’s/1920’s streetcar/movie theater infrastructure Gus Frederick, Homer Davenport Project The political connections of Oregon’s first cartooning superstar, Homer Davenport, contradict his self description as “country boy” Ben Truwe, Southern Oregon Historical Society Voice artist Pinto Colvig, one of Oregon’s earliest pop culture practitioners, directed an early feature length animated film (now lost, save a handful of archived 35mm frames), in San Francisco in 1916 Walt Dimick, filmmaker Second generation filmmaker/inventor Walt Dimick describes the business strategy of Norm Dimick, one of Portland’s first full time film entrepreneurs. Sound Era Dennis Nyback, Dennis Nyback Film Archive George Olsen, Del Porter, Louis Kaufman, Mel Blanc, Phil Moore (pictured above), Johnnie Ray, Jane Powell: Portland talent hits sound era Hollywood Anne Richardson, Oregon Movies, A to Z James Ivory & James Blue: the Third World debuts of Oregon’s first sound era directors Sheldon Renan & Brooke Jacobson, filmmakers/educators (the above photo is of Brooke Jacobson and Bob Summers, found on Heather Petrocelli’s wonderful @ReelPDX) Portland’s film community in 1970-71: The birth of Northwest Film Study Center Richard Blakeslee & Tom Chamberlin, filmmakers Teknifilm Lab nurtures the return of Portland independent film We will limit the length of each presentation to leave lots of time for Q & A and discussion. It will be a whirlwind of information, but that would be the point. To bring everybody up to speed with each other’s work (in a rough way) within one day. The conference is by invitation. It is designed for educators, historians and museum professionals. Seating is limited. Contact me if you feel you have been left off the invitation list by mistake. Dennis Nyback, co-founder of Oregon Cartoon Institute, will show a Portland film so rare that when we contacted the people who made it, they said it didn’t exist. This conference was inspired by the deluge of new information unleashed during the recent Mid Century Oregon Genius screening series which was supported by Kinsman Foundation and Miller Foundation, and fiscally sponsored by Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission. The first one day Oregon film history conference was made a success by the following presenters and participants. Laura Berg, writer-editor Richard Blakeslee, filmmaker Richard Blue, James and Richard Blue Foundation Bill Bowling, film locations consultant, founder of the Deinum Prize David Bryant, filmmaker Libby Burke, Bonneville Power Administration Archives Mac Burns, Oregon Film Museum Tom Chamberlin, filmmaker John Concillo, Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission Laurence Cotton, writer-filmmaker Bill Failing, Oregon Historical Society James Fox, UO Knight Library Kohel Haver, Swider/Haver Brooke Jacobson, educator Jerry Ketel, Leopold Ketel Gary Lacher, film preservationist Taz Loomans, Blooming Rock Frann Michel, Willamette University David Milholland, Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission Dennis Nyback, independent archivist Elizabeth Peterson, UO Knight Library Ingrid Renan, Exploding Green Sheldon Renan, writer Anne Richardson, Oregon Cartoon Institute/Oregon Movies, A to Z Patrick Rosenkranz, author/historian Jennifer Stoots, art historian/appraiser Steve Stone, historian Randall Stuart, Cerimon House Eric Underwood, City of Oregon City Kate Wagle, School of Architecture and Allied Arts, UO Thank you, all! Heather Petrocelli, winner of the 2019 Elmer Buehler Award for Film Preservation Elmer Buehler Award Winners, 2015-2019 Oregon Film History Conference/May 3, 2019 2019 Oregon Film History Conference/Registration FAQ Will Vinton/Who Makes Pop? Alfred Cohn Amos Burg Andries Deinum Annabelle Crocker Basil Wolverton Ben Truwe Bill Failing Bob Gardiner Bob Summers Brooke Jacobson C. E. S. Wood Caroline Flora Berg Carrie Brownstein Charles F. Berg David Cress Del Porter Dennis Nyback Elizabeth Norcross Ellen Thomas Erwin Swann Eugene O'Brien Frank Hood Gary Lacher George Antheil George Olsen George Renan Gerald O'Grady Gill Dennis Gus Frederick H. M. Esterly Harry Dawson Homer Groening Ismail Merchant James Blue James Cobb James Dormeyer James Wilby Jane Powell Jean Hersholt Jesse Sill Jim Blashfield John Parker Jr John Reed Johnnie Ray Kit Hesketh-Harvey Larry Lipin Lester Beck Lew Cook Lewis Moomaw Louis Kaufman Louise Jackson Esterly Luther Cressman Madhur Jaffrey Mark Gustafson Matt Zoller Seitz Michael Munk Michele Kribs Mike Richardson Norm Dimick Richard Blakeslee Richard Blue Ron Finne Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Sheldon Renan Stephen B. Kahn Steve Stone Stewart Holbrook Tom Chamberlin Walt Curtis Walt Dimick Will Vinton William L. Finley	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1525
__label__wiki	0.508863	0.508863	Home Current Affairs NUS Voyeur Claims He Confessed To The Victim & Didn’t ‘Run Away’... NUS Voyeur Claims He Confessed To The Victim & Didn’t ‘Run Away’ From His Actions He confirms he wasn't "dead drunk", and is sorry for his actions. Lo Jun An NUS Voyeur Claims Grandmother Passed Away Shortly After Victim’s Post On Social Media The National University of Singapore (NUS) peeping tom incident that surfaced on social media last Thursday (18 Apr) has sparked heated discussions across Singapore. While Ms Monica Baey, the victim of the incident has been vocal in expressing her side of the story, the alleged perpetrator has kept a rather low profile, until now at least. For the first time since the social media meltdown, Nicholas Lim, the perpetrator of the incident has shared his side of the story in an emotional interview with The Straits Times. As the article has been marked a premium post, here’s a summary of what he shared. Didn’t want to run away from his actions After filming Ms Baey in the hostel toilet, Nicholas – a 3rd-year student in the NUS – claims he confessed his actions to his girlfriend soon after filming someone showering in the hostel toilet. The confession came after his girlfriend received a message on her phone that there was a ‘Peeping Tom’ on the school campus. The pair then arranged for a meet up with the victim, Ms Baey. Nicholas claims he took the opportunity to own up and apologise for his actions. When asked if he confessed as he feared his identity getting revealed by surveillance cameras, he states that he simply didn’t want to “run away” from what he did. In his words, I did something wrong. I wasn’t planning to hide from it, to run. Did not know what came over him When asked about why he decided to film Ms Baey in the shower, Nicholas claims he was not “dead drunk”, but simply “did not know what came over him”. He had been celebrating after a touch rugby match with his team and passed the female toilets while on his way to his girlfriend’s room in Eusoff Hall, when he decided to act on his impulses. In his own words, The thought came and I did what I did. It was a hasty decision. I didn’t know who was inside. I wasn’t dead drunk. Caused distress to his family After the incident, and NUS imposing sanctions on him – including a compulsory apology letter – Ms Baey posted a series of Insta-stories revealing her frustration at the judgement that was passed on the case. At that point, Nicholas shared that he felt worried and scared after seeing Monica’s social media postings. He wasn’t sure how to react at first but decided to inform his father and mother – a 69-year old taxi driver and 59-year-old housewife – about his mistake due to the intense media coverage it garnered. Grandmother passed away This also coincided with a rather untimely tragedy in his family — his 83-year-old grandmother suffered a heart attack and died one day after he told his parents about the incident. While he claimed that his grandmother’s demise was not linked to the incident, the coincidental nature of both events took an emotional toll on his parents. The ordeal was a painful one for Nicholas, as he shared he felt terrible that his parents were constantly worried about him while seeing to his grandmother’s funeral. Support from family & girlfriend As calls for harsher sanctions from the school emerged online, while netizens questioned police’s decision to give him a 12-month conditional warning, Nicholas decided to resign from as a financial adviser at Great Eastern Singapore after getting suspended by the company. Nicholas also admitted that there were moments when he felt that he could “no longer hold it together” but was lucky to have support from his family, friends and even strangers, who continued to have faith in him despite all that had happened. He is also thankful that his girlfriend has stuck by him throughout the incident. Seeking forgiveness from everyone Looking forward, Nicholas hopes that there will be less similar offences in the future. He also conceded that while he is in no position to make judgments on what is right or wrong, he hopes that members of the public will realise the power and impact of social media from this incident, and use it for something that benefits society. In ending, he apologised once again for his deeds and sought forgiveness for his actions. I want to say that I have been and still am truly sorry for what I have done. Nobody should ever be put through the kind of trauma that I caused Monica. People have condemned me and my actions – I deserve it. I condemn myself. I seek everyone’s forgiveness. He harbours the hope that he will become “a better person” — someone that his parents will “not ever be ashamed of in the future”. A voyeur case that has sparked lasting change Last Thursday (18 Apr), Monica Baey, a student in NUS took to social media asking for harsher punishment on her voyeur, who filmed her showering last November. A media maelstrom ensued soon after, and sparked heated discussion among Singaporeans, with the majority asking for a review of NUS’ penalties towards sexual misconduct within school compounds & ample victim care. NUS convened a Town Hall meeting yesterday (25 Apr), which was attended by around 600 students to address the issue. Forgiveness is important, but don’t forget the consequences What happened to Ms Baey was nothing short of a crime, but we can’t deny that the media scrutiny that followed for her perpetrator spiralled out of control a little too quickly. When tempering justice with mercy, we can consider moving towards a more forgiving society if a person is indeed remorseful for their actions. But we shouldn’t forget the work we need to put into shape laws, rules & infrastructure, to put a clean stop to similar cases in the future. Now that Nicholas’ side has been revealed, what steps do you think we can take as a society moving forward? Featured image from Instagram and Extol Singapore. monia baey nus monica baey nicholas lim nus Nus peeping tom nus voyeur nus voyeur case Previous articleTurf City Land May Be Used To Build Houses By 2020; S’pore Rugby Clubs Try To Save Their Fields Next articleS’porean Encounters $3,158.72 Parking Fee At Jewel Changi Loading Bay In Hilarious Picture Jun An has an unhealthy obsession with Pokemon. So much so that if the Pokemon world's real, he'll probably be a member of the Elite 4. 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__label__cc	0.673966	0.326034	Qat: Let’s see if it Works! Fakhri al-Arashi Banning qat chews at the work place is the demand of all private and public organizations. The newly appointed Minister of the Interior, Abdo Husein Attarb, has issued a decree banning qat at police offices and during working hours. It is very encouraging, and we look forward to seeing it implemented. Yemen’s major social, economic, and health problems begin and end with Qat. If this decree works, then Yemen would look much better. I am still with the motion, as National Yemen is a non-chewing workplace. As far as I know, former president Ali Abdullah Saleh issued a similar decree by late 2007, and went so far as saying that they shouldn’t even enter qat markets. It didn’t work because of the total ignorance of high ranking police officers and the absence of real punishment. I am afraid that this decree may be intended to achieve a professional goal rather than tangible change. Political opposition against the decree is coming from policemen who are serving outdoors, such as at checkpoints, to keep security during the fragile situation. When it comes to qat, Yemen is not even like Ethiopia, in that the law is not respected and implemented before the chewing. I was in Ethiopia, recently, and my taxi driver rejected my offered leaves because he said that if the police caught him, they would take his license. It would also prevent people, especially sheikhs, buying qat for police officers and staffers to keep them loyal. 2011 was known as the Year of the Qat, due to how qat was used to buy soldier loyalties. Let us hope that it is a new beginning without such things. If the decree works, then credit goes primarily to al-Buhra, which took the first step to replace their Haraz Qat farms with coffee instead. Activist Hind Al-Eryani also deserves praise for fighting against qat chewing, especially among youth and women. We hope to one day see a Yemen free from qat, but that does not happen overnight. It requires honesty and goodwill to make it happen. Statement on the Historical Confrontation with Others Uneasy calm returns to Aden’s streets From the Inside of Sanaa Houses: Everyday People Speak... European Union calls on Houthis to stop atrocities Yemen: Who was Ali Abdullah Saleh? In a Devastated Country, One City is Thriving	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1553
__label__wiki	0.800684	0.800684	Federal Officials Investigate Reports of Glass Shards Found in Huggies Baby Wipes Huggies says shards aren't glass, but fibers Some parents have taken to social media to warn other parents that they found clear, sharp fragments in containers of Huggies baby wipes. The distraught moms and dads say packages of the wipes are loaded with glass fragments, but Huggies says the “shiny particles” probably aren’t glass, but fibers that are sometimes created during manufacturing. [1] Melissa Estrella, a mother from Camarillo, California, was the first parent to draw attention to the fragments. She posted a video to Facebook on Thursday that has received more than 6.5 million page views and hordes of comments from other concerned parents. “If you can see all of this stuff shining on the wipes, that is all glass,” Estrella said in the video. “All we have to do is wipe and glass comes right off.” “I’m not lying you guys, this is glass on my daughter’s wipes. I’m just so heartbroken that I didn’t notice this sooner.” Huggies said on its Facebook page on Thursday night: “Thank you all for your continued patience as we work to respond to everyone expressing their concerns and asking questions. Some of you have commented about the shiny particles seen in our wipes. While this condition is not normal, it does happen infrequently during the manufacturing process. When combined, the fibers in our wipes have on occasion created shiny particles, similar to what was found by this parent. Huggies Wipes have a long history of safe use and we have stringent quality controls in place, and no glass is used during the manufacture of our wipes. As parents ourselves, we know you may have additional questions or concerns, which is why we have created a FAQs page: https://www.huggies.com/en-us/wipes-faq. Please don’t hesitate to contact our Consumer Care team directly at http://bit.ly/8ZuAUH or by phone at 1-888-485-6839.” Related: Big Pharma Giant Knowingly Selling Tainted Children’s Tylenol The company also updated its FAQ page about the wipes on Friday, saying: “No, we do not use glass in the manufacture of our wipes.” Huggies said it is working closely with the parent who identified the issue. Aspen Patterson, a mother of two from Rio Rancho, New Mexico, told CNN that her son has had a rash for the past month, and that she’d been using Huggies Natural Care Wipes. On Saturday, Huggies representatives said the particles are most likely “melted fibers.” In a statement, the company said it was testing wipes purchased by Estrella, but said it is unlikely the particles are glass. “Since glass is not used in the manufacturing of our wipes products, we believe what has been reported as glass shards are, most likely, melted fibers from the material used in the manufacture the product,” company representatives said. Despite Huggies’ claim that the fibers occur infrequently, federal consumer protection officials said that they are investigating the customer claims. U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission spokesman Scott Wolfson posted on Twitter that the agency was “looking into reports of glass in baby wipes” and directed consumers to file any complaints at saferproducts.gov. [2] Huggies representatives said they would release the test results once they are complete and set up a hotline for questions at 888-485-6839. Huggies officials wrote on the company’s website that they would not be recalling the wipes because the product “is safe, and poses no health risk to babies.” [2] Newsday	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1555
__label__cc	0.593318	0.406682	My Safety Thoughts Contractor safety management Due Diligence Program Video presentation folder Online Training Programs Wayland Legal March 31, 2018 ~ My safety thoughts ~ Leave a comment From 4 April 2018, Nexus Lawyers (WA) Pty Ltd will change its name to Wayland Legal Pty Ltd. Wayland Legal is a boutique Western Australian based law firm specialising in workplace health & safety and employment law. As part of the change, I will be moving my online articles and videos to my new website, which you can find HERE. I will keep the My Safety Thoughts blog online so people can access past articles, and there will be a link to My Safety Thoughts on the new website. Go to the website, www.waylandlegal.com.au to find out more. Process or Outcome – some more March 22, 2018 March 22, 2018 ~ My safety thoughts ~ Leave a comment Just following on from the feedback from my last post about process v outcome in safety management, below if a short video I did a little while ago that explains some of the concepts further. Process or Outcome? March 22, 2018 ~ My safety thoughts ~ 2 Comments Today I was reading a LinkedIn post lamenting the state of health and safety management, evidenced by too many “safety stickers” on a piece of machinery. A commenter noted that the situation was “absolute madness“, which doesn’t keep anyone safe. Much of the conversation from there was focused on whose “fault” it was and we ended up with all of the usual suspects in the firing line – insurers, lawyers, consultants and so on. Probably quite justified too. To my mind, this issue illustrates the disconnect apparent in health and safety management between “process” and “outcome“. It seems to me that health and safety management is obsessed with process – the way that we “do” safety. This obsession means that every few years somebody reinvents the way we do safety, or the way we do parts of safety. As evidence of this you only need to think of the transition from safety culture, to safety 1, through to safety 2 and now safety differently – with god only knows what in between. On a micro level, just think how many iterations of the JHA you have seen during your working career. What makes this more interesting is the process doesn’t really matter. How you “do” safety is not really an issue. What is important is whether you can show your process achieves the outcome it was designed for. The table below lists a series of cases looking at the “outcome” of understanding hazards. The “processes” were all different: documented, undocumented, buddy systems, on-the-job training and so on. But even where the processes were the same this did not determine the decision – the decision was determined on whether the outcome, and understanding of hazards and risks, was achieved. So, the question is not how fancy, new or shiny your process is. The question is whether it achieves the outcome. Update: Access to the Perilya decisions March 7, 2018 ~ My safety thoughts ~ Leave a comment A few people have been in touch with me about my recent posts on the Perilya decisions; What are our obligations to careless workers? Are your JHAs worthless? When is a person conducting a business or undertaking? It seems when you try to access the decisions through the links in my blog, or otherwise try to find them online, they are coming up as “restricted”. I have been in touch with Caselaw NSW who have told me the decisions have been temporarily restricted to make amendments. I will provide another updated once the decisions are available, and make any amendments to my articles if the amendments make any difference to my original comments. March 7, 2018 March 7, 2018 ~ My safety thoughts ~ 2 Comments When you survey the range of safety commentary online, it is hard to escape the view that workplace health and safety is still primarily concerned with the behaviour of individual workers, and incidents are the consequence of careless individuals. In my experience, this thinking does not align with any credible safety management theory, and it is not consistent with an organisation’s obligations under health and safety legislation. At its simplest, a worker’s individual carelessness makes no difference to the obligations of their employer, other organisations or other individuals under health and safety legislation. The fact that a careless, individual worker did not meet their obligations under health and safety legislation, is no answer to the question of whether you met yours. In the recent NSW District Court decision, Inspector Nash v Perilya Broken Hill Limited [2018] NSWDC 28 (read decision) the Court canvassed the issue of careless and disobedient workers in detail. By way of background, On 8 June 2012, an employee of Perilya Broken Hill Limited (PBHL), Mark Pollard suffered a traumatic amputation of his right leg and other injuries when he fell down a haulage shaft at a mine in Broken Hill (Mine). At the time of the incident Mr Pollard, was trying to hang some weights from the bottom of a weigh flask to calibrate an instrument a load cell which measured the weight of ore in the flask. The weights were in a metal basket and the weight Mr Pollard was hanging was about 10 tonnes. The weights and basket were in the bucket of a loader. Mr Pollard was trying to hang the weights by working from the bucket of the loader, the bucket being located in the haulage shaft. Mr Pollard was secured to the bucket by personal protective equipment (PPE), a fall arrest system comprising harness and lanyard. His lanyard was tied to the bucket. While Mr Pollard was working, the weights and basket fell out of the bucket and so did Mr Pollard. His lanyard snapped, and he fell. The Court said: In view of the fact that the workers used the bucket of the loader contrary to the understood policy prohibiting it, it is appropriate to look at authorities involving cases of careless or disobedient workers.[my emphasis added] Drawing on precedent cases, the Court made several observations: Health and safety legislation is designed to protect against human errors including inadvertence, inattention, haste, and even foolish disregard of personal safety as well as the foreseeable technical risks in industry: The duty to provide a risk free work environment is a duty owed not only to the careful and observant employee but also to the hasty, careless, inadvertent, inattentive, unreasonable or disobedient employee in respect of conduct that is reasonably foreseeable… “Foreseeability” is relevant, and it is not generally practicable to take measures to guard against a “detriment to safety” that was not reasonably foreseeable: It may be that, in some cases, it would not be practicable to guard against a detriment to safety occasioned by an appropriately trained and instructed employee departing from a known safe procedure. This may be so because the risk of the employee failing to follow procedures was not reasonably foreseeable or on a comparison of the training and instruction required to ensure the employee adhered to those procedures with the risks created. There are limits to the degree of instruction which can be expected to be provided to an experienced employee. If there is a foreseeable risk of injury arising from the employee’s negligence while working then the employer must take this into account. The extent and standard of training an employer must give will depend upon the nature of, and circumstances under which, work is performed. It is not always necessary to have classroom-based instruction or work manuals. However, the employer must educate the employee to deal with the full range of circumstances which may arise in the performance of work, including eventualities which are more unusual in character. Such education should involve processes designed to ensure that employees have fully understood the training. It is not enough to simply give employees instructions about health and safety “an employer must also ensure that those instructions are carried out”. But, when an employer has established and implemented a proper system, then this can be an answer to the conduct of individual workers: Where an employer is found to have laid down a safe and proper practice and there is no evidence that the employer failed to use due diligence to see that the practice is observed, then a casual failure by inferior employees, even if of supervisory rank, to observe that practice on a particular occasion will not render the employer criminally liable for a failure to ensure safety. In the PBHL case, the Court rejected any argument that carelessness by individual workers limited PBHL’s liability: I do not see any scope for the application of a principle in this case that would limit the defendant’s liability where the very risk that is in issue is one that was foreseen by Mr Dally and by Mr Slade, where Mr Dally told Messrs Tavian, Harris, Ridley and Gauci that he did not want the workers working the bucket of the loader and where he expected that to be passed on to the workers, and where he expected that to be in the JSA. Mr Dally and Mr Slade both expected the JSA to cover the risk of the use of the bucket and/or falling from height and it did not. [my emphasis added] The Court found procedures and instructions for the work were incomplete and workers were directed to start work when the JSA process was deficient and the JSA document was inadequate. The employer should have known both those things. A common misconception is that safety prosecutions are all about identifying “fault” – who was at fault, or most at fault, when an accident occurred. This is not the case. Employees who breach known safety procedures may be at “fault”. Indeed, individual workers and supervisors are prosecuted following workplace accidents. But an employees fault is no answer to the question, “did the employer meet their obligations under health and safety legislation?”. The fact an employee breached safety procedures – even procedures they were aware of, does not prove an employer provided adequate training and supervision, nor does it prove an employer diligently enforced its systems of work. “Worthless” is not my phrase, and I make no assumptions about the JSA process as it is applied in your workplace, but I am interested in whether your organisation could pass the “worthlessness” test set out in the recent NSW District Court decision, Inspector Nash v Perilya Broken Hill Limited [2018] NSWDC 28. By way of background, On 8 June 2012, an employee of Perilya Broken Hill Limited (PBHL), Mark Pollard suffered a traumatic amputation of his right leg and other injuries when he fell down a haulage shaft at a mine in Broken Hill (Mine). At the time of the incident Mr Pollard, was trying to hang some weights from the bottom of a weigh flask to calibrate a load cell which measured the weight of ore in the flask. While Mr Pollard was working, the weights and basket came out of the bucket and so did Mr Pollard. His lanyard snapped, and he fell. The case canvassed a range of issues in safety management, which I will look at in later posts, but for now, I want to consider the roles of the Job Safety Analysis (JSA). One of the allegations pleaded by the prosecutor was PBHL failed to “assess the adequacy of the Job Safety Analysis”. The Court took its direction for what a JSA required from PBHLs own documents: I start by looking at what is required of a JSA. This may be discerned in the first instance from the defendant’s documents. What is required in a JSA is detail that shows: how the hazards were identified; how the risks were assessed; how the decisions around necessary controls were made. The Broken Hill Job Safety Analysis Procedure set out six steps in the JSA process. They included: A JSA must be conducted in a team setting. A JSA should be done on the job site Task supervisors must ensure compliance with the requirements for a JSA. None of these requirements were met. PBHL’s procedures said: The success and value of the risk management process is determined by the quality of the consultation and communication process. Success hinges on involving the right people and using the right information, expertise and experience. Hence, identification and participation of stakeholders is critical. The Court found that there was “no consultation or communication with the correct stakeholders”. The less formal nature of … JSAs can present a serious risk in itself. It is essential that these tools are used carefully. If a significant or uncertain risk is missed or not properly managed, participants may be lulled into a false sense of security. Some things to look out for include: New tasks or one that is being done in a new place or using a new method In relation to this, the Court said: This was a new task using a new method. The “serious risk” warning should have been heeded. The Court closely examined PBHL’s own requirements for its JSA process, ultimately finding the process to prepare the JSA was seriously flawed, the JSA itself was inadequate and: The risk assessment did not involve all those doing the work and was not communicated to all of them. It stood the risk of being and was, for reasons I give, “next to worthless”. It is also worth noting, the Court’s use of the term “worthless” is not random. The Court has adopted the language of “worthless” from PBHL’s own documents. PBHL’s Risk Management Guideline gave several directions about risk management, for example: A risk assessment is worthless if it does not involve communicating with the correct stakeholders. Ultimately a risk assessment is next to worthless if it is done in isolation without involving those doing the work, or not communicated to all those doing the work or affected by the work. The Court did not have to look for language to criticise the JSA process, it simply adopted PBHL’s own views. PBHL employees accepted the inadequacy of the JSA, for example, Mr Harris, a shaft and fixed plant supervisor: … agreed that it was not appropriate for one person to simply to write out a JSA and then present it to others without those persons having input into its development. He agreed that a JSA should be prepared as a team, particularly as some members of the team may not be aware of, or understand each of the steps of the task. He noted that this was an important consideration, particularly as there might be persons with different subject expertise performing various parts of the task. He also agreed that it would be important to have all members of the team involved in completing a JSA because if only one person completed the JSA, there was a risk that a step would be missed in the process, or a hazard missed or an appropriate control measure not identified. The point to take away from a case like this is not the specific technical failures of PBHL, or how the work was planned or implemented. Rather, the case highlights: First, organisations are accountable for what they say in their documented processes. If you are going to describe an in-depth, potentially convoluted process for preparing documents like JSAs, you need to recognise you are prescribing the standard against which you will be measured. Write your documents with the end user in mind to give workers some chance of following them. Second, regardless of what you document, you need to understand if it is implemented and effective. Although it is not discussed in the PBHL case, it is extremely unlikely this case was the first time the JSA procedure was ignored in so many fundamental ways. The history of workplace accidents in Australia is fairly compelling – frontline risk assessment documents like JSA’s have little meaning to frontline workers and are often seen as an exercise in bureaucracy: A paper process workers have to complete before the work can commence. The question that comes out of a decision like the PBHL case has nothing to do with PBHL. The question is, how do you know that your JSA procedures are any better in practice? March 5, 2018 March 7, 2018 ~ My safety thoughts ~ 1 Comment A recent NSW District Court decision, Inspector Nash v Perilya Limited [2018] NSWDC 29 (read decision), looks at the interesting question of when a person is conducting a business or undertaking. On 28 February 2018, Perilya Broken Hill Limited (PBHL) was convicted of charges under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW) (Act). PBHL was a wholly owned subsidiary of Perilya Limited (Perilya), and Perilya was also charged with offences under the Act, arising from the same incident. Perilya argued it was not conducting a business or undertaking in the operation of the mine. In the end, the Court found Perilya was not a Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking (PCBU) under the Act. The prosecution had argued several matters in support of their position, including; Perilya published documents pronouncing that it owned and operated the mine. The HSE Management System Overview was published in the name of Perilya and recorded that the Perilya Board had a role to ensure that effective and appropriate systems were in place to ensure safety controls were adequate. Perilya’s Board received HSE reports in relation to the operation of the mine. Employees of PBHL reported to the Board of Perilya about HSE at the Mine. Relevantly, Perilya underwent significant changes in 2008, because of the Global Financial Crisis. This included: Downsizing its Perth office from 40 people to 8. Establishing PBHL as a standalone business as Perilya had no staff to provide support services. Disbanding the HSE board subcommittee, after which Perilya did not have any committee dealing with health and safety, either in its own operations or any of the entities it owned. The PBHL board had responsibility for HSE, including developing its own policies and procedures. The Perilya board was responsible for oversight functions, rather than hands-on management and had no day-to-day involvement in the activities of PBHL. After the downsizing the only operating asset was PBHL and it was made a standalone business unit. It had the necessary people, facilities, capability and assets to conduct business activities without support from a corporate office. The Court noted Perilya: … could have controlled everything that happened at [PBHL] but did not have the resources to. With respect to HSE reporting, the Court said: The Perilya board considered HSE reports, but did not make any decision on them. The HSE reports considered by the Board were the consolidated group reports rather than the individual reports from the subsidiaries. To comply with its disclosure and reporting obligations, Perilya would need to keep abreast of matters that could affect its share value, financial position or reputation. HSE would fall within that. It was by reason of Perilya’s disclosure obligations that it received reports. The Perilya Board received a budget from PBHL annually or more frequently. The budget had an impact on Perilya. Likewise, for reasons of disclosure and reporting, Perilya necessarily had to receive this information. In the end, the Court looked at the practical application of the relationship between PBHL and Perilya. The Court recognised it did not matter that Perilya could have chosen to take over and run the mine. Being able to take over and run the mine because it was the sole shareholder of PBHL did not make Perilya a PCBU, rather: It is what was happening in practice that is important In practice, with only eight staff in Perth, it was impractical for Perilya to be involved in the operation of the mine, and day-to-day management of the mine was in the hands of PBHL. The Court also said PBHL could change the HSE system without referring to Perilya. This is not a case of Perilya transferring its duty to another. Nor is it a case of an agreement or arrangement purporting to limit its capacity to influence and control the matter in respect of which it had a duty. This is a case of Perilya ceasing to have control of the mine and its operations. Control must be more than a legal right to control otherwise every parent company with a 100% shareholding of a subsidiary would be, without more, under a duty under s19. The Perilya decision shows that a close relationship between corporate entities is not enough to make either of them a PCBU. What must be established is that an entity was conducting a business or undertaking, and in each case, this requires an examination of the relationship between the entities and their role in the relevant business or undertaking.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1564
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__label__cc	0.506211	0.493789	TSX: NDM $0.61 $ +0.01 NYSE American : NAK $0.48 $ +0.009 Warrant–Cu-Au Prices A World-Class Resource Pebble Partnership Financial Reports and Filings Warrant Prices and Metal Prices TSX Corporate Governance Web Disclosure Maps and Figures History and Location Project Economics Geology and Exploration Economic Benefits Community and Stakeholder Partnerships Northern Dynasty to complete C$15.5 million financing December 29, 2014 Vancouver, BC – Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. (TSX: NDM; NYSE MKT: NAK) ("Northern Dynasty" or the "Company") reports that it expects to privately place with certain accredited investors and management of the Company, approximately 36 million Special Warrants priced at C$0.431 per Special Warrant to raise approximately C$15.5 million. The Special Warrants will convert on exercise into common shares (the "Common Shares") on a one-for-one basis. Insiders of the Company will subscribe for approximately 9 million Special Warrants. The Special Warrants will convert upon exercise into Common Shares, subject to certain restrictions, without payment of any additional consideration. The Company will agree to file a prospectus in certain Canadian provinces to qualify the conversion of the Special Warrants and a registration statement in the United States to qualify the resale of Common Shares by U.S. investors (together, the "Resale Filings"). The Company shall use reasonable best efforts to clear the Resale Filings within 90 days from the Closing Date and has agreed to maintain the U.S. registration statement effective for a longer period. There are no share bump-up or other penalties if clearance of the Resale Filings is delayed for any reason. Details of the Special Warrant terms will be contained in the Resale Filings along with a general update of disclosure about Northern Dynasty. Completion of the non-brokered financing is subject to execution of definitive subscription agreements, TSX and NYSE MKT approvals and customary closing conditions. The offering is expected to close on December 30, 2014. Pricing was determined based on the five-day volume weighted trading price on TSX for the week ended December 19, 2014. A news release will detail the final figures when the offering is fully closed. This press release does not constitute an offer of securities for sale in the United States. Neither the issuance of the Special Warrants nor the Common Shares have been, registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act"), and unless any of such securities are registered, they may only be offered or sold within the United States pursuant to applicable exemptions from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities laws. About Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. Northern Dynasty is a mineral exploration and development company based in Vancouver, Canada. Northern Dynasty's principal asset is the Pebble Project in southwest Alaska, USA, an initiative to develop one of the world's most important mineral resources. For further details on Northern Dynasty and the Pebble Project, please visit the Company's website at www.northerndynasty.com or contact Investor services at (604) 684-6365 or within North America at 1-800-667-2114. Review Canadian public filings at www.sedar.com and U.S. public filings at www.sec.gov. Ronald W. Thiessen Forward Looking Information and other Cautionary Factors This release includes certain statements that may be deemed "forward-looking statements". All statements in this release, other than statements of historical facts, such as those that address the in-progress financings and plan to complete certain regulatory filings are forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in its forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are subject to future events and third party discretion such as regulatory personnel. For more information on the Company, and the risks and uncertainties connected with its business, Investors should review the Company's home jurisdiction filings at www.sedar.com and its annual Form 40-F filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. © Copyright 2019 Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. By providing your e-mail address, you are consenting to receive press releases, quarterly and annual reports, presentations and other information concerning Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. and its affiliates and partners. You will now receive an email - be sure to accept it to confirm your subscription. If you do not receive the confirmation email, please check your spam filter or contact us at info@northerndynastyminerals.com © 2019 Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1574
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__label__wiki	0.529391	0.529391	Home \ Sports \ Junior Hockey Development League rewards top teams Junior Hockey Development League rewards top teams Staff Reporter Sports Khomas Windhoek -The Namibian Hockey Union (NHU) recently hosted the 2018 Bank Windhoek Junior Hockey Development League awards ceremony at the Windhoek Gymnasium Private School in Windhoek. Winning medals were awarded to the age groups: 10, 12, and 14 years in both the boys and the girls section A and B divisions. Saint Paul’s College won the Girls under 10 A Section, followed by Pioneers Park Primary School. The Boys under 10 A Section was again scooped by Saint Paul’s College, as Windhoek Gymnasium walked away with the second spot. The Girls under 12 A Section belonged to Windhoek Gymnasium, who were followed by the Saint George’s Diocesan School. Windhoek Gymnasium and Windhoek Afrikaans Private School took the first and second prizes in the Boys under 12 A Section. The Girls under 14 A Section was won by Saint Paul’s College and Windhoek Afrikaans Private School, who walked away as the runner-ups. The Boys under 14 A Section was won by Windhoek Afrikaans Private School, followed by Windhoek Gymnasium. The 2018 Bank Windhoek Junior Hockey Development League kicked off in June and concluded in mid-August; it had a record entry of 95 teams from 10 different schools. The matches took place at the Windhoek Gymnasium and Wanderers Hockey Fields in Windhoek. “The Bank Windhoek Development League is an NHU Hockey Development Programme initiative. It aims to develop the sport of hockey in Namibia by educating and grooming talented young hockey players. Despite challenges such as a lack of resources for some schools, the Junior Hockey League continues to grow,” said Bank Windhoek’s Head of Corporate Affairs, Hayley Allen. “Through the partnership with Bank Windhoek, the NHU is in the process to re-introduce hockey to the schools and regions that have stopped playing the sport due to a lack of equipment and coaches. This partnership started in 2015, and so far, nine coaching clinics for coaches and children took place in seven regions in Namibia,” said NHU’s Vice President, Conrad Wessels. “We would like to congratulate the winning and participant teams for putting up incredible performances during the leagues fixtures. Thank you to Bank Windhoek for making this possible!,” acclaimed Wessels. Full results of the winners in the B Section: Girls under 10 B Section: • Winners: Saint Paul’s College B • Runner-up: Saint Paul’s College C Boys under 10 B Section: • Winners: Windhoek Gymnasium • Runner-up: Saint Paul’s College B • Runner-up: Windhoek Afrikaans Private School • Winners: Saint Paul’s College • Winners: Namutoni Primary School • Runner-up: Eros Primary School Home \ Sports \ Junior Hockey Development League rewards top teams - New Era Live	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1579
__label__wiki	0.977144	0.977144	Five talking-points from the Serie A weekend (Image:Twitter/@Atalanta_BC) Cristiano Ronaldo allegedly made fun of an opponent’s height, a Sassuolo player was sent off for a semi-shirtless celebration and Gambia’s Musa Barrow gave a timely reminder of his potential in Serie A at the weekend. RONALDO REPORTEDLY TELLS FlORENZI HE IS “TOO SMALL TO TALK” Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo allegedly made fun of AS Roma midfielder Alessandro Florenzi’s height as they two were involved in angry exchange during Sunday’s match at the Stadio Olimpico. Ronaldo put his finger over his mouth and, according to Gazzetta dello Sport and numerous other Italian media, told his opponent that “you are too small to talk.” The referee intervened, Ronaldo then hugged Florenzi who looked less than enthusiastic. “Ronaldo thinks that because he was won the Ballon D’Or, he can do what he wants,” said Florenzi afterwards. He added: “I sometimes do and say stupid things and it stays on the pitch.” Ronaldo did not comment on the incident. BARROW GIVES A TIMELY REMINDER OF HIS TALENT Atalanta’s 20-year-old forward Musa Barrow gave a timely reminder of his potential by scoring the opening goal in the 2-1 win over Genoa, almost immediately after coming on as a halftime substitute. The Gambian ended last season with a flourish, scoring three Serie A goals in quick succession, and made a flying start to this season with four goals in the Europa League qualifiers. But he has gone off the boil since then, playing only 539 minutes in Serie A this season and had to wait until Saturday for his first league goal. “That first goal of the season is very important,” he said. “I’ve not had an easy season, I’ve had to wait a long time for my moment which for a forward is never easy.” SASSUOLO PLAYER SENT OFF FOR SEMI-SHIRTLESS CELEBRATION Sassuolo defender Mehdi Bourabia enjoyed a bitter-sweet match against Torino as the scored the opening goal in the 28th minute — but was then sent off for his celebration. The Moroccan had been booked after 15 minutes and celebrated his goal by lifting up his shirt and covering his head, in the style of former player Fabrizio Ravanelli. The referee judged it merited a another booking and dismissed him. With a one-man advantage for over an hour, Torino went on to win 3-2. “I feel sorry for Bourabia, as it was his first goal in Serie A and up until that point he had been playing really well,” said Sassuolo coach Roberto De Zerbi. “We still don’t understand why he got the first yellow card, while the red definitely affected the rest of the game for us.” Many feeling the rule which bans shirtless celebrations is both unnecessary and ineffective — players are often happy to pay for their moment of joy with a yellow card. ROW BREWING OVER KICKOFF TIMES Serie A’s decision to move back the kickoff time of next week’s Juventus-Atalanta match has had the unfortunate knock-on effect of upsetting AC Milan. Atalanta and Milan are direct rivals in the race for Champions League places with the Bergamo-based side currently three points ahead of Gennaro Gattuso’s team. Atlanta’s match was originally scheduled for a 1500 kickoff time on Sunday, local time, but was moved back to a 2030 slot to give them more time to recover from Wednedsay’s Coppa Italia final against Lazio. That means that AC Milan must now play first, hosting relegated Frosinone at 1800. The ANSA news agency reported that Milan want their game played at the same time as Atalanta — which would leave the valuable 1800 slot without a game. NOT GOOD ENOUGH FROM SAMP Sampdoria’s performance in their 2-1 defeat at home to relegation candidates Empoli was “not good enough” according to coach Marco Giampaolo. “We have to fight the temptation to be ordinary,” said Giampaolo whose side are stuck are in midtable, safe for relegation but with no chance of qualifying for Europe. “It wasn’t a bad season from this squad, but we had to perform differently today and remember we are representing an historic club with wonderful fans who deserve more respect.” REUTERS/Writing by Brian Homewood Editing by Amlan Chakraborty AS RomaAtalantaCristiano Ronaldofootball newsJuventusSerie A Five talking points from the weekend in LaLiga Five talking points from the weekend's Bundesliga matches FC Cincinnati seek win streak vs. Fire	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1582
__label__wiki	0.500292	0.500292	Analysis: Budget balance is in eye of the beholder DAVID ESPO Associated Press March 23, 2013 House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio leaves a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 21, 2013, after the Republican-controlled House passed a tea party-flavored budget plan Thursday that promises sharp cuts in safety-net programs for the poor and a clampdown on domestic agencies, in sharp contrast to less austere plans favored by President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to budgets, balance is in the eye of the congressional beholder. To House Republicans, it means a balanced budget in a decade, achieved by $4.6 trillion in spending cuts and without any tax increases. To Senate Democrats, it means a balanced plan, about $975 billion in higher taxes and a spending reduction of about $875 billion, not counting cancellation of $1.2 trillion in existing across-the-board-cuts. That makes the two plans polar opposites as President Barack Obama and the two political parties begin maneuvering toward yet another round of deficit-reduction negotiations. "Ultimately the key to this lock is in their (Republican) hands and they've got to decide if they want to turn it, and that means taking a balanced approach," said Rep. Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat who is his party's chief budget strategist in the House. Across the Capitol, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky offered a rebuttal. He said that under the plan Democrats favor, "We won't get more jobs or a better economy or sensible reforms to prevent Medicare or Social Security from going bankrupt. And we certainly won't get a balanced budget." Even with the deep differences between the two parties, there's plenty of time before the next make-or-break moment in divided-government's pursuit of lower deficits. That won't come until late July, when Obama probably will be forced to ask Congress for an increase in borrowing authority so the Treasury can finance the nation's $16 trillion national debt. Republicans have said they will use the request as leverage to gain concessions on spending cuts in Medicare and other benefit programs. "Going back to the 1950s, debt ceiling requests of presidents have been used to bring about major changes, Gramm-Rudman, the Congressional Review Act, the 1997 Clinton-Republican Congress deficit reduction package, the Budget Control Act," McConnell said, summoning the ghosts of budget compromises past. "All of those came in the context of the budget — of the request of the president to raise the debt ceiling," he said. Well before then, on April 8 in fact, Obama will present a budget of his own. It is long overdue, to the disappointment of Republicans who had hoped to make it an object of ridicule in the just-completed budget debates in the House and Senate. It gives Obama the chance to align himself entirely with his Democratic allies, or possibly to edge away when it comes to government benefit programs that have largely escaped cuts in earlier compromises. Republicans will watch to see what steps, if any, the White House is willing to recommend to slow the growth of Medicare or perhaps Social Security. Given Obama's recent series of meetings with Republicans, some GOP lawmakers say privately it would be a positive sign for him to include a proposal curtailing the rise in cost of living increases in benefit programs. It's a change he has supported since his aborted deficit-reduction negotiations with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, nearly two years ago. But many Democrats in Congress oppose it and the administration has never included it in its budget. Republicans also are hoping Obama will back steps to slow the long-term growth in Medicare, even if they phase in gradually and produce relatively little deficit savings in the next decade. The president's 2013 budget called for $305 billion in Medicare savings, but only a fraction of that would come directly from patients or seem likely to change the demand for care. In his State of the Union address in February, the president said he would change "the way our government pays for Medicare, because our medical bills shouldn't be based on the number of tests ordered or days spent in the hospital — they should be based on the quality of care that our seniors receive." Considerably more sensitive is a suggested increase in the age of eligibility for Medicare. During the recent round of meetings, Republicans asked Obama if he would support it, and he sidestepped, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were discussing private conversations. It's another idea that the president supported once before, when he was negotiating with Boehner, and one that many congressional Democrats oppose strenuously. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California, who says she is "agnostic" on a change in the cost of living formula, recently wrote that an increase in the Medicare eligibility age above 65 is "a reflection of the broader Republican plan: an assault on the middle class, seniors and our future." On the other side of the divide, Obama and Democrats want Republicans to agree to higher taxes as part of any deal that wrings savings from Medicare. That was a tough sell before Jan. 1, the date Congress raised rates on upper-income taxpayers with votes of some Republicans and the acquiescence of others. It will be an even tougher one now. "Taking more money from hard-working families to fuel more spending in Washington is not going to solve our budget crisis," Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan told the House recently as he advocated for the Republican budget that he wrote. This time, Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina provided the Democratic rebuttal. "There are many words that can be used to describe the Ryan budget," he told the House. "But the one word that cannot be used is 'balanced.'" EDITOR'S NOTE — David Espo is AP's chief congressional correspondent. An AP News Analysis Trump's racist rants are too offensive to overlook The Latest: Voter: Lawsuit tries 'to unrig a rigged process' Who Needs Medigap Insurance? Mueller Needs To 'Finish The Job,' Former Justice Department Official Says	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1584
__label__cc	0.740806	0.259194	Home » Blog » Backstage » Raliberto’s Mexican Raliberto’s Mexican Jessie Hanson July 4th, 2019 Backstage Share: There’s something appealing about late nights, a liminal space between being who we should be at work and who we would be if we didn’t have to work. Even when you do “real” work late at night, there’s an odd feeling of suspension from reality. You’re out prowling your way home, cold sober and still in your work uniform, while everyone else sleeps or applies more eyeliner in the bathroom of dive bar that’s never going to be as dive-y as your reality when you lock your car doors when waiting for a traffic light under a bridge in tiny hours of the morning. Aside from working late-night shows as an entertainer, I’ve worked late/night shifts at my “muggle” job for years. When you’re temporally isolated from your friends and even family, you start adding weird shit into your life to compensate. I used to buy Voodoo Doughnuts on Colfax at 2:00am when I worked on a nearby healthcare campus. It was usually me and a couple of sex workers eating chocolate-frosted, dick-shaped pastries in the weird camaraderie of late nights. (Although, to be honest, that sort of thing could happen just about any time on Colfax.) I’ve eaten corned-beef egg rolls long after midnight with a redhead whose name I suspected was a pseudonym and who had multiple facial piercings. Now that I think about it, the weird shit you add into your life is mostly fried foods and unconventional jewelry. Dave Atell would be proud of me. I’ve been driving home past a tiny Mexican place on Wadsworth for the better part of a year, always in the black of night. The neon sign assures me that “Drive-Thru Open 24 Hours.” WTF? Why does a taco stand in Wheat Ridge need to be open at 3:00am? There’s never anyone in the parking lot when I drive to work during the day. Is this a front for selling meth? Possibly the real-life version of Pollos Hermanos? Is this Burritos Hermanos? I had to find out. I whipped my car into the parking lot and funneled myself into the drive through. There were three cars in line ahead of me. Again, WTF? Why are there so many cars needing tacos at 3:00am? I inched up to the light-box menu and spied a dispirited sign written on a piece of college-ruled notebook paper turned horizontal: Cash Only. My stash of cash was $2.00. Probably not enough for even a pair of chimichangas. I backed out, turned around, went to the only gas station in Jefferson County that does NOT have an ATM, and then drove half a mile to a darkened Chase Bank and got some cash. “I’m going in for burritos at the meth place!” I texted my buddy, Jim. “Do you want one?” “Sure,” he texted back. “Ask for ‘light meth’ on mine. I don’t want to be up all night.” I rolled back to Raliberto’s, for such is the name of the venerable establishment (brief aside: I adore an unexpected name. I once knew a guy named Loduardo, a name I’ve never encountered before or since, which perhaps reflects on my immersion or lack thereof in the Hispanic communities), and re-entered the drive-thru line, which STILL was packed three-deep. I inched forward past the menu to the intercom…and choked. I couldn’t think of a single thing to order. I was faced with a literal glowing wall of Mexican delicacies (the best kind of Mexican wall!), it was midnight, I was starving—and no words emerged. This was perhaps the closest I have ever come to “performance anxiety.” I wanted it so badly that I blocked myself from getting it. “Buh–urrito!” I finally stammered out. “And tamales.” “What kind?” the bored intercom voice asked. “Yes,” I replied. This was not my finest hour as a trained performing artist. I stuffed my shame into my cupholder and sneaked up to the window to get my paper bag of goodies. I had no idea what was in them, since I had failed at the standard American interaction of “drive-thru ordering.” I drove the treasure sac to Jim’s house to unpack it, lest I spill any green chili or methamphetamines, both of which are known to speed your system right on up there, albeit through different pathways. Jim and I unpacked the sack. Alas, no Blue Sky to be found. But there were three cups of what proved to be extremely spicy salsa—two reds and a green. #Christmas! The burrito turned out to be the breakfast kind (either because the guy in the kitchen took pity and gave met the emperor of all burritos or else because it was left over from the morning). It was nice—densely-packed chorizo and potatoes, a drizzle of cheese. Dipping into the sauces added some moisture and a zing of hot peppers. Next came the tamales. (Whose genius idea were tamales to begin with? They’re brilliant food items.) Raliberto, if that’s who was serving these up, had compensated for my lack of speaking ability and had given me a red tamale and a green one. The red one had beef in a hot sauce. The green one had a whole green chili inside. I bit into it and felt the heat scorch my taste buds off and melt a layer of skin from my tongue. Jim saw the sweat break out on my forehead. “You need some milk?” “Yeth.” Pant, pant, pant. Jim retrieved an entire growler of full-fat chocolate milk from his stash in the fridge. We all have our self-indulgences. He poured me a mug full, and I poured it between my flaming lips. It was delicious and dampened the fire, although the coals still glowed. Jim had to finish the green tamale. I ate some of the red one, but my tongue was too scorched to give you a true report on its qualities. I admit that, being from a lineage of white-bread people, I am sensitive to hot foods—other, hardier folk might find this level of heat to be tame. But I didn’t. One of my pet peeves is when people talk about “best sex ever.” What does that even mean? What defines “best”? Best emotions? Best physical sensations? Highest amount of burning passion? Breaking the longest drought? It’s all subjective. Which is how I feel about burritos: my preferences are totally subjective. Did I enjoy Raliberto’s? Indeed, I did. It was tasty, well-filled, and accessible (this last piece being key to late night enjoyment). The ultimate test for both sex and burritos is: do you want more? For Raliberto, the answer is…Yes! I confess that I went back the next night and, with script prepared beforehand, I ordered a chorizo breakfast burrito smothered in green chili. I hid it from Jim, took it home, and ate it entirely by myself. It was an act of pure self-pleasuring. In the moment, I believed it to be arguably the best smothered burrito I have eaten in Denver, which is saying a lot, considering the number of breakfast burritos I have eaten in Denver. In the cold light of morning, all such certainty fades away, even though the memory burns bright. But that’s late-night, liminal-space foods for ya! Let it speak for itself though, that I went back to Raliberto’s because I wanted more—and it’s a damn good bet that the second time won’t be the last time. Jessie Hanson Jessie Hanson lives and works in Denver and couldn't be happier about it. Like the best-possible kind of Jekyl-and-Hyde scenario, she splits her life between science and storytelling. During the day, she performs clinical diagnostics and messes around with test tubes. At night, she performs behind the mic as a standup comedienne, in the air as a circus aerialist, and in rhinestones as burlesque dancer. She begrudges the hyper-inflated cost of a decent pair of false eyelashes. When she's not on stage, she sweating it out as an endurance athlete in triathlons and marathons across the West. She begrudges the hyper-inflated cost of a decent pair of running shoes. She's thrilled to be on board with OnDenver and writing about science, comedy, circus, athletics, and general fun on the Front Range! Tagged: burritoscolfaxgreen chililate-nightmexican	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1592
__label__wiki	0.623755	0.623755	Specific elections: 1999 – 2003 – 2007 – 2011 – 2016 Devolved democratic institutions in Scotland are created by legislation of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Arising out of the devloution movement of the late 1990s, Scotland has a unicameral Parliament (Pàrlamaid (Gaelic); Pairliament (Scots)) of which the sole house is an assembly of 129 members. Seats in the Scottish Parliament are party directly elected and partly allocated to parties through a variant of the British additional member system (AMS). The country is divided into 8 electoral regions, which are further divided into 73 electoral divisions. The total number of seats for each electoral region is the number of local divisions in the region (either 9 or 10) plus 7. Voters cast two votes: one vote to elect a local division representative and one ‘list vote’ to support a party at the regional level. The seats within each region seats are allocated by a variant of the D’Hondt formula in which the number of list votes cast for each party is divided successively during the count by a divisor equal to 1 plus the number of seats the party has already won. At each stage, another seat is awarded to the party with the highest current quotient, and the process is repeated until all seats are allocated. However this allocation process begins with the first 9 or 10 places being awarded to the local division members who are directly elected through the local votes by the plurality voting method. There are thus 73 directly elected members and a further 56 members (7 in each electoral region) awarded seats through closed party list seat allocation. Terms are up to four years. Within the scope of the powers devolved to it by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, Scotland has the representative parliamentary system of government, in which nominal executive authority is vested in the Queen. However, actual executive power is exercised by the Prìomh Mhinistear or First Minister on the basis of the continuing confidence of a majority in the Parliament. [Inequality in the effective influence of voters caused by variations in division enrolments] [nomination openness – party configurations] [summary of results] [Inequality in the effective influence of voters caused by variations in division turnouts (formal votes)] [inequality by margins] Specific elections [data source – data completeness – anomalous contests] [Datasets are not yet published] OnElections election results UK-SC-1999-2016 v1.xls Follow On Elections on WordPress.com World Assemblies Outline of the electoral systems used to elect the world's national assemblies Key blogsites Antony Green’s Elections Blog at the ABC (Aust) Kevin Bonham’s Psephologist (Aust) William Bowe’s Poll Bludger at Crikey (Aust) Ben Raue’s Tally Room (Aust) Charles Richardson’s The World is Not Enough at Crikey (Aust) Matthew S Shugart’s Fruits and Votes (International) Henry Schlechta’s International Elections (International)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1593
__label__cc	0.686162	0.313838	Bill Browder And The Magnitsky Act: A Second Look. On July 24, 2018 August 7, 2018 By Jerry AlataloIn Corruption, Documentary, Earth Matters, Economics / Trade, Government Lies / False Flags, Law Enforcement, Money / Banks, Propaganda, Solutions, Tax Havens, The Magnitsky Act: Behind the Scenes, The Media, Videos, War and Peace ill the heavily suppressed, momentous film by director Andrei Nekrasov win the Academy Award and Oscar for Best Documentary? Americans will be especially interested in watching Mr. Nekrasov’s journey of profoundly disturbing discovery, as he makes his historical record of events surrounding hedge fund billionaire William (Bill) Browder, his accountant (or “lawyer”, according to Mr. Browder) Sergei Magnitsky, multi-million dollar tax schemes, Russia-U.S. relations, international law – and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who mentioned Mr. Browder by name during the recent press conference with U.S. President Donald Trump in Helsinki, Finland. See what Western politicians, media companies and journalists are not talking about in “The Magnitsky Act: Behind the Scenes”. One might expect this posting of the film on YouTube to become suppressed and taken down in short order, so after viewing please download the documentary if possible, and/or share widely. It is reasonable to assert that passage of the Magnitsky Act in the U.S. Congress was the birth of what has become described and recognized as the “New Cold War” between the United States and Russian Federation. The legislation is one of the major factors responsible for Russia-U.S. relations deteriorating to their lowest and most dangerous level in decades. If what director Andrei Nekrasov conveys in his extraordinarily important, virtually censored/blacked-out film is accurate, – and it seems impossible to refute his astonishing discoveries – repeal of the Magnitsky Act becomes a moral and ethical necessity. The legislation’s repeal becomes inevitable as the law had as its genesis, foundation or basis an enormously elaborate and contrived set of criminal lies. While director Andrei Nekrasov’s work might not win him the Oscar for best full-length documentary, men and women who watch the film might feel he is certainly deserving of the Academy Award in the non-fiction category. Talk of awards aside, one might need to search long and hard for a documentary film which matches the power, urgency, timeliness and importance of “The Magnitsky Act: Behind the Scenes”. (The film “The Magnitsky Act: Behind the Scenes” is also available for viewing at Bitchute.com, – noted here for people interested in viewing should it become “disappeared” from the YouTube platform.) (Edit: July 31, 2018) Our 1st posting of “The Magnitsky Act: Behind the Scenes” was taken down by YouTube. Thankfully, another concerned citizen posted the film on their channel … (Edit: August 1, 2018) The film was once again taken down by YouTube, this time removed much faster, so our recommendation for people wishing to view the film is to go to Bitchute.com. Clearly, the people at YouTube don’t want the explosive truth about the fraud Bill Browder and the Magnitsky Act disseminated widely. Here is a link to view “The Magnitsky Act: Behind the Scenes” published on Bitchute.com. Please disseminate/share widely: https://www.bitchute.com/video/y8FL1e6Bqos5/ Bill BrowderBloggingInternational Criminal CourtInternational LawInternational RelationsMagnitsky ActPolitical ScienceUnited Nations The World ‘Knows’ Bin Laden Did 9/11 — So Why Isn’t There Any Evidence? Swiss Bank Whistleblower: “Julian Assange Is A Fighter.” 16 thoughts on “Bill Browder And The Magnitsky Act: A Second Look.” David Llewellyn Foster Thanks for this Jerry; I plan to watch it as soon as I can dedicate some focused time, as it needs to be ‘read’ very carefully. I’ve been absorbing Peter Pomerantsev’s Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible ~ Adventures in Modern Russia (2015.) In this world of toxic Plutocratic artifice, I’m firmly convinced that you can take nothing at face value. It is a global game of total deceit, and the only way to determine who or what is what is to ‘follow the money.’ That is the only truth that does not lie. Vertical power is the rule. I found this Daily Beast article just now as well, that warrants further consideration in what is certainly a massively convoluted world or cluster of worlds, reeking of surreal cynicism and writhing with sinister contradictions…. https://www.thedailybeast.com/dissident-director-helped-trumps-russia-comrade-attack-us?ref=scroll July 25, 2018 at 4:52 am Reply PS I may have seen it already, when you first posted it, but I cannot recall much of the detail so need to refresh….thanks for the update. Jerry Alatalo We’ve posted on the Browder-Magnitsky scandal and mentioned the film in the past, but this is the 1st posting here of “The Magnitsky Act: Behind the Scenes”. RT featured Oliver Stone’s powerful “Ukraine on Fire” that blows the lid off the 2014 coup in that nation, leading one to wonder what are the reasons Nekrasov’s film has yet to be broadcast there. One might assume Nekrasov and RT management are talking and negotiating, possibly waiting until an updated or refined edition that’s legally bulletproof is readied. July 25, 2018 at 10:34 am Reply OK thanks for that, I’ll watch the Nekrasov film and get back to you. Pomerantsev’s book is drawn from a series of articles about his experiences working in Russian TV (from 2006) that were originally published occasionally in the London Review of Books. It’s a vivid, compelling and deeply insightful read. If you get a chance, I’m sure you’d find it illuminating. It depicts a Russia that few in the West have such intimate access to…. I did watch all of Oliver Stone’s ‘Ukraine on Fire’ and his complete Putin dialogues as well. How are you. One of the more damning revelations (of many) was establishing Bill Browder as a liar when Browder told Nekrasov “we began the search for the best lawyer in Russia and found Sergei Magnitsky”, giving the deceptive impression there was no previous association between Browder and Magnitsky, or that it was the 1st time they’d ever met – when in truth Magnitsky was Browder’s accountant for years. The other revelation which stood out was the police transcripts’ nowhere showing Sergei Magnitsky making specific (or any) statements accusing Russian officials of the internal government corruption, the narrative upon which the entirety of Browder’s “case” is based. Nekrasov’s film is outstanding, hugely important, and serves as an unparalleled example for fellow documentary filmmakers. Although Nekrasov mentioned the concept “follow the money” without much elaboration and only in passing during the film, it is clear his energies and focus leading to the final successful production were fueled largely by that sometimes over-used but ultimately accurate, effective, reliable cliche. Thank you, David. I’ve enjoyed my first viewing; deeply thought provoking. Well done Jerry; you’ve done an excellent job of drawing attention to this. I need to study the last part of the film more thoroughly, as there is a lot of detail to follow. Andrei is consummately skillful. This is the superb gift of digital formats, we can stop, ‘rewind’ & listen again as often as we like….great stuff! I watched the last half again today; I have to say some of the detail is exceeding difficult to follow unless one stops play and actually reads the close-up texts. Also Nekrasov’s technique of staging his own soul-searching ruminations may invite scepticism about his personal motives. That said, it is a powerful indictment in my opinion. Mr Browder comes across as a very slippery fish indeed. A particularly astute, retired solicitor-friend of mine from Scotland is fond of saying, ‘definitely oleaginous….’ so clearly he is a duplicitous and very sinister individual. His on-camera threat was especially revealing. Certainly not a person I would trust, that is for sure. They had him on BBC Radio (again,) not long ago. So his pervasive influence as a ‘moral exemplar’ remains conspicuously noteworthy, and therefore concerning. I’d like to see a lot more critical analysis of this deeply suspicious affair. The reason the content of the film when delving into financial aspects seems difficult to follow is that it’s getting into evidence of the complex, $trillion-per-year, global tax evasion-tax haven industry. That is the much more explosive aspect of the Browder-Magnitsky Scandal, and helps explain why politicians who take advantage of tax evasion schemes, provided routinely by the world’s most powerful banking, accounting and legal firms, are unanimously going along with the Browder lies – while they assuredly know all about the massive white-collar criminality they are covering up. “Follow the money” gets much more serious when the dollar amounts reach stratospheric levels in the $trillion range. The Tax Justice Network should be all over this Browder-Magnitsky story … Thanks Jerry. I totally agree; talk about golden elephants dancing in the room. My comment about the difficulty of the narrative was a technical criticism of the rapidity with which those documents were flashed past the viewer, meaning we have to trust his summary rather than read the whole thing. Contextual detail is key, and just because a particular sentence is highlighted, does not mean the rest of the text must be irrelevant. That immediately invites suspicion, as it suggests selective editing and preferential emphasis. There was another instance I noticed, possibly when he was interviewing the Germans (I need to check that…,) absent of the possibility that relevant Russian materials could be be missing or just absent. It does not mean that Nekrasov is wrong, only that his tendency to not (more) thoroughly interrogate pertinent details, in favour of a spin focused on himself, the film-maker, is an emphasis on style that may weaken his factual argument So in that respect the Daily Beast response is a typical ‘establishment’ reflex, that only augments and shifts the attention on him, rather than challenging the crucial data he is disclosing, that is, as you suggest, strongly indicative of generic or endemic ‘offshore’ criminality. He is a gifted natural dramatist, but such poetic license may not meet the rigorous standards of forensic evidence in a criminal investigation ~ simply because it can be too readily dismissed as a diversionary artistic technique. We understand your points, yet one feels it will be near impossible for this film’s clear message to be struck down with diversionary attacks on the director Nekrasov. People can find Bill Browder’s 6-hour 2015 deposition in New York where his story is debunked on YouTube, along with video of Browder running away from the man serving him the subpoena to appear for that same deposition – all the more damning to Browder, because he brought the lawsuit against Previzon Limited himself! Nekrasov might have opted for a 10-hour documentary with extensive clips of Browder in that 2015 deposition, but one feels there is nothing Browder-protectors can do to stop the imminent, total and rapid collapse of the giant fraud. We would recommend visiting the website of investigative journalist Lucy Komisar, “TheKomisarScoop(dot)com”, as she is a leading journalist who has focused on Browder-Magnitsky. Going to “Fault Lines Radio” channel on YouTube is recommended also, as co-hosts Garland Nixon and Lee Stranahan have interviewed Nekrasov, author Alex Krainer, Lucy Komisar, etc.. Thank you for the back-and-forth on this huge issue … That’s great, many thanks! See on the actual Situation: “US Politics, Russia, China and Europe, Madness and Strategies”: https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2018/07/22/us-politics-russia-china-and-europe-madness-and-strategies/ Addition to my previous comment: since Litvienko was also mentioned: „Arafat and Litvinenko: an Interesting Turn to a Mysterious Story“, http://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/arafat-and-litvinenko-an-interesting-turn-to-a-mysterious-story/ And in context with the campaign on Russia: “The Anti-Russia Show Must go on – Another Setup?!”: https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2018/03/20/the-anti-russia-show-must-go-on-another-setup/ dandelionsalad Jerry, update your post with the currently available (for now) video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLafOykBO24 I got this from your latest post. Lo, Thanks for the thoughtful action. We’d been meaning to do the same with all Magnitsky posts, but haven’t got around to it. Although we did share the same link with a number of YouTubers and asked them to interview the director … This scandal is unbelievably tough to expose, but this extremely important lie cannot stand, so there’s no other choice but to keep plugging away at it. 🙂 I so agree. You are doing wonderful work getting more people to see this film. Thank you.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1594
__label__wiki	0.963771	0.963771	Like I'm Gonna Lose You (feat. John Legend) - John Legend Just Got Paid - Sigala, Ella Eyre, French Montana With You - Kaskade, Hey DJ - Remix - CNCO, Sean Paul Grammy-Award winning singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Meghan Trainor emerged with her 2014 breakout single "All About That Bass" and disrupted contemporary music with nostalgic pop beats and powerhouse vocals that delivered a worldwide anthem for female empowerment. Trainor cemented her rising status as one of the most prominent artists in popular music by charting seven multi-platinum singles, releasing two platinum albums, selling out three headline tours, writing multi-platinum hits for top pop and country artists, and receiving countless industry awards and nominations worldwide. She is one of only five female artists to receive a diamond certification for her hit single "All About That Bass" which shares the RIAA Gold & Platinum Awards top honor with only 15 other singles in history. After wrapping up her first season as a panelist on FOX's hit series THE FOUR: Battle for Stardom, Trainor released her first single "No Excuses" from her highly-anticipated, 2018, third-studio album on March 1, and is exciting fans that bass is back, and it's bigger than ever! Mexico City, MX266,072 LISTENERS London, GB242,504 LISTENERS Quezon City, PH204,143 LISTENERS Jakarta, ID196,269 LISTENERS Los Angeles, US195,768 LISTENERS Thank You (Deluxe Version) Title (Deluxe) Title (Expanded Edition) Title - Track by Track Commentary Hurt Me (From "Songland") Badass Woman (From The Motion Picture "The Hustle") THE LOVE TRAIN Just Got Paid (Remixes) (feat. French Montana) White Christmas (Spotify Singles - Christmas, Recorded at Sound Stage Studios Nashville) Hey DJ (Remix) Just Got Paid All Out 10s Hit Rewind Warm Fuzzy Feeling Rixton Listen to Meghan Trainor now. Listen to Meghan Trainor in full in the Spotify app	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1596
__label__wiki	0.660604	0.660604	A Theory of Civil Disobedience 46 Pages Posted: 2 Jul 2015 See all articles by Edward L. Glaeser Edward L. Glaeser Harvard University - Department of Economics; Brookings Institution; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Cass R. Sunstein Harvard Law School; Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Number of pages: 46 Posted: 02 Jul 2015 From the streets of Hong Kong to Ferguson, Missouri, civil disobedience has again become newsworthy. What explains the prevalence and extremity of acts of civil disobedience? This paper presents a model in which protest planners choose the nature of the disturbance hoping to influence voters (or other decision-makers in less democratic regimes) both through the size of the unrest and by generating a response. The model suggests that protesters will either choose a mild “epsilon” protest, such as a peaceful march, which serves mainly to signal the size of the disgruntled population, or a “sweet spot” protest, which is painful enough to generate a response but not painful enough so that an aggressive response is universally applauded. Since non-epsilon protests serve primarily to signal the leaders’ type, they will occur either when protesters have private information about the leader’s type or when the distribution of voters’ preferences are convex in a way that leads the revelation of uncertainty to increase the probability of regime change. The requirements needed for rational civil disobedience seem not to hold in many world settings, and so we explore ways in which bounded rationality by protesters, voters, and incumbent leaders can also explain civil disobedience. JEL Classification: P16, K00, L98, R00 Glaeser, Edward L. and Sunstein, Cass R., A Theory of Civil Disobedience (June 29, 2015). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2625273 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2625273 Edward L. Glaeser (Contact Author) Harvard University - Department of Economics ( email ) Littauer Center 1775 Massachusetts Ave. NW National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Harvard Law School ( email ) Areeda Hall 225 Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) ( email )	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1597
__label__wiki	0.605661	0.605661	Monica Lewinsky cracks Clinton joke about worst advice she's ever gotten Monica Lewinsky apparently didn’t have to think too hard when she answered a question on Twitter about the worst career advice users had ever gotten. “An internship at the White... Trump moves to limit eligibility for Central American asylum-seekers WASHINGTON — The Trump administration unveiled new asylum rules Monday that would drastically limit the eligibility of Central American migrants to seek relief at the US-Mexico border. In a major... Immigration chief blames Congress for horrific migrant shelter conditions July 14, 2019 \| 1:48pm WASHINGTON – Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, placed the blame squarely on Congress for the deplorable conditions described at a border station by reporters... Trump praises far-right voices at 'social media summit' President Donald Trump used a White House conference Thursday to applaud far-right social media provocateurs even as he conceded that some of them are extreme in their views. What could be next for Sarah Huckabee Sanders She was seen at Midtown's Avra Madison. Trump's Social Media Summit nearly descends into brawl in Rose Garden It was a fracas at the White House! President Trump’s Social Media Summit on Thursday almost descended into a brawl when Sebastian Gorka got into a brief shouting match with... Trump says he will invite social media honchos to talk free speech President Trump said he will invite the heads of the country’s top social media companies to the White House to discuss free speech and will have his administration ensure that... Trump invites conservative social media personalities to White House summit July 11, 2019 \| 8:08am President Trump on Thursday will hold a “Social Media Summit” at the White House, where he will meet prominent online personalities and vent his frustrations with big-tech companies allegedly squelching... UK ambassador who trashed Trump disinvited from dinner: report July 8, 2019 \| 9:10pm The British ambassador to the US — who trashed the Trump administration — was disinvited from a dinner hosted Monday by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, according to a report. A... Torrential DC rainstorm floods White House basement July 8, 2019 \| 11:38am Fierce rainstorms swamped the nation’s capital Monday morning, causing massive road and rail delays, knocking out power for thousands — and flooding the White House basement.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1601
__label__cc	0.588212	0.411788	Birding at Germantown MetroPark Germantown, Ohio Information about this site. Germantown MetroPark (Main Entrance) 7101 Conservancy Road, Germantown, Ohio 45327 (Twin Valley Welcome Center) 6910 Boomershine Rd, Germantown, OH 45327 (7th Edition and earlier) Page 65- C4 2.5 miles west of Germantown, Ohio. Directions from Nearest Town or City about 15 miles (by air) southwest of Dayton; from Interstate 75 & US 35 (Exit 52) in downtown Dayton, go south 8.0 miles to SR 725 (Exit 44). Turn right and proceed 8.3 miles west through Miamisburg and then into downtown Germantown; continue another 3.4 miles west on SR 725 and turn right onto Boomershine Road; continue north about 1.0 mile to the park entrance on the right. About Germantown MetroPark Germantown MetroPark is recognized as one of the most scenic parks in the Dayton area. Elevational relief ranges from about 735 feet above mean sea level at Twin Creek by the dam to more than 910 feet. This 1,400-acre park surrounds the steep Twin Creek valley and includes 14 miles of well-marked trails through woods, old fields, and meadows. The partially-underground Nature Center has live animal exhibits, bird feeders, and a small waterfall for wildlife. All public roads in the park are paved. There is a 500-foot raised boardwalk at the top of a ravine behind the Nature center that places you at eye-level for woodland birding. Picnic areas and trails occur northwest of the Nature Center near a restored prairie, as well as along the east side of the park by open fields and woods off Conservancy Road. The mature woodlands, ravines, and riparian habitat attract a good diversity of breeding birds (75 species recorded in 2003, including 12 species of warblers). As in other parts of southwest Ohio, wild turkeys have moved into the park and adjacent areas. Irregular breeding rarities have included: red-shouldered hawk, broad-winged hawk, black-throated green warbler, pine warbler (pine stands near Valley Overlook), worm-eating warbler, American redstart, summer tanager, and Henslow’s sparrow. Vagrant summer visitors of note have included chuck-wills-widow (1981-1983) and brown creeper (June-July 1984). Park Hours: April 1 – Oct. 31, 8 am – 10 pm Nov. 1 – March 31, 8 am – 8 pm Closed Christmas and New Year’s Day Main parking by the Nature Center; other parking by various picnic areas. No entrance fees; fishing permits required for Twin Creek. Available at the Nature Center and near the Valley Overlook. Harmful Insects, Poisonous Plants, or Animals Poison Ivy occurs primarily in old field areas; ticks can be numerous in summer in meadow areas. Kathy’s Kitchen, McDonald’s, Cardinal Roost, Captain 9’S, Florentine Restaurant, Subway, Super Wok, Laff’s, Don’s Pizza Palace. Other Birding Spots in the Area Twin Creek MetroPark (to the southeast) and Possum Creek MetroPark (to the northeast). Birds of Interest by Season Northern harrier and resident owls; at feeders eastern towhee, pine siskin, purple finch, fox sparrow, Oregon junco (irregular). Woodland migrants. Breeding barred owls, whip-poor-wills, northern parulas, yellow-throated warblers, prairie warblers, cerulean warblers, ovenbirds, Louisiana waterthrushes, Kentucky warblers, hooded warblers, scarlet tanagers.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1603
__label__cc	0.655546	0.344454	Resources related to personal flourishing I thought it would be useful to maintain a page with a list of resources that are, in one way or another, related to flourishing. The connections may not be obvious on first blush – and perhaps they only make sense to me right now. It’s probably best to hit me up if you want to know more. I will update this post when I discover new resources that seem worthwhile. I would welcome any suggestions you may have for resources that should be added. Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being, by Martin Seligman Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It, by Craig Biddle Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life, by Eric Greitens The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, by Jonathan Haidt Viable Values: A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality, by Tara Smith, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin Interpersonal communications Non-Violent Communication: Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World in Harmony with Your Values, by Marshall Rosenberg, PhD, The Center for Nonviolent Communication Real Time Relationships: The Logic of Love, by Stefan Molyneux, MA, Host, Freedman Radio, freedomainradio.com Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality, by Patricia S. Churchland Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts, by Stanislas Dehaene Consciousness Explained, by Daniel C. Dennett Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, by Daniel C. Dennett Memories of Fear – How the Brain Stores and Retrieves Physiologic States, Feelings, Behaviors and Thoughts from Traumatic Events, by Bruce D. Perry, M.D., PhD, The Child Trauma Academy, ChildTrauma.org Emotional Regulation, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Nucleus Accumbent, by Sophie Lebrecht and David Badre, Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Department of Psychology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA \| Correspondence: [email protected] The polyvagal theory: New insights into adaptive reactions of the autonomic nervous system, by Stephen W. Porges, PhD, Brain-Body Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago NEUROCEPTION: A Subconscious System for Detecting Threats and Safety, by Stephen W. Porges, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago Positive Discipline: Creating Respectful Relationships in Homes and Schools, by Dr. Jane Nelson, positivediscipline.com What Is Positive Discipline?, by Dr. Jane Nelson, positivediscipline.com The Psychology of High Self-Esteem: A Life-Changing Program for Personal Growth, by Nathaniel Branden, PhD In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, by Gabor Maté, M.D. Sleep, Cognition, and Normal Aging: Integrating a Half Century of Multidisciplinary Research, by Michael K. Scullin and Donald L. Bliwise, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Baylor University, and Department of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine The Theory of Constraints – Fundamental Exam Review – TOC Thinking Processes Segment, by James R. Holt, PhD, PE, Professor, Engineering & Technology Management, [email protected] Goldratt’s “Theory of Constraints” Thinking Processes: A Systems Methodology linking Soft with Hard, by Victoria Mabin, School of Business and Public Management Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, Tel +64 4 463 5140, Fax +64 4 463 5253, Email: [email protected]	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1606
__label__wiki	0.669608	0.669608	About Inside Out and Perspectiva Thoughts, Musings, Links and Essays from Perspectiva. Perspectiva is registered in England and Wales as: Perspectives on Systems, Souls and Society (#1170492). Our charitable aims are: “To advance the education of the public in general (particularly amongst thought leaders in the public realm, including writers and academics) on the subject of the relationships between complex global challenges and the inner lives of human beings, and how these relationships play out in society; and to promote research, activities and discourse for the public benefit in these subjects and to publish useful results.” This is an age of dissonance. The world’s challenges are complex and interconnected, while public awareness is often relatively simplistic and fragmented. The most fundamental source of dissonance is knowing that the world has made extraordinary progress, yet sensing that everything has to change. Our collective task is ultimately spiritual renewal, but clarifying what that means and what follows for society requires sustained intellectual leadership, innovative participatory processes, and network nodes; which is why we gave Perspectiva institutional form. Many are enjoying the fruits of economic and technological progress, but our ecological and spiritual roots are neglected and cannot replenish themselves without our discerning attention and imagination. Liberalism as an ideology is no longer hegemonic and appears to be exhausted, hollowed out and rudderless, but no compelling alternative has emerged. Democracy may be dying; it is acutely vulnerable to the misuse of technology and younger generations do not seem to believe it is essential. Financial capitalism is driving socially corrosive inequality. Culture is increasingly a matter of private entertainment to be bought rather than character formation for shared societal ends. And yet, we still use the language of ‘left and right’, ‘public opinion’, ‘economic growth’, ‘consumer choice’ as if these reflected unassailable realities rather than desiccated remains of a worldview in its twilight years. There has been no adequate planetary response to the preeminent challenge of our time – climate change – and perhaps cannot be, unless there is a change in consciousness at scale; an epistemic and ethical reorientation in our shared sense of meaning, purpose and value. Our crisis is therefore a meta crisis and spiritual in that the the broadly materialist perspectives from which we view our current challenges leads us to construct them in ways that confound our capacity to address their root causes. We need to change and expand our worldview with better ways of perceiving, relating and knowing. Inside Out is a place to play and experiment with ideas relating to Perspectiva’s work. Enter your email address to follow Inside Out and receive notifications of new posts by email.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1607
__label__cc	0.599624	0.400376	Featured: Hero Worship Well Warranted: My Test Drive In A Souped-Up Aston Martin DB5 Hero Worship Well Warranted: My Test Drive In A Souped-Up Aston Martin DB5 By Will_Broadhead Photography by Will Broadhead Never meet your heroes, they’ll never meet your expectations, won’t live up to the lofty pedestals that they occupy in your mind, and will ultimately prove to be an insipid version of what you come to realize as a caricature. It seems this saying rings truer in regards to cars than it does to people (see: supercars with seating and leg positions that go against Geneva’s guidelines on torture), and I’m sure we have all experienced it one way or another over the years. Thankfully we know there are still plenty of exceptions to this “rule,” and some heroes are everything you ever wanted them to be. A few exotic Italians aside, my absolute idol on four wheels growing up was the Aston Martin DB5. A slightly obvious choice perhaps for a child schooled on the exploits of Her Majesty’s favorite spy, but Bond was just one thing that linked me to this car. It was my dad’s fault really, he adored the DBs, anything Aston in fact, but the sixth generation in the David Brown lineage was always the pinnacle for him (and therefore for us) back then. Sadly, he never realized his dream of driving, let alone owning, an Aston Martin, but a week or so ago I was invited down to the Classic Motor Hub for an experience in the legendary DB5, something I won’t soon forget. It’s not every day that you get a phone call asking to check out a properly sorted Aston, never mind taking the thing out on the road for a test, so it’s fair to say my night’s sleep was frequently rocked back into a state of consciousness—nobody gets a full eight when they’re this excited. I was seven years old again, waiting for the arrival of Saint Nick, breaking every rule I have about staying balanced before a photoshoot with a dream car. This particular DB5 isn’t one for the purists, though. It’s no longer a matching-numbers car or anything close to its factory spec, but my goodness is it perfect. Rolling back the hangar doors at the Classic Motor Hub and seeing the instantly recognizable face of a DB elicited a grin on my own, but while it’s clearly an Aston it’s clearly not a standard one. The flared wheel arches give away the fact right off the bat that not all that it seems. The roomier fenders now house wider wheels that accommodate the modern rubber on this car. All the better for gripping the road my dear, as I would soon find out. With these slight changes in form and stance the car takes on a more muscular appearance without trading away any of its regality, and while I will know there will be those that won’t approve of modifying this car, I think it looks great, and slightly reminiscent of when Zagato similarly enhanced the DB4. The story continues under the long bonnet scoop: a completely reworked engine, brought up to Vantage spec with three giant Webers, revised camshafts, and the usual host of performance-enhancing bits from the crank upwards: pistons, valves, name it. If numbers are your thing then it’s kicking out around 345 at the crank, a good 60 horsepower more than the original. I’m there for startup, and once the float bowls on those big carbs have been primed the over-sized Cosworth pistons of this 4.8L are exercised back into life with that familiar straight-six thrum accompanying the classic smell of a mean engine started cold. I can’t wait to get it out on the road, my excitement is now threatening to take over normal speech functions and I have to remind myself that I’m at work, but this is a DB5 and I can’t quite believe that I’m sat in the thing. There is a time and a place for professionalism of course, and 400 meters down the road I’ve gone well past it and have given in to the Aston’s charms. I’m absorbed in these moments, enjoying every poke of the accelerator and every bit of the road translated through twitches in the gorgeous walnut wheel in my hands. The uprated Koni suspension and AP Racing disc brakes make the car assured and confidence inspiring in a way that emphatically belies the age of this chassis, and those wider boots afford levels of grip to match the uprated power the hot engine delivers. Oh, that engine! It picks up instantly, the Webers responding to my greedy right foot and supplying plenty of fuel and oxygen to propel the DB down the road in a fashion I’m sure 007 would have raised his Martini glass at with a wink. It feels tremendous and is surpassing all of my expectations, for which a small part of me is extremely relieved. This car has proven to be everything I wanted it to be and more, it has since invaded my being and satisfied the hero status I had given it, like so many others. The experience has been visceral, in the way that it picks up its skirts and runs when asked, the roar it emits in doing so, and the way you can just lean on it in the bends. It has been emotional as well, in the memories it evoked of my dad’s love for these special DBs and just how much he would have enjoyed this one. While all the modern enhancements add to the car’s capabilities, they by no means change it in any fundamental sense. You still have to drive the thing the same way you would were it box stock, this one just rewards a slightly more spirited performance behind the wheel. It’s a typical thing to say but we always need more tallies on the right side of the scoreboard so please allow me to reiterate: meet your heroes if you have the chance to, otherwise how else would you know if they deserve it? Tags 1960s Cars/ Aston Martin DB5/ Classic Motor Hub/ Cotswolds/ David Brown/ Test Drive News More LEGO! This Time It's A McLaren Senna To Push Around Your Desk Featured This Rare 1970 Iso Rivolta Lele Is A Gorgeous V8-Powered Grocery Getter Featured Driving A 400-Horsepower Ford Falcon Down British B-Roads Is An Afternoon Well Spent Featured The Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione Is An Experience That's Worth The Flaws Featured The Maserati Ghibli Is An Almost Incomparably Comfortable Italian GT Experience Featured One Of A Dozen: Driving In Art Deco Elegance With A 1939 Frazer Nash BMW 327 Featured How The Giro Di Sicily Saved The Targa Florio And Began Its Own Legacy Featured This Is What It's Like To Hoon An Ex-SAS Military Dune Buggy What a sublime car. The argument should you / shouldn’t you “upgrade” a classic will go on for years….but like slinky I too think this is a very acceptable modification of a brilliant car. The author seems to sense that many purists will be critical but I like this car a lot and would love to own it. As said….sublime! slinkeyj3 At risk of getting flak from the purists, this is a treatment more of these vintage classics should receive. A well-done, tasteful refreshing that brings them slightly more-so into modern performance, while still wholly retaining their soul and feel Bryan Dickerson All I can say is: You lucky ba___rd! ;^)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1609
__label__wiki	0.530357	0.530357	Sitting alone in the middle of a forest clearing, Silque settled down into a more comfortable position within her flower. Looking up expectantly she waited for the colorful pyrotechnics of the yearly fireworks display to begin. It had been decades since she had wandered off the trail, and a young school girl had suddenly found herself planted to the ground with no way to move or even call out for help. While still a high school senior at heart, Silque now appeared not as a human, but as an alarune. Over the years, as seasons changed, she slowly lost hope that anyone would find her, and had accepted a fate of being forever alone. Her slender legs, formerly the envy of her class turned into a single stalk fusing into a massive brilliant blue flower. Her hair went from a beautiful midnight black to a leafy green mess, and her voice, once lovely, forever gone. A human girl turned into a legend, a plant woman. As the seasons had passed, she came to terms with her new state enjoying the rains as they fell upon her and sated her thirst. In the summer she’d spreader her arms wide and welcomed the sun to her bosom as it fed her. She had grown satisfied with merely watching the seasons change year after year, yet deep down in her heart the crushing loneliness often grew impossible to ignore. While she was able to tamp it down, it came to head during the new year when people in the area around would launch fireworks to celebrate the coming of a new year. She would, year after year, look up at the fiery flowers in the sky and sob silently as the thoughts of her being forgotten. This year had chalked itself up to being yet another year of crushing loneliness. Despite this, Silque continued to look forward and anticipate the fireworks every year not because she enjoyed the garish explosions and loud booms, but because it was the last thing connecting her to a happier past. Her anticipation finally broke as she heard the first whistle from down the valley. Her eyes searched desperately for the spreading light of fireworks. Suddenly the valley found itself awash in the beautiful techincolor display of the booming fireworks. Tears streaming down her face, Silque found her self enraptured yet again by her only connection to her humanity. Yet, for some reason, this year proved to be different. Something was off, and she couldn’t quite put her finger on it till she saw the figure within the display itself desperately weaving in and out of the explosions. This did not appear to be part of the show, yet the bluish glow surrounding the figure as it juked in and out of the explosions proved to be an excellent addition to the show, adding a more emotionally jagged edge to a usually jovial event. A pause in the fireworks seemed to give the figure in the air a second of respite when suddenly a massive boom came from below. Almost as if in slow motion, the firework exploded beneath the figure illuminating a pair of vibrant bluish purple wings that were visible from a vast distance. With that single explosion the fire works ceased, but the glow from the now stricken harpy continued to waver in the sky. No long was the flight erratic and powerful, now it was limp, defeated, and clearly no longer in total control. She could see the harpy arch across the sky at one point framed against a full moon. She was going down, and there was nothing Silque could do but watch in utter horror. Slowly, almost painfully, she watched as the poor demi-human sank lower and lower, when suddenly it gave a heave to one side. Was this it? Was she finally going to end her flight forever with a crash into the hard cold ground below? Once again time seemed to slow down, as the figure shuddered and heaved again to the side, and the motions suddenly became clear as her course changed almost directly for the clearing Silque had called her home. Her horror was only amplified as she realized someone was about to crash her proverbial pity party, and there was nothing she could do to help. With dozens of meters to spare, the harpy cautiously tried to flare her self for a landing in the clearing, but it was obvious she wasn’t quite in control anymore. What had turned into a smooth landing devolved into a crash as one of her wings suddenly gave out, and she plummeted towards the ground and directly towards the alarune. With a silent scream Siqlue could only watch as the harpy barreled towards her, and her world went black she felt the impact of the wounded harpy she had seen just a few minutes ago in the middle of a firestorm. The sound of chirping birds and rustling feathers brought Silque back to wakefulness and pain. Groaning silently and grasping her stomach in pain, she found herself crumpled up inside her flower. The impact had knocked her out cold causing her to retreat back into her flower. Cautiously opening up herself to the world once again she was met with a pair of electric purple eyes peering in at her. The harpy from last night had not only woken up before her, but actually appeared no worse for wear. Looking her over, Silque noticed the harpy was indeed a Thunderbird of legend with a hint of static electricity around her, and deep blue feathers to match her stunning eyes. Though all was not well as her eyes were drawn to a ragged burned wing. This was likely the cause of the crash from last night, but happily the young harpy appeared to have no broken bones. Tearing her eyes away from the wing, her eyes came back to rest on the Thunderbird’s face. Youthful, full of energy, and life it felt like she was looking into a mirror of her younger days. She dared not reach out or make any movements lest she scare away the new being in her tiny little universe. Her gaze was so intense, the harpy blushed and looked away, and for the first time in many years Silque with tears of joy streaming down her face heard someone speak…. “I’m sorry about last night, are you okay?” Sitting alone in the middle of a forest clearing, Silque settled down into a more comfortable position within her flower. Looking up expectantly she waited for the colorful pyrotechnics of the yearly fireworks display to begin. It had been decades since she had wandered off the trail, and a young school girl had suddenly found herself planted to the ground with no way to move or even call out for help. While still a high school senior at heart, Silque now appeared not as a human, but as an alarune. Over the years, as seasons changed, she slowly lost hope that anyone would find her, and had accepted a fate of being forever alone. Her slender legs, formerly the envy of her class turned into a single stalk fusing into a massive brilliant blue flower. Her hair went from a beautiful midnight black to a leafy green mess, and her voice, once lovely, forever gone. A human girl turned into a legend, a plant woman. As the seasons had passed, she came to terms with her new state enjoying the rains as they fell upon her and sated her thirst. In the summer she’d spreader her arms wide and welcomed the sun to her bosom as it fed her. She had grown satisfied with merely watching the seasons change year after year, yet deep down in her heart the crushing loneliness often grew impossible to ignore. While she was able to tamp it down, it came to head during the new year when people in the area around would launch fireworks to celebrate the coming of a new year. She would, year after year, look up at the fiery flowers in the sky and sob silently as the thoughts of her being forgotten. This year had chalked itself up to being yet another year of crushing loneliness. Despite this, Silque continued to look forward and anticipate the fireworks every year not because she enjoyed the garish explosions and loud booms, but because it was the last thing connecting her to a happier past. Her anticipation finally broke as she heard the first whistle from down the valley. Her eyes searched desperately for the spreading light of fireworks. Suddenly the valley found itself awash in the beautiful techincolor display of the booming fireworks. Tears streaming down her face, Silque found her self enraptured yet again by her only connection to her humanity. Yet, for some reason, this year proved to be different. Something was off, and she couldn’t quite put her finger on it till she saw the figure within the display itself desperately weaving in and out of the explosions. This did not appear to be part of the show, yet the bluish glow surrounding the figure as it juked in and out of the explosions proved to be an excellent addition to the show, adding a more emotionally jagged edge to a usually jovial event. A pause in the fireworks seemed to give the figure in the air a second of respite when suddenly a massive boom came from below. Almost as if in slow motion, the firework exploded beneath the figure illuminating a pair of vibrant bluish purple wings that were visible from a vast distance. With that single explosion the fire works ceased, but the glow from the now stricken harpy continued to waver in the sky. No long was the flight erratic and powerful, now it was limp, defeated, and clearly no longer in total control. She could see the harpy arch across the sky at one point framed against a full moon. She was going down, and there was nothing Silque could do but watch in utter horror. Slowly, almost painfully, she watched as the poor demi-human sank lower and lower, when suddenly it gave a heave to one side. Was this it? Was she finally going to end her flight forever with a crash into the hard cold ground below? Once again time seemed to slow down, as the figure shuddered and heaved again to the side, and the motions suddenly became clear as her course changed almost directly for the clearing Silque had called her home. Her horror was only amplified as she realized someone was about to crash her proverbial pity party, and there was nothing she could do to help. With dozens of meters to spare, the harpy cautiously tried to flare her self for a landing in the clearing, but it was obvious she wasn’t quite in control anymore. What had turned into a smooth landing devolved into a crash as one of her wings suddenly gave out, and she plummeted towards the ground and directly towards the alarune. With a silent scream Siqlue could only watch as the harpy barreled towards her, and her world went black she felt the impact of the wounded harpy she had seen just a few minutes ago in the middle of a firestorm. The sound of chirping birds and rustling feathers brought Silque back to wakefulness and pain. Groaning silently and grasping her stomach in pain, she found herself crumpled up inside her flower. The impact had knocked her out cold causing her to retreat back into her flower. Cautiously opening up herself to the world once again she was met with a pair of electric purple eyes peering in at her. The harpy from last night had not only woken up before her, but actually appeared no worse for wear. Looking her over, Silque noticed the harpy was indeed a Thunderbird of legend with a hint of static electricity around her, and deep blue feathers to match her stunning eyes. Though all was not well as her eyes were drawn to a ragged burned wing. This was likely the cause of the crash from last night, but happily the young harpy appeared to have no broken bones. Tearing her eyes away from the wing, her eyes came back to rest on the Thunderbird’s face. Youthful, full of energy, and life it felt like she was looking into a mirror of her younger days. She dared not reach out or make any movements lest she scare away the new being in her tiny little universe. Her gaze was so intense, the harpy blushed and looked away, and for the first time in many years Silque with tears of joy streaming down her face heard someone speak…. “I’m sorry about last night, are you okay?”	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1613
__label__cc	0.671497	0.328503	Madeleine Albright: “Will We Stop Trump Before It’s Too Late?” Former U.S. Secretary of State on the growing threat of fascism: “If one were to draft a script chronicling fascism’s resurrection, the abdication of America’s moral leadership would make a credible first sense.” “Instead of mobilizing international coalitions to take on world problems, he touts the doctrine of “every nation for itself” and has led America into isolated positions on trade, climate change, and Middle East peace. Instead of engaging in creative diplomacy, he has insulted United States neighbors and allies, walked away from key international agreements, mocked multilateral organizations and stripped the State Department of its resources and role. Instead of standing up for the values of a free society, his oft-vented scorn for democracy’s building blocks has strengthened the hands of dictators. No longer need they fear United States criticism regarding human rights or civil liberties. On the contrary, they can and do point to Trump’s own words to justify their repressive actions.” Support From Peace Science: People power is the best response to tyranny, fascism, and other forms of government repression. Key capabilities of successful resistance movements are: Ability to unify people Nonviolent discipline Will We Stop Trump Before It’s Too Late? By Madeleine Albright for the New York Times, April 6, 2018. “The Checklist for Ending Tyranny”. By Ackerman, P., & Merriman, H. In Mathew Burrows and Maria J. Stephan (eds.), Is Authoritarianism Staging a Comeback?, Washington, DC: The Atlantic Council, 2015. Tags diplomacyforeign policyUnited States Next article The North Korean Sanctions Are Working Previous article Can International Organizations Help Prevent Violence in Palestine and Israel?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1620
__label__cc	0.608787	0.391213	September 2017, VOLUME 140 / ISSUE 3 Racial/Ethnic Disparity in NICU Quality of Care Delivery Jochen Profit, Jeffrey B. Gould, Mihoko Bennett, Benjamin A. Goldstein, David Draper, Ciaran S. Phibbs, Henry C. Lee BACKGROUND: Differences in NICU quality of care provided to very low birth weight (<1500 g) infants may contribute to the persistence of racial and/or ethnic disparity. An examination of such disparities in a population-based sample across multiple dimensions of care and outcomes is lacking. METHODS: Prospective observational analysis of 18 616 very low birth weight infants in 134 California NICUs between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2014. We assessed quality of care via the Baby-MONITOR, a composite indicator consisting of 9 process and outcome measures of quality. For each NICU, we calculated a risk-adjusted composite and individual component quality score for each race and/or ethnicity. We standardized each score to the overall population to compare quality of care between and within NICUs. RESULTS: We found clinically and statistically significant racial and/or ethnic variation in quality of care between NICUs as well as within NICUs. Composite quality scores ranged by 5.26 standard units (range: −2.30 to 2.96). Adjustment of Baby-MONITOR scores by race and/or ethnicity had only minimal effect on comparative assessments of NICU performance. Among subcomponents of the Baby-MONITOR, non-Hispanic white infants scored higher on measures of process compared with African Americans and Hispanics. Compared with whites, African Americans scored higher on measures of outcome; Hispanics scored lower on 7 of the 9 Baby-MONITOR subcomponents. CONCLUSIONS: Significant racial and/or ethnic variation in quality of care exists between and within NICUs. Providing feedback of disparity scores to NICUs could serve as an important starting point for promoting improvement and reducing disparities. CPQCC — California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative VLBW — very low birth weight What’s Known on This Subject: Disparity in quality of care delivery is emerging as an important contributor to differential outcomes among vulnerable neonatal populations. What This Study Adds: Wide racial and/or ethnic differences in quality of care delivery do exist between and within NICUs. Stratification, rather than risk adjustment for race and/or ethnicity, appeared to provide more informational content for performance assessment. Closing the persistent racial and/or ethnic gap in care and outcomes of newborn infants has been a longtime policy priority.1 Disparity in health care delivery has been defined as racial or ethnic differences in the quality of health care that are not because of access-related factors or clinical needs, preferences, and appropriateness of intervention.2 Disparity in quality of care provided in the NICU setting may manifest in 2 ways. First, African American and Hispanic infants may be more likely to receive care in poor-quality NICUs.3,4 Second, in a given NICU, African American and Hispanic infants may receive inferior care. In previous work, we demonstrated NICU-level racial disparities in rates of antenatal steroid and human breast milk feeding at discharge from hospitals in California.5,6 However, a multidimensional assessment of differences in quality of care delivery does not exist. Composite indicators allow for multidimensional measurement of quality by combining 2 or more individual measures into a single score.7 Their primary appeal is that they allow researchers to simplify and summarize otherwise complex issues and to provide global insights and trends about quality of care. The goal of this population-based study was to provide a multidimensional appraisal of racial and ethnic differences in the quality of NICU care delivery given to very low birth weight (VLBW; <1500 g) infants in California. For this purpose, we used the Baby-MONITOR composite indicator and its subcomponents.8 The Baby-MONITOR aggregates 9 risk-adjusted measures (2 process measures, 6 morbidities, and mortality) that span the birth hospitalization.9–11 We performed a retrospective population-based analysis of clinical data obtained from the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative (CPQCC) data registry.12 More than 90% of California NICUs are members of the CPQCC, covering more than 95% of all very low birth weight (VLBW) births in the state. We used CPQCC clinical data to compute a Baby-MONITOR score for each NICU. We then aggregated and compared race- and/or ethnicity-specific Baby-MONITOR scores across NICUs. This study included data recorded between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2014. CPQCC assures high data quality through training of local personnel, range and logic checks, and auditing of records with excessive missing data. Data for infants transferred to other CPQCC-member NICUs are linked. We used multiyear analyses because of a small sample in some institutions. Figure 1 shows a flowchart of our patient sample. A detailed description of the patient-selection criteria has been published elsewhere.9 In brief, our goal was to create a relatively homogenous and unbiased sample of VLBW infants for comparison across NICUs. To ensure that patient outcomes reflected the care of the NICU under observation, we excluded infants who died before 12 hours of life and those with severe congenital anomalies. We also restricted the analysis to infants born after 24 completed weeks of gestation to avoid systematic treatment bias at the threshold of viability.13 For harmonization with Vermont Oxford Network data, minor changes with inconsequential effects on NICU rankings have been made to variable definitions (SAS code available on request). Study population flowchart. Patient transfers may bias NICU performance assessments. Therefore, we developed algorithms to minimize undue credit or penalty for care delivered elsewhere (details available on request): only infants with, at most, 3 admission records from 2 hospitals are included; if the birth hospital transfers an infant by 3 days of age (day 1 is the day of birth), subsequent relevant outcomes (eg, chronic lung disease) accrue to the receiving hospital (counted as missing for birth hospital); and if the birth hospital transfers an infant after 3 days of age, subsequent relevant outcomes accrue to the birth hospital (counted as missing for receiving hospital). Sensitivity analyses have shown these assumptions to be robust to alternative scenarios.8,14 Outcome Variable Baby-MONITOR: Measures for the composite were selected via a formal Delphi process11 and affirmed in a clinical sample.10 CPQCC collects clinical data in a prospective fashion by using the standard definitions developed by the Vermont Oxford Network. The measures were expressed as binary variables at the patient level and as proportions at the unit level. They include: (1) any antenatal steroid administration; (2) moderate hypothermia (<36°C) on admission; (3) nonsurgically induced pneumothorax; (4) health care–associated bacterial or fungal infection; (5) chronic lung disease (oxygen requirement at 36 weeks’ gestational age); (6) timely eye examination (retinopathy of prematurity screening at the age recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics); (7) any human breast milk at discharge from the hospital; (8) mortality during the birth hospitalization, and (9) growth velocity (less or more than the median of 13.1 g/kg per day). Growth velocity was determined according to a logarithmic function.15 Variable of Interest: Racial and Ethnic Background This variable is reported on the basis of maternal race. The CPQCC race classification scheme (1) includes non-Hispanic white, African American, and Hispanic groups; (2) combines Asian and Pacific Islander groups and American Indian or Alaskan Native groups; and (3) includes a residual “Other” category. For this analysis, we collapsed the American Indian or Alaskan Native group with the Other category. Henceforth, we label these groups as white, African American, Hispanic, and Asian American. The classification scheme allows for only a single choice. Local data collectors are encouraged to retrieve this variable based on the Automated Vital Statistics System, which is used in all birthing hospitals in California to produce paper and electronic birth certificates. The Automated Vital Statistics System collects ethnicity and race data in a manner consistent with new state and federal standards for multiple race reporting. Assigning maternal ethnicity and race on the basis of appearance, language, or other personal attributes or without the direct assistance of the informant is discouraged. If multiple races are recorded in the Automated Vital Statistics System, the race that appears first in the hierarchy is recorded. Additional Covariates: Clinical Variables We applied CPQCC standard operational definitions for all variables, including prenatal care, sex, weight for gestational age below the 10th percentile, birth at a different hospital, multiple birth, 5-minute Apgar score and cesarean delivery. Gestational age at birth was categorized into gestation groups of 25 weeks to 27 weeks and 6 days; 28 weeks to 29 weeks and 6 days; and 30 weeks or more on the basis of similar patient numbers among groups. Each Apgar score was categorized as <4, 4 to 6, and >6. Baby-MONITOR Scores Derivation of Baby-MONITOR scores has been described elsewhere.8 In brief, subcomponents of the composite are individually risk adjusted. Variables are aligned so that a higher value represents a better outcome. Measures are standardized by using the Draper-Gittoes method specifically developed for benchmarking and validity with small sample sizes.16 With this method, a standardized observed minus expected z score is calculated. Each z score is then equally weighted and averaged to derive a Baby-MONITOR score for each NICU. Scores are expressed in standard units. The meaning of a 1-standard-unit change is nonlinear across the distribution; for example, if a NICU raises its standardized score on a component of the Baby-MONITOR from 0 to +1, this NICU would move from the 50th percentile of the NICU distribution to the 84th percentile, whereas a move from +1 to +2 in standard units corresponds to going from the 84th percentile to the 98th percentile. Broadly speaking, an increase of 1 in standardized score is large in clinical terms for any NICU whose standardized score before the move was anywhere from −2 to +2. Objective 1 The first objective was to calculate the variation in Baby-MONITOR and component scores and the effect of adjustment by race and/or ethnicity on NICU rankings. We computed risk-adjusted scores for the Baby-MONITOR and each of its subcomponents for each racial and/or ethnic group (standardized to the entire sample) and used analysis of variance to assess differences in quality scores. We also evaluated NICU performance with and without adjustment for race and/or ethnicity. Adjustment was done at the individual-measure level by following National Quality Forum recommendations.17 The rationale for this approach is that quality measurement must adequately account for the social risk; without such adjustment, providers who serve high-risk populations would be treated unfairly. We tested whether NICU ranks differed significantly with adjustment for race and/or ethnicity and evaluated the contribution of each race and/or ethnicity to rankings. The second objective was to measure the racial and/or ethnic disparity at the NICU level. For each NICU, we calculated Baby-MONITOR scores for white, African American, Hispanic, and Asian American infants separately and referenced scores for each subgroup against white infants. Each group’s scores were standardized to the overall California population. With this approach, each NICU’s performance is stratified by each racial and/or ethnic subgroup. Stratification allows performance to be displayed by subgroup without providing a quality assessment benefit to a hospital for serving high-risk populations. Human Subjects Compliance This study was approved by the Stanford Institutional Review Board. Sample Characteristics This study included 18 616 VLBW infants with 19 661 hospital records (5010 white, 2530 African American, 8191 Hispanic, 2357 Asian American, 474 Other, and 54 of unknown race and/or ethnicity) in 134 NICUs. Of these NICUs, 26 self-designated as Level II, 88 as Level III, and 20 as Level IV.18 Table 1 shows population and NICU characteristics for the combined VLBW sample. Hispanics represent the largest group of infants in California. Hispanic and African American infants are born at significantly lower gestational ages. Most infants, irrespective of race and/or ethnicity, access prenatal care. White infants, and to a lesser degree Asian American infants, are more likely to experience a multiple birth or a birth at advanced maternal age. African Americans had lower Apgar scores. Hispanic infants were most likely to require transfer after birth. Infant Baseline Characteristics Regarding unadjusted components of quality in the Baby-MONITOR, compared with white infants, African American and Hispanic infants were less likely to receive antenatal steroid therapy, a timely retinopathy examination, or any human breast milk at discharge from the hospital. Both groups were also more likely to acquire a health care–associated infection. On the other hand, African American infants were slightly less likely to suffer a pneumothorax and achieved better growth. Objective 1: Variation in Baby-MONITOR and Component Scores and the Effect of Adjustment by Race and/or Ethnicity on NICU Rankings The variation in performance between NICUs is notable, spanning 5.26 (range −2.30 to 2.96) standard units across all NICUs. Individual racial and/or ethnic subgroup scores varied similarly: −1.93 to 2.48 (whites), −1.04 to 1.54 (African Americans), −1.68 to 2.16 (Hispanics), and −0.94 to 1.66 (Asian Americans). Overall unadjusted mean (SD) Baby-MONITOR scores were 0.19 (0.96) standard units and changed little after adjustment (0.17 [0.95]). Figure 2 shows NICU performance on the Baby-MONITOR with and without adjustment for race and/or ethnicity. Scores >0 indicate better than expected performance, and scores <0 indicate worse than expected performance. The Pearson correlation coefficient between adjusted and unadjusted Baby-MONITOR scores was (r = 0.995, P < .001). Baby-MONITOR scores with and without adjustment for race and/or ethnicity. Baby-Monitor scores are expressed in SD units, unadjusted (o) and adjusted (x) for race and/or ethnicity. NICUs with more than 20 infants during the study periods are shown (120 NICUs). Adjustment for race and/or ethnicity has a minimal effect on NICU rankings (Pearson correlation = 0.995 [P < .0001]). For the overall population, mean Baby-MONITOR scores differed by racial and/or ethnic groups. Compared with whites (0.24 [0.6]), Hispanics (0.09 [0.7]; P < .023), and Other races and/or ethnicities (0.09 (0.4); P < .036) had significantly lower quality scores. Scores for African Americans (0.2 [0.5]; P = .550) and Asian Americans (0.28 [0.5]; P < .556) were not significantly different from those of whites. We also found significant variation among racial and/or ethnic groups across individual subcomponents of the composite. Figures 3 and 4 show subcomponent scores by race and/or ethnicity. These analyses revealed interesting patterns. First, compared with white infants, African American infants had higher chronic lung disease, pneumothorax, and growth velocity scores and lower any-human-milk-at-hospital-discharge scores. In comparison with Hispanic infants, white infants achieved equal or significantly higher scores across all subcomponents except the subcomponent measuring pneumothorax rates. Second, whites generally appeared to score higher on measures of process considered indicative of high-quality care, which should not differ by race and/or ethnicity. These included antenatal steroids, hypothermia on admission (although not significantly different), timely eye examination, health care–associated infections, and any human breast milk at discharge from the hospital (we construe the latter 2 as markers of care process, recognizing that they could be understood as process-intense outcomes). Regarding outcome measures, African Americans tended to score higher than whites. Hispanics’ scores were similar to those of whites, except Hispanics scored significantly higher for pneumothorax rates yet lower for growth velocity (see Supplemental Table 2). Baby-MONITOR subcomponent score by race and/or ethnicity. Each subcomponent is listed on the x-axis; standardized observed minus expected z scores are shown on the y-axis. Scores >0 indicate better than expected performance. Comparison of African American and white infants. HM, human milk. ** P < .05, * P < .1. Baby-MONITOR subcomponent score by race and/or ethnicity. Each subcomponent is listed on the x-axis; standardized observed minus expected z scores are shown on the y-axis. Comparison of Hispanic and white infants. CLD, chronic lung disease; DC, discharge; HAI, health care–associated infection; HM, human milk. ** P < .05, * P < .1. Objective 2: Racial and/or Ethnic Disparity at the NICU Level In Figs 5–8⇓⇓⇓, we exhibit composite scores stratified by race and/or ethnicity. Overall Baby-MONITOR scores are recorded on the x-axis, and each NICU’s white, Asian American, African American, or Hispanic infants, respectively, are shown on the y-axis. Ideally, a NICU would fall in the right upper quadrant with high overall scores and little racial and/or ethnic difference between scores. Stratification reveals intriguing insights into the relation between NICU-level disparity and quality. Although we found only small differences between racial and/or ethnic groups in infant-level analyses, wide differences exist at the NICU level. In Fig 5, we show a significant positive correlation between overall and race-specific Baby-MONITOR scores between African American and white infants across NICUs (Pearson, r [white] = 0.88, r [African American] = 0.70, both P = < 0.001; see also Supplemental Fig 9). In NICUs that provide poor overall quality of care, the disparity is small, or even inverted (white infants fare worse than African American infants). As quality scores rise, whites tend to perform better than African Americans. However, African Americans in high-performing NICUs often fare better than African Americans in low-performing NICUs. Figure 6 compares white and Hispanic infants. With some exceptions, white infants appear to fare better than Hispanic infants in most NICUs, irrespective of overall performance (r [Hispanic] = 0.89, P = < .001). In Fig 7, we compare white and Asian American infants and show similar results, although the correlation is not as strong. Even in low-performing NICUs, Asian American infants fare well and often better than white infants. In most NICUs, care for these 2 groups is quite similar (r [Asian American] = 0.69, P = < .001). In Fig 8, we show 40 NICUs with a minimum of 10 infants in each of the 4 racial and/or ethnic groups. Asian Americans and whites predominate in achieving the highest scores across the NICUs. Baby-MONITOR scores for each NICU by race and/or ethnicity. NICUs with at least 10 infants in each race are shown in the graphs. Race- and/or ethnicity-specific Baby-MONITOR scores standardized against all infants are used (y-axis). The overall composite score (not race- and/or ethnicity-adjusted) is used on x-axis. The correlations with the overall Baby-MONITOR score are as follows: white = 0.88; African American = 0.70; Hispanic = 0.89; Asian American = 0.69; all P < .0001. Overall and white versus African American (n =53). Baby-MONITOR scores for each NICU by race and/or ethnicity. NICUs with at least 10 infants in each race are shown in the graphs. Race- and/or ethnicity-specific Baby-MONITOR scores standardized against all infants are used (y-axis). The overall composite score (not race- and/or ethnicity-adjusted) is used on x-axis. The correlations with the overall Baby-MONITOR score are as follows: white = 0.88; African American = 0.70; Hispanic = 0.89; Asian American = 0.69; all P < .0001. Overall and white versus Hispanic (n = 88). Baby-MONITOR scores for each NICU by race and/or ethnicity. NICUs with at least 10 infants in each race are shown in the graphs. Race- and/or ethnicity-specific Baby-MONITOR scores standardized against all infants are used (y-axis). The overall composite score (not race- and/or ethnicity-adjusted) is used on x-axis. The correlations with the overall Baby-MONITOR score are as follows: white = 0.88; African American = 0.70; Hispanic = 0.89; Asian American = 0.69; all P < .0001. Overall and white versus Asian American (n = 53). Baby-MONITOR scores for each NICU by race and/or ethnicity. NICUs with at least 10 infants in each race are shown in the graphs. Race- and/or ethnicity-specific Baby-MONITOR scores standardized against all infants are used (y-axis). The overall composite score (not race- and/or ethnicity-adjusted) is used on x-axis. The correlations with the overall Baby-MONITOR score are as follows: white = 0.88; African American = 0.70; Hispanic = 0.89; Asian American = 0.69; all P < .0001. Overall and all races and/or ethnicities (n = 40). The main findings from our study are (1) that large racial and/or ethnic differences in quality exist between and within NICUs, (2) that the quality deficit among disadvantaged populations is concentrated on modifiable measures of quality, and (3) that stratification rather than risk adjustment for racial and/or ethnic background appeared more informative for performance assessments of NICUs. Significant racial and/or ethnic differences in quality between and within NICUs are a troubling finding. Reasons for worse quality scores for disadvantaged populations may arise from a variety of factors, including biologic, social, and organizational considerations. Although it is tempting to attribute these results to social risk, we note that our sample includes NICUs that predominantly serve high-risk populations yet achieve excellent performance. Although some variation is expected, the difference between highest- and lowest-performing NICUs was extremely large overall (5.26 standard units). This heterogeneity is important because it suggests opportunities for improvement beyond preexisting social risk. Others have noted similar opportunities. Howell et al4 showed that raising the level of quality at minority-serving hospitals may eliminate up to a third of the disparity between African Americans and whites. Morales et al3 found significantly higher risk-adjusted neonatal mortality rates at minority-serving hospitals for both white and African American infants. Others showed that fewer minority infants were born at hospitals that achieved Magnet status and that infants at non-Magnet hospitals had significantly higher rates of morbidity and mortality.19 Another important finding of this article is that some of the disparity among disadvantaged populations is created by inferior performance among modifiable measures of process rather than outcome, suggesting a critical role for quality improvement efforts. Targeted, culturally competent care maybe highly effective in bridging the quality gap for these populations. This is particularly salient because efforts to reduce VLBW birth rates have mostly failed.20 In contrast, through quality improvement efforts, hospitals have demonstrated the ability to decrease disparities: Lee showed that Hispanic mothers were less likely than white mothers to receive antenatal steroids,4 but after a CPQCC collaborative project and efforts by individual NICUs, this difference disappeared.21 The authors of another study showed substantially improved breast milk feeding rates among VLBW infants in an urban NICU.22 Thus, we argue that the disparity in risk that infants of disadvantaged populations acquire during pregnancy should be regarded as a malleable risk to be addressed through robust individualized process engineering. In measuring both performance and disparity, researchers can motivate improvement efforts by highlighting differences in care and outcomes across hospitals. In our analyses, adjusting measures of quality by race and/or ethnicity did not substantially boost information content. However, with stratification by race and/or ethnicity, we provided NICUs with meaningful information about disparity within their own unit and in comparison with others. For example, several NICUs exhibited large differences in quality between racial and/or ethnic subgroups. And although, in some high-performing NICUs, whites had higher scores than African Americans or Hispanics, those African American and Hispanic infants still out-scored African Americans or Hispanics in lower-performing hospitals. On the other hand, in several low-performing NICUs, African American and Hispanic infants had higher scores than white infants. The reasons for this finding require more study but may include biological vulnerability, unmeasured social risk, or care delivery in settings primarily serving vulnerable populations. The results of this study must be viewed in light of its design. Although the Baby-MONITOR was developed in a rigorous and explicit fashion and has been shown to be robust and suitable for researchers to use to discern overall quality of care among NICUs,8–11,14,23,24 the measure is still in evolution and requires additional validation. Furthermore, in this study, we relied on local abstractors to follow CPQCC standards in retrieving maternal race and/or ethnicity, and although the CPQCC conducts extensive data training, misclassification cannot be excluded. Other limitations include reliance on a single choice of maternal race and/or ethnicity, which excludes multiracial and/or ethnic births, and nonabstraction of paternal race and/or ethnicity, which may also influence infant outcomes. It is possible that these limitations may have biased our results, although the direction of the bias is unknown. In addition, there are many unmeasured factors (social, maternal, hospital, and infant) that may account for our findings. We are working to better understand these factors in more detail through linkage of state-based data sources. Moreover, in our multiyear study, we do not account for time trends. It is possible that with general improvements in patient care (51 of CPQCC NICUs participated in a collaborative to improve delivery room care),25 disparities across the overall composite or subcomponents may have decreased. Finally, although we only examine NICUs from 1 state in this study, our study reflects population-based results across the nation’s most populous state, which has broad racial and/or ethnic and geographic diversity. Wide racial and/or ethnic differences in quality of care delivery do exist between and within NICUs. Stratification, rather than risk adjustment for race and/or ethnicity appeared to reveal more informational content for performance assessment. We are deeply grateful to the CPQCC member NICUs for contributing data to this study. Drs Horbar and Edwards were instrumental in providing guidance for harmonization of the Baby-MONITOR with the data structure of the Vermont Oxford Network. We would also like to thank Aloka Patel and the Rush University Medical Center for granting Dr Profit a nonexclusive license to use Rush’s exponential infant growth model for noncommercial research purposes. Accepted June 27, 2017. Address correspondence to Jochen Profit, MD, MPH, Perinatal Epidemiology and Health Outcomes Research Unit, Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, MSOB Room x115, 1265 Welch Rd, Stanford, CA 94305. E-mail: profit{at}stanford.edu The content of this article is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development or the National Institutes of Health. FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE: The authors have indicated they have no financial relationships relevant to this article to disclose. FUNDING: Drs Profit and Lee are supported by grants from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01 HD083368-01 and R01 HD08467-01, Profit; K23HD068400, Lee). Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST: The authors have indicated they have no potential conflicts of interest to disclose. COMPANION PAPER: A companion to this article can be found online at www.pediatrics.org/cgi/doi/10.1542/peds.2017-2213. Wise PH . The anatomy of a disparity in infant mortality. 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J Pediatr. 2009;155(5):657–62.e1, 2pmid:19628218 National Quality Forum . Composite measure evaluation framework and national voluntary consensus standards for mortality and safety–composite measures: a consensus report. 2009. Available at: http://www.qualityforum.org/Publications/2009/08/Composite_Measure_Evaluation_Framework_and_National_Voluntary_Consensus_Standards_for_Mortality_and_Safety%E2%80%94Composite_Measures.aspx Profit J, Kowalkowski MA, Zupancic JA, et al . Baby-MONITOR: a composite indicator of NICU quality. Pediatrics. 2014;134(1):74–82pmid:24918221 Zupancic JA, Gould JB, et al . Correlation of neonatal intensive care unit performance across multiple measures of quality of care. JAMA Pediatr. 2013;167(1):47–54pmid:23403539 Kowalkowski M, Gould JB, Bose C, Petersen LA, Profit J . Do practicing clinicians agree with expert ratings of neonatal intensive care unit quality measures? J Perinatol. 2012;32(4):247–252pmid:22241483 . 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__label__wiki	0.944213	0.944213	News » Politics Senate Rejects Trump Border Emergency as Republicans Defect by Alan Fram, Lisa Mascaro and Catherine Lucey . The Republican-run Senate firmly rejected President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency at the southwest border on Thursday, setting up a veto fight and dealing him a conspicuous rebuke as he tested how boldly he could ignore Congress in pursuit of his highest-profile goal. The Senate voted 59-41 to cancel Trump's February proclamation of a border emergency, which he invoked to spend $3.6 billion more for border barriers than Congress had approved. Twelve Republicans joined Democrats in defying Trump in a showdown many GOP senators had hoped to avoid because he commands die-hard loyalty from millions of conservative voters who could punish defecting lawmakers in next year's elections. With the Democratic-controlled House's approval of the same resolution last month, Senate passage sends it to Trump. He has shown no reluctance to casting his first veto to advance his campaign exhortation, "Build the Wall," which has prompted roars at countless Trump rallies. Approval votes in both the Senate and House fell short of the two-thirds majorities that would be needed for an override to succeed. "VETO!" Trump tweeted minutes after the vote. Trump has long been comfortable vetoing the measure because he thinks it will endear him to his political base, said a White House official, commenting anonymously because the official wasn't authorized to discuss the matter publicly. Though Trump seems sure to prevail in that battle, it remains noteworthy that lawmakers of both parties resisted him in a fight directly tied to his cherished campaign theme of erecting a border wall. The roll call came just a day after the Senate took a step toward a veto fight with Trump on another issue, voting to end U.S. support for the Saudi Arabian-led coalition's war in Yemen. In a measure of how remarkable the confrontation was, Thursday was the first time Congress has voted to block a presidential emergency since the National Emergency Act became law in 1976. Even before Thursday's vote, there were warnings that GOP senators resisting Trump could face political consequences. A White House official said Trump won't forget when senators who oppose him want him to attend fundraisers or provide other help. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on internal deliberations. At the White House, Trump did not answer when reporters asked if there would be consequences for Republicans who voted against him. "I'm sure he will not be happy with my vote," said moderate Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a GOP defector who faces re-election next year in a state that reveres independent streaks in its politicians. "But I'm a United State senator and feel my job to stand up for the Constitution. So let the chips fall where they may." Underscoring the political pressures in play, Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., one of the first Republicans to say he'd oppose Trump's border emergency, voted Thursday to support it. Tillis, who faces a potentially difficult re-election race next year, cited talks with the White House that suggest Trump could be open to restricting presidential emergency powers in the future. Tillis wrote in a Washington Post opinion column last month that there'd be "no intellectual honesty" in backing Trump after his repeated objections about executive overreach by President Barack Obama. Still, the breadth of opposition among Republicans suggested how concern about his declaration had spread to all corners of the GOP. Republican senators voting for the resolution blocking Trump included Mitt Romney of Utah, the party's 2012 presidential candidate; Mike Lee of Utah, a solid conservative; Trump 2016 presidential rivals Marco Rubio of Florida and Rand Paul of Kentucky and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, a respected centrist. Republicans control the Senate 53-47. Democrats solidly opposed Trump's declaration. Presidents have declared 58 national emergencies since the 1976 law, but this was the first aimed at accessing money that Congress had explicitly denied, according to Elizabeth Goitein, co-director for national security at New York University Law School's Brennan Center for Justice. Trump and Republicans backing him said there is a legitimate security and humanitarian crisis at the border with Mexico. They also said Trump was merely exercising his powers under the law, which largely leaves it to presidents to decide what a national emergency is. "The president is operating within existing law, and the crisis on our border is all too real," said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Opponents said Trump's assertion of an emergency was overblown. They said he issued his declaration only because Congress agreed to provide less than $1.4 billion for barriers and he was desperate to fulfill his campaign promise on the wall. They said the Constitution gives Congress, not presidents, control over spending and said Trump's stretching of emergency powers would invite future presidents to do the same for their own concerns. "He's obsessed with showing strength, and he couldn't just abandon his pursuit of the border wall, so he had to trample on the Constitution to continue his fight," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. Republicans had hoped that Trump would endorse a separate bill by Utah's Sen. Lee constraining emergency declarations in the future and that would win over enough GOP senators to reject Thursday's resolution. But Trump told Lee on Wednesday that he opposed Lee's legislation, prompting Lee himself to say he would back the resolution. The strongest chance of blocking Trump remains several lawsuits filed by Democratic state attorneys general, environmental groups and others. Those cases could effectively block Trump from diverting extra money to barrier construction for months or longer. On Twitter, Trump called on Republicans to oppose the resolution, which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., helped drive through the House last month. "Today's issue is BORDER SECURITY and Crime!!! Don't vote with Pelosi!" he tweeted, invoking the name of a Democrat who boatloads of GOP ads have villainized in recent campaign cycles. Other Republicans voting against Trump's border emergency were Roy Blunt of Missouri, Jerry Moran of Kansas, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rob Portman of Ohio, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Roger Wicker of Mississippi. The National Emergency Act gives presidents wide leeway in declaring an emergency. Congress can vote to block a declaration, but the two-thirds majorities required to overcome presidential vetoes make it hard for lawmakers to prevail. Lee had proposed letting a presidential emergency declaration last 30 days unless Congress voted to extend it. That would have applied to future emergencies but not Trump's current order unless he sought to renew it next year. Associated Press writers Jill Colvin, Padmananda Rama and Andrew Taylor in Washington and Marc Levy in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, contributed. A Digital Download Of "KISS ME, KATE" 2019 Broadway Cast Recording!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1628
__label__wiki	0.575153	0.575153	A pitch to host the new Amazon headquarters by the city of Dallas (Photo: skys the limit2 / Flickr) A Rigged Game Only Amazon Will Win The bidding war to host the retail giant's second headquarters pits taxpayers across America against each other. By Jim Hightower \| January 24, 2018 In September, the giant retail monopolist Amazon announced its intention to build a second corporate headquarters in Someplace, North America. Where’s that? Aha, that’s the trick in a corporate game called “Fleece the Taxpayer.” CEO Jeff Bezos demanded that cities submit a list of bribes (excuse me, “incentives”) they would pay to get Amazon to put what he calls HQ2 in their place. Yes, the haughty Amazonian royals actually commanded our public officials to bring all the jewels, gold, and other taxpayer booty they have and kiss Bezos’ ring just to be considered for HQ2. In one stroke, taxpayers all across America were pitted against each other in a bidding war. Amazon even listed specific incentives that each supplicant should offer. First was a “business-friendly environment.” Then, urging hopefuls to “think big” when offering freebies, the directive demanded contributions of “land, site preparation, tax exemptions, relocation grants, workforce grants, utility grants, and fee reductions.” Surely no self-respecting civic official would willingly play the sucker in such a demeaning, sell-out-the-public scam. Ha! Officials from 238 cities, regions, and states have so far rushed to Bezos’ corporate castle to woo and grovel in the perverse hope that Amazon might choose their taxpayers to rip off. Amazon announced that it’s narrowed the actual contenders down to 20 cities — so they will now be compelled to jack up their bribe offers. That’s the whole purpose of the HQ2 game that this corporate huckster has been running on us. In fact, Amazon’s site-location team had decided from the start which half-dozen or so cities would be most profitable for the giant. The whole search is a “scAmazon,” snookering cities into spending millions on a rigged game only Amazon will win. Amazon Is Making Workers Tweet about How Great It Is to Work There Amazon’s Worth $1 Trillion, So Why Is It Robbing Taxpayers? No Corporate Welfare for Amazon Amazon’s Worst Bargain Yet By Jim Hightower OtherWords columnist Jim Hightower is a radio commentator, writer, and public speaker. He’s also the editor of the populist newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown. Distributed by OtherWords.org.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1629
__label__wiki	0.579921	0.579921	Home Country and city reports Barcelona Barcelona asks Airbnb to verify tourist licenses while agreeing to access their... Barcelona asks Airbnb to verify tourist licenses while agreeing to access their data to check it Barcelona City Council has started a pact with Airbnb, advanced by the company on Monday , by which the administration will have access to the data of those who advertise apartments on their website to check whether they have a license or not. This agreement will serve in fact for all Catalan municipalities, since the law that protects it is autonomous. But the government of Ada Colau wants more, and will continue to demand this and other tourist rental platforms that they are the ones that ask for and verify the registration number of the advertisers. The technological tool that Airbnb will have on June 1 is a “step forward” but it is far from being an agreement, according to the deputy mayor of Ecology, Urbanism and Mobility, Janet Sanz. What the platform will do from now on is to ask its advertisers to accept to transfer their data (DNI, name and mail) to the Administration. If they do not, they can not advertise any apartment on their website. The agreement even contemplates that the platform creates a field in which the user must say whether or not he has a license and enter it. This should facilitate the task of the municipality to cross the data with those of the owners of the 9,600 licenses of tourist housing that are in the Catalan capital today. Those who do not have it will be sanctioned and will be removed from the web. “We are closer to Airbnb being located in the zero illegal floors advertised, but we want it to definitely comply with the law preventing announcing flats without a regulated license”, summarized Sanz, who also celebrated that the company has finally announced that it adds to the table of good practices in which already are Booking, Rentalia or Homeaway. This forum is scheduled to meet throughout June to continue addressing the issue of tourist flats in the city. And is that the agreement with Airbnb is an advance to which most of the other platforms have not arrived, which currently do not provide the data to the consistory. With some of them agreed to enable a field on their websites for advertisers to enter their license number, but this is no guarantee that they do not invent it, since the platforms do not check it. The approach of positions between Aribnb and the City Council is the latest episode of a tense relationship that began with the arrival of Barcelona in Comú to the government, and that so far had been settled with three disciplinary proceedings, the last of which was 600,000 euros for recidivism (also to HomeAway). As for individuals, the consistory has opened during this mandate 3,000 records for ads without a tourist apartment license on this and other platforms. 2,500 fewer apartments on Airbnb … and in the city? The meeting on Tuesday between the City Council and Airbnb has also served to achieve its commitment to remove the 2,577 floors of its website detected by the municipality recently as irregular . In this sense there was more harmony between the two actors, after the company agreed to do the same with another 2,500 . Yes, always under threat of fine. “The accountants are set to zero in terms of bad actors, will be written off on June 1,” said the responsible for public policies for Spain and Portugal of Airbnb, Sergio Vinay, who has celebrated the “principle of agreement” with the consistory with the new tool to share user data. The doubt about the withdrawal of unregulated apartments on Airbnb is if they will not turn to other platforms that are less controlled now by the Administration. “We want to send a message to these owners: we will be strong so that these flats are not offered in the summer,” said Sanz, aware that for them their only recourse will be as of now the threat of fines and the performance of the teams. of Inspection. 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But it is worth considering how liberalism’s anti-fascism covers a libidinal lack. That is, an inability to define or, in Lacanian terms, ‘enjoy’ their political identity but through this fascist threat. Liberals are clearly not principled anti-fascists, the geopolitical compromises are too numerous to count, and there is an obvious cynical PR/fundraising logic to the fascist threat: ‘Can you spare $5 to defeat fascism?’ However, liberals are emotionally invested in the idea that they are the ones who can beat back the scourge of fascism. They construct anti-fascism as a class project but self-identify as the class of elites and experts that fascism uses to obfuscate actual class struggle. Trump’s fascism may lack the militancy of brown- and blackshirts organised against socialist forces but he masters its rhetorical indeterminacy. His acceptance howl at the Republican National Convention was interspersed with appeals to the working class, denunciations of corporate political influence, free-trade deals, and interventionist foreign policy in Iraq and Libya. With Trump opportunistically left-flanking Hillary on trade and militarism, the liberal media and political class has been oscillating between catching the vapours and declaring American liberalism an unbridled success. In the face of a volatile populist electorate the Democrats have chosen Reagan-esque optimism and the refrain that ‘America is already great’, the liberal equivalent of ‘Jeb!’ This inability of liberals to understand the necessity of antagonism in politics and Trump’s mastery of psycho-political warfare could cost Hillary Clinton this election. While Trump’s own combustibility is overshadowing the entire campaign, it is far too close for liberals to convincingly argue that they are a bulwark against fascism. The polls and the electorate have been extremely volatile; the great wonk oracle Nate Silver has gone from declaring Trump an impossibility for the nomination to having a 40 per cent chance in the general. If Clinton limps to the finish line, liberals will undoubtedly draw all the wrong conclusions about their anti-fascism and the vigor of technocratic centrist politics. What has been remarkable about the liberal political commentariat’s reaction to Trump’s outrages and Bernie Sanders’ successes has been its collective nature. Sanders’ social-democratic candidacy elicited horror as the progressive parallel to the Trump movement in the liberal nerve centers of Vox, Politico and Slate. The uniformity of this reaction in the liberal media and millennial online journalism spheres has been most perplexing as the Sanders campaign was objectively an extraordinary story. Thomas Frank convincingly advances the notion in his new book that American liberals function as a class, not in objective economic terms but in the devotion of professionals to the meritocracy. These are the people whose hearts bleed for diversity in boardrooms and Hollywood blockbusters, who believe entrepreneurs should get student loan debt forgiveness and that equality will be achieved through inner city youths learning how to code or attending a free performance of Hamilton. In constructing progressive politics as the combination of affect and technocracy, as opposed to ideology, struggle and justice, the rebellion of the Sanders youth and the surging fascism of Trump both represent the grubby politics of street fighting. The release by Wikileaks of the Democratic National Convention’s internal emails has been a devastating blow to the liberal notions of process, merit and consensus. It has triggered wild deflections within the commentariat and the political class, filling columns and airtime with Glenn Beck-style conspiracies involving fascists, Russians and socialist useful idiots. The emails demonstrate what was self-evident to any impartial observer of the Democratic primary process: that faced with an insurgent social democratic outsider, neoliberal party officials closed ranks and conspired to undermine Sanders’ campaign, relying on a pliant media to accomplish this task. For a party convinced of its own progressive bona fides and who spent the campaign scolding Sanders supporters as cranks or entitled ‘bros’ silencing women and people of colour, this is surely an intolerable hypocrisy. Yet in the face of this corruption, liberals cling to their sense of merit and technocratic, process-oriented superiority. To understand how this contradiction is overcome we have turn to psychoanalysis and the notion of fetishist disavowal. Liberals know very well that their process is corrupt, that they are incapable of defeating fascism, but nevertheless ‘Putin!’ As Žižek puts it, fetishism shields us from trauma, so the hacker logic of the big reveal will not persuade liberals to abandon their position but find an agent who is responsible for our loss of enjoyment. If Trump ascends to the presidency or lays the groundwork for an even fouler creature in 2020, it won’t be because liberals have kneecapped themselves through their venality, lack of vision or mocking the youth as hopelessly naive, it will be the work of a network of corrupting agents. It is easier to assume that Trump is a foreign agent than confront the fact that he is squarely within the tradition of American politics and preying on the Democrats’ class treachery. This also nicely augments the Democrat blackmail that the left has to support Clinton to defeat not only fascism but also Putin’s evil empire. The hysterical Russophobia that has gripped the Democrats, the policy establishment and the liberal media is a form of fetishist disavowal and a collective liberal nervous breakdown. American democracy is now said to be fundamentally under threat, not from any internal corruption but from Russian interference looking to install a puppet regime and subvert the polls in November. This affair has elicited the usual shrieking headlines from liberal HuffPo but the star of this oeuvre is Franklin Foer who, when he could not find a brown paper bag to breathe into, wrote a piece entitled ‘The DNC Hack is Watergate, but Worse’. Foer, whose analysis has been cited by the Clinton campaign, argues that the hack reveals nothing of any news value. Apparently the public should not be surprised about the DNC’s attempts to Jew-bait Bernie Sanders but be ‘appalled by the publication of this minutiae’ for the benefit of a foreign despot. The New York Times has been running daily front-page articles around Trump’s ties to Russia and the efforts of Russian military intelligence to intervene in the US elections. In the middle of the DNC Trump stole the headlines with a comically flippant, and I dare say brilliant, remark: ‘Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 [Clinton] emails that are missing.’ The Times credulously reported that Trump was ‘urging a foreign adversary to conduct cyber-espionage’. The psychodrama of the 2016 election is pitting the tortured liberal class against the spectre that haunts them. When liberals expose themselves as wracked by Trump’s vulgarity and concerned about ‘the discourse’, he is all too happy to feed these anxieties. Trump is nothing if not a master of politics as libidinal warfare. While many of his obscenities are well documented, I am partial to the time he taunted Bill O’Reilly live on-air with Melania and Eric in the week that O’Reilly lost a custody battle. But what of the substance of the espionage claims? So far the basis for claiming Russia is behind the hack rests on cybersecurity experts contracted by the DNC – Crowdstrike and FireEye. Yasha Levine, a journalist on the national security tech beat and author of the forthcoming Surveillance Valley, wrote to me that these ‘independent’ experts are a ‘direct extension of the US National Security State’. One of these firms is bankrolled by the CIA’s venture capital fund, In-Q-Tel, and all are filled with former NatSec agents who pine for their old lover/enemy. In these circles, Russia corresponds perfectly to the liberal paranoid imaginary. Levine describes the policy establishment as quite capable of Trump-style xenophobia ‘building since the Bush years … [that] the Russians are evil, they are not to be trusted, they are slippery and devious and are capable of anything.’ While tracing hacks to specific national and political actors or lulzy cypherpunks is a notoriously difficult exercise, the New York Times has reported, if misleadingly, that anonymous federal law officials are certain of Russian involvement. The FBI and CIA have refused to publically join this narrative and have acknowledged there is no evidence of a Russian plot to install Trump. If the NSA has proof of a Russian-directed hack, admitting to this publicly risks revealing how deeply the US has penetrated Russia’s networks. In other words, we are talking about a routine incident of cyber espionage at worst. Yes, Trump is of a certain ‘type’ and one imagines that he could get on well with Putin, Berlusconi or even Erdogan, but this does not reveal anything deeper. Julian Assange is prone to the ‘enemy of my enemy’ logic which sees nominal leftists elevate Putin into a quasi anti-imperialist. But this does not a security asset make. Hillary Clinton’s general election pivot is also instructive of a deeper collective anxiety within the liberal, professional and political class. The Clinton campaign has been tying itself in knots to reach out to the ‘good’ Republicans; that is, people who think 47 per cent of the population are deadbeats, revere Charles Murray’s vile race science and are neocon architects of the Iraq War aghast at Trump’s fascism. To chase the good Republican unicorn, the DNC convention was turned into an RNC convention with generals, military families, a September 11 night, and supporters shouting down the peace movement with chants of ‘U-S-A’. This move has been effective in consolidating Clinton’s support from the likes of George Will, Meg Whitman and Michael Bloomberg, but it is not likely to win her many actual Republican voters. People rightfully hate these experts and welfare cases who have been nurtured in the fail-proof environment of Washington, where resumes and pedigree ensure no one will ever be held accountable for their egregious mistakes. The liberal anti-fascism of Clinton has achieved a remarkable class solidarity, not through genuine worker and populist platform that would undercut Trump, but a solidarity of experts and the policy establishment terrified for their jobs. Trump might be right for the wrong reasons but it is incredibly instructive that he elicits horror in not being reflexively committed to NATO’s Article 5, supporting the nationalist/fascist alliance in Ukraine, or lauding Putin’s efforts in Syria. The responsible policy in this case is supposed to be Clinton’s ‘no-fly zone’ over Syria and refocusing the war on Assad, a brazen escalation of tensions with Russia. What is truly the greatest horror of Trump’s fascism is that he will not employ the best and brightest in his administration. Trump was very clear about this in his first major foreign policy speech: ‘We have to have new people … because many of the old people frankly don’t know what they’re doing … [They] have perfect resumes but very little to brag about except responsibility for a long history of failed policies.’ To the Thomas Friedmanns of the world, such rhetoric is a call for brownshirts to evict people of merit from their homes in Georgetown, Vienna and Bethesda, and consign them to fly over country as penance. The problem with the liberal stand against fascism is that it is not an actual politics but a symptom of a libidinal deadlock. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are not two sides of the same coin but libidinally necessary for one another. The horror of Trump manages to create the ultimate liberal fantasy of post-partisanship, consensus and respect for the discourse. We are actually seeing a class solidarity of Washington careerists, policy wonks, the national security state and the media. This open solidarity of the experts and elite is precisely what animates the fascist imaginary of the puppet masters undermining the American people’s natural order. Both obfuscate actual class antagonism, and until liberalism can antagonistically define itself with a genuine left conscience it will continue to be wracked by the fascist nightmare. For now, it appears that liberals would rather fight on behalf of the good Republicans than defeat fascism in a way that undermines their own fantasies. If you liked this article, please subscribe or donate. Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland ’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Olivier Jutel is a lecturer in broadcast journalism at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. His research is concerned with populism, American politics, cyber-libertarianism, psychoanalysis and critical theory. More by Olivier Jutel From Nathan on 9 August 2016 at 5.34 am Interesting article, but this article fails where so many others in this vein have also failed: where is the evidence that Trump is preying on the Democrats’ alleged disavowal of the working class? See George Saunders’ admittedly anecdotal, but no less convincing than any other I’ve seen, article on Trump supporters. From what I’ve seen, it’s probably a more dangerous cocktail of racism, resentfulness towards identity politics & white privilege discourse (i.e., “political correctness”), and measure of disaffected working class people. But, this perspective is not as consistent with demonizing liberals as having lost the working class through their abhorrent neoliberalism. If it’s all class, why didn’t Bernie win? (and for the record, neither Bernie nor his top officials seem to believe he lost because the election was rigged by the Committee) Also, “…but it is not likely to win her many actual Republican voters” is nonsense. You don’t have to like it (I didn’t), but there’s no doubt that the DNC gave her a huge boost in the polls. From Olivier Jutel on 9 August 2016 at 8.48 am Thanks for the comment Nathan. I want to be clear, Trump voters are not some virtuous working class whites that we need to win back. Many of them may fit a profile like the Tea Party, contractors, franchisees, small business people, Long Island Republicans, solidly middle class etc. The Trump phenomenon partnered with CLinton’s technocracy means the white working class will not vote. The Reagan democrat is largely a myth, sure some white WC will vote for Xenophboia/racism etc but that does not mean that they are irredeemable racists as a voting block. You can read some really good work on this here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/05/white-workers-bernie-sanders-clinton-primary-racism/ and here: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/09/the-original-underclass/492731/ Why Bernie didn’t win is a big topic. At the end of the day Hillary has MASSIVE name recognition, virtually 99% of the party and the DNC dramatically tipping the scales in her favor. The fact that the candidate with the best political infrastructure ever limped home against a guy no one outside of Vermont had ever heard of is a massive embarassment. The fact that the young people that propelled him have been told to go pound sand by the CLinton campaign is self-destructive. Also Bernie is no class reductionist, he was for marriage equality in the 1970s and Burlington Vermont has some of the toughest civil rights legislation in the US. This in spite of the fact that there is a very small black population, meaning he pursued civil rights reform even when there was no political rewards for doing so. Anyway I am re-litigating the primary which is not good for my health. The DNC is totally rotten to the core, irregardless of whether that sent her over the top or not. My point about Republican voters is that they hate these RINOs (as they see it) falling behind Hillary. From Nineskogl on 10 August 2016 at 1.53 am First, it is not “irregardless”, it is “regardless”. Second, Bernie was not a Democrat, he only became a party member before the run up to primaries.He brought in new and young voters to the Party granted. But they are new. There are also many, many young Democrats working indefatigably in the Party and Clintons were courting them as well as the Party clogs. And Bernie has announced that he will continue to be independent after the elections. Second, Hillary is a woman and the first woman presidential candidate in this country. Many women, daughters are proud of this fact. So should the young female Bernie supporters who are now standing on the shoulders of grandmothers and mothers. A little bit of acknowledgement of history please (I am male). Three, DNC is not rotten to the core. DNC worked hard. It would have done better with a more popular candidate. No one but Bernie supporters expected Bernie to win. And Bernie has been saying what is tantamount to “Rome wasn’t built in a day”. True. And leftward move of the DP will continue with increasing pace. From Angus Martin on 10 August 2016 at 11.45 am Actually, the Green Party has been running women as presidential candidates for some time, so you must mean the ‘first woman presidential candidate of the Democratic or Republican party’. I have already had the chance to cast my vote for two women presidential candidates: Cynthia McKinney, an African American, and Jill Stein, who I will be voting for again this year, of Jewish descent. The Democrats lost my vote years ago! The republicans never had it…. From Olivier Jutel on 11 August 2016 at 6.01 am lol, grammar troll. Yes your right the DNC is not rotten to the core. WHat was I thinking? From GM on 24 October 2016 at 2.17 am “Bernie was not a Democrat” Strictly speaking, true, although with a very big caveat… https://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/8/31/1417001/-Bernie-Not-Democrat-Enough-Let-s-See-How-He-Stacks-Up From Stanley W. Rogouski on 9 August 2016 at 9.24 am “The liberal anti-fascism of Clinton has achieved a remarkable class solidarity, not through genuine worker and populist platform that would undercut Trump, but a solidarity of experts and the policy establishment terrified for their jobs.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTmfwklFM-M From Al Calavicci on 9 August 2016 at 10.50 am Oh, the marvel of science – you can find a like-minded friend on the other side of the planet sharing the same moment of epiphany despite the obvious differences. Is this circle of “creating the class of super rich” – “waiting for it to implode on itself” – “letting meritocracy take the wheel” will be the last? – or will the VR or global warming be a potent enough disruptor to inflate another post-Trump/Clinton political bubble in 2030s? From Erik G. on 9 August 2016 at 11.13 am You are calling Trump’s campaign fascist a lot in this article. What is your definition of fascism and how does it fit Donald Trump’s policies? From Olivier Jutel on 9 August 2016 at 12.38 pm This is a very tricky thing. OBviously the characteristics classical modern fascism of the 30s etc requires a mobilized para-military fighting against the reds in the name of the nation. We could try to have some typologies (petite-bourgeois etc…). Trump is obviously different. Does alt-right twitter equal army of Brown Shirts? But the thing about fascism is its appeal to a mythical people besieged by enemies and a contradictory web of evils (China, Mexicans, Isis, refugees, globalists etc). At a rhetorical level Trump is certainly a fascist. It remains to be seen how he’d govern. I don’t think he’d have the ability to change the institutions of American politics and doesn;t have the organized street violence but you never know. From Will G-R on 10 August 2016 at 3.38 am Agreed. To me the essential fascist appeal is the one Žižek outlines here, taking the antagonisms inherent in any capitalist system and projecting them onto the persona of a foreign intruder, whose presence disrupts what in their ideological fiction would otherwise be a stable and harmonious society under capitalism. Defining fascism this way also highlights the connection between liberalism and fascism: both ideologies valorize the myth of an antagonism-free American Dream or whatever, and disagree largely as to whether this mythical nation Is Already Great or must be Made Great Again. Either way, since any antagonisms that do exist couldn’t possibly be coming from irresoluble immanent tensions within this nation itself, they must be coming from an outside source that could be isolated behind a wall and/or shoved into a gas chamber. If any one moment from recent US electoral politics could encapsulate this maneuver in a nutshell, it was the nominally pro-LGBTQ bit from Trump’s RNC speech. In a sense it was incredible: all Trump had to do was insert the single word “foreign” between “hateful” and “ideology” when referring to violent homophobia, and suddenly a Republican audience could applaud what might have otherwise been a denunciation of evangelical Christianity in the name of Matthew Shepard et al. The hypocrisy from the GOP audience would make a good liberal talking point itself, except it also raises the possibility that a proto-fascist figurehead with slightly better identitarian street cred and slightly less flamboyant personal narcissism, like an American version of Pim Fortuyn, could have beaten Hillary in a cakewalk. From Olivier Jutel on 10 August 2016 at 10.02 am I’m with you 100%. From maros on 10 August 2016 at 12.58 pm Would this defn of fascism have described the characteristics of Franco or Mussolini’s regimes? I find Trump’s anti-Mexican statements to be appalling. But immigration controls do not fascism make. Mexicans aside, the H1-B tech visas actually were designed to drive down tech wages and have been for 20 years. Trump appears to oppose them, Clinton remains silent. We are seeing a political realignment in process here, where Democrat-ish and Republican-ish working people are responding to the deleterious economic consequences of neoliberalism in ways characteristic to their world view. These grievances are completely legitimate. The policy moorings that have defined the duopoly are in flux. What gets me is that after a Republican acceptance speech that did not mention abortion or bash queers, that rejected the “free trade” consensus, pledged to be the peace candidate and to protect social insurance from a grand bargain, is how policy seems to be transient to conservatives where shallow emotion is all that determines political orientation. All of that stuff we’ve been ramming down your throats for the past 30 years? Yeah, never mind all of that, look at this bright shiny object. The liberals, to their minds, appear ready to accept the trade off of reproductive rights in exchange for carte blanche on the neolib/neocon projects. Regarding H1-B, obviously driving down high-skilled wages in the US is a central goal, but the program is even more insidious than that. The way it’s set up, a worker’s visa depends on the ongoing approval of their employer, and if they quit or get fired they have a prohibitively short time period in which to find another H1-B sponsor (a deliberately difficult legal process to begin with) or else leave the country. So in essence the US state deliberately forces these immigrants to either lay down zero roots in their new country and be prepared to emigrate at a moment’s notice, or else forfeit all possible leverage in any labor dispute. A visa program with fewer restrictions, in which high-skilled immigrants could say no to an employer without uprooting the rest of their life in the process, would arguably be less disruptive to working conditions in the First-World tech sector than the H1-B program as it exists. But on the broader point of immigration and fascism, fascist regimes’ ideal foreign policy revolves around the idea of a natural aristocracy of nations: those nations that have united harmoniously under a fascist regime (perhaps due to their innate racial superiority or something along those lines) assert dominance over those nations that haven’t, and citizens benefit or suffer accordingly. In today’s world immigration controls are the major political battlefield on which this idea is being contested, with citizens of developed nations seeking to deny citizens of underdeveloped nations the right to advance as individuals from one end of the global wage/price disparity to the other. If you’re going to advance economically, the First-World anti-immigrant argument seems to say, do it by advancing as a nation and proving that your nation deserves to unseat ours as natural aristocrats of the Earth. It may not always be fully developed fascism, but the core commitments of fascism are at least present in embryo. From marcos on 11 August 2016 at 2.04 pm One characteristic of neoliberalism has been a process of alienation of people from connection to place as part of the campaign to lower barriers to capital penetration. This has facilitated profit-making by smoothing the interface between capital and places and capital and people. If every place is functionally the same and everyone is functionally the same, then we are much easier to manage as interchangeable movable parts operating in interchangeable but fixed places. In local politics, I’ve seen this systematic exclusion of residents from the political process by neoliberal politicians. The only interests granted stakeholder status in local decision making are those with claims on public resources, those seeking entitlements for private profit-making and those receiving grant funding from the government. Many “left” activists have been neutralized by the latter, resigned to running interference for neoliberal policies promoting accumulation in exchange for their meal tickets. When connection to place is contested by exclusion from democracy, when connection to place is contested by imported labor and when labor mobility is promoted during a period of wealth concentration, then we are going to see outcomes like this. The delicate balance here is between celebrating and preserving diversity of place and of people in place in the face of the relentless onslaught of homogenization without degenerating into chauvanism, bigotry and worse. My prediction is that neoliberal policies spawn more Trumps the more you apply it. A Clinton II victory will be a pyrrhic for liberals, but as political BD/SM subs, they have come to not only enjoy it, but to stay with their abusive spouse and beg for more. It is ironic that the first viable female candidate is playing the role of abusive spouse, hectoring and shaming liberals to come back into the fold for more punishment. Foucault would be proud of them. From David on 10 August 2016 at 9.08 am Maybe this might be helpful: https://bostonreview.net/world/g-m-tam%C3%A1s-post-fascism From denisdee on 24 October 2016 at 12.00 am Securing ones border is not fascist. If that were true most nations on the planet would be fascist. From Jake on 9 August 2016 at 11.28 am So who’s going to win out then, Olivier, whether as educated guess or educated opinion? Hillary will win, probably comfortably, but the country will be ungovernable From Tony on 23 October 2016 at 11.21 pm ungovernable how? From John Sawyer on 9 August 2016 at 7.09 pm Olivier: ungovernable in what sense? Deadlock amongst the sparring sides? Even though there are progressives, liberals, conservatives, Tea Partiers, and all kinds of other variations, if the Democrats win back the Senate and the House, then along with a Democratic president, many things should get moving again–not everything will be to many people’s liking, but that’s not exactly the definition of ungovernable, but rather the return of normal politics instead of the Republican-enforced deadlock of the past eight years. Hard to say, though, what will happen if the Democrats win back just the Senate or the House. From Matt Osborne on 10 August 2016 at 3.35 am “until liberalism can antagonistically define itself with a genuine left conscience it will continue to be wracked by the fascist nightmare” What. Ever. In the real world, Missouri is turning blue and Utah is becoming a swing state because Trump is Mussolini without the charm. In the real world, admittedly-stupid DNC emails written in mid-May had absolutely no effect on Bernie Sanders being all but mathematically eliminated in New York on April 27. In the real world, Clinton got millions more votes than Sanders because “a genuine left conscience” has a smaller natural constituency in America than Pokemon Go. If you insist that “THE MAN” must have rigged this election, then I am that man. In the real world, America’s governing coalitions are inside the two major political parties — as a result of math, not fascism or corproatism or any other -ism. One of those two parties has begun to spiral apart because Trumpolini is making its internal contradictions play out as defections. And in the real world, the Berniacs have been screeching for months that Hillary needed them to defeat fascism, but now that she doesn’t, they WHINE WHINE WHINE like a bunch of little children who expected trophies just for playing. They see the establishment swinging to Clinton and it makes them SOOOO MAD because this was supposed to be the Year of Revolution. lol, that’s an awesome comment. From Jake on 10 August 2016 at 12.11 pm Real? Yeah, like COKE is the real thing! From Baruch on 11 August 2016 at 1.36 am This article would make sense if the author would replace the term “liberal” with the term “neoliberal.” Without that very important distinction, this article is way off base. From Olivier Jutel on 11 August 2016 at 2.18 pm FWIW I’ve written a lot about neo-liberalism. Some would say too much https://usp-fj.academia.edu/OlivierJutel From Will G-R on 11 August 2016 at 11.56 pm How so? Since we’re not on a US-based site, we can’t expect this strange anti-intellectual American notion that “liberal” is synonymous with “left” to be the default political vocabulary. (Australia’s Liberal Party is actually their equivalent of the US GOP, with Labour assuming the role of Democrats.) Broadly speaking, in the intellectually civilized capitalist world “liberal” stands for centrist or even center-right, and “neoliberal” in part denotes a renewed commitment to the self-satisfied form of liberalism that existed before being sullied by the taint of Keynesianism, the major sin of which was to acknowledge the Marxist critique of capitalism as presenting real problems in need of liberal solutions. For all the reasons Olivier outlined, liberals seem to prefer engaging with those to their right, i.e. fascists, rather than those to their left, i.e. revolutionary socialists. Fair enough mate. You are right liberal in America has a totally different meaning. Because America has no history of a labour, social-democratic party “liberal” has come to be the master-signifier for a left politics. I think you can definitely make the case that Hillary and Clintonite Third Way neo-liberalism represents an alignment with what liberalism means historically. One of the great accomplishments of Bernie Sanders is that he really has torn the Left from liberalism as a term people identify with. I say long may that last. From Jake on 12 August 2016 at 5.41 pm “Because America has no history of a labour …” Is that the whole continent, from bottom up to top down, or just USA? From Benjamin on 14 August 2016 at 6.26 am Finally the root of our idiot university leftist teachers has emerged. Who says Trump is fascist when clearly DP shows fascist characteristics on almost everything they do. Your writings Olivier Jutel are a threat to modern civilisation. From rotty on 24 October 2016 at 2.11 am those labels are deceiving. we should stop using shorthand=buzzwords it’s misleading. Say what we mean in understandable terms. The Price of Freedom IS Granting it to Others. It would take a Donald Trump to buck the system. Ross Perot was scared off or we may never have suffered a Bush presidency. Media is spewing propaganda. sHillary offers her withered poisonous teat to the world, not to feed them but to enslave them. Taking away individual’s rights at every opportunity. Trump has warm blood but she does not. she is the Medusa! how come people allow her ?! {that is the question I want answered! are they hypnotized? From Philip Wohlstetter on 20 August 2016 at 6.36 am Excellent, Olivier. You write about Trump: “I don’t think he’d have the ability to change the institutions of American politics and doesn’t have the organized street violence but you never know.” It’s another sign of the “liberal nervous breakdown” that they simply assert Trump will have the power to dissolve an institutional system built for deadlock, the same system that stymied Obama’s modest measures. I think a lot of the confusion about “liberals” in the American sense comes from glomming them together with small-d democrats. Historically, liberalism was about taming democracy, about checking and balancing it, about resisting broad-based power from below, about smearing it as mob rule or tyranny of the majority. Liberals are all about rights, about setting limits to the power of the state or the people. So liberal democracy is almost an oxymoron, a shotgun marriage that’s splitting apart into its separate antagonistic components. Hillary and her coterie are liberals (as well as being neoliberal); superdelegates, government by experts and technocrats (the credentialed), more education as the cure for all ills. Bernie’s people want more democracy. There is no resolution between these demands (see Germany v.s. Greece). Last, of course, liberalism is the enabler of capitalism; any kind of really-functioning democracy would probably provoke a coup (see Allende). Thanks Phillip. You are on the money with regards to liberalism. Take Hamilton for example, this character liberals so revere at the moment, a total elitist with contempt for the non-landed. What’s funny is that in order for left-liberals to revere the founders they often turn to Jefferson who was an agrarian populist. But if you read Jefferson he basically invented the real America/coastal America dichotomy. They way he talks about the Yeoman as “God’s most substantial deposit of virtue on this earth” sounds like Glenn Beck. Simultaneously he described cities and by extension the urban working class as “cankerous sours” on the body politic. Lovely fellow From Jack Miller on 23 October 2016 at 10.55 pm This was a fantastic piece of writing, Oliver. I will say that I think you covered “Trump’s fascism” a little simplistically in regards to why nationalist movements are rising around the world, and I think it would be a disservice to pin it down as solely xenophobia. I live in the UK and traditional working-class people aren’t getting their voices heard anymore and the political party system has clearly failed them. People do believe British values are getting dismissed in the favour of internationalism and that there’s a general consensus here whether you’re on the Left or Right that the country has its own domestic problems, is seeing its public services being cut in the name of privatization, losing that sense of sovereignty by following current American policy, and that the country once endeared more tradition and culture in what it meant to be British. The migration crisis in Calais and in Syria serve as a catalyst to pinpoint and allow the Government to get away with Draconian laws such as zero hour contracts. You could say Farage in the UK and Trump in America are running parallel with one another and that the “Make America Great Again” is a great campaign slogan. It has tied in economic struggle, with cultural concern, and given people a sense of freedom and hope. Trump has tapped into the working classes in the USA that the “Liberals” so foolishly left behind. UK would never have voted Brexit if the government wasn’t so hard on austerity. It shows that the political map has completely changed and that the current “moderate” politicians in power are completely devoted to POTUS, and that in reality the centre could now be defined as the Left in socialist movements such as Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders. Although, in regards to that with the Trump phenomenon and the rise of far-left and far-right movements across the world, I think more and more people are smarting up to the idea that being “left” or “right” means very little and that actually it’s a more us versus them (the bureaucracy) problem that is allowing populist candidates to rise. But there is no doubt that there is elevated level of race wars in America now and I think that has to do with the fact that there is a real concern now that foreign powers are influencing policy-making and lobbyists in Israel and Qatar for example, are bribing politicians to preach their radical agendas. The fact that the Clinton Foundation received more money from foreign powers than in the USA sends out a message that these politicians are self-serving and have no interest in the heart of America, and Trump comes out as the traditional blissfully ignorant all-American figure. Forget a proxy war between USA and Russia, there is a continuous proxy war going on for the heart of America because institutions are being granted too much power with zero accountability. I thought this was a cracking article and I’ve been waiting for someone to tap into Liberal hypocrisy, in what is ironically becoming the most “brainwashed” sect of Western society, as their increasingly absurd desires for political correctness and diversity are actually infringing upon the rights of people. Ultimately, the economy will always be the main issue for voters and identity politics just serves as a distraction. Many would lament how hateful this election cycle has been, but I would argue it has been amazing because it’s completely shattered the elite’s control of the two-party system. I couldn’t have written this article better myself and having looked at your article history, I think you need to start writing some more! Found this via WikiLeaks on Twitter. Thank you. From Olivier on 6 June 2017 at 11.55 am I just stumbled across this comment. Thanks a lot for the kinds words. Totally agree. Come on Jeza! Stop confusing liberalism with Marxism. 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__label__cc	0.672381	0.327619	Situated in the midst of the North Atlantic, on the southermost of the Faroe Islands, the Port of Vágur is the nearest port at service to oil-fields west of Shetland as well as to the international fishing fleet active south… The Port of Vágur has more than 350 meters of quay-side and a ro-ro wharf. There is 8.000 m2 of open storage available, and 1.700 m2 of in-door storage The Port of Vágur has a wide range of facilities ready to service the offshore oil industry. The North harbour The North harbour in the Port of Vágur includes more than 350 meters of quayside with 7.5 meters depth or… The Port of Vágur facilitates several companies within the fishing industry. These companies include fish-factories, a fish auction, cold / freezing storage. Several fishing vessels have the Port of Vágur at their home port. Popular cruise destination The Port of Vágur welcomes larger and smaller cruise ships, as well as sailboats, to the most spectacular nature in the North Atlantic. International freight route The Port of Vágur is part of international freigth routes, with connections to the European mainland as well as America. Maintenance, Repair, and Operations services By Port of Vágur there are a wide range of MRO services (Maintenance, Repair, and Operations), hydraulic and hi-tech steel work. The marine Search and Rescue (SAR) services in the Faroe Islands is managed by MRCC Tórshavn. The service is organized in accordance with Faroese law, International Standards and agreements made with other countries. Contact to MRCC Tórshavn Sea Rescue… Port of Vágur - the nearest port at your service The salmon industry, both on land and on the fjords, is an important industry on Suðuroy. The Faroese salmon company Bakkafrost has the licenses on Suðuroy, with salmon farms on the fjords and a salmon factory on land in Vágur.… By admin \| 4. June 2019 \| News \| Today the danish training ship Georg Stage arrived at the port of Vágur. By admin \| 29. April 2019 \| News \| By admin \| 19. February 2019 \| News \| Hav Nordic at the Port of Vágur onloading heavy equipment for aquafarming cages, that will be built for the Bakkafrost aqaufarming on the fjords on Suðuroy. By admin \| 27. August 2018 \| News \| The Ocean Endeavour at the port of Vágur The cruiseship Ocean Endeavour visited at the Port of Vágur on 24th of June 2018. By admin \| 25. June 2018 \| News \| The beautiful Tecla at Port of Vágur The summer also marks the season for summer visitors at the port of Vágur. Today the beautiful old Herring drifter Tecla arrived at the Port of Vágur. By admin \| 22. May 2018 \| News \| Polarfront at Port of Vágur The research and expedition vessel Polarfront is the first summerguest to the Port of Vágur in 2018. New pelagic trawler arrives at the Port of Vágur In august 2017 the local company Ocean Group Faroes Ltd bought the pelagic trawler Junior (Gitte Henning), which had Hirtshals (Denmark) as homeport. The trawler is named Nýborg. By admin \| 18. September 2017 \| News \| A maritime pit-stop on the Northeast passage highway Located between Iceland and Norway, north of Shetland, the Faroe Islands are situated in a maritime sweet spot. Also, the Faroe Islands are closer to the traffic of the Northeast Passage than most harbours in the region.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1634
__label__wiki	0.816407	0.816407	Charli XCX - "SuperLove" Charli XCX just released her debut record True Romance, but apparently she's been busy - somehow, despite touring endlessly after that album, she's found time to put together another one. Not many details exist besides "SuperLove," the first single, which she released today alongside its attendant video. It might just be the most radio-ready track Charli's released so far (if we're not counting "I Love It") - buzzy, kitsch-y instrumentals back up her singular vocals and trademark sassy lyrics as she meditates on a love that is, indeed, super. Check out the video, in which she cavorts around Tokyo with a herd of dancing robots. Video: Charli XCX - "Boom Clap" Charli XCX - "I Want Candy" Charli XCX - "Allergic to Love" Video: Charli XCX - "So Far Away" Charli XCX + Yeasayer - "SuperLove" (remix) New: Charli XCX - "London Queen" New: Charli XCX - "Gold Coins" Charli XCX Teases Sophie Collaboration Review: Charli XCX, Sucker Charli XCX covers Lindstrøm, Backstreet Boys REC'D Charli XCX: You're The One	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1636
__label__wiki	0.741957	0.741957	So begins Maine’s ‘Game of Thrones’ October 18, 2017 Column, Commentary, Federal, StateAdam Cote, Adam Lee, Betsy Sweet, Charlie Summers, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Game of Thrones, Garrett Mason, Gov. Paul LePage, Janet Mills, Jim Boyle, Josh Tardy, Ken Fredette, Mark Dion, Mark Eves, Mary Mayhew, Mike Thibodeau, Populists, Shawn Moody, Susan Collins, Welfare Sen. Susan Collins has now ended months of speculation, and decided not to seek election to become Maine’s next governor. Remaining in the US Senate means that the die is more or less cast in both parties, and the race to replace Gov. Paul LePage can truly begin. On the Republican side, the field is already crowded, and may soon get even more crowded. Former Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew is in. So is House Republican Leader Ken Fredette, Senator Majority Leader Garrett Mason, businessman and 2010 gubernatorial candidate Shawn Moody, and Senate President Mike Thibodeau. There are more people, including Charlie Summers and Josh Tardy, that are thinking of getting in. On the Democratic side, things are just as crowded. Attorney General Janet Mills is in. So is former House Speaker Mark Eves, attorney Adam Cote, former state Sen. Jim Boyle, former state Rep. Diane Russell, state Sen. Mark Dion and two minor candidates, activist Betsy Sweet and health care executive Patrick Eisenhart. Like the Republicans, there are others, including auto magnate Adam Lee, who may jump in to the race. The Blaine House in Augusta. Carter McCall \| BDN It is fitting, in my estimation, that the race to replace LePage is so wide open, with so many candidates running. LePage’s own election in 2010 came from the single most contested, most interesting gubernatorial election in my lifetime. In that year, there were seven Republicans on the primary ballot, and four Democrats, though two candidates (Dawn Hill and John Richardson) that were expected to be on the ballot dropped out or were disqualified. So who has the inside track on Maine’s own “Game of Thrones”? Anyone, including me, who tells you that they know who is most likely to win is lying to you. Primaries like this are too volatile, with too many candidates who have unique gifts and equally unique flaws for any of us to truly know right now. But let’s look at the Republican field anyway. Among conservative activists, Mayhew has been whispered to be the favorite for the nomination for a long time. Her position in the LePage administration and her visibility and record on the issue — welfare — Republicans care about most gave the early impression of “heir apparent” to much of LePage’s legacy. But she’s not the only one who can claim that mantle. Fredette has been LePage’s staunchest ally in the Maine House for two successive budget battles, and rallied his caucus to get the governor to the table during the shutdown negotiations this past year. He has a good story to tell there. Moody too, clearly appeals to a lot of the LePage base. It is hard to find a candidate who feels more down to earth and relatable, who has working-class credibility as well as a compelling personal story and truly important business experience. All of these things were key to LePage’s appeal. Mason likely is charting a new path and creating his own constituency. He is young, articulate, very smart, energetic, and has real conservative credibility. He is going to perform very well among many of the groups that were most enthusiastic for Donald Trump, including evangelical voters and populists, which is likely one reason he is pledging to put “Maine First.” And Thibodeau, the most recent entrant, himself has a unique story. He has an excellent personal story, and can lean on real business experience in his campaign, and also will lean on his time as Senate president, and his often contentious relationship with the governor, to cut a profile as a conservative who can get things done. He is highlighting the battle over — and ultimate repeal of — the 3 percent income tax surcharge this past session as proof of his bona fides, and makes a good case. In these early stages, it is simply too early to really tell you who has the advantage. Again, each of these candidates have certain gifts and certain weaknesses. Republican primary voters are fickle, and there are many constituencies inside it that could provide a base for any of these candidates. In my opinion, this race is actually going to be less like 2010 — in which LePage clearly dominated the field — and a lot more like 1994, when eight Republicans ran for the nomination, and Collins won with only 21.3 percent of the vote. That is likely here, where each candidate may in the end being separated by only a percentage point or two. This ultimately means that there really is no front runner right now, and every single day of the campaign will be important. The Democrats, on the other hand, do have an early front runner, and there will be real separation there. I’ll tell you all about that, next week. ← In Weinstein case, rules for thee, but not for me The devil of the moment in the White House →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1639
__label__wiki	0.611866	0.611866	North Jersey animal rescue pleads with police to stop plans for shooting range near shelter dogs Posted 5:49 PM, March 29, 2018, by Christie Duffy HOPATCONG, N.J. — One Step Closer Animal Rescue wants police to consider a different location for their shooting range that is further away from their already rattled rescue dogs. "We rescue a lot of dogs that are abused, a lot that are really scared,” said Cassie Prisco, president of O.S.C.A.R. "And we’re really worried how they will react to it. Most of them are afraid of loud noises.” Prisco said to imagine how your dog reacts when it’s the Fourth of July and fireworks are going off nearby. She’s fearful of how already shaky dogs like German shepherd “Little Girl", 5, will cope. “She is very, very fearful when she hears any loud noises. She tries to cower and hide in her outside run if possible,” said Prisco. OSCAR houses and finds homes for 20 to 30 dogs per week. Prisco said they raised money to buy the land and renovate the shelter two years ago. The proposed shooting range would be less than a half-mile away. Dozens of OSCAR supporters showed up to a council meeting this week. "We had signs. We were pleading with them to not put the gun range right next to our animal shelter. We’re hoping our voice is heard,” she said. Police were not available for on camera interview, but a spokesperson said that officers currently are paid overtime to drive an hour each way to get in gun practice. It is required training for every officer in the state. Officers must qualify to carry a handgun two times per year and a rifle four times per year, per attorney general guidelines. Plus, Hopatcong Police say they want to do extra training at their own facility to make sure their officers and the people they serve are safe, particularly in light of recent school shootings. A spokeswoman said they are committed to the site near the animal shelter, and that there is another private shooting range two miles down the road. It could be built and in use by this fall. Filed in: New Jersey, News Family devastated after dog put down by mistake at North Carolina animal shelter Rescue dog sworn in as Missouri K-9 officer Dog ‘bounty hunter’ spends free time tracking lost dogs for pet owners Police: Woman ran over man who was trying to keep her from driving drunk Overcrowding at NYC’s Animal Care Centers: “It’s like a tidal wave” Puppy found dead in weighted cage near New Jersey pond Brooklyn News Two shot on Brooklyn street including 11-year-old boy; person of interest in custody Heartbreaking photo shows dog patiently waiting for dead owner to come home Dogville pop-up lets dog lovers unwind, puppies go wild in SoHo Woman accused of torturing several of her 15 children, boiling their puppies Dog trapped under boulders adopted by rescuer’s parents Suspect charged in Crown Heights shooting: police NJ dog breeder owns kennels where dogs found in squalor	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1641
__label__wiki	0.732029	0.732029	PR in Fiction Mediations: Philip Young Mediations comments on public relations theory and practice, with an emphasis on social media and communication ethics. Philip Young is project leader for NEMO: New Media, Modern Democracy at Campus Helsingborg, Lund University, Sweden. All views expressed here are personal and should not be seen as representing Lund University or any other organisation. Delivering the New PR EuroBlog2006 Global PR Blog Week I am a Nobody Making the News Conference Mediations wiki New Comms Forum PR is dead SNCR « Bye Sunderland, Hej Helsingborg \| Main \| Trust Me, I'm Lying.... » Curation: Who Needs Men? It is interesting when two worlds collide. As a distraction from completing a paper on Curation for September's Euprera Congress in Istanbul I looked up Edmund Cooper on Wikipedia. Cooper was a science fiction writer who appealed to the teenage me, and I was revisiting Who Needs Men? as part of my project to read 19 novels from 1972. Depending on your perspective, Cooper was either a significant author very close to the top tier of Seventies SF or he was highly prolific hack now deservedly forgotten for his antiquated sexism. On the evidence of Who Needs Men?, he was neither. It is an easy read but hardly startling in concept or delivery. Yes, it reflects and builds on late 60s/early 70s feminism in a way that feels uncomfortable to modern sensibilities, but it hardly challenges the standards of the time. Not surprisingly, the first search result Google returns is a Wikipedia entry. Edmund Cooper (April 30, 1926 - March 11, 1982) was an English poet and prolific writer of speculative fiction, romances, technical essays, several detective stories, and a children's book. These were published under his own name and several pen names. Cooper was among the 100-plus authors in Gollancz's "SF Gateway" initiative to "make thousands of out-of print titles by classic genre authors available as eBooks", starting in October 2011. Further on, in a section headed Works and Criticism, we are told: Two[6] of his books depicted future Earths dominated by women after the genetic or physical need for men has been reduced. His attitude to women is said to have been controversial.[7] Cooper was quoted as saying: "let them have totally equal competition ... they'll see that they can't make it".[8] The theme of both books is actually a need to retain both sexes. Five to Twelve ends with the phrase "if we do not make any more mistakes, we can create a balanced world of men and women". The more cynical Who Needs Men? ends by asking whether love of woman for man is worth death for that love. Yes, says the heroine. The suggestion that his attitude to women 'is said to have been controversial' is backed by footnote 7: ^ Edmund Cooper's Biography "commentary by the feminist mafia didn't help.'" Unfortunately, the link to the Biography no longer works: "The requested URL /cooper/index.htm was not found on this server." A link to Edmund Cooper, http://www.edmundcooper.dsl.pipex.com/, does work, and leads to a site built by SF enthusiast enthusiast Carnie Pollock. This includes a rather thin Biography page. Members of Edmund's family and members of his literary trust do not agree on certain aspects of his life. Therefore with great regret we have removed the biography from our site. If you would like to contact Edmund Cooper's literary trust with questions about his life or works you can contact them via Dee Page dfpcantab@yahoo.co.uk. Somebody, then, is curating Cooper's reputation and interests. On the face of it, Googling Edmund Cooper Literary Trust isn't particularly helpful - Facebook page and a Twitter feed, @ECooperTrust. Looking again at the Wikipedia entry, the Edmund Cooper: Revision History, starts to tell a story. There are a copule of recent changes, involving the addition of Cooper's inclusion in Gollancz's "SF Gateway" series; Andy Dingley felt it was "not a useful edition" and it is certainly arguable this is not appropriate so high up the entry. A little earlier there was a flurry of activity around biographical detail and the assertion that "He became engaged at 16 to a teacher four years older than he was, and married her three years later", the deletion of which was labelled vandalism. It is back again today (July 19, 2012). Go back to the start of the history, and it is not long before Dee Page becomes involved, deleting a chunk of bio (3 July 2006) and adding: For information on both autobiography, biography and full bibliography contact the Edmund Cooper Literary Trust via e-mail to: Dee Page, Administrator on dfpcantab@yahoo.co.uk This does not impress Ben-w, who restores the biographical information. On his User page Ben-w says "I have fun creating and trying to improve articles on subjects that interest me and just as much fun with subjects that don't, as I find out things I didn't know. One of the things I've tried to do is save articles from deletion by improving them." Dee Page takes a different view Revision as of 11:17, 4 July 2006 On advice the Literary Executor and legal copyright holder of the works and estate of Edmund Cooper, the Edmund Cooper Literary Trust, has removed the previous information on this site because of the factual errors and misleading information it contained. From the archives held by the Cooper Trust the present bibliography being compiled by The Trust runs to over eight hundred (800) pages which should give the reader some indication as to why the previous entry was so misleading and the extent the work being undertaken by The Trust. The responses are predictable and, it has to be said, expressed politely. Dee page, please indicate what is wrong with the 2006-07-03t22:04:31z version of the article, so it can be fixed; instead of blanking most of the article, which is considered vandalism. Challenging and removing unsourced info and copyright violations is fine, but please indicate when this is done in the edit summary. --Jeandré, 2006-07-04t12:11z This page is not subject to the imprimatur of "the trustees" or of Dee Page. If there are inaccuracies, state what they are and/or correct them. Stop turning this page into a statement of the policies of the Literary Trust. Ben-w 17:05, 5 July 2006 (UTC) Dee Page disagrees - at length (July 17): The Trustees of the Edmund Cooper Literary Trust do have the imprimatur (see the Concise Oxford Dictionary) of the information on Edmund Cooper, because he so designated it; and by doing so we have a duty of care and we continue to hold that imprimatur whether it is on Wikipedia or not. The Trust has not said that it has a monopoly on facts relating to Edmund Cooper, but it does have a legal right to correct anything that may be wrong or detrimental to his oeuvre and the circumstances under which this oeuvre was created. Five days later Ben-w is losing patience: The Trustees or anyone else who wants to can edit the page to make it more accurate, and they have been encouraged to do so.They have chosen, instead, to engage in lengthy boring lectures about their Sacred Rights As Trustees. If there are inaccuracies, EDIT THE GODDAM ARTICLE AND FIX THEM. Ben-w 16:11, 21 July 2006 (UTC) It is fair to say that back in July 2006 Dee Page didn't have a particularly deep unedrstanding of how Wikipedia works. If she had, she would have prsumably gone abut this in a different way. Then again, there is a reason to have sympathy with her. Read further and there are indications of family tensions and, presumably, considerable hurt. Reputation, and curation of reputation, is a tricky area. The discussion makes strong points that support the view that those close to an organisation or indivisual should have the right to amend or even delete inaccurate or false information. At the same time, the dispute clearly illustrates the dangers of allowing those with too close an interest in a topic to believe they have the objectivity necessary to directly influence that which is presented as fact. July 19, 2012 \| Permalink \| Save to del.icio.us \| A few years ago I contacted Dee Page and the Trust in regard to film rights for one of ECs lesser known short stories. They wanted an outrageous sum up front, for a two year option, when my proposed production cycle would clearly take longer than that. I gave up on a nifty movie, that lots of people would have liked. They enjoyed my presentation, but offered no help or hope for the project. "Development Hell" was the only destination after receiving this surprisingly disappointing ticket to no where. Posted by: Stinkypete Dataminer \| July 31, 2014 at 07:40 PM What has NEMO achieved? Deflection, Obfuscation and Magic: PR in Fiction PR in Fiction: The Church press officer This blogging business The #AskBG reputation meltdown... A History of the Future: Concepts for telling the story of online PR Conferences: Image and Reputation, or the Undead and the Unsaid PR in Fiction: Time to pay Attenzi? Defining Public Relations. Again Where next for PR? Stinkypete Dataminer on Curation: Who Needs Men? Stuartbruce on Where next for PR? Craigmcgill on Where next for PR? CMRLee on Where next for PR? Jonk87 on Inverse sponsorship: Quantifying Self for Charity Simon Collister on So what is PR, anyway...? (Remake/Remodel) Simon Collister on Does social media take us back to pre-industrial times? LizBridgen on Twitter for academics Greenbanana on Twitter for academics neville on Twitter for academics	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1653
__label__cc	0.712004	0.287996	DISCERNMENT DATABASE PULPIT BUNKER ONLINE STUDY BIBLE PROSPERITY GOSPEL FALSE TEACHER SERIES The Pen Defending Caner: Cognitive Deficiency, Poor Discernment, or Abject Lostness? by News Division · December 11, 2013 “Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.” (Romans 1:32) As the dust settles around Brewton-Parker College and as Ergun Caner settles into his new gig, we see certain individuals bold in their celebration that restoration can be made without repentance. Not only are the Caners inexplicably without remorse, there are many that applaud their unrepentant defiance of spiritual accountability and basic human decency. First, and let it be unwaveringly said again (for the upteen-millionth time) that there are no logical explanations for the lies documented on video or audio, told repeatedly by Ergun Caner (and never refuted by Emir Caner) over the course of several years about the facts concerning their life that no one could mistake or misspeak unless they were battling biographical schizophrenia. In case you have avoided the Internet for the last however-many years, I would suggest you ‘Google’ Ergun Caner and see (on video and audio) the lies for yourself…lies that in his own words disagree with his biography in the Brewton-Parker press release announcing him their new president. It’s a simple mathematical equation: Ergun tells lies on video + Ergun never confesses to the lies and sues people for posting evidence of his lies = Ergun is an unrepentant liar. And most probably, Ergun is not a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. That’s a tough statement. And yet, there’s as much evidence that Ergun is regenerate than there is that he was born in Turkey and raised in Jihad. On Twitter today, Tim Rogers (you know him mainly from the comment section on Peter Lumpkins’ blog) encouraged a young man to attend Brewton-Parker because Ergun is now serving as its president. Thanks to Rogers, we see precisely what’s at stake. Our young people are being subjected to who is most likely an unregenerate man to receive their Christian education. In the back-and-forth, Rogers said that Caner had been “exhonerated” by three “investigatory committees.” [Note: You may have to click screen-shots to enlarge] By “three independent investigatory committees,” Rogers means one college that demoted him and two that hired him: What’s inherently at stake is the credibility of the Southern Baptist Convention. While the decision to hire Caner was that of Brewton-Parker trustees, it has denomination-wide consequences. Here are the ways that Caner’s defenders defame the reputation of Christ and the Convention. Possibility 1: Those that defend Ergun Caner – in spite of the overwhelming mass of unexplainable and inexcusable recorded evidence – are cognitively deficient. Notice, I’m not calling them stupid. There are lots of mental issues that can prevent someone’s reasoning skills from flourishing. But to call a person innocent of their crimes because two small and struggling colleges hired them might be the result of an intellectual inability. Neither does it follow that because an institution hired Caner that they did due diligence and research into the man’s fabricated past. Neither does it follow that if they hired Caner after researching the man’s fabricated past that they exhibited any type of institutional integrity in the hiring process; in short, it’s possible that these colleges didn’t care for any number of misguided reasons. Nonetheless, to call a man “exhonerated” because one college demoted him when two others haven’t given any indication a so-called “investigatory panel” took place might be explained by undiagnosed cognitive issues. Possibility 2: Those that defend Ergun Caner – in spite of the overwhelming mass of unexplainable and inexcusable recorded evidence – might be guilty of an egregious lack of spiritual discernment. Although discernment is a spiritual gift parted out by the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:11), all Christians will develop at least the most basic level of discernment over time. To see a man lie and lie repeatedly in documented and verifiable ways and not discern his guilt is shocking (assuming that the individual is presuming the innocence sincerely and isn’t doing it for the reasons presented in Possibility #3). With such a dangerous lack of discernment, it seems this would makeTim Roger’s church susceptible to other similarly-terrible dangers. What false teacher couldn’t find a way into a church that can’t see Caner as a liar? Possibility 3: Those that defend Ergun Caner – in spite of the overwhelming mass of unexplainable and inexcusable evidence – do so knowing full well of his guilt, and in doing so, give evidence that they are unsaved men. There might be reasons why those who know full well that Ergun is guilty might continue to assert his innocence. Some (no doubt Rogers, Lumpkins, Hadley are in that number) who despise Monergism have a “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” concept of ethics. Caner’s rabidly anti-Calvinistic rhetoric has earned him a following among those who similarly despise the notion of God not partnering with man in his salvation. One wonders if this is the reason for Geisler’s defense. And if this is a reason, it is certainly no excuse. To purposefully proclaim lies for the sake of a denominational political agenda or to rage against a particular doctrine is still to proclaim lies. I really don’t perceive that Lumpkins, Rogers and crew don’t think that Caner is guilty of fabricating his life story. Lumpkins, in particular, seems bright. It would be better for them that they be guilty of the first option – a cognitive deficiency. If indeed they know Caner is guilty because they’ve seen the evidence and their mind can process it, and still continue to defend him, the Holy Spirit is not within them. Indeed, they sin and give license to others to sin. They are emboldening Caner in his unrepentance and helping to harden his heart. And that, my friends, is a scary proposition. If there is another possibility than the three presented, please feel free to enlighten me. [Contributed by Jordan Hall; Tim Roger’s tweets were used in a discussion recorded for the Daily Downgrade segment, airing on the December 13th Pulpit & Pen Program]. 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__label__wiki	0.982081	0.982081	Premier League January transfer spending slumps Premier League spending in the January transfer window fell for the first time since 2012, with clubs paying a total of £180 million ($235 million) for new players, according to football finance experts at Deloitte. Nearly a third of the total expenditure was accounted for by Chelsea’s outlay of around £55 million for Christian Pulisic from Borussia Dortmund, according to the figures. Last year’s winter transfer window saw top-flight clubs spend £430 million, with big-money moves including defender Virgil van Dijk to Liverpool for £75 million. READ ALSO: Ohanaeze NEC suspends secretary-general over alleged anti-organisation activities However, most of the major transactions this January saw players leaving Premier League sides, with Brahim Diaz moving from Manchester City to Real Madrid, Mousa Dembele moving to Guangzhou R&F from Tottenham and Schalke buying Manchester City’s Rabbi Matondo. Tim Bridge, director in the Sports Business Group at Deloitte, said: “As we approach a decisive phase of the season, Premier League clubs’ January transfer spending has been relatively muted in comparison to what we have seen in previous years.” January spending was at £225 million in 2011 but fell to £60 million in the following year. It doubled the following year, and remained steady at £130 million in 2014 and 2015, before jumping significantly. The £180 million transfer bill means total gross spending by Premier League clubs in the 2018/19 season is an estimated £1.4 billion, the second-highest season ever following record spend of £1.9 billion in 2017/18. Other findings from Deloitte included the so-called “Big Six” clubs accounting for 43 per cent of the January expenditure, lower than last year when this figure stood at 62 per cent. Newcastle United’s signing of Paraguay midfielder Miguel Almiron was the biggest deal to go through on deadline day on Thursday, for a reported £20 million. Chelsea striker Michy Batshuayi, who spent the first half of the season on loan at Valencia, returned to England on a temporary deal with Crystal Palace. Liverpool beat Fulham, go top of Premier League English Premier League table (Wk 9) Returning Kane stops Arsenal’s summit bid Premier League: Leicester held by Burnley Iheanacho injured in Leicester debut Leading English Premier League scorers (Wk 31) Five things we learned in the Premier League Liverpool ‘ambitious’ for Premier League title, says Klopp Don’t politicise Fasoranti daughter’s killing, says Presidency $652m needed to reactivate, complete Ajaokuta steel plant –Audit	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1657
__label__cc	0.649077	0.350923	Of Particular Significance Conversations About Science with Theoretical Physicist Matt Strassler A New Career Phase About This Site and How to Use It Large Hadron Collider FAQ How We Learn What Happened in a Proton-Proton Collision Introduction to the LHC Photos Of The LHC Some Technical Concepts Fermions and Bosons GeV and TeV Invariant Mass What are anti-particles? The Trigger: Discarding All But the Gold Trigger Failure, and Repair, at the LHC What’s a Hadron? What’s a Proton, Anyway? Checking What’s Inside a Proton Proton Collisions Vs. Quark/Gluon/Antiquark Mini-Collisions Large Hadron Collider News A Historic Day? Or Just an Important One? Gangbusters! Hey Where’d My Higgs Go? 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Sunrise (older version) The Grand Si11iness of 11/11/11 11:11:11 ← A Lot Going On in the Solar System A Tale of 2.1 Cities → The Quiet Higgs Quake at CMS Posts have been a bit rare due to overwork and travel, but I have a few things to say about the search for the Standard Model Higgs particle (the simplest possible form of the Higgs) at CMS, one of the two major Large Hadron Collider [LHC] experiments. Last week I focused on the big news from the Tevatron and from ATLAS (the other major LHC experiment involved in the Higgs search), because the changes in their results were much larger than those from CMS, partly because CMS had already analyzed all their data for all of the different types of Higgs decays, and also the changes at CMS were, on the face of it, rather small. However, the results at CMS have a significant effect on the overall picture, both negative and positive, and so deserve comment. The main change from the December and January CMS two-photon Higgs search is that a more powerful and sophisticated technique has been applied to the same data. The results are roughly consistent with the previous search, but show important differences (which tells you how sensitive the current evidence is to how you slice the data.) Here are the consequences of the new result compared to the old, illustrated in the two figures late in the post: A new exclusion region, not only above 125 GeV/c2 as they had before, but now also below it, from about 117.5 GeV/c2 to 120.5. Again, this is very good news if you think there is a Higgs somewhere around 125 GeV/c2, because it is a lot more persuasive that you see a Standard Model-like Higgs at 125 GeV/c2 if you can say more convincingly that you don’t see it anywhere else. The significance of the Higgs hint in the data actually stayed almost the same with the improved techniques, whereas if there had been a real signal there before with the older techniques, you would have expected an increase in the significance. We now see 2.9 standard deviations [or “sigmas”] locally (i.e., without look-elsewhere effect) and 1.6 with the look-elsewhere effect (versus the previous values of 3.0 locally and 1.8 with look-elsewhere accounted for.) But this is because the size of the excess went down a little. The collisions with two photons were divided, as was the case in the CMS January update, into those that have two jets and those that don’t. (Actually, to be precise, the division separates out those that have jets that are consistent with the process p p > q q H [“vector boson fusion”] — see this article on Higgs production — and you must remember that a large and extremely uncertain fraction of these are actually from p p > H [“gluon fusion”] with two radiated jets.) The new result shows that the majority of the 2.9 sigma excess is now coming from the handful of two-photon-two-jet events; this makes the significance subject to large fluctuations with future data, so don’t be surprised if it moves around a lot in the next update. BUT the new CMS analysis puts its best value for the Higgs mass at 125 GeV/c2, whereas previously it was at 123.5. The ATLAS result has put its best value a bit above 126. Such shifts are not unexpected, and we’ve been waiting for them, as I have emphasized (here and here). Of course a shift could go in either direction, and one reason for my caution about the LHC results has been that it was perfectly possible the shifts would go in the wrong direction, pushing the ATLAS and CMS results apart and causing the entire case for the Higgs at 125 to collapse. But this shift is in the right direction. The ATLAS and CMS results are now in more accord, favoring values of the Higgs mass that are closer together than before.And that too is good news for the hypothesis of a 125 GeV two-photon Higgs signal. Fig. 1: The old (left) and new (right) CMS two-photon analyses of the same data, showing how well a signal from a Higgs of given mass can be excluded, in units of what is expected in the Standard Model. There is a new excluded region (purple oval) where the exclusion region drops below 1 (the expectation in the Standard Model.) Looking at the red line, you can see the peak excess has decreased in size. Its statistical significance has remained about the same (see Figure 2). The peak has shifted from 123.5 to 125 (blue line) bringing it more into accord with ATLAS's excess. So I think one can say that the concern was justified; a large shift was indeed quite possible. But fortunately for the evidence, the current seismic shift at CMS created stronger, not weaker, alignment with ATLAS. And so, even though the evidence at ATLAS went down somewhat, despite more analyses being added, and the evidence at CMS didn’t increase as it might have been expected to, given the better two-photon analysis — the evidence is overall a bit more plausible in my book. While each experiment sees reduced evidence, collectively their evidence is more consistent than before with a Standard Model Higgs at 125 GeV — and they have improved evidence against a Standard Model Higgs appearing anywhere else. To this one must add the new Tevatron data, with care, since DZero and CDF don’t see the same thing, and since the significance isn’t large, and since (see the Fermilab talk on the CDF result, which has far more information about this than the Moriond talk — note especially the pages around page 56) the CDF excess is driven larger than expected by a small number of events. My point of view is that one should simply say that Tevatron data roughly supports the LHC evidence and leave it at that. All in all, my confidence in there actually being something real at 125 GeV has gone up. I have been heard complaining about the lack of exclusion below the 125 GeV region and the fact that ATLAS and CMS were far enough apart that a shift of their best-estimate of the putative Higgs mass might easily make them inconsistent. Now we have some nascent exclusions from both experiments, and the best estimate of the Higgs mass at CMS has indeed shifted toward ATLAS. So — the game isn’t over, but it looks a bit more like a winner to me now than it did before. Fig. 2: Old (left) and new (right) plots showing the local statistical significance of upward excesses above background; read the number of standard deviations (sigmas) at the right of each plot. Notice that the total significance (black lines) around 125 GeV has gone down slightly, but this is because the two-jet-two-photon category (red lines) has become slightly more significant, while the excess in the remaining events (blue lines) has become somewhat less significant. Note also the preferred mass has shifted from 123.5 to 125, due to a small shift in the dominant red category and a loss of mass resolution in the subdominant blue category (which only weakly prefers 125 over 123). Notice also the bump at 136 GeV has become much more significant; this is presumably a fluke, but emphasizes that the CMS Higgs hint is also not that unusual on its own (i.e. it can only become persuasive if one simultaneously looks at ATLAS data.) This entry was posted in Higgs, LHC News, Particle Physics and tagged cms, Higgs, hints, particle physics. Bookmark the permalink. 33 responses to “The Quiet Higgs Quake at CMS” SP \| March 13, 2012 at 11:03 AM \| Could you comment on the lack of excess in h->WW in both ATLAS and CMS? Should we worry about that? Matt Strassler \| March 13, 2012 at 11:08 AM \| I think the only question which will have a clear answer is whether we have a bump in the search for two photons and/or four leptons. The WW, bb and tau tau measurements are difficult because they involve searching for broad excesses on challenging backgrounds. At the level of precision available and given the accuracy required, it’s not so hard to imagine creating a false signal or removing a real one. I don’t think we can draw clear conclusions yet. We need more data. Pingback: Un resumen sobre el estado de la búsqueda del Higgs tras la conferencia de Moriond EW 2012 « Francis (th)E mule Science's News Soap_Bubbles \| March 13, 2012 at 1:05 PM \| Hello Prof Strassler, Excellent articles and speeches, I might add. I am from an engineering background and have been fascinated, like a great mass of informed people around the world, on this honest surge in the search for God, sorry God’s particle, sorry again Higg’s boson. 🙂 So many questions and so little time, as they say, but like anyone who can close to understanding QM has a theory of his/her own and that includes yours truly. I will not bore you with my take but I would like to ask you a question about the top quark, (and somewhat a similar question would apply to the neutrino, but I will defer that until the jury is out at OPERA). I one of you blogs you mentioned: “The top-left quark and the top-right quark interact strongly with each other and the Higgs particle… and not with other matter particles. In particular, if a top-left quark encounters a Higgs particle, it can turn, with high probability, into a top-right quark. Once the Higgs field is non-zero, this type of interaction causes the two versions of the massless top quark to become a single massive top quark, with a large mass.” I am not sure I agree with the notion that the top quark remains a “single” elementary particular after the “combination”, unless the process is irreversible. What is the mechanism that destroys the distinct characteristics of the three components and produces one indistinguishable “particle? And, If the combination process is irreversible wouldn’t that contradict the SM itself? My deeper question would be since both the top-left and the neutrino can change flavor when they encounter the non-zero Higg’s field ( or a similar mechanism) then could that be suggesting that energy is coalescing to a threshold, just before a Higg’s field becomes non-zero (symmetry breaking) and then collapse back down to the lowest uniform density. This oscillations continue until adjacent oscillations interact (via Higg’s or some other mechanism) to push it above the theshold and hence create a stable soliton, one of the fermions and/or other bosons? I can see a superluminal neutrino in my above theory, since the shell of the quanta space would have a normal distribution in density and hence would be superluminal on one side of the shell ‘wall”. Am I whistling Dixie? 🙂 Matt Strassler \| March 13, 2012 at 4:20 PM \| A physics theory is a set of equations, not a set of ideas. [Think of Newton’s laws; Newton didn’t say “I’ll bet that if you push on something, it speeds up, and the heavier it is, the less it speeds up”; he said ” F = m a “.] A set of ideas without equations is a speculation. If you can turn it into equations, and show the equations make predictions that are consistent with existing data, you’re doing theoretical physics. With less than that, you’re just shooting the breeze. So I am afraid I couldn’t possibly evaluate your theory as it is now; there’s nothing to evaluate. I don’t understand your words. What’s a soliton? A soliton of what field? Oscillations of what, and with what frequency? What threshold are you talking about? It’s all very vague, as language always is. Give me some equations, and we can talk. You say “I am not sure I agree with the notion that the top quark remains a “single” elementary particular after the “combination”, unless the process is irreversible. What is the mechanism that destroys the distinct characteristics of the three components and produces one indistinguishable “particle? And, If the combination process is irreversible wouldn’t that contradict the SM itself?” Well, there are only two components (the top-left and the top-right — the Higgs is not a component, if that’s what you meant by the third of “three”) and in Dirac’s famous equation for a massive fermion, the merging of these two components into one is exactly what happens. If you turn the mass off, the flip-flopping stops and you get either top-left or top-right. If you turn the mass on, the flip-flopping starts and you can’t have top-left without also having top-right; the top quark is a mix of both. It’s all very precise, as the best equations always are. James \| March 15, 2012 at 6:13 AM \| Of course, as fully as I agree with your point “equations, equations, equations”, I can’t resist pointing out that Newton didn’t actually write “F=ma” and was distinctly more vague with his laws than any of us would like to be. Matt Strassler \| March 15, 2012 at 9:16 AM \| Thanks, James, for the comment and for pointing out the anachronism on my part. I am, of course, overstating the point. As are you, for effect… We will both agree that Newton was always much less vague than a typical amateur, and his mathematics — well, the guy had equations he needed to solve, so he invented calculus to do it. But any physicist isn’t merely clear and precise, because when a research paper is written there are always things that are well-understood, many other things poorly-understood, and then there is the topic of the paper, which is something that ideally is being transformed from poorly- to better-understood. What a professional really does is draw a figurative circle around the research area and push to the side things that are irrelevant and things that are unclear. Within that circle, a clear and detailed discussion follows. When this is done well, a new peninsula of knowledge emerges from the great sea of things unknown, and attaches itself to the continent of what is already known or suspected. One aspect of being a professional is understanding, partly from intuition and partly from deep understanding, how to do that. And Newton certainly knew. I should also add that many physicists are not as clear as Einstein when they write; some of them think very clearly and brilliantly but have trouble expressing their thoughts to others. My colleague Lipatov is a famous example; few people understand his papers when they first appear but they are almost always both right and important. But he has a track record going back decades. Tienzen (Jeh-Tween) Gong \| March 13, 2012 at 2:43 PM \| Again, this is an excellent update for Higgs. There were talks on SUSY, top physics and stops at Moriond conference. Can you elaborate them some? I’ll get to them eventually … suffice it to say for the moment that nothing exceptional showed up, and it takes a bit of time to understand what this means… werner58 \| March 13, 2012 at 3:49 PM \| But the new plot also displays a spike almost of the same size at the mass of 136 GeV (already exluded, by the way). Since at least one of the two HAS to be wrong, this signal doesn’t look so promising for me. That’s right; I referred to that in the Figure caption. You would not think there was anything special at 125 if there were not ALSO a spike in the ATLAS plot at the same place. Neither ATLAS nor CMS is convincing at all on its own; only ATLAS and CMS together provide some evidence, but (I would say) not convincing at this time. I’ve been saying that all along, and I don’t think things have changed too much yet. It’s only because I was so cautious before that I think things have improved. But ask Tommaso Dorigo over at Science 2.0 what he thinks; he’ll tell you the evidence for the Higgs is firm and discovery at 125 is basically certain at this point. David Brown \| March 14, 2012 at 7:05 AM \| “A physics theory is a set of equations, not a set of ideas.” I disagree. The equations are the cart but the ideas are the horse. Einstein first thought of the equivalence principle and then developed his field equations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_the_Higgs_field The Higgs field is like the luminiferous aether in that it pervades all of space and is difficult to detect. I suggest that the Higgs field is impossible to detect. Consider two opposing hypotheses: Hypothesis 1: Virtual quarks have mass because they travel through, or interact with, the Higgs field. Hypothesis 2: Virtual quarks do not travel through the Higgs field, because they are quantum probability waves, and such waves do not travel through spacetime. Virtual quarks do not interact with the Higgs field, because if they did then they would be real quarks and not virtual quarks. Why do virtual quarks have mass? I suggest that whatever the reason might be that virtual quarks have mass, the reason has nothing to do with the Higgs field because the Higgs field is a wrong idea. I suggest that virtual quarks have mass because the Wolframian mobile automaton creates approximations to space, time, energy, and mass using a network of information below the Planck scale. The Rañada-Milgrom effect is approximately true because an overwhelming mass of empirical evidence says it is approximately correct. Wolfram’s idea look good qualitatively, and equations shall (perhaps) eventually back them up. At some level, Mr. Brown, your answer speaks for itself. Ideas are the horse, yes, but the cart carries all the weight. There’s a reason why it is horse-and-cart, not horse-now-and-cart-six-weeks-later. Your mistake — the classic mistake made by most people — is in thinking the theory is the horse. The theory is the cart. The horse is the insight, the idea. The idea and the insight make the theory possible. But an insight is not a physics theory. Your example of the equivalence principle is an interesting one. I think you need to read a lot more scientific history. Einstein’s first paper on the equivalence principle, translated here http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/GR&Grav_2007/pdf/Einstein_1907.pdf contains the statement of the principle, at the very end of section 17. Immediately following — the entire remainder of the same paper — he sets out to establish precise mathematical and physical consequences of this principle, in clear and precise language. Section 18 is all aimed at deriving equations (30) and (30a). Section 19 derives a precise statement about clocks from those equations. Section 20 is aimed at the derivation of the precise equations in (31a)-(32b), and their consequences, including the two following unnumbered equations, which show that the equivalence principle combined with special relativity implies that gravity must pull not on rest mass but on total energy (mass-energy + motion-energy); this is one of the first steps toward general relativity. It is all those equations that make this paper publishable. The horse without the cart would never have been accepted by a professional journal, and Einstein would have been embarrassed to try to impress his colleagues with just an idea. After all, do you really think that generations of people before Einstein had never noticed that the “m” that appears in F = m a is the same “m” that appears in F = G m M / r^2 ? What makes Einstein’s paper great is not the idea; it is the fact that he is smart enough to take this idea, combine it with special relativity, and derive precise and interesting consequences in the rest of the paper. It’s all very precise. I can read this paper line-by-line and reproduce the argument and, with some work, the equations. What you learn from this is: a) Einstein was a professional physicist, and knew the difference between an idea and a step toward making it a real theory — horse versus cart. b) Einstein knew how to write papers that other professional physicists would take seriously: don’t bother people with your horse unless it is attached to a cart that actually has something in it. c) Einstein was able to express his ideas clearly and explain to other professionals how he got his equations; they don’t come out of thin air, they are derived step by step. The cart isn’t made from cardboard, but from steel. Where there are assumptions, they are clearly stated and well motivated. It is very easy for a professional to recognize an amateur: there’s far too much emphasis on the horse, and not enough on the cart; equations appear out of nowhere, without clear justification; the language is vague instead of being highly precise. In Einstein’s paper, there is not a single vague or ambiguous line. zbynek \| March 15, 2012 at 9:45 AM \| A question to equivalence that has bothered me: release two objects in an accelerated rocket and they “fall” along parallel paths and never meet drop two objects in a gravitaional field and the paths of their fall converge to the centre of gravity it would seem there is a clear difference between the two – or not? – please explain (without too many equations) – thank you Zbynek Soap_Bubbles \| March 14, 2012 at 9:15 AM \| “Forgive me Father for I have sinned.” As an amateur I only brought up the idea of repeatedly collapsing “solitions” because it could be a way, mechanism, for explaining the gravity field (and not the Higg’s field) within the context of the SM. Repeatedly collapsing solitons, the reverse or inverse of Newton’s cradle, if you will. It’s a matter of standards. Historically, people who pushed science forward had the highest standards; if you want to participate, you’ve got to raise your own to the same level. I am afraid I understand your last message even less. How could repeatedly collapsing solitons be a mechanism for explaining the gravity field within the context of the Standard Model? What’s the relationship between these things, precisely? I know a lot about solitons. I know a lot about gravity. Help me out here. I gave a Newton’s cradle to my little nephews this year. What is the reverse, or inverse, of this cradle? What does this have to do with repeatedly collapsing solitons? Be precise, and clear; emulate Einstein. Soap_Bubbles \| March 14, 2012 at 10:29 AM \| http://www.pks.mpg.de/~henkel/Articles/arXiv:1102.2121.pdf “We propose a scheme for the creation of stable three dimensional bright solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates, i.e., the matter-wave analog of so-called spatio-temporal “light bullets”. Oﬀ-resonant dressing to Rydberg nD-states is shown to provide nonlocal attractive interactions, leading to selftrapping of mesoscopic atomic clouds by a collective excitation of a single Rydberg atom pair. We present detailed potential calculations, and demonstrate the existence of stable solitons under realistic experimental conditions by means of numerical simulations.” “Self-trapped nonlinear waves and the possibility to create ”particle-like” wave packets have fascinated scientists over the last decades [1–4]. In nonlinear optics, the creation of stable three-dimensional bright solitons − so called ”light-bullets“ − has been under active pursuit [4], but was realized only recently in a discrete setting of waveguide arrays [5]. One major obstacle stems from the fact that nonlinear conﬁnement usually comes hand in hand with collapse instabilities [6]. In principle, this problem can be overcome via nonlocal nonlinearities, where the nonlinear self-induced potential at a particular point in space depends also on the nearby wave amplitudes. …” “In conclusion, we have shown that oﬀ-resonant dressing of BECs to attractively interacting Rydberg states provides a promising route for the ﬁrst realization of stable self-trapped three-dimensional solitons. While we chose Rb(nD3/2) atoms as one relevant example, the proposed scheme generally applies to Rydberg states of any atomic species with sign-deﬁnite attractive van der Waals interactions. … In addition, we have shown that a simple isotropic model potential captures the essential physics of the observed soliton formation, which may be useful for future theoretical studies on, e.g., 3D soliton interaction or higher-order states. On the other hand, the anisotropy of the interaction together with its tenability may open new routes to transfer angular momentum.” Now, take this mechanism down to the quantum level, below Planck’s scale and replace the BEC’s with Dirac spinor just before the “mass is turned on”, the threshold. If the coalescing energy spherical space collapses because of the inherent instability in the transition between order (gravity field) and chaos (free energy), then there will be attractive interactions between adjacent collapsing spaces, the momentum transfer in inwards towards the center of each sphere, (inverse to Newton’s cradle where the momentum is push outwards towards the center of the next spherical ball.) There vacuum instabilities that create the gravity field are possible due to the energy coalescing on a non-linear spinors, the shell wall has a density profile which is of a normal distribution cross section and hence unstable when interacting an adjacent spinor. The sixty four thousand question in my amateur mind is what happen at and/or shortly after the Big Bang that pushed the coalescing process beyond the threshold and “turn the mass on”. In other words was the universe destined to cool down because of the lowering of the local energy densities or was it a freak of nature that the universe started with a small but non-zero entropy. So — everything in the passage you quote is clearly written by a professional. It’s precise and clear. I don’t know the details without reading the paper, but one clue is that every bit of jargon fits with the bit of jargon next to it. Makes sense. I think I know what the author is saying; I’m confident I could understand it if I read more. Moreover, there are equations, plots, evidence of serious work. There’s a lot more than a horse, and there’s a lot in the cart. Being able to quote other people’s papers, however, does not make your ideas sensible. When we get to the first line of your own statements, everything instantly crashes. “Replace BEC condensate with Dirac spinor”. What? A BEC condensate is a boson; a Dirac spinor is a fermion; the physics and mathematics is completely different. You cannot just replace one with the other. So what are you saying here? Then at some point you say: “vacuum instabilities that create the gravity field are possible due to the energy coalescing on a non-linear spinors” I think this is mathematically false. I not sure you have a clear definition of “non-linear spinors”. I do not think even you necessarily know what “energy coalescing on a spinor” means [give me a precise definition.] And any hope for your idea to turn into a real theory requires that you prove that this is true. So I hope you have a good idea here as to how to make equations out of this. I certainly don’t see one yet. Dilaton \| March 14, 2012 at 8:08 PM \| Sorry Soap-Bubbles, but Your own comments (not the stuff copied from the arxiv-Paper) vaguely remind me of a funny joke a very talented (in maths and physics) classmate played some years ago (I dont know why this is) :-): To annoy the poor teacher of our German class, he spiced his essay with a lot of physics and maths jargon appearing at random places, which made the assay a very funny reading (similar to Warren Siegel`s joke papers but not that advanced…), Well — I think perhaps you’re a little unfair to Soap-Bubbles here. His jargon is not random; I can tell he has a real intuition in his head that has some level of coherence, even though it’s challenging (as it is for any amateur) to express it in scientific terms. What is really difficult for amateurs to understand — and I know this, because it was hard for me to understand it when I was an undergraduate — is just how difficult it is to take intuitions and ideas and turn them into equations that actually work. Popular science articles on people like Newton and Einstein tend to obscure this point; they discuss the wonderful ideas and downplay the mathematical advances that were essential to progress. And that’s unfortunate, because (a) it makes science seem easier than it is, diminishing the genius of those who make the great leaps, and (b) it makes amateurs focus on the wrong things, and (c) it makes it confusing why science moves so slowly. Why did it take decades to go from Kepler to Newton? Because it took both a revolutionary set of ideas and a revolutionary approach to the math, which had to be developed together. It is relatively easy to have clever but vague ideas. It is extremely hard to make those ideas into equations that you can show are self-consistent, can calculate with, and can compare with data. And typically it requires many small steps and missteps along the way. S. Dino \| March 14, 2012 at 11:54 AM \| Matt you are so right, without equations it is really not physics. In fact, if you are lucky enough to get things ‘right’ odds are that in the end all that is left is the equations! For example, much of Newton’s physics has passed away in the light of Einstein – but the equations remain and are as good as they always were WITHIN THEIR DOMAIN OF VALIDITY – low speeds and weak gravity. When NASA launches space craft they still use Newton. You can expect the same to happen to Einstein one day. The description of reality of the theory that replaces Einstein may well be very different from Einstein’s, but the equations MUST reduce to Einstien’s within the areas where Einstein has already been well tested. And so it goes… Anyway Matt, just wondering: At this point in the Higgs data, how do they know it is actually the Higgs lurking at 125 GeV. For example, suppose that there was a 4th charged lepton even more massive and shoter lived than the Tau, could they be be sure (at this point) that an x anti-x lepton pair had not been created rather than a Higgs? I couldn’t agree more with your first paragraph. Physics is about making predictions of some reasonable precision, which is only possible with equations, and not with words. A fourth charged lepton wouldn’t do the job; it would not give you a localized excess in two photons. [I am not sure why you think this particular example could do that.] However, we certainly are not sure that what is being seen, if we assume it is a real effect, is a Higgs particle. One of the jobs of theorists is to think of all the alternative possibilities, and there have been dozens of papers about this in the distant past and recently. Indeed I heard a new one this week while I was at Harvard, during a talk by a Stanford postdoc who was visiting. But if we see a bump BOTH in the two-photon search and in the two-lepton/two-antilepton search, then we will be almost certain that it is a Higgs. This is for reasons that I described in my articles on the Standard Model Higgs particle https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/the-higgs-particle/the-standard-model-higgs/seeking-and-studying-the-standard-model-higgs-particle/ ; essentially, any particle that has a mass of 125 GeV and has such a large decay rate to two Z particles (one real, one virtual), but not a huge rate to decay to two photons, must be a type of Higgs particle. David Brown \| March 14, 2012 at 12:21 PM \| Matt: When Einstein uses the phrase “First we take our measuring tools …” he assumes ideas developed by physicists about measurement. Ideas about measurement are more important than ideas about theory are more important than mathematical equations. Mathematical equations without ideas are not much more than code in a computer. When you disparage my ideas you are assuming that my predictions are wrong. [Edited by host to remove links to commenter’s papers] I predict that some physicists who are not excluded from refereed journals will get credit for ideas that I thought of first. I say that Wolfram is a far better physicist than most Nobel prize winners in physics. Perhaps I am wrong. You are welcome to your predictions; I wish you well. Very few predictions, even by professionals, turn out to be correct. However, I must ask that you stop advertising your work here; you are too far outside the mainstream, which is what this site is devoted to. You are welcome of course to start your own website for that purpose. By the way, you probably know that Wolfram is a professional physicist, trained in the same research area as I am trained in. He wrote a number of papers in particle physics. He’s certainly very smart. He isn’t dismissed out of hand. I very much doubt that his New Kind of Science is as revolutionary as he thinks it is — he may be a better salesman than physicist, in the end — but I don’t view it as entirely out of the question. One thing that is for sure: he does understand horse and cart, and knows when something is just an idea and when it’s actually a theory. Another trained physicist is Nathan Myrhvold. It’s not an accident that he actually gets things done. What you learn as a physicist is to dump all the fluffy talk and cut to the chase. Pingback: Lopun alkua - blogit - Tiede.fi JFP \| March 15, 2012 at 11:08 AM \| If understanding the Higgs field is the end goal and if the energy density of the Higgs field contributes to gravity, then would be critical to assume that the hypothetical Higgs particle is massive (in other words, is not a boson). Why in the mathematical formalism for the gauge invariance the bosons are considered massless particles? The Higgs entity is massive, it may be formed for bosons, but the entity is something else. I think that the Higgs is an atom or a field of them, having those atoms a similar structure. The energy density of the Higgs field does not contribute to gravity, so I’m afraid your premise is off. The energy density of the Higgs field can contribute to the energy of the vacuum, which itself can cause a gravitational effect. But that’s true for lots of fields; nothing special about the Higgs there. And the energy of the vacuum is not the gravity; gravity reacts to the vacuum energy. A (sufficiently large) positive vacuum energy causes the universe’s expansion to accelerate. Whether the Higgs field contributes energy density to the vacuum has nothing to do with what the Higgs particle, a ripple in the Higgs field, is doing. It is the Higgs particle that we call the “Higgs boson”. In principle, a field may contribute energy density to the vacuum and yet its ripples are massless bosons; it may contribute no energy density to the vacuum and have a massive boson as its particle. These two issues, (a) the contribution of the field to the vacuum energy density and (b) the mass of the particles that are the ripples in that field, are completely unrelated. A boson is not a massless particle; it is a particle with integer spin [spin=intrinsic angular momentum.] Bosons can be massless or massive. Hydrogen atoms, for instance, are massive bosons. So are W particles. Photons happen to be massless bosons. You have the logic about the math backwards. The reason the mathematical formalism treats photons as massless gauge bosons is that experimentally they are massless, so we write down appropriate mathematics for that. W particles are massive gauge bosons, experimentally, and so we write down different mathematics for that, using the Higgs field along with a W field. Gauge invariance makes it much easier to write the mathematics down, so we use it as a principle in the equations. There’s no physics in gauge invariance; it’s a math issue. An important thing that makes gauge bosons (massive or massless) different from Higgs bosons is that gauge bosons have spin 1, and a polarization [which, for photons, is essential in polarized sunglasses] while Higgs bosons have spin 0 and do not. There are other differences: the possible interactions of gauge bosons with matter are much more restricted than are the interactions of Higgs bosons with matter. JFP \| March 15, 2012 at 6:19 PM \| Matt: thanks for the answer, is pretty clear. I would say that in some way the Higgs field is not reacting to vacuum, that field expands along a space of positive gravity because is not an static realm. Perhaps the expansion creates a pull, so the particles that get in the field gather mass. I would say that a substantive dash of the Higgs particle shows a close interaction with the massive bosons. If in the origin the Higgs particle is a boson at the end seems a different object. Oaktree (@Oaktree_) \| March 15, 2012 at 9:24 PM \| What is the lowest mass-energy that the Higgs boson can have in accordance with the SM? What would the universe look like if the Higgs were to be lighter than the lower limit defined by SM? This has a complicated answer, because there are many possible ways to ask the question. Suppose there is only one Higgs particle. Then theoretically the mass could have been very light, but that is no longer allowed by experiment. There is a model-independent bound from the LEP collider, which I think is 82 GeV, if memory serves. No matter how the Higgs decays, it must be heavier than that, or it would have been detected, at least indirectly. If you ignore experiment, there is a bound at very low masses, but I no longer remember what it is. It is again a bound that involves stability of the particular vacuum in which we live. If the Higgs decays exactly as predicted by the Standard Model, then from experiment the mass-energy has to be bigger than 115 (from LEP) and probably 122 (from LHC). If you assume that the Standard Model describes all physical processes all the way up to the energy scale where gravity becomes important (the “Planck scale”, about 1,000,000,000,000,000 times more energetic than an LHC collision), then you get a bound closer to 120-125 GeV; if it were lighter, the vacuum in which we live would be unstable and the universe would ended up looking very different. But you would be making a huge assumption, and quite probably a wrong one. If there is more than one Higgs particle, then there is far more flexibility. The lightest Higgs particle, if it is produced rarely enough at LEP and other colliders, can be as light as you want. I hope all those answers are correct… I might be mis-remembering something… I read somewhere that all elementary “particles” occupy a spherical volume of the same dimensions, radius. The difference being in the energy densities profile, cross section. If this description was valid and given your description of a “jet”, the stretching of the proton (hadron), then would you agree that the fundamental mechanism that gives particles a distinct characteristic is one of geometry. I think another of phrasing this question, please correct me if I am wrong, is could bosons transition into fermions by interacting with each other. Then once a fermion it would take a finite amount of chaotic momentum transfer from other fermions and/or bosons to decay back to a boson? johnfhendry \| March 19, 2012 at 2:05 PM \| Matt Strassler said: JFH^^: Any clear verbal statement or equation out of the norm made by someone that understands something that reverses a major concept or advances it that is not understood is vague to the observer hearing it. But even a vague statement based on proper insight over the problem the Great Professor spent the last years of his life on in turmoil and ridicule for refusing to throw common sense away and accept God played dice with the Universe with gravity disconnected in quantum mechanics would have been all he needed to see he was wearing his missing glasses just by making his head itch a little to scratch it. Especially if the answer was on a card with two opposite sides up his sleeve and it fell out scratching his head and he noticed the moment arm of force was at the bottom on one side. Professor, I see your cart sitting still named Atom carrying a book on “Time and Mass Oscillation” has two axels yet 3 wheels.” ‘Yes, that’s why I ride my horse named Sugar because it is the cause of the force that pulls the cart but the book is too heavy……humm.’ Three weeks before CERN’s shocking announcement last September neutrinos were braking the most fundamental law in Special Relativity amateur’s with the ability to see things differently playing “Foldit”, an online DNA game giving them a chance shocked the World and the scientific community by cracking the AIDS virus DNA code in only 3 weeks after the experts spent over a decade getting nowhere. So two “impossible” events happened right in a row. Then it happened again because immediately after CERN’s shocking announcement that neutrinos were exceeding the speed of light an amateur that had previously posted his findings on time and its relationship to Mass oscillation and phosphate and sugar phase timing spent 20 minutes doing the calculations that showed Stanford’s SLAC E158 data proved CERN’s neutrino data was correct and was caused by the asymmetry of the weak force and the neutrinos had not exceeded the speed of light confirming Einstein was right again. And it also showed Einstein made a mistake when he said he made a mistake….adding the asymmetry of the weak force and the harmonic comma the two sets of data combined produced creates a new cosmological constant. But politics remain the same. CERN’s neutrinos exceeding the speed of light @ v-c/c=2.48 sec in 453.6 miles is an exact match with Stanford’s SLAC E158 weak force asymmetry value showing the cause of 2.48e-5 is not the politics of a “loose fiber optic cable” checked countless times with the same “gain in space” shown by FERMI Lab’s neutrinos supporting an observation that goes back to 1947 and is summed up in 2007 by G. Nimtz and A. A. Stahlhofen who also thought it occurs outside the bounds of SR [arXiv:0708.0681v1] not aware of the simple explanation E158 data provides with direct proof provided by SLAC’s E158 data exposing a gain in 453.6 miles also @ 2.48e-5 with a .20 harmonic comma as I predicted for the needed asymmetry in the reverse arrow/phase of time the calculations reveal changing physics. SLAC’s data comes from the distance light travels in 1000 years at the speed of light in a ratio to a 1 hour SOL gain making this comparative measurement the most spectacular ever made in physics and does so in regard to the most important observation in the History of Man. What this means is E=m+{a}c2 outside the weak force where E=mc2 inside it because the original equation does not include the photon’s force carrier space the neutrino provides to exit the weak force to the strong force. But the Great Professor was right: there are no dice and {a} adds the cosmological constant needed to balance “H”. But remember we are dealing with concepts built out of time so you can’t have two sides of one concept at the same exact time. You can’t put up where down goes, or movement (velocity) with non-movement (position). But since you can’t have nothing (no Observer) without something (the Observer) to create the concept of nothing this logic creates an arrow to put a concept in an information frame whereas one side will tell you the other side. God plays cards to say “I Am” and slip us a new card in the middle of saying it. Low to high entropy, E=h+{a-lesser diesis}c/wavelength. High to low entropy, E=h+{a}c/wavelength. The lesser diesis is named Einstein’s comma, but here it’s Maxwell’s Demon and it cannot be in two places at the same time/size in ratio to time. John F. Hendry^^ I disagree. Many of Einstein’s papers were controversial — and widely rejected — when they were written. But they were not vague, not to other physicists. This is clear from the fact that certain (though by no means all) other physicists understood them immediately, even as they rejected them. In my career I have seen numerous breakthrough papers, nothing as big as Einstein but quite a few shockers. They were not vague. 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__label__wiki	0.663121	0.663121	NCNN/Real Estate Pahrump NV >> Community Senior menus for Pahrump, Amargosa Valley and Beatty Pahrump Senior Center Special to Pahrump Valley Times Senior menus have been announced for the region's senior centers. The menu (subject to change) and activities for the week of Aug. 27 – Aug. 31. Two percent milk and juice available daily: Monday – Roast beef sub with tomato/lettuce/onion, chips, coleslaw, lentil soup; Tuesday — Brown sugar chicken with bacon, scalloped potatoes, baby carrots, salad, fruit, soup; Wednesday – Beef enchiladas, colorful salad, French dressing, fruit cocktail, soup; Thursday — Ham steak, au gratin potatoes, green beans, whole wheat roll, pinto bean soup; Friday – Meatloaf, steamed spinach, whole wheat bread, fruit cup, soup. Monday — Exercise class, 9:30 a.m.; poker, 12:30 p.m.; beading class, 12:30 p.m.; Tuesday — Exercise class, 9:30 a.m.; Bunco, 12:30 p.m.; haircuts, 1 p.m.; Wednesday – Rippets (knitting and crocheting), 11 a.m.; Blind Support, 12:30 p.m.; Crafty Ladies, 12:30 p.m.; Thursday — Men’s Breakfast meeting, 7:30 a.m.; exercise class, 9:30 a.m.; Rippets (knitting and crocheting), 11 a.m.; haircuts, 1 p.m.; ballroom dance class, 1:00-2:30 p.m.; Friday — TOPS meeting, 7 a.m.; exercise class, 9:30 a.m. Amargosa Valley Senior Center The menu (subject to change) for the week of Aug. 27 – Aug. 31: One percent milk available daily. Meals are served at the Amargosa Valley Senior Center from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Breakfast served from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Monday – Baked liver and onions, Mexicorn, tomatoes vinaigrette, mashed potatoes, whole wheat bread, sliced peaches; Tuesday — Baked salmon, shrimp cocktail, coleslaw, potato salad, assorted fresh fruit; Wednesday — Barbecued chicken, sour cream potato salad, peas and carrots, steamed spinach, 7-grain bread, honeydew melon; Thursday — Turkey chili, cornbread, mixed green salad, low-sodium/low-fat Italian dressing, ambrosia; Friday — Scrambled eggs with green onion, home fries, low-sodium sausage, oatmeal with apples, yogurt. Beatty Senior Center Pre-packaged meals will be warmed and served at the Beatty Community Center, 100 A Ave. S., Monday through Friday, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Suggested donation for seniors is $3, $6 is required for non-seniors. Meals will be served on site only (meals cannot be taken from the center). 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__label__wiki	0.85309	0.85309	Betty Buckley Stands Out Among Long Line of ‘Hello, Dolly!’ Stars Hello, Betty! By Perry Tannenbaum Cast members of ‘Hello, Dolly!’ (Photo by Julieta Cervantes) You don’t win many friends among theatre fanatics if you fault any of the divas who have portrayed Dolly Gallagher Levi onstage on the Great White ‘Way. You’ll never catch me saying a word against how Carol Channing, Ethel Merman, Pearl Bailey, Ginger Rogers, Bette Midler, Donna Murphy, Bernadette Peters or Ruth Gordon played the iconic matchmaker’s role on Broadway. Yes, that Ruth Gordon. She was the original Dolly in Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker before the “Farce in Four Acts,” set to music by Jerry Herman with a two-act book by Michael Stewart, blossomed into the pure box office gold of Hello, Dolly! Obviously, David Merrick knew a hot property when he saw it. Merrick produced the 1955 farce and the 1964 musical, installing Channing in the star turn that ensured her place in the theatre firmament. Notwithstanding the merits of all the other greats who have done Dolly afterward, Channing stands apart, reviving her triumph in 1978 and 1995. Superiority is a different question, as you might decide after seeing Betty Buckley, her name flying proudly above the title in your playbill, in the current touring version at Belk Theater. With four-time Tony Award winner Jerry Zaks directing and four-time winner Santo Loquasto helming sets and costumes, this is one roadshow with unmistakable Broadway polish and sparkle. On such a wondrous platform — with a notably strong supporting cast — Buckley confidently takes her place in the Dolly pantheon. Betty Buckley (right) in ‘Hello, Dolly!’ (Photo by Julieta Cervantes) Given free rein by Zaks, Buckley may well be the most multi-faceted of them all. Aiming her soliloquies to the uppermost balcony, Dolly’s pleadings to her dearly departed Ephraim, asking him to release her before it’s too late so that she can make one last match for herself — so she can discard her eternal hustling and meddling and for once, dammit, enjoy life — are as poignant as you’ll ever see them. Yet her moments of comedy, shamelessly hambone, are invariably on-target, whether she’s working the audience or leading Yonkers merchant Horace Vandergelder on a merry chase into her own arms. She literally makes a meal out of Dolly’s long, epicurean insouciance before deigning to participate in the climactic courtroom trial of the Harmonia Gardens revelers — and we enjoy every bite. Yet while she’s confounding and dazzling Horace, Buckley somehow remains regally apart from the repressed underlings at Vandergelder’s Hay and Feed Store, Cornelius Hackl and Barnaby Tucker, who are also bamboozling Horace, AWOL from their Yonkers clerking jobs. They are doubly freed from humdrum Yonkers, for space is cleared away for their farce to shine when they all converge at Mrs. Molloy’s Hat Shop on Water Street in Manhattan. It’s a fizzy whirl when Cornelius and Barnaby, smitten by Molloy and her clerk, are cornered as Dolly and then Horace arrive — for the widowed Irene Molloy is the specious match that Dolly has hand-picked for her esteemed Yonkers client. On one level, Dolly is helping Cornelius and Barnaby to prevent their boss from discovering their truancy. On the other, she’s helping to sustain the humble lackeys’ chances with the women by not blowing their respectable well-to-do covers. Portents of farce are strewn among earlier scenes, beginning with Dolly’s having a business card for every human need under the sun. When Horace explains why he has decided to marry again in “It Takes a Woman,” the entire male population of Yonkers materializes at his store (the “Instant Glee Club” according to your playbill) for the refrains and vanishes just as instantaneously for the widower’s verses. In the ensuing scene at the Yonkers railway depot, when Horace and Dolly set off for their big city adventures, the bustle of the townsfolk smacks us with costume colors as pastel-bright as the most tempting bakery marshmallows. The victim of multiple deceptions, Lewis J. Stadlen feasts most heartily on the farce as Horace, a whirlwind of frustration and confusion. The little speech before “It Takes a Woman,” lifted intact from Wilder, gives us a rare glimpse into why Horace is actually worthy of Dolly’s love, but unlike Charles LaBorde, who played the role at Halton Theater the last time CPCC presented Dolly, Stadlen doesn’t bother embedding that latent homebody goodness in his portrayal. Horace’s proposal, after countless peremptory refusals of Dolly’s hints, struck me totally out of left field this time around. Hard to explain, but Stadlen’s approach works beautifully, nearly as touching as Buckley’s confabs with her dear Ephraim. Extra bonus: Stadlen starts off Act 2 with “Penny in My Pocket,” a song that was axed from Herman’s original score before the 1964 Broadway premiere and finally restored in the 2017 revival. Horace’s solo spotlight only detains us momentarily from the comedy of his penniless Yonkers clerks and the fashionable Manhattan milliners who have captivated them. Yet this second-tier story is hardly a detour, for the contrast between timid penny-pinching Barney and the driven adventuresome Cornelius echoes the clash between Horace’s provincial prudence and Dolly’s cosmopolitan joie de vivre. You can also spy a similar disparity between Minnie Fay and her boss Irene, both of whom are courted by kindred spirits. As a foursome, the younger generation serves up more frenetic comedy at the Hat Shop and Harmonia Gardens. You won’t have any problem taking to Analisa Leaming’s elegance as Irene or Kirsten Hahn’s adorable shyness as Minnie, and Sean Burn’s high anxieties are often throwback treats comparable to Stadlen’s. What really made me sit up and take notice as I watched the younger lovebirds in their mating dances was Nic Rouleau, who demonstrated what a star-quality voice can do for the role of Cornelius. Any sailor from the 1920’s onward — and many, many teens today — would snicker at Cornelius’ notion of taking a train down to New York and not returning to Yonkers until he had been kissed by a woman. But corny Cornelius isn’t a sailor or a hip teen. He’s a Yonkers clerk in the early 1880’s who has languished for a long, long time in Vandergelder’s cellar instead of living it up. When Rouleau sings “It Only Takes a Moment,” it doesn’t obscure the objective fact that Herman’s lyrics are pure twaddle, but the undeniable authenticity of Cornelius’ first-time reaction ransoms it from hyperbole. Similarly, you might notice that Buckley adds a little contemplative weight to the opening section of “Before the Parade Passes By,” registering the sadness of squandering years in facilitating and manipulating that could have held more satisfaction if they had simply been enjoyed. Yes, we get the usual evocations of trombones, brass bands and batons before the curtain falls for intermission. But the ascent to that moment gets steeper after Buckley’s rueful recognition of how precious every moment of life is. It’s a performance and a production that occasionally take us back to the Our Town essence of Thornton Wilder.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0054.json.gz/line1665

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