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__label__wiki	0.978294	0.978294	Siargao on Cebu aviation firm’s tour list Caraga, Cebu Daily News, Lake Mainit, Siargao, Surigao del Norte A Cebu-based aviation company has partnered with the Department of Tourism to provide aerial tours for those who want an alternative way of exploring Siargao island in the Caraga region. Kenneth Madrid, executive vice president for sales and marketing of Aviatour, said the partnership is in line with the department's thrust to push adventure tourism in the region. "We hope to see more tie-ups with other DOT regional offices after this partnership," Madrid told Cebu Daily News. Tourism secretary Joseph "Ace" Durano said this development opens up Siargao and Caraga to more visitors. "I have seen the tourism attractions of the area. Ang kuwang (What is lacking) is accessibility. The operation of Aviatour will provide the necessary access to the area and open up tourism traffic," said Durano. Madrid said the DOT has coordinated with tour operators to sell the package. He said tour packages to Siargao started last May 15. Introductory prices of flight tour is until September 15 for P3,750 to P7,500 per person for 30-minute to two-hour tour. Package A gives tourists bird's eyeview of Butuan province and marshland, Lake Mainit and Sohoton Cove, while package B includes Surigao province, Lake Mainit and Sohoton Cove. Package C, on the other hand, includes Surigao and Lake Mainit. The aerial tour started in 2000 catering to Korean honeymooners, said marketing officer Margaret Rose Veniegas. Veniegas said demand for the flight tours increased with international tourists such as Russians, Japanese and Belgians comprise 80 percent of the market. About 20 percent are local tourists. The Caraga region packages are the latest addition in the list of flight tours, which include Bohol, Mactan and neighboring islands of Pandanon, Nalusuan and Olango among others. He said the company also offers "tailor-fit" tours according to the request of clients. With the election year coming, Aviatour is expected to host several politicians and celebritiies who normally get services of the company for chartered flights. Meanwhile, the company's flight school continues to get a steady flow of students from different countries such as Pakistan and other Arabian countries, said president and chief operating officer Jemar Bahinting Bahinting said the quality of theory and practical training of the school gives them a competitive edge over other flight schools in the country. There remains low awareness among Filipinos on the prospects of pursuing a career as a pilot, Bahinting said finding jobs for these graduates is another challenge. (Cebu Daily News) Caraga Cebu Daily News Lake Mainit Siargao Surigao del Norte	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line816
__label__cc	0.523826	0.476174	We've moved to www.swanseatitans.com !‎ > ‎ TITANS START WITH A WIN The first weekend in November marked the start of the British Universities American Football League for 75 teams across the UK. The Swansea Titans’ opening fixture was against Bristol Barracuda, a side with a respected new Head Coach and reputation for producing good football sides, despite mediocre finishes in the conference in the past two years. On a pleasant day up at Morriston RFC the Titans elected to receive the ball at the start of the game. The Swansea running game soon got going as rookie Jacob Amadi, taking the majority of the carries, found the edge of the field and used his speed and strength to punch in the first score of the game. Bristol’s offense then took the field but had dire trouble getting plays off due to a succession of bad snaps and fumbles in the backfield. The Swansea defense made the most of this, forcing a safety, adding two points to the score and getting the ball back for the offense. The Titans’ run game was not quite as dominant as the team had hoped going into the game. A number of runs we shutdown were stopped for minimal gain while at times bad decisions were made. In spite of this, the Titans did flourish through the air. Big wide receiver Ayekhele Loek Okomilo was unstoppable, scaring his opposing number with his physical presence while Marcus Wyatt continued his form from previous years, plucking passes out the air with ease. The Titans went into half time with the score 25-0. The second half was a touch better for Barracuda. They had sorted their issues with getting plays off and managed to get a few first downs, but the Swansea defense was not about to let Bristol get an easy ride. Linebacker Gareth Price finished the game with 5 sacks as he went through untouched to hit the quarterback time after time. The Titans built up a 39 to 0 lead half way through the fourth quarter only to have it tainted by allowing Bristol a consolation score at the end of the game. The tie finished 39-7 to Swansea, who are now the form side in the SWAC carrying over from last years’ strong finish. Needless to say that there is still a long way to go for this team who are aware of the areas of their game that they need to improve in order to become one of the top sides in Britain. This win was the Titan's first ever win on the opening day of the season and their first ever win over Bristol University. All in all, not a bad way to start the year. MVPS: Simon George Gareth Price Adam Salter	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line818
__label__wiki	0.84688	0.84688	About TALKERS TALKERS magazine – “The bible of talk media.” "The Bible of Talk Radio and the New Talk Media" TALKERS TV Expert Guests Top Weekly Topics The Heavy Hundred Heavy Hundred of Sports Talk 2019 Heavy Hundred of Talk 2019 TalkersRadio Top Talk Audiences TALKERS 2019 Video You are here: Home » Archives for John Walker Tag: "John Walker" TALKERS \| February 24, 2012 Big Promotion for John Hogan; Exec Moves Up to Chairman and CEO for Clear Channel Media and Entertainment. Clear Channel Media Holdings continues to express its confidence in the man who was promoted from COO to president and CEO of Clear Channel Radio in 2002 after the departure of Randy Michaels. In announcing John Hogan’s promotion and contract extension through 2015, the company touts Hogan’s record of developing the creative and successful integration of sales, promotional and programming initiatives across multiple platforms. Clear Channel CEO Bob Pittman states, “Under John’s strong leadership and vision, Clear Channel Media and Entertainment has integrated the company’s assets so that it is today the leading media and entertainment company in the U.S. with a greater reach than any other radio or television outlet. It provides a one-of-a-kind national platform for partners in addition to the powerful local activation market by market and demo by demo.” Hogan says, “I am pleased and honored to be named to this position, which is a clear endorsement of the soundness of our strategy, the value of our assets, and the depth of the incredible team we are building here. I appreciate the energy and vision that Bob Pittman has brought to the organization and look forward to pursuing with Bob the vision we share as we continue to push the boundaries of the definition of entertainment, giving our audience what they want now and in the future.” Bill Thomas Out as Market Manager at Cumulus Birmingham. Cumulus Media Group regional manager John Walker is set to oversee the Birmingham cluster in addition to his responsibility for the Huntsville stations after the departure of Bill Thomas. There’s no reason to believe that the ongoing legal battle between WJOX-FM, Birmingham personality Paul Finebaum and the company is the sole reason for Thomas’ exit but the possibility exists that Thomas’ role in how the situation was handled could have been a factor. Remember that Finebaum claims he was strong-armed by Thomas into signing a contract amendment that was less beneficial to him. That set the legal wheels in motion that includes Cumulus’ recent decision to countersue Finebaum claiming he violated his contract by engaging in negotiations with a competitor and sharing confidential company information. Journal Broadcast Group Reports Positive Q4; Slight Uptick for 2011. On the strength of increasing automotive in the fourth quarter of 2011, Journal Broadcast Group reports a revenue increase of 2.3%. For the entire year, Journal’s revenue rose 1.6% on $70.4 million compared to 2010. While those numbers aren’t staggering, they beat the negative reports that had become so common over the past few years. Interestingly, unlike many other radio groups, Journal notes the fourth quarter of 2011 was its best quarter. Phil Hendrie Ends Local KFI, Los Angles Saturday Show; Busy TV Schedule Cited. Los Angeles-based radio and television talent Phil Hendrie tweets to fans he is ending his KFI, Los Angeles-only Saturday evening show after this weekend’s performance due to the increasing amount of TV work he’s getting combined with his nightly radio show syndicated by Talk Radio Network. Radio trade AllAccess.com reports it has confirmed the news. Hendrie is doing voice work on Fox Television’s “Napoleon Dynamite” and has upcoming work on Fox’s “New Girl.” Hendrie thanks KFI program director Robin Bertolucci and the KFI staff for their help with the weekend show. CBS Radio’s WQYK, Tampa Changes Midday Show. “The King David Show” featuring Toby David and former Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Shaun King is off the air at CBS Radio’s 1010 Sports (WQYK), according to the Tampa Bay Times’ Tom Jones. Jones reports that WQYK assistant program director Mike Pepper says the station is airing Yahoo! Sports’ Tim Brando in the 12:00 noon to 3:00 pm slot for now but would like to fill that hole with a local show. The station needs time to find the right show. He didn’t rule out either David or King being part of the station in the future. Toby David tells the paper, “I appreciated the time I worked with Shaun and have a great amount of respect for him. I also enjoyed working at CBS Radio and have nothing but the utmost respect for those people and I hope to land on my feet locally.” CCME Announces National Imaging Team. Clear Channel Media and Entertainment organizes the imaging of its radio formats under the Kelly Doherty-led National Programming Platforms group. The function of this reorganization is to create 15 format-specific imaging coordinator positions and those experts will “produce and distribute compelling and diverse on-air promotional audio spots for Clear Channel’s National Programming initiatives, including format-specific creative efforts across iHeartRadio, Artist Integration Programs and large-scale contests and events including the iHeartRadio Music Festival.” Doherty states, “This team includes the top producers in each format. The talent, expertise and ingenuity that this new Imaging Team brings together is unmatched and I am excited to lead such a top-notch group.” Scott Stanley is named news/talk imaging coordinator and Bob Schmidt is the sports imaging coordinator. Thaddeus Matthews Off the Air at WPLX, Memphis After Court Ruling. The case involving Memphis talk host Thaddeus Matthews and WPLX, Memphis owner William Pollack took another turn recently after Chancellor Arnold Goldin of the Shelby County Court denied an injunction Matthews had sought to continue broadcasting his program on WPLX. Matthews made national news with a YouTube broadcast video of his on-air encounter with Republican congressional candidate Charlotte Bergmann which ended with Matthews refusing to shake Bergmann’s hand because he didn’t want her “whiteness” to rub off on him. According to The Commercial Appeal, last week’s court ruling revolved around a dispute over money owed by Matthews to Pollack. Matthews leases the time from Pollack and the latter claims he’s owed in excess of $85,000 in fees. Matthews disputes that figure and vows to continue his legal battle while broadcasting his program on the internet. Rob Otto Joins WCAR, Livonia, Michigan in Sports Director Role. Detroit sports media pro Rob Otto joins Birach Broadcasting’s WCAR, Livonia (west of Detroit) as sports director for the reformatted station positioned as ESPN 1090, according to Michiguide.com. The site reports Otto “will also be tasked with providing local, on-air sports updates for WCAR and helping the station establish local programming and marketing. He’ll also be moving his sports-related blog from MLive.com to ESPN 1090’s website at espn1090.com.” Otto has worked in the Detroit market at WXYT-FM, WWJ, WDFN and WHMI-FM. Opinion: Talk Host Phil Valentine Says Prohibition of Ethnic References Reeks of Controlling the Language. Nashville-based Dial Global syndicated talk host Phil Valentine responds to TALKERS sports editor Richard Neer’s column (When it Comes to Ethnic Slurs, Just Don’t Go There, 2/23/12) that in this age of political correctness, what is said or written in the media – the ESPN/Jeremy Lin case is a great example – doesn’t have to actually be offensive, it just has to sound that way. Read Phil’s column here. GOP Primary Race/2012 Presidential Campaign Top News/Talk Story for Week of February 20 – 24. The GOP primary race and the 2012 presidential campaign tied atop the Talkers TenTM chart of the most-talked-about stories on news/talk radio this week. The primary and the issues surrounding the campaign that leads up to the November 5 general election were #1 for the fourth consecutive week. Landing at #2 was Iran’s nuclear ambitions. At #3 was rising gas prices at U.S. pumps and at #4 was the protest in Afghanistan over the desecration of Korans at a U.S. base. 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__label__cc	0.561005	0.438995	Pages : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 [86] 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 Jeff Who Lives at Home - 6/10 Nice lowkey indie flick. No need for repeat viewing but entertaining overall. Brave 7/10 I really didn't know much about the film other than it's setting and voice cast. I was looking forward to it, and it was good but just not as good as I thought it would be. Like someone mentioned it's far and above Cars, and the material is definitely heavier but laid out much more softly, and it seems to wrap up rather quickly and conveniently. All I can say though is the hair looked amazing as did the bear animation. Since Pixar rewrote their animation software for the first time in in YEAAAARS it was impressive. But I wasn't that impressed with how everyone else looked. Aside form the main cast of characters everyone else looked like your typical humans you see in Pixar films. I also got a little Hercules style vibe from the film which I thought was pretty sweet. Toy Story 2: 8/10 Been a long time since I watched the entire movie and it was much better than I remembered. It's always been my least liked Toy Story movie, but after seeing it again its really about on par with the others. The Woman in Black 6/10 Decent ghost movie... many parts were fairly tense and scary feeling. Overall story was nothing new, but still well done. And it was fun to see Daniel Radcliff in something other than Harry Potter. Darth Cruel 21 Jump Street 8/10 Wasn't expceting this to be funny, but I thought it was great. I think they could have put together a muich better trailer when it was out at the theatres. Yes! More love for 21 jump street! 3000 Miles to Graceland - 6.5/10 A fun 90s action flick with some squandered potential and a few really cool scenes. I just love the hinting at Costner as Elvis' son and Kurt Russel is always enjoyable. Breaking Bad Season 4 10/10 By far the best season so far. I would put it up there with one of my favorite seasons of any show ever. http://i.imgur.com/H5w3x.jpg That is awesome! :yess: The Devil's Tomb 2/10 and that's being polite. Cuba actually was the only decent thing in this movie. The Warrior's Way 7/10. Really enjoyed this one. Mix between a Samurai movie and a western. Kate Bosworth is easy on the eyes and Geoffrey Rush was good in it as well. Danny Huston is the main villain. Very underrated film that slipped through the cracks. It's on Netflix streaming if you get a chance check it out. I thought it was great! It had some really awesome and funny stuff! Definitely had a good time watching this! :rock :rock :rock If they can keep this level of awesomeness I'd say: Bring on a sequel! Brave - 7/10 First 20 minutes were great, but the film stretched out the mother daughter relationship till it felt repetitive and plain silly. However I laughed a lot and the animation was beautiful I almost forgot we saw this one... Ghost Rider 2 - 2/10. The first film is alot like Daredevil - a lot better if you watch the director's cut than the theatrical release. I don't see any chance that will happen this time. What a really awful example of how to do a comic book movie. It seemed like Ghost Rider 2 was barely even in the theaters... I remember it being advertised then awhile later it was already gone :lol I can't believe anyone thought a sequel to the first crapfest could have been a good idea :huh yet they wont F__ do a sequel to Daredevil... I really don't get them, I really want to see daredevil again :monkey4:monkey4 It's sad because Daredevil and Ghost Rider are amazing characters. Well I don't know anything about them really, but they look awesome. :lol Speaking of Daredevil, Marvel is rebooting that franchise. :lol David Slade (30 Days of Night) is set to direct with Brad Caleb Kane (Fringe) writing the screenplay based on Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s "Born Again" story arc from the comics. If Jason Statham isn't hired as Daredevil AGAIN.. then ____ this movie. The Walking Dead Season 1. Didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would have. Still it's good and I've started the second season. Prince of Darkness. Hadn't seen this movie in years and remembered liking it. Not as cool as I thought I'd remembered but still a fun flick. BuddyGus The Help. 5-10 Was actually pretty good. Then it went past the hour and 45 minute mark and lasted entirely to long....Like Return of the King long. BuffyGirl Pixar's Brave - 7.8/10 True Blood Season 4 - 9/10 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - 7 out of 10 Like Darklord Dave said, "it's disjointed", felt forcefully rushed in the beginning (to speed things up to how he comes to be), and there are the few eyes-rolling-back-into-the-socket moments. But you have to remind yourself, when walking into a movie with that kind of title, one has to suspend belief. Having said all of that, some of the sets/environments are truly immaculate. The characters, the action sequences (some of the best war scenes I seen from a film that does not sell itself as one), and the way some things come together make this a very entertaining pop corn film. Go in with low to medium expectations and you'll be very pleasantly pleased. Expect a lot, and well, you'll still get entertained, but you may think to yourself, what did I just watch? Either way, I consider myself somewhat of a movie snob and I enjoyed it thoroughly. What can I say, I have a guilty pleasure for the off beat niche films, that may prove to be unpopular to the masses. Predator - 9/10 Predator 2 - 7.7/10 Predators - 6.8/10 Abe Lincoln Vampire Hunter: 5/10 low expectations the movie delivers if you read the book may be disappointed. Centurion - 5.5/10 Fassbender was great, but I got bored after awhile. The scene with the guys being chased by the wolves reminded me of The Walking Dead where Shane shot Otis so he could escape from the zombies. :lol 13 assassins - 10/10 jimjimmyjones85 7.9 ???? :thud: Alien - 10/10 Such an incredible movie... Kibagami Aliens - 10000/10 Heh, I always thought Aliens was better. Dunno what I was thinking. The Amazing Spider-Man - 7.5 out of 10 This is arguably a 1c Spider-Man in terms of what's my favourite, to the Sam Raimi Spider-Man 1b and Spider-Man 2 1a. All three films are that close, but that may change in time upon a repeat viewing. Loved a lot of the new creative camera perspectives they tried out, and boy oh boy does Emma Stone look hot in a mini skirt and knee socks! She wears that number a lot throughout the film. Super sexed up! I think that this movie is very similar to the first one, and therefore it is not really an improvement from the original Raimi 2002 Spider-Man flick. I would say it's simply an alternate version. There are far too many similarities between each, with subtle differences and tweaks here and there, to make it stand on its own merit. One more thing, it does borrow an element from its 2004 sequel with Doc Oct. It's definitely not a huge difference from Tim Burton's 1989 Batman and Christopher Nolan's 2008 adaption, but I am glad I got to see it at a special IMAX 3D screening for free! P.S. Loved how Spidey moves more in this film vs. Raimi's variety. The costume looks nice too. When you see it in motion you forget all the past negative banter that followed the original unveiling. Vaako 30 minutes or less : 7,5/10 pizzaboy gets kidnapped and has to rob a bank :lol http://i47.tinypic.com/flhid1.jpg jimmie_dimmick Avengers 10/10 - It's the reason you go to the movies. Enjoyed every second of it. mistermadhouse The order's a bit hazy: Snow White and the Huntsman - 4/10 Prometheus - 6.5/10 The Grey - 7/10 Black Swan - 9/10 Bourne Identity - 8.5/10 Have you ever noticed how prominent explosives are in a Danny McBride flick? I have not seen his TV show, but I can't think of a movie I have seen him in that he didn't get his hands on some manner of explosives. Not dogging on him, I like his work. Just an observation. Love your grading of each film. One of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time! Hey, thanks. (I think.) Shaun & Ed Fan Very quirky!!! No explosives in Land of the Lost, Pineapple Express, Observe and Report.....he did use fireworks in Eastbound and Down....but that's it. Aliens - 9/10 that movie was somewhat based on a real case http://youtu.be/1MRsXUyMI40 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Brian_Douglas_Wells.jpg/220px-Brian_Douglas_Wells.jpg his head did blow up, Irvy Easy A 8/10 :) Brave 6-10 Solid Pixar movie. My daughter loved it. Billy Connelly was great. Blade Runner: 8.5/10 Lionheart (JCVD): 20/10 Ted - 7/10 :lol I think it's been about 20 years since i've seen Lionheart. I can still remember the preview like it was yesterday. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - 6.5/10 A fun movie to watch. I could have used a little more Vampire dispatching via Abe's ax. But a worthy movie and I will watch it again when it either hits the dollar theater or when it get to DVD. movieguy125 The last movie i saw was project x. I thought it would be funny but no it was lame like two or three joke but thats all its not a good movie the plot is just basic a party that ends up in flames causing the neighborhood to burn down.......... whats up with movies to day Breaking Bad Season 4 Bluray 10/10. Just some of the best writing/acting I have ever seen in any medium. Bring on season 5! July 15th! :hi5: Can't freaking wait! Walt as the head honcho and Jesse finding out what Walt has all done will be fascinating and heart breaking to watch. Two of my favorite characters of all time. Hell yes. Best show on TV bar none! Dat Season 4 ending! Explosive! :D Can you say run-on sentence?:) Very funny, and Tatum/Hill are a great duo. Take it how you wish. You're an honest and legit rater. The last movie i saw was project x. How the hell can you call yourself "movieguy" when the movie you saw was Project X!? :lol John Carter from Mars. 7.5/10. I regret not seeing this in the cinema. It deserved to do better at the box office. Niltusk 7.5 - Madagascar 3. Finally got around to taking the kids to see this. AT first I wasn't sure I was oging to like this as much as the others, but before long it was full swing Madagascar fun. :clap The 40-Year-Old Virgin 10/10 - Hilarious everytime The really disappointing part is that he's talking about the 1987 movie with Matthew Broderick and a monkey ... http://img.getglue.com/movies/project_x/jonathan_kaplan/normal.jpg Just as funny if not funnier than the first time. 8.5/10 Great family movie. Highly recommended. PIRATES of the CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES on Blu-Ray Pirates of The Caribbean at work. 9/10 Fright Night 8.5/10 F_____g loved it! Great vampire film. Not au fait with the original but loved this. Leon - 9/10 House of Fears - 1/10 ha ha ha, house of crap more like it. I thought it was going to be a scary clown killing people...he was in the movie for a good 5 mins...deceiving cover art strikes once again. Yeah the only reason I gave it a 1 was because there was a cool scarecrow killing people and I love scarecrow stuff. Basically a funhouse with each room representing a different fear and a different killer so to speak. Really low budget crap. Nothing really redeeming about it. On the netflix instant...Id advise not to waste your time. Se7en: What's in the ____ing Box/ Kevin Spacy's hair. Gangs of new york 8/10 edheng Fright Night (remake) 8.5/10 6,5/10 at best. The usual suspects:9/10 Travis B Fargo -- 9/10 The Amazing Spider-Man - 9/10 I saw it this morning and I absolutely LOVED it! This truly is the Amazing Spider-Man. I'm not gonna lie, I wasn't extremely pumped for this movie. I felt it was too soon after the original trilogy and I didn't really like the suit design. (Note how I said: didn't :lol) Anyway, I went to see it this morning because it's Spider-Man and it should be a good watch on the big screen, but man, I did not expect it to be this awesome! Seriously, the story, the characters, the action, yes the suit... We've seen it all before, but this take on that well known story was really, really good! The new Peter Parker was played amazingly by Garfield and the character was so much more likeable than when Tobey Maguire played him. This time we actually got to see the science geek photographer like I remember him from the 90's cartoon. Emma Stone was great as Gwen Stacy and I really liked Rhys Ifans as Curt Connors. Also it was great to see some of his facial features when he was the Lizard. They did an amazing job on that as well. And the music was very good too! James Horner did a fantastic job! All in all I'm very glad that I went to see this movie in the theatre, because I can honestly say that I would've regretted it later. :rock :rock :rock Downside though... Now I kinda want the HT fig :lol Catwoman ... 2/10. An embarrassment of a movie from top-to-bottom. The story was stupid -- a corporate toxic makeup plot? The "woman power" angle was obnoxious and irritating. Mindless cliched stupidity. Catwoman's backstory was retarded. She's supposed to be a catburglar, not a cat version of Spider-man. She's LIKE a cat ... she wasn't given cat-powers by being bitten by a radioactive cat. And -- she isn't supposed to be a noble crusader against bad makeup. She isn't noble. She's a thief. The cowl was OK, the rest of the costume was completely ridiculous. I preferred Schumaker's batsuits in B&R to this catastrophe. I never thought I'd say this about Halle Berry ... but there is no excuse for her to be wearing such a skimpy outfit. Who the hell is "Patience Phillips" anyway? Why not Selina Kyle? Secondhand Lions ... 8/10. Underrated movie. Duvall was a badass. Didn't expect that cameo. :lol Safe house 6/10. Somewhat interesting movie with DWashington. Lost its way in the final third. The Grey - 6.5/10 Don't understand why everyone was rating this so high. hunnipot85 Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter - 6/10 Magic Mike 8/10 If only the Vamps were cool this movie coulda been a 9/10 http://i.imgur.com/4S24h.gif http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c400/frogger420/totallygay.jpg Meh.. that's exactly what I look like. If I were them. TED - 6.5/10 Wasn't as good as I thought it would be from what people were saying. Jurassic Park - 9/10 Still a good movie after all this time. insert movie title here - 9/10 Highlander 7/10 it was good, I expected something a little more epic, I don't know, I liked it, good solid performances, it just felt a little anticlimactic at times, I guess since they had to cover so much story that was a given, I am a Huge Queen fan, I started to like them when I was 5 years old, I would play my dad's tapes, yet the soundtrack for this movie was very distracting and a little annoying, kinda felt out of place at times, I guess this is why you don't give the soundtrack job to one single band, I always wondered how movies would be like if only one band play all the songs, is not a good thing I dont know why they want to remake this, like Total Recall the point and the charm of the movie is the old look the cameras gave movies back then and the actors, the remake will probably be flashy and everything smooth looking, and it will probably suck Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel - 9/10 Personally I would rate it 10/10 but it's all good. :1-1: Ted: 7.5/10 If you like Family Guy you will like this. :D ^ I hope not. Don't understand? Yup. Had more deep meaning than Prometheus. Prometheus - 9/10... it was predictable :monkey1 Couple's Retreat - 6.5/10 Liked the movie and my daughters loved it. Now my older one wants to take up the bow. Apples to oranges. Total Recall is just a classic Arnold scifi, Highlander is a genre with a large built in fanbase. Considering Highlander spawned a handful of sequels, Multiple TV series, an anime movie, toys (including quite a few Sideshow 1/6 offerings) and other merchandise its always a safe bet of when someones going to be doing something with the license, not if. Not a huge Spidey fan...didn't like the Maguire ones. But this was rather enjoyable, aside from a few silly bits. It was funnier than I thought it would be, too; definitely the best of the Stan Lee cameos, it got a huge laugh :lol After seeing this, I wouldn't mind having Spider-Man as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the next Avengers film...even though that's not going to happen. The Adjustment Bureau: 7/10 Better than I thought it would be. I guess that is true, Taken: 6/10 Neeson awesomeness: 10/10 Taken 2 will be worse and the Neeson awesomeness will be 20/10 spiderman 3 - 9/10 Finally, someone feels the same way i do.:monkey3 Yes, so cross your fingers and hope that Justin Bieber isn't cast as a young McCloud! :rotfl The Matador - 8/10 A good post-Bond Brosnan flick. GoldenEye - 8/10 I still enjoy this one, got some nostalgia attached to it too. Tomorrow Never Dies - 7/10 This one doesn't have Sean Bean Die Another Day - 5/10 has moments but just went a little too OTT for my liking. Having said that they're all OTT to some extent I skipped The World is Not Enough, for some reason didn't feel like watching that one. But I think I'd give it 7/10 Looks like someone had a Brosnan marathon. You should watch The Ghost Writer. Also, to this day Goldeneye still rocks. I'd rank Goldeneye up there with Casino Royale, FRWL and Goldfinger among the best Bond movies ever made. Great movie. has moments but just went a little too OTT for my liking. Having said that they're all OTT to some extent :lecture:lecture:lecture :hi5: I wouldn't be too sure about that. I read that there have been talks between Marvel and Sony and that this might actually be a real possibility. If the design for the Oscorp tower would have been finished earlier, we would have seen it somewhere in The Avengers during the battle in NY. TED 7.5/10 Funny. Mark Wahlberg was especially good. "Man on a Ledge"... 5/10 Laughable at times, ridiculous and not very realistic plot wise but I have to admit, it was entertaining at certain points. Watched a lot in the planes while I was traveling... We Need to Talk About Kevin - 8 out of 10 John Carter - 5 out of 10 Jeff Who Lives At Home - 7 out of 10 War Horse - 6.5 out of 10 Intouchables - 8 out of 10 Son of the year :lecture :lol That dude personified evil. It'll be interesting to see what type of actor he turns out to be. http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/574901_258731427561338_314118395_n.jpg The Lost World - 8/10 The Amazing Spider-Man 3.25/5 The Amazing Spider-Man: 8/10 Pay attention studios. THIS is how you reboot a lost series... Spider-Man- 8.5/10 The only problem I have with this movie is some editing issues. Some scenes move a bit too fast. And it's not quite Raimi enough. He was holding back. Thankfully, he was let free for Spider-Man 2. But still a great movie. And the score is really good stuff. I love how mysterious and dark it is. One thing i didnt quite understand was why there was so much hate for Tilda Swinton's character. Was it only because it was her son and what he did? Because considering what he put her through, killing Dad and Sister, you would expect people to chill a little. wreath of the titans ... 5.5/10 i expected more. Yeah. She was the scapegoat for the grieving community. In their minds she was responsible for raising the monster. I really like how they made it a point to show the irrationality of the adults responding to the situation in their actions towards her character vs. the youth, in particular the young man who was directly affected by the incident and was now paralyzed. This is a film that will probably get a higher score from me after I've had a second viewing. Very artfully done. The Amazing Spiderman: 7 / 10 - A solid reboot with some holes (thankfully nothing glaring). Overall a good effort Glad to read you enjoyed it. Now that the origin is out of the way there is nothing stopping them making an epic sequel. Yeah, i thought he was gonna roll over her or something :lol I can't remember but wasn't she sad while she was pregnant with him?Because it was like he had an effect on her right from the start. I think her mood personifies the guilt she was feeling rather than her being unhappy with the way her peers had isolated her within the community. She knew she wasn't a great loving mother with Kevin but bless her she tried. It is an intriguing subject. ......why? I'd give it the same score but it was pretty much what I expected. Great CGI and that was it. I watched Spider-Man. Not Amazing Spider-Man....:lol The Amazing Spider-Man - 9/10 Better than any Tobey movie IMO. Walking Dead Season 2. Enjoyed this much more than the first season and the third looks even better from what I've seen. Looking forward to seeing where it goes. My favorite scene of the whole season funnily enough contained no zombies. It was easily the bar scene with the two strangers. Talk about tense. Total Recall ( original ). It's been years since I'd seen this and watching it on blu ray the movie really started to show it's age but it only adds to the great 80's cheese. Interested in seeing the remake which doesn't look that bad imo. I was under the impression Celtic was talking about the original Spiderman movie ?. Yep. :lol Yeah, I bought the Blu Ray last night, and watched in at 12:01...:lol Funnily enough I tried to watch Spiderman 2 before on blu ray and it turns out after buying it around 2 years ago and watching it now the disc is faulty and wont even start !. :lol I'm gonna have to buy the trilogy again. :thud: They re-released them in cheap Blu Rays at Wal-Mart...if you have a Wal-Mart....i'd hope not though..:lol The Amazing Spider-man 9/10. Not perfect but a damn fine effort. I had the pleasure of seeing this almost a month prior to its official release and I recall loving it but I felt the score was lacking. After reading some of the critics reviews I began to wonder if I rated this too highly and whether I was seeing this movie through rose tinted glasses. So I went again today for its first day of official release and settled in to a sold out screening which was impressive as the cinema was showing both 2D (my choice) and 3D at once. I was correct in my initial assessment. I love this movie. It transported me back to when I was seven and my introduction to The Amazing Spider-man. When Raimi brought Spider-man to the big screen I was so relieved and excited to eventually see my hero once and for all. Superman fans had had their superhero transported to the big screen almost 20 years previous, Batman 13 years previous. Would I ever get to see him? CGI was only really taking off in the early noughties. It was a revelation to see him. But although I loved Raimi’s movie it did not touch me in the same way this movie has. Spider-man 2 was superior to Raimi’s first outing and I rank it in my top three comic book adaptations. But again it simply did not have the emotional impact Webb’s rendition of the character has. He has explored the human relationship and condition beyond any previous comic-book movie has dared to explore. There are some seriously tender moments in the movie, yet in many ways those moments have been let down by a lacklustre score. Some people will rightly question the rebooting of a franchise so soon after Spider-man 3. Yet if Raimi had dealt with the tragic story arc of Gwen Stacy we would not have had this reboot. The Gwen Stacy arc is critical in the formation of the character of Peter Parker and Spider-man. This movie has laid the foundation for that arc. I will bet there won’t be a dry eye in the house when this epic story is concluded. Thank you Marc Webb for reminding me why I love Spider-man. amazing spiderman 9/10 Amazing Spiderman - 9/10 Jesus Spiderman must be ____ing awful. Amazing Spiderman Amazing/10 Simply; Garfield > Maguire Marc Webb Spiderman > Sam Raimi Spiderman Yeah, she was sad about being pregnant. A large part of the film explores themes of nature vs. nurture. Amazing Spiderman - 8.5/10 words :monkey4 :lol:lol:lol:rotfl With everyone rating The Amazing Spiderman I thought I'd come in and rate a film which I know for a fact has never been rated in this thread. Certainly not 504 times. Confused as to why The Grey has been rated so high by everyone... Because its a good movie. I didn't even watch it recently and already rated it way back. I just thought I'd interrupt the run of It is a good film though. Just kinda would have liked a happier ending. Because it has Wolves in it. It's got a better ending then The Amazing Spider-Man, that's for sure, I agree... It was OK but not great.... Wolves are actually incredibly aggressive, unrealistic, invincible killing machines. There is no god. You can't escape death. ...okay? It's about coping with death. Just a well made, well acted movie. Probably better then Amazing Spider-Man. Plus it has Wolves. ^ Exactly. Wolves >>> Spiders and Lizards Is it wrong that your sig turns me on!? Nope. yours turns me on too. :love It's the diamonds, isn't it? :lol Who is that anyway? Looks like Sienna Miller. snoop101 Safe house 6.5/10 pretty decent action flick with solid performances by Denzel and Reynolds.:lecture 30 Minutes or Less: 7/10 solid funny flick. http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs2/1653972_o.gifhttp://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/251124_o.gif Glad you liked it, bud! :rock :rock :rock I fully agree with your statements! Oh I loved it mate. Much more to my liking than say The Avengers :lol Love the combo by the way :rock2 Goddamnit you really want a fight, don't you? :lol ;) And thanks! :duff I enjoyed The Grey and loved the ending. But no it's not better than ASM. There you go again making assumptions. Tut tut. Safe House: 7/10 Wolves >>>> Spiders. It's not an assumption, it's a fact. It's in the Dicsaurus. Look up Fact. You'll see the definition is "Wolves are indeed the greatest thing. And if Wolves are present, it beats Spiders." :lecture Seeking a Friend For the End of the World. 9.8/10. The movie was brilliant. I thought it was funny throughout, very touching, and just an all around good experience. Fetunche The Amazing Spiderman 7/10. Preferred the new Spiderman but the film dragged in places and the soundtrack was dull. The unconvincing CGI lizards should have been left out too. Videodrome. 7/10 The Amazing Spider Man - 8.5/10 Videodrome 1/10 the Muppets 1/10 I know the muppets is for kids I know, but even as a kid movie it blows, super boring, no jokes, hated it... Contraband: 7.5/10 Amazing Spiderman 3-D 9.5/10 The reboot of the Spiderman franchise has never been better. Both Andrew Garfield & Emma Stone was surprising good in this movie. It is the best of the 4 Spidey movie. Actually I never even cared about the Tobey Maquire Spiderman movies especially the 3rd installment. Things I enjoyed about the movie: 1) Spider webs cgi was simply amazing. Looks so realistic. 2) The actors Emma Stone & Garfield. They were suited for the role. Great chemistry. 3) Lizard. Loved it. Would love a PF made of it (comic version though & make him big). 4) Cameo scene with Stan Lee. His best one ever! 5) Spiderman suit. Great design. A maquette would be fantastic. 6) the battle scene between Spidey & Lizard. 7) the fact that they made Spidey vulnerable was a big plus. Negatives: only 1 1) it took a while for Peter Parker becoming Spiderman Not as good as Avengers but overall a fantastic reboot of this franchise. It must be watched in 3-D Amazing Spider-Man.....5/10 Yeah, it was what I expected. Maybe I was too harsh, but I doubt it. way too much like the Raimi films. Really gave nothing new to the table. Garfield was the best Spidey though. I just wish he was a little "sweeter". He was kinda _____y. Which I get...I just wish they had him a bit nicer to his Aunt and Uncle. John Carter - 6/10 I thought it was an all right movie. I didnt think it was great, but it wasnt as bad as I had heard. The Amazing Spider-Man 7.5/10 I went in without much in the way of expectations aside from thinking the action scenes looked great and generally liking Garfield's past work. I liked the film enough, though it's not the Raimi duology-killer that some would let on. Ted - 7.5/10 It was a lot funnier than I thought it would be, and also a lot more serious. All of the characters were given their fair share of screen time and were equally important to the story, which I like. A little inconsistent as Seth does a 'Family Guy' and sections off little jokes, but all around a solid comedy:) 21 Jump Street - 6/10 - Funny here and there but nothing special. Brave - 6/10 - Very average for Pixar. Tower Heist 8/10 Very solid comedy, good performances, Eddie Murphy was Funny! :horror that was such a surprise, very good movie, i was surprised, Better than the Muppets Yikes....:lol But, different strokes for different folks....I guess Better than the MuppetsDear god are you serious? :thud: I liked it, but I did see it right after the Muppets, so maybe I was just so pissed about the Mupppets that Tower heist seemed better? LOL I liked it, I mean, is not like I'm going to buy it or anything, it was just a fun movie Why do you hate nice and good things like The Muppets. :( I thought it was one of the worst comedies I've seen in a long time. Project X - 1 is too close to 10 to so I'm rating on a scale of 1,000. 1 out of 1,000. Muppets are awesome until you turn six. Thomas Crown Affair (Pierce Brosnan one) - 8/10 very good, better than I remember Also very good, cool hand-to-hand combat scenes, funny, good main theme (music) the muppets, well, I heard all these good things about it it's not really a bad movie is just really boring, it didn't have any good jokes, I expected to be funny, the story is kinda lame and most of the movie felt boring to me, it was really slow, the ending was nice but i regret watching it, The most accurate rated film on this entire forum. I didn't know Tower Heist was a Brett Ratner movie.... I feel disgusted with myself, I have a feeling that I need to shower now, http://tumblr-gifs.com/pics/1009.gif I think Brett Ratner is worse then Uwe Boll. Boll has a horrible style...but he has a style. Ratner is a bland director. You couldn't tell who made any movie he's done without reading the credits. That, and his movies are always so bland, in general. I liked Tower heist as a fun movie to waste time on, like I said before Is not like I would buy it or anything, but knowing that Brett Ratner made it, is making me nauseous, he is so gross... like, such a gross human being Amazing Spidey 9.0 Loved this movie, it could have tightened up a couple spots, but definitely destined to be a great superhero movie. The Haunted World of el Superbeasto 2/10 some silly jokes but mostly it was just dumb raunchy jokes, a bunch of boobs, this movie was really boring and dull, is ironic seeing how many cameos and horror references it has, plus all the sexual humor, to end up being so dull The Amazing Spider-Man - 10/10 Just saw this a little while ago. Right now i judge it to be the best Spider-Man movie so far and amongst if not the best superhero movie yet. To me it encaptulates everything a superhero movie should be and everything a perfect spider-man movie should have... pain, loss, heroism, love, courage, romance, suffering, comedy, action, a kick ass costume, friendship, a badass villain. I still like the previous films, and am a huge spidey fan, but this film does everthing those films did right and does everything right that those films did wrong. from webshooters, to the way Spidey moves, to his pain and loss, it handles all the elements in perfect balance. I knew i loved this film before Spider-Man even showed up, as it handled the story of Peter Parker and his friends and loved ones so brillaintly. "The Untold Story" remains untold but it's seeds have been planted for the sequels Thats too bad, I liked it, but I enjoy most of Rob Zombie's stuff that people think is trash. :dunno I like Zombie's movies too, I loved the first half of halloween, the second half the remake part for me sucked, but house of the 1000 corpses and the first half of halloween are great, devils rejects is brutal too (halloween 2 is complete garbage though) Superbeasto, it had a good idea, raunchy sex comedy mixed with horror, at first I thought I Was going to love it and I did love the artwork, but the jokes were very juvenile, and dumb, it felt it missed the mark on a lot of things, I heard it wasn't Zombie who wrote the movie but it was written by someone else too, or more than one writer, I think that's why is not as good Yeah, I think its basically Tom Papa's script. The agent from the Informant (the one that didn't star in Quantum leap.) That curb stomp was horrific, not to mention the shower scene. This is one of those Brilliant films that's difficult to watch again more than a good few years apart Little F ockers 6/10 (thats the name of the movie jeez :dunno) pretty much the same style as the other two, I was glad it didn't feel like it went down in quality, pretty much felt on the same level with the other two, I see it got really bad ratings in Rotten Tomatoes but I dont see why, it felt exactly like the other two, I mean yes some of the jokes are old, really old jokes from the first movie , but it wasn't THAT bad, I got what I expected which was fine, I never found the first Meet the Parents that funny, I love the movie but not for the humor, I never thought these movies were that funny, so I dont get the criticism for this one by now they have milked this series as much as they can, I don't know what people were expecting, Jessica Alba was Smoking hot in this for some reason, omg... I think is because she acted so silly and quirky, she was definitely the highlight of the movie for me WTF/10 Never seen this movie before and it's one of the strangest things I've ever seen. First of all most of the dialogue and characters have no meaning at all and there really isn't any explanation regarding any of them. Nothing seems to make sense and the film also seems to have some strange obsession with homosexuality , not only that but his type writer which turns into a huge beetle asks him to rub extermination powder on it's lips that really look like it's ass. " Rub some powder on my lips Bill ". All in all. Highly recommended , or not. http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6ilvdabRA1r3eyr4o1_500.jpg (Never seen the movie BTW, your post just reminded me of that episode :lol) I like a lot of David Cronenberg's work , especially his stuff with Viggo and the fly but man, I'm not sure what he was smoking back then. I watched Videodrome the day before and whilst that's whacky this is on a whole other level. :lecture Great movie. The amazing spider-man 7/10 Indeed it is ! Crash 10/10 - Some scenes give me goosebumps like the one where you think the kid gets shot Thats one movie that I always mean to see, but have still never seen. To Rome With Love - 5/10 I agree about that scene! :lecture I like a lot of David Cronenberg's work, I'm not sure what he was smoking back then. Nothing. Blame William S. Burroughs. That whole movie is based on his book of the same name and also his personal life kinda. Plus he was a drug addict, so that explains the weirdness. :lol Read up about him, kinda crazy that the scene involving Weller's character accidentally killing his wife (trying to shoot a glass on top of her head) actually happened to Burroughs with his wife. :panic: Life as we know it 5/10 Thought this was supposed to be a comedy. Bout dang near shed a tear. The Italian Job (2003) - 10/10 One of my favourite films. Spider-Man 2 - 3/10 Such a lame movie...especially after having seen The Amazing Spider-Man. :clap :clap :clap :clap The Host - 8/10 Not a bad movie Get the ____ out:pfft::thwak :monkey3 the tomb - 7/10 story went a bit haywire after the first hour Spider man 2 for me is a good 6/10 nothing higher, I never understand what is so good about it Seven: 8.5/10 Agreed. And then it becomes even more awesome. X2 and SM2 are overrated, corny tripe. Would have to agree. SM1 is miles better than SM2. Sure, SM1 was cheesy but 2 took it to a whole other level. The raindrops keep falling on my head and the immediate PAUSE like a ____ing mentos commercial kills me every time. :lol Get the Gringo: 8/10 Date Night: 7/10 Spider-man - 8.5/10 Spider-man 3 - 6.5/10 Spider-man 1 and 2 are excellent. Two very good movies, with a sequel that is one of the best comic book movies to date. The third film isn't nearly as good for many reasons, but it still isn't nearly as bad as people say. It has too much going on at once, and it didnt flow as nicely as 1 & 2 did. They shouldve done without venom, and then used him in the fourth film. Overall a very solid superhero trilogy, with a heart and soul. I Love you Phillip Morris 9/10 great movie, perfect. Day of Darkness - 6/10 A low budget zombie flick on the netflix instant. Pretty much a comet flies over the Earth dropping its cloud of parasitic dust and of course turn people to zombies and at the same time the parasite grows in their body...yup not that great if your asking. Entertaining but thats about it Yeah, without X-2 and SM2 you wouldn't have your rehash. People need to respect the classics. I guess Superman The Motion Picture is corny crap because it's dated. ____ that. It's still a good movie. People don't have to respect anything. It's opinion. They differ. FACT. I love the old Spidey Flicks (not 3) but ASM is miles better than the original in my opinion. FACT. Nope. They either respect, or they need to get the ____ out. :lol Sick of all these random people hating on the old films because a new one came out. Happened with Batman Begins, and it's happening now. Without Spider-Man, Batman, Superman, the motion pictures, none of what you like would exist. :lol The Avengers would never happen, and your web shooter Spider-Man would never ever exist. Ever. I know people will hate me for this, but after the first half of Superman it's pretty awful. And I don't just mean the effects. The stealing the atomic bomb plot, apparently they just drive those around every week to give it some fresh air, Superman and Lex's big climatic fight in a swimming pool, the fact that he can erase anything that happens in the movie by simply flying around the world. The first half is brilliant and Reeves is as perfectly cast as RDJ and few other superheros but the second half is pretty bad by any day's standards. But it's not about that though. See, all movies have problems, but it's the overall effect the film has that makes it worthy. Superman has some issues....but I'm sure at that time, it was the most stunning thing. Just like Star Wars was. And as great as that movie is, it has some issues. But we overlook it because in it's whole, it's a great film. I don't know man. I'm just getting tired of the hate for the old films. I really am. I may not think X-Men is as good as it was, but I can't call it bad because it set the bar for everything, and I respect it. Kinda like all these random people hating on the new film because everyone ranks it up against the old ones? Same thing happened with, Jame Bond (countless times), and it's happening now. Never understood why people instantly shoot other things down just because they are new or different. I'd say there's definitely more people unreasonably bashing the originals. Well, it wasn't different. :lol But you do know all the hate came from the Raimi haters before, right? Hence why we got fed up with the bull____. And most of us were proven right, as were you guys. We all won. My problem is the amount of credit people are giving Raimi. The things that worked work because they came from the source material. The things that didn't were things Raimi added like slapstick. Was SM4 really sounding so appetising, Vulture sure, but Vulture's daughter Vultress? That was all his call no studio interferance. Where was Lizard. Why didn't he just save Sandman and do Venom a bit more justice? Why did he kill almost every villain? He made as many if not more bad calls then the studio who gave him millions and a great oppurtunity and he did it out of spite. Same goes for his recycled plots, and now to help his case whats he doing? Remaking the Evil Dead. George Lucas the sequel. Sam Raimi has haters? :lol His movies have honestly been MEH at best IMO. If you enjoy the older films more then good for you, I could honestly care less. . . Why does it piss you off so much that other's don't like or perfer AMS over the Raimi trilogy? :dunno http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd196/ZaCHw117/Emoticons%20and%20Gifs/tumblr_m1yloadbPc1r73a3b.gif Raimi still MADE the film....remember, he never wrote Spider-Man. Keep that in mind. He still did direct, and bring the character to life, and created the first really big and great modern day super-hero blockbuster. You can call bull____ on anything you want, but it doesn't change the fact that Spider-Man started it all. And Sam Raimi was the mastermind. And honestly, it's not that he didn't continue to the series, it's that they re-did it so quickly, and didn't add anything new for people who don't read the comics. Gwen as the love interest made no difference to me. He had a love interest. Could've been Mary Jane, could've been Squirrel Girl. But the story wouldn't change. He would be in love, and get the girl. I mean, I get people want true the comics, but for something like this...they needed to bust out the big guns. Because a lot of people who grew up with the Raimi flicks, really don't see a big change. Because It never existed before this movie. Sure, here and there a person would say something, but 2 years ago, saying Spider-Man 2 sucked was like calling Christopher Nolan a stupid hack on the level of Brett Ratner, today. No one would have it. And then suddenly, this reboot emerges, with web shooters, and Gwen Stacy. AND OHH MAH GAWD. Now they suck. I call BSSSS. Always will too. Your honestly believe they would have never made a Spiderman movie if not for Sam Raimi? Cmon dude. Then we know why the first 3 are mediocre compared to ASM. James Cameron almost did. But Sam made it a success. So no matter how much you hate on his flicks, Spider-Man would've never gotten the praise it did without him. I don't think it would've worked with anyone else. No one knew how to do it. Since they're all the same movie anyway...nice attack on ASM. :lol Honestly man, no matter who directed it spider-man would be a success. You honestly think the average movie goer knows who sam raimi is? Boll could have directed it and people would still go see it. :dunno You think SM1, 2, 3 and ASM are all the same film? You need to stop eating bath salts. :lecture the problem is that the first movies are made and then after we all see them, then the new people can see how to improve it, it just the way it is, it just happens, the first of anything comes out and people with a fresh outlook take it and see how they can improve, in that sense Batman Begins and Amazing Spider man are better, well, not better, but improved, that is a fact, things do get improved after the first, that's just a fact bud plus people only know him from evil dead anyway, so he is just a horror director for many people, :lecture But I didn't see any improvements. I mean, the tone is a bit more serious, but I don't see that as an improvement. The only things that I thought were actually, and done a lot better were the two lead actors, and some of the CGI. The rest.....it wasn't much different to a non comic fan. I actually wouldn't mind seeing this. 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__label__cc	0.622406	0.377594	Home > State Symbols President’s Symbol State Honours There are 4 official Slovak symbols (note that Slovakian symbol is an incorrect expression) – Slovak Coat of Arms, Flag of Slovakia, Slovak Anthem and the Slovak State Seal. President’s symbol is not a Slovak state symbol! Coat of Arms (Emblem) Double silver cross allegedly symbolizes the tradition of St. Benedict, St. Cyril and St. Methodius, but in reality this is a Christian symbol for older resurrection of Jesus Christ, which was used in Byzantine Empire since the 9th century. Three mountains represented on the coat of arms are – Matra, Tatra and Fatra, but it has an older heraldic origin. The original coat of arms of King Béla III. (1172-1196) was the double silver cross on a red field and nothing else. Later the double cross appears inserted to clay (1291), or the lower part has three or four roots. The form of triple rocks appear in the posterior coats of kings’ and queens’ arms, such as the Seal of Ladislaus V. (1305). Since the 14th century the today’s version of three hills has been used, originally gold or silver, then green, and blue since 1848. Red Shield was the colour of many armorial attributes at the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century. It is not the bloody skies symbolizing the suffering Slovaks during Magyarization, as it is reported by some authors. Slovak Flag The flag of Slovakia consists of the Slovak tricolor and the Slovak coat of arms. The tricolor (from top to bottom – three equal horizontal stripes of white, blue and red) is derived from the original Slovak colours – red and white, and the Pan-Slavic tricolor – red, blue, white. Red, blue and white are the most used colors in flags and national emblems of Slavic countries. More about Flag of Slovakia. Slovak Anthem The song Nad Tatrou sa blýska (Lightning over the Tatras) was composed in 1844. The text was written by Ján Matuška on the melody of Slovak folk song Kopala studienku (She was digging a well). In 1920 the first strophe became a part of the Czechoslovak anthem. Since 1993 the Slovak anthem contains the first two strophes. Slovak anthem metaphorically expresses the attitude of Slovaks to the situation during the Hungarian domination, points to the phase of national revival and the separation of Slovakia as a free and independent country after centuries of oppression. Translation of the Anthem Nad Tatrou sa blýska, hromy divo bijú, nad Tatrou sa blýska, hromy divo bijú. Above Tatra bolts of lightning, thunderstorm pounds wildly. Above Tatra bolts of lightning, thunderstorm pounds wildly. Zastavme ich bratia, veď sa ony stratia, Slováci ožijú, zastavme ich bratia, veď sa ony stratia, Slováci ožijú. Let’s stop them brothers, they will be lost, Slovaks will rise alive. Let’s stop them brothers, they will be lost, Slovaks will rise alive. To Slovensko naše dosiaľ tvrdo spalo, to Slovensko naše dosiaľ tvrdo spalo. Our Slovakia was in deep sleep until now. Our Slovakia was in deep sleep until now. Ale blesky hromu vzbudzujú ho k tomu, aby sa prebralo, ale blesky hromu vzbudzujú ho k tomu, aby sa prebralo. But thunder’s lightning is shaking it to it’s revival. But thunder’s lightning is shaking it to it’s revival. State Seal The Slovak state seal consists of Slovak coat of arms in the middle and a circle around it saying “SLOVENSKÁ REPUBLIKA” (means Slovak Republic). The small drawing underneath the coat of arms is a linden tree leaf, as linden tree is the national tree of Slovakia. Slovak President’s Symbol – not a state symbol On official occasions Slovak President uses the symbol of presidential office. This standard is not a state symbol of Slovakia, as many people think. According to the Law 51/1993 the standard has a form of a red square from which the bottom three blue hills grow up with a white double cross, in the proportions of national emblem of Slovakia. White-blue-red frame starts with the white colour from the upper corner closer to the pole (upper-left corner on the image). The drawing of the sign is silver, silver line surrounds the red square and the whole standard. The standard is used to designate a permanent or temporary residence of the President, as well as when carrying out presidential duties. 2 Responses to “State Symbols” click to show/hide 1. John Sofranko says: I just found your site today and will enjoy exploring it. But I have one correction to the “symbols” page. In the State Seal section the state tree should be the Linden tree not Lime.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line828
__label__cc	0.616823	0.383177	Working with The Wooden Tarot: The Suit of Blooms Six to Ten by Marianne in Tarot Study Here begins the next instalment in my series on the Wooden Tarot, part two on the Suit of Blooms. I must admit, it's in cards Six to Ten that this suit starts to slip away from me. All those eyeball flowers! What do they mean? As with all the posts in this series, I'm just going to sit with these beautiful images and see what comes up! This blog series is intended to offer impressions and intuitions, rather than exhaustive or definitive card meanings, so don't feel like you have to take my word for it! I'd love to know your thoughts on these cards, especially if you've figured out any working definitions that are really meaningful and useful to you! There's an undeniable blossoming to the Six of Blooms, a sharp contrast to the barren and pillaged vibe of the Five (read more about the Five of Blooms here). It's a perfect progression, because numerologically, Fives are all about setbacks, pain, and struggle, while Sixes offer the promise of healing and renewal. I like to think that these blossoming eyeballs represent not only healing and new growth, but also new perspective. It's through our most challenging experiences that we gain the most wisdom, and here we have a flower growing actual organs of sight out of the ashes. It's only by enduring the difficulties of the Five of Blooms that we may learn to see the world anew in the Six. I think I'm getting the hang of these eyeball flowers! The Seven of Blooms offers a cornucopia, a whole array of shiny objects, with a hopeful eye gazing out. In the tarot, Sevens are often a moment of pause, a call to evaluate before more progress can be made. Although this is an unusual image, in some ways it's quite traditional. Just as the Waite-Smith Seven of Cups invites us to consider our options with a critical eye, the Wooden Tarot Seven of Blooms serves us up a smorgasbord of jewels and invites us to really look, both at what is on offer and into our own hearts. As in all suits of the tarot, after doing some evaluating with the Seven, we're then called to make a decision in the Eight. For me, the key to the Eight of Blooms is that waning crescent moon. It invites us to ask, "What energies are waning in this situation? What cycle needs to be brought to an end?" The shapes floating around the orb in the centre look like they could be petals plucked from a flower. There is a sense that something that has come to full bloom is now on the wane, and a shift away from this dying, waning energy must be made. If we can make the right decision and say farewell to what needs to be let go, then we might be lucky enough to find ourselves in the Nine of Blooms. I love the energy of this card! This image perfectly captures that feeling of eager yearning, of looking to the future with excitement and optimism, of accomplishments reached and expansion achieved. Traditionally, the Nine of Cups is the wish fulfilment card, the card in which we feel open and positive enough to place our hopes, with confidence that things will go well and the outcome will be joyful. The Wooden Tarot's take on this card captures that supportive, abundant vibe. Finally, after allowing ourselves to fall in love with our hopes in the Nine of Blooms, we reach the Ten. Big sigh! There's that lotus again, that symbol of higher consciousness, opening up to show us the precious jewel of the self at its centre, with the full spectrum of our experience represented in colour. It's a lovely image, and I feel, very successfully conveys the feeling of growth, completion and wholeness that we'd expect to see in the Ten of Blooms. This suit really takes us on a journey, from seeds planted to flowers opening. It's funny how my first response was, "I don't know what the heck to make of all of these eyeballs!" but when I actually sit down and let these cards tell me their story, it's obvious how cohesive and simple they really are. What do you make of the suit of Blooms? Thoughts to add, differing interpretations to offer? Let me know in the comments! As always, if you'd like to keep up with the Two Sides Tarot blog, you can subscribe by email here. Book a Two Sides Tarot Reading \| Shop Tarot Decks TAGS: Wooden Tarot Coming into the Light - ... Returning to Daily ...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line835
__label__cc	0.640917	0.359083	UCM Prodigy Home News Denial of Vote for those considered to be ‘Mentally Incompetent’ Denial of Vote for those considered to be ‘Mentally Incompetent’ Emily Ochoa With election day over and done with, minority groups around the country are feeling the threat of Donald Trump’s election. And, while most had a say in the outcome of this election, there were some voters who were excluded from the conversation. Approximately 30 states in the US have placed restrictions on disabled and mentally ill voters, or more specifically, those considered to be ‘mentally incompetent.’ In the past, laws such as The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 explicitly banned open discrimination against people with disabilities and guaranteed them access to all public areas of life. However, disabled citizens marked ‘mentally incompetent’ by the state are not allowed to vote – despite their citizenship. While it’s understandable why the state would consider this to be in everyone’s best interest, there are disabled members who are physically and mentally sound to vote but because of a technicality (being classified as ‘mentally incompetent’) they are turned away from the ballot booth. Claiming someone as ‘mentally incompetent’ is a simple three-step procedure that unfairly brands plenty of disabled citizens. The three steps are to first file a form and submit to a probate court, have said court administrate a mandatory physical and psychological test on the subject, then present the result before the court and await the verdict. The steps are simple enough, but to add insult to injury, the courts in charge of handling these cases are probate courts. Probate courts specialize in real estate matters, and although they are required to distribute assets in case the subject is declared to be ‘mentally incompetent,’ that’s hardly reason for them to be allowed to declare a verdict in matters such as these. A different court should be handling these types of cases, such as a family court or even a new, specialized court for this specific type of case. Not to mention, the physical and psychological test are mandatory. A verdict can’t be doled out unless there are tests results provided. However, if a subject is unwilling to undergo the tests, the person filing against the subject for mental incompetence can request a court order that forces the subject to take the evaluations. Let’s not forget that mental illnesses are not treated equally to a physical condition, and that allows an opportunity for error in diagnosis which would ultimately lead to an incorrect and unjust verdict. Usually, the ‘mentally incompetent’ are under someone’s guardianship (which they can file for at the same time they are filing for mental incompetency). But, living at home and requiring a guardian does not impede on the person’s independence, a guardian simply serves as aid. Suffering from a physical or mental condition that requires you to receive aid from a guardian is hardly reason enough to deny someone the right to vote. Mental illnesses and physical conditions have the capability to render someone unable to vote, but if it has not, then there shouldn’t be any restrictions placed. To deny someone the right to vote is a denial of a basic freedom in this country and while we’ve come far in terms of extending civil rights to every niche group in the United States, it seems we’ve still got a ways to go. Photo Credit: Paramount Pictures Signs of a Changing Public Discourse Regarding the Central Valley A Political Science Set Back Press Release: “UC Merced student newspaper to lose only source of funding” Russell And Bromley Stores on Just A Few Reasons Why You Should Get a Pet In, Of And Out Of The Uc - ABVIALBERTLEA on UC Merced Students Protest Hookah Lounge Arrests Tonia on Meaning: “Discrimination” vs. “Racism” bobcat on Little Lake of UC Merced Felix Cattus on UC Merced Bellevue Lot Press Release: "UC Merced student newspaper to lose only source of funding" Pokemon GO Takes Over Pepsi’s New Commercial Trivializes Social Justice Movements Follow us on Instagram @ucmprodigy theprodigy@ucmerced.edu	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line837
__label__wiki	0.508172	0.508172	The Mathematician's Journey THE JOURNEY STARTS HERE Follow the 17th century adventures of Thomas Woodhouse, a young mathematician, as he roams from university life in southern England to the sub-Arctic and an eventual fate as a castaway with Captain Henry Hudson. Thomas, at 21 years old and the only survivor of the tragic events on Hudson Bay, spends close to three decades living and hunting with native peoples before returning to England to learn the fate of the mutineers who changed his life. “Anthony Dalton is himself no stranger to the Arctic or sailing. He brings that knowledge to bear in his meticulously researched historical novel to take the reader on a voyage of discovery from the peaceful cloisters of Oxford of King James I’s England to the Atlantic wastes and the frigid waters of what will come to be known as Hudson’s Bay thence to a native village and finally, after many years, back to upper class London. Peopled with three dimensional characters set against vividly described backgrounds the plot will keep you turning the pages and at book’s end hoping the hero’s adventures will continue in another work.” Patrick Taylor, New York Times best selling author of the Irish Country Doctor series. “Thomas Woodhouse, a 17th century mathematician by training and a gentleman by birth, longs for adventure. Rejecting his family’s wishes and the love of a good woman, he crews on Henry Hudson’s ship and begins a peril-filled journey that takes him across the seas, into the far North and a life he could never have imagined. In this rollicking adventure story about the very nature of survival, author Anthony Dalton’s gentleman adventurer faces perils from shipwrecks to starvation and from romantic rivalry to redemption in his quest to stay true to the spirit of his secret raven tattoo.” kc dyer, author of the best seller Finding Fraser and more. Trade Paperback: ISBN: 978-1-942018-12-4 $18.99 US Ebook: ISBN: 978-1-942018-13-1 $5.99 US Read your copy of TMJ on your iPad, in trade paperback, or on your e-book reader and don't forget to buy a copy for your adventure loving friends. TMJ will make a wonderful gift for Christmas, too. ORDER TODAY FROM AUGUST WORDS PUBLISHING BELOW Anthony Dalton www.themathematiciansjourney.com www.anthonydalton.net anthony.dalton@shaw.ca	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line841
__label__wiki	0.787195	0.787195	10 Most Unbelievable Conspiracy Theories Involving Music Stars Music, People Across the whole spectrum of the entertainment world, conspiracy theories are rife. It seems, when you’re famous, you can’t do anything without people assuming you have a dark, ulterior motive for it. This seems especially true in the music industry where the big stars come under the spotlight and tangled up in some pretty strange theories around their actions. We look at the ten most insane stories involving top music artists: 10 – The Weeknd The Weeknd – By https://www.flickr.com/photos/kaylajohnsonphotography [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons Not only can he not spell properly (it’s weekEND!), but the Weeknd also has more serious allegations to answer. According to conspiracy theorists, his sudden rise to fame and fortune are not purely down to hard work. A theory floating around the internet suggests he in fact made a pact with the Devil to become successful in exchange for his soul. This is not a new tale and the story dates back to blues musician Robert Johnson – it just represents a 21st century update. 09 – Fifth Harmony You just knew we wouldn’t go far with this type of list before someone said Illuminati! Despite failing to win the American X Factor in 2012, this girl group have gone on to have great success and a number of hits. Many claim that’s because they have agreed to become part of the Illuminati and help push their new world order agenda. In return, they get the celebrity lifestyle they have always dreamed of. 08 – Taylor Swift Taylor Swift – By Ronald Woan from Redmond, WA, USA (Taylor Swift Speak Now – Pittsburgh) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons One of the hugest stars on the modern musical landscape is Taylor Swift. From her massive breakthrough hit Love Story to Blank Space, she has enjoyed immense success in her career to date. But is it actually really her still? Some conspiracy theorists believe Swift is actually the clone of infamous Satanist Zeena LaVey and as such has links to that organisation. 07 – Drake Drake – By thecomeupshow [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons Another mega-star of the current music scene is Canadian born Drake. Winning fans with his unique productions and delivery, he is loved worldwide by millions. Some now believe that the titles of all his albums to date are in fact are well-disguised suicide note. Fans point to titles such as ‘Take Care’ and ‘Nothing was The Same’ as being cryptic messages to family and friends for when he’s gone. 06 – Sia Sia – By Kris Krug at http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/2350132325/) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons Even in terms of crazy theories, this one is pretty out there! Some fans of Sia got worried after reading their idol complaining that writing for Beyoncé was like being at a writing boot camp. This led to worries that Beyoncé had actually kidnapped and imprisoned Sia and was forcing her to write songs under duress. Of course, it’s completely mental but a good story none the less! 05 – Lady Gaga Lady Gaga – By https://www.flickr.com/photos/aphrodite-in-nyc/ [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons We couldn’t write this sort of list without including the meat-loving Lady Gaga. One of the darkest rumours surrounding her is that she will not tolerate any musical rivalry or anything that could damage her career. Allegedly, she would even go so far as murder of fellow musicians to achieve this aim and stay on top. The suspicious death of Lina Morgana in 2008 is the event that people focus on mostly for this theory. 04 – Michael Jackson Michael Jackson – By Casta03 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons The King of Pop was a hero to many and a true legend of the industry. His death in 2009 was reported as accidental but many out there have questioned this version of events. A slightly odd theory is that Jackson was killed by Iranian agents to help divert news coverage of a revolution in Iran?! The recent election result in Iran did not go down well and the Iranian government did not want this getting out. Although it naturally did due to social media, in the US it didn’t make the news as everyone was talking about MJ’s death. 03 – Gangsta Rap Ok, I know this is a genre rather than a single artist but this is too good a theory to miss out! The story goes that wealthy businessmen met with record company CEO’s in the early 1990’s to ask for their help in filling privately owned prisons they had interests in. The result of this meeting was Gangsta Rap which promoted selling drugs and violence to achieve this aim. 02 – Tupac Shakur Rather aptly, the next name on our list is celebrated gangtsa rapper Tupac Shakur. Shakur was a brilliant, passionate artist and never hid his roots, as his ‘Thug 4 Life’ tattoo showed. He met his untimely end in Las Vegas on the way home from a Mike Tyson fight when the car he was in was riddled with bullets. Conspiracy theorists suggest he is either still alive (a bit like Elvis) or that his record label boss, Marion ‘Suge’ Knight, was somehow involved as Shakur was preparing to leave Death Row records. The massive financial loss to the label and the fact they would have to pay Tupac millions on owed royalties apparently formed the motive for this. 01 – George Michael George Michael – By Evan-Amos (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons The world was united in grief when it heard George Michael had died in December 2016. The official cause of death was that he died in his sleep but some have questioned this. A theory that reared its head shortly afterwards was that he may have been an Illuminati sacrifice and this was the real story behind his strange and sudden death. As you can see, there are no shortage of strange and crazy theories when it comes to the music business. It seems there is just something about a famous music star that invites this kind of attention from people. 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__label__wiki	0.884197	0.884197	Your Community Newspaper - Larose, LA Serving Raceland, Gheens, Lockport, Valentine, Larose, Cut Off, Galliano, Golden Meadow, Leeville, & Grand Isle Saints offensive line in flux with personnel, assignments METAIRIE, La. (AP) — Changes are coming to the New Orleans Saints' offensive line. There'll be at least one new starter up front, and linemen are finding that their assignments have been adjusted to abandon some strategies that were introduced last season. "I feel like we're back to normal," said Senio Kelemete, who is competing for a starting guard spot this offseason. Former All-Pro guard Jahri Evans is no longer with the club, 2015 first-round draft choice Andrus Peat is being projected by coaches as a new starter at either right tackle or right guard, and assistant coach Dan Roushar is in his first season overseeing New Orleans' offensive line. After an offseason practice on Thursday, Roushar and some of his linemen said they're working on tweaks in assignments and techniques that they hope will give star quarterback Drew Brees a better chance in the protective pocket his blockers form around him. That, in turn, should provide Brees better opportunities to glance at each receiver before releasing his throws. "We've studied and we've recognized what Drew is," Roushar said. Although the Saints' offense ranked second in the NFL in yards per game last season, New Orleans parted with 2015 offensive line coach Bret Ingalls, who is in the college ranks as an offensive assistant with Florida. Under Ingalls, the Saints experimented with a blocking scheme that has worked well for quarterbacks such as Peyton Manning, who are relatively tall, tend to rely heavily on pre-snap reads and get passes off quickly. That scheme called for guards to bottle up defensive linemen inside, rather than inducing pass rushers to flare out toward the edges. Brees, who at 6-foot-1 is smaller than most quarterbacks, and has been most effective when he can step up into passing lanes created by spreading pass rushers out. "There's no group that has to be more on the same page than those guys," Brees said of his offensive line. "All those guys are coming along and I feel like they're confident in what's being taught." As for which players will win starting jobs, Roushar has echoed coach Sean Payton in saying that the goal is to field the best combination of linemen, rather than evaluating players individually at each position. So rather than trying to judge whether 2015 starting right tackle Zach Strief should be replaced by the younger Peat, Roushar will be looking at whether the combination of Strief at right tackle and Peat at right guard is better than Peat at right tackle and Kelemete at right guard. On the left side, Terron Armstead is entrenched at tackle. Tim Lelito appears on track to maintain the starting left guard spot he occupied most of last season, but Kelemete and others could compete there as well. In any event, coaches say Peat, who struggled with conditioning and his transition to the pros early last season, is now in better shape and demonstrating the potential the Saints saw in him when they made him their top draft pick — 12th overall — in 2015. "As his conditioning improves, his ability to concentrate and execute fundamentally when he's tired improves. So all of a sudden you're starting to see this player that we all believed we had," Roushar said. "You're looking at a big guy that has a lot of power and has good movement." Peat, who played at tackle throughout college, said he is trying to emphasize his versatility by taking whatever snaps he can at both tackle and guard. "I'm getting more comfortable playing guard," Peat said. "I'm happy to play wherever I'm asked." Roushar said the Saints are increasingly convinced that Peat, who is 6-foot-7 and about 315 pounds, could become a formidable guard — if that's where they decide to play him. "Traditionally here, when we've been playing at a very high level, you've had two outstanding, strong guards. You've been able to be firm in your pocket and build the width that allows Drew to operate," Roushar said. "So when you look at Andrus, as talented as he is playing either tackle (spot), if he goes to guard, he gives you a great asset there just in pure size, mass and ability to move his feet and use his hands so well." AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and http://twitter.com/AP_NFL Posted on Fri, June 3, 2016 by BRETT MARTEL, AP Sports Writer © Copyright 2014 by The Lafourche Gazette. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line849
__label__cc	0.507398	0.492602	This Weeks Abyssiniya Vine Collection Added 1 week ago by admin in Funny Videos Ethiopia: This Weeks Abyssiniya Vine Collection According to the constitutional Powers and Functions granted to it, the HPR is tasked to establish a Human Rights Commission and shall determine by law its powers and its functions. Similarly, both the Commission and its Chief Commissioner are accountable to the House of People’s Representatives. According to the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission Establishment Proclamation [Proc. No. 210/2000], the Chief Commissioner, the Deputy Chief Commissioner and other Commissioners shall be appointed by the House. The appointment of Daniel was approved with a majority vote while one MP abstained. In the same session, the House has passed the draft bill to establish the Ethiopian Press Service. The draft bill, termed as Regulation for the implementation of the Proclamation for the Re-establishment of the Ethiopian News Service, was first presented before the House, last month. The Agency has board members nominated by the government and appointed by the HPR. In order to avoid conflicts of interest, members of the board cannot be appointed by any individuals who are engage in a similar profession. In addition to the budget allocated to it from the government, the new bill grants the agency the right to make its own revenue by selling products such as news, articles and documentaries. It can also earn its own income from commercial advertisements and related businesses. However, while the Agency seeks payment for the services and products it provides; it should be carried out only in accordance with the regulation issued by the Council of the Ministers. After deliberating on the resolution presented by the Law, Justice and Administration Standing Committee head, the House passed the draft bill with a majority vote and one abstention. In a related news, the House in the same session has approved a draft bill it was presented a few months ago to amend the existing Higher Education Proclamation [Proclamation 650/2009]. Best Photo Collection Of Ethiopian Artists Photo Collection Of Artist Hanan Tarq Sunday With EBS This Weeks Highlights With Rakeb And Asfaw Ras Short Movie By Abyssiniya Vine This Weeks Funny Jokes By Seifu June 17,2018 Ethiopian Orthodox Timket ( Epiphany )Mezmur Collection Nhatty Man - Emenegn Video Cover By Abyssiniya Vine	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line851
__label__cc	0.706914	0.293086	HomeZ_ForumThe Council Has Spoken!This Weeks’ Watcher’s Council Results This Weeks’ Watcher’s Council Results November 15, 2013 JoshuaPundit The Council Has Spoken! 4 Alea iacta est…the Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and we have the results for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up. But before we get to that, we have some important business to take care of..likely celebrating our compadre Tom White of VA Right’s birthday! Aside from his prodigious writing talents featured on one of Virginia’s top blogs (which includes some pretty good songs and musicianship by the way as well as his writing),Tom has many of the qualities that makes a great friend..a great sense of humor, clear insight and the rare quality of being there when you need him. He’s always there to share his IT expertise and help out someone in the Council with a techie problem, and he’s someone I can always rely on to give me an honest and common sense answer whenever I’ve asked his advice. Ever since he joined our posse, I’ve always felt like I’ve known him for years, which might seem odd to some people since we’ve never met in person yet, (although we’ve yakked on the phone) but that’s just how it is. We have carrot cake today with chocolate pralines ( be sure and take a hunk home for Mrs.Tom,OK?) To go with the cake, in honor of the Old Dominion we have a nice couple of bottles of Williamsburg Winery’s 2011 Vintage Reserve Chardonay to share around. Yes, I’m told by reliable sources that they actually make good wine in Virginia. For those of you who prefer grain to grape…some wondrous Virginia moonshine, made by men who despise both the revenooers and the idea of turning good corn into ethanol and go their own way. Pure heaven, and dandy for the sinuses: And I arranged for a special express delivery to get it here on time: One of the best parts of being involved in the blogosphere isn’t the fame and huge amounts of money involved,but the great people you meet. Tom is definitely one of them. Have an absolutely wonderful birthday my friend..many more OK, down those shots and let’s look at this weeks results… Last week in Geneva, the permanent members of the UN Security Council met with the Iranians on their illegal nuclear program . We heard a number of versions of what happened, especially from our Secretary of State John Kerry, who assured us that a wonderful deal was all ready to be signed, but.. This week’s winner, Joshuapundit’s What No One’s telling You About Iran’s Big Victory In Geneva is the real story of what actually happened inGeneva, why the French opposed the deal, and why it ended up as a huge victory for Iran for reasons that are simply not being reported here in the West, probably because a lot of Americans would be shocked at what went down. Here’s a slice: What exactly happened in Geneva? U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s tells us that the Iranians ‘walked away’ from the impending deal: According to Mr Kerry the P5+1 group, representing the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany, were united when the proposed deal was presented to the Iranian negotiating team on Saturday. “But Iran couldn’t take it, at that particular moment they weren’t able to accept,” Mr Kerry said. Our hope is that in the next months we can find an agreement that meets everyone’s standards.” I thought that Secretary Kerry spoke fluent French,but somehow it seems he’s lost the ability.French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius was fairly and publicly open about France’s opposition to the Iran deal, and the French refused to sign on. What France wanted was the Iranians agreeing to halt work on their Arak heavy water reactor, which can produce plutonium and has no peaceful application. The French also insisted that the Iranians ‘downblend’ their stockpile of 20% uranium to 5%, which could still be used for nuclear fuel but was much further away from weaponization. The French also wanted the Iranians to cease enrichment during the talks, as well as the inclusion of far better plans for verifying Iranian compliance. France’s motivation for opposing the proposed deal was their country’s own self interest,nothing more. France has always had major trade and diplomatic interests in the Arab world, and they aspire to a larger role in the region, especially since the U.S. is retreating. And France has particularly close trade and security relationships with to Sunni Arab countries in the Middle East that oppose Iranian domination and a Shi’ite nuclear power. Saudi Arabia, for example, is the Middle East’s foremost buyer of French arms. Last August, the French signed a €1 billion ($1.34 billion) defense contract with Saudi Arabia, which included overhaul work on four frigates and two refueling ships in the Saudi navy, and the French reportedly have arms sales contracts with other Sunni countries in the GCE and throughout the region.At the same time the Saudis and others are investing heavily in France’s farming, food and industrial sectors. Given France’s economy, all this represents a substantial and important financial interest for the French. And in terms of their influence, a nuclear armed Shi’ite Iran undermines France’s long standing Mediterranean Union’ project with the Arab world. This explains why the French have consistently been fairly tough on Iran in general. France’s stance on Iran is also affected by domestic politics. Almost all of France’s Muslims – whom voted for the ruling Socialists and Hollande by a 90% margin or so – are Sunni and fear Iran’s dominance over Islam. And while the French could hardly be said to be Israel’s best friend, France and Israel have substantial trade relations as well as a number of French nationals who hold dual French-Israeli citizenship, which added up to one more reason for the French. So when Secretary Kerry says that the P5+1 group were united….we can only assume something got lost in translation. The real story is the huge victory in Geneva the Iranians walked away with that no one’s reporting on. You see, the Iranians have their own version of what went on in Geneva. As the Iranian government organ Fars reports, the Iranians consider what happened in Geneva as a huge win, and an important development. I can certainly see why. More at the link In our non-Council category, the winner was the one and only Mark Steyn with The Drift Towards Depotism submitted by Liberty’s Spirit. It’s Steyn at his best looking at certain disturbing trends in our Republic and the reality of Barack Obama’s presidency.. Do read it. OK, OK, here are this week’s full results. Only Rhymes With Right was unable to vote this week, but was not affected by th e2/3 vote penalty: First place with 3 1/3 votes! Joshuapundit –What No One’s telling You About Iran’s Big Victory In Geneva Second place t* with 2 votes – The Razor –The Siren Song of the Moderate Republican Presidential Candidate Second place t with 2 votes – Simply Jews-A topsy turvy review of A Plague: Contesting Syria, in Context by A.J. Adler Third place t with 1 1/3 votes – The Noisy Room –Obama’s Betrayal of Israel and Arming of Iran Third place t with 1 1/3 votes – Nice Deb-Gingrich Compares Obama to Clinton: “Obama Wants You To Feel His Pain” Third place t with 1 1/3 votes – Liberty’s Spirit-Newsflash: The Demise of America is Premature Fourth place with 1 vote – Bookworm Room-As Obamacare defines America’s economic landscape, are we going to see a new trend of Soviet-era jokes? Fifth place t with 2/3 vote – The Right Planet– It Only Works with Internet Explorer Fifth place t with 2/3 vote – GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD –Thank vSchlieffen”s Plan For Monday Off? Sixth place with 1/3 vote – The Political Commentator – Kristallnacht tutorial for Jews (and anyone else) with a short memory! First place with 3 votes! – Mark Steyn– The Drift Towards Depotismsubmitted by Liberty’s Spirit Second place with 2 2/3 votes – Nick Cohen/The Spectator –Why Can’t We Admit We’re Scared Of Islamism? -submitted by The Watcher Third place t with 1 2/3 votes – Sultan Knish ––The American Iron Curtain submitted by The Noisy Room Third place t with 1 2/3 votes –The Chicago Boyz –Under The Flag submitted by The Glittering Eye Fourth place with 1 1/3 vote – Sultan Knish –Bad Apple President submitted by The Political Commentator Fifth place t with 2/3 votes – Michael Totten – Why the US Can’t Leave the Middle East submitted by The Razor Fifth place t with 2/3 vote – The Passing Parade –Proud and prejudiced, or was Lot’s wife the victim of a salt intensive diet? submitted by Simply Jews Fifth place t with 2/3 vote -YouTube/ Project Veritas – Obamacare Navigators Counsel Applicants to “Lie” submitted by Bookworm Room Fifth place t with 2/3 vote –House Of Marathon –Heeding The Heretics submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD Sixth place t with 1/3 vote –Matt Walsh –The positive side of Obamacare that Fox News doesn’t want you to see submitted by Nice Deb Sixth place t with 1/3 vote – Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion–Typhoon Haiyan: How you can help submitted by The Mellow Jihadi Sixth place t with 1/3 vote –Douglas Ernst –New York Times finds ‘some’ Catholics upset with Pope — slow clap for NYT submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey See you next week! 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__label__wiki	0.71721	0.71721	Metro-Area Membership Report Maps and Reports > Select Metro > Search Maps & Reports: Fort Morgan, CO, Micropolitan Statistical Area Religious Traditions, 2010 Evangelical Protestant Mainline Protestant Catholic Other Unclaimed Congregational adherents include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The 2010 reports contain incomplete counts of congregations and adherents belonging to the eight largest historically African-American denominations. These denominations are not included in the 2000 reports and are largely missing from the 1990 and 1980 reports. [More information on the data sources] 1980-2010 Change Adherence Rate† American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant Baptist 1 483 17.78 Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal 3 575 21.16 Bahá'í Other Other Groups 0 19 0.70 Catholic Church Catholic Catholicism 3 7,162 263.59 Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant Baptist 1 432 15.90 Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal 1 28 1.03 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Latter-day Saints 1 419 15.42 Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant Holiness 2 257 9.46 Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant Baptist 2 168 6.18 Community of Christ Other Latter-day Saints 1 57 2.10 Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant Baptist 1 50 1.84 Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant Presbyterian-Reformed 1 216 7.95 Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant Episcopalianism/Anglicanism 1 98 3.61 Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant Lutheran 3 800 29.44 Foursquare Gospel, International Church of the Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal 2 235 8.65 Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant Lutheran 1 776 28.56 New Testament Association of Independent Baptist Churches and other Fundamental Bapti Evangelical Protestant Baptist 1 133 4.89 Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant Presbyterian-Reformed 3 642 23.63 Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant Adventist 1 45 1.66 Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant Baptist 3 1,356 49.91 United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant Presbyterian-Reformed 3 1,033 38.02 United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant Methodist/Pietist 4 883 32.50 Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant Lutheran 2 109 4.01 Totals: 41 15,976 The population of the Fort Morgan, CO, Micropolitan Statistical Area was 27,171 in 2000; in 1990 it was 21,939. The total population changed 23.8%. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (15,976) included 58.8% of the total population in 2000. * In an effort to better match the ASARB standards for adherents, a few religious bodies changed the way their adherents were reported in 2010, including the Catholic Church, Amish groups, Friends groups, Jewish groups, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Non-denominational Christian Churches, and the United Methodist Church. This change does not affect any of the data in the newly released 2010 U.S. Religion Census: Religious Congregations & Membership Study. In fact, the data for these groups are now more comparable to that of other bodies than it was in previous decadal reports. †The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2010 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of 7.6 in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that about 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga County were Episcopalian.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line861
__label__cc	0.693534	0.306466	Arrow-right Camera The Spokesman-Review Newspaper Sports SWX Right Now Roster » Stats » Standings » Sports > Seattle Mariners Out of Right Field: Recap, takeaways from the Mariners’ 3-1 loss to the New York Yankees Thu., May 9, 2019, 6:40 p.m. Seattle Mariners manager Scott Servais, right, and a Mariners trainer check on Dee Gordon, center, who was hit by a pitch during the third inning of the team's baseball game against the New York Yankees, Thursday, May 9, 2019, in New York. (Kathy Willens / Associated Press) By Gene Warnick The Spokesman-Review J.A. Happ, Yankees hold Mariners to 2 hits in 3-1 victory At Yankee Stadium, New York YANKEES3 MARINERS1 BOX SCORE » ➤Friday, May 10: Seattle Mariners (Swanson 1-3, 4.94) at Boston Red Sox (Rodriguez 3-2, 5.40), 4:10 p.m. PT TV: ROOT Sports Call it the Revenge of the former Mariners. Left-hander J.A. Happ (2-3) allowed one hit in five scoreless innings and Cameron Maybin drove in a run with a second-inning double as the New York Yankees defeated visiting Seattle 3-1 Thursday night. .@CameronMaybin opens up the scoring 👏 pic.twitter.com/6gJTt0AzEH — New York Yankees (@Yankees) May 9, 2019 Happ pitched for the Mariners in 2015 and Maybin, an outfielder, was acquired at last season’s July 31 trading deadline before becoming a free agent in the offseason. The only hit Happ allowed was a two-out single by Tom Murphy in the fifth inning. Happ walked three and struck out seven. Seattle starter Mike Leake (2-3) went seven innings, allowing one run on six hits. He didn’t walk a batter and struck out two. The Mariners avoided the shutout on a solo homer by Domingo Santana off Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman with two outs in the top of the ninth. The Yankees’ Gio Urshela hit a two-run single in the eighth to give New York a 3-0 lead. Flamin' Hot Gios. pic.twitter.com/kLq91IpRmx — New York Yankees (@Yankees) May 10, 2019 Mariners 2B Dee Gordon left the game in the third inning after being hit in the right wrist by a 90-mph fastball from Happ. … With Gordon out of the lineup and his replacement, Dylan Moore, pinch-hit for in the eighth inning, the M’s finished the game with Edwin Encarnacion playing second. … LHP Wade LeBlanc, on the 10-day injured list with a strained right oblique, pitched a three-inning simulated game Thursday afternoon at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma. … RHP Gerson Bautista (right pectoralis strain) began a rehabilitation assignment Wednesday with high Single-A Modesto. 2: Number of hits by the Mariners in the series finale at Yankee Stadium. Our take from Right Field Talk about feast or famine. The Mariners’ only two victories in their past 11 games have been when they scored 10 runs. They’ve scored one or fewer runs five times in that span. The Mariners wrap up their 10-game trip with a three-game series in Boston, starting Friday. RHP Erik Swanson (1-3, 4.94 ERA) is scheduled to go up against Red Sox LHP Eduardo Rodriguez (3-2, 5.40). First pitch is scheduled for 4:10 p.m. Published: May 9, 2019, 6:40 p.m. Tags: baseball, Commentary, MLB, new york yankees, out of right field, Seattle Mariners, Sports Top stories in Seattle Mariners Matt Chapman homers, drives in five as A’s beat Mariners 9-2 updated Out of Right Field: Recap, takeaways from the Seattle Mariners’ 9-2 loss to the Oakland Athletics … Larry Stone: Home runs aren’t what they used to be … Rookie Thaiss’ 8th-inning HR sends Angels past Mariners, 6-3 … Out of Right Field: How draft picks, trade chips might shape Seattle Mariners 2022 roster … Mike Trout, Albert Pujols power Angels to 9-2 victory over Mariners …	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line868
__label__wiki	0.794046	0.794046	Everything tagged Stories tagged: Pac-12 football UPDATED: Sat., Nov. 24, 2018, 10:52 p.m. Pac-12 roundup: No. 3 Notre Dame rolls to 12-0 season, beats rival USC 24-17 Ian Book passed for 352 yards and Dexter Williams went 52 yards on a go-ahead touchdown run for the Irish. J.T. Daniels passed for 349 yards for the Trojans, who … Pac-12 roundup: No. 21 Utah handles slow start, snow and Colorado 30-7 The 21st-ranked Utah Utes overcame a slow start, sloppy field and a snowstorm to rout the Colorado Buffaloes 30-7. The Utes won despite losing their defensive star Chase Hansen to … UPDATED: Fri., Nov. 16, 2018, 11:22 p.m. No. 17 Washington can’t afford stumble against Oregon State ahead of Apple Cup showdown No. 17 Washington still has a legitimate shot at a more than acceptable consolation prize despite the disappointment of being knocked out of the College Football Playoff conversation by midseason. … Pac-12 roundup: Jason Shelley, Armand Shyne help Utah beat Oregon 32-25 In his first start, Jason Shelley ran for two touchdowns and Armand Shyne had 174 yards rushing to power Utah past Oregon 32-25. The Utes lost Tyler Huntley, their starting … UPDATED: Sat., Nov. 3, 2018, 10:59 p.m. Pac-12 roundup: Manny Wilkins, N’Keal Harry lead Sun Devils past No. 16 Utah 38-20 Manny Wilkins threw three touchdown passes to N’Keal Harry and Arizona State beat Utah 38-20, knocking the No. 16 Utes out of sole possession of first place in Pac-12 South. … UPDATED: Sat., Oct. 27, 2018, 11:28 p.m. Pac-12 roundup: Oregon State rallies past Colorado 41-34 in overtime It was Jake Luton who rallied the Beavers from a 28-point second-half deficit but they wouldn’t have their first road win since 2014 without Colletto, who returned from an awful … UPDATED: Fri., Oct. 26, 2018, 10:57 p.m. No. 23 Utah rolls over UCLA 41-10 behind Zack Moss’ career night Zack Moss rushed for a career-high 211 yards and scored three touchdowns, helping No. 23 Utah beat UCLA 41-10 on Friday night. Pac-12 roundup: Utah dominates USC for a 41-28 win Tyler Huntley threw for 341 yards and four touchdowns on 22-of-29 passing to lead Utah to a 41-28 victory over Southern Cal. Huntley matched a career-high in passing yards to … UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 16, 2018, 5:13 p.m. Pac-12 power rankings: An old switcheroo atop power rankings after instant classic between Washington, Oregon To fully grasp the magnitude of a major college football game, perhaps it’s necessary to sit in the back of a London drinking hole on a Saturday night and observe … Pac-12 roundup: Chip Kelly gets 1st win at UCLA, 37-7 over California The final seconds of UCLA’s first win of the Chip Kelly era ticked off and the Bruins gathered to celebrate with their traveling fans before performing a rousing rendition of … Pac-12 football: Tyler Huntley passes, runs, catches for TDs, Utah rolls Arizona Tyler Huntley threw for two touchdowns, ran for another and caught a 58-yard TD pass, leading Utah past Arizona 42-10. On a play that typified the game, Huntley handed the … UPDATED: Sat., Oct. 6, 2018, 11:01 p.m. Pac-12 roundup: Laviska Shenault’s 4 TDs lead No. 21 Colorado past ASU 28-21 The Buffaloes overcame the ejection of star linebacker Nate Landman in the second quarter and stifled Arizona State running back Eno Benjamin in the second half, when the Sun Devils … UPDATED: Sat., Sept. 22, 2018, 10:24 p.m. Pac-12 roundup: No. 7 Stanford rallies for 38-31 OT win over No. 20 Oregon K.J. Costello threw for 327 yards and three touchdowns, the last a 23-yarder pass to Colby Parkinson in overtime, and No. 7 Stanford rallied for a 38-31 victory over No. … Pac-12 roundup: Sam Ehlinger’s 2 touchdown passes lead Texas over No. 22 USC 37-14 Texas, which had started 1-2 in four of the previous five seasons, trailed 14-3 in the first quarter before shutting down freshman quarterback J.T. Daniels and scoring 34 unanswered points. Wed., Jan. 3, 2018, 10:20 p.m. John Blanchette: Mike Leach the last man standing from his Pac-12 hiring class after Rich Rodriguez’s dismissal at Arizona Mike Leach has been called a number of things in the week since his Washington State Cougars fainted in the Holiday Bowl. Pac-12 roundup: Notre Dame drubs Southern Cal 49-14 Brandon Wimbush passed for two touchdowns and ran for two more, Josh Adams added three touchdown runs and No. 13 Notre Dame took advantage of three turnovers by No. 11 … Sun., Oct. 1, 2017, 9:21 p.m. Pac-12 watch: Stanford’s Love season’s first 1,000-yard rusher Stanford’s Bryce Love is the first 1,000-yard rusher in the Bowl Subdivision, crossing the threshold with the nation’s top performance of the season. Sat., Sept. 30, 2017, 9:37 p.m. Pac-12 roundup: Bryce Love goes for 301 yards in Stanford’s win Bryce Love rushed for a school-record 301 yards and three touchdowns, quarterback K.J. Costello passed for one score and Stanford beat Arizona State 34-24 on Saturday in Stanford, California. UPDATED: Wed., Aug. 30, 2017, 12:55 p.m. Washington State football live chat Aug. 30 transcript The Spokesman-Review’s Theo Lawson held a chat on Wednesday discussing all things Washington State football with the season opener just days away. UPDATED: Tue., Aug. 29, 2017, 3:40 p.m. Pac-12 power rankings: Cardinal dominate, Beavers flop and everyone else waits their turn Last Monday, the moon covered up the sun. Last Saturday, Floyd Mayweather covered up an arrogant Irishman. And a few days from now, college football will be back with a … Tue., Aug. 29, 2017, 6 a.m. Washington State defense eyeing turnovers this season – 24 to be exact Alex Grinch will ultimately leave Martin Stadium a happy man on Saturday evening if his defense concedes fewer points than the opponent. Oh, and there’s another thing. He wants two … UPDATED: Mon., Aug. 28, 2017, 5:49 p.m. Without any big surprises, Washington State unveils week one depth chart The Cougars revealed their week-one depth chart Monday morning and while that’s usually a highly-anticipated moment for fans, the first two-deep of the season lacked any real plot twists or … First look: Montana State at Washington State Washington State (0-0) opens its sixth season under Mike Leach against former Cougar assistant Jeff Choate and FCS Montana State (0-0). UPDATED: Sat., Aug. 12, 2017, 10:32 p.m. Washington Huskies linebacker Ben Burr-Kirven has resume, but not much playing time Even though he’s played in 26 games, and registered 78 tackles in a variety of roles on defense and special teams, Ben Burr-Kirven does not have an open path to … UPDATED: Sat., Aug. 12, 2017, 9:19 p.m. For Washington State linebacker Nate DeRider, it’s a full ride When Washington State rewarded Nate DeRider with a full scholarship Friday afternoon after four years of thankless walk-on service, nobody was more amped than the recipient himself. Though, inside linebackers … UPDATED: Fri., Aug. 11, 2017, 11:45 p.m. Washington State football walk-on DeRider awarded surprise scholarship There’s now a good-sized list of Washington State Cougars who’ve joined Mike Leach’s program as long-shot walk-ons and performed well enough to warrant a full scholarship. Once upon a time, … Washington State football: 3 reasons for hope, 3 reasons for doubt Here are three reasons to continue to feel good about the Cougars’ chances this year and three reasons to wait a few more months before pulling the trigger on those … UPDATED: Tue., April 11, 2017, 6:32 p.m. Washington’s Chris Petersen signs extension through 2023 The University of Washington announced on Tuesday a three-year contract extension and raise for head football coach Chris Petersen that will make him the highest-paid coach among public schools in … Sat., Nov. 26, 2016, 9:54 p.m. Colorado reaches Pac-12 title game by holding off Utah, 27-22 Ninth-ranked Colorado won the Pac-12 South title Saturday with a 27-22 win over No. 21 Utah thanks to a senior-laden defense that forced two huge fumbles by Utes star running … Pac-12 roundup: Adoree Jackson leads USC to easy win over Notre Dame, 45-27 Adoree Jackson returned a punt and a kickoff for touchdowns and also caught a scoring pass to propel No. 12 Southern California to its eighth consecutive victory, 45-27 over Notre …	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line869
__label__wiki	0.668694	0.668694	Andy Reed: What’s the BIG sport policy idea? The radical idea of Universal Basic Income continues to spark ongoing debate amongst social policy makers. Is there an equivalent idea that can shake up sports policy, asks Andy Reed? Published in Sports Management 2019 issue 2 The crisis of inactivity is killing us – what will our ambitious policy idea be to change this?/ © shutterstock/Monkey Business Images In a recent Twitter exchange I was challenged by a simple question from Nick Pontefract, the COO at Sport England and formerly of DCMS. What is our big policy idea in sport? He cited areas like social benefits, where the big policy idea is universal basic income (UBI). While not universally accepted by policy makers, the UBI has certainly created vast interest in recent years and is being trialled internationally to deal with massive societal challenges. There are many immediate challenges that demand the attention of the government. We are all aware that Brexit has taken up much of the government’s time for the last three years and will continue to do so for several more years to come. Austerity has also taken its toll during the last decade and so we seem to spend our time as a sector hanging on the status quo and making some marginal wins. Is it time to think completely differently about our approach? Time to be bolder? The challenge for our industry is to find big ideas, as robust and radical as the UBI. We all know that lack of physical activity is killing us and this will get worse over the next decade unless radical and lasting change is made. Both ukactive and The Sport & Recreation Alliance have some good flagship policies – community wellness hubs and the Right To Be Active ultimatum, respectively. And recently sector leaders have been asking for the opening of our schools during the summer holidays. But in comparison to the scale of the problem these feel like short-term, small adjustments. The government’s next Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) will still be very tough for non-statutory services and for those outside the protected spending departments like Heath, Education Defence and International Development. But already UK Sport has put on record an ambitious plan to suggest it would need to double the £500m to around £1bn spent on the Olympic cycle to get Team GB heading the medals table by the mid-2020s and hosting a future Olympics. This won’t be universally supported across the sector – and quite rightly so. It’s not my priority despite being involved in establishing this programme in the build up to the 2012 Olympics. But it is clear and ambitious. So often we put out the challenge for policy ideas at the Sports Think Tank and most responses are micro changes. The recent climate change protests showed there are big moments when society and politics catch up with each other, resulting in seismic shifts in policy. Getting a nation active will require massive effort and we still have little evidence of system change working at a population level – but is that because we have been too timid in our ambition? Potential ideas The crisis in inactivity is literally killing us – so we need to be bold and ambitious. Can we work together to create a universal offering on physical activity? Perhaps a legal duty to reduce inactivity or a universal credit for every citizen to use in creating their own active lives? Maybe a fundamental rethink of planning and transportation legislation to put physical activity, rather than cars, at the heart of the planning system. It’s time for some greater collaboration to create our own version of the UBI. Let’s think big and ask government to wake up to the size of the crisis that faces us. Andy Reed is the founder of Sports Think Tank, former MP for Loughborough, and chair of SAPCA. sportsthinktank.com Crown Sports Lockers Crown Sports Lockers has designed, crafted and fitted bespoke timber furniture for spas, hotels and the sport and leisure sectors since 1993. Solent University’s brand new Sports Centre receives high performance flooring and functional rig solutions from EXF Leading bespoke fitness equipment manufacturer, EXF Fitness has recently completed an installation project at Solent University in Southampton.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line870
__label__cc	0.67701	0.32299	Judith Sijstermans MSc International and European Politics Doing Now PhD Politics, University of Edinburgh Where are you from and what did you do before embarking on the IEP degree? I’m originally from the Netherlands, but grew up in California. Before starting the IEP degree, I completed my Bachelor’s at the University of California in Berkeley. I spent a year at Sciences Po in Paris and 6 months doing a Scottish Parliament internship during my undergraduate degree, which had encouraged my interest in studying European politics. I spent the summer before the MSc working for Edinburgh Research and Innovation, the University’s commercial liaison and technology transfer office. Why did you decide to do the IEP degree? I decided to do the IEP degree because it provided a good mixture of all the elements I was looking for in a postgraduate degree: taught courses and a substantial research component (the dissertation), general theoretical courses and a specific focus on the European Union, continuing education and relevant, nearby opportunities for part time work. The IEP programme is more specific than more generally oriented politics/International Relations master’s programmes. This ensured that my classmates and my courses aligned with my interest in Europe. Additionally, the IEP degree allows access to courses in other programmes as well. I took advantage of this and combined the IR/European theory courses with courses on my area of interests (Scotland and nationalism). The IEP degree also allowed me to transition from an American bachelor’s degree programme into the UK education system. For me, a taught MSc was a great way to transition into doing a PhD (spoiler alert!). It allowed me to study key theories more critically, to become accustomed to a new academic culture, and to make valuable contacts with academics. What do you think of Edinburgh as a city? Edinburgh provides the perfect backdrop to a degree in politics, in part because of the vibrancy of the Scottish political debate and in part because there are many distractions from politics. When wanting a new experience, there is always an interesting event on in Edinburgh, from the Fringe Festival to the Canal Festival to weekly farmer’s markets in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle. Despite its relative geographical isolation from the rest of Europe, Edinburgh is the center of a vibrant, diverse nation. Its role as Scotland’s capital city means regular and affordable access to world class food, art, sports, and music. It also has easy connections across Europe and to the rest of the UK. For those coming from further abroad, Edinburgh’s location allows time for some “hands on learning” through travel across the European Union. What were your best memories of the programme? My best memories of the programme were probably the one on one time that I was able to have with academics whose work I had read from afar. I wrote my undergraduate dissertation on the Scottish National Party’s position on the European Union. Coming to the University of Edinburgh, where nationalism, Scottish politics, and the EU are all key areas of research, allowed for a huge amount of engagement with scholars. I can remember coming out of my first meeting with my MSc dissertation supervisor feeling like my work had real potential and would eventually be able to make an academic contribution. The care and consideration that my supervisor had for me during the process made me feel like a real part of the academic community. I also look fondly (perhaps only in retrospection!) on the hours spent in the library café commiserating and collaborating with my IEP colleagues during exam times. Although the courses were difficult, the small size of the programme meant that we were able to support one another. Further, the fact that other students in my courses were from all over the world meant that conversations were stimulating and engaged with a wide range of national/cultural experiences. What have you been up to since graduation and what influence did IEP have on your choices? About a month after finishing the MSc in IEP, I began my PhD at the University of Edinburgh working on an extension of my master’s dissertation project. IEP played a huge role in me applying for the PhD. It gave me confidence in my project and also allowed me the time to work on a PhD proposal alongside my coursework. Being at the University of Edinburgh already allowed me to make valuable contacts with experts in my field, to build a relationship with my supervisor, and to understand what the University was looking for in terms of PhD students. Although many PhD students move from a research degree to the PhD, the School of Social and Political Science provides so many opportunities to all postgraduate students that I didn’t feel at any disadvantage. I took advantage of opportunities like the Transatlantic Seminar to connect with the research culture of the University. Further, I found that academics at Edinburgh are very open to meeting with students and discussing your work and their own. This was invaluable in the PhD proposal process. The IEP degree gave me the time and confidence to take the next step in my academic career. MSc in International and European Politics (incl. 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__label__wiki	0.697914	0.697914	EU Cookie Directive This site uses cookies. Some cookies may have been set already. To find out more, read our Privacy and Cookies Statement. By browsing this website, you agree to our use of cookies. \| A A+ A++ \| Contrast \| Cuardaitheoirí Poist Fostóirí Mar gheall orainn Sonraí teagmhálaCurrently selected Seirbhísí agus Foirmeacha ar Líne Aimsitheoir Ionad Intreo/Oifig Áitiúil Cuardaitheoir Poist Fostóir Gach Custaiméir ÁSPC Beartas ＆ Riarachán Tuairimí PreasoifigCurrently selected New Year Social Welfare increases to benefit more than 1.5 million people from january Martin Cullen TD, Minister for Social and Family Affairs has said today (27 December 2007) that increases in weekly social welfare rates of payment, effective from the first week of January, will directly benefit some 1.5 million people including pensioners, carers, those seeking employment and people with disabilities. The increases in the payments come as part of the €900 million Budget 2008 welfare package which brings the total 2008 welfare spend by the Department of Social and Family Affairs to a record €17 billion. Minister Martin Cullen TD said: "At a time of more moderate growth, our first priority must be to ensure that the less well off in society are protected. Budget 2008 provides significant resources to allow us to address the needs of the most disadvantaged in our society." With effect from next week, some 420,000 pensioners will benefit from increases in weekly payments. The State Pension (Contributory) and State Pension (Transition) will increase by €14 to €223.30 per week. Invalidity Pension recipients aged 65 years and over will also receive an additional €14 per week as will those in receipt of Widow's and Widower's (Contributory) Pension who are aged 66 years and over. Non-contributory pensioners will receive an increase of €12 bringing that payment to €212 per week. Over 42,000 Qualified Adults (spouses or partners) who are aged 66 years and over will benefit from a special increase of up to €27 per week. This increase applies to Qualified Adults (aged 66 years and over) of State Pension (Contributory), State Pension (Transition) and Invalidity Pension recipients. The maximum weekly rate for these Qualified Adults will be €200 per week from January. Speaking about this improvement for Qualified Adults, Minister Martin Cullen TD said: "This is major step towards achieving the Government's commitment to bring pensioner Qualified Adults to the level of the State (Non-Contributory) Pension and will mainly benefit women. When combined with the increase in the personal pension rate, the impact of this measure means that over 42,000 pensioner couples will see their household income increase by up to €41 a week next year or nearly 11%." The Minister added: "I would also like to remind pensioners that since September (2007), payment of the Qualified Adult allowance on all new State Pension claims is now made directly to the pensioner's spouse or partner. This is an important improvement in the social welfare code that again, benefits mainly women." Also from January 2008, the rates of payment for almost 41,500 carers will increase by €14 per week bringing, for example, the Carer's Allowance for those aged 66 or over to €232 per week and under 66 years to €214 per week. Other Budget increases from January include: Increase of €2 per week in the Qualified Child Increase (formerly Child Dependent Allowance) – the new weekly rate is €24 and will benefit over 260,000 children. Family Income Supplement (FIS) weekly income thresholds will increase by €10 per week per child. All other personal rates of payment will increase by €12 per week including the One Parent Family Payment, Jobseeker's Benefit, Jobseeker's Allowance, Widow's and Widower's Non-Contributory Pension, Blind Pension, Farm Assist, Illness Benefit and Disability Allowance. Some 563,000 recipients will receive €197.80 per week from January. Minister Cullen said: "The 2008 Social Welfare package continues to make significant progress towards achieving the Government's target on social welfare pension levels. It also significantly improves the position of the spouse or partner of contributory pensioners who receive the qualified adult allowance, and strengthens the framework of supports for family carers. This package means that the real value of all social welfare payments is maintained and safeguarded." Budget Increase: Jobseeker's Benefit, Jobseeker's Allowance, Illness Benefit, Injury Benefit, Maternity Benefit, Farm Assist, Pre-Retirement Allowance, Health and Safety Benefit, Supplementary Welfare Allowance. Effective from the beginning of January 2008 Disability Allowance Wednesday 2 January 2008 State Pension (Transition), Invalidity Pension, One Parent Family Payment, Carer's Allowance, Deserted Wife's Benefit, Deserted Wife's Allowance, Prisoner's Wife's Allowance, Family Income Supplement. State Pension (Contributory), State Pension (Non-Contributory), Widow/er's (Contributory) Pension, Widow/er's (Non-Contributory) Pension, Blind Person's Pension, Guardian's Payment (Contributory), Guardian's Payment (Non-Contributory), Disablement Pension, Death Benefit Pension The range of social welfare Budget improvements to take effect during 2008 includes: The Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance will increase by €20 per child from €180 to €200 for children aged 2-11 years and from €285 to €305 for children aged 12-22 years. The weekly income disregard for Carer's Allowance will increase by €12.50/€25 to €332.50 (single) and €665 (couple). The earnings threshold for entitlement to Carer's Benefit will increase by €12.50 to €332.50 per week. Increase of €25 in the upper income threshold for entitlement to One-Parent Family Payment, from €400 to €425 per week. PRSI, health and superannuation contributions and trade union subscriptions will be disregarded for the purpose of assessment of earnings for One-Parent Family Payment. Entitlement to the Natural Gas Allowance will be extended to include customers who use gas which is not delivered via the national grid. Increase of €14 per week in the minimum rate of Maternity and Adoptive Benefit to €221.80 per week. A single reformed method for assessing Benefit and Privilege from parent's income will be introduced. The Cost of Education Allowance will increase by €100 to €500 per annum. The threshold for payment of the 2% Health Contribution will increase from €480 to €500 per week and the annual threshold will increase from €24,960 to €26,000. The threshold for employee PRSI will increase from €339 to €352 per week. The earnings ceiling for PRSI will increase by €1,900 from €48,800 to €50,700. Michelle Hoctor, 087-8563070 Niamh Fitzgerald, 087-2547232 Editor's note: Details of the Social Welfare Budget are available from www.welfare.ie or the Department of Social and Family Affairs on 1890 66 22 44 (LoCall) from 9am – 5pm Monday to Friday. Note: The rates charged for the use of 1890 (LoCall) numbers may vary among different service providers. Last modified:23/09/2008 Óráidí Preasráitis 2007Currently selected Teagmhálacha agus Naisc leis na Meáin Liosta Poist na Meán Copyright and Disclaimer notice Access to Public Sector Information	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line885
__label__wiki	0.516659	0.516659	A circus under the stars Arbol de la Vida treated the UA students with a circus-themed party where people of all ages could come witness the magic of the circus without leaving campus Published Feb 26, 2018 6:00am By Briannon Wilfong Tyler Steffen \| The Daily Wildcat Performers entertain students at Students enjoy the cool weather at Àrbol de la Vida’s annual Carnivida event on Feb. 23. The big-top circus descended onto Arbol de la Vida Friday night for a "party underneath the stars with mesmerizing entertainment." Free food including hand-spun cotton candy, pizza and a chocolate fountain kept guests full while carnival-themed games and fire-breathing performers kept them entertained throughout the night. Providing a social event for students is something the University of Arizona residence life student executive board wants to bring to the dorms, creating an environment where freshmen, and students of all ages, can come together and have fun. RELATED: AASA hosts Poet Terrance Hayes for community forum Events like these have been happening annually for about 18 years throughout all of the residence halls, according to Vincent Jasso, a freshman at the UA who is a part of the executive board through residence life. Arbol de la Vida, one of many residence halls at the UA, has created similar events for students to come out and have a good time while building community. “I think this event gives the opportunity for everyone to come into one place, meet some new friends, get to see what another dorm looks like and what the life is like,” Jasso said. The circus party staff planned many live performances for students going on throughout the night. There were magic tricks performed by a professional magician, who enticed students watching with open mouths as he made a table float before the crowd’s eyes, as well as juggling tricksters who joked with students about how many bowling pins they could juggle. Acrobatic dancers hanging from silks kept students on edge as they skillfully maneuvered their way through the long strips of fabric, the audience in awe of their grace despite the complex and demanding maneuvers. “What makes this event special is all the hard work that went into this," Jasso said. "We spent countless hours planning this, I think that’s what makes it truly unique from everyone else." Students could enjoy other attractions at the event including a photo booth, henna tattoos and caricature drawings. Fair games were also set up for students to challenge each other in a game of ring toss or milk bottle toss. RELATED: Tucson Hip Hop Festival returns to the downtown scene “The free food and fire dancer, we’re super excited about that,” said Lauren Burrow and Estefania Camacho, both freshman students living at Arbol. The most anticipated performance, according to Burrow and Camacho, came toward the end of the night when students were treated to a fire breathing show. The performers had multiple torches lit while tossing them back and forth between each other, while rhythmically dancing and twirling the blazing torches. The night ended with the fire dancers and an eruption of cheers from the crowd. Arbol will plan similar events in the future to bring everyone in the community together and foster quality relationships within the residence halls. Follow Briannon Wilfong on Twitter	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line889
__label__cc	0.705737	0.294263	Green infrastructure: Where small can be beautiful Emily Hamilton, Sustainability Manager at Grosvenor Britain & Ireland, writes about the importance of linking up green space in cities. Penny Thomas, Shaftesbury, shares her experience of urban greening < Back to all blogs Penny Thomas at Shaftesbury describes why small steps can achieve great strides in urban biodiversity It takes more than 20,000 bees to fill a single jar of honey, with each small individual input having a large outcome – a similar thing is happening for biodiversity in the West End of London. For Shaftesbury, the greening of our Villages – from Carnaby to Covent Garden – is an intrinsic part of our sustainability strategy, but their central London locations produce challenges in terms of space and opportunity. Nevertheless, we recognise the value of green features not only for the benefit of city wildlife, but also to the occupiers and users of the area and even small-scale enhancements can greatly benefit biodiversity. Property refurbishment and development projects provide a clear opportunity to introduce initiatives such as green roofs and walls. However, we have found imagination and an eye for the possible can identify other opportunities for smaller scale projects and to exploit unused space, such as service roofs. Our approach has focussed on increasing the provision of sedum – also known as stone crop which is a wide-ranging genus of about 400 species with a variety of flowering colours and times - pollinator friendly planted window boxes, hanging baskets and planter boxes throughout our Villages. The combination of the sedum pods – located on vacant service roofs - planters, hanging baskets and window boxes create small areas of habitat which can link to roof gardens in adjacent buildings. These projects need to be practical and maintenance is a key consideration. The pods include up to 12 species of sedum ensuring optimal year-round performance; a coarse substrate of recycled organic material acts as a growing medium all contained within a lightweight 100% recycled plastic tray. This means they need only one or two visits a year to check on any plants that may need replacing or applying any nutrients in the green roof system. Sedum is low maintenance and even though a trim may be needed every few years the cuttings can be left as these will root again and thicken the matting. The planting regime for the hanging baskets and planters uses nectar rich flowering plants during the summer months such as geranium, fuchsia, lobelia, bacopa and salvia. During the winter perennial evergreens, ivy, lavender and buxus are used as the base with seasonal flowering plants added for colour. In the spring, primulas are added to provide a food source for bees early in the season. As well as being a boon for pollinators and welcomed by visitors and local businesses the initiatives have captured the imagination of the whole Shaftesbury team and estate staff. Of all our sustainability initiatives, those relating to biodiversity have generated the greatest buy-in and interest from both staff and tenants. Even small projects can deliver sweet outcomes. Penny Thomas, Company Secretary, Shaftesbury Why investing in green infrastructure should be a key consideration Our experiences in London’s West End have proven that creating destinations that stand the test of time is about more than just great buildings. James Cooksey, Deputy Head of Urban and Head of Central London. London property owners join forces to launch Wild West End ecology initiative "There is absolutely no doubt that parks and green spaces in urban areas improve people’s wellbeing and quality of life. Through the Wild West End we look forward to transforming a part of the city for thousands of residents, workers and tourists to enjoy even more.” Boris Johnson, Mayor of London © Wild West End 2017 ')}	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line891
__label__cc	0.581255	0.418745	Species by Parish List Explanation of Ranking Categories Employed by Natural Heritage Programs Nationwide Each element is assigned a single global rank as well as a state rank for each state in which it occurs. Global ranking is done under the guidance of NatureServe, Arlington, VA. State ranks are assigned by each state’s Natural Heritage Program, thus a rank for a particular element may vary considerably from state to state. Federal ranks are designated by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service under the provisions of the Endangered Species Act of 1973. DISCLAIMER: This document is not an official copy of the laws in effect and should not be utilized or relied upon as such. For this reason, the accuracy of the information contained within this document cannot be guaranteed and the reader is cautioned that it is his/her responsibility to be apprised of the laws in effect at any given time. These laws include those contained within the Louisiana Revised Statutes, particularly Title 56, the official regulations of the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission, federal laws, and any local or parish ordinances. Federal Ranks (USESA FIELD): LE = Listed Endangered LT = Listed Threatened PE = Proposed endangered PT = Proposed Threatened C = Candidate PDL = Proposed for delisting E (S/A) or T (S/A) = Listed endangered or threatened because of similarity of appearance XE = Essential experimental population XN = Nonessential experimental population No Rank = Usually indicates that the taxon does not have any federal status. However, because of potential lag time between publication in the Federal Register and entry in the central databases and state databases, some taxa may have a status which does not yet appear. (Rank, Rank) = Combination values in parenthesis = The taxon itself is not named in the Federal Register as having U.S. ESA status; however, all of its infraspecific taxa (worldwide) do have official status. The statuses shown in parentheses indicate the statuses that apply to infraspecific taxa or populations within this taxon. THE SPECIES IS CONSIDERED TO HAVE A COMBINATION STATUS IN LOUISIANA (PS) = partial status= Status in only a portion of the species’ range. Typically indicated in a “full” species record where an infraspecific taxon or population has U.S. ESA status, but the entire species does not. THE SPECIES DOES NOT HAVE A STATUS IN LOUISIANA (PS: Rank) = partial status= Status in only a portion of the species’ range. The value of that status appears because the entity with status does not have an individual entry in Natureserve. THE SPECIES MAY HAVE A STATUS IN LOUISIANA Global Element Ranks: G1 = critically imperiled globally because of extreme rarity (5 or fewer known extant populations) or because of some factor(s) making it especially vulnerable to extinction G2 = imperiled globally because of rarity (6 to 20 known extant populations) or because of some factor(s) making it very vulnerable to extinction throughout its range G3 = either very rare and local throughout its range or found locally (even abundantly at some of its locations) in a restricted range (e.g., a single physiographic region) or because of other factors making it vulnerable to extinction throughout its range (21 to 100 known extant populations) G4 = apparently secure globally, though it may be quite rare in parts of its range, especially at the periphery (100 to 1000 known extant populations) G5 = demonstrably secure globally, although it may be quite rare in parts of its range, especially at the periphery (1000+ known extant populations) GH = of historical occurrence throughout its range; i.e., formerly part of the established biota, with the possibility that it may be rediscovered (e.g., Bachman’s Warbler) GU = possibly in peril range-wide, but status uncertain; need more information G? = rank uncertain. Or a range (e.g., G3G5) delineates the limits of uncertainty GQ = uncertain taxonomic status GX = believed to be extinct throughout its range (e.g., Passenger Pigeon) with virtually no likelihood that it will be rediscovered T = subspecies or variety rank (e.g., G5T4 applies to a subspecies with a global species rank of G5, but with a subspecies rank of G4) State Element Ranks: S1 = critically imperiled in Louisiana because of extreme rarity (5 or fewer known extant populations) or because of some factor(s) making it especially vulnerable to extirpation S2 = imperiled in Louisiana because of rarity (6 to 20 known extant populations) or because of some factor(s) making it very vulnerable to extirpation S3 = rare and local throughout the state or found locally (even abundantly at some of its locations) in a restricted region of the state, or because of other factors making it vulnerable to extirpation (21 to 100 known extant populations) S4 = apparently secure in Louisiana with many occurrences (100 to 1000 known extant populations) S5 = demonstrably secure in Louisiana (1000+ known extant populations) (B or N may be used as qualifier of numeric ranks and indicating whether the occurrence is breeding or nonbreeding) SA = accidental in Louisiana, including species (usually birds or butterflies) recorded once or twice or only at great intervals hundreds or even thousands of miles outside their usual range SH = of historical occurrence in Louisiana, but no recent records verified within the last 20 years; formerly part of the established biota, possibly still persisting SR = reported from Louisiana, but without conclusive evidence to accept or reject the report SU = possibly in peril in Louisiana, but status uncertain; need more information SX = believed to be extirpated from Louisiana SZ = transient species in which no specific consistent area of occurrence is identifiable State Protection Status: State status are contained in Title 56 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes as well as relevant rules and regulations adopted by the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission and the Secretary of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. The Secretary of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is authorized to implement additional restrictions in emergency situations in order to protect fish and wildlife resources. Endangered = Taking or harassment of these species is a violation of state and federal laws. Threatened = Taking or harassment of these species is a violation of state and federal laws. Threatened/Endangered = Taking or harassment of these species is a violation of state and federal laws. Prohibited = Possession of these species is prohibited. No legal harvest or possession. Restricted Harvest = There are restrictions regarding the taking and possession of these species. Filter By Parish <Any>East New OrleansNorth of Baton RougeStatewideSurrounding ParishAcadiana Eastern Louisiana Florida ParishesSouth LouisianaSouthwest LouisianaNorth Louisiana Northeast Louisiana Northwest Louisiana Southeast LouisianaEast New OrleansAll ParishesAcadiaAllenAscensionAssumptionAvoyellesBeauregardBienvilleBossierCaddoCalcasieuCaldwellCameronCatahoulaClaiborneConcordiaDeSotoEast Baton RougeEast CarrollEast FelicianaEvangelineFranklinGrantIberiaIbervilleJacksonJeffersonJefferson DavisLafayetteLafourcheLaSalleLincolnLivingstonMadisonMorehouseNatchitochesOrleansOuachitaPlaqueminesPointe CoupeeRapidesRed RiverRichlandSabineSt. BernardSt. CharlesSt. HelenaSt. JamesSt. John the BaptistSt. LandrySt. MartinSt. MarySt. TammanyTangipahoaTensasTerrebonneUnionVermilionVernonWashingtonWebsterWest Baton RougeWest CarrollWest FelicianaWinn <Any>Natural CommunitiesRare Animal SpeciesRare Plant Species State Status Federal Status Intermediate Marsh S3 G4? Intermediate Marsh Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Charles, St. Tammany Estuarine Submergent Vascular Vegetation S1S2 G4? Submergent Vascular Vegetation Lafourche, Orleans, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa Submerged/Floating Vascular Vegetation S4 --- St. Tammany, Tangipahoa Freshwater Marsh S2 G3G4 Freshwater Marsh Cameron, Lafourche, Plaquemines, St. Charles, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, Vermilion Eastern Hillside Seepage Bog S1 G2 Eastern Hillside Seepage Bog St. Tammany, Washington Cypress-Tupelo Swamp S4 G3G5 Ascension, Assumption, Bossier, East Baton Rouge, Franklin, Iberia, Iberville, Livingston, Natchitoches, Pointe Coupee, Rapides, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Terrebonne, West Feliciana, Winn Pondcypress Swamp/Blackgum Swamp S1 G3 Pondcypress Swamp/Blackgum Swamp St. Tammany, Tangipahoa Bottomland Hardwood Forest S4 G4G5 Bottomland Hardwood Forest Ascension, Avoyelles, Bossier, Caddo, Calcasieu, Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia, East Baton Rouge, East Carroll, Franklin, Grant, Iberville, Lincoln, Livingston, Madison, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Plaquemines, Rapides, Richland, Sabine, St. Tammany, Tensas, Union, Vernon, West Carroll, Winn Bayhead Swamp S3 G3? Bayhead Swamp Beauregard, Jackson, Rapides, St. Tammany, Vernon, Washington, Winn Slash Pine-Pondcypress/Hardwood Forest S2 G2? Slash Pine-Pondcypress/Hardwood Forest Pine Flatwoods S3 G2G3 Pine Flatwoods Grant, Rapides, St. Tammany, Vernon Eastern Longleaf Pine Savannah S1 G1 Eastern Longleaf Pine Savannah Small Stream Forest S2 G3 Small Stream Forest Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, DeSoto, East Feliciana, Franklin, Grant, LaSalle, Natchitoches, Rapides, Sabine, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Vernon, Washington, Webster, West Feliciana, Winn Hardwood Slope Forest S3 G2G3 Hardwood Slope Forest Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Catahoula, East Feliciana, Evangeline, Grant, Jackson, LaSalle, Natchitoches, Ouachita, Rapides, St. Helena, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Union, Washington, West Carroll Coastal Live Oak-Hackberry Forest S1 G2 Coastal Live Oak-Hackberry Forest Cameron, Iberia, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Tammany, Terrebonne, Vermilion Slash Pine/Post Oak S2? --- Eastern Upland Longleaf Pine Forest S1 G1G2 Eastern Upland Longleaf Pine Forest St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington Rare Plant Species Chrysopsis gossypina ssp. hyssopifolia A Golden Aster S1 G5T3T5 St. Tammany, Washington Lechea pulchella A Pinweed S1S2 G5 St. Tammany, Tangipahoa Pteroglossaspis ecristata A Wild Coco S2 G2G3 Pteroglossaspis ecristata Allen, Beauregard, Grant, Jefferson Davis, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Vernon, Washington Quercus arkansana Arkansas Oak S2 G3 Quercus arkansana Bossier, Caddo, St. Tammany, Union, Webster Calopogon barbatus Bearded Grass-pink S1 G4? Calopogon barbatus Natchitoches, St. Tammany, Vernon Chasmanthium ornithorhynchum Bird-bill Spikegrass S2 G4 Chasmanthium ornithorhynchum Mayaca fluviatilis Bog Moss S2 G5 Evangeline, Rapides, St. Tammany, Washington Cliftonia monophylla Buckwheat-tree S1 G4G5 St. Tammany Schoenoplectus etuberculatus Bulrush S1 G3G4 Schoenoplectus etuberculatus Rapides, Sabine, St. Tammany, Washington Carex venusta Caric Sedge S1 G4 St. Tammany, Vernon, Washington Tridens carolinianus Carolina Fluff Grass S2 G3 St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington Physalis carpenteri Carpenter's Ground-cherry S1 G3 Physalis carpenteri St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington, West Feliciana Rhynchospora chapmanii Chapman Beakrush S3 G4 St. Tammany, Washington Polygala chapmanii Chapman's milkwort S1 G3G5 Calcasieu, St. Tammany Rhynchospora ciliaris Ciliate Beakrush S3 G4 Rhynchospora ciliaris Potamogeton perfoliatus Clasping-leaf Pondweed SH G5 Potamogeton perfoliatus Orleans, St. Tammany Tofieldia racemosa Coastal False-asphodel S2S3 G5 Tofieldia racemosa Agalinis aphylla Coastal Plain False-foxglove S1 G3G4 Agalinis aphylla Salix caroliniana Coastal Plain Willow S1 G5 Salix caroliniana Physostegia correllii Correll's False Dragon-head S1 G2 Cameron, St. Charles, St. James, St. Tammany Eleocharis fallax Creeping Spike-rush S1? G4G5 Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Tammany, Terrebonne Carex decomposita Cypress-knee Sedge S3 G3 Carex decomposita Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Evangeline, Franklin, Grant, Iberia, Jackson, Lafayette, Lafourche, Ouachita, St. Martin, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Tensas Zigadenus leimanthoides Death Camus S1 G4Q Caddo, St. Tammany, Vernon Trichomanes petersii Dwarf Filmy-fern S2 G4G5 East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington Smilax auriculata Eared Greenbrier S2 G4? Smilax auriculata St. Bernard, St. Tammany Sida elliottii Elliott Sida SH G4G5 Sida elliottii Cameron, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, St. Tammany Chamaelirium luteum Fairy Wand S2S3 G5 Chamaelirium luteum Lincoln, Natchitoches, Ouachita, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington, West Feliciana Macranthera flammea Flame Flower S2 G3 Macranthera flammea Rhynchospora compressa Flat-fruit Beakrush S3 G4 Rhynchospora compressa Beauregard, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington Agalinis linifolia Flax-leaf False-foxglove S2 G4? Agalinis linifolia St. Helena, St. Tammany Coreopsis nudata Georgia Tickseed S2 G3? Coreopsis nudata Linum macrocarpum Gig Fruit Flax S1 G2 Linum macrocarpum Lophiola aurea Golden Crest S2S3 G4 Lophiola aurea Xyris scabrifolia Harper's Yellow-eyed Grass S2 G3 Xyris scabrifolia Beauregard, Natchitoches, St. Tammany, Vernon, Winn Gratiola ramosa Hedgehyssop S1S2 G4G5 Beauregard, St. Tammany Sium suave Hemlock Water-parsnip S1S2 G5 Sium suave Tephrosia hispidula Hoary Pea S2? G4G5 Tephrosia hispidula Polygala hookeri Hooker Milkwort S1 G3 Polygala hookeri Lupinus villosus Lady Lupine S2 G5 St. Tammany, Washington Cirsium lecontei Lecont's Thistle S2 G2G3 Cirsium lecontei Isoetes louisianensis Louisiana Quillwort S2 G2 E Isoetes louisianensis Selaginella ludoviciana Louisiana Spikemoss S1 G3G4 Selaginella ludoviciana Scleria verticillata Low Nutrush S1 G5 Allen, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, St. Tammany Calopogon multiflorus Many-flowered Grass-pink S1 G2G3 Calopogon multiflorus Sanicula marilandica Maryland's Black Snake-root SH G5 St. Tammany, Washington Asclepias michauxii Michaux Milkweed S2 G4G5 St. Tammany, Tangipahoa Rhynchospora miliacea Millet Beakrush S2 G5 Rhynchospora miliacea Allen, Calcasieu, Lafourche, Livingston, Rapides, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Terrebonne, Vernon, Winn Ilex myrtifolia Myrtle Holly S2 G5? Ilex myrtifolia Sericocarpus linifolius Narrowleaf Aster S2 G5 St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington Ruellia noctiflora Night-flowering Wild-petunia S1 G2 Ruellia noctiflora Burmannia biflora Northern Burmannia S3 G4G5 Bienville, Caddo, Catahoula, DeSoto, Grant, LaSalle, Ouachita, Rapides, St. Tammany, Vernon, Webster, Winn Myrica inodora Odorless Bayberry S2 G4 St. Tammany, Washington Calopogon pallidus Pale Grass-pink S2 G4G5 St. Tammany, Tangipahoa Sarracenia psittacina Parrot Pitcherplant S3 G4 St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington Lachnocaulon digynum Pineland Bog Button S3 G3 Beauregard, Natchitoches, Sabine, St. Tammany, Vernon Stipulicida setacea Pineland Scaly-pink S1 G4G5 Stipulicida setacea Xyris stricta Pineland Yellow-eyed Grass S2 G3G4 Xyris stricta Allen, Beauregard, St. Tammany Sclerolepis uniflora Pink Bob Button S1 G4 St. Tammany Agalinis filicaulis Purple False-foxglove S2 G3G4 Agalinis filicaulis Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, St. Tammany, Vernon Quercus rubra Red Oak S1S3 G5 Caddo, Caldwell, DeSoto, Morehouse, Rapides, St. Tammany, Union, Washington, West Carroll Panicum rigidulum var. combsii Redtop Panicum S1 G5T5? Natchitoches, St. Tammany Collinsonia canadensis Richweed S2? G5 St. Helena, St. Tammany, Washington Podostemum ceratophyllum Riverweed S1 G5 East Feliciana, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington Dichanthelium strigosum var. glabrescens Roughhair Witchgrass S1 G5T4T5 Beauregard, Grant, LaSalle, Rapides, St. Tammany, Washington Sabatia arenicola Sand Rose-gentian S1 G3G5 Sabatia arenicola Cameron, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Tammany, Terrebonne Ilex amelanchier Sarvis Holly S2 G4 Ilex amelanchier St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Vernon, Washington Rhynchospora debilis Savannah Beakrush S3 G4? Allen, St. Tammany Serenoa repens Saw Palmetto S1 G4G5 Polygala crenata Scalloped Milkwort S2 G4? Polygala crenata Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa Uniola paniculata Sea Oats S2 G5 Uniola paniculata Cameron, Jefferson, Lafourche, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Tammany, Terrebonne Saccharum brevibarbe var. brevibarbe Short-beard Plumegrass S1 G3G5 Calcasieu, St. Tammany Helenium brevifolium Shortleaf Sneezeweed S1 G3G4 Helenium brevifolium Stewartia malacodendron Silky Camellia S2S3 G4 Caldwell, Catahoula, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Grant, Livingston, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington Deparia acrostichoides Silvery Glade Fern S2 G5 St. Tammany, West Feliciana Liatris tenuis Slender Gay-feather S1 G3 Liatris tenuis Caddo, Natchitoches, St. Tammany Eleocharis elongata Slim Spike-rush S3 G5? Eleocharis elongata Cameron, St. Tammany, Vermilion Collinsonia serotina Southern horse-balm S1 G3G4 Lilium catesbaei Southern Red Lily S1 G4 St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington Fuirena scirpoidea Southern Umbrella-sedge S1 G5 Fuirena scirpoidea Drosera intermedia Spoon-leaved Sundew S2 G5 St. Tammany, Washington Rhynchospora divergens Spreading Beakrush S1 G4 Calcasieu, St. Tammany Cleistes bifaria Spreading Pogonia S1 G4 St. Tammany, Washington Paronychia erecta var. corymbosa Squareflower S1 G3G4T2T4 Paronychia erecta var. corymbosa Lycopodiella cernua var. cernua Staghorn Clubmoss S2 G5T5 Natchitoches, Ouachita, St. Tammany Rhynchospora decurrens Swamp-forest Beakrush SH G3G4 St. Tammany Dulichium arundinaceum Three-way Sedge S2 G5 Bienville, Caddo, Rapides, St. Tammany, Washington Lilium superbum Turk's Cap Lily S1 G5 St. Tammany Fuirena simplex var. aristulata Western Umbrella Sedge S1 G5T4 East Carroll, Natchitoches, Rapides, St. Charles, St. Landry, St. Tammany Platanthera blephariglottis var. conspicua White-fringe Orchis S1 G4G5T3T4 St. Tammany, Vernon Ludwigia alata Winged Primrose Willow S1 G3G5 Ludwigia alata Pinguicula lutea Yellow Butterwort S2 G4G5 St. Tammany, Washington Platanthera integra Yellow Fringeless Orchid S3 G3G4 Beauregard, Natchitoches, St. Tammany, Vernon Xyris serotina Yellow-eyed Grass S1 G3G4 St. Tammany Rare Animal Species Obovaria unicolor Alabama Hickorynut S1 G3 Obovaria unicolor East Feliciana, Livingston, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa Alosa alabamae Alabama Shad S1 G3 C Alosa alabamae East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington Macrochelys temminckii Alligator Snapping Turtle S3 G3G4 Restricted Harvest Macrochelys temminckii Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bienville, Catahoula, Concordia, Grant, Iberia, Lafayette, Madison, Ouachita, Rapides, St. John the Baptist, St. Landry, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Tensas, Vermilion, Washington Elanoides forficatus American Swallow-tailed Kite S1S2B G5 Elanoides forficatus Beauregard, Calcasieu, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington Aimophila aestivalis Bachman's Sparrow S3 G3 Aimophila aestivalis Allen, Beauregard, Bienville, Bossier, Calcasieu, Claiborne, Grant, Jackson, Livingston, Natchitoches, Rapides, Sabine, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Vernon, Washington Haliaeetus leucocephalus Bald Eagle S3 G5 E Delisted Haliaeetus leucocephalus Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bossier, Caddo, Calcasieu, Claiborne, Concordia, DeSoto, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Franklin, Iberia, Iberville, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafourche, LaSalle, Livingston, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Orleans, Ouachita, Plaquemines, Pointe Coupee, Rapides, Richland, Sabine, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Tensas, Terrebonne, Union, Vermilion, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana Pteronotropis welaka Bluenose Shiner S2 G3G4 St. Tammany, Washington Crystallaria asprella Crystal Darter S2 G3 Bossier, Caddo, Morehouse, Ouachita, St. Tammany, Union, Washington Malaclemys terrapin Diamondback Terrapin S3 G4 Restricted Harvest Malaclemys terrapin Cameron, Jefferson, Jefferson Davis, Lafourche, Orleans, St. Bernard, St. Tammany, Terrebonne, Vermilion Rana sevosa Dusky Gopher Frog SH G1 E Rana sevosa Ophisaurus ventralis Eastern Glass Lizard S3 G5 Ophisaurus ventralis East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Jefferson, Lafourche, Livingston, Plaquemines, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne Reithrodontomys humulis Eastern Harvest Mouse S3 G5 Acadia, Beauregard, Caddo, Calcasieu, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Tammany, Vermilion, Vernon, Washington Ambystoma tigrinum Eastern Tiger Salamander S1 G5 Prohibited Ambystoma tigrinum Caddo, St. Tammany, Vernon Fusconaia ebena Ebonyshell S3 G4G5 Madison, Morehouse, Richland, St. Tammany Elliptio crassidens Elephant-ear S3 G5 East Feliciana, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa Pteronotropis signipinnis Flagfin Shiner S2 G5 St. Tammany, Washington Fallicambarus oryktes Flatwoods Digger S2 G4 Fallicambarus oryktes Hemidactylium scutatum Four-toed Salamander S1 G5 Hemidactylium scutatum Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, St. Tammany Noturus munitus Frecklebelly Madtom S1 G3 St. Tammany, Washington Percina lenticula Freckled Darter S1 G2 Percina lenticula Gopherus polyphemus Gopher Tortoise S1 G3 T T Gopherus polyphemus Pseudotriton montanus Gulf Coast Mud Salamander S1 G5 Prohibited Pseudotriton montanus Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi Gulf Sturgeon S1 G3T2 T T Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi Ascension, Jefferson, Livingston, Orleans, St. Bernard, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington Micrurus fulvius Harlequin Coral Snake S2 G5 Micrurus fulvius Potamilus inflatus Inflated Heelsplitter S1 G1G2Q T T Potamilus inflatus Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, St. Tammany Mustela frenata Long-tailed Weasel S3 G5 Mustela frenata Allen, Bossier, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Jackson, Lincoln, Livingston, Ouachita, Rapides, St. James, St. Tammany, Union, Vernon, West Feliciana Ursus americanus luteolus Louisiana Black Bear S3 G5T2 T T Ursus americanus luteolus Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin, Iberia, Iberville, Madison, Pointe Coupee, Richland, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Tensas, Vermilion, West Baton Rouge, West Carroll, West Feliciana Trichechus manatus Manatee S1N G2 E E Trichechus manatus Ascension, Cameron, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne Lampropeltis calligaster rhombomaculata Mole Kingsnake S1S2 G5T5 Lampropeltis calligaster rhombomaculata Pseudacris ornata Ornate Chorus Frog SH G5 Pseudacris ornata Pandion haliaetus Osprey S3 G5 Grant, Iberville, Lafourche, Natchitoches, Plaquemines, Rapides, St. John the Baptist, St. Martin, St. Tammany, Winn Polyodon spathula Paddlefish S4 G4 Polyodon spathula Acadia, Avoyelles, Caddo, Calcasieu, Cameron, Catahoula, Concordia, Evangeline, Franklin, Iberia, Jefferson Davis, LaSalle, Orleans, Ouachita, Rapides, Sabine, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, St. Martin, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Tensas, Union Graptemys gibbonsi Pascagoula Map Turtle S3 G3G4 St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington Percina aurora Pearl Darter SH G1 C St. Tammany, Washington Rhadinaea flavilata Pine Woods Snake S1 G4 Rhadinaea flavilata Livingston, St. Tammany Procambarus shermani Plain Brown Crawfish S2 G4 St. Tammany Farancia erytrogramma Rainbow Snake S2 G4 Farancia erytrogramma East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington Picoides borealis Red-cockaded Woodpecker S2 G3 E E Picoides borealis Allen, Beauregard, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Calcasieu, Caldwell, Catahoula, DeSoto, Evangeline, Grant, Jackson, LaSalle, Lincoln, Livingston, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Ouachita, Rapides, Sabine, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Union, Vernon, Webster, Winn Procambarus bivittatus Ribbon Crawfish S2 G5 St. Tammany, Washington Graptemys oculifera Ringed Map Turtle S2 G2 T T Graptemys oculifera Moxostoma carinatum River Redhorse S1 G4 Ouachita, St. Tammany, Washington Cycleptus meridionalis Southeastern Blue Sucker S1 G3G4 Cycleptus meridionalis Obovaria jacksoniana Southern Hickorynut S1S2 G2 Obovaria jacksoniana Allen, Beauregard, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, Natchitoches, Rapides, Sabine, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Vernon Lampsilis ornata Southern Pocketbook S3 G5 East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa Villosa vibex Southern Rainbow S2 G5Q East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington Endangered Species Rankings Natural Areas Registry Tracking List and Fact Sheets 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__label__cc	0.532056	0.467944	Author: Zurairi AR Zurairi AR is a journalist and columnist for Malay Mail Online. He is an advocate of humanism and scepticism. A nation of ‘kap chais’ Published by Zurairi AR on January 22, 2017 I do not ride a motorbike. My father, himself a wild rider in his youth — complete with a scrambler bike — forbade his sons from ever riding, for reasons we did not bother asking. My memories of riding pillion on an underbone bike, which we call kap chai, are about hitching a ride to Friday prayers, either with my late grandfather in Johor back in my high school days, or now with my father-in-law in Kelantan. Living beside a main road in Putrajaya, my sleeping hours are punctuated by kap chai bikes; the shriek of their puny engines magnified tenfold by their vulgar exhaust mufflers as they go by, keeping me worried that the wee baby would be shocked into waking up (fortunately, she never did). There are dedicated motorbike lanes in most parts of Putrajaya, especially accompanying the wide four-lane roads that go between precincts. They, of course, remain ignored by riders who choose instead the wide roadways. Still, the bikes remain essential to the working class who needs to cross the massive administrative capital on a day-to-day basis. It is a similar situation for university campuses. Malaysia likes to build things big, but never with any consideration for the humans who would live in it. Continue readingA nation of ‘kap chais’ Faiz Subri and Malay masculinity Penang footballer Faiz Subri’s recent FIFA Puskás Award for his bewitching knuckleball free-kick brought its own share of hangers-on and opportunists. Faiz’s win was incontrovertibly his own, a demonstration of his personal passion and talent rather than a reflection of the state of the country’s football prowess or lack thereof. A recent video that went viral online showed Faiz’s top five goals, and it served as proof that Faiz’s performance was not really a fluke as he netted one goal after another wonderful goal from an incredible distance. But over the 11 months since he scored that winning goal, Faiz has had to suddenly carry the hopes and dignity of a country whose team currently ranks 161 in the world below Aruba and above Macedonia, a far cry from its 79th place in 1993 when the ranking was first devised. Born a Malay, Faiz has also had to carry the burden and pride of the majority ethnic group, which is still struggling with its post-colonial identity even nearly 60 years after Malaya declared itself independent. Continue readingFaiz Subri and Malay masculinity Let them eat (halal) cake! Published by Zurairi AR on January 8, 2017 The only times I go to McDonald’s are for completely unhealthy reasons like grabbing supper on particularly hungry late nights or for a quick meal in between assignments. I have to admit I have a soft spot (somewhere in my tummy, obviously) for their sundaes, Prosperity Burger and the elusive McRibs, which is made of chicken here. (But chickens do not have ribs that huge so what are they but why are they tasty though?) Therefore, I have to admit that it is baffling that somebody would want to celebrate their birthday in McDonald’s, much like how I am weirded out by students who do their group study or couples who go on dates there. It is a sign that I am either too old, or not old enough. But I can sympathise with those who do. McDonald’s is certainly not that cheap by Malaysian standards (nor does it have a good price-to-deliciousness ratio), but it is perhaps one of the few places that is welcoming to all. I have to confess that I do not see many birthday celebrations in mamak shops. So, when it was revealed that the fast food chain only allows halal-certified birthday cakes, understandably it raised quite a few eyebrows. And just like McDonald’s itself, the policy seems absurd, but understandable. Continue readingLet them eat (halal) cake! Will there still be one Malaysia in 2017? Published as “A Malaysia for All” in Malay Mail Online The year 2016 has left many of us bruised and battered, emotionally and spiritually, and it is easy to make the mistake of anthropomorphising the year to lay blame at its feet. There were major celebrity deaths and earth-shattering socio-political upheavals; you would think that 2016 was being unnecessarily cruel to humankind, making it one of the worst years in history. But alas, 2016 has no mind of its own, nor were the events a deliberate machination of fate. Things just happened. And in this country, the year 2016 symbolised the start of the deepening fissures that aim to cleave Malaysia in two — a repercussion that we have felt ever since the divisive 2013 general elections. Continue readingWill there still be one Malaysia in 2017? Why TransMalaya’s bus segregation has little to do with protecting women Published by Zurairi AR on December 30, 2016 Long-haul bus operator TransMalaya Ekspres has been practising gender segregation in its buses since February 2015 before it was featured by Berita Harian yesterday, and subsequently Malay Mail Online by following up with Noorlini Ramli, the owner and co-founder of KRZ Management Sdn Bhd that manages the fleet. The revelation was met with outrage over the spill of moral policing into the transport industry that would also affect non-Muslims, reminiscent of segregated check-out lines in Kelantan. The outrage however was mocked by among others Islamist group Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (Isma), who claimed it contradicts liberals and feminists’ goal of protecting women. It also became the subject of a webcomic by VulpineNinja (which itself does not reflect the exact facts of the case). Supporters of the policy lambasted critics, believing that it protects women from sexual harassment, which was backed by Noorlini’s claim: “The point of this is to give an advantage to our female passengers because we have heard and read reports of how female travellers get molested by strangers, so we took this effort to give them a greater sense of security and comfort. “This is for both Muslim and non-Muslim. We simply want to avoid any untoward incidents.” Is it, though? While there is undeniable intent that the policy is meant to ensure women’s safety, it reeks much more of moral policing. Continue readingWhy TransMalaya’s bus segregation has little to do with protecting women Why Muslims are more educated than their peers A recent Pew Research Center study showed that in Malaysia, Muslims on average are more educated than adherents of other religions, that is they have more formal schooling compared to others. It had measured the level of education of three cohorts: the “oldest” (born 1936-1955), “middle” (born 1956-1975) and “youngest” (born 1976-1985). Pew found that in the country, Muslims receive an average of 10.2 years of formal schooling followed by Buddhists (9.8 years), Hindus (9.7), Christians (9), and those unaffiliated to the four religion groups (8.2). The average period of schooling in Malaysia is 9.9 years, below the required six years of primary education added with five of secondary. The study caught the attention of non-Muslims and non-religious in the country who felt slighted and had a hard time accepting the fact. It is as if their deep-rooted racism and prejudice made them believe that the Muslims are bound to be uneducated, backwards, and perhaps stupid. But few of them asked the right questions. Continue readingWhy Muslims are more educated than their peers	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line898
__label__wiki	0.681086	0.681086	Daughter of the Wolf Claire (Gina Carano), an ex-military specialist, comes home to the recent news of her father’s passing only to find herself at odds with her defiant 13-year-old son, Charlie (Anton Gillis-Adelman). With the news that Claire has inherited a large sum of money from her father’s business Charlie is kidnapped for a ransom. Instead of seeking help Claire takes one of the kidnappers, Larsen (Brendan Fehr), as a hostage and forces him to lead her on a perilous journey to rescue her son from the mysterious figure only known as the Father (Richard Dreyfuss). The trek takes Claire deep in the mountains of the Yukon, near the US – Canadian border as a winter storm approaches. As the odds of survival start to mount against Clair she has no choice but to form an unlikely alliance with Larsen in order to save her son and survive the wild of the far North. Director: David Hackl Actors: Anton Gillis-Adelman, Brendan Fehr, Brock Morgan, Gina Carano, Joshua Murdoch, Richard Dreyfuss, Stewart McLean, Sydelle Noel Keywords:123movies 9movies Daughter of the Wolf Online Free gomovies gostream movie4k movietv Openload primewire putlockers putlockertv shockshare sitename solarmovie Verystream Vidlox Watch Daughter of the Wolf watch32 yesmovie Wrongfully accused and on the run, a top MI6 assassin joins forces with his long-lost, football hooligan brother to save the world from a sinister plot. Enter the Warriors Gate Epic fantasy-adventure meets martial arts action in this thrilling film written by Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen. After a mysterious chest opens a gateway through time, teen gamer Jack… Country: France, China, Canada Carlito’s Way: Rise to Power Jay Hernandez (Friday Night Lights), Mario Van Peebles (Ali), Luis Guzmán (Carlito’s Way) and Sean Combs (Monster’s Ball) star in the gripping tale of the early years of gangster legend… Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Deluxe Edition) Batman has not been seen for ten years. A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing fifty-five-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl, but does he still… Extraordinary Mission An undercover police officer attempts to take down a drug trafficking syndicate from the inside. Torrente 4: Lethal crisis In Lethal Crisis, the world’s most uncouth private eye is framed for a crime he didn’t commit in the riotous fourth installment of the Torrente series. Stark Raving Mad A crook quietly plots his revenge against the boss who murdered his brother while working for him. A special agent assigned to protect a wealthy business magnate. However, when the businessman is kidnapped in a daring ambush, he teams up with a seasoned detective to crack the… Hands of Steel A story about a cyborg who is programmed to kill a scientist who holds the fate of mankind in his hands. The Underdog Knight Lao San is a young veteran high in Kungfu power but low in intelligence. After landing on a job as a body guard for a wealthy antique collector, Lao San… Country: Hong Kong, China In New York City, Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary teenager, learns that she is descended from a line of Shadowhunters — half-angel warriors who protect humanity from evil forces. After… Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance After a spectacular crash-landing on an uncharted planet, brash astronaut Leo Davidson finds himself trapped in a savage world where talking apes dominate the human race. Desperate to find a…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line901
__label__cc	0.675188	0.324812	Tag Archives: Hockey puck January 12: @ Flames 1 vs. Hanover 2 The Pee Wee Major Flames played host to Hanover on Saturday morning for an important GSL game. After getting two points in Hanover three weeks ago, the Flames were primed to sweep the season series and step even closer to a playoff berth. That was not how it turned out though. The Flames lost a tough game to watch, 2-1. It was tough to watch because the Flames appeared to be the better team, had the better chances, but just handed the puck over to Hanover time after time. In my notes on today’s game, I wrote two things down multiple times, “pass the puck” and “too cute”. As the game wore on I wrote these things with more fervor and more exclamation points. Now, I may not have had the best morning myself, which of course frames the view that I reference here, regardless, I know when a play could and should be made. It is certainly worth noting that the Flames have been playing good hockey as of late, good team hockey at times, even. Today was a chance to solidify a playoff spot in a very tough Tier II Division, and the Flames ‘toe dragged’ the outcome, giving it away to Hanover. 1st Period: After one period there was no score. Both teams were solid, allowing virtually nothing in their own defensive ends. The Flames were the first to buckle a little bit, when they took back to back penalties for careless stick work. The Flames killed the penalties, and one might say they would have killed them easily, were it not for getting ‘too cute’ with the puck. On consecutive clearing attempts, Flames players tried to toe drag the puck, or otherwise stick handle from their own end when a simple clear would have been the choice best served. Both times the puck was kept in by Hanover and shots on goal were the result. 2nd Period: Individual play carried into the second period, and it wasn’t long before it came back to haunt the Flames. Less than three minutes into the period, the Flames had a 3-on-2 break, and the center man had the puck with space. On his wing, his line mate was open and 50 feet ahead of him. No pass was made. The wing paused and waited, and then waited some more while the center man weaved through neutral ice. By the time the puck entered the zone, without a pass, both wings were offside. Innocent enough, right? Wrong. The resulting faceoff was won cleanly by Hanover, and they skated in on a clear breakaway, scored the goal and took a 1-0 lead. Fortunately, the Flames answered shortly thereafter on a beautiful centering pass from Zachary Bayer to Ryan Douthart who one-timed the pass from the slot, between the circles, and beating the goaltender to tie the game at 1 apiece. The period would end in a 1-1 tie, leaving just 12 minutes to decide the outcome. 3rd Period: The Flames came out and played, what I thought was their best period of the game in the final stanza. They dominated with shots on goal, puck possession, and had many scoring chances. Hanover did get some tremendous help from their goaltender. Hanover got help from the post of the goal, where one shot that beat the goaltender, ended up hitting and staying out of the net. Hanover got help from their defense who cleared a couple of sure goals off of rebounds. Finally, Hanover got help from the Flames themselves, who continued to stickhandle in tight spots when a pass or a dump in would have secured possession of the puck and possibly, additional chances to score. Then, with 2:12 to play, the Flames got cute in the offensive end, turned the puck over, and gave up the go ahead goal at the other end of the ice. The Flames pulled their goaltender with 1:07 left to play and did generate some great chances to tie the game, but Hanover and their goalie held the fort, and got the win. Posted in Hockey Tagged Flames, Goaltender, Granite State Hockey, GSL, Hanover, Hockey puck December 8: @ Flames 1 vs. Bulldogs 5 Saturday afternoon the Flames returned to home ice for a game against the Bulldogs. These two teams have played each other several times already this season. Each of the games thus far has been intensely contested, pretty evenly matched, and been a close game. Today things changed a little bit, at least as it relates to how these games have been going. The Flames lost 5-1 and just didn’t have the intensity they have shown over recent games. There was a fair amount of watching instead of skating, especially in the areas of battling for loose pucks and defending in front of their goal tender. 1st Period: The Flames came out in the first period and carried the play early. The Bulldogs didn’t mount much of a fight in either end of the ice for about six or seven minutes. Then things started to get good. Both teams played sharp, structured hockey, and the period ended scoreless, while both teams managed 8 shots apiece. 2nd Period: The second period was quite different from the opening period. The Bulldogs stormed the Flames net early, getting five shots on net and a goal before the Flames even got a shot off. After another four and a half minutes the lead had jumped to 3-0 in favor of the Bulldogs. Two of the three goals for the visiting team had come on a man-advantage. 28 seconds after the Flames fell behind 3-0, Zachary Bayer scored for the home team. Bayer was able to get his stick on the puck before it bounced off of, up, and over the Bulldogs goaltender. The whole play was set up by a strong individual effort from Sean Moore who had back checked a player in the neutral zone, took the puck, beat another player with a deke, and turned it into a scoring opportunity. The final seven-plus minutes were penalty and goal free, although the Flames put their best offensive effort together to finish the period. The period ended with the Flames trailing 3-1 on the scoreboard, and being out-shot 23-18. 3rd Period: After getting the better scoring chances in the latter half of the second period, and not being able to capitalize with goals, the Flames still had a chance entering the final period. Chances went out the window when the Bulldogs scored their fourth goal on a shot from a player standing all by himself in the slot. Shortly thereafter, the Bulldogs were about to score again after Anders Lindberg made a couple of point-blank saves. The puck was uncovered, in the crease, and just begging to be put into the net when a Flames defenseman reached out and covered the puck with their hands. That equated to a delay of game penalty and a penalty shot was awarded to the Bulldogs. The penalty shot resulted in a goal and a 5-1 lead for the Bulldogs. The game would end that way, with the Flames being out-shot 30-23 for the game. On Tap: Keene visits West Side Arena tomorrow at 3pm. The Flames beat Keene 2-0 at Cushing Academy back in October. Stay tuned. Tagged Anders Lindberg, Flames, goal tender, Hockey puck, loose pucks, man advantage, Sean Moore, Zachary Bayer	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line902
__label__wiki	0.81231	0.81231	This Chart Could Explain Why Game of Thrones' Last Season Disappointed Fans There was so much controversy surrounding the final season of Game of Thrones, because overall, fans found it largely disappointing. So much so, that a petition to redo season 8 got thousands of signatures. It sparked a debate about TV shows being a "fan service" or not, encouraged other actors and fans to come to the shows defense, and people to give the upset viewers grief about just being upset it wasn't ending the way they hoped and not that it was actually bad. Turns out though, someone found a specific reason this season was less liked than others, although this show is known for heart wrenching twists and killing off beloved characters... this season had way less dialogue than earlier ones! A chart shows that the average amount of dialogue has actually consistently gone down season after season, so theoretically we may have liked the ending more if there was more explanation as to why things were happening, or heard more from the characters we thought were being made to behave uncharacteristically! What do you think? Click the link in the tweet below to see the chart and more explanation behind the theory!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line904
__label__cc	0.507766	0.492234	Ghost’s Tobias Forge on Satanism, Religious Protestors + Btch School Teacher Graham Hartmann Rae Lemeshow-Barooshian The lineage of Ghost’s Satanic cult concept goes further back than you think. In this extra piece from Tobias Forge’s Metal Artist of the Year interview, we spoke with the singer about his younger years as a self-professed Satanist and the Texas pastor who warned Christians about Ghost. When speaking about the Texas pastor, Forge shares, “This guy is obviously poorly informed about what we’re doing, but on the other hand, if he is an actual Bible-thumping true believer, then it’s like talking to someone who has some sort of malfunction. We’re trying to make [people] happy about life. We’re actually quite humanistic. If you take all of these things that we’re saying and what we’re doing completely literally, and you believe that this is equal to damnation, then there’s no way that we can meet intellectually.” Forge continues, “I can grieve for tendencies like that, because I think it reflects on something more somber and limited and regressive. ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ thinking about that. On the other hand, as an obstinate little hard rocker shit, I’m also like [cackles].” Tobias also told us about a middle school teacher that helped shape him as a rebellious individual. “I had a very strict bitch of a teacher who had an aversion for me. She met me when I was already a fully-fledged Satanist and I was very stuck up,” Forge explains. “She was also turning other teachers against me. I know that as a fact. Long story short -- 20 years later, I had my kids in the same school for a few years. There was still one teacher there from that time and he told me that was the case.” “I can definitely laugh now, looking back at what feels like a completely different life… so long ago, so far away. I applaud that 14-year-old that told her to go fuck herself.” Watch the chat with Tobias Forge above and click here for Forge’s entire 2018 Metal Artist of the Year interview. 30 Best Metal Albums of 2018 Source: Ghost’s Tobias Forge on Satanism, Religious Protestors + Btch School Teacher Filed Under: Ghost, Tobias Forge Categories: Interviews, News, Rock, Videos	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line905
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__label__wiki	0.983811	0.983811	Watch 5 Full Episodes of How to Get Away with Murder Online for Free! By Sarah Huggins \| Nov 27th, 2015 Attention, TGIT fans! It's time for a Holiday Binge with all the latest free How to Get Away With Murder full episodes! No need to sign in. This is your one-stop spot to watch How to Get Away With Murder Season 2 episodes for free all season long. Just click, watch and binge! See the full list of episodes after the break. S2 E5 Meet Bonnie Wes' efforts to find more about Rebecca's disappearance lead to an explosive confrontation. S2 E6 Two Birds, One Millstone Annalise represents a transgender professor accused of killing her husband. S2 E7 I Want You to Die Annalise and the team defend a client accused of badgering a person to the point of suicide. S2 E8 Hi, I'm Philip Sinclair might have a way to take down Annalise; Caleb and Catherine are faced with a decision. S5 E9 Winter Finale: What Did We Do? Details about the night Annalise was shot are revealed -- including who pulled the trigger. Check out a pivotal scene from "Hi, I'm Phillip" episode below and click on the link above to watch the free full episode without signing in! Be sure to watch new episodes of How to Get Away With Murder when it returns THURSDAY FEB 11 9\|8c. More How to Get Away With Murder: Top 6 Asher Millstone Moments from Season 1 of How to Get Away with Murder 5 Times Viola Davis Proved She Earned that Emmy for HTGAWM News How to Get Away with Murder Season 6 Will Be Its Final Season News How to Get Away with Murder Renewed for Season 6! News How to Get Away With Murder Season 5 Premiere Date Announced	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line910
__label__wiki	0.679794	0.679794	10:53 am: lizards chart This shows the combined voting share of Labour/Conservatives, in the general elections and European elections since 1979 (when direct European elections started). Blue is general, Red is Europeans. There is a notable tend, in that while the Lab/Con share for European elections starts higher than generals, it ends up much lower. For European elections from 1979-1994, large single-member constituencies were used, making the system even less proportional than the system used for general elections. There's a consistent downward trend for the European elections, but it starts seriously dipping below the general election figures in 1999, the first time PR is introduced. The next time round in the Europeans the combined vote share of Labour and Conservative drops below 50%, and falls even further in 2009. Doesn't it look like voter behaviour is aware of the electoral system and changes accordingly (if with a little lag)? Yet the media appears to treat these vote shares as comparable. katsmeat May 10th, 2010 10:01 am (UTC) This is something of an aside... but I was struck by how this plot http://stats.grok.se/en/201004/Nick%20Clegg Seems to exactly mirror 'Cleggmania'. Though possibly with a slight lag. thatmakesmemad ITS A MEDIA CONSPIRACY DAMMIT !!! The media tends to ignore voter turnout figures in elections in the same way as the parties do ("The electorate have spoken !!!" yeah sure less than 50% usually) so you have to dig them out. Likewise they like to talk about swings all the time even in situations such as the European elections recently where the BNP won a couple of seats due to a collapse in turnout of voters for the other party and no change in votes for the BNP. It's a sign of poor journalism. pjc50 Also ignoring Northern Ireland in its entirety; I was unaware of various interesing things there until I read nwhyte on the subject. The European elections show a large bleed from the right of the Conservative party to UKIP, who came second in seats in the most recent European elections. abigailb Also the Lib Dems have polled consistently lower in the two most recently European elections than they did in the nearby general elections by an amount roughly equivalent to the Green vote. matgb May 14th, 2010 01:11 pm (UTC) One point with that is that turnout with the Euro elections is always significantly lower. I'm very wary of making direct comparisons; UKIp get a high vote share, but they take some votes from each of the main parties (especially true in Devon,half their votes come from people that vote LD in the General). There's evidence that people that vote LD are simply less likely to vote in Euro elections; the party's avowed enthusiasm for "federal Europe" puts off a lot of supporters. Whereas the Greens, knowing it's a PR election, campaign heavily, so their supporters turnout en masse. The old idea that low turnout affects each party proportionately no longer applies; that was definitely true of Labour in 2009, but appears to have been true of the LDs as well. I haven't crunched the numbers properly yet,will do so when the dust has settled, but very interesting idea, thanks. *and I meant to say UKIP voters are more likely to turnout, and some of them don't turnout for the General election. I take your point that the figures aren't comparable (after all, apart from anything else, people are being asked a different question). I note turnout has remained surprisingly consistent in European elections (being 32% in 1979 and 34% in 2009), though. Yup, went up when they did an all postal ballot in some regions, but then steadied off. But, there's some evidence that the bigger swings are voting to not voting, and vice versa. So while turnout is the same, different people vote each time. I don't think enough studies have been done though, certainyl none I've got access to, might ask a friend who still has JANET access to do some digging, it's close to his PhD field anyway. But not immediately. Hopefully the Northern Ireland results won't be significant in forming a coalition as the last thing they need is the DUP teaming up with a weak government as they did with John Majors. friend_of_tofu It's quite clear that voter behaviour changes significantly depending on the system and the purpose of the vote being cast; I agree with you that projecting FPTP votes to show what they would look like under alternate systems is essentially meaningless. jisha78 Very interesting stuff.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line912
__label__cc	0.632919	0.367081	You are currently browsing the tag archive for the ‘betty short’ tag. #7 The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy June 27, 2010 in Book, Crime, Fiction, Murder, Mystery, Review \| Tags: betty short, black, book, book review, boxer, corruption, crime, depressed, fiction, homicide, james ellroy, la, las angeles, misery, moralism, moralist, murder, mystery, non-fiction elements, novel, police, real life, red manley, the black dahlia \| 4 comments The people I talked to were mostly barflies, day-time juicers eager to suck up to authority or gab with someone other than the usual boon acquaintances they found in gin mills.Pressing for facts, I got sincere fantasy – virtually every person had Betty Short giving them a long spiel taken from the papers and radio when she was really down in Dago with Red Manley or somewhere getting tortured to death. The longer I listened the more they talked about themselves, interweaving their sad tales with the story of the Black Dahlia, who they actually believed to be a glamorous siren headed for Hollywood stardom. It was as if they would have traded their own lives for a juicy front-page death. I have never been happier to finish something and walk away. Consider this review an exculpation of self-disgust for not throwing this book out of a train window when I had the chance. Problem is it’s a library book. And librarians frown on such conduct… Ellroy introduces us to two former boxers, Lee Blanchardt and Bucky Bleichert, both rising through the ranks of LA’s police force after the Second World War. Eager to win the public relations war, a corrupt wannabe DA arranges a boxing match pitting the officers against each other. The fight bonds the two men in a firm friendship and wins them a ticket out of uniform duty to work as plain clothes police in Warrants. Deputy District Attorney Ellis Loew has two star officers the papers love and his ascendancy is assured. On 15 January 1947, the body of Elizabeth Short was discovered in Leimart Park near 39th Street and Norton Avenue, Los Angeles. This is not fiction. The newsies gave her the nickname, the Black Dahlia, riffing on a popular movie at the time starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake (the actress who inspired the character of Lynn Bracken in Ellroy’s LA Confidential). From here on in, the author continues to blur the lines between fact and fiction by having Blanchardt and Bleichert investigate Elizabeth Short’s murder. Both men become obsessed with the gruesome details of the young woman’s death, trying to fill in the details of her missing week of drunken flings with offshore navy servicemen and bent cops that preceded it. An acquaintance of the victim is found with a can of film that reveals Short involved in a stag picture. Her own father gleefully sells childhood photos of her to the press to make a quick buck. Loew’s efforts to pin the murder on a convenient stooge repeatedly fail and eventually he is unable to prevent the media from turning his carefully managed spin of a young innocent girl murdered in her prime, into a grotty tragedy, the inevitable fate for a down-at-luck call girl in Hollywood, who cruised lesbian bars for free drinks and lied to everyone she met. As the story progresses Blanchardt and Bleichert seem less and less like partners on a murder case and more like split personalities sharing the same obsession. The papers call them Fire and Ice, in remembrance of their boxing days, and the two see-saw in their respective morbid fascination with the Black Dahlia. Bleichert is our narrator and initially he only wants to get back to his career in Warrants. He is disgusted by the grandstanding of the Assistant DA and hasn’t the stomach for homicide cases. We take his word that his partner Lee is the one obsessed with the case. Then he meets a doppelgänger for Elizabeth Short, an heiress who frequents lesbian bars. Slowly the narration takes on Blanchardt’s obsessiveness, just as he mysteriously drops out of the book. This is an ugly story, about people committing ugly acts. It purports to realism by featuring actual persons involved in the case – the newsman Bevo Means and the primary suspect for a time ‘Red’ Manley – but this is a world painted black, with not a glimmer of hope, nor a spark of humour. It is a turgid dirge that apes moralism but offers no narrative conclusion for any of its events. Had I spent today’s train journey just staring out the window at the houses and towns as they passed in a blur, it would have been time better spent than on this sledgehammer subtle tale of corruption, misery and a lost dead girl from 1947.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line913
__label__cc	0.507126	0.492874	Daily Mail: Tennessee sheriff says 2 escaped inmates found MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities say two inmates who escaped from a Tennessee jail after assaulting a deputy have been found.Rutherford County Sheriff... FOX: Alyssa Milano raises eyebrows after announcing which candidate's fundraiser she'll be attending 12 Related Articles, between 2018-10-11 and 2018-10-10 2 men accused of raping 9-month-old girl, filming attack. MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Two Tennessee men are accused of raping a 9-month-old girl and filming the attack.News outlets report 19-year-old Isiah Dequan Hayes... >> Appeals court halts Tennessee death row inmate's execution. In a split decision, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay of 63-year-old Edmund Zagorski's execution, which had been scheduled to take place on Thursday this week. >> Death row inmate asks court to order use of electric chair. Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Edmund Zagorski on Wednesday asked a federal court to force the state to use the electric chair to execute him, rather than lethal injection. >> Legal questions in flux over Tennessee execution. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Legal challenges continue to surround a Tennessee death row inmate whose execution has been temporarily halted.Edmund Zagorski had... >> Memphis men accused of raping 9-month-old girl, filming attack. Isiah Dequan Hayes, 19, and Daireus Jumare Ice, 22, were indicted by a grand jury in Memphis, Tennessee on Tuesday on charges of especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor. >> No. 21 Auburn, Tennessee both looking to rebound on offense. No. 21 Auburn and Tennessee are both looking to rebound from Southeastern Conference losses >> Refugee-owned falafel shop in Tennessee voted the 'Nicest Place in America'. "We need to keep building bridges, we need to keep the American dream." >> Tennessee woman warns pet owners of dangerous ingredient in chewing gum after dog dies. A dog in Tennessee died from xylitol poisoning over the weekend, which he likely contracted after eating a piece of chewing gum. >> The Latest: Federal judge bars execution by lethal.... NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Latest on Thursday's scheduled execution of Tennessee inmate Edmund Zagorski (all times local):1:15 p.m.A federal judge has... >> The Latest: Tennessee inmate forgoes last meal. The Latest on the legal battle over the upcoming execution of Tennessee inmate Edmund Zagorski (all times local): 2:30 p.m. Tennessee death row inmate Edmund Zagorski is forgoing his final meal before Thursday's scheduled execution. >> Titans promote wide receiver Cameron Batson to active roster. The Tennessee Titans have filled their fifth wide receiver spot by promoting Cameron Batson from the practice squad >> US inmate wants electric chair, not lethal injection. A Tennessee man sentenced to death for a double murder has appealed to stop his execution by lethal injection, insisting the state should be forced to use... >>	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line915
__label__wiki	0.63093	0.63093	World Rugby Museum: Tours & Tickets The London Pass with Access to over 80 Attractions Valid: 1 - 10 days Save time and money, choose from either a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6- or 10-day digital London Pass. Enjoy access to over 80 attractions and a 1-day… Twickenham: Stadium Tour & World Rugby Museum No site in England is more important to rugby union than Twickenham Stadium. A visit to the home of England rugby and the World Rugby Museum (WRM) is… World Rugby Museum Entrance Ticket Visit the World Rugby Museum and follow the game’s history from its origins to the present day. Enjoy the interactive galleries and memorabilia. Top sights in London What people are saying about World Rugby Museum Great all in one pass into all the major attractions of London!!! Easy and convenient to not have to buy tickets but just scan the pass to get in :-). Great value for money if you do a lot of things and go to a lot of attractions in the period of time that you purchase the pass for. We went on Easter Weekend so there were a lot of lines everywhere which took an hour to get into anything so we made a tiny bit less use of the pass. But it still worked out to be better value than buying it all individually. And helped us simply tick the major attractions off our list for London and made us feel like we really saw the important things in London with the pass! Only thing is that we had to go collect our physical passes from a place near Leicester Square in the morning so that also ate up a chunk of time and cost just getting there. So prepare for that chunk of time to pick it up instead of going straight to your first activity. It would be great if they could email a voucher or the passes to us instead. The London Pass with Access to over 80 Attractions Reviewed by Anonymous, 04/19/2017 Very convenient and cheaper than buying all the standalone tickets We bought the London Pass for 2 days on a 4 days trip so we could bunch up all the attractions that were included in it. Still wish they had the London Eye or The Shard in the list. Great for skipping the lines at Westminster Abbey. Pro tip: if you go to Shakespeare's Globe, go in the morning because usually in the afternoon there are live plays and you cannot get the tour. The book they give you doesn't say this. The London Pass with Access to over 80 Attractions Reviewed by Natalia, 05/11/2015 Very interesting. Two young boys loved it. One major complaint is the total lack of toilet facilities without going to the hotel in pouring rain. Surely something can be provided for visiting tours. Otherwise tour was informative and interesting but glad I was english as rather fast speech.... Twickenham: Stadium Tour & World Rugby Museum Reviewed by Elizabeth, 08/11/2017 It was a comprehensive visit.the visit ewas not The tour was more for adults, lots on organisation, financing of the stadium, etc. Visiting places relevant to the game was enjoyed more by children. Twickenham: Stadium Tour & World Rugby Museum Reviewed by Claire, 07/28/2016 excellent insight, v interesting to see behind the scenes was v good, although it would have been nice to see a few more places and slightly less talking about history Twickenham: Stadium Tour & World Rugby Museum Reviewed by Josh, 08/10/2015 Things to do near World Rugby Museum Niagara Falls, Canada Sailing Trips & Boat Tours Queenstown Air & Helicopter Tours	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line918
__label__wiki	0.75606	0.75606	Jamie Kennedy and Matt Atchity Adam opens the show talking about Dr. Drew’s passion. He then takes fan phone calls about Plentywood, Montana, the official “snack food of the ‘tards”, and contemplating a career change. Matt Atchity then hosts a Vs.-themed round of the Rotten Tomatoes Game. Jamie Kennedy is in studio next, and Adam talks with him about a wacky hospital show he recalls from his youth called ‘Temperatures Rising’. Adam then talks to Jamie about his involvement in the documentary ‘Heckler’, and dealing with criticism in today’s age of Twitter. Later, the guys watch a couple of clips of Adam defending his views on family and education. In today’s top news story, the guys discuss the Brussels terrorist attacks, and why we need to profile. The show wraps up discussing the death of ex-Mayor Rob Ford, and an update on Gawker’s massive payout to Hulk Hogan. Watch the premiere of ‘Heartbeat’, tonight at 8 on NBC. Also make sure you visit http://jamiekennedy.com for more info, and follow Jamie on Twitter @JamieKennedy. And don’t forget to check out http://rottentomatoes.com and follow Matt on Twitter @MAtchity. Adam on Young Turks Click Here for Superfan Giovanni’s recap and commentary on today’s episode. For more, go to AdamCarolla.com/Gio. Co-Producers: Gary Smith, Chris Laxamana, and Matt Fondiler	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line920
__label__wiki	0.700239	0.700239	Marvair News Archives L Catterton to Acquire Airxcel to Accelerate Growth and Expansion WICHITA, Kansas and GREENWICH, Conn., March 14, 2018 - L Catterton, the largest and most global consumer-focused private equity firm in the world, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Airxcel, Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. SGTC officials tour Marvair plant with IDC board Industrial Climate Engineering Enters the Industrial Market with their First Fully Certified Hazardous Duty Air Conditioning Unit. Industrial Climate Engineering (http://www.acice.com), a division of the Marvair Group, today announced the release of their new ICExp “EXNA” family of air conditioners certified for use in hazardous locations. This new line of HVAC wall mount products covers 28 models from 12,000 – 72,000 BTUH self-contained packages in single and 3 phase voltage for operation on 60 Hz and 50 Hz. power supplies. Unprecedented Growth and New Directors at Marvair CORDELE, GA. ----May 9, 2017 It’s an exciting time for Marvair, which has a strong belief in promoting from within. Outstanding performance and growth of the company has created opportunities for advancing our team members. Marvair's Gary Jackson Promoted to National Sales Manager CORDELE, GA —April 5, 2017 Mike Leach, Marvair’s Director of Applied Sales is pleased to announce the promotion of Gary Jackson to National Sales Manager, Marvair Commercial Sales, effective immediately. Gary will continue to report to Mike Leach in his new role. Marvair Announces Agreement with US Air Conditioning Distributors In City of Industry, California CORDELE, GA. ---- Mike Leach, Director of Applied Product Sales for Marvair, is excited to announce a distribution agreement with US Air Conditioning Distributors (US Air). Marvair Acquires Eubank Wallmount from National Coil Company Marvair and National Coil Company (NCC) are pleased to announce that the Marvair Division of Airxcel, Inc. has acquired the Eubank Wallmount product family from NCC. Marvair’s Vikas Dhummi Recognized as a Next-Generation Leader in the Communications Technology Industry by IWCE Marvair, a division of Airxcel, today announced Vikas Dhummi, Senior Mechanical Engineer, has been named to the IWCE Young Professionals Awards list, which showcases the next-generation of leaders in the communications technology industry who are shaping the future of the industry. Marvair Among the First Companies to Be Certified to the Latest ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System Standards Marvair is proud to announce its certification to the ISO 9001:2015 standard. The scope of the certification includes design, manufacturing, and servicing of environmental control equipment. Additionally, the Marvair Distribution Annex received certification for shipping and receiving operations. Home \| Coleman-Mach \| DICOR \| Maxxair \| MCD INNOVATIONS \| Suburban \| Marvair \| ICE \| Eubank \| Suburban AP Copyright 2018 Airxcel. All rights reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line926
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__label__cc	0.741539	0.258461	« Umm… Wheat, Here; Chaff, There » Not My Day…Kinda Posted by hiphopmama on August 29, 2009 As good as the early weeks of the season have been to me, today was not my day. All the well-intentioned advice keeps telling me to fastidiously separate my subject matter, but fuck it – I watch multiple leagues, so I’m going to write about all of them at once. If you only keep up with one and are offended by my mixing, a thousand apologies. But this is how the day played out for me. Manchester United 2-1 Arsenal 0-1 Arshavin, 40′ 1-1 Rooney (pen), 59′ 2-1 Diaby (0g), 64′ Inter 4-0 AC Milan 1-0 Thiago Motta, 29′ 2-0 Milito (pen), 36′ 3-0 Maicon, 45′ 4-0 Stankovic, 67′ First off, fuck your bitch and the click you claim. Wait, that’s Tupac, but it could just as well have been my intro to Manchester United and their showdown with my Gunners, as much as I hate those Red Devil bastards and their gum-smacking manager. Things started out promisingly enough, with an AMAZING strike from Arshavin on 40 minutes putting Arsenal ahead. It really was unbelievable, a good 20+ yards out, and he lasered it into the upper corner of the net while a hapless Ben Foster barely got a hand to it. As sublime as that strike was, the second half went completely in the other direction very quickly. Arsenal had a chance right out the gate to go up two goals when Arshavin slipped past his defender on the left-hand side, sent in a low cross with some pace, and then watched in agony as Ben Foster stuck out a leg to keep out Robin Van Persie’s point blank effort. Not long after that, ManU turned the tables and finally made good on their pressure when Almunia dove in front of Rooney and the Shrek look-alike went down. I know, I know, it was a penalty. The keeper didn’t get so much as a fingernail on the ball, and he made more contact with Rooney than Boruc did with Eduardo. ManU weren’t foolish enough to send Michael Carrick to the spot a second time, and Rooney converted the penalty easily. From there, you sensed it was going to be a matter of holding on for Arsenal, and they just couldn’t do it. Giggs, who had set up the penalty with a nice pass, put a decent free kick into the box, and Diaby inexplicably headed it into his own goal to gift United the lead and the win. I’m still not sure what he was doing – he didn’t get enough on it to be trying to put it over the bar, so I can only assume he either, a) was stupidly trying to head it back to Almunia, or b) had absolutely no idea where he was on the pitch. The second of those seems more likely, but the reason doesn’t matter because the outcome was determined. Arsenal put in some last-ditch efforts to even the scoreline, and they came as close as they possibly could without actually scoring. At the dead end of stoppage time, Van Persie actually put the ball in the back of the net, but the goal was ruled out for offside, disappointingly the correct call. There was at least a little comic relief at the end when Arsene Wenger got sent off and then got into an entertaining back-and-forth over how far was far enough away from the action. Not satisfied with his initial departure, the ref ordered him into the stands. From there, he was instructed to put some more distance between himself and his bench, so he walked out to the front of the stands amidst the screaming United fans and smiled and shrugged his shoulders, asking, “Where do you want me to go?” It would have been hilarious had the game scenario not been so painful at the moment. I couldn’t bear to watch any of the postgame wrap-up or listen to any of the talking heads give their two cents, so I immediately muted it and went looking for something else on my DVR to watch. It’s early, I told myself, and I have plenty of football available to watch to lift my spirits. The Milan derby was today too, right? Against all logic, I still thought AC Milan could pull off a surprise result, and I was bolstered in this belief by the teams’ week one performances. Inter draws 1-1 with Bari, Milan joga’s bonito over Siena to the tune of 2-1, and Ronaldinho was sure to be resurgent again in the pairing with Pato. Right? RIGHT?? Wrong. This one was a drubbing. I’m not sure there’s any point in going through the goals. Suffice it to say that, after a brief flourish of possession and attack in the opening minutes, AC Milan absolutely folded and Inter administered an embarrassing 4-0 defeat. Gattuso was sent off in the 40th minute, which didn’t help matters, but that was only after Inter had scored twice, including one off a penalty Rino himself conceded. After that, two great strikes by Maicon and Stankovic put the game on ice, if it wasn’t already, and left me hanging my head. I then tried to move on to Real Madrid’s opener, but FUCKING GOLTV screwed up their guide listings AGAIN, causing me to miss the opening 40 minutes of their game against Deportivo La Coruña. Strike three. At this point, all my hopes rested with Chelsea, who became my number two team in England when I realized a few years ago Manchester United losing was more important than anything else and Chelsea were the only ones with a hope of catching them. They’ve had a great start to the season, and I didn’t foresee them letting me down against Burnley. But then laundry, and cooking, and sweeping, and mopping got in the way and prevented me from getting in a decent result during the sunlit hours of the day. Chelsea 3-0 Burnley 1-0 Anelka, 45′ 2-0 Ballack, 47′ 3-0 Cole, 52′ Real Madrid 3-2 Deportivo La Coruña 1-0 Raul, 26′ 1-1 Riki, 30′ 2-1 Ronaldo (pen), 35′ 2-2 Valeron, 46′ 3-2 Lass Diarra, 60′ Finally, with the family returned home, the daughter and husband in bed, and a kitchenful of dishes to do, I flipped on the TV and cued up Chelsea. It took them the better part of the first half to really find their groove (that sounds familiar, doesn’t it?), but once they did, they didn’t disappoint. Right at the end of the first half, Drogba broke out down the right and fired low across the face of the goal, setting the table perfectly for Anelka to tap it home from inches out. The second half continued in the same vein, with Ballack scoring on a diving header off a Lampard cross two minutes out of the break. The third goal was the real peach, though, and came off still more lovely passing in the set-up. Ashley Cole, who played wonderfully all game, played a little one-two with Lampard around the left corner of the box. Lampard’s lofted ball found Cole impeccably, and the left back volleyed home a stinger into the top of the net to cap the scoring. With at least one victory under my belt, I scavenged through all the mislabeled GolTV programming I had recorded to find the Real Madrid replay and sat down to watch my most anticipated match of the new season. Despite all my best intentions, the Blancos have my undying devotion, and even my detesting (to put it mildly) of Cristiano Ronaldo couldn’t put the damper on my support. An unrequited love for Raul, Casillas, and Kaka helps in that regard, though, so I was more than ready to get the La Liga season underway. The first goal showed all the promise of what this Real Madrid might achieve, combining the old guard with the new. Kaka delivered a gorgeous ball, nutmegging TWO defenders to find a streaking Benzema (who may or may not have been offside). The keeper appeared to get a fingertip to his strike to deflect it onto the post, and the rebound fell to Raul to poke it home. It wouldn’t have been so easy had the Depor defense not stopped playing looking for the offside flag, but no matter, Real had a 1-0 lead, and it was beautifully engineered by one of the summer’s big signings. Within five minutes, though, Deportivo equalized over some iffy defending off a set piece and header by Riki. Everything just looked a little loosey-goosey back there, which is to be expected, I suppose, with all the new players in there figuring out the system. After just five more minutes, Madrid reclaimed the lead when Aranzubia brought Raul down in the box and Ronaldo coolly converted the penalty. My hatred dissipated just a tad, momentarily at least, upon witnessing his celebration, which seemed entirely earnest in the emotion he showed at scoring his first official goal for the Merengues. Despite all his pomp and hair gel, he does seem to have a legitimate love for the club and appears to want nothing more than to succeed there, which is enough to make him palatable to me. Barely. Deportivo wasted no time coming out of halftime, equalizing a second time on a nice strike by Juan Carlos Valeron from just outside the box. Once again, some lax defending left him in too much space and he snapped it past an onlooking Casillas after receiving a nice pass from Guardado. Last season’s stand-out Lassana Diarra finally settled matters in the 60th with a surprisingly crisp hit from the top of the box. He dribbled a bit, created some space for himself, and then fired it past Aranzubia for the third time. It came a bit out of nowhere, with all the millions of Euros standing around watching him, but it secured the three points nonetheless. So in the end, I finished 2-2 on the day, although that last win was a little uncertain. Still, I’ll take it, especially after how horribly it all started for me, going from awful to horrendous in the Arsenal and AC Milan losses. A big thank you to Chelsea and Real Madrid for helping me finish the 24 on a good note. We’ll see how I fare on Sunday. This entry was posted on August 29, 2009 at 11:24 pm and is filed under soccer, tv. 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__label__wiki	0.543719	0.543719	Ankaret Wells Science fiction, fantasy and steampunk writer The Maker’s Mask The Hawkwood War Heavy Ice The Dykosm Kingsblood The Duke Is Dead Death and the Order Deleted scene: Kallisty and her bandits Deleted scene: Ligeia meets Mukhtar Prime Deleted scenes: Tzenni explains the Feud Out Of The Spire According To Harriet Contact Ankaret I write science fiction, fantasy, romance and steampunk, often all at the same time. My feminist steampunk romance novel Firebrand was a 2012 Tiptree Honor Book. Here on this blog I talk about writing, self-publishing and other stuff that occurs to me. Got something to say? Email me on ankaretwells@gmail.com. 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Read an excerpt from The Hawkwood War, the second part of my Requite Duology, a science fiction adventure. Go here for out-takes and Requite short stories, free to read online. A snippet from The Duke Is Dead, coming this summer from me and Irene Headley: 2019 – The Year Of Finishing Books I aten’t dead! Kingsblood – An Awfully Big Announcement Anna Chronistic – The End Approaches Palatino Linotype is not Palatino... @translatingkate I failed that one due to having always had the bladder of a frail eighty-year-old. 11 hours ago @liseuse Yes, I'd be on 7 without the NHS. 13 hours ago I got six and I'm Gen X. Seems fair. twitter.com/EliaWinters/st… 14 hours ago @lylyburlero Probably an Aegyptian Magician. I own tarot cards and I worship my cats. 16 hours ago @KariDru Little sod! I hope he calms down and you can get him safely inside. 17 hours ago Ceramics by Helen Crinoline Robot Jasmine Aherne Knitting up the ravelled sleeve of care Now and Rome One Wheel, No Brain Ros's Romance Reviews all about me amazon annoying things book review books christmas covers firebrand fonts giveaways heavy ice i get searches kay lulu non-book news other people and their books out-take friday reviews short stories someone is right on the internet someone is wrong on the internet spam stories about books the hawkwood war the maker's mask the writing process Uncategorized word 2010 and its little ways wordpress writing Free Clipart & Free Photos Compliments of Ace Clip Art All images in header used under license from istockphoto.com Background by Florian Carli The Maker’s Mask is the first book of the Requite duology. It’s a science fiction romance featuring courtesans, programmers, revolutionaries, genderqueer bodyguards, technological tinkerers, swordfights, explosions, arguments, assassins and eels. The Maker’s Mask .epub from Lulu The Maker’s Mask in .mobi Kindle format from amazon.co.uk The Maker’s Mask in .mobi Kindle format from amazon.com The Maker’s Mask in paperback from Lulu The Maker’s Mask in paperback from Amazon.co.uk The Maker’s Mask in paperback from amazon.com Read an excerpt from the first chapter below: 2-2 Crystal, 432 S.F, Shainault The first frosts of the year had just broken when Tzenni Boccamera arrived at the Spire of Shainault. There was a shabby trade town outside the gates; it looked as if it had only survived the winter without falling down because the frost stiffened the buildings enough to keep them vertical. Tzenni’s grel made splattering noises of distaste with both sets of nostrils, and tried to scrape its saddle-bags off against the wall of a particularly tumbledown shack. The shack had a porch made of wine-coloured curtains at the front, giving the impression that it had rammed into the back of a bedstead and stuck. The burgundy cloth still held its stiff folds and repelled the mud, as only Maker-tech could. “If Kapellan Prime wants to help these people,” Tzenni said to the grel, “he could think about making them plaz shelters, not handing out his old curtains as charity. And he could do something about the drainage, too. It’s a cholera epidemic waiting to happen.” The grel picked its clawed feet up disdainfully, but didn’t seem to have any further opinion on the matter. Tzenni tugged the cowl of her robe forward. The less anyone saw of her face, the better. She hauled the grel grimly onward towards the gate, ignoring the offers of a bed for the longnight or a companion to share that bed or a ‘guide’ to Shainault. As if any of these people had a chance of entering the Spire. Tzenni wasn’t sure what her own chances were, but she had to try. She tilted her head and looked upward at Shainault. The dark walls were ribbed with watchtowers whose sharp incurved lines sliced at the sky. Thin windows glinted in the last of the light. The walls were clotted with ice. Tzenni wondered whether the ice ever fell down on the shanty-town and if so what they did about it. Probably it was a useful source of more or less uncontaminated water. Above the gatehouse hung the pennants which showed the presence of Makers within the Spire. Four great swathes of Kapellan-blue cloth hung in the centre; that would be Kapellan Prime and his sons. A banner in Malabranca black and silver hung beside them. That was no surprise to Tzenni. Everyone knew the Kapellans and the Malabranca were allies, in the same way that everyone knew bad housekeeping was an ally with mould. Another banner hung a little apart from the others. It was curiously mottled in brown and something greenish, and hanging against a particularly dirty patch of stone. Was that supposed to be the brown and gold of the Volkovs of Belyaevo, or the very similar bronze and brown of their cousins the Quinn-Laos of Tabia? It was neither. Tzenni felt a shock like a fist connecting with the base of her throat, and told herself that she wasn’t going to have an anxiety attack. The pennant had originally been Boccamera green, and for the last three months people had been throwing mud at it. Actually, mud had probably been the pleasantest thing they had thrown. Tzenni made herself breathe deeply. The pennant was a good sign, she told herself. Her sister Catha was still alive and in Shainault. Now all Tzenni had to do was get her out again. The guards were looking at her curiously. It was too late to back out now. Tzenni gritted her teeth and marched up to the gate, dragging the reluctant grel in her wake. The doors of the Spire were set deep in a square, solid half-octagon arch. Tzenni had a confused impression of twin guard-houses, of halberds and helmets and heavy boots. Refusing to be overwhelmed, she addressed the soldier who seemed to be in charge, a swaggering red-haired bruiser with a sleek smile. “Venna jorna!” she said cheerfully. “Courier here, with the first post of the year! I hope you give me a better welcome than those bandits at Rivantia, all they had for me was a cup of cold noodles and a lot of trouble about Lady Essex Hawkwood not getting a packet of seeds she wanted from Civitavecchia.” The red-haired man laughed. Tzenni fought a stab of panic. What had she said? Surely Essex Hawkwood hadn’t broken the habits of at least twenty years and got out of her four-poster bed to make the uncomfortable winter journey to Shainault? She couldn’t have. All the pennants were dark Kapellan blue, not the paler slate-blue of the Hawkwoods. Tzenni breathed deeply and tried to ignore the panicky buzzing in her ears and listen to what the man was saying. As it turned out, he wasn’t talking to her anyway. He was turning cheerfully to the other guards, and sharing the news. “You hear that? Road’s clear to Rivantia. Another couple of longdays, and we’ll be seeing the Hawkwood bride!” “Who cares about the bride?” called a woman with a broken nose. “We’ll be seeing the dowry, and then we’ll all get paid!” The red-haired man clapped a hand onto Tzenni’s shoulder. “God bless you and the news you bring, little nyonya-Courier. Show me your Courier’s seal and we’ll have you in the guardhouse with a good hot meal in front of you before you can recite the Prophet’s Creed.” Tzenni reached behind her neck and unhooked the embroidered choker which she had sewn with pockets to hold her valuables. “My seal? Certainly. It’s…” The choker felt disastrously light in her hands. Panic prickled in her fingers and toes. Her money, her precious materia, the dear-bought Couriers’ seal, and worst of all, the earring that marked her as a Maker… “It’s gone,” she said helplessly. “Someone’s stolen it…” The man’s hand gripped down on her shoulder, pinching the bones. His sleek face grew a whole lot less jovial. “I should have know it was too early in the year for anyone to make it through from Rivantia.” His words drew the other soldiers like buzzers to a corpse. Someone dragged the grel’s reins from Tzenni’s hand. Someone else pushed the hood of her cloak roughly back. It was all going wrong and she couldn’t think of a way to stop it. “Va jemoy!” one of the soldiers swore in Yaziik. She scraped ungentle fingers through Tzenni’s curly brown hair, pushing it back behind her ear. “She’s had her ear pierced for a Maker earring!” The red-haired guard grabbed Tzenni by the other shoulder and turned her to face him. He was tall enough and she was short enough that all she could see was the top of his breastplate, and above that, springy chest hair and pale unwashed skin. She realised with another small injection of panic that she didn’t, quite, believe this was happening. She had never been this physically close to a man who didn’t treat her with the utmost respect. Tzenni felt like blurting out that they couldn’t do this to her, she was Lucastine Boccamera’s daughter. She shut her teeth against the words. Admitting she was a Boccamera, here outside the stronghold of the Boccamera’s enemies, would be a lot worse than admitting she wasn’t a Courier. The guard hauled her upwards. She could smell his sweat and breath. One of her boots stayed behind in the mud. “What d’you mean by it, you conniving slut?” The guard shook her hard enough to blur her vision. She hoped it was just tears in her eyes and not, say, a detached retina. The damage patterns were different, but she couldn’t just at present remember anything approximating to the sunbursts filling her vision. “If you kill me, you’ll never find out,” gasped Tzenni. It wasn’t much of a response, but it was the best she could think of. Her sister Catha would have kicked him in the… well, in the well-armoured parts, but Catha would have found a way to make it hurt by now. Their eldest sister Ligeia would never had let herself get into a situation like this to start with. But Ligeia wasn’t here. Ligeia and all her diplomatic skills were at Ailebroc of the Gentileschi getting the Boccamera an heir, and their mother Lucastine was dead, and there was no one to rescue Catha but Tzenni. And right now, she wasn’t doing much of a job of it. “Skin like wet caramel, she’s got,” said another soldier in an objectionable purr. Someone else said something in Yaziik that Tzenni didn’t even understand, but she understood the gesture that went with it only too well. “What do you imagine you are doing?” enquired another voice, with a crack like a whip put into the what. Tzenni thought vaguely that it sounded remarkably cultured for a gate-guard. The guards were silenced. Tzenni’s field of vision swung round as the red-haired man lifted her up. He gave her a contemptuous shake, as if she were a lizard he had found in a hydroponics lab. She found herself looking up at a high open balcony of smooth black stone, where the blank wall began to flower into turrets and staircases. She could see nothing of the man who stood there but an arrogant stance swathed in a black cloak, a ripple of long hair, a white sliver of face. She could hear nothing of him but that voice. The soldier yelled up something by way of explanation. The man above leaned his shoulders back a little. He folded his arms, capably managing a billowing expanse of sleeve. He had to be a Maker, Tzenni thought, even though it was impossible to see the tiny glint of an earring at that distance. No one else would dress like that. No one else would stand like that. “Tell her to open the gate,” said the man, sounding bored. “If she can’t, kill her. If she can, bring her to me.” Tzenni was scared of heights. Not liking heights was a disadvantage in a Boccamera, since the source of their power was the Swarm, and the Swarm flew. It was also, evidently, a disadvantage in a prisoner of the Kapellans. Tzenni had no idea why they didn’t install lifts in their Spire like normal people. Her stomach heaved whenever she caught sight of the view down a stairwell. She only got through the long tramp up the stairs of Shainault by the simple expedient of shutting her eyes to as much of it as she could. By the end of it her only comfort was that she’d left muddy sock-prints all over the Spire. It wasn’t much of a comfort, since she doubted Kapellan Prime did his own cleaning. Tzenni tried to distract herself by trying to work out exactly how long it had been since Boccamera feet had last touched these stairs. The Boccamera must have come here as allies, or the mothers of sons marrying Kapellan daughters, before Cimmenze Boccamera and Jaross Kapellan had started the Feud. She imagined them dressed in the tailored, formally decorated coveralls whose templates the Retort preserved under incomprehensible names like ‘Undress Greys’. It was harder to imagine their faces. They kept ending up looking like Catha in her flying leathers. Catha. She would find a way out of this, and a way to save Catha. She would. And she’d start the moment they got off the contaminated stairs. Her ancestress Cimmenze hadn’t been scared of stairs. Or at least, not as far as Tzenni knew. Though it was odd that all the paintings of her showed her at the gates on vrykol-back, and not up with the Swarm. Perhaps she thought her allies might take to their heels if she wasn’t there to scare them into compliance. The portraits of Cimmenze at Lionvarre showed a woman even smaller than Tzenni, with a prim face and the sort of smile that suggested she was ashamed of her teeth; but it was clear from the records that her contemporaries had believed that small plain woman absolutely capable of scaring the River at full tide into staying within its banks. Tzenni tried not to think about how unlike her ancestress she was. It was almost a relief when she stubbed her toe and had to open her eyes. She was climbing a vast staircase bordered by alcoves containing painted statues of past Kapellans. They weren’t in good repair. That’s what you get for using oily paint on native wood without leaving it to dry out first, Tzenni thought severely. Her eye paused on one that didn’t seem to be peeling. It was further back in its alcove than the others; a slender carved figure with a cap pulled down over its forehead, setting the face deeper in shadow. The statue’s fingers twitched. Tzenni’s heart bounced against her ribcage. Was it Catha? The height and build were right, and it was exactly the sort of thing Catha would do. Tzenni feigned a stumble, bumped into the soldier beside her and ended up very nearly turning her ankle. The soldier swore and looked down at her. “None of your tricks!” “I’ve hurt my foot,” Tzenni improvised, sitting down on the cold stone stair and massaging her muddy ankle. “If you can’t walk I’ll drag you all the way up to see Lord Malabranca.” “Lord Malabranca?” said Tzenni blankly. Now she felt sick as well as panicked. She remembered the black and silver banner. Centuries ago, Bela Malabranca had broken the rules of the Ordnance and betrayed the hospitality of the Mukhtars. Tzenni couldn’t recall the details, only a fascinated memory of horror that lived like a shiver on the skin. The guard looked annoyed. Whatever unwholesome practices Lord Malabranca might dabble in, he had evidently been at Shainault long enough for the soldiery to get used to him. “Who were you expecting, Drazka Five Spires?” he said. “I was expecting a Kapellan. Aren’t there any left?” The other soldier turned back to see what the problem was. As she turned, she exposed her wide chainmail-clad back to the watcher in the alcove. Tzenni caught her breath. An arm in grey velvet reached neatly out of the shadows and hooked itself round the guard’s throat, pressing flatly on her windpipe. Tzenni wasn’t sure whether she heard the meaty pop of a dagger stabbing into flesh, or whether it was all her squeamish imagination. The surviving guard clapped a hand to his sword. A lithe figure stepped out of the alcove. It wasn’t Catha. It was someone taller and paler-skinned, with a long, humorous face framed by bright blue hair. The soldier beside Tzenni swore. The only word Tzenni understood was scrat. Of course. Epicon was the polite word, scrat the rougher version, partaking partly of scorn and partly of envy. This person, whoever it was, was neither man nor woman but something of both. And definitely not Catha, not unless she’d been to Ailebroc and had a surprising amount of surgery. The epicon let the soldier’s body fall. It raised a chitin-bladed sword in a fencer’s salute. It beckoned with the other hand. The gesture went with the upraised chin and the mad, cocky grin, the way a sword went with a scabbard. Tzenni scrambled backwards up another step and tried to think what an unarmed Maker was supposed to do in this situation. She had a sharp vision of her childhood bodyguard Caitriesse saying matter-of-factly and then you die, now let’s go back to the beginning. “I don’t know who you are, scrat,” the first guard began, “but…” “Then you’re at a disadvantage, aren’t you? Don’t worry. I’m quite happy to kill people before being formally introduced.” The epicon moved so gracefully that Tzenni’s brain failed, at first, to understand how fast it was. There was a brief, desperate clatter of steel; and then the tall figure in grey knelt to wipe the sword on the dirty skirts of the soldier’s coat. And, Tzenni was astonished to notice, to go through his pockets. “You killed him!” she said. “I killed the other one, too, and I didn’t see you being any help. See if she’s got some scrip, or a watch token.” “What’s a watch token?” The epicon fished a triangular piece of chitin out of one of the soldier’s inside pockets. “One of these. Means I can eat, and get my washing done. So can you. Come on.” “You’re robbing the dead to pay for your washing?” “It’s not like they need their washing done any more.” The epicon fished out a dirty handkerchief and made a skeeved face at it. “Not that it seems to have been much of a priority in any case.” “You didn’t give him a chance to surrender!” “What was I supposed to do with a prisoner? I expect I’ll have enough trouble with you.” Tzenni was bereft of speech. The epicon made a sweeping bow, doffing its cap. “Innes Liang at your service. Originally of Ailebroc and then of Rivantia. These days, of nowhere in particular.” That, at least, made sense; most epicons came from Ailebroc or Prémontré, but Tzenni had a vague idea there were some at Rivantia in the retinue of Lord Hawkwood’s consort, who was an epicon itself. “You’re with the Hawkwoods? What are you rescuing me for?” “What makes you think I’m not kidnapping you?” “Are you kidnapping me?” asked Tzenni, feeling outmanoeuvred. “Someone will, if you carry on wandering about the back stairs of Shainault without any boots on, and it might as well be me as anyone else. Have you really hurt your foot?” Innes knelt beside her and palpated her bare clammy ankle. Tzenni twitched her leg out of the epicon’s reach and grabbed the hilt of the fallen soldier’s sword. It was much heavier than she had expected. Innes looked at it. “Good thought. We can sell that, too. Shame it’s not safe to stay here long enough to shuck them out of their chainmail. Lord Malabranca’s servant might come down here to see what the hold-up is, and I’m not tangling with him if I can help it.” Tzenni’s stomach gave another convulsive heave. She weighed the unknown Lord Malabranca and his servant against the eyes she was looking into, and remembered that cold, beautiful voice from the battlements saying kill her. Innes scrambled to its feet. “There’s a secret door in the alcove. Let’s go.” “I could hit you with this sword,” said Tzenni distantly. Innes looked her up and down, grinned, and shook its head. “You don’t look a bit like your sister.” “You know about Catha?” “You’re Ligeia, right?” “I’m Tzenni, but…” There were footsteps and shadows further up the stairs. Innes took Tzenni’s hand. The epicon’s touch was cool and impersonal, like putting one’s hand in water. “Not here. Come with me.” Innes led Tzenni through a narrow, oily-smelling corridor and then along a stuffy curtained gallery. Draughts and shouts and cabbagey smells rose from below. A door off the gallery led onto a much narrower staircase, one of the really old ones with a metal rail and handholds at odd angles on the walls. The sword grew heavier. Tzenni couldn’t imagine how Catha could haul one of these about all day. Perhaps a scabbard helped. They were heading down into the heart of the Spire. The smell of boiled eels and dirty human skin gave way to that of unexplained machinery, and then to something worse. Tzenni’s nose twitched. “Why does this place smell of rots wash?” she asked in an out-of-breath voice. Innes looked round in a swirl of embroidered leather coat-skirts. “Now that sounds like a drink you shouldn’t order if you want to keep your eyesight.” “You know when interior walls go all speckled and spongy? That’s the rots,” explained Tzenni earnestly. ” I don’t know whether it’s Founders or native, but it’ll fix on anything that isn’t totally chemically inert. It’ll eat stone if you give it long enough.” “It shouldn’t be here, and it shouldn’t be here now. You wash for rots in late summer. I think it eats the ice-algae out in the iceworks and that’s what causes the sexual bloom… why are you looking at me like you’re trying not to laugh?” “It’s the way you say sexual bloom in exactly the same tone of voice as chemically inert,” explained the epicon helplessly. “Are you always like this?” “Are you always killing people?” “No, I generally only do that when someone pays me.” Innes knocked on the wall with its knuckles. “So the Spire’s falling to bits. The Kapellans haven’t got any money. If they had, they wouldn’t be selling their sons in marriage to the Hawkwoods. Do you think it’s going to fall to bits within the next hour?” Tzenni peered at the walls. “It seems relatively structurally sound…” “That’ll do me. Come on.” “When are you going to tell me about Catha?” “When I think it’s safe.” Innes hesitated, eyes narrowed. “When I think it’s safer. And now we’re going to take a shortcut through a bit of the Spire that really isn’t safe. Take your lead from me, and if we get separated…” Tzenni looked doubtfully at the sword. Innes shook its head. “If we get separated, go up and when you find a Retort station, call Lord Malabranca.” “I thought we were escaping from Lord Malabranca.” “We are.” The epicon sighed. “Milady Boccamera, when it comes to a choice between someone who might kill you later and someone who will certainly kill you now, which would you pick?” The smell of rots wash gave way to the sweet, iron-rich smell of the rots themselves. The corridors here were divided and subdivided, hung with curtains or blocked off into dwellings with anything that came to hand. Sometimes cloth was pinned up to cover the ceiling as well, where it had caved in. A shred of rotted cloth hanging from the ceiling tickled the back of Tzenni’s hand and nearly made her scream. She was only glad it hadn’t been the back of her neck. Tzenni stuck close to Innes. The epicon wasn’t much of a protector, but it was all she had, and at least as a companion it was one step up from the grel. She couldn’t help staring at the people around her. She knew there were poor areas in Lionvarre, but surely – surely there couldn’t be anything like this. People here didn’t walk, they scuttled. Or barged. Or made eye-flicker decisions from moment to moment, barging past a young woman whose narrow misshapen hips said rickets to Tzenni, scuttling out of the way of a well-fed man with a string of triangular coins braided into his thinning grey hair. The man wasn’t doing anything more intimidating than standing in the pool of light shed by a pedlar’s lantern and taking his time over appraising a washy green chitin knife; but he didn’t look as if he belonged there. He looked as if he belonged somewhere worse. Innes swore softly, touched Tzenni’s arm and pulled her out of the moth-shadow edges of the lantern’s light. “Holy St. Rune, I have no luck at all. What’s he doing here?” “Who is he?” “His name’s Sikander. He comes from Rivantia. Works for milord Aetius Hawkwood’s consort Zircon Grey.” He looked like a bandit, Tzenni thought. A gaggle of skinny children erupted from the far end of the corridor, chasing an even skinnier chicken. The pedlar prudently folded up a corner of worn pink velvet over his stock. The tallest of the children knocked a flailing elbow against the lantern. It swung crazily. The circle of light caught another figure who had been previously been careful to stay out of it, lighting up clean ice-blond hair and a face all delicate sharpness of bone. Tzenni thought she’s beautiful and then he’s very handsome and then realised that it was another epicon. Innes stepped backwards into the shadows. “We’ll go back round the other way.” “Why? Who was that?” “Zircon Grey.” Innes took another long disbelieving look, like a gambler who couldn’t believe how quickly their luck had turned to the bad. Zircon Grey pushed back its hair. A curtain of thin silver-gilt braids lifted and fell, revealing the short, perfect hawk-curve of the epicon’s nose, the strong symmetry of cheekbone and jaw. It looked as out of place as an Ordainer dropped in the River-shallows, and very nearly as dangerous. “What would Zircon Grey be doing here?” Tzenni panted. “Is it something to do with what you said about the Kapellans marrying into the Hawkwoods?” “Maybe. Come on.” Innes asked directions a couple of times. Once, they had to slide into a corner to avoid twenty marching soldiers, all of them in the same heavy chainmail and chitin and leather as the guards outside; once, a technician in livery scurried past them on a staircase. Other than that, there was no evidence that the Kapellans lived in the same world as these people at all. They might as well have decamped centuries ago to Belyaevo to live with their relations and left the Spire to rot. Water came from buckets; light, when there was any light at all, from lanterns, and food from stalls which mostly seemed to be selling lizard, goat and mushrooms. Tzenni found herself wondering where they grew the mushrooms. She suspected they grew all on their own, wherever they found a patch of damp. Finally Innes took a sharp left turn into a blocked-off message bay. Tzenni looked for a Retort-screen in the wall, but it had been ripped out years before. Innes muttered to itself, feeling the stonework with long clever fingers. The lines of the stonework that looked like so much architectural clutter resolved themselves into a door. Innes tapped on it. The door opened into a world of brandy-coloured light and the firesmoke smell of Petaling tea. “Follow me,” said Innes tensely. “And don’t talk.” Tzenni followed the epicon. The stone door closed heavily behind them. The room beyond was lit by an assortment of candles and lamps and a roaring open fire. One wall was entirely filled with an oversized portrait of a dark-skinned lady in a swirling skirt pinned over a set of very workaday coveralls, an unfamiliar cleared landscape behind her. The other walls were upholstered in dirty red leather. Firescreens and hangings made alcoves for privacy, though Tzenni thought them more likely to encourage casual eavesdroppers than foil them. Faces looked round from the tables; dark-skinned faces, pale faces, flat-nosed faces with the look of Petaling and Venexia about them, faces half-hidden by hoods or scarves, broken-nosed faces, painted faces, wary faces. Innes steered Tzenni to a seat near the fire. At least I’m inside the Spire, she thought dizzily. And she had a sword. The sword wasn’t a lot of use to her, but if she could get it to Catha, then, maybe… Innes Liang cupped one hand and wobbled it economically back and forth. “Drink?” Before Tzenni could reply, a man approached them. He was dressed in black clothes that had once been respectable. “Well. Epicon Liang. I didn’t realise you’d taken to carrying merchandise,” he said with an unpleasant smile. “I don’t know what’s caused your gums to get into that state, but if you’ve been taking mercury for your syphilis, you ought to stop it. It’s not doing you any good,” said Tzenni. The man made a twisting shape with his fingers. Tzenni didn’t think it was one of the Couriers’ hand signs, though it looked a little like the one that meant radioactive. “I… I apologise for having troubled you, venna nyonya,” he muttered and scrambled away backwards. Innes looked amusedly respectful. “Well, that worked. I doubt anyone else in here’s going to mistake you for a prostitute.” “A radioactive one, apparently.” “What? Oh, no, that means sorceror. Do you want a drink?” Innes waved a hand at the back of the room, where an ornamental cherry-pink and gilt samovar sulked like some exotic flower on a square tiled stove. A burly man was taking down a bottle from a dresser and wiping it solicitously with a cloth. He nodded to Innes, who nodded back. Tzenni asked for tea and watched in fascination as the barkeep lifted and poured the enormous samovar. She had been trying to work out where the handle was. It turned out to be part of a gynaecological-looking series of gilt twiddles. Innes returned with a hundred-year-old blueware teacup. Tzenni wrapped her hands about it gratefully. She felt suddenly exhausted, and fit to do nothing but sit here and stare into the fire and wait for life to make sense again. After a few moments she recognised the smooth curvilinear shape of the fireback; she had seen it several hundred times whilst flicking through the baffling world of the Retort templates for the Founders’ vehicles. “That’s an external door-panel for an Achitophel class colonial utility vehicle,” Innes considered this and evidently found it unanswerable. It lined up a row of bottles on the table, knocked the top off the first one and drank it straight. Innes gave a soft gasp like someone who had fallen, not entirely unexpectedly, into icy water, and drank the second bottle. “Your liver’s going to end up in the same state as his gums,” said Tzenni dispassionately. “I’ve had a shock. Zircon Grey’s not supposed to be here.” Tzenni tipped her head to one side. “You’re right. She… it…” “She, he, it, all of the above, and it always is above, that’s the only way Milady in Grey likes it.” “She must have been here since autumn, if that’s her at all. The road’s not clear to Rivantia.” “Unless somehow the Hawkwoods managed to push through the ice with a land-barge… No. I’d have heard.” Innes knocked the top off another bottle. “Dear God. I wonder… No, it can’t be.” “You wonder what?” “It isn’t safe to tell you.” Innes drank another bottle. It had an Adam’s apple, Tzenni noticed, but its throat and collarbone were more delicately feminine than Tzenni’s own. “If I hadn’t just seen those two, I’d have said I was sure your sister was still in the Spire. Now, I’m not sure.” Tzenni contemplated having to chase off to another Spire after Catha. She wondered where she would get another grel. “Has anyone arrived from Ailebroc?” “No one’s arrived from anywhere, until you came. Why?” “If anyone could craft perfect doubles for Zircon Grey and her henchman, they could. Besides, Zircon Grey looks like a Gentileschi.” “Does he?” “Or maybe it’s the Sheremetevs she looks like, I don’t know. She looks like somebody.” “She is somebody,” said Innes darkly. “Huh. That’s all the world needs, two of Milord in Grey and two of Sikander. The best we could hope for is that they’d all get distracted by trying to assassinate each other.” “Never mind the bandits, tell me about Catha.” Tzenni leaned forward. “Have you seen her?” Innes nodded. “Two longdays ago. I didn’t see her to speak to, you understand. I’d let myself into a bookshop to make a message drop, and she turned up.” Tzenni thought about the sort of circles Innes seemed to move in, and was mutely horrified. “She’s not much of a reader,” she said doubtfully. “She was in a sun-cursed temper, I’ll tell you that for nothing.” “Well, that sounds more like her,” said Tzenni. “If she was wandering in and out of bookshops, the Kapellans can’t have put her in a dungeon. Not one she couldn’t get out of, at any rate.” Innes’ eyebrows rose like blue half-moons. “She make a habit of escaping dungeons?” Tzenni made a small helpless gesture. “It’s Catha. I don’t know what she might do. Is she… Is she staying with the Kapellans, then, or has she taken sanctuary with… with the Courtesanat, or something?” “First you expect to find her in a dungeon and then at the Courtesanat niece-house. Nice opinion you’ve got of your sister.” Innes leaned its narrow shoulders back against the upholstery and grinned. “I can tell you’re the older one already.” “I’m not. Ligeia’s the eldest.” Tzenni drank the last of her tea, intrigued despite herself. “Why?” “Back there on the staircase. She’d have blustered at me, or else tried to hit me with the sword.” Innes pushed one of the remaining bottles across the table. “You’ll want this.” Tzenni didn’t take the bottle. She laid her hands flat on the table and looked at them instead. They looked small and dirty and cold. After a while, they stopped shaking. “Are you going to tell me you’ve killed my sister?” she said. “Holy St. Rune, no.” Innes looked honestly taken aback. “No. She’s disappeared, and so has Kapellan Prime’s son Jahsvir.” It paused, evidently surprised at Tzenni’s lack of reaction, and went on. “The one who’s supposed to be marrying Sorszenna Hawkwood.” Tzenni felt a rush of relief. It wasn’t good news, but it wasn’t the worst news possible, either. With the relief came a lot of questions. She asked the one that was nearest. “What’s any of that got to do with you?” “Long story. Mostly to do with Jahsvir’s mothers and Zircon Grey. I…” Innes paused. Everything about the epicon seemed to relax, from the eyelids hooding ash-grey eyes to the hand that flopped down carelessly close to the sword’s leather-wrapped hilt. “Slap my face.” “Slap my face and storm out. I’ll follow you.” The epicon’s grey eyes looked into hers. “You want to stay alive another shortday? Then trust me.” Tzenni scrambled to her feet. Make this good, she told her numb body. It didn’t feel like cooperating. Tzenni tried, desperately, to remember the last time she had felt like slapping anyone’s face. Eventually she remembered the useless girl, wished onto Tzenni’s section crew by an ambitious aunt, who had somehow managed to flood a hydroponics bay with various foul-smelling chlorates and then tried to cover it up by blaming someone else. She thought of the girl’s exasperatingly stupid face, closed her eyes and slapped Innes Liang. Her hand connected stingingly with skin. “You are a disgrace. You don’t deserve to be called a technician. Your ancestors must be weeping for what happened to their chromosomes between the Founders and you. How dare you?” she finished loudly, belatedly remembering her line. She turned on her heel and stalked out. Innes Liang laid its sword down flat on the table. The sword was probably the closest thing in the Spire that Innes had to a friend. Kinjal, the smith who wrought it had called it. Innes remembered its first sight of the kinjal as it lay on a piece of dirty velvet in front of the smith’s knees. It was among the very few entirely pleasant memories Innes had. The Maker slammed the door behind her. Innes wondered vaguely what all that stuff she’d been saying about chrome was. Innes’ great-grandmother had frequently expressed the opinion that all Makers were mad and the ones who didn’t look mad were the worst. Innes wasn’t yet sure which category Lady Tzenni fell into. Innes looked down at the smooth pommel of the kinjal, the graceful small hilt wrapped in blue-dyed leather, the short, leaf-shaped pale green chitin blade. A shadow fell across the blade. The shadow had a string of coins braided into its hair. “Hello, Sikander,” said Innes. “You’ve just chased off the first lead I’ve had in days.” Sikander leaned over the table. He smelt of the perfumed oils he slicked back his braids with, and of fried meat. “Your part in this was supposed to be simple. Milady in Grey isn’t pleased.” “It’s not my fault I had to improvise. If you just expected me to say ‘Well, look at that. The Kapellans cheated us on the deal. Must be because they think we’re all contaminated bandits’ and then sit by the fire keeping warm for the rest of the winter, you could have told me. I’d have lowered my rates.” “As I recall, your rates consisted of being allowed to live.” “All right, I won’t lower them. What was your point again?” Sikander leaned closer. “You were supposed to pick up the cold-crystals from the boy and get back to Rivantia with them before the big cold set in. Instead, you hang around Shainault all winter and when we arrive you haven’t got the goods. Tell me again who cheated who?” “I haven’t cheated you. Even if my tastes ran to hulking great cold-crystals set in a pattern three centuries out of date, which they don’t, who do you suppose I’d find in this Spire to fence them?” “Anyone who doesn’t like us.” Innes’ hand slid unhurriedly to the hilt of the kinjal. “No one likes you, Sikander. Even your mother wishes you’d wash more often.” “My mother died when I was fourteen.” “Extended labour, was it?” wondered Innes pleasantly. “At least I wasn’t grown in a vat at Ailebroc.” “D’you say things like that in Zircon Grey’s hearing?” “Why don’t you ask him? He wants to see you.” “He sent me to find you.” Innes leaned back and half-closed its eyes. “I might be paying you an undue compliment by supposing you’re bright enough to lie, Sikander, but I don’t believe you.” Sikander reached into his coat. His hand emerged gripping an intricately carved ivory-pale cylinder. Innes’ eyes narrowed. “Oh, come on. An Ordainer? That’s Maker-tech. It’s no more use to you than it is to me.” Sikander smiled. He had an old scar on his upper lip, so old that it only showed up at times like now, when it dragged his lip upwards to reveal his yellow teeth. “You been here so long you’ve forgotten who the Hawkwoods are? We stole a whole Retort. You think we can’t make Maker-tech a bit more… pliable?” “I think no one’s managed it in four hundred years and if anyone could do it, it’d be the Malabranca, not you.” Sikander’s hand clenched on the Ordainer. It made a coughing whirring noise. Innes was still only on the edge of believing. It had to be an elaborate bluff. On the other hand, there was a dot of blue light at the business end of the Ordainer that really shouldn’t be there, unless Sikander had been a Maker all along, which was on the whole unlikely. Innes coolly plotted the relevant points on a three-dimensional grid in its head; the fireplace, the door, the back door, the angle of the tabletop to Sikander’s gut. Yes. Innes kicked the table over and drove its edge into Sikander’s belly. Sikander took a heavy staggering step back. Innes jumped over the table and brought the kinjal slashing diagonally downwards. Sikander parried awkwardly with the Ordainer. The bar erupted into panicked movement. Some people were shouting about rogue Makers. Others were gathering up any scrip that happened to be on the tables and looking away, their turned shoulders radiating not our business. Innes tossed the kinjal into its other hand and dropped to one knee, slicing low at Sikander’s legs. The kinjal scraped through leather but failed to cut more than a glancing trail across flesh. Sikander raised the Ordainer. Innes swept it aside with the blade. The Ordainer discharged into the fireplace, with a burst of light and an furious whining sound. The floor at Innes’ feet bloomed with heat. Innes flung itself sideways and landed next to a table. Sikander was swearing. Innes hoped the contaminated thing had blown his hand off. In the meantime, the air was as hot as a brick-oven, and there was no sense in wasting cover. Innes rolled neatly under the table, among several pairs of indignant leather-booted legs. “Give me the scrat or it’ll be the worse for you,” said Sikander grimly. The inhabitants of the table coughed and babbled something. It sounded to Innes depressingly like we’ll give you the scrat. Innes poked experimentally at the painting on the wall with the hilt of the kinjal. The wall behind it was solid. Innes cursed. Someone grabbed at Innes’ hair. It hurt out of all proportion, as pulled hair always did. Innes squirmed round towards the owner of the hand and poked him in the thigh with the hilt of the kinjal, hoping he was bright enough to work out that next time it could be the point. The hand let go. Innes considered its options. They seemed to narrow down to a rather depressing choice between attacking Sikander’s ankles or attacking someone else’s ankles instead. Or, then again, perhaps not. Innes rolled its shoulders forward and heaved the table upwards on its back. One of the people at the table squeezed out sideways; the other two pressed themselves back against the painted lady on the wall and indulged in remarks. Innes shoved the table backwards at them and faced Sikander through the smoke. Sikander had a long serrated chitin knife in each hand. He advanced, burly and furious, making a green dance with the two blades that would have killed anyone fool enough to stand still and watch it. Innes Liang was a fool about many things, but not in a fight. Innes lifted the kinjal to its lips and kissed it. The epicon felt the curious elation that always settled over it at the approach of certain danger; as if time were smoothing out all around it, like satin uncrumpling, making the world new. The fight began. Copyright © 2010 Ankaret Wells. 10 thoughts on “The Maker’s Mask” Alithea says: Oooh, I’m intrigued! Can’t wait to read how she gets herself out this scrape 🙂 ankaretwells says: coughingbear says: Was looking forward to it anyway; now more! I spent much of this afternoon doing pretty title pages for it and Hawkwood War and then Peter came in and told me that they were probably in the wrong dpi. Still, there is progress being made! Ah, I have just realised that I keep failing to click the ‘Notify me…’ button so I don’t see replies. Spoilt by LJ. Anyway I am glad there is progress! Pingback: Roses and Spires « Knitting up the ravelled sleeve of care Pingback: Tzenni \| pennies per hour of pleasure bookblogite says: These is really gripping! Keep writing, it’s good x Mary Alexandra Agner says: I followed the Lulu epub link and it said there was no such product. Is there any way I could get a copy from you? Ankaret Wells says: Thanks a lot for letting me know! Lulu does move things around on occasion, and they very rarely let the poor authors know. Here’s the link, and I’ll get on to updating the links in the sidebar as soon as possible. http://www.lulu.com/shop/ankaret-wells/the-makers-mask-book-one-of-requite/ebook/product-20638362.html	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line945
__label__wiki	0.785148	0.785148	Miscellaneous Records - Personal Name Index - F Faile, George, Assignment of Judgment, 1844: A-0064(1), page 30 Faile, Samuel, Assignment of Judgment, 1873: A-0064(3), page 469 Fairfax, Eleanor V.R., Designation of Legal Representative, 1901: A-0064(6), page 104 Falcott, Charles W., Discharge from Debt, 1886: A-0064(5), page 147 Fall, Joseph, Name Change, 1915: A-0064(9)O(J2), page 401 Farrell, Patrick, Assignment of Judgment, 1860: A-0064(2), page 65 Farrington, Thomas O, Transfer of Judgment, 1852: A-0064(1), page 225 Farry, Michael, Assignment of Judgment, 1861: A-0064(2), page 78 Fegan, Henry J., Certificate of Incorporation, 1880: A-0064(4), page 407 Fegan, Hugh, Certificate of Incorporation, 1880: A-0064(4), page 407 Fegan, Sarah, Certificate of Incorporation, 1880: A-0064(4), page 407 Felch, Charles, Assignment of Judgment, 1856: A-0064(1), page 442 Ferguson, Orson J., Bill of Sale, 1856: A-0064(1), page 425 Ferris, Elisha, Court Order on Assignment, 1878: A-0064(4), page 341 Ferris, Elisha P., Assignment of Judgment, 1877: A-0064(4), page 257 Ferris, Elisha T., Assignment of Judgment, 1875: A-0064(4), page 65 Ferris, Lewis, Agreement to Sell Land, 1850: A-0064(1), page 127 Ferris, Samuel B., Assignment of Judgment, 1855: A-0064(1), page 396 Field, Cyrus West, Certificate of Baptism, 1878: A-0064(4), page 345 Field, Fannie P., Assignment of Judgment, 1878: A-0064(4), page 314 Field, Frederick R., Assignment of Judgment, 1885: A-0064(5), page 136 Field, Morris A., Assignment of Judgment, 1860: A-0064(3), page 226 Field, Samuel, Assignment of Judgment, 1842: A-0064(1), page 12 Finch, Harriet, Foreclosure, 1871: A-0064(3), page 380 Finger, Patrick, Assignment of Mechanics Lien, 1870: A-0064(3), page 250 Firth, Charlotte Fletcher, Name Change, 1908: A-0064(7), page 211 Firth, John, Assignment of Judgment, 1876: A-0064(4), page 259 Firth, William Alfred, Name Change, 1908: A-0064(7), page 213 Fisher, Elijah, Assignment of Judgment, 1847: A-0064(1), page 65 Fisher, Fisher A., Assignment of Judgment, 1853: A-0064(1), page 294 Fisher, John, Assignment of Judgment, 1848: A-0064(1), page 72 Fisher, Thomas H., Appointment as Deputy Clerk, 1841: A-0064(1), page 2 Fitch, James P., Assignment of Judgment, 1865: A-0064(2), page 310 Fitch, Theodore, Assignment of Judgment, 1870: A-0064(3), page 237 Fitch, William P., Assignment of Judgment, 1877: A-0064(4), page 234 Fitsgerald, George, Salary, 1907: A-0064(7), page 138 Fitzgerald, Gerald, Appointment, 1907: A-0064(7), page 62 Fitzgerald, Margaret, Assignment of Judgment, 1876: A-0064(4), page 200 Flagg, Ethan, Assignment of Judgment, 1875: A-0064(4), page 82 Flagg, Levi W., Assignment of Judgment, 1870: A-0064(3), page 256 Flanagan, Daniel, Assignment of Judgment, 1880: A-0064(4), page 402 Fleck, Harry, Name Change, 1912: A-0064(8), page 348 Fleming, John K., Partnership, 1875: A-0064(4), page 70 Fleming, John K., Assignment of Letters Patent, 1875: A-0064(4), page 68 Fleuwelling, Isaiah, Agreement to Sell Land, 1850: A-0064(1), page 127 Flood, Bryan, Appointment as Deputy Sheriff, 1868: A-0064(2), page 464 Fogg, Charles E., Assignment of Mortgage, 1871: A-0064(3), page 283 Ford, Frederick G., Assignment of Judgment, 1854: A-0064(1), page 399 Ford, Henry B., Appointment as Deputy Sheriff, 1868: A-0064(2), page 454 Forrest, George J., Assignment of Judgment, 1862: A-0064(2), page 166 Forshee, Daniel, Assignment of Judgment, 1841: A-0064(1), page 21 Forster, William, Assignment of Judgment, 1859: A-0064(2), page 198 Foshay, Jacob, Appointment as Under Sheriff, 1844: A-0064(1), page 17 Foshay, Jacob, Appointment as Jailor, 1844: A-0064(1), page 18 Foshay, Jacob, Appointment as Deputy Sheriff, 1847: A-0064(1), page 57 Foshay, Thomas, Highway Improvement, 1879: A-0064(4), page 391 Foster, Daniel B., General Release, 1874: A-0064(4), page 45 Foster, Sarah, Assignment of Property, 1847: A-0064(1), page 72 Fountain, Cyrus, Assignment of Judgment, 1850: A-0064(1), page 164 Fowler, Edgar V., Assignment of Judgment, 1879: A-0064(4), page 358 Fowler, Henry H. & Weeden, Assignment of Judgment, 1856: A-0064(1), page 427 Fox, George, Assignment of Judgment, 1858: A-0064(3), page 3 Fox, Jacob, Name Change, 1910: A-0064(8), page 87 Frain, Thomas, Assignment of Judgment, 1874: A-0064(4), page 15 Francis, Hester, Assignment of Judgment, 1877: A-0064(4), page 206 Frankenberg, Anna Theresa, Bill of Sale, 1877: A-0064(4), page 209 Frankenberg, William, Bill of Sale, 1877: A-0064(4), page 207 Frary, William R., Bankruptcy, 1878: A-0064(4), page 323 Fraser, Thomas, Assignment of Judgment, 1853: A-0064(1), page 294 Frazier, George, Release of Judgment, 1881: A-0064(4), page 423 Frazier, George Jr., Assignment of Judgment, 1883: A-0064(5), page 55 Frazier, George Jr., Assignment of Property, 1882: A-0064(5), page 18 Frederick, Carl F., Assignment of Judgment, 1869: A-0064(3), page 200 Freeman, Elizabeth, Assignment of Judgment, 1864: A-0064(2), page 207 Freeman, Walter K., Dissolution, 1909: A-0064(7), page 334 Frey, Eugene, Name Change, 1915: A-0064(9)O(J2), page 400 Frey, Ignatz, Assignment of Property, 1882: A-0064(4), page 470 Fried, Isadore, Name Change, 1914: A-0064(9)O(J2), page 235 Frosh, Luther W., Foreclosure, 1875: A-0064(4), page 112 Frost, Calvin, Assignment of Judgment, 1879: A-0064(4), page 369 Frost, Ebenezer, Assignment of Judgment, 1852: A-0064(1), page 215 Frost, Munson E., Assignment of Judgment, 1879: A-0064(4), page 364 Frost, Samuel G., Assignment of Judgment, 1868: A-0064(3), page 148 Fuchs, Jacob, Name Change, 1910: A-0064(8), page 76 Fudickar, Caroline, Assignment of Judgment, 1872: A-0064(3), page 359 Fuery, John, Assignment of Judgment, 1871: A-0064(3), page 322 Fuller, Ephraim D., Assignment of Judgment, 1860: A-0064(2), page 35 Fuller, Wilfred F., Name Change, 1906: A-0064(6), page 490 Fulton, John, Sale of Land, 1885: A-0064(5), page 119 Furman, Hortense, Name Change, 1883: A-0064(5), page 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__label__wiki	0.810567	0.810567	Lawyer of Norwegian Asylum-Seeker Extradited to Iran Speaks Out Posted by arianzolfaghari ⋅ ژوئن 29, 2011 ⋅ بیان دیدگاه Follow-ups \| Human Rights \| International \| Prisoners & Their Families Dramatic turn in the Rahim Rostami case DEATH SENTENCE DOCUMENTS * There is no doubt that the death sentence against Rostami Rahim is real, says his Norwegian lawyer, Cecilie Schjatvet. The UN High Commisioner for Refugees is currently updated on the situation of the 20-year old, who allegedly has been exposed to torture. The case has received international attention. * The Norwegian political party Venstre says that the government has a joint responsibility for the fate of the young Kurd and demands a full stop in the forced return to Iran. Venstre no longer «confides in» the asylum policy of the Norwegian government. By CARIMA TIRILLSDOTTIR HEINESEN carima@nytid.no NEW TURN On June 20, the global day of refugees, it was announced that Rahim Rostami, who is known from the TV-programme Brennpunkt (“Focus”), has been charged in Iran. After spending time in the notorious Evin-prison north of Tehran, since he was expelled by force from Gardermoen on February 10, guarded by two police officers, the Kurd will soon stand trial. Now, his Norwegian lawyer is coming with a strong criticism of Utlendingsnemnda (The immigration authorities)(UNE), who refused to believe in the asylum application of Rostami. The lawyer is the well-known Cecilie Schjatvet of Hestenes og Dramer & co. Schjatvet, who is represented in the legal panel on asylum- and foreigner law of Advokatforeningen (The Association of Lawyers), has been working on the Rostami-case since she took it on at the turn of the month between March and April. The Norwegian authorities rejected the documents which the single and minor asylum seeker Rostami presented when he applied for asylum as a 17-year old in 2008. He exhibited papers showing that he had received a death sentence in his home town in Western Iran, something which neither UDI nor UNE has confided in. The last weeks UNE has also raised doubts about whether Rostami really has been imprisoned in Iran since the forced return. But his Norwegian lawyer says now: – There is no doubt that the indictment and the death sentence of Rahim Rostami is real, and that the return of him to Iran, has put his life in danger. Used against the Swedish government At the same time, it appears that the fate of the 20-year old Kurd, who was known from TV when he lived at Senjehesten asylum centre in the county of Troms, now receives international attention. On June 22 «The International Coalition for the Rights of Iranian Refugees» sent an open letter to the Swedish Minister for asylum cases, Tobias Billström, asking to stop the return of Iranian opposition member, Sanan Asrafi, on July 1. In the letter, they point to the fate of the imprisoned Rostami as an argument for Sweden to stop the return to Iran. The Iranian regime has not made official the charge against Rostami yet, but «The International Coalition for the Rights of Iranian Refugees» writes that he, among other things, «has to meet in court charged of seeking political asylum and participating in protests outside Iran. The situation Rahim Rostami is confronted with, is a study in what will happen with Sanan Ashrafi if he is being returned to Iran». In the letter, it is pointed out that Rostami among other things is charged according to paragraph 7 of the Iranian Criminal Code, which hits those who are being charged of propaganda against Iran. During the last months, the Chief Prosecutor of the regime, Mohsen Eje’i, has supported the argment that returned asylum seekers can be charged on such basis in general. Since April 2, Rostami has been entered on the unofficial list over the 2800 political prisoners in Iran, as the only one from Norway and the Nordic countries. In his entry it says that he was refused bail on March 23. Bail was granted on June 20, but according to the information Ny Tid has receieved, the bail is set to the astronomic sum of 1 billion toman, or 700.000 Norwegian Kroner (approx. 128.000 US dollars or more than 90.000 Euros) Lønseth points to UNE – The Rahim Rostami case is proof that all of the methods the Norwegian authorities have used in this case, to evaluate whether a person has a need for protection or not, are unfit, Schjatvet claims in a written statement to Ny Tid. She also thinks that the Norwegian authorities now has a responsibility and duty to help Rostami. – Although Rostami has been sent out of the country, Norway has a clear joint responsibility. Norwegian authorities should follow international law, which says that they do have a duty to help to solve the situation, she states. For the time being, the government is silent and points to Utlendingsnemnda: – These are accusations against UNE specifically tied up to a single case. UNE should be given the opportuniy to respond. The Ministry of Justice does not consider single cases, Pål Lønseth, a State Secretary from the Ministry of Justice, says to Ny Tid on Thursday evening. UN is currently kept updated It appears now that the UN High Commisioner of Refugees is being currently updated on Rostami’s fate. Nå viser det seg at FNs Høykommissær for flyktninger følger løpende med i Rostamis skjebne. The regional office of UNHCR in Stockholm, asked UNE to send all the Rostami-papers already on April 4, one and a half week after Ny Tid mentioned the case the first time. Now, the office is able to tell: – We know the case well and are being currently updated by Rostami’s lawyer in Oslo. If the case should develop in such a direction that there is a need to advice Norwegian authorities, we will do this, the spokesperson of the High Commisioner, Hanne Mathisen, says to Ny Tid. Schjatvet, who sees more problems which the Rostami-case, uncovers: – The basic error the authorities makes in their treatment of many of the most difficult cases, those which is rotating within the system and where the applicant can return after deportation, is that they speculate around the information given in the asylum application. To speculate around facts, is unprofessional because it is not suited to uncover needs for protection, she says. The lawyer also reacts to how UNE on April 19, just before the Easter holiday, published a press release about the case, with a lot of allegations around the Rostami-case: – In this case UNE has in addition to this, behaved irresponsiby also after the deportation, which ended with imprisonment and torture. In the press release of April 19, it is being referred from the asylum application at a point when UNE at the same time claims that they have no reason to doubt that he is in the Evin prison. To confirm in such a manner from official sources, the content of an asylum application of a person who is in a precarious situation, is beyond all justifiable behaviour. UNE should avoid such things and they should attempt to achieve a more mature public behaviour, Schjatvet states. For this first net version, Ny Tid did not succeed in getting any comment to the statements from UNE. But on Tuesday, UNE’s public relations officer sent the following mail to Ny Tid: – We find that the assertions about what he is risking and why, has been considerably changed since the case first was mentioned by Ny Tid, when it was alleged that he was already sentenced to death by stoning in his home town. UNE is preoccupied with what is the actual facts of the case and is therefore looking to have also the latest information confirmed. Aside from that we have no further comments from those we gave in the middle of April. Then we said that there had no information in the case stating that Rostami had been politically active in Norway, and that, if this had been the case, neither he himself nor any of his representatives, had informed UNE about this, says Bjørn Lyster, UNE’s public relations officer. Venstre reacts The vice-chairman of the political party Venstre, Helge Solum Larsen, reacts strongly to what has appeared now with the statements of Schjatvets, published on the web pages of Ny Tid, on June 24. – Development in the case is dramatic and I hope Norway now will do what is possible to prevent an even worse development. It gives a very strong signal when the lawyer states: “The Rahim-case is proof of that all of the methods the Norwegian authorities have used in this case, to evaluate whether a person has a need for protection or not, are unfit» The acknowledgment of the highly negative situation in Iran, which has deteriorated strongly after the wish of political reforms was struck down, should have reached the Norwegian government a long time ago. If they claim that they do not know this, the government does not pay much attention. If they acknowledge that the situation of human rights has become even worse, they carry a joint responsibility for what individuals like Rahim Rostami experience after the forced return from Norway, Solum Larsen says. The vice-chairman also asks for the forced returns to Iran to be stopped. Norwegian authorities shall have sent out around 20 asylum seekers to the Iranian regime this far in 2011. – Forced returns to Iran should not take place at all, the way the situation in the country is. The Norwegian government has the responsibility of an instrumental asylum policy. I am constantly surprised that the political parties of AP, SV and Sp let their own government keep on like this, and that these parties, which constitute the parliamentary foundation for the government, maintain their support for this policy. I have no confidence in the policy of the governmet in this area. The key for change in the direction of a more human policy, where we listen to UN and others to a greater extent, lies with the parties of the government themselves. They carry the responsibility, says Helge Solum Larsen. Translated by Wilfred Hildonen, Norway. Fester lit til dødsdom-papirer WHAT WILL THEY DO NOW? Synne Skouen – Composer and writer. Indicted in Iran. Now all bets are off, as Iranian authorities officialy has brought charges against the boy whom Utlendingsnemda (Immigration Appeals Board (UNE)) decided was OK to send “home”. NO “DEATH SENTENCE from Norway” replied UNE-Director Terje Skjeggestad just ahead of easter, to my claim that Rahim Rostami was in danger of death after the Norwegian Police had handed him over to the Iranian authorities for immediate imprisonment. Well, he was also vaguely spreading doubt regarding if the boy was imprisoned or not, despite of that he also argued that the prison conditions were better than alleged. In the entry, almost identical to a press release aimed against NY Tids’s coverage of the case, he astonishingly use Iranian authorities as witness of truth regarding if Iran would prosecute persons who have applied for asylum in a foreign country or not. He carried on: “UNE did not find any evidence of returnees beeing indicted or convicted on these grounds”. Well, He – and we – have now got an evidence of this. Iranian authorities has not made the content of the indictment against Rahim Rostami publicly accessible yet, but The International Coalition for the Rights of Iranian Refugees (ICRIR) argues that he has to appear in court accused of having applied for political asylum, and participating in protests abroad. Skjeggestads reliance on Iranian courts stands both in relief to the country’s paragraph in the criminal law regarding propaganda against Iran, and to Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi’s statements about the systematic executions of political prisoners in Iran. It goes with the the story that Rahim came to Norway as a 17-year-old. Even then with a death sentence in absentia his luggage, supposedly of a criminal act; a death sentence UNE chosed to ignore. – There is no doubt that the indictment and death sentence is real, and the return to Iran has put his life in danger, his lawyer Cecilie Schjatvet said to Ny Tid recently. Schjatvet is a widely known lawyer. She is a member of the Bar Association committee for the asylum and immigration law. Furthermore, she says that the Rahim case is a proof of; “that all the methods the Norwegian immigration authorities used to consider whether a person has a need for protection or not, is inappropriate in this case”. It’s tough talk. The question is; what the Norwegian authorities will do now, and we don’t want more of UNE’s misdirections, there is no time for that. We neither want apologies. There is not time for that either. Not now. But in the aftermath of this case several will sure enought dispute how this could happen; that a committee Chairman, on his own, could make such an unfortunate decision that had such an impact on a young man. WHERE IS STORBERGET? But foremost the political leadeship must put this on their agenda! Don’t hide behind administrative policies! Where are you, Minister of Justice; Knut Storberget? We want you to drop everything else and do what Norwegian authorities, cf. the lawyer Schjatvet, is committed to by international law, namely “to alleviate the situation”. This is what you have to find out now, as fast as possible! Translated by Iver Neumann Korsgaard, Norway Courtesy of Aftenposten, Norway http://www.aftenposten.no Norwegian version: http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/spaltister/skouen/article4158367.ece Translation of: http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/spaltister/skouen/article4158367.ece Hva gjør de nå? – Meninger – Skouen – Aftenposten.no « انگلیس: آزمایش محرمانه موشک قادر به حمل کلاهک اتمی در ایران تهران با مانور موشکی می خواهد خود را ابرقدرت منطقه نشان دهد » « مهٔ ژوئیه »	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line952
__label__cc	0.749824	0.250176	News • NXIVM • To export When will people feel free to speak out – in their own names – against NXIVM – only when the monster Bronfmans – Salinas – don’t loom in the background There is a reason why Keith Raniere was able to instill such great fear among his followers – and, even more so, among those who might criticize him. I have been publishing this blog for years and with more 20,000 comments made – only a handful of people have ever dared to give their true names. Even after Raniere’s arrest, people continue to hide their identities. I don’t blame them. Raniere is a brutal punisher who thinks nothing of destroying peoples’ lives. And he’s had a huge advantage. He’s had both Bronfman money and Salinas’ family’s ever-present “threat of violence” behind him. The Bronfman money was used primarily in the US to silence and intimidate enemies. In Mexico, Raniere had only a few enemies out in the open – who dared to speak up – because, in Mexico, they know that not only will they may be criminally charged via a corrupt judge through Emiliano Salinas – but there is the specter of Carlos Salinas actually arranging for their murder. In Mexico, it is not safe to run afoul of Carlos. Whether deserved or not – Carlos Salinas is probably the most feared man in Mexico – the man assumed to be the true head of the Mexican Mafia – with its billion-dollar businesses of money laundering, drug sales, human trafficking, gun running – and murder. It may not be true – but millions believe it. Carlos Salinas is believed to be deadly. And his son, Emiliano, is the head of the Mexican cult of NXIVM. So, in Mexico, people hope to leave NXIVM with their lives – and are silent. In the USA – which is not quite such a lawless land as Mexico – there is less fear of being assassinated – but there is another fear – another enforcer here – which Raniere used so well to intimidate people who might criticize him. He used the court system – and the natural advantage in the US courts that accrue to the party with the most money. Our US legal system is heavily weighted toward the principle that “he who has the most money wins.” Raniere could always outspend his targets. Even though he rarely won any courtroom victories, he usually was able to ruin his opponents by making them broke defending themselves. And just as often, he used the Bronfmans’ wealth to get his enemies criminally indicted based on false and perjured testimony and falsified documents – which further ruined them and put their lives into hell. For an indictment alone is enough to destroy a person – even if innocent – and it is a hard way out – even if one is acquitted or the charges dismissed. So Raniere used the legal system to abuse people in the USA, and in the USA, the legal system is ripe for abuse for those who have the money. As Joe O’Hara pointed out in his lawsuit in 2012 – where he revealed publicly many of the crimes of the Bronfman-Raniere crime organization – Raniere had a set game plan for his litigation abuse. It was: (1) Multiple causes-of-action; (2) Onerous and duplicative demands for documents and records; (3) Extensive motion practice; (4) Complaints filed with licensing authorities; (5) Attempts to have criminal charges brought against the opposing party; (6) Refusal to produce documents and records; (7) Refusal to produce witnesses; (8) Perjured testimony; (9) One or more requests for substitution of counsel; (10) One or more requests for a change of venue; (11) Witness intimidation; and (12) Co-mingling of cases: e.g., using discovery in one case to obtain evidence and information for use in other cases. These 12 methods were costly in money for both the target and for Raniere. The difference was that Raniere could afford it. He had Bronfman backing – and he had Bronfman perjury as well. This was an astonishingly successful tool since Clare Bronfman would often take a direct role in the abusive litigation – besides just financing it, she would perform the necessary perjury. It was a clever tactic since who would think that an enormously wealthy young heiress would be motivated to lie? There was a presumption of integrity with her since she had [it seemed] no motive to lie. Why would she lie about the location of a computer server or a contract over a million dollars – since she had too much to lose – and after all, she didn’t really need the money. It backfired like all lies always do. And the chickens have come home to roost for Clare now. Think of the littleness of the crimes she is charged with. Here is a woman with hundreds of millions of dollars who facilitated Keith using Pam Cafrtiz’s American Express card to make some $8,000-$10,000 a month in personal charges. She could have easily given him that money – without using a dead woman’s credit card illegally – but instead, she committed a federal crime. Or take her bringing in a woman in from another country – and lying on the visa application, personally signing the visa application document – saying the woman would get a certain salary and then paying the woman that salary and making her illegally kickback some of the payments to her – a few thousand dollars. Why would she do this? She did not need the few thousand. Perhaps she had learned from Keith that she was above the law. Perhaps she was just blindly following Keith – but either way, Clare learned she could get away with breaking the law – and no matter how many people went to the authorities – nothing ever happened – except that some of the whistleblowers [most of them in fact] wound up being charged with some bogus crime. In all those instances, Clare and Keith had a hand in getting the whistleblower charged. So they learned that they could cheat and win at the US legal system. They had no fear – and so they never thought they had to abide by the law – they knew they would win in the US system because they had more money than their enemies. So they got more daring and bold and more accustomed to lying. And lying worked in the US legal system – because they had enough money to sell those lies. And when lies alone weren’t enough, they could always produce fake documents. “She who tells the most lies and has the most money – wins.” So it came to pass that an emboldened Raniere felt he could set up a scheme to blackmail and brand women. And that helped to undo him. And finally, the Eastern District of NY did what the Northern or the Western District declined to do — investigate Raniere – not his enemies. Because of that, Raniere is in jail. Clare is under home arrest. Yet, people still do not feel safe. Sara Bronfman is still at large and I have evidence that she can be just as cruel as her sister – and just as dishonest – although it comes a little less naturally to her than Clare – but make no mistake – she will do it. And then there is still Emiliano Salinas – out there with his daddy in the background. People are still afraid — and who can blame them? They may have gotten the leader – Raniere – but his money hench-women and his Mexican enforcer are still in the background and that’s why people post anonymously. When she was at the top of her game-winning through perjury – she found joy. Today, the law has finally caught up with Clare Bronfman and her perjury – and even her money may not be able to save her. Her joy has been greatly diminished now that she is on the other end of the US legal system. She misused it to punish others and is now being called to account. Keith Raniere gambled with people’s lives and for years won every time. [Photo courtesy of the FallofNXIVM.com. Photo taken by Toni Natalie. This famous photo is commonly called ‘Hairy Balls”. From Keith Raniere’s website: The great and powerful Vanguard was so big and important that his followers sought to film his every brilliant utterance and his mind-blowing purported great deeds [while at the same time he was destroying his enemies in the US courts.] A very small-looking Keith Raniere in a Mexican police car – about to be deported to the US where he would be charged in the US Courts with sex trafficking – well demonstrates the proverb, “The wheels of justice grind slowly but exceedingly fine.” Leave a Reply to Shadowstate is pathetic Cancel reply F.D.C. Willard says: To be completely honest, I became pretty paranoid when it came to computers and privacy many moons ago. My name ofc is a fictive one, while the background it comes from is very much my own. I am still not using my name or personal information on the internet whenever possible. There is just so much personal information can be misused for. Stuff, I do not need in my life, started with spam or stuff like this. https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/trai-chiefs-aadhar-dare-backfires-personal-details-put-online/article24544828.ece People should be aware of what can be done with the information they offer to companies like google or the governmet. 2 or 3 years ago I was at a science meeting and listened to a lecture of a team that analyzed a persons behavior for commercial use. They would simply ask you which type of toothpaste or perfume you would prefer out of a selection or which drink was your favorite and so on. After they asked you 100 questions they were suggesting products you might like. All they knew was your sex and the answers to these questions. The catch was that a woman got offered diapers and the father was furious about it. How could they offer her diapers as she was just 14 years old. But there was one minor thing he did not know of at that time. She actually was pregnant. I do not need companies or governments know me better than my girlfriend or my parents. And even if I give information away I try to ensure that they cannot be traced back to me. This is why I use TOR browser and do not link this to google, facebook or twitter at any times. Speaking of Clare, one commentor claimed that Clare Bronfman generously gave Allison Pimp Mack a BMW car as a gift. Now why would a female Grinch like Clare give an expensive foreign car to a mere TV actress, of all people? Could it be that the car was not a gift but instead a payment for services rendered to Clare? In the last couple of years two of Mack’s slaves in her stable of girls went on wilderness trips with Clare. Nicki Clyne (Mrs. Allison Mack) and Lauren Salzman both provided companionship to Clare on wilderness trips. Look at this picture of Clare resting her head on smiling Nicki’s shoulder. Clare’s expression looks like pure bliss. https://i0.wp.com/frankreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/clare-and-nickiu.jpg?resize=480%2C321&ssl=1 Don’t these two women look like love birds? Two healthy women enjoying all the wonders of nature together. All the wonders of nature. Hiking through the woods getting hot and sweaty together. Could it be possible that Clare’s gift to Allison is really a payment to the actress for her skills as a pimp? Could it be that Allison is a full service pimp who serves both male and female customers? Could it be that Allison and Nicki earned the car as payment for services rendered? Something for the US government to investigate. Shadowstate is pathetic says: You’re pathetic Shadowstate; have you ever gotten laid? I’m guessing not. Now fuck off, idiot. It’s easy enough to get laid. Just go by Allison Mack’s house. She’s willing to share bacteria and viruses with anyone who’s available. Just call 1-800 Easy Allison Apparently the restrictions imposed on this former A- list mostly television actress from a very hit, long running almost network show now defunct do not state she can’t have sex with people. Apparently she has been using sex to get others to reach out and do things for her that would be impossible in her current situation. The people she has sex with then meet with others our actress wishes to be contacted. Allison Mack http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2018/08/blind-items-revealed-5_4.html?m=1 This story seems suspicious to me–there are people obviously watching Mack’s house, and there isn’t a single photo of all of these people she’s supposedly having sex with and doing her bidding? We know a picture of her going outside to get a package is noteworthy and yet no one is publishing a picture of all of her alleged guests? I’ve seen a photo of her house. It’s a corner house in a typical suburban neighborhood. I doubt anyone is surveilling her house. Besides the US government does not even have the resources to control the US border. I doubt you ever got any in your life. I bet your hands are calloused all to hell, though. Now shut the fuck up, loser. Soooo... says: I take it Allison’s mother is back amongst us?? He probably keeps the photo of her house under his pillow to lull him to sleep. I doubt allie wacks mommy posts here, one perv is bad enough Swindler's Coin Alert says: No I have never been laid in my life. I could never get a real woman so my fantasy has always been Chloe Sullivan since I was 40. The actress that played her claimed I was stalking her on social media. So I hope she gets everything coming to her. IAs I am concerned she is the Alpha and Omega of NXIVM. What the hell did Keith Raniere have that I didn’t have??? HUH??? soccermom1245 says: Yeah, like the bliss of a praying mantis eyeing its prey. Some people suggest that Clare is rather mannish looking for a woman. I’ve seen Clare in person says: I’ve seen her in person and Clare looks feminine. She’s slender and rather slight, but definitely a woman’s body. Her facial features look larger in a photo than in real life. That may be why you had the impression that she looks mannish. But she’s actually very thin and rather delicate looking. You post this, pointing out how Raniere etc instilled fear in his followers, then criticize actresses (one in particular) for being too afraid to speak out, knowing full well they signed non disclosure agreements, and most likely have nothing to contribute to the sex cult investigation. Weak excuse says: for people who directly contributed, they need to directly acknowledge their contribution and speak out against Raniere. Mark Vicente and Sarah Edmonston both have spoken out clearly and vorciferously. Both have acknowledged that they realise what they did while involved in the organisation and on behalf of it was wrong, and actively shut down both of their locations. Kristin Kreuk, Mark Hildreth, etc. are pathetic scumbags unless they aren’t talking because they are witnesses. They were both heavily involved in the building of this organisation, yet publicly (so far) refuse to do anything whatsoever to contribute to taking it down. Many of us only attended intensives and fortunately escaped without further involvement. If I had recruited one single soul to that trainwreck, I would have no qualms whatsoever about publicly apologising to them. Keep up the pressure says: It would seem out of the thousands of people who did intensives, only a few in comparison became coaches and helped build the cult up. Did you or do you know any of the individuals you named and what they were or may of been involved with? John Tigue from Saratoga in Decline claimed the attendees of the Necker Island cult summit discussed money laundering including hiding money in the Caribbean. https://frankreport.com/2018/08/03/blast-from-the-past-john-tighe-reports-on-the-new-nxivm-board-named-in-necker-island-2010/ Also, Kristin Kreuk, Mark Hildreth, Mark Vicente and Sarah Edmondson’s husband Anthony Ames were named in Joesph O’Hara’s criminal lawsuit against NXIVM for assisting and/or profiting from NXIVM criminal activity. https://archive.org/stream/292927-ohara-v-raniere/292927-ohara-v-raniere_djvu.txt ‘She could have easily given him that money – without using a dead woman’s credit card illegally – but instead, she committed a federal crime’ – Just like Hills, lying even when she didn’t have to. Sounds psychotic. Or at least evil. “She who tells the most lies and has the most money – wins.” Worthy of cross stitching MexicanEspian says: Clare Bronfman will soon run totally out of business. I think she will someday end up walking out of jail to find out she is penniless. Clare really does look like that girl we all had in our class in elementary school is was just obsessed with horses. Usually they are named Sarah though. It seems as if all of the front line slaves are slowly but surely ageing out , is this why Rainere upped the ante by finding a way to force a younger generation of fuck toys. The younger the victim the more afraid they would be of their collateral getting out. They are also more susceptible to going along with requests by higher sashes paying attention to them. Let’s see what Arizona Mafia member Marc A. Has to say on dateline tonight. O’Hara’s list of NXIVM attorneys shows Bronfman money used to overwhelm Raniere enemies Kristin Kreuk interested in ‘Smallville’ animated revival – but don’t count on Allison Mack	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line957
__label__cc	0.662471	0.337529	Psychological first aid can significantly reduce long-term emotional damage if employees are exposed to a traumatic event, such as a distressing workplace accident or a terrorist attack. Karen Matovu, Head of mental health training for managers at Validium, lists the six essential steps to providing support after a traumatic incident. 1. Become knowledgeable about normal reactions to abnormal events Faced with shock and distress, many people panic. Because they feel frightened and threatened, their instinct is to want to escape quickly or fight their way through it. Others can become almost paralysed with fear and unable to think or do anything. It is important for those of us supporting employees in this state to understand that all these reactions are natural responses to unexpected, sudden and powerful experiences. By being aware of these different reactions, managers and colleagues are much more likely to stay calm and be in a position to help others without becoming overwhelmed by the intensity of their distress. 2. Empower, educate and encourage Often when helping distressed people, we think we know what they need. However, one of the most important things managers can do is to empower employees to think about what they need for themselves. In practice this requires empowering them to take a proactive approach to their own recovery. You can help by asking them what they most need to feel safe and secure again, and supporting them to meet this need for themselves. If they want someone they trust to collect them, encourage them to make the call themselves instead of doing this for them. It’s important to be compassionate, but in a way that gets them to start functioning again. 3. Remember the ABC of psychological first aid Just as there’s an ABC for physical first aid: there’s also an ABC for providing psychological first aid: Attend to Basic needs with Compassion. Psychological first aid is basically a series of helpful conversations that gently directs people to a position of stability, safety and calm. The most effective psychological first aid often comes from friends, family and colleagues who can use their familiarity with the distressed person to offer practical, non-intrusive support. We have a heightened alertness and a heightened memory for specific acts of kindness during stressful times. So if you can offer this immediate support it will be remembered. 4. Prepare managers and leaders Although professionally trained trauma management specialists can be swiftly deployed to deliver appropriate psychological support in the aftermath of an incident, it’s the immediate response of managers and leaders that has the biggest impact on the health of employees. Anyone in a position of authority needs to know how they will approach internal communication as well as external communication. There is a plethora of training workshops on handling the media during and after traumatic events, but what about communication to staff? Employees will be sensitive to the tone and words of the organisation at this time, so ensure that all communication is frequent, regular, factual, compassionate and action-focused. Otherwise social media communication will take over and become the authority voice. 5. Plan for the unexpected The very nature of traumatic events means they are bolts from the blue. No one could have anticipated them when they set off for work that morning. Even so, you can better manage the unexpected by developing a business continuity plan that not only looks at practical considerations — such as relocation of workspace and contacting next of kin — but also how best to meet the psychological needs of employees. The better prepared you are with training, information and practical resources, the more engaged and positive your staff will be during the recovery. 6. Create support networks Most people are resilient and will recover with the support of family, friends and the wider community. That’s why, as well as encouraging empowerment and education, any psychological first-aid strategy should also encourage people to connect with others for support. The more engaged and interconnected people are during a normal working day, the more likely they are to support each other after a crisis. Employers can help create support networks by facilitating group discussions on topics of interest or concern to employees. Validium is a provider of employee wellbeing, mental health and trauma management services. For more information visit their website at www.validium.com. Last reviewed 15 June 2017 Fire Emergency Procedures and Means of Escape This page covers Before the flood: minimising the risks Determining first-aid provision Flood defence schemes — good and bad Going off site High stakes: managing fire and emergency evacuation Evac chairs: safe purchase and use Meaning of “immediate vicinity” in fire safety Mould and damp from flooding Reassessing emergency lighting Testing contingency plans Croner-i is the trusted source of expert guidance and time-saving tools.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line969
__label__cc	0.683998	0.316002	Macworld/iWorld 2014: We Check Out The Swiss Army Knife Of iPhone Cases by Joe White The IN1 for Apple’s iPhone 5 and iPhone 5s combines a handful of useful tools inside of a single polycarbonate smartphone case. It’s a smart product that iPhone owners can pick up online now for just $44.95. Over at Macworld we got to take a closer look at the IN1. It really is the Swiss Army knife of iPhone cases, featuring a wide range of built-in tools which users can access quickly and easily. There’s a blue pen, a red pen, a Phillips screwdriver, a flat-head screwdriver, a nail file, tweezers, scissors, and a toothpick, all of which can slide in and out of the IN1. The case also protects your iPhone, featuring a polycarbonate shock-resistant outer shell and a scratch-resistant felt inside lining. Plus, because it’s TSA compliant, users can take their IN1 with them while travelling by airplane, too. Here’s our own Dom Esposito at Macworld taking a closer look at the product: If you can’t see the above video, please click this link. You can pick up an IN1 Case for your iPhone for $44.95, and multiple color options are available (case colors include black, white, and clear, and users can also customize the color of the case’s tools, too). See also: Square Prompts Customers To Upgrade To Its New, Thinner Card Reader For Free, Imo Messenger Goes 4.0 With New Design And Features Minus 3rd-Party Chat Support, and Macworld/iWorld 2014: Kickstart Glowdeck, A Wireless Companion For Your iPhone. Macworld/iWorld 2014: Check Out Ring, A Wearable Input Device For iOS AppAdvice Daily: Geek Out Like A Kid Thanks To The Papernomad And Ravensburger Puzzle	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line971
__label__wiki	0.743603	0.743603	The Bolter Osborne, Frances She was irresistible. She inspired fiction, fantasy, legend, and art. Some say she was "the Bolter" of Nancy Mitford's novel The Pursuit of Love. She "played" Iris Storm in Michael Arlen's celebrated novel about fashionable London's lost generation, The Green Hat , and Greta Garbo played her in A Woman of Affairs, the movie made from Arlen's book. She was painted by Orpen; photographed by Beaton; she was the model for Molyneaux's slinky wraparound dresses that became the look fo the age--the Jazz Age. Though not conventionally beautiful (she had a "shot-away chin"), Idina Sackville dazzled men and women alike, and made a habit of marrying whenever she fell in love--five husbands in all and lovers without number. Hers was the age of bolters, and Idina was the most celebrated of them all. Her father was the eighth Earl De La Warr. In a society that valued the antiquity of families and their money, hers was as old as a British family could be (eight hundred years earlier they had followed William the Conqueror from Normandy and been given enough land to live on forever . . . another ancestor, Lord De La Warr, rescued the starving Jamestown colonists in 1610, became governor of Virginia, and gave his name to the state of Delaware). Her mother's money came from "trade"; Idina's maternal grandfather had employed more men (85,000) than the British army and built one third of the world's railroads. Idina's first husband was a dazzling cavalry officer, one of the youngest, richest, and best-looking of the available bachelors, with "two million in cash." They had a seven-story pied-à-terre on Connaught Place overlooking Marble Arch and Hyde Park, as well as three estates in Scotland. Idina had everything in place for a magnificent life, until the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand caused the newlyweds' world--the world they'd assumed would last forever--to collapse in less than a year. Like Mitford's Bolter, young Idina Sackville left her husband and children. But in truth it was her husband who wrecked their marriage, making Idina more a boltee than a bolter. Soon she found a lover of her own--the first of many--and plunged into a Jazz Age haze of morphine. She became a full-blown flapper, driving about London in her Hispano-Suiza, and pusing the boundaries of behavior to the breaking point. British society amy have adored eccentrics whose differences celebrated the values they cherished, but it did not embrace those who upset the order of things. And in 1918, just after the Armistice was signed, Idina Sackville bolted from her life in England and, setting out with her second husband, headed for Mombasa, in search of new adventure. Frances Osborne deftly tells the tale of her great-grandmother using Idina's never-before-seen letters; the diaries of Idina's first husband, Euan Wallace; and stories from family members. Osborne follows Idina from the champagne breakfasts and thé dansants of lost-generation England to the foothills of Kenya's Aberdare moutnains and the wild abandon of her role in Kenya's disintegration postwar upper-class life. A parade of lovers, a murdered husband, chaos everywhere--as her madcap world of excess darkened and crumbled around her. Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009 Edition: 1st American ed Branch Call Number: 942.0856 OSBORNE Characteristics: xi, 300 p. : ill., geneal. table ; 25 cm Read more reviews of The Bolter at iDreamBooks.com patcarstensen Jan 18, 2018 To be rich enough at that time was certainly a different world. ladybugg Nov 26, 2015 Very interesting, and as Jazpur mentioned, written with sympathy and understanding one can have a little insight into why the bolter was a bolter. Another interesting book to read about Kenya and the Happy Valley society is The Temptress by Paul Spicer uncommonreader Sep 11, 2015 "The Bolter" was a horrible person, but the book is very readable. jazpur Nov 30, 2013 Idina Sackville, the Bolter, she of the 5 divorces and innumerable lovers, who scandalised polite society in the 20's and 30's both in the UK and Kenya was cut off from her family and never mentioned. Her great granddaughter did not even know of her existence until she was an adult. Her escapades have provided inspiration for writers for several generations.I first came across her in Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love.James Fox wrote White Mischief about the unsolved murder of erstwhile husband no3, The Earl of Erroll. Lauren Willig's more recent The Ashford Affair was the outcome of her reading Frances Osborne's The Bolter which tells the tragic story of her greatgrandmother's life with sympathy and understanding.Very well researched and accompanied by family photographs, her book is beyond sad; a generational history of loss and betrayal that gives a great insight into the events and upper class mores of late C19-mid C20. Sackville, Idina Women — England — Biography Women — Sexual Behavior — England — History — 20th Century Colonists — Kenya — Biography Women Colonists — Kenya — Biography	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line974
__label__cc	0.709272	0.290728	tv CNN Special Report Melania Trump The Making of a First Lady CNN March 11, 2017 11:00pm-12:01am PST antijoke vaginas. in hd too, horrifying the following is a cnn special report. ♪ her journey to the white house spanned two continents. >> i'm from slovenia and i grew up there as a teenager. >> melania trump, model turned wife of a billionaire, suddenly in the spotlight herself. >> i will fight to the end because i don't want to damage my reputation and my name. >> answering questions about her husband's past. >> he's an adult. he knows the consequences. >> and making promises about the future. >> i will be different than any other first ladies. i will help women. i will help children. ♪ >> tonight, a revealing look at first lady melania trump. she's more than a so-called first lady of fashion. she's a devoted mother who speaks six languages, and after watching her husband surged to the a stunning victory is now on her way to becoming a global icon. i'm randy kay and this is a cnn "special report: melania trump, the making of a first lady." ♪ >> the future first lady always turned heads. ♪ >> even when she was young, growing up in her home country slovenia. >> what is your maiden name? >> kanuss. >> k-a-n-u-s-s. >> oh. from slovenia. >> yes. >> she was born melania kanuss on april 26, 19 0. it was long before slovenia split from communist. her grew up under communist rule. >> her father was a member of the communist party which was an unusual thing. he sold cars. he bit the family a nice home outside of the central city. her mother was a pattern designer in a textile fax torrey. she worked hard as was common for women in eastern bloc countries. >> my sister who is an incredible woman and a friend and i were raised by my wonderful parents. my elegant and hard-working mother, amalia, introduced me to fashion and beauty. my father, victor, installed in me a passion for business and travel. their integrity, compassion and intelligence reflects to this day on me and for my love of family and america. >> friends in her hometown remember melania kanuss as sophisticated. she didn't drink or stay up late, nor did she like being the center of attention. >> one of her classmates recalled how she would get cat call it and boys would make sort of nasty, surly remarks at her. her friend would notice that melania would sort of pull up inside of herself and look ahead as if she didn't hear it. >> she immersed herself in her studies of design and architecture and she dreamed big. >> she also decided early on that -- that slovenia was too small for her, that she was determined to get out into the larger world, the bigger world. ♪ >> she was obviously a very pretty girl and was told that from the beginning, and therefore that kind of made modelling and fashion and style and all of the rest of it an obvious outlet. >> melania kanuss put college on hold by the time she was 20 to pursue modelling jobs in milan and paris. she got commercial work playing, of all things, what appears to be the first female president of the united states in this 1993 ad. ♪ >> paulo zampoli saw her and was so impressed he suggested she move to new york city to model for his agency. >> i told her, melania, would you like to try the american market? >> and she said? >> yes, she was very interested and a few months later she came to the states. >> at the time she was 24, able to speak six languages including italian, french and german, but immediately felt like new york was home. >> just the energy of new york, the opportunities, different world, different culture. it really attracted me. ♪ >> how would you describe her style and her beauty? >> she has a very strong sense of style, and this has been her life since she was a child, fashion and fashion magazines and modelling. she has a sure sense of style and she has a beautiful body. >> then in september 1998 at 28, two years after the future first lady arrived in new york city, came a chance meeting that would change her life forever. >> we met at the fashion party. it was a big fashion party that my friend organized, fashion week, and he invited me. that's how we met with donald. >> donald, as in donald j. trump. she met her future husband and the man who would become the nation's 45th president at a party at manhattan's famous kit cat club. >> i was supposed to meet somebody else, and there was this great supermodel sitting next to melania and i was supposed to meet the supermodel. they said look, there's so and so. i said, forget about her, who's the one on the left and it was melania. >> paolo zampolli hosted the party and introduced them. she told him that she thought the businessman had sparkle. >> how did they act when they met? >> i saw there was some kind of chemistry. >> he asked me for the number and i said, i will not give you my number. so if you give me your numbers i will -- i will call you, and he was known as kind of a ladies man. ♪ >> melania kanuss waited a week to called donald trump, later telling "gq" magazine i was not star struck and maybe he noticed that. >> we went on a date and we had a great time. we went to a place in new york downtown. >> at the time they met, donald trump was 52, melania kanuss just 28. but even with more than two decades between them, the romance grew until 2000. that year donald trump considered running for president on the reform party ticket, and the couple broke up briefly. >> i don't want to change him. i don't want, you know, to say come home and, you know, be with me. i don't want to change him. i want to give him space, and i think that's very important in the relationship. >> coming up, how the couple got back together. and the slovenia model becomes a manhattan mom. >> barron and i, we give each other a lot of kisses, a lot of hugs, a lot of love, and i think that's the most important for me and for him also. ♪ ♪ despite her successful modelling career, melania kanuss never craved the spotlight outside of that. >> melania trump could have been happy retiring from the fashion world and raising a family and keeping a home and never appearing in the press. >> after a brief breakup, she and donald trump got back together, and from that point on there was no escaping the public eye. >> melania! >> how much would you say their relationship raised her profile? >> oh, i think very few people would have known much at all about then melania kanuss but for donald trump. she was not a person that would be on page six of the "new york post" prior to this relationship. she would never have been on howard stern. this is not her world. >> suddenly she was christening a crews ship and appearing in the "sports illustrated" swimsuit edition. >> it is the an important edition, once a year and important to be in. >> there were appearances on trump's hit reality show, "the apprentice." >> and, yes, on howard stern's radio show. >> are you in love with trump? >> yes, we have a great time. >> you want to marry him? >> i'm not answering that. >> she did answer that on april 26th, 2004, nearly six years after donald trump first laid eyes on melania kanuss he proposed with a 15 karat, $1.5 million diamond engagement ring. the future mrs. trump telling the "new york post," it was a great surprise. we are very happy together. ♪ >> the couple wed january 22nd, 2005. >> i think of their wedding as almost a broadway production. >> hundreds attended the star-studded reception at trump's mar-a-la mar-a-lago country club in florida. champagne was served along with a 157 pound wedding cake. >> there was a moment donald wanted to sell the broadcasts to the wedding and melania put her foot down at that. >> the new mrs. trump wore a custom made dior gown from france adorned with 1500 crystals. estimated cost, 100,000 to $200,000. "vogue" featured her on the cover. after the wedding the trump's settled in at their three-story manhattan penthouse overlooking fifth avenue. they granted larry king their first post-wedding interview on cnn. >> you use the name trump? >> i use the name trump. >> because you're proud of it? >> i'm proud of it, yes, i am. >> and that name brought opportunity. the chief executive for aflac personally chose melania trump to tar in this ad saying she is the bride of the year. >> aflac! >> then came the inevitable questions about motherhood. >> do you want to parent, do you want to be a mother? >> yes, we want to have a family. we want to have a baby together. >> she will be an amazing mother, i have no doubt about that. she will be an amazing mother. >> on march 20th, 2006 the couple welcomed their son, barron william trump. his birth made headlines around the world. he was featured on "extra." >> hello, "extra." >> which got a tour of his nursery and a glimpse of the gold baby carriage. there was a photo spread in "people" magazine which revealed the newest trump heir had his own floor in the penthouse. melania trump makes it clear she will be heavily involved in raising her son. >> i'm raising him and i just want to raise him the right way. i don't want nanny raising him. >> she deserves enormous credit for sheltering her son from the maelstrom that is trump world. she sheltered him and allowed him to just be a kid and that's a pretty great thing. >> just month's after barron was born she got her united states citizenship. >> i obeyed the law. i did it the right way. i didn't just sneak in and stay here. >> as barron grew, motherhood remained her top priority. >> say hi, larry. >> hi. i like, i like my suitcase. i have to go to school now. >> yeah, you will have a lunch and then you go to school. >> now i'm going to go. >> yes. first you will have lunch and then you go to school. >> is he a little donald? >> he is. he's bossing everybody around the house. >> has he fired anybody yet? >> he did. yes, actually he did. he's firing the housekeeper, the nanny many times. >> melania trump taught barron her native slovenian language and until the campaign always picked barron up from school. >> and it is unconditional love and i enjoy every day. i love being a mom. a very special time because sooner or later he will have wings to fly, and i will be always there for him, but he will be very independent and ready to go. >> mommy, can i bring this to school? >> no. >> she was a very hands-on mother. this is the wife of a famous billionaire and not every mother at the school was as involved as she was. >> mrs. trump found time for personal projects too, launching a skin caroline made with kaf i can't remember -- caviar and her own jewelry line on qvc. despite their hectic schedules, she remains a devoted wife and mother in a loving relationship. >> we are very strong. we are two independent people thinking on their own and have a very open conversation. i think that's very healthy for the relationship. >> i see in donald this surprising, almost tender quality toward melania. when we were meeting he said to her, well, tell him what a great husband i am, babe. >> he used the word "babe?" >> he used the word babe. she looked at him and kind of laughed and resisted, and i think she was tormenting him a little bit for fun, and i think this is something president trump needs in his life. he needs someone who can be playful, who can challenge him a little bit, who might not be frightened of him. i don't think melania is a bit afraid of him. >> coming up, donald trump announces he's running for president, and melania trump faces new challenges and controversy. >> i will fight until the end because i don't want that they damage my reputation and my name. ♪ ♪ the new york billionaire and his model wife and the trump tower escalator ride that is now part of history. >> ladies and gentlemen, i am he officially running for president of the united states, and we are going to make our country great again. >> june 2015, republican donald trump enters the presidential race, a decision his wife melania trump says they made as a family. >> i gave him my support and i said to him, you know, you cannot just talk. you need to go and run. >> do you think she wanted him to run for president? >> she said, look, you have to do what you think is right for the country can railway, but she definitely expressed her trepidation with the decision when he first came to her with the idea. >> her husband's idea landed melania trump smack in the middle of one of the ugliest presidential campaigns in history. >> would you describe her, would you consider her a reluctant campaigner? >> oh, i think she was a reluctant campaigner. i don thi i don't think she relishes public speaking, i don't think she wants to be caught in the controversy. >> like the backlash from her prime time address at the republican national convention. >> i'm so proud of your choice for president of the united states, my husband, donald j. trump. >> there was a bit of her speech that very clearly was boroughro from a speech that michelle obama gave earlier. >> you work hard for what you want in life. >> you work hard for what you want in life. >> that your word is your bond. >> that your word is your bond. >> pass them on to the next generation. >> pass those lessons on to the many generations to follow. >> it is a big deal to plaigarize on a world stage at a national convention where her husband is receiving the national nomination. to have it botched in such a major way was really devastating. >> within days an in-house writer for the trump organization took the blame saying passages melania told her she liked from michelle obama's speech made its way into the final draft. the writer called it a mistake. >> people make mistakes, she made a mistake. we all make mistakes. >> did the campaign fail melania trump to some extent? >> she should have been given a lot of help, a lot of really good attention before that speech was finished and delivered. it was obvious that no one vetted it in the way that it should have been reviewed. >> about the same time questions surfaced about mrs. trump's path to citizenship after the new york city post published nude photos of her, the photos appeared to be taken in 1995, though she had always said she came to the u.s. as a slovenian immigrant the following year. >> i came to united states, to new york in 1996. >> the issue was whether or not the visa she had when she first came over to work as a model allowed her to work or simply to visit. >> i followed the law. i follow a law the way it is supposed to be. i never thought to stay here without papers. i had visa. >> mrs. trump came with a visa and i recall i signed the visa, and that was sometime in '96. >> so you helped arrange and secure the h1b visa? >> yes, as a model agent i arranged the visa. >> to be clear, the she ever work in the u.s. illegally? >> not to my recollection. >> mrs. trump took to twitter writing, i have at all times be in full compliance with the immigration laws of this country, period. any allegation to the contrary is simply untrue. >> was that a great introduction? >> then candidate donald trump promised to provide proof at a press conference at a later date. >> oh, and by the way they said my wife melania might have come in illegally. can you believe that one? no, no, no. they said, headlines, maybe she came in illegally, maybe. let me tell you one thing, she has got it so documented. >> are you still waiting for that press conference? >> i think everyone is still waiting. i think no one will be surprised if that press conference will never come. >> we love you, new hampshire. we together, we will make america great again. >> i think there is an issue with her immigration history, and there is a doubt. it may never be resolved. >> made questions about melania trump's college degree and whether or not she earned one. >> once people started calling attention to it, her website was scrubbed and with the reference to her being a college graduate was removed. >> they all said i won. did i win? >> and there was also this, an anti-trump super pac ad aimed at mormon voters put out before the caucuses. the group used an old nude photo with the caption, meet melania trump, your next first lady, or you can support ted cruz on tuesday day. senator cruz denied having anything to do with it. donald trump hit back tweeting, lying ted cruz used a picture of melania from a gq shoot in his ad. be careful, lying ted, or i will spill the beans on your wife. the issue injected melania's modelling career into the campaign, something she didn't shy away from. >> i think people will always judge i was a successful model. yes, i did foet shoots that were a little risque, but nothing you don't see in swimsuit issues. >> took that picture and others for the january issue of british "fwrks q" magazine. >> it was an idea to have a beautiful genuine girl like her, and i thought that, you know, the fact we could use a jet and have her play that role, it was just too perfect. we were trying to portray a beautiful, sexy woman. >> i'm proud i did those pictures. i'm not ashamed of my body. >> melania keeps being reminded why she didn't want to do this. i don't envy the position she has been in and she didn't ask for it. >> coming up. >> whoa. >> the tape. >> when you're a star they let you do it. >> anything. >> you can do anything you want, grab them by the -- >> and the question, how would melania trump respond. ♪ if you elect him to be your president, he will fight four and for our country. >> on the campaign trail, melania trump was more often seen than heard, but when she spoke she never wavered in her public support. >> he has a great heart. he's tough, he's smart. >> even early on when then-candidate donald trump referred to mexican immigrants as rapists and drug dealers, she had his back. >> he's not racist, he's not anti-immigrant. he wants to keep america safe. >> and when he announced his plan to temporarily ban muslims from entering the u.s. -- >> we need to screen who is coming to the country. he wants to protect america. >> would you say as far as the campaign goes she helped or hurt her husband's campaign? >> i think that ultimately melania trump helped her husband win the presidency. she made a few key appearances in places where people were very receptive to her, and i think she added a touch the of glamour and also affirmed him in a way that only she could. >> including when he needed it most. >> i'm automatically attracted to beautiful -- i just start kissing them. it's like a magnet. i don't even wait. >> on october 7th, 2016 just weeks before election day, the trump campaign in crisis mode. a recording of the candidate on ""access hollywood"" 11 years ago was released. on it donald trump is heard bragging about not only kissing women but grabbing women's genitals, all without consent. >> and when you're a star they'll let you do it. you can do anything you want. grab them by the -- you can do anything. >> this was a campaign full of bombshells and full of moments where everyone's head was spinning and the internet was falling off its axis. this was a moment where truly the world stopped and everyone said, it is over, the campaign is over. ♪ >> the world waited and wondered just how melania trump would respond. she issued a short statement the next day calling her husband's words unacceptable and offensive, but also said he has the heart and mind of a leader. ten days after the tapes came out, she broke her silence on national television. >> i was surprised because that is not the man that i know, and he was lead on, like egg on from the host to say dirty and bad stuff. he apologized. i accept his apology. i hope the american people will accept as well. that's not sexual assault. he didn't say he did it. >> she did what she had to do. she defended him. it was a critical moment in the campaign. >> she steadied herself and then she went forward and spoke for him. i think that made a huge difference, especially with white women voting for donald trump. i think they thought to themselves, well, this woman is no pushover. >> and at a debate just days after that tape was released, mrs. trump raised eyebrows by wearing a hot pink gucci blouse with a so-called pus bow. it set off a frenzy after her husband's comments. >> do you think it was a smart move? >> i think it was a move true to herself. it was very fashion. it was a little bit cunning. >> what do you make of that blouse at that moment? commentators and talking heads throwing their heads in the air and saying, oh, my god, melania is secretly sub versive. she is making a comment on her husband, she is not on board and she is mad at him. i'm not entirely sure it is true. i think she probably thought it was pretty blouse, it was appropriate, it was high necked, it was feminine. my guess is that's about as far as it went. >> the same month the campaign was pushing back against allegations by dozens of women that donald trump had kissed them or groped them without consent. some of their stories date back 30 years. mr. trump denied all of it. >> i believe my husband. i believe my husband. this was all organized from the opposition. >> look at her, look at her words. you tell me -- >> and when her husband turned the tables on the accusers, mocking some of them publicly, his wife stood by him. >> he treats everyone equally, so if you're a woman and he attacks, they attack him, he will attack back no matter who you are. we are all human and he treats them equal as men. >> one accuser was a "people" magazine writer who had profiled the couple in 2005. she claimed that donald trump forcibly kissed her at their palm beach home while a very pregnant melania trump was in another room. the "people" magazine writer said she ran into mrs. trump on fifth avenue months after the incident, and she said melania trump asked her why she hasn't seen her around recently. >> that is the portion of the story that melania chose to take issue with. >> mrs. trump's lawyer sent a letter to "people" magazine demanding a retraction, saying that meeting on fifth avenue never happened. >> i was never friend with her. i would not recognize her. i would not recognize her on the street or ask her why we don't see her anymore. so that was another thing, like, you know, people cut out saying lies and not true stuff. ♪ >> she briefly retreated from the campaign trail, but then melania trump came out strong in the final days to make her closing argument on behalf of her husband. >> he knows how to make real change. make america great again is not just some slogan. it is what has been in his heart since the day i met him. >> it was a moment where everyone stepped back and said, why hasn't she been doing this more often. she is magnetic. she is magnanimous and she is really a force here and such a good image for the trump campaign to project. >> and god bless this beautiful country! >> and on election night when donald j. trump wins the white house, melania trump makes history, too, as our next first lady. >> all of a sudden she's gone from being the wife of a celebrity tv show host to the wife of the president of the united states. ♪ >> coming up, as her husband prepares to move to the white house, all eyes as usual are on melania trump. closed captioning brought to you by -- ♪ melania, what are you wearing? >> you look beautiful. >> thank you. >> it is a question melania trump has been asked over and over. >> i'm wearing cavali. >> and it is always a different answer. it is no wonder style watchers are already calling melania trump the first lady of fashion. >> melania trump tends to wear already well-established designers. >> big brands, definitely. i think brands that are labels of achievement and aspiration, the kind of things you wear when you want to show you have arrived. >> on her wedding day back in 2005, melania trump wore this christian dior gown. >> it was full on marie antoinette, 13-foot train, 1500 crystals. found when she went to paris. >> she mainly favors european brands but mixes in american labels like ralph lauren, too and she often shops on line. >> melania trump seems to be charting her own path in terms of style. how unique is that? >> it is pretty unique, but also a reflection of her conflict with the american fashion industry when a number of designers stood up and said i'm not going to dress with mrs. trump, work with her on her clothing. one of the funniest moments was derek lamb was one of the designers and he said he wouldn't actively work with the administration. she wore one of his sweaters to watch the super bowl in palm beach because she could buy it. >> her first magazine cover as first lady, ""vanity fair" mexico," a photo featured in "gq" the year before. the klosglossy cover captures h twirling a string of diamond. it refers to her as the new jackie kennedy, a comparison that has been made before. >> i see they compare me to jackie kennedy, of course it is an honor. but we are in 21st century and i would be different. she had the great style and she did a lot of good stuff, but this is different time now. >> during a photo shoot for "harper's bazaar," melania trump called mrs. kennedy's style elegant, simple and feminine. she may have been trying to emulate that with this ralph lauren powder blue skirt suit on inauguration day. >> it certainly looked a lot like the outfit mrs. kennedy wore on inauguration day. her hair was kind of like mrs. kennedy. she had gloves and matching pumps. >> it was a knockout. i couldn't walk down pennsylvania avenue in those stilettos however. >> she is developing what you might call a signature style. it is very simple, classic lines. what she wears does not distract from her. and so one always is focused on her face and her hair. >> how do you put up with -- >> she likes bright colors. she likes very simple clothing. you know, often sheath dresses. generally now sort of round necked and fairly covered, and it is actually not very trump-ian or what we think of being very trump-ian. it doesn't match the versailles look of the apartment for example. >> on election day she wore a simple sleeveless michael kors with a coat draped over her. >> it is the jacket or the coat slung over her shoulders, not actually with the arms through. it is a very new york look, very cool, very collected. >> on election night she wore this $4,000 ralph lauren one-sleeve pants suit. on new year's eve it was a dolce and gabanna dress. at one ball it was this dress she helped design. >> can the american woman relate to her? >> i don't think the promise of the trump administration is about being every woman. she really hold themselves up as aspiration, as something that everybody should want. you know, melania is that trophy. >> an amazing mother, an incredible woman, melania trump. >> for her speech at the republican national convention, she stepped out in this pricey cotton silk dress. a few nights later, this white fendi dress with hand embroidered mink and crystal detail she reportedly bought online. for mrs. trump, observers say, there have been a few fashion missteps. >> i think what we're seeing is her undergoing a crash course in first lady 101. the derek lamb sweater when photographed was slightly sheer. you know, that's a little racy for a first lady and probably wasn't intentional. >> and that dress the first lady wore on red heart day? >> they hadn't thought through what it might say she was wearing, you know, which is a french brand in her first public appearance since her husband had stood on the steps of the capital and said my first rule is buy american. >> despite it all, to some her style exhibits strength and independence. >> melania trump is to my imagination emerging as the mona lisa of the first ladies, because it is by her appearance and her posture that she seems to signal a strong impression. it is a centered quality. it is an independent quality. >> an independent quality that adds to the mystery of melania trump. >> i see in some ways the same expression on her face that at every moment. i know that she is hiding from us, and to some degree i feel great empathy for her because it would be hard to be the one who's the subject of so much attention and who knows that everyone is trying to figure out what's going on inside of you when all you really want is to be a private person. >> coming up, first lady melania trump takes manhattan -- ♪ e nimble, jack be quick, jack knocked over a candlestick onto the shag carpeting... ...and his pants ignited into flames, causing him to stop, drop and roll. luckily jack recently had geico help him with renters insurance. because all his belongings went up in flames. jack got full replacement and now has new pants he ordered from banana republic. visit geico.com and see how affordable renters insurance can be. that's how i feel about blue-emu pain relief spray. odorless and fast-acting. it soothes all my muscle aches and pains. and it's convenient for those hard to reach places. and if you're like me, you'll love blue-emu super strength cream. it's made with real emu oil, it's non greasy, it's a deep penetrating formula that works itself down into your joints. take it from me. it works fast and you won't stink. blue-emu, it works for me it'll work for you. be the you who doesn't cover your moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. be the you who shows up in that dress. who hugs a friend. who is done with treatments that don't give you clearer skin. be the you who controls your psoriasis with stelara® just 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections and cancer. some serious infections require hospitalization. before treatment, get tested for tuberculosis. before starting stelara® tell your doctor if you think you have an infection or have symptoms such as: fever, sweats, chills, muscle aches or cough. always tell your doctor if you have any signs of infection, have had cancer, if you develop any new skin growths or if anyone in your house needs or has recently received a vaccine. alert your doctor of new or worsening problems, including headaches, seizures, confusion and vision problems these may be signs of a rare, potentially fatal brain condition. some serious allergic reactions can occur. do not take stelara® if you are allergic to stelara® or any of its ingredients. most people using stelara® saw 75% clearer skin and the majority were rated as cleared or minimal at 12 weeks. be the you who talks to your dermatologist about stelara®. ♪ i donald john trump do solemnly swear. >> that i will -- >> january 20th, 2017, donald j. trump is inaugurated as president of the united states. at his side, his wife and former slovenian model, melania trump. >> she is only the second foreign-born first lady. is that a big deal? >> i think it is a big deal because it's only occurred twice in over 200 years, and the first time it happened was with a woman who was born in england. so she spoke english, and who had an american father. that's very different with melania trump. >> most first ladies who come into office have been senator's wife or a governor's wife or some kind of political spouse before. melania was the wife of a new york flashy billionaire. >> still, inauguration weekend the new first lady dazzled crowds. >> i'm honored to be your lady. >> but soon after attending church at the national cathedral, she swiftly returned to new york city with her son. she and barron trump would not be moving into the white house, at least not right away. for 12 days after the inauguration, the first lady is nowhere to be seen. then she re-emerges, greeting her husband in palm beach, florida as he disembarked from air force one. that weekend they attended the red cross ball. but when the prime minister of japan and his wife visited the white house, melania trump was absent. >> she wasn't really engaged with mrs. abe, and so she went around washington on her own. this is a really significant breach of protocol. >> when asked about this, the white house explained that melania trump wanted to greet mrs. abe but that mrs. abe had already made commitments. melania trump later flew with the president and the abes to florida, spent the weekend at mar-a-lago and did some sight seeing together. a few days later, mrs. trump returned to the white house for the first time in nearly two weeks to greet the israeli prime minister and his wife. >> how important is it that the first lady be by the president's side? >> the first lady can be tremendously important and play a really important role for the rest of us by reaching her husband, whom she knows better than anybody, and telling him what is really going on in the land because her security bubble is somewhat, somewhat less than his, and she can be a real truth-teller. >> a sign mrs. trump will spend more time at the white house eventually, the hiring of staff for the east wing, a social secretary and a chief of staff. >> i think that melania is going to be outstanding. that's right, she just opened up the visitor center, in other words touring of the white house. >> as first lady, she has promised to focus on cyber bullying and children and what else remains to be seen. >> it is never okay when a 12-year-old girl or boy is mocked, bullied or attacked. it is terrible when that happens on the playground and it is absolutely unacceptable when it is done by someone with no name hiding on the internet. >> there is a little bit of irony there considering her husband has been known to be quite a cyber bullier himself, but it is an issue that resonates with many moms and parents and children across the country. >> at a recent thank you rally in melbourne, florida, mrs. trump appeared to be playing a bigger role, reciting the lord's prayer. >> let us pray. our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. >> and introducing her husband after her own remarks. >> i will always stay true to myself and be truthful to you, no matter what the opposition is saying about me. [cheers]. >> how do you see her as first lady? >> i really don't expect melania trump to become a prominent figure in the way that roslyn carter or nancy reagan or the bush women or michelle obama were. it is just not in her i think to be that engaged with the american public. >> it is a great responsibility, and probably a very terrifying one as well. so i think maybe let's give her time to settle in and adjust. >> it is a daily grind and with a total loss of privacy, but with enormous benefits. the first thing you see in the morning is the washington monument, your mode of transport is air force one, and every time you walk into a room they play "hail to the chief." the rewards are enormous, but you have to make sacrifices for that role, too. you have to do your part. you have to prove yourself worthy of this great traditional historic role. >> the first lady of the united states. >> when melania trump moves into the white house this year, she will be 47 years old and the 47th first lady. [ applause ] ♪ government refuses to allow the turkey dutch minister to hold a rally. donald trump fires a high-profile u.s. attorney while the vice-president works to unite republicans on health care. will he? clouds continue to gather on the streets of seoul, south korea, two days after the removal of the president. these stories all ahead on "cnn newsroom." i'm natalie allen. i'm going to welcome our viewers here in the united states and all around the world to "cnn <div class="tv-ttl">CNN Special Report Melania Trump The Making of a First Lady<div>CNN March 11, 2017 11:00pm-12:01am PST</div></div> A look at the life of First Lady Melania Trump. Friends and longtime Trump watchers give insight into her upbringing in Slovenia, her relationship with Donald Trump and how she may shape the office of the First Lady. Donald Trump 16, Mrs. Trump 10, Melania Kanuss 6, Slovenia 6, Barron 6, Jack 4, New York 4, Manhattan 4, Donald J. 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__label__wiki	0.812194	0.812194	Wii sales top 30 million in U.S. Andrew Munchbach In a short but sweet press release, Nintendo announced that sales of its Wii gaming console have topped 30 million units in the United States. The feat took only 45 months to accomplish which Nintendo claims makes it the fastest selling console ever. USA Today writes, “More than 73 million Wiis have been scooped up worldwide, which puts the console on pace to becoming the best-selling video game device ever. That title is held by Sony’s PlayStation 2, which has notched about 140 million in sales.” Not bad Nintendo, not bad at all. Tags: console, Gaming, Nintendo, Poll, Sales, U.S., vote, Wii Only A Couple Left Black Friday’s secret Sonos speaker deals are back for Prime Day, and 2 new deals are available The best-selling Wi-Fi range extender on Amazon’s whole site is just $12 for Prime Day By Jacob Siegal 1 day ago	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line981
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https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Earl De Mateo2016-12-01 12:11:382017-03-23 16:39:18Ian Billings Rap Artist, Author, Poet KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5 Poetry Funny, Multicultural, Rap Music Breis https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Breis.jpg 378 316 Mark Pedrasa https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Pedrasa2018-11-29 15:51:292018-11-30 19:01:33Breis Poet, Trainer EYFS, Foundation, Reception, KS1, KS2, Adult Poetry Funny, Fantasy & Sci-fi https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/James-Carter-1.jpg 378 316 authorsaloud https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png authorsaloud2016-11-09 10:41:352019-04-04 17:49:38James Carter Poet, Trainer KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5, Adult Poetry Bullying / Self-esteem / Gender, Real Life / Family / Friendship / School John Irving Clarke https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/john_clarke.jpg 378 316 Mark Earl De Mateo https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Earl De Mateo2016-12-09 11:40:152017-03-23 15:17:41John Irving Clarke Author, Poet EYFS, Foundation, Reception, KS1, KS2 Fiction, Poetry, Graphic novels Funny, Animals https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Jane-Clarke-1.jpg 378 316 authorsaloud https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png authorsaloud2016-11-09 10:42:032018-10-25 11:55:09Jane Clarke Poet KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4 Fiction, Poetry Reluctant Readers, Inspiring books for boys, Funny, Historical, Bullying / Self-esteem / Gender, Sport, Real Life / Family / Friendship / School, Dyslexia Justin Coe https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Justin.jpg 378 316 Mark Earl De Mateo https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Earl De Mateo2017-01-19 10:32:592019-04-04 11:01:47Justin Coe Author, Poet EYFS, Foundation, Reception, KS1, KS2 Poetry Multicultural, Bullying / Self-esteem / Gender, Real Life / Family / Friendship / School Joseph Coelho https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/joseph-coelho.png 378 316 Mark Pedrasa https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Pedrasa2018-03-14 13:45:392018-12-19 17:29:04Joseph Coelho Author, Storyteller Reception, KS1, KS2 Fiction, Poetry Chris Connaughton https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Chris-Connaughton-1.jpg 378 316 authorsaloud https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png authorsaloud2016-11-09 10:42:462019-04-04 17:48:41Chris Connaughton Poet Reception, KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4, Adult Poetry Funny, Sport, Real Life / Family / Friendship / School Paul Cookson https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Cookson.jpg 378 316 Mark Earl De Mateo https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Earl De Mateo2016-12-09 11:46:312018-10-25 12:03:39Paul Cookson Author, Poet EYFS, Foundation, Reception, KS1, KS2, KS3 Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Picture Books and Illustrated Books Reluctant Readers, Inspiring books for boys, Funny, Folk, Fairy & Traditional Tales / Myths, Fantasy & Sci-fi John Dougherty https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/John-Dougherty_res.jpg 378 316 authorsaloud https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png authorsaloud2016-11-09 11:49:002018-10-25 12:22:13John Dougherty Author, Poet EYFS, Foundation, Reception, KS1, KS2 Fiction, Poetry Reluctant Readers, Inspiring books for boys, Funny, Thrillers / Adventure, Mystery, Folk, Fairy & Traditional Tales / Myths, Sport, Real Life / Family / Friendship / School Alan Durant https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Alan-Durant.jpg 378 316 authorsaloud https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png authorsaloud2016-11-09 11:49:542018-10-25 12:23:56Alan Durant Author KS2, KS3 Fiction, Poetry Historical, Bullying / Self-esteem / Gender, Inspiring books for girls, Real Life / Family / Friendship / School, Dyslexia Jane Elson https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Elson.jpg 378 316 Mark Earl De Mateo https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Earl De Mateo2016-12-02 15:47:392019-04-04 17:27:18Jane Elson Poet Reception, KS1, KS2 Poetry Funny John Foster https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/John-Foster.jpg 378 316 Mark Earl De Mateo https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Earl De Mateo2016-12-09 11:57:352018-04-02 17:18:45John Foster Poet KS1, KS2, KS3 Poetry Funny, Animals Chrissie Gittins https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Chrissie-1.jpg 640 427 Mark Earl De Mateo https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Earl De Mateo2016-12-09 12:02:032019-04-04 11:07:50Chrissie Gittins Matt Goodfellow https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Goodfellow.jpg 378 316 Mark Earl De Mateo https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Earl De Mateo2016-12-09 12:05:262019-03-02 10:38:02Matt Goodfellow Poet KS1, KS2, Adult Poetry Inspiring books for boys, Funny, Real Life / Family / Friendship / School, Scriptwriting Stewart Henderson https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Stewart_Henderson.jpg 378 316 Mark Earl De Mateo https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Earl De Mateo2016-12-09 12:17:482019-04-04 18:09:00Stewart Henderson Author KS2 Fiction, Poetry Funny, Gothic / Witchcraft / Ghosts / Horror, Detective / Spy, Mystery, Fantasy & Sci-fi Christopher William Hill https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Hill.jpg 378 316 Mark Earl De Mateo https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Earl De Mateo2016-12-05 14:21:092018-01-31 18:40:41Christopher William Hill Author KS2, KS3, KS4 Fiction, Poetry Fantasy & Sci-fi Nigel Hinton https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Hinton.jpg 378 316 Mark Earl De Mateo https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Earl De Mateo2016-12-05 14:30:312018-03-26 10:28:33Nigel Hinton Poet KS2 Poetry Dr Mike Johnson https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Mike-Johnson.jpg 378 316 Mark Earl De Mateo https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Earl De Mateo2016-12-09 12:24:372019-04-04 11:07:06Dr Mike Johnson Author EYFS, Foundation, Reception, KS1, KS2 Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry Animals Anita Loughrey https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Anita-Loughrey.jpg 378 316 authorsaloud https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png authorsaloud2016-11-09 12:31:342018-10-26 10:59:08Anita Loughrey Author, Poet EYFS, Foundation, Reception, KS1, KS2 Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Picture Books and Illustrated Books Funny, Historical, Bullying / Self-esteem / Gender, World War One Michaela Morgan https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/michaela18-1.jpg 378 316 Mark Earl De Mateo https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Earl De Mateo2017-11-20 14:06:142019-03-19 10:41:43Michaela Morgan Author KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5 Fiction, Poetry Inspiring books for boys, Thrillers / Adventure, Bullying / Self-esteem / Gender, Real Life / Family / Friendship / School Andy Mulligan https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Mulligan.jpg 378 316 Mark Earl De Mateo https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Earl De Mateo2016-12-06 12:28:252019-04-04 11:57:20Andy Mulligan Poet KS3, KS4, KS5, Adult Poetry Brian Patten https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Brian-Patten.jpg 378 316 Mark Earl De Mateo https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Earl De Mateo2016-12-09 12:29:572019-04-04 11:06:44Brian Patten Poet EYFS, Foundation, Reception, KS1, KS2, KS3, Special Needs Poetry Funny, Folk, Fairy & Traditional Tales / Myths, Fantasy & Sci-fi, Bullying / Self-esteem / Gender https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/John-Rice.jpg 378 316 Mark Earl De Mateo https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Earl De Mateo2016-12-09 12:41:232019-03-12 12:30:40John Rice Poet KS2, KS3, Special Needs Poetry, Picture Books and Illustrated Books Animals, Real Life / Family / Friendship / School Rachel Rooney https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Rachel-Rooney.jpg 378 316 Mark Earl De Mateo https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Earl De Mateo2016-12-09 13:36:202018-01-18 12:59:38Rachel Rooney Author, Storyteller, Poet KS1, KS2, KS3 Fiction, Poetry Bullying / Self-esteem / Gender Miles Salter https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Salter.jpg 378 316 Mark Earl De Mateo https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Earl De Mateo2016-12-09 15:20:232017-03-24 14:44:12Miles Salter Author, Poet Reception, KS1, KS2, KS3 Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry Reluctant Readers, Inspiring books for boys, Funny, Detective / Spy, Bullying / Self-esteem / Gender, Animals, Real Life / Family / Friendship / School Andy Seed https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Seed.jpg 378 316 Mark Earl De Mateo https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Earl De Mateo2016-12-07 13:18:482018-07-12 11:53:23Andy Seed Poet EYFS, Foundation, Reception, KS1, KS2 Poetry Reluctant Readers, Inspiring books for boys, Funny Joshua Seigal https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Joshua-Seigal.jpg 378 316 Mark Earl De Mateo https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Earl De Mateo2016-12-09 13:40:432018-10-27 10:47:57Joshua Seigal Author KS2, KS3, KS4 Fiction, Poetry Inspiring books for boys, Funny, Mystery, Multicultural, Bullying / Self-esteem / Gender, Animals, Real Life / Family / Friendship / School Nikki Sheehan https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Nikki_Sheehan_res.jpg 378 316 Mark Earl De Mateo https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Earl De Mateo2016-12-08 17:09:492018-03-24 12:33:01Nikki Sheehan Author, Poet KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5, Adult Fiction, Poetry Inspiring books for boys, Thrillers / Adventure, Multicultural, Refugees Steve Tasane https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Tasane.jpg 378 316 Mark Earl De Mateo https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Earl De Mateo2016-12-08 17:22:072019-04-04 11:18:15Steve Tasane Author, Storyteller, Poet EYFS, Foundation, Reception, KS1, KS2 Fiction, Poetry Inspiring books for boys, Funny, Folk, Fairy & Traditional Tales / Myths, Animals Sean Taylor https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/sean_taylor.jpg 378 316 Mark Earl De Mateo https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Earl De Mateo2016-12-07 17:23:162018-10-29 11:28:57Sean Taylor Author, Trainer Reception, KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5, Adult Fiction, Poetry Reluctant Readers, Inspiring books for boys, Multicultural, Bullying / Self-esteem / Gender, Animals, Inspiring books for girls, Real Life / Family / Friendship / School, Dyslexia Judy Waite https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Judy.jpg 378 316 Mark Earl De Mateo https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png Mark Earl De Mateo2016-12-08 09:47:492019-04-04 11:45:08Judy Waite Storyteller EYFS, Foundation, Reception, KS1, KS2 Fiction, Poetry Folk, Fairy & Traditional Tales / Myths, Bullying / Self-esteem / Gender, Animals https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Lucy-Walters.jpg 378 316 authorsaloud https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png authorsaloud2016-11-09 12:23:102019-03-12 09:50:28Lucy Walters Storyteller, Poet, Trainer EYFS, Foundation, Reception, KS1, KS2, KS3 Fiction, Poetry Funny, Bullying / Self-esteem / Gender Alec Williams https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Alec-Williams.jpg 378 316 authorsaloud https://authorsaloud.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/authorsaloudnewlogo.png authorsaloud2016-11-09 12:23:352018-10-26 12:57:12Alec Williams	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line986
__label__wiki	0.901951	0.901951	Movie 340625 Super Hell Search Results for: movie 340625 super hell Hell 2011 In 2016 the sun has turned the entire world into a scorched and barren wasteland. The humans who have survived are either resourceful or violent, and sometimes both. Marie, her little sister Leonie, and best friend Phillip, are in a car headed to the mountains - rumor has it there is water there. Along the way they meet Tom, a first-rate mechanic. But can they trust him? Fraught with deep distrust, the group is lured into an ambush where their real battle for survival begins. Horror \| Science Fiction \| Thriller \| Mystery Pulled to Hell 2019 Charles, and Kyle are three private investigators that specialize in missing persons cases. Mickey and her team get in way over there heads when they cross a serial killer who has three very nasty pets that have a taste for human flesh. The team must do what the can to stay alive and to save the killer's next prey before its to late. From Hell 2001 Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity. Horror \| Mystery \| Thriller Hell Fest 2018 On Halloween night at a horror theme park, a costumed killer begins slaying innocent patrons who believe that it's all part of the festivities. In Hell 2003 A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment. Hell Baby 2013 After she and her husband move into a haunted house, a woman gives birth to a demonic infant that wreaks havoc. Comedy \| Horror Hell Ride 2008 Hell Ride is a 2008 feature film from Larry Bishop being released under the “Quentin Tarantino Presents” banner. The film promises to be a blood and sex-soaked tale of motorcycle revenge and retribution. Action \| Thriller Hell or High Water 2016 A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas. Crime \| Drama \| Thriller \| Western Drag Me to Hell 2009 After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she's been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend is skeptical. Her only hope seems to lie in a psychic who claims he can help her lift the curse and keep her soul from being dragged straight to hell. Horror \| Thriller Motel Hell 1980 Farmer Vincent kidnaps unsuspecting travellers and is burying them in his garden. Unfortunately for his victims, they are not dead. He feeds his victims to prepare them for his roadside stand. His motto is: It takes all kinds of critters...to make Farmer Vincents fritters. The movie is gory, but is also a parody of slasher movies like Last House on the Left. Hell & Back 2015 Two best friends set out to rescue their pal after he's accidentally dragged to hell. Fantasy \| Comedy \| Animation Hell Night 1981 Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion where they get killed off one by one by the monstrous surviving members of a family massacre years earlier for trespassing on their living grounds. The film brings to life in one nightmarish vision three detailed engravings from the early 30s created by Estonian artist Eduard Viiralt: "The Preacher", "Cabaret" and "Hell". Hell House LLC 2015 Five years after an unexplained malfunction causes the death of 15 tour-goers and staff on the opening night of a Halloween haunted house tour, a documentary crew travels back to the scene of the tragedy to find out what really happened. Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth 1992 Pinhead is trapped in a sculpture and fortunately for him the sculpture is bought by a young playboy who owns his own night club. Pinhead busies himself escaping by getting the playboy to lure victims to his presence so he can use their blood. Once free, he seeks to destroy the puzzle cube so he need never return to Hell, but a female reporter is investigating the grisly murders and stands in his way. Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay 2018 Action \| Animation Home Sweet Hell 2015 Mona and Don’s seemingly perfect suburban bliss is disrupted by a sexy extortionist and Mona will stop at nothing, including killing the competition, to keep her little slice of heaven. Drama \| Comedy The Legend of Hell House 1973 A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove/disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House. Horror \| Mystery 7 Days in Hell 2015 A fictional documentary-style expose on the rivalry between two tennis stars who battled it out in a 1999 match that lasted seven days. TV Movie \| Comedy Hell on Wheels 2011 Hell on Wheels tells the epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time. Action & Adventure \| Drama \| Western Hell's Kitchen 2005 Aspiring restaurateurs brave Ramsay and his fiery command of the kitchen as he puts the competitors through an intense culinary academy to prove they possess the right combination of ingredients to win a life-changing grand prize. Hell Girl 2005 Hell Girl, also known as Jigoku Shōjo: Girl from Hell, is an anime series produced by Aniplex and Studio Deen. It focuses on the existence of a supernatural system that allows people to take revenge by having other people sent to Hell via the services of the mysterious titular character and her assistants who implement this system. Revenge, injustice, hatred, and the nature of human emotions are common themes throughout the series. It premiered across Japan on numerous television stations, including Animax, Tokyo MX, MBS and others, between October 4, 2005 and April 4, 2006. Following the success of the first season, the series was followed soon after into a second, Jigoku Shōjo Futakomori, which premiered October 7, 2006 across Japan on Animax. A live-action television series adaptation started airing in Japan on Nippon Television from November 4, 2006. A third season of the anime, further continuing the series, was first announced on the mobile version of the series' official website Jigoku Tsūshin. The official title of the third season was announced to be Jigoku Shōjo Mitsuganae. and began airing on Japanese TV October 4, 2008. Animation \| Drama \| Mystery \| Sci-Fi & Fantasy Hotel Hell 2012 Chef Gordon Ramsay, along with a team of hospitality experts, travels the country applying his high standards to struggling hotels, motels, and bed and breakfasts in an effort to get the owners and staff to turn their establishments around. Ramsay's signature no-holds-barred style will make it clear to those he coaches that there is no place for dirty rooms or incompetent staff if one hopes to remain in business. Highway Thru Hell 2012 Follow the operations of Jamie Davis Motor Truck, a heavy vehicle rescue and recovery towing company based in Hope, British Columbia focusing on the hardships of operating along the highways of the BC Interior, especially the Coquihalla Highway, which is notorious for rapidly changing weather. Documentary \| Reality South of Hell 2015 A supernatural thriller set in South Carolina, South Of Hell focuses on Maria Abascal (Suvari), a stunning demon-hunter-for-hire whose power stems from within. Like those she hunts, Maria is divided within herself, struggling with her own demon, Abigail, who resides inside of her, feeding on the evil Maria exorcises from others. Maria and Abigail share a soul and a destiny, but as Maria desperately tries to overtake Abigail, she will discover how far Abigail will go to remain a part of her. Mystery \| Sci-Fi & Fantasy Angel from Hell 2016 When over-the-top Amy enters Allison’s organized but imperfect life and claims to be her guardian angel, they form an unlikely friendship and Allison can’t be sure if Amy is actually an angel or just nuts. My Cat from Hell 2011 From spastic cats that break up relationships to violent felines that put their owners in the hospital, cat behaviorist Jackson Galaxy has seen it all. Follow Jackson as he brings his unique understanding of cats to desperate families on the verge of giving up on their furry companions. Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell 2013 A live-action workplace comedy about Gary, an associate demon, as he attempts to capture souls on earth in order to climb the corporate ladder of the underworld. Gary hopes to advance in Hell, but he may be too stupid, lazy and kind-hearted to realize his dreams of promotion. Meanwhile, Gary's intern Claude is more talented, more devious and will do whatever it takes to impress Satan. Hell Town 1985 Hell Town is an American drama series that aired on NBC from September 4, 1985 to December 25, 1985. The series features former Baretta star Robert Blake. Neighbors from Hell 2010 Neighbors from Hell was a satirical American animated sitcom that ran on TBS from June 7, 2010 to July 26, 2010. The executive producer of the series is Pam Brady. The first and only season consisted of 10 episodes. The series is owned by 20th Century Fox Film Corporation. It's produced by Fox Television Animation and MoonBoy Animation, a division of DreamWorks Animation. The majority of the animation is produced by Bardel Entertainment in Vancouver, and a team of animators in Los Angeles, Bento Box Entertainment, did some of the animation and retakes. Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell 2012 Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell is a fantasy sitcom which follows the exploits of a TV comedian, who, while shopping at a used car lot for a new station wagon, instead purchases a dilapidated 1928 Porter touring car. Shaun hears the car call his name in a woman's voice. The car turns out to be the reincarnation of his dead mother. The car is coveted by a fanatical collector named Captain Manzini . Comedy \| News TV Heaven, Telly Hell 2006 TV Heaven, Telly Hell is a comedy television show on Channel 4, presented and produced by Sean Lock. The format is similar to Room 101, with guests discussing their likes and dislikes of items on television. The show also allows the guest to reconstruct any moment in television history in the way they wanted it to happen, in a short sketch shown at the end of the show usually parodying a clip discussed earlier. Hell's Kitchen was a British cookery reality show aired on ITV which featured prospective chefs competing with each other for a final prize. Four series were aired from 2004 to 2009, three presented by Angus Deayton and the latest by Claudia Winkleman. The Little Judge from Hell 1973 Dororon Enma-kun, also known as Satanikus!, is a Japanese horror-comedy anime and manga series created by Go Nagai. It's one of Nagai's most famous works in Japan, although not very well known in the rest of the world. In 2006, it would get a sequel/remake in Demon Prince Enma, which drops the comedy and becomes a full-fledged suspense-horror series. After the OVA was released, another manga version was released called Satanikus ENMA Kerberos by Eiji Toriyama. A remake entitled Dororon Enma-kun MeeraMera began airing in Japan in April 2011. Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back 2018 Gordon Ramsay drives to struggling restaurants across the country in his state-of-the-art mobile kitchen and command center, Hell On Wheels, and tries to bring them back from the brink of disaster – all in just 24 hours. Hell Below 2016 Hell Below is an event-based series charting the stealth game of sub sea warfare, tracking the dramatic narrative from contact to attack of the greatest submarine patrols of World War II. From the rise of the Wolfpack to the drive for victory in the Pacific, we profile the strategic masterminds and the rapid evolution of technology and tactics, as the threat of undersea warfare brings every sailor's worst nightmare to life. Expert analysis and stock footage are woven with narrative driven re-enactments filmed on authentic Second World War era submarines to place the characters at the heart of the action. Special Forces - Ultimate Hell Week 2015 Civilian recruits compete to win a grueling selection process designed by veterans from six international special forces units. Bear Grylls: Escape From Hell 2013 Bear Grylls takes his survival expertise one step further as he reveals the incredible stories of ordinary people stranded in devastatingly dire situations. Coupled with incredible archive footage and interviews with the survivors, Bear will pit himself against the very same dangers and scenarios, reliving their journeys through first-hand experience and showing us how to survive through some of the world's most desolate landscapes. 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__label__wiki	0.618098	0.618098	/ Mark Frauenfelder / 9:40 am Wed Feb 28, 2018 Trailer for a game in which you have one hour to rebuild civilization One Hour One Life is a "multiplayer survival game of parenting and civilization building" by Jason Rohrer. Your character ages one year every minute. I'm not completely clear on how it works but I like the hand-drawn characters and graphics. Nintendo announces Switch Lite, new handheld game console The Switch Lite doesn’t connect to a TV set, but it’s otherwise a slim, pocketable version of Nintendo’s popular portable game console. The Switch Lite — the newly unveiled spinoff of the full-sized Switch console — doesn’t actually “switch.” Instead of the detachable controllers and TV dock that allows the standard Switch to shape-shift between […] Random mansion generator The Procgen Mansion Generator produces large three-dee dwellings to toy with your imagination, offering various architectural styles and other options. Each mansion even comes with floorplans: Nintendo Switch Lite finally unveiled Nintendo finally unveiled the long-rumored Nintendo Switch Lite. Besides the compact size, the biggest difference is a classic D-pad control. Due out in September, it will retail for $200. From The Verge: Nintendo says the Lite features “slightly” improved battery life — the company wouldn’t get any more specific than that — due to a […]	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line992
__label__wiki	0.805037	0.805037	Dear Evan Hansen Cast Recording Wins 2018 Grammy Award January 28th, 2018 \| By Lindsey Sullivan It's already shaping up to be an awesome Grammy Awards! The Dear Evan Hansen cast recording took home the 2018 Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album on January 28. The album beat out recordings of the Broadway production of Hello, Dolly! and Come From Away. As previously announced, Tony-winning original headliner Ben Platt will perform at the Madison Square Garden ceremony later this evening. Tony winner James Corden is hosting music's biggest night. The win for Dear Evan Hansen is shared by Platt as well as stars Laura Dreyfuss, Mike Faist, Rachel Bay Jones, Kristolyn Lloyd, Michael Park, Will Roland and Jennifer Laura Thompson, Pete Ganbarg, Lacamoire, producer Stacey Mindich and songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. (When nominations were announced, only Platt was listed as a vocalist nominee.) This marks music duo Pasek and Paul's first Grammy Award. The Dear Evan Hansen cast heard the news at the end of their Sunday matinee. Check out the adorable reaction video on Twitter. Witness the moment our cast discovers that they’ve been honored with the 2018 #GRAMMYs for Best Musical Theater Album. @RecordingAcad pic.twitter.com/OHyfNvWKtB — Dear Evan Hansen (@DearEvanHansen) January 29, 2018 Platt posted a snippet of musical orchestrator Alex Lacamoire taking the podium as well. A post shared by Ben Platt (@bensplatt) on Jan 28, 2018 at 1:19pm PST Speaking of music man Lacamoire, his Hamilton pal Lin-Manuel Miranda also grabbed a 2018 Grammy. Miranda received the award for Best Song Written For Visual Media for "How Far I'll Go" from Disney's Moana.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line993
__label__wiki	0.514989	0.514989	Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt's Revolution as it Unfolded, in the Words of the People Who Made it By Nadia Idle Alex Nunns Published By OR Books Category : Middle East "My favorite bit is Hosni Mubarak has tweets in this book...I don't think it's really him." -Jon Stewart, The Daily Show "Deeply moving, a record of great courage, mostly by young people, facing Mubarak's legion of goons and regime thugs." -Robert Fisk, The Independent "Without the new media the Egyptian Revolution could not have happened in the way that it did. The causes of the revolution were many; deep-rooted and long seated. The turning moment had come - but it was the instant and wide-spread nature of the new media that made it possible to recognise the moment and to push it into such an effective manifestation."-Ahdaf Soueif, from the foreword Ahed Tamimi – A Girl who Fought Back On Palestine Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History Palestine: Resistance, Revolution and the Struggle for Freedom The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn's Improbable Path to Power	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line995
__label__cc	0.668754	0.331246	« lion \| Main \| cat humor » Pet Food Recall Info Pet Food Recall 03/30/07 Dry cat food: http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/hills303_07.html ***** the link for the MD science diet recall: http://www.hillspet.com/menu_foods/Menu_Foods_03302007_en_US.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iva *** Another recall http://wbztv.com/topstories/topstories_story_089101540.html Niki Behrikis Shanahan Author of the following books: The Rainbow Bridge: Pet Loss Is Heaven's Gain ~ E-Book There Is Eternal Life For Animals ~ Your Pet Has A Past, A Present, And A Future! Animal Prayer Guide ~ Prayers To Bless, Heal, And Help Your Pet! For more information, please visit www.eternalanimals.com www.catwriters.org *** Melamine video: http://video.ap.org/v/en-ap/fv/fv.htm?g=E2456C82-5C98-47F3-BB86-640816135C45&t=s61&&f=1165353 Sincerely, ~Iva~ *** Here is the latest Press Release from this morning 11.46 EST. Someone just sent it my way. New news....I think..... .. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Pet-Food-Recall.html?_r=1∨ef=s login *** Click on the heading below to read the latest on contaminants in pet foods. If you have a pet, it would be wise to read this thoroughly and follow the instructions given. Ellie Waldron President, APLB http://www.aspca.org/site/R?i=SBfgZHyBmzrh7AXdIWHt5g.. PET FOOD RECALL UPDATE: CONTAMINANTS IN ADDITION TO RAT POISON MAY BE INVOLVED Since the massive pet food recall on March 16, the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center has been flooded with calls from pet parents and animal professionals alike. Based on data we’ve collected, clinical signs in cats affected by the contaminated foods are not fully consistent with the ingestion of rat poison—suggesting that additional contaminants may be involved. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Hi again, Well, the plot thickens. It always does, eh? Now they're saying it's not rat poison after all, but some chemical used in plastics, called melamine. (Anyone remember the old Melmac dishes? The next generation of plastic dishes was actually called Melamine.) Here is a link to read more about this: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070330/ap_on_go_ot/pet_food_recall And a link to a story about switching to organic foods: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070330/ap_on_bi_ge/pet_food_organic Roberta =================================== ***** Contact: Amy Thompson 785-368-5016 Hills Pet Nutrition, Inc. Voluntarily Recalls Single Product, Prescription Diet™ m/d™ Feline Dry Food, Only Product Containing Wheat Gluten Topeka, KS (March 30, 2007) – In accordance with its over-riding commitment to pet health and well-being, Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Inc. is voluntarily recalling Prescription Diet m/d Feline dry food from the market. Hill’s is taking this precautionary action because during a two-month period in early 2007, wheat gluten for this product was provided by a company that also supplied wheat gluten to Menu Foods. U.S. Food and Drug Administration tests of wheat gluten samples from this period show the presence of a small amount of melamine. Prescription Diet m/d Feline Dry represents less than one half of one percent of all Hill’s products. This is the only product Hill’s currently sells in the United States that contains wheat gluten from any supplier. No other Hill’s Prescription Diet® or Science Diet® products are affected by this voluntary recall. Hill’s Science Diet Savory Cuts Feline canned cat foods, manufactured by Menu Foods, were previously withdrawn from the market as a precaution. Together with this earlier withdrawal, less than 1% of all Hill’s products have been affected. The voluntary recall of Hill’s Prescription Diet m/d Feline dry food involves discontinuation of all retail sales and product retrieval from sellers. This recall does not include Prescription Diet m/d Feline canned food which contains no wheat gluten. Consumers should stop using this product and return it for a refund. All Hill’s products carry a 100 percent guarantee, and consumers can receive a refund for recalled product. Hill’s expects to resume shipment shortly of a reformulated version of this highly beneficial product that will not contain wheat gluten. Please check with your veterinarian for an alternative Prescription Diet until m/d Feline dry is reformulated and made available again. Following is a list of Prescription Diet m/d Feline dry products included in this recall: Recalled product U.S. & Canada UPC Size Prescription Diet™ m/d™ Feline dry food 52742 42770 (all lot numbers) 4 lb. bag Prescription Diet™ m/d™ Feline dry food 52742 42790 (all lot numbers) 10 lb. bag Hill’s has been fully cooperating with the FDA since the outset of its investigation and made the decision to voluntarily recall these products in consultation with the FDA. We deeply regret any concern that this has caused our valued customers. For more information, consumers can contact the company at 1-800-445-5777 or visit _www.HillsPet.com_ ( http://www.hillspet.com/ ) for details. * * * Hill’s Pet Nutrition Inc. manufactures Prescription Diet® brand pet foods, therapeutic pet foods available only through veterinarians, and Science Diet® brand pet foods sold through veterinarians and finer pet specialty stores. Founded nearly 60 years ago by one veterinarian’s unique commitment to pet nutrition and well-being, Hill’s has never wavered from their mission to help enrich and lengthen the special relationships between people and their pets. Hill ’s produces high-quality, great tasting pet foods, so pet owners can follow the recommendations of the veterinary health care team. This ultimately improves patient health and the health of the practice. Visit HillsVet.com for more information on Hill’s Pet Nutrition Inc. and Hill’s Evidence-Based Clinical Nutrition™ products. Steve Dale _www.stevedalepetworld.com_ ( http://www.stevedalepetworld.com/) ***** As many of your know, dry foods may now be implied as a concern for pet owners, or not. Aminopterin (the rodenticide previously announced March 23 to be responsible for the tainted food) is no longer being considered by the FDA. Melamine (used in fertilizer in Asia) contained in wheat gluten from China is now being targeted as responsible for the deaths and illness of pets. I attended the press conference - here's much of what was said. _www.stevedalepetworld.com_ ( http://www.stevedalepetworld.com) Rather than hearing from any reporter (including me), hear from the horse's mouth - on my WGN Radio, Sunday night after the 8 p.m (cst). news - Dr. Richard Goldstein, an internal medicine specialist and assistant professor Small Animal Medicine at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine - he's one of the scientistis studying all this. Anyone can listen: _www.wgnradio.com_ ( http://www.wgnradio.com ) and anyone can phone in, 312-591-7200. (We're also talking about dealing with crazy puppies - I think we need some puppy talk right now). Steve Dale _www.stevedalepetworld.com_ ( http://www.stevedalepetworld.com/) *** http://www.menufoods.com/recall/PRESS%20RELEASE03262007.htm Sincerely, ~Iva~ *** 03/23/07 I've been covering this story since last Saturday morning, and have created two articles along with my regular blog coverage. The first is a pet food recall FAQ, which I'm updating regularly, at http://cats.about.com/od/catfoodandnutrition/a/petfoodrecall.htm and the second is a "hub" index of coverage and background, at http://cats.about.com/od/catfoodandnutrition/a/FoodRecallIndex.htm I'll add links to both your articles in the latter today. My own three cats were eating one of the recalled products about 2 weeks ago, and though they seem to be fine now, I'm taking them to the vet next Monday and Tuesday for blood panels. I can sort of relate to the climate of hysteria, but am trying to keep my cool. Franny Syufy _ http://cats.about.com_ (http://cats.about.com) *** 03/29/07 More nutrition news. Marva Marrow http://tinyurl.com/2ndsr7 Diet Pet Food Warning Associated Press Mar 29, 2007 The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it has issued a warning letter to Iams Co. that says some of its diet pet foods contain an unapproved substance. Eukanuba Veterinary Diets Optimum Weight Control/Canine dry, Optimum Weight Control/Feline dry, Restricted-Calorie/Canine dry and canned, and Restricted-Calorie/Feline dry and canned contain chromium tripicolinate, which is not an approved food supplement, the FDA said. The warning follows a recall of nearly 100 brands of pet food made by Menu Foods after animals suffered kidney failure. That recall included some Iams products made under contract by Menu Foods. Linda Pollack Mercer, M.D. President & Rescue Coordinator CFA Purebred Rescue, Inc., http://cfapurebredrescue.org (501c3) D/B/A Purebred Cat Breed Rescue, http://PurebredCats.org Member, TICA Rescue Committee Director, Operation Noble Foster, http://www.OperationNobleFoster.org Moderator & Owner, The Persian Rescue Email list: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Persian_Rescue/ Phone (rescue emergencies only please): (888) 303-9454 [toll free] Email: < [email protected] >(@purebredcats.org) Any questions or emergencies, call 888-303-9454 toll free *** Information from the AVMA list of 12 items • On Friday, March 23, 2007 a press release from the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets ( www.agmkt.state.ny.us/release ) stated that the New York State Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker and Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine Dean Donald F. Smith announced that scientists at the New York State Food Laboratory identified Aminopterin as a toxin present in cat food samples from Menu Foods, the manufacturer of the many brands of dog and cat food that are currently the subject of a nationwide recall. • The Food Laboratory received the pet food samples from a toxicologist at the New York State Animal Health Diagnostic Center at Cornell University, where testing has been underway to try to identify the cause of kidney failure in dogs and cats that consumed the recalled brands of pet food. At Cornell's request, the Food Laboratory tested the samples for poisons and toxins, and identified Aminopterin in the pet food samples at a level of at least 40 parts per million. • Aminopterin is a folic acid inhibitor found in some rodenticides available outside the USA. It is not available in the US as a rodenticide. Aminopterin is a 4-amino analog of folic acid. It was originally used as an antineoplastic agent in the late 1940's but has been superseded by methotrexate, a related but less toxic folic acid analog. At high doses, methotrexate results in acute renal failure and crystalluria due to desposition of 7-hydroxymethotrexate in the renal tubules. Aminopterin toxicity is thought to be similar and dose dependent. • These findings and any relationship to recent pet deaths have not been confirmed by the Food and Drug Administration. An announcement from the FDA is forthcoming. We need to be cautious as the finding of Aminopterin is significant but there could be other compounds yet unknown in the diet as well. • Recommendations for testing animals have essentially not changed. There is no blood test available for Aminopterin. Pets that have eaten the recalled food whether showing signs of illness (lethargy, vomiting, diarrhea, anorexia, etc) or asymptomatic should be seen by their veterinarian and have a complete blood count, biochemistry panel and urinalysis performed. Additional testing may include assessment for significant proteinuria, urine culture, imaging, etc. • Treatment recommendations have not changed. According to Dr. Richard E Goldstein DVM DACVIM DECVIM-CA, Associate Professor of Medicine at Cornell University, azotemic pets should be treated with fluids to promote hydration, and diuresis in order to dissolve and flush out crystals from the tubules. Aminopterin produces crystals within the renal tubules that are most soluble in an alkaline urine pH thus a target urine pH above 7 (achieved with fluid therapy and alkalinizing agents including sodium bicarbonate) might be beneficial in managing these patients. Several medications such as antioxidants and folic acid may be administered but their true beneficial affects are unproven when given long after the initial exposure to the toxin. • Bone-marrow suppression is a concern with any folic acid inhibiting agent and a complete blood cell count should be monitored in these patients as well as renal function. • If a patient with anuric or oliguric acute renal failure is not responding to appropriate therapy, veterinarians should promptly consider contacting a small animal internist with the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine ( www.ACVIM.org ) in their local community for case consultation and possible referral. Hemodialysis can be utilized for severely affected patients and is available at a limited number of veterinary teaching hospitals. • Duration of treatment in patients which may have renal failure due to ingestion of the recalled food is unknown at this time and obviously will vary between patients. Long term effects on renal function are unknown but based on limited experience to date, at least partial renal recovery is anticipated. Patients succumbing to illness should be necropsied and tissues saved in formalin for histopathology to determine cause of death. • Samples for histopathology can be submitted to The Iowa State University Veterinary Diagnostic laboratory ( www.vdpam.iastate.edu ) or The Animal Health Diagnostic Center (AHDC) at Cornell University ( www.diag.center.vetcornell.edu). • Samples of the recalled food should be held for possible analysis. Opened food should be disposed of so there is no chance of further consumption. Pet owners can contact the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Consumer Complaint Coordinator at: http://www.fda.gov/opacom/backgrounders/complain.html. • The FDA has provided the following case definition for field investigation/cases: veterinary-documented renal failure, necropsy results if animal died, food consumed within 1 week of death (illness), and intact, unopened cans of the food. If veterinarians suspect that a case meets this general case definition, FDA has requested that you contact them at the following e-mail address list end Debbie ***** March 31, 2007 \| Permalink its very reasonable point of view. realy good post thank you ;) Posted by: occulpouTlibgor \| September 01, 2008 at 04:58 PM	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line996
__label__cc	0.615518	0.384482	Home→The Case of the Missing Mobster The Case of the Missing Mobster BY: HAROL MARSHALL A dead body, identified as Lenny Spinoli, washes up on Dockweiler Beach in Southern California. Spinoli was last seen on Santa Catalina Island, leaving on a fishing trip with his friend, Ricky Martin. When Ricky goes missing, his realtor wife hires Hollywood PI Polly Berger to find him. Meanwhile, Polly’s firm has been hired to tail the wife of a big-time Hollywood director of zombie movies, who claims his wife is cheating on him. Within days, the director’s wife dies of a purported suicide. Polly suspects the director of murdering his wife, but how can she prove it? And as she digs for clues to the whereabouts of Ricky Martin, the FBI horns in, demanding that she help with their investigation. But will they return the favor, or are they just using her as bait? TAYLOR JONES SAYS: In The Case of the Missing Mobster by Harol Marshall, a body of a man shows up on the beach in Southern California. The dead man is identified as Lenny Spinoli, who was heading out for a fishing trip with his friend Ricky Martin, who is missing. Did Ricky kill Lenny, or is he dead too? And if he is not dead, where is he? This is the question Ricky’s wife wants PI Polly Bergin to answer. But no sooner does Polly start investigating than the FBI shows up asking for her help on the same case. She doesn’t trust them—after all, she is just a small-time PI, so why would they want her help?—but what can she do? Fast paced, intense, and intriguing, this is a story that will grab you by the throat from the very first page and hold on tight all the way through. REGAN MURPHY SAYS: The Case of the Missing Mobster by Harol Marshall is the story of an LA private investigator, Polly Bergin. As the story opens, a man in New York, named Lenny Spinoli, gets a call from his brother who delivers a message to Lenny from a mobster. Some time later, Lenny’s body washes up on the beach in California. Lenny was last seen with his friend, big-time LA realtor, Ricky Martin, who is now missing. Martin’s wife, Sally, hires Polly to find her husband and prove he did not kill Lenny. As Polly begins to investigate, she calls her cop ex-husband, Johnny, who tells her that the feds have taken over the case and he has been told to stay out of it. He tells Polly to stay out of it too. Then she gets a visit from the FBI who, to her surprise, don’t want her to stay out of it but to help them solve the case. Knowing they don’t really need her help, she doesn’t trust them, but how can she refuse? Marshall has crafted an intriguing and enthralling tale, combing mystery, suspense, and superb character development to make The Case of the Missing Mobster one you won’t be able to put down. Coxsackie, New York: Lenny Spinoli was a dead man, thanks to unfinished business from his sordid past. Two questions danced in his head—not the why, but the how and when. If he could eliminate one of those two uncertainties, maybe he could beat the rap. After all, he was smarter and better educated than the mobster who put a price on his head. And he had a heart. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be in this bind, a predicament he’d thought about a hundred times, wondering how he’d feel, how he’d handle himself when the devil came calling. Now he knew. He’d have quit on his own if quitting had been an option, but that was not how things worked. You didn’t quit the Mob. The Mob quit you. Like it or not, signing up amounted to a life sentence, a message drilled home to him when his brother Mickey phoned. Lenny failed to put two and two together in the beginning. Figured the call was another effort to keep Mickey in their clutches. Mickey, who’d been walking the straight and narrow for twenty-five years. Hadn’t thought about the life, hadn’t missed it. Married a nice lady, had two kids, opened his own bakery in downtown Coxsackie. Lived well. Mickey was happy and Lenny was happy for him. Lenny turned off the burner under his pasta when his cell phone chirped. Caller ID read Anita Spinoli. His sister-in-law. She never called him. Had something happened to Mickey? “Nita. Somethin’ wrong?” “It’s me, Mickey,” his brother said. Must have forgotten to charge his phone. Not like him. “What’s up, Bro?” “Jeez, Lenny, I got a real scare today.” Mickey’s voice shook, like he might be standing on one of those phony weight loss machines with the vibrating belt that jiggled your middle. Lenny wondered how anyone lost weight on those things. Maybe the shaking action liquefied your stomach contents so the food ran right through you instead of absorbing into your intestines. Only way he could see the thing might work, not that he ever used one. Losing weight wasn’t a problem for Lenny. He worried the pounds off. “What happened? You in trouble?” “Not now, Len. It’s over, but I tell ya, I thought I’d seen the last of this world today. All for doin’ a friend a favor.” Lenny sighed, drained the pasta, and dumped it into his red clam sauce. His mouth watered at the sight, but he turned his attention back to his brother. He had a pretty good idea what this was about. “Who’s the friend and what was the favor?” “See, Father Moretti was in the bakery picking up his weekly order of cannoli. He likes the ones with pistachios in the cream, which is my favorite too.” “Father Moretti’s the friend?” “No. He happened to be in the bakery when Eddie Dagostino comes in. Tells Father the cannoli are gonna make him fat. But Father says these are Holy Cannoli. Once he blesses them, they’re no longer sinful. So, we all have a laugh about that. Then after Father leaves, Eddie tells me he has a problem.” I knew it, Lenny thought, stirring the pasta and stifling a sigh. “What kinda problem?” “With his kid. Kid’s got no brains. Doesn’t know his butt from his elbow, but he got lucky.” “If he’s so lucky what’s the problem?” “Kid’s lucky his father called on me, that’s what. Problem is, his father called on me.” “What’d the kid do?” “I don’t ask. I’m guessin’ he screwed up a drug deal. Bottom line, some jerk downstate stiffed the kid. Owed him a lot of money and wouldn’t pay up.” “So, what’s this got to do with you?” “Eddie didn’t want his kid handling the problem alone. Asked if I’d accompany him when the kid went to collect the money.” “Why you? Eddie’s got plenty of friends in the business. Collecting is what they do.” “That’s the point. The deadbeat’s connected. Eddie didn’t wanna start a war or nothin’ so he needed somebody clean. Like me.” “Let me guess. You were smart enough to turn him down, then he sent somebody to your place today to convince you otherwise, especially since you know he knows where your kids live.” “No. I told him I’d do it.” Lenny exhaled slowly, unsure what his brother expected him to say. Unsure what to say himself. A quarter of a century his brother had kept his nose clean. Started his own business. Worked hard, put two kids through college. Son earned an MBA and worked as an accountant, his daughter taught school. Mickey had a lot to lose saying yes to Eddie. More to lose saying no. That’s the business for you. Always squeezing their own. “Guess you didn’t have a choice.” “So, what happened?” “Me and the kid, we drive down to Brooklyn yesterday morning.” “You packin’?” “You kiddin’ me?” “Keep going.” “The SOB talks tough. Says if we don’t get out of his territory, meaning the City, we’re dead meat. You know the routine.” Lenny nodded like they were on video chat. “Then what?” “I put a gun to the creep’s head, and he saw the light. Handed over the money and we split. Kid’s happy, Eddie’s happy, I’m happy.” “Until?” “Until today. I close up the bakery and head out to my car with the last of the cannoli. Black SUV’s parked next to mine. Inside are three guys I never seen before. One of ’em gets out and tells me to get in. I say, ‘hold on a sec, gotta run back in the bakery and take a leak,’ but the guy opens the back door and tells me, ‘you ain’t goin’ nowhere except with us. Get in.’” Mickey paused. Lenny could sense his distress. “Guess he knew if I went back in the bakery I’d come out carryin’ heat. Anyway, right then, I think to myself this is it, my last day on the face of this good earth. Honest Lenny, tears came to my eyes when I thought of Nita and the kids. I couldn’t move, stood there like a freakin’ statue. I’m tellin’ ya, if I was captured by ISIS, I couldn’t o’ been more scared.” “Where’d they take you?” “Coxsackie Mall. Back of the parking lot I see this black limo. Thing looked like a hearse, which didn’t make me feel too good. Alls I can think is, how they gonna do this? Shoot me? Slit my throat and dump my body in the river?” “Stop draggin’ out the suspense.” “Just paintin’ a picture so’s you know why I’m so upset. I puked my guts out when I got home. Couldn’t settle down enough to call you. Told Nita I had a stomach bug.” “Okay. Calm down, and tell me what happened.” “We pull up beside the limo and stop. The back door opens up. I wait for somebody to get out, but instead, the goon in the seat in front of me turns around and tells me to get out and climb in the limo.” Lenny was running out of patience. Mickey was the worst storyteller ever. Had to include every detail, no matter how insignificant. Drove his kids crazy. Every time he started another story, they’d wave their hands in circles telling him to speed it up. Lenny glanced down at his right hand drawing the same circles. He wondered how long this story would go on, and if in the end it was even worth listening to, but when it’s flesh and blood you do what you gotta do. He sighed audibly, a hint for his brother to get on with it. “Since you’re on the phone talkin’ to me about this, I take it nobody bumped you off, so what’s got you so agitated? They threaten you, have another job for you? And who was in the limo, anyway?” “One question at a time. I’m still shook up. Remember, this just happened to me. I ain’t recovered yet.” “You tell Nita about it?” “Of course not. I’ve never told her nothin’ about the life. You know that. She’d leave me in a heartbeat. Couldn’t deal with it. The kids neither. You’re the only person I can talk to, Lenny, and sometimes I just have to vent, you know?” “I know. Go ahead and finish your story, but I haven’t got all day. I got things to do.” “So, my knees are quaking, I almost break my neck climbin’ outta the SUV, but I make it without fallin’ on my face. When I slide into the backseat of the limo, I see Eddie sittin’ up front. He turns around, introduces me to the guy next to me, and sez, ‘sorry about this,’ and I think to myself, you little punk. I do you a favor and now you’re gonna have me wacked? But it wasn’t like that.” Mickey hesitated. Lenny could hear him catching his breath again. “Guess who he introduces me to? I’ll give you a hint. The limo had Connecticut plates.” Lenny didn’t need a hint. He’d once worked with the Connecticut mob. They ran Coxsackie, so he guessed they sent a mid-level capo to town, maybe to put the fear of God into Mickey, or maybe sign him on for more work since he’d done such a good job, suck him back into the business now they had something to hold over his head. “Sounds like your New York deadbeat was not just connected,” Lenny said, “but well-connected. I don’t suppose you looked into his background before you took the job, try to find out if maybe he was the son of somebody high up in the organization, a little higher up than Eddie, say?” “Didn’t have time. What’s your guess? Who was in the limo?” “Look, I don’t have time for games, but I’ll play because you’re my brother. Easy. Some bone-breaker with a vowel at the end of his name.” “Wrong on both counts. The Big Boss himself.” “Pauly Budin?” “Jeez, Marie. What did he say?” “Asked me about ‘that thing.’ I said, ‘what thing?’” “Not the smartest answer.” “I know. He says, ‘that thing this weekend in the City.’ I shrug and tell him I was doin’ a friend a favor, like I’d do for any of my friends if one of their kids was in trouble.” “That it?” “Hell no. He asks me a coupla more questions, then he says, ‘You dig up your gun?’” “He asked that,” Lenny said, “’cause it’s an important question.” “I know and I tell him the truth. I tell Pauly, ‘No. I been straight for twenty-five years. This is the first time somethin’ came up. It had nothin’ to do with the business.’ I say, ‘Eddie’s kid got in some kind of trouble that I don’t know nothin’ about, other than the kid was getting stiffed by some sleazebag in the City. Eddie was afraid to let his kid confront the guy alone, and I don’t blame him. Clearly the guy was connected, but he made a big mistake. Thought he could abuse his connections in order to make a little money off o’ one of our own. But we all know that ain’t the way things work.’ I mean, I said, ‘if your kid was in trouble, Pauley, and you asked me for help, I’d o’ helped you out, too. Don’t mean I’m back in the business because I ain’t.’” “Pauley tells me I done good. I was so relieved, I handed him the box of cannoli sitting in my lap, told him they were Holy Cannoli blessed by a priest, and he could eat all he wanted without gainin’ a pound.” “Pauly’s not known for his sense of humor,” Lenny said, “so that might not have been the wisest answer. More like a wise-ass one.” “On the contrary. He opened the box of cannoli, stuck his finger in the cream, and licked it off. Said it was the best cannolo cream he ever ate. I told him I was glad he liked it. Then he looks me in the eye and says, ‘Now I’m gonna do you a favor. Tell your brother that Angel Bianchi found the two cannoli your brother was supposed to polish off, and Angel ain’t happy about it.’” A chill ran through Lenny, like someone sealed him in a meat locker, one of those places where they slaughter animals and hang ’em in long racks. Lenny’s heart raced, but he controlled the tenor of his voice. “What else did Pauley say?” “I ask him, ‘What’s that supposed to mean?’ But he shakes his head, tells me to pass along the message. Says you’ll know what it means, then he tells me, ‘get outta the limo, go home, and keep your nose clean,’ which is all I was hopin’ to do. I thanked him, said I was pleased to meet him, and split. The three goons drove me back to my car. Nobody, including me, said a word on the trip over or on the trip back.” “Always best to keep your mouth shut when you don’t know what’s going down.” “I know. I probably should keep my mouth shut now, but my curiosity is gettin’ the better of me. What’s this about you refusing to eat the cannoli Angel gave you?” “Nothin’ to worry about,” Lenny said, knowing the message was about a contract on his life. He wondered about the price tag, but not about who placed the order and why. One week after Lenny Spinoli received Pauly Budin’s bad news, two things happened: the first pertained to an apparently unrelated celebration of good news taking place inside the second-floor office of Berger Investigative Services, a small PI firm in Hollywood, California. The second occurred in Coxsackie when Mickey Spinoli received a visit from the FBI informing him of the drowning death of his brother Lenny, whose body washed up on a beach in Southern California. © 2019 by Harol Marshall	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line997
__label__wiki	0.84012	0.84012	Burnaway > News > News-in-Brief: April 17, 2019 News-in-Brief: April 17, 2019 BURNAWAY Staff This is the latest edition of BA’s digest of Southern contemporary art news-in-brief. Roe Ethridge, Deborah Muller with Tripod, one of the recent purchases by The Whitney Museum of Art. The Whitney Museum announces 300 additions to the permanent collection, very few from the South The Whitney Museum of Art announced that in the past six months it has acquired 300 pieces, representing sixty new artists in the permanent collection. Of those additions, there are few southerners, and even fewer works by those who remained in the South over the course of their careers. The new additions include Jasper Johns, Deborah Perry, Walter Price, Emma Amos, Ed Clark, Roe Ethridge, Teresita Fernandez, and Park McArthur. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announces new Chief Curator BENTONVILLE— Crystal Bridges announced that Austen Barron Bailley will become the museum’s chief curator, effective July 15. Bailley was previously the curator of American Art at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Salvador Dalí Museum announces 38 million dollar expansion ST. PETERSBURG— The Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, announced expansion plans to grow the footprint of the museum by 20,000 square feet of digital and virtual reality programming. As director Hank Hine told ArtNews: “Our motivation is the change in our culture and the way that digital technologies are integral to peoples’ experience of almost anything,” Hine said of the museum’s plans. “There has to be an adjustment to the way people experience art.” Cuban artist and activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara arrested as Havana Biennial begins HAVANA — As the Havana Biennial kicked off April 12, artists and journalists have been detained, sanctioned or similarly harassed under decree 349, which prohibits cultural activity independent of the state. Outspoken activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara has been arrested and has not resurfaced since the arrest on April 12th, and Cuban American artist Coco Fusco was denied entry into Cuba for the second time. Many artists have stated they would not participate in the Biennial. From the Yungas Art Project at MALBA, Buenos Aires. MALBA opens first Yungas project in Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES — Outside the bustling of the arteBA festival, several exhibits are opening, focusing on younger artists working in Argentinian provinces and rural countrysides. The first Yungas project — named for the Yungas, a forested area in the Northern Andes, focuses on artists still training in areas like sculpture, painting, video and performance art as well as other cultural administrators and workers. The Yungas Project is on view until June 6th. Rory Doyle, Big Mac Dancing, 2018. Rory Doyle was awarded the Southern Prize this week. South Arts awards Mississippi artist Rory Doyle with Southern Prize COLUMBIA — Mississippi artist Rory Doyle was awarded with the Southern Prize this week in Columbia, South Carolina. Open to visual artists in the nine southern states served by the South Arts organization, the prize includes $25,000 and a two week residency at Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences in Rabun Gap, Georgia. Rory Doyle is a photographer whose work documents the “Delta Hill Riders”, African American cowboys in the Mississippi Delta. Florida sculptor Amy Gross won the finalist prize, a $10,000 cash award. Burnaway is an Atlanta-based digital magazine of contemporary art and criticism from the American South. News-in-Brief: June 26, 2019	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1008
__label__wiki	0.536173	0.536173	In-Flight Connectivity taken to the next level by Honeywell & Inmarsat The next generation of in-flight connectivity systems will increase onboard broadband speeds to 50mbps Inmarsat & Honeywell said this week. Honeywell will develop the onboard hardware that will connect to Inmarsat’s Global Xpress network, made possible by the use of the Ka-band, which is found between 26.5GHz and 40GHz. Global Xpress is scheduled for launch in 2013, with global service availability for commercial, business aviation and government customers during 2014. The deal between Honeywell and Inmarsat is exclusive and is estimated to result in US$2.8 billion for Honeywell in sales of hardware, customer service, and maintenance to airlines, governments and OEMs over the next two decades, according to a statement. Inmarsat already works with ARINC to provide in-flight internet through their SwiftBroadband product in the “Cabin Connect” services. Thanks to the enhanced bandwidth offered by SwiftBroadband and ARINC’s Cabin Connect, airline passengers can surf the internet, send and receive email, and use universal messaging all through their own portable electronic device, be that laptop, tablet computer eg iPad or Playbook, smart phone or portable gaming devices. These services are currently available for business aviation users here: cabinconnect.aero. Poland’s Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport Prepares for EURO 2012 Crowds Tens of thousands of football fans will be arriving this arriving in Poland this summer to attend the EURO 2012TM tournament matches. The Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport has recently more than doubled its passenger capacity by increasing airside infrastructure and adding a second passenger terminal The sharp increase in passenger numbers expected has led the airport to chose vMUSE Enterprise hosted technology from ARINC Incorporated as its common-use passenger check-in and departure solution. ARINC say “Unlike common-use systems that require costly IT hardware on site, ARINC’s vMUSE Enterprise solution delivers passenger processing as an Internet service. The check-in and departure functions use inexpensive “thin client” terminals in conjunction with an Internet connection.” Because the data processing for vMUSE Enterprise occurs at an off-site data centre managed by ARINC, there is no need for the costly servers, core rooms, and computer workstations typical with other common-use systems. The need for on-site server maintenance, back-ups, and health checks is also eliminated. Airports can lower their IT capital and support costs while enjoying advanced common-use passenger services with improved overall system reliability and security. As an added benefit, vMUSE Enterprise greatly reduces power consumption compared with conventional server-based core systems, enabling airports to lower their carbon footprint. Along with Warsaw, Poznan, and Wroclaw, Gdansk is one of Poland’s four Host Cities with venues for the UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) EURO 2012 matches. With the opening of Terminal 2, Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport will serve 5.0 million passengers a year. In addition to facility improvements for EURO 2012, the airport will enact a special management plan to ensure efficient and friendly service for the volume of fan traffic expected from all over Europe. In Focus – Aviation Type B Messaging Costs Cost-saving strategies are the current hot topic for all business aviation users. As airline operational costs continue to rise with airport taxes, fuel prices, maintenance, staffing and the multitude of ‘back end’ costs we look at one of the ways that business jets can improve their bottom line. Type B messaging services are one of the airlines essentials. Operational messaging can be expensive – but is not something that can be compromised on. There are of course many providers of these services but I want to focus on a supplier that actually offers a calculator tool to find out if you could make savings before you need to get in touch,. Not all Type B business messaging services are the same. There are major differences between network providers in pricing, support, and efficiency of their applications. ARINC Direct’s ‘Type B Check’ allows you to calculate your potential savings in this area. As a leading network provider, ARINC has pioneered many advanced features and widely publicise that their Type B messaging applications the most user-friendly available today. Because ARINC offers several flexible pricing plans, including a flat rate option, new customers could benefit from savings as much as 60% of their messaging costs. ARINC’s Type B access products are built on ARINC’s technologically advanced AviNet platform and deliver unsurpassed reliability and user-friendly operation. For more information please visit typebcheck.com Restructured Regional Coverage for ARINC Aviation Voice Network Last week we heard that ARINC Incorporateds Air/Ground Domestic Radio VHF voice service in North America announced that it has restructured its regional network design. The Air/Ground Domestic Radio VHF voice service has been restructured from 12 separate networks into 6 regionally divided networks operating on 6 frequencies across the continental United States. This change improves the ease-of-use for the air crews while maintaining the high quality of service and availability customers expect from ARINC. The network restructuring is the final phase of a system-wide technology refresh, including digital connectivity and replacing analogue radios with state-of-the-art digital transceivers. The digital connectivity and radios have demonstrated greater voice clarity, improved reliability, and real-time network monitoring. The digital technology also allowed ARINC to make the overnight transition with minimal service interruption. As the critical communications medium for thousands of today’s commercial and business aircraft, it is vital for ARINCs VHF voice radio service to respond to the requests of our users, said John Metzger, Program Director, ARINC Aviation Voice Services. The new regional network structure offers a single frequency for each region to minimize frequency changes across our customers’ major route structures. This will greatly improve the air crews ability to select the correct frequency relative to aircraft position and reach the ground for priority company communications. Even with the increased use of data link communications, VHF voice radio remains the industry standard used by commercial air carriers and business and general aviation. VHF voice radio enables airlines to communicate emergency or other non-routine situations to company dispatch, maintenance and medical advisory services, limiting unnecessary diversions and providing the critical communications link from the aircraft to the ground. ARINC Direct offers a full suite of flight planning, flight support and flight deck communications solutions for business aviation. For the full range please see: www.business-flight-support.com. 55th annual AEA International Convention & Trade Show The largest gathering of avionics manufacturers, distributors and government-certified repair stations in the world is taking place now in Washington DC! An opportunity for manufacturers, distributors, technicians and business leaders to network and look at new solutions for avionics. The official event site boasts: More than 75 hours of FAA-accepted regulatory, technical and business management training. More than 100 exhibitors in the AEA Exhibit Hall. Meet the regulators and learn the latest issues impacting the avionics industry and your business. The introduction of new avionics products for 2012. AEA’s Show Specials – deep OEM to dealer discounts that could offset the cost of attending the entire show. AEA’s social events, including the First-Nighter Party with a Crab and Beer Fest, the annual Awards Luncheon and the Last Call Reception. One exhibitor will be ARINC Direct offering flight support, flight planning, flight tracking, data services and flight deck communications for the business aviation community. For more information on these solutions please visit: business-flight-planning.com Easter Mayhem Expected at UK Airports Aviation made it into the news this week for all the wrong reasons. Airlines warn that Britain’s airports could be reduced to ‘gridlock’ over Easter due to security staff shortages. Airlines have warned that the UK Border Agency does not have enough staff to check the passports of everyone coming into Britain, and long queues could leave passengers stranded on planes. 1.5 million holidaymakers are expected to travel this weekend but if the security halls are blocked passenger will need to remain on the aircraft resulting in security risks and serious operational delays for airlines. New Canadian Passenger Reporting Requirements Met by ARINC’s Electronic Borders The Canada Border Services agency (CBSA) has introduced new reporting guidelines in response to privacy and data quality concerns. ARINC announced this week that it will use its product Electronic Borders to assist the migration of airlines to the new Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) Advance Passenger Information (API) and Passenger Name Record (PNR) Push Program. ARINC Electronic Borders The program accepts a direct transfer of API/PNR data from air carriers and service providers. Airlines that use ARINC network solutions can send API/PNR messages directly to CBSA via the carrier’s reservation and departure control system or global distribution system. “ARINC technology offers the flexibility to support any airline in meeting the CBSA’s new API/PNR initiative,” said Thad Baringer, ARINC Business Development Director, Global Networks & IT Solutions. “ARINC achieved a major milestone in January by transmitting its first live API message between airlines and the new CBSA data acquisition system,” stated Baringer. “We continue to offer seamless interoperability with existing airline technology and CBSA.” CBSA set an initial compliance deadline of December 31, 2011 which was extended to March 31, 2012. The agency continues to work with airlines to migrate to the new data acquisition system. ARINC’s Electronic Borders products are robust and safe, with a proven track record of four years live deployment and millions of passengers cleared in Europe. It aligns with current strategic e-Border security initiatives, supports the existing tight security rings and complies with the inspection processes already in place; all while keeping Border traffic moving as efficiently as possible. For more information please visit:	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1009
__label__wiki	0.92379	0.92379	Penny Pinchers (Movie - 2011) Pictures\|Facts\|News 티끌모아 로맨스 (Ti-kkeul-mo-a Ro-maen-seu) Directed by Kim Jeong-hwan-III (김정환) Screenplay by Kim Jeong-hwan-III (김정환) •Melodrama •Romance 114min \| Release date in South Korea : 2011/11/10 Previously known as "Many a Little Romance" and "Although I Was Born" (태어나긴 했지만, Tae-eo-na-gin Haett-ji-man) Ji-woong is a loser who can’t find a job, lies to his mom for money, but his mom abruptly cuts him off one day, and he becomes homeless. But that same day, salvation arrives in the form of Hong-sil who’s extremely stingy. Her hobby is visiting the bank to make savings deposits, and her specialty is selling empty glass bottles and old newspapers for cash. One day, her savings plans are brought to a screeching halt when she learns she needs a separate bank account under someone else’s name to reach her goal of 20 million dollars. That’s when Ji-woong comes into the picture. Penny Pinchers \| Cast Community\|Top Han Ye-seul 한예슬 Goo Hong-sil (구홍실) Song Joong-ki 송중기 Cheon Ji-woong (천지웅) Shin So-yul 신소율 Ha Kyeong-joo (하경주) Lee Sang-yeob Yang Gwan-woo (양관우) Lee Jae-won-I 이재원 Tae-woo (태우) Lee Yong-joo Chang-geun (창근) Extended cast Penny Pinchers \| HanCinema Reviews [HanCinema's Film Review] "Penny Pinchers": Love on a budget Kim Jeong-hwan-III's "Penny Pinchers" is a rather charming romantic comedy that highlights some of hardships the youth of Korea have to tackle. Two young lives become intertwined as they find each other amidst Korea's highly competitive, and seemingly unforgiving, rat race. It's them against the world, but not before the lies and deceit between them is resolved in a heart-felt journey of self-discovery and compassion,...More Penny Pinchers \| News Song Joong-ki Spotted in Brunei Superstar Song Joong-ki is in Brunei to film "Arthdal Chronicles". Chinese media reported that Song Joong-ki greeted local fans with a gentle smile,...More Song Joong-ki's points of appeal It's Song Joong-ki's world. Song Joong-ki is what is left of "Descendants of the Sun". Critics say the actor who played Yoo Si-jin was born ready. We take a look at his star abilities. The never-fading pretty boy Song Joong-ki can't be said without his Naval image. The line, "This is just a good looking face" from the drama "Descendants of the Sun" isn't a lie. Writer Kim Eun-sook's delicious lines and Song Joong-ki's looks are enough to capture women's hearts,...More [USA and Canada] DramaFever Launches New CJ E&M Movie Channel New Feature for DramaFever Premium Subscribers Brings Best Korean Films, On Demand, to Fans in the U.S. and Canada DramaFever (dramafever.com), the leading online destination for international television shows, movies and concerts, and the leading Asian pop culture producer and distributor CJ E&M have announced the launch of DramaFever's "CJ E&M Movie Channel". Created as part of a previously-announced, multi-year licensing deal between the two companies, the CJ E&M Movie Channel will debut today, with two dozen films immediately available on demand to premium subscribers of DramaFever's OTT digital video network. Fans can access the channel at dramafever.com/movies, and for the first three days,...More Song Joong-ki, "Wouldn't release album, regardless how much money I'd be offered" Song Joong-ki's singing talent has become a topic. Song Joong-ki was ranked seventh on the list of celebrities with the unexpected surprising singing talent in the June 8th episode of tvN's 'Name List',...More [HanCinema's Actor Spotlight] Song Joong-ki Song Joong-ki is one of the rawest talents to ever grace the small and big screens of South Korea. Every emotion he portrays on screen is rooted in his gut: strong, visceral, real. His good looks may have won him entrance onto the competitive K-drama and K-film playing field, but his skills have kept him on top. What makes Song stand out as an actor is his keen intelligence and his deep understanding of his roles,...More [HanCinema's Photo Diaries] 10 Korean Movie Barcodes! What happens when you compress a Korean film into a single image? Here are 10 beautiful and interesting results.,...More [HanCinema's Film Review] "Spellbound": Overcome your Fears one Date at a Time... Film: "Spellbound" Director: Hwang In-ho Stars: Son Ye-jin, Lee Min-ki, Park Chul-min & Kim Hyun-sook Review Score: 3.5 / 5 Also Try: "Love Fiction", "You Pet" or "Penny Pinchers" Hwang In-ho's 2011 romantic comedy "Spellbound" (Formerly known as "Chilling Romance" on HanCinema) had a tough time when it was released late last year. This quirky, and curiously attractive, little romantic comedy had to wrestle the likes of "Mission Impossible 4", which claimed more the 7.5 million admissions during its marathon run at the box office. Credit then has to be given to Hwang's playful and quaint twist on the romantic comedy genre and the film's ability to convince more than 3 million people in Korea that it was worth the price of admission. Like any memorable love story worth renting, "Spellbound" comes down to science, specifically chemistry and, here, a twist of physics. Son Ye-jin plays the nervous and introverted Yeo-ri, who just so happens to be a living in a nexus between our world and the next. Ghosts often haunt her as well as those around her, forcing her into a loveless self-seclusion,...More [HanCinema's Film Review] Korean Weekend Box Office 2012.11.02 ~ 2012.11.04 HanCinema's Korean Box Office Review (2012.11.02 ~ 2012.11.04) This last weekend saw Jo Sung-hee's supernatural love story "A Werewolf Boy" nudge 007 for the win. The film is off to a promising start as it claimed 1,030,285 (48.7%) admissions in its opening weekend. That's more than double the efforts of last week's number one "Skyfall" which only managed 458,998 (22.8%). Jo Sung-hee was also responsible for the 2012 drama "End of Animal" and contributed to 2009 omnibus film "Nice Shorts". "A Werewolf Boy" stars Song Joong-ki ("Penny Pinchers") and Park Bo-young ("Don't Click") in a fantasy drama that seems to be hitting all the right notes with the Korean public, so far,...More Song Joong-ki "Forget about the milk ad" Massive change in "Nice Guy" "Bad guy uses women" Song Joong-ki uses two women to relieve himself from his former love. Something we haven't seen before,...More Lee Sang-yeob, a lawyer in "Nice Guy" Actor Lee Sang-yeob will only have the heart for Moon Chae-won. Lee Sang-yeob's agency revealed that he has joined the new KBS 2TV drama "Nice Guy",...More It's Wednesday -- right in the middle of the work week -- and our arts and culture reporter Michelle Kim is here to light up the day and give us the latest update on performances and entertainment. Hello Michelle. [Reporter : Michelle Kim] Hello Conn-young and hello to you all. So what exciting news do you have for us this afternoon,...More Korean Blogathon 2012 : Sixth Batch Saturday 10th March 2012 : Remember to add names of authors if possible! Feel free to message us if we miss you, there are a lot of links rolling in!,...More Korean Blogathon 2012 : Fourth Batch Thursday 8th March 2012 : Remember to add names of authors if possible! Feel free to message us if we miss you, there are a lot of links rolling in!,...More Movie of the week "Penny Pinchers" Movie of the week "Penny Pinchers" (2011) Directed by Kim Jeong-hwan-III With Han Ye-seul, Song Joong-ki, Lee Sang-yeob, Shin So-yul, Lee Jae-won-I,... Previously known as "Many a Little Romance" and "Although I Was Born" (태어나긴 했지만, Tae-eo-na-gin Haett-ji-man) Synopsis Ji-woong is a loser who can't find a job, lies to his mom for money, but his mom abruptly cuts him off one day, and he becomes homeless,...More KoreanFilm.org's Top Korean films of 2011 by Darcy Paquet Each year I assemble my top 10 list out of the Korean films that have been released in theaters over the previous 12 months. The small independent films that I catch at the Busan or Jeonju film festivals may not be released by December, but they generally do get a small commercial release within a year or two, so I can include them in a later list.This year, however, I came across a great film that may end up not getting a commercial release, so I squeezed it in where #10 would normally go. I was racking my brain over that #10 slot anyway,...More South Korean Box Office in 2011 Korean cinema expert Darcy Paquet looks back at the results of 2011's box office with some unexpected hits and misses, the rise of independent features, and how audiences confirmed they value story over spectacle. Although the number crunchers in Hollywood estimate that US theatrical admissions sank to their lowest level since 1995, things were not so gloomy in Korea. With an estimated 160 million tickets sold (more precise figures will become available at a later date), it appears that Korea has approached or broken the modern-day record for admissions. In 2010, total admissions stopped at 146.8 million. In monetary terms, 2011 was certainly the best year ever, given the 3D surcharge and rising average ticket prices. Americans may be growing tired of the theatrical movie-going experience, but young Koreans still crowd the multiplexes,...More Final Korean Box Office for the Week-end 2011.12.23 ~ 2011.12.25 The number one movie this week is "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol",...More Song Joong-ki and Kim Tae-hee, number one stars to be hugged by Actor Song Joong-ki and actress Kim Tae-hee were chosen as the number one stars to be hugged by. Albamon, an employment site, conducted a survey of 763 university students titled, "The Star You Would Most Want To Be Hugged By". The result was 11.3% choosing Song Joong-ki and 19.7% for Kim Tae-hee,...More Cast Shout Out "Penny Pinchers" - Han Ye-Seul and Song Joong-ki Here's an exclusive clip with actor Song Joong-ki (송중기) and actress Han Ye-seul (한예슬)!! "Penny Pinchers" is releasing this Friday, (December 9) at CGV Cinemas Los Angeles, so make sure to come out and support them!!,...More The number one movie this week is "SIU" (특수본),...More Song Joong-ki "Yoo Ah-in is the most serious amongst the same age group" Actor Song Joong-ki said, "Yoo Ah-in is the most serious out of everyone in the same age group". In an interview with OSEN recently, when he was told that the KBS 2TV group of four (Song Joong-ki, Yoo Ah-in, Micky Yuchun and Park Min-young) are standing out, Song Joong-ki said, "I feel good that all four of us are doing well. I feel the four of us are going to go a long way like this".,...More HanCinema's Korean Box Office Review (2011.11.25 ~ 2011.11.27) After an impressive run at the top, Lee Han's "Punch" finally gives way to Hwang Byung-gook's action crime film "SIU" (Special Investigation Bureau). The film opened last week and received a lot of interest with 346,875 admissions going its way on weekend. It stars Uhm Tae-woong and Joo Won as detectives tasked with solving a series of mysterious deaths. "SIU" is Hwang Byung-gook's second major film, his first being "Wedding Campaign" that he wrote and directed back in 2005,...More Early Korean Box Office for the Week-end 2011.11.25 ~ 2011.11.27 Han Ye-seul "It hurts to judge a movie by hits" Actress Han Ye-seul who has come back with the romantic comedy "Penny Pinchers" had an interview full of affection for movies. She said, "I chose this movie thinking it is something I would watch. I was worried they wouldn't pick me for the role of Hong-sil after I read the scenario".,...More The number one movie this week is "Punch" (완득이),...More HanCinema's Korean Box Office Review (2011.11.18 ~ 2011.11.20) In a slightly quieter week, Lee Han's "Punch" remains at number one with 361,807 admissions and 29.9% of the ticket sales. Lee's film is also currently at number five for Korea's top films of the year, just behind "Silenced" and "Detective K". Another week or two should see it surpass one, if not both, of these blockbusters,...More Korean romantic comedies crash The results of recent Korean romantic comedy movies are not that good. After the craze for "Arrow, The Ultimate Weapon" and "Silenced" passed by this summer, there was a spill of romantic comedies, showing the sweet affection between lovers. Despite the fact that October and November is off-season for theaters, these films threw their hat into the ring with the excuse that the cold weather would give a reason for lovers to spend their time watching movies,...More "Penny Pinchers" Song Joong-ki behind the scenes "Penny Pinchers" released a bunch of Song Joong-ki stills never seen before. Song Joong-ki, who has lately been appearing in many dramas, movies and entertainment shows with his prince-like looks, plays the role of Cheon Ji-woong in the movie "Penny Pinchers",...More [Interview] "Penny Pinchers" Shin So-yul on a scooter "I caused the accident due to my clumsy driving, it must've hurt..." She has gentle eyes and a never fading smile on her lips. She answers all questions with a bold voice one by one. She is Shin So-yul from the movie "Penny Pinchers" and the SBS drama "Deep-rooted Tree". She seemed more feminine with her hair down and forehead showing,...More Kim Ha-neul and Han Ye-seul below expectations, Son Ye-jin? It seems the romantic comedies in November have a lot of keeping up to do. Especially, "You Pet" and "Penny Pinchers" with the casting of top stars, which are currently in 4th and 5th box office ranking behind "Punch", "Immortals" and "Real Steel".,...More HanCinema's Korean Box Office Review (2011.11.11 ~ 2011.11.13) This past weekend has seen "Punch" not only stay true on top with 462,670 admissions but also move up a slot of Korea's top films of the year. Lee Han's latest captured 32.2% of moviegoers' interest to position it number six of Korea's top performers,...More A new troika to follow Jang Dong-gun, Jung Woo-sung and Lee Jung-jae? Jang Geun-suk, Song Joong-ki and Yoo Ah-in receive attention as the new troika in Chungmuro. Jang Dong-gun, Jung Woo-sung and Lee Jung-jae are well known as the 1990s troika. They were popular not only for dramas, but also movies, and now it seems like three new actors will carry on the tradition,...More Romance on TV all the time, do you know why? It's the older woman loves younger man generation! This fall's trend of older women loving younger men has spread to home TV screens as well,...More Added new posters and video for the Korean movie "Penny Pinchers" Added new posters and video for the Korean movie "Penny Pinchers",...More Jang Geun-suk and Song Joong-ki couldn't leap over Yoo Ah-in Touching movie "Punch" which was released last month on the 20th stayed firm in its leading place although several romantic comedies like "You Pet", "Penny Pinchers" and Hollywood blockbuster "Immortals" were released this month. According to the Korean Films Commission, "Punch" with actors Kim Yun-seok and Yoo Ah-in gathered 89,380 audiences and made the leading box office hits with an accumulated number of 2,919,854.,...More Korean movies opening today 2011/11/10 in Korea "You Pet", "Penny Pinchers" and "Yeosu",...More War of romantic comedies Song Joong-ki and Jang Geun-suk The war of romantic comedies has started. Two movies that treat love as fresh subject matter are being released at the same time on November 10th. Han Ye-seul and Song Joong-ki in "Penny Pinchers" and Kim Ha-neul and Jang Geun-suk's "You Pet",...More Song Joong-ki Migrating into Movies with Romantic Comedy Just four years into his acting career, Song Joong-ki's star is in the ascendant, and the handsome young actor who briefly appeared as a young King Sejong in the SBS drama "Deep-rooted Tree" is soaking up praise from fans and critics alike. But he hasn't let the growing fame get to his head, and showbiz figures often express surprise at his humility and polished manners,...More Added new stills and video for the upcoming Korean movie "Penny Pinchers" Added new stills and video for the upcoming Korean movie "Penny Pinchers",...More HanCinema's Korean Box Office Review (2011.11.04 ~ 2011.11.06) The first week of November belongs to Lee Han's "Punch". This is its third week on top of the charts and it does so with 44.6% of the week's ticket sales. "Punch" has now surpassed "The Client" at number six of Korea's top films of the year with 2,465,751 total admissions,...More Song Joong-ki's small wish -- to win 'Best Couple Award' with an actress Actor Song Joong-ki expressed that he wished to receive a 'Best Couple Award' with an actress. Actor Song Joong-ki was on the KBS2 "Star News" guerilla date,...More VCR2 This Week's Cultural News Imagine what it would be like if villains from the 007 movie series were presented as Oriental artworks. This is an exhibition that features the various characters from the movie series. However, there are no signs of James Bond, and only his enemies are visible,...More Song Joong-ki: 'I Want Become Actor Like Leonardo DiCaprio' Actor Song Joong-ki, who will play his first role as a protagonist in the movie "Penny Pinchers", gave an interview at a cafe in Samcheongdong on November 3. Asked about his favorite actor, he answered, "I admire the actor Leonardo DiCaprio and want to become an actor like him. He has excellent acting ability and many charms of his own. And he has successfully transformed into a characteristic actor from his previous image of a 'pretty boy'". His answer sounds very natural when considering his own characteristics. It will be his first appearance as a protagonist, but his recognition among audiences is already very high. He has appeared on various programs such as entertainment programs, dramas, and movies, and his appearance looked splendid even though he was not the main character of those programs. It might be because of his beautiful appearance, but his appearance was not his only virtue. He mentioned that he was a very competitive person, and it seemed to be true when looking at his concentration while appearing on any works on TV or on the movie screen,...More "Flower Boys" color fall Actors in their 20s are here! There was once shortage of actors in Chungmuro. There was worry that there wasn't going to be anyone in the next generation to follow Song Kang-ho, Kim Yun-seok, Choi Min-sik and other established actors in their 40s. However, nowadays moviemakers are smiling. Young and fresh actors in their 20s are shaking up Chungmuro with their feisty spirit,...More Why is the public captivated by Song Joong-ki? Song Joong-ki has talent and visual appeal. Actor Song Joong-ki is the 'it' guy nowadays. How did he manage to become 'it' in such a short period of time?,...More Added music video and new stills for the upcoming Korean movie "Penny Pinchers" Added music video and new stills for the upcoming Korean movie "Penny Pinchers",...More Song Joong-ki, "I cried when Han Suk-kyu taught me" Song Joong-ki cried because of Han Suk-kyu. Song Joong-ki spoke about his impression of "Deep-rooted Tree" on the SBS Power FM show "Park So-yeon's Love Game",...More Today's Photo: October 20, 2011 Song Joong-ki (left) and Han Ye-seul pose at a press event for their new film "Penny Pinchers" in Seoul on Wednesday,...More Added new stills for the upcoming Korean movie "Penny Pinchers" Added new stills for the upcoming Korean movie "Penny Pinchers",...More Posters revealed for the upcoming Korean movie "Penny Pinchers" Posters revealed for the upcoming Korean movie "Penny Pinchers",...More Trailer released for the upcoming Korean movie "Penny Pinchers" Trailer released for the upcoming Korean movie "Penny Pinchers",...More Han Ye-seul returns from USA in October to promote movie Han Ye-seul, who left for USA after KBS drama "Spy MyeongWol" will return in October and promote her movie. According to the officials from her management and the movie, she will attend the events lined up for movie promotions,...More Teaser and new stills revealed for the upcoming Korean movie "Penny Pinchers" Teaser and new stills revealed for the upcoming Korean movie "Penny Pinchers",...More Han Ye-seul pic to open in theaters in Nov A film starring Han Ye-seul and Song Joong-ki will move forward with its plans to be released in November. Questions had arisen to whether the film, named "Penny Pinchers" (translated title), will see a release within the year with Han having stirred much confusion and controversy with her abrupt departure from a TV series last month over "unfair working conditions".,...More Han Ye-seul and Song Joong-ki transform comically in "Penny Pinchers" Movie "Penny Pinchers" with Han Ye-seul and Song Joong-ki has finished shooting for 3 months and cranked up on the 16th of May. "Penny Pinchers" is about a stingy college girl and a bluffing jobless boy who attempt at making 200 million won, with Han Ye-seul and Song Joong-ki's lively character and lines.,...More Upcoming Korean movie "Although I Was Born" Added the upcoming Korean movie "Although I Was Born"'s page to HanCinema database,...More "Although I Was Born" Lee Sang-yeob, Jun Ji-hyun then Han Ye-seul Lee Sang-yeob, who plays Jang Hyuk's handsome friend in "Midas" (written by Choi Wan-gyoo directed by Kang Sin-hyo and Lee Chang-min-I) has been cast to be Han Ye-seul's man. In the movie "Although I Was Born", he is an attractive fund manager. He let himself be known by making a surprise appearance as Jun Ji-hyun's boyfriend in "A Man Who Was Superman".,...More Song Joong-ki, Han Ye-seul cast in new film Actor Song Joong-ki (left) and actress Han Ye-seul [Filament Pictures] Actor Song Joong-ki and actress Han Ye-seul have been cast as the main stars of a new film, according to a press release by distributor Filament Pictures. In the upcoming movie whose title can be translated into "Although I Was Born", Song will appear as a pathetic college graduate who is dependent on his mom who works in a restaurant and Han a penny pincher who denounces all activities involving spending money including believing in a religion, going to the hospital and dating,...More Penny Pinchers \| Shopping DVD HK (En Sub) DVD (Normal Edition) (En Sub) DVD (First Press Edition) (En Sub) Penny Pinchers \| Pictures All types Posters Most popular Randomly Time added 24487296 Smallest Small Medium Slideshow, Slider View all 107 pictures for "Penny Pinchers" Penny Pinchers \| Videos \| Suggest a video Han Ye-seul Interview Penny Pinchers (티끌모아 로맨스) - Movie Ooh, La, La Session Viewers' Recommendation Music Video 'Smile' by Lee Byung-hoon and Jung Bobby sung by Ukulele Picnic (Jo Tae-joon) 1 2 Page 1Page 2 2> Penny Pinchers \| Links \| Suggest a link http://www.facebook.com/lovencash2011 Naver Café (네이버 카페) http://cafe.naver.com/lovencash2011 http://twitter.com/lovencash2011 Penny Pinchers \| Reviews Penny Pinchers \| Facts Indiestory (인디스토리) Lee Byung-hoon (이병훈) Score composer Park Juyoung (박주영) www.lovencash2011.co... 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__label__cc	0.565746	0.434254	Category - Royal Bank Should Canadian Open become a WGC event? Should we sacrifice the RBC Canadian Open? That seems to be what Golf Canada executive director Scott Simmons was raising while talking to the Globe’s Lorne Rubenstein at the Canadian Open. Simmons was apparently discussing the possibility of... RBC Canadian Open announces initial players It seems a little later than normal, but Golf Canada has announced its initial batch of players and frankly, there are no surprises. Nope, Tiger Woods isn’t coming — so let’s get that out of the way early. He never was and... RBC continues its big bet on golf Though it got little coverage – it is interesting to see the RBC isn’t backing down from the golf marketing business even after the departure of former chief marketing officer Jim Little. Late last week the company announced it was adding... Wasserman Media acquires Catalyst... Steve Marshman might just be the most significant person in Canadian golf that you don’t know. Marshman’s reach in the business is long – his Oakville, Ont. company, Catalyst Sponsorship Consulting manages the Canadian Open for RBC as well as... RBC Canadian Open field announced: Simpson... Next week I’ll be spending a lot of time shuttling between Toronto and Ancaster for the RBC Canadian Open. The tournament announced its final field on Friday, which is quietly quite strong while still including some big names. The stars:... Global Golf Post — Little played big... I’ve spent the past few months telling people about the possibility of digital publishing after the launch of Global Golf Post, a free digital golf publication that comes to your inbox every Monday. To me it is a must read. And now... Jim Little, architect behind RBC's... Jim Little, the marketing executive at RBC who developed the company’s golf strategy, is leaving, according to an email circulated to staff. Little ran sponsorship and marketing for Bell Canada, including the Canadian Open, and then left... Canadian Open course setups suck: PGA Tour... Interesting to see the latest issue of Golf World, which includes Geoff Shackelford’s survey of PGA Tour pros commenting on what their favourite courses are. Two of the three regular courses for the Canadian Open do well:... Sympatico: Shaughnessy's the draw for... I’m writing for Sympatico this week at the Canadian Open, and kick off coverage with a story on the course — Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club. It is a genuinely very good course — probably in the Top 20 in Canada. It will...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1033
__label__cc	0.714617	0.285383	Tag Archives: penicillin it’s a small world Once upon a time I went to Disneyland. My excuse is that it was a long time ago. So long, in fact, that I don’t need to specify where — it was before theme park cloning got going. Goodness knows why I went — given that if I was inclined to sticking pins in things, Mickey Mouse would be a prime target — though, logically, a model of Walt would come first. But one memory of that visit recurs unbidden to this day: the song ‘it’s a small world (after all).’ I know. I shouldn’t blame Disney as it was the Sherman Brothers greatest hit — and what with also writing the scores for Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, they’ve got a lot to answer for. Nevertheless and irritating though the jingle may be, it contains a rather profound line: ‘There’s so much that we share that it’s time we’re aware, It’s a small world after all’. And that will do very well as our theme for the day. Your inner self A sobering thought about being human is that we’re mostly bugs – that’s to say on a cell to cell basis the microbes in our bodies outnumber us by ten to one. Ten to one: time for lunch, to recycle the old Goon Show gag, but first perhaps you should survey your microbiota – the 1000 or so assorted species of bacteria that have made you their home. Most of them (99%) reside in your digestive tract and we don’t notice them, of course, because they’re so much smaller than the cells of our body (they make up less than 3% of our mass). Sometimes called gut flora, they’re important in squeezing the last ounce of energy from what we eat by helping to digest sugars and they also make some vitamins that we need. You could, then, think of this unseen army of tiny cells as an organ in their own right. Unnoticed they may be but you upset them at your peril, as everyone knows who’s taken a course of antibiotics (e.g., penicillin) to get rid of unwanted bugs. Bugs tummy This vast force of bacteria, toiling away on our behalf in the dungeon of our innards, includes two major sub-families, Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes. Don’t worry about pronunciation: think of them as B & F. What’s important is that obese animals (including humans) have about half the number of Bs and double that of Fs, compared to normal. That’s a startling shift – the sort of result that gets scientists thinking: something fishy going on here. But what really gets their antennae twitching is the follow-up result. Each bug has its own genetic material (DNA) carrying a set of genes — different for each species. From faecal samples (i.e. stools) the total number of microbial genes can be estimated and — astonishingly — it turns out that there are several hundred times the number of our own genes. We have about 20,000, the bugs muster several million. But the really provocative result is that this total of microbial genes in our gut drops if we become obese: Fewer genes = more body fat More genes (a more diverse microbiome) = healthy status. Cause or effect? A good question — that can be answered by man’s best friend. Yes, I’m afraid it’s Mickey again. Mice born under aseptic conditions by Caesarean section don’t have any gut microbes — they’re ‘germ-free’ mice — and they grow up with less body fat than normal mice. However, give them the gut army from a normal mouse and they more than double their body fat in a couple of weeks. The microbiota from an obese mouse makes them gain twice as much fat. What happens if you colonise germ-free mice with human gut microbes? If they’re from someone who’s obese the mice also become obese, if fed a high-fat rather than a normal diet. Because obesity is all about the balance between energy extracted from food and that expended, all this suggests that obesity-associated microbiomes increase the efficiency of extraction. But if that’s the case maybe there are some slackers in the bug world – types that are pretty hopeless at food processing. Might they offset obesity? Well, at least one (by the name of Akkermansia muciniphila) does just that — again in mice — and its numbers are much reduced in obese people but go up after gastric bypass surgery that reduces the absorption of nutrients from food. This offers the seductive notion that some types of bug might help to reduce obesity. You may have spotted a bit of a cause for concern: if the make up of our gut bugs can affect how our bodies work — and especially whether we put on weight — what happens when we zap ourselves with antibiotics? The problem is, of course, that these drugs target a range of bacteria — they’re not particularly choosy — which is why you get diarrhœa when you take penicillin for a throat infection. And it’s not just you. In the UK we consume 30 million antibiotic prescriptions a year: Americans get through over 250 million and their children get an average of 15 courses of antibiotics in their early years. The problem here is not about antibiotics being wonderful and saving millions of lives but the possibility that they might have long-term effects. Evidence for this has come from Martin Blaser’s group at New York University who showed that some antibiotics make mice put on weight and build up fat. What’s more, a high-fat diet adds to this effect. Remarkably, changes in the mice microbiota occur before they become obese — and the effects are for life. It seems extraordinary that a short drug pulse, such as we might give a child to cure an ear infection, can have permanent effects. The explanation may be that some gut bacteria are better at surviving the drug treatment resulting in a shift of microbiota balance to give more efficient digestion — i.e. greater energy provision. It may not be coincidence that the escalation in antibiotic use since the 1940s has paralleled the obesity explosion. In 1989 no USA state had an obesity level above 14%; by 2010 none was below 20% — and the national average is now 30%. Bugs and cancer: drivers or mirrors? Those who follow this blog will know that where obesity lurks cancer looms. Indeed transferring microbiota to germ-free mice has been shown to promote a wide range of tumours and, conversely, depleting intestinal bacteria reduces the development of liver and colon cancers. It’s also worth noting that bowel cancer occurs more frequently in the large intestine than in the small — which may reflect the much higher microbial density. Is it a small world after all? All these findings suggest that our bug contingent can influence the onset of obesity and various cancers and that even brief drug treatments can have permanent effects on its make up. We have only the vaguest idea how this happens and most of the evidence so far comes from Mickey’s rellos. Even so, maybe in time we will be able to manipulate our personal gut micro-worlds to augment our defences against these potent foes. Martin J. Blaser: Missing microbes, Henry Holt & Company 2014 http://www.amazon.com/Missing-Microbes-Overuse-Antibiotics-Fueling/dp/0805098100/ref=sr_1_1_ha?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1400478180&sr=1-1&keywords=missing+microbes By Cancer For All Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Akkermansia muciniphila, antibiotics, ‘germ-free’ mice, bacteria, Bacteroidetes, bowel cancer, Caesarean section, cancer, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, diarrhœa, digestive tract, Disneyland, DNA, drugs, Firmicutes, gastric bypass, gene, Goon Show, gut flora, it’s a small world (after all), liver cancer, Martin Blaser, Mary Poppins, Mickey Mouse, microbes, microbiota, New York University, obesity, penicillin, Sherman Brothers, sugars, vitamins, Walt Disney	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1035
__label__wiki	0.504872	0.504872	Shopify takes cannabis brands to new heights \| Business – The Times By News On May 12, 2019 It is the brand behind the brands dominating the legal cannabis market. When the Canadian federal government lifted the ban on marijuana sales for recreational use last October, Shopify processed more than 100 orders a minute via start-ups such as Canopy, Aurora Cannabis and Aphria. Shopify was founded in 2006, two years after German-born Tobi Lütke, 38, launched a snowboard label from his garage but could not find a satisfactory way to sell his products online so decided to build his own site. The Ontario-based company now aims to conquer the cannabis market globally. “When there is [legal] clarity elsewhere, we’re set up to be the first call people make,” Harley Finkelstein, chief operating officer, said. “The reason we started in Canada was there was… This article originally appeared here in https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/shopify-takes-cannabis-brands-to-new-heights-x9r0s0qs7 Where cannabis investors see the next big wave? In precision dosing – TechCrunch Cannabinoids for Treatment of MS Symptoms: State of the Evidence Hawaii Becomes 26th State to decriminalises cannabis possession Effect of adding medical cannabis to analgesic treatment in… Cannabis Cup coming to Clio, Michigan, High Times magazine… Marijuana delivery rival sues Eaze over credit card payments… Illinois Senate approves recreational use of marijuana after… Experts cast doubt on coroner's claim woman killed by…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1037
__label__wiki	0.984644	0.984644	Catalog Record: The French stage in the eighteenth century \| HathiTrust Digital Library The French stage in the eighteenth century. Hawkins, Frederick William, 1849-1900. New York, Haskell House, 1969. Comédie-Française. French drama > French drama / History and criticism. Theater > Theater / France > Theater / France / Paris > Theater / France / Paris / History. "Chronology of the French stage, 1699-1799": v. 2, p. 423-441. Reprint of the 1888 ed. 2 v. ports. 23 cm. Limited (search only)v.2 University of Minnesota The French stage in the eighteenth century. / Annals of the French stage, from its origin to the death of Racine. Annals of the French stage; from its origin to the death of Racine. Annals of the French stage from its origin to the death of Racine. Annals of the French stage, from its origin to the death of Racine. London, Chapman and Hall, 1884. Shakespeare on the French stage in the eighteenth century / Monaco, Marion, 1914- The life of Edmund Kean.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1046
__label__cc	0.529906	0.470094	home Biography Kate Luyben Wiki, Age, Body Measurements, Net Worth, Movies, Husband, Son Kate Luyben Wiki, Age, Body Measurements, Net Worth, Movies, Husband, Son awash adhikari Published On Fri Sep 21 2018 Modified On Tue Feb 12 2019 Facts of Kathe Luyben Full Name Kathe Luyben Birth Name Katherine Luyben Profession Actress Nationality Canadian Birth City Canada Spouse Jim Jefferies Relation With Nathan Fillion Religion Christianity Body Stat of Kathe Luyben What is Kathe Luyben marital status ? Single Who is Kathe Luyben married with? Jim Jefferies Who is Kathe Luyben in Relation with? Nathan Fillion What is the height of Kathe Luyben? 5.6 cm What is the weight of Kathe Luyben? 58 kg Kate Luyben is a beautiful and talented Canadian actress, a television personality who became famous for her roles in numerous movies and TV films in her career. She is best known for her outstanding performances in several movies, as well as TV series, including Shanghai Noon, Intolerable Cruelty, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Criminal Minds and among others. She is an active person and has made a respectable position in American film and T.V industry. If you are inquisitive to know more interesting information about this beautiful TV queen then keep scrolling. Kate Luyben’s Biography Kate Luyben was born under the birth sign of Cancer on 30 June 1972, in Canada as a Katherine Luyben. She holds a Canadian nationality and belongs to the white ethnicity. Kate Luyben’s Body Statistics Height & Weight: The 42 years’ actress, Kate Luyben has the tall height of 5 feet 6 inches and her body mass is 58 kg. Body Measurements: She has a perfect slim body built with curved shaped which is measured in 36-26-35 inches. Hair color: She has long hair with natural blonde color. Eyes color: She has an attractive blue eye which has described her personality to be the calm type of person. Shoe Size: 9.5(US) Kate Luyben’s Movies Traveling to her glinting career, Kate began her acting career in the 1998 movie named Misbegotten. Later on, she performed in TV films including The X-Files and First Wave in the year 1999. Likewise, she appeared in many the other TV series such as Criminal Minds, Two and a Half Men, True Blood. In 2004, Kate’s performance in the movies like Road Party and Wait received a positive response from many people. Moreover, she also had roles in the TV films such as Eagleheart (2012), Femme Fatales (2012), and Legit (2013). Kate Luyben’s Husband and Son The 46 years, Kate Luyben is in a romantic relationship with Australian stand-up comedian, Jim Jefferis. The pair started dating each other in the year 2011. The couple blessed with a son named Hank Jefferies. Likewise, they are not married to each other until now and their relationship is going very well. Moving towards her past affairs, Kate dated Canadian actor named Nathan Fillion(who also dated actress, Felicia Day). Kate Luyben’s Net Worth Kate Luyben gained quite a fair sum through a professional career. As os 2018, she has been able to add an estimated net worth of around $3 million. The sensational actress has earned a name and fame for herself serving in television series. Kate has already enjoyed a fair bit of success and her earnings prove it. This encourages her to gain a massive amount of salary. As per some tabloid source, she receives around 500k from herTV and movies appearances. You also may like the bio, net worth, career, relationship, dating, affairs, married, children of Tom Morello, Amy Bruni, Megan Wollover. Kate Luyben Shane Kilcher Bio, Age, Height, Accident, Partner, House, Net Worth, Job, Wife, Married, Children Felicia Day Age, Net Worth, Wiki, Height, Family, Married, Husband, Career, Movies, Shows Who is Sean Spicer’s Wife Rebecca Claire Miller? Know Her Bio, Parents, Family, Husband, Facts. Who is Bailee Madison? Know her Bio, Age, Dating, Affairs, Net Worth, Earnings, and Body Measurements!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1050
__label__wiki	0.591541	0.591541	Our Squad: The DC Supervillain Fantasy Draft, Part Two CA Staff There are enough great DC supervillains to fill Belle Reve Prison several times over, so we've asked ComicsAlliance contributors Benito Cereno, Elle Collins, Chris Haley, Emma Lawson, Kieran Shiach, and Tom Speelman to compete in putting together their very best fantasy DC supervillain teams. In part one, several of the publisher's most iconic villains were snapped up, including Lex Luthor, Catwoman, Doomsday, and Darkseid, and Benito locked in two of DC's greatest apes in Gorilla Grodd and Monsieur Mallah. With some of the most obvious choices out of the way, where will our panelists look next? Note: Each team must include a mastermind, a heavy, a monster, and an assassin, and there's a villainous wildcard element that we’ll introduce in part three. Chris: I figure in making these teams, we’ve got to worry not only about the superheroes, but also the other villain teams, so you need someone that can deal with whatever can be thrown at you by bad guys with Omega Beams or Benito’s Team Simian. So I’m wrangling in a real wild card, Mr. Mxyzptlk. Getting him to be a team player is probably going to be a struggle, but if Superman can repeatedly outsmart him, surely Lex Luthor can figure out a way to manipulate him as well. And even as tricky as it would be to get him to play along, it’s worth it for the unlimited power he brings to the table. We just have to convince him to use it for something besides turning everyone into animals. Or just go ahead turn everyone into animals, that’s actually a pretty solid strategy. Emma: Aw, I was hoping I could sneak Mr. Mxyzptlk into my team later on for some wacky fun. Oh well, I’ll stick to the killing for now. For my assassin, I’m going with Deathstroke, Slade Wilson. An army man turned super soldier who will always beat the good guys because he’s willing to go further than they are. Batman knows how to fight, but Deathstroke knows how to kill. He’s worked with Talia before, so I feel like they already know how to handle each other. I just really like genetically engineered killers, don’t I? Don’t worry, I’ll go in a different direction for my next pick. Tom: For my assassin, I'm taking everyone’s favorite Suicide Squad member, Deadshot. Not only has he undergone probably the most radical costume reinvention in comics history, he's the single deadliest, most accurate shot in the DCU. He's also a smart thinker able to adjust his plans on the fly and act accordingly. Nimble as hell --- you think it's easy to jump across a giant typewriter while fighting Batman? --- and with a snappy wit, it's no wonder Warner Bros. cast the coolest dude around, Will Smith, to play him. Speaking of the Suicide Squad movie, we’re all agreed it's a goddamn tragedy there's no Smith song for the movie, right? Because it is. Chris: I’ll agree I’d like to hear Will Smith rap about DC characters. Elle: I’m going to follow the trend and pick my assassin now. I’m going with Cheshire: world-class martial artist, expert poisoner, and the absent mother of Roy Harper’s child. I enjoy the joy she seems to find in her job, in contrast to so many grim hired killer characters. Of course, she enjoys her globe-trotting assassin lifestyle so much that she could never give it up to raise her daughter, even though she does love Lian in her way. Everything I’m talking about here was true about decade ago. I’m not sure where Cheshire is in current continuity, but I’m still into the version of her that I remember. Emma: Ooh, I love Cheshire. Nice. Benito: I’m going to break the assassin streak and claim my mastermind now. My third villain is the first villain --- literally the first supervillain in comics --- the Ultra-Humanite. Designed to be the mental powerhouse equivalent to Superman’s physical dynamo, the Ultra-Humanite was a sort of proto-Luthor super-scientist who later gained the ability to transplant his consciousness from one body to another. At first he used this ability to become a young woman, but by the ‘70s, he had moved into the body of a giant, albino ape, the look he is best known for, despite the fact that the New 52 version of him is a giant space squid or something. A supervillain team is bound to have internal conflict, as most players’ motivations are ultimately selfish, and it’s hard not to imagine Ultra-Humanite and Grodd coming to loggerheads struggling for power, especially as there is no way Grodd would respect someone not born an ape. He would probably call him a fake gorilla boy. But how do you not give the position of mastermind to the one who literally has giant, throbbing brain lobes protruding from his head? Elle: Somehow I had a feeling the Ultra-Humanite might be your choice for mastermind, and he’s a really good one. I was considering him myself, but he definitely fits in best with your team so far. Tom: Why would you go from an ape to a space squid? What kind of madness is that? Chris: Benito is your whole team seriously going to be apes? If someone picks Titano is it going to completely ruin your day? Benito: Wait, what do you mean? Are all my picks apes so far? Hold on. Huh. Weird. I guess I have a type. Kieran: There aren’t many female characters that could be considered a monster, outcast, or freak, but I wanted to buck the expected trend with this pick and go for The Cheetah. I really love (most of) Liam Sharp’s redesign in the current Wonder Woman book, and her relationship with Diana is one of the most interesting hero/villain dynamics in all of comics. Chris: For my heavy, I’m calling in Mongal, daughter of Mongul. All the power that comes with being the offspring of the ruler of Warworld, but with more youth and eagerness to prove that she’s every bit as ruthless and to be feared as her father. She became the Queen of Almerac after “Our Worlds At War,” and even though I think she was dead the last time anyone saw her, that’s never stopped any other bad guys from being dusted off when the need arose. Plus I’m guessing no one else was thinking of picking her. Emma: No, but I like your pick, Chris! For my monster, I’m picking the embodiment of fear itself --- Parallax. You may remember it from taking over Hal Jordan’s mind and body, making him evil, but Parallax has been around since practically the dawn of time. It’s essentially a parasite. Not everyone is susceptible to its fear-casting power (some people just have really strong self confidence, nuts to them) but I think even if some superheroes can resist it, Parallax can still cause plenty of trouble by casting fear into the general populace. Terrified crowds are impossible to control! Any superheroes trying to get in my team’s way would have to fight us and try to keep screaming people from hurting themselves. Tom: Can't go wrong with the giant yellow space bug, Emma! Nice pick. For my heavy, I'm taking a page from Kieran and heading to Apokolips for Kalibak. The son of Darkseid who didn't become a superhero with a jet pack, Kalibak is his dad’s biggest enforcer (literally). Immortal and ridiculously strong and agile, this is a dude you don't wanna cross. Perfect for holding off superheroes from interfering with your plans --- and that's before you get to his cool weapons like his flying discs and beta club. Elle: I’ve waited long enough to pick my mastermind, and I’m going with one of my very favorite DC villains, the Doctor Doom of the DC Universe (or at least of the ocean) Black Manta. He’s a scientist who’s also a pirate. A highly rational expert planner, but also a man driven totally by spite. He actively resists all origin stories (he’s had several) and attempts to provide relatable motivations for his actions. At the end of the day, Manta is just a bad man who hates the world, and he really hates Aquaman in particular. In thinking about my team narratively, I was concerned at first that Black Manta wouldn’t make a good mastermind, because he mostly just wants to antagonize Aquaman, and the rest of the team probably isn’t going to go for that. But then I realized that he’s probably put this team together to prove he can be a leader, and maybe even conquer the world (or at least mess it up) with a whole team on his side. After all, Aquaman has led the Justice League, and Black Manta knows that guy’s the worst, so Manta has to be better at it than him. Benito: All right, now that Chris has pointed out the motif in my choices that I hadn’t noticed, I’m going to make sure to pick a character who is definitely not a gorilla this time. So here goes, one of Wonder Woman’s oldest and biggest--literally--foes, Giganta. Able to grow to giant size with proportional strength, in her human size Giganta is also a brilliant scientist (in some later versions, she retains her intellect at giant size, but in the classic version, her intelligence decreases as she gets bigger). So between her brobdingnagian muscle and equally sized brain, she should have no trouble holding her own on a team with Grodd and Ultra-Humanite. Okay, I mean. Okay. Yeah, I guess technically Giganta is also a gorilla. Chris: You can’t help yourself. Kieran: I’m going to pick someone else who qualifies as an assassin, and is arguably the most dangerous fighter in the DC Universe… Lady Shiva. She’s a character who has so much potential and is always right on the cusp of being a big deal, but I don’t think she’s quite made the jump to a top-tier villain yet. She’s skirted with heroism and nobility a bit, but she’s best when she’s bad and a role on a team like this could be her breakout role. TEAM ROSTERS: DAY TWO Chris: Lex Luthor, Shaggy Man, Mr. Mxyzptlk, Mongal Emma: Doomsday, Talia al Ghul, Deathstroke, Parallax Tom: Brainiac, Solomon Grundy, Deadshot, Kalibak Elle: Catwoman, Bizarro, Cheshire, Black Manta Benito: Gorilla Grodd, Monsieur Mallah, Ultra-Humanite, Giganta Kieran: Darkseid, Prometheus, Cheetah, Lady Shiva That's a wrap for day two, but join us for day three as we introduce the wildcard element that could turn our friendly rivals into deadly enemies... 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__label__cc	0.612959	0.387041	#523 Fri Apr 29 2016 Design Junkies Friday, April 29, 2016 Hey guys! Thank you all so much for your feedback and comments these last couple of days. You guys are seriously the best. It's been an absolute blast drawing Design Junkies, but it certainly is a significant departure from the old style of Cheer Up, Emo Kid strips. I'd love to see what you all think about it moving forward, so here's the million dollar question for you: WHAT DID YOU DID YOU THINK OF THE COMIC?! Which do you prefer -- the old style or the new style? Why not both, and just separate them? Let me know in the comments! Also, I'm going to be in Calgary this weekend for Calgary Expo. I've scheduled as many comics as I could make, but I won't have anything ready for next week. I'm going to take the time to wait for poll results, write some more strips and build a buffer, and I'm aiming to resume updates on May 9th at the earliest. Sorry for the delay, and thanks for understanding! If you wanna read Design Junkies from the beginning again, here's a quick link. Dumpling May 16, 2016 - 1:22 pm I am SO happy you went back to your original design! That's the one I know and love ❤ Parknado May 11, 2016 - 2:59 pm I love the continuing story arc and the style of the art. I also enjoy your older style one off comments. Honestly if you could do a combination of both ie the Design Junkies thing say on alternating weeks? Or maybe just once a month. The boss is an awesome character and cameos could easily slip into your other comics. DarkRen May 4, 2016 - 1:35 pm I personally enjoy the older style better but I also like this new style too so It might be a better idea to use them both but separate them IMustBeEmo May 4, 2016 - 11:50 am In terms of art I think the comics art was strongest shortly before and shortly after the reboot. The style here just doesn't do it for me. The comics with the sketchy dark grey and white comics with the line shading felt very professional, it was nice to see some details too. The before the reboot, with the scarce use of colour and defined character details, clothes .etc definitely looked the best. The original design reminded me of actual common Emo art, like Pon and Zi and shit, which kind of made it feel like an actual parody of Emo shit. I think CheerUpEmoKid has kinda deviated from it's roots and moved into other areas of humor. Of course like many people said, one of the cool things about CUEK is that it has had various styles over the years. Changing it up can actually make it quite interesting. In terms of the story, attracting lots of viewers works best when you update often with lots of one hits (Like that shithole Explosm) but having a coherent plot keeps people engaged, encourages people to go back and catch up and to keep coming back to see what happens next. It's like junk food vs. healthy meals, most people like both. I'd place my vote on whatever you want to do, personally I prefer the two styles I mentioned and when it's got a coherent plot, broken up with one hits as a kind of interlude. Entirely up to you, I'm happy with whatever I get. mjt May 4, 2016 - 11:22 am Hello! I like both but i prefer the old style. It has it unique way of expression. I read always your comic, keep going, Matias from Argentina WhatsThatOnYourBiscuit May 4, 2016 - 11:09 am brasskiller14 May 4, 2016 - 8:09 am Old style please. I got really confused as to who was talking and I dont know who that was that was with phil to say "Sorry you didnt get the job" so please take into consideration changing it back to the old style Salazar125 May 3, 2016 - 4:23 pm I honestly prefer the old style. I do like the direction that this style is going in, but I still miss the old style. If you could separate them that would be awesome designee May 3, 2016 - 12:45 pm I think the old style wins hands-down, but YMMV of course. Perhaps a return to the old gang, with occasional forays down paths like design Junkies as a break, and to keep Enzo from getting bored. Surely a cartoonist needs to stretch the creative synapses once in a while. Personally, I prefer the old drawing style, as well. It's more . . . distinctive. When you think of Peanuts or Calvin and Hobbes, it immediately brings a specific style to mind. Same here. Gray May 3, 2016 - 10:49 am I don't really find the new one interesting at all. I like Phil. The other people are just filler in the new one. And as much as I like Phil, he is more a supporting role character than a leading man. I miss the old crew. nisclo May 2, 2016 - 7:33 pm I prefer the old but the new is nice as well. So I guess my final answer is that if it's not going back to just old then at least a combination of both. FreeValkyrie May 2, 2016 - 5:25 pm Both!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! besiege211 May 2, 2016 - 4:25 pm Both would work together, just in different strips for the story content. That said, it could take away from the surprise by being able to tell a more serious one from a more cartoon-ish one. In the end, it is all up to you and thank you for continuing this for so long. Tvavtalavo May 2, 2016 - 9:22 am I like the new style, but I'd enjoy more of the old characters and such, along with complex and engaging sidelines that addressed complex issues, like the old ones. Jakemwp May 2, 2016 - 8:01 am Really enjoyed the new comic- but I loved the old one. I would read both if you wrote both, but I understand if you only have time for one. I'll read whatever you put out, and you should go with whichever you are more passionate about. That being said, I really hope you stick with Cheer Up Emo Kid. sonicmonkey May 2, 2016 - 6:25 am I enjoy both styles. I would vote to keep both styles mainly because you can separate them as different character groups possibly. I'd hate to see you go back to just the old style as I'm sure you came up with the new style to challenge yourself and try something new. You should be able to evolve as an artist and try out new things. Keep the humor the same and I'll keep reading no matter what the art style you take on. anonymoose May 2, 2016 - 5:06 am i much prefer the old style, at most like you say split them. that "shading style" in the new comics just.. dunno... doesn't work for me feels like i'm seeing a rough unfinished sketch Jane May 1, 2016 - 7:33 pm I LOVE ALL THE COMICS. YOU'RE BASICALLY A COMIC GOD SO AS LONG AS YOU KEEP MAKING ANYTHING I'LL PROBABLY BE HAPPY. Kim Jong Un May 1, 2016 - 4:52 pm MORE!!! 0 0 Reply to Conversation CireZidane May 1, 2016 - 12:53 pm Am i the only one noticing the double "Did you" in Enzo description under the comic? :v Also i really love this style more than the previous. Seems more elegant and sh1t lt_amazil May 1, 2016 - 11:23 am Okay, the short of it is: both styles have their own uniqueness, but personally I prefer the old. The long of it is The old style has a charm to it that made the comic easier to digest in both its serious moments, and its outrageous moments. The new style feels a lot more personalized and serious, which in my opinion takes away from the cartoonish nature of the comic, turning the tides from a very silly and cartoony comic that dealt with some serious issues, and dark humor, to a semi-serious looking comic that goes into some weird cartoony antics. I feel like it works well with the structured short arcs like this one, but how it feels with more balls-to-the-wall jokes may be iffy. Plus I kinda liked having samey looking models. It gave the feeling like everyone is kind of the same, but slightly little different. Kard May 1, 2016 - 4:00 am The new style is fun, but what about the old characters? goocy May 1, 2016 - 3:55 am The new style is great! I especially like the continuing story. Hotair10 May 1, 2016 - 12:28 am What I'd personally recommend is doing a mix of both. I'm not sure if you're familiar with Ctrl+Alt+Del, although you probably are. Tim does a series strip for a time (Similar to how Design Junkies is), then when he's on a pause for that does his normal jokey comics. It's a pretty good blend and I think a similar method of production could work for you. Do a story-line for a bit, do some normal/older stuff, then do another story-line. Of course what I'd most highly recommend is just doing what feels comfortable. Don't let it stress you out too much and keep it fun for yourself. JustAGuy April 30, 2016 - 10:03 pm Man, I'd hate to step on your creativity, so if your heart tells you to go one way then do it. Don't cater to the fans, express what you feel. I think a fair alternative would be use different styles for different story lines. Any decision you make I will still love the comic AlanTown April 30, 2016 - 1:09 pm I love that this is a part of your greater universe. "Yoga Instructor" really needed some fleshing out and the occasional inside baseball strip like Design Junkies, Truth (FREE), or Responsive Webcomic really helps flesh things out and bring your life into the comic. Having said that, there's a reason why I'm subscribed to you and not Dilbert. If the comic turns into "Phil Clark: Office Hijinks" full-time I can't see staying subscribed. If you're worried about the limitations of one style or another, don't be. Do what's best for the story. Sometimes that means tons of attention to detail and shading, sometimes that means tiny, colorful stick figures. Some comics change styles so drastically page-to-page that it's hard to follow who the characters are. (Homestuck.) Bill Waterson would spend hours drawing a simple visual gag, but maybe only a few minutes on a strip with good dialogue. (Calvin & Hobbes 10th anniversary book p. 32) What I'm saying is, they're not two different things. Do them both, inline, as the mood strikes you. Both will be better for it. Keith April 30, 2016 - 4:35 am We're I given the final choice... I'd honestly say both. Each way has its own charm, and shifts the focus in subtle ways. If you need to settle on one style, I'd say the one that works best for the story you want to tell. That said, I'd love it if you find a way to incorporate both, ala Sinfest. TheJman April 30, 2016 - 3:48 am Love the new comic's dilbert-ish vibe but also kinda miss old CUEK antics especially frank and zeke XD Some Random Guy April 29, 2016 - 11:36 pm I really liked this new series, with a consistent story arc and all that. Some of the older story arcs, like the catfish one, continue to be my favourites of your comics. That being said, your one-offs are also hilarious. Personally, I'd most like an alternation, but honestly Enzo, it doesn't matter what you make, I'll still read it. PKscreams April 29, 2016 - 8:09 pm I agree do a split MasonJar13 April 29, 2016 - 7:59 pm Which style makes you happier, Enzo? It's your work, not ours. If you're happy, that's all that really matters, and people WILL enjoy your work if you are enjoying it. OhPoi April 29, 2016 - 7:50 pm I really enjoyed the design of your original style, it's part of what got me hooked onto the comics. But I've also really enjoyed what you've done artistically with the new style as well. I think it's really nice to see an evolution of an artists style within their comics, so I say go for keeping the new style! SERIOUSLYFRANKWTF April 29, 2016 - 5:59 pm It still looks great enzo, i find the best is when the artist just does what they feel comfortable with. That being said, most of us are going to say just do what you feel like McWalter April 29, 2016 - 3:53 pm BOTH. Both are great. Daniel Reynolds April 29, 2016 - 11:59 am Absolutely do both. It really shows your range of ability, and there's no reason you can't do both. This was absolutely captivating from beginning to end, really enjoyable man. notabaseball April 29, 2016 - 11:56 am I liked it, I wouldn't be opposed to seeing more of it katroti April 29, 2016 - 11:46 am Work on both. I've always liked this character, but I like the other ones too. Old style and new style are both appealing to me. jozaud April 29, 2016 - 11:18 am I've really enjoyed the recent comics, and if you wanted to keep drawing in this style I'd be very happy. If you wanted to go back to more what you've done in the past I'd be very happy too. I'm here for your humor, really, and I've been here a long time. Back in high school I read through Questionable Content starting from the very first strip. At the time Jeph was only on 1600 strips or so, but still the amount that his drawing ability evolved over the course of the comic was staggering. There's a kind of meta story hidden there; you don't only get the story he wrote, you get a kind of window into the author too. I think that that is something you see in a lot of webcomics, especially ones that have been around for ages. So PLEASE, Enzo: KEEP EVOLVING. Don't keep doing it one way just because it's the way you've done it for years, or because it's what you think we want. Do it YOUR way. That's the ONLY way for this to be the best that it can be. This comic is your art first and foremost, isn't it? When you made that short series about your dog, that was the impression I got; that it was personal. And by the way, I adore that comic. It's probably my favorite thing that you've ever posted. Just keep on being awesome Enzo. That's all we want. Otter April 29, 2016 - 2:07 pm You don't only get the story he wrote, you get a kind of window into the author too. I thought that for a while too about artists and their works, then I played "The Beginner's Guide" and I'm not so sure anymore. (Well I am biased, but I think every artist should play or at least watch that game.) Mirek April 29, 2016 - 11:03 am The "new style" is just "different" to me, not "new" at all....it feels like you wanted to experiment, which you did and which I did not mind at all. You could expreminet and you could make it worse but you didn't, but it's not better, it's not worse, it's just different. I may be nitpicking but.... you use color there and there, but there was no color in the "new" style of yours. Different shapes and expressions but still a gray color scale....it's almost imposible to improve if you keep everything else same with your high level of artistic style. Also when I go over the whole Design Junkies story again, it feels like you still have not stabilized this "new" style....but the takeaway migh also be that you already make great comic and whatever you see as "improvement" may be too difficult for us anon plebs of the internet 🙂 You are asking what we think of it moving forward, but I'm certain this is not forward, but completely a different direction...and I can't tell whether it's the right direction if you ask me. QueenBB April 29, 2016 - 10:55 am I really like both! I like it when you change things up every once in a while, keeps me interested! MangoLoco April 29, 2016 - 10:52 am I like both of them a lot but I liked the lack of noses in the old style but I like the shading and stuff in the new style. Just combine those aspects and you're good Vertixico April 29, 2016 - 10:40 am I liked your old, clean style a lot. But you started a great developement into something new here that I also like. And seeing how the comics improved drastically over a few issues already I say: Keep going! Don't step back just because it is comfortable, keep up with the new developement. AdamBB April 29, 2016 - 10:31 am I think it's one style. The Enzo Style. If you feel nostalgia and want to draw the old style, go for it. If you feel inspired and want to draw new, go for it. Want to try everyone as a square or stick figure and let everyone guess who is who, bangarang. I can't speak for everyone (though a lot would agree), but I'd love your art styles and no matter what way you draw, the comic will be amazing. dougwastaken April 29, 2016 - 9:43 am Depends on what your goal is. If your goal is catharsis, then do what makes you happy and let the audience sort themselves out. If your goal is to get eyeyballs, I'd wager the comics without running characters would broaden your audience faster since standalone comics can, well, stand alone. If your goal is to push yourself and improve upon your own talent, then do whichever of the two you find more challenging and uncomfortable, and then build upon that over time (google 'purposeful practics Freakenomics' to get more elaboration on that). Thexscha April 29, 2016 - 8:24 am I love both styles equally, don't make me choose, you monster! John April 29, 2016 - 8:16 am I love the new style ... but I loved the old style too. I CAN'T DECIDE!! THIS IS TOO MUCH PRESSURE!!! Seriously, though, you are a talented artist -- your art is amazing and I think it's cool that you're experimenting with new styles. At the end of the day it comes down to whether YOU like the new style, and if it inspires you more. Keep up the good work either way! Also can you delete the above (and this) comment? Wasn't meant to be a reply to John's post but a general post. Reposted below. span April 29, 2016 - 8:13 am The new comics are great, but losing the old style would be a shame. So. Yeah. Both. stipefan1 April 29, 2016 - 8:13 am Good work on both styles...it's hard to decide! I like this new style a lot though, so if it's working for you, keep it going. Tech21101 April 29, 2016 - 8:02 am Oh hey, the profiles work now! Well, they worked for a bit. Senceless April 29, 2016 - 6:25 am Really diggin' the new stuff. But giving up one the original comic would leave a big hole. So... BOTH is the answer! Plastefuchs April 29, 2016 - 12:41 am The view results link renders the last comic before this one in a frame instead of the results 😀 chrl268 April 29, 2016 - 12:41 am Just a heads up - your "view results" part of your survey isn't working for me - on a mac trying both chrome and safari I am enjoying both comic styles though 🙂 I'm now thinking my vote might not have been counted... Enzo April 29, 2016 - 7:57 am AUGH! Sorry guys. The poll is broken and me in my infinite programmer wisdom forgot to test it. So I've turned it off. Sorry about that! Let me know what you think in text!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1065
__label__wiki	0.788092	0.788092	Funding boost for Bridge Community Farms Ellesmere Port-based Bridge Community Farms has extended its provision of work experience to teenagers in the area with the help of funding from a number of organisations. The social enterprise, a working farm which first began operating in 2015, received £17,000 in funding which has allowed them to employ Deputy Wellness Manager, Charlie Cooke. Charlie is qualified in health and social care and his appointment enables Bridge Community Farms to develop the wellness side of the organisation and increase the number of clients with mental health issues and children with behavioural problems. The project was made possible thanks to grants from six charitable funds including support from Conviviality Retail, Westminster Foundation and Quality Freight. The three funds along with others are administered by Cheshire Community Foundation, which aims to match charitable donors with the causes that matter most in Cheshire and Warrington. Bridge Community Farms provides work opportunities and experience for vulnerable, hard to reach young people who have mental health and learning difficulties who are not in education or employment or struggling in the classroom. The young people are taught valuable skills enabling them to farm the land, donate food parcels to those living in poverty and sell the produce to help the organisation become sustainable. In its first year of operation, the enterprise worked with 65 client volunteers with some degree of mental health and learning difficulties. Of these, five now have permanent jobs elsewhere. Prior to the application for funding, the “Work experience for teenagers” programme was successfully piloted in conjunction with Whitby High School, to provide alternative learning for children with severe behavioural problems. Francis Ball, who set up Bridge Community Farms, said: “We are absolutely delighted to have received this funding for our “Work experience for teenagers” programme. “The funds will make a huge difference to the lives of those in our community. We are building the infrastructure on the farm to enable us to work with 12 students per day, four days per week, and have 12 appropriately skilled volunteers wanting to mentor these students. “With additional wet weather growing facilities (two more 90ft poly tunnels) and a new Deputy Wellness Manager, we can help these students and involve their families, which will lead to significant improvements in school and in turn lead to less antisocial behaviour and far better employment prospects.” Wendy Doherty, People Director for Conviviality Retail, said: “We are really pleased to have been able to help such a deserving social enterprise as Bridge Community Farms. “We engaged our staff in the process by asking them to vote for their favourite charity from a shortlist chosen by our staff engagement team. “It’s a fantastic way for us to involve our staff and convey a positive message to the whole team.” Zoe Sheppard, CEO of Cheshire Community Foundation said: “This is a superb example of a charitable fund making a very real difference to those in need in Ellesmere Port. “In the case of Conviviality Retail, this initiative has provided a brilliant opportunity to engage with staff, just as it can for other businesses. “We are extremely grateful for the support provided by Conviviality Retail, Westminster Foundation, Quality Freight and our other generous donors to Bridge Community Farms, for this vital community project which will make such a difference to the lives of those taking part.” For more information about Bridge Community Farms please email the Farm and Wellness Manager, Clair Johnson, on bcf.farmmanager@gmail.com or call her on 07446 699995. Links to coverage Ellesmere Port Pioneer	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1070
__label__cc	0.681135	0.318865	Accommodation Review Family-Friendly Luxury on the Champs-Élysées in Paris: Hôtel Fouquet’s Barrière By Amie O’Shaughnessy Decisions, decisions … one of the biggest challenges of planning a trip to Paris with kids is deciding where to stay. Unlike other European cities where just a handful of locations are truly ideal for families, practically every neighborhood in the very heart of Paris has a distinct personality and appeal in one way or another. The Champs-Élysées in the 8th arrondissement is no exception; although for me, there has to be a good reason to stay here given the heavy concentration of tourists in this part of the city. Enter Hôtel Fouquet’s Barrière. A good reason! Owned by the French brand Lucien Barrière, Hôtel Fouquet’s Barrière offers something grand and unique to families and actively caters to kids with special programs and treats. It’s located literally on the Champs-Élysées and in the heart of the non-stop action, although inside, the hotel is a wonderful oasis with history, charm, and exceptional service. Fouquet’s is one of the most famous addresses on the Champs-Élysées Dating back to 1899, Fouquet’s restaurant is one of the most addresses on the Champs-Élysées. The restaurant has always been a gathering place for the French entertainment industry and the theme of the restaurant and hotel shares this connection with photos and memorabilia of celebrities enjoying this landmark through different decades. The ambiance is fun, social, and unique to this address. Celebrating French cinema at Fouquet’s From the moment we arrived at Hôtel Fouquet’s Barrière, we were charmed by the staff. Throughout our 48-hour stay the service at the hotel was warm, attentive, and eager to please. This French brand caters to an international clientele, yet they manage to make every person feel welcome and right at home, including offering 24/7 butler service for every room. Given the sophisticated ambiance, this guest-centric approach makes all the difference in the world and is a big reason the hotel feels so family-friendly. The suites at Hôtel Fouquet’s Barrière give families plenty of room to spread out The 81 guest rooms (including 33 suites) at Hôtel Fouquet’s Barrière are unbelievably spacious. We had a one-bedroom suite with two bathrooms and a massive living room area. Families have plenty of room to spread out here. The furnishings are plush and modern with rich fabrics and textures. Room with a Champs-Élysées view Views vary from their lovely courtyard garden to the Champs-Élysées, to the Eiffel Tower, to the Avenue George V. In other words, if you are dreaming about something specific, make a request at the time of your reservation (Connect with a Family Travel Advisor if you want our help). The minibars all include complimentary water and sodas. Another somewhat unexpected — but appreciated — treat at Hôtel Fouquet’s Barrière. The WIFI is also free for guests throughout the hotel. Indoor swimming pool is family-friendly and offers lessons for children The U Spa Barrière offers massages and signature treatments in eight treatment rooms, in addition to a hammam, sauna, and fitness room. Kids’ treatments are available including the Little Princess and Prince Experiences, and even a baby massage workshop for children 3 months to 4 years old. The indoor pool is the highlight for families as it’s big enough for kids to meaningfully splash around (50 ft x 20 ft). They also offer kids’ swimming lessons on request. Grenadine the ladybug is the kids’ mascot at Hôtel Fouquet’s Barrière Fouquet’s Kids If there is any doubt that this luxury hotel is family-friendly, their Fouquet’s Kids program dispels any concerns. The hotel sponsors creative programming on selective Sundays through the year. From puppet shows, to music and dance workshops, to the World of Bees learning session (including honey tasting!), this program ensures kids feel pampered and parents can get some downtime. It’s fabulous to see an extensive kids’ program like this in Paris! The hotel has a mascot for kids, Grenadine the ladybug, and little kids are given a cute Passport to explore the hotel and learn about Paris. The concierge team has organized themed tours for kids throughout the city including little gourmet walking tours, a doll workshop, and following the steps of famous personalities around the city. It’s all very clever and creative. Fouquet’s restaurant, one of five dining options at the hotel The hotel offers five restaurants and three bars, including the landmark Cafe Fouquet and a one star Michelin gastronomic restaurant, Le Diane. We ate at their Mediterranean inspired restaurant, Le Petite Maison de Nicole, which is quite good, although pricey for a quick dinner after arrival — our mistake, we should have opted for Cafe Fouquet’s. But it’s nice to have the choice of so many options without leaving the hotel after a long day of travel and/or sightseeing. This location is central for sightseeing with immediate Metro access and plenty of cabs. Although it is not adjacent to a park, there are quite a few you can get to easily from here. Need Help Booking a Hotel in Paris and/or Family Vacation in France? Ciao Bambino’s Family Vacation Consulting team can help! Request assistance on our Connect with a Family Travel Advisor page. Editorial Note: Hôtel Fouquet’s Barrière provided a media rate so we could review the hotel for families. As always, our opinions are our own. Photos by Amie O’Shaughnessy unless otherwise noted. The best of Paris with kids on Ciao Bambino 72 hours in Paris with kids Five different luxury hotel experience in Paris with kids A Paris Muse walking tour with kids By Lisa Frederick By Cary Walker By Katie Brown	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1079
__label__cc	0.500775	0.499225	Cicero Lounge News, Housing, Law and Legal Issues, Liberty - NCCL News, News and politics, On this day, Organizations, Uncategorized, Welfare Rights News “Cathy Come Home” to Rushden! Filed Under Cathy Come Home, ENCS, Homelessness, Housing, Mark Lees, Rushden, Sanctuary Night Shelter, Shelter The Full Gospel Church in Rushden held a marvelous screening of Ken Loach’s film Cathy Come Home on the 13th June 2018 Ciceros.org has an exclusive interview with Mark Lees of Rushden’s local housing and community project ENCS The film deals with the issue of homelessness and family fracture and disintegration caused by homelessness and although initially screened in 1966 as part of the BBC Wednesday Plays it caused for a legislative overhaul and examination of homelessness and housing provision which ultimately culminated in the form of greater legislation by virtue of the Homeless Persons Act 1977. Sadly years later and even with Bob Blackwood MPs Homeless Reduction Bill things are still rather bleak as the requirement for cheaper affordable homes and more housing in various areas of the country are causing a surge in rough sleeping and organizations like Shelter and Crisis who had just formed when the film was made are still calling for the building of 500,000 more homes a year for people facing or who are considered homeless. The event was attended by about 60 people who had come along to show support for the work that the local churches of the East Northants Faith Group, the Gospel Church being one of the churches involved in Northamptonshire in helping homeless people by means the “Night Shelter” run by staff and volunteers by the local charity ENCS (East Northants Community Service). Mark Lees who is the local pastor and the chair of the ENCS and who organized the event also organized a lovely meal that was cooked by a local refugee family he has been working with. The night was attended by those homeless who are in the night shelter, volunteers of the shelter, local congregation and those interested in how the local parish of Rushden is making practical and pragmatic strives in combating the homelessness and housing problems in the Northamptonshire area. In an exclusive interview with Ciceros.org; Mark Lees, when asked about what the screening of the film hoped to highlight said: “With the passage of time, homelessness is still a major issue today than it was when it was first highlighted through this film”. He added, “If ever a film needed a modern remake this would be one to show in graphic detail the plight of homelessness today and not in the polite English of the BBC of the 1960s”. “With the passage of time, homelessness is still a major issue today than it was when it was first highlighted through this film” Asked about what he would like to see local councils do more towards combatting homelessness and rough sleeping he said “Councils need to be more human in dealing with people” and commenting on the need to cut through bureaucratic legislation he said “they need to realize they have the ability to cut corners as each case demands and offer help where it’s needed most and where legislation is restrictive”. He said he would like to see the Government take more of an initiative in its allocation of spending on homelessness more directly to where it’s needed “not directing money as it does presently to national quangos that purport to help the homeless but to provide local councils with budgets to allocate to local homeless projects with no strings attached” “Councils need to be more human in dealing with people they need to realize they have the ability to cut corners as each case demands and offer help where it’s needed most and where legislation is restrictive”. Mark’s vision of the future for the local housing homelessness project the “Sanctuary” night shelter in Rushden he wants to see the project short-term goal “to move the shelter to a larger more suitable provision with better day support services”, and added on the need for the local person to “become more aware of their rights to housing provision and have agencies educate people on their legal rights with regard to housing and security of tenure” The “Sanctuary” Night Shelter which has accommodation for six males only, is one of the main points of signposting that the local district; town and borough councils (Corby, Kettering, Wellingborough, and East Northamptonshire) within the Northamptonshire County relies heavily on for emergency housing and uses porta cabin dwellings with facilities to wash and eat. The Full Gospel also and has a purpose built kitchen and dining area for its Cornerfield Café which is a community café offering cooked breakfast for those in the local community and also a food bank, the church also offers a job club and debt advice on a weekly basis to people in the community. For more information please visit: encs.org.uk « Yemen Crisis – The world’s worst famine disaster CPAG Update: National Audit Office Report on Universal Credit »	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1081
__label__cc	0.607237	0.392763	New York Times: Tax documents show Trump businesses lost more than $1 billion in a decade Source: CNN \| May 7, 2019 \| Kate Sullivan Washington (CNN) – President Donald Trump’s businesses reported losses of $1.17 billion from 1985 to 1994, The New York Times reported Tuesday, citing information from tax documents from those years. It appears Trump lost more money than nearly any other individual US taxpayer year after year, the Times reports, according to the 10 years of tax information the newspaper acquired. Trump ran for president branding himself as a self-made billionaire, touting his financial success, but he has been steadfast in his refusal to release his tax returns to the public, despite mounting pressure from Congress. On Monday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin formally denied a request from the House Ways and Means Committee for Trump’s last six years of tax returns, a period not covered by the documents reported by The Times on Tuesday. In 1990 and 1991, Trump’s core business losses were more than $250 million each year — more than double those of the closest taxpayers in those years, the Times reports. Trump lost so much money that he avoided paying income taxes for eight of the 10 years, according to the newspaper. The Times previously reported that Trump helped “his parents dodge taxes” in the 1990s, including “instances of outright fraud,” and that he and his siblings helped his parents hide millions of dollars in gifts in a “sham corporation.” Trump, starting at the age of 3, received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, the Times previously reported. The Times did not obtain Trump’s tax returns, but someone who had legal access to the returns gave the newspaper information about their contents. The Times then matched the information to figures in the public database of IRS information on top earners, where identifying details are removed. The Times used other public documents to confirm significant findings, and used confidential Trump family tax and financial records the newspaper had previously acquired. Tagged: tax returns, Trump Organization Consistent May 7, 2019 at 11:36 pm #29343 "Over all, Mr. Trump lost so much money that he was able to avoid paying income taxes for eight of the 10 years." I guarantee you that the Trump cult will point to this as a mark of genius. — Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 8, 2019 Trump was propelled to the presidency, in part, by a self-spun narrative of business success and of setbacks triumphantly overcome. But 10 years of tax information paint a different & far bleaker, picture of his deal-making abilities & financial condition. https://t.co/JAvVAkuHH8 — Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) May 7, 2019 (bc we treat those as losses these days and it gets confusing) — Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) May 7, 2019 1/ Mark Burnett sold the illusion the Trump was a mega success with a reality TV show filmed on a gimcrack fake boardroom set in e eponymous Tower. We saw it in focus groups in 2016: the mulish, intractable stupidity of Republican and white male Democratic voters. — Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 8, 2019 3/ I was screaming to Republican campaigns about this in 2015 and 16, begging them to pay attention, but for reasons you can see in my book they all had their motivations for not attacking Trump or telling the truth about his financial record. 5/ It's also a reminder the Trump is a masterful con man and will apply the same level of b.s. in the 2020 election that he used on his endless chain of credulous lenders; lies, fraud, deception, and falsified financials are likely going to expose him to both risk and ridicule. EVERYDAY May 8, 2019 at 8:01 am #29353 Just as I thought — not the great successful businessman the propaganda claims. Consistent May 8, 2019 at 10:36 am #29355 Trump's sycophants doing what sycophants do. https://t.co/PmiLI8iOMs — Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) May 8, 2019 VIDEO – NYT’s Craig: Trump Wrote ‘The Art of the Deal’ in 1987 and Lost Tens of Millions of Dollars That Year’ https://t.co/KGJGsqsf5L — Grabien (@GrabienMedia) May 8, 2019 Told you this would be the cult response. https://t.co/Tb2KAagAiI This is an incredible chart from @russbuettner @susannecraig's new blockbuster on how "year after year, Mr. Trump appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer" https://t.co/PlaHRr5e7U pic.twitter.com/0uED0F41hs — David W. Chen (@davidwchen) May 8, 2019	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1083
__label__cc	0.655674	0.344326	ArticlesFrom the Editor's Desk From the editor’s Desk Posted June 25, 2019 Catherine Stutt Mr. Underwood portrait by Lynn VanderHerberg My Uncle Jim. Never Jim. Always Uncle Jim. To Darryl, he’s Mayor Lang. Always. It’s old-world manners. Even when Darryl was running the detachment, there was a respectful nod to the Mayor of Bracebridge. After Darryl and I became us, Darryl continued the honorific, and it still makes me smile. Dignity, respect, earned. Uncle Jim is the family archivist. Sort of a legend in the family for recognizing the good stuff and being in the right place at the right time. My Mom’s younger brother, Uncle Jim, and their older brother Joe, inherited the family heating business in Bracebridge from my grandparents. Lang Fuels was a big deal. Propane and heating oil, when most houses still used woodstoves. Uncle Jim has crawled through a lot of basements. He kept his eyes open. On my father’s side of the family, Uncle Jim looked after my great Aunt May’s furnace. Aunt May had the purse gun my great-grandmother carried when she immigrated from Scotland with her husband in 1870, six children and her mother-in-law in tow, headed for a place called Monck Township, somewhere 50 kilometres north of the last corduroy road at Washago. The first night in Bracebridge, the women and girls stayed in a hotel with few rooms. The men started a long family tradition of spending the night in the jail. At that time, it was voluntary. Uncle Jim and Aunt May somehow came to an agreement on the pistol, and I cherish it to this day. It doesn’t work, but it’s very cool to think Great-grandmother Glass had it at her side on the St. David when the brood arrived in Montreal, continued west, and eventually made Muskoka their home. Visitors to the Milford Bay Trout Farm tread the same soil. Uncle Jim also found a chair, owned by another ancestor who farmed on the St. Lawrence in Mallorytown. Visitors to Brown’s Bay Park and T.G. Guild Marina tread the same soil. The Manors of Mallorytown were equally hardy folk, and the photo of them on the banks of the river with their pumpkins is a family classic. Uncle Jim also has a letter written to his father, my grandfather. A hotelier in Chicago thanks my grandfather for the “special tire” sent to him, which made the hotelier’s daughter’s wedding very special. Apparently, during prohibition, my grandfather’s garage in Mallorytown specialized in non-pneumatic wedding-enhancing tires. I never met my grandfather, or the Manors, and I was a baby when Aunt May left us, but my memories of Uncle Jim are filled with joy. He had a Packard and his old truck is in a museum in New Orleans, I think. He could build anything, including a great story. He served his community forever, and the last time I saw him was in 2007 when he helped us with my father’s estate. A few month’s ago, a cousin passed away and my sister Joanne asked if I would let him know. We hadn’t spoken since 2007, but his voice on the phone, the humour, the warmth, was all there, and the years evaporated. We spoke of family, but mostly of history, and I mentioned my cousin Henrike and her grandson were visiting in a few days and planning to check out the National Air Force Museum of Canada. “I’d like to see that,” said Uncle Jim. “I hear it’s wonderful.” It is, and I offered to arrange a tour when he’s feeling up to it. I can’t help but wonder what gems Uncle Jim will find, mementos only he can see, and as my sister says, “You never know what will fall into Uncle Jim’s toolbox.” As a mechanic, he’ll love the restoration shop. He’ll chat with the volunteers and let them know he has an original Anson propeller, bought at an auction. As a historian, he’ll have tears in his eyes when he sees the Halifax. Who wouldn’t? He’ll make new friends with the RCAF museum guides, and he’ll probably talk his way into places most of us haven’t even noticed. Chances are, he’ll make new memories, and bring us along on his magnificent adventure. That’s Uncle Jim. Wherever he goes, history is in his wake. He’s a pretty cool guy. I hope he likes this issue. I hope you do, too. 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__label__cc	0.522226	0.477774	SUBMIT DEMO /Artists /Deep House D3EP radio network [UK] close dj / producer / remixer from south london Lu York (Aka Luis Paulino) was born in Queens, Ny back in the early 90’s at the right place and the right time. Surrounded by many different styles of music and people, Lu York absorbed the mixed culture that started his love for music and began to put back what […] DEELAY DJ/ Sound Producer from Leicester, Uk. Primarily started off DJin since the age of 16 playing a blend of House & Garage taking inspiration from the London scene and pirate stations which developed the passion for UK Garage. Such artists as Todd Edwards, Tuff Jam, Jeremy Sylvester, DJ EZ, Mike […] Michael Johnston is an Irish Producer who’s love affair with House music started at an early age, when he bought his first House record at the tender age of 12. The last couple of years Michael has spent in the studio, honing his sound. His jacking beats and stabby chord […] HAYDEN GREEN Hayden Green aka Chris Pringle is a producer and remixer who leans towards the deeper side of house music. Always with a 90’s flavour releases and remixes with Crazy Monk Records, Pure Beats Records, Habitual Grooves, Monkey Show Records, Base Music, Instant Deep and LemonAid Music FIZZIKX DJ and Producer from the North Of England who has listened to all kinds of music growing up as a kid and got in to the electronic music and production in 2014. Trying to make a lot of styles of music for a couple of months then got deeply into […] CASTRO (SA) Tebogo Michael Selowa Better Known as Castro (SA) is a House Music producer from South Africa. Castro finally got a chance to showcase his musical talent and get it out there to the people. please do check his frequent works on Candid Beings Records REMIXES Dominox Latte, The Partimers – […] DERRICK DA HOUSE Derrick Da House (Josue Rivera 22-07-1988) is a DJ, producer of House music from Mexico City, beginning his career at the age of 19 as a DJ under the alias of “Legotronic”, experimenting with the Techno and Trance genres, his musical curiosity led him to make his first EP “Contact […] CHICO FLASH Chico began spinning house music as a radio DJ in the early 90s, focusing on mainly U.S. house and garage. In the mid-90s, he developed a taste for UK garage. Based in Orlando, Florida, Chico focuses on producing tracks in his own distinctive style. He also DJs and hosts a […] Load moresync Crazy Monk Records 2019. 01. Make Me Speed (Original Mix) 02. Make Me Speed(Arie Mando Remix) DERRICK DA HOUSE, Arie Mando 03. Make Me Speed(Dan T Remix) DERRICK DA HOUSE, Dan T 04. Make Me Speed(LeiagnaVibes Remix) DERRICK DA HOUSE, LeiagnaVibes Remix 05. Make Me Speed(Billy Butler Remix) DERRICK DA HOUSE, Billy Butler play_arrow skip_previous skip_next volume_down playlist_play	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1089
__label__wiki	0.584196	0.584196	‘Kingsman’ Fans, We’ve Got The Title Of The Prequel And It’s Epic REUTERS/Eddie Keogh Katie Jerkovich Entertainment Reporter “Kingsman” fans got some very exciting news Wednesday when the name for the prequel to Matthew Vaughn’s highly successful spy-thriller franchise was released. Fox just released the name and a new logline about the prequel to “Kingsman: The Secret Service” aptly titled, “The King’s Man,” according to the Hollywood Reporter. (RELATED: Celebrate Samantha Hoopes’ Birthday With Her Hottest Looks) Cast member Colin Firth arrives with his wife Livia Giuggioli.. in London, Britain September 18, 2017. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh “As a collection of history’s worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them,” the logline from Disney and 20th Century Fox read. (RELATED: Celebrate Anna Kendrick’s Birthday With Her Hottest Looks [SLIDESHOW]) The movie will reportedly deal with the origins of the international spy organization and feature such stars as Ralph Fiennes, Matthew Goode, and Harris Dickinson. The first film, released in 2015, featured the likes of Taron Egerton and Colin Firth. “A spy organization recruits an unrefined, but promising street kid into the agency’s ultra-competitive training program, just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius,” the first film’s description reads, pera IMDb. The sequel titled, “Kingsman: The Golden Circle,” released in 2017, upped the ante: “When their headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, the Kingsman’s journey leads them to the discovery of an allied spy organization in the United States. These two elite secret organizations must band together to defeat a common enemy,” according to IMDb. The prequel is expected to hit theaters Feb 14th 2020 and we can hardly wait. Tags : colin firth kingsman the kings man Katie Jerkovich Follow Katie Jerkovich on Twitter	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1093
__label__wiki	0.943351	0.943351	Greenburgh Ardsley Edgemont Greenburgh Daily Voice serves Ardsley, Edgemont & Greenburgh VIDEO: Westchester Students Devise 22nd-Century Upgrades For Rail Crossings K Reakes Mamaroneck High School students were among those designing safer railroad crossings during Digital Arts Experience's Teen RR Safety challenge. Video Credit: Provided/Mamaroneck Schools A closeup of a railroad crossing and safety upgrades being designed by a student from Mamaroneck High School. Photo Credit: Provided/Mamaroneck High School Mamaroneck High School team members with their computer science teacher, Jigar Jadav, far left, and Alan Brody. Photo Credit: Provided/Mamaroneck High School Teens from high schools across the area compete to come up with ideas for safer rail crossings. Photo Credit: Ptovided/Rob Kissner Mamaroneck High School team members with their computer science teacher, Jigar Jadav, left and Alan Brody on the right. Photo Credit: Provided/Mamaroneck High School High school students from the area worked in teams to come up with ideas for safer rail crossings. Photo Credit: Provided/Rob Kissner Alan Brody works tirelessly to come up with safer railroad crossing in memory of his late wife Ellen Brody who was killed when her SUV was hit by a Metro-North train. Photo Credit: Skip Pearlman This story has been updated. Teens were hard at work putting their heads together exchanging ideas, hands moving almost as fast as their thoughts. They shared one common purpose during the all-day Digital Arts Experience competition on Saturday in White Plains: Come up with designs to improve rail crossing safety. The tournament was organized by Alan Brody, the widower of 49-year-old Ellen Brody of Edgemont. The mother of three was killed in a February 2015 tragedy when her SUV was hit by a Metro-North commuter train in Valhalla. Ever since that accident, which also took the lives of five train passengers, Brody has been a vocal advocate of bringing safety to railroad crossings. It's one way to honor his late wife's name, and prevent future catastrophes, he says. He is busy filing lawsuits and working with politicians to get legislation passed to upgrade rail crossings. He's making it a point to talk to anyone who will listen. Stymied and disappointed on all fronts, Brody said he decided to turn to the next generation in hopes they will come up with the ways and means to make the needed changes to protect the lives of both drivers and train commuters. "When I visited the 'safety upgrade' the MTA did at Roaring Brook last year, I saw that for a taxpayer grant of $500,000, they basically painted the road, put in some plastic poles and added the most obscure 'warning sign' on the Saw Mill," Brody said. "And this is in one of the richest, most influential towns in the country." That's when Brody realized this issue was something he was going to have to tackle on his own. So he turned to a younger generation of brainpower. The winning solution at Digital Arts Experience's Teen RR Safety challenge was designed and built in just five hours by the Putnam Valley High School team led by Jasper Katzban. Their under-$100 prototype employed a self-aware system with sensors and volumetric cameras that could assess a car, or any other other object on a track, and slow or stop an oncoming train accordingly. The Putnam Valley High School team delivered the model to assess the current safety of every track. The technology can automatically slow, stop or speed up the oncoming train, thereby giving the engineer the advantage real-time look-ahead. It also offered a panic button at the track for the public to alert the railroad dispatcher. The proposed use of a volumetric camera -- a bright idea adopted from virtual reality and 3D cameras, can assess the size and mass of an object. These breakthrough cameras cost as much as $125,000 in their full feature capacity, but a consumer version, which could adequately handle the challenge costs as little as $300. Other school teams showed just as much moxie when it came to creativity. Mamaroneck High School introduced a model that included a car removal device on the tracks, laser sensors and impossible-to-miss crossing lights. The Mamaroneck students, assisted by computer science teacher Jigar Jadav, created a prototype using an Arduino microcontroller and Legos. Paul Pedrozo was MHS' team leader. Other Mamaroneck team members were Pablo Garza, Sam Brause and Andrew Katz. The Mount Vernon team headed by Tristan Fordyce, a small group by comparison, introduced the idea of a bright light and countdown clock. It took Brody well over a year to have this issue become part of the Digital Arts Experience competition. He reached out to executives at IBM, billionaires he knows like Steve Case and Ted Leonsis of AOL, Mark Cuban and even the IEEE's Internet of Things. They were sympathetic, but not interested in this problem, not even the larger infrastructure implications, Brody said. That's where teens from schools across Westchester County came in. Brody, and others, are hoping that competitions like Digital Arts Experience will spark creativity adults have failed to address. So far, it's working. "The judges were struck by the richness of the ideas and the degree to which the teens were able to implement the proof of concept models with the sensor/controller sets. Considering that they were able to do this in less than five hours is a staggering achievement and a message to officials who believe they have neither the funding nor the creativity to come up with safety improvements," Brody said. Brody believes the answer would be to cherry-pick the best ideas from each team and incorporate them into one total, low-cost, self-aware system. "The problem with adults is they are beholden to their preconceived notions and they will reflexively act to protect it. Kids don’t," he said. "In this case, the kids are our new investors and if we let them, they will make the future," Brody added. Nonprofit disabilities service-provider ACDS finds success in... White Plains-based Combe sued for $5M for alleged defects in ... Greenburgh Daily Voice!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1095
__label__cc	0.595035	0.404965	Tag Archives: unbothered Episode 1142: The Golden Moment June 9, 2018 November 1970, Sam Hallgerardspeak, kaiju, monologue, mystery box, redshirt, the head, unbothered, yellingDanny Horn “There is a world — an evil world — which exists for some men.” He’s not a handsome man, it’s true, but he’s powerful, and portable, and persistent. And he’s the man of your dreams, in the sense that you keep having naptime nightmares where his disembodied head bosses you around. We’re all familiar with Judah Zachery the paperweight, lurking on the credenza in his glass enclosure, silently slipping through your defenses and inspiring you to steal newspapers and murder an antiques dealer with the wrong ancestor. But what of Judah Zachery, the man? His eyes could bewitch you, they said. He lured beautiful young women to his house, and persuaded them to participate in unspeakable acts. And this was in the 1690s, when they really were unspeakable, because nobody had invented the slang words to describe them yet. That was a hundred and fifty years ago, give or take, and for all that time, he’s been operating at a serious disadvantage. They say size doesn’t matter, but try to lure somebody somewhere when you’re ten inches total. But that ends today. This is the day that Judah Zachery breaks out of his box, and gets his groove on. Continue reading Episode 1142: The Golden Moment → Episode 1134/1135: The Graveyard Smash April 30, 2018 Gordon Russell, October 1970apparatus, frankenstein, impostor, lampshade, lies, mad science, unbotheredDanny Horn “We cannot succeed without it, because without it he cannot live!” You know, she’s done amazing things in the past, but now she’s even more in the past, and look what she can do. Displaced medico Julia Hoffman, thrust by circumstance into a time not yet her own, has assembled — in the middle of the night, in the middle of a graveyard, and in the middle of the nineteenth century — a pop-up artisanal mad scientist coworking space with all the trimmings, including assorted glassware lashed into an impromptu apparatus with bubbling liquids of uncertain purpose, along with tables and lamps and switches and samovars and who knows what-all. She’s even got things wired up with electricity somehow, with a good old-fashioned Jacob’s ladder spark gap buzzing away in the corner, in case the Nobel committee comes by and she needs to science the place up a little. She’s in a secret underground crypt, by the way, built by ignorant and superstitious villagers a hundred and fifty years ago as a long-term radioactive-waste storage facility, so they would have a place to put decapitated wizards that they weren’t using anymore. It wasn’t zoned for whatever the hell this is, so Julia’s technically a squatter, and she couldn’t hire anybody to help her drag the enormous Frankenstein-size slab through the narrow trap door beneath the unmarked grave, and down the winding stairs to this busted basement. And yet she did it somehow, in absolute silence and secrecy, all on her own. It’s incredible what you can do, when someone else puts your mind to it. Continue reading Episode 1134/1135: The Graveyard Smash → Episode 1064: Here Comes the Hotstepper August 20, 2017 Joe Caldwell, July 1970evil, haunted, melrose place, t of the s, time travel, unbothered, warner brosDanny Horn “A shadow, yes — a shadow that fell over all of our lives!” Barnabas and Julia have been thrust into the far-off space year of 1995, which means they’ve already missed three seasons of Melrose Place and they’re not going to understand what anybody at the office is talking about. They’d better stay away from watercoolers altogether; you can’t be too careful. But the time-tossed twosome have other things on their minds, like for example that their house got destroyed twenty-five years ago, killing most of their friends and driving the survivors out of their everloving minds. So Barnabas and Julia are snooping around, trying to find out what caused the catastrophe. I’d suggest taking a close look at Dr. Kimberley Shaw, who’s recently developed an interest in detonating apartment complexes, but they wouldn’t have any idea what I mean. You see what happens when you don’t watch Melrose Place? Let this be a lesson. Continue reading Episode 1064: Here Comes the Hotstepper → Episode 849: Here Today March 27, 2016 Sam Hall, September 1969astral body, brandy, bungling, jane, murder, music box, narrative collision, poison, retrospective vacation, unbotheredDanny Horn “Where have you been? To Boston, for some new finery?” Honestly, what can be done to rid this town of Josettes? We kidnap them, we shoot them, we hang them, we throw them off a cliff onto the rocks and the raging sea, and they always come back — sighing, fretting, and making a nuisance of themselves. The problem, really, is that the Collins family insists on hiring governesses, which is a Josette-heavy industry. The latest Josette is named Kitty. It turns out she was a governess once, and she married her employer, Lord Hampshire. Her husband is dead now — suicide, obviously — and the child is nowhere to be seen, which is all par for the course when you let a Josette into your house. Ruin and devastation, as far as the eye can see. Continue reading Episode 849: Here Today → Episode 649: The Rise and Fall May 15, 2015 December 1968, Ron Sproatalex, camp, day player, doomed investigator, eccentric, haunted, redshirt, sacrifice, skeleton, stairs, telephone, unbotheredDanny Horn “Someone now dead lived in this room.” Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight, our feature bout is a winner-takes-all cage match between the savvy psychic, Madame Janet Findley, and the sinister specter, Mr. Quentin Collins (deceased). Quentin has been quietly haunting the halls of the great house at Collinwood for seventy years, lurking in his sealed-up chamber in the abandoned west wing. Lately he’s been reaching out to the two children of the house, urging them to visit his room, plot against family members, scatter tarot cards around the house, and listen to his hit song, not necessarily in that order. Earlier this week, under their ancestor’s malign influence, David and Amy tricked Roger into falling down the stairs in the foyer. Concerned, Elizabeth has called in Madame Janet Findley, an exterminator for the already exterminated. Madame Findley is one of the craziest dames that we’ve seen on Dark Shadows, and that’s getting to be a crowded field. She says surprising things, makes extravagant hand gestures, and goes into a trance at a moment’s notice. I will miss her terribly. Continue reading Episode 649: The Rise and Fall → Episode 647: The Wire May 12, 2015 December 1968, Sam Hallbackacting, executive child, handwave, murder weapons, spooky kid, stairs, t of the s, unbotheredDanny Horn “I fear the séance didn’t put an end to what’s been happening here.” The Turn of the Screw opens with a group of devoted thrill-seekers at a week-long house party, entertaining each other with ghost stories. Griffin has just finished telling the story of a young boy waking his mother up in the middle of the night, because a dreadful apparition had materialized in the bedroom, and he wanted her to see it. That is the beginning and end of that story, as I understand it, but it sounds like it was the hit of the evening, so hooray for low standards. Unable to cope with his seething jealousy of the master raconteur, a guest named Douglas tries a bit of casual oneupmanship: Before we scattered, he brought out what was in his mind. “I quite agree — in regard to Griffin’s ghost, or whatever it was — that its appearing first to the little boy, at so tender an age, adds a particular touch. But it’s not the first occurrence of its charming kind that I know to have involved a child. If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to TWO children — ?” “We say, of course,” somebody exclaimed, “that they give two turns! Also that we want to hear about them.” Obviously, this is setting a bad precedent. It’s only a matter of time before Griffin comes up with a ghost story involving four children, and then Douglas ups the ante to a half dozen, until finally there’s a story about thirty-five children, each with his or her own personalized specter, and the bottom falls out of the ghost story market. This is not a scaleable business model. Continue reading Episode 647: The Wire → Episode 639: Vampire Excites Wives, Young Set May 2, 2015 December 1968, Gordon Russellafterlife, flashlight, gay, lost children, telephone, the west wing, they, unbothered, wake the dead, young danny, young setDanny Horn “I think the man I’m talking to is a ghost!” Previously, on Dark Shadows: Dr. Woodard has discovered that Barnabas Collins is the kidnapper that everyone’s been looking for — and a member of the living dead. Armed with a journal which contains notes of Julia’s mad experiments, Woodard is planning to speak to the Sheriff, and expose the evil presence that threatens to destroy them all. But a bat appears at the window — and Dr. Woodard is horrified to see the vampire materialize in front of him. And then… nothing, for three years. At least, that’s what it was like when I saw it. Continue reading Episode 639: Vampire Excites Wives, Young Set → Episode 619: The Gunslinger April 4, 2015 Gordon Russell, November 1968blocking, camp, maltese falcon, showdown, stand next to barnabas, televisual literacy, trickster, unbotheredDanny Horn “No matter how dangerous it is, I’ve got to have a showdown with Nicholas Blair.” Really, the thing that everybody wants to know is: why can’t the Stormtroopers shoot straight in Star Wars? It turns out there are three simple answers. #1. Stormtroopers shooting laser bolts are more interesting to look at than Stormtroopers who stand around complaining. #2. Shooting Luke Skywalker in the head halfway through the first movie is going to leave a rather obvious gap in the trilogy. #3. “Strong Guy Kills Weak Guy” is not headline news. This ends the lit-crit theory portion of today’s post; we will now spend the rest of our time watching Dr. Julia Hoffman act like an unbelievable badass. Continue reading Episode 619: The Gunslinger → Episode 324: The Wrong Man February 6, 2014 Gordon Russell, September 1967dracula, leave me alone, one life to live, portraits, the supernatural, unbotheredDanny Horn “The eyes in the painting… They were alive! I could feel them!” At the top of the show today, Elizabeth finds young David standing in the foyer, staring at the 18th-century portrait of Barnabas. She asks David what’s wrong, and he suddenly runs upstairs and slams the door. Perplexed, Liz looks at the portrait. And unfortunately, that’s as close as we’re going to get to the vampire today. Elizabeth is actually just coming back from four weeks of summer vacation, and we hardly noticed. But Barnabas is at the heart of every storyline now, and if he takes even one day off, the show starts to sag. This is the first episode without Barnabas in two weeks. That portrait is going to get a workout today. Continue reading Episode 324: The Wrong Man → Episode 317: The X-Files January 28, 2014 Gordon Russell, September 1967blocking, caretaker, chromakey, crypt, goldfish, mausoleum, mulder, unbotheredDanny Horn “When I came into your room that night to kill you, I should have gone through with it.” Today’s episode opens with Dr. Julia Hoffman walking into the Old House to find Barnabas getting ready to leave. Technically, she’s supposed to be coming over to continue her experiments; she believes that she can cure Barnabas of being a vampire. This usually involves injections, seasoned with dialogue about the structure of his blood cells. But we’ve seen that situation so many times lately that they apparently don’t even need to mention the experiment anymore. Julia just walks in, and asks Barnabas what he’s up to. He calls her “doctor” a few times, but otherwise there’s no mention of the cure, or any other reason that she might be strolling in this evening. It’s actually surprising that she even bothers to knock on the door. Things have become noticeably casual at the Old House. The main topic of the week is whether young David knows Barnabas’ secret, and what Barnabas is going to do about it. Julia urges him not to do anything rash, and he tells her to mind her own business. You’d think that watching people talk about murdering a child would be inherently interesting. Apparently, that is not always the case. Continue reading Episode 317: The X-Files →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1098
__label__wiki	0.566046	0.566046	SecureKey’s Blockchain Identity Verification System Now in Use at Five Canadian Banks Home » Briefs » SecureKey’s Blockchain Identity Verification System Now in Use at Five Canadian Banks SecureKey Technologies announced this week that it’s blockchain-powered Verified.Me digital identity network is now being used for identity verification at five Canadian banks. The company revealed that CIBC, Desjardins, RBC, Scotiabank and TD are all using the system to allow customers to verify their identities online in a “privacy-enhanced and secure way.” According to the announcement, the blockchain technology used in the system simplifies identity verification and offers a secure and streamlined way for consumers to share private personal information with service providers. It also offers the participating banks a more cost-efficient way to achieve identity verification goals and onboard new clients. SecureKey Technologies CEO Greg Wolfond said: “This announcement marks the first time that consumers are officially able to access the Verified.Me application and gain greater control over their digital identities. Digital identity is one of the most enduring challenges of our time, and having the opportunity to showcase how a network of cross-industry organizations can come together to build a solution by and for consumers is an honour. We are excited to bring this first-of-its-kind network to market and look forward to its expansion as new participants join our service.” The announcement also noted that Sun Life Financial Inc. has committed to use the service, making it the first insurer in North America to choose Verified.Me. In addition, two other Canadian banks – BMO Bank of Montreal and National Bank of Canada are expected to adopt the SecureKey digital identity verification system soon. LSK $1.28 0.87% BCD $0.80 -2.6% If it was as simple as just giving people another way to buy a cup of coffee, I can promise you that no one in our ecosystem would be working this hard. — Melanie Shapiro – Founder/CEO of CaseWallet CCN Shutting Down, Cites Google’s June Core Update as Reason	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1104
__label__cc	0.732698	0.267302	The awesome MythRider has nominated CTG for the One Lovely Blog Award. As a recipient of the award themselves, read their wonderful acceptance blog here … I’ve been nominated for the One Lovely Blog Award, first by Rhys Ethan then by Dana Zalesky. Thank you. Review: BAPTISM by Max Kinnings October 28, 2012 6 Comments Baptism cover A breathtakingly rapid-paced action thriller set in modern day London “07:45am. A monk lies dead in Snowdonia, a knife protruding from his throat. A young family is being held at gunpoint in a house in Wimbledon. The mission has begun. 08:56am. A London Underground train lies stationary in a tunnel, four hundred passengers trapped inside. All efforts to communicate with it have been met with silence. 09:15am. DCI Ed Mallory has just started his day. The Met’s top hostage negotiator is about to discover that, today, an underground train is not the only thing on the line.” BAPTISM is told through the points of view of multiple characters, these viewpoints knit together to reveal the full story of the hostage situation, and the incidents that led up to it, through three interwoven storylines. There’s the story of the members of the church of Cruor Christi. This is a religious group divided. Firstly, there’s Tommy and Belle, who are responsible for the hostage situation, and secondly there are, Simeon and Varick, who are trying to stop them carrying it out. Then there’s the story of the claustrophobic train driver, George Wakeham, and his wife, Maggie, as they’re forced to help Tommy and Belle hijack a tube train under threat of their children being killed. And then there’s that of the Police and other officials trying to contain and resolve the situation, and is predominantly told through the eyes of DCI Ed Mallory, a blind hostage negotiator. As the three main storylines twist and turn together, the full impact of the terrifying situation becomes clear. The reader sees how it effects those touched by the event – the hostages trapped in the tunnel on the hottest day of the year by their captors, the train driver who is desperate to get his wife and children back safely, and the negotiator who has to fight the demons of past failure to try and save the hostages. It’s a tense, unnervingly believable story with a high body-count and moments of brutal violence. From the shocking first chapter, through to the dramatic conclusion, this is a fast-paced, seat-of-your-pants action thriller that had me reading far later into the night than I intended because, quite simply, I couldn’t put it down. That said, I did find reading it as I sat on the tube going along the Northern Line rather unsettling! If action thrillers are your thing, then this one is definitely worth checking out. BAPTISM by Max Kinnings is out now, published by Quercus. Piles of books (Photo credit: ollily) So many crime fiction books, not enough time! I’ve always been a real hoarder of books, but recently my ‘To Read’ pile seems to have grown far more than usual. On my list at the moment I’ve got: BAPTISM by Max Kinnings Heart-Shaped Bruise by Tanya Byrne Snakes & Ladders by Sean Slater Dark Eyes by William Richter Sleep Walkers by Tom Grieves The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz 11.22.63 by Stephen King A Wanted Man by Lee Child Survivor by Gregg Hurwitz And with the darker nights drawing in, it’s the perfect time to curl up by the fire and read my way through them. What’s on your ‘to read’ list at the moment? Events: Is Crime the new Literary Fiction How to get to Kings Place, London Do you love crime fiction? If so, this event could be for you. On 12th November 2012 the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) are hosting a panel discussion on the topic “Is crime the new literary fiction?” Chaired by Mark Lawson, the panel will be made up of best-selling crime thriller writers: Lee Child, Sophie Hannah, Peter James and John Banville. It sounds like it’ll be a lively and entertaining debate. For more information, and to book tickets, visit the Kings Place website at: http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on-book-tickets/spoken-word/is-crime-the-new-literary-fiction It’s in my diary and I can’t wait! Literary versus genre fiction – what’s the difference? (nailyournovel.wordpress.com) I Say Genre, You Say Genre (jessicavealitzek.com) Literary vs. Genre Fiction: What are the Differences? (lenleatherwood.wordpress.com)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1105
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__label__cc	0.645871	0.354129	Dirty Bourbon River Show New Orleans Big Brass Circus Rock Music The Flying Musical Circus Important Things Humans Should Know Accordion Anthology The Most Peculiar Thing The OTAPJJ Hospitality Rider Stream Noah’s New Mixtape: Tag: Michigan 1 New Swag!! by dirtybourbonrivershow Step on up!! Come one, come all!! We got some NEW Dirty Bourbon Swag for y’all!! Come check it all out and more tonight at Cliff Bell’s in beautiful Detroit!! We hit at 10 pm! See y’all there! 0 Beautiful Women Playing Tuba pt. 64: Polish Party Edition · Tuba We had a day off after playing Blissfest so we ended up chilling at a Polish camp. Excellent people. We shared some music and they shared a lot of vodka. Good times all around. Now without further ado, the most beautiful Polish waitresses, hostess, and cooks in Harbor Springs, Michigan, Asia, Vela, Malwina, Daniella, and Ada! P.S. Gig tonight at Barley’s Taphouse and Pizzeria in Knoxville, Tennessee. Show starts at 10. 1 Fun Times in Michigan! · Art · festivals · Live Shows What’s up everyone!? Man oh man have we been having an absolutely amazing time up here in Michigan! The shows have been going great, and our time in between has been excellent too. We’ve been able to visit some of the most beautiful lakes and local hang out spots, and we’ve got plenty of good memories and photos to take home with us! Blissfest 2016!! Legs Inn Bar Flint Field Horse Park Yeah y’all, it’s been beautiful to say the least, and tonight is our last night in Michigan! So if you’re in the Three Rivers area, come join us at the Riviera Theatre tonight! We’ll be kicking things off at 8pm! Tickets are $10 at the door so get in early and get you some good seats! Also, it has come to our attention that we need more fun, fan shot media. So if you’ve got some videos/photos from the Dirty Bourbon River Show, share it with us!! This gem comes from our friend Corrie G. in Lansing! Thanks Corrie and well done! 0 Heroes of the Low End pt. 17: Glenn Miller Glenn Miller: Basso Profundo, Grammy winner, Not the Trombonist/Jazz Composer, Capable of shaking the ground with the power of his voice alone. Growing up singing in choir, Glenn was relegated to support roles, unable to sing leads because his voice was simply too manly for the leads. As he grew up and more people discovered the power of his voice, he quickly became an in demand Basso Profundo. His absolutely ridiculous range allowed him to sing notes most mere mortals can only dream of. In his 2015 Grammy winning recording of a Russian Eastern Orthodox Church standard, Do not reject me in my old age, Glenn sang the super low Contra G! Glenn Miller is a true badass with a voice worthy of the title Basso Profundo. What I would give to have a voice like that… P.S. We’re at Blissfest in Harbor Springs, Michigan today and tomorrow! Our first set starts at 8. 0 Onward to Michigan · Live Shows Yeah buddy!! We had a most excellent night yesterday in Chicago! Schubas was jumping last night thanks to everyone who came out and partied with us!! Today, we’re heading out to beautiful and magnificent Michigan to rock the walls at the Tip Top deluxe in Grand Rapids tonight with Chuck Whiting and the Tip Rail Ramblers!! We’re excited to be in Michigan for the next week with plenty of awesome shows coming up so check the calendar and spread the word!! 0 Beautiful Women Playing Tuba pt. 60 It is my utmost pleasure to introduce to you, the most beautiful French/Spanish translator in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Eva! P.S. Last show of tour! Come back to Cliff Bell’s in Detroit, Michigan tonight. Show starts at 9:30. 0 Heroes of the Low End pt. 9 Jim Self: legendary freelance musician who has played on over 1500 movie soundtracks and countless tv shows, composer, jazzcat badass. Jim Self’s career is far too distinguished and extensive to get into here, but let it be known, Jim is the voice of the mothership in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Nuff Said. P.S. Gig tonight at the Hop Cat in Detroit, Michigan. Show starts at 10. 0 Bootsy’s Box of Records pt. 13 · Albums · Live Shows · Vinyl Hey y’all, it’s time for another edition of BBR. Last week we played at the Continental Club in Houston, and across the street is a wonderful record shop – Sig’s Lagoon. They have vinyl everywhere and their prices are very good! So while searching through their stuff, I found a beauty…. That is New Orleans’ Sweet Emma and her Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Folks, this is the very first album Preservation Hall released, and it’s absolutely beautiful. It’s a live performance of the band recorded on October 18, 1964, at the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I have to say that owning and reading through this album, I’ve become inspired for a new segment on the site. I haven’t yet thought of a name, but it’s about time I start sharing more about the history of my hometown and the people who’ve made it what it is now. Until then, please enjoy a cut from this record and be inspired!! Tonight we’re partying in Grand Rapids, MI at the grand Founders Brewery! Showtime is 9pm, so get there early and get your taste buds going on their fine brew selection! ~Boots 1 Bootsy ‘ s Box of Records pt 6 · Vinyl Since we’ve been home for most of February, I’ve had time to frequent my nearest Salvation Army for records and VHS tapes. It’s pretty sweet because records and tapes are a quarter there. Going through their stash this month I found a Dave Brubeck record, a Bill Evans Anthology, Genesis live double-disc, and the Blues Brothers soundtrack on vinyl for under $2. They were all in good condition too. (I also bought Kazaam, Wizard of Oz, Tim Burton’s Batman & Nightmare before Christmas, and some other movies for about the same price.) So for post 6 of BBR, I’ll feature The Dave Brubeck Quartet record – Time In Outer Space. Joe Morello was an amazing jazz drummer and dominates the whole B side of this record. Hope you enjoy! Tonight we’re in Grand Rapids, MI at The Tip Top Deluxe with the Kent County String Band. Showtime is 9pm. See y’all there. Boots. 0 Double Saxophone Goodness · Events · Live Shows As a saxophonist and improvisational musician, there’s so much to learn! From scale variations to rhythms to vocabulary to chord progressions to flashy extended techniques and on and on and on, any musician worth his/her salt will agree that it’s imperative to always push further and to break through your barriers. Of the flashy little tricks in my personal arsenal, though, one of the biggest crowd pleasers proves over and over to be the double saxophone. I have a hell of a good time doing it, but I’m far from the first! Some of my biggest saxophone heroes have pulled it off, including Jeff Coffin and the legendary Rahsaan Roland Kirk, but the only other musician I’ve seen pull of the labor-intensive bari-tenor combo is the great Dana Colley of Morphine. Finding that band was a revelation to me as a musician and specifically as a baritone saxophonist, and it looks like we at the Dirty Bourbon River Show will have the honor of sharing the stage with the Vespers of Morphine (original members of Morphine with the slide bass and guitar stylings of the talented and capable Jeremy Lyons) on 5/30 at New Orleans’ own d.b.a! I’ve seen them live, and it’s the real deal, people. If you’re in the area, do yourselves a favor and come check this show out, because I’m completely stoked for it! Not that you need any convincing, but if you want to see one of the videos that enlightened me to the greatness of the bari-tenor combo, dig this video from one of Morphine’s performances from back in the mid-90s. You’re welcome! Also, tonight marks the end of our little run out in the Midwest, so if you’re in the area, come party with us in Detroit at one of the classiest of classy jazz joints I’ve ever been to, Cliff Bell’s! We kick off at 9:30 with three full sets of awesome. Be there! ~Slyfox	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1113
__label__wiki	0.640509	0.640509	There have been three mass shootings across the country in the last week. On January 23, 2019, a 21-year old man entered a Suntrust Bank in Sebring, Florida and killed all five people present, none of whom he knew according to news reports. His victims were all women: Cynthia Watson, Marisol Lopez, Debra Cook, Ana Pinon-Williams, and Jessica Montague. The alleged shooter is Zephen Xaver, who is currently under arrest for five counts of premeditated murder. A vigil in honor of these victims was held on January 27, 2019. On January 26, 2019, a 21-year old man from Livingston Parish, Louisiana killed his girlfriend, her father, and her brother at their home then drove to his parents’ house and killed them. His victims were: Summer Ernest; her father, Billy Ernest; and her younger brother, Tanner Ernest, 17 as well as his parents Elizabeth and Keith Theriot. His name is Dakota Theriot. He was arrested at his grandparents’ home near Richmond, VA and now faces five counts of murder. According to a comment I received (see comments below) the community did not hold a vigil in honor of these mass shooting victims. The first funeral was held on Saturday, February 9, 2019, two weeks after the shooting occurred. And on January 24, 2019, the third mass shooting occurred in my community. In this case, a 21-year old man from Bellefonte, PA who graduated high school with my son shot and killed four people in State College, PA. The victims included himself, two men visiting State College from Ohio, and an 83-year old man who was killed on his 60th wedding anniversary. He also critically wounded a fifth person. The shooter was Jordan Witmer, a 2015 graduate of Bellefonte Area High School who had just finished a 3-4 year stint with the US Army. The critically-wounded woman is Nicole Abrino, who was or may have been his girlfriend at the time of the shooting. The father and son were Dean Beachy (age 62) and Steven Beachy (age 19) from Ohio; they had attempted to intervene in the argument between Witmer before the shooting occurred. George McCormick was murdered in his home after Witmer fled the scene at P.J. Harrigan’s Bar and Grille. After crashing his car, Witmer broke into the McCormick home in Ferguson Township and then shot and killed Mr. McCormick. Witmer then died by suicide. George’s wife, Joann Shaw McCormick was unharmed; she had locked herself in their bathroom and called 911. Abrino (age 21) of State College was shot in the chest and is currently in stable condition at UPMC in Pittsburgh. She has had two surgeries so far to deal with her injuries, and a GoFundMe campaign has been set up to help her family pay for her medical expenses. After the shooting, McCormick’s family reached out to the other victims with a message of condolence. Kristine McCormick Vahey, younger sister of George McCormick, offered her condolences to the other victims of this mass shooting, which was published in StateCollege.com: “The family of George McCormick would like to offer our condolences to the Beachy family on the loss of their loved ones and prayers for Nicole Abrino and her family. We would also like to offer our condolences to the family of Jordan Witmer. While we don’t understand and may never understand why this happened, we know that the Witmer family is also grieving a loss.” And, just like in Florida, our community held a vigil to honor these mass shooting victims. I attended this vigil. We came together to honor the first responders, the victims (including Jordan Witmer) and the families of this shooting and called for some actions to end this type of violence. The State College and Bellefonte, PA communities come out to honor the victims and first responders of the mass shooting in State College. Vigil hosted by Standing at the Gates for Justice, Third Way Collective and Ni-Ta-Nee NOW. Due to the solemnity of the event, I did not create a video. So that you get to an idea of what was said, I have culled several news reports of the vigil to obtain quotes from the speakers and some of the people who came to the vigil. Here are these comments: “In the wake of the violence that has taken four lives and left one hospitalized, we thought it was fitting to have it this week, honor those victims and remember their lives.” (quote from WJAC-TV) ”We enter into silence today, remembering the employees of P.J. Harrigan’s and the Ramada Inn and Conference Center. First responders, law enforcement and medical professionals. Nicole Abrino, the single gunshot survivor, and her family as they mourn and heal. Those whose lives have been taken forever: 19-year-old Steven Beachy, his father, Dean Beachy, and 83-year-old George McCormick, a longtime State College and Penn State community member. And Jordan Witmer, the Bellefonte grad who perpetuated the crimes, and his family as they make sense of what happened.” (quote from The Centre Daily Times) Ben Wideman, campus pastor for 3rd Way Collective at Penn State and chief organizer of this vigil “The violent loss of our friends and neighbors is all but unbearable. And so, God, we come today asking you to help us fathom that which is unfathomable.” (quote from WPSU Radio) —Carol Thomas Cissel, minister of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in State College “I just feel a little lost, actually, because I don’t totally know what the solution is. We need a different way of expressing or dealing with issues, more sensible gun regulation but also mental health, but I don’t know totally what the answer is or what formula it should be.” (quote from The Centre Daily Times) Michele Hamilton, President of Ni-Ta-Nee NOW, one of the co-hosts for this vigil “I think certainly something like what happened this evening, to draw people together and say, ‘this didn’t just affect those families that were involved, but it affected all of us.’ This to me is actually the beginning of healing — allowing people to connect to each other and finding resources, whether it’s faith, communities, Tides or just one another, to band together and say ‘let’s support each other.’ The very first thing is to know you’re not alone.” (quote from The Centre Daily Times) — Tides Program Director Evelyn Wald (Tides is a local non-profit organization offering no-cost support to families coping with the death of their loved ones) Yes, we all need to heal. Here in Bellefonte, many people knew Mr. Witmer. My son didn’t know him personally but said he recalls that Witmer was well liked. At one time, Witmer lived about two blocks away from us. The community, his former neighbors and family state that they had no idea of any violent tendencies. All are hurting. We can’t condone what any of these shooters did. But we can mourn. I agree. We should never have to deal with any form of violence against others. Mass shootings or otherwise. But we can come together to mourn and then work to reduce these kinds of incidents in the future. Meanwhile, I think Patty Kleban sums up the thoughts of those of us who attended the vigils both here in Pennsylvania and Florida. She wrote the article titled, “In the Face of Tragedy, a Victim’s Family Responds with Grace” After quoting Kristine McCormick Vahey, she eloquently ends her article: Life is short, and we never know what we have beyond right now. Hug those close to you. Forgive your enemies. Show others grace and compassion. Perhaps by sharing our love, we may give others — and ourselves — hope. Quotes Ana Pinon-Williams, Bellefonte PA, Billy Ernest, condolences, Cynthia Watson, Dakota Theriot, Dean Beachy, Debra Cook, Elizabeth Theriot, George McCormick, GoFundMe, Jessica Montague, Jordan Witmer, Keith Theriot, Livingston Parish, Marisol Lopez, Mass Shootings, Ni-Ta-Nee NOW, Nicole Abrino, Quotes, Sebring FL, Standing at the Gates for Justice, State College PA, Steven Beachy, Summer Ernest, Tanner Ernest, Third Way Collective 2 Comments Rick Rosenthal looks the part. He has a white beard. He wears red suits all the time. His job for the last seven years has been that of a surrogate Santa Claus. And he’s an Orthodox Jew. Here’s his story of giving back to kids. https://wp.me/p7hv2i-92W Rick Rosenthal is a professional, year-round Santa who also attends Congregation Young Israel of Toco Hills in Atlanta. (Courtesy of Rosenthal) (JTA) — Just like any other Santa Claus, Santa Rick will spend much of the next couple of weeks sitting children on his knee, asking whether they’ve been good and listening to their Christmas wishes. If it’s a Saturday, he may have slept overnight in the building. And he’ll only accept payment after nightfall. For Santa Rick’s last name is Rosenthal, and he’s an Orthodox Jew who does not drive or handle money on Shabbat. But that doesn’t stop him from doing his job. “I don’t know anyone who wouldn’t help a child,” said Rosenthal, 66, who lives in Atlanta and attends Young Israel of Toco Hills. “If you look at the world as children do, that’s a better feeling. I’m a better person and a better Jew because I’m Santa.” Rosenthal — a full-time, professional Santa — sees no contradiction between serving as the symbol of Christmas and living as an observant Jew. To him, Santa is a nonreligious spiritual figure who provides trust, reassurance and comfort to the young and old. He says that anyone who is inclined to criticize him for working as a Santa should consider ways they help non-Jews observe holidays — like working a shift on Christmas when Christians take the day off. “As a Jew, we are to be a light unto the world,” Rosenthal said, paraphrasing a famous Jewish aphorism from the Bible. “That’s one of our jobs. If we can help make people’s lives better, we should do that. It’s a mitzvah. If we can ease tensions between Jews and non-Jews, we can do that….” Human Kindness Christmas, Human Kindness, Mitzvah, Rick Rosenthal, Santa Claus 0 Comments It’s almost December at the White House, and Donald Trump orders his aides to put up a nativity scene on the lawn. They all grovel before him and begin their task. After working for a few hours to set one up, the aides step back to look at their work. “It looks pretty good,” says the first one. “Yeah, but I’m not sure the boss will like it,” says the second…. https://wp.me/p1vpbG-2ik Satire Christmas, Donald Trump, Satire 0 Comments Today is #GivingTuesday! Facebook and PayPal are matching a total of up to $7 million of donations made through Facebook. Help us today by Donating now to the Bellefonte Historic Preservation Foundation https://www.facebook.com/donate/424309088102528/ #HistoricPreservation. Uncategorized 0 Comments Today is #GivingTuesday. Donate Now to the Bellefonte Historic Preservation Foundation. No fees on donations — 100% of the donations go towards #HistoricPreservation. https://www.facebook.com/donate/424309088102528/ August 11, 2018 Link Traveling While Muslim: The Case of the Exploding Chocolate This is an excerpt from and a commentary on a Politico article dated August 11, 2018, by this same name. End Racism NOW. He’s a Muslim. He’s an American citizen. He has a passport. And a Global Entry Card He travels. A lot. He estimates that he goes abroad six to eight times a year. And he regularly is pulled aside by Customs and Border Patrol. He estimated that he gets pulled over for additional screening at least half of the time. This time it was at Dulles International Airport. Not once. Not twice. But four times. The second agent ripped up his kids’ chocolate present to check and make sure it didn’t explode. The third agent confiscated his Global Entry Card because he was “noncompliant” and he “mocked us for checking your chocolate for explosives.” The fourth agent then came forward. This conversation was their interchange: “I’m the supervisor on duty. So you think because you have Global Entry you’re exempt from screening?” “What? No. I said I’ve been screened and cleared three times so far. But despite that, your officer took my Global Entry card and said I’m being non-compliant. And he said that I’ve broken the law. But he refuses to give me any example of non-compliance or cite what law I’ve broken. Please explain this to me.” The supervisor turned to the confiscating officer and asked, “Why’d you stop him?” “Well, he was laughing at us.” (It’s true, I did chuckle in disbelief. Guilty as charged.) “But did he refuse orders?” “No, I mean, he harassed us.” I didn’t yell at this point, but I raised my voice. “This is ridiculous. You have the power. You’re detaining me. You have my property. But somehow I’m harassing you? What? Do you hear yourself?” I turned back to the supervisor. “I’m asking for about the 10th time now. How was I non-compliant and what law did I break?” “Well those are his words—not mine,” the supervisor said. Now we were getting somewhere. “Great, so you won’t even stand by your own officer’s words. Meanwhile, you have my Global Entry card. I’m still detained. Why am I still here, then?” At that point, the fourth agent asked a question. “What do you do for a living? So he told them. “I’m a civil rights lawyer with expertise on racial and religious discrimination and profiling.” And then he asked again. “I’m asking for the last time. What law have I broken? How was I non-compliant?” Rather than answer, he [the fourth agent] responded, “Well, I think everything checks out. You can go.” Who is this man? His name is Qasim Rashid (@MuslimIQ), He’s “an attorney, author and national spokesperson for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA. He’s [also] a Truman national security fellow.” As the article states, and I agree, why should someone have to be a lawyer to be treated equally under the law? Why should an immigrant seeking asylum who has little knowledge of the English language be subject to intimidation and removal of their children from their care? Why should any person of color, because of their name or what they wear (e.g., a hijab), or what they look like be profiled, pulled aside, and intimidated when they travel? And how do we let people know their rights when interacting with law enforcement? According to Mr. Rashid, you should check out the ACLU’s booklet entitled KNOW YOUR RIGHTS WHEN ENCOUNTERING LAW ENFORCEMENT. And Speak Out. Just like with the #MeToo movement that has more and more women speaking out on their experiences with sexual harassment and sexual assault, individuals who have been profiled because of their race, religion, or national origin should also speak up about their experiences. Then people will, like the #MeToo women, begin to see and push back against the maltreatment, harassment, and discrimination of people of color by those in power. Civil Rights #MeToo, ACLU, airports, border patrol, Civil Rights, Customs and Border Protection, Immigration, Qasim Rashid`, racial profiling 0 Comments July 1, 2018 Gallery Resisting the “Zero Tolerance” Immigration Detention Program People throughout the United States gathered in communities and cities around the country to protest the separation and detention of asylum-seeking families. The largest one was held in Washington, DC. The one I attended was on the other side of the country at one of the Federal Detention Centers where adults, but not their children, have been sent to. This detention center is located just south of the Seattle-Tacoma (SeaTac) International Airport. Thousands of people came out to protest the US Department of Justice’s “Zero Tolerance” policy of separating children from their parents when the parents attempt to cross our borders seeking asylum. People were passionate and peaceful. The following shows our thoughts in pictures and words. I posted some of these pictures on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. My thoughts were attached to those pictures. The rest I believe speak for themselves. Here’s my photo gallery of the day. Heading to the Rally Due to the expected crowds and lack of parking near the Federal Detention Center, we parked at the north end of Seattle at the University of Washington. This is the northern terminus of the Seattle Light Rail line. Angle Lake is the southern terminus of the the rail line and is located about 2 blocks from the detention center. Selfie of my twin sister and myself on the Seattle Light Rail heading to the #BringFamiliesTogetherMarch at Angle Lake south of SeaTac, WA. The Crowds The light rail train we were on had standing room only when we arrived. The Federal Detention Center at Angle Lake just south of SeaTac, WA. This ominous structure with the slit-like windows was what loomed over us as we stepped off the train. There were police everywhere but the road was open. People kept coming; the crowd continued to grow. Several times the speakers asked people to “slowly move forward and south” so that more people could enter the area. By the time we left we could see why… The police closed the road at the Federal Detention Center due to the 1000’s of people who came out to say #enddetentionnow, #bringfamiliestogether, #FreedomForImmigrants and #EndFamilySeparation at one of several #FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch in the Seattle area. – at Federal Detention Center (from my Twitter feed). The Police Presence They were everywhere. At the train station. Standing on the street. In their cars. On the rooftops. All in uniform. I didn’t “see” any in the crowd within the rally site, but I did assume they were there in civilian clothing. Roof-top surveillance. Vehicles in a cordoned-off lot next to train station. I assumed some of these were part of the police prescence It was a bit overwhelming. My thoughts about the police presence were expressed with this photo: Is this what we have come to here in the US?! Asylum is a human right. SHAME! #enddetentionnow #KeepFamilesTogether – at Federal Detention Center (as posted on my twitter feed). Only about a 1,000 people had been expected to show up for the rally. Yet, we came in droves. According to Sgt. Cindy Sampson, spokesperson for the King County Sheriff’s Office, police estimated that there were around 10,000 demonstrators. She told the Seattle Times that we we showed up for a highly emotional, but peaceful, demonstration full of strollers, grandmothers and a small contingent from the Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club.” [This Gun Club, according to the Seattle Times, is an “anti-racist, anti-fascist organization, standing in opposition to organized white supremacists and attacks on people from vulnerable communities”] What We Had to Say According to NPR, between May and June 19, 2018, a estimated total 2,342 immigrant children have been separated from their parents. These children are scattered across 17 states. And their parents have been scattered elsewhere. One of these separated families is known to be detained at the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac where we demonstrated. According to the New York Times, Jelsin Padilla is being held in New York City. His mom, Yolany Padilla, is being detained at the Federal Detention Center in Washington State. She hasn’t seen her son in over a month. Ms. Padilla is one of over 200 immigrants —174 are women — detained as of June 19 in Washington state. We came by the thousands to say “no more; this incarceration and separation of families must end and end now! Here’s the postcard letter I wrote to Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) calling upon him to use his powers in the Senate to end these torturous incarcerations and separations of families: Letter to Senator Bob Casey calling for the permanent ending of the detention of children and their family members. This postcard letter was written onsite at the Federal Detention Center and will be hand-delivered to Senator Casey’s office by an organization called #FreedomForFamilies. Many, many others wrote similar messages: Activists sending out messages to their federal legislators calling for immediate efforts to end family separations of immigrants. More suggested messages And so that you can see what else was said, the following pictures and social ,media postings will give you a flavor of our outrage. My Social Media Postings Calling on the US Government to End this “Zero Tolerance” Policy tostivasey Stop Terrorizing Immigrant Children. #keepfamiliestogether #enddetentionnow #bringfamiliestogether #endfacism tostivasey This little girl and her mother and sister say it all, “Keep Family Together.” Separating immigrant kids from their parents and other family members is a criminal act. #enddetentionnow #keepfamiliestogether❤ tostivasey #WhereAreTheBabies?! The shoes of the babies need to be put on their feet by their mothers and fathers and their sisters and brothers. Babies are innocent kids and should NEVER be used as pawns. #enddetentionnow #bringfamiliestogether tostivasey Separating Children from their families is nothing less than #ChildAbuse and #torture. Call your representatives, Senators, @jeffsessions212, #DHS, & @realdonaldtrump. Ask them #wherearethebabies And Tell them to #enddetentionnow #bringfamiliestogether. @tostivasey #EndFamilyDetention #FamiliesBelongTogther #FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch. @realDonaldTrump, #WhereAreTheBabies? Joanne Tosti-Vasey added, John LewisVerified account @repjohnlewis We are sick and tired of seeing little babies taken from their mothers. That’s not right, it’s not fair, and history will not be kind to us. As a nation and as a people we can do much better. We may have to turn America upside down to turn it right-side up. #KeepFamiliesTogether 1:28 PM – 30 Jun 2018 from Seattle, WA @tostivasey “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free.” No more separation and detention. #bringfamiliestogether#EndDetentionNow! Quote from New Colossus (aka the Statue of Liberty) with the words that are engraved at the base of the statue. My previous blog on Lady Liberty is about immigration as well. Signage Expressing Our Outrage at this Maltreatment of Our Fellow Human Beings Messages without Words Why We March Picture of two Native Americans protesting the separation of families. Another indigenous woman speaking out against the separation of families and comparing immigrant separation to the historic separation of black and indigenous families in US history. Sign saying “Familias unidas, no Divididas! #EndFamilyDetention” picture of a child wearing aluminum foil with a sign saying that the statement “Fake News! No Immigration Crisis!” Sign saying “Torturing Children does NOT make this country GREAT!” Sign asking, “Where are the children?” Sign saying, “The time for complacency is over!” Sign saying, “The time is always right to do what is right.” What Should Be Done to End this Outrage Banner reading, “Abolish ICE. End Detentions & Deportations” Sign listing the DC phone numbers for Congress (202-224-3121), Health and Human Services (202-690-7000), Department of Justice (202-353-1555), Department of Homeland Security (202-282-8995), and the White House (202-456-1111) NOW IT’S Your turn! If you are in the Seattle Area, here’s some additional actions you can take this week: If you’re elsewhere in the country, do as the sign says above and call The White House (202-456-1111); The Executive Branch departments that are causing this crisis Health and Human Services (202-690-7000); Department of Justice (202-353-1555); Department of Homeland Security (202-282-8995); and Your federal legislators (202-224-3121) Families Belong Together Stop Separating Familes End Family Detention Stop Torturing Children End this fascist behavior. We are better than this (or should be). Get rid of the “Zero Tolerance” Policy photography "Zero Tolerance" Immigration Policy, #BringFamiliesTogetherRally, #EndFamilyDetention, #FamiliesBelongTogether, #WhereAreTheBabies, detention, fascism, Immigration, Lady Liberty, rally, SeaTac Federal Detention Center, US Justice Department 0 Comments June 13, 2018 Quote WLP Testified in Opposition to HB 861, Preemption of Local Labor Protections — WLP Blog The conservative, right-wing, anti-labor General Assembly in Pennsylvania is once again attempting to take away local control over their local labor ordinances. They want to preempt all labor protections that local municipalities have enacted since 2015. This includes paid sick leave as well as all local anti-discrimination ordinances that go beyond protections provided in state law. This would include protections for LGBTQIA people, marital and familial status in general (other than familial status protections in housing). The current bill being debated is HB 861, also known as the “Preemption of Local Labor Protections.” This morning, the Women’s Law Project testified before the House Labor and Industry Committee. Below is there blog summarizing this testimony. The bill was not voted on today. So you have two chances in the House to stop this bill. First, contact members of the House Labor and Industry Committee and ask them to vote no during the committee vote. Second, you can also contact your Representative to raise your voice in opposition to this bill. You can find your legislator here. So take a couple of minutes, read the WLP blog on this issue, and then make your calls/emails. Thank you! via WLP Testified in Opposition to HB 861, Preemption of Local Labor Protections — WLP Blog Today, WLP Staff Attorney Amal M. Bass testified in opposition to House Bill 861(preemption of local laws protecting workers) before the Pennsylvania House Labor & Industry Committee. The Women’s Law Project strongly opposes HB 861, which is sponsored by Rep. Seth Groves of York County. You can read Amal’s testimony in full here. What is Preemption? Preemption bills like HB 861 prohibit local governments from passing local ordinances to meet the needs and reflect the values of their own communities. HB861 Would be Retroactive HB 861 is even worse than a typical state preemption bill because it includes a retroactivity clause designed to strip away local protections that have already been implemented, including protections for LGBTQ workers and paid sick days ordinances that provide protections for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. HB 861 Would Nullify a Broad Range of Workplace Protections The way it is written, HB 861 could apply to almost any local government’s attempt to protect its own workers. HB 861 Targets Paid Sick Days in Philadelphia & Pittsburgh HB 861 would retroactively strip hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvania workers of their right to paid sick days. The Women’s Law Project testified in support of Philadelphia’s paid sick days ordinance, which City Council passed and the Mayor signed on February 12, 2015 after a thorough, multi-year process that drew upon the recommendations of a Task Force representing many perspectives on the issue, including employers. The local law that resulted from this process provides forty hours of earned paid sick time in a calendar year for workers of employers with ten or more employees, and it provides unpaid sick time to workers of smaller employers. Philadelphia’s paid sick days ordinance also provides paid leave to employees whose absence is related to domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking. This ordinance is vital for the health and well-being of women and their families in Philadelphia and the surrounding counties, giving paid sick leave to more than 200,000 workers. In 2015, Pittsburgh joined Philadelphia in recognizing these benefits when it used its home rule authority and its authority to pass public health laws to pass a modest earned paid sick leave ordinance. The Women’s Law Project and attorneys from the Partnership for Working Families filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Pittsburgh’s paid sick days law on behalf of fifty-one organizations committed to women’s health and safety. However, the Pennsylvania Restaurant and Lodging Association has challenged this local law, halting its implementation, in a lawsuit currently before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. This is typical in that special-interest groups often seek to block and stall protections from workers so that they may profit from the lack of protections. That doesn’t mean lawmakers representing hard-working constituents should allow them to succeed. HB 861 is a Direct Attack on LBGTQ Pennsylvanians House Bill 861 also affects discrimination laws. More than forty municipalities in Pennsylvania have local ordinances prohibiting discrimination on the basis of many protected characteristics, including sexual orientation, which our employment laws at the state and federal levels, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act, do not explicitly cover. HB 861 is equipped with a retroactive provision that could strip protections for LGBTQ workers passed places such as Ambler Borough, Bridgeport Borough, Carlisle, Dickson City, Mount Lebanon, Kennett Square Borough, Narberth Borough, Phoenixville, Royersford, Stroudsburg, and Wilkes-Barre. All of these municipalities passed anti-discrimination laws after 2015, and therefore could trigger HB 861’s retroactive preemption. The bill could also prohibit every municipality in the state from altering or adding to their antidiscrimination provisions in the future. Local Governments Pass Laws Protecting Workers Because the State Fails to Do So Pennsylvania is a patchwork of worker protections in part due to the failure of the Pennsylvania Legislature to pass meaningful worker protections, despite overwhelming evidence of the need to do so. HB 861 would undo and prohibit progress at the local level, taking rights away from the citizens of Pennsylvania without filling the void with statewide legislation. Absurdly, an argument sometimes made for preemption is that Pennsylvania’s patchwork of protections is confusing. If Pennsylvania’s patchwork of protections is a problem, it should be solved by ensuring all Pennsylvania workers are treated fairly with state-level protections, not state-level efforts to nullify local protections. The Women’s Law Project is a public interest law center in Pennsylvania devoted to advancing the rights of women and girls. Sign up for WLP’s Action Alerts here. Follow us on twitter and like us on Facebook. We are a non-profit organization. Please consider supporting equal rights for women and girls by making a one-time donation or scheduling a monthly contribution. Politics anti-discrimination, familial status protections, Labor and Employment, LGBTQ Rights, marital status protections, ordinances, PA House Labor and Industry Committee, paid sick leave, Preemption, Women's Law Project 0 Comments Redistricting Reform May Be Stalled in PA: Let’s Get it Moving Despite a majority of PA House members cosponsoring or supporting a bill for an independent state and redistricting amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution in the PA General Assembly, the effort to pass a state constitutional amendment is being stalled by one person – Representative Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler County). On April 11, 2018, Rep. Metcalfe, chair of the House State Government Committee called for a voting meeting of all committee members that was scheduled and held with no notice as to what the meeting was about. On April 12, he held a half-hour meeting where he gutted and substituted language to HB 722 to eliminate the proposed non-partisan, independent redistricting commission with language that would entrench control of redistricting with the party in majority control of the PA General Assembly. Essentially this amended bill gives the party in control 2/3 of the votes on redistricting to the party in power. Fair Districts PA described what happened: “So rather than an independent commission, or rather than the five-person commission currently in place, which has two from each party and the fifth chosen by the state Supreme Court, [Metcalfe’s] amendment would allow the majority leaders of both houses to select a person, which would give two from each party, and then both houses would vote for a third person from that house. Which in effect would give the majority party four members of a six-person commission composed entirely of Legislators. What we’ve seen is the incredible unaccountable government that results from that kind of gerrymandering, and this was a demonstration. So – at 10:30 this morning, the members of this committee were given a bill which they then voted on and passed by 11:00. They had not read the bill, they had not discussed the bill, they had not invited the prime sponsors of the original bill to explain their bill or to answer questions. There was no debate. There was no transparency. There was just this blatant attempt to bypass the public interest in an independent commission.” However, the PA Senate has done a bit better. The Senate State Government Committee has passed an amended version of SB 22 that creates a semi-independent redistricting commission. The original bill only allowed the two controlling parties in the General Assembly to strike up to six names from the pool of commission applicants before the Department of State Secretary selects at random those qualified to serve on the independent redistricting commission. The selection process in the amended bill allows the majority and minority leaders to select their party representatives (4 for each party) and the Governor would then select the remaining three members who have been registered as either third party or independent voters. The final list would then be subject to approval by a two-thirds majority of the General Assembly. Once approved, this Commission would then create a map by majority vote with at least one person from each of the three pools voting for the selected plan. If this commission is not able to reach a majority decision, they would then create three maps open for public comment with a final selection vote among these three maps made by a 2/3 vote of the General Assembly. SB 22 is expected to pass the full Senate this coming week; it will then be sent to the House for consideration. If it is referred back to House State Government Committee, then the effort to reform redistricting in PA is essentially dead for several years since Daryl Metcalfe will not allow a vote on any form of independent redistricting within his committee. And we only have four weeks left to meet the constitutionally mandated process deadline to amend the PA Constitution in time for the next round of redistricting after the 2020 Census. Fair Districts = Fair Elections. Graphics courtesy of Fair Districts PA Here’s what YOU can do! Ask your state Senator to vote for SB 22 as amended. You can find your PA Senator’s phone contact information here; and Lobby PA Speaker of the House Mike Turzai (R- Allegheny County) to not assign a single redistricting bill to the State Government Committee. That includes both SB 22 and HB 2402. HB 2402 is the reincarnated rewrite of the original HB 722 that Metcalfe gutted in April. Alternative House committees could be either the House Local Government Committee OR the House Rules Committee; and Ask your state representative to support and vote for both HB 2402 (in my opinion the better bill since it makes the redistricting commission entirely independent) and SB 22 if it passes the Senate without further amendment. You can find your state representative’s phone contact information here Here’s a press release from the Centre County chapter of Fair Districts PA explaining in more detail what has happened and what we expect to happen throughout June: Press Release-Redistricting Reform from CC FairDistrictsPA 5-30-2018 Fair Districts PA also has an online letter-writing campaign that you can use. However, it’s best if you also make the phone calls as suggested in the above to do list. Trust in our elections will improve if we have fair redistricting. Do your part! Make the phone calls and write your letters asap. Let’s get this done! 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__label__cc	0.683564	0.316436	This Friday, help us spread the word as we launch the first-ever consumer label of the Fair Food Program! Posted on October 22, 2014 December 16, 2014 by CIW [hupso title=”The @FairFoodProgram Label is here! RT to join the #FairFoodNation & @FoodChainsFilm movement” url=”http://ciw-online.org/blog/2014/10/foodday/“] This Friday, let’s make this Food Day the first-ever Fair Food Day! There are few food labels in the world with a history as deep — or a human rights program as remarkable — as the new Fair Food Program label, ready for its big reveal this coming Food Day, Friday, October 24th. Indeed, it is an image two decades in the making. It has been twenty years since farmworkers began organizing in the streets of Immokalee for “dignity, dialogue, and a fair wage”; thirteen years since consumers across the country took a stand, side by side with farmworkers, to hold the world’s largest buyers of Florida tomatoes accountable for the farm labor exploitation in their supply chains; and four years since the CIW signed an historic agreement with Florida tomato growers to create the Fair Food Program. And in those four short years, the Fair Food Program has transformed the Florida tomato industry from “ground zero for modern-day slavery” into what has been called, on the front page of the New York Times, “the best working environment in American agriculture.” Today, the Fair Food Program is not only fully implemented in the Florida tomato industry, but poised for expansion to new crops and new states. And this Friday, the moment will finally come to launch the Fair Food label, which represents a new day for farmworkers that is no longer aspirational, but now fully realized, in Florida’s tomato fields. We need YOUR help in spreading the word about the new label! This Friday, the CIW will be teaming up with the award-winning “Food Chains” crew and an assortment of other food justice organizations to share the new Fair Food label on social media as a part of Food Day. Please join us! Here are some ways you can join the #FairFoodNation in celebrating the release of this historic label: 1. Join the Twitter Chat on Friday, 10/24 On October 24 at 12pm ET, Food Chains’ filmmakers, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Barry Estabrook, and the Food Chain Workers Alliance will be participating in a Twitter Chat to spread the word about farmworker justice online! Join this chat by using the hashtag #FoodDayChat between 12-1 pm ET. Come prepared with questions for the filmmakers and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. Help spread the word about the #FoodDayChat by tweeting the message below: Bring #justice to lunch! Join #FoodDayChat Oct 24 @ 12ET to discuss farmworkers #humanrights w/ @FoodChainsFilm @CIW bit.ly/fcfoodday 2. Join the Thunderclap NOW! Food Chains will be releasing a sneak peek clip of the film to help promote the launch of the label! Join this Thunderclap (a collective, well-timed tweet from hundreds of Twitter accounts at once!) and be one of the first to share the label and a piece of the film on October 24th. Sign up for the Thunderclap here: http://thndr.it/1w2q50Q On the 24th, we’re looking to make a splash with the launch of the Fair Food Program Label! Post the messages below on October 24th. If you use a social media scheduling tool, schedule it now! If you don’t, join the Thunderclap and it will automatically send on the 24th. Twitter: The @FairFoodProgram Label is here! RT to join the #FairFoodNation & @FoodChainsFilm movement http://bit.ly/1voZ60p Facebook: Finally! The #FairFood Program Label is here. When you see this label, you’ll know that the tomatoes are from farms that ensure the basic human rights of the men and women in the fields — including the right to safe working conditions free of sexual violence and forced labor — and that the workers on those farms are receiving the Fair Food Penny per Pound bonus. SHARE this label and join us today in creating a more just food system. @Food Chains @Coalition of Immokalee Workers This Friday, help us make history as we launch the Fair Food label. Join us in the social media blitz to announce the new label and make your voice heard in the movement for fundamental human rights for this country’s farmworkers. This Friday, let’s make Food Day the first-ever Fair Food Day! Exclusive new clip, Oscar buzz, more… Let’s check in on “Food Chains” one month out from Nov. 21 national release! Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ Fair Food Program reaches milestone with release of official Fair Food Label	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1119
__label__wiki	0.566791	0.566791	Pacoima, CA Urban Farming in Pacoima MEND's GROW TOGETHER program empowers low-income, immigrant families to grow their own food by creating and maintaining backyard gardens. Overview Science Partner News Volunteer Share Little known fact — The earth’s soils store far more carbon than all of the plants in the world. THE PROBLEM — Industrial agriculture has over-tilled and kicked up the soil’s carbon into our atmosphere, and we buy produce that is trucked in from the San Joaquin Valley — but we’re now learning how to reverse the trend. THE SOLUTION — By using compost, cover croping, and no-till practices instead of fossil fuel-based fertilizers, we can sequester carbon in the soil, where it helps plants grow better. And when Food is grown close to home: * It Reduces the fossil fuels necessary to transport produce long distances * It Slashes the need for petroleum-based fertilizers, * It Directs organic waste from families and the community into compost instead of landfills, where it can breakdown into methane. So we’re partnering with the best urban gardens and farms in Los Angeles to plant the seeds of this soil revolution. MEND is a truly innovative urban gardening program. Based in Pacoima, their GROW TOGETHER program empowers low-income, immigrant families to grow their own food by providing the supplies and support necessary for creating and maintaining backyard gardens. It serves as a model for how farming close to home can transform the carbon cycle, lowering the number of car trips families make to the grocery store each week, and making our neighborhoods into vibrant centers of community and sustenance. Participating families: * Save money * Eat a better, more healthy and nutritious diet * Gain a new appreciation for where food comes from and value of time spent outdoors * Alleviate stress * Brings families and community together * Maintain cultural traditions and sense of pride Many of these families come from agricultural backgrounds in their native countries and MEND empowers them to continue their healthy plant-based diets instead of assimilating to over-processed, less nutritious supermarket groceries. Our global food system creates 20–30% of all human being’s greenhouse gas emissions. Meat and dairy production contribute disproportionately to that total, as does food waste. But other things matter too. The earth’s soils contain more than three times the amount of carbon as the atmosphere, and 4.5 times the amount of carbon as all living things. Industrial agricultural methods have massively depleted carbon from the earth’s soil, transferring it into the atmosphere, causing global warming, and into the water, causing ocean acidification. The good news is that it’s possible for the soils to start absorbing carbon again, potentially up to 15% of all global fossil fuel emissions each year. (All information drawn from Lal, R, et al. 2004. Soil Carbon Sequestration Impacts on Global Climate Change and Food Security. Science 304, 1623. DOI: 10.1126/science.1097396) The solution is going to take place across the world and at all scales. We can start with demonstration projects here in Los Angeles – urban gardens and farms that not only restore carbon to the soil, but also reduce the food system’s total greenhouse gas impact. There are at least 6 ways in which food that’s locally and organically grown, using composting, cover crop, and no-till methods, can fight climate change. Petroleum-based fertilizer use is reduced Food waste becomes compost that’s plowed back into the soil, not landfill material that offgases carbon into the atmosphere Local vehicle trips to the supermarket decline Long-distance air and truck shipping of food declines Seasonal fresh fruits and vegetables replace some of the meat, dairy, and processed food consumption Carbon directly sequestered by woody plants, like fruit trees You reduce an additional 24 lbs of CO2 for every dollar you donate, over a 5 year projected life span of the garden. We figured that out by calculating how much carbon the project reduces overall and that dividing by the project's cost. Below is an explanation of how much carbon each of these factors reduce, individually and jointly, in the case of MEND and the scientific sources of this information. Composting as a Substitute for Industrial Fertilizer and as Soil Additive 30 Pounds of Compost Generated per year 80% Estimated % of wet compost added to the garden Avoided Use of Industrial Fertilizer: 2.5 lbs of CO2 over 5 years Carbon Stored in Soils, Instead of Offgassed Through Landfilling: 121 lbs of CO2 over 5 years Favoino E, Hogg L. 2008. The Potential Role of Compost in Reducing Greenhouse Gases. Waste Management & Research 26 (1): 61–69. doi:10.1177/0734242X08088584. Lou XF, Nair J. 2009. The Impact of Landfilling and Composting on Greenhouse Gas Emissions – A Review. Bioresource Technology, Selected papers from the International Conference on Technologies and Strategic Management of Sustainable Biosystems, 100 (16): 3792–98. doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2008.12.006. Local Vehicle Miles: MEND clients most commonly drive cars like mid-late 1990s Nissan Altimas and Toyota Corollas. They avoid 1 round-trip per week to the grocery store, reducing total miles traveled by 208. For these cars, according to the EPA at www.FuelEconomy.Gov — Average city MPG: 17 Average carbon intensity of a gallon of gas: 446 grams CO2 Total GHG Reduction Per Family Garden: 54 lbs of CO2 over 5 years Dietary Shift Toward More Local, Organic and Fruit/Vegetable-Based Diet Rough Estimate: 1,323 lbs of CO2 over 5 years Weber CL, Matthews HS. 2008. Food-Miles and the Relative Climate Impacts of Food Choices in the United States. Environ. Sci. Technol., 2008, 42 (10), 3508–3513 DOI: 10.1021/es702969f. Kulak M, Graves A, Chatterton J. 2013. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions with urban agriculture: a Life Cycle Assessment perspective. Landscape Urban Plan, 111, 68–78. http://www.davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-do/food-and-our-planet/food-and-climate-change/ Kim B, Neff R, Measurement and communication of greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. food consumption via carbon calculators. Ecological Economics (2009), doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.08.017 Sarah DeWeerdt, ' Is Local Food Better? ,' World Watch Magazine, May/June 2009, Volume 22, No. 3. http://www.worldwatch.org/node/6064 Direct Carbon Sequestration By Plants MEND families plant an average of 3 fruit trees with their gardens. We assumed each tree will live, on average, for at least 25 years. We used the camphor tree as a baseline for calculations. Nearly 500 lbs of CO2 would be stored in the tree itself and anther 2,500 lbs of CO2 would be saved through lower energy use in cooling/heating systems. Total greenhouse gas reduction: 9,000 lbs of CO2 over 25 years CUFR Tree Carbon Calculator , developed by Center for Urban Forest Research, Pacific Southwest Research Station, US Forest Service, in partnership with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. http://www.fs.usda.gov/ccrc/tools/tree-carbon-calculator-ctcc MEND Greenhouse Reductions Per Garden: 10,500 lbs of CO2 Budget: Lumber: $110, Soil: $69, Pins: $12, Irrigation: $60, Tools: $90, Composter: $20, Sales Tax: $36, Operating Costs: $40 You reduce an additional 24 lbs of CO2 for every dollar you donate. In the early 1970’s, MEND — Meet Each Need with Dignity — opened its doors in an effort to transform the lives of the neediest residents of the Northeast San Fernando Valley – poor children and their struggling families. MEND has grown primarily by word-of-mouth into the largest poverty agency in the San Fernando Valley, hosting 37,000 client visits per month. It stands out as one of the most efficient, leanest operating nonprofit in existence, thanks to its innovative use of volunteers giving more than 16,600 hours every month. Less than 6% of revenues go to overhead. Every other bit of support goes directly to programs that that provides emergency food, clothing, medical, vision and dental care, job skills training and job placement assistance, English as a Second Language classes, youth activities, and a Christmas program. Although MEND is dedicated to relieving the effects of poverty, its underlying mission is to provide the means and the path to self-sufficiency: to “break the bonds of poverty.” The Grow Together Program More than 75% of all MEND clients have household incomes of less than $10,000 per year, and that 48% suffer from a diet-related illness. In the poor neighborhoods in and around Pacoima, growing numbers of people are suffering from their lack of access to healthy food they can afford. As a result, diet-related illness are skyrocketing. Grow Together promotes good health to its participants through access to fresh produce, the exercise involved in gardening, and educational workshops on topics like cooking, canning, and nutrition. Participating families are also provided with fruit trees and tree care workshops. Grow Together families are given the opportunity to engage in an activity where they can come together and give back to their communities by sharing what they learned and harvested. Participating Families use the people and climate-friendly techniques out there — Organic farming — no herbicides, pesticides, insecticides and petroleum-based fertilizers — Drip irrigation and straw as crop cover to reduce water use — Composting — turning plant waste into nourishment for the next generation of plants, not filling landfills — No Till — Companion Planting – putting plants together whose needs and by-products complement each other. So far the project has built home gardens for 163 families, and provided the training and support to ensure their success. To combat hunger, build home gardens, and promote healthy and sustainable lifestyles, the MEND Grow Together Project has partnered with community organizations and individuals. In building all 163 home gardens, the MEND Grow Together Project works with the Sylmar High School Horticulture Department to provide participating families with seedlings. It is currently working with Master Gardeners and Master Food Preservers who provide the training for Grow Together families. More than 150 volunteers have dedicated their time to this program so far and in 2015 alone, volunteers contributed nearly 1,700 hours of service. In the early 1970’s, MEND — Meet Each Need with Dignity — opened its doors in an effort to transform the lives of the neediest residents of the Northeast San Fernando Valley – poor children and their struggling families Starting as a small group of volunteers working from a garage, MEND has grown primarily by word-of-mouth into the largest poverty agency in the San Fernando Valley, hosting 37,000 client visits per month. Although MEND is dedicated to relieving the effects of poverty, its underlying mission is to provide the means and the path to self-sufficiency: to ‘break the bonds of poverty.’ MEND provides the basic human needs vital to day-to-day survival as well as education, training, opportunities, and support essential to reducing and ultimately eliminating reliance on public and private assistance. Most importantly, MEND provides these services in a manner that maintains the dignity and self-esteem of recipients. Each month, more than 16,600 hours are donated by volunteers from a broad range of backgrounds and income levels; all joining together to act as people helping people. Each person plays a vital role in meeting the mission of MEND. From the distribution of food, clothing to assistance in job training and placement, volunteers give MEND life. Grow Together More than 75% of all MEND clients have household incomes of less than $10,000 per year, and that 48% suffer from a diet-related illness. In the poor neighborhoods in and aroud Pacoima, like communities across the country, growing numbers of people are suffering from their lack of access to healthy food they can afford. As a result, diet-related illness are skyrocketing. Grow Together tackles both these problems by empowering immigrant families to make use of their unique knowledge and skills. Though many of the families served by the program grew up in farming communities, they’ve lacked the resources here to start home gardens of their own. Launched in the spring of 2013, Grow Together is a community initiative created to empower disadvantaged families in the northeast San Fernando Valley to work towards self-reliance and greater food security. It promote good health to its participants through access to fresh produce, the exercise involved in gardening, and educational workshops on topics like cooking, canning, and nutrition. Participating families are also provided with fruit trees and tree care workshops. Grow Together families are given the opportunity to engage in an activity where they can come together and give back to their communities by sharing what they learned and harvested. Tomatoes, melons, squash, cucumbers, peppers, kale, chard, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, green beans, cilantro, basil, rosemary and thyme are just some of the most common crops. Families use the people and climate-friendly techniques out there Organic — no herbicides, pesticides, insecticides and petroleum-based fertilizers Drip irrigation and straw as crop cover to reduce water use Composting — turning plant waste into nourishment for the next generation of plants, not filling landfills No Till — Companion Planting – putting plants together whose needs and by-products complement each other. The Story of Grow Together in the Los Angeles Daily News – http://www.dailynews.com/lifestyle/20130920/mend-food-bank-teaches-residents-to-grow-their-own-fruits-vegetables One of the reasons that MEND is amazing is because they are powered by volunteers. Like Climate Cents, they use their staff to manage an enthusiastic and talented group of every day people so their impact is multiplied many times over. There are endless opportunities to help out their work of supporting low-income families in the most dignified way possible. We suggest getting started with their Grow Together and Food Justice program. You can help out as a gardener, someone who helps sort fresh produce for the food pantry, and more. Word of mouth is our best way to build support. Please share this project with friends: Share Project Story Tweet Project Story Total Carbon Reduction 10,512 lbs of CO₂ $438 goal 45% funded -27 days left Back This Project Back this project: Select team, person or add your own Me (Yourself) Adams girls Betty Mae, Inc. Cantina Creative Code the Change Fred Kramer + Michaela Watkins Gabriella Clifford iLA Adventure School Meredith McCarthy Mophonics Possible LA Surfrider LA Climate Committee Synacor, Inc. Team Dom Team GG Team Karno Team Kenny Team Papai Team Stacey Team Venice Team Weiner The Real Los Angeles Tours The Shamashim If you don't see your team, enter it here: Choose your donation amount: We give 100% of your donation to this project. 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__label__wiki	0.565844	0.565844	“The Simpsons Movie” Makes Baby Jesus Cry By Charlie Sweatpants 15 Comments Categories: Lies Make Baby Jesus Cry and The Simpsons Tags: Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, The Simpsons Movie “Well, you know what? I’m glad you’re nervous, because that means we’re on the right track!” – Herb Powell Several weeks ago I came across bobservo’s post about The Simpsons Movie commentary in which he described how the creators of the movie basically focus grouped it into oblivion. There are two commentary tracks on the disc and, having slogged my way through the all-star one (Brooks, Groening, Jean, Castellaneta, etc.), I have to agree with him. The commentary reveals another problem as well, one that resulted from all that focus group feedback, but we’ll get to that in a second. First, the timidity, then the horrible damage it did. Both The Simpsons and Zombie Simpsons are famous for their lack of network/studio interference; whatever their respective merits, both shows are the product of a group of people who thought A was funny and B was not, the outside damn world be damned. According to the commentary, that famous independence was completely abandoned during the creation of The Simpsons Movie. Rather than the writers writing, the actors acting, the animators animating and letting chips fall where they may, a partially completed version was repeatedly shown to test audiences, and everything was redone based on their reactions. The fickle minds of Sally Housecoat and Eddie Punchclock so terrified the powers that be that they nervously offered up whole new scenes and endings based on the reactions of a few dozen people in Tempe and Portland. For a show that once prided itself on doing what it wanted without interference, this is an unsurpassable capitulation. The result of all that bowing and scraping is a fractured movie. Scenes and characters were added and removed willy nilly such that the whole is less than the sum of its parts. For example, halfway through the movie the family finds itself basically teleported to a carnival so Homer can ride a motorcycle in a big metal ball. Seconds prior to being at the carnival, they were holed up in a hotel room, hiding from a massive police manhunt. There’s no scene of them traveling to the carnival, nor is any reason given why they would want to go there. They’re in the hotel and then – poof – they’re at the carnival. While at the carnival, no mention is made of the police chasing them, nor are they at all concerned about being seen by a crowd. The entire story the movie was telling has been dropped so that Homer can ride a motorcycle. Why does Homer ride a motorcycle? Because he rides one at the end and they need to establish that motorcycle riding is something Homer can do. According to the commentary, they originally had no scene to establish that, and they crammed in the carnival as a patch job when somebody noticed. The next time we see the family, the police chase is back on and they’re once again running for their lives as though the carnival scene had never happened. The commentary is littered with moments like that, where a line was given to a different character or something was removed or added with only minimal regard to what that did to the rest of the movie. Test audiences and rewrites had them so tied up in knots that the script was never finished; things were being taken out and put back right up to the end. This movie feels like a creaking mass of parts barely held together by spit and string because that’s exactly what it is. Now comes the inevitable “to be sure” statement, and here it is. To be sure, there are good jokes in The Simpsons Movie, some survived the test screenings, fewer were a result of them. But whatever can be said of this movie, good or bad, it was not made the way The Simpsons was made. It was made… tentatively. There was neither confidence nor verve in its creation; the script was passed around and vetted until it resembled refrigerator instructions. There are bits and pieces that work, but taken as a whole it is a jumble, and heaven help you if you try to make sense of it from start to finish. Worst of all, there’s nothing here you haven’t seen before: put things inside, make them cold – hit Homer in head, make Tempe laugh. Commentary #1 has James Brooks, Matt Groening, Al Jean, Mike Scully, David Silverman, Dan Castellaneta, Yeardley Smith and Richard Sakai. As if to further prove how slapdash this effort was, Sakai is not listed on the DVD menu as one of the commenters. Maybe he was left off intentionally. Then again, maybe they just didn’t care. 1:20 – First mention of the test screenings, and it’s very revealing. They were talking about what to do with the Itchy & Scratchy opening, and how they expected that as soon as people saw Scratchy they would be clapping and cheering just because they recognized the character. No one slapped their fins together at the first test screening though, and they seem surprised by this. Is it any wonder this show runs on nostalgia fumes? They thought people would cheer out loud just because they saw a character on screen! 1:40 – They’re recording this before the movie came out. 2:20 – This should come as no surprise, the end of the cartoon, with Scratchy getting filled with missiles, came very late in the process. 3:30 – Green Day was coincidental, they just happened to want to be on the show when they were trying to pick a band for the opening. They’re laughing about how they could’ve plugged in any band here. 4:45 – The church sign says “Thou Shalt Turn Off Thy Cell Phone”, the alternate was “Stolen Bible Amnesty Day”. 5:45 – First time pausing the movie. Ugh, this is going to go on for a while. Marge was originally going to be the one spazzing out in church, not Grampa. 8:15 – Discussing how widescreen means they can cram more stuff into the background. This reminds me of nothing so much as “Phantom Menace” when the fact that every shot had a bunch of crazy crap going on in the background was considered an unalloyed good. 9:00 – Someone compliments Castellaneta on his performance of Grampa speaking in tongues. Castellaneta seems taken by surprise, I don’t think he was paying attention. 9:30 – The scene in the car with Grampa in the rug was endlessly rewritten. 10:45 – As Homer and Bart are on the roof, someone says “With this movie, for better or worse, everything done is crucial. Everything is either setting up a joke, paying off a joke, or giving you information you have to have.” That seems a rather grand assessment. 11:45 – They’re very pleased with themselves for having Homer fall through the roof instead of off the roof. Truly, creative genius at work. 12:30 – More about how many rewrites they had to go through, this time in regards to the scene with Lisa going door to door. 12:45 – Continuing in the same vein, they initially had Lisa and Milhouse getting together, but test audiences weren’t familiar with Milhouse’s longstanding crush on her. 13:45 – A lot of things changed between the test screenings in Portland and Phoenix. 14:25 – Discussing the little banner at the bottom of the screen to advertise a fake FOX show, they originally had it a bit crueler, “What are you going to do, entertain yourselves? Don’t make us laugh.” But that got shot down. At least one person here, I can’t tell who, sounded a little mournful about that getting bumped for safer material, “I was hoping to take a chance with it.” 15:15 – Very pleased with themselves for managing to show Bart’s dick. 16:25 – Still laughing at how cool they were for keeping in the nudity. Nevermind that Bart is handcuffed to a pole for some reason. 16:35 – Rewrote the whole handcuffed to the pole scene after the original “didn’t work”. 17:15 – Now Bart’s getting humiliated in the restaurant and they’re going on and on about how they toned this down. In the original, Homer was even less likable here. Test audiences to the rescue! 17:45 – Apparently it was a lot “coarser” originally and just kept getting toned down. 18:30 – They went through lots of designs on the pig. I’m sensing a pattern here. 19:00 – Yeardley Smith just showed up. 20:10 – Al Jean (I think, might be someone else) is talking about how this schmaltz (he uses the words “sweet and deep”) with Bart looking enviously into the Flanders house while Homer cuddles the pig is his favorite scene. Someone else then cracks that it’s a good time to go for popcorn. First time I’ve laughed. 21:20 – Homer getting electrocuted while biting the fish survived years of rewrites. 21:45 – Test audiences love Flanders cocoa preparation. 22:00 – Spider-pig was a late entry. 25:00 – Apparently both David Silverman and Richard Sakai left. I, uh, didn’t notice. 25:10 – The computer animation technology they used was very new. They didn’t think that even a few years ago they could’ve done as many rewrites after test audience reactions. They used Wacom Cintiq tablets to do quick story reels, which were brand new at the time. Here’s a YouTube. 26:30 – Discussing the silo, they had long arguments about how many euphemisms for “shit” they could come up with and whether or not they could call it “crap”. 27:30 – As Homer drives up to the lake to dump the silo, there are a bunch of signs that say “No Dumping”, and one with Hans Moleman saying “You Suck”. They had a lot of other signs there, but they all got dropped. No explanation is given, but I choose to chalk it up to continued desire to make this as bland (and profitable) as possible. 28:30 – Talking about the squirrel with all the eyes, originally there were lots and lots of creatures, but audiences didn’t know what was happening at the end, and so they dropped it. Hence, the “thousand eyes” thing from Grampa’s rant doesn’t work. 29:45 – Went through a lot of designs for Russ Cargill (a/k/a Not Hank Scorpio), to the point that Burger King had the wrong design made into toys. 31:15 – They stopped playback at the point where the dome is coming down and the church people run to Moe’s and the Moe’s people run to church. According to them this was one of their favorite jokes, they all loved it, and yet they were going to ax it until, you guessed it, one test audience finally laughed at it. 31:45 – We’re still paused here and this deserves some more attention. They had to make the sign at Moe’s say “Moe’s Bar” instead of just “Moe’s”. There’s some crosstalk, but you can hear Jean (again, I think it’s him, not sure) in the background saying that they did that in case people didn’t know what “Moe’s” was. That ought to tell you everything you need to know about the mentality behind this production. They’ve dumbed it down to the lowest possible level out of what can be roughly described as total audience paranoia. 32:00 – Now comes the obligatory, “The church isn’t next to bar!” rag on the “die hard” fans who won’t like that. It goes on for thirty seconds and someone even mentions No Homers. 32:35 – Getting into more of the cut jokes, as the dome is coming down they originally wanted Burns to pop in and say that at this point you can no longer get your money back. They were afraid people might not realize that it’s a joke and actually ask for their money back. Wow. 33:10 – Mildly interesting trivia point: Edward Norton came in and did a Woody Allen impression for the guy who gets crushed by the dome, but they dropped that too. 34:15 – The dome has come down, and they’re aware of how much pointless exposition they now have to get through. But putting the screen in the dome made it “interesting” enough, according to them. 34:45 – The “trapped like carrots” line was a Swartzwelder joke that lasted from the first draft. 36:00 – They had some writers from the show come in late and do a lot of the lines for Albert Brooks. They’re the ones listed as consultants after the credits. 37:20 – Talking about all the writers who aren’t here for the commentary. Meanwhile, the crap silo is being lifted and the movie is steadily getting worse. Long silence. 39:00 – Talking about how tough the big crowd shot was to do. Needless to say, they cut jokes about three times after the audiences didn’t laugh. 40:15 – The scene with the arms breaking through the door was a late entry as well because they “could never get a great joke for these arms coming through”. Oh, we know. 40:45 – As the Simpsons are being driven out of their home and are fleeing over the wooden board to Flanders’ house, there is much discussion about how things were changed even after the animation was done, and how they had to keep at it because a lot of the jokes just didn’t work. 41:20 – “I just love Marge’s hair burning like a q-tip, and she calmly shakes it off.” 41:30 – Odd discussion about how they didn’t want to make Homer too much of a jerk. Huh? This is him not being too much of a jerk? 42:30 – The treehouse scene was actually worse in earlier drafts where they had lots of other things going back and forth during the mob scene. 43:10 – They were surprised the censors let Homer use his middle fingers. That was one of the few things I actually laughed at in the theater. 44:50 – The little moment that Lisa and Colin share was originally Bart and Flanders with Bart mooning the dome and it turning into a heart shape. But people thought it was weird. The test audiences may not have been a bad idea after all. 45:50 – The “gone mad with power” joke, which is maybe the best line in the whole movie, is the one they used to test the foreign language auditions for Not Hank Scorpio. 46:30 – The two policemen kissing and falling into the hotel got cut in Singapore. Now you know. 47:25 – The motel scene, as Marge and Lisa and Maggie are scolding Homer, was rewritten more than almost anything. Despite that it still ended up “burdened with a ton of exposition that has to get in.” Alaska wasn’t even in the movie for the first two years of the script. 48:30 – “The original idea was that Homer wanted to go to Homer, Alaska.” It’s really getting weird on the commentary, they’re recounting all the different rewrites and dead end ideas they eventually discarded or worked into the movie. I think they can tell they kinda went off the rails and this list of justifications just reinforces that. 49:45 – And – wham! – we’re at a carnival where Homer is going to ride a motorcycle for some reason. The list of equally terrible alternatives continues, at one point they were going to be on some kind of clown try out show. No wonder this film feels like disjointed nonsense, that’s how it was put together. 50:30 – “The lesson of editing this film was definitely getting from point to point quickly, and not laboring, and not making it look like a new film was starting.” Let’s consider that comment, they realize that they have a bunch of unrelated scenes that have nothing to do with one another. Instead of trying to justify them or weave them into a coherent story, their solution was to jump from one unrelated thing to another as fast as possible. 50:55 – The whole carnival scene was kept in because originally they hadn’t set up that Homer could ride a motorcycle, which they needed him to do at the end. For a while they didn’t have any set up for their ending. 51:30 – The scene at Moe’s where every thing gets stolen was another late, unrelated addition. 52:00 – The drawn out joke where Marge doesn’t want the attendant to see the wanted poster comes in for some heavy, preemptive defense here. This was, I think, not a unanimous winner among the writers. 52:40 – The cut to Burns house leads to another round of “Oh this scene was a pain!” and how they didn’t have anything that really worked. Some of these really feel less like explanations than justifications. 53:30 – Talk of which stuff is computer animated and which isn’t. 54:00 – They really had a bug up their ass to send the family to Alaska, and they went back and forth a ton on why they were there. 55:15 – The whole point of the long, drawn out throwaway avalanche scene was to get Bart and Lisa out of the house so they could have a sex scene. These guys can’t write their way around a problem in less than thirty seconds of screen time. 57:15 – After a long discussion of how they had a hard time coming up with a reason for the people in Springfield to riot against the dome (really? they riot all the time), they decided that the audience would be really focused on the family. That lead to this damning self indictment, “We really wanted to write this movie for people who weren’t that familiar with the Simpsons.” Which prompts someone else to reply, “We found out we got no free laugh when a character said, ‘Oh that’s that character, it’s good to see them in the movie’.” In those two sentences lies the root of why this movie sucks. They wrote a movie that didn’t try to appeal to fans because their earlier attempts to appeal to fans fell flat. Why did those efforts fail? Because they were using single test audiences whose main sin appears to be not laughing uproariously when a known character simply appeared on screen. 58:00 – Silence as the plot to blow up Springfield commences in the President’s office. 58:40 – They selected Tom Hanks because they thought he was the most trusted celebrity in America. 59:30 – Pretty much ignoring Homer’s freakout and Bart’s taunting of him and talking about the background animation. 60:15 – They actually think they’re keeping Homer from being a jerk as he walks out on his family. 61:10 – At one point they had Homer riding a moose. Like you do. 61:40 – Kavner had to do a ton of takes for Marge’s videotaped farewell to Homer before they finally decided that she nailed it. 63:20 – We’ve paused again as Homer floats away on the iceberg. Castellaneta describes doing Homer’s voice nowadays as “physically exhausting” because there’s so many emotional changes and “lots of yelling”. He should have some pull with the writing staff by now, maybe he could do us all a favor and see if he can get them to make Homer yell less. 64:20 – Castellaneta’s still talking, this sounds like Behind the Actors studio (such a pleasure to work with X and Y). Somewhere, the disembodied spirit of James Lipton is smiling. 64:30 – Yeardley Smith chimes in with this interesting little factoid. She’s talking about how recording this was like the early years of the show when it would take about eight hours to get all the voices recorded; now they’ve got it down to about four. 65:30 – Smith’s going on about putting emotion into cartoons and what a great character Lisa is. Meanwhile, the movie is still paused which means we’re not advancing towards the end at all. 66:15 – Right after discussing how improbable it is that Marge would ever leave Homer, they talk about how they were really going for a gut slamming moment with this breakup. Nobody noticed that those two statements are contradictory. Also, movie still on pause. 66:40 – Oh hell, the seconds are going slow, literally. While it’s on pause like this the timer is moving at about one half speed, which means this pause hasn’t been three minutes, it’s been more like six. C’mon, unpause . . . unpause . . . 67:00 – They’re just filling time now, except that there’s no need to because it’s paused. All they’re doing now is congratulating one another. 67:30 – I keep expecting this to end, and it keeps not ending. 67:40 – Thank fuck, we’re moving again. 68:00 – As the polar bear menaces Homer for no reason, they’re discussing how the upcoming “epiphany” scene is one of the “biggest problems” in the movie, “audiences had a hard time with it, we had a hard time with it”. 68:40 – They were thinking about cutting the epiphany scene, but they didn’t think it felt “thick enough” without it. Translation: even when we don’t have a set amount of time to fill, we use filler. Hans Zimmer, the composer, had to tell them that Homer was already trying to find his family when he left the cabin. In other words, they had constructed a story so poorly that they needed the soundtrack guy to tell them where their plot holes were. 69:15 – Still defending the inclusion of the epiphany scene. 70:20 – Talking about yelling as things get worse on screen. 71:05 – More help from Zimmer as they thought the hallucination was too scary until he made up the orchestral arrangement of the Spider-Pig song for them. 71:20 – You can detect hints of shame as the hallucination rolls on, they’re speaking awfully defensively, especially given the fact that no one in the room is being critical. 71:40 – After Homer gets dismembered, including an “Ouch, My Balls” moment, there’s this: “Every crude physical joke, played great.” So, they know this scene sucks, but they think hitting Homer in the balls makes it okay. Remember, this took years to develop. 72:50 – After Homer runs out of the tent, they used to have the medicine woman saying “I will bill your HMO” or “How come they all think I work for free?”, but they never got a big enough laugh so it got cut. The testicle hit though, that stayed in. 73:35 – The dogs attacking Homer stayed in from the beginning. 75:00 – Rather than discuss the pointlessness of having Homer get lost again, they’re talking about more things that didn’t test well and got cut. 76:00 – The wrecking ball was in there from the beginning, someone even calls it a “classic coyote shot” and “Chuck Jones 101”. I’d call it Remedial Chuck Jones 1a on account of the coyote always got hurt in quick and inventive ways whereas this wrecking ball is the same joke over and over and over. 77:00 – Changed the backgrounds of the town so it doesn’t look as bad in response to – guess what – audience testing. 78:00 – A couple more concepts that didn’t make it past the test audiences. 79:00 – More discussion of things that didn’t please test audiences and now aren’t here. 79:50 – Having Homer write his plan down on a leaf was used to “re-establish story”, whatever that means. 81:10 – Cletus distracting Not Hank Scorpio was, just like so many other things, a late substitution. It used to be Lenny. 82:00 – Now that we’re back to the dome, there’s a lot of talk about the large backgrounds in a lot of shots. 82:30 – Homer kicking the bomb so the timer goes faster was in there from the beginning, unlike so much else, it tested well. 83:30 – Talking about how much of Bart’s personality they could retain while he’s with Flanders. They had him “de-Barted” to a greater extent earlier. 83:50 – Mildly interesting note, they were nervous about the police bomb robot killing itself because there was that Super Bowl commercial with the suicidal robot that pissed off the anti-suicide people. 84:15 – “Once again, Homer’s gonna get hit in the head”, followed by polite chuckles. 84:40 – They didn’t know how much people needed to be reminded of the whole carnival/motorcycle thing. I can’t imagine why people would have forgotten a throw away scene that had nothing to do with anything that was about seventeen such scenes ago. 85:15 – They weren’t sure how to get Homer and Bart to reconcile, and they ended up doing it the way they did because Hans Zimmer wrote a musical cue that they liked. Zimmer sounds like he should’ve gotten story credit at this point. 86:30 – Martin getting his revenge was in from the beginning. 86:50 – They were nervous as to whether or not people were going to buy the whole “riding the motorcycle upside down and hanging on by the hair” thing, but ultimately they figured they’d done so much already that people wouldn’t care. 88:15 – Originally they were going to be chased down the dome by the bomb, but they thought the cracking dome made “more logical sense”. They actually said that. 89:30 – Originally they weren’t going to have Not Hank Scorpio confront Homer, but then “Matt” (not sure if it’s Groening or Selman or someone else) pointed out that, yeah, you might want to have the hero confront the villain. 90:15 – After Maggie saves them, they laugh about how she just wanders off instead of being taken by Bart and Homer. Originally it was going to be President Schwarzenegger, now it’s Maggie. I’ve lost count of variations on “this was character X, but then we changed it to character Y”. 91:00 – Yeardley Smith improvised the line about Lisa’s had being sweaty. I like that line. 91:30 – As they’re all celebrating, originally they were going to have Grampa come up and says, “I never thought I’d be happy to say these words, but . . . my son.” 92:50 – Homer falls off the roof to end the movie and someone, I think it’s Castellaneta, jokes “You could see it coming from two hours away.” 93:30 – As the credits roll, Smith jokes about “sequel” being Maggie’s first word, which prompts lots of joking around about how it’s not important that she already had her first word fifteen years ago. Do people really care about that? 96:00 – They’re still hanging out during the credits, talking about animators and editors and generally congratulating each other. I’m done. 15 Responses to ““The Simpsons Movie” Makes Baby Jesus Cry” 1 Jacob Brown Just a quick correction, Richard Sakai IS on the commentary. He announces himself at the start of the commentary, and either leaves in the middle of it, or doesn’t say anything afterward. Nevermind, I read that wrong. Sorry. 3 Lovejoy Fan Congratulations on managing to sit through it. I gave up after the writers said Lovejoy “had already had his scene”, as an excuse for that awful pregnancy pants joke. Can’t remember which commentary that was, though… 4 Cassidy I forget if they mention this in one of the commentaries (don’t think they do) but they were considering doing a scene in the movie with Lionel Hutz – using deleted footage which Hartman had recorded from the $pringfield (gambling) episode. I’d like to think some vague sense of lingering respect and integrity kept them from pursuing that idea. Also, I know it makes it painful in cases like these but I actually think the “pause” feature is useful for DVD commentaries. I wish they had that on the regular episodes. A lot of times they start a story on a particular scene and then either miss things that should be commented on or just cut the story short to pick up another thread. 5 Derp I shamefully admit that I didn’t notice the problem with them being on the run and the motorcycle stunt. Commentary on your commentary of the movie commentary. Wow, that’s incredible. If that’s the case, though, would it be so hard to establish that knowledge with the audience? I hated this joke. I’m not sure what’s to like about, let alone love. It came across a little pretentious. I like how you simply quoted this one. I wonder how often the Zombie Simpsons writers burn q-tips. “She’s talking about how recording this was like the early years of the show when it would take about eight hours to get all the voices recorded; now they’ve got it down to about four.” Half the effort for several times the pay. Hurrah! Personally, I was pissed off by this. It’s one of the cases where you’re not just being asked to suspend your disbelief. You’re being asked not to care. “I’ve lost count of variations on “this was character X, but then we changed it to character Y”.” It’s worrying that so often the character is interchangeable but that is accordance with Zombie Simpsons; it’s no longer character-driven. No wonder the movie turned out the way it did. Pandering to test audience, slapstick/pain jokes in lieu of proper humour, a disregard of established fans, a plethora of last minute changes despite years of development… The perfect Zombie Simpsons movie. Thanks for an interesting read. 6 bobservo Excellent work going over the high(low?)lights of the commentary; your fortitude amazes me. 7 Alice Nice one Charlie, can’t believe you had the patience for this. The Dan Castellaneta quote about doing Homer’s voice being ‘exhausting’ sums it up for me… but he missed out the part about how it’s even more exhausting to hear it. 8 Gran2 Charlie, you’ve hit so many nails on the head that it’s actually scary. This movie makes no sense, is so toned down, has so few actual jokes and is just designed to make as much money as possible. Fox actually put out a press release after the first weekend of release saying that even they were amazed as to how much money it made. In conclusion, Al Jean is now George Lucas. Get your findings over to RedLetterMedia so that they can put them into video review form. 9 Charlie Sweatpants Jacob Brown: No worries, it was my fault for not making a confusing concept clearer. Doing the commentary takes less than two hours, why you’d go to the trouble of having someone in the room and then not care that they walked out twenty minutes in what makes it odd. Lovejoy Fan: “I gave up after the writers said Lovejoy “had already had his scene”” That “We mentioned her/him/them once, that’s it!” mentality pervades the movie, to its detriment. They gave Burns a pointless scene, they gave Dr. Nick a throwaway line; Patty & Selma, Dr. Hibbert, Ralph and even Grampa were all given equally short shrift. Lots of others were also treated as though they were items on a checklist instead of characters in a story. Cassidy: I agree that if they used this right it would be fucking sweet. They could do a three hour commentary on pretty much any episode from a single digit season and I’d listen to the whole thing with rapt attention. But that would probably suck for the principles doing the commentary, and only us fruitcake fans would even care. Pausing to commiserate during a movie that’s as conceptually thin as this one is (yet another) waste of a good idea. Derp (discussing Lisa’s non-Milhouse love interest): Several times they talk about all the different non-threatening boys they created for Lisa. Boiled down until they were devoid of all flavor, those boys became Colin, who is almost as devoid of personality as Rene from “Dumbbell Indemnity”. He could’ve been anyone, his only real traits are that he’s a) liberal, b) musical, and c) cute. In the entire movie he doesn’t actually do anything, nor do any of his actions have any bearing on the story. Swap Maggie for Lisa and his role could’ve been played by a pacifier. bobservo: I could rage and storm against you for putting this vile task before me, but, seeing as how your original post is more than two years old, I think the statute of pop culture limitations has expired. I have no standing to complain, which is too bad because I really don’t like this movie. Nevertheless, it was fun to rail against this overcooked turd. Alice: “The Dan Castellaneta quote about doing Homer’s voice being ‘exhausting’ sums it up for me… but he missed out the part about how it’s even more exhausting to hear it.” They also went on and on about how many takes of Marge’s videotape goodbye they made Kavner do. Of all the things that aren’t super important, Marge’s fake farewell has to be near the top. It’s got no jokes and we know it won’t last, but that’s something on which they really concentrated. Gran2: “Fox actually put out a press release after the first weekend of release saying that even they were amazed as to how much money it made.” That doesn’t surprise me. Since the early test audiences weren’t knee slappingly in love with it, they were at least a little nervous that they had a real dud on their hands. The show was in just as terrible shape (ratings and critically) in 2007 as it is now, and if it had died at the box office it could have, as they say, damaged the brand. 10 Lovejoy Fan “That “We mentioned her/him/them once, that’s it!” mentality pervades the movie, to its detriment. They gave Burns a pointless scene, they gave Dr. Nick a throwaway line; Patty & Selma, Dr. Hibbert, Ralph and even Grampa were all given equally short shrift. Lots of others were also treated as though they were items on a checklist instead of characters in a story. ” Precisely, and this was extremely irritating. What made it worse is that this “they only get one scene each!” bullshit doesn’t even apply to some characters (CBG appeared 3 times, for instance. Come on, Burns at least would be worthy of more than one scene). 11 Jake For the movie being dumbed-down / toned down, remember, the Simpsons has to be the ‘family friendly’ foil to Family Guy. Kids like those toys and other Zombie Simpsons crap, so the movie better not offend their parents, or appear to SMRT. 12 Patrick I know this post is nearly a year old but how is showing bart’s penis, homer flipping everyone off and marge saying ‘god-damn’ family friendly? :S 13 AManFromDeclan Overall, FOX and the writers blew it big time. Considering the major promotion of the movie in so many forms of media, as if it was the greatest thing ever, it failed to live up to the hype. First off, we all know that Russ Cargill was the main antagonist. However, all of the animosity was focused on Homer, from the ever-bias people of Springfield, down to his own immediate family. Second, the Springfieldians have treated the Simpson family like pariah over a million times. This point in the movie is the pinnacle of how nasty, cold, fair-weathered, fickle, and untrustworthy the Springfieldians can actually be. Third, the overall plot was doom from the start. While Homer receives all of the hate and while Cargill is the technical villain, a better, traditional plot could have had more focus on more obvious antagonist such as Mr. Burns, Sideshow Bob, Kang & Kodos, or even the Devil (THOH XI) himself. Fourth, it seems that all of the events leading to the dark point of the plot were all triggered by Homer’s compassion for a pig, which was about to slaughtered live by Krusty. Sure Homer polluted the lake that was just recently cleaned, but since when did Springfield ever give a damn so much about the environment of their community? It seems that in certain episodes of the series, Springfield is shown to be very self-centered in the town’s appearance, and will go just about any length to for the sake of appeal, even at the expense of one of the Simpson family members. In “Marge in Chains” the town tried to get a statue of Abraham Lincoln, while Marge was in prison (for accidentally not paying for her groceries). In “Bart-Mangled Banner” the town actually changes their town name to Libertyville, while Simpson family is sent to prison (after being accused of hating America). In “The Boys of Bummer”, the town wanted their team to win the Little League championship, but treats Bart like a pariah after his lack of skills causes the team to lose. Aside for these three, there are many more examples that follow. It is evident that the town makes a lot of half-baked attempts to prosper off the expense of the Simpsons, mainly by treating as the initial scapegoats to most of their dilemmas. What this series (and Springfield) desperately needs is an out-of-towner to show up and deliver a powerful wake-up call: “It’s not your environment or your town landmarks that need work, IT’S YOUR ATTITUDES AND TREATMENTS TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER!” Overall, the plot and the writing will forever be branded with a D, while everything else will receive a B- for effort. I don’t know what the writers were smoking when they thought of Marge having the vision. Making it Grampa, someone whose insane ramblings are often ignored, was one of the few smart decisions they made. Monday Medley « No Pun Intended Pingback on Aug 2nd, 2010 at 7:01 am Quote of the Day »	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1127
__label__wiki	0.619	0.619	Democracy Rutland Campaigning For An Independent Democratic County Council In 2019 A Little Bit Of Political History One-Way Petition St George’s Barracks RCC Breaking News Task & Finish Group Council Election Countdown And Another Thing….. This page is intended to act as a mop-up for any news of interest not quite fitting into the categories on the other site pages….. Paul Cummings, Chairman of North Luffenham Parish Council with the latest on SGB and Egerton Gilman on the failure of local politics in Rutland and the need for party politics to be taken out of RCC’s Council Chamber. Following Theresa May’s Brexit Betrayal, two local East Midlands MPs, Andrew Bridgen and Ben Bradley have shown themselves to be men of integrity like Boris Johnson and David Davis. Bradley resigning as a Conservative Vice-Chair and Bridgen submitting a letter of no confidence to the 1922 Committee. At the end of his piece, Tony Roe, (who covered the Oakham Protest March in December last year), adds the comment that our own MP, Alan Duncan, “shouted to a camera as he went into a meeting, ‘Business As Usual'”… Will Duncan take a principled stand like Bridgen and Bradley? No chance… This is the ‘lifelong Eurosceptic’, who suddenly became a Remainer in the run-up to GE 2015, having read all the signs wrong and who sits resolutely on the fence on our local issues, (Oakham One-Way, St George’s Barracks etc etc). I’m afraid all those in Rutland & Melton that, like me, supported, or have to come to support a fair and clean Brexit, would be foolish to expect a principled stand from that particular quarter… Fast forward to 06:16 to see Tony Roe’s piece. This will only be available till 6pm today… https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0b980cb/east-midlands-today-evening-news-10072018 The latest news from Rutland County Council brings the number of Conservatives resigning from Council or Cabinet, for one reason or another, over the last six months to four: https://www.rutland.gov.uk/my-council/council-news/changes-at-rutland-county-council/ IT’S TIME FOR CHANGE! Candidates nominated for Oakham SW By-Election Councillor Richard Clifton (Oakham South-West) Steps Down Following on from the discussion about the Scrutiny Panel arbitrarily changing the scope of the remit of the Oakham Task & Finish Group to ‘Oakham Town Centre’ and not ‘Oakham Town’ as had been previously agreed; it’s worth mentioning that at this month’s Full Council Meeting the phrasing used is again ‘Oakham Town’. OK2WAY advise that they will be directly addressing this attempt to change the scope at T&F Meeting #2 on the 25th April and it is to be hoped that this first attempt to move the goalposts will be stopped in it’s tracks. Wording from the formal minutes: QUESTIONS FROM MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL A question had been submitted by Mr Cross in accordance with Procedure Rule 30. Mr Cross asked the following question to the Leader of the Council: What was the remit given to the chairman of the Oakham Town Task & Finish group, and what was the detail of any contract with the chairman, including amount of remuneration, if any, that the chairman will receive? Mr Hemsley, Leader provided the following response: Remit: The Independent Chairman was provided with the following information: There had been a Town Centre Proposal which included the introduction of a One Way System The proposal had been withdrawn following the change of leadership and in anticipation of opposition to the One way system Members were keen to keep momentum on improvements to the town A motion was carried at Full Council on 15 January 2018 for Growth, Infrastructure and Resources Scrutiny Panel to convene a Task and Finish Group to consider the future of Oakham Town – a link to the meeting on 15 January 2018 was provided A draft proposed timetable Remuneration: £450 per day (excl. travel and VAT) – Mr Wade allows a day of time per meeting to include; preparation of reports and agenda; liaison with RCC, Group Members and members of the public; pre-meets; information gathering; the meeting itself; and agreement of minutes and communications following meetings. Mr Wade does not charge for travel time (he is based in Cambridge) and limits his travel costs to £44.10 per meeting/visit). Mr Cross did not ask a supplementary question, but asked for the response to be circulated to members. It was confirmed that the response would be included in the minutes. Link to full minutes: http://rutlandcounty.moderngov.co.uk/documents/g1655/Public%20minutes%2009th-Apr-2018%2019.00%20Council.pdf?T=11 Discover Rutland Video released: Growth, Infrastructure & Resources Scrutiny Panel – 12th April The next meeting of the Panel charged with reviewing the work of the Oakham Task & Finish Group will take place on the 12th April. This meeting will precede the second meeting of the T&F Group itself which takes place on the 25th April. Despite the arguments around the arbitrary change of scope of the T&F Group (from Oakham Town to just the Town Centre) at the previous Scrutiny Panel, there appears to be no mention of this in the documents supplied for this GIR Scrutiny Panel Meeting so it would seem that already the T&F Group are having their wings actively clipped by RCC and steered in the direction that RCC demands….. BBC – 30th March The One Show visits Oakham – Advance to 21 minutes in…. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09x51rj/the-one-show-30032018	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1134
__label__wiki	0.544496	0.544496	Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Tri... Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust by Michael Hingson , Susy Flory Faith. Trust. Triumph. “I’m sorry,” the doctor said. “He is permanently and totally blind. There is nothing we can do for him.” Unfortunately, this title is out of print and is no longer being reprinted by the publisher. Please select an alternate format if available above, search our catalog, Request a Quote or contact us at (866) 522-6657 to speak with one of our book specialists. Email Faith. Trust. Triumph. “I’m sorry,” the doctor said. “He is permanently and totally blind. There is nothing we can do for him.” George and Sarah Hingson looked at each other, devastated. Their six-month-old son, Michael was a happy, strawberry blond baby boy, healthy and normal in every way except one. When the Hingsons switched on a light or made silly faces, Michael did not react. Ever. “My best suggestion is that you send him to a home for the blind,” the doctor continued. “He will never be able to do anything for himself.” Forty-seven years later, a yellow Labrador retriever puppy was born in the whelping unit of Guide Dogs for the Blind in San Rafael, California. The puppy’s name was Roselle. On September 11, 2001, she saved Michael’s life. This is Roselle’s story too. ―From the Introduction Every moment in Michael Hingson’s and Roselle’s lives seemed to lead up to this day. When one of four hijacked planes flew into the World Trade Center’s north tower on September 11, 2001, Michael Hingson, a district sales manager for a data protection and network security systems company, was sitting down for a meeting. His guide dog, Roselle, was at his feet. Paired for twenty-one months, man and dog spent that time forging a bond of trust, much like police partners who trust their lives to each other. Michael couldn’t see a thing, but he could hear the sounds of shattering glass, falling debris, and terrified people flooding around him and Roselle. However, Roselle sat calmly beside him. In that moment, Michael chose to trust Roselle’s judgment and not to panic. They were a team. Thunder Dog is a story that will forever change your spirit and your perspective. It illuminates Hingson’s lifelong determination to achieve parity in a sighted world and how the rare trust between a man and his guide dog can inspire an unshakable faith in each one of us. The book, Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN# 9781400204724 in Paperback by Hingson, Michael;Flory, Susy may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered. Testing About author Nelson Incorporated, Thomas 0.8 H x 8.3 L x 5.4 W Allow 2-3 business days for product to leave warehouse on ground shipments This is test title description Special Offer Description Tghis is testing editorial reviews Naya Nuki: Shoshoni Girl ... Accounting at Your Finger... Best Practices for Small ... The "I Don't Kn... '); jQuery('.prod-label-image').wrapAll(' '); } else { console.log("elsse"); loopCount++; galleryloop(); } },3000); } }()); });	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1139
__label__wiki	0.846133	0.846133	Rangers improve but fall short to Mater Dei From Herald Staff Reports Steffe HUNTINGBURG — When Forest Park and Evansville Mater Dei met on the basketball court earlier this year, the Wildcats dominated the Rangers for a 21-point victory. While Mater Dei once again won the second time around, Forest Park was just a few plays away from a different result as they fell to the Wildcats 63-55 in the Class 2A sectional semifinal at Southridge. “We had it down to three points a couple of times in the third and fourth quarter but we could never quite get over the hump,” Forest Park head coach David Welp said. “We just couldn’t make enough plays down the stretch.” Mater Dei jumped out to a 12-5 lead to start the game but Curt Hopf helped trim the lead to 14-8 at the end of the first quarter. The Wildcats (17-7) started the second quarter on a 7-0 run after a three-pointer from Jackson Hiester to make it 21-8 but the Rangers (15-10) went on a run of their own thanks to buckets from Hopf, Drew Howard and Reid Steffe to make it 23-16. A three-pointer from Garret Jochem made it 23-19 shortly after that but Mater Dei made one more bucket before halftime for a 25-19 advantage at the break. After falling behind by 12 early in the third quarter, Forest Park rallied and brought the deficit back to just three points on a bucket from Steffe. However, Mater Dei once again extended the lead to make it 45-37 entering the fourth quarter. The Rangers once again were within three points after a Steffe three-pointer midway through the fourth made it 51-48 but the Wildcats closed the game strong making eight shots from the free-throw line to seal the deal. Curt Hopf led Forest Park with 21 points and six rebounds, Reid Steffe added 13 points and Drew Howard finished with 10 points and seven assists. Zach Schoenstein had a huge night for Mater Dei as he finished with a total of 30 points and six rebounds. “Tonight, we maximized our possessions a lot better than we did in the first (meeting) and we took care of the basketball,” said Welp. “Our defense was much more improved than it was a month ago but we just came up a little short.” Welp praised Forest Park’s group of seniors — Reid Steffe, Garret Jochem, Elliott Rothgerber, Garrett Betz, Aaron Hurst — for their continued work ethic and hustle they brought to the Forest Park program throughout their four years. “I’m really proud of how committed they were for four years,” Welp said. “I appreciate their time and dedication to our program.” Coaching journey leads Gobert to Iowa From a very young age, coaching always seemed to capture Nick Gobert’s attention. Jasper 14U Babe Ruth team advances to regional For the second consecutive year, the Jasper 14U Babe Ruth All-Stars will be competing in the... Dubois County natives enjoying time with Bombers Jasper alums Adam Hedinger, Reece Kleinhelter and Cal Krueger and recent Southridge grad Tucker... Camaraderie, memories keep mainstays coming back If you look through this year’s entry list for the 50th running of The Herald’s Dubois... Schank, Jones set to suit up one final time For one final time, Tucker Schank and Cade Jones will suit up in full football attire. The... Patience, preference key when fishing with worms My last column talked about fishing plastic worms correctly. They have to be the number one bass... Conference, rule changes highlight offseason While the first high school football games of the season are still a little over a month away,... Purchasing a duck stamp isn't just for hunters When President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act in 1934, the...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1146
__label__cc	0.552076	0.447924	Dreamtek blog – news, views and opinions on all things video and creative Delivering your vision to the world – www.dreamtek.tv by jonnyr23 in Broadcasting, creative arts, disruptive technology, video conferencing, video streaming, Youtube That Post-PC video editor dream may not be a dream Apple may call it the ‘Post PC’ age, but when it comes to video production we’re not convinced we’ve totally arrived at that moment yet, though we were interested to see Iron Man, Cowboys & Aliens and Elf video editor, Dan Lebental’s iPad app, TouchEdit, which offers a glimpse at how mobile devices continue to evolve. Cowboys or aliens? Lebental already reckons his frame-based editing solution for the iPad is going to be good enough to cut director, Jon Favreau’s next film, which shows a certain conviction. (You can read its features here). Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Lebental explained: “We are at the dawn of the professional program coming to the iPad and other mobile technology.” TouchEdit hints at a future in which mobile devices pick up on some of the work presently done by PCs. While it doesn’t completely address the format support and file-size challenges of working with video assets, it successfully makes video editing a little more like the scissors and paste techniques used by film’s early pioneers. The app lets you see the source material (ingested from iTunes or Dropbox, among other sources) along with two film windows, one of which features source material and the other the edited sequence. You scroll through the movie using touch, and, in a nod to Apple’s iMovie app, drag and drop clips into the edited sequence. The creator claims nearly all of the tools he uses when working on films are included within TouchEdit. Losing the PC What’s also interesting about the app is Lebental’s vision that cloud-based services could make it much easier to work with huge video files. Hollywood Reporter observed that with cloud-based services to back such solutions up: “It’s not hard to see how this app could become a part of a collaborative, mobile production model that could include dailies to editing to review and approval.” It’s important to clarify what we think we are seeing in this app: it is not a replacement for professional video editing tools, but works in conjunction with them (or will eventually). In other words, you can use the tool within the composition process to make a rough cut of available clips and then export it to your preferred compositing system to relink the clips to the original media. In other words, you get to figure out a rough cut of the project you are working on using your iPad while sat in a coffee shop. This is clearly the vision of the app. In a Twitter post, the team developing it revealed that they are “working on a Media Composer workflow”, which is due to be included within a future update. Roundtripping… There’s a particular focus on Avid. ProvideCoaltion notes: “We know that the creators were Avid Media Composer people, not just because Dan is a feature film editor but because much of TouchEdit looks to be Media Composer inspired.” What’s also interesting is the one-month delay that took place between when the app was submitted and when it was eventually made available via the App Store. This suggests Apple had to think about the app, which itself suggests Final Cut may get some form of app treatment somewhere down the line. That’s in itself an interesting echo of some of the complaints made about the last edition of the app, which many professionals rejected due to missing features and its obvious move toward a touch-based interface. Might this mean at some point Apple will introduce an app enabling Final Cut Pro video editors to use their iPad as a control interface for some of the tasks they currently engage in on their Mac? That post-PC thing… If that’s the case, then we could be closer to a PostPC era than we originally thought. Even TouchEdit already supports use of FCPXML as an export function — and won some good praise from the ProvideVideo Coalition. We suspect that the app’s support for Avid and FCP makes this a solution to watch, though we’re not entirely convinced by the skeumorphic design of the retro user interface: Sure, it might be reminiscent of an old flatbed film editor, but the tool used is an iPad, that you can achieve these results on the device is, we feel, sufficient. It’s also worth reflecting on the future of data-intensive applications, such as video-editing software. It seems clear that the direction of current innovation will lead to a divorce between the data we are working with and the interface we use with which to access it. In other words, you might be working with full-strength editing software on your tablet, but the data itself will be hosted on (and also worked on) by a system that is elsewhere, with which your tablet communicates. That raises some really interesting possibilities for collaboration within video editing. Which has to be worth thinking about. Tags: adobe, Avid, cowboys and aliens, Dan Lebental, Final Cut, iOS, iPad, iPhone, video In 2007 we entered the UAE market and for over 12 years we’ve been producing content for some of the largest compan… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 16 hours ago We all had an amazing time at London Pride last Saturday. 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__label__wiki	0.560163	0.560163	EMERGING TALK-RULES: THE MOBILE PHONE Suddenly, almost everyone in England has a mobile phone, but because this is new, unfamiliar technology, there are no set rules of etiquette governing when, how and in what manner these phones should be used. We are having to 'make up' and negotiate these rules as we go along - a fascinating process to watch and, for a social scientist, very exciting, as one does not often get the opportunity to study the formation of a new set of unwritten social rules. For example: I have found that most English people, if asked, agree that talking loudly about banal business or domestic matters on one's mobile while on a train is rude and inconsiderate. Yet a significant minority of people still do this, and while their fellow passengers may sigh and roll their eyes, they very rarely challenge the offenders directly - as this would involve breaking other, well-established English rules and inhibitions about talking to strangers, making a scene or drawing attention to oneself. The offenders, despite much public discussion of this problem, seem oblivious to the effects of their behaviour, in the same way that people tend to pick their noses and scratch their armpits in their cars, apparently forgetting that they are not invisible. How will this apparent impasse be resolved? There are some early signs of emerging rules regarding mobile- phone use in public places, and it looks as though loud 'I'm on a train' conversations - or mobiles ringing in cinemas and theatres - may eventually become as unacceptable as queue jumping, but we cannot yet be certain, particularly given English inhibitions about confronting offenders. Inappropriate mobile-phone use on trains and in other public places is at least a social issue of which everyone is now aware. But there are other aspects of'emerging' mobile-phone etiquette that are even more blurred and controversial. There are, for example, as yet no agreed rules of etiquette on the use of mobile phones during business meetings. Do you switch your phone off, discreetly, before entering the meeting? Or do you take your phone out and make a big ostentatious show of switching it off, as a flattering gesture conveying the message 'See how important you are: I am switching off my phone for you'? Then do you place your switched-off phone on the table as a reminder of your courtesy and your client's or colleague's status? If you keep it switched on, do you do so overtly or leave it in your briefcase? Do you take calls during the meeting? My preliminary observations indicate that lower-ranking English executives tend to be less courteous, attempting to trumpet their own importance by keeping phones on and taking calls during meetings, while high-ranking people with nothing to prove tend to be more considerate. Then what about lunch? Is it acceptable to switch your phone back on during the business lunch? Do you need to give a reason? Apologize? Again, my initial observations and interviews suggest a similar pattern. Low- status, insecure people tend to take and even sometimes make calls during a business lunch - often apologizing and giving reasons, but in such a self-important 'I'm so busy and indispensable' manner that their 'apology' is really a disguised boast. Their higher-ranking, more secure colleagues either leave their phones switched off or, if they absolutely must keep them on for some reason, apologize in a genuine and often embarrassed, self- deprecating manner. There are many other, much more subtle social uses of mobile phones, some of which do not even involve talking on the phone at all - such as the competitive use of the mobile phone itself as a status-signal, particularly among teenagers, but also in some cases replacing the car as a medium for macho 'mine's better than yours' displays among older males, with discussions of the relative merits of different brands, networks and features taking the place of more traditional conversations about alloy wheels, nought-to-sixty, BHP, etc. I have also noticed that many women now use their mobiles as 'barrier signals' when on their own in coffee bars and other public places, as an alternative to the traditional use of a newspaper or magazine to signal unavailability and mark personal 'territory'. Even when not in use, the mobile placed on the table acts as an effective symbolic bodyguard, a protector against unwanted social contact: women will touch the phone or pick it up when a potential 'intruder' approaches. One woman explained: 'You just feel safer if it's there - just on the table, next to your hand . . . Actually it's better than a newspaper because it's real people - I mean, there are real people in there you could call or text if you wanted, you know? It's sort of reassuring.' The idea of one's social support network of friends and family being somehow 'inside' the mobile phone means that even just touching or holding the phone gives a sense of being protected - and sends a signal to others that one is not alone and vulnerable. This example provides an indication of the more important social functions of the mobile phone. I've written about this issue at great length elsewhere^, but it is worth explaining briefly here. The mobile phone has, I believe, become the modern equivalent of the garden fence or village green. The space-age technology of mobile phones has allowed us to return to the more natural and humane communication patterns of preindustrial society, when we lived in small, stable communities, and enjoyed frequent'grooming talk'with a tightly integrated social network of family and friends. In the fast-paced modern world, we had become severely restricted in both the quantity and quality of communication with our social network. Most of us no longer enjoy the cosiness of a gossip over the garden fence. We may not even know our neighbours' names, and communication is often limited to a brief, slightly embarrassed nod, if that. Families and friends are scattered, and even if our relatives or friends live nearby, we are often too busy or too tired to visit. We are constantly on the move, spending much of our time commuting to and from work either among strangers on trains and buses, or alone and isolated in our cars. These factors are particularly problematic for the English, as we tend to be more reserved and socially inhibited than other cultures; we do not talk to strangers, or make friends quickly and easily. Landline telephones allowed us to communicate, but not in the sort of frequent, easy, spontaneous, casual style that would have characterised the small communities for which we are adapted by evolution, and in which most of us lived in pre-industrial times. Mobile phones - particularly the ability to send short, frequent, cheap text messages - restore our sense of connection and community, and provide an antidote to the pressures and alienation of modern urban life. They are a kind of'social lifeline' in a fragmented and isolating world. Think about a typical, brief 'village-green' conversation: 'Hi, how're you doing?' 'Fine, just off to the shops - oh, how's your Mum?' 'Much better, thanks' 'Oh, good, give her my love - see you later'. If you take most of the vowels out of the village-green conversation, and scramble the rest of the letters into 'text-message dialect' (HOW R U? C U L8ER), to me it sounds uncannily like a typical SMS or text exchange: not much is said - a friendly greeting, maybe a scrap of news - but a personal connection is made, people are reminded that they are not alone. Until the advent of mobile text messaging, many of us were having to live without this kind of small but psychologically and socially very important form of communication. But this new form of communication requires a new set of unspoken rules, and the negotiations over the formation of these rules are currently causing a certain amount of tension and conflict - particularly the issue of whether mobile text is an appropriate medium for certain types of conversation. Chatting someone up, flirting by text is accepted, even encouraged, but some women complain that men use texting as a way of avoiding talking. 'Dumping' someone by text-message is widely regarded as cowardly and absolutely unacceptable, but this rule has not yet become firmly established enough to prevent some people from ending relationships in this manner. Assignment to the text: I. Study the following words and phrases: 1. alleged (identity crisis) 2. demise 3. to pontificate 4. to commit a breach of etiquette 5. to override 6. an ice-breaker 7. facilitator 8. to air-kiss, to cheek-kiss 9. innocuous 10. a soul-barer 11. to outstay smb’s welcome 12. omnipresent 13. omnipotent. 14. a catchphrase 15. imperceptible II. Get ready to discuss the following points: 1. What encouraged Kate Fox to write this book? 2. What is her opinion about the necessity of acculturation? Do you agree with her? 3. What does she mean by the “Grammar of English behaviour”? 4. What are the functions of ‘weather speak’? 5. What answer are you supposed to give to a remark about the weather according to the English etiquette? 6. How can you express disagreement with the remark about the weather without breaking the etiquette rules? 7. What is the typical English way of introducing oneself? Do the English like the American way of introducing oneself? 8. How does Kate Fox describe the concept of privacy? What social rules are concerned with maintenance of privacy? In what way do the English differ from Americans in understanding this concept? 9. What is the function of ‘guessing game’? 10. What is specific about English humour? 11. What is the most important ingredient of English humour? How do they differ from Americans in that respect? 12. Hoe does Kate Fox qualify understatement? 13. What is the essence of self-deprecation rule? 14. What feature of English national character is revealed in following the rules of the language codes? 15. How do the rules of mobile phone talk differ from ours? Date: 2015-01-29; view: 1651 LINGUISTIC CLASS CODES AND ENGLISHNESS \| THE 'GRAMMAR' OF ENGLISHNESS	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1167
__label__cc	0.589658	0.410342	Connecting Effects T-HFND-010-006 For an effect to work, it must be connected to a layer or composite. The effect will be applied to the image output by the layer or composite, and the transformed image will be composited with other elements in the scene. How to connect an effect If you want the drawing to only display in your scene as filtered by the effect, click on the input port connecting the scene composite to the drawing, then drag it to the input port of the effect, like so: The drawing is only connected to the effect. If you want the drawing to show both in its original state and as filtered by the effect, click on the drawing's output port and drag it to the input port of the effect, like so: The drawing will be connected to both the effect and the scene composite. Click and drag on the output port of the effect, the connect it to the scene composite. You can quickly connect an effect as the intermediary between a drawing and a composite by holding the Alt key, then clicking and dragging the effect over the connection between the drawing and the composite. You can remove an effect from the connection between a drawing and a composite using the same technique.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1169
__label__cc	0.65559	0.34441	https://twitter.com/EU_in_India https://www.facebook.com/EUinIndia Delegation of the European Union to India and Bhutan EEAS homepage > India > EU-India set to strengthen business ties EU-India set to strengthen business ties ‘Business Support Project’ promoting collaboration of EU and Indian SMEs launched Delhi, India \| 26 February, 2019: Providing further impetus to trade and investment between European Union and India, Mrs Elżbieta Bieńkowska, EU Commissioner - Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission today launched 'Business Support to the EU-India Policy Dialogues’ Project in New Delhi. It was launched in the presence of Mr Amitabh Kant, CEO, Niti Aayog and other representatives from government and industry. The project aims at cementing the EU-India economic and business ties in key sectors where EU-India have an already well–advanced policy dialogue including environment, water, energy, ICT, urbanization, sustainable mobility, transport and logistics. While enabling access to European best practices and technologies, it will also facilitate joint development of green technologies and solutions through effective business collaborations. Considering SMEs are the backbone of both of our economies and critical for sustainable and affordable innovation, the focus of the project will be on this segment. The project will also work with the Indian governments and authorities to facilitate/ensure transparent, open, and predictable regulatory and business environment for European companies trading with or investing in India. With over EUR 100 billion worth of bilateral trade in 2017, and investment stocks of over EUR 70 billion, the EU is not only India’s largest trading partner and one of India's main investors, but also an important strategic partner supporting sustainable modernization initiatives of India- a priority area for the EU as outlined in the recently adopted EU Strategy on India. Launching the initiative, Commissioner Bieńkowska said, "The EU and India are two of the biggest economies in the world with a great degree of complementarity but also huge untapped potential. The European Union is a natural partner in supporting India's sustainable growth. I trust that the project we are launching today, by mobilizing our private sector in key areas like modernization, climate change, and trade & investment, will further strengthen our ever closer strategic partnership". In his key note address, Mr. Amitabh Kant welcomed greater economic cooperation between the EU and India and stressed that this cooperation (launched today) will further add impetus to the longstanding ties between the two. He highlighted that the EU is a green & innovative technology hub! This project is a win-win for SMEs & entrepreneurs, & will lead to a number of effective collaborations. This positive outlook on EU India trade relations and the bilateral business ecosystem was reiterated by Mr. Arnaldo Abruzzini who stated that “India is an important market for European businesses as it holds enormous potential for growth.”.” Mr. Abruzzini is the CEO of EUROCHAMBRES, the Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industries representing 20 million member enterprises. Also the Team Leader of the Project, Mr. Poul V. Jensen (Director, European Business and Technology Centre) emphasized: “The Project will work in close collaboration with EU Member States and bilateral chambers in India to provide focused and complementary support to business collaborations. Not only European SMEs will majorly benefit from this enhanced support ecosystem, but also Indian businesses and partners can explore partnerships with innovative technology businesses from Europe”. As a tool for effective multilateralism and cooperation, a working group called the European Economic Group will be set up to strengthen the voice of European businesses in India in cooperation with European associations and bilateral chambers. The ‘Business Support to the EU-India Policy Dialogues’ Project will be implemented by EBTC (the European Business and Technology Centre) in a consortium with GFA Consulting Group (Germany) and EUROCHAMBRES (Brussels). Backgrounfd and agenda: /file/backgroundandagendapdf_enbackground_and_agenda.pdf background_and_agenda.pdf /file/190225agendafinal26thfebruarylauncheventdelhipdf_en190225_agenda_final_26th_february_launch_event_delhi.pdf 190225_agenda_final_26th_february_launch_event_delhi.pdf Press and information team of the Delegation to INDIA and BHUTAN European Union Ambassador visits Chennai 24th European Union Film Festival debuts in Delhi EU missions mark World Environment Day 2019 by getting partners to sign the Green Pledge European Union missions in Delhi organize an E-waste collection drive to mark World Environment Day 2019 EU India step up cooperation on solar energy Visit to Bhutan by European Union and EU Member States Ambassadors reaffirms the EU’s support to Bhutan’s sustainable development and growing political tiesThe EU also celebrates EU-Bhutan Friendship by hosting a reception on 3rd April in the presence of Hon'ble Prime Minister of Bhutan, Lyonchhen Dr. Lotay Tshering. Strengthening India-Europe Economic Relations- Opportunities and Way Forward PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry today organized a conference on “Strengthening India-Europe Economic Relations- Opportunities and Way Forward” on 5th April. H.E. Mr Tomasz Kozlowski, Ambassador of the European Union to India gave the special address at the event and reiterated that as the EU You could be the next Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow: calls for 2019 still open!! Curie- Individual Fellowships (MSCA –IF) may be just right for you. The MSCA-IF is open to experienced researchers from across the world. It covers all domains of research and innovation, chosen freely by the applicants in a bottom-up manner. Applicants need a doctoral degree or at least four European Union along with Pune Smart City organizes Hackathon to develop solutions for smart cities 250 teams applied across India. The winning team gets a fully paid trip funded by the EU Delegation of the European Union to India 5/5, Shantiniketan, New Delhi - 110 021, INDIA DELEGATION-INDIA@eeas.europa.eu	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1173
__label__cc	0.73484	0.26516	Joe Mauer Has His #7 Retired by the Minnesota Twins Hannah Foslien/Getty Images Joe Mauer is one of the most beloved Minnesota Twins stars of all time and now he is immortalized in Twins lore for eternity. The always calm and collected Mauer couldn't keep it together on this date as the emotions came pouring out as the tribute video began to play. For 15 MLB seasons, Joe Mauer roamed the fields as a Minnesota Twin, wearing #7 and doing it all with class. So much class, that me and my wife named our second son after the Twins star. Being a home town kid and fulfilling his dreams for his hometown team was a dream come true for Mauer and a dream come true for Twins fans. Mauer will still be around the ball park from time to time and the Twins would love to have him around even more but it seems like for now Mauer will enjoy his family and friends a little bit more than the game of baseball and deservedly so! Thank you Joe for all the great memories! Filed Under: Joe Mauer, Minnesota Twins, MLB Categories: Articles, Newsletter ESPN, Overtime, Sports	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1175
__label__cc	0.688007	0.311993	Excellent Reception Coming in loud and clear with the sounds you need to hear. Excellent Reception \| The Mystery Of Jai Paul This time we are going to talk about a singer/songwriter who went from one of the most promising cutting-edge artists to an almost mythological figure within the music industry. On today’s episode of Excellent Reception, we are going to tell the story of Jai Paul. Excellent Reception \| The Story of Iko Iko We’re looking at a classic song that brings about joy with just the uttering of a few lyrics and gets you dancing with the second your hear it’s bare bones rhythm. On this episode of we are looking at the 1965 hit from The Dixie Cup called “Iko Iko” and it’s connection to New Orlean’s culture. Excellent Reception \| UK Rappers Listen: DOWNLOAD (right click and save as) \| Subscribe On this episode of Excellent Reception, we are looking at some MC’s from the United Kingdom who can hold their own on a microphone and have used their music as a platform to push the sound of hiphop in new directions On this episode, we feature… Excellent Reception\| Nohelani Cypriano – Lihue On this episode of Excellent Reception, we are focusing on one of my favorite Hawaiian soul songs… “Lihue” by Nohelani Cypriano. Excellent Reception \| Great Songs of 2018 On today’s episode of Excellent Reception, we are talking about a group of songs, that even though they may not be the biggest songs of 2018, they has a strong influence on the current musical landscape in their own way. Excellent Reception \| Jazzanova – L.O.V.E. and You & I For today’s show, we are going to talk about the ground breaking nu-jazz/future soul production crew known as Jazzanova. Mainly we are going to focus on one of their most well constructed songs “L.O.V.E and You & I”, which took sampling to a whole new level. Excellent Reception \| Episode 21 : Japanese Sounds We are continuing our musical world tour in the East Asian country of Japan. We are following the careers of a handful of music artists that draw their personal style from a variety of sources. They take these genres to new heights all while including elements that are uniquely Japanese. Excellent Reception \| One-Off : Stevie Wonder – Journey Through The Secret Life of Plants For today’s show, we are just going to focus on one of the most misunderstood and highly underrated soundtracks in music history… Stevie Wonder’s 1979 album “Journey Through The Secret Life of Plants”. Excellent Reception \| Episode 20 : Brazilian Trip Listen: DOWNLOAD (right click and save as) \| Subscribe On this episode, we are continuing our musical world tour down in South America by taking a look at the ever evolving sounds of Brazil. We are focusing on a group of artists who got their start during the late 60’s and early 70’s and made huge contributions to… Excellent Reception \| Episode 19 : Afro Boogie On this episode of Excellent Reception, we are talking about a group of songs by artists that take on Western musical influences and combine them with sounds that come from their African musical heritage. Excellent Reception \| One-Off : Herbie Hancock – Saturday Night Listen: DOWNLOAD (right click and save as) \| Subscribe When it comes to jazz musicians, there are few who have careers that are long and musically adventurous as Herbie Hancock. Herbie’s discography is humongous. Today on Excellent Reception we are talking about the song “Saturday Night” from Herbie Hancock 1980 album “Monster”. This episode focuses… Excellent Reception \| Episode 18 : Sounds of 2017 It would take a long time for me list all of the great musical releases of 2017, but instead I want to talk about a few albums of the past year that you stand out, but you might have missed.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1178
__label__wiki	0.594273	0.594273	Caris LeVert lifts Brooklyn Nets to stunning win over Nuggets (Highlights) (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images) Caris LeVert drops a pretty floater late to help the Brooklyn Nets dispatch Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets. The Brooklyn Nets may have found a diamond in the rough with Caris LeVert. He handed the Denver Nuggets the first home loss of the season while simultaneously announcing Brooklyn’s presence to the rest of the league. The Nets have a few guys they can turn to for a big shot late, but Caris LeVert seems to be the guy Kenny Atkinson wants with the ball in his hands. Nikola Jokic committed a costly turnover late to give the Nets the ball with 22 seconds and a tie ball game. That’s all LeVert needed to seal the deal. GAME-WINNER. @CarisLeVert. #WeGoHard pic.twitter.com/Btz2ljJTZA — Brooklyn Nets (@BrooklynNets) November 10, 2018 Prior to LeVert’s heroics, Spencer Dinwiddie was the guy who took the big shot. The Brooklyn point guard took the ball with three seconds left to play in the third quarter and launched a half-court heave to send the Nets bench into hysterics. 🚨 @SDinwiddie_25 from BEYOND HALF COURT 🚨 pic.twitter.com/jtKZB9ppuY Many NBA players refuse to take that last second shot for fear of hurting their shooting average, but Dinwiddie chucks it up all the same. The Nets are thrilled that he wasn’t calculating his shooting percentage in his head because they needed those precious three points. The Nets and Nuggets traded buckets throughout the fourth quarter. Just when it looked like one team was about to wrest control away, someone came up with a big play. On one particular play, Joe Harris reminded everyone that he can do more than shoot threes. He battles for a big offensive rebound and finishes the old-fashioned three-point play. This is definitely Beef Jerky Joe 💪 pic.twitter.com/9GUjPC7C34 The fourth quarter was bogged down by the referees calling far too many fouls. Every little bit of contact warranted a whistle. But despite some poor free throw shooting, the Nets were able to overcome Nikola Jokic and the Nuggets. LeVert was the hero of the night for Brooklyn and he finished the night with 17 points and five assists. But no one player stood out for the Nets tonight and that’s meant as a compliment. They got contributions from everywhere. D’Angelo Russell finished with 23 points and five assists. Joe Harris turned in a typical night where he kept the defense stretched with his gravity. He was 2-for-2 from beyond the arc, but the Nuggets gave him a lot of attention after the Nets started the game going 6-for-9 from deep. Nikola Jokic was almost unstoppable on Friday. He finished the night with 34 points on 22 shots to go along with a ridiculous 21 rebounds. But at the end of the night, Jarrett Allen got the better of Jokic. Allen was outplayed by Jokic for a majority of the game, but he went toe-to-toe with one of the best centers in the game. Allen finished with 18 points, nine rebounds, and five blocks. He made his presence known. AIR ALLEN@_bigjayy_ \| #WeGoHard pic.twitter.com/d8NiDIemIu The Nets secured their third straight win and they’re starting to look like a legitimate threat in the Eastern Conference. After smacking the Philadelphia 76ers at home and pounding the Suns in Phoenix, they claimed a victory under much more tense circumstances. Friday night, the Nets looked like a good team that is starting to learn how to win. NEXT: Brooklyn Stares Down Western Conference Nightmare	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1183
__label__cc	0.59	0.41	At Jesus’ Feet—The Gospel According to Mary Magdalene Doug Batchelor by Doug Batchelor "Someone to love me." That's all she wanted—all anyone really wants. “We are addicts, ‘sinaholics,’" says the author, “trying to fill a gaping void in our hearts, originally designed to be filled with God, with various addictions. Take Mary Magdalene; she was a prosperous prostitute, but her life was one sad sordid story—until she met Someone who loved her with a pure, unconditional love. Ever afterward the shame of her past was eclipsed by her absolute devotion to the One who set her free. Doug Batchelor unveils the beauty of the gospel with original insights through the eyes of Jesus' most dedicated disciple. This imaginative yet biblical retelling of Mary's experience clarifies several significant biblical teachings with a kaleidoscope of vivid illustrations. Discover a fresh picture of the gentle, loving Savior who, without condemning or condoning our past, offers us a new future as we, like Mary, linger at Jesus' feet. 1. At Jesus' Feet in Shame: Adultery in the Temple 2. At Jesus' Feet in Sorrow: "Praying for the Dead" 3. At Jesus' Feet in Study: Martha's Distraction 4. At Jesus' Feet in Sacrifice: Simon's Feast 5. At Jesus' Feet in Surrender: At the Cross 6. At Jesus' Feet in Service: At the Tomb 7. At Jesus' Feet in Song: The Resurrection Pages: 152, hardcover	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1195
__label__cc	0.569402	0.430598	Fantasist Enterprises Awaken Your Wonder with illustrated fantasy and horror Order the first-edition print copy of Lawrence C. Connolly's Voices: Tales of Horror and get the second-edition ebook pack for free. Fantasist Enterprises > Fantasy Books > Non-Themed Anthologies The Stories in Between A Between Books Anthology Edited by Greg Schauer, Jeanne B. Benzel, and W. H. Horner Trade Paperback • 6" x 9" Direct Price: $14.40 Celebrate an iconic indie bookstore! For thirty years, Between Books has provided the Delaware Valley with the absolute best in alternate entertainment—speculative fiction, comics, anime, and gaming. While other stores have disappeared, this shelter from the tides of bitter reality has remained, enduring by providing the finest in every genre, by stacking every shelf, every nook, cranny and tiny space in between with the strange, the beautiful and the terrifying. Now they have brought together many of the authors who have entertained the visitors to their hallowed walls in a collection so splendiferously diverse, it defies conventional description. John Passarella brings us a new Wendy Ward story in which a curse meets its match. A scientist opens her personal Pandora’s Box in a tale by Maria V. Snyder. Gregory Frost finds an Old One in the noir. A roving nightmare auditions a new cast member in a chilling tale by Jonathan Maberry. Catherynne M. Valente paints a hauntingly beautiful picture of Hell. Pleasure and longing collide in a story by CJ Henderson. Memory, loss, and comfort coalesce in a story by Jonathan Carroll. All these and more await you in The Stories in Between. Greg Schauer established Between Books in 1979. It resides at 2703 Philadelphia Pike in Claymont, DE. Fantasy / Horror / SF Short Stories 16 Illustrations 1 2-Page Comic ISBN 10: 0-9713608-8-X Foreword by Joseph Gangemi Introduction by Greg Schauer “The Wrestler and the Spear Fisher” by Lawrence M. Schoen artwork by Marcella Harte™ “Beneath Between” by Lawrence C. Connolly artwork by Nathaniel G. Sawyers “Dr. Time” by Maria V. Snyder artwork by Mickey Freed “Squeeze Me” by Don Bethman “Swift Decline” by Gregory Frost artwork by Allen Koszowski “Short Fuse” by Patrick Thomas artwork by Blair Webb “Blood Alone” by John Passarella artwork by Don Bethman “Beyond Imagine” by Mike McPhail artwork by Brian Thomas “Appetite” by Jonathan McGoran artwork by Mike Oreszczyn “Doctor Nine” by Jonathan Maberry artwork by Baron Von Reign “My Grandfather was Adolf Hitler’s Roommate” by Henry Long “Janey in Amber” by Jeffrey J. Mariotte “Vedran” by Jonathan Carroll artwork by Joe del Tufo “The Devil You Don’t” by Danielle Ackley-McPhail “The Dungeon Out of Time” by Walter Ciechanowski “The Wonderous Boundless Thought” by CJ Henderson artwork by Nora Schaefer “Proverbs of Hell” by Catherynne M. Valente artwork by Burt Hopkins Afterword in Sequential Art: “The Legacy of Between Books” by Steve Ressel “Small press anthologies make me squee, anthologies in support of bookstores make me squee, and a TOC with Greg Frost, Cat Valente, Lawrence M. Schoen, C.J. Henderson, and Danielle Ackley-McPhail definitely makes me squee.” —Rose Fox, “Genreville” blog on PublishersWeekly.com “Enough,” said Senjo. “The Kefer are one tribe, one people.” “That is a story told to children,” said Susk. “Even if true, it is distant history,” said Deyco. Wise Senjo painted the mark of the sea bird upon the brows of both men, and the previous lives of their souls returned to them. “It is true,” said Deyco, flushed with generations of memories, several different childhoods, long dead children of his own, and most curious of all, an image of Fesht teaching him to cast his first fishing spear so very long ago. “The Kefer are one people,” agreed Susk, reeling under the weight of past lives, previous wives, even husbands, and the faces of hundreds of friends. “I will unite and lead the people . . .” they both said at once, then stopped, and glared at each other. “The Kefer can be led by but one man,” said Senjo. “They must war among themselves no longer. At the next moon you two will decide this, brother against brother until only one is standing within the fire circle. He I will name as victor. The other will be claimed by the tide, swept south to the reef, and ground across the coral by a storm of my making. When life has at last been stripped from him, his blood will feed the coral and his flesh will nourish the fish.” The brothers stared up at the face of Senjo the Wise; they trembled. At last Susk asked, “Mighty Senjo, when I confront Deyco in the fire circle, what rules govern our conflict?” “We seek to mend history and restore the Kefer,” said Senjo. “Thereare no rules.” << Return to Top >> I have to get out of here. Hugging my load of books and magazines, I headed back to the ladder, which now looked incredibly far away. The lights flickered again. And this time they went out. Darkness fell. I paused and waited for the power to kick back on. The air thickened, becoming stagnant, damp. I blinked, waiting for my eyes to adjust, but I was in total darkness, completely closed in, cut off from any source of light. I pushed on, still carrying the books, wondering how I would know when I came to the ladder. Have to put the books down . . . feel my way. The plan made sense. I could always come back for the books when the power returned. Or I can just stand here and wait for the lights to come back on. But I didn’t like that option. Perhaps it was my imagination, but the air seemed to be growing thicker by the second, closing in until I felt as if I were suffocating in darkness. I put the books down. They thumped around my feet, settling loudly as I moved away. I took a step, then paused, paralyzed with ambivalence. Did I really want to leave them behind? The darkness shifted. I felt myself turning about, getting dizzy in the stagnant air. Get out of here now! Standing on gelatin legs, she stared at the bottle. The champagne was the most expensive brand at the liquor store. She had planned to buy the bubbly and relocate it back in time to celebrate her breakthrough. A fluted glass waited within her desk drawer. Gaye considered sharing the alcohol with her new rat friend for a toast as she retrieved the glass. But when she reached for the bottle, it had moved to the edge. Impossible. The room felt excessively quiet. The dehumidifier had shut off, but Gaye couldn’t remember when. The water pan must be full. She applied logic to calm her thundering heartbeat. An unmistakable feeling of being watched hovered in the room. It seemed as if the airborne moisture had condensed into a being, changing the flow and thickness of the air in the lab. She licked her lips, tasting the sudden dryness. Ridiculous, she chided herself. Paranoid. One minute you’re overjoyed and the next worried that someone will steal the technology. And not just a regular someone, but a water-droplet being. Gaye shook off her apprehension. But when she headed to the dehumidifier, she caught movement at the edge of her vision. The champagne tipped over the lip of the desk. Unable to catch it, Gaye watched the bottle fall. Glass and champagne exploded as it hit the floor, splashed onto her pants, and soaked her shoes. When the dehumidifier kicked on with a roar, Gaye moved so fast she left champagne puddles on the ground. Grabbing her briefcase and the rat’s cage, she raced up the stairs. I drank a little more beer. The guy beside me had on a suit coat, stained and in need of pressing, but probably no dry-cleaning service remained in town. He looked like a fat used-car salesman, or the mayor. He had a mustache over his pushed-out, fishy mouth, and a bulbous nose. In the mirror behind the bar, his large eyes seemed periodically to swivel my way, but when I glanced at him, he was looking dead ahead, his utter disregard of my existence defying my experience. Nobody was this incurious. “Cold night,” I said. Slowly, as if pulling against enormous magnetism, his head, then his eyes, swung in my direction. \Straight on, he looked even more fishlike. The eyes did shift now, as if searching for the memory of speech. “Cold. Nnnh, cold night, sure is.” At once he began turning away. “Is it always like this in Dogget?” “Always. And forever. World without end.” A slow turn to face me.“You passing through?” “Yup,” I said, “on my way up from Lynchburg.” “Long drive. Out of the way, here.” Big pearls of sweat had broken out on his brow, as if it strained him to talk. I could feel other customers looking our way. “Yeah, some business in Eccles,” I said. “I’ve made that drive. State Patrol like to pick you up on the road. Youprolly shouldn’t drink too much.” “I’d go.” “Right. Thanks.” I squashed my cigarette in a tin ashtray and finished off the beer. The restrooms were at the far end of the bar. I pushed up and headed that way. As I passed each booth, I glanced in but kept my head down as if looking at the floor. Some of them gazed over, big eyes glistening. “This is all a joke,” he said. “She doesn’t have the brains to make abomb.” “I know how to use the internet,” Tilly said. “Maybe, but you don’t have the guts to blow me up.” “Actually if she blows you up,” I said, “she’ll have all the guts she’ll need.Of course, they’ll be yours.” “This is all a desperate cry for attention, a ploy for me to take you back.Take the bomb off me and you can come home.” Tilly stood there, lowering her left hand and the switch. She was reallythinking about it. “Oh no, girlfriend, you aren’t going back to that,” Bubba Sue said. “He’ssomething that doesn’t deserve to be on the bottom of your shoe. You gotoff lucky.” Jas and I both looked at her. Sure, he was a nasty piece of work, but ifthis got the bombs off both of them, it was worth the deception. We couldsort the rest out later. “Lucky? What part of this is lucky?” Tilly tilted her head to accentuateher point. “You could have married him first,” Bubba Sue said. Wendy drifted down to the porch level, hoping to catch a glimpse ofthe pale man. For a moment, her gaze slipped right past him. Then, as his head turned slightly, he jumped into focus. Dark tailored suit, jacket unbuttoned over a white shirt opened at the collar. Dark, shoulder-length hair framed a handsome face, sharp-featured and pale with a Greco-Roman nose and full, sensuous lips. Some part of her warned against looking into his eyes, something beyond Abby’s experience, something instinctual, an atavistic alarm. But here and now, unseen, unheard, un-sensed at all, she had her best chance to fathom what type of threat the man presented, including his eyes. And with that rationalization, she forced her attention up from his strong jaw, across his gaunt, sculpted cheeks to— His eyes were so luminous she imagined they would shine in the dark. They were flat and bottomless at the same time, inviting and repelling. Ardent heat and complete oblivion churned within their depths. But above all, they were utterly compelling. And as she stared, a strange and hypnotic fascination crept over her. The man smiled, as if at a private joke. “Ahh,” he said. “What is this now?” His voice was deep and soothing . . . and almost as compelling as his eyes. “You wish to dance close to the flame, my little moth.” He laughed, a thoroughly masculine and enchanting sound. His head tilted back, revealing a flash of white teeth and, at either side of his mouth—fangs. The troopers’ jog slowed to a walk as they approached their target, cautiously moving beyond the stack of massive storage boxes. Kotov carried his weapon at the hip, moving it slowly from side to side to keep its momentum up; on his display, its targeting reticle and pip floated ethereally out in front of him. Bauer flanked him to his left; his own weapon was up and at the ready. They stopped. Bauer turned so he was standing almost back to back with Kotov. The death marker was somewhere on the other side of a low wall of a stone-like substance jutting out across their path. To their left, a massive one-story structure extended off into the distance; it appeared to be a glass-enclosed holding area. On their right was the drop off. “I’m moving up to the wall,” Kotov said, already on the move. “Acknowledged.” Bauer swung around and aimed past his comrade. Kotov stood facing the wall. “Suit-mode, gun view.” An inset screen opened at the bottom of his display, showing a live feed from the targeting scopes mounted on the nose of his weapon. He slowly moved it out and away from cover. The image was surreal; Kotov wasn’t a religious man per se, but he was brought up within the teachings of the Church. At this moment, he truly did believe in the existence of hell. After all, that’s where demons came from. For the first year I used Napeteine, I was careful to come off it periodically. After a while, though, I noticed some long-term changes. Skin tone was one—a kind of grayish pallor—but that was a small price to pay for those rock-hard abs. I went back into the lab and created a tanning cream that struck gold again. It didn’t sell like Napetiene, but it sold quite a lot. After that I looked even better; tanned and fit. The Napeteine also started to affect my thoughts, though. I couldn’t say exactly how, but I had a sense that it did. I became more impulsive. On a hunch, I sold the Napeteine at the height of its popularity. And I made sure it was to my old employer, Taylor and Rice. I could have gotten a few hundred million more from some other suitors, but I wanted it to be Taylor and Rice. I almost felt guilty about the sum I got from them, but that was another change: I had all but stopped experiencing feelings like guilt. The biggest change, and the most disturbing one by far, was that food just didn’t taste good anymore. I no longer enjoyed it. And what good is a pill that lets you eat whatever you want if it also makes you not want to eat anything? For a diet pill, it was ideal in a way, but I liked food and I wanted to continue to enjoy it. That was when I came off Napeteine for good. And that was when I realized the changes were permanent. My taste for food never did come back, or at least not like before. Instead, I felt a sort of deep, constant craving that was never sated. He exerted a fraction more of his will and the little girl lifted her sad eyes toward his window. He made her see him through the dark glass, and as she turned toward him, she saw him and she knew him. From dreams she knew him. From dreams that her parents and her sister would have called nightmares; dreams that, had they been unlucky enough to share them, would have sent them shuddering and screeching into the nearest patch of light. As if light could protect them. He knew—could feel and sense and taste—that this little girl had dreamed of him, that she knew his name as well as she knew her own pain. As well as she knew her own need. Doctor Nine looked into her mind and knew that there were no gods in her dreaming world, just as there were none in her waking hell. When she looked into darkness, whether behind closed eyes or under the bed or into the moonless sky she saw only him. He was always there for her kind. Always. Doctor Nine smiled at her. The little girl looked at him for a long time with her owl-brown eyes. When she finally smiled, it was a real smile. A smile as hot as blood and as sweet as pain. Her small mouth opened and she spoke a single, silent word, shaping it with her need and her love for him. Back at their flat, Hitler remained quiet and gloomy. Attempting to coax his roommate out of his funk, Karl made a positive suggestion. “Adolf, why don’t you apply to the academy?” “The Vienna Academy of Fine Arts?” “Bah! Why should I?” He paused. “Do you really think I am good enough?” “Of course! Why not? You’re just as talented as the other artists making a living around here, if not better.” “Social parasites!” “That’s what I’m saying! Schedule an appointment, get your portfolio together, and see what happens! You get in, great! If not, nothing changes and you can still try again next year.” “What about you? Why not apply, yourself? You are a good painter too, in your own way.” “I’m a house painter, not an artist. I don’t have those kinds of ambitions. My talent is a slight one. But you, Adolf, you’ve got something big to say to the world.” “Hmmm. I do. Yes.” “You could become really great.” “Yes. Yes.” “You could change the world!” “That is not a bad idea.” “The world is full of far worse ideas.” “I am going to do it! I am going to attend the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts! I will show the world what Adolf Hitler is capable of!” “That’s the spirit!” “You like this place, don’t you?” Jack asked. “Yes.” Janey answered without hesitation. She sniffed the autumn air, which carried hints of wood smoke and dark spices and enough of a chill to start her nose running. She touched its tip. “Out here, I mean. In the yard, it’s . . . the most like it was. Inside . . . I can hardly find Dad in there at all. Or me.” “Fortunately,” Jack said, draping a strong arm over her shoulders, “I can always find you, inside or out.” “That is a good thing.” Janey burrowed against his chest for a minute. His other arm wrapped around her, cutting the cold, like rolled blankets against her shoulders and back. “We should go in,” she said, wishing she didn’t mean it. She would give anything to stay here, in Jack’s arms, captured in the dying rays of the sun. Like an insect trapped in amber, she could remain that way forever, watching the eons pass from within a golden cage. “I’m sure she’s fine,” Jack said. “She’s probably asleep.” “Probably. But I think we should look in.” Jack kissed her forehead. He hadn’t shaved that day, and his chin rasped against her flesh. “Whatever you say, darling.” And Janey thought, idyllic, that’s the perfect word for what this is. Idyllic. This time he brought out a very sleek, quite beautiful folding knife. “Look at this—it’s my Vedran Corluka.” He held it out for the other man to take, but Edmonds only stared at him. “Why do you call it that? Vedran Corluka is a professional soccer player.” Ken nodded and snapped his fingers. “Right! You’re a soccer fan too. Excellent. Yes, he plays for the Croatian national team. But I call it that for a reason. This was the last Christmas present my wife gave me. I like pocketknives; I have a collection. But this one—well, you can see how ’specially nice it is. Victoria had it custom-made for me by a guy in Montana. I liked it a lot when I got it, but only after she died did I really start paying attention to it.” “Paying attention? What do you mean?” “I went a little crazy after my wife died, Bill. We were married thirty-seven years and most of them were damned good. Did you have a good marriage?” Edmonds nodded. “Then you know what I mean. Vedran Corluka was her favorite player. She didn’t know beans about soccer, but she liked his name. She liked to say it. Whenever I was watching a game on TV, she always came in and asked if Vedran Corluka was playing. “So that’s why I gave this knife his name. It was her last present and he was her favorite player. I always carry it now. When I get really down, I just grip it tight in my pocket and that usually makes me feel a little better. It makes some of the sadness go away.” “Watch out!” An alert on the drive console went off moments after her shout. “Campbell, evasive maneuvers!” Sarge snapped out the order as he helped man the controls. “Clear trajectory, two degrees port.” They barely missed the burnt-out hulk. Eyes still riveted, Kat hit record on her system, catching every frame as the external cameras tracked the wreckage they’d nearly plowed into. There would have been no coming back from that. It wasn’t huge, but according to the data scrolling across the bottom of her screen, it was dense. The images were beyond disturbing. It drifted there like a recently fissured geode. The exterior was nothing but a rock; the exposed interior was a compact craft smaller than one of the escape pods, the standard kind that had earned the epitaph “The Can” for good reason. What Kat saw on her screen was barely bigger than a sleeptank. The camera panned some more as they passed the obstacle. Kat gasped and her grip on her computer white-knuckled. From over her shoulder she heard a chorus of “Damn!”s and not a few gulps before Sarge’s voice cut through it all. “Enough!” he barked. “Break it up.” She bit back a more vehement “Damn” of her own. She knew what they were looking at, and she felt cheated. “I was wrong; someone else got him.” Keeping my eyes riveted to the passing forest beside me, I began to craft a Dangerous Dungeons scenario. I could see an unfortunate soul, about the same age as me, although taller and a bit faster, rushing through the trees away from some unseen danger. It would not save him, though, and he knew it. I imagined the unearthly howls of the vicious creatures chasing him, like a huntsman’s dogs flushing out his prey. The flushing was especially apt, as the young man bolted out of the tree line and raced toward our car. It was all in my mind, but at the moment, that boy was more real to me than the seagulls and the sun. In fact, my mind had edited them out. It was now pouring rain in the dead of night. The poor soul was clad in a drenched Members Only jacket and jeans as he waved his hands furiously for my dad to stop. For some reason I felt I knew this boy, even though he was only a character painted in my head. And then the dogs burst from the trees behind him. They were horrid reptilian creatures, large and hairless, with glowing, green eyes and foaming, too-large maws. The boy didn’t stand a chance as two of the savage beasts leapt upon him from behind. One dog ripped out his throat and the boy’s blood sprayed across our windshield. A third dog didn’t bother with the easy kill, turning its attention instead towards me. I recoiled in horror as the beast howled and leapt through the window of the car. From my family’s viewpoint, of course, I’d just squealed and jumped for no apparent reason. My sister found it hilarious. “See a dragon?” Janet chuckled. “We have everything we want, correct?” Again there was a wave of jocularity, but in the end, a consensus was reached that the current age was one of marvels and unlimited access to everything that had ever been imagined in all the long history of mankind. People lived as long as they desired. Everyone had work they could be proud of, some toiling as greatly as eight, nine hours every week. Foods from around the world were obtainable at a moment’s notice. Robots did all minor chores, and most major ones. One could eat endlessly and never gain weight, or not eat at all. One could visit the moon, picnic in high orbit, study the bottom of the oceans, climb the highest mountains, go surfing in the morning and sky diving at night—all without leaving their homes, all without leaving their favorite sex partners. Anything could be downloaded directly into one’s brain. The entirety of that wonderful organ had been mapped, charted and mastered, so that now it controlled the body the way its owner wished it to be controlled. It was a perfect, utterly delicious world, one with all the learning, sleeping, sex, eating, or anything else one could want at their fingertips twenty-four hours out of every day. “Well, that’s what this idea is all about. Focus all—I stumbled across this in the oddest place. I was thumbing through the philosophy warrens . . .” “Do you know what a demon is?” She clenches me between her bony knees, her leathery face keen and dear against mine. The shape of her lips is perfect, a beatific sneer. She closes her eyes and strains against me, her arms thin and strong. She rides me, I can feel myself a beast beneath her, her servant, her chattel. I hear a little slushing sound as her tail makes shapes in the dust. I tell myself she is not like this with the others. That her fingers in my ventricles are more tender, that the taste of my blood is sweetest. Her eyes wheel fire. “We were all of us angels, once. You can still smell it on us. The seal of heaven on our foreheads, the kiss of God. It smells like silver boiling. The first of us would not bow down to Adam. Then they would not work as menial laborers, wrestling and staying hands and spouting iambic prophecy. Then some few of us said ‘Adam is dead and gone. Can not our friends return, and our lovers, our brothers and sisters?’ ” Noster clears her throat gently, as if recalling a painful thing. “And some of us cried out in the dark, saying ‘We wish to feel your love, O Lord, and we do not, for your face is turned to Earth. 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__label__wiki	0.606875	0.606875	HomePosts tagged 'special ability' special ability This week’s Quiz. Are You Ready? December 9, 2013 December 9, 2013 fasab Questions, Tests 2012 Summer Olympic games, access to television, actress, African campaign, Alfred Southwick, animals, Australia, Bahrain, ban on smoking in all workplaces, banking, Bela Lugosi, Best Supporting Actor Oscar, Bhutan, Boris Karloff, British 7th Armoured Division, Brunei, car, card game, character, Charybdis, China, Chinese astrological calendar, Columbia, competitors, cotton, country, Crab, crustacean, dentures, desert rats, dessertspoon, Ed Wood, education, electric chair, Elk, Entertainment, Europe, female, film, gate, general knowledge, Geography, God, Good Will Hunting, Greek Mythology, Henry Kissinger, history, horror movie star, India, invention, James Bond, Julia Roberts, jungle tigers, Kingdom, lobster, Lon Chaney Jr, Martin Landau, Matt Damon, Misc, Miscellaneous, mountain foxes, movie, movies, multiple choice, music, Name, nickname, occupation, Ox, Oyster, painted, politics, questions, quiz, quizzes, Sea Islands, short sleep, singer/songwriter, singles, Soak Up The Sun, special ability, spectacles, spoons, sport, sports, State Henry Kissinger, SWIFT, tablespoon, teaspoon, test, tests, The Spy Who Loved Me, the ultimate aphrodisiac, Tommaso da Modena, Topping Out ceremony, United States, US Secretary of State, Whirlpool, wire transfers, wooden leg, WWII, Yak Yes, time for this week’s quiz. I hope you are ready, although I have included a lot of multiple choice questions this time so it may be a little easier – but only if you choose the right answer! As always the answers can be found waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below if you get stuck – but NO cheating please. Enjoy, and good luck. Q. 1: Which of these spoons is the largest? a) dessertspoon b) tablespoon c) teaspoon Q. 2: In what movie does Julia Roberts play a character pretending to be the actress Julia Roberts? Q. 3: In 2004, which country became the first in Europe to impose a total ban on smoking in all workplaces? Q. 4: What was the occupation of Alfred Southwick, whose 1881 idea led to the invention of the electric chair? Q. 5: In 1999, which country became the last in the world to grant its citizens access to television? a) Bhutan b) Brunei c) Bahrain d) China Q. 6: What card game has a name that also means ‘a short sleep’? Q. 7: A ‘Topping Out’ ceremony marks the completion of what? Q. 8: Which of these animals is NOT a crustacean? a) Crab b) Oyster c) Lobster Q. 9: In the film ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’, James Bond travels underwater in what make of car? Q. 10: In Greek mythology what was Charybdis? a) A ‘Gate’ b) A ‘Kingdom’ c) A ‘God’ d) A ‘Whirlpool’ Q. 11: In banking the term ‘SWIFT’ is used in wire transfers, but what do the letters ‘S W I F T’ stand for? Q. 12: Famous for cotton, in what country are the Sea Islands? a) Australia b) India c) United States d) Columbia Q. 13: Which of these animals feature in the Chinese astrological calendar? a) Elk b) Ox c) Yak Q. 14: What is former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger supposed to have called “the ultimate aphrodisiac”? Q. 15: In 1352, Tommaso da Modena painted what is believed to be the first portrait of someone wearing what? a) dentures b) spectacles c) wooden leg Q. 16: In the movie ‘Good Will Hunting’ Matt Damon plays a character with a special ability for what subject? Q. 17: The British 7th Armoured Division got which nickname during their African campaign in WWII? a) jungle tigers b) desert rats c) mountain foxes Q. 18: In the 2012 Summer Olympic games competitors took part in how many sports? Q. 19: Martin Landau won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing which horror movie star in the movie ‘Ed Wood’? a) Bela Lugosi b) Lon Chaney, Jr. C) Boris Karloff Q. 20: Which female singer/songwriter wants to, according to the title of one of her singles, ‘Soak Up The Sun’? A. 1: b) tablespoon. A. 2: Ocean’s Twelve. A. 3: Ireland. A. 4: Dentist. A. 5: a) Bhutan. A. 6: Nap. A. 7: A building. A. 8: b) Oyster A. 9: Lotus Esprit. A. 10: d) A Whirlpool A. 11: Society of Worldwide Interbank Financial Communication. A. 12: c) United States. A. 13: b) Ox A. 14: Power. A. 15: b) spectacles. A. 16: Mathematics. A. 17: b) desert rats. Q. 18: In the 2012 Summer Olympic games, competitors took part in how many sports? A. 18: 26. A. 19: a) Bela Lugosi. A. 20: Sheryl Crowe.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1199
__label__cc	0.6952	0.3048	School of Fashion Nine Graduate Students Present Collections at CFDA Fashion Future Graduate Showcase in NYC The Art of Identity Chime For Change: To Gather Together Preview: Kimono Refashioned exhibit Gladys Perint Palmer Collaborates With Talbots To Showcase The Power Of Femininity. Today at Apple: Fashion Styling Photo Lab on April 4 The Premiere of Issue 9 of 180 Magazine and Launch of OneEightyMagazine.com 180 Magazine Issue 8 is Now Available! Fashion Editorial: Fantastic Planet Fashion Editorial: Inspired by Frank Stella Fashion Editorial: Teddy Boys Press Releases & News Announcements School of Fashion Annual Portfolio Review, Graduation Fashion Show and Awards Ceremony Academy of Art University Spring 2019 & Fall 2019 Menswear and Womenswear Collections Academy of Art University at New York Fashion Week SS2019 Pre-Show Press Release Friday Box Office How do you choose the perfect finale? How to say goodbye with a movie? Much head scratching has happened with the search for the perfect ending to our brief chapter together in Movieland. Whether this one is the perfect finale, I don’t know. I couldn’t make a decision just thinking about the movies themselves, so I stopped thinking about movies and thought about the reason for doing this in the first place. The more we absorb, the more we have in the “mind bank” to work with and the more we grow. It’s as simple as that. “Now Voyager”(1942), directed by Irving Rapper, is about transformation, growth, and it’s about yearning, too. The yearning for love and the possibility of becoming the best possible version of oneself (reminds me of a George Eliot quote, ”It’s never too late to become what you might have been.”) Charlotte (Bette Davis) is a dowdy and frustrated spinster, desperate to be free from her tyrannical mother. With a push from her sister, she escapes to a sanitarium run by Claude Rains (very visible in this role), who aids her recovery and transformation. With her growing confidence come hairdos, make-up, couture, and a love affair aboard a cruise ship. You too should be yearning to grow and blossom into the best versions of yourselves, like the Whitman poem “Leaves of Grass”, from which the movie’s title comes. (Now, Voyager, sail thou forth to seek and find…) Max Steiner’s score certainly helps us yearn. It’s delicious! I listened, I downloaded. The final scene is one of the most immortal in all cinema history, and has been copied and referenced countless times: ”And will you be happy, Charlotte?” “Oh Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We have the stars.” (soaring strings ensue until close). This week I’ll be “getting a cat and a parrot and living alone in single blessedness” and hoping that we added to your “mind-bank” of references, or at least diverted your emotions for 90 minutes or so, each week…just for the sheer, irresistible, goddamn, glamour of it all. Check out the above clip for “Now, Voyager” and for more “Friday Box Offices” by Rob Curry, click here“ Black History Month: Fashion Icons · December 11, 2018 Behind the Creative Process Fashion Journalism 6 Must-Have Books For A Rising Fashion Professional Previous Holiday Gift Guide: Men’s Wear Next Academy Award: 2014 YMA Fashion Scholarship Winners Knitwear Design: Balancing Creativity with Technicality School Of Fashion Teams Up With The Root Collective Creating More Than Window Displays Turning ‘Happy Accidents’ into Opportunities The official blog for Academy of Art University School of Fashion. Inspiration, style sensibility, student work, and more. Would you like more information about the School of Fashion at Academy of Art University? © Copyright 2019 Academy of Art University. San Francisco Academy of Art University Fashion School of Fashion Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1200
__label__wiki	0.533776	0.533776	Free-For-All Thread XIV: Locka Rolla Go to page Previous 1 ... 736, 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742 ... 827 Next Well, every coin has two sides, doesn't it? I just wish people could understand that tragic things can sometimes in a way be funny. You wish this girl would laugh at the death of her grandmother so then you'd've "gotten with" her? Because that's totally what you implied with that sentence. I don't really think he meant that, Bastard..... It sounded more like a general statement to me. That last post of his definitely reads like he's frustrated that the timing was bad, which is fair enough I guess in a selfish way that's human and relatable, but tact certainly isn't his strong point is what I'm saying. bassistneededlolnot That's totally not what that sentence stated. Calm your tits. I just meant that hopefully people can understand how laughing at the irony of a bad situation is entirely different than laughing at someone's misfortune. Basically. Comes off as quite immature really. sortalikeadream Subrosa. So fucking good--have not had such an affinity for a recently released metal album in quite some time. John_Sunlight wrote: Also to the guy who won't check out something amateurish: how are you into metal?? dystopia4 Thumbman Yeah that last album was so good. I like how they took a big risk with "House Carpenter". Have you heard their earlier stuff, and if so is it worth checking out? There's nothing immature about how I handled the situation, or even selfish as Bastardhead suggested. I patiently waited for her to come back outside, she told me she wasn't capable of doing much for the rest of the day, and I respected her decision without bitching about it or even showing a hint of frustration. Feel free to explain the selfishness in that. Am I really expected to grieve over the death of someone I know literally nothing about? Yeah, I was frustrated, but I put effort into understanding her situation and empathized. Fuuuuuuuck off. Subrick Subrick wrote: http://lagometal.bigcartel.com/ Here they sell their EP, along with shirts and a coffee mug. There's also Bandcamp for the demo they just put out. http://lagometal.bandcamp.com/ Good shit here, guess it's worth reading your ten zillion posts a day on the chance you'll namedrop something awesome I'm very big on dropping the names of bands I feel need more exposure. Also, you finding anything of value in those Sorrowseed links I sent you? Earthcubed wrote: I'm just perpetually annoyed by Sean William Scott and he's never been in a movie where I wasn't rooting for his head to sever by strange means. Blacksoul Seraphim Gothic Doom Metal Autumn's Ashes Melodic Death/Doom Metal dystopia4 wrote: Aw yea. That one just came on. Fucking love it! Kind of reminds of this song, both being rooted in traditional folk and contrasting with the rest of the album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfZEeXGkyHM I haven't checked out any of their earlier work. You handled yourself just fine based on what you said, but the shpiel we here at MA got afterwards was pretty shitty. And selfishness isn't something to be proud of, obviously, but simply pointing out that wishing certain things went differently so you would have potentially gained something is the very definition of selfish is not me condemning you. I'm selfish all the time, that's why I said it's human. That's not the part I'm calling out as dickish, it's the line about wishing she could see the humor in a family member's death so that way she wouldn't have been sad and your streak of bad luck and poor timing wouldn't have continued. Yeah yeah it was a general statement, sure, whatever, but you said it in response to this situation and you can't deny that where I'm coming from, this makes you look like kind of a douche. Re: Subrick: I uhh... haven't gotten to it yet . I was busy with Warhawk (who sent me their demo the same day as you), and now I've been doing the year-end stuff for my blog. It's a busy time of year for me when it comes to non-internetical stuff anyway (plus I'm working six days a week now), so I'll get to it soon, and I'll let you know what I think. sabbathfan4993 Location: Champaign, Illinois The new Ignivomous was way better than the Horrendous album which admittedly is still very good. I think it's a bit unwarranted to say these throwback death metal bands are just ripping off the classics. The newer bands have a recognizable kind of murky sound that wasn't as pronounced in the death metal of 20 years ago. They aren't reinventing the wheel but it's not right to immediately dismiss all of it like I've seen some people do. FOZZY MADE A GOOD ALBUM?! Yeah, that album is actually pretty good. Their newest one is good too, but it does fall a bit victim to some dumbing down (see that song with the A7X singer with the really shitty music video). Aside from that song though, it's a good album that's a good mix of Ozzy-style metal and radio rock. Calusari Figures, I decide to stay offline for a day and there's a death metal discussion. Anyway, sorry if the conversation's starting to move on - I have to throw in my two cents, otherwise I'll explode. Yes! Thank you! Someone else has heard of this band. I couldn't possibly decide on a favourite death metal album, but some top candidates for me would include Disincarnate's "Dreams of the Carrion Kind", Gorguts' "Considered Dead" (just has the edge (hahaha... come on... no?) over "Edge of Insanity", Moondark's "The Shadowpath", Nerlich's "Defabricated Process", Obituary's "World Demise", Rottrevore's "Iniquitous" and Undergang's two albums. I'd have thrown in Demilich, but I haven't listened to that one in a while. Egads... the more I think about this, the longer this is getting. This was meant to be a quick mention of one or two albums. Now, to listen to MA's discography again - I recall preferring Altars, but it's been years, frankly, since I've really listened to any of them. Under_Starmere Abhorrent Fish-Man Binah does look like a good find. Will have to sample more. Really nice logo they've got. Also, just discovered Ataraxy and Venenum. Thanks YouTube. Visual Art: The Illuminated Night Drone: IA – Four full releases now available! Shop: House of the Black Wolf Just got into Ataraxy today, thanks to that 'Best Albums of 2012' thread. Can't believe I missed that release. Revelations of the Ethereal does sound very promising. Venenum also has a really nicely developed sound for only having one EP under their belt (wormeaten robe?...). Definitely will be looking forward to their full-length, if one ever emerges. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8hanqiD3w8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zWdDuz ... =endscreen Man, this is incredible stuff. Love the tape degradation on these rips, too, it adds that much more to the sound. All their artwork seems to be absolutely top-notch as well. An impressive project! Damn, I'm late to an Immolation discussion. Shadows in the Light is mediocre? Listen to that riff in Lying With Demons and die. It's not one of their strongest, but I've come to like it more than Harnessing Ruin and Majesty And Decay. Being perhaps the third weakest album, it's "only" a pretty damn excellent album. Ilwhyan speaks the truth, and Necro is weak But yeah, Shadows in the Light is as solid as a diamond. Maybe it's not as insanely great as Unholy Cult or Close to a World Below, but it's still is a very catchy and brutal piece of death metal with all of the signature Immolation quirks. I just wish the drums (and especially the bass drums) had a more organic sound in SITL. Xlxlx wrote: I just wish the drums (and especially the bass drums) had a more organic sound in SITL. Quite true. It's fairly sterile as far as Immolation productions go. The band has unfortunately favoured this approach on the last couple of releases. One reason is apparently that Vigna considers Harnessing Ruin to be a far better piece than it's recognised as by fans, and seems to think the fault is in the album's production. Numerator_41 Prepare yourselves for 90's sxe Jewish metalcore with lyrics about the Holocaust. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjQVBptt5Eg SatanSmells wrote: FUKK YOU WHO FUKKING KARES I do think that Harnessing Ruin would be significantly improved by a superior production job, though it's still a fairly weak album as far as Immolation's standards go. It's a shame that Vigna thinks that way, though the rather lifeless drum production never detracts massively from the newest records. I still wish they got rid of it, though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation ... VR4HJ3OAhs Another awesome old school death metal act. Funeral Age from America. I actually consider Shadows in the Light to be just about up there with Close to a World Below and Here in After. It may be a bit more accessible but some of my favorite guitar work from Vigna is on there plus Dolan sounds like an absolute beast. I definitely think Majesty and Decay has been their worst so far but even that would still get an 80/100 or so from me. Also, thanks to whoever it was who mentioned Venenum. This is some top-notch stuff. Harnessing Ruin and Shadows in the Light are the only two Immolation albums I haven't heard, and they're the two getting namedropped the most over these last few pages. I know it's the cliche answer but Close to a World Below is currently my favorite, with Unholy Cult right behind. There's something about the sloppy cacophony that I just adore about those, it sounds like Alex Hernandez is trying to hit every single drum head at the same time during each blast beat, it's great. I wish Alex Hernandez would've stuck with them, as he's a fantastic drummer. Very flashy and technical, but in a cool, "wank free" way. The 2012 Beherit EP is great. The moron who said it's monotonous and gave it 40% obviously doesn't get it Beherit. Definitely on my year's best of list. Listened to Subrosa's 2006 album "The Worm has Turned" (demo, some tracks rerecorded for Strega). Now I'm on 2008's Strega, and you can see how the band has gradually refined their art to the point of "No Help For the Mighty Ones." If you like that you might as well as least give the other stuff a cursory glance--I think you'll be able to tell whether it's for you before the first song on either album ends. edit: the demo is a demo, a historical curiosity. But Strega is fucking awesome, at least on a stoned first listen. These tracks stood out: Sugar Creek, Self-Rule (Bandcamp, 'cause this song's apparently not on Youtube) and Cradles. Last edited by sortalikeadream on Sat Dec 29, 2012 2:43 pm, edited 2 times in total. Necroticism174 Kite String Popper You know, I was wondering about that. I just noticed they released something this year a few days ago and was undecided on wether I should listen to it. theposaga about a Moonblood rehearsal wrote: So good. Makes me want to break up with my girlfriend, quit my job and never move out of my parents house. Just totally destroy my life for Satan. http://halberddoom.bandcamp.com/releases Yeah. Celebrate the Dead is a great track. Best of 2012 for me too. Despised by 17 Corners of the Universe Fucking hell, filesharing websites. You dont have to pull uploads of bedroom black metal releases limited to 15 fucking copies. I cant find this shit anywhere now. Don't talk to Crick. The_Beast_In_Black wrote: Hehe, foreskins. Was that song supposed to be evidence that the album is good? It wasn't awful, but it was pretty dull. Well, I understand it if you don't like it, Mr. USPM-is-the-only-good-kind-of-heavy-metal I do find Chasing the Grail to be significantly superior in comparison to what I heard from this band in the past (who I dismissed mostly as a gimmick). Maybe the vocals are slightly processed and the riffing could be a bit meatier, but it's a cool listen, nonetheless. You know I also love USPM, so please don't smite me for this Eh, I thought that was rather painful. Prior to listening to that I hadn't once heard anything by Fozzy, but if that's their best material, they're pretty shite. Says the guy who once stated that my taste "isn't entirely horrible" Nah, we're cool Ilwhyan, though I sometimes don't get you The only cool part of that was the solo section and the bit immediately following it. Twin_guitar_attack Weirdly enough I seem to study best while listening to grindcore, even a bit better than with ambient music. No idea why, it just works. Managed to write over a thousand words and finish my last essay in just a few hours, with all my grindcore set to shuffle. https://www.last.fm/user/tetravassafor You should definitely check out more Binah, the whole album (for a debut) is a gargantuan, atmospheric, oppressive beast. Bloody excellent. Venenum is a band I though (too late now) of reccing to you, but hey, you've found them now. Another quality release, had the EP for some time, and rate it very highly. Page 739 of 827 [ 33075 posts ]	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1217
__label__wiki	0.571956	0.571956	bit-tech.net Forums Forums > Technology > Software > Windows Windows 8 Marmite thread... Because you either love it or hate it Discussion in 'Software' started by TheStockBroker, 28 Feb 2012. Windows 8: what is your opinion? Love it: I'm already using it or planning to do so. Hate it: this evil spawn of Satan will never defile the sanctity of my computer. It's OK with a Start Menu replacement and while bypassing Metro. Uncle Psychosis Classically Trained Corky42 said: ↑ Don't tell Nadella that, all those marketing boys & girls will be out of a job if he finds out. With rumors of big job cuts coming they have to be seen to be doing something. No longer rumours. 18,000 job cuts. 12,500 from their Nokia division. I guess those Windows phones are flying off the shelves. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2014/jul14/07-17announcement1.aspx Uncle Psychosis, 17 Jul 2014 impar Well-Known Member There goes Nokia X... impar, 17 Jul 2014 theshadow2001 [DELETE] means [DELETE] Nexxo said: ↑ Could have, if Microsoft had not been utter 'tards about it and left the desktop open. When my Windows RT tablet was jailbroken (before Microsoft screwed that with RT 8.1 update) it ran pretty much anything that was ported to ARM without problem. Audacity, Paint.net, Quake I to III, you name it, it ran it. RT could have been a great lightweight alternative if they had just let publishers release ARM versions of their software (like they also release 32-bit and 64-bit versions). The Surface RT would have sold like hotcakes. But this is Microsoft... And Microsoft really needs to work on visually integrating Metro and the desktop GUI if they want to blend it seamlessly. Even Android L is not only copying Metro's flat design, but improving on it. Time Nadella hired some proper graphic designers and stopped arsing about writing long, laboured memos about Microsoft's "new direction". Just focus on getting the basics right: a good, slick-looking OS that is a joy to use, and the rest will follow. I'm not so sure. It seems RT was just a straight architecture port of windows with a bit of optimisation. Just because it's running on arm doesn't make it a light weight OS all of a sudden. My guess is once you load it up with desktop software (if you were allowed to) it would run just like any other windows install on low powered hardware. Could be why they locked the desktop out in the first place. The metro stuff is designed from the ground up to be suited for such devices. The desktop not so much. theshadow2001, 18 Jul 2014 Nexxo Queue Jumper True, but publishers could make the decision what software to release for RT. And with the new ARM chips being insanely powerful it would not have been a problem. Nexxo, 18 Jul 2014 Rumor: Windows 8.1 Update 2 coming August 12—sans Start menu Update 2 was originally going to include the new Start Menu, but Microsoft decided to pull the feature and save it for Threshold. Update 2 will include no new features, and will most likely be preparing for Threshold when it launches in 2015. http://techreport.com/news/26808/rumor-windows-8-1-update-2-coming-august-12-sans-start-menu Corky42 Where's walle? Saving the return of the start menu for Windows 9 was almost a given, they have to have something to take the attention away from the new DRM system. Corky42, 22 Jul 2014 Nadella talks about Windows vNext, one converged operating system http://www.neowin.net/news/nadella-talks-about-windows-vnext-one-converged-operating-system koola Banned converged operating system koola, 24 Jul 2014 loftie Well-Known Member So you'd have MS stick to Windows, Windows RT and Windows Phone? loftie, 24 Jul 2014 The core of that operating system is now used in Windows Phone, Xbox One, Windows and Windows RT tablets, Windows PCs, and Windows Server systems. The operating system isn't completely identical across all of those variants—the phone and console both have special user interfaces, for example—but core features like the kernel, security model, and major APIs are the same. http://arstechnica.com/information-...operating-system-aint-new-and-wont-be-one-os/ IMHO most people/web sites jumped on the part when Nadella said "converged operating system" and assumed we would all be using the exact same OS on everything, they missed the part later on when he elaborated on what he meant by "converged operating system" ZDNet's MJ Foley gives a good explanation (imho) 1. A single team developing all Windows variants. This team has been in place since July 2013 when Microsoft created the unified Operating System Group under Terry Myerson. This team works on the Windows Phone OS, Windows Embedded, Windows (for PCs and tablets) and the Xbox One operating systems. 2. A single "core." Windows Phone, Windows 8, Windows RT and Windows Server are all built on top of a common "core," known as the NT core. Because of Microsoft's layered architectural approach, each OS builds on top of this core using different pieces that make sense for the form factor/hardware on which it runs. 3. A unified Store and commerce model across all platforms. Microsoft has taken steps toward unifying its Windows Phone Store and Windows Store over the past year. But it still has a ways to go to reach the holy grail: A single store that spans all platforms. The next major versions of Windows Phone and Windows (both codenamed Threshold) may be where a single Store debuts. I am not sure when Xbox apps will be added to that Store. 4. A unified developer platform. Microsoft execs have been promising for years that one day, developers will be able to write once and run on any Windows variant. To get there, Microsoft is working to unify, as much as possible, the core set of application programming interfaces (APIs) and the developer tooling for building apps for Windows Phone, Windows and the Xbox operating system. Microsoft has many of the pieces in place now that allow Windows and Windows Phone developers to reuse more of their code when writing what are called "Universal Windows apps." IMHO most people/web sites jumped on the part when Nadella said "converged operating system" and assumed we would all be using the exact same OS on everything, they missed the part later on when he elaborated on what he meant by "converged operating system" Yea, this is what I was seeing and also assumed it were true. Thanks for clearing that up people. loftie said: ↑ Yes, but innovate more not merely follow competitors. Windows RT should be renamed Windows Touch exclusively on tablets with no X86 touch versions. Windows RT wasn't a bad product, it just didn't get the full support from Microsoft it so badly needed. Windows phone needs better hardware software synergy as current implementations fall far too short of the competition. I think it's funny that after Nadella's "cloud first, mobile first" speech he is doing just the opposite of what he should be doing to make that vision a reality. Cloud first? How about getting a decent music service going, which is one of the prime mobile cloud services. The Zune team made one of the best music app and device combinations in the world. It was better than iTunes. Microsoft canned it. Now we have... XBox music. But no fear: Nokia's MixRadio is a great application. Oh, wait, we're getting rid of that team. In fact, Nokia has made some excellent Windows Phone apps... No, wait, that team is going too. And Nokia makes some excellent mobile hardware... uh, OK, that team is going also. So what is Microsoft doing to strenghten its position with regards the competition? Oh, it created Office Touch for iPad, and Android. Yay! But... not for Windows. And it's own Surface Mini has been canned because of that. Right. And Windows 9 so far looks like it still has the same inconsistent chrome between WinRT and Win32 applications. Google meanwhile has just out-Metro'd Metro with Android L and is converging it with Chrome. It's a good thing though, that Microsoft spent millions in advertising explaining just how bad Chromebook is, so that everybody now knows what a Chromebook is. supermonkey Deal with it At this point it's almost too late. Everyone knows about iTunes (which works across platforms) while Google and Amazon have a head start with their respective music services (I believe Amazon's service is also cross-platform). Beyond that, you have services such as Pandora and Spotify which offer people all the music they could possibly want, for free if you're ok with the occasional short ad. supermonkey, 25 Jul 2014 Microsoft wants you to forget Windows 8 Look to Vista for how Redmond will treat Windows 8 as it moves on to the next bright, shiny OS Unless the Redmond, Wash. technology company radically changes its habits, it will throw Windows 8 down a memory hole even before the successor ships. Just like it made Vista persona non grata in its official messaging in 2009, it will shove Windows 8 so far into the background that we'll need the Hubble telescope to find it. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9249971/Microsoft_wants_you_to_forget_Windows_8 GoodBytes How many wifi's does it have? impar said: ↑ No they don't. This article is full of assumptions, based on silly guess works. The only times that Microsoft wanted you to forget about one of their product is the Zune and Windows Me, which has been pulled from all marketing materials, off the website, despite the product being released (at the time) and available for purchase, unless you explicit look for it. This is really not the case. Vista isn't even getting that treatment. Please use your head, next time. And stop trying to search the far edge of the Internet for Windows bashing articles. GoodBytes, 28 Jul 2014 GoodBytes said: ↑ Isnt? Nope. Microsoft does mention Vista in some marketing materials. For example, at the release of Windows 8, I believed or was it BUILD event that showed Windows 8, either way, they were showing all the company products since it's creation. Windows Me and Zune was not showed. Vista was. 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__label__cc	0.727604	0.272396	Dining on Crow and Humble Pie this Weekend.... By NewColtsFan, April 27 in Colts Football In my 7 years here, I don't recall being more wrong than I have today. And I'm OK with it. I never think I know more than Ballard. I have complete trust in CB, and it would take a long string of failure for me to lose it. And I don't see that happening. As I've said before, he just oozes competence and professionalism. So glad he's our GM. But to all my mistakes. We can start at the beginning... for roughly 6 months I've been convinced we'd pick a DL in the first round, and for a fair amount of those months, I thought we'd double up and take another DL at pick 34. Wrong and Wrong! And I certainly never saw our first overall pick of the draft being a cornerback?! Cornerback?!? Wrong again! I guess Ballard's definition of "Premium position" is limited only to the first round. Ballard has now had 3 drafts and take a corner in the 2nd round twice. Can't be a coincidence. I would've thought that a top-50 pick would be premium. Wrong again! So, for those posters who I have pounded on, trust me, it will STOP from here on out. After R1, I guess anything is possible. At pick 49, I didn't see Ben Benogu going that high. And I posted here that I thought he'd play DE for us. And then the Colts called him an OLB. And Kevin Bowen said we talked to him about playing next to Darius Leonard. At his presser, Ballard said BB can play all 3 LB spots, plus DE and could even kick inside to DT. Called him a "rusher". They're very high on him. Tested as a top athlete for his size. At pick 59, I wasn't surprised we went WR. But I had no feel for whether we'd go tall like Butler, or small like Isabella, or someone in the middle? No idea. Ballard and Reich gushed over Parris. And, even as a Stanford fan, I confess to being surprised at Bobby Okereke going at pick 89. I posted in the last month or two, that I thought Bobby was a quality back-up, but wasn't sure he was a starter, especially for us since I think he'd play the same spot as Darius at WILL. I thought he might be a R4 or R5 guy. But tonight. CB says Okereke can play all three spots, which surprised me. Bobby has been mostly an under-achiever at Stanford. Even this year, his best, people were not wowed by him. He was listed at 6'3" and 235, and those close to the program chuckled all the time about that. They claimed he was neither that tall, nor that heavy. And then he showed up at the Combine and under 6'2", so he was shorter, but weighed 239. That shocked everyone. I'd guess he put on 8-12 pounds of good lean muscle after the season. That also surprised the Stanford community. He tested surprisingly well at the combine and pro day. And Ballard seems very high on him. Ballard talked tonight about adding, speed and athleticism. He and Frank seem very happy with their results. They gave no hints for tomorrow. I'm eating crow. A little garlic salt helps! Washing it down with water. Topping it off with some Humble Pie! Bon Appetite! 7 minutes ago, NewColtsFan said: Yeah, I said early he may take a CB first because they may fall to us, and it happened. Sometimes logic, and adapting to the draft, are the things that win out in the end. In any case, I'm glad Ballard beat the Cornerback run, and enjoy that crow! I think it's fair to say, you're not the only one that was wrong. All the experts were wrong. Most fans were wrong. I'll never be a guy who thinks a GM is omnipotent until he has a solid track record of 5+ years........, so I have no problem saying this draft was pretty meh. It had many chances to be much better. I'll just be happy with what I can be happy with, be optimistic that the picks that I like will do well, and hope the picks that I don't like will prove me wrong. @NewColtsFan good post. Noone here can be perfect with our assumptions when we don't have perfect information of what Ballard/the league is thinking. We can only strive to get better with our understanding of what Ballard is trying to do and every free agency period and every draft gives us more and more sample to form a coherent strategy. One of the reasons I thought CB early was an option is precisely because I didn't think the sample of 2 drafts is enough to conclude what he likes or doesn't like so I ended up prioritizing other information we have(his background, his hirings in personnel(Dodds), him drafting a prototypical single high safety, etc) Anyways... I wanted to point out something about Okereke. Our system relies heavily on athleticism and on our LBs being extremely fast and flying all over the field. IMO weight is not very important for our system. Just an example - last year Leonard measured at 234 at the combine. LBs almost always bulk up for the combine, because they think more teams will consider them for their team if they have a more universal for the league size for the position. Last month Leonard shared with Indy media that he played last season at about 220 and that he wants to be in that 220-225 range for next season too and that the speed is more important for him in this system. My point is... even for MIKE and SAM IMO the premium is on speed, rather than on ability to fight the hog mollies in the run game. This is why I loved both him and Okereke for us. Just like Ballard said - they can play both WILL and MIKE and even SAM if for some reason we need them to. IMO Okereke will drop to the 220-225 range too and will not have a problem playing at that weight at MIKE and WILL. cbear 732 1 hour ago, NewColtsFan said: NCF, I thought Ya-Sin and Campbell were GREAT picks. Ben and Bobby.....not so much. But I'll gladly and happily join you at the table a few months from now. Right now though, as hard as I'm trying to find game tapes from last year that might make me feel better about those two, well, I'm not sure the naysayers are wrong this time. Banogu especially looks terrible as a #2 pick pass rusher (though I was a bit relieved to hear CB say he might be used in other ways). We'll see.... akcolt 2,563 I’m at the table with you NCF. I never thought we’d go CB with the first pick even with it being at the top of the 2nd. I was happy to see Ballard and Co add to what I thought was a thin group of LB’s. Although BB was a head scratcher for me I am interested to see how we use him. I can’t wait to see what happens tomorrow. There are some guys still out there on DL I thought we’d have interest in. Omenihu and Wren for sure then Jackson Jelks and Crosby are still there. Crosby had a good showing at the combine. I like him and JJ probably more then most We can still have big name options at S with Thompson, Hooker and maybe the biggest surprise for me Gardner-Johnson all available. Man I mocked GJ to us at 34 and he’s still there day 3. I’d still love to get him but what am I missing? I like what’s still available and I really like that we have 2 picks in the 4th and 5th rounds tomorrow. 7 minutes ago, akcolt said: I don't know what it is, but there appears to be some negative buzz about GJ... perhaps attitude or character? Not quite sure.... One thing I did/do like about our approach. Defense! Defense! And more defense! I was hoping for at least three defensive picks out of four, and that happened. Great. Defense travels. Defense works on the road, and it works in the winter when weather plays a factor. I'm still hoping for more defense on Day 3, (but some offense, too) and I'm sure I'll want some offense next year as well. We are not done! 2006Coltsbestever 21,353 @NewColtsFan, I did not have us taking any of the guys we have taken either. I think most of us are surprised with the draft so far but Ballard is unpredictable. Having said that I like it so far, I had to go bed early last night so I just seen we took Campbell at 59 which is a good pick. We also now have LB depth and potentially a solid CB. We will just have to wait and see how these guys pan out but the potential is there with the guys we have taken. 4 minutes ago, 2006Coltsbestever said: I knew we were taking Banogu before the draft and was very high on him. Rock Ya-Sin and Parris Campbell were my 3rd favorites WR and CB. I heard of our 3rd rounder (won't spoil him to you), and was mocking him to us later in mocks. He has a great comparison. Also an extra 5th this year and 2nd next year. Ballard predicted the runs at cb and wr and we did well. Check out the press conference! 5 minutes ago, Jared Cisneros said: I can't wait to see Campbell on our carpet in Indy. He is lightning fast. Stick him in the slot along with TY and Funch and Ebron. Rally5 531 4 hours ago, Jared Cisneros said: 4 hours ago, NewColtsFan said: Ahh, no need for this, predictions are all for fun, nobody actually knows who or what will be drafted, at best you get lucky. I was completely wrong on Oline and Dline, so allow me to dine with you! I do assume you have some sort of income not related to predicting draft picks? That said, I'm a massive Ballard fan and I like these picks but I'm not sure I love them, it does raise some questions like: 1. Are any of these guys starters? I'm not so sure, I see some freakish athleticism but not sure we drafted a started today, maybe Ra-Sin. Keep in mind we drafted two guys who are not scheme fits in Ra-Sin and Bangoku, can they learn, I'm sure. 2. Did we give up too much in trading back in round one? 3. We have some great athletes that will have to figure out how to play differently and we need to figure out how to use them which doesn't scream starter to me. I only mention that in the context of we usually think of the first two or three picks as bonafide starters and these guys may not be that. Perhaps our roster is so good at the moment that we don't draft sure fire starters anymore. We could have a nickel corner that matches up with TE's, we could have a pass rush guy, a backup LB and a third-down slot receiver. I watched a ton of tape on the LB from Stanford, there's a ton of his game tape on YouTube and like you, I wasn't impressed. I don't see what they see in that guy, I'll be honest. He had a ton of miss reads and got lost in space a lot, you can call me skeptical on that particular pick. Again, I 'm not being overly critical, I don't know more than Ballard, I trust this team to choose wisely. The fan in me woke up this morning with these thoughts rattling around in my vacuous head. I do look forward to seeing them fly around the field this year, we definitely got faster and more athletic which is very good!!!! If the 2nd rounders pan out, Ballard will be known as the king of the 2nd rounders . dodsworth 947 Ballard preaches line play, line play, line play then picks a cornerback, line backer, wide receiver then follows that up with another linebacker. I haven't a clue what this guy will do with future picks? This is a dump off and check down league anymore, so I guess his thinking is to find players that can defend against the dinking and dunking that is prevalent in today's game. We all thought we had it figured out what he was going to do in this draft Newcoltsfan, until he did a 180 degree turn. One thing I won't do is question his eye for talent though. DougDew 3,095 OK, so you were wrong about who Ballard would draft, but all three could be busts or underachievers, so there's that. wig 898 Hate to break it to you, but Ballard would take a corner at 26 if the situation were slightly different. You seem to think a corner in the first is some sort of boogeyman. He doesn't. Breeze 42 I think what’s very indicative of Ballard’s talent for finding gems is that after 3 years, even the most negative posters on this board have been very tepid in their criticism, if any, of this years picks so far. MikeCurtis 1,233 5 hours ago, Irish YJ said: Yep...... I think that Simmons coming off the board early messed up MANY of our expectations (As well as the "experts") I expected a WR in rounds 2-3. Surprised by a CB in round 2, I saw value in round 3-4 Expected at least 1 DL in rounds 1-2 Expected a SS in round 2 Oh well....... hit some.... missed some....... Happy with the draft so far........ I hope one of the SS left on the board, slides to us 14 minutes ago, dodsworth said: That is the beauty of it. He doesn't want anyone to know what he is doing and I do not blame him. It is strategy and not letting other GM's know where he is leaning. I love his unpredictability. A lot of fans probably do not because they have their favorite college picks and mocks but I love it. 5 hours ago, cbear said: Aint nothing terrible about Banogu. Banogu is a tough ball player and he put up the same sack numbers as Burns who im sure you would have jumped for joy if we got in Rd 1. And he did this on more than one occasion. And what i like best is Banogu is way better than Burns against the run. He runs a 4.5 so hes fast also. Banogu brings value to the table. Predictions are always fun to me. Sometimes you are right and sometimes you are way off. I have had both happen to me a lot but that is a part of predicting. I have read many posts before the draft that cornerback isn't a high priority in the Colts defensive system and can get by with marginal talent. Then Ballard goes and spends our first pick on a cornerback. The guy would make one heckuva poker player for sure when almost everyone thought he would go trenches early. Matthew Gilbert 310 I knew we were taking Banogu before the draft and was very high on him Really? Tell me more. 1 hour ago, Rally5 said: Exactly why would Banogu and Yasin not be scheme fits? They fit just fine. Fit is a word Ballard uses all the time. Its important to him. He doesnt bring guys in who dont fit what we do in our schemes. Hes been known to say i would never force a player on our coaches. The player has to fit how we want to play. And besides this ive watched the film and i see no issues. Both of them fit. 1 minute ago, Matthew Gilbert said: We had multiple meetings with him i do believe. Doesnt guarantee anything though. 1 minute ago, krunk said: 5 minutes ago, dodsworth said: maybe they dont want to play cover two all the time, but had to because of the guys we had. 10 minutes ago, Matthew Gilbert said: Don't skip over him knowing the 3rd rd pick but not wanting to spoil us. BigQungus 49 He was high on Ben Banogu before the draft. I was reading the thread about us trading back, and Jared said after Day 1 Now let's go get Ben Banogu. What I'm confused about is him "not spoiling" the 3rd round pick when they already announced it... MFT5 382 hate the ppl on here that act like they know everything til they end up being hella wrong. ppl w common sense aren’t surprised at this draft at all. Ballard picks fast athletes w upside. 37 minutes ago, krunk said: He fits our culture, not our schemes. If you watch Banogu for example, he plays as a 3-4 LB and a DE who at times goes inside to DT and we're going to play him as a 4-3 backer. Do you see that as a natural fit, if you do then we have different definitions of the term. Ballard sees an athletic guy, so do I, who is a great cultural fit that we need to find a way to use, which we will but he's not a natural scheme fit by any means. Yasin, I have already explained. He's a press cover corner and we play Cover 2 zone, so he has to learn to play zone and we may incorporate some press man into our defense. So that's what I'm saying. Both guys, accordingly to Ballard, are great culture fits who bring the athleticism we're looking for but they will have a lot of adjusting to do..a lot. Try not to be offended by my opinion its grounded in fact and I'm not suggesting they were bad picks, so be cool. 6 minutes ago, Rally5 said: He fits our culture, not our schemes. If you watch Banogu for example, he plays as a 3-4 LB and and a DE who at times goes inside to DT and we're going to play him as a 4-3 backer. Do you see that as a natural fit, if you do then we have different definitions fo the term. Ballard sees an athletic guy, so do I, who is a great cultural fit that we need to find a way to use, which we will but he's not a natural scheme fit by any means. Yasin, I have already explained. He's a press cover corner and we play Cover 2 zone, so he has to learn to play zome and we may incorporate some press man into our defense. So that's what I'm saying. Both guys, accordingly to Ballard, are great culture fits who bring the athleticism we're looking for but they will have a lot of adjusting to do..a lot. Try not to be offended by my opinion is grounded in fact and I'm not suggesting they were bad picks, so be cool. Yasin fits what we are looking to do in 2019 which is play a bit more man coverage with our zones. He has no issues with tackling, and they certainly would not have brought him here if they didnt feel he couldnt play zone. Banogu they have talked about him playing some Sam in our scheme so hed be standing up like he did at TCU. He will be pass rushing also im sure which isnt much of a transition. Just now, krunk said: Ya, I agree, both guys will be learning and adjusting to that, right? Meaning it's not what they've done but doesn't mean that can't, or won't and that's where the character comes in to play. Call us aligned. 1 minute ago, Rally5 said: Ya, I agree, both guys will be learning and adjusting to that, right? Meaning it's not whatif they've done but doesn't mean that can't, or won't and that's where the character comes in to play. Call us aligned. If there are fit issues you bring in guys whose transition is small scale. Not a huge transition to where it blocks them from success. 1 hour ago, dodsworth said: speed is what matters ppl that aren’t oblivious and old school put the puzzle together easily I didn’t think we would go CB that early either. But seeing who we picked it makes sense. It gives us a CB on the outside we don’t have. We can play some man to man if we want to switch it up with him being so physical. 1 hour ago, krunk said: The issue with BB is that he tended to get his numbers the same way Jerry Hughes got them at TCU, sort of using the speed to run fast around the undermatched OT. It took Jerry a while to figure out other things. BB seems to have tested well on athletic tests at the combine which raised his stock. Which points to the idea that despite that tested athleticism, it took a combine test to notice it because it wasn't as evident on play tape. I put BB and the Stanford Backer into the same description as Turay. They test well athletically, but need polish. And Ya-Sin seems eerily similar to Quincy Wilson, but maybe with better mental make-up. Leonard and Smith both seemed more plug n play ready, by comparison. JMO Buck Showalter 3,800 If there's anything I've learned from watching the Colts draft over the course of the Polian & Grigson eras, & now under Ballard, it is that there are likely gonna be some surprises come draft day... OffensivelyPC 5,347 In your defense, I seem to recall Ballard saying the pundits have it all wrong, talking about prospect rankings. He turned out to be right. There were a lot of surprises, seemed to me to be more than usual. 10 minutes ago, DougDew said: I put BB and the Stanford Backer into the same description as Turay. They need polish. And Ya-Sin seems eerily similar to Quincy Wilson, but maybe with better mental make-up. If you are using "speed" to run around overmatched tackles as you call it means the speed is evident on tape and you wouldnt need a test to confirm that. The combine testing should only confirm that. I dont buy the notion the Colts jumped up and wanted him after they learned he ran a 4.5.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line1223
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