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__label__cc	0.508912	0.491088	2008 One Pound <- Click Here to go back to the main £1 Coins in Circulation page Two different £1 coins were issued in 2008. The first is identical to the 2003 and 1998 £1 coins (using the original 1983 reverse). It was decided that all UK circulating coins with £1 value and lower should be re-designed. During 2008 both the old and the new design were released into circulation. The OLD type: Obverse Type 3 (bust design by Ian Rank-Broadley): Reverse Type 1 (design by Eric Sewell): Edge: DECUS ET TUTAMEN. Mintage for Circulation: 3,910,000. Collectability/Scarcity: 2 (for scale details see here) The story behind the design: The obverse portrait of the Queen by Ian Rank-Broadley was used on all UK circulated coinage from 1998 to 2014 and on many coins dated 2015. It was the fourth portrait of the Queen used on coinage. The reverse design shows the United Kingdom Royal Arms by Eric Sewell. The edge inscription ‘DECUS ET TUTAMEN’ is Latin for ‘An ornament and safeguard’ and was originally used on coins so that the public could tell that the edge was complete, and therefore that the coin was of good weight (without clipped edges). The NEW type: Reverse Type 15 (design by Matthew Dent): Mintage for Circulation: 43,827,300. The obverse portrait of the Queen by Ian Rank-Broadley was used on all UK circulated coinage from 1998 to 2014 and on many coins dated 2015. The new 2008 – 2015 coins have no rim beading on either side. The reverse design shows the shield of the Royal Arms by Matthew Dent. The edge inscription is ‘DECUS ET TUTAMEN’, as above. Matthew (Matt) Dent won the competition to design the all-new 2008 coinage. He grew up in Wales and studied Graphic design at the University of Brighton.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line1991
__label__wiki	0.525799	0.525799	<- Click Here to go back to the other Coins in Circulation page The 20p was first issued in 1982 and has proved a popular denomination, being struck in large numbers ever since. Five different obverses and two reverses have been used to date. In 2008 an error (undated) coin known as a ‘mule’ was made using mis-matching obverse and reverse dies. Specifications are shown at the bottom of this page. Obverse Type 1, used 1982 – 1984 (bust design by Arnold Machin): Reverse Type 1, used 1982 – 2008 (design by William Gardner): Edge: Plain. The design: Heraldic English rose, royally crowned. ‘TWENTY PENCE’ and the date on either side. ’20’ below the rose. 1982, Mintage 740,815,000. 1984, Mintage 63,350,965. Collectability/Scarcity (all): 1 (for scale details see here) Obverse Type 2, used 1985 – 1992 (bust design by Raphael Maklouf): Obverse Type 2 (larger variant), used 1992 – 1997 (bust design by Raphael Maklouf): 1986, None made for circulation, 167,000 were made for sets. 1992, Mintage 31,205,000 for both types, see below. Collectability/Scarcity: 1. Except 1986 and 1992 with large head: 3 (for scale details see here) Notes for 1992: A slight enlargement was made to the Queen’s head during 1992 leading to two slightly different coins being made that year. The variety only exists for 1992. All of the 1993-1997 coins use the larger head and all of the 1985-1991 coins bear the smaller head. The 1992 small head coin was thought to be scarcer than the large head, but new information would seem to imply that the large head coins were the coins that were circulated in large numbers, did not go into the year sets and are now hardest to find (especially in top condition as most have seen normal use). The easiest way to tell the difference is that the small head bust has a much sharper point where the neck ends at the bottom right. Both types are shown above. Obverse Type 3, used 1998 – 2008 (bust design by Ian Rank-Broadley): Obverse Type 3, mismatched with Reverse Type 2 This is the famous ‘dateless’ error coin, which uses the wrong (older) obverse with the new reverse that was introduced in 2008. Technically it’s known as a mule when obverse and reverse dies get mixed up to create a coin that should not have been made (the last time this happened for a Royal Mint circulation coin was in 1983 on the 2p coin with NEW PENCE. It also happened in 1994 for the Bank of England £2 coin – where some gold proof versions of those were made with the incorrect obverse from the double sovereign). The new Matthew Dent designed reverse doesn’t include a date, and this meant that the obverse was modified to show the date instead. Somehow someone failed to notice and loaded up the Royal Mint machine with the dies for Obverse Type 3 and a large number (probably about 100,000) were struck and released into circulation. Initially a few collectors noticed them and were puzzled. They started changing hands for about the same as they are currently. About six months after they were made, the media got hold of the story and all of a sudden everyone wanted one and people were genuinely paying far too much for them. There was a constant stream of them available online etc as people wanted to cash in and all of a sudden everyone was speculating. This attracted some very dubious characters and there were stories of meetings and attempted muggings and not to mention people that were clearly selling normal coins with stolen pictures or with cleverly worded descriptions so that the buyers actually received two coins (both normal ones) and not to mention the odd normal coin that had its date filed off! It was utter madness. Beware of recent Chinese made forgeries of the dateless 20p. The fakes usually have a proof-like appearance and the Queen’s eye and hair detail looks wrong (among other minor differences). Collectability/Scarcity: 5 (for scale details see here). Reverse Type 2, used 2008 – date (design by Matthew Dent): Lower right section of the Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom. 2008, Mintage 115,022,000. Note that for 2008, for 2009 and possibly 2010 a reverse die break seems to have occurred leading to some coin reverses appearing to have an upside down ‘1’ in the middle of the raised rim at the bottom of the reverse as shown below. Obverse Type 5, used 2015 onwards (bust design by (Mr) Jody Clark): 2017, None made for circulation, further info to follow. 2019, Mintage number not yet know. Specifications for all 20p coins: Size: 21.4mm Width: 1.7mm Metal Composition: Cupro-nickel (84% copper, 16% nickel) Weight: 5.00 grammes	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line1992
__label__cc	0.729733	0.270267	Polkadot Consultants Ltd Business Consultant, Training Provider, Marketing Consultant, Training and Development Testimonials [6] Tracy JonesOperations Director Polkadot Consultants has worked in close partnership with Blue Training over three years. Working in a number of joint... - June 2017 Change Coaching Change Management Training Telesales Training Emotional Resilience Appraisal Training Competency Framework Developer Performance Management Course Customer Care Training Presentation Skills Course 30 Years Experience and Still Going Strong We have worked in recruitment, consultancy, organisational development and learning and development for many years and together with our employees and associate trainers provide a first class service that emphasises the use of learning as a tool for your business success, that generates wealth for you. We are based in Manchester and are now offering learning and consultancy nationwide in multiple industries and disciplines including: soft skills, sales, recruitment and IT. We are proud of our ethos and you can read more below about what makes us tick. Polkadot Consultants Ltd Mission To support businesses and learners, through logical, realism based educational and developmental activities that maximise wealth generation potential and strive for excellence for our clients. Polkadot Consultants Ltd Vision To be a provider of rigorous and challenging learning and organisational development consultancy to the business sector and as a result be a recognised, valued and respected partner for success. Polkadot Consultants Ltd Values We are committed to creating a work environment built on respect and recognition for individual and group accomplishments that fosters the personal and professional growth of all employees and learners. Learning is at the heart of everything we do. We value teamwork, creativity, and risk-taking. We cultivate collaborative relationships and value quality of performance, striving for excellence through competence and dedication to hard work and pride in delivering quality and value for money. Creativity is the lifeblood of our organisation. We respect each other and celebrate our diversity so that everyone can give their best. We recognise the contributions that the diversity of backgrounds, experience, and thinking styles brings to the workplace. We offer each other support and speak respectfully of others in their absence. As colleagues, we treat each other with courtesy, and seek to resolve conflicts constructively, even when we disagree. We provide consultancy and learning of the highest quality—to advance the frontiers of knowledge and to prepare people for life, work, and leadership with the emphasis on honest realism and the minimisation of the dangers of oversimplification in a modern world. 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This is astonishing news from a major... www.polkadotconsultants.co.uk http://www.polkadotconsultants.co.uk/1568-2/Because we all want to ensure that well-being and equality is important in the workplace. I could not be more… Read More \| Polkadot Consultants Ltd We are pleased to announce that our... Primarks Shame Exposed to the Tune of 47K Our latest blog critices Primark after huge payout for discrimination. Polkadot... Horrifying but Vital - From the BBC I find it hard to explain the harrowing effect this documentary had on me last night. I was reduced to tears by the… #sales, #gatekeeper, #eduselling Eduselling - Getting Past the Gatekeeper 19th September, Tuesday 9:30 Manchester, M1 3WD #mentalhealth, #polkadotconsultants Mental Health Awareness for Employers and Leaders 14th September, Thursday 9:00	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line1994
__label__wiki	0.52438	0.52438	Off the beaten track in Laos January 30, 2015 BY Ashleigh Yardy CHILDFUND AUSTRALIA We bumped, bounced and maneuvered our way through the steep mountains of northern Laos. Clinging to the single dirt track that wound around and around the peak, we even found ourselves above the clouds which had stubbornly remained in the valley that morning. Deeper we ventured. ChildFund Laos had promised us an “off the beaten track” experience and we all agreed they did not disappoint! Each new kilometre we travelled I found it hard to fathom where we would possibly find a village in this isolated terrain, but seeing the occasional passerby served to remind us that life is not only present but thriving in this remote part of the world. Crouched between the mountain peaks we found our destination. Bigger than I had expected, this ChildFund partner community is home to almost 1,000 people with many more dispersed around the hinterland. We passed many neat wood homes as we made our way to the local school where we were to meet the village authorities. New to ChildFund Laos` support, we were told that many of the people who live here have had little experience with foreigners. This quickly became evident as we wandered through the village with the community leaders. Every few metres our convoy grew, with kids and adults alike curious to get a closer look at the strange-looking foreigners with their funny noses. We were warmly welcomed into the family home of the village head. With lunch packed away in our bags, it came as a surprise that his family had kindly cooked a big feast for us to all enjoy. Our party was a mix of English, Lao and H`mong speakers, yet language hardly seemed a barrier as we shared a delicious meal of chicken, pork, soup, vegetables and rice all sourced from the local area. We were honoured and very thankful for this experience. Though, despite our best intentions, none of us could quite stomach the thought of eating the chicken foot that had been offered to us as guests of the village! Lucky for us, one of the community leaders was only too happy to take on the responsibility. After lunch we headed back to the primary school where we had the opportunity to meet some of the children. Three young girls, who reminded us of little penguins in their big warm ChildFund jackets, were already waiting for us. It wasn`t long before more children started to gather outside the school fence, curious but not yet brave enough to make the journey past us to their waiting friends. We watched with amusement as one by one they would run from their hiding places across no man’s land (otherwise known as the school yard) to the safety of the school and their peers. They may have been nervous to begin with but the school yard quickly transformed. Seventeen-year-old Andrew, who aspires to a career in soccer coaching, took the initiative to locate a soccer ball. He resembled the Pied Piper as a group of soccer-mad teens followed him into the yard. We were all impressed by the way Andrew used hand signals and demonstrations to help improve the boys` kicking styles. Once goal practice was done, a game of soccer followed. At the same time Robyn, Isabel and Phil began what became an activity-filled afternoon. They started with Velcro ball, which amazed many of the children who had to put all their might into detaching the ball from the Velcro. The team followed this up with tunnel ball, over-and-under, copy-cat and, finally, elastics. Squeals of joy could be heard all over the school yard. Jen, an early childhood educator, was quick to spot the shyest children who preferred to watch the others play from the sidelines. From her experience working with young children for whom English is not their first language, Jen knew patience would be the key with these kids. Equipped with Aussie marsupial puppets, it was wonderful to watch as Jen slowly achieved her first smirk, which changed into a smile then giggles and laughter. After we had all said our goodbyes to the children and had a chance to catch our breath, we walked to the new preschool, located just behind the primary school. This was a pretty special moment. Together, the Laos Discovery participants raised over $14,000 towards the construction of this new preschool the first preschool ever in this community. At present, children under five have no place to go while their parents work in surrounding fields. Toddlers are often left with older siblings who mind them. As a result they are not stimulated and development milestones are not met, and their older siblings are unable to finish school. The school principal told us that about 100 infants will attend the preschool once it is completed in July. It is truly incredible to think that our Laos Discovery team helped to change the lives of these families forever. ChildFund Australia would like to say a huge thanks to the Laos Discovery team for their wonderful efforts in fundraising to help support the construction of the first preschool in this community, and to everyone in the community who made them feel so welcome. Australian family and friends build community hall in Laos Why visiting your sponsored child is a rewarding experience 5 charity fundraising ideas for preschools How to choose the perfect Christmas gift Sydney school raises $3000 for children in need Gift Giving and The Real Meaning of Christmas Three generations put best foot forward in charity fun run Getting off the beaten track with a postie bike in Cambodia Friendship inspires long-time sponsor to leave a gift in her will Australian engineering boss employs his former sponsored child	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line1996
__label__cc	0.580326	0.419674	Cheltenham BID Awards Family Business Awards Archive Editions 6 ISSUES FOR £6 Subscribe to Cotswold Life today CLICK HERE Gloucester's Jubilee pies PUBLISHED: 13:56 01 June 2012 \| UPDATED: 21:27 20 February 2013 Gloucester Folk Museum Tea Rooms have been very busy creating not one, but two very special pies for this month's Jubilee celebrations... Gloucesters Jubilee pies While the Jubilee Lamprey Pie is being made by the team at the Folk Museum Tea Rooms ready to present to His Royal Highness, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, and Her Royal Highness Sophie, Countess of Wessex, later in June, Gloucester Museums have also been making a second Jubilee pie The Jubilee Wishes Pie has been made by museums staff and is a replica of the traditional Lamprey Pie.However, instead of filling this pie with lampreys, it will be filled with best wishes to the Queen from the people of Gloucester. Taking pride of place at the City Museums Village Fete event on Saturday, June 2 and then going to the Party in the Park at Gloucester Park on Monday, June 4 and Tuesday, June 5, Gloucester residents will be able to write their messages and put them straight in the pie. The pie will remain on display at the City Museum until Gloucester Day on Saturday, September 1 where it will be carried around the streets at the front of the parade and then handed over to Dame Janet Trotter, Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, who will take it to Buckingham palace for the Queen. Gloucester Folk Museum, 99-103 Westgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 2PG, tel: 01452 396280, www.gloucestermuseums.co.uk Cotswold villages: 10 of the prettiest places to visit 15 of the best places to eat out in Broadway, Cotswolds WIN a £200 Gloucester Quays gift card and luxury food hamper Afternoon tea in the Cotswolds: 19 of the best places to go Latest from the Cotswold Life Worcestershire’s GanderBrewCo taps into technology to inspire YouTube generation Advice: How firms can protect themselves against harassment claims Winckworth Sherwood moves to a new office suite at Oxford’s Chawley Park Clarkson Evans wins ECA Large Contractor of the Year Award Hartpury’s £2 million Agri-Tech Centre – Tech to Plate Project starts to take shape	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line1999
__label__cc	0.573993	0.426007	Sexual Delinquency Sexual Delinquency Overview It’s not a pleasant topic to discuss, but teen sexual delinquency is a very real problem that can lead to devastating results for perpetrators, victims, family members and other loved ones. According to the sex abuse awareness organization Stop It Now, adolescent and teen sex offenders are responsible for up to 50% of all sexual abuse of children. Experts have estimated that as many as 300,000 cases of child sexual abuse occur every year, and that there may be more than 50 million survivors of sexual abuse in the United States alone. Most discussions involving teens and sexual abuse involve teens as victims of adult sexual perpetrators. But the unfortunate truth is that many teens have engaged in sexually abusive behaviors themselves. Instances of teen sexual delinquency (also referred to as sexually abusive youth) may include rape, molestation, and other forms of illicit and illegal sexual behaviors. As is also the case with sexually abusive adults, sexually abusive youth may target victims of all ages. Some sexually abusive youth may victimize children, while others prey on peers or older adults. Many sexually delinquent teens have histories of being abused themselves, though no one common element links all cases of teen sexual delinquency. The category of teen sexual delinquency can include teens who have been arrested and charged with sexual assault, as well as adolescents and teenagers whose improper sexual behaviors have not yet resulted in their adjudication. Causes of Sexual Delinquency As indicated elsewhere within the teen sexual delinquency section of this site, there is no one common element that links all cases of teen sexual delinquency or can be attributed as a definite cause of teen sexual abuse. Many adolescents and teenagers who commit sexual assaults have histories of being sexually assaulted or abused in other ways, though not every teen sexual offender has a history of being abused or neglected. The majority of teen sexual delinquents have some form of a mental illness — though there is no one psychiatric condition that is common among all teen sex offenders. About half of teens who commit sexual abuse have a learning disability or other disorder that has led to academic failure and frustration. Also, many teen sexual delinquents have significant problems with impulse control and the ability to make sound judgments regarding their behavior and the consequences that might befall themselves and others as a result of those behaviors. According to the Center for Sex Offender Management, about 90% of teen sex offenders are male — but with more than 11,000 teens arrested each year for sexual assault, clearly a number of female teenagers also commit acts of sexual delinquency. Most juvenile sex offenders are between the ages of 13 and 18. Symptoms of Sexual Delinquency The nature of teen sexual delinquency and sexual predators in general involves a near obsession with secrecy. Sexual delinquents are often skilled at hiding or covering up their behaviors, which is one of the reasons why so many teen sex offenders and adult sex offenders are able to get away with their offenses for long periods of time. However, even in the absence of catching a teen sexual delinquent in the act of molesting or otherwise sexually abusing someone, there are several signs that could indicate that a young person is a potential teen sexual delinquent. The following behaviors and attitudes are common among teen sexual delinquents: Refuses to take responsibility for actions Associates sex with violence in both actions and attitudes (for example, employs sexual terminology when arguing or insulting someone) Has a tendency to sexually harass others (including peers and adults) Expresses deviant attitude toward sex Demonstrates an inability to control sexual behaviors Views sexual images (especially sexualized images of children) online or via other media Blames others for personal setbacks or failures Exudes a sense of selfishness and entitlement Has poor self-image and low self-esteem Appears incapable of empathizing with others Has difficulty forming and maintaining healthy relationships with peers and adults Prefers company of younger children Provides younger children with alcohol and other illicit substances Needs to be in positions of power or control in all situations Was abused as a child or experience other childhood traumas As is the case with all types of mental health disorders and compulsive behaviors, no one sign or symptom is clear evidence that a person is a teen sexual delinquent (except, of course, actually observing the offender engaging in sexual abuse). However, teens who display a number of the symptoms above are at increased risk for engaging in sexually abusive behaviors. Treatment For Sexual Delinquency The treatment of teen sex abusers is a complex undertaking that depends upon a number of internal and external factors. Few if any teen sex offenders are struggling “only” with a compulsion to commit acts of sexual delinquency — and the presence of a potentially wide range of additional mental health and behavioral challenges can significantly increase the complexity of determining the optimal course of treatment for a teen sexual delinquent. Regardless of whether or not they are court-ordered to receive treatment, juvenile sex offenders and teen sexual delinquents often benefit most from a comprehensive course of intensive treatment in a residential treatment facility. Components of a treatment program for teen sex offenders may include some or all of the following elements: Highly structured schedule and strict supervision Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Empathy training 12-Step education and support Relapse prevention education The good news about teen sexual delinquency is that adolescents and teenagers who receive treatment after committing sexual offenses are much less likely to re-offend than are adults to commit similar sexual assaults. The CSOM puts that recidivism rate of juvenile sex offenders at about 10 percent. (For purposes of comparison, experts put the recidivism for adult child molesters at about 20 percent, while about 23 percent of adult rapists are re-convicted for sex offenses.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2002
__label__cc	0.556656	0.443344	Home » Teams » Eagles » The Morning After: A Fantastic Night in Philly Sports, Phillies Win Ratings Battle The Morning After: A Fantastic Night in Philly Sports, Phillies Win Ratings Battle Ryan Madson's new Halloween mask that he's been wearing around the clubhouse. For real. Last night was one of those rare, but welcome, instances where you need two televisions. A Phillies playoff game and an Eagles prime time game on head to head. The last time such an event occurred was on Memorial Day weekend, when the Flyers were playing Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals and Roy Halladay was throwing a perfect game. If you only had one TV, my philosophy is a simple one: you watch the playoff game. No matter what sport it is, you always watch the playoff game. And that’s what happened (for the most part). Early estimates say that the Phillies game received a 27.7 rating and the Eagles game a 24.1 rating- meaning roughly 100k more households watched baseball in Philadelphia. Nationwide, however, the football game received an 11.7 rating, while the baseball game had just a 3.9. You can look at that one of two ways. Either Philly has become a baseball town over the last few years, or, given the fact that it was a playoff game, the Phillies should have crushed the Eagles in ratings and didn't. I’m torn. One thing is for certain, there appears to be a disconnect between local media and fans. The overwhelming sentiment from readers, commenters, and informal discussions is that the Phillies are king. But tuning into local radio and television might give you a different perspective. The amount of Michael Vick coverage two weeks ago seemed vastly disproportion to overall public interest on the matter. One local radio host told me “for talk radio, the Eagles are king.” Perhaps having something to complain about beats general euphoria. Last night, Phillies post-game live was immediately cut short (although they did come back to it later) on CSN in favor of Eagles coverage. A very impromptu poll on Twitter asked fans “would you rather see Chooch with champagne or Eagles interviews?” There was not one pro-Eagles response. That’s not to imply that this might not still be a football town, but right now the Phillies are the team people care about and have a positive opinion of. Even Eagles wins are marred by controversy and questionable coaching decisions. The mere mention of Andy Reid and the Vick-Kolb situation elicits an eye roll from most. The Phillies, however, are beloved from top to bottom. In either case, last night was a spectacular night for Philly sports fans. The Phillies have advanced to a third straight NLCS and the Eagles won a road game on prime time television. Philly Sports Daily has a great timeline of events from Rock Bottom. My favorite line is from 9:12 PM: "It’s obvious Cole Hamels is dealing." More on Madson's mask at The Wiz Wit. eagles, phillies, ratings PrevPreviousCole Hamels Turned Down Pregame Shot, Werth Goes Nuts with Champagne NextChooch Hits 103 MPH FastballsNext Thom Yorke October 11, 2010 at 1:06 pm Hey look it’s Miguel Cairo chris c. October 11, 2010 at 1:22 pm more like joe girardi bring on the giants or braves,don’t matter.either one has no shot.go phils! John E. October 11, 2010 at 2:45 pm Besides football being a better TV sport (more breaks to eat, drink, etc), I think the nationwide ratings sort of reflect the problem baseball has created for itself. By focusing so much of its coverage on teams with big payrolls in NY, Boston, Chicago, LA, St. Louis, and now Philly and SF a little more, and with no salary cap, 2/3 of the teams in the league know they have no chance to compete for a title unless the stars align for them. Only a handful of teams can afford to pay for the starting pitchers it takes to win in the playoffs. A team like Cinci or Minnesota can win 90 games, but can’t win in a short series against the big boys with superior starting pitching. If you’re a sports fan from another city than one mentioned above, your football team probably has a much better chance to win a title than your baseball team does. So that’s where the majority of the country’s attention is. Competitive imbalance is the problem. Also I agree, the Eagles generate more coverage because there are more issues to talk about. And negative feelings elicit more reaction than positive ones. There’s only so much you can say about a team playing great baseball. Also football with 3 units and more “set plays” there is just more to talk about. When you have a baseball game with 2 good starting pitchers, there’s not much more analysis you can offer than “wow, these 2 guys are pitching great.” Not alot of “managing” needed. It’s only the late inning chess matches with lefty/righty matchups and pinch hitters vs relief pitchers, bunt or don’t bunt, where there is real opportunity for analysis, 2nd-guessing, etc that feeds media coverage. Iron Balls McGinty October 11, 2010 at 4:49 pm “No matter what sport it is, you always watch the playoff game.” That’s like, the 11th Commandment, before Moses accidentally broke the 3rd tablet: As far as more Football coverage on the radio… Radio is for all the same old neanderthals that also listen to Rush. Ijfri October 12, 2010 at 10:39 am While searching for this article I came across Madson’s Twitter @RyanMadson46. Check it out if you’re interested. coach outlet November 10, 2010 at 8:15 pm Wow! Great info. 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__label__wiki	0.655603	0.655603	Collective: Square Enix, Indiegogo Launch Gamer-Focused Crowdfunding Initiative October 9, 2013 @ 12:58 pm By Charles Luzar In May we first reported on Square Enix taking interest in the crowdfunding model. On a Square Enix earnings call, Yosuke Matsuda had shared his interest in crowdfunding specifically as a means of market testing video games. At the time, Matsuda was thought to be next in line as President of the company. That was indeed the case, and Matsuda has wasted no time in making crowdfunding part of Square Enix’s overarching strategy going forward. RELATED – Crowdfunding: Large Video Game Publishers Taking Notice The Japanese video game developer and publisher has partnered with Indiegogo to create Collective, a tool to help video game developers “make something awesome.” Collective is a curated platform that enables creators to post ideas, and gamers to judge whether those ideas should become reality or not. Every idea that’s successful with the community is checked and helped by Square Enix, while a partnership with world-leading crowdfunding platform Indiegogo enables gamers to then back the ideas they love the most. Square Enix is creating a platform that will allow video game developers to seek the crowd’s input on their game ideas. Game developers can list their ideas on Collective. The crowd can then vote on which ideas they would like to see come to fruition. Successful candidates will be vetted by Square Enix and be given input on the scope of the project among other factors. If candidates make it through that due diligence process, they begin fundraising on Indiegogo. Square Enix would then help with distribution once the games are completed. Submitting a pitch to Collective is free. Square Enix will be releasing more information about the partnership at GDC Next, which takes place from November 5-7. The rise of crowdfunding platforms have pushed the concept of gamer choice to a new level, and Collective allows you to use your voice – but with the reassurance that before a project goes through to the funding stage, it’ll be checked and helped by our team to confirm that the scope of the pitch is in line with the team’s ability and ambition to create, as well as utilising our experience of game production to attach realistic budgeting plans. Crowdfunding: Large Video Game Publishers Taking Notice Square Enix’s PC Game Crowdfunding On-Ramp “Collective” Goes Live Collective: Square Enix Bets On Crowdfunding & Indiegogo For Video Games By The Numbers: 2014 A Huge Year For Video Games In Crowdfunding Crowdfunding News Roundup: November 9, 2013 Firefly Studios Turns To Gambitious For Stronghold Crusader 2 Campaign Star Citizen Hits Milestone, Backer Total Creeping Up On The Population Of A US State Despite Rhetoric, PayPal Continues To Scare Crowdfunders By Freezing Funds Crowdfund Bookie: Video Game Crowdfunding Goes Cold In January (Infographic) Crowdfund Bookie: Video Game Crowdfunding Continues Cold Streak Into 2014 Crowdfunding For Video Games Leveling Off: What Gives? #Crowdfunding News Roundup: November 14, 2013 Dragon Innovation To Launch Two New Features For Hardware-Related Crowdfunding Startups $23 Million Raised In Six Months For Game-Related Projects This entry was posted in General News, Investment Platforms and Marketplaces and tagged due diligence, gaming, indiegogo, partnership, rewards, square enix, video games, yosuke matsuda. Bookmark the permalink. Working Capital Fintech Demica Forms Partnership with Bank of Montreal	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2005
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__label__wiki	0.887246	0.887246	https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/local/article/Jennifer-Dulos-case-Norm-Pattis-tells-author-to-14082147.php Jennifer Dulos case: Norm Pattis tells author to ‘be gone, girl’ By John Nickerson Updated 3:56 pm EDT, Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Fotis Dulos, center, is accompanied by his attorneys Norm Pattis, left, and Rich Rochlin after making an appearance at Connecticut Superior Court in Stamford, Conn. Wednesday, June 26, 2019. Fotis Dulos appeared with his attorneys, Norm Pattis and Rich Rochlin, for a hearing Wednesday on motion by a divorce attorney for Jennifer Dulos to have Fotis Dulos and his attorneys held in contempt and for the court to impose sanctions for violating a judge’s order that sealed a custody and psychological evaluation conducted on the Dulos family. Fotis Dulos, center, is accompanied by his attorneys Norm Pattis, left, and Rich Rochlin after making an appearance at Connecticut Superior Court in Stamford, Conn. Wednesday, June 26, 2019. Fotis Dulos Photo: Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut Media NEW CANAAN — The search for Jennifer Dulos has continued amid a backdrop of sparring attorneys and a defense team’s controversial strategy to improve her estranged husband’s image. Defense attorney Norm Pattis has shot back at novelist Gillian Flynn, who criticized him last week for using the storyline of her book “Gone Girl” as a possible theory for Jennifer Dulos’ disappearance. In a statement released Tuesday, Pattis told Flynn: “Be gone, girl.” It was the latest in a series of verbal sparring spurred by Pattis and his defense team’s strategy to repair Fotis Dulos’ image while casting alternative theories to his wife’s disappearance. Fotis Dulos, 51, and his girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, 44, have been charged with tampering with evidence and hindering prosecution in the May 24 disappearance. Rich Rochlin, who is representing Fotis Dulos in his criminal and divorce cases, defended the legal team’s strategies, saying any lawyer has an affirmative duty to defend a client. Rochlin said that’s particularly important in a case like this where he said Fotis Dulos has been negatively impacted by the media and the state’s accusations. “There are rules that require that we step forward and get the client’s story out and paint him in the best possible light so that when the time for trial arrives, the potential pool of jurors has not been completely tainted by a one-sided effort to smear his name and tell only the state’s side of the story,” Rochlin said. New Canaan criminal defense attorney Matthew Maddox said he’s been thinking a lot about advocacy because of the Dulos case. But he said while there is no such affirmative duty that Rochlin talks about, attorneys take an oath to zealously represent their clients. “But being a zealous advocate does not mean being an irrational advocate. There is a balance between the two. I believe that truly dedicated and competent lawyers are required to be the narrators of our client’s story, but you better be sure your narrative is consistent and it can be substantiated. Not just in the immediate sense, but when you go before a jury, because jurors remember,” said Maddox, who is not involved in the Dulos case. “You have to be very careful about what you put out there and theorizing about a missing mother who has mimicked a piece of fiction and has abandoned her children to live some other life is ultimately not something that is going to favor your client.” Pattis said last month that Jennifer Dulos once wrote a 500-page manuscript similar to Flynn’s 2012 “Gone Girl” novel and could have used her “florid imagination” to frame her estranged husband. Flynn responded Friday, saying Pattis’ theory “absolutely sickens me that a work of fiction written by me would be used by Fotis Dulos’s lawyer as a defense, and as a hypothetical, sensationalized motive behind Jennifer’s very real and very tragic disappearance.” “Gone Girl” is about a woman involved in a troubled marriage disappearing on the couple’s wedding anniversary. The woman fakes her own death to frame her husband while she goes into hiding. Flynn’s book was converted into the 2014 movie by the same name that starred Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris and Tyler Perry. “Gillian Flynn’s ‘Gone Girl’ is the best book I’ve ever read on the misleading nature of circumstantial evidence. She made a fortune in royalties from the book and movie adaptation,” Pattis said in a statement released Tuesday. “Just how her fictional aptitude translates into expertise on an actual criminal case is an even greater mystery, however. “Candidly, Gillian’s ignorant fulminations about the Dulos case play to the very impulses she exploited in her book. So here’s a message to Gillian. Be gone, girl. There’s serious work to be done here. This isn’t fiction. It’s reality.” Pattis and his team’s strategy has bothered those close to Jennifer Dulos. A spokeswoman for her family said Pattis, who also claimed his team was investigating a “revenge suicide” theory, has made “irresponsible allegations” that hurt the five Dulos children “now and into the future." Jennifer Dulos’ divorce attorney, Reuben Midler, said he felt it was “not appropriate” for the defense team to organize others to contact the media to “convey the defendant’s position.” Last week, Fotis Dulos’ sister, Rena, reached out to media organizations, offering interviews to support her brother and also released a statement. Last Tuesday, Fotis Dulos agreed to his first one-on-one interview where he spoke to NBC New York, but refused to talk about specifics of the case. Rochlin released a statement this week from a leader of a Greek water skiing association in support of his client. Nancy Mastrocosta, secretary general of the Hellenic Waterski and Wakeboard Federation in Athens, Greece, said Fotis Dulos “is not the person portrayed in the media.” Rochlin said the defense team looks for people who have known Fotis Dulos for years, who find the allegations and charges against him to be completely out of character, and who feel compelled to tell their story. “We will help them do that so their story can be heard,” Rochlin said. “His wife’s story is being told and that is an important story to be told, but there is another story to be told about what kind of a dad Fotis is and what kind of a person he is.” Jennifer and Fotis Dulos have been involved in a contentious two-year divorce that mostly centered on custody of their children. Jennifer Dulos’ mother, Gloria Farber, has been caring for the children since the disappearance and is seeking legal custody of them. Fotis Dulos has been banned from contacting his children as part of the conditions of his release on $500,000 bond. But Rochlin, who has filed a motion to suspend the divorce proceedings since Jennifer Dulos is unable to participate, said his client wants to have some form of communication with his children. The charges against Fotis Dulos and Troconis stem from video footage showing two people matching their descriptions in Hartford the night of the disappearance. Fotis Dulos was seen on video surveillance dumping bags that contained his wife’s blood, according to arrest warrants. State’s Attorney Richard Colangelo said Fotis Dulos’ DNA was also found mixed with his wife’s blood on the faucet of her kitchen sink.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2010
__label__wiki	0.533169	0.533169	Churches and Convents Nuestra Senora del Carmen Nuestra Senora del Carmen, Villa Clara. Cuba Destination: Villa Clara Address From: Ave. Maximo Gomez e/ San Pablo y Coyendo, Santa Clara. Villa Clara, Cuba Description Churches and Convents: Nuestra Senora del Carmen, Villa Clara. Cuba This church located north of Parque Vidal was erected in 1748, with its distinctive tower added in 1846. The sizeable monument out front commemorates Santa Clara’s creation in 1689. To view all Churches and Convents in Villa Clara then click here . To view all Churches and Convents in Cuba then click here . Car rental offices next to Nuestra Senora del Carmen Caibarien Car rental office Ave 11, entre 2 y 4, Caibarien, Villa Clara Camajuani Car rental office Calle Marti nro. 52 entre General Naya y Joaquin Paneca Jaguajay Car rental office Ave. Panchito Gomez Toro, Final Jaguajay Placetas Car rental office 1ra del Sur, Nro. 73 entre 3ra y 4ta Placeta Remedios Car rental office Ave Maximo Gomez, Nro. 124 entre Pirmargall y Andres del Rio Nuestra Senora del Carmen is located in Villa Clara To the north it limits with the Atlantic Ocean; to the west with Matanzas; to the south with Cienfuegos, and to the east with Sancti Spíritus provinces. This is Villa Clara, a destination with more than 800 000 inhabitants in a territorial surface of 7 943 , Km². You can reach it by plane through the airport of the provincial capital and the one in Cayo Las Brujas, both for medium and small size airplanes. By road you can get here through the National Freeway and the Central Highway. The city of Villa Clara opens up to tourism with a solid proposal supported by the virginity of its keys, more than 17 , Km of paradisiacal beaches and its historical-cultural patrimony that enhances all the natural attractiveness of the territory. Among the main exponents we have Ernesto Che Guevara Memorial where the Heroic Guerrilla fighter's remains rest next to those of his comrades from Bolivia. The monument depicting the derailing of the Armoured Train, a place linked to the Cuban recent history, is another of the places related to the figure of Che. Places such as La Caridad Theatre, National Monument and a symbol of Cuban neoclassical architecture, the existence and permanency of one of the oldest universities in Cuba, Leoncio Vidal Park, the boulevard, José Martí Library and the Museum of Decorative Art, are cultural emblematic places of the city. Next to it, we have the city of Remedios, the eighth village founded by the Spaniards in the Island and where the Parrandas de Remedios, one of the oldest popular festivities in Cuba, are originated. In this city there is also located the biggest Parochial Church (16th century) with its Baroque altars laminated in gold, it is the most valuable exponent in the city, where the famous musician Alejandro García Caturla was born. On the north coast of the province, Santa María, Las Brujas and Ensenachos keys are located, well-known as La Rosa Blanca de Jardines del Rey, deal for the practice of diving. A travel around the spa of mineral-medicinal waters of Elguea and a boat ride on the great artificial lake, a stay in Villa La Granjita, and a typical Cuban lunch Black River at Villa Clara's Escambray, are options to keep in mind for those who arrive to the most central province in Cuba.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2011
__label__cc	0.604915	0.395085	Daikin UK's auto cleaning duct wins ancillary air conditioning product of the year at the ACR News Awards Daikin UK was presented with the Ancillary Air Conditioning Product of the Year Award at the ACR News Awards 2018.Designed to recognise innovation in the air conditioning and refrigeration industry, the ACR News Awards took place on the 24th January 2018 in London. This prestigious award win comes only a week after the win for the Sky Air A-Series at the National ACR & Heat Pump (HACR&HP) Awards in Liverpool. Martin Passingham, Product Manager for DX at Daikin UK said, “We are delighted to continue our winning streak during this year’s awards season and are particularly pleased that the Auto-Cleaning Duct has been recognised for its innovative, energy-efficient performance.” Launched in 2017, the Auto-Cleaning Duct offers lower maintenance and running costs, while providing a 20% energy saving. Designed specifically for hotel, office and residential applications, the Auto-Cleaning Duct prevents dust formation within indoor ducted units by keeping the filter consistently clean thanks to an automated filter cleaning system. By collecting debris in a dust box that can be simply emptied using a standard vacuum cleaner, the Auto-Cleaning Duct accessory ensures easy maintenance, minimal disruption on site, and significantly reduces the likelihood of system failure due to clogged vents. Martin Passingham continued, “We’re incredibly proud that our recent innovations have been acknowledged, and that Daikin UK continues to lead the way in providing cost-effective products that have a wealth of benefits for both the installer and the end-client.” For more information on Daikin UK, visit www.daikin.co.uk and follow @DaikinUK on Twitter. For more information about the ACR News Awards and for a list of winners, visit http://www.acrnewsawards.com. RAC Cooling Award Daikin UK's Sky Air A-Series wins prestigious accolade at the Energy Awards	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2013
__label__wiki	0.661717	0.661717	City planners showcase design for Shattuck Avenue reconfiguration at open house Ariel Hayat/Senior Staff By Ariel Hayat \| Staff Hearst Avenue improvement project to begin summer of 2016 Development of 16-story hotel moves forward Developers host open house to introduce plans for campus building in Downtown Berkeley City transportation planners organized an open house Tuesday to inform the community about a Shattuck Avenue reconfiguration project adopted by Berkeley City Council in January 2013. The project’s primary concern is pedestrian safety, which project managers say is currently most problematic at the intersection of University and Shattuck avenues. According to data from the 2010 Berkeley Pedestrian Master Plan, the intersection has experienced one of the highest pedestrian-auto collision rates in the city. City planners hope to improve pedestrian crossing by establishing a two-way street on the west side of Shattuck Avenue, thereby eliminating the need for northbound motorists to make a left turn on University Avenue before proceeding right to continue onto Shattuck Avenue. The east side of Shattuck Avenue would remain a one-way street intended mainly for local traffic. Tuesday’s open house at the Aurora Theatre in Downtown Berkeley was intended as an opportunity for community members, local business owners and other stakeholders to learn more about the project’s goals, and to provide feedback on its design to consultants and city planners stationed throughout the room. Staff members also invited open-house guests to give feedback by placing sticker dots on posters representing the most important roadway and traffic issues for Downtown. By the end of the evening, guests had voted for vehicle parking, freight loading zones and transit stops as their top priorities for use of curbside space Downtown. Farid Javandel, manager of the city’s transportation division, said the reconfiguration aims to help make Downtown Berkeley a safer and more enjoyable experience for residents and workers who visit the area daily. “We’re working with a number of stakeholders — businesses, transit agencies, local developers — to make sure this is the best project possible for the city,” said project manager Aaron Sage. “The overall reception we’ve been getting is positive.” But attendees at the event voiced several concerns about the project, which included the potential loss of parking spaces and delivery zones for businesses on the west side of Shattuck Avenue. Erik Bigglestone, general manager of Games of Berkeley, went to the event hoping to understand exactly what changes would be implemented near his storefront at the corner of Shattuck Avenue and Center Street. He expressed concerns that new street signs and foliage would likely block potential customers from seeing his window displays, meant to draw people into the store. “I know that my concerns are being heard,” Bigglestone said. “But I can guarantee that when this construction starts, I’m going to see a drop in business.” John Gordon, who owns several properties on the affected stretch of Downtown as the founder of Gordon Commercial Real Estate Services, voiced concerns about the area’s many historic buildings. He noted that with narrowed lanes and no street parking on the southbound side, there would no longer be a “buffer” between cars and the buildings. While street parking will be reduced on the west side of Shattuck Avenue, it will be adequately replaced with new angled spots on the east side, and there will be a minimal net loss of total spaces after the project is completed, according to Sage. Although construction was originally slated to begin in summer 2016, Sage said that a more accurate estimate would place the start date in spring 2017, with a six- to 12-month completion goal. Another community meeting will be scheduled for fall, when the preliminary design is closer to finalization. Contact Ariel Hayat at [email protected]. 2010 Berkeley Pedestrian Master Plan, Aaron Sage, Aurora Theatre, Berkeley City Council, Center Street, Downtown Berkeley, Erik Bigglestone, Farid Javandel, Games of Berkeley, Gordon Commercial Real Estate Services, John Gordon, Shattuck Avenue, University Avenue	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2014
__label__wiki	0.871167	0.871167	Columnists Home STEPHEN GLOVER: Guarding our nation's waters is not a luxury, it is a necessity By Stephen Glover for the Daily Mail Updated: 06:03 EDT, 3 November 2011 When you go to sleep at night you may imagine that somewhere out there in British waters there will be one or more warships flying the flag, and keeping an eye on possible dangers to our national security. Indeed, there usually is, and has been for as long as anyone can remember. And yet since the beginning of October there hasn’t been a single British frigate or destroyer fulfilling this task. The Royal Navy, once the mightiest in the world, could not muster even one vessel to protect our shores. The reason is that, following last year’s Strategic Defence Review, the number of frigates and destroyers has been reduced from 23 to 19. This came after a succession of previous cuts. It wasn’t very long ago that some Tory MPs were insisting that a 40-ship Navy was the absolute bare minimum. Safeguarding our shores: The Royal Navy, once the mightiest in the world, could not muster even one vessel to protect our coastlines Even so, one ship out of the 19 would have been found had it not been for the Libyan escapade. It was the deployment of ten warships in the Mediterranean that left our own waters unprotected. It is true that most of them are now on their way back, but the episode has illustrated how dangerously depleted our defences have become. Now, you may say that it hardly matters if for a few weeks there wasn’t one ship on emergency stand-by — known as a Fleet Ready Escort. So far as we know, no country is planning to invade us. We’re not expecting enemies to land on the East Anglian coast in the middle of the night. But the presence of a frigate or destroyer is normally thought necessary in case of a terrorist or other serious incident in British waters. Naval sources have sought to play down the affair, saying that having a ship ready to fulfil the role of Fleet Ready Escort is a ‘luxury’. The presence of a frigate or destroyer is normally thought necessary in case of a terrorist incident in British waters If it is a luxury, one wonders why the Navy has for so long insisted that the role of Fleet Ready Escort be carried out — and why it will still dispatch a ship to fulfil these duties as soon as one is available. The truth is, that the Government has so reduced Britain’s naval and military resources that we can no longer play the part of even a minor world power. And yet that is exactly what it expects us to do. In June, the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope, warned that the Royal Navy would become overstretched if operations in Libya went on beyond September. Sir Mark was summoned to No 10 for a dressing-down by the Prime Minister, who declared in the Commons that the First Sea Lord had seen the error of his ways, and now accepted that our intervention could go on for as long as was necessary. It is now clear that Sir Mark was right, and Mr Cameron was wrong. Imagine the hullabaloo if the Prime Minister had been forced to admit at the time that as a result of the Libyan operation British waters would be unprotected for a month. It was precisely such an eventuality that Sir Mark foresaw, and yet he was publicly slapped down for his pains. I wonder what further foreign entanglements the Government has in mind for the Navy. Of course, there is the lurking problem of the Falklands. In the view of Admiral Sir Sandy Woodward, who commanded the task force that re-took the islands in 1982, it would be well-nigh impossible to defend them now that the Government has got rid of our two aircraft carriers. Concern: Since the beginning of October there hasn't been a single British frigate or destroyer protecting British waters Admittedly the Falklands represent a challenge which Mr Cameron inherited, and is not of his making. Nonetheless, Argentina has been making menacing noises. The defence cuts leave us barely able to fulfil our historic responsibilities to the islanders. An Argentinian invasion would be a catastrophe for them — and, politically speaking, not much better for Mr Cameron. Not a single warship was tasked solely with protecting the country's shores during the last month due to... Who could have dreamt that as a result of the Strategic Defence Review we would be left unable not only to defend our kith and kin 8,000 miles away in the Falklands, but also our own waters? The lapse may have been shrugged off by Navy PR people, but I can assure Mr Cameron that it will have been noted by those who may not wish us well. In Beijing and Moscow — and in Buenos Aires — there will have been much incredulous shaking of heads and tut-tutting. A country that can’t properly police its own waters is not going to be taken very seriously by determined powers which know what they want. There is something shamingly amateurish and third-rate about our performance. Blame: Liam Fox knew that the defence cuts went too deep, and rendered Britain incapable of meeting its defence commitments One man I blame — apart from the Prime Minister and Chancellor, George Osborne — is the late, unlamented Defence Secretary, Liam Fox. He knew that the defence cuts went too deep, and rendered Britain incapable of meeting both existing and potential defence commitments. Dr Fox went on about the £38 billion ‘black hole’ supposedly left in the defence budget by the Labour government, as though that somehow justified swingeing cuts. A more honourable man would have resigned rather than preside over what he knew was unworkable. At least he would have retained his honour. Now he has nothing. And, of course, the defence cuts are doubly or trebly hard to swallow in view of the ballooning aid budget, which is set to increase by 37 per cent to £11.5 billion by 2014/15. I support targeted aid that goes to the poor people for whom it is intended, and isn’t creamed off by corrupt Third World politicians. What cannot be defended by any stretch of the imagination is the £1 billion in aid going to India over three years — a country whose economy is probably already bigger than ours (and growing ten times faster) and which has a large and ever increasing defence budget, as well as a space programme costing £1.5 billion a year. More from Stephen Glover for the Daily Mail... STEPHEN GLOVER: Criminal probe warning to media over leaked diplomatic cables is a chilling threat to press freedom 14/07/19 STEPHEN GLOVER: Poor John Major got his facts wrong. But he is right to say suspending Parliament is madness 10/07/19 STEPHEN GLOVER: Appointing their leaders with grubby backdoor stitch-ups like this, thank God we're leaving the EU 03/07/19 STEPHEN GLOVER: How raw to see our flag raised by Hong Kong protesters. But the sad truth is we have betrayed them 02/07/19 STEPHEN GLOVER: Surely I'm not the only one who is deeply depressed by this lacklustre contest to be our next PM? 26/06/19 Boris Johnson's private life matters because it throws light on how he would behave as PM, says STEPHEN GLOVER 24/06/19 STEPHEN GLOVER: All pretence has gone. With this 'debate', the BBC's bias was hopelessly exposed 19/06/19 STEPHEN GLOVER: Never mind the vanishing tie - Rory Stewart would be a calamity for the Tories 18/06/19 STEPHEN GLOVER: I fear Mrs May's plan for a green legacy is as doomed as her lost Brexit deal 12/06/19 Believe it or not, the Commonwealth Development Corporation, which is controlled by the Department for International Development, also invests hundreds of millions of pounds in China — the same China which is being asked to bail out the eurozone. Incidentally, I discovered the other day that our foreign aid to China includes a start-up grant for a series of Chinese cuisine restaurants. The idiocy of all this is scarcely conceivable, and in a Tory-led Government mind-boggling. How can Mr Cameron put aid to India above the proper defence of the realm? I don’t understand it. I suppose I have almost given up hope that in our present dire economic circumstances this Government will reverse any of the defence cuts, let alone consider moving funds from the overseas aid budget. And yet I do still hope that the shame of being unable to find a vessel to protect our own waters might serve as a warning. It is a sad thing to be a third-rate power, but a dangerous thing to cut the defence budget to the detriment of our existing obligations — while cheerily taking on new ones. There may be much bigger humiliations ahead. STEPHEN GLOVER: I simply fail to understand how a Tory-led Government can't muster a single warship to protect this nation's shores DAILY MAIL COLUMNISTS BAZ BAMIGBOYE CRAIG BROWN ALEX BRUMMER STEPHEN GLOVER RICHARD KAY EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE MAX HASTINGS RICHARD LITTLEJOHN PETER MCKAY JAN MOIR BEL MOONEY ANDREW PIERCE AMANDA PLATELL MARTIN SAMUEL RUTH SUNDERLAND TOM UTLEY SARAH VINE MAIL ON SUNDAY COLUMNISTS RACHEL JOHNSON LIZ JONES OLIVER HOLT RIGHTMINDS BLOGGERS CHAPMAN & CO STEVE DOUGHTY	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2015
__label__wiki	0.933165	0.933165	Ben Affleck's ex nanny takes her new $43,000 Lexus convertible for a spin... after bragging about the car on Instagram By Rachel Mcgrath and Iona Kirby For Dailymail.com The nanny at the centre of Ben Affleck affair claims was seen taking her brand new convertible Lexus for a spin on Wednesday, a day after bragging about the car on Instagram. Christine Ouzounian had a smile on her face when she stepped out in Los Angeles and hopped into the fancy vehicle, which retails upwards from $43,000. The 28-year-old, who later did some shopping at Sears, was dressed in a white tank top and trainers, along with skinny jeans and a navy blazer. Not bad for a nanny: Christine Ouzounian took her new $43,000 Lexus convertible for a spin on Wednesday Ouzounian was the nanny to Affleck and Jennifer Garner's three children, and it is rumoured that she was fired after the actress discovered her alleged relationship with Ben. Although she may be out of a job, the former childminder doesn't appear to be short on cash, and also carried a $478 Henri Bendel handbag during her Wednesday outing. A day earlier, Ouzounian had shared a photo to Instagram which showed her posing with her expensive car. The caption read: 'Keep calm and meet my new drop top Lexi' followed by a smiley face. She's back: The nanny at the centre of Ben Affleck affair allegations stepped out in Los Angeles Facing the music: Christine had spent the previous two weeks holed up at the Hotel Bel-Air Expensive taste: The 28-year-old also carried a $478 blue leather handbag from Henri Bendel Although her account is private, the 'exclusive' picture set against the backdrop of palm trees and the ocean at sunset was obtained by Entertainment Tonight. Amid rumours that she is romantically involved with Affleck, the former nanny initially laid low after holing up at the exclusive Hotel Bel-Air in Beverly Hills. But in just the last couple of days, the pretty blonde has broken her silence by sharing a series of photographs via social media that indicate she's not about to go away quietly. Pleased with her new ride: Christine had bragged about her car on Instagram a day earlier Out of a job: The nanny looked after Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's three children, but is said to have been fired after Jennifer discovered her alleged relationship with Ben Feeling jolly: Christine appeared to be in a good mood as she hopped into the car and sped off On Monday, she posted a paparazzi photo of herself on her Instagram account with the caption: 'She's just a girl and she's on fire' -- Alicia Keys.' The post quickly started circulating on public accounts. Then on Tuesday, PageSix.com published a photo of Ouzounian taken on the private jet she traveled to Las Vegas on with Affleck and NFL star Tom Brady in June, after leaving Garner and the couple's three children behind in the Bahamas. 'She's just a girl and she's on fire': The blonde recently posted a paparazzi photograph of herself on Instagram, and captioned it with Alicia Keys lyrics Dressed down: Christine wore a white tank top and trainers, along with skinny jeans and a navy blazer Off she goes! The former nanny was seen behind the wheel of her luxurious vehicle Nice wheels: The car was seen parked, with the trunk door partially propped upon Living the high life: On Tuesday, Page Six published a photo of Christine taken on the private jet she traveled to Las Vegas on with Ben and Tom Brady in June, after leaving Jennifer and the children behind in the Bahamas She was shown wearing white skinny jeans and a black tank top beaming at the camera as she curled up on a plane seat wearing Brady's four Super Bowl signet rings on her right hand. The rash of photos follows media reports over the weekend that Garner has replaced Ouzounian, who she fired after learning about the Las Vegas trip, with at least two new nannies. The unidentified women were seen taking Violet, nine, and Seraphina, six, for a walk on Sunday in Atlanta with the kids' new Golden Retriever puppy. It also followed a visit by Affleck to spend time with his daughters and three-year-old son Samuel in the city on Saturday when he and Garner were seen with their brood on an outing together. Retail therapy: The nanny drove her car to Sears, and headed into the store to do some shopping 'Garbage'?: Ben has dismissed claims that he is romantically involved with Christine 'Keep calm and meet my new drop top Lexi': Christine shared this photo of her new Lexus on Instgram on Tuesday The Oscar winner returned to Los Angeles on Monday and was seen still wearing his wedding band as he attended a red carpet event for Project Greenlight with buddy Matt Damon. On Tuesday, he drove his new black Dodge Charger to his Santa Monica office, arriving with a cup of coffee in hand and his wedding band still on his finger. Ouzounian spent around two weeks staying at Hotel Bel-Air, and People magazine reported she stayed in a junior bungalow that costs $1,500 a night. Ben Affleck flew his nanny to Vegas — while unsuspecting Jen stayed home with the kids http://t.co/kio6ewydmT pic.twitter.com/nVFcUGmyDz — New York Post (@nypost) August 11, 2015 Distant: Garner, 43, and Affleck, 42, were seen with their kids at an Atlanta mall on Saturday, the first time they've been spotted together in public since news broke of the actor's alleged affair with the former nanny The blonde was also enjoying meals at Wolfgang Puck's restaurant at the hotel as well as spa treatments, running up a bill of tens of thousands of dollars. Ouzounian initially went to ground after photographs were published showing her meeting Affleck in a late night rendezvous at his LA rental home. The snaps taken July 17 showed the pair laughing as she presented him with a boxed bottle of champagne. Back to work: Affleck returned to Los Angeles where he was seen arriving at his Santa Monica office Tuesday morning while Garner continued to film scenes for her film Miracles From Heaven in Atlanta Living it up: Ouzounian was staying at the luxury Hotel Bel-Air in Beverly Hills, allegedly in a junior bungalow that costed $1500 a night Affleck's reps have denied there's any truth to the claims the Argo star is having an affair with the pretty blonde, dismissing such reports as 'garbage.' Sources linked to the actor have also said he was not picking up the tab for the former nanny's stay at the Hotel Bel-Air despite media reports to the contrary. Sources close to Affleck have also insisted that Ouzounian was part of a larger group of Affleck's employees at the poker tournament in Sin City at the end of June, just three days before he and Garner issued a statement saying they plan to divorce. In the spotlight: Affleck seemed in good form as he posed for photos with longtime buddy Matt Damon at the premiere of Greenlight Project winner The Leisure Class in downtown LA on Monday night Ben Affleck's ex nanny Christine Ouzounian takes her new Lexus convertible for a spin	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2016
__label__cc	0.588746	0.411254	This web site uses cookies in accordance with our Privacy and Cookie Policy. Certain cookies are essential to the operation of the site and are set automatically. Other cookies may be used to enhance your experience of the site and for analytical and tracking purposes. Walks in Yorkshire Buy our CD/DVD walking books here Walk Selector Readers Walks Countryside Code Charity Walks Ingleborough Skyreholme Ingleborough Circular from the Hill Inn A Circular walk to Ingleborough in the Yorkshire Dales. Head along Southerscales Scars and Humphrey Bottom on the way to Ingleborough's summit. Ingleborough is one of the 'Yorkshire 3 Peaks' and affords wonderful panoramic views of Whernside, Pen-y-Ghent and out to Morecambe Bay and round to the Lakeland Hills. Parking: Roadside parking on the B6255 Ingleton to Hawes road near the Old Hill Inn (grid reference SD 744 777). Directions: Nearest post code for Sat Nav: LA6 3FH - get directions here Walk distance: 5 miles (8 Km) Estimated walk time: 2 hours 40 minutes Height climbed: 470 metres Grade: 2-C: A medium length walk that has rugged terrain and some steep climbs Peaks / summits: Ingleborough (724m) Wainwrights: None Map: Ordnance Survey - Explorer OL2 (Yorkshire Dales - Southern & Western Area) Buy this map from Ordnance Survey Walk features: Birds, Flowers, Hills or fells, Geographic feature, Pub, Views Facilities / refreshments: Pub at start. Pubs, cafes and toilets in nearby Ingleton Nearest town: Nearest town is Ingleton Walk Tags: Three Peaks Walk, 3 Peaks walk, Ingleborough, Ingleborough walk, Yorkshire Dales, Yorkshire, Chapel-le-dale, Old Hill Inn, Southerscales Scars, Braithwaite Wife Hole, Humphrey Bottom, Ingleborough Fort, Simon Fell The walk starts in front of the Old Hill Inn - roadside parking is available nearby. With the Old Hill Inn on your right, head along the road for about twenty yards then turn right and go through a concealed gate-type stile in the wall. Go across the field heading directly away from the wall, following a path worn into the grass heading for the two large trees. Continue straight ahead with the two trees on your right. The path meets a wall coming in from the right-hand side. Go over the stile and head straightforward in the direction of Ingleborough. Continue across this next field, over a stile and straight on following the sign "Ingleborough 2 miles". At this wall there is also signed the Great Douk Cave which is ¼ mile up to the left. If you take this diversion, return back down to this path. Continue across this field and over the next stile, where again Ingleborough is signed at 2 miles, but who's counting! View back across to Whernside The whole of this route from the Hill Inn up to the summit is part of the Three Peaks Walk. Behind now the path down from Whernside, which continues on to the Hill Inn, can clearly be seen. The path now starts to slightly snake and slowly starts to climb up the hill. The route up the seemingly near vertical side of Ingleborough can clearly now be seen ahead, but from this distance it hides the man-made zigzag path that climbs up to the top. Over to the right the quiet hamlet of Chapel-le-Dale can be seen. As Ingleborough momentarily disappears from view ahead, the path starts to get steeper and becomes a little more uneven. As Ingleborough reappears and the path flattens, there is an excellent example of a limestone pavement to the left. Limestone pavement to the left of the path, with Ingleborough ahead When the pavement is to your left, the return path down the side of a wall can clearly be seen straight ahead. The path swings round to the right, and heads straight for Ingleborough, via the two stiles in the wall now directly ahead. Go over either stile and continue onwards on the wooden boards. These boards whilst not the easiest things to walk on serve two main purposes and also make it almost impossible to get lost on this section of the route. The path preserves the ground underneath from erosion, as being part of the Three Peaks Walk this path is much used, and it also keeps you out of the bog, as the ground under this path for many months of the year can be very wet. Looking back down the boards and across to Whernside Triangulation point Keep on these boards for about ½ mile until you reach the start of the steep section ahead. The path now rises steeply zigzagging up the hill mainly up man-made steps. Keep to the path until it begins to flatten then follow the path heading off slightly to the right through a kissing gate. Follow the well-defined path straight ahead up the hill, again initially following the man-made stone steps. If it is misty keep careful note of your direction of travel, as there are many paths down from the top of Ingleborough. The path skirts round the right-hand side of a rocky outcrop about two metres in height and then heads on in the same direction across the flat plateau about four hundred yards to the trig point at the top. View out towards Morecambe Bay Runners in the Ingleborough Fell Race From here there is an excellent panoramic view of Whernside, Pen-y-ghent, Pendle Hill (with a distinctive nose shape) out into Morecambe Bay and the Lakeland hills. On about the second weekend in July, Ingleton Festival takes place, part of which is the Ingleborough Fell Race. This starts at Ingleton and comes up the longer route and approaches the trig point from the opposite direction to this walk. Ingleborough from the side Ribblehead viaduct Turn around and retrace your route back down to the kissing gate. Go through the kissing gate, but instead of heading back down the path you came up to the left, continue along the path around the top of the hill (Simon Fell). Go along this path for about ½ mile until you meet a wall. Behind there now a different view of Ingleborough clearly showing the steepness of its sides. Looking to the right of Whernside, the Ribblehead Viaduct can be seen down below. Turn left just before this wall, and head down the defined path down the grassy bank keeping the wall about twenty yards to the right. The top part of this descent is quite steep. Keep on this path until it meets a wall coming across form the left. Go over a stile in the wall and keep on in the same direction heading for the limestone pavement in front. Ingleborough from the path home When you reach the 90-degree right-hand turn in the wall, follow the path round the corner as it hugs the wall. Continue ahead with Whernside in the distance and the wall closely on the right. After two hundred yards, the path diverts around the entrance to another pothole, which is fenced off. The steps are visible which lead down into the entrance of the hole. Continue along the path until it meets the wall, where a familiar sign is encountered stating "Ingleborough 2 miles". Go right over the stile and on across the field retracing the way up. Go over the next stile, continue across the next field and turn left over the next stile. The path leads across the field to the right of the Hill Inn and out onto the road. Turn left and the car park is twenty yards on the left-hand side. Click here for Disclaimer Back to Walks Selector Copyright © Walks4all Limited 2019	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2017
__label__wiki	0.72748	0.72748	Malcolm Harkins Ryan Wilk NuData Security Nathanael Coffing Cloudentity Ralph Smith FS-ISAC Breach Notification , Incident & Breach Response , Security Operations Analysis: Health Data Breach Tally Trends Hacks, Unauthorized Access/Disclosure and Theft Incidents Top the List Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • June 19, 2018 The addition to the federal tally in recent weeks of about three dozen major health data breaches, including many hacking and unauthorized access/disclosure incidents, pushed the total number of breach victims so far this year to almost 2.9 million. A Tuesday snapshot of the Department of Health and Human Services' HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool website - commonly called the "wall of shame," shows a total of 161 breaches added so far in 2018. "Unauthorized access/disclosure" breaches are the most common type of incident posted on the wall of shame this year. Those 73 incidents - including breaches involving email, electronic medical records and paper/film - impacted a total of nearly 558,000 victims. The second most commonly reported type of breach so far this year - hacking incidents - has affected far more individuals. As of Tuesday, 54 breaches - or about a third of the incidents posted on the wall of shame in 2018 so far - were reported as hacking incidents, impacting more than 1.6 million individuals - or nearly 60 percent of the total breach victim count. In addition, 31 breaches reported this year involved thefts or losses; those impacted nearly 660,000 people. Of those incidents, about two dozen involved loss or theft of unencrypted computing devices, such as laptops; those incidents impacted about 60,000 individuals. But eight breaches involving the loss or theft of "paper/film" records affected nearly 600,000 individuals. Most of those victims were impacted by a break-in reported in April at the California Department of Developmental Services. That DDS office break-in also involved vandalism, a fire and then water damage due to sprinklers, affecting the PHI of 582,000 individuals. That incident is also the biggest breach posted on the wall of shame so far this year. Malware Incident The second largest health data breach of the year - a hacking incident involving malware - was reported in mid-May by Maryland-based physician practice LifeBridge Health (see Malware Attacks: Tale of Two Healthcare Incidents). In a statement, the practice says the malware was discovered in March on a server that hosts electronic medical records of its Potomac Physicians practice and the shared registration and billing system for some other LifeBridge Health providers. Other large hacker breaches added to the tally in recent weeks includes incidents involving email reported by The Oregon Clinic, affecting over 64,000; Ohio-based Aultman Hospital (43,000); and Holland Eye Surgery and Laser Center in Michigan (42,000). The largest unauthorized access/disclosure incident added to the federal tally in recent weeks also involved email. That incident, reported on May 31 by San Francisco-based Dignity Health, involved a sorting error by a business associate, resulting in misaddressed emails affecting 56,000 individuals (see Health System Seeks Patients Help to Mitigate Email Mishap). Big Picture, Big Breach Trends As of Tuesday, a total of 2,343 breaches impacting nearly 263.3 million individuals have been posted to the wall of shame since 2009. The largest of all breaches to date was a hacking incident reported in 2015 by health insurer Anthem Inc., impacting nearly 79 million individuals. While wall of shame breach trends in recent years show that hacking incidents continue to contribute the largest victim tallies, no single cyberattack impacting the PHI of millions of individuals has been added to the federal tally since 2016. So what's behind the drop in "mega" hacker attacks impacting health data? "My impression is that some of the largest breaches from a few years ago were likely state-sponsored attacks, with very different motivation then the more run-of-the-mill hacks that we see for more direct monetary gain," says privacy attorney Adam Greene of the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine. "We certainly could see similarly sized breaches discovered again in the future, but likely not on a regular basis," he predicts. Susan Lucci, senior privacy and security consultant at tw-Security, suspects that some entities are also finally getting better at safeguarding their systems and data from massive attacks. "The lessons from the big 2015 breaches were taken seriously." —Susan Lucci, tw-Security "Larger organizations have recognized the importance of investing in better security measures and taking necessary steps to protect health data from intrusion," she notes. "The lessons from the big 2015 breaches were taken seriously. These types of additional security measures are an important investment. You cannot protect what you don't evaluate for risks, and this is why the comprehensive security risk analysis is so critical to all organizations." Smaller Hacks, But Still Big Impact Nonetheless, the tally shows a trend that comparatively smaller hacking incidents are still responsible for impacting the largest pool of notified health data breach victims. "Part of the problem and challenge with hacker incidents is figuring out exactly what happened, so lots of times - given how the HIPAA breach rule works - companies can't definitively pin down what happened, so they have to notify a larger group of people than is probably necessary," says privacy attorney Kirk Nahra of the law firm Wiley Rein. Due to the high frequency and high breach victim tally of hacker incidents, cybersecurity should be a top priority for organizations, Greene argues. It's also critical, he says, that covered entities and their business associates "remember the importance of safeguards for paper and the continuing relevance of noncyber threats, such as lost or stolen mobile devices." Other Breaches Fewer incidents involving lost or stolen unencrypted devices are making it to the wall of shame lately compared to years past. But why are these breaches still happening at all - especially when the loss or theft of encrypted devices is not a reportable breach? "Encryption isn't automatic; there are lots of kinds of devices, and encryption has to be triggered to be relevant, so there are still real gaps that may not be likely to be closed," Nahra says. A number of factors contribute to the ongoing breach problem involving unencrypted devices, Lucci says. "One is that perhaps organizations do not know how much - if any - protected health information is on their unencrypted laptops," she says. "Perhaps [the devices] are leaving the facility without specific permission. "It is absolutely worth the time and investment to become more aware of these issues and simply invest in encryption of these mobile devices." The HHS Office for Civil Rights has long been emphasizing the importance of encrypting mobile devices. The agency has had a number of HIPAA enforcement actions with multimillion dollar fines following investigations of breaches involving unencrypted devices. For example, on Monday, HHS announced a $4.3 million civil monetary penalty against the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center for three breaches involving unencrypted mobile devices. MD Anderson in a statement tells Information Security Media Group it plans to appeal the ruling by the HHS administrative law judge who ordered the payment to OCR (see $4.3 Million HIPAA Penalty for 3 Breaches). Paper Problems Why are there still so many major health data breaches being reported involving paper and film? "We still remain a long way from being a 'paperless society,'" Greene notes. "Whether due to printing errors, faxing errors or lost shipments, we continue to see significant breaches due to paper records. While the HIPAA Security Rule only requires an enterprise risk analysis to cover electronic PHI, organizations should consider whether to include an assessment of risks to paper records, identifying the flow of paper throughout the organization and identifying where risks are highest." Massive CIA Hacking Tool Leak: Ex-Agency Employee Charged Fighting Malware: Why Speed Is More Important Than Ever https://www.databreachtoday.com/analysis-health-data-breach-tally-trends-a-11104	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2018
__label__wiki	0.811459	0.811459	Dominique Shelton Alston & Bird, LLP Jay Kramer Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith Phil Curran Cooper University Health Care OCC: Retailers Accountable for Breaches Curry Says Merchants' Security Needs Improvement Tracy Kitten (FraudBlogger) • November 12, 2014 Thomas Curry Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry says "it's only fair" that merchants should be responsible for some of the expenses that result when their systems are breached. See Also: Webinar \| Passwords: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Be Careful What You Wish For. "These recent [retail breach] incidents highlight the need for improved cybersecurity," Curry said during a recent speech at a community bankers' forum in Chicago. "But they also demonstrate why we need to level the playing field between financial institutions and merchants. "The same expectations for security of customer information and customer notification when breaches occur should apply to all institutions," Curry added. "And when breaches occur in merchant systems, it seems only fair to me that they should be responsible for some of the expenses that result." Some security experts say Curry's statements could signal a potential recommendation from banking regulators that either they or Congress should get more involved in making sure retailers' cybersecurity practices are monitored. Curry noted that banking institutions are usually "on the hook" for reimbursing cardholders for the losses they suffer from fraudulent charges and transactions after credit and debit cards are breached. That responsibility, he said, falls onto the shoulders of banks and credit unions, even though they have no control over the security practices of the retailers that were the sites of breaches. Banking institutions also must replace compromised cards and monitor account activity for potential fraud, he pointed out. "That's not easy for any bank, but it's a burden that falls especially heavily upon community institutions," Curry said. "At a cost of $5 or more per card [for reissuance] and covering the related fraud charges, the costs can run up very quickly." Holding Retailers Accountable Curry's comments seem to support the views already expressed by the National Association of Federal Credit Unions, which has called for legislation that would regulate merchant point-of-sale security (see Card Breaches: Retailers Doing Enough?). NAFCU, since the summer of 2013, has been asking Congress to pass legislation, similar to the Graham-Leach-Bliley Act, that would hold breached retailers and processors accountable for lax security practices (see Hold Merchants Accountable for Breaches?). The GLBA, also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, includes a wide range of requirements for protecting consumer data and breach notification to which banking institutions must adhere. Banks and credit unions that do not comply with GLBA data protection requirements face civil and criminal penalties, including fines of up to $10,000 per violation. NAFCU has argued retailers should be held to a similar standard and face similar penalties. But retail groups, including the Retail Industry Leaders Association, contend that merchants already compensate banks and credit unions for fraud losses and recovery expenses associated with breaches through the fees they pay to the card brands. RILA and other merchant groups also say retailers are continually investing in payments security technology as well as compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. Analyzing Curry's Comments Curry's recent statements demonstrate that banking regulators believe merchants' current security practices are insufficient, says Tom Kellermann, chief cybersecurity officer at the security and forensics firm Trend Micro. "Thomas Curry is throwing down the gauntlet," Kellermann says. "I firmly believe that the banking regulators must get behind this movement. The weak link in the financial supply chain has become the retailers." If retailers were required, as banking institutions are, to have segregated networks and deploy application security and breach-detection systems, it's unlikely merchants would have suffered so many breaches over the last 18 months, he contends. The legislative action proposed by NAFCU would be a positive cybersecurity step, he adds. All retailers are required to comply with PCI-DSS, but that standard set only minimum requirements, according to the PCI Security Standards Council. Network segmentation, for instance, is not a PCI-DSS requirement, although the PCI Council strongly recommends it. "Pointed comments related to cyber-risks from Thomas Curry often precede official actions from federal banking regulators," says Al Pascual, director of fraud and security at Javelin Strategy & Research. "But I question what form of action they could take that would have a measurable effect on how merchants, who are outside their purview, secure data." Pascual speculates that the OCC, as the leading agency of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, could sway banking regulators to pursue a more active role in retail security oversight. He argues that scrutinizing the steps retailers take to protect consumer cardholder data might be an ideal fit for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was established in 2010 and became one of the FFIEC's regulatory agencies in July 2011 (see CFPB: What is New Regulator's Role?). "This might be a place where the CFPB could play a role," Pascual says. The CFPB oversees depository institutions with more than $10 billion in assets. But it also has authority over non-banking entities, such as mortgage companies, payday lenders and private education lenders. The CFPB's actions and supervision relate only to accountability and oversight for the consumer financial marketplace. CFPB Director Richard Cordray said in a 2013 presentation that the CFPB's basic aim is to level the playing field. "As financial products and services evolved over time, depository institutions found themselves competing more directly against nonbank entities," he said. "One of the purposes of the new agency is thus to level the playing field between banks and nonbanks under the consumer financial laws." Neiman Marcus Hires First CISO Advanced Threats: Prepare for War https://www.databreachtoday.com/occ-retailers-accountable-for-breaches-a-7555	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2019
__label__wiki	0.567338	0.567338	Flight and Ground Instructor Question Bank - Federal Aviation Regulations - Q4478 What is the maximum distance from an airport that an aircraft engaged in training operations may be operated without an emergency locator transmitter? A. 25 NM. B. 100 NM. C. 50 NM. To find the answer to the above question, please download... GroundSchool: Flight and Ground Instructor FAA Written Test Prep Software for MS-Windows This is a sample FAA written test prep question from the Flight and Ground Instructor test bank. For more information about the Flight and Ground Instructor test bank, click here. This question may be in error or may be out of date. However... For the answer to this question and, in most cases, an explanation written/edited by a senior pilot, flight instructor, or examiner, please download our GroundSchool FAA written test prep software. Our software will generally be considerably more up-to-date than this web page and will contain a much more complete set of questions. The download is free - give it a try! If this question refers to a chart or figure (as some do), please accept our apologies - figures are not available online. However, all necessary charts and figures are available in our GroundSchool software. Did you know? Despite their claims of completeness, the FAA test banks provided by several other online test preparation sources are woefully incomplete. Read more about the situation here. Our GroundSchool FAA written test preparation software generally contains a much more up to date and complete question set and in no way suffers from such deficiencies. In fact, it's the best way to prepare for your FAA written test, period. Copyright, Content, and Accuracy Notice: the questions presented here and the organization thereof include both elements whose copyright status is consistent with that of many US government publications and elements whose copyright status is vested in Dauntless Software, a private concern. Dauntless Software grants visitors permission to use the contents of this page for personal use - commercial or public use, including collecting (or harvesting) of any data or material on this page is strictly prohibited. This material is presented for informational purposes only and may be in error. Dauntless Software works hard to maintain our FAA written test question banks. If you see an error on this web page, it is likely NOT an error that is repeated in our software, as our software (unlike this web page) is connected to our editorial mechanism whose mission is to quickly identify and correct errors. If you see what you believe to be an error, please download and try our software to see if the error is repeated there. If you believe it is, you can use the issue-reporting mechanisms within the software to contact our editors about any concern you may have and we will be happy to look into it promptly. © 2019 Dauntless Aviation • 4950C York Road 110, Buckingham, PA, 18912, USA • Contact Us • Privacy Policy	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2021
__label__wiki	0.98471	0.98471	AAP Other sport Cranky Morgan denies England are battling Eoin Morgan - AAP Under-the-pump England captain Eoin Morgan denies his side's World Cup hopes are in jeopardy after they lost to Australia by 64 runs at Lord's. The pre-tournament favourites were comfortably beaten by the defending champions to sink to a second successive defeat after going down in a shock loss to Sri Lanka last Friday. It was the team's third loss of the tournament after they were defeated by Pakistan at Trent Bridge earlier this month. However, Morgan did admit his side's confidence has taken a knock after their much-vaunted batting line-up was destroyed by left-arm tearaways Jason Behrendorff and Mitchell Starc, who took nine wickets between them. The hosts are in fourth place in the standings and now must beat third-placed India or second-placed New Zealand to secure a spot in the last four of a tournament many expected them to win. "I think it (confidence) will take a little bit of a hit," Morgan said. "But I certainly don't think it's knocked anybody in the changing room. Normally when we lose games of cricket, like I mentioned yesterday, we go back to what we do well. We'll still strive to do that for Sunday's game. "The chances are in our hands. "Everything is within our control. We just need to produce a performance worthy of winning either one or the next two games." Morgan bristled at a question suggesting England have a mental block about facing Australia in World Cups. He also crankily dismissed claims from Behrendorff that his bowlers bowled too short early in the Australia innings, with Aaron Finch and David Warner taking advantage by putting on 123 for the first wicket. It was 27 years ago that Australia last tasted defeat to England in a World Cup, in Sydney in 1992. Tuesday's loss was all the more jarring for Morgan's side, who had won nine of the previous 10 meetings between the sides. "Of course he did," Morgan said when told of Behrendorff's claim. "Early on, I don't think we did bowl short. "I've just been shown a highlight reel of short deliveries in which poor shots were played. "They were supposed to be short. They were aimed at guy's shoulder or armpit. I thought we didn't have a little bit of green early. "We made Australia play and miss a lot. But that's his opinion and he's entitled to it." England face India at Edgbaston on Sunday. India opens up men’s cricket coaching job Incumbent coach Ravi Shastri is expected to put his hand up again for the Indian coaching job which has be opened up for other applicants. Root chasing World Cup-Ashes double England Test skipper Joe Root says winning cricket’s World Cup was the perfect launch pad ahead of the Ashes. Give cricket Cup heroes dukedoms: Johnson England’s triumphant World Cup cricket team has visited Prime Minister Theresa May at 10 Downing Street following their amazing victory over New Zealand. Stead calls for cricket World Cup change New Zealand coach Gary Stead says the ICC should consider changing the World Cup rules to allow the finalists to share the trophy in the event of a tie. CWC agony and ecstasy for NZ’s Guptill The 2015 World Cup’s leading run scorer has been a tortured soul at the crease in this edition, but fielding has proved a salvation for Martin Guptill. Handscomb free to push Ashes chances Peter Handscomb, Matthew Wade and Mitch Marsh have been released back to the Australia A camp ahead of the four-day match against England Lions. Best of best from Cricket World Cup A look at the best moments, players and matches from the 2019 Cricket World Cup.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2032
__label__cc	0.612436	0.387564	Home Bangkok - Pattaya Travel Don Muang Airport to Pattaya By Bus, Van, or Taxi Don Mueang Airport Taxi Counter Arriving at Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport is a little disadvantageous as compared to Suvarnabhumi Airport when it comes to travelling to Bangkok city (because there are no airport link trains yet) and to Pattaya because there is no direct bus service from here to Pattaya. In this page, I will explain the ways to minimize troubles of travelling to Pattaya from Don Mueang Airport. In short, there are three ways of making this journey to Pattaya: (1) Taking a taxi from Don Mueang Airport to Pattaya, (2) Going to Suvarnabhumi Airport and taking a Bell Travel or 389 Bus from there, and (3) going to either Ekamai Bus Terminal or Mochit Bus Terminal and taking a public bus or express van from there. Read on for details… Also See: Visa on Arrival Requirements and Process at Don Muang and Suvarnabhumi Airports 1. Taxi From Don Mueang Airport to Pattaya This is the most comfortable way to Pattaya from Don Mueang Airport because you get a drop right at your hotel in Pattaya. Hop on to a cab. Pay around 1500 THB (including toll fees) and you will be in Pattaya within approximately 2 hours or more depending on how much Bangkok City traffic you get on the way. Yes, your cab will need to wade through Bangkok city roads to reach the express way that links Suvarnabhumi to Pattaya. Fortunately, the cabs are air-conditioned and this cab ride can be a good opportunity to read your travel guide book if you haven’t read it already or even to catch up on the sleep you missed on the flight to Bangkok. Make sure to settle the issue of toll fees before boarding the taxi. The taxi driver could be offering you a ‘deal’ without mentioning toll fees that you will be asked to pay on the way. 2. Bell Travel or 389 Bus From Suvarnabhumi Airport The second best way is to go to Suvarnabhumi Airport to board Bell Travel or 389 bus from there. This will require travel to Suvarnabhumi airport by a very convenient express van service costing just 50 THB per person assuming you are carrying a small bag that can be accommodated on your lap or somewhere in the van. You may have to buy more ticket for heavier bags. Express Van Between Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang Airport Bangkok This express van service operates daily from 4.00am to 8.30pm. The boarding point for the express van is the parking area of Don Mueang Airport. One needs to exit from gate number 1, 2, or 3 and then keep walking towards the right side until one reaches a parking area. The van takes about one hour to reach Suvarnabhumi Airport and went on dropping people at their desired points around the airport. Once at Suvarnabhumi Airport, just remember to get down when the van reaches the ground level taxi stand. The van drivers do not understand English and will be of no help. Just start shouting when you are at the ground level near the taxi stand. Walk a little and enter the airport from gate number 8 and buy a bus ticket from the Bell Travel counter. Read this article for more info on the bus service from Suvarnabhumi Airport to Pattaya. 3. Public Bus or Express Van To Pattaya from Ekamai Bus Terminal or Mochit Bus Terminal (i) Ekamai Bus Terminal One can take a taxi from Don Muang Airport to Mo Chit BTS Skytrain Station which would cost 150 THB. From Mochit BTS, take skytrain to Ekamai BTS Station. Express Van Get down from the station and walk to the Ekamai Bus Station and find the Mini Van Stand from where a 104 THB per head express van service to Pattaya is available from 6 am to 8.30 pm. The van ride takes about one and a half hours. The vans are air-conditioned and have comfortable seats but not much space for heavy luggage. Read more about Bangkok – Pattaya / Pattaya – Bangkok Express Van Service here. If you are carrying heavy or more than one bag, read below about the bus service to Pattaya from Ekamai. A regular bus service operates from Ekamai to Pattaya from 5.00am to 11.00pm and is best suited if you are carrying heavy bags. The buses are comfortable, air-conditioned, and cost a mere 119 THB per person. The trip takes about two hours. Also read: Bangkok-Pattaya Bus Route and Where To Get Down ‘A1’ Public Bus From Don Mueang Airport to Mochit BTS Station You may take Airport Bus ‘A1’ from outside Gate Number 6 to Mochit BTS Station. From there, a skytrain ride to Ekamai Station can be taken. Read more about A1 Bus later in this page. (ii) Mochit Bus Terminal Bus from Mo Chit Bus Terminal to Pattaya One can take a taxi from Don Muang to Mo Chit Bus Terminal (150 THB) and from there take a bus to Pattaya. This service is available from 4.20 AM to 10 PM and costs 108 or 117 THB per person. Heavy luggage will not be a problem here. Go to counter number 48. There are two side by side counters numbered 48 C and 48 D, and both sell the same ticket. Mochit Bus Station Pattaya Ticket Counter Sometime, an agent or a tout at Mochit Bus Terminal may try to lead you to the express van service to Pattaya. Just keep in mind that this express van service is not as good as the bus service. The van costs the same as the bus but will charge extra for heavy bags. Just be sure, if you are going to Mo Chit Bus Terminal, take only a bus to Pattaya. ‘A1’ Airport Bus Service From Don Mueang Airport to Mochit Bus Terminal via Mochit BTS Station A1 Bus From Don Mueang Airport to Mochit BTS If you are arriving at Don Mueang Airport during daytime hours, you may like to take a public bus (A1) from outside Gate Number 6. This bus will take you to Mochit Bus Terminal via Mochit BTS Skytrain / MRT Chatuchak Park Station at just 30 THB per person. Heavy luggage is allowed on the bus at no extra charge. The first and the last trips of this bus start at 7.30am & 12.00am (midnight) from the airport and 7.00am & 12.00am (midnight) from Mo-Chit. There is a bus every 12 minutes. Also Read: Buying a Prepaid SIM Card at Don Mueang Airport Free Airport Transfer Bus to Suvarnabhumi Airport is not an option for going to Suvarnabhumi Airport just to catch a bus to Pattaya because this transfer bus is meant for passengers who have an air ticket for an onward flight departing from Suvarnabhumi Airport. Desiyatri is on Social Media: facebook.com/desiyatri twitter.com/desiyatri Bangkok - Pattaya Travel Hi. Thanks for visiting my travel blog. As of now, some travel destinations including casino centers such as Thailand, Cambodia, Macau, and Genting Highlands are covered in this blog. All of these countries are great for tourism and can be visited without buying any conducted tours. 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__label__wiki	0.718736	0.718736	Multi-Level Parking Voestalpine by Xarchitekten Natasha Lyons \| 13 December 2009 7 comments Austrian architects Xarchitekten have completed a steel-clad car park at a steel plant in Linz, Austria. Called Multi-Level Parking Voestalpine, it was designed to show off the sheet steel manufacturer's products. The building incorporates a bus stop on the ground floor while the plant's railway runs through the middle of the building. Photographs are courtesy of David Schreyer. Xarchitekten are based in Linz and Vienna. Office partners are David Birgmann, Bettina Brunner, Rainer Kasik, Max Nirnberger and Lorenz Prommegger. More Dezeen stories about Xarchitekten: A dentist based on an illustration of teeth A house where every level leads onto the garden A jewellery store with carpeted walls and ceilings A hair salon with a "hair wave" facade Here's some more text from Xarchitekten: Task/concept: Due to the location in the city of Linz and restrictions on the premise boundaries, the voestalpine steel company needs to pursue alternative growth strategies. An important method of achieving this is through the strategic concentration of facilities and processes on the premises. For this reason the idea developed to concentrate the existing scattered parking spaces, which use up a lot of space, to a centrally located car park. Strategically positioning the car park has proved to be a prototypical solution when considering transformational processes of industrial premises that have limited possibilities for geographic extension. Regarding the steel manufacturer’s specific request, we succeeded conceptually and constructively in highlighting the processing of metal within its own factory buildings. In reference to the core competence of the voestalpine to manufacture and process steel plates, trapezoidal sheet metal with a series of bends forms the outer façade. Bent sheet metal forms the porch of the bus station on the ground floor. The supporting framework of the five-storey car park, consisting of undisguised steel beams and uprights, is remarkable as it is a steel construction which was developed by means of fire simulations and offers slender proportions as well as cheaper building costs. A central aspect of the parking level and the vertical elements is to give the car park users a feeling of safety and for them to be able to intuitively orientate themselves. While the sunlight is caught in the delicate layer of steel ropes during the day and the sheet metal’s multi-coloured coating shines, the reflections from the floors coated with epoxy resin transform the parking levels at dusk to an interior shining from within. Each level consists of an access and exit ramp as well as three lifts, one of which leads directly to the bus station. The surrounding office buildings can be directly connected to the upper levels of the car park via foot bridges. The daily route of drivers from car to workplace becomes shorter and more convenient and an optimal vertical distribution of the car park’s usage is therefore encouraged. The company’s rail system still runs diagonally below the five square parking levels which are 65 metres in length and 19 metres in overall height. This building therefore combines an existing rail track and a car park for 800 vehicles which will serve as a traffic hub and hence enables the steel company voestalpine to use its limited internal surface area in an optimal way. Location: voestalpine / Linz / Upper Austria Client: voestalpine Stahl GmbH Planning data: Negotiation procedure 2007 Start of planning: 2007 Constructional data: Built-up area: 4.350 m2 Floor space: 20.700 m2 Measurments: 65m x 65m x 19m Partners: David Birgmann, Bettina Brunner, Rainer Kasik, Max Nirnberger, Lorenz Prommegger. Xarchitekten	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2036
__label__wiki	0.573427	0.573427	Cyclocross Bikes (7) Cyclocross Frames (10) Specialized S-Works 1 Specialized Crux Expert When it comes to cyclocross, the CruX Expert has everything you need and nothing that you don't. It features the same World-Championship-winning geometry and carbon layup as its S-Works cousin, so ultra-responsive handling and punchy accelerations are covered. You'll also find that these traits are accentuated by the lightweight and extremely stiff FACT 11r carbon fiber construction, while course control is furthered through its one-by design, hydraulic disc brakes, and front/rear thru-axles. Altogether, it's a bike that's guaranteed to take your performance to new heights this season. Beginning with the frame, we implemented our Rider-First Engineered technology that was first introduced on our Tarmacs. Using size-specific tubes and layups, this technology allows the CruX to feature the same ride characteristics across every size in the range. Not only this, but it also allowed us to significantly drop the frame weight, so the CruX now comes in around a scant 900 grams for a 56cm (dependent on frame size and color)—over 400 grams lighter than the previous frameset. A light and stiff frame, alone, isn't useful in a 'cross race if it isn't compliant, however, which is why the new CruX also combines stiffness and compliance in all the right places. And to assist with the latter, we lowered the seat collar by two centimeters for more exposed seatpost and cushion for big hits. We also know that cyclocross races are often won in the corners and over the barriers, which is why the CruX geometry takes this into account. The top tube has been designed for easy shouldering when you're hopping off to clear barriers, as it features a large opening to the front triangle and a flat bottom. For stability in the corners and on off-camber sections, the geometry has a low bottom bracket and a sharp front-end. This combination also helps to initiate corners, regardless of the terrain. With maximum mud-shedding ability in mind, we included eight millimeters of clearance on all sides of a 33mm tire, providing plenty of clearance for muddy conditions. It's awesome to have a light bike, after all, but frame weight becomes irrelevant when it's covered in 10 pounds of mud. It also comes with a reliable SRAM Force 1 hydraulic disc groupset, lightweight and durable Roval C 38 Disc carbon fiber wheelset, and 2Bliss Ready tires that hookup over nasty terrain. - Our FACT 11r carbon frame features a race-ready 'cross geometry and comes equipped with thru-axles, 142mm rear spacing, and it takes advantage of our highest quality carbon production methods in order to create a bike that's as responsive as it is lightweight. - Yep, that's right—carbon wheels on an Expert-level bike. The Roval C38 Disc carbon wheels bring performance to the masses. They're lightweight, durable, and ready for just about anything. - SRAM's Force 1 delivers smooth, crisp shifts, along with plenty of stopping power via their hydraulic disc brakes. Specialized Crux Elite It's no secret that 'cross doesn't play favorites out on the course—only the strong survive. And when it comes to bikes, this is especially true. That's why our CruX Elite was built to deliver a no-nonsense approach to the discipline of cyclocross. Beginning with the frame, we implemented our Rider-First Engineered technology that was first introduced on our Tarmacs. Using size-specific tubes and layups, this technology allows the CruX to feature the same ride characteristics across every size in the range. Not only this, but it also allowed us to significantly drop the frame weight, so the CruX now comes in around a scant 900 grams for a 56cm (dependent on frame size and color)—over 400 grams lighter than the previous frameset. A light and stiff frame, alone, isn't useful in a 'cross race if it isn't compliant, however, which is why the new CruX also combines stiffness and compliance in all the right places. And to assist with the latter, we lowered the seat collar by two centimeters for more exposed seatpost and cushion for big hits. We also know that cyclocross races are often won in the corners and over the barriers, which is why the CruX geometry takes this into account. The top tube has been designed for easy shouldering when you're hopping off to clear barriers, as it features a large opening to the front triangle and a flat bottom. For stability in the corners and on off-camber sections, the geometry has a low bottom bracket and a sharp front-end. This combination also helps to initiate corners, regardless of the terrain. With maximum mud-shedding ability in mind, we included eight millimeters of clearance on all sides of a 33mm tire, providing plenty of clearance for muddy conditions. It's awesome to have a light bike, after all, but frame weight becomes irrelevant when it’s covered in 10 pounds of mud. It also comes with a reliable SRAM Rival 1 hydraulic disc groupset, tough DT R470 Disc wheels, and 2Bliss Ready tires that hookup over nasty terrain. - Our FACT 11r carbon frame features a race-ready 'cross geometry and comes equipped with thru-axles, 142mm rear spacing, and it takes advantage of our highest quality carbon production methods in order to create a bike that's as responsive as it is lightweight. - DT R470 Disc wheels feature reliable, sealed cartridge hubs, and 24 front and rear spokes that keeps weight low and durability high. - With the SRAM Rival 1 groupset, you're assured of reliable shifting and powerful brakes, all with the ease of use that comes with 1x shifting. Specialized S-Works CruX Frameset The S-Works CruX frameset is a 'cross-optimized warrior. With its S-Works FACT 11r carbon frame, flat-mount disc brakes, and S-Works FACT carbon seatpost, it's ready to be built up exactly how you want it. With the S-Works CruX frameset, you have the foundation for a real course crusher. Beginning with the frame, we implemented our Rider-First Engineered technology that was first introduced on our Tarmacs. Using size-specific tubes and layups, this technology allows the CruX to feature the same ride characteristics across every size in the range. Not only this, but it also allowed us to significantly drop the frame weight, so the CruX now comes in around a scant 900 grams for a 56cm (dependent on frame size and color)—over 400 grams lighter than the previous frameset. A light and stiff frame, alone, isn't useful in a 'cross race if it isn't compliant, however, which is why the new CruX also combines stiffness and compliance in all the right places. And to assist with the latter, we lowered the seat collar by two centimeters for more exposed seatpost and cushion for big hits. We also know that cyclocross races are often won in the corners and over the barriers, which is why the CruX geometry takes this into account. The top tube has been designed for easy shouldering when you're hopping off to clear barriers, as it features a large opening to the front triangle and a flat bottom. For stability in the corners and on off-camber sections, the geometry has a low bottom bracket and a sharp front-end. This combination also helps to initiate corners, regardless of the terrain. With maximum mud-shedding ability in mind, we included eight millimeters of clearance on all sides of a 33mm tire, providing plenty of clearance for muddy conditions. And along with clearance, select S-Works models feature hydrophobic, mud-shedding paint that reduces the ability for mud to cling to the frame. It's awesome to have a light bike, after all, but frame weight becomes irrelevant when it's covered in 10 pounds of mud. - Our top-of-the-line S-Works FACT 11r carbon frame features a race-ready 'cross geometry, and comes equipped with thru-axles, 142mm rear spacing, and takes advantage of our highest quality carbon production methods in order to create a bike that's as responsive as it is lightweight. - The internally routed S-Works FACT carbon disc fork features a thru-axle design that increases steering response and rider input for the tight turns and the all-out efforts that 'cross demands. - CeramicSpeed's legendary bearings are found in the bottom bracket of the S-Works CruX, ensuring that all of your power is going to forward motion. Surly Straggler To brake or to disc brake? The debate isn't getting any colder and Surly decided it's best to let you choose. Straggler is bred from Surly's revered rim-brake Cross-Check and comes out a lot the same, but also a little different. Frame geometry is pretty close, and you get all the attachment provisions for racks, fenders, and bottle cages that make these bikes something more utilitarian than a standard 'cross racer. Disc brakes are the obvious change though, and the Straggler sports Hayes CX Experts with 160mm rotors front and rear. The athletic character continues with a SRAM Apex 2x10 drivetrain, giving you a useful gear range for any type of riding you can dream up, and continues with 32-hole alloy Alex XD-E Lite rims wrapped in Surly's own super-versatile 700c x 41 Knard rubber. A Salsa Cowbell handlebar is great for riding on mixed terrain, too, giving you a bit more control when it's loose while retaining comfortable positioning for cranking into the wind. Make it your gravel explorer on weekends, your trusty commuter during the week, and go collect all the hand-ups when cyclocross season rolls around. This Straggler's lookin' for a good time and you seem like the type to oblige. Surly Straggler - 2019 So what is this Straggler anyway? The easy answer is to say that Surly added disc brakes to a Cross-Check and this is close to accurate. People have asked them to make a disc version of their highly versatile Cross-Check for a long time now and almost everything about the two are very similar. Straggler is slightly different, though. The most obvious difference of course is that the Straggler has disc caliper mounts instead of rim brake studs. It'll accept rotors up to 160mm. The rear dropouts are unique, too. They're a partially closed horizontal design that accommodates singlespeed or geared drivetrains. They feature stop screws that thread in from the rear to further secure the wheel and to position the rear wheel for optimal shifting, plus a forward-mounted stop screw on the drive side to keep the wheel from slipping forward under the force of your gargantuan legs. The rear dropouts are spaced 135mm instead of 132.5mm like the Cross-Check simply because there are far more options for disc hubs in this spacing. Straggler shares all of the Cross-Check's braze-ons for fenders, racks and bottle cages. The Straggler's geometry is slightly different, with angles and tube lengths very close but not identical to the Cross-Check, but like the Cross-Check it's ready to take you just about anywhere. It's a day tripper and a weekender. It's a 'rough road' road bike. It's a cyclocross bike with no pretense about racing. It's a utilitarian townie. It's a light-duty touring bike. It's an all-weather commuter. And when you get tired of one set up, you can swap parts around and turn it into something else. We think that's pretty neat. - Fender eyelets at the dropouts, front and rear rack bosses and dual water bottle mounts, downtube shifter mounts - 100% Surly proprietary 4130 chromoly tubing. TIG-welded, double-butted main triangle - Forward-exiting horizontal dropouts with adjusters give you singlespeed compatibility and wheelbase adjustability to help you fit the tires and fenders you want to run with that drivetrain you want to run. - Frame is ED Coated for increased life expectancy Surly Straggler 650b We think by now, most of you get what Straggler is. It's a madly versatile bike that can be used for most types of riding and riding surfaces. Better still is that you now have the option of 650b wheel size. 650b wheels were popular for a long time many years ago on 'Constructeur' style bicycles and we all know how real things were back in the day…650b wheels strike a nice balance between the benefits of both 26" and 700c sizes. The smaller wheel allows smaller riders to fit well on smaller frames, produces a stronger wheel, makes fitting big-ass tires easier and are more agile than their larger counterparts. Straggler has disc caliper mounts instead of rim brake studs. It'll accept rotors up to 160mm. The rear dropouts are unique, too. They're a partially closed horizontal design that accommodates singlespeed or geared drivetrains. They feature stop screws that thread in from the rear to further secure the wheel and to position the rear wheel for optimal shifting, plus a forward-mounted stop screw on the drive side to keep the wheel from slipping forward under the force of your gargantuan legs. The rear dropouts are spaced 135mm instead of 132.5mm like the Cross-Check simply because there are far more options for disc hubs in this spacing. Straggler 650b has braze-ons for fenders, racks and bottle cages. The geometry is slightly different, with angles and tube lengths very close but not identical to the Cross-Check, but like the Cross-Check it's ready to take you just about anywhere. It's a day tripper and a weekender. It's a 'rough road' road bike. It's a cyclocross bike with no pretense about racing. It's a utilitarian townie. It's a light-duty touring bike. It's an all-weather commuter. And when you get tired of one set up, you can swap parts around and turn it into something else. We think that's pretty neat. - Fender eyelets at the dropouts, front and rear rack bosses and dual water bottle mounts, downtube shifter mounts - 100% Surly proprietary 4130 chromoly tubing. TIG-welded, double-butted main triangle - Forward-exiting horizontal dropouts with adjusters give you singlespeed compatibility and wheelbase adjustability to help you fit the tires and fenders you want to run with that drivetrain you want to run. - Frame is ED Coated for increased life expectancy Surly Straggler 650b - 2018 650b what? In the old days when randonneuring bikes ruled on long rides over mixed surfaces, the 650b tire size was perfectly suited for moving fast under control. Surly took this concept and applied it to the Straggler, a disc brake-equipped any-road type of bike bred from their revered Cross Check. The slightly smaller wheels accommodate smaller frame sizes and plump tire widths, creating options where few exist in this realm of bike riding. Disc brakes highlight the Straggler 650b story, sporting Hayes CX Experts with 160mm rotors front and rear. The athletic character continues with a SRAM Apex 2x10 drivetrain, giving you a useful gear range for any type of riding you can dream up, and continues with 32-hole alloy Alex Adventurer 2 rims wrapped in Surly's own super-versatile 650b x 41 Knard rubber. A Salsa Cowbell handlebar is great for riding on mixed terrain, too, giving you a bit more control when it's loose while retaining comfortable positioning for cranking into the wind. Make it your gravel explorer on weekends, your trusty commuter during the week, and go collect all the hand-ups when cyclocross season rolls around. This Straggler's lookin' for a good time and you seem like the type to oblige. Ritchey CX Pro Break-Away CrMo Frameset Flying across the country to races some 'cross in the Pacific Northwest? Or are you headed to New England for some East Coast racing? Perhaps you want to give the legendary Belgian mud a try. Now you can travel without the hassle of punishing baggage fees for bikes. The Ritchey Break-Away® Pro Cross is a full size 'cross rig that can be split apart and fit into its own included travel case. Redesigned for 2017 with revised geometry, an integrated head tube and WCS carbon fork, this versatile machine now ships in a classic British racing green and yellow finish. The Break-Away Pro Cross frame is made from Ritchey heat treated, CrMo butted steel tubing, and includes a WCS Carbon Fork and headset. Aside from it's fantastic ride performance, the magic of this bike is in its patented locking compression system, which adds only 100 grams to the weight of the frame. The frame also features bridgeless chainstays for increased tire clearance and rack eyelets. The downtube is split near the bottom bracket and is fastened together with a simple locking ring. A double seatpost clamp up top secures the frame there. This system is strong and completely reliable - you'll never know you're riding a bike that you can split in half and pack in its own bag in less than twenty minutes. Case, padding, cable disconnects, and couplers also included in Frame Kit. - Bottom Bracket: 68mm English threaded - 28.6 front derailleur clamp (Caution: Front derailleur clamp MAX torque of 2.5Nm) - 5.9lbs frame/fork (M) - Case size: 8.5" W x 26.5"H x 31"L w/ wheels - Break-Away travel case and padding included - Ritchey does not guarantee Airlines will not charge - DO NOT grease the downtube coupler on installation - Protected by US Patent No. 6,886,844, EPO Patent 1298046 (validated in various EPO countries), Chinese Patent No. ZL200520113128.5 and Taiwanese Patent No. 192792 & 217716 See that fire road? How about that gravel grinder you've always thought about doing? Surly's Straggler is just the steed you need to explore all the backroads and sideroads. Manufactured from Surly's favored chromoly tubing, paired with a lugged chromoly fork, the frame is responsive, nimble, and showcases steel's inherent ability to damp road buzz. 650b wheels are a great 'tweener size, with speed, traction, and road smoothing comfort. It also has clearance for 42mm tires, a full set of rack and fender eyelets, and custom rear dropouts that let you ride the bike singlespeed or geared. The wide-range SRAM Apex drivetrain will get you through all the ups and downs of any ride, and snappy SRAM Apex DoubleTap shifters make it easy to get through the gears. And control is easy with Hayes CX-Expert disc brakes providing tons of all-weather, all-terrain stopping power. Ritchey Swiss Cross Disc Frameset - 2015 Take on the cyclocross scene and so much more with Ritchey’s venerable Swiss Cross Disc. With the same details that dominated the 'cross circuit and spurred envious glances at every start line, this timeless frameset is sure to supplant its progenitor in the annals of history. The classic details so coveted by pros and amateurs alike are all present: custom triple-butted steel, Ritchey dropouts, and the spot-on geometry that dials the ride to the perfect shade of refined stability and speed. To maximize those fine details, a lightweight head tube features Ritchey's integrated headset to shave weight and improve the steering response of the matching WCS carbon fork. With lots of room for shouldering and huge tire clearance, it's ready for the sloppiest race or ride. Yet it also has two bottle cage mounts in case you want to ride this piece of history every day. And, all-weather capable disc brakes provide sure-fire control and stopping power no matter what the conditions. Ritchey SwissCross Canti Frameset - 2019 Many Ritchey-sponsored mountain bike champions were also cyclocross champions—Thomas Frischknecht, Henrik Djernis and Ruthie Matthes, to name a few. And though they were paid to race Ritchey mountain bikes, they often wanted a Ritchey cyclocross bike to race in the winter. This ultimately resulted in another iconic Ritchey model—the Swiss Cross. Now the Swiss Cross is back, and better than ever. We started with the same forged-and-machined integrated head tube design found on the P-29er—80 grams lighter than a standard 1-1/8" head tube and just as strong—a design which also provides much-needed shouldering room at the head tube. Tubing is an all-new triple-butted, heat treated steel designed to Tom's specifications for a classically lightweight, compliant, yet tough-as-nails frame. Geometry has been updated to reflect what 'cross riders want: race-ready handling and responsiveness that's still versatile enough to serve as a capable all-around rough road/trail bike. Tire clearance? Plenty. The Swiss Cross is designed with 'cross racing in mind, after all. But with two bottle cage mounts, the Swiss Cross is perfect for long mixed rides in the off-season. - Painted-to-match Ritchey WCS Cross fork and WCS integrated headset included - Bottom Bracket: 68mm English threaded - Front Derailleur Clamp: 28.6mm (Caution: Front derailleur clamp MAX torque of 2.5Nm) - Headset: WCS integrated drop-in 41.8 (included) - 130mm rear spacing - Weight: 1941g / 4.28lbs (55cm, frame only) - Sold as frameset only Ritchey SwissCross Disc CrMo Frameset - 2019 Many Ritchey-sponsored mountain bike champions were also cyclocross champions—Thomas Frischknecht, Henrik Djernis and Ruthie Matthes, to name a few. And though they were paid to race Ritchey mountain bikes, they often wanted a Ritchey cyclocross bike to race in the winter. This ultimately resulted in another iconic Ritchey model—the Swiss Cross. The Swiss Cross Disc blends this Cyclocross racing heritage with up-to-date geometry and tubing. And as always, the sweet, perfectly balanced ride that Ritchey is known for. We started with the same forged-and-machined integrated head tube design found on the P-29er—80 grams lighter than a standard 1-1/8" head tube and just as strong—a design which also provides much-needed shouldering room at the head tube. Tubing is an all-new triple-butted, heat treated steel designed to Tom's specifications for a classically lightweight, compliant, yet tough-as-nails frame. Geometry has been updated to reflect what 'cross riders want: race-ready handling and responsiveness that's still versatile enough to serve as a capable all-around rough road/trail bike. Tire clearance? Plenty. The Swiss Cross Disc is designed with 'cross racing in mind, after all. But with two bottle cage mounts, the Swiss Cross is perfect for long mixed rides in the off-season. - Handmade to Tom Ritchey's exacting standards - Updated modern sloping top tube Cyclocross geometry - Heat treated, triple-butted Ritchey Logic II CrMo steel tubing throughout - Forged and machined head tube with integrated cups for use with drop-in headsets – lighter and stronger than a standard head tube - Straight carbon steer tube with optimized layup for stiffness under braking forces without excessive harshness - Ritchey WCS Carbon disc cross fork, painted to match - Full-length housing stops for use with cable or hydraulic brakes - Front: 140/160mm rotor compatible; Rear: 160mm rotor compatibility - Post mount - Ritchey socket dropout - 135mm rear spacing - Room for tires up to 38c tires - Ritchey WCS headset included - 28.6 front derailleur clamp (Caution: Front derailleur clamp MAX torque of 2.5Nm) - Weight: 1960g / 4.32 lbs (55cm, frame only) Surly Travelers Check Frameset Surly's Travelers Check is all about versatility. It can be built up as a singlespeed or a geared bike on 700c wheels, has room for fenders and fat tires and has bosses for racks. And that's not even the best part! The entire bike breaks down to fit in a standard, airline-approved suitcase thanks to the S&S couplers! The 4130 chromoly tubing provides a smooth and stable ride and the comfy, stable geometry takes everything you can give it on the road or off the beaten path. Surly Straggler 650b Frameset 650b what? In the old days when randonneuring bikes ruled on long rides over mixed surfaces, the 650b tire size was perfectly suited for moving fast under control. Surly took this concept and applied it to the Straggler, a disc brake-equipped any-road type of bike bred from their revered Cross Check. The slightly smaller wheels accommodate smaller frame sizes and plump tire widths, creating options where few exist in this realm of riding. Make it your gravel explorer on weekends, your trusty commuter during the week, and go collect all the hand-ups when cyclocross season rolls around. This Straggler's lookin' for a good time and you seem like the type to oblige. We think by now, most of you get what Straggler is. It’s a madly versatile bike that can be used for most types of riding and riding surfaces. Better still is that you now have the option of 650b wheel size. 650b wheels were popular for a long time many years ago on ‘Constructeur’ style bicycles and we all know how real stuff was back in the day…650b wheels strike a nice balance between the benefits of both 26” and 700c sizes. The smaller wheel allows smaller riders to fit well on smaller frames, produces a stronger wheel, makes fitting big-ass tires easier and are more agile than their larger counterparts. Straggler has disc caliper mounts instead of rim brake studs. It’ll accept rotors up to 160mm. The rear dropouts are unique, too. They’re a partially closed horizontal design that accommodates singlespeed or geared drivetrains. They feature stop screws that thread in from the rear to further secure the wheel and to position the rear wheel for optimal shifting, plus a forward-mounted stop screw on the drive side to keep the wheel from slipping forward under the force of your gargantuan legs. The rear dropouts are spaced 135mm instead of 132.5mm like the Cross-Check simply because there are far more options for disc hubs in this spacing. Straggler 650b has braze-ons for fenders, racks and bottle cages. The geometry is slightly different, with angles and tube lengths very close but not identical to the Cross-Check, but like the Cross-Check it’s ready to take you just about anywhere. It’s a day tripper and a weekender. It’s a ‘rough road’ road bike. It’s a cyclocross bike with no pretense about racing. It’s a utilitarian townie. It’s a light-duty touring bike. It’s an all-weather commuter. And when you get tired of one set up, you can swap parts around and turn it into something else. We think that’s pretty neat. Surly Straggler Frameset So what is this Straggler anyway? The easy answer is to say that we added disc brakes to a Cross-Check and this is close to accurate. People have asked us to make a disc version of our highly versatile Cross-Check for a long time now and almost everything about the two are very similar. Straggler is slightly different, though. The most obvious difference of course is that the Straggler has disc caliper mounts instead of rim brake studs. It’ll accept rotors up to 160mm. The rear dropouts are unique, too. They’re a partially closed horizontal design that accommodates singlespeed or geared drivetrains. They feature stop screws that thread in from the rear to further secure the wheel and to position the rear wheel for optimal shifting, plus a forward-mounted stop screw on the drive side to keep the wheel from slipping forward under the force of your gargantuan legs. The rear dropouts are spaced 135mm instead of 132.5mm like the Cross-Check simply because there are far more options for disc hubs in this spacing. Straggler shares all of the Cross-Check’s braze-ons for fenders, racks and bottle cages. The Straggler’s geometry is slightly different, with angles and tube lengths very close but not identical to the Cross-Check, but like the Cross-Check it’s ready to take you just about anywhere. It’s a day tripper and a weekender. It’s a ‘rough road’ road bike. It’s a cyclocross bike with no pretense about racing. It’s a utilitarian townie. It’s a light-duty touring bike. It’s an all-weather commuter. And when you get tired of one set up, you can swap parts around and turn it into something else. We think that’s pretty neat. Surly Cross-Check Frameset - 2018/2019 There is no such thing as one bike that can do it all, but the Cross-Check comes mighty close. It's a cyclocross bike by design, but don’t be fooled into thinking that it has only one purpose. This jack-of-all-trades will do just as well getting you across the country as it does getting you across town. At home on the road, on trails, and on gravel, the Cross-Check'll fit pretty big tires, or smaller ones if you like. It can be built as a geared bike, a singlespeed, or a fixed-gear. The Cross-Check’s frame is engineered to supply a comfortable but lively ride. The tubing is CroMoly steel, high quality, custom-drawn, and built to our specifications. It's designed to work with components of popular sizes, meaning you can find both new and old parts to hang on this frame. It will accommodate a wide range of crank types and chainring sizes. It's got accommodations for racks and fenders (front and rear) and, because of its ample tire clearance, you can outfit it to suit where and how you will use it. There's a reason the Cross-Check has remained popular after all these years. The frame is comfy, tough as nails, and super versatile. Surly continues to hear from people for whom the Cross-Check has long been their go-to bike simply because it performs so astonishingly well on any surface.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2048
__label__wiki	0.918086	0.918086	China state media justify Muslim Uighur crackdown to prevent ‘China's Syria' An official Communist Party paper has defended China's policies in Xinjiang after a UN report suggested hundreds of thousands of Muslim Uighurs are in internment camps. China rebuffed Western pressure over its policies. China's harsh security policy against ethnic Uighurs in the far western region of Xinjiang has saved the area from "massive turmoil," an official Communist Party paper said Monday. The editorial in Global Times was the first response from China to a worrying United Nations panel on Friday claiming hundreds of thousands of Uighurs have been detained in what "resembles a massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy." "Through the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China, the national strength of the country and the contribution of local officials, Xinjiang has been salvaged from the verge of massive turmoil. It has avoided the fate of becoming ‘China's Syria' or ‘China's Libya,'" the editorial said. Reeducation in western China Permalink https://p.dw.com/p/2xxws Reports of abusive indoctrination camps in western China The editorial slammed the West for putting external pressure on China and not understanding the situation, while describing keeping turmoil away from Xinjiang as "the greatest human right." "The turnaround in Xinjiang's security situation has avoided a great tragedy and saved countless lives, thanks to powerful Chinese law and the strong ruling power of the Communist Party of China. What the West has been hyping has destroyed numerous countries and regions. When the same evil influence was spreading in Xinjiang, it was decisively curbed," the Global Times commented. Read more: 1 million Uighurs in Chinese 'internment camps,' UN hears A UN human rights panel said there were credible reports that hundreds of thousands of Muslim Uighurs in the Xinjiang autonomous region were being forced into "political camps for indoctrination" to denounce Islam and swear loyalty to the Communist Party. China's Uighur heartland turns into security state China's far western Xinjiang region ramps up security Three times a day, alarms ring out through the streets of China's ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar, and shopkeepers rush out of their stores swinging government-issued wooden clubs. In mandatory anti-terror drills conducted under police supervision, they fight off imaginary knife-wielding assailants. One Belt, One Road Initiative An ethnic Uighur man walks down the path leading to the tomb of Imam Asim in the Taklamakan Desert. A historic trading post, the city of Kashgar is central to China's "One Belt, One Road Initiative", which is President Xi Jinping's signature foreign and economic policy involving massive infrastructure spending linking China to Asia, the Middle East and beyond. China fears disruption of "One Belt, One Road" summit A man herds sheep in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. China's worst fears are that a large-scale attack would blight this year's diplomatic setpiece, an OBOR summit attended by world leaders planned for Beijing. Since ethnic riots in the regional capital Urumqi in 2009, Xinjiang has been plagued by bouts of deadly violence. Ethnic minority in China A woman prays at a grave near the tomb of Imam Asim in the Taklamankan Desert. Uighurs are a Turkic-speaking distinct and mostly Sunni Muslim community and one of the 55 recognized ethnic minorities in China. Although Uighurs have traditionally practiced a moderate version of Islam, experts believe that some of them have been joining Islamic militias in the Middle East. Communist Party vows to continue war on terror Chinese state media say the threat remains high, so the Communist Party has vowed to continue its "war on terror" against Islamist extremism. For example, Chinese authorities have passed measures banning many typically Muslim customs. The initiative makes it illegal to "reject or refuse" state propaganda, although it was not immediately clear how the authorities would enforce this regulation. CCTV cameras are being installed Many residents say the anti-terror drills are just part of an oppressive security operation that has been ramped up in Kashgar and other cities in Xinjiang's Uighur heartland in recent months. For many Uighurs it is not about security, but mass surveillance. "We have no privacy. They want to see what you're up to," says a shop owner in Kashgar. Ban on many typically Muslim customs The most visible change is likely to come from the ban on "abnormal growing of beards," and the restriction on wearing veils. Specifically, workers in public spaces, including stations and airports, will be required to "dissuade" people with veils on their faces from entering and report them to the police. Security personnel keep watch Authorities offer rewards for those who report "youth with long beards or other popular religious customs that have been radicalized", as part of a wider incentive system that rewards actionable intelligence on imminent attacks. Human rights activists have been critical of the tactics used by the government in combatting the alleged extremists, accusing it of human rights abuses. Economy or security? China routinely denies pursuing repressive policies in Xinjiang and points to the vast sums it spends on economic development in the resource-rich region. James Leibold, an expert on Chinese ethnic policy says the focus on security runs counter to Beijing's goal of using the OBOR initiative to boost Xinjiang's economy, because it would disrupt the flow of people and ideas. Author: Nadine Berghausen Without acknowledging acknowledging the existence of any camps, the Global Times editorial in English and Chinese stated that "the current peace and stability in Xinjiang is partly due to the high intensity of regulations. Police and security posts can be seen everywhere in Xinjiang." Chinese official denies camps Hu Lianhe, deputy director general of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, told the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on the second day of its regular review of China's record that the country respected freedom of religion. "On freedom of religious belief, Xinjiang guarantees citizens freedom of religious belief and protects normal religious activities," he said. "Those deceived by religious extremism ... shall be assisted by resettlement and re-education," he added. However, he called the claim that 1 million people have been detained for reeducation as "completely untrue." Gay McDougall, a member of the UN panel who accused China last Friday of running internment camps, said that Beijing needed to do more than just claim it doesn't violate minority rights. "To say that they don't violate rights of minorities does not prove anything. We have to more than a denial of allegations," she told the Chinese delegation on Monday. "I notice that you didn't quite deny that these re-education or indoctrination programmes don't take place," she added, China has said that Xinjiang faces a threat from Islamist extremists and separatists, who it says have carried out numerous attacks in the region to stoke tension between the Turkic-speaking Muslim Uighur minority and ethnic Han Chinese. Human rights groups point to discrimination and repression fueling Uighur discontent. Read more: China limits beards, veils in Muslim region Hundreds of Uighur militants are believed to have joined the "Islamic State" and other jihadist groups in Iraq and Syria, creating concern they may return to fight in Xinjiang. Each evening at 1830 UTC, DW's editors send out a selection of the day's hard news and quality feature journalism. You can sign up to receive it directly here. cw/jm (AP, Reuters) Uighur journalist Gulchehra Hoja: 'I have my own sad story to tell' DW spoke to Uighur journalist Gulchehra Hoja who, along with some of her colleagues, accuses the Chinese authorities of arresting her family members as retribution for her reports about the plight of the Uighurs. (05.03.2018) China limits beards, veils in Muslim region Chinese authorities have passed measures banning "abnormal" facial hair and many typically Muslim customs in the remote Xinjiang region. The initiative also makes it illegal to "reject or refuse" state propaganda. (30.03.2017) Is China building 'political re-education' camps for Muslim minorities? In China's Muslim-majority Xinjiang region, there have been reports of "re-education" camps where over 200,000 "suspects" are being held. DW spoke with researcher Adrian Lenz about the veracity of the reports. (21.06.2018) Istanbul attack: Why China's Uighurs are joining global jihadist groups The Turkish government has arrested several Uighur Muslims in connection with Istanbul's nightclub attack. In a DW interview, analyst Siegfried O. Wolf explains why the Uighur issue has expanded beyond China's borders. (06.01.2017) 1 million Uighurs in Chinese 'internment camps,' UN hears Members of the Uighur community and others Muslims in China have been treated as "enemies of the state" and held in secret camps, a UN anti-discrimination body has said. Beijing has previously denied such camps exist. (10.08.2018) China says it faces a serious threat from Islamist extremists in its Xinjiang region. Beijing accuses separatists among the Muslim Uighur ethnic minority of stirring up tensions with the ethnic Han Chinese majority. (14.04.2017) Daily Bulletin registration form Global Times editorial Related Subjects People's Republic of China Keywords China, Uighurs, Xinjiang Permalink https://p.dw.com/p/3332U How China intimidates Uighurs abroad by threatening their families 11.07.2019 Uighurs living in the US and Europe have told DW that Chinese authorities are going after family members still living in China to suppress activism by the Uighur community living abroad. Western UN envoys condemn China's Muslim 're-education' camps 10.07.2019 China is reportedly holding up to 1 million Uighurs in internment camps, described as "concentration camps" by rights groups. Diplomats rarely send open letters to the UN Human Rights Council to slam a country's record. Anger boils over Xinjiang visit by UN counterterrorism chief 14.06.2019 A visit by the UN's counterterrorism head to Xinjiang lends credibility to the view that Uighurs pose a threat to China, the US and rights groups have argued. Some 1 million ethnic Uighurs are detained in the region. Former US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens dies 0m ago US House condemns Trump's 'racist comments' 1h ago French Parliament approves Notre Dame restoration bill 1h ago No charges against New York officer for 'I can't breathe' death of Eric Garner 3h ago World powers call for an end to deadly Libya fighting 4h ago DW News on Facebook 11.07.2017 Follow @dwnews on Twitter 11.07.2017	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2054
__label__wiki	0.502368	0.502368	Forthcoming (191) Monographs (187) Handbooks (53) Research Collections (18) Textbooks (10) Legal Commentaries (2) Encyclopedias (2) Elgar Advanced Introductions (2) Elgaronline (241) Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment Edited by Peter J. Buckley, Hinrich Voss The rapid international expansion of Chinese businesses has evoked mixed perceptions in host countries and among policymakers. This volume brings together rigorous studies on the motivation, background, strategy, and impact of Chinese outward foreign direct investment and the emergence of Chinese multinational enterprises (MNEs). It is thus informative for the next wave of academic research on Chinese and emerging market MNEs in international business, political economy, economic geography and political sciences. 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__label__wiki	0.927427	0.927427	About ecoi.net Imprint & Disclaimer COI Resources COI Forum COI Thesaurus My ecoi.net Enable JavaScript to get all ecoi.net features! Document #2006069 Joke In Turkmenistan Goes Too Far For Women Drivers Facing Unofficial Ban ASHGABAT -- A government-run news agency in Turkmenistan has published an April Fool's Day cartoon that mocks women drivers. For hundreds of women in Turkmenistan who've had their driving licenses confiscated by police in an unofficial crackdown against female drivers, it is no laughing matter. The offending cartoon was published by Turkmenistan's Golden Age information agency along with a story about an April 1st Ashgabat art exhibition by illustrator Atajan Ashirov. The cartoon depicts a woman behind the wheel of an automobile who is bedecked in jewelry crafted from traffic warning signs that conveyed the messages "Do Not Enter," "Caution," and "Danger." One RFE/RL correspondent in Ashgabat, a woman who does not reveal her name out of fear of retaliation from authorities for her journalistic work, says Ashirov was obviously "trying to be sarcastic about women driving." "This cartoon is consistent with the efforts of authorities to deprive women of their right to drive," she said. "It is notable that the woman in the cartoon is wearing a 'Do Not Enter' necklace -- thereby showing that the woman cannot pass through." "Women in Turkmenistan see this as a symbol that authorities are trying to stop women from driving and deprive them of their licenses without any reason," she said. Quietly Banned From Driving There is no official law or decree in Turkmenistan against female drivers or legislative obstacles preventing them from obtaining licenses. But women in Turkmenistan have been complaining for years about a pattern of discrimination from authorities when it comes to them operating vehicles. In a country where even low-level government actions are rarely made independently of the president's office, it is common to tie such initiatives directly to President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov. In March 2016, RFE/RL reported on widespread complaints that driving tests were being unfairly administered to women and graded in a way that made it difficult for them to obtain a driving license. Early in 2018, RFE/RL reported how women in Turkmenistan who already had a driving license were finding it difficult to get their documents renewed. This year, in late February, Turkmen police launched a crackdown with traffic stops at busy junctions in the capital Ashgabat -- singling out female drivers and pulling them over to search their vehicles. Women pulled over told RFE/RL that police were looking for any pretext to take away their driving licenses and tow away their cars. At one point in late February, witnesses reporting seeing about 20 cars pulled over by police on one main avenue in Ashgabat while the drivers, all women, stood on the roadside waiting for police to complete their inspections. Up to 120 women's cars have been impounded per day for violations such as an incomplete first-aid kit, not having a proper spare tire, or missing a warning triangle. In one case, a woman told RFE/RL that police impounded her car and took away her driver's license on the grounds that the Analgin painkillers she was required to keep in her first-aid kit were of a generic type. Another woman was so angered about the confiscation of her driver's license that she chased down the police officer and filmed him, trying to get him to explain on camera why he'd taken the action against her. She said the police officer told her before she started filming that authorities had received an "order that women cannot drive on the major roads in the city." In mid-March, as the crackdown on women drivers continued, those with documents confirming they work for a state organization could avoid having their driving license taken away. But in the past week, a woman employee of Turkmenistan's Interior Ministry told RFE/RL that she and all of her female colleagues were told they should no longer drive if they want to keep their jobs. That employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of being fired and punished, said all women in the Interior Ministry have had their licenses taken from them and attached to their personnel files. "Today, you can very rarely see women who drive," said RFE/RL's correspondent, who adds that she also is not driving in Ashgabat. "I recently spoke with three women who used to drive but have stopped because they don't want to have their documents confiscated." "They are waiting for these crackdowns to end and they hope it will be soon," she said. Written by Ron Synovitz based on reporting by RFE/RL's Turkmen Service. ecoi.net summary: Article on official discrimination of women with regard to driving vehicles Original link: https://www.rferl.org/a/turkmenistan-women-drivers-joke-facing-unofficial-ban/29857453.html Media Report Austrian Red Cross ecoi.net is run by the Austrian Red Cross (department ACCORD) in cooperation with Informationsverbund Asyl & Migration. ecoi.net is funded by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, the Austrian Ministry of the Interior and Caritas Austria. ecoi.net is supported by ECRE & UNHCR.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2059
__label__wiki	0.982535	0.982535	Edinburgh’s Cornell du Preez to replace David Denton at Worcester Cornell du Preez is leaving Edinburgh for Worcester. Pic: SNS Published: 15:30 Tuesday 13 February 2018 Scotland internationalist Cornell du Preez will leave Edinburgh Rugby for Worcester this summer. The Capital club announced on Monday that back-row Du Preez, pictured, is one of four players departing at the end of the season – the other three being Sam Hidalgo-Clyne, Duncan Weir and Jason Tovey – and the 26-year-old has agreed terms on a switch to Worcester, where he will link up with his former Edinburgh coach Alan Solomons. Former Edinburgh back-row and current Scotland player David Denton is leaving Worcester. Pic: SNS “Cornell is a fantastic player with exceptional skills. His all-round game will be of huge benefit,” said Solomons. Du Preez is being brought in by Worcester to compensate for the loss of another Scotland and former Edinburgh player in David Denton, who is quitting the Sixways outfit after just a year. “We’re sorry to see Dents go. He’s a really good bloke,” said Warriors director of rugby Solomons. “We know he’ll continue to give his all in the blue and gold for the rest of the season.” Worcester also expect to clinch the signature of Edinburgh stand-off Weir for the 2018/19 season. The Scotland player was due to join the English Premiership club on a short-term deal last week, but Edinburgh have decided to retain the 26-year-old for the time being as cover at No.10. Du Preez will be linking up with his former Edinburgh boss, Alan Solomons. Pic: TSPL Jamie Hodgson handed first professional deal by Edinburgh	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2060
__label__wiki	0.647638	0.647638	Teaching materials and methods > Teaching practice > Student reporting requirements Guidelines and requirements for reporting student achievement. Overview of the achievement standards for student reporting Requirements for reporting to parents and carers Requirements for reporting to the Department Origins of the minimum requirements The Victorian Curriculum F-10 achievement standards are provided in 11 levels for English and mathematics and in five or six bands for all the other learning areas and capabilities. For more information see Victorian Curriculum F-10 structure . Achievement standards are provided in four levels in the towards foundation level Victorian curriculum (levels A to D) for students progressing towards achieving the foundation level achievement standards. For students who are not yet assessed as having reached 0.5 in the foundation level scoring range, the level A to D continuum should be used to record levels of achievement. The level A to D continuum can be applied to record levels of achievement for all students, including students with additional learning needs or a disability. Standards are provided for English as an Additional Language (EAL) students in the EAL companion to the AusVELS The EAL companion is current for 2019. Requirement one: frequency of student reporting Schools are required to provide a written student report at least twice a year to the parents or carers of each child enrolled at the school. Requirement two: accessibility for parent or carer Student reports are required to be in an accessible form and easy for parents or carers to understand. Requirement three: using achievement standards Schools are required to report against the Victorian Curriculum F-10 achievement standards, which includes towards foundation levels A-D, and the standards outlined in the EAL developmental continuum. reporting directly against the achievement standards (not the level or band descriptions, or content descriptions). reporting against the achievement standards defined for each learning area and capability taught, consistent with the teaching and learning program(s) schools have designed. For more information on reporting against the achievement standards at the different stages see: Foundation stage, years prep to 2 Schools report student achievement against the achievement standards in five focus areas: English, mathematics, health and physical education, the arts, and personal and social capability. These areas all have a standard at foundation. The focus at the foundation stage (P-2) is on these five curriculum areas. If schools choose to teach other curriculum areas then these should be reported against. Schools are required to report against the achievement standard in: English and mathematics twice a year indicating: the level of achievement reached by each student the age-related expected level of achievement for each student. Exceptions are where it has been determined by schools in partnership with parents and carers to be unnecessary for an individual student. English achievement standards are set out in the three modes to be reported on: reading and viewing, writing, and speaking and listening. Mathematics achievement standards are set out in the three strands to be reported on: number and algebra, measurement and geometry, and statistics and probability. Physical education twice a year. This is reported on separately to health education. Health education, the arts, and personal and social capability. These are reported on as they are taught over the two-year band of school in line with each individual school's learning program(s). In the foundation stage, schools may choose to structure teaching and learning programs around the five outcomes of the Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework (VEYLDF) Breadth stage, years 3 to 8 Schools report student achievement against the achievement standards in all learning areas and capabilities with a focus on English, mathematics and science. the age-related expected level of achievement for each student Science at least once a year. This commences in year 3, or earlier if this is part of the teaching and learning program, and is required to include: age-related expected level of achievement for each student. All learning areas and capabilities. These are reported on as they are taught over the two-year band of school in line with each individual school's learning program(s). These include health education, the arts, the humanities, languages, technologies and the four areas of capabilities (personal and social, ethical, intercultural, and critical and creative thinking). Pathways stage, years 9 to 10 English and mathematical twice a year indicating: Science at least once a year. This is required to include: Physical education and health education. These are to be reported on separately. Physical education twice a year. Health education over the two-year band of school in line with each individual school's learning program. Other curriculum areas in line with the school's learning programs over the two-year band. Students should have the opportunities to engage with the full structure of the Victorian Curriculum F-10, including: The humanities (including a band of history, geography, and civics and citizenship) The arts (at least one art discipline) Technologies (both design and technologies, and digital technologies) The four capabilities (personal and social, ethical, intercultural, and critical and creative thinking). The school curriculum plan and reporting should recognise that in these years of schooling some students begin to focus on areas of specialisation related to both their future school and intended pathways beyond school. Schools are required to report the learning achievement levels of students undertaking the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) program against the Victorian Curriculum F-10 achievement standards for English and mathematics. Requirement four: using a continuum Both achievement and progress against the achievement standards are required to be included in the student report. Achievement means: locating a student on a continuum of learning for a learning area and/or capability by making an on-balance, holistic, evidence-based and defensible judgement of assessment evidence gathered during a reporting period. Progress means: representing the growth in learning that has occurred by referencing the last time such achievement standards were reported against for that student in the school. For an example see: achievement and progress along a continuum (docx - 58.1kb) Requirement five: using a five point scale A five point scale is to be included in every student report to provide more detail on the student's learning and to rate the quality of the student's achievement and progress against the achievement standards. This requirement cannot be met by using the existing levels of the curriculum. A five point scale may be a written or graphical scale that may employ letters, numbers, or worded-descriptors; if a worded descriptors are not used, the scale must be explained. For English, mathematics and science at least an age-related five point scale is required. For all other subjects, a five point scale may be: Learning goals scale Learning dimensions scale More than one scale may be employed for the same learning area or capability. For more information and examples of five point scales see: five point scale (docx - 52.3kb) For example report formats see: student report format (docx - 41.2kb) Schools are required to report teacher judgements to the Department for students’ achievement against the Victorian Curriculum F-10 achievement standards. English and mathematics are to be uploaded twice per year, and all other curriculum areas as they are taught in the reporting period, in accordance with the school's teaching and learning plan and the Department requirements. For EAL students whose English language proficiency is not yet described by the English standards, teacher judgements for achievement against the standards of the EAL developmental continuum should be provided instead of achievements against the English standards. Schools are required to upload student achievement data via CASES21 twice yearly – by 30 June and 31 December. Semester 2 teacher judgements should be entered prior to data rollover in line with end-of-year procedures. Teacher judgements are reported in the annual report to the school community. This data is extracted by the Department and pre-populated into the annual report template. Schools can view the data they have uploaded via CASES21 in the School Information Portal. For information and support on recording data to the Department see recording student achievement data This section includes an explanation of minimum legal, statutory and sectoral requirements for student reporting. Legislative and regulatory framework For new and continuing school registration, and as a condition of funding, Victorian schools must be compliant with the following legislation and regulation as it applies to student reporting: Australian Education Act 2013 (Commonwealth Government) Australian Education Regulation 2013 (Commonwealth Government) Education and Training Reform Act 2006 (Victorian Government) Education and Training Reform Regulations 2017 (Victorian Government) Statutory and sectoral authorities The Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority (VRQA) sets the minimum requirements. The VRQA is an independent statutory body responsible for registering schools and ensuring that registered schools continue to comply with the prescribed minimum standards outlined in the Victorian Education and Training Reform Act 2006. The VRQA has appointed the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria (CECV) as the designated review body for Victorian Catholic schools. Minimum requirements are also informed by guidelines provided by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA), an independent statutory body responsible to the Victorian Minister of Education, serving both government and non-government schools. See the VCAA reporting guidelines It is important to note that minimum requirements are indeed minimum requirements, which may not fully address what parents and carers want to know and need to know in relation to their child's progress and achievement in your school community. See the following web pages for curriculum information: Victorian Curriculum F-10 – the curriculum for Victorian schools. It incorporates the Australian Curriculum and reflects Victorian standards and priorities. Curriculum planning and assessment – information and resources to support the implementation of the Victorian Curriculum F-10 including whole-school curriculum planning, assessment and reporting. Navigating the curriculum – information about navigating the Victorian Curriculum F-10 and tour of the website. For further information about student reporting or to provide feedback email student.reports@edumail.vic.gov.au Last Update: 15 May 2019 Improve your teaching Assessment, theory and practice within the teaching and learning cycle Tools to carry out assessment Student reporting Student reporting advice Teacher judgements Individual learning goals and targets Recording student achievement data Teaching with animals Scientific procedures premises licence Get approval to teach with animals Completion advice and record keeping	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2061
__label__cc	0.639313	0.360687	Littleport Lions Korfball team celebrate season of success with meal and awards Littleport Lions Korfball team celebrated their season of success with a meal last week. Littleport Lions Korfball traded their nets and korfballs for knives and forks as they saw out their successful campaign with an end-of-season meal. The team’s players gathered at the Spice Lounge in the town for food and an awards ceremony, which saw the club’s finest players rewarded for their hard work over the season. Most improved male went to Jack Barry, while Chelsea Harrison scooped the most improved female. Anitia Rakauskaite bagged best attacker and Danny Mathie was given the ‘outstanding contribution to the club’ gong. Jenny Barlow, James Chinery Colyer, Lolly Neaves, Lindsey Neaves, Tom Brennand, Tom Kelly, Chris Tull and captain Alex Andrews were also recognised for their achievements throughout the season.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2065
__label__cc	0.738174	0.261826	[ STATEMENTS ] Emyr Williams ABSTRACT - ABSTRAIT - ABSTRACTO - ASTRATTO - ABSTRAKT - HANIAETHOL - 抽象 PAINTINGS AND ARTISTS FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 2 Paul Cézanne died in 1906, and his work became a touchstone of great painting for the century that unfolded, indeed, for our current one too – an oeuvre against which all works can be (often unfavourably) measured. “The father of us all” as Picasso said. I am aware that this is not a view held by all, or possibly even by the many, these days; yet to ‘get’ Cézanne is to appreciate the opportunity that the principles of his work provide us for a liberation in our own art and, as I will explain, how his work also offers a litmus test for the progressive values of a modern society. The name Cézanne immediately conjures up images of choppy interwoven brushstrokes. At first glance, his mature paintings have the appearance of a distinctively systematic approach – every painting just screams “Cézanne”, but to generalise about his painting in this way is a misreading, as throughout his work we find a remarkable breadth of enquiry: the vast array of unique responses to complex vistas, outcrops and forests of the landscape around Aix; the meditative qualities he wrought from his mesmerising still-life works, or those unforgettable portraits; and let’s not forget the legendary sequences of monumental bather compositions he worked on slavishly throughout the latter years of his life. Although he worked with still-life and figures, Cézanne was ultimately a landscape painter. His table-top works became tumbling terrains; faces, furniture and clothing have a topography to them. In all his paintings we can see masses and volumes maintaining their structural integrity whilst being reconciled as worked paint upon the flatness of the canvas surface. Each volume realised by Cézanne has a massive presence akin to that of a geological feature. In all his work three dimensions are successfully and expressively translated into two through a rigorous synthesis. Witness how much tougher Cézanne was with his space than, say, Gauguin, whose exotic, ‘Cloisonniste” patchwork of colours-as-spaces feels far less robust and more generalised by comparison. Cézanne’s subjects of landscape, still-life and figures are the keystones of representational art. In spite of this visual triad, he will forever be most remembered for, and associated with, the rocky terrain of Mont Saint-Victoire , a motif to which he responded with such an amazing amount of invention – one which lesser artists would seek merely to depict as a ‘scene’. If you have ever walked or driven through Provence near Aix and wondered “will I recognise the mountain?” you will surely – with hindsight – have ended up laughing at the stupidity of that question. How can you miss it? Such is the distinctive character of the mountain. It is enormous, an imposing and unforgettable feature of the landscape – rising majestically out of the plains, conjuring up associations with- of all things- “Devil’s Rock” in the film “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” Hokusai’s prints of Mount Fuji, with their frequent wilful shifts of perspectives employed to fit the formal requirements of compositional elements within a rectangle, offer an intriguing landscape precedent (though the conical volcano was more of a witnessing presence to the unfolding drama of life played out around it). For Cézanne, Mont Saint-Victoire became an ever more dominant centre-stage character as its undulating terrain yielded an inexhaustible amount of relational detail to his gaze. Maybe Rembrandt’s self-portraits would be a better comparison? They too reveal a persistent interrogation of a familiar reality. In the mature landscape work of Cézanne we see tautly constructed spaces, all made with a seemingly generic palette of greens, earths and blues. This is a great lesson from Cézanne: look at the obvious but place ever-greater demands upon it. I often remind myself to “keep it simple, do it well”, Cézanne was not a complicated artist. He learned from Pissarro not only to observe but to ‘step in’ to the observation, to work a painting, and we see him constantly building subtle transitions to make each segment of his painting breathe. This bearing down on every moment, every instance of paint-colour is what marks his art out from others’ – for it is the colour, and how intensely it is committed to in the stroke, that counts. Cézanne teaches us to not take anything for granted. He never drifts into generalisation. How badly we need this quality in public life now. We are wandering about indifferently in an iPod oblivion whilst the most pernicious corporate coup is taking hold of our lives; we see cliché after cliché being trumped out shamelessly by journalists in both fringe and mainstream media, and in the case of the unfolding Brexit miasma, anyone with a degree of expertise is treated as a ‘turn’, or worse, castigated as ‘unpatriotic’ for daring to ask questions of the detail. These attitudes are trickling down into our schools, where intelligence and an eagerness to learn are mocked and bullied as ‘swotty’. New role models are making exploitative money and fame at all costs has become the true measure of success. Why do we celebrate the vulgar and the trivial, and treat integrity with suspicion? Cézanne said: “A healthy need for the truth takes hold of you”. Truths can be difficult to stomach, demanding to be absorbed and acted on; yet ultimately they are what we build our ethical values and societal laws upon. He is a flag bearer for an uncompromisingly intelligent art: and by implication, for a life lived with integrity. Thanks to Cézanne’s labours, pictorial space is opened up to us in ways which compel our eyes to move in constant delight throughout his paintings. During these moments of movement we are continually interrogating the realities, surprises and truths of forthright decision-making. As our eyes move we too are moved at the humanity latent in these subtle yet powerfully-orchestrated coloured forces. An eye scans back and forth across complexity such as this and takes in space both near and far. Movement is subject to time; yet a painting is apprehended at light speed, so ironically, it hits us in one go, as a stillness (Cézanne: “You either see a painting straight away or you never see it.”) A stillness, however, that seems to burn and breathe, rather that one that lies inert. Herein lies Cézanne’s great triumph – the extreme pressure that is exerted, in his best paintings, between these two states: stillness and flux. Shortly after the new Marseille-Aix line opened in late 1877, Cézanne saw the mountain from the train, and in a letter to Emile Zola a few months later, praised it for being a “beau motif” and began the series of Mont Saint-Victoires soon after. Paul Cézanne, ‘Mont Saint-Victoire’ (1904-6), oil on canvas, 83.8 x 65.1 cm Princeton University The Cézanne in the collection at Princeton University, is slightly unusual in its vertical proportions, with the mountain cutting through the top third. The creamy band of earth at the bottom is cleverly ‘cut into’ by those thin trunks, making the space work rather than flattening the area down to a narrow ‘skirt’ of colour. I am particularly impressed by the way the colours meet the edge, pulsing in and out from surface to distance as the rhythms of each macro-passage take hold in our perception. The staccato orange roofline makes a lovely long distance call to the blue ‘thumbs-up’ towards the top left. In these paintings from the final years of his life, he was creating massive pressures, checking and adjusting the colour with every brushstroke, subtly changing direction, and giving a rich nuance to every hue with the use of the most delicate of half-tones. The works of his last couple of years sweat their colour, and each mark earns its place, feeling really bedded in to the painting, fully functional in the manner in which it describes – not depicts – the forms and interrelational spaces of the landscape. It is pointless to try to place a time, or even a season, with Cézanne, as the paintings have often been worked on over years until reaching their own timeless state. This particular one is like a thunderclap; it feels quiet, then bang, it hits you. Those areas of raw canvas superficially beg the question: finished? It looks pretty resolved to me. It’s a simple work really: a mountain, sky, some trees, and a bit of land in between with the odd building on it. Cézanne, intertwining his fingers: “That’s what has to be achieved… if I pass too high or too low, everything is ruined. There mustn’t be one single stitch which is too loosely woven, not one gap through which emotion, light, truth might escape. You see I develop my whole canvas at once as a unity. Everything disparate I bring together in one outburst, one act of faith…All that we see dissipates, moves on(…) it must be conveyed. And through colours, without literary means.” In schools and colleges, Art students are quite often encouraged to “research” a subject, theme or issue that can reveal some intriguing information. The thinking goes like this: seek out something you can feel strongly about, get some facts or images together, let all this information help shape a response, the more intense or personal, the more ‘significant’ the art that can be made. Fine, admirable even, in promoting intelligence and curiosity, yet what ends up being made is highly personal in intent but invariably generic in its content as art – a sort of ‘beige carb’ art, to put it in the current parlance. Cézanne’s lesson would be the antithesis of this: look at the ordinary, at what’s around you, and how it exists, and at your materials even; take nothing for granted and discover a response that forces you to bring more to the table – to invent, to imagine, to scrutinise, to synthesise… to question how we truly perceive our world, how we see and how a human being can impose themselves purposefully within the space between sight and action. When Cézanne is painting you can see decisions constantly being made; a working-things-out as problems arise. This discovery in the moment affords us, as viewers, great freedom to enjoy the spontaneous and revel in the surprises that simple colour-upon-colour brings. Although I maintain that abstract painting offers the most uncompromised of approaches, ultimately, it doesn’t matter what art one is pursuing, what matters is how believable it ends up being. Cézanne’s greatest achievement was his complete and utter believability, achieved through humility, dedication and an ambition for a powerful specificity. If more students were challenged to interrogate, to look rather than plan, to react as things unfold; if more people were tasked with examining details, looking beyond clichés or generalisations; if more kids who were clever and curious were respected for these attributes…you get the picture. Cézanne: “ I paint as I see and as I feel, and I feel very strongly.” Keep it simple, do it well, and give us something we can believe in. Cézanne’s palette (according to Emile Bernard): Yellows: Brilliant Yellow Yellow Ochre Raw Sienna Reds: Vermilion (the most popular red until Cadmium Red came on the scene in 1907) Red Ochre Rose Madder Carmine Lake Burnt Lake Green Earth (Verona Green) Blues: Peach Black (grey black made from burnt peach stones) Lead White (warm white) ← PAINTINGS AND ARTISTS FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 3SPACE (Part 2) → RT @thebunkers4: Coriolis. 2019. 77X78cm shaped painting. https://t.co/nW66KKJIFS Many thanks for the likes. Here’s another ink drawing 6ft-ish high (on acrylic on canvas) https://t.co/aUGEY1PUUz New ink drawings: on acrylic on canvas 6ft high https://t.co/p2i7OPoReh Please feel free to add your comments to my blog if you wish All images are subject to copyright : Emyr Williams 2019	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2066
__label__wiki	0.835199	0.835199	Weekly Meal Plan: July 15-19 Debbie Koenig The Big Batch of Green Sauce You Can Turn Into 9 Different Dinners Joe Sevier Weekly Meal Plan: July 8-12 Weekly Meal Plan: July 1–5 Pacholas, the Meat Tortillas of Mexico, Are Ready For Their Close-Up The flat, quick-fried patties are little-known, even in their home country. Time to make their acquaintance. Nils Bernstein Photo by Caleb Adams, Food Styling by Anna Stockwell You’d think that meat tortillas (that's right: tortillas made of meat) would be the crown jewel of Mexican cuisine, revered in their most “authentic” forms and subject to all kinds of baroque manipulation by Instagram-happy chefs. Yet pacholas—the thin seasoned-meat patties of West-Central Mexico—are practically unknown, even within Mexico. Pacholas are found primarily in the states of Jalisco and Guanajuato, and parts of Aguascalientes, Zacatecas, and Michoacán. I first came across them in Guanajuato City—it was the only dish I didn’t recognize at a nondescript café off the Jardín de la Unión. “Kids like them,” the waiter said, as if to steer me toward more impressive dishes. They impressed me, though. The quick-fried beef patties were deeply flavored with chile and spices, and had a uniquely springy texture. I’ve since ordered them anytime I see them. I found variations in the charming town of Lagos de Moreno in the Jalisco highlands, at a fast-food mall in Aguascalientes City, and in Juchipila in southern Zacatecas, where they were called pacholes and had puréed refried beans in the mix. Just like their burger and meatball cousins, the pacholas were often good but not great—they hit a sweet spot between comfort and novelty. The texture comes from the metate, the manual stone grinder usually used to turn lime-soaked corn into Play Doh-smooth tortilla dough, and cacao into chocolate. Texture is what separates good from average pacholas, says Guillermina Ramírez, a housekeeper from Atotonilco El Alto in Jalisco. “You want a strong, consistent texture like masa [tortilla dough],” she says. “The metate breaks down fibers and collagen so the meat is tender, but holds its shape when pressed thin.” “Pachola” doesn’t have another meaning in Spanish, and likely comes from the Náhuatl pacholli, meaning, roughly, “flattened”. (Pachol is also an outdated and little-known word meaning "matted hair.") Of course, metates aren’t easy to come by, especially not in Ventura, where Ramírez now lives. She concedes that a food processor is an acceptable substitute. Pacholas are usually made with beef, or a mix of beef and pork, although chicken pacholas have gained ground among the health-conscious. (While developing this riff on pacholas, Epicurious food editor Anna Stockwell found that adding a little pork to the patty helped keep them juicy.) Any dried chile can be mixed in, and seasonings can include onion, garlic, peppercorn, cumin, clove, cinnamon, oregano, thyme, marjoram, cilantro, and parsley. Crackers, bread, or egg are sometimes used for binding. Air drying or flour dusting helps them crisp up in the pan. Ramírez says not to go overboard with seasoning, since you’re serving them with salsa. “There should be a balance between the seasoning in the pacholas and the salsa. Use milder chiles, like anchos, since the salsa adds heat.” If using canned chipotles, remove the seeds and veins before using. Ramírez also says to grind the chile and spices very finely, so they integrate evenly into the meat. To serve? Try rice, beans, mashed potatoes, guacamole, or a simple salad, and any salsa you like. “Pacholas are home-cooking, not restaurant food,” says Ramírez, suggesting why they’re not better known. “But make them for a party topped with pico de gallo and people will think they’re fancy.” Mexican Meat Patties with Fresh Corn Salsa TagsDinnerGround BeefBeefPorkSalsaMexico Since 1995, Epicurious has been the ultimate food resource for the home cook, with daily kitchen tips, fun cooking videos, and, oh yeah, over 33,000 recipes. More from Epicurious © 2019 Condé Nast. All rights reserved. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 5/25/18) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated 5/25/18) and Your California Privacy Rights. Epicurious may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Ad Choices	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2069
__label__cc	0.670286	0.329714	On October 24, 2012, the committee will discuss, make recommendations, and vote on a premarket approval application supplement to expand the indications for use of the Selenia Dimensions 3D System with C-View Software Module, sponsored by Hologic, Inc. The Selenia Dimensions 3D System is currently approved for breast cancer screening and diagnosis. The screening exam can consist of field digital mammography (FFDM) alone or the combination of FFDM with digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT). The new C-View Software Module can generate synthetic 2D images from the DBT data. Hologic requests to expand the indications for use to allow the combination of DBT with synthetic 2D images to be used as another exam option for breast cancer screening. Location: Hilton Washington DC North/Gaithersburg Related News Links: Not Available On April 11, 2012, the committee will discuss, make recommendations, and vote on information related to a premarket approval application for the Automated Breast Ultrasound (ABUS) scanning device, sponsored by U–Systems, Inc. The ABUS scanning device is intended to increase breast cancer detection in asymptomatic dense-breasted women following a negative screening mammogram. On April 12, 2012, during session I, the committee will discuss and make recommendations regarding the 515(i) order issued by FDA on April 9, 2009 (74 FR 16214), for breast transilluminators, one of the remaining preamendments class III devices. On July 18, 1995 (60 FR 36639), FDA published a Final Rule that misbranded breast transilluminators and effectively placed them in class III based on the recommendation of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Devices Panel, which concluded there were no published studies or clinical data demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of this device. The committee discussion will include a review of the present literature to assess the current knowledge of breast transilluminators and determine if sufficient safety and effectiveness data are available to support reclassification of breast transilluminators. On September 24, 2010, the committee will discuss, make recommendations, and vote on a premarket approval application for the Selenia C Digital Breast Tomosynthesis System, sponsored by Hologic, Inc. The Selenia C Digital Breast Tomosynthesis System is intended for use in the same clinical applications as traditional mammographic systems. On March 4 and 5, 2008, the committee intends to discuss and make recommendations about computer aided detection and diagnosis (CAD) devices for radiological images, e.g., mammograms, chest x-rays, and computed tomography (CT) images of the lungs or colon. There will be a general discussion focusing on the general methodologies for CAD, including how CAD devices are used in clinical decision-making, how the devices are tested, and the information needed to properly assess their safety and effectiveness. The general discussion will be followed by specific discussions related to mammography CAD devices, colon CAD devices, and lung CAD devices. These discussions will include how the different types of CAD devices are used and the literature published regarding these devices, with focus on testing issues related to the different devices. Available Materials: 3/4/08 Agenda 3/5/08 Agenda 3/4/08 Questions 3/5/08 Questions 3/4/08 Briefing Info 3/5/08 Briefing Info 3/4/08 Roster 3/5/08 Roster Additional Materials 1 Additional Materials 2 The committee will hear a presentation explaining FDA's Critical Path Initiative and a presentation by the Office of Surveillance and Biometrics in the Center for Devices and Radiological Health outlining their responsibility for the review of postmarket study design. Subsequently, FDA will present key points for the committee to consider for the reclassification of full field digital mammography (FFDM) systems from Class III to Class II devices. The committee will discuss and make recommendations on the reclassification of FFDMs. Location: Holiday Inn Related News Links: Not Available The committee will discuss, make recommendations, and vote on a premarket approval application for a computer aided detection device that identifies nodules in CT images of the lung. Location: Gaithersburg Marriott Related News Links: Not Available Available Materials: 2/3/04 Agenda 2/3/04 Briefing Info 2/3/04 Roster The committee will discuss, make recommendations, and vote on a premarket approval application for a device that produces a computerized thermal image of the breast of women recommended for biopsy. Location: HOL - Gaithersburg, MD Related News Links: Not Available Available Materials: 12/10/02 Agenda 12/10/02 Questions 12/10/02 Briefing Info The committee will discuss, make recommendations, and vote on a premarket approval application for a computer-aided detection (CAD) device for identifying regions of interest in chest radiographs. Location: Rockville, MD Related News Links: Not Available The committee will discuss, make recommendations, and vote on a premarket approval application for an embolic radiation therapy device. Location: Rockville, MD. Related News Links: Not Available On December 16, 1999, the committee will discuss, make recommendations, and vote on a premarket approval application for a digital mammography device. Location: DoubleTree Hotel Rockville, MD. Related News Links: Not Available The committee will discuss bone strength assessment, with focus on the use of gender-specific and race-specific databases in assessing fracture risk and their applicability to bone densitometry and sonometry device labeling. Location: Corporate Bldg. Related News Links: Not Available To discuss, make recommendations and vote on premarket approval applications for a caries detection device (P980025) and a trans-spectral impedance (breast) scanner (P970033). To discuss and make suggestions for changes to the existing 510(k) guidance document for digital mammography devices. Location: Unknown Related News Links: Not Available To discuss and make recommendations and vote on a premarket approval application (P970058) for a computer aided detection system for screening mammograms, and to hold a closed briefing session. Radiological Panel The committee discussed Optison (FS069) for the use in patients with suboptimal echocardiograms to opacify the left ventricle and to improve the delineation of the left ventricular endocardial borders.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2073
__label__cc	0.707721	0.292279	Cylinder Filler Salary in Columbia, South Carolina / South Carolina / Columbia The average pay for a Cylinder Filler is $35,010 a year and $17 an hour in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. The average salary range for a Cylinder Filler is between $26,427 and $42,098. On average, an Associate Degree is the highest level of education for a Cylinder Filler. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Columbia, South Carolina. Fills cylinders and other containers with liquefied or compressed gases using equipment. Changes cylinder valves with wrench, or adjusts them to prescribed tension, using torque wrench. Rolls cylinders onto platform scale, or positions cylinders in manifold racks manually or with chain hoist. Connects lines from manifold to cylinders, using wrench. Fills cylinders by any of following methods: (1) sets pressure gauge to specified reading and listens for buzzer indicating completion of filling; (2) adjusts valves and observes gauge to fill cylinders to specified pressure; (3) observes scale indicator to fill cylinders to specified weight; or (4) fills cylinder to excess, rolls cylinder onto scale, and connects exhaust line to release excess gas and attain prescribed gross weight. Sprays or brushes chemical solution onto cylinder valve to test for leaks. Fills out and attaches warning and identification tags or decals, specifying tare and gross weight, cylinder number, type of gas, and date filled, and records data. May test gas for purity, using burette or other testing equipment. May inspect or test empty cylinder. May evacuate residual gases from cylinders. May test filled cylinders for specified gas pressure by connecting gauge and comparing reading with chart. May tend and maintain generator or compressor in filling process. May be designated according to type of container filled. Cylinder Filler Job Prevalence in Columbia, South Carolina, United States Job family: Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders Estimated population of Cylinder Filler jobs: 8,216 About Columbia, South Carolina Columbia Cost of Living Score: Description: Columbia is the capital and second largest city of the U.S. state of South Carolina, with a population estimate of 134,309 as of 2016. The city serves as the county seat of Richland County, and a portion of the city extends into neighboring Lexington County. It is the center of the Columbia metropolitan statistical area, which had a population of 767,598 as of the 2010 United States Census, growing to 832,666 by July 1, 2018, according to 2018 U.S. Census estimates. This makes it the 70th largest metropolitan statistical areas in the nation, as estimated by the United States Census Bureau as of July 1, 2018. The name... Cylinder Filler Job Listings for Columbia, South Carolina Cylinder Filler Charlotte, NC$37k Paris, France$24k Oakland, CA$46k Bag Machine Operator$31k Packaging/Filling Operator$32k Packaging/Filling Setup$24k	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2076
__label__wiki	0.930491	0.930491	TippingTipping Fantasy Rugbynull Fixtures & ResultsFixtures & Results RugbyNowRugbyNow StatsguruStatsguru Brumbies forward Lachie McCaffrey's story a lesson for all 139dSam Bruce The Rugby Championship: What's to be gained before the World Cup? 7dSam Bruce and Andy Withers Will Genia retires from Test rugby post Rugby World Cup 2019 Super Rugby Team of Year 15dSam Bruce and Andy Withers Jaguares the season's story, but Crusaders will have final say 14dCraig Dowd Jaguares feeding off belief, will take final up to the Crusaders Sevu Reece, Luke Jacobson included in All Blacks' Rugby Championship squad Super Rugby semifinals: Crusaders, Jaguares earn shot at final in contrasting fashion Crusaders' incidents 'not substantiated' by NZR investigation 16dESPN staff Tom Banks hopeful Brumbies' run has boosted Wallabies chances Super Rugby review: Brumbies must be rewarded within Wallabies squad Brumbies can go all the way, Rory Arnold says David Pocock has his say on Israel Folau sacking Why David Pocock should sit out the remainder of Super Rugby Kurtley Beale says Wallabies united after discussing Israel Folau saga Israel Folau opts not to appeal contract termination Lachie McCaffrey runs out ahead of the Brumbies' clash with the Chiefs in Canberra, February 23, 2019 Tracey Nearmy/Getty Images Sam BruceESPN Associate Editor Sam was brought up on long drives and the dusty fields of north-west New South Wales, where he developed his love of rugby from an early age. He joined ESPNscrum after a five-year stint heading up Fox Sports Australia's digital rugby coverage. He's had to do things the hard way, but Brumbies back-rower Lachie McCaffrey is a lesson in point for any young Australian rugby player for whom things might not have exactly gone to plan. And the 28-year-old's story offers an interesting sidebar to a hot topic in Australian rugby, the global player market, and how it can actually work in the nation's favour. McCaffrey was one of the standouts in a brilliant Brumbies win over the Chiefs last Saturday night, the No. 8 scoring one try himself and having a hand in several others as the hosts blew their Kiwi visitors off the park in Canberra. Prominent all over the paddock, McCaffrey was there for the nuts and bolts of set-piece to being in support to throw the final pass when a five-pointer beckoned. R2 Rebooted: At last, some signs of hope for Aussie rugby It was the kind of all-round back-row performance that has been in short supply in Australian rugby in recent times and one that has been a long time coming for McCaffrey, too. "It wasn't really a decision, I actually didn't get any offers in Australian Super Rugby," McCaffrey recalled of his move to English club Leicester in 2015. "People probably think a lot of people go overseas to the U.K or Europe for money, but my decision was because it was the only option I had to keep playing rugby; it was either go back to club rugby in Sydney or go over and have a crack in the Premiership...I'd been at three Super Rugby clubs in the Waratahs, Force and Brumbies, and came to the point where there weren't any coaches in Super Rugby who wanted me in their squad." McCaffrey returned to the Brumbies at the start of 2018 in his mind a far better player. Playing week in, week out, both in the Premiership and throughout Europe he was able to hone his back-row craft in a way that simply hadn't been possible at home. Simply, it taught him what was needed to play professional rugby. "I got a lifeline over there in the Premiership, I loved the standard of rugby over there and got a good crack in terms of being able to put games together. In Super Rugby [I'd] played a lot off the bench and [it was] hard to get your foot in the door. "But I think going over there and playing 75 or 80 Premiership and European games in three years was the best thing for me, and I had some great coaching in Aaron Mauger, Richard Cockerill and Scott Hansen, who's at the Sunwolves now." As Australia prepares for a post-World Cup exodus and thoughts of tweaking the Giteau Law are tossed about - something Rugby Australia won't entertain - McCaffrey's journey offers an alternate viewpoint. While he was forced to pursue offers overseas merely to continue playing professionally, other players have headed off at a similar age when seemingly entrenched at their Super province, opting for the money, lifestyle and travel opportunities those kind of contracts present, instead. Lachie McCaffrey spent three seasons with English club, Leicester Tony Marshall/Getty Images But that doesn't have to be bad thing. As the case has been with Luke Jones, who's returned to the Rebels to chase a World Cup berth, players may come home with a more rounded skill set or, just like McCaffrey, just managed to keep their professional dream alive. It's a worthwhile test case for those who believe in academies, and keeping fringe players in a training pattern, too. "It's a tough question because I think every player and situation is different," McCaffrey said when asked if he'd recommend a move overseas for players in their early to mid-20s. "At the end of the day, all young blokes coming through Super Rugby in Australia want to represent the Wallabies; that's the dream for everyone including myself. "But at the same time, I think it's important at a young age to get as much rugby as possible; no matter how good the coaching is out there, the best way to learn as a young rugby player is to get experience and just play week in, week out. I think with Super Rugby when I was coming through, I got probably 20 opportunities, all off the bench, and apart from that you just do preseasons and you train; there's no sort of second level of rugby week in, week out. "And that's what was great overseas, instead of 16-18 games of Super Rugby, you've got up to 45 games in a season. So for me, at a young age, I just think it's important young guys don't spend all their time in the gym and running laps around the oval; I think the more rugby you can play at a young age the better. And I think for my situation, the best thing for me was to going over there and playing lots of footy, and making mistakes but getting better with every week." After a period of transition in 2018, McCaffrey believes the Brumbies are really starting to sing under coach Dan McKellar. He sees a lot of similarities between McKellar and his coaches at Leicester, Aaron Mauger, Scott Hansen and Richard Cockerill, and the support staff the Brumbies coach has around him. And then there's skipper Christian Leali'ifano, who was the other clear standout against the Chiefs and a man McCaffrey regards as the absolute heart and soul of the ACT franchise. "It's probably hard to describe in words how much of a figurehead he is for the boys," McCaffrey told ESPN. "Both on and off the field, he's a role model for the boys at the Brumbies; the way he looks after everyone and just goes about every day with his outlook on life. He really rubs off on all the boys. Christian Leali'ifano throws a pass during the Brumbies' win over the Chiefs in Canberra, February 23, 2019 Tracey Nearmy/Getty Images "We've got some great leaders at the Brumbies but I think Christian is just really special; apart from his talents on the rugby field he's just a really special, genuine bloke and it's just great to see how well he played on the weekend because I know how much work he puts into it and how hard he trains. He'll be a huge part of our team if we have a successful. But I was really pleased to see things click for him on Saturday night." Both Leali'ifano and McCaffrey will push for Wallabies inclusion if they continue to play as they did last week. The fly-half has been there plenty of times before, but McCaffrey hasn't had any contact with the national setup since "Aussie Under 20s". All both men can do is produce more of the performances that saw the Brumbies thump the Chiefs 54-17, an opportunity arriving on Friday when they head across the Tasman for a date with Beauden Barrett and the Hurricanes. "Similar to the Chiefs, you've got to try and starve them of possession; you've got to defend really well; you know they're going to score points and that's where we've got to do the same thing as last week and make sure we score as many points as we can, too. "So it will be a tough test, we've got find another level from last Saturday night, we've got to step up again against the Hurricanes if we're going to compete over there [in Palmerston North]. It's a short week and we're already looking forward to a big game over there Friday night, with the All Blacks they've got they can be really dangerous. "We've got to be on our game defensively but also realise, after scoring 53 points on the weekend, we can be as dangerous in the competition as anyone, too."	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2079
__label__wiki	0.987154	0.987154	PhiladelphiaPhilliesPHI Phillies get 4 HRs, strong outing by Arrieta to beat Brewers MILWAUKEE -- Philadelphia Phillies ace Jake Arrieta was terrific in his first win in a month. The Milwaukee Brewers felt he got some help from plate umpire Mike Estabrook. Arrieta pitched eight effective innings, Andrew McCutchen homered and the Phillies beat the Brewers 7-2 on Saturday. "A really solid performance by Jake, who was absolutely cognizant of getting in the zone and giving us length," manager Gabe Kapler said. "It's exactly what our club needed." Arrieta (5-4) allowed two runs and five hits, struck out eight and walked one in his first win since April 27. The 2015 NL Cy Young Award winner was 0-2 with a 4.30 ERA in his previous four starts. It looked as if the right-hander was headed for his first complete game since 2016 before he ran into a bit of trouble in the eighth. Philadelphia had a 4-2 lead, but Milwaukee had a runner on third with two down and Lorenzo Cain at the plate. Cain was ahead 3-1 in the count when Arrieta threw a pitch that the speedy leadoff man felt was a ball, which would have brought NL MVP Christian Yelich to the plate. Instead, Estabrook called a strike and Cain grounded out on the next pitch. Counsell began arguing with Estabrook from the dugout and was ejected. The usually mild-mannered Counsell then came onto the field and engaged in a heated face-to-face shouting match with Estabrook. "It's two pitches. It's Yelich on-deck. It's the tying run," Counsell said. "It's an enormous part of the game. They were just clear balls. They have to get those ones right." Cain felt Estabrook missed two pitches in his crucial at-bat. "I definitely should have walked there," Cain said. "But it'll do me no good (complaining) about umpires because nothing's going to happen. It definitely could have been a game-changer if I walk there and bring (Yelich) to the plate." Arrieta said his plan throughout the game was to throw pitches with movement that were down in the zone. "After I let the ball go, whatever happens is out of my control," he said. "There might have been some borderline pitches there, but it happens every game." Andrew McCutchen, Cesar Hernandez, Rhys Hoskins and J.T. Realmuto homered in Philadelphia's third consecutive win. Hoskins finished with three hits and two RBI. Milwaukee lost for the fifth time in its last seven games. Mike Moustakas hit his 13th homer in the seventh, but the Brewers finished with just five hits. McCutchen drove Jhoulys Chacin's second pitch off the center-field scoreboard at Miller Park. McCutchen is batting .414 (12 for 29) with two homers and nine RBI during his last seven games. The Phillies added a run in the second when Jean Segura walked with the bases loaded. Hernandez homered with two out in the third and added a run-scoring single in the fifth to extend the lead to 4-0. Hernan Perez's run-scoring groundout got Milwaukee within two in the eighth. But Hoskins hit a two-run homer in the ninth and Realmuto followed with his eighth homer. Chacin (3-6) allowed seven hits, struck out six and walked three in five innings. Estabrook also tossed Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun in the fourth after the slugger struck out and complained to Estabrook as returned to the dugout. "Jake Arrieta is really good. His stuff is really good. Today, he was really good. He didn't need extra help," Braun said. Braun was walking to the dugout when he was ejected. "I've said far worse and not gotten thrown out," Braun said. "I was very surprised that I was thrown out in that situation. Usually, if you get thrown out it's more confrontational." Braun said he remained in the clubhouse after being ejected. "I sat here and watched the game and saw a lot of pitches that were balls called strikes," Braun said. Umpire crew chief Paul Emmel wouldn't allow a pool reporter to speak with Estabrook. Emmel declined to directly address comments made by the Brewers. "I'm not going to react to somebody else's comments," Emmel said. "We have our system that we're graded on. We have our technology and we go off that. We're held accountable for our mistakes." Emmel said he couldn't tell who the aggressor was in the confrontation between Estabrook and Counsell. "They were touching each other," Emmel said. "The league will handle that." Phillies: RHP Pat Neshek was placed on the 10-day injured list with a right shoulder strain. RHP David Robertson (right elbow) was transferred to the 60-day IL, and RHP J.D. Hammer was brought up from Triple-A Lehigh Valley. Brewers: C Manny Pina, on the 10-day IL with a right hamstring strain, will accompany the team to Minnesota for a two-game series against the Twins that begins Monday. He'll then likely be sent on a rehab assignment. "The last step will be running the bases and we'll do that in Minnesota," Counsell said. ... INF Travis Shaw (right wrist strain) remains on a rehab assignment at Triple-A San Antonio. "We're going to let him play for a while, that's what's important," Counsell said. "We'll let him just play and see what's going on." Shaw was hitting .163 with four homers and eight RBI in 135 at-bats this season when he went on the IL. Phillies: Zach Elfin (5-4, 2.76 ERA) will make his second start of the season. He is 2-1 with a 3.94 ERA in three career starts against the Brewers. Brewers: Brandon Woodruff (6-1, 3.51 ERA) pitched a career-high eight innings on Sunday at Atlanta. He hasn't allowed a run in two career starts (10 innings pitched) against the Phillies. Buy on Vivid Seats MIL wins series 4-3 Philadelphia PhilliesPhilliesPHI 2019 National League East Standings Atlanta 58 37 .611 0 W5 Washington 50 43 .538 7 W1 Philadelphia 49 46 .516 9 W1 New York 42 51 .452 15 W2 Miami 35 57 .380 21.5 W1 2019 National League Central Standings Chicago 50 44 .532 0 L1 Rangers' Lynn looks to continue run vs. D-backs Lance Lynn will look for his major-league-leading 13th victory when the Texas Rangers start a two-game interleague series against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday at Arlington, Texas. Kingery goes deep off of Kershaw Scott Kingery unloads on a Clayton Kershaw offering for a solo homer to put the Phillies on the board for the game's first run. Crawford 5-for-6 with 2 HRs, 8 RBIs in S.F. rout Brandon Crawford went 5-for-6 with two homers and tied a San Francisco team record with eight RBIs, and the Giants scored a season high in runs in a 19-2 rout of the Rockies on Monday in the first game of a split doubleheader. Nationals aim to stay hot in set vs. Orioles The Washington Nationals have been one of the hottest teams in baseball over the past several weeks and now they come to Baltimore on Tuesday night to open a short two-game series against an Orioles' team that's struggling in many ways. 'He's here with us': How the Angels honored Tyler Skaggs with an emotional, historic tribute After losing their teammate and friend, the Halos added triumph to tragedy. Those who knew the pitcher best reflect on the hard homecoming and incredible night that followed. Crawford hits 2 homers in big outing Brandon Crawford powers the Giants with 8 RBIs in the first game of a doubleheader, including two home runs.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2080
__label__wiki	0.610779	0.610779	TALMUD > Midrash Aggada > Understanding Aggada > Understanding Aggada 1 > Novelty and the Evil Inclination Novelty and the Evil Inclination Rav Yitzchak Blau Shiur #12b: Novelty and the Evil Inclination By Rav Yitzchak Blau Rabbi Yitzchak said: A person's evil inclination tries to renew itself against him daily, as it says 'And all the inclinations of the thoughts of his heart are only evil all day' (Bereishit 6:5). Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish said: A person's inclination tries to overpower him daily and tries to kill him, as it says 'The wicked waits for the righteous and seeks to slay him' (Tehillim 37:32). And would it not be for God's help, a person could not succeed against it, as it says 'And God does not abandon him in his hand.'(Ibid. 37:33) (Sukka 52a-b, Kiddushin 30b) It would seem that the yetzer hara has two distinct strategies: "mitgaber" (overpowering) and "mitchadesh" (renewing), that is, force and novelty. (Parenthetically, I believe that the gemara employs the term "yezter hara" not to refer to a figure in red tights holding a pitchfork but to a part of the human personality.) What is the significance of novelty as a strategy for provoking a person to sin? Maharal explains in his Chiddushei Aggadot that the inclination adjusts just as the person adjusts. Personalities change over the course of time, and the religious and moral temptations change as well. For example, an adolescent might think of temptation in purely sexual terms, but an older person might well be more tempted by honor. If so, Reish Lakish instructs us to be aware of the changing temptations at different stages of life and to take measures accordingly. R. Chanoch Zundel ben Yosef was a nineteenth century commentator on midrash and aggada who lived in Bialystok. He cites a terrific reading of this gemara in his Anaf Yosef (found in the Ein Yaakov). He begins by distinguishing between two types of sins. There are sins that people have a natural inclination for, such as sins of the flesh. There also are sins we do not have such an inclination for, such as the prohibition not to wear clothing mixed of linen and wool. With regard to the latter, the evil inclination can only get us to transgress with an act of hitgabrut, or forceful strength. With regard to the more obviously tempting sins, the evil inclination does not require such effort. Rather, the evil inclination faces a different challenge. Hedonism begins with great excitement but it usually results in an acute sense of boredom. A life dedicated to tasting the finest steaks, for example, can retain a person's interest for only so long before the choicest meats cease to look appealing. The evil inclination must employ the strategy of novelty in an attempt to convince us that the next steak will be a qualitatively different experience. That inclination is "mitchadesh" each day. Soren Kierkegaard understood this point well, and describes boredom as the challenge to the hedonist in his book Either/Or: Once pleasure had but to beckon me and I rose, light of foot, sound and unafraid. When I rode slowly through the woods, it was as if I flew; now when the horse is covered with lather and ready to drop, it seems to me that I do not move. I am solitary as always; forsaken, not by men, which could not hurt me, but by the happy fairies of joy, who used to encircle me in countless multitude My soul has lost its potentiality. If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. This interpretation might suggest to us a strategy towards educating the hedonistically inclined. We might point out that the freshness and visceral delight that currently appear attractive will ultimately not last. While I would not deny that observant Jews can also find themselves bored with religion, I still feel confident asserting that the ongoing opportunity for spiritual growth and deeper understanding of Torah provides the continuing sense of the potential and the possible spoken of by Kierkegaard. One last insight on this gemara appears in the Shem Mishmuel (Parashat Nitzavim) of the Sochachover Rebbe. He argues that there exists a power of novelty and innovation in this world. If we do not employ this power in a religious setting, it will find expression in more problematic contexts. In other words, innovation and freshness is a basic aspect of being human and should not be rejected or ignored. If we do so, the need for novelty will emerge in a more ugly fashion. Without downplaying the strong sense of tradition and structure in Orthodox Judaism, we should feel challenged to provide our students with a sense of potential freshness. This may involve encouraging new Torah insights, adding a personal supplication to the fixed text of prayer, or other such strategies. Resisting the evil inclination depends upon fostering a strong sense of vitality and potentiality within the boundaries of traditional Judaism. 12b-novelty.rtf Were the First Nine Makkot Deadly? Demons in the Talmud R. Meir Simchaӳ Breadth of Commentary and his Attitude to Physicality	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2086
__label__cc	0.630409	0.369591	Achiote Terve, Kiitos for letting us interview you. Let's begin with discovering a bit more about the band. How did everything start ? What's the story of the band We´ll, I met Janne, I think on summer 2002 when I was a working as trainee at his workplace. We found out rather quickly that our taste in music and life in general is quite similar. After that couple of years went by that we weren’t that much in contact with each other but I had quite clear vision that we would be playing in the same band someday. Jussi I have known since high school and we have done other music projects also in the past. I sent him some demo tapes on 2006 or 2007, difficult to remember anymore :) and asked if he would be interested of playing with us. A year went by and I almost forgot the whole thing and then one day I received a SMS from him “Good shit, let´s jam”. We had some difficulties to find bass player in the beginning and at some point and I think it was 2009 Jussi mentioned that we should check if Anu would be interested. And luckily she was. Anu is also really talented singer and generally a gifted musician so she lifted us in totally new level as a band. We weren’t that active on that point yet just jamming and trying different ideas every now and then. We played our first show in 2010. 2011 we started to really concentrate on playing together and got to the point that we decided to start recording full length album in January 2012. It took over two years to finalize the album because everybody was quite busy with other projects and also we financed everything by ourselves. In the final phases of recordings we wanted to add some keyboards to the songs and decided to ask if Tuomas would be available for the sessions. So it happens that he is still with us :) From where does your name come from ? How did you get the idea for it ? It´s a kind of a wordplay :) But at the same time It also has an actual meaning. Coincidence or not? We still like to keep it a bit of a mystery. Let´s see if people are able to figure it out :) On the 22nd of August, your first album called «Deimos» got released. Tell us more about it. What was atmosphere you wanted to give on it ? 'Deimos' contains tender and soulful metal dealing with subconscious imagery and demons inside. And I think we succeeded to do it. Are there any particular things that influence your music ? Lots of influences just taken observing life in general. Music wise I would say some influences coming from the Seattle grunge scene. Bands like Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam were and still are big part of our musical landscape. But at the same time lots of influences can be heard from the 70’s bands. Black Sabbath maybe being the biggest influence. Regarding Finnish bands, Amorphis and Kingston Wall have been important bands. At least for me. If you need to choose one song in all the songs you made, which one would it be and why ? I would say my choice would be the title track Deimos. It pretty much has all the elements that sums up who we are. It’s a versatile song which is a bit all around the place :) Do you often write songs with a theme in your head or do you go more for random ideas as they come? My own song writing pretty much reflects how I feel in particular moment of time. I try to just let it out as it comes and not trying to create anything on purpose. It´s more real when it comes naturally. And I think those emotions also comes across on the album very well. Some of the people who will read this interview don’t know your music. What can you say for giving them desire to discover you ? If you are into soulful, melodic metal spiced up with some grunge and 70’s-vibe, we are your choice! If someone will come to see you live, what kind of show will he/she see ? Energetic, well sung beautiful vocal harmonies and lots of hair! What are your plans for the future ? Plan is to do lots of shows in the near future. Hopefully soon outside Finland also. And at some point to go back in to studio and write a new album. If you could recommend some Finnish artists to discover, who would they be ? There is so many good underrated bands in Finland… At the moment I would say that people should check out Willie and the Goodsouls. And everyone should know Kingston Wall. Thank you for giving us some of your time. Is there something you want to say to FI Musica's followers ? Thanks for the support and hopefully we meet on gigs soon! (Interviewed : Timo Interviewer : Isa) Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/achioteband Twitter : @Achioteband	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2087
__label__wiki	0.985716	0.985716	Home > Atletico Madrid > Brazil > Diego Costa > latest news > news > Spain > Del Bosque gives Diego Costa his first Spain call-up Del Bosque gives Diego Costa his first Spain call-up Footballnus 4:37 am Atletico Madrid, Brazil, Diego Costa, latest news, news, Spain Spain have called up Atletico Madrid striker Diego Costa for the first time after he rejected his home country Brazil. Costa, 25, confirmed his wish to play for Spain last month and could make his debut against Equatorial Guinea or South Africa. Coach Vicente del Bosque said: "He has fulfilled all the requirements to play for Spain and he is in very good form. "The last step in the process was to get to know him personally and he left us with a magnificent impression." Atletico Madrid striker Costa has scored 13 goals in 12 La Liga appearances this season, and played for Brazil in friendlies against Russia and Italy in March. But he was left out of the squad for June's Confederations Cup and is not tied to one country until he has played in an official competitive game. "I have absolutely no doubt he will be a squad member like any other," Del Bosque added. "I expect that a player that fights like Diego with such energy, a player with the quality he has on and off the ball, to be a positive addition." Spain squad to play Equatorial Guinea and South Africa: Goalkeepers: Iker Casillas (Real Madrid), Pepe Reina (Napoli), Victor Valdes (Barcelona) Defenders: Alvaro Arbeloa (Real Madrid), Raul Albiol (Napoli), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Alberto Moreno (Sevilla), Juanfran (Atletico Madrid), , Inigo Martinez (Real Sociedad), Nacho Monreal (Arsenal) Midfielders : Sergio Busquets (Barcelona), Xabi Alonso (Real Madrid), Koke (Atletico Madrid), Andres Iniesta (Barcelona), Santi Cazorla (Arsenal), Cesc Fabregas (Barcelona), Javi Martinez (Bayern Munich) Forwards: Jesus Navas (Manchester City), Alvaro Negredo (Manchester City), Pedro (Barcelona), David Villa (Atletico Madrid), Juan Mata (Chelsea), Diego Costa (Atletico Madrid)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2089
__label__cc	0.63471	0.36529	Embrace Your Inner Endo Warrior 7 Self-Care Tips for Women Who Have Endometriosis Take these steps to put yourself first and prevent symptoms like pelvic pain and cramping from getting in the way of your day-to-day life. By Erica Patino Medically Reviewed by Rosalyn Carson-DeWitt, MD Self care tips include staying active, eating healthy food and getting a good night's sleep. iStock; Shutterstock; Getty Images Sign Up for Our Women's Health Newsletter Endometriosis occurs when endometrial-like tissue starts to grow outside of the uterus, causing symptoms like pain, bleeding, and irritation, and eventually scar tissue can develop in the affected areas. Some women experience these symptoms from the time they ovulate through the start of their period — meaning for half of each month they have endometriosis-related pain. Others may experience predominantly period pain, or symptoms like painful sex, excessive bleeding, or infertility. The effects of endometriosis can impact women in many ways. “However, it’s hard to diagnose because the symptoms can occur in different areas of the body,” says Karli Goldstein, MD, a gynecologic surgeon at Seckin Endometriosis Center in New York City and a consulting surgeon with the Endometriosis Foundation of America (EFA). “Some women may not have painful periods, or they experience seemingly unrelated symptoms that may lead to a delay in diagnosis.” These can include chronic lower back and leg pain, nerve pain, painful bowel movements, and digestive problems. Quality-of-Life Challenges With Endometriosis Endometriosis impacts a woman mostly during her reproductive years, around 25 to 35 years of age, although symptoms can begin as soon as she starts her period — as early as 11 years old, according to the EFA. This is often a time when a woman is busy trying to build her life. “Endometriosis may cause a woman to miss work or school, or she may even have trouble holding down a job or completing school in severe cases,” says Dr. Goldstein, who has endometriosis herself. To add to the frustration of living in pain, there can be a long delay between the onset of endometriosis symptoms and diagnosis. “At least 1 in 10 women have endometriosis, but it’s probably underdiagnosed. It can take up to 10 years to diagnose, especially if symptoms are atypical,” says Goldstein. Endometriosis Self-Care Strategies It’s important to get a proper diagnosis and treatment plan for endometriosis, but in addition, taking care of yourself can help you feel your best. “You may need to eat healthier and focus more on wellness than those around you, but it’s worth it in the long run — not just for endometriosis, but for your overall health too,” says Goldstein. In addition to working with your gynecologist to manage endometriosis, try these self-care strategies to ease your day-to-day life: Eat a healthy diet: An anti-inflammatory diet may help ease endometriosis symptoms, according to Goldstein. This means focusing on a well-rounded diet that includes lots of whole foods, such as fresh produce and lean meats, and nixing processed foods and sodas. Also include foods high in omega-3 fatty acids in your diet, such as avocados, nuts, olive oil, and low-mercury wild fish, as these are linked to reduced inflammation. Stay active: You may not want to exercise when you’re in pain, but when you feel up to it, try to move at least 30 minutes a day. According to the Saint Louis University School of Medicine, staying active can help reduce ovarian stimulation and estrogen production, which in turn can help relieve endometriosis symptoms. Try acupuncture: “Acupuncture may be helpful in combatting pain related to endometriosis or in helping to regulate cycles,” says Goldstein. In this form of Chinese medicine, a practitioner applies small needles to body parts to help correct imbalances by increasing blood flow to those areas. For women with endometriosis, this often means getting acupuncture needles in the pelvic area and lower abdomen to help ease symptoms like cramps. Find ways to get a good night’s sleep: Endometriosis itself can wreck your ability to sleep: According to a study published in June 2018 in the journal Human Reproduction, women with endometriosis are twice as likely to be affected by fatigue as those who don’t have the condition. This fatigue was also linked to a seven-fold increase in insomnia. Goldstein is a proponent of relaxing nighttime rituals to aid in getting some shut-eye: “Try taking a bath with lavender and chamomile oils, which help with muscle relaxation.” Bathing with Epsom salts can also help soothe pelvic and abdominal pain. You might also experiment with herbal teas that can help you sleep better, such as those with valerian root, Goldstein adds. Be kind to yourself: If you keep track of your period and endometriosis symptoms on a monthly basis, you can get an idea of when you may experience the most pain. Try clearing your calendar during these times so you won’t have to rush between social and work obligations and can instead focus more on taking it easy. Explore the mind-body connection: Living with pain is draining emotionally as well as physically — and conversely, soothing your mind with meditation and deep breathing may help your body feel better. Mindfulness meditation can improve pain and depression symptoms in people who experience chronic pain, according to a study published in April 2017 in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine. Get support: According to the EFA, 7 million women in the United States and more than 200 million worldwide have endometriosis. You can join online support resources such as My Endometriosis Team and Facebook groups to connect with others who have endometriosis, or you might ask your gynecologist about local groups that can offer in-person opportunities to swap stories and strategies. Self-care strategies don’t end here. Go to Tippi to find out how other women with endo put themselves first. By prioritizing taking care of your overall health, you can feel better, says Goldstein. “Endometriosis can be painful, but it doesn’t have to be. Stay open to different possibilities and work with your gynecologist to see what helps.” Last Updated:2/19/2019 More in Endometriosis What Actually Happens During Pelvic Floor PT? 7 Ways to Boost Your Sex Life Why You Should Keep a Period Diary	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2101
__label__cc	0.670766	0.329234	Recovery from Mormonism Previously Published Bishop tried to call me as chapel cleaning coordinator Active but non-Believer by sherlock Jan 2012 Having asked to be released from my previous ward clerk calling due to opening up to bishop about my unbelief and lack of temple recommend (still attend church due to family situation), I knew Bishop would try and call me to something else. So after three months of having no calling, he finally invites me into his office one Sunday and tells me that the Lord has revealed to him the perfect calling that won't require me to teach or do anything that puts me in an awkward situation regarding how I really feel about the church. Yes, he calls me to coordinate all of the member chapel cleaning. I very nearly burst out laughing. It then took me all of about 10 seconds to straight out reject the call stating that I personally have a big problem with the new church initiative and don't support it, that I feel it's purely a corporate decision to save money, that I feel bad for all the janitors let go and that since I have no intention of ever cleaning the chapel I'm not about to start hounding other members to do likewise. The look on his face was priceless. He was visibly shocked and you could sense that he was trying to reconcile the 'good feelings' that he probably felt when earlier that morning the bishopric no doubt knelt to pray about my call and received their witness that this was indeed the Lord's will for Brother Sherlock. I did actually feel a bit bad for him. He's a really nice guy, very understanding of my situation and he does mean well. I hope I've perhaps helped in some way to add another straw to his 'camel's back of cog dis' and I look forward to seeing which mug gets called in my place, to what must be a pretty thankless job. thingsithink Re: Bishop tried to call me as chapel cleaning coordinator Couldn't you have taken the gig as coordinator then told him the lord told you to call him to be on the actual crew? It's actually nice the he called you because now you can get extra pleasure in not doing the cleaning. I feel sorry for the guy who is the lord's second choice to clean the toilets. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/14/2012 02:27AM by thingsithink. Good point, but he's genuinely such a nice, humble guy that he probably would give up one of his few evenings at home to come and scrub toilets. Having worked with the bishopric for a number of years, I'm also aware that while God is omnipotent, omniscient etc... he sometimes sucks as a recruiter. But he's always pretty good to have a back up plan and he knows that you rarely have to get to name 5 on the candidate shortlist before someone finally says yes. boiseguy In other words "we know you're not one of us now but we got u by the balls because of ur family situation so now clean up after us." It's hard to know if he's really nice until he gets his nuts back from the mormon church, if ever. munchybotaz And you don't think there was any intention of punishment? suckafoo I just love the titles they give people for callings. "coordinator" indeed. goldenrule Yeah. My previous bishop was a nice man too so I felt kinda bad when I laughed in his face and said H NO when he tried to call me to nursery (for the 3rd time). templeendumbed Nice response Sherlock However, if you were dive in and really keep those commodes clean your ward could come to know you as No s**t Sherlock motherwhoknows >>>"He's a really nice guy, very understanding of my situation and he does mean well."<< NOT! Talk about being put into an awkward situation--trying to coerce friends and neighbors into doing free janitorial work? I think "coordinator" must be the most dreaded person in the ward, but since you are doomed for unpopularity anyway, the bishop figures you are disposable. Yes, it is punishment for you. My brother had that job, and he ended up doing the cleaning himself, a lot of the time. My brother was an unemployed con-man, who lived off the family. I hope your wife is very aware of your loss of friendship and respect. Seriously, I was shocked and disgusted at the way the Mormons harassed and belittled my husband when he left, and I left soon after he did. Our real friends weren't Mormons, anyway. Be patient with your wife. Include her in all your confrontations with Mormons. I wish she could have been there for your talk with the bishop. What an eye-opener! I laughed at his sales-pitch on that garbage job for you. Don Bagley Church Commode Cleaning Comrade, what a title--must pay well! Whah, no pay? You gotta get yourself a whole 'nother church, bro. MWK - what I didn't mention is that he previously tried to call me to another couple of things, which I declined so I do think his intentions are genuine. I can well imagine that some asshat bishops would definitely do this as a punishment, but this guy is one of the very few good ones. We've talked at length about my disaffection and he's never once tried to judge me and has shown genuine concern. I suspect having worked his way through all the other callings that he knows I wouldn't do, there wasn't very much left on the list. I know I probably sound like I'm defending him but he is one of the few TBMs that I have complete respect for. He even told me afterwards that if I ever have any ideas of any other non-leadership or temple recommend dependent callings I'd like to do, just let him know and he'll make it happen! Ps - my wife is pretty NOM and only really stays because of her friendships in the ward and through not wanting to upset her ageing father who is on his last legs and would be totally distraught to think his only daughter had strayed. This suits us both ok for the time being. Knowing me and my concerns oh so well, she also thought it was hilarious that Bishop tried to call me to something that I've been so against and it's further compounded her view that there's no revelation in these things whatsoever. Greyfort Re: And you don't think there was any intention of punishment? munchybotaz Wrote: > And you don't think there was any intention of punishment? That's what I was thinking. It sounds to me more like he felt your place was in the john and was trying to put you in your place. They can hide behind that "nice" mask when they need to. That's where the Lord wants you to be? Taking care of the bathroom? Nice. alex71ut Ward Doctrine Reform Coordinator or Church History Coordinator How about being the Ward Doctrine Reform Coordinator where you have a free hand to get your Ward's doctrines taught in classes reformed to more closely match the truth? Or from the other direction.... I've known a few people who used to have great individual personalities when no-mos (though married to a mormon), who converted, and now are faceless, pod people, white shirt and tie-wearing mormons. Lobotomized, methinks. jazzskeeter The cleaning coordinator in my old ward often ended up staying for hours on saturday morning doing the work himself when no one showed up! "Recovery from Mormonism - www.exmormon.org" Life After Mormonism Life as a Mormon Missionary Experiences Dealing with Mormon family members General Authorities Non-Mormons RfM Experiences	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2104
__label__wiki	0.53104	0.53104	Competition Organisers : dg_dave, gtho4, Howie72, illiniman14, spanishliz, srini701 FunTrivia.com Hall of Fame Ranji_Trophy iRB World Cup FAPL FT-PL F1 GP Super 15s FT time is fixed at GMT -6 hrs The above table lists all competitions run during the last year or so (they're clickable links); the ones highlighted with a purple background are running at the moment. This week's threads are at the top with a red pin. You are not logged in. [Log In] FunTrivia Home » Forums » Fun & Games » Tipping Competitions » Results & Standings .. US Open #1203388 - Mon Aug 20 2018 10:01 PM Results & Standings .. US Open srini701 Forum Champion Registered: Wed Jan 04 2006 Loc: Hyderabad India The final Grand Slam of the year begins Monday, 27 August. Sloane Stephens and Rafael Nadal will try and defend their titles on the court and srini701 and ozz2002 will try and do the same here. The men's field looks very competitive with the big 4 all back, and some notable young players making their mark too. The women's section looks wide open as ever. In short, should make for an intriguing 2 weeks of tennis. This will be the last Grand Slam to have 32 seeds that will revert to 16 seeding format from 2019. Sign up here and post your tips in the threads I will post once the draw is announced on Thursday, August 23. US Open 2018: Men's singles - Wednesday, August 29 US Open 2018: Women's singles - Wednesday, Aug 29 Edited by gtho4 (Wed Sep 05 2018 03:22 PM) #1203404 - Tue Aug 21 2018 01:54 AM Re: US Open 2018... sign-up sheet #1203752 - Fri Aug 24 2018 04:22 AM Re: US Open 2018... sign-up sheet Dizart Registered: Fri Mar 16 2007 Loc: Buckhaven Fife Scotland UK In it #1204017 - Sun Aug 26 2018 11:34 PM Re: US Open 2018... sign-up sheet gtho4 Registered: Sun Dec 26 1999 Loc: Sydney oz downunder #1205385 - Mon Sep 10 2018 02:32 AM Re: Results & Standings .. US Open 10 players lodged tips: Naomi Osaka [20] beat Serena Williams [17] Serena Williams [17] beat Anastasija Sevastova [19] Naomi Osaka [20] beat Madsion Keys [14] Serena Williams [17] beat Karolina Pliskova [8] Anastasija Sevastova [19] beat Sloane Stephens [3] Madsion Keys [14] beat C. Suárez Navarro [30] Naomi Osaka [20] beat Lesia Tsurenko [33] Points distribution pts seed PP Diz fif g95 gt4 H72 N-B ozz pap sri wwe 5 Winner Naomi Osaka (20) 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 Finalists Naomi Osaka (20) 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Serena Williams (17) 20 0 20 20 20 20 20 0 20 20 0 2 Semi-Finalists Naomi Osaka (20) 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Serena Williams (17) 19 0 19 19 19 19 19 0 19 19 19 Anastasija Sevastova(19) 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Madison Keys (14) 16 0 0 16 0 16 0 16 0 0 16 1 Quarter-Finalists Naomi Osaka (20) 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Serena Williams (17) 18 0 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 Anastasija Sevastova(19) 20 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 Madison Keys (14) 15 0 0 15 0 15 0 15 15 0 15 Karolina Pliskova (8) 9 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 0 Sloane Stephens (3) 4 0 4 4 0 4 0 4 4 4 4 C. Suárez Navarro (30) 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Lesia Tsurenko (33) 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Points 298 20 70 92 57 92 57 53 85 90 72 Tiebreaker 6 7 9 9 13 8 10 8 6 12 14 Final Standings! picks pts 6 92 : Howie72 6 92 : George95 6 90 : srini701 6 85 : paper_aero 5 72 : wwe84 5 70 : Fifiona81 3 57 : N-Bomb 3 57 : gtho4 4 53 : ozzz2002 1 20 : Dizart 15 298 : Perfect picks Naomi Osaka becomes the first Japanese player to win a Grand Slam singles title (second from Asia after Na Li at the French in 2011....thanks gtho4 ). She was dominant in her run right from the quarterfinals, not dropping a set and with a very aggressive game and hard-hitting forehand and serve. And yet, her maiden win may forever be overshadowed by the controversy between her final opponent Serena Williams and the chair umpire....sad. I will not get into the details here or take sides, but what happened was bad and could easily have been avoided. Serena was totally outplayed by an unawed Naomi, and we may have seen the first of many titles to come for the young champion. 10 of us lodged picks (LeoDaVinci and toocool4u missing from the Wimbledon lineup, and ElfTwinkle missing a second slam in a row now), yet not one of us picked Naomi to make it even till the last 8 (she was the same quarter as Kvitova, Kasatkina, Wozniacki). 7 of us had faith in Serena making it to finals or winning it (Dizart, wwe84 and ozzz2002 exceptions), but it turned out to be Madison Keys as the semifinalist who made the difference in our standings. Howie72 and George95 both tied for the top spot and Howie72 edged it by a single game in the tie-break! srini701 takes the bronze, riding on his pick of Anastasija Sevastova. Sevastavoa incidentally was the sole points for our spooner Dizart too. It promises to be lot more closer and better scoring in the men's section. Let's see.....Congrats for now to Howie72, George95 and srini701 for making it to the podium Edited by srini701 (Mon Sep 10 2018 11:24 PM) Edit Reason: Corrected Osaka as first from Japan to win a slam title "Don't use a lot where a little will do" -- Proverb #1205459 - Tue Sep 11 2018 12:24 AM Re: Results & Standings .. US Open 6-3 7-6(4) 6-3 7-6(3) 6-2 Retd. 0-6 6-4 7-5 6-7(4) 7-6(5) 6-7(5) 6-3 7-6(4) 6-2 2-6 6-4 7-6(5) 4-6 6-4 Novak Djokovic [6] beat J. Del Potro [3] J. Del Potro [3] beat Rafael Nadal [1] Novak Djokovic [6] beat Kei Nishikori [21] Rafael Nadal [1] beat Dominic Thiem [9] J. Del Potro [3] beat John Isner [11] Kei Nishikori [21] beat Marin Cilic [7] Novak Djokovic [6] beat John Millman [33] Men's Competition 5 Winner Novak Djokovic (6) 11 11 0 11 0 11 0 0 11 0 0 3 Finalists Novak Djokovic (6) 9 9 0 9 0 9 9 0 9 9 0 JM Del Potro (3) 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Semi-Finalists Novak Djokovic (6) 8 8 0 8 0 8 8 8 8 8 0 Rafael Nadal (1) 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 0 Kei Nishikori (21) 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Quarter-Finalists Novak Djokovic (6) 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 0 Kei Nishikori (21) 22 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22 Dominic Thiem (9) 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 John Isner (11) 12 12 12 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 Marin Cilic (7) 8 8 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 8 8 John Millman (33) 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tiebreaker 12 23 14 14 19 20 15 11 15 21 18 The Djoker is BACK! If Wimbledon was the starting point, the US Open has only reaffirmed it. Novak Djokovic won his 14th Grand Slam singles title, tying with Pete Sampras and now behind only the 2 "You-know-who"s on the all-time list. Djokovic's path to the finals was smoothed after a certain Roger Federer was shocked in round 4 by an unknown Aussie, John Millman. The 20-minute, 22-point game in the second set was probably the turning point of the finals against Del Potro and Djokovic went on to stamp his class over Del Potro in 3 straight sets....Del Potro still awaits a second slam after his win at the US Open in 2009... The men's matches were far more competitive and closer from the quarterfinals than the women's. Nadal was stretched all the way by Thiem, Nishikori and Cilic went 5 sets too, while Del Potro won in 4 sets over Isner. Fifiona81 picked 7 of the 8 quarterfinalists (missing only Millman) and for that feat alone, she deserved to win our comp! Well done for picking all Thiem, Nishikori and Isner together in a super-competitive field! Dizart bounced back from a spoon in the women's field to take the silver here, ahead of paper_aero. For the first time this year, we had 6 different medal winners in a slam, after N-Bomb or Fifiona managed to find their way to both sections in one or the other of the 3 previous slams. That's it for 2018 then...hoping to get a larget field when we assemble for the Australian Open in January 2019... FT Grand Slam Summary - 2018 N-Bomb Fifiona81 ElfTwinkle LeoDaVinci Howie72 - N-Bomb (Australian Open women and Wimbledon women) and Fifiona81 (Australian Open men and US Open men) both go 2/4. No one managed 3/4 (Fifiona won 3, but one in the women's section) ... - Not a single defending champion from 2017 managed to retain their title in 2018 ...8/8 new champions Edited by srini701 (Tue Sep 11 2018 12:28 AM) Moderator: illiniman14, LeoDaVinci, Sypher	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2109
__label__cc	0.582017	0.417983	This Week On Xbox Features New Xbox All Access 11:27 am September 3, 2018 By Julian Horsey Major Nelson has released a new episode of the ongoing informative This Week On Xbox for the week commencing August 31st, 2018, bringing you all the latest news and updates to the Xbox platform. This week’s episode features the introduction of Xbox All Access and the new Xbox One X and Xbox Elite Wireless Controller colours. Together with plenty of details of new backward compatibility release, and more. It was also announced this week by Microsoft that Xbox Insiders with a compatible TV can enjoy Dolby Vision streaming content on Netflix on Xbox One S and Xbox One X. “Dolby Vision transforms your TV experience with ultravivid picture quality — incredible brightness, contrast, and color that bring entertainment to life before your eyes. When compared to a standard picture, Dolby Vision can deliver colors never seen before on a screen, incredible contrast, highlights that are up to 40 times brighter, and blacks that are 10 times darker. The result is a refined, lifelike image that will make you forget you are looking at a screen. “ Don’t forget you can watch This Week on Xbox from the Community section of the Xbox One dashboard in Canada, the UK and the US or watch it on the Xbox YouTube channel. For more information on the new Xbox All Access service jump over to the official Xbox website and YouTube channel by following the link below. Source: Major Nelson Filed Under: Gaming News, Top News, Xbox	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2121
__label__wiki	0.570243	0.570243	Thank You for Your Patronage! Good Morning from Upper Darby! It has been 30-days since I opened Williams Works and I am going to be redoubling my efforts with a Facebook and Twitter page to increase visitors and customers! In the first 30-days Williams Works has had over 1,000 visitors, which I'm very happy with but I know I need to make some changes and improvements to increase that number dramatically! So within the next few days I will be making alterations and changes to the site, as well as posting more material, so stay tuned! Thank you to everyone who has purchased Book-Zero and Manmade Sheep and thank YOU for at least stopping by to check out my store. HAVE A GREAT ONE WHEREVER YOU ARE! Crusader Base of Camden Coming Soon! I am almost done the next short-story which will be the next part of the Pagan Wars Series. I've also started using Google Ads to start bringing in more customers. Crusader Base of Camden City New Jersey is the home to Karima and the rest of Maxwell's Meteors and it is the base that they would be transferring FROM! Where the last two years spent there have turned Crusader Base into an intentionally designed deathtrap for failure! Into an Imperial American Counterstrike Forces(IACF) base that the People of Camden City finally are starting to accept. The reason for the distrust is because Camden City had initially been abandoned by the state of New Jersey and left to whatever happens, happens. This all changed when a group of juniors from across the Delaware river from Philadelphia were killed by members of Camden's criminal element! Leading to their friend deciding to go after the people who murdered them. Members of Philadelphia's Robot & Technologies Institute, the teenager who would ultimately become the vigilante, Orion the Hunter. Would get unexpected help from an unknown benefactor who would appear nearly a decade later to help Orion hold on to the Camden he'd cleaned up! Crusader Base of Camden, delves into the deal that had to be stuck between Orion and his supporters who'd taken over Camden and successfully repulsed state and federal attempts to retake the city FROM HIM! Which angered the People of Camden who were finally able to start enjoying like like everyone else in the American Empire. But a deal needed to be struck in order to appease the situation before it got totally out of hand, so!? Orion and his supporters were given pardons for all the people they killed in cleaning up Camden. While Camden had to accept having an IACF base! Built on its waterfront. This base would of course become Crusader Base of Camden. And of course it WAS NOT THERE TO HELP THE PEOPLE, but to try to find a means to eventually take the city away from Orion and his cronies who'd illegally seized it! The Crusader Base of Camden introduces everyone to the unfortunate ARCs who got stuck having to be the bane of Camden and its people. Who see them for what they are, a blatant act by the state and national government, to try to regain control over Camden City even when they'd abandoned the city to destitution. Poverty. Crime. Joblessness and every fuckin thing else that means we really don't give a shit about what happens to whomever is DUMB ENOUGH! TO KEEP LIVING IN THIS SHITHOLE OF A CITY! Somebody has got to be assholes shitting on the city. Whether they like it or not. The next story introduces these assholes and the fact that they'd finally gotten things turned around and now the very same IACF that put the base there to fuck over Camden. Then selected all of them to garrison it, because they wanted to fuck them over to. Is now once again fucking them over by trying to lure away their only RELIABLE alpha-male officer, who clearly didn't know what was going on when he decided to go to Crusader Base two years prior. The story highlights how the ARCs of Crusader Base of Camden are now having to face the fact that their attempts to try to keep THEIR ALPHA-MALE OFFICER AT THEIR BASE? May have blew up in their face. Literally! New Short Story Up, Manmade Sheep! Just posted the new short-story, Manmade Sheep! It starts off the Pagan Wars Series of World Within Worlds on earth! You are introduced to Karima Maxwell, an artificially created lifeform, bioengineered to battle against the bioengineered bitches of PAGAN-CORP! This erotic/sci-fi/fantasy/drama delves into the fact that Karima herself may not be any better than those she fights. Either way, she's left to have to look back on what she's done with her artificially created life. Because she has been badly injured and buried by a surprise attack by PAGAN-CORP! Against the very same base that her and her unit were touring to decide on whether they'd accept being assigned there. Manmade Sheep is on sale now for $1.50! GET YOUR COPY TODAY! Excerpt from Book-Zero, From Child to Man Chapter-1 the Sun, Moon-&-Dragonoids of Tanis He shifted around in the darkness of his observation orb and took in a deep breath before calmly exhaling out all of his anxiety. His semi-sunken eyes were looking over the trapezoid elevated display-screen in front of him, as it powered on with nothing but Tanis-Dragonoid text crawling all over it. The checklist to prepare Jeanette's dimensional-drive engines was already underway and he felt somewhat nervous that he'd had to make so many physical-alterations to himself and Jeanette! Just to be able to pull off getting a close enough look at Lu Gell in action to determine whether he should build everything around the diminutive-runt or leave him and his family to get torn apart by the Ilvala laying siege to his city. He'd better not get his ass killed before I can even get there to spy on him, Williams bitched to himself. More monitors and displays came online with Tanis-Dragonoid text on them. He had no problems understanding every word. The real trick was the cultural-references to the language. His cortical-camo implant was slowly doing the work of giving him all that he needed to be able to truly understand what it means to be a member of the Border-Region Territories and their distinctive customs-&-culture. Crossroad-technology is still every bit as formidable with a little bit of Williams Works innovation, he mused. The smug-smile of satisfaction quickly faded as he reached out with his mind. Causing a small holographic orange window to appear in front of him in response to his thought, as he said "Lemme see the readings forthe Dragonboy-Wonder." he didn't hide his sarcasm as his shit-fer-brains smug-smirk came back. His teeth were...? Kinda yellow!? And...? Nasty...! His clothes were...!? Are!? Dusty. Dingy! And dirty, as he softly sung about the fact that "I got the refuGe-SURVI-VOR, fee-verrrrrrrr...!" All of the displays and monitors were laid out around him in a semi-circle. While above his head also in a semi-circle were even more displays-&-monitors coming online, as Jeanette gave him the information to his 1-mark[1] square, orange holo-window "Here you go, Master." "Thank you." he chimed back and began immediately looking over Lu Gell's information that Jeanette had obtained for him "He's physically weak as shit, but!? Superhuman agility and his endurance...?" Williams noticed that "Looks like you needed to run a couple of scans for his endurance?" Jeanette sighed "It appears that he has created some sort of jamming-device that almost caused me to completely miss the fact that my initial OSS-readings were totally wrong! So I had to keep working and working at it where I found out that he has a lot of psionic-talents centered around biotechnology and machines. He can control machines and biotechnology, Master. So of course I had to be extremely careful sneaking around and spying on him. I almost got caught doing multiple OSS-readings!" and that got Williams' attention in a hurry as Jeanette added "Never mind that the infernal multilayered shielding around Lu City really caused me to have to work overtime. I couldn't get through it! So I had to wait till they sent out retrieval-teams to collect Ilvala-carcasses for consumption and domestic breakdown." The cortical-camo implant had done its job as Williams was hit with the knowledge that "Wait-a-second, whoa!? They. EAT!? THE ILVALA!? What the fuck kind of!?" and then his mind was filled with the image of what an Ilvala is. as well as what they look like "Okay that's on the Dr. Moreau side of the game! Who the hell decided!? To mix-n-match a woman's upper-body with the lower-body of two-different monsters!?" he was trying to figure out for himself...? Just what the hell he was seeing in his mind's-eye...!? "Is that a...?Dragon front-part... and then some sort of...? Black-lion back-part, what the hell!? This looks like these bitches could be related to fuckin Sudarka!?" and of course they are not even close to looking anything like his flagdragonmount! Well...!? Not exactly like Her...! Jeanette couldn't help but bust out laughing as she told Williams the fact that "The Ilvala, really all of Old Adari. They're a bioengineered slave-race to some Omniversal-section of Sauropod People." she was loving the persona he was deciding to roll with for this mission! In her hearts she knew he deserved to cut-loose and just act wild and be-wild! Instead of always having to be uptight and serious all the time! She loved him even more when he was like this! But hearing about Sauropod People? His face soured immediately because now he was through "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh, SHIT!?" now that Jeanette's cockpit was lit up Williams looked...? He literally looked like a bum late to get to his street corner! And a barbershop. And a razorblade... to shave that nasty chin-stubble and horribly-bad and uneven mustache! Williams quickly asked Jeanette "Are they still there!? I can't tell whether or not those shapechanging-handbags are them or someone else!?" then he quickly muttered that "You didn't tell me that the fuckin Border-Region Bastards-n-Bitches actually eat their enemies. I'm feeling some type of way about that, for-real for-real, JEANETTE. Seem like you tryin ta set me up with shapechanging-handbags and cannibalistic Dragonoids walking around and SHIT! Giant half-women that are half-amazing and probably taste!?" and all she did was laugh as he continued to mutter and complain that "WAIT!? If they have a woman's body and an animal's body? What kind of Cult of Kathulu-crap you got me into this time!? And do they have multiple-pussies because they're women and have beast-bodies!?" now she was in full blown laughter over his dumb-ass with all the shit he's seen in his life!? But that didn't stop him from adding that "I'm not trying to have some giant Ilvala-TITTY! Put!? Put steaming on a plate in front of me!? I don't need that TRAUMA, Jeanette. I mean it dammit! I'm a Border-Region Territories SURVIVOR!" from the wild-eyed look on his face! To his insistence that "I can't go back to the Empire now! Fuck them fuckin traitors! FUCK'EM! Gettin me attacked by giant women with giant titties!? I can't cope with this shit this machine is hittin me with right now, DAMMIT!" "And you won't have to!" Jeanette was struggling to breathe as she kept laughing her ass off "Focus on the positive, Master! Focus. On the Positives!" she couldn't help herself from laughing because she knew his ass would chow down on whatever titty was slapped down in front of him, otherwise!? He'd be chowin-down onfist! Flying in his face! From the Tanis-Dragonoids of the Border-Region sittin around him!? Easily seeing his ass is an imposter! "I'm trying." he deadpanned "I'm tryin And I'm FAILIN. I can't let them muthafucka's eat MY Ass like they eat them Ilvala-titties, dammit! I can't deal with that!" The two of them continued to laugh their asses off until both of them knew that the dimensional-drive engines were online-n-ready and that all of the laughter and silliness was now about to turn into seriousness. For Sao-Jang Williams he knew and understood that if Li-Caste-Line was going to survive, imprisoned or not. Exiled or not. He was gonna have to go around the old-guard and simply do what needed to be done before things got even worse than they already were "Well, My Love." his voice was somber and filled with the seriousness of what he was about to finally do "This is it." he wasn't comfortable about leaving the rest of his senior-staffers behind, but? With the situation and circumstances being what it is? He knew he had no choice in the matter "Prepare to move out, Jeanette." "Everyone will be okay while we're gone, Master." she tried to reassure him "We've planned everything out and everyone knows what to do. By the time anyone knows we're gone, we'll already be back!" or? So she hoped. To which he softly said aloud "So we all hope, Beautiful. So we all hope...." The interior of Jeanette was spacious and his modifications had passed all of the trials and test plus the anchor-beacon was working, too. But he was having some doubts because traveling to Tanis Island was always one misstep away from either being killed. Or being stuck there and unable to get back, well this is some BULLSHIT, he bitched to himself. Joke-time was definitely over now. Turning the backs of his hands up slightly he could still see the aging marks of his brown skin and knew that going back to Central Tanis Island again was gonna cost him some more years of his life. With a deep sigh he then sat back in his plush black cockpit-chair and mentally reached out and went through final-checks before departure. Jeanette's displays were situated all around him in a semi-circle layout. He checked her pedal-controllers at his feet. His black Ilvala-boots with their thick soles and finely-furred material was beat-up just enough. Or soh he hoped! He let the information that she'd just bombarded him with soak in a bit more, as he played with the edges of his beautiful but beat-up black robes. Spying on Tanis Island has always been a pain-in-the-ass, especially since they activated that goddamn Infinity Device, but!? His readings had led him to this part of the Omniverse, which didn't really...? Shock him.... Seems like we're joined to each other at the hip, he thought to himself. His face showed that he was tired, he definitely needed to shave his scruffy chin-hairs. He looked to be in his mid-30's, maybe? And his hair had grown into a bit of a wild mini-afro that was screaming for a shape up or a straight clip-cut down to scalp-level or lower! His nails are too long. He smelled like he hadn't showered in days! Teeth needed some cleaning weeks ago, the shit I go through for the sake of the Line. No time for regrets now, especially not with the hot-mess going on there "Activate OSS[2] and engage dimensional-drives." everything around him exploded in blaring white-light and the all too familiar sensations of atmospheric pressure made him smile,here we go again "Take us in, nice and easy, Jeanette...." [1] Mark = Feet [2] OSS = Otherdimensional-Scrying System Excerpt from Book-Zero, From Child to Man Here is an excerpt from Chapter Zero; Chapter-Zero An Overview and the Underworld-Realm The two main humanoid-races of the Sun People and the Moon People were the second races to cover most of Underworld-Realm, but? In specific spots of Underworld they were either in competition or harmony with various other distinct races that had evolved from the Primordial Mist and staked their claims to the lands they now inhabited. The primary competition against the Sun-&-Moon People were the Mangs. It is because of the Mangs that the two merged together in the first place, because like most of the races of Underworld-Realm they fell victim to enslavement from the Mangs. However as time passed and the Mang flat-lined both evolutionally and in their sociopolitical and technological developments. The Sun-&-Moon People were able to develop superior technology and better socio-structures that didn't believe strictly in the premise of Might-Makes-Right. Their arcane-abilities were far superior on all fronts and this allowed them to begin quietly rebelling against the Mang and then once they began losing control over other regions and realms they finally openly rebelled! The combination of all of these races spelled the doom of Mang dominance and the Mang as a whole would never be able to return to their primordial-prehistoric glory! Overall the Mang are now just a common-stock race that can be found just about anywhere throughout the Underworld-Realms, but they are generally integrated amongst others and only hold any actual empires in parts of Arboria Prime and Suladad Prime. Cities of Mang are not uncommon, but they are ruled in the a-typical fashion of Mang customs and culture meaning that all one need do is topple the Mang ruler of the city and the entirety of the city falls to your feet one way or another. As for the Sun-&-Moon People the Fall of the Mang would make them another common-stock race of the Underworld-Realms for the most part. But unlike the Mang they would hold positions of power regardless of integrated races-&-places or not. The Sun-&-Moon People breakdown into three different main-ethnicities apiece having a number that are common to both, as well as halfbreeds from the intertwining of both people. Ironically the physical features of the Sun-&-Moon People are the general descriptors for all of the other Underworld-Realms. Thus a Bronze-Sun Dragonoid of Tanis Island would be a bronze complexioned Dragonoid with the accompanying broad nose, thick or full-lips and build of a Bronze-Sun. While an Ivory-Moon Mang would be a pink-skinned complexioned and possibly pink-furred Mang with a narrow-nose and thin-lips. A Bronze-Moon Person would be a bronze-complexioned almond-eyed individual for example. Amongst the Sun People there are the Obsidian, sometimes called Spatials in some parts of Underworld-Realm, because of their dark-skin. Along with the Bronze and Copper-Sun People they are the three main ethnicities of the Sun People. The Sun People get their name as a race because their skin is a direct gift from the sun of underworld. Most Sun People have a low-level of natural resistance to fire-&-heat, as well as the same low-level of natural resistance to arcane fire-&-heat. One of the principle tasks of disciplined Sun People is to hone their own natural resistances so that they can increase them. This way they can be used for combat and military purposes, as well as sheer self-improvement. Obsidian Sun People have a unique ability to actually have a low-level of natural resistance to cold-&-ice. Gifted Obsidian Sun People have shown an easier knack for the arcane sciences of the underworld-elements, including geoforce. In certain countries of underworld their Obsidian populations strive for mass arcane-mastery over the elements, which allows these regions and places to be completely devoid of standing armies due to their own collective ability to not only police themselves, but defend themselves. Bronze-Sun People have demonstrated a natural affinity for the arcane manipulation and generation of plasma in all its forms. This has given way for a high amount of Bronze-Sun people being extremely skilled in the fields of medicine and healing, while Copper-Sun People have a low-level resistance to arcane energies in general. Well trained Copper-Sun People have also shown that they can master the manipulations of arcane energies on a vast scale when talented enough. This has given rise to the Water-Mirror Cult, sometimes blatantly called the Copper Water-Mirror Cult, which is an underworld-wide group whose label depends entirely on whichever region or country or realm they are found in. They generally tend to wear exo-armor akin to a priest or cleric or monk, all of which is determined by whichever region and sect they belong to. Some see them as a mercenary organization, while others see them as clerics and priests to be called upon during times of need. Regardless of all of that the Water-Mirror Cult is made up of mostly Copper-Sun People who have honed their ability to manipulate arcane energies to such an extent that they can use the naturally ambient arcane energies around them, as well as those naturally generated by people! To various shocking and startling effects! Thus the nature of their name, the Water-Mirror Cult. The Sun People of Primordial Prehistory often migrated and moved about underworld in a methodically-measured pace, often setting up cities and engaging in cultivation of wherever their feet touched the ground. Only after stability was established did the Primordial Prehistoric Sun People then begin sending out explorers and allowing for fully funded and supported expeditions and adventures elsewhere. This of course often caused them to encounter Mang Marauders who were sent out to either raid whatever they found or actually stake claim to territory where a large Mang caravan was somewhere not too far behind them. The battles between the Mang and the Sun People were always costly to the Sun People who believed in a more measured and meticulous form of territorial expansion and development. Once the Primordial-Mang were finally defeated the Sun People went back to their meticulous development of land and people working within limits and without excess. The settling and stability of pre-historic underworld is directly contributed to the Sun People, as well as the rise of what would eventually become foreign trade-&-commerce, because one couldn't partake in trade-&-commerce safely during those early times without truly having a stable place to trade from... or trade with. But many did try... Many. Did. Try.... Fleshing Out Concepts and Characters I am fleshing out a lot of the characters and concepts for not just this short story for CAM87. But also the backstories and environments, history and the customs/culture of these different races-n-places. Not gonna get deep in details, but I'm definitely picking up the pace and should have the new stories up soon! Later Peoples!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2122
__label__wiki	0.817327	0.817327	Obama: Reported comments by team owner ‘racist’ foxsports Apr 27, 2014 at 2:51a ET President Barack Obama discussed the comments reportedly made by Clippers owner Donald Sterling during a joint news conference with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. President Barack Obama said Sunday that comments reportedly made by the owner a US pro basketball team are "incredibly offensive racist statements," before casting them as part of a continuing legacy of slavery and segregation that Americans must confront. "When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk," Obama said when asked to respond to the reported comments from Los Angeles Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling. Obama’s description of the controversy as part of a larger historical context is the latest example of his continuing willingness to expound on matters of race in his second term. After avoiding much mention of race relations during his campaign to become the first black president and in his first term, the president last summer offered a personal reflection in response to the shooting of black teenager Trayvon Martin. And now Obama has spoken out against an audio recording of a man identified as Sterling telling his girlfriend not to bring black people to games. The firestorm over Sterling’s comments has quickly engulfed the National Basketball Association. Obama cast the comments through a broader prism of racism in America, adding that "we constantly have to be on guard on racial attitudes that divide us rather than embracing our diversity as a strength." DONALD STERLING TRIAL Judge OKs $2B sale of Clippers despite objections Shelly Sterling takes stand, defends actions Sterling calls wife 'pig', says he'll never sell Clips Donald Sterling comical, confusing on stand Sterling lawyers force delay of trial Sterling vs. Sterling: Clips hang in balance 5 things to know about Sterling's legal claims Poll: Sterling most hated man in America "The United States continues to wrestle with the legacy of race and slavery and segregation, that’s still there, the vestiges of discrimination," Obama said during a news conference in Malaysia, where he was traveling. "We’ve made enormous strides, but you’re going to continue to see this percolate up every so often," he added. "And I think that we just have to be clear and steady in denouncing it, teaching our children differently, but also remaining hopeful that part of why statements like this stand out so much is because there has been this shift in how we view ourselves." In the recording attributed to Sterling and posted on the website TMZ, a male voice questions his girlfriend’s association with minorities. TMZ reported the woman, V. Stiviano, is of black and Mexican descent. The man asks Stiviano not to broadcast her association with black people or bring black people to games. The man specifically mentions Lakers Hall of Famer Magic Johnson on the recording, saying, "Don’t bring him to my games, OK?" Obama said he’s confident NBA Commissioner Adam Silver will address the matter. He said the NBA has "an awful lot of African American players, it’s steeped in African American culture. And I suspect that the NBA is going to be deeply concerned in resolving this." Silver had said the NBA needs to confirm authenticity of the audio tape and interview both Sterling and the woman in the recording. He called the tape "disturbing and offensive" and promised to investigate quickly.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2123
__label__wiki	0.728047	0.728047	How We Got Felicity Hunk Scott Speedman To Totally Blush, Plus Exclusive Pics From ABC's All-Star Party! ABC should stand for Amazing & Beautiful Casts because that's exactly what I encountered on the ABC All-Star Cocktail Party red carpet! I got Jeremy Sisto to do the unthinkable (read below!) and made Scott Speedman totally turn red thanks to his Felicity co-star Ian Gomez. Read on for all that scoop and more! Jessica Radloff Here I am before the craziness of the red carpet at ABC's All-Star Cocktail Party First up: Suburgatory's Jeremy Sisto hinted that there might be a Clueless reunion coming up in a particular weekly magazine soon. Meanwhile, remember when I interviewed Jeremy on the phone in January and asked him about "Rolling with the Homies?" Well, this time, I got him to do it--on camera! Talk about an awesome movie moment. I can't wait to share it with you guys in an upcoming post! Dana Delany, from Body of Proof, looked smashing in a vintage dress. "Even if it's only five years old, right? That can be considered vintage, can't it?" she inquired. Sounds good to us! Next up: Bachelor Pad's favorite tiara-wearing resident, Erica Rose, who surprisingly was tiara free on the red carpet. "Yeah, not tonight. That's because I'm wearing a gavel on my necklace instead." I also asked her if she'd consider returning for another season of Bachelor Pad. "No, I think I'm done." As for her pick for the hottest Bachelor of all time? Andrew Firestone. Mmmm, I agree. I love a guy that can take being teased, and Baby Daddy's Derek Theler was a good sport, especially since he didn't retweet my Teen Choice Awards column with him in it. His co-star, Tahj Mowry, was so funny ganging up on Derek with me and promising that he would not only re-tweet me, but follow me as well. By the way, I had to tell Tahj how much I adored Full House and asked him if he keeps in touch with any of the cast (Tahj played Michelle Tanner's friend, Teddy). "I talked to Candace Cameron just the other day," he told me. I don't know about you guys, but I think a Full House reunion is totally overdue! Meanwhile, how about Vanessa Williams looking absolutely stunning in red? The Scandal cast was out in full force, minus lead Kerry Washington. Josh Malina,Katie Lowes, and__Columbus Short__ made up group number one, while Darby Stanchfield,Guillermo Diaz, and__Bellamy Young__ made up group number two. I had a blast talking to Terry O'Quinn (Lost, Hawaii Five-0), who stars opposite Vanessa Williams this fall on 666 Park Ave. When I told him he finally managed to get off island shows (considering Lost and Five-0 are both shot in Hawaii), he one-upped me by saying, "Hey now, Manhattan is an island too!" Terry: 1, Jessica: 0. Think that celebs don't get star-struck? Think again. Stunner Jeri Ryan from Body of Proof was refreshing in her unabashed admiration for O'Quinn and finally got the chance to introduce herself right before talking to me. "Although I was so excited, I think I totally forgot to tell him my name!" she exclaimed. Jeri, just know that we're right there with you, and we love you for it! One of my favorite ladies of all time, Suburgatory's Cheryl Hines, looked sensational in a body-hugging dress from Cache. Though she admitted it's not the most typical designer you'd see on a red carpet, I told her that my last-minute dress I wore to the SAG Awards this year came from Cache as well, and it ended up being one of my absolute favorites. Kelly Monaco, the season one champ from Dancing with the Stars, admitted she's a tad nervous about defending the mirror ball trophy again. "It has been a long time since I last danced like that!" she said. I have a feeling it will be like riding a bike. She'll be in dancing form in no time. Leah Remini, star of the upcoming The Family Tools, admitted that she can't watch re-runs of King of Queens when it's on the air. "It's too hard to watch because I really miss those guys." Nashville is getting buzz as being one of the best dramas of the new fall season, and stars Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere were thrilled to shower one another with compliments of how amazing the experience has been and how much they adore working with one another. Autumn Reeser (who you'll remember from The O.C. and Entourage) was pretty in hot pink and just as adorable and sweet as you'd imagine. She told me that working with Jeremy Piven as Ari Gold was a dream role come true, as she'd always admired him. Not only did she get to go up against the Piven, but she played Benjamin McKenzie's love interest, and now she's starring in Last Resort with Scott Speedman. Yes, lucky indeed. Well, I saved the best for last, and that would be none other than Ben Covington Scott Speedman himself. First, let's just give thanks to the TV gods for putting him back on television where we can watch him every week. I can't wait to show you our on-camera interview, but I promised you some scoop! Let me just say that as soon as I told him what Ian Gomez said about him in our last interview (click here), he turned red and started laughing. I think it's safe to say that there's totally some Ben in Mr. Speedman. Btw, it was so cute when I took Scott's picture because I said, 'I'm going to Tweet this out,' and he said, 'I don't even know what that means!' Scott's just content staying home, watching sports, and staying social media-free. Love that. Well, it was quite a party, wasn't it? Whose show are you most looking forward to watching this fall? Tell me below, and in the meantime, stay tuned for more scoop as CBS gets ready to present their TCA Day. More from the Beverly Hilton at the TCAs: TV's Biggest & Best Bash: The FOX Party Hanging with the casts of Happy Endings and Don't Trust the B---- in Apt. 23 at the ABC Party All the scoop on Mindy Kaling's new FOX show and other comedies and dramas coming your way this fall Dancing with the Stars: All Stars contestants confirmed--Who Made the Cut? P.S. Want more Obsessed? Sign up for our awesome daily newsletter that features the latest celebrity gossip, TV news, hilarious internet sensations, and more! TopicsABCAutumn Reeserdancing with the starshayden panettiereJeremy SistoscandalScott Speedmantvred carpet	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2134
__label__wiki	0.906524	0.906524	Friends Is Officially Leaving Netflix, and People Are Devastated People Are Accusing Taylor Swift of Copying Beyoncé’s ‘Party’ Video Plus-Size Model Tess Holliday Lands a People Cover: 5 Things to Know About Her Ever since she became the first size-22 model to score a major contract with U.K.-based Milk Management, Tess Holliday's name has been all over the news. And it's probably safe to say she's not going anywhere as she just landed the cover of People, on newsstands this Friday. In case you're not quite up to date on the modeling sensation, here's a primer. Her real name is Ryann Hoven: According to Buzzfeed, Holliday was born Ryann Hoven and has also been known as Tess Munster and Tess Typhoon. The mother of one to son Riley, nine, has been using her fiancé Nick Holliday's last name professionally since January. Holliday's big break came from an unlikely source: Though she wasn't a cast member, Holliday was the face of the A&E TV show Heavy. She appeared in nationwide print and billboard ads for the show. Since then she's gone on to model for brands such as Domino Dollhouse and Jessica Louise Clothing. She's also been featured in Vogue Italia. She almost didn't make it in the industry: After being turned away from an audition in Atlanta at 15 for being "too short and too big," Holliday posted photos of herself on Model Nikki Ogunnaike Ever since she became the first size-22 model to score a major contract with U.K.-based Milk Management, Tess Holliday's name has been all over the news. And it's probably safe to say she's not going anywhere as she just landed the cover of People, on newsstands this Friday. In case you're not quite up to date on the modeling sensation, here's a primer. Her real name is Ryann Hoven: According to Buzzfeed, Holliday was born Ryann Hoven and has also been known as Tess Munster and Tess Typhoon. The mother of one to son Riley, nine, has been using her fiancé Nick Holliday's last name professionally since January. Holliday's big break came from an unlikely source: Though she wasn't a cast member, Holliday was the face of the A&E TV show* Heavy.* She appeared in nationwide print and billboard ads for the show. Since then she's gone on to model for brands such as Domino Dollhouse and Jessica Louise Clothing. She's also been featured in Vogue Italia. She almost didn't make it in the industry: After being turned away from an audition in Atlanta at 15 for being "too short and too big," Holliday posted photos of herself on Model Mayhem. It was only then that her career started to take off. Holliday is the founder of viral body-positive moment Eff Your Beauty Standards: She started it on Instagram two years ago, "as a way of giving the metaphorical middle finger to society in regards to what we're told we can't wear and what we should like when you're plus size," says the model. The account currently has more than 100,000 followers, while the hashtag has been used over 700,000 times. Last May, Holliday teamed up with Gabi Gregg and Nadia Aboulhosn on the #everyBODYisflawless movement: Check out their remix to Beyonce's video.__ __What do you think about Tess Holliday landing this magazine cover? Hear more from the model in this video, then discuss in the comments! Topicsmodelplus size	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2135
__label__wiki	0.542655	0.542655	Mobile Button Daily Programme Before you Apply School Project in Kenya Glenstal School Banner Welcome Links hear from our students Welcome to our school Scroll Down Button Ted Collins Wins Bronze at Tailteann Games Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to EmailPrint this page Denis Hooper The Tailteann Games in its original form is one of the oldest festivals of sport in the world, almost 2000 yrs old. After a lull it was revived by the Irish free state in the 1920s as a way of reconnecting with and re-establishing ancient Irish cultural heritage following independence from Britain. The Athletics is still going strong with some of the most talented young athletes from all four provinces competing for the team and individual honours in the interprovionsal schools competition The teams are picked from both the provincial and national school championships representing not only themselves and their families but their schools and clubs also. In fact five athletes from one club is no small achievement for a small provincial town but Nenagh always punches above its weight in most sports and athletics is no different. On the day Ted Collins, Glenstal Abbey put the disappointment of the Irish schools well behind him with a classy bit of 800m running. Starting conservatively and going through the Bell in 7th position in 59sec. Starting his run 300m out and looking majestic he got to 2nd with 100m to go. He tired a little with 50m to go but held on for 3rd and a podium position finishing in 2 mins and missing out on an international school boys Jersey by a 10th of a second. Padraig Hassett, Glenstal was 6th in the 400m hurdles and all will benifit from the experience gained. The Munster schools boys team was 2nd in the 4*400 relay, Ted ran the 3rd leg in 53 seconds. Padraig Hassett was a sub on this team. Wining two Talteann medals is a great treasure for any athlete competing at the U-17 age group for its school and provienvce. Glenstal Abbey School Murroe Co. Limerick, V94 HC84 "Reverence, Respect, Responsibility" Copyright Glenstal Abbey School 2018	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2136
__label__wiki	0.700748	0.700748	TSXV GEMC FSE 5GE1 OTCQB GBLEF Cobalt Matters Cobalt Demand Cobalt Supply Millennium Cobalt Project - Queensland, Australia Werner Lake Cobalt Project - Ontario, Canada Lovelock Mine & Treasure Box Projects - Nevada, USA Capital Structure & Ownership Marketing Material & Presentations Global Energy Metals and Marquee Resources Team Up to Accelerate Aggressive Exploration and Resource Delineation at the Werner Lake Cobalt Project in Ontario, Canada Vancouver, BC / TheNewswire / February 28, 2018 / Global Energy Metals Corporation TSXV:GEMC \| OTCQB:GBLEF \| FSE:5GE1 (“Global Energy Metals”, the “Company” and/or “GEMC”) is pleased to announce that all conditions precedent have been met in the previously announced Werner Lake transaction with Marquee Resources Ltd. (“Marquee”). As consideration for Marquee’s option to earn either a 30% or a 70% interest in the Werner Lake Cobalt Project located in Kenora Mining District, Ontario (the “Property”), Global Energy Metals has received a cash payment totalling A$200,000 and has been granted publicly traded shares of Marquee having an aggregate value of A$100,000. Commenting on the transaction, GEMC President & CEO Mitchell Smith said, “We are pleased to have Marquee’s support as a significant partner that will aggressively advance the past producing Werner Lake Cobalt project in Ontario. We view this transaction as a significant milestone that provides additional investment exposure and accelerates our ability to create value moving forward as we continue to advance our cobalt project portfolio.” Charles Thomas, Managing Director of Marquee commented, “Marquee’s focus will now shift to an aggressive exploration and further resource delineation program at the Werner Lake project. We believe there is every opportunity to significantly increase the resource to historically reported values and will initiate a work campaign to do just that in the very near future.” In order to maintain and enforce the option granted to it, and to exercise this option, Marquee must incur expenditures of A$1,000,000 to earn a 30% interest in the Property within year one and a further A$1,500,000 (for a total of A$2,500,000) to earn a 70% interest in the Property on or before year two. The parties will enter into a customary joint venture agreement once the Marquee exercises its option to acquire either a 30% or 70% interest in the Property. In addition, upon obtaining an encouraging Pre-feasibility study according to a commercially reasonable standard, Marquee will pay GEMC A$150,000. For full details of the Werner Lake transaction, please refer to the Company’s news release dated November 30, 2017. Werner Lake Cobalt Project The Werner Lake Cobalt Mine operated in the 1940s as a high-grade source of cobalt. Since that time, the project was taken back to mine decision by Canmine Resources. Canmine Resources completed a significant amount of work on the project including; helicopter-borne geophysics, approximately 22,860 m of diamond drilling over numerous campaigns, several resource calculation and approximately 258 m of underground ramping, drifting and raising into the West Cobalt Deposit. They also completed a 10,000 tonne bulk sample and metallurgical bench test milling and chemical analysis on the mineralised material. Canmine Resources also completed several preliminary feasibility studies and economic modeling and were in the process of completing a definitive feasibility study when they filed for bankruptcy. Additional work was completed in 2009-2010 by Puget Ventures and all this work formed the basis for the recent NI 43-101 resource report issued by GEMC (see press release September 6, 2017). A work program including diamond drilling (+3,500 m), to further upgrade resource categories and extend the mineralised envelope, as well as additional metallurgical work and underground chip sampling has been recommended. The mineralised zones remain open in all directions. Mr. Paul Sarjeant, P. Geo., the Company’s VP Projects and Director, is the qualified person for this release as defined by National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects and has reviewed and verified the technical information contained herein. Global Energy Metals Corporation #1501-128 West Pender Street Vancouver, BC, V6B 1R8 Email: info@globalenergymetals.com t. + 1 (604) 688-4219 extensions 236/237 (TSXV:GEMC \| OTCQB:GBLEF \| FSE:5GE1) Global Energy Metals is focused on offering security of supply of cobalt, a critical material to the growing rechargeable battery market, by building a diversified global portfolio of cobalt assets including project stakes, projects and other supply sources. GEMC anticipates growing its business by acquiring project stakes in battery metals related projects with key strategic partners. Global Energy Metals currently owns and is advancing the Werner Lake Cobalt Mine in Ontario, Canada and has entered into an agreement to earn-in to the Millennium Cobalt Project in Mt. Isa, Australia. Certain information in this release may constitute forward-looking statements under applicable securities laws and necessarily involve risks associated with regulatory approvals and timelines. Although Global Energy Metals believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Except as required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements in the event that management’s beliefs, estimates or opinions, or other factors, should change. For more information on Global Energy and the risks and challenges of their businesses, investors should review the filings that are available at www.sedar.com. © 2019 Global Energy Metals Corp. All rights reserved. \| Disclaimer Website by Adnet © 2019 Global Energy Metals Corp. 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__label__wiki	0.897423	0.897423	Benfica confirm €126m Atletico Madrid bid for Joao Felix Getty/Goal The Portuguese club have revealed that the Spanish outfit have placed a massive bid on the young striker, though it has yet to be accepted Benfica have confirmed that a €126 million (£113m/$143m) bid has been made for star forward Joao Felix by Atletico Madrid. The Spanish side are looking to rebuild after a number of big-name players, including Antoine Griezmann, confirmed they would be leaving the club this summer, and 19-year-old Felix, who has been compared to Cristiano Ronaldo, is clearly part of the club's plan moving forward. Benfica have made clear in a statement released on Wednesday evening that they are considering the offer, but that nothing had yet been accepted. Though the bid is in excess of Felix's €120m release clause, Atletico's insistence that the fee is paid over installments means that Benfica are within their rights to reject the offer. Felix has impressed in his native Portugal, scoring 15 goals and registering nine assists in just 26 league appearances last season, drawing interest from around Europe. Juventus were among the teams strongly linked to the youngster, though it seems now that Atletico will win the race for his signature, something that should delight Diego Simeone. “Historically, Atletico buy young players to develop them here. Like what happened with [Jan] Oblak, [Jose] Gimenez, Lucas Hernandez when they came through from youth teams – or Griezmann,” Simeone told Fox Sports Argentina earlier this month. “We want a talented guy who can absorb our ideas. Our technical staff is already working on some situations to help to develop players.” Simeone is dealing with a changing of the guard at Atletico, with a generation of veterans, including Diego Godin, Filipe Luis and Juanfran at the end of their contracts. But the club have already moved to bring in Real Madrid midfielder Marcos Llorente and defender Felipe from Porto, and the move for Felix would be another boost in the club's attempt to stay as a perennial contender in both Spain and Europe. Under Simeone's watch Atletico finished second in La Liga last season, ahead of city rivals Real and behind champions Barcelona. And while a substantial rebuild is needed, Simeone is confident he will be able to adjust to new talents such as Felix. "If Joao Felix and others come with different characteristics than we had before, then we will have to play differently," he said. “In training we will see where we are going ... It is clear that this year's challenge is one of the most complex since I arrived at the club.”	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2138
__label__cc	0.576312	0.423688	Afcon: Harambee Stars coach Sebastien Migne blasts organisers for lack of internet at team hotel Goal Kenya. Algeria v Kenya Kenya v Tanzania Kenya v Senegal Harambee Stars will face Algeria's Desert Warriors in their Group C opener at the June 30 Stadium on Sunday Harambee Stars coach Sebastien Migne has decried the poor state of affairs at the hotel where they are staying ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations finals, which kicks off on Friday. The Kenyan side arrived in Egypt on Wednesday after a three-week training camp in France, and the team’s coach did not mince his words after they were booked into the Rose Plaza Hotel. Migne in particular took issue with the unavailability of Wifi internet and a Sports Channel for his players, as they prepare to face Algeria in their Group C opener on Sunday. “The main problem was in accommodation because when we visited the hotel at this time WIFI internet and Sports Channel was there and now we have nothing,” Migne told reporters after the team’s first training session in Egypt on Wednesday. “And when you have the players with only one training session per day they need a Sports Channel to follow the tournament, English Channel and of course with the new generation, if you don’t have Wifi, the days are very long but I don’t like to waste time, I think you know that with me.” On a positive note, Migne confirmed that all the players in camp were fit and ready to take on the Desert Warriors on Sunday. “Everyone here is now fit and we are not having issues with injuries. We are now focused to turn our training sessions in France into results,” Migne continued. “The players have shown me that they have the anger to fight and get the results that we want and we will keep on fighting until the end. Maybe, it is our time, who knows, we will take it a game at a time.” The Stars are in Group C at the Afconfinals, together with Senegal, Algeria and Tanzania.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2139
__label__wiki	0.964015	0.964015	Coutinho, Aubameyang and the 20 most expensive transfers of January 16:00 1/2/18 The winter window is now closed, with the likes of Barcelona, Arsenal, Liverpool and Man City among those to have spent big bolstering their ranks #20 Sandro Wagner: Hoffenheim to Bayern Munich, £10.7m A Munich native and former Allianz Arena academy graduate is back where it all began at the age of 30, with the towering frontman having offered enough at Bundesliga rivals to convince the reigning champions of his worth. #19 Francis Coquelin: Arsenal to Valencia, £12m A rollercoaster ride in England saw the Frenchman go from bit-part squad player to the answer to a holding midfield conundrum and back again, with a move to Spain secured after starting to slip down the pecking order once more. PROSHOTS #18 Jurgen Locadia: PSV to Brighton, £14m The Seagulls always knew that stepping up to the Premier League would require them to roll the dice in the transfer market, and a new club record fee has been shelled out to land a promising forward who must hit the ground running. #17 Badou Ndiaye: Galatasaray to Stoke City £14m The Potters can rarely be accused of lacking battling qualities, but Paul Lambert has moved to further enhance those qualities by acquiring a Senegal international midfielder who could be among those gracing a World Cup stage this summer. #16 Ross Barkley: Everton to Chelsea, £15m A Toffees academy graduate and home-town boy but a player who appeared to have grown stale amid inconsistent showings and fitness issues on Merseyside, with Stamford Bridge now the stage on which he must try and fulfil his undoubted potential. #15 Emerson Palmieri: Roma to Chelsea, £17m Antonio Conte had been hoping to complete a double raid on the Italian capital for a full-back and proven frontman, but Edin Dzeko remains at Stadio Olimpico after failing to see a deal reached to follow a Brazilian colleague to west London. #14 Pietro Pellegri: Genoa to Monaco, £17.5m The talented youngster is now the proud owner of several entries in the football history books, with the first player born in the 21st century to play and score in Serie A now the most expensive 16-year-old of all-time. Jan Kruger/Getty Images #13 Andre Ayew: West Ham United to Swansea City, £18m Nobody appears to have told the Ghana international that you should never go back, with a club record transfer fee having returned him to the Liberty Stadium for a second spell after 18 mediocre months in east London. #12 Olivier Giroud: Arsenal to Chelsea, £18m Already struggling for game time under Arsene Wenger, the arrival of Aubameyang at Emirates Stadium set in motion a trio of deals which saw a France international head for Stamford Bridge and Michy Batshuayi loaned to Borussia Dortmund. #11 Manuel Akanji: FC Basel to Borussia Dortmund, £18.7m Big-money sales over the past two windows have helped to swell the coffers at Signal Iduna Park, with some of that funding reinvested in a promising Swiss defender who tasted domestic success and Champions League competition in his homeland. VALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty Images #10 Guido Carrillo: Monaco to Southampton, £19.1m A Ligue 1 title winner alongside Kylian Mbappe and Radamel Falcao at Monaco, the Saints are hoping that some of that magic dust rubbed off on the Argentine frontman after agreeing to make him the club’s record signing. #9 Theo Walcott: Arsenal to Everton, £20m The boy wonder never really became a man during a 12-year stint in north London, but he is still just 28 years of age – which should put him at his peak – and taking on more of a leading role on Merseyside could bring the best out of him. #8 Lucas Moura: Paris Saint-Germain to Tottenham, £25m Having been linked with several Premier League sides, the Brazil international winger is now set to call Wembley Stadium home and will be hoping to complement the likes of Dele Alli in providing further ammunition for Harry Kane. #7 Cenk Tosun: Besiktas to Everton, £27m Sam Allardyce quickly identified the need to bring a goalscorer onto his books upon inheriting the managerial reins at Goodison Park and has taken a punt on a man who proved to be a prolific marksman in the Turkish top-flight. #6 Inigo Martinez: Real Sociedad to Athletic Bilbao, £28m The Spain international was among those targeted by Manchester City as they sought to bolster their defensive ranks, but ended up filling the boots of Etihad-bound Aymeric Laporte as he crossed the Basque Country divide. #5 Cedric Bakambu: Villarreal to Beijing Guoan, £35.3m The France-born Congo international may not be a household name, but he is now one of the most expensive players on the planet having welcomed the opportunity to take his goal-scoring prowess to the money-spinning surrounds of the Chinese Super League. #4 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang: Borussia Dortmund to Arsenal, £55m Six months on from breaking their transfer record to land one proven striker in the form of Alexandre Lacazette, and with Alexis Sanchez having departed, the Gunners have raised the bar a little further by bringing in a prolific Gabon international. #3 Aymeric Laporte: Athletic Bilbao to Manchester City, £57.2m Sitting pretty at the top of the Premier League table and still in contention to land an historic quadruple this season, a centre-half option for the present and future is about all Pep Guardiola really needed during the winter window. #2 Virgil van Dijk: Southampton to Liverpool, £75m With Jurgen Klopp and the Anfield faithful having spent much of the first half of the season cursing defensive frailties, a long-standing target was finally acquired as the Reds beat a familiar transfer path to Premier League rivals on the South Coast. #1 Philippe Coutinho: Liverpool to Barcelona, £106m Having fended off interest from Camp Nou during the summer of 2017, the Reds finally buckled under renewed pressure and sanctioned the sale of a man hoping to become the latest Brazilian superstar in Catalunya.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2140
__label__cc	0.628162	0.371838	Home » Education & Reference » United States » 1800s For President’s Day Read About Abraham Lincoln Pro Wrestler by Steve Sheinkin 1800s, 1800s, Ages 7-10, American Presidents, American Presidents, Celebrations & Festivals - Presidents Day, Children's Book Reviews, Education & Reference, Government, History, Holidays & Celebrations, Holidays & Festivals - Presidents' Day, Humorous Stories, Juvenile Fiction, People & Places - United States, Slavery & The Emancipation Proclamation, U.S. History, United States ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRO WRESTLER TIME TWISTERS BOOK ONE Written by Steve Sheinkin Illustrated by Neil Swaab (Roaring Brook Press; $13.99, Ages 7-10) Don’t let the title, Abraham Lincoln Pro Wrestler, convince you that this totally entertaining and educational read is comprised of our 16th president traipsing around in a wrestling singlet. It is actually the first in a clever fiction chapter book series that features lots of laugh out load moments that kept me turning the pages to see how the two main characters, step-siblings Abby and Doc, would pull off some whimsical time travel twists that bring Abraham Lincoln’s presidency to life but could also change the course of history. The story unfolds with the kids in Ms. Maybee’s history class being instructed to read aloud from their textbook section about Honest Abe. When the teacher tries to get her students involved, the general reaction is a resounding “BORING!” It turns out, though, that their disinterest has negatively impacted historical figures including Lincoln. Because of that, when Ms. Maybee’s class attempts to read about America’s influential president and his profound impact on our country’s history, the students can only find references to Abraham Lincoln essentially doing zilch—”sitting in a chair, reading or heading off to the outhouse.” In an interesting scene that sets the stage for all the story’s zany action, Lincoln travels to the present to offer words of caution. “Saying I’m boring, groaning in agony when it comes time to read about history. As I said, today was just a warning. If you do it again—well, you’ll see.” The next attempt to study the 16th president also fails, but instead of Lincoln returning to the library storage room to warn Abby and Doc, Doc disappears into the same box (portal) that brought Lincoln to the present from 1860 Illinois. Abby follows and the two wind up outside of Lincoln’s house. There they meet Lincoln and his wife, Mary who tells them the election is tomorrow. With her husband no longer caring, Mary and the kids are worried. “Then we’re doomed! … The country will break apart! Everything we have worked for—all thrown away!” The kids feel awful, certain they’ve screwed with fate, especially after their dad, Mr. Douglass, also a teacher, impresses upon the two how important history is. “But knowing history makes you smarter, helps you understand the world better. Mostly, it’s just fun.” The problem is Doc and Abby now need to get Abraham Lincoln engaged again while also getting their classmates to realize how much history matters. This may not be easy. When Lincoln hears about a school fundraiser, a pro wrestling match scheduled for that evening, he’d much rather quit the past and attend the big event. He just happens to be in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame! At the same time, Doc has time travelled back to election day with the gym teacher, Mr. Biddle, who earlier dressed as Honest Abe (a term he despised) for a special surprise presentation at school. His goal: get the real Lincoln concerned enough to step back into his rightful place and accept the presidency. I especially liked this part because of all the facts about Lincoln that Sheinkin shares and how the two Abes get up to all sorts of shenanigans along with Abby and Doc. There’s so much humor infused into this history lesson that readers will not even realize how much fun they’re having learning about a time when our country was so “bitterly divided, mainly over the issue of slavery.” Kids will breeze through the eighteen chapters and will be delighted to learn there are more books available already in this pleasing series. The cartoon-like illustrations by Swaab add to the silliness as well as offer an easy way into absorbing history for the more reluctant readers. Reviewed by Ronna Mandel Click here for Reading Guide for Teachers Start reading the story here. Read more about Abraham Lincoln in Abraham Lincoln’s Dueling Words. Step Back in Time to the Fantasy World That is Willa of the Wood 1800s, Ages 8-12, Children's Book Reviews, Fantasy & Magic, Historical Fiction, MG Fiction, Middle Grade Fiction, Mysteries & Detective Stories, United States, United States WILLA OF THE WOOD Written by Robert Beatty (Disney-Hyperion Books; $16.99, Ages 8-12) In Willa of the Wood, a middle-grade fantasy novel, twelve-year-old Willa is one of the last woodwitches in her Faeran clan. Willa lives with her mamaw, who teaches her how to communicate with plants and animals. Their kind are called “the old ones” by the Cherokee and “night-spirits” by the white-skinned homesteaders. Though Willa’s streaked and spotted skin blends into natural surroundings, she is as real as any other creature. The year is1900 and, in the Great Smoky Mountains, Willa’s world is changing. The day-folk build unnatural dwellings from the carcasses of murdered trees and hunt the forest’s animals with their killing-sticks. The Faeran dwindle under the strict rule of their deified leader, the padaran. He demands that the young ones steal from the day-folk. Willa is the clan’s best thief because those who don’t return to Dead Hollow with a full satchel are denied food or physically punished. The padaran convinces them, “There is no I, only we.” When Willa’s discoveries make her question the padaran’s decisions, she must choose between subservience to her clan’s new ways or accept the consequences of defiance. The book’s twists will keep you guessing! Beatty pulls you into this captivating world with depth of setting and by showing us Willa’s many facets. Because of the scenes involving death, the padaran’s cruelty, and other complex issues, younger children may benefit from reading this book with an adult. Rich in story and detail, Willa of the Wood satisfies with its conclusion and promises to make readers eager for the next installment. Willa of the Wood is the first book in a new series by Robert Beatty, known for his #1 New York Times best-selling Serafina series. Reviewed by Christine Van Zandt Writer, editor, and owner of Write for Success www.Write-for-Success.com @WFSediting, Christine@Write-for-Success.com Where’s Your Hat, Abe Lincoln? by Misti Kenison 1800s, Abraham Lincoln, Ages 3-5, American History - Civil War, American Presidents, Board Book Series, Children's Book Reviews, Famous American Women, Historical, History, Holidays & Celebrations, Holidays & Festivals - Presidents' Day, Juvenile Nonfiction, Juvenile Nonfiction - Biography/Autobiography, People & Places, U.S. History, U.S. Presidents, United States, United States, Young Historians CELEBRATING PRESIDENT’S DAY WITH A NEW BOOK ABOUT OUR 16TH PRESIDENT, Where’s Your Hat, Abe Lincoln? Written and illustrated by Misti Kenison (Jabberwocky Kids; $9.99, Ages 3-5) It’s never too early to introduce children to one of America’s greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln. In this colorful, 28 page board book, part of the Young Historians series, Abe cannot find his signature tall stovepipe top hat. Rather than presenting the board book with lift-the-flap pages to reveal where the top hat might be, Kenison’s chosen to use the book as a way to also show youngsters what Lincoln’s contemporaries were doing during the time period of 1845-1881. Kids will get a glimpse of Frederick Douglass writing a book, Clara Barton aiding Union soldiers, as well as Thaddeus Stevens, Harriet Tubman, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, Sojourner Truth and William Seward. After Abe’s search has come to a successful conclusion, he travels to Pennsylvania to give his Gettysburg Address only to be greeted by all the other famous people who have filled the book. Parents, caregivers and teachers will appreciate the back matter timeline and brief descriptions of all the individuals included in Where’s Your Hat, Abe Lincoln? and can use the book as a way to share Lincoln’s most important first line from the Gettysburg Address that ends with “… and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” Pair this with Kenison’s Young Historians board book, Cheer Up, Ben Franklin! for another great addition to your home library. Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass 1800s, African American Interest, African Americans' fight for equality, Ages 4-8, Black History Month, Children's Book Reviews, Civil Rights, Emotions & Feelings, Famous African-American Men, Famous American Women - 19th Century Women, Historical, History, Justice & Equality, Juvenile Nonfiction, People & Places, Perseverance, Racism & Prejudice, The 19th Amendment - Women's Right to Vote, U.S.A., United States, Voting Rights for Women, Women's History, Women's History Month, Women's Rights Movement TWO FRIENDS: SUSAN B. ANTHONY AND FREDERICK DOUGLASS Written by Dean Robbins, Illustrated by Sean Qualls & Selina Alko (Orchard Books/Scholastic; $17.99, Ages 4-8) Two Friends is an excellent and inspiring new picture book about the friendship between Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. It’s told in such an immediate way that the reader is drawn right into the lives of these two legendary figures as they have tea together. Susan’s life is summed up best by the sentence, “And Susan had many things to do.” She really did. Author Dean Robbins looks back on Susan’s childhood noting that she did not get the education she wanted or deserved. This enables illustrators Qualls and Alko to portray Susan B. Anthony’s life in gorgeous and yet deceptively simple illustrations that show childhood pictures of Susan’s life at home that they’ve imagined her drawing. Susan’s journey to get the vote and to fight for equality got some mixed reactions by her peers, but it never stopped her. Two Friends by Dean Robbins, Illustrations © 2016 by Sean Qualls and Selina Alko, used with permission from Orchard Books/Scholastic. Having taken us into Susan’s life, the illustrations return the reader back to these two friends talking over tea. Frederick Douglass tells Susan B. Anthony his exciting news about his newspaper. These magical words float across the page, “We are all brethren. Right is of no gender… of no color… Truth is of no color…” Frederick’s life is told as simply and as truthfully as Susan’s. Born a slave, he dreamed of learning to read and write. Qualls and Alko portray Frederick Douglass with a look of determination on his face as he reads a book. Like Susan, he wonders why some people have rights and others don’t. The illustrations clearly tell us that he has beautiful dreams of having something more. “The right to live free. The right to vote,” is what he is aiming for, something both Douglass and Anthony have in common. He was met with the same fate as Susan. Some of his peers liked what he had to say, but others didn’t. Frederick is shown standing proud while delivering a speech. The two friends have promised to assist each other in gaining the rights they deserve. One illustration that just may be my favorite depicts Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony in a circle of support, surrounded by so many loving friends of all colors. In another, as seen above, a charming blue and white tea set remains visible on the table between them as they discuss their plans. Two candles on the table glow, symbolizing each of their luminary presences to readers. So many things they both have to do, but friendship and tea comes first! My mother loves children’s books and as I showed her this one she said, “That’s the most beautiful children’s book I have ever seen. It’s my favorite one now.” High praise from someone who is a writer herself, and has very high standards! It is stunningly perfect in text and illustrations. I love the bit of peach that shines though Frederick’s hair and suit. Equally pleasing is the same peach in Susan’s cheeks and dress. Even both their skin tones have a bit of that lovely color that seems to join them together visually as united in their causes. Two Friends is simple enough for a small child to understand, and a wonderful conversation prompter about the important contributions of both these great people. I can think of no better picture book published recently that would be more important to add to your child’s library. Highly recommended! Reviewed by Hilary Taber Frederick’s Journey and an Interview with London Ladd 1800s, African American Interest, African Americans' fight for equality, Ages 6-8, American History - Civil War, Biography, Black History Month, Children's Book Reviews, Education & Reference, Famous African-American Men, Famous Americans, Famous Historical Figures, History, Illustrator interview, Justice & Equality, Juvenile Nonfiction, Juvenile Nonfiction - Biography/Autobiography, Multicultural stories, Racism & Prejudice, Series Books, Slavery & The Emancipation Proclamation, U.S. History, United States FREDERICK’S JOURNEY: THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS An Interview With Illustrator London Ladd Written by Doreen Rappaport Illustrated by London Ladd (Disney/Jump at the Sun; $17.99, Ages 6-8) What’s the first thing I noticed when picking up my review copy of Frederick’s Journey: The Life of Frederick Douglass? The piercing eyes of Douglass in illustrator London Ladd’s cover portrait and the absence of a title on the front. Then, gripped by the story, I devoured the book, not once, but twice in my initial read throughs of this expertly crafted picture book. Part of the Big Words series, Frederick’s Journey effortlessly pairs Rappaport’s thoughtful biography of this former slave turned author, abolitionist and ultimately free man with Douglass’ actual words. “Douglass had traveled far – from slave to free man, from illiterate to educated, from powerless to powerful. It had been a difficult journey.” The book ends with this quote from Douglass, “What is possible for me is possible for you.” As a picture book, Frederick’s Journey is brought to life by Ladd’s inspiring artwork. I’ve interviewed this talented illustrator once before, but felt compelled to reach out again, this time for his insight on creating the illustrations and what working on the book meant to him. An Interview with London Ladd GRWR: Please tell us how you came to be connected with this project? London Ladd: The publisher contacted my agent at Painted Words, Lori Nowicki, to see if I would be interested. I read the title of the manuscript [and] the answer was a definite yes. Once I read the through the manuscript I was so moved by it, so eager to get started. GRWR: How do you decide what medium you’ll use for each book you illustrate and what did you choose for Frederick’s Journey and why? LADD: For my illustration career I’ve primarily use acrylic with minor touched of pastels and colored pencils on illustration board if necessary. People says acrylics are challenging to use, but I love its flexibility because you can make it look like watercolor with layered thin washes or heavy opaque application like oils. It’s something I’ve always been comfortable using and quick drying is excellent for fast approaching deadlines. GRWR: You mention in the back matter Illustrator’s Note how deep you dove into the research to really understand your subject including actually posing yourself in front of a mirror and reciting lines. Was there any particular text from Rappaport or quote from Douglass that you found most inspiring for this story’s artwork? LADD: Rappaport’s text was so excellent with the way she gracefully combined her text with Douglass’ own quotes. But his autobiography was so powerful because you’re getting a first hand account in all its detail of his experience as a slave during the 19th century. Each page was filled with so much raw, honest, brutal, heart breaking material. So many vivid images would pop into my head from sadness, anger. GRWR: Was there one particular image in the book that most resonated for you? LADD: I think the first three images [see below] as a whole really resonate for me deeply due to the range of emotions and sounds I hear from the heart wrenching scream of Frederick’s mother as he’s being taken from her, the peacefulness of the river when he’s fishing with his grandmother, and his low weeping as he suddenly realizes his grandmother is gone and now his new life begins in the institution of slavery. Interior artwork from Frederick’s Journey: The Life of Frederick Douglass by Doreen Rappaport with illustrations by London Ladd, Disney/Jump at the Sun ©2015. GRWR: You travelled to a lot of places in Douglass’s history, which place made the biggest impression on you? LADD: Wow it’s so hard to pick one. Visiting his home in Anacostia was powerful. But I’ll have to go with a trip to Rochester in 2006. During my last semester in college I enrolled in an African American religious history course and the final was this amazing project where you had to travel to historical locations involved in the Underground Railroad in and around the Central New York area like Harriet Tubman’s grave and church in Auburn, NY. Well it happens that Douglass’ grave at Mount Hope Cemetery (Susan B. Anthony is buried there, too) in Rochester NY was on the list. The cemetery is huge and his grave is by the front street nearby so vehicles drive by constantly so it can be a little noisy. When walking to his grave it was so quiet with only a slight wind blowing. Being at his gravesite was moving. I just stood there silently for 20 minutes with many emotions going through my mind. After visiting his grave there was this incredible interactive Douglass exhibit at a local nearby museum and I’ll never forget it. So much on display like his North Star press, part of a house with hidden area for slaves, a double-sided mirror that when you dim the lights Douglass’ face appeared on the other side, an exhibit where you lay in a really small area like slave did during the middle passage (that had a strong impact on me) and so much more. Ten years later and it’s still one of my favorite museum exhibits. GRWR: Not many illustrators get a front cover portrait with no title as an assignment. That’s a huge honor and your cover is outstanding. Can you tell us more about how that decision was made? LADD: Thank you so much. That’s what makes the Big Words series so unique from other book series because each biography has this beautiful portrait of a well known person with the title on the back. That’s why I worked so hard on trying to not only capture Douglass’ likeness, but his essence. GRWR: In a previous interview here you said “The human spirit interests me. I love stories of a person or people achieving through difficult circumstances by enduring, surviving and overcoming.” Douglass clearly exemplified that spirit. Who else, either living or deceased would you like to portray next in your artwork or in a story of your own creation? LADD: Ernest Shackleton! I would love to illustrate Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance. An absolutely amazing story of when, in the early 20th century, he and his crew were stranded near Antarctica for nearly two years and everyone survived. It’s a testament to his tremendous leadership during the whole ordeal. This Shackleton quote sums up my attitude towards any challenges I face. “Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.” GRWR: It’s said art is a universal language. What is it about making art and teaching it as well that speaks to you? LADD: I think to be able to share with other people is something very important to me. I wouldn’t be here without the help of other people so it’s always been my goal to pay it forward when possible. GRWR: Can you share with us anything else about your experience working on Frederick’s Journey: The Life of Frederick Douglass? LADD: I truly loved working on this book and I’m so thankful to have been part of such a special project. Hopefully young people will learn, enjoy and appreciate the life of Frederick Douglass. A huge thank you to London Ladd for this candid and informative interview. Click here to download a teacher’s guide. Interview by Ronna Mandel	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2146
__label__wiki	0.796676	0.796676	Bobbi Kristina Brown Health Update: Brown Family Claims She Is ‘Awake’ & Off Life Support; Houston Family Disputes Claims By Isaiah Narciso ( [email protected] ) Apr 20, 2015 02:37 PM EDT Comment Bobbi Kristina Brown is the only daughter of the famed Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown. Relatives of Bobbi Kristina Brown have claimed that she is now "awake" from her comatose position. The Houston family has disputed that claim. According to Maria Puente of USA Today, her father, Bobby Brown, made the claims during a Saturday night concert in Texas. He has largely stayed by her bedside after she slipped into a coma from an accident back in January at her home in Georgia. "Bobbi is awake," 46-year-old Brown said. "She's watching me." However, another Brown family source told Maria Mercedes Lara of People that she hasn't woken up yet. "As far as I know, there's been no change," the source said. "We're still hoping and praying that God will perform a miracle. We are leaving it in God's hands." Puente reported that Tina Brown, the sister of Bobby, declared on her Facebook page that her 22-year-old niece "woke up" and is "going to be OK." However, Puente noted that her post has since been deleted. "So many messages, sorry [I] can't answer them all right now, but I will get to them later," Tina wrote. "Just allow me this time with my family. Yes, she woke up and is no longer on life support! God is good!" Tina also thanked supporters for their prayers, adding that Bobbi Kristina's recovery is "still a process, but she is going to be OK." According to Puente, Tina's friend, Keliah Fell, also showed the post on Facebook, urging for more prayers. "Please don't stop praying for Bobbi Kris even though she is off life support and she has [waked] up," Fell wrote. "We are decreeing life in her body and healing and we want to pray that God restore her body and everywhere that she hurts, and we want God to mend her broken heart and make her whole all over again." However, sources from the Houston family told TMZ that they dispute the claims made by the Brown family surrounding the condition of Bobbi Kristina. They wondered where the Brown family received the information that the daughter of the late Whitney Houston has been taken off of life support. "She's in the exact same condition she was in when she went into the facility," a Houston family source said. The Houston family indicated to TMZ that there has been "minimal" reaction, which mostly centered on an occasional eye blink from Bobbi Kristina. They added that she was still on a ventilator. According to USA Today, Bobbi Kristina has remained comatose since she was found unresponsive in a bathtub at her Georgia home on Jan. 31. She has been moved to a rehabilitation facility last month after spending weeks at an Atlanta hospital. "Bobbi was placed in a medically induced coma when she was first hospitalized," Lara wrote. "Attempts to lift the coma resulted in violent seizures." Tags : Bobbi Kristina Brown, status Bobbi Kristina Brown, Bobbi Kristina Brown medical coma, Bobbi Kristina Brown recovery, Bobbi Kristina Brown health update, Bobby Brown, Houston family, Whitney Houston's daughter, Whitney Houston, Bobby Brown's family, Georgia, Atlanta, life support Bobbi Kristina Brown, Bobbi Kristina Brown accident, Bobbi Kristina Brown coma	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2147
__label__wiki	0.746629	0.746629	You are here: Home › ISIS Security and Identity: Between Fantasy and Reality By Benjamin Joyeux, Esther Benbassa, Olivier Roy France’s long and troubled relationship with Islam, and its connexion to a sense of insecurity, is unpacked by Olivier Roy and Esther Benbassa, who also explore the current role of religion in politics in general. ENFRPL New Approaches to Fear: A Progressive Response to Islamic State By Richard McNeil-Willson Is our response to the threat of Islamic State merely aiding their rise by unwittingly contributing to their strategy? Turkish Policy in Syria: What’s at stake for Europe? By Jean-Pierre Filiu Turkey’s crucial position in relation to IS and Syria requires Europe to improve its policy towards the country. “We Cannot Support Violence of Any Kind” – The Challenge of Doing Politics in the Midst of Conflict By Natalie Bennett The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), a coalition of Left-wing, Kurdish and progressive parties, was founded in in 2012 in order to help smaller parties amplify their voices and gain access to the Turkish Parliament, where the electoral system stacks the odds strongly against them. In both the 2014 and subsequently recalled 2015 parliamentary elections, the party succeeded in winning over 10% of the vote, the necessary threshold for entering Parliament. The Paris Terrorist Attacks: A Certain Ideal of Political Communication By John Pitseys “France is at war,” declared the French President, François Hollande, in front of the Congress of the French Parliament on 16th November 2015. He was using the same words as Le Monde on 14th November and Manuel Valls the same evening on TF1 television news. The Prime Minister then said that Islamic State (IS) would lose the struggle, but he admitted that it was only just beginning. “Mourning becomes the law” By Judith Butler After the Paris attacks on 13th November 2015, instead of selectively grieving within a national frame and restricting liberties, what we need is transversal grief, time to think and a serious monitoring of the discourse on liberty. That will prevent dangerous classifications and dichotomies as well as impulsive actions and belligerent acts. Supporting self-protection – Not ‘if’ but ‘how’ By Marlies Glasius The numbers of deaths in Syria and Iraq are deeply disturbing. But the numbers create the false impression that civilians are merely victims of violent conflict, passively waiting to be overwhelmed by violence or exhaustion. The Middle East’s New Winners and Losers By Joschka Fischer “War,” said the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus, is the “father of all things.” In view of the bloody – indeed barbaric – events in the Middle East (and in Iraq and Syria in particular), one might be tempted to agree, even though such ideas no longer seem to have a place in the postmodern worldview of today’s Europe. DEENESFRPT Revising Green Values – For A More Effective Foreign Policy By Tamás Meszerics Medication and water bottles have numerous advantages in a crisis situation, but it’s quite sure that they cannot be used to stop ISIS. The greatest dilemmas of European Greens are rooted in a conflict of values, as well as in the difficulty of reconciling theory and practice. To overcome them, Greens need to work on a political solution. ENHUPL Wars Will Never End Wars – Thoughts on the Kurds’ Fight Against ISIS By Özgecan Kara The Kurds have conducted a remarkable democratic experiment in the north of Syria: Their “Canton-based Democratic Autonomy” is a pursuit of freedom, justice, dignity and democracy led by principles of equality and environmental sustainability. Nevertheless, protecting this area with weapons and the blood of martyrs shouldn’t be applauded. Austerity Borders Capitalism Cities Climate Change Commons COP21 Crisis Debt Democracy Disintegration Ecology Economic Crisis Economics Elections Energy European Union Eurozone Far-Right Globalisation Green Parties Green Transition Human Rights Inequality Integration Interviews Mobilisation Nationalism NATO Neoliberalism Open Future Poland Political Ecology Populism Privatisation Refugees Renewables Schengen Security Social Movements Sovereignty Sustainability Technology The Future of Work Transparency	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2155
__label__cc	0.597372	0.402628	Mark Catton, CEO, wins Finance Monthly Game Changer Award Congratulations to our CEO, Mark Catton, who has won the Finance Monthly Game Changer Award! Mark Catton is the former head of RBS’s UK Corporate Bank. In his first year in post, Mark has secured a second tranche of funding from the British Business Bank ENABLE fund. This £51million, on top of an initial £51million asset finance facility granted in 2016, will allow Henry Howard Finance to extend its leasing and asset finance offering to a larger portfolio of UK businesses. Here, we chat to Mark about his whirlwind year at HHF and about the future of SME finance in the UK. Congratulations Mark – how does it feel to win this award so soon after taking the helm at HHF? It’s not something I’d ever set out to do but it’s nice to get the award and it’s very flattering. It reflects really well on the team here and what we’re trying to build. 2018 was a very busy year for you and the business. What have been your highlights so far? Our highlight has to be the quality of the team and the number of fantastic people we’ve been able to attract to the business. The great thing about our new recruits is that they all like our story and want to be part of it. At board level, we have a new chief operating officer in former GE capital executive Anne Williams, and we have also recently welcomed former Opel Vauxhall Finance executive Mark Tweed to the team as our chief financial officer. We have also taken on additional key staff in Manchester, the Midlands and the South West to extend our relationship manager reach around the UK and have developed our marketing, customer engagement, HR, compliance and customer service teams during the year. A number of things went well for us last year. We exceeded our plans for the year and set some new highs for our loan origination, as well as the number of SMEs we’ve supported with finance. HHF works in a very competitive market and many SMEs are still looking to high street lenders for finance. How does HHF stand out from the crowd? It’s pretty straightforward really. It’s about a passion for great service. Our teams build personal relationships with our customers and do their best to support their finance needs. If you look at our customer case studies, they all say how well supported they feel by their account manager. The vast majority of the deals we finance for our customers are done on our own balance sheet, so we make quick decisions and can be very flexible, but we also have excellent relationships with our panel of funders, so we can deliver a range of solutions. Vendor finance is a key part of business for HHF – how is HHF helping SMEs with leasing agreements, and again, what makes HHF different in this market? We’ve not particularly shouted about it but we’re one of the leading Vendor finance businesses in the UK. We support several hundred Vendors across all sectors and equipment types – for example, we finance complex IT programmes, telecoms solutions, security equipment, shopfitting, leisure equipment, to a range of vending solutions. We work with some of the biggest Vendors in the market and offer a technology-led and service-led model. Our HowApp technology offers Vendors what they need to give their SME customers the service they want – and we’re currently investing significant sums into our HowApp platform to ensure it is at the leading edge in this market. We’re working in partnership with a number of our Vendor customers to ensure we get that right, which has been a great asset in the development of the platform. Importantly though, alongside our use of technology in this market, we also try to deliver a great personal service – all our Vendors have dedicated relationship teams and that is key to the success we’re having. What can we expect to see next from HHF in 2019? 2018 was a great year, and I’m confident that 2019 will be too. Our plans are to keep growing and investing – and supporting more SMEs. To contact Henry Howard Finance please call 01633 415222, or visit www.henryhowardfinance.co.uk	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2161
__label__wiki	0.878644	0.878644	ATP Rankings: Novak Djokovic extends lead at the top, Fabio Fognini jumps to 12th World number two Nadal dropped ranking points after his title defence ended with a shock semi-final loss to eventual champion Fabio Fognini. tennis Updated: Apr 22, 2019 20:53 IST Serbia's Novak Djokovic.(AP) Novak Djokovic stretched his lead over Rafael Nadal at the top of the ATP rankings on Monday, after the Spaniard’s failed bid to win a 12th Monte Carlo Masters title. Djokovic, winner of the last three Grand Slam tournaments, is now over 3,000 points clear of old rival Nadal despite a quarter-final defeat by Daniil Medvedev in the Principality last week. The 31-year-old Italian reached a career-high ranking of 12th after claiming his maiden Masters trophy with a straight-sets win over unheralded Serbian Dusan Lajovic in Sunday’s final. Fognini jumped six spots to close on the top 10, while Lajovic climbed 24 places to 24th. Daniil Medvedev more from tennis	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2168
__label__wiki	0.899399	0.899399	Home>Lists> Future's "Dirty Sprite 2": The Drug Count Future's "Dirty Sprite 2": The Drug Count We tally up the drug-referencing lyrics on Future's new album. Future's DS2 album just dropped, and you probably spent all weekend taking in the rap/R&B hybrid in. If you paid attention, in any capacity, you probably noticed the drug references peppered in just about each and every song. Of course, lean is what gave the album its title, but there is tons of coke, molly, weed, and prescription pills in these tracks. Keep in mind, if the word was repeated multiple times as part of a hook or a refrain, we only counted it once. OG Maco recently tweeted that this practice ruins lives, and his statements have been the subject to much debate. Some think Future is making these substances sound cool, and thus destroying lives by promoting drug use, and others believe he's just telling the story of a seedy ATLien lifestyle. Either way, we've broken down the DS2 drug references for you. Make of them what you will. Lean: 17 references Well you can't call a record Dirty Sprite without a fair share of lean references, now can you? The opening track is the most lean-filled cut on the record, with a hook that says, "I just took a piss and I seen codeine coming out / We got purple Activis, I thought it was a drought." For those who may not know, Activis is a leading brand in the promethazine codeine cough syrup that Future loves to make his dirty Sprites with. "Slave Master" was another interesting track for the lean references, where Future ends the song by saying, "Long live A$AP Yams, I'm on that codeine right now." Yams struggled with a codeine addiction, and ended up dying from drug overdose, although it wasn't linked directly to lean. At any rate, it seems like Future might have missed the mark here to leave a positive message on the matter, and instead uses lean as a way of paying tribute to Yams. Coke: 9 references There's probably a lot more references to cocaine on this album. At least a couple of the times he talks about moving bricks or chickens, Future is probably talking about the speedy, white drug. But the more literal references are kept to nine, coming mostly from "Blow a Bag" and "Colossal." While "Blow a Bag" is pretty self-explanatory, "Colossal" sees Future talk about cooking coke into crack, and detailing some of the inner-workings of his trap business. "I seen that coco turn bad when it get in the pot," Future rhymes just after saying he's about to open a meth lab. Prescription Drugs: 9 references On "Lil One," Future brags about having a "pound of fuckin' Percocets," which would end up being something like thousands of pills. That's absolutely insane! He's also rapping about Xanax bars on multiple tracks (obviously, you'll find a few on the low-key "The Percocet & Stripper Joint," plus "I Thought It Was A Drought," "Groupies," etc.) and references pills in enough spots where we couldn't exactly tell if he was talking about prescription drugs or molly, which brings us to our next drug... Molly: 8 references For the sake of counting, anytime ecstasy was referred to, we put a tally under molly. The most molly references on any track was "Groupies," with just two. Other than that track, the amphetamine pops up sparsely on six other cuts, including "Rotation," where Future boasts to "be on them Xans and that Molly," which any doctor would tell you is a sure-fire chance at a heart attack. Don't try this at home, kids. Weed: 6 references Future definitely puts Mary Jane in the back seat in favor of harder drugs, and with only six references, weed is the least-mentioned drug out of the ones we surveyed. On "I Serve the Base," Future says he needs a detox because he's "full of so much chronic." But weed probably isn't the reason you'd need a detox if you're claiming to be "baptized inside purple Activis" on the same track. The weed references are kept to a minimal, but other examples include "Groupies," where he's "Smokin' oh-la-la-la like a Fugee," and on "Stick Talk," the rob-and-steal anthem where he says he'll "smoke a zip." Dope: 12 references Chickens, Birds, Popeyes: 4 references Meth: 1 reference Heroin: 1 reference Between the slang and the times where we couldn't be too sure what drug Future was referencing, there are a ton more drug drops on DS2. A couple notable ones are when he mentions meth on "Colossal" and heroin on "Groupies." Those are two of the more destructive drugs out there. There are also 12 mentions of dope, and a few mentions of chicken (or Popeyes or birds). Dope makes an appearance in about half the tracks, while the birds are a little more sparse. Future is also constantly talking about selling drugs, which could potentially be used against Future if he ever gets in a sticky legal situation. Whether or not he's destroying lives with these lyrics, like OG Maco said, is sort of up to debate; but what about his own life? Still, we can't front that we didn't enjoy the drug-riddled DS2. Lists News Features drugs Infographics dirty sprite 2 Future Lyrics references classic drug references Chris Brown Barred From Leaving Philippines, Breezy Responds Peter Rosenberg Calls Out Charlamagne Tha God LISTS Future's "Dirty Sprite 2": The Drug Count	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2178
__label__wiki	0.823481	0.823481	Bush & Kanye West: Five Lower Points In His Presidency, None Of Which Involve WMDs, Torture Or Decimating the Middle Class That belt: another low point Richard Connelly \| November 4, 2010 \| 10:08am As you've likely heard, George W. Bush has a new book out, one that promises to be as good as his campaign bio A Charge to Keep Decision Points proves once and for all that W is not to blame for anything and even if he did some things that didn't work out like they should, it was still for the best. He also says hearing Kanye West say in the wake of Katrina that the President hated black people was one of the lowest points of his White House years, which is ridiculous when you consider all the other low points. Like these, as shown in other (possible) excerpts from the memoir: 5. The Pretzel Thing "I came to realize that America was no longer a country where a person could be free to eat a pretzel without fear of choking to death. I knew God had put me in the Oval Office to do something about that, but then I realized God had also made me choke on the pretzel. Religion is hard, I decided." 4. Having Rascal Flatts play the White House "I had hoped they would play some deep album cuts like 'The Day Before You,' but they basically stuck to their hits. Between-songs banter also failed to live up to the estimates my advisers had given me before booking them." 3.Allowing That Goddamn Yellow Rug in the Oval Office "Yes, Laura wanted it badly. But I ended up wasting valuable time having to relate to every visitor how it conveyed optimism and hope and fuck-all else. This was time I could have spent responding to Katrina." (Note: This passage was ultimately edited from the memoir, for space reasons.) 2. BarneyCam VII "As difficult as it may be to admit, the critics might have been right: By 2008, we had explored all the cinematic possibilities in this genre. Plus, this one didn't have any WMD jokes, which at the White House Correspondents Dinner." 1. Putting Late Registration on my iPod "It was Cheney's idea. I found the rhymes forced and the beats lame. I told both Cheney and Rumsfeld that Tupac was the way to go, but their analysis and reasoning seemed convincing at the time."	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2179
__label__cc	0.581934	0.418066	Sexual harassment: the employer's duties to complainant and accused Allegations of sexual harassment are at the forefront of many people's minds following accusations and revelations involving celebrities, often referring to historical allegations dating back many years. Jane Amphlett, Partner Email icon Email Jane Employers can and should take steps to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace such as training staff on what constitutes sexual harassment, having anti-harassment and equal opportunity policies and putting in place appropriate procedures for those in 'high risk' roles. They must act appropriately if sexual harassment complaints arise. In recent weeks the Equality and Human Rights Commission has vowed to take legal action against leading organisations which fail to adequately investigate, identify and address sexual harassment claims. Acas has updated its guidance for employers on how to identify and support people who face sexual harassment at work, click here. As well as encouraging employers to have sexual harassment policies in place to ensure any incidents are quickly resolved, it explains what action to take when historical allegations are reported. Faced with such allegations, an employer must ensure it is sensitive and fair to the worker who has made the complaint, anybody who has witnessed it and anybody who is being accused of sexual harassment. Failure to respond appropriately could lead to any such employee claiming constructive dismissal and/or discrimination. Each case is fact sensitive and legal advice should be sought regarding appropriate steps but by way of general guidance, an employer should: take action when it receives a complaint but without making any kneejerk decisions or assumptions. For example, it should carefully consider whether suspension is appropriate in the circumstances act promptly. The employer should not unduly delay the process, during what is likely to be a highly stressful time for all those involved ensure that its own policies, including grievance, disciplinary and sexual harassment policies, are followed undertake a thorough investigation in relation to the allegations, particularly when investigating historical allegations, as it can be difficult to establish the facts and/or find witnesses to the alleged behaviour give neither the alleged complainant nor the accused priority but be mindful the two competing interests. Whilst an employer should always ensure appropriate safeguarding measures are put in place for the complainant, it should continue to be mindful of the duties it has to the accused. Want to hear more from us? Subscribe to e-alerts Jane Amphlett , Partner Link arrow icon Employment Law	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2180
__label__wiki	0.547903	0.547903	Admissions: cutting excess bed days Avoiding hospital admissions and reducing stays are ongoing priorities for primary care and acute trusts. In Sheffield, where the average cost of a medical admission for a person over 65 is£2,465, a new project is already showing results. Work led by South East Sheffield primary care trust with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals foundation trust, on behalf of the city's four PCTs, is saving substantial sums by reducing the number of admissions, excess bed days and, consequently, medical outliers - medical patients on non-acute wards. Since September 2005, Sheffield PCTs have saved£2.4m by reducing non-elective admissions by 1,200 - 2.1 per cent. Excess bed days were down by 6 per cent in the last quarter of 2005-06, a saving of£1m, expected to rise to£4.1m in 2006-07. The project has centred on partnership-working with the acute trust, making clear the financial incentives for all and linking in to the patient pathway. Mutual trust and the low-key education of acute clinical staff by senior community matrons around treatment packages led the way for community nurses to work inside the hospital's bed bureau. Their role is to consider alternatives to admission following calls from GPs. Emergency care practitioners respond to paramedics called to nursing homes to help assess whether community treatment is appropriate. That includes nurse specialists caring for patients with cardiovascular and pulmonary disease, with consultants providing support and advice over the phone. The problem of excess bed days is being tackled by offering community services. Scrutiny of potential admissions and long-stay patients who could benefit from community treatment has resulted in a fall in medical outliers from 95 at this time last year to 10 in May this year. Stroke unit shutting down early after losing staff A Kent stroke unit is to close seven months earlier than planned, as the loss of staff is putting patient safety at risk. The chief executive for what will be one of the largest NHS trusts in the north of England has been appointed from a shortlist of three interviewees, HSJ has learned.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2182
__label__cc	0.562374	0.437626	How A Bra Fitting Reintroduced Me To My Boobs And Made Me A New Friend (PHOTOS) ByChristina Anderson 02/04/2013 12:16pm EST \| Updated February 6, 2013 Boobs and bras are hot topics here at HuffPost Style. Whether we are discussing the latest sideboob on the red carpet (we're looking at you, Michelle Dockery), discussing how to best dress our own bosoms or debating how often to wash bras, it's safe to say that, much like a teenage sleepover, we are still talking about breasts. After much debate on how to dress a busty figure (we rejoice in a wrap dress), how to best play up a small bosom and whether our current bras were, in fact, properly sized, we decided to take our questions to an expert. Kim Caldwell, marketing director at Linda's Bra Salon was more than happy to invite us to one of the famed New York City stores for some "braducation." We arrived early in the day at the Murray Hill location of Linda's. After a few moments of admiring the new collection of swimwear, Kim asked us if we'd like to see the back room. Umm, duh. Of course we wanted to see the inner workings of one of the most famous bra salons in New York City. We were ushered into the back room, which was in fact a small warehouse, with bras of all shapes, sizes and colors stacked almost to the ceiling. Kim walked us through the range of sizes, which blows the average department store selection out of the water. Linda's carries bras up to a size 50N, whereas most mass retailers only carry up to a 38D. Once we picked our jaws off the floor, Kim declared that it was time for the fitting. Yes, as you can imagine, that means it was time to take our clothes off. All in the name of journalism, ladies. Kim followed me into the fitting room where I told her that I was a 34B, and had been since my teens. That's correct: I was under the assumption that my boobs were the same size -- through weight gain, weight loss, two pregnancies and breastfeeding -- that they had been when I was 15 years old. Kim looked incredulous. She told me that she could tell just from eyeballing me that I was not a 34B. She was right. Once I disrobed, Kim wrapped a measuring tape around my bust, right under my breasts. I asked her how she was going to measure my cup size (fearing that some serious manhandling was in my near future), but that was also something Kim knew from sight. She informed me that I'm actually a 30E. Apparently, I had committed a very common mistake and that, in fact, the majority of women are wearing the incorrect size bra. Kim said, "People invest in clothes and hair, but their underwear is last on the list of priorities, and it only gets worse as we get older. When you're 20, you want the cute jacket. Then you have kids and they become the priorities. It's not until your boobs are in your shoes that you take moves to find the right bras." There are three important factors to consider when purchasing a bra. The band is the numero uno, most important, thing. "All the support is in the band," Kim told us. Many women wear bras that are too big because they don't like the discomfort of a bra that sits flush on the skin, but the result of an ill-fitting band is that the bra moves around during the day and offers little to no support. Once you figure out your correct size, it's important to wear your bra on the last clip. Then, as it stretches out, you can move the clip in to compensate. Then it's time to figure out your cup size. Remember: Not all cups are equal. If you go down in the band size, you need to go up a cup size for a proper fit. As far as the straps are concerned, Kim had strong opinions, too. She laughed as we pulled our straps over our ears to show just how stretchy they were. She said, "Straps are just there to keep everything flush, not to hold them up." That said, you shouldn't be able to fit much more than a few fingers under the straps. Lastly, know how to put on a bra. Most women are guilty of "slapping on a bra," said Kim. "Even worse is the crush-and-flip, where women crush the cups by putting them on at their waists, destroy the elastic by swiveling them around our waists and then ruin the wire by flipping the cups." Kim said, "The proper method is straps first, breast tissue in and then hook it in the back." In fact, she recommends leaning over to properly place the breast tissue. Once I had the underwire flush against my skin and my breast tissue forward, I was ready for the big reveal. Upon seeing my new-and-improved bra (and my new-and-improved cleavage as a result) Kim exclaimed, "There they are!" Lastly, a word on how you wash and store your bras. Bras should be hand-washed every five to six wears in a basin with lingerie soap. Then should then be hung to dry (step away from the dryer, ladies!). And as far as storage goes, Kim told us, "Stack bras one on top of the other. Never fold bras up; you want to avoid crushing the cups." Click through to see our bra fitting at Linda's Bra Salon. Want more? Be sure to check out HuffPost Style on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest and Instagram at @HuffPostStyle. Do you have a style story idea or tip? Email us at stylesubmissions@huffingtonpost.com. (PR pitches sent to this address will be ignored.) fashion trendsBoobsbraStylebras Christina Anderson Editorial Director, Parents; The Huffington Post MORE IN Style & Beauty There Were Some Seriously Well-Dressed Couples At The ESPY Awards All The Craziest Looks From Paris Couture Fashion Week A completely essential daily guide to achieving the good life.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2184
__label__wiki	0.86761	0.86761	Jesse Damiani, Contributor CEO of Galatea, Series Editor of Best American Experimental Writing, Editor-at-Large of VRScout Childish Gambino and the Metamodern Ennui, Part II This is the second in a series of four essays examining how Childish Gambino's Because the Internet functions as part of a new avant-garde in contemporary art. Read the first one here. BY-NC-SA Luke Turner 2011 Oscillation is foregrounded as aesthetic in Because the Internet -- which has been one of the primary sources of criticism of the album. Glover shuffles through and among genres as if flicking through browser tabs. "Crawl," for example, jumps from trap anthem to R&B crooner to string interlude and back, and that's not even to speak of the jagged movements among the actual songs (compare the onslaught of "WORLDSTAR" with the jazzy, down-tempo, "Urn"). But Glover's oscillation extends beyond mere technique; he employs different personae in different songs (as well as shifting within the songs themselves) depending on his rhetorical goals: sometimes the lover ("Telegraph Ave," "3005"), sometimes the frustrated youth ("Sweatpants"), sometimes the jaded celeb ("The Party"), sometimes the mellow-high philosopher ("No Exit," "Flight of the Navigator"). This isn't the persona play we might see from Eminem or Styles P, where specific voices are used as outlets for distinct parts of the performers' personalities. Gambino doesn't forecast when shifts occur, and what results is a layering of simultaneous (and often contradictory) realities. The constant fluctuation forces us to read this collage as a composite persona -- a singular identity engaged in continuous code-switching, more cuttlefish than parrot -- existing as the summation of all the performed identities. The process of discovering and listening to music has become so dependent on cyberspace, that, no matter if he's "talking" to his lover, his boys, his fans, his ghosts, or himself, he knows he's ultimately talking to the Internet horde. And, because we know that Glover is deeply invested in social media #lifestylereporting, the album (in conversation with his use of persona in daily life) makes it impossible to pin down exactly who's saying what. Which of the voices here belongs to Donald Glover, which to Childish Gambino, which to The Boy (the accompanying script's protagonist)? To stratify it even further, which is @DonaldGlover -- Childish Gambino's Twitter self -- and which are simply imagined voices or characters? In crafting such a whirlpool, Gambino forces us to interrogate not just the artifice of persona -- that goes without saying -- but our need for it as a means of processing and engaging with the present world. In the series of music videos that accompany Because the Internet, Gambino doubles down on this philosophy, adopting visual personae that further texture the album. And, though the supplementary screenplay offers a sort of narrative anchor, it is important to note that these music videos don't overtly depict the script's plot. Take, for example, the video for "Sweatpants": This isn't the expressiveness of Community's Troy; instead, we see a dead-eyed, bed-headed Gambino trudging in circles around a diner. Each time he steps outside and checks his phone (thus "restarting" the cycle), he projects more of himself back onto what he sees, represented through the visual metaphor of seeing other restaurant patrons as clones of himself. At the three-quarter mark, he breaks the "fourth wall," communicating with and critiquing the song itself, remarking, "Fiskers don't make noise when they start up...just so you know," after an overexcited "vroom vroom" sound effect accompanies the mention of a Fisker (itself a charged image in relation to hip-hop decadence). In this way, he recircuits the flow of communication back toward himself (it's his song, after all) rather than the listeners. The vision of solipsism hits fever pitch when he attempts to cut through the literal and metaphoric noise by interjecting, "And I don't give a fuck about my family name" -- a presumable reference to his privileged upbringing in the face of the expectation that "authentic" rappers come from harsh circumstances -- followed in the video by a slow track out as he clenches his teeth in rage then softens to fear, then confusion, as if to show that, though he's the song's pilot, he's as lost as the rest of us. There's a subsequent fade-in of melancholy carnival music that segues into the repetition of "Don't be mad 'cause I'm doin' me better than you doin' you," a line that perfectly encapsulates what makes Because the Internet so timely and metamodern. This is precisely the kind of phrase much of contemporary pop music parades around as defiant individuation, when in actuality it serves to bolster a ballooning navel-gazing among Gen Y. He risks this repetition being read at face value, as if highlighting the very culture of solipsism that is the song's subject of critique. By casting himself as both propagator and receiver #feedbackloop, he owns up front the ways he is complicit in this system. So, to put this off as ironic commentary doesn't do justice to its ambition. There's a tacit call-to-arms here, an earnest hopefulness that, because this sort of isolation is self-generated, it is capable of remedy. In tacking "Urn" directly onto the end of the video -- breaking the album's actual order and altogether shifting the video's aural and visual registers -- he solidifies this stab at optimism, crooning, "Let me hold you in my arms, forever more / These cold nights, the park is ours." Dancers move in milky, slow-motion chiaroscuro, shafts of light cut through a tree's foliage, and Gambino leans at an impossible angle against some invisible force, his face a picture of wounded yearning. Donald Glover Eminem Persona Sweatpants Styles P	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2185
__label__wiki	0.963206	0.963206	America's Original March Madness is now in full swing and continues with the IHSA Class 3A & 4A Girls Basketball State Finals at Redbird Arena on the campus of Illinois State University in Normal on Friday and Saturday, March 1-2. Nathan Baliva and Rachel Galligan will call the Class 3A action, while Dave Bernhard and Patricia Babcock-McGraw will bring viewers all the Class 4A action. Piper Shaw and Kate Consatable will share the hosting and sideline duties throughout weekend. Fans at Redbird will also have a chance to meet renowned author Melissa Isaacson. Isaacson will be on hand Saturday, March 2 celebrating the 40th anniversary of her Niles West team winning the 1979 IHSA Girls Basketball State Championship. She will be chatting with fans on the concourse about her forthcoming book STATE: A Team, a Triumph, a Transformation which chronicles that title season, as well as her time covering the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls and the Chicago Cubs for the Chicago Tribune and ESPN. The Class 3A field features two returning teams with 2018 runner-up Nazareth and last year's third-place team Glenbard South both back in the field. Morton, who won state in 2015, 2016, and 2017, also returns after knocking off defending champ Richwoods in the Sectional. Meanwhile Sacred Heart-Griffin makes its first state final appearance in school history. Hononegah is first-time state final qualifier, while 1991 state champ Mother McAuley is back at state for the first time since 1997. MORTON POTTERS (31-3) NAZARETH ACADEMY ROADRUNNERS (31-3) The No. 3 Potters are back in the Final Four for the fifth time in seven years with three successive state titles (2015-2017) on their resume. Coach Bob Becker (477-149, 20 years) has Morton riding an eight-game win streak. Big contributors for the Potters include senior guard and Butler University signee Tenley Dowell (15.4 ppg, 5.7 rpg), junior guard Lindsey Dullard (11.6 ppg, 5.2 rpg, 4.5 apg) along with freshman forward Katie Krupa (8.6 ppg, 4.0 rpg). The Morton seniors are 22-1 in their postseason careers. Nazareth is back at Redbird Arena and hungry to improve on last season's runner-up finish. Coach Eddie Stritzel (76-20, three years) has seen the No. 4 Roadrunners put up an average postseason score of 64.6 points a game. Defensively, Nazareth has allowed only 22.8 points during its postseason run. Harvard bound senior guard Annie Stritzel (22.9 ppg, 6.4 rpg), junior guard Kaylen Evans (10.5 ppg, 2.9 rpg) and senior guard Jovanna Martinucci (6.7 ppg, 3.8 ppg, 4.9 apg) lead the way. SACRED HEART-GRIFFIN CYCLONES (29-6) GLENBARD SOUTH RAIDERS (26-7) Two single-digit postseason wins helped put Sacred Heart-Griffin into its first ever Final Four. The Cyclones, who received votes in the final AP poll of the season, have eight victories in a row behind coach Steve Klunick (121-45, six years). The Cyclones have a seven-win improvement from last season. Senior guard Payton Vorreyer (15.0 ppg, 6.6 rpg), sophomore guard Sophie Lowis (10.1 ppg, 5.0 apg) and senior center Victoria Ziegler (9.8 ppg, 5.9 rpg) are key to the Cyclones' success. Unranked Glenbard South was the third-place finisher last season and looks to play in the season's final game. A 10-game win streak follows the Raiders into the Final Four. Coach Morgan Eufrasio (97-27, four years) relies heavily on defense, allowing 26.2 points a game in the postseason. Senior forward Maggie Bair (16.7 ppg, 13.8 rpg), a Drake University signee who won the Country Financial Three-Point Showdown Queen of the Hill in 2017, stars alongside sophomore guard Lauren Cohen (8.9 ppg, 4.0 rpg) and junior guard Rocky LaPonte (4.7 ppg, 3.1 rpg). BENET ACADEMY REDWINGS (28-5) MOTHER MCAULEY MIGHTY MACS (33-2) Benet makes its return to the state finals after winning back-to-back 4A state titles in 2015 and 2016. Coach Joe Kilbride (151-20, five years) leads the No. 6 Redwings, who lost three of their games to out-of-state teams. A balanced lineup is lead by junior guard Kendall Holmes (11.0 ppg, 3.3 rpg), future Wisconsin Badger Brooke Schramek (Jr., F, 9.9 ppg, 3.5 rebounds) and senior center Ashley Konkle (7.1 ppg, 5.3 rpg). Benet rides a nine-game winning streak that includes a 19.2 average margin of victory in five postseason games. Mother McAuley finds itself back in the Final Four for the first time since a 1995 runner-up finish. Coach Ashley Luke Clanton (212-145, 12 years) has the No. 10 Mighty Macs on a 15-game win streak. McAuley does hold a 60-40 win over its semifinal opponent Benet from December 2. Watch for junior guard Jenna Badali (15.4 ppg, 3.9 rpg), senior guard/forward Grace Hynes (13.9 ppg, 7.0 rpg) and senior guard/forward Lauren Ramsey (9.3 ppg, 3.7 ppg). MAINE WEST WARRIORS (33-0) HONONEGAH INDIANS (32-4) No. 1 Maine West is making a return trip to the state finals after last season's third-place finish. Coach Kim deMarigny (94-5, three years) guides the Warriors, who last won a state title in 1988 and have six state trophies. Maine West's 33 wins in a row puts them at No. 18 all-time in state history. Look for senior forward Rachel Kent (14.2 ppg, 4.7 ppg), a St. Louis University commit, junior forward Angela Dugalic (13.2 ppg, 8.7 rpg) and junior guard Dylan Van Fleet (11.4 ppg, 3.7 rpg, 3.8 apg) to lead the way. Hononegah is making its first-ever appearance at the state finals. Longtime coach Randy Weibel (496-151, 20 years) has the No. 7 Indians playing their basketball, having won 14 in a row. Plus, all five postseason victories for Hononegah have come by at least 14 points. Marquette commit and senior guard Jordan King (21.2 ppg, 5.9 rpg, 2.7 apg) is the offensive catalyst for the Indians. She gets help from senior guard Hannah Malcomson (9.8 ppg, 3.3 rpg) and senior forward Cali Schmitz (8.3 ppg, 7.4 rpg). Senior forward Aeris Butler is the ultimate role player. 11:00 a.m. - Morton vs. Nazareth Academy 1:00 p.m. - Scared Heart-Griffin vs. Glenbard South 5:30 p.m. - Benet Academy vs. Mother McAuley 7:15 p.m. - Maine West vs. Hononegah Morton HS Broadcast Morton games only WBEL 92.3/98.9 FM (South Beloit) Hononegah games only WFMB 1450 AM (Springfield) SHG games only WROK 1440 AM (Rockford) Queen of the Hill 12:45 p.m. - All class champions	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2188
__label__cc	0.678535	0.321465	Imagine Asia > Destinations > Bhutan > Amankora Gangtey A guide to Bhutan's top festivals Trekking in Bhutan Gangtey Bhutan in Style This 8-night itinerary lets you take in one of the world’s most inspiring countries in comfort and style combining the must-see highlights with some of the country’s finest hotels and lodges. Boutique Nepal and Bhutan This itinerary takes you through some of the most beautiful and interesting destinations in the world and includes all the key highlights of Nepal and Bhutan, making it a true gem of an itinerary! Bhutan’s festival calendar is brimming with countless vibrant festivals. Integral to Bhutanese culture, festivals provide an opportunity for locals and visitors alike to come together, dance, socialise and receive blessings. Up and down the country, annual tshechus are held in the courtyards of monasteries, temples and dzongs, a colourful celebration of community spirit, played out to the tune of traditional dance and theatrical performance. Holly’s adventure in Bhutan If you are a trekking and mountain lover, it's highly likely that small, mysterious and untouched Bhutan has been on your radar for some time. Asia Specialist Holly is a beach and jungle fan, so this Himalayan beauty had so far escaped her gaze, but the quest for unique travel opportunities and trying something completely different led her here… Read on as she tells us how it turned into one of the best travel decisions she has ever made! Backed by the mighty Himalayas and the hiking heavyweights of Nepal and India, it is no surprise that Bhutan is fast establishing itself as a world class trekking destination. Whilst home to one of the world’s most challenging walks, its beautiful scenery appeals to the less intrepid hiker too, with many a route passing through rolling meadows, bamboo forests and rhododendron clad hillsides. The highlight of a trip to Bhutan is often the walk up to the famed Tiger’s Nest Monastery, yet simply taking a wander on the path less travelled will be rewarded with spectacular panoramas, stretching for miles around. Amankora Gangtey Gangtey, Bhutan Best for: Culture History, Spa One of the leading luxury Aman hotels, Amankora Gangtey is the perfect base for exploring the Phobjikha Valley. Set on a forested knoll, this stylish and inviting accommodation enjoys incredible views of a glacial valley untouched by the modern world. Amankora Gangtey enjoys a magnificent location on the western slopes of the Black Mountains overlooking the grassy Phobjikha Valley, one of Bhutan’s few glacial valleys and virtually unblemished by modern civilization. With wonderful views of the haunting 17th century Gangtey Goemba Monastery, the area is a conservation stronghold, owing to the endangered black-neck cranes which migrate to Gangtey from the Tibetan Plateau between October and March each year. The hotel is housed in a low-lying contemporary building of traditional rammed-earth construction and takes full advantage of the incredible outlook, with floor-to-ceiling windows in the lounge, dining room and spa. With just eight suites, all designed and finished to the exquisite standards synonymous with the Aman hotel group, the hotel has a personal and intimate atmosphere. In a similar fashion to all of Aman’s Bhutan hotels, each open-plan suite has wood-panelling, a stylish contemporary aesthetic, traditional bukhari, wood-burning stove, terrazzo-clad bath and daybed for relaxing and enjoying the views. In the communal lounge and dining room, guests will find comfortable chairs and sofas, along with two shared dining tables where fresh and tasty food of Western and Bhutanese origin is served. The spa offers oil massages in two treatment rooms and for a real treat guests can book a traditional hot stone bath in a candlelit barn with fantastic views. For romance, there’s also the opportunity to dine by candlelight in a stone-built potato shed, while being serenaded by a Bhutanese musician. For more active pursuits, treks of varying difficulty, allow guests to explore the local villages and temples and combined with archery, fishing, kite-flying and white-water rafting, means there is plenty of scope for adventure in the valley. The 17th century Gangtey Goemba Monastery, located in the village, includes a school, meditation facilities and living quarters for the monks and is worth a visit. With a stunning location and staff that are both gracious and eager to please, we would recommend this contemporary and stylish hotel to anyone wishing to explore Gangtey and all the valley has to offer. In the western, central and eastern Bhutan you will mostly experience cold European-like weather. Winter lasts here from November to March. The Monsoon occurs between June and August when the temperature is normally between 8° and 21°C. October and November are arguably the best months, when the monsoon has passed and the skies are clear. The spring months of March, April and May are best for the flora, but it can be stormy as the monsoon builds up for July-September. Black Necked Crane Festival Gangtey 360 Hike Gangtey Nature Trail Visit the Gangtey Goenpa Crane Information Centre Longtey Hike Marking the arrival of the rare and revered migratory cranes, the Black-necked Crane Festival is a vibrant celebration of this elegant bird, combining cultural performances with a focus on conservation. This relatively short hike to 3,400m affords exceptional 360° views of the Gangtey Valley and beyond to the Himalayan peaks of Bhutan’s northern border. Walking through the Gangtey valley, its floor swathed in rhododendron plants and winding crystalline streams, you’ll be surrounded by the extraordinary wealth of flora and fauna found in this picture-perfect landscape. Set on a forest-clad hill, overlooking the verdant Phobjikha valley, Gangtey Goenpa is a beautiful and highly significant monastery and a visit here provides an opportunity to explore the Nyingma sect of Bhutanese Buddhism. Descending on the Gangtey Valley every winter, the famed and revered black-necked crane is one of the region’s most famous residents and a visit to the Crane Information Centre offers a chance to spot these protected birds. This incredibly scenic and varied trail leads through bamboo forests, villages of charming Bhutanese homes and glorious rainbows of rhododendrons. Picturesque landscapes unfold before you as the pathway winds its way through the Gangtey valley. Hotel Dewachen Best for: Honeymoon Gangtey Lodge Best for: Culture & history,Honeymoon	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2190
__label__wiki	0.914379	0.914379	The Winter Sister (Hardcover) By Megan Collins Atria Books, 9781982100148, 336pp. Book of the Month Club Selection “A haunting debut: suspenseful, atmospheric, and completely riveting.” —Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls “I love a good family-driven suspense novel, and this one doesn't disappoint.” —Marie Claire In this spellbinding and suspenseful debut, a young woman haunted by the past returns home to care for her ailing mother and begins to dig deeper into her sister’s unsolved murder. Sixteen years ago, Sylvie’s sister Persephone never came home. Out too late with the boyfriend she was forbidden to see, Persephone was missing for three days before her body was found—and years later, her murder remains unsolved. In the present day, Sylvie returns home to care for her estranged mother, Annie, as she undergoes treatment for cancer. Prone to unexplained “Dark Days” even before Persephone’s death, Annie’s once-close bond with Sylvie dissolved in the weeks after their loss, making for an uncomfortable reunion all these years later. Worse, Persephone’s former boyfriend, Ben, is now a nurse at the cancer center where Annie is being treated. Sylvie’s always believed Ben was responsible for the murder—but she carries her own guilt about that night, guilt that traps her in the past while the world goes on around her. As she navigates the complicated relationship with her mother, Sylvie begins to uncover the secrets that fill their house—and what really happened the night Persephone died. As it turns out, the truth will set you free, once you can bear to look at it. The Winter Sister is a mesmerizing portrayal of the complex bond between sisters, between mothers and daughters alike, and forces us to ask ourselves—how well do we know the people we love most? Megan Collins holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University. She has taught creative writing at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts and Central Connecticut State University, and she is the managing editor of 3Elements Review. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, her work has appeared in many print and online journals, including Off the Coast, Spillway, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Rattle. She lives in Connecticut. Praise For The Winter Sister… “Sharp and mysterious, The Winter Sister explores the complex bonds between families, the secrets that tie people together—and those that break them apart. A haunting debut: suspenseful, atmospheric, and completely riveting.” —Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls and The Perfect Stranger "Atmospheric and heart-rending, The Winter Sister brilliantly weaves together a gripping, suspenseful plot with a compelling character study of a grieving family. From the mysterious mother with a hidden past, to the guilt-ridden sister who now must solve her sister’s murder years ago, these characters will stay with you long after you’ve turned the final page. Wonderful!" —Wendy Walker, bestselling author of All Is Not Forgotten and Emma in the Night “Megan Collins’s compelling debut is at once a page-turning whodunit and a thoughtful examination of a family broken by tragedy. With a protagonist haunted by her sister’s unsolved murder, a less-than-happy homecoming, and the slow unraveling of decades of explosive secrets, The Winter Sister will captivate you from suspenseful start to surprising finish.” —Kathleen Barber, author of Are You Sleeping "This book had everything I love in a suspense novel: complicated family relationships, a spellbinding mystery, and enough twists to leave me reeling long after I turned the final page. I’m already recommending this book to all my fellow suspense-lovers, and I can’t wait to see what Megan Collins cooks up next!" —Rena Olsen, author of The Girl Before “The Winter Sister is a can’t-put-down debut about mothers and daughters, sisters and secrets. The myth of Demeter and Persephone thunders in the background of this suspenseful story, adding richness to its mystery. Chilling and beautifully crafted.” —Caroline Woods, author of Fräulein M. "In luminous lines aching with loss, debut novelist Collins deftly re-envisions this Greek myth of Persephone… A bewitching thriller with surprises detonating in nearly every chapter." "I love a good family-driven suspense novel, and this one doesn't disappoint.” —MarieClaire.com "A dark, tense, and completely absorbing debut... While full of hand-clenching suspense, the novel’s real strength comes from its study of relationships... Gripping to the last page, it’s the desperation in the connections among these characters that will stay with readers." "With its focus on the grim-dark aspects of the female experience, The Winter Sister calls to mind works like Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects or the film The Tale. This twisty-turny story reminds the reader of the fickle nature of the truth, and that impossible things happen more often than you think." "[An] impressive debut." —CrimeReads “Familial bonds are shattered, hearts are broken, and secrets are withheld until the ugly truth is exposed, making The Winter Sister a mesmerizing and complex thriller.” “Megan Collins’s spellbinding debut novel The Winter Sister captures the souls lost in an unsolved tragedy in a sleepy New England town… This intense page-turner will leave you breathless as you dig into Sylvie’s mysterious life. Collins writes as though she experienced the events first-hand… An incredible, standout debut novel. Bravo!” —TopShelf Magazine	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2192
__label__wiki	0.813466	0.813466	Are you doing enough to prepare for the workforce of the future? 53% of Millennial staff have missed work due to burnout Compensation and BenefitsHR Life 14/02/2018 Wed 10:08 in All markets by Wani Azahar EPF employer services not affected by the fire Asia’s most renowned regional HR Excellence Awards is back in October in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia to sieve out HR’s finest gems. Are you a diamond in the rough? View the categories and find out more. Following the news that a fire has broken out at the landmark Employees Provident Fund (EPF) building in Jalan Gasing, Petaling Jaya, EPF has confirmed that the fire has been contained and there were no casualties. Damage was restricted mainly to the exterior of the building and some cars parked alongside the building. Initial reports indicate the fire started on the first floor of the building at around 11.50am on 13 February and was contained under 30 minutes following quick response by the Fire and Rescue Department. On that note, EPF will conduct an immediate investigation into the cause of the fire at its Petaling Jaya branch and also assess safety measures on all of its other buildings and branches nationwide. In an update, EPF chief executive officer Datuk Shahril Ridza Ridzuan said: “We are thankful that we were able to ensure first and foremost the safety of our staff and visitors to our branches and offices. We apologise to all who were affected by the incident and are grateful to the fire department who responded so quickly and managed to contain the blaze within 30 minutes.” Following the statement by deputy director-general of the Fire and Rescue Services Department that the fire was ignited by a spark on the external cladding of the building, Datuk Shahril added, “We are very concerned that our external cladding could have been the cause of the fire and will certainly extend our fullest cooperation to the authorities. Even though the fire only affected the external part of the building, I have instructed the PJ branch to be closed until all necessary action has been taken to ensure the building is safe.” The EPF reassures that member and employer services are not affected by the incident and all transactions can be conducted as per normal at its other branches nationwide or online via the iAkaun app. In the release, the EPF reassures members that their data was never in any danger of being compromised by the fire as its data servers are in a secure remote location and supported by world-class backup and recovery procedures. Valentine’s Day Special: Cost of loving in Singapore IBM sues former HR VP for joining Microsoft Malaysia Airlines embarks on succession planning for all key managers The end goal is that the future generation of leaders for the airline will be recruited entirely from Malaysian talent within... 04/26/2019 Fri 11:34 AM in All markets by Jerene Ang Edwards Lifesciences launches regional business service centre in Kuala Lumpur The new BSC is expected to provide key support functions such as HR, finance, and more to seven offices across the JAPAC region. .. 03/20/2014 Thu 16:31 PM in Global by Sabrina Zolkifi HR leaders graded a C- on performance Global human resources professionals are falling short of their own expectations - and even further short of business leaders' exp.. 11/21/2018 Wed 15:25 PM in All markets by Jerene Ang Four key trends in the future of payroll As we move into 2019, a recent whitepaper from Ascender reveals the top trends to keep a lookout for in the payroll space... 01/25/2019 Fri 10:22 AM in Hong Kong by Staff Writer 新春六大秘訣助你事業更上層樓當員工和求職者忙於應付手上的工作時，很容易在長遠的事業發展路途上迷失方向。.. 01/25/2019 Fri 10:21 AM in Hong Kong by Samantha Chan 2019年畢業生薪酬及求職心態 07/16/2019 Tue 11:09 AM in All markets by Samantha Chan	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2193
__label__wiki	0.503897	0.503897	Contact Us & Opening Hours Swimming Programs Group fitness and workshops Upgrades and works You are here : Home > Leisure, Sport & Recreation > Leisure Centres > Broadmeadows Aquatic and Leisure Centre > Upgrades and works ** Important news: the head contractor for the upgrades and works at Broadmeadows Aquatic and Leisure Centre, Xerri Group, has gone into liquidation. Works will temporarily stop on-site while Council investigates the necessary steps to finish the project. The centre will continue to operate in its current state until further notice. Check here for the latest updates. Exciting things are happening at Broadmeadows Aquatic and Leisure Centre! Hume City Council is investing over $2.49m in upgrades and works to the centre, which will take place between April - September 2019. View the list of rolling-updates on the project here. The much-loved (and visited) facility is now approaching 40 years since opening and remains a highly popular place for locals to get active and socialise. Due to the building’s age and high-usage rates, essential works are now required on the oldest parts of the centre. The works, will ensure the community can continue enjoying the centre for years to come. They include: replacement/repair of the 25-metre pool hall roof changeroom upgrades new steam room new on-deck showers new lockers that can be accessed by membership card or band energy efficiency upgrades (double glazed windows, new LED lighting, new pool-plant equipment and upgrades to the heating and air control unit). resurfacing of the pool concourse with anti-slip material removal of the mezzanine balcony replacement of the switchboard installation of entry gates to aquatics area. The 25-metre pool area and attached changerooms will be unavailable during the works. This includes the 25-metre pool, warm-water pool, leisure pool, sauna, spa and family changerooms. There will also be reduced space in the gym area. The 50-metre pool and attached changerooms, group fitness rooms, stadium, centre-entry and part of the gym will remain open during the works. Temporary dry-changerooms will be installed and can be used in addition to the changerooms in the 50-metre pool area. We acknowledge these works will cause some inconvenience, and we thank you for your patience while we make upgrades to the oldest part of our centre. Have questions? See if you've answered them below: Learn to Swim Frequently Asked Questions Gym and Aquatic member/guest frequently asked questions Keep up to date with the project Follow the Broadmeadows Aquatic and Leisure Centre Facebook page for all the latest details and updates on the project. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE LAP LANE AVAILABILITY (8 JULY - 21 JULY). Updated : 1:34 PM, 5 July 2019	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2195
__label__wiki	0.523725	0.523725	Home Fallen Sword Join thousands of other adventurers in this constantly evolving web-based massively multiplayer role-playing game set in the fantasy world of Erildath. Along your travels you will encounter fellow players who you can engage in battle against. You may also band together to create a guild, or join one of the many that already exist! With your allies you may partake in guild conflicts or hunt some of the many powerful monsters found across the world. Over a thousand levels worth of content, realms and creatures. State of the art HTML5 canvas game play. A vast array of skills and abilities for your character. Thousands of items and quests to collect. Free to play with no downloads. Trading and auction systems. Variety of exciting community events. Weekly updates and improvements. An active and dynamic community of thousands of other players. BROWSER BASED RPG Fallen Sword is a massively multiplayer role playing game set in the exciting and evolving world of Erildath. Players enter the world and explore, adventure across a vast number of realms with thousands of other players. Players Online Graph	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2196
__label__cc	0.652903	0.347097	Cases tried May 18 to May 22 Benjamin F. Zelfer, 100 S. Elm #5, unlawfully hosting minors consuming alcohol or C.M.B., $1,000 fine. Juan A. Barrera Jr., 7200 E. 30th Ave. #11, ITOL, $100 fine, $75 court costs; no seat belt, $30 fine; obstructing legal process or official duty, five days in jail, conditionally suspended 90 days, $75 fine. Christopher E. Hartle, 102 W. 9th Ave. #A, own dog without registration, $75 court costs; rabies vaccination required, $75 court costs; own dog without registration, $75 court costs. Heather S. Hilton, 905 Lee, rabies vaccination required, $75 court costs; own dog without registration, $100 fine. Mary A. Labs, 1719 N. Adams, own dog without registration, $100 fine, $75 court costs; rabies vaccination required, fine waived; rabies vaccination required, fine waived; own dog without registration, $100 fine. Waleed M. Shaban, 2490 E. 56th Ave., racing on highway/exhibit acceleration, $150 fine, $75 court costs. Justin E. Teter, 129 W. 18th Ave., maintenance requirements, $158.50 fees/costs, $83.50 restitution. Christopher J. Voeller, 23 E. 10th Ave., allow dog to run at large, $50 fine, $75 court costs. Jed R. Wedel, 1805 E. 24th #B, driving under the influence of alcohol, 90 days in jail, probation one year, $1,000 fine, $355 fees/costs, must serve 48 hours and five days house arrest. Alvin J. Dale, 621 E. Ave. F, failure to yield, $35 fine; no proof of liability insurance, $300 fine, $85 fees/costs. Jonathan D. Robertson, 3009 Sierra Parkway, theft-obtaining or exerting unauthorized control over property, five days in jail, conditionally suspended 90 days, $75 fine, $75 court costs. Michael D. Curtis, Wichita, driving while license suspended/ revoked/cancelled, one year jail, one year probation, $1,500 fine, $245 fees/costs, must serve 48 hours and 88 days house arrest. Henry Garcia, 326 E. Ave. F, driving while license suspended/ revoked/cancelled, five days in jail, conditionally suspended 90 days, $100 fine, $75 court costs; failure to yield, $35 fine. Ricardo A. Ortiz-Valles, 1614 W. 4th Ave., driving while a habitual violator, 90 days in jail, $100 fine, $75 court costs, must serve five days; speeding, $27 fine. Jackie L. Thomas, 920 N. Obee Road, harassment by telephone, 30 days in jail, conditionally suspended one year, $75 fine, $75 court costs. Bryan A. Buckwalter, 305 E. 15th Ave., battery, six months in jail, one year probation, $500 fine, $205 fees/costs, must complete counseling and 100 hours of community service. Colton J. Farmer, Stafford, fail to give information, $75 fine, $75 court costs. Silvia Flores, 220 E. Ave. G, no license in possession, $100 fine, $75 court costs. Mack G. Harris Jr., 424 E. Ave. A, fail to give information, $75 fine, $75 court costs; inattentive driving, $75 fine. Richard D. Heller II, 515 E. 9th Ave., assault, 90 days in jail, conditionally suspended one year, $100 fine, $75 court costs. Johnny L. Johnson, 105 N. Maple #B, disorderly conduct, $75 fine, $75 court costs, no contact with victim; driving under the influence, 30 days in jail, six months probation, $500 fine, $380 fees/costs. Russell L. Marshall, 1707 E. Blanchard Lot #8, disorderly conduct, 30 days in jail, conditionally suspended 180 days, $75 fine, $75 court costs. Shawna R. Mulford, 1014 N. Poplar, theft-obtaining or exerting unauthorized control over property, 30 days in jail, conditionally suspended six months, $75 fine, $75 court costs. Zachary A. Ohare, 541 E. Ave. A, theft-obtaining or exerting unauthorized control over property, $75 fine, $75 court costs; criminal damage to property, $50 fine. Cory J. Perry, 426 E. 7th Ave., disorderly conduct, 30 days in jail, conditionally suspended one year, $100 fine, $75 court costs. Kristin D. Renteria, 1713 N. Maple, illegal possession/consumption of alcohol by a minor, 10 days in jail, conditionally suspended 60 days, $200 fine, $75 court costs. Joe A. Roman, 905 E. Ave. B, racing on highway/exhibit acceleration, $50 fine, $75 court costs. Alison R. Sharkey, 325 Justice, disorderly conduct, 30 days in jail, conditionally suspended one year, $100 fine, $75 court costs. William T. Southard II, 820 E. Keast Lot B-1, no proof of liability insurance, $300 fine, $75 court costs, half of fine remitted; unsafe backing, $25 fine. Maria Castillo, 903 E. Sherman, no drivers license, $75 fine, $75 court costs; unsafe backing, $35 fine; child safety restraint, $60 fine. Danny P. Long Jr., 1627 N. Hendricks, theft-obtaining or exerting unauthorized control over property, five days in jail, conditionally suspended 90 days, $75 fine, $125 fees/costs. Chad R. Ringwald, 1429 Cochran, disorderly conduct, five days in jail, conditionally suspended 90 days, $75 fine, $75 court costs, must complete counseling. Joshua E. Dickson, 300 block Osborne, an HP Laptop computer. Carissa L. Swartz, Garnett, red 1999 Ford Windstar, bearing KS plate 607AKU. Mark S. Geffert, 228 W. 8th, an air compressor. Westlake Hardware, 200 block S. Main, tomato cages. Wal-Mart, 1900 block E. 17th Ave., misc. items. Kimberly Villalon, 400 block E. Sherman, an Apple Notebook computer owned by USD 309. Dionne L. Cox, 600 block W. 9th Ave., a Pink/White Next brand women's mountain bike. Cornerstone Baptist Church, 1000 block E. 16th Ave., a Craftsman riding lawnmower. William P. Cox, 1200 block N. Washington, personal check. Letha A. Taylor, 700 block W. 5th Ave., misc. items. Sharon K. Harris, Lyons, wallet and contents. Ashley L. Sewing, 300 block E. 1st Ave., car stereo equipment. Otilia Avila, 500 block N. Baker, a gold diamond ring Doris M. Johnston, 1000 block E. Sherman, a solar powered light. Arthur E. Morey, 500 block E. Ave B, Reno County personalized license plate, TRUCKER. Kendra A.Trotman, 600 block E. 6th Ave., misc. electronic items and clothing. Lubbers of Hutchinson, 1200 block E. 30th Ave., a wheel and rim from a 2007 Pontiac Grand Prix. Germany E. Brown, 600 block E. Ave D, pit bull Susan K. Burbaker, 200 block E. 6th Ave., keys. Rebecca C. Swift, 600 block S. Howard, keys and two rings. Vanessa Y. Latour, 1400 E. 23rd Ave., misc. keys. Anastasia R. Daily, 800 block N. Maple, a Samsung cell phone. Carlos E. O'Neal, 600 block E. 5th Ave., stereo equipment. Dillon's, 500 block E. 30th Ave., misc. items. Joey A Myers, 1500 block Huxman, a red Miami Sun Tricycle. Brandie M. Roberts, Burrton, a tire off her vehicle while it was at 1700 block E. Blanchard. Sarah D. Garcia, 1000 block E. 24th Ave., a 26" Vizio flat screen television. Sonic, 600 block E. 4th Ave., theft of services. Dillon's, 200 block W. 5th Ave., wood mulch. Kathy L. Poole, 1400 block N. Main, prescription medication. Juan Favela II vs. Jan Lawson and Coach Lite Carwash, dismissed. Hutchinson Credit Union vs. Dustin J. Koeppen, judgment for the plaintiff in the sum of $2,466.22. American General Financial Services vs. Mark D. Glass, judgment for the plaintiff in the sum of $2,030.01. Edward James Young, 48, Hutchinson, and Denise Christine Stoner, 46, Hutchinson. Triston Robert Smith, 25, Hutchinson, and Krysta Beth Hale, 25, Hutchinson. Shaun Michael Julian, 23, Inman, and Sabrina Ellen Mandeville, 22, Hutchinson. James Lon Torbert, 55, Hutchinson, and Carmel Jolane McGlynn, 51, Hutchinson. Jacob William Welch, 18, Hutchinson, and Beatrice Rene Minor, 32, Hutchinson. Jason Patrick Sowers, 31, Hutchinson, and Shasta Marshelle Bishop, 26, Hutchinson. James Edward Pace, 49, Hutchinson, and Tara Anne Crowley, 43, Hutchinson. Robert Chris Wilhite, 26, Burrton, and Kathy Lynn Anderson, 34, Burrton. Edwin Lemar Floyd, 37, Hutchinson, and Sherry Leann Angel, 38, Hutchinson. David Matthew Coon, 25, Hutchinson, and Mikaela Kathleen Trim, 24, Hutchinson. Brandon Scott Silsbee, 20, Hutchinson, and Michele Lynn Turner, 20, Hutchinson. Brad Alan Rixon, 26, Hutchinson, and Rosemary Lynn Westfahl, 26, Hutchinson. Thomas Michael Shea II, 34, Hutchinson, and Serena Ann Hooker, 31, Hutchinson. WICHITA - The following persons from central and southwest Kansas have filed bankruptcy petitions with the federal district court here. Filings are Chapter 7 unless otherwise noted. Jose Luis Alday, Angelica Alday, aka Angie Alday, liabilities $283,749, assets $170,874. Angela Lynn Ladner, liabilities $40,535, assets $4,025. Richard Lee Berry, liabilities $196,600, assets $126,997. Dennis Virgil Bollig, Kristine Louise Bollig, aka Kristine Louise Day, liabilities $127,983, assets $120,640; Chapter 13. Joseph Aaron Knoll, Shawna Marie Knoll, aka Shawna Marie Bradstreet, liabilities $291,507, assets $96,129. Leesa Diane Maupin, aka Leesa Diane Johnson, Leesa Diane Meyer, liabilities $42,071, assets $29,200. Chad J. Koehn, liabilities $72,290, assets $17,950. Sharon Lucille Porter, liabilities $61,292, assets $4,960. Landon Anthony Taylor, liabilities $61,774, assets $6,995. Kory Mitchell Barber, liabilities $22,646, assets $46,105. Travis Wade Armstrong, Jennifer Nichol Armstrong, aka Jennifer Nichol Bedard, liabilities $159,132, assets $68,305; Chapter 13. Joseph D. Naugle, Petra A. Naugle, liabilities $75,263, assets $59,360; Chapter 13. Edward James Young, liabilities $18,446, assets $5,249. Kenneth Wayne Young, Dana Marie Bond, aka Dana Marie Young, liabilities $79,412, assets $56,125; Chapter 13. Jeffrey Wade Owens, liabilities $26,728, assets $7,412; Chapter 13. Erika Aracely Martinez, aka Erika Martinez-Torres, Erika M. Torres, E.A. Martinez, dba Interpretation Solutions, liabilities $38,878, assets $7,575. Kathleen Ann Dwinell, aka Kathleen Drake, liabilities $173,023, assets $103,869. Chapter 7, liquidation, business or personal; Chapter 11, business reorganization; Chapter 12, farmer reorganization; Chapter 13, personal reorganization. Dba: doing business as; aka: also known as.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2197
__label__wiki	0.939541	0.939541	Aerospace industry eyes biz worth ~12,500 cr Business Standard: December 13, 2017 New Delhi: On Tuesday, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) offered the aerospace vendors that feed its aircraft assembly lines a tantalising glimpse of major business opportunities ahead, adding up to some Rs 12,500 crore. HAL Chairman T Suvarna Raju told a gathering of the company’s vendors in Bengaluru that they would soon participate in building 100 trainer aircraft — the indigenously designed Hindustan Turbo Trainer–40 (HTT-40). In addition, the Light Utility Helicopter (LUH), of which the Indian Air Force is committed to buying 187 pieces, is nearing certification. “Given our large number of platforms with the Indian defence forces, we remain committed to increase the scope of work to our vendors to ensure success of our programmes. HAL is looking to produce 100 basic trainer aircraft HTT-40 soon, once spin tests are completed in the coming months. In the rotary wing segment, our efforts are on to achieve basic certification of LUH by the middle of 2018”, said Raju. In 2013, then IAF chief, Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne wrote to the defence minister stating that the HTT-40 would cost Rs 59.31 crore in 2018, and escalate by 2020 to Rs 64.77 crore. That letter was intended to scuttle the HTT-40 project as too expensive, and make a case for importing more Pilatus PC-7 Mark II trainers from Switzerland. Now, however, it has emerged that HAL will build the HTT-40 for an affordable Rs 45 crore apiece. With the defence ministry having already approved the procurement of 106 indigenous trainers for the IAF, this would translate into business worth about Rs 5,000 crore for the aerospace sector. HAL has managed to develop the indigenous trainer for a frugal Rs 450 crore, employing internal company funds, Raju told Business Standard in July. An additional Rs 120 crore will go on establishing the HTT-40 manufacturing line. Separately, the manufacture of 187 LUHs, each costing an estimated Rs 40 crore according to internal HAL estimations, will generate business worth Rs 7,500 crore for the aerospace industry. HAL says indigenisation levels in these platforms would be as high as 80 per cent, given that many imported components, sub-systems and systems would be progressively manufactured in India under transfer of technology. That means Rs 2,500 crore would flow abroad to global original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Even so, Indian aerospace vendors, for the most part micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) that depend almost entirely on government orders, see the remaining Rs 10,000 crore as a significant opportunity. Business is also expected to flow from a separate acquisition of 197 Kamov-226T light helicopters, which Russian helicopter manufacturer, Kamov, will initially supply ready-built, and then transfer technology to progressively manufacture in HAL. In manufacturing aircraft like the Jaguar, Sukhoi-30MKI and the Hawk trainer, HAL had monopolised most of the manufacturing work, relying on very little outsourcing. More recently, the manufacture of the Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) has seen HAL assume the role of “systems integrator”, with a significant percentage of the supply chain outsourced to private aerospace industry. In the future, HAL envisages functioning exclusively as a systems integrator, with a private industry supply chain feeding in components, sub-systems, systems and even major assemblies like the forward, middle and rear fuselage. Disclaimer: This information has been collected through secondary research and IBEF is not responsible for any errors in the same. Investments & FDI India at Hannover Messe 2015	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2200
__label__cc	0.634531	0.365469	Premium E-Liquids Cloud E-Liquids iBreathe Blogs \| Celebrities Who Vape Here is a look at some of the top celebrities who vape. celebrities, vape, ecigs, vaping post-template-default,single,single-post,postid-15708,single-format-standard,ajax_fade,page_not_loaded,,qode-theme-ver-16.2,qode-theme-bridge,disabled_footer_top,wpb-js-composer js-comp-ver-5.4.7,vc_responsive Celebrities Who Vape 03 Oct Celebrities Who Vape Posted at 12:11h in E-Cigarettes by ibreathe 0 Comments Vaping has become a worldwide sensation, which reaches every corner of the world. Everybody knows somebody who is vaping. In fact, vaping has become so common now that some of the most popular celebrities in the world are also vaping now. The list of celebrities that vape is a long one and it keeps getting longer and longer. It is a star studded list with the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp and Jack Nicholson among them. Here is a look at the celebrities that have also embraced the vape culture like a lot of us. Probably the first celebrity to bring the use of vapes into the main stream media has to be Johnny Depp. He is the one that brought it onto the screen in his performance for the movie “The Tourist”. There is a scene in which he is on a train and he is vaping on a train with an ecig. Not a lot of people know this but this is not just limited to his role in the movie. The superstar owns a vape as well and has been seen vaping in public as well. He does not seem like he is satisfied with a simple vape pen, he has been noted vaping proper box-mod vapes. One of the most popular sensations in the world, Katy Perry also likes her vape. She is a bit of an unexpected entry on the list but it is a delight to see her on the list nonetheless! She was even photographed vaping when she was hosting a Labour Day party in her home while holding a beer. That is one excellent combination. As much as he likes playing all the different characters on screen, this multifaceted actor also loves his vapes. This actor is renowned to be one of the very best from his generation with roles in amazing movies like Pulp Fiction to Django Unchained, he surely is one of the biggest stars in the world right now. This bad boy has previously been seen smoking large cigars but from the looks of things, he seems to have swapped out his smoking habit for ecigs as well and joined the vape culture that is becoming popular all over the world. This celebrated 80 year old actor is also someone who does not shy away from the vape culture. This classy octogenarian was seen vaping while he was signing autographs for his fans. An actor of some renown with classics like The Shining under his belt, this living legend is also an avid vaper. Ah yes, the Wolf of Wall Street. The SAG Awards saw DiCaprio whip out some decent piece of hardware to cape while he was attending the awards and he made no attempts to hide it. This superstar who has acted in countless blockbuster movies and hits like The Revenant has been seen using a variety of box mod vapes. He was even spotted vaping on an ecig when he was at a fine dining restaurant in New York. He’s even been seen puffing on his ecig while walking on the streets of Manhattan. The List Will Never End The list of celebrities that vape will never end. It was a difficult task choosing which ones to write about because there are just so many. From notable actors to the top musicians, it seems like everybody is embracing the vape culture. It’s inevitable that we will see more and more celebrities vaping. Best Vape Forums to Join Why Are Menthol Cigarettes So Popular Myth About Vapes Causing Cancer Vaping at Work Is Vaping Safe? Here’s What You Need to Know Atomiser Coil Best Vape Forums to Join October 22, 2018 Why Are Menthol Cigarettes So Popular October 19, 2018 Myth About Vapes Causing Cancer October 18, 2018 TPD Compliance	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2202
__label__cc	0.638473	0.361527	The Belfast Boarding a German Merchant Ship © Art.IWM ART 17109 Use this image under fair dealing. All Rights Reserved except for Fair Dealing exceptions otherwise permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. If you are interested in the full range of licenses available for this material, please contact one of our collections sales and licensing teams. image: The Cap Norte, positioned foreground left and pitching in a heavy sea, receives a boarding party from HMS Belfast. The Belfast lies port-side on, background centre, set against an evening sky. The German liner is shown disguised as a neutral vessel, SS Ancona, and flies a Swedish flag. the artist produced another painting of the same incident, see IWM ART 16801 for details. This incident took place when the HMS Belfast was patrolling between Orkney and Iceland in October 1939. On the 9th of October a ship was sighted in dull conditions with poor visibility. The ship's name was apparently 'Ancona', which corresponded with an entry for a Swedish ship in the Lloyd's List. Fortunately the Officer of the Watch, Lieutenant Alan Seale, noticed that the name on the stern was painted over another name, 'Cap Norte'. The Captain of HMS Belfast, Captain Scott, ordered the Lieutenant to command a boarding party. The Cap Norte was discovered to be a German ship, carrying a cargo of wheat and other supplies from South America to Germany. The Cap Norte was then taken into Kirkwall in Orkney under escort by HMS Belfast. Cap Norte was subsequently renamed Empire Trooper, and served Britain as a supply ship throughout the rest of the war. 1945-1989 (production), Second World War (content) Wyllie, Harold Support: canvas Support: Height 597 mm, Width 991 mm Art.IWM ART 17109 Royal Navy, BELFAST (HMS), cruiser (1938) Civilian Vessels, CAP NORTE (SS) Capture of SS Cap Norte by HMS Belfast 1939, Atlantic Ocean, Second World War Great Britain GB Germany (pre 1945 and post 1990) DE Sweden SE Orkney, Scotland, UK supplies / provisions HMS Belfast on Northern Patrol captures the German blockade runner 'Cap Norte' 13,615 tons 9th October 1939 Naval Signal from HMS BELFAST relating to her Seizure of the German Merchant Ship CAP NORTE, October 1939 BRITAIN'S MERCHANT AIRCRAFT CARRIERS. 1943, AT SEA ON BOARD EMPIRE MACALPINE. A NUMBER OF BRITISH MERCHANT SHIPS WERE EQUIPPED WITH...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2204
__label__wiki	0.588019	0.588019	The Hon. Jacquie Petrusma MP. Member for Franklin, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Minister for Disability Services and Community Development, Minister for Sport and Recreation and Minister for Women Connecting with Jacquie Human Services – Joined Up Project Home / Speeches / Human Services – Joined Up Project Minister for Human Services 26 May, 2016 [10:50AM] Could the minister please give an update to the House on the Joined Up Human Services project? Madam Speaker, this Government is committed to improving the outcomes for vulnerable Tasmanians, which is why we are committed to delivering a more joined up Human Services system in partnership with the community sector, as well as provide an investment of $1.2 million to progress this work. The Joined Up Human Services policy articulates our long-term vision for delivering better outcomes for Tasmanians through integrated support that is easier to navigate, reduces frustration and duplication, and is focused on working with people to identify their own individual goals and to achieve results. The Joined Up Human Services project is a four-stage approach to develop a service system that supports access to information and support and places clients with multiple and complex needs at the centre of a case-coordination service system. Under the Joined Up project we are delivering five initiatives that examines a support system with people at the centre and facilitates communication and information sharing amongst service providers. The first initiative is a place-based service, which will test key design elements for delivering Joined Up Human Services in a specific location – the Huon Valley local government area. This initiative aims to strengthen existing Human Services systems relationships in the Huon Valley to enable greater collaboration and cooperation. The second initiative is the person-based initiative targeting a minimum of 25 individuals experiencing very complex challenges such as family violence, child protection, substance abuse, and mental health. This initiative involves a person-centred supportive and outcomes based, lead support, coordination service which will provide lead support coordinators to help clients access the multiple services and support they need. The third initiative is service improvement, which will assess the effectiveness of earlier intervention through a lead support coordination approach with families where children are potentially at risk. The initiative will determine if earlier intervention does prevent these families being referred back to Children and Youth Services for Child Protection intervention over the period of the initiative. The fourth initiative is systems-based initiative and will determine the benefits provided from the use of an information, communications and technology system to enable support coordination and client outcome monitoring. The final initiative is based around privacy. It will review current information sharing processes and barriers to sharing information, while protecting clients and their rights. A significant body of work has been undertaken in developing the Joined Up Human Services project and the five associated initiatives. Most recently, the Joined Up Human Services team procured a consultant to undertake a social network analysis for the Huon Valley place-based service system initiative. As well, the procurement for services that support the person-based, the service improvement and the systems-based initiatives are also currently being undertaken, along with the procurement of research and evaluation services. Work on the Joined Up Human Services project has been undertaken in close collaboration with community sector organisations, peak bodies and government agencies. I thank all the community sector organisations and peak bodies that have been so willing and generous with their time in their feedback on this project. It has been great to see the high level of interest and goodwill shown by all stakeholders to these initiatives. The project is also collaborating with other similar interstate and intrastate projects to ensure the learnings from each are being shared. Representative groups also include the oversight steering committee, which is made up of senior department staff and four key non-government sector representatives. Other working groups include the place-based Huon Valley lead working group. This group includes six service providers and one Joined Up team member. As we continue to move forward we expect to see the Joined Up Human Services project providing significant improvement in outcomes for vulnerable Tasmanians. This entry was posted in Speeches. Bookmark the permalink. ← Strong Families, Safe Kids Program Child Protection Implementation Plan Released → Investing in a healthier Tasmania Improving the model for returning land to Aboriginal communities Recognising Tassie’s sporting heroes Supporting a multicultural island Tasmanian Government committed to early diagnosis of autism General Speeches Notice of Motion Photo's on this web page are copyright Jacquie Petrusma Authorised by Jacquie Petrusma 27 South Arm Road, ROKEBY, TAS 7019 Contact Jacquie E: jacquie.petrusma@dpac.tas.gov.au A: 3/90 Clarence Street, Bellerive TAS, 7018 Discovery Pro WordPress Theme Powered By WordPress	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2206
__label__wiki	0.760569	0.760569	DA wants report into prison officials giving inmates weapons Politics / 23 June 2019, 12:08pm / ANA Reporter DA spokesman James Selfe. File picture: ANA/Jonisayi Maromo Durban - The Democratic Alliance has welcomed the investigation into two videos which allegedly show inmates of the Durban Westville correctional facility openly doing drugs and being given weapons by officials. "We trust that the implicated officials have been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation," DA spokesman James Selfe said on Sunday. According to media reports, Justice and Correctional Services Minister Ronald Lamola has ordered an investigation into the matter. Selfe said that once the report had been finalised, it should be tabled in Parliament's correctional services portfolio committee to be thoroughly interrogated. However, it was likely that this was not an isolated incident. Corruption should have no place in society, yet it was rife within the entire prison system and the prevalence of gangsterism was well known. Gangsters were well organised and bribed officials which undermined good order within prisons. "Unless this root cause is dealt with, we cannot hope to root out the symptoms of this corruption," he said. Lamola could not hope that the systemic problems in correctional services would disappear "as if his appointment will sweep the issues up". For starters, he could ensure that there was strict access control and searches conducted not only on inmates but on prison officials as well. In 2001, then president Thabo Mbeki appointed a judicial commission of inquiry, chaired by Judge Jali, to investigate the allegations of corruption, nepotism, and maladministration within the department of correctional services, Selfe said. The final and extensive report was released in 2006 and numerous officials were held to account. However, since then there seemed to have been little headway made in ensuring that the prison system was free of corruption. The problems within the system were known and it was not difficult to identify what had to be done to ensure prisons were places of rehabilitation, not places were criminal activity thrived, Selfe said. African News Agency (ANA)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2210
__label__wiki	0.911894	0.911894	US obstruction of justice laws require intent Mueller leaves decision on obstruction case against Trump to justice department Sun, Mar 24, 2019, 21:13 Updated: Sun, Mar 24, 2019, 21:16 US president Donald Trump talks to the media before boarding Air Force One on Sunday at Palm Beach airport in Florida. Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo Obstruction of justice is a crime that requires more than overt acts. It also requires intent. That principle helps explain special counsel Robert Mueller’s decision to veer away from pressing an obstruction case against President Donald Trump and instead leave it up to the US justice department. Attorney general William Barr’s initial summary of Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election and the possibility of collaboration with Americans, released on Sunday, indicates that Mueller withheld judgment about the circumstantial evidence that Trump’s critics say points to an intent to obstruct justice. Instead, he left that decision to the attorney general. In turn, Barr and deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein determined that the evidence collected by Mueller “is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense,” according to Barr’s letter. The evidence in Mueller’s still-unreleased report is likely to include Trump’s public statements of derision about justice department personnel and support for former aides charged with crimes, as well as claims by his former FBI director that the president tried to quash an investigation of his national security adviser. Barr’s decision on the obstruction question is sure to rile Trump’s opponents but comes as less of a surprise to legal experts. “Obstruction of justice requires an intent to obstruct or impede or influence an investigation,” said Seth Taube, a former federal prosecutor now at Baker Botts LLP, before Barr’s letter was made public. “The issue is not only did the president take some action which had the effect of obstructing or impeding or influencing a person, but did he also do so with the intent of obstructing an investigation?” In his two years in the White House, Trump has repeatedly done things, said things and tweeted things that could be interpreted either as attempts to undermine investigations of him, his family and his business or merely as random thoughts from a man who is known to change his mind. In his first few weeks in office, Trump asked then-FBI director James Comey for “loyalty,” Comey has said. A few weeks later, after national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned because of lies he told the FBI about his contact with Russia, Trump asked Comey to “go easy” on Flynn because he was a good guy, Comey contends. Trump has disputed Comey’s accounts of the conversations. Fintan O’Toole: Trial runs for fascism are in full flow Why do immigrants vote for people like Donald Trump? Donald Trump denies he is racist amid ‘go back’ tweets controversy US attorney general's letter to Congress After firing Comey in May 2017, Trump told Lester Holt of NBC News that he did so in part because of his frustration over the FBI’s Russia investigation. He told Holt that he fired Comey at the recommendation of Rosenstein and then muddied the issue by adding: “And in fact, when I decided to just do it I said to myself, I said, you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story.” ‘Witch hunt’ Almost from the moment that a special counsel was appointed to continue the inquiry, the president repeatedly attacked that work as a “witch hunt” and even reportedly ordered his White House counsel to fire Mueller. After it emerged that Donald Trump jnr met during the campaign with a Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer who offered damaging information about Hillary Clinton, Trump helped craft a public statement. That misleading statement claimed the meeting focused on international adoptions. Why the president tried to obscure an action that his team later termed perfectly legal could be chalked up to avoiding public embarrassment, of course. Trump also mused publicly about a pardon for Paul Manafort, his former campaign chairman who has multiple convictions stemming from the Mueller probe. Mueller’s prosecutors noted the possibility of a pardon in their decision to terminate Manafort’s co-operation agreement over lies he allegedly told to investigators. Along with these overt actions, Trump repeatedly criticised his appointed attorney general, Jeff Sessions, for recusing himself from the Russia investigation. He eventually pushed out Sessions and replaced him temporarily with Matthew Whitaker, a former US attorney in Iowa who had been critical of the Mueller probe. Trump reportedly wanted Whitaker to push Geoffrey Berman, the man he appointed US attorney in Manhattan, to take over a New York inquiry that included the Trump organisation. Berman had recused himself from the matter, which grew out of crimes by onetime Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and involved possible campaign-finance violations stemming from hush money paid to a woman claiming sexual encounters with Trump. Trump denies not just the encounters but that he violated any campaign finance laws. Trying to keep personal or embarrassing actions away from public scrutiny is not in itself a crime. Proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump was aiming to do something more would have required a great deal more, given that he was not deposed and that his reasons frequently seem to shift with statements that even he says are sometimes made for effect or political purposes. The optics of Trump’s actions don’t matter, says Jacob Frenkel, a former federal prosecutor who is now at Dickinson Wright, speaking before Barr’s letter was released. “The president may have done something interesting, remarkable and unprecedented in gravity,” he said of firing Comey and other matters. “But none of those three equals ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’. I’ve got to see the evidence. There’s nothing wrong with indicting a case and losing it, but the presumption in the indictment is that all the evidence will establish beyond a reasonable doubt that the conduct violated criminal law.” While Trump’s tweets and other statements might have suggested an attempt to obstruct justice, his inconsistencies and stream-of-consciousness rants actually may have protected him to some extent, Taube explained. Tweets are dashed off at odd hours – sometimes to resonate with his political base – and are not always indicative of the administration’s eventual policy, for example. Lack of precision “The president is not always careful about his statements,” Taube said. “It’s this lack of precision in his language which is as much a problem for a prosecutor as a benefit, because it mushes up whether he’s acting with necessary corrupt intent. Trump’s imprecision in languages can lead to an investigation. But only corrupt intent can lead to indictment.” To many Trump critics, the requisite intent needed for an obstruction charge was there, at least to qualify as “high crimes and misdemeanors” if not as a violation of law. Congress could still dig in on the obstruction issue. The pressure that Trump exerted on Comey to go easy on Flynn, combined with the president’s reported request that his director of national intelligence and National Security Agency director issue public statements saying that there was no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign with Russia, showed intent, Asha Rangappa, a former FBI agent who teaches at Yale Law School, said in an interview recently. “You have to look at more than just his angry tirades,” Rangappa said. “He’s been doing everything he can to undermine the investigations. A lot of his activity would support an obstruction charge in an impeachment proceeding.” The best case against obstruction may be the completion of the Mueller report itself. Despite all the bombast, Trump didn’t derail it. – Bloomberg Geoffrey Berman Undocumented Irish in America: ‘Come in legit or stay at home’ Trump’s tweets about congresswomen draw international condemnation Donald Trump renews attack on leftwing congresswomen Irish in America: Have your say about arrests and deportations US immigration raids begin on smaller scale than planned Trump tells female Democrats to go back to ‘crime-infested places they came from’ Mike Pence defends conditions at migrant detention centres in Texas Darroch affair a reminder that Trump’s genius is not always stable Fears among Irish in US as raids on undocumented to take place Commercial occupancy at Trump Tower declines Trump’s labour secretary quits over Epstein sex crimes scandal Donald Trump is on track to splinter the West Democrats subpoena 12 as Trump ramps up immigration crackdown Read more about the Donald Trump administration	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2212
__label__wiki	0.597623	0.597623	Home / Unlabelled / SAYING A DU’AA ‘FROM THE QURAN WHEN PROSTRATING SAYING A DU’AA ‘FROM THE QURAN WHEN PROSTRATING Dr Zakir Naik June 08, 2018 0 The Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) forbade reciting Qur’aan when bowing and prostrating. Muslim (479) narrated that Ibn ‘Abbaas (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “I have been forbidden to recite the Qur’aan when bowing or prostrating. As for bowing, glorify your Lord therein, and as for prostrating, strive in du’aa’, for it is deserving of a response (from your Lord).” Muslim (480) narrated that ‘Ali ibn Abi Taalib (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) forbade me to recite Qur’aan when bowing and prostrating. The scholars are agreed that it is makrooh to recite Qur’aan when bowing or prostrating. The wisdom behind that is: It was said that the best pillar of prayer is standing and the best of dhikr is reciting Qur’aan, so the best has been put with the best, and it is not allowed to put it with anything else, lest anyone think that it is equal to other kinds of dhikr. ‘ It was said that it is because the Qur’aan is the noblest of speech, because it is the Word of Allaah, and the position of bowing and prostration is one of humility and submission on the part of the worshipper, so it is more appropriate not to recite the Word of Allaah in these two positions. If a person recites a du’aa’ that is mentioned in the Qur’aan when prostrating, such as the words (interpretation of the meaning): “Our Lord! Give us in this world that which is good and in the Hereafter that which is good, and save us from the torment of the Fire” [al-Baqarah 2:201], there is nothing wrong with that, if the intention is to say du’aa’ and not to recite Qur’aan, because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Actions are but by intentions, and each person will have but that which he intended.” Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 1; Muslim, 1907. Al-Zarkashi said: It is makrooh when it is intended as recitation of Qur’aan, but if it is intended as du’aa’ and praise, then it is like someone who did Qunoot by reciting a verse. End quote. Doing Qunoot by reciting a verse from the Qur’aan is permissible and is not makrooh. If a person does Qunoot by reciting a verse which includes a du’aa’, then he has done Qunoot, but it is better to say the du’aa’ as narrated in the Sunnah. This applies if he intends to say du’aa’ when he recites the verse. The scholars of the Standing Committee were asked: We know that it is not permissible to recite Qur’aan when prostrating, but there are some verses which include du’aa’s, such as the words,“Our Lord! Let not our hearts deviate (from the truth) after You have guided us” [Aal ‘Imraan 3:8]. What is the ruling on saying such du’aa’s that are mentioned in the Qur’aan, when prostrating? They replied: There is nothing wrong with that if it is done as a du’aa’ and not as recitation of Qur’aan.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2214
__label__cc	0.657511	0.342489	Has the War Party Hooked Trump? “Big price… to pay.” Patrick J. Buchanan CNS News - April 10, 2018 Comments Image Credits: Gage Skidmore / Flickr. With his Sunday tweet that Bashar Assad, “Animal Assad,” ordered a gas attack on Syrian civilians, and Vladimir Putin was morally complicit in the atrocity, President Donald Trump just painted himself and us into a corner. “Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria,” tweeted Trump, “President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price… to pay.” “Big price… to pay,” said the president. Now, either Trump launches an attack that could drag us deeper into a seven-year civil war from which he promised to extricate us last week, or Trump is mocked as being a man of bluster and bluff. For Trump Sunday accused Barack Obama of being a weakling for failing to strike Syria after an earlier chemical attack. “If President Obama had crossed his stated Red Line In The Sand,” Trump tweeted, “the Syrian disaster would have ended long ago! Animal Assad would have been history!” Trump’s credibility is now on the line and he is being goaded by the war hawks to man up. Sunday, John McCain implied that Trump’s comments about leaving Syria “very soon” actually “emboldened” Assad: “President Trump last week signaled to the world that the United States would prematurely withdraw from Syria. Bashar Assad and his Russian and Iranian backers have heard him, and emboldened by American inaction, Assad has reportedly launched another chemical attack against innocent men, women and children, this time in Douma.” Pronouncing Assad a “war criminal,” Lindsey Graham said Sunday the entire Syrian air force should be destroyed. So massive an attack would be an act of war against a nation that has not attacked us and does not threaten us. Hence, Congress, prior to such an attack, should pass a resolution authorizing a U.S. war on Syria. And, as Congress does, it can debate our objectives in this new war, and how many men, casualties and years will be required to defeat the coalition of Syria, Russia, Hezbollah, Iran, and the allied Shiite militias from the Near East. On John Bolton’s first day as national security adviser, Trump is being pushed to embrace a policy of Cold War confrontation with Russia and a U.S. war with Syria. Yet candidate Trump campaigned against both. The War Party that was repudiated in 2016 appears to be back in the saddle. But before he makes good on that threat of a “big price… to pay,” Trump should ask his advisers what comes after the attack on Syria. Lest we forget, there was a reason Obama did not strike Syria for a previous gas attack. Americans rose up as one and said we do not want another Middle East war. When John Kerry went to Capitol Hill for authorization, Congress, sensing the national mood, declined to support any such attack. Trump’s strike, a year ago, with 59 cruise missiles, on the air base that allegedly launched a sarin gas attack, was supported only because Trump was new in office and the strike was not seen as the beginning of a longer and deeper involvement in a war Americans did not want to fight. Does Trump believe that his political base is more up for a major U.S. war in Syria today than it was then? The folks who cheered Trump a week ago when he said we were getting out of Syria, will they cheer him if he announces that we are going deeper in? Before any U.S. attack, Trump should make sure there is more hard evidence that Assad launched this poison gas attack than there is that Russia launched that poison gas attack in Salisbury, England. One month after that attack, which Prime Minister Theresa May ascribed to Russia and Foreign Minister Boris Johnson laid at the feet of Putin himself, questions have arisen: If the nerve agent used, Novichok, was of a military variety so deadly it could kill any who came near, why is no one dead from it? Both the target, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia are recovering. If the deadly poison was, as reported, put on the doorknob of Skripal’s home, how did he and Yulia manage to go to a restaurant after being contaminated, with neither undergoing a seizure until later on a park bench? If Russia did it, why are the British scientists at Porton Down now admitting that they have not yet determined the source of the poison? Why would Putin, with the prestige of hosting the World Cup in June on the line, perpetrate an atrocity that might have killed hundreds and caused nations not only to pull out of the games, but to break diplomatic relations with Russia? U.S. foreign policy elites claim Putin wanted Trump to win the 2016 election. But if Putin indeed wanted to deal with Trump, why abort all such prospects with a poison gas murder of a has-been KGB agent in Britain, America’s foremost ally? The sole beneficiaries of the gas attacks in Salisbury and Syria appear to be the War Party. Bank Run: Deutsche Bank Clients Are Pulling $1 Billion A Day Crime Wave UK: Doctors Report Rise in ‘Punishment Stabbings’ Polish Court Rules In Favor Of Russian Dad Who Took His Kids Back From Swedish Muslim Foster Family And Fled to Poland	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2216
__label__wiki	0.612159	0.612159	The 20 Best Companies in Tuscaloosa, AL As Rated by Women InHerSight's "Best Companies for Women in Tuscaloosa, AL" list is based on millions of anonymous employer ratings and reviews from working women. Companies on this list have locations in the Tuscaloosa, AL area and have been rated by 10 or more participants as of July 17, 2019. Click here to rate your company. #1 company for women in the Tuscaloosa, AL area by InHerSight score T-Mobile is a telecommunications company with locations in the Tuscaloosa, AL area that employs 5001 to 10000 people. Learn more › Mosaic Sales Solutions Mosaic Sales Solutions is a marketing and advertising company with locations in the Tuscaloosa, AL area that employs 5001 to 10000 people. Learn more › A Place for Mom is a hospital & health care company with locations in the Tuscaloosa, AL area that employs 501 to 1000 people. Learn more › YMCA is a non-profit organization management company with locations in the Tuscaloosa, AL area that employs 5001 to 10000 people. Learn more › Comcast is a media production company with locations in the Tuscaloosa, AL area that employs 5001 to 10000 people. Learn more › McKesson is a hospital & health care company with locations in the Tuscaloosa, AL area that employs 5001 to 10000 people. Learn more › inVentiv Health inVentiv Health is a pharmaceuticals company with locations in the Tuscaloosa, AL area that employs 5001 to 10000 people. Learn more › Altria Altria is a consumer goods company with locations in the Tuscaloosa, AL area that employs 5001 to 10000 people. Learn more › Starbucks is a retail company with locations in the Tuscaloosa, AL area that employs 5001 to 10000 people. Learn more › #10 company for women in the Tuscaloosa, AL area by InHerSight score Verizon is an information technology and services company with locations in the Tuscaloosa, AL area that employs 5001 to 10000 people. Learn more › SalonCentric SalonCentric is a retail company with locations in the Tuscaloosa, AL area . Learn more › Lockheed Martin is a defense & space company with locations in the Tuscaloosa, AL area that employs 5001 to 10000 people. Learn more › Bath & Body Works is a retail company with locations in the Tuscaloosa, AL area that employs 5001 to 10000 people. Learn more › Regions Bank is a banking company with locations in the Tuscaloosa, AL area that employs 5001 to 10000 people. Learn more › Kaplan is an education management company with locations in the Tuscaloosa, AL area that employs 5001 to 10000 people. Learn more › LifeWay Christian Resources is a publishing company with locations in the Tuscaloosa, AL area that employs 1001 to 5000 people. Learn more › Enterprise Rent-A-Car is an automotive company with locations in the Tuscaloosa, AL area that employs 5001 to 10000 people. Learn more › Charlotte Russe is a retail company with locations in the Tuscaloosa, AL area that employs 5001 to 10000 people. Learn more › BBVA Compass is a banking company with locations in the Tuscaloosa, AL area that employs 5001 to 10000 people. Learn more › Morgan Stanley is a financial services company with locations in the Tuscaloosa, AL area that employs 5001 to 10000 people. Learn more › Think your company should be on the list? Rate them now › Companies with ratings and reviews from at least 10 current or former US-based employees are eligible for this list. This data was updated on July 17, 2019. Get Matched to the Best Tuscaloosa, AL Companies for You Sign up to get matched to companies that support the things you care about. More Best Companies By Review Category Borough of Queens, NY The Bronx, NY More cities →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2217
__label__wiki	0.85405	0.85405	Zillow: Now arrived at an Apple TV near you Company's app is among several in the new device’s App Store by Amy Tankersley Staff Writer The Apple TV app will complement Zillow’s existing suite of Apple products by allowing users to view any searches and homes they may already have saved on their iPhones, iPads or Apple Watches. In addition, a new Zillow for TV channel will feature home entertainment and improvement programs, as well as real estate market tips. "We have combined the best of home shopping with new video content to help people find the home of their dreams or get inspired with home improvement ideas, unique homes or do-it-yourself tips -- right from their living room TV," said Zillow's chief marketing officer. UPDATE Oct. 29, 2015: — Zillow’s Apple TV app is live. “Looking for a home impacts the whole family. With the new Apple TV, everyone can gather together to view beautiful images of homes and feel like a part of this major decision,” said Jeremy Wacksman, chief marketing officer at Zillow, in a statement. The new Apple TV features a new operating system, Siri support, gaming and an App Store — including online real estate marketplace Zillow, Apple announced at its September media event. The fourth generation of the television streaming device will bring Zillow’s real estate listings and other information to users’ living rooms, allowing them to view nearby properties for sale, home facts and history, mortgage information and Zestimate details on their high-definition television screens. The app will complement Zillow’s existing suite of Apple products by allowing users to view any searches and homes they may already have saved on their iPhones, iPads or Apple Watches. “We’re super-excited about having an app ready at launch,” said Jeremy Wacksman, Zillow’s chief marketing officer. “The idea is not just to have what is already on your iPhone blown up on a TV screen. Jeremy Wacksman: “We have combined the best of home shopping with new video content to help people find the home of their dreams.” “We have combined the best of home shopping with new video content to help people find the home of their dreams or get inspired with home improvement ideas, unique homes or do-it-yourself tips — right from their living room TV. We’re excited to bring the Zillow experience to a big screen and create a new experience for consumers and opportunities to connect them with agents and brokers.” Wacksman said the apps are a bit of a work in progress, as developers will be assessing user adoption, comfort and demand. “To me, this looks like a brand-new category of device, akin to when Apple launched the iPad,” he said. “It will be interesting to see how developers continue to build on this platform, as many details, such as how consumers use certain buttons or what is most popular, are still to be determined.” “It’s the golden age of television,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said at yesterday’s press event. “Our vision for TV is simple and perhaps a little provocative. We believe the future of television is apps.” The App Store will feature many games, but Zillow will be among other apps such as the Airbnb vacation booking app and the Gilt luxury shopping app. The new Apple TV also includes voice control, Siri support, universal search capabilities and a remote control that includes both a touchpad and motion control. The device will launch in two configurations, a 32GB unit for $149 or a 64GB unit for $199. No launch date has been announced, but Apple said it will be available in “late October.” Email Amy Swinderman. Zillow, Trulia buyer agent ad products now one by Paul Hagey \| Sep 9 UPDATE: Zillow Group to sell Market Leader for $23M by Inman \| Sep 30 Zillow's agent advertising business booms while Market Leader revenue falls by Amy Tankersley \| Aug 4	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2219
__label__wiki	0.908293	0.908293	Trimming the fat The final part of our series examining the challenges facing insurance companies looks at the pressure on insurers to cut costs. A wave of job cuts is set to hit the insurance industry as insurers begin a process of cost-cutting and restructuring. Last week insurance giants Norwich Union and Zurich announced that between them as many as 2,700 jobs could be lost as the companies reorganised their businesses. Norwich Union (NU) said that up to 1,800 redundancies were expected in the next two years as the company looked to streamline its business, scaling back its sprawling regional office structure and hefty product range, and simplifying its systems and processes. Igal Mayer, NU Insurance chief executive, said the changes were necessary to improve the efficiency of the business and deliver the service customers wanted. Zurich said between 700 and 900 – as much as one sixth of its UK workforce – would go as the company looked to slash 10% from its cost base. Its chief executive Guy Munnoch said the business needed to become more efficient to take advantage of a future upturn in the market. “If we want to remain competitive, we must act swiftly to increase efficiencies,” he said, adding that all options were being considered including further offshoring and reducing the number of regional offices. And experts warn that the cost-cutting is unlikely to end with NU and Zurich. Tony Hulse, a partner and head of general insurance at KPMG, says: “Reducing cost is a major driver for every business. When it is difficult to grow, you need to look at costs. Many companies are looking at retrenchment,” he says. The tough conditions in the insurance market are seen as one of the key drivers for this wave of restructuring. A protracted period of softening rates coupled with ever rising claims costs have been eating into insurers’ margins and making growth difficult. Moreover, recent years have seen insurers release billions of pounds in prior year reserves to shore up their profits, which many argue is unsustainable. In 2007, UK motor insurers alone released nearly a billion pounds in prior year reserves. There have been warnings from the likes of Allianz Insurance chief executive Andrew Torrance that insurers’ reserves will soon run dry. Mark Winlow, a director of consultancy firm LECG and former head of personal lines at Zurich UK, says: “The market cycle is a big factor in driving this cost cutting. If insurers can’t raise income, they will look to cut costs. “UK insurers have built up reserves and have been releasing them. But they won’t be able to do that anymore, so the only way to make a profit is to cut costs.” Andrew Power, insurance partner at Deloitte, says the commoditisation of products, particularly in the personal line sector, is forcing insurers to reduce their costs. “Increased commoditisation, particularly in personal lines, is making cost a key element. It is difficult to differentiate other than on price, so there is intensive focus on cost and that is why we have seen some of the actions by the insurers.” These cost pressures have been heightened by the growth of direct sales and the emergence of aggregators, both of which have served to increase the price competition in the market, he says. “I would be surprised if other insurers are not looking at similar levels of cost reduction. Tony Hulse, KPMG Winlow says UK insurers that are part of global groups could be under greater pressure. He says global businesses have high head office costs, which are inflexible, such as accountants and corporate finance specialists. “It is easier to cut costs lower down the tree, at a local level.” He notes that both Zurich and NU are part of global operations. “The UK operation is a significant part of the business of each.” Winlow also suggests that rising costs from intermediary distribution could play a factor and add to the pressure to reduce expenses. Insurers such as NU and AXA have been vocal about the high commission levels paid to brokers, particularly the powerful consolidators. NU has been actively looking to grow its accounts with smaller brokers which by definition are less demanding in terms of commissions. KPMG’s Hulse says that legacy issues arising from previous acquisition activity and growth initiatives are a factor for insurers. Many insurers have complex and unwieldy structures involving multiple underwriting platforms and service companies, which lead to inefficiencies. Indeed, NU says that part of the rationale for its restructure is to slim down the cumbersome operation that has emerged from previous mergers and acquisition activity. Views differ as to the extent these cost pressures will be felt by other insurers. Hulse says other insurers will be under similar pressure as Zurich and NU. “They are responding to the environment. I would be surprised if other insurers aren’t looking at similar levels of cost reduction,” he says. Hulse argues that the redundancies of the order announced by NU and Zurich – up to 10% of the UK workforce in NU’s case – could be mirrored by other insurers. “[Staff cuts at] NU and Zurich have got to be representative of the approach that will be adopted by other insurers. Staff costs make up 50% of operational costs,” says Hulse. But he adds: “There is not one route that is appropriate for everyone.” Deloitte’s Power is cautious in his assessment of the extent to which other insurers will look to slash costs. “Other companies start from different points. For instance, are they in price competitive sectors?” he says. But he adds every company will need to address their fundamentals: “They need to increase productivity and lower costs.” Winlow at LECG says the scale of other companies’ cost reductions will not be the same as that being sought by NU and Zurich. Reducing costs does not necessarily lead to redundancies. Winlow points to the potential for savings from the sale and leaseback of premises, or the changing of employee benefits such as pensions. How major insurers are streamlining their businesses Norwich Union (NU) is looking to transform the operations part of the business, which includes its back office, claims and customer service functions. Following mergers and acquisitions, this part of the business has become too complex with too many products, process, systems and locations. The insurer also says it needs to adapt to consumers changing buying habits, such as greater use of the internet. Over the next two years, NU will create seven sites for its operations function, withdrawing from 13 sites. It will also reduce the number of roles by between 1,500 and 1,800 during that period. NUs broker trading presence at 40 UK sites will not be affected. Igal Mayer, NU Insurance chief executive, says: We want to deliver excellent, consistent and reliable customer service with market leading efficiency. To do this we need to fundamentally simplify our business. 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__label__wiki	0.848594	0.848594	Westpac NZ says its mortgage growth remains below overall market levels, is continuing cross selling push 7th Feb 13, 4:17pm Simon Power Westpac New Zealand says its mortgage book has continued growing at below the overall market into the new financial year, as its cross selling push continues. In a presentation by CEO Peter Clare released by its Australian parent entitled Driving Sustainable Returns, Westpac NZ outlined a continued focus on cross selling, saying more than a quarter of its customers are now classed as what it terms "MyBank" ones. These are customers who have a key transactional account among four or more products with Westpac, and who also transact with the bank more than 10 times a month. Westpac NZ also said former Cabinet Minister Simon Power, who joined as head of private bank in January last year, is now managing director of Westpac NZ's wealth, insurance and private banking units. The bank said it was aiming to build closer links between its private bank and wealth arms. A Westpac NZ spokesman said after the bank's head of institutional banking David McLean left last year, changes were made to some management roles. This led to to Power's appointment as managing director of private, wealth and insurance. "In this role, Simon leads a team of 250 people delivering core banking services, wealth, and insurance products to a range of clients from high net worth individuals to customers sourcing wealth products through the retail network," the spokesman said. Westpac NZ now has Karen Silk as general manager of institutional banking. 'Kiwis more loyal than Aussies' In the presentation Westpac NZ said 26% of its 1.274 million customers were MyBank customers by the end of its last financial year on September 30. That was up from 25.1% at its March 31 half-year balance date. When reporting its annual results last November, Westpac NZ said 49.6% of its customers had four or more products compared with just 30.2% at Westpac Australia and just 28.6% at Westpac's St George Bank subsidiary. The New Zealand figure was up from 49% at March 31 and 48.2% at September 30, 2011. Westpac NZ believes it's ahead of its major New Zealand rivals in terms of the number of its customers who have four or more products, and was the only one of the big four banks to disclose this figure in its annual results. Clare told interest.co.nz at the time that Westpac was able to out cross sell its parent because there was a "propensity for higher degrees of bank loyalty" in New Zealand than in Australia. Commenting on the first quarter of the new financial year (October to December), Clare said the bank's mortgage growth was below the system, or industry wide, level although ahead of system for loans with loan-to-valuation ratios below 80%. Clare said Westpac NZ was "maintaining discipline" on pricing and risk in a subdued but competitive environment. The weak December quarter growth comes after Westpac NZ grew home loans by just NZ$90 million in the September quarter, in a market dominated by a cash splashing ANZ. Cost control now seen as main earnings growth driver Following the presentation, Sydney-based JP Morgan analysts Scott Manning and Bharat Anand issued a report calling an end to the rise of Westpac NZ's net interest margins. The bank's net interest margins had risen to 2.73% by the second-half of its 2012 financial year, up from 2.07% in the first-half of 2010. "The (Westpac) NZ business has benefited from an expansion in margins in recent periods, primarily as a result of customers moving from historically low margin fixed rate mortgages to new variable rate mortgages with higher spreads," Manning and Anand said. "Importantly management indicated that this expansion phase has largely come to an end, with margins facing relatively greater headwinds going forward, given a context of a low growth environment, and competitive levels of pricing being offered by domestic peers." Analysts at Deutsche Bank suggested it was getting more difficult for Westpac NZ to continue its six consecutive halves of cash earnings growth. This culminated in the bank posting record cash earnings for the year to September of NZ$707 million, a NZ$129 million, or 22%, annual increase. "Growth is likely to be more challenging in future periods, due to: i) competitive pressures impacting margins; ii) a subdued credit growth environment; and iii) structurally higher bad and doubtful debts as a percentage of gross loans and acceptances vs Australia. With these factors standing in the way, the most likely avenue for growth will come from cost control, which is clearly a focus for (and core competency of) the management team," the analysts at Deutsche Bank said. Deposit growth strong Meanwhile, Clare also said deposit growth was above system, and wealth cross selling was improving with funds under management/funds under administration balances now above $5 billion. Some 23.4% of Westpac NZ customers had wealth products as of September 30. Among "five strategic imperatives to drive returns" Westpac NZ listed deepening customer relationships in target segments. This was to be achieved by the further implementation and development of the MyBank approach across consumer and business customers. Westpac NZ also disclosed its stable funding ratio, which is customer deposits plus wholesale funding with maturity greater than 12 months, plus equity, plus securitisation as a proportion of total funding, rose 11 percentage points to 89.9% in its 2012 year. The bank's deposit to loan ratio rose 470 basis points to 70.7%, it delivered a 19.6% return on equity, and produced a 1.2% return on assets, which was an increase of 19 basis points. This article was first published in our email for paid subscribers. See here for more details and to subscribe. WestpacPropertyMortgagesBankshome loansNet interest marginsLVRscross sellingSimon PowerPeter Clare Comment Filter Highlight new comments in the last - 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 hr(s). by John \| 8th Feb 13, 1:55pm 1360284900 Clare told interest.co.nz at the time that Westpac was able to out cross sell its parent because there was a "propensity for higher degrees of bank loyalty" in New Zealand than in Australia. and the missing words were "due to lower financial literacy in NZ" by Stephen Hulme \| 8th Feb 13, 2:19pm 1360286340 Surely Westpac are not going down the rocky road of selling wealth products that are beyond the comprehension of the customer other than the promised stellar return not sustainably available in the real world. 2-10yr swap spread UST 10yr see more here... 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__label__cc	0.616179	0.383821	Integrative Chiropractic and Physical Therapy Solutions 4657 Gulf Breeze Parkway Units A & B Gulf Breeze, FL 32563 Dr. Karen Cann - Serving the Florida Panhandle Our Ideal Patient Thermograhpy Forms Patient Protocols Meet Dr. Cann Laser Therapy Part II: Consumers want to know… Simply put LLLT affects the cells of the body specifically the mitochondria of the cell that affects ATP and energy production. This regenerates and heals the tissues of the body at a very fast rate. This acceleration of healing applies to skin/wound healing, disc/nerve healing, muscular/ligamentous healing and an overall decrease of inflammation/swelling and pain. What conditions can be treated? LLLT has been successfully used to better treat many conditions such as acute and chronic pain, sciatica, pre/post-operative pain, inflammation/swelling and wound healing over the scar post-operatively. This means faster return of joint range of motion. Other conditions treated: TMJ, neuropathy, carpal tunnel syndrome, muscle/ligament strains and sprains, inflammation reduction, and enhanced/accelerated tissue wound healing including ulcers. Not one of published studies mentions any negative side effects of semi-conductor diode lasers at the 5-10 mill watt range like the Erchonia Lasers. Low Level Lasers are safe, non-toxic and non-invasive. There are some necessary common sense precautions that need to be considered, such as avoiding pointing the laser beam directly into the eye and maintaining it there, which could prove to be damaging to the eye. What makes one laser different from another? A laser can differ in its wavelength, power source or whether it is a continuous or pulsed wave form. The first lasers were used to cut, cauterize or ablate tissue and were classified as “hot’ lasers.” Cold”, “Low Energy” or “Low Level” lasers are used to enhance metabolic activity at the cellular level through non-thermal reactions. What is wavelength? Do the different wavelengths matter? Light is measured in wavelengths and is expressed in units of nanometers (nm). Different wavelengths have different energy levels and can have various effects on tissue. For example, the Erchonia Laser is 635 or 405 nanometers, which is found within the “red” spectrum of visible light (400-800 nm) and has anabolic tissue effects, whereas, radiation that has a wavelength shorter than 320 nm (ultraviolet (UV), gamma rays, x-rays) has ionizing effects on cells and can be harmful even in small doses. What is the difference between Lasers and LED’s (light emitting diodes)? Lasers are monochromatic (single color wavelength), collimated (non-divergent) and coherent (wavelengths in- phase) in contrast, LED’s are neither coherent nor collimated and generate a broader band of wavelengths (multiple). In addition, a significant difference between the two is the power output. Also, LED’s usually have a 50% duty cycle, meaning that they are “on” 50% of the time and “off” 50% of the time regardless of what frequency (pulses per second) setting is used. Why does Dr. Cann treat with Erchonia’s Lasers? She has done the research! There are many light emitting products on the market today, claiming to be lasers that do not meet scientifically defined attributes for being a true laser. For example, products that use infra-red light or Light Emitting Diodes (LED’s) as they are more commonly known, do in fact produce light, however the light is not intense, producing very little energy and is non-coherent, similar to light produced by common household light bulbs. Non-coherent or non-culminated light is the result of photons moving in random directions at random times, generating random frequencies and heat production. The most common use of LED’s is in electronic equipment, such as TV’s, cell phones and DVD/VCRs. Obviously, these devices are NOT lasers. This misconception is in large part a by-product of marketing. Some sales professional use the word “laser” in order to describe a process such as in “laser pointers” which refers more to mankind’s collective imagination than scientific comprehension. How long are the treatments? Treatments can vary in time from seconds to minutes depending on the tissue type (skin, muscle, ligament, fascia, nerve, and disc) and also on the condition being treated. Research studies show that there may be a dose dependent response, so it may be more effective to treat at lower doses at multiple intervals then to treat a single time with a high dose. What kind of care plans can be expected for laser therapy? A treatment plan may vary, depending on the condition. For instance, an acute soft tissue injury or open wound may require multiple short treatments initially then the interval between treatments will lengthen as the condition improves. www.erchonia.com Call today for an appointment. 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__label__cc	0.563198	0.436802	JCI Sites > JCI Leeds > Blog > National Events > JCI UK’s National Conference 2016: The Mancunian Way JCI UK’s National Conference 2016: The Mancunian Way November 28, 2016 8:19 pm Published by makedo Leave your thoughts The 2016 JCI UK National Conference took place on the 25th – 27th November, in Manchester city centre. Organised by JCI Manchester‘s amazing Conference Organising Committee, the weekend’s theme was, ‘The Mancunian Way.’ What exactly is, “The Mancunian Way,” you ask? If this conference is any indication, we’d say it’s a mixture of innovation, motivation, and fantastic nights out! Here are a few of our highlights from the weekend: Ten Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) – Awards Lunch As the name suggests, The TOYP Awards recognise individuals who have excelled in their field, made an impact in their community, and are an inspiration to others. On Friday 25th November, JCI UK celebrated the achievements of the 2016 TOYP honourees – including an 18-year-old entrepreneur, the youngest recipient of the 2016 New Year’s Honours list, and a Senior Researcher of dementia. We listened as the honourees humbly recounted their achievements, and explained how they’d overcome potentially life-changing challenges. The TOYP Awards Lunch was an inspirational kick-off to the National Conference. [The 2016 TOYP Honourees with JCI UK’S National President 2016, Sarah Beckwith (above right)] Learn more about our 2016 honourees, and tips on nominating your own outstanding young person here. Friday Night Social – Mancurian Icons A suffragette, Alan Turing and 8 Noel Gallaghers walk into a bar. No punch line; just a snapshot of our Friday night social! Our theme was, ‘Mancunian Icons.’ Fortunately, Manchester has produced many talented folk throughout the decades, so we were spoilt for costume choice. Congratulations to Lesley Young, who won the fancy dress competition for her pun-tastic Wonderwall/Wonder Woman get-up. Lock 91 was the perfect venue for pizza and expertly-crafted cocktails. And, fortunately for us, they don’t enforce a smart dress code… An Interview with David Weir On Saturday morning, we were fortunate to attend Prof. Vikas Shah‘s interview with David Weir. Born without the use of his legs, David defied his limitations to become a great wheelchair racer and national hero. As a 6-time Paralympic gold medal winner and 6-time London Marathon winner, his achievements are truly exceptional. [David Weir (above left) interviewed by Prof. Vikas Shah (above right)] In 2013, David founded The Weir Archer Academy, to coach and inspire the next generation of disabled athletes. Read about the Academy here. The National Debating Competition The War of the Roses unfolded (bloomed? blossomed?) on Saturday afternoon, as JCI Manchester competed against JCI Sheffield for the national debating trophy. The comebacks were cutting, the arguments were engaging, and the audience members were in stiches. The final topic? “Christmas should be banned until the 1st December.” Although both teams were fantastic, the judges agreed with Sheffield’s proposal that festive marketing campaigns are too persistent (bah humbug!), and the South Yorkshire chamber were named the victors. [Debating Captain, Mark Smith (above left), Neal Stirk (top right) and Ryan Pilkington (bottom right)] Congratulations to Team Sheffield: Mark Smith (JCI UK’s Finance Director), Neal Stirk (JCI Sheffield’s Deputy President) and Ryan Pilkington (JCI UK’s Marketing Director). Gala Dinner & National Awards The JCI UK Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony is a definite highlight of our calendar. Catching up with old friends, quaffing prosecco, rigorous Irish dancing – how could you top such a fantastic event? By winning a National Award, that’s how! We’re delighted to announce that JCI Leeds scooped the ‘Most Outstanding Social Project’ Award, for The Alternative Quiz of the Year (in Support of Yorkshire Air Ambulance). The event would not have been possible without DWF Leeds Young Professionals, so we emphatically thank them for coordinating and promoting the quiz. The (award-winning!) social rose over £900 for our 2016 Charity of the Year, Yorkshire Air Ambulance. But fear not – we won’t be resting on our laurels; our 2017 events calendar is shaping up to be just as impressive. [Sarah Beckwith (above centre) presents JCI Leeds’ Emma Eastwood (above left) and Hannah Woodcock (above right) with the award for ‘Most Outstanding Social Project’] Save the date: The next JCI UK National Conference will take place in Southampton on the 24th – 26th November, 2017. The programme will be released in the near future, but trust us – it’s going to be epic. Tags: JCI UK; Young Professionals; Networking; Awards Categorised in: National Events This post was written by makedo JCI Leeds: An Award-Winning Chamber! JCI’s Networking Course: How to Create Lasting Connections JCI Leeds at Buy Yorkshire 2016 Untitled category Find your nearest JCI chamber and see their upcoming events Join JCI and get started today	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2230
__label__wiki	0.733068	0.733068	Home Casting News Kaya Scodelario & Willow Shields Set To Star In SPINNING OUT Kaya Scodelario & Willow Shields Set To Star In SPINNING OUT Kaya Scodelario (The Maze Runner) and Willow Shields (The Hunger Games) are set to star in new drama series Spinning Out on Netflix. Scodelario stars as Kat Baker, an up-and-coming, high-level single skater who’s about to turn in her skates after a disastrous fall took her off the competition track. When Kat seizes an opportunity to continue her career as a pair skater with a talented bad-boy partner, she risks exposing a fiercely kept secret that could unravel her entire life. On and off the ice, Kat and her new partner will face daunting odds, injury to body and soul, financial sacrifice, and even potential mental breakdown on their way to realizing their Olympic dream. Shields will play Kat Baker’s younger sister Serena. While Serena lacks her sister’s natural grace on the ice, she makes up for it with discipline and fierce determination. Her complicated relationship with her sister is made up of equal parts loyalty and competition. The series has been handed a 10 episode first season by Netflix. Spinning Out was created by Samantha Stratton, who will serve as an executive producer and co-showrunner alongside Lara Olsen. Previous articleClaire Foy & Chuck Lorre To Receive Honors At Critic’s Choice Awards Next articleCHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA Expands Episode Order	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2237
__label__cc	0.52179	0.47821	Capital Radio and Chelsea FC support Colombo Summer Camp The Colombo Centre has received £2,500 funding this year from 95.8 Capital FM’s Help a Capital Child and Chelsea FC for ‘SPORT IN THE CITY’ to offer 5 to 15… New GP Referral Scheme for Covent Garden A new exercise on referral scheme will be starting at Jubilee Hall in Covent Garden in September. The programme has been set up in partnership with NHS Westminster but will… Get Fit Outdoors For Free! Jubilee Hall Trust has been asked to deliver free supervised exercise sessions at four of Camden’s outdoor gyms. The initiative has been funded by a combination of funding from the… Zumba Outside? Colombo Community Centre in the heart of Southwark hosted its first outdoor ZUMBA class which combines Latin and International music with a fun and effective workout system. The outdoor class attracted over 47… Dancing to Better Health! Our Active Ageing Project in the St James Ward of Westminster has been a huge success. The scheme – partly funded by Westminster City Council – enabled Jubilee Hall Trust… Capital Radio supports Summer Sports Camp Capital Radio’s Help A Capital Child charity and Chelsea FC have agreed to provide £20,000 to fund 400 free sports sessions for disadvantaged young people in the summer holidays in… Staff 'Oscars' Night a huge success! Jubilee Hall Trust held their annual Staff Oscars night on Friday 20th May at G Casino in Leicester Square. The evening kicked off with the JHT Quiz and was followed… Clapham Common 10k Five members of Jubilee Hall Trust took part in the Clapham Common 10k on Sunday 8th May. The team was organised by Jubilee Hall Club Manager, Stuart Flude and included… Jubilee Hall Trust praised by House of Lords! The House of Lords EU Select Committee has mentioned Jubilee Hall Trust in its recently published report on grassroots sport. The committee were looking for evidence of where sport and… UK Fitness Network nominated for FIA award UKFN has been nominated for the Fitness Industry Association’s prestigious ‘Spark of Innovation’ award. The award recognises operators who have achieved something exciting, new and innovative that has solved a… Get Active Outdoors For Free! Jubilee Hall Trust’s partnership project with Queens Crescent Community Centre to deliver five free exercise sessions every week at an outdoor gym in one of the most deprived parts of… Paralympic Gold Medallist to speak at Staff 'Oscars' Jubilee Hall Trust’s annual Staff ‘Oscars’ evening will be held this year on Friday 20th May in Leicester Square. As well as the usual celebrations of success, this year’s event will…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2244
__label__wiki	0.739255	0.739255	World Confectionery Group launches takeover bid for Spanish chocolate maker Natra By Andy Coyne \| 3 January 2019 Natra - subject of a takeover bid Natra, the Spanish confectionery business, is the subject of a takeover bid from World Confectionery Group, an investment vehicle controlled by Luxembourg-registered investment group Investindustrial Advisors. A statement on Investindustrial Advisors' website said it has offered EUR142m (US$161.1m) for the Madrid-headquartered Natra's shares and convertible bonds. Investindustrial Advisors is a pan-European private-equity house that predominantly invests in medium-sized companies active in industry sectors such as industrial manufacturing, consumer, leisure and business services. Natra specialises in chocolate products for private-label brands and other food companies, as well as in cocoa derivatives. Its consumer goods division is responsible for the manufacturing of chocolate tablets, countlines, spreads and Belgian chocolates and specialities, which are targeted mainly at Europe, with Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, Spain and the UK as main markets. Natra has six production centres in Spain, Belgium, France and Canada. In a series of stock-exchange filings, Natra said the bid represented "a discount of approximately 1.1%" to the closing market price of its shares yesterday, the last trading day before the offer was announced and "a premium of approximately 2.8%" to the volume-weighted average price of its shares in the 12-month period leading up to yesterday. The bid has been tabled for just under 60m ordinary shares in Natra and a batch of convertible bonds. Investindustrial Advisors has offered EUR0.90 in cash for each Natra share and EUR900 euros for each convertible bond, which the private-equity firm said it considers an "equitable" price. Natra said a group of its shareholders and Investindustrial Advisors had "entered into an irrevocable undertakings agreement" that will see the group of investors convert into shares the convertible bonds held by them by no later than 27 January. The investors have also agreed to accept the offer with the more than 91.2m shares in Natra to be issued through the conversion - which will represent approximately 57.58% of the chocolate maker. In the event conditions are met, Investindustrial Advisors intends to exercise a "squeeze-out right" at buy out remaining Natra shareholders at the price on the table. The stock-exchange filings also contained Natra's latest estimates on its 2018 financial results. Natra is forecasting it would have generated net sales of EUR372.3m in 2018, up 7% on 2017 but down 7.3% on what it had budgeted. Natra provided a forecast EBITDA of EUR36.6m, up 13.9% on 2017 and up 6.3% on budget. It is also estimating a 2018 net profit of EUR23.8m, against a 2017 net loss of EUR9.9m. Under plans for the business drawn up last year, Natra is forecasting net sales of EUR476m, EBITDA of EUR50m and a net profit of EUR21m in 2023. P.S: If you liked this article, you might enjoy the just-food newsletter. Dean Best, Almarai offloads stake in United Farmers Holding Katjes Group sells minority stake in German chocolate maker Halloren Sectors: Confectionery, Mergers & acquisitions, Private label Companies: Natra Natra bidder outlines plan for chocolate maker	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2247
__label__wiki	0.94788	0.94788	A Pair of T. Rowe Price Small-Cap Funds Go Their Own Way The 19 Best Stocks to Buy for the Rest of 2019 50 Great Places for Early Retirement in the U.S. 12 Must-Have Items for Your Home Emergency Kit Kiplinger Joins the Dennis Publishing Family! Fund Watch A growth-oriented manager tells why his fund has excelled, and a bargain hunter explains why his fund has lagged. By Nellie S. Huang, Senior Associate Editor Diverging results of two T. Rowe Price small-company funds in the Kiplinger 25 underscore the gulf between growth and value stocks over the past year. One, Diversified Small-Cap Growth (symbol PRDSX), earned 11.2%, while the other, Small-Cap Value (PRSVX), lost 3.4%. The gap of nearly 15 percentage points is stunning. See Also: Best T. Rowe Price Funds for Your 401(k) What’s behind the separation? Sudhir Nanda, manager of Diversified Small-Cap Growth, says it’s because of tepid economic growth. When gross domestic product expands slowly, investors flock to companies that they think can grow regardless of what the overall economy is doing, he says. “The more growth-oriented you are, the better you have performed,” Nanda says. For example, the Russell Growth 2000 index, which includes only those small-company stocks in the Russell 2000 index with growth-like characteristics, has gained 10.0% over the past 12 months. But the Russell 2000 Value index, which holds only value-oriented small-company stocks, has essentially stood still, with a 0.8% loss. (All returns are through July 6.) Nanda is a “quant” guy. He uses computer models that focus on such numbers as price-earnings ratios and return on equity (a measure of profitability) to identify growing companies run by executives who reinvest those earnings wisely. He also wants stocks trading at reasonable prices. The models pointed him toward Amag Pharmaceuticals (AMAG) and Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX), two biotech stocks that more than tripled over the past year. At last report, health care stocks accounted for 20% of the fund’s assets, a slightly higher weighting than in the average small-company growth fund. Diversified Small-Cap Growth’s biggest weighting relative to its average peer is in industrial stocks, which account for roughly one-fourth of its assets. At Small-Cap Value, where the focus is on unloved companies, health care stocks represent just 6% of assets. David Wagner has replaced about 80 of the fund’s roughly 300 holdings since becoming the fund’s sole manager in June 2014, after the retirement of longtime captain Preston Athey. Most of the turnover was simply business as usual—selling stocks as they got too pricey, for instance, or replacing one holding with another that looked better. Also getting the boot, says Wagner, “were a few sacred cows, stocks that Preston and I had a difference of opinion about.” Those bovines accounted for less than 10% of the holdings—about 20 stocks—and included recreational vehicle maker Winnebago Industries (WGO) and fashion designer Kate Spade (KATE). It wasn’t that Athey loved the stocks and Wagner hated them. Sometimes it came down to share price. With Kate Spade, for instance, Wagner says he had a lower target price for the stock than his predecessor did. Athey “was willing to hold it at a higher price than I was,” says Wagner. Wagner was just settling in when oil prices plunged in the second half of 2014. Small-Cap Value had 6% of its assets in energy stocks as of mid 2014, but other holdings also proved energy-sensitive, says Wagner. Among them was Genesee & Wyoming (GWR), a railroad operator whose shares dropped 28% over the past year. Wagner says the fund’s value strategy requires patience. He considers it a sign of progress that his fund beat the Russell 2000 Value index by 0.6 percentage point in the second quarter of this year. Two stocks that Wagner has added to the fund since Athey retired, A.M. Castle (CAS), a specialty metals and plastics distribution company, and Dealertrack Technologies (TRAK), which provides Web services for the car-retailing industry, climbed 61% and 65%, respectively, over the past three months.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2260
__label__cc	0.534894	0.465106	A Breach of Digital Trust It’s a business leader’s worst nightmare; hackers stealing the private financial information of customers. Even worse, breaches like the one at Equifax erode a previous commodity already in short supply: digital trust. But digital experts say smart organizations are accepting—and dealing with—a new reality. In this new order, companies try to prevent but also know that huge breaches--last week's affected the data on 143 million people--will happen and that firms will have a recovery plan. “This is the wakeup call for organizations, large or small and across all sectors, that the conversation isn’t ‘if we get hit’ but ‘when we get hit,’” said Aileen Alexander, senior client partner and co-leader of Korn Ferry’s Cybersecurity practice. In this context, the right talent has become just as important as the right cyber wall. While many firms are scrambling to assess their technical capabilities to build—or rebuild—digital trust, experts say that too few examine the talent component—whether they have the expertise and leadership needed to implement and manage an enterprise-wide cybersecurity strategy. “It comes down to having the right people and leadership, the right response, and the right technology,” said Jamey Cummings, the other Co-Leader of Korn Ferry’s Cybersecurity practice. Cybersecurity leaders, including senior-level chief information security officers, are scarce and in high demand. That’s why cybersecurity needs to be driven from the top—starting with C-suite leaders and the board members—who must ensure that the right amount of resources are allocated, says Kevin Anderson, a member of Korn Ferry’s Global Technology and Digital practices. “Security is really another type of insurance. Leaders need to assess how many resources they want to apply to manage these risks.” Managing cyber risks means acknowledging that there is no such thing as being 100 percent secure. Day-to-day business practices—for example, using cloud computing services, offering apps that consumers use on their smartphones, or having interconnected devices that are part of the “internet of things”—are potential vulnerabilities that could be exploited by criminals. While firewalls and security protocols help, the potential risks and the ability to mitigate them must be weighed against the need to operate in a digital world. Aileen Alexander Senior Client Partner, Co-Leader, Cybersecurity Jamey Cummings Senior Client Partner Technology Officers, Co-leader Global Cybersecurity Safeguarding the IoT World The world's biggest cyberattack rocked the business world last week, illu… The talent shield Enterprises that fail to lock in the right people, roles, practices, and p…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2265
__label__cc	0.581837	0.418163	Kids fish free at Branson's Eiserman Park, MDC stocks two ponds By Kadee Brosseau \| Posted: Fri 1:01 PM, Jul 12, 2019 \| Updated: Sun 8:53 PM, Jul 14, 2019 Branson, MO. -- A fun family activity is now free in Branson. Kids can go fishing at Eiserman Park, free-of-charge on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays from 8 to 11 a.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. Kim Sill brought her two grandchildren out to the park for a fun day of fishing. "We like to do a lot of stuff together, we like to do outdoor stuff together," Sill said. Her granddaughter Charlotte chose to go fishing with grandma and her little brother for her seventh birthday. She's certainly starting to get the hang of the sport. "Once your hook starts shaking, you reel it in," Charlotte said. Assistant Director of Branson Parks and Recreation Jason Reinsch says fishing is a skill that will last a life-time. "Just to form that initial love for fishing and then, hopefully, they move on to bigger and better things, as well," Reinsch said. Fish have always lived in the two ponds at Eiserman Park, but the ponds have been freshly stocked by the Missouri Department of Conservation with 150 hybrid bluegill. Fishing equipment is also available for free for kids to use. Reinsch says poles and tackle is provided for through their partnership with MDC. Families can check it out for daily use at the community center, during business hours. Bait is not provided. "Obviously, as recreation people, we want to make sure we provide an opportunity for everybody," Reinsch said. He says the youth fishing program is a great way for anyone to try their hand at a timeless Ozarks tradition. "It's definitely part of the culture of this area," Reinsch said. The fishing is catch-and-release only. Kids 15 and under do not need a permit. Heat wave through Saturday Local sheriffs upset over "catch and release" rules handed down by state Supreme Court Keeping cool when sleeping in sweltering heat SUV nearly hits a teenage girl sleeping in her bedroom in Springfield	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2266
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__label__wiki	0.820936	0.820936	Glendale High’s Rangel enjoys banner week Glendale High School music teacher Amy Rangel with her students Lawrence Degoma, 16, Jay Chung, 17, Richard Mirzoian, 17, Daron Bedrossian, 17, and Jasmine Goc, 17, in the music department. Rangel was selected as one of 25 national semifinalists for a 2019 Music Educator Award. (Tim Berger / Glendale News-Press) By Andrew J. Campa In only a week’s time, Glendale High School music instructor Amy Rangel proved she’s no one-hit wonder. The Burbank resident was selected as one of 25 national semifinalists for a 2019 Music Educator Award granted by the Recording Academy, presenters of the Grammy Awards, and the Grammy Museum on Wednesday, Oct. 10. Fast forward one week and Rangel is at the Grammy Museum on Wednesday to accept another high honor. She and her music program were selected to receive a 2018 Grammy Signature Enterprise Award, which is a three-year grant that totals $22,500. The accolades and the possibilities created because of the grant money have been a bit overwhelming, contended Rangel. “All this has been unexpected for me, honestly,” Rangel said. “I’ve been nominated for the [teacher of the year award], but never got past the quarterfinals.” Rangel added, “It’s been amazing and I really did it for the grant money and to be able to promote the program. I want people to send their kids to Glendale High School because we have great things going on here.” Rangel handles around 250 students in a music program that requires many hats as she runs the marching band, which includes color guard and drumline, a concert band, string orchestra, full orchestra and two jazz bands. Rangel was one of 25 teachers from 24 cities and 16 states out of a pool of 2,800 hopefuls as the competition was open to instructors from kindergarten to college. She was also one of four educators from California, but the lone nominee from Los Angeles County. Rangel will find out if she’s been selected in December as one of 10 finalists in the running for the grand prize. With the title of music educator of the year comes attendance and acknowledgement during the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in February, where the winner will receive a $10,000 grant along with an additional $10,000 for the school. In being a semifinalist, Rangel has already secured a $500 grant. Should she be selected a semifinalist, she would receive a $1,000 grant, as would Glendale. “I was excited for Ms. Rangel because she’s a cool teacher,” said Diego Garcia, a sophomore saxophone player in Rangel’s class. “It’s good for her to get recognition, and it’s really cool for our music department to get recognition because we’re underfunded.” Rangel, a district 19-year veteran, applied for the Grammy Signature School contest and hoped for the best. “They only pick four schools for the Grammys and I had to do some writing and submit audio tapes,” Rangel said. “They want to know that your program sounds decent.” She added, “The school district does what they can for us financially, but we have to fundraise tens of thousands of dollars to make sure every kid has a working instrument.” Rangel has been part of a flurry of Glendale teachers and staff who have flourished of late. Rangel and her band played at the Glendale Educational Foundation breakfast on Oct. 4 during which Glendale High special needs instructor Betsy Astor was lauded as a Los Angeles County Teacher of the Year. A few months earlier, Glendale High custodial supervisor Krista Smiley was named a California School Employees Assn. Member of the Year. andrew.campa@latimes.com Twitter @campadresports Andrew J. Campa Andrew J. Campa covers education for the Burbank Leader and Glendale News-Press. He has been a reporter for Times Community News since 2011 and previously covered high school and college sports, and has written the occasional professional sports feature. Previously, Campa worked at the Whittier Daily News and Pasadena Star-News. He’s a proud Cal State Fullerton (#tusksup) and Pasadena City College alumnus. He hopes the Chicago Bears will get back to the Super Bowl one day. L.A. River revitalization: Plan to connect Verdugo Mountains, San Rafael Hills unveiled A plan to connect two ecologically rich areas in Glendale’s Verdugo Wash — for animals and possibly people — was given the thumbs up by officials tasked with revitalizing the upper part of the Los Angeles River. Clark Magnet, Crescenta Valley High students show off skills at national championship Clark Magnet High School’s Larisa Assadourian, Tsoler Demerdjian and Alaina Chiriyankandath Joby along with Crescenta Valley’s Carly Ngo earned national titlist acclaim at the weeklong event held at the Kentucky Exposition Center. Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf raises more than $60,000 for charity with its Heroes at Heart Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf presented a check for about $31,000 in Glendale on Tuesday to the California Fire Foundation as part of its Heroes at Heart fundraising campaign. Glendale firefighters are ‘Heroes at Heart’ in a new ad campaign Newly minted septuagenarian sets out to walk every street in Glendale Recently, David Eisenberg realized he’s walked on nearly every street in Glendale, where he’s lived since 1985. Now, he’s turned putting his feet on every street in the city into a personal mission. Last remaining ‘Welcome to Glendale’ sign removed Motorists traveling along Foothill Boulevard will be welcomed to Glendale no more. MAP Accelerator math aid to debut at Glendale Unified this upcoming year For several years, many Glendale Unified teachers have benefited from videos, courses, lessons and other learning services provided by the nonprofit Khan Academy online educational organization. Man dies in apparent suicide on freeway onramp, Glendale police say A 48-year-old Glendale man died Thursday evening after jumping from an overpass and onto a freeway onramp. Alex Film Society takes guests down memory lane for first fundraiser Once upon a time, the Alex Theatre, with its ornate facade and single looming screen, was nothing out of the ordinary. Glendale couple sues fertility clinic after woman gives birth to their son in embryo snafu It was right before Easter when Anni and Ashot Manukyan got a call from the CHA Fertility Clinic in Los Angeles asking them to come in for DNA testing.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2274
__label__wiki	0.935455	0.935455	Analysis: Clippers are deep in talent — and that raises questions Clippers Coach Doc Rivers pleads for a foul call from official Eli Roe during the fourth quarter of a game on Dec. 17. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) By Ben BolchStaff Writer Doc Rivers, the Clippers’ president of basketball operations, has stocked the team’s roster like a grocery store in the days before a snowstorm. There’s a Socrates-deep bench to go with two of the NBA’s top players, Chris Paul and Blake Griffin, not to mention the emoji-fueled return of defensive dynamo DeAndre Jordan. All of which leads to a surprisingly long list of questions for Doc Rivers, the coach: Borderline ball hogs Lance Stephenson and Jamal Crawford on the same unit? How’s that going to work? Can Paul Pierce realistically expect to play starter-level minutes at age 38? Four small forwards? Really? Does the fourth-stringer get more minutes than the video coordinator? The Times enlisted two former NBA coaches — Mike Fratello, Rivers’ first professional coach; and Stu Jackson, who, similar to Rivers, once held the dual role of general manager and coach — to sift through the challenges facing Rivers this season. Expectations are such that anything short of the Clippers’ first appearance in the Western Conference finals would widely be considered a failure. There is no shortage of issues when you have two alleged malcontents, five ballhandlers and seven forwards. Fratello, who coached Rivers for his first seven years as a point guard with the Atlanta Hawks, had his own question regarding Stephenson and Josh Smith, new acquisitions with shaky reputations. Interested in the stories shaping California? Sign up for the free Essential California newsletter >> “There’s no one in the league who won’t say that they have talent and they have been athletically blessed,” said Fratello, an analyst for TNT. “However, they also come with the word ‘but’ after it, a little like [free-agent guard] J.R. Smith. Which J.R. Smith are you getting? The one who unties guys’ shoes at the foul line or the one who makes eight threes in a game?” For the record, Josh Smith made four three-pointers in the Houston Rockets’ epic comeback against the Clippers in Game 6 of the Western Conference semifinals, though the Clippers would gladly take that production on a regular basis from a player who figures to back up Griffin at power forward. Stephenson comes with a history of having blown in LeBron James ear’ during a game. He’s also generated whispers about being a bad teammate, leading to more questions from Fratello. “How is he going to fit in with the chemistry of this team and how will he handle the star factor of Chris Paul, of Blake Griffin, of Pierce’s experience and his Hall of Fame background?” Fratello asked. “How is he going to fit in with all that and does he bounce back from having a disappointing year last year? Has he grown up, has he matured, is he going to be a contributor?” Jackson, a former coach and general manager of the Vancouver Grizzlies who is an analyst for NBA TV, said the presence of Paul, Griffin and Pierce should act as a buffer against bad behavior because they have created a culture of success and expectations. “Teams that have veteran leadership can absorb almost any player into their culture and their environment,” Jackson said. Pierce brings a championship pedigree but also concerns. He has logged 50,446 minutes, including action in the playoffs, in his 17 NBA seasons and averaged a career-low 26.2 minutes a game last season with the Washington Wizards. That makes him a candidate for a maintenance plan that could entail not only reduced minutes but sitting out games in back-to-back situations. “Given the depth of the Clippers’ roster,” Jackson said, “I think it probably behooves them to manage his minutes because the result could be a highly productive playoff-oriented player, which is what they’re after.” That newfound depth should have other pluses, Jackson said. The Clippers will have versatility on the perimeter they lacked in recent seasons, giving them the ability to match up with opponents big and small. They will also have enough bodies to sustain a few injuries without an appreciable drop-off in play. But what about having so many players with overlapping skill sets? Pierce, Stephenson, Wesley Johnson and Jordan Hamilton all play small forward, and the ballhandling spot could be even more of a logjam. Paul, Austin Rivers and newcomer Pablo Prigioni are point guards by nature and Stephenson and Crawford also like to operate with the ball in their hands. This is where Doc Rivers’ skills as an orator and consensus-builder will be tested. “One of Doc’s strengths is the ability to communicate and galvanize a team,” Jackson said. “Doc has the ability to focus teams on a common goal … and he does it in such a way that he gains buy-in.” Fratello said Rivers would need to take a wait-and-see approach as to whether Stephenson and Crawford can coexist as part of the second team. If not, a trade is always an option. “Maybe these guys are too similar to each other,” Fratello said. “Maybe we don’t need both of them, so maybe we use one of them in a deal that may come up.” Crawford has alluded to displeasure with the Clippers on social media, tweeting that being a free agent would be a “wish” for him in the wake of persistent trade rumors. The veteran shooting guard also listed Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena among his favorite NBA spots, seemingly referencing the Cavaliers because they were one of his rumored trade destinations. There is also the matter of whether the Clippers need to make Jordan more of a focal point of their offense. That possibility seemed to dazzle the center during his free-agency dalliance with the Dallas Mavericks. Jackson suggested the Clippers should continue to develop Jordan, who’s still only 27 despite having completed seven NBA seasons, on his current trajectory as a defensive menace who is enhancing his offensive repertoire. Fratello pointed out that giving Jordan more touches would result in fewer opportunities for gifted scorers Griffin and Paul. Of course, there’s one solution that would get Jordan more points while pleasing his teammates. “He needs to become a better free-throw shooter,” Fratello said of a player who has made 41.7% of his foul shots in his career and spent long stretches of the playoffs being intentionally fouled. That’s one thing about the Clippers that there’s no question about. Follow Ben Bolch on Twitter @latbbolch MORE CLIPPERS NEWS: Clippers’ Lance Stephenson dances with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Grizzlies’ Matt Barnes tells his kids the Clippers are now his enemies on the court Paul Pierce on joining the Clippers: ‘This is the right timing’ Ben Bolch Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. Natalie Nakase continues to climb in the Clippers organization The Clippers trailed the Sacramento Kings by 10 at halftime of their fourth Las Vegas Summer League game, a chance to advance to the eight-team playoffs potentially on the line. The Sports Report: Kawhi Leonard may not be a Clipper as long as we first thought Howdy, my name is Houston Mitchell and it’s strange having no baseball on to watch in the middle of July. Cliff Alexander is hoping for another NBA shot, maybe with the Clippers Cliff Alexander thought he was on the path to NBA stardom in 2014.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2275
__label__wiki	0.930934	0.930934	Column: Can Rob Pelinka be trusted to build Lakers around Anthony Davis and LeBron James? Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka answers questions during a news conference in 2018. Pelinka faces a tough task in building up the Lakers roster around LeBron James and Anthony Davis. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) By Bill PlaschkeColumnist The hangover hit quick. Hours after LeBron James agreed to join the Lakers last summer, with fans throughout Los Angeles still raising toasts to the King, he was followed into town by a misfit court. Showing up first was Lance Stephenson. What? Here came JaVale McGee. Seriously? Next up was Rajon Rondo. Huh? Finally there was Michael Beasley. Really? In buffeting the James acquisition with a bunch of aging and balky parts, Magic Johnson and Rob Pelinka followed their great coup with a giant crash. They stumbled through their encore and into the orchestra pit. They caused their celebrating city to awaken with a massive headache. Nearly a year later, a nearly identical opportunity to build upon greatness has arisen once more. In the wake of last weekend’s titanic trade for Anthony Davis to join James, the Lakers are charged with surrounding two of the best five players in the NBA with enough pieces to fortify a legitimate title run. This time, the future of the franchise depends on Pelinka not screwing it up again. This notion takes an ominous turn when one considers the possibility Pelinka might have screwed it up already. Did you read the Tania Ganguli horror story in Monday’s Times? While it was widely assumed at the time of the trade that the Lakers could use their salary-cap space to sign a max contract free agent such as Kyrie Irving, Kemba Walker or Kawhi Leonard, apparently the fine print in the NBA rules won’t allow it. The trade for Davis is scheduled to be official July 6, which, for some complicated salary-cap reasons, won’t give the Lakers the space to sign a top guy. The Lakers would prefer that the deal become official July 30, which would give them enough space to make their next big splash, but the New Orleans Pelicans aren’t inclined to wait that long. As part of the Davis deal, they acquired the Lakers’ No. 4 overall pick in Thursday’s draft, and they want to acquire that kid as soon as possible so he can play on their July summer league team. If they trade the pick, they’re assuming any other team would want the same benefit. It’s all very complex, but it’s all very simple. Couldn’t Pelinka have made the later trade date part of the deal? Shouldn’t it actually have been a sticking point? Goodness, he gave New Orleans a haul of three first-round draft picks and three of his best younger players. Couldn’t the Pelicans have at least given him those extra three weeks? Pelinka is not talking, so we don’t know what happened. There is a chance he asked for the later date and was immediately refused. But there is also a chance that he didn’t consider the salary cap ramifications until it was too late. The Pelicans simply could decide to give them the later date, but that could cost the Lakers another player or more money. Whatever happened, for now it appears Kyrie, Kemba and Kawhi are out, and this unavailability will make Pelinka’s job a lot more difficult and test the faith of his critics even more. Instead of simply signing another superstar and sealing this title run with $32.5 million in cap space, he will have to find two or three solid players for as little as $23.7 million in cap space, and does anybody trust that he can do that? Anthony Davis cuts down the net after Kentucky defeated the Baylor 82-70 in the NCAA tournament South Regional final on March 25, 2012, in Atlanta. (Streeter Lecka / Getty Images) Kentucky head coach John Calipari and Anthony Davis embrace after defeating Kansas 67-59in the NCAA tournament final on April 2, 2012, in New Orleans. (Charles Bertram / MCT) Kentucky’s Anthony Davis reacts late in the second half against the Louisville Cardinals during the 2012 NCAA semifinals. (Ronald Martinez / Getty Images) Kentucky’s Anthony Davi is congratulated by former teammate Michael Kidd–Gilchrist after Davis was selected the No. 1 overall draft pick by the New Orleans Hornets on June, 28, 2012. (Bill Kostroun / Associated Press) Kentucky coach John Calipari and Anthony Davis in the audience during the 2012 ESPY Awards at Nokia Theatre on July 11, 2012. (Jason Merritt / Getty Images) Hornets forward Anthony Davis knocks the ball from the grasp of Lakers forward Pau Gasol during a game in 2013. Hornets forward Anthony Davis battles Wizards forward Martell Webster for a rebound. Pelicans forward Anthony Davis dunks against the Clippers during a game on Nov. 11, 2017. (Scott Threlkeld / Associated Press) Pelicans forward Anthony Davis and Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade trade jerseys after a game Nov. 30, 2018, in Miami. (Brynn Anderson / Associated Press) Pelicans forward Anthony Davis tries to grab a rebound from Clippers center DeAndre Jordan on March 6, 2018. Pelicans forward Anthony Davis reacts after a slam dunk during the second half of Game 3 of a second-round NBA basketball playoff series against the Golden State Warriors on May 4, 2018. (Gerald Herbert / Associated Press) Pelicans forward Anthony Davis leaves the court after talking to reporters on Feb. 1, 2019, shortly after his trade demand became public. Pelicans forward Anthony Davis has the ball stripped by Lakers guard Rajon Rondo during a game in 2019. Lakers forward LeBron James and Pelicans forward Anthony Davis after a March game in New Orleans. The Lakers won 130-102. (Tyler Kaufman / Associated Press) Pelicans forward Anthony Davis dunks against the Lakers during a game last season. He will be assisted in this summer’s search by Kurt Rambis instead of the globe-trotting Johnson, whatever that’s worth. And the Lakers are suddenly a great destination for some strong veterans chasing a ring, so that helps. They need an entire backcourt, and a good place to start might be with former Clipper JJ Redick. Would they be so bold as to try to sign former Laker D’Angelo Russell if he becomes available? In filling out the roster with shooters, how about bringing back Milwaukee’s Brook Lopez or his teammate Khris Middleton? If they’re looking for another championship veteran, there is Toronto’s Danny Green. The truth is, none of these options sound nearly as appetizing as one of those max-deal players who have been promised to Lakers for the last two summers. The news of the salary-cap snag at least temporarily throws a wet blanket over news of the Davis deal, and could eventually suffocate its promise altogether. Remember, unlike James, Davis has not signed a long-term deal here yet. He has said he wants to be a Laker, but that doesn’t mean anything until next summer, so the Lakers are basically in a one-year audition for his services. Pelinka must build a roster that will not only maximize Davis’ ability, but also convince him to make this his permanent home. Sign up for our daily sports newsletter » So, really, trading for Davis was difficult, but now comes the hard part: Keeping him. This was still a tremendous deal, and the rest of it can be figured out. There are still many ways Pelinka can work the system, fill the holes and finish the job. The Lakers can still win an NBA title by adding a solid playmaker and shooter, and they don’t have to be superstars. But they have to be the right stars. And, after last summer, and in the wake of Sunday’s news, one can be forgiven for being just a tad cynical about Pelinka’s chances of finding them. Welcome to Lakerland, A.D. Having fun yet? bill.plaschke@latimes.com Get more of Bill Plaschke’s work and follow him on Twitter @BillPlaschke Bill Plaschke has been a Los Angeles Times columnist since 1996.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2276
__label__wiki	0.579784	0.579784	Lifestyles & Communities Our Lives From the Editor: Celebrating Love, Celebrating the Community By Andy Lien July 25, 2013 Categories: Lifestyles & Communities, Our Lives Celebrate Love! Lavender is rounding up our 2013 Pride coverage with this Pride in Pictures Issue that celebrates love as well as this community. This community united over marriage and remains celebratory in what we’re moving into: a post-marriage state, literally and figuratively. No, it’s not all said and done as far as the hows and whats of marriage equality, but the campaigns for same-sex marriage are over for Minnesota. What are we left with? So, so much. Watching the Pride Parade, visiting the booths at the Pride Festival, seeing so many people out and about as they were celebrating this community…it was just a glimpse into how far-reaching this group of people actually is. And, it was an organized one. As I watched the parade, I noted which organizations and corporations were representing themselves, which politicians and churches were showing their affiliation and support of the community, which performers and bars and restaurants and small businesses marched along with various themes and tchotchkes to throw into the crowd. What I was seeing was the community, in this post-marriage state. Looking through these pictures in this issue, you may notice that there are some marriage-based thematic elements, but each of these groups represented in the Parade actually exist for other reasons: Music. Burlesque. Leather. Politics. Religion. Non-Religion. Sports. Food. Drinks. Sobriety. Cross-Dressing. Drag. Parenting. Pets. Fitness. Work. Commerce. Motorcycles. Anti-Bullying. Education. Health. Aging. Arts. Law Enforcement. Fire Fighting. Peace. I watched the Parade and kept track on the Pride App on my iPhone, marveling at the number of entries and the breadth and depth of who and what they represent. This community. It’s what Lavender has celebrated every two weeks since 1995. What a wonderful segue to introduce our next big project: The Lavender Community Awards (LCAs). The Lavender Community Awards (LCAs) will be the updated version of the Lavender 100, last year’s tribute to our favorite places to go, things to do, foods to eat, places to be seen. We presented lists of finalists and winners as well as started a practice of giving attention to movers and shakers in the GLBT community, which became what I call a “keeper” of an issue; one to hang on to. Instead of asking the community to vote for favorites this year, we’re going to focus on the people and ask for nominations as to who you think deserves recognition as members of the Lavender (GLBT and Allies) Community. We’ll have lovely photos of the winners, short biographies to let you know who they are and what they do, and all-around lovely representation of why this community is so unique and deserving of celebration. Please go to lavendermagazi.wpengine.com/LCAnominations and nominate your picks for the Lavender Community Awards. Nominations will be accepted through Friday, August 23. Then, look for the new issue featuring the winners of the Lavender Community Awards on October 3. Honestly, I can’t wait.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2279
__label__cc	0.726036	0.273964	Waste in the Stimulus Bill Process? By Mark Graban On Feb 13, 2009 I try to keep apolitical here, so I'm not necessarily looking for discussion of what might be viewed as “waste” (meaning wasteful spending) in the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” bill that the House just approved. There are plenty of good political sites for that (often clusters of like-minded folks on the left or the right without much debate). I guess the Lean Blog is a cluster of folks who like or agree with Lean principles, so I'll quit throwing stones. Hat tip to ReadTheStimulus.org for this. After the conference committee approved the bill that would come for a vote on Wednesday, I wanted to read parts of it, especially about healthcare. But the wording wasn't available online. Legislation apparently isn't written in a “wiki” format or even Google Documents, where it can be shared quickly and easily online. It took until late Thursday night to get it posted online. That's over 24 hours. Not very “Lean” (in terms of being fast) nor is it good for an informed public. Then, the Speaker's website, where you could download the documents, was crashed (apparently due to the interest and web traffic generated). The page where you can download the files is here. 100 MB of PDF downloads I guess we don't expect our representatives to read what they're passing (unfortunately, there's precedent for this). The thing that made the groan the most was seeing that the PDFs were created by: Printing document Scanning document Posting PDF So it went: Digital –> Analog –> Worse form of Digital (UPDATE: The PDF file is actually text searchable… so either ReadTheStimulus was wrong or they uploaded a new file). That's too many steps. “Waste” in the Lean lingo. They couldn't have clicked “Save As PDF”? Would have been faster and easier… unless the goal was to make it hard to download and hard to read. This makes it impossible to search the PDFs, when they are created as graphics. Created from a Word document, a PDF can be searched by words. Again, so much for an informed electorate. We're in such a hurry to “pass something” because it's such a crisis. I'm reminded of Lean phrases: “Go slow to go fast” “Don't just do something, stand there!” (Dr. Deming, saying that sometimes no action is the best action) “Do things right the first time.” I guess they don't apply in this setting. Subscribe via RSS \| Lean Blog Main Page \| Podcast \| Twitter @markgraban Articles about Lean in Healthcare Your Own Process and People, not the Internet Chernobyl: Data Without Context is Dangerous Throwback Thursday: This is Not a Drill — It Happened Again The Response to the Hawaii False Alarm Can’t End With Firing Someone This and… Two Data Points Don’t Make a Trend, So Read Beyond the Headline In Newspapers… Thanks for being a good citizen. I’m trying to download Part A and it says 4 minutes. How much bandwidth is being used to download these huge files? Probably not as much bandwidth as is being used to watch mindless crap on YouTube. The file actually is text searchable. You’re right — just noticed that too. You had a post on here about capping CEO pay. Guess what got removed from the final bill? The cap on CEO pay. Huffington Post (a place where mostly lefties hang out, I know). Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. ‘Not one member has read this…’ Dr. D says 10 years ago You say “do things right the first time”, what about having an 85% solution and applying PDCA? I thought that was also the Toyota way? The Sec of Treasury said they will make mistakes and the plan might have to be changed as they go. “We will have to try things we’ve never tried before,” he said. “We will make mistakes. We will go through periods in which things get worse and progress is uneven or interrupted.” “ This sounds like every Lean implementation I’ve been a part of, that quote. Managers weren’t usually that up front about it! George says 10 years ago While we’re talking process, on Tuesday, they said we’d all have 48 hours to review before Congress voted… now that isn’t happening. Those on the left AND the right complained about the Patriot Act being rammed through. Seems like hypocrisy to ram this one through. Capt Conservative says 10 years ago Hi- OK, but delving into politics… The Speaker’s website is, I’m afraid, lying to the American public. She says: “Provides $1.1 billion for comparative effectiveness research, to evaluate the relative effectiveness of different health care services and treatment options. This research will improve the quality of care.” Quality of care? No. This research will save money by rationing care, particularly to older Americans. http://tinyurl.com/c9lrxf The gameplan is in Sen. Daschle’s book “Critical” and nothing is stopping because he’s a tax cheat, I mean honest-mistake maker. In the UK, “NICE” rations care by denying cancer treatment because it’s not cost effective. Seniors could not get eye surgery until they went blind in one eye. Waiting times have been horrendous (although they’re working on it). Daschle and the Democrats want a “Federal Health Board” where bureaucrats would make decisions (life and death decisions) much like the Federal Reserve does for interest rates. I think we should all be very fearful of this. Daschle even wrote his gameplan for sticking healthcare reform into a budget package… very sneaky and there’s no debate. If you’re a Lean thinker, this sort of “top down” management should scare the crap out of you. And this link: http://www.speroforum.com/a/16956/UK-government-denies-healthcare-based-on-costs Skeptical Sam says 10 years ago Talk about “hurry up and wait”. The President isn’t even signing the bill until Tuesday. He’s gallivanting around Chicago with the First Lady this weekend. Some “crisis.” I think we’ve been had. Why couldn’t they take longer to read the bill and vote Monday?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2282
__label__cc	0.545344	0.454656	Sam And Audrey That Backpacker Comments Off on Sam And Audrey That Backpacker Apr 09, 2019 · Thai murderer shows police how he killed German backpacker, 26, by smashing her face with a brick after raping her on a popular tourist island The Spy Who Dumped Me Critics Consensus. The Spy Who Dumped Me isn’t the funniest or most inventive spy comedy, but Kate McKinnon remains as compulsively watchable as ever. A backpacker bled to death on a barbed wire fence after falling from a fifth floor hostel ledge while practising yoga, police believe. Vera Maceiras Rijo, 27, was discovered in her pyjamas with her. Jul 28, 2014 · Audrey Bergner. Audrey is the creator of That Backpacker and has spent the past few years crisscrossing the globe with a notebook in one hand and a camera in the other. 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The television campaign from the Federal Government. 1958. Amos, Charles C. 1958 HS Anderson, David W. 1958 JC ~ 19-Apr-2013 n April 19, 2013.After putting up a valiant fight against cancer, Dave left his earthly body to. Singapore March Holidays Hong Kong is closed Monday for a holiday. The Singapore-traded SGX Nifty. Maintained ‘Buy’; hiked price target to Rs 375. Overview. The U.S. Embassy observes both U.S. and Singapore holidays and will be closed on those dates. The visa application services call center also observes U.S. and Singapore holidays and will also be closed on Residents are being warned of dodgy backpackers posing as locksmiths around Brisbane. The fake locksmiths are charging residents hundreds of dollars and the advertised $45 call out fee. Lydia Wilson. In a moving public statement childhood friend Nicole Farren demanded ‘justice be served’ for the 28-year-old backpacker who was sexually assaulted and killed at the idyllic beach-front resort of. An American backpacker who survived a horror head on collision on an Australian freeway is pleading for help to pay her mounting medical bills. Andra Nicholson, 27, and her friend John borrowed a car. They sent researchers around the world wearing the shirts doing everything from backpacking in the Andes to dancing in sweaty New York nightclubs to test their design. The shirts are made of wool. A 32-year-old Canadian woman died as she drank tea at a Peru shaman ceremony. Jennifer Logan of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan was backpacking through the country when she had a fatal medical reaction as she. Holiday Cottages Braemar Callater Cottages. Self-catering Accommodation, Braemar, Scotland. 9 Glenshee Road, Braemar, AB35 5YQ Tel +44 (0) 13397 41275 Fax +44 (0) 13397 41345. VARIOUS DEPARTURE DATES Fred Olsen Line is expanding its fleet starting in August with the Braemar, a refurbished version of the. in the United States Virgin Islands. There are 50 cottages with. Castleton This is the moment a young backpacker’s euphoria turned to pure terror as she came centimetres from death when her parachute failed to open during her first skydive. Emma Carey, 25, took the dive. A British backpacker has been stranded in Thailand after breaking her neck in a diving accident – and may never be able to walk again. Sophie Wilson, 24, misjudged the depth of a swimming pool a week. The Patagonian Expedition is a 95% self funded video documentary about Patagonia following my trip in 2012/2013. Our aim is to show you the beauty of the rather unknown parts of this region. Federal Holiday Christmas Eve Dec 19, 2018. Obama also excused federal employees from working the day after. Tags Donald Trump federal government Christmas Eve Holiday. Elgin’s municipal center is closed Christmas Eve but there will be garbage pickup in the city that day. Federal government offices are closed but the Kane County Government Center is open. Navigating. 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__label__wiki	0.58815	0.58815	Home Short days Long weekends Far & away Blog Contact HomeShort daysLong weekendsFar & awayBlogContact Following in the footsteps of Jane Austen… sort of. Where are you going this weekend? Take inspiration from our mood-enhancing photo... Click for Gallery SHORT DAYS AWAY Short days (quick getaways) All in all, Eastbourne has rather a lot going for it… and not just as a place to see out your days. Arty, quirky and edgy, Folkestone is on the up – and is a fabulous day out when you want to leave London behind. SUA is a lovely, charming, middle England market town that lucked out big time as the home of England’s premier poet and playwright. It’s genteel in a way that certain British market towns can be. But (and it’s a big but), it’s a city stuffed full of lively bars (big student population), cute cobbled streets, lovely old houses, some fantastic restaurants. Whitstable is a feel-good kind of place. It’s only a short hop from south London, but it has enough of a seaside feel to really give you a break from the city. There is a fun and easygoing vibe to Chichester, partly due to the fact that you can get drunk and roll home easily as it’s compact, within the city walls, within the historic grid. Three strands of culture colliding on the edge of Sussex, giving Hastings a fun, funky, lived in charm all of its own. Lewes is quaint, market-town perfect, its ancient Sussex buildings giving away no secrets. Unspoilt seaside town offers up its vintage charms and 'end of the pier' fun. Long weekends (overnight mini breaks) Bath is a perfect tourist city, historical in its groundings (Roman baths and ancient cathedral); perfect in its heyday (Georgian watering hole, Miss Austen and her novels) and then refined in its modernity (preserved squares and crescents, new architecture thoroughly in keeping). Every door in the Royal Crescent is painted the same colour. It is a city jewel-like in its perfection. Broadstairs doesn’t care about the weather, its timeless appeal means it can outlast us frivolous day trippers. It couldn’t be any lovelier. I mean, really. Gorgeous old university city, a river running through it, quaint old shops, narrow streets. Full - and I mean FULL - of tourists and hen parties. There’s history (the docks, anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce’s house, maritime museum), plenty of art and installations all over the city and lots of pride in a town that’s unfairly labelled as a bit crap. Birmingham is not only rather lovely now, with a brilliant spread of bars and restaurants to indulge in, as well as loads of decent shops and offbeat, quirky places to explore. Set back in the hills on a deep river estuary, Bristol is a city that feels like it should be much bigger than it is. it was hard not to really like Bristol… Ah, Brighton. The Belle of the South Coast, all Regency flourishes and decadence. Far & Away (Cool places further afield) Like some glorious, glittery jewel on the shores of Lake Maggiore, Stresa is a faded Fabergé egg of a town, all white-wedding-cake hotels, big neon-blue swimming pools and gently crumbling palazzos. It’s a wonderful place for a holiday. Munich is a city chock-full of contrasts. Olde worlde buildings, steepled roofs, incredible church spires. Flip it over and it’s a cool, chilled, designer-clad industrial powerhouse of a place. Eindhoven was amazing. It’s set in some very lovely countryside, all green fields and big rivers and massive skies. Van Gogh painted around here, you know. It’s a compact city with a centre that’s big enough to be interesting, small enough to be walkable. La Rochelle / Ile de Re Ile de Re is where well-heeled Parisians come to rest and recharge their batteries at the weekend and If you’ve ever studied French for GCSE, surely you know where La Rochelle is. It’s such a cliche, isn’t it? Smoke dope, get pissed, go to the Red Light District for an eyeful. Repeat. Visit Dam Square. Come away not thinking much of Amsterdam apart from ‘canals, prostitutes, gear’. We fell in love with the city on the water, a city that has a rep for being dirty, smelly, crap at food (in Italy?) and packed full of tourists. Wicker Park (Chicago) Some people warned us from leaving central Chicago and travelling to the suburbs. It’s dangerous, they said. People get killed, they said. Stick to the tourist areas. Navy Pier is nice. Winchelsea 8 castles close to London that you have to visit Whether you want romantic, fairytale towers, or a bit of blood’n’guts, we’ve got a castle for you. And best of all – they’re all only 2 hours or less from London… Romjul by the river Nene We chose to spend our Romjul in a little corner of England between Peterborough and Kettering. It’s a peaceful area, split in two by the river Nene wending its way to the Wash. A rainy afternoon in Deal Don’t let bad weather put you off. Deal is splendid whether it’s sunny or chucking it down… The Shack, Isle of Wight We were charmed even before we got there. Charmed by the ferry, chugging across the water from Portsmouth, taking us to the Isle of Wight. Riverhill Himalayan Gardens Hidden away in the High Weald, spanning Kent and Surrey, is a perfect jewel box of a garden, the kind of garden you dream of having a wander around, where there’s delicious rose walks, wild and tangled woodsides, hills with perfect views across the surrounding countryside, den building for kids, sculptures, a yeti… Oh faded glory! There's something rather lovely about Crystal Palace Park, which is only 20 minutes by train from central London. All that once-grand, Empire-guzzling power and might of the actual Crystal Palace now reduced to sweeping terraces overgrown with brambles and statues with their heads lopped off. 13 Sakura products you need to try while you're in Japan So here's the Leave London Behind rundown on 13 of the most interesting Sakura-themed goodies for sale in Japan in spring 2018. Get them while stocks last!. The best secret spots in London You don't have to leave London to grab a bit of peace and quiet. Here's the Leave London Behind guide to the secret places that will whisk you away – without you leaving the capital... (And best of all, most of them are free!) Onsen: first-time bathing guide Leave London Behind Onsen guide. An onsen, for those who don’t know about this particularly Japanese tradition, is a natural springs bath. It’s often hot, due to volcanic rocks heating the water – and even though you have to get bare to have one, it’s utterly delightful. think we have missed somewhere? 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__label__wiki	0.888321	0.888321	Downtown Boys (Sub Pop) Words by Liam Konemann If you’re particularly invested in harmonic vocals and gentle soundscapes, turn away now. Otherwise, strap in. Providence’s Downtown Boys are back with their third album, and ‘Cost of Living’ is a fierce offering that takes aim at fascism, queerphobia, capitalism, and racism in a howl of cathartic energy. On the surface, the record seems to be straightforward meat-and-potatoes DIY punk. But let’s revise our understanding of ‘melody’. It’s there. The guitar riffs and arrangements on ‘Violent Complicity’ and the shimmering, Joy Division-style ‘Lips That Bite’ are proof of that, and worth the price of admission on their own. Elsewhere, the band pick up the trail left by punk and hardcore greats before them. They cite influences including The Clash and Wire, but on tracks like ‘It Can’t Wait’ producer Guy Picciotto’s Fugazi heritage shines through. Underneath the wailing, split-lip vocals is a crispness that defines the record, turning the frenzy into something more than just musical rebellion. That said, ‘Cost of Living’ still manages to push back against the status quo at every turn. By the Downtown Boys’ own admission they’re aiming to topple ‘white-cis-het-hegemony’ using Chicana, queer and latinx voices. This is never clearer than on the anguished, Spanish language ‘Tonta’ that, with its frantic sax section, is entirely unlike anything else other records this year have to offer. Originally published in Issue 87 The hooks are neither sharp nor sweet enough to make an impact on IDER's debut You're not doing it right if you're not doing the new Flaming Lips LP inside a giant LED light show head Next To The Sun is the name of KAINA's album, and that's where you're gonna want to be	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2296
__label__wiki	0.691587	0.691587	03:59 PM Friday 12 Jul 2019 : UK The Port of Southampton will host the Tech Area for the upcoming European debut of SailGP – a new, annual global sports championship featuring the world's fastest sail racing. In addition to serving as an Official Supplier of the Cowes SailGP Tech Area, the port is also a tier two partner of Cowes SailGP. Cowes SailGP will take place in the Solent on August 10 and 11, with all six national teams and the SailGP tech team utilising the Port of Southampton as their home base. The Cowes SailGP Tech Area will be located in the Eastern Docks at the UK's number one export port, and will host rival teams from Great Britain, Australia, China, France, Japan and the United States. The six 50-foot wingsailed catamarans – known as F50s – will be stored and maintained at the Tech Area. In its inaugural year, the global league comprises of five events. Fourth on the calendar, Cowes SailGP follows events in Sydney (February), San Francisco (May) and New York (June). Cowes marks the first event in the UK for SailGP, with the grand prix serving as an Official Feature Event of the iconic Cowes Week. The first season will conclude with the Grand Final in Marseille, France, in September. SailGP features some of the world's top athletes racing foiling F50 catamarans, which fly over the water and are capable of breaking sailing's elusive 50-knot speed barrier, translating to astonishing speeds in excess of 60 mph. Leslie Ryan, UK Event Director, SailGP Cowes, said: "We are delighted that the Port of Southampton will host the Tech Area for Cowes SailGP. The set-up and infrastructure they have in place is second to none and will provide a great base for the SailGP teams and organisation in the weeks leading up to, and during the event itself." Alastair Welch, Director at the Port of Southampton, said: "We are thrilled to be an Official Supplier and able to host the SailGP teams during this global sporting event held in the Solent. While the port mainly handles trade across automotive, containers and cruise activities, we're pleased to be able to expand our traditional trade offerings to support this exciting endeavour, which we are sure will be a great boost for the local area." In August, fans are encouraged to head to Cowes to watch the racing from the free-to-access SailGP Race Village situated between Cowes Green and Egypt Point with big screens, live race commentary, stage shows and more. Racing takes place from 3-4:30 p.m. each day, with activity beginning at 11:30 a.m. For those in search of the best views, day and weekend tickets are available in the grandstand and on-water. In addition, boat owners can register to gain access to the inner perimeter, or boats may be chartered through one of the Official Charter Partners. Tickets and more information are available at SailGP.com/Cowes. #SailGP 2019 #SailGP #SailGP #Cowes #F50	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0064.json.gz/line2299

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