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__label__cc	0.732755	0.267245	NBC News Special: Democratic Debate 8 News Now Sunday Morning FOX5 News This Morning Siouxland News At Sunrise Today in Iowa Saturday KLAS (CBS) KMEG (CBS) KRNV (NBC) KVVU (FOX) KWWL (NBC) WHO (NBC) 8 News Now Sunday Morning : KLAS : January 17, 2016 8:00am-8:30am PST by KLAS the day -- but you can see they start to pick up at mount charleston to around 15 miles per hour later today -- they only get stronger throughout monday and by tomorrow at noon -- winds up there are 31 miles per hour -- quick brick if you head up the mountain tomorrow. ........................... there's a 20- percent chance of snow tomorrow -- about a 20-percent chance of snow showers also gusty winds -- any high profile vehicles and motorcycles be careful if you're traveling in at all in those high winds. ......................... the day -- but you can see they start to pick up at mount charleston to around 15 miles per hour later today -- they only get stronger throughout monday and by tomorrow at noon -- winds up there are 31 miles per hour -- quick brick if you head up the mountain tomorrow. ........................... there's a 20- percent chance of snow tomorrow -- about a 20-percent chance of snow showers also gusty winds -- any high profile vehicles and motorcycles be careful if you're traveling in at all in... FOX5 News This Morning : KVVU : January 7, 2016 7:00am-9:00am PST by KVVU fight turns deadly. this happened tuesday night, in a desert area near decatur and charleston. police say tracy morrison found the victim and a woman in a tent, and started beating the man. he took off before officers arrived, but they found him a few hours later. metro hasn't said what led up to the fight. the coroner is working to identify the victim right now. the hearing for a man accused of injuring a metro was postponed.. NBC News Special: Democratic Debate : KRNV : January 17, 2016 6:00pm-8:00pm PST by KRNV febreze small spaces and air effects' >>> welcome back from charleston, let's turn now to the economy. tough new ad last week in which without mentioning secretary NBC News Special: Democratic Debate : KWWL : January 17, 2016 8:00pm-10:00pm CST by KWWL you better b bieve it. >>> charleston, andrea mitchell has questions now for the candidates starting with iran. >> thanknkou, lester. senator sanders, nuclear deal is now enforced iran is getting it's billis of dollars, held are now going to be heading home. the president said today, it's a good day. a good day for diplomacy, it's a time now to restore diplomatic relations since 1979 and reopen a u.s. embassy in teheran. Siouxland News At Sunrise : KMEG : January 19, 2016 5:00am-7:00am CST by KMEG like a horse. (hillary clinton/(d) presidential candidate)"he voted for what we call the charleston loophole (blows out)."blowback to the infamous al gore sigh.(gore and bush) "(sigh) that's what a governor gets to do. there's differences (sigh)."(jeanne moos/cnn correspondent)"but you know who sanders' faces reminded people of ... and bernie, you're probably not Today in Iowa Saturday : WHO : January 16, 2016 8:00am-10:00am CST by WHO flexing his muscles..... welker standup: with preparations underway here in charleston......the candidates expected to draw sharp battle lines over guns, wall street and healthcare." clinton has been trying to gain traction by slamming sanders' proposal for a medicare for all, "basically he wants to start all over again with a whole new plan and another big national divisive debate,	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line857
__label__cc	0.623085	0.376915	Bloomberg Markets: Americas Bloomberg Surveillance Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas CINDY SHEEHAN DONALD J TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT PHINEAS NARCO Bloomberg West : BLOOMBERG : November 11, 2016 6:00pm-7:01pm EST attract consumers from outside of china. how much did they make up of sales this year? are making a big push outside of china to markets like taiwan and hong kong but also in southeast asia where he bought a platform. businessur aliexpress that sells products from chinese small businesses to more than 200 countries globally. that is also doing well. this is not about brands from over the world selling just to china, but chinese companies selling their products to consumers all over the world. emily: last time we spoke you told me the chinese economy is slowing but not slow. how does alibaba continue to buck the trend of a slowing chinese economy? single state last year, transactions grew by 60%. >> it is highly unlikely we will continue to grow at 60% each year because the number is becoming so large that it would be very difficult to do. but as you can see, we are at at least 30% plus higher than we were last year. bear in mind that this is against a 9% depreciation. that takes quite a lot of the dollar number. it would be more like 33% from a rmb standpoint. we are today penetrati attract consumers from outside of china. how much did they make up of sales this year? are making a big push outside of china to markets like taiwan and hong kong but also in southeast asia where he bought a platform. businessur aliexpress that sells products from chinese small businesses to more than 200 countries globally. that is also doing well. this is not about brands from over the world selling just to china, but chinese companies selling their products to consumers all over the world.... Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe : BLOOMBERG : November 9, 2016 1:00am-2:31am EST onto every word, word about china, worth about fiscal policy, words about the fed. were they election winners or is this going to be reality? that is the question we will be sitting here, hanging on every word of his. >> we are going to have to listen to every word, but i -- i suspectvisit specific and are going to come yet. megan: we have uncertainty until we get the election called. there is a chance we could end up with a tie and recount in some districts in nebraska and maine, for example. ofmight have a period instability. before you know who have even won the election. if it is a trump victory, we are going to be -- it is going to be a while before we have any clue what trump is really going to stand for . the market side of the story, the political side, we await results on pennsylvania, wisconsin, and michigan. everyone watching very closely. we want some very closely as well on bloomberg television and radio. ♪ politic special coverage of election night. we get back to our experts in just a moment. headlines crossing the bloomberg. senator pat toomey has won his se onto every word, word about china, worth about fiscal policy, words about the fed. were they election winners or is this going to be reality? that is the question we will be sitting here, hanging on every word of his. >> we are going to have to listen to every word, but i -- i suspectvisit specific and are going to come yet. megan: we have uncertainty until we get the election called. there is a chance we could end up with a tie and recount in some districts in nebraska and maine, for... Bloomberg Go : BLOOMBERG : November 11, 2016 7:00am-10:01am EST a single day over in china, that is off by about 1%. some of these numbers are huge for the company. they passed their previous $13 billion record. some of their best selling items, iphones, shoes, appliances. some big numbers coming out. they always set a new record every year. emerging markets selloff. the longest streak of losses on record. stocks heading to four-month lows. b.n.p. paribas they the is here donald trump is that is for emerging markets. this is bloomberg. ♪ jonathan: this is bloomberg. caps on high-yield currencies are unwinding at the fastest pace since 2011 as soaring u.s. treasury yields undermine the case of sovereign debt. tumbling 2.8% over the past few days as the yields narrowed to a 16 month low. with us now is daniel katzive with bnp paribas. daniel: i think it could have further to run. the market is looking at the proposals of donald trump and the thing is emphasizing with infrastructure spending. significantly more fiscal stimulus in the u.s.. that means higher longer yields. that is a challenge for emerging market currencies. jonathan: as opposed to a single day over in china, that is off by about 1%. some of these numbers are huge for the company. they passed their previous $13 billion record. some of their best selling items, iphones, shoes, appliances. some big numbers coming out. they always set a new record every year. emerging markets selloff. the longest streak of losses on record. stocks heading to four-month lows. b.n.p. paribas they the is here donald trump is that is for emerging markets. this is bloomberg. ♪ jonathan: this... Charlie Rose : BLOOMBERG : November 15, 2016 10:00pm-11:01pm EST -- russia, china, india, germany, see that the united states doesn't believe in the morality of, change they will say, why the hell are we changing? i hope that mr. trump has the brains to listen to the scientific community. charlie: do you have any indication based on what he has said? is seriouslyhe thinking that the awesome power of the white house has a sobering effect. bernie: let me say it again. i think donald trump in his own way is certainly an unusual type, but think he is a smart guy. in many ways, you have to say that he ran a brilliant campaign. nobody thought that he could win. charlie: do you agree with those that say we all it to him -- we owe it to him to give him a chance? bernie: i will not give them a chance in terms of racist and sexist policies. charlie: the question is not whether he will allow it, but it is whether to wait and see what he is going to do. bernie: i don't think the majority -- let's be clear. we have racism and sexism in this country. i think they are a minority. there are a lot of people who ho just like ap w lot of what he said, but felt he could -- russia, china, india, germany, see that the united states doesn't believe in the morality of, change they will say, why the hell are we changing? i hope that mr. trump has the brains to listen to the scientific community. charlie: do you have any indication based on what he has said? is seriouslyhe thinking that the awesome power of the white house has a sobering effect. bernie: let me say it again. i think donald trump in his own way is certainly an unusual type, but think he is a smart... Bloomberg Markets: Americas : BLOOMBERG : November 28, 2016 12:00pm-3:31pm EST resolution. china's government is about to put the brakes on overseas dealmaking. committeeto people with the matter, regulators will prevent chinese companies of making overseas investment of $10 million or more. vonnie: time now for our bloomberg quick take. angela merkel has been germany's chancellor since 2005. she is the last major world leader in power since the war the financial crisis. germany's voters will decide. here is a situation -- angela merkel announced that she will seek a fourth term. in september, she had offered a culpa with her admit thousands of asylum seekers. she spoke to trump after the election. here is background. hamburg, -- in on the night the berlin wall fell, she continued with her routine only later joining a crowd pushing its way over a bridge into west berlin. she has been working at a lab aysicist at a sweatshop and 35. she sweet through to become germany's leader in november of 2005. she has been reelected twice. her 2013 victory was the biggest for any party since 1990. here is the argument -- angela has been criticized for her economic perspective. budget resolution. china's government is about to put the brakes on overseas dealmaking. committeeto people with the matter, regulators will prevent chinese companies of making overseas investment of $10 million or more. vonnie: time now for our bloomberg quick take. angela merkel has been germany's chancellor since 2005. she is the last major world leader in power since the war the financial crisis. germany's voters will decide. here is a situation -- angela merkel announced that she will seek a... Bloomberg Markets: European Close : BLOOMBERG : November 7, 2016 11:00am-12:01pm EST his record and verbatim around trade. it is not just mexico, it is also china. the elements of a trade policy under trump may cause problems. we saw problems in the canadian options market when trump started to make a bit of a lead. vonnie: how much of this would be dollar weakness, primarily, and how much weakness, percentagewise, would we see? jeremy: there is the possibility of a 5% to 7% moving over the course of the overnight session. this is not just the kind of weakness we see in age from twin. one thing i am worried about, the nightmare scenario, is that hillary clinton wins the el toro ctoral college but donald trump wins the public vote. his rhetoric has been about the systems against him. if he is able to stand there in the early hours of wednesday and say more people voted for me than her, yet we still have not won, that could really -- the civil unrest that could promote could prompt further, sizable losses for the u.s. as well. that may be just the start. vonnie: if clinton wins, the dollar strengthens? or is it just in a holding pattern? .eremy: it is the status qu his record and verbatim around trade. it is not just mexico, it is also china. the elements of a trade policy under trump may cause problems. we saw problems in the canadian options market when trump started to make a bit of a lead. vonnie: how much of this would be dollar weakness, primarily, and how much weakness, percentagewise, would we see? jeremy: there is the possibility of a 5% to 7% moving over the course of the overnight session. this is not just the kind of weakness we see in age... Bloomberg Go : BLOOMBERG : November 4, 2016 7:00am-10:01am EDT bad trump? so it's the first thing out of trump's mouth talking about labeling china, a manipulator, talking about immigration and whatnot, or is it talking about the fiscal program, the tax program, which is indeed corporate-friendly? at that point, i think the market would take it as a positive, because equities are all about confidence. we need confidence at this point. if a trump win doesn't engender that, i think they could recover. david: there's a wave election, where the house would go democrat, or donald trump becoming president, are the polls doing the markets a favor by narrowing the race so they have time to absorb the possibility of a trump presidency and price it in? >> i think you're seeing the polls forcing markets to price in closer to a 50-50. i'm not sure if we get there. but also take notice to the differences in the related policies. so i think polls are doing investors a favor in that we are focused again on fiscal. we are focused on the problems. alix: let's look at all asset classes. which is the most sensitive on tuesday and wednesday? f.x. commodities rates bad trump? so it's the first thing out of trump's mouth talking about labeling china, a manipulator, talking about immigration and whatnot, or is it talking about the fiscal program, the tax program, which is indeed corporate-friendly? at that point, i think the market would take it as a positive, because equities are all about confidence. we need confidence at this point. if a trump win doesn't engender that, i think they could recover. david: there's a wave election, where the house would go... Bloomberg Markets: European Open : BLOOMBERG : November 9, 2016 2:30am-4:01am EST the asia-pacific relationships going forward and how that will play out. very key here for china. independent climate adviser, thank you for being on the program. interesting moves in the bond market. speech, putting infrastructure at the epicenter of it. we saw the treasury markets start to adjust. on the front end of the curve is a repricing of the prospect of the fed hike. with 38aggressive yields up about nine basis points. do we get the infrastructure spending that he put on the campaign trail? will that become reality? >> i'm not sure about the terminal but we will bring it up if we can to talk about what, exactly, it is in terms of the pricing. few hours, we priced out significant indications from the fed as we look at 51 percent probability of the fed hike now. so many things we need to be thinking about. >> the question i want to ask is, how on earth does the fed communicate not hiking interest rates when the data is unlikely to change? >> the data won't change. and when events change, you need to start changing your view of the world as well. let's head over to barclays the asia-pacific relationships going forward and how that will play out. very key here for china. independent climate adviser, thank you for being on the program. interesting moves in the bond market. speech, putting infrastructure at the epicenter of it. we saw the treasury markets start to adjust. on the front end of the curve is a repricing of the prospect of the fed hike. with 38aggressive yields up about nine basis points. do we get the infrastructure spending that he put on the campaign... Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas : BLOOMBERG : November 9, 2016 7:00am-10:01am EST china with a currency manipulator. is he going to do that now? does he go into the white house and call china a currency manipulator? i think it is too early to micromanage what he will do first. i don't think that is the key issue. i think the important issue is that this will be an active program but not one like we have had before of overregulation. not all legislation is bad. and i think we will prove that as time goes forward. jonathan: but clearly at the center of this, it is a broader issue. a manipulator is a broader issue for the economy. 10 years ago, maybe but right now, not at all. this is hand in glove. tpp habeen a gigantic topic and there are a lot of reasons why it should continue and why it shouldn't. however, the real issue is china. tpp is a defensive move to try to occupy that arena. , as it expands, doesn't have access to that market. so why four around with the rest of south east asia when you are not addressing a direct relationship with the real issue -- china. you has good relationships with donald trump. lots of thoughts on his policies. over ross, what wi china with a currency manipulator. is he going to do that now? does he go into the white house and call china a currency manipulator? i think it is too early to micromanage what he will do first. i don't think that is the key issue. i think the important issue is that this will be an active program but not one like we have had before of overregulation. not all legislation is bad. and i think we will prove that as time goes forward. jonathan: but clearly at the center of this, it is a broader... Bloomberg Markets: Americas : BLOOMBERG : November 24, 2016 7:00am-11:01am EST that chinese billionaires are betting that china and the u.s. are not on a collision course. the founder of china's group says donald trump will move away from his protectionist pledges. >> i believe the leaders of both countries are smart enough to find the best way to cooperate. i am not concerned. i am optimistic about the changes. it's worth looking forward to. maybe it's good. maybe there are some opportunities. he says donald trump will be able to engage in a trade war with china because of their common interests. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries, this is bloomberg. anna: thank you very much. let's talk more about the dollar. it is at the highest level in more than a decade. joining us now to discuss broader strategy is isabel matthews. thank you. it's great to speak to you on bloomberg markets. dollar andabout the how sustainable you think this upward trend in the dollar is. let's not exaggerate this upward trend. the dollar has been coming back from lows it reached in 2011. when you talk about a 10 ye that chinese billionaires are betting that china and the u.s. are not on a collision course. the founder of china's group says donald trump will move away from his protectionist pledges. >> i believe the leaders of both countries are smart enough to find the best way to cooperate. i am not concerned. i am optimistic about the changes. it's worth looking forward to. maybe it's good. maybe there are some opportunities. he says donald trump will be able to engage in a trade war with china... Bloomberg Surveillance : BLOOMBERG : November 14, 2016 4:00am-7:01am EST . first, let's get straight to the bloomberg first world news. here is nejra cehic. nejra: china's economy held ground last month, following new measures to cool property markets in almost two dozen big cities. industrial production rose 6.1% from a year earlier, just missing estimates. retail sales climbed 10%, shy of a 10.7% estimate. japan's economy expanded more than forecast in the third quarter, with a rebound in exports compensating for weak spending by people and companies. gdp grew an annualized 2.2 percent, versus a median estimate of 0.8%. however, consumption grew just 0.1% and business spending was unchanged. japanese prime minister shinzo abe has a this morning that the transpacific partnership is in a difficult situation with the election of donald trump, and that he wants to discuss free trade. u.k. prime minister will give her first major speech on foreign policy since taking office in july. it will be her first analysis of donald trump's election victory last week. she will argue that changes in the air and that it is the job of politicians to respond to voters wh . first, let's get straight to the bloomberg first world news. here is nejra cehic. nejra: china's economy held ground last month, following new measures to cool property markets in almost two dozen big cities. industrial production rose 6.1% from a year earlier, just missing estimates. retail sales climbed 10%, shy of a 10.7% estimate. japan's economy expanded more than forecast in the third quarter, with a rebound in exports compensating for weak spending by people and companies. gdp grew an... Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas : BLOOMBERG : November 28, 2016 7:00am-10:01am EST agreement. and third is china. treasury under hank paulson instituted a strategic economic dialogue in 2006. will that continue? two months after the president takes office, the next currency report will be due, including on china. julie: the secretary of state is the other contentious appointment that at least it seems contentious from the outside at this point between rudy giuliani and mitt romney. on the most take important qualities for that appointment and the most important priorities for that person? robert: the secretary of state is clearly the seniormost officer. he or she will also be part of an important interagency communication that involves defense, treasury, cia, and the national security advisor working on behalf of the president. i think the most important thing is that the president put together a national security policy that combines foreign policy, defense policy, and international and economic policy resting on a strong intelligence base. it will be the secretary of state who largely communicates that policy to the international community. they will certainly b agreement. and third is china. treasury under hank paulson instituted a strategic economic dialogue in 2006. will that continue? two months after the president takes office, the next currency report will be due, including on china. julie: the secretary of state is the other contentious appointment that at least it seems contentious from the outside at this point between rudy giuliani and mitt romney. on the most take important qualities for that appointment and the most important priorities... Bloomberg Markets: European Open : BLOOMBERG : November 28, 2016 2:30am-4:01am EST . china plans to implement sweeping curves on overseas dealmaking by the nation's companies, according to people with knowledge of the matter. it comes as a record outbound acquisition spree puts pressure on the qb to weaken. cap investments at $10 million. it will also apply to foreign investments of $1 billion by state-owned enterprises. the curb will last until the end of september, 2017. global news, 24 hours a day, powered by over 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. bloomberg. guy: thanks. the dollar is declining overnight after touching more than a decade high last week. the greenback has fallen by the most since september. do you have got to appreciate where it has come from. traders are focusing on oua derailing dollar, payrolls coming through on friday. pricinget is selling, in a 100% chance of the fed hike in december. let's talk about king dollar with stephen king, the senior economic adviser at hsbc. good morning. too far, too fast? >> well, it has been one night of dollar sales. i think many fx dealers are still thinking that a trunk victor . china plans to implement sweeping curves on overseas dealmaking by the nation's companies, according to people with knowledge of the matter. it comes as a record outbound acquisition spree puts pressure on the qb to weaken. cap investments at $10 million. it will also apply to foreign investments of $1 billion by state-owned enterprises. the curb will last until the end of september, 2017. global news, 24 hours a day, powered by over 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries.... What'd You Miss? : BLOOMBERG : November 9, 2016 3:30pm-5:01pm EST lot of the talk was directed at china. and how china is ripping us off, and how china, we should not have a trade deal with china. the reality is we do not. should. perhaps we because the ground rules would be a lot clearer. there is a lot of misinformation. job's's point, there was a lot of anger in the election that really drove it. this was a rebellion against the system. your former boss, george bush and hillary clinton, secretary clinton, two huge parts of the system. is there anyway to quell that anger and heal america without completely shaking of the establishment? throwingt completely the economy into a nosedive. war, if wete a trade put a hold on immigration, those two things freight there will be devastating for the economy. hallowed two-week row grow? donald trump promised 3.5% growth. you will not do that by slapping tariffs on imports. how do we do it without following a status quo prescription? thing he talked about is lowering taxes. have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. if you combine lower tax rate would lower exports, you have one problem. and -- at lot of the talk was directed at china. and how china is ripping us off, and how china, we should not have a trade deal with china. the reality is we do not. should. perhaps we because the ground rules would be a lot clearer. there is a lot of misinformation. job's's point, there was a lot of anger in the election that really drove it. this was a rebellion against the system. your former boss, george bush and hillary clinton, secretary clinton, two huge parts of the system. is there anyway to... metals without talking about china. how much can the united states move the bar on its own without in mind? copper, you look at half of global copper demand comes from china. sachs, where they are saying people should be overweight and commodities for the first time in years, they point to strengthening pmi globally in china, outside china, and the u.s.. no doubt that the candidate of the structure spending we're talking about would be very bullish for a range of natural resources. the output gap closing between the u.s. and china, that's bullish for commodities. so what you do on the inflation front? mr. rosenberg: we had a positive view going into the election. it a lot of with postelection pricingid for markets was to accelerate some trends that were already there. trends in terms of expectations of stabilizing inflation, trends in terms of moving away from monetary policy support towards more fiscal policy. you just got a big acceleration in that. there was a big performance in that time. they may have had a run-up from you quickly, but over the longer run, meaning three or six mo metals without talking about china. how much can the united states move the bar on its own without in mind? copper, you look at half of global copper demand comes from china. sachs, where they are saying people should be overweight and commodities for the first time in years, they point to strengthening pmi globally in china, outside china, and the u.s.. no doubt that the candidate of the structure spending we're talking about would be very bullish for a range of natural resources. the output... Bloomberg Markets: Americas : BLOOMBERG : November 8, 2016 12:00pm-3:31pm EST china more muscular on foreign policy and how she addresses that without tpp, which is something she believed in as secretary of state was the centerpiece of a china containment strategy will be a big challenge for her and she will try to figure out how to get that into that approach. tom: my chart of the year, simple, this is the for your moving average of real gdp from morning america in the late 1990's and down we go to what we , not bad, about 3%, we are not getting it done and you predicted this, you were very strong on a soft consumer, down in a 2% run rate on gdp, 40% decline in our economic growth in a matter of 20 years, maybe 15 years, what is the roach prescription to give us a little bit more economic growth? >> you have to get behind the number and the major reason for the shortfall in gdp which are right in pointing out is the unprecedented weakness in consumer demand. american consumer growth rate for eight years has been about 1.5%. that is two points below the pre-crisis average for the 12 preceding years. we went through a balance sheet recession lights offended. wi china more muscular on foreign policy and how she addresses that without tpp, which is something she believed in as secretary of state was the centerpiece of a china containment strategy will be a big challenge for her and she will try to figure out how to get that into that approach. tom: my chart of the year, simple, this is the for your moving average of real gdp from morning america in the late 1990's and down we go to what we , not bad, about 3%, we are not getting it done and you... With All Due Respect : BLOOMBERG : November 3, 2016 8:00pm-9:01pm EDT markets: asia ." ♪ pre-election stocks like continues as markets countdown to the u.s. poll. the upbeat china forecast from the rba. ahead,nce cannot understand -- for instance, with china, reciprocity in all kind of measures, but at the end of the day, we need free trade. francine: do you think donald trump will be good for world growth? do you think he will reflate this economy and help exports and imports? michael: we have to see what he's going to make as far as tax cuts is concerned. tax cuts usually are good for the economy, for the companies, but we have to see also that america has a huge national debt. this, it isope with going to be an interesting thing. it is going to be interesting to say, it is going to be like this or this, but i really wonder what he can do in order to boost the economy. not tooican economy is strong at the moment. francine: you are one of the rare european politicians that does understand the markets. we are seeing stocks rally. how do you understand that? it is not just affected by the u.s., but the overall situation. some of the words of yesterday have been positive. yesterday, first of all, the dollar dropped to 1.13. now it is again stronger. i think it is market fluctuation. we shouldn't cannot understand -- for instance, with china, reciprocity in all kind of measures, but at the end of the day, we need free trade. francine: do you think donald trump will be good for world growth? do you think he will reflate this economy and help exports and imports? michael: we have to see what he's going to make as far as tax cuts is concerned. tax cuts usually are good for the economy, for the companies, but we have to see also that america has a huge national debt. this, it isope with... Bloomberg Markets: Middle East : BLOOMBERG : November 6, 2016 12:00am-1:01am EDT gathered the financing already with the latest china swap deal. second was to move on the fx. third was to cut subsidies. they did that also on thursday. thomas there is some wrinkle that we don't know about -- unless there is some wrinkle that we don't know about, in the next few days they will go to the imf. look at that -- that is called drastic data egypt. [laughter] if you want a lesson on what not word thusmphasize the kh devalued their currency, argentina devalued the peso. manus: from investors that we talked to on this, if you interfere and say he will freely put the currency by intervention, then investors will start dumping your commitment. that is exactly when the black market comes back. a week later, it strengthened the pound. people would say, it goes up, down? that is the key test, if you will. people would be paying close attention to whether the central banks intervene, or decided by market factors. tracy: thank you so much, our economics editor for the mideast. you can get more on that on the rest of the day's news on our digital destination tailored for the middl gathered the financing already with the latest china swap deal. second was to move on the fx. third was to cut subsidies. they did that also on thursday. thomas there is some wrinkle that we don't know about -- unless there is some wrinkle that we don't know about, in the next few days they will go to the imf. look at that -- that is called drastic data egypt. [laughter] if you want a lesson on what not word thusmphasize the kh devalued their currency, argentina devalued the peso. manus: from... Bloomberg Markets: European Open : BLOOMBERG : November 3, 2016 3:30am-5:01am EDT beneficiary, particularly if emerging markets drop the dollar , particularly china could rebalance, how would mario draghi be forced to react if we saw a spike in the single currency? carsten: he would have to extend qe and any other things are out of the question now. another rate cut, i do not see it happening. will refrain from cutting rates again, the only issue they have is stepping up tv, that would be -- stepping up qb, that is the only answer for draghi on the trunk victory here -- yti -- trump victory. >> economic experts of germany came out with a report yesterday, the whole of germany is worried about the pickup of inflation, saying it is an inflation trap and particularly conserve desk concert with quantitive easing. how is mario draghi going to answer them, will he keep pushing back against the german viewpoint? carsten: i think he will, i do not think you will answer that come in germany inflation 0.8%, far from hyperinflation and although the economy is at full employment etc.. what he will say is that this is the ecb be viewed to policy, it is doing everything it is can beneficiary, particularly if emerging markets drop the dollar , particularly china could rebalance, how would mario draghi be forced to react if we saw a spike in the single currency? carsten: he would have to extend qe and any other things are out of the question now. another rate cut, i do not see it happening. will refrain from cutting rates again, the only issue they have is stepping up tv, that would be -- stepping up qb, that is the only answer for draghi on the trunk victory here -- yti... article 50 of the lisbon treaty. china has ruled that anyone who independence for hong kong cannot hold public office. the decision by the national people's congress standing committee was only its second unilateral interpretation of hong kong law since the former british colony's return to china in 1997. police scuffle with protesters in the run-up to the decision as thousands of people took to the streets in support of two pro-independence legislators. chen has replaced the finance minister. according to the chemung news a new topere is finance official who has worked for three years as vice secretary-general of the state council and an important aid to the premier. local news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries -- this is bloomberg. guy: a bit of breaking news for you. we have nissan numbers hitting the tape. the operating profit is ahead of operations -- ahead of expectations. the sales line is a little bit light. the company is saying basically they had adverse headwinds on the fx side. on theseeing a big move yen this morni article 50 of the lisbon treaty. china has ruled that anyone who independence for hong kong cannot hold public office. the decision by the national people's congress standing committee was only its second unilateral interpretation of hong kong law since the former british colony's return to china in 1997. police scuffle with protesters in the run-up to the decision as thousands of people took to the streets in support of two pro-independence legislators. chen has replaced the finance minister.... china is one off. we are seeing the u.s. headlines, trump taking the lead in some of these polls starting to weigh on sentiment in asia. starts here, slumping to an 11 week low, the hang seng down by one and 3/10 of 1%. ofis a broad spectrum sectors. sinopec financial and is big losers. take a look at what we are seeing in the currency spectrum. the dollar weakening overnight is playing out across asian currencies. , of course, they have their own political anxieties, the leadership replacing the prime minister, the finance minister replace as well, but president park is still battling this influence scandal that has been developing. close ton won down by 1%. you have the kiwi dollar looking like this as well. jobs numbers family told on to much of those gains. finally, if you are looking for some optimism, commodities continue to build on the back of potentially [indiscernible] those economic indicators doing very well. of course, it is these safe havens. silver looking like gold, up by another quarter of 1%. manus. fors: thank you very much running up those markets for us. ther china is one off. we are seeing the u.s. headlines, trump taking the lead in some of these polls starting to weigh on sentiment in asia. starts here, slumping to an 11 week low, the hang seng down by one and 3/10 of 1%. ofis a broad spectrum sectors. sinopec financial and is big losers. take a look at what we are seeing in the currency spectrum. the dollar weakening overnight is playing out across asian currencies. , of course, they have their own political anxieties, the leadership replacing... commodities folw the same -- if one is down, they are all down. markets, when china is down or europe is off, that affects the world. usually, they find a bottom and start building back. it affects demand. everybody thought demand would --off this year alix: if you get a trade war with china or mexico, that might have an impact on demand. harold: trade is important. you don't have to give the farm away to trade. we've seen american jobs go to mexico. i was talking to a friend of -- i asked, how's it going down there? we have a carbon and factoring down here and everyone's doing well. where did that come from? it came from the u.s. alix: you will want to export your oil. you will want to have favorable trade relationships with commodity heavy countries. to death were able lifted a 40 year ban on crude oil exports last year. that should not have been in place. to lift a 40le year ban on crude oil exports last year. alix: does mr. trump open to --ter trade deals than harold: absolutely. -- he isr trade for fair trade. alix: you're looking at corporate taxes being cut. you going to change your b commodities folw the same -- if one is down, they are all down. markets, when china is down or europe is off, that affects the world. usually, they find a bottom and start building back. it affects demand. everybody thought demand would --off this year alix: if you get a trade war with china or mexico, that might have an impact on demand. harold: trade is important. you don't have to give the farm away to trade. we've seen american jobs go to mexico. i was talking to a friend of -- i asked,... Bloomberg Technology : BLOOMBERG : November 8, 2016 12:00am-1:01am EST coming up. in a couple day, the biggest shopping day of the year and in china, the biggest day by far for alibaba. paul, you have the numbers showing sales will be even bigger than previously expected, given the weak yuan. >> it is arguably going to spur transactions within china, as opposed to the chinese buying abroad. when you take a look at the single day numbers, the gross merchandise value they reported last year of about $40 million, just a huge number alone, expectations are that that number will grow dramatically this year. i think most investors really look at the growth rates, the trend in this company overtime. what we have seen, what investors have seen, is a very strong, organic growth grearaten china, which is the business funding the other investments around the globe. e-- other investments around the globe. emily: that said, how much is this really you know, a lot of shopping happening in one day, and how much of this is expert marketing on the part of alibaba? >> you are right. single day has become an incredible promotional event for alibaba itself. i think this yea coming up. in a couple day, the biggest shopping day of the year and in china, the biggest day by far for alibaba. paul, you have the numbers showing sales will be even bigger than previously expected, given the weak yuan. >> it is arguably going to spur transactions within china, as opposed to the chinese buying abroad. when you take a look at the single day numbers, the gross merchandise value they reported last year of about $40 million, just a huge number alone, expectations are that... some china growth continuing to slow. that affects the u.s. economy and the picture for longer-term yields. jonathan: japan actually issued a 10 year bond today. negative six basis points. if we are going to talk about the treasury market, we should talk about elsewhere, too. we just heard from one of our reporters that said the donald trump campaign is not even planning for a loss, they don't have a contingency plan. are we going for the 2000 i get where we saw the 10 year yield go up 75 basis points over the year when we could not now down a president? >> the most dramatic scenario for the markets and the economy will be when the uncertainty does not get resolved today or tomorrow morning. just having that cloud of uncertainty lifted by itself will be supported for the the marketsmakes move on. as soon as the election is over, people will focus on other issues. the only thing that could present -- prevent that would be a non-close of result. we heard that we were going to continue that conversation once we have the president, but we also have japan issuing their debt on negative s some china growth continuing to slow. that affects the u.s. economy and the picture for longer-term yields. jonathan: japan actually issued a 10 year bond today. negative six basis points. if we are going to talk about the treasury market, we should talk about elsewhere, too. we just heard from one of our reporters that said the donald trump campaign is not even planning for a loss, they don't have a contingency plan. are we going for the 2000 i get where we saw the 10 year yield go up 75... with china in asia. and i could go on. and this is a huge question for america's place in the world. is america going to turn back on essentially the post world order and put america first in such a way that the traditional alliance system frays? this at a moment of great peril for the world as china rises in the middle east looking at just a shattered system. so some very, very big questions being asked in paris, in london, in tokyo, and just lastly, does this mean we get la pen in france? tell me. >> we will spend the next few months trying to figure out how much of what mr. trump said he really meant. he laid out a very ambitious agenda. and things he will do immediately and we're already talking about repealing the health care bill. but -- and as maureen knows going through this campaign, it's like is he respond to the crowd or does he really mean this stuff? and his speech last night was pretty conciliatory. so there's still some things to uncover about the trump agenda. charlie: john, did he mean what he said or was this simply about end justifies the means? john: i think yes. with china in asia. and i could go on. and this is a huge question for america's place in the world. is america going to turn back on essentially the post world order and put america first in such a way that the traditional alliance system frays? this at a moment of great peril for the world as china rises in the middle east looking at just a shattered system. so some very, very big questions being asked in paris, in london, in tokyo, and just lastly, does this mean we get la pen in france?... Bloomberg Markets : BLOOMBERG : November 11, 2016 2:00pm-4:01pm EST in san francisco, washington, and china. after massive gains this week, the stock market is coming back down. global investors worry about the applications of a donald trump presidency. it is the biggest shopping day in the year in china and another record-breaking day for alibaba. president-elect trump sets his agenda, where does it leave wall street? we will speak with a ceo at the bottom of the hour. we are just 60 minutes away from the close of u.s. trading. julie hyman is here. the bond market is closed for veterans day, and it feels that way in the stock market. julie: things have called down considerably this week from the volume and price action. nasdaq justwith the up nine points as the dow is very little changed, not even a 500 isint, and the s&p still down .4 percent. in the last hour we talked about commodities. we talk -- let's talk about stocks. russell 2000 is up by nearly 10% on the week. this appears to be a function of the idea that domestically oriented companies might fare a trumpnder under administration, although there is also a lot of talk about repatriation in san francisco, washington, and china. after massive gains this week, the stock market is coming back down. global investors worry about the applications of a donald trump presidency. it is the biggest shopping day in the year in china and another record-breaking day for alibaba. president-elect trump sets his agenda, where does it leave wall street? we will speak with a ceo at the bottom of the hour. we are just 60 minutes away from the close of u.s. trading. julie hyman is here. the bond... Bloomberg Markets: European Close : BLOOMBERG : November 4, 2016 11:00am-12:01pm EDT . it has been a big acquisition in china's investment banking sector. china investment capital has agreed to by china investment securities for two and a half billion dollars in stock. it gives them access to small retail customers. that is your bloomberg business flash. let's head to the markets desk where julie hyman has been looking at u.s. trading. julie: looking at some of the biggest movers to the up and down side, i'm looking at the three best and worst performers in the s&p 500. nrg energy is coming out with estimates -- numbers that the estimates. analysts told us the third-quarter profit was driven by retail sales and renewable energy generation. we are seeing alexi on rise because they canceled on presenting at a credit suisse press conference on november 7. sometimes these kinds of cancellations lead to speculation about a strategic move, perhaps some kind of acquisition so that appears to be accounting for the rise in shares. industries, their third-quarter earnings per share rising 21%, revenue up 7%. that is for the upside. on the downside we have an energy engineeri . it has been a big acquisition in china's investment banking sector. china investment capital has agreed to by china investment securities for two and a half billion dollars in stock. it gives them access to small retail customers. that is your bloomberg business flash. let's head to the markets desk where julie hyman has been looking at u.s. trading. julie: looking at some of the biggest movers to the up and down side, i'm looking at the three best and worst performers in the s&p 500. nrg... . futures slip. china's exports dropped for a seventh straight month. a brexit budget vote. a warning that to leave the -- great cost the britain 25 billion pounds. >> a very warm welcome to "the daily." -- guy johnson is joining us all of this week from new york as america votes for its next president. guy? guy: we're waiting to see how the day is going to turn out. the markets had a big move. today maybe a little bit more caution creeps in. after such a big move, the futures are starting to dip in the u.s. we're starting to watch some of the early votes come in and we'll talk about that and the early voting critical to this whole story. america votes today. the markets on tender hooks. anna: thank you very much. we are bringing you live pictures of the candidates as they continue to campaign. >> we have information from the world top selling car maker toyota. toyota coming in with the second quarter operating profit of 474.6 billion yen. that is a beat on the estimate f 463.7. remember, the expectation was that there would be a drop of 39% in net income off the back of some of the ongoin . futures slip. china's exports dropped for a seventh straight month. a brexit budget vote. a warning that to leave the -- great cost the britain 25 billion pounds. >> a very warm welcome to "the daily." -- guy johnson is joining us all of this week from new york as america votes for its next president. guy? guy: we're waiting to see how the day is going to turn out. the markets had a big move. today maybe a little bit more caution creeps in. after such a big move, the futures... the bloomberg first word news. china's exports a felt for a seventh straight month in october on tepid global demand. dropped 7.3% from a year earlier in dollar terms. 1.4% leaving a trade surplus. the yuan has depreciated 9% since last august but it failed to provide a sustained boost to exports. the u.k. chancellor philip hammond is facing a 25 billion pound whole in public finances halloween the brexit vote. that is the warning from the institute of fiscal studies. diminished growth will result in lost tax revenue. only partially offset by a reduction in spending. meanwhile, the brexit secretary david davis has been pressed by opposition lawmakers to provide more details regarding the uk's position on leaving the key -- leaving the u.k.. parliament must be allowed to vote on the start of the talks. he plans to press ahead with triggering article 50. >> the point of no return was passed june 23. we must lead in the way agreed by law by the u.k. and other member states which means following the process in article 50 and the treaty with the european union. juliette: samsung elect the bloomberg first word news. china's exports a felt for a seventh straight month in october on tepid global demand. dropped 7.3% from a year earlier in dollar terms. 1.4% leaving a trade surplus. the yuan has depreciated 9% since last august but it failed to provide a sustained boost to exports. the u.k. chancellor philip hammond is facing a 25 billion pound whole in public finances halloween the brexit vote. that is the warning from the institute of fiscal studies. diminished growth will... same amount. some of what appears to be going on is concern over potential trade wars with china, for example. havehe effect that could on these companies businesses. it also appears to be weighing on alibaba. ironically a day that is singles day. alibaba.sales day for the huge company, 90% of people in china are expected to be shopping online during singles day which began at 11:00 a.m., on 11/11. which it is in china. so there are concerns over china and what kind of economic relationship and trade relationship this will have with the u.s. under trumps administration. and the other big move which is worth emphasizing again today, today,to beat it again the year yield. a 23 basis point move right now and at one point it was a 26 point basis move over the two day, the biggest two day move ever. and to remind you, this is the same thing we saw yesterday which is the idea that under a trump administration there will be increased stimulus and we may see an increase in inflation as well. so the 10 year yield is at 2.08%. vonnie: that was julie hyman. now, let's check in with courtney same amount. some of what appears to be going on is concern over potential trade wars with china, for example. havehe effect that could on these companies businesses. it also appears to be weighing on alibaba. ironically a day that is singles day. alibaba.sales day for the huge company, 90% of people in china are expected to be shopping online during singles day which began at 11:00 a.m., on 11/11. which it is in china. so there are concerns over china and what kind of economic relationship... Bloomberg Surveillance : BLOOMBERG : November 9, 2016 4:00am-7:01am EST movement in google. the foreign policies -- one is how he deals with russia, and how he deals with china. what do we know? marty: we know for certain we are not sure for certain. he claims he is no friend of vladimir putin, but it would be nice to get along with the russians. from their standpoint, they may of to just test the level that kind of cooperation. -- i thinkhat reuters reported that putin congratulated him already. it will beo me, interesting to see which foreign country donald trump chooses to visit first. will it be the u.k.? will it be russia? will it be israel? francine: on twitter, i think it was marine le pen -- her hopes on the state of wrench politics and european politics in general. i do not know how much donald trump knows about marine le pen. i think that was grandstanding. she congratulated him before he actually went over the 270 electoral votes. but that is ok. but his foreign policy is going to be critical, and his pick of treasury secretary will also be critical. francine: marty, thank you for all of your insight. what a shanker heads are global coverage for e movement in google. the foreign policies -- one is how he deals with russia, and how he deals with china. what do we know? marty: we know for certain we are not sure for certain. he claims he is no friend of vladimir putin, but it would be nice to get along with the russians. from their standpoint, they may of to just test the level that kind of cooperation. -- i thinkhat reuters reported that putin congratulated him already. it will beo me, interesting to see which foreign country donald... difference for that dynamic. china in my view has made a bigger difference. mexico, china population wise and export wise, is the largest economy in the world. i think trade has mattered for the relative decline of manufacturing in the united states. technology has probably made more of a difference and that fact points us to what will have next. people talk about rolling back nafta and no one talks about abolishing technological progress -- robots. technological progress is here to stay. joe: the. the time of globalization has seen a big explosion in the finance industry. there are obvious links, our trade finance is important to banks, derivatives hedging business whenant companies are engaging in trade across borders. if we start to deep -- d globalize, what is the prospect for the world bank's as the becomes less activity? if we continue to clamp down on capital flows, that could have a negative impact on trade. it in an unwise fashion. the smartest thing to do would money flows have not connected with trade. throughrs claim down that arebank market mainly what commentators refer to a difference for that dynamic. china in my view has made a bigger difference. mexico, china population wise and export wise, is the largest economy in the world. i think trade has mattered for the relative decline of manufacturing in the united states. technology has probably made more of a difference and that fact points us to what will have next. people talk about rolling back nafta and no one talks about abolishing technological progress -- robots. technological progress is here to stay. joe:... dollar. and he alreadyn said he may call china currency manipulated from day one it will open to other asian currencies. nejra: i know you got some fascinating thought on sterling as well. i wanted to draw your attention to this chart. we have been talking about sterling gaining today because of these jitters leading to a weaker dollar. this is the daily percentage change. you can see the movement at the end of the chart. if you want to look at it on your bloom -- bloomberg. you see sterling as undervalued but you think it has lower to go. >> definitely. for us sterling is extremely undervalued but it is undervalued for a very good reason. clearly there is a massive uncertainty. because you really don't know and the valuation at this point is the only positive thing about sterling. sometimes we think there will still be ways or events where you will see massive overshot. we don't think this will be persistent because of this evaluation. what do you mean by undervalued? relative to its currency and what kind of basis? >> in terms of the valuation we talk about -- for example if yo dollar. and he alreadyn said he may call china currency manipulated from day one it will open to other asian currencies. nejra: i know you got some fascinating thought on sterling as well. i wanted to draw your attention to this chart. we have been talking about sterling gaining today because of these jitters leading to a weaker dollar. this is the daily percentage change. you can see the movement at the end of the chart. if you want to look at it on your bloom -- bloomberg. you see sterling... Bloomberg Markets: Asia : BLOOMBERG : November 22, 2016 9:00pm-10:01pm EST members arrested in china face at least two months in detention for potential court appearances. beijing is cracking down on casinos. shanghai law firm says it is not clear if the matter will go to trial, but the maximum punishment is theoretically three years in jail. crown shares plunged on the detentions. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. rishaad: right, air asia x shares up. malaysia's long-haul budget character -- character -- carrier improving from the malaysian ringgit. the question is whether this momentum can be sustained. in the short-term, it looks sustainable. after eight quarters of losses, the company is optimistic and says it will get back to annual profit. 2.5the quarter, profit at million dollars, revenue up 24%. said, the malaysian ringgit made malaysia an attractive holloway destination -- attractive holiday destination. it is thee sense that beginning of better days when you look at the company ceo. he said a superset of results, more to come, more sensible business dec members arrested in china face at least two months in detention for potential court appearances. beijing is cracking down on casinos. shanghai law firm says it is not clear if the matter will go to trial, but the maximum punishment is theoretically three years in jail. crown shares plunged on the detentions. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. rishaad: right, air asia x shares up. malaysia's long-haul... Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas : BLOOMBERG : November 3, 2016 7:00am-10:01am EDT from california to paris and cover stories out of china, wall street and the u.k.. first, we have some breaking economic data. what we have is the ifn nonmanufacturing composite index, the services index coming in below estimates and falling from a month earlier. coming in worse than had been estimated. rising,factory orders up 3/10 of 1% and we have durable goods orders falling more than estimated, down 3/10 of 1%. in terms mixed picture of economic data coming out in the past few moments, but that services industries is the most from california to paris and cover stories out of china, wall street and the u.k.. first, we have some breaking economic data. what we have is the ifn nonmanufacturing composite index, the services index coming in below estimates and falling from a month earlier. coming in worse than had been estimated. rising,factory orders up 3/10 of 1% and we have durable goods orders falling more than estimated, down 3/10 of 1%. in terms mixed picture of economic data coming out in the past few moments,... bloomberg first word news. here is shery ahn. shery: the civilization of china's economy appears to be taking hold with the official manufacturing pmi jumping to a two-year high. reading of 51.2 topped even the most optimistic estimates. the positive signs maybe in the central bank hold off further measures after keeping the key rate at a record low for more than one year. the reserve bank of australia cap's interest rate unchanged. it signals governor philip lowe is prepared to tolerate we can inflation to avoid further escalating property prices and household that. -- household debt. three of the federal reserve's primary dealers think the central bank will hold off on hiking rates until 2017. believec, and rbs policymakers will have rates in both meetings. that is improving economic data and the hawkish tone of officials. more than 71% chance of a rate hike this year. he will stay as governor of the bank until june 2019, to help guide the uk economy through brexit. he ends month of speculation about the canadian future at the central bank. philip hammond welcomed the decision. some bloomberg first word news. here is shery ahn. shery: the civilization of china's economy appears to be taking hold with the official manufacturing pmi jumping to a two-year high. reading of 51.2 topped even the most optimistic estimates. the positive signs maybe in the central bank hold off further measures after keeping the key rate at a record low for more than one year. the reserve bank of australia cap's interest rate unchanged. it signals governor philip lowe is prepared to tolerate we... Bloomberg Markets: Americas : BLOOMBERG : November 8, 2016 10:00am-11:01am EST economy. a challenging world. tough issues in china centric asia with china more muscular on foreign policy. how she addresses that without tpp, which is something she believed as secretary of state was the centerpiece of a china containment strategy, is going to be a challenge for her and i think she's going to figure out how to get back into that approach. chart.t me bring up a this is my chart of the year. it's real simple. this is the culture year moving average of real gdp from morning america in the late 90's and that we go to what we did in 2006, not that above 3%. we are not getting it done. you predicted this. you are very strong on a soft consumer. we are down into 2% run rate on gdp. 40% decline in economic growth in a matter of 20 years, maybe 15 years. what is a roach prescription to give us a little more economic growth? stephen: you got to get behind the number. the major reason for the shortfall of gdp is unprecedented weakness in consumer demands. american consumer growth rate for eight years has been about 1.5%. that is two points below the precrisis average economy. a challenging world. tough issues in china centric asia with china more muscular on foreign policy. how she addresses that without tpp, which is something she believed as secretary of state was the centerpiece of a china containment strategy, is going to be a challenge for her and i think she's going to figure out how to get back into that approach. chart.t me bring up a this is my chart of the year. it's real simple. this is the culture year moving average of real gdp from morning... planning to focus on this? >> the roots where we are losig ng money are in china, or arean, like that, we obliged to stop in kuala lumpur. it is to allow us to regain, to routes, and keep our network like it is now without losing a decent amount of money. >> how can pilot and flight attendants be expected to be paid less with the new airline? will it be a different situation between pilot and flight attendants? will be a pilot, it different commission. or crew will be a different contract was up two different systems. get their airill france wages but not flight attendants? new flightget attendants with a new contracts. it will not be moved to this new company. >> to the brexit ruling today, should brexit get delayed or even reversed would that be beneficial for european airlines? what theult to know consequences of brexit. the only consequence we have right now is the fact that the pound went down. and there are many british hope not to have losses of revenues because of the decline of the british pound was to the consequent -- that is the main consequences of the decision of brexit. von planning to focus on this? >> the roots where we are losig ng money are in china, or arean, like that, we obliged to stop in kuala lumpur. it is to allow us to regain, to routes, and keep our network like it is now without losing a decent amount of money. >> how can pilot and flight attendants be expected to be paid less with the new airline? will it be a different situation between pilot and flight attendants? will be a pilot, it different commission. or crew will be a different... before triggering article 50. china has ruled that anyone who supports independence for hong kong cannot hold public office. the decision was only the second unilateral interpretation of hong kong law since the former +++ as thousands of people took to the street in support of two pro-independence legislators. china has replaced finance minister. according to state-run news agency, he is the top official. blackrock saying australia could lose top-notch credit rating by s&p as early as next month. if the midyear budget review shows further financial deterioration. the country has been struggling with a fiscal deficit since 2008 as lower commodity prices hit revenues. australia is rated aaa by three major agencies. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. you can find more stories on the bloomberg at top . anna: thank you very much. breaking news from softbank in japan. the telecommunications internet business, fiber-optic and the like, reporting numbers that beat estimates for the second quarter. billion yen. that before triggering article 50. china has ruled that anyone who supports independence for hong kong cannot hold public office. the decision was only the second unilateral interpretation of hong kong law since the former +++ as thousands of people took to the street in support of two pro-independence legislators. china has replaced finance minister. according to state-run news agency, he is the top official. blackrock saying australia could lose top-notch credit rating by s&p as early as next... Bloomberg BusinessWeek : BLOOMBERG : November 27, 2016 8:00am-9:01am EST deal. what that means for tech companies in china. the silver industry scrambles to figure out what the new administration means for renewables. the debate rages on, did fake news on facebook help sway the pr Bloomberg Technology : BLOOMBERG : November 23, 2016 6:00pm-7:01pm EST tilde coming up, seven years after getting kicked out of china, facebook reportedly has a way to get back in. we will dig into the social networks plan to reach his largest untapped market. after a bitter election, and americans are ready for some retail with black friday kicking off in two days. you will find out the top holiday trends in tech. the most packable gifts under .he christmas tree this season remember, trying to block facebook in 2009, it is not certainly social network could return to the nation given licensing restrictions and other regulations that aber locally companies. facebook has said it's interested in china but hasn't made any decision on its approach and declined to comment on the times report. here with me is the chief analyst at technology research and from hong kong, are bloomberg news reporter lulu chen. facebook is saying it is struggling with how to deal with fake news and yet there seems to be a possibility they can use their technology or products to censor out news that people don't want to see and china. >> the iron he is incredible. that is the tilde coming up, seven years after getting kicked out of china, facebook reportedly has a way to get back in. we will dig into the social networks plan to reach his largest untapped market. after a bitter election, and americans are ready for some retail with black friday kicking off in two days. you will find out the top holiday trends in tech. the most packable gifts under .he christmas tree this season remember, trying to block facebook in 2009, it is not certainly social network could... Bloomberg BusinessWeek : BLOOMBERG : November 5, 2016 3:00pm-4:01pm EDT . you write about sam's club in china. it's not the sam's club we know here in the united states. >> they have repositioned sam's club. they mostly target small businesses. it's known for both purchases and discounts. in china, it's about high-end alex to affluent consumers who are willing to pay for luxury products and even walmart products that are priced higher in china than they are in other markets. carol: we are talking about $3000 for a rice cooker. ellen: my favorite is there's an ironing system that cost $4000 and comes with hours of instructions in your home. oliver: let's talk about this break down of the deal between get that and tronc. ellen: it was an unsolicited offer. it has fallen apart before. this time it fell big-time. gannett is the biggest newspaper chain in the country. they want to build a huge chain of newspapers. tronc is the old tribune a company. they own the los angeles times. he wants to help save journalism. he did not want to give it up. the price was good. in the end, it dragged on for so long that the financing fell through. carol: another story . you write about sam's club in china. it's not the sam's club we know here in the united states. >> they have repositioned sam's club. they mostly target small businesses. it's known for both purchases and discounts. in china, it's about high-end alex to affluent consumers who are willing to pay for luxury products and even walmart products that are priced higher in china than they are in other markets. carol: we are talking about $3000 for a rice cooker. ellen: my favorite is there's an... Bloomberg Markets : BLOOMBERG : November 11, 2016 10:00am-11:01am EST you have relations ships with china. -- relationships with china. there have been losers in the days. guest: this is the big loser. first you have this america first trade policy under trump. then you have the rising rates. we were always wondering whether this rally would blast rising rates. em debt getting killed and the mexico etf getting destroyed. $500 million in new creations. julie: still ahead alibaba president joins us for a look at single stay. -- singles day. mark: i am mark barton. julie: i'm julie hyman and this is "bloomberg markets." vonnie: we have more from new york. >> donald trump promising a busy day, but isn't sharing any details. will soon behat he making some very important decisions on the people who will be running our government, but trump staff has not offered any guidance on what is on the schedule in the coming days. repealing obama care is the top priority for republican voters. that is according to a new postelection poll. 70 4% of republicans want donald trump to rescind the law once he takes office. building the wall is the lowest priority for voters you have relations ships with china. -- relationships with china. there have been losers in the days. guest: this is the big loser. first you have this america first trade policy under trump. then you have the rising rates. we were always wondering whether this rally would blast rising rates. em debt getting killed and the mexico etf getting destroyed. $500 million in new creations. julie: still ahead alibaba president joins us for a look at single stay. -- singles day. mark: i am mark barton.... Charlie Rose : BLOOMBERG : November 9, 2016 10:00pm-11:01pm EST lead. deal weekor the becomes harder to reach. and there are wins for asia. tore may be hindrance china's growth and abenomics. >> it Bloomberg Markets: Americas : BLOOMBERG : November 3, 2016 12:00pm-3:31pm EDT mother china and steel exports. india, speaking of tariffs, have proposed an anti-dumping tax on china. a contentiousis issue not just with the u.s. and other nations, but hr itself. paul: the world trains -- the exists,ade system as it is actually a system designed by intelligent people. one thing is it has an escape clause and safety belts. things,able to do measures toduties, give yourself some time. i do not see what is happening as being out of the norm. it is new to have developing companies like india to play a role. you expect them to play -- behave the way the ufo's did. >> is there a problem with trade deals in compliance or with management and unfair advantages, some people say, that are taken by some nations, maybe even china, by currency manipulation? the chinas funny how story has changed completely and the political discourse has not caught up. these days, china is supporting on a massive scale. they are leading the is there trying to support capital fight spirit not now. five years ago, that was a real issue. i do not think that is the story now. >> what about growth in mother china and steel exports. india, speaking of tariffs, have proposed an anti-dumping tax on china. a contentiousis issue not just with the u.s. and other nations, but hr itself. paul: the world trains -- the exists,ade system as it is actually a system designed by intelligent people. one thing is it has an escape clause and safety belts. things,able to do measures toduties, give yourself some time. i do not see what is happening as being out of the norm. it is new to have developing... national correspondent for the atlantic and a veteran observer of china and japan and many other places. his new piece in the magazine is called "china's great leap backward." in it, he argues that the country of almost 1.4 billion people has not been this repressive since the cultural revolution. i am pleased to have him back on this program. welcome. james: thank you, charlie. charlie: it's entirely appropriate that we talk about this, after talking about president-elect trump. this is how the article, the great leap backward, comes. china is less free, less open and more belligerent than it was five years ago, even 10. it has become repressive in a way not since the cultural revolution. a china optimist considers an optimistic future, and he asks, what a more dangerous and adversarial china would mean for the united states. especially when we look at the change in government here. james: indeed. and so i wrote this article before the election, because that's the reality of magazines with their lead times. but its assumption was the united states would be thinking calmly and rationall national correspondent for the atlantic and a veteran observer of china and japan and many other places. his new piece in the magazine is called "china's great leap backward." in it, he argues that the country of almost 1.4 billion people has not been this repressive since the cultural revolution. i am pleased to have him back on this program. welcome. james: thank you, charlie. charlie: it's entirely appropriate that we talk about this, after talking about president-elect trump.... was up 41% but it was the active buyers in the china retail marketplace, 439 million, up 14%. the cloud computing revenue up 130% year on year. what is next? paul: i think you could talk to jack ma. he talks about expanding outside of china in a very aggressive way that he expects to get half of their revenue from outside china going forward in the next few years. a big growth expansion for them. the consumer spending in china is growing dramatically. alibaba is a great beneficiary but they are putting money to work around the world in terms of e-commerce and media businesses. david: is there a chinese wall? it is a bad time. -- pun. paul: i think there is a lot of runway in china and investors are comfortable for them to play out the consumer growth and spending and e-commerce in china. jack ma is not satisfied. he knows he can have a major platform around the world. alix: paul swinney for bloomberg intelligence. a group of economists are warning against the trump presidency, saying things could get worse. this is bloomberg. ♪ emma: this is bloomberg daybreak. it is 7:30 a.m. o was up 41% but it was the active buyers in the china retail marketplace, 439 million, up 14%. the cloud computing revenue up 130% year on year. what is next? paul: i think you could talk to jack ma. he talks about expanding outside of china in a very aggressive way that he expects to get half of their revenue from outside china going forward in the next few years. a big growth expansion for them. the consumer spending in china is growing dramatically. alibaba is a great beneficiary but they...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line858
__label__wiki	0.511432	0.511432	Squawk on the Street Washington Business Report ABC World News Now America's News Headquarters Greta Van Susteren : FOXNEWS : September 10, 2012 10:00pm-11:00pm EDT by FOXNEWS inner service intelligence service, isi, the arm of the military that helped arm the mujahedin, that helped create taliban. >> greta: and haqqani network? >> they have funded them for more than 20 years fighting the soviets. it's no surprise. i think isi hates the united states. the issue has been whether the radicals will take over the country and supply of nuclear weapons. >> greta: is the isi part of the rad kalsz? >> absolutely. >> greta: who is securing the nuclear weapons? >> not the isi. but there is no doubt to me that those weapons are incredibly vulnerable. that is why the strategy of the united states is to grit our teeth and talk to what is left of the civilian government and authority and to the military that are not radical and prevent this cancer from taking over. >> greta: thinking why are we giving this money, billions of dollars who people who hate us. the ugly part of democracy we try to buy our friends? >> not everybody in pakistan hates us. >> greta: but the isi does. >> we made mistakes going back to the reagan administration, isi that our aid to the mujaheddin, inner service intelligence service, isi, the arm of the military that helped arm the mujahedin, that helped create taliban. >> greta: and haqqani network? >> they have funded them for more than 20 years fighting the soviets. it's no surprise. i think isi hates the united states. the issue has been whether the radicals will take over the country and supply of nuclear weapons. >> greta: is the isi part of the rad kalsz? >> absolutely. >> greta: who is securing the... 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WHUT (Howard University Television) BBC World News : WHUT : September 11, 2012 7:00am-7:30am EDT by WHUT network that the country that is powerful -- powerful spy agency, isi among regards america as its worst enemy. in an interview from his present in bashar dr. shakil afridi said the deposed who interrogated him said he helped pakistan that a worst enemy, worse even than the indians. pretty extraordinary remarks if they stand up to scrutiny. >> yes, although that is how a lot of people imagine the pakistani intelligence agencies do you the world. a lot of pakistanis, indeed, the things that way as well. a great deal of anti-americanism here at the moment. but this is all focussed on dr. shakil afridi, a man arrested about 20 days after the raid in which osama bin laden was killed because he had set up a fake vaccination program, and the idea was that he somehow obtained a blood samples and dna samples from the bin laden compound in order to verify whether the al-qaeda leader was there are not. we are not clear about whether he was ever able to do that. we do not think he was. but even then, he was sentenced to 33 years in prison, ostensibly on charges of funding a militant group. bu network that the country that is powerful -- powerful spy agency, isi among regards america as its worst enemy. in an interview from his present in bashar dr. shakil afridi said the deposed who interrogated him said he helped pakistan that a worst enemy, worse even than the indians. pretty extraordinary remarks if they stand up to scrutiny. >> yes, although that is how a lot of people imagine the pakistani intelligence agencies do you the world. a lot of pakistanis, indeed, the things... Capitol Hill Hearings : CSPAN : September 26, 2012 1:00am-6:00am EDT remained quite strong. throughout these last couple of years, we have had very close ties to the isi. we have not achieved the things we would like to. we have very close ties. here i am heartbroken about the trainers leading, but we have been very close air force-to- air force. do not let my broad categories obscure the fact that there are many things we deal with very well. one of those is safety. we are always engaged with the pakistanis about that. i would argue we have worked responsibly behind the headlines to try to make sure, do our best, that there will not be irresponsible protection of nuclear weapons and that the chances for an accident or an attack are minimized. i guess i would disagree that we are not doing that. what i am saying is, from that basis, the basis of our isi contacts, our military contacts, that the broader context of the relationship definitely needs to expand, both regionally and socially. that is in addition. >> the end of the room. >> i am from india. i would like to follow up on your remarks that the pakistan leadership [indiscernible] can you give us mor remained quite strong. throughout these last couple of years, we have had very close ties to the isi. we have not achieved the things we would like to. we have very close ties. here i am heartbroken about the trainers leading, but we have been very close air force-to- air force. do not let my broad categories obscure the fact that there are many things we deal with very well. one of those is safety. we are always engaged with the pakistanis about that. i would argue we have worked responsibly... America's News Headquarters : FOXNEWSW : September 9, 2012 7:00am-7:30am PDT and tense as they are. >> eric: it is unbelievable. what you said, that the isi, the intelligence service of this exposed ally, the one that kept bli bin laden and didn't know anything about it. they support the terrorist group. >> they supported the haqqani and haqqani network going back to the days the soviets were still in afghanistan and we supplied isi weapons they in turn distributeded to groups like this. so there is' long history here and this is nothing, particularly, new and it demonstrates, i think why it's so important to make sure that these groups don't continue to increase their power inside pakistan and lead to the potential that this already very difficult government in pakistan will fall and be replaced by another one, that is even more overtly hostile to our interests. >> eric: ambassador, it seems time and time again we are rewarding bad behavior, you know, how do we stop this? is there anything we can do? >> there is one thing we can do and that is defeat the taliban and the haqqani network. president obama has not done that, in the past three years, and we ha and tense as they are. >> eric: it is unbelievable. what you said, that the isi, the intelligence service of this exposed ally, the one that kept bli bin laden and didn't know anything about it. they support the terrorist group. >> they supported the haqqani and haqqani network going back to the days the soviets were still in afghanistan and we supplied isi weapons they in turn distributeded to groups like this. so there is' long history here and this is nothing, particularly, new... The FOX Report With Shepard Smith : FOXNEWSW : September 7, 2012 4:00pm-5:00pm PDT . its bases are in pakistan and has ties to pakistan's intelligence service or isi. >> i think the relationship between the haqqani network and the isi certainly exists but it's a lot more troubled than many outsiders understand. the haqqanis and the isi definitely don't get along all the time there is a tremendous amount of animosity and the haqqanis have made a veiled threats, thinly veiled threats that once the americans pull out of the region, they will turn their guns on islamabad. >> for years, the state department didn't designate the haqqani group terrorists it didn't want to alienate the pakistani military. those changed after the bin laden raid. the gloves came off then. >> harris: jerch, we heard about the threat they said this kind of announcement and the impact it might have on sergeant berg doll. what impact could this have on the rest of our troops in the fighting in fing. >> the designation should trigger sanctions and dry up the group's ability to gunned raise in the gulf states the haqqani network for decades. remember what admiral mike mullen said before he retir . its bases are in pakistan and has ties to pakistan's intelligence service or isi. >> i think the relationship between the haqqani network and the isi certainly exists but it's a lot more troubled than many outsiders understand. the haqqanis and the isi definitely don't get along all the time there is a tremendous amount of animosity and the haqqanis have made a veiled threats, thinly veiled threats that once the americans pull out of the region, they will turn their guns on islamabad.... 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U.S. Senate : CSPAN2 : September 27, 2012 5:00pm-8:00pm EDT by CSPAN2 network as the variable arm of the isi which i think further upset, as you might imagine, pakistan's. the real clincher was, of course, the incident in november in a 24 pakistani soldiers were killed in a cross border incident. as a result of the events that have taken place that undercut the trust that those people who are most inclined to want to work with us felt the trust was eroding, we really did have senior members of the corps commanders telling us you obviously did this on purpose to teach as a lesson to be done come in within a c-130 gunship. i don't know if your military people, but in a c-130 gunship fired not bullets, but projectiles. so when you're hit by and a c-130 gunship there's nothing left of the. that is to say, and the pakistan said in november 2000, they said something that was -- the word escapes me. it was over the top, too much. with there were saying was you don't do something the way you did and say it was an accident. the trust and build a relationship that basically. draft the time, when we hit bottom? realized this idea of hitting bottom lik network as the variable arm of the isi which i think further upset, as you might imagine, pakistan's. the real clincher was, of course, the incident in november in a 24 pakistani soldiers were killed in a cross border incident. as a result of the events that have taken place that undercut the trust that those people who are most inclined to want to work with us felt the trust was eroding, we really did have senior members of the corps commanders telling us you obviously did this on purpose to... Washington This Week : CSPAN : September 30, 2012 10:30am-2:00pm EDT quite strong. throughout these last couple of years, we have had very close ties to the isi. we have not achieved the things we would like to. we have very close ties. here i am heartbroken about the trainers leading, but we have been very close air force-to- air force. do not let my broad categories obscure the fact that there are many things we deal with very well. one of those is safety. we are always engaged with the pakistanis about that. i would argue we have worked responsibly behind the headlines to try to make sure, do our best, that there will not be irresponsible protection of nuclear weapons and that the chances for an accident or an attack are minimized. i guess i would disagree that we are not doing that. what i am saying is, from that basis, the basis of our isi contacts, our military contacts, that the broader context of the relationship definitely needs to expand, both regionally and socially. that is in addition. >> the end of the room. >> i am from india. i would like to follow up on your remarks that the pakistan leadership [indiscernible] can you give us more ins quite strong. throughout these last couple of years, we have had very close ties to the isi. we have not achieved the things we would like to. we have very close ties. here i am heartbroken about the trainers leading, but we have been very close air force-to- air force. do not let my broad categories obscure the fact that there are many things we deal with very well. one of those is safety. we are always engaged with the pakistanis about that. i would argue we have worked responsibly behind... RT : September 23, 2012 8:30pm-9:00pm EDT political convictions have anything to do with that from isis and the love of the by he just did it for entertainment or if an inmate had something to do with politics if he was saakashvili as enemy they would pick him this is them is extremely politicized if you work in the prison system or in the police you must be loyal to the saakashvili regime you know criticism is a lie so you should either leave or they will get to you they would kill me but they would seize me and my whole family they would hold us hostage expel us from georgia i had to come here to appeal to the international community i've been waiting for this moment this has nothing to do with the election you know i could have published this tape in the september or in august or in the van bibber but the published not fabricated tape to accuse me and i had to respond to me the funny thing is what kind of response did you expect from european institutions so many shall listen to them. really has people who lobby for him in the european union. and they're very influential it's extremely difficult to find a person. here who wo political convictions have anything to do with that from isis and the love of the by he just did it for entertainment or if an inmate had something to do with politics if he was saakashvili as enemy they would pick him this is them is extremely politicized if you work in the prison system or in the police you must be loyal to the saakashvili regime you know criticism is a lie so you should either leave or they will get to you they would kill me but they would seize me and my whole family they... RT : September 17, 2012 12:00am-12:30am EDT now they're back a three person crew of the russian soyuz spacecraft successfully completed their isis mission landing safely in kazakhstan artist on barton has more from moscow star city. astronaut joseph carter and cosmonauts going now to. a river in are back on earth after four months on the international space station up there they've been maintaining a presence in space and with their other three crewmembers they've been conducting experiments and maintenance on the station up there including one rather innovative solution to a technical problem they used a toothbrush to help fix a problem with one of the solar panels here at mission control in moscow we've been watching the return back through the atmosphere coming in over the mediterranean and landing safely in their soyuz capsule in this step because that stand it has been a difficult year and a half for russians the space program there have been a listing of errors in the various missions even though none of these were manned missions it has led to a likely discussions of a restructuring of the russian space agency. and a numb now they're back a three person crew of the russian soyuz spacecraft successfully completed their isis mission landing safely in kazakhstan artist on barton has more from moscow star city. astronaut joseph carter and cosmonauts going now to. a river in are back on earth after four months on the international space station up there they've been maintaining a presence in space and with their other three crewmembers they've been conducting experiments and maintenance on the station up there... 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Washington Business Report : WJLA : September 16, 2012 9:30am-10:00am EDT belli, it isis hard toto see how this will be sustainable. withth china slowiwing in the u.s. ecomy y growing at les than 2% it is hard to see where profability will come from. >> let's also acknowledge that ben bernankeke is something of a psychogist. the rket was expecting an oreo cookie.. he ge the same -- stuffed oreo cookie in a dble-stuffed o oreo cooe. >> our generation of economists believe you can only for the market for so long. you mimight get the ball out of this, but evenentually the air comesut. >> i was just going to ask a question, really. was this action because our elected officials s do not in terms of policy? >> a loaded question from barbara lang. >> i will ask k these gentlen cause w we and nonot gotten electe ficials to do what they need to >> i haveve said that we cannot get this economy going until wewe do something about china and oil development someing e president has promised to do and has not done. chuck schumer understand that. he is a big advocatate kind china and he has pressure fm chuck schumer and was lectured to get busy. >> do you think it is him belli, it isis hard toto see how this will be sustainable. withth china slowiwing in the u.s. ecomy y growing at les than 2% it is hard to see where profability will come from. >> let's also acknowledge that ben bernankeke is something of a psychogist. the rket was expecting an oreo cookie.. he ge the same -- stuffed oreo cookie in a dble-stuffed o oreo cooe. >> our generation of economists believe you can only for the market for so long. you mimight get the ball out of this, but... . and d we remember the famous rase from bill clinton -- it isis the ecoconomy, stupid. [lauaughter] so, fofor us, what is important for us is the foreign policy. because the relation between the united states and ththe ararab world, the m main issue, the conflict b between israel and the palestinians.. they wouldovee to know the future of the relation between the united states and the arab world. >> pritchett -- president o oba decided to skip the bilateral meetings that he usually holds. he went on "the view" which is a domemestic talk-ow and campaign stops t did not meet with any foforeign leaders during the general assembly. how was that ken overseas, or at least the lebanese perspective? not t that the hit -- that he did not have time, bause he had time foror "the view." ththe voters are in the united states and the most important in the united states is the economy and to present his project to them and convince him of his points -- convince them of his point of view. buthis is not the case for the arab world and the lebanese. the lelebase and the ever world they are interesd out . and d we remember the famous rase from bill clinton -- it isis the ecoconomy, stupid. [lauaughter] so, fofor us, what is important for us is the foreign policy. because the relation between the united states and ththe ararab world, the m main issue, the conflict b between israel and the palestinians.. they wouldovee to know the future of the relation between the united states and the arab world. >> pritchett -- president o oba decided to skip the bilateral meetings that he usually... 11 News at 5 : WBAL : September 28, 2012 5:19pm-6:00pm EDT can regarding koses. rob roblin has the story. >> for the students here at isi elementary, they are big winners. they are the most improved in attendance. >> who is excited to come to school every day? that's fantastic. >> attendance is a big problem in baltimore city schools. getting kids to come to school and on time has become a real challenge. >> even in the early years, we began to see the signs of what becomes an epidemic later. roughly 25% of the kids in baltimore last year were chronically absent during the year. >> at west side, they were able to do something about by increasing attendance numbers. >> we're talking about going from 87% to 95%. how did we do it? it was the teachers calling parents in the morning, taking accountability, making sure they were in school. making sure there was no excuse to stay home. we provide uniforms. i pick up children that do not have transportation. we did not make excuses. we want kids here every day to learn. >> we won! >> these kids here won a trip to port discovery. now the hope is to rise attendance across the school district. >> its can regarding koses. rob roblin has the story. >> for the students here at isi elementary, they are big winners. they are the most improved in attendance. >> who is excited to come to school every day? that's fantastic. >> attendance is a big problem in baltimore city schools. getting kids to come to school and on time has become a real challenge. >> even in the early years, we began to see the signs of what becomes an epidemic later. roughly 25% of the kids in... RT : September 14, 2012 4:00am-4:30am EDT of isis surrounding its production as did london just a geisha. reports. the anger over this film has been growing like a snowball so has the confusion over who made it at the beginning our colleagues at the a.p. news agency reached to the person who posted the video on you tube someone named sambo's silly by phone he confirmed that he had made the film identified himself as an israeli american the israeli foreign minister said there was no such israeli citizen and who ever had shot the film was and i quote an unspeakable act then our colleagues tracked down december so his cell number which brought them to the home of someone named nakoula mr nakoula told them that he had produced the film and that he was a christian copland but whatever made the film its trailer went viral after an egyptian american coptic activist from washington d.c. sent an e-mail to journalists around the world promoting this of kember eleven event and included a link to this fourteen minute clip in egypt journalists translated some of the footage into arabic and brought tested and then it all started when m of isis surrounding its production as did london just a geisha. reports. the anger over this film has been growing like a snowball so has the confusion over who made it at the beginning our colleagues at the a.p. news agency reached to the person who posted the video on you tube someone named sambo's silly by phone he confirmed that he had made the film identified himself as an israeli american the israeli foreign minister said there was no such israeli citizen and who ever had shot the film... WGN (CW) WGN News at Nine : WGN : September 15, 2012 9:00pm-10:00pm CDT by WGN -american and latino community isies >> they were chanting and carrying homemade signs >> the rally peaceful and a passionate gathering ultimately about the kids >> we wake up thinking about them... >> one of the teachers says he hopes in the future... the lines of communication stay open >> the mayor did not answer questions from reporters about the strike when he took part in the mexican independence day parade. the mayor served as grand marshal this year. the annual parade has been held downtown since 1969 to remember mexico's war for independence >> several south and west side community leaders are not just hoping the school strike will end the. you're saying it must end for the benefit of students. they gathered at the black star project headquarters >> the voice of parents and community have a totally been left out of this equation. have ideaswe have ideas >> black star project executive director also said the strike affected black and latino students the most since they make up 87% of the roman citywide >> wake forest high-schoollake forest high-school will be in session mond -american and latino community isies >> they were chanting and carrying homemade signs >> the rally peaceful and a passionate gathering ultimately about the kids >> we wake up thinking about them... >> one of the teachers says he hopes in the future... the lines of communication stay open >> the mayor did not answer questions from reporters about the strike when he took part in the mexican independence day parade. the mayor served as grand marshal this year. the... Good Morning Washington at 500 : WJLA : September 11, 2012 5:00am-6:00am EDT at location it has held previous product unveilings. unveiling isys the .he tip of the iceberg he has heard the company is preparing a preparing a new lineup ipads. glassesd somering on models at a runway show in york, $1,500 a pair. linda bell reporting from abc 7 news. back to you. >> thank you. 5:52. it's going to warm up today at some point? >> yes. >> it was a little chilly as i stepped outside this morning. you put on the seat warmers? >> i drive a 2000 maxima with it.000 miles on you think i have a seat warmer? i did slide the thermostat down. our temperatures, coolest numbers so far this morning. winchester, typically one of the in the winchester area, 40 even. 42 in frostburg. 43 in middletown. 44 in montgomery county and barnesville. 59 at reagan national along the potomac. 60 in annapolis along the bay. 48 degrees in culpeper. at winchester regional airport,. .i that is five degrees cooler than yesterday at this time. clear conditions across the half of the country. pressure planted directly overhead. give us calm wind throughout the day. you noticed it was evening,afte at location it has held previous product unveilings. unveiling isys the .he tip of the iceberg he has heard the company is preparing a preparing a new lineup ipads. glassesd somering on models at a runway show in york, $1,500 a pair. linda bell reporting from abc 7 news. back to you. >> thank you. 5:52. it's going to warm up today at some point? >> yes. >> it was a little chilly as i stepped outside this morning. you put on the seat warmers? >> i drive a 2000 maxima... Squawk Box : CNBC : September 13, 2012 6:00am-9:00am EDT by CNBC from isi group. anything that you can say that i haven't heard, brian, yesterday with our detailed coverage of the event? >> sure, skrjoe. the actual product came in similar to what we were expecting, from when i actually tipped the iphone 5 and got to play around with it, i was blown away. i think once you get it in your hand, it will feel much different than the iphone 4s. >> why, what eye differe's diff? >> kind of like the ipad. when you actually touched it for the first time, you were like, wow. and the iphone 5 has a similar feel. it's 20% lighter, almost 20% thinner. but the actual screen is four inches. so on a geometry basis, around 30% laernlg than the current 3.5 inch screen. so at the end of the day, much better product from a feature standpoint. >> my question on this was i have been a blackberry holdout because i can't figure out how to type on the touch screen. if i turn that screen sideways, do i get a bigger keyboard? i can type on the ipad, i can't type on the iphone. >> the one dimension that is the same is the width. so you can actually type with one thumb. but from isi group. anything that you can say that i haven't heard, brian, yesterday with our detailed coverage of the event? >> sure, skrjoe. the actual product came in similar to what we were expecting, from when i actually tipped the iphone 5 and got to play around with it, i was blown away. i think once you get it in your hand, it will feel much different than the iphone 4s. >> why, what eye differe's diff? >> kind of like the ipad. when you actually touched it for the first... Erin Burnett OutFront : CNN : September 8, 2012 2:00am-3:00am EDT pakistan spy agency the isi. he also told us he's skeptical the new disignition will slow down or prevent any future attacks. >>> "outfront" has learned a victim of the sikh temple shooting in wisconsin is recovering. it's been more than a month since the shooting left seven dead. of the four people injured, punjab singh is the only one who remains in the hospital. his family said despite the heroic efforts of emergency responders at the scene, he has not fully recovered, but the family since singh has been moved out of the intensive care unit. >>> cnn learning tonight that congressman jackson has checked out of the mayo clinic. being treated for bipolar depression. we're told the democrat is back in washington with his family and when asked by cnn if representative jackson would be on capitol hill monday, his chief of staff told us, we hope. >>> it has been 400 days since the u.s. lost its top credit rating. the white house said today it needs more time to deliver a report to congress. those take effect at the beginning of the year. white house secretary jay carney says the repor pakistan spy agency the isi. he also told us he's skeptical the new disignition will slow down or prevent any future attacks. >>> "outfront" has learned a victim of the sikh temple shooting in wisconsin is recovering. it's been more than a month since the shooting left seven dead. of the four people injured, punjab singh is the only one who remains in the hospital. his family said despite the heroic efforts of emergency responders at the scene, he has not fully recovered,... 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Fox Morning News at 5 : WTTG : September 13, 2012 5:00am-6:00am EDT get the latest. >>> welcome back. live look outside. this is kurt isy of our virginia department of transportation camera. that is i-395 route there that you are looking at. that is on thursday, november 13, 2012. >> kind of quiet out there right now. and weatherwise too, nice and quiet and cool. >> nice cool start to your day just like the last couple of morning. kids headed to the bus stop, they might want to bring along a jacket or light sweater variety. later today, back near 80. let's take a look at our satellite picture. nice and quiet out there to start your day. just like the last several mornings. should be a mostly sunny start and later this afternoon, lots of sunshine. dry conditions, highs expected to be in the low 80s. see the cloud north and west of chicago. that is i cold front which will impact us later tomorrow and tomorrow night. i'll have more details on that in just a minute. temperatures regionally, we are once again quite cool, 63 in washington. lots of 50s. even low 50s north and wets of the city this morning. pittsburgh, 60 degrees. 56 in new york city and 61 get the latest. >>> welcome back. live look outside. this is kurt isy of our virginia department of transportation camera. that is i-395 route there that you are looking at. that is on thursday, november 13, 2012. >> kind of quiet out there right now. and weatherwise too, nice and quiet and cool. >> nice cool start to your day just like the last couple of morning. kids headed to the bus stop, they might want to bring along a jacket or light sweater variety. later today,... A Nation Remembers : WJLA : September 9, 2012 3:00pm-4:00pm EDT fr society. the memorial should instill the ideas that patriotism isis a a moral duty, , that fedom cos at a price, and that the victims of this attack have paid the ultimate price. we challge you," the statement concluded,d, "to cree a memorial that translates this terrible tragedy into a a place of solace, peace, and hehealin" >> it's been said that the character of a nation is forged not in tragedy, but in its response to tragedy. as such, the story of the pentagon memorial is a story of hope and inspiration. it is part of the healing both for the nation and for the families of the 184 men, women and children lost here that day. the memorial represents a nation that, while never forgetting, maintains a conviction to build hope where once there was only despair, peace where once there was only conflict, and a future where once we saw only an ending. >> jameses laychak: it's an individual memorial, it'ss a collective memorial, and in a very eloquent way kind of tells a story out what happened there. the family members, when we talked about this, we said we wanted a place that would fr society. the memorial should instill the ideas that patriotism isis a a moral duty, , that fedom cos at a price, and that the victims of this attack have paid the ultimate price. we challge you," the statement concluded,d, "to cree a memorial that translates this terrible tragedy into a a place of solace, peace, and hehealin" >> it's been said that the character of a nation is forged not in tragedy, but in its response to tragedy. as such, the story of the pentagon... Fox 5 News at Ten : WTTG : September 7, 2012 10:00pm-11:00pm EDT election to me is about which... candidate isis more likely to return us to full employment. this is a clear choice. the republican plan is to cut more taxes on upper-income... people and go back to deregulation. that's what got us in trouble in the first place. president obama has a plan to rebuild america from... the ground up, investing in innovation, education... and job training. it only works if there is a strong middle class. that's what happened when i was president. we need to keep going with his plan. president obama: i'm barack obama and... i approve this message. >>> follow up on a story we brought you last month. a young couple from suburban chicago who once thought they'd never have children welcomed their first daughter into the world. they did so with the help of the little girl's grandmother who carried the baby for them. fox 5's allison seymour has that story. >> reporter: this is elle cynthia jordan, the baby her parents still can't believe is finally here. >> we're doing good. besides a little lack of sleep, which we knew was coming, we couldn't be happier. it's l election to me is about which... candidate isis more likely to return us to full employment. this is a clear choice. the republican plan is to cut more taxes on upper-income... people and go back to deregulation. that's what got us in trouble in the first place. president obama has a plan to rebuild america from... the ground up, investing in innovation, education... and job training. it only works if there is a strong middle class. that's what happened when i was president. we need to keep... 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ABC 7 News at 500 : WJLA : September 3, 2012 5:00pm-6:00pm EDT return us to full employment. this is a clear choice. the republic plan isis to cut more taxes on upper-income... people and go back to deregulation. that's what got us in trouble in the first place. president obama has a plan to rebuild america from... the ground up, investing in innovation, education... and job training. it onlworks if there is a strong middle class. that's what happened when i was president. we need to keep going with is plan. president obama: i'm barack obama and... i approve this message. >> the school year begins tomorrow in arlington. >> getting to the school may be an issue. they are changing the policies on he was allowed to ride the bus to school. the parents are having to a range ways for their kids to get to class on times. ras lyders live in arlington. -- roz plater is live. >> they are appealing this decision. the appeal has been denied. they're trying to find out what to do and they're weighing their options. bright and early tuesday morning, arlington school buses will be carrying fewer students than last year. these parents are scrambling. figuring out return us to full employment. this is a clear choice. the republic plan isis to cut more taxes on upper-income... people and go back to deregulation. that's what got us in trouble in the first place. president obama has a plan to rebuild america from... the ground up, investing in innovation, education... and job training. it onlworks if there is a strong middle class. that's what happened when i was president. we need to keep going with is plan. president obama: i'm barack obama and... i... a look at this picture, it is just gorgeous. look at the sun coming up. isis love it. in an airplane flying ahead to go right along with it. we are watching the days getting shorter and shorter, losing a couple of minutes of sunlight each and every day. let's take a look at the forecast for today -- but the headlines first, temperatures back into the 80's. starting to warm up and starting to get a little more humid. the next chance of rain of raincome -- does not come until we have into the weekend. dry today, sunday, at 82 degrees before the day is done. the seven-day forecast coming up in a minute but let us check out the traffic is moving along. certainly no weather-related delays. >> but we have a couple of incidents so far this morning. traveling between brandywine and waldorf north from 301, the crash at cedarville to the side but delays in place. some slow traffic heading into the district northbound 395 landmark to seminary road. in making a way to the naval research lab, you will see brake lights. your beltway delay is in maryland. making the drive on the outer loop from 95 a look at this picture, it is just gorgeous. look at the sun coming up. isis love it. in an airplane flying ahead to go right along with it. we are watching the days getting shorter and shorter, losing a couple of minutes of sunlight each and every day. let's take a look at the forecast for today -- but the headlines first, temperatures back into the 80's. starting to warm up and starting to get a little more humid. the next chance of rain of raincome -- does not come until we have into the... 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Power Lunch : CNBC : September 17, 2012 1:00pm-2:00pm EDT . reporting quarterly results on friday. we're told that all eyes are going to be on orders. isi expects tose ordehose order decline 13.6%. there are some bigger ticket west coast sales so we'll be watching that very closely but today, shares down nearly 5%. >>> many people will tell you that the market is waiting for new themes to develop. fedex reports tomorrow so an important snapshot of where we are with the transports. later in the week, europe will have their flash pmi. that could also just change the view perhaps from where we are with the recovery or not in europe and the actions of the ecb and the fed. mary, what are you watching as we head into the afternoon trade? >> we're watching to see whether or not the markets decline accelerates. it's been trading at a fairly narrow range throughout the day but it is starting to wide an little bit. basically mondays have not been stellar for the markets to say the least and in fact the first day of any trading day of any week, be it a monday or tuesday, down 15 of the last 16 sessions. no change here as we head into the second half of tr . reporting quarterly results on friday. we're told that all eyes are going to be on orders. isi expects tose ordehose order decline 13.6%. there are some bigger ticket west coast sales so we'll be watching that very closely but today, shares down nearly 5%. >>> many people will tell you that the market is waiting for new themes to develop. fedex reports tomorrow so an important snapshot of where we are with the transports. later in the week, europe will have their flash pmi. that... The Rachel Maddow Show : MSNBC : September 27, 2012 12:00am-1:00am EDT because of the republican headwinds ithe e isi. because they have grown so strong since she was elect there had in 2006. that, since the claire mccaskill race, was before republicans decided this guy would be their nominee to secede her. >> if it's a legitimate rape fema bhaystr to shut that whole thing down. >> republican u.s. senate candidate todd akin of missouri explaining the difference between legitimate rapes and other rapes. you know, things called rape, but, you know. thinstuflikehat r his whole career. but now that he's a u.s. senate candidate, you're not supposed to articulate things that sound that crazy. so when he said that last month, everybody went nuts, including the right. his own party decided heould nde murr be the u.s. sena the other candidate from missouri, roy blunt, said at the time, todd needs to get out of this race. thd of the senate campaign committee for the national republican appeared said of todd akin, "we're done." just about everybody in mnndl , tholitics, fromitt way down to the scott browns of the world called for todd akin to get out of that missou because of the republican headwinds ithe e isi. because they have grown so strong since she was elect there had in 2006. that, since the claire mccaskill race, was before republicans decided this guy would be their nominee to secede her. >> if it's a legitimate rape fema bhaystr to shut that whole thing down. >> republican u.s. senate candidate todd akin of missouri explaining the difference between legitimate rapes and other rapes. you know, things called rape, but, you know.... CNN Newsroom : CNN : September 7, 2012 12:00pm-1:00pm EDT isi, the security organization, and it was fear that it might anger the pakistanis and make the relations between the united states and pakistan even worse. also, they are involved in negotiations to bring hopefully eventually the situation in afghanistan to a close with diplomacy and this by designating them could drive them away. those were the arguments that they didn't win out, because the secretary decided that they met the what was required to be designated a terrorist organization. >> yes, i should note, jill, some of the pictures we watched there, we could see the haqqani network blamed for that terror attack against nato and u.s. troops back on the anniversary of september 11th attacks last year when i was actually embedded in the u.s. military there on the border and the haqqani network was found responsible for that attack. jill, thank you. >>> so the question is are you better off now than you were four years ago? well, this is how joe biden answered the question last night. >> osama bin laden is dead and general motors is alive. >>> we will hear more from the vice p isi, the security organization, and it was fear that it might anger the pakistanis and make the relations between the united states and pakistan even worse. also, they are involved in negotiations to bring hopefully eventually the situation in afghanistan to a close with diplomacy and this by designating them could drive them away. those were the arguments that they didn't win out, because the secretary decided that they met the what was required to be designated a terrorist organization....	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line859
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CNN Newsroom With Carol Costello : CNNW : August 22, 2016 6:00am-8:01am PDT montana empty. its new home will be at the burke museum in seattle. there are only 15 of such skulls known to exist in the world. >>> and incredible rescue after a boat capsizes on a florida lake. fellow boaters pulled two adults and a small child to safety. another toddler was nowhere to be found. police jumped into the lake. they searched for an hour before finally find being the 23-month-old in an air pocket underneath the boat. they say the outcome could have been very different in the child had not been wearing a life vest. truly amazing. >>> feel your stomach flip as you walk across this bridge, the highest and longest glass bottom bridge in the world. it's now open at a national park in central china. it spans between two canyons. it's nearly 1,000 feet off the ground. i don't even think i could do that. wow. >>> thank you so much for joining me today. i'm carol costello. 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__label__wiki	0.861781	0.861781	Vermont Press Bureau (http://www.vermontpressbureau.com/2017/01/10/doyle-honored-by-former-colleagues/) Doyle honored by former colleagues By: Neal P. Goswami \| January 10, 2017 MONTPELIER — Former Sen. Bill Doyle was honored on the Senate floor Tuesday by some of his closest colleagues from his 48-year tenure in the body. Gov. Phil Scott hands Bill Doyle, a former state senator from Washington County, with a resolution passed by the Senate honoring his 48-years of service in the Senate. (Times Argus/Stefan Hard) Doyle, 90, ran for re-election in November for what would have been his 25th term in the Senate. He came in a close fourth-place, however, in the three-seat Washington County district, bringing to a close his illustrious political career that began when he first won in the 1968 election. On Tuesday, Doyle, a Republican, was lauded by a bipartisan group of colleagues as much for his Senate career as he was for his tenure as a professor at Lyndon State College. Two of Doyle’s former students were in the Senate chamber Tuesday as members — and many more have served in the General Assembly during his decades as a professor of government. The Senate began its business Tuesday by passing a resolution declaring Town Meeting day on March 7 as “Bill Doyle Town Meeting Day.” Doyle is known for distributing and tabulating for decades what is known as the “Doyle Poll,” an unscientific survey of Vermonters that has helped shape public policy in Vermont state government. Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman, a Progressive and Democrat, hailed Doyle as “a mentor to so many, both in office and not in office, with respect to the institution of public service.” Zuckerman also noted the Doyle’s lengthy service, which when he left the Senate last week was tied with a lawmaker from Texas, according to the Associated Press. “The civility and public engagement that he has encouraged across this state, both in his class and through the infamous Doyle Poll are hallmarks that this state will never forget.” — Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman “The senator we are honoring today has served in the Vermont Senate for a term longer than I have served as a human on this planet,” Zuckerman said. “The civility and public engagement that he has encouraged across this state, both in his class and through the infamous Doyle Poll are hallmarks that this state will never forget.” Republican Gov. Phil Scott, who was sworn into office last week, previously served as a fellow senator from Washington County. Scott said Doyle went beyond his duties as a senator to serve his constituents. Bill Doyle, a former state senator from Washington County, was honored by his former colleagues Tuesday for his 48 years of service. (Times Argus/Stefan Hard) “Sen. Doyle, you’ve served every day of your life in some capacity. You serve your constituents, you serve your students, you serve all of us who live in Vermont. For 48 years you brought your wisdom to this building in a way that few others could or can,” he said. “You know what it means to be an effective legislator. It isn’t about being the loudest person in the room, it is about being a legislator, not a politician.” Scott signed the resolution immediately at the dais in the Senate Chamber, making the honor official. “I thank you, Bill, for being a true, true public servant,” the governor said. Jeb Spaulding, the chancellor of the Vermont State Colleges and a former state senator and state treasurer, said Doyle “took me under his wing and made me feel equal to these heavyweights that I definitely was not.” “If I’m ever lucky enough to have grandkids I know they’re going to say, ‘My grandfather knew Sen. Doyle,’ and I’m proud of that,” Spaulding said. Several more current and former senators also spoke Tuesday, offering their praise and humorous stories from Doyle’s tenure, including House Speaker Mitzi Johnson, D-South Hero, and a former student of Doyle’s, Republican Sen. Rich Westman of Lamoille County. “Sen. Doyle, you’ve served every day of your life in some capacity. You serve your constituents, you serve your students, you serve all of us who live in Vermont. For 48 years you brought your wisdom to this building in a way that few others could or can.” — Gov. Phil Scott Doyle attended the ceremony Tuesday along with several members of his family. He offered brief remarks in which he thanked his family. “I am grateful. I am honored today by many of my former colleagues,” he said. “I’d like to thank my family for all they did to support my career. Much of my work and length of my tenure would not have bene possible without a supportive family.” While other states have worked to pass legislation that has a tendency to restrict voter participation, I am proud that in Vermont we have done the opposite. We have enacted laws that give a reasonable opportunity … to register to vote and otherwise participate in the electoral process. Doyle used his remarks to praise the state’s citizen legislature and the tradition of Town Meeting Day. “Legislators who interact directly with constituents are best able to understand their needs,” he said. Bill Doyle, a former senator from Washington County, smiles as his former colleagues honored him Tuesday for his 48 years of service. (Times Argus/Stefan Hard) He also said the state’s policy to maintain Senate districts as closely as possible to county borders has “helped to maintain the political identifies of the state’s 14 counties and to avoid the mischief that takes place and the disenfranchisement that results in other states.” Doyle closed his remarks by expressing his hope that his colleagues and constituents found his service to be valuable. There was no doubt that those in the Senate Tuesday agreed. “I learned much from the seven governors and hundreds of legislators with whom I served, and those that took the time to call, write, email or attend public hearings on the issues of the day. In return, I hope I responded the best I could to those requests, needs and goals,” Doyle said. “I hope that members of the General Assembly and former constituents will allow that I did my best to help steer our government to meet the ever-changing needs of Vermont and the state we love. Thank you very much for the honor today.” neal.goswami@timesargus.com Bill Doyle David Zuckerman Jeb Spaulding Phil Scott Soucy picked for Rutland County Senate seat MONTPELIER — Gov. Phil Scott has appointed Killington resident David Soucy to fill an open Senate seat in Rutland County, replacing Republican Kevin Mullin who was recently appointed as chairman of the Green Mountain Care Board. Soucy, 60, the head golf professional and general manager at Green Mountain National Golf Course in Killington, will be sworn in Wednesday morning ahead of a special legislative veto session. He will serve alongside Republican Sens. Senate advances budget and tax bills unanimously Senate rejects raising the legal age for tobacco products View all State Senate Posts → With concession, Doyle's storied Senate career to end MONTPELIER — Longtime Washington County Sen. Bill Doyle withdrew his request for a recount on Wednesday, effectively ending his 48-year tenure in the Vermont State House. Doyle, a Republican who sought re-election earlier this month, finished behind Democrat Francis Brooks and the two other incumbent senators from Washington County. Doyle loses re-election bid to Brooks, knocked out after serving since 1969 View all Bill Doyle Posts → Gun Sense renews push for universal background checks MONTPELIER — Proponents of a law to require background checks on all gun sales in Vermont launched a renewed effort Tuesday to achieve their goal, but roadblocks in their way in previous legislative sessions remain. Gun Sense Vermont, a group pushing for universal background checks, hosted a State House news conference Tuesday to rally supporters. Pomp and ceremony at the State House Gov.-elect Scott begins transition, pledges to find common ground with Democrats View all David Zuckerman Posts → VSC seeks more state funds, expects little MONTPELIER — The Vermont State Colleges system is looking for $4 million in state funding for capital projects, a fraction of the $62 million in deferred maintenance across the college system. Thursday afternoon, the VSC Finance and Facilities Committee adopted a resolution to ask the Legislature for the money to make a host of repairs across the five colleges, but the panel expressed skepticism the system will receive anywhere near the amount being requested. December state revenue report is positive Administration seeks $17 million more in cuts View all Jeb Spaulding Posts → Scott's pot commission seeks recommended legislation for 2019 Vermont joins multi-state suit to preserve DACA View all Phil Scott Posts → Former lawmaker reaches plea deal as sex-assault trial set to start	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line865
__label__wiki	0.816197	0.816197	Wrestle Fanatics :: Popular Demand :: Entertainment World Tweet Six Actors For In The Running For Marvel’s Spider-Man Revealed Subject: Six Actors For In The Running For Marvel’s Spider-Man Revealed Sun May 31, 2015 1:42 pm http://411mania.com/movies/six-actors-for-in-the-running-for-marvels-spider-man-revealed/ According to The Hollywood Reporter, Asa Butterfield (Ender’s Game, Hugo), Tom Holland (The Impossible), Judah Lewis (this fall’s Demolition), Matthew Lintz (Pixels), Charlie Plummer (Boardwalk Empire) and Charlie Rowe (Red Band Society) tested today for the role of Peter Parker in Marvel’s Spider-Man reboot. Asa Butterfield was thought to be the front-runner, but all six tested and word is that a decision could be made as soon as next week. THR also noted the following… “The actors were flown to Atlanta for the tests; that is where Marvel is currently in production on Civil War, the movie in which the character will be introduced before going on to headline his own hopeful trilogy that will be made by Sony Pictures.” » The Marvel Cinematic Universe » Madeleine McCann's fate may never be revealed 'after chief suspect takes secret to his grave' /The Mirror » Reason for Earthquake Season Revealed... » Hidden post, revealed by comment? Wrestle Fanatics :: Popular Demand :: Entertainment World	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line872
__label__wiki	0.704901	0.704901	In Ancient Egypt, C1200 BCE, bitter contention and resentment, secret coups and assassination attempts may decide the fate of those who would become legends...by any means necessary. That he is descended from Ramesses the Great fills Ramesses III with obscene pride. Elevated to the throne following a coup led by his father Setnakhte during the troubled days of Queen Tausret, Ramesses III sets about creating an Egypt that reflects the glory days of Ramesses the Great. He takes on his predecessor's throne name, names his sons after the sons of Ramesses and pushes them toward similar duties. Most of all, he thirsts after conquests like those of his hero grandfather. Ramesses III assumes the throne name of Usermaatre, translated as "Strong is the Ma'at of Re" and endeavours to live up to the sentiment. He fights foreign foes, as had Ramesses the Great; he builds temples throughout the Two Lands, as had Ramesses the Great, and he looks forward to a long, illustrious life on the throne of Egypt, as had Ramesses the Great. Alas, his reign is not meant to be. Ramesses III faces troubles at home--troubles that threaten the stability of Egypt and his own throne. The struggles for power between his wives, his sons, and even the priests of Amun, together with a treasury drained of its wealth, all force Ramesses III to question his success as the scion of a legend. Rating of votes (3) 3customers Sara Jane Sesay (Amazon customer) How Max keeps having one spectacular book after another is mind boggling to me. As a professed Egyptophile and someone who, after many journeys to Egypt, knows enough to be dangerous, I find his books not only entertaining but also steeped in the history of the time. Much of the history is still not known or is controversial among Egyptologists but Max fills in with plausible details. This book is no exception. I hope to see many more books from Max on the subject of Egypt. Once again hats off to my fave author. Dr. Robert Rich, author visit ancient Egypt I know that Max Overton’s ancient Egypt books have many fans. They will love this book, as will anyone else fascinated by ancient history. It is fiction -- but it is also serious historical research. How can that be? Well, go to a museum and gape at the dinosaurs. No one knows what they really looked like. Experts considered a few teeth and other bones, fossilised imprints in mud turned to stone, and similar cues, then used imagination to construct the best guess available. This is exactly what Max has done for an important period in the past of our civilisation. Writing about a strange culture presents a person with a difficult choice: staying true to the unfamiliar complexities, or making the book as readable as possible for the lay reader. Max’s solution has been a quite long set of introductory notes, which is essential reading if you want to understand the names of people and places, the roles, and a few of the customs. There is nothing wrong with this in a work of history, but is not a good start for a novel. Even with the notes, the first three chapters or so are difficult reading because of hard-to-pronounce names. However, the effort is worth it. This is a story of the clash of wills, of intrigue and love and hate, like any good story. So, if you are interested in ancient history, you must read this book, the first of three in the planned series. Tammarah (Amazon customer) Fascinating Fantastic Historical Fiction Nobody writes Historical fiction about ancient Egypt better than Max Overton. I completely enjoyed this book and look forward to the next one. They always make me wish I'd studied archeology. I couldn't put it down. I highly recommend this, and all Max Overton Egyptian books. Please write more!!! 1 Shemu Day 26, Year 1 of Usermaatre Ramesses The morning was cool with a fitful breeze off the river through the Eye of Re, shining down from a cloudless sky, promised heat as the day progressed. A slim man approaching middle age sat on a throne on a raised dais in the forecourt of the Great Temple of Amun in Waset, hearing the sonorous phrases of the priests but not really listening. His own thoughts occupied his attention, and the ceremony conferring on him the Double Crown of Kemet and godhead as Son of Re was little more than an anticlimax after the events of the last three years. The dawn of that day had seen the new king washed and purified in the temple lake, presented within the dark recesses of the temple to the cobra goddess Wadjet and the great god Amun, and now he sat in state while crown after crown was placed on his head and the blessings of the gods invoked. It was a ceremony the king had seen performed on four men and one woman before him, on Baenre Merenptah, on Userkheperure Seti, on Akhenre Siptah, on Sitre Tausret, and most recently on his own father Userkhaure-Setepenre Setnakhte. The first two coronations he had watched with interest, the third with feelings of disdain and the fourth consumed by anger. Only that of his father had made his chest swell with pride and love and anticipation. "Let this be an end to it for the lifetime of the youngest person here," he murmured to himself as the priest droned on, placing one crown after another on the new king's head. "The Great Usermaatre reigned for sixty-seven years and I mean to do the same. Kemet has had its fill of kings being crowned every few years..." He broke off as he realised the priest had stopped talking and was looking apprehensively at him. "Son of Re?" "Continue." Five priests now confronted him and addressed the man sitting on the throne. "Let Heru empower you," cried the first priest. "Your name in Heru shall be Kanakht Aanisut, Strong Bull, Whose Royalty is Great." The man knew that Strong Bull was a common title, necessary to highlight the king's fertility that would reflect upon the kingdoms; whereas the other phrase served to emphasise his royalty, necessary as his family had only just risen to the pinnacle of power from their former obscurity. "Nekhabet and Wadjet name you also," the second priest said. "Your name of Nebty shall be Werhabused mi Tatenen, Great of Hebsed like Ptah-Tatenen." This title had given the uncrowned king many sleepless nights as he wrestled with a way to convey his intentions regarding his reign. He was determined to rule for a long time, making the Hebsed festival of thirty years a regular feature, just as the Great Usermaatre had done. Ptah the Tatenen as god of the primordial mound would signify he also was a creator, fashioning Kemet anew from the chaos of the previous years. The priests continued their acclamation of the king's names. "The gods recognise you as their son on earth," called out the third. "Heru Nebu names you Userrenput mi Atum, The golden falcon, rich in years like Atum." Another creator god, this one based in Iunu. Three gods, Amun for Waset, Ptah for Men-nefer, Atum for Iunu. The king knew that the forms were important, that names carried power and by naming the gods in his throne names, he would bind them to his rule. "Nesut-byt, King of Ta Mehu and Ta Shemau, North and South, cried the fourth priest. "Usermaatre Meriamun, Strong is the Ma'at of Re, beloved of Amun." Let the Ma'at of Re be strong within me, the king thought, just as it was for the Great Usermaatre. Let Amun and Amun's City welcome me. Waset, so important and yet so dangerous. "Sa-Re, Son of Re," the fifth priest said. "Ramesisu Heqaiunu, Ramesses, Ruler of Iunu." As the last words of the priests fell into the silence of the forecourt, the crowd of watching nobles and priests, sons of the new king and army officers, and as many of the common citizens of Waset as could fit into the temple grounds, raised up their voices in praise. "Usermaatre, Usermaatre, Usermaatre!" Waves of sound crashed into the temple walls, spilling out through gates and between the great pylons, washing over the high walls and disturbing the swallows nesting in the eaves. They flew out, twisting and turning as a thin black cloud in the azure sky, twittering their unrest before returning to their nests and roosts. Usermaatre Ramesses, son of Setnakhte, stood and surveyed his people, savouring the moment. Three years before he had been just an army commander, today he was King of Kemet, the most powerful nation under Re. He stepped down from the dais, the tall double crown high on his head, the symbolic beard jutting from his clean-shaven jaw and the robes and emblems of state draped about his muscular limbs. The crowd parted before him and he strode through them, across the forecourt, out through the temple pylon and into the dusty streets of Waset. A roar went up from the common people as they saw their king walk among them, men cheered, women shrieked their delight and called out blessings, and the Medjay ran to keep up, to form a protective cordon around the Son of Re. It was unexpected. The ceremony had called for the newly crowned king to board the royal barge moored at the temple dock and return across the flooded river to the palace on the western bank. Instead, Ramesses chose to walk the dusty streets of Waset, communing with his people, and they loved him for it. I am king, he thought. Like the Great Usermaatre before me, and like him I have strong sons to succeed me, even named for his sons. Ramesses smiled and as if he was turning to offer his countenance to the cheering crowds, looked behind him to where his sons walked. Boys, but they will soon be men, Amunhirkhopeshef my first-born, Khaemwaset marked for glory as a priest like his namesake, Meryamun the cheerful one, and Prehirwenemef my serious boy. Ramesses turned off the main thoroughfare, letting his feet guide him into the streets dedicated to artisans. The shopkeepers gaped at the sight of their king, before breaking into cheers that shook the dust from the linen awnings lining the street. From there he continued on through the broad and narrow streets of Waset, the Medjay jostling the crowds as they pressed close to their king, and on to the palace of the Governor. On the steps of the palace, he stood for a time and basked in the adulation of his people, at last turning his steps toward the docks and the royal barge that would carry him across the river. I will model myself on him, but I will not fail like him. The House of the elder Ramesses fell, but mine will not. I will leave strong sons behind me to carry my name into eternity. In a hundred years, men will name me Great Ramesses. This day, all men would see him up close. In days to come, he would withdraw from the sight of common men, assuming the distance and dignity that was expected of a king, of a god, but this day he was their saviour, a king to unite the kingdoms that had been strained and shattered since the glorious days of the Great Usermaatre. Those days will come again... Year 1 of Usermaatre Ramesses "I have ordered the construction of my Mansion of a Million Years." The three women present in the private quarters of King Ramesses looked at each other, but said nothing for several moments. Then the oldest of them inclined her head and said, "That is as it should be, my son, but how does that concern us?" "It will not just be a funerary temple where priests will offer up sacrifices to me and for me for eternity, but a palace as well. I have it in mind to construct a new residence worthy of me." "It will be costly," murmured a middle-aged, rather portly woman. "This palace is quite comfortable and..." "I am not concerned with the cost, and this palace is old, well over a hundred years. I want something new that will reflect my glory." Ramesses glared at the woman. "I don't expect you to understand that. You have always thought small, but you are no longer the wife of a mere army officer. Learn to think like a royal wife." The Lady in question visibly flinched, but said nothing. "I am sure that the Lady Tiye meant nothing by that remark, Son of Re," said the youngest woman. She was fourteen years old, and already displayed a beauty that eclipsed both her mother and the king's wife. "We all think only of your well-being, brother." Ramesses smiled at the young woman. "I know you do, Tyti. Both you and my mother understand what it is to be royal, but you must no longer call me 'brother'. I am now 'Son of Re' or 'Majesty'...or perhaps just 'my lord'. Even to you." Tyti smiled and bowed her head submissively, though her eyes flashed her annoyance. "Let it be as you say, Son of Re." "And what of me, my son?" asked the older woman. "Will you insist that the mouth that kissed you as a babe must now utter formal phrases instead of endearments?" A smile tugged at the king's lips. "You are Queen Tiy-Merenese, Great Wife of my royal father. I will make an exception for you, in private." "And...and I?" Tiye whispered. "I am your wife and I alone have shared your bed these last fifteen years. Am I not a Queen also and exempt from having to utter these formal titles?" Ramesses pursed his lips and looked at Tiye thoughtfully. "You are the wife of my youth, and were content to be the companion of a lowly army officer. You have borne my sons and stood by my side all these years and thus will always stand high in my estimation..." His voice trailed off. After a few moments, when the king seemed disinclined to continue his thought, Tiye cleared her throat and prompted her husband. "I will always stand high in your estimation, my lord?" "Yes, but a wife and a Queen are two different things." Ramesses sighed. "You were born a commoner..." "As were you, my lord," Tiye blurted. She went pale and her eyes opened wide as she realised what she had said, but forged ahead, determined to make her point. "We were all born common, my lord, but now we are royal." Ramesses frowned. "I am the son of a king, this lady here..." he gestured toward Tiy-Merenese, "is mother of a king, and Tyti is daughter and sister of a king. What are you?" "I am the wife of the king," Tiye said. Her voice trembled slightly but she held her head up. Ramesses nodded. "And you will always be wife of the king, but a king has responsibilities to the kingdoms; responsibilities that he must face no matter what are his personal inclinations." "What are these responsibilities, my son?" Tiy-merenese asked. "I am Bull of Heru, and I must be seen to be fertile, more fertile than those around me..." Tiy-Merenese and Tyti nodded, murmuring, "It is the king's responsibility." Tiye looked stricken. "I have given you four healthy sons that live and five daughters, though only two yet live. What are you saying, royal husband?" "I am saying that as king I must plough many fields. A king must have a Per-Khemret stocked with many women to bear the king's children." "Even your father took other women when he became king," Tiy-Merenese conceded. "I would expect no less of you, my son." "The king may do as he pleases," Tyti agreed. "There are no limits placed on the person of the King." "Of course you will have concubines," Tiye admitted. "Lesser women on whom to father children to become scribes, priests and court officials. It is expected." "Not just concubines," Ramesses said. "A king may have more than one wife, and I mean to." "You promised me when you first brought me to your father's house that I would be your only wife," Tiye whispered. "You are talking nonsense," Tiy-Merenese snapped. "My son was a lowly army officer at the time, but now he is king. It is his right to enjoy as many women as he pleases." "I agree," Tyti said. "My brother the king... Son of Re...knows his duty. He will have many wives and father a great sheaf of sons. Have you picked out your new wives yet?" "I have picked out one." "Will you tell us, Majesty? Is it perhaps some young woman of the court in Waset who has caught your eye? Or in Men-nefer?" Ramesses smiled. "She is in Waset." "She is well born?" Tyti asked. "Of course, she would have to be if you mean to make her your wife." She turned to her mother. "Who do we know that is noble enough to be joined to the King's House?" Queen Tiy-Merenese laughed. "There is only one woman of high enough birth to marry a king and become not only a wife but also Queen." "Who?" Tyti demanded. "Who is this paragon...?" Her mouth gaped open as she stared at her mother and then turned to face her brother. "Tell me, brother." "You know who it is, Tyti my sister. Do you think I would let just any man marry my sister and join his blood to ours? No, you will be my wife and my Queen, Tyti, and have many sons with me." "But she is your sister..." Tiye murmured. "Foolish woman," Tiy-Merenese said. "What is forbidden to common men is the purview of kings. What could be more fitting, a royal wife for a king?" Tiye looked at the young girl in some distress. "You cannot agree to this..." Tyti shook her head, setting the gold beads in her wig softly clattering. She turned to Ramesses. "I will be Queen?" she asked. When the king nodded, she grinned and bowed. "Son of Re, do with me as you will." Behind her, Tiye wept softly. Work started on the Mansion of a Million Years, and on the adjoining palace, walls of stone and mud brick soaring upward as a thousand workers transformed the bare soil of the western shore. Further inland, in the dry, dusty valley of Ta-Sekhet-Ma'at, the king's tomb proceeded apace with the specialised tomb workers transforming bare cut rock into majestic chambers and corridors, walls already ablaze with coloured inscriptions and images. Work had started on it in the days of his father Userkhaure-Setepenre Setnakhte, an open entryway followed by a corridor with two side chambers, and another corridor with eight chambers leading off it. Tyti, daughter of Userkhaure-Setepenre Setnakhte, married her brother Usermaatre Ramesses, though the event attracted little notice. Typically, a woman moved from her father's house to her husband's house, taking her personal possessions and a symbolic pot of fire from the family hearth. There was no ceremony, civil or religious, though the scribes made the appropriate notations in the temple records. Tyti was already a part of the king's Per-Khemret, or Women's Residence, the wing of the palace where the women lived. She merely changed rooms, moving from the suites that housed a dozen women of the king's household into one that befitted her new station as King's Wife. The best room in the Per-Khemret was occupied by the king's mother, Tiy-Merenese, and the second best by Tiye, but when Tiye returned to her suite the evening of Tyti's elevation, she found many of her sumptuous furnishings had been removed from her rooms. Tiye grimaced and stamped her foot in annoyance, but there was nothing she could do. The items had been removed on the king's orders, so she just had to make do with whatever she could take from women lower down the social order. She stalked from room to room, servants in tow, and removed a chair here, a wall hanging there, ignoring the protests of their owners. One item could not be replaced though, a small table inlaid with turquoise and malachite that had been a wedding gift from her father many years before. This loss was not to be borne, and the next day she set out in search of the king to protest its confiscation. She found the king at his noon meal, and entered the room boldly, though her confidence received a jolt when she saw young Tyti sitting on a couch with the king. The king and queen were feeding each other morsels of food, making a game of it. "My lord." Tiye bowed as required when entering the king's presence but rose again quickly. Ramesses did not appear to notice, wiping a spot of grease off Tyti's lips with clean linen. "Have you come to join us, Tiye? I would have you be friends with Tyti." "As my lord commands, but I came to ask for the return of my table." "What table is this?" The king selected a ripe fig from the plate on a side table and broke it open, revealing the pink flesh inside. He fed half to the young woman beside him and bit into the other half. "The turquoise and malachite inlaid table that was removed from my room. The servants said that it was removed on your orders and taken to the rooms of... of your new companion." Ramesses smiled at Tyti. "You have such a table, my love?" "I believe so. It is a very nice table." "Well, I did tell my servants to find the very best furnishings for you." "My lord is most kind," Tyti said. "But do I get my table back?" Tiye asked. "It was a gift from my father." Ramesses frowned and touched the corner of his mouth where a fig seed had stuck. "Is a gift from your father, who was, after all, a commoner, more important than a gift from the king? I have given it as a gift to my queen as a token of my love. Would you have me go back on my word?" "My lord, it... it was not yours to give..." "Not mine? Are you mad, Tiye? Everything in Kemet belongs to the king. The contents of this palace are mine, and if I choose to give something in it to someone, that is my right. No one could possibly..." Ramesses broke off as Tiye started sobbing. "What is this, Tiye? What is the matter?" "It...it was a gift, my lord, from my father. Now that he is dead, I have nothing else of his, and I desired that it should remain with me in my rooms until I died, at which time it should be buried with me." Ramesses sighed. "I have already gifted it to another." Tiye thought for a moment as she wiped the tears from her eyes. "Yet by your words the table remains your property, my lord, as do all things in Kemet. You could just give it back to me." "But then I would be deprived of its use," Tyti remonstrated. "Your words have merit, Tiye," the king admitted. "As do yours, my beloved Tyti." He frowned in thought. "Will you give the table back to Tiye, my Queen?" "Is this your wish, my lord?" Tyti asked. "It would keep the peace within Per Khemret, preserve the Ma'at of the palace and soothe my spirit." "Then I will be glad to do so, for your sake, my lord. Only..." "Yes?" "Allow me to keep the table for one more day. It is pleasing to the eye and I would gaze upon its beauty once more." "That seems reasonable. You agree, Tiye?" "If it pleases my lord." "It does please me. Return the table tomorrow morning and I shall commission another table for you that will be twice as beautiful." The table was returned the following morning, but one of the legs now had deep scratches on it, and several pieces of the stone inlay had been loosened or were missing. Tiye glowered at the servants who delivered it, but said nothing, knowing she would lose standing if she railed at them. They were only servants, after all. Instead, she sent for a scribe and had him pen a short note thanking Tyti for its return, and including a small gift of jewellery. It was a minor victory of the spirit at best, but Tiye felt better for it. There was peace for a time within the Per-Khemret of the Waset palace. Ramesses spent many nights with his new wife, so it was no surprise that within two months of the marriage, Tyti was with child. She was examined by the court physicians and her urine taken for testing; the chief physician being delighted that he could report to the king that the grains had germinated in such a way as to indicate the child would be a boy. The king's delight at this news caused Tiye to scowl once more and berate her servants. "Why does the king delight in this news of a son?" she asked. "Have I not already given him four strong sons in whom to rejoice?" Of course, there was nothing the servants could say to this, or even dared to, should they be so inclined. This was wise as it was well known that the king did not look kindly on any criticism, and their wellbeing would be in jeopardy should word of an ill-judged comment be reported to him. So they kept their counsel and waited for the storm winds of a slighted wife to blow over. Word of Tiye's anger reached the king's ears, however. Whispers ruled the palace, so it was inevitable that his wife's words would be reported eventually. Ramesses was inclined to send for her and berate her, but then thought it over. "It is hard for her to grasp as she is of common birth," Ramesses told his Tjaty, "but a son born to me and my sister-wife is of great importance to the kingdoms. I can see she feels this as a slight, though it is not intended as such. I will make it up to her." "Your words are wisdom, Son of Re," the Tjaty said. The Painted Lady Kadesh, A Novel of Ancient Egypt	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line873
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__label__cc	0.695703	0.304297	Required OU Form Internship Form Internships offer students valuable skills and work experience in career paths for English majors. Most students enjoy and learn from their internship experience; they also find that in this economic market, the experience they gain from interning gives them an edge that can make a difference when they are up against stiff competition for jobs. List of Available Internships Internships for credit are available during fall, winter, and summer semesters. Students can also find their own internships, but they still must register for the course and fill out online forms to receive credit. If you have any questions, please contact one of the following internship coordinators: English Major Internship Coordinator: Rachel Smydra at smydra@oakland.edu Creative Writing Internship Coordinator: Susan McCarty at smccarty@oakland.edu ENG 4950 Internship Course Description: Experience in appropriate work position at an approved site, correlated with directed study assignments, during the fall, winter, or summer semester. In the semester prior to enrollment, the student will plan the internship in conjunction with the Internship Coordinator and with the approval of the department chair. Students are required to email the Internship Coordinator every week during the semester they intern, and also to turn in a final paper, due the Friday of the last week of classes. May be repeated once in a different setting for elective credit only. Prerequisites: 16 credits in English, of which at least 8 must be at the 300-400 level, and permission of the instructor and the department chair. NOTE: Does NOT count as a 400-level seminar, required by all majors as the capstone course for their degree. NOTE: THIS COURSE DOES NOT COUNT AS A 400-LEVEL SEMINAR COURSE, WHICH IS THE REQUIRED CAPSTONE COURSE FOR ALL ENGLISH MAJORS Students’ Responsibilities during Internship You are required to perform the duties included in your internship job description (if these aren’t perfectly clear to you, it is your responsibility to ask your faculty and on-site sponsors for clarification.) Aside from faithfully reporting for work and performing your duties, you have other responsibilities during the internship period as well. Though you will be working at the site of the business or non-profit you are interning with, you are required to maintain contact with your faculty sponsor. This consists of sending weekly emails that describe in a detailed summary the work you’ve done that week and confirm your presence at the internship site. Weekly reports are required of every intern, even if the work the intern is doing does not change substantially. Please note that this enables the English Department to ensure that you are doing the work you agreed to do. The emails provide a record that will help you when it is time to write your paper; the faithful execution of this duty will be figured in to your final grade. Final Paper for Internship Each student must also produce a final 10-15 page paper that describes his or her experiences as an intern. This paper will focus on exploring the ways in which the skills that the student developed in English classes were utilized in the internship. The Art Experience The Art Experience is an art center located in Waterford (in the Summit Place Mall) that offers a meeting space for all members of the community to gather and make art, and also offers art therapy to people with developmental disabilities, children at risk, the mental health community, and people in recovery. The intern writes press releases, letters, internal documents, grants; he or she can also be involved in program development and the researching of grants. Funky atmosphere run by very kind people who work very hard and are at times very frazzled. Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit The mission of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is to present art at the forefront of contemporary culture. As a non-collecting institution, MOCAD is responsive to the cultural content of our time, fueling crucial dialogue, collaboration, and public engagement. Interns can help to write catalogue, artist biographies, curate exhibitions, and interact with and inform the public about MOCAD’s mission. Oakland County’s Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. Students can obtain clinical experience working with survivors of abuse. Bottomless Toychest Charity devoted to helping ill children. & Television Wayne State University Press Founded in 1941, Wayne State University Press is a leading publisher of Great Lakes books, Judaica, and African American studies, as well as a wide range of other scholarly and general interest titles. Wayne State University Press is an established midsized university press that publishes approximately forty new books and six journals per year. Interns help with a wide variety of press-related tasks, including writing copy, proofreading, etc., depending on the department the intern elects to work in. The internships are available throughout the year in the following departments: Acquisitions, Editorial and Production, Marketing and Sales. You must apply very early for this – in September for Winter semester internships, and early in the calendar year for Fall. Edco Publishing EDCO Publishing is a small woman-owned publishing company that designs and creates custom education curriculums, children's books and workshops for educators. EDCO is also responsible for creating curriculum, scheduling and managing fieldtrips and providing teacher in-services for the alter P. Chrysler Museum. Interns will perform varied duties related to the above which will include but not limited to: editing and proofreading, taking and shipping orders for books, using computer publishing software and database systems, attending workshops and assisting group leaders at the Chrysler Museum. Dzanc Books Editorial interns will work closely with each other and members of Dzanc's editorial staff. While assisting on a wide range of projects, interns will gain hands-on experience and training in most aspects of editorial work, while also gaining a good understanding of nonprofit literary publishing. To apply go to http://www.dzancbooks.org/internships/ Marketing interns will assist the Marketing and Publicity Director with Dzanc's promotion and sales efforts. Ideal candidates will be inventive, hardworking, web-savvy, and full of creative ways to market our titles. While assisting on a wide range of projects, interns will gain hands-on experience and training in all aspects of book marketing, while also gaining a good understanding of nonprofit literary publishing. To apply go to http://www.dzancbooks.org/internships/. CBS Television Detroit—Community Affairs Internship This internship not only gives students a look into the community affairs department, but also an overall feel of how a television station operates. Those interested in the community affairs internship will have a chance to act as a production assistant during weekly tapings for two different community affairs programs (that run on WWJTV and CW50), write scripts and research questions for the programs, compose scripts for community calendars, write various PSAs (possible on camera work), create web stories for the intern blog, participate at station events, and help out with other assignments as needed. For more information on this internship, visit the CBS Detroit or CW50 Detroit website (where you’ll find instructions on how to apply). Oakland University Career Center’s Student to Professional Organization Student to Professional is a student organization at Oakland University that strives to give students the necessary skills to successfully transition into the working world by organizing and assisting with on-campus business events. The intern will work closely with the organization advisor to assist in the planning and preparation of the annual Student to Professional Conference by writing press releases, letters, and other documents to advertise the event; editing and publishing internal documents; attending all organization meetings; attending and assisting in on-campus events; and utilizing various social media outlets to promote the organization. Other roles and activities can be Teacher’s Discovery Business providing high quality, fun, and affordable educational supplemental materials in the following areas: foreign languages, English, social studies, and science. As a company, we believe that learning should and can be fun! Interns assist with the product development process, market existing products, assist with purchasing, and do data entry for interactive games. Proficient in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Internet explorer a plus. Oakland Business Review This is a weekly newspaper based in Novi devoted to reporting on and monitoring the businesses and business deals in Oakland County. The intern will work closely with the editor, and will be actively engaged in researching and writing stories, making contacts in the business community, attending conferences, etc. This is a challenging and exciting position for someone with excellent research and writing skills, and would be especially good for someone with a journalism minor, though that is not a prerequisite for the position. Thomson Gale Based in Farmington Hills, Thomson Gale is a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. It is best known for its reference works, magazine and newspaper articles, and the 600 databases it maintains online, in print and in microform. Interns help to develop Thomson Gale products, such as text books or on-line resource systems. In some cases, interns take on project leadership responsibility for the development of a new product. (Only available in summer; students should Google them for application info and follow guidelines.) SMZ Advertising Troy-based advertising firm. This position involves developing advertising copy, slogans, and campaigns; it can also include writing press releases, calling journalists and verifying interest and facts, and researching potential stories. Students must contact the company themselves to apply. http://www.smz.com/Contact/Directions.aspx OU Media Relations Department An interest in a media relations career is a prerequisite for this internship. New media skills are also desirable. The intern will be responsible for attending select events on campus and writing Web stories (to appear on the News at OU Web site), drafting press releases, building the existing list of e-mail addresses for reporters in out-of-state and national markets, filing clips and producing clip reports, enhancing and consistently updating the Reporter Resources Web site, expanding the existing list of faculty experts, and tracking and reporting on public blogs and video sites (like YouTube) to monitor OU’s reputation. Additional duties, time permitting, may include proofreading Web stories and compiling the weekly student and faculty/staff broadcasts. For credit only. Blue Care Network Health care communications internship. Students write copy for internal and/or external publications; copy includes newsletter articles, letters, brochures, electronic and print manual pages, Web pages, training presentations, e-mail/fax messages, on hold voice messages. Position requires excellent writing, editing, and proofreading skills that translate into clear, accurate, and comprehensive communications, and knowledge of or desire to learn one or more of the following software packages used in communications: Acrobat Professional, InDesign, PageMaker, PowerPoint, Excel, Dream weaver, FrontPage, Visio, and Access. Hour Magazine Two separate positions, one as a PR aide and the other as an editorial intern. For this position, you must contact Hour yourself and follow their intern application procedures. Do mention that you are an OU English student; they know us and are partnering with us – this should get you special attention. The Detroit Jewish News and Red Thread Magazine Seeking intern who is plugged into the issues affecting the Jewish community, who has excellent writing and proficient reporting skills, is looking to learn and is a team player. The intern will be assigned to the news and features desks, asked to cover local events, and take photographs. The candidate will also play an integral role in keeping the JN website up to date and contributing to the JN and RT social media efforts. 20-hour a week. Send resume and clips to Bryan Gottlieb at (bgottlieb@renmedia.us). Real Detroit Students research and write articles, depending on the publication’s need and students’ abilities. For this position, you must contact Real Detroit yourself and follow their intern application procedures. Do mention that you are an OU English student; they know us and are partnering with us – this should get you special attention. Oakland Press Writing and researching articles and press clips (students should have had a course in journalism or experience working for a paper such as the Oakland Post). For this position, you must contact Oakland Press yourself and follow their intern application procedures. An interest in a media relations career is a prerequisite for this internship. New media skills are also desirable. The intern will be responsible for attending select events on campus and writing Web stories (to appear on the News at OU Web site), drafting press releases, building the existing list of e-mail addresses for reporters in out-of-state and national markets, filing clips and producing clip reports, enhancing and consistently updating the Reporter Resources Web site, expanding the existing list of faculty experts, and tracking and reporting on public blogs and video sites (like YouTube) to monitor OU’s reputation. Additional duties, time permitting, may include proofreading Web stories and compiling the weekly student and faculty/staff broadcasts.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line878
__label__cc	0.673357	0.326643	David Bowie dead at 69. Forums: Music, News, Obituaries, David Bowie dlowan Reply Mon 11 Jan, 2016 03:09 am So sad...but what a life! Ave David http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-11/david-bowie-songs-that-made-an-icon/7082062 We are going to miss you. Some of his music has meant a lot at every stage of my life.....I can still recall the first time I heard Majot Tom.... Type: Discussion • Score: 18 • Views: 3,213 • Replies: 39 [+7] - Robert Gentel - 01/11/2016[img]http://i.imgur.com/pfXpKnx.gif[/img] [+5] - cherrie - 01/11/2016This news was a bit of a shock - he seems to have been around forever and it's a bit hard to realise that he wont be anymore. Golden Years has always been one of my favourite songs. It came out... [+5] - Robert Gentel - 01/11/2016Sad news to wake up to, he was a deeply talented and intellectual musician. [+5] - Lordyaswas - 01/11/2016Ziggy Stardust was the very first album I bought as a teenager. I had acquired other albums before then, at times like Christmas and birthdays, but I saved my own money and went and bought Ziggy,... [+5] - blueveinedthrobber - 01/11/2016Look out you rock and rollers...pretty soon now you're going to get older [+4] - jcboy - 01/11/2016Enjoy your trip back to the cosmos. Rock in peace, Mr. Bowie. [+4] - hingehead - 01/12/2016Cool piece by Nile Rodgers https://www.yahoo.com/music/david-bowie-changed-my-life-nile-rodgers-180120507.html Basically the whole purpose of Let's Dance was to see what it was like to have a... [+4] - Lordyaswas - 01/13/2016David Jones, aged about 8. Top Row, Second Left. Burnt Ash Primary School in Bromley, London... [+4] - Region Philbis - 01/13/2016 [img width=700]https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtl1/v/t1.0-9/1933868_900037393444703_6384194408515431742_n.jpg?oh=eb80199c0ac2d073ed605b0867a62413&oe=5741907D[/img] [+3] - Region Philbis - 01/11/2016 wow... RIP... cherrie This news was a bit of a shock - he seems to have been around forever and it's a bit hard to realise that he wont be anymore. Golden Years has always been one of my favourite songs. It came out around the time that I first moved to Sydney, and every time I hear it it reminds me of those days living in Woolloomooloo, walking around barefoot and being young and carefree. He will be missed. Region Philbis wow... RIP... @cherrie, Yes....music that was part of so many people's lives..... farmerman @Region Philbis, the master of reinvention. Almost always got it right @dlowan, Whoa. That's a shocker. I just started getting back into his music a few months ago. RIP, you weird legend. I was surprised to learn how young he was. I had thought he was of an age with the rockers of the British invasion, as it has been called on this side of the pond. That would have put him in his 70s, rather than his 60s. He must have started very young, like Steve Winwood. Robert Gentel Sad news to wake up to, he was a deeply talented and intellectual musician. jespah Modern Love is the background sound for a turning point in the books I wrote last year, the opening guitar licks up until the words "I want to stay in" (which for years I heard as "I know when to stay in"). Lordyaswas Ziggy Stardust was the very first album I bought as a teenager. I had acquired other albums before then, at times like Christmas and birthdays, but I saved my own money and went and bought Ziggy, then playing it about fifty times in the following week or so. I think I've written about my Starman experience here before, but I'll bore you again. Early Seventies, just about going home time on a clear summer night, and a bunch of us young teens were laying on our backs in the local recreation ground, looking up at the stars and listening to the Pirate Radio staions (either Caroline or London). Starman came on and it seemed perfect..... "Didn't know what time it was, the lights were low-o-oh, I leaned back on my radio-o-o........" About then a loud ripping sound made us all jump and a very bright green light flashed across the sky...... I don't know about the others, but I very nearly shat myself. The following morning the newspapers said that a large meteorite had crashed somewhere in Ireland. Very sad to hear of his death today, and will play the vinyl Ziggy some time this evening as a goodbye. I was a true fan of his earlier stuff, and rate Ziggy Stardust, Hunky Dory and Alladin Sane as three of the best albums I ever bought. Thank you, Davey boy. blueveinedthrobber Look out you rock and rollers...pretty soon now you're going to get older Reply Mon 11 Jan, 2016 12:03 pm I hope this BBC documentary via yootoob works on the US side of the pond. It is an hour long, but fascinating, and hits it all squarely on the head exactly what went on in the music scene of the early 70's in the UK, when Bowie seemingly exploded onto the scene like some weird alien. Very good documentary, and exactly as how I remember it. The Making of Ziggy Stardust. hingehead I'm with you Deb, I have a 'personal' Bowie history up until maybe 1984 ('Never Let Me Down' let me down) - which was semi rekindled in the mid 90s and lasted to Blackstar. Amazed Iggy Pop has outlived him, considering the drugs both did. ehBeth @hingehead, from a friend of a friend 1977 Seneca Field House, Toronto, Canada....Sharing this non-copyright image I took of David Bowie, playing keyboards for Iggy Pop...Pls share.... This is the one that evokes my piece of Bowie. It's wrapped up with the movie Velvet Goldmine, which seems like it had to be Bowie inspired, though I don't know. All the Young Dudes https://youtu.be/Rajof9Qigos Simon Pegg's tweet was so on target. Magnificent. I recently saw Iggy Pop interview when Anthony Bourdain toured Miami. What a riot. Iggy and Keith Richards will outlive us all and Cher will be the head of the assisted-living facility that will house those elder musicians and celebs. Rockhead's Music Thread - Discussion by Rockhead What are you listening to right now? - Discussion by Craven de Kere WA2K Radio is now on the air - Discussion by Letty Just another music thread. - Discussion by msolga Classical anyone? - Discussion by JPB Songs That Define a Generation...Or the World - Discussion by Bella Dea Ship Ahoy: The O'Jays - Discussion by edgarblythe Evolutionary purpose of music. - Discussion by jackattack An a2k experiment: What is our favorite song? - Discussion by Robert Gentel THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED . . . - Discussion by Setanta Has a Song Ever Made You Cry? - Discussion by Diest TKO » David Bowie dead at 69.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line884
__label__wiki	0.945936	0.945936	Home > Muslim News > Middle East > Man Commits Suicide in Makkah’s Grand Mosque Man Commits Suicide in Makkah’s Grand Mosque RIYADH – An expatriate has committed suicide by throwing himself off the roof of the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Makkah, sending shock waves across social media. “A foreigner threw himself from the roof of the Grand Mosque in Makkah” to the courtyard below, “resulting in his instant death,” Saudi police told the official SPA news agency, Arab News reported. Official reports came as footage, taken by worshippers, allegedly showed a man jumping off the mosque roof and died immediately. His body was immediately sent to a local hospital as an investigation was launched “to determine the victim’s… Sun 10 June 2018 - 13:05 ‘Late’ Iftar for Burj Khalifa & Dubai Skyscrapers Residents Holy Cities Gear Up for Ramadan Rush Sign Language & Braille Qur’an to Help Pilgrims at Holy Mosques RIYADH – An expatriate has committed suicide by throwing himself off the roof of the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Makkah, sending shock waves across social media. “A foreigner threw himself from the roof of the Grand Mosque in Makkah” to the courtyard below, “resulting in his instant death,” Saudi police told the official SPA news agency, Arab News reported. Official reports came as footage, taken by worshippers, allegedly showed a man jumping off the mosque roof and died immediately. His body was immediately sent to a local hospital as an investigation was launched “to determine the victim’s identity, what led to the act and how he was able to commit it despite the existence of a metal fence,” SPA said. A French foreign ministry official told AFP in Paris that the dead man was French, but gave no further details. The incident occurred during the fasting month of Ramadan when thousands of Muslims flock to the Grand Mosque. The rare act was not the first of its kind to take place in Makkah, the holiest city in Islam. Last year, a Saudi man tried to set himself on fire in front of the Kaa`ba but was stopped by security forces. Suicide is prohibited in Islam and is considered a criminal offense with punitive laws in almost entire Muslim world. MakkahharamRamadanSuicideGrand Mosque Emirati Church Hosts Ramadan Iftar Hindu Chef Feeds 60,000 People in Ramadan	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line885
__label__cc	0.717501	0.282499	Home Christmas Ice Rink comes to Manchester’s First Street Ice Rink comes to Manchester’s First Street From 15 th November, Manchester Ice Rink will open at its new location in the centre of First Street providing skating fun for all. Located next to Deansgate Locks and opposite the former site of The Haçienda, First Street ice rink provides an alternative Christmas destination. The 20m x 15m ice rink, with a capacity of up to 100 skaters at any one time, will be open seven days a week until Saturday 23 rd December. The ice rink welcomes skaters of all ages and abilities and is perfect for a family day out, a romantic first date, a festive office party or just a great fun night out with friends For those wishing to spectate, you’ll be spoilt for chose in deciding where to drink or grab a bite to eat, with First Street’s restaurants, cafes and bars offering 10% off for all ice skating ticket holders. First Street’s food, drink and entertainment operators including The Laundrette, Indian Tiffin Room, Kettlebell Kitchen, Junkyard Golf Club, WOOD Manchester, Gasworks Brewbar and Pizza Express. Q-Park First Street offers a 700-capacity car park on site as well. First Street’s famed occupier, HOME, will also be showing a selection of classic Christmas movies including Tim Burton’s ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’, ‘Edward Scissorhands’, ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ and ‘The Muppet Christmas Carol’. Ice rink-goers will be hard-pressed to miss the stunning architecture of INNSIDE Manchester, the first Melia hotel to open in the UK. For business or pleasure, you’ll no doubt be charmed by its designer guest rooms, delightful concept of cuisine and state-of- the-art meeting rooms. A donation from each online ticket sale will go to the Global’s charity, Make Some Noise, helping youngsters and their families living with illness, disability or lack of opportunity. For ticket bookings please visit www.manchestericerink.co.uk or call 0161 820 9718. Alternatively, tickets can be purchased from the ticket office on site from 15th November 2017. Previous articleParents paying off children’s student loans advised to stop throwing their money away Next articleDickie Beau: Re-Member Me – A lip-synch celebration of the greatest Danes Top Activities to Do in Manchester if You Don’t Want to Hit the Clubs MCM Comic Con returns to Manchester Stockport’s Merseyway Shopping Centre hosts One Great Fun Day Red Heads Ski FREE this weekend at Chill Factore The Best Bingo Halls in Manchester Parisian-style adult decadence and sophistication coming to Manchester. Drink driving an issue for the majority over Christmas Corrie star opens Christmas pop up pub at Selfridges Lambrini Presents…Love Actually Live at Mayfield depot	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line887
__label__wiki	0.578082	0.578082	Tag Archives: Baghban Streaming Video News: March 29, 2019 I updated my list of Bollywood movies on Netflix with the premiere of the Netflix Original Marathi movie 15 August. A bunch of Hindi movies expire from the service March 30, so tonight is your last chance to watch these titles: Azhar (2016) — ★½ Baabul (2006) Baghban (2003) Bhoothnath (2008) — ★★ Chandni Bar (2001) Hate Story (2012) — ★ Holiday (2014) — ★★ Horror Story (2013) Krrish (2006) Krrish 3 (2013) — ★★½ Mujhse Shaadi Karogi (2004) Rangrezz (2013) Yamla Pagla Deewana (2011) — ★★ Shah Rukh Khan’s production company Red Chillies Entertainment has a streaming deal with Netflix that lasts through the end of this year, and I’ve wondered when Zero is going to wind up on Netflix. I checked on the other RCE titles produced since the deal was signed, and Dear Zindagi, Jab Harry Met Sejal, and Ittefaq all became available for streaming five months after their theatrical release. The only exception was Raees, which appeared on the service after four months. We can likely expect Zero to join Netflix at the end of May, maybe end of April. Badla is also an RCE production, so look for that in early July, possibly early June. I’ve also updated my list of Bollywood movies on Amazon Prime with dozens of Indian titles added in the last week. Newly added 2019 releases include: Finally Bhalobasha (2019/Bengali) N.T.R: Mahanayakudu (2019/Telugu) N.T.R: Mahanayakudu (2019/Telugu, 4K Ultra HD) Order Order Out of Order (2019/Gujarati) Peranbu (2019/Tamil, Malayalam-dubbed) This entry was posted in Streaming Video and tagged 15 August, Azhar, Baabul, Baghban, Bengali Movies on Amazon Prime, Bhoothnath, Bollywood Movies on Amazon Prime, Bollywood Movies on Netflix, Chandni Bar, Desi Movies on Amazon Prime, Desi Movies on Netflix, Gujarati Movies on Amazon Prime, Hate Story, Hindi Movies on Netflix, Holiday, Indian Movies on Amazon Prime, Indian Movies on Netflix, Krrish, Krrish 3, Malayalam Movies on Amazon Prime, Marathi Movies on Netflix, Movie, Mujhse Shaadi Karogi, Rangrezz, Streaming Video, Tamil Movies on Amazon Prime, Telugu Movies on Amazon Prime, Yamla Pagla Deewana, Zero on March 29, 2019 by Kathy. Streaming Video News: April 25, 2017 I updated my list of Bollywood movies on Netflix with several additions to the catalog, including 2016’s thoughtful coming-of-age drama Dear Zindagi, starring Alia Bhatt and Shah Rukh Khan. Also new to streaming are a pair of Amitabh Bachchan films — 2003’s Baghban and 2008’s Bhoothnath, which didn’t really work — as well as the Netflix Original comedy special Vir Das: Abroad Understanding by the Delhi Belly actor. Other recent additions to Netflix include Robot (the Hindi-dubbed version of Enthiran), Chandni Bar, the 2016 Bengali movie Colkatay Columbus, and a bunch of Hindi TV shows, including Agent Raghav: Crime Branch, Bhaage Re Mann, Bh Se Bhade, and Gangs of Haseepur. For everything else new to Netflix (Bollywood or not), check Instant Watcher. This entry was posted in Streaming Video and tagged Agent Raghav: Crime Branch, Baghban, Bh Se Bhade, Bhaage Re Mann, Bhoothnath, Bollywood Movies on Netflix, Chandni Bar, Colkatay Columbus, Dear Zindagi, Desi Movies on Netflix, Enthiran, Gangs of Hassepur, Hindi Movies on Netflix, Indian Movies on Netflix, Robot, Streaming Video, Vir Das: Abroad Understanding on April 25, 2017 by Kathy.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line890
__label__wiki	0.740608	0.740608	Acoustic Tuesday the listening space Resident and invited artists perform acoustic music and song 1st Tuesday of each month, 7.30 - 10pm South Riverside Community Development Centre Brunel St, off Ninian Park Road, Riverside, Cardiff CF11 6ES Resident Singers and Musicians Frankie (frankiearmstrong.com) sings ballads of the British tradition, lyrical and rural folksongs, industrial women’s songs, and contemporary songs – those of her own and singers such as Leon Rosselson and Peggy Seeger. She also sings of Bertolt Brecht, accompanied by Mikey Price. She has been singing professionally since 1964. In 1975 she began her pioneering Voice Workshops based on ethnic styles of singing – where singing is as natural as speaking. She has sung and run workshops all over Europe, North America and Australia, working with Community Groups, Theatre Companies, International Voice and Theatre Festivals, and in every kind of setting from hospitals to the National Theatre Studio, London. She has made 11 solo albums, written her autobiography As Far As the Eye Can Sing and edited a collection of essays Well Tuned Women with Jenny Pearson. Her latest book, with Janet Rodgers, is Acting and Singing with Archetypes. She has also contributed chapters to eleven other publications. Mary-Anne Roberts Mary-Anne is a performer and educator, with an enduring interest in traditional carnival characters of Trinidad and Tobago. She leads the old time calypso string-band, Domestic Violins. In 1999, Mary-Anne and Robert Evans formed the medieval Welsh duo Bragod. She continues to lead voice and performance workshops, to work in theatre and to perform at ritual events in the community. Bob plays the the crwth, lyre and fiddle. He co-founded Bragod with Mary-Anne Roberts in 1999 (bragod.com). Bragod is a voice and crwth duo devoted to re-uniting the music of medieval Wales with the formal, high-art poetry of the same period. Bragod’s prime musical source is the Robert ap Huw manuscript. Bragod also makes settings of modern poems in Welsh and English. Bob also plays fiddle, specialising in Welsh, English and Irish dance tunes. Bob also plays in Domestic Violins, an Ole Time Trinidadian String Band playing calypso and ritual Trinidadian repertoire. Darien Pritchard Darien performs songs, poems and character sketches – mostly Australian traditional and modern – with guitar, harmonica or acapella, or sometimes with mandolin, lagerphone or hammer and screwdrivers. Cath Little Cardiff Storyteller and Singer Cath Little has “rough magic” in her voice and in her words “the gift of the story shines through”. She has a strong sense that stories have the power to connect us to one another, to the land and to the people who once lived here. Regular Guest Singers and Musicians This trio is made up of Frankie Armstrong, and singers/choir leaders Laura Bradshaw and Pauline Down. They explore a repertoire largely of women’s songs past and present, songs they have penned themselves and songs promoting social justice. Glorious harmonies are the hallmark of this trio, including the exotic sounds of Bulgaria and Georgia. Variegated Women Variegated Women is a feisty, folky, five-piece female voice and instrumental ensemble, with a passion for singing to promote change. We can ring the changes from one voice to five – some of our repertoire is acapella and some with instrumentation that includes guitar, saxophone, flute, accordion, whistle and drums. This means we can create a performance of great richness and variety, exploring different genres and textures. Our hope is to communicate power, tenderness and fun involving the audience both as listeners and sometime joiners-in. Shanee Taylor Shanee is a singer/songwriter living in Abergavenny who loves to perform in the supportive environment of the Acoustic Tuesday club, as well as listening to the other musicians there. She mainly offers songs she has written herself, mostly arising from her personal experiences, which at times include some German lyrics. As Shanee studied Indian raga singing with Gilles Petit, some of her tunes might have an Indian flavour. David Ambrose David is a performing storyteller with a love of traditional ballads from the British Isles, Ireland and America, which he performs acapella. His repertoire also includes contemporary songs, especially with a political edge, as well as monologues and some great old comic songs from the Music Hall era. Next Dates: Guests: (last session at Riverside before moving to Canton) welcome to anyone who has played at Tuesday Acoustic Music over the last 12 years to celebrate, before we move the venue Guests: Bread and Roses (the voices of Frankie Armstrong, Laura Bradshaw and Pauline Down – songs about women and struggle) at The Apothecary, 18 Llandaff Rd, CF11 9NJ First Tuesday of each month 7.30 – 10pm Brunel St, Riverside Cardiff CF11 6ES	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line892
__label__wiki	0.710474	0.710474	The Tech Entrepreneur's Survival Guide: How to Bootstrap Your Startup, Lead Through Tough Times, and Cash in for Success: How to Bootstrap Your Startup, L By Bernd Schoner Most technology startups never make it to the funding stage, and only a small percentage of those that are venture-backed generate a positive return for their investors. An even smaller number of startup founders enjoy a truly prosperous exit. Bernd Schoner cofounded his tech startup during the dot-com bust, navigated it through market crises and internal turmoil, brought it through the global financial meltdown intact, and eventually sold it to a multibillion-dollar, multinational public technology company. In The Tech Entrepreneur's Survival Guide, Bernd shares what he learned and what he wished he knew at the time. He explains the major phases in a technology company's life cycle, helping entrepreneurs avoid common pitfalls and survive crises when they strike. He guides readers from the initial bootstrapping process through venture-capital financing and provides valuable advice on how to sell a technology company profitably--even in a challenging economic environment. Every chapter presents solutions to realworld issues that could otherwise have fatal consequences for a tech venture. Aspiring tech entrepreneurs will learn to: Set up shop: build the team, assemble necessary startup assets (including technology and intellectual property), get legal and financial affairs in order Secure capital: ask for money, nail the term sheet, ask for more money Get out: know when to sell, who to sell to, and how to make it a happy exit for all stakeholders, including the employees Written with deep insight, refreshing candor, and a dash of humor, this comprehensive guide to the often harsh realities of startup life is indispensable for entrepreneurs at any stage. PRAISE FOR THE TECH ENTREPRENEUR'S SURVIVAL GUIDE "A genuine narrative from the field, with battle scars and self-reflection. Reading this book will help you avoid many pitfalls." -- Nicholas Negroponte, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab "There's a lot of great insights and practical advice for the entrepreneur in this book, stuff you normally won't read or hear unless you buy some hard-bitten company founder a few drinks. If you are launching a technology startup, reading this book is the thing you should do first." -- Mark Roberti, founder and editor in chief of RFID Journal "I wish I had read Bernd's book when we founded The Echo Nest. Bernd touches on all the major issues in the initial formation stages of a tech company and many of the problems that come up when the company matures. If you are thinking of founding your own tech startup, read this book first." -- Tristan Jehan, cofounder of The Echo Nest "A visceral, behind-the-scenes guide to technology entrepreneurship. Bernd tells it like it is and presents a universe of solutions to tricky startup situations that can significantly improve the odds of success. Indispensable." -- Larry Begley, cofounder and managing director at .406 Ventures "The best-laid business plans never survive contact with reality. Bernd has provided a comprehensive guide to anticipating the unexpected in the life of a startup." -- Neil Gershenfeld, professor and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Bits and Atoms 1 $28.00 9780071823975 No volume discount available. Publisher Not available Small Business, General Management, General Industries, Computers & Information Technology E-Commerce, General (see also Computers - Electronic Commerce) https://800ceoread.com/products/tech-entrepreneur-s-survival-guide-bernd-schoner-english	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line893
__label__wiki	0.50939	0.50939	Fast food choices influence kids’ soda and calorie consumption October 15, 2016 HealthMahnoor Sheikh 15 Oct, 2016 1:11 pm NEW YORK- Children who order a combination meal at fast-food restaurants are more likely to get a sugary drink that ups the meal’s total calories, according to a new study. Researchers found those beverages such as soft drinks, sweet tea and flavored milk add about 179 more calories to meals. “Sugar-sweetened beverages are increasingly linked to health problems such as diabetes,” said senior study author Brian Elbel of the New York University School of Medicine. “Any information we can find about why this high-risk group of kids is purchasing these drinks is important,” he said. “We haven’t had a great sense of who these kids are, especially at fast food restaurants.” The research team analyzed nearly 500 receipts and surveys collected in fast-food restaurants in New York City and in nearby Newark and Jersey City, New Jersy during 2013 and 2014. They found that 60 percent of the drinks bought for children were sugar-sweetened, and combination meals were more likely to include a sugary drink. “It’s always tough to get data on kids that represents the real world, and this was based on what kids are actually purchasing, not some experimental setting,” Elbel told Reuters Health. “We were surprised by the broad variety of purchase predictors we saw.” In addition to ordering a combination meal, male children and those above age 12 were more likely to get a sugar-sweetened beverage and consume a higher number of calories and grams of sugar. Caregivers and parents who had a high school degree or less, bought the meal during dinner hours, and ate at the restaurant were also more likely to purchase sugary drinks for their kids. “We know that families frequent fast-food restaurants often, and these places have highly caloric meals,” Elbel said. “A preponderance of healthy food is not being purchased.” About 17 percent of children under age 19 in the U.S. are classified as obese by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A major contributor to the recent growth in obesity has been increased calories, the study authors write in the American Journal of Public Health. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that children limit sugar intake to 10 percent of total calories, or about 120-180 calories. “We’re no longer fighting about whether children need to drink fewer sugary drinks. That’s accepted,” said Marlene Schwartz, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut in Hartford, who was not involved with the study. “The question now is finding the best way to do that,” she told Reuters Health. “Based on this study, if parents substitute milk or water for the sugary drink, that eliminates almost 200 calories right there.” One limitation of the study is that the researchers didn’t account for drink refills, and they couldn’t observe how much of each drink was consumed, only what was purchased. In addition, the study only surveyed walk-in customers, not drive-through customers, who make up a significant portion of fast-food restaurant traffic across the country. “The New York City context makes this a little less generalizable to other areas,” Elbel said. The results also may not apply to fast casual dining, sit-down restaurants or full-service restaurants. The new study’s findings support an ordinance passed in Stockton, California, in June that decouples sugar-sweetened beverages from combination meals, making water or milk the default choice for kids’ meals rather than soda. The “healthy-by-default” rule was passed unanimously by the Stockton City Council, following on a similar ordinance passed in Davis, California. “We have to put the pressure on restaurants to see a change,” Schwartz said. “If more consumers speak up, more restaurants will listen.” -Reuters FDA again expands usage of Regeneron eye drug Eylea Men who exercise may delay age-related high cholesterol Japan partly lifts US, Canada poultry ban after bird flu Well-educated spouses may keep docs from practicing rurally Gates backs Big Pharma push to wipe out tropical diseases Yemen's cholera outbreak kills 51 people in two weeks: WHO Ants as drug manufacturers for humans? People with allergies often leave life-saving epinephrine at home ← Scientists seek to map all human cells in vast atlas EMA committee conditionally approves AbbVie leukemia drug →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line894
__label__wiki	0.989638	0.989638	Taylor Swift Gifts 96-Year-Old World War II Veteran With Surprise Visit PopCrush Staff Mark Davis, Getty Images A 96-year-old World War II veteran received the gift of Taylor Swift this holiday season, when the “Blank Space” singer showed up to his Missouri home for a surprise visit yesterday (December 26). Cyrus Porter -- who has seen Swift in concert several times, along with one of his daughters and two of his grandchildren, according to a report from KFVS 12 -- was reportedly delighted when the 1989 singer showed up at his home unannounced, where she treated the family to an acoustic version of her hit "Shake It Off." Porter's grandson posted several photos of the visit to Twitter, along with the caption, "Taking selfies, holding babies, hugging grandpas and leaving lipstick marks. Taylor Swift does it all. Awsome day for my Popo!!" Family member Caroline Fowler spoke with E! News about Swift's time at the house, saying, "My Popo was ecstatic! He was grinning from ear to ear and even had tears in his eyes. The first thing he said to her was ‘How did you get here?' He loved every moment. He told her how he was proud of his family, his country and Taylor Swift!" A video of the World War II veteran went viral earlier this year, when he told KFVS Swift was his favorite artist. "Look what she does, she puts on a show no one else puts on," he said. "I just liked the way she did stuff." Taylor Swift's Best Live Vocals Next: Gigi Hadid, Karlie Kloss + More Celebs Wish Taylor Swift Happy Birthday Source: Taylor Swift Gifts 96-Year-Old World War II Veteran With Surprise Visit	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line895
__label__wiki	0.834557	0.834557	Tag Archives: The Dirty Dozen The magnificent Blake’s 7: Robin Hood in space April 14, 2016 loxley1975 Leave a comment With the death of Blake’s 7 actor Gareth Thomas it’s time to strap on your transporter bracelets to The Liberator and THAT ending for ‘Robin Hood in space’. Such was the basic premise of Blake’s 7 back in 1978, and that idea was pitch perfect for one of the most beloved TV series of the last 40 years. Always seen as something of Doctor Who’s younger sibling, it springing from the mind of Who-alumnus, Terry Nation, for many it was never held in as high regard or as beloved. But, for me, I probably loved it even more than the fellow in the blue box. You can see the similarities to Sherwood’s finest with its original character set-up, with Gareth Thomas headlining as Roj Blake, who leads a rebellion against a tyrannical regime (hey, even in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), The Norman Soldiers were likened to Nazis). More ‘Marauding’ than ‘Merry Men’ his reluctant heroic crew, perhaps sharing as much with the likes of The Dirty Dozen and The Magnificent Seven as much as with those from the trees of Nottingham. We are then introduced to corrupt computer genius, Avon, (Paul Darrow), essentially Will Scarlett, a man who you wouldn’t trust as far as you could throw him, even if he was classed as your friend, but you would far rather he be your friend than your enemy. Avon quickly become the show’s favourite, with his sardonic wit and no nonsense behaviour, he had the same appeal as the likes of Han Solo. Master thief, Vila, steps up as your Much the Millers Son, as he is essentially the light-hearted comedian who is something of a coward. Avon and Vila were the perfect foils for one another and have the zingiest dialogue this side of the galaxy that is still as crisp and clever to this day Gan, is clearly the Little John of proceedings with his mighty frame and heart, but I’m not quite sure how a smart arse computer, Zen, fits into it all Merry Man wise, um, Friar Tuck…well he is at least the voice of reason and calm. The rest of the original crew were made up of Jenna, a smuggler, and Cally, a telepath, and these feisty, gung-ho women were clearly reminiscent, in their fighting spirit, of Maid Marian. After all, you have to remember that this was the late 70s and that women did as much of the rescuing as well as the being rescued. The ship, The Liberator, a wondrous design whose Corgi model once bestowed my birthday cake as a child, which was a brilliant backward-looking design with its (Lincoln) green bubble at its rear, so my hats off to you Matt Irvine for a ship that even outclasses the Millennium Falcon for being so ugly and impractical – Einstein would have a fit on the Physics front – that it is a thing of beauty. If Blake and his crew represent Robin Hood and his Merry Men, then the Federation forces, personified in the obsessive, psychopathic Space Commander Travis, complete with eye patch, and his superior, the ruthless Supreme Commander, Servalan, represent Sir Guy of Gisbourne and the Sheriff of Nottingham, respectively. You only have to look at the mid 80s rebirth of Robin of Sherwood on ITV, and latterly, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, to see how similar the working relationship between Servalan and Travis was to that of the Sheriff and his lapdog. The show was quite revolutionary in terms of structure – the arcing plot is ahead of its time, something seen as commonplace in the likes of the Battlestar Galactica reboot – and characterisation. It also features a surprisingly cynical world view with a healthy dash of dystopia and dash of moral ambiguity, this is no Star Wars black and white – which premiered in the UK the same year the show was launched – instead there are massive grey areas in the ensemble cast, like we see in everything from 24 to Lost and The Walking Dead, people who aren’t just the well-rounded, good-looking good guys of programmes like, say the original Star Trek. It may have had its peak and troughs throughout its four-year series, not to mention cast changes galore and Blake jumping ship come the end of series two, but it had a fantastic concept, multiple major character deaths and perhaps the finest ending of any TV show past, present or future, an ending from which Planet of the Apes writers would find hard to get out of, an ending that gave my chin carpet burns from the force it struck the floor, an ending that had the balls to kill off the entire remaining cast and still have Avon going out (or did he?) in the coolest TV moment of my life. Not bad, essentially being a kids tea time programme and taking in political intrigue and terrorism (remember the IRA were still out in force) and harrowing deaths of beloved characters. The sets may have wobbled and it was probably filmed in one too many quarries, but hey that is BBC budgets at that time for you, but the writing still holds true and is pretty blistering stuff most of the time, clearly helped in part with many of the main actors being RSC trained. Thomas came back for that last episode having left after series two and he claimed never to have watched an episode. That’s a shame and a real loss, despite its somewhat dodgy sets and special effects it had some great Orwellian dystopia which meant that it was well-ahead of its time, especially in that time slot. And, story wise it still really shines today and remains relevant with terror and political intrigue riding high in the headlines and a major staple of TV drama, the rebooted ‘gritty’ Battlestar Galactica was of course dubbed ‘The West Wing in space’. And these unjust times of political unrest and times of terror Blake et al would fit in perfectly. Stories about anti-government dissidents and corrupt, totalitarian governments never seem to go out of fashion (it’s no coincidence that the series villain was a woman – just as Thatcher came into power), and surely that’s doubly true of this era of terrorism. Crucially, it had drama and conflict in spades, and most of this came from within the crew, especially between Blake and Avon or Avon and Vila, which was full of crisp, foil-bag fresh dialogue that even JJ Abrams or Joss Whedon would be proud to have scribed today. Although it has been resurrected as an audio drama, getting a new lease of life in a series of audio adventures which has attracted a whole host of talent from Bond and genre fave, Colin Salmon as Kerr Avon and guest stars from Ashes to Ashes’ Keeley Hawes and new Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch. Like the Who audio adventures it has also lured back cast members from the original series, Michael Keating and Jan Chappell, all of which shows there is still plenty of talent and interest in the project. It keeps threatening to return to screens with aborted attempts from Sky and the Syfy Channel in recent years. With the return of Star Wars to the big screen and another Star Trek series in the offing, as well as on the big screen, we are in the same alignment as when Blake’s 7 first materialised on our screens. And after all in this world niche audiences for The Walking Dead and original dramas produced for the likes of Amazon, with The Man in the High Castle, and Netflix, with House of Cards, or Sky Atlantic with Fortitude, then there is nothing to stop the return of The Liberator and its crew. Who knows, perhaps the real life death of Roj Blake, from heart failure and not shot by Avon, could be the right catalyst for his rebirth. Roj Blake is dead, long live Roj Blake? As Zen may have stated: “Probability of reboot, 80%.” 24AmazonAshes to AshesAvonBattlestar GalacticaBenedict CumberbatchBlake's 7BondCallyColin SalmonDoctor WhoFortitudeGanGareth ThomasHouse of CardsJan ChappellJennaJJ AbramsJoss WhedonKerr AvonLostMichael KeatingMillennium FalconNetflixPaul DarrowPlanet of the ApesRobin HoodRobin Hood: Prince of ThievesRobin of SherwoodRoj BlakeRSCServalanSherlock HolmesSkySky AtlanticStar TrekStar WarsSyfy ChannelTerry nationThe Adventures of Robin HoodThe Dirty DozenThe LiberatorThe Magnificent SevenThe Man in the High CastleThe Walking DeadThe West WingTravisVilaWill ScarlettZen	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line898
__label__wiki	0.741768	0.741768	U.S. Embassy in Ankara closed on Monday due to security threat The U.S. Embassy in Ankara issued a security alert and announced that the Embassy would be closed on March 5th, 2018 due to a security threat. The Embassy did not announce when the services will reopen. The statement did not specify the security threat that prompted the closure. The Embassy will only provide emergency services; the security alert says noting that passport renewals including lost or stolen passports, reports of birth abroad, and notarial services, are not considered emergencies. The Embassy also cancelled visa interviews, and other routine services related to visa applications to the U.S. The alert also warned U.S. citizens to avoid large crowds and the Embassy, to heighten their personal security postures and awareness' and to notify family and friends of their safety. https://tr.usembassy.gov/security-alert-u-s-diplomatic-mission-turkey/ Turkey’s pivot towards East a detriment to Israeli interests - analysts With S-400 deal, Erdoğan moves toward his vision for Turkey - NY Times	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line903
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__label__cc	0.722235	0.277765	Peter Kiefhaber has notable professional experience on budget & appropriations, natural resources, consumer issues/safety/products, clean air & water, and environment/superfund issues. Peter currently works at Ricchetti Incorporated with 3 active clients. Peter has represented 7 total clients. Peter held the following government positions: Subcmte Staff Director, Senate Appropriations Cmte ('00-'12). The Pew Charitable Trusts - Improve public policy, inform the public and stimulate civic life. - Issues related to increasing appropriations for the repair and rehabilitation of facilities within the National Park Service, specifically S.751, H.R.2584, S.2509, and H.R.5210. National Trust for Historic Preservation - Historic preservation association. - Issues related to the funding of the Historic Preservation Fund, and funding for the repair and rehabilitation of facilities within the National Park Service, specifically S.751, H.R.2584, S.2509, and H.R.5210. The PEW Charitable Trusts - Nonprofit Duration : (Registration) active - Issues related to increase of National Park Service funding for maintenance purposes. Trust for the National Mall - Organization dedicated to raising awareness of and restoring the National Mall. - Issues relating to the preservation, maintenance, operation and mangagement of the National Mall Entergy Corporation - Issues related to electricty production and energy issues - Issues related to the preservation of Ellis Island National Monument. Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy - National Park non-profit association. - Issues related to public-private partnerships with the National Park Service. - Issues pertaining to the preservation and maintanence of the National Mall. Issues pertaining to operation and management of the National Mall United Technologies Corporation - Coalition Outreach and Recruitment - Issues relating to carbon monoxide legislation - issues relating to EPA Clean Air Act and phaseout of R-22 The PEW Charitable Trusts Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy Trust for the National Mall United Technologies Corporation	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line906
__label__wiki	0.881918	0.881918	Category: Cyprus Turkish Authorities allow Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) access to 30 suspected burial sites in north The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) announced on Friday Turkey had granted access to 30 suspected burial sites in military areas in the north without any time constraints. The committee said in an announcement it was formally notified that Turkey had granted access for CMP excavation teams to 30 suspected burial sites in military areas in the north of Cyprus. Ankara, CMP excavation teams, Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), Council of Europe, Cypriot government, CYPRUS, EU, European Commission, Greece, Turkey, Turkish authorities to resume cooperation with the Committee Cyprus serial killer’s FIFTH victim found in suitcase at abandoned mine after army officer ‘confessed to killing seven foreign women’ Suspects wanted in connection with two murders on both sides of the divide were exchanged on Thursday between the south and north of the island with the help of Unficyp. According to the Cyprus News Agency, four people wanted for the murder of Ernest Leonides by the Greek Cypriot side who were arrested in the north, were exchanged with one man suspected of the murder of Turkish Cypriot artist Hasan Isik Ozgocmen. That suspect was arrested in the government-controlled areas. The exchange was facilitated by Unficyp, CNA reported citing a government source. a Pakistani national, CYPRUS, Ernest Leonides by the Greek Cypriot side, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), murder of Elmas Güzelyurtlu, suspected murderer, Turkey, Turkish Cypriot artist Hasan Isik Ozgocmen	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line907
__label__cc	0.507224	0.492776	Joshua Eaton Commander, SFUWO at US Army United States Military Academy at West Point 1998 — 2002 US Army June 2014 - Present Department of Systems Engineering June 2012 - June 2014 U.S. Army July 2009 - September 2010 U.S. Army July 2007 - June 2009 U.S. Army June 2002 - June 2006 National Security, Military Operations, Operational Planning, Army, DoD, Systems Engineering, Military Experience, Security Clearance, Military, Command, Special Operations, Intelligence Analysis, Counterinsurgency, Defense, Afghanistan, Project Planning, Top Secret, Intelligence, Engineering, Leadership, Force Protection, Tactics, Leadership Development, Security Operations, Weapons James Kraintz Sr. Consultant at Radius Inc. Certificate, Data Visualization New Life Bible College 2001 — 2005 Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, Counseling Psychology Fullerton College 1995 — 1997 United States Marine Corps 1989 — 1990 Vocational Certificate, Aviation Transportation and Logistics Vocational Certificate, Aviation Logbook and Records Administration Radius Inc. - Connecting companies to the Internet of Things March 2014 - Present Tommy Bahama January 2014 - March 2014 DNA Response, Inc. October 2013 - January 2014 Microsoft April 2013 - October 2013 AT&T Mobility December 2008 - January 2013 Eagle View Technologies, Inc. December 2007 - November 2008 Pacific Monarch Resorts December 2006 - December 2007 Sperian Protection January 2004 - November 2006 AW Direct, Inc. November 2001 - November 2003 Answerthink Consulting October 2000 - October 2001 SharePoint, Cross-functional Team..., Data Analysis, Salesforce.com, Account Management, Program Management, Leadership, Integration, Troubleshooting, E-commerce, Analysis, Product Management, Microsoft Office, Production Support, Support Analysts, ATG Commerce, Call Centers, SDLC, Training, Testing, Project Management, User Acceptance Testing, SAP, Ariba, Siebel, Catalog Management, Requirements Gathering, Process Improvement, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Excel, Lead Generation, CRM, Business Analysis, Software Documentation, Business Process, Management, Customer Service, Strategy, Advertising, Inventory Analysis, Vendor Management, Consulting James Wing China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) 2007 — 2009 M.S., Information Systems University of Washington, Bothell 1998 — 2001 B.S., Computing and Software Systems BatchIQ May 2014 - Present Mercent January 2011 - April 2014 aMind Solutions July 2009 - December 2010 Mercent June 2006 - June 2007 Mercent January 2005 - May 2006 Morse Best Innovation March 2003 - January 2005 Sierra On-Line 1998 - 2001 U.S. Army September 1993 - September 1997 Software Development, Project Management, Enterprise Software, SaaS Operations, Process Improvement, Data Analysis, DevOps, Systems Analysis, SaaS, C#, Microsoft SQL Server, Business Intelligence, Databases, XML, International Relations, Agile Methodologies, E-commerce, .NET, CRM, Management Jennifer Yee B.A., Communication Consumer Media Network March 2013 - Present Stripes39 March 2012 - March 2013 Edmonds Family Fun Center June 2010 - February 2012 Ivar's Seafood, Soup & Sauce Company April 2008 - June 2010 WizKids, Inc. May 2007 - February 2008 Maggiano's Little Italy October 2005 - May 2007 Event Planning, Event Management, Marketing Communications, Social Media Marketing, Microsoft Excel, Email Marketing, Brand Development..., Link Building Campaigns, SEO, Project Management, Social Media, Client Development, Mass Email Marketing, Sales, Digital Marketing, Salesforce.com, Management, Data Analysis, Creative Direction, Marketing Operations, Offshore Operations, Marketing Strategy, Product Development, Online Advertising, Social Networking, Advertising, Google Analytics Director of a Digital Research & Measurement practice. Translating data and insights into compelling strategies. Certificate, Wetland Science & Management Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Environmental Science & French Deloitte Digital October 2013 - Present Banyan Branch December 2010 - October 2013 Spring Creek Group February 2010 - December 2010 Visible Technologies October 2008 - February 2010 FILTER, LLC January 2008 - October 2008 Steward and Associates June 2006 - December 2007 Starbucks Coffee Company November 2005 - June 2006 FILTER, LLC September 2005 - June 2006 Microsoft April 2000 - May 2005 Social Media Marketing, Social Media, Digital Strategy, Analytics, Web Analytics, Social Media Measurement, Digital Marketing, Online Advertising, Marketing, Social Networking, Cross-functional Team..., Account Management, Editing, Program Management, Management, Marketing Strategy, Market Research, Analysis, Leadership, Team Management, Training, Product Development, Strategy, Online Marketing, Integrated Marketing, Lead Generation, CRM, SEM, Digital Media, Strategic Partnerships, Qualitative Research, Content Strategy, Google Analytics, Marketing Communications, Competitive Analysis, Start-ups, User Experience, Facebook, Strategic Communications, Product Marketing, Blogging, Data Analysis, Social Marketing, Copywriting, Forecasting, Research, Project Management, Customer Insight, Segmentation, Proposal Writing Jeff DuLong 3D Artist Environment Artist Art Institute of Seattle 1995 — 1997 Animation - Modeling - Design DigiPen Institute of Technology April 2013 - Present Freelance April 2011 - Present Air Tight Games 2010 - 2010 Aquent 2009 - 2010 Tuxedo Technologies Group 2008 - 2009 Flying Lab Software January 2003 - January 2008 Microsoft 2001 - 2003 FILTER LLC 1999 - 2001 Electronic Arts 1998 - 1999 Texturing, Zbrush, Maya, Unreal Editor, 3D Studio Max, UV mapping, Lighting, Photoshop, Storyboarding, Unreal Engine 3, Modeling, Illustration, Concept Design, Illustrator, Environmental Design, 2D, Graphic Design, Level Design, Character, Character Design, Character Animation, Game Design, Xbox 360, Animation, 3D, User Interface Design, Art Direction, Video Games, Game Development, Digital Painting, Computer Graphics, Social Games, 3D Modeling, Computer Animation, Traditional Animation, UV Mapping, ZBrush Jeff Cawaling Business and Planning Analyst at Boeing BA Business Administration, Finance and Information Systems Boeing March 2011 - Present King County February 2010 - October 2010 Sherpa Squared January 2007 - August 2008 Homeland Security Institute July 2005 - September 2005 Graduate Business Association, University of San Francisco October 2004 - January 2005 Private Consulting June 2001 - June 2004 InterIm Community Development Association May 2003 - December 2003 STARBUCKS Coffee Company December 1999 - June 2001 Analysis, Risk Management, SQL, Forecasting, Research, Finance, Budgets, Team Leadership, Microsoft Office, Program Management, Process Improvement, Salesforce.com, Project Planning, Business Process, Accounting, Management, Financial Modeling, Financial Analysis, Project Management, Cross-functional Team..., Business Analysis, Business Process..., Data Analysis, Leadership Real Estate Broker \| Entrepreneur \| Blogger Centro De Lenguas Modernas 2002 — 2003 Bachelor of Arts (BA), Media Studies, Communications North Mason High School 1994 — 1998 High School Degree Windermere Real Estate UrbanCondoSpaces.com June 2005 - Present Windermere Real Estate 2005 - 2010 Urban Condominiums RE, LLC September 2007 - September 2008 JGR Realty, LLC/Windermere Real Estate/East, Inc. June 2005 - September 2008 Columbia Retail Group July 2002 - June 2004 Real Estate, Sellers, Condos, Real Estate Transactions, Relocation, Investments, Commercial Real Estate, First Time Home Buyers, Contract Negotiation, Townhomes, Buyers, Strategic Planning, Investment Properties, Single Family Homes, Buyer Representation, Selling, Investors, REO, New Home Sales, Listings, Foreclosures, Short Sales, Marketing, Referrals, Waterfront, Sales Jeff Weedman Service Delivery Manager \| Project Manager Bachelor's degree, Political Science and Government, 3.5 Associate's degree, 3.9 Qualis Health April 2013 - April 2015 Johnny Bond Publications 2011 - March 2013 Alere Wellbeing July 2010 - June 2011 Free & Clear, Inc December 2008 - July 2010 Free & Clear, Inc. December 2007 - December 2008 Randstad Work Solutions October 2005 - December 2007 Divers Institute of Technology November 2004 - October 2005 Kelly Services March 2003 - November 2004 JSF Financial, LLC May 2002 - March 2003 Customer Satisfaction, Customer Service, Critical Thinking, Strategic Thinking, Achieve Results, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Internet Explorer, PowerPoint, Oral & Written..., Outlook, QuarkXPress, Research, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, One On One, Change Management, Professional Ethics, Motivational..., Motivational Speaking, Project Management, Program Management, Decisiveness, Diversity & Inclusion, Team Building, Data Entry, Management, Performance Management, Public Speaking, Marketing, Social Media, Training Jen Bachand Director, Strategic Marketing Projects at Tableau Bachelor of Business Administration (Int'l Business) and Bachelor of Arts (Spanish) Marketing Management Certificate Universidad de Granada 2005 — 2006 Business Spanish Certificate Tableau Software August 2015 - Present Tableau Software September 2013 - August 2015 Tableau Software April 2012 - September 2013 Automic Software 2011 - April 2012 Automic Software 2009 - 2011 Boeing 2007 - 2009 Marketing Operations, Marketing Communications, Email Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Brand Management, Loyalty Marketing, Sales & Marketing..., Marketing Automation, Demand Generation, Marketing Strategy, Integrated Marketing, Product Marketing, B2B Marketing, Lead Generation, Microsoft Dynamics, Eloqua, Salesforce.com, Marketo, HTML, Visio, Photoshop, Enterprise Software, Analytics, Strategy, Online Marketing, Leadership, Marketing, Social Media, Program Management, Digital Marketing, Marketing Management, Field Marketing, B2B, Tableau, Campaign Management, Web Marketing Jennifer Graybeal Jen Graybeal Editing Services March 2015 - Present Acrobatic Gymnastics Foundation May 2013 - Present Aviat Networks October 2009 - June 2013 HP May 2008 - February 2009 Hewlett-Packard May 2003 - May 2008 Hewlett-Packard August 2002 - May 2008 Hewlett-Packard April 2002 - August 2002 Hewlett-Packard June 2001 - April 2002 Agilent Technologies November 2000 - May 2001 Radiate, Inc. April 2000 - January 2001 Internal Communications, Social Media, Blogging, Intranet, B2B, Communication Training, Messaging, Corporate Communications, Strategic Communications, Marketing Communications, Content Management, Program Management, Social Media Marketing, Editing, Project Management, Integrated Marketing, Integration, SEO, Strategy, Leadership, Management, Marketing Jennie Richards, MBA Founder / Researcher / Writer Dominican University of California 2008 — 2010 MBA, Sustainable Enterprise - School of Business and Leadership University of California, Berkeley 2002 — 2003 Certificate Program, Editing B.A. English Literature B.A. in Communications / Advertising, Advertising Humane Decisions, www.humanedecisions.com May 2014 - Present Homeless To Housecats, www.homelesstohousecats.com February 2014 - Present YLighting YLiving May 2013 - March 2014 Institute for Environmental Entrepreneurship January 2012 - May 2013 Smart Gardener, Inc. September 2011 - February 2012 Dominican University of California 2008 - 2010 LVMH - Sephora.com 1999 - 2007 Point.com 1997 - 1999 SUPERCUTS, Inc. 1993 - 1996 ComputerLand Corporation 1989 - 1992 Sustainability, Market Analysis, Market Research, Competitive Analysis, Content Management, Web Content Management, Content Writing, Content Strategy, Content Development, Website Development, Information Architecture, Business Planning, Writing Skills, Copy Editing, Report Writing, Project Planning, Project Implementation, Blogging, Social Media, Project Management, E-commerce, Integrated Marketing, Sustainable Business, Start-ups, Copywriting, Strategic Partnerships, Strategic Planning, Program Management, Public Relations, Marketing Strategy, Non-profits, Nonprofits, Marketing, Training, Strategy, Editing, Social Networking, Leadership, SEO, Fundraising Jennifer Chang, MPA Green Cities Network Manager at Forterra (formerly Cascade Land Conservancy) Master of Public Administration, Public Administration and Environmental Policy Bachelor of Science, Atmospheric Sciences WASIS Forterra (formerly Cascade Land Conservancy) March 2012 - December 2013 Forterra (formerly Cascade Land Conservancy) August 2011 - March 2012 Cascade Land Conservancy April 2011 - June 2011 American Meteorological Society September 2010 - January 2011 National Center for Atmospheric Research August 2010 - August 2010 NOAA National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office Seattle January 2010 - June 2010 NOAA National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office Seattle June 2009 - August 2009 Climate, Meteorology, Community Outreach, Data Analysis, Volunteer Management, Volunteer Recruiting, Volunteer Training, Habitat Restoration, Research, Grant Administration, Windows, Environmental Leadership, Nonprofits, Environmental Science, Grants, Science, Environmental Education, Public Speaking, Policy, Marketing, Project Planning, SPSS Jennifer Coombe Owner: Jen's Zen Den A New Beginning School of Massage 2012 — 2013 Massage Therapy, Massage Avenue Five Institute 2011 — 2012 History, History, English, Philosophy Jen's Zen Den July 2010 - Present Photography, Documentaries, Wedding Photography, Hot Stone Therapy, Skin Care, Waxing, Brazilian Waxing, Healing Clay Therapy, Sea Salt Glo Wraps, Therapeutic Massage, Facials, Colon Hydrotherapy, Trigger Point Therapy, Beauty Industry, Myofascial Release, Wellness Coaching, Essential Oils, Editorial, Microdermabrasion, Aromatherapy, Acne, Reflexology, Chemical Peels, Chair Massage, Bodywork, Detoxification, Skin, Deep Tissue Massage, Spa, Relaxation, Healing, Chronic Illness Jennifer Eslava Director Internal Audit at PwC Masters Degree, Business Administration - Leadership Formation Specialization Bachelors, Business Administration - Accounting Transfer, General - Accounting Transfer, General - Pre-Med/Biology PwC June 2014 - Present Proliance Surgeons, Inc., P.S. August 2009 - May 2014 MultiCare Health System June 2009 - December 2009 Moss Adams LLP July 2006 - May 2009 Moss Adams LLP July 2004 - June 2006 Moss Adams LLP October 2001 - June 2004 Auditing, Accounting, Financial Reporting, GAAP, Financial Accounting, Internal Controls, General Ledger, Communication, Team Building, Accounts Payable, Accruals, Financial Analysis, Management, Project Management, Software Project..., Financial Statements, Internal Audit, Budgets, Finance, CPA, US GAAP Jenny Hahn Recruiting Lead at Amazon.com TenMarks Education, an Amazon Company October 2014 - Present Amazon March 2014 - Present Amazon Web Services April 2012 - March 2014 Amazon September 2011 - April 2012 Amazon July 2010 - September 2011 Microsoft August 2009 - July 2010 Microsoft 2008 - April 2009 Society of Counsel Representing Accused Persons 2007 - 2008 Associated Students of University of Washington 2007 - 2008 Sourcing, Interviews, Recruiting, Human Resources, Applicant Tracking..., Internet Recruiting, Hiring, Onboarding, Technical Recruiting, Compensation & Benefit, Negotiation, Leadership, Employment-based..., Temporary Placement, Process Scheduler, Employee Training, Benefits Negotiation, Employee Relations, Event Planning, Staffing Services, Candidate Generation, Benefits Administration, Search, Business Development, College Recruiting, Contract Recruitment, New Hire Orientations, Networking, Management, Screening, Talent Acquisition, Screening Resumes, Talent Management, Interviewing, Scheduling, Business Process..., Training & Development, Employee Referral..., Program Management, HRIS, Employer Branding, Employee Engagement, Boolean Searching, IT Recruitment, Executive Search Jennifer Holling Change Analyst at TMobile Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General T-Mobile February 2015 - Present IT Release Project Management Leaders in the Greater Seattle Area 2015 - Present Microsoft September 2011 - October 2014 Microsoft September 2006 - September 2011 Software Project..., Program Management, Agile Project Management, Agile Methodologies, Cloud Computing, Release Management, Scrum, SharePoint, Enterprise Software, Project Release..., Project Management, Microsoft Project, Project Coordination, Project Planning, IT Operations, IT Solutions, IT Strategy, IT Service Management, Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure..., Infrastructure..., Network Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure..., Infrastructure Planning, Asset Management, IT Asset Management, Servers, SharePoint Server, Server Architecture, Computer Hardware, Operating Budgets, Process Improvement, Management, Business Intelligence, Integration, Product Management Jennifer Conway, RHU, SHRM-CP Dynamo human capital consultant delivering strategic, sustainable total rewards programs Willis November 2014 - Present Concur January 2012 - November 2014 Gallagher Benefit Services October 2001 - January 2012 Dish Network April 2000 - October 2001 National Securities Corporation February 1999 - April 2000 Software Solution Sales, Account Management, Sales Process, Solution Selling, Salesforce.com, Employee Benefits, Expense Management, Business Intelligence, Business Process, Leadership, Management, Insurance, Integrated Marketing, Human Resources, Sales, Strategic Planning, Cold Calling, SaaS, New Business Development, Direct Sales, Consulting, Strategic Partnerships, Marketing, Health Insurance Jennifer Waldron, Ph.D. Speech Coach/Sound Healer/Artist Open Ear Center Center 1998 — 2003 CCMHP, Cross-Cultural Music for Healing Practitioner Ph.D., Speech Communications Department M.A., Speech Communications Department Speech Coaching August 2002 - Present Everett Community College January 1978 - June 1999 Sound, Music, Training, Public Speaking, Art, Healing, Workshop Facilitation, Coaching, Singing, Reiki, Theatre, Meditation, Teaching, Speech Coaching, Personal Development Jeremy Bunn Geomorphologist, Hydrologist, Designer, Builder M.S., Geological Sciences Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Conservation and Resource Studies Herrera Environmental Consultants November 2012 - Present Portland State University 2008 - 2011 ENTRIX, Inc. November 2006 - November 2008 Jessica Ashe Product Manager, Shore Excursions Department at Holland America Line & Seabourn Cruises B.A. Art & Sciences, Majored in Political science Hospitality, Revenue Analysis, Event Planning, Resorts, Customer Service, Sabre, Account Management, Travel Planning, Incentives, Event Management, Sales, Hospitality Industry, Hospitality Management, Marketing, Product Marketing, Incentive Travel, Management, Training, Sales Management, Marketing Strategy, Online Advertising, Hotel Booking, Business Travel, Online Travel Jessica Dickerson Project Analyst at Brown and Caldwell Brown and Caldwell March 2014 - Present Leidos Engineering (formerly R.W. Beck) June 2009 - March 2014 Leidos Engineering (formerly BDR) December 2008 - May 2009 Leidos Engineering (Formerly BDR) October 2008 - November 2008 Leidos Engineering (formerly R.W. Beck) September 2005 - November 2008 Leidos Engineering (formerly R.W. Beck) April 2004 - September 2005 Microsoft Office, Office Management, Accounts Payable, Outlook, Project Management, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Administrative..., Program Management, Project Planning, Budgets, Access, Customer Service, Team Leadership, Microsoft Word, Analysis Jill Guthrie Management Associate at Carrington Mortgage Holdings Bachelor of Arts (BA), Finance, International Business Institut d'Etudes politiques de Paris / Sciences Po Paris 2012 — 2012 International Economics, Finance, Law Bachelor of Arts (BA), French Language and Literature Carrington Mortgage Holdings February 2014 - Present French-American Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific Northwest January 2013 - August 2013 Merrill Lynch May 2012 - August 2012 T.D. Wang Advertising Group, LLC January 2012 - April 2012 Marketing Strategy, Social Media Marketing, Investments, Advertising, Qualitative Research, Forecasting, Entrepreneurship, International Relations, Analysis, Strategic Planning, Event Management, Editing, Microsoft Excel, Strategy Jim Visscher Owner, Design Precepts, LLC Master of Architecture, Architecture The University of New Mexico 1983 — 1989 Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, Architecture Design Precepts, LLC Project ManagerStillwell Hanson Architects2001 - 2009 rohleder borges fleming architects 1999 - 2001 Callison 1996 - 1997 A. Jion Kim Undergraduate Researcher in Dr. Daniel G. Miller's Lab B.A. in English with a Writing Emphasis, B.A.in Biochemistry Mercer Island High School 2008 — 2012 3.99 GPA Daniel G. Miller Lab September 2014 - Present The Daily of the University of Washington January 2013 - September 2014 The Daily of the University of Washington September 2013 - March 2014 Self-employed private tutor March 2012 - January 2013 The Islander, Mercer Island High School's student-run newspaper September 2011 - June 2012 InDesign, AP Style, Publications, Creative Writing, Copy Editing, Academic Tutoring, News Writing, Newspapers, Publishing, Journalism, Team Leadership, Experience Working with..., Team Management, Leadership, Research, Editing, Public Speaking, Social Media, Microsoft Office, Writing Joseph Cutler Attorney at Perkins Coie Georgetown University Law Center 2002 — 2005 B.A., Philosophy, Political Science, Ethnic Conflict Perkins Coie October 2005 - Present Institute for the Study of International Migration October 2003 - June 2004 Human Rights Watch May 2003 - August 2003 Frontier Bonding Service August 2001 - August 2002 Weber & Associates and Coho Real Estate, LLC June 1998 - May 2001 Montreux Condo Development, LLC October 1998 - October 1999 Privacy Law, Data Security, Litigation, Consumer Law, Privacy Compliance, Commercial Litigation, Civil Litigation, Privacy Policies, Consumer Privacy, Online Privacy, Legal Research, Privacy Regulations, Legal Writing, Privacy Issues, Trials, Data Privacy Joe Hays PhD, Mechatronics & Robotics Masters, Mechanical Engineering Brigham Young University 1992 — 1996 Bachelors, Mechanical Engineering US Naval Research Laboratory November 2011 - Present Virginia Tech August 2007 - September 2011 National Instruments May 2003 - August 2007 National Instruments November 2000 - May 2003 National Instruments July 1999 - November 2000 National Instruments February 1998 - July 1999 Mathematica, Simulink, Labview, Numerical Analysis, Kinematics, Matlab, Robotics, Data Acquisition, Simulation, Mechatronics, C, Python, Programming, Software Development, Algorithms, Optimization, Simulations, Testing, C++, Software Engineering, Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Embedded Systems, Control Systems Design, Modeling, Embedded Software, R&D, FPGA, Dynamics, Sensors John Murkowski Principal, Pensar Development Inc. BS, Mechanical Engineering Hanford High School Pensar Development Inc. June 2001 - Present Rainier Mountaineering Inc. 1996 - 2009 Product Development, Product Design, Human Factors, CAD, Project Management, Experience Design, Solidworks, Injection Molding, Engineering Management, Design for Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering, Medical Devices, Manufacturing, Pro Engineer, Business Development, Electronics, Rapid Prototyping, Engineering, R&D, Finite Element Analysis, Lean Manufacturing, Sheet Metal, Solid Modeling, Concept Development, Concept Generation, Modeling, Design Strategy, Machining, Inventor, CAD/CAM, Rendering, Design of Experiments, Industrial Design, 3D Printing, User Research, Design Thinking, User-centered Design, Strategic Design, User Interface, Usability Testing, Rhino 3D, Management, Product Management John Sheppard Retail Div. VP New Ventures University of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of Business MBA, Emphasis in Business Policy and Marketplace Strategy BA, Business Administration, Emphasis in marketing strategy and organizational behavior. Kennesaw State University 1986 — 1988 Albany Technical College AA, Architectual Design REI December 2014 - Present REI (Recreational Equipment Inc.) 2007 - 2014 REI 2004 - 2007 John Scearce Software Integration Analyst at The Boeing Company Bachelor of Arts (BA), English Language and Literature, General Bellarmine College Preparatory 1972 — 1976 The Boeing Company October 1989 - Present Boeing Commercial Airplanes February 1986 - September 1989 United Airlines June 1980 - September 1980 Windows, Testing, Systems Engineering, Integration, Aviation, Aerospace, Software Development, Architecture, Requirements Analysis, Software Engineering, Project Management, Visio, Earned Value Management, Program Management, Lean Manufacturing, Troubleshooting, Configuration Management, Security, Requirements Management, SharePoint, Software Documentation John Winters Cisco Technologies, Cisco IOS, Cisco Call Manager, Perl, Cisco VoIP, TCP/IP, VoIP, Troubleshooting, System Deployment, Network Design, IT Management, Network Security, Networking, LAN-WAN, SNMP, Project Planning, Software Development, CCNA, Switches, Windows, Infrastructure, Windows Server, Virtualization, Data Center, Catalyst Switches, VMware, CCDA, System Administration, Network Architecture, Network Engineering, WAN Joju Michael Mangalam B2B and Consumer Marketing Executive The University of Chicago - Booth School of Business MBA, Finance, Marketing MS, Transaportation Systems Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Bachelor of Technology, Civil Engineering Act-On Software, Inc. January 2014 - Present ParetoCentral.com May 2010 - December 2013 CPI Corp. 2012 - 2012 eBay 2008 - 2010 eBay, Inc. 2005 - 2008 CellPay 2002 - 2005 OneChannel 2002 - 2003 KANA Software 2000 - 2002 Product Management, Product Marketing, E-commerce, Analytics, Customer Acquisition, Marketing Strategy, Online Advertising, Web Analytics, Strategic Partnerships, Competitive Analysis, Digital Marketing, Email Marketing, SEM, Multi-channel Marketing, Segmentation, CRM, Integrated Marketing, Business Planning, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Online Marketing, Cross-functional Team..., Start-ups, Management, Leadership, Mobile Marketing, Market Research, B2B, Market Planning Jason Okrent, CFA Vice President, FX Investor Sales at Integral Development Integral Development Corporation January 2013 - Present Jonathan Yuen Sr. Product Support Engineer at Progyny, Inc. (formerly Auxogyn, Inc.) Progyny, Inc. (formerly Auxogyn, Inc.) July 2015 - Present Progyny, Inc. (formerly Auxogyn Inc.) August 2013 - July 2015 Auxogyn, Inc. January 2012 - August 2013 InSightec January 2005 - January 2012 Onda Corporation 2002 - 2003 Philips Medical Systems January 2002 - June 2002 University of Washington - Dept. of Bioengineering & Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound September 1999 - December 2001 University of California - Berkeley Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory 1997 - 1999 Medical Devices, Ultrasound, Technical Training, Biomedical Engineering, MRI, Medical Imaging, Bioengineering, Product Complaints, Complaint Investigations, Troubleshooting, Digital Imaging, Clinical Research Jonathan MacKinnon Founder of The Portrait Timeline Museums and Institutions Princeton University 1990 — 1994 Bachelor's Degree, History Art History, Criticism and Conservation The Portrait Timeline January 2008 - Present Seattle Art Museum 2008 - Present Visual Artist 1998 - Present Museums, Research, Editing, Social Media Marketing, Public Speaking, Art, Fundraising, Event Management, Art History, History, Teaching, Community Outreach, Writing, Museum Collections, Fine Art, Web Design, Event Planning, HTML, CSS, InDesign, Microsoft Excel, Nonprofits, Online Marketing, Web Development, Painting, Visual Arts, Curating, Contemporary Art, Museum Education Jonathon Torone Assistant Video Editor at Bungie Univeristy of Washington 2007 — 2012 BFA in Experimental Film, BA in Screenwriting Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Digital Arts and Experimental Media Bungie February 2015 - Present Freelance Videographer September 2012 - Present Victory Studios July 2013 - February 2015 University of Washington Husky Marching Band May 2010 - January 2012 Vector Marketing July 2008 - August 2008 Plateau Chiropractic February 2007 - June 2007 Film, Final Cut Pro, Video Editing, After Effects, Film Production, Maya, Video Production, Cinematography, Screenwriting, Post Production, Videography, Microsoft Office, Photography, Editing, Photoshop, Premiere, CPC, Adobe Encore, CatDV, Closed Captioning Jonathan Bouley Senior Data Analyst at Liberty Mutual Insurance Liberty Mutual Insurance August 2011 - Present Liberty Mutual Insurance May 2009 - August 2011 Liberty Mutual Insurance September 2008 - May 2009 Safeco June 2007 - September 2008 National Grange Mutual November 2001 - June 2006 United States Navy December 1993 - December 1999 SharePoint, Project Management, Requirements Analysis, SDLC, Business Analysis, Vendor Management, Process Improvement, Business Intelligence, Resource Management, Quantitative Analytics, Visio, Requirements Gathering, IT Management, Analysis, Analytics, Business Process..., Quality Assurance, Business Process, Software Documentation, Financial Reporting, Power View, Six Sigma, IT Service Management, Business Requirements, Power Pivot, Management, Leadership, Enterprise Software, Data Warehousing, ITIL, Access, Program Management Jonathan Bergeron UX Researcher at NBCUniversal, Inc. Certificate, Web Development Master of Science (M.S.), Human Centered Design and Engineering, 3.7 Certificate, User-Centered Design, 3.7 University of Washington Tacoma 2006 — 2008 Bachelor of Arts (BA), Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences- Arts, Media and Culture, Minor in Applied Computing NBCUniversal, Inc. June 2014 - Present Fizzmint May 2014 - Present Getty Images April 2013 - June 2014 Blinkx June 2009 - April 2013 UPS October 2001 - July 2009 Divide by Zero Games August 2008 - March 2009 Tenacious Games February 2008 - April 2008 User Experience Testing, User Interface Design, User Experience, Project Management, Usability Testing, User Research, Game Design, Product Management, Interaction Design, Web Design, User-centered Design, Information Architecture, Wireframes, Usability, Mobile Applications, Survey Design, Survey Research, Eye Tracking, User Interface, Mobile Devices Joseph P Hamann Senior Sales Representative at Osram Sylvania BA, Accounting Joy Yi Recruiting Coordinator at Denali Advanced Integration Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics and Communications Denali Advanced Integration April 2015 - Present Microsoft August 2014 - March 2015 Kollaboration Seattle January 2013 - September 2014 Microsoft September 2013 - February 2014 Korean Student Association September 2012 - June 2013 University of Washington Housing and Food Services September 2011 - June 2013 Kollaboration Seattle October 2010 - December 2012 Korean Student Organization September 2010 - June 2011 Event Planning, Customer Service, Social Media, Event Management, Community Outreach, Nonprofits, Microsoft Office, Teamwork, Management, Community Development, Leadership, Sales Karmen Chen Master's Degree, User-Centered Design School of Visual Concepts 2013 — 2013 Graphic Design, Graphic Design Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), International/Global Studies Microsoft May 2015 - Present AT&T February 2015 - May 2015 Clarisonic January 2014 - January 2015 Accenture January 2014 - March 2014 ACTIVE Network September 2013 - December 2013 Marchex March 2011 - January 2013 User Experience, User Experience Design, Wireframes, Illustrator, Photoshop, User Research, Design Thinking, Usability Testing, Usability, Mobile Devices, Interaction Design, Product Management, Marketing, Product Marketing, Rapid Prototyping, Google Analytics, PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Information Architecture, Agile Methodologies, E-commerce Katherine Fugitt Graphic Designer and Mixed Media Artist/Teacher Certificate, Graphic Design MA, Cognitive Psychology BS, Engineering Tempus Fugitt Designs 2004 - Present Eastside Preparatory School 2010 - 2012 Adometry October 2008 - April 2009 Stone Tablet Education November 2002 - October 2004 Design Insights April 1994 - December 1996 Asymetrix March 1992 - April 1994 Non-profits, Start-ups, Small Business, User Interface Design, Usability Testing, Interaction Design, User Research, User Experience, Information Architecture, Persona, Heuristic Evaluation, Editing, Nonprofits Katie Burk Viral Hepatitis/HIV SetAside Coordinator at San Francisco Department of Public Health Master of Public Health (MPH), Community Oriented Public Health Practice Wesleyan University 1998 — 2002 Bachelor of Arts (BA), Sociology and Women's Studies San Francisco Department of Public Health/HealthRight 360 November 2010 - Present Harm Reduction Coalition August 2010 - November 2014 Public Health Seattle and King County April 2009 - June 2010 San Francisco AIDS Foundation February 2006 - August 2008 Program Evaluation, HIV prevention, Program Management, Qualitative Research, Curriculum Development, Public Health, Facilitators, HCV, Academic Writing, Grant Writing, Conference Organization, Study Coordination, Survey Design, Facilitation, Community Engagement, Public Health Education, Training, Capacity Building, Program Development Katrina Turner Marketing Manager at Studio Meng Strazzara Bachelors of English, English Literature, with Honors Studio Meng Strazzara August 2015 - Present LMN Architects March 2013 - August 2015 Weaver Architects January 2012 - March 2013 Linville Law Firm October 2011 - January 2012 Linville Law Firm September 2010 - November 2011 Starbucks 2008 - 2010 UIEvolution, Inc 2005 - 2010 Marketing, Product Marketing, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Photoshop, Blogging, InDesign, PowerPoint, Research, Analysis, Project Management, Creative Writing, Technical Writing, Architectural Writing, Legal Writing, Ghostwriting, Event Planning, RFP Design Kimberly Cartagena Executive Assistant to Chairman/CEO & Marketing Coordinator BS, Arts and Sciences AA, Arts and Sciences Interlake High School 2001 — 2005 Harley Marine Services, Inc. April 2011 - Present Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority, Inc. 2009 - 2011 YouthCare Seattle January 2009 - June 2009 Event Planning, Communication, Marketing, Marine Industry, Organization, Press Releases, Editing, Editorial, Coordinating Events, Project Coordination, Sales Presentations, Oral & Written..., Customer Service, Photography, Event Management, Social Networking, Email Marketing, Leadership, Social Media Marketing, PowerPoint, Social Media, Microsoft Excel, Strategic Planning, Fundraising, Management, Public Speaking, Marketing Communications, Microsoft Office, Teamwork Kellie Fontes Customer Support Specialist at Socrata BSc. Applied and Computational Mathematical Sciences (focus in Engineering and Physical Sciences), Global Health minor Socrata October 2012 - January 2015 Swanson Laboratory, University of Washington Pathology Department May 2011 - September 2012 Engineers Without Borders (EWB - UW Chapter) September 2010 - June 2011 University of Washington Engineering Library April 2010 - June 2011 Global Health 402 - Contemporary Issues in Global Health January 2011 - March 2011 BNP Paribas July 2009 - August 2009 Research, Microsoft Office, Matlab, Data Analysis, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Public Speaking, SPSS, Event Planning, Microsoft Word, Access, Customer Service Strategic Partnerships l Program Leadership \| Consulting \| Business Development \| Customer Success Bachelor of Arts, Education and English Master of Arts, Curriculum & Instruction Edvation 2000 - 2014 Seattle Pacific University 1997 - September 2009 Intouch with Learning 1999 - 2000 Snohomish School District 1998 - 1999 Instructional Design, Educational Technology, E-Learning, Instructional Technology, Strategic Planning, K-12, Blended Learning, Technology Integration, Teacher Training, Team Building, Staff Development, Customer Service, Educational Leadership, Program Management, Learning Management, Sales Management, Distance Learning, Leadership Development, Curriculum Development, Project Management, Account Management, Curriculum Design Kenny Hong UX Designer at University of Washington Professional & Continuing Education, Human-Centered Design & Engineering Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Visual Arts UW Center for Game Science March 2014 - Present Sirqul, Inc. (Gripwire) February 2013 - March 2014 Kiarba November 2010 - January 2013 User Interface Design, User Experience, User Interface, Wireframes, Typography, Branding & Identity, Illustrator, Flash, Research, Case Studies, Photoshop, Prototype, After Effects, Premiere, Branding Ideas Ken Ruud Sales professional at Ardent Milling & Baking Resources. Bringing innovation to the Food Industry. Food Industry Leadership Program Ardent Mills May 2014 - Present Cargill February 2008 - Present City of Wilsonville 2012 - 2014 Bimbo Bakeries USA January 2001 - February 2008 Safeway June 1990 - December 2000 Food Industry, Sales, Ingredients, Cross-functional Team..., National Accounts, Food, P&L Management, Food Service, Inventory Management, Supply Chain, Retail, Forecasting, Management, Budgets, Business Development, Team Building Kerry Schimmelbusch Public Relations Strategist Master's Degree, Master of Communication in Digital Media, 3.89 Bachelor of Arts, Communications - Public Relations Schimmelbusch Public Relations, L.L.C. 2011 - Present Starbucks August 2014 - May 2015 Weber Shandwick/Creation January 2014 - July 2014 Waggener Edstrom 2005 - June 2011 Pacific Science Center 2002 - 2005 The KMC group 2000 - 2001 Edelman 1998 - 2000 Public Relations, Social Media, Media Relations, Public Relations Skills, Digital Media, Corporate Communications, Internal Communications, Strategic Communications, Crisis Communications, Communications Planning, Digital Strategy, Social Media Marketing, Media Planning, Integrated Marketing, Analyst Relations, Industry Analyst..., Blogging, Marketing Communications, Newsletters, Marketing, Strategy, Message Development, Reputation Management, Spokesperson, Messaging, Publicity, Press Releases, Communication Training, Content Strategy, Content Development Kevin deVoss Business Development Specialist BA (With Distinction), Norwegian, Scandinavian Studies Universitetet i Oslo (UiO) Norsk Film og Literatur Refugee Resettlement Office July 2010 - Present Refugee Resettlement Office January 2010 - September 2010 Refugee Resettlement Office September 2009 - September 2010 Nordic Heritage Museum June 2009 - August 2010 Sno-Isle Libraries August 2006 - August 2007 University of Washington Libraries July 2005 - January 2006 Community Outreach, Grant Writing, Non-profits, Fundraising, Teaching, Editing, Training, Community Development, Leadership Development, Volunteer Management Kimberly David Financial Analyst * ClientOriented * Team Builder Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Communications Sterling Savings Bank 2000 - March 2013 Sterling Savings Bank 1998 - 2000 Bank of America (formerly Seafirst Bank) 1997 - 1998 Relationship Management, Financial Analysis, Portfolio Management, Team Building, Highly detail oriented, Private Banking, Commercial Lending, Consumer Lending, Credit Analysis, Underwriting, Tax Analysis, Collaborative Problem..., Executive Support, Strategic Planning, Loan Origination, Risk Assessment, Operations Management, Support Management, Coordination, Moodys Analytics, Risk..., Bukers Tax Analysis..., Microsoft Office, Credit, Banking, Investments, Loans, Management, Mortgage Lending Kim Kelly Director of Client Services at Alldayeveryday Bachelor of Arts (BA), Communication Alldayeveryday July 2015 - Present Alldayeveryday March 2014 - Present Alldayeveryday March 2013 - March 2014 HUGE Inc. January 2011 - March 2013 4th Avenue Media June 2009 - October 2010 TIBCO Software January 2008 - April 2010 Insightful Corporation June 2004 - December 2007 Insightful Corporation August 1999 - June 2004 XyberNet, Inc. February 1997 - July 1999 Vistage International (formerly TEC) October 1993 - November 1996 Advertising, Copywriting, Event Management, Promotions, Analytics, MS Project, Project Planning, Project Delivery, Project Execution, Loyalty Programs, Website Redesign, Digital Media, Budget Development, Budget Tracking, Project Management, Web Design, Client-focused, Digital Marketing, Leadership, Online Advertising, Social Media Marketing, Content Strategy, Budgets, User Experience, Creative Direction, E-commerce, Strategy Kim Reed Sr. Vision Territory Manager Bausch and Lomb BA, Communications/Advertising Bausch + Lomb January 2012 - Present Luxottica Retail September 2007 - October 2011 Blockbuster June 2004 - April 2007 T-Mobile July 1998 - January 2004 McCaw Communications/AT&T March 1994 - July 1998 Crystal Brands Jewelry January 1989 - January 1994 Budget Management, Strategic Planning, Leadership Development, Performance Management, Team Management, Retail, Sales, Leadership, Team Building, Strategy, Sales Operations, Budgets, Sales Management, Merchandising, CRM, Training, Recruiting, Forecasting, Marketing, Business Planning, Account Management, Selling, Coaching, Advertising, Marketing Communications Kirk Holland VC Investor and Board Member at TaskEasy Stanford University Graduate School of Business 1996 — 1998 Faith christian TaskEasy September 2014 - Present TapInfluence August 2013 - Present Access Venture Partners May 2010 - Present Craftsy November 2011 - Present RoundPegg November 2010 - Present TechStars 2007 - Present NewsGator Technologies December 2007 - Present Rally Software Development January 2006 - Present Thought Equity Motion October 2005 - Present Vista Ventures January 2002 - Present Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, SaaS, Private Equity, Enterprise Software, Team Building, Online Advertising, Digital Media, Company Building, Start-ups, Mergers, Angel Investing, New Business Development, Product Marketing, Mergers & Acquisitions, E-commerce, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Leadership, Strategic Partnerships, Mobile Applications, Business Strategy, Investments, Corporate Development, Marketing, Management, Product Management Kristen Harrison Senior Talent Acquisition Program Specialist at Concur B.A. in Business Administration, Business Management, Finance Concur 2012 - Present SaaS, Enterprise Software, Salesforce.com, Business Intelligence, Solution Selling, Concur, Account Management, Professional Services, Expense Management, Cloud Computing, Technical Recruiting, Recruiting, Networking, Business Development, CRM, Strategy, Social Media Advertising, Leadership, Employee Referral..., Applicant Tracking..., Recruitment Advertising, Employment Law..., Employer Branding, Social Media Marketing, Program Management, Management, Talent Acquisition, Web Content, Report Writing, Business Process, Mobile Devices, Vendor Management Kathy Meyers-Schulte Greater San Diego Area Independent Market Research Provider/Consultant BS, Biology & Chemistry San Diego State University-California State University MBA, Marketing & Finance Certification, Marine Sciences Program MS, Oceanography Client Companies 2008 - Present Agilent Technologies 2007 - 2008 Stratagene 2001 - 2007 Mallinckrodt 1998 - 2001 Answers Research 1996 - 1998 Numerous Companies 1994 - 1996 Naval Oceans System Center for CSC 1986 - 1996 Marketing, Market Research, Cross-functional Team..., Strategic Planning, Marketing Strategy, Product Management, CRM, E-commerce, Business Development, Customer Insight, Competitive Analysis, Product Development, Management, Biotechnology, Medical Devices, Segmentation Kristie English, M.Ed, CIC, CRIS, MLIS Insurance Broker at English Insurance Group & Educator at Learning Landscape M.Ed., Special Education, Learning Disabilities B.A., Business Administration - Management & Human Resources Concentration Shorewood HS RAVEN Property Group, LLC August 2014 - Present English Insurance Group, LLC May 2005 - Present Learning Landscape, LLC April 2005 - Present Education Access Network October 2001 - Present University of Washington March 2004 - January 2006 Washington Mutual Bank (JP Morgan Chase) August 2003 - June 2004 Business Computer Training Institute (BCTI) December 2002 - August 2003 Harborview Medical Center June 2001 - April 2003 Saltmine January 2001 - April 2001 Volt Services at Microsoft March 1999 - January 2001 Insurance, Property & Casualty..., Learning Disabilities, Directors & Officers..., Professional Liability, Teaching Reading, Development & delivery..., Dyslexia, Entrepreneurship, Commercial Insurance, Personal Lines Insurance, Employment Practices..., Brokers, Non-profits, Liability, Commercial Lines, D&O, Small Business, Legal Liability, Renters, Inland Marine, General Insurance, Nonprofits, Umbrella Insurance, Underwriting, Term Life Insurance, Homeowners, Health Insurance, Human Resources, Training & Development, Adult Family Home..., Contractors Insurance, Workers Compensation, Excess, Disability Insurance, Casualty, Life Insurance, Claim, Claims Management, Long-term Care, Casualty Insurance Kristina Raabe Systems Support Specialist at Golder Associates Bachelor's Degree, B.A. Applied Computing, Restoration Ecology Minor, 3.88 Golder Associates April 2011 - Present Golder Associates March 2006 - March 2011 Albat + Wirsam North America 2004 - 2006 Tina Finesmith, MD 2003 - 2004 Balance Physical Therapy, PS 2002 - 2002 Software Documentation, Microsoft Office, Databases, Analysis, SharePoint Designer, SharePoint, Testing, Test Planning, Usability Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Test Management, Visual Studio, TFS, Technical Support, Help Desk Support, Software Quality..., User Experience, Manual Testing, Technical Writing, Management, Microsoft SQL Server, Windows 7, System Administration, Requirements Analysis, Project Management, Troubleshooting, Customer Service, Microsoft Excel Kristin Stahl-Johnson, M.S. Fisheries and Oceans Scientist, Policy Analyst & Writer Master of Science (MS), Fishery Biology Bachelor of Arts (BA), Zoology OceanPeople Resources 1995 - Present Ocean Bay Marine, Inc. 1987 - 2010 Kodiak Community Conservation Network 1993 - 1999 Alaska Marine Conservation Council 1993 - 1998 Prince William Sound Regional Citizens' Advisory Council 1991 - 1997 FV Thelma C 1991 - 1997 National Marine Fisheries Service 1977 - 1989 Integrating Marine..., Fisheries Management, Sustainable Fishing..., Commercial Fishing, Marine Ecosystem-Based..., Fishery Biology and..., Scientific Marine..., Oil Spill Prevention..., Marine Biology, Environmental Policy, Environmental Health, Conservation Leadership, Collaborative Problem..., Public Speaking, Writing, Editing, Strategic Planning, Long Range Planning, Non-profit Program..., Non-Profit Capacity..., Organizational Design..., Planning and..., Community Outreach, Public Education and..., Campaign Development..., Aquaculture..., Ecology, Fisheries, Grant Writing, Policy, Climate Change, Conservation Issues Kristin Stansberry Project Manager at TMobile via TEKsystems BA, Mechanical Engineering T-Mobile via TEKsystems April 2014 - Present Frontier Communications 2007 - April 2014 Verizon 2005 - 2007 Georgia-Pacific LLC 1999 - 2001 Project Management, PMP, Management, Analysis, Access, Engineering, Microsoft Excel, Telecommunications, Vendor Management, Cross-functional Team..., Program Management, Wireless, MS Project, Process Improvement, Visio, PowerPoint lael henterly Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Communications: Journalism OnPoint Investigations September 2015 - Present Writing, Journalism, Investigation, Tableau, Data journalism, open records requests, public disclosure..., FOIA, SQL, Access Landin Boring Associate Attorney at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP University of Washington School of Law 2004 — 2007 Doctor of Law (JD), Intellectual Property Law Ph.D., Molecular Biology Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP August 2010 - Present Christensen O'Connor Johnson Kindness February 2006 - April 2010 Xenogen Corporation June 1998 - August 2004 Gladstone Institute for Cardiovascular Disease 1994 - 1998 Preparation and..., White-space analysis., Non-infringement..., Prosecution, Legal Opinions, Patent Applications, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology Lauren Marani Schoen Senior Associate Director of Admissions at Bastyr University Certificate in Project Management DePaul University 2006 — 2008 Master of Science, International Public Service Marquette University 2002 — 2005 Bachelor of Arts, Public Relations; Bachelor of Arts, Sociology Bastyr University July 2014 - Present Bastyr University February 2013 - June 2014 Bastyr University August 2011 - February 2013 Bastyr University October 2009 - August 2011 Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand October 2008 - April 2009 DePaul University November 2007 - October 2008 Rotary International October 2006 - October 2007 Admissions, Student Development, Event Management, Nonprofits, Recruiting, Program Management, Intercultural..., Program Development, Interviews, Academic Advising, Editing, Non-profits, Social Media, International Education, Marketing Communications, Sustainable Development, Operation Efficiencies, Public Relations, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Change Management, Team Management Leah Frank Recruiting Associate at Bain & Company Master's Degree, Applied Psychology, Cumulative GPA 4.0/4.0 Bachelor's Degree, Psychology and Business Brett Fisher Group September 2014 - July 2015 User Research International April 2014 - July 2014 The Friendship Circle June 2011 - April 2013 Anna Lea Mackay-Mejia HR Director & Business Partner with Global Experience HR Management Certificate, Strategic Human Resources Management 国際大学 / International University of Japan 1997 — 1999 B.A. Honours, East Asian Studies NPSIA Master of Arts (M.A.), Development Economics and International Development Japan Arts Connection Lab May 2013 - Present various start-ups September 2009 - December 2012 Guidant Corporation September 2001 - December 2004 Aon Hewitt August 1999 - September 2001 Towers Watson September 1998 - December 1998 Colombian Investment Corporation (Coinvertir) May 1993 - August 1997 Leslie E. Young Real Estate Broker, Community Collaborateuse The Corcoran School of Art 1988 — 1990 The Evergreen State College 1986 — 1988 The Northwest School 1984 — 1986 Lakeside School 1979 — 1984 Young and Associates August 2014 - Present Better Properties North Proctor July 2014 - Present John L. Scott Tacoma North April 2004 - July 2014 City of Tacoma March 2013 - August 2013 City of Tacoma January 2011 - June 2011 Catering by Steve King 2006 - 2008 Historic Tacoma 2006 - 2008 Braselle Design Company 2001 - 2002 Marine Graphics, Inc. 1996 - 2002 The Bon Marche 1993 - 1997 Sales, Marketing, Communication, Event Planning, Non-profits, Real Estate Transactions, Community Development, Real Estate, Public Speaking, Social Media, Negotiation, Public Relations, Community Outreach, Contract Negotiation, Strategic Planning, Residential Homes, Customer Service, Online Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Small Business, Condos, Buyers, Management, Nonprofits, Buyer Representation, Team Building, Single Family Homes, Move Up Buyers, Relocation, Commercial Real Estate, Selling, Social Networking, Short Sales, Fundraising, First Time Home Buyers, Urban Planning, Research, Marketing Strategy, Brokers, Property, Entrepreneurship, Investment Properties, Foreclosures, Leadership, Investors, Referrals, Policy, Event Management, Strategy Linda Laverty HR Business Manager, CCG/M&O/OEM at Microsoft Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Interdiscplinary Arts and Sciences (Culture, Literature, and Art) Zama American High School 1992 — 1997 Microsoft (via Kelly Services) March 2011 - September 2011 Pasta & Co. (Sugar Mountain Guest Services) August 2009 - March 2011 Kelly Financial Resources June 2008 - July 2009 Kelly Financial Resources May 2007 - June 2008 American Equity Mortgage August 2006 - March 2007 Nordstrom July 2002 - June 2006 Recruiting, Customer Service, Project Management, Operations Management, Business Management, Complaince Auditing, Employee Relations, Employee Onboarding, Management, Onboarding, Applicant Tracking..., Marketing, Hiring, Time Management, Training, Teamwork, Coaching, Temporary Placement, Event Planning, Performance Management, Account Management, Screening, Interviews, Sourcing, Payroll, Employee Training, Sales, Process Improvement, New Hire Orientations, Human Resources, Talent Acquisition, College Recruiting, Leadership, Internet Recruiting, HR Policies Lindsey Emiliusen at LWSD Masters, Elementary Education, Special Education Lake Washington School District August 2013 - Present Rodan + Fields Dermatologists February 2013 - Present Lake Washington School District August 2008 - June 2012 Monroe School District August 2004 - July 2008 Classroom, Educational Technology, Special Education, Curriculum Design, Training, Interventions, Literacy, Staff Development, Curriculum Development lindsey gudger Business, Marketing, Computer Sciences myServiceForce.com February 2010 - March 2012 myServiceForce.com June 2008 - February 2010 PremierGarage December 2005 - August 2009 New Business Development, Strategic Partnerships, Business Development, Sales Management, Marketing, Account Management, Strategic Planning, Sales, SaaS, Salesforce.com, Product Management, Marketing Strategy, Lead Generation, Start-ups, Online Advertising, Product Marketing, Contract Negotiation, Sales Process, Competitive Analysis, Direct Sales Liyun (Roy) Zeng Field Application Scientist, APAC at Thermo Fisher Scientific Ph.D, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Biotechnology, 3.73 Computer Science and Engineering, 3.9 BS, Biological Science, 3.7 UW-Sichuan University Undergraduate Exchange Program, Biology, General, 3.85 Chengdu No.12 Middle School 1998 — 2001 High School Diploma, Science Thermo Fisher Scientific January 2014 - Present Biotecan May 2013 - December 2013 GenScript Corporation May 2012 - May 2013 University of Southern California October 2010 - May 2012 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center March 2007 - August 2010 Pyrosequencing, PCR, Immunocytochemistry, Immunohistochemistry, ELISA, Tissue Culture, Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology, Protein Expression, Flow Cytometry, Drug Discovery, Embryology, Drug Development, Image Analysis, C, Java, Perl, Unix Shell Scripting, Linux, recombinant DNA..., Cell, Protein Purification, High Throughput..., Leadership, Management, Economics, Strategic Planning, Marketing Strategy, Business Intelligence, Project Management, Communication Skills, Systems Biology, Cloud Computing, Genome Sequencing, Molecular Diagnostics, Molecular Genetics, Molecular & Cellular..., Marine Biology, Stem Cell Technology, Tissue Engineering, Cell Lines, Drug Metabolism, Apoptosis, Protein Engineering, Antibodies, Biosimilars, cGMP practices, Quality by Design, Fermentation Technology, Processes Development Lluvia Ellison-Morales Communications Project Manager King County, WA 2014 - Present UPS 2011 - 2013 The Conference Board 2008 - 2011 MCI Group 2007 - 2008 Expedia, Inc. 2005 - 2007 World Affairs Council 2004 - 2005 Teaching Assistant Program in France USA 2003 - 2004 Seattle Public Schools 2002 - 2003 Larry R Saulness Leasing Consultant at Muse Management Prolango 2010 — 2010 Associates, Management Muse Management March 2015 - Present Retired and enjoying time to pursue personal interests and family February 2015 - March 2015 Thrive Communities Inc. September 2012 - February 2015 Archstone May 2011 - September 2012 Prolango May 2010 - July 2010 Hawthorn Suites March 2008 - October 2009 Madison House Retirement & Assisted Living May 2006 - December 2007 Darden Restaurants November 2001 - March 2006 Jack in the Box 1991 - 1998 Sullivan Payne March 1984 - May 1991 Budgeting, Microsoft Office, Hiring, Training & Development, Coaching, Cash Flow, Customer Relations, Customer Satisfaction, Employee Relations, employee retention, Budgets, Vendor Management, Customer Service, Recruiting, Employee Training, Management, Sales, Training, Team Building Lucy Casiano-Innes Program/Project Manager BA, Communications Microsoft January 2011 - January 2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation July 2009 - September 2009 Microsoft April 2008 - March 2009 Symetra Financial August 2007 - February 2008 Microsoft March 2006 - December 2006 Lynn Nguyen, Esq. DoddFrank ISDA Negotiator at HSBC Seattle University School of Law Doctor of Law (J.D.), International and Business Law Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law Semester Abroad Program in Tokyo, Japan Summer Program in Seoul, Korea Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Economy and Philosophy HSBC 2012 - Present SK Energy Company 2008 - 2008 Isaacson & Wilson, P.S. 2007 - 2008 Securities Exchange Act..., Financial Regulation, FINRA, Securities, Dodd-Frank, Title IV Dodd-Frank Act, Commodity Exchange Act, Securities Regulation, Broker-Dealer, USA PATRIOT Act, SEC Rule 10b-5, RICO, Foreign Corrupt..., GAPP, Due Diligence, ISDA, SAP, Oracle, EDGAR, Markit, Derivatives, Filing, Client Intake, Legal Research, Legal Writing Lynn Thenell Executive Assistant at Electronic Arts \| PopCap Games Electronic Arts/PopCap Games October 2013 - Present Liberty Mutual Insurance August 2009 - October 2013 Adobe Systems 2005 - 2008 Getty Images 2002 - 2004 Pacific Linen 1993 - 1996 Generra Sportswear 1985 - 1992 Adobe Acrobat, Content Management, Customer Service, Executive Level..., Human Resources, Project Management, Social Media, Leadership, Event Planning, Vendor Management, Sales, Microsoft Excel Madelyn Walters National Team Summer Intern at USRowing Master of Education (M.Ed.), Intercollegiate Athletics Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Human Biology Marist College September 2015 - Present USRowing May 2015 - Present University of Washington Intercollegiate Athletics August 2014 - Present University of Washington, Nordstrom Tennis Center August 2014 - Present Sports, Microsoft Office, Athletics, Fundraising, Event Planning, PowerPoint Amirah M. Majid PhD student, UW Information School Master of Arts (M.A.), International Studies - Middle East Studies Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Middle East Studies EF Education First March 2013 - September 2013 University of Washington, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies September 2011 - June 2012 University of Washington, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies April 2011 - June 2011 Académie de Rennes September 2006 - June 2007 Académie de Nantes October 2004 - May 2005 Multi-Media, Research, Teaching English as a..., Interdisciplinary..., Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Events Organizer, Office Management, Grant Writing, Teaching, Events Organisation, Public Speaking, PowerPoint, Editing, Community Outreach, Web Design, Multimedia, Social Media, International Relations Mansi Sharma Masters of Science in Information Management, Information Management K.J. Somaiya Institute of Engineering & Information Technology 2005 — 2009 Bachelor of Science, Computer Science Microsoft (Insight Global) April 2014 - Present T-Mobile (Ciber) February 2012 - April 2014 T-Mobile (Ciber Inc.) September 2011 - February 2012 T-Mobile June 2011 - September 2011 City of Seattle January 2011 - July 2011 Information School June 2010 - December 2010 Information School, University of Washington June 2010 - December 2010 University of Washington January 2010 - August 2010 OpinionWell Inc March 2010 - June 2010 University of Washington October 2009 - March 2010 Visual Studio, SharePoint, JavaScript, CSS, XML, C#, HTML, MySQL, ASP.NET, PHP, Project Management, MS Project, Visio, MS Excel Pivot Tables, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Unix, Oracle, Requirements Analysis, Microsoft Project, Linux, Business Analysis, Databases, SQL Marcia Durazo Account Executive at Waggener Edstrom Communications Bachelor of Arts, Communications Saint Michael's Academy 1996 — 2008 Waggener Edstrom Communications May 2015 - Present Barokas Public Relations April 2014 - April 2015 Barokas Public Relations December 2012 - March 2014 Barokas Public Relations June 2012 - December 2012 I Love Hot Yoga January 2011 - December 2012 Event Planning, Public Relations, Facebook, Social Media, Press Releases, Advertising, Email Marketing, Public Speaking, Marketing Communications Mark Shelby Performer/Theater Master Electrician NA, Music Self Employed January 1984 - Present Love Lemmings 2001 - 2005 Pianist, Vocalist, Entertainment, Event Planning, Stage Management, Piano, Band, Rock, Music, Stage, Theatre, Sound, Live Events, Film, Voice Over, Bands, Event Management, Rock Music, Social Media Marty Rood President/Designated Broker at Mr. 99 & Associates, Inc. BA in Business Administration, Accounting, Computer Programming, Psychology a degree Lead Generation, Automotive, Process Improvement, Strategy, Business Valuation, Salesforce.com, Database Administration, Selling, Marketing, Investment Properties, Entrepreneurship, Investments, Start-ups, Business Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Development, Real Estate, Real Estate Transactions, Disposition, Brokerage, Contract Negotiation, Retail, Commercial Real Estate, Leases, Finance, Leadership, Real Estate Development, Management, Real Estate Economics, REO, Tenant Representation, Corporate Real Estate, Location Intelligence, Tenant, Real Estate Financing, Acquisitions, Landlords, Property Management, Lease Negotiations, Land Acquisition, Due Diligence, Foreclosures, Asset Management, Property, Investors, Real Property, Shopping Centers, Appraisals, Valuation, 1031 Exchanges Marzieh Nabi Research Scientist at PARC PhD, Distributed Space Systems Lab, Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering Department MSc, Probability and Optimization, Mathematics Department Sharif University of Technology 2004 — 2007 MSc, Control and Flight Dynamics, Parallel Robots in Aerospace Engineering Department BSc, Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering Department Stanford University Graduate School of Business SAPHIR Network June 2015 - Present Sand Hill Angels November 2014 - Present HealthTech Capital November 2014 - Present PARC January 2013 - Present University of Washington December 2012 - January 2013 University of Washington 2010 - January 2013 Sharif University of Technology September 2004 - March 2007 Sharif University of Technology September 2004 - September 2006 Shahin Corporation March 2004 - September 2004 Mathematics, Optimization, Control Theory, Network Security, System Dynamics, Networked Dynamic..., Dynamical Systems, Network Identification, Convex Optimization, Optimal Control, Robust Control, Distributed Systems, Smart Grid, CPLEX, Simulink, Mathematica, Optimizations, Machine Learning, Data Analysis, Statistics, Statistical Data..., Online Optimization, Online Learning, Large Scale Networks, Prediction, Social Networking, Smart Homes Matthew Chong Services Executive at Microsoft Political Economics, Sales Aquor Water Systems January 2013 - November 2014 Altria August 2013 - June 2014 Altria June 2013 - June 2014 JPMorgan Chase December 2011 - September 2013 Sales, Data Analysis, Consulting, Sales Management, Sales Presentations, Microsoft Technologies, Marketing Strategy, Public Speaking, Microsoft Office, Marketing, Event Planning Mary-Beth Chandler Business Development at Chandlers Steakhouse Restaurant Bachelor of Science, Healthcare Information Administration Redmond High School 1979 — 1982 Tehran American School 1975 — 1978 Chandlers Steakhouse Restaurant October 2012 - Present Ling and Louie's Asian Bar and Grill July 2012 - Present Lara - Media Productions, LLC May 2011 - Present Concordia University Portland July 2009 - Present Concordia University School of Law May 2009 - Present Sun Valley Film Festival March 2012 - March 2013 TechHelp Idaho - Solutions for Manufacturers August 2011 - October 2012 Hang With Chad, LLC July 2012 - September 2012 Cooper Communications January 2009 - September 2012 Exergy Tour 2012 - 2012 Film Production, Non-profits, Contract Management, Event Planning, Social Media, Small Business, Healthcare, Fundraising, Community Outreach, Event Management, Volunteer Management, Nonprofits, Public Relations, Marketing, Budgets, Management, Public Speaking, Corporate Events, Film, Social Networking Megan (Duncan) Carlisle Digital Solutions Consultant at CDK Digital Marketing Bachelor of Arts, Marketing, Retail Management The University of Texas at Austin 2000 — 2002 CDK Digital Marketing February 2014 - Present Cobalt Digital Marketing August 2012 - February 2014 Cobalt Digital Marketing May 2011 - August 2012 Cobalt Digital Marketing November 2009 - May 2011 SeaBear Company April 2007 - June 2009 Nordstrom June 2003 - August 2005 Account Management, Digital Marketing, Social Media Strategy, Social Media Marketing, Automotive Marketing, Online Community..., Salesforce.com, Sales, Sales Presentation, Customer Service, Social Media Consulting, Reputation Management..., Online Reputation..., SEO, SEM, Public Speaking, Microsoft Office, Product Development, Website Optimization, Retail Marketing, Merchandising, Marketing, Online Advertising, Online Marketing, Google Adwords, PPC, Email Marketing, Management, Web Analytics, Lead Generation, Sales Presentations Melinda Johnston, PMP Xbox Release Manager at Entirenet Associate of Arts (A.A.), Project Management Certificate Front Range Community College 1999 — 2002 Computer Information Systems, Networking BA Interdisciplinary Arts & Science, Global Studies Entirenet July 2013 - Present Entirenet May 2013 - July 2013 Allyis October 2006 - April 2013 Allyis August 2006 - October 2006 Allyis June 2006 - August 2006 Allyis November 2004 - June 2006 Allyis August 2004 - November 2004 Allyis May 2003 - August 2004 Allyis October 2003 - May 2004 Hewlett-Packard September 2001 - October 2003 Web Project Management, Technical Writing, SEO, Newsletters, Online Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Troubleshooting, Customer Service, Team Leadership, Team Building, Content Management, Content Strategy, Web Content, Computer Hardware, Technical Documentation, Microsoft Office, SharePoint, SharePoint Designer, MS Project, Process Improvement, Project Management, Online Advertising, Web Content Management, Cross-functional Team..., HTML/XML, Web Design, Business Intelligence, User Experience, Mentoring, Hardware Diagnostics, UAT coordination, SDLC, Web Graphics, System Implementations, Content Migration, Direct Marketing, ExactTarget, Microsoft SQL Server, MS Excel Pivot Tables, Visual Studio, Public Speaking, Linux, Microsoft Operating..., Microsoft Certified..., Microsoft Certified..., CMS, HTML, CSS, Software Documentation, Email Marketing Melissa Slagle Student UW Digital Marketing Analytics Certificate in Digital Marketing Analytics, Digital Marketing Analytics Certificate Bachelor of Arts (BA), Finance, Marketing, and Decision Sciences Girl Scouts of Western Washington April 2012 - Present Gatewood Elementary School September 2013 - June 2014 Lakewood Cooperative Preschool September 2009 - October 2011 FILTER November 2005 - October 2008 Boeing March 2001 - December 2001 Market Trends January 2001 - March 2001 Microsoft (Contract) March 2000 - December 2000 Whatcom Soccer Commission September 1999 - November 1999 Recruiting, Account Management, Social Networking, Project Management, Management, Staffing Services, Marketing, CRM, MS Excel Pivot Tables, Social Media, Applicant Tracking..., Interviews, Customer Service, Analysis, Microsoft Excel, Talent Acquisition, Online Advertising, Internet Recruiting, Contract Recruitment, Event Planning, Microsoft Office, Sourcing, PowerPoint, Public Speaking, Training, SQL, Pivot Tables, Git, Github Michael R. H. Stewart CEO Trajectory Int'l & Jericho Technology \| Social Med Thought Ldr \| 142K+ Online Followers \| 25 Years Online Experience Elmhurst College 1974 — 1975 University of Hawaii - Shidler College of Business 1969 — 1971 Trajectory International LLC 2014 - Present Jericho Technology, Inc. June 1991 - Present Houston Education Resource Network June 1997 - June 2001 AIG Marketing Inc January 1982 - January 1990 MGM Insurance Services Group January 1972 - January 1982 United States Air Force January 1968 - January 1972 Business Development, Marketing Strategy, Social Media, Digital Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Facebook, New Business Development, Wordpress, Web Design, Public Speaking, Management, Creative Direction, Product Development, Corporate Branding, Sales, Start-ups, Social Networking, Digital Media, Blogging, Strategic Partnerships, WordPress, Social Media Marketing, Nonprofits, Event Planning, Public Relations, Online Marketing, SEO, Email Marketing, Marketing Communications, Online Advertising, SEM, Lead Generation, E-commerce, Social Media Measurement, Digital Marketing, Integrated Marketing, B2B Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Brand Development, Leadership, Content Strategy, PPC, Web Marketing, Web Analytics, Direct Marketing, Google Analytics, Advertising, Google Adwords, New Media Mike Pinoges VP at Fairholme Commercial Energy Star Certificate, Green Building Technology Univerity of Washington 1988 — 1990 BA, Landscape Architecture BA, Architecture Fairholme Commercial August 2000 - Present Produce and communicate..., Project management,, Site Supervision Mikoli Weaver Music, Sound Recordist, Sound Design, Post Audio at Sonoprint Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Sonoprint 2004 - Present Sound Designer, Field Recording, Live Recording, Dialogue Editing, SFX, Boom Operator, Sound Production, Audio Post Production, Sound Mixing, Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Scoring to Picture, Logic Pro, Sound Design, Music Production, Canon XL-1, Sound, Film Scoring Marjorie O' Coyne Administrative and Office Professional Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Art, with emphasis on Textiles The Hoffman Group, LLC June 2011 - December 2014 Aptex Inc 1975 - 2006 Monica Ng Program Manager at Win/Win Action BS, Public Health and Anthropology Win/Win Action June 2014 - Present Public Health Seattle & King County Environmental Health Services Division January 2014 - June 2014 Asian Coalition for Equality September 2013 - June 2014 University of Washington- First Year Programs January 2012 - December 2013 United Way of King County June 2013 - August 2013 Associated Students of the University of Washington Seattle September 2012 - June 2013 Rotoract Club at the University of Washington June 2012 - June 2013 Zeta Tau Alpha Psi Chapter January 2012 - March 2013 Surgical Outcomes Research Center (SORCE) 2010 - 2012 Zeta Tau Alpha Psi Chapter November 2010 - December 2011 Customer Service, Microsoft Office, Healthcare, Wellness, Public Speaking, Health Education, Organizational..., Public Health, Process Improvement, Project Management, Leadership, Public Relations, Program Management, Fundraising, Community Outreach, Nonprofits, Training, Event Planning, Program Development, Volunteer Management Monica Osborne Wealth Management Advisor at Osborne & Associates Bachelor of Science, Business Administration/Accounting Osborne & Associates, LLC November 2009 - Present HD Vest November 1998 - Present Hewlett-Packard April 1993 - March 1995 Tollycraft Yacht, Inc March 1990 - March 1993 Bogrand & Associates - A Crisis Management Consulting Firm August 1989 - March 1991 King Broadcasting January 1985 - July 1989 Deloitte September 1982 - January 1985 Financial Planning, Retirement Planning, CPA, Tax, Estate Planning, Wealth Management, Small Business, Investment Advisory, Insurance, Family Wealth Couseling Monica Williams CFO at Avvo BA, Business, Finance Avvo, Inc. July 2014 - Present Allrecipes.com August 2007 - July 2014 Getty Images October 2006 - August 2007 Getty Images February 2006 - October 2006 Getty Images June 2003 - February 2005 Getty Images November 1999 - June 2003 Laird Norton Wealth Management November 1996 - November 1999 Laird Norton Wealth Management January 1995 - November 1996 Forecasting, Financial Analysis, Strategy, Strategic Financial..., Budgets, Start-ups, Finance, Management, Financial Modeling, Financial Reporting, Business Planning, Business Strategy, Due Diligence, General Ledger, Recruiting, Analysis, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Strategic Planning, Executive Management, Accounting, Vendor Management, Financial Planning Morgan Hale, PHR HR Generalist at Sucker Punch Productions Bachelor of Arts, Geography - International Relations & Economic Development Sucker Punch Productions September 2013 - Present Seattle SHRM January 2013 - April 2015 A Place for Mom October 2011 - September 2013 The Hotel Group July 2008 - October 2011 IntellectSpace Corporation November 2006 - July 2008 Merrill Gardens May 2006 - February 2007 Employee Relations, Administration, Compliance, Onboarding, Excel, HRIS Database Management, EEO Investigations, Workers Compensation, Training, HR Reporting, Payroll, Strategic HR, Human Resources, Microsoft Excel, Coaching, Performance Management, Deferred Compensation, HR Policies, Employee Training, Personnel Management Naomi Bogenschutz Program Manager at UW Professional & Continuing Education Ph.D., Molecular and Cellular Biology Bachelor of Science, Cellular Biology UW Professional & Continuing Education 2014 - Present Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 2013 - 2014 University of Washington July 2005 - June 2007 Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Biochemistry, qPCR, Genetics, PCR, Educational Outreach, Western Blotting, Cell Culture, Fluorescence Microscopy, Molecular Cloning, Tissue Culture, Immunohistochemistry, Program Management, Curriculum Development, Community Outreach Nathan (Nate Cole-Daum) Daum Startup Manager at University of Washington Master of Urban Planning, Real Estate Master's degree, Urban Planning Bachelor's, History University of Washington May 2013 - June 2014 UW Planning Student Association January 2013 - January 2014 Great City May 2012 - April 2013 Weber Shandwick October 2011 - March 2012 The Fearey Group June 2010 - October 2011 Nyhus Communications February 2008 - June 2010 Soapbox Communications May 2005 - January 2008 Simple Majority Campaign September 2007 - November 2007 Nickel Bros. House Moving 2006 - 2007 Merit Financial 2004 - 2005 Public Relations, Media Relations, Press Releases, Public Speaking, Writing, GIS (Geographic..., Outreach, Advocacy, Communications Planning, Events, Non Profit Board Member, Neighborhood Council..., Newsletters, Social Media, Blogging, Mortgage Finance, Land Use, Copywriting, Real Estate Development, Urban Design and..., Volunteer Management, Community Outreach, Nonprofits, Marketing, Advertising, Event Management, Publicity, Public Policy, Community Development, Social Media Marketing, Editing, Proposal Writing, Strategic Communications, Social Media Outreach Neal Oman Predictive Data Science and Applied Math Practitioner HERE, a Nokia company July 2014 - Present Medio Systems August 2012 - July 2014 Boeing Resarch and Technology June 2012 - August 2012 Level 11 Consulting June 2011 - April 2012 Contracts/Consulting Projects August 2007 - March 2011 Finsphere Corporation November 2007 - November 2008 Finsphere Corporation November 2007 - May 2008 Intelligent Results (First Data Corporation) September 2002 - July 2007 Intelligent Results, Inc October 2001 - September 2002 Onyx Software July 1999 - October 2001 Java, Python, Agile & Waterfall..., Unix, Linux, Windows, Hive, R Programming, Hadoop, MapReduce, C/C++ Programming, MPI, OpenMP, MS SQL Server, Eclipse, Mercurial Andrew Neville Software Engineer at F5 Networks Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Minor in Mathematics, 3.65 Certificate in Audio Production Associate of Science, 3.69 Associate of Arts, 3.69 F5 Networks March 2014 - Present F5 Networks September 2013 - March 2014 University of Washington September 2012 - January 2013 Self Employed January 2008 - January 2013 Shoreline Community College January 2009 - November 2010 Python, Matlab, Java, Mathematics, Node.js, JavaScript, Digital Signal..., Signal Processing, C, Ableton Live, Transact-SQL, Perl, HTML, Analog Circuit Design, DSP, Live Sound, Twitter Bootstrap, Linux, Bash, PowerPoint, Computer Hardware, Audio Engineering, Music Production, Music Theory, Sound Design, Pspice, Verilog, Meteor, Labview, Nutrition, Electrical Engineering, Signal Generators, Digital Photography, Photoshop, Sound Editing, Mathematics Education, Visual Arts, TI C6713, Microsoft Office, php, Function Generator, Data Structures, Mathematical Programming, Statistics, Object Oriented Software, Github, CSS, DevExpress Ngan Nguyen Gaithersburg, Maryland Senior Clinical Data Manager/DMPL at Medimmune Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis 2009 — 2009 Clinical Research Certificate Chiltern September 2015 - Present PAREXEL July 2012 - July 2015 ACORN CRO February 2010 - July 2012 inVentiv Clinical Solutions July 2008 - January 2010 US Oncology December 2007 - July 2008 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center June 2001 - November 2006 Oncology, Clinical Trials, CTMS, EDC, Clinical Data Management, Clinical Research, Data Management, Inform, CRO, CRF design, GCP, Oracle Clinical, CDISC, ICH-GCP, Medidata, Clinical Monitoring, Clinical Development, Cancer, 21 CFR Part 11, SDTM, Therapeutic Areas Teresa Ng Master, Social Work Bachelor's degree, Double Major Forest Ridge 1999 — 2003 Healthcare, Fundraising, Public Speaking, Writing, Microsoft Applications, Bilingual, Customer Service, Event Planning, Research, Grant Writing, Program Development, Program Evaluation, Social Services, Management, Hospitals, Data Analysis, Editing Nick Hartman VP, Channel Partners & Alliances at Encompass Compliance, Corp. Business Administration, Digital Arts/Production AA, Business, Criminal Justice Encompass Compliance, Corp. May 2015 - Present Audible Ventures July 2005 - Present TalentWise February 2013 - April 2015 TalentWise May 2007 - February 2013 One Reel September 2004 - September 2011 Virginia Mason Medical Center July 2004 - May 2007 Verizon Wireless February 2001 - July 2004 Leadership, Training, Program Management, Customer Service, Team Building, Account Management, Human Resources, Background Checks, Drug Testing, Business Development, Sales Operations, Onboarding, Sales, Salesforce.com, Marketing, Policy, Strategic Planning, Microsoft Office, Employee Relations, Process Improvement, Product Development, Outlook, Microsoft Excel, Drug Free Workplace, Contract Negotiation, Occupational Health, Supervision, Coaching, Event Management, Event Planning, Risk Assessment, Consulting, Fingerprinting, Event Security, Public Speaking, Social Media, Risk Management, DOT regulations, DOT Compliance, Program Development, Program Evaluation, Growth Management, Strategic Consulting, SaaS, Revenue Enhancement, Lead Generation, Strategic Partnerships, New Business Development, Webinars, Sales Presentations Nina Keebler, MA, LMFT Institute of Transpersonal Psychology 2009 — 2011 MA, Counseling Psychology BA, Honors Economics Barnard College 2000 — 2001 Economic and Political Science Nina Keebler, MA, LMFT March 2015 - Present Mindfulness Centered Healing April 2012 - March 2015 Community Health Awareness Council (CHAC) July 2011 - March 2012 MoreThanBrains July 2011 - 2012 City of Fremont Youth and Family Services August 2010 - June 2011 Healthcare Businesswomen's Association January 2009 - September 2009 Insigniam Performance June 2006 - September 2009 Insigniam Performance June 2006 - January 2008 Psychotherapy, EMDR, Mindfulness, Mental Health, Personal Development, Coaching, Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, Entrepreneurship, Public Speaking, Teaching, Consulting, Psychology, Organizational..., Counseling Psychology, Workshop Facilitation, Marketing, Market Research, Writing, Marketing Strategy, Adolescents, Team Building, Nonprofits, Research, Management Consulting, Event Planning, Counseling Osman Salahuddin Freelance Sports Writer at Football.com International Community School 2008 — 2014 Football.com September 2014 - Present Budigan Law Firm September 2014 - April 2015 Digicopy & Print 2012 - 2014 Leadership, Public Speaking, Social Media, Research, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Strategic Planning, Customer Service, Microsoft Excel, Management, Project Management, Logo Design, Architectural Design, Business Planning, Proofreading, Event Planning peter crozier IT Manager at American Capital Group Certificate Program, Information System Security Harvard University 1992 — 1995 AB, Political Science University of Oslo (UiO) 1980 — 1986 B.S., Computer Science American Capital Group November 1995 - Present Harvard University March 1991 - August 1995 Servers, Microsoft Exchange, Windows Server, Networking, VPN, SUSE Linux Patrick Kassin Development Associate at Wright Runstad & Company Master of Science in Real Estate, Real Estate Development Valdosta State University 2002 — 2006 Starr's Mill High School 1998 — 2002 Wright Runstad & Company March 2015 - Present Wright Runstad & Company December 2014 - March 2015 AvalonBay Communities November 2013 - October 2014 Bisnow February 2013 - October 2013 Berkshire Hathaway Home Servives June 2012 - January 2013 Tivoli Realty Services, Inc. April 2009 - June 2012 Tivoli Properties, Inc. October 2007 - April 2012 Fitness Battalion, Inc. August 2009 - March 2012 McCar Homes August 2007 - October 2007 Lifestyle Realtors August 2006 - May 2007 Selling, Marketing, Goal Setting, Advertising, Strategic Partnerships, SEO, CRM, Competitive Marketing..., New Business Development, Management, Negotiation, Business Planning, Internal & External..., ROI Optimization, Public Relations, Cross-functional Team..., Employee Management, Employee Training, B2B, B2C, Sales, Sales Management, Competitive Advantage, Luxury, Direct Mail, Meet Deadlines, Solution Implementation, Top Producer, Market Research, Best Practices, Social Media Marketing, Google Analytics, Development Of Employees, Vendor Management, Manage Client..., Microsoft Office, Corporate Communications, Capital Budgeting, Performance Management, Residential Homes, Multi Family Properties, Real Estate Development, Real Estate, Salesforce.com, Start-ups, Online Marketing, Leadership, Budgets, Competitive Analysis Paula Isla-McGill Architectural Staff at TGB Architects Bachelor of Arts (BA), Architectural Studies, Minor in Art History Arizona State University 2001 — 2002 TGB Architects January 2013 - Present Advocare February 2011 - Present Microsoft Office, Customer Service, Outlook, Healthcare, Revit, Adobe Creative Suite, AutoCAD, Graphic Design, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Social Networking, Leadership Development, Public Speaking, Microsoft Word, Leadership, Management, PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel Paula Brady O'Neil CoFounder + Personal Stylist, Est Ovest Style BA, History and English Est Ovest Style May 2010 - Present Style for Hire August 2010 - February 2014 Style for Hire September 2010 - August 2013 Virginia Mason Medical Center January 1999 - October 2005 Styling, Wardrobe, Fashion, Stylists, Marketing Strategy, Marketing Communications, Marketing Management, Community Relations, Corporate Fundraising, Fundraising, Public Relations, New Business Development, Personal Shopping, Retail Sales, Fundraisers, Private Foundations, Strategic Partnerships, Marketing, Nonprofits, Fashion Shows, Event Planning, Brand Development, Retail, Fashion Writing, Blogging, Event Management, Apparel, Trend, Photo Shoots, Integrated Marketing, Visual Merchandising, Sales, Brand Awareness, Strategic Planning, Public Speaking, Fashion Design, Business Development, Trend Forecasting, Personnel Management, Program Management, Social Networking, Merchandising, Creative Direction, Personal Branding, Celebrity, Social Media Marketing, Fashion Buying, Trend Analysis, Window Displays, Fit Philip Tan Director at Systimmune Ph.D., Bioegineering (Antibody Engineering) National University of Singapore 1989 — 1990 Honours (2nd Class, Upper Div), Biochemistry B.Sc., Biochemistry, Microbiology Systimmune April 2015 - Present Emergent BioSolutions October 2010 - April 2015 Trubion Pharmaceuticals August 2007 - October 2010 Trubion Pharmaceuticals January 2007 - July 2007 Trubion Pharmaceuticals January 2006 - December 2006 Trubion Pharmaceuticals November 2003 - December 2005 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center July 1998 - October 2003 Genentech August 1997 - July 1998 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center May 1991 - June 1992 Antibodies, Monoclonal Antibodies, Protein Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Protein Purification, In Vivo, In Vitro, Drug Development, Biotechnology, Drug Discovery, Phage Display, Protein Engineering, Molecular Modeling, Cancer Research, Biochemistry, Cell, Immunology, Antibody Engineering, Bispecific Antibodies, Antibody Humanization, ELISA, Cell Culture, Protein Expression, Purification, Biopharmaceuticals, Protein Therapeutics, Multispecific Antibodies, Antibody Optimization, Antibody Expression, scFv optimization, Redirected T cells..., Immunocyokine Peter Chen Software/Growth Engineer Stanford University 2011 — 2012 Computer Science & Entrepreneurship Vytmn September 2014 - August 2015 Sidevision March 2013 - 2014 eberri, inc. 2011 - 2012 Start-ups, Entrepreneurship Dan Purkey Vice President, Operational Integration \| Management Consultant \| Author City University of Seattle MBA, Managerial and Organizational Leadership BA, Education UMT Consulting Group March 2015 - Present The Open Door Group October 2003 - March 2015 Integra Telecom October 2010 - October 2012 Frontier Communications April 2009 - May 2010 AT&T Broadband 1999 - 2003 U S WEST 1981 - 1999 Organizational Leader, Organizational..., Operational Excellence, Organizational Design, Organizational Behavior, Effective Communication, True Prioritization, Root Cause Problem..., Organizational..., Strategy/Planning, Customer Satisfaction, Behavioral Metrics, Culture Change Agent, Continuous Improvement, Business Processes, Sales, P&L Budget Management, Regulatory Affairs, Call Center Operations, Innovator, Perseverance, Great Motivator, Project Management, Installation and Repair..., Central Office..., Negotiations, Facilitations, Telephony, Call Center, MPLS, Telecommunications, Managed Services, Profit, Information Systems, Customer Retention, VoIP, Wireless, Leadership, Negotiation, Organizational..., Change Management, Lean Management, SIP Trunking, Facilitators, Management, Business Process, P&L Management, Process Improvement, Ethernet, Customer Experience Rachel A. Price Information Architect + User Researcher Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS), Information Architecture University of Northern Iowa 2004 — 2008 Bachelor of Arts, Music Factor Firm LLC October 2014 - Present Radio Tower Digital January 2014 - Present Seattle Information Architecture Meetup July 2014 - Present Independent September 2012 - Present University of Washington Libraries June 2013 - October 2013 Sub Pop Records July 2013 - September 2013 Nina Hale Inc., Search Engine Marketing August 2011 - September 2012 FRWD Co. November 2010 - August 2011 Forsythe Appraisals, LLC May 2010 - November 2010 Google Analytics, Information Architecture, Search, SEO, PPC, Content Strategy, Taxonomy, Google Adwords, SEM, Keyword Research, Web Analytics, Data Analysis, User Experience, Paid Search Strategy, Content Development Rebecca Shavlik Executive Director at Shavlik Family Foundation MLS, Library and Information Science Shavlik Family Foundation September 2013 - Present Century College Foundation November 2012 - Present College Nannies & Tutors January 2012 - Present Minn Post 2007 - Present College Nannies & Tutors August 2009 - December 2011 Shavlik Technologies January 1997 - May 2011 College Nannies & Tutors July 2007 - July 2008 Shavlik Technologies January 1997 - September 2006 United Way of Minneapolis Area 1991 - December 1996 Anoka County Library System 1991 - 1993 Strategic Planning, Market Resarch Analysis, Customer Service Systems, Human Resource..., Growth Strategies, Business Development, Strategic Financial..., Operations Management, Operating Systems, Product Management, Operational Planning, Business Strategy, Analysis, Social Media, SaaS, Project Planning, Business Information, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Public Speaking, Research, Mergers & Acquisitions, Coaching Rebecca Miltenberger Shareholder at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck University of the Pacific - McGeorge School of Law 2004 — 2007 Juris Doctor (J.D.) Bachelor’s Degree, American History (United States) Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck August 2007 - Present Real Estate, Real Estate Financing, Real Estate Transactions, Corporate Real Estate, Real Estate Development, Commercial Real Estate, Land Use, Land Development, Real Estate Aquisition, Civil Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Courts, Appeals, Corporate Law, Trials, Mediation, Arbitration, Intellectual Property, Westlaw Rebekah Phillips Medford, Oregon Area Receiving Manager at Renaissance Rose Southern Oregon University 2008 — 2013 Bachelor of Science (BS), Psychology Renaissance Rose August 2013 - Present Barnes & Noble November 2012 - August 2013 Southern Oregon University June 2010 - May 2011 Research, Public Speaking, PowerPoint, Psychology, Microsoft Office, Social Media, Microsoft Word, Editing, Time Management, Data Entry, Facebook, Team Management, Twitter, HTML5, Java, User Experience Testing, Resiliency Nilesh Kulkarni, PMP Sr. Manager at Avanade PMI 2012 — 2012 PMP Certification, Project Management UWSPM, Software Product Management Center For Environmental Planning and Technology 1991 — 1994 B.Tech, Engineering School Of Building Science and Technology 1991 — 1994 B. Tech, Engineering Avanade December 2013 - Present Avanade April 2010 - November 2013 Adaptis Inc. August 2001 - April 2010 Community Health Plan 2009 - 2009 eCN 2000 - 2001 Internet Education Center 1998 - 2000 Wintech 1997 - 2000 Disaster Recovery, Data Warehousing, Project Management, Virtualization, VMware, Server Architecture, Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint, Business Intelligence, SDLC, Databases, Cross-functional Team..., Oracle, Software Documentation, Enterprise Architecture, System Administration, Agile Methodologies, Management, Requirements Analysis, Integration, Database Administration, Visio, IT Management, IT Strategy, Software Project... Arnold Shain Owner, Restaurant Group and Restaurants Consultant Bachelor's degree, Accounting and Business/Management Restaurant Group June 1991 - Present Restaurants, Hospitality, Strategic Planning, Customer Service, Marketing Strategy, Marketing, Team Building, Management, Catering, Restaurant Management, Sales, Time Management, Event Management, Food, Food & Beverage, Menu Development, Food Service, Hospitality Management, Leadership, Cooking, Culinary Skills Cory Rice Consultant at Slalom Consulting Certificate in Advanced Online Marketing Semester at Sea B.A., Communication, Cum Laude Slalom Consulting August 2014 - Present Logic20/20, Inc. January 2014 - August 2014 Logic20/20, Inc. December 2011 - December 2013 Logic20/20, Inc. November 2010 - December 2011 AXA Advisors June 2009 - May 2010 Washington State University August 2006 - May 2008 Digital Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Content Strategy, Business Analysis, Project Management, Program Management, Management Consulting, Management, Business Intelligence, SharePoint, Sales, Change Management, Requirements Gathering, Business Process... Ryan Smith-Roberts Gentleman Coder Mathematics, Computer Science Sehome High School 1990 — 1994 Purism February 2015 - Present ivi, Inc. 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__label__wiki	0.81983	0.81983	OBAMA COLLUDES WITH THE FACEBOOK CARTEL TO DEVEST CONGRESS OF CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS Enlarge banner image President Obama Cheats Leader to protect 50+ million “likes” Eric Holder instruct Judge Leonard Stark to violate Leader's rights? Chief Justice Roberts failed to disclose his Facebook conflicts Contributing Writers \| OPINION \| AMERICANS FOR INNOVATION \| Updated Mar. 21, 2013 post-Scribd Censorship \| PDF Judge Leonard P. Stark "liked" Facebook investments in lockstep with Chief Justice John Roberts All five Leader v. Facebook federal judges hold Fidelity investments. Facebook Director James W. Breyer and his Accel Partners LLP is the common denominator. Facebook insiders, most notably Breyer, dumped over $6 billion on Day 3 of the IPO under the smoke screen of the supposed NASDAQ glitch, before the price crashed. Breyer has collaborated for a decade with Robert Ketterson, a Fidelity Managing Partner who oversees Fidelity tech investing. They even own companies together. They worked hand in hand setting policy for U.S. venture investing almost a decade ago at the National Venture Capital Association. Remarkably, since then Breyer has turned to dissing U.S. venture investing in favor of Chinese investing. His elusive father, James P. Breyer, runs IDG Capital Partners out of Beijing.[46] More conducive to IP theft and corrupt financing? Is American innovation and the rule of law being hacked to pieces by these people—from their new Chinese bird's nest, aided by U.S. judges? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON THIS STORY. Chief Justice John Roberts mentors Facebook's attorneys Editorial: The scandals just keep coming. One wonders if the law schools at Harvard, Yale, Columbia and GW cancelled Ethics, U.S. Constitution and Human Decency 101 during the years that these people attended. Or, maybe their mamas just didn't raise them right. Who knows? Anyway... In 1992, Chief Justice Roberts mentored Facebook's attorney, Thomas G. Hungar. Roberts also collaborated with another Gibson Dunn LLP attorney, Theodore B. Olson. None of these conflicting relationships were disclosed in Leader v. Facebook. Hungar's participation compromised both the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court in ethics violations. These circumstances are akin to a judge hearing a case argued by a close relative and not disclosing that relationship to the other side. Lack of disclosure is scandalous. Olson is an Obama appointee to The Administrative Conference of the United States. The "Obstruction of Justice" illustration has been update below to show these new connections to The White House. Was Roberts' Obamacare vote the quid pro quo? The mind wanders. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts was massively conflicted in Leader v. Facebook New judicial financial disclosures reveal that the Chief Justice failed to disclose mountains of Facebook conflicts in Leader v. Facebook—companies with dubious ties to the Kremlin, U.S. bailout, and direct ties to Michael Rhodes, Facebook's attorney (Cooley Godward LLP).[42] New evidence implicates The White House in obstruction of justice (Jun. 9, 2013)—AFI readers / investigators have just uncovered more ties between The White House and the growing Leader v. Facebook judicial corruption scandal. Click here to read the Comment. Previously suppressed and censored court documents have just surfaced that prove the Federal Circuit itself was represented by Facebook's attorney, Thomas G. Hungar, Gibson Dunn LLP BEFORE the Leader appeal to the Federal Circuit. The Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges[12] dictated disclosure of conflicts and disqualifications by the judges. Instead, the judges just faked impartiality as their man Hungar argued for Facebook. Click here: Document 1,[41] Document 2[38] (see "Obstruction of Justice" illustration for context—click to enlarge). The documents also prove that Gibson Dunn, the Federal Circuit's law firm, suppressed the evidence of 28 Zuckerberg hard drives in Leader v. Facebook. Facebook's other attorneys, Cooley Godward LLP, told Leader's attorneys that the hard drives were lost. These circumstances are scandals within scandals. The Federal Circuit's duplicity in allowing Hungar to appear before them in Leader v. Facebook is scandalous enough. Worse, that appearance also identified Cooley Godward LLP, whose Man in The White House, Donald K. Stern, advises President Obama on Justice Department matters. Stern would have advised on the Leonard P. Stark and Evan J. Wallach appointments to federal courts, which is also scandalous. Stern is former chief legal counsel to Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, who ran unsuccessfully for President against George H.W. Bush in 1988. He then became a U.S. Attorney, which makes him a contemporary of another U.S. Attorney associated with this scandal, namely Preet Bharara, formerly with Gibson Dunn. Bharara is currently prosecuting Paul Ceglia in U.S. v. Ceglia over dubious criminal claims involving Zuckerberg and Ceglia from 2003 (the year of the theft of Leader Technologies' source code). New! Jun. 17, 2013. The last week saw remarkable changes from two attorneys and firms associated with the Leader v. Facebook case and President Obama. Donald K. Stern from Cooley Godward LLP jumped ship to a small Boston law firm in a transparent attempt to distance himself from Cooley Godward LLP and Obama. Then, "Amber H. Rovner" of Weil Gotshal, who filed a motion for the Federal Circuit Bar Association to absolve the Federal Circuit judges of their conflicts of interest in Leader v. Facebook, changed her name to "Amber L. Hagy." This move would prevent her name from appearing in searches associated with her involvement as "Amber H. Rover" in Leader v. Facebook, the Federal Circuit and Judge Kimberly A. Moore (Weil Gotshal was Judge Moore's former client—a conflict not disclosed to Leader Technologies). See Table below, Feb. 22, 2011. The evidence is now pointing to a compromised-in-toto Federal Circuit court whose motives for protecting Facebook were many, and included (1) boosting the judges' stock portfolios in the Facebook IPO; (2) protecting President Obama's 47 million "likes" on Facebook in the run-up to the election and beyond; (3) preserving the Facebook cabal's global virtual currency plan via Facebook Credits; (4) protecting the tens of billions of winnings in their Facebook IPO "pump and dump" stock scheme; (5) protecting the ability to spy on Facebook users unobstructed; (6) legitimizing Facebook's hundreds of bogus patent applications filed for them by Fenwick & West LLP (Leader's former attorney); (7) concealing pay-to-play judge nominations, and (8) concealing cooperation with foreign powers, among others. To be investigated further are the uncanny facts that: (1) while the Zuckerberg's 28 hard drives were being concealed from Leader Technologies (and Stark was blocking further Leader discovery after he allowed Facebook to add the on-sale bar claim), on Jun. 4, 2010 Mark Zuckerberg revealed his weird "Illuminati" symbol to New York Times editor Kara Swisher, and (2) within a few months, after the Leader v. Facebook whitewash by newly-appointed Judge Leonard P. Stark, President Obama held an all hands on deck meeting of his Silicon Valley techies. Zuckerberg was, like, his wing man, dude. (Feb. 17, 2011). Evidently, the sovereignty of the Constitution and America's data was being placed into the President's personal control in that toast. Leonard P. Stark, Kimberly A. Moore and Evan P. Wallach lied to Congress about how they would handle conflicts of interest Judge Kimberly A. Moore has spouse associations with Facebook principals Federal Circuit court records have been cleansed to obscure massive conflicts among all the judges and the court itself Judge Evan J. Wallach held Facebook stock too; this means ALL THREE JUDGES HELD FACEBOOK STOCK. Wallach's wife, Dr. Katherine Tobin, is tight with the Obama administration and Harry Reid. She too has plenty of motivation to protect Obama's 47 million "likes" Facebook's attorney Thomas G. Hungar, Gibson Dunn LLP, also represented the Federal Circuit and was not disqualified Judge Moore's former client, Weil Gotshal LLP, also represented the Federal Circuit Bar against Leader, and she did not recuse The Leader v. Facebook panel was an ambush; all three judges held Facebook stock and were conflicted out the wazoo New, 6/6/13: All three Leader v. Facebook Federal Circuit judges held stock in Facebook during the proceedings (May 24, 2013) — Investigators have uncovered deep ties between the Obama administration and Facebook’s attorneys Cooley Godward Kronish LLP (“Cooley”). These ties should invalidate the Leader v. Facebook courts for bias, collusion and maybe RICO (if you tell someone else to do your dirty work, you are just as guilty).[1] Consider the cover-up of four deaths at the Benghazi embassy the State Department; the targeting of the Tea Party by the IRS; the secret wiretapping of The Associated Press approved by Justice Department magistrate judge. And now, consider the corruption of the SEC and Justice Department to protect 47 million “likes” on Facebook. Flippancy telegraphs a governmental cancer These scandals expose an arrogant administration that stops at nothing to get its way. On Wednesday, when former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman was asked by the House Oversight Committee why he made 118 visits to the White House, he cited an Easter Egg hunt.[2] This flippancy telegraphs a governmental cancer. New! May 30: Stand Firm—Obtain Public Financial & Other Records— Root Out This Corruption Any member of the public may request the Public Financial Disclosure Reports of a public official. Fill in the form by hand or on your computer, print it out, and fax or mail it. Click here to obtain the form. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests can be made by any citizen. Click here for the FOIA instructions. Do it. Public accountability demands that Americans pester these agencies until they stop stonewalling. When stonewalled, appeal. Ask your senators and congresspersons for assistance. Don't be put off. They will be haughty. Guaranteed. Be the squeaky wheel. Ask for cost exemption. Your government should not be charging you under the ruse of "efficiency" for records that you paid for in the first place. See Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Nov. 19, 1863 ("government of the people, by the people, for the people"). “Drip, drip, drip.” In such a cancerous ethical environment, bribing judges to hide Facebook’s theft of the technology that runs Facebook is just another day at the office. They expect Leader Technologies and its investors, whom they’ve cheated, to get over it, like a bad cold. What will be needed to get to the bottom of this corruption? To quote John Boehner this morning: “Drip, drip, drip.”[3] In Leader v. Facebook, Facebook was found guilty on 11 of 11 counts of stealing Leader’s technology, and yet Facebook has sidestepped accountability, so far, with Cooley-fabricated evidence. This custom-made evidence has been excused by federal judges ever since.[4] Now we know why. Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice Department will direct judges to ignore the law to protect Obama and his friends.[5] Another federal magistrate judge behaving badly Judge Leonard P. Stark—Lied to Congress about faithfulness to precedent; abused due process; ignored Pfaff test; was rewarded by Obama with judge seat – eight days after the Leader v. Facebook trial. Another federal magistrate judge, Leonard P. Stark, presided over the Leader v. Facebook trial between July 19 and July 28, 2010. He had only been assigned to the case one month before trial. He replaced veteran judge Joseph Farnan, a Reagan appointee. We have just learned that Cooley attorney Donald Stern was advising the Obama Justice Department at the time.[6] Since Cooley’s attorneys were representing Facebook in Leader v. Facebook, any involvement by a Stern regarding Stark is a conflict of interest and possibly corrupt.[7] In the month before trial, Stark was busy helping Facebook. Stark allowed Facebook to add a new on-sale bar claim. It came after the close of all discovery, and on the same day that he took over the trial. On-sale bar is polar opposite to their earlier false marking—which arrogantly claimed that Leader had no invention, but was telling the world they did. In the switcheroo, Facebook was conceding that they were infringing Leader’s patent, but this last minute flip-flop now alleged that Leader tried to sell the invention too soon. Fig. 1 – Well-accepted legal precedents were instructed to the jury, then utterly ignored by Magistrate Leonard P. Stark and the Federal Circuit in Leader v. Facebook. Neither Magistrate Judge Leonard P. Stark, nor the Federal Circuit appeals court, nor the U.S. Supreme Court, applied the customary legal tests cited above to determine whether Facebook even had any evidence, much less whether it was clear and convincing. This is political whitewash by an Obama administration Justice Department that is above the law, uses corrupt law firms like Cooley Godward LLP and employs bag men like Michael Rhodes to do their bidding. Rhodes became counsel over Tesla Motor's $465 million Obama stimulus DURING the Leader v. Facebook case. Judge Leonard P. Stark was rewarded with a judgeship eight (8) days after the trial. All three Federal Circuit judges, Kimberly A. Moore, Alan D. Lourie and Evan J. Wallach were rewarded with a Facebook IPO value boost to their stock portfolios (We have no idea how many in their immediate families invested also. They refused to disclose those "third degree" investments when asked.). Federal Circuit decisions were timed perfectly to Facebook's pre-IPO media needs. Said that was just "coincidence." Federal Circuit clerk staffer for Clerk Jan Horbaly, Valerie White, said the judges did not have time to see motions (that was before her phone number was changed the next day and she stopped returning calls). On-sale bar is like the tax code. Nobody understands it. Even the name "on-sale bar" sounds like a judicial honky-tonk, so it's a playground for unscrupulous lawyers. When Judge Leonard Stark failed to use the Pfaff v. Wells Elecs., Inc. U.S. Supreme Court gold standard for testing the on-sale claims (along with other well-accepted precedents), experience litigators assumed that the Federal Circuit would fix this mistake of a newbie judge.[8] Sadly, the borders of this Cooley Godward playground include the Federal Circuit, U.S. Supreme Court and other "high-powered" lawyers like Gibson Dunn LLP, Facebook's appellate lawyers. Stark blocked Leader from building defenses to the new claim. Leader could have easily presented its source code to prove the allegation was false, but Stark blocked it. Facebook did not put up a single piece of hard evidence. Instead, Stark allowed two pieces of Cooley-doctored evidence at trial. Fragments of evidence are normally not allowed to be presented in court. This so-called evidence became the centerpiece of the judicial misconduct from that point forward. Facebook offered no expert witnesses, no source code evidence, no testimony from the third parties who supposedly received these offers, no legal proofs at all. They only had Cooley Godward’s snippets of video taken out of context, and a 60% blanked out questionnaire. Legally speaking, the Facebook decision was a whitewash by Stark; a total outlier. In an apparent reward for handing Facebook the on-sale bar verdict, Stark was confirmed on August 5, 2010,[10] just eight days after the Leader v. Facebook trial ended. The timing is just all too unseemly. Timeline of Scandal in Leader v. Facebook JUDICIAL IMPROPRIETY in Leader v. Facebook Obama linked to both Facebook Cooley Godward attorney Michael Rhodes and Magistrate Judge Leonard P.Stark CODE OF CONDUCT: "avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety" Nov. 18, 2008 Leader Technologies sued Facebook for patent infringement of their U.S. Patent No. 7,139,761. Facebook represented by White & Case LLP (Heidi Keefe, Mark Weinstein) Judge Joseph Farnan stated publicly that he was looking forward to taking the Leader v. Facebook case to trial. See Leader Techs, Inc. v. Facebook, Inc., 770 F. Supp. 2d 686 (D. Del. 2011). Dec. 05, 2008 Cooley’s Donald K. Stern named advisor to Obama Justice Department (incl. recommendations to fill federal judge seats) Apr. 23, 2009 McBee Strategic and Cooley announced a partnership "designed to help clean energy technology companies access public-sector capital." They arranged funding for BrightSource ($1.6 billion), Solyndra ($535) and Tesla Motors ($465 million). May 2009 Facebook accepts first $200 million investment from Moscow, Russia-based Yuri Milner, DST Systems, aka Digital Sky Technologies. This is the beginning of the "pump and dump" strategy culminating in the $100 billion IPO valuation after which the Facebook insiders dumped over $16 billion on Day 3 of the IPO. Q2/Q3, 2009 Facebook's Discovery Fraud: Facebook attorneys Heidi Keefe, Mark Weinstein and Jeffrey Norberg lied to Leader Technologies' attorneys. They said that Zuckerberg "lost" all of his documents and files from 2003-2004. In 2012, Facebook experts admitted in Ceglia v. Facebook that 28 Zuckerberg hard drives and Harvard emails were in the possession of Facebook's attorneys the whole time. Those files would prove that Zuckerberg and his PayPal Mafia handlers (Lawrence "Larry" Summers, James W. Breyer, Accel Partners, Ping Li, Jim Swartz, Reid Hoffman, Peter Thiel, Matt Cohler) stole Leader's actual source code with the assistance of Fenwick & West LLP (Gordon K. Davidson), Leader's former counsel. NOTE: Keefe and Weinstein's former employee at White & Case LLP, Samuel C. O'Rourke, silently reappeared as Facebook's inside intellectual property counsel during this discovery period. Pundits suspect that O'Rourke's task was to "scrub" the Zuckerberg evidence that would be fatal to The Grand Scheme. No Facebook press release was ever issued on O'Rourke's arrival. He just appeared. Several months later on Aug. 31, 2009, he fired White & Case LLP and hired Cooley Godward LLP where Keefe and Weinstein had moved . . . with their Facebook client in tow. Figure: Depiction of Mark Zuckerberg's 28 computer hard drives and Harvard emails exist; they were never ''lost'' as they told Leader Technologies in 2009. On July 18-19, 2012, their existence was confirmed by Facebook forensic experts Michael F. McGowan and Bryan J. Rose of Stroz Friedberg in Ceglia v. Zuckerberg. Deposition of Michael F. McGowan, Facebook Forensic Expert, Paul D. Ceglia v. Mark E. Zuckerberg, 1:10-cv-00569-RJA (W.D.N.Y. 2010), Jul. 19, 2012. Deposition of Bryan J. Rose, Facebook Forensic Expert, Paul D. Ceglia v. Mark E. Zuckerberg, 1:10-cv-00569-RJA (W.D.N.Y. 2010), Jul. 18, 2012. Aug. 31, 2009 Cooley acquires Heidi Keefe and Mark Weinstein; they bring Facebook as a client to Cooley. Cooley assigns Michael Rhodes as lead trial counsel. Nov. 20, 2009 McBee Strategic filed a LOBBYING disclosure form with the U.S. Senate and failed to disclose their strategic alliance with Cooley Godward LLP to help companies like BrightSource and Tesla Motors obtain "green" stimulus funds. Jan. 20, 2010 Leader dismantled Facebook’s case in the Markman Hearing. Judge Farnan’s Opinion took Facebook to the woodshed. (Markman is a pivotal hearing after which one of the parties often knows they are going to lose the legal argument.) Probable panic at The White House & Facebook. THE GRAND SCHEME WAS THREATENED BY FACEBOOK'S INCOMPETENT SHOWING AT THE MARKMAN HEARING. Obama’s tens of millions of Facebook “likes” were threatened, as was his campaign cash cow, as was his 2012 campaign mouthpiece, as was Fenwick & West’s hundreds of Zuckerberg patent filings, as was James W. Breyer’s grand plan to “pump and dump” Facebook stock, as was Larry Summers’ plan for a new global currency using Facebook Credits, etc. Bottom line, too many interrelated schemes were threatened to let a little thing like American property law and due process rights stand in their way. Cooley’s Donald K. Stern went to work to save THE GRAND SCHEME. Jan. 26, 2010 Judge Farnan surprise announcement to retire to private practice, effective Jul. 31, 2010 (after Leader v. Facebook trial). New, 6/5/12 Judicial Scandal Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges: "avoid all impropriety and appearance of impropriety"[12] Matthew J. Moore joined Latham & Watkins LLP on Feb. 22, 2010.[33] Matthew Moore is the husband of Federal Circuit Judge Kimberly A. Moore (here's his bio). Judge Moore is one of the three-judge panel in Leader v. Facebook. Latham & Watkins LLP's clients include James W. Breyer, Accel Partners LLP, Facebook's second largest shareholder. Latham & Watkins LLP alumni include SEC Chief Counsel Thomas J. Kim. In 2008 (about one month before the so-called financial crisis), Kim granted Facebook an exemption to the 500-shareholder rule. This exemption opened the floodgates for Facebook's broker Goldman Sachs to raise $$$ billions in dubious investments from Moscow, Russia. This enabled Breyer's "pump & dump" strategy that netted Facebook insiders over $7 billion on Day 3 of the Facebook IPO alone. During this time, Judge Moore and her husband Matthew held undisclosed Facebook stock, and were thus enriched by the Facebook IPO. Judge Moore did not disclose her Facebook holdings or disqualify herself from Leader v. Facebook. Hindsight says her silence was deafening. In her Senate confirmation hearing, Kimberly Moore disclosed that she was an expert witness for Weil Gotshal LLP. Therefore, propriety would dictate that she disqualify herself from hearing any cases (1) handled by her husband's former or present employers, Howrey LLP or Latham & Watkins LLP, or (2) cases involving her former client, Weil Gotshal LLP. See Kimberly A. Moore Senate Confirmation Hearing, Jun. 28, 2006, p. 71.[35] Two cases were before Judge Moore in early 2012, Leader v. Facebook and Marine Polymer v. HemCon. The Federal Circuit court records in both cases are conspicuously incomplete, but enough is available to paint a clear picture of misconduct by both Judge Moore and Clerk of Court Jan Horbaly. In Marine Polymer, Judge Kimberly A. Moore's husband Matthew J. Moore filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief for Geico Corporation on Feb. 10, 2012. One can only piece this date together by working backwards from the Decision, then finding a single clerk entry that mentions Geico, but not Matthew Moore. Normally all but sealed documents are available for public review. However, in Marine Polymer almost none of the case documents are available. The official statement is "not available for download." In fact, an entry in another part of the docket says the entire record is sealed, which is highly unusual, especially for a case involving high profile companies (Broadcom, Cisco, Dell, Facebook, Google, Hewlett-Packard, SAP and eBay) entering Friend of the Court briefs. Normally companies want their opinions highly publicized. What is being hidden? We think it is the misconduct of the court in Leader v. Facebook. DOCTORED FEDERAL CIRCUIT COURT RECORDS, AGAIN: The Rules require every attorney who makes an appearance in a case to formally register an appearance with the court. The court docket always lists the names of the attorneys at the beginning of the docket. However, Matthew J. Moore's entry in Marine Polymer has been REMOVED from the docket.[37] However, we know he made an entry because he is identified in the decision. The evident attempt here is to obscure his association with Judge Kimberly A. Moore and Latham & Watkins LLP, and conceal misconduct, in our opinion. If one were to do a job assessment of Clerk of Court Jan Horbaly, based solely on his clerking in Leader v. Facebook and Marine Polymer, one would have to conclude that he is utterly incompetent... but, we don't think he's incompetent. Marine Polymer reveals something equally as startling. Edward R. Reines, Weil Gotshal LLP filed amicus curiae briefs for Broadcom, Cisco, Dell, Facebook, Google, Hewlett-Packard, SAP and eBay. Judge Moore disqualified herself in Marine Polymer merely because of her relationship to her husband, Matthew. (We surmise. The Clerk even sealed her disqualification filing.) However, Judge Moore did not disqualify herself in Leader v. Facebook, even in the face of egregious conflicts, including: She held stock in Facebook via her holdings in Fidelity Contrafund, whose Facebook holdings were notoriously known (in other words, what was good for Facebook was good for her and husband); Her former client, Weil Gotshal LLP, made an appearance adverse to Leader Technologies in Leader v. Facebook, an appearance that was never docketed, but is viewable here (in other words, what was good for Weil Gotshal was good for Facebook, and was therefore good for her and husband);[34] Her former client, Weil Gotshal, LLP, was Facebook's attorney in Marine Polymer (again, what was good for her former client, was good for Facebook, and was therefore good for her and husband); Her husband, Matthew J. Moore, appeared in the Marine Polymer case representing Latham & Watkins LLP in amicus curiae interests that were aligned with Facebook (in other words, what was good for Facebook, was good for her former client, and was therefore good for her and husband); Latham & Watkins LLP, her husband's firm, was counsel to James W. Breyer and Accel Partners, Facebook's director and second largest shareholder (in other words, what was good for Facebook, was good for Accel Partners, was good for James W. Breyer, was good for Latham & Watkins LLP, was good for her former client, and was therefore good for her and husband). Perhaps one infraction in isolation might be forgiven, but together . . . New! Jun. 6, 2013 - All three judges held Facebook stock during Leader v. Facebook: The Federal Circuit three-judge panel in Leader v. Facebook included Judge Evan J. Wallach. Wallach has absolutely no patent experience, so why is he presiding over a patent case? Judge Wallach was nominated by Barack Obama. More protection for Obama's 47 million Facebook "likes?" This becomes evident now that proof has emerged that Wallach held Facebook stock, just like Judge Kimberly A. Moore and Judge Alan D. Lourie, during the proceedings.[36]The Wallach Senate confirmation information is on pages pp. III, IV, VII, 1, 6, 7, 9-91. Judge Wallach's wife Dr. Katherine Tobin has been well taken care of by Obama and his allies, but most especially by Senator Harry Reid. What's good for Facebook is good for Harry, and is therefore good for Wallach and his wife. Wallach gave this testimony and was appointed to the Federal Circuit during the Leader v. Facebook proceedings. Was his cooperation in The Grand Scheme his price of appointment by Obama, just like Leonard P. Stark? It gets worse folks... Evan J. Wallach has an extensive professional relationship with Terence P. Stewart. Stewart argued four cases before Judge Wallach at the Court of International Trade between 2004-2007. The cases were: NSK LTD. v. US, 346 F. Supp. 2d 1312 (2004); SKF USA INC. v. US, 316 F. Supp. 2d 1322 (2004); NSK LTD. v. US, 481 F. 3d 1355 (2007); and PS CHEZ SIDNEY v. US INTERN. TRADE COM'N., 502 F. Supp. 2d 1318 (2007) By Aug. 3, 2010 (see illustration below), Terence P. Stewart was Vice President of the Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA). This placed Stewart in a position to influence Judge Wallach's nomination to the Federal Circuit JUST A MONTH LATER. Ironically, only four days after the Leader v. Facebook trial, Edward R. Reines, Weil Gotshal LLP (Judge Kimberly A. Moore's former client), joined Stewart and Thomas G. Hungar, Gibson Dunn LLP, Facebook's appeals counsel in Leader v. Facebook, in an amicus curiae brief in support of Federal Circuit Judge Randall R. Rader fight not to be disqualified from hearing a case.[38] The illustration above occurred on August 3, 2010. Now see the same actors two years later in Leader v. Facebook. Note that "Amber H. Rovner" of Weil Gotshal LLP has very recently changed her name to "Amber L. Hagy." She also goes by "Amber Hatfield."[48] (Note to AFI investigators: Amber H. Rovner is very evidently attempting to distance herself from her longtime association with Weil Gotshal LLP—Judge Kimberly A. Moore's former client. What she has done will prevent her name from appearing in normal searches using her "H. ROVER" middle and last name. Therefore, when you search, be sure to search "Amber H. Rovner" OR "Amber Hatfield" OR "Amber L. Hagy". We have seen this trick before where attorneys in this case change their names to avoid being detected in searches. Fenwick & West LLP's attorney "Christopher P. King" changed his name on Facebook filings to "Christopher-Charles King." This way, his name would not appear anywhere associated to Leader Technologies' U.S. Patent No. 7,139,761, which Christopher P. King does (associated with two Marc Andreessen patents in 2005). This association proves "inequitable conduct"—FRAUD—by Fenwick & West LLP at the U.S. Patent Office—a fact that the Patent Office is ignoring.) New: Jun. 17, 2013 More sins of the Federal Circuit Update Jun. 18, 2013—As expected, AFI researchers have discovered a direct connection between Amber H. Rovner, Weil Gotshal LLP, and Judge Kimberly A. Moore. In her Senate Confirmation, Moore disclosed that Weil Gotshal LLP was her client and identified a case, In Seagate Tech LLC v. Cornice, Inc. (D.Del. 04-418(SLR)). It turns out that at least two of the Weil Gotshal patent litigation partners on that case, namely Jason D. Kipnis & Adrian Percer, work with Amber H. Rovner, a.k.a. Amber L. Hagy a.k.a. Amber Hatfield, currently. This conflict meant that Judge Moore had a solemn duty to speak up about the conflict.[49] The rule in colloquial terms is, if it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck . . . recuse. Judge Moore clearly cheated lady justice and Leader Technologies' shareholders who counted on her to judge rightly. She pumped her Fidelity stock portfolio instead. On Sep. 11, 2012, Terence P. Stewart, now President of the FCBA, was again represented by Edward R. Reines, Weil Gotshal LLP (Judge Kimberly A. Moore's former client) in a motion adverse to Leader in Leader v. Facebook to absolve the judges of their conflicts of interest.[34] New! Jun. 7, 2013 PURVEYORS OF SCANDAL: The court docket has been cleansed of documents and entries proving that these bad actors actually represented and/or had conflicting relationships with: (1) the FCBA, (2) the judges and (3) Facebook and Microsoft, BEFORE the Leader v. Facebook appeal was filed. What does this mean? It means the entire Federal Circuit court compromised itself in Leader v. Facebook. They did not disqualify themselves according to the Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges and Judicial Employees. New evidence suggests that the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts was also conflicted via massive amounts of Facebook-related stock holdings just release for public review.[42] A year later, Thomas Hungar represented Facebook in Leader v. Facebook in arguments before the Federal Circuit in 2011/2012. The judges just smiled and pretended to act impartially. Remarkably, the Aug. 3, 2010 amicus curiae motion containing this Thomas G. Hungar Certificate of Service (above) is not available on the Federal Circuit docket. Yet another damning piece of information has been removed from a Federal Circuit docket. Censorship of court records is illegal. They are supposed to be published unless they are sealed for a proper purpose. Protecting judges from the consequences of their misconduct is not a proper purpose. Instead, it was discovered on the PatentlyO website.[38] Also remarkably, no attorneys associated with this motion are entered in the docket, which is required by the Rules of Federal Procedure. This docket too, like the Leader v. Facebook and Marine Polymers dockets, fails to show proper entries for Matthew J. Moore, Thomas G. Hungar, Terence P. Stewart, Edward R. Reines, Amber H. Rovner, Reeve T. Bull, Gibson Dunn LLP, or Weil Gotshal LLP. However, after discovering their motion at PatentlyO, we were able to piece the story back together; thus proving the duplicity of the court.[39] Put simply, the ethics rules demanded that the court address the conflicts of interest issues in this case—before proceeding. They were not only silent, but when motions were filed asking them to disclose their conflicts of interest, they failed to even respond or docket those motions. In short, they put themselves above the law. No collusion hangs together perfectly. For example, Clerk of Court Jan Horbaly's staffer, Valerie White,[40] told a caller that the judges could not have even seen the amicus curiae briefs in Leader v. Facebook before they were denied within hours of being received. They were presumably dispensed with by Clerk Horbaly acting unilaterally. Ms. White's phone extension at the Federal Circuit office was disconnected the next day. The illustration above is proof that the three-judge panel failed to recuse themselves, or alternatively, failed to insist that Facebook appoint an attorney other than Thomas G. Hungar and Gibson Dunn LLP. Even then, that would not have been enough. The FCBA motion and entry of Weil Gotshal and Edward Reines dictated that Judges Moore, Wallach, Lourie, Rader, all the en banc judges, as well as Clerk of Court Jan Horbaly recuse. Instead, they were silent on the constitution, but went out of their way to accommodate Facebook's pre-IPO needs with decisions perfectly timed to Facebook's IPO schedule. Of course, they would since all three judges wanted the boost in their stock portfolios that Facebook's handlers promised as the quid pro quo. Code of Conduct Sins: When Stewart, as President of the FCBA—Wallach's new bar association, filed the 2012 motion adverse to Leader, Judge Wallach should have disqualified himself, but did not. Instead, he was silent about his conflicting relationship to Stewart. When Stewart and the FCBA hired Edward R. Reines, Weil Gotshal LLP—Judge Moore's former client, Judge Moore should have disqualified herself, but did not. She was silent about her conflicting relationship to Weil Gotshal. Judge Moore, while presiding over Leader v. Facebook, failed to disclose that Thomas Hungar, Gibson Dunn LLP—Facebook's counsel, represented the FCBA—her bar association, on the subject of judge recusal, in conjunction Weil Gotshal LLP, her former client. Clerk of Court Jan Horbaly failed to disclose that he is an officer at the FCBA, and that one of his FCBA directors is Microsoft, one of Facebook's largest shareholders (this explains all the squirrelly docket entries in this and other cases involving these actors). Neither Judges Randall R. Rader, Kimberly A. Moore, Evan J. Wallach, Clerk of Court Jan Horbaly nor the entire en banc Federal Circuit court disclosed their attorney-client relationship with Thomas G. Hungar, Gibson Dunn LLP. This set of conflicts is inexcusable and shows the court to be ethically profligate. Instead, the highly-conflicted three-judge panel of Alan D. Lourie, Kimberly A. Moore and Evan J. Wallach put on a charade of objectivity; listening as Thomas G. Hungar fumbled and stumbled through his Facebook arguments. Former Bloomberg TV journalist Donna Kline attended the hearing on March 5, 2012 and reported that Hungar did a bad job and she overheard him apologizing to a Facebook attorney Jeffrey Norberg. Nonetheless, the judges pretended impartiality. Then, the judges walked back into the secrecy of chambers, concocted new "evidence," ignored the fact that a jury had not considered their new evidence (which had not even been argued by Facebook!), and ruled against Leader anyway. Can judge bias get any more evident? The violations of Leader Technologies' constitutional rights are obscene. [Editor: The list of doctored Federal Circuit dockets is growing: Leader v. Facebook, Marine Polymer v. Hemcon, Ass’n for Molecular Pathology v. US Patent and Trademark Office. Tellingly, all the actors associated with Leader v. Facebook are cleansed from those earlier records. It has taken our researchers over three days of digging to unearth the truth, thanks to a few breaks, like the PatentlyO document containing Thomas G. Hungar's signature representing the Federal Circuit Bar Association in 2010. That certification proves the illegality of the court's conduct.] Apr. 6, 2010 Judge Farnan set the discovery closing date for May 14. NEW 6/2/13: Apr. 22, 2010 Magistrate Judge Leonard P. Stark stated at his U.S. Senate confirmation Hearing, under oath: "My obligation is to follow the binding precedents of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals."[30] May 14, 2010 Discovery closed May 14, 2010 Scandal Magistrate Judge Leonard P. Stark was ERIC HOLDER'S MAN assigned to protect Obama's 47 million "likes" on Facebook: Facebook filed new on-sale bar claim (102(b)). Leader objected. Stark overruled and allowed Facebook to pursue the new claim while denying Leader the right to prepare defenses. No hard evidence supported Facebook. Scandalously, Stark affirmed only a Cooley-fabricated video snippet taken out of context and a single 60% blanked-out questionnaire. Not a single piece of engineering evidence was presented. Facebook did not even present an expert witness! Nothing. Nada. Zilch. (Editorial: Herein is perhaps the most telling proof of collusion. The verdict for Facebook was predetermined, so the lack of proof didn't matter.) Stark abused Leader's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights. Leader had a constitutional right to prepare new defenses to Facebook's new claim (which flip-flopped from a pre-trial "false marking" claim that Leader had no patent to, OK, Leader has a valid patent and tried to sell it too soon—on-sale bar).[31] Stark also abused judicial discretion. The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 15(a)(2) dictate that late-stage claims can only be made "with the opposing party's written consent or the court's leave. The court should freely give leave when justice so requires." Justice did not require abusing Leader's due process rights to help Facebook. In short, Stark blocked Leader from preparing a defense with additional evidence, expert witnesses, source code, third party testimony, etc. Pfaff and Group One specified a detailed analysis of alleged offers. None of that happened.[32] Stark promised Congress to decide ". . . carefully and impartially." He deceived Congress in his Grand Bargain with Obama and Cooley Godward in exchange for his appointment. 3 weeks before trial . . . The Grand Bargain Judge Farnan withdraws suddenly as presiding trial judge. Judge Leonard P. Stark assigned. Cooley’s Donald K. Stern certainly is involved in this decision since (a) he is Obama’s Justice Department advisor, and (b) the judge seat is in Vice President Joe Biden’s State of Delaware where he has been blocking Republican nominees for years. Judge Stark allowed Facebook to amend their claims and add on-sale bar; Judge Stark blocked Leader from conducting additional discovery. The Grand Bargain to gain his judgeship from Obama? Jul. 19-28, 2010 Leader v. Facebook trial. Split verdict. Facebook guilty on 11 of 11 counts, and Leader's expert witness decimated Facebook's prior art arguments.[43] Despite the overwhelming proof of the opposite, Facebook prevailed on a single portion of the decision in which the jury admitted that they did not follow the jury instructions or precedent law for the proper testing of on-sale bar claims. Tellingly, Judge Stark heard this admission, yet forbade the attorneys from using this admission in their post trial pleadings. [44] Aug. 5, 2010 Leonard P. Stark confirmed as U.S. federal judge. Refuses to overturn the jury on on-sale bar in post-trial motions. Fails to follow well-settled precedent law for assessing on-sale bar. Pfaff, Group One, Carr, The Dictionary Act. In short, the split decision stands. In short, Facebook is using Leader's invention. And, Facebook failed to offer any evidence of on-sale bar, yet was supported by Judge Leonard P. Stark nonetheless.[44] Table 1 – Timeline for "The Grand Scheme" including "The Grand Bargain" for a judgeship in Leader v. Facebook between President Obama, Cooley Godward LLP and then Magistrate Judge Leonard P. Stark. Do the circumstances above “avoid the appearance of impropriety in all actions” as dictated by the Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges[12] and Judicial Employees?[13] In exchange for delivering Facebook's on-sale bar verdict, Leonard P. Stark was rewarded a judgeship . . . in VP Joe Biden’s district Evidently Stark was rewarded for protecting Obama’s “likes” on Facebook. Pundits thought the Federal Circuit would fix Stark’s mistake, but they waved their hands too. The appeals process was a total fraud which we have analyzed extensively. Obama posts a picture of himself on 70% of his Facebook posts, averaging 1.3 posts per day, along with calls to action for his 47 million followers incl. "like," "share," "sign," "join," and "donate." No politician in history has had such reach. Does Obama covet his 47+ million “likes” so much he’ll break the law to keep them? President and Michelle Obama have over 47 million “likes” on Facebook from which he makes money. In addition to his salary and perks as President, Organizing for Action raised $4.8 million[14] in the first three months of 2013 with the help of his “share,” “like,” “join” and “sign” Facebook solicitations. In the last two months, he has posted more than once a day on his Barack Obama Facebook page.[15] The majority of these posts contain his picture. What politician in history has had such an opportunity? Is this reach like a drug to which Obama and his handlers are addicted? By comparison, Facebook “likes” as of mid-May 2013: Mitt Romney 11 million, George W. Bush 3.5 million, Fox News 3 million, Bill & Hillary Clinton 1.4 million, CBS News 880,000, Joe Biden 575,000, and John Boehner 373,000. Cooley Godward LLP: Consiglieres (mob counsel) for the White House? Besides Obama’s evident motive to protect his 47 million Facebook “likes,” the Federal Election Commission[16] reports that 62 Cooley Godward attorneys donated almost $100,000 to the Obama campaign during the 2012 election. Two more donated to Organizing for Action.[17] That makes a total of 64 Cooley employees who paid to play in Obama's sandbox. Michael Rhodes Cooley Godward LLP Bag Man? Two of those donating attorneys, Cooley’s Michael Rhodes and Elizabeth Stameshkin, are Facebook’s attorneys in Leader v. Facebook. New information reveals that Michael Rhodes[18] was also Cooley lead counsel for Tesla Motors, the recipient of $465 million in Obama “green energy” stimulus funds. His hiring at Tesla Motors occurred five months before the Leader v. Facebook trial, and two months before magistrate judge Leonard P. Stark allowed Facebook to add the new on-sale bar claim after the close of discovery and block Leader from building defenses. What kind of access did Cooley’s Rhodes have to the $645 million in Tesla Motors funds? Was this his slush fund for buying judicial employees and judges? Two other donating attorneys, Cooley’s Ronald Lemieux and Roel Campos, are very well connected. Lemieux is directly associated with Cooley’s Heidi Keefe and Mark Weinstein, two more Leader v. Facebook attorneys, in Cooley-China.[19] Investigators have learned that Facebook’s director and financier James W. Breyer and Accel Partners LLP are shifting portions of their post-Facebook-IPO tens of billions of dollars to China, alongside John P. Breyer, James W’s father, and IDG Capital Partners where James W is also a partner. AFI first broke the news of the identity of James W. Breyer’s father which does not appear in any of his public biographies. His father has been quietly building a financial empire in China for 20 years. Cooley’s Roel Campos[20] is more interesting. He only recently left Cooley. He is a former Securities & Exchange Commissioner who presided over the Facebook 12(g) exemption from the 500-shareholder rule. His SEC Chief Counsel was Thomas J. Kim, who failed to disclose that he worked for James W. Breyer’s lobbying firm Latham & Watkins LLP when Breyer ran the National Venture Capital Association 2003-2004. These were the same years Zuckerberg / Facebook / Fenwick & West’s theft of Leader’s technology occurred. We wrote about this earlier in our post The Real Facebook, A Portrait of Corruption. One in six Russian entrepreneurs is in jail because they will not pay bribes to corrupt officials May 25, 2013, BBC News—If Facebook's handlers have their way, America will soon be paying homage to oligarchs in Moscow, India, China and Brazil, using Facebook Credits and following their wishes. Your Benevolencies? (Editorial: Beware of Chinese, Russian, Indian and Brazilian money purchasing U.S. companies. This is part of THE GRAND SCHEME, and a great way to launder dirty money outside the reach of U.S. law.) If you are tempted to think that Russia can teach us anything right now about honest business, read the experience of Russian entrepreneur, Dmitry Malov.[29] Malov employs 300 people. He was directed by the FSB (Russian secret police) to sell his dairy business to an unknown buyer, or face jail. He refused and was accused of fraud. He was found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison, just as the FSB officers had threatened. He now sits in jail. This is what awaits America if Facebook's handlers succeed in corrupting our judges and institutions. This exemption was used by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and State Street Corporation and opened the door for a private market in Facebook stock that raised billions of dollars from Russian oligarchs with ties to the Kremlin.[21] This exemption also pumped Facebook’s pre-IPO value to $100 billion. These banks received $32 billion in bank bailout funds overseen by Lawrence “Larry” Summers, Obama’s bailout chief. Curiously, Summers failed to disclose to the American public when he took that job that two of his protégés, Yuri Milner and Sheryl Sandberg, were Goldman clients and were running DST-Moscow and Facebook respectively. Such duplicity is illegal when not disclosed. In other words, if a party sits on both sides of a transaction (his friends decide who gets the money, and his friends receive and spend the money), then if he does not disclose that to both parties, he is double-dealing. Bottom line is that Cooley's Roel Campos did the bidding of former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers who was working on ways to get (a) bailout funds, (b) stimulus funds and (c) "pump & dump" IPO funds to his protégés in Palo Alto (Sandberg) and Moscow (Milner)—a triple dip. This redefines the verb "fleece." With Summers in the picture, any Obama assistance or involvement in Facebook is a conflict of interest by definition. But, as we have just seen with Obama's directive to Eric Holder not to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, this administration apparently believes the U.S. Constitution is simply a pay-to-play prop to fool the masses. What happened to Obama's oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help me God?" Cooley’s Donald Stern advises the Obama Justice Department Another donating attorney, Cooley’s Donald Stern,[22] was a member of Obama’s Department of Justice transition team. Such a Cooley insider is only ever one step away from undue influence and corruption. At this point, can any reasonable person believe the line was not crossed? Cooley’s McBee Strategic alliance dispensed Obama’s "green" stimulus billions to Solyndra and BrightSource that blew threw $2 billion between them Two more donating attorneys, Cooley’s Tom Amis and Erich Veitenheimer, represent Cooley in the Cooley-McBee Strategic[23] alliance formed to help companies obtain Obama’s “green energy” stimulus funds. This alliance occurred during the Leader v. Facebook case too. Cooley and McBee funneled Obama-stimulus funds[24] to Solyndra ($535 million)[25] and BrightSource ($1.6 billion).[26] That money is all spent. Where did it go? Dubai? British Virgin Islands? Beijing? Bangalore? Cayman Islands? A more interesting question is how many Leader v. Facebook judges, judicial employees, their families and friends have their names on these accounts? What politicians are on the take too? Cooley-McBee Strategic’s Mike Sheehy lobbied for BrightSource and worked for Nancy Pelosi The tangled web gets worse. McBee Strategic disclosed that one of its lobbying agents for BrightSource is Mike Sheehy.[27] Sheehy was Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s National Security Adviser for six years prior to joining McBee in March 2009. Did Cooley's Donald Stern Justice Department adviser "have an understanding" regarding Stark's prospective judge seat re. the Leader v. Facebook outcome? Bottom line, Michael Rhodes, Facebook’s lead attorney in Leader v. Facebook, was a heartbeat away from the Executive Branch and Department of Justice “transition” team during the Leader v. Facebook proceedings. Judge appointments, including Leonard P. Stark, were on the agenda. Was Stark given a choice to rule for Facebook no matter what, or kiss his appointment goodbye since Cooley had their man, Donald Stern, in the White House calling these shots? On May 1, 2013, just a few weeks ago, about the time his name surfaced as a key player in this judicial corruption scandal, Stern unceremoniously left Cooley and joined Yurko, Salvesen & Remz, P.C. as "Of Counsel." This means that he was in such a hurry to leave Cooley that he did not have time to negotiate a partner agreement with Yurko, which is a very small Boston law firm. This is an extremely odd move for such a prominent attorney with a fat Rolodex.[47] Veteran Judge Joseph Farnan appears to have been forced into retirement one (1) month before trial so that Stark/Cooley could take over the proceedings. Those close to the case say Farnan had told the attorneys he was looking forward to the trial, then suddenly, he was sidelined after carrying the ball right up to the brink of trial. Like lemmings, the Federal Circuit appeals court judges, their clerk, then the U.S. Supreme Court followed suit. Judicial financial reports reveal that two of the three judge Federal Circuit panel held stock in Facebook during the proceedings. These judges had a direct financial interest in decision favorable to Facebook. At this point Cooley and Facebook’s other handlers were sending a signal to a shocked legal world that they were in control of the federal appeals process . . . so everyone might as well shut up and simply admire their abuse of power. FOIA Request: Patent Office invokes Executive Privilege Leader v. Facebook "The Great Patent Office Payoff" On March 12, 2013, the U.S. Patent Office claimed “executive communication privilege” in blocking disclosure of Freedom of Information Act documents requested by a U.S. citizen. Here is our April 15 update on the FOIA request – The Real Facebook, A Portrait of Corruption. With the invocation of executive privilege, President Obama signaled that he had interfered himself in the Leader v. Facebook case. Are we going to find out that Obama instructed the Patent Office to ignore well-settled legal precedent? That would be the same logic he used to instruct Attorney General Eric Holder not to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act. Facebook’s Cooley attorneys are tied at the hip to Obama. Obama uses Facebook to communicate daily with 47 million followers. Facebook makes millions from advertising on the Obama fan pages. Facebook’s Cooley attorneys have been beneficiaries of Obama’s “green energy” stimulus funds. It now seems that Cooley may have even helped dispense Obama’s “green” in collusion with McBee Strategic. Is Cooley Godward LLP running the White House? As this new Justice Department and Patent Office scandal emerges, will the combined scandals bring down this administration? Q: How many Cooley Godward Kronish LLP attorneys does it take to become a kind of mob counsel (consigliere)[28] to the Obama Administration? A. At least 64, apparently. Will the mainstream media finally wake up to the charades and manipulation of the press by some very corrupt power mongers? Stay vigilant. Let’s keep pulling on the strings of this scandal until we unravel it. In this post, we have given you more names to add to your corruption watch list. The Great Patent Office Payoff. www.morningwhistle.com. McBee Strategic logo. McBee Strategic LLC. [1] Wayne Allyn Root. "President Obama – the CEO who knows nothing." Fox News, May 21, 2013. Accessed May 25, 2013 <http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/05/21/president-obama-ceo-who-knows-nothing/> ("The reason I believe he is lying is because I've never heard of a CEO who knows nothing going on under his command."). [2] Jeremy W. Peters. "I.R.S. Official Invokes 5th Amendment at Hearing." The New York Times, May 22, 2013. Accessed May 25, 2013 <http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/us/politics/irs-official-denies-misleading-congress.html?_r=2&> ("In follow-up questioning by Representative Gerald E. Connolly, a Virginia Democrat, Mr. Shulman offered what he said was one of the many plausible explanations why he would have visited the White House [118 times]. 'The Easter Egg Roll with my kids,' he said."). [3] John Parkinson. "Darrell Issa to Lois Lerner: Assertion of 'Fifth' Invalid." ABC News, May 23, 2013. Accessed May 25, 2013 <http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/darrell-issa-to-lois-lerner-assertion-of-fifth-invalid/> ("'Drip, drip, drip,' Boehner, R-Ohio, said. 'Every day there’s something new.'"). [4] Petition for Writ of Certiorari, Leader Technologies, Inc. v. Facebook, Inc., No. 12-617 (U.S. Supreme Court Nov. 16, 212) <http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/supremecourt/(CLICKABLE-CITES)-Petition-for-Writ-of-Ceriorari-Leader-Technologies-Inc-v-Facebook-Inc-No-12-617-U-S-Supreme-Court-Nov-16-2012.pdf>. [5] Z. Byron Wolf. "President Obama Instructs Justice Department to Stop Defending Defense of Marriage Act calls Clinton-Signed Law 'Unconstitutional.'" ABC News, Feb. 23, 2011. Accessed May 25, 2013 <http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/02/president-obama-instructs-justice-department-to-stop-defending-defense-of-marriage-act-calls-clinton/>. [6] "Cooley Partner Donald K. Stern Named Advisor to U.S. Department of Justice Transition Team." Cooley LLP, Dec. 5, 2008. Accessed May 25, 2013 <http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/articles/Cooley-Partner-Donald-K-Stern-Named-Advisor-to-US-Department-of-Justice-Transition-Team-Cooley-Godward-Kronish-Dec-5-2008-accessed-Jun-15-2013.pdf> ("Cooley Godward Kronish announced today that litigation partner Donald K. Stern has been named as an advisor to President-elect Barack Obama's transition team for the U.S. Department of Justice."). [7] Conflict of interest. Wikipedia. Accessed May 25, 2013 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest> ("A conflict of interest (COI) occurs when an individual or organization is involved in multiple interests, one of which could possibly corrupt the motivation for an act in another."). [8] Pfaff v. Wells Elecs., Inc., 525 U.S. 55, 67, 48 USPQ2d 1641, 1646-47 (1998) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfaff_v._Wells_Electronics,_Inc.>; See also Pfaff v. Wells Electronics, Inc., 525 US 55 (Supreme Court 1998) <http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=18370402052575590678&q=pfaff+v.+wells+&hl=en&as_sdt=2,36>. [9] "President Obama Nominates Judge Leonard Stark and Amy Totenberg to the United States District Court." The White House, Mar. 17, 2010. Accessed May 25, 2013 <http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/articles/President-Obama-Nominates-Judge-Leonard-Stark-The-White-House-May-17-2010.pdf>. [10] Leonard Stark. Judgepedia. Accessed May 25, 2013 <http://judgepedia.org/index.php/Leonard_Stark>. [11] Tesla Motors. U.S. Dept. of Energy Loan Programs Office, Jan. 2010. Accessed May 20, 2013 <https://lpo.energy.gov/?projects=tesla-motors>. [12] Code of Conduct for United States Judges. United States Courts. Accessed May 25, 2013 <http://www.uscourts.gov/RulesAndPolicies/CodesOfConduct/CodeConductUnitedStatesJudges.aspx>. [13] Code of Conduct for Judicial Employees. United States Courts. Accessed May 25, 2013<http://www.uscourts.gov/RulesAndPolicies/CodesOfConduct/CodeConductJudicialEmployees.aspx>. [14] Organizing for Action: Our Founding Members. ORGANIZING for ACTION. Apr. 12, 2013. Accessed by May 25, 2013 <http://www.barackobama.com/founding-members>. [15] Barack Obama. Facebook Fan Page. Accessed May 25, 2013 <https://www.facebook.com/barackobama/>; See also Apr. 16, 2013 capture online <http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/obama/Barack-Obama-Facebook-Pages-Jan-1-2007-Nov-1-2013.pdf> [16] Barack Obama Contributors, 2012 Federal Election Cycle, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP donors through 12/31/2012 <http://www.fec.gov/disclosurep/pnational.do>. [17] Organizing for Action. Id. [18] Zusha Elinson. “Michael Rhodes (Cooley Godward LLP, Tesla Motors).” The Recorder, www.callaw.com, Feb. 22, 2010 <http://www.cooley.com/files/Rhodes.The%20Recorder.2.22.10.pdf>. See also <http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/articles/Michael-Rhodes-THE-RECORDER-Feb-22-2013-also-at-cooley-llp-022210-indd.pdf>. [19] Cooley Practice: Attorneys, Heidi Keefe, Mark Weinstein, Ron Lemiuex. Cooley LLP. Accessed May 25, 2013 <http://www.cooley.com/biochina.aspx>; Also online at <https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2SfG2nEsMfqb0M0ejJPeXNKVUk/edit?usp=sharing> and <http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/articles/Cooley-LLP-China-Practice-incl-Heidi-Keefe-Mark-Weinstein-accessed-Mar-22-2014.pdf>. [20] "SEC Commissioner Roel C. Campos Joins Cooley." Cooley Godward LLP, Aug. 23, 2007. Accessed May 20, 2013 <http://www.cooley.com/58541>; Also online at <http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/cooley/Cooley-LLP-News-and-Insight-Press-Releases-SEC-Commissioner-Roel-C-Campos-Joins-Cooley-Aug-23-2007.pdf>. [21] Simon Goodley. "Facebook investor DST comes with ties to Alisher Usmanov and the Kremlin, Three Goldman Sachs bankers, Alexander Tamas, Verdi Israelian and John Lindfors joined DST over the past three years." The Guardian, Jan. 4, 2011. Accessed May 25, 2013 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jan/04/facebook-dst-goldman-sachs>. [22] "Cooley Partner Donald K. Stern Named Advisor to U.S. Department of Justice Transition Team." Cooley LLP, 12/05/2008. Accessed May 21, 2013 <http://www.cooley.com/58880>; See also <http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/articles/Cooley-Partner-Donald-K-Stern-Named-Advisor-to-US-Department-of-Justice-Transition-Team-Cooley-Godward-Kronish-Dec-5-2008-accessed-Jun-15-2013.pdf>. [23] "McBee Strategic and Cooley Align to Advise Companies Seeking Access to Clean Energy Technology Public Sector Financing. Bloomberg, Apr. 23, 2009. Accessed May 23, 2013 <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&refer=conews&tkr=1160L:US&sid=aZ54YzpGFbYY>. See also <https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2SfG2nEsMfqUmN6Q0xZamJRSUE/edit?usp=sharing>. [24] "OUR PROJECTS – The Financing Force Behind America’s Clean Energy Economy." U.S. Department of Energy Loans Programs Office. Accessed May 23, 2013 <http://lpo.energy.gov/our-projects/>. [25] "Obama’s Solyndra Problem." FACTCHECK.ORG, Oct. 7, 2011. Accessed May 20, 2013 <http://www.factcheck.org/2011/10/obamas-solyndra-problem/>; See also Soyndra, Inc. Discontinued Projects. U.S. Dept. of Energy Loan Programs Office. Accessed May 20, 2013 <https://lpo.energy.gov/our-projects/discontinued-projects/>. [26] "DOE Finalizes $1.6 Billion Loan Guarantee for BrightSource Energy." U.S. Dept. of Energy Loan Programs Office, Apr. 11, 2011. Accessed May 20, 2013 <https://lpo.energy.gov/doe-finalizes-1-6-billion-loan-guarantee-for-brightsource-energy-inc/>. [27] McBee Strategic, Inc. LD-1 Disclosure Form, LOBBYING REGISTRATION, 11/20/2009. Accessed May 23, 2013 <http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/articles/Mike-Sheehy-McBee-Strategic-Biography-Jun-3-2013.pdf>. [28] Consigliere. Google. Accessed May 25, 2013 <http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=define+consigliere&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest> ("An adviser, esp. to a crime boss."). [29] Daniel Sandford. "Entrepreneurs face global challenges: Russian entrepreneur 'jailed for not selling.'" BBC News, May 25, 2013. Accessed May 25, 2013 <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13546177> ("Business Solidarity, an organisation that works to protect small businessmen, estimates that one in six Russian entrepreneurs is in jail."). Also online at <http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/articles/Daniel-Sandford-Entrepreneurs-face-global-challenges-Russian-entrepreneur-jailed-for-not-selling-BBC-News-May-25-2013.pdf>. [30] S. HRG. 111-695, PART 6 - CONFIRMATION HEARINGS ON FEDERAL APPOINTMENTS, Leonard P. Stark Confirmation Hearing. United States Senate, 111th Congress, 2nd Session, Apr. 22, Apr. 28, and May 13, 2010, Part 6, Serial No. J-111-4, S. Hrg. 111-695, Pt. 6, Y 4.J 89/2, GPO Abstract, PDF \| HTML, p. 104. [31] Judge Leonard P. Stark's court in Leader Techs, Inc. v. Facebook, Inc., 770 F. Supp. 2d 686 (D. Del. 2011) ignored the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Wikipdeia. Accessed Jun. 3, 2013 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_Process_Clause> ("Due process deals with the administration of justice and thus the Due Process Clause acts as a safeguard from arbitrary denial of life, liberty, or property by the Government outside the sanction of law."); See also Fifth Amendment, U.S. Constitution, Cornell University Law School <http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/fifth_amendment>; 14th Amendment, U.S. Constitution, Cornell University Law School <http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv> ("No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."); Petition for Writ of Certiorari, Leader Technologies, Inc. v. Facebook, Inc., No. 12-617 (U.S. Supreme Court Nov. 16, 212) <http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/supremecourt/(CLICKABLE-CITES)-Petition-for-Writ-of-Ceriorari-Leader-Technologies-Inc-v-Facebook-Inc-No-12-617-U-S-Supreme-Court-Nov-16-2012.pdf>. [32] Judge Leonard P. Stark's court in Leader Techs, Inc. v. Facebook, Inc., 770 F. Supp. 2d 686 (D. Del. 2011) ignored the rules on "Amended and Supplemental Pleadings, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 15(a)(2)" <http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_15> ("15(a) . . . (2) Other Amendments. In all other cases, a party may amend its pleading only with the opposing party's written consent or the court's leave. The court should freely give leave when justice so requires."); See also Petition for Writ of Certiorari, Leader Technologies, Inc. v. Facebook, Inc., No. 12-617 (U.S. Supreme Court Nov. 16, 212) <http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/supremecourt/(CLICKABLE-CITES)-Petition-for-Writ-of-Ceriorari-Leader-Technologies-Inc-v-Facebook-Inc-No-12-617-U-S-Supreme-Court-Nov-16-2012.pdf>. [33] Matthew J. Moore joins Latham & Watkins. "Intellectual Property Litigation Partner Joins Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C." Latham & Watkins LLP. Accessed Jun. 4, 2013 http://www.lw.com/news/3395-IntellectualPropertyLitigationPartnerJoinsLathamAndWatkinsinWashington-D-C-.; See also <http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/articles/Matthew-J-Moore-joins-Latham-&-Watkins-LLP-Latham-&-Watkins-LLP-Feb-22-2010.pdf>. [34] The Federal Circuit Bar Association's Request for Reissue of Order as Precedential Pursuant to Federal Circuit Rule 32.1(c). Leader Technologies, Inc., v. Facebook, Inc., Case No. 2011-1366 (Fed. Cir.), Sep. 11, 2012, filed by Edward R. Reines, Weil, Gotshal & Manages LLP <http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/arunachalam/2012-09-17-Response-to-Request-of-Federal-Circuit-Bar-Association-s-Request-for-Reissue-Re-Leader-v-Facebook-Case-No-2011-1366-Fed-Cir-by-Lakshmi-Arunach.pdf#page=30> [35] S. HRG. 109–397, PART 5 - HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES SENATE, Kimberly A. Moore Confirmation Hearing, 111th Congress, 2nd Session, Jun. 28, 2006, Serial No. Serial No. J–109–4, Pt. 5, Y 4.J 89/2, GPO Abstract, PDF \| HTML, p. III, V, 53, 55-91. [36] S. HRG. 112–72, PART 4 - HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES SENATE, Evan J. Wallach Confirmation Hearing, 112th Congress, 1st Session, Sep. 7, 2011, Serial No. Serial No. J–112–4, Pt. 5, Y 4.J 89/2, GPO Abstract, PDF \| HTML, pp. III, IV, VII, 1, 6, 7, 9-91. [37] Case Summary, Marine Polymer Technologies, Inc. v. Hemcon, Inc., Case No. 2010-1548 (Fed. Cir.), PACER.CAFC.USCOURTS.GOV. Accessed Jun. 5, 2013 <http://premium.docstoc.com/docs/172975136/Case-Summary-Marine-Polymer-Technologies-Inc-v-Hemcon-Inc-Case-No-2010-1548-(Fed-Cir)-PACERCAFCUSCOURTSGOV-Accessed-Jun-5-2013>; [38] Submission by Amicus Curiae Federal Circuit Bar Association in Support of Neither Party regarding Plaintiffs'-Appellees' Motion for Recusal of Chief Judge Randall R. Rader, Aug. 3, 2010, Ass’n for Molecular Pathology v. US Patent and Trademark Office, 653 F. 3d 1329 (Fed. Cir.) <http://www.patentlyo.com/recusal.fcba.pdf>. Also online at <http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/arunachalam/2010-08-03-Submission-by-Amicus-Curiae-Federal-Circuit-Bar-Association-in-Support-of-Neither-Party-regarding-Plaintiffs-Appellees-Motion-for-Recusal-of-Chief-Judge-Randall-R-Rader-Aug-3-2010.pdf> and <https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2SfG2nEsMfqR2FYQW1GTzVIcVE/edit?usp=sharing>. [39] Case No. 2010-1406, ASSOCIATION FOR MOLECULAR v. U.S. PATENT OFFICE, Federal Circuit docket, annotated. Accessed Jun. 7, 2013 <https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2SfG2nEsMfqdGJJaE1TYkd2dGc/edit?usp=sharing>. [40] Steve Williams conversation with Federal Circuit Clerk of Court staff member Valeri White, DonnaKlineNow! Aug. 7, 2012 <http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/donnakline/2012-08-07-Donna-Kline-Now-Judicial-Hyperactivity-at-the-Federal-Circuit-Judicial-Powers-Running-Amok-Next-Door-to-the-White-House-Aug-7-2012.pdf#page=9>; See also Cmt. 1 <http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/donnakline/2012-08-07-Donna-Kline-Now-Judicial-Hyperactivity-at-the-Federal-Circuit-Judicial-Powers-Running-Amok-Next-Door-to-the-White-House-Aug-7-2012.pdf>. [41] Deposition of Michael F McGowan, Facebook Forensic Expert, Paul D. Ceglia v. Mark E. Zuckerberg, Jul. 19, 2012, 1:10-cv-00569-RJA (W.D.N.Y. 2010) <"http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/zuckerberg/2012-07-19-Deposition-of-Michael-F-McGowan-Facebook-forensic-expert-Ceglia-v-Zuckerberg-1-10-cv-00569-RJA-WDNY-2010-19-Jul-2012.pdf>; See also Deposition of Bryan J. Rose, Facebook Forensic Expert, Jul. 18, 2012, Paul D. Ceglia v. Mark E. Zuckerberg, 1:10-cv-00569-RJA (W.D.N.Y. 2010) <http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/zuckerberg/2012-07-18-Deposition-of-Bryan-J-Rose-Facebook-forensic-expert-Ceglia-v-Zuckerberg-1-10-cv-00569-RJA-WDNY-2010-18-Jul-2012.pdf>. [42] Chief Justice John G. Roberts, 2011 Facebook-related investments. Americans For Innovation, Jun. 11, 2013 <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2SfG2nEsMfqZ3dWb3U1dWdjUFU/edit?usp=sharing> (includes screen captures of the following Facebook-related companies who directly benefited from Justice Roberts' legal decisions in favor of Facebook in Leader v. Facebook: Accel Partners, IDG Capital Partners, Groupon, Zynga, Fidelity Growth Company K Fund, Fidelity Spartan 500 Index INST, Fidelity Contrafund Fund K, TR Price Prime Res Fund, TR Price SCi Tech Fund and Fidelity Low Priced Stock K Fund); See also "Chief Justice John G. Roberts failed to disclose a mountain of conflicts in Leader v. Facebook, Roberts’ holdings included Mail.ru with close ties to the Kremlin, and Tesla Motors, whose counsel is Michael Rhodes is Facebook’s lead litigator in Leader v. Facebook (Cooley Godward LLP—whose 'Man in The White House' is Donald K. Stern)." Americans For Innovation, Jun. 10, 2010. Accessed Jun. 11, 2013 <http://americans4innovation.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_10.html>. [43] ''Facebook's expert witness [Dr. Saul Greenberg] practiced 'dark arts.''' Origin of Facebook's technology? Aug. 23, 2011 <http://facebook-technology-origins.blogspot.com/2011/08/lesson-in-expert-witness-dark-arts.html>. [44]Petition for Writ of Certiorari, Leader Technologies, Inc. v. Facebook, Inc., No. 12-617 (U.S. Supreme Court Nov. 16, 212) <http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/supremecourt/(CLICKABLE-CITES)-Petition-for-Writ-of-Ceriorari-Leader-Technologies-Inc-v-Facebook-Inc-No-12-617-U-S-Supreme-Court-Nov-16-2012.pdf>; See also Verdict Form, Summary of Post-Trial Motions in the U.S. District Court of Delaware, Leader Technologies, Inc. v. Facebook, Inc., CV-08-862-JJF-LPS (D. Del. 2008). Leader Technologies. Accessed Jun.13, 2013 http://www.leader.com/leader-v-facebook-cv-08-862-JJF-LPS/ [45] "Leader's lawyers dismantle Facebook’s 'schizophrenic' response brief." Origin of Facebook's technology? Nov. 28, 2011 <http://facebook-technology-origins.blogspot.com/2011/11/leaders-lawyers-dismantle-facebooks.html>; See also "Federal Circuit Appeal Hearing confirms this blog's analysis that Facebook relies on smoke and mirrors." Id., Mar. 15, 2012 <http://facebook-technology-origins.blogspot.com/2012/03/federal-circuit-appeal-hearing-confirms.html>. [46] "James W. Breyer’s father John P. Breyer is IDG Capital Partners, Beijing, China’s Chairman," AFI Contributor, May 8, 2013 <http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/breyer/John-P-Breyer-James-W-Breyer-BACKGROUND-May-5-2013.pdf>. [47] ''Donald K. Stern [former Cooley LLP partner and advisor to the Obama Justice Department] Joins Yurko, Salvesen & Remz, P.C. as Of Counsel.'' CityBizList, May 1, 2013. Accessed Jun. 15, 2013 <http://boston.citybizlist.com/article/donald-k-stern-joins-yurko-salvesen-remz-pc-counsel>; See also <http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/articles/Donald-K-Stern-Joins-Yurko-Salvesen-Remz-PC-as-Of-Counsel-Boston-Citybizlist-May-1-2013-accessed Jun-15-2013.pdf>; and <http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/articles/Donald-K-Stern-Joins-Yurko-Salvesen-Remz-PC-YSRPC-May-1-2013-accessed Jun-15-2013.pdf>. [48] Amber H. Rovner, aka Amber L. Hagy, aka Amber Hatfield, Weil Gotshal Manges LLP Biographical Information. Accessed Jun. 16, 2013 http://www.weil.com/AmberHagy/; See also http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Amber-Hatfield/32968963; and http://www.zoominfo.com/CachedPage/?archive_id=0&page_id=-1663247380&page_url=//www.weil.com/amberrovner/&page_last_updated=2009-02-06T07:01:01&firstName=Amber&lastName=Hatfield; and http://www.weil.com/people/detail.aspx?attorney=2870&show=news>; and <http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/weilgotshal/Amber-H-Rovner-Amber L-Nagy-Amber-Hatfield-Weil-Gotschal-Manges-LLP-Biographies-accessed-Jun-16-2013.pdf>. [49] Weil Gotshal Patent Lawyer Directory Showing Conflicts of Interest at the Federal Circuit in Leader v Facebook, Weil Gotshal Manges LLP. Accessed Jun. 18, 2013 <http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/weilgotshal/Weil-Gotshal-Patent-Lawyer-Directory-showing-conflicts-of-interest-at-Federal-Circuit-in-Leader-v-Facebook-accessed-Jun-18-2013.pdf>. [50] "Chief Judge Rader Swears In New Administrative Patent Judges,'' IPWatchdog.com, Jan. 25, 2012. Accessed Jun. 24, 2013<http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2012/01/25/chief-judge-rader-swears-in-new-administrative-patent-judges/id=21969/>; See also <http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/federalcircuit/Chief-Judge-Rader-Swears-In-New-Administrative-Patent-Judges-IPWatchdog-com-Jan-25-2012.pdf> (further evidence of the erosion of impartiality between the U.S. Patent Office and the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals). K. Craine July 11, 2013 at 9:31 AM Comment by: Judicial Corruption Well done AFI. Let's see if the rats start scurrying. Let's hope one of them starts squealing. It'll be one of the underlings who believes he or she is being mistreated by the Cabal bosses. Whoever you are, go to the House Oversight Committee and tell them what you know. If you are first, maybe they'll cut you a deal. No point going to the FBI, its a part of the Cabal. The Zimmerman revelation about Eric Holder today is sickening at how corrupt that man is. Rain Onyourparade July 13, 2013 at 7:32 AM Our Congressman favors a Congressional investigation. That way the investigations are open to public scrutiny. These people have been operating in the shadows and using the legal system to hide this Facebook conspiracy long enough. Read this morning that Harry Reid wants to railroad all the Obama nominations, including his proposed new Federal Circuit nominees, RAYMOND T. CHEN and TODD M. HUGHES. Obama and his Facebook Cabal appear hell-bent on placing every corrupt friend they can in the administration of our government for years to come. The NSA should provide the American people all the phone and web traffic of the Facebook Cabal people so we can show how they are colluding. LOL. After all, turn about is fair play, right? Actually, I think they are using a secret part of the Facebook platform for their collusion. Those messages are probably stored overseas, outside the reach of U.S. law, not that Eric Holder would lift a finger to help the American public anyway. dave123 July 13, 2013 at 6:34 PM Spoiler alert for FACEBOOK : What you’re about to read is a bit unsettling. Without further ado, here’s the list of occupations with the highest rates of psychopath 1. CEO 2. Lawyer 3. Media (Television/Radio) 5. Surgeon 6. Journalist 7. Police officer 8. Clergy person 10. Civil servant A recent book, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success, outlines several fields which are more likely to attract psychopaths than others. , Kevin Dutton, author, indicated that ”a number of psychopathic attributes [are] actually more common in business leaders than in so-called disturbed criminals — attributes such as superficial charm, egocentricity, persuasiveness, lack of empathy, independence, and focus.” So, maybe it makes more sense now that we think how objective broadcast professionals and journalists must be to distance themselves from reporting. LIKE FOX NEWS. FACEBOOK'S LEGAL STRATEGY EXPOSED - BUILD NEW, ILLEGITIMATE PRECEDENT, THEN GET CROOKED JUDGES TO KEEP AFFIRMING IT I've been reading the latest pleadings in the Ceglia case. In March Ceglia filed a First Amendment case against Eric Holder and the US Attorney Preet Bharara. Remember Bharara worked for Gibson Dunn, Facebook's attorneys in both the Ceglia case and Leader v. Facebook. Remember, this Obama / Holder / Bharara / Breyer criminal lawsuit against Ceglia was only filed AFTER Ceglia's attorney Dean Boland in 2012 forced Facebook to admit that Zuckerberg had 28 hard drives and mountains of Harvard emails--All items that Facebook had told Leader Technologies in 2009 were "lost." (Do you think they became worried that the Zuckerberg hard drives were about to get studied in detail... worried that the world would discover that the truth tellers were Ceglia and Leader Technologies and that zuckerberg, moskovitz, hughes, severin, thiel, breyer, hoffman and the rest of the Facebook Cabal were the pathological liars? LOL.) Facebook's long term legal strategy is coming into view for me after reading Ceglia's reply to Holder's response to Ceglia's request for a temporary restraining order. Get this: Holder is threatening Ceglia with additional criminal actions if Ceglia continues to pursue his civil case against Zuckerberg! This is our esteemed Attorney General threatening citizens for pursuing their constitutional rights!!! Sorry for the exclamation marks, but this is outrageous. Ceglia's attorneys rightly point out that "Defendants [Holder & Bharara] cite non-authoritative cases for their proposition for heightened standards." Reply, Item 19. This is the same thing they did in Leader v. Facebook, and the same thing they did in US v. Zoltek. They fabricate evidence, then cite the most obscure, non-authoritative, non-precedential cases they can find to support their fabrications. Then, with the judges in their pockets, they get rulings in their favor. If you do this enough times, you have fabricated new, illegitimate precedents on top of "the established case law dating back nearly a hundred years." Reply Item 24. These people are out to remake over 200 years of American legal precedent folks. We cannot permit them to achieve their goal. They exhibit a profound cynicism and disrespect for the American Constitution. http://www.scribd.com/doc/153741976/Ceglia-v-Holder-et-al-Case-No-1-13-cv-00256-Reply-to-TEMP-RESTRAINING-ORDER-RESPONSE-filed-Mar-21-2013 http://www.scribd.com/doc/153739536/Ceglia-v-Holder-et-al-Case-No-1-13-cv-00256-COMPLAINT-filed-Mar-11-2013 Comment by: Bubba A coup, a putsch, or an overthrow... "A coup d'état typically uses the current government's power to assume political control of the country." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d'état Rain Onyourparade July 14, 2013 at 10:11 AM ALL - HERE'S MORE PROOF THAT THE FACEBOOK CABAL IS WORKING TO REWRITE PRECEDENT CONSTITUTIONAL PROPERTY LAW IN ITS OWN IMAGE. Having read Judicial Corruption's comments, I decided to scratch the itch and dig up the cases to help reinforce his/her point: FACEBOOK CABAL SCAM #1 - U.S. v. Zoltek (Fed. Cir. 2006) - Court relied on a single "dicta" by Justice Bradley (side comment - belief considered authoritative though not binding, because of the authority of the person making it) James v. Campbell, 104 US 356 - Supreme Court 1882 at 359. http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6460177997522063250&q=james+v.+campbell+bradley&hl=en&as_sdt=3,36 FACEBOOK CABAL SCAM #2 - Leader v. Facebook (D.Del. 2010; Fed. Cir. 2012; U.S. 2013) - Newbie Judge Leonard P. Stark's opinion, pg. 53, relied on a single 1896 criminal case--Wilson v. United States, 162 U.S. 613, 620-21 (1896)--to validate that mere belief in someone's guilt, without evidence to prove it, was sufficient. In other words, you can fabricate evidence, then buy off the judge to affirm it without any corroborating evidence. Remember, Stark received his good-boy-appointment as judge by Obama just a week after the Leader v. Facebook trial. Are you kidding me? An 1896 criminal case NEVER USED IN A PATENT TRIAL IN THE HISTORY OF THE U.S. as justification to invalidate a validly issued US patent. There are no other fitting words than scandal and shame. http://www.scribd.com/doc/92991258/Leader-v-Facebook-Doc-No-686-Judge-Stark-s-JMOL-Opinion-Mar-14-2011#page=53 FACEBOOK CABAL SCAM #3 - Paul Ceglia v. Eric Holder et al (2013) - Holder cites a mere footnote in a case as his justification for denying Ceglia's motion. Ceglia, pg. 4, Item 13. Ceglia's attorney state this injustice well in Item 15: "There is an inherent wrong in the Government's actions in seeking and securing an indictment of a private citizen for matters relating to that citizen's filing of a civil lawsuit against another private citizen for breach of contract." http://www.scribd.com/doc/153741976/Ceglia-v-Holder-et-al-Case-No-1-13-cv-00256-Reply-to-TEMP-RESTRAINING-ORDER-RESPONSE-filed-Mar-21-2013#page=4 As everyone knows, in more than 250 years of legal writings, anyone, anytime can find the writings of some crooked or ignorant judge to prove one's point. That is why precedent is so important to follow. Precedent weeds out the scoundrels and establishes the foundation for future interpretation of the Constitution. These Facebook Cabal scoundrels have determined to write new law to suit themselves, then buy off judges to affirm it. What kind of misfit world would we live in if we let them get away with this? Sieg Heil!, or maybe Well done, Comrade Summers? On April 30, 2013 Eric Holder filed court papers in the Western District of New York to protect Mark Zuckerberg from being deposed by Paul Ceglia. This is proof that the Obama Administration is protecting the Facebook cabal. http://www.scribd.com/doc/153764328/Ceglia-v-Holder-et-al-1-13-cv-00256-RJA-Doc-35-Apr-30-2013-Attorney-General-Eric-Holder-Protecting-Zuckerberg-from-being-deposed ERIC HOLDER AND PREETINDER BHARARA HAVE THE NY WESTERN DISTRICT JUDGE IN THEIR POCKETS. THE JUDGE DENIED CEGLIA'S REQUEST TO DEPOSE ZUCKERBERG. The judge's entire rationale for refusing to have Zuckerberg testify about the 28 missing hard drives and Harvard emails was: "After due consideration, the Court concludes that expedited discovery is unnecessary. The Court expects to be able fully to consider plaintiff’s First Amendment theories for injunctive relief based upon argument of counsel and the documentary submissions filed by the parties." Argument of counsel and prior documentary submissions. Argument of counsel is NOT evidence. And, the 28 previously missing Zuckerberg hard drives and Harvard emails cannot be submitted into evidence if the judge refuses to let Ceglia review them. What the judge is saying is that his mind is already made up and the facts don't matter. http://www.scribd.com/doc/153766320/Ceglia-v-Holder-et-al-1-13-cv-00256-RJA-Doc-No-42-May-3-2012-Court-denies-Zuckerberg-deposition Rain Onyourparade July 14, 2013 at 12:05 PM Here's the letter from Ceglia's attorneys proving that Attorney General Eric Holder and U.S. Attorney (formerly Gibson Dunn LLP) Preetinder "Preet" S. Bharara threatened Paul Ceglia if he pursued his civil case against Mark Zuckerberg: http://www.scribd.com/doc/153768502/Ceglia-v-Holder-et-al-1-13-cv-00256-RJA-Doc-No-45-May-13-2012-Letter-to-Court-Re-Criminalization-of-Civil-Proceedings-Threat-by-Eric-Holde Last one for today. Here is Ceglia's Amended Complaint, to which Holder and Bharara have yet to respond. It highlights the conflicts of interest by Gibson Dunn LLP attorneys, incl. Bharara who is a former Gibson Dunn attorney. Gibson Dunn is also Facebook's attorney in Leader v. Facebook, adding to the STENCH OF CORRUPTION. http://www.scribd.com/doc/153769818/Ceglia-v-Holder-et-al-1-13-cv-00256-RJA-Doc-No-50-Jun-21-2013-Amended-Complaint Here's the CONTACTING CONGRESS website to obtain all the contact information for your Senators and Congressperson: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/ LIBOR The strategy wasn’t a secret. Each morning at a meeting of UBS’s interest-rate-derivatives desk in Tokyo, Mr. Hayes would change his status on his Facebook page to reflect his daily desires for Libor to move up or down the purpose of the feature was to allow users to inform their friends. This MANIPULATION was put on facebook buy David kirkpatick Sean Parker and James W. Breyer mark zuckerberg and others. The FBI new of this but facebook was being used as a spy platform! This is why Libor has taken so long to came out and see the light But this theory is incomplete. Everyone did know about Libor manipulation, or could if they cared This is whey OBAMA gave ROBERT MULLER more time at his job LIBOR MANIPULATION only came out when the AUSTRALIA FEDs GOT THE INFO ON THE MANIPULATION ???????????????? Mark Zuckerberg Runs A Giant Spy Machine In Palo Alto, California Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives for the start of a town hall ... Today, that information is regularly used in court proceedings and law enforcement. INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY ECONOMIC POWERS(§ 1703. Consultation and report) Circuit Executive & Clerk of Court Your message has been received by the Superior Court Clerk's Office. We will contact you if we need further information to fulfill your request. 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A special procedure, the advisory procedure, is, however, available to such organizations and to them alone. purpose of IAEA safeguards We have received your application for an account for the FBO> Government System. Please verify the following information:> Agency: Administrative Office of the U. S. Courts> Office: Top Level> D-U-N-S No. 63-108-7863 Company Info 276 9 Yeon-dong Cheju organization: Oriental Economic Institute (Keomgyosil) address1: 276 9 Yeon-dong city: Cheju state: VA zip: 690814 country: korea visory Jurisdiction mark zuckerberg was getting the public to volunteer the information. Then he turned off the privacy settings. This gave ROBERT MULLER all the information in an email robert muller says that he did not wont to shear the information with NSA or the CIA An yes i have seen the email?? Microsoft says it does not provide the NSA or any U.S. government agency with the ability to bypass it's encryption or give "direct access" to user data. But Microsoft new that facebook was stolen. ROBERT MULLER knows that Microsoft new about this This is no longer a battle about legal proofs. IS IT OBAMA It takes more than intelligence to act intelligently. If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear " a quote from Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of propaganda during WW2 LIBOR The strategy wasn’t a secret. Each morning at a meeting of UBS’s interest-rate-derivatives desk in Tokyo, Mr. Hayes would change his status on his Facebook page to reflect his daily desires for Libor to move up or down Originally, the purpose of the feature was to allow users to inform their friends This feature first became available in September 2006 updates were followed by the "What are you doing right now in March 2009, the question was changed to "What's on your mind? (move it up or no move it down ) Facebook than added the feature to tag certain friends (or groups, bankers lawyer Shady traders etc.) The ponzi scheme had everything it needed. Facebook there where a lot of people who new FB was stolen (Sean Parker Facebook extortionist James W. Breyer david kirkpatick and the FBI IN the early days of FACEBOOK david Kirkpatick set up libor manipulation in England under the disguise of doing an investigation The FBI knows of this and got Mark Zuckerberg to run a giant spy machine in Palo Alto, California, Zuckerberg after moving 350 million people into a glass privacy ghetto, And know the FBI wont to run a giant spy machine in NEW ZEALAND have the FBI got emails on JOHN KEY or are you just a sell out according to regulators, traders were already engaging in behavior authorities later described as inappropriate: They routinely submitted requests to colleagues in London and Zurich to move the bank’s Libor submissions up or down to suit the traders’ positions. … But There appears to be some sort of simple information problem this is where david kirkpatick and facebook mark zucerberg got in on the act Did zuckerberg work on facebook NO zuckerberg was going to dump the stolen idea facebook zuckerberg only stole back facebook when David kirkpatick Sean Parker and James W. Breyer where going to start the stolen idea facebook for them self's. Even BILL GATES knows that facebook was stolen its called insider trading and the FBI had all the emails on them to start there spy network So what is spying selective amnesia the Internet never forgets. But is it possible the Internet did somehow develop selective amnesia Did David Kirkpatick aided and abetted violations of antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws and violated SRO rules by issuing research reports well he did say facebook was a $40 billion or more company was this misleading" Labour's Lord Barnett called it a matter "of great concern" that nobody at the Bank of England or the Treasury had been aware of the Libor manipulation SO LORD BARNETT How could all of this happen? no one cared enough to find out that Libor was being manipulated And the bankers lawyers Shady traders etc showered money on themselves each other and their friends. But the FBI new of this and that facebook was stolen and the NSA and Snowden and now Putin so what dos this mean for Syria the price you pay for spying and lying Obama Got a book for you PREET BHARARA Steve Siebold Author of sex politics and religion Mark Zuckerberg never was anything but a puppet. if government is corrupt it's because we have let it become that way. Cathy Lee August 13, 2013 at 11:15 AM These scandals remind us of God's direct guidance from the Old Testament DEUTERONOMY (excerpts): CHAPTER 16: 18. You shall set up judges and law enforcement officials for yourself in all your cities that the Lord, your God, is giving you, for your tribes, and they shall judge the people [with] righteous judgment. 19. You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show favoritism, and you shall not take a bribe, for bribery blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts just words. 20. Justice, justice shall you pursue, that you may live and possess the land the Lord, your God, is giving you. 15. You shall set a king over you, one whom the Lord, your God, chooses; from among your brothers, you shall set a king over yourself; you shall not appoint a foreigner over yourself, one who is not your brother... 17. And he shall not take many wives for himself, and his heart must not turn away, and he shall not acquire much silver and gold for himself. 18. And the judges shall inquire thoroughly, and behold, the witness is a false witness; he has testified falsely against his brother; 19. then you shall do to him as he plotted to do to his brother, and you shall [thus] abolish evil from among you. 20. And those who remain shall listen and fear, and they shall no longer continue to commit any such evil thing among you. 21. You shall not have pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot... I pray that together we can help our country return to these fundamental principles. FIX LEADER V. FACEBOOK TO RESTORE CONFIDENCE, BIPA... OBAMA COLLUDES WITH THE FACEBOOK CARTEL TO DEVEST ...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line923
__label__wiki	0.544484	0.544484	Altered States: Challenges of Time Shifted Canonical Characters Posted on October 10, 2018 by Don Jacobson • 10 Comments Austenesque authors have, in recent years, begun to explore taking the classic characters and extracting them from their Regency worlds to insert them into (usually) modern environments. T’is neither my place nor my inclination to assess whether these variations from tradition are appropriate or not. Of course, considering that I am in the midst of shooting my protagonists and antagonists all over the timelines of the 19th and 20th Centuries, an astute reader might question if I were somehow responding to my own inner struggles. I am. The current volume of the Bennet Wardrobe, The Avenger: Thomas Bennet and A Father’s Lament, is set in the period between 1945 and 1952. I have had to address the core questions of how two refugees from the Regency, Thomas and Frances Bennet, will behave and evolve in Post-World War II Europe. I do believe I have successfully navigated these shoals. However, I have the advantage as I am working with Canonical characters who tend to stand at the edges of the action in the original. In this particular forum, I will address the core difficulty facing any writer seeking to position (usually) Darcy, Elizabeth, Fitzwilliam, Georgiana, and Wickham (with the Bingleys added, especially to serve as the touchstone for Jane) in any time frame other than the Regency. The moment authors step beyond the Regency, they must face an additional double task… An accurate and logical historical world needs must be created to provide an environment within which the characters must live to express their truth The characters themselves, in the process of expressing their truths, must interact convincingly within their surroundings. While we are intimately familiar with all of Miss Austen’s leading characters in the Canon, we ultimately only understand them within the semiotic framework created by the Mistress: the discursive debate between power and powerlessness, wealth and poverty, city and country, gentry and trade. The interaction of men and women was necessarily governed by individual’s position within the larger social scheme. Propriety and sexual probity was limited by the questions of disease and inheritance. Greater sexual freedom was accorded to men of the upper classes as well as men and women of the lower classes who had no property to pass along to succeeding generations. A deep understanding of these memes is unnecessary to appreciate the set-pieces through which the Canonical characters move. What was is in Austenland, because it could be no other way. The Regency shapes these characters as surely as the Marines mold their recruits. Austen, since she was writing for a Regency audience of the upper classes, did not need to explain the world within which her personages existed. Darcy is a man proud of his heritage and position. He has found security in his armor of propriety. He never questions that he is powerful. That condition is simply his due because of his birth. Others are lesser than he, but not because of defect, but rather that is simply the nature of early 19th Century Britain. If anything, Darcy is a caricature, the exception painted to act as a mirror within which the true nature of the ton was reflected. The decadence of the 10,000—and implicitly the Prince Regent—explodes into giant gouts of color when it encounters the moral certainty of Darcy, so convinced he is in his correctness. Elizabeth is the antithesis of everything a Regency woman was expected to be. She is neither meek nor submissive. Her Regency accomplishments are few while her post-Germaine Greer achievements—well-read, curious about the natural world as well as politics, opinionated, athletic, and so on—offer her up as a “new” woman much more so than Charles Bingley was a “new” man, determined as he was to go backwards in time from the Industrial Revolution. Obviously, we could go on forever exploring the nature of ODC and others as they stood in the Regency. However, taking the characters and translating them directly to the modern era has its dangers. With the elimination of coverture, the advent of women’s voting rights, removal of racial and gender barriers in education and employment, and the removal of paternity questions in the face of modern science (leaving penicillin’s utility in the modern era to the attentions of another writer), dropping Darcy and Elizabeth into 20th Century Times Square can be a hazardous undertaking. Would a Darcy born into Post-World War II privilege be the same sort of man as one born shortly after the American Revolution? Would he have enlisted to serve in Vietnam or sought ways to evade the war? Would he act with a social conscience or would he have he held in disdain those who did not win the birth-parent lottery as being deficient in character and capability? While a Napoleonic-era Elizabeth Bennet seems refreshingly radical to a 21st Century reader used to limpid Regency Romance heroines, would that same woman embrace the Equal Rights Amendment movement in the 1970s? Would she have sought a career, or would she have been satisfied remain at home to raise her family, to battle loads of laundry, school projects, and broken adolescent hearts? Would she have found Darcy’s efforts to redeem himself compelling enough to earn a second chance at her heart or would she have cut him loose in favor of Fitzwilliam, now no longer (in the 21st Century) bound to marry for wealth? Thus, authors seeking to insert the eternal relationship story into modern times must evolve these characters to make them consonant and, thus, recognizable to readers. They must be able to clearly inhabit the world into which they were birthed or they will never be convincing. Two wonderful Austenesque Authors have successfully done just this: Beth Auron in her remarkable Longbourn’s Songbird and Barbara Silkstone in her lighthearted mysteries involving canine psychologist Lizzie Bennet and a modern property magnate/knight Fitzwilliam Darcy. That requires certain amounts of relevant information about the times into which the characters have been placed. The social, economic, political/geopolitical, and geographic factors that create the ground of history upon which the characters must stand need to be offered up for readers not thoroughly aware of the time window. Only then may the characters be allowed to step onto the stage. An example of this would be the window within which the readers view the last portion of Part II of the “Kitty Book” in the Bennet Wardrobe Series. This final book within the volume is set at the Beach House in Deauville in 1944 in the weeks immediately following D-Day. In order to set the stage for the final crisis, some history must be laid down. Please consider the following excerpt from The Exile: The Countess Visits Longbourn. &&&&&& This excerpt from “The Exile: The Countess Visits Longbourn” is ©2018 by Donald P. Jacobson. All rights reserved. Reproduction in any form, either print or electronic, without the expressed written consent of the creator is prohibited. Published in the United States of America. The Beach House at Deauville, August 19, 1944 In the twelve years since that remarkable month spent at Madras House, Lady Fitzwilliam had lived her dowager’s life in Deauville, London, Paris, New York, and Selkirk. That meant she had stood as nana to her grandchildren as they tumbled across the yards and later strode across the stages at Oxbridge and the Sorbonne—even the young ladies. She had readily sponsored Liam Wilson’s boys: one to earn his doctorate in physics from the University of Chicago under Professor Fermi and the other matriculating at the University of Edinburgh before moving on to medical training at The London. She imagined both were employed in the war effort, however, isolated as she was in Occupied France, she had no idea what either was doing to bring the conflict to its conclusion.[i] What little communication she had had with her relations passed through various neutral countries. Mail would arrive hand delivered by Portuguese, Swiss, Spaniards, or Swedes. The reach of the Five Families was blocked by Hitler’s armies, but the Trust’s factors in Lisbon, Berne, Madrid, and Stockholm controlled items desperately needed by Berlin’s thugs: tungsten, hard currency, access to South America, and iron ore. While neutrality had its uses, these more pragmatic reasons conferred an aura of invulnerability upon those serving the Families and granted protection in the invisible, but deadly game, being played between British Intelligence, the Abwehr, and the OSS. She had long recognized that her own immediate security in Occupied France depended upon the strength of her friends in the power centers behind Hitler’s regime. The relationships forged in the heady days before World War I and, later, in the Twenties, transcended politics and national borders. Lady Fitzwilliam was unabashed in leaning on Krupps and Thyssens to keep from being deported from her home to a detention camp. Her continued independence to this point of the war had depended on the fact that the little man and his coterie of sycophants were still in awe of the Kaiserreich’s elites—the old military officer corps of vons and unds as well as the industrialists—who had helped the Nazis in the 1930s when they seemed to be the only answer to the aristocracy’s fear of a Communist revolution. Sadly, they had believed they could control Hitler’s excesses, the verbalization of which had endeared him to German masses frightened by the Depression and feeling displaced by change in a modern world. Once he had eliminated all of his competitors—and several of those upon whom the elites had depended to keep him in check—t’was too late.[ii] However, ten years later, she knew that the level of disdain with which the remaining betters still held the grasping criminality of the regime was only increasing as the cities were reduced to rubble and the Allies tore gaping chunks out of the flanks of Festung Europa . Thus, Kitty put up with the inconvenience of infrequent letters passed through multiple mail drops between London and Deauville. Any deeper attempt to communicate with Fitzwilliams, Gardiners, Bingleys, Darcys, or Bennets could expose the House to the Gestapo’s undesirable curiosity. The Germans had become especially sensitive after the June 6th landings. And even more so after the bungled attempt on Hitler’s life on July 20th: that marked the first day of the Nazis’ war upon Old Germany. As Hitler recovered from his injuries, Himmler had unleashed the SS upon any threats to the regime—real or perceived. The black-shirted, jackbooted wearers of the death’s head had, over the past four weeks, expanded their murderous excesses from the wealthy suburbs of Berlin and Munich into the occupied territories. Most of those arrested had not been involved in the actual plot, but with the Allied forces streaking out of their Normandy beachhead, the SS and the Gestapo were in a fever trying to settle old scores as quickly as they could before their targets slipped through their fingers behind the olive drab protection of dozens of enemy divisions. Her lifeline…and perhaps more…was now in danger. Roving SS execution squads had harassed even Herr von Steiger as he traveled from his Alpine fastness across France to the Channel town. Only his Swiss passport and his strategic use of Reichsführer Himmler’s guarantee of safe conduct saved him from internment in a concentration camp or worse. What he had carried in his briefcase was valuable beyond comprehension. Kitty had been undisturbed to this point, as she had been since the spring of 1940. She had continued on in Deauville; cut off from the rest of the Families. Well, not totally isolated. Maggie and Jacques’ son…and Eloise’s husband…periodically checked-in on her and his aged father to make sure that the two old friends were safe. Maxie took every precaution because nobody wished to tempt the weaker of the neighborhood’s residents to try to collect the FRF 100,000 bounty placed on Commandant Maxim’s head by the frustrated Gestapo. To his credit, Maxie had tried everything short of kidnapping his beloved Aunt Kate—and mother-by-proxy—to encourage her to leave Deauville before the French government capitulated. Her demurral was both realistic and personal. “Maxie: you are my most loved friend’s son. Would you have me abandon your father? You know he will never leave Maggie. Monsieur Jacques’ greatest wish is to rest next to her in the dunes by the beach. Besides, if I leave, who will act as your alternate method of communications with SOE?”[iii] And, thus, Kitty stayed. As Deauville was of no particular strategic importance, the town was spared the worst efforts of both the Axis and the Allies. The urgency to move the Wardrobe, for years perforce an impossible fantasy, reduced over time since June, especially as the Allied forces had finally achieved the long-awaited breakout through the boccage surrounding their beachhead along the Channel. The rumormongers had held that it was just a matter of days before the last of les Bosches would pack up their kübelwagons and scurry back toward the Rhine. Kitty believed this to be a pipedream as Hauptman Hans Richter, the Kommandant’s adjutant and her official minder, had kept her abreast of the latest military scuttlebutt. He advised that the Allies were much more intent on pushing toward Paris in order to liberate the greatest symbol of the French Republic. She trusted his word because of another reason: the woman with whom he had fallen in love. Lydia Georgiana Wickham. [i] The elder was stationed in Alamogordo, New Mexico working on the Manhattan Project under Professor Oppenheimer. His younger brother was an infectious diseases specialist attached to SACSEAC…Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command (Lord Louis Mountbatten). [ii] See The Night of the Long Knives, June 30, 1934. [iii] Special Operations Executive. British secret organization that coordinated with Resistance Groups in WWII. Filed Under: Austen Characters, Author Real Life, Jane Austen, Regency, Research, Variation ← How Does Jane Bennet Get a Backbone? EXCERPT: Anne de Bourgh’s Secret Diary → 10 Responses to Altered States: Challenges of Time Shifted Canonical Characters I enjoy seeing P&P in different settings, although my favorite is Regency. That being said, when I write moderns, they are short comedies. Even so, I’ve enjoyed several settings in WWI and WWII. Seems we can never get enough no matter what era. Don Jacobson says: JR…you are correct. I will stress that whether comedy or drama, the characters must speak their truth and that is rooted in an author’s willingness to accuratly place them in context. caroleincanada says: Weaving the Bennet Wardrobe through all these eras cannot be easy, especially with all the historical events and shifts in morality/equality to make them plausible, but you have done it and then some! As you know, I am eagerly looking forward to the next book in the saga! I keep on returning to the inner truth expressed by the characters. As you know, “The Avenger” takes place in the post-WWII era, setting a tone for espionage and intrigue…yet also the discovery of both old and new love. Just rolled past 90,000 words. The climax is next! Mark Brownlow says: Interesting issues raised, Don. I had foolishly assumed that relocating the characters into other times would open up new possibilities and thus make life easier as a writer. Which it does, but at the cost of also making life harder through the challenges you mention (and as Regina says, certain key plot points in the original simply don’t apply in certain other time periods). I’m going to stick to Regency for now! Hi Mark, The challenge I have discovered is to make the characters believable in their timeline context while remining linked into certain overarching themes. For instance, Thomas Bennet will discover that his wife is a sensible and intuitive woman who had become distracted by fear. Remove the fear and, irrespective of the timeframe, she will become less foolish and more lovable. However, do not expect her to compete fr the Nobel…but rather her strengths will lie in the social sphere…an arena in which Mr B is notoriously weak. carylkane says: Thank you for this interesting post! You are truly welcome. Look forward to your reviews and reactions to the stories. Indeed. The common theme for Wickham seems to have turned him into an abuser of women, seeking to counter his weakened self-image by exerting his power over those more impressionable, but possibly all, women. Likewise, drug abuse seems to have become the “problem du jour” for some characters (Lydia?) who are acting out. Finally, I do find the lowering of the Bennet family’s status from lower upper to middle or lower middle forcing Jane and Elizabeth to seek employment. Yet, even in its most modest inflationary sense, Longbourn’s 2,000 a year would equate to about $165,000 today. That, though, is only the annual income and not accounting for the value of the land or any investments. Likewise, the other assets of the family (jewels, paintings, silver and so on) are not included. Therefore I have always been somewhat dubious about efforts to lower the Bennet’s status to maintain the social distance between Elizabeth and Darcy. Regina Jeffers says: I only have one modern P&P variation, but historical views, such as Lydia eloping with Wickham, no longer apply in a modern world, especially when Las Vegas looms for those wishing to rush an engagement. Even then, the stigma of an elopement has disappeared. Leave a Reply to Jennifer Redlarczyk Cancel reply	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line924
__label__wiki	0.733034	0.733034	Raw Material » ministry of steel Chaudhary Birendra Singh Indian govt working to provide NMDC's iron ore to domestic steel cos The steel ministry is toying with the idea of developing a cost plus formula for iron ore pricing, sources said, adding that there is no point in accumulating raw material reserves.PTI \| January 26, 2017, 13:26 IST NEW DELHI: Government is contemplating a mechanism to make available NMDC's iron ore to domestic steel companies at a reasonable price to help the sector, which is reeling under the impact of high raw material costs. The steel ministry is toying with the idea of developing a cost plus formula for iron ore pricing, sources said, adding that there is no point in accumulating raw material reserves. There has been a sudden spike in prices of iron, making the domestic steel industry uncompetitive in the global market. Also, there has been a lot of dumping of steel products. "Now, NMDC is with the steel ministry. It is making profits. Now by making profit, it does not make much sense. Heavy profit is wiped off by the government through buyback. So, it may not be a bad idea to pass it on to the steel sector," a source said. Iron ore is a key ingredient used in making steel. "If the government evolves some formula of cost plus, that is the cost plus 30 per cent or 40 per cent profit, the rest can pass on to the steel sector. Then, it will be very vibrant," the official added. NMDC is the country's single-largest iron ore producer. "There is no point in accumulating raw material money and the hit point which is guided by the market forces gets into a loss," the official explained. At present, the average iron ore prices of NMDC varies between Rs 1,985 to Rs 2,225 per tonne. Sanak Mishra, Secretary General, Indian Steel Association, the industry body representing primary steel producers, said: "We have already requested the government for such a model (cost plus formula for iron ore pricing)." Steel Minister Chaudhary Birendra Singh had earlier said the expert group that would be formed by the government to study sale of iron ore by NMDC will also analyse the mining giant's ore pricing and auction. In the beginning of this month, NMDC raised the prices of higher grade iron (lumps) by Rs 125 per tonne to Rs 2,225. The state-run firm also raised prices for iron ore fines, which are inferior grade ore, by Rs 125 to Rs 1,985 per tonne for January. According to a company official, the rise in the prices of lump ore and fines has been due to various factors including a hike in international prices of iron ore. NMDC is under the administrative control of the Ministry of Steel. It is the country's single-largest iron ore producer, producing about 30 mt of iron ore from three fully mechanised mines. Tags : Raw Material, steel, ministry of steel, Chaudhary Birendra Singh, global market Most Read in Raw Material Base metals: Lead and nickel rise on increased demand Aluminium runs out of luck in June; prices hit by weak input costs Steel sector to be unaffected by GST rollout	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line929
__label__wiki	0.567875	0.567875	Home»Aston Martin»Preview Aston Martin DB11 : With a Turbo V12? Preview Aston Martin DB11 : With a Turbo V12? Tuesday, October 16th, 2018 - Aston Martin Aston Martin DB11 : Spyshots The choice of the name of the successor to the Aston Martin DB9 is still uncertain. DB10, DB11 (more likely) DB12, the only thing we know for sure is that this model is expected to arrive next year to allow the DB9 to take a well-deserved retirement. Its development is currently underway and a prototype of the future British cut only intuition in testing on the famous Nurburgring Nordschleife. Covered with camouflage, you can get a taste of the future production of Gaydon firm through these images. Selected lines that seem to which, however, does not constitute a break in terms of style. In looking at the pictures, the opposite also enter this continuity with a grill and lights with the highest tradition of Aston Martin. This innovation should be accompanied by many technical developments with a new engine platform and magazines. The V12 should be back in the game, accompanied by a block V8, developed in collaboration with Daimler, he asked a voice. Aston Martin DB11 : Review The manufacturer Aston Martin continues to be talked about in those days, because finally prepares a brand new model, the replacement for the current DB9, which should enjoy a turbo V12! What all or most known and already Aston Martin DB11 has probably not yet revealed all its secrets. According to Auto Express, the future of English should cut to have a turbo V12 … So far it’s taking a V12 atmospheric advanced prevalent. So, we assume that this voice – supported by the statements of those who have heard of prototypes of openings along the Nürburgring and the presence of some labels on the dashboard – is likely to surprise most arouse curiosity. With a turbo V12, future Aston Martin DB11 could probably still see a power worthy of his rank, allowing its consumption. It remains to confirm that this would be the source V12 Mercedes-AMG, the manufacturer also provides 4.0-liter V8 biturbo. Since it is unclear Aston Martin to develop a new turbocharged unit from the current V12 and now ex. Recall that the block turbo V12 Mercedes-AMG can reach 630 hp under the hood of the products of the brand of the star. Auto Express also offers us a first image of the interior of the DB11 which is likely to leave skeptical. E ‘right there inside the Aston Martin DB11? Nothing is less certain. Preview Aston Martin DB11 : With a Turbo V12? Pictures Preview Aston Martin DB11 : With a Turbo V12? \| \| 4.5 Previous postABT tunes the Audi S6 Avant to 550 PS - Preview Next postBMW 3 Series - Will Benefit Many Technical Developments Aston Martin DB11 Review Exterior Geneva 2016: Aston Martin DB11 Aston Martin has seen a new style revolution. Finally Aston Martin speed. After all, why... Aston Martin DB9 GT Bond Edition Prices and Review Aston Martin DB9 GT Bond Edition Prices Shaken, not stirred. ” Aston DB9 GT Bond Edition will be like the... Aston Martin Confirmed The Crossover, the DBX Aston Martin Confirmed The Crossover, the DBX – Lamborghini, Rolls-Royce, Mercedes-Maybach, Bentley and others: the office of the ultra-luxury SUV... 2015 Aston Martin DB9 Redesign 2015 Aston Martin DB9 – Overview The particular Aston Martin DB9 adds a new brand of carbon dioxide beam... 2015 Aston Martin Rapide S Redesign, Overview 2015 Aston Martin Rapide S – What’s New for 2015? Plus and Minus The particular Aston Martin Rapide S adds a fresh...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line931
__label__cc	0.642449	0.357551	Review: ANDY IRVINE & PAUL BRADY AT VICAR ST, DUBLIN – 20 MAY 2017 WORDS: JAY WILSON ARTICLE PUBLISHED: MAY 30, 2017 “Apparently there are 102 strings on stage,” quips Paul Brady as he tunes one of the impressive array of instruments ranged behind him and Andy Irvine. Dónal Lunny has a couple of string instruments to go along with his bodhrán and keyboard. Kevin Burke seems comparatively modest with his violin’s four strings. The more unusual instruments, like the bouzouki and the hurdy-gurdy, and the guitars in various tunings, are a testament to the restless curiosity that culminated in the 1976 album ‘Andy Irvine and Paul Brady’. Tuning between songs allows time for stories to flow, and Irvine and Brady give background to the original compositions (“from the mad brains we had back in the 70s”), and to those songs sourced from others such as Eddie Butcher, Andy Mitchell, Shirley Collins, Paddy Tunney, and Sam Henry. The wounded soldier’s love song, Bonny Woodhall, from Sam Henry’s collection, has a beautiful accompaniment that swirls around Irvine’s clear vocal. The instrumentation builds throughout, drawing the listener into the story as it unfolds. Most of the instruments are picked up by microphones so there is a wonderful immediacy as every pluck and bow is amplified. The two Sligo tunes that follow, Fred Finn’s Reel and Sailing Into Walpole’s Marsh, are lead by Brady and the reflective mood of the previous song is chased away by the banter between the four musicians (“drain that marsh!”). Lunny picks up the bodhrán for these, lending a very satisfying, full bass sound to the melody instruments. Brady tells of receiving a letter while “languishing in the US in the early 70s”, from Liam O’Flynn asking him to join Planxty. The only song he had was a version of Arthur McBride and the Sergeant. Irvine recalls the first time Brady sang it for them in Donegal, and we are treated to a genuinely moving performance of this treasured favourite. The crowd burst into prolonged applause after the final “…for it being on Christmas morning”, and as the assembly settle back into their seats, Lunny confirms with a smile that “…they let him into Planxty!” Irvine’s plaintive Autumn Gold follows, preceded by his amusing recollection of singing it in a barn to the girl he wrote it for “…just the two of us there…she never said a f**king word!” After these two moving songs comes The Jolly Soldier, sung by Brady. His voice is in fine form, rich and strong. Andy Irvine’s excellent harmonica playing leads the charge in the jig that follows out of the song, The Blarney Pilgrim. Brady can’t resist lilting along. It’s forty years since the album’s release. The performers and the audience are older, this music now a precious thread woven into all their lives. There is deep joy and exhilaration shared in Vicar Street tonight as it is spun out again through the hands of these four master musicians. This review appeared originally on GoldenPlec.com. David Rooney‘s scraperboard picture appeared originally in Hot Press magazine. Contact him to buy the original. Source: goldenplec.com Source: jaywilsonmusic.com Posted in Review and tagged 2017, 40th Anniversary, Andy Irvine & Paul Brady, Donal Lunny, Dublin, Golden Plec, Kevin Burke, Vicar St. on June 6, 2017 by Andy Irvine Fanblog. Leave a comment In Pictures: Andy Irvine & Paul Brady 40th Anniversary Tour Many thanks to the Twitter Community for sharing their memories! Posted in Feature, In Pictures, Gallery format and tagged 2017, 40th Anniversary, Andy Irvine & Paul Brady, Belfast, Cork Opera House, derry, Donal Lunny, galway, Ireland, Kevin Burke, limerick, Vicar St. on May 31, 2017 by Andy Irvine Fanblog. Leave a comment Setlist: 19/May/2017 – Andy Irvine & Paul Brady 19/May/2017 – Andy Irvine & Paul Brady, Cork Opera House, Cork Ireland (40th Anniversary Reunion Tour) Heather on the Moor Lord Thomas Stensons (Set of Tunes) Băneasă's Green Glade / Horo Cocks Are Crowing The Dream / Indiana Wearin' the Britches The Blacksmith / Blacksmithereens Martinmas Time / The Little Stack of Wheat Lough Erne Shore Bonny Woodhall Fred Finn's Reel / Sailing into Walpole's Marsh (Set of Reels) Arthur McBride The Jolly Soldier / Blarney Pilgrim Streets of Derry Mary and the Soldier Plains of Kildare The Braes Of Moneymore Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore Note: This set was typical of the 40th Anniversary Tour concerts. The Vicar St. gig that I attended had the exact same setlist. Posted in Setlist and tagged 2017, 40th Anniversary, Andy Irvine & Paul Brady, Cork Opera House, Donal Lunny, Kevin Burke, Reunion on May 30, 2017 by Andy Irvine Fanblog. Leave a comment	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line937
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__label__wiki	0.648921	0.648921	The original iPod: A re-review Ever wondered how well an original iPod would hold up ten 15 years later? Jacqui Cheng - Oct 24, 2016 5:50 pm UTC 233 with 163 posters participating On October 23, 2001, Apple unveiled its original iPod. Though MP3 players existed beforehand, the iPod safely brought this portable music format to the masses. Over the 15 years since, Ars has examined the evolution of this product's design, its inevitable death (three years before that time arrived), and its impact on the music industry at-large. So for the product's anniversary, we'll resurface this re-review of the original iPod from 2011. “Oprah” for indie bands: Apple once loved unknown acts—what changed? Don't look now, but the iPod—yes, the original, less-space-than-a-Nomad iPod—just turned 10 years old. That makes the device older than Facebook, YouTube, Crocs, Vibram FiveFingers, and the Motorola RAZR, to name a few brands and devices that have penetrated general culture over the last decade. But unlike old flip phones and tacky footwear, the iPod's overall design remains iconic and its effect on our consumption of music remains pervasive. It was not the first MP3 player on the market, but it was the one whose industrial and UI design would influence handheld gadgets for far longer than its product lifetime. In fact, it's not hard to argue that the original iPod is still with us. It can be found most obviously in the iPod classic, but its influences are also found in iOS and even third-party smartphones and music players. Hell, even though the original iPod is 10 years old, you could almost still use it today as your go-to music player... or can you? Ars got its hands on an original 5GB iPod from back in 2001 so that we could re-review it with some 2011 flair—clickwheel and all. Form factor and navigation Let's face it: this thing is bulky. It was bulky in 2001 and it's still bulky now. Back then, the iPod was being compared against MP3 players with 4MB of built-in Flash memory and an external SD card slot. It was already bad enough then, but today, carrying around an original iPod in your pocket is almost akin to putting those velcro weights on your ankles and then riding a unicycle to work. Okay, now we're just being mean. The iPod couldn't help being what it was in 2001, as hard drive based MP3 players were only starting to become popular. The thing is, aside from the obvious bulk in thickness, the iPod itself still feels decent in the hand—the width of the device is almost the same as an iPhone 4, a detail that makes us wonder whether Apple planned the iPhone this way. The navigation on this thing is, well, very iPoddish. (iPodesque?) The click wheel, used to adjust volume and navigate playlists, was a new thing for Apple—and the rest of the music player world—in 2001 and despite its novel shape, it really appealed to the general public. Let's be honest: the click wheel is fun to play with. You can even flip the lock switch and then scroll around with abandon just for fun if you want to. (Not saying we did this but… we did.) The idea that one might need to use the scroll wheel to navigate playlists was indeed novel when the iPod was first introduced and it worked well for many years—in fact, the iPod classic still does this (albeit without a moving click wheel), and up until 2010, so did the ever-popular iPod nano. Nowadays though, with the advent of fancy touchscreen music players built into our iPhones and Android devices, the concept seems old fashioned. That's okay though, because decade-old technology is allowed to be a little old fashioned as long as we can still use it intuitively, which we can. Shockingly, the latest version of iTunes (as of this writing) can still connect to and interface with the original iPod, assuming you have the right cable. I had to buy a special Firewire 800 to Firewire 400 cable (you can get one for $4.75 at Monoprice) in order to connect the iPod to my 27" iMac because, well, no one has Firewire 400 in a computer anymore. In fact, if I wanted to connect the iPod to an even newer and more minimalist machine—such as my 11" MacBook Air—well, it would be near impossible. Regardless, when you plug in an original iPod to a modern version of iTunes, you can sync it just like you would a modern iPod, an iPhone, or iPad. In fact, the sync screen looks exactly the same, almost leading one to believe that the original iPod will continue to be supported for long after its current form factor (the iPod classic) is discontinued. The word "durability" means something different today than it did in 2001. There were plenty of handheld electronics that could withstand a decent beating back then, but their moving parts still left them more vulnerable to disaster than many of their modern equivalents. Why Apple is ready to kill off the iPod classic This is definitely the case with the original iPod. The device is a beast—it's near impossible to destroy to the same level as, say, a plastic Walkman cassette player—but its moving click wheel and "old fashioned" hard drive, spinning disk and all, mean that it can face some unpleasant realities. Over the years, we've seen many gunked-up click wheels and even more failed hard drives, so it's certainly a good thing that Apple has since moved onto static (if existent at all) click wheels and flash storage. That said, a halfway-careful owner can keep an original iPod alive forever. The one we have in our possession was sent over by an Ars reader who took great care of his devices over the years, and this one is no different. Having spent its whole life inside of a leather case, there are almost no scratches on the front or back of the iPod and everything works as if it were still new. I have full confidence that, pending any catastrophic drops or possibly being run over by a car, this thing will easily last for another 10 years. Or until Apple ends iTunes support for it, whichever comes first. Battery life and extras "But Jacqui," you're yelling at the screen, "aside from the hard drive and click wheel, the battery is the next most likely thing to die over time!" This does tend to be true, especially of battery tech from 10 years ago. But the original iPod in its heyday was no wimp—Apple bragged of a 10-hour battery life, which was impressive by 2001 MP3 player standards. We hardly expected to get 10 hours out of a 10-year-old battery, but when messing with our little Apple artifact, we did manage to squeeze out a solid eight hours of music jamming before it petered out. Not bad, iPod, not bad. Nowadays, the iPod classic can allegedly squeeze 36 hours out of a full charge, the iPod touch 40 hours, and iPod nano 24 hours. The original iPod does not fare too well by comparison, but if you're listening to music on an original iPod, you're likely not doing it for the advanced battery technology. Lest you think that the original iPod can't do some of the fancy features of the newer iPods, this decade-old device can still sync your iCal calendar items and contacts from your computer—tethered, of course. And remember back when everyone used to use their iPods as pocketable Firewire hard drives that mount on the desktop? Mac OS X Lion graciously still recognizes the original iPod as such, so file away. The original iPod wasn't the first MP3 player, but it's the one that will end up marking the point in history when MP3 players became all the rage. Its unique controls, playlist functionality, easy syncing ability with iTunes, and of course the iTunes Music Store helped to put the iPod and its successors into millions of hands. Even today, 10 years after its first debut, the original iPod can still function as a real, usable music player, even if it does lack the fancy touchscreen and wireless syncing capabilities of its more modern counterparts. The original iPod set the stage for a decade's worth of Apple devices, and although we don't expect the modern replica of the iPod (the iPod classic) to stay around forever, Apple will undoubtedly continue to use the iPod as an influence when creating newer, even more popular gadgets. Oh, and if you still have one of these original ones lying around, find a FireWire cable and plug it in. You might be surprised at how well it still works. Listing image by Jacqui Cheng Jacqui Cheng Jacqui is an Editor at Large at Ars Technica, where she has spent the last eight years writing about Apple culture, gadgets, social networking, privacy, and more. Email jacqui@arstechnica.com // Twitter @eJacqui Echohead2 Ars Legatus Legionis Sun Oct 23, 2011 11:48 am The first iPod was a joke. Mac only. Firewire only. 4GB. $400. If it had stay that way, it would have bombed. It was the mini and nano, plus USB, plus Windows that actually got it anywhere. 58528 posts \| registered Jun 14, 2000 reaperhulk Ars Tribunus Militum You call this a review? I don't even know if I should buy it! cateye Moderator et Subscriptor Pocky Is God wrote: How fast did it move files over Firewire400? Slower than modern USB2? It should have been faster due to FW400, but the reality is probably that the pokey 1.8" hard drive was the limiting factor. It's been so long I don't remember, but I don't recall it being particularly fast at syncing. I still have my original, 1st gen iPod in a box somewhere. If I have time later, I'll take it out, get it hooked up, and try syncing the same batch of songs to it, my 2nd gen Nano, and my iPhone 4 and see which syncs faster. EDIT: Clarification. Last edited by cateye on Sun Oct 23, 2011 11:57 am William Munny Ars Scholae Palatinae It'll never be a hit. Apple bringing out a music player? Oh, please... Troublesome Strumpet Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius Echohead2 wrote: All of this is true, but those changes were possible because of the first iPod. If it had tanked completely and Apple decided the personal electronics market was one for them to avoid the corporate landscape would be much different today. 13248 posts \| registered Mar 9, 2010 MaizeAndBlue Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor Though at the time, there was a cottage industry sprouting up to support the iPod on Windows PCs with transfer software, and a few hardy souls were getting Firewire cards. Though I do remember reading something about Bill Gates being disappointed that it didn't work with Windows initially. Also, the rise of the iTunes store in 2003 didn't hurt either. Feanaaro Ars Scholae Palatinae Firewire in the first iPod was significantly faster than the prevailing USB1 at the time, anyway. cuvtixo Ars Scholae Palatinae Meathim wrote: most people I met didn't even know what an MP3 player was. They had no idea what I talked about. To them everything was iPods. The mini was good but that experience have haunted me ever since. Maybe it's because I'm older?, but I was freaked out that they were ever called "MP3" players rather than music players, because MP3 should have just been another audio format. It wasn't the best and should have been outdated by 2001. Standardization and commoditization are strange and mysterious processes. Last edited by cuvtixo on Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:16 pm BlackTaxi2d Smack-Fu Master, in training the third generation was when i noticed iPod became really popular. with the red accents and all touch-based interface, everyone my freshman year in high school had one...but it wasn't until the full click wheel that i was able to save up enough cash i loved my iPod and that is what got me so into music. now, i don't use any apple products but i understand how much this meant to the public. i still use iTunes though...even on android. blasphemy ! 94 posts \| registered Apr 23, 2010 DaVuVuZeLa Ars Scholae Palatinae No thanks, I think I'll stick with my Archos Jukebox JiggyMac Account Banned That's one sharp looking iPod in those pics. I can't believe that thing still holds a charge and the drive still runs. The hard drives on those seemed somewhat flaky after keeping 1,000 songs in your pocket. Now we struggle with shattering 4S screens. The price of innovation. Mikoto Smack-Fu Master, in training This made me realize how much I miss the clickwheel. C'mon, Apple. It took off with the Mini here. I saw Minis freaking everywhere for two years. A friend of mine remarked that her design school saw everyone get iPods within the space of a year. A lot of students picked them up because they held far more than Zip disks, important in a school where design projects were regularly done on Macs. fil Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. Now that that's out of the way: "Let's face it: this thing is bulky. It was bulky in 2001 and it's still bulky now." You seem to be forgetting the other hard drive players of the day (like the nomad) which made the ipod feel quite svelte and pocketable by comparison. The 4MB players weren't really the same thing - the 3 order of magnitude difference in storage space really made it a different category of device. I got the 20GB model as a gift when it came out in 2002, and it's still running strong. Still love the clickwheel and the firewire drive functionality (back then a 20GB external drive that you could fit in a pocket was worth a lot). killing_time Ars Praefectus first ipod purchase double as a portable hard drive for me as well. that was its main selling point at the time, the music was a nice bonus. IronTek Ars Scholae Palatinae That is not a click wheel. The click wheel did not come out until the introduction for the 4th gen iPod and iPod mini. You can tell the original iPod doesn't have a click wheel because the wheel doesn't click. SoupD Ars Scholae Palatinae I skipped the early iPods, my first was the touch wheel model with the four glowing buttons above the wheel. Until then I'd been persevering with a 32mb Diamond Rio with a memory card. Still can't believe how thin the latest iTouch is, especially compared to the iPhone. I have a feeling that iTunes will support the original iPod long after the last one has stopped registering with the program. I've always wondered though. Given the right hardware, can the original iPod sync with Windows' iTunes? Windows computers have had FireWire in the past. Would be interesting to see a "Windows" formatted original iPod running on Windows 7 64-bit! Isa22 Seniorius Lurkius Man...10 years? I have no memory of an iPod even existing when I was 16. I remember getting one when I was 18 or 19 though. zugu Seniorius Lurkius So this is a review? Where are the details about the sound quality? What about the supported formats? This is ridiculous. SoupD wrote: Please... it's an iPod Touch, not the iTouch!!! post \| registered boticho Seniorius Lurkius Jacqui, do you mind checking the audio quality of the monster that the iPod is? I was told that the ones that were built ten years ago had much better audio quality than the ones you can buy today. 16 posts \| registered Oct 23, 2011 burnblue Ars Centurion I remain baffled... I never found the click wheel and the list-based UI it navigated, intuitive. I guess my problem was not so much the wheel, but what happened on screen when you tried to perform tasks. Scrolling through list after list, then trying to back up the hierarchy to get into another list, trying to play songs of a certain genre or album with multiple artists... etc. When does this wheel scrub the track, and when does it adjust the volume? Let's just say I've instantly understood how to use every gadget I'd touched until the iPod. I think the reason is I already had a smartphone (Pocket PC 2003) and finding a song was as easy as it would be on a computer. Lists were simple, not ultra-hierarchical. Menus were easy. At the same time I'd already owned a number of (non-hard-drive) mp3 players, and I found them to be simple to use too. I guess I'm an anomaly.To this day I'd pick WMP or Zune over iTunes any day. I don't think iOS is easiest-to-use in everything. I think many tasks are more straightforward in Windows than OSX. I guess Apple's aesthetic just doesn't jive with me. Not really. It is difficult to compare the two however, because firewire400 has(had?) 400 megabits/second (50MBytes/s) sustained (consistent) throughput, USB2 worked at an average of 240-280Mbits/s, although it has the potential to spike up to 480Mb/s. It didn't matter much for transferring your collection of average pop/rock songs, but if you worked with video, firewire seemed so much better. If only Apple(and Sony) hadn't been so tightfisted and licensed it cheaply, I think it would've beat USB as the accepted standard. Last edited by cuvtixo on Sun Oct 23, 2011 1:21 pm William Topping Account Banned You don't buy an iPod for music quality. Same as girls don't wear high heels for their comfort value. most people I met didn't even know what an MP3 player was. They had no idea what I talked about. To them everything was iPods. shudder Those were painful times Hat Monster Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor Still works. Still doesn't plug into anything sensible. TheDissolver Ars Praefectus The wheel was good for two things: seeking and volume level. For everything else, it sucked (well, Apple's implementation of it sucked.) What's sad is that nobody's come out with anything significantly better than the old-skool joystick-based player interface (I had an iRiver iHP-120, still use it once in a while because of the great remote.) Rockbox also made things better, but that project seems nearly dead now (they've been emulating it on Android, but it's not a real solution yet.) Touchscreen interfaces suck unless you can set up very specific gestures for yourself. I think ^3 on Android is probably the best touchscreen player I've used, but it's not great. Bengt77 Smack-Fu Master, in training Nowadays, the iPod classic can allegedly squeeze 36 hours out of a full charge, the iPod touch 40 hours, and iPod nano 24 hours. The original iPod fare too well by comparison, but if you're listening to music on an original iPod, you're likely not doing it for the advanced battery technology. I'm missing a doesn't somewhere in there. I think it should read as follows: "The original iPod doesn't fare too well by comparison, [...]" And another possible mistake: In fact, if I wanted to connect the iPod to an even newer and more minimalist machine—such as my 11" MacBook Air—well, it would near impossible. Here, I think it should be: "[...], it would be near impossible." 79 posts \| registered Feb 4, 2004 cuvtixo wrote: Not really. It is difficult to compare the two however, because firewire400 has(had?) 400MB/s sustained (consistent) throughput, USB2 worked at an average of 240-280MB/s, although it has the potential to spike up to 480MB/s. It didn't matter much for transferring your collection of average pop/rock songs, but if you worked with video, firewire seemed so much better. If only Apple(and Sony) hadn't been so tightfisted and licensed it cheaply, I think it would've beat USB as the accepted standard. FireWire was to USB as SCSI was to IDE. Firewire's advantage was that I/O was handled by a controller which took the load off the CPU, USB was entirely CPU-driven. I was using Windows back in 2003 and had both USB and FireWire Connecting my iPod via FireWire was not only quicker but didn't bog down the PC. The Ginger Rat Ars Praefectus Unlike purple beehives and silver platforms, that design has held up very well. Looks grand and kudos to the owner for taking such good care of his/her stuff. Am also impressed that it synced so nicely with the current iTunes. Tsur Ars Praefectus The click wheel is the best navigation input ever invented for a music player. Everyday I wish my iPhone had a click/scroll wheel. It allows something that touch screens simply can't: tactile, no look navigation. Touch screens are wonderful for many things, music navigation isn't one of them. Joel_B Ars Praefectus BadSuperblock Ars Tribunus Militum Feanaaro wrote: That was the key. A 5GB music player had impractical transfer times with USB 1.1 at the time. As it was with digital video, FireWire 400 was so many times faster than USB 1.1 that it changed the game. If you wanted speed, you had no other alternative (nobody was going to put SCSI on a music player or digital video camera). USB 2.0 evened it out somewhat. The less technically inclined kept repeating the mantra that USB 2 was "faster" because is theoretical limit was 480 megabits/sec while FireWire was "only" 400 Mb/sec, because they weren't aware of how FireWire had a faster true sustained throughput that was not bogged down by a busy CPU. When FireWire 800 came out, it remained the choice for digital video because obviously USB 2.0 could not compete with 800 megabits per second. But for music players, USB 2.0 was "good enough" (and cheaper) so Apple switched to it for mass market, cross platform appeal and that was the right decision in that case. The same thing is playing out now with Thunderbolt vs USB 3.0. Again, USB apologists say USB 3.0 is "good enough" but Thunderbolt is capable of so much more...which most people won't need. We are once again looking at USB if mediocrity is good enough, and Thunderbolt if you need excellence. Last edited by BadSuperblock on Sun Oct 23, 2011 1:31 pm Booda Ars Praetorian burnblue wrote: My experience was the exact opposite. I originally scorned the iPod (despite never having touched one) as overpriced and under featured, and bought some Archos device that had a feature list a mile long. It was a complete piece of shit, but hey - marginally cheaper than an iPod! Then one day I picked up an iPod in Circuit City and started playing with it. I was completely sold within 30 seconds. The wheel control and list navigation were a revelation after dealing with the atrocious Archos UI for so long; I put the Archos up on eBay, bought an iPod and never looked back. I can't remember another interface that ever clicked with me so completely in so short a time. But, different strokes for different folks. Jim Z Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor sinnerman wrote: none of us are obligated to follow Apple's branding guidelines/requirements. 43467 posts \| registered Nov 5, 1999	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line948
__label__wiki	0.963715	0.963715	National Geographic Photo Ark: Joel Sartore at Southampton Arts Center, June 27 – September 8, 2019 “The International Center of Photography (ICP) and the Southampton Arts Center (SAC) are presenting the National Geographic Photo Ark exhibition, featuring the compelling and visually stunning work of National Geographic photographer and Fellow Joel Sartore. The exhibition will highlight Sartore’s images from his work in more than 250 zoos, aquariums and animal rescue centers around the world. Founded by Sartore in 2006, the National Geographic Photo Ark aims to document species living in zoos and wildlife sanctuaries, inspire action through education, and help save wildlife by supporting on-theground conservation efforts. National Geographic is showcasing this important project through multiple platforms, including this exhibition, to inspire people not just to care, but also to help protect these animals for future generations. In addition to creating an archival record for generations to come, this project is a hopeful platform for conservation and shines a light on individuals and organizations working to preserve species around the world. Sartore estimates the completed National Geographic Photo Ark will include portraits of over 12,000 species representing several animal classes, including birds, fish, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates. In what will be the largest single archive of studio-quality photographs of biodiversity ever, the National Geographic Photo Ark now includes more than 9,500 species, thanks in part to Sartore’s enduring relationships with many of the world’s zoos and aquariums. These iconic portraits have captured the imagination of people around the world and have even been projected on the Empire State Building and St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.” — ICP & SAC A Coquerel’s sifaka, Propithecus coquereli, at the Houston Zoo. © Photo by Joel Sartore/National Geographic Photo Ark. natgeophotoark.org. A federally threatened koala, Phascolarctos cinereus, with her babies at the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital. © Photo by Joel Sartore/National Geographic Photo Ark. natgeophotoark.org. Two Golden snub-nosed monkeys, Rhinopithecus roxellana, at Ocean Park Hong Kong. © Photo by Joel Sartore/National Geographic Photo Ark. natgeophotoark.org. An endangered Malayan tiger, Panthera tigris jacksoni, at Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo. © Photo by Joel Sartore/National Geographic Photo Ark. natgeophotoark.org. An endangered baby Bornean orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus, named Aurora, with her adoptive mother, Cheyenne, a Bornean/Sumatran cross, Pongo pygmaeus x abelii, at the Houston Zoo. © Photo by Joel Sartore/National Geographic Photo Ark. natgeophotoark.org. A Fiji Island banded iguana, Brachylophus fasciatus, at the Los Angeles Zoo. © Photo by Joel Sartore/National Geographic Photo Ark. natgeophotoark.org. “The National Geographic Photo Ark has already inspired millions around the world with the message that it is not too late to save some of the world’s most endangered species,” said Kathryn Keane, vice president of Exhibitions, National Geographic Society.” Joel Sartore has demonstrated what one man can do using the power of photography—and now National Geographic wants to inspire people all over the country to contribute to this global challenge.” National Geographic Photo Ark is organized in collaboration with the National Geographic Society. Images courtesy Joel Sartore/National Geographic Photo Ark, ICP and SAC. Filed under: Galleries, Photography, USA Featured, International Center of Photography (ICP), Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photo Ark, National Geographic Society, Photography, Southampton Arts Center (SAC)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line951
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__label__wiki	0.554288	0.554288	Simon Fraser University Archives and Records Management Department, 35 results 35 Canadian Women Voters Congress, 1 results 1 Press Gang Publishers, 1 results 1 British Columbia and Yukon Association of Women's Centres, 1 results 1 Press Gang Printers, 1 results 1 Women's Cultural Exchange, 1 results 1 Makara Magazine, 1 results 1 Women's Monument Project, 1 results 1 Simon Fraser University Faculty Women's Association, 1 results 1 Port Coquitlam Area Women's Centre, 1 results 1 Women's Studies Association of British Columbia, 1 results 1 Vancouver Women's Caucus, 2 results 2 The Pedestal, 1 results 1 Cooperative Commonwealth Federation of British Columbia, 1 results 1 Corrective Collective, 1 results 1 Women's Bookstore, 1 results 1 Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, 1 results 1 Department of English, 1 results 1 Simon Fraser Student Society, 1 results 1 Jolley, Janiel, 1 results 1 Elana Brief, 1 results 1 Science and technology, 4 results 4 Health and social services, 2 results 2 Simon Fraser University Archives and Records Management Department Women Only top-level descriptions Halpern family fonds Fonds consists of materials documenting mainly the personal life of the Halpern family but also includes some records relating to George's and Fanny's scientific and professional interests. Activities and topics documented include the Ha... Halpern family Frances Wasserlein fonds The fonds consists primarily of records created during the writing of Wasserlein's MA thesis at SFU, "An Arrow Aimed at the Heart": the Vancouver Women's Caucus and the Abortion Campaign, 1969-1971, completed in 1990. The fonds... Wasserlein, Frances Press Gang Publishers fonds [ca 1913] - 2002, predominant 1975 - 2000 The fonds consists of records relating to the editorial, business and community activities of Press Gang Publishers. Activities and events documented include the evolution of Press Gang's organizational structure, and the separation of the p... Press Gang Publishers Ann Messenger fonds Fonds consists of records relating to the personal and academic activites of Ann Messenger. Activities, events and topics documented include Messenger's social and academic activities while attending college and university; her marriage to Bi... Messenger, Ann Women's Bookstore collection 1937 - 2018, predominant 1937-1997 The Women's Bookstore collection consists of materials relating to the operation of several Vancouver women's organizations and reflects the issues that dominated the women's movement throughout the 1970s. Consistent with the commun... Kate Braid fonds Fonds consists of records relating to Braid's life and work as a student, teacher, carpenter, and writer.The first five series from Braid's first donation in 1995 are comprised primarily of interview material relating to Canadian women i... Braid, Kate East Enders Society fonds Fonds consists of records arising from the general administration of the East Enders Society, and from the Society's participation in various social service projects for women in Vancouver's East Side. Fonds includes financial statements... East Enders Society Simon Fraser University Faculty Women's Association fonds Fonds consists of records created and received by the Simon Fraser University Women's Association in carrying out its objectives. Includes constitution and by-laws, executive lists, minutes of executive and general meetings, reports, membersh... Simon Fraser University Faculty Women's Association Maggie Benston fonds Fonds consists of records reflecting the academic and personal interests of Maggie Benston. The fonds is arranged in 5 series: Research files, Women's Caucus, Subject files, Publications, and Personal documents. Benston, Maggie Simon Fraser University Childcare Society fonds The fonds of the SFU Childcare Society consists of records made or received in the course of administering the Society and its predecessor bodies and providing facilities, personnel and funding for childcare programs. The bulk of the material rang... Simon Fraser University Childcare Society Women's movement collection (Andrea Lebowitz collector) Fonds contains material relating to Lebowitz's career at SFU and her participation in the Corrective Collective, a feminist writing group active in the 1970s. Fonds includes correspondence, minutes, proposals, publications, newspapers, invoic... Lebowitz, Andrea Margo Dunn fonds The fonds is comprised of the records of Ariel Books and a number of subject files compiled or collected by Margo Dunn. Records reflect Margo Dunn's business interest as owner of Ariel Books, and her role as collector of the records of the Va... Dunn, Margo Women's movement collection (Marge Hollibaugh collector) Collection consists of two scrapbooks. One scrapbook contains newspaper clippings and other material that documents the Abortion Caravan to Ottawa in 1970. The second scrapbook documents Janiel Jolley as a protest candidate of the Simon Fraser Stu... Hollibaugh, Marge Women's movement collection (Candace Parker collector) In 1970 Candace Parker was a member of the Vancouver Women's Caucus and a graduate student at the University of British Columbia. For a sociology class, Parker and Sibylle Klein wrote an essay, "Developing An Ideology: the Feminist Movem... Parker, Candace The Pedestal newspaper collection Collection consists of digital copies of a complete run of The Pedestal, a feminist periodical published by the Vancouver Women's Caucus and edited by the Pedestal collective. The periodical referred to itself as a women's liberation new... Women's movement collection (Anne Roberts collector) Fonds consists of material acquired by Anne Roberts as a member of Vancouver Women's Caucus. Includes minutes, correspondence, flyers, pamphlets, reprints, news clippings, briefs, position papers, copies of The Pedestal, and other documents. Roberts, Anne Press Gang Printers fonds The fonds consists primarily of records relating to the business activities of Press Gang Printers; it also includes some records arising from the collective's participation in the British Columbia Federation of Women. Activities and events d... Press Gang Printers Simon Fraser University Women's Centre fonds 1972 - 2000; predominant 1974-1999 Fonds consists of records made or received by the Women's Centre in the course of carrying out its functions and programs. The geographical focus of the activities documented is the Lower Mainland of British Columbia and especially the Simon ... Simon Fraser University Women's Centre Department of Women's Studies collection The collection consists of agendas and minutes from the Women's Studies Coordinating Committee and the Women's Studies Graduate Committee. The collection also includes a proposal for a minor in Women's Studies and a correspondence f... Women's Studies Association of British Columbia fonds The fonds consists of records created and received by the Women's Studies Association of British Columbia in carrying out its objectives. Includes constitution and by-laws, minutes, correspondence, conference registration forms, conference mi... Women's Studies Association of British Columbia Ellen Frank fonds Fonds consists of records created, received and collected by Ellen Frank in her involvement in the women's movement in Vancouver. Activities documented include participation in the Association of University and College Employees (AUCE), the B... Frank, Ellen Port Coquitlam Area Women's Centre fonds The fonds consists of records created, received and collected by the Port Coquitlam Area Women's Centre in carrying out their objectives. Records reflect the administration and organization of the centre; financial arrangements and funding; p... Port Coquitlam Area Women's Centre Makara Magazine fonds Fonds consists of records created, received and collected in the process of publishing Makara magazine. Records reflect general operation, correspondence, production, and advertising. Includes correspondence, notes, distribution lists, articles, c... Makara Magazine Working Women Unite fonds Fonds consists of records created, received and collected by Working Women Unite. Records reflect the activities and functional responsibilities of Working Women Unite and groups associated with them, such as the BCFW and SORWUC. Includes correspo... Working Women Unite Women's Cultural Exchange fonds Fonds consists of records generated by the Women's Cultural Exchange in the process of establishing the society, finding a location, opening, and using the space to fulfill their mandate to provide a cultural centre for women. Records reflect... Women's Cultural Exchange Vancouver Women in Trades fonds The fonds of the Vancouver Women in Trades Association consists of records created and received in the course of administering the organization and providing support and advocacy for women working in trades and technology in the Vancouver area. Ac... Vancouver Women in Trades Women's labour history interview collection (Sara Diamond interviewer) The Women's Labour History Project documents the histories of women who were active in the trade union movement in British Columbia from 1890s onwards. The project was initiated by Sara Diamond, an undergraduate history student at SFU, who co... Diamond, Sara Women's Monument Project fonds The fonds of the Women's Monument Project consists of records created and received in the course of carrying out the Project. Activities documented include Committee and sub-committee meetings, fundraising events, groundbreaking and unveiling... Women's Monument Project Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology fonds The fonds of the Society comprises records made and received in the course of administering the organization and carrying out its functions and programs. Geographically, SCWIST activities centre primarily on British Columbia. Activities documented... Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology Susan Walsh fonds The fonds consists of the audiocassettes for five interviews conducted by Susan Walsh for her thesis. Walsh, Susan	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line963
__label__cc	0.623307	0.376693	Occupy Vancouver Collection, 33 results 33 BC Book Prizes fonds, 4 results 4 Simon Fraser University Special Collections and Rare Books, 40 results 40 Mathews, Robin, 1 results 1 Occupy Vancouver, 1 results 1 Simon Fraser University Special Collections and Rare Books Events and celebrations Part of Occupy Vancouver Collection Series consists of material relating to Occupy Vancouver either created or received by Adbusters. Included are two flags similar to the American and Canadian flags. The first flag contains the symbols of large corporations. The second flag is deco... BC Book Prizes 2006 Part of BC Book Prizes fonds The materials in this series consist of media clippings, programs, pamphlets, bookmarks and promotional posters. The records in this series consist of media clippings, programs, a photograph, pamphlets, bookmarks and promotional posters. The materials in this series consist of media clippings, photographs, programs, pamphlets, bookmarks and promotional posters. City orders, bylaws, official documents The file includes: copies of a booklet on “What is Occupy Vancouver?”; a second draft proposal for review and consensus by the Information Tent Committee for Occupy Vancouver; a folder with the title “Portland Ideas” with records on building conse... Series consists of records and meeting minutes pertaining to Occupy Vancouver committees: General Assembly, Volunteer Coordinating Committee, Info Tent, Security and Safe Guard Unit. It includes also Occupy Vancouver leaflets, booklets, by-laws an... Court case records Series consists of records related to the court case between the City of Vancouver and Sean O’Flynn-Magee, Jane Doe, John Doe and other unknown persons. It includes: affidavits of Garrick Bradshaw, Penny Ballem, Murray Wightman, Frank Dodich, John... Esther and Robin Mathews May 1968 Paris Poster Collection The collection consists of 115 handbills, and 78 posters (including 5 manuscript posters) collected by Robin Mathews in Paris during the student rebellion and general strike of May 1968. Mathews, Robin Info Tent workgroups, activities, seminars The file contains notes on workgroups, activities and seminars held by Info Tent. The file includes lost and found object lists with names and phone numbers. It contains also a map of where the activists were located. Series consists of five notebooks containing drawings and thoughts made by the activists Occupy Vancouver Collection 15 Oct. 2011-25 Nov. 2012 The collection consists of records associated to the Occupy Vancouver movement covering the years 2011 and 2012. It comprises records related to Occupy Vancouver Committees (General Assembly, Volunteer Coordinating Committee, Info Tent), photograp... Occupy Vancouver Photographs and moving images Series consists of nine photographs of the same Occupy Vancouver group of activists taken from different angles and one photograph of a single protester. It also includes eighteen digital videos and fifty digital photographs taken on October 15, 2... Series consists of articles and publications, including issues of The Occupied Vancouver Sun, and articles from Extra and MetroNews. It also includes the book Dispatches from the Occupation: A History of Change (2012) by Stephen Collis. [Affidavits] The file includes two copies of the affidavit # 1 of Garrick Bradshaw, Penny Ballem, Murray Wightman, Frank Dodich, John McKearney, Cael Hopwood, Brenda Proksen, Blake Chersinoff, and Will Johnston in the Supreme Court of British Columbia between ... [Book. Dispatches from the Occupation: A History of Change] The file includes a copy of the book Dispatches from the Occupation: A History of Change by Stephen Collis. [Book. Meme Wars: The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics] Item is a copy of the book Meme Wars: The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics. [City of Vancouver’s Notice of Application] The file includes a “Notice of Application” in the Supreme Court of British Columbia of the City of Vancouver to Sean O’Flynn-Magee, Jane Doe, John Doe and other unknown persons. Item is a flag similar to the Canadian flag with 99% made out of maple leaves. Item is a flag similar to the United States flag where instead of the stars there are the symbols of large corporations. [Information teddy bear] Item is a brown teddy bear with a pin on which is written “Info?” [Journal] Item is a journal with drawings of faces. Each face has a name on top. Inside the journal there is a loose paper on which is written “pamphlets, petitions, etc. Material for distribution.” [Magazine. The Big Ideas of 2012] 25 Nov. [2012] Item is a publication by Adbusters United Kingdom called The Big Ideas of 2012 [Newspaper articles] 24 Feb. 2012 - 20 Nov. 2012 The file includes articles on Occupy Vancouver from Extra and MetroNews. [Notebook] Item is a notebook with “Bomb East Side” written on the cover. Inside there are drawings and thoughts. Item is a notebook with text written only at the beginning of the first page. Item is a notebook containing names and phone numbers.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line964
__label__cc	0.731047	0.268953	The Roots of Progressive Metal in 11 Albums Eduardo Rivadavia Chrysalis / Mercury / MCA “Progressive” is one of the most abused, overused, and inaccurately applied words in rock. It generally describes when an artist steps outside the beaten path, tries something new or combines disparate musical styles. To wit, there are endless varieties of metal bands today, often having little in common with each other’s sounds, that have to share the “progressive” terminology, giving us progressive metal, progressive death metal, progressive black metal, progressive symphonic metal, progressive metalcore, and so on. So when, exactly, did the “progressive” description enter the heavy metal lexicon? Beats us! But we have a few ideas, reaching way back to the dawn of heavy metal, that conspired, over time, to bring the original sounds and ethos of progressive rock into metal’s realm, producing fascinating hybrids that paved the long road toward adventurous bands like Iron Maiden, Queensryche, Dream Theater, Opeth, Enslaved, Tool, and so on. So grab your pickaxe and shovel as we dig deep for the roots of progressive metal. Source: The Roots of Progressive Metal in 11 Albums Filed Under: Black Sabbath, judas priest, Led Zeppelin, Rush Categories: Lists, Rock News	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line966
__label__cc	0.730172	0.269828	It All Starts With Trust Barbara's Done Deals Barbara Consky 464 Balkan Rd, Richmond Hill Sold Price Sign Up % of List Price Sign Up Sold On Sign Up List Price Sign Up Beds Sign Up Baths Sign Up To see the complete details of this listing you need to create a free account. I'd like to: Get more information View this property Sell or rent something similar On this property at Balkan Rd, Richmond Hill (N4496439) Thank you! You'll be contacted shortly. Homes over last 30 days Homes Avg. List Price Homes Avg. Sold Price Homes Sold 1 N/A 2 $1,228,000.00 Homes Recently Listed Homes Recently Sold Powered by Four Walls Digital How Are These Number Calculated? We’re glad you asked. There is no magic, just some good old math based on the most recent market activity. The data is calculated and refreshed 4 times a day as properties are listed and sold. Time Scope – 30 days prior to today. Property Type – Condo or House (commonly referred to as free hold in Realtor speak.) Listings – Updated every 10 minutes. Avg List Price – This is calculated from all properties that were listed in the last 30 days. Remember, we are giving you a window of the average list price for properties over the last 30 days. This can include properties that have already been sold during this period. It includes all properties with any number of bedrooms/bathrooms, but excludes things like lockers, parcels of land, or garages. In short, only houses or condos are included. Avg Sold Price – This is calculated from all properties that were sold in the last 30 days. We use the same set of filters as is used to calculate the Average List Price, but only look for sold properties. We update our data every 10 minutes to included new listings. Homes For Sale – This is pretty straight forward - this is the total number of properties available for sale in each neighbourhood. Homes Sold – Also pretty straight forward – this is the total number of properties that have sold in the last 30 days in each neighbourhood. Avg List Price by Bedrooms – Same as the Average List Price BUT we factor in the number of bedrooms. Do you see some “anomalies” in those numbers? Some areas have large homes for sale with 5+ bedrooms. It can appear that the price goes down with 5+ bedrooms because there are fewer of those homes or they maybe income properties, rooming houses, or homes that need to be renovated. This may skew the average price – but in the end they represent a very accurate picture of what’s going on in the neighbourhood. Barb Consky barb@barbaraconsky.com Bosley Real Estate Ltd., Brokerage The trademarks REALTOR®, REALTORS®, and the REALTOR® logo are controlled by The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) and identify real estate professionals who are members of CREA. The trademarks MLS®, Multiple Listing Service® and the associated logos are owned by The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) and identify the quality of services provided by real estate professionals who are members of CREA. Used under license. © Copyright 2019. Powered by Four Walls Digital. Please Sign In/Sign Up Create an account to view all listings This website is operated by a member (the “Member”) of The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA). The content on this website is owned or controlled by CREA. By accessing this website, the user agrees to be bound by these terms of use as amended from time to time, and agrees that these terms of use constitute a binding contract between the user, the Member, and CREA. The Member may at any time amend these Terms of Use by updating this posting. All users of this site are bound by these amendments should they wish to continue accessing the website, and should therefore periodically visit this page to review any and all such amendments.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line967
__label__wiki	0.554791	0.554791	HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF HANDLOOM WEAVING Handloom weaving is the outstanding, wide – spread small Industry, providing employment to largest number of people in the District.The growth of weaving activity in the District is ascribed to the advent of the “Bhulia Meher” community in around 1765 AD from Sonepur. Bhulia Mehers are said to have been original inhabitants of Rajasthan and Delhi from where they moved to Dhamantari and Dhansa villages of Raipur District of Chhattisgarh. Later on, they were brought to Patnagarh of Bolangir District after the first Chauhan King Ramai Deb ascended the throne of Bolangir Patnagarh. It is presumed that the original Bhulia Meher community, after setting down in the region, intermingled with the other castes too and soon the kosta Mehers (who are usually tussar weavers) and Kuli Mehers (who are the least skilled labour class) came into existence. The District predominantly consists of the Bhulia and Kosta Meher and the Ganda weavers. Kosta and Bhulia castes figure around 30% and 50% respectively each, whereas Harijan/Kuli castes account for 20% only of the total population of weavers in the District. SILK WEAVING :- Tusser silk weaving was for many years a principal industry of the Sambalpur District of which Bargarh was a part. Dr. Short who visited Sambalpur in 1855 found that tusser silk was manufactured to a great extent, the fabrics being used locally and also exported. Five large villages or towns were occupied in weaving tusser, and in each, at the very lowest computation, 1,000 tans or pieces were produced annually. The culture of the tusser silkworm was carried on in almost every jungle village and at least 7.5million cocoons were produced. Only one-third of the cloth remained in the District the rest being exported to Cuttack and Berhampur , and also to Raipur and Bilaspur; and it is clear that the industry was then in a flourishing condition. Again in 1876 it was reported that Sambalpur(including Bargarh) was more advanced than other Districts of the Central Province (now Madhya Pradesh) both in the quality of the cocoons exported and in the workmanship of the cloth produced by its weavers. The export of manufactured tusser had apparently fallen off, but half of the cocoons produced were sent out to Ganjam, Cuttack, Raipur& Bilaspur. Since that time the industry declined still further, the local supply of tusser cocoons having decreased in quantity, degenerated in quality, and raised in price. The closer conservation of Government forest, the clearing of village forests which were most convenient to the rearers, unfavorable seasons, and lack of care and capital on the part of the breeders are all said to have contributed to this result. The rearing of tusser worms differs widely. The ordinary silk worm, is a domesticated insect, where as the tusser worm thrives best when in the jungle. Not being able to have access to forests, the rearers are not able to renew their stock of cocoons from wild seed. Consequently, decline sets in. Diseases such as grasserie have become common and the cocoons do not contain as much silk as they did formerly. Even as long ago as 1892, the rearing of the tusser worm in Government and malguzari forests had practically ceased. It was then reported that the cocoon rearers had migrated to the Feudatory States, where although taxed, they were at least given strips of forest, and that the weavers drew their supplies of cocoons only from those States and from the Zamindaris. This was exactly the state of affairs which then existed, except that the weavers had to go further afield for their supply, and obtain most of the cocoons from Singhbhum and Baudh State. The rearing of the tusser worm (locally called Kosa) was carried on by Gandas, chiefly on the Sahaj tree (Terminalia tomentosa). Spinning and weaving were a monopoly of the Koshtas, the centers of the industry being Sambalpur, Remunda and Barpali. The industry was carried on almost entirely with cocoons imported from outside the District. The rearing of tusser cocoons is almost extinct as an industry in this District. The Koshtas were extremely conservative in their methods and the silk industry of the District suffered setbacks owing to the necessity of importing cocoons and the failure of the weavers to adopt more up-to-date methods At.Present only 35 no. of looms are working on silk and 28 no. of looms are working on tusser yarn of this District. COTTON WEAVING :- The District is famous throughout India and even abroad for handloom fabrics. It is an indigenous industry manned mostly by Kostha and Bhulia weavers. Besides their adroit workmanship, the speciality of their products is reckoned more for the choice of colour and the design. This has earned them world-wide fame. This industry was in a flourishing condition in the past. Some fine exhibits of handloom fabrics at the British Exhibition in Wembley in 1924 and 1925 were much appreciated and orders were obtained though the department of Industries and Labour for a supply of the said type of cloth. The weavers exhibited considerable taste in colour and variety of pattern. Even the finest cloth was woven with a dainty border. The Bhulias had nothing to fear from competition with mill cloth as they made good use of their monopoly of inherited skill. The Gandas who weave a cheaper and coarser cloth went down against the onslaught of the glamour of mill cloth. With the passage of time Sambalpuri Sarees have got national and international attention due to their texture, colour and design. Even it has been found that women of this District rarely wear mill-made sarees or handloom sarees produced in other parts of the State. Scarcity of raw materials, want of capital and lack of marketing facilities are the greatest impediments in their progress. They manufacture generally Saree, Dhoti, Gamuchha, Bed-sheets etc. Gradually many co-operative societies are being formed to help the weavers of the District. Technical aid is also being given. During 1966-67 there were 96 weavers co-operative societies in the District consisting of 14,426 members. The total working capital was Rs. 30, 14,000. There were 12,433 looms for weaving cotton fabrics and 1,365 looms for silk weaving in the District out of which 6,447 looms and 180 looms, respectively were working during 1966-67. Presently about 1200 no. of looms are working on cotton yarn in this District. TYPE OF WEAVERS IN THE DISTRICT Bhulia- Traditional weavers Harijan, Kosta, Kuli weavers. Handloom Industry In Bargarh District: Bargarh District is famous for its handloom weaving just like its agriculture. The handloom weavers reside in almost all blocks of the District. But blocks like Barpali, Bargarh, Bijepur, Sohela, Bheden and Attabira are deeply populated with handloom weavers. They are famous in silk, tussur and cotton weaving. The quality and design of the products are gradually improving. The products manufactured have been changed from coarser count cotton to finer count and use of chemical dye stuff in place of natural colours has gathered momentum now. Number of Looms: Bargarh enjoys a pride of place being the highest weaving population with the highest nos. of active looms in the State. Apart from this, weaving activities are in full swing in more than 300 villages covering all the blocks of the District. Simultaneously, there are number of high skilled weavers in the District ..A number of National and State awardees belong to Bargarh District. The handloomvillages are Jhiliminda, Singhpali, Lurupali, Barahguda, Baragaon, Katapali, Khuntpali, Gudesira, Barpali, Bandhapali, Bagbadi, Kushunpuri, Jalpali, Bijepur, Pada, M.Sirgida, Bairakhpali, Laumunda, Sarkanda, Jhar, Chichinda, Remunda, Jamdol, Bheden, Khairpali, Jamla, Ruchida, Hatisar, Bhatli- Kushunpuri. As per handloom census 2010, there are 12090 nos. of looms in Bargarh District. The block wise position is as follows. No. of Looms 1. Ambabhona 119 2. Attabira 703 3. Bargarh 997 4. Barpali 2131 5. Bhatli 823 6. Bheden 868 7 Bijepur 2873 8 Gaisilet 262 9 Jharbandh 81 10 Paikmal 83 11 Rajborasambar 1096 12 Sohela 2054 Sambalpuri Bastralaya Handloom Co-Operative Society Ltd, Bargarh- Sambalpuri Bastralaya Handloom Co-operative Society Ltd is registered vide Registration No. 117/SM dt.22.06.1954 under Odisha Cooperative Society ACT & Rule. Padmashree Dr. Krutartha Acharya was the founder and life time President of the societySambalpuri Bastralay is a world famous Primary Handloom Coop. Society for production of exclusive Sambalpuri Tie & Dye fabrics. Later on, following the initiative of Sri Acharya it evolves as the largest handloom cooperative society in the state as well as in the country. The society is having It’s vast net work of production and marketing organization founded by Padmashree Dr. Krutartrha Acharya for preservation and propagation of great Odishan Handloom Crafts. The society is having 25 production branches for providing works to the weaver members and 12 sales outlets to market the products of its members throughout the District. Strengthening Of Co-Operative Structure. – In order to sustain the cooperative societies created in the region, the state government provided a lot of support in the form of subsidies, margin money, rebate, market development assistance and technical assistance through its Assistance Director Textiles (ADT) offices and Weaving Supervisors and Textiles Inspectors during 1980-1990. Further to provide marketing support to the increased production through the primary weaver cooperative societies, the Apex Society of the state – “BOYANIKA” came into being during this period. ‘Sambalpuri Bastralaya’ also grew through this heightened support to become one of the largest cooperatives in the country. During this period, these institutions procured about 70- 80% of the total production of the primary societies and were able to provide regular payments leading to sustainable employment for the weaver community. Functioning of Handloom Society- Sambalpuri Bastralaya Handloom Coop. Societies is the biggest primary Handloom Society having highest number of weavers with highest turnover of 45 Crores in the State. It is the pride of the State in general and Bargarh District in particular. The brand name of Sambalpuri Bastralaya enjoys a great fascination among numerous customers for its exquisite colour combination mingled with beautiful texture and design. It providess employment to a sizeable mass.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line968
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__label__wiki	0.683492	0.683492	Affiliate claims World Ventures will sue Norway Jun.21, 2015 in World Ventures Following an investigation and court-approved declaration that World Ventures is a pyramid scheme, the company was forced to shutdown operations in Norway. This, claims affiliate Steinar Husby, has cost World Ventures “many millions in Norway and abroad”. Husby, credited as the official spokesperson for World Ventures in Norway, joined the company back in 2010. Desperate to get back to getting paid to recruit new World Ventures affiliates, Husby recently told Norwegian media he ‘forecasts that World Ventures is going to bring proceedings against the Norwegian State.‘ …again!? World Ventures has already appealed the Norwegian Gaming Board’s decision and lost… twice. In May 2014 World Ventures filed an appeal against the decision to Lotterinemnda. Lotterinemnda reviewed the Gaming Board’s decision and denied the appeal in November. World Ventures then sought an injunction against the Gaming Board (Norwegian government), which was denied by a Norwegian Trial court in January of this year. How much higher World Ventures can go is unclear, with there apparently being three court tiers in the Norwegian judicial system; District Courts, Courts of Appeal and then the Supreme Court. I’m not sure which of these courts World Ventures lost their appeal in earlier this year. In any event, with Norwegian law stating that an MLM ‘company must demonstrate that revenues are due to the sale or consumption of goods or services and not others recruited to the system‘ And the Gaming Board revealing that some 95% of World Ventures’ revenue in Norway was derived from affiliate recruitment, it would seem continuing to fight the case is a lost cause. Husby (right) seems confident enough though, claiming that World Ventures affiliates don’t earn recruitment commissions. “We earn nothing on recruiting new sales representatives in the sales of our membership product,” said Husby. Given World Ventures’ recruitment-driven business model, whether Husby’s aware of how he’s been getting paid in World Ventures these past five years is unclear. With lawyers purportedly being dragged in from the US (World Ventures isn’t all that big there and has yet to attract regulatory attention), Husby assured Dagens Naeringsliv that World Ventures ‘has the muscle to take the fight against the state‘. WorldVentures receive legal assistance from lawyers Håkon Juell Hassel, partner in Elden & Co, and has recently strengthened the team by assigning Schjødt partner Halvor Manshaus. The Norwegian lawyers will now collaborate with lawyers from the United States to prepare a writ of the state. Meanwhile World Ventures themselves don’t appear to be willing to wait and see if a Norwegian court will declare pyramid schemes which derive 95% of their revenue from recruitment legal. In a memo recently sent to the Gaming Board, the company advised it ‘plans to resume operations in Norway during the summer.‘ The Gaming Board responded by issuing a warning to the general public: Based on how things currently stand with us, WorldVentures’ business is illegal in Norway. Thus I would warn people against going into the business. We have received no information about whether World Ventures business is different now than at the time when we investigated whether the company’s operations were illegal. Husby claims modifications have been made to World Ventures business model, bringing it into compliance with Norwegian law: The company has adapted to the prohibition decision by the Gaming Board. The Gaming Board has threatened us with jail and police on the basis of the old model, but we’re going to start up with a new model that we are confident that is within the requirements of the audit. The “relaunch” of World Ventures will take place alongside the company’s lawsuit against the state. The lawsuit aims to reintroduce WorldVentures’ ‘old’ model. Details of World Ventures Norway-specific business model have yet to emerge. The Gaming Board meanwhile advised that anyone caught promoting World Ventures in Norway, would be dealt with by the agency itself or reported to the police. Top World Ventures affiliate violating Norway ban? - Nov 2nd, 2015 World Ventures cease business operations in Norway - Dec 3rd, 2014 World Ventures lose case against Norwegian Ministry of Culture - Oct 7th, 2016 World Ventures lose Norway appeal, still a pyramid scheme - Nov 29th, 2014 World Ventures still pyramid scheme, enforcement pending - May 9th, 2014 4 Comments on “Affiliate claims World Ventures will sue Norway” M Norway Jun 21st, 2015 at 1:13 pm M Norway(Q) The announced lawsuit “World Ventures v. Lotteritilsynet” seems to be about pseudo compliance = “people are not paid for recruitment, they are paid for selling the membership product”. “American lawyers” must be either Gerald Nehra or Shawn Tuma (Britton Tuma lawfirm). None of them have impressed me. 🙂 Jun 21st, 2015 at 1:34 pm Oz(Q) “people are not paid for recruitment, they are paid for selling the membership product”. Does “recruitment” have a different meaning in Norwegian? Herp derp… Oz: No, I just looked at the arguments from Steinar Husby in dn.no. 🙂 As DN understands it, the main question in the lawsuit will be about whether the income from membership fees should be seen as “income from recruitment”. – “We don’t earn anything on the recruitment of new affiliates, only on the sale of membership products”. Steinar Husby. I have tried to identify his “legal reasoning”. It seems to be based primarily on a belief system, e.g. on the idea that “We have a product!” will make a huge difference (he will only need to add some additional lawyers to make it work). His focus seems to be on “financial muscles to fight the evil gub’ment”. He has probably already “cashed in” a victory in his own mind. A weak case + eagerness to fight = a blueprint for disaster. Jun 23rd, 2015 at 2:25 pm M Norway(Q) I have tried to check the “legal idea” here. It seems to be about “ignore the reality, just repeat that the other party must have made a mistake, and everything will be fixed if we bring in enough lawyers”. worldventures.com/blog/read/update-from-norway#sthash.aYlUQXoQ.6nrpgDhw.dpuf As we have reported earlier, the Norwegian Gaming Authority has reviewed WorldVentures and our business model. This week, the Authority issued a further report confirming the conclusion of its original unfavorable preliminary ruling on WorldVentures’ business. This further report, along with the original decision, includes interpretation and opinion on the applicable law that could have widespread implications for the entire direct selling industry in Norway. “Widespread implications for the entire direct selling industry”. 🙂 On the positive side, the Authority has accepted our request for appeal, and, has agreed to terms with us that mean WorldVentures and its Representatives are allowed to continue marketing and selling DreamTrips Life Memberships in Norway until a final decision is reached. That’s relatively normal practice. At issue is whether certain aspects of WorldVentures’ business model—including elements that are typical to other business models in the direct selling industry—conform to Norwegian business law. This decision could, therefore, be precedent-setting, not only for the thousands of Norwegians who are part of the WorldVentures family, but also for all Norwegians engaged in the numerous direct selling companies operating within that market. A decision from an administrative authority doesn’t have effects like that. It’s a case specific decision, based on the facts of the actual case. The opposite will be a written regulation. The Gaming Board didn’t analyse whether elements were typical for other direct selling companies. That simply wasn’t relevant. And it wasn’t about “business laws” but about anti pyramid scheme rules (EU UCP Directive, “blacklist” rule 14). The Norwegian lawfirm should normally have informed its client about factors like that (type of authority, type of law, type of decision, related laws). That information seems to have failed here. “Marketing statements” While this process plays out, we want to ensure our Norwegian Representative community that we will continue to fully cooperate and provide extensive documentation and disclosures to help the Authority and the appeal board better understand our company, our business model and our deep commitment to providing our customers with world-class products and services. We remain confident that we will prevail—and that direct selling in Norway will continue its proud history—and pledge to keep you updated as events there unfold. In the meantime, if you have questions or concerns, let us know. We have been, and are continuing to be, committed to straight-forward communications regarding this situation. It was probably written sometimes in 2014, after the final decision but before the appeal had been handled. World Ventures seems to have misinterpreted the case right from the beginning.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line976
__label__wiki	0.857996	0.857996	The Lions Reign A frustrating night for Belle Vue saw them leave Leicester empty-handed after going down 58-32, with their remaining fixtures this week a must-win if they are to keep their play off hopes alive. It was a challenging night from the word go for the Rentruck Aces as the Lions took an early lead, piling on the pressure and opening up a 12-point advantage over the visitors after six races. But the men from Manchester continued to battle with Max Fricke and Mark Riss teaming up in Heat 9 to close the gap, until three consecutive 5-1s to the hosts dashed any chance of recovery. Riss is already proving a safe investment for the team at reserve, putting a commendable 7 points from five rides while Dan Bewley top-scored for the Rentruck Aces with 8+1 from six rides. Team boss Mark Lemon said: “It’s difficult to find the positives from nights like these because, on paper, we have a strong team that is capable of winning, which make this all the more frustrating. “It’s very difficult to put our finger on what went wrong, but we can’t take anything away from Leicester. They were the better team on the night and took full advantage of our misfortunes. “For some reason, this year, we just don’t seem to have found our mojo on the road. But there’s still a lot for us to play for and while there’s still an outside shot at the top four, we’ll fight for it.” National League action returns to the National Speedway Stadium this Wednesday, August 15 when the Kent Kings come to Manchester to take on reigning champions the Cool Running Colts. Then, it's the turn of the Lions to make their way to Manchester on Monday, August 20 for the return fixture at the National Speedway Stadium. Tickets for both home meetings are on sale now at www.bellevueaces.co and at the stadium box office on race night. RESULT - LEICESTER V BELLE VUE - MONDAY, AUGUST 13 Leicester ‘Watling JCB’ Lions 58: Nicolaj Busk Jakobsen 15, Scott Nicholls 12+2, Ricky Wells 10+2, Hans Andersen 10+1, Stuart Robson 8+2, Connor Mountain 3+2, Charles Wright r/r. Belle Vue ‘Rentruck’ Aces 32: Dan Bewley 8+1, Rohan Tungate 8, Mark Riss 7, Max Fricke 3, Steve Worrall 3, Dimitri Berge 2+1, Craig Cook 1 Premiership Points: Leicester 3 Belle Vue 0 Newer PostTomasz Jędrzejak Older PostLeicester 58 Belle Vue 32	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line977
__label__wiki	0.886314	0.886314	Artist Project Share Babak Afrassiabi and Nasrin Tabatabai: The Isle Issue 19: Noise Babak Afrassiabi and Nasrin Tabatabai The Isle Sarah-Neel Smith Pages, Sunset Square at Kish Island, 2009. Courtesy MAK Center for Art and Architecture Babak Afrassiabi and Nasrin Tabatabai: The Isle Mak Center for Art and Architecture May 28–August 23, 2009 Back in 1978, the Shah of Iran launched an ambitious program to develop a small island into a modern getaway for the use of the royal family and various elites. Just off the southern coast of Iran in the Persian Gulf, the island was called Kish, and there were elaborate plans for casinos, luxury hotels, an international airport, and golf courses, along with the requisite palaces. But the Shah’s planned utopia was never fully realized; it’s rumored that when the Islamic revolution hit a scant year later, locals occupied the vacation palaces. Since then, the island and the various plans drawn up for its future (some realized, many more not) have indirectly charted Iran’s own aspirations on the world stage. Efforts to define Kish as a free-trade zone, which began immediately after the revolution, were finally realized in the early 1990s, following the Iran-Iraq war — cementing the island’s status as an isolated test site, a working model for new patterns of consumption, international commerce, and image projection. ‘The Isle,’ exhibited at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, was the last in a three-part exploration of Kish by Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi, the collaborative duo behind the Farsi/English publication Pages, wherein the artists and a cadre of deadpan German architects they interviewed all proposed development plans for the island, plainly representative of contrasting attitudes toward the failed utopia. Intentionally or not, Pages’s approach at times mirrored the simple problem-solution structure that characterizes a lot of architectural practice. Both active artists in their own right, Tabatabai and Afrassiabi came together as a critical, analytical team to define and respond to the particular problem Kish represents. Whether they succeeded in moving beyond a simple redefinition of the site is unclear. Within the Kish trilogy, which also included Sunset Cinema (2005) and Undecided Utopias (2007), Pages used design and architectural strategies to map the island’s evolution from a sleepy outpost through its development as a pet project of the shah, coming in from a different angle each time. While Sunset Cinema paired a series of Iranian films with an architectural proposal for a Kish documentary film festival, Undecided Utopias brought together topographical models and the series of documentary interviews that were also central to 'The Isle.’ The real focus of 'The Isle’ ended up being the Kish of today, an imagined paradise grabbed at by the competing European architects who appeared in the films. Contemporary plans for the development of the island involve the same painfully essentialist terms of debate that, one imagines, must have plagued Kish from the beginning. The question of whether to make the island into a replica of the Côte d’Azur, or how to distill and inject an “Islamic” essence into a Europeanized framework for luxury living, dominated the architects’ conversation and their models. Pages, Stranded Ship, 2009. Courtesy MAK Center for Art and Architecture I don’t think I was the only one at the Schindler House, where MAK is housed in West Hollywood, who thought a video of a bunch of humorless German architects caressing their many-petaled architectural models of a “Flower of the East” hotel — designed as part of a cancelled 2004 competition to develop a large-scale resort on the island — was an unexpectedly telling (and sexualized) metaphor for Euro-American involvement in Kish’s development. The men’s somewhat regretful presentations of their dissolved projects revealed a Kish frozen in a state of potential, forever a site of projected fantasies. One interviewee dreamed up a secured “enclosure for freedom,” which would suit the needs of an Iran of the twenty-first century (itself largely imaginary to him): a free-trade zone where it would only be possible to “define freedom” under the condition of both being a consumer and living behind a fence. The unsettling implications of this proposition seemed to crystallize in the air between that architect and his partner as they paused partway through to translate the word “checkpoint” — unwittingly describing some kind of post-9/11 resort that would reconcile Bush-era security hysteria and luxury vacationing. Pages proposed alternatives to the architects’ terms of debate in their own texts and models. Yet for the most part, the more perturbing implications of Pages’s Kish-centered project remained buried — to the point where it wasn’t always clear why certain objects were included. Re-appropriation of Vogue Paris, February 1978 was precisely that, with vintage magazine pages — some of whose figures had been exacted and isolated to stand out — propped up on a series of tabletop stands. There was a Kish fashion spread, a Kish society page, a Kish vision of travel and leisure. Re-appropriated it may have been, but the sliced photo spread contributed little to a rewriting of Kish’s history. The pages were thin archival traces that had difficulty sustaining the weight of the story they were meant to help tell; cutting into them even managed to obscure the sheer poignancy of the copy trumpeting the island’s “rich past and fabulous future.” Like the German architects it presented with such ironic documentary candor, Pages approached the island of Kish as an abstract landscape. It compiled historical lessons, elevation models, research photographs, documentary interviews, and archival sources to reach a definition of place. There were a lot of inquiries: if the Kish documentary film festival “introduce[d] certain narratives of social consciousness into the escapist fabric of the island,” what kind of architecture would be appropriate to house the event? Sunset Cinema responded to this question with a pristine architectural proposal for mobile projection units; ‘The Isle’ offered a more ambiguous response. In the pseudo-architectural Model for an Island (2009), stiff, shiny silver paper was cut and folded into origami shapes, propped up by the most typical infrastructural basics: satellite towers, construction signs, an oil derrick. It veered between the preciousness of the tabletop object itself, small and sparkling, and the impressiveness of the monument it projected into Kish’s future and our imagination. Model was a parody of impracticality, the stuff of fantasy; it mocked the idea of a clean architectural “solution” as embodied in the Sunset Cinema. But in conjuring up a shimmering, capricious, structurally ludicrous “model for an island,” poised atop sturdy supports, Model also suggested that something else in this whole equation might be a little overblown: the show’s own working definition of Kish as a glitzy utopian Other to the staid, steadying, restricted culture of the mainland. ‘The Isle’ seemed typical of a growing body of contemporary art that aims to turn the unique geographical conditions of a place into an analytical framework with broader implications. Pages, Model For An Island, 2009. Courtesy MAK Center for Art and Architecture In the case of Iran, and the Middle East in general, this often entails treating histories that may be new to a general audience. Yet sometimes such efforts to establish a record, and simultaneously set it straight, begin to buckle under their own weight. Certainly, those German architects’ eerie conflation of the architectural conceit of a gated community with the notion of political freedom resonated with larger patterns in the contemporary tourism boom in the Gulf region and far beyond. But why push it, and cave to the temptation to make sweeping statements about the state of the world today? After all, there’s a lot to say about the island experiment of Kish alone. Originally published in: Noise, Winter 2010 Next: Afterthought	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line985
__label__cc	0.617773	0.382227	Free John Edwards? Anthony Gregory • Monday April 23, 2012 10:01 AM PDT • Assuming his guilt of all the criminal charges leveled at Edwards, he is indeed an even more unsavory person than I always believed. Since I never liked him at all, this is no faint condemnation. Nevertheless, I find it horrendous that he faces up to 30 years in prison for these dirty deeds. Consider the charges: Conspiracy, four counts of receiving illegal campaign contributions, and one count of making false statements and secretly spending nearly a million dollars to cover up his extramarital affair and preserve a facade as a family man. He does not face punishment for the affair in and of itself. Violating a marital vow, while in many cases a contract violation, is not a criminal offense. But covering it up with campaign money is considered criminal. Indeed, this would seem to be the charge most closely approximating an actual crime. The reasoning might be that he is defrauding the public, or, more to the point, scamming the campaign donors by using the money in an illicit manner. But this is not the government’s reasoning. Instead, ultimately he is in trouble for transgressions against the government’s regulations concerning campaign finance, and all of these regulations are, as far as I’m concerned, devoid of all constitutional or moral legitimacy. There should be no restrictions on how candidates raise money, putting aside violence (indeed, campaign donations are never as morally tainted as tax-financed subsidies, which some folks want to see replace election financing altogether). Do candidates use campaign money immorally? Of course. Almost all candidates for federal office probably use almost all of it immorally—to make promises that are not theirs to make, promises to spend other people’s money once they have power; to lie and cover up their records; to slander their opponents. The whole political process is a moral wasteland. A million dollars spent covering up Edwards’s infidelity is only a particularly obvious example of this degeneracy. Indeed, incumbents use not just campaign money but tax money to defend their reputations all the time, covering up crimes even worse than an affair—war crimes, for example. When they do it simply to preserve their image, it seems odd that they be prosecuted. When Bill Clinton used his political influence as President of the United States to obscure his sexual misbehavior, some wanted to see him thrown out of office; few thought he should go to prison for that offense alone. Even if someone is being victimized here—and it seems the donors and Mrs. Edwards would be the clearest direct victims—the wrongdoing is between him and them. It cannot possibly warrant forcing him to spend many years in a prison cell. Then there are these other offenses: Making false statements and conspiracy. These are derivative offenses and should not exist in a free society. Conspiracy is generally a nonsense criminal justice tool to rack up charges and imprison people when an actual criminal violation cannot be demonstrated. If “X” is not legitimately a crime, neither should “Conspiracy to Commit X” be a crime. For national politicians, campaign lies and extramarital affairs are hardly unusual acts. If Edwards is imprisoned it will give people the false sense that our federal campaign laws effectively root out corruption and stem illicit behavior. Yet the whole enterprise is saturated with filth and prevarication, and no campaign laws, especially ones as constitutionally dubious as the ones that have ensnared Edwards, can ever fix that. Few will defend this scapegoat of the federal regulatory state, and he is indeed one we might not want in our personal lives, much less in power. But he doesn’t belong in a jail cell. At least not for this. Civil Society Constitution Elections Personal Liberty Philosophy Power Regulation	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line995
__label__wiki	0.950764	0.950764	Senshi Jiu-Jitsu & Grappling Sambo & Combat Sambo Boxing, News, TOP, Videos Bermane Stiverne says that Wilder has a secret weapon in his hand (VIDEO) \| 2:49 pm Former WBC world heavyweight champion Bermane Stiverne (25-4-1) knows a thing or two about facing the current WBC champ Deontay Wilder (40-0-1). Back in 2015, Stiverne had his first title defense since capturing the vacant green and gold belt and the man in the other corner was Wilder. Deontay Wilder: "I would love to smash Dillian Whyte. Did you see Stiverne? That would be Dillian Whyte all over again." pic.twitter.com/LcmxMTFMD4 — bet365 (@bet365) November 7, 2017 The 33-year-old from Alabama came up victorious after a UD. Two and a half years later Stiverne had his rematch with “The Bronze Bomber”, but the 40-year-old got demolished in the first round after three knockdowns. Now, year and a half after their last fight, Stiverne is adamant that Wilder has been using a secret weapon. After an operation to treat an accident Wilder had metal rods inserted in his arm and Stiverne is claiming that Wilder used a forearm smash to secure his knockout victory over him when they fought in 2017. “It was a forearm behind the head and I just couldn’t recuperate,” Stiverne said. “He threw a combination with the jab and the right hand. I went down. I went down because I wanted to gain time. Tried to shake it off. I got up. I was just hurt. “If you look at his fight with Ortiz, he did the same thing. Forearm behind the head. We all know with the accident he had with the motorcycle, he’s got a metal plate. He used it. “But hey what can I say, it’s part of the game. I just wish that it would be more something that the referee should look at. The way he uses his forearm”, Stiverne said. History of Aikido Aikido was created by Morihei Ueshiba (植芝盛平 Ueshiba Morihei, 14 December 1883 – 26 History of Arm wrestling Arm wrestling is a sport involving two participants. Each places one arm on a surface History of Bodybuilding Bodybuilding is the use of progressive resistance exercise to control and develop one’s musculature. An History of Boxing Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves, throw punches History of CrossFit Greg Glassman and Lauren Jenai founded CrossFit, Inc. in 2000. The company was conceived a History of Judo Judo (wikt:柔道 jūdō, meaning “gentle way”) was created as a physical, mental and moral pedagogy History of Jujutsu and Grappling Jujutsu first began during the Sengoku period of the Muromachi period combining various Japanese martial Karate (空手) (/kəˈrɑːti/; Japanese pronunciation: [kaɾate] (About this soundlisten); Okinawan pronunciation: [kaɽati]) is a martial History of Kendo Kendo (剣道 kendō, lit. “sword way”) is a traditional Japanese martial art, which descended from History of Kickboxing Kickboxing is a Japanese hybrid martial art basically comprising of elements of punching and kicking. History of Kūdō Kūdō (空道 Kūdō) (formerly Kakutō karate (格闘空手); often Daidōjuku) is a Japanese hybrid martial art. History of Kyokushin History of Kyokushin Karate Sosai Masutatsu Oyama was born on July 27th, 1923, in a History of MMA Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full-contact combat sport that allows striking and grappling, both History of Muay Thai Muay Thai (Thai: มวยไทย, RTGS: muai thai, pronounced [mūa̯j tʰāj] (About this soundlisten)) or literally History of Sambo and Combat Sambo Sambo’s early development stemmed from the independent efforts of Vasili Oshchepkov and Viktor Spiridonov, to History of Shotokan Shotokan (松濤館 Shōtōkan) is a style of karate, developed from various martial arts by Gichin History of Sumo Sumo (相撲 sumō, literally “striking one another”) is a form of competitive full-contact wrestling where History of Taekwondo Beginning in 1945, shortly after the end of World War II, new martial arts schools History of Wrestling Wrestling represents one of the oldest forms of combat. The origins of wrestling go back History of Wushu In 1958, the government established the All-China Wushu Association as an umbrella organization to regulate Copyright © 2007-2019 Investor. All rights reserved. Boec.com is a specialized for combat sports and martial arts international web site, part of Investor media group.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line998
__label__wiki	0.769687	0.769687	The Bills “The Bills are the biggest blast of fresh air to come out of Canada since The Band” – Glasgow Herald “Their sound is panoramic, mischievious, fiercely unpretentious – and musically splendid” – Boston Globe The Bills‘ brand new CD, Trail of Tales features 14 new original tracks. For the first time in their storied career, the album sees all five members of the band contributing compositional talents in a truly collaborative offering. Trail of Tales winds from infectious, grooving folk/pop vocal numbers to beguiling, hypnotic instrumentals. The album walks a verdant path through lyrics that explore and shimmer with melodies that are sure to become standards in the deep and rich Canadian folk/roots/rock songbook. With two previous JUNO nominations and multiple Western Canadian Music Awards under their belts, expect the musical magic you’ve come to love from this extraordinary quintet. The Bills are renowned for their instrumental virtuosity, lush vocal arrangements, evocative songwriting, and a refreshing sound that transcends musical boundaries and defies simple categorization. Strings, bellows, keys, voices, skin and bows – these are the vehicles for The Bills’ unique sonic approach. With individual band members sporting world-class credentials in folk/roots, jazz, classical and world music, The Bills truly are a Canadian acoustic music super-group, and their combined creative studio talent and explosive live shows have made them legendary folk/roots entertainers. www.thebills.ca www.facebook.com/thebillsmusic www.youtube.com/thebillsplaymusic The Bills are: Marc Atkinson – mandolin, guitar, percussion, vocals Adrian Dolan – fiddle, accordion, piano, vocals Chris Frye – guitar, vocals Richard Moody – violin, viola, mandolin, vocals Scott White – upright bass, vocals Trail of Tales Let Em Run All Day Every Day	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line999
__label__wiki	0.757081	0.757081	The wife between us » The wife between us: a novel Hendricks, Greer, F Hend 0 of 5 Boulder Main Adult Fiction F Hend 0 of 1 Boulder Meadows Adult Fiction F Hend 0 of 1 Boulder Meadows Adult Fiction F Hend LUCKY DAY 1 of 1 Boulder NoBo Adult Fiction (Not Holdable) F Hend 0 of 1 Boulder Reynolds Adult Fiction F Hend 0 of 1 Boulder Reynolds NEW Adult Fiction F Hend LUCKY DAY 0 of 1 Broomfield Fiction F Hendr 0 of 2 Lafayette General Fiction Hen 0 of 3 Longmont Adult Fiction FICTION HENDRICKS, G. 1 of 5 Louisville Adult Fiction FIC HEN 0 of 2 Loveland Adult Fiction Hendricks, G. 1 on order Lafayette Public Library On Order ON ORDER 2018. First edition. St. Martin's Press, 346 pages ; 25 cm. 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A must-read " -Lauren Weisberger, New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada This audiobook contains a bonus interview with the authors Marriage -- Fiction Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction Pekkanen, Sarah,author. Whelan, Julia,1984-narrator. hoopla digital. 116e47c7-22f4-6ad7-2ab2-4d807ac1ea73 wife between us hendricks greer Pekkanen, Sarah,, Whelan, Julia, 1984- Pekkanen, Sarah,author., Whelan, Julia,1984-narrator., hoopla digital. Hendricks, Greer Boulder Main Adult Fiction, Boulder Main Books on CD, Boulder Meadows Adult Fiction, Boulder Meadows Books on CD, Boulder NoBo Adult Fiction (Not Holdable), Boulder Reynolds Adult Fiction, Boulder Reynolds Books On CD, Boulder Reynolds NEW Adult Fiction, Broomfield Books on CD, Broomfield Fiction, Lafayette General Fiction, Lafayette Public Library On Order, Longmont Adult Fiction, Longmont Adult Fiction Compact Discs, Louisville Adult Fiction, Loveland Adult Book on CD - Fiction, Loveland Adult Fiction, Online OverDrive Collection A tangle of lies binds together a divorced man, his new fiancée, and his ex-wife. 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__label__cc	0.665372	0.334628	An Interview with Sofia: John Mayer Meets kd lang I am reprinting on my blog from the Huffington Post. I recently sat down with up-and-coming singer-songwriter Sofia. We had so much fun talking that I lost myself in a few places. What? I’m not a professional journalist. I am a butch lawyer who writes a blog, and I can count on one hand how many times I have actually sat down with another butch. What follows is (most of) our conversation. Tell me about yourself. I’m 23. Half-Venezuelan and half-Lebanese. I was raised in London and lived in Venezuela until I was 5, in Caracas, the capital. I am very passionate about cultures and mixing them. Cultures of the world. I am very much about peace. That’s what I was raised in. I want to promote peace. I’ve been into music my whole life. Started violin when I was 5, singing when I was 13. By the time I was 15, I was writing my own songs. My dad is literally the best guitarist I’ve ever known. [In high school I] went to the five-week program at Berklee College of Music in Boston. I was a songwriting major [at Berklee]. I’ve never been to California. I’d love to do a West Coast tour and hit all the places in California. I really want to play in New Orleans. I went there for the first time for BUKU Music + Art Fest. I went with my friend Avery, and it was like a mental-health trip. “Let’s go to NOLA and have fun!” We made friends with everyone — the waitresses at the beignet shop. I read that it’s the most dangerous city in the world, but I felt safe and comfortable there — more than anywhere in the U.S. I’m Venezuelan and Lebanese, so it takes a lot to scare me. It is really a blessing to have an English passport. I sometimes feel it’s a curse to have an American passport, I’ll tell you! But the U.S. is the center of the music world. Freedom of speech, protests. There is a huge international community at Berklee. Everyone is from somewhere else, but everyone wants to be in the U.S. And Boston, though it’s bloody cold, is amazing. When I was really sick, I didn’t think I was going to make it. I was stuck in Boston with my mom. Please explain your struggles with Crohn’s. I was at Berklee and had to withdraw from the semester because I started getting fevers every day. I was hospitalized a bunch of times in a couple of months. Three blood clots were found in my spleen because my immune system was so compromised, so I had to inject myself with blood thinners for about three months. Things escalated so much that I started to bleed internally and had to have like seven bags of blood in a week. I went back to school the next semester and somehow managed to graduate on time. It meant so much to me to be there at Berklee. I had a scholarship and was so grateful to be there, so I kept going even though it got really tough sometimes. It was after I got sick when I wrote “Mum I Like a Girl.” I came in second in the “Songs for Social Change” competition, and it was the first time in my life I had ever won an award for a song I’d written. So in a sense it felt like I was overcoming my health battle with music. I inject myself every two weeks with an immune suppressant called Humira. It saved my life. Crohn’s can be a really scary process; it’s almost like having cancer, but it’s not cancer. They use similar terminology: “in remission,” “no appetite,” “nausea.” And I have a high risk of cancer in the future. It’s really a crazy disease to have. I try to speak to my best friend Avery, who struggles worse than me, every day, and her experiences really gives me a lot of strength. It is hard to want to do anything and stay positive, but we do because we know that there are kids as young as 8 who get this. That’s why it’s important that we make it more accessible to talk about stomach problems and make it more comfortable to talk about food issues, including irritable bowel diseases. We would help a lot of people to feel more comfortable with the fact that there is nothing wrong with you. You just have a disease! Who are your musical influences? Pretend I am from Rolling Stone. I grew up listening to Eric Clapton and Bryan Adams. My mom loved to play Elvis and Harry Belafonte. Embarrassing albums too, like the Spice Girls. I love what Eric Clapton does because of his smoky element and yet his own stuff added. I went to school and decided, “I want to be just like John Mayer.” Have you been compared to him? Yes! … I like how emotional he is and how vulnerable he can be. I struggle with that when I am writing. I get writer’s block because I worry about being emotional. I am also a huge fan of Tegan and Sara, but I think I am late in the game. When I was in school, my mentor was Melissa Ferrick. Do you know her? She is a big advocate for LGBT musicians. Check her out; she is amazing. Do you identify as a butch lesbian? I do. I used to be very feminine. I used to have really long hair. I looked quite feminine. It took me a long time to feel comfortable dressing this way. I think Ellen is one of the coolest people in the world, and yes, I do want to dress like her. I do want to dress like Kate Moennig from The L Word. I don’t know if you know that lots of Venezuelan women have won the Miss World pageant. George Clooney just married a Lebanese woman. Do you feel more pressure or scrutiny because you are Venezuelan and Lebanese? Definitely. People say, “Gosh, you are so beautiful! Why would you dress this way?” I felt like I was in drag when I dressed like a woman is supposed to. But I get flattered when people call me “sir”! I secretly wanted to be more androgynous than I was. I get “sir’d” a lot more in the UK than in the U.S. Maybe because here we wear more skinny jeans. I didn’t expect that. But it’s amazing to come home to London and have people say to me, “You look like yourself now.” Where do you see yourself this time next year? Gosh, that is a really good question. I have absolutely no idea. I would love to be on tour. In just over a year, I will be releasing the next album. It usually takes about a year to get everything together. My goal right now is to get to play all over the world. I love to travel. I love different cultures. Music brings everyone together. Do you have any pets that you will have to leave when you go on tour? I have a dachshund, and her name is Cashmere. Ironic because we spell it like the fabric rather than the [place]. Like Adele? I met her! And her dog! I worked at her label and had the chance to eat lunch with her. I’ve got a big crush on her. Ready for the lightning round? Just one-word answers. No explanation needed. Blondes or brunettes? That’s really really hard. Blondes. Cake or pie? Cake. Boots or trainers? Trainers. Movies or television? Movies. My favorite is A Beautiful Mind. Snow or rain? Rain. Beer or whiskey? Beer. Blue Moon, partially because of the song. Bow tie or straight tie? Bow tie. I do wear them and love them. Went to my first-ever gay wedding and wore one. Plus, I wore one to my graduation. London or New York? Suits or dresses? Suits. You are adorable. People will want to know if you are in a relationship. I am too young for a relationship right now. I want to have some fun. I always try to be a gentleman. … I say no to misogynistic butches. I don’t want to be the horrible power-controlling stereotype. You don’t have to be, Sofia. There are plenty of butches who think like you do — like me! Don’t let a few opinions change who you are. If you are butch, be butch. You don’t have to let it be an excuse to embody the worst parts of male stereotypes. I really enjoyed talking with Sofia, and I hope that she gets more exposure! Check out her music on iTunes and Spotify. It’s seriously butch to be an out butch singer-songwriter. Be butch! This entry was posted on Thursday, December 18th, 2014 at 12:08 PM and tagged with Adele, Berklee College of Music, Bryan Adams, butch, Butch Fashion, Crohn's Disease, Elvis Presley, Eric Clapton, Gay, Harry Belafonte, John Mayer, kd lang, Lebanese, lesbian, Music, Musician, Rolling Stone, Singer, Singer Songwriter, sofia, Spice Girls, Venezuela and posted in Butch fashion, fashion, lesbian, Lesbiantainment, lesbiantainment. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. « My Own Happily Ever After Started Here, Two Years Ago Today Glad You Reached Out » @jessdontstop We missed you! I didn’t know you were there. 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__label__wiki	0.858259	0.858259	Tats Nkonzo shares awesome pics of The World's Best international talent show 4 months ago 117 views by Deshni Pillay Mzansi stand up comedian, singer, musician and TV personality, Tats Nkonzo shared pics of the talented judges on The World's Best, international talent, on social media recently. The Mzansi star said he spent a month with those gorgeous people at The World's Best CBS international talent show and that he came all the way from Africa to find that Hollywood has a heart after all. He urged his fans to enjoy the two-hour bumper show last night. He also shared several pictures of Hollywood stars, which he photographed at the event. He was definitely rolling with the big names in Hollywood. Check out some of the snaps he took at the event below. He said he had the time of his life on the show and being part of the crew. He also commented on Petra Spreacher's post saying that she is one of the most genuine in the game. And it was an absolute breath of fresh air to have met and gotten to know her. Petra was commenting on how she enjoyed her time on the talent show as well and what a joy it was for her gaining so many special new friends just from one TV show. Petra also said the 50 international judges were all from a different part of the world and when she met them she felt at home. Sjoe, it must have been really special to have met so many different people from across the world and make new friendships. READ ALSO: SA professor makes history, performs world's 1st 3D inner-ear surgery Meanwhile, a day ago, Briefly.co.za also reported how beautifully styled songstress Lira looked at The World's Best talent show. Lira looked a vision at the "The World's Best" international stage recently. She wore a beautiful modern-traditional dress accompanied by a Zulu hat (isicholo). She took to social media to share the beautiful design. SA Celebrity Newssocial media icons newsMzansi Latest News highest paid player in psl pearl thusi payslip template south africa cyril ramaphosa nomzamo mbatha instagram SA songstress Lira reflects on life as she celebrates her birthday today	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1008
__label__cc	0.725793	0.274207	Cyber Monday Week Deal of the Day from C On November 28, 2016 By calibersusaIn UncategorizedLeave a comment Cyber Monday Week Deal of the Day from Calibers The New Crimson Trace LiNQ – Only $398.99 http://ow.ly/W2rf306BOPr http://ow.ly/i/pqarT Only Three Fort Knox Safes Left! – Savin Only Three Fort Knox Safes Left! – Saving up to $1,500.00 on Fort Knox Safes. Get Yours Before it is too Late – Only Calibers http://ow.ly/i/plzXw Calibers Black Friday Sales Event Is Goi Calibers Black Friday Sales Event Is Going On Now! Deals on Smith & Wesson Corp. Walther Firearms , Browning and More! Visit Calibers http://ow.ly/i/plegf 1943 Military Issued Colt M1911A1-U.S. Army On November 10, 2016 November 10, 2016 By calibersusaIn Gunsmithing, Handguns, Historical FirearmsLeave a comment Recently, our Gunsmith Shop received a 1943 Military issues Colt M1911A1-U.S. Army for some minor restoration and cleaning. Without question, the most famous United States military handgun of the 20th century. This firearm was carried throughout the Pacific by Lieutenant Colonel Lloyd E. Barron. Read his incredible story, told by his son, Rex Barron. “My father, Lloyd E. Barron, was a big man – standing tall at 6’3″. He was handsome with a profound bass voice. He played football at Gettysburg college and studied chemistry while there. He was also part of the ROTC program. In 1941, the war came to America during WWII. My dad was called, and spent three years with the 43rd infantry pushing the Japanese army island to island, back towards the homeland. He participated in many campaigns. Among them, the Solomon Islands and the Philippines, earning a silver star, a bronze star, and a purple heart along the way. He carried the scar on his thigh from a bullet from a Japanese machine gun that was (fortunately), firing erratically. His men loved him and were honored to serve with him. My father left the military a Lieutenant Colonel. When he returned home, he saw his three-year-old son for the first time. He and my mother eventually had two more sons. He retired after working for forty years at DuPont. We lost my dad in 1988, at the age of 75.”	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1013
__label__wiki	0.667399	0.667399	HomeCoachellaPop Songstress Bonnie McKee to Join Kygo at Coachella Pop Songstress Bonnie McKee to Join Kygo at Coachella January 18, 2018 News Coachella, Musicians Comments Off on Pop Songstress Bonnie McKee to Join Kygo at Coachella California-raised singer-songwriter Bonnie McKee may not be a household name, but she ought to be. She’s a true pop sensation in her own right, who came up the ranks writing for the heavy hitters. McKee will be going on tour with world-famous DJ Kygo this February and that includes appearances at Coachella both weekends. McKee’s featured on Kygo’s “Riding Shotgun.” “Riding Shotgun” is off Kygo’s current album Kids In Love. The song features McKee on vocals and has racked up nearly 10 million streams on Spotify. The European tour kicks off on Feb. 5 in Helsinki, Finland and includes stops in Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Paris and concludes at London’s iconic O2 Arena. North American tour dates featuring Bonnie will be announced. For a full list of tour dates, please visit the Bonnie McKee website Thorns by Bonnie McKee Here’s her latest video: Bombastic the EP McKee’s second EP Bombastic yielded some legit hits, and the video for the title cut, which is like Flashdance meets a night at the Whisky A Go-Go. Check out Bombastic on iTunes: And another strong song off Bombastic, “Wasted Youth” Just before the holidays, Bonnie also surprised fans with a new remix of last year’s dark and gritty new single, “Thorns,” from Los Angeles-based producer/songwriter, Le Youth. Bonnie McKee VIDEO: Slash, Duff McKagen, Johnny Depp Join Joe Perry at Roxy Fall Out Boy To Make In-Store Appearance at Amoeba Hollywood Desert Daze 2017: Interview With Knitting Factory President and CEO Morgan Margolis October 10, 2017 Comments Off on Desert Daze 2017: Interview With Knitting Factory President and CEO Morgan Margolis	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1014
__label__wiki	0.637287	0.637287	Toyphabet: Collaboration with Viktor Koen Can someone please explain…? Looking for reason in all the wrong places. Don't miss another post! Click here for your free email subscription. Just Published: My scifi novel, “Spirit In Realtime.” The Unintended Consequences of Variable Pricing Was you ever bit by a dog? Can you trust Hamas? The Better Business Bureau thinks so. Fabuloso looks good enough to drink The Lego Epiphany Artificially Sweet and Intentionally Misleading Between Faith and Rationality, Part III The Johnny Cash Project: moving celebration or grave robbery? Who did Groupon and FTD think they were fooling? Between Faith and Rationality (3) Cause Related Marketing (1) Directed Advertising (15) Integrated Marketing (24) Relationship Marketing (13) Life et al (3) Marketing Partnerships (4) Misleadership (29) PR and News (16) Spirit In Realtime (1) Value for Value (13) The latest battle in the war between content and distribution Posted: January 5, 2010 in Branding, Business, Marketing, Media Tags: Cablevision, content, contract dispute, distribution, Food Network, HGTV, Scripps Network, Time Warner Cable As the new decade dawned, the war between content creators and distribution channels was heating up on a new front: Television. While Fox loudly beat its chest and threatened to pull its programming off Time Warner Cable, at 12:01 am Jan. 1st, without fanfare or warning shot, Scripps Network actually did pull the Food Network and HGTV off of Cablevision. But unlike what happens when a news organization pulls content from a news aggregator like Google News and there are hundreds, if not thousands, of articles waiting to take its place, when a cable network like Scripps pulls its content from TV, there’s just an empty hole where yummy goodness used to be. As in any good conflict, there are two sides. Cablevision accuses Scripps of “effectively holding their own viewers hostage in order to pursue a more than 200 percent fee increase…” And Scripps says the fault lies with Cablevision, and that “every other cable and satellite provider in the country has willingly and professionally renegotiated a fair market rate…” (You can read the full text of the statements from both Scripps and Cablevision here on paidContent.org, which provides global coverage on the economics of digital content.) In the case of Food Network and Cablevision, the dispute comes down to less than the cost of a candy bar. Currently, Cablevision pays Scripps about 8 cents per household to run Food Network. They also pay 13 cents for HGTV according to this very informative article in Broadcasting & Cable about the Scripps Cablevision dispute yesterday. Food Network, a Top 10 cable network, has seen ratings increase 21% in December among the 18-49 year old demographic, and HGTV increased 13% over the same period. Ratings increases like this can be worth millions in extra ad revenues. In an attempt to reflect the increased value of their programming, Scripps is asking for an “astronomical” increase of over 200%, or about fifty cents. (Cablevision charges $55.95 for basic cable, which includes Food Network, so you can decide for yourself whether Food Network is worth more than 8 cents a month… or even $0.32.) Apparently, according to Scripps, Cablevision made a much lower offer that was “take-it-or-leave-it, and would still make Food Network… one of the lowest paid channels on its (Cablevision’s) lineup.” Of course, as these two giant superpowers fight it out, there’s bound to be collateral damage. First of all, there are the advertisers who are losing coverage. Don’t cry too much for them, though, because audiences and ratings are guaranteed by contract, or backed up by make goods. Although if you had a time sensitive offer, let’s say a new product launch in the gourmet food category or home appliance category at the start of the year, a future make-good may not be enough to overcome lost opportunity. No, as is frequently the case with war, it is the cost in civilian casualties that hurts the most. The real victims of this conflict are the 3 million Cablevision homes in the NY tri-state area: innocent men, women and children who are being deprived of Rachel Ray and Alton Brown. How can we live without knowing who was victorious in the Iron Chef Super Chef Battle featuring special guest Michelle Obama: Mario Battali and Emeril Lagassi or Bobby Flay and White House Chef Cummerford? Did Paula Dean invent some new way to combine butter, sour cream, mayonnaise and bacon and not die of an instant coronary? What cool, out-of-the-way soon-to-be-overwhelmingly popular joint did Guy Fieri find on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives? But more importantly, can someone please explain to me how I can make sense of this dispute for my 5-year old daughter, who knows nothing of Gross Rating Points and syndication revenue, when all she wants to do is see Chef Duff and his merry cakesters bake a cake shaped like a kitty cat on Ace of Cakes? Swiper swiped it… jlsimons says: Cute. A Fan says: …or what about matching wits with House Hunters on the home and garden channel? One of my guilty pleasures. A.F. I wondered who watched that? I heard the president of HGTV on a commercial on the radio saying that House Hunters (I think it was that one, but I could easily be wrong) would be on PIX, whatever that is. Thanks for the comment, AF. “We’re sorry. Your call cannot be completed as dialed.” The Facts about Social Media Spirit In Realtime Marketing Maestro Marrusart The Back Care Center of Dumont, NJ The Couples Tool Kit	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1021
__label__wiki	0.869006	0.869006	Will Smith Responds to Aladdin Criticism Posted by Luke Watson \| Jan 7, 2019 \| Hollywood Insider After a string of successful, live action remakes of classic animated films, Disney is set to bring Aladdin into a whole new world with its next adaptation. Disney’s Live Action Aladdin with Will Smith Disney’s original Aladdin became an instant hit when it flew into theaters in 1992. With its mix of timeless songs and unforgettable performances, it raised the bar for a new wave of animated movies. When it was announced that the beloved favorite would receive the live-action treatment, everyones’ immediate question was, “Who will play Genie?” As the original voice actor, the late Robin Williams left big shoes to fill along with his iconic performance. Fortunately, the casting of Will Smith was largely met with relief and delight. The film’s first teaser footage kept its characters shrouded in mystery, reserving the honor of the reveal for Entertainment Weekly who put the three protagonists on its cover — Aladdin, Jasmine, and Will Smith as Genie. Their appearance in “full costume” led to a new round of critique, as many fans of the animated film assailed Will Smith’s lack of blue skin — a trademark feature of the character’s earlier interpretation. Responding to critics, Smith took to Instagram to clarify. “This is how the Genie is in human / disguise form. My character will be CGI most of the movie.” While this should relieve some trepidation about the movie’s creative choices, we’ll have to wait a bit longer to see if the magic of CGI grants our wishes. The live action, musical Aladdin flies into theaters on May 24th, 2019. PreviousWinter TV Premiere Schedule NextLeonardo DiCaprio Sells his Los Angeles Starter Home Luke Watson Luke Watson is the founder of Essential TV, a community for movie addicts and binge watchers. He is also a celebrity brand expert and marketing & media professional. Talking ‘Hellboy’ With David Harbour Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, and Tina Fey Talk Wine Country Bohemian Rhapsody’s Cast Will Rock You! Spike Lee’s Blackkkansman Premiere	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1034
__label__wiki	0.82815	0.82815	← Trump to Nominate Blackburn Staffer to DoC Role AT&T Plans to Release Pricing Information for FirstNet Soon → FirstNet: FCC Has No Authority over Network Policies The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) has stressed to the FCC that the Commission has no “oversight authority over FirstNet’s network policies.” In an ex parte filing in PS docket 16-269 reporting on meetings with FCC officials, FirstNet said that the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act, which established FirstNet, “is clear that FirstNet, and solely FirstNet, has the authority to establish network policies for the NPSBN, including policies related to the technical and operational requirements of the network. Any attempt by the Commission to seek comment on, and thus potentially alter, FirstNet’s network policies would constitute significant overreach by the FCC and would undermine Chairman [Ajit] Pai’s approach to ensuring that the Commission does not exceed the authority granted to it by Congress. FirstNet has spent years consulting – and continues to consult through, for example, the upcoming State Plan review period – with all 56 states and territories and the Public Safety Advisory Committee in order to obtain feedback, guidance, information, recommendations, and subject matter expertise from a public safety perspective to ensure that user needs, requirements, and public safety operational capabilities are included in the network. “It is highly inappropriate for the FCC to unilaterally decide to [undo] this work by seeking comment on FirstNet’s network policies,” FirstNet added. “Indeed, Congress made clear that its intent was for only one entity, FirstNet, to be held solely accountable to public safety for establishing the NPSBN’s network policies. Any suggestion that the FCC was tasked with overseeing FirstNet’s establishment of network policies is entirely inconsistent with the Act and could jeopardize Congress’s vision for the deployment of a nationwide interoperable public safety broadband network.” FirstNet said it discussed its concerns with a draft order to be considered at tomorrow’s FCC meeting “instructing the Bureau to issue a Public Notice that seeks comment on FirstNet’s network policies and then having the Commission issue an order identifying those elements of FirstNet’s network policies that the Commission will consider as part of its interoperability review of an alternative plan. We reiterated that the Act is clear that FirstNet, and solely FirstNet, has the authority to establish network policies for the NPSBN, including policies related to the technical and operational requirements of the network. We noted that the Draft Order does not cite to any statutory authority for its decision to seek comment on FirstNet’s network policies. “Rather, the Draft Order appears to be responding to a commenter’s argument suggesting that the Commission is relinquishing its rulemaking authority under the Administrative Procedure Act (‘APA’) to FirstNet,” the filing added. “This logic is flawed in that it assumes the Act tasks the Commission, rather than FirstNet, with the responsibility to establish network policies for the NPSBN. However, as previously noted, FirstNet is the only entity statutorily responsible for both ensuring the establishment of the [NPSBN] and the network policies that govern the technical and operational requirements of the network. Thus, FirstNet, not the FCC, would be the entity subject to any APA requirements related to establishing network policies. Congress, however, expressly exempted FirstNet from the procedural requirements of the APA, and thus FirstNet is not required to seek public comment on its network policies.” Meanwhile, in a separate ex parte filing, FirstNet submitted a modified interoperability compliance matrix after reviewing the draft order, in which the FCC will establish procedures for reviewing alternative plans filed by states that want to “opt out” and contract to build their own radio access networks (RANs) rather than have FirstNet’s partner, AT&T, Inc., build them. FirstNet said it removed from its interoperability compliance matrix 20 provisions for the purposes of the FCC’s interoperability evaluation of state alternative plans. Those provisions fall under the categories of 3PP standards, interfaces, and guidelines; user equipment and device management; testing criteria (devices); handover and mobility (roaming); priority and quality of service (local control); and security (devices). FirstNet has removed from its matrix provisions that the draft order indicated the FCC would not consider when reviewing alternative plans. A report by the FCC’s Technical Advisory Board for First Responder Interoperability “included 46 requirements (‘SHALLS’) and 55 considerations (‘SHOULDS’),” FirstNet noted in its filing. “The Draft Order finds that the Commission’s review should be limited to certain SHALLS, specifically requirements (1)-(3), (7)-(10), (20)-(25), (29), (39), and (41)-(42).” “While FirstNet is removing these requirements from the scope of the FCC’s review, it is important to note that these requirements are anticipated to be included as part of NTIA’s review and/or in FirstNet’s network policies,” FirstNet said in its filing. “Thus, removing these requirements from the interoperability compliance matrix will not reduce the scope of the interoperability requirements necessary for opt-out State integration. For example, while FirstNet has removed the three additional Prong 2 requirements that were specified in the interoperability compliance matrix, these requirements, as mentioned above, are likely to be included as part of NTIA’s review and/or in FirstNet’s network policies and will accordingly remain necessary for opt-out State integration.” Meanwhile, Rivada Networks LLC, which led the Rivada Mercury LLC consortium that lost to AT&T in its bid for the FirstNet contract, submitted another ex parte filing replying to recent submissions of AT&T, FirstNet, and the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International. “These ex partes each read provisions into the Public Safety Spectrum Act (‘Act’) that do not exist in an attempt to constrain the design and operation of state opt-out networks,” Rivada said. “They also advocate for procedural requirements that unnecessarily intrude into state governmental operations, or, in the case of requesting a final, binding, executed contract before FirstNet’s terms will be final, are impractical because the Commission’s interoperability review is only the first step, not the last, in the opt-out process. Moreover, in its June 16 ex parte, FirstNet asserts a right to add interoperability criteria in its own review, which goes far beyond FirstNet’s statutory authorities and would render meaningless the Commission’s role and that of the statutorily-mandated Technical Advisory Board for First Responder Interoperability (‘Technical Advisory Board’).” Rivada also reiterated its contention “that a state radio access network (‘RAN’) can connect and interoperate with FirstNet’s core either through a direct connection or indirectly via a state core.” —Paul Kirby, paul.kirby@wolterskluwer.com Courtesy TRDaily Posted in FCC, FirstNet News, Public Safety News	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1035
__label__wiki	0.660833	0.660833	Renewable Energy Key To Unlocking Consumer Power Blue & Green Tomorrow A new report backed by leading businesses has called on the EU to ensure priority access, ambitious targets, and transformational changes to energy policy to help companies to meet their European electricity needs with renewables. The report comes as the EU Commission prepares to release a review of the EU Renewable Energy Directive and Market Design Initiative, expected late November. Earlier this week media reports suggested that a leak of the Winter Package showed it could subsidise fossil fuels and undermine renewable energy. The report is written by independent global think tank E3G on behalf of RE100; a global, collaborative initiative of influential businesses committed to 100% renewable power across their operations, led by The Climate Group in partnership with CDP. RE100 members such as BT, IKEA Group, Google, Nestlé, Royal DSM and Unilever all contributed their experiences. It sets out policy measures that would give companies easier access to renewable power, providing greater control over energy costs and long-term business stability. It also argues that all EU member states must play their part in achieving the collective 27% by 2030 renewable energy target, and makes the case for continued priority dispatch for renewables and enforceable prosumer rights. There are 83 members of RE100 as of COP22, including global companies like Apple, BMW, and Starbucks. 43 of these have reported to CDP electricity use in one or more of 32 European countries – representing demand for over 18TWh of renewable electricity across the continent. More companies than ever before are committed to bold climate action because it makes business sense Damian Ryan, Acting CEO at The Climate Group, said: “More companies than ever before are committed to bold climate action because it makes business sense. But to ensure that many more are able to reach 100% renewable power, governments at all levels need to set or raise the ambition of long-term supportive policies. The Climate Group wants to help to drive practical solutions that will unlock much-needed low carbon investment to deliver a prosperous, zero-emissions economy.” Simon Skillings, the report author and a Senior Associate at E3G, said: “Renewable energy is the future and if the European Union wants to retain its competitive edge it must unleash its potential before it’s too late. That means making it cheap and easy to procure renewable electricity to empower its energy consumers.” Rob Williams, Head of Energy Supply, BT, said: “Using renewable energy makes strong business sense and is a clear, simple and effective way for industry to take real action for a sustainable future. At BT we’re proud to be one of the original members of RE100, and believe business, governments and individuals should all do what they can. The Renewable Energy Directive is a key opportunity for the EU to make this business imperative a reality, with bigger scale and faster speed.” Michael Terrell, Head of Energy Policy and Markets, Google, said: “Google is one of the world’s leading technology companies with more than 9,000 employees in Europe. Google’s commitment to sustainability is core to our business and we have a company-wide goal to power 100% of our operations from renewable energy. We believe the EU market has been important to the growth of renewable energy globally and we support the continuation of policy efforts that empower customers and drive even greater clean energy deployment in Europe.” John Harris, Investment Manager – Renewable Energy, IKEA Group, said: “Whether companies purchase renewable electricity or want to generate renewable power themselves, we are all looking to EU policy to support us in reaching our target of 100% renewable power. Legislative frameworks are needed to allow more businesses, and consumers, to invest in renewables.” Ward Mosmuller, Director of EU Affairs at Royal DSM, said: “The new EU Renewable Energy Directive must ensure that wind and solar power are well-promoted, and that biomass is used sustainably to produce chemicals and advanced biofuels. Bio-based materials find applications in everyday products such as transport fuels, paints and packaging, but these markets are currently dominated by relatively cheap and less sustainable, fossil fuel-based materials. Sustainably sourced bio-based materials could make considerable contributions to the transition to a renewable low-carbon economy.” Thomas Lingard, Climate Advocacy & Sustainability Strategy Director, Unilever, said: “To scale the benefits of renewable energy we need both business action and policy evolution. As more and more leading businesses actively look to source 100% renewable energy, we need a Renewable Energy Directive that supports, not holds back these ambitions.” Related Topics:COP22energy sectorergEU energy policyGoogleIKEA GroupRE100renewable electricityRenewable EnergyThe Climate GroupUnilever Urbanisation In India Worth Up To 6% Of GDP According To New Research Carbon Tracker Study Reveals China Risks Wasting Billions On Coal Plant Top 7 New Energy Trends Dominating 2019 How the Energy Industry Skills Gap Could Hurt Opportunities to End Energy Poverty Here’s Why Energy Rate Comparison is Both Economical And eco-friendly Renewable Energies Are Finally Becoming Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels What Can We Expect for Green Energy in 2019?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1047
__label__cc	0.689315	0.310685	A modeling study of cortical waves in primary auditory cortex David Beeman1 BMC Neurosciencevolume 14, Article number: P23 (2013) \| Download Citation Cortical waves have been observed in many cortical areas, including the primary auditory cortex (AI). The thalamorecipient layer (IV) of AI is an ideal test-bed for the study of cortical waves because the inputs from the thalamus are arranged tonotopically along an axis. Wave propagation along this axis is essentially one-dimensional. Thus, a biologically realistic model of a piece of this area can act like a 'ripple-tank' used for the study of one-dimensional wave motion in physics. The simulations described here were implemented with the GENESIS 2.3 and 3 (G-3) simulators [1]. The primary objective of this modeling study was to determine the effects of axonal conduction velocity (often neglected, but significant), as well as synaptic time constants, on the ability of such a network to create and propagate cortical waves. Figure 1 illustrates that, using parameters that are within the range of commonly measured experimental values, such propagation (A-D), and even constructive interference (E), is possible. The model is also being used to study the interaction between single and two-tone input and normal background activity, and the effects of synaptic depression from thalamic inputs. The simulation scripts have the additional purpose of serving as tutorial examples for the construction of cortical networks with GENESIS. The present model has fostered the development of the G-3 Python network analysis and visualization tools used in this study [2]. Full simulation scripts and documentation with tutorials for extending them to a more complete model of auditory cortex will be available on the http://genesis-sim.org web site. Frames (A-E) show successive intervals in the development and interference (E) of cortical waves from a two-tone input. Membrane potential is shown on the left and excitatory post-synaptic currents on the right. AI has been less well studied than other neocortical areas, and any complete model will contain an enormous space of poorly-quantified parameters to be explored. In order to simplify the model enough to analyze, it was limited to a population of pyramidal cells and a smaller population of inhibitory basket cells. Inputs from other cortical layers were crudely represented by Poisson-distributed random inputs to provide background levels of firing for the two populations that are in agreement with measured values. The components within this simple model are represented realistically, with parameters constrained by experimental measurements. The multi-compartmental spiking neurons have firing patterns representative of pyramidal and basket cells in the auditory cortex. Synaptic inputs occur at appropriate locations on the dendrites. The distance dependence of the connection probabilities for the four types of connections was fit to experimental measurements. It has equivalent ranges for excitatory and inhibitory connections, unlike many models that account for lateral inhibition by assuming a greater range for inhibitory connections. Although the thalamic input model provides for more realistic inputs, the example shown in Figure 1 used single row excitations of spike trains at 220 and 440 Hz in the absence of background input. Cornelis H, Coop AD, Bower JM: A Federated Design for a Neurobiological Simulation Engine: The CBI Federated Software Architecture. PLoS ONE. 2012, 7 (1): e28956-10.1371/journal.pone.0028956. Rodriguez AL, Cornelis H, Beeman D, Bower JM: Multiscale modeling with GENESIS 3, using the G-shell and Python. BMC Neuroscience. 2012, 13 (Suppl 1): P176-10.1186/1471-2202-13-S1-P176. David Beeman is partially supported by NIH grant 3 R01 NS049288-06. Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA David Beeman Search for David Beeman in: Correspondence to David Beeman. Auditory Cortex Basket Cell Primary Auditory Cortex Inhibitory Connection	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1049
__label__wiki	0.565992	0.565992	Open Peer Review Exposure to public natural space as a protective factor for emotional well-being among young people in Canada Quynh Huynh1, Wendy Craig2, Ian Janssen1, 3 and William Pickett1, 4Email author BMC Public Health201313:407 https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-407 © Huynh et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2013 Received: 1 August 2012 Positive emotional well-being is fundamentally important to general health status, and is linked to many favorable health outcomes. There is societal interest in understanding determinants of emotional well-being in adolescence, and the natural environment represents one potential determinant. Psychological and experimental research have each shown links between exposure to nature and both stress reduction and attention restoration. Some population studies have suggested positive effects of green space on various indicators of health. However, there are limited large-scale epidemiological studies assessing this relationship, specifically for populations of young people and in the Canadian context. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between exposure to public natural space and positive emotional well-being among young adolescent Canadians. This cross-sectional study was based upon the Canadian 2009/10 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Survey with linked geographic information system (GIS) data. Following exclusions, the sample included 17 249 (grades 6 to 10, mostly ages 11 to 16) students from 317 schools. Features of the natural environment were extracted using GIS within a 5 km radius circular buffer surrounding each school. Multilevel logistic regression was used to examine the relationship between the presence of public natural space (features include green and blue spaces such as parks, wooded areas, and water bodies) and students’ reports of positive emotional well-being, while controlling for salient covariates and the clustered nature of the data. Over half of Canadian youth reported positive emotional well-being (58.5% among boys and 51.6% among girls). Relationships between measures of natural space and positive emotional well-being were weak and lacked consistency overall, but modest protective effects were observed in small cities. Positive emotional well-being was more strongly associated with other factors including demographic characteristics, family affluence, and perceptions of neighbourhood surroundings. Exposure to natural space in youth’s immediate living environment may not be a leading determinant of their emotional well-being. The relationship between natural space and positive emotional well-being may be context specific, and thus different for Canadian youth compared to adult populations and those studied in other nations. Factors of the individual context were stronger potential determinants. Positive emotional well-being is defined as an awareness of one’s well-being with a positive outlook on life [1]. It is an important aspect of overall health. Beyond the absence of distress, it encompasses the presence of positive affective states. Attention to positive psychology helps to build “human strengths and virtues including hope, wisdom, creativity, courage, spirituality, responsibility, perseverance, and satisfaction” [2]. Among young people, positive emotional well-being contributes to the development of intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships [2]. It is also associated with higher academic and vocational performance [3], and mediates the impact of stressful life events [4] and problem behaviors [1]. A lack of positive emotional well-being is an indicator of physical and mental health problems [3–5]. Experiences during childhood and adolescence have long-term implications [6, 7], and positive emotional well-being earlier in life influences health trajectories into adulthood. Therefore, it is important to understand emotional well-being during critical developmental stages, such as adolescence. According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, in 2006, 56% of Canadian boys and 48% of girls in grades 9 and 10 experienced high levels of life satisfaction, one indicator of emotional well-being [8]. The World Health Organization estimated that in 2009, 20% of the world’s population of children and adolescents had mental disorders or problems [9]. Low rates of positive emotional well-being and an increasing prevalence of early mental disorders suggest the need for a greater understanding of determinants of emotional well-being, and any protective effects of efforts to promote positive emotional well-being among this age group. On a broad scale, determinants of health include both individual and contextual factors [10]. One potential contextual determinant of emotional well-being is the natural environment. As area-level interventions emerge as important theoretical and policy-driven strategies to address population health issues [11–13], there is increased interest in examining the relationship between nature and health. Such evidence can be used to modify and build communities that take advantage of natural space in order to promote positive well-being for the general population. Theories underlying this relationship are based upon stress reduction and attention restoration [14]; people have nature-based coping strategies, and thus natural space helps to facilitate restoration from stress and fatigue. Other explanations suggest that natural settings offer added opportunities for explorations and interactions, and activities that promote greater levels of well-being [15–18]. Although there is a common belief that nature has health benefits, this is not clearly supported by empirical evidence, particularly at the population level. Much of the existing literature is descriptive [19–21], and few population studies have quantified this relationship. A body of psychological research has shown that exposure to green features, such as trees and gardens, positively influences stress reduction and attention restoration [14]. This research has been limited to controlled settings, and has focused on proximal measures such as images of nature [22], views from windows [23, 24], and access to nearby gardens [25]. Others have demonstrated added benefits for activities performed in natural settings, particularly focusing on physical activities [26]. Recently, there have been efforts to examine the relationship between nature and health at the population level. Large epidemiological studies conducted with the general public, although consisting mostly of adults, have concluded that residents of neighborhoods with high proportions of green space experience better perceived health [27, 28], greater physical activity [29, 30], lower morbidity [31], and higher life longevity [32]. Evidence from such studies is inconclusive; although most studies support a beneficial effect, the effects tend to be weak [30–32]. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses have similarly concluded that a weak relationship exists [19, 26]. The lack of consensus in the current literature may be due in part to variable definitions: most studies have used green space to represent the natural environment, but inclusion criteria vary [19, 26]. Few studies have used objective measures to quantify exposures to green space and sources of natural space [27, 28]. Further, green space may not be the only contributors to the relationship between nature and well-being. Exposure to water areas, known as blue space, has also been linked to stress reduction and attention restoration [33]. A few studies that have considered effects of exposure to blue space had reported added benefits: for example, improvements in self-esteem and mood after exercise were greater in the presence of water compared to green space alone [34]. Although exposure to water in the natural environment has been posited as a theoretical mechanism for relations with well-being, most studies have not measured blue space. Additionally, the outcome of health has been conceptualized differently across studies, ranging from general mental and physical health statuses under which emotional well-being may encompass [27, 28] to specific emotional states, clinically-diagnosed mental illnesses, and mortality. Few population health studies have examined the effects of natural space on health among youth populations. Although small-scale experimental studies have examined the effects of nature on children’s behaviors, most large-scale studies have been conducted in adult populations [35–37]. Findings from the few analyses that have included youth have been inconsistent due to the use of varying health outcomes and different age groups to define youth. According to de Vries et al., green living environments were not associated with reported health symptoms, perceived general health, or perceived mental health among Dutch youth less than 16 years old [38]. A later study from the same research group reported that the relationship between green space and morbidity indicators, such as lower prevalence of depression, was strongest among youth less than 12 years old [31]. In the United Kingdom, Barton and Pretty concluded that effects of green environments on self-esteem and mood were strongest in young people, with a young person defined as less than 30 years [34]. Hence, the relationship between nature and emotional well-being has not been explicitly studied, and remains unclear among youth populations. The present study was conducted to examine the relationship between public natural space and positive emotional well-being specifically among adolescents. This is one of few large-scale studies using robust methods and objective measures of both green and blue spaces. Understanding the effects of the surrounding environment on health has important implications in creating healthy communities. However, current public policies that deal with community settings are primarily based upon evidence generated from adults [39, 40]. It is important to fill this gap in understanding because environmental research in adults does not always translate to younger populations [39]. Through this study, we hoped to inform decision makers on the priority of public natural space in societal efforts to promote positive emotional well-being among young people. This cross-sectional study was based on Canadian records from the 2009/10 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Survey which collected information on demographic, behavioral, and contextual factors that influence the health of young people [41]. The individual-level HBSC records were linked to area-level data from a geographic information system [42, 43] within a 5 km radius circular buffer of schools to compile objective measures describing surrounding public natural space. Other variables derived from the 2006 Canada Census of Population [44]. Environmental data were subsequently related to reports of emotional well-being, while controlling for covariates and accounting for the multilevel structure of the data. Study survey The 2009/10 HBSC surveyed 26 078 students, grades 6 to 10 (mostly ages 11 to 16 years), within 436 schools using an established international protocol [45]. The sample was representative of the distribution of schools by size, location (province/territory), language (English/French), and school board type (public/separate). The HBSC survey provided individual-level data for positive emotional well-being and other covariates. In addition to the Student Questionnaire, the HBSC includes an Administrator Questionnaire completed by a principal or vice-principal, which provided information about each school and its neighborhood environment. This study used two area-level items to inquire about neighborhood aesthetics surrounding schools. Natural space Features of the public natural environment were obtained from the CanMap RouteLogistics (version 2009.4) and Enhanced Points of Interests (version 2009.3) databases (DMTI Spatial Inc., Markham, ON). This is a cross-national geographic information system with accurately positioned geospatial data for boundaries and topographic features such as land-use classifications [42, 43]. Data describing the natural environment were extracted and linked to school addresses from the HBSC using ArcGIS 9.3 software (ESRI, Redlands, CA) within a 5 km radius circular buffer of schools. The 5 km buffer acts as a proxy for the neighborhood environment in which students spend the most time, consisting of their school and home neighborhoods. Students interact with the school neighborhood during the day, and spend time in the space surrounding the school during their travels to and from school as well as during off-premise trips. Thus, this space is relevant to their health and health-related behaviors. The use of this buffer size is considered reliable for social constructs [46–48]. Features included in this extraction were: “local parks and sport fields, provincial/territorial parks, national parks, other parks, wooded areas, campgrounds, picnic areas, golf courses, driving ranges, national wildlife and migratory areas, botanical gardens, and water bodies (such as oceans, lakes, rivers, streams)”. This procedure resulted in 82 buffers, primarily in remote northern regions, with no green space area. These buffers were visually examined using Google Earth 6 software (Google Inc., Mountain View, CA), which suggested the presence of green space. Therefore, it was assumed that the GIS database was incomplete for these regions, and these 82 schools and their students were excluded. There were 35 buffers with no water areas. The same quality checks were employed and these buffers were included in the analysis. This study measured public natural space in three ways: total natural space, green space, and blue space. Total natural space was the total area of the all public natural features collected within the buffer, green space included only land features, and blue space included only water features from the extraction. The percentage of total land within each buffer that consisted of total natural space, green space, and blue space was estimated, and the buffers were divided into equal quartiles based upon the distribution of values for each measure. Positive emotional well-being Positive emotional well-being was measured using the Cantril ladder [49]. Students were asked to rank their current state of life on a 10-point scale, ranging from worst possible (0) to best possible (10) life (see Additional file 1). Positive emotional well-being was measured by a score of 8 and above, based upon established precedents [45, 50]. Unlike measures of emotional feelings to immediate triggers, this ladder is a direct and global indicator of subjective well-being over time [45, 51]. The Cantril ladder is an established research tool, often used to measure subjective well-being, life satisfaction, quality of life, and overall happiness. It has been considered well-developed in the literature with good validity and stability, and reasonable reliability [52]. The use of the ladder has been adapted for young people [45]. Potential covariates Potential covariates were considered a priori based upon associations with emotional well-being and/or their use in similar research. These variables will be discussed according to their hypothesized effects as a potential confounder and/or effect modifier (moderator), and justifications follow. Confounders Individual socio-economic status (SES) and perceived neighborhood safety were self-reported by student participants. SES has been shown to be a strong determinant of health [53], and has been identified as a common confounder in previous research [28, 31, 32, 36]. The current analysis used the Family Affluence Scale (FAS) to represent student SES. This scale combines four items of equal weight: number of vehicles owned in family, having a bedroom to oneself, number of family vacations in the past year, and number of computers owned [54]. Perceived neighborhood safety may be influenced by physical neighborhood features, and may play a role in the neighborhood context of health [55]. This variable was based on student responses using a Likert scale (‘strongly agree’ to ‘strongly disagree’) to the statement “it is safe for younger children to play outside during the day”. Potential confounders at the area level included neighborhood aesthetics, neighborhood SES, and urban/rural geographic location. Neighborhoods perceived as having better aesthetics have been associated with better self-reported mental health in adults [56]. Two questions describing neighborhood aesthetics were obtained from the HBSC Administrator Questionnaire. Each school administrator was asked to what extent there were “garbage, litter, or broken glass in the street or road, on sidewalks, or in yards” and “vacant/shabby houses and buildings” in their school’s neighborhood. Three items from the 2006 Canadian Census [44] were used to obtain a composite measure representing neighborhood SES: median household income, employment rate, and the percentage of the population with greater than high school education. Rank scores for these items were combined for each buffer, and buffers were divided into low, medium, and high tertiles of SES based on overall rank scores, as per existing precedents [47, 48]. Urban/rural geographic location was hypothesized to be associated with natural space [57] and has been shown to be associated with health outcomes [58]. This study classified each buffer according to community size as defined by Statistics Canada and measured by the Census (population counts from 2001 and 2006): rural area (<10 000 persons), small city (10 000 – 99 999 persons), or metropolitan area (>100 000 persons)[59]. Effect modifiers (Moderators) Age, gender, and ethnicity were each hypothesized to modify the relationship between natural space and positive emotional well-being. The relationship between nature and health has been shown to be different among different age groups [31, 34, 38]. With respect to gender, girls experience lower emotional well-being compared to boys, thus it is sensible to examine the relationship separately [8]. Ethnicity has also been shown to affect health status among children [60] and may modify the relationship between nature and health. For example, in a study among the Dutch population, effect estimates were different for European descendents and non-European immigrants [27]. In our study, ethnicity was self-identified by student participants, and categories were combined based on similarities in geography and/or culture. Urban/rural geographic location was also considered as a potential moderator as there has been evidence for differences in the relationship between nature and health across difference levels of urbanicity [27, 38]. Study population For this analysis, students who lived beyond a 1-hour travel distance from school were excluded as the 5 km residential space surrounding school had less relevance to their living environment. Additionally, students attending the 82 schools with missing green space information were excluded. This resulted in a total of 22 171 students in 354 schools available for study. Upon removal of missing data for other key variables, the final sample was 17 249 students in 317 schools (Figure 1). There were no significant differences between those excluded and included in the analysis by most demographic characteristics (age, ethnicity, family affluence) and other potential covariates. The final sample had a slightly higher proportion of girls (by 2.9%) and a slightly lower proportion of those reporting positive emotional well-being (by 3.0%). A slightly lower proportion of land area in the buffers was identified as natural space in the final sample (by 2.0%). Study sample flow chart showing incremental order of exclusion. Statistical analyses were performed using SAS 9.2 software (SAS Institute Inc., Carry, NC). Key variables were described using conventional descriptive statistics. Multilevel logistic regression modeling was used to examine relationships between natural space and individual- and area-level covariates and positive emotional well-being, while also accounting for the clustered nature of the sample. The PROC GLIMMIX procedure was used to fit generalized linear models with a binomial distribution and a logit link. All models used a Newton–Raphson with ridging technique to aid convergence. Initially, a null model was fitted to examine area-level variance. Based on an empty logistic regression model, the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was 2.85%, indicating that 2.85% of the total variance in positive emotional well-being was accounted for by the area level. Models were built incrementally, as per existing precedents for multilevel modeling [61]: Model 1 controlled for all individual-level covariates (level 1), Model 2 simultaneously considered individual- and area-level (level 2) covariates, and Model 3 fitted all statistically significant individual- and area-level covariates with backwards elimination at p < 0.05. Covariates were removed based on descending order of significance in the model, and the consequences of their removal on the main effect estimates were checked as per a change in estimate approach; variables that caused a change in the main estimates of greater than 10% were kept in the final model. Interaction terms were created for those considered a priori and tested within the final model. However, no significant interactions by age (p = 0.29), gender (p = 0.50), ethnicity (p = 0.17), or urban/rural geographic location (p = 0.28) were observed. Models were also fitted with random slopes of the main exposure variable, but the fit was not improved from the model assuming fixed slopes. Therefore, all models in the analysis contained random intercepts only. Since the outcome of positive emotional well-being was common (>10%), odds ratio from regression models were converted to relative risks using Zhang and Yu’s method [62]. A stratified analysis was also conducted since the distributions of various natural space features were found to be different across rural, small city, and metropolitan areas (data not shown). Finally, a sensitivity analysis was conducted because not all student participants may have lived within the 5 km buffer of their school. Distance from school was calculated using GIS, and the regression analysis was repeated for those students who lived within a 5 km direct distance of their school (N = 9 271), as per their home postal codes. Human subjects The HBSC holds ethics approval from the Queen’s University General Research Ethics Board (approval GEDUC: 430–9). Consent was received from school boards, schools, and parents/guardians prior to survey execution. At the student level, participation was based upon implicit or explicit consent, as per local school board requirements. Descriptive findings Descriptions of the student population (N = 17 249) and participating schools (N = 317) are provided in Tables 1 and 2. Slightly higher proportions of girls were included compared to boys (by 5%) over a range of ages. The sample consisted mostly of Caucasian-identified students (71.0%), students from highly affluent families (57.7%), and students from small cities (41.1%). On average, 27.2% of the area within the 5 km buffers was comprised of natural space (17.4% green space and 9.8% blue space). Descriptive characteristics of student study population (N = 17 249) Individual-level West Asian and Arab Family affluence Low (FAS 0–3) Medium (FAS 4–5) High (FAS 6–7) Neighborhood is safe for playing 1 (disagree/strongly disagree) 2 (neither agree/disagree) 3 (agree) 4 (strongly agree) Area-level Neighborhood rundown houses Minor problem Moderate/major problem Neighborhood litter/garbage Neighborhood SES Low (lowest tertile) High (highest tertile) Urban/rural geographic location Rural area (<10 000) Small city (10 000–99 999) Metropolitan area (≥100 000) FAS, Family Affluence Scale. SES, Socio-economic status. Descriptive characteristics of study schools (N = 317) according to area-level variables Total natural space As seen in Table 3, a slightly higher proportion of boys reported positive emotional well-being compared to girls (58.5% versus 51.6%). There were noticeable and statistically significant trends in the associations among positive emotional well-being and younger ages, higher family affluence, higher perceived neighborhood safety, lower neighborhood rundown houses, and lower neighborhood litter/garbage problems. Ethnicity was also significantly associated with positive emotional well-being, with the proportion of students reporting positive emotional well-being lowest among Aboriginal students (41.4%). Positive emotional well-being was not noticeably different across levels of neighborhood SES or urban/rural geographic location. Bivariate and multivariate analyses of association between total natural space and positive emotional well-being (N = 17 249) Model PEWa Model 1b Model 2c Model 3d RR (95% CI) 1 (0.0% - 8.8%) 2 (8.8% - 24.3%) 0.94 (0.88-1.00) 3 (24.3% - 46.3%) P trend <0.0001 2 (neither agree/disagree The intraclass correlation coefficient is 2.85%. a Model PEW: Bivariate models of positive emotional well-being and each covariate. b Model 1: Multivariate model with individual-level covariates only. c Model 2: Multivariate model with individual- and area-level covariates. d Model 3: Multivariate model with individual- and area-level covariates significant at p < 0.05 in Model 2. RR (95% CI), Risk ratio (95% Confidence Intervals). Relation between natural space and emotional well-being Table 3 also presents a hierarchical series of multivariate analyses. The effect estimates observed for the relationship between total natural space and positive emotional well-being in the final model were not statistically significant, were inconsistent, and no significant linear trends were present. Compared to students living in the lowest quartile of natural space, the strongest relationship existed for those who lived in the third quartile (RR: 1.05; 95% CI: 1.00-1.10), although the magnitude of effect was weak. Throughout the model building process, individual-level variables were consistently associated with positive emotional well-being. For example, in the final multivariate model, girls were less likely to report positive emotional well-being compared to boys (RR: 0.88; 95% CI: 0.86-0.91). Older students reported lower emotional well-being compared to their younger counterparts (RR for students ≥16 years compared to those ≤11 years: 0.81; 95% CI: 0.75-0.87). Aboriginal students reported lower emotional well-being compared to Caucasian students (RR: 0.81; 95% CI: 0.75-0.87). Students from highly affluent families experienced higher emotional well-being compared to those from the least affluent families (RR: 1.27; 95% CI: 1.23-1.31). Reported high levels of perceived neighborhood safety were associated with positive emotional well-being (RR: 1.35; 95% CI: 1.28-1.41). High levels of perceived rundown houses were weakly associated with decreased emotional well-being (RR: 0.92; 95% CI: 0.85-1.00). Table 4 summarizes the focal relationships between the three measures of natural space with positive emotional well-being. The results were adjusted for the same covariates as determined in Model 3 of Table 3. The pattern of effects across quartiles appeared similar for total natural space, green space, and blue space. There was a significant linear trend observed for the overall relationship with blue space (p = 0.04), although the effects were weak. Results from a stratified analysis showed different effects across urban/rural geographic location (Table 4). Although effects were weak, stronger protective effects of total natural space and blue space were detected in small cities compared to rural and metropolitan areas. Multivariate subgroup analyses of associations between various natural space measures and positive emotional well-being (N = 17 249) Quartiles RR (95% CI)a By urban/rural geographic location Rural area Small city a Adjusted for gender, age, ethnicity, family affluence, perceived neighborhood safety, and neighborhood rundown houses as determined in Model 3 of Table 3. The sensitivity analysis conducted among students known to live within 5 km of their school is presented in Table 5. Characteristics of this subsample (N = 9 271) were similar to those of the main study sample. There was a weak protective effect found in the third quartile of total natural space, compared to quartile one (RR: 1.11; 95% CI: 1:05–1.17), and there was a significant linear trend (p = 0.04). The pattern of effects for green space was inconsistent, was not statistically significant, and no linear trend was detected. With regards to blue space, there was a weak protective effect with a significant linear trend, and this was similarly observed for small cities and metropolitan areas. Differences in effects across urban/rural geographic location can only be compared between small cities and metropolitan areas because no results were obtained for rural areas due to lack of convergence in model building. The strongest effects were detected for the relationship between green space and positive emotional well-being in small cities, although once again, effects were modestly weak and no significant trend was detected. Sensitivity analysis of selected students known to live within 5 km buffer (N = 9 271) Our study findings suggest that, in general, public natural space is not strongly associated with positive emotional well-being in young people. The observed associations were weak and lacked consistency. Sub-analyses with green space and blue space and the sensitivity analysis also demonstrated weak associations and inconsistent trends. However, the findings in small cities suggest a small difference in positive emotional well-being based on the context of geographic location, such that youth in small cities may benefit more from natural space. The trend detected with blue space suggests a mechanistic difference between how blue and green spaces influence emotional well-being. Nonetheless, the weak effect estimates render these observations inconclusive. The pattern seen in the effect estimates detected in quartile 3 suggests that moderate exposure to public natural space in one’s neighborhood environment may be most beneficial. A possible explanation for a lower protective effect in areas of higher exposure (i.e. quartile 4) may be linked to the composition of natural space. Different types of natural space may have differential importance based on quality and relevance to youth. For example, quartile 4 was made up of a greater proportion of wooded areas (see Additional file 2). These types of green space may not be maintained and/or conducive to activities similar to areas such as parks. This suggests that these areas may not be as relevant for emotional well-being among youth, if a relationship exists. Alternatively, the higher effect detected in quartile 3 may suggest a more optimal environmental composition for emotional well-being. For example, these neighborhoods contained more blue space, and thus the detected relationship may be explained by exposure to water. Several personal factors were modestly associated with emotional well-being in young people. These findings were in general consistent with existing literature. Girls may be at greater risk of poor emotional well-being [8, 31]; positive emotional well-being may decline with age through adolescence [8]; positive emotional well-being was associated with higher family affluence [19], higher levels of perceived neighborhood safety [55], and lower levels of perceived rundown houses in neighborhoods [63]. There were also differences across ethnicities, with positive emotional well-being particularly low among Aboriginal students [64], although some sample sizes were low for non-Caucasian students. These associations indicate the importance of individual factors on emotional well-being among youth. Further, the intraclass correlation coefficient (2.85%) supports that variation in emotional well-being was more accounted for by the individual level rather than the area level. Although previous population studies have made conclusions for an association between nature and health, many studies found weak effect estimates, similar in magnitude to those detected in our study. Research from the Netherlands has found varying degrees of associations between green space and high perceived health (β: -0.009; SE: 0.003 [35]; β: 0.006; SE: 0.001 [27]), and low prevalence of mental health illnesses (OR range: 0.95-0.98) [31]. Similarly, a study from England showed that those from areas of higher green space reported lower rates of poor health (β: -0.021; p < 0.000; R2 = 0.8398) [28]. A study among Japanese seniors yielded weak odds ratio of 1.13-1.17 for a relationship between green space access and longevity [32]. Compared to studies that have found relationships between natural space and health, there are a number of possible explanations for the null findings of our study. First, studies, such as Sugiyama et al.’s [35], concluding strong associations have been observed in adults, and it is possible that the effect of natural space is different in young populations. Possible reasons for differences in effect between youth and adults may lie in variations in perceptions, usage, and interactions with natural space. Youth may not perceive natural space in the same way, and thus they may use and interact with natural space differently [65]. While adults may appreciate natural space for tranquility and reflection, youth may associate natural space more with play and socialization. Further, while adults may dictate their own decisions on where, when, and how to interact with natural space, youth may not have the same independent mobility because parents/guardians’ decisions may influence where they go and where they play [66, 67]. Alternatively, for those youth with independent mobility, natural space may serve as gathering places for delinquent and antisocial behaviors instead of retreats for health promotion [67]. Second, the relationship between nature and emotional well-being may be context specific. As seen through the stratified analysis, effects were more pronounced for those in small cities. This finding was similar to Maas et al.’s observation that the relationship between green space and disease was strongest in slightly urban areas [31]. Young people may have a different relationship with public natural space based on the composition of their communities. Nature deficit disorder, a condition describing the decreasing use of natural space among youth because of increased electronic media and/or greater safety concerns surrounding young people being outside without supervision, is particularly high among urban youth [68–70]. In contrast, rural areas typically have an over-abundance of natural space, with few youth having low exposure. Therefore, the role of natural space may not be as important as other factors that affect emotional well-being. The lack of associations in rural areas in our study may be reflected by the lack of data for private and agricultural natural space, which account for a large proportion of the natural space in rural areas. Further, our findings may be attributable to variations in geography, lifestyle, and/or culture that are specific to Canada. To our knowledge, no existing studies have assessed this relationship at a population level in Canada. Richardson et al. suggested that the high abundance and less spatial variation of green space in New Zealand, which is different compared to the Netherlands and England where much of the previous literature is based upon, accounted for the lack of association found between green space and mortality risk in their study [71]. Similarly, there is a different spatial composition in Canada compared to these countries. Although Canada has greater total land size and natural space area, the average natural space within the 5 km buffer measured in this study was lower than those measured in the Netherlands and England [27, 28]. This may indicate that more of the natural space in Canada is located outside of the living neighborhood. The “car culture” [72] and tendency to drive may encourage Canadians to seek out faraway natural settings, and perhaps natural space close to home may not be as relevant. Additionally, climatic variations may play a role in how Canadians interact with the natural environment differently than those studied in other nations. For instance, patterns of usage of natural space would differ during the summer and winter months, and Canadians may have limited access to natural space due to winter conditions. This may have affected our ability to detect an effect as the HBSC was conducted during the fall, winter, and early spring. Strengths of this study warrant comment. In a national analysis, we integrated health and spatial data to investigate the relationship between natural space and emotional well-being. This study intentionally focused this relationship in populations of young people. It is also one of the few population studies that have employed GIS techniques to obtain objective measures of natural space. Further, the study is well powered, and the multilevel modeling allowed for examination of effects at the individual and area levels. The analysis investigated and controlled for important covariates in the relationship of interest, which also addressed a methodological gap of previous research. This study has some shortcomings. First, the cross-sectional design does not allow for confirmation of temporality, and subsequently, causality. Second, the measure of public natural space is limited because no data were available for privately owned natural space such as yards at the home and agricultural land. Therefore, the exposure measurement may be underestimated, particularly in rural areas. As well, this study was not able to consider the quality and usage of the natural space measured, which may be a critical part in the relationship between nature and emotional well-being. Third, the use of the 5 km radius buffer around schools may lead to misclassification of the natural space measures as this was used as a proxy for home neighborhoods. However, the findings in the sensitivity analysis suggest that this was not a major concern because results for those known to live within the buffer were similar to those in the overall study population. This type of research has the potential to inform the direction of health promotion strategies and urban planning decisions. Firstly, descriptive findings indicate that advocacy for policies and funding devoted to promotion of positive emotional well-being among youth is merited since only over half of young Canadians reported high levels. Exposure to public natural space appeared to have limited importance on positive emotional well-being of young people. There may be differences in this effect based on geographic context worthy of further consideration. Overall, focus should be placed upon more proximal variables such as individual factors and family affluence that showed stronger influences. This information is important to not only understand the health of this population, but may also help in the evaluation of current efforts that focus on emotional well-being among youth. Further, such knowledge may be useful in identifying vulnerable groups that require directed attention. Understanding factors that strongly influence emotional well-being may help to create more effective and specific public health programs and strategies. Although findings of this study did not indicate a strong association between natural space and emotional well-being in young people, the potential health effects of natural space cannot be dismissed entirely. Natural space may, for instance, have different effects in adult populations, and it may impact other health outcomes such as physical activity that were not assessed in this study. This population study of Canadian youth did not provide strong evidence for the relationship between natural space and emotional well-being. The relation between nature and health may be context specific, and thus different for different geographic locations and for the Canadian population. Next steps in this field include studies examining the quality and usage of natural space and the role of context as determinants of well-being. Findings lend strong support that the main influences of emotional well-being among youth are personal factors. Efforts to promote positive emotional well-being in this age group must focus on the individual context as a priority. HBSC: Health Behaviour In School-Aged Children GIS: SES: Socio-economic status FAS: Family Affluence Scale SAS: Statistical Analysis Software RR (95% CI): Risk ratio (95% Confidence Intervals) We thank Andrei Rosu for contributions in the GIS data collection, as well as PhD candidates Laura Seliske and Valerie Carson for intellectual contributions. The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Survey is a collaborative study through the World Health Organization – European Region (International Coordinator: Candice Currie, University of Edinburgh; Data Bank Manager: Oddrun Samdal, University of Bergen). This manuscript reports data solely from Canada (Principal Investigators: William Pickett and John Freeman; National Coordinator: Matthew King, Queen’s University). The Canadian HBSC was funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada and Health Canada. This study was funded by an operating grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (MOP 97962) and an operating grant co-funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (PCR 101415). QH was supported by a master’s award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and a research fellowship from Empire Life. IJ was supported by a Canada Research Chair and an investigator award from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. These funding bodies were not involved in the design, collection, analysis, or interpretation of the study data. 12889_2012_5306_MOESM1_ESM.doc Additional file 1: Emotional well-being item on HBSC Survey.(DOC 46 KB) 12889_2012_5306_MOESM2_ESM.doc Additional file 2: Median proportions of natural space features by quartile of total natural space.(DOC 42 KB) 12889_2012_5306_MOESM3_ESM.pdf Authors’ original file for figure 1 The conception and design of this study was a collaborative effort between all study authors. Access to and collection of data were led by WP and IJ. QH performed the statistical analysis and drafted the manuscript, with conceptual and editorial support from WP, WC, and IJ. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. 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__label__wiki	0.653835	0.653835	A. C. Doyle - The Adventure of The Silver Blaze : Sherlock Holmes Written or Published Around December 12, 1892 : British Authors, Scottish Authors, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of The Silver Blaze : The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of The Silver Blaze Adventure I. Silver Blaze “I am afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go,” said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning. “Go! Where to?” “To Dartmoor; to King’s Pyland.” I was not surprised. Indeed, my only wonder was that he had not already been mixed up in this extraordinary case, which was the one topic of conversation through the length and breadth of England. For a whole day my companion had rambled about the room with his chin upon his chest and his brows knitted, charging and recharging his pipe with the strongest black tobacco, and absolutely deaf to any of my questions or remarks. Fresh editions of every paper had been sent up by our news agent, only to be glanced over and tossed down into a corner. Yet, silent as he was, I knew perfectly well what it was over which he was brooding. There was but one problem before the public which could challenge his powers of analysis, and that was the singular disappearance of the favorite for the Wessex Cup, and the tragic murder of its trainer. When, therefore, he suddenly announced his intention of setting out for the scene of the drama it was only what I had both expected and hoped for. “I should be most happy to go down with you if I should not be in the way,” said I. “My dear Watson, you would confer a great favor upon me by coming. And I think that your time will not be misspent, for there are points about the case which promise to make it an absolutely unique one. We have, I think, just time to catch our train at Paddington, and I will go further into the matter upon our journey. You would oblige me by bringing with you your very excellent field-glass.” And so it happened that an hour or so later I found myself in the corner of a first-class carriage flying along en route for Exeter, while Sherlock Holmes, with his sharp, eager face framed in his ear-flapped travelling-cap, dipped rapidly into the bundle of fresh papers which he had procured at Paddington. We had left Reading far behind us before he thrust the last one of them under the seat, and offered me his cigar-case. “We are going well,” said he, looking out the window and glancing at his watch. “Our rate at present is fifty-three and a half miles an hour.” “I have not observed the quarter-mile posts,” said I. “Nor have I. But the telegraph posts upon this line are sixty yards apart, and the calculation is a simple one. I presume that you have looked into this matter of the murder of John Straker and the disappearance of Silver Blaze?” “I have seen what the Telegraph and the Chronicle have to say.” “It is one of those cases where the art of the reasoner should be used rather for the sifting of details than for the acquiring of fresh evidence. The tragedy has been so uncommon, so complete and of such personal importance to so many people, that we are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture, and hypothesis. The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact—of absolute undeniable fact—from the embellishments of theorists and reporters. Then, having established ourselves upon this sound basis, it is our duty to see what inferences may be drawn and what are the special points upon which the whole mystery turns. On Tuesday evening I received telegrams from both Colonel Ross, the owner of the horse, and from Inspector Gregory, who is looking after the case, inviting my cooperation.” “Tuesday evening!” I exclaimed. “And this is Thursday morning. Why didn’t you go down yesterday?” “Because I made a blunder, my dear Watson—which is, I am afraid, a more common occurrence than any one would think who only knew me through your memoirs. The fact is that I could not believe it possible that the most remarkable horse in England could long remain concealed, especially in so sparsely inhabited a place as the north of Dartmoor. From hour to hour yesterday I expected to hear that he had been found, and that his abductor was the murderer of John Straker. When, however, another morning had come, and I found that beyond the arrest of young Fitzroy Simpson nothing had been done, I felt that it was time for me to take action. Yet in some ways I feel that yesterday has not been wasted.” “You have formed a theory, then?” “At least I have got a grip of the essential facts of the case. I shall enumerate them to you, for nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person, and I can hardly expect your co-operation if I do not show you the position from which we start.” I lay back against the cushions, puffing at my cigar, while Holmes, leaning forward, with his long, thin forefinger checking off the points upon the palm of his left hand, gave me a sketch of the events which had led to our journey. “Silver Blaze,” said he, “is from the Somomy stock, and holds as brilliant a record as his famous ancestor. He is now in his fifth year, and has brought in turn each of the prizes of the turf to Colonel Ross, his fortunate owner. Up to the time of the catastrophe he was the first favorite for the Wessex Cup, the betting being three to one on him. He has always, however, been a prime favorite with the racing public, and has never yet disappointed them, so that even at those odds enormous sums of money have been laid upon him. It is obvious, therefore, that there were many people who had the strongest interest in preventing Silver Blaze from being there at the fall of the flag next Tuesday. “The fact was, of course, appreciated at King’s Pyland, where the Colonel’s training-stable is situated. Every precaution was taken to guard the favorite. The trainer, John Straker, is a retired jockey who rode in Colonel Ross’s colors before he became too heavy for the weighing-chair. He has served the Colonel for five years as jockey and for seven as trainer, and has always shown himself to be a zealous and honest servant. Under him were three lads; for the establishment was a small one, containing only four horses in all. One of these lads sat up each night in the stable, while the others slept in the loft. All three bore excellent characters. John Straker, who is a married man, lived in a small villa about two hundred yards from the stables. He has no children, keeps one maid-servant, and is comfortably off. The country round is very lonely, but about half a mile to the north there is a small cluster of villas which have been built by a Tavistock contractor for the use of invalids and others who may wish to enjoy the pure Dartmoor air. Tavistock itself lies two miles to the west, while across the moor, also about two miles distant, is the larger training establishment of Mapleton, which belongs to Lord Backwater, and is managed by Silas Brown. In every other direction the moor is a complete wilderness, inhabited only by a few roaming gypsies. Such was the general situation last Monday night when the catastrophe occurred. “On that evening the horses had been exercised and watered as usual, and the stables were locked up at nine o’clock. Two of the lads walked up to the trainer’s house, where they had supper in the kitchen, while the third, Ned Hunter, remained on guard. At a few minutes after nine the maid, Edith Baxter, carried down to the stables his supper, which consisted of a dish of curried mutton. She took no liquid, as there was a water-tap in the stables, and it was the rule that the lad on duty should drink nothing else. The maid carried a lantern with her, as it was very dark and the path ran across the open moor. “Edith Baxter was within thirty yards of the stables, when a man appeared out of the darkness and called to her to stop. As he stepped into the circle of yellow light thrown by the lantern she saw that he was a person of gentlemanly bearing, dressed in a gray suit of tweeds, with a cloth cap. He wore gaiters, and carried a heavy stick with a knob to it. She was most impressed, however, by the extreme pallor of his face and by the nervousness of his manner. His age, she thought, would be rather over thirty than under it. “‘Can you tell me where I am?’ he asked. ‘I had almost made up my mind to sleep on the moor, when I saw the light of your lantern.’ “‘You are close to the King’s Pyland training-stables,’ said she. “‘Oh, indeed! What a stroke of luck!’ he cried. ‘I understand that a stable-boy sleeps there alone every night. Perhaps that is his supper which you are carrying to him. Now I am sure that you would not be too proud to earn the price of a new dress, would you?’ He took a piece of white paper folded up out of his waistcoat pocket. ‘See that the boy has this to-night, and you shall have the prettiest frock that money can buy.’ “She was frightened by the earnestness of his manner, and ran past him to the window through which she was accustomed to hand the meals. It was already opened, and Hunter was seated at the small table inside. She had begun to tell him of what had happened, when the stranger came up again. “‘Good-evening,’ said he, looking through the window. ‘I wanted to have a word with you.’ The girl has sworn that as he spoke she noticed the corner of the little paper packet protruding from his closed hand. “‘What business have you here?’ asked the lad. “‘It’s business that may put something into your pocket,’ said the other. ‘You’ve two horses in for the Wessex Cup—Silver Blaze and Bayard. Let me have the straight tip and you won’t be a loser. Is it a fact that at the weights Bayard could give the other a hundred yards in five furlongs, and that the stable have put their money on him?’ “‘So, you’re one of those damned touts!’ cried the lad. ‘I’ll show you how we serve them in King’s Pyland.’ He sprang up and rushed across the stable to unloose the dog. The girl fled away to the house, but as she ran she looked back and saw that the stranger was leaning through the window. A minute later, however, when Hunter rushed out with the hound he was gone, and though he ran all round the buildings he failed to find any trace of him.” “One moment,” I asked. “Did the stable-boy, when he ran out with the dog, leave the door unlocked behind him?” “Excellent, Watson, excellent!” murmured my companion. “The importance of the point struck me so forcibly that I sent a special wire to Dartmoor yesterday to clear the matter up. The boy locked the door before he left it. The window, I may add, was not large enough for a man to get through. “Hunter waited until his fellow-grooms had returned, when he sent a message to the trainer and told him what had occurred. Straker was excited at hearing the account, although he does not seem to have quite realized its true significance. It left him, however, vaguely uneasy, and Mrs. Straker, waking at one in the morning, found that he was dressing. In reply to her inquiries, he said that he could not sleep on account of his anxiety about the horses, and that he intended to walk down to the stables to see that all was well. She begged him to remain at home, as she could hear the rain pattering against the window, but in spite of her entreaties he pulled on his large mackintosh and left the house. “Mrs. Straker awoke at seven in the morning, to find that her husband had not yet returned. She dressed herself hastily, called the maid, and set off for the stables. The door was open; inside, huddled together upon a chair, Hunter was sunk in a state of absolute stupor, the favorite’s stall was empty, and there were no signs of his trainer. “The two lads who slept in the chaff-cutting loft above the harness-room were quickly aroused. They had heard nothing during the night, for they are both sound sleepers. Hunter was obviously under the influence of some powerful drug, and as no sense could be got out of him, he was left to sleep it off while the two lads and the two women ran out in search of the absentees. They still had hopes that the trainer had for some reason taken out the horse for early exercise, but on ascending the knoll near the house, from which all the neighboring moors were visible, they not only could see no signs of the missing favorite, but they perceived something which warned them that they were in the presence of a tragedy. “About a quarter of a mile from the stables John Straker’s overcoat was flapping from a furze-bush. Immediately beyond there was a bowl-shaped depression in the moor, and at the bottom of this was found the dead body of the unfortunate trainer. His head had been shattered by a savage blow from some heavy weapon, and he was wounded on the thigh, where there was a long, clean cut, inflicted evidently by some very sharp instrument. It was clear, however, that Straker had defended himself vigorously against his assailants, for in his right hand he held a small knife, which was clotted with blood up to the handle, while in his left he clasped a red and black silk cravat, which was recognized by the maid as having been worn on the preceding evening by the stranger who had visited the stables. Hunter, on recovering from his stupor, was also quite positive as to the ownership of the cravat. He was equally certain that the same stranger had, while standing at the window, drugged his curried mutton, and so deprived the stables of their watchman. As to the missing horse, there were abundant proofs in the mud which lay at the bottom of the fatal hollow that he had been there at the time of the struggle. But from that morning he has disappeared, and although a large reward has been offered, and all the gypsies of Dartmoor are on the alert, no news has come of him. Finally, an analysis has shown that the remains of his supper left by the stable-lad contain an appreciable quantity of powdered opium, while the people at the house partook of the same dish on the same night without any ill effect. “Those are the main facts of the case, stripped of all surmise, and stated as baldly as possible. I shall now recapitulate what the police have done in the matter. “Inspector Gregory, to whom the case has been committed, is an extremely competent officer. Were he but gifted with imagination he might rise to great heights in his profession. On his arrival he promptly found and arrested the man upon whom suspicion naturally rested. There was little difficulty in finding him, for he inhabited one of those villas which I have mentioned. His name, it appears, was Fitzroy Simpson. He was a man of excellent birth and education, who had squandered a fortune upon the turf, and who lived now by doing a little quiet and genteel book-making in the sporting clubs of London. An examination of his betting-book shows that bets to the amount of five thousand pounds had been registered by him against the favorite. On being arrested he volunteered the statement that he had come down to Dartmoor in the hope of getting some information about the King’s Pyland horses, and also about Desborough, the second favorite, which was in charge of Silas Brown at the Mapleton stables. He did not attempt to deny that he had acted as described upon the evening before, but declared that he had no sinister designs, and had simply wished to obtain first-hand information. When confronted with his cravat, he turned very pale, and was utterly unable to account for its presence in the hand of the murdered man. His wet clothing showed that he had been out in the storm of the night before, and his stick, which was a Penang-lawyer weighted with lead, was just such a weapon as might, by repeated blows, have inflicted the terrible injuries to which the trainer had succumbed. On the other hand, there was no wound upon his person, while the state of Straker’s knife would show that one at least of his assailants must bear his mark upon him. There you have it all in a nutshell, Watson, and if you can give me any light I shall be infinitely obliged to you.” I had listened with the greatest interest to the statement which Holmes, with characteristic clearness, had laid before me. Though most of the facts were familiar to me, I had not sufficiently appreciated their relative importance, nor their connection to each other. “Is it not possible,” I suggested, “that the incised wound upon Straker may have been caused by his own knife in the convulsive struggles which follow any brain injury?” “It is more than possible; it is probable,” said Holmes. “In that case one of the main points in favor of the accused disappears.” “And yet,” said I, “even now I fail to understand what the theory of the police can be.” “I am afraid that whatever theory we state has very grave objections to it,” returned my companion. “The police imagine, I take it, that this Fitzroy Simpson, having drugged the lad, and having in some way obtained a duplicate key, opened the stable door and took out the horse, with the intention, apparently, of kidnapping him altogether. His bridle is missing, so that Simpson must have put this on. Then, having left the door open behind him, he was leading the horse away over the moor, when he was either met or overtaken by the trainer. A row naturally ensued. Simpson beat out the trainer’s brains with his heavy stick without receiving any injury from the small knife which Straker used in self-defence, and then the thief either led the horse on to some secret hiding-place, or else it may have bolted during the struggle, and be now wandering out on the moors. That is the case as it appears to the police, and improbable as it is, all other explanations are more improbable still. However, I shall very quickly test the matter when I am once upon the spot, and until then I cannot really see how we can get much further than our present position.” It was evening before we reached the little town of Tavistock, which lies, like the boss of a shield, in the middle of the huge circle of Dartmoor. Two gentlemen were awaiting us in the station—the one a tall, fair man with lion-like hair and beard and curiously penetrating light blue eyes; the other a small, alert person, very neat and dapper, in a frock-coat and gaiters, with trim little side-whiskers and an eye-glass. The latter was Colonel Ross, the well-known sportsman; the other, Inspector Gregory, a man who was rapidly making his name in the English detective service. “I am delighted that you have come down, Mr. Holmes,” said the Colonel. “The Inspector here has done all that could possibly be suggested, but I wish to leave no stone unturned in trying to avenge poor Straker and in recovering my horse.” “Have there been any fresh developments?” asked Holmes. “I am sorry to say that we have made very little progress,” said the Inspector. “We have an open carriage outside, and as you would no doubt like to see the place before the light fails, we might talk it over as we drive.” A minute later we were all seated in a comfortable landau, and were rattling through the quaint old Devonshire city. Inspector Gregory was full of his case, and poured out a stream of remarks, while Holmes threw in an occasional question or interjection. Colonel Ross leaned back with his arms folded and his hat tilted over his eyes, while I listened with interest to the dialogue of the two detectives. Gregory was formulating his theory, which was almost exactly what Holmes had foretold in the train. “The net is drawn pretty close round Fitzroy Simpson,” he remarked, “and I believe myself that he is our man. At the same time I recognize that the evidence is purely circumstantial, and that some new development may upset it.” “How about Straker’s knife?” “We have quite come to the conclusion that he wounded himself in his fall.” “My friend Dr. Watson made that suggestion to me as we came down. If so, it would tell against this man Simpson.” “Undoubtedly. He has neither a knife nor any sign of a wound. The evidence against him is certainly very strong. He had a great interest in the disappearance of the favorite. He lies under suspicion of having poisoned the stable-boy, he was undoubtedly out in the storm, he was armed with a heavy stick, and his cravat was found in the dead man’s hand. I really think we have enough to go before a jury.” Holmes shook his head. “A clever counsel would tear it all to rags,” said he. “Why should he take the horse out of the stable? If he wished to injure it why could he not do it there? Has a duplicate key been found in his possession? What chemist sold him the powdered opium? Above all, where could he, a stranger to the district, hide a horse, and such a horse as this? What is his own explanation as to the paper which he wished the maid to give to the stable-boy?” “He says that it was a ten-pound note. One was found in his purse. But your other difficulties are not so formidable as they seem. He is not a stranger to the district. He has twice lodged at Tavistock in the summer. The opium was probably brought from London. The key, having served its purpose, would be hurled away. The horse may be at the bottom of one of the pits or old mines upon the moor.” “What does he say about the cravat?” “He acknowledges that it is his, and declares that he had lost it. But a new element has been introduced into the case which may account for his leading the horse from the stable.” Holmes pricked up his ears. “We have found traces which show that a party of gypsies encamped on Monday night within a mile of the spot where the murder took place. On Tuesday they were gone. Now, presuming that there was some understanding between Simpson and these gypsies, might he not have been leading the horse to them when he was overtaken, and may they not have him now?” “It is certainly possible.” “The moor is being scoured for these gypsies. I have also examined every stable and out-house in Tavistock, and for a radius of ten miles.” “There is another training-stable quite close, I understand?” “Yes, and that is a factor which we must certainly not neglect. As Desborough, their horse, was second in the betting, they had an interest in the disappearance of the favorite. Silas Brown, the trainer, is known to have had large bets upon the event, and he was no friend to poor Straker. We have, however, examined the stables, and there is nothing to connect him with the affair.” “And nothing to connect this man Simpson with the interests of the Mapleton stables?” “Nothing at all.” Holmes leaned back in the carriage, and the conversation ceased. A few minutes later our driver pulled up at a neat little red-brick villa with overhanging eaves which stood by the road. Some distance off, across a paddock, lay a long gray-tiled out-building. In every other direction the low curves of the moor, bronze-colored from the fading ferns, stretched away to the sky-line, broken only by the steeples of Tavistock, and by a cluster of houses away to the westward which marked the Mapleton stables. We all sprang out with the exception of Holmes, who continued to lean back with his eyes fixed upon the sky in front of him, entirely absorbed in his own thoughts. It was only when I touched his arm that he roused himself with a violent start and stepped out of the carriage. “Excuse me,” said he, turning to Colonel Ross, who had looked at him in some surprise. “I was day-dreaming.” There was a gleam in his eyes and a suppressed excitement in his manner which convinced me, used as I was to his ways, that his hand was upon a clue, though I could not imagine where he had found it. “Perhaps you would prefer at once to go on to the scene of the crime, Mr. Holmes?” said Gregory. “I think that I should prefer to stay here a little and go into one or two questions of detail. Straker was brought back here, I presume?” “Yes; he lies upstairs. The inquest is to-morrow.” “He has been in your service some years, Colonel Ross?” “I have always found him an excellent servant.” “I presume that you made an inventory of what he had in his pockets at the time of his death, Inspector?” “I have the things themselves in the sitting-room, if you would care to see them.” “I should be very glad.” We all filed into the front room and sat round the central table while the Inspector unlocked a square tin box and laid a small heap of things before us. There was a box of vestas, two inches of tallow candle, an A D P brier-root pipe, a pouch of seal-skin with half an ounce of long-cut Cavendish, a silver watch with a gold chain, five sovereigns in gold, an aluminum pencil-case, a few papers, and an ivory-handled knife with a very delicate, inflexible blade marked Weiss & Co., London. “This is a very singular knife,” said Holmes, lifting it up and examining it minutely. “I presume, as I see blood-stains upon it, that it is the one which was found in the dead man’s grasp. Watson, this knife is surely in your line?” “It is what we call a cataract knife,” said I. “I thought so. A very delicate blade devised for very delicate work. A strange thing for a man to carry with him upon a rough expedition, especially as it would not shut in his pocket.” “The tip was guarded by a disk of cork which we found beside his body,” said the Inspector. “His wife tells us that the knife had lain upon the dressing-table, and that he had picked it up as he left the room. It was a poor weapon, but perhaps the best that he could lay his hands on at the moment.” “Very possible. How about these papers?” “Three of them are receipted hay-dealers’ accounts. One of them is a letter of instructions from Colonel Ross. This other is a milliner’s account for thirty-seven pounds fifteen made out by Madame Lesurier, of Bond Street, to William Derbyshire. Mrs. Straker tells us that Derbyshire was a friend of her husband’s and that occasionally his letters were addressed here.” “Madam Derbyshire had somewhat expensive tastes,” remarked Holmes, glancing down the account. “Twenty-two guineas is rather heavy for a single costume. However there appears to be nothing more to learn, and we may now go down to the scene of the crime.” As we emerged from the sitting-room a woman, who had been waiting in the passage, took a step forward and laid her hand upon the Inspector’s sleeve. Her face was haggard and thin and eager, stamped with the print of a recent horror. “Have you got them? Have you found them?” she panted. “No, Mrs. Straker. But Mr. Holmes here has come from London to help us, and we shall do all that is possible.” “Surely I met you in Plymouth at a garden-party some little time ago, Mrs. Straker?” said Holmes. “No, sir; you are mistaken.” “Dear me! Why, I could have sworn to it. You wore a costume of dove-colored silk with ostrich-feather trimming.” “I never had such a dress, sir,” answered the lady. “Ah, that quite settles it,” said Holmes. And with an apology he followed the Inspector outside. A short walk across the moor took us to the hollow in which the body had been found. At the brink of it was the furze-bush upon which the coat had been hung. “There was no wind that night, I understand,” said Holmes. “None; but very heavy rain.” “In that case the overcoat was not blown against the furze-bush, but placed there.” “Yes, it was laid across the bush.” “You fill me with interest, I perceive that the ground has been trampled up a good deal. No doubt many feet have been here since Monday night.” “A piece of matting has been laid here at the side, and we have all stood upon that.” “In this bag I have one of the boots which Straker wore, one of Fitzroy Simpson’s shoes, and a cast horseshoe of Silver Blaze.” “My dear Inspector, you surpass yourself!” Holmes took the bag, and, descending into the hollow, he pushed the matting into a more central position. Then stretching himself upon his face and leaning his chin upon his hands, he made a careful study of the trampled mud in front of him. “Hullo!” said he, suddenly. “What’s this?” It was a wax vesta half burned, which was so coated with mud that it looked at first like a little chip of wood. “I cannot think how I came to overlook it,” said the Inspector, with an expression of annoyance. “It was invisible, buried in the mud. I only saw it because I was looking for it.” “What! You expected to find it?” “I thought it not unlikely.” He took the boots from the bag, and compared the impressions of each of them with marks upon the ground. Then he clambered up to the rim of the hollow, and crawled about among the ferns and bushes. “I am afraid that there are no more tracks,” said the Inspector. “I have examined the ground very carefully for a hundred yards in each direction.” “Indeed!” said Holmes, rising. “I should not have the impertinence to do it again after what you say. But I should like to take a little walk over the moor before it grows dark, that I may know my ground to-morrow, and I think that I shall put this horseshoe into my pocket for luck.” Colonel Ross, who had shown some signs of impatience at my companion’s quiet and systematic method of work, glanced at his watch. “I wish you would come back with me, Inspector,” said he. “There are several points on which I should like your advice, and especially as to whether we do not owe it to the public to remove our horse’s name from the entries for the Cup.” “Certainly not,” cried Holmes, with decision. “I should let the name stand.” The Colonel bowed. “I am very glad to have had your opinion, sir,” said he. “You will find us at poor Straker’s house when you have finished your walk, and we can drive together into Tavistock.” He turned back with the Inspector, while Holmes and I walked slowly across the moor. The sun was beginning to sink behind the stables of Mapleton, and the long, sloping plain in front of us was tinged with gold, deepening into rich, ruddy browns where the faded ferns and brambles caught the evening light. But the glories of the landscape were all wasted upon my companion, who was sunk in the deepest thought. “It’s this way, Watson,” said he at last. “We may leave the question of who killed John Straker for the instant, and confine ourselves to finding out what has become of the horse. Now, supposing that he broke away during or after the tragedy, where could he have gone to? The horse is a very gregarious creature. If left to himself his instincts would have been either to return to King’s Pyland or go over to Mapleton. Why should he run wild upon the moor? He would surely have been seen by now. And why should gypsies kidnap him? These people always clear out when they hear of trouble, for they do not wish to be pestered by the police. They could not hope to sell such a horse. They would run a great risk and gain nothing by taking him. Surely that is clear.” “Where is he, then?” “I have already said that he must have gone to King’s Pyland or to Mapleton. He is not at King’s Pyland. Therefore he is at Mapleton. Let us take that as a working hypothesis and see what it leads us to. This part of the moor, as the Inspector remarked, is very hard and dry. But it falls away towards Mapleton, and you can see from here that there is a long hollow over yonder, which must have been very wet on Monday night. If our supposition is correct, then the horse must have crossed that, and there is the point where we should look for his tracks.” We had been walking briskly during this conversation, and a few more minutes brought us to the hollow in question. At Holmes’ request I walked down the bank to the right, and he to the left, but I had not taken fifty paces before I heard him give a shout, and saw him waving his hand to me. The track of a horse was plainly outlined in the soft earth in front of him, and the shoe which he took from his pocket exactly fitted the impression. “See the value of imagination,” said Holmes. “It is the one quality which Gregory lacks. We imagined what might have happened, acted upon the supposition, and find ourselves justified. Let us proceed.” We crossed the marshy bottom and passed over a quarter of a mile of dry, hard turf. Again the ground sloped, and again we came on the tracks. Then we lost them for half a mile, but only to pick them up once more quite close to Mapleton. It was Holmes who saw them first, and he stood pointing with a look of triumph upon his face. A man’s track was visible beside the horse’s. “The horse was alone before,” I cried. “Quite so. It was alone before. Hullo, what is this?” The double track turned sharp off and took the direction of King’s Pyland. Holmes whistled, and we both followed along after it. His eyes were on the trail, but I happened to look a little to one side, and saw to my surprise the same tracks coming back again in the opposite direction. “One for you, Watson,” said Holmes, when I pointed it out. “You have saved us a long walk, which would have brought us back on our own traces. Let us follow the return track.” We had not to go far. It ended at the paving of asphalt which led up to the gates of the Mapleton stables. As we approached, a groom ran out from them. “We don’t want any loiterers about here,” said he. “I only wished to ask a question,” said Holmes, with his finger and thumb in his waistcoat pocket. “Should I be too early to see your master, Mr. Silas Brown, if I were to call at five o’clock to-morrow morning?” “Bless you, sir, if any one is about he will be, for he is always the first stirring. But here he is, sir, to answer your questions for himself. No, sir, no; it is as much as my place is worth to let him see me touch your money. Afterwards, if you like.” As Sherlock Holmes replaced the half-crown which he had drawn from his pocket, a fierce-looking elderly man strode out from the gate with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. “What’s this, Dawson!” he cried. “No gossiping! Go about your business! And you, what the devil do you want here?” “Ten minutes’ talk with you, my good sir,” said Holmes in the sweetest of voices. “I’ve no time to talk to every gadabout. We want no stranger here. Be off, or you may find a dog at your heels.” Holmes leaned forward and whispered something in the trainer’s ear. He started violently and flushed to the temples. “It’s a lie!” he shouted, “an infernal lie!” “Very good. Shall we argue about it here in public or talk it over in your parlor?” “Oh, come in if you wish to.” Holmes smiled. “I shall not keep you more than a few minutes, Watson,” said he. “Now, Mr. Brown, I am quite at your disposal.” It was twenty minutes, and the reds had all faded into grays before Holmes and the trainer reappeared. Never have I seen such a change as had been brought about in Silas Brown in that short time. His face was ashy pale, beads of perspiration shone upon his brow, and his hands shook until the hunting-crop wagged like a branch in the wind. His bullying, overbearing manner was all gone too, and he cringed along at my companion’s side like a dog with its master. “Your instructions will be done. It shall all be done,” said he. “There must be no mistake,” said Holmes, looking round at him. The other winced as he read the menace in his eyes. “Oh no, there shall be no mistake. It shall be there. Should I change it first or not?” Holmes thought a little and then burst out laughing. “No, don’t,” said he; “I shall write to you about it. No tricks, now, or—” “Oh, you can trust me, you can trust me!” “Yes, I think I can. Well, you shall hear from me to-morrow.” He turned upon his heel, disregarding the trembling hand which the other held out to him, and we set off for King’s Pyland. “A more perfect compound of the bully, coward, and sneak than Master Silas Brown I have seldom met with,” remarked Holmes as we trudged along together. “He has the horse, then?” “He tried to bluster out of it, but I described to him so exactly what his actions had been upon that morning that he is convinced that I was watching him. Of course you observed the peculiarly square toes in the impressions, and that his own boots exactly corresponded to them. Again, of course no subordinate would have dared to do such a thing. I described to him how, when according to his custom he was the first down, he perceived a strange horse wandering over the moor. How he went out to it, and his astonishment at recognizing, from the white forehead which has given the favorite its name, that chance had put in his power the only horse which could beat the one upon which he had put his money. Then I described how his first impulse had been to lead him back to King’s Pyland, and how the devil had shown him how he could hide the horse until the race was over, and how he had led it back and concealed it at Mapleton. When I told him every detail he gave it up and thought only of saving his own skin.” “But his stables had been searched?” “Oh, an old horse-faker like him has many a dodge.” “But are you not afraid to leave the horse in his power now, since he has every interest in injuring it?” “My dear fellow, he will guard it as the apple of his eye. He knows that his only hope of mercy is to produce it safe.” “Colonel Ross did not impress me as a man who would be likely to show much mercy in any case.” “The matter does not rest with Colonel Ross. I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial. I don’t know whether you observed it, Watson, but the Colonel’s manner has been just a trifle cavalier to me. I am inclined now to have a little amusement at his expense. Say nothing to him about the horse.” “Certainly not without your permission.” “And of course this is all quite a minor point compared to the question of who killed John Straker.” “And you will devote yourself to that?” “On the contrary, we both go back to London by the night train.” I was thunderstruck by my friend’s words. We had only been a few hours in Devonshire, and that he should give up an investigation which he had begun so brilliantly was quite incomprehensible to me. Not a word more could I draw from him until we were back at the trainer’s house. The Colonel and the Inspector were awaiting us in the parlor. “My friend and I return to town by the night-express,” said Holmes. “We have had a charming little breath of your beautiful Dartmoor air.” The Inspector opened his eyes, and the Colonel’s lip curled in a sneer. “So you despair of arresting the murderer of poor Straker,” said he. Holmes shrugged his shoulders. “There are certainly grave difficulties in the way,” said he. “I have every hope, however, that your horse will start upon Tuesday, and I beg that you will have your jockey in readiness. Might I ask for a photograph of Mr. John Straker?” The Inspector took one from an envelope and handed it to him. “My dear Gregory, you anticipate all my wants. If I might ask you to wait here for an instant, I have a question which I should like to put to the maid.” “I must say that I am rather disappointed in our London consultant,” said Colonel Ross, bluntly, as my friend left the room. “I do not see that we are any further than when he came.” “At least you have his assurance that your horse will run,” said I. “Yes, I have his assurance,” said the Colonel, with a shrug of his shoulders. “I should prefer to have the horse.” I was about to make some reply in defence of my friend when he entered the room again. “Now, gentlemen,” said he, “I am quite ready for Tavistock.” As we stepped into the carriage one of the stable-lads held the door open for us. A sudden idea seemed to occur to Holmes, for he leaned forward and touched the lad upon the sleeve. “You have a few sheep in the paddock,” he said. “Who attends to them?” “I do, sir.” “Have you noticed anything amiss with them of late?” “Well, sir, not of much account; but three of them have gone lame, sir.” I could see that Holmes was extremely pleased, for he chuckled and rubbed his hands together. “A long shot, Watson; a very long shot,” said he, pinching my arm. “Gregory, let me recommend to your attention this singular epidemic among the sheep. Drive on, coachman!” Colonel Ross still wore an expression which showed the poor opinion which he had formed of my companion’s ability, but I saw by the Inspector’s face that his attention had been keenly aroused. “You consider that to be important?” he asked. “Exceedingly so.” “Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?” “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.” “The dog did nothing in the night-time.” “That was the curious incident,” remarked Sherlock Holmes. Four days later Holmes and I were again in the train, bound for Winchester to see the race for the Wessex Cup. Colonel Ross met us by appointment outside the station, and we drove in his drag to the course beyond the town. His face was grave, and his manner was cold in the extreme. “I have seen nothing of my horse,” said he. “I suppose that you would know him when you saw him?” asked Holmes. The Colonel was very angry. “I have been on the turf for twenty years, and never was asked such a question as that before,” said he. “A child would know Silver Blaze, with his white forehead and his mottled off-foreleg.” “How is the betting?” “Well, that is the curious part of it. You could have got fifteen to one yesterday, but the price has become shorter and shorter, until you can hardly get three to one now.” “Hum!” said Holmes. “Somebody knows something, that is clear.” As the drag drew up in the enclosure near the grand stand I glanced at the card to see the entries. Wessex Plate [it ran] 50 sovs each h ft with 1000 sovs added for four and five year olds. Second, L300. Third, L200. New course (one mile and five furlongs). Mr. Heath Newton’s The Negro. Red cap. Cinnamon jacket. Colonel Wardlaw’s Pugilist. Pink cap. Blue and black jacket. Lord Backwater’s Desborough. Yellow cap and sleeves. Colonel Ross’s Silver Blaze. Black cap. Red jacket. Duke of Balmoral’s Iris. Yellow and black stripes. Lord Singleford’s Rasper. Purple cap. Black sleeves. “We scratched our other one, and put all hopes on your word,” said the Colonel. “Why, what is that? Silver Blaze favorite?” “Five to four against Silver Blaze!” roared the ring. “Five to four against Silver Blaze! Five to fifteen against Desborough! Five to four on the field!” “There are the numbers up,” I cried. “They are all six there.” “All six there? Then my horse is running,” cried the Colonel in great agitation. “But I don’t see him. My colors have not passed.” “Only five have passed. This must be he.” As I spoke a powerful bay horse swept out from the weighing enclosure and cantered past us, bearing on its back the well-known black and red of the Colonel. “That’s not my horse,” cried the owner. “That beast has not a white hair upon its body. What is this that you have done, Mr. Holmes?” “Well, well, let us see how he gets on,” said my friend, imperturbably. For a few minutes he gazed through my field-glass. “Capital! An excellent start!” he cried suddenly. “There they are, coming round the curve!” From our drag we had a superb view as they came up the straight. The six horses were so close together that a carpet could have covered them, but half way up the yellow of the Mapleton stable showed to the front. Before they reached us, however, Desborough’s bolt was shot, and the Colonel’s horse, coming away with a rush, passed the post a good six lengths before its rival, the Duke of Balmoral’s Iris making a bad third. “It’s my race, anyhow,” gasped the Colonel, passing his hand over his eyes. “I confess that I can make neither head nor tail of it. Don’t you think that you have kept up your mystery long enough, Mr. Holmes?” “Certainly, Colonel, you shall know everything. Let us all go round and have a look at the horse together. Here he is,” he continued, as we made our way into the weighing enclosure, where only owners and their friends find admittance. “You have only to wash his face and his leg in spirits of wine, and you will find that he is the same old Silver Blaze as ever.” “You take my breath away!” “I found him in the hands of a faker, and took the liberty of running him just as he was sent over.” “My dear sir, you have done wonders. The horse looks very fit and well. It never went better in its life. I owe you a thousand apologies for having doubted your ability. You have done me a great service by recovering my horse. You would do me a greater still if you could lay your hands on the murderer of John Straker.” “I have done so,” said Holmes quietly. The Colonel and I stared at him in amazement. “You have got him! Where is he, then?” “He is here.” “Here! Where?” “In my company at the present moment.” The Colonel flushed angrily. “I quite recognize that I am under obligations to you, Mr. Holmes,” said he, “but I must regard what you have just said as either a very bad joke or an insult.” Sherlock Holmes laughed. “I assure you that I have not associated you with the crime, Colonel,” said he. “The real murderer is standing immediately behind you.” He stepped past and laid his hand upon the glossy neck of the thoroughbred. “The horse!” cried both the Colonel and myself. “Yes, the horse. And it may lessen his guilt if I say that it was done in self-defence, and that John Straker was a man who was entirely unworthy of your confidence. But there goes the bell, and as I stand to win a little on this next race, I shall defer a lengthy explanation until a more fitting time.” We had the corner of a Pullman car to ourselves that evening as we whirled back to London, and I fancy that the journey was a short one to Colonel Ross as well as to myself, as we listened to our companion’s narrative of the events which had occurred at the Dartmoor training-stables upon the Monday night, and the means by which he had unravelled them. “I confess,” said he, “that any theories which I had formed from the newspaper reports were entirely erroneous. And yet there were indications there, had they not been overlaid by other details which concealed their true import. I went to Devonshire with the conviction that Fitzroy Simpson was the true culprit, although, of course, I saw that the evidence against him was by no means complete. It was while I was in the carriage, just as we reached the trainer’s house, that the immense significance of the curried mutton occurred to me. You may remember that I was distrait, and remained sitting after you had all alighted. I was marvelling in my own mind how I could possibly have overlooked so obvious a clue.” “I confess,” said the Colonel, “that even now I cannot see how it helps us.” “It was the first link in my chain of reasoning. Powdered opium is by no means tasteless. The flavor is not disagreeable, but it is perceptible. Were it mixed with any ordinary dish the eater would undoubtedly detect it, and would probably eat no more. A curry was exactly the medium which would disguise this taste. By no possible supposition could this stranger, Fitzroy Simpson, have caused curry to be served in the trainer’s family that night, and it is surely too monstrous a coincidence to suppose that he happened to come along with powdered opium upon the very night when a dish happened to be served which would disguise the flavor. That is unthinkable. Therefore Simpson becomes eliminated from the case, and our attention centers upon Straker and his wife, the only two people who could have chosen curried mutton for supper that night. The opium was added after the dish was set aside for the stable-boy, for the others had the same for supper with no ill effects. Which of them, then, had access to that dish without the maid seeing them? “Before deciding that question I had grasped the significance of the silence of the dog, for one true inference invariably suggests others. The Simpson incident had shown me that a dog was kept in the stables, and yet, though some one had been in and had fetched out a horse, he had not barked enough to arouse the two lads in the loft. Obviously the midnight visitor was some one whom the dog knew well. “I was already convinced, or almost convinced, that John Straker went down to the stables in the dead of the night and took out Silver Blaze. For what purpose? For a dishonest one, obviously, or why should he drug his own stable-boy? And yet I was at a loss to know why. There have been cases before now where trainers have made sure of great sums of money by laying against their own horses, through agents, and then preventing them from winning by fraud. Sometimes it is a pulling jockey. Sometimes it is some surer and subtler means. What was it here? I hoped that the contents of his pockets might help me to form a conclusion. “And they did so. You cannot have forgotten the singular knife which was found in the dead man’s hand, a knife which certainly no sane man would choose for a weapon. It was, as Dr. Watson told us, a form of knife which is used for the most delicate operations known in surgery. And it was to be used for a delicate operation that night. You must know, with your wide experience of turf matters, Colonel Ross, that it is possible to make a slight nick upon the tendons of a horse’s ham, and to do it subcutaneously, so as to leave absolutely no trace. A horse so treated would develop a slight lameness, which would be put down to a strain in exercise or a touch of rheumatism, but never to foul play.” “Villain! Scoundrel!” cried the Colonel. “We have here the explanation of why John Straker wished to take the horse out on to the moor. So spirited a creature would have certainly roused the soundest of sleepers when it felt the prick of the knife. It was absolutely necessary to do it in the open air.” “I have been blind!” cried the Colonel. “Of course that was why he needed the candle, and struck the match.” “Undoubtedly. But in examining his belongings I was fortunate enough to discover not only the method of the crime, but even its motives. As a man of the world, Colonel, you know that men do not carry other people’s bills about in their pockets. We have most of us quite enough to do to settle our own. I at once concluded that Straker was leading a double life, and keeping a second establishment. The nature of the bill showed that there was a lady in the case, and one who had expensive tastes. Liberal as you are with your servants, one can hardly expect that they can buy twenty-guinea walking dresses for their ladies. I questioned Mrs. Straker as to the dress without her knowing it, and having satisfied myself that it had never reached her, I made a note of the milliner’s address, and felt that by calling there with Straker’s photograph I could easily dispose of the mythical Derbyshire. “From that time on all was plain. Straker had led out the horse to a hollow where his light would be invisible. Simpson in his flight had dropped his cravat, and Straker had picked it up—with some idea, perhaps, that he might use it in securing the horse’s leg. Once in the hollow, he had got behind the horse and had struck a light; but the creature frightened at the sudden glare, and with the strange instinct of animals feeling that some mischief was intended, had lashed out, and the steel shoe had struck Straker full on the forehead. He had already, in spite of the rain, taken off his overcoat in order to do his delicate task, and so, as he fell, his knife gashed his thigh. Do I make it clear?” “Wonderful!” cried the Colonel. “Wonderful! You might have been there!” “My final shot was, I confess a very long one. It struck me that so astute a man as Straker would not undertake this delicate tendon-nicking without a little practice. What could he practice on? My eyes fell upon the sheep, and I asked a question which, rather to my surprise, showed that my surmise was correct. “When I returned to London I called upon the milliner, who had recognized Straker as an excellent customer of the name of Derbyshire, who had a very dashing wife, with a strong partiality for expensive dresses. I have no doubt that this woman had plunged him over head and ears in debt, and so led him into this miserable plot.” “You have explained all but one thing,” cried the Colonel. “Where was the horse?” “Ah, it bolted, and was cared for by one of your neighbors. We must have an amnesty in that direction, I think. This is Clapham Junction, if I am not mistaken, and we shall be in Victoria in less than ten minutes. If you care to smoke a cigar in our rooms, Colonel, I shall be happy to give you any other details which might interest you.” The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes More Sherlock Holmes Detective Stories Leave a reply to A. C. Doyle – The Adventure of The Silver Blaze : Sherlock Holmes Name (required) Mail (not published) (required) Selected Authors John Webster - The Duchess of Malfi Play Bram Stoker - The Rose Prince Bram Stoker - The Watter's Mou' J. M. 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__label__wiki	0.562601	0.562601	JazzWrap review by Vern Posted on August 12, 2011 by cleanfeed \| Leave a comment Harris Eisenstadt – September Trio (CF 229) What’s the word for “wow!” in every language? Well that’s what I have to say about Harris Eisenstadt’s latest release, September Trio (Clean Feed). The Canadian born Brooklyn transplant has delivered his second record for 2011 and its even more striking than Canada Day II. This time, as a trio under the aforementioned title. Opening with the repetitive, melodic blues of “September 1,” Eisenstadt sets the tone that this is a much different outing than Canada Day. “September 1” has you focused on the trio’s interactions and the complex and free flowing nature of Eisenstadt’s compositions. It’s improvised but held within a tight dynamic. This may not have been achievable in any other setting than a trio. Eskelin has a muscular tone in his phrasing which reminds me of of Ornette Coleman, while Sanchez continues to show why she deserves much wider recognition. Her agile, rhythmic yet contemplative performance has really started me to put her on the same level as Kris Davis, John Escreet, Jason Moran, Sylvie Courvoisier and Irene Schweizer. A real creative at the piano. But the real focus is Eisenstadt’s compositional work. On September Trio he has allowed his fellow musicians the freedom to move in various directions and in addition, his own timing and melodic touches are exquisite and thoughtful. There is a moment about 2/3’s of the way into “September 1” where Eskelin and Eisenstadt share some raw improvised exchanges but it will be the soft tones of Eisenstadt’s brushes that you may focus in on as they are placed just under the melody. Beautiful. “September 3,” Eisenstadt allows Sanchez and Eskelin to paint a wonderful picture in cascading hues and a well placed use of space. The piece is superbly written and has moments “harmolodics” throughout. Eisenstadt remains settled into the background with steady timing until midway through when the trio begin to interweave and almost become one note of improvisation. “September 6” starts of with a rich and bellowing solo period from Eskelin and then slowly turns into a haunting blues filled with counterpoints and lots stellar exchanges between the musicians. “September 6” while moving in various directions still displays as sense of order and investigation. The final three minute passage is spectacular as it rises in tone and then quietly descends into black. Harris Eisenstadt has already established himself as one of most sought after drummers in the jazz community but its his writing that’s really becoming more significant. The ability to write material with such breath while allowing your fellow musicians a majority of the spotlight yet still producing some excellent moments of your own, is well, nothing short of phenomenal. September Trio should be the album that finally sets Harris Eisenstadt apart from many of his peers, as a performer and a writer. Album of the year material for sure. Highly Recommended and Unexpectedly Beautiful. http://jazzwrap.blogspot.com/2011/08/harris-eisenstadt-september-trio.html Tagged angelica sanchez, Ellery Eskelin, harris eisenstadt JazzWord review by Ken Waxman Jason Robinson/Anthony Davis – Cerulean Landscape (CF 198 ) Back to the future for pianist Anthony Davis, this CD is a reminder that the improvising skill he first exhibited in the 1970s still lurks within the composer now best-known for his chamber, choral and symphonic work as well as operas such as X and Amistad. Co-leader of the band Cosmologic, multi-reedist Jason Robinson renews the on-again-off-again relationship he has had with Davis since 1998, for a series of duo numbers, most composed by either man. Nevertheless, “Someday I’ll Know” written by Jason Shurbury, is the tune closest to a standard, and both so-called avant-gardists handle it exquisitely. Robinson’s moderato flutter tonguing quivers comfortably alongside low-frequency keyboard tinkles from Davis. Delicately emphasizing the tune’s contours as it unspools, the pianist turns to comping when the saxophonist reenters with a conclusive, andante cadenza. Not that the experimental fire has been smothered. Harsher interface on “Of Blues and Dreams” finds the pianist nearly upsetting the balanced tension of the piece when his metronomic strums and soundboard resonations turn to harder syncopation to contrast with reed-biting, showy tongue slapping and screechy triple-tonguing from the saxophonist. Finally underlying chords are exposed from both sides for melodic intertwining. Earlier modal jazz era tremolos from Davis and Robinson proving that his flute attack can be as rough and staccato as on it is on saxophone(s), produces the duo’s ultimate definition on the title track. Davis’ deliberately paced, pseudo-classical lines turn to key-ringing in order to match the smears and finger vibrations from Robinson’s tenor saxophone. Initially showcased unaccompanied, the reedist’s glide to legato classicism from overblowing variations on distinct sets of reed tones, ingeniously connects with the piano work. This is a notable disc from a veteran verifying his improv chops and a young veteran proving his versatility. http://www.jazzword.com/review/127519 Tagged Anthony Davis, Jason Robinson The New York City Jazz Record review by Ken Waxman Posted on August 1, 2011 by cleanfeed \| Leave a comment Jason Robinson/Anthony Davis – Cerulean Landscape (CF 198) Back to the future for pianist Anthony Davis, this CD is a reminder that the improvising skill he first exhibited in the ‘70s still lurks within the composer now best-known for his chamber, choral and symphonic work. Co-leader of the band Cosmologic, multi-reedist Jason Robinson renews the on-again-off-again relationship he has had with Davis since 1998 for a series of duo numbers, most composed by either man. Nevertheless, “Someday I’ll Know”, written by musical theater composer Jason Sherbundy, is the tune closest to a standard and both so-called avant-gardists handle it exquisitely. Robinson’s moderato flutter tonguing quivers comfortably alongside low-frequency keyboard tinkles from Davis. Delicately emphasizing the tune’s contours as it unspools, the pianist turns to comping when the saxophonist reenters with a conclusive andante cadenza. Not that the experimental fire has been smothered. Harsher interface on “Of Blues and Dreams” finds the pianist nearly upsetting the balanced tension of the piece when his metronomic strums and soundboard resonations turn to harder syncopation in contrast with reed-biting and screechy triple-tonguing from the saxophonist. Finally, underlying chords are exposed from both sides for melodic intertwining. Earlier modal jazz-era tremolos from Davis and Robinson, proving that his attack on flute can be as rough and staccato as it is on saxophone(s), produces the duo’s ultimate definition on the title track. Davis’deliberately paced, pseudo-classical lines turn to key-ringing in order to match the smears and finger vibrations from Robinson’s tenor. Initially unaccompanied, the reedist’s glide to legato classicism from overblowing variations on distinct sets of reed tones ingeniously connects with the piano work. Squid’s Ear review by Kurt Gottschalk Matt Bauder – Day in Pictures (CF 210) Matt Bauder is one smart saxophonist. He has reliably brought himself to projects led by Anthony Braxton, Bill Dixon and Rob Mazurek, among others, and works regularly with Taylor Ho Bynum, Harris Eisenstadt and Aaron Siegel. And bringing oneself means more than just showing up. Bauder has a warm, round tone on the tenor and even softens the clarinet’s edges. He’s maybe even a little romantic for some of the conceptualists he hangs out with (he’s closer to Bynum in that regard), but he consistently finds a place for himself, neither fitting too much in or too much out. Bauder has flirted with doo-wop and minimalism in the past, but Day in Pictures is squarely jazz. Not even that mad-free-scream-at-the-sun-and-then-howl-at-the-moon improv stuff. This is jazz jazz. Some Sonny Rollins here, some Oliver Nelson there. Yeah, Bauder’s a smart cookie. On board for the effort are trumpeter Nate Wooley, pianist Angelica Sanchez and drummer Tomas Fujiwara, representing Bauder’s current NYC stead, and bassist Jason Ajemian from Bauder’s former Chicago grounds. They pull it off with aplomb, intuitively playing the more involved arrangements, ably slinking into the hushed ballads. In the circles of some of the conceptualists he’s hung out with (or at least among their audiences), there are concerns and questions about pushing the music forward versus repeating the past. There’s nothing particularly forward-looking about Day in Pictures. And that can be a problem — when the music isn’t this good, anyway. http://www.squidsear.com/cgi-bin/news/newsView.cgi?newsID=1288 Tagged angelica sanchez, Jason Ajemian, Matt Bauder, nate wooley, Tomas Fujiwara Squid’s Ear review by David Madden Tim Berne – Insomnia (CF 215) Tim Berne’s choice of title stems from his inability to sleep the night before this 1997 gig (this record is the first physical proof of that day). As such, he claims that this altered state pierced his interaction with the music and his octet (culled from cohorts in his 1990’s crew, Bloodcount) with an odd clarity, Berne using the words “kaleidoscope” and “another perspective” and “make everything look sharper” to describe the event. You know, shimmering stars within Berne’s already otherworldly music. Taking on two of Berne’s classic works, “The Proposal” and “oPEN, cOMA”, the group does advance like a waking dream, repeatedly crossing back and forth between the fence of straight-forward — multi-metered compositions, but adherence to time signatures, nevertheless — and woozy genre-bending free-form. In other words, the crew glances at Berne’s script then individually dance around the notes like tracers. On “The Proposal”, they slowly awaken with high-pitched wiggles and mouthpiece kissing sounds; eventually, strings (Dominique Pifarely on violin, cellist Erik Friedlander, upright bassist Michael Fermanek and Marc Ducret on twelve-string guitar) and reeds (Chris Speed on clarinet, Berne on alto and baritone sax) unite while trumpeter Baikida Carroll and drummer Jim Black tarry with a gurgling wah-wah and skittering flurry, respectively. Avalanche-like, everyone gathers speed with the rhythm section working hard under Carroll’s solo (Ducret’s unique instrument choice provides a sonically interesting choice for the chord-carrying comp). Of course, the band tears this apart: Pifarely and Friedlander jaunt through a quick Bartók-esque duet, stop to scrape and twist their strings, then frantically bow, rising, and the rest slowly join the harmony. Elision. Done. Change of scene, and we’re barely ten minutes into the thirty-five minute work. The group uses this “jazz” template throughout both tracks, allowing everyone to solo alone, or over the others, or be soloed over. But due to timbre shifts, stratified ideas and counterpoint, the disc is anything but homogenous. “oPEN, cOMA” commences in the similarly delicate fashion as the previous piece, Ducret tinkering behind his bridge and setting up a percussive platform of muted pangs before launching into a bombastic rattle that prog-rock pioneers should envy; when Speed begins his fantastic run, the band shifts with the mood, then to the side, grabs the motifs, creates branches off those, then returns before it ends. This virtuosic aesthetic should be par for the course in this musical universe, but Berne and Company’s penchant for clever metamorphosis is overwhelming — “overwhelming” in the way you felt the first few times you listened to Le sacre du printemps. In Stephen King’s Insomnia, the sleep-deprived protagonist begins to notice oddities in his waking life: some people have multi-colored auras, creepy ethereal doctors from another plane manifest and tinker with unsuspecting victims. But, like Berne’s work here, this isn’t the character’s hallucination: it’s actual. A cloudy, skewed reality that takes some time to comprehend (though Berne’s Insomnia is a celebration, not a funeral). Tagged Baikida Carroll, Chris Speed, Dominique Pifarély, Erik Friedlander, Jim Black, marc ducret, Michael Formanek, Tim Berne Daniel Levin Quartet – Organic Modernism (CF 212) For a moment, recall your mentality circa age nine through fifteen: what is the phrase the rebellious you had to endure at least five times per day? “Stay away from there”, or just, “Stop it!” Specifically, this was applied to scenarios where you stood, say, near a rapidly flowing irrigation canal, dipping your toe in the water — you just had to test it out. Or maybe engaged in the “I’m not touching you” game with your hands an inch in front of someone’s face. In other words, you needed to be as close as possible without actually doing something. It’s this sort of turbulence that makes Organic Modernism so successful and fascinating. The quartet of Daniel Levin (cello), Nate Wooley (trumpet), Matt Moran (vibraphone) and Peter Bitenc (upright bass) draw a line on the floor, mark it “Bebop” and playfully move near, almost on, briefly on, then away (not too far) from this guidepost, making judicious detours and extensions to forge something anomalous. Bitenc begins “Action Painting” with an insistent walking line, taking on the role of loose metronome for the remaining trio to coalesce. Levin powers in with slurs and glissandi, soon twisting in tandem with Wooley’s woozy dips and staccato pops and Moran’s lower register brume; when Bitenc and Moran join at the first “jazz as we think of it” spot, it’s a nostalgic dance that you could, in a blind test, mistake for a Ron Carter / Milt Jackson duet. But of course, as the album title implies, the focus here is on The New, and the mix soon shatters into fragments with each member now absorbed in anti-solo (i.e. Moran messes around with his tremolo speed, Levin scrapes and scratches, Wooley recapitulates the aforementioned glissando motif); they resume this approach with “Zero Gravity” where the group chafes in a stew of drones (via Wooley’s breathy tones and Moran’s crescendo ostinatos), occasional dotting bursts and a motorized radio-like buzz. On “Lattice”, Levin and Bitenc freely battle and embrace, battle and embrace in a graceful fit of pizzicato, bowing, sprints to the highest pitch and string-snapping; “Expert Set” is a similar setting with Wooley nimbly adapting, leading and blasting Levin until both men fade into groggy shadows. Forgoing the far-out side of the quartet’s aesthetic, “Audacity” is a remarkable experiment in agreement-into-polyrhythm and sudden tempo shifts, first swaggering with long unison lines, then bashing the air with the sonic equivalent of scribbling, soon sinking into long passages of Bluesy head-nodding, faster, tonal interlopers, a blend of these, etc. From the liner notes (written by the great Art Lange): “These are concepts of the 20th century modernism extended into a new century still in need of its radical adjustment — that is, a rejection of the failed conventions of realism in favor of a new, open, freer perspective…” True, but that shouldn’t be confused with pastiche. Because this crew spent the time learning the language, internalizing it, their innocent “who me?” mischief sounds poignant and masterful, not sloppy or forced different-just-to-be-different — yes, 500 words later I’m trying to tell you it’s organic. Touching Extremes review by Massimo Ricci Bruno Chevillon – Old And Unwise (CF 221) The weight of a gesture is enhanced by conciseness in relation to the muscular strength of who makes it. In that sense the material comprised by Old And Unwise – a full hour of duos for double bass and alto saxophone – frequently seems to relate to the substantial aspect of artistry rather than eliciting the idea of Pindaric flights and schismatic tendencies. Not that Chevillon and Berne are not able to act as sympathetic visionaries when they choose to; on the contrary, their ability of mingling skill and lyricism in a piece like “Quelque Chose Vacille” is inspiring, and in the following “Back Up The Truck” the art of manly defence is completely repudiated in favour of a visit to the melodic vaults. Yet the physical definition of the respective timbres is always what emerges as paramount over consecutive listens. Perspicacious dichotomies and self-imposed constraints characterize Berne’s phrasing in every circumstance; however, when he lets the sax yelp and howl it never comes as unexpected, more a logical development of previously explored options. Chevillon is a terrific instant composer, capable of altering the unchangeable features of an instrument with sharp decisions, significant technical grounding and the unaffectedness of a pluck-and-throb shrewdness which is typical of few master bassists, those who are equally good at sustaining a conversation and let individuality shine during solitary moments of exposure. There’s no finding a weak point throughout, time literally flying thanks to copious doses of outstanding music. http://www.touchingextremes.org/ Tagged Bruno Chevillon, Tim Berne	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1054
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__label__cc	0.641007	0.358993	Category: zombies Dearly, Departed “She would of been a good woman,” The Misfit said, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.” Now, I admit my upbringing was in some ways unorthodox (and in other ways completely not), but this was a favorite aphorism of my mother’s. It comes from the climax of “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by St Flannery O’Connor. The Misfit has just murdered an entire family while they were on a road trip, ending in the death of the grandma. She’s a horrible old bitty who doesn’t deserve to be gunned down on the side of the road, but maybe it’s also not the biggest tragedy ever either. But, you know, violence is cathartic and purifying, at least in St Flannery’s brutal theologies, so the horrid grandma has a humanistic epiphany at the barrel of a gun. Baptism by drowning, the last moments as your lungs constrict and your eyelids flash and flutter, reborn as your best self right before you die. I think of this quote every time I encounter something that has all this incredible potential — this heat of possibility — and then it spins out into something more dreary and obvious. Dearly, Departed by Lia Habel has a shitton of potential, for me anyway, being as it is a steampunk zombie novel. Steampunk is maybe more problematic for me, in that I have undertaken its perusal because of my husband’s interests more than my own, but I am all over zombies all day. Both zombie and steampunk narratives often deal in social stratification, though obviously to very different ends. Smooshing them together could be fruitful in examining a rigidly class based society, but I know well enough not to expect such a thing, especially after Deck Z. Occasionally this novel hits a mild frisson of this cultural examination, but mostly it opts for the spunky heroine and glaring infodumps over, like, insight. I was okay with the spunky heroine — she is a creature too ubiquitous to truly criticize — but the infodumps killed me. Apparently (and I use this adverb when I’m being an asshole), peak oil and maybe a nuclear devastation and probably the eruption of the supervolcano under Yellowstone lead to everyone heading south to central America, where some folk recreated the Victorians, and some other folk did not. I just…this was one of many situations where the explanations for the universe killed me, even if the universe did not. I’m going to accept your fictional world if you don’t overexplain, because the minute you do, I’m like, hold the phone. No, no, no. The world-building needed to be shot every day of its life. This aside, Habel did get into some interesting stuff about the ways the lower classes are used against themselves, and as fodder for border warfare as a stand in for class warfare. The set up is that there is a border skirmish between the Vickies and the Punks, and a zombie outbreak has been bubbling in this DMZ, alternately used as biological warfare and “shock and awe”. The zombies in this universe go rabid, but after a time they resettle with their former personalities intact. The zombie soldiers were well realized, suffering both from the trauma of warfare, and from the guilt of their actions while rabid. “Her collars and cuffs were white organdy trimmed with lace and at her neckline she had pinned a purple spray of cloth violets containing a sachet. In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady.” The problem is sartorial, in the end. Steampunk, maybe at its most basic, must dress a certain way to be steampunk. There will be corsets and umbrellas and bustles, and there must be the cruel social architecture to justify such a costume (cf. the museum exhibit Fashion Victims: The Pleasures and Perils of Dress in the 19th Century.) Habel does a fair amount of pushback against the social stratification — more than the usual, well, duh, of course a rigidly stratified society is unfair kind you see in steampunk — but I think trips over the skirts of gender politics. Her heroines are the usual spunky middle class ladies who behave almost entirely like modern girls, but there’s all this hand-waving to gender norms that just couldn’t produce such a creature. They put on the clothes, but it didn’t do more than touch their skin. I’ve been burbling along with all my socioeconomic whatnot, and I feel like I should say I totally get that this is a steampunk romance zombie novel written for teens. My bitch isn’t that this book isn’t more than it is. It is what it is, and moreover, I was pleasantly surprised by some of the turns and twists. All this aside, my real problem is the romance between a living girl and a walking decomposing corpse. (Admittedly, these zombies are more desiccated than rotting; still.) Habel honestly gave it the college try, and their courtship — taking place, as it does, like Pyramus and Thisbe, through a wall — was honestly sweet. But it’s like the ultimate catfish to find out that dude’s a corpse who doesn’t have the requisite blood flow to, you know. Tons of women lost their damn minds over Edward Cullen’s cold, lifeless body, so I think there’s probably something to say about the sexualization of undead flesh, especially in teen fiction. (Warm Bodies tried too; ugh.) There could be something here, probably, about love and sexual desire and the death wish in adolescence, etc, but I felt like Habel was too busy selling it as not-gross and self-evidently kinda racist to think this pairing might be squicky. I guess I’m not buying it on those terms, and I can’t get past my shudder at the thought of making out with cold, blue lips. Maybe this could have been twisted in such a way to turn my revulsion back on me, but it wasn’t. I’d pay good money to see such a thing though. And then shoot it every day of its life. So that you would know it was a lady. Posted on July 2, 2014 Categories America and environs, apocalypse, books, dome cities, dystopia, futures, pulp, Rule Britannia, steampunk, young adult, zombiesLeave a comment on Dearly, Departed The n-Body Problem: Oh, the Humanity In the end, the zombie apocalypse was nothing more than a waste disposal problem. Burn them in giant ovens? Bad optics. Bury them in landfill sites? The first attempt created acres of twitching, roiling mud. The acceptable answer is to jettison the millions of immortal automatons into orbit. Horror can seem a little rule-bound at times. There’s a monster, say a zombie. You work out how it’s defined – it’s a living person infected with a rage virus, or a dead person who is reanimated. It can run, or it can’t. It can climb, or it can’t. It doesn’t like sunlight or it doesn’t care. You figure how to kill it, or immobilize it, or cure it, or you die and join it. You figure out if everyone is infected, or if it’s transmissible, or how long it’s been since the first outbreak, the last outbreak. You set up communities that function according to rules that dovetail into the rules for the monster. In this way, you make the point that the true monster is human. Ba dump tss. The opening of The n-Body Problem by Tony Burgess, despite a seriously questionable level of sanity from the first person protagonist, seems to start with rules in mind. It’s been 20 something years since the first dead person didn’t stay dead. It’s not so much that they became flesh-eating corpses, but that the dead just never stop moving. After the initial panic died down, they had millions of wriggling undead bodies to be disposed of. End result: they start shooting them into space. Our protagonist – who I would like to note is off his nut – is spending his time plying some serious hypochondria and chasing a man called Dixon. Dixon is a traveling horror show who rolls into town and convinces the entire town to kill itself, presumably so they can go to space because it’s so pretty and peaceful up there. Then he plays in their corpses. You can kinda see how this set up might unfold: the requisite show down between Dixon and Bob (which is not the protagonist’s name, but I think the only one he ever gives); the boy Bob picks up serving as a generational example of What Has Changed; some pyrotechnics with WasteCorp, which is the multinational company that has shot a billion wriggling corpses into space; maybe even a sequence in the cold airlessness of space, the sun rising over the black orb of the planet in wavering stabs of light. Burgess occasionally gives you glimpses of these narrative possibilities – like a searing fever dream that takes place in space, the corpses turning sunward like flowers – but mostly he just laughs inscrutably and delivers some of the sickest shit and stomach-dropping plot turns I’ve ever seen. The n-body problem is a mathematical problem going back to antiquity for predicting the motions of celestial objects in gravitational relationship with one another. This is certainly a problem if you don’t understand that, say, the stars and planets are not in a fixed orb rotating around the earth, but it’s apparently also difficult to solve using general relativity. Frankly, there’s a lot of wonky maths that I don’t get in the explanation. Obviously, this book is named The n-Body Problem because of one billion corpses in space and all that, but I think there might be another reason too: Burgess is taking a big, gory dump on post-apocalyptic conventions, just absolutely hazing you and your expectations. Solve for x, bitch. Another possible title for this novel: Trigger Warning for All Things. So you want to see some marauding cannibals and rape gangs? Boom, only he turns the rape gangs into a mordant joke, and denies you the prurient thrills that so much apocalit delivers in the form of sexual assault. How about a blood bath? Boom, only this time it’s a swimming pool, and the blood is still shimmering in that uncanny way of the undead here. The sickness is so sick it’s downright funny at times, these horrible laundry lists of horrors that numb until, wait, what the holy hell was that? The whole thing is completely bonkers, transgressive in a way that goes beyond the usual transgression of body horror, of which there is plenty. Nobody’s going to yell, “Oh, the humanity!” when the zombies start falling from the sky in some half-assed coda. “They look like cherry blossoms. Opening and then falling apart in the wind.” I guess I could go on, but I’d probably get into spoiler territory. I just want to note, quickly, that there’s something here that reminds me of Ice by Anna Kavin. Ice is a strange, mid-century post-apocalyptic novel written by a functioning heroin addict which is about, insofar it is about anything so easily spoken, two men fighting over girl. The landscapes rear up in the same ways, the connectives cut with a box-cutter, the identities fragile and mutable. And the ice. Ice made me incredibly uncomfortable – often in ways The n-Body Problem does not, owing to certain perversions I have about mid-century novels – but there’s still a central discomfort that feels the same to me. This discomfort doesn’t necessarily come from content – though, I did mention this was sick, non?- but some deeper, more chthonic level which implicates me in the proceedings. If I were still rating things – I’m trying not to – I’d leave this similarly unrated, because no metric as childish as stars – their motions cannot be solved for anyway – can get at my response. So yeah, thanks to sj for turning me onto this, but then also what the fuck did I just read? Posted on March 12, 2014 April 25, 2019 Categories alternate history, apocalypse, books, Canada, futures, horror, monsters, space, zombiesTags Anna Kavin, books, fiction, Ice, review, The n-Body Problem, Tony Burgess14 Comments on The n-Body Problem: Oh, the Humanity Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey Original review January 2012 As a reading experience, I loved Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey. I was sick when I started, looking for the literary equivalent to a Law & Order marathon. Space opera is the police procedural of the science fiction world, and this one has an actual police procedural embedded within. It’s a galactic billiards game, the ordinary made extraordinary through the right place, right time, a bunch of forensics/technology, a lot of fragility of life just on this side of the hard vacuum of space. I mean, gee whiz. There’s a Jim Anchower article, Jim being one of the “columnists” for the Onion, that describes Star Wars: Attack of the Clowns as “like watching C-SPAN on some other planet” – a bunch of boring imaginary politics playing out in the most expository way possible. Space opera can fall into this so, so easily. The ships embody the engines of society, and authors get caught up in the schematics, reading out the blueprints. Look at this nifty pinball game I made! It’s cheering when books like Leviathan Wakes avoid this trap. The characters here are more types than actual people, but the cultures they inhabit, they were well sketched. This is an alien-less environment (for the most part) – so the conflicts are between people, in social terms: the Belters, several generations out living in low-g on Saturnine moons or asteroids, stretched by weightlessness, grousing about tariffs and taxes imposed by the colonizing Earthers or Martians; the freedom-fighters/terrorists; the subtle pull of cultural gravities in different places. As befits a dual-author novel, this pings back and forth between two pov characters: a space ship captain cut from the same cloth as Malcolm Reynolds, with more high-handedness and less Han Solo, and a noir-ish cop who getting to old for this shit. The individual sections tend to be beautifully arced, little vignettes which build from one of those “he didn’t know that his day could get any worse” and then ramping up furiously until you hit the next commercial break section totally leaned in, freaking out. Maybe it sounds like I’m making fun of this, and I am just a little, but affectionately so. There is something to be said for this kind of masterful genre writing, the guns laid onto the table in deliberate, methodical gestures, and fired one at a time, hitting their targets with a casualness that belies study, and lots of it. Bew bew! The book is masterfully plotted, and absolutely joyful to read. But, two things stuck in my craw starting at about half-way point. Miller, our exhausted, alcoholic Belter cop who is in over his head, leaves the culture which props up his personality – types, as I said, more than people – and at this point his character falls apart for me. His motivations become laughable, his psychology almost literally unreal. You cannot take a type like Miller out of his world, because he is his world or the lens on it, the situated observer, the commentary though moving mouthpiece. And his relationship with Julie is squicky in a way I can’t put my finger on, but in a way that dovetails into my next complaint. At about 3/4 through, two women have a conversation about going to the bar and playing a game together, and then have some teasing fun. This is (I’m pretty sure) the only conversation that keeps this entire 600ish page novel from failing the second two parameters of the Bechdel Test – and that just barely, because this was not a necessary or meaningful exchange. Now, yes, the Bechdel Test was developed for movies, and failing the test does not mean the book sucks. There’s all kinds of situations that fail the Bechdel test because they are small, personal stories that take place with limited characters, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. But a tumbling active story taking place all over an entire freaking solar system? It is incredibly discouraging to me to find yet another fictional solar system in which women are only love interests or ball-busting superior officers, vague individuals in a universe peopled by men almost exclusively. Miller’s relationship with Julie, in this context, seems like that shitty thing where a girl becomes an emblem, a chit in a psychological game that moves a man, because a man is what moves. I don’t think I’m supposed to heart Miller and the way this plays out, but it doesn’t feel good to read. I don’t want to come down on this too hard or act like this book is somehow anti-feminist or anti-woman. It just feels like in riffing on these traditionally boys-only genres – the police procedural, the space opera, the cop show – no one bothered to notice the boys-onlyness. And there are, to make up for this lack, a pretty subtle sense of politics and societal tendencies, and vomit zombies. Vomit zombies! I’m not going to explain, because explanations is spoilers, yo, but the vomit zombies were part of a general inventiveness and genre-specific yee-haw! that I really enjoy reading. This is a first in a series, I am given to understand, and although this one ties off in a way that doesn’t dot-dot-dot to the sequel, I would totally read the next one. Gee whiz! Edit: I’m feeling a little defensive for bringing up the Bechdel test, for no good reason, because it’s not like anyone has called me on it or something. I went and looked at the books on my space opera shelf, and at least half of them fail this test, as far as I can recall. It’s a pretty common thing. The names thing is little easier to pass in books, because it isn’t hard to name a female character on the page, even if she is throwaway and tangential. The rest though – that happens much less frequently. I would just like us all to image a boy version of the Bechdel test, where we look for a book that fails that, a book where there are not two male characters who have names, they don’t talk to each other, and when they do, they only talk about women. Can you think of even one book or movie that fails this test? I don’t think so. And sure as shit, you can’t think of a hundred. Posted on March 7, 2014 Categories apocalypse, books, detectives, futures, ghost stories, monsters, science fiction, space opera, zombiesTags Bechdel test, books, fiction, James S.A. Corey, Law & Order, Leviathan Wakes, review, The Expanse seriesLeave a comment on Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey The Gospel of Z by Stephen Graham Jones There is no other monster more contested than the zombie. Call any creature which doesn’t adhere to strict Romero-style zombie epistemology – it runs, or it’s not exactly dead, or it can talk, or whatever – and someone will jump down your throat. I tend to take a functional definition of your fictional monsters, meaning I’m less interested in static attributes, and more interested in how those attributes are deployed in context. Meaning if it walks like a duck even though the text calls it a chicken, you might as well treat it like a duck in terms of how that fowl functions. Take, for example, the vampires in Twilight. There is very little to the creature called vampire by Meyer that adheres to the folklore. They’re undead, and contagious, but they sparkle, cross running water, and can go out in sunlight with no deleterious effects. (I’m not even clear on whether they drink blood, or if they consume flesh too.) No one questions whether they’re vampires though, because the whole functional definition of a vampire has to do with predatory aristocracy, sexual and class politics, and certain kinds of body horror, especially as regards to procreation. (Maybe this last isn’t in the traditional folklore, but since Claudia in Interview with a Vampire, it’s definitely a thing.) Her vamps are just ducky, even if their attributes are only vampish. But call the creatures in I Am Legend zombies, and you will get into serious trouble with the neckbeards, even though they (the zombies, not the neckbeards, though them too, kinda) adhere to the functional definition of the zombie. They’re relentless; they outnumber “normal” humans (the opposite is almost always the case with vamps); they presage or have caused the end of the modern world; their body horror is not based on their sexual attributes, but on revulsion and rot. (Also, bearing in mind I’m talking about the Will Smith and Vincent Price films, not about the source novel. Those creatures are an interesting inversion.) Additionally, those movies have lots of the motifs of a zombie narrative: besieged homesteads, traumatic loss of loved ones, the slow madness of the lonely. I guess my point is this: I’ve gotten into a lot of pointless, stupid arguments on these here Internets about the definition of the zombie, and I wonder why the definition is such a big deal to people. I wonder why people police that definition so narrowly. My pet theory is that zombie narratives are often about race and class, and we’re all pretty kinked about those definitions as well. Like when I see idiots say things like “Obama is half white, so I’m not being racist when I say this racist thing about him.” Race isn’t like swirl ice cream, but a complicated slurry of competing functional definitions. In other words, race can’t be defined by attribute; it can only be defined by function. But holy god do we want it to be defined by attribute in our biologically deterministic little hearts. Ditto zombies. But pet theory aside, I think the other things about zombie stories is that they are new on the scene, relatively speaking, so they have a kind of same-same to them. Although the whole sexy aristocrat thing is new to the vampire – older folklore has vampires as more zombie-ish ghouls who are decidedly unsexy – the folklore is old enough to allow wide latitude in definitions based on attribute. We’ve got at least a hundred years of sexy aristocrat blood-drinkers. You can date the modern zombie to Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, no question, which was filmed not long before I was born, cough cough. The motifs have yet to fully differentiate through a century of reiteration and reimagining. We’re still working out the tropes, collectively. Which is why The Gospel of Z by Stephen Graham Jones is notable. No, the zombies are more or less your granddaddy’s Romero zombies – neckbeards take note – but there’s a fundamental weirdness to the proceedings that stretches the motifs, moves the markers, and fucks with the same-same. It’s ten years after the zombie apocalypse – or zombie apocalypses, as the end of the world was a slow, bleeding affair in this this novel, a series of last nights before the very last night. We pop into the life of the “more or less white” Jory Gray, low level schmuck who lives in the militarized encampment of what’s left of half of humanity. His girlfriend left him recently for the Church on the hill, the other half of what’s left of humanity. It’s whispered by the working stiffs that the Church both worships and has neutralized the zombie threat, but this is the kind of whispering that occurs between all working stiffs, and it’s both envious and disbelieved. Jory works building Handlers, a kind of superzombie built out of mad scientry and bureaucracy. The Handlers are used to differentiate zombie flesh from the edible, human kind, scrambling in the dirt to eat our remains unless our remains want to eat right back. They’re also fucking terrifying, in a way, this barely restrained weapon used for the most prosaic ends. Everyone can see how they’re going to go wrong, and spectacularly, but everyone is just some asshole trying to get by Everyone is shades of Jory Gray, trying hard not to be noticed until they are, and then fuck, maybe I’ll have to come to terms with that thing that one time. Maybe the apocalypse has more to do with one moment with a hammer than it does with anything that goes on later. Maybe we’re all working though that one trauma, and the zombies and superzombies and everything else is a memento mori, but a memento mori with teeth and a descant. Jones’s prose is nasty, pointed, that kind of horror writing that runs everyday until it escalates, and then it’s well over the fence. Catch up; keep up. I thought the climax was confused a bit – what the fuck was that one thing – but the parts that ran everyday honestly wrung me out. So much of the end of it all is the end of the one true thing, the thing you keep trying to find once it’s lost, and when you find its reminder, you sit on the floor of the bedroom and weep. You kill something with a knife made of bone. You go to work everyday like a schmuck, because that’s what you’ve got in you. That’s the only thing left, until it isn’t. Who even knows. The Gospel of Z feels non-functional, in a way, this fucking weird, armadillo-ridden narrative, too personal, too specific. This is something left out of the canon: a side story, an apocrypha, a letter to the Galatians. This is a vision on the road to Damascus brought on by epilepsy. This is a parking lot with a good vantage. Which makes it somehow perfect for the zombie narrative, giving you good, Romero zombies that no one could argue to do this crazy thing on the edges. God bless, and good night. Posted on February 21, 2014 Categories America and environs, apocalypse, books, futures, horror, monsters, Twilight, vamps, zombiesTags booklikes reviews, books, epistemology, I Am Legend, Night of the Living Dead, review, Romero, Stephen Graham Jones, The Gospel of Z11 Comments on The Gospel of Z by Stephen Graham Jones Beautiful Disaster: Most of this Title is Wrong There’s this old joke from the Simpsons where Bart sees the movie based on the Burroughs novel Naked Lunch, and then quips, “I can think of two things wrong with that title.” The beautiful part of Jamie McGuire’s Beautiful Disaster is most certainly wrong, but I think the disaster part is also a misnomer. Disaster implies a sudden destruction, something out of the hands of the affected, but this novel is a long, Mordorian slog through the absolute worst character traits that bloom into their inevitably dreary conclusion. Beautiful Disaster is like slowly adding chlorine bleach to ammonia, and the toxic fog that results is both unsurprising and cheerlessly boring. That I’ve struggled for nigh on three months to come up with a review is probably more due to my burnt throat than anything. What do I even say about a novel this fucking dumb? Which, now that this act of spleen is out of the way, onto the novel. I don’t really have much to say about the plot, being, as it is, the pointless, motivationless histrionics of characters without sense or coherence. Much of the romantic drivel published about young white women and their non-problems follows this sort of plotting: two acts of interpersonal hand-wringing followed by a more pulp-sensible third act. (Think Twilight, where not much happens for most of the book, then a badly blocked action sequence to remind you that there are “real world” stakes intrudes.) Abby Abernathy’s dorm showers break, so the most reasonable solution is to shack up with her friend America’s boyfriend and his psycho roommate, Travis. Due to reasons, she ends up having to share a bed (you know, like, platonically, not that any of these assholes have a clue who Plato was) with Travis for a month. An artless and witless courtship ensues, complete with an unconvincing love triangle and a lot of drunken screaming. Though I really could go on about this – and I could, believe you me – dogging the complete incoherence of the characters is probably not terribly fruitful. Like so many of these pulp romance slash New Adult characters, Abby and Travis inhabit a magical land where athletes who smoke and never train are just the very best at boxing; where shy good girl virgins can drink, card shark and fuck like a pro; where openly cruel & violent psychotics can command the admiration of everyone; where there are no legal ramifications to getting people killed and precious few emotional ones, short of “phew, glad it wasn’t anyone I know.” So many of these bottom barrel romances (or whatever this is) are peopled with incoherent sociopaths, the selfish and solipsistic edge of romantic love acted out by reader (and writer) proxies who can be all things and therefore nothing. Love means never having to say you’re sorry. Not once. Not even if you should. Like Ana from 50 Shades, Abby can be everything to the reader – virgin/whore, shy/brazen, competent/confused – without having to own any of it. Travis, like Christian Grey, exists solely to facilitate the heroine’s feels and/or vagina, driving her to actions that she wants/doesn’t want. Travis enacts the most vicious misogyny I’ve seen in a while from a character I’m supposed to like, which is then redeemed by magical ladyparts aka love. On some level, I get it: women spend a lot of godamn time dealing with threats of violence or actual violence. Just put up a female avatar and make two lightly feminist comments on Reddit and watch the rape threats roll in. A narrative that vaccinates one walking date rape through love has an appeal, I guess. (The bff of Abby, America, who spends a lot of godamn time girl-hating and slut-shaming is more confusing. Maybe it’s just self-loathing? Who even knows.) So, here’s the thing. I’ve said this before, so I’m paraphrasing myself here, but whether I like this sort of girl pulp has a lot to do with whether I like the main character. The characters are always incoherent and the worlds badly build; that’s just table stakes. Sookie Stackhouse reads to me like a 60 something lady who hasn’t been laid in so long she’s forgotten how the mechanics actually work, in addition to having terrible fashion sense. I find her fakey cluelessness frustrating, but I don’t dislike her. Bella Swann reads to me like a housewife desperately trying to reconnect with a libido twisted by religious dogma – Edward as both saint and stranger. I want to trip Bella, but I also empathize. Ana from 50 Shades is more of the same, but worse; it’s wedgie time for you, Ana. Harry Dresden – though that series isn’t girl pulp, technically – reads like a black-duster-wearing nerd who didn’t get much in high school because he was a jerk, and is making up for it now. (Making it up for now by getting some, not by not being a jerk, to be clear.) The women in the Black Dagger Brotherhood recede before the men, who enact a lot of hyper alpha stuff, but almost as a drag show, which I find stupid, charming and hilarious. I could easily go on. Anyway, point being, the person Abby most reminds me of is the unhinged sorority president whose letter to her sisters was brilliantly performed by Michael Shannon for Funny or Die. (I’ll let you go take a look: Michael Shannon Reads the Insane Delta Gamma Sorority Letter [NSFW]. The difference is that Abby doesn’t have nearly Rebecca Martinson’s flair for profanity, profanity I grudgingly respect, even if I think it’s seriously lame she got a writing gig on Vice [NSFW] out of the deal; ugh, and of course.) Mean-spirited, cruel, condescending, vulgar, and I want to underline this again, vulgar. Abby, like the sorority prez, spends a lot of time talking about drinking and shoring up her prowess in this incredibly juvenile way. Abby at one point takes 19 shots – 19 fucking shots! – and isn’t rushed to the hospital dead because she’s so good at holding her liquor. She trashes other girls for their awkwardness and their stupidity while solidly doing the very same things she castigates. Her priorities are completely fucked, her ambitions skewed, and her empathy nonexistent. People like Abby make my late model third wave feminist self want to punch a baby. Not everything a girl does has to be a feminist act, and maybe it’s a good sign that girls can treat their relatively insulated lives so cavalierly. Maybe that’s one of those horrible signs of progress that people like Abby can roll around acting like they’ll never get hurt, that psycho date rapists like Travis can see fit to slut-shame a girl for wearing a shirt. These are characters who have never once had to hold a hand, or have gotten that call, or watched when someone’s eyes shift when they decide to tell you. They have zero fucking clue. What kills me is characters like Abby and her bff America running their condescension on the girls who don’t get out safe, who get taken in by abusers – and make no mistake, Travis is an abuser – because they thought they were safe but weren’t. After Travis doorsteps a girl after banging her, and the girl is unhappy about her treatment. “Every time!” America said. She looked at the woman. “How are you surprised by this? He’s Travis Fucking Maddox! He is famous for this very thing, and every time they’re surprised!” Uh, okay? First off, I believe in casual sex, insofar as if it’s your bag, go for it. I don’t think you should have to enter into a long term relationship with someone after you have sex with them, and I think a lot of shitty relationships could be avoided if more people could have the sex they need without having to justify it with love or even commitment. Travis is a huge dick about giving this girl the brush off, but fine, probably better for her overall. I guess what I’m saying is that I’m not clutching my pearls over the thought of casual sex at all. What I question about this scene is the fact that Travis is swimming in pussy, even though he had a well established rep, even though all these women have to couch-fuck him because he won’t let them in his bedroom. (Red flag, ladies: that’s where he keeps the heads.) What I question is that “every single time” all of these women who are willing to couch-fuck a guy in his not-too-clean sounding apartment are so enamored of him that they lose their damn minds? And need to be scolded by America? I’m completely willing to believe that there are women who would have sex with Travis; that’s not my issue. (“He was hot and I haven’t tried scabies yet.”) My issue is that McGuire is asking us to believe this Cro-Magnon is universally treated like some kind of catch, when, uh, no. That the couch-fuck was so good that every woman who gets one is gagging for round two. I guarantee you this: Travis couldn’t find a clit with both hands and a flashlight, and for sure he never tried. He cannot be that good in bed, ever. But I guess this is the romantic ideal? I don’t know. The person I don’t even get is America. She alternately pushes Abby on Travis, and then drags her back off, loudly breaking up with Shep and getting back together, shrieking in clubs, judging, and generally acting like the worst bff ever. She’s the constant counterpoint of Travis’s awful misogyny, and the two of them have a game of one upmanship throughout the book of who can say the most terrible thing next. This is one of those left field thoughts, but bear with me. So you know the Book of Job, right? From the bible? So the commonest reading of the section where Job’s friends show up to tell him to curse god and die and all that is that the friends are psychological aspects of Job himself, the oldest recorded example of the devil and angel on your shoulder. I keep seeing this kind of divided psychology in these shitty romances: Ana with her “Inner Goddess” and “subconscious”, Jacob stepping in to voice Bella’s fears in Breaking Dawn because she can’t. Much as I’m dogging on Abby for being horrible, mostly she’s just milquetoast, not evidencing any kind of real emotional reaction to anything around her. It’s all this flat affect and observation, and the real emotional reaction gets off-loaded onto America so we can identify more readily with this car wreck. No. Anyway, blah, I hate these people. Because I’m tired of trying to make coherent observations, I’m just going to note a couple things about this book that suck, in no particular order. I groaned aloud and put my head on the table when Travis bought Abby a fucking puppy, whose existence then blinks on and off throughout the book as McGuire remembers him. The trip Abby takes to meet Travis’s nightmare of a family turned me into my great-aunt Edith for about 50 pages, completely mortified by their boorish squalor. I wanted to cover all the chairs in that crinkly plastic, douse everything in bleach, and then take off and nuke it from orbit. As disgusting as Travis’s bachelor pad sounded, the mothership was a million times worse. The staph infection doesn’t fall far from the tree. I wanted to punch myself into unconsciousness when the singalong happened in the cafeteria. Who the fuck are these people, vomit Glee? And Pigeon is the worst name bestowed on anyone ever. Oh, but I guess that reminds me. I see justifications for shit like Beautiful Disaster that runs something like: you don’t have to like the characters for a book to be powerful or well done. And in the abstract, sure. Psychologically astute portraiture of monsters can be devastating to read, especially when they lure you into identifying with the monster. But that’s not what’s going on here; this isn’t an adroit manipulation of readerly expectations. All of the major characters are psychologically impossible, and most of the plot is patently ridiculous. Nothing that could possibly happen that way enacted by people who can’t exist? That’s not a cool dramatic monologue that causes the reader to reexamine what she thinks about human nature; that’s a shitshow. I don’t come to end feeling like I’ve learned anything about damaged people, and I sure as shit don’t buy that happily ever after. Gross. Oh, and also? That piece of shit Travis Maddox should not be attributed with lines from Song of Solomon like I see all over the damn place, idiots. (I did find the blog Bad Hebrew Tattoos though, which is my new favorite thing, so it wasn’t all bad. ) “I belong to my beloved and my beloved is mine” was written by King Solomon. And as far as tattooing that particular line on your skin, like douches Travis Maddox and David Beckham have done, the line correctly translated from the Hebrew reads, “I am my beloved’s and he is mine. He browses among the lilies.” You can make that gender neutral in English easily enough, but the Hebrew unmistakably refers to a male lover. So unless Trav is a gay Jew – which would make this book considerably more interesting – this line has no business being on his body. Moron. Posted on January 14, 2014 Categories America and environs, books, New Adult, romance, sex writing, zombiesTags Beautiful Disaster, booklikes reviews, books, fiction, Jamie McGuire, simply horrible2 Comments on Beautiful Disaster: Most of this Title is Wrong World War Z: The Movie Of course when I started seeing trailers and reading descriptions of the film adaption of Max Brooks’s journal of the zombie apocalypse, World War Z, I immediately jumped up onto my high horse and started penning angry screeds in the comment sections of Reddit. (Just kidding. I don’t use Reddit.) Why in the hell were they even calling this movie World War Z if exactly nothing was taken from the book but the title? The book World War Z is nerdy and wonky, very much what a serious military history geek would write about the zombie apocalypse with CNN on mute in the background. So, maybe the individual voices were a little same-same; Brooks’s take was refreshing in its long, global pan, broken out from the locked room scenarios of so many zombie narratives. Instead of the usual how will we survive tomorrow, it was a consideration of how society – societies – would respond to such a threat. Admittedly, the book is a little bloodless – the snap gone out of recountings because we know the raconteur has survived – and I was expecting changes. Much of Brooks’s book simply wouldn’t work on the screen. I did have some fantasies about the film being about the soldier’s narrative. He pops up at least three times in the book, moving from the Battle of Yonkers – which is actually beautifully narrated, and a pretty biting criticism of the ways military tacticians refuse to adapt to changing realities – to a West Coast enclave, and then back out through the flyover states, reclaiming this grand America. The zombie herds like buffalo, the consideration of the in-fill towns and the feral domestic animals, the drudgery and mud-covered victories: all this would have worked on the screen. Alas, no mas. World War Z, the film, opens with a languorous morning flipping pancakes and only occasionally tense domesticity. Gerry Lane is an ex-CIA investigator, clearly still in the recovery phase of adjustment to stay-at-home dad and unemployment. His kids are moppets, and while I think it might be indicted that his wife is a professional of some kind, this isn’t lingered on. The New York setting and the traffic snarl action pieces reminded me of Will Smith’s I Am Legend, but the New Yorkiness and generally elegiac tone is absent from the movie. Pitt’s Gerry Lane seems like someone who would be better played by Tom Cruise, whose asshole Ethan Hunt routine from the Mission Impossible movies might register stronger than Pitt’s surfer insouciance. Much as I generally like Pitt, here he lacked an edge that made his supposed backstory anything but narrative justification. I was in the CIA, like, I guess. From here, the movie bops around the zombie apocalypse, running set pieces with the thinnest of narrative fiber between them. Some of the set pieces were honestly thrilling – like the zombies swarming over the Israeli wall, or some of the stuff in North Korea. Some of them felt like hey, what about an outbreak on a plane??? I felt twitchy about a wasted David Morse vamping through a toothless mouth prosthetic about Jews and how they never forget, although the chatty Jurgen Warbrunn – one of the few characters (sort of) from the novel – explains a little better what looks like unvarnished antisemitism in Morse’s explanations of the Israeli response. I liked the look of the androgyne Israeli soldier tasked to escort Lane out of Israel, but there wasn’t much more than a look to her character. All in all, the movie was the kind of contentless flash-bang that can be fun in the dollar theater on a Sunday, but will likely diminish on the small screen to the point of boring. Rather than just complain about fast zombies, because honestly, that’s maybe the lamest criticism one can level at the zombie narrative, my complaints more have to do with the lack of viscera. (Seriously, I’ve been trolled one too many times by people exclaiming that fast zombies aren’t really zombies, like the taxonomy of imaginary creatures isn’t flexible enough to include a little sprinting.) But really it was the lack of guts that got me, because whatever other societal jibber jabber zombie narrative might capture, they can thrill because of entrail-rending zombie bouquets, the mob ripping someone limb from limb. They’re about physical fear, body horror, our fear of the inevitably declining meat-sack we all live in. It’s not about the fear of death, but of decomposing life. Blood splatter was notably absent in World War Z, which seems a crying shame. But that’s not even what I want to note about this movie. What I want to talk about is Gerry Lane’s wife. I’ve noted before that zombie stories deal with domesticity in a weird way, and the housewife, as the embodiment of domesticity, ends up bearing the brunt of the weirdness. And maybe I should just take a minute to define terms. Yes, obviously, Lane’s wife is working outside the home, and Lane himself is playing emasculated parent to her harping worry. There’s a quelling quality to their marital interactions: you shouldn’t want to go back out into that manly, war-torn landscape, Gerry. No, no, of course I don’t. I’m using housewife as a shorthand term for the straight, white, middle class momming set, working or not, who regularly are the focal point of the Mommy Wars, the cultural wars, and apparently, now the zombie wars. The housewife is a category more mythic than actual, but she’s got teeth like any other monster, and sometimes she sprints. But when the fit hits the shan, it’s Gerry’s war skills that nurture domesticity. Gerry mansplains to the Hispanic family that they have to move to be safe in crisis, and they don’t listen, bringing moppet count up to three when their son takes the advice they don’t. By the time the Lane family makes it to the aircraft carrier, Mrs Lane is in full on helicopter mom mode, hissing at Gerry and the UN dude that they should take their conversation about zombies outside lest they upset the children. I punched my husband at this point in the film – in the arm, jeez – why wouldn’t she want to know wtf was going on? Fair enough, don’t freak out the kids anymore than you have to, but given that they were pretty much unconscious in every scene from here on out, maybe you have a shred of curiosity about anything but making sandwiches? Why would a professional woman just wring her hands and push her sleeping babies’ hair out of their eyes? You’re in danger of getting chucked from the relative safety of the carrier, why don’t you offer up whatever hastily sketched skills you have? Mrs Lane’s story reaches a nadir when she calls Gerry in a panic while he’s on a dangerous op in North Korea, the squeal of the phone alerting the zombies to their locale. Pro life tip: set your cell phone to buzz when in the zombie apocalypse. (Also: cell phones work?) His world-weary decision not to tell her that her domestic panic got a lot of good men killed – good men! – just exhausted me. Broads, man, amiright? Don’t text me right now because I’m in a v. important meeting. Mrs Lane ends up as this tragic impetus for action, inert and often interfering, but without agency or motivation beyond the cheesy invocation of family. Someone smacks down Gerry near the end when he invokes it right back – I watched the thing that became my wife kill my children – but this is a weird conversation, bros ruminating on their obligations that are little more than luggage. Think of the children! Because that’s all we can do! I don’t know. It’s late, and I’m tired, and maybe I’ll be back to bloviate tomorrow. I thought WWZ: the Movie was fine when people were running and screaming, but it wasn’t much more than that in the end. Oh, and also, the scene where Gerry pops open a Pepsi machine and the cans all rolled with their labels out cracked my shit up. Pepsi: The Choice of the Undead! Pepsi quenches your thirst for brains. Posted on December 12, 2013 Categories America and environs, apocalypse, books, feminist, horror, movies, New York, the housewife, zombiesTags page to film, the housewife, World War ZLeave a comment on World War Z: The Movie Review: Walking Dead: 30 Days Without an Accident Walking Dead offers very few meta moments where the writers tip their hands and remind you this is a show. It’s far too earnest for that, blending tightly constructed spectacle against the almost drearily telegraphed lack-of-soap operatics of living post-apocalypse. So it was fun to a see a little fan moment, where Carol and Daryl are chatting about Daryl’s new standing as trusted badass with the new members of the prison group, and she tells him to accept the love. She also calls him pooky. This was a just adorable nod to Reedus’s fan-favorite status, and threw a bone to us Carol/Daryl shippers who want acknowledgement that Carol and Daryl are going to get married and have like a million babies. As far as the rest of the episode went, it was a fairly perfect example of the things Walking Dead tends to get right with just enough stuff to worry me about what the writers think they are doing that I’m not too comfortable. Which in some ways is meta in it’s own way. This season looks to be about how the prison population has adjusted to the new normal with a modicum of safety and competence, and how that’s going to go to shit. Everything from the cold open, which was, per the best of them, wordless and packed with meaningful detail, to the almost casual beginning as the group goes to loot the Piggly Wiggly shows how our group has built strategies and coping mechanisms for their new world. They’re not running anymore; they’re not just sitting still; they’re building. One of the things Walking Dead has always knocked out of the park are their gory action set-pieces, and “30 Days Without an Accident” delivers in spades. Because of the Big Bad last season, many of the set-pieces felt small or freighted with emotional weight that the characters cannot deliver (though the actors sometimes could, despite writing failures.) The zombies-as-threat had given way to humans-as-threat, which is a perfectly cromulent dramatic shift, but I don’t think Walking Dead has ever pulled off character work that convincingly. Too many torture sequences, too many growled conversations, too much posturing, not enough fucking zombies eating your face. There was too much set in the set pieces, like the zombie MMA sequences that felt like they were occurring on a sound-stage in Burbank. But the Piggly Wiggly sequence: this was awesome. My husband and I screamed and sang “It’s raining zombies!” though the whole thing, shrieking when the bodies hit the ground, doing that thing where you shift out of the way like you can make the character see the zombie coming right for them! It was glorious and disgusting, and maybe more importantly, it established the themes for the season. So yeah, you’re clever with drawing out all the walkers with a boombox wired to some car batteries and you’re tight formation but you didn’t factor in the rotting infrastructure of a World Without Us. (One of Weisman’s observations about what happens to human-built structures with no maintenance: if you want to take down a house, cut an 18 inch square hole in the roof and stand back. About a year should do it.) The crew have adjusted to zombies, but they haven’t adjusted in many ways to the changing parameters of the world. The rot isn’t just in the splashing bodies, but in everything, even the living. We’re all just meat sacks in the end. We kill or we die. Or we die and then we kill. Which brings me to the disease outbreak in the prison. This storyline has a lot of potential, and seems a logical extension of the whole zombie mechanism we have here. If anyone who dies turns, and anyone can die from even mundane illnesses, you have a situation were there needs to be a lot more security even within relative safety. But I’m a little perplexed by the conversations about naming things – the pig, then the walkers – and what this was supposed to be about. Here we are, three plus years from the zombie apocalypse, and people (though admittedly children) are having conversations about the relative humanity of walkers? Who even does that? If this is supposed to be some broad semaphore that the kids from Shelbyville are out of touch, then that’s pretty lame, given what they’ve undoubtedly been through since the shitshow at the end of last season. Rick’s conversation with Crazy Irish was a similar mix of good stuff and perplexing. I liked her truncated and obviously obfuscating stories about what happened to her and her group after the world went to hell, but this sequence (fairly long sequence) didn’t do much other than set up an unsurprising reveal, and did almost nothing for Rick’s character that hasn’t been done before. (Also, thanks for the bullet point conversation with Hershel. “I could be her” indeed, Rick.) I did like the bit where Rick didn’t even go to look at the zombaby, because in a world of horrors, who needs another one? But like the conversations between Glenn and Maggie, this was mostly wheel-spinning retreading of “conflicts” that have never had much juice, and are getting thin with reiteration. If that isn’t a mixed metaphor. Moving on. I think I’m in the stray observations part of the essay. I’m pleased to see Michonne both smiling and joking! – who even knew that was possible – and I liked seeing Beth doing something other than having huge liquid eyes. She’s given a boyfriend and a fairly interesting monologue after he’s dispatched, which makes me wonder if she isn’t bullseyed for death next episode. Walking Dead has a fairly annoying tendency to dispatch minor characters right after they are given absolutely anything to do – RIP T-Dog, and mustached pedobear, and every black character not still living, and Milton – so I don’t have much hope for her continued survival. I still hate gravitas-mouthpiece Hershel with a white hot intensity. The dude who got stuck under the wine bottles: this was a fairly hilarious sequence where he’s obviously telegraphing his temptation to the drop and then WHAM, a huge metaphor just fell on your legs. I almost took joy in it, because it was so ham-fisted. This episode felt mostly like scene-setting, which I don’t count as a bad thing. Here is our new normal, and here are the threats to that normal. So far, I don’t see anything (or anyone) arising as the new Big Bad – Michonne’s obviously off on a hunt for the Governor, but that’s not given much time. I’m not sure that’s a problem, exactly, because Walking Dead seems to falter when drawing out conflicts based on personality or (God help us) philosophy. I would be incredibly happy to see a season based on more mundane, personal, physical survival mechanics, the heretofore interstitial pieces like Carol’s knife lessons given more prominence. Much as I like watching them die, I want to see how they live, and not as some abstract conceptual piece, but on a nuts and bolts level. We’ll see how that goes for me. Posted on October 16, 2013 Categories apocalypse, comix, futures, television, Walking Dead, zombiesLeave a comment on Review: Walking Dead: 30 Days Without an Accident Look, Fred, a Zombie Kangaroo: How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea So, as I mentioned in my review of San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats, I’ve been reading Newsflesh novellas as my big end of summer hurrah. While Browncoats corrected a lot of the things I don’t like about the Newsflesh world, being as it is an outbreak story unconnected to the events of the trilogy, How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea hit every single thing I don’t like about Newsflesh, and then added a couple more, just for fun. This was a Scooby Doo episode, and not in a good way. The first thing I thought when I read the synopsis for How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea, a Newsflesh novella set in Australia was, are there going to be zombie kangaroos? Because lol, that’s pretty much what anyone thinks about when they think about Australia right, Scoob and gang? I’m on record as digging it when non-Americans write about America kinda broadly, because you can get some interesting parallax views that I would have never considered, being inside the boiling, melting pot myself, but this kind of adventure tourism based on the laziest of national stereotypes is much more suited to Saturday morning cartoons based on a talking Great Dane and his highass friends. I can’t even say anything about the Australian national character, but I’m going to call bullshit on Mahir’s mansplaining, the rabbit-proof fence, and the zombie kangaroo national preserve. Givez-moi un break, sheila. Here’s some hot Vegemite down your pants. Mahir Gowda, After the End Times blogger who was my favorite from the novels and tea-drinking Brit, goes to Australia to…something. Check out the zombie kangaroo preserve and hang out with some weirdos? Motivations are murky. He meets up with some new End Times bloggers, apparently hired after the events of the trilogy, who hew to the exhaustingly dumb character traits of blogging platforms in the zombie future. Blah, blah, Irwins are always on camera poking things with sticks, etc. Fictionals are dreamy and write poetry and Newsies something about truth and justice or whatnot. I have never ever bought the blogging trifecta outlined in the Newsflesh novels, and because it’s been a year since I’ve read them, so much of the world building stuff has slipped for me because it didn’t make any sense to begin with. At the time, I was willing to accept what I felt were dumb, impossible reactions (socially speaking) because I’d been boiling in them for hundreds of pages, but the river had sped on, and my foot went into something less to my liking and slipped. Apparently Australia has a much more loosey goosey attitude towards the six hundred billion blood tests necessary to fucking do anything ever in the rest of the anglophone world (which we’ve only really ever seen the UK and North America, so whatever about China, Africa, or the rest of you lot.) Mahir eye-bugs about having a picnic; there’s a lot of bush-piloting around and Coke-drinking; zombie wombats and some taxonomy about kangaroos. What really set my teeth was Mahir’s final speech to a group of semi-rioting outbackers about how they should totally cherish their kinda bullshit freedoms because the rest of us are so busy spooking at Muslim terrorists zombies that our lives are shit, but he wouldn’t want to live somewhere with zombats, because security. Also, please get me some tea because I’m British, you see. Just, ugh, this is so the kind of thing an American would write thinking they were being all thoughtful narrative about our paranoid security state – down to the polyamorous relationship that isn’t remarked on in any real way, but just kinda sits there as a thing. We just gutted the Voting Rights Act and DOMA, and one of those things is a shitshow, and the other is great, but I’m sick of zero sum games of rights and freedom and security. I’m sick of reductionist bullshit and other countries as allegory, because other countries are not our allegories. Look, Fred, zombie kangaroos! Bah. Well, phew, that was something of a rampage, and I feel like I need to pull out of my death spiral a little before I conclude. The thing that garnered this annoying, plot-arc-less story the extra star was a couple of brief asides about Georgia Mason as she is during the last novel. (I’m seriously trying to avoid spoilers here, and, fyi, there are spoilers all over this novella for Blackout, so if you haven’t read the series and don’t want to be spoiled, don’t start here.) Mahir got into the philosophy of the mind stuff that I thought was squandered in Blackout, even if the treatment was kinda cursory and topical. Two stars. Also, kinda fuck this book. Posted on August 27, 2013 Categories alternate history, America and environs, apocalypse, Australia, books, futures, Rule Britannia, What Would Scooby Do?, zombiesLeave a comment on Look, Fred, a Zombie Kangaroo: How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea You Can’t Take the Con from Me: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats I am of the opinion that Mira Grant’s Newsflesh trilogy is perfect summer vacation reading. Even though those books are bloated by all kinds of Coke drinking, logistical chicanery, and wangst, the pages absolutely rip along, like finding a google hole of related self-important blog posts by a group of people who you kind of can’t stand, but also adore and want to have a drink with. I didn’t really track this while I was reading them, as I was too caught up rolling my eyes at the world mechanics – seriously, who is growing food or packing, shipping and delivering all the godamn stuff you assholes are ordering on the Internet – but Grant (possibly slyly) really captures the bullshit teapot tempest feel of the blogosphere. Only two privileged white kids who live with their parents can save us all! But, gosh, it was a lot of fun to read, and perfect for long summer evenings on the back porch. So I finished them up last summer, and in the last week of this summer, I discovered there are a bunch of enovellas set in the Newsflesh world. Sign me right up, gin and tonic in hand. San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats feels a little like Hugo-bait (which I see worked, because this was nominated for the Hugo in the novella category for 2013). The Hugo is the more fannish of the sff awards, as it is decided by the participants in World Con, not SFWA or or other more trade-y organizations. Whether that sentence made any sense to you is probably a good indicator of whether this novella will work for you, as Browncoats is aimed pretty solidly at the nerd demographic. A novella about a zombie outbreak at a nerd con being voted on by nerd con participants is a good bet for the win. But hey, I’m a nerd and con goer, also for the win. But my nerdery aside, I think Browncoats minimized the things that bug me about the Newsflesh world: the tech-babble and less-than-punchy aphoristic intros and extros, the self-aggrandizement of douches, the shaky social architecture. The novella read much more like a lost chapter from World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, with the whingeing, bloggerly interjections of the After the End Times staff kept to a minimum, and the wide ranging events of the Comic Con outbreak related though multiple perspectives and points of view. My favorite of the End Times staff, Mahir, has gone to interview the last known survivor of Comic Con 2014 thirty years later, and the proceedings have that same Studs Terkel retrospective sensibility which both dampens the immediate arm-wheeling and tinges everything with sadness – two things the Newsflesh world could use more of, imao. Con kid Lorelei goes off to sulk in her hotel while her parents set up the Firefly fan booth. A young woman is rescued by a Jedi when a zombie panel attacks. A blind woman and her dog get stuck in the booth. A starlet for a time-travel cop show – “My TV Guide interview was six paragraphs about my boobs and how they fit into my suit” – is abandoned by her handler with newlywed fans. There’s a lot of geek hat-tips to Who or the “fake geek girl” thing or – obviously – the Whedonverse, while pulling off a pretty good outbreak in a locked room scenario. Per usual with Newsflesh, I have some serious questions about Kellis-Amberlee, the disease that causes the zombiism, and why the zombies seem to hold off for a period other than narrative convenience and if they’re actually dead and stuff, but that’s not really no nevermind. One of the things I like about Grant’s novels is that the zombies are actually called zombies, not some coy new term. That a convention center full of geeks would leap to the term and start trying to hash out the “rules” for the outbreak based on fiction, even if they get it wrong, felt refreshing. Too often characters in fiction seem never to have heard of zombies, despite the zombie’s half-century of existence in its modern mobbing guise. So, my read of this was a perfect storm of situation and personality, aimed solidly at my demographic, fixing some broken things for me, and, ah, the drone of cicadas. It’s probably also the only of the novellas I’ve read so far that I might even recommend to people who haven’t read the trilogy, because as an episodic back story piece, you don’t really have to get into the whole thing. Fed is an alternate ending on Feed, and as such, is a major spoiler, and How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea occurs after the Newsflesh events, and is stupid. I haven’t read Countdown, but I will, Oscar, I will. It’s like 90 degrees and the first day of school, and for sure I can get it in before the leaves turn and the first homework is assigned. Allons-y! Rise up while you can! Posted on August 27, 2013 Categories alternate history, America and environs, apocalypse, books, Firefly, horror, Hugo, science fiction, short stories, zombiesLeave a comment on You Can’t Take the Con from Me: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1058
__label__cc	0.648356	0.351644	Farah, Haji & Omran Voices from Syria “Artists in Syria, they have a weapon – their creativity!” Meet three Syrian artists – Rami Farah, Golan Haji and Mohamad Omran – for a conversation about the role of culture in the uprising against the Syrian regime. Read more … Even though large parts of the western audience and governments seem to be reluctant towards the uprising in Syria, for the Syrian people and intellectuals it is a revolution, says the writer and poet Golan Haji (b.1977). “And actually a question of life and death.” Video-artist and dancer Rami Farah (b.1980) points out the exposed position of the Syrian cultural elite. “At the beginning of the revolution, the people waited for the artists to engage themselves.” While everybody in Syria is conscious of the fact, that artists are peaceful activists, the Syrian regime – because of the artists’ popularity among the Syrian people – tried to expose them as terrorists. Award winning Syrian artist Mohamad Omran (b.1979) focuses on the future of the country. “We want an open culture, where you can do and express, whatever you want.” All three intellectuals had to flee the country and speak about the feeling of guilt, living in a safe haven, while their relatives are passing “through the gate of nightmare”. But as Golan Haji expresses it: “When Odysseus turned back, he asked the gods, why did you create misfortune? And they answered him: ‘So the future generations – what are they going to sing about?” Rami Farah, Golan Haji and Mohamad Omran were interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner. Camera: Jonas Hjort Edited by: Jonas Hjort Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner Music: Anouar Brahem – Astrakan Café Supported by Nordea-fonden Golan Haji Mohamad Omran Rami Farah Adonis & Ibrahim Al-Koni Religion is a Moral Behavior Waciny Laredj Towards a New Humanity Life is in Danger Every Day	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1060
__label__wiki	0.704505	0.704505	Exposing Causes Too Many Sick Children Known Culprits Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) Electromagnetic Fields / Wireless Technologies Flame Retardants (PBDEs) Plasticizers Countering False Narratives Campaign to Restore Child Health Vaccine Safety Seeking Justice Exposing the Truth Federal Failures Righting the Wrongs Protecting Our Future CHD Watchdog Efforts Flu Shot Facts Mandates Toolbox Identifying At-Risk Children Policy Safeguards Whistleblowers Welcome Kennedy News & Views Media/Media Issues Neurotoxins Other Published Articles Public & Private Programs Research & Critiques Mercury/Thimerosal/Autism Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Legal Advisory Committee RFK, Jr. & Robert DeNiro Press Conference Support Our Efforts Have a Fundraising Event Make a Birthday Wish #MyChildToo The Sickest Generation Children’s Health Defense believes in complete health freedom for parents. It should be the parent’s choice, and not the government’s, to decide what goes into the bodies of their children. In Italy, citizens staged a nation-wide protest, successfully overturning a national vaccine mandate, but not without fierce pushback. In the U.S., statewide policy has become more and more oppressive while, at the same time, more inadequately-tested vaccines are added to the childhood schedule. In many states personal belief and religious exemptions have been eliminated, despite studies and VICP reports that show vaccines ingredients can injure and kill children, and child protection agencies have gotten involved to punish informed parents who wish to keep their children safe from vaccines. Children’s Health Defense is committed to supporting not only informed consent for any medical procedure but also the need for factual and unbiased medical information regarding benefits and risks. Please contact us if you have concerns about your health freedom. AMA Says Mature 12-Year-Olds Can Consent to Vaccination Without Parents—Taking Away the Last Barrier Protecting Innocent Children from Big Pharma The AMA agreed to develop model legislation that pressures state legislatures into allowing minors to “override refusenik parents on vaccination.” But the question that anyone familiar with the AMA’s history should be asking is, why would we trust the AMA to make such vital decisions in parents’ stead? Failure to Vaccinate or Vaccine Failure: What Is Driving Disease Outbreaks? By the Children’s Health Defense Team In late February, in testimony on measles for the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Dr. Anthony Fauci—director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)—admitted with a chuckle that he and most of the Committee members sitting before him had uneventfully experienced measles as children and […] Health Committee Votes Yes to SB276, “Pan’s Labyrinth” California SB 276 is anti-health, anti-privacy, anti-doctor, and anti-parental rights Guest Contribution by Alix Mayer, MBA In June, the California Assembly Health Committee voted to send SB276 to the Appropriations Committee. The bill would eliminate the majority of vaccine medical exemptions that protect medically fragile children. California law currently supports these exemptions. More than […] The Flawed Logic of Hepatitis B Vaccine Mandates By the Children’s Health Defense Team Summary: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend that newborn babies receive the hepatitis B vaccine on their first day of life. The infants, toddlers and young children receiving this vaccine face little to no chance of hepatitis B infection, but the […] Vaccine Mandates Results Don’t Safeguard Children’s Rights or Health: How Did We Get Here? By the Children’s Health Defense Team For decades, the U.S. government has made compulsory childhood vaccination one of the cornerstones of its public health policy. Outside the U.S., countries’ vaccination policies range from completely voluntary to “aggressive,” with some nations promoting vaccination but leaving the decision up to the individual, and others pushing a […] You make the difference. The Medical Journals’ Sell-Out—Getting Paid to Play Statements on Judge Mackey’s Ruling on NYS Temporary Restraining Order Families Sue New York State to Stop the Repeal of the Religious Exemption to Vaccines Press Conference Video & Transcript © 2016-2019 Children's Health Defense, All rights Reserved • Medical Disclaimer • Privacy Policy • Contact Us Sign-up for FREE News & Updates!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1069
__label__cc	0.74074	0.25926	The Mid-Week Beat: Holiday Concerts for Music Snobs! Turkey Day has passed and you’re starting to hear the familiar strains of holiday songs coming out of the speakers of every store, shopping mall and restaurant around town. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love holiday music, but I don’t think I’m alone when I say that hearing some of those songs over and over can sometimes make me want to ram a candy cane in my eardrum. Basically, I’m a music snob. So, when picking out holiday concerts for you, my faithful readers of The Mid-Week Beat, I thought I’d try and find events that stray away from the typical holiday concert and are certain to appeal to your discerning tastes. You won’t find any Nutcrackers in this list, no Christmas Carols and certainly, no Messiah‘s. Instead you get a psychedelic music festival in Seattle, Christmas songs as done by The Who, a choir composed entirely of indie rock songstresses from Brooklyn and much, much more. The one common thread: they all center around music and they all attempt to bring something fresh and new to the age-old “holiday concert” concept. Of course, if you’re a traditionalist, we have plenty of traditional fare on the site but why not go out and experience something a little different this year? You can always catch The Nutcracker next year. Be sure to pick up tickets soon as all of these shows are sure to sell out. Friday, December 6 I Psychedelic Holiday Freak Out – Seattle, Washington FunkFarm, a Seattle-based imprint, has announced the Psychedelic Holiday Freak Out — a 2 day, 38 band music festival taking place on Seattle’s Capitol Hill. With stages for rock and hip-hop, the festival will bring top West Coast talent to the city to play alongside a collection of rising local artists. The event was conceived during a hung-over drive between Portland and Seattle. “We saw the dreariness out the window and decided that Seattle needed a late-fall festival to shake things up before winter really set in,” said organizer Nate Leonard-Berliner. “We originally wanted to cater to fans of psychedelic music, but our scope quickly expanded when we saw the sheer variety of great acts interested in working with us.” The lineup highlights top performers across a wide swath of genres, including sonic futurist Vox Mod, hip-hop fire spitters Kung Foo Grip and hard-driving garage rockers Fox and the Law. Individual stages will be hosted by legendary radio DJ Marco Collins, consummate sci-fi cowboy Brent Amaker and local hip hop veteran Bishop I of Oldominion. Tags: A Christmas Lu'au, Bishop I, Brent Amaker, DJ Marco Collins, Firehouse Black & White Ball, Forlorn Strangers, Fox and the Law, FunkFarm, Gay Men's Choir of Hawaii, Hawaii Convention Center, holiday concerts, holiday music, How Grinchy Met The Who, Indigo Swing, Jason Jones, Jeff Jacob, Jerick Hoffer, Jinkx Monsoon & Major Scales, Johnny Boyd, Kung Foo Grip, Michael Hunter Ochs, Oldominion, Plymouth Church, Psychedelic Holiday Freak Out, Queen Lili'u Theatre, Richard Andriessen, Sherrie Austin, Sirens of Brooklyn Girls Music Education Fund, Sirens of Brooklyn Winter 2013 Concert, The Mid-Week Beat, Thistle Stop Cafe, Thistle Thursdays, Unwrapped, Victor & Penny, Vox Mod.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1083
__label__wiki	0.918616	0.918616	Throwing events highlight SIU’s performance at Vanderbilt Invitational By Brent Meske, @brentmeskeDE Filed under Sports, Track Cross Country SIU track and field competed with teams from the Southeastern Conference, Atlantic Coast Conference and Big 10 Conference at the Vanderbilt Invitational on Friday and Saturday and came away with one event win. The Salukis were led by senior throwers Brad Sauer and Alexus Scott in both the weight throw and shot put. Sauer won the weight throw and finished fifth in the shot put. His throw of 22.06 meters in the weight throw moved him to No. 3 in the nation and No. 2 all-time at SIU. The nation’s top mark, set by Purdue senior Chukwuebuka Enekwechi, is 23.79 meters. Sauer was No. 14 entering competition with a mark of 21.09 meters. Sophomore Issac Ingram finished third in the weight with a throw of 19.74 meters. While Sauer finished fifth in the shot with a throw of 15.92 meters, fellow senior Saluki Josh Freeman finished second with a throw of 19.40 meters. This is the first shot put event of the year Freeman has not won. Stephen Mozia, who is throwing for Garden City Track Club — based in New Jersey, won the event with a throw of 21.11 meters. His throw broke the Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center facility record of 21.03 meters, which he previously set on Jan. 16. Scott finished fourth and sixth in the shot put and weight throw, respectively, behind strong performances from former Salukis. Mississippi sophomore Raven Saunders won the shot put with a throw of 18.98 meters, which was a personal best and improved her collegiate lead to more than one meter. Jeneva Stevens, a former Saluki now throwing for New York Athletic Club, followed Saunders with a throw of 18.51 meters and Jessica Ramsey, who previously threw at Western Kentucky but competed as an unattached athlete, finished third with an 18.28-meter throw. All three throwers broke Saunders’ facility record of 16.95 meters set last season while she was at SIU. Scott followed the record-breaking trio with a throw of 15.67 meters. It was much of the same in the weight throw, as Scott finished sixth with a throw of 19.61 meters, and four athletes broke the previous facility record of 20.77 meters held by SIU senior DeAnna Price set last season. Price was unable to defend her record — she is out of indoor eligibility, but will return to the Salukis for the outdoor season. Gwen Berry, a former Saluki who is also throwing for NYAC, won the event with a throw of 24.02 meters. She was followed by Stevens and Ramsey, who threw 23.45 meters and 23.22 meters, respectively. North Carolina State senior Nicole Chavis also broke Price’s facility record with a throw of 21.91 meters. Saunders finished fifth with a throw of 20.22 meters. The Salukis return home to host the Don DeNoon Invitational beginning Friday at the SIU Recreation Center. Brent Meske can be reached at [email protected] or at 536-3333 Tags: acc, alexus scott, atlantic coast conference, big 10, brad sauer, brent meske, chukwuebuka enekwechi, daily egyptian, dawgs, de, deanna price, don denoon, don denoon invitational, garden city track club, gwen berry, issac ingram, jeneva stevens, jessica ramsey, josh freeman, mississippi, new jersey, new york athletic club, nicole chavis, north carolina state, nyac, purdue, raven saunders, record, salukis, sec, shot put, siu, siu athletics, southeast conference, stephen mozia, track and field, vanderbilt, vanderbilt invitational, weight throw, western kentucky Tweets by dailyegyptian In a historic announcement SIU Arena is renamed “Banterra Center” SIU Men's Sports Track and Field prepares for MVC Championship at Louisville Invitational SIU Women's Sports Southern Illinois sweeps UNI Panthers in three game series NCAA Bound: Women’s Golf heads to Washington for regional tournament Twice is nice: Men’s Golf takes gold at 2019 MVC Championship Men’s golf set to compete in 2019 Missouri Valley Conference Championship Saluki Quidditch makes first appearance in US Quidditch Cup Salukis record four Top 10 school marks in Tennessee Ring Chase Complete: Southern Women’s Golf wins 2019 MVC Championship Southern Illinois swept by Bradley Braves in three game series	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1089
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The organic investments and planned acquisitions we made throughout 2017 improved our capabilities and offerings and facilitated us to raise market share,” said Kevin Murai, President, and CEO. Fiscal 2017 fourthQuarter Highlights: Technology Solutions: Revenue was $4.80B, up 41.00% from the prior fiscal year quarter. Adjusting for the Westcon-Comstor acquisition and the translation effect of foreign currencies, the Technology Solutions business grew by 22.00% over the prior year. Technology Solutions generated operating income of $112.20M, or 2.350% of segment revenue, a contrast to $92.60M, or 2.730% of segment revenue, in the fiscal fourth quarter of 2016. Non-GAAP operating income was $128.20M, or 2.680% of segment revenue, in the fiscal fourth quarter of 2017, a contrast to $93.30M, or 2.750% of segment revenue, in the fiscal fourth quarter of 2016. Concentrix: Revenue was $534.40M, a boost of 6.80% over the fiscal fourth quarter of the prior year. Adjusting for the translation effect of foreign currencies, Concentrix revenue raised by 5.80% over the prior year.Operating income was $47.60M, or 8.910% of segment revenue, a contrast to $38.00M, or 7.60% of segment revenue in the prior fiscal year quarter. Non-GAAP operating income was $64.70M, or 12.110% of segment revenue, in the fiscal fourth quarter of 2017, a contrast to $62.80M, or 12.550% of segment revenue, in the fiscal fourth quarter of 2016.The trailing fiscal four quarters Return on Invested Capital (“ROIC”) was 10.30% consistent with the prior fiscal year fourth quarter. The adjusted trailing fiscal four quarters ROIC was 11.30%. The debt to capitalization ratio was 45.90%, up from 32.70% in the prior fiscal year fourth quarter, mainly as a result of the Westcon-Comstor acquisition.Depreciation and amortization were $21.60M and $29.90M, respectively.Cash generated from operations was around $250.00M for the quarter. Fiscal 2017 Highlights: Technology Solutions: Revenue was $15.10B, up 20.70% from the prior fiscal year. Adjusting for the Westcon-Comstor acquisition and the translation effect of foreign currencies, the Technology Solutions business grew by 15.50% over the prior fiscal year. Technology Solutions operating income was $394.30M, or 2.620% of segment revenue contrast to $315.50M, or 2.530% of segment revenue, in fiscal 2016. Non-GAAP operating income was $413.00M, or 2.740% of segment revenue, in fiscal 2017, a contrast to $318.10M, or 2.550% of segment revenue, in fiscal 2016. Concentrix: Revenue was $2.00B, a boost of 25.30% over the prior fiscal year. Adjusting for the translation effect of foreign currencies, Concentrix revenue grew 25.50% over the prior fiscal year. Operating income was $114.60M, or 5.760% of segment revenue, a contrast to $63.90M, or 4.020% of segment revenue in the prior fiscal year. Non-GAAP operating income was $179.90M, or 9.040% of segment revenue, in fiscal 2017, a contrast to $131.40M, or 8.270% of segment revenue, in fiscal 2016. Depreciation and amortization were $80.70M and $79.20M, respectively. Cash generated from operations was around $170.00M for the year. Fiscal 2018 1st-Quarter Outlook: The following statements are based on SYNNEX’s current expectations for the fiscal 2018 1st-quarter. Non-GAAP financial measures exclude the impact of acquisition-related and integration costs, the amortization of intangibles and the related tax effects thereon. These statements are forward-looking and actual results may differ materially.Revenue is expected to be in the range of $4.350B to $4.550B.Net income is expected to be in the range of $64.00M to $67.80M and on a Non-GAAP basis, net income is expected to be in the range of $83.20M to $87.00M.Diluted earnings per share are expected to be in the range of $1.580 to $1.680 and on a Non-GAAP basis, diluted earnings per share are expected to be in the range of $2.060 to $2.150.After-tax amortization of intangibles is expected to be $19.20M, or $0.480 per share.The tax rate is expected to be in the range of 30.00% to 31.00%. Dividend Declarement: SYNNEX declared recently that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.350 per common share. The dividend is payable on January 31, 2018, to stockholders of record as of the close of business on January 19, 2018. NYSE: SNX SNX SYNNEX Corporation http://chopnews.com Amit Gola is Newspaper Head and Photographer. 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__label__cc	0.592584	0.407416	The All New Ford Ranger – Raptor The first ever Ford Australia factory-built, factory warranted, off-road performance truck is on its way. A Ranger built for people who care about how their ute looks, handles and the safety it can offer rather than just how many bags of cement you can load into the back of it. The Ranger Raptor is a new species on and off-road that has been designed and engineered from the ground up to meet strict Ford Performance DNA requirements. Re-engineered and strengthened with High Strength Low Alloy (HSLA) steel this beast is able to meet the tough demands that off-road performance driving commands. Uniquely designed to cater for the harsh Australian terrain and pothole-covered suburban roads these trucks are engineered and fully tested off-road performance vehicles. No other Australian production truck features Fox Racing Shox as standard equipment. The Ranger Raptor’s race-bred suspension has been crafted to tackle the toughest terrains, bumps, and ruts. To make sure it meets each driver’s unique needs, the Terrain Management System (TMS) uses a button on the leather steering wheel to allow the car to switch between six different modes: Normal, Sport, Grass/Gravel/Snow, Mud/Sand, Rock, and the off-road racing inspired Baja mode. To make sure everyone knows that it is a Ford, the Ranger Raptor features a striking front grille that wears the Ford name large and proud. The styling team has also lent a hand to the front and rear bumpers, front bash plate, wider front, and rear guards and high-spec running boards to give the New Ford Raptor a look above its Ranger counterparts. Naturally, the Raptor boasts a swag of super smart technology you expect in a ute of this level. Standard features include Driver Assist Technologies (DATs) with SYNC® 3 voice activation, Satellite Navigation, Electronic Stability Control (ESC),Trailer Sway Control (TSC), Hill Start Assist (HSA), Hill Descent Control (HDC), Load Adaptive Control (LAC) , Lane Departure Warning (LDW) with Lane Keep Assist (LKA) and Roll Over Mitigation (ROM). The new Raptor also turns up the Nm of torque and kW. Ford’s latest technology 2.0L BiTurbo diesel engine generates 157kW of power and 500Nm of torque across a wide rev range by utilising a team of high and low-pressure turbos. These turbines can reliably spin at 240,000rpm by utilising high-tech Inconel, an alloy used in rocket engines. The Raptor’s 10-speed automatic is crafted from high-strength steel, aluminum alloys and composites to optimise durability and weight. This is the same system found in the Mustang GT and the 150 Raptor and was designed for responsiveness and efficiency. This state-of-the-art transmission features a “Live in Drive” function, meaning the Ranger Raptor’s magnesium paddle shifters are available whenever you feel the need to take over with manual gear changes. The new Ford Raptor Ranger has been tested extensively in the harshest desert environments that Australia can offer and the potholes found on most rural country roads. This is the ute for anyone wanting maximum toughness and high-spec performance. Book a test drive now! Yes, I would like to subscribe to receive latest offers & product updates. Car Year Car Stock ID Car Dealer Email Free your SUV MY19 Ford Everest Pricing: AEB standard on Trend/Titanium, Five-year warranty range-wide Ford Ranger Raptor 2018 Introducing Australia's first ever Ranger Raptor developed with Ford Performance purposely designed with an optimum powertrain, Announcing Ford Ranger Raptor 2018 The ultimate offroad ute is coming to Australia in 2018 in the form of the	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1106
__label__cc	0.665596	0.334404	Candidate Reports Based on Candidate Reports This data set an index to all PDC imaged reports and documents. Political disclosure reports are included for the last 10 years. Other document types are included based on the PDC record retention schedule or 10 years. The number of years is determined by looking at both the election year and date submitted and including documents that meet either criteria (favoring the inclusion of documents). Each record contains a link to view the actual imaged document or a link on how to request the document for F1 statements of financial affairs. The dataset includes both original and amended reports and documents. Data consumers must look at the individual documents to determine if a particular document has been superseded by an amendment. For example, a candidate might file a C4 summary report and file an amendment to the report. There is no indicator on the original C4 that it has been amended. For most documents, amendments have the term "AMENDED" as part of the origin field but the original document will not contain any indicator that it has been superseded by an amendment. Lobbyist L1, L2 and L3 reports are included through 2015 and partial records for 2016. In mid 2016 the PDC discontinued imaging lobbyist L1, L2 and L3 reports. Please refer to the "Lobbyist Compensation and Expenses" dataset or the PDC online filing system at https://accesshub.pdc.wa.gov for the complete 2016 and later lobbyist information. The statement above does not apply to Public Agency Lobbying (L5) reports. This dataset is a best-effort by the PDC to provide a complete set of records as described herewith and may contain incomplete or incorrect information. The PDC provides access to the original reports for the purpose of record verification. Descriptions attached to this dataset do not constitute legal definitions; please consult RCW 42.17A and WAC Title 390 for legal definitions and additional information regarding political finance disclosure requirements. CONDITION OF RELEASE: This publication constitutes a list of individuals prepared by the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission and may not be used for commercial purposes. This list is provided on the condition and with the understanding that the persons receiving it agree to this statutorily imposed limitation on its use. See RCW 42.56.070(9) and AGO 1975 No. 15. James Gutholm (PDC) created Feb 28 2018 political finance, elections, contributions, campaign, political committee, disclosure https://data.wa.gov/Politics/Candidate-Reports/7vmi-4m9eOpens in new window. https://data.wa.gov/d/7vmi-4m9e?category=Politics&view_name=Candidate-ReportsOpens in new window. Washington State Public Disclosure Commission http://www.pdc.wa.gov Period of Time Last 10 years. See description report_number document_description filer_id filer_name legislative_district election_year receipt_date processed_date filing_method report_from report_to Subscribe to the "Candidate Reports" Dataset To subscribe to the Candidate Reports dataset via an RSS reader, use one of the following links: Invite Collaborators to Candidate Reports:	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1111
__label__wiki	0.571244	0.571244	"Watch Sgt. Frog" [2004-04-03] "Watch Strawberry Marshmallow" [2005-07-15] "Watch The Visitors" [1983-11-05] "Watch The Lodge" [2016-10-14] G.I. Joe: Resolute Watch G.I. Joe: Resolute "TV SHOW" First : 2009-04-18 / Last : 2009-04-25 0.656 Action & Adventure HD Animation DVDRIP Download "G.I. Joe: Resolute " all saisons : DOWNLOAD "G.I. Joe: Resolute" HERE G.I. Joe: Resolute is an animated television series based on the G.I. Joe franchise. It was written by Warren Ellis, directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, and produced by Sam Register. The series debuted on the web at Adult Swim Video April 18, 2009, with a Content Rating of TV-14-V, and premiered in its entirety on air on Canadian television network Teletoon on April 24, 2009. In the United States, the series aired on Adult Swim April 26, 2009. Resolute departs from recent depictions of futuristic technology, adopting a more realistic aesthetic. The series has been described as a more "mature" take on the franchise. The film uses elements from both the cartoons and the comics, and is described by Warren Ellis as a "fusion". #G.I. Joe: Resolute full movie #G.I. Joe: Resolute Féminin/Féminin Uda dan Dara Reasonable Doubt WATCH "BET Awards" for free WATCH "Janoschs Traumstunde" for free WATCH "Beer Nutz" for free WATCH "Phoenix" for free WATCH "Singgasana Brama Kumbara" for free WATCH "Scraps" for free WATCH "Raines" for free WATCH "Life in Cold Blood" for free WATCH "Y’a du monde à messe" for free WATCH "Mapp and Lucia" for free WATCH "Tropical Heat" for free WATCH "Six-Five Special" for free Watch MAZE☆爆熱時空 streaming vo	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1117
__label__cc	0.659125	0.340875	Items Peabody, N[athaniel,] father, ALS to. Nov. 14, 1854 Peabody, N[athaniel,] father, ALS to. Nov. 14, 1854 Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871 Peabody, Nathaniel, 1774-1855 Sophia Peabody Hawthorne collection of papers SUB-COLLECTION Outgoing Correspondence Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871 (Author) Peabody, Nathaniel, 1774-1855 (Recipient) Place: England Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Hawthorne, S. Shelf locator: m.b. Hawthorne, Sophia ALS George Peabody - end Citation/reference: See Edwin Haviland Miller, "A Calendar of the Letters of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne," Studies in the American Renaissance (1986), 199-281. Ownership: Hawkins; Berg Extent: 2 double leaves & 1 leaf [10 written pages, including address] MSS Unit ID: 19171 Accession number: 52B2309 Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): d63be3c0-68d1-0130-8106-58d385a7b928 1809: Creator Born 1854: Created 1871: Creator Died Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "Peabody, N[athaniel,] father, ALS to. Nov. 14, 1854 " The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1854. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/575f1470-40ee-0131-c238-58d385a7b928 Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "Peabody, N[athaniel,] father, ALS to. Nov. 14, 1854 " New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed July 17, 2019. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/575f1470-40ee-0131-c238-58d385a7b928 Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. (1854). Peabody, N[athaniel,] father, ALS to. Nov. 14, 1854 Retrieved from http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/575f1470-40ee-0131-c238-58d385a7b928 <ref name=NYPL>{{cite web \| url=http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/575f1470-40ee-0131-c238-58d385a7b928 \| title= (text) Peabody, N[athaniel,] father, ALS to. Nov. 14, 1854 , (1854) }} \|author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library \|accessdate=July 17, 2019 \|publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lennox, and Tilden Foundation}}</ref>	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1122
__label__cc	0.50246	0.49754	Tags containing: "digital advertising" Why brands are changing their tune about podcast advertising March 13, 2019 Tim Bourgeois, Partner—East Coast Catalyst Though it’s been around in some form for well over a decade, podcasting has sort of limped along in its evolution. Unlike other digital advertising manifestations – such as search or social media – which enjoyed meteoric rises, podcasting has sporadically entered and exited the consciousness of marketers since its inception. Today it accounts for only a sliver of the global advertising marketplace – around 1% of total spending. One explanation for advertisers’ hesitancy to embrace the podcast channel is due to straightforward herd behavior: You don’t get fired for buying ads from Google and Facebook. These digital marketing stalwarts emerged almost literally overnight in the late aughts, enjoyed glowing press coverage for a decade, and attracted tens of billions of dollars in advertising during their ascent. The other is guilt by association. It’s well known that while online ad spending has grown (particularly for Facebook and Google), other channels – television, print, radio – have shrunk. And, for better or worse, podcasting has been lumped in with radio advertising. So, it lacked the shiny new appeal of its digital channel brethren in mobile, search, social and video. On The Hunt For Alternatives However, there is one aspect of the digital ecosystem that everyone can agree on, and that’s insanely rapid evolution. There’s a saying among digital media buyers that captures this spirit, and it’s only mildly hyperbolic: “a campaign that worked just fine before breakfast might fail miserably after lunch.” Today’s advertising environment is, of course, dramatically different than it was a decade ago, or even a year ago. A combination of questionable management practices (see: privacy; see also: safety), absence of customer governance (see: Russia), and aggressive tactics (see: exorbitant prices) has some brands seeking out alternatives to the duopoly. And podcasts are going to be one of the beneficiaries of this shift in the coming years. Why the Time is Right for Podcast Ads Though not a one-size-fits-all kind of advertising channel, we’re advising brands to seriously consider adding podcasting to their media mix in a meaningful way, for one or more of a variety of reasons. Due to the relatively low cost of entry and ongoing management, as well as the influx of deep pocketed players like Spotify and Luminary – which are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to shore up their podcasting capabilities and aggressively pursue market share – podcast advertising can be more cost effective than pricey online formats such as paid search or high-end social media. And attractive long-term deals are typically made available by aggressive players in the category. This makes podcasting easy to insert in planning conversations. Ease of Implementation Most podcast advertising involves a few lines of copy that is read by the host and/or an offer that might require an accompanying landing page. And that’s it. No pricey multimedia creative, or really any image-based assets are necessary. Indeed, for all but the earliest stage companies, these items are already in place. The Future is Bright From a certain vantage point, podcast advertising is, in fact, a “bright and shiny object.” Most prognosticators agree that both the volume of podcast listeners and their level of engagement will grow meaningfully over the next few years. However, while daunting and even prohibitive to some, the idea of getting in to a new channel as an early adopter is enticing to many brands. The Duopoly Aren’t Dictating Terms While it might seem trite, many brands are experiencing Google and Facebook fatigue. Though few can remove the duopoly from their media mix altogether anytime soon, the prospect of engaging with new and friendly outlets is enticing. Be On The Lookout For Speedbumps, Not Obstacles As with any new tactic, there are of course issues being worked out in the podcasting category. These include lack of widespread familiarity – necessitating executive education – a shortage of case studies, and the reality that most successful podcasting efforts to date have been part of a multichannel campaign. Also, in comparison to other online channels, the turnaround time on investments is typically longer, in part because podcast advertising is often used for general brand building. But the cost-benefit equation works in enough situations for the tactic to be considered in earnest by most advertisers, if not necessarily for every type of campaign. A New Instrument, A New Tune One explanation for the slow adoption of podcast advertising is that it has been historically lumped into the broad “offline” advertising category, which of course has been out of vogue for the past decade or more. And while podcasting doesn’t offer many of the bells and whistles we traditionally associate with digital advertising – like immediate response, easily identifiable last touch attribution, and aggressive acquisition – it’s unquestionably gaining momentum among advertisers. Its evolution in the coming years will almost certainly be unlike other online tactics that preceded it, which were pursued in stampede-like fashion, but it’s an interesting emerging tool in the digital advertiser’s toolkit, and worthy of a close look by most brands. Tim Bourgeois (@ChiefDigOfficer) is a principal at East Coast Catalyst, a Boston-based advertising audit company. digital advertising, podcasting Malware and redirects: Publishers need to protect customers now more than ever March 1, 2019 Steve Stup, CRO—The Media Trust As the programmatic revolution reaches its potential, bad actors continue to find innovative ways to exploit the system. The technological advances to increase advertising efficiency are the same ones targeted by bad actors who are incentivized to move at a faster pace in order to keep their revenue streams flowing. The result is an endless scourge of malware and auto redirects that threaten the viability of the overall digital advertising supply chain and the relationship the industry has with the end consumer. Programmatic provides a green field to bad actors, who consistently evolve their attacks, bypassing defenses and attacking publishers and their digital customers. Once thought the answer to publisher woes, malware blockers have proven to be a short-term fix. Unfortunately, malware incidents have almost doubled since the solution’s relatively recent introduction. Clearly, something has to change. That’s why smart publishers are calling in the experts and forming a joint task force between their Ad Ops and the IT/security teams to combat the problem together. Bad ads aren’t your only problem Digital ads are not the only security issue that publishers need to watch. Digital publisher businesses have diversified their revenue streams, evolving from advertising-only models to introduce subscription services and merchandise stores such as the ones hosted by most major news outlets, like The New York Times, NBC, and the The Washington Post. These new revenue channels introduce a new significant security risk for publishers due to the storing of personal data and credit card information. Publishers are an even more tantalizing target for cybercrime groups, especially those behind large-scale malicious campaigns like Magecart, ShapeShifter-3PC, and ICEPick-3PC. Cybercriminals increasingly use the digital ad supply chain targeting payment pages to steal personal data and payment card information. Publishers trust that the payment processing vendor provides perfect security. However, time and again, these vendors are compromised, either through a direct hack, employee error, outdated code or misapplied patches. Even worse, when a breach happens, the customer will hold the publisher accountable. Headline grabbing news regarding major breaches in the past year focus on the brand, not the vendor. That makes sense since the brand has the relationship with the consumer. Cybercrime groups zero in on vulnerabilities in third-party code in the digital environment to execute their attacks. Digital ads serve as delivery vehicles for third-party code. Publishers also rely on third-party code to optimize and monetize the user experience. Beyond ad-related platforms, the use of analytics, content delivery systems, video platforms, and widgets carry the risk of being compromised, exposing the website and its users to harm. One recent example is the havoc wreaked by the JuiceChecker malware, which utilized vulnerabilities in third-party code to enable smart malware delivery, which evaded multiple detection efforts including malware blockers. Interdepartmental partnership These complicated scenarios leave publishers with difficult choices. While using ads and other types of third-party code help to generate more revenue, they also expose them customer base to more vulnerable code, ready to be exploited by cybercriminals who know how to find and exploit weaknesses. Exposing customers to these threats have long-term consequences. Failure to strike an appropriate balance between revenue and security kills the user experience and creates situations where customers don’t return. Clearly, a modified approach is necessary if the balance is to be struck correctly. This approach involves bringing product and IT/security teams into the ad/revenue operations fold. An interdepartmental culture is already being fostered by many publishers in order to stay on the right side of legislation such as the EU’s GDPR and California’s upcoming Consumer Privacy Protection Act. The need for digital security expertise Moving forward, advertising and revenue operations must work with both product and IT/security teams to review publishers’ existing vendor relationships and strategize how to drive revenue without sacrificing security. Internal security teams are experts in the latest threats and can help develop a comprehensive plan to protect the digital environment and deliver a better user experience. The ability to successfully generate revenue through multiple revenue streams is important. It is up to the revenue teams to engage with the security experts within your organization to make sure the Internet remains a safe place for advertisers, businesses, and users alike. Steve Stup is responsible for developing and overseeing the revenue and product strategy at The Media Trust. Previously, he ran digital strategy as the General Manager at The Washington Post. In this capacity, he was pivotal in the publication’s digital transformation effort and served on the leadership team that helped position it as one of the most innovative digital publishers in the industry. He led teams responsible for driving product strategy, ad innovation, and revenue operations. Prior to that, he was in technology sales at Lexis Nexis, and other recognized brands. He received his MBA from The George Washington University and is an alum of Virginia Tech. digital advertising, programmatic, supporter Innovation \| Revenue February 12, 2019 Trisha Stefani, VP, Media Partnerships – Pressboard Marketing \| Revenue The threat to CPGs creates advertising opportunities for publishers January 22, 2019 Todd Krizelman, CEO—MediaRadar Packaged goods are typically the biggest spenders in advertising. Not only is a CPG company’s brand and product mix massive, but the competitive threats from e-commerce and direct-to-consumer brands are significant and growing. The competition has taken a toll. In the last two years, CPG sales have declined. As a result, marketers are spending billions on advertising to safeguard their market share and stay top-of-mind among consumers. For publishers, however, the competitive marketing environment has created a substantial revenue growth opportunity. CPGs are notorious TV spenders, but they also spend considerably on print and online. For publishers to compete for those dollars, it’s important for them to know these CPGs as well as possible. CPG Ad Intelligence With that in mind, here’s an advertising-intelligence snapshot of three of the biggest CPG advertisers – according to annual revenue from 2018 – based on MediaRadar data. Nestle SA – Nestle is the top CPG by revenue, with nearly $90 billion on the year. But it only grew by 0.4%. Still, in North America, the brand spends nearly $640 million on ads. According to our data, Nestle invests in premium ad units, and it advertised on over 250 different media properties in the last year across multiple formats. For publishers, this could mean opportunities with digital video, native and other premium formats. Nestle launched and advertised 90 new products in the past 12 months. There are nearly 125 people on file in marketing roles at Nestle, as well as over 50at their agencies. This offers a lot of targets for publishers. Procter & Gamble – P&G’s sales declined in 2018, down nearly half a percentage point. Still, the company brought in more than $65 billion in sales. The company’s marketing budget has been slashed by hundreds of millions in certain areas in an effort to adapt to the sales outlook with cuts of $200 million alone in digital). Still, even with a contraction, the company is one of the world’s most prolific marketers, pouring more than $7 billion in advertising globally. Like Nestle, our data finds that P&G invests in premium ad units on over more than 250 properties. They launched slightly fewer products, though, with “just” 83 in the last year. P&G’s marketing team is comparable to Nestle’s, with over 125 people in marketing roles, according to our data. We’ve also identified nearly 130 agency people who work on P&G business. Perhaps that speaks to chief brand officer Marc Pritchard’s push for agency streamlining and transparency. PepsiCo – PepsiCo beat out Unilever in sales with $63 billion total on the year. The company is one of the few CPGs to see some sales growth, with an uplift of 1.2%. Everything from Frito-Lay snacks to its beverage portfolio have helped the company rise above some of the stagnation experienced by its peers. In terms of where PepsiCo is advertising, the numbers were fairly similar to those for Nestle and P&G. All three prefer high-impact inventory and spend on hundreds of media channels. But PepsiCo only launched and advertised 17 new products in the past 12 months. That seemed to benefit their sales (a more focused approach, possibly). However, it likely doesn’t help publishers who would benefit from the company’s need to promote more new products. Additionally, PepsiCo has the smallest overall marketing team, with almost 100 people on file in marketing roles and over 50 at their agencies. As CPGs come under threat, they will consolidate some of their marketing spend. However, overall, these companies continue to be massive sources of revenue for publishers. A careful analysis of their growth and marketing strategies – investing in premium formats, new product launches and more – can help publishers unlock more value from existing relationships or even build new ones. adverising, digital advertising, supporter Marketing \| Perspectives Improving viewability creates new opportunities for premium publishers January 16, 2019 Tim Bourgeois, Partner—East Coast Catalyst The calendar has flipped to a new year. Strategies formulated in are being put into action. CES has wrapped in Las Vegas. Gaudy digital advertising forecasts have been delivered by prognosticators. And advertisers are jumping up-and-down and complaining about fraud, brand safety, transparency, and viewability. Actually, not so fast on that last point. Favorable reports issues by several analyst groups – some of which have a vested interest in marketplace chaos and inefficiency – suggest progress is being made on thorny issues that have plagued the digital advertising category for years. Specifically, there appears to be improvement in the area of viewability, which is considered a bellwether metric by many in the business. One report by Integral Ad Science’s found that overall desktop display ad viewability rate across buy types was 60% in H1 2018, up from 55% in H2 2017. Clearly, there’s a long way to go to get the issue under control. It’s widely acknowledged that billions of dollars will continue to be wasted this year, the market appears to be stabilizing. Marc Pritchard, the Chief Brand Officer at Procter & Gamble – and unofficial industry spokesperson for all things related to digital advertising problems – summed up the state of affairs neatly at CES this week when he described the situation as “largely finished with round one.” Double-Edged Sword For Publishers This market trend has a few different implications for publishers specifically, especially as more granular aspects of the trend are examined. For example, while publisher-direct advertising continues to outperform programmatic across most categories, the performance gap is closing. Programmatic made a bigger improvement during the time period. That’s an angle that will be celebrated by the duopoly (Google, Facebook) and big media agencies alike (agencies generally prefer programmatic because of its ability to scale). On the other hand, the display advertising category hasn’t had much positive news to share in recent years – if any at all, with FBI probes and such dominating headlines. And these overall improvements help the sales pitch for everyone competing in the sector. Display advertising remains a relatively new and oft-misunderstood channel, and these developments will resonate with increasingly skeptical media buyers (and, as importantly, their financial backers). Publishers’ Marching Orders In the wake of recent news and developments, publishers have myriad opportunities for consideration in the wake of improving market conditions. Start Spreading The News Media buyers are overwhelmed with pitches from all directions: Google has stepped up its outreach efforts. Companies sprout up daily with new ways to execute online advertising. And their clients (internal and external) are constantly demanding increased ROI on ad spend. “In spite of all the talk of how ‘easy’ it is to advertise online and the incredible level of investment in the marketing automation sector, I’ve never see the ad business as complex or noisy as it is today,” says Karen Moked, vice president of marketing at Digilant, a programmatic ad company. As a result, reaching media buyers through the haze of activity swirling around them isn’t easy, but getting to them and helping them understand how viewability is evolving and the increasing role it can play in their operations in light of improving effectiveness is critical, for obvious reasons. Minimize Friction in the Buying Process Perhaps the biggest obstacle publishers have to engaging with advertisers is the fact that their customer experiences are not always optimized. In fact, it can be downright difficult for consumers to purchase some publishers’ ad products. New market developments such as increased viewability can be used as a talking to point to help jump start internal discussions around how to streamline the customer buying process. Given that most publishers can’t invest hundreds of millions of dollars into the automated systems that Google and Facebook have in place, some creativity is required. Performance Close the Loop with Compelling Reports Media buyers spend half their time planning and executing programs, and the other half creating reports. Publishers are well-served by providing post-campaign analysis and reporting support in two ways. First, it helps advertisers understand the performance of their investments, and premium publishers have a great story to tell around engagement and audience quality. Second, when done effectively, performance reports it helps streamline the buyer’s workflow, which is always a welcomed offering, and by extension positions the publisher favorably for the next campaign. For the first time in recent memory, the digital advertising community is headed into a new year demonstrating optimism about its state-of-affairs, specifically in relation to pressing issues related to viewability, fraud and brand safety. This environment should translate to attractive new opportunities for top-tier publishers. This is not just because a rising tide lifts all boats, but also because of the group’s differentiated value propositions vis-à-vis the duopoly’s. Realizing new successes is by no means a foregone conclusion and will require savvy execution, but 2019 is poised to offer favorable conditions for high-end publishers. Tim Bourgeois (@ChiefDigOfficer) is a principal at East Coast Catalyst, a Boston-based digital media audit company. digital advertising, viewability Perspectives \| Revenue How OTT will be sold in 2019 and beyond December 11, 2018 Dana Ghavami, CEO—Spotible OTT content is now viewed more on TV screens (connected TVs or CTVs) than smartphones. From an advertising perspective, that means larger and more valuable video. Large digital video (greater than 400 pixels wide) has always translated to higher value. However, the biggest determining factor of worth is determined by how its sold: direct or programmatic. By and large, connected TV (CTV) inventory is sold at a higher value than digital video. In the world of video advertising, the television screen represents the pinnacle of value. With it comes the notion of a captivated audience in their living room, and true scarcity of time and inventory. Like Cable TV, the OTT video landscape viewed on CTV and other connected devices is highly concentrated across the “Big 4.” The largest amount of monetizable minutes reside on Hulu and YouTube, along with Netflix (which remains ad free together with Amazon Prime Video—for now). The remaining three out of ten minutes in OTT are spent with high quality publishers and broadcasters, such as TV network brands. These create a direct sale value of twenty-something CPMs. These prices are in close proximity to traditional/linear TV rates. The price of programmatic As of now, publishers and virtual Multichannel Video Programming Distributor (vMVPDs), including established providers like Dish and startup vMVPDs, sell a predominate amount of OTT ad inventory programmatically, most often through private marketplaces (PMPs). Here, the average price point is in the teens, with CPMs maxing out in the mid-range of around $15. There are a few reasons media brands are leaning toward programmatic rather than direct sales. For starters, many organizations lack direct sales teams. Furthermore, OTT is nascent. Thus, the industry needs to contend with tracking on a household level where it is getting harder to obtain IP addresses to map out connected devices. Then there’s the international reality of GDPR, which classifies IP addresses as personally-identifiable information (PII). All in all, it’s harder to correlate traffic from OTT ads. It is also difficult to measure viewability with server-side ad insertion (SSAI), which stitches ads into content streams, especially when sold programmatically. And then there’s the issue of fraud. A quarter of all CTV impressions this year were fraudulent (never seen) according to Pixalate. The contentious issue of fraud among broader tracking issues are keeping programmatic pricing weighed down. Where, with the employment of programmatic monetization the most a publisher can expect to optimize CPM rates is by 10-15% above the current average programmatic video price point keeping overall value in the teens CPM. Direct sales proposition However, by selling directly, a publisher can more than double ROI to 30-40% or higher price points above $20 CPM. These price points are well above the possible rate optimization that can be made accessible through programmatic means. So, looking ahead to 2019 with the continuing expansion of OTT traffic and monetization opportunity, it is a good time to reconsider selling directly. This means assembling or training existing digital sales teams to sell your emerging OTT inventory, which is worth its weight in video gold. In a premium video medium with true scarcity, the future will be directly sold. digital advertising, digital video, OTT, supporter Featured Post \| Perspectives With ad dominance comes great responsibility for Amazon December 5, 2018 Mark Glaser, Founder and Publisher – MediaShift Move over duopoly because the time has come to furrow your brow about the “triopoly.” Many marketers and publishers have grown tired of the dominance of Google and Facebook in the digital advertising space. Now they can add Amazon to the list of dominant tech rivals. eMarketer now predicts that Amazon will hit $4.6 billion in U.S. ad revenues for a 4.15% share of the digital ad pie this year. And its growth rate of 400%+ per year will get it to a 15% share by 2020. You’ve probably notices that Amazon has sponsored search ads all over its e-commerce pages, enticing consumers to buy relevant products. However, it’s offering much more than that, from video ads to traditional TV ads to ads on its cardboard delivery boxes. The only problem is that it competes with its own advertisers by selling Amazon brand products alongside merchant listings. And more recently it went too far by promoting sponsored items in baby registries. In short, if Amazon is going to be the third wheel on the triopoly tricycle, it can expect withering scrutiny from the media, marketers and eventually regulators if it doesn’t play fair. So many ways to dominate How did Amazon sneak up on us to become such a dominant ad player? By boring us to death. Those little sponsored links on product pages? How quaint. A sponsored related product, or a banner ad on a Kindle? Yawn. This is the same way that Amazon itself has dominated the world thanks to… cloud servers for your website or business. The engine for Amazon’s profits has long been Amazon Web Services, not its e-commerce business. This sleight of hand works just as well in the ad business. While you were considering how they would deliver your packages via drones, Amazon was bulking up on advertising through its self-service system, placing sponsored items all over its pages. And then finally, in the sleepy days after Thanksgiving, while the country still was drowsy from tryptophan, the Wall Street Journal trumpeted that Amazon had arrived, “with little fanfare” as a new advertising behemoth. Helpfully, the WSJ pointed out all the ways that Amazon was going to dominate in advertising. According to a Cowen & Co. survey of ad buyers, 29% buy sponsored product ads, 21% buy video ads on IMDB and Amazon.com, and 13% buy good old display ads. But there’s been more, with “The Minions” movie buying ads on delivery boxes, and a yogurt company paying to include instructions in Amazon Pantry boxes on how kids could build rockets and airplanes out of those boxes. Cute. And the content play too While those sponsored links followed the time-honored tradition of Google becoming a dominant ad player with its own AdWords offering way back when, Amazon is ready to spread its wings too. The video ads referenced above could explode if and when Amazon launches a rumored free ad-supproted Free Dive video service for users of its Fire TV devices. While there is no advertising on its Prime Video service, Amazon has become a major player in content by spending $5 billion this year, according to a JPMorgan analyst. That’s less than the $8 billion that Netflix shelled out, but more than typical TV broadcast networks. And Amazon does serve TV-style ads into its streams of NFL Thursday Night Football games – as well as Premier League soccer games. And that might grow as well if Amazon is successful in its bid for the 22 regional sports networks that Disney is selling as part of its buyout of 21st Century Fox properties. That type of marquee purchase (which includes the New York Yankees’ YES Network) might finally open the floodgates for tech giants to get into sports programming and break the final blockade for cord-cutters. Missteps and conflicts But what might stall Amazon in that pursuit is what might stall the company in its overall ad ambitions: creating too many conflicts of interest. Would Disney really want to sell the regional sports networks to Amazon, a company that is trying to eat its lunch in streaming content? And how many retailers will continue to feature their content on Amazon, and pay Amazon for sponsored slots, when they are being squeezed out by Amazon’s own retail brands? You can hear the frustration in the story of Jason Boyce, CEO of Dazadi, a home recreation retailer that has to pay for placement on Amazon. “They get all the prime real estate [for their brands]. It’s unfair,” Boyce told the Journal, but “we have to be on Amazon.” Even more unfair are the sponsored links Amazon runs in private baby registries, with a tiny gray “sponsored” tag. The sponsored items were not chosen by the parents-to-be and led some confused friends and family to buy those items, upsetting everyone involved. After a Wall Street Journal story about the practice, Amazon said it was phasing them out. And that’s where the rubber meets the road for Amazon as it moves stronger into the digital ad business, with one of its HQ2 offices right outside Manhattan, the epicenter of advertising. If it wants the power of being a digital content and ad player, it will have to come clean on its ambitions and compete fairly or users will tune out. And let’s face it: If the U.S. Congress, FTC and other regulators won’t do their job to keep the tech giant in line, we can expect the EU to come down harder. Industry-Research \| Marketing Navigating the social media advertising paradox December 5, 2018 Rande Price, Research Director—DCN There are two opposing views on social media that are impacting digital marketing decisions: Audience attention on social platforms offers a strong advertising environment (good for marketers). Consumer distrust of social platforms’ data and privacy practices detracts from their effectiveness (bad for advertisers). Marketers and media executives discuss the social media advertising paradox ad nauseum in meetings, forums, and conference panels. Still, a whole lot of advertising dollars are being invested on Facebook regardless of its lack of transparency, data sharing, and stories of the company’s mismanagement and mishandling of data. In fact, Facebook’s Q3 2018 earnings cited a 33% year-over-year increase in advertising revenue while user growth remains stagnant in its larger markets. Streetbees’ new research report, Re-positioning, reflects on this dichotomy. A full 86% of respondents follow brands on social media and 73% agree that a social media presence is necessary for brands to be successful. This research ranks Facebook as number one among consumers 25 and older for following brands (86%). Thus, the findings showcase Facebook as a positive environment for advertising placement. Yet the research also finds that one-third of consumers in the US and India, Facebook’s two largest markets, do not trust the social network to keep their data safe. Further, nearly all users surveyed (98%) state that they continue to use Facebook even though they do not trust the service to protect their personal data. Yes, the paradox, a platform of users that do not trust its environment. Facebook: friend or foe? Streetbees’ consumer findings are analogous to advertising practices on the platform. Both consumers and marketers alike continue to use Facebook regardless of the mounting distrust of the platform. In October, Fortune exposed that Facebook inflated its video metrics for how long users were watching video content by up to 900%. Despite a steady stream of Facebook mea culpas, advertisers continue to purchase advertising on the platform. The research also suggests that Facebook needs to focus on user retention. Younger audiences show limited interest in Facebook and older users’ attention appears to be waning. Only one in five of those under the age of 25 think Facebook is the “coolest” social platform. And when it comes to consumers reasons for quitting social media, the top two responses include “boredom” (51%) and “my friends stopped using” (22%). Eight percent also quit due to data concerns. As Facebook confronts user fatigue, growth in daily active user is significantly slow. As social media challenges continue to emerge, advertisers need to hold platforms accountable. Short-term media strategies will not lead to marketplace sustainability. Audience attention is a critical commodity in the advertising paradigm and continued reliance on distrusted environments will undoubtedly harm the long-term success of the digital advertising model. brand safety, digital advertising, social media The Google monopoly that no one Is talking about November 2, 2018 Justin Choi, Founder and CEO—Nativo Most publishers are well aware of the control that Google has long wielded over the digital advertising industry, ever since Google’s acquisition of the now-rebranded DoubleClick back in 2008. The damages caused by Google’s anticompetitive effects are difficult to quantify. However, one of the most concrete manifestations of Google’s monopoly lies in the rise of header bidding — which is literally a hack that the industry has devised to circumvent Google’s powerful position in auctions. With header bidding, rival exchanges like AppNexus worked with publishers to increase competition for their ads — competition that was previously suppressed by Google. The higher yield that publishers have seen by implementing header bidding represents the quantifiable damages of Google’s hegemony. The rise in header bidding was heralded as a win for publishers when it came to taking back some control for themselves. Unfortunately, header bidding represented merely a temporary victory. And, ironically, the latency that header bidding introduced may be the leverage Google will use to deliver its next blow against publisher independence. Unless publishers do something about it, that is. Innovation Stifled, Control Lost Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick set the stage for its monopoly in the realm of digital advertising. In order to maintain control over each ad impression, Google set up two moats around this business: It made ad serving a low- to no-cost proposition, and it ultimately tightly coupled the use of its ad server and Google’s AdX demand. The ability to even consider adoption of another ad-serving platform was virtually eliminated for the majority of online publishers, which could not afford to lose a steady stream of AdX revenue. OK, so Google gave publishers a free ad-serving tool and a revenue stream to go along with it. What’s the problem? The problem, as with all monopolies, is that Google gained an inordinate amount of control. In this case, that control is wielded over the independent publishing landscape. Google’s power stifles innovation and restricts publishers’ options for controlling their own destiny. Google’s “Solutions” Represent More Control Over Publishers Prior to header bidding, publishers loaded third-party JavaScript tags in a very slow waterfall after loading DoubleClick. With header bidding, third-party bids arrive beforehand and compete against other line items inside DFP. Unfortunately, this hack of implementing bidding outside of the ad server slows down publisher sites, introducing more latency on top of an already not-so-fast DFP. Many in the industry (like Amazon) are championing server-side bidding as the antidote to header bidding’s latency. But there are problems: Server-side bidding — no matter whose solution — isn’t a comprehensive cure for header bidding’s latency. It still represents a slow two-step process: retrieving the bid and calling the ad server. Google’s “answer to header bidding” is Exchange Bidding, which integrates the auction and ad serving so the two-step process is eliminated. This truly is a solution from a technology standpoint, but Exchange Bidding puts publishers right back under Google’s thumb. Forward-looking publishers are skeptical of Exchange Bidding, as they should be. But they face a tough choice: Give in to Google and forfeit control. Or don’t give in and risk Google seizing control under the guise of solving the site latency problems for them. That’s because Google’s monopoly empire also includes Chrome and search. Google can and will enforce ad format and latency rules in Chrome and press its search monopoly on publishers via Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP). Via Chrome and AMP, Google has the tools to keep tweaking its approach until it becomes just good enough and easy enough to drive capitulation among publishers. Over the long term, it’s a no-win situation. Time to Put Up or Shut Up Publishers must not give up the ground they’ve gained in breaking with Google through header bidding. But to keep moving forward, they must solve for user experience issues caused by the site latency they’ve introduced in a way that decreases their reliance on Google. Publishers must seek and place value in alternative solutions. No longer can they embrace every potential cure that Google offers for their ills no matter how much easier that path may appear to be. Publishers must solve their user experience problems on their own — before Google steps in and solves them for them, again at the expense of publisher independence. There are alternatives, and there are paths forward that don’t rely on putting all of a publisher’s eggs in the Google basket. It’s time for publishers to take control of their own destinies, once and for all. ad tech, digital advertising, supporter The next frontier in digital ad fraud: local markets October 29, 2018 Kevin Rehberg, Vice President, Client Development—Alliance for Audited Media Digital advertising fraud continues to be an industry-wide problem. Estimates of dollars lost to fraud range from $6 billion to $16 billion annually. Much of the conversation has been on preventing fraud in open ad exchanges on a national level. But digital ad fraud can affect anyone who buys and sells digital advertising, including local and national publishers and advertisers. With local markets becoming a target, the ad fraud crisis might seem to be spiraling out of control. But there is hope. The war on ad fraud is winnable. National and local marketers have the power to steer their budgets toward legitimate websites with human audiences. But how do we get there? Here we unravel this often confusing and complicated topic to uncover how ad fraud is affecting local markets and what publishers can do to minimize its impact. Why local markets? Fraudsters go where the money is. This year in the U.S., mobile ad spending is expected to surpass television advertising. Pair this influx of money with a platform where anti-malware and ad fraud detection is immature or non-existent, and mobile advertising platforms and local markets become prime targets for ad fraud. How does local ad fraud happen? Bad actors exploit one of the strengths of local markets: local audiences. Recent research from BIA/Kelsey estimates that out of $76 billion in local ad spending, almost $3 billion is lost to geotargeting ad fraud annually. Marketers want to reach their audiences on their mobile devices when they are in specific locations. Fraudsters take advantage of the appeal of geotargeted advertising by faking a device’s location. This means ads run on “devices” that declare GPS coordinates, but that data can be easily faked, allowing fraudsters to steal from locally targeted ad budgets. Dr. Augustine Fou, cybersecurity and ad fraud researcher, in partnership with BIA/Kelsey, conducted an experiment that compared mobile ad performance in programmatic campaigns targeting Houston during a hurricane and arbitrary market with a very targeted audience: Butte-Bozeman, Montana. The ad campaigns specifying these two geographic areas were successfully executed by the programmatic exchanges, but the results were not logical. For example, 100 percent of the ads were loaded on Android devices and all ad impressions were generated at 5 a.m. Houston time and 4 a.m. Bozeman time. These findings, among others, show that the app usage in these campaigns did not follow the patterns of typical human behavior and were the result of fraudulent activity. This initial test was expanded to include the geotargeting of 16 DMAs through programmatic media buying. While there were variations in the levels of fraud between DMAs, the results showed similar rates of ad fraud (shown in dark red on the following chart) throughout all 16 markets. “Local publishers have real audiences—the people who live and work in the communities and consume the content they create,” explained Fou. “Marketers need to understand the risks of ad fraud in geotargeted campaigns and consider spending their ad budgets directly with local publishers to avoid those risks.” What can publishers do? Legitimate local publishers work hard to create quality content that attracts real human audiences. Publishers who can prove that they have quality, human audiences will be the winners as marketers look to reward those who proactively combat fraud. Knowledge is power. As more money is spent to reach local audiences, publishers must pay attention to how ad fraud is occurring in their markets and demonstrate that their sites are safe places for advertisers. Understanding how ad fraud occurs and explaining to marketers the issues that make them vulnerable is an important first step, but more action must be taken. Here are a few steps publishers can take to bring us closer to minimizing ad fraud in the buying/selling process: 1. Follow Best Practices Know your business practices for monetizing your site, sourcing traffic and choosing vendors, and educate your staff on best practices. Steps to providing transparency include implementing Ads.txt and having a third-party audit. 2. Use Accredited Vendors Implement tech to prohibit ads from being served to known bots. 3. Actively Manage Media Monetization Dedicate staff to review traffic patterns and sources. 4. Understand Traffic Sources Revisit and scrutinize current traffic sourcing practices. If you want to learn more about what you can do to help, download the AAM white paper Three Truths to Confront the Digital Ad Fraud Crisis. By looking deeper into ad fraud and how transactions take place within the ecosystem, it’s clear that ad fraud – on both national and local levels – is conquerable. ad fraud, digital advertising, supporter Featured Post \| Marketing \| Perspectives 5 big takeaways from the NewFronts West October 18, 2018 Mark Glaser, Founder and Publisher – MediaShift The Upfronts in New York were always about making big advertising deals before the TV season kicked off. Then came the NewFronts, which focused on digital offerings and innovative formats. Now comes the NewFronts West, an extension of the NewFronts that took place in Los Angeles this month, and which have evolved even further from the original Upfronts. Gone was the talk of making big ad deals. In its place was discussion of new platforms, new formats, and new ways to reach younger audiences with influencers, podcasts and, of course, online video. In short, the personality and networking surrounding this event fits in perfectly with the ethos of Silicon Valley and Hollywood, the major West Coast hubs that have insinuated themselves into the ad market like never before. Here are five big takeaways from the inaugural edition of the NewFronts West: 1. Big Ad Deals Take a Back Seat to Relationships and Emerging Models Closing major ad sales was hardly the focus at this event. One reason is was that it took place outside of the traditional media buying season. Also, because there was a mix of digital-only and legacy media publishers, it offered a chance for all parties to stand out with new types of offerings. In fact, it was the kind of space where people new to the game could come in and introduce themselves. And it was a chance to think less about traditional models of advertising and more about emerging prototypes that are just beginning to gain traction, like branded content, custom sponsorships and opportunities for publishers within Instagram’s IGTV. These avenues are especially interesting to advertising execs as ad-free platforms take hold and audiences become more and more fragmented. Even the New York Times, one of the more well-known heavy hitters at the event, saw the NewFronts West less as a space to close deals and more as a brand marketing opportunity to talk to people about how the Times works with advertisers. In this way, the event was much more future-focused. The hope, it seemed, was that building relationships now would reap benefits down the line. 2. Podcasts Are Not Slowing Down Podcasts have exploded over the past few years, with nearly every publisher producing some or at least considering them. But after BuzzFeed and Slate’s Panoply cut back on offerings, it was easy to think that perhaps the hype had gone too far. Judging by the NewFronts West, those cutbacks might only be a hiccup. The Los Angeles Times, Gallery Media Group and Ellen Digital all announced new podcasts. The L.A Times announced new podcasts about a drag racer, “Big Willie,” and a reporter’s search for a hospital patient called “Room 20,” following in the footsteps of its popular “Dirty John” podcast co-produced with Wondery. Podcasts have always been favored for the intimacy that voice offers, but a compelling host is also arguably the best brand influencer for an audience. With 92% of consumers leaning toward product recommendations, according to a FameBit presentation, podcasts are a more personal way for hosts to promote products. 3. Vice Media’s Brand Safety Splash While there have been a lot of efforts around promoting brand safety for advertisers, Vice Media made a big splash at the NewFronts West by countering widespread use of keyword blocking by pushing a more contextual approach from Oracle Data Cloud. Vice executives released the findings of an 18-month long study abut keyword blacklists, which are meant to flag potentially objectionable content for advertisers. Turns out they place LGBTQIA-related keywords high on the list, including “gay,” “transgender” and “bisexual.” The study also found that the keywords “Asian,” “Muslim,” and “interracial” also appear at the top of these blacklists. For a media brand that prides itself on diverse and inclusive programming (as its executives said), Vice’s announcement made a big statement. Vice then said it would be testing Oracle Data Cloud’s contextual brand safety solution, which offers deeper analysis and scores content based on its storytelling context. They also called for other publishers to follow suit. Now we’ll have to see if Oracle Data Cloud stands up to its reputation. 4. Advertisers Will Have to Work Harder to Reach Audiences Part of why the West Coast’s approach to the NewFronts is so attractive is that advertisers have realized they have to work much harder to secure the attention of their audiences. Thus, they’re more willing to try new platforms and experiment with techniques that are still nascent like Alexa skills, brand-sponsored podcasts or e-commerce enabled videos. Platforms like Netflix and HBO have made commercial-free viewing experiences de rigeur, and readers on the internet can also easily block ads they don’t want to see. What to do? Create advertising that consumers can’t not pay attention to is the answer. Advertising executives are anticipating that the traditional model of advertising will evaporate sooner rather than later. So, they’re trying to stay ahead of the curve for their own survival and efficiency. That’s a no-brainer. Having influencers on IGTV or other social platforms pitching products for them has become one way to do that. 5. Snapchat Pushes More Scripted Shows As Facebook has struggled with battles against misinformation (and lost data), Snapchat continues to move forward with its own programming. At NewFronts West, the L.A.-based social app announced a host of new serialized, scripted shows for the launch of what it’s calling Snapchat Originals. It feels a little bit like Netflix’s foray into originals, except the projects will be shot in a vertical format and feature six-second unstoppable ads. It’s definitely a big endeavor, and one to watch – even if it means that other tech giants may want to, ahem, copy this strategy as well (looking at you, IGTV). The bottom line coming out of this year’s NewFronts West is that it’s much more important to be strategic about new advertising models and partnerships than it is to partner with name-brand entities and existing prototypes. While tried-and-true advertising formats may sound good in theory and work for the time being, they may not be viable in the future. This event gave publishers a chance to zero in on those emerging ideas. If an event like the NewFronts West can continue to present itself as the more future-forward alternative to the East Coast’s spring NewFronts — and reiterate the fact that not all agencies and ad shops are in New York — it has the chance to develop an even larger following for future shows. brand safety, digital advertising, podcasting Instagram vs. YouTube: Who will win the digital ad war? October 15, 2018 Todd Krizelman, CEO—MediaRadar YouTube is currently the most popular platform for video content. So, it’s no surprise that when Instagram released IGTV, its stand-alone app for long-form vertical video, everyone’s first reaction was to compare the two. And YouTube pretty much always came out on top. However, in the past year, YouTube has been under fire for brand safety issues. In fact, there was a point when 250 brands stopped advertising on YouTube at the same time in order to protect their assets and brand image. To date, many advertisers still believe that YouTube has done a poor job of preventing its advertisers’ brand safety issues, even though they have gotten better at the response. This led us to host a panel discussion on October 4th to ponder a key question: With YouTube in its most vulnerable state, and given its ongoing brand safety concerns, is it IGTV’s time to steal advertisers away? The discussion, entitled “Instagram TV vs. YouTube: Who Will Win the War?”, was moderated by Kerry Flynn of Digiday. The panel consisted of five advertising experts: Kaydee Bridges, VP of Digital & SM Strategy at Goldman Sachs, Elijah Harris, VP, and Head of SM, US at Reprise Digital, Noah Mallin, Managing Partner at Wavemaker North America, Brittany Richter, VP and Head of SM, US at iProspect, and myself. The discussion offered three key takeaways: 1. YouTube still wins the popular vote. The majority of panelists agreed that brands interested in video content should be on YouTube rather than Instagram’s IGTV. They pointed out YouTube’s benefits: It’s cheaper, long-form content performs better on YouTube, and it’s better for sharing. Elizabeth Richter, iProspect’s Head of U.S. Social Media, offered a different point of view, arguing that Instagram may work for some brands: “If a brand is struggling with their messaging, or just getting started, Instagram’s IGTV is best because they can experiment with different brand messages and see how consumers respond,” she commented. 2. Instagram’s IGTV is transforming and expanding in promising ways. For Elijah Harris of Reprise Digital, the early IGTV experience was underwhelming. Its focus was to share long-form content from those he followed on Instagram – something he didn’t enjoy. However, Harris added that the platform currently offers more opportunities worth exploring, raising his confidence in its potential for the future. 3. Instagram’s IGTV isn’t quite ready to compete with the big boys. Elijah Harris suggested that, if it wants to compete with YouTube, IGTV needs meta tags and better discoverability. To go up against Snapchat, he added, it needs curated content and multi-channel network (MCN) participation. Noah Mallin of Wavemaker believes that, to compete with Snapchat, IGTV needs “breakout content,” even suggesting that it might fill the void left by the demise of Vine. (“I’m still mourning it,” he confessed). Mallin added that YouTube is “stuck in desktop mode” and must quickly adapt for mobile users. The consensus was clear. IGTV wants to be the most popular platform for video content. However, it still has a lot of growing up to do. Perhaps Instagram will take note of our panel discussion, and we’ll see a more mature IGTV before we know it. brand safety, digital advertising, social media, supporter	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1123
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__label__wiki	0.899275	0.899275	Jimmy Maymann https://s3.amazonaws.com/dldwebsite-production/black_and_white_avatars/jimmy-maymann/pulse/maymann_jimmy-carr%C3%A9-web.jpg https://twitter.com/maymann UNLive Online mock full_address Company: UNLive Online Title: Chairman & Investor Location: New York, United States Fields of operation: Media, Digital, Technology Twitter: maymann As President of Content and Consumer Brands at AOL, Jimmy leads AOL’s portfolio of content brands, as well as AOL's content strategy and OTT operations, which altogether reach a global audience of around 400 million unique visitors every month. Since joining AOL, Jimmy has served in several roles including SVP of International and most recently as CEO of the Huffington Post, where he has made international expansion, profitable growth, and improved video operations his three key priorities. In his three years at the Huffington Post, Jimmy was responsible for designing and executing on an international expansion strategy that saw the establishment of editions in 15 international markets and which helped fuel its audience growth from 30 million to around 200 million unique visitors each month. Jimmy is a graduate of the University of Odense in Denmark with degrees in Economics and International Marketing and has an Executive MBA from London Business School. DLD Tel Aviv 15 DLDnyc 15 Multi Channel Networks	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1137
__label__cc	0.743235	0.256765	vmwareredmine Bitnami Documentation > VMware vRealize Automation > Bitnami How-To Guides for VMware Solutions > Run Redmine in the Cloud Bitnami How-To Guides for VMware Solutions Generate and Install a Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate for a Bitnami Application Learn About the Bitnami HTTPS Configuration Tool Troubleshoot WordPress Issues Develop Locally, Test Remotely with Bitnami LAMP and Git Troubleshoot Magento Issues Troubleshoot SSL Issues Learn About the Bitnami Support Tool Install Drupal On Top Of The Bitnami Nginx Stack Install WordPress On Top Of The Bitnami Nginx Stack Configure Advanced Integration between Git and Redmine Migrate a Local PHP Application to the Cloud Migrate Data From One WordPress Instance to Another Improve TensorFlow Serving Performance with GPU Support Run Subversion in the Cloud Troubleshoot Permission Issues Troubleshoot SSH Issues Run GitLab in the Cloud Troubleshoot SMTP Issues Run Redmine in the Cloud Remove the Bitnami Banner Migrate Data From One Drupal Instance to Another Migrate Data From One Joomla! Instance to Another Migrate Data From One Moodle Instance to Another Combine Multiple Independent WordPress Websites/Blogs into a Single WordPress Multisite Instance Monitor Bitnami Stacks with NGINX Amplify Upgrade SugarCRM to SuiteCRM Create a Continuous Integration Pipeline with GitLab and Jenkins Integrate Drupal with Solr Separate a Single WordPress Multisite Instance into Multiple Independent WordPress Websites/Blogs Regardless of the size of the team on a project, project management is necessary for planning, organizing and controlling resources. The primary objective of project management is to achieve all of the goals of a particular project, so it is important to have a clear view of the project status and the remaining tasks. This also allows the project manager to make decisions in early stages of the project or to change the delivery timeline. There are several software tools that help project managers analyse data and display it graphically, such as Microsoft Project, SAP, Atlassian JIRA or Redmine. Redmine is a flexible project management web application. It is a Ruby on Rails-based application and supports several features that facilitate project management tasks: multiple project support, flexible role-based access control, issue tracking, Gantt chart and calendar, wiki, forums, and document management among others. This guide describes how to use Redmine in the cloud with the Bitnami Redmine Stack. NOTE: The steps below assume that you already have the Bitnami Redmine Stack running on a cloud server and that you have the credentials for the GitLab administration panel. Step 1: Configure Redmine Most of the configuration is performed through the “Administration” panel, accessible through the top menu when logged in as an administrator. The main sections you will use are: Projects: Allows creating, editing, deleting, copying and archiving projects. Users: Allows creating, editing, locking and deleting users Groups: Allows creating groups to classify your users. Roles and permissions: Allows managing the available roles (which will determine which permissions your users will have in each project). Trackers: Allows managing the types of issues you will be working with: Bugs, Features, etc. Trackers are useful to classify issues. Issue Statuses: Allows you to change the status of issues as well as define new ones. For example, you could create a new status type called “Waiting for user feedback”. Workflow: Allows defining the available transitions between status types, depending on the role of the user. Custom fields: Allows customizing most of the available entry fields in all of the forms (issues, projects, users, groups, …). For example, you could add a new field called “Twitter account” for the new user form. Settings: Allows changing the application main settings. Plugins: Provides an overview of all the installed plugins and allows you to configure them Change the administrator credentials To change the default user settings such as the password, email and login, click on the “Administration” link in the top menu and navigate to the “Users” section, where you should see the default administrator: Clicking the administrator account name (user) allows you to edit it. At a minimum, you should modify the password and email, but you can also configure the login name and language. Once you save this form you will be able to login with the new, secure user credentials (and, naturally, other people will not be able to login with the default credentials). Once done, log out and log in again with the new user credentials. Customize the registration mechanism By default, the application is configured to allow new users to register but requires an administrator to manually enable their accounts. This setting is also configurable and available under the “Settings” section of the administration pages. You can review the available options in the “Authentication” tab: The most important settings to consider in this section are: Authentication required: If enabled, this setting forces users to be logged in to use the application. Self-registration: This setting allows you to specify how new users are registered. If you want to have full control over which users use your application, you should set this setting to “account activation by email” or at least keep the default “manual account activation”, which will force you to manually enable new accounts from the “Users” overview page. It is also possible to allow users to automatically register without manual activation, but this is not usually recommended. Configure email settings The Bitnami Redmine Stack does not configure email settings by default, so another important initial step is to configure the application email settings so it is able to send notifications or invitations to your users. Detailed instructions can be obtained from this page. Step 2: Manage users Redmine includes a powerful user management system that allows you to give different sets of permissions to members of your team on a per-project basis. With this flexible system you will be able to, for example, give manager permissions to a user in “Project A” while restricting him to being a reporter in “Project B”. The “Users” section on the “Administration” panel provides an easy way of adding, deleting and configuring them. To make use of your new issue tracking system, you will find it useful to have some users who are able to act upon the issues recorded. You can easily create them in the “Users” page of the “Administration” panel. On this page, you will see a summary of all the existing users. When you first access this page, you will only see the administrator that is created when deploying the application To add other members to your team, just click the top button marked “New User”. On the resulting page, provide some basic information about the user (name, email address and so on). Note the “Administrator” checkbox, which will configure the level of privileges the new user has. If the email settings are already configured, check the “Send account information to the user” field to ensure the user is notified of the new account and password. The “Users” overview page should now show the new user in the list. You can lock and delete the user directly from this list. In addition to creating individual users, you can also group them for more convenient management. Groups can be added as members of projects as if they were regular users. This results in all individuals in that group being added to the project. In addition, by adding a user to a group, the user automatically inherits the group’s privileges. To manage groups, navigate to the groups section from the “Administration” panel and click the “New Group” option. Give the group a name and click the “Create” button. By clicking on the newly created group from the “Groups” overview page, you can edit it and add new users to it through the “Users” tab: Lock and delete users When a user is no longer involved in a project, you may want to prevent them from accessing your application. The easiest way of doing this is by locking the user’s account. A locked user won’t be able to login to the application, nor will he or she receive notifications or be listed as a member of the project. The user will, however, still be listed in old issues, and comments made by the user will still be credited to them. NOTE: Locking a user is a reversible change, so if you need to unlock a user, you can simply click the “Unlock” link. Doing so will make it appear as though they were never removed. To lock a user, click the “Lock” link on the “Users” overview page: Locked users are not listed by default in the user list. To view locked users, adjust the search filters to show the users with “locked” (or “all”) status. This is necessary if you want to unlock a user. Sometimes, locking a user is not the best solution. A common example is when the automatic account registration is enabled and spam accounts are created. In this scenario, you wouldn’t be interested in keeping the user accounts, even in a locked state. This is where deletion becomes useful. Deleting users is also performed from the “Users” overview page and will fully remove the account. Any entries in the system that are associated with that user will now be associated with “Anonymous”. NOTE: Removing a user is not reversible, so use with care. Accept new users If you kept the default “Self-registration” setting as “manual account activation” in the “Authentication” section, new users are able to register themselves to use Redmine and will be kept in an inactive status until an administrator manually accepts their requests. Review which users are pending activation in the “Users” overview, by setting the status filter to “registered”. The resulting list allows you to quickly “activate” users, which marks their accounts as active and allows them to login to the system, or “delete” them, which removes their accounts. Unlike deleting a previously active account, deleting an account at this stage will not result in any “Anonymous” entries in the application. Step 3: Work with projects Redmine allows you to manage multiple projects with a single installation. It also allows you to specify configuration settings for each of them, such as the project visibility or configuring different sets or roles to users for different projects. To create a new project, navigate to the “Projects” link in the top menu and click on the “New project” link. A form will appear asking for some basic information: Name: A printable name of the project Description: Where you can write a description of the project. Identifier: A unique identifier for the project. By default, it is created based on the “Name” so you do not need to provide any value. However, note that this is used in the URL for your project pages so you might want to make sure it is both meaningful and short. Public: This setting configures whether or not the project is visible for all users. If it is unchecked, only the project members will have access to it. Homepage: The link to the project in the Projects overview page The form also allows you to configure which modules you will use for the project. The basic modules included by default are: Issue tracking: Enables tracking of the versions, categories and roadmap for the project. Time tracking: Allows tracking the time spent when working on the issues News: Allows publishing news related to the project Documents: Allows adding documents to the project Files: Allows attaching files to the project Wiki: Enables the project wiki Repository: Allows browsing the repository and view the latest commits Forums: Enables the project forum Calendar: Creates a calendar with the project issues Gantt: Creates a Gantt diagram with the project issues You can select which trackers to enable. For example, if you are creating a project for bug submissions, you could simply disable all but “Bug”. After completing the form, you will be redirected to the project settings page. You can modify all of the configured settings with the exception of the “Identifier”, which cannot be changed after the creation of the project. Depending on which modules were selected when creating the project, the number of tabs will vary. Each tab provides features for managing one aspect of the project. For example, the “Members” tab lets you add users to a project. A pop-up window lets you search for users and add them. Depending on the role assigned to those users, they will have higher or lower privileges for that specific project. For example, “Admin” was added as a Manager (will have full privileges in the project), where “Demo User” will only be a Reporter and Developer. Please note that these roles are specific to the current project. The “Demo User” added as a “Developer” and “Reporter” to the “Test Project” could be a “Manager” in a different one. Version projects Another nice feature supported by Redmine is the ability to version projects. This makes it easy to plan different features for each of the planned versions. These versions can be managed from the “Versions” tab in the project settings. This tab will list all the available versions and provide a “New version”. The “Test Project” doesn’t currently have a new version so create one by providing some basic information: After adding versions, a new field labeled “Target version” will be available in appropriate places within your project (e.g. issues can be assigned to a specific target version). Create categories You can further tweak projects by creating categories. Categories are useful to classify issues, for example, based on different parts of your product (frontend, backend, documentation, …). As with versioning, create new categories from the “Issue categories” in the project settings. Simply click “New category” and provide a “Name” and an optional “Assignee”, to whom all new users with that category will be assigned: After adding a new category, the “Category” field will automatically be available in your issues. Step 4: Add new trackers and customize workflows Add trackers As previously mentioned, “trackers” can be used to classify your issues. Redmine includes some predefined trackers (bug reports, feature requests and support requests) but you can add new ones as well. To create a new Tracker, navigate to the “Trackers” subsection under “Administration” and review the built-in trackers included in Redmine, as shown below To add a new one, simply click “New tracker”. Enter details such as the name of the new tracker, the projects it will be used in, and the fields it will include. You can also specify an existing tracker to copy its workflow. If you don’t copy an existing workflow, you will need to create one from scratch. Customize workflows Workflows allow you to define transitions between states for items recorded in your trackers. The states available are dependent on the roles assigned to the user and the kind of tracker in use. You can modify workflows or define new ones in the “Workflow” section. To change the workflow, select a tracker and the role you wish to change and click “Edit”. You will see a set of tables that allows you to configure the allowed state transitions. Note that you can provide additional transitions when the user is the author or the assignee. The workflow definition is a powerful tool. For example, you can specify that developers cannot close cases unless they are the ones implementing them (the assignee), as shown below: In addition to defining state changes in workflows, you can also specify which fields each role can modify based on the current state of the issue (see the “Fields permission” tab). Step 5: Work with issues Issues are created to define tasks for projects (bugs, feature requests or improvements) and easily track who will be taking care of them and their current status. You can review all of the issues associated with a project from its main page. Depending on the modules enabled when the project was created, you will see a set of tabs (Activity, Issues, Gantt, …). The “New issue” tab displays a form for filing a new issue against the project, which requires the information below Tracker: The kind of issue being created (a bug, a new feature…) Subject: A concise and clear description of the issue Description: A detailed description of the issue Status: Current status of the issue, defaults to “New” Priority: The priority of the issue Assignee: The project member who will take care of resolving the issue. Start Date: The start date for the task Due date: The deadline for the task Estimated time: An estimate of how much time the task will take % Done: The current progress of the issue (defaults to 0%) You will also be able to attach files and register watchers to be notified when the issue changes. Once the form is completed and submitted, confirmation of the issue creation will appear. The “Issues” tab in the project page provides easy access to all issues that have been created in the project. By default this page only shows open issues. The issues overview page allows you to filter by various criteria, such as the status or the assignee. A good way to work with Redmine issues is to track your progress against issues as you work on them. To do this, visit the issue page, click “Update” and change the various options on the resulting page: Status: Update this whenever there is a significant change in the issue status. For example, when you start working on an issue, set it to “In Progress”, and when you finish it, mark it a “Closed”. % Done: Update this as the task progresses. Log Time: This allows visibility into where the time spent on the issue went. It is useful to estimate time for similar future tasks and to justify time to your customers. The time logged will be added to the overall spent time, and you will be able to review a time summary by clicking the “Spent time” link Notes: Comment on the evolution of the issue using this field. Submit the form and the changes will be recorded in the tracker. The “Log time” feature displays a report of where time is being spent on the project, as seen in the example below: If you simply want to log time against an issue, rather than update the issue itself, do so using the “Log Time” functionality at the top of the issue overview page. Clicking this link will open a window to enter the spent time, the date, and a basic description. Keep adding new activities and time logs by clicking “Create and continue” in this window. If the predefined list of activities does not fit all your needs, add new ones in the “Enumerations” section of the “Administration” panel (which also allows defining new categories and priorities for your issues). The last step is to close the issue, which will usually also involve setting its the “% Done” field to “100%” or setting the status to “Closed”. Step 6: Install plugins Redmine is highly extensible thanks to its plugin system. You can extend it with everything from code review tools to improved graphs passing through CRMs and improvements in time tracking. To install plugins, refer to these instructions. Step 7: Integrate with SCM tools Redmine supports integration with different Version Control systems like Git, Subversion, CVS or Mercurial. For each project defined inside Redmine, it is possible to add application code repositories and follow them directly through the Redmine console. Redmine is capable of providing basic read-only access to code repositories, but it can also parse every commit and bind each one to a specific project issue based on the commit message. This significantly improves users’ daily workflow, allowing them to do things like close issues with a special commit message. Learn more about integrating Redmine with Git, Subversion and Mercurial. Last modification September 11, 2018	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1138
__label__cc	0.713575	0.286425	Tag Archives: dog training Good dog? Bad dog? Your dog’s personality can change When dog-parents spend extra time scratching their dogs’ bellies, take their dogs out for long walks and games of fetch, or even when they feel constant frustration over their dogs’ naughty chewing habits, they are gradually shaping their pets’ personalities. Dogs, like people, have moods and personality traits that shape how they react in certain situations. New findings from Michigan State University went where few researchers have gone before to reveal that, also like humans, dogs’ personalities likely change over time. “When humans go through big changes in life, their personality traits can change. We found that this also happens with dogs – and to a surprisingly large degree,” said William Chopik, professor of psychology and lead author. “We expected the dogs’ personalities to be fairly stable because they don’t have wild lifestyle changes humans do, but they actually change a lot. We uncovered similarities to their owners, the optimal time for training and even a time in their lives that they can get more aggressive toward other animals.” Additionally, Chopik found that dogs’ personalities can predict many important life outcomes. For example, canines’ personalities will influence how close they feel to their owners, biting behavior and even chronic illness. The research, published in Journal of Research in Personality, is one of the first – and is the largest – studies of its kind to examine changes in dogs’ personalities. Chopik surveyed owners of more than 1,600 dogs, including 50 different breeds. Dogs ranged from just a few weeks old to 15 years, and were split closely between male and female. The extensive survey had owners evaluate their dog’s personalities and answered questions about the dog’s behavioral history. The owners also answered a survey about their own personalities. “We found correlations in three main areas: age and personality, in human-to-dog personality similarities and in the influence a dog’s personality has on the quality of its relationship with its owner,” Chopik said. “Older dogs are much harder to train; we found that the ‘sweet spot’ for teaching a dog obedience is around the age of six, when it outgrows its excitable puppy stage but before its too set in its ways.” One trait that rarely changes in age with dogs, Chopik said, was fear and anxiety. Honing in on the saying, “dogs resemble their owners,” Chopik’s research showed dogs and owners share specific personality traits. Extroverted humans rated their dogs as more excitable and active, while owners high in negative emotions rated their dogs as more fearful, active and less responsive to training. Owners who rated themselves as agreeable rated their dogs as less fearful and less aggressive to people and animals. The owners who felt happiest about their relationships with their dogs reported active and excitable dogs, as well as dogs who were most responsive to training. Aggression and anxiety didn’t matter as much in having a happy relationship, Chopik said. “There are a lot of things we can do with dogs – like obedience classes and training – that we can’t do with people,” he said. “Exposure to obedience classes was associated with more positive personality traits across the dog’s lifespan. This gives us exciting opportunities to examine why personality changes in all sorts of animals.” Chopik’s findings prove how much power humans have over influencing a dog’s personality. He explained that many of the reasons a dog’s personality changes are a result of the “nature versus nurture” theory associated with humans’ personalities. Next, Chopik will examine how the environment owners provide their dogs might change the dogs’ behavior. “Say you adopt a dog from a shelter. Some traits are likely tied to biology and resistant to change, but you then put it in a new environment where it’s loved, walked and entertained often. The dog then might become a little more relaxed and sociable,” Chopik said. “Now that we know dogs’ personalities can change, next we want to make strong connection to understand why dogs act – and change – the way they do.” Link to the journal article here. Source: Michigan State University Posted in Dogs, research Tagged dog training, personality How to Deal with a Crotch Hound We all know the type…but are probably afraid to classify our own dogs as Crotch Hounds since it sounds so rude. The dog trainer is this video calls the behavior ‘checking the oil’ when visitors arrive! Here’s a new video with some advice on how to re-train your dog so your visitors are greeted in a more socially acceptable way. Tagged canine behavior, canine behaviour, dog behavior, dog behaviour, dog training Your dog remembers what you did People have a remarkable ability to remember and recall events from the past, even when those events didn’t hold any particular importance at the time they occurred. Now, researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology have evidence that dogs have that kind of “episodic memory” too. The study found that dogs can recall a person’s complex actions even when they don’t expect to have their memory tested. “The results of our study can be considered as a further step to break down artificially erected barriers between non-human animals and humans,” says Claudia Fugazza of MTA-ELTE Comparative Ethology Research Group in Budapest, Hungary. “Dogs are among the few species that people consider ‘clever,’ and yet we are still surprised whenever a study reveals that dogs and their owners may share some mental abilities despite our distant evolutionary relationship.” This image shows Claudia Fugazza and her dog demonstrating the Do As I Do Method. Credit: Mirko Lui Evidence that non-human animals use episodic-like memory has been hard to come by because you can’t just ask a dog what it remembers. In the new study, the researchers took advantage of a trick called “Do as I Do.” Dogs trained to “Do as I Do” can watch a person perform an action and then do the action themselves. For example, if their owner jumps in the air and then gives the “Do it!” command, the dog would jump in the air too. The fact that dogs can be trained in this way alone wasn’t enough to prove episodic memory. That’s because it needed to be shown that dogs remember what they just saw a person do even when they weren’t expecting to be asked or rewarded. To get around this problem, the researchers first trained 17 dogs to imitate human actions with the “Do as I Do” training method. Next, they did another round of training in which dogs were trained to lie down after watching the human action, no matter what it was. After the dogs had learned to lie down reliably, the researchers surprised them by saying “Do It” and the dogs did. In other words, the dogs recalled what they’d seen the person do even though they had no particular reason to think they’d need to remember. They showed episodic-like memory. Dogs were tested in that way after one minute and after one hour. The results show they were able to recall the demonstrated actions after both short and long time intervals. However, their memory faded somewhat over time. The researchers say that the same approach can most likely be used and adapted in a wide range of animal species, to better understand how animals’ minds process their own actions and that of others around them. “From a broad evolutionary perspective, this implies that episodic-like memory is not unique and did not evolve only in primates but is a more widespread skill in the animal kingdom,” Fugazza says. “We suggest that dogs may provide a good model to study the complexity of episodic-like memory in a natural setting, especially because this species has the evolutionary and developmental advantage to live in human social groups.” For all those dog owners out there: your dogs are paying attention and they’ll remember. Source: Science Daily Posted in Dogs Tagged dog training, episodic memory, memory The Most Desirable Traits in Dogs for Potential Adopters Note from DoggyMom: Shelters need all the help they can get to increase rates of adoption. This latest research from Texas Tech University may help them do that and the results may surprise you – traditional ‘training’ may not be the answer. Alexandra Protopopova has performed extensive research trying to increase the adoption rates and decrease euthanasia rates for animal shelters throughout the country. Walking down the long rows of pens at any animal shelter reveals a veritable smorgasbord of canine variety. Big dogs. Little dogs. Outgoing dogs. Shy dogs. Hyper dogs. Calm dogs. Happy dogs. Sad dogs. But finding which one is right for a potential adopter is a big challenge for animal shelters throughout the country. The way to find that right fit between adopter and adoptee has almost always been about matching personalities and has never really had much scientific theory behind it. Alexandra Protopopova, a behavioral analyst and assistant professor in companion animal science in the Department of Animal & Food Sciences at Texas Tech University, has turned what started as her doctoral dissertation into a major research focus. She is attempting to determine what behavioral traits in dogs are most attractive to potential adopters and then working with shelters to train dogs to exhibit those traits when an adopter shows interest. “Currently there are numerous pets living in animal shelters, not only in Texas but in the U.S. and around the world,” Protopopova said. “The problem is that a lot of these animals are living for quite some time at these shelters, even if the shelters are well-funded. Because of space restrictions, the animals are typically socially deprived, they are housed in single or very small groups without a lot of human interaction, and the euthanasia rates are still very high across the country. “Can we figure out a way to train dogs in the shelter so that when people come in and see the trained dogs, it will improve their adoption rate and decreases euthanasia rates?” The answer, through her research, appears to be a likely, yes. But finding that answer not only meant discovering and displaying the most attractive traits in a dog, but also breaking down some of the myths that have, over time, seemed to determine the most attractive qualities in a canine companion. Breaking assumptions Determining what traits in dogs are most attractive to potential adopters involved not only observing canine behavior but also breaking away from some of the traditionally held assumptions from the past. These are traits that Protopopova said she has been investigating since her time as a graduate student. Many shelters have training programs that are based on these assumptions, and it took going back to the basics and avoiding the widely held assumptions to determine what true traits in dogs were most and least attractive to potential adopters. “A typical assumption was that training dogs to sit and not jump or bark would result in higher adoption rates, since that is what we had assumed adopters wanted in their dogs,” Protopopova said. “I also had my own assumption that people really like a dog that would gaze lovingly into their eyes, when in fact we saw no evidence of that in our research. So why don’t we take a step back and systematically figure out what it is people want to see in a dog? We approached it from a marketing perspective, and from there we could see, after knowing what behaviors are favorable to people, what programs we needed to work on to improve behavior and ultimately increase adoption rates.” An extensive examination of canine behavior in kennels was then undertaken to determine which behaviors were the most and least favorable for potential adopters. Protopopova observed in-kennel behavior and examined everything the dogs did as people walked by. Behaviors such as barking, sitting and jumping had no effect whatsoever on attracting potential adopters, but a dog that would pace in the kennel, turn their face away from those walking by or lean sadly to one side of the kennel would deter adopters and lengthen the dog’s stay in the shelter. But the most telling behavior came when there was actual interaction between the dog and potential adopters outside the kennel. It is standard practice at shelters to allow potential adopters to select one or two dogs they might be interested in and allow them to interact in an outdoor area to see if they are compatible. Two behaviors stood out among all others as the strongest determinants toward whether or not the dog was adopted. If the dog laid down in proximity to the adopter, that increased the likelihood of adoption. Conversely, if the dog ignored the initiation of the potential adopter to play, that decreased quite severely the likelihood of adoption. Knowing those two key traits in dogs, Protopopova and her fellow researchers were able to develop a structured training program where the shelter volunteer or staff member could go with the potential adopter and guide the dog’s behavior based on its toy preference, knowing the dog would not ignore the toys it likes, or eliminate toys altogether if it was determined the dog did not like playing with toys. Shelter volunteers and staff also would encourage the dog to lie down next to a potential adopter using treats. All these efforts, Protopopova said, resulted in a discernable increase in adoption rates. “We also asked people why they chose the dog they adopted and why they did not choose the dog they didn’t adopt after those interactions in the experimental setting,” Protopopova said. “It’s fun to take those words the adopters use, those constructs and figure out what they mean. If an adopter told us they adopted the dogs because it was ‘social and liked me,’ they could simply mean ‘the dog lay down next to me.’” This training program also is cost-efficient, knowing shelters do not have the resources to afford a professional training staff, which is why Protopopova considers it more behavior management than actual training. But is it actual training? Or could this be considered more of a way of tricking the dog into behaving a certain way to increase its adoptability? That was certainly something Protopopova considered, though adopters indicated afterward the method was no more intrusive than the control group where the dog was allowed to do whatever it wanted. “The interactions between adopters and dogs are only eight minutes long because that is how long previous research has shown it takes adopters to decide,” Protopopova said. “The dogs have only eight minutes to show their best side, so if we can do anything to show them off in the best light possible, that is a good thing for the adopter and the dog.” The next step has been partnering with Maddie’s Fund foundation, which offers grants to shelters that works with community veterinarians, rescue groups and animal control agencies. Through Maddie’s Fund’s help, Protopopova is taking her research to a national scale, trying the same techniques at different types of shelters across the country. “Will it work in smaller, rural community shelters? Will it work in the big city environment?” Protopopova asked. “Furthermore, will it work in different parts of the country? Our assessment was in Florida, but will it work in Texas, in Boston, in San Francisco? We will take it to six shelters nationally and try it out there.” Other factors besides behavior Obviously, factors beyond behavior go into why potential adopters choose the dogs they choose. Adopters can be looking for a certain breed or a certain size of a dog. Certain breeds such as long-haired dogs, shepherd breeds and collie breeds tend to have high adoption rates, as do toy breeds such as Pomeranians or Chihuahuas. But a second question begged to be asked after the initial research by Protopopova – are some breeds more or less susceptible or accepting of behavioral training? One problem with answering that question is the majority of dogs in a shelter are not purebreeds, but rather a mix of many breeds or dogs that have never had a purebred ancestor. So determining their trainability based on breed would be difficult. Age also is an important factor in whether the dog’s behavior can be modified to make it more adoptable. Typically, puppies are more likely to be adopted because of their age and the fact adopters want to find a dog that can be with them for a long time. So training of puppies in an animal shelter setting might not be the best use of limited resources. Conversely, older dogs that are well into their adulthood tend to stay in the shelter longer because adopters don’t seek them. So the ideal group for this experiment was dogs in their adolescence or just into adulthood. The good news is that, contrary to the old saying, old dogs can be taught new tricks. “It just makes more sense if you’re a shelter volunteer to put your resources in training adolescent dogs,” Protopopova said. “But how does age affect training in general? It doesn’t affect it a whole lot. But, of course, socialization is very important for puppies. If you haven’t socialized your puppy to different people, different sounds, different environments and other dogs, you will have a much harder time young adult dog is much easier on families. Puppies engage in much worse behavior.” Protopopova said in some cases it’s also difficult to determine how the dog was treated before arriving at the shelter. Dogs in shelters fall into one of three categories – owner-surrender, stray or confiscated due to abuse or cruelty. The difficulty comes in owners who surrender dogs to a shelter. Shelters charge a fee to owners who give up their dogs, so in many cases, owners tell the shelter the dog was picked up as a stray to avoid paying that fee, or because they are wracked with guilt for giving up their beloved pet. Those labels not only make a difference to potential adopters, but an owner-surrender dog, somewhat surprisingly, is more likely on a national scale to be euthanized than a stray, Protopopova said. While the first study involved roughly 250 dogs, the bigger national study will involve many, many more and will involve dogs from a variety of shelter types, from municipal shelters to limited-admission shelters – a term Protopopova prefers over no-kill shelters. Protopopova is anxious to see how the study works on that national scale and how many adoptions encouraged by a dog’s modified behavior result in some dogs being returned. Given what has been discovered so far, though, Protopopova is encouraged her efforts and those of her fellow researchers have forged a path to increasing adoptions across the board. “We are very excited about this procedure because this is really the first time we have experimentally and systematically demonstrated an increase in adoption rates through behavioral training,” Protopopova said. Source: Texas Tech University media release Tagged adoptions, behavior, canine behavior, dog behavior, dog training, shelters, training Aim to snuggle, not muzzle There’s an old saying: you reap what you sow In all my work with special needs dogs, I think this holds true. If our starting point is muzzling a dog because of their breed, and they are unable to express their natural behaviors or experience the joy of freedom, then we sow the seeds of aggression. If we aim to make all dogs companions and we work towards socializing and training them, we get the opposite. Simple, isn’t it? Tagged dog behavior, dog training, muzzling, snuggling Will computers replace dog trainers? North Carolina State University researchers have developed and used a customized suite of technologies that allows a computer to train a dog autonomously (without human involvement), with the computer effectively responding to the dog based on the dog’s body language. “Our approach can be used to train dogs efficiently and effectively,” says David Roberts, an assistant professor of computer science at NC State and co-author of a paper on the work. “We use sensors in custom dog harnesses to monitor a dog’s posture, and the computer reinforces the correct behavior quickly and with near-perfect consistency.” “Because the technology integrates fundamental principles of animal learning into a computational system, we are confident it can be applied to a wide range of canine behaviors,” says Alper Bozkurt, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and co-author of the paper. “For example, it could be used to more quickly train service dogs. Ultimately, we think the technology will be used in conjunction with human-directed training.” The dog harness fits comfortably onto the dog and is equipped with a variety of technologies that can monitor the dog’s posture and body language. Each harness also incorporates a computer the size of a deck of cards that transmits the sensor data wirelessly. For the current study, the researchers wrote an algorithm that triggered a beeping sound and the release of dog treats from a nearby dispenser whenever the dog’s harness sensors detected that the dog went from standing to sitting. The researchers had to ensure that the reinforcement was given shortly after the desired posture was exhibited, and also ensure that rewards were only given for the correct posture. This required a trade-off. If the algorithm ran long enough to ensure the correct posture with 100 percent certainty, the reinforcement was given too late to be effective for training purposes. But if the reinforcement was given immediately, there was a high rate of rewarding the wrong posture. To address this, the researchers worked with 16 volunteers and their dogs to optimize the algorithm, finding the best possible combination of speed and accuracy. The researchers then compared the algorithm’s timing and accuracy to that of an expert human trainer. The algorithm was highly accurate, rewarding the appropriate behavior 96 percent of the time. But the human trainer was better – with a 100 percent accuracy rate. However, while the average response time was about the same for both algorithm and trainer, there was a lot of variation in the time of response from the trainer. The algorithm was incredibly consistent. “That variation matters, because consistency is fundamentally important for all animal training,” Roberts says. “This study was a proof of concept, and demonstrates that this approach works,” Bozkurt says. “Next steps include teaching dogs to perform specific behaviors on cue, and integrating computer-assisted training and human-directed training for use in various service dog applications.” “In the long term, we’re interested in using this approach to animal-computer interaction to allow dogs to ‘use’ computers,” Roberts says. “For example, allowing an explosive detection dog to safely and clearly mark when it detects components of a bomb, or allowing diabetic alert dogs to use their physical posture and behaviors to call for help.” Source: North Caroline State University media release Tagged algorithm, computers, dog training, harness, North Carolina State University, positive reinforcement I like crate training, particularly because it helps ‘future proof’ your dog. If your dog needs surgery or rest from an injury at any time, having them used to comfortably resting in a crate saves a lot of time and stress (for both dog and owner). If you need to travel with your dog, whether for a holiday or for relocating, crate training helps you manage your dog’s comfort as well as your own (e.g. limits the risks of accidents in hotel rooms that will charge you an additional cleaning fee). Izzy, mostly in her crate, but enjoying a summer breeze coming from the back door. Izzy’s crate is her safe place (the way it should be) Crate training can be particularly useful for re-homed dogs because dogs will seek out a place that is safe (den-like if you are thinking of wolves). Giving a re-homed dog a place they can retire to – and not be bothered – is useful for getting them accustomed to life in a domestic home. It’s also a useful boundary for children to learn. If the dog is in its crate, then leave it alone. Unfortunately, over the last 10 or so years, as crate training became more normalised as a concept, it also has been abused. Owners who are not consistent with their training or not taking the time to truly get their new puppy or dog settled in their home (taking on a dog is a lifetime responsibility, but initially you have to put in the time to get your dog set up for success for life), have begun using crates as a cage. A place to go when the owners are out at work (all day, in most cases) or when the dog has mis-behaved and the owner has had enough. That’s the wrong use of a crate. There were even stories of dogs locked in their crates during the Christchurch earthquake of 2011 – the dogs were up to their necks in liquefaction by the time they were saved. That’s not a heartening story if you ask me. That’s a story of an irresponsible dog owner. There are many resources to help owners learn crate training. The Humane Society of the United States, for example, has this useful video: Posted in dog adoption, dog care, Dogs Tagged Christchurch earthquake, crate training, dog training, Humane Society of the United States, Quake Dogs	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1142
__label__cc	0.620579	0.379421	Saint Petersburg, Navy Day, ships, sailors, Peter and Paul Fortress, Noon gun, parade, music, flags, fireworks, rain, water Sunday July 31st was a special day for St Petersburg. It was Russian Navy Day (День военно-морского флота). This of course is an important holiday in many places in Russia, but for St Petersburg, as the hometown of the Baltic Fleet and the birthplace of the Russian Navy, it has a certain extra importance. During the week prior to the big day I`d done a bit of research into the events that would be happening and had agreed with some friends from the institute and a Russian friend of mine, to meet up in the town centre and enjoy the festivities together. The first of the day`s activities was meant to be a naval parade on the English embankment near the Bronze Horseman statue at 10:30 am. As such we all agreed to meet there at about 10:15 to watch. From the moment I left the house it was obvious how different this day was going to be in comparison to other days in St Petersburg. It seemed as if every second or third person was wearing a navy style, blue and white striped t-shirt. The celebratory spirit became even more obvious when I reached the metro. At Technologicheskii institut it was far busier than normal, by the time I reached Admiralteyskaya what had originally seemed simply like an unusually large number of people had grown into something that would be more accurately described by the word sea or flood. I was carried along by the tide of bodies towards the Bronze Horseman, but when I reached the Alexandrovskii sad which lies in front of the statue I saw that the way forward was closed off by a line of sailors and fences. I moved with the crowd along the barrier, further and further and further until finally, I arrived at road that took me to a spot on the waterfront opposite a submarine and just down from three large cruisers. These, I thought to myself, must be the ships that will be parading. After some improvisation we were all able to meet up near this new spot on the English Embankment and wait for the parade to start. 10:30 came and went. 11:00 came and went. Eventually we heard the sound of the noon gun at the Petro-pavlovskaya fortress. A great expectant cheer rose from the crowd, but still nothing happened. Eventually, maybe ten minutes after the sounding of the noon gun, we saw ships approaching. One large white ship and several small escorts. I`m still not sure whether all of information we received from the Internet was wrong our whether we were simply stood in the wrong place, but for us this white ship and its little friends ended up being the parade. As the white ship slowly sailed by the troops on the decks of the cruisers and the submarine turned to salute the men on-board, that is, several Russian admirals and a certain other person of some importance, whom I`m sure you all know. As soon as the ship had disappeared from view a few drops of rain began to fall. These few drops quickly became relatively heavy rain and so, now entirely accepting the fact that the ships in front of us weren`t going anywhere, we decided to take cover inside until the worst had passed. Once it had, we made our way down back past the roadblock and towards to Palace square. On the way however, our stomachs convinced us to make a quick stop the Craft Brew Café located, appropriately enough, on Malaya Morskaya Ulitsa. After a quick refuel we carried on towards our target. Palace square isn`t exactly a quiet place normally, there are always plenty of people to be found there, but normally the size of the square disguises this fact. On Navy Day, however, the crowds had actually started to fill the square (those of you who`ve been there in person will understand what a feat this is). Just in front of the Grand archway of the General Staff Building a huge stage had been erected, on which rock bands played in front of huge screens displaying pictures of the crowd and archival videos of Russian and Soviet naval forces. After a listening to a few songs we decided that it was time to go and visit one of the day`s main attractions, the military ships on University Embankment which were open to public visit. We slowly strolled back to the riverfront and down the banks of the Neva to where the ships were anchored. All the way there the celebrations followed us. While we walked, we saw sailors dancing in fountains, spraying the crowds with water, as well as cheering, flag waving groups marching through the crowds. Eventually we reached university Embankment and a small jetty, alongside which several ships and a submarine were docked. We crossed onto the jetty, found the ship with the shortest queue and joined at the back. Little did we know what was in store for us. It started silently; the looming shadow of an ominous black cloud drifted slowly overhead, flashes of lightning appeared in the distance, so far away that the thunder could barely be heard. “Maybe we`ll be lucky and it will pass overheard before the rain starts”, we thought. It`s not wise to temp fate, no sooner had the thought had crossed our minds than the heavens opened and the deluge began. We had three umbrellas between five of us, we locked them together to form a shield against the sheets of water falling from above. It was no good. Within 3 seconds my shirt was soaked, within 5 my jeans were too, within 7... well I might as well have jumped in the Neva. We had nowhere to run, there was no cover nearby and all the cafés on the shore had been occupied the moment the rain began, and so we stood, stranded on the jetty. Eventually, after what felt like an age, the sailors on board the nearest ship took pity on us and opened one of the cabins up as a shelter. We all rushed for the door. In less than a minute the whole cabin was filled with people, and there wasn`t space for everyone... As the metal door of the cabin was swung shut I felt like I was in a disaster movie, we lucky few had been saved, but those who could not get aboard fast enough were left outside to meet their fate. After a rather uncomfortably humid 15 minutes the door to our sanctuary was once again opened. Rain was still failing but lighter now, much lighter. We decided to make a break for it while we still could. We made for the nearest cafe but it was still packed with soaked, bedraggled Peterburgers and tourists. We moved on from café to café, until finally we reached a small Georgian place. The restaurant was pretty cosy and the food was very tasty, which took the sting out of being stuck in soaking wet clothes. Unfortunately the service was very slow, but at least sitting there for over an hour and a half gave us some time to dry out. Once everything was eaten, drunk and paid for we headed to the nearest metro station, Vasileostrovskaya. From there we headed down to Gostiny Dvor and from there strolled down Nevsky Prospect back, once again, to Palace Square. By the time we reached the square it was already half ten. According to what we`d read online earlier the fireworks were meant to start at 10pm, as such we though we had already missed them. After quick chat with some friendly police officers stood nearby we found out that, much like with the parade earlier, what was written on the Internet wasn`t true. As it turned out we still had a few minutes until the display started. Just enough time to take our places down at the crossroads by the palace bridge, which was of course, flooded by yet another sea of people. The fireworks were impressive. The different colours, shapes, sizes and types of explosions on display were accompanied not by the “ooo... ah...” noises I`m used to, but rather many voices raised in loud cries of “УРАААА!” and several cries of “слава российскому флоту!”. It would be easier to describe this scene through pictures but unfortunately it was at the point that my phone`s battery finally breathed it`s last, but not before I got at least one semi-decent shot of the show.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1144
__label__wiki	0.514142	0.514142	Reader Review: 2016 Toyota Sienna XLE Van Review: 2016 Mercedes-Benz Metris Motorcycle Review: 2016 Ducati Multistrada Enduro Toyota's top-of-the-line, all-wheel-drive minivan made a lasting impression on this family by Greg Williams \| July 14, 2016 Ben Vance with the 2016 Toyota Sienna. Gavin Young, Driving Ben liked the interior and double sun roofs. Gavin Young/Postmedia, Driving Ben liked the dash and controls in the 2016 Toyota Sienna he tested for a Driving section feature. Gavin Young/Postmedia Ben behind the wheel of the 2016 Sienna. CALGARY — It was a blow to Ben Vance’s ego when he bought his first minivan. The Calgary driver says there’s something of a negative stigma attached to the vehicles. Years ago, however, he purchased a 1991 Toyota Previa to haul his growing family. It didn’t take him long to be swayed by the practical applications of a minivan, and the family still drives a 2004 Sienna Limited AWD. To experience the latest van Toyota has to offer, Vance drove the 2016 Sienna XLE AWD for a week. “Minivans might not look appealing,” Vance says. But he adds, “They’re fantastic haulers of people and stuff.” Toyota first entered the North American minivan market in 1990 with the Previa. The mid-engine van was smaller than its competitors, and Toyota replaced it with the Sienna in 1997. With a front engine, front-wheel drive layout the Sienna was redesigned for the 2004 model year, making it larger and more comfortable. The third-generation Sienna was introduced in 2010, and in 2015 was treated to a slight refresh with new taillights and interior design. The Sienna is the only minivan in the Canadian market that’s available with all-wheel drive, and that suits Vance to a ‘T’. “All-wheel drive is an important consideration when I’m shopping for a vehicle,” Vance says. “Especially in our prairie winters, it’s a necessity. My second consideration is safety, and third is comfort – meaning lots of room and creature comforts.” Toyota offers the 2016 Sienna in a variety of models, starting with the $32,475 (MSRP) base-model front-wheel drive, seven-passenger Sienna. Then, there’s the LE, available with front-wheel or optional all-wheel drive, followed by the SE with sport-tuned suspension. Next up are the Sienna XLE AWD and the Limited. Nothing beats a minivan for family winter ski getaways When more than a part for your vehicle is discontinued “I wouldn’t say there was anything really eye-catching about the exterior design,” Vance says of the $51,587.72 Sienna XLE AWD he drove. That price included the destination charge, and the $7,325 Limited Package, but not the taxes. “Inside, though, that was beautiful,” he says of his first impression after opening the door and climbing in. “The dash was clean and super nice, and the leather wrapped steering wheel was not cheaply done. Fit and finish of the black and grey interior materials exceeded my expectations. “It sounds like something silly to get excited about, but the floor mats were better than any I’ve seen before, too,” he explains. Toyota powers the Sienna with a 3.5-litre V6 engine paired with a six-speed automatic transmission, and the powerplant puts out 266 horsepower. In Vance’s opinion, that was enough for everything he asked of the van. “The engine wasn’t noisy,” he adds. “You could hear it working, but it wasn’t obtrusive. And the transmission was smooth, it shifted quickly and wasn’t jumpy.” Vance’s first car was from the Toyota family – it was a 1982 Celica Supra, purchased second-hand when he was 16. He kept it for two or three years, and has since owned a variety of vehicles including a 1969 Mustang convertible and a 1969 Cougar convertible. He’s had old BMWs and a 1977 Porsche 911. He’s done a considerable amount of buying and selling, but currently has a 2012 Volkswagen GTI, 2004 VW R32 and a 1979 VW Super Beetle convertible. The family vehicle is the 2004 Toyota Sienna AWD with 413,000 kilometres on it, and there’s also a 2003 Toyota Highlander in the driveway. Vance doesn’t drive all of these by himself, the vehicles are shared with wife Barbara, and his 16-year-old daughter Rachel uses the Highlander. While his other daughter Emma, 14, is still at home the Sienna continues to log many kilometres. “The 2016 Sienna handled well and felt connected to the road, but it’s obviously not a sports car,” Vance says of the ride and handling. “It went where you pointed it, and didn’t feel like a massive vehicle even though it looks quite large from the outside. “I think Toyota has stiffened up the suspension on the Sienna since we bought our 2004 model, too, the ride was much firmer.” Vance drove with his family west from Calgary to Banff. He says the van handled the highway with ease. Eating up kilometres was a breeze. Both Rachel and Emma enjoyed the leather seating surfaces and the spacious second-row passenger seats. “The girls liked the sunroof,” Vance says, and laughs, “they loved the vehicle, and thought Toyota should give it to us.” Vance found the rear seats easy to stow, and hauled an inflatable paddleboard in the back of the van; in terms of utility, the Sienna passed with flying colours. At the end of the day, Vance would recommend anyone looking in the minivan segment, and especially a van with all-wheel drive, take a look at the Sienna. “We’ll keep our old one going for a while longer,” he concludes. “But, if we were replacing it today, we’d buy the Sienna AWD, hands down.” Driver’s Journal Day One: My wife was the first to drive the vehicle. Her first experience wasn’t great as she attempted to charge her cell phone by plugging in her USB charging cord. As she flipped open the charging cover it snapped off, and flew across the van, nowhere to be found. Later that day we folded the rear seats into the floor (which was very easy to do) and put an inflated paddleboard in the van. As we attempted to shut the rear door it couldn’t quite shut and the door shuddered back up in an awkward and noisy way. Day Two: We had a hard time getting used to the distorted rearview mirror and the seat automatically moving back and forth when we got in and out of the vehicle. This new Sienna felt more like a car to drive, shifted nicely and had plenty of power. Day Three: Loved the newly designed dash, which has a leather trim look to it. The leather steering wheel has a nice feel. When our youngest daughter (14) got in the van she fell in love with it immediately. She asked if we could keep it. We told her no. She then said, “Can you please just ask them?” Day Four: The front and rear sunroofs are nice along with the shade/sun screens on the side windows. This is the only AWD van on the market and is a big selling feature for this Canadian family. While driving at night we really liked the blue lighting on the dash as well as the warnings on the side mirrors to let you know that someone is next to you; something that wasn’t really noticeable in the day time. Day Five: We liked that you could fold the side mirrors in with a press of a button. This may sound silly, but the factory rubber floor mats were great. Much better than the cloth covered ones that get stained and stay wet. It takes up more room in our garage than our current van. Day Six: Friday morning we attended a funeral, then picked up our two daughters and headed to Banff. Our 16-year-old couldn’t believe how spacious the interior was and loved the leather seats. She also wanted to keep it. On the way to Banff we connected one of our iPhones to the stereo and cranked the music. The JBL stereo sounded great whether connected through Bluetooth or the USB cord. Later that night we went to a wedding reception and it rained on the way home. The van handled well in the rain. Day Seven: On Sunday we drove to church and back. Summary: If we were in the market for a new van, I’m quite sure we would choose this one. Although our daughters would like us to upgrade we plan on keeping our trusty 2004 Sienna. It just keeps going and is great in the snow. We would give the 2016 Sienna Limited a 4.5/5 star rating. AWD / 4x4 Full - size Automotive Reviews Ben Vance Bluetooth SIG Inc. JBL Synthesis Home Theater Systems Sienna Ltd. Sirius XM Radio Inc. Seven-passenger minivan 266 hp @ 6,200 rpm, 245 lb.-ft. @ 4,700 rpm Six-speed automatic w/AWD Four-wheel disc w/ABS P235/55R18 run flat all-season (no spare) Price: Base / As Tested $42,375 / $51,587.72 Destination Charge Natural Resources Canada Fuel Economy (L/100km) 14.4 city, 10.2 highway Power locks and windows incl. side rear windows, power sliding rear doors, power moonroof, illuminated front cupholder, backup sensors, retained accessory power, electric power steering, blind spot convex mirrors, fog lamps, cruise control, leather seating surfaces, heated eight-way power adjustable driver seat w/power lumbar, four-way power adjustable passenger seat, six-speaker audio system w/7.1” touchscreen AM/FM/CD/MP3/WMA USB input and Bluetooth connectivity, Sirius XM radio, three-zone automatic climate control, 18” aluminum wheels, leather wrapped tilt and telescopic three spoke steering wheel, tire pressure monitoring system, rear cross traffic alert Limited Package ($7,325) heated steering wheel, JBL Synthesis Audio System, two sets wireless headphones, dual screen rear seat BluRay entertainment system, 10 speakers, overhead 16.4” wide-screen monitor, 7” display screen, driver seat memory system, premium leather seat surfaces, front and rear parking assist sonar, dual power moonroof, rain sensing wipers, automatic high beam high intensity discharge headlamps Reader Review: 2017 Toyota Camry XSE V6 Reader Review: 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Limited	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1150
__label__wiki	0.936215	0.936215	Media concoct firestorm as Jeremy Corbyn launches anti-Semitism report Asa Winstanley Media Watch 30 June 2016 Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, alongside Shami Chakrabarti, the independent lawyer who conducted an inquiry into anti-Semitism in the party, at a press conference presenting her findings in London, 30 June. Jonathan Brady PA Wire/AP Images A lawmaker caused a media firestorm at the launch of an independent UK Labour Party report into anti-Semitism and racism on Thursday. The report failed to back claims that the Labour Party had been overrun by anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and other forms of racism. The manufactured media storm aimed to overshadow the London launch of the highly anticipated report that has been welcomed even by some of party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s harsher anti-Palestinian critics. Similarly, The Guardian, which has called on Corbyn to resign, falsely accused the Labour leader of using the press conference to compare Israel to the Islamic State group. Ruth Smeeth, a former Israel lobby spin doctor, called for Corbyn to resign after she was criticized by an activist at the press launch. Marc Wadsworth accused Smeeth of collusion with the right-wing press to unseat Corbyn, who is currently facing a coup attempt by a majority of his own party’s lawmakers. Speaking from the floor, Wadsworth told those gathered at the launch: “I saw that the Telegraph handed a copy of a press release to Ruth Smeeth MP, so you can see who’s working hand in hand.” Wadsworth had been handing out copies of an activist press release which condemned Labour MPs who resigned from Corbyn’s shadow cabinet this week and called for him to step down. “The groundswell against the traitors will get much bigger,” it said. Wadsworth is the editor of citizen journalism website the-latest.com. Smeeth walked out of the packed press conference and claimed in a statement that she had been “verbally attacked” by a “Jeremy Corbyn supporter who used traditional anti-Semitic slurs to attack me for being part of a ‘media conspiracy.’” But audio of the press conference recorded by The Electronic Intifada shows that nowhere in Wadsworth’s question did he say anything about a “media conspiracy” or about Jews. Wadsworth said in a statement that Smeeth’s claims were “poisonous slander” and he had not even known Smeeth was Jewish. Tweets by the Telegraph journalist in question support this, indicating that Wadsworth had had to ask Smeeth what her name was when she had approached him before the event. Momentum activist just described Chakrabarti report as "claptrap" as he handed out deselection leaflets. Refused to give one to @RuthSmeeth — Kate McCann (@KateEMcCann) June 30, 2016 The activist then "took down" @RuthSmeeth's name. Remember, this is a Labour organised press conference. MPs threatened at their own events. Appalled by behaviour of journo @KateEMcCann & her "antisemitism" libel against me when I've fought it all my life see @thelatestdotcom — Marc Wadsworth (@Marcwads) June 30, 2016 Smeeth did not reply to an email from The Electronic Intifada requesting comment. Misquoting Corbyn The press conference had been called for the launch of the independent report commissioned by Corbyn in the wake of accusations earlier this year that the Labour Party was rife with anti-Semitism. The Jewish Labour Movement called the report a “sensible and firm platform” and said its recommendations should be implemented. The group has been criticized by Jewish members of Labour for refusing to represent their critical views on Israel. The Palestine Solidarity Campaign also welcomed the report on Thursday, saying it was happy “that legitimate criticism of Israeli government policies with regard to the Palestinians and the occupation have not been conflated with anti-Semitism.” Corbyn said at the press conference that “our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu government than our Muslim friends are for those of various self-styled Islamic states or organizations.” Some media reports misquoted this, with The Guardian initially claiming Corbyn had compared the “Israeli government to Islamic State,” the extremist group also known as ISIS. The text of the article even misquoted Corbyn as saying “Islamic State” when he had in fact said “self-styled Islamic states or organizations.” This was later corrected by the paper after outrage from Corbyn’s supporters on social media. Noted lawyer and human rights campaigner Shami Chakrabarti, who chaired the report, later took to the airwaves to criticize the “things that have been spun in the media.” She said that the misleading reports had “cast a shadow over two months’ really hard, open-hearted work” on the report. The report, available to download from www.chakrabartiinquiry.org, concludes that the “Labour Party is not overrun by anti-Semitism, Islamophobia or other forms of racism.” But it states that there is “too much clear evidence” of “minority hateful or ignorant attitudes” and a “sometimes bitter incivility of discourse.” It recommends procedural changes to the party rule book. It also removes the interim power to suspend party members from the general secretary and party staff, investing it in “the senior democratic body that is Labour’s National Constitutional Committee.” In the “anti-Semitism” witch hunt against party members critical of Israel that has engulfed Labour since February, it has mostly been party staff in the Compliance Unit who had carried out these suspensions in practice. Mostly leftist activists had campaigned to have many of these suspensions overturned. Corbyn called for the report as right-wing media and pro-Israel Jewish communal publications alleged that the Labour Party had in effect been taken over by anti-Semitism. Headlines from the BBC included warnings that the party had a “serious anti-Semitism problem,” while a Telegraph op-ed advised that “Labour’s anti-semitism problem should sicken any voter.” The Tel Aviv newspaper Haaretz stirred the furore with headlines such as “UK Labour Party’s anti-Semitism problem just got a lot worse.” The pro-Israel Jewish Chronicle ran a front-page story alleging that “Labour now seems to be a party that attracts anti-Semites like flies to a cesspit.” It placed the blame squarely on Corbyn. After the Chakrabarti report’s publication, Guardian columnist and pro-Israel campaigner Jonathan Freedland asserted, “I don’t think anyone credible claimed the party was ‘overrun’ by anti-Semitism – but that there was a problem to be addressed.” However, in a March column, Freedland himself had claimed that the Jewish community was “fast reaching the glum conclusion that Labour has become a cold house for Jews.” Mind your language While not supporting such dire and overblown allegations, the Chakrabarti report recommends that members temper their language and says that “racist epithets” and “racial or religious tropes and stereotypes about any group of people” have no place in the Labour Party. It states, for instance that “the word ‘Zio’ should have no place in Labour Party discourse.” At the press conference Corbyn called it a “vile epithet.” The report also recommends that critics of Israel “use the term ‘Zionist’ advisedly, carefully and never” as a euphemism for “Jew.” Calling such language “incendiary,” it recommends that “Labour members resist the use of Hitler, Nazi and Holocaust metaphors, distortions and comparisons in debates about Israel-Palestine in particular.” “Labour members should be free and positively encouraged to criticize injustice and abuse wherever they find it, including in the Middle East,” the report states, “But surely it is better to use the modern universal language of human rights, be it of dispossession, discrimination, segregation, occupation or persecution and to leave Hitler, the Nazis and the Holocaust out of it?” The report acknowledges that some party members have faced discriminatory assumptions because they are Jewish, but emphasizes that racism is a problem that affects party members of various backgrounds. Chakrabarti writes that she has “heard Muslims (en masse) being derided as inherently sexist and/or anti-Semitic and potentially of split or dubious loyalty in the context of party membership and political participation.” Her report also calls for “a moratorium on the retrospective trawling of members’ social media accounts and past comments,” a tactic that has been used by pro-Israel activists to fuel the controversy by provoking suspensions. Ruth Smeeth, the MP who walked out of the launch, was once director of public affairs and campaigns at BICOM, the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre. Formed in 2000, BICOM has historically been close to the right wing of the Labour Party, including former CEO Lorna Fitzsimons. A 2009 US embassy cable from London, revealed by Chelsea Manning and published by Wikileaks, detailed a conversation with Ruth Smeeth about Labour Party affairs, saying she was a source they should “strictly protect.” Speaking to the Telegraph in 2011, Smeeth admitted to being at a breakfast meeting in the embassy, but said “I have no recollection of saying what has been attributed to me. I would not consider myself to be a source for the US government.” Editor’s note, 10 January 2018: Some time after its publication, Labour Party staff appear to have quietly deleted the Chakrabarti report from the Labour website, with the original links now dead. But the party now appears to have recently re-uploaded the report elsewhere on their site. Ruth Smeeth BICOM Marc Wadsworth Jewish Labour Movement 09LONDON956 Asa Winstanley's blog ISRAEL, ISIS AND OIL, AN UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH Permalink Glyn Secker replied on Fri, 07/01/2016 - 00:58 Strange bedfellows: The Islamic State group’s oil earns the ‘caliphate’ $19 million a month through international markets [source: al-Araby] Oil produced from fields under the control of the Islamic State group is at the heart of a new investigation by al-Araby al-Jadeed. The black gold is extracted, transported and sold, providing the armed group with a vital financial lifeline. But who buys it? Who finances the murderous brutality that has taken over swathes of Iraq and Syria? How does it get from the ground to the petrol tank, and who profits along the way? The Islamic State group uses millions of dollars in oil revenues to expand and manage vast areas under its control, home to around five million civilians. IS sells Iraqi and Syrian oil for a very low price to Kurdish and Turkish smuggling networks and mafias, who label it and sell it on as barrels from the Kurdistan Regional Government. It is then most frequently transported from Turkey to Israel, via knowing or unknowing middlemen, according to al-Araby’s investigation. NB. This report was published in November 2015. Since then the ISIS oilfields have been bombed and thus this trade has probably diminished if not ceased, but not as the result of any deliberations taken by Israel.(GS) GR Editor’s Note: Some of the details of this report are fully corroborated. http://www.globes.co.il/en/art... http://www.globalresearch.ca/t... Centre for Research on Globalization / Centre de recherche sur la mondialisation The Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) is an independent research and media organization based in Montreal. The CRG is a registered non-profit organization in the province of Quebec, Canada. I don't see the problem Permalink Nestor Makhno replied on Fri, 07/01/2016 - 15:24 of reflecting the present to the past. What is wrongUri Ariel to refer to the Nazi period and comparing it to israeli actions of today? What is wrong to present the stunning similarity of israeli practices to the similar politics of the Nazis like comparing the Judenrats in the jewish gettos in ww2 to the invention of the Palestinian Authority. There are a whole lot of other similarities between the two Attempted coup against Corbyn. Permalink mike french replied on Fri, 07/01/2016 - 15:50 As the mainstream media in the UK continues to collude in the Blairite attempted coup against democratically elected UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, a massive popular anti-austerity resistance is rallying around Corbyn. Asa Winstanley's timely investigative journalism in the Electronic Intifada is invaluable to that resistance movement. Thank you Asa Winstanley! Thank you Electronic Intifada! Mike French. Permalink Glyn Secker replied on Sat, 07/02/2016 - 15:16 Jeremy Corbyn is quite right, as a UK Jew I am powerless to influence the Netanyahu government in its purchase of ISIS oil - which must have ISIS to replenish its weapons: Asa Winstanley Asa Winstanley is an investigative journalist and associate editor with The Electronic Intifada. He lives in London. Biography here. Twitter: @AsaWinstanley Tips to asa [at] electronicintifada.net PGP public key (encrypted email) BBC's anti-Corbyn hatchet job fails to land blow Asa Winstanley 11 July 2019 Revealed: UK police spy who infiltrated Palestine solidarity Head of Israel lobby group exposed by undercover film resigns Asa Winstanley 3 July 2019 Labour grassroots want Chris Williamson back -- poll Chris Williamson back as Labour MP Asa Winstanley 26 June 2019	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1154
__label__wiki	0.809841	0.809841	Steve and Josh Combine for Two-Hitter and Lead Ham Slams Offense in 8-1 Win Over Eastbound & Dahn Josh earned the win on the mound for the Ham Slams and had a single, two doubles, and a triple, as the Slams finished at .500, their best regular season in franchise history Josh and Steve were dominant on the mound as they combined to allow only one run on two hits, and they each contributed four hits on offense as the Ham Slams beat Eastbound & Dahn 8-1 in both teams’ final regular season game for 2017. The Ham Slams finished the season 10-10, their best regular season record as a franchise and their first time finishing a season without being under .500. Eastbound & Dahn finished the season at 2-18 on the longest losing streak in EWL history. BK started on the mound for Eastbound & Dahn, and the Ham Slams would get all of the run support they needed in the top of the first. Orick (filling in for Dan, who was out), doubled to lead off, and Josh followed with a single to put runners on the corners. Jergens (filling in for Dustin, who was also out), singled, scoring Orick to make the score 1-0. Steve then doubled, scoring Josh, and the Ham Slams led 2-0. Orick grounded out to right for the first out of the inning, but Jergens scored on the play, pushing the Ham Slams lead to 3-0. BK escaped the inning when he got Josh to ground out to center for the second out of the inning. Josh got the start for the Ham Slams, and he retired Eastbound in order in the bottom of the first. The Ham Slams added to their lead in the top of the second. Jergens doubled, and Steve followed with a two-run blast to right-center, making the score 5-0. Josh would later double with one out, but BK stranded him and Eastbound & Dahn trailed by five. Josh continued to roll, retiring Kyle and Nate C in order in the bottom of the second. Steve doubled to start the top of the third, and he scored on an Orick sacrifice fly, making the score 6-0. Josh followed with a double, but he was caught out trying to extend the hit into a triple, ending the inning. Josh had reached his innings limit for the week, and Steve came into the game to relieve him on the mound. He allowed a one-out single to BK, Eastbound’s first hit of the game, but Eastbound couldn’t capitalize, as Steve retired Nate O for the second out of the inning, stranding the runner. Steve, who went 4-for-6 with a single, two doubles, and a home run, makes a great one-handed catch in left field Steve singled with one out in the top of the fourth, his fourth consecutive at-bat with a hit, but BK escaped the inning without allowing further damage, retiring Orick to strand the runner and end the inning. Steve cruised through the bottom of the fourth, retiring Christian and Kyle in order. Josh led off the top of the fifth with a triple, his fourth hit of the game, and he scored on a Jergens groundout, making the score 7-0. BK then retired Steve for the first time in the game, ending the inning. Steve once again sent Eastbound & Dahn down in order in the bottom of the fifth, retiring Nate C and Adam. Orick started the top of the sixth with a triple, and he scored when Josh grounded out to left. Jergens followed with a triple, but BK retired Steve for the second out, and Eastbound & Dahn trailed 7-0. Down to their final at-bat of the 2017 regular season, Eastbound & Dahn showed some life when Nate O hit a one-out solo homer, getting them on the board. Steve retired the next batter, Christian, to end the game, and the Ham Slams had topped Eastbound 7-1 as both teams would head into the post-season to face the same opponents they matched up against in 2016. W: Josh (3-6) L: BK (1-7) Game Notes:: – Josh earned the win for the Ham Slams, pitching two perfect innings, allowing no hits and no runs. – Steve pitched four innings of relief for the Ham Slams, giving up one run on two hits. – BK took the loss for Eastbound & Dahn, giving up eight runs on thirteen hits in six innings. – Steve led the Ham Slams on offense, going 4-for-6 with a single, two doubles, two runs scored, and three RBI. – Josh also went 4-for-6 for the Ham Slams with a single, two doubles, a triple, two runs scored, and an RBI. – Nate O had the only offensive production for Eastbound & Dahn, going 1-for-3 with a home run, a run scored, and an RBI. Tags: 207, Eastbound & Dahn, Ham Slams, July, Week 10 ← Mike Hits and Pitches Questionable Outfit to 7-1 Win Over Ham Slams Cookies & Cream’s Offense Surges to 10-5 Win Over Questionable Outfit in Final Regular Season Game of 2017 →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1156
__label__wiki	0.784057	0.784057	Conservation group donates $47,000 to defeat Gwen Lachelt recall effort Supporters of recalling La Plata County commissioner list $6,333 in donations By Patrick Armijo Education, business & real estate reporter Wednesday, April 25, 2018 5:45 PM Updated: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 9:19 PM Follow @Patrick_Armijo Organizers of a recall petition targeting La Plata County Commissioner Gwen Lachelt set up in the parking lot of Basin Coop in February to collect names. Jerry McBride/Durango Herald file Conservation Colorado continues to provide generous funding to a campaign committee it formed to help La Plata County Commissioner Gwen Lachelt defeat a recall effort, according to the latest financial reports filed with the state. In addition, supporters of the recall issued their first campaign-finance report. United Against the Recall, an issue committee solely funded by Conservation Colorado, donated $17,000 from March 19 to April 17, the latest time period covered by a campaign-finance report required by the Colorado Secretary of State. Conservation Colorado is a nonprofit that backs protecting wilderness and public lands. United Against the Recall The donations bring total contributions to the committee by Conservation Colorado to $47,110. The group formed the committee earlier this year to help Lachelt defeat the recall. It has $1,069.50 in cash on hand. “We have continued to strongly support Gwen Lachelt because she is a champion for the environment and a leader who has worked hard on behalf of La Plata County citizens. We’re proud to stand up for policymakers who stand up for Colorado values,” said Jace Woodrum, communication director for Conservation Colorado, in an email. United Against the Recall, he said, used its funds “to contact thousands of voters both in person and on social media.” The biggest expenditure in the report was $8,000 to 4Degrees Inc., an advertising firm in Lakewood. The committee’s second-biggest expenditure was $5,000 to Grassroots Campaign Inc. of Boston for what was listed in the campaign-finance report as employee services. By comparison, La Plata County Recall, the small-scale issue committee formed by David Peters, Ty Hawkins and Michael Cugnini, three county residents who seek Lachelt’s recall, reported $6,333.42 in donations from Jan. 30 to April 18. The group reports $3,862 in expenditures in the same time period. It has $506 in cash on hand. As a small-scale issue committee, La Plata County Recall had to file a report only after it received $5,000 in donations. La Plata County Recall’s largest recorded expenditure was $3,609.50 to Brownstein Hyatt of Denver for consulting and professional services. Its second-largest expenditure, $2,559, went to Four Corners Broadcasting of Durango. La Plata County Recall The committee’s largest contributor is listed as Peters with $1,040 in total monetary donations and $4,649.50 in non-monetary contributions. The next largest donors are Duane Cugnini and Tonya McKnight. Each donated $1,000. Lachelt’s own issue committee, La Plata County for Gwen Lachelt, lists $7,170 in donations and $2,190 in expenditures for the reporting period March 13 to April 11. It has $7,092 in cash on hand. Her biggest expense was $1,640.51 to Creative Geckos LLC for printing of signs. She records that she spent $350 in legal fees during that reporting period. La Plata County for Lachelt The largest contribution to Lachelt’s committee is $2,500 from John Powers, who is listed as a self-employed rancher who lives in Rifle. The three county residents launched the recall effort saying that Lachelt’s work on environmental lobbying harmed her attendance at county meetings. They also said she leveraged the duties of public office as a county commissioner to advance her interests and the interests of Western Leaders Network. Lachelt Lachelt, a Democrat, formed the nonprofit Western Leaders Network, as a bipartisan platform for local and state officials to connect on conservation issues. In a news release issued when the recall effort was first launched in February, Lachelt said: “I have been elected twice – first in 2012 and most recently in 2016. I’m term-limited. A special election is not only a waste of taxpayer dollars, it is also a subversion of the democratic process.” She launched a “Decline to Sign” campaign in February in response to the recall effort. On March 30, Peters and Hawkins turned in 6,400 signatures in an effort to recall Lachelt – 1,105 shy of the 7,505 needed to force a vote – but they vowed then to take advantage of an additional 15-day collection period to cover their shortfall. On April 17, La Plata County Clerk and Recorder Tiffany Parker invalidated 1,010 signatures for various reasons, including missing information, duplicate signatures and incorrect address information. Recall organizers now have until May 2 to collect the remaining 2,031 signatures needed to force a recall vote forward. Lachelt has raised issues with the legality of the second collection period. In a text message to The Durango Herald on Tuesday, Lachelt said “My attorneys are exploring all legal options. We will keep the Herald posted of our next move.” Earlier this month she told the Herald, “They turned in an insufficient petition, and that should have ended the recall effort. We will challenge this interpretation that the committee has the ability to cure a petition that was insufficient in the first place.” However, Parker said she is working with attorneys with the Secretary of State’s Office to follow correct recall procedure, and she told the Herald the process is supported in case law. When he turned in petitions on March 30, Peters said recall supporters would be back out collecting more signatures during this final 15-day window that ends May 2 to successfully move the recall effort forward. “There’s plenty of enthusiasm out there,” Peters said of the ability to collect additional signatures. parmijo@durangoherald.com Recall effort against Gwen Lachelt falls short by 36 signatures Video: American Tunnel Museum ends excavation of dinosaur fossils in Denver suburb	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1158
__label__wiki	0.536074	0.536074	News > e3 Systems Launch The Ultimate Communications Solution HYBRID at the Monaco Yacht Show e3 Systems Launch The Ultimate Communications Solution HYBRID at the Monaco Yacht Show Wednesday 13th August, 2015, Mallorca e3 Systems, one of the world’s leading multi-broadband communications providers for the super yacht industry, will launch at the Monaco Yacht Show HYBRID: the ultimate communications solution.HYBRID provides super yachts with 100% connectivity, combining satellite, 3G, 4G and terrestrial broadband services, thus ensuring the fastest possible service at the lowest possible rate, whether in port, offshore or mid-ocean. Roger Horner, Group Managing Director for e3 Systems, commenting on the launch ofHYBRID, says, “Our clients all want 100% connectivity. Over the last 20 years we have got closer, step by step, as new services have matured. Our team of engineers has developed a system that integrates a yacht’s entire communications system that functions similar to a smart phone in that it can both automatically and manually, seamlessly switch between different connections as the yacht moves. This means that the yacht will gravitate to the strongest connection as it moves, providing the fastest performance across the various networks, whether that’s satellite, 3G, 4G or terrestrial broadband services, at the lowest rate possible, anywhere in the world.” Roger Horner, continues by saying, “Our HYBRID solution is like the most progressive hybrid super car that is powered by an electric motor and a combustion engine. As with the car hybrid, the strength of our HYBRID lies, among other factors, in the perfect synchronisation of satellite and land based services which makes itself apparent in maximum bandwidth performance and cost efficiency”. The e3 HYBRID solution is achieved by supplementing slower, expensive connectivity with faster, more cost effective connectivity, across the network platform. Once e3 has received a detailed brief of where the yacht is traveling to, the service required and for how long, a customized program is created.e3’s 20 plus years of experience show that yachts over 24m spend 87% of their time inshore. Thee3 HYBRID therefore purposely combines a base satellite service with a 3G and 4G aggregated service to provide 100% connectivity with the maximum bandwidth possible at the lowest cost where the yacht spends most of its time. For more information about e3’s HYBRID solutions, visit or make an appointment with e3 on booth QS79 in the Darse Sud tent oremail info@e3s.com. About e3 Systems e3 Systems has been a leading, technology agnostic, communications integrator in the yacht market for the past 20 years. e3’s mission is to connect people globally using their diverse portfolio of communication services including VSAT, Inmarsat, Iridium, 3G, 4G and WiFi. e3’s HYBRID solution is controlled by the data management system e3.ARMMS to control data service quality and costs. Data distribution including IT, networks, service and support with Standard and Enterprise solutions, covered by SLA contract support, is also included. e3 were the first to introduce a managed hybrid solution to the yacht market ten years ago which is just one illustration of their successive introductions to the industry of cutting edge solutions. They also provide content including digital TV and IPTV, newspapers, magazines and video. As mentioned e3 is also involved with next generation technology and is currently very involved with the development of new communication technology using flat panel antennas. The thirty plus strong team operates from the Med and the USA with thirty global Partners. e3 is part of the large marine electronics group grupoarbulu who have engineers worldwide. Remote service and support is just an email or phone call away and the new client portal “my.e3s” provides access to all the yacht’s services. For more information, contact Diane Franklin diane@e3s.com or visit www.e3s.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1159
__label__cc	0.625129	0.374871	Having a spotter nearby is particularly important when using free weights. Even someone in great shape sometimes just can't make that last rep. It's no big deal if you're doing biceps curls; all you'll have to do is drop the weight onto the floor. But if you're in the middle of a bench press — a chest exercise where you're lying on a bench and pushing a loaded barbell away from your chest — it's easy to get hurt if you drop the weight. A spotter can keep you from dropping the barbell onto your chest. Bodybuilding developed in the late 19th century, promoted in England by German Eugen Sandow, now considered as the "Father of Bodybuilding". He allowed audiences to enjoy viewing his physique in "muscle display performances". Although audiences were thrilled to see a well-developed physique, the men simply displayed their bodies as part of strength demonstrations or wrestling matches. Sandow had a stage show built around these displays through his manager, Florenz Ziegfeld. The Oscar-winning 1936 musical film The Great Ziegfeld depicts the beginning of modern bodybuilding, when Sandow began to display his body for carnivals. Of course, cardio is an important part of fitness too, but the benefits of strength training are major. Strength training helps build muscle, and lean muscle is better at burning calories when the body is at rest, which is important whether you're trying to lose weight or maintain it. It also helps strengthens joints and bones, avoid injury, improve your muscular endurance, and will help you give it your all during your other workouts, whether that means setting a new PR if you're a runner or pushing (and pulling) a little harder with your legs during your favorite indoor cycling class. Cyclocreatine (1-carboxymethyl-2-iminoimidazolidine) is a synthetic analogue of creatine in a cyclic form. It serves as a substrate for the creatine kinase enzyme system, acting as a creatine mimetic. Cyclocreatine may compete with creatine in the CK enzyme system to transfer phosphate groups to ADP, as coincubation of both can reduce cyclocreatine’s anti-motility effects on some cancer cells.[96] Naturo Nitro Creatine Chrome could be an interesting choice for women. It’s actually magnesium creatine chelate, a type of creatine that may help to improve performance without increasing water weight. We don’t have a lot of studies on it just yet, but the research we do have suggests it could potentially be a good choice for women who want to improve performance without experiencing the “bloat” of regular creatine. Creatine has demonstrated neuromuscular performance enhancing properties on short duration, predominantly anaerobic, intermittent exercises. Bazzucch et al [27] observed enhanced neuromuscular function of the elbow flexors in both electrically induced and voluntary contractions but not on endurance performance after 4 loading doses of 5 g creatine plus 15 g maltodextrin for 5/d in young, moderately trained men. Creatine supplementation may facilitate the reuptake of Ca2+ into the sacroplasmic reticulum by the action of the Ca2+ adenosine triphosphatase pump, which could enable force to be produced more rapidly through the faster detachment of the actomyosin bridges. Build an effective exercise routine. A good diet is required for your body to be able to maximize your potential, but there's no potential at all until you start the process of tearing down your old muscles and rebuilding them bigger, bulkier, and stronger. The best way to do that is to start at the beginning. If you're not sure where to begin, find a solid workout program online and try it out for a while. Don't immediately jump from one program to the next - you'll end up keeping yourself from making steady progress. Though weight training can stimulate the cardiovascular system, many exercise physiologists, based on their observation of maximal oxygen uptake, argue that aerobics training is a better cardiovascular stimulus. Central catheter monitoring during resistance training reveals increased cardiac output, suggesting that strength training shows potential for cardiovascular exercise. However, a 2007 meta-analysis found that, though aerobic training is an effective therapy for heart failure patients, combined aerobic and strength training is ineffective; "the favorable antiremodeling role of aerobic exercise was not confirmed when this mode of exercise was combined with strength training".[36] Competitive and professional bodybuilders, however, can often build up to two to three pounds of muscle per month during dedicated bulking periods. "But they are living and breathing muscle growth. They aren't just in and out of the gym like most people," Simpson says, noting that under extreme conditions, hyperplasia, or the growth in the number of muscle cells in a given muscle tissue, may actually occur, further adding to muscle growth results. Jason Ferruggia is a highly sought after, world renowned strength & conditioning specialist and muscle building expert. Over the last 17 years he has personally trained more than 700 athletes from over 90 different NCAA, NFL, NHL and MLB organizations. He has also worked extensively with firefighters, police officers, military personnel, Hollywood stars and entertainers. Most importantly, Jason has helped over 53,000 skinny guys and hard gainers in 126 different countries build muscle and gain weight faster than they every thought possible. Great Paleo beef protein, why? Because it doesn't have any preservatives, fillers, Dairy, soy, yeast, corn, or any other additives. No artificial colorings/flavorings. That makes this product not just paleo, but also autoimmune paleo friendly, hard to find. That basically means anti alergic, you dont get the same digestive issues many people get with whey. I think beef protein is underrated, I just finished a batch and went back to my whey. The whey gives me bloating/gas that this product doesnt. Also if you don't like how the amino acid profile stacks up agains Whey protein powder you can add some BCAA to powder, at least thats what I do. In a 30 gram saving you get 28 grams of protein (zero fat and zero carb), not bad! A quantitative, comprehensive scientific summary and view of knowledge up to 2007 on the effects of creatine supplementation in athletes and active people was published in a 100 citation review position paper by the International Society of Sports Nutrition[5]. More recent literature has provided greater insight into the anabolic/performance enhancing mechanisms of creatine supplementation [15,25] suggesting that these effects may be due to satellite cell proliferation, myogenic transcription factors and insulin-like growth factor-1 signalling [16]. Saremi et al [26] reported a change in myogenic transcription factors when creatine supplementation and resistance training are combined in young healthy males. It was found that serum levels of myostatin, a muscle growth inhibitor, were decreased in the creatine group. How much weight? Start with a pair of light dumbbell hand weights (2 to 3 pounds for women and 5 to 8 pounds for men). If you can’t do 12 repetitions (or reps are the number of times you do the exercise) the weight is too heavy. If your muscles don’t feel tired after 12 reps, it’s too light. Adjustable weights that can be strapped to wrists or ankles may be convenient if you have arthritis in your hands. You can also use home or gym weight machines, or resistance bands. If you’re the kind of person who shops for popular dietary supplements like protein or collagen powder, you’ve probably seen another popular bottle on the shelves: creatine. This supplement, which can be taken as a powder or liquid (and usually in some kind of healthy shake), is a staple in the bodybuilding community thanks to its ability to help you pack on muscle and work out longer and harder. (1) While creatine is generally considered safe — and is one of the most researched supplements out there (according to a review published in July 2012 in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition) — it is still a supplement, which means it’s not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and product claims don’t necessarily need to be substantiated (though the FDA can pull products that are found to be unsafe). (2,3) Citrulline Malate is an amino acid also known as L-Citrulline and is taken for many different medical conditions. There is some research that shows that the amino acid may help improve performance while exercising by reducing fatigue. What does that mean for you? In your muscle building efforts, you can use this supplement to help you make it through longer, harder workouts. This will spur more muscle building in response to the trauma your muscles experience in a tough workout. Not only that, but Citrulline Malate can also help reduce soreness after a workout. Who doesn’t want to avoid feeling sore? Reduced soreness means you can get back to the gym the next day with renewed enthusiasm. Gain mass: One of the most popular reasons for people to take body building supplements is to gain weight and that is why protein powder is much sought after. Protein is the building block of muscles and therefore, bodybuilders use protein powder to help repair muscles, speed recoveries and preserve muscle mass. They usually consume 1 to 2 grams of protein per pound of body weight every day. The bulking and cutting strategy is effective because there is a well-established link between muscle hypertrophy and being in a state of positive energy balance.[19] A sustained period of caloric surplus will allow the athlete to gain more fat-free mass than they could otherwise gain under eucaloric conditions. Some gain in fat mass is expected, which athletes seek to oxidize in a cutting period while maintaining as much lean mass as possible. Different forms of creatine in combination with other sports supplements as well as varying doses and supplementation methodology should continue to be researched in an attempt to understand further application of creatine to increase sports and exercise performance of varying disciplines. It is important to remain impartial when evaluating the safety of creatine ingested as a natural supplement. The available evidence indicates that creatine consumption is safe. This perception of safety cannot be guaranteed especially that of the long term safety of creatine supplementation and the various forms of creatine which are administered to different populations (athletes, sedentary, patient, active, young or elderly) throughout the globe. We’re so confident that you’re going to love our supplements that we offer a 30-day guarantee. If you have any questions about any of our products, please don’t hesitate to call our friendly experts at (512) 394-7995, or feel free to email us at [email protected] The right supplements can make a tremendous difference in your workouts, so don’t wait to get started. Shop the best bodybuilding supplements at Bare Performance Nutrition now. McArdle’s disease is a myopathy associated with impaired glucose release from glycogen and impairments in muscle function at times when glucose would be the primary energy substrate. Creatine is thought to be therapeutic, but has shown differing effects in the two trials so far (both benefit and worsening of symptoms) for currently unknown reasons. Tribulus Terrestris: A fruit from the Mediterranean, this supplement has been used in the Indian traditional medicine of Ayurveda. In addition to helping increase testosterone, many people take it to increase libido and as a cardioprotective aid. (10) Unfortunately, despite the fact that there are claims that tribulus terrestris can increase testosterone levels, studies don’t back up these claims. There is some evidence, however, that it may improve athletic performance. If you want to choose one of the supplements for men, this should be your pick. However, not all proteins are created equal in the muscle building stakes. Always remember the better the quality (biological value) of protein consumed, the more of it will be used for muscle building. To maximise muscle growth, stick to high-quality proteins, such as whey, milk, eggs, fish or lean meats. However, combining lower quality or incomplete protein from plant-based sources, such as nuts and beans, can still be a valuable protein source for muscle building. If you're looking to add muscle mass to your frame, hitting the weights hard is a given. Quality time in the gym begins a cascade of changes that will stimulate your muscles to grow bigger in response to the challenges you throw their way. It's tempting to think that's all it takes to add muscle to your body. After all, you can actually feel your biceps growing after an intense set of curls. Few supplements have the solid scientific foundation that creatine has. Studies show that it's effective for 80 percent of those who use it. Since creatine is found naturally in meat, the more meat you eat, the less likely you'll need creatine supplementation. Vegetarians or those who rarely eat meat, however, can get huge boosts from most creatine supplements. In standard dosages (5-10g creatine monohydrate) the bioavailability of creatine in humans is approximately 99%,[68][83] although this value is subject to change with different conjugates (forms) of creatine and dosages.[83] Coingestion of cyclocreatine (an analogue) can reduce uptake by about half[131] and coincubation of taurine, choline, glycine, or beta-alanine had minimal attenuation of absorption, which is likely not practically relevant.[131] The inhibition noted with cyclocreatine may be due to receptor saturation. Kerksick, C. M., Wilborn, C. D., Campbell, W. I., Harvey, T. M., Marcello, B. M., Roberts, M. D., Parker, A. G., Byars, A. G., Greenwood, L. D., Almada, A. L., Kreider, R. B., and Greenwood, M. The effects of creatine monohydrate supplementation with and without D-pinitol on resistance training adaptations. J.Strength.Cond.Res. 2009;23:2673-2682. View abstract. Besides the obvious benefits of getting protein into your system, our vegan protein powder offers other benefits too. It’s one of the one of the best bodybuilding supplements for anyone –– regardless of their diet –– because it’s a Smooth Protein™. That means it’s organic, non-GMO, gluten-free, and non-allergenic, and it also doesn’t have that gritty texture and earthy flavor associated with other plant-based protein supplements. Kilduff, L. P., Georgiades, E., James, N., Minnion, R. H., Mitchell, M., Kingsmore, D., Hadjicharlambous, M., and Pitsiladis, Y. P. The effects of creatine supplementation on cardiovascular, metabolic, and thermoregulatory responses during exercise in the heat in endurance-trained humans. Int J Sport Nutr Exerc Metab 2004;14(4):443-460. View abstract. Earlier during your workout, you might have thought you were starting to see some muscle definition. "Called transient hypertrophy, or a muscle pump, this physiological phenomenon occurs when blood rushes to your muscles to supply them with workout-powering fuel and even jump-start the recovery process," explains certified strength and conditioning specialist Samuel Simpson, co-owner and vice president of B-Fit Training Studio in Miami. He notes that this muscle pump often starts mid-workout and subsides within a few hours after leaving the gym. And as the muscle pump deflates, it's easy to lose determination. In fact, in one new study comparing the effects of aerobic exercise versus resistance training on the psychological health of obese adolescents, researchers found that people in the resistance group experienced significantly greater self-esteem and perceived strength over four weeks. But what’s most interesting is that the feeling of getting stronger — rather than any measurable gains — was all it took to give them a boost. Always consult your doctor before you begin taking a creatine supplement to make sure that there are no negative interactions with whatever diabetes medication you are on. If they deem you to be safe to take creatine, we recommend this unflavored powder from MET-Rx. It’s made without artificial sweeteners, flavors, and colors, so it's just pure creatine monohydrate powder to promote increased muscle strength. One reviewer noted the product is easy to mix and another said the formula was effect for their needs. Branched-chain amino acids (leucine, isoleucine, valine) play important roles in muscle building. Some researchers have found that following exercise, the branched-chain amino acids, especially leucine, increase the rate of protein synthesis and decrease the rate of protein catabolism (Blomstrand, 2006). The billion dollar supplement industry has been quick to respond; leucine supplements are widely available in health food stores, with a cost upwards of $50 per container. However, because the research findings are inconsistent and little is known about the safety of these products, the American Dietetic Association (soon to be renamed the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics) advises against individual amino acid supplementation and protein supplementation overall (Rodriquez, 2009). It may be that food sources of these proteins and amino acids provide the same effect for a small fraction of the cost. Prohormones are precursors to hormones and are most typically sold to bodybuilders as a precursor to the natural hormone testosterone. This conversion requires naturally occurring enzymes in the body. Side effects are not uncommon, as prohormones can also convert further into DHT and estrogen. To deal with this, many supplements also have aromatase inhibitors and DHT blockers such as chrysin and 4-androstene-3,6,17-trione. To date most prohormone products have not been thoroughly studied, and the health effects of prolonged use are unknown. Although initially available over the counter, their purchase was made illegal without a prescription in the US in 2004, and they hold similar status in many other countries. They remain legal, however, in the United Kingdom and the wider European Union. Their use is prohibited by most sporting bodies. Hopefully I didn’t put a big damper on your Captain-America fueled dreams! I just want to set proper expectations so you don’t get discouraged with slow progress, and instead get SUPER encouraged with any progress. Getting strong should be freakin’ fun! Weirdly enough, once I stopped trying to get there quickly is when I started to actually make permanent progress. In general, muscle content of creatine tends to be elevated to 15-20% above baseline (more than 20mM increase) in response to oral supplementation. People who get a sufficiently high influx of creatine are known as responders.[150][151][152][153] A phenomena known as “creatine nonresponse” occurs when people have less than a 10mM influx of creatine into muscle after prolonged supplementation.[154] Quasi-responders (10-20mM increase) also exist.[154] Nonresponse is thought to explain instances where people do not benefit from creatine supplementation in trials, since some trials that find no significant effect do find one when only investigating people with high creatine responsiveness.[155] There are clear differences between those who respond and those who do not, in regard to physical performance.[156] People who are creatine responsive tend to be younger, have higher muscle mass and type II muscle fiber content, but this has no correlation with dietary protein intake.[154][157] ^ Jump up to: a b c Morton RW, Murphy KT, McKellar SR, Schoenfeld BJ, Henselmans M, Helms E, Aragon AA, Devries MC, Banfield L, Krieger JW, Phillips SM (2017). "A systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression of the effect of protein supplementation on resistance training-induced gains in muscle mass and strength in healthy adults". Br J Sports Med. 52 (6): bjsports–2017–097608. doi:10.1136/bjsports-2017-097608. PMC 5867436. PMID 28698222. In patients with DM1 given a short loading phase (10.6g for ten days) followed by a 5.3g maintenance for the remainder of an 8-week trial noted that supplementation resulted in a minor improvement in strength (statistical significance only occurred since placebo deteriorated) and no significant difference was noted in self-reported perceived benefits.[565] Maintaining a 5g dosage for four months also failed to significantly improve physical performance (handgrip strength and functional tests) in people with DM1, possible related to a failure to increase muscular phosphocreatine concentrations.[566] Specifically targeted to be used by natural bodybuilders and powerlifters, Universal Nutrition Animal M-Stak is the ideal supplement for hard-gainers. Containing ingredients that help promote protein synthesis while preventing muscle breakdown, Animal M-Stak is designed to naturally maximize the muscle mass building process. Optimize your performance and strength, and overcome your plateaus with Animal M-Stak. Keep Reading » The 100% Grass-Fed Whey Protein Isolate comes in the form of powder and can be mixed with any liquid. While the protein powder can be mixed well with water, try mixing it with milk for added calories and protein. You can even add this to smoothies and baked goods to increase the protein profile. Recommended protein intake for adults is 0.8 grams per kilogram. Some athletes may need as much as 1.2-2 grams protein per kilogram. For your specific needs, always consult a registered dietitian. Yes, genetically some of us put on muscle faster than others, but even then it’s fractions of a degree, not DRASTIC sweeping differences. We tend to get this question from men or women who are so thin and have such fast metabolisms, they probably need to put on 40-50+ pounds of both fat and muscle, before they would ever even think to use the word “too bulky.” After supplementation of creatine monohydrate (loading phase, followed by 19 weeks maintenance), creatine precursors are decreased by up to 50% (loading) or 30% (maintenance), which suggests a decrease in endogenous creatine synthesis during supplementation.[38] This appears to occur through creatine’s own positive feedback and suppression of the l-arginine:glycine amidinotransferase enzyme, the rate-limiting step in creatine synthesis, as levels of intermediates before this stage are typically elevated by up to 75%.[38] Heath suggests incorporating dropsets into your training routine by immediately decreasing the weight and repping out again to failure. “Dropsets overload the muscle with shorter rest periods and increasing volume which you need to grow,” says Heath. “That overload improves your body’s abilities to utilize more nutrients, natural growth hormone, and natural testosterone into those areas and makes the supplements you take more effective.” Heath’s favorite way to do dropsets is on a pin-loaded machine since it’s faster to switch weights. In humans, studies that investigate links between serotonin and creatine supplementation find that 21 trained males, given creatine via 22.8g creatine monohydrate (20g creatine equivalent) with 35g glucose, relative to a placebo of 160g glucose, was found to reduce the perception of fatigue in hot endurance training, possibly secondary to serotonergic modulation, specifically attentuating the increase of serotonin seen with exercise (normally seen to hinder exercise capacity in the heat[233]) while possibly increasing dopaminergic activity (conversely seen to benefit activity in the heat[234]).[155] You've figured out the exercises you should be doing, but what about the number of sets and repetitions? Your decision should be based on your goals. The American College of Sports Medicine recommends 4 to 6 reps for strength and hypertrophy, 8 to 12 reps for muscular strength and 10 to 15 reps for muscular endurance. They also recommend at least one set of each exercise to fatigue although you'll find that most people perform about 2 to 3 sets of each exercise. In general: Supplementation of a loading phase of creatine has been noted to augment the increase in RBC levels of superoxide dismutase (SOD) from exercise, when measured immediately after, by 8.1%, but control groups increased to match within an hour.[299] Glutathione (normally decreases with exercise) and catalase (increases) were both unaffected,[299] and elsewhere in vitro red blood cells incubated with 3mM of creatine (within the supplemental range) is able to improve filterability (a measure of cell rheology, or fluid structure of the cell[300]) when RBC creatine was increased by 12.3% to reach 554µM.[301] This was thought to be due to reduced oxidative stress (assessed via MDA) in the red blood cells, which in the presence of 1-5mM creatine was progressively reduced by 20-41%.[301] The largest determiner of your metabolic rate is actually your total body mass. “The more cells, even fat cells, in your body, the more furnaces you have burning at any given time,” Dr. Church says. Think of it this way: It takes more juice to charge your tablet than it does to charge your phone. People who are taller and have a larger bone structure, therefore, will have a higher BMR than people who are shorter and have a slimmer build. While you can control your body mass to some extent by gaining or losing weight, you can’t change your height or your bone structure. All in all, most of a person’s BMR is determined by genetic factors, Dr. Church says. Kilduff, L. P., Georgiades, E., James, N., Minnion, R. H., Mitchell, M., Kingsmore, D., Hadjicharlambous, M., and Pitsiladis, Y. P. The effects of creatine supplementation on cardiovascular, metabolic, and thermoregulatory responses during exercise in the heat in endurance-trained humans. Int J Sport Nutr Exerc Metab 2004;14:443-460. View abstract. The reasons for differences in the effect of creatine on testosterone vs. DHT across studies are not clear, but also not mutually exclusive. A measured increase in DHT could indicate that testosterone levels were increased by creatine, but rapidly converted to DHT through a homeostatic mechanism. Differences in study subject populations, methodology, or the presence and type of concurrent exercise could also be contributing factors. At any rate, the literature collectively suggests that creatine has the general ability to cause a modest increase in androgen levels in men. If you're a beginner, just about any workout will be intense enough to increase protein synthesis. But if you've been lifting for a while, you'll build the most muscle quickest if you focus on the large muscle groups, like the chest, back, and legs. Add compound lifts like squats, deadlifts, pullups, bent-over rows, bench presses, dips, and military presses to your workout to work them the most efficiently. A: At the end of the day, the most important variable regarding weight gain or loss is calorie consumption. However, meal frequency and timing around activity can both influence workout intensity and duration thus potentially allowing for further improvements in body composition. Remember, muscle growth isn’t a pulsatile process, it doesn’t just acutely spike and then return to baseline so if there aren’t circulating amino acids within the blood stream then they’ll have to be broken down from muscle as this is the highest form of concentrated amino acids within the body. That being said, it would probably be a good idea to consume anywhere from 3-6 meals spread throughout the day depending upon your schedule and preference. Ideally, we want to stimulate anabolism through food every 3-5 hours. Beast Creature could be another good option for female athletes. It’s tasty, it contains five types of creatine, and it contains ingredients that could improve fat loss by increasing insulin sensitivity. One potential bonus is that it also has 70 percent of your daily biotin, a nutrient often included in women’s multivitamins due its purported benefits for hair and nails. The genealogy of lifting can be traced back to the beginning of recorded history[1] where humanity's fascination with physical abilities can be found among numerous ancient writings. In many prehistoric tribes, they would have a big rock they would try to lift, and the first one to lift it would inscribe their name into the stone. Such rocks have been found in Greek and Scottish castles.[2] Progressive resistance training dates back at least to Ancient Greece, when legend has it that wrestler Milo of Croton trained by carrying a newborn calf on his back every day until it was fully grown. Another Greek, the physician Galen, described strength training exercises using the halteres (an early form of dumbbell) in the 2nd century. Español: aumentar la masa muscular, Deutsch: Muskeln aufbauen, Português: Aumentar a Musculatura, Nederlands: Spieren opbouwen, Français: se muscler le corps, Русский: нарастить мышечную массу, 中文: 增长肌肉, Čeština: Jak budovat svalovou hmotu, Bahasa Indonesia: Membangun Otot, Italiano: Sviluppare Massa Muscolare, 日本語: 筋肉をつける, हिन्दी: बॉडी बनायें (Kaise Body Banaye), العربية: بناء العضلات, 한국어: 근육을 키우는 법, Tiếng Việt: Tạo Cơ bắp, ไทย: สร้างกล้ามเนื้อ, Türkçe: Nasıl Kas Yapılır One supplement, which a large body of research has proven effective in building muscle mass when combined with intensive strength training, is creatine (sold as creatine monohydrate). Creatine, a source of rapid energy, is stored in the muscles in small amounts. With creatine loading or supplementation, bodybuilders increase muscle stores of the energy-containing compound which then can be used to provide an extra boost for an intense-high-weight lifting session. Studies support that ingestion of a relatively high dose of creatine (20 to 30 grams per day for up to two weeks) increases muscle creatine stores by 10 to 30 percent and can boost muscle strength by about 10 percent when compared with resistance training alone (Rawson & Volek, 2003). Some athletes report (though research does not necessarily support) muscle cramping in response after using creatine supplements. Creatine is marketed as "nature's muscle builder" and "the most legitimate sports supplement around." Professional and amateur athletes alike are gobbling up this alleged ergogenic aid, hoping to increase their strength and performance. Creatine supplementation is claimed to increase muscle power by playing a role in the transfer of energy to help the muscle contract. Supplement labels state that "creatine is converted to phosphocreatine, which is important for short energy bursts such as sprinting and weight lifting" and that "depletion of phosphocreatine can result in muscle fatigue and fading muscle power." Claims are also made that supplementation increases muscle body mass. In regard to practical interventions, concurrent glycogen loading has been noted to increase creatine stores by 37-46% regardless of whether the tissue was exercised prior to loading phase.[176] It is important to note, however, that creatine levels in response to the creatine loading protocol were compared in one glycogen-depleted leg to the contralateral control leg, which was not exercised.[176] This does not rule out a possible systemic exercise-driven increase in creatine uptake, and the increase in creatine noted above[176] was larger than typically seen with a loading protocol (usually in the 20-25% range). Consistent with an exercise-effect, others have reported that exercise itself increases creatine uptake into muscle, reporting 68% greater creatine uptake in an exercised limb, relative to 14% without exercise.[153] A: If your goal is the largest accrual of muscle mass possible then there may be some benefit to ingesting nutrients with a period of 30-60 minutes after your workout. Does this have to be a protein shake? No, but ideally it should be a meal lower in fat to enhance the digest rate of nutrients within the gastrointestinal tract. However, if you have just eaten a mixed macronutrient meal pre-workout then you should keep in mind that that meal is still likely digesting so there’s no need to throw down the weights after your last set and rush to your locker to slam a protein shake. Magnesium-chelated creatine typically exerts the same ergogenic effects as creatine monohydrate at low doses.[78] It was created because carbohydrates tend to beneficially influence creatine metabolism and magnesium is also implicated in carbohydrate metabolism and creatine metabolism.[79][80] Magnesium chelated creatine may be useful for increasing muscle strength output with a similar potency to creatine monohydrate, but without the water weight gain, as there are noted differences, but they are statistically insignificant.[80][81] In a later study, it was found that biologically relevant concentrations (10-30mM) of creatine bind synthetic membranes with lipid compositions mimicking the inner mitochondrial membrane or plasma membrane in a concentration-dependent manner. This also conferred a degree of protection, increasing membrane stability in response to challenge from a number of destabilizing agents. Phosphocreatine was more effective than creatine in this context, although both were able to bind and stabilize membranes.[119] The muscle strength objective is pursued when you want your muscles to be effective when a high number of repetitions will be involved, or in other words when you want your muscles to be strong for a continued period of time. You'll want to use approximately 4 sets from which 10-12 reps are performed. The muscle strength objective is often used for muscles located in your back and your abdominals. The majority of studies focusing on creatine supplementation report an increase in the body’s’ creatine pool [15-17]. There is a positive relationship between muscle creatine uptake and exercise performance [17]. Volek et al [18] observed a significant increase in strength performance after 12 weeks creatine supplementation with a concurrent periodized heavy resistance training protocol. The creatine supplementation protocol consisted of a weeklong loading period of 25 g/d followed by a 5 g maintenance dose for the remainder of the training. These positive effects were attributed to an increased total creatine pool resulting in more rapid adenosine triphosphate (ATP) regeneration between resistance training sets allowing athletes to maintain a higher training intensity and improve the quality of the workouts along the entire training period. Bodybuilders may supplement their diets with protein for reasons of convenience, lower cost (relative to meat and fish products), ease of preparation, and to avoid the concurrent consumption of carbohydrates and fats. Additionally, some argue that bodybuilders, by virtue of their unique training and goals, require higher-than-average quantities of protein to support maximal muscle growth.[19][20][21][22][23][24][25] However, there is no scientific consensus for bodybuilders to consume more protein than the recommended dietary allowance.[18][26] Protein supplements are sold in ready-to-drink shakes, bars, meal replacement products (see below), bites, oats, gels and powders. Protein powders are the most popular and may have flavoring added for palatability. The powder is usually mixed with water, milk or fruit juice and is generally consumed immediately before and after exercising or in place of a meal. The sources of protein are as follows and differ in protein quality depending on their amino acid profile and digestibility: A child’s ability to regenerate high energy phosphates during high intensity exercise is less than that of an adult. Due to this, creatine supplementation may benefit the rate and use of creatine phosphate and ATP rephosporylation. However, performance in short duration high-intensity exercise can be improved through training therefore supplementation may not be necessary [54]. Syrotuik and Bell [57] investigated the physical characteristics of responder and non-responder subjects to creatine supplementation in recreationally resistance trained men with no history of CM usage. The supplement group was asked to ingest a loading dosage of 0.3 g/kg/d for 5 days. The physiological characteristics of responders were classified using Greenhaff et al [58] criterion of >20 mmol/kg dry weight increase in total intramuscular creatine and phosphocreatine and non responders as <10 mmol/kg dry weight increase, a third group labeled quasi responders were also used to classify participants who fell in between the previously mentioned groups (10-20 mmol/kg dry weight). Overall, the supplemented group showed a mean increase in total resting muscle creatine and phosphocreatine of 14.5% (from 111.12 ± 8.87 mmol/kg dry weight to 127.30 ± 9.69 mmol/kg dry weight) whilst the placebo group remained relatively unaffected (from 115.70 ± 14.99 mmol/kg dry weight to 111.74 ± 12.95 mmol/kg dry weight). However when looking at individual cases from the creatine group the results showed a variance in response. From the 11 males in the supplemented group, 3 participants were responders (mean increase of 29.5 mmol/kg dry weight or 27%), 5 quasi responders (mean increase of 14.9 mmol/kg dry weight or 13.6%) and 3 non-responders (mean increase of 5.1 mmol/kg dry weight or 4.8%). Using muscle biopsies of the vastus lateralis, a descending trend for groups and mean percentage fiber type was observed. Responders showed the greatest percentage of type II fibers followed by quasi responders and non-responders. The responder and quasi responder groups had an initial larger cross sectional area for type I, type IIa and type IIx fibers. The responder group also had the greatest mean increase in the cross sectional area of all the muscle fiber types measured (type I, type IIa and type IIx increased 320, 971 and 840 μm2 respectively) and non-responders the least (type I, type IIa and type IIx increased 60, 46 and 78 μm2 respectively). There was evidence of a descending trend for responders to have the highest percentage of type II fibers; furthermore, responders and quasi responders possessed the largest initial cross sectional area of type I, IIa and IIx fibers. Responders were seen to have the lowest initial levels of creatine and phosphocreatine. This has also been observed in a previous study [17] which found that subjects whose creatine levels were around 150 mmol/Kg dry mass did not have any increments in their creatine saturation due to creatine supplementation, neither did they experience any increases of creatine uptake, phosphocreatine resynthesis and performance. This would indicate a limit maximum size of the creatine pool. A: Start with the calculations above but don’t be afraid to adjust up or down. Your metabolism and physiology will adapt to more food by trying to maintain homeostasis and regulate your bodyweight. Some may have to increase more than others but the number on the scale doesn’t lie. If it’s not going up, then you probably need to increase your calories.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1179
__label__cc	0.551813	0.448187	Main page » Fragrances » Guerlain There are perfume manufacturers - and there is Guerlain, the perfumer. More than 626 fragrances have been created since the Company was founded in 1828 by Pierre-Francois-Pascal Guerlain. This Perfume and Vinegar manufacturer laid down a golden rule that still holds good today. Unforgettable fragrances that define the ultimate in quality-only perfection can be good enough for Guerlain. Which explains why its products are so enduring. Perfume creates a glimpse of a dream in our most lucid thoughts. For a fragrance to be great, it must first and foremost be original and easy to remember, have a harmonious volume, a lasting effect, a personality, clarity and strength. You might say it is developed like a symphony. Just like a musician who has to know the notes before harmonising the chords, the perfumer has to memorise the different olfactory notes and their combinations. This search for fragrances is endless, since nature itself offers and innumerable choice. But a perfume can never be considered as a simple mixture, it is a composition that can become a genuine work of art. L’art & La Matière Collection 2005 was the year in which Guerlain’s exclusive and extraordinary perfume collection L'Art et la Matière was born. The idea behind these noble fragrances was to exalt and celebrate the most exceptional of raw materials in the world. Each Eau de Parfum in the collection has an "overdose" of a very specific raw material that has been balanced with other elements to attain the status of a true work of art. Each charming fragrance in the collection contains within itself a series of contrasts and tensions, the interplay between which give rise to powerful emotions and feelings in the wearer. Unusual, beautiful, and moving compositions. Please note: Currently, the Guerlain L'Art et la Matière collection of fragrances may not be purchased through the online shop, but they are available to purchase through our bricks and mortar boutique, namely the "Kurfürsten Parfümerie" in P7, 24 in 68161 Mannheim. Please do not hesitate to contact us for further information and mail orders by e-mail (fragensieuns@essenza-nobile.de) or by telephone (+49 621 - 1789404 0). Guerlain - L'art et La Matière - Angélique Noire Guerlain - L'art et La Matière - Cruel Gardénia Guerlain - L'art et La Matière - Cuir Beluga Guerlain - L'art et La Matière - Joyeuse Tubéreuse Guerlain - L'art et La Matière - Néroli Outrenoir Guerlain - L'art et La Matière - Rose Barbare Guerlain - L'art et La Matière - Spiritueuse Double Vanille Guerlain - L'art et La Matière - Tonka Impériale Annick Ménardo Daniela Andrier Delphine Jelk Jean-Paul Guerlain Olivier Polge Randa Hammami Thierry Wasser	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1180
__label__cc	0.590449	0.409551	Review of the Bob Sheppard Quartet at Vitello’s, Feb 25, 2010 February 26, 2010 1 By Eric Jensen Last night I caught Bob Sheppard’s quartet upstairs at Vitello’s in Studio City. Bob is one of the best saxophonists in Los Angeles and this was a particularly exciting band; Steve Cardenas on guitar, Jeff D’Angelo on bass, and the remarkable Steve Hass on drums. Bob is a versatile player with a beautiful, rich and detailed sound. He has absorbed the music of the jazz masters as well as pop styles, and created a strong personal voice. He burns without overwhelming the band, leaving plenty of space for musical conversation. The interaction between these guys was remarkable. It was a pleasure to watch them listening to each other. At times the exchanges between Sheppard and Cardenas were reminiscent of the classic Sonny Rollins – Jim Hall quartet. Bob pulled up a mix of standards, originals and lesser heard jazz tunes including two delightful Thelonious Monk compositions; “Green Chimneys” and “San Francisco Holiday”. Of particular note was his gorgeous rendition of the Jimmy McHugh ballad, “Say It (Over and Over Again)” perhaps best known as recorded by John Coltrane on the classic “Ballads” album. I first heard Steve Cardenas many years ago in the San Francisco Bay Area when we were both playing with trumpeter Jeff Beal’s bands. Steve’s playing knocked me out back then and today he has become one of the premier voices in modern jazz guitar, performing with a wide range of artists including: Paul Motian, Norah Jones, John Patitucci and Ben Allison. He is an esteemed educator and is in town for a guest semester at CalArts. Besides his brilliant guitar playing, Steve is an expert on the music of Thelonious Monk. His book, The Thelonious Monk Fakebook is the definitive collection of Monk’s compositions. Steve’s playing is fluid and musical, moving seamlessly from muted two and three note voicings into perfectly voice-lead chords and flowing single note lines. He was always listening, responding to the music around him, developing motifs, and continually surprising with his ideas. His tone was warm with just a bit of edge. He has a slightly bluesy, behind-the-beat time feel which compliments his melodic phrasing and contrapuntal lines. I had not heard Steve Hass play live before but was immediately enthralled. He has enormous energy, rock solid time, and swings like a master, incorporating Cuban, African and Middle Eastern influences without ever losing the groove. At times he played with his hands, brushes or mallets (in combination), moving back and forth in response to the other musicians. Steve is an exciting inventive player, not afraid to take chances. He grooves hard but never overpowers the rest of the band. He has worked with a myriad of top artists including The Manhattan Transfer, John Scofield, Art Garfunkel, Billy Joel, George Benson and Ravi Coltrane. It was a real treat to discover this fantastic drummer. Jeff D’Angelo is one of the most sought after bass players in Los Angeles and has a longstanding musical relationship with Bob Sheppard. He sounded particularly good last night, holding down the center of this four-way conversation. His sound was rich and warm, he contributed some excellent solos and really hooked up with Steve Hass. The folks at Vitello’s have created a comfortable, intimate environment for this great music. They are aggressively booking outstanding musicians and have established several regular events including John Pisano’s Guitar Night and Larry Golding’s Organ Night, both featuring a revolving door of great guest artists. The Tiramisu is good too! Keep your eyes and ears out for this quartet. If you have a chance, check out Steve Cardenas while he’s in town, and please support Vitello’s and live music in LA. CategoryLos Angeles Music Reviews TagsBob Sheppard Jeff D'Angelo LA Events LA Music Steve Cardenas Steve Hass Vitello's Tom Tallitsch says: Hi Eric! I apologize for the late reply to your last message on my radio blog. Thanks so much man! It really means a lot. I really dig your stuff. Great insight. Man I really dig Steve Cardenas with Bob Sheppard. Awesome interplay. Huge ears. I linked you onto my site. Hopefully people will check your stuff out. Tom Tallitsch http://www.tomtallitschblog.com/	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1186
__label__cc	0.563089	0.436911	Home / Business / ESAF Small Finance Bank enters strategic tie-up with Kinetic Green Energy ESAF Small Finance Bank enters strategic tie-up with Kinetic Green Energy Admin 10th January 2018 Business Leave a comment 310 Views Chennai: Jan 10, 2018: ESAF SMALL FINANCE BANK has entered a strategic MoU with Kinetic Green Energy and Power Solutions Pvt Ltd (Manufacturers of Eco Friendly Electric Rickshaws) at Pune for the financing of E Rickshaws in their domain operations spread in 13 States of India. Ms. Sulajja Firodia Motwani (Mananging Director KGEPSL) and Mr George Thomas (Executive Vice President, ESAF Small Finance Bank) has signed the MoU on Tuesday, 9th January 2018 in Pune in presence of Mr Hyder Ali Khan Vice President, KGEPSL) Mr Reji K Daniel (Head, Sustainable Banking, ESAF Small Finance Bank) and Mr. S Jagtap (General Manager, KGEPSL). “Urgent efforts are to be taken for stewardship of our planet earth. Clean Air has become crucial to all cities. Non pollutive mobility is the need of the hour for sustainable cities and the MoU is an embodiment of the bank’s commitment for work those who promote clean energy “said Mr George Thomas (EVP, ESAF Bank). KGEPSL has a variety of E Rickshaws – both for passenger applications as well as commercial use. The bank will follow the JLG model with weekly instalments that will bring forth more discipline and ease of repayments for the potential loan takers. ESAF Small Finance Bank is currently spread in 13 states of India with a customer base of over 16 Lacs, mostly women from lower strata of society, now coming forward to the main stream of the society through the micro enterprises etc. that they run for livelihoods. The MoU is strategic as this step will boost self-employment plans for several youths and women with green businesses. KGEPSL and ESAF SFB will also partner with NGOs for the promotion of these in several cities, starting with a clean energy loan mela in Nagpur shortly. About ESAF Small Finance Bank The journey of ESAF began in a small house named ‘Little’ at Thrissur in 1992. Contrary to what the name sounds, ESAF Society was launched with a bigger vision of sustainable holistic transformation of the poor and the marginalized. The success of Grameen bank in Bangladesh reinforced the vision of K. Paul Thomas the Founder and Managing Director of ESAF. In 1995, he launched Micro Enterprises Development (MED) services and it resulted in the formation of ESAF Microfinance and Investments Pvt. Ltd., in 2008. The increased focus on microfinance was inevitable as the founder was clear in his understanding of the importance of financial component in holistic economic development of the poor. Gradually, ESAF Microfinance earned its place among the top ten Microfinance institutions in India. In 2015, the Reserve Bank of India, the financial regulator in the country has granted in-principle license to ESAF to launch a Small Finance bank. ESAF Small Finance Bank was one amongst the ten NBFCs to receive an ‘in principle’ approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to set up a Small Finance Bank in the private sector. In November 2016, the final license was issued by the RBI. ESAF Small Finance Bank was incorporated on May 05, 2016, with its registered office in Thrissur. Previous Amazon Prime Video and Abundantia Entertainment set for the launch of India’s latest Amazon Prime Original – Breathe Next Residential launches hit decadal low in Chennai in H2 2017: Knight Frank India ~Lackof A-grade office stock results in a sharp drop in absorptions~ Vinit Sambre takes over as Head of Equities at DSP BlackRock Investment Managers Pvt. Ltd. Youngster Kabaddi Club from Marianathapuramwins district level tournament atAsian Paints Tractor Emulsion’s Bharat Super League With Rice Fiesta, McDonald’s brings you what you love the most: Rice Meals SRI SAIRAM ENGINEERING COLLEGE 18th GRADUATION DAY Silent fans take Orient Electric to No. 1 position in the premium segment	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1188
__label__cc	0.673733	0.326267	U.S. Markets close in 5 hrs 6 mins Is ASML Holding N.V. (ASML) A Good Stock To Buy ? Abigail Fisher Insider Monkey• June 23, 2019 As we already know from media reports and hedge fund investor letters, many hedge funds lost money in fourth quarter, blaming macroeconomic conditions and unpredictable events that hit several sectors, with technology among them. Nevertheless, most investors decided to stick to their bullish theses and recouped their losses by the end of the first quarter. We get to see hedge funds' thoughts towards the market and individual stocks by aggregating their quarterly portfolio movements and reading their investor letters. In this article, we will particularly take a look at what hedge funds think about ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML). Is ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML) a healthy stock for your portfolio? The smart money is getting less optimistic. The number of bullish hedge fund bets were cut by 1 in recent months. Our calculations also showed that ASML isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds. Hedge funds' reputation as shrewd investors has been tarnished in the last decade as their hedged returns couldn't keep up with the unhedged returns of the market indices. Our research has shown that hedge funds' large-cap stock picks indeed failed to beat the market between 1999 and 2016. However, we were able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that outperformed the market by 40 percentage points since May 2014 through May 30, 2019 (see the details here). We were also able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that'll significantly underperform the market. We have been tracking and sharing the list of these stocks since February 2017 and they lost 30.9% through May 30, 2019. That's why we believe hedge fund sentiment is an extremely useful indicator that investors should pay attention to. Jeffrey Talpins Element Capital Let's take a look at the new hedge fund action encompassing ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML). What have hedge funds been doing with ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML)? Heading into the second quarter of 2019, a total of 15 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a change of -6% from the fourth quarter of 2018. By comparison, 13 hedge funds held shares or bullish call options in ASML a year ago. So, let's check out which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves. ASML_june2019 According to Insider Monkey's hedge fund database, Ken Fisher's Fisher Asset Management has the largest position in ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML), worth close to $371.8 million, amounting to 0.5% of its total 13F portfolio. On Fisher Asset Management's heels is Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies, with a $48.2 million position; less than 0.1%% of its 13F portfolio is allocated to the stock. Some other members of the smart money that are bullish include D. E. Shaw's D E Shaw, Ken Griffin's Citadel Investment Group and Matthew Hulsizer's PEAK6 Capital Management. Since ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML) has faced a decline in interest from the entirety of the hedge funds we track, it's easy to see that there was a specific group of fund managers who sold off their positions entirely heading into Q3. It's worth mentioning that Simon Sadler's Segantii Capital dropped the biggest stake of the "upper crust" of funds monitored by Insider Monkey, valued at about $47.1 million in stock. David Costen Haley's fund, HBK Investments, also dropped its stock, about $8.2 million worth. These bearish behaviors are interesting, as total hedge fund interest was cut by 1 funds heading into Q3. Let's now take a look at hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML). These stocks are Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:BKNG), Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:CHTR), Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT), and Bristol Myers Squibb Company (NYSE:BMY). This group of stocks' market caps resemble ASML's market cap. [table] Ticker, No of HFs with positions, Total Value of HF Positions (x1000), Change in HF Position BKNG,77,5667848,-7 CHTR,67,7391525,3 CAT,53,3394463,-7 BMY,71,4098599,13 Average,67,5138109,0.5 [/table] View table here if you experience formatting issues. As you can see these stocks had an average of 67 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $5138 million. That figure was $504 million in ASML's case. Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:BKNG) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) is the least popular one with only 53 bullish hedge fund positions. Compared to these stocks ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML) is even less popular than CAT. Our calculations showed that top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 6.2% in Q2 through June 19th and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by nearly 3 percentage points. A small number of hedge funds were also right about betting on ASML, though not to the same extent, as the stock returned 5.9% during the same time frame and outperformed the market as well. Disclosure: None. This article was originally published at Insider Monkey. 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__label__cc	0.534865	0.465135	U.S.-Listed South Korea ETF Isn’t So Hyped About Trump-Kim Meet ETF Trends June 12, 2018 This article was originally published on ETFTrends.com. U.S. investors aren't so enamored with the South Korea ETF as President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. U.S. investors didn't show much faith in Trump as investors pulled cash out of EWY, the largest U.S.-listed South Korea-related ETF. The iShares MSCI South Korea Capped ETF (EWY) experienced $33 million in net outflows over the past week, according to XTF data. EWY was down 1.1% Tuesday on relatively subdued trading activity, with 1.7 million shares changing hands, compared to its 2.6 million daily average. South Korean officials are optimistic that the meeting between the U.S. and North Korea will help pave the way to an end to the world's last remaining cold war and the division across the Korean peninsula, reports Caroline Wilson for Bloomberg. However, there is no real concrete resolution as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted that sanctions against North Korea will remain in place until the reclusive state abandons its nuclear weapons. ETFs to Play Geopolitical Sports Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Eric Balchunas argued that traders look to single-country ETFs, like EWY, as a way to play global events like a "geopolitical sports book.” “This move smells like one big investor because there wasn’t a ton of volume for the fund on Friday,” Balchunas told Bloomberg, referring to the recent large money outflow out of EWY. “But there’s a risk because if the meeting is perceived to be very good and there’s a lot of progress made, that could ultimately lift the ETF. This will be the fund to watch.” Related: Donald Trump-Kim Jong Un Summit in 60 Seconds However, South Korean investors were more hopeful of the Trump and Kim meet. The South Korea-listed Samsung Kodex 200 Securities ETF, which follows the Kospi 200 Index, experienced $471 million in net inflows for the week ended June 9, reports Eric Lam for Bloomberg. On Tuesday, President Trump and North Korea leader Kim Jong Un meeting ended in a joint agreement. A signed document includes a pledge from Kim to rid the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons, and Trump revealed a halt to U.S. military exercises in South Korea, BBC reports. For more information on South Korean markets, visit our South Korea category. POPULAR ARTICLES FROM ETFTRENDS.COM Tom Lydon Featured on Capital Allocators With Ted Seides Podcast Bitcoin: More Speculators, Fewer Investors 5 Ways to Improve Your Financial Decisions 6 Hacks to Automate Your Financial Life Tom Lydon Makes the Investopedia 100 READ MORE AT ETFTRENDS.COM > Trump news - live: President escalates racism row with fresh tweets, as impeachment calls grow Facebook Stock Prices Surge After Receiving $5 Billion Fine The Latest: Democrats plan vote on resolution against Trump 7 ETFs With Oodles of Diversification	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1194
__label__wiki	0.72014	0.72014	Ventas' (VTR) Q4 FFO & Revenues Top Estimates, NOI Up Y/Y Zacks February 8, 2019 Ventas, Inc. VTR reported fourth-quarter 2018 normalized funds from operations (FFO) of 96 cents, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 95 cents. However, the figure comes in lower than the year-ago tally of $1.03. The company witnessed higher rental income from its office portfolio. However, lower rental income from triple net leased portfolio impacted top-line growth. Ventas posted revenues of $923.3 million, which surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $915.4 million. Further, the revenue figure compares favorably with the year-ago number of $895.3 million. For full-year 2018, normalized FFO per share came in at $4.07, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate by a whisker. The figure, however,declined 22% year over year. Revenues for full-year 2018 improved 4.8% year over year to $3.7 billion. The revenue figure came in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate. Quarter in Detail For the fourth quarter, same-store cash net operating income (NOI) growth for the total property portfolio (1,064 assets) inched up 0.2% year over year. Segment wise, same-store cash NOI for the triple net leased portfolio grew 2.1%, the office portfolio rose 1.9%, while seniors-housing operating portfolio registered a decline of 3.5%. During the reported quarter, Ventas completed the acquisition of a senior housing community in Manhattan — Brookdale Battery Park — for $194 million. In addition, the company combined and extended its leases with Brookdale till 2026. Consequently, the company’s triple-net senior housing portfolio has a weighted average lease term of more than eight years. Ventas exited fourth-quarter 2018 with cash and cash equivalents of around $72.3 million, down from $86.1 million as of the prior-quarter end. Ventas provided 2019 normalized FFO per share outlook of $3.75-$3.85. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the same is pinned at $3.90. The 2019 Nareit FFO is expected in the range of $3.70-$3.82. During 2018, Ventas made strategic efforts to expand its university-based research and innovation development pipeline to more than $1.5 billion. Furthermore, the company unlocked value of its assets through opportunistic disposals and used proceeds to acquire high-quality assets. Nonetheless, softness in the seniors-housing operating fundamentals continues to hamper the company’s bottom-line performance. Going forward as well, elevated supply of seniors housing assets in certain markets is likely to impede rent growth in the near term. Ventas, Inc. Price, Consensus and EPS Surprise Ventas, Inc. Price, Consensus and EPS Surprise \| Ventas, Inc. Quote Currently, Ventas carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here. Performance of Other REITs Duke Realty Corporation’s DRE fourth-quarter 2018 core FFO per share of 35 cents came in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate. Moreover, the figure came in a penny ahead of the prior-year figure of 30 cents. Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. ARE reported fourth-quarter 2018 adjusted FFO of $1.68 per share, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by a whisker. Boston Properties Inc.’s BXP fourth-quarter 2018 FFO per share of $1.59 also missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.68. The figure, however, came in 7% higher than the prior-year tally. Note: Anything related to earnings presented in this write-up represent funds from operations (FFO) — a widely used metric to gauge the performance of REITs. The Hottest Tech Mega-Trend of All Last year, it generated $8 billion in global revenues. By 2020, it's predicted to blast through the roof to $47 billion. Famed investor Mark Cuban says it will produce "the world's first trillionaires," but that should still leave plenty of money for regular investors who make the right trades early. See Zacks' 3 Best Stocks to Play This Trend >> Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (ARE) : Free Stock Analysis Report Duke Realty Corporation (DRE) : Free Stock Analysis Report United Airlines Gains on Q2 Earnings Beat and Outlook Dow Jones Leads Sluggish Stock Market; Banks Not Much Help	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1195
__label__wiki	0.55203	0.55203	Mountain West announces 11 Friday Football Games By Kevin Kelley - April 10, 2014 The Mountain West Conference has announced that 11 football games in 2014 have been moved to Friday nights for television. Each broadcast will be televised by either CBS Sports Network or one of three ESPN Networks. Additional television broadcasts will be announced at a later date, but the MWC expects their remaining conference-controlled games to be played on Saturdays. Note: On May 14, the MWC made a change. NIU at UNLV was reverted to Saturday, Sept. 13, while Fresno State at UNLV was moved from Oct. 11 to Friday, Oct. 10. 2014 MWC FRIDAY FOOTBALL SCHEDULE Friday, Sept. 5 Washington State at Nevada- 7:30 p.m. PT, ESPN or ESPN2 Friday, Sept. 26 Fresno State at New Mexico – 6 p.m. MT, ESPN or ESPN2 Friday, Oct. 3 San Diego State at Fresno State – 7 p.m. PT, CBSSN Fresno State at ULNV – 7 p.m. PT, CBSSN San Diego State at New Mexico – 7:30 p.m. MT, ESPNU Fresno State at Boise State – 6 p.m. MT, ESPN BYU at Boise State – 7 p.m. MT, ESPN or ESPN2 Friday, Nov. 7 Utah State at Wyoming – 6 p.m. MT, ESPN2 Friday, Nov. 21 Air Force at San Diego State – 6:30 p.m. PT, CBSSN San José State at Utah State – 7:30 p.m. MT, ESPN2 Colorado State at Air Force – 1:30 p.m. MT, CBSSN View Comments (16) bronco says: What is there to say? None of these games have any interest outside of the Mountain West. The BYU vs. Boise State is probably the best of the lot and it is likely that neither will be even ranked by game time. Friday night used to left to high school games but with the influence of TV money and the needs of the poorer conferences like the Mountain West, MAC, CUSA and the Sun Belt the almighty dollar triumphs. The back to back games at Boise are the only 2 that have a chance of being a sellout. Chet Carney says: If you do not want the recruits to attend games just say so. Playing on Fridays means no recruits because they play on Friday as well. If there was going to be any high school interest in any mwc football there are 11 times they can not attend. Brillant. In trying to compete against SEC ACC PAC12, BIG 10 BIG 12 we are eliminating a source of future success. Stick with SATURDAY GAMES asthat is traditionlly COLLEGE FOOTBALL DAY In reality the MWC competes against the MAC, CUSA and Sun Belt. other than Boise and Fresno, the MWC teams only get 12,000 to 25,000 for most of their games. They are mostly losing money on football and tv money is their mothers milk. Boise to Men says: Last I checked we built our program playing on Fridays and Thursdays. If we play @ 8pm Mountain, that is 10pm EST – East Coast HS games are over at that time. ESPN also does the rebroadcast after the game. So at 10PM PST the game is on again for a new set of recruits. Recruiting is all about exposure. If you are on ESPN 10 times per year, kids care. They don’t care if you play every Saturday but are only on tv once a year when you play ‘Bama or USC. Boise will be just fine. Struggling programs who need the money play these type of games with regularity. Established, successful programs play on Saturdays. If Boise thinks that appealing to East coast insomniacs is the way to strive for recognition, so be it. Unfortunately, Boise is doomed to remain in the MWC, so go along with what those struggling programs do to make a few bucks. The Pac12 is not interested in them and neither is the Big12. A small population and geographic isolation insures Boise will be in the MWC for a long, long time. Having a tiny stadium seating less than 37,000 that Boise is unable to sellout does not help. That is a major reason for the 12 year series with BYU as BYU is the only nearby school that travels well and will put fannies in seats at Bronco Stadium, Wyoming, Hawaii, New Mexico and San Jose sure do not. bronco, Given your stance, I am curious what team you follow… Obviously to be on this website you are a football fanatic, so who is your college team? Bill (the one that's commenting for years not the newbie) said says: Does it matter what team bronco follows. His comment is spot on in any case. As for the Friday games. if I had to guess their three most watched games this season; I would have to say they will be the ole Miss game and the two Friday games. Very few fans outside the home markets would watch Boise/Fresno on a Saturday when it is up against the major conferences on other channels. Faq Yoo says: Bill, you’re a f’n dihk. You are missing the point. Happy to explain it to you, since bronco has gone silent…who is your team? Dear Boise, since you are interested I follow two teams Boise and Washington. It pains me that all of the progress that Boise made over the past 15 years in building up their program has run into the proverbial wall. Being mired in the MWC, which with the departure of BYU, TCU and Utah is more like the WAC on steroids is as good as Boise can do. Boise has improved their OOC schedule particularily begining in 2019 with the likes of Florida State. The Kellen Moore era is over, Coach Petersen is gone and attendance has slipped along with a meaningful stadium expansion project (there is no demand or money for such a thing). MWC titles and MAACO bowl trips are as good as it is going to be for the next several years. This not a complaint or a dig, it is accepting reality considering the position Boise finds themselves in. Jinzo says: I think bronco is narrow minded and out of touch. Recruits are going to find you no matter what time you play. High schools,especially the ones that matter,are now playing all week long,just not on Fridays anymore. The slate of games is pretty attractive,with the San Jose State-Utah state game being the highlight for me anyways. Falcon says: I’m in Atlanta , and I love watching Boise and Fresno. Glad Boise will be back in the Dome for the kickoff game in August. I bet they knock off Ole Miss !!!! Johnny Rebel says: Kellen Moore and Chris Petersen are gone. This is a different Boise team. They are Mountain West soft. Look @ last year getting pounded by Washington, BYU and Oregon State-none of whom made the top 25. Boise will be lucky to lose by less than 14. brentano says: I actually love Friday games, it’s a great way to start out the weekend. Bronco is right in that MTN West type teams seem to get pushed around by the TV networks. However, it does allow them to get their team on national TV, which is great for recruiting, and allows them to get a TV payout when they might not otherwise. I don’t see many down sides from scheduling Friday games. liberal says: Boise will roll Ole Miss and their time warp of a nickname and fan base. Just like they rolled Washington, BYU and Oregon State? Let us hope for better! I am also worried about UConn and the game with BYU. It seems as some of our Boise bretheren look @ this team through rose colored glasses. These teams are not Southern Miss and UT Martin. The notion of an unbeaten season has basis in reality. 3-4 losses would be ok. 2 losses would be great.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1203
__label__cc	0.680098	0.319902	Spring Time in Marbury Country Park, 19th April » February 28th, 2014 \| Author: The Friends of Anderton and Marbury 5th It was cold, wet and windy, but Jim, Connor and I had a bonfire on the far field. The newspaper and cardboard soon started to blow across the field. To make things more difficult the rain came down even harder. We anchored the cardboard with some of the kindling and tucked the driest of the paper in between. We didn’t light it with much confidence, but miraculously it caught fire. The strong wind helped to whip up the flames. We piled on the hawthorn and forgot about the rain. Everything was burning by lunchtime. When I sat down I realised just how wet I was! Dave was kind enough to give me an inside job, casting an eye over the Northwich Woodlands website. 6th Jim had a badly swollen finger, probably as a result of handling blackthorn yesterday, so he stayed at home. Dave asked me to sort out the noticeboards at Anderton. I took everything off the one next to the car park, except for FoAM’s next event. I opened up the board by the canal, but I struggled to extricate the panel holding the posters. I pulled, pushed and twisted it, but it it had become too wet and swollen. I managed to get it half out, but it jammed. I decided that if I ever got it out, I was never going to get it back in again. At the risk of splitting it, with a bit more force out it came. I closed the board and chucked the panel in the car along with the notices, ready to sort out back in the cabin. I left the panel in the workshop for the attention of the woodworkers. Dave and I sorted out the faded and out-of-date posters. I switched on the laminator to prepare new items. The first one was successful, but the second disappeared into the machine and, even after dismantling it, Chris could find no sign of the paper and laminating pouch. It was not a good day and there are no photos! 12th It was very wet. Jim and I took Out and About booklets and Explorer Guides to Northwich Library following a request that Chris had received. We returned to Marbury to join the other volunteers removing birch saplings from the area that suffered a brine spill several years ago. The plan is to retain it as a glade attracting bird species not seen elsewhere in the park. It rained all morning and by lunchtime we were very wet. We didn’t need any persuading to down tools and return to the cabin. We could hear the increasing wind from inside the steamed up cabin. When the decision was made to venture out again, I decided to come home. The height of the storm came in the early evening. 13th We awoke to clear skies so after the storm it was calm. By the time I arrived at 9.30am Chris and Connor had already started making the park accessible by sawing and moving trees on Marbury Lane. Throughout the day a team of eight joined Chris on a tour of the Woodlands to find fallen and dangerous trees. We had to wait while Chris got to work with the chain saw and then we dragged the branches clear and the ‘strong men’ lifted the heavier pieces of timber out of the way. In a couple of places, where the paths were damaged, we could only warn of the damage created by uprooted trees with hazard tape. 27th Elna and I prepared to turn ourselves into scrubbers once more. We negotiated with contractors working on the new Anderton footpath for our space around the first bench. We used wire brushes, lots of water and elbow grease to remove twelve months of accumulated algae, most of which seemed to have transferred as a slimy coating onto our gloves. Bench number two was close to those installing the upturned barrow of salt. We left both benches to dry over lunch. Jim and I returned with wood preservative and treated them. There was time then to observe the final stage of the installing of the sculpture. Dave looked as if he was attempting delivery of a newborn barrow at one point. Those who had been involved were rightly pleased with the results and we’re looking forward to the completion of the Anderton footpath project.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1207
__label__cc	0.732643	0.267357	Food & Beverage Laundries Food Processing Laundries Deepwater and Ultra-Deepwater Our suppliers are held to global fundamental principles of human dignity. Our Ethical Sourcing Standards are the foundation of our global supply chain initiative, requiring our direct suppliers to protect the health, safety and human rights of their associates. We will not conduct business with suppliers who do not support the fundamental principles of human dignity and rights of workers to fair and equitable treatment. Driving Customer Impact How We Lead Investing Where It Matters Sustainability Goals and Performance Impact Through Stewardship The Exponential Value: eROI eROI Counter Previous and Translated Sustainability Reports Globally Harmonized Systems GHS FAQ How to Read a GHS SDS Abiding by Ethical Sourcing Standards Suppliers must meet our standards regarding forced labor, child labor, health and safety in the workplace, fair pay, harassment, diversity and ethics, and environmental policies. We require that our suppliers identify and act swiftly to eliminate any unacceptable conditions or practices in their facilities. We base our supplier requirements on international standards including the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Conventions of the International Labour Organization, including its Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. Verification. In order to evaluate and address risks of human trafficking and slavery in our supply chains, Ecolab has developed a detailed supplier ethical assessment that our top suppliers must complete in order to verify compliance with Ecolab's ethical sourcing requirements. Ecolab has required our top suppliers in the chemical, packaging, equipment and contract manufacturing categories to complete the assessment, and we continue to expand the number and scope of suppliers required to complete the management practices and specific performance related to protection of employees' human rights and prevention and elimination of trafficking and slavery. Ecolab does not currently conduct on-site audits of suppliers related to trafficking and slavery in supply chains, but is evaluating whether to expand its existing assessment program to ensure compliance with trafficking and slavery standards. Certification. Ecolab requires all suppliers to comply with applicable government regulations, as well as with Ecolab policies and procedures. We incorporated a certification requirement to that effect into our supplier ethical assessment in 2012. Accountability. Ecolab's employees are held accountable for ensuring we meet our standards regarding slavery and trafficking as expressed in Ecolab's Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct requires employees and contractors to engage in ethical source selection. It also makes clear that compliance with applicable government regulations and Company policies and procedures is required of all Ecolab suppliers, agents and consultants. Training. Ecolab provides training to our supply chain and purchasing employees, as well as to our suppliers, regarding Ecolab's ethical sourcing policies and procedures. In 2014, we finalized a process for managing conflict minerals (tin, tungsten, tantalum and gold—collectively known as 3TG) in our supply chain and filed our first Conflict Minerals Report for the 2013 reporting year as required by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Our conflict minerals management infrastructure established in 2014 includes robust supplier disclosure and procurement management systems. In subsequent years we have implemented a number of process improvements, including enhanced supplier engagement and further refinement of the scope of materials to review. Our scoping work identified the equipment portion of our supply chain as the nearly exclusive source of the potential for conflict minerals and therefore, in the limited cases where we put equipment into commerce, we have established a process to efficiently provide a 3TG disclosure to customers to facilitate their own SEC reporting. In response to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Section 1502, approved by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in August 2012. Ecolab has developed and adopted an official Conflict Minerals policy outlining our company commitment and expectations for our suppliers. We are a member of RMI. For more information about the initiative visit www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org/. Ecolab Global Headquarters Office of Corporate Sustainability 1 Ecolab Place Submit your comments and suggestions via the form, and our Corporate Sustainability Team, based in St. Paul, will assist. Case Reason	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1215
__label__wiki	0.643629	0.643629	“Believers cannot be without Miraj and Miraj cannot be without Masjid Al-Aqsa” NEWS CENTER - The president of the Religious Affairs of Turkiye, says that the Muslims cannot be without Miraj and Miraj cannot be without Masjid al-Aqsa, said that the establishment of security and peace in the geography of Islam where under atrocity is only possible with the values of Miraj to be adopted. Religious Affairs President Mehmet Görmez, who published a message on Miraj Night, said that “Establishment of confidence, peace, security and liberty in the Islamic geography where war and persecution are taking place, will be possible if Muslims adopt the values of miracles.” Director of Religious Affairs, Görmez published a message related to Miraj Night. Reminded that the night on 23rd April Sunday to Sunday Miraj Night will be performed, Görmez wished that the night to strengthen the faith in the hearts and the secure in the lands. He congratulated the night of Miraj to the nation, the ummah and the humanity world, and all believers. Saying that the Night of Miraj; was a solacement for Prophet Muhammad while he was passing through days full of sadness and sorrow. He said that Muhammad was accepted in the presence of Allah and added, “Miraj; is the journey of our beloved Prophet from Masjid al-Haram to Masjid al-Aqsa with the permission of Allah and to see the ayah of eternal power from there. Miraj is the defense of the sacred ties between Mecca and Jerusalem, is the name of approaching to Allah at every step. Miraj is a struggle to glorify, to reach realm of meaning by moving away from matter, to turn from slyness to divine.” “The deep meaning of the Miraj should be remembered again in the present day when mankind has lost faith, compassion, love, loss of trust, lost self and identity, and in the day when he suffocated in the vortex of interest and enmity. The believer must be aware that the only way of glorification is to become a slave to Allah, and that he will not be able to reach ultimate union if he sacrifice his beliefs and virtues for the sake of property, authority, position. “Miraj was the journey to the sky in the past, today continues to our inner space, our inner world,” said Görmez and added, “Miraj is the road that connects Mecca to Jerusalem, which bonds these holy cities in the heart of all of us today. The Prophet Abraham's call for tawhid, unity, brotherhood and worship while building the Kaaba, today must turn into the resurrection, the solidarity and freedom for Aqsa in the Ummah. It must not be forgotten that the believer cannot be without the Miraj, and Miraj cannot be without Masjid al-Aqsa.” (Fırat Arslan - ILKHA) Tags Mehmet Görmez President of Religious Affairs message Miraj Night Zilan massacre Tens of thousands of Muslim Kurds were killed in 1930 in Zilan Creek in Erciş, district of Van, an eastern province of Turkey. Zilan massacre Van Erciş republic Muslim Kurdish people Dersim sabiha gökçen	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1218
__label__cc	0.732107	0.267893	Mauritius: The Mauritian Avenport investment group signed an agreement with the Chinese group Ruixing for the production of fresh milk in China Han Rui, Vice President, Ruixing Group Han Tianhua, General Manager, Investment Banking Dept, Ruixing Group Yu Qianming, Project Manager, Shanghai Challenge Co. The Mauritian Avenport investment group that manages the dairy farm in Salazie in the North of the island via the company Agreenculture Holdings, with a daily production of 3,500 liters of fresh pasteurized milk and rich in protein, essential vitamins and minerals, concluded on Friday a strategic agreement with the Chinese group Ruixing * for the production of fresh milk in China and the countries of East Africa. This agreement covers the participation of the group Ruixing in the activities the milk house belonging to the Mauritian group Avenport well as the creation of a joint venture. The new resulting structure will aim to develop dairy farms in East Africa on the model of the Salazie farm as well as technical assistance in the creation of the largest dairy farm in China with some 50,000 cows counted. The Chinese group is expected to invest several million dollars in the project. "My willingness to invest in the dairy industry in Mauritius responds to a logic of food security and the belief that the private sector must be motor in this fight. Milk is an essential component of our diet and it is our duty to guarantee and protect our source of supply for future generations. This agreement will allow Agreenculture to continue to grow and opens new perspectives to the Mauritian companies, because it shows that beyond the sugar cane, our expertise in agricultural matters is recognised", says Eric Series president of Avenport Investment. * First Chinese private group in the production of fertilizers	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1219
__label__wiki	0.977698	0.977698	Al-Shabab FC (Riyadh) (Redirected from Al-Shabab Riyadh) This article is about Saudi Arabian club. For other uses, see Al-Shabab (disambiguation). Find sources: "Al-Shabab FC" Riyadh – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (October 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Al-Shabab Football Club (Arabic: نادي الشباب‎) is a Saudi Arabian professional football club based in Riyadh. It was founded in 1947, and was named at first Shabab Al Riyadh, but later in 1967 was named Al Shabab. Al Shabab club has produced prominent players such as Saeed Al-Owairan who scored the crucial goal for Saudi Arabia against Belgium in the 1994 World Cup. Also Fuad Amin, who scored Saudi Arabia's first World Cup goal against Netherlands. Al Shabab is also known for selling many players to other Saudi clubs, as Reda Tukar (Ittihad) and Abdulaziz AlKhatran (Al-Hilal). Al Shabab Football Club Al Leith (White Lion) King Fahd Stadium Khalid Al Baltan Jorge Almirón Pro League, 5th of 16 Club website Home colours Away colours Third colours Al Shabab was the first football club in Riyadh. The club began in 1947, with many conflicts before with its numerous members, but it was settled in 1947 and Abdulrahman Bin Saeed was the president. Five years later, Al Shabab won its first tournament beating Sakit Al Hadeed (Railway Club) in Riyadh. Three years later, in 1955 Al Shabab beat the Military College to win the King Saud Cup. Two years passed, and a new conflict arose in 1957. The player, Saleh Jaber, was assigned captain, but then was fired, and the new captain was Ahmed Lmfoon. This did not please some members of the club. Soon the conflict was impossible to solve, and Abdulrahman Bin Saeed and some members, left Al Shabab and created a new football club, which is the club known today as Al-Hilal. The club stopped for half a year due to financial weakness after the departure of its founder Abdulrahman Bin Saeed. Then in the beginning of 1959 another problem began, Abdullah Bin Ahmed, the president then, was all alone taking care of the club. He couldn't take the pressure of handling the club alone, and decided to take a vacation abroad. Before traveling, he disbanded the first team, and most of the players signed for other clubs mainly Al-Ahli and Al-Hilal. What was left was the youth team, and the player Abdulrahman Bin Ahmed decided to take care of the youth team. Soon Abdullah Bin Ahmed returned, and many members returned and supported the club. Then Abdullah Bin Ahmed announced the return of forming the first team, and some players returned, but some stayed at Al-Ahli and Al-Hilal. Also in 1959 was the formation of the Saudi Football Federation, and all football clubs were announced official. In 1960 in the first official tournament called King Saud Cup for the Central Province, Al Shabab faced Al Hilal in their first official games between the two, and won 3–0 to win their first cup. In the 1960s, everyone wanted to play and be part of the club, and after the request of Al Najmah FC and Al Marekh in 1967, they were united as one club and changed their name from Shabab Riyadh, to simply Al Shabab. The colors of the team were at first white and green, then they were changed after the unification to orange and blue, but in 1977 it was changed to white, gray, and black, the current colors. In 1975 Al Shabab was delegated to the 1st Division. But the next season it was able to win 1st place, and was relegated back to the Premier League in 1976. In 1993, Al Shabab became the first club in Saudi Arabia to win 3 premier leagues in a row. In 2007, Al Shabab became the first club in Saudi Arabia to build projects to increase the club's revenue, and began a 200 million dollar project which contains a 5 star hotel, and a shopping mall. During a visit to the club in January 2008, Al Shabab's main supporter, Khalid bin Sultan, announced the launch of two new projects, Al Laith TV Channel, and Al Shabab Museum. AchievementsEdit Saudi Premier League: Champion (6): 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2011–12 Runner-up (5): 1981–82, 1984–85, 1988–89, 1997–98, 2004–05 Saudi King's Cup : Champion (3): 2008, 2009, 2014 Runner-up: 2013 Crown Prince Cup: Runner-up (4): 1992, 1994, 2000, 2009 Saudi Super Cup: Champion: 2014 Runner-up (2): 1999, 2000 Asian Cup Winners Cup: Arab Champions League: Champion (2): 1992, 1999 Arab Super Cup: Gulf Club Champions Cup: Saudi First Division (Division 2): Saudi Federation cup (U21): Champion (4): 1988, 1989, 2009, 2010 Performance in AFC competitionsEdit AFC Champions League: 9 appearances Finals : 1993 Semi-finals : 2010 Quarter-finals : 2006, 2013 Round of 16 : 2009, 2011, 2014 Group stage : 2005, 2007, 2015 Asian Club Championship: 3 appearances Runner-up : 1992–93 Group stage : 1993–94, 1994–95 Winner : 2000–01 Second round : 2001–02 Asian Super Cup: 1 appearance Runner-up : 2001 RecordsEdit First Saudi club to win three Saudi Premier League in a row (1991, 1992, and 1993).[2] First Saudi club to win the professional and new Saudi Premier League, in 1991. Only club in the world to play two games in one day, in 1999 in the afternoon in the Arab Elite Cup final, and at night in the Crown Prince Cup final against Al-Hilal. This was due to bad planning by the Saudi FA, in which Al Shabab decided to use two teams, one in Syria to play the Arabic final, and another composed of the starting players in Riyadh to play the Crown Prince Cup final against Al-Hilal, in which they lost the Arabic final, but won the Crown Prince Cup. Largest margin win was against Al Shoalah during a friendly tournament in 2007, 8–0. Largest margin win in an official game was against Al-Ta'ee in the Saudi Premier League in 2003, 7–0. Largest margin win against a high-ranked club was 6–1 against Al-Nasr in the Saudi Premier League 2004. Current squadEdit As of Saudi Professional League:[3][4] 1 Goalkeeper Farouk Ben Mustapha 2 Defender Mohammed Al-Baqaawi 3 Defender Fahad Ghazi 4 Defender Hassan Tombakti 5 Defender Djamel Benlamri 6 Midfielder Abdulmalek Al-Khaibri 7 Midfielder Turki Al-Ammar 8 Midfielder Abdulmajeed Al-Sulayhem 9 Forward Abdullah Al-Hamdan 10 Forward Cristian Guanca 11 Midfielder Abdulmalek Al-Shammeri 12 Defender Mohammed Salem 13 Defender Hassan Muath 15 Midfielder Constantin Budescu 16 Midfielder Mohammed Attiyah 17 Defender Abdullah Al-Shamekh 18 Midfielder Waleed Al-Enezi 20 Defender Ahmed Sharahili 21 Midfielder Nasser Al-Omran 22 Goalkeeper Mohammed Awaji 23 Goalkeeper Marwan Al-Haidari 25 Defender Valerică Găman 27 Midfielder Rakan Al-Shamlan (on loan from Al-Nassr) 29 Forward Bubacarr Trawally 30 Goalkeeper Abdullah Al-Owaishir (on loan from Al-Nassr) 33 Midfielder Somália 34 Midfielder Mbark Boussoufa 50 Goalkeeper Mohammed Al-Dossari 70 Midfielder Danilo Asprilla 92 Forward Sebá 99 Forward Hassan Al-Raheb Other players under contractEdit 24 Defender Faisal Hadadi 31 Defender Moayad Muaafa 56 Midfielder Hassan Al-Qeed 97 Goalkeeper Fahad Al-Habib Out on loanEdit 19 Midfielder Nawaf Al-Habashi (on loan to Al-Qadsiah) 35 Defender Hassan Raghfawi (on loan to Damac) — Forward Arthur Caíke (on loan to Bahia) Scholarships abroadEdit — Defender Ali Majrashi — Midfielder Abdulaziz Al-Shahrani — Midfielder Abdulelah Al-Shammeri Find sources: "Al-Shabab FC" Riyadh – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Current board of directors and AdministratorsEdit President Khalid AlBaltan Vice-president Kholaif AlHweshan Member of the Board, Investment Officer Member of the Board, Secretary-General Member of the Board, Director of the Media Center Ahmad AlMasoud CEO Pat Janssen[5] Current technical staffEdit This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (August 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Fitness coach Goalkeeping coach Video analist U 23 team coach Kevin Sheedy Mladen Posavec Omar Islam Recent seasonsEdit The table below chronicles the achievements of Al Shabab in various competitions since 2000. 2000–01 Premier League 7th Semi-final Not held – 2001–02 Premier League 9th Quarter-final – 2003–04 Premier League 1st Quarter-final – 2004–05 Premier League 2nd Quarter-final Group stage 2005–06 Premier League 1st Semi-final Quarter-finals 2006–07 Premier League 4th Quarter-final Group stage 2007–08 Premier League 3rd Semi-final Champion – 2008–09 Pro League 4th Runners-up Champion Round of 16 2009–10 Pro League 4th Semi-final Semi-final Semi-final 2010–11 Pro League 4th Round of 16 Quarter-final Round of 16 2011–12 Pro League 1st Quarter-final Quarter-final – 2012–13 Pro League 3rd Round of 16 Runners-up Quarter-finals 2013–14 Pro League 4th Semi-final Champion Round of 16 2014–15 Pro League 5th Round of 16 Quarter-final Group stage ManagersEdit Mahmoud Abou-Regaila (1970–71) Luiz Felipe Scolari (1984–85) Jair Pereira (1986) Joubert (1987)[6] Lori Sandri (1989) Paulo Campos (1990–91) Geninho (1993) Ivo Wortmann (1994) Jean Fernandez (1996–97) Oscar (1998) João Alves (1998–99) João Francisco (1999) Arthur Bernardes (2001–02) Zé Mario (1 July 2004 – 30 June 2006) Daniel Romeo (2005–06) Ahmed Alajlani (2006) Humberto Coelho (2006–07) José Morais (2007) Enzo Trossero (1 July 2007–08) Nery Pumpido (1 July 2008 – 31 December 2008) Enzo Trossero (2008 – 30 June 2009) Jaime Pacheco (13 July 2009 – 15 April 2010) Edgar Ferreira (interim) Jorge Fossati (1 July 2010 – 31 December 2010) Enzo Trossero (1 January 2011 – 30 June 2011) Michel Preud'homme (1 July 2011 – 19 September 2013) Emilio Ferrera (20 September 2013 – 23 January 2014) Ammar Souayah (interim) José Morais (6 June 2014–14) Reinhard Stumpf (2014–15) Jaime Pacheco (2015) Adel Abdulrahman (interim)[7] Álvaro Gutiérrez (2015 – 3 January 2016) Fathi Al-Jabal (3 January 2016 – Jun 2016) Sami Al-Jaber (Jun 2016 – September 2017) José Daniel Carreño (Sept 2017 – March 2018) Khalid Al-Koroni (interim) (March 2018 – May 2018) Marius Șumudică (Jun 2018–present) AFC Club rankingEdit Rankings are calculated by the AFC[8] Esteghlal 38.768 Al-Ain 67.608 Al Shabab 30.537 Al-Ittihad 90.000 Bunyodkor 20.990 ^ "King Fahad International Stadium". Saudi Pro League Statistics. Retrieved 14 May 2016. ^ "Saudi Arabia - List of Champions". www.rsssf.com. ^ http://www.slstat.com/spl2015-2016en/team.php?id=4 ^ "فريق: الشباب". www.kooora.com. ^ https://www.linkedin.com/in/pat-janssen-701b6a1/ ^ "Mais de 40 anos vivendo futebol" (in Portuguese). luxemburgo.com.br. Retrieved 18 August 2013. ^ "المصري عادل عبد الرحمن مدربًا للشباب بدلاً من باتشيكو". aawsat.com. ^ "The AFC". www.the-afc.com. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Al-Shabab (football). نادي الشباب \| أخر الأ \| NADY ALSHBAB Asian Cup Winners' Cup Runner up: Dalian Shide Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Al-Shabab_FC_(Riyadh)&oldid=906643303"	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1220
__label__wiki	0.86226	0.86226	Janneke Schopman Johanna Dorotheo Maria Schopman (1977-04-27) 27 April 1977 (age 42) Haarlem, Netherlands Medal record 2008 Beijing Team 2004 Athens Team 2002 Perth 2010 Rosario 2005 Canberra 2007 Quilmes 2001 Amstelveen 2002 Macau 2003 Sydney Johanna ("Janneke") Dorotheo Maria Schopman (born 26 April 1977) is the head coach of the United States women's national field hockey team and a former Dutch field hockey player who played as a defender for Dutch club HC Den Bosch and the Netherlands national team. 1 Playing career Playing career[edit] Schopman started playing hockey at Dutch club Tempo '34 in Rotterdam. She also played for HC Rotterdam, before transferring to HC Den Bosch, where she played until stopping in 2010.[1][2] While part of the Den Bosch squad, she won 6 national titles.[1] Schopman was first selected for the Dutch national squad in 2001.[3] Schopman was a member of the Dutch squad that won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, after losing to Germany in the final . She scored one of the penalties in the semi-finals against Argentina in the semi-finals.[4] She was also part of the Dutch squad that became World Champion at the 2006 Women's Hockey World Cup in Madrid and which won the 2007 Champions Trophy. She was part of the 2007 squad that was featured in the documentary 'Goud' by Niek Koppen, about their preparation for the 2007 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing she won an olympic gold medal with the Dutch national team beating China in the final 2–0. She was the captain of the Dutch national squad during the 2010 World Cup in Rosario, where they won the silver medal after losing to Argentina 1-3 in the final.[5][6] After ending her career as a professional hockey player in 2010, Schopman became the head coach for the women's squad of the Dutch club SCHC.[7] In 2014, she led the team to their first appearance in the final of the Hoofdklasse, the top league in The Netherlands.[8] In 2014 Schopman was assigned to be the head coach for the U21 US Women's National Team and assistant coach for the United States women's national field hockey team under Craig Parnham.[9][10] In January 2017 she became the US Women's National Team head coach. With Schopman as head coach, the team came 3rd in the 2017 Pan American Cup in Lancaster, United States, and 14th in the 2018 World Cup in London, United Kingdom.[11] ^ a b "Schopman stopt met tophockey". RTV Rijnmond (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-02-02. ^ "Controversiële transfer van een modelhockeyster". NRC (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-02-02. ^ "Schopman stopt met tophockey". RTV Rijnmond (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-02-02. ^ "Germany to face Holland". 2004-08-24. Retrieved 2019-02-02. ^ agencies, Telegraph staff and (2010-09-12). "Women's Hockey World Cup: Argentina beat Holland to win title in Rosario". ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2019-02-02. ^ "Hockeysters gaan voor goud". Omroep Brabant (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-02-02. ^ "Cookies op de Volkskrant". www.volkskrant.nl. Retrieved 2019-02-02. ^ "Primeur voor SCHC en Schopman". nos.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-02-02. ^ "USA Field Hockey Announces Janneke Schopman as Summit Coach Education Track Speaker". Team USA. Retrieved 2019-02-02. ^ "Janneke Schopman vertrekt bij SCHC". RTV Utrecht. Retrieved 2019-02-02. Janneke Schopman at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com Janneke Schopman – International Tournaments Netherlands squad – 2001 Champions Trophy 1 Sinnige 2 De Roever 3 Van der Vaart 4 Deiters (c) 5 Moreira de Melo 8 Van den Boogaard 9 Cornelis 10 Donners 11 Boomgaardt 12 De Groot 13 Smabers 14 Verbakel 15 Schopman 16 De Bruijn 18 Booij 19 Van Hees 20 Van Geenhuizen 21 Scheepstra Coach: Lammers 6 Scheepstra 7 Van Geenhuizen 10 Donners (c) 21 Van Kessel 23 K. Lammers 24 Kooijman 26 Van de Kieft Coach: M. Lammers Netherlands squad – 2002 FIH World Cup 8 Petri 2 De Haan 5 Snoeks 9 Karres 12 Romkes 17 Mulder 20 Dijkstra Netherlands squad – 2004 Summer Olympics – Silver medal 3 Meekels 8 Van Eijk 10 Fuchs 11 Goderie 12 Voskamp 14 Booij (c) 17 Paumen 18 Van As 19 Hoog 20 De Haan 21 Polkamp 22 Engels 3 Mulder 9 Dijkstra 10 Karres 24 De Goede 25 Vorstenbosch 8 Kremers 16 Welten 26 Van der Pols Netherlands squad – 2008 Summer Olympics – Gold medal 27 Agliotti 5 Dirkse van den Heuvel 8 Mattheussens 10 Jonker 13 Smeets 22 Sombroek 23 Lammers Coach: Kruis United States squad – 2018 Hockey World Cup – 14th place 1 Matson 2 Fee 5 González 9 M. Vittese 10 Funk 12 Magadan 13 Hoffman 14 Young 19 Moyer 20 Froede 21 Woods 22 Blazing 23 T. Vittese 24 Sharkey 26 Paolino 28 Van Sickle 29 Manley 31 Briggs Coach: Schopman Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Janneke_Schopman&oldid=881471047" Dutch female field hockey players Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players of the Netherlands Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands Olympic medalists in field hockey Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands Sportspeople from Haarlem Dutch expatriate sportspeople in the United States LGBT field hockey players Pages using Infobox field hockey player with unknown parameters	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1222
__label__wiki	0.963834	0.963834	Tarzan (2003 TV series) For other uses, see Tarzan (disambiguation). Promotional poster Adventure[1] Drama[1] Mitch Pileggi Original language(s) No. of seasons 8 (list of episodes) Production company(s) Laura Ziskin Productions David Gerber Productions The WB 480i SDTV 720p HDTV October 5 – November 23, 2003 (2003-11-23) Tarzan is an American television series that premiered on The WB on October 5, 2003, and ended on November 23, 2003. Based on the Tarzan series by Edgar Rice Burroughs and developed by Eric Kripke, the show was set in New York City and depicted modern-day adaptations of Burroughs' characters. In December 2003, the series was canceled after eight episodes. 1 Synopsis and creator commentary 2.1 Main 2.2 Recurring and guest stars 4 List of songs used 5 Crew Synopsis and creator commentary[edit] NYPD detective Jane Porter's ordinary life is disrupted when a routine case unexpectedly leads her to John Clayton, who prefers to be called Tarzan. After being proclaimed dead for 20 years, John Clayton was found in the jungles of Africa by his billionaire uncle, Richard Clayton, who is the CEO of powerful Greystoke Industries. Held against his will at his uncle's home, Tarzan escapes and prowls all over the city, helping others in need. Upon meeting Jane, he begins to follow her from her home to crime scenes, simultaneously assisting her with her police cases. Kripke was critical of the show, calling it "a piece of crap" and saying: "I'll stand behind the pilot. It has a beginning, middle, and -- the problem -- it ends. I was hungry to have anything in production, so I wrote a 50-page story that ended. Then it got made and I had something in production, and it was all my dreams come true. They said to me, 'Let's do 12 more.' I said, 'Uh, wait! What's the story?' So, Tarzan was a hell ride in every way, and we only did eight before they wisely put us out of our misery." Main[edit] Travis Fimmel as John Clayton Jr./Tarzan, heir & shareholder of Greystoke Industries Sarah Wayne Callies as Detective Jane Porter Miguel A. Núñez Jr. as Detective Sam Sullivan Leighton Meester as Nicki Porter, Jane's sister Lucy Lawless as Kathleen Clayton, newspaper publisher, shareholder of Greystoke Industries and aunt of John Clayton Jr./Tarzan Mitch Pileggi as billionaire Richard Clayton, CEO & shareholder of Greystoke Industries and uncle of John Clayton Jr./Tarzan Recurring and guest stars[edit] James Carroll as Howard Rhinehart Fulvio Cecere as Detective Gene Taylor Marcus Chait as Gary Lang Joe Grifasi as Lieutenant Scott Connor Tim Guinee as Donald Ingram Johnny Messner as Detective Michael Foster Douglas O'Keeffe as Patrick Nash David Warshofsky as Sheriff Tim Sweeney Episodes[edit] "Pilot" David Nutter Eric Kripke October 5, 2003 (2003-10-05) 176650 Detective Jane Porter meets John Clayton who escaped from his billionaire uncle's confinement at the headquarters of Greystoke Industries. Porter and her partner, Sam Sullivan involve themselves in a homicide case. "Secrets and Lies" David Nutter Eric Kripke October 12, 2003 (2003-10-12) 176651 Tarzan assists Jane with a police case, helping her find a group of men responsible for attacking a young woman in Central Park. After discovering Tarzan is still alive, Jane's fiance Michael negotiates with Tarzan's uncle to capture him. Meanwhile, Jane contacts Tarzan's aunt, Kathleen Clayton, whom she hopes will protect Tarzan from his uncle. "Wages of Sin" David Solomon P. K. Simonds October 19, 2003 (2003-10-19) 176652 Jane enlists Tarzan's help to aid her investigation by using his extraordinary tracking skills to find a child who has disappeared. Sam learns of Tarzan's involvement and his role in Michael's death, and becomes conflicted with the decision of turning Tarzan in. "Rules of Engagement" Perry Lang Molly Newman October 26, 2003 (2003-10-26) 176653 Richard Clayton discovers that his estranged sister Kathleen has been sheltering Tarzan from him. Meanwhile, Jane meets the sole witness to Michael's death. Sam disagrees with her actions as she attempts to prevent the witness from testifying and possibly incriminating Tarzan before Richard can get to him. "Emotional Rescue" James Marshall Leonard Dick November 2, 2003 (2003-11-02) 176654 Nicki worries over her friend's disappearance. Jane and Sam suspect a man whom Nicki's friend met over the internet and who may be more dangerous than he appears. As the investigation on Michael's killer continues, Jane pleads to Tarzan to stay hidden at his aunt's house. However, Nicki enlists Tarzan's help to make sure her friend is safe. "Surrender" Harry Winer Lynne Litt November 9, 2003 (2003-11-09) 176655 Coerced by Richard, Donald Ingram, the lone witness to Michael's death, falsely names Tarzan as the one responsible for the crime and in the process incriminating Jane as well. In exchange for Tarzan's safety, Kathleen contemplates on giving up her entire shares of Greystoke Industries to Richard. Tarzan considers returning to the jungle. "For Love of Country" Thomas J. Wright Leonard Dick & Mere Smith November 16, 2003 (2003-11-16) 176656 Tarzan and Jane flee into the mountains to escape the vengeful cops seeking to arrest them. Jane places her trust in Tarzan, relying on his jungle skills to survive in the woods. "The End of the Beginning" Peter Ellis Lynne Litt & Michael Reisz November 23, 2003 (2003-11-23) 176657 The police arrest Jane and in exchange for Jane's safety and freedom, Tarzan surrenders himself to Richard. Richard attempts to have Tarzan declared legally insane so that he can claim legal custody of him and his Greystoke shares. In the meantime, Kathleen fights to free them both. But when Richard goes back on his promise to help Jane, Tarzan breaks free and begins hunting Richard. List of songs used[edit] The opening theme song is "Try" by Paloalto. 1. Pilot "Everybody Got Their Something" by Nikka Costa "I'm With You" by Avril Lavigne "Phobic" by Plumb "Go" by Plumb 2. Secrets and Lies "Fly Away" by Kristin Mainhart "Fallen" by Sarah McLachlan 3. Wages of Sin "Recall" by Luckytown "I Saw" by Matt Nathanson "Forever" by The Red West 4. Rules of Engagement "If You Asked" by Longview "Hollow" by Casey Stratton "New York City" by The Peter Malick Group featuring Norah Jones 5. Emotional Rescue "Give It Up" by Fefe Dobson "Supermoves" by Overseer "Breathe In" by Paloalto "Ghosts" by Sleeping At Last 6. Surrender "White Flag" by Dido "So Are You to Me" by Eastmountainsouth "Freetime by Kenna 7. For Love of Country "It's You" by Michelle Branch "Falling For You " by Longview "All My Life" by Rosie Thomas 8. The End of the Beginning "Burn" by Sense Field "Show Me The River" by Eastmountainsouth Crew[edit] Eric Kripke - developer, story, teleplay and co-executive producer Michael Colleary - developer and story Mike Werb - developer and story Leonard Dick - writer and producer David Gerber - executive producer Lynne Litt - writer Peter McIntosh - producer Molly Newman - co-executive producer David Nutter - executive producer P.K. Simonds - writer and executive producer Mere Smith - writer and co-producer Pamela Oas Williams - producer Laura Ziskin - executive producer Jason Derlatka - music composer Jon Ehrlich - music composer On Metacritic the show has a score of 45% based on reviews from 21 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[1] Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs ^ a b c "Tarzan". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved March 15, 2019. 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__label__cc	0.567271	0.432729	US politics, aka Trump timeline of fuckery Go to page Previous 1 ... 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 ... 127 Next Forum Index » Off-Topic » The Tavern BastardHead Worse than the PMRC Location: St. Charles, Illinois Also worth noting that it takes four years to fully pull out of the accord (as somebody who was kicked out of the military and had to wait a fuckin' month for the paperwork to clear, I can attest that this sort of bureaucracy is entirely normal), and the date that we'd actually pull out (if he had the attention span to follow through all the steps) would be the day after the next presidential election. So basically we're still in it for the remainder of Trump's reign but it could be reversed basically right away assuming he doesn't get a second term. Also from what I understand most businesses and major cities are saying they'll follow the guidelines anyway either because it's the right thing to do or because they believe we'll have a Democratic president in four years who will put us back in anyway so what the hell is the point of redoing their entire business model just to have to revert it soon after anyways. And again, there're no penalties whatsoever for not following through with your goals in the accord, it's just so the other countries can say they're doing better than you and you should pick up the pace. So ultimately this is a meaningless, symbolic move that serves to do nothing except make us look bad. Way to go, dipshit. Lair of the Bastard: LATEST REVIEW: Crypt Sermon - The Ruins of Fading Light The Outer RIM - Uatism: The dogs bark in street slang BEST BLACK METAL ALBUMS OF ALL TIME RESULTS! Earthcubed The Great Fearmonger Location: eccaira nare epë Anar The funny thing is that the Paris deal was so toothless he could have decided to remain in the accord without cutting any emissions, because the deal basically lets each country set its own goals for cutting. He could have lowered our commitment to the point where we weren't deviating from our original carbon projections---in effect, agreeing not to cut carbon at all---while still staying in the agreement and spewed some verbal diarrhea about how he was working well with others. So basically he's just doing this to please his dumbest supporters while burning as many international bridges as he can. On Friday I passed an important milestone in my teaching career: a student shat himself FloristOfVampyrism wrote: That wasn't meant as a k.o. though, he specifically targeted an area of the cerebellum which, if ruptured, renders you a Jehovah's witness indefinitely Morrigan Crone of War acid_bukkake wrote: Yeah, you person who doesn't agree with Hillary! Feel bad for fulfilling your civic duty even though your state went that way anyway, thus meaning your vote didn't even matter! That's what'll get those disillusioned and/or disenfranchised masses going, a stern talking-to! If they're such babies that they can't handle the facts being laid bare in a snarky tone by someone on the Internet, then it's not like there was any hope for them. Stupid people are gonna stupid, and as we can see right fucking now, everyone's paying the price. This was the most easily preventable disaster ever. And there was only a single available solution. There is no excuse. Von Cichlid wrote: I work with plenty of Oriental and Indian persons and we get along pretty good, and some females as well. Markeri, in 2013 wrote: a fairly agreed upon date [of the beginning of metal] is 1969. Metal is almost 25 years old Xlxlx Argentinian Asado Supremacy Location: The Land Down Under (no, not THAT one) Relevant: http://explosm.net/comics/4266/ Resident_Hazard wrote: People do not just "have" self-esteem issues. An alien put a finger in your bum. You now see a stranger looking back from the mirror. Resident_Hazard Possessed by Starscream's Ghost Morrigan wrote: To be fair, people not handling facts is one of the major reasons why Trump got elected. As I noted before, he managed to usurp facts with tactics. Being on the side of facts unfortunately does not work if we're up against people that are fact-resistant. This country has been battling this kind of shit for ages now, and it seems to be a losing battle. To acid_bukkake's point, you get more flies with honey, but to Morrigan's, you get even more with bullshit. Or a nice fucking corpse. Trump paraded that corpse out there in front of people, and covered it in so much bullshit, people couldn't resist. Some people, anyway. Christians and Alt-Right Nazis and Red Pill virgins, etc. People who love to play the victim. That corpse was their victimization, the bullshit made it taste right for them. This country has been trained by big-name charlatans, the religious right, anti-science lunatics, emotional vampires, and outright liars on so much nonsense that the people who seem to understand anything are in the minority. Look at the fucking shit we have to fight, here, that other first-world countries don't have to fucking deal with. Creationists. People killing women's rights. "Doctor" fucking Oz. Celebrities like Jenny McCarthy selling anti-vaxxer rhetoric to people who too easily feel bad for babies, sans logic. Other celebrities like Gwenyth Paltrow peddling endless waves of crap and telling women to steam their vaginas. WE HAVE A GIANT FUCKING REPLICA OF NOAH'S ARK IN A LAND-LOCKED STATE, near a museum featuring children riding dinosaurs! People call themselves "pro-life" while being pro-war and pro-execution. Movements everywhere that act like amateurs are better trusted than professionals on anything and everything. This is fucking madness! Look at this shit! To top it all off, the majority of this country still didn't want Trump, and still voted against him, and because this country is now the definition of fucking broken, HE STILL GOT THE JOB because the Electoral College is a goddamn, illogical trainwreck. On the one hand, yeah, this should have been easily preventable. Hindsight is 20/20, and we're using a fucking microscope at this point. This is the perfect storm version of a political disaster. More people did vote against him. The Electoral College was originally created to prevent these kinds of problems. Yeah, it should have been easily preventable. But it was not prevented. What the fuck happened? It's like when a ship sinks because a series of freak accidents stacked up and defeated redundant safety systems. Normally, this ship would be fucking fine. But a dozen inconceivable things happened, and by happenstance, they led to the worst possible inconceivable outcome. You think you're frustrated? Try living in this fucking hell. Warm Fuzzy Cynical comics. Warm Fuzzy Cynical Facebook page. circleofdestruction wrote: Someone I know just posted the following about the Paris accord: "raises hand* you realize you can choose to protect the environment yourself and don't need the government to do it, right?" [facepalm] What I do personally will have far less impact than something on a national scale, esp. when many don't believe there is any need to protect the environment (and think Trump getting out of it is evidence of this). If we want to get into really absurd semantics, no, we don't need to protect the environment. The earth will survive... it will survive us. But if we want our civilization to fucking survive, then yes, we definitely need to be protecting the environment because this shit is not sustainable. This is one of the things that irks me about some Libertarians--and Gary Johnson fucking said it, too: Why protect the environment? The earth will be consumed by the sun one day. Yeah, it will, but not in the next 20 years, goddammit! Several times since then, he's gone on "sharing rampages" shoveling out all manner of lunacy from the worst of Facebook. Conspiracy theories, debunked bullshit, a weird fucking meme from David Icke of all people where they have convinced themselves that anyone called a "conspiracy theorist" is actually someone who "really sees the truth." I have posted debunking a good third of his shit, but come the fuck on. When do people learn to do research? He also shared that racist M&M's meme about how "10 out of 10,000 M&Ms are poison, he wouldn't eat them" referring to Syrians. There seems to be a feeling that they are right and being martyred. I once read a psychology site thing about conspiracy theorists often being people who feel powerless, and they get into this to believe they are special and more knowledgeable, and everyone else is against them. This guy I was talking about is so profoundly stupid that I unfollowed him today. Considered unfriending, but for now, just unfollowed (and just posted about Alex Jones being an idiot scumbag). Oh hey, I didn't even think of "unfollowing" the guy. I forget that's a slightly separate option. Still, he pretty much never tries to defend himself when I dig into his posts, so this is like easy shit for me. I read similar points on conspiracy theorists, and the big take-away was that they're just lonely people. Lonely, powerless, perhaps uninteresting people, and this makes them feel important. On top of all this, he regularly tries to argue that he's a "middle of the road" Centrist or Libertarian, yet literally only shares (among his conspiracy theories) anti-left memes from hard pro-right FB pages and sites, and regularly defends Trump. This guy, too. He was complaining about losing his health insurance and how Trump is going to fight for the "little guy" and fix health insurance. Why would you even think that? What about Trump would make ANYONE think he cares about the poor and the middle class? Same guy posts anti-vax stuff (he has 5 kids, too) but what made me facepalm hardest was still the idea of Snoop Dogg being in the illuminati. I have repeatedly said on FB that I think Sandy Hook Truthers are the lowest fucking scum on the planet. This one backpedaled about that, but openly follows Alex Jones. I also had a Trump fan tell me, before the election, that while Trump had bad ideas, he "wasn't dangerous" and was "better than Hillary" because Congress would stop his bad ideas. So he supported him and even he agreed most of the things he said have been stupid. Elsewhere online someone told me that he respects Trump because he "always keeps his promises." [facepalm] In what alternate reality does that happen? One thing I really worry about though, is Trump's undermining of the press and generally being against freedom of press, because once you get people to disbelieve all press coverage by shouting "fake news" and "they invented these sources" then you end up with his followers believing anything he says, right or wrong, not valuing evidence, etc. If you try to debunk something with evidence, they simply reply that it's manufactured and will never be convinced. I don't get the "better than Hillary" comments, before or after. And I have heard them after. I don't understand how someone can think that. For one thing, no, Hillary would not be under investigation now for colluding with fucking Russia. Literally any other candidate would probably be doing better now for that fucking reason alone. Hillary would not have caused mass protests from idiot executive orders trying to ban brown people from coming into the country, and she wouldn't be scrapping years of work that went into the health care system. I've been watching PolitiFact posts, and Trump has kept a number of his promises, and is working on others. I think this might actually be the first time in American history that a president keeping his promises may ultimately work against him. You know, because his promises were fucking horrible and are just going to screw people over. One article I saw today notes that only 8% of the public thinks the Senate should sign the shit health care bill into law. Totally agree with you on Sandy Hook "truthers". Fucking scumbags, the lot of 'em. circleofdestruction If we want to get into really absurd semantics, no, we don't need to protect the environment. The earth will survive... it will survive us. True. But if we want to survive with it... I questioned this guy further and he basically said the right to destroy Earth is more important than not destroying Earth, because freedom. He doesn't outright deny climate change, he just denies that humans contribute to it, thus, he thinks there is nothing we could do anyway. Yeah, that was it: it makes them feel important. My life is already better after unfollowing this guy. He's on my F-list due to other shared interests (video games), but you never know when someone like that is going to fill your feed with Alex Jones bullshit and anti-vaxxer memes. I've been watching PolitiFact posts, and Trump has kept a number of his promises, and is working on others. I think this might actually be the first time in American history that a president keeping his promises may ultimately work against him. Some, sure, but I was arguing with the guy for saying ALL. I mean the whole "put Hillary in jail" thing, defeat ISIS in 30 days, repeal the ACA immediately, build a wall and make Mexico pay for it, etc. being the more glaring ones. But yeah, whether he's kept them or not, most of them were crappy ideas. I don't get the "better than Hillary" comments, before or after. And I have heard them after. I recall many defending this line of thinking by saying Hillary would've gotten us into a war with Russia. I really doubt it. But she also wouldn't have been investigated for collusion with Russia, that's for sure. And she wouldn't have spent the first month arguing about crowd sizes. Among other things. And with Clinton, at least we wouldn't be the laughingstock of the entire world and fucking up our relations with most countries. The "better than Hillary" thing is baffling. I would imagine there wouldn't be anything really noteworthy about her presidency other than being the first female president, would probably be a lot more of the same stuff, but it wouldn't have been a disaster like this is shaping up to be. Bernie probably would've made more interesting changes to things, but since he wasn't an option, I would've settled for HC. CircleOfDestruction zine #18\|Video-Nasties.net \| My Art Site darkeningday xXdArKenIngDayXx I mean, I agree, but the simple truth is that we have to deal with the fact there are so many dumbfucks in America and the world, and not doing is not helpful. That's the compromise of democracy. So many people voted for Trump simply because of the subjective butthurt they experienced from the Democratic party and many of its self-righteous and overly dismissive constituents. Probably a large chunk of those very Trump voters are bigoted, uneducated morons who wouldn't be worth any reasonable person's time or even thought. But so what? They still have a vote. And being told you belong in a basket of deplorables is going to fucking hurt, hell, probably the most if it's actually true. It's that careless dismissiveness and smugness of those very idiots that lost the Democrats the election. It's not fair. It's not reasonable. It shouldn't being happening. But none of that changes anything. You play the cards you're dealt. A citizen has to make a choice between living by stringent self-styled ethics, where anyone you encounter needs to be 'this non-stupid' to be worth even a picosecond of your attention--and watch the world crumble around you even though you are 100% consistent and correct in your beliefs--or be being willing to dumb yourself down and appeal to populism and demagoguery and light a fire in people's hearts when it's needed, and effectuate positive change. Dealing with dumb people is the best way to get things done. Trump's election is proof of that . Lobsters have more in common with you than you might think, particularly when you are feeling crabby. Haha. ~ Dr. Jordan B. Peterson Which is why it makes me laugh whenever people tone police people like me. "Your belittling of ___ is why people vote Trump" or whatever, "you can't persuade people with that kind of rhetoric", blah blah blah. Yeah, because Trump used facts and reason and was calm and rational and decent and that is why he lost suppo... oh wait. Besides which, as you said, facts and reason don't even work on these people anyway. So whatever. I'll continue calling them imbeciles because that's what they are. Yep, your country is fucked up all right. ^^ On the one hand, yeah, this should have been easily preventable. Hindsight is 20/20 Hindsight? You had plenty of people sounding the alarm about Trump every step of the way. But her emails... Too many people failed to do the one and only thing that could have prevented it. It's really that simple. And if you're among them, well, you deserve Trump as far as I'm concerned. darkeningday wrote: But so what? They still have a vote. And being told you belong in a basket of deplorables is going to fucking hurt, hell, probably the most if it's actually true. It's that careless dismissiveness and smugness of those very idiots that lost the Democrats the election. ...No it's not. Those who were being called "deplorables" would have never voted for Clinton to begin with. Holy shit how can you people continue time and time again to fail to see such an obvious fact? or be being willing to dumb yourself down and appeal to populism and demagoguery and light a fire in people's hearts when it's needed, and effectuate positive change. Dealing with dumb people is the only way to get things done. Well sure. Y'all need a new Obama because y'all* too dumb to vote rationally so you need a politician that's both smart and qualified AND bubbling with charisma and feel-good slogans because that's what it takes to not take your country, and the world, back into the stone age. But I'm not the DNC and I'm not campaigning and it's not my job to coddle anyone, and so I'll continue to sneer at the imbeciles who are getting what they deserve. If people get butthurt at that and want to keep making excuses, well, whatever, I honestly don't give a shit. * #notallAmericans blah blah I know Last edited by Morrigan on Fri Jun 02, 2017 9:31 am, edited 1 time in total. edited typo I think a lot of it was the general distrust of ANY politician, which goes along with the distrust of experts that is in fashion now. They wanted someone totally unqualfied for the position, and one that talked like someone who dropped out of school at 4th grade. And part of it was hubris: the left knew Trump was outrageously unqualified, and thought him running was a bad joke and that he would never win. I recall a FB post from the official HRC FB page showing her as a young girl, and saying she was the next president, as if there was no question in anyone's mind. And I admit I'm one of those people who thought Trump didn't have a chance in hell. But so what? They still have a vote. I do wonder about the impact of social media on people's voting habits. There are a lot of really badly-informed people out there who believe anything they see that it shared on Facebook, especially if it validates what they already believe (for example, the memes about HRC winning a case for a rapist and laughing about it). Because humans are social creatures? Telling any massive group of people half of them are shitheaps by the lead candidate is simply reprehensible to the people who live and work with those "deplorable" people on a daily basis. You know, those distant friends who are like mostly okay people on a personal level with great taste in music and video games but they just have supremely uneducated and ignorant opinions about politics and social issues? The people you can get a beer and watch the game with and make jokes about the quarterback's neck tattoo, but just better not bring up the topic of Feminism? His opinions are pure trash, but he's not. Fence-sitters are famously uninformed about larger issues, that's why they're fence-sitters. All they care about is the people around them. Well sure. Y'all need a new Obama because y'all* too dumb to vote rationally so you need a politician that's both smart and qualified AND bubbling with charisma and feel-good slogans because that's what it takes to not take your country, and the world, back into the stone age. But I'm not the DNC and I'm not campaigning and it's not my job to coddle anyone, and so I'll continue to sneer at the imbeciles who are getting what they deserve. I'm just saying that's kind of antithetical to helping all of the marginalized people who are being fucked over right now, and in the future, by the current administration. Is the cost of being right really worth the benefit? (for example, the memes about HRC winning a case for a rapist and laughing about it). Yeah, what the fuck was that about? Even to this DAY I see Trumples referencing that 'event.' Just horrifying anyone could believe that. I think it's just that a lot of people create an echo chamber, esp. on social media, and they don't allow any dissenting voices or other opinions at all. So if they already disliked HRC, they see that meme and share the hell out of it because it validates their hatred of her. Then all of their HRC-hating friends will comment on how indisputably evil she is until they all start really believing it. And if you tell them to fact-check or post a snopes link, you either get unfriended or told that snopes is unreliable and has a liberal agenda. Another reason the screenshot somebody posted of Trump saying journalists probably just made up their sources scares me: you end up with people just believing whatever they want, and if you don't like what the news says, it's "fake news." My mom had me make her Facebook account for her, and sometimes has me log in and post things for her since she's basically computer-illiterate. It's always shocking to log in and see her ultra-conservative evangelical Christian cousins posting stuff about how Obama was a "dictator" and how evil HRC is, that's the main reason I know about some of the crazy stuff these people are posting. If you want to blame one person for your problems, bring back the kings, emperors and dictators. Otherwise, think out your fucking arguments you dumb shaved monkeys. Napero GedankenPanzer NTT wrote: What a fine argument. Lots of fodder for thought. Thank you. If you have nothing else to say, please stay the fuck out of the thread. Grown-ups are talking. Chest wounds suck (when properly inflicted). -Butch- Sepulchrave really juggles the brainbox Ку. Too few people failed to do the one and only thing that could have prevented it. It's really that simple. Yes, there was warnings, but the aforementioned way Trump swayed people caused an absurd number of people to miss them. Obvious to you does not mean obvious to everyone. As the "regret this vote" Tumblrs and Tweets showed almost immediately. Again, scoff at the hindsight is 20/20 cliche, but you must not be aware of just how strongly this country felt against Hillary Clinton in general. When the election ultimately came down to Hillary vs Trump, this country let out a collective, defeated groan. From this view, the establishment had completely failed the populace. Hillary was no peach, and she obviously campaigned poorly. The failure of the Democrats in this should not be overlooked, or they'll fail again next time when they really need to be winning some fucking seats. I'm also curious about the comment of "too few people failed". In that regard, do you not understand the electoral college? It's fundamentally broken. There is a movement for states to change how the Electoral College works, in effect, giving Electoral votes to whoever wins the popular vote, but that this isn't the standard indicates what problems there are. Which people are you then referring to? The voters who were ignored anyway, or those responsible for fixing the electoral college? I didn't vote for Trump. I didn't support him. My state went to Hillary. Do I deserve Trump? I did nothing to put him in office. I was against him from the start. I get that your far-left, and loathe Trump, and that's fine. A lot of things went wrong here, and if they were all obvious to everyone from the start, then we wouldn't be here, right now, spiraling out of control. Now he needs to be stopped. One analysis I read estimates that the only people who still actually support him are those that were his core base from when he first stepped in--those from the beginning. The stubborn ones clinging to him like grim death. Liberals are big on tolerance and understanding, which is fantastic. And this is a time for that understanding to be put to the fore, or this shit will not get better. Currently, Trump is mostly just fucking up our country, with the exception of mega-bombs designed to create the maximum number of terrorists while he does a bunch of dictatorial posturing. His climate change conspiracy mongering, however, risks everyone. Many states and cities have opted to simply ignore him on this, and are working to stick with it. I'm not dismissing your harsh, bitter rage or dismissal that everyone that voted for him is a monster worthy of scorn. That's your right as far as I'm concerned, and frankly, every person changes their mind through different approaches. Typically, snark and sarcasm work for me. Stupid as it is, what broke down my stubbornness on Climate Change was snark--"so what if climate change is a hoax and we made the planet better for nothing?" I know that's dumb, but I can admit it. Because it created a small hole that broke down a dam of stubbornness. Being berated makes a lot of people dig in their heels. Humans are stupid animals. Your anger will likely find resonance with someone who voted for Trump and then became equally angry later. For those that aren't as angry, the risk is that they'll double down on their decision, even if it's bad. People are fickle, easily embarrassed things, and most do not handle being wrong very well. (Personally, I've been trying to remedy that for myself, mostly by not being as wrong, and going, "yeah, I'm totally wrong" when I am.) It's frankly exhausting waking up every day to see what more buffoonery this idiot has done to our country in the intervening 12 hours. I don't know why I wrote "too few", I clearly meant "too many". Oops. Typos happen (I mean, no, I meant to do that, and me and a small group of people clearly know what I meant! Yeah that's it). And darkeningday: I don't see how me calling Trump voters imbeciles is screwing over minorities. Like seriously, what the fuck. This is a pathetic deflection at best. FWIW, most American minorities I've talked to online agree with me and refuse to coddle those people, because they're sick and tired of trying to engage in conversation with these people and get ignored anyway. Napero wrote: Shit people. Unbelievable. Fixed. Removing that comma makes the sentiment more accurate, I think. And darkeningday: I don't see how me calling Trump voters imbeciles is screwing over minorities. Because they lost the majority of the popular vote? ey-o! + Nah, they're fucking idiots. Trump's America is a piece of shit idea. If he really wanted America to rally behind him he would have appealed to the misogynistic, religious conservative values of ALL religions instead of white-supremacisting all over; moreover, if he really wanted America to succeed, he would have turned sustainable technology into the next bragging rights arms race, blaming everyone else (especially China) for the state of the atmosphere, and promising to make the whole world pay top dollar to America for the best green tech ever it's going to be so amazing no one does green tech like America it's going to make Sean cry we're gonna do such a great job. But no, primordial tech and shelf-life industry. He could still have blamed Obama, hell he could have blamed Obama for keeping the coal industry around at all and grinding good salt of the earth people into dust for no good reason. He missed major shit-slinging, self-aggrandizing opportunities here. He's playing grandpa's ball, and it's painful to watch. Anyone who supports him despite his deranged behavior is a blindingly stupid person living with the mental capacity of a debilitating hangover, but I'm the one who gets the headache. Fair enough, you're right (as you pretty much always are) and I agree with you. Maybe I'm just trying to rationalize this unmitigated catastrophe in my country, something I'm so ashamed of I can barely put it into words. Still, I don't think alienating the insane amount of dumbfucks in the US is particularly helpful. What was it Hillary said in the second debate, "They go low, you go high?" That philosophy could have won her the election... No covfefe. It's all cromulent. It's cool you guys, God will fix the planet. I don't get this mentality at all. Christians: God gave us this beautiful planet. Observer: We fucked up the planet, we need to do something to fix it. Christians: God will buy us a new planet. Real life version: Teenager: My parents just bought me a new car! Ovserver: You fucked it up through avoidable gross negligence. Teenager: I'll just get my parents to buy me a new car! If God is the omnipresent, all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful being they think he is, why are they treating him like a stupid, gullible parent? Hey dickweeds, if this planet is a gift from your all-powerful deity, do you think his hope was that you'd fuck it up and kill half of it? I'd like one of these people to buy me an expensive gift so I can watch their reaction when I smash it. Then ask for another. Fucking retarded. iamntbatman Chaos Breed Location: Tyrn Gorthad Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2017 12:47 pm While it's disgusting that 22 senators wrote Trump to get him to get out of the Paris Accord, it's also telling that only 22 of them did. It just shows how not only is he climate denying actual fucking paramecium, he's also too goddamn stupid to realize that he could have exactly enacted his pro-coal, anti-Earth agenda by simply not meeting the obligations of an unenforceable climate agreement. He could have had his cake and eaten it, too, but no, he had to burn every single bridge ever because he's an actual fucking paramecium. People brought up fence-sitting before, and I'm absolutely a China fence-sitter. Reports say that they've poured a shitload of money into renewables, and their diplomacy says they're very quickly maneuvering to try to be at the forefront of combating climate change and reaping the profits from it, but reality shows that they're also just the filthiest country ever with obscene levels of pollution and basically no laws or concern for the environment whatsoever. So yeah, I have no clue what to make of their politicking in the wake of the Trump Paris pullout. What I do like, however, is the new president of France openly trying to poach American climate scientists. Shameless, completely shameless, and glorious. Brain drain the swamp. Nolan_B wrote: I've been punched in the face maybe 3 times in the past 6 months GLOAMING - death/doom \| COMA VOID - black/doom/post-rock andersbang Re: China and renewables. It's exactly because they are so polluted that they've started investing massively in green tech etc. You don't throw this amount of money (China invested 83+ billion dollars in renewables in 2014 alone) after stuff you're not committed to. So yeah, there's a long way to go, but they're serious about going there. They're serious about making money off of it, sure. But given the country's record of completely making shit up, plus the basically lawless capitalism they've got going on over there and the absolutely brutal pollution they're pumping into the skies daily....well, I'm skeptical. Fight Trump: To be fair, China made announcements of their climate change focus last year or earlier this year, to the tune of 300 billion (Murican Equivalent) dollars. They have also been reportedly shuttering coal plants and focusing on solar. China's insane pollution is probably a bigger motivator than anything, though. You need a shovel to get through their air at times, and after a couple decades of absurd efforts to hide it or pretend it's not so bad, I think they finally got the message. In this, I'll give China the benefit of the doubt for now. [EDIT] Here we go, it's $360 billion, and this is from January. I think they're just reminding people they're better than Trump. Not that that's difficult. Also, France wins. That guy is already kicking ass. He basically told off Putin to his face about his shady media bullshit. Basically "I'll believe it when I see it" when it comes to China. I'm not gonna take them at face value even for spending figures. I've been living under the cloud of their pollution for years now and it ain't no good. I remember flying into Beijing and as the plane was coming down it was almost shocking to think of what I was seeing as even Earth: just an endless sea of dirty gray and yellow clouds with clumps of brown. The cloud equivalent of four day old blackened dirty snow. Just standing there in Beijing was exercise, and I could feel my lungs protesting at every breath. Their fine particulate pollution is just fucking comically high. I mean, we're talking about the same country that slams the US for human rights hypocrisy when white cops shoot unarmed black people, meanwhile they have a state-sponsored organ harvesting murder campaign to eliminate subversive New Age yoga practitioners by the thousands to sell their organs to medical tourists on the cheap. China in 2017 is a deeply, DEEPLY fucked up place, and while there are signs that their foreign policy is starting to veer toward the vaguely normal in some circumstances, in many cases they still very much operate under the Middle Kingdom philosophy where they have absolutely no qualms about outright lying or manipulating global discourse for the betterment of their own position with no regard to how their actions might negatively affect other countries. Grimbeard I'm glad we pulled out of that mess. The UN's climate prediction model says that with the 1 trillion dollars put towards it (the US footing most of the bill because Obama said we will be the leader in this) will only decrease the climates temp by .3 of a degree! ..... at the end of the century! The two world leaders in co2 emissions are China and Africa so I'd like to see them dish out more of their fair share in the bill/deal since US are no longer any part of it. Uhhhhhhhhh....... Whut Nigel Farage, one of the guys responsible for Brexit... has apparently been turning up in FBI probes. As a person of interest. http://www.snopes.com/nigel-farage-repo ... ium=social Okay, paranoia setting in. Grimbeard wrote: ...there's no "bill". That's like saying Germany owes us money because of NATO. That's just not how it works. Metalheads never get old. We just become legendary. Yeah, they have pollution. But globally they only emit less than half of the CO2 USA does, per capita. And that's what should count. USA is filthy. And extremely wasteful. Right, but that's because huge portions of their population are still rural poor who don't contribute much CO2, but the country is changing fast in this regard. It's urbanifying at an insane rate, people are switching from not having cars at all to having them, there's tons of diesel. So while the US is dirtier per capita right now, I can only imagine that emissions per capita in the US are in decline while in China I cannot possibly imagine they're doing anything other than skyrocketing. Let's find some data... Here's the US, where you can see steady decline in the 70's and again coinciding roughly with the Obama era, through vaguely now: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?locations=US And here's China, which has not only been seeing steady growth in emissions since data collection began, but is also frighteningly geometric in their growth in more recent years: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?locations=CN According to this: http://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/news_docs ... 103425.pdf ...CO2 emissions by the US decreased by 2.6% in 2015, whereas China is seeing between 9 and 10% increases in CO2 emissions annually. Metalisepic iamntbatman: Don't forget that China is the factory of the world. Most pollution in China is indirectly caused by occidental countries. European/north American countries are the actual big polluters. They only have been relocating most of their pollution to China. Thus, it seems normal the rate of CO2 emissions decreases in European/north American countries while it increases in China. Don't get me wrong, I don't say that Chinese people don't pollute at all, they do, and more so than they did in the past but China wouldn't have such a critical level of pollution without occidental countries… and occidental countries wouldn't see their pollution rate decreasing every year without China. The lack of laws or concern for the environment in China is part of its industrial and economic success along with their pool of cheap labor. They would have never made it to a world's top economic power with strict environmental laws, it's undeniable. Chinese stuff Well, yes. And this is the main reason why their investments in clean tech are so important. They will likely start shutting down the worst coal plants pretty soon, and as with every developing nation, it would be nice if they could skip some parts of the traditional ladder to becoming a rich nation. All of them directly having Teslas instead of Dodge Shitboxes would mean lower CO2 emissions. And yes, in these things, CO2 per capita is the only fair metric. Just saying "China is worse in absolute tonnes of CO2" is the climate change version of "...but her emails!". GTog wrote: Thank you for clearing that up, everyone ignore "bill" Metalisepic wrote: Don't forget that China is the factory of the world. And don't forget that Trump outsourced his merchandise creation to China. You know, the guy who says he loves creating American jobs. Let us never forget the past! You hold onto that while I hold onto the fact that Hillary getting fired from the House Judiciary Committee for lies and unethical behavior by her then supervisor Jerry Zeifman (a lifelong democrat) who said "She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality." He also refused to give her a letter of recommendation, 1 of 3 during his 17 year career. Damn. Back to the subject of hypocrisy, Hillary smeared a child in 1975 to get the child rapist she was defending a lesser sentence, who she KNEW was guilty. Hillary said "I had him take a polygraph test which he passed - which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs." She said with a laugh and the audio is online. This is our champion of women's rights? Damn. henkkjelle And even if that were all to be true, the US would still have been better off with Hillary because Trump=dumb authoritarian narcissist and Hillary=smart practical lady with a lifetime of political experience. Sometimes choices are really simple. And I'm pretty certain this was one of them. henkkjelle wrote: This has been debunked a thousand times. She was a lawyer and was assigned that case. Would you rather live in a country where you DIDN'T have a right to an attorney? But Trump fans don't seem very good when it comes to fact-checking, I've noticed. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter ... rape-case/ Trump is referring to an audio tape in which she does respond with amusement at her recollections of the oddities of the case, which involve the prosecution and the judge. At no point does she laugh at the victim. I mean to say, if you had listened to the tape you'd notice she's not laughing at the victim at all, but you seem to have just taken Trump's word on it instead. This is pretty much how he got elected: by lying or making empty promises and people weren't smart enough to notice. As for the past, it makes sense to consider when relevant. For example, the way Trump has outsourced his things to China and fucked over former employees. I think that's relevant to how much he (doesn't) care about creating American jobs. This is just not a guy who cares about American jobs or the US economy, he cares about how much money he is making. Last edited by circleofdestruction on Sat Jun 03, 2017 5:37 pm, edited 4 times in total. severzhavnost And yes, in these things, CO2 per capita is the only fair metric. Just saying "China is worse in absolute tonnes of CO2" is the climate change version of "...but her emails!" That would be true... if it were even remotely practical to attempt to reduce GHG's by making impositions on individuals' per capita consumption and pollution. But it isn't; which is why all efforts toward this goal target gross national emission totals. And by that metric, China's 9700 tons are worse than the USA's 6700 tons. Not that finger-pointing is really useful at all, I'm just so sick of this reflexive blame-the-west attitude for every damn thing. Hell, I could even argue that the 1st World countries have an excuse, since they industrialized in a climate (pardon the pun) of relative ignorance. Greenhouse effect and global warming were not known for the first ~100 years of the fossil fuel age. Whereas for newcomers like China, the data has been around for decades, but they carried on polluting themselves anyway. Now I realize that's a dumb point to make, but it's no dumber than letting developing countries off the hook in global climate deals for the sake of assuaging our post-colonial guilt. rannvroeleirezh ha rakvarn komzont brezhoneg Page 8 of 127 [ 5064 posts ] Users browsing this forum: Kerrick, Necroticism174, Sword of Skelos and 2 guests	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1225
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__label__cc	0.542832	0.457168	The 2017 supermoon! Send us your pics Posted 7:29 pm, November 30, 2017, by CNNwire and fox8webcentral, Updated at 06:15AM, January 2, 2018 View Gallery (40 images) Inline Inline Inline Inline Inline Inline Inline Inline Inline Click on the red bar below to submit your pictures to our gallery. On Sunday, stargazers, astronomers and curious sky-watchers got the chance to witness the first and only supermoon of 2017. In November 2016, the moon reached a distance closest to the Earth than ever seen since 1948, producing a supersized supermoon. However, on Sunday night, the moon will still shine 16% brighter and appear 7% larger than its usual size. A supermoon occurs when the sun, moon and Earth align, and a full or new moon aligns with the sun’s lunar orb. This supermoon will be the first in the series of three consecutive full moon supermoons, the next two to occur in January. FOX 8’s P.J. Ziegler captures stunning images of supermoon along Cleveland skyline While it has been a year since a visible supermoon last lit up the sky, everyone in the world has a chance to marvel at this upcoming full moon. Most astronomers suggest watching the supermoon right after sunset and into moonrise, and minutes before the next sunrise as well. But for those who can’t wake up that early, the moon will still look bigger — and brighter — throughout the night. Who will be able to see it? Weather.com’s Chris Dolce says parts of the Southeast coast like Florida will have the best odds. Dolce said, “Portions of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic may also have good viewing conditions, but that will depend on how quickly a weather system moving through departs those regions this weekend.” Andre Bernier says when the skies are clear here in Northeast Ohio, you’ll be able to see the moon over several nights. Supermoon lights up the skies for one more night The Virtual Telescope Project says it will offer a live stream of the Supermoon on Sunday The science behind the supermoon According to Michelle Nichols, director of public observing at Chicago’s Adler Planetarium, there is a reason behind the moon’s captivating close approach to the Earth. “The moon’s orbit is not a perfect circle. It’s more like an oval, so at times it’s closer to the Earth than it is at other times. The difference in distance between these close and far points can be as much as about 30,000 miles.” The distance between the moon and Earth constantly changes. Each time the moon orbits the Earth, every 29.5 days, it will reach a close point to the Earth (perigee), and a far point (apogee), and occasionally, the close point will be close to the date of the full moon or new moon, a supermoon. “For this year’s final supermoon, the perigee distance will be approximately 222,135 miles in the early morning hours of December 4 (in the United States),” says Nichols. Share your supermoon snapshots right here! And while it may appear super, the term “supermoon” is not the official term for the astronomical phenomenon. The scientific term is “perigee syzygy.” Perigee syzygy has occurred three previous times in 2017. However, December’s full moon is the only visible supermoon. This is because the previous two were around the time of a new moon, which isn’t visible in the sky. Don’t let your eyes fool you While the moon is undoubtedly both bigger and brighter than usual, our eyes tend to trick us into seeing the moon as larger than it truly is. Part of it depends on where you’re viewing the supermoon. “When you look at it from near the horizon, there’s an optical illusion,” says Nichols. When the supermoon is viewed low on the horizon, it appears huge. This is known as the moon illusion and the moon hasn’t grown; it’s a trick your eyes are playing on you. This optical illusion also occurs when watching the supermoon immediately after sunset (or before sunrise). At this time, the moon also appears both bigger and brighter than it actually is. This is also why both times are the best for watching the supermoon. Nichols says that despite the difference between a regular full moon and a supermoon, it is not as grand as it appears. “If you stretch out your arm at full length, and stretch out your thumb, and compare the size of the full moon in the sky to the size of your thumb, you’ll notice the width of the full moon compared to the size of your thumb; you can put four full moons across the width of your thumb.” Considering that a full moon can be covered with a fingernail, even a 7% larger moon may not look that much bigger. How to photograph the supermoon For everyone waiting to catch a glimpse of the last supermoon of 2017, taking pictures to preserve the moment can be easy. Bill Ingalls, a NASA photographer, says that those capturing the event through their smartphones have to focus on the correct light balance. “Tap the screen and hold your finger on the object (in this case, the moon) to lock the focus. Then slide your finger up or down to darken or lighten the exposure.” For those using DSLR cameras, Ingalls recommends using another subject in the image, like a person, pet or landmark to compare to the size of the moon. “Often I find when the moon is near the horizon I have a better chance of incorporating it with a landmark or person, but there are no rules and sometimes a tall object such as the Washington Monument here in D.C. can be used when the moon is at a very high angle. While the supermoon can come out looking larger in photos (thanks to long lenses and editing) than it does when looking at it in person, Nichols says it is an incredible opportunity to get people interested in science and astronomy. “The supermoon gets headlines because the moon’s a little bigger and a little brighter, but people get frustrated that they can’t always tell the difference. Still, it’s a great excuse to just go out and look at the sky,” says Nichols. “You can do the experiment with your outstretched thumb. Do it near the horizon, and do it again away from the horizon. Then do it somewhere else. It’s a fun way to get involved in science.” Post content or file description Your Media Files Topics: supermoon Full Pink Moon coming Friday! But the name is deceiving… Happening tonight: You can see Jupiter and its largest moons with just your binoculars Rare ‘blue flower moon’ will appear in Saturday night’s sky WATCH: Total solar eclipse moves across South America 2 astronauts wishing America a Happy Independence Day from space NASA opening space station to visitors Space exploration exhibit for Apollo 11 opens at Ohio museum Cleveland, Akron in list of cities that will experience total solar eclipse in 2024 50 years since the moon landing: How it all began in Warren for Neil Armstrong Attention cookie lovers! 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__label__cc	0.706452	0.293548	Cry Of The Children (2013) J.M. Gregson Severn House Publishers About book: That wasn’t usual for Bert, who generally enjoyed his work, despite his routine protests on occasions at the dullness of it. Tonight he came into their home wishing heartily for a little of that dullness. ‘Supper won’t be long,’ she said. He looked at her for a moment as if he had not understood, then nodded and slumped into an armchair. Eleanor got herself a gin and tonic and set a glass and a can of beer on the small table by Hook’s elbow. ‘Thanks,’ he said quietly. He summoned up a small, grateful smile for her, then stared into space. After a moment, he tilted the glass and poured the contents of the can into it with elaborate care, as if he could shut out the rest of his day by this simple act of concentration. Eleanor sat down opposite him but didn’t speak. They had married relatively late by police standards, when both of them were in their late twenties and recovering from broken engagements. It was a relaxed and happy union; they often didn’t need words. It wasn’t until Bert gave a long sigh and said, ‘We haven’t found her,’ that Eleanor chose to speak. Other books by Humor Stowaway Slaves The Return of Nightfall Transmaniacon The Ninth Daughter Other books by J.M. Gregson Wages of Sin Malice Aforethought	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line1236
__label__cc	0.644037	0.355963	Why the youth market matters for Snapchat and Facebook, despite what the WSJ thinks Mathew Ingram Nov 18, 2013 - 10:40 AM CDT Ever since the Wall Street Journal wrote about the rumors that Snapchat turned down a $3-billion acquisition offer from Facebook (s fb), technology and media pundits of all stripes have been busy trying to argue that the offer was a) totally justified or b) completely insane. In both arguments, the desires of teen and twenty-something users play a big role — either because they are seen as hugely valuable or because they are seen as being over-valued. Journal tech writer Farhad Manjoo appears to fall directly into the latter camp, judging by a piece he wrote on the weekend about the alleged Snapchat deal, under the headline “Snap Out of It: Kids Aren’t Reliable Tech Predictors.” Manjoo, who recently joined the Journal from Slate, argues that younger users are a poor barometer for value in technology, because they are often wrong about what is going to be “the next big thing.” As he puts it in his piece: “I believe the children aren’t our future. Teach them well, but when it comes to determining the next big thing in tech, let’s not fall victim to the ridiculous idea that they lead the way.” Younger users get the overall trends right Is the idea that younger users lead the way in tech really ridiculous? I don’t think so. Just the opposite, in fact. While Manjoo may be trying hard to be deliberately contrarian, in order to counter what he feels is an overwhelming orientation towards younger users in the technology sector, in the process I think he misses the point. And by doing so, he misses out on why appealing to teens and twenty-somethings is so important to companies like Facebook or Twitter (s twtr), and will continue to be. Manjoo argues that young users don’t always discover — or aren’t that important to — the beginnings of new technology developments, and to prove it he lists everything from the iPhone (s aapl), iPod and Kindle (s amzn) to YouTube (s goog), Twitter and LinkedIn (s lnkd). And he argues that some of the things they do adopt in large numbers turn out to not be all that important in the longer term, such as MySpace (s nws). @fmanjoo my general hypothesis though is that Youngs are by nature more experimental and innovate more of the legit new behaviors — matt (@mattbuchanan) November 18, 2013 In making his argument, Manjoo conflates a number of things and confuses others. For one thing, the reason young users weren’t among the early adopters of the iPhone likely had more to do with money than a lack of desire or interest in the technology — and the same goes for the Kindle and other things on Manjoo’s list (the criticism that young users weren’t among the early adopters of LinkedIn is so ridiculous it’s not even worth addressing here). As for MySpace, blogging and Twitter, while it may be true that MySpace flamed out in spectacular fashion, that’s not because younger users somehow “got it wrong” when they adopted the platform in large numbers. In the end, MySpace’s decline was a decline at the corporate level, not a signal that the technology or the market need wasn’t there — in fact, it was there, as Facebook’s massive early success with teens and twenty-somethings demonstrated in spades. Facebook is right to be worried If it was true that teens and twenty-somethings aren’t reliable tech predictors and/or aren’t that valuable as users, then Facebook’s share price wouldn’t have plummeted like a rock when a senior executive admitted recently that the social network had seen a decline in usage by younger users. And the reason why all of this matters to the company and to investors was aptly summed by by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in a comment originally directed at newspaper companies, after he bought the Washington Post: “All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you’re Woolworth’s.” In a way, critics like Manjoo are conflating two separate questions. One is whether Snapchat is worth more than $3 billion — to Facebook or anyone else — and the other is whether young users are a reliable barometer of what is important in technology. I wouldn’t claim to have an answer to the first of those questions, because predicting tech valuations is a lot like predicting the weather: even the best are wrong almost as often as they are right. But I would argue that the answer to the second question is clearly yes: teens and twenty-somethings are good predictors of technology’s future, even if the services or apps or hardware they prefer at a specific point in time don’t become a “winner” in market terms. And that’s why companies like Facebook — and investors who hold shares in them — should be concerned when they see younger users dropping off or adopting other services. @fmanjoo @MikeIsaac this is all missing the point. There is a new behavior that already has addicted millions upon millions in a new network — Josh Elman (@joshelman) November 18, 2013 Post and thumbnail photos courtesy of Shutterstock / Stanislav Komogorov, as well as Albert Chau User base 6 Responses to “Why the youth market matters for Snapchat and Facebook, despite what the WSJ thinks” Ash Gilpin November 20, 2013 And it’s not just Snapchat and Facebook relying on the youth market. How about all of the new photo sharing apps that have been popping up. You’ve got Reactr, Context, Shots of Me (some new Justin Bieber selfie app), Frontback, etc. If you ask me, there are too many options for the consumer. Rational Man November 20, 2013 Creating revenue generating business is the goal, though not all companies seem to grasp this item. The young are a good indicator of new trends. The devil in the detail is is identifying when is it a trend, a fad, or sustainable force. Successful companies have a mix of customers, laser focus on target markets is critical in the beginning. dj November 19, 2013 surely the ever present trend is that people, perhaps especially young people, want to be able to share messages privately, quickly and easily to different audiences, both groups and individuals. facebook only serves part of this need and is defaulting to too large an audience so people are looking at more private options of which snapchat is perhaps the most private currently. Alexander Rosen November 18, 2013 No question that all consumer tech companies need to appeal to young generation to stay relevant. But Manjoo had a good point: few major mainstream tech services started with kids using them. So, it would be interesting to hear examples of other major technology companies who products or services youngsters adopted before adults Robb Montgomery November 18, 2013 You are correct. The example I would offer is how teens ten years ago cleverly exploited the AOL “Away Message” system to send each other private messages. (iChat supports this too, but AOL was far more popular with teens.) Using AOL Instant messenger, teens would leave custom away messages on their accounts that only their approved friends could see. These were the among the first ‘status updates.’ So, it is not simply the technology adoption, but the behavior patterns that youths bring to the ecosystem that matter. Here, the law of unintended consequences is made plain. History is repeating itself with Snapchat because it brilliantly restores the perception of private messaging that teens will always prefer and value. It is so stealthy cool that even if mom or dad load the app, they will not see the value because their friends, for sure, are not on it. Facebook should be very worried, indeed. Snapchat is not the only player that supports this behavior What’s App is popular with my international friends, but I find that. Viber does this even more brilliantly and better in every regard. I would not create a messaging app today without first understanding how teens behave when their parents aren’t looking. rememberingbob November 18, 2013 Thanks for the comment, Rob — good point about AOL and status messages. The Future of Software Innovation? Hardware-Enabled AI & ML Innovation Greg Fisher Apr 1, 2019 - 10:12 AM CDT Getting the basics right Five questions for… Keri Gilder, Chief Commercial Officer, Colt Technology Services. Can Connectivity be linked to Customer Experience? 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