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__label__wiki	0.830619	0.830619	Oxford Art Online Grove Art Online AllAuthorsArticle TitleHeadingsBibliographyOccupationImage CaptionAbbreviation Any Baptism Birth Burial Death Floruit [[missing key: search-facet.tree.open-section]] Nineteenth-Century Art (9) Gothic Revival and Gothick (1) Hudson River School (1) Romanticism (9) Twentieth-Century Art (1) Gardens and Landscape Design (1) Painting and Drawing (6) Prints and Printmaking (1) Artist, Architect, or Designer (8) Writer or Scholar (2) Romanticism x The Americas x Allston, Washington (b Waccamaw, SC, Nov 5, 1779; d Cambridgeport, MA, July 9, 1843). American painter. The son of a prominent South Carolina plantation owner of English descent, he began to draw around the age of six, and he moved to his uncle’s home in Newport, RI, at the age of eight. While there he came into contact with the portrait painter Samuel King, but it was the exhibited portraits of Robert Edge Pine that offered him inspiring models of glazing and colouring. Dubbed ‘the Count’ by his Harvard College classmates for his way with fashion, Allston explored alternatives to the portrait tradition with landscapes, as well as with depictions of irrational figures, for example Man in Chains (1800; Andover, MA, Phillips Acad., Addison Gal.). After graduating in 1800, he sold his patrimony to fund study abroad. In 1801 Allston went with Edward Greene Malbone to London, where he frequented the circle of Benjamin West and studied drawing at the Royal Academy. In late ... Chassériau, Théodore Donald A. Rosenthal (b El Limón, nr Samaná [now in the Dominican Republic], Sept 20, 1819; d Paris, Oct 8, 1856). French painter and printmaker (see fig.). In 1822 Chassériau moved with his family to Paris, where he received a bourgeois upbringing under the supervision of an older brother. A precociously gifted draughtsman, he entered Ingres’s studio at the age of 11 and remained there until Ingres left to head the Académie de France in Rome in 1834. He made his Salon début in 1836 with several portraits and religious subjects, including Cain Accursed (Paris, priv. col.), for which he received a third-class medal. Among his many submissions in subsequent years were Susanna Bathing (1839, exh. Salon 1839; Paris, Louvre), a Marine Venus (1838; exh. Salon 1839; Paris, Louvre) and the Toilet of Esther (1841, exh. Salon 1842; Paris, Louvre); these three paintings of nude female figures combine an idealization derived from Ingres with a sensuality characteristic of Chassériau. By 1840–41, when Chassériau rejoined Ingres in Rome, he had begun to turn away from his teacher’s linear stylization. He became increasingly critical of the academic curriculum and passed his time making sketches of the Italian countryside and studying Renaissance frescoes, which later influenced his approach to painting monumental decorations. His best easel paintings of the early 1840s, the portraits of the Dominican friar ... Cole, Thomas Angela L. Miller (b Bolton-le-Moor, Lancs, Feb 1, 1801; d Catskill, NY, or 11, 12). American painter and poet of English birth. Cole was the leading figure in American landscape painting during the first half of the 19th century and had a significant influence on the painters of the Hudson River school, among them Jasper Cropsey, Asher B. Durand and Frederic Church (Cole’s only student). In the 1850s these painters revived the moralizing narrative style of landscape in which Cole had worked during the 1830s. From the 1850s the expressive, Romantic landscape manner of Cole was eclipsed by a more direct and objective rendering of nature, yet his position at the beginning of an American landscape tradition remained unchallenged (for an example of his work, see View on the Catskill—Early Autumn, 1836–37; New York, Met.). He spent his first 17 years in Lancashire. Industrialized since the 18th century, Lancashire provided a stark contrast to the wilderness Cole encountered when he followed his family to Steubenville, OH, via Philadelphia, in ... Dexter, George Minot Margaret Henderson Floyd (b Boston, MA, 1802; d Brookline, MA, Nov 26, 1872). American architect and engineer. After leaving Harvard University in 1821, he travelled in England, France and Germany during the following decade. He was impressed by the evidence of Romanticism that he saw in England and by the work of Karl Friedrich Schinkel in Germany, where he studied engineering. In Paris he bought architectural books for the Boston Athenaeum and the library of the architect and civil engineer Alexander Parris. In the 1830s Dexter trained as an engineer in Boston. His engineering studies enabled him to undertake major commissions with advanced engineering requirements, but his technical competence was combined with a romantic sensibility. He designed the houses in Pemberton Square (1836; destr.), Boston, which resembled Charles Bulfinch’s Tontine Crescent in plan. He designed two important railway stations in Boston, the Haymarket and the Fitchburg (1844 and 1848 respectively; both destr.), which solved the transport problems of the Boston peninsula. He won the competition of ... Downing, A(ndrew) J(ackson) Arthur Channing Downs (b Newburgh, NY, Oct 31, 1815; d Hudson River, NY, July 28, 1852). American writer, horticulturist, landscape gardener and architect. From the age of seven he was trained in the family nursery garden by his elder brother Charles Downing (1802–85), an experimental horticulturist. Before he was 15, Downing came under the influence of André Parmentier (1780–1830), a Dutch-trained landscape gardener, and he studied the 700-acre estate that Parmentier had landscaped in the English manner at Hyde Park, NY. Downing was also influenced by the mineralogist Baron Alois von Lederer (1773–1842) and the landscape painter Raphael Hoyle (1804–38). In 1834 Downing’s first article, ‘Ornamental Trees’, appeared in journals in Boston, MA, and France. His article ‘The Fitness of Different Styles of Architecture for Country Residences’ (1836) was the first important discussion of the topic in America. He expressed enthusiasm for a variety of styles and insisted they must be used in appropriate settings. His ... Düsseldorf and Munich schools Marisa J. Pascucci Terms applied to painters who had studied at either of the two academies in Germany where numerous American artists sought painting instruction. In the mid-19th century some of America’s most esteemed artists studied at the German art academies in Düsseldorf and Munich. By the end of the 19th century hundreds of American artists in search of the latest artistic styles and techniques were working and training at both academies. The Düsseldorf school of painting refers to a group of painters who taught or studied at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie (now the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf) between the 1830s and the 1860s. During this time the Kunstakademie was held in high esteem throughout Europe and the USA. Rather bohemian in direction, days were filled with classes in drawing and color and also history and anatomy, with nights devoted to socializing centered around reading and discussion. Directed by the painter Schadow family §(3) and artists following the ... Notman, John Constance M. Greiff (b Edinburgh, July 22, 1810; d Philadelphia, PA, March 3, 1865). American architect of Scottish birth. He was prominent among the emigré architects of the first half of the 19th century who introduced into America new styles, a greater professionalism, and more sophisticated approaches to design. According to an anonymous manuscript biography (ex-Hist. Soc., Philadelphia, PA, now lost), Notman served an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Edinburgh. He then worked for the architect William Henry Playfair (see Playfair family §(2)), whose early essays in the Italianate style Notman later introduced in the USA. In 1831, following a period of economic depression in Edinburgh and the consequent collapse of its construction industry, Notman immigrated to the USA, settling in Philadelphia, where he supported himself as a carpenter. His first major design commission was for the Laurel Hill Cemetery (1836–9), Philadelphia, PA. Derived from Kensal Green Cemetery, London, Laurel Hill was the earliest architect-designed Picturesque rural cemetery in the USA. Rural cemeteries and other landscape designs continued to be an important aspect of his work. Later cemeteries included Hollywood Cemetery (... Ryder, Albert Pinkham Elizabeth Johns (b New Bedford, MA, March 19, 1847; d Elmhurst, NY, March 28, 1917). American painter. He is generally considered to be America’s greatest visionary painter. His c. 160 canvases, intense in colour and pattern and often with mysterious thematic overtones, are distinctively Romantic. Raised in the whaling community of New Bedford, MA, Ryder moved to New York with his family c. 1870. He had already begun painting landscapes. Independent in mind and inclined to learn from experimentation, he studied at the New York National Academy of Design, but only irregularly. His best instruction was received informally, from the New York portrait painter and engraver William E. Marshall (1837–1906). He adopted the habit of studying engravings and was strongly attracted to the pastoral works of recent painters, particularly those of Camille Corot and the other Barbizon painters. His own work, for example Curfew Hour (1882; New York, Met.), incorporated the earthen tonalities, simplified interlocking patterns of human, animal and landscape forms and the quiet light effects characteristic of the French painters.... Sonntag [Sontag], William Louis Peter Bermingham (b East Liberty, PA, March 2, 1822; d New York, Jan 22, 1900). American painter. Born the son of a merchant in a suburb of Pittsburgh, he moved to Cincinnati at an early age. Despite his father’s opposition, he began a career as an itinerant landscape painter in the mid-1840s, selling paintings and sketches throughout the Ohio Valley. An exhibition of his work, held in a store, won him a commission in 1846 from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to paint a series of views along its route. In 1855 Sonntag travelled to Italy to study in Florence for a year, a journey that resulted in Classic Italian Landscape with Temple of Venus (c. 1860; Washington, DC, Corcoran Gal. A.). He lived permanently in New York after 1860, and by 1862 he was a full academician at the National Academy of Design there. Sonntag was always a wanderer in the lesser-known, picturesque areas of Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, along the Kanauba, Potomac and Ohio rivers, which often featured in his paintings, for example ... Copyright © Oxford University Press 2019. Grove is a registered trademark. Printed from Grove Art Online. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a single article for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy).	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14114
__label__wiki	0.640958	0.640958	Shanna's Kitchen Palm Coast Friday, Jul. 11, 2014 5 years ago Making a difference: Marini donates to Fun Coast Down Syndrome by: Shanna Fortier Associate Editor My goal as community journalist is not only to share people’s stories, but to make a difference in the community. I was head over heels last week when I got an email from Paula Wilburn, executive director/ president of the Fun Coast Down Syndrome Association saying that because of the article I wrote and pictures I took at the association’s first balance bike camp, she was contacted by a local doctor who wanted to donate to the second camp scheduled for the fall. Originally, Dr. Don Marini, of Palm Coast Cardiovascular Institute, said that he would donate $1,200, which would cover about six riders. Wilburn was thrilled! “Your coverage is making a huge difference for the FCDSA, thank you with all of my heart,” Wilbrun wrote in the email. But upon hearing that there would actually be 12 riders at the camp, Marini quickly upped his donation to $2,400 to cover the entire second camp. “For me, this is ginormous,” Wilburn said while standing outside Marini’s office. “I’m so overwhelmed, this blew my socks off.” For Marini, he said the decision to donate was easy. “I saw your paper and I thought it was well done,” he said. “My staff and I talked about it and we just wanted to make sure these kids don’t get left out. We’re just happy that we have the ability to donate. These kids need support, so, we do what we can do.” Wilbrun said that the association has been struggling since 2002 to make a difference in the community and getting funds is one of the hardest parts. “It’s just so awesome for somebody to do this for us,” she told Marini. “It doesn’t happen often.” I am so proud to be part of this story and so excited that what I cover really is making a difference in the community. Java Joint: Ty Pennington approved Back to Guatemala, with Epic Church	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14116
__label__wiki	0.879756	0.879756	Palm Coast Friday, Jan. 12, 2018 1 year ago City Council members Steven Nobile and Heidi Shipley will not run for re-election Former mayor Jon Netts may run for Shipley’s seat. by: Jonathan Simmons News Editor Palm Coast’s two senior City Council members will not run for re-election. Councilman Steven Nobile, the District 4 councilman elected in 2014, will not run because he plans to move. Councilwoman Heidi Shipley, who was elected the same year to represent District 2, will also not run again. “I don’t know when, but it probably will be occurring in the next term,” Nobile said Jan. 12 of his planned move. “The last thing I want to do is run for election and then ... force the city to do a special election. I don’t want to do that to the city.” Nobile said he and his wife plan to downsize. “We just have this humongous house, and it’s only me and my wife,” he said. “And it could be Bunnell, it could be Flagler County, it could be somewhere else in Palm Coast.” Nobile and his wife, Angela, came to the decision after the holiday break, Nobile said. They had considered locations as far north as the Carolinas, but a taste of winter cold over recent weeks convinced the couple to confine their search to Florida. As for the time he’s spent on the council, Nobile said, he feels that two issues that motivated him to run in the first place — the need for economic development and a review of the city’s charter — are progressing. “We’ve got the city moving in the right direction,” he said. In the meantime, he said, “Nothing’s going to change, as far as I’m concerned, for the end of my term. I’m going to just keep trying, keep pushing at it until the very last day.” If he had the option to go back in time and decide whether to do it all over again, “I would say yes,” he said. “I’m very glad I did. It was a very good experience, working with the different people, especially the state government. ... I would definitely run again if not for the fact that we’re moving.” Shipley said she felt she hadn’t been able to achieve everything she’d hoped to on the council, and thought it was time for someone else to step forward. And, she said, she knew that former mayor Jon Netts had expressed interest in running for her spot. She didn’t want to run against Netts, and thought a re-election campaign would be too financially costly. “It cost about seven grand to run last time, and I don’t have that this time around,” she said. The departure of Shipley and Nobile will leave on the council three people who were elected in 2016: Mayor Milissa Holland and councilmen Nick Klufas and Bob Cuff. “I don’t like it that there’s not going to be a senior person in this spot,” Shipley said. “Luckily, we have the mayor,” who has prior experience in local government. “I’ll still try to stay involved,” Shipley added. Shipley said she was pleased that she’d been able to help the city move forward with an initiative to expand its street lighting and to roll out a trap-neuter-return program for feral cats. Asked Jan. 16 if he planned to run for Shipley’s seat, Netts said he was “seriously considering it.” Two arrested in connection with car theft and K-Section burglaries Archways to Opportunity: How two students are getting help from McDonald’s for college	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14117
__label__wiki	0.968299	0.968299	Brexit claims another victim: Britain’s venture capitalists Prominent industry figures say European Investment Fund turned off tap after UK triggered exit process. By Mark Scott Updated 8/22/17, 4:35 PM CET People work at computers in TechHub, an office space for technology startup entrepreneurs, near the Old Street roundabout in the Shoreditch neighborhood of London \| Oli Scarff/Getty Images LONDON — Britain’s tech industry put up a brave front in the wake of the Brexit vote, claiming the country’s startups and venture capitalists are still open for business. But for British venture capital firms — still the deepest pool of money in Europe dedicated solely to investing in tech companies — the prospect of Brexit is already hitting them directly in the wallet. Since the country gave notice it was leaving the European Union in March, a growing list of British venture capital funds has been told they will not receive financial support from the European Investment Fund, an EU agency that provides almost half of the money for the region’s venture capital industry, according to several fund managers who held discussions with the body. Some of the investors spoke on the condition of anonymity because their conversations with the fund were private. “The pullback of the EIF puts the U.K. at a structural disadvantage compared to other European countries,” said Fred Destin, a London-based venture capitalist who previously worked for Accel, one of the city’s largest venture houses, and is now raising his own fund but has not approached the agency. “The EIF is such a strategic partner,” he added. “The U.K. government needs to take action.” The British government's efforts to fill this gap in funding — worth, collectively, hundreds of millions of euros — have been slow to emerge, including plans announced earlier this month to create a new tech investment fund that, so far, have been short on details. “We were continuing the process with the EIF until Article 50 was triggered, but then they stopped the talks” — Simon Murdoch, partner at Episode1 Ventures This likely shortfall in new financial backing, many in Britain’s tech community claim, raises concerns about how the country will maintain its spot as first among equals within Europe’s tech industry as counterparts in France, Germany and elsewhere court startups and entrepreneurs into leaving London and other British cities. British business to lobby Brussels on Brexit transition deal Charlie Cooper and Cat Contiguglia Britain falls behind France in venture funding after Brexit Mark Scott Infighting UK ministers seek truce on Brexit transition period Simon Marks It also comes as tech founders and venture capitalists are already grumbling that the steady flow of developers and engineers, often from other European countries, is slowing, while others fret about the financial uncertainty created by Britain’s pending departure from the world’s largest trading bloc. Tap turned off The EU agency, whose remit is to promote economic development across the region and whose largest investors include the European Commission and European Investment Bank, rejected suggestions it has stopped financing British venture capital, though it admitted there has been a slowdown. While little-known outside tech circles, the Luxembourg-based fund remains the largest backer of European venture capital, often providing up to 40 percent of funds’ total investments, equal to billions of euros each year. It has invested in many of the region's largest venture houses, including Atomico and Lakestar, that have backed some of Europe's best-known startups — like Spotify, the music-streaming service and Supercell, the Finnish gaming company behind the "Clash of Clans" franchise. In Britain, for instance, the European Investment Fund forked out €2.3 billion between 2011 and 2015 to support 144 local venture and private equity funds, or roughly one-third of overall investment for the sector, according to the latest figures available from the agency. The EIF does not break out how much was earmarked specifically for local venture funds. Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond \| Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images David Yormesor, a spokesman for the European Investment Fund, said that due diligence on potential British investments “now needs to be more thorough,” adding that it had to “take into account a wider range of factors.” He declined to comment on what those factors could be. Yet records of discussions reviewed by POLITICO between the EU agency and several tech investors — some of whom had been in talks for more than a year — show that in reality, the tap for European funding already has been turned off. Among the British venture capital funds recently rebuffed by the European Investment Fund: Hoxton Ventures, Seedcamp and Episode1 Ventures, early investors in some of the country’s best-known startups like Deliveroo, the food-delivery service, and Transferwise, the foreign exchange startup. These rejections began soon after Britain triggered Article 50 in late March, setting the clock ticking on the country’s departure from the 28-member bloc. Over a series of often uncomfortable phones calls, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter, officials from the European Investment Fund told the British venture capitalists that any new investments — valued at tens of millions of euros, combined — were postponed indefinitely. The officials added that the EU agency lacked approval — or any guidance — from the European Investment Bank and European Commission over whether it could continue supporting tech funds focused on Britain. “We were continuing the process with the EIF until Article 50 was triggered, but then they stopped the talks,” said Simon Murdoch, a partner at Episode1 Ventures, which is raising a new fund of up to £60 million. “The strong suspicion was that it was related to Brexit.” After the Brexit referendum vote last summer, the European Investment Fund told funds that at least two-thirds of future investments must be made within the EU — already a difficult target for British funds focused mainly on the local tech sector. Now, any new investments by the agency in Britain remain unlikely, though the British government and the European Investment Bank are trying to negotiate a compromise. Britain struggles to fill void With EU money increasingly off the table, the British government is trying to fill the void, though its efforts have met with a subdued welcome from some venture capitalists. Chancellor Philip Hammond announced last year that the British Business Bank, a state-backed agency, would offer £400 million in new support for the country’s venture capitalists. And in June, he added that the British financial institution would also provide up to half of the investments in any new fund, compared to the previous maximum of one-third of new capital. In another effort to calm nerves, the British government proposed the creation of a new investment fund \| Dan Kitwood/Getty Images “The British Business Bank is already an important player for the whole ecosystem,” said Eileen Burbidge, a partner at Passion Capital, which has received financial backing from the British bank. In another effort to calm nerves, the British government also proposed the creation of a new investment fund on August 1 that would mirror the structure of the European Investment Fund, another sign of the pullback by the EU agency. More details on the fund will be published after a two-month consultation ending in October. But officials are expected to channel any new investments for the country’s tech sector through the existing British Business Bank, and they stress that the aim is to help British funds compete globally. But people in the venture capital industry question if the state-backed financial institution has the resources, skills and manpower to take on an expanded role, as well as whether Britain can ever fully replicate the financial support offered by the European Investment Fund. “Most U.K. funds don’t just invest in the U.K. We can’t restrict ourselves to just one country" — Sean Seton-Rogers, partner at PROFounders Capital Typically, according to fund managers, the British Business Bank has required funds to invest primarily within the United Kingdom. But while many venture capital funds are headquartered in London, they have often invested across the European Union and further afield. That has raised concerns that any attempt by the British government to plug the gap left by the EU agency will inevitably be hamstrung, as local venture funds may lack the ability to compete for global deals with European and international rivals. “Most U.K. funds don’t just invest in the U.K.,” said Sean Seton-Rogers, a partner at PROFounders Capital, which has received backing from the European Investment Fund. “We can’t restrict ourselves to just one country." Digital Industry Tech finance BREXIT CHEAT SHEET Guide to the Brexit impact report industry Who’s who in the Brexit talks Brexit policy guides Brexit timeline: From referendum to EU exit Imagining the Brexit cliff edge The outgoing UK prime minister said politics was plague by ‘absolutism.’ Finance minister joins international chorus of concern. Stephen Barclay says reports about the alleged spat are ‘misleading.’ Proposed system would worsen labor and skills shortages, lobby groups write to future British PM.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14119
__label__cc	0.584564	0.415436	ISIS Muslims Respond To Pope Francis' Wish For Dialogue & Peaceful Co-existence By Blowing Up The Armenian Genocide Memorial Church In Der Zor Just Days After The Pope's Meeting With The President Of Armenia!!!! Blown Up! What was the response to the ecumenical effort that Pope Francis made with the Armenian people these last five months? ISIS Muslims blew up the Armenian Genocide Memorial Church in Der Zor, please read the event and the following history of this Pope's involvement with the Armenian people and know that Pope Francis is truly a destroyer - I wouldn't want this Pope praying for me..... Destruction Of The Armenian Genocide Memorial Church In Der Zor: DER ZOR, Syria (A.W.) —The Islamic State (also known as ISIS) destroyed the Armenian Genocide Memorial Church in Der Zor, news agencies in the Middle East reported. The reports surfaced as Armenia was celebrating the 23rd anniversary of its independence on Sept. 21. Armenia’s Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian issued a statement condemning the destruction of the church, which housed the remains of victims of the Armenian Genocide, calling it a “horrible barbarity.” Nalbandian called upon the international community to cut the Islamic State’s sources of supply, support, and financing, and eradicate what it referred to as a disease that “threatened civilized mankind.” The church was built in 1989-1990, and consecrated a year later. A genocide memorial and a museum housing remains of the victims of the genocide was also built in the church compound. Thousands of Armenians from Syria and neighboring countries gathered at the memorial every year on April 24 to commemorate the genocide. Many refer to Der Zor as the Auschwitz of the Armenian Genocide. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians perished in Der Zor and the surrounding desert during the genocide. In summer 1916 alone, more than 200,000 Armenians, mostly women and children, were brutally massacred by Ottoman Turkish gendarmes and bands from the region. Timeline of Pope Francis & the Armenians: Karekin II & Pope Francis THE POPE RECEIVES HIS HOLINESS KAREKIN II AND RECALLS ARMENIA'S 20TH CENTURY MARTYRS Vatican City, 8 May 2014 (VIS) – “In the person of Your Holiness I extend my respectful and affectionate thoughts to the members of the family of the Catholicate of All Armenians throughout the world. It is a special grace for us to be able to meet in this house, close to the tomb of the Apostle Peter, and to share a moment of fraternity and prayer”. Pope Francis thus began his greeting to His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, in a meeting that took place this morning. He went on to mention how the links between the Armenian Apostolic Church and the Church of Rome have been consolidated during recent years thanks to events such as John Paul II's trip to Armenia in 2001, the presence of the Patriarch in the Vatican on various occasions such as the official visit to Benedict XVI in 2008 and the beginning of Pope Francis' ministry as bishop of Rome in 2013. “However”, he added, I would like to recall another celebration, rich in meaning, in which Your Holiness took part: the Commemoration of the Witnesses of faith in the twentieth century, which took place within the context of the Great Jubilee of 2000. In truth, the number of disciples who have shed blood for Christ in the tragic events of the last century is certainly higher than that of the martyrs of the first centuries, and the sons of the Armenian nation have a place of honour in this martyrology. The mystery of the Cross, so dear to the memory of your people, represented in the splendid stone crosses that adorn every corner of your land, has been lived by countless sons of yours, directly participating in the chalice of the Passion. Their witness, both tragic and lofty, must not be forgotten”. “The suffering of Christians during recent decades has also made a unique and inestimable contribution to the cause of unity between Christ's disciples. As in the ancient Church the blood of martyrs became the seed of new Christians, in our days too the blood of many Christians has become the seed of unity. The ecumenism of suffering and martyrdom is a powerful reminder to walk the path of reconciliation between the Churches, decisively and trustfully surrendering ourselves to the action of the Spirit. Let us feel the duty of following this path of fraternity also for the debt of gratitude we have towards the suffering of so many of our brothers, which has become salvific by being united with the passion of Christ”. In this respect, the Pope thanked Karekin II for his effective support for ecumenical dialogue, and in particular the work of the Joint Commission for theological dialogue between the Catholic Church and the oriental Orthodox Churches, and for the significant theological contribution to the Commission offered by the representatives of the Catholicate of All Armenians. “Let us pray for each other”, concluded the bishop of Rome. “May the Holy Spirit enlighten us and guide us towards longed-for day in which we may share in the Eucharist. And may the All Holy Mother of God intercede for the Armenian population, now and for ever”. Following the meeting, Pope Francis and His Holiness Karekin prayed together in the Redemptoris Mater Chapel. Aram I & Pope Francis I HIS HOLINESS ARAM I, CATHOLICOS OF THE ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF CILICIA, TO VISIT ROME Vatican City, 31 May 2014 (VIS) – His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church of Cilicia, will visit Rome to meet with His Holiness Pope Francis. His Holiness Aram I was elected Catholicos of Cilicia of Antelias in 1995. The Armenian Church consists of two catholicates and two patriarchates, and around six million faithful. The two catholicates of Etchmiadzin and Antelias are in full communion, but they are independent from an administrative point of view. The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople refer to Etchmiadzin for spiritual questions. Following Vatican Council II, new relations have developed between the Catholic Church and the Armenian Church. Representatives of the two Catholicates of Etchmiadzin and Antelias are members of the Mixed International Commission for theological dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches. His Holiness Aram I visited the Church of Rome and met with Pope John Paul II from 23 to 26 January 1997. More recently, the Catholicos Aram I visited Pope Benedict XVI in November 2008, and on that occasion they presided over an ecumenical prayer together. On Thursday 5 June the Catholicos will meet Pope Francis and they will pray together. They will visit the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and various other dicasteries of the Roman Curia. Finally, they will visit the tomb of St. Peter and pray before the statue of St. Gregory the Illuminator, which is located on the north courtyard of the Vatican Basilica. President Serzh Sargsyan & Pope Francis Audience with the president of Armenia: special attention to Christian communities and other religious minorities, and to refugees in conflict zones Vatican City, 19 September 2014 (VIS) – This morning the Holy Father Francis received in Audience the President of the Republic of Armenia, His Excellency Mr. Serzh Sargsyan, who subsequently met with His Eminence Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, accompanied by His Excellency Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, Secretary for Relations with States. During the cordial discussions, satisfaction was expressed for the development and strengthening of bilateral relations, highlighting the special role of Christianity in the history and life of Armenian society. With regard to the regional political situation, it is hoped that complex and hitherto unresolved issues may be overcome through dialogue between all the interested parties. Furthermore, mention was made of the theme of conflict in the Middle East, and trust was expressed in the common efforts of interested nations and religious communities to achieve a peaceful co-existence of peoples throughout the entire region. Special attention was paid to the situation faced by Christian communities and other religious minorities in the area, and to the humanitarian crisis regarding refugees from the affected zones. Pay Attention! Demon Pazuzu “In the year 1864, Lucifer together with a large number of demons will be unloosed from hell; they will put an end to faith little by little, even in those dedicated to God. They will blind them in such a way, that, unless they are blessed with a special grace, these people will take on the spirit of these angels of hell; several religious institutions will lose all faith and will lose many souls.Our Lady of La Salette 19 Sept. 1846 (Published by Mélanie 1879) Several will abandon the faith, and a great number of priests and members of religious orders will break away from the true religion; among these people there will even be bishops. Our Lady of La Salette 19 Sept. 1846 (Published by Mélanie 1879) "Francis / Bishop of Rome." Francis The Destroyer For In Those Days Jesus Christ Will Send Them Not A True Pastor, But A Destroyer ~ St. Francis	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14120
__label__wiki	0.953955	0.953955	Home / Games / Deadpool – Review Deadpool – Review Patrick Renfrow June 27, 2013 Games Review of: Deadpool (Xbox 360) Reviewed by: Patrick Renfrow Last modified:July 13, 2013 Playing 'Deadpool' is like listening to a shock jock DJ: it’s pure grindhouse gaming, designed to hit you with a sensory overload of gore and pitch-black, vulgar humor that's so low-brow that it’s virtually no-brow with visual gags attempting to hide the fact that, much like the character of Deadpool himself, there’s really nobody behind the wheel here. © High Moon Studios / Activision Bullets and sex dolls and blood — oh my! Out of Marvel Comics’ nearly infinite staple of super folks, Deadpool is a character that has been literally begging for an adaptation from the comic page. He’s Marvel’s resident, psychotic jester and their closest chance at an “anything goes” monthly title. He’s a foul-mouthed, misogynistic and schizophrenic assassin-for-hire whose only loves in the world are carnage, chicks and chimichangas. Not only that, but he’s one of Marvel’s rare forays into metafiction, a character who happens to be fully aware that he’s not real but just a character in a comic book. He’s been dubbed the “Merc with the Mouth” because he doesn’t simply break the fourth wall, he packs it with a metric ton of plastic explosives and blows it into smithereens. Sounds like someone who could certainly star in his own video game, right? Well, High Moon Studios thought so too, and despite a somewhat rocky road to completion, they have captured the essence of both the character and his quirky antics perfectly. Now if only they could have taken what they did oh, so right, and actually turned that into a decent game. Now don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the hell out of playing this game. In fact, this game is so funny in parts that I was literally in tears and had to pause the game to avoid being brutally murdered. I mean, if you told me that the script for this game had been written from a compilation of random scribbles on the back of cocktail napkins found in a frat house after a particularly brutal weekend bender, I wouldn’t doubt it in the slightest. The humor is irreverent, sophomoric and “no holds barred,“ just like the source material. That being said, if you’re easily offended… this is not the title for you. Also, there’s quite a bit of fan service on display here for those paying attention. There are quite a few B-Squad Marvel heroes and villains that put in cameos (such as Cable, Psylocke and Mister Sinister), as well as a few A-Listers (X-Men’s Wolverine and Rogue). And veteran voice actor Nolan North once again puts his most psychotic foot forward to breathe life into the mouth of the Merc, and he is just a slice of manic perfection. But that’s where the fun ends, I’m afraid. The gameplay itself is nothing more than a sub-par hack & slash brawler, fighting wave after wave of enemies that look exactly the same (they play this off by saying that they’re clones, but it’s a thinly veiled excuse), going on simple, yet extremely annoying fetch quests, and then fighting a boss or two. Rinse and repeat. There are a few amusing instances where they try to briefly change up the game’s monotony, such as when the titular character uses up the game’s budget and it switches to a top-down perspective 8-bit dungeon crawler, a la The Legend of Zelda, or when they utilize Little Big Planet-esque cardboard cutout style graphics, or even when Deadpool has to use the comic book word bubbles from the dueling voices in his head to bridge a nasty gap, but they are too few and too far between. The combat system may offer a decent amount of unlockable combos, character upgrades and different weapon options, but the fighting itself is far from fluid, and your awkward and wooden movements call to mind last gen titles. And though the graphics have some decent lighting effects and the textures have a distinct smoothness to them, they are certainly not up to par with most of the other titles being released these days. The level design is so overtly generic for a title in this genre (office building, sewers, lost island, etc.), I would love to think that they were poking some self-referential fun and trying to be ironic with these design choices, but there’s honestly no evidence to support that theory. In fact, I feel as though I already played a much better version of this game in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine Uncaged Edition (minus the humor, of course), and for a game being released at the end of a console cycle, that’s a sad statement. The most fun to be had with this game is probably in the first ten minutes exploring all the interactive nooks and crannies of Deadpool’s disgusting apartment, or just leaving the game sitting idle to see what torrent of profanities & insanities spew from beneath his mask. In my opinion, playing Deadpool is like listening to a shock jock DJ: it’s pure grindhouse gaming. It’s designed to hit you with a sensory overload of gore and pitch-black, vulgar humor that’s so low-brow that it’s virtually no-brow with visual gags attempting to hide the fact that, much like the character of Deadpool himself, there’s really nobody behind the wheel here. [subscribe2] 'Deadpool' takes risks like it has nothing to lose (and wins) The 'Deadpool' trailer is finally here Leaked 'Deadpool' trailer from Comic-Con will reassure you about the movie About Patrick Renfrow Patrick Renfrow has no literary training whatsoever. In fact, if he manages to string more than three coherent words together, he deems it "prose". But as a rabid gamer and self-proclaimed pop culture savant, he has found a home among kindred souls on Pop Mythology.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14121
__label__wiki	0.847424	0.847424	Lowe: League One A Learning Curve Winger targeting a strong end to the season by Neil Weld @Neil_Weld Jamal Lowe has not given up on Pompey sneaking a place in the League One play-offs. The Blues will need to win their final couple of games to have any chance of finishing inside the top six. They must also hope that two from Charlton, Scunthorpe and Plymouth drop points, with the latter pair still having to face each other. But whatever happens between now and the end of the campaign, Lowe believes there have been plenty of positives. The winger said: “We’re just concentrating on having two games left and trying to pick up all six points from them. Whether we make it or we don’t – the target stays the same. “I think if you’d said at the start of the season we would still have a chance of the play-offs at this stage, then people would have taken it. "It’s been a great experience for me because I haven’t played this many consecutive games for a long time." Jamal Lowe “We might not do enough, but it’s been a good learning curve for all of us after winning promotion from League Two. “It’s been a great experience for me because I haven’t played this many consecutive games for a long time. “So it’s certainly been positive, although I’ll be working on my strength, fitness, technique and understanding of the game to make sure I come back a better player next season.” Pompey have already sold more than 1,500 tickets for the long trip north to face relegated Bury this weekend. Lowe said: “It’s our last away game of the season and our support has been incredible throughout, so we want to give something back to the fans. “The mileage they’ve done has been insane. We go up on the Friday, but I’m sure most will be up early on Saturday to travel. “It’ll be nice for them to see a decent performance from a bunch of players who are committed to getting a win.” Sign in or register to watch Christian Burgess pre-Bury Defender Christian Burgess speaks exclusively to iFollow ahead of Pompey's final away game of the season at relegated Bury. Sign in to iFollow Bury vs Portsmouth on 28 Apr 18	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14123
__label__cc	0.639404	0.360596	By PracticeofthePractice Articles, How to Become a Consultant, Marketing, Podcasts, Running a Business April 28, 2015 Podcast 78 \| How to Get More Clients \| An interview with Private Practice Consultant Evan Center http://traffic.libsyn.com/practiceofthepractice/Session_78___How_to_Get_More_Clients___An_interview_with_Private_Practice_Consultant_Evan_Center.m4a Today’s Private Practice Podcast Sponsor If you want to build your strength and endurance, you can do repetitive physical exercises like running or walking. Similarly, to improve a specific cognitive skill like attention, you can perform a repetitive mental exercise and reap the benefits over time. Muse is the mental equivalent of a treadmill, which helps you exercise your brain with focused attention training. It improves your attention by training you to become aware of your distractions quicker and react faster to regain focus on what you’re doing. Here’s my unboxing of the Muse: What you will discover in this podcast 3:00 How I am slowing my mind down 8:11 Someone who “totally transformed” Evan’s world 11:16 How Evan stopped taking insurance and started running her counseling practice as a business 14:43 How Evan started a group intensive e-course 19:00 Why homework matters 23:41 What people don’t know 24:01 Technical side of running an e-course PoP Culture Meet Evan Center I met Evan Center at the 2015 ACA conference. Evan Center, MS, LCPC runs a thriving, face-to-face private practice in Bozeman, Montana. (But it wasn’t always the land-of-plenty for her business.) Evan has sought out training in marketing, sales writing and finance in order to make her practice what it is. She believes therapists deserve to have stability and plenty in their lives so they can create balance and continue to offer optimal therapeutic support to their communities. Evan offers other therapists training around how to shape their practice so that they: Attract their ideal clients to them Structure their practice to create steady income Make a greater impact on the clients they serve and their community If you know you want your private practice to do more, but you don’t know how, contact Center Institute today. Discount for the Practice of the Practice listeners $100 off! www.CenterInstitute.com/joe Here’s a snapshot from the page, you have to check it out!!! Podcasts you may have missed Music From The Podcast Silence is Sexy madelyniris For your social media Joseph R. Sanok, MA, LLP, LPC, NCC Joe Sanok is an ambitious results expert. He is a private practice business consultant and counselor that helps small businesses and counselors in private practice to increase revenue and have more fun! He helps owners with website design, vision, growth, and using their time to create income through being a private practice consultant. Joe was frustrated with his lack of business and marketing skills when he left graduate school. He loved helping people through counseling, but felt that often people couldn’t find him. Over the past few years he has grown his skills, income, and ability to lead others, while still maintaining an active private practice in Traverse City, MI. To link to Joe’s Google+ . Here is the Transcription of This Podcast How to Get More Clients An interview with Private Practice Consultant Evan Center This is the Practice of the Practice Podcast with Joe Sanok, Session 78. I’m Joe Sanok, your host. Welcome to the Practice of the Practice Podcast with me, Joe Sanok. I’m so glad you are here. What a crazy week it’s been. My mom had surgery last Tuesday, and so I spent two days with my family down at the hospital and then went back to Traverse City to do counseling and consulting sessions and then went back down there for two days. She’s down in Grand Rapids, which is a couple of hours away, and just a whirlwind — but it just put such a great spotlight on the fact that I no longer work for the community college that I make my own schedule. And if I have life happen, I can just like take time off. I can go down there, I can pause everything and do what I need to do. Like for example, in May, at my daughter’s school, they’re doing dads and donuts in the morning, where all the dads come to the classroom and hang out and eat donuts, and like I’m really excited about it. I think it’s going to be awesome. So it’s just super cool. Well, today’s sponsor — I want to start with that, is Muse. If you go to choosemuse.com, you can learn all about Muse, and Muse is this amazing biofeedback headband. I’ve been using it with counseling sessions with a lot of — mostly like high schoolers. And if you’ll picture just like a kind of headband made out of plastic with sensors on it that go across like above your forehead — or on your forehead and kind of then goes behind your ears, sort of like sunglasses would, it then picks up kind of your brainwaves on the front and then behind your ears, and it is so cool, like I love it personally because it’s teaching me to meditate and just relax a little bit, and for a lot of my counseling clients, they are just digging it because it connects to an app that then gives you immediate feedback. So you’re sitting there quietly just kind of counting your breaths in and out and you hear this like storm, and as you calm down, you hear waves. And then if you’re quiet enough, you hear birds. Now, I’ve personally never got birds, but I’ve had these clients that their first time got like five birds, and I am just blown away. And then it gives you your percentage of time in calm mind and percentage in kind of in the middle mind. I forgot what they call that, but then, the last one is active mind. And so believe it or not, I have bit of an active mind, so it’s really been helpful for me. I heard about it from Pat Flynn and a few other podcasters that are using it and connected with them, and they’re one of our sponsors at the Most Awesome Conference. So check them out at choosemuse.com. It’s amazing just how much it’s engaged, especially my teen clients. How I am slowing my mind down So today, I am interviewing Evan Center from centerinstitute.com. I met her at the ACA conference. And Evan, I know she didn’t come out of nowhere. I know she’s been working really hard, but to me, it’s like she came out of nowhere. She’s just doing some really cool work just taking a lot of the concepts that I’ve been talking about, that Kelly and Miranda have been talking about, and she’s just doing an amazing job. Her website is beautiful and super well-designed. She’s a therapist and entrepreneur. She’s a mom, and she says she’s your guide to building an awesome practice. And I would agree. Her emails and what she’s doing is just super cool. So a little bit about Evan: Evan runs a thriving private practice in face-to-face private practice in Montana. For her, it wasn’t always thriving, and you’ll hear a little bit about that, but she learned a lot about marketing, sales writing, finance, in order to just make her practice grow. And her core belief is that therapists deserve to have a stable and plentiful lifestyle where they can have balance and they can offer amazing therapy services to their communities. She offers therapists all sorts of really cool things like ways to attract their ideal clients, structuring their practice, making a greater impact, so she’s just doing cool stuff. And a lot of people have asked me, why do I interview people that are my competition? And I really just don’t see people like Evan as my competition. I think there’s plenty of work to go around, like if you look at most therapist websites and how they’re running their practice, clearly, there’s a gigantic market for improvement. And I kind of feel like if you want to be a leader in the field that collaborating and helping other people grow and helping other people get exposure, to me, that’s like the best way to help yourself, but also to help other people. I think it was Zig Ziglar who said that for you to reach your goals, help other people reach their goals. That’s not an exact quote, but it’s something like that. And really, it’s amazing how when you just help other people grow, they’re going to look to you and say, “Wow, they really helped me launch,” and whether it’s Evan or whether it’s Stephanie that I emailed last week, or if whoever it is, to me, I don’t see them as a competition. Like we’re all going to serve different audiences. People are going to maybe want to work with me that wouldn’t want to work with Evan that wouldn’t want to work with maybe the ZynnyMe girls or vice versa. We all have our own kind of unique way that we do things. So to me, like why not just do it in a way that’s nice? So I would say that’s kind of like the same approach you should take in your private practice. So often, people kind of just keep all of their information to themselves, but the more that you help other people and you refer to other people and you say, “You know what? I’m probably not your ideal counselor, but here, this person really is. This person’s amazing,” it’s so cool to see how that just helps you grow and helps other people grow, and to me, it just feels like the right thing to do. So that’s my approach. I’m not sure what your approach is. I’d love to have you put something in the comments on Practice of the Practice. The podcast episode is going to be session 78, so you can put some comments down there. But this is an awesome interview from Evan Center from centerinstitute.com. I just want you to love and meet and get to know her. And so without any further ado, here is Evan. Joe Sanok: Evan Center, welcome to the Practice of the Practice Podcast. EC: Thanks, Joe! Big year. Joe Sanok: Yeah. I’m really glad you’re here. I’m actually going to scoot my chair a little bit closer so that we can have better sound. That’ll be better. So I’ve been following your work for a little bit and checked out your website, and you’re just doing some great consulting work, and I thought it’ll be good to hear you story and just introduce you to the Practice of the Practice audience. EC: Thanks! I actually read your emails every week, so I love following you, too. Joe Sanok: Oh, awesome! Yeah, we just connected on Twitter, and so yeah, we’ll connect people with Twitter and with you soon. So tell me a little bit about how you got into consulting. Let’s start there. EC: Yeah. So I was working in an agency setting sort of simultaneously started a private practice, and honestly, it did absolutely nothing. But then, I had a daughter and decided that I wanted to exclusively do private practice. It was done working way too hard for not enough money. And so I left my agency job and started my private practice, and I thought it would be really easy and go really well, and it didn’t. It didn’t go very well at all, and so eventually I talked to a friend of mine who was in a different field and realized that I didn’t really know how to run a business at all. And essentially, a private practice is a business, and you have to know how to run a business to do that. Someone who “totally transformed” Evan’s world So I hired a business coach, but she was outside of the therapy world, and she totally transformed my whole world and how I viewed my practice, but she was also not a therapist, and she didn’t really get it. So there was a lot of translation that I had to do. So even after doing that, it didn’t quite start clicking for me until I went to a few other trainings in finance and marketing and copyrighting sales, and then I put all of that together, and then my practice grew really quickly. And by growing really quickly, like what I mean is making a really good, consistent living while only seeing the number of clients that I want to do and doing the kind of clinical work that I want to do, to not like working so hard like seeing eight clients a day like I did in an agency setting, but seeing the number of clients I wanted to see. Joe Sanok: And now, was that insurance-based practice? Was that private pay? How did you structure that? EC: Yeah. So that’s part of what I learned. When I first started my private practice, I signed up for every insurance panel that I could possibly get on, and I thought that that’s how you do a private practice. And honestly, in some ways, that works, like you don’t have to do much marketing or know how to do a sales conversation if you take insurance. It’s free for them, generally, if they have good insurance, and so they’ll say yes to you. But that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a good fit clinically, and it also means that I was giving away the entire financial control of my business to the insurance companies. An interesting thing that happened in Montana was because of a lot of interesting things I love in Montana was Blue Cross and Blue Shield, but it’s the biggest insurer in Montana, and a few years ago, they actually decreased the insurance, the reimbursable rate by $10 an hour, and nobody knew about it until the next month when they got their reimbursement checked. Everybody saw this $10 an hour pay cut, and that’s what I mean like giving away financial control. Joe Sanok: Yeah. EC: The other thing is that the only way they’re getting it raised if you work within insurance networks is by seeing more clients. And I got out of the agency setting to get off of that hamster will. Joe Sanok: I know. Like when I look back when I moved my practice to Traverse City, all the insurance panels were full, and that was my mindset, like, “Get out of the insurance panels.” This sounded like, well, I want to get started, so I’m going to do a private-pay private practice and just see if it can work, and like it did, and it was all just because someone else had said that our insurance panels are full. EC: Yeah. And one of the fortunate thing for you like you didn’t have — it was extracting yourself from insurance panels is actually a bit of work. Joe Sanok: Right. EC: Yeah. You can check out my blog for some of my rantings about that, actually. Joe Sanok: Yeah. I mean, I didn’t even realize just how much work it was to get off them until I started consulting with people that wanted to get off of them, but some are easy, some are hard, but it just — EC: Yeah. And sometimes, you have to give 90 days’ notice, and sometimes, their computer program doesn’t actually keep that information, and — Joe Sanok: I’ve seen some that they’re on the annual contract. If you missed that date, it’s like you’re stuck for that next year because you signed the contract. EC: Oh God! Joe Sanok: So yeah. How Evan stopped taking insurance and started running her counseling practice as a business EC: Yeah. So eventually, I cut all of those ties and got out of the networks, and that’s when I was able to really focus on running my business as a business. My practice is business, and you know, you actually do have to run as a business if you’re not in network, you have to market, you have to network, you have to be able to have a sales conversation, but it’s so much better. Joe Sanok: Right on your spot. We’ll just walk. We’re going to go for a little walk right now just because we’ll get a little better recording as I grab all my stuff here. Yeah, why don’t you grab my bag? All of these, I’m not even going to edit this out. It’s going to be that awesome. We’ll move that chair back later. All right, so you were saying? EC: So if you’re going to be out of networking, you have to have a plan. You have to have a strategy, and it doesn’t have to be a 50-page written business plan, but you do have to have a plan, whether it’s like a scratch sheet of paper with — and you actually have like a flowchart, don’t you? Joe Sanok: I do, yeah. I have an infographic just like your first year of — it’s still like the logistical side, the financials, marketing, all of that. EC: Yeah. That’s a fantastic resource if you don’t have a plan yourself, like to even just look at yours, Joe. Joe Sanok: Yeah. I’ll put a link to that in the show notes. Thanks for bringing it up. So you’re working with this business coach. She starts to kind of help you. You have to do a lot of translating as to what you’re going to do. So then, how did that translating do? I should teach other people how to do this. EC: Well, I guess what I realized was that once my practice started doing really well, I was talking about it within my consultation group. So I’ve been consulting with a handful of other therapists for a number of years, which by the way, if you’re in private practice, you need to be a part of a consultation group for peer supervision or peer consultation. Because if you’re in a solo practice, it can be somewhat isolating, and I think for us all to maintain our level of clinical excellence, we need to be presenting cases and getting feedback and talking about the cases where we don’t know necessarily what to do. And I’ve talked to an astounding number of therapists who are not a part of a consultation group, but I think it’s absolutely critical. But anyway, within that, I realized that I was more and more talking about business and I couldn’t shut up, and I realized that I really love talking about the business of running a private practice, and looking back on this is kind of funny to me because I never thought of myself as a business person, but once I’ve put the pieces together and I clicked, it’s actually really fun. Joe Sanok: Yeah. For me, it always was like there’s the business students in college that were just not the kind of person I wanted to be, and I associated that being like that’s what business is, but then, when you start actually doing you’d like and you feel like you’re good at, it’s way different than just trying to sell something that you just don’t believe in. EC: Yeah, so true. Joe Sanok: So tell me about you launching the kind of consulting side of what you do. How Evan started a group intensive e-course EC: I think I realized that what I was talking about was different than what a lot of people had heard, a lot of therapist friends had heard, and so I decided to basically figure out, “Okay, if I were going to guide people through how to do what I’ve done, what do they need to know?” And so I broke that down into about 12 modules, and I created my first program, which was like group intensive for therapists who’ve been in practice, generally under five years. Sometimes, people do it when they haven’t even started their practice yet. They just want to get a running start, and it’s basically how do you do what I have done? How do you put together all the pieces and have a practice where — I see 12 clients a week, and I gross over $10,000 a month every single month, so how do you have a practice where you can work the kind of hours that you want, provide the kind of clinical attention and care that you really believe in, and that’s whatever your theoretical orientation, really bringing it from that, and then make the kind of money that allows you to have the kind of life where you can take care of yourself, that I can afford to go to yoga classes and I can afford to go on vacation, and that makes me, I think, a better clinician because I’m healthy. Joe Sanok: Right — no, and I appreciate you giving those actual numbers because so often, like talking about money in our field, for some reason, people get really wigged out about it, but it’s like we all want to know that stuff. EC: Yeah. And you know, it’s so interesting. I talked to a therapist just yesterday who’s in New York City, and he was saying, “Oh yeah, everybody here charges $120 to $150,” and I was saying, “You know what? It doesn’t matter what other people in your area are charging. You’ve got to figure out what your time is essentially worth to you,” and then it’s what the market will bear, and it’s probably more than you think, and then you have to understand what the value is of what you’re offering. When you put all of those things together and then you figure out what you’re charging — and he’s actually wrong because I consulted with a therapist in Brooklyn just within the last few months, and she charges $250 an hour. Joe Sanok: Right. I was going to say like I’ve consulted with people in New York, and it’s usually $250 to $325. EC: Yeah. So even if you think you know what other people are charging, you may be off, and really, it’s irrelevant, because it’s not about what other people are charging, it’s about who are you as a clinician and what are you worth and what’s the value of what you’re offering. Joe Sanok: And I think that really touches on that point that we talked about in the podcast before of if you’re your own unique person and people want to see you for you, not just because you’re on some insurance list, then it’s like they’re willing to pay for that expertise because they just want to see Joe or they just want to see Evan, and it’s not that they just want to see anybody else. EC: Yeah, exactly. Joe Sanok: So I want to hear more about this program that you set up, because I’m sure lots of people have ideas of, “Oh, I want to do some e-course,” or “I want to create something.” Take me through like the nuts and bolts of like what program did you use to make it, how did you film it, did you use PowerPoints, like what does it look like? EC: Yeah, the six-month program? EC: Well, so the six-month program, I teach it live every single time I teach it. I’ve got a new one, a new cohort of therapists starting in May, but essentially, it’s twice a month. You’re probably going to commit two to three hours a week for six month to build a really strong practice. Joe Sanok: And when you say live, do you mean live like in person live, or — EC: No, not in person. I’m in Bozeman, Montana, which is a beautiful place. Joe Sanok: I can’t believe all those people are going to Montana. EC: No, no, gosh! I mean, you’re welcome to come visit. Joe Sanok: Twice a month, come to Montana, I’m like, that is — EC: No. It’s on the phone and online. Joe Sanok: Okay. EC: And it’s a group program and partly because I recognize that therapists in private practice are feeling pretty isolated. Joe Sanok: Sure. EC: And so I put therapists in private practice who are new who are going through that same growing stage together so there’s a peer community of support. EC: And so twice a month I’m giving information through those 12 modules that I boiled it all down to. Twice a month I’m doing an open Q&A call and then once a month I’m working with a therapist on in and within the program individually. EC: So, there’s a lot of individual support through these individual calls, through email support, through Facebook. Joe Sanok: Sure. Okay. So, what do you use to do those phone calls or do you record them? What’s the actual text structure? EC: Yeah. They’re all recorded. They’re conference calls. We’ll see. That may evolve. I’m looking at some other programs for this next door. But they’re all recorded. So, if you can’t make to the call you can always listen to it. Why homework matters There’s homework assignments with them so you do want to listen to them, you want to either print out or save your PDF handout from each call and work through the process. EC: Yeah. It’s all about implementation because the thing is — and you know this like I was a coach. We can tell people and give people the information that they need, but if it’s all about the implementation. It’s all about putting it into action. Joe Sanok: Yeah. So, you continue to kind of do different things on your website to drop people in. What are just some maybe marketing strategies that any counselor can learn when you do what they’ve experienced? EC: Yeah. You know, I think the two places where I feel like I get the most referrals in my private practice, one is through having a really solid website but the mistake that I see therapists making a lot of the time is that they think that the website is the very first thing that they need to do, and it’s not. You have to get really clear on who you are as a therapist and who your ideal clients are before you go to your website because otherwise, you know, build something that doesn’t speak to your ideal clients. EC: And even if they land there, they’re not going to want to call you. They’d say I’ve built for my private practice. I get people who call me after looking at my site and try to convince me to work with them even when I’m [? 20:12] which to me that’s a good website. You want people to feel that they know you and you can’t do that if you don’t know who you are and what you’re offering to whom. Joe Sanok: Yeah. So, one thing that when we were talking earlier was that you’ve kind of branded yourself as being someone that draws people’s innate expertise out, couldn’t read my handwriting. EC: Yeah. Joe Sanok: So, tell me how you landed on that because I know that my clinicians we’ve kind of found our own kind of super hero powers, as well. Joe Sanok: How’d you land on that? EC: Yeah. So, I think through working with a bunch of clinicians, I realized that that’s this process where a lot of clinicians even if they think that they know what their expertise is and their niches or if they think that they don’t have an expertise or a niche, they do. I mean, I would say you know, if I was going to give one piece advice to all therapists and I wanted all therapists in the world to know something, it would be that every therapist has a niche and every therapist has an innate expertise. EC: It’s that feeling that when you’re sitting in a session with a client and it feels really right and it feels like a really good fit and we know as clinicians that fit is a really important factor in the efficacy of the counseling process. So, it’s about figuring out who are these clients that you have a really good fit with and you know, obviously, it’s not all about how you feel in the room, it’s also looking at clients who have come back to you and said that transformed my life completely. EC: Because we know from resource that clinician perspective on that is not always accurate but really you know, clearing out that and because I feel like it’s sort of super hero I taught a CEU class on that live last year and I filmed it and so I made that and do a four-video series. EC: With the worksheet that you know, now people can download that if they want you know, start that and maybe they’re not ready to go through the entire six months intensive but they do want to get a taste of like really how do I boil down? Joe Sanok: What’s that video series kind of walk people through like how are they changed by the end of it? EC: Well, sort of I guess I ask the questions that they need to be asked so that they can you know, work through. It’s almost as if they’re working with me individually because it’s exactly what I would ask them if we were talking on the phone. And then they see in the videos — one of the videos is me actually working with another clinician. So you can see you know where she got from asking those questions and then how you take it to that next level of detail because what I find is therapists will say, “Oh, yeah. You know, like I want to work with adults and/or veterans and — but it needs to be more specific than that. And the language has to be — I was talking actually to a therapist earlier today. She says she wants to work with veterans and she wants to use neuro-feedback and yadi-yadi-ya and I said, “Well, that’s fantastic. I really create idea but you have to figure out how to communicate that differently to the actual veterans. Because they don’t think of themselves as veterans who need to use neuro-feedback. Joe Sanok: Right. That’s like in my private practice and say I help angry kids, frustrated parents and distant couples. EC: Exactly. Joe Sanok: And it’s like people are like, “Yes. I know what that is saying a million people that refer to you. EC: Exactly. Yeah. What people don’t know Joe Sanok: It’s like so often we’re like well I use behavioral therapy and then I use this. And people are like I don’t even know what that means. EC: Right. Joe Sanok: I don’t even know what an LPC is, you know. Joe Sanok: That’s great. So, with the video series, how do you — how does the technical side work? So you did all the filming and then do use a certain program within your website to deliver that? Technical side of running an e-course EC: Yeah. So, it’s within my website. The videos are hosted there. That’s really easy. You have the instant access as soon as you purchase. So it’s hosted. Joe Sanok: Very cool. So, we were talking before about how you were willing to give a discount to the people that are listening. So do you want to talk a little bit about that? EC: Yeah. So, I definitely have a discount to the Practice of the Practice — Joe Sanok: Whoo-ho. EC: — listeners. Joe Sanok: We’re always getting in the inside. EC: Yeah. So, it’s $100 off for listeners and the URL is centerinstitute.com/joe that’s J-O-E, just for you guys. Joe Sanok: My name. EC: That’s his name. Joe Sanok: Joe. EC: In case you forgot. Joe Sanok: Yeah. And if you’re running or snow blowing or whatever, I’ll have that in the show notes for you, too. EC: Yeah. So, you know, it’s usually $197. So that takes it down to $97. Joe Sanok: Thanks for doing that. EC: Yeah, absolutely. Joe Sanok: So, for people that want to go into consulting because this is an area that I’m continuing to grow because I’ve a new podcast coming out soon about how to become a consultant. What have you learned about like making a jump from you own a practice, now you’re consulting, like what do people that want to make that jump into consulting need to know? EC: Yeah. That’s an interesting question. I mean, I think ultimately some of the same stuff is running to get private practice. You have to be doing it because you love it. EC: And if you do that and you use good business practice and run it like a business, you know, I think it’ll come together. EC: The other thing that I’ve been thinking a lot you at this conference where Joe and I are sitting here talking at ACA conference right now, in case you didn’t know, is there are a lot of coaches for therapists right now and there’s this rising tide of awareness within I think, the therapy community and therapists are feeling like “Oh, I do need to run my practice like a business.” And I think if — I mean, instances are incredible opportunities for therapists right now because there are a lot of choices and ultimately, you just need to find the consultant who’s right for you. EC: Because we’re all different. You know, maybe we’re offering similar things but we have different personalities. And you just want to find somebody that’s a good fit and so if you’re looking to become a consultant, I would say don’t be intimidated by the fact that there are a lot of other consultants out there already. There are plenty of therapists out there, too. And yeah, and you’re going to be the right fit for some therapists, as well. Joe Sanok: I think that really touches on the point of letting more of yourself come out in what you do. So, what is your website or whatever like that your unique super power comes out. Joe Sanok: Like for me, ambitious results like going after ambitious results is what I want to give my best. Joe Sanok: And so, that’s been my kind of tagline and you know, for someone else, it might be something else. And so like yeah, there are so many people that need help in the world of consulting that it’s already like there’s still lots of room I think for other consultants. Joe Sanok: So, I feel like you did a really good job with your branding here at the conference. You got this cutout of yourself. It’s like taller and everything and like so oh come on. EC: You can tell she’s prettier. Joe Sanok: Well, those were your words. But I don’t want to repeat that. Joe Sanok: She has more makeup on. Joe Sanok: You have it. I’m not sure how long you’ve been doing consulting but it seems like like myself I feel like I’m still kind of new to the whole consulting thing. EC: Although you have beautiful branding, too. Joe Sanok: Oh, thank you. That’s Legendary Lion is all over that. They’d helped with a lot of that, but thank you. But I think that it speaks to the idea that just start doing something rather than just like be fearful of like it’s not going to look perfect. Joe Sanok: Can you speak to just like just putting yourself out there and overcoming just any of that like am I supposed to be in the space and like can I — EC: This you know what I would say is when I started my first cohort of therapists as a consultant, I had none of that branding. I may have had a website but it like just had text on it. There was nothing. I mean it was totally bare bones and so I mean, that’s another whether you’re a consultant or a therapist if you see people spending a lot of money on branding and you know, building a pretty website and time, too. And you don’t necessarily need to spend a lot of time or money on that when you’re starting. Like test the market. See if what you’re offering makes sense before you put a lot of money in the site. Then get really clear on who you are and who you’re working with before you spend money on branding because otherwise, you’re going to have to redo it. Joe Sanok: Yeah. Because last year, right before ACA is when — actually it was on the way to ACA that I took a picture of a chair in the San Francisco airport and texted it to Aaron and said, “I want my logo to like somehow be this.” Joe Sanok: And he came up with the Practice of the Practice chair. And so it’s like my branding it’s just like a year-old right now. EC: Yeah. But it came — you had started the Practice of the Practice before that. Joe Sanok: Yeah, but it was like a year and half old at that point and I started the website and I started the podcast but I mean, looking back on it, it was good for where I was at, but I was doing everything. Joe Sanok: And so, it was just my own skill set which you know, I have an artistic eye but I’m still not like a professional website designer, either. EC: Yes. Yeah. Joe Sanok: But I just took the time to save up the money to grow and keep reinvesting. EC: Exactly. Yeah. And I think you know that’s the thing is — who was that? I signed up somebody recently and they were sort of really invested in keeping it how they had built it but I think as you grow, you do want something a little bit more professional and polished. EC: And ultimately, yeah. Like I was a designer. My undergraduate degree was in design. So, I have a pretty good aesthetic eye, too. But I definitely hire other people to help me with that stuff — EC: — because first of all, it doesn’t make me any money to spend time working on a logo. EC: It makes me money to spend time either working with psychotherapy clients or with therapist clients. EC: So, it’s not a good use of my time and it makes sense to hire a professional who’s going to do a really nice job at some point to do that. Joe Sanok: Well, even like the landing page/joe it was like let me text my assistant to set up that page. Joe Sanok: I mean, just outsourcing is I think, something we’re not very good at as counselors or consultants, sometimes. Joe Sanok: It’s good to improve on it. EC: I love delegating. Joe Sanok: Oh my gosh. ODesk and I like I just love that website. EC: Yeah. That’s a great resource. I think you know that’s not everybody’s school but I think that it was one of my goals in building my private practice initially was to have a private practice where — so when I was first fielding my private practice, my husband has amazing bookkeeping skills and so he did my bookkeeping which by way, everybody don’t make your husband do your bookkeeping. It’s cool. Joe Sanok: Why did you send this? EC: It’s cool and unusual punishment when he gets home from work after doing bookkeeping all day and then do my books. He was very kind to do it. But you know I knew that I wanted to build a practice where I could pay somebody to do that for me, instead of torturing my husband and you know, probably affecting my marriage. EC: You know, like sometimes you have to you know, factor some of those things in and for me that was part of it. Joe Sanok: So, one thing I always ask people I interview is if every counselor in America were listening right now, what would you want them to know? And I know you already kind of touched on that but what else would you want them to know? EC: In addition to really knowing that you do have an expertise. Joe Sanok: Yeah. You just answered the question earlier. Joe Sanok: So, now you got to answer it twice. EC: Oh, boy. You get two tidbits from me. Joe Sanok: Whoop-oh. Joe Sanok: I would take advantage. EC: I would say, you know, the other — I think I didn’t finish the thought about the two places where I get the most referrals. One is the website and having it really reflect me but the other place that I get the most referrals is through real live human relationships. EC: And you’re going to hear a lot about SEO and all sorts of online marketing but ultimately, as therapists, we’re human beings and that is the beauty of our work and why therapy is so powerful is because it’s a human relationship. And the same goes for your relationships with your referral sources. And it just needs to be an authentic real live human relationship. Joe Sanok: Yeah. Awesome. Thanks, Evan. If people want to get a hold of you, how can they connect with you? EC: They should online to centerinstitute.com. You can email me through there or you can email me at info@centerinstitute.com. Joe Sanok: Awesome. Well, enjoy the rest of the conference. Thanks for taking time out. EC: Thank you, Joe. Joe Sanok: Have a good one. EC: Bye-bye. Joe Sanok: I love Evan’s final point there that real live human relationships that that’s where she gets the most referrals and that’s so true. I think about who I have gone out to lunch with or who I’ve had breakfast with, who I’ve talked to and by far, they’re the people that refer people to my practice the most. I think about a psychologist that I meet with regularly, I think about a social worker that he and I meet regularly. I think about this pastor that I used to have breakfast with but then he moved away. That these people that you formulate friendships with and not just like friendships so that they’ll refer to you but genuinely like getting to know these people they’re the ones that then you know, like and trust. So, you’re going to refer people to them, they’re going refer people to you — it’s just an awesome way of growing your practice and it just it feels authentic and it doesn’t feel slimy. And so for me, that’s how I’m doing it. I want to again thank Muse for being a sponsor here on the podcast. Check them out at choosemuse.com. It’s just such cool brainwave technology to teach you how to meditate and just be more fully present. Thanks for letting me into your ears and into your brain. Feel free to check out the show notes at practiceofthepractice.com/session78. Have an awesome week. Special thanks to the bands Silence is Sexy and madelyniris. We really like you music. 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__label__cc	0.659124	0.340876	“This Could Be Your Problem” Gospel Sermons Back to Gospel Sermons list We're turning this evening in our Bibles to Luke's Gospel and chapter 15. We've been thinking these Sunday evenings - and this indeed is the last Sunday evening we'll be thinking upon the parables - about these stories that the Lord Jesus Christ told. We're thinking this evening of quite a well-known one, which is the parable of the lost sheep. Luke chapter 15 and verses 1 to 7: "Then drew near unto him", that is Jesus, "all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them. And he spake this parable unto them, saying, What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance". Let us pray: Our Father, as we come to Your word this evening we thank You for it. We thank You that, as believers this evening, we are not resting in our own thoughts, or own philosophies, or even our own abilities - but, Father, we're resting and abiding on the Rock of the word of God. Father, we know that the law without the Spirit brings death and bondage - but we pray, our Father, that the Spirit would bring life here tonight, that He would apply the word that He has inspired on these pages - Father, that men and women, teenagers, even boys and girls, would see these words, would see them portrayed through the love of Christ to them, and would yield their all to the Lord Jesus Christ in salvation. Help us, Lord, tonight - help me - help us all to pray. Father, we pray that one lost sheep, even ninety and nine lost sheep, would come into the fold tonight through Your word this evening, for we pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen. 'Black sheep' is a name that no-one would like to be given. Many people within families have been labelled 'the black sheep'. Perhaps a family has been good living, perhaps it has been religious, moral, up-standing in the community, but there has just been one - the runt of the litter, the one who never stood up to the expectations, perhaps, of their parents or the rest of the family. In fact they went the opposite direction, they went into areas, perhaps, that were frowned upon - they were seen as the black sheep. Perhaps you're here tonight, and that's the way you feel. Perhaps you're here, and that is what you're called. Even if they do not call you that, you know that in their thoughts that's the way they think. You could be a backslider, a person who was once a professor of the gospel of Jesus Christ - you once professed to be saved, but now you're nowhere, now you're a black sheep. Perhaps you're not saved, perhaps you've never been saved, perhaps you don't know what it is - and all the pleasure that you find, all the joy in life that you have, is in the pleasures and the sins that this world offers. I wonder have you ever been lost? The title of my message tonight is this: 'This Could Be Your Problem'. I wonder have you ever went to one of those mazes and they're made of hedges, or made of walls. You go into the maze, and at every corner you turn, or at every corridor you go down, it seems to be a dead end. You just wish that you could fly, and you could lift yourself up above the maze, or you could walk up a mountainside or a hillside, or go up in a helicopter and look down upon it to see how you get in and out. Maybe you have done that, and you know the feeling of being lost. You know what it feels like not to be able to know or even find your way. You've got into this situation and you can't find your own way out. It's a feeling of being in a desert, isn't it? There's nothing scares me more than thinking of being in a desert, like the Sahara desert. If you imagine being dropped right into the centre of it, right in the middle of it, and all around you you can only see a horizon of sand. A horizon of sand, and above it all you see is the sun and the blue sky scorching down upon you. You can't seem to find a way out, you don't have a compass, you've no direction - all you see around you is sand. How frightening that must be! Or to be parachuted into the Amazon jungle, and all you see around you is trees, plants, rivers - but you don't know where you are, you don't know where to go, you don't know what direction to take - you feel lost. Do you remember those feelings of childhood? Perhaps you're in the supermarket, or the ordinary market, or out on the street doing the shopping with your Mum or your Dad - and suddenly you turn around and they're not there. As a child usually what you did was stood there, and you panicked and you cried, and you just stood waiting for your mother or your father to find you. You didn't move, and cried - such a feeling within you, can you remember what that was like? You felt insecure, you felt lost, you felt a feeling of dependence you felt a lack, you felt a need, you felt a fear - total insecurity. That's what this parable is about this evening. We see in verses 1 and 2 who this parable was addressed to, because it says that the publicans and sinners came to hear the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, I take great comfort in this: the publicans and sinners came to hear Jesus Christ! Now let's get this: it wasn't the religious fuddy-duddies, it wasn't the hierarchy of the religious system of Judaism of His day, it wasn't the high-fluting statesmen and politicians, it wasn't those type of people - it was the outcasts of society, the outcasts of the church of the day, it was the publicans and sinners. Maybe you feel like an outcast tonight, an outcast in this church, an outcast in our nation. Perhaps people in the community frown upon you because of the lifestyle that you have led in the past, or are leading now. Well, take comfort tonight because Jesus came - listen - Jesus came for you! Not for righteous people, for righteous people don't know their need - they think they can get there on their own steam and their own effort. People like publicans and sinners, people who have reached rock bottom and can't go any further, those people know that they need help - they cannot help themselves. These people were lost, these people were lost - and the irony of it was: it was the religious leaders that had come, it says in verse 2, the Pharisees and the Scribes murmuring and saying 'This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them'. Now to eat with a sinner in this society was not the same as eating with someone today. In fact, just as the Lord's Supper portrays Communion, every meal and every eating session in Palestine back then portrayed communion, portrayed fellowship. What was happening here was: these Pharisees, these legalistic religious hypocrites, were looking on, they were seeing Jesus Christ who claimed to be the Son of God, claimed to be sinless, and He was sitting with the dregs of the earth. Which one are you tonight? Are you lost in your sin? I want to tell you tonight - and this is glorious, and I rejoice in this, even to think of it again - you are not only lost, but you are loved. Have you got that? You are loved! You could say to me: 'David, now hold on, you don't know my background, you don't know my life'. I'm telling you this evening that no matter who has failed to love you in the past - whether it be father, mother, husband, wife, son, daughter, brother, sister - you are loved by someone tonight. In verse 4 we read about a shepherd who had 99 sheep whom he left. He should have had a hundred sheep, but something went wrong. What had happened was one of the sheep went missing. Because that sheep went missing, that shepherd was committed and was able and was willing to leave the 99 sheep that were OK in his fold, and to go out and fetch the one that was missing. If you're a farmer here tonight, you might think: 'Well, that wasn't too practical' - but listen, practicalities didn't come into it. Do you know why? Because this shepherd loved his sheep individually. Have you got that? He loved them individually, he loved every single one of them, every single one meant as much to him as the other. It's like your children, isn't it? You maybe have five children, and you don't have number one son and number two son, and you love number one son more than number two son - that's not the way it works. You love them all, don't you? You love them all individually, perhaps in a different way, perhaps for different reasons, but you love them all nevertheless. There is individual love. That's the same with God. God loves you so much tonight - and listen, please, to this - He loves you so much, and He is interested in you so much, that He knows every intricate detail about your life. You know that problem that you had this week that no-one knew about, or you thought no-one knew about? God knew about it, God was concerned about it - and if you only had opened yourself up to God, He would have tried to help you and soothe you and comfort you and love you in that situation, but you shut Him out. In fact the word of God says that God knows you so much, and in so much detail, that every hair of your head is numbered (that wouldn't be too hard a job for some of you!). But think of that: every single hair! He says that every little sparrow that falls - a sparrow! Sure you could be going down the motorway and bang one with the windscreen, and that's another one away. Insignificant, you think, but God Almighty in heaven is such a God of love that every single one that falls He knows about it! Scientists tell us that black-haired women have 110,000 hairs - think of that, when you look in the sink, men, you know all about that, in the morning, how many hairs they have! Blonde women have 140,000 hairs - I don't know about dyed blonde hair, whether that increases the amount that they have! But the average woman loses 100 hairs a day - and listen, I'm not exaggerating here this is what the word of God says: every one of those 100 hairs that you lose per day, God knows about. That is how much He cares for you. He knows everything, He cares about everything, He wants to get in and - if I can say it reverently - muck in with everything in your life, be concerned, be involved, take control. He wants to do it because He loves you, but you won't let Him in! You're loved - but you see verse 4 shows us also that you're lost. I want you to try to imagine the situation here: this shepherd goes one night and he takes all the sheep. He's walking with the crook, he's walking perhaps in a wintry scene with the wind blowing in a cold icy night in Palestine. He's walking over the mountains and the rocks and the crevices, and he brings all those sheep - he thinks - into the fold safely. As they did in Palestine, he lies across the door of the sheepfold - but before he does that, he counts the sheep. When he counts them he can't believe it, because there's only 99 and he can't remember leaving any of them anywhere, he can't remember even seeing one straggle behind - but he knows that he had 100, he knows every one of them by name - but one of them is lost. If you can see it tonight: out on a mountain in the wild and bare, with a cold wind gale blowing, hitting that little lamb, with the hail beating down - standing on a pinnacle with those little matchstick legs shaking, and the knees knocking together - a little lamb standing, waiting to fall. It's lost. I wonder are you lost tonight? I heard a story about a miner, he was down in the pits in Wales. When he was walking back to the tram that would take him back up to the surface, he realised he had missed the tram. Suddenly the lights went out, the electric was cut off and he was standing in pitch darkness. He shouted, he stood where he was, he was afraid to move - and he shouted out for help. There was a woman in a house above that pit who could hear the faint cries of that man. When they sent a rescuer down to get him they found, when they brought the torch into that pit, that that man was standing right at the edge of a ravine. That man was lost, but listen: if that man had taken one step by himself he was damned. Do you hear that? If he tried himself, just like the sheep sitting on a pinnacle, to move or to help himself, he was damned because he couldn't do it. He was in darkness - and if you are lost, if you're not saved, and you think that you will be able now or at some stage in your life or before death to help yourself - listen, I say to you in grace: you will only damn your soul! A newspaper article featured two photographs. One photograph was of the Council, the local town Council, and the other photograph was of a flock of prize-winning sheep. As often is the case, the editor of the newspaper mixed up the captions at the bottom. Underneath the Council he had these words: 'Naive, vulnerable, they huddle for security against the uncertainties of the outside world'. Of course it should have been under the sheep, but that tells us so much about ourselves, doesn't it? We're naive, we're vulnerable, we huddle together for security to feel good - and because there's plenty of us like ourselves, and do the things we do, we feel secure against all the uncertainties of the outside world. But what does the word of God say? It says that we're all like sheep, we're all like sheep, dumb sheep! We have gone astray, we turn every one to his own way - we lead others astray! We're lost. Charles IX of France, on the St Bartholomew's Day massacre, was lying in a pool of his own blood, choking on the clots in his throat. All he could be heard to say was: 'I'm lost'. Are you lost tonight? Listen, if you're backslider you might never have been a 'frontslider' in the first place - and you have no security of it. You could be lost tonight, you might not have even been saved. Are you lost? Well, I want to tell you from this parable this evening: not only are you loved, not only are you lost, but the word of God and Jesus says that you are looked for. In verse 4 of the parable it says that he went after that which was lost until - listen to these words - he went after it until he found it! Who's looking? The shepherd is looking, but it's not just an ordinary shepherd, because what ordinary shepherd would go after one little seemingly insignificant sheep when there's 99 good ones. Think of it: he leaves the good ones to go and get the lost one - who would do it? Listen: he's a good shepherd, isn't he? Better than that: He's the Good Shepherd, He in fact is the Chief Shepherd - there's no other Shepherd like Him! I can say, and many here in the meeting can say, that the Lord is my Shepherd - can you say that? Do you know why we can say it? Because He went after us until He found us! Is He your shepherd? Who do you follow? Are you like a sheep without a shepherd? Do you follow every whim and every feeling and every emotion that comes within you, or the trend that is without you, or the fashion of the world? What do you follow? Do you follow someone who is dependable? The Good Shepherd of the sheep. But where is He looking? Well, that Psalm that I quoted: 'The Lord is my shepherd' - we all know it well, we've sung it many times - it tells us where He is looking for us in verse 4 of Psalm 23: 'Yea', David says, 'though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil'. Do you know where the Shepherd is looking for you? Listen: in the valley of death. Yes, you see that shepherd in the valley of death, putting his life on the line when the wind is blowing. He has no companion with him, he's going alone down that valley, to climb that ravine, to get to the pinnacle, to risk his life and to take that sheep and to bring it back to the rest of the fold. Can you see him tonight doing that for that lost sheep? John 10 verse 11 says of Christ, listen, that He is the Good Shepherd who not just lays His life on the line for the sheep, but gives His life - lays His life down, dies - for His sheep. You know a shepherd would do anything for his sheep. I've been told that a shepherd goes to any lengths to protect and care for his sheep in snow and hail, in storm and wind - in every situation - at the edges of rocks. What makes him do it? Is it the market price of the sheep? Well, if pigs are anything to go by today, I'm sure it's not. What is it that keeps him going? I heard of an incident, and this is a true story, of a storm that hit a little hillside in Wales. There was a flock of sheep that were on the mountain precipice, and all the full force of that storm - wind, hail and even snow - was beating upon that flock of sheep. There was a snowdrift which had blocked the way over the mountaintop. The only way that that shepherd, a little shepherd boy, was to get that flock of sheep out of the danger was to bring them along a very thin ravine. The only hope of those sheep not falling over was for that young shepherd boy to stand at the edge of the ravine, between the sheep and the falling snow. Think of it: if those sheep had panicked, if there had been a rush, a bottleneck, that little child would have fallen down to his death - but he stood at the edge, he took the risk. Do you know why? Because he loved his own, he loved his own. Do you know something? The Lord Jesus Christ loves His own, and He loves you tonight. When He was on the cross of Calvary, when He was bleeding, and the sweat and the blood were mingled flowing down His lovely face, when His eyes were stinging with the sweat and blood, when His face was marred, when His scars were evident and open and weeping and oozing - when He was there in agony and blood, listen: He cried to God, 'My God, my God, why have You forsaken Me?'. Do you know why? Because He was walking through that valley to find His lost sheep. I don't know what He suffered, but I know this: that none of us ever knew how deep were the waters He crossed, or how dark was the night that the Lord passed through 'ere He found that sheep - this sheep that was lost. He was crushed, He was ripped, He was bruised, He was broken, He was bleeding in order to find that sheep - but He went for it because He loved it. Sheep are thankless creatures - and you could be thankless tonight for what Christ did for you. In fact, you could be openly ignoring it - even now contemplating how you're going to get around rejecting Him, even now you're thankless for the blood that He shed for you to free you, to find you, to look for you and get you. Listen: He's going to seek you - listen - until He finds you. He's looking for you here tonight. He's looking for you in this meeting. He's looking for you in your life, day by day - and you could be here tonight, and you're running day by day from Him! Are you not tired running from Him? Are you not fed up? Will you not throw down those arms of rebellion? He's catching up on you, do you not see Him catching up to get you? Will you not give up and cry to Him tonight? There was a mother sheep on one occasion - this is a true story, again from Wales. She gave birth to a little lamb, and when she gave birth the shepherd helped the birth through and everything, and cut the cord and washed and bathed the little lamb so that it would be clean. He brought that little lamb back to its mother and left it beside, but the mother nosed it away - didn't want anything to do with the lamb. The lamb began to get thinner, it wasn't being fed, it wasn't being cared for, it was kept cold because the mother wouldn't make it warm. Eventually the shepherd had to pick the little lamb up and he had to feed it with a bottle, and he had to warm it with a hot water bottle - he had to take care of it because that mother sheep wanted nothing to do with it. Until one day the shepherd was walking across the courtyard of the farm with the little lamb in his arms - and the little lamb, for the first time, gave out a little bleat. As soon as that lamb bleated, a little insignificant bleat, the mother sheep stood still and straight, came running to that lamb - because she recognised its cry. Listen tonight: all God requires of you - as He says and Christ said: 'All that the Father giveth Me shall come to Me', and listen, 'Him that cometh unto Me I will in no wise', no way, 'cast out'. If you cry, like the little lamb, to Christ tonight - He will hear you, God will hear you, and He will come like the father of the prodigal and run to you with open arms. He'll take you into His fold. John 10 says you will never perish, and no man will ever pluck you out of His hand. You cannot fall, you cannot go to hell, you cannot be judged according to your sins, but you must - tonight, listen - cry to Him. You're loved, you're lost, you're looked for - but I want to tell you finally, listen: you can be lifted. Now this is wonderful: you can be lifted! Verse 5 says: 'And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing'. Listen, many people say: 'I'll not be able to keep this Christianity. How could I live like that? It's all good living'. Listen tonight, He will lift you! He will set you on His shoulders! He will carry you! He will look after you! Psalm 40 says: 'I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock', and listen, 'and established my goings'. The Lord will sort you out. The Lord will take care of you. The Lord will not leave you alone. Americans now have devised a collar, a collar that goes underneath the skin of sheep in the wilderness in America. You see, coyotes would hide behind rocks, and the wild dogs would wait until they saw a sheep out on its own, and they would just pounce. The place where they go for first with their teeth is the neck of the sheep. These scientists have devised a collar, and inside that collar is poison - so that when the coyote pounces and sinks its teeth into it, all it gets is poison and it drops dead. Listen: if you're worrying about a husband or a wife, or someone in your family, or someone in your work who will oppose you if you trust Christ - or the hard time you will get - listen, if you come to Christ tonight you will be a child of God, and as Zechariah 2 and verse 8 says: 'He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of God's eye'. 'There were ninety and nine that safely lay In the shelter of the fold. But one was out in the hills away, Far-off from the gates of gold. Away in the mountains wild and bare, Away from the tender Shepherd's care. Lord, Thou hast here Thy ninety and nine, Are they not enough for Thee? But the Shepherd made answer: 'This of mine Has wandered away from Me. And although the road be rough and steep, I go to find My lost sheep. But none of the ransomed ever knew How deep were the waters crossed, Or how dark was the night that the Lord passed through, Ere He found the sheep that was lost. Out in the desert He heard its cry, Sick and helpless, and ready to die. Lord whence, from where, are those blood drops all the way That mark out the mountain's track? They were shed for one who had gone astray Ere the Shepherd could bring him back. Lord, why are Thy hands so rough and torn? They are pierced tonight by many a thorn. But all through the mountains, thunder riven, And up from the rocky steep, There arose a cry to the gates of heaven: 'Rejoice, I have found My sheep'. The angels echoed around the Throne: 'Rejoice, for the Lord brings back His own'. 'I say unto you', Jesus says, 'likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance'. Our Father, we thank You for tonight, we thank You for the Gospel, we thank You for these wonderful parables of the Lord Jesus Christ that illustrate so well for us the gospel of His grace. Father, we pray that that Gospel would be effective tonight, to the saving of precious souls in this place, the restoration of backsliders, and to the glory of Jesus Christ our Lord. Give grace tonight, we pray, in Jesus' name. Amen. This sermon was delivered at Portadown Baptist Church in Portadown, Northern Ireland, by Pastor David Legge. It was transcribed from the tape, titled "This Could Be Your Problem" - Transcribed by Preach The Word.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14127
__label__wiki	0.507068	0.507068	The One Man Cromer Quin Cromer Quin was the name of the man whose dead body was aboard the Mayflower, ready to be thrown into space when the rest of the crew stopped all they were doing and died. He was one of many rebel men and women, the group that split itself from the community lead by meckos during the occupation of Mars, at the end of the Second Era. Inside his coffin, Cromer held in his parched hands for many years a copy of his favorite book, the saga of Jiseph and Mari Quam, the founding couple of the community Odyssey. It contained the story of the rupture, narrated in a superlative and flourished style he knew to be exaggerated to construct a myth. The text was the basis for the community pride, from people who saw this act of rebellion as a way to assign meaning to their miserable existence. Jiseph and Mari executed a long-term plan. First, they built an extensive support network among those who, like them, believed that meckos had the capability for generating enough human babies to prevent the extinction of their group, but did not do so. Then, they slowly took equipment from the workshops and laboratories on Mars to build their habitable facilities at a distant point and to create their own human reproduction center. The couple and some fellow dissidents left the premises governed by meckos and moved to the rebellious citadel. From there they prepared an attack against those they considered their oppressors. The invasion of the city of meckos, under the command of the founding couple, was an act of heroism not to be ever forgotten. They took the city by storm, decimating a large number of meckos who just fell dead while refusing to take human lives. The few remaining meckos, followed by a bunch of cowards humans, fled the attack and headed to an ignored location. Legend has it that the conquering heroes celebrated for days the taking of the Martian facilities. During the festivities, they also swore to extend their hate to those who have escaped. They found out later that the fleeing wimps had transferred themselves to Europe, the Jupiter satellite, from where, they suspected, they intended to launch back an attack on the separatists. The Odyssey community flourished with infants generated in artificial wombs at first, later with natural births in a controlled environment. Soon they realized that the community genetic pool was under a steady degeneration process. They could not count on having healthy descendants for much longer. To make things worse, they learned that European meckos had departed to Earth with the intention of implanting yet another human community. Then they devised the Great Plan to start a war in which they would only indirectly participate. To accomplish their goal they built great combat spaceships, powerful vehicles the constructors themselves would never see in action. After completion, the ships were hidden in a gigantic underground shelter built at the base of Mount Olympus, concealed to distant observers. Aware that no human on Earth at the time was capable of operating sophisticated machines, they came up with an ingenious way to deliver a message to the future. They flew a robot-rocket to Earth where it should bury itself into the ground and hibernate. Once there, it was programmed to remain mute until there were signs that first humans became resentful of the mecko dominance. At the right time, it should activate and offer help to the disgruntled humans, delivering detailed maps that showed the exact location of the weapons storage on Mars and full documentation for their use. It should suffice to initiate a new rebellion, a war destined to rid humans from the tyranny of those awful artificial beings. The first of Cromer’s recollections, in order of antiquity, was not from his direct experience. He remembered his mother’s account of a family trip to Mount Olympus, on Mars. According to her narrative, his father was ordered to check the military facilities at the base of the mount and had decided to bring the family along for a leisure trip. After all, it was a unique opportunity to visit the largest volcano in the solar system. Although extinct, the volcano was impressive with its peaks more than twenty kilometers high. At that time, the human community was already waning, decimated by the lack of nutrients and insufficient sunlight exposure. His parents were concerned. The child was growing up under bleak circumstances, forced to watch the decay of his own people and the death of friends and relatives who disappeared one by one, leaving a very small group under the planet’s red atmosphere. Soon after the trip, he pledged himself to fight the meckos, the usurpers of human life. Years after the last unmodified mecko had been turned off, the families were facing hard times trying to survive alone, without their assistance. But even so, no one was sorry. They took a long time to reach the highest parts of Olympus. The mount had a broad base and not too many steep areas of difficult climbing. Yet, the distances were formidable for the slow conveyor they used. So the family decided to consider the whole route as part of the tour. They sat on the observation deck at the top of the vehicle from where they could see the surrounding environment, while they ate snacks brought from home. From the top of the hill, Cromer spotted Jupiter, the point in space that would, in the end, be his final destination. But, as a young child, he was not afraid of space. Or, at least, that was what his mother had told him. Cromer spent all his life in a declining community, plagued by chronic low self–esteem. The hardships of living in a permanent shortage of basic life inputs took its toll on those men and women striving to survive on Mars. Individuals subjected from birth to low gravity tended to suffer from bone degradation while insufficient exposure to the sunlight and the high incidence of cosmic particles posed a serious danger to human DNA, absorption of vitamins and other health issues. The overall community mood declined severely with the anticipation of a melancholic demise. Still, Cromer saw himself as a special man, part of the group that would bring about a unique historical moment for humankind. He managed to keep up a positive attitude remembering how his ancestors broke loose from mecko despotism in the former colony and how they had developed a plan to set humanity free. According to a history proudly remembered by the older members of the community, when the humans of Odyssey overtook the power in Mars, they also imprisoned some meckos who had no time to flee. Sometime later, they developed a technology to create creatures modified from the original meckos, stripped from the more sophisticated parts and changed into deadly weapons to be used at the proper time. The final challenge was to transfer these weapons to their destination. Interfering with a future humanity became a motivation strong enough for them to carry the plan to its last consequences, despite the high costs. Even knowing he was not fully qualified for the mission, Cromer volunteered himself. To his surprise, and because no others capable pilots were available, he was called to join the crew. When the planetary positions became favorable, the Odyssey warriors departed aboard the Mayflower spaceship to strike in Europe their last strategic blow. They carried a weapon to be employed at the satellite’s oceans where it would remain inactive for some time, absorbing energy and preparing for the final attack. When fired, it was set to destroy all organisms or complex structures found at the surface or in the ocean. It should be strong enough to wipe out any new attempts of human colonization. The trip to Jupiter was difficult. Many comrades died on the way, and those who remained struggled to resist until the final moment. Realizing they would not live long enough to complete the mission, they decided to enter hibernation. However, they did not expect that left to the autopilot’s care, the ship would take longer than expected to reach its destination. When they came out of their suspension states the ship was still far away from their end point. With the meager resources available, they could not determine for how long they had hibernated. Knowing no alternatives, they poured in Europe the contents of the large containers they carried. Cromer reached Jupiter in poor health. He insisted on participating in the whole operation of dumping the cargo in the European sea, what, they believed, should apply a mortal blow on all mecko operations. Upon completion of the mission, they started to dispose of the several coffins containing the bodies of the deceased. He planned his own burial ceremony as a simple operation designed not to be a burden on those still alive. Feeling sick he carried his coffin to the mortuary chapel and performed some of the farewell rituals by himself. He placed his favorite belongings into the coffin and lay down inside it, resisting for a few hours before dying in solitude, proud to have completed his mission. He only expected his crewmates would eject the casket into space. But even this simple task could not be completed. His body was found in the chapel, next to the ejection hatch when all the other crew members were already too weak to dispose of his body. With great difficulty they decided that it would be lawful and moral, under the extreme circumstances, to disregard the rituals. They lay on the floor and waited for life to drain out of their weakened bodies. The death of the last Mayflower crew member also marked the extinction of a people. They were the proud and unruly men and women of Mars, who turned against the meckos, attacked and defeated them, moved by the ideals of building a haughty, independent society. They wished to be remembered by their deeds. The things they have done should flourish on Earth, the birthplace of their kind, where they would never set a foot. The plan included feeding the opposition and dissension between meckos and humans at Earth and conducting a severe attack on the meckos installed in Europe. The attack was designated to kill everyone and to destruct all the equipment necessary for future settlements. It all went well, with one exception. They have not anticipated the extremely long delay for the Mayflower to reach its target. When the mission was finally accomplished, the meckos had already left for Earth, bearing the seeds of a new civilization. Even after the crew was all dead, the spacecraft continued to operate for many years, traveling over an eccentric orbit around Jupiter and bouncing among the satellites’ attractions. After running out of fuel, the solar batteries kept a weak gravitational field on until the encounter with the Orion. This is the introductory part of Purpose, a science fiction book. You may read more, and purchase the book at Amazon Bookstore. Previous Previous post: Elisa Next Next post: Estudos sobre o Software Estatístico R	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14128
__label__wiki	0.641108	0.641108	Go to Content Go to Navigation Go to Navigation Go to Site Search Homepage Back to Planned Parenthood Action Fund Back to Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, Inc. Back to PlannedParenthoodAction.org Open Search Search Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates Current: U.S. District Court in Tallahassee ruled ... U.S. District Court in Tallahassee ruled in favor of Planned Parenthood affiliates’ call for a preliminary injunction of key provisions of HB 1411 Contact: Damien Filer / [email protected] For Immediate Release: June 30, 2016 (Updated: June 30, 2016, 5:28 p.m.) Twitter Facebook Tumblr Pinterest Today the U.S. District Court in Tallahassee ruled in favor of Planned Parenthood affiliates’ call for a preliminary injunction of key provisions of HB 1411, the dangerous new state law that would have eliminated access to birth control, cancer screenings, STD tests and other care for thousands of patients at Planned Parenthood health centers in Florida. Statement of Lillian A. Tamayo, President/CEO, Planned Parenthood of South, East and North Florida: “As a result of today’s decision, thousands of people across Florida have the peace of mind that comes with knowing they can access essential reproductive health care, such as cancer screenings, birth control, and well-woman exams. This ruling also sends an unmistakable message to politicians to quit playing politics with women’s health. “This law would have taken away access to basic health care from many at-risk Floridians who need it most. In their callous zeal to pass this legislation, politicians in Florida actually suggested that women could turn to elementary schools and podiatrists to seek the essential reproductive health care they would no longer be able to access at Planned Parenthood. “Cutting off funding for birth control and cancer screenings to organizations that provide abortion services is just plain wrong. Contraception and education are proven ways to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and the need for abortion, yet this law would have cut off access to low income men, women, and teens seeking these services at providers like Planned Parenthood just because they offer safe and legal abortion care. “Planned Parenthood will continue fighting for every one of our patients who depend on us for care.” Statement of Barbara A. Zdravecky, President/CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida: “Today’s ruling should be hailed by all Floridians, but especially the thousands of men and women across the state who would have been cut off from access to reproductive health care including cancer screenings, birth control, STD testing and more had HB 1411 been allowed to stand. “Floridians oppose cutting off funding for birth control and cancer screenings to organizations that provide abortion services, and local and national public health experts have spoken out time and again about the dangerous consequences of blocking care at Planned Parenthood. “We continue to call this law what it is: a political attack aimed at Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health care providers. Women don’t turn to politicians for advice about mammograms, prenatal care, or cancer treatments. Politicians should not be involved in a woman’s personal medical decisions about her pregnancy. “With today’s ruling Planned Parenthood is more committed than ever to both serving our patients and fighting back against politicians who are bent on attacking access to women’s health.” Planned Parenthood is the nation’s leading provider and advocate of high-quality, affordable health care for women, men, and young people, as well as the nation’s largest provider of sex education. With over 650 health centers across the country, Planned Parenthood organizations serve all patients with care and compassion, with respect and without judgment. Through health centers, programs in schools and communities, and online resources, Planned Parenthood is a trusted source of reliable health information that allows people to make informed health decisions. We do all this because we care passionately about helping people lead healthier lives. To read preliminary injunction click here. For additional information please see prior press releases. This page is controlled and operated by Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, Inc.. The Planned Parenthood Action Fund works to advance access to sexual health care and defend reproductive rights. Follow us on Follow us on Follow us on About Us Toggle Navigation Get Involved Toggle Navigation Press Releases Toggle Navigation Blog Toggle Navigation © 2019 Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, Inc. You are leaving PlannedParenthood.org. By clicking "GO" below, you will be directed to a website operated by an independent Planned Parenthood 501(c)(4) entity. You will be redirected to: . Not Yet Go	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14129
__label__cc	0.671919	0.328081	TOYOTA Motorsport GmbH All you need to know about TMG’s motorsport activities, from the TOYOTA GAZOO Racing team in WEC to our customer motorsport projects. Learn more about our innovative facilities, from research and development to production. Click the below projects to learn more about our company, our works motorsport project and our customer motorsport services: FIA World Endurance Championship Customer Motorsport WEC Home TS050 HYBRID TOYOTA RACING SWEEPS FRONT ROW IN BAHRAIN Posted on November 29, 2013 August 4, 2015 TOYOTA Racing locked out the front row of the grid in qualifying for the Six Hours of Bahrain, the final round of the 2013 FIA World Endurance Championship. The #7 of Alex Wurz, Nicolas Lapierre and Kazuki Nakajima took pole position and will be joined on the front row by the second-placed #8 of Anthony Davidson, Sébastien Buemi and Stéphane Sarrazin. This season’s qualifying format requires two drivers from each car to set a minimum of two flying laps each. The grid is decided by the combined average of each driver’s fastest two laps. In fading light, Alex and Stéphane took the first stint, each setting two flying laps to put both cars in contention for the team’s third pole of the season. Alex’s second lap proved to be the fastest time of the weekend so far and the fastest LMP1 lap ever at Bahrain International Circuit. Kazuki took over the #7 and kept up the pace to claim that honour with his two laps, while Anthony earned second; the team’s second one-two in qualifying after it locked out the front row in the opening race at a wet Silverstone. Earlier in the day, final practice took place in sunshine after the morning fog had dissipated. The team concentrated on fine-tuning the car ahead of qualifying, with Stéphane setting the quickest time for a TS030 HYBRID for second overall in the #8. The sister car ended the session fourth courtesy of Alex’s fastest lap. TS030 HYBRID #7 (Alex Wurz, Nicolas Lapierre, Kazuki Nakajima) Free practice 3: 4th (1min 43.907secs), 25 laps Qualifying: 1st (1min 42.449secs average) Alex Wurz: “I am very happy with our performance in qualifying. Actually after the morning session I thought it would be tough to get pole after seeing the lap times of our competitor. But we played our cards very well and in the end we leave with a smile. We attacked in qualifying, the car set-up felt good and the team did a good job. But it’s only 1% of the job done; the race is six hours compared to six minutes of qualifying. Now we want to do the job in the race.” Kazuki Nakajima: “It was a really good qualifying for us. We had different tyres compared to what I’d used in the morning and I had a really good feeling. I think the team did a great job to set up the car and get the maximum out of it. They also got me on track at the right moment, without any traffic, so everything was perfect. Alex’s lap was fast and it looks like we are in a competitive position for the race. The first job is done, now we have six hours of racing to go.” TS030 HYBRID #8 (Anthony Davidson, Sébastien Buemi, Stéphane Sarrazin) Free practice 3: 2nd (1min 43.871secs), 28 laps Qualifying: 2nd (1min 42.781secs average) Anthony Davidson: “Today was a really good day. We didn’t expect to be as quick as we were to be honest. To be first and second on the grid is fantastic and it’s the first time we have achieved this in the dry this year. Hopefully we will have even strong pace in tomorrow’s race. It looks like we had slightly better degradation on the tyres in the second part of qualifying compared to our competitors which looks promising. But it is a long race and we have to take it as it comes.” Stéphane Sarrazin: “It was a good session. On my first lap I was a bit too cautious because it was my first time with this combination of set-up and tyres. I didn’t want to take any risks so I didn’t over-drive. On the second lap I improved; it was quite good. The target was first and second for the team, and we are first and second. I would prefer the #8 to be first, but the race is still to come. The whole team did a great job; Anthony’s laps were great and in the #7 Alex and Kazuki were very fast. It is a good day for all the team.” © TOYOTA Motorsport GmbH 2019 By continuing to use this website, or by clicking Accept, you agree to our use of cookies to optimize your website experience. You can find more information about how to change your cookie settings here. All cookies will be automatically deleted from our system within 30 days. You can find out more about our Privacy Policy here.Ok	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14137
__label__wiki	0.95435	0.95435	Bruno Senna joins McLaren GT as factory driver Nephew of F1 legend Ayrton Senna will drive the new McLaren 650S GT3 in competition. By Bob Sorokanich McLaren's GT racing arm just announced that former F1 driver Bruno Senna has joined the team as a factory driver. The 31-year-old Brazilian driver, nephew of F1 legend Ayrton Senna, will drive in the development program for the 650S Sprint and 650S GT3 race cars. McLaren 650S GT3 - Photo Gallery "It is a great honor for me to be joining McLaren, a team my uncle enjoyed such huge success with, and one of the most famous names in motorsport," Senna said at the announcement. "A lot of effort has gone into the development of the car since the 12C GT3, which I raced, and it made a big impression on its debut at the end of last season. It is shaping up to be a big year ahead." Bruno Senna's career includes wins in British Formula 3 and a runner-up performance in the 2008 GP2 series before his three seasons driving in Formula 1. He raced in the GTE class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2013 and 2014, and drove for the Mahindra Formula E team immediately before joining McLaren. Senna joins McLaren GT factory drivers Alvaro Parente, Rob Bell, and Kevin Estre. In addition to developmental duties as the company tweaks its GT racers, Senna will be given chances to drive with customer teams over the course of the season. The McLaren Senna Is a Tribute to Carbon Fiber McLaren Wants to Race the Senna Ferrari Doesn't Make Anything Like the Senna Did You Buy a McLaren Senna GTR? Pictures of the McLaren Senna Testing in America McLaren Senna: First Drive	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14139
__label__wiki	0.728569	0.728569	ROB MARTIN MARKETING Clients and experience Result CIC Creative Tourist DaDaFest Royal Exchange Theatre Marketing Manchester The Lowry Photography and films How to access more Access more what? Visits? Page views? Transactions? Well, yes. But how about access to a more diverse user base? I’m on the Board of DaDaFest, a disability and Deaf arts organisation based in Liverpool that was established in 1984. It has a vision; to inspire, develop and celebrate talent and excellence in disability and deaf arts. DaDaFest uses the arts to educate, challenge attitudes and remove the barriers that restrict life choices for disabled people to live independently and equally in society. It runs events, nurtures talent amongst disabled young people and has a fantastic biennial Festival. One of the things I was asked to look at was an overhaul of the organisation’s communications and marketing and an area which leapt out for development was the website, a cluttered, clumsy and unattractive one which hadn’t changed much for several years. Crucially, it had a difficult to use back-end which left staff at DaDaFest baffled and incurred ongoing costs to get anything done. For any organisation, accessibility must be a paramount concern when developing a new website. For DaDaFest, it’s its lifeblood - it’s what the organisation is all about. The existing website, in placing access it its core, somehow forgot to reflect the joy, vibrancy and excitement of the organisation, presenting a rather dull experience. Is it possible, I wondered, to create something lively and appealing to all users whilst improving upon an already high standard of accessibility? When I was Digital Marketing Manager at The Lowry, I worked with an amazing company called Web to create one of the very first arts based websites with an integrated sign-up process which allowed users to segment themselves based on their areas of interest. Sounds so old hat now but then, it caused a fuss big enough to be spoken about glowingly by the Arts Council and held up as an example of future best practice. Now, everybody does it, or can if they choose. Later, as Digital Marketing Manager for Manchester International Festival, I worked with Web again, creating a site to incorporate what was then the emerging importance of social media and to ensure that audiences were brought back to the site outside the period of the festival itself. So, having worked successfully before with Web, I approached Andy Adamson, Web's founder and Director, and asked how he felt about developing a website which placed accessible usability as the very highest priority but which didn’t compromise on the other stuff. About a year later, mission accomplished! The new DaDaFest website launched in May 2018. As you’d expect, its creation involved a thorough examination of how a new website could best support the organisation’s business plan. It also involved lots of research into what best practice accessibility is, and that was vitally important, but so was considering the different needs of a huge variety of users and their specific requirements. This included people who are d/Deaf, people who have a visual impairment, people with dyslexia, learning impairments, motor issues… We wanted to go beyond the tried and tested (but still underused) likes of a signed video (got that), of classifying searchable content via the type of access it provides (got that) and so we delved deeper. We took into account things like the use of colour to support people with dyslexia, (the site contains ‘dyslexia friendly’ pages), having access keys to assist users moving around the website, building a frame work conforming to the ‘AAA’ standard of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. For screen reader software, we’ve avoided generic links such as ‘click here’ or ‘more’. Instead, the text of the link describes the destination. We avoid using language which is complex for some users, the text is large, contrasts with the background, and the interface is easy to use. The list goes on. But here’s the thing. If you don’t have specific access requirements when using the site, do you notice all of that or do you just see an exciting and easy to use website? We hope it's the latter because, as well as taking all of the accessibility requirements into account, we never forgot to include the enthusiastic feedback from the team at DaDaFest and the wonderful Young Leaders there who wanted something which reflected the diversity, quality, originality and excitement of what DaDaFest is and does. It may only be 2 months old at the time of writing, and there are lots of reasons why a website’s stats change (not least of which is the ability of staff to actually use a CMS with ease), but the fact is that page views of www.dadafest.co.uk have increased for that 2 month period year on year by 665%. No, that’s not a typo. 665%. Some of those visitors to the site show a marked increase in the national and international reach of the site too, supporting a key element of the business plan’s objectives. It’s not a finished thing. The site has the scope, flexibility and ambition to continue developing. To access more. Because it seems that when you place genuine access at the heart of what you do, things improve for everyone. If you’re interested in working with Web to improve your levels of accessibility online, contact them here.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14140
__label__wiki	0.961056	0.961056	Read Next Janet Jackson Preps Vinyl Reissues for Classic Albums Send Us a Tip Subscribe Jerrod Niemann on His Innovative and Potentially Polarizing New LP ‘Drink to That All Night’ singer explains how he reins in his experimental tendencies and why his next single left him speechless Beville Dunkerley Beville Dunkerley's Most Recent Stories Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood Reveal Details of ‘Christmas Together’ Faith Hill, Tim McGraw to Mentor Contestants on ‘The Voice’ Garth Brooks to Host Free Fan Celebration in Nashville Jerrod Niemann Courtesy of Sony Music Nashville Ruminating on the risks that have defined his career, Jerrod Niemann quotes a verse from “Write Your Own Songs,” a Willie Nelson tune that is nearly as old as him: “Mr. Purified Country, don’t you know what the whole thing’s about?/Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?/The world’s getting smaller, and everyone in it belongs/If you can’t see that, Mr. Music Executive, why don’t you just write your own songs?” 100 Greatest Singers of All Time: Willie Nelson “That just shows you that they were getting flack for messing with the tradition of country music,” Niemann muses to Rolling Stone. “When you decide to step out on a limb, you are going to get people who think you’re hurting something that they love so much. But in reality, every artist who’s been successful was daring to be different.” On his new album, High Noon, out March 25, Niemann doesn’t necessarily give Mr. Purified Country the middle finger, but he does take his brand of country music to sonically innovative and admittedly polarizing levels. Take, for instance, “Drink to That All Night,” the album’s first single. Its lyrics alone read like a good, old-fashioned drinking song that the Luke Bryans and Toby Keiths of the country world have cut a million times. But Niemann throws listeners for an Auto-Tuned loop by practically rapping two verses over an electronic dance beat. The track travels into a more familiar, country-rock neighborhood by the chorus, but it remains one of the most unique songs to crack the country singles chart’s Top 20 in a long time. The 34-year-old singer predicts that his record label will want to keep riding this audacious wave by releasing the slapstick “Donkey” as the project’s next single, and that’s something he admits scares him. (“But if they have the balls to do it, I have the balls to do it,” he laughs.) Like its predecessor, the song’s lyrics could’ve been plucked off the Grand Ole Opry stage, but its melody is hoedown-meets-hip-hop. “I’m very rarely speechless, but I sat there for about three minutes and then said, ‘What in the world did I just hear?'” Niemann reminisces of his first introduction to the demo for “Donkey.” “So I put it on a playlist on the bus, and no matter who we had on – friends, radio promoters – every time it came on, it stopped everyone in their tracks.” Though High Noon gets most of its buzz from party songs, those songs never crowd out Niemann’s soulful voice and talent for crafting relatable storylines. The groom-to-be, set to marry longtime girlfriend Morgan Petek this October, rounds out the disc with more emotive tracks, such as the sensuous “She’s Fine,” the piano-driven “The Real Thing” and the fiancée-inspired “Lucky #7.” “Any time a guy gets engaged, he should realize he outkicked his coverage,” Niemann says. “I know that I’m more of a fixer-upper. She was allured to the underdog she could mold.” The humble singer shies from a compliment on the album’s diversity, instead crediting his co-producer, Jimmie Lee Sloas, who has worked with everyone from Carrie Underwood to Megadeth. Niemann admits that in recording his own demos at home, as he does for every album, he can get a bit too experimental. “I have a room at my house called the red room. It’s not like 50 Shades of Grey or anything, but I have this red shag carpet, red walls, red ceiling – it’s crazy. I record down there and then take those tracks to the studio. I’d make the most bizarre version of a song, and then (Sloas) would figure out a way to rein it in.” Just not so far in that it gets lost in the neutral zone. Niemann takes criticism for his boundary-bending music very seriously – and with a serious sense of validation. “I’ve heard great songs that I’d love to record but don’t, because I don’t think it would make anybody feel anything,” he insists. “I’d rather someone love or hate it passionately. It’s time to rattle the cages.” In This Article: Jerrod Niemann	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14142
__label__wiki	0.67317	0.67317	Salina man killed when semi hits vehicle on highway A Salina man was killed late Friday afternoon when his car was struck by an out-of-control semitrailer on Interstate Highway 70, three miles east of Salina. According to a Kansas Highway Patrol report, a semi towing two trailers driven by Shane Edward Hale, 38, of Lenexa, was eastbound on I-70 at about 5:15 p.m. Friday when a strong gust of wind caused Hale to lose control. The semi jackknifed into the westbound lanes and struck a Subaru Legacy driven by Harry A. Taylor, 60, of Salina. Both vehicles came to rest on the north shoulder of the highway. Taylor was pronounced dead at the crash site, according to the report. Hale and a passenger in the semi, Renita M. Hale, 37, also of Lenexa, were not injured. Taylor and Shane Hale were wearing seat belts, while Renita Hale was not, according to the report.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14145
__label__wiki	0.904279	0.904279	How George Bush really found Jesus The story Bush tells about how Billy Graham converted him is a fable, concocted during the 2000 presidential campaign. Here's the truth. Check out this article! https://www.salon.com/2007/11/08/house_of_bush_2/ November 8, 2007 4:46PM (UTC) Conventional wisdom has it that George W. Bush became a "born-again" Christian in the summer of 1985, after extended private talks with Reverend Billy Graham. As recounted by Bush himself in "A Charge to Keep: My Journey to the White House," a ghostwritten autobiography prepared for the 2000 presidential campaign, one evening at Walker's Point, the Bush compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, Graham, spiritual confidant to Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan and a close friend of the Bush family, sat down by the fireplace and gave a talk. "I don't remember the exact words," Bush wrote. "It was more the power of his example. The Lord was so clearly reflected in his gentle and loving demeanor." The next morning, Bush and Graham went for a walk along the rugged Maine shore, past the Boony Wild Pool where Bush had skinny-dipped as a child. "I knew I was in the presence of a great man ..." Bush wrote. "He was like a magnet; I felt drawn to seek something different. He didn't lecture or admonish; he shared warmth and concern. Billy Graham didn't make you feel guilty; he made you feel loved." "Over the course of that weekend, Reverend Graham planted a mustard seed in my soul, a seed that grew over the next year," he continued. "He led me to the path, and I began walking." There's just one problem with Bush's account of his conversion experience: it's not true. For one thing, when Billy Graham was asked about the episode by NBC's Brian Williams, he declined to corroborate Bush's account. "I've heard others say that [I converted Bush], and people have written it, but I cannot say that," Graham said. "I was with him and I used to teach the Bible at Kennebunkport to the Bush family when he was a younger man, but I never feel that I in any way turned his life around." Even if one doesn't accept Graham's candid response, there's another good reason to believe that the account in Bush's book is fiction. Mickey Herskowitz, a sportswriter for the Houston Chronicle who became close friends with the Bush family and was originally contracted to ghostwrite "A Charge to Keep," recalled interviewing Bush about it when he was doing research for the book. "I remember asking him about the famous meeting at Kennebunkport with the Reverend Billy Graham...." Herskowitz said. "And you know what? He couldn't remember a single word that passed between them." Herskowitz was so stunned by Bush's memory lapse that he began prompting him. "It was so unlikely he wouldn't remember anything Billy Graham said, especially because that was a defining moment in his life. So I asked, 'Well, Governor, would he have said something like, "Have you gotten right with God?'" According to Herskowitz, Bush was visibly taken aback and bristled at the suggestion. "No," Bush replied. "Billy Graham isn't going to ask you a question like that." Herskowitz met with Bush about twenty times for the project and submitted about ten chapters before Bush's staff, working under director of communications Karen Hughes, took control of it. But when Herskowitz finally read "A Charge to Keep" he was stunned by its contents. "Anyone who is writing a memoir of George Bush for campaign purposes knew you had to have some glimpse of what passed between Bush and Billy Graham," he said. But Hughes and her team had changed a key part. "It had Graham asking Bush, 'George, are you right with God?'" In other words, Herskowitz's question to Bush was now coming out of Billy Graham's mouth. "Karen Hughes picked it off the tape," said Herskowitz. There is yet another reason why the episode in Maine could not possibly have been the first time George Bush gave his soul to Christ. That's because Bush had already been born again more than a year earlier, in April 1984 -- thanks to an evangelical preacher named Arthur Blessitt. Whereas Billy Graham was a distinguished public figure whose fame grew out of frequent visits to the Oval Office over several decades, Arthur Blessitt had a very different background. His evangelicalism was rooted in the Jesus movement of the sixties counterculture. To the extent he was famous it was because he had preached at concerts with the Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, the Jefferson Airplane, and others, and had run a "Jesus coffeehouse" called His Place on Hollywood's Sunset Strip during that turbulent decade. His flock consisted of bikers, druggies, hippies, and two Mafia hit men. The most celebrated ritual at Blessitt's coffeehouse was the "toilet baptism," a rite in which hippies announced they were giving up pot and LSD for Jesus, flushed the controlled substances down the toilet, and proclaimed they were "high on the Lord." In 1969, however, Blessitt was evicted from his coffeehouse and, in protest, chained himself to a cross in Hollywood and fasted for the next twenty-eight days. Over the next fifteen years, "The Minister of Sunset Strip," as he was known, transformed himself into "The Man who Carried the Cross Around the World" by lugging a twelve-foot-long cross for Jesus through sixty countries all over the world, on what would become, according to the "Guinness Book of World Records," the longest walk in human history. Blessitt delivered countless lost souls to Jesus. He went to Jerusalem. He prayed on Mount Sinai. He crossed the Iron Curtain. Finally, in 1984, he came to Midland, Texas, to preach for six nights at the Chaparral Center before thousands of Texans night after night on a "Mission of Love and Joy." He did not know it, but he was about to bring George W. Bush to Jesus. Thirty-seven years old when Blessitt came to Midland, Bush had yet to make much of a name for himself and still struggled with the giant shadow cast by his father. The pattern had begun early, when Bush was playing sports in school. "His father had been the captain of the baseball team and star first baseman at Yale," said Mickey Herskowitz. "He had met Babe Ruth at home plate at the stadium at Yale to accept the manuscript of the Babe's autobiography. Dad was a star, a scholar, the leader of the team and the captain. And George never got much beyond Little League. He wanted to be a catcher, but one of his coaches said he had an unfortunate flaw -- he blinked every time the guy swung the bat." Whatever he did, his meager achievements were dwarfed by his father's spectacular résumé. When he was in his twenties, his alcohol-fueled clashes with his father disturbed his parents so much that they asked friends to rein in their unruly son. In the spring of 1972, the elder Bush, then ambassador to the United Nations, called Jimmy Allison, an old friend from Midland, Texas, who was a political consultant and the owner of the Midland Reporter-Telegram, to ask if George W. could work on a Senate campaign Allison was running in Alabama for Winton "Red" Blount. "Georgie was raising a lot of hell in Houston, getting in trouble and embarrassing the family, and they just really wanted to get him out of Houston and under Jimmy's wing," Allison's widow, Linda, told Salon's Mary Jacoby. "[The Bushes] wanted someone they trusted to keep an eye on him." When the younger Bush got to Alabama, however, he continued drinking, according to Allison, often ambling into work at midday, boasting about how much he'd drunk the night before. One night at a party, she saw George W. urinating on a car in the parking lot. He reportedly shouted obscenities at police officers, and trashed a home he rented, leaving behind broken furniture he refused to pay for. "He was just a rich kid who had no respect for other people's possessions," a member of the family who rented the house told the Birmingham News. When Bush returned to Washington for Christmas that year, he got drunk with his sixteen-year-old brother Marvin, ran over the neighbor's garbage cans, and found himself standing unsteadily in the doorway at home, confronting his father. "I hear you're looking for me," he said. "You wanna go mano a mano right here?" The elder George Bush didn't say a word. "He just looked at him over his glasses that had slid down the end of his nose," Barbara Bush told a friend of the family. "And he just looked until [George W.] walked away. Everything he needed to communicate was in that glance." When young George went off to Harvard Business School in 1974, the differences between him and his father became more clearly defined. Where the older Bush embodied a genial and patrician preppy ethos, the son embraced the iconography of Texas as if determined to eradicate the last vestiges of East Coast elitism in his veins. At Harvard, his classmates "were drinking Chivas Regal, [but] he was drinking Wild Turkey," April Foley, who dated Bush briefly, told the Washington Post. "They were smoking Benson and Hedges and he's dipping Copenhagen, and while they were going to the opera he was listening to [country-and-western singer] Johnny Rodriguez over and over and over and over." After graduation, rather than join his classmates in the glittering canyons of Wall Street, Bush struck out for Midland's arid landscape of oil rigs and pump jacks, mesquite trees and horned lizards -- where he fit right in. But it was still unclear what he was doing with his life. A 1978 attempt to run for Congress was a disaster. Various stabs at making it in the oil industry -- with companies named Arbusto Energy, Spectrum 7, and Harken Energy -- failed. Even after marrying Laura Welch in 1977 and becoming the father of twins four years later, Bush's reputation was that of an aging frat boy who worshipped what he called the four B's -- beer, bourbon, and B&B. Family members still wondered what he was going to be when he grew up. Meanwhile, oil-rich Midland was going through its own spiritual crisis. When the price of oil soared in the seventies and early eighties, Midland had become a heady boomtown minting a new generation of hard-driving Texas oil barons. Its population exploded from 70,000 in 1980 to 92,000 just three years later. There were shimmering skyscrapers, Lear jets, and Rolls-Royce dealerships. But in the eighties, as oil plummeted from $40 a barrel to $8, Midland's boom gave way to unemployment lines, repo signs, and bankruptcies. In 1983, the First National Bank of Midland collapsed. "Fear set in..." said Midland evangelical Mark Leaverton. "Marriages broke up. People started having pretty serious emotional problems... It was a scary time for all of us... People started asking questions." By the time Arthur Blessitt came to Midland, several of Bush's friends had become born-again Christians, including two Midland oilmen named Don Poage and Jim Sale. After preaching one night, Blessitt went over to Sale's house with Poage and a few other followers. Before Blessitt left, Poage asked if they could pray together. Blessitt anointed him with Mazola oil because the Sales had no olive oil in their kitchen. "I got down on the floor with him and a group of people," Poage said in the 2004 documentary, "With God on Our Side: George W. Bush and the Rise of the Religious Right." "We prayed a very powerful prayer for me. And ... I felt big white lightning bolts coming out of my shoulders and even though I was on my knees, I felt like I was about three feet off the ground." Baptized as an Episcopalian in Connecticut, Bush had been a regular churchgoer his entire life, but for the most part he had just been going through the motions. As Stephen Mansfield reported in "The Faith of George W. Bush," when a Midland pastor asked his congregation what a "prophet" was, Bush replied, "That's when revenues exceed expenditures." Obvious quips were more important to Bush than spiritual quest. But when Bush heard about Poage's encounter with Blessitt, he was so interested that a meeting was arranged. So, on the afternoon of April 3, 1984, Blessitt and Sale went to the coffeeshop in the local Holiday Inn. Bush had already arrived, and got straight to the point. "I didn't bring up the subject of Jesus," Blessitt recalled. "He did. That's his personality." "Arthur," Bush said, "I did not feel comfortable attending the meeting, but I want to talk to you about how to know Jesus Christ and how to follow Him." Stunned by Bush's directness, Blessitt silently prayed, "Oh Jesus put your words in my mouth and lead him to understand and be saved." Then he picked up the Bible and leaned forward. "What is your relationship with Jesus?" Blessitt asked. "I'm not sure," Bush replied. "Let me ask you this question. If you died this moment do you have the assurance you would go to heaven?" "No," Bush said. "Then let me explain to you how you can have that assurance and know for sure that you are saved." "I like that." Blessitt then quoted several verses on sin and salvation -- from Matthew, Romans, Mark, and John. "The call of Jesus is for us to repent and believe!" he explained. "The choice is like this. Would you rather live with Jesus in your life or live without Him?" "With Him," Bush replied. "Had you rather spend eternity with Jesus or without Him?" "With Jesus," said Bush. Blessitt told Bush that Jesus wanted to write his name in the Book of Life, and extended his hand. "I want to pray with you now," he said. "I'd like that," Bush replied. He joined hands with Sale and Blessitt. Then, Blessitt prayed a variation on the Sinner's Prayer aloud, one phrase at a time, with Bush repeating after him: Dear God, I believe in you and I need you in my life. Have mercy on me as a sinner. Lord Jesus as best as I know how, I want to follow you. Cleanse me from my sins and come into my life as my Savior and Lord. I believe You lived without sin, died on the cross for my sins and arose again on the third day and have now ascended unto the Father. I love you Lord, take control of my life. I believe you hear my prayer. I welcome the Holy Spirit of God to lead me in Your way. I forgive everyone and ask You to fill me with Your Holy Spirit and give me love for all people. Lead me to care for the needs of others. Make my home in Heaven and write my name in Your book in Heaven. I accept the Lord Jesus Christ as my Savior and desire to be a true believer in and follower of Jesus. Thank you God for hearing my prayer. In Jesus' name I pray. The three men smiled. "It was a happy and glorious time," said Blessitt. He explained to Bush exactly what had just happened. "Jesus has come to live within your heart," he told Bush. "Your sins are forgiven ... You are saved ... You have received eternal life ... You are now the Child of God ... The Holy Spirit abides within you ... You have become a new person." Jim Sale was present during the entire discourse. "You can never tell what goes on in a man's heart and soul," he said. "But the question was asked and answered." George W. Bush had invited Christ into his life. "Why God chose to move in our president's heart at that time, I don't know," Sale said. "I'm just glad he did." "A good and powerful day," Blessit wrote in his diary. "Led Vice President Bush's son to Jesus today. George Bush Jr.! This is great! Glory to God." Craig Unger is the author of 'Boss Rove: Inside Karl Rove's Secret Kingdom of Power' (Scribner, September 2012). He is also a contributing editor of Vanity Fair, and wrote the New York Times bestseller, 'House of Bush, House of Saud.' For more about Boss Rove, and to buy the book, go to www.bossrove.com. MORE FROM Craig Unger Books George W. Bush Erin Lee Carr on her moment of reckoning Rethinking Easter, and Paul the Apostle Resistance can't be tweeted How Trump serves Putin's interests	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14146
__label__wiki	0.981216	0.981216	"I forgive you" P.M. tells La'auli Former Cabinet Minister and M.P. for Gagaifomauga no3, La'aulialemalietoa Polataivao Fosi (Photo: Areta Areta) By Lanuola Tusani Tupufia - Ah Tong, 06/18/2019 Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Dr. Sa'ilele Malielegaoi, has forgiven senior Member of Parliament, La’aulialemalietoa Leuatea Fosi. After a heated exchange between the leader of the Human Rights Protection Party and the former Cabinet Minister in Parliament on Tuesday night, Tuilaepa also urged the Associate Minister of the Ministry of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Peseta Vaifou Tevaga, to forgive La'auli too. La’auli and Peseta are involved in an ongoing legal battle over a business deal that has gone bad. “Do not let the sun go down on your anger,” Tuilaepa said. “I’ve taken the floor to tell the Member that I have forgiven you for any wrongdoing. “I have been waiting for the time when you will come to see me and we can talk but since the last Parliament sitting, you have not come. “If you have time then come and let’s talk and have some coffee. I forgive you.” About the legal matter between La’auli and Peseta, Tuilaepa said he wants the Members to settle their differences. “I had tried to solve your dispute but I ended up getting involved. But you both can solve your disagreements and settle it then we can all talk." La’auli in response thanked the Prime Minister. “When I finish my court case next week, then I’ll be back and I’ll have coffee with you,” said the Member of Parliament for Gagaifomauga No. 3. The former Speaker has been “distant” from the H.R.P.P. political party after voting against a Constitutional amendment in relation to the Electoral Constituencies Bill 2018. While the Prime Minister at the time insisted that La’auli by that decision sacked himself from the party, the M.P. maintained he is still a member of the H.R.P.P. In Parliament on Tuesday night, when La’auli took the floor to speak about the budget, he used the opportunity to raise the matter once again. La’auli said it was no secret how he is being treated as a “stranger.” “The truth is there was no intention to go against or build a wall between us,” he said. “I did not come into Parliament for that." But before La’auli could continue, the Prime Minister cut in. Tuilaepa said the matter is a party issue. He explained that the senior M.P. who was a former Speaker of the House had signed an agreement, where he pledge his allegiance to the H.R.P.P. But La’auli interjected. “With all respect I cannot express my views outside as the matter has been made known to everyone and around the world,” he said. “I apologise to the leader but God knows everything and my intention that were expressed about the legislation. “I apologise to our political party and I will not go away from our party. “You have responded to my request and I urge you to let love be the cloak of our relationship." Speaker of Parliament, Leaupepe Toleafoa Fa’afisi then urged La’auli to move away from discussing party matters inside Parliament. The M.P. insisted that it has not been easy for him. Tuilaepa intervened again and spoke about how the H.R.P.P. has been established in 1979 and the path it has taken. “There were changes but there was only one way in going about things and that is to keep the unity of the party,” said Tuilaepa. “There was a member who resigned as the Minister of Finance in Parliament because he was no longer trusted by the leader of the party. “I am talking about the history of this party that has remained united for all these years. “You cannot just stand up and object to constitutional amendments. There were members that did that but it was for other legislations, aside from the other M.P. that did that and was the former leader of the opposition party.” Tuilaepa told La’auli that it is best that he does not raise the matter again, as it could lead to opening up other things he does not want to speak about. “For about three years, I had tried to settle the matter between you and the other M.P.,” he said. “But what happened is that the matter has gone to Court and it is now more expensive and causing humiliation to you both. “I do not want to talk about too much details about these matters but if you continue to stand up then I will do just that.” But La’auli said the matter he is referring to concerns him and the Government — not between him and Peseta. “The Government has turned against me and the Attorney General is handling the matter. “That is why I am hurting." Unhappy with this, Tuilaepa again took the floor. “Correction, I cannot stop the Attorney General from doing his job,” he replied. “There is a Member that came to me for help it was about his wife and I felt sorry for them that the Attorney General had charged them. “The next day I spoke with the Attorney General and as I felt really sorry for them, but he told me he is doing what he is sworn to do. It is not the current Attorney General it is the previous one." Parliament continues today. Boxer Fa'aasu Loia ready to rumble in paradise Fa’aasu Loia, who hails from the villages of Sa’aga Siumu and Lalomanu and is coached by revered New Zealand-based former Samoan boxer To’oletai David Tua, is competing in the 75kg division. By Sialai Sarafina Sanerivi 07/17/2019 Assistant Attorney General reviews OneCoin report The Government has yet to charge anyone in relation to an investigation report into the operations of OneCoin in Samoa. This was confirmed by the Assistant Attorney General, Sefo Jr Ainu’u, who told the Samoa Observer the Office of the Attorney General is continuing to review the spontaneous intelligence report from the New Zealand Intelligence Unit (N.Z.F.I.U.). By Lanuola Tusani Tupufia - Ah Tong 07/16/2019 La'auli tells of efforts to resolve conflict with Peseta Former Speaker and senior Member of Parliament, La’aulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao, spoke about the conflicts and struggles faced by the Local Partners and Associates nonu company during its early days of operation. La’auli told the Court that he had tried to resolve the conflicts with Peseta and do what is for the best interest of the nonu company.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14147
__label__cc	0.716785	0.283215	Subscribe to our News notifications YouTube accounts for 35% of worldwide mobile internet traffic, Sandvine says Video has long been pegged as the biggest driver of global internet traffic, but in terms of mobile, one video service has risen high above the rest. According to Sandvine’s new Mobile Phenomena report, YouTube accounts for 35% of all global mobile internet traffic. That puts the user-generated video platform far ahead of Netflix, which accounts for 15%. “Netflix does appear in the top 10 in most regions, but is not the driver it is on fixed networks. Netflix is streamed at lower resolutions on mobile networks and is more efficient than other video streaming services,” wrote Sandvine in the report. “In general, Netflix’s long-form video is not something people do on mobile, as they use their peak hour binging on large screens. However, fixed mobile substitution service plan offerings, as we are likely to see with early 5G deployments, will have far more Netflix usage.” Sandvine broke out YouTube’s traffic figures on mobile across different geographical regions and found that the service led in terms of downlink traffic in North America, Europe, APAC, Latin America and the Middle East. In North America, Latin America and Europe, Instagram came in second. In APAC, Facebook’s video platform came in second. And in the Middle East, Snapchat came in second. In terms of mobile uplink traffic, YouTube also managed to crack the top three in a few global regions. It was number one in APAC and number three in the Middle East. In Europe, Netflix came in third in terms of mobile downlink traffic. In North America, YouTube accounts for 15.29% of mobile downlink traffic, narrowly beating out Instagram, which had 14.47%. Other video platforms showing up in the top 10 for North American mobile downlink traffic include Facebook Video with 6.48% and Netflix with 5.63%. The dominance of YouTube on mobile devices across the globe correlates with the newest internet traffic figures from Cisco. The company forecasts 79% of global mobile data traffic will be video by 2022. That’s up from 59% in 2017, or a ninefold increase. Mobile video will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 55% between 2017 and 2022, while overall average mobile traffic will increase at a CAGR of 46%. Source: FierceVideo	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14149
__label__wiki	0.567633	0.567633	Alison Haggerty held a handmade sign reading, “My family stays up all night so I can protect yours.” She was at the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday to explain how a change in reimbursements affects her family. A social worker with San Luis Obispo County Child Welfare Services, she is one of hundreds of county employees who are on strike, demanding better wages and benefits. “It’s unfair and not right. I love my job, and I’m happy that there are people like me and my co-workers that are passionate about helping the families of SLO County,” Haggerty said. “But I’m standing here today with that sign to fight for fairness for me and my family.” She and other workers who take on-call shifts were recently told that they’ll be reimbursed differently. On-call staff used to be paid for a minimum of 2 hours whenever they were called to work, like in the middle of the night to take reports of child abuse. “On my last on-call night shift, I got calls to report child abuse every hour throughout the night starting at 11:30 p.m.,” Haggerty told the supervisors. “Each time the phone rang, my husband and I were jolted awake and I went in the living room to take the report. Right as I was starting to fall back asleep, I got the next call.” Now, after the recent contract negotiations, they’re paid for a minimum of 30 minutes. “That shift, I was awake for 14 hours. But because of the 75 percent reduction in after-hours pay, I got paid for three hours,” Haggerty said. It’s one of a handful of issues raised by striking employees who say they feel unappreciated, calling it essentially a pay cut in a time that county employees are already underpaid in comparison to similar jobs in other counties. Social workers in San Luis Obispo County make an average of 23 percent less than colleagues from comparable agencies in El Dorado, Kern, Marin, Monterey, Napa, Placer, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz and Sonoma counties, according to a fact-finding report made during contract negotiations by a neutral third-party. Hundreds of striking SLO County workers demand ‘a fair wage to just live here’ SLO County pays its workers far less than similar counties — that’s why they’re striking SLO sheriff’s deputies support county strike: ‘We are facing many of the same struggles’ Dozens of San Luis Obispo County workers filled the county Board of Supervisors chambers during Tuesday’s meeting to demand higher wages and respect. David Middlecamp dmiddlecamp@thetribunenews.com	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14150
__label__wiki	0.539867	0.539867	My interview with internet activist Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) Aaron Swartz was a 26 year old internet pioneer, entrepreneur and activist who died tragically on January 11th. Speaking of Aaron’s death, Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with inventing the internet said ‘we have lost a mentor, a wise elder’. Aaron, a Stanford University drop-out, was instrumental in the development of the internet as we know it. He co-authored the RSS specification, co-founded Reddit.com, and co-founded the Progressive Change Campaign Committee for political reform which has almost 1 million members. Aaron was instrumental in the 2011 defeat of ‘SOPA’ bill in the U.S, which threatened free speech online. In late 2010 and early 2011 Aaron, who was a fellow of Harvard University’s Center for Ethics, downloaded millions of academic journal articles from M.I.T’s labs and was later charged by police. He faced 35 years in prison and millions in legal costs Aaron’s death has been covered by news outlets worldwide and the internet and activism community has rallied to keep his spirit alive and to protect freedom of speech online and to promote the values of truth, democracy, justice and compassion that Aaron lived for. See www.demandprogress.org Ruairí McKiernan interview with Aaron Swartz at Harvard, Boston in January 2010. Tell me about your work I co-founded a group called the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. What we try to do is organise people over the Internet who care about progressive politics and moving the country in a more progressive direction to come together, join our email list, join our campaigns, and help to get progressive candidates elected all over the country. I think one of the things we’ve found is that if you want to run for office there’s a path for doing it but it’s a very a corporate controlled path. You hire a bunch of big money consultants, you talk to a bunch of big money donors, you go round the major corporations and speak with their executives and persuade them that you like the things that they do and the result is that most of the people in congress are business friendly and corporate funded candidates. What we want to do is build a pipeline to get more progressive, more activist people elected into congress so they can start to effect real social change. How do you know that you’re being effective in that work? I think it’s nice that we have this focus on elections because you know elections are very clear. There’s a deadline. There are two candidates. One you’re supporting, one you’re opposing, and there’s a date when you find out find out which one of you won and so you really can’t fool yourself with elections. You can’t say well we got 90 % of the way there at the end of the day. Either your candidate is in office or it isn’t and you can see exactly how much you accomplished and how many votes you needed to go. So one of the things I like about it is that it gives us a constant sense of exactly what we’re achieving, how close we are to getting there and what we need to do. That’s a good question. I feel very strongly that it’s not enough to just live in the world as it is, to just take what you’re given and follow the things that adults told you to do and that your parents told you to do and the society tells you to do. I think that you should always be questioning. I take this very scientific attitude that everything you’ve learned is just provisional that it’s always open to recantation or refutation or questioning and I think the same applies to society. I felt growing up I slowly had this process of realising that all the things around me were just the natural way that things were the way things would be. They weren’t natural at all. They were things that could be changed and things that more importantly were wrong and should change. Once I realised that there was really no going back I couldn’t fool myself into saying I’ll just go and work for a business and ignore all that once I realised that there were real serious problems, fundamental problems, that I could do something to address I didn’t see a way to forget that. How did you go about getting active? You know I’d always been wanting to get active. Even when I was at school I was very frustrated with school. I thought the teachers didn’t really know what they were talking about. They were very domineering and controlling and the homework was kind of a sham and was just a ways to piece things together and force them to do busy work. I started reading books about the history of education and how this education system was developed, alternatives to it and ways that people could actually learn things as opposed to just regurgitating facts that teachers were telling them. This led me down this path of questioning things. Once I questioned the school I was in, I questioned the society that built the school, the business that the schools were training people for, I questioned the government that set up this whole structure. What were the projects or campaigns that you first got involved with? Well like I said I got interested in educational stuff, I don’t think I got involved in a political campaign. I spent a lot of time after that wondering what is it that I could really affect. You know I did a lot of writing and a lot of reading, but a lot of the stuff I read about social change seemed to come from this model, you know, in the revolutions in the 60s people thought if we just get enough people together who are angry, get a lot of people together who are angry, then all of a sudden magically this revolution will happen and will take over the country and, you know, it just didn’t make sense to me. I think now that I’ve more background, more context, I think that it came out of this experience of watching the Soviet Union because the Soviet Union was so underdeveloped and you know there weren’t very many political structures in place. It was true that a small group of people getting a bunch of people angry could kinda take over a whole country and I just don’t think that that could happen in developed countries like the US or Ireland so I began wondering what is it that you can do in developed countries, you know everything seems so ineffective and so powerless and it wasn’t until just recently that I started thinking ok, the internet provides this opportunity now to raise money to get candidates elected. It used to be that there was just no way for a small group of people to go up against the power of big money, but one of the things we’ve seen in the PCCC , there’s just a couple of us who work there and in the past year using nothing but basically computers and our own apartments we’ve gotten 300,000 people (now 950,000) to join our list and to raise millions of dollars. I mean that just three people were able to make a huge difference like that and the internet provides this chance where we can start taking on big corporations. As you developed your interest in social activism have there been any people or ideas or organisations that have really inspired you? Right before I went to college I read two books. I read a book “ Moral Mazes” by Robert Jackall which is a study of how corporations work, and it’s actually a fascinating book, this sociologist, he just picks a corporation at random and just goes and studies the middle managers, not the people who do any of the grunt work and not the big decision makers, just the people whose job is to make sure that things day to day get done, and he shows how even though they’re all perfectly reasonable people, perfectly nice people you’d be happy to meet any of them, all the things that they were accomplishing were just incredibly evil. So you have these people in this average corporation, they were making decisions to blow out their worker’s eardrums in the factory, to poison the lakes and the lagoons nearby, to make these products that are filled with toxic chemicals that poisoned their customers, not because any of them were bad people and wanted to kill their workers and their neighbourhood and their customers, but just because that was the logic of the situation they were in. Another book I read was a book “Understanding Power” by Noam Chomsky which kind of took the same sort of analysis but applied it to wider society which you know we’re in a situation where it may be filled with perfectly good people but they’re in these structures that cause them to continually do evil, to invade countries, to bomb people, to take money from poor people and give it to rich people, to do all these things that are wrong. These books really opened my eyes about just how bad the society we were living in really is. And is there any key message that you’d give to anyone watching this interview or listening in? Any key point you’d like to encourage people to, to keep in mind when they’re thinking about the issues that affect them, or the issues they might want to take action on? I think the most important thing is to realise that you can accomplish something. I know that sometimes you just feel powerless that you’re one small person in this world of big corporations and big evil people and big media companies and so on, and there’s nothing you can do, but the fact is a lot of the reason it seems like that is that people feel powerless. People are afraid to do anything you know for a long time I watched the news and all I saw was this corporate propaganda and this kind of anti-activism attacks and I thought, that the news media was just inevitably biased against us, that there was just no hope that the only solution alternative was to create alternative news streams. Now with the PCCC I’ve found that it’s not that the news media is inevitably biased against us, it’s just that, reporters you know, like all of us are just kinda lazy you know they report the stories that people give to them, and there are huge companies that are willing to write up stories for them and you know hand them to them on silver platters and all they have to do is just type them up. Of course they’re going to do that and it turned out that when we did the same thing, we started writing press releases, going to reporters and pitching stories, they were just as happy to write about us as they were to write about Coca Cola. So because I had believed for so long that change was impossible it precluded me from taking any actions that could have caused that change and so I think the first step for everyone out there is to believe that you can actually accomplish something because once you believe that you’re half way to actually doing something. SEPARATE 2011 INTERVIEW FOR YOUTH YOUTHRISING INTERNET ACTIVIST AARON SWARTZ TALKS TO SPUNOUT You've been involved in using the internet for activism a long time now. How did you get started with it all? I was very lucky -- my Dad ran a software company, so we had computers around the house since I was born and an Internet connection from very early on. Back in those days, it seemed so clear that this was going to change everything, that not using the Internet for activism seemed crazy. What was the main inspiration behind you getting involved with the web and in campaigning? For a while, I made the usual programmer's mistake that the way to change the world with technology was to make better technology - just give voters, politicians, whomever better tools to do their job and everything would work better. But after trying it, it became pretty obvious that wasn't enough: you needed to fight. What do you think are the particular benefits of focusing on the web as a tool for change? It's so easy -- there's hardly anything comparable. Where else can you get people to help you do something in just a couple seconds? What have been the highlights in the journey so far? The moments that get me jazzed are combining the online stuff with very exciting offline stuff. After hundreds of thousands of people signed a petition supporting a government-run health insurance plan for the US, I got to run around the halls of Congress buttonholing politicians about whether they'd vote for it. How do you feel about where the U.S is at right now? We're in a pretty sorry state -- our political system is getting increasingly dysfunctional as our problems are getting increasingly severe. It seems ripe for radical change, but it seems as likely the change will be for the worse as for the better. From what you hear about the EU and Ireland, what are your impressions of what is going on over here? It sounds like the Euro has turned out to have exactly the problems that folks like Paul Krugman and Gordon Brown said it would. In the US, the government may not be doing enough to get people back to work, but at least it's possible. Under the Euro, Germany can insist on letting the Irish suffer another man-made disaster. Ireland needs to declare a bank holiday and escape. In general, how do you stay motivated, focused and determined in the face of adversity? What else are you going to do? It's nice to take a vacation every once in a while, but I find I can't go too far without finding myself itching to get back into the fight. What advice would you give to people starting out in community or campaign projects? Start by picking something you're confident you can achieve. There's nothing like a victory to keep you going and learning from a concrete success or failure is much better than throwing yourself into a big fight you don't expect to win. How do you stay sane in the middle of it all? What do you do for fun, to unwind etc? Sneaking off with friends and holing up with a good book. Nothing gets me energized like working with other amazing people.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14153
__label__wiki	0.983504	0.983504	Rangers finally lose one on road Sunrise, Fla. — Olli Jokinen showed off one of the new shootout moves that he has been telling his teammates all about. And he performed it to perfection. Jokinen scored the only goal of the shootout and Tomas Vokoun made 28 saves, giving the Florida Panthers a 3-2 victory over the Rangers before a sellout crowd of 19,250 last night. "It sounds funny but for the first time in my life I was practicing all summer and I told a couple guys I've got some new moves," Jokinen said. "They asked me to show them those moves and I said I'll wait for a game. I don't think I've scored one in practice doing my old stuff." Each team missed four shots before Jokinen's wrist shot beat Rangers goalie Stephen Valiquette. Chris Drury, who scored twice for the Rangers in regulation, missed on New York's ensuing turn. Stephen Weiss and David Booth also scored for the Panthers, who have won four of five. "I think we played the best game we've played all year," Vokoun said. "We got some great chances. Their goalie played great." Valiquette stopped 33 shots in his second start of the season for the Rangers, who had their five-game road win streak ended. "Jokinen just got off a good shot," Valiquette said. "It was one of those things. I never lost my focus, he just managed to get it past me." Steve Montador scored at 2:20 of overtime but Richard Zednik was called for hooking just before the shot was made. Later, Florida's Jozef Stumpel had a shot bounce off the post with 47 seconds left. The Rangers tied it on a power play at 16:10. With five minutes left in regulation, the Rangers had a 5-on-3 for 1:07. The Panthers killed off the first penalty but the Rangers made it 2-all on Drury's second goal of the game. Scott Gomez passed the puck from Vokoun's left to Drury at the right of the crease, and Drury poked in the puck. "It was certainly nice to chip in but it would also have been nice to extend the shootout," Drury said. "We came down here and got the point, so we can build on that." The Rangers missed a chance to take the lead when Jaromir Jagr's shot bounced off the post with 2:04 left in regulation. "We had a little bit of luck with us tonight," Vokoun said. "The puck didn't go in. It could have been disaster." Notes — Rangers' Marek Malik has missed the last 11 games with bruised ribs.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14156
__label__cc	0.578156	0.421844	Officials say Highland man sexually abused girls, 9, 15 Town of Lloyd - Town police arrested a 48-year-old Highland man Tuesday on charges that he sexually abused a two girls � ages 9 and 15 � over the course of two years, official said. Franklin J. Sackett was charged with several felony counts of sexual abuse and misdemeanor counts of sexual misconduct and endangering the welfare of a child, town police said. Police said the two girls were abused at Sackett�s Highland home. Sackett was sent to Ulster County Jail on $25,000 bail. He is scheduled to appear in Lloyd Town Court today.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14157
__label__wiki	0.596349	0.596349	A plaque to commemorate the new award for international work established in his name is presented to Roy A. Phillips in 2001 (photo, left) by Peter Clark, Executive Director of the Standards Council of Canada (SCC). The Roy A. Phillips Award recognizes distinguished service by a Canadian individual to international standardization efforts. It was due to the labour of late Roy A. Phillips, distinguished engineer, recipient of the Order of Canada and president of Roy Phillips Advisory Services Inc., that much of the foundation for harmonious international working methods and procedures was conceived and established. Mr. Phillips' ongoing work with the Standards Council of Canada, international standardization organizations and the private sector helped reroute the direction of international trade and policy. Nominate someone for this award Candidates for the Roy A. Phillips Award must be able to demonstrate participation, leadership or technical assistance in the development, promotion or implementation of policies, standards or guides (through certification or accreditation programs) that have contributed significantly to international standardization efforts for a period of at least ten (10) years. Previous recipients 2012 - Dr. St. John Blakeley 2010 - J. Graham Cameron 2008 - Dr. Jocelyn Pedder 2006 - A.J. Flood 2004 - George Weiss 2002 - Reginald Shaughnessy	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14160
__label__cc	0.646985	0.353015	Celebration of Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856) To Robert Schumann on the 200th anniversary of his birth in 2010 Download the Schumann weeks calendar 1.1.-31.12.2010 in PDF format here. (2,4 MiB) In 2010, to mark the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Schumann, born in Zwickau on 8th June 1810 as the sixth and youngest child of the writer, bookseller and publisher August Schumann and his wife Christiane, particular attention was paid to Robert Schumann and his music all over the world. Tribute had already been paid to Schumann in 2006 in commemoration of the anniversary of his death 150 years earlier, with ground-breaking exhibitions and publications and, of course, special programmes in public concert life. For instance, in 2007 and 2008, pioneering scenic performances of “Scenes from Goethe’s Faust” (conductor: Franz Welser-Möst; direction and staging: Hermann Nitsch) and of “Genoveva” (conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt; direction: Martin Kusej) were given at Zurich Opera House, partly becoming the subject of very controversial debate, which were an absolute success with the audience and also experienced a broad reception and coverage by the media. For 2010, the Schumann towns had prepared a splendid and closely coordinated Schumann programme with alternating focus on time and content related aspects. Although particular attention was paid to the activities of the Network Members of the Schumann Forum, and the Schumann Network overall aimed at attracting as much feedback as possible to its “own” events, the basic concept both of the Network and its Portal was (and, of course, continues to be) to provide an overview of all Robert (and Clara) Schumann related offers, if ever possible. This is why collaboration and cooperation with other institutions and organisations has been and is so very important to the Schumann Network. For this reason also, all events with a relation to Schumann “throughout the world”, if ever possible, are listed in the calendar of events 2010 (see above) and the constantly updated online preview of events. In 2010, over 2.5 million visitors from around the world had a look at the Schumann Portal www.schumannportal.de and the Special Page www.schumannjahr2010.de. And now we look particularly forward to the Schumann year 2019 – the 200th anniversary of the birth of Clara Schumann!	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14161
__label__cc	0.643377	0.356623	Home > Office of Conference & Event Services > Insurance Requirements External organizations wishing to host events at The University of Scranton must provide the University with a certificate of insurance along with the endorsements. Specific guidelines are listed below. Insurance Certificate with Endorsement License agrees to obtain and furnish to the Conference & Event Services Director of The University of Scranton at least ten (10) days to the event a certificate showing that there is in effect a policy of a MINIMUM of $1,000,000 each occurrence combined single limit bodily injury and broad form property damage, including broad form contractual liability in which the Licensee is the Named Insured and The University of Scranton is named as additionally insured. Athletic and sports camps must provide a policy in the amount of $3,000,000. The insurance certificate must be accompanied by the additional insured endorsement (Insurance Services Office, Inc. Form Number CG 20 11 01 96 or its equivalent) issued by the insurance company or its duly assigned agent. The parties agree that the specified coverage or limits of insurance in no way limits the liability of the tenant. Coverage shall be for the full period of the Licensee's occupancy of the University's premises. Licensee will not do or permit to be done anything in or upon any portion of the premises, or bring or keep anything thereon which will in any way conflict with the conditions of any insurance policy upon The University of Scranton. The Treasurer/Vice President for Finance or General Counsel of the University may refuse to allow any use of the University facilities during any period when such insurance is not in force. Licensee is responsible for any and all demands on account of any injury or death, or damage to property occurring in or upon any portion of The University of Scranton premises licensed to and used by Licensee that are caused by the acts or omissions of Licensee or its respective employees, representatives, servants, agents, sublicenses, invitees, patrons, guests, or contractors. Licensee shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless The University of Scranton excepting negligent acts of The University of Scranton, its officers, trustees, employees, agents or students from and against any and all claims, demands, action, causes of action, penalties, judgments and liabilities of every kind and description (including court costs and reasonable attorney's fees) for injury to and death of persons, and damage to and loss of property which are caused by, arise from or grow out of Licensee's use or occupancy of the premises or from any breach by Licensee of any condition of this contact, or from any act of omission, of Licensee or its respective employees, representatives, servants, agents, invitees, patrons, guests, sublicensees, or contractors. Minors on Campus Policy The University of Scranton maintains its facilities in a manner consistent with its mission of higher education. Although a university is primarily an adult environment, children under the age of eighteen (18) enter campus to visit faculty, staff or students. Children may enter the campus as part of a program, to attend an event, or to use a campus resource. The conditions in this policy are in addition to any requirements that may apply to other visitors to campus. This policy applies to activities and programs taking place on the campus of the University of Scranton where minors will be present and under the care and control of a University representative, as well as off-campus activities that fall under the authority and direction of the University. This policy applies to both programs in which adults have sustained and regular contact with children and programs where the contact with children is less regular. This policy is not intended to apply to: Programs in which enrolled undergraduate students of the University, or of another university participating in the program, are the only minors participating. Research programs subject to the review and approval of the Institutional Review Board where minors are the subjects of the research. Admissions programs designed to attract high school juniors and seniors to the University, family weekend, and such other programs as may be designated by the appropriate divisional vice president in consultation with the General Counsel. Programs where minors are on campus under the supervision of a parent, guardian, or other authorized adult. For more information on this policy, please visit the Human Resources website. Conference & Event Services Campus & Area Information Conference Planning Checklist Reservation Guidelines University Mission University Calendar of Events Scranton, PA 18510-4699 conferences@scranton.edu	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14164
__label__cc	0.674425	0.325575	Everything You Need To Know About The Situation In Ferguson: From An American POV By Andrew Westmoreland The truth is disturbing. We’ve been featuring the troubling events in Ferguson over the last few weeks. It’s an important issue because the USA likes to tell the world that it’s the leader and the best at everything. When we see the truth revealed in events like police shootings of unarmed people, it shows the world just how full of crap America really is. Lets take a moment to dissect what been happening there and just why this really isn’t new. (Note: I live in America.) America was founded on racial abuse and subjugation, so events like what occurred in Ferguson, Missouri should be little shock. A little known fact is that several highly educated people of African decent actually helped the Colonists draft the Articles of Confederation and helped found the USA. This of course has been shuffled away into archives and forgotten. So-called black people have been in the Americas just as long as so-called whites. While logical and decent folks have no issues with other ethnicities and races, here in America its always been an issue. The fact is that at least once a day someone in the USA is being shot by the police. Seriously, every single day someone is being shot BY THE POLICE. The use of force is so common these days that many people of non-white decent assume the worst when cops are nearby. Rightfully so when all you know is constant harassment, beatings, muggings, rapes, murders, and false arrests. Yes, I said muggings too. Many people report being robbed of jewelry and cash by police in more ethnic neighborhoods. So the level of abuses are not small by any means. Now take a moment’s pause to have a laugh and see just how insane it is for black folks in the USA. Video clip from Jon Stewart’s Daily Show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9WgQx968W4 Statistically, extra-racial killings are actually decreasing in the USA as a general issue. However, do not let the hype cloud what’s going on here. Yes it’s a racial issue, but it’s also more about police abuse of power. Post 9/11, the USA has become and Orwellian style climate. We have the molesty TSA, nosy NSA spying on the entire internet, and the police now rocking military weapons and hardware. If we had a time machine and brought someone from 100 years ago to today they would be shocked and horrified at how low America has actually gotten. Make no mistake though, the USA is still doing better than some nations such as Iran, North Korea, or China. Mike Brown (unarmed) was shot multiple times by police officer Darren Wilson on August 9th, 2014. This is but one of the latest killings by police in America. Just three days later another black man (Kajieme Powell) was shot and killed just four miles away from Ferguson. Statistics show that at least twice a week a black man is shot and killed in the USA by police. Everyday of every week or every year someone loses their life from police in the USA. I’m beating this fact over and over because this is the primary issue at hand here. Even with the long history of racial divide in the States, more recently the police and federal government have launched an unofficial campaign of violence against their own citizens of all ethnicities. The police seem to have this “us VS them” mentality that developed over the decades and it shows no signs of abating. We got to see this first hand in Ferguson when the police from the entire AREA converged on the local suburb with full tactical gear, APCs, assault rifles, tear gas, rubber bullets, and extremely aggressive force on protestors. Sure, there was two days of looting (a dozen or so people) and a few protestors that threw bottles at police. But this does not ever mean that the level of force dropped on this mostly peaceful suburb was legal or necessary. Not even the news media is safe from these assaults anymore as we saw massive violations of the USA’s 1st Amendment by police. For a those who don’t know it reads: They fired tear gas at reporters from Al-Jazeera as well as many other agencies and you can see below. I watched a combined 10 hours of the protests via live streams that were up and constantly heard the police threatening journalists and protestors alike with arrests for being “unlawfully assembled”. Reporters were hit hard by the tear gas and had to fall back to the designated media area to get their faces drenched in milk and water. I’ve never been tear gassed and I’m pretty sure I would die of death if I ever was. Seriously, I hear that shit sucks and can affect you for hours on end. Another issue we see is just how far divided America can be when it comes to race. After the shooting death, well murder of Mike Brown the internet exploded with racist comments and almost immediately fund-raisers went up to support the people that killed him. 12 days ago a gofundme was launched in support of office Darren Wilson. They have raised a massive $400,000 so far, while in support of the victim has only seen $300,000. Fox News has been especially ridiculous and frankly all out racist if you ask me. But I’m not the only one that thinks their coverage of the situation was highly questionable. Check this link out of Jon Stewart utterly destroying their credibility. Another issue to think about is just how ridiculous the media coverage has been on this incident. There was literally a dozen people or less looting and they made it seem like the entire neighborhood was stealing hair weaves and booze. Then AFTER people were being tear gassed they broke into a McDonald’s to get milk for their burning eyes. But the media seems to have this issue with the dramatic and continues to repeat videos of the police violence and one or two violent protestors. That’s not what I saw from watching it live from Vice News and Argus Radio streams. I saw hundreds of peaceful protestors under attack by the police looking like something from RoboCop. To sum it all up, yeah there is a lot of racism in the USA and police forces. But in my opinion and from what I have seen, most of the racism lies in the deep south and in the older generations. Most of the white people I know under 40 are good decent people who don’t go out of their way to be total knob heads to people who don’t look like them. In fact, most folks I know are outraged that shootings like this still happen and that the police get away with it. So even though it is a mess in Ferguson and all over the USA, it’s actually getting better. 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__label__cc	0.721145	0.278855	Angers, France, known as the gateway to the chateau country, is a lively university city 182 mi/294 km southwest of Paris, full of half-timbered houses and Renaissance mansions. As the medieval capital of Anjou, Angers was once ruled by Henry II of England, father of Richard the Lionheart and King John. The town has an old medieval center dominated by the massive chateau of the Plantegenets, a formidable 17-tower fortress. Another key attraction is the biggest medieval tapestry collection in the world, including the stunning 14th-century tapestry depicting scenes from the Apocalypse according to Saint John. There is also the splendid three-tower, 12th-century Hospital of Saint Jean and the Saint Serge Church with its impressive vaulted apse. For a great view, climb the Tour du Moulin, one of the 17 fortress towers. Also, when visiting the fortress, be sure to see the chapel, the Logis Royal and the dungeons. Other sites worth visiting are the Logis Barrault with its fine-arts museum and the Hotel Pince Museum, which houses an interesting collection of Japanese and Chinese ceramics and Egyptian, Etruscan and Greek antiquities. For an original and amusing museum tour, try the Musee Cointreau, which explains in-depth the making of the famous liqueur Cointreau. There is a bar that provides samples and out-of-the-ordinary cocktails at the end of your tour. As is the case in many French towns in the summer, Angers has a music festival, combining jazz, classical and world music in addition to dance performances and singing recitals. The festival invites artists from around the world and is held in July and August.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14175
__label__wiki	0.931742	0.931742	Club helps inspire the next generation of female players in Brent March 27, 2018 Debbie Joseph Tottenham Hotspur Foundation hosted its second girls’ football tournament in Brent as part of the Club’s community engagement work in the Borough during their season at Wembley. Over 70 girls aged 9-11 from nine schools, including Sinai School, in Brent took part in the tournament which was held at the Ark Academy on Friday 23rd March. The Foundation has been working with our school since September 2017 through its lunchtime football club for girls which has been delivered as part of the Club’s Primary School Sports programme in Brent. Spurs Ladies First Team player Ronnell Humes and Foundation apprentice Portia Walker joined the tournament to help develop the young players’ skills on the pitch and offer them advice. Spurs Ladies First Team player Ronnell Humes said, “Female football is a growing sport and community events such as these act as a catalyst in driving increased female participation in football across London. It’s important for young girls to have strong, successful female role models that they can look up to from a young age. I am honoured to be one of those role models and I hope the girls are inspired to keep playing and pursue a career in either coaching or playing football.” Nikki Kelly, Acting Chief Executive Officer, Tottenham Hotspur Foundation, said: “Our School Sports Programme in Brent is one of the many ways in which the Club is actively working with the local community during the Club’s season at Wembley. We’ve already witnessed the positive impact that this provision has among the schools we have been supporting across North London for many years, and we hope that our work will inspire more young people to actively get involved in sport.” Our school team played 4 matches in the run up to the final where they were crowned runners up after losing out in a penalty shootout! Wheels in motion for Sinai School library bus Meet Julia Kaye	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14177
__label__wiki	0.930126	0.930126	Yankees manager Aaron Boone suspended for Sunday's game Sep 2, 2018 \| 11:07AM Boone was ejected during Friday's game Aug 26, 2018; Baltimore, MD, USA; New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone (17) looks on the field during the sixth inning against the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Mandatory Credit: Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports (Tommy Gilligan) Yankees manager Aaron Boone has been suspended for Sunday's game and received an undisclosed fine after he made contact with the home plate umpire when he was ejected from Friday night's series opener against the Tigers. Bench coach Josh Bard is expected to serve as manager for the game, according to Joe Trezza of MLB.com. Boone was arguing balls and strikes when he was ejected, which led him to come out of the dugout and argue before squatting at the plate to point out his problem with the umpire's calls. Before squatting, his cap touched the umpire's cap, leading the umpire to point out that he made contact with him. Boone has led the Yankees to an 86-50 mark in his first season as manager.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14186
__label__cc	0.541288	0.458712	Napoli aim to secure Rodriguez Harry Kettle in Serie A, Transfer News & Rumours 18 Jun 2019 According to a recent report from Sky Sport Italia, Serie A side Napoli are interested in the possibility of completing the signing of James Rodriguez from Real Madrid. The Colombian star has spent the last two seasons out on loan with Bayern Munich, but has failed to really make much of a consistent impact. The expectation is that Napoli would be taking James on loan, with the further option to buy him in the not so distant future. Rodriguez was once considered to be one of the most exciting players in world football, but he seems to have regressed in recent times. The expectation is that Napoli would give him the opportunity to make a consistent impact in the starting XI, after a few years of great uncertainty. Juventus have also made it known that they’d be interested in potentially signing Rodriguez, but again, nothing has been confirmed up to this point. Harry Kettle Harry is a University of Worcester graduate who has been writing professionally for the last two years. He specialises in several sports such as MMA, pro wrestling and athletics, with football being his primary love. He continues to dream of a life in the Premier League as a Wolves fan. Categories Serie A Transfer News & Rumours Borussia M'gladbach v Istanbul Basaksehir - Soccer Riga FC v Dundalk - Soccer	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14187
__label__wiki	0.868882	0.868882	A diver snapped incredible photos with a jellyfish 'as big as him' off the British coast VIDEO PREVIEW: Yorkshire world premiere for Brexit inspired piano recital European Unison A Brexit inspired recital written for 28 pianos - one for each member of the European Union - hopes to hit the right notes with Remain supporters when it gets its world premiere this weekend in Yorkshire. Thursday, 23 March, 2017, 18:45 But the performance involving 28 pianists is such an ambitious undertaking it may never be played again live, says young composer Ruth Spencer Jolly. The 30-minute piece, called European Unison, tells the story of the EU from its birth to Brexit - tickets are free for the premiere at Besbrode Pianos in Leeds, on Sunday, March 26, at 6pm. To reserve your free tickets visit www.eventbrite.co.uk WATCH: Five minutes of the recital was performed in an exclusive preview, followed by a Brexit debate, on our Facebook Live stream which has reached more than 35,000 people. Watch it back on demand - CLICK HERE. Remain supporter Ruth, aged 23, describes her work as a eulogy to the rich cultural exchange and peacekeeping cooperation that the EU was founded upon. She says the ensemble of pianos demonstrates that ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts’ and the UK Brexit piano will symbolically be white. Plans are to feature a recording of it online but the logistics of getting 28 pianists to play 28 pianos at the same time probably means the live performance could be a one off, she added. Composer Ruth Spencer Jolly reflecting on Brexit with her piano recital European Unison. "It has been a huge task to get 28 pianists together and 28 pianos to play it on - which I couldn't have done without the support of Besbrode Pianos," she said. "I don't even know whether it will be performed ever again like this. It may be a one off." She added: “Exiting the European Union will sorely impact a young generation of people - my generation – born European citizens with the right to travel freely and work anywhere in the European Union." "We now face an uncertain future in which these rights are likely to be revoked - another unwelcome blow in a series of unfortunate events, leaving a generation already financially stretched and disillusioned. Melvin Besbrode staging world premiere of European Unison with 28 pianos at his Leeds based store Besbrode Pianos. “I was shocked and saddened by the EU referendum result of June 2016. I felt the need to respond artistically to such a momentous occasion and the idea for the work originated from a place of disappointment about the position in which we currently find ourselves. The score is the most complex thing I’ve ever written. The piece is written for 28 pianos, each representing a European country. The composition tells the story of the EU chronologically and the pianists join the ensemble in the order that their country did, marking their entrance with their national anthem.” Ruth, from Birmingham, who recently graduated from the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford is currently Artist in Residence at St George’s School, Ascot. She has been noted as ‘one to watch’, profiled on Radio 3 Young Artists’ Day in 2015 and has featured in the Bloomberg New Contemporaries exhibitions this year. She specialises in an interdisciplinary practice called Musart, which lies in the grey zone between the visual arts and music. Melvin Besbrode, owner of Besbrode Pianos, a specialist piano dealer and wholesaler who is a specialist restorer of grand and upright pianos, said: “I am delighted to support Ruth and her artistic vision. "Even though we export Â£1m worth of pianos to China I am saddened by the potential impact of Brexit and the possible break-up of the EU. I travel extensively around Europe to buy and restore antique pianos and I worry for the future, not just for trading opportunities, but the potential rise of discrimination, isolationism, inequality and division.” Flying the flag for the UK and nailing her colours to the mast is Remain supporter Ruth Spencer Jolly. For more about Besbrode Pianos visit www.besbrodepianos.co.uk	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14190
__label__wiki	0.555578	0.555578	WBAL (NBC) Today : WBAL : January 19, 2012 7:00am-9:00am EST by WBAL , director james cameron, google's executive chairman eric schmidt and china is now in the mix with a submersible. >> something as exciting and as exploratory and new is going to the deepest part of the ocean will capture people's imagination. >> on our triton test dive, we go as far as 500 feet down. look at all of these colors. we're gliding through another world. it's an extraordinary taste of what's next to come for submarine exploration. >> we want to build a commercial and viable vehicle. we want to allow scientists, tourists, exploration geologists and geophysicists, whoever wants to go to the deep ocean, we want to be able to take them. >> triton is already working on their next submarine. it will be tested in two to three years and will descend to the ocean's deepest point in less than an hour and a half. the estimated cost? $15 million. >> you'll be doing this again? >> i hope so. you should come. >> i would love. i'm so engineerous. thank you for your reporting on this. >>> and still ahead, today's style, how you can dress to look ten pounds thinner. but first, these mentio , director james cameron, google's executive chairman eric schmidt and china is now in the mix with a submersible. >> something as exciting and as exploratory and new is going to the deepest part of the ocean will capture people's imagination. >> on our triton test dive, we go as far as 500 feet down. look at all of these colors. we're gliding through another world. it's an extraordinary taste of what's next to come for submarine exploration. >> we want to build a commercial...	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14194
__label__wiki	0.732211	0.732211	Historical Fiction > Saint Maggie A Time to Heal Seeing the Elephant The Enlistment: A Frankie Blaine Story The Great Central Fair: A Saint Maggie Story The Christmas Eve Visitor The Dundee Cake DEALS FOR BOOK CLUBS The Squeaking Blog Illustration: Cover of the first edition of The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, 1873 In 1873, Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner published a book that became the name of an era: The Gilded Age. This period, generally believed to be between 1870 and 1900, was marked by rapid industrialization, economic growth, and immigration, most notably in the North and West. The South, however, after defeat in the Civil War and the punishment of the Reconstruction, suffered from economic depression. This is an important difference to note. The successes and excesses of the Gilded Age did not touch the United States in its entirety. Twain and Dudley’s book is set in the United States at the very beginning of the Gilded Age. Marvin Felheim[i], who wrote the introduction to my yellowed paperback copy of the book, notes that the story’s primary criticism was focused on “the greed and lust – for land, for money, for power – of an alliance of Western land speculators, Eastern capitalists, and corrupt officials who dominated the society and appreciably altered its character.”[ii] He goes on to say: The “Gilded Age” was a “peaceful” era following the horrors of the Civil War. The North, industrialized and righteous, had won. One consequence was the westward extension of institutions representing its victorious value system. Expansion was in the air. Capital was available and bankers were looking avidly for investments. The West, with all its rich potentialities, both of wealth and adventure, lay ready to be exploited. Colonel Sellers’ [a principle character] ambitious schemes were not merely the idle dreams of a satirist’s euphoric imagination: they represented the hopes and beliefs of a nation.[iii] It is true wages for the average worker rose during this period. However, there was a dark side to all this growth and expansion, and that was an alarming disparity in income and wealth. Briefly put, the gulf between the wealthy class and everyone else began to widen. According to Steve Fraser: By the midpoint of the Gilded Age about 4000 families owned as much wealth as the remaining 11.6 million. Two hundred thousand individuals controlled between 70 and 80 percent of the nation’s property. The arithmetic of dispossession and the descent of into the new American proletariat went like this: while 87 percent of private wealth belonged to a privileged fifth of the population and 11 percent to the next luckiest fifth, the bottom 40 percent had none at all. Multimillionaires (another invention of the Gilded Age) owned one-sixth of the country’s wealth. The richest 1 percent owned 51 percent of all real and personal property, while the bottom 44 percent came away with 1.1 percent. Most workers earned less than $800 annually, which wasn’t enough to keep them out of poverty. And most of them had to toil for nearly sixty hours a week to make even that much.[iv] If all this sounds familiar that may be because we are in another Gilded Age. How it will all play out is still anyone’s guess. But I can identify with the impetus behind Twain and Dudley’s satirical novel. This background information played into my novel, Seeing the Elephant. However, the book takes place December 1863 through May 1864. The time of great industrialists would not arrive until the next decade. And, while some northern manufacturers, like Maggie’s brother Sam, profited from producing goods for the war, we know that the Civil War did not benefit the Union’s economy quite the way that World War II gave the nation a badly-needed, economic post-Depression shot in the arm. And yet, the boom of the Gilded Age had to start somewhere, and my instinct told me that this happened during the 1860s. Imagine how delighted I was to find the following comment in the middle of Twain and Warner’s book. “The eight years in America from 1860 to 1868 uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured short of two or three generations.”[v] The changes described by Twain and Warner were nascent forces in SEEING THE ELEPHANT. Even so, they are bewildering to the characters in my novel. The shifting landscape is vast. It incorporates everything from the treatment of emotional and psychological issues, to a change in the Smith family’s own social and economic status, to Eli’s awareness regarding the treatment of factory workers, and the arrival of a wealthy industrialist who is intent on changing Blaineton from a “quaint little town with pleasant people” to “a center of industrial and financial power.” More on how this plays out in Seeing the Elephant in Monday’s blog. [i] Marvin Felheim (1914-1979) was the Joe Lee David Distinguished Professor of American Culture and Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan from 1948-1979. University of Michigan, Faculty History Project. http://um2017.org/faculty-history/faculty/marvin-felheim. (Downloaded 29 July 2016) [ii] Marvin Felheim, “Introduction,” The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (New York: The New American Library, Inc., 1969), 8. [iii] Felheim, 8-9. [iv] Steve Fraser, The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2015), 66. [v] Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age, 137-138. Janet Stafford, Squeaking Pips Founder Sherri Shumate, Squeaking Pips Author	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14199
__label__wiki	0.644664	0.644664	by Mark Steyn • Jul 29, 2014 at 11:33 pm https://www.steynonline.com/6493/the-home-front Clear and present danger: Bill and Jennifer Brinkley's 1985 Land Rover in their driveway in Statesville, NC. Six cars of Homeland Security agents arrived to check the vehicle identification number, and the national security threat was taken into custody and removed to an undisclosed location. On Friday, writing about the four-hour detention by US Customs & Border Protection of a troop of Iowa boy scouts, I put it this way: American life is bifurcating into the undocumented and the overdocumented. On the southern border, the bazillions of US laws are meaningless - proof of identity, medical tests, none of it matters. And the less it matters on the Rio Grande the more the zealots on the 49th Parallel will take apart your car if they think you've got a Kinder egg in there. Anyone who thinks that attitude can be confined to the border and not work its way deep into the rest of American life is deluded. Thirteen years ago, I opposed the creation of the "Department of Homeland Security" - on the classic Thatcherite ground that if you create a bureaucracy to deal with a problem you'll never be rid of it. I had expected the usual "mission creep" but that term barely covers what's happened in the last decade. There is no "homeland security": At the southern border, the homeland is wide open, and ICE and the Border Patrol, which (like CBP) are both part of DHS, are actively colluding in homeland insecurity. Meanwhile, Homeland Security "agents" busy themselves raiding the Foxy Lady strip club in Brockton, Massachusetts, because the foxy ladies were giving away knock-off Red Sox or Patriots merchandise with every two lap dances, and dispatching six vehicles to a home in Statesville, North Carolina to seize an imported Land Rover that doesn't meet EPA emissions standards. In September 2001, the then Attorney-General, John Ashcroft, rationalized the new Homeland Security apparatus as follows: "There is absolutely no guarantee that these safeguards would have avoided the September 11th occurrence," he said. "We do know that, without them, the occurrence took place." And so, without Homeland Security "agents" whiling away their work days checking out exotic dancers or climbing into the full Robocop to terrorize a couple of suburban car collectors, another occurrence could easily occur, couldn't it? On the other hand, whatever's occurring at that wide-open southern border doesn't pose any risk of additional occurrences occurring, does it? So don't worry about it. There is a pattern here. As I wrote here three months ago: In the Second World War, when the Japanese took Singapore and inflicted what Churchill called the most ignominious defeat in British military history, it was famously said of the colony's ill-prepared defenses that the guns were pointing the wrong way. In America today, the guns seem to be pointing the wrong way. Around the world, American power is a joke - in Moscow; in Beijing; in Teheran, where US taxpayers pay billions of dollars a month for Iran to participate in the charade of "negotiations" while getting on with their nuclear program; in Fallujah and Ramadi, where head-hacking jihadists now ride around in US vehicles brandishing US weapons; in Tripoli, where "leading from behind" has effortlessly advanced into evacuating from behind... Across the planet, American power is a joke. Instead, like Singapore, the firepower's pointing the wrong way - on the domestic front, at US citizens. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have a famous motto: The Mounties always get their man. The Department of Homeland Security doesn't get anyone at the southern border. But they'll get you instead. Frankly, it's a lot easier. So, in Boston, they didn't get Tamerlan Tsarnaev, even after the Russians fingered him to the feds, but they did get Misty and Candy at the Foxy Lady strip club. I'm sick of "agents" and "raids". These guys are not agents; they're low-level bureaucrats. America is unique in the developed world in turning minor officials from the Department of Paperwork into "agents" and letting them run around pretending to be James Bond. And, by the way, the point about 007 is that it's a very low number, because there are supposed to be very few of them. If you're wondering why America is the Brokest Nation in History, with a national government that has to pay back $18 trillion (which is more than anyone ever has had to pay back) just to get back to having nothing, well, consider this: They sent six SUVs of trained agents to check the vehicle identification number on the imported 1985 Land Rover of a respectable, law-abiding couple no threat to anybody. That total waste of resources is repeated a bazillion times a day across the land - and, like Iran's room-service bill in Vienna, you're paying for it. As I said on Friday, this country is dividing into Undocumented America and Over-Documented America, co-existing like overlaid area codes on the same territory. In a two-party system, there ought to be room for one party that objects to that.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14200
__label__cc	0.666551	0.333449	FROM THE RECTOR: EASTER DAY AT SAINT MARY’S As I write before sunrise on Good Friday, the church is dark and bare. There’s only enough light in the church so those who have been coming in during the night can move about safely. The candles are burning in the Mercy Chapel, where the Sacrament was reposed at the close of the Eucharist last night. But in a real sense, we have been celebrating the Lord’s resurrection all week. In my first year at Nashotah House, our liturgics professor, Father Louis Weil, brought this home to my classmates and me as he introduced us to the rites of Holy Week. The other day I pulled out a bulletin from seminary to check the music for the anthem that will be sung today at the beginning of the veneration of the cross. I can remember Father Weil pointing this text out to us. We continue to use the same translation for the appointed Prayer Book antiphon that we used then at Nashotah, “We venerate your cross, O Lord, and praise and glorify your holy resurrection; for by virtue of the cross joy has come to the whole world” (BCP, 281). And there it is: Death and resurrection, the Paschal Mystery. Liturgy is not drama, although it can seem dramatic, and many may misunderstand liturgy as drama. Christian worship is a proclamation and recognition that God is working in our lives and in our world now. Liturgy helps us know this, and it encourages us to enlarge our awareness of the Spirit’s presence and work in the now of our lives. The smells and sounds of Easter have been around the church all this week. Organists are practicing. Flowers have been delivered, and floral arrangements are being created. Hundreds and hundreds of bulletins have been printed. The sound of choristers is heard in the church. Acolytes are rehearsing and preparing for liturgies. Someone always seems to be in the sacristy doing something. Our ushers are conferring about coverage for each one of our many services. The loving and generous work and gifts of so many will be offered to everyone who enters. As the sun sets on Holy Saturday, Easter Eve begins. Fire will be kindled. Water will be blessed and baptism conferred. And the church will move with the conviction that the true Light shines in whatever darkness there may be in our world, now and always. The Great Vigil of Easter on Easter Eve at 7:00 PM is our first service of the Sunday of the Resurrection. As is our custom, on Easter Day hymns are sung at the 9:00 AM and 10:00 AM Said Eucharists. The parish choir will sing not only at the 11:00 AM Solemn Mass, but also at 5:00 PM Solemn Paschal Evensong & Benediction. We use the traditional gospel for the Easter Vigil, (Matthew 28:1–10). This year on Easter morning we hear the appointed gospel, Luke 24:1–12. (Next year John 20:1–18 will be read, the following year, Mark 16:1–8). I love the gospel lessons at Easter Day Evensong. We hear John’s account of Jesus’ appearance to his disciples that begins, “On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you’ ” (John 20:19). During Benediction, while the Sacrament is exposed, we hear Luke’s account of the risen Lord meeting two of his disciples on the road to Emmaus. Not knowing who walked with them, they entreated the Lord, “Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent” (Luke 24:29). The gospel accounts continue to invite us not to have a narrow view of God’s work in the past or in our lives today. These words encourage and sustain our faith in the midst of things that should not be. Saint Mary’s is blessed to have many friends and members across the nation. If you are near, I hope you may be able to be with us to celebrate Easter Eve and Easter Day. And, if not, please be assured that those of us who do gather here will be holding up all of us, and all of you, in our Easter prayers. Happy Easter. Alleluia. —Stephen Gerth YOUR PRAYERS ARE ASKED FOR Julie, Toussaint, Sharon, Hardy, Donald, Rick, Joanna, Rebecca, Emily, Ethel Mary, Connie, John, Eudine, Dennis, Patrick, Lily, Daniel, Kris, Sylvia, Sally, Sam, Jean, Heidi, Billy, Karen, Catherine, Takeem, Arpene, Mazdak, Patricia, Sidney, deacon, Paulette, priest, Gaylord, priest, and Harry, priest, and for the members of our Armed Forces on active duty, especially Mark and Nicholas . . . GRANT THEM PEACE . . . March 27: 1883 Louise Gardner Hall, religious; 1890 Mary Ann Rebecca Rice; 1896 Theresa Unger; 1917 Albert Heald Thwaite; 1922 Elmer E. Largen; 1924 Anna Cecelia Everard; 1932 Clarence Gerow Winter; 1934 Edward Selwyn Moffett. THIS WEEK AT SAINT MARY'S . . . The church will be open on Easter Monday from 7:00 AM until 7:00 PM. The regular noonday services will be offered. The parish office will be closed . . . The Wednesday Night Bible Study Class will not meet on March 30. The class will resume on April 6. VISUAL ARTS PROGRAM . . . A new exhibition, “Recent Work by José Camacho,” will open soon in the Gallery in Saint Joseph’s Hall (STJH). A reception to celebrate the opening will take place in STJH on Thursday, March 31, 7:30–10:00 PM. For more information, please contact the gallery curator, José Vidal. AROUND THE PARISH . . . Many thanks to all who helped give us a brilliant Palm Sunday, including the security officers from the Times Square Business Alliance. Thank you all! . . . It was wonderful to have the Right Reverend Allen K. Shin, bishop suffragan of the diocese of New York, with us for the 12:30 PM liturgy on Good Friday . . . The Episcopal Church’s Facebook page posted a video of Saint Mary’s 2015 Liturgy of the Palms on Palm Sunday. As we go to press, there have been more than 88,000 views and many wonderful comments, for which we are grateful . . . Recent sermons by Father Smith and the Rector have been posted on the parish webpage . . . Flowers are needed for all the Sundays in Eastertide. If you would like to make a donation, please contact the parish office . . . Attendance: Palm Sunday 309, Maundy Thursday 145. MARK YOUR CALENDARS . . . Monday, April 4, The Annunciation of Our Lord Jesus Christ (transferred), Matins 8:30 AM, Noonday Prayer 12:00 PM, Sung Mass 12:10 PM, Solemn Mass 6:00 PM. The principal celebrant and preacher at the Solemn Mass will be the Right Reverend Mark Sisk, XV Bishop of New York. MUSIC ON SUNDAY . . . The Mass setting at the Solemn Mass on Easter Day is Missa Secunda by Hans Leo Hassler (1564–1612). Hassler was the most distinguished of the three musician sons of Isaac Hassler, organist at Nuremberg and the town musician. It seems likely that, during Hassler’s youth, his only music teacher was his father, Isaac. Under his father’s guidance, he became, at an early age, an accomplished organist. In 1584, at the age of twenty, Hassler went to Venice for further study. While in Venice he was a fellow-pupil of Giovanni Gabrieli under Gabrieli’s uncle, Andrea Gabrieli, who was organist at the Basilica of Saint Mark. In 1585, Hassler returned to Germany and become private organist to Count Octavian Fugger, the great merchant prince and art patron of Augsburg, where he mostly remained until 1600. The Augsburg years were extremely creative for Hassler. He became well-known as a composer and organist during this time. Though his actual stay at Venice was short, he had already fully imbibed the Venetian influence in music, as the warmth and suavity of harmony of his compositions show. In 1602, Hassler returned to Nuremberg where he became the Kapellmeister, or director of town music, and served at the court of Rudolf II. In 1604, he took a leave of absence and traveled to Ulm, where he was wed to Cordula Claus. Four years later, Hassler moved to Dresden where he served as the chamber organist to Elector Christian II of Saxony, and then as Kapellmeister. By this time, Hassler had already developed the tuberculosis that would claim his life in June 1612. Hassler was the most eminent organist of his day, and he is considered one of the founders of German music. His style was strongly influenced by the Gabrielis, and he was one of the first to bring the innovations of the Venetian style across the Alps. While musicians of the stature of Lassus had been working in Germany for years, they represented the older school, the fully developed and refined Renaissance style of polyphony; in Italy new trends were emerging which were to define what was later called the Baroque era. Musicians such as Hassler carried the concertato style, the polychoral idea, and the freely emotional expression of the Venetians back to Germany, creating the first and most Baroque development outside of Italy. Hassler composed sacred music for both the Roman Catholic and the Lutheran liturgies. Stylistically, his earlier music is more progressive than his later: he uses polychoral techniques, textural contrasts, and occasional chromaticism in the music he wrote after coming back from Italy; but most of his later religious music is conservative, using linear polyphony in the manner of Palestrina. Hassler’s Missa Secunda shows the influence of the composer’s years in Venice and his studies with the Gabrielis. ADULT EDUCATION . . . Sunday, April 3, Matthew Jacobson will begin his four-part series, Reading the Fathers: An Exploration of the History, Spirituality & Theology of the Early Church. A notice about the class has now been posted on the parish website. Take a look at the icon there of Saint Polycarp, who was martyred around AD 155. An early and important account of Saint Polycarp’s martyrdom will be read during this series . . . On Sunday, May 8, Stephen Morris will give a presentation on his new book, When Brothers Dwell in Unity: Byzantine Christianity and Homosexuality (McFarland, 2015) . . . The Wednesday Night Bible Study Class will not meet on March 30. The class will resume on April 6 at 6:30 PM. OUTREACH AT SAINT MARY’S . . . We are collecting warm clothing (coats, jackets, scarves, hats, and gloves) for distribution here at the parish. Please bring donations to the parish kitchen on Sunday or contact Father Jay Smith or Sister Monica Clare, C.S.J.B. Sister Monica and parishioner Clint Best have been organizing the clothing in recent weeks in order to expedite distribution . . . We continue to collect nonperishable food items for our outreach partner, the Food Pantry at Saint Clement’s Church, 423 West Forty-sixth Street. —Jay Smith	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14201
__label__wiki	0.699874	0.699874	Our community has 3,130 members, 151 online now. We’ve published 9,867 stories, shared 8,000 images, made 10,413 blog posts and written 124,433 forum posts. Login Forgotten Password? Author eBooks Home · Science Fiction Stories · Surviving the 2012 Doomsday Part 2 ElChupacabras Score Story -Score- 5-Excellent 4-Good 3-Average 2-Fair 1-Poor Flag inappropriate Sent email to Stories Space Add to reading queue Added: 06 Oct 2012 Words: 5,542 Surviving the 2012 Doomsday Part 2 Tags: aliens, survival, hybrids, apocalypse An approach to the end of the world. The first expedition… Hank called for a general meeting on the third month to organize an expedition to the north, where M7G8 had told them there was a pile of steel left from the storm. He started by saying: ‘Listen, everybody. We need to expand and conquer the earth the right way this time. I need some volunteers to come with me to take a look at the mountain of debris the storm left where the north used to be. At least ten people.’ Martha raised her hand, followed by ten other people, most of them teenagers, eager for adventure. M7G8 spoke afterwards: ‘I can offer transportation for those interested.’ Martha raised her hand. None of the teenagers wanted to travel with him. They all wanted to live the adventure of traveling through the land, driving the vehicles available, to feel the breeze and the freedom of not having to worry about cops giving speed tickets, red lights, or having stop signs all over. Hank and Kori jumped in a 1942 Willys jeep, the kids took motorcycles, campers, even a Humbee. Martha traveled with M7G8 and was there in 2 seconds. The pile of steel was taller than the Everest Mountain and six or seven kilometers across. It was unbelievably huge. There were cars, trucks, trains, bridges, everything you can imagine made of steel, piled up in no order whatsoever. The biggest junk yard in the planet was in front of their eyes. Martha was speechless. Rust was gaining the battle as it had already covered about the whole mountain, and some parts were already crumbling. Three hours later the vehicles arrived. They all stood there in awe. The size of the mountain would have given a Japanese steel manufacturer a heart attack. Hank was the first to get off the car. He saw Martha and M7G8 about 300 meters away from them, sitting on a big rock that was about 200 meters away from the pile. Kori got off the car still speechless. The kids were screaming all kinds of teen expressions about the huge junk yard they were looking at. ‘We got plenty of materials here to make a whole city for each and every one of us,’ Kori suggested. ‘That’s right Kori, we don’t have to worry about steel for at least 200 years,’ stated Hank. A minute later, M7G8 and Martha had joined them and curiously enough they were holding hands. Hank had suspected they were having an affair a couple of days before, when he saw them heading to the crops that had given the last lot of fruits in the magnetic shelter. M7G8 was keen on the fruits grown in the shelter, as they were all exotic to him. Martha and M7G8 spent hours together, and Hank was happy for her, as he couldn’t be with her as much as he did before the storm. Other aliens had started to arrive to earth, not to stay as M7G8, but for research reasons, and were not as friendly and talkative as him, because they didn’t like the sunlight much. Nevertheless, they were by no means hostile to the earthlings, and enjoyed taking the kids once in a while for long trips to the dark side of the earth to collect fruits that grew on that side of the planet and were scarce on the side they were living in. They loved the dark side as it had no sunlight to bother their eyes. M7G8 had built a squad of androids that had already changed the geography of the surroundings of the shelter. They made a very convenient seashore, and opened a gulf half the size of the Mexican gulf, to have access to seawater. A squad of humans was building all sorts of vehicles for water as well as for air and land. The mandatory fuel was that suggested by M7G8, and the emissions were reduced to zero. The androids were glad to report to the humans that all the sea creatures had survived the storm too. Soon, everybody had boats, airplanes, cars and most of the kids and adults were couples either with an alien, or with a human. Islands were made for each couple, separated 2 km away for privacy reasons. They all lived in islands now. The first hybrid… Martha and M7G8 called for a general meeting to announce that they were going to have a baby girl, the first hybrid person on the planet. Everybody was excited about the news. The kids were jumping and running all over the place, as they were going to see the first baby born after the storm. The clinic was still at the same place it had been on the shelter. Martha and M7G8 moved to the shelter for the last three months of her pregnancy, and all the necessary measures were taken to avoid any unexpected situation. The last days of the pregnancy, everybody moved back to the shelter to hear the news first hand. Martha 78 was born in perfect condition, and her eyes were to everybody’s relief, those of a human. Nobody knew what an alien kid’s behavior or growing process were, so they all gathered in the living room and waited for M7G8 to arrive there for the news. ‘Relax everyone; a kid in my planet grows in only two months. We are lucky that Martha 78 was born with human eyes, but the rest of her genetic features are those of my race. She will have the powers we have to travel and the rest of the things we do, and she will be able to get married and have children in about six months,’ he stated. As he spoke, Martha78 walked in the living room naked, and about the size of a one year old child. ‘Hi everybody,’ she said. Everyone waved hello to her and answered back. From that day on, aliens and humans began to have children, all of them with human eyes and alien genetics. Hybrid boys and girls began populating the planet. The gulf was now full of islands and had to be expanded greatly after 2 years. Some of the hybrid children traveled to the alien planet to learn more about their ancestor’s history and costumes, and came back eager to share them with the earthlings. Vehicles and vessels were taken to the alien planet for further studies, and some aliens began to build their own vehicles for entertainment purposes, with new features like no need to refuel, as they had endless sources of energy, and the engines became all electric. The airplanes now had an antigravity device, which would go on in case anything went wrong with the engines; Hank refused to let the aliens modify the engines, as he loved the sound of star motors. By now, the earth was full of well organized crops. Some inhabitants began to live in different areas and small cities flourished across the land. Those who learned about the seeds that were gathered by Hank, asked him if there were any seeds that needed a hotter climate to grow, and set entire cities of medium and hot climate under gigantic domes to grow a wider variety of vegetables, and moved the desert creatures to a desert that the androids built under a huge dome, that had a lake and enough space for elephants, camels, lions and all the creatures that had survived the storm. The aliens were the most common visitors to this desert, as they didn’t have any creatures in their planet besides humans, something similar to cows, dogs and fish. They admired the hunting abilities of the lions and hyenas, and learned some interesting tricks about their way of life. After almost two years from the union of the aliens to the earthlings, they still couldn’t believe birds could fly, and were amazed at how bold eagles could see their prey from those heights and still fly down and catch them with such precision. Other aliens loved the variety of fruits and vegetables available in this planet, and began to melt Mars’ poles and take water from Titan to turn mars into a more habitable planet, which they achieved in one year. Plants began to grow quicker, and after running some toxic tests, they declared that Mars was a perfectly feasible planet for human and alien conquering. Thousands of humans, aliens and hybrids moved there, and to their surprise, after six months of normal atmosphere movements and rains, there were exotic Martian plants with juicy fruits that both races enjoyed very much. A third race yet was to be known, as the inhabitants of Mars after a few months living there began to born, having a different skin color, hybrid-human eyes and new powers unknown to the other two races, namely the ability to mentally communicate and perform all sorts of things from absurd distances, such as from Mars to the Earth. The pregnancy period for the new race was reduced to half of that in humans and aliens, and the adulthood was reached unfortunately in three years, unlike the hybrids. The Big reunion… Upon the aliens’ leader and Hank’s request, a big reunion of the now three races was requested in the aliens’ planet. The population of Humans, Aliens, Hybrids and Martians was up to 2 million people, and the leaders were worrying about over populating the planets, considering that the death rate had been zero, and life expectancy was limitless, as there wasn’t any aging process going on in any of the races, and all the diseases had been completely eradicated from the three planets. They needed to control the population, at least until there was another habitable planet available. The Alien Leader and Hank proposed to name a leader for Mars, and the first Martian born baby who by then was two and a half years old was named for that duty. His name was Gary01M. Everybody was happy to have the first Martian born as their leader in Mars. M7G8 proposed to conquer another planet only for animals and for recreation purposes. He reported to have found a planet quite similar to earth, which had methane as the only liquid, but had worked on a formula together with Brad and his wife, to change the methane into water by adding enough oxygen for a short period of six months, and then igniting it with the help from a Martian who would remotely set fire to the mixture. The water generated after the explosion would cause rains to create lakes and seas, covering half the surface of the planet, together with life forms, if the right seeds and bacteria were introduced at the right time before the rains started. The proposal was a complete success, and three teams were assigned to provide oxygen from Titan by decomposing the water there by means of electrolysis and transporting the oxygen to the planet by Aliens’ means of transportation which would reduce the six months to only three weeks. After a complete consensus of all the races, the population was limited to 3 million until further notice. The new number would be given after the first settlers of the new planet had children, to see if there was a new race or not. The new planet… The methane burn on the new planet was a complete success. Just as with any calculations he made, M7G8 was absolutely right about life forms. Two more weeks of oxygen from Titan were necessary to raise the oxygen levels to those acceptable for the three races, and new life forms were born in only six weeks. The last reports from the androids gave a surprising 5000 new species, none of them similar to the ones in the previous planets. The temperature on the planet stabilized even more as soon as the new plants started to grow widely over the whole planet. Species of weird looking plants somehow similar to the water plants on earth turned the planet green, and the atmosphere became very close to that of Earth before the storm, with blue sky and clouds. The first animals to travel there were rabbits, whose life cycle were really short, and reproduced abundantly. After the first new born were examined, the planet was declared safe for the races. Animals of all species were taken there and to everybody’s surprise, the new born animals were always twins in all species. The first settlers also had twins, and after a thorough examination they were declared Martian-Humans. The new planet was called M7Brad after the ones who made life possible in it. Elegant hotels were made for the visitors, and there was no need for any air conditioning or heating systems, because the temperature was as the old earth, at 20ºC. The zones for desert areas were isolated under the now traditional domes, covering large areas, where all the three races enjoyed the excessive heat, as it was exotic to them, and the beverages available in the new planet overcame those found on the other planets, because the fruits had a particular new flavor, probably the cause of the twin’s phenomenon. The first experiments to try the 5000 new species as food were only 20% successful. The birds were the most favorable, especially for the flavor of the meat, and their size similar to those of the South American condors, having a color somewhat pinkish but with an exquisite tenderness. The native pigs ranked second with an absolute lean meat, and hair that was strong and very long, which was used to make all sorts of carrying gear that was nearly indestructible. The third and last species that was the rarest one of them all was a sort of lobster, which only reproduced once every year, but with a very abundant number of babies. Its flavor was a mixture between lobster and meat, and the texture was tender and with such an exact touch of salt, that it was every woman’s favorite when it was time for a quick dinner, because all they had to do was cook them in boiling water, and serve. The eggs from the birds were so nutritious, that one egg will be enough to feed 4 people. A happy accident… Hank’s children who were by now adults, and had children, took a trip to M7Brad to spend a vacation, and took their German Shepherds with them. They had taken their own house with them in case the dogs had an issue when adapting to the new planet. The dogs had no problem adapting to the new place, and were soon exploring the planet happily. The female dog was in heat a week after they arrived there, and soon was mating with her partner. After only one month, to everybody’s surprise, 10 puppies were born. Three months later, the puppies were mentally communicating with everybody. A new race of dogs had been born. Having mental superpowers, the new dogs were soon everybody’s favorites, as they were able to do everything a Martian was able to do, plus they had the ability to reproduce in larger numbers than normal Shepherds. Now, having a German Shepherd was almost mandatory, as they could alert their owners about any danger without making any noise at all, which was very convenient. The end of the peace period… The three races had been prospering and multiplying peacefully. There had been a period of over 20 years where nothing had altered the way the four races were living in community. They shared knowledge, food, technology, everything, there hadn’t even been a slight discussion over absolutely anything whatsoever in those 20 years. But good things don’t last forever… A couple of teens in charge of the reproduction of the German Shepherds, had left 4 couples of dogs in M7Brad for mating purposes, and after six days were surprised to see the oldest couple back home, together with two aliens, who had brought them there. The dogs claimed to have seen a group of weird looking animals in the northern part of the planet, building some kind of underground shelter hidden under a group of big rocks. The teens, the aliens and the dogs immediately went to see Hank, and an hour later they were all meeting M7G8, and were traveling to the Alien’s planet. The news hit the Alien’s leader like a rock on the head. ‘This is unbelievable. We can’t let that happen in our planets,’ he shouted. He gathered 4 squads of 200 androids each, which had the ability to be invisible, and sent them to four different locations surrounding the area the dogs had indicated. Hank asked for transportation to the magnetic shelter to prepare some weapons and asked M7G8 to implant warfare knowledge to a battalion composed of Aliens, Humans, Martians and Martian-Humans, and asked the craftspeople to build the gear and equipment necessary for war in the machinery level of the magnetic shelter. The mandatory outfit was of course made of M7Brad pig’s hair, which was indestructible, and all the weapons were ready in less than six hours, as the craftspeople were very efficient. The vessels were constructed in a matter of three days, and were all equipped with electric engines, and of course the anti gravity feature, to avoid casualties in case the vessels were hit by the enemy. The spy androids had planted cameras all over the M7Brad areas surrounding the suspicious site, and after they connected them, all the planets were getting the images of the site in real time. The creatures looked very much like Humans, only shorter and with eyes similar to those in cats, rather stretched to the sides like Asian people and with the pupils in a vertical manner. They had some kind of shields attached to their bodies, and for what they could see from the distance, they had problems breathing the oxygen in the atmosphere, and needed some kind of mask. There were roughly 3000 creatures in the site, and an underground sweep with gamma rays showed they had some kind of portal that was transporting them by hundreds. Hank ordered two more battalions fully equipped to be ready on Earth. The Alien leader ordered 600 androids to travel there fully armed, to avoid any casualties, as the androids were artificial, and completely recyclable. The first approach… The androids gathered by the Aliens leader approached the site, surrounding it while invisible. A small squad entered the shelter, and discovered that they were preparing some kind of gigantic weapon. They took images to the Alien’s planet for further analysis, and the result was that the weapon was one similar to that Brad and M7G8 had constructed to convert the planet to oxygen, only this one did exactly the opposite, by converting the planet back to its original methane state. All the squads got ready and at an order from the four leaders, they approached the shelter and peacefully tried to speak to the creatures outside. ‘Greetings strangers, we are here to request that you leave this planet, as it is ours, as we developed the technology to convert the atmosphere to oxygen 20 years ago,’ the General commander android said. One of the creatures hurried inside and later came out escorting what seemed to be their commander. ‘What gives you the right to request that we leave this planet? The universe is vast, and we have chosen this planet to be our new land,’ said the creature in a selfish tone. ‘I’m afraid that is not possible. We conquered this planet over 20 years ago, and therefore it is ours, so as I said, I request that you leave our planet immediately. This will be your second warning,’ the android said. ‘I take no orders from anyone much less from an android. Get out of my way,’ said the creature, and he shouted an order to get the weapon ready. The androids backed up and at an order from the 4 leaders, attacked the creatures outside, by taking their masks away. The leader of the creatures died in seconds. And was followed by 30 more that when they were taken the mask away would just drop dead. When the creatures inside the shelter saw that their people were being killed in the outside, they began to take the portal back to their planet, and the shelter was empty in a matter of 20 minutes. The androids then proceeded to disassemble the weapon and when they were almost finished, the portal began to produce hundreds of new creatures, now armed and with a different kind of mask that was built in a sort of helmet. They all backed up to the outside and prepared for battle. The warriors tried to attack the androids with their weapons, but were surprised to see that the armor didn’t even get a scratch. They changed to another weapon, that emitted some kind of rays, but again the androids avoided the rays by getting invisible. A well trained android that was positioned at the left side of the entrance and about 300 meters away, had reported to be able take them down very easily. The creatures were amazed at how their enemies didn’t talk among themselves. The android at the left of the shelter shot his sniper rifle and cracked the leader’s helmet open, which immediately killed him. The others followed him and were soon shooting at the helmets and killing creatures by hundreds. The last remain of the creatures went back to the portal, and the shelter was again full of dead bodies but empty of any creatures. ‘Retreat’ the four leaders said at the same time, as they suspected the creatures were going to send a stronger group of warriors, and they were right. Half an hour later, a group of warriors the size of a gorilla were coming out of the portal this time wearing no masks. The androids have taken advantage of the 20 minutes and had completely surrounded the entrance to the shelter and were hidden in advantageous positions. The first one to shoot was the sniper, killing three of the enemies of a shot on the head. The other warriors emitted a strange scream that revived the dead gorillas, and made them somehow bigger and stronger. A couple of dogs that were observing the battle decided to try and read their minds, and discovered they could read them, reporting that they were going to use their ultimate weapon, a vibration ray. All the androids turned invisible and the gorillas screamed once more, drawing their weapons and firing to the air, aiming to where they guessed the androids would be. The first thing that the rays hit was a tree, which started to shake vigorously, and finally exploded turning into dust. Hank had an idea, and he spoke to the Aliens leader. ‘Send me some androids to pick up mirrors, and we’ll send them mirrors so they kill themselves,’ he said. A minute later, the androids were at the shelter picking up mirrors to take to the battlefield. Ten minutes later, the androids were all equipped with big mirrors that they enlarged to cover their whole bodies. The gorillas kept firing and the androids began to fall by hundreds after the rays hit them after they reflected on the mirrors. The gorillas started to back up to the portal and an android reached for a gun from one of the dead gorillas and fired at the weapon which a minute later exploded in a million pieces, firing then to the portal which vibrated for 30 minutes, until it blew up killing the rest of the warriors and ending the battle. One of the first creatures that had ran to the bottom of the shelter came off from his hiding place, and begged for mercy. Two more warriors of the second wave did the same, and a last gorilla that was just injured surrendered as well. They were all taken to the Aliens planet for questioning. The truth about the creatures… The prisoners were taken to a facility especially constructed to avoid the appearance of new portals, with extra magnetic fields, and on the third day of imprisonment were questioned by the four leaders. ‘Why did you come here to this planet?’ asked Hank. ‘Our leaders wanted to expand, and this planet is almost ready to be populated by our race. All that needed to be done was to change the atmosphere to methane and we could be here in less than a month,’ answered the prisoner with the highest rank. ‘Our leader thought you didn’t have any weapons and decided to conquer it, taking advantage of that,’ he resumed. ‘Well, your leaders were wrong. We do have weapons but we never use them, because we are people of peace. We made this planet habitable without harming any creature. In fact we created life in this planet. Besides, we didn’t even use a third of our weapons, so if we manage to send you back to your planet, let your leaders know that in spite of the fact that we don’t like to be at war, we are well equipped against any attack, and will not hesitate to defend ourselves from you or any other race,’ shouted Hank. ‘That is absolutely clear to us Sir. There is no need for further explanations. Your race seems to be quite powerful. You didn’t even have one casualty, but we would like to request something from you,’ said the creature. ‘What is it?’ the leaders said in unison. ‘That you don’t send us back to our planet. We rather stay here as prisoners than come back there. Our leaders are bad people who force us to do things we don’t really like to do. Let me explain myself,’ he paused. ‘Our leaders are from the race he is,’ he said pointing at the gorilla. ‘This warrior belongs to the royalty, but since they are such bad people, most of them end up in prison and become warriors that our leaders use to conquer new planets. The females of their race are very violent, and therefore overpower the males, thus having the power. The males, being submissive to them, do as they order to keep them happy, which has led to more violence yet. The last three planets we conquered were taken very violently, and many lives were taken, even from our side, but the leaders don’t care. They just want more territories. In fact, if you helped us eradicate the leaders, we could all live in peace in our planet, and never again need to conquer any other planets,’ he begged. ‘But you say they are very violent how can we help you eradicate them?’ asked M7G8. ‘Yes they are, but their number is very reduced. You see, that race has a particularity: they give birth to more males than females. That is why the leaders are no more than 1000 females, over 1 million males. The need to mate with such a little amount of females makes them very exclusive, so the males do whatever they ask for in order to mate with them,’ he stated. ‘The only thing that worries me if we do help you eradicate the females is what’s going to happen with all the males. Their race will disappear if they don’t have females,’ Martha78 inquired puzzled. ‘Not really, Ma’am. As soon as the females disappear, there will be a period of adjustment, and after a few months, their nature will make some of them hermaphrodites, and soon they will be reproducing again, with the advantage that the hermaphrodites will not get violent. So we beg of you, to please help us end that bloodshed in our planet. We are all tired of that tyranny,’ he said in a begging tone. The other three prisoners nodded at the same time. ‘Let us think about that. You understand it is not an easy decision to make. Give us a couple of days,’ Kory said, and the others agreed. Time to make decisions… Kori, Hank, M7G8, Martha78, Brad, Gary, Lane, Roger, and the Aliens leader held a big meeting the next day. They were concerned about killing 1000 creatures. They were also worried that if they didn’t kill them, the bloodshed will continue and eventually a rebellion will shed more blood if they finally got to a point where they couldn’t stand it anymore. The highest rank prisoner was taken to the meeting for further questioning, and a dog was present to read his mind and determine if he was telling the truth. The creature was actually telling the truth, but he was afraid they would not help them. The dog told them he was being honest. ‘Is there any other way we can eradicate the females without killing them?’ asked Martha78. ‘Actually there is another way Ma’am. If you just take them away from the males for a short period of three months, they will become sterile, and will not produce the enzyme that makes them so violent. The problem is, where will you take them?’ he answered with a frown. ‘That’s easy. We can take them to Titan. We can build a shelter there, and keep them for six months if necessary,’ answered M7G8. ‘That’s the best solution. That way there won’t be any violence, and we will eradicate the problems in your planet,’ Martha78 said with a big smile. ‘Let’s do it!’ they all said at the same time. The group organized a second meeting to learn where the planet was and the exact place where the female leaders were located. After that, they armed a battalion of androids and planned the strategy to start the operation. The vessels to be taken there were the last model developed by the craftsmen, having new features like invisibility, and the new feature of being capable of expanding to up to twice its size, in order to fit the prisoners. The vessel traveled to the planet three weeks after the last meeting, and arrived to the planet a day later. The directions given by the prisoners were precise, and when they arrived to the location of the females, they were all asleep, and there were no guards, as there was no need to worry about any riots after they had killed 600 warriors that afternoon. The bodies were all over the place, and there were strange animals feeding from them, and leaving but their armor on the floor. The androids entered the facility which was quite big, and according to the directions in the map, the females were exactly below ground level, after the main entrance going down through a long and wide stairway. They arrived there, and were amazed at the size of the females. They were almost twice as big as the gorillas they had killed in battle. The females were then sedated, and once they were asleep were taken to the vessel that was already expanded to its maximum size. They fit perfectly there. They left the planet and arrived in Titan two hours later, released the prisoners in the large facility, and gave them the antidote for the sedative. 200 of them stayed as guards, end the rest went back to the creatures’ planet. The next day when the reinforcements arrived invisibly, they went out fully protected, and called for a general meeting. Nobody tried to fight them; they already knew they were in disadvantage against them. The commander of the androids spoke: ‘The leaders have been taken to a safe place where they will become sterile in a few months. I suggest you organize some kind of new leadership as soon as possible, and that from now on live in peace. The leaders will come back peaceful as soon as they become sterile. By then, you should have organized the duties for everybody, and forget about colonization for a long time until you are fully in peace.’ The crowd acclaimed them and they were all celebrating that the leaders had been taken care of, as they were killing more and more warriors every day. The prisoners were taken back to their planet, and a group of androids stayed there to insure that peace was held at all cost. Six months later, the females had become peaceful, and were taken back to their planet, where they behaved like normal citizens. The people had organized three social classes and they were all working synchronized to get housing, food and supplies, and the economy was flourishing now that the leaders were not in power. The planet had decided to name the creature that had made peace possible in their planet, their leader for life. A happy ending… The creatures soon joined the Aliens, the Humans, and the Martians. There were three more races after the fusion of all the races. The bond between all the new races became very strong, and they conquered several more planets and moons. By the year 2050, “The Union of Races”, as they called themselves, had conquered three solar systems, and had to exhaust Titan’s resources to achieve most of their conquests. They never found any more hostile creatures since then. This story is protected by International Copyright Law, by the author, all rights reserved. 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__label__wiki	0.928577	0.928577	Academy products key to Klopp's blueprint Trent Alexander-Arnold, 18, has benefited from Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp's policy of giving young players minutes on the pitch.PHOTO: REUTERS Jan 9, 2017, 5:00 am SGT http://str.sg/4Pjd LONDON • Last night's FA Cup tie against Plymouth showcased something fundamental happening to Liverpool under Jurgen Klopp. It featured Ben Woodburn, the shy 17-year-old winger-striker from Cheshire, alongside two other golden kids, Trent Alexander-Arnold, 18, a versatile player who grew up a kilometre from the Melwood training ground, and Ovie Ejaria, 19, a creative attacking force prised from Arsenal three years ago. They, along with other academy talents like Rhian Brewster, 16, are the reason Klopp has a net spend of just £6.46 million (S$11.42 million) since arriving. Fans who crave transfers will be disappointed, but Klopp's strategy for Liverpool rests on growing players and he has been this way since coaching nine-year-olds. Borussia Dortmund reached the 2013 Champions League final with three academy products, and seven footballers Klopp signed aged 21 or younger, playing regularly. "The biggest stories are written by local players," he told The Times of London. "If it's Barcelona, if it's Ajax, if it's Manchester United, if it's Liverpool I don't know how long ago... "Dortmund were like this. The 'Boys of 88'. A special year, because my son was born and a lot of those guys were born in 1988 too. It's not the most important thing in football, but it is nice (those Dortmund players) are friends for life." The dream: Liverpool growing a team the same way. "First you should try to be successful. At Liverpool we need to be successful," Klopp said. "But you should try to be more independent of the money. Liverpool have always a special identity. That's why I loved this club even before I was here. My first responsibility is to use it, to keep it and, if possible, make it more special." He views every youth game nowadays. What does he look for? "Of course, skills set," he said. "But skills are only one thing. Attitude is what they should bring. "If you have to force somebody to work... it's no problem, once, on a bad weather day. But if you have to do it every day the boy has no chance. Being too cool, too early, is always a mistake." What made him feel Alexander-Arnold, Ejaria and Woodburn were ready for Cup exposure and the bench in Premier League? "Quality. You watch them training and if you are not blind you see that it's close (between them and senior players) and getting closer," he said. "The good thing is they don't feel pressure." THE TIMES, LONDON A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on January 09, 2017, with the headline 'Academy products key to Klopp's blueprint'. Print Edition \| Subscribe	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14207
__label__cc	0.523005	0.476995	Fatality on Lake Powell, boat driver charged with DUI Triston Harrison was charged with DUI with serious bodily injury, automobile homicide and failure to maintain proper lookout. On June 14, 2019, at approximately 2:50 p.m., the Glen Canyon Communications Center dispatched National Park Service Rangers from the Halls Crossing and Bullfrog Districts to a report of a vessel accident on Lake Powell with multiple persons injured, in the vicinity of buoy 97. A vessel had run hard aground, causing serious bodily injury to one passenger and minor injuries to several others. A total of eight persons were on board the vessel. Halls Crossing and Bullfrog Rangers responded and arrived on scene to find an 18-year-old female occupant of the vessel deceased. All other vessel occupants were transported via NPS vessel to the Bullfrog Medical Clinic for further evaluation. None of the other injuries were life-threatening and all were released. The deceased, Jayla Hiatt, an 18-year-old female from Spanish Fork, Utah, was later transported by NPS Rangers to Bullfrog, Utah for transfer of custody to the Utah State Medical Examiner. Triston Brady Harrison, 21, was arrested for DUI with serious bodily injury, automobile homicide and failure to maintain proper lookout, according to an affidavit filed in Kanab’s Sixth District Court. He has been booked into the Kane County Jail. The incident is under investigation by the National Park Service, Utah State Parks and the Kane County Sheriff’s Office.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14210
__label__wiki	0.679811	0.679811	Australian Man Booted From Plane After Passenger Complains About His 'Terroristic' Notepad Doodles Despite Its Enthusiasm For Edward Snowden, Switzerland Close To Passing Law To Make Whistleblowing Effectively Illegal FUD: Former FBI Guy Lies, Claiming New Mobile Encryption Would Have Resulted In Dead Kidnap Subject from the uh,-no dept Wed, Sep 24th 2014 7:58am — Mike Masnick Yesterday, we wrote about law enforcement freaking out over the announcements from both Apple and Google that they'd start encrypting phones by default, better protecting data on those phones from anyone who wants it -- whether government/law enforcement or hackers. We noted, oddly, that former FBI guy Ronald Hosko had showed up in articles in both the Washington Post and the WSJ spewing a bunch of FUD about it. In the WSJ: The level of privacy described by Apple and Google is "wonderful until it's your kid who is kidnapped and being abused, and because of the technology, we can't get to them,'' said Ronald Hosko, who left the FBI earlier this year as the head of its criminal-investigations division. "Who's going to get lost because of this, and we're not going to crack the case?" In the Washington Post: Ronald T. Hosko, the former head of the FBI’s criminal investigative division, called the move by Apple “problematic,” saying it will contribute to the steady decrease of law enforcement’s ability to collect key evidence — to solve crimes and prevent them. The agency long has publicly worried about the “going dark” problem, in which the rising use of encryption across a range of services has undermined government’s ability to conduct surveillance, even when it is legally authorized. “Our ability to act on data that does exist . . . is critical to our success,” Hosko said. He suggested that it would take a major event, such as a terrorist attack, to cause the pendulum to swing back toward giving authorities access to a broad range of digital information. This is just blatant fear mongering, and not even close to realistic. But the Washington Post doubled down and let Hosko write an entire (and entirely bogus) story about how he helped save a kidnapped man from murder earlier this year and "with Apple's and Google's new encryption rules, he would have died." He accurately writes about a kidnapping in North Carolina, and how law enforcement tracked down the perpetrators, including by requesting and getting "the legal authority to intercept phone calls and text messages." Of course, here's the thing: nothing in this new encryption changes that. Transmitted content is unrelated to the encryption of stored content on the phones. It's the stored content that is being encrypted. It's kind of scary that a supposed "expert" like Hosko doesn't seem to comprehend the difference. Either way, he insists that the encryption would have prevented this (it wouldn't). His story originally said: Last week, Apple and Android announced that their new operating systems will be encrypted by default. That means the companies won’t be able to unlock phones and iPads to reveal the photos, e-mails and recordings stored within. It also means law enforcement officials won’t be able to look at the range of data stored on the device, even with a court-approved warrant. Had this technology been used by the conspirators in our case, our victim would be dead. The perpetrators would likely be freely plotting their next revenge attack. After some people pointed out how very, very, very wrong this is, Hosko or the Washington Post "updated" the story, but still makes the same basic claims: Last week, Apple and Google announced that their new operating systems will be encrypted by default. Encrypting a phone doesn’t make it any harder to tap, or “lawfully intercept” calls. But it does limit law enforcement’s access to a data, contacts, photos and email stored on the phone itself. Had this technology been in place, we wouldn’t have been able to quickly identify which phone lines to tap. That delay would have cost us our victim his life.The perpetrators would likely be freely plotting their next revenge attack. Except, even the update is not true. As the AP's Ted Birdis notes, the affidavit in the case shows that the FBI used phone toll records and wiretaps to figure out the case, and didn't get access to any phones "until after [the] victim [was] safe." In other words, Hosko's story is pure FUD. The new moves by these companies would not have meant the guy died. It wouldn't have impacted the story at all. Meanwhile, as a massive post by Julian Sanchez notes, phone encryption products have been on the market for a while and if it was such a big problem we'd already know about it, but so far it's been pretty limited. In the entire US in 2013, there were nine cases where police claimed that encryption stymied their investigations. Furthermore, in the vast majority of cases where they came up against encryption, they were still able to crack it. So... the impact here is minimal. But that apparently won't stop lies from the likes of Ronald Hosko. Update: And... it appears that the Washington Post edited the story again to now make it accurate, but which also disproves the entire point of the story. Now the basic story is "we saved this guy... and mobile encryption would have done nothing to stop it, but it's a bad bad thing anyway." If Hosko couldn't get the very basics right, how could he be considered a credible person discussing this issue? Filed Under: encryption, fbi, fud, kidnapping, mobile encryption, ronald hosko Companies: apple, google Gab, Mastodon And The Challenges Of Content Moderation On A More Distributed Social Network Senator Graham Spreads A Bunch Of Nonsense About 'Protecting Digital Innocence' Online Court: It's Cool If The (Federal) Government Searches A Phone The (Local) Government Seized Illegally Here We Go Again: Trump Administration Considers Outlawing Encryption As The DOJ Continues To Complain About Encryption, Cellebrite (Again) Announces It Can Crack Any IPhone The First Word Well If Law Enforcement and the Feds hadn't abused their power this probably wouldn't be an issue. WysiWyg (profile), 25 Sep 2014 @ 12:01am Sounds more to me like they're trying to make it so that having an encrypted phone in and of itself counts as "probable cause" or something like that. Perhaps It's Not The Entertainment Industry's Business Model That's Outdated Saying You Can't Compete With Free Is Saying You Can't Compete Period How Being More Open, Human And Awesome Can Save Anyone Worried About Making Money In Entertainment 06:27 AT&T Will Now Filter Robocall Spam, If You Pay Them Extra (25)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14212
__label__wiki	0.987674	0.987674	Sir James Spicer, politician - obituary No-nonsense Tory MP and MEP who became party vice-chairman and founded the parliamentary gym James Spicer Photo: Eddie Mulholland 3:46PM GMT 23 Mar 2015 Sir James Spicer, who has died aged 89, was a regular Army officer who became a no-nonsense Conservative MP and MEP, a vice-chairman of the party and the founder of the House of Commons gym and a successful fitness business. He was a stalwart supporter of Britain’s airborne forces, having served as a platoon commander in the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in the Ardennes in 1944 and as a major in the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment, at Suez – a military adventure to which he was deeply opposed, and after which he resigned his commission. After the Falklands conflict, he welcomed Sara Jones – widow of Lt Col “H” Jones, commanding officer of 2 Para, who was awarded a posthumous VC for his valour at Goose Green – to the Commons and to the Conservative Party conference. A swimming star A fencer and pentathlete in his youth, Jim Spicer was for years the star of the Commons swimming team. Aged 69 he swam the Thames from St Thomas’ Hospital to the House for charity, downing a pint of whisky when he came ashore to kill off the germs. Spicer was the driving force behind the launch of the long-planned parliamentary gym, after Sir Peter Kirk, a backbench colleague and the first Tory leader in the European Parliament, died of a heart attack aged 48. Spicer organised a conference at Westminster on the risks of heart disease, observing: “Basically, MPs drink too much and do too little exercise.” The gym opened in 1978, Spicer chairing the committee, and by 1990 it had to move to larger premises. With two fellow former officers, in 1981 Spicer launched Fitness for Industry, a company to develop gyms for executives; the first was at the Institute of Directors. FFI opened more in hotels, and eventually took over the running of the Commons gym. Politically, Spicer was generally in tune with Margaret Thatcher. He opposed sanctions against South Africa and relaxation of the immigration rules, and advocated the return of the death penalty. On Europe, however, he was convinced of the need for Britain and its neighbours to have a “strong and united voice”, and sided with John Major during the internal strife over the Maastricht Treaty, while having no truck with federalism. He also supported Turkish rule in northern Cyprus, chairing the British-Turkish parliamentary group. James Wilton Spicer was born on October 4 1925, the son of James and Florence Spicer. Leaving Latymer school in 1943, he went into the regular Army. Commissioned into the Royal Fusiliers, he joined the Parachute Regiment in 1951; he retired in 1957 in the rank of major, going into farming, property and politics. In 1966 he was adopted to fight Labour-held Southampton Itchen. He remained the Tory candidate for three elections, but only fought the seat once. This was because the sitting member, Dr Horace King, was elected Speaker, and the Conservatives, with Spicer’s support, decided on principle not to oppose him at the 1966 and 1970 elections. Thereafter, any party that put up a candidate against the Speaker could expect a blast from Spicer. He finally fought Itchen in January 1971 after King’s retirement, losing by 9,675 votes to Labour’s Bob Mitchell. Edward Heath appointed Spicer to chair the Conservative Political Centre in 1968, and four years later, with Britain’s entry to the Common Market imminent, director of the Conservative Group for Europe. When Labour came to power in 1974, Spicer accused anti-Marketeers in the Cabinet of undermining James Callaghan’s renegotiation of the membership terms, and was at the heart of the Conservative “Yes” campaign in the 1975 referendum. Spicer was elected MP for Dorset West in February 1974, and the next year was also appointed to the European Parliament. He became its Conservative whip, began a long-running campaign for better European fire regulations and spent a month with his wife on a total-immersion French course. When direct elections to the Strasbourg assembly were mooted for 1979, Spicer persuaded Mrs Thatcher that it would benefit the party for several of its MEPs to have a “dual mandate”, with seats there and at Westminster. He was elected for Wessex with an 87,834 majority, but the novelty wore off and he stood down in 1984. To Hollywood Mrs Thatcher now appointed him a party vice-chairman, chairman of the Conservative International Office, and chairman of Conservatives Abroad, set up to encourage expatriate Tories to register when the law was changed to allow them to vote. His first foray, to Hollywood in 1986, was trumpeted as a mission to sign up sympathetic stars. It proved a damp squib, with just 66 of the half-million Britons in California registering to vote; Joan Collins was the only star to pledge her support. Spicer’s later efforts proved more successful, after the law was amended to let expats register for the constituency in which they had previously lived. James Spicer training in the Westminster Gym, Norman Shaw Building, Whitehall (Photo: Simon Walker) From 1992 Spicer chaired the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, a non-partisan body set up under Foreign Office auspices to help former communist countries develop democratic institutions. He was also parliamentary adviser to the British Legion. Spicer retired from the Commons in 1997, Oliver Letwin taking over his seat; he arranged a crash course for his successor on the basics of agriculture. He was knighted in the 1988 New Year’s Honours. James Spicer married Winifred Shanks in 1954; she predeceased him in 2010. They had two daughters. Sir James Spicer, born October 4 1925, died March 21 2015 thetelegraphnews Follow @telegraphnews Most-read Obituaries Rob Ford, Canadian politician Populist Right-wing former Mayor of Toronto whose drunken antics scandalised his fellow citizens Johan Cruyff, footballer Proud and mercurial Dutch football star who developed a fast-moving and fluid style of play Colonel Robert Hunter Army officer who knocked out two Tiger tanks in Germany Sir Peter Moores Philanthropist and heir to the Littlewoods empire who became a generous patron of the arts Garry Shandling, comedian Stand-up comedian who broke new ground with his television series The Larry Sanders Show	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14215
__label__wiki	0.913961	0.913961	The rich in Sydney get a bigger share of the income pie Matt Wade Senior economics writer June 16, 2019 — 12.00am Big city problems like congestion, crime and housing affordability hog the headlines. But our urban giants have another chronic challenge that gets less attention – the gap between haves and the have-nots. A recent study of hundreds of cities in wealthy countries by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development found income inequality was above the national average in almost every urban area with a population of more than half a million. Large cities were, on average, more unequal than small ones. There is a striking spatial dimension to income inequality in big cities. Illustration: Matt Davidson Credit: Australia fits this pattern. Greater Sydney isn’t just Australia’s biggest city; it is also the nation’s most unequal region. The share of Sydney's income accruing to the city’s top 1 per cent of earners reached 11.9 per cent the latest figures show, well above the 9.5 per cent share the 1 per cent snares nationally. In Melbourne the share of the city's income going to the top 1 per cent was also above average at 10 per cent (that compares with 7 per cent in the rest of Victoria). The top 10 per cent of earners in both cities also enjoy a bigger share of income than the national 33.8 per cent average (36.6 per cent in Sydney and 34.1 per cent in Melbourne). Analysis by the Bureau of Statistics shows a key measure of income distribution called the Gini Coefficient has been rising in Melbourne and Sydney since 2011-12 pointing to greater income inequality. There is a striking spatial dimension to income inequality in big cities because rich and poor people tend to live separated in different neighbourhoods. The OECD report identified Australia, along with the US and France, as three wealthy nations where this segregated urban pattern is "particularly evident". It singled out the contrast between two Melbourne suburbs for special mention – the households in the well-to-do suburb of Toorak earn almost nine times more, on average, than households in the suburb of Broadmeadows about 20 kilometres to the north west. The top 1 per cent in Sydney earn a greater proportion of the city's income than the top 1 per cent nationally earn of national income. Credit:Brendon Thorne In all the Australian cities in the OECD study the average income in the highest paid neighbourhood was always more than five times the lowest paid. It identified only three other countries with such a high ratio – Mexico, Japan and France. The divergent patterns of urban advantage and disadvantage go much deeper than just income. A Macquarie University study published in November found NAPLAN results have become more "geographically polarised" within Australian cities. Most schools in Melbourne’s outer north west and outer southeast had below average NAPLAN scores but schools in the city’s inner and eastern suburbs were mostly above average. In Sydney most schools in the city’s west and south west had below average scores but schools in the northern and eastern suburbs were almost all above average. The study’s leader author, Crichton Smith, said "you can literally draw a line" between schools with above-average results in Sydney’s north and east and below-average results in the west and south west. NAPLAN results show an unequal distribution in educational attainment. Credit:Graham Tidy Virtually no schools in any Australian city’s advantaged suburbs were below the national average, and almost no schools in disadvantaged areas were above average. Worse still, the educational disparity across cities has been growing – "the location-based divide has increased" since NAPLAN testing was introduced in 2008, the researchers found. Health problems such as obesity are also unevenly distributed across our cities. Sydney’s lowest obesity rates, for instance, are in Ku-ring-gai and Willoughby both council areas with very high average incomes. But last year’s Domain Healthy Melbourne study showed suburbs with the lowest health rank were clustered in relatively low-income districts on the city’s outer fringe. Longevity also varies greatly depending on postcode. Sydney’s northern suburbs region enjoys the longest life expectancy at birth in Australia at nearly 87 years. That’s almost five years longer than in the district of Blacktown in the city’s west. Life expectancy at birth in Melbourne’s affluent inner-east is three-and-a-half years longer than in the city’s outer southeast. The contrasts in longevity are even starker at the suburb level. Analysis by the Public Health Information Development Unit at Torrens University shows the median age of death between 2010 and 2014 at Mount Druitt in Sydney’s west was 68 years. That’s 19 years lower than in the Northern Beaches neighbourhood of Narrabeen-Cromer (87 years). Life expectancy is very different depending on where you live in the big city. Credit:SMH In the suburb of Craigieburn on Melbourne’s northern fringe the median age of death of 68 years was 18 years lower than the inner-east neighbourhood of Kew (86 years). The disparities in income, education and health outcomes across our cities are not just unfair. They impose a significant cost. The economy suffers when workers are unable to access good employment opportunities, affordable housing and public transport. Studies in the United States show it is becoming increasingly difficult for those born in disadvantaged urban areas to ever move out. A growing gap between haves and have-nots is not inevitable in Melbourne and Sydney. But combating the extremes of income, education and health in major metros is a pressing policy challenge. Left unchecked, inequality and spatial segregation will threaten the stability and vitality of our cities. Matt Wade is a senior writer. Matt Wade is a senior economics writer at The Sydney Morning Herald.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14217
__label__wiki	0.739428	0.739428	Miserable, purposeful lies should not be part of our politics Jenna Price Columnist and academic at the University of Technology Sydney June 4, 2019 — 12.00am Any pregnant woman knows this, feels this: the fear of what can go wrong; that making babies and delivering babies is some kind of magic. We know, in our minds, how it works, but silently, the fears are still with us. Will my baby be ok? I woke up with that question in my mind every morning over three long pregnancies. Back then, we didn’t have the tests which would have put my mind at rest and now we do. In the intervening years, I have known three women who had late term abortions. All these babies were wanted so much, so wanted that the desire of these women for their darling babies was like standing next to a camp fires, radiant. On each and every occasion, those late term abortions were on the doctor's advice. The choice: a late term abortion or continuation of a pregnancy that would inevitably end in the birth of a dead baby and put the mother’s life at risk. Two of these women had babies who did not have brains of any functional kind. No woman undertakes a late-term abortion because a political party is pro-choice. Credit:Simone Becchetti Our reproductive rights in Australia are under threat. During the election campaign, a small group of extremists campaigned against abortion access. They claimed "more babies would die under a ... Labor government". They argued Labor had an "extreme late-term abortion agenda". They spent money (and I wonder whose money) promoting lies and deception and these attacks come at a time when reproductive rights worldwide are under attack. Let me be clear about abortion laws. They do not change the rate of abortion. Women will still have abortions. Abortion laws make abortion safer, or less safe. Restrictive abortion laws also force women to wait longer, as women try to figure out what’s possible. Those later abortions are inevitably more expensive abortions. They put even more stress on women who are already out of their minds with anxiety. Survey after survey, study after study, reveal Australians support access to abortion. The rate of abortion in Australia is declining. The best figures we have, from South Australia and Western Australia, show a decline over 13 years of about 20 per cent in the number of terminations per 1000 women. Ideally, that’s what we want, abortion to be both safe and rare. There is no flood of women wanting late-term abortions. In the only state where we know exactly what the numbers are, Queensland, the deputy director-general, Clinical Excellence Division, Queensland Health, John Wakefield, says that post-22 weeks is a relatively rare procedure. In 2016, he said they accounted for 76 out of nearly 15000 abortions. The views of self-aggrandising anti-abortionists are in a tiny minority. In Australia, it’s unlikely we will see the same push to restrict abortion as in the US but we’ve already observed those desperate to introduce fetal personhood, a law which would be a gateway to further police women’s right to bodily autonomy. This should not be a partisan issue yet it’s been made one. In response, Jenny Ejlak, the president of Reproductive Choice Australia, says we should all be in correspondence with our local MPs. She recommends telling your local member this: “I’m pro choice, like the majority of Australians; and I expect you to reflect the views of the majority of Australians in both the law and in public policy.” Reliably, Labor women will defend reproductive rights. If there are any glimmers of light for women in this new government, it is the appointment of Marise Payne as minister for women after a series of unsuitable and inappropriate choices. Last year, Payne put George Christensen in his place (sadly, not the Philippines but far north Queensland). He claimed it was disgraceful that Australia would continue to fund international planned parenthood agencies. Payne told the Senate in March 2018: “These services are vital . . . we support, through the aid program, the same range of programs available in Australia, subject to the laws of those countries." Women in Texas protesting against abortion restrictions. Credit:AP If you have ever had a baby, you will know that during the pregnancy, you hope and you wonder. Your waking hours are filled with a gentle anxiety. And anyone who thinks the decision to have a late-term abortion is made in a cavalier fashion, or because a political party supports a woman’s right to choose, is deluded at best, a miserable, purposeful liar at worst. Not one of the women I know would have chosen that route. One is still devastated years after this happened. But the debate over abortion is not really about the act of abortion itself, it's really about ensuring that one small group of people has control over another group of people, women. It is only women's lives which are policed in this way. Instead, some believe we should be treated as if we are incubators of the property of the state. It’s time to remind the state and those who run it that we are more than breeders. We are voters. Jenna Price is a regular columnist and an academic at the University of Technology Sydney. Jenna Price is a Fairfax columnist, and an academic at the University of Technology Sydney.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14218
__label__wiki	0.826069	0.826069	GreaterGood Click Results Our Charitable Partners About GreaterGood Hilarious Pets Pet Health Tips Sign a Petition Shop to Give Gifts that Give More™ Inaction Got Us Here. It's Time To Protect Our Children. #NeverAgain 7,798 signatures toward our 60,000 Goal 13.00% Complete Sponsor: The Literacy Site Take action and help us end the tragic cycle of gun violence in schools. The statistics don't lie; as many as 90 Americans are killed every day in violent incidents of gun violence [1]. Among those, many are school children, not yet old enough to vote or join the military. Following the Feb. 14 shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 dead and 14 injured [2], a large number of Americans called for more stringent regulations around assault weapons. But, lawmakers have responded just as they did after Colorado Springs [2], just as they did after San Bernadino [2], and just as they did after Sandy Hook [2]. They did nothing. The list of tragedies goes on and on, and will continue to, unless action is taken. One such action is the establishment of the "Fix NICS Act" introduced in 2017 by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). The bill aims to strengthen the efforts made in researching the criminal histories of those looking to buy firearms, efforts that could have prevented the Texas First Baptist Church shooting [3]. Another measure has been introduced by the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The "Assault Weapons Ban of 2017" will prohibit the sale, transfer, manufacture, and importation of military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, if passed [4]. Gun violence is a problem wherever it occurs, but the impact of such tragedies when children are involved is undoubtedly much greater. Those who live through violent incidents don't always emerge unscathed. School districts in which gun violence has resulted in one or more deaths are more likely to experience depression among students, decreased enrollment, and lower test scores [1]. Over 150,000 students in the U.S. from 170 different schools have been affected by gun violence firsthand since the Columbine High School massacre in 1999 [7]. In a plea to end years of inaction, survivors, students, and allies of those affected by mass shootings have banded together under the hashtag #neveragain. Their cry for mercy has not gone unnoticed, and hope lies in the passage of measures like the Fix NICS Act and the Assault Weapons Ban of 2017, which would require stricter levels of documentation and accountability, as well as preventing initiatives from those involved in the buying and selling of dangerous weapons [3]. Sign this petition and stand with the millions of others who believe that violence in schools should not be normalized, and demand a safer life for our children. MORE ON THIS ISSUE [1] Everytown for Gun Safety, "290 School Shootings In America Since 2013" Retrieved February 21, 2018, from https://everytownresearch.org/school-shootings/. [2] Mark Follman, Gavin Aronsen, and Deanna Pan (2018, February 14), "US Mass Shootings, 1982-2018: Data From Mother Jones Investigation." Retrieved February 21, 2018, from https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-mother-jones-full-data/. [3] Emily Tillett (2018, February 19), "After Florida shooting, what's the status of the "Fix NICS" bill?" Retrieved February 21, 2018, from https://www.cbsnews.com/news/after-florida-shooting-whats-the-status-of-the-fix-nics-bill/. [4] Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Al Franken (D-Minn.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), and Bob Casey (D-Pa.), "Assault Weapons Ban 5 of 2017." Retrieved February 21, 2018, from https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/f/d/fdca734c-4855-49f3-aa1d-2ed02e791d6d/E5ECBD1B1D722D5C4AEDAEBB6276AB36.awb-bill-text.pdf. [5] United States Senator for California Dianne Feinstein (2017, November 8), "Senators Introduce Assault Weapons Ban." Retrieved February 21, 2018, from https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=8B3E8400-766E-4B5E-B59B-C800BB52A973. [6] Serena Lei (2014), "Everyday violence: Gunfire near DC schools." Retrieved February 21, 2018, from http://datatools.urban.org/features/everydayviolence/. [7] John Woodrow Cox and Steven Rich(2018, February 15), "No, there havent been 18 school shootings in 2018. That number is flat wrong." Retrieved February 21, 2018, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/no-there-havent-been-18-school-shooting-in-2018-that-number-is-flat-wrong/2018/02/15/65b6cf72-1264-11e8-8ea1-c1d91fcec3fe_story.html?utm_term=.cda23dcdc3e9. The Petition: Dear Senate Judiciary Committee and Senator Dianne Feinstein, Along with millions of other Americans, I stand with you in support of the Fix NICS Act and the Assault Weapons Ban of 2017, two bills which I believe are necessary in stemming gun violence in schools. Far too many people have died, and far too many of them children, to justify one more day of inaction from policymakers, who can easily prevent further tragedy by strengthening assault weapon regulations. Over 150,000 students in the United States from 170 different schools have been affected by gun violence firsthand since the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. Those who live through violent incidents do not always emerge unscathed. School districts in which gun violence has resulted in one or more deaths are more likely to experience depression among students, decreased enrollment, and lower test scores. It's awful to imagine our children being forced to face an armed assailant on their own, but until action is taken, that's exactly what has been happening. In the absence of a protective measure, survivors, students, and allies of those affected by mass shootings have banded together under the hashtag #neveragain. There have been many suggestions for how to stem school shootings, but we need a method that goes beyond addressing mere symptoms of a greater issue. Guns are winding up in the hands of people who should not have them. The regulations are lax enough to allow people with histories of mental illness and violence to obtain weapons and use them. I demand we make a change, pass the Fix NICS Act and the Assault Weapons Ban of 2017, and keep those weapons out of the hands of those who would use them for evil. Signatures: Load More Signatures Don't display my name Your email address will NOT be displayed publicly. Please see our Terms of Service To complete the signature process, click "Sign" below. Remind me to click daily at The Animal Rescue Site (manage and customize your newsletters any time). Please add me to the Take Action! email lists to see more petitions like this one Adding your signature That's 7,798 signatures! Let's keep the ball rolling. 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__label__wiki	0.811567	0.811567	Boy Names from French Origins Here are some interesting boy names that originate from Norman French or Old French origins. These have a variety of popularity and usage levels in the US. Amis/Amias/Amyas - medieval names taken from Amice and the Latin amicus meaning "friend". It was popular in the middle ages. There is also a medieval French poem titled "Amis and Amiles". While Amis only landed on the US popuarity charts once with 5 births in 1928, Amias is skyrocketing. It first appeared in 2000, but since then has climbed its way up to the Top 1400 with 116 births in 2016. It should continue to gain popularity and break into the Top 1000 soon. Amyas is also starting to appear. Courtney - An aristocratic English surname taken from the French place name Courtenay, which came from currents from the Latin curtus meaning "short". Courtney has always been unisex. Up until the 1960s, it was mostly given to boys, but after that the majority of usage went to the girls, especially in the 1990s. Deforest/Deforrest - from a French surname meaning "from the forest". Both spellings are rare. They aren't seeing any usage today, however Deforest did have mild usage around the 1920s. Deforrest is more hit or miss, but popped up on record a handful of times since the 1910s. Gage - Old French name meaning "measure" or "pledge" which refers to one who was a moneylender. Gage first popped up on the record for boys in 1914, but was rare until it entered the Top 1000 in 1989. Its highest ranking occurred in 2003 at #136. It is trending down now, ranking at #281 in 2016. Garner/Garnett - An English surname taken from the Old French carne which referred to a person who made hinges. Garner has been used for boys in the US since 1881, rarely at first, but more regularly after 1908. It has never been common, always just 30 or fewer births per year. Garnett dates back just as far and was similarly rare over the years but with slightly bigger numbers. Garnett hasn't been used on record since 2013. Garner is still around with 22 male births in 2016. Grant - a surname taken from the Norman French word grand meaning "great, large". The usage of the name Grant dates back to the beginning of record-keeping in the US, 1880. The name has only gained popularity over the years, getting a boost around 1912, and another in the late 1970s. It ranked highest in 1997 with 3,314 and a rank of #115. As of 2016, it remains a constant by ranking at #171. Jourdain- French form of Jordan which comes from the Hebrew yarden and yarad meaning to "descend" or "flow down". Jourdain has only had usage for boys between 1984 and 2012, the best year being 1996 with 20 births. Lamar - from a French surname and a place name in Normandy, which was derived from Old French la mare meaning "the pool". Lamar has been in usage since 1882 in the US and has almost always been in the Top 1000. It's best year for boys was 1989 with 737 births. Mel/Melville/Melvin - a Scottish surname derived from a Norman French place name meaning "bad town". Melville was in use from 1880 up until it lost popularity in 1981. Melvin has always been in the Top 1000 but is currently trending down quickly. It was most popular between 1920 and 1950. Monte/Monty/Montgomery - surname meaning "Gumarich's mountain" in Norman French. I was surprised to see the popularity of Monte over the years. It dates back to 1881 on record and ranked in the Top 1000 from 1924-1990. It still received 109 births in 2016 for boys. Monty is a bit less popular with only 45 births in 2016. Montgomery gained steady usage back in 1905 but was always uncommon. 2016 was actually its best year with 115 births. Noel - This name means "Christmas" in French and had often been given to children born in the holiday since the middle ages. Noel has always been used in the US and it has been steadily gaining popularity since 1880. As of 2016, there were 844 boys named Noel (and 202 girls). Parris - from an English surname denoting a person who came from Paris, France. Parris started out with usage on boys, but as of 2016, there were 26 girls given the name, and only 14 boys. It has never been common (in this spelling) for either gender. The spelling Paris, however, ranked at #274 for girls with 1,152 births, and only 80 births for boys. Quincy - A surname derived via the French place name Cuinchy, which is based on the Latin quintius referring to the number 5. Quincy peaked in popularity in 1977 with 717 male births. It has fallen to 473 births in 2016, but it is also starting to rise for girls. Régis - This name comes from a surname meaning "ruler" in Occitan, which is a dialect spoken by 1.5 million people in Southern France. Régis was the name of a 17th century French Jesuit priest: St Jean-François Régis. This name gained usage in the early 1900s with its best years being between the 1910s and the 1950s. It left the Top 1000 in the early 1960s and only had 13 male births in 2016. Seymour - This comes from a Norman surname originally referring to a person from the French town of Saint Maur, derived from Saint Maurus, Maurus being from a Latin name meaning "dark skinned". Seymour had one giant popularity peak in 1924 for boys consisting of 785 births. It fared best between 1912 and 1939 and dramatically declined in usage after that. Many years after 1979 didn't have at least 5 births in a single year in order to be on the record. There were 9 births in 2016. Sinclair - There is a Norman French town called Saint Clair which led to the surname Sinclair in honor of it. Clair comes from the Latin Clarus meaning "clear, bright, famous". Sinclair has been used for boys since 1900 but has never had more than 30 births in a year, including 12 in 2016. It gained usage for girls in 1989 and has more recent usage than for boy over the past two decades. There were 9 female births in 2016. This is a rare unisex name. Taylor - An English surname referring to someone who was a tailor. It comes from the Norman French tailleur, from the Latin taliare meaning "to cut". Male Taylors have a good 71 years of usage on the females. Boys date back to 1880 while the girls gained usage in 1951. It was more popular for boys until 1990 when it began surging upward for females. There were 3,261 girls named Taylor and 639 boys in 2016. Wallace - from a Scottish/English surname denoting a Welshman or a "foreigner" in Norman French. Wallace peaked in popularity in 1923 with 2,803 births, but it declined again nearly as fast. It hung on through the 1940s but left the Top 1000 by 1994. Today it is showing signs of gradual recovery by earning 196 male births in 2016. Which of these names do you like? Would you use any of them? Interesting and Uncommon Boy Name Combinations! Are you looking for something slightly different than the norm? Just a little unusual with a touch of classic? Familiar but not weird? Here are some great name ideas for you! Some are more unusual than others, and there is a variety of styles here. Feel free to mix and match or suggest even more great names in the comments! Silas Merrill Truett James Beau Jameson Watson Lucas Ellison Burke Huxley Wyatt Brom Harrison Maxwell Ranger Eli Bennington Harley Reid Fletcher Henry Merritt Ross Tilden Sumner Hayden Gabriel Zayne Upton Thorne Elijah Jasper Emmett Colton Lemuel Bridger James Branson Reid Archer Daniel Kingston Jack Lincoln Bradley Zane Percival Drake Richmond Thane Oliver Emery York Ryder Ellis Flynn Arrow Nolan Reid Greyson Tobias Landon Monroe Harley Roarke Rollin Foster Griffin Lark Sawyer Quill Emerson Gray Duncan Reid Rafe Archer Blaine Upton Phoenix Rourke Victor Armand Eleazar Forrest Viggo Henrik Milo Konrad Bryant Karter Landry Merle Arden Fox Garrett Maxwell Dominic Elias Zephyr Clark Atlas Hawthorne Beckett Wilder Hershel Kai Julian Maximus Toby Cordell Cyril Bodhi Atreyu Stone Dashiell Todd Soren Thatcher Hendrix Hayes Quill Indigo Hugo Zaffre Auden Guthrie Theo Valor Leif Emmerich Kit Henning Nash Benedict Caspian Noble Albin Justice Rolf Gregor Alvar Leopold Fabian Gunnar Stellan Otto Dante Revere Calix Augustin Which is your favorite? Beyond Elizabeth: 4+ Syllable Girl Names	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14220
__label__wiki	0.896727	0.896727	Battle of the Sexes Is a Breezy Crowd-Pleaser Emma Stone and Steve Carell star as Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, who faced off in a famed 1973 tennis match with surprising resonance for today. Emma Stone and Steve Carrell in Battle of the SexesFox Searchlight The most significant conflict in Battle of the Sexes isn’t the much hyped exhibition tennis game between the legendary athletes Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) and Billie Jean King (Emma Stone)—the real-life 1973 match that’s the ostensible subject of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’s new film. More gripping is the struggle that plays out in the background of the famous match, one that built the foundation of the modern sport. In the first half of the movie, King organizes a boycott of a major tennis tournament over the disparity in prize money between men and women, and helps found the Virginia Slims Circuit, a series of tennis tournaments that eventually became the Women’s Tennis Association, a principal organizing body of the sport. As played by Stone, King is somewhat mousy and shy in private, and even-handed and friendly in public. So, of course, she’s tarred as a radical by old boys of the sport like Jack Kramer (Bill Pullman), the organizer of the tournament she pulls out of. King’s supposed extremism amounted to arguing for equal prize money for female players and a union to help support their profession. The outsized reaction her effort received is the most fascinating part of Battle of the Sexes, a crowd-pleasing, middle-of-the-road piece of cinema that’s nonetheless frighteningly relevant today. Battle of the Sexes is directed with all the verve of a TV movie. It depicts tennis as little more than a job for King and a lark for Riggs, a retired legend of the sport who is now touring the oldies circuit to try and cover his gambling debts. That’s perfectly fitting, however, for a film covering a sporting event that was about much more than pure athleticism. Riggs vs. King was a sideshow blown up to national proportions by Riggs’s skill for advertising his own brand of chauvinism, which he inflated to cartoonish proportions to get himself back in the news and eventually lure King onto the court. As King notes before their showdown, Riggs is largely just putting on a show for the cameras—but his public supporters, including Kramer, bought into his argument that men were inherently superior athletes and deserving of more prize money. Battle of the Sexes might be about a seemingly innocuous publicity stunt, but it was a stunt that became symbolic of a generational war over gender roles. King was no longer one athlete, but a standard-bearer for the very concept of feminism, and the battle she had to fight was not the one she was trying to draw attention to. It’s not hard to connect the dots to the present day, especially when considering Riggs’s particular Trumpian brand of showmanship. But there’s little malevolence to Carell, who plays Riggs as a mostly harmless buffoon, a lovable cad spouting canned lines about women belonging in the kitchen. His half of the movie, as a result, feels pretty airless and slow—there aren’t many compelling stakes to his publicity ploy outside of his gambling addiction, which is presented with the same easy-breezy tone as everything else. Riggs shouldn’t be someone viewers take super-seriously, but as a competitive foil, he isn’t much to root against either. King’s half is much more interesting, and Stone’s performance is surprisingly thoughtful and internal—less of a broad impression than Carell’s. The early chunk of the film, which follows King’s organization of the pioneering Virginia Slims Tour alongside the famed publisher Gladys Heldman (Sarah Silverman), is engaging, as is the material focusing on her burgeoning relationship with her hairdresser Marilyn Barnett (Andrea Riseborough). Dayton and Faris handle King’s first lesbian relationship with far more nuance and care than the main storyline, which often feels like little more than a loose summary leading up to an inevitable conclusion—the big ’73 match at the Houston Astrodome. Riseborough is extremely winning as Barnett, a freer spirit than the relatively buttoned-down King, and her chemistry with Stone is effortlessly tender, even as their relationship threatens to spill into the public eye and endanger King’s marriage. Much like the story of the Virginia Slims Tour, King and Barnett’s romance almost feels like it could carry its own movie; and as a subplot, it’s far more enthralling than scenes of Carell palling around with his tennis buddies and causing a ruckus at a Gamblers Anonymous meeting. But even though the subplots about King’s life generate the best drama, the film is ploddingly building to a much simpler (and less interesting) showdown: the “battle of the sexes” itself. Dayton and Faris first depict Riggs’s May 1973 match against King’s rival Margaret Court (Jessica McNamee), a thorough victory for Riggs that prompts King to finally accept his challenge to try and shut him up. I won’t spoil the outcome of the Riggs-King match (though a quick Google search would certainly do that for you), but there isn’t much suspense to the script, written by the Oscar-winner Simon Beaufoy (The Full Monty, Slumdog Millionaire). The battle’s been waged throughout the movie, on many fronts, and it’s clear what side the storytellers are rooting for. David Sims is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covers culture.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14221
__label__cc	0.685598	0.314402	Welcome to the Movement Roar of the Bewildered Herd is a project by a small group of dedicated researchers and proponents of an open and accessible media system in the United States. It is a critical analysis of the history of public relations, formerly known as propaganda, and most currently its effects on society through Corporate Media. The project incorporates the mediums of film, music, Internet radio in the form of podcasts, and literature (including an essay and graphic novel). The cornerstone of the project is a documentary film that analyzes and explores the effects of propaganda, leading to the more specific and relevant topic of Corporate Propaganda, and its impact on democracy. To read about the film, click here. Everyone knows by now that Information is POWER. Being able to control the information that a population receives directly impacts the role of its industries, its government, its economy, and the innovation needed to prevent being controlled to begin with. Take a minute to learn about the history and effects of Public Relations and the role of Government in regulating the industry by visiting our helpful Resources and Articles links. Trailer 1-Roar of the Bewildered Herd 21709 views - 0 comments Bob McCannon on Media Education Institute of Propaganda Analysis (IPA) Noam Chomsky on Net Neutrality Follow @bewilderedherd RADIO INTERVIEW (Peas in a Pod Radio Show on WEINETWORK) RADIO INTERVIEW (Those Guys Radio Show on WEINETWORK) 2Faced Pistol	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14223
__label__wiki	0.818789	0.818789	Home News West plans new Wood Green co-operative bookshop West plans new Wood Green co-operative bookshop Published January 4, 2019 by Katie Mansfield Tim West, co-founder of The Big Green Bookshop in Wood Green, plans to open a new, co-operative bookshop locally in the wake of the closure... Tim West, co-founder of The Big Green Bookshop in Wood Green, plans to open a new, co-operative bookshop locally in the wake of the closure of the bricks and mortar Big Green store. The Big Green Bookshop will close its physical premises on 31st January as fellow co-founder Simon Key is relocating from London to East Sussex and moving the business online after 10 years in business with Tim West. Looking to the future, West is in talks with a retired publisher to form a co-operative for a new Wood Green shop. "Some of the customers were upset to see the shop go and now I'm meeting with a retired publisher about forming a co-operative and finding a space within the area. I won't name him as this is in its very early stages but he is very positive," said West. "I'm looking at reducing the size of the shop in terms of stock but expanding the programme of events, clubs and societies that we do. We don't do daytime events as they take up the space we need to sell books. We are looking for a place with a smaller shop and separate space where we can do daytime events such as book groups, writing groups, comedy events, poetry workshops." West is also hoping to secure a property with easier access for people with mobility issues. He said: "The current shop has a big step and it is a barrier to people with mobility issues so we want a space without one. If you're a mother with three children and a double pushchair, the step is not ideal." The former Waterstones bookseller maintains shares in The Big Green Bookshop and says he has no plans to sell them off completely after working with Key at the Wood Green shop since March 2008. West added: "The rates have doubled in 10 years. Closing wasn't something we discussed, but when Simon said he was moving away and didn't want a physical bookshop anymore, I went 'ok'. He's going to keep The Big Green Bookshop name because he built the online side and it would be churlish of me to take that away. It's perfectly reasonable.." The Big Green Bookshop will continue trading at its physical premises in Brampton Park Road, Wood Green until 31st January with new opening hours of Tuesday to Saturday from 9am to 6pm. Wood Green rallies to launch co-operative bookshop MP backs Wood Green co-operative bookshop launch Bookselling co-operative North West plans regional library demonstration for New Year Elinor Cooper joins DKW	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14224
__label__cc	0.719076	0.280924	HomeFeaturesUnderstanding Autism April 6, 2016 Features, Health, Inspirations, News Features Did you know that 1 in 100 people in Ireland have some form of Autism? According to a study carried out in DCU, this is the amount of people living in this country who fall somewhere on the autism spectrum, my brother Thomas included. I have known what Autism was since Thomas, was diagnosed. Thomas is an inspiration in that he can engage and communicate with others in an effective manner and has come on in leaps and bounds over the past few years. While he is now in fifth year in a mainstream secondary school, Thomas was lucky enough to have been one of the first students to attend the ABACAS School in Drogheda, a school set up in 2003 to cater for the needs of children and young people with Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome. A lot of people don’t understand what Autism really means for the person diagnosed and their family. According to Irish Autism Action “Autism is a lifelong neuro-developmental disability that affects the development of the brain in areas of social interaction and communication.” This means that someone who has autism may experience difficulty communicating and interacting with others as they go about their day-to-day activities. Thomas seems quiet in school, but is ridiculously chatty amongst family and members of the youth club he attends weekly, run by his old school ABACAS (each member is on the autistic spectrum). Autism is often described as a ‘spectrum disorder’, meaning that two individuals with the same diagnosis may not experience the same difficulties at the same time. The symptoms can present themselves in many forms and combinations ranging from mild to severe. The three main areas of difficulty experienced by those with autism are social interaction, social integration and social imagination. Although scientists are not certain what causes autism but research into autism and genetics has shown that it is likely autism is genetically pre- determined, despite rumours of its relation to certain vaccinations. Research is ongoing and experts hope to determine which genes may be relevant and to what degree environmental ‘triggers’ (if any) may be involved in the increase in chances that a child may be born with autism. ‘The Autism Spectrum’ is a term widely used to describe the range of abilities and disabilities across the autistic community which can be defined as Severe, Moderate, Mild, High Functioning Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, PDD-NOS. Asperger’s Syndrome is a diagnosis often given to individuals who find social interaction and communication difficult. The person may also seek comfort in a rigid routine, including their preferred activities and interests. They may also experience sensory sensitivity, but will often display “normal cognitive functioning and language development”. Aine Monk Áine Monk	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14226
__label__wiki	0.925692	0.925692	Music · Reviews Review: Three decades on from their debut, In Spades proves that The Afghan Whigs are still one of the most innovative alt-rock bands around Despite the familiar elements its sound is built from, what's especially impressive about In Spades, is how it doesn't really sound like anything the band has done before. Their sound was always equally driven by the vision of Greg Dulli and it greatly benefits from it, as he has written what are arguably some of the best song of his career, and this new Afghan Whigs sounds even tighter and leaner here. Jeremy Monroe10 May, 2017 When The Afghan Whigs reunited five years ago, it was anything but a typical cash-grab nostalgia trip; it was more or less a matter of picking up where they left off, considering their exit felt a little premature to begin with. That wasn't due to the usual rock and roll cliches but was rather a matter of geographical distance between band members and exhaustion after settling a legal dispute with their former label. Likewise, their first post-reunion album Do To The Beast, released two years later, felt equally justified and found them less interested in rehashing their glory days and more interested in building off of their sound and rightfully moving forward. Missing from the proceedings was co-founder and lead guitarist Rick McCollum, who left the band before they began recording. And though he wasn't solely responsible for shaping their sound, it was his innovative leads that played a major role in shaping their unique mix of everything from funk and R&B to soul and grungy rock. His absence on Do To The Beast was definitely noticeable, and it left some questioning whether it was even still The Afghan Whigs without him. The skepticism is understandable considering that album consisted of singer Greg Dulli and long time bassist John Curley with an ensemble of musicians, while this time the In Spades line-up is rounded out by some of Dulli's Twilight Singers bandmates. Now the debate as to who they sound more like without one of their driving forces has more or less become tiresome. Despite the familiar elements its sound is built from, what's especially impressive about In Spades, is how it doesn't really sound like anything the band has done before. Their sound was always equally driven by the vision of Greg Dulli and it greatly benefits from it, as he has written what are arguably some of the best song of his career, and this new Afghan Whigs sounds even tighter and leaner here. 'Copernicus' and 'Arabian Heights' in particular chug with the same muscular drive of some classic-era Whigs songs. Though he never found time to make a feature film, Greg Dulli has taken what he learned as a film student at the University of Cincinnati and has put it to good use throughout his career; In Spades finds him at the peak of his ability to coax and build the kinds of emotions you experience from sitting in front of the widescreen. The menacing piano on 'Demon In Profile' sets the tone, and from there the song builds an air of deceit and regret around itself before gradually working its way towards a bittersweet climax of horns and guitars that climb and build until they begin to gradually unravel, leaving only a few lone piano notes lingering in the air. Those same horns reappear throughout the album but are used to a devastating and beautiful effect coupled with an unbridled Dulli vocal take on 'Toy Automatic', one of the most uplifting songs the Whigs have ever written. On 'Oriole', the combination of string arrangements, ghostly harmonies, and Dulli's pleading vocals all add to the sense of suspension welling up from the surface. Meanwhile, the psychosexual 'Light as a Feather' stands as one of the funkiest and most playful things the Whigs have laid down since their glorious premature swan-song, 1965. In Spades reaches its arguable emotional peak by the end, beginning with the heartwrenching piano ballad 'I Got Lost', which settles into a heavy-footed, waltz-like time signature full of remorse and longing. This gives way to the sweeping and melodramatic 'Into the Floor', which eventually topples over into a brilliant and beautiful mess of emotions. It's a jaw-dropping conclusion to an already impressive album that both solidifies their reputation as one of the more compelling bands to come out of the 90s alternative landscape, and cements their reunion as one of the few necessary ones that are currently happening. Barring their premature split, they've been around for 31 years. How many bands can you stop and think of that have been around for that long and still continue to make music as challenging and thrilling as this? Not many can pull it off but, The Afghan Whigs do. The Afghan Whigs	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14230
__label__wiki	0.991213	0.991213	Fox cancels American Idol amid steady ratings decline The reality competition show once regularly pulled in more than 30 million viewers an episode but struggled to crack 10m in its most recent season Sam Thielman in New York @samthielman Mon 11 May 2015 10.51 EDT Last modified on Tue 19 Dec 2017 16.24 EST Fox is breaking up the band: Idol judges Keith Urban, Jennifer Lopez and Harry Connick Jr. Photograph: Dan Steinberg/Invision/AP American Idol, the former ratings juggernaut that earned the nickname “the Death Star” for its apparent ability to destroy all who opposed it, has finally met its match – apathy. Fox announced on Monday that after 15 seasons the singing competition is being dumped for someone younger and cuter: a slate of nine new shows the network hopes will end a ratings slump. Idol still holds the record for the most consecutive seasons at No 1 – fully eight, from 2003 to 2011 – but viewer apathy and reality competition show fatigue have taken their toll. This season, American Idol struggled to hit 10m viewers. At its height the show’s season finales brought in over 30m viewers. “I can’t say it’s a surprise,” said Brad Adgate, head of research for Horizon Media, which buys advertising for clients including Geico and CapitalOne. “The ratings have been in a freefall the last few years. The audience profile has gotten older. But it was an extraordinarily successful show. It would be hard to imagine a show that impacted a network the way Idol impacted Fox.” Launched in 2002 and modelled on the UK’s Pop Idol, the show made a star of its most famous judge, Simon Cowell, and launched the careers of Jennifer Hudson, Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson. Idol wasn’t merely the biggest thing going at Fox; often it was the key factor in the network’s ratings success. The network built shows and nights of shows around the series, and often its return in the winter meant the difference between beating the other broadcast networks in season-long ratings (a favorite bragging right among network execs) and losing out to bigger shows. Fox’s eight-season-long winning streak is due in large part to Idol’s success and remains the longest a single network has dominated the ratings. “It’s the last regularly scheduled show to average 30 million viewers for a season,” Adgate said. “You have to put it down as one of the most influential shows on television – it really showed that a reality show can get viewers and make money.” In its fifth and highest-rated season, the show averaged 39.5 million live viewers total and 15.8 million aged 18-49 – the demographic advertisers pay for. Last season it averaged a little under 3.4 million viewers in the demo, including people who watched it the same day on DVR and probably fast-forwarded through the ads. Empire: the outrageous black family drama that’s changing the look of US TV There are other reasons to cut the show loose, first and foremost being simple expense. In the show’s seventh year of dominance, host Ryan Seacrest negotiated a 300% pay raise, going from a meager $5m annually to a more liveable $15m, guaranteed for three years. Keeping Seacrest meant the show’s expenses grew even as its ratings declined. There’s also some fresher material that’s doing well at the network. Fox has a new musical series it can build a schedule on: Empire, its hip-hop-themed series, which came out of nowhere at midseason to log far and away the highest ratings of any new drama this season. It’s a welcome change from this past fall’s American Idol replacement-hopeful, Utopia, which cost some $50m to produce and was dead in the water before Christmas. Empire is now the cornerstone of a lineup that, this fall, will include a series based on the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report, a show from the creators of American Horror Story called Scream Queens (starring Jamie Lee Curtis) and a Rob Lowe comedy called The Grinder, about the star of a canceled reality series. US television US television industry	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14233
__label__wiki	0.971462	0.971462	Neo-Nazi gang trial to get under way in Germany after chaotic start Beate Zschäpe charged with nine racially motivated murders in country's highest-profile trial since second world war Kate Connolly in Berlin Fri 3 May 2013 10.29 EDT First published on Fri 3 May 2013 10.29 EDT Beate Zschäpe, a member of the neo-Nazi group National Socialist Underground (NSU), is to go on trial in Munich on Monday. Photograph: Reuters The string of murders shook Germany but remained unsolved for years, eventually revealing an underground Nazi cell and raising questions about the competence of the German intelligence services. Now the surviving member of a neo-Nazi gang accused of carrying out nine racially motivated murders and the killing of a policewoman will go on trial on Monday in one of the country's highest-profile court cases since the second world war. Beate Zschäpe is charged with complicity in the murder of eight Turkish men, a Greek man and a German policewoman, as well as involvement in 15 bank robberies and two nail bombings. Other charges include arson, founding a terrorist organisation and facilitating robbery. The 38-year-old will be joined in the dock by four others who have been charged with assisting the group. But though the spotlight falls on Zschäpe, the trial is also expected to raise serious questions about the German intelligence agency that failed to detect the National Socialist Underground (NSU), which operated undetected for 13 years, carrying out its killings between 2000 and 2007. Its existence only came to the attention of authorities in November 2011 by chance, after Zschäpe's alleged accomplices Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt killed themselves in a joint pact after a bank robbery went wrong. Police found the Ceska pistol used to murder all their victims in their torched caravan in the eastern town of Eisenach. A DVD in which the NSU introduced itself and its militant racial hatred policy was also found. In it the bodies of the murder victims are shown, while a Pink Panther figure adds up the number that have been killed. The group claimed responsibility for the killings in the film. Zschäpe subsequently set fire to the flat the trio had shared in Zwickau, 112 miles away, and fled, turning herself in to police four days later. The discovery of the cell only in 2011, despite the fact a bomb-making factory had been found in Zschäpe's garage as far back as 1998, sparked a lengthy catalogue of accusations as to how and why the authorities had failed to seize the group. Police and intelligence agents have been charged with everything from carrying out amateurish investigations, failing to share information with each other, having a firmly rooted apathy towards the far-right threat as well as a general disregard of the victims because they were foreign. "The really terrible thing," said Hans-Christian Ströbele of the Green party and a deputy member of the parliamentary NSU committee that has been investigating the authorities' failures, "is that while information about the NSU was known again and again, it was not pursued. Huge mistakes were made – in short, it was a huge failure". The federal and domestic intelligence agencies have been reshuffled since details of the bungled investigation, which Chancellor Angela Merkel referred to as a "disgrace" for Germany, started emerging. Before the cell came to light, investigators had seen little reason to pursue the line that the murders might have been racially motivated, concentrating instead on what they suspected was a connection to organised crime within immigrant circles – a suspicion that turned out to be groundless. Many of the victims' families have avoided media attention. But the most vocal, Semiya Şimşek, wrote a book about the murder of her father, Enver Şimşek. A shepherd's son from the Taurus mountains in southern Turkey, Şimşek emigrated to Germany in search of a better life in 1986 and set up as a flower seller. The 39-year-old was gunned down at close range in the back of his delivery van in Nuremberg, southern Germany, in September 2000, in what was the first in a string of killings that were dubbed the "doner murders" by the media. "I will be looking closely at how Germany conducts the trial," Şimşek, who will be one of the joint plaintiffs, said in an interview. Her book accuses the police of trying to implicate her father in criminal activity, and says the Şimşek family felt they were treated like suspects rather than victims of a horrific crime. "I feel like the neo-Nazis shot him [but] the German authorities killed him a second time," Şimşek said. More embarrassment was heaped onto German authorities last month with the discovery of a sophisticated network of far-right prisoners. The network, whose members have communicated with a secret code undetected by prison authorities, has repeatedly attempted to contact Zschäpe, who has become something of a heroine of the far-right scene. A case of this scale has rarely been seen in Germany. Sigmar Gabriel, leader of the Social Democrats, called the case a "farce", saying it had damaged Germany's image abroad, making it "the laughing stock of the world". The trial is expected to last about two years. Battle for media seats causes diplomatic row Media places for the NSU trial have been allocated by lottery after the first attempt to distribute the 50 seats set aside for journalists on a first-come-first-served basis led to no Turkish or Greek journalists gaining access – despite the fact that eight of the NSU's alleged victims were of Turkish origin, one of Greek. It created a diplomatic row between Berlin and Athens. But the subsequent decision to delay the trial by three weeks to introduce a complex lottery involving three groups, each with several sub-categories (but with no online provision), has been yet more controversial. A huge media furore was prompted after major newspapers and television outlets – including state TV channel ZDF, the dailies Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine, and Die Welt – failed to secure seats. In contrast, several small local radio stations and a women's fashion magazine got lucky. Neither was there to have been an English-language representative at the trial until the German press agency DPA offered last week to relinquish one of its places to news agency Reuters. Suggestions to the court by politicians and experts that it either move the trial to a larger court or install a television screen outside the courtroom – similar to the process adopted at the 2012 trial of the Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik – were dismissed as unconstitutional. Several journalists have lodged complaints with Germany's highest court but these were not expected to delay the trial's start. The court has brushed off the journalists' criticism, justifying the lottery procedure by arguing it had "weighed up which process would best ensure equal chances for all". Asked why it had not simply put a few more chairs into the courtroom, the court official added: "that would have entailed a whole new procedure just for the Turkish journalists over who got those seats and other journalists would then have complained". • The picture caption with this article was amended on 6 May 2013. The original said Beate Zschäpe was to go in trial in Berlin. The far right	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14234
__label__cc	0.544681	0.455319	HomeCapitol Christmas TreeHoliday tradition continues with Capitol Christmas Tree Holiday tradition continues with Capitol Christmas Tree August 23, 2012 Special to the Herald Times Capitol Christmas Tree, County, Meeker, Popular Stories 0 RBC I This holiday season, the U.S. Forest Service and the White River National Forest, with help from their nonprofit partner Choose Outdoors and major sponsors including the Colorado Tourism Office, Mack Trucks and The National Association of Convenience Stores, will present a gift to the nation from the people of Colorado. The 2012 Capitol Christmas Tree continues a hallowed American tradition that originated nearly 50 years ago. This year’s Capitol Christmas Tree will hail from the Colorado’s White River National Forest, the number one forest for recreation in the U.S. The Forest Service and Choose Outdoors, a coalition promoting outdoor recreation announced the tree’s route across the country from Colorado to the nation’s capital. “Colorado is synonymous with outdoor recreation, and we are honored to provide a gift to the nation that will inspire people across the country to enjoy the outdoors,” said Al White, director of the Colorado Tourism Office. In early November, the 2012 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree will be harvested on the Blanco Ranger District of the White River National Forest near Meeker, Colo. The tree will then be wrapped and transported on a custom-decorated Mack Pinnacle model truck driven by former U.S. Senator, Ben Nighthorse Campbell. The truck will transport the tree more than 3,000 miles during the course of 23 days. “The Capitol Christmas Tree provides the chance to celebrate the conservation legacy of our national forests, the outdoor recreation opportunities they provide, and the importance of stewardship and restoration of our nation’s forests,” said Scott Fitzwilliams, forest supervisor for the White River National Forest. The tree and the truck will stop in about 30 cities and towns, journeying through Colorado and across the country with major stops in Albuquerque, N.M.; Dallas; Nashville, Tenn.; Atlanta; Greensborough, N.C.; Allentown, Pa. and on to Washington, D.C. Special events and opportunities to view the tree are being planned in every stop along the way. “The tree’s journey is an incredible opportunity for people across the country to be a part of an American tradition as it passes through their cities and towns,” said founder of Choose Outdoors and Capitol Christmas Tree National Director, Bruce Ward. Upon arrival in Washington, D.C., the tree will be placed on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol and decorated with more than 5,000 ornaments handmade by Colorado children depicting the tree’s theme, “Celebrating the Great Outdoors.” Children who submit ornaments are eligible to enter a drawing to win a trip to the nation’s capital to light the tree with Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, at a ceremony in early December. After the lighting ceremony, the Capitol Christmas Tree will be available for public viewing throughout the holiday season. The tree is lit nightly from dusk until 11 p.m. Costs associated with the tree’s transportation and tour events are made possible by contributions of cash and in-kind services by individuals, corporations and local communities. For more information on the 2012 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree and to track the tree’s route, visit www.CapitolChristmasTree2012.com. You can also follow the tree on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ CapitolChristmasTree2012, Twitter: www.twitter.com/CapitolTree2012 and Pinterest: https://pinterest.com/capitoltree2012/. 2012 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree Route Stops: Saturday, Nov. 3: Meeker, Colo. will host the first celebration before the tree begins its nationwide tour. Rangely, Colo. Steamboat Springs, Colo. Dillon, Colo. Glenwood Springs, Colo. Montrose, Colo. Cortez, Colo. Pagosa Springs, Colo. Alamosa, Colo. Greeley, Colo. La Junta, Colo. Amarillo, Texas. St. Louis, Mo. Asheville, N.C. Greensboro, N.C. Staunton, Va. Allentown, Pa. Milford, Pa. Monday, Nov. 26: Tree delivered to the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol. 2012 Capitol Christmas Tree Epsilon Chi: Sixty years of service and counting News Briefs: Aug. 23, 2012 Capitol Christmas Tree Mack Trucks official transporter of the Capitol Christmas Tree November 2, 2012 Special to the Herald Times 1 MEEKER I Mack Trucks is proud to once again serve as the official transporter of the Capitol Christmas Tree project, which annually provides a tree from one of America’s national forests to brighten the lawn […] Capitol Tree celebrations October 20, 2012 Special to the Herald Times 0 MEEKER I The excitement continues to build as preparations are made to cut, wrap and deliver Colorado’s gift to the nation, the 2012 Capitol Christmas Tree, and everyone in Rio Blanco County is invited to […] Meeker, Colorado – Home of the 2012 Capitol Christmas Tree December 6, 2012 Special to the Herald Times 0 After more than a year of planning and gathering ornaments, the 2012 Capitol Christmas Tree, harvested 40 miles east of Meeker in the White River National Forest, was delivered, decorated and lit in front of […]	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14236
__label__wiki	0.984078	0.984078	Then and now: The Rise and Rise of DPD Jobs & Recruitment Latest News 2011: DPD seeks 50 HGV drivers as part of expansion bid PARCEL CARRIER DPD wants to recruit more than 50 HGV drivers ahead of the oficial opening of a £12m extension to its national sorting hub in Oldbury, West Midlands, later this month (22 September). The investment means the 132C specialist, part of Geopost UK and this year’s MT Awards Customer Care winner, will be able to increase throughput at the site from 28,000 parcels an hour to 42,000. Expansion includes lengthening the building by 75m and installing a third sorting line at the facility, which cost £56m to build in 2008. An international parcels area capable of handling 150,000 parcels a night, has been created in the building. Geopost is looking for 150 workers, split across its Oldbury site and its Interlink Express sorting centre in nearby Smethwick, which handles 13213 work. They will include 90 loaders and more than 50 Class 1 drivers. The company claims its Predict system, which offers customers a one-hour delivery window, has helped win it £40m-worth of business this year. Geopost UK operations chief executive Dwain McDonald predicts group turnover will be up 10% this year. He aims to expand DPD’s market share to 18%, which he believes would put it in front of rival Yodel’s estimated 17% share of the 132C market. He believes Geopost can be number one in the UK domestic parcels market by 2015. 2012: Delivery firm DPD to create 1,500 new UK jobs European parcel delivery company DPD is to create up to 1,500 new full-time UK jobs as it expands to cope with an explosion in online orders. The firm plans to invest £100m in building a new parcel sorting hub in the Midlands, as well as £20m on refurbishing two existing hubs. DPD, which was founded in the UK before being bought by France’s La Poste in 2000, says it has seen a sharp rise in online business orders. The firm plans to invest £175m overall. A DPD spokesperson said the company was considering five sites around Leicester and Rugby for the new sorting hub and hope to have it built within the next two years. DPD attributes its strong growth to the rise in popularity of online ordering. It says that since it launched its Predict service in March 2010, which provides customers with a one-hour delivery time slot for their parcel, it has won over £70m in new business. The company also plans to invest £20m to upgrade its existing depot network and create 10 new depots over the next 15 months. “This investment will allow us to expand our network capacity further to meet the demands from our customers and maintain our very high service standards,” said DPD chief executive Dwain McDonald.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14239
__label__wiki	0.793883	0.793883	Written by Tom Deehan on Apr 19, 2017. Posted in On Location / Production News Laurel and Hardy biopic now shooting in the UK's West Midlands A feature film biopic of Laurel and Hardy's final UK tour is currently being shot on location in the town of Dudley. Entitled Stan and Ollie, the project is being produced by the BBC in collaboration with Fable Pictures, Sonesta Films and eOne Entertainment. Dudley was previously used in 2015 for The Girl with All the Gifts, utilising an abandoned building as a post-apocalyptic hospital. Additional scenes for Stan and Ollie were also shot in Bristol and Central London. Bristol is one of the UK’s most popular production hubs outside of London. With a large crew base and local production studios, the area has hosted television shows including Doctor Who and Broadchurch, alongside features such as The Sense of an Ending. Regarding the film, Director Jon S. Baird explains: “like so many others I grew up watching Laurel and Hardy and I'm therefore honoured to help bring this incredible true story of love, laughter and friendship to the big screen.” Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly are starring as the acclaimed comedy duo, alongside Shirley Henderson, Nina Arianda and Danny Huston. The film’s writer, Jeff Pope adds: “I am aware of the huge responsibility of bringing their characters to life, but I have not treated the boys with kid gloves or looked at them through rose-coloured specs. They are living and breathing characters, with flaws and shortcomings. The research into this story threw up so many details and facts that I had no idea about. But everything I have done has come from a place of love and more than anything else I hope this shines through.” To access the UK 25% tax rebate on filming, feature productions must spend at least 10% of their budget within the country. The incentive’s low barrier of entry has allowed the UK’s production industry to flourish and attract more than GBP2 billion over the last two years. Directory - Dudley (see more…) Video for Biotech by Dudley Digital Works Dudley Digital Works DC Webcasting powered by Dudley Digital Works Global Filming Incentive - United Kingdom (see more…) UK High-End TV Tax Relief NI: The Northern Ireland Screen Fund Scottish Screen Lottery Investment Welsh Government Media Investment Budget UK: The UK Film Tax Relief	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14240
__label__cc	0.728457	0.271543	Review of The Haunted Hydro Haunted Attraction The Haunted Hydro The Haunted Hydro is a Haunted Attraction located in Fremont, OH. 1333 Tiffin Street, Fremont, OH 43420 Free Parking, Restrooms/Porta Potties On-Site, Handicap Accessible, Food/Concessions, Gift Shop/Souvenirs, “Old-School” (Low Tech), You will NOT be touched, Original Characters, Covered Outdoor Waiting Line, Indoor/Outdoor Attraction, Family Friendly The Haunted Hydro is celebrating their very impressive 29th season this year with three new haunt themes as well as three all-new escape rooms. It is situated in the farm country of Fremont, Ohio inside of an old hydroelectric dam. You enter the haunt through a small shack right next to the ticket booth, where a clown shows you their extremely impressive beanie baby collection and explains the rules of the haunt to your group before letting you out into the midway. A professional photographer asks if you want your picture taken against a hand-painted mural, and later in the week you can find that picture on their Facebook page, tag yourself and share. Mysteriously, there is also a little pickle painted on this mural. We did not question the pickle, we just admired it. Despite the fact that it was raining and cold that evening, there were a good number of actors in the haunt. There did seem to be a few missing in the woods, most noticeably in their trampoline scene, which was very wet that day. But the actors they did have were interactive and witty. We were especially big fans of a clown we assume is called “Boops,” as he held out his finger to boop our noses with. Touching is a no-no at The Haunted Hydro, but we let Boops know it was ok to give us a boop, and he did and it was delightful. The main building of the Hydro was separated into two themes this year: The Asylum and the Haunted Carnival. Crazy Bob himself greeted us at the entrance and introduced us to the Hydro’s esteemed new friend, an actual human skeleton that rested in a coffin. We want to emphasize that the remains of this person were held in great reverence, respectfully displayed and ethically obtained. The level of enthusiasm inside the Hydro’s Asylum was off the charts. There was a great range of characters, including a child doctor, an evil nun and a crazy cafeteria worker in the process of making the mystery meat. The wide spectrum of character types allowed for some pretty unique dialogue as well, and the actors are not afraid to get creative. There was a good number of actors on the inside of the Hydro, sometimes two in a room, who played well off of one another and also with us. The Haunted Carnival led us back into the night, and while there weren’t a ton of actors out there, they were extremely active and followed us to multiple scare spots. Some were silent and menacing, while others were very talkative and needy for our attention and body parts. Creep was especially cool as a crawling clown. We always appreciate when female clowns aren’t afraid to step away from the “cute clown” aesthetic. The Hydro does a great job at clothing their characters in original costumes. We didn’t suspect that any of them were Halloween Store costumes. Even in the outdoor portions of the haunt, the cold weather clothes the actors had fit seamlessly with the rest of their attire. They are not big on masks at the Hydro, and we didn’t notice any of those on our visit either. The makeups are of high quality and had held up well in the rain at the time that we visited. While we didn’t hear any radio ads or see billboards on our way, we know that The Haunted Hydro is well connected to their community. They have a huge number of local sponsors, and tickets are available for purchase at various locations in town to give patrons the opportunity to skip the ticket line when they arrive at the haunt. The ticket booth staff is very friendly, and there are several Hydro-employed security folks stationed in the courtyard. The queue lines are all outdoor but have large tents over them to shelter guests from the wind and rain. Atmosphere: 10 The Hydro itself is a massive building, which is lit with multicolored spotlights. A haunt branded hearse sits up by the road and a massive spider crawls over the midway entrance. Paired with the fact that The Haunted Hydro has had the good fortune to be located in the same place for its whole life, it’s hard to miss. The food truck, souvenir shop and museum were all decorated in rope lights and had a pleasant, Halloween-y atmosphere which kept you in a haunted house mindset as you traveled between activities at the haunt. The addition of a live DJ, complete with fog and light show, keeps the energy up as you wait in line to enter the attractions. The Hydro tends to favor ambient noise over manufactured sound effects, however, the haunt wasn’t completely devoid of a soundtrack, they were just used very sparingly. Their scenes are well decorated, but some could use just a bit more detail. They are very much an actor-driven, old-school style haunt and aside from a few very large props, they don’t have much use for animatronics. Theme: 6.45 The Hydro’s main attraction has been re-themed for the 2018 season and has been split into two separate themes: The Asylum and The Haunted Carnival. The 13 Ghosts of the Hydro are running wild throughout the asylum, threatening to make you a patient in their home. The Haunted Carnival is situated on the grounds of the asylum as a form of entertainment for the patients, and some of them may have disguised themselves as clowns to escape the Asylum’s horrors to pass the terror on to unsuspecting patrons. Vanna Fright’s W.O.O.D.S. (Warning Only Outcome is Danger and Screams) is a bit more loosely themed, with a sort of “Fear Factor” theme to it. It is presented as a game show, where your life is on the line and the prize for winning is being allowed to leave…with all of your insides. We didn’t really get a game show feel from it though, so this theme was a little lost to us. The Haunted Hydro places its emphasis on “hauntertainment” which, in their case, is a delightfully campy blend of horror and dark comedy. Their actors are well trained and most are not content on just scaring and sooting. They want to have a moment with you and get inside your head. They do make an effort to scare each member of the group, but for seasoned haunt-goers, some of their hiding spots may be a bit predictable. The finales this year were of the tried and true chainsaw variety, but the one set up at the end of the Haunted Carnival was a bit stronger, as it had a one-two punch from out of left field that left Katie high-tailing it out of the attraction! We took our time wandering the Hydro’s haunted attractions and spent a total of about 45 minutes in all three. At a ticket price of $20, that puts your minutes per dollar value at just a bit over two minutes per dollar spent which is among the highest we’ve seen. There are a number of ticketing options available, as well as group rates available for groups of 10 or more. Three all-new escape rooms are prepared for an additional charge, with the possibility of winning free prizes if you escape in time. There is a tremendous amount of extra stuff to do in the Haunted Hydro courtyard as well. There was a live DJ in the courtyard as well as multiple photo ops and a free museum chronicling the Hydro’s impressive history. Inside the museum is a gallery wall of photos taken at the Hydro, where you can vote on your favorites. With so much to see and do, it would be easy to make a whole evening out of a trip to the Haunted Hydro. Photos from Review Trip: Guest Average: 10 out of 10 John Smith – 10/10 On Friday the 13th a couple had their wedding/reception at The Haunted Hydro, and we’re the first …show more groups to go through the haunt in the blackout night that they had since it was Friday the 13th. You walk through the gate and your greeted immediately by characters to give you a little something… then ask yourself Hydro, or Woods? Both is the best answer! While waiting in line there are characters going all throughout the courtyard and que line. Before the Woods at the door you’ll have someone greet you and you’ll only want to go in more. Story goes there was an infection breakout in the woods and now it’s inhabited by grotesque hillbillys, awefull creatures, and clowns (duh). Then There’s the Hydro. You’re greeted at the front door by Crazy Bob himself the man who has owned The Haunted Hyodro for almost 30 years! And has greeted every visitor to ever go through. After 30 years The Hydro is one of the oldest Hanuts in Ohio. We’re tou can see all it’s history in their mobile museum! In the Hydro they’ve barricaded themseves inside to keep out the infected ones from the woods. There’s crazies, Doctors, and others of all types there to make sure you’re safe enough to live. In the courtyard you have a pick from three escape rooms and their souvenir and gift shop! The Haunted Hydro is really one of a kind with its ever changing layout and theming that’s never the same year after year. They’re the only haunt I know of that has an interactive story for guests to follow that’s different every season, along with the theming and look to go with it. It’s visit you have to make every year of you can to see how it changes it’s never the same and is a must stop for true haunt finatics! Submit Your Own Review!	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14244
__label__wiki	0.669656	0.669656	U of A researcher shows increased connectivity from downtown bike network By Kashmala FidaStarMetro Edmonton Sat., July 21, 2018timer3 min. read EDMONTON—In a blog post in February, Councillor Mike Nickel questioned whether spending $7.5 million on the 7.8-kilometre downtown bike grid was worth it. Although Nickel’s concern wasn’t the reason for Laura Cabral’s research into the downtown bike network, it did answer his question anyway. A master’s student in transportation engineering, Cabral’s test concluded that the city had invested in an amount of infrastructure that made downtown more accessible for cyclists who were not comfortable going into high traffic areas. Cabral said this group of cyclists that is enthusiastic but concerned for safety makes up 51 per cent of the cycling population in the city, and the current bike network has made those roadways low-stress for this group of people. Other groups include the very cautious group that consists of mostly children and those who will only cycle around areas with very few to no cars at all and the strong and fearless group that mostly consists of people like bike messengers who are not afraid to go in heavy traffic. Those two groups make up less than 10 per cent of the cycling population. Cabral’s work along was presented by her mentor Amy Kim, a professor in the faculty of engineering, at the Urban Traffic Safety Conference at the Shaw Conference Centre last week. Her work looked at three destinations, University of Alberta, MacEwan University and Churchill Square. She wanted to see how transit from different locations, which she called origin points, around downtown had improved, for the majority cycling group, to those destinations. Using a method called network analysis, she found that before the bike grid there were only 72 origin points from which it would have been easier for people to navigate downtown to those destinations. After the bike network, that number jumped to 423. Cabral said if the city wanted to cater to the overly cautious group that includes children, they would have invested in a lot more heavy infrastructure, but because that group is a very small percentage of the population, it could have been a bad investment. “The things we want to be sure about, from a city perspective, is what you put in, you want to make sure that it’s actually valuable and useful,” she said. “We have seen there has been an increase in connectivity. They do enhance the network as it is right now.” To explain her research, she gave the hypothetical example of Google Maps. She said if you put all the origin points around the city to the three destinations in a Google map strictly for cyclists who avoid high-stress, heavy traffic areas and not include the bike lanes, Google Maps will show you only a few streets to get to your destinations. But with the bike lanes, the number of roadways that are low-stress for those people increase, with some providing far shorter distances to the destinations. She said she found that about a quarter of the trips to the University of Alberta are made shorter after the bike lanes. Before, areas around MacEwan University and Churchill could not be reached by low-stress pathways, but are now easily accessible. Cabral said she decided to look into the downtown bike network as it had been a “hotly debated” topic in the city. “There is usually not that much scrutiny for something that is in the end a very small investment when we consider general roadworks,” she said. Kashmala Fida is an Edmonton-based reporter covering City Hall and diversity. Follow her on Twitter: @KashFida	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14245
__label__wiki	0.728769	0.728769	World War II: Battle of the Bulge Battles & Wars Arms & Weapons Naval Battles & Warships Aerial Battles & Aircraft Corbis Historical / Getty Images The Battle of the Bulge was German offensive and key engagement of World War II, which lasted from December 16, 1944 until January 25, 1945. During the Battle of the Bulge, 20,876 Allied soldiers were killed, while another 42,893 were wounded, and 23,554 captured/missing. German losses numbered 15,652 killed, 41,600 wounded, and 27,582 captured/missing. Defeated in the campaign, Germany lost its offensive capability in the West. By early February, the lines returned to their December 16 location. Armies and Commanders General Dwight D. Eisenhower General Omar Bradley Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery 830,000 men 424 tanks/armored vehicles and 394 guns Field Marshal Walter Model Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt General Sepp Dietrich General Hasso von Manteuffel 500 tanks/armored vehicles and 1,900 guns With the situation on the Western Front rapidly deteriorating in the fall of 1944, Adolf Hitler issued a directive for an offensive designed to stabilize the German position. Assessing the strategic landscape, he determined that it would be impossible to strike a decisive blow against the Soviets on the Eastern Front. Turning west, Hitler hoped to exploit the strained relationship between General Omar Bradley and Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery by attacking near the boundary of their 12th and 21st Army Groups. Hitler's ultimate goal was to compel the U.S. and U.K. to sign a separate peace so that Germany could focus its efforts against the Soviets in the East. Going to work, Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Army High Command, OKW) developed several plans including one that called for a blitzkrieg-style attack through the thinly defended Ardennes, similar to the assault conducted during the Battle of France in 1940. The German Plan The final objective of this attack would be the capture of Antwerp which would split the American and British armies in the area, and would deprive the Allies of a badly needed seaport. Selecting this option, Hitler entrusted its execution to Field Marshals Walter Model and Gerd von Rundstedt. In preparing for the offensive, both felt that the capture of Antwerp was too ambitious and lobbied for more realistic alternatives. While Model favored a single drive west then north, von Rundstedt advocated for dual thrusts into Belgium and Luxembourg. In both cases, German forces would not cross the Meuse River. These attempts to change Hitler's mind failed and he directed his original plan to be employed. To carry out the operation, General Sepp Dietrich's 6th SS Panzer Army would attack in the north with the goal of taking Antwerp. In the center, the assault would be made by General Hasso von Manteuffel's 5th Panzer Army, with the goal of taking Brussels, while General Erich Brandenberger's 7th Army would advance in the south with orders to protect the flank. Operating under radio silence and taking advantage of poor weather which hampered Allied scouting efforts, the Germans moved the necessary forces into place. Running low on fuel, a key element of the plan was the successful capture of Allied fuel depots as the Germans lacked sufficient fuel reserves to reach Antwerp under normal combat conditions. To support the offensive, a special unit led by Otto Skorzeny was formed to infiltrate the Allied lines dressed as American soldiers. Their mission was to spread confusion and disrupt Allied troop movements. Allies in the Dark On the Allied side, the high command, led by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, was essentially blind to German movements due to a variety of factors. Having claimed air superiority along the front, Allied forces typically could rely on reconnaissance aircraft to provide detailed information on German activities. Due to the decaying weather, these aircraft were grounded. Additionally, due to the proximity to their homeland, the Germans increasingly used telephone and telegraph networks rather than radio for transmitting orders. As a result, there were fewer radio transmissions for Allied code breakers to intercept. Believing the Ardennes to be a quiet sector, it was used as a recovery and training area for units that had seen heavy action or were inexperienced. In addition, most indications were that the Germans were preparing for a defensive campaign and lacked the capabilities for a large-scale offensive. Though this mentality permeated much of the Allied command structure, some intelligence officers, such as Brigadier General Kenneth Strong and Colonel Oscar Koch, warned that the Germans might attack in the near future, and that it would come against the U.S. VIII Corps in the Ardennes. Commencing at 5:30 AM on December 16, 1944, the German offensive opened with a heavy barrage on the 6th Panzer Army's front. Pushing forward, Dietrich's men attacked American positions on Elsenborn Ridge and Losheim Gap in an attempt to break through to Liège. Meeting heavy resistance from the 2nd and 99th Infantry Divisions, he was forced to commit his tanks to the battle. In the center, von Manteuffel's troops opened a gap through the 28th and 106th Infantry Divisions, capturing two U.S. regiments in the process and increasing pressure on the town of St. Vith. Meeting increasing resistance, 5th Panzer Army's advance was slowed allowing the 101st Airborne to deploy by truck to the vital crossroads town of Bastogne. Fighting in snowstorms, the foul weather prevented Allied air power from dominating the battlefield. In the south, Brandenberger's infantry was essentially stopped by the U.S. VIII Corps after a four-mile advance. On December 17, Eisenhower and his commanders concluded that the attack was an all-out offensive rather than a local assault, and began rushing reinforcements to the area. At 3:00 a.m. on December 17, Colonel Friedrich August von der Heydte dropped with a German airborne force with the goal of capturing crossroads near Malmedy. Flying through foul weather, von der Heydte's command was scattered during the drop, and forced to fight as guerillas for the remainder of the battle. Later that day, members of Colonel Joachim Peiper's Kampfgruppe Peiper captured and executed around 150 American POWs at Malmedy. One of the spearheads of 6th Panzer Army's attack, Peiper's men captured Stavelot the next day before pressing onto Stoumont. Encountering heavy resistance at Stoumont, Peiper became cut off when American troops retook Stavelot on December 19. After attempting to break through to German lines, Peiper's men, out of fuel, were forced to abandon their vehicles and fight on foot. To the south, American troops under Brigadier General Bruce Clarke fought a critical holding action at St. Vith. Forced to fall back on the 21st, they were soon driven from their new lines by the 5th Panzer Army. This collapse led to the encirclement of the 101st Airborne and the 10th Armored Division's Combat Command B at Bastogne. The Allies Respond As the situation was developing at St. Vith and Bastogne, Eisenhower met with his commanders at Verdun on December 19. Seeing the German attack as an opportunity to destroy their forces in the open, he began issuing instructions for counterattacks. Turning to Lieutenant General George Patton, he asked how long it would take for Third Army to shift its advance north. Having anticipated this request, Patton had already begun issuing orders to this end and replied 48 hours. At Bastogne, the defenders beat off numerous German assaults while fighting in bitter cold weather. Short on supplies and ammunition, the 101st's commander, Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe rebuffed a German demand to surrender with the famed reply "Nuts!" As the Germans were attacking at Bastogne, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery was shifting forces to hold the Germans at the Meuse. With Allied resistance increasing, clearing weather allowing Allied fighter-bombers to enter the battle, and dwindling fuel supplies, the German offensive began to sputter, and the farthest advance was halted 10 miles short of the Meuse on December 24. With Allied counter attacks increasing, and lacking fuel and ammunition, von Manteuffel asked for permission to withdraw on December 24. This was flatly denied by Hitler. Having completed their turn north, Patton's men broke through to Bastogne on December 26. Ordering Patton to press north in early January, Eisenhower directed Montgomery to attack south with the goal of meeting at Houffalize and trapping German forces. While these attacks were successful, delays on Montgomery's part allowed many of the Germans to escape, though they were forced to abandon their equipment and vehicles. In an effort to keep the campaign going, a major offensive was launched by the Luftwaffe on January 1, while a second German ground offensive began in Alsace. Falling back the Moder River, the U.S. 7th Army was able to contain and halt this attack. By January 25, German offensive operations ceased. World War II: Operation Market-Garden Overview Biography of George S. Patton, Famed American General The Invasion of Normandy in World War II Biography of Bernard Montgomery, World War II Field Marshal 10 World War II Battles You Should Know The GI General: General Omar Bradley The Allies Return to France: The Western Front in World War II Europe Biography of Field Marshal Walter Model, WWII German Commander The Miracle of Dunkirk Attacking the Soft Underbelly: Invasion of Italy Grinding Out a Victory: Battle of Caen Hitler's Eastern Front: German Invasion of the Soviet Union A Bloody Beginning: The Battle of the Frontiers in World War I The Battle of Stalingrad: A Turning Point on the Eastern Front Seelow Heights: Defending Berlin The Allied Invasion of Sicily During World War II	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14246
__label__wiki	0.770197	0.770197	Top 10 Reference Works for Writers and Editors Woods Wheatcroft/Getty Images Despite the ready availability of spell checkers, grammar software, and online dictionaries and style guides, every serious writer still needs a few good reference books. Yes, these are all "look it up" books, as we used to call them when we were kids. But most are also delightful works to browse through and occasionally get lost in. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition (2016) This 2,100-page heavyweight should serve you well for a generation or two. In addition to the customary definitions, word histories, examples, and quotations, The American Heritage Dictionary offers advice on matters of usage and style—courtesy of its "renowned" (and still controversial) Usage Panel. For the budget-minded, a close second choice in the dictionary category is the shorter and less costly Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition. Alternative text for British writers: Oxford Dictionary of English, 2nd ed., edited by Soanes and Stevenson (2010). Garner's Modern English Usage, 4th edition (Oxford University Press, 2016) Since the appearance of the first edition in 1998, Garner's Modern English Usage has become the standard guide for American writers and editors. Its most distinctive feature, said novelist David Foster Wallace, is that "its author is willing to acknowledge that a usage dictionary is not a bible or even a textbook but rather just the record of one smart person's attempts to work out answers to certain very difficult questions." That "one smart person" is lawyer and lexicographer Bryan A. Garner. Clearly and wittily, Garner leavens his prescriptive approach, as he says, "by a thorough canvassing of actual usage in modern edited prose." Alternative text for British writers: New Oxford Style Manual, 2nd ed., edited by Robert Ritter (2012). The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition (University of Chicago Press, 2010) Among U.S. book publishers, The Chicago Manual of Style is the most widely used guide to style, editing, and design. Running close to 1,000 pages, it's also the most comprehensive. (In addition, an online version is available by subscription.) However, this durable guide (the first edition appeared in 1906) faces competition from more specialized reference works, such as the AP Stylebook (see below); The Gregg Reference Manual (for business professionals); American Medical Association Manual of Style; Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association; and the MLA Style Manual (used by writers in the humanities). But if your profession doesn't have its own style guide, go with Chicago. AP Stylebook Known as "the journalist's bible," the AP Stylebook (revised annually) contains over 5,000 entries on matters of grammar, spelling, punctuation, and usage. When you have questions that other reference books ignore, go to the AP Stylebook: chances are good that the answers are here. Alternative text for British writers: The Economist Style Guide, 11th edition (2015). The Business Writer's Handbook, 11th edition (Bedford/St. Martin's Press, 2015) Despite the title, this reference work by Gerald Alred, Walter Oliu, and Charles Brusaw should be helpful to all writers, not just those in the business world. The alphabetically arranged entries cover matters ranging from the finer points of grammar and usage to conventional formats for articles, letters, reports, and proposals. This is one of the very few textbooks that smart students hold on to and actually use long after they graduate. The Copyeditor's Handbook, 3rd edition (University of California Press, 2011) Once you've settled on an editorial style manual (such as the AP Stylebook or The Chicago Manual of Style), consider supplementing it with Amy Einsohn's smart and practical handbook, subtitled "A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications." Targeting "new and aspiring copyeditors who will be working on nonfiction books, journal articles, letters, and corporate publications," The Copyeditor's Handbook is both a lucid textbook and a straightforward reference tool. Alternative text for British writers and editors: Butcher's Copy-editing: The Cambridge Handbook for Editors, Copy-editors, and Proofreaders, by Judith Butcher, Caroline Drake, and Maureen Leach (Cambridge University Press, 2006). On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition (HarperCollins, 2006) This self-described "classic guide to writing nonfiction" by William K. Zinsser actually lives up to its publisher's claims: "Praised for its sound advice, its clarity, and its warmth of style, . . . it is a book for anybody who wants to learn how to write, whether about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts, or about yourself." Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, 12th edition (Pearson, 2016) Yes, Strunk and White's Elements of Style remains extremely popular. And when it comes to writing about style with style, E. B. White really can't be beaten. But his expanded version of Professor Strunk's 1918 writing guide strikes many contemporary readers as skimpy and somewhat dated. In contrast, the latest edition of Style by Joseph M. Williams and Joseph Bizup (Pearson, 2016), is more thorough, contemporary, and helpful. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, 2nd edition (2003) The general reader who wants to learn more about the English language—its history, vocabulary, and grammar—will find no text more enjoyable and enlightening than this illustrated study by linguist David Crystal. Unlike the other works listed here, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language offers a descriptive study of English—no usage rules or stylistic advice, just clear explanations of how the language works. Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content That Works, 2nd ed. (2012) If you write for a blog or website, you might want to move this book to the top of your list. Easy to read and use, (St. Martin's Griffin, 2010). Popular Style Guides for Writers and When to Use Them Flyer vs. Flier: How to Choose the Right Word The Best Free Online Style-Guides in English How Should I Write the Abbreviation for 'United States'? 20 Questions: Test Your Knowledge of AP Style (2015) What Is English Usage? These 140 Key Terms of the Copyediting Trade Are Used All the Time How to Use Initials in Academic Writing Timeline of the English Language Conventions of Editing House Style Which Words in a Title Should Be Capitalized? When to Use Capital Letters What's the Difference Between the Words 'Lend' and 'Loan'? What (If Anything) Is Standard English? 'Hopefully' ... and Other Sentence Adverbs in English Add These Advanced Level English Student Books to Your Library	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14247
__label__cc	0.614215	0.385785	You are here: Home / Tri-C JazzFest Not interested in Strongsville ? Please choose a different community. More About Tri-C JazzFest The 40th Annual Tri-C JazzFest runs June 27-29 in the historic theaters of Playhouse Square, with free performances outside on U.S. Bank Plaza, under the world’s largest permanent crystal chandelier, over the weekend. For four decades, JazzFest has admirably carried out their mission to foster the history and nurture the future of jazz, provide educational opportunities for students of all ages and in all walks of life, and bring world-class jazz to Cleveland. Unsurprisingly, this year’s lineup continues the festival’s storied tradition, featuring such acts as: Tower of Power is celebrating their 50th year with a new album and a tour featuring all their hits including “You’re Still a Young Man,” “So Very Hard to Go,” and “What is Hip?” The soaring horns and infectious bass riffs will start the festival off with a bang on Thursday, June 27 at 7:45 p.m in the State Theatre. BÉLA FLECK & THE FLECKTONES The accomplished banjo artist Béla Fleck has been playing with the Flecktones for over 30 years, and returns with the original lineup of Victor Wooten, Roy “Future Man” Wooten and Howard Levy. They return in support of a new album, re-energized and ready to bring audiences to their feet Friday, June 28 at 7:45 p.m. in the State Theatre. TRIBUTE TO BOBBY WOMACK FEATURING CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE A 2009 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Cleveland native Bobby Womack is known for such hits as “Across 110th Street” and “That’s the Way I Feel About Cha.” Bandleader, national jazz spokesman and virtuoso bassist Christian McBride return to his funk and soul roots to celebrate Womack Saturday, June 29 at 6:00 p.m. in the Ohio Theatre Outdoor Lineup Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland is presenting seventeen local and regional bands (jazz, blues, R&B, funk, jam, reggae) to perform this year on the Strassman Insurance Stage at Playhouse Square from 3 p.m. to midnight June 28 and 29. Check out the lineup and plan your weekend through the website link on the right. Tags: arts and entertainment This event also occurs on 06/29/2019 Look For Town Planner Coupon! CLICK HERE TO VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MONTHLY NEW CAR LEASE SPECIALS!! Mary Standen, Town Planner Cleveland West About Mary Standen \| Advertise \| E-mail	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14251
__label__wiki	0.736428	0.736428	Rhode Island Genealogists Our Rhode Island genealogists are available to research on location. They will find and analyze the best records available to further your family history research. They can search the archives and libraries in Rhode Island, as well as help you with other special requests. Rhode Island State Archives and Libraries Our researchers are available to visit local archives and libraries to access unique record collections to help with your research. Below is a list of a few of the archives our Rhode Island researchers have access to. Rhode Island State Archives (Providence, Rhode Island) The Rhode Island State Archives contain town records that date from 1638 to the present day. The archives also hold state censuses at ten-year intervals from 1865 to 1935, state birth and marriage records from 1853 to 1897, and state deaths from 1853 to 1947. The archives are home to an extensive collection of maps as well. Rhode Island State Library (Providence, Rhode Island) The Rhode Island State Library is home to the largest book collection in the state. This collection includes nearly every state and town history available, as well as a large amount of biographies and genealogies. Their collection is mostly legislation related, with their earliest holdings on this subject matter dating back to 1750. Some of their most popular sections of their collection include Rhode Island government manuals, which date back to 1867, and Rhode Island Acts and Resolves that date back to 1750. Rockefeller Library at Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) The Rockefeller Library has such an impressive collection that is has been referred to as the “second state archives”. Their holdings include an extensive book collection, with manuscripts that specialize in information on the New England colonists. Biographies and genealogies can also be found here. Newport Historical Society Archives (Newport, Rhode Island) The Newport Historical Society has articles in its archives that date back to the society’s founding in 1854. Their archives contain works on the history of Newport County and the surrounding areas with over 12,000 volumes dedicated to this subject. Rhode Island was created by refugees fleeing from other colonies, and therefore the historical works here also include information on early southeastern New England families. Records of early colonial southeastern New England governments can be found here as well. Rhode Island College (Providence, Rhode Island) The Rhode island College collections include personal papers of central figures in Rhode Island, photograph collections, and personal paper collections on social issues in Rhode Island. View the James P. Adams Library Catalog to access genealogical materials for your research. Providence College Archives and Special Collections (Providence, Rhode Island) The Providence College Archives and Special Collections contain many personal papers of leaders and activists in Rhode Island. Rhode island genealogists can also find genealogical resources in the President Kennedy news clippings collections and Microfilmed newspaper collections dating back to 1932 (includes the Boston Chronicle and Providence Chronicle. For those looking for photographs, this library maintains various photograph collections. Researches may access many archives by Browsing the Complete List of Collections at the Phillips Memorial Library. Providence City Archives (Providence, Rhode Island) The Providence City Archives have an in-depth collection of historical and genealogical records. These articles include early town records and vital records, such as birth, death, and marriage records from 1636 to the mid-20th century. Other records contained here are probate records and indices, a property records, records from government proceedings, and tax records. Naval Historical Collection at Naval War College (Newport, Rhode Island) The Naval HIstorical Collection at Naval war College maintain several collections including college archives, manuscripts, and oral histories relating to the history of naval warfare and the history of the Navy in Narragansett Bay. Salve Regina University Archives (Newport, Rhode Island) The collections at the Salve Regina University Archives include a collection on the Middle East, The Goelet family papers, Yearbooks, The Newport ephemera and map collections, and the Winslow family papers collection. Researchers may also access the archive’s rare book collection along with the following university archives: – Photographs of University properties – Anthony Walsh papers (professor of psychology at the University) – Mother Mary Matthew Doyle papers (first president of the University) – Mother Mary Hilda Miley papers (second president of the University) Visit the McKillop Library Catalog to search for genealogical holdings. Roger Williams University’s Library (Bristol, Rhode Island) The Roger Williams University’s library is home to an extremely large book collection as well as periodicals, newspapers, biography indexes, genealogies, and family histories. The university is also the location of the largest collection of information on the Baptist church and its members in New England. Rhode Island Historical Society’s Archives (Providence, Rhode Island) The Rhode Island Historical Society has collected more genealogical articles than anywhere else in the state. Their archives include local histories, manuscripts, censuses, as well as cemetery and military records. They also have family bibles, family histories, and religious records. The society’s archives also hold birth records from 1636 to 1898, marriage records from 1636 to 1900, death records from 1636 to 1920, and passenger lists from 1620 to 1941. University of Rhode Island (Kingston, Rhode Island) The library collections include 1.1 million books and 8,000 periodicals. Some of these texts include government documents, manuscripts and Archives, maps and nautical charts, and microforms amounting to 2.3 million additional items. The Douglas and Judith Krupp Library at Bryant University (Smithfield, Rhode Island) The Douglas and Judith Krupp Library maintain several special collections that include Newspapers from Bryant University since 1946, historical timelines and photographs, the History of women at Bryant, and US women and WWII letter writing project. The library also holds records for the first 125 years of Bryant university. Researchers may access the Douglas and Judith Krupp Library Catalog for genealogical resources. Archives on Rhode Island Minorities Rhode Island Black Heritage Society’s Archives (Providence, Rhode Island) The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society is one of the oldest African Heritage societies in the country. Their mission, in their own words, is “the preservation of African Diaspora descendant’s historical artifacts – books, art, papers, and images, as well as facilitating the interpretation efforts by those seeking to enlighten others about our heritage”. All of the articles in their archives focuses on the history and accomplishments of the African American community in Rhode Island. Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association’s Archives (Providence, Rhode Island) The Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association provides information from the past and the present on the Jewish community in Rhode Island. Their archives include city directories, information on different synagogues and their members and archives of different publications. These include the Jewish Voice, the Jewish Herald, and the Jewish Voice and Herald. Researchers can also find information on individual members of the Jewish Rhode Island community and a selection of obituaries. American-French Genealogical Society’s Archives The American-French Genealogical Society is home to collections that focus on cultural, genealogical, historical and biographical information on Americans of French and French Canadian descent. They hold cemetery, headstone, and obituary records. There are also records of French-American marriages in Rhode Island. Our Rhode Island genealogists specialize in researching several types of documentation and are not limited to the list above. For more information or specific inquiries about our genealogists, please feel free to contact us.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14252
__label__wiki	0.762563	0.762563	Welcome to the United Nations. It’s your world. Meetings Coverage and Press Releases Latest from Secretary-General Deputy Secretary-General Latest from General Assembly Meetings Coverage First Committee Second Committee Third Committee Fourth Committee Fifth Committee Sixth Committee Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People Committee on Information Special Committee on Decolonization Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations Special Committee on the United Nations Charter Intergovernmental Conference on Marine Biodiversity Latest from Security Council Latest from Economic and Social Council Security Council Press Statement on Libya SC/13873 The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Gustavo Meza-Cuadra (Peru): The Members of the Security Council condemned the attack on the detention centre near Tripoli on 2 July, which resulted in 53 people killed and over 130 injured. The Members of the Security Council stressed the need for all parties to urgently de-escalate the situation and to commit to a ceasefire. The Members of the Security Council further called on all parties rapidly to return to United Nations political mediation and reaffirmed their full support for the leadership of the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ghassan Salamé. Lasting peace and stability in Libya will come only through a political solution. They noted ongoing efforts in support by the African Union, the Arab League and others. The members of the Security Council expressed deep concern over the worsening humanitarian situation in Libya and called on the parties to allow full access for humanitarian agencies. The members remain concerned about the conditions in the detention centres which are the responsibility of the Libyan Government. The members of the Security Council called for full respect for the arms embargo by all Member States, in line with resolution 1970 (2011). The Members of the Security Council reinforced the importance of the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Libya and called on all Member States not to intervene in the conflict or take measures that exacerbate the conflict. For information media. Not an official record. Daily Noon Briefing The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) warns today that the pace of progress to reduce new HIV infections, increase access to treatment and end AIDS-related deaths is slowing down. In 2018, for the first time, the global resources available for the AIDS response fell significantly by nearly $1 billion. Latest Noon Briefings New York, 25 Mar-5 Apr 2019 United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation Buenos Aires, 20-22 March 2019 63rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women New York, 11-22 March 2019 Media Alert Meetings Coverage & Press Releases United Nations © 2014, New York, NY 10017 UNIFEED Spokesperson for the Secretary-General	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14254
__label__cc	0.565649	0.434351	Man Found Cures To All Diseases And Supreme Court Ruling Proves It By : Alex Mays On : 28 Oct 2015 10:20 Dr Sebi's Cell Food With many afflictions becoming harder to treat and cure and pharmaceutical company’s corporate greed becoming more evident day-by-day, what if a guy in the 80s already had the cure to all disease anyway? Dr Sebi was an ambassador for self-healing and what he said he could allegedly cure was staggering from world’s deadliest conditions: cancer, AIDS, HIV, diabetes, and mental health afflictions such as bipolar disorder and depression. An immigrant from Honduras to the U.S., Dr Sebi was a healer, pathologist, herbalist, biochemist and naturalist, amongst other things, and was dedicated to helping people overcome any ailments. He took the notion of self-healing all the way to the mainstream and changed the course of history towards the cure of all disease. In 1988 he was sued for false advertisement and practice without a license after he placed a number of ads in newspapers- including the New York Post. He took on the Attorney General of New York head on in a Supreme Court trial. Before the trial began he was asked to produce a witness per disease he alleged to have cured, and after 77 people joined him in court, he was declared not guilty and therefore proved in fact, that he cured all diseases mentioned in the press. A number of celebrities have sought healing from the doctor in the past, including the likes of Michael Jackson, John Travolta and Eddie Murphy. Alex Mays Conspiracy Club Man Found “Cures For All Diseases” HIV, AIDS, Diabetes, Cancer, Stroke, STDs, arthritis & More….. AND Has The Supreme Court Ruling To Prove It!	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14255
__label__cc	0.690943	0.309057	Actively helping to build Glastonbury as a centre of pilgrimage by offering a range of services to pilgrims, visitors and residents including information, teaching and support. Magdalene Street, BA6 9EL. Hours of Opening: Monday to Saturday 10.00 - 17.00 Since time immemorial, people have journeyed to Glastonbury in order to immerse themselves in a deep cauldron of legend, romance, myth and history. A centre of pilgrimage for millennia, this small Somerset market town has a powerful attraction drawing people from different walks and paths of life, from all over the world. The potpourri of independent shops, artisan cafés, and organisations on a bustling High Street abounds with diversity and experiences. With more than seventy practising faiths and beliefs, Glastonbury of the 21st century has emerged as a place that honours diversity and this is reflected in the wide and varied activities and colourful personalities that can be found in this vibrant, captivating place. If this is your first time here, we offer you a warm welcome. Take some time to enjoy our website - there's a lot to explore here! We hope our Pilgrim Reception Team can assist you in person, to find out more about our sacred town, how you might experience it in a way that suits you best, and explore all that Glastonbury has to offer. An introduction to pilgrimage, with particular emphasis on contemporary pilgrimage in Glastonbury. Get a deeper Glastonbury experience with experienced and knowledgeable local guides. Glastonbury has a lot to offer a visitor. Explore the special places and find out more about them. THERAPIES & HEALING Visitors often find that an important part of planning a visit is the wonderful range of healing therapies on offer. Explore the diverse faiths, beliefs and spiritual practices in Glastonbury and celebrate the Unity in our Diversity THE GLASTONBURY UNITY CANDLE Discover this world-renowned symbol of Unity through Diversity Find accommodation to suit your needs. Many offer therapies and support during your visit. GLASTONBURY PILGRIMAGE ROUTES There are several long-distance walking trails passing close or through Glastonbury. The most famous one is the Michael/Mary line. Unity through Diversity in Glastonbury Our organisation has an ethos of Unity through Diversity but this is not to suggest we feel all faiths and paths are the same, or that they should be. It is an expression which has been in use for thousands of years and in essence, can be seen to imply the working together of all aspects of a community without losing the special personality and beliefs of the individual projects and people involved. We acknowledge that diverse beliefs and practices can present complex and difficult challenges creating chasms that often-times are difficult to bridge. However, rather than focus on the discordant differences, our goals are to create ‘living spaces’ where acceptance, understanding and co-existence can be found, demonstrating how together, we can live well, whilst remaining different. "Building bridges between diverse beliefs is essential if we want to live in a community that has great social cohesion. It doesn’t have to mean we have to all become one homogenised blob of humanity, but it CAN mean that we respect each other, even if we don’t agree. We can also take our acceptance one step further, by proactively encouraging and supporting people of good heart and intention on their own path through life. We know only too well that there is widespread agreement that bridge building can be successful in reducing prejudice and hostility between different groups and in helping people to live peacefully alongside each other." Morgana West The Glastonbury Unity Candle Find out who we are and about our work and some of the projects we have undertaken. An Avalon Anthem Our song for the community! "In these changing times, I've recently felt that there must be a better way forward that leads away from a disjointed & separated society where everything is about the individual and not the community. My visit to Glastonbury has shown me that it is already on the way towards that aim! Stephanie Nash - Florida, USA	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14256
__label__wiki	0.94707	0.94707	After two decades in NHL, former Wild center… After two decades in NHL, former Wild center Matt Cullen calls a day Minnesota Wild’s Matt Cullen warms up before an NHL hockey game against the St. Louis Blues Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018, in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Jim Mone) By Dane Mizutani \| dmizutani@pioneerpress.com \| Pioneer Press PUBLISHED: July 10, 2019 at 12:53 pm \| UPDATED: July 10, 2019 at 12:54 pm After two decades and more than 1,500 games, former Wild center Matt Cullen is finally hanging up the skates. One of the league’s classiest players throughout his career, the 42-year-old Cullen announced the news with a lengthy essay tweeted out by the Pittsburgh Penguins’ official account on Wednesday morning. He finished his career with 266 goals, 465 assists in 1,516 regular-season games and has his name on the Stanley Cup for titles in Carolina (2006) and Pittsburgh (2016, 2017). “I’ve been in a constant state of almost-retirement for the last few years,” Cullen wrote. “That said, coming into this last season, I knew that no matter what it would be the end. Even if we had won the Stanley Cup, I would have been done.” After staring at Moorhead High School as a teenager and making a name for himself at St. Cloud State, Cullen was drafted by the Anaheim Mighty Ducks in the second round of the 1996 NHL Draft. He played for eight teams in his career, including two stints with the Wild. It was in Minnesota, Cullen said, that he was able to start sharing his passion with his sons. “It was during that time in Minnesota that they started to really love the game,” he wrote. “For me as a dad, that was the ultimate.” In the end, though, Cullen wanted to retire with the Penguins, and made sure he did by signing a one-year contract last offseason. “I felt like it was only right to retire in Pittsburgh with everything that the organization had given me and done for me,” Cullen wrote. “I’m so happy I came back and finished my last year in Pittsburgh. I wouldn’t trade that last year for anything.” Wild lock up shoot-first winger Ryan Donato with a two-year deal Stanley Cup coming to Stillwater courtesy of Mitch Reinke Dane Mizutani: Wild GM Paul Fenton has made the most out of his own mess Ryan Hartman’s strange fishing tale: Trade without his knowledge leads him to Wild ‘Good vibe’ leads Mats Zuccarello to sign with Wild While he acknowledges that he has skated his last shift at the professional level, Cullen does not intend to hang up the skates for good. Not when there are backyard rinks to be flooded once the temperatures start to drop. “Honestly, if I could play forever, I would,” he wrote. “All I know is hockey. I’ve never done anything else. I never wanted to do anything else. I don’t know anything else.” Dane Mizutani Dane Mizutani is from Hawaii and somehow ended up covering the Wild in the State of Hockey. No, it doesn't make sense to him, either. Follow Dane Mizutani @danemizutani More in Minnesota Wild Ryan Donato and his shoot-first mentality will be sticking around the Twin Cities for the next couple of years. The 23-year-old winger signed a two-year, $3.8 million contract Tuesday and is poised to step into a more prominent role next season. While there wasn't much concern that general manager Paul Fenton would be able to get a deal done, it's... Stillwater graduate Mitch Reinke, who won an NHL championship last month with St. Louis, is bringing the Stanley Cup to Stillwater on July 22. It's time give Wild general manager Paul Fenton some credit. That doesn't mean he has atoned for his missteps to this point — truthfully, he may never recover from trading former fan favorite Nino Niederreiter for human boat anchor Victor Rask — but it appears he at least has a plan for the Wild. After securing a haul of prospects... A strange question circulated the Internet last week: Does scrappy winger Ryan Hartman even know he's been traded? That story line was fueled by his mother, who unleashed an array of tweets after the Philadelphia Flyers traded her son to the Dallas Stars, claiming her son was on a fishing trip in a remote location and "still does not know"... For the Wild, help is coming, if not the big free agency splash fans were hoping for. Who can help the Wild with NHL free agency about to begin? In a perfect world, the Wild would go big-game hunting when NHL free agency opens at 11 a.m. Central Time Monday.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14259
__label__wiki	0.978532	0.978532	Ferdinand Kübler leading Andre Mahé in the 1947... Ferdinand Kübler, first Swiss winner of Tour, dies at age 97 Kübler was the oldest living Tour winner before his death Thursday, which came after he contracted a severe cold. Ferdinand Kübler, the first Swiss winner of the Tour de France, died overnight in Zurich. He was 97 and was the oldest living Tour winner. According to media reports in Switzerland, Kübler died in a Swiss hospital Thursday after coming down with a severe cold. Born in 1919, Kübler turned pro in 1940 at the dawn of World War II. After the war years, he became one of Europe’s top stars during cycling’s golden era, winning the Tour de France in 1950 and the world championship in 1951. He won more than 400 races, including Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Flèche Wallonne, Tour de Romandie, and the Tour de Suisse three times. One of the iconic black-and-white photos of the era shows Kübler screaming in desperation following a puncture, holding a tire pump and wearing the Swiss national champion’s jersey. Kübler, nicknamed “Ferdi” and “the Cowboy” for his penchant for wearing Stetson hats, clashed with some of the biggest riders of his generation, including Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali. Kübler finished third in the Giro d’Italia in 1951 and 1952, and was second in the 1954 Tour. He retired in 1957. He shared the post-war era with Swiss rival Hugo Koblet, who became the first non-Italian to win the Giro d’Italia in 1950. Kübler and Koblet are the only Swiss riders to have won the Tour de France. Speaking to L’Equipe Magazine in 2003 on the Tour’s 100th anniversary, Kübler said he was motivated to achieve cycling glory because of his hardscrabble childhood. “I became a champion because I was poor,” he told L’Equipe. “I struggled to eat, to have a better life. I won the Tour de France because I dreamed, because I knew that after I would never be poor again.” Kübler remained a revered figure in the wealthy alpine nation after his retirement, as he was regularly featured in commercials and made other media appearances. Kübler’s widow Christina told Swiss news agency ATS that he died “peacefully, with a smile on his face.” French rider Roger Walkowiak, a winner in 1956 and born in 1927, is now the oldest living Tour winner at 89. Spain’s Federico Bahamontes, a winner in 1959, is 88. Information from AFP was used in this report.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14265
__label__wiki	0.922529	0.922529	Snoop To Face Off Against Terrell Owens In 'Snoop Bowl' January 7, 2010 - 4:54 pm by VIBE Staff Rapper Snoop Dogg has announced details for his eighth annual "Snoop Bowl," which will take place in Miami, Florida this year. Snoop Dogg will coach his team, The Snoop Dogg All-Stars, who will face off against a local team led by Buffalo Bills' wide receiver Terrell Owens and Miami Dolphins linebacker Joey Porter. The two teams will face off at Miami's Traz Powell Stadium, where Owens and Porter hope to put a dent in Snoop's All-Stars' nearly unblemished record. "I am happy that we've been doing this event for eight years - the kids love it and I do too," Snoop Dogg told AllHipHop.com. "The future NFL stars play in this game annually and its fun to watch the kids imitate there favorite NFL stars. The Snoop Bowl is as big as the Super Bowl to every kid playing organized football in the USA because they aspire to play against my team or to be coached by Coach Snoop 'The Great.' I love being me wouldn't you like to be an All Star too?" The event is being sponsored by Title Sports Drink and Snoop Dogg's Snoop Youth Football League, which has garnered praise from the Wall Street Journal to the LA Times and numerous other outlets. "We're very proud to be involved in such a great event," Kevin Sepe, President of Title Sports Drink added. "It allows us to both sponsor youth football at its finest and hydrate some of our future stars." In addition to raising over $100,000 since its inception, the Snoop Bowl and the SYFL are noted for the quality of players the league has produced. This year, nine players on Los Angeles' undefeated Crenshaw High School football team rise through the ranks of the league. "I also want to thank Title Sports Drink for stepping up to participate in something that is not only good for the community but a ton of fun, ya dig?" Snoop added. Snoop Dogg's 8th Annual Snoop Bowl kicks off February 6th at 1:30pm at Traz Powell Stadium in Miami. Fans can purchase tickets online at www.ticketalternative.com or at the gate. Tickets are $10 for children 12 and under and $20 for ages 13 and up. Follow us on Twitter http://www.Twitter.com/AllHipHopCom	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14267
__label__cc	0.515126	0.484874	Tom Wakely Running for Texas - Governor Election Day: Mar. 6, 2018 Tom Wakely has not added any planks yet. Tom Wakely has not added any announcements yet. Tom Wakely does not have any upcoming events. Tom, the oldest of six brothers and sister, was born in San Antonio and raised in a Catholic family. Tom, the oldest of six brothers and sister, was born in San Antonio and raised in a Catholic family. He is married to Norma Leticia (Lety) Gomez Rodriguez, a native of Juárez, Mexico. The couple met in Guadalajara in 2003 and were married the following year. Tom has one daughter, Kelly, from a previous marriage and two grandchildren. Tom graduated from Alamo Heights High School in San Antonio in 1970, at the height of the Vietnam War. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force during his senior year, when he was only seventeen. After his honorable discharge he returned to San Antonio and immediately joined César Chavez’s Texas Farm Workers Union campaign. Tom's pay was room and board, $5.00 a week, and all of the menudo he could eat. He worked for Chávez for a little over two years, helping organize the Grape Boycott in San Antonio. He was arrested several times and jailed for picketing outside HEB stores. In 1972 Tom and several other farm worker staff members attempting to organize warehouse workers at the San Antonio Produce Terminal were chased from the facility by gunfire. During the time Tom worked for the Farm Workers, he also published a bi-weekly underground newspaper, the San Antonio Gazette, a political rag. It was an explosive and dangerous time in the United States, in Texas and in San Antonio. Tom’s offices were broken into numerous times by the San Antonio Police’s ‘Red Squad’ and he was constantly harassed and threatened. By the mid-1970's he had become a target of CLEAT - the Combined Law Enforcement Association of Texas. On the advice of counsel, Tom closed the paper and moved to Denver, Colorado where he organized hospital workers for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Two years after that Tom found himself in Milwaukee, Wisconsin working as a Business Agent for an independent union that represented Wisconsin Gas and Wisconsin Power employees. The common thread in Tom's work within the union movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement was the faith community. He could always count on a priest, a minister, an imam or a rabbi to walk a picket line or march for peace and justice with him. In 1985, Tom answered a different calling and entered the Chicago Theological Seminary, an ecumenical institution affiliated with the United Church of Christ. While at seminary he organized the 1988 Congress on Religion & Politics. After leaving seminary, he moved to Lake Geneva, in southern Wisconsin. One of his first jobs was working as the Executive Director of the Southeastern Wisconsin Communities Organized for Public Service; a faith-based ecumenical organization dedicated to supporting family farmers. During his time there he organized and founded the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Lakes in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, where he served as the congregation’s minister. Tom's first run for office was for the Lake Geneva school board. He won, defeating a twenty-year incumbent. In 1994, Tom returned to Texas, settling in Manor, east of Austin. For the next ten years he worked as the Parish Social Minister at its St. Joseph's Catholic Church. He supervised the building of affordable housing and the rehabilitation of owner- occupied homes through a faith-based non-profit affiliated with St. Joseph’s. In addition, Tom coordinated the repair and rehabilitation of over 100 homes in East Austin through the Austin Metropolitan Ministries Hands on Housing program. The Austin NAACP recognized Tom's work with a community service award. In 2004 Tom and Lety were tasked by Father Bob, the pastor at St Joseph’s, to organize an East Austin community development bank. In 2007, burned out after years of fighting for economic justice, of butting their heads against the wall, Tom & Lety decided to do something completely different. They sold their home in Austin and moved to the Pacific Coast of Mexico, to Manzanillo. There they opened Viva Vino, a wine bar/jazz club and would probably still be there if Tom’s mother hadn’t fallen ill. In 2010, they moved to San Antonio to take care of Mrs. Wakely, who had been placed into hospice care. After she died, Christus Santa Rosa asked them if they would be interested in taking care of other hospice patients. Eight years later, Tom & Lety are still providing palliative care to hospice patients in their home. Tom was elected in 2016 as the Democratic nominee to challenge Rep. Lamar Smith, a 30-year Republican incumbent in the Texas 21st Congressional District. Though Tom lost that election, his campaign garnered more votes than any Democrat in the state running against an incumbent Republican member of congress. He did this by running on bold progressive ideas and values. Looking to add to the growing progressive wave spreading across the state, Tom is dedicated to championing the rights, freedoms and prosperity of the working men and women of Texas. This is what Tom has to say about his run for Texas Governor: “I want the Texas Democratic party to move away from centrist politics and move towards being a party of the 99%. My campaign for Governor is about advocating for a progressive change in Texas politics by removing Abbott, Patrick, Paxton and their tea party brethren in the state legislature from power. If we act together, and if we act now, we can stop climate change and rein in the corporations. We can ensure that our children and our grandchildren will inherit not just a safer world but a better world. And I believe we can all work together in common cause to address the issues that concern us all: Income Inequality, Universal Healthcare, Gun Control, and Global Warming. There is much work to be done, and I look forward to rolling up my sleeves and tackling these tasks. I look forward to representing you as Governor of Texas." tom@texansfortom.com https://www.facebook.com/tomwakely4governor/ http://www.texansfortom.com/ Historical political offices Lake Geneva School Board Social Minister	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14268
__label__wiki	0.77632	0.77632	Governor Mills releases Biennial Budget Change Package Posted: Tue 1:34 PM, May 14, 2019 AUGUSTA, Maine - Governor Janet Mills has released her administration’s 2019-20 Biennial Budget Change Package. The Change Package – a legislative vehicle routinely used to amend the biennial budget proposal – prioritizes investments needed to reduce unsustainable caseloads in Maine’s child welfare system, to repair Maine’s decaying school infrastructure, to responsibly pay off the previous administration’s debt to the federal government, and to build the state’s budget resiliency by adding to the rainy-day fund. “This change package prioritizes pressing investments needed to protect children’s safety, to repair crumbling schools, to pay back the previous administration’s debt, and to save money in the event of an economic downturn,” says Governor Janet Mills. “These changes address critical needs, reflect decisions made in the first four months, and build on my pragmatic budget proposal to deliver a solid economic foundation and the initiatives Maine people want and our state needs. I look forward to working with lawmakers as the budget process begins in earnest.” “This represents a needed down payment toward the safety of Maine children, an investment in our mental health system, and a fresh start for Riverview Psychiatric Center,” says Health and Human Services Commissioner Jeanne Lambrew. “Improving the health and wellbeing of Maine people must remain at the forefront throughout the budget process, and we appreciate the Legislature’s thoughtful consideration of this proposal.” More specifically, the 2019-2020 Biennial Budget Change Package will: Bolster Maine’s child welfare and mental health systems through: - Hiring of 62 new staff for the Office of Child and Family Services to keep Maine’s children safe, an 8 percent increase in staff and a critical down payment to reduce caseloads. This includes 43 caseworker staff, 6 background check unit staff, and 13 intake staff, all of whom will work to help prevent abuse, neglect and unhealthy experiences among our children. - Adding another $5.5 million from the Fund for a Healthy Maine for the Governor’s opioid response, with an emphasis on school and community-based prevention programs to help youth at risk of substance use and mental health disorders – a goal of the Children’s Cabinet. - Creating 48 positions – rather than contracting them out – to staff Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center’s new unit, which will serve all people in need of acute psychiatric care, including those deemed incompetent to stand trial and transferred by jails. Governor Mills announced in February that the nearly-completed facility will be an option for inpatient-level care instead of a step-down facility run by private contractors, as part of a broader plan to also expand outpatient mental health services in Maine. The budget request in the Change Package is the same as previously announced, and less annually from the General Fund than what the previous administration requested. Invest in Maine’s decaying school infrastructure by: - Dedicating $20 million in one-time revenue into the School Revolving Renovation Fund. The fund, which provides no-interest loans for school repairs across the state, has been depleted over the years from an initial $200 million under then-Governor Angus King to less than $3 million now. Meanwhile, Maine schools have aged and many have become dilapidated. “School infrastructure across the state is in critical need of repair, renovation, and reconstruction,” says Education Commissioner Pender Makin. “Our program for school construction projects is stretched far beyond its capacity, and the waiting list is decades long. The revolving renovation fund has proven to be extremely helpful and cost effective, enabling schools to address a variety of health and safety issues in a timely and efficient manner, and replenishing this fund has been a priority.” Pay off the last administration’s debt to the federal government by: - Adding $15 million in one-time revenue to the remaining $51 million in set-aside funds to fully and finally pay off the previous administration’s debt for Riverview Psychiatric Center. Because of its failure to ensure high-quality care, Riverview was decertified and the previous administration accumulated a total debt of nearly $80 million to the federal government to continue its operations during its decertification. The current administration will use this new funding, plus the money set aside by the previous legislature on a bipartisan basis – including the Republicans in both Senate and House leadership – to pay off the debt in a timely manner, avoiding an added cost to the state through interest charged. Fortify the state’s budget resiliency by: - Saving $20 million in the state’s Budget Stabilization Fund. Governor Mills’ original budget proposal protects the budget stabilization fund and, with this change package, adds $20 million to it to protect the state against uncertain economic headwinds. The change package comes in the wake of a recent report by the Maine Revenue Forecasting Committee that projected an increase of $120.5 million in general fund revenue. Changes to the current fiscal year, which concludes on June 30, 2019, include a positive revision of $66.7 million. The forecast for the 2020-21 biennium, which is the revenue period covering Governor Mills’ first biennial budget, has been revised upward by $20.7 million. In addition to increases to the current fiscal year and forthcoming biennium, the Committee also revised the General Fund forecast for the 2022-23 biennium upward by $33.1 million. After these adjustments and other technical changes, Governor Mills’ budget for FY 2020-21 biennium leaves $16.5 million available for the Legislature’s consideration and remains substantially under the projection for the FY 2022-23 biennium. For more information on the package, visit: https://www.maine.gov/budget/ Former Gov. Paul LePage says he will likely be returning to the campaign trail in Maine Skateboarder dies following car collision Plane that crashed was helping drop candy on campers Judge tosses lawsuit filed over officer's sexual contact Overdose deaths dropped 14% in Q1 in Maine	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14270
__label__wiki	0.945937	0.945937	Trump administration to approve final permit for Dakota Access pipeline Protesters rally against plans to pass the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota in November. (Stephanie Keith/Reuters) By Juliet Eilperin and Juliet Eilperin Reporter covering domestic policy and national affairs Brady Dennis Reporter focusing on environmental policy and public health issues The deputy secretary of the Army will grant the final permit needed to complete the Dakota Access Pipeline, the Army declared in a court filing Tuesday, clearing the massive infrastructure project’s last bureaucratic hurdle. The Army’s intention to grant a 30-year easement under North Dakota’s Lake Oahe was immediately hailed by congressional Republicans and decried by members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and other opponents. In documents filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, as part of an ongoing federal environmental review of the controversial pipeline, Army officials indicated that they were terminating a plan to prepare an environmental-impact statement on how the pipeline would affect land and water along its 1,170-mile route. The move, coming two weeks after President Trump instructed the Army Corps of Engineers to conduct an expedited review of the easement, underscores the new administration’s intent to spur infrastructure development and support the fossil fuel industry. Both during the presidential campaign and since taking office, Trump has spoken of the need to accelerate domestic energy production and the construction of pipelines that can bring oil and gas to market. While couched in dry language — a letter from Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army Paul D. Cramer to Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) details the 7.37 acres the pipeline would cross on federal property — the decision marks a major blow to activists who had come from across the country last year and gathered on the Standing Rock’s windswept reservation. There, they declared, a tribe and its allies would defy the federal government. The project would cross four states and carry crude oil from the rich shale oil basins of western North Dakota to the pipeline networks and refineries in the Midwest. Opponents argue that it could damage the environment and disturb ancient burial grounds. Construction cannot begin until the easement is granted, which Cramer wrote will be given to the project’s sponsor Energy Transfer Partners no later than Wednesday afternoon. The company declined to comment Tuesday. The section of the project running underneath Lake Oahe is one of the final parts to be built, and it could be operational between 60 and 80 days after construction starts. In the wake of the Army’s decision, confrontations at the site could flare anew between activists and law enforcement. While tribal leaders have urged their supporters to go home as the weather worsens, a few hundred protesters have remained. Last week, authorities arrested 74 activists who had decamped from the tribal reservation to land owned by Energy Transfer Partners. Fights over pipeline siting have become a new front in the broader push to address climate change, with environmentalists arguing that curbing pipelines will limit the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere by restricting the extent to which fossil fuels can be extracted and burned. At the same time, projects such as Dakota Access have reignited the sense of injury among many American Indians, who believe that the land in question belongs to them under treaties they signed with the federal government in the 1800s. “We are a sovereign nation and we will fight to protect our water and sacred places from the brazen private interests trying to push this pipeline through to benefit a few wealthy Americans with financial ties to the Trump administration,” Standing Rock Chairman Dave Archambault II said in a statement Tuesday. “Americans have come together in support of the Tribe asking for a fair, balanced and lawful pipeline process. The environmental impact statement was wrongfully terminated. This pipeline was unfairly rerouted across our treaty lands. The Trump administration — yet again — is poised to set a precedent that defies the law and the will of Americans and our allies around the world.” The tribe said Tuesday that it plans to challenge the easement decision. Officials have asked a court to compel Energy Transfer Partners to publicly disclose its oil spill and risk assessment records for the project. Ultimately, the tribe said, it will seek to shut down the pipeline’s operations if it is constructed. Keith Benes, a former State Department lawyer who helped oversee pipeline permitting decisions under the Obama administration and now works as an environmental consultant, said in an interview that opponents could mount a strong legal challenge because the only justification the Army gave for terminating its environmental review was the president’s Jan. 24 directive. The agency had been seeking public input on whether to consider an alternate pipeline route, and the comment period was due to close Feb. 20. “Supreme Court precedent is really clear that agencies can change their minds about policies, but they need to provide a reason,” Benes said, noting that the justices most recently upheld this position in the 2009 case FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. “The president telling you to change your mind is not enough of a justification for changing your factual finding.” Jan Hasselman, a lawyer with the environmental group Earthjustice, said the new administration had no right to short-circuit a process started by then-Obama administration officials to scrutinize the project’s potential impact on critical resources along the route. Late last year, after weeks of protest, then-President Barack Obama instructed the Army corps to look at different route options for the pipeline. “The Obama administration correctly found that the Tribe’s treaty rights needed to be respected, and that the easement should not be granted without further review and consideration of alternative crossing locations,” Hasselman said in an email. “Trump’s reversal of that decision continues a historic pattern of broken promises to Indian Tribes and violation of Treaty rights. They will be held accountable in court.” Backers of the pipeline, who argue that it is the most effective means of transporting crude oil extracted on the Great Plains, hailed the Army’s decision. “New energy infrastructure, like the Dakota Access Pipeline, is being built with the latest safeguards and technology,” Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) said in a statement. “The discord we have seen regarding the Dakota Access Pipeline doesn’t serve the tribe, the company, the corps or any of the other stakeholders involved. Now, we all need to work together to ensure people and communities rebuild trust and peacefully resolve their differences.” And Craig Stevens, a spokesman for the business-backed MAIN coalition, called the action “proof-positive of President Trump’s commitment to supporting domestic energy development, including midstream infrastructure projects. Today’s action sends a strong positive signal to those individuals and companies seeking to invest in the U.S. and will help strengthen our economy and create jobs.” A Native Nations march on Washington has been planned for March 10, with the Standing Rock Sioux and others across the country expected to join protesters in demonstrating against the pipeline project. “Expect mass resistance far beyond what Trump has seen so far,” Tom Goldtooth, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, said in a statement. Steven Mufson contributed to this report. More from Energy and Environment: As the planet warms, doubters launch a new attack on a famous climate change study Hundreds of current, former EPA employees urge Senate to reject Trump’s nominee for the agency Standing Rock Sioux want ‘no forcible removal’ of protesters from Dakota Access pipeline site For more, you can sign up for our weekly newsletter here and follow us on Twitter here. Juliet Eilperin Juliet Eilperin is The Washington Post's senior national affairs correspondent, covering the transformation of federal environmental policy. She's authored two books, "Demon Fish: Travels Through The Hidden World of Sharks" and "Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship is Poisoning the House of Representatives." and has worked for The Post since 1998. Follow Brady Dennis Brady Dennis is a national reporter for The Washington Post, focusing on the environment and public health issues. He previously spent years covering the nation’s economy. Dennis was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for a series of explanatory stories about the global financial crisis. Follow Last Updated:12:52 PM 07/17/2019	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14272
__label__cc	0.653991	0.346009	Appeals court upholds law banning political ads on public broadcasting An appeals court has upheld a ban on political advertising on public broadcasting — reversing an earlier ruling by members of the same court. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, based in San Francisco, ruled against a public broadcaster seeking to have the ban overturned on 1st Amendment grounds. The broadcaster was also seeking to be able to run paid advertisements from for-profit companies. Previously, a three-judge panel of the appeals court struck down the ban on political advertising but upheld the ban on for-profit advertising. But the federal government sought a rehearing in front of the full panel of judges. This time, the court ruled 9 to 2 that striking down the political advertising ban "posed a threat to the noncommercial, educational nature of noncommercial educational programming" and that the government "has a substantial interest in imposing advertising restrictions in order to preserve the essence of public broadcast programming." The case is Minority Television Project Inc. v. the Federal Communications Commission. The broadcaster aired aids for Chevrolet, State Farm and other companies and was fined $10,000. It can still appeal to the Supreme Court. Democrats divided as House to vote on whether to consider Trump impeachment House to vote to hold Barr, Ross in contempt over 2020 Census citizenship question	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14273
__label__wiki	0.986741	0.986741	Bobby Brown Says Whitney Houston Had Secret Same-Sex Romance With Robyn Crawford By Megan French Maybe her greatest love of all. Whitney Houston was long rumored to have had a secret same-sex romance with her best friend and assistant, Robyn Crawford, and Bobby Brown tells Us Weekly in the new issue that it’s all true. Watch the video above to get the scoop from our editors on this exclusive interview. “I know,” Brown, 47, tells Us exclusively of his ex-wife’s relationship with Crawford, 55. “We were married for 14 years. There are some things we talked about that were personal to us.” Houston and Crawford met as teens when they both worked at a community center in East Orange, New Jersey, and Crawford became her assistant and later creative director, traveling the world with the Bodyguard star. The New Edition frontman alleges in his new book, Every Little Step, that Houston was bisexual. “I’m a man and she was attracted to me!” he tells Us. Whitney Houston, Bobby Brown, Cissy Houston and Robyn Crawford at the Arista Pre-Grammy Party on February 1, 1994. Lenny Baker/ Retna Ltd. Although the “I Will Always Love You” singer strongly denied the claims, Brown alleged it could have been because her family, including her mother, Cissy Houston, didn’t approve of the lesbian relationship — even insisting Crawford be fired. Cissy, 82, revealed to Oprah Winfrey in 2013 that it “absolutely” would have bothered her if her daughter was gay, and she would not have condoned it. “I really feel that if Robyn was accepted into Whitney’s life, Whitney would still be alive today,” Brown says. “She didn’t have close friends with her anymore.” Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown at BET's 25th Anniversary Show in 2005. L. Cohen/WireImage for BET Network After Houston’s February 2012 death from an overdose of cocaine, marijuana, Benadryl and Xanax, Crawford wrote in a piece for Esquire that the superstar was “a loyal friend” who “looked like an angel.” “I loved her laughter, and that’s what I’ll miss most,” she wrote. Whitney Houston with Bobby Brown at Whitney Houston's All-Star Holiday Gala in New York City on December 4, 1999. Robin Platzer/Twin Images/Online USA, Inc./Getty Images Pick up the latest issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands now, for more from Brown on Whitney and daughter Bobbi Kristina, including exclusive excerpts from his tell-all memoir (out June 13).	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14275
__label__wiki	0.680455	0.680455	Posts Tagged ‘Marshall Austin’ USS Flier, USS Redfin and the Memorial Ceremony Memorial Ceremony, Where was Flier 66 years ago today? \| Posted by Rebekah Well, today, USS Flier is on her way to the war. Not much else to say about that, at least, not today. Meanwhile, USS Redfin is in the training stage for her fourth patrol. They took a break on August 4 to award several commendations earned by Redfin’s Captain and her crew (even if some months late). Cmdr. Austin was awarded a Navy Cross for “extraordinary heroism in operations against the enemy.” Ens. Eugene Helz was awarded the Silver Star for heroism for being the volunteer leader of a landing party on an enemy held coast. Kenneth Herrington was also awarded a Silver Star for his part in that rescue. That’s all for sixty-six years ago. Today, we have news about the Memorial Service. The Navy has announced the Keynote Speaker she is sending, as well as another official guest. The Keynote Speaker is Rear Admiral Michael J. Yurina, Deputy Director of the Submarine Security and Technology Submarine Warfare Division. According to his Navy bio, he’s done just about everything in the Submarine Force, serving on nucs (the diesels were REALLY rare by the time he graduated the Academy in 1978), a Submarine Tender, and many shore stations, culminating with several command posts. In addition, he holds a Bachelor’s degree in Naval Architecture, plus a Master’s in Public Administration and A Master’s of Science in National Resource Strategy. The Navy is also sending Command Master Chief Kirk Saunders, and if my search is correct, he is the Command Master Chief of Submarine Squadron Eleven based out of San Diego, California. It’s only a week left! Here’s a link to Flier’s webpage showing photos of both men. Tags: Command Master Chief Kirk Saunders, Eugene Helz, Kenneth Harrington, Kirk Saunders, Marshall Austin, Michael Yurina, Rear Admiral Michael Yurina, USS Flier, USS Redfin Foreshadowing Flier’s Final Rendezvous–Concluded We set up yesterday’s account of the Redfin’s last stop on her second patrol, will come back to haunt her later in August. But quickly, 66 years ago today, Flier is, Guess where? Yup, still doing exercises and tweaks at the shipyard. She has a week left to find and fix anything and everything her crew’s hearts desires. (Add an ice cream machine…) Robalo (green) has passed through the Sibutu Strait, with Redfin on her heels a few hours later, and has actually just finishing transiting the Balabac Strait. Robalo (green) has just finished safely crossing Balabac Straits, one of several submarines which will do so between now and August 13, when Flier will sink. Redfin has reached her rescue rendezvous point, which will have disasterous effects. Map from Google Earth, positions gleaned from War Patrol reports for USS Robalo and USS Redfin from hnsa.org The Redfin, (yellow) has arrived at their classified location, Dent Haven, Borneo. She’s been ordered to pick up six British nationals (refugees or intellegence agents, depending on the source used). They were supposed to send a specific signal (probably a pattern of blinking lights) to the Redfin, and Redfin would blink a specfic signal back to confirm they were the rescuing vessel. Once all identities were confirmed, Redfin was going to send four crewmen to shore in a rubber raft, (the water near shore was far too shallow to allow Redfin to approach much closer than a half-mile) grab the refugees, paddle back and head for home. It started perfectly. The signal from shore blinked, Redfin responded, and four men, George Carinder, Robert Kahler, Kenneth Harrington, all lead by Ensign Eugene Helz, set out on thier raft. The currents and winds pushed the raft north, and they landed a distance away from where they had planned on. Helz noticed several lights, and decided to re-signal just to be safe, since it was known the Japanese were in the area. The reply was garbled, so he re-signaled, and recieved the correct reply. They decided to proceed with the rescue. Helz got out of the raft with Carinder covering him, leaving Kahler and Harrington behind, and called for the Brits to come out to meet them. No one responded, and thinking that perhaps, they landed a bit north for the refugees to hear him, Kahler and Carinder proceeded down the beach. Suddenly, a Japanese soldier ran out from the trees behind them, and attacked. Carinder parryed the blows the soldier was raining down, but didn’t dare shoot because the raft was directly behind him. Harrington grabbed the machine gun in the raft, and ran to his crewmates and killed the soldier as soon as he could make sure his crewmates would not be hit. But more Japanese were now shooting from the trees, where the Americans could not aim properly. The three sailors ran for the raft and shoved off, figuring that that British subjects, if they ever existed, were dead or in hiding. They were going to have to row for the Redfin, a half-mile away, fighing the currents and the winds that had already pushed them north, all the while dodging the rifle shots, and praying the Japanese did not have any larger bore shore guns or cannons hidden in the trees. Back aboard the Redfin, Captain Austin faced a difficult decision. Submarines were the secret weapons of the Navy, and his number one priority was to make sure his submarine was not captured, and he had to keep the safety of his crew in mind as well. The rescue had been compromised, that was obvious, but the question he had to ask was, was this attack an attack of opportunity, and these soldiers had just stumbled on an American submarine close to shore and decided to take advantage, or had this been a trap from the beginning, and a Japanese submarine, or destroyer or something was nearby ready to take them and his boat all prisoners? The water wasn’t even deep enough to safely sink Redfin to keep her out of enemy hands if worse came to worse. One of his options included abandoning his men to their fates, and leaving, protecting the rest of his men and his boat. As long as the water remained free of any other ships, Captain Austin decided to stay and rescue his men if he could. It took hours, but eventually, all four made it back to the Redfin, and Austin quickly fled the area, abandoning any more rescue attempts, and reported what happened to Fremantle. POSTCRIPT: As it turned out, this was more an attack of opportunity. On June 8, the Harder was sent to the same point, and sucessfully picked up the British men. Tags: Marshall Austin, Submaine Rescue, USS Flier, USS Redfin, USS Robalo Meet the Redfin As promised, we’re going to have to leave the Flier up on blocks for a couple of months, but the threads of the amazing story of the Flier are already coming together, and from an omniscient point of view, we can start exploring them. In my book, things are told from Al Jacobson’s point of view, so some information is limited, and some really amazing things I discovered cannot be told at all, but here, we can explore some of those fascinating facts together. Leaving the San Francisco Bay area, we fly halfway across the 1944 globe to Perth and Fremantle, Australia, the second largest Allied Submarine Base in the Pacific Theater. It was probably also one of the most popular places to be stationed between patrols as well. I’ll explain later. Maybe tomorrow. The USS Redfin as she appeared around 1944. From www.navsource.org 66 years ago today, the sailors aboard the USS REDFIN, dressed in their dress whites, attended an ancient ceremony called “Change of Command”. REDFIN’s commanding officer for her first patrol, Cdr. Robert D. King, handed the REDFIN over to her new commanding officer, Marshall H. Austin, who would command REDFIN’s next four patrols. The Change of Command Ceremony is ancient. The heart of the ceremony is simple: the new commander announcing “I relieve you sir” and the former commanding officer responds, “I am relieved”. But surrounding this simplicity is much pomp and circumstance. The entire crew is present, wearing the formal uniforms appropriate for the time of year and climate. They all stand at attention while the official orders coming from the assigning authorities announces the new commander’s name. The American Change of Command Ceremony has no real regulations, and is loosely descended from the British Admiralty Change of Command as it existed around the time of the Revolution. That ceremony has existed for centuries and probably could trace its roots back to ancient navies. The reason the entire crew is present when the new orders are read comes from a time when mail could take months to get from one place to another, but proved to the crew that the new commanding officer was indeed assigned their vessel and was not attempting a mutiny or some such thing. The formality supposedly conveys the deep respect the officers and crew have for one another, their departing commander and the incoming commander. Marshall Austin was born in Oklahoma, the fifth of seven children. In a time where a person had to pay tuition in high school, Austin worked for a dollar a day to pay for tuition and also for a prep school to help him get in the Naval Academy. He graduated from there in 1935, and joined the submarine service in 1940. He was in the Philippines on December 7, 1941. His wife, interestingly enough, was in Honolulu heavily pregnant with their first child. During his time in the Naval Academy, Austin was in a vocal quartet. That fact alone might have saved the Flier’s lives, as you will later see. He remained CO of the REDFIN until January 1945, during which time the REDFIN sank six enemy ships, when she was handed over to REDFIN’s plankowner XO Charles Miller. For his war service, Austin was awarded a Bronze Star, two Silver Stars and a Navy Cross. Austin would serve in the Navy for 16 more years, eventually attaining the rank of Captain, and becoming CO of the Naval Submarine School in New London. One of his students was a young man named Jimmy Carter. He found another line of work after filling his military contract. After his retirement, he became a consultant on Hollywood submarine shows, traveled extensively, attended a number of REDFIN reunions, and generally enjoyed life. He passed on in 2005 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. But in 1944, he was probably excited about his first command, and began the flurry of paperwork that always accompanies command. Men being removed off REDFIN and replaced with others, the loading of stores, the daily training runs, getting ready for the new patrol, and settling into his new role. Soon, an emergency would attract his total attention. But first, the ROBALO has to come into port. Tags: Fremantle, Marshall Austin, Perth, USS Redfin	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14276
__label__cc	0.638688	0.361312	Baked in a Pye building a writing career Publishing Tips, The Writing Life, Uncategorized, Writing Advice Elizabeth Evans on Sustaining a Writing Career PHOTO: Steve Reitz Elizabeth Evans’ fourth novel, As Good As Dead, is a compelling, suspenseful tale about a friendship between two women writers. Charlotte and Esme become best friends while at the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop, but jealousy and competition lead to a betrayal that ends the friendship. Twenty years later, their connection is revived and proves even more destructive than before. Bharati Mukherjee has called Evans “a masterful storyteller,” and the exquisite psychological tension in this novel shows us why. VP: As Good As Dead vividly reveals the experience of young writers in graduate school who must navigate their insecurities and jealousies, as well as their deep and meaningful connections to each other. I’m curious if their experience was at all similar to your own at Iowa? Have you ever tried to write about the young years in a writer’s career, or did you need the distance of time to capture it? EE: It was good for me to be at Iowa, to be with other people who believed—as Charlotte put it—in the importance of making “one sentence after another do what you wanted them to do.” In some ways, however, my experience was quite different from that of Charlotte and Esme—and the rest of my classmates: I started out in the Iowa Workshop as a twenty-five year-old divorcee with a tiny child at home. I was like Charlotte in some ways: I am half-deaf and very shy, which meant that I could feel isolated. Yes, I sometimes suffered from resentment and insecurity—Why did so-and-so get that prize? Why did I get so drunk at that party?—but I trusted absolutely that I was writing stories that I needed to write and giving the stories all that I had to give. This probably explains why no workshop criticism that the stories received ever rocked my sense that I was doing the right thing. (Also, during my second year, I worked with teachers who were very excited about my work, and that was awfully nice.) As for writing about the young years in a writer’s career—I can’t say why I didn’t ever do it before. I wrote about my experiences in my journals, but it didn’t occur to me to write a story about young writers and the Iowa Writers Workshop until I needed those elements as fuel and setting for the drama of As Good As Dead. VP: You’ve received wonderful accolades for your writing—including an NEA Fellowship, the James Michener Fellowship, and a Lila Wallace Award, among others. I’d love to know more about your path towards publication. Did you identify as a writer when you were a girl? At what age did you start to receive encouragement? EE: Even as a little kid, I felt that poetry mattered. I memorized poems and tried my hand at writing my own at a fairly young age. It seemed like an essential activity. My older sister and I used to go to the library to find poetry books, and after I showed my sister some of my own poems, she showed them to her best friend. Their praise—and some praise from my mother, too—gave me a boost. In high school, I had a very small, very informal creative writing class, and the teacher said that I had talent. In college, I won awards for writing fiction and poetry. VP: What role do you think your awards and institutional support has played in helping to shape your career? EE: I like to think that I would have kept at my writing without the awards. Making money and being famous—those weren’t big draws. It was the creative process itself, and, then, ultimately, the act of completion: distilling something from the confusion of life and containing it in such a way that, like fuel in a lantern, it provided illumination. I think there is something to what Eudora Welty said, though, that writing was a bit like making jam. You made some and people said, “Mm, that’s good,” and so you make some more. VP: In your Acknowledgements, you thank your daughter for being a good reader of your drafts. I’m curious about your process. At what stage in the creation of a novel do you share it with others? Who else in addition to your daughter gets to weigh in? EE: I always take a story or a novel absolutely as far as I can before I show it anyone (I endorse Frost’s idea that we have to be “secret in order to secrete”). My husband is my first reader. He’ll almost certainly suggest some worthwhile changes. After I’ve incorporated those, I will show the work to a few trusted readers. This will invariably mean more edits. My agent doesn’t see the work until these steps are completed. VP: I’m sure you’re terribly busy with book events, but I wonder if you’ve had time to start on the next novel. If so, can you share about it? EE: I am very close to finishing a novel about a man who gets stuck on an island in Canada with the adult-daughter he scarcely knows. I don’t think I should say more (see Frost, above). VP: What advice would offer an aspiring writer today? Do you think it’s a good idea to get an MFA? What else is crucial for writers to know now? EE: While social media may be important for marketing your work, it is not crucial to your development as a writer. It would be good to locate a few good readers who will give you honest, careful feedback on your work. If you can’t find a few good readers in your community, consider an MFA program (despite comments to the contrary, I’ve never seen evidence that MFA programs homogenize student writing). It is crucial that you write often and read great literature. We all need lots of exposure to good sentences and well-built stories. Reading the best works will help you learn how to read your own work as if you did not write it; only then will you have a good sense of when your work fails or succeeds. (Elizabeth's author photo by Steve Reitz) Tagged: building a writing career, literary awards, MFA programs, seasoned novelist, the writing life, writing advice	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14279
__label__wiki	0.936269	0.936269	Zimbabwe's Battered, Divided Opposition Marks 8th Anniversary Zimbabwe's opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change, was formed eight years ago this week. When it was only six months old, it delivered President Robert Mugabe's first political defeat. Now it is a shadow of itself, split into two factions. As Peta Thornycroft reports for the VOA, the MDC has little chance of winning next year's crucial national elections even if there is electoral reform and a less repressive political climate. The Movement for Democratic Change was established in 1999. Just six months after the party came into being, it was able to mobilize the people of Zimbabwe to vote against a new constitution in a national referendum. It was a stinging blow for the aging Zimbabwean leader, dealt by a fledgling party under the leadership of the charismatic former secretary general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, Morgan Tsvangirai. The party drew support across racial and tribal lines, reflecting growing dissatisfaction with Mr. Mugabe's rule and concern over an economy that had begun to shrink. The victory in the referendum sparked a fresh mood of optimism in Zimbabwe. People in urban areas responded to Tsvangirai and they became the party's stronghold. Just months later, in June 2000, and despite massive repression and accusations that the MDC was foreign-funded and a stooge of British imperialism, the party came within four seats of beating the ruling Zanu-PF in parliamentary elections. Mr. Mugabe had already launched his chaotic land redistribution program, taking farms away from commercial farmers. The economy, dependent on agricultural exports mostly produced by the evicted farmers, went into rapid decline. Tough new security and media laws were put in place. Ahead of presidential elections in 2002, Tsvangirai was charged with treason on a trumped-up charge of plotting to assassinate President Mugabe. The trial drained the MDC's financial resources and put Tsvangirai at a disadvantage when he stood as the opposition candidate. Tens of thousands were unable to vote, especially in Tsvangirai's stronghold, Harare. The party presented evidence during a subsequent court challenge which they said demonstrated that Zanu-PF cheated in order to give President Mugabe a 15-percent victory at the polls. Following the election, more MDC legislators and supporters were detained, beaten and some were killed. The pro-MDC newspaper, The Daily News, was bombed and then closed down. Squabbles emerged within the MDC, aggravated by tensions between its Shona and Ndebele leaders. In the March 2005 general election, the MDC lost more than a third of the legislative seats it had won five years earlier. The party finally split over the issue of whether to boycott senate elections later that year. The split caused dismay and confusion among its supporters and left the MDC divided along tribal lines. There was some violence between the two factions. The faction which chose to fight the senate elections asked academic Arthur Mutambara to lead it. He had been the first person from Mr. Mugabe's Shona tribe, as a student leader years earlier, to lead protests against the ruling ZANU-PF. At present, both MDC factions have equal numbers of legislators in parliament, but most political observers say Tsvangirai has more supporters than Mutambara, particularly in densely populated Harare. At present, both factions are selecting candidates for next year's national elections. Political observers say this will split the opposition vote and give President Mugabe and his Zanu-PF easy victories. Some political analysts say that if the two MDC factions do not quickly establish a coalition, the opposition party will lose the presidential vote and all but a handful of seats in legislative elections due next March. Zimbabwe’s Government Introduces Controversial Bill in Parliament The Zimbabwe government Wednesday introduced a bill in parliament, which would enable President Robert Mugabe to choose his successor when he decides to retire. The Constitutional Amendment Bill seeks to give parliament the power to elect a new president should the incumbent fail to serve a full term. It is expected to become law because of the numerical strength of the ruling ZANU-PF party in parliament. Meanwhile, some political analysts believe the introduction of the bill would…	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14281
__label__wiki	0.958677	0.958677	UN: The world has more refugees than ever Posted: 6:56 AM, Jun 19, 2019 By: CNN Newsource More than 70 million people have been forced to flee their homes due to violence or persecution, the United Nations has said, as the global migrant crisis pushed the number of refugees and displaced people to a new all-time high. The world's displaced population is now almost double that from a decade ago, and includes an estimated 13.6 million people who fled their homes in 2018, according to the UN Refugee Agency's annual Global Trends Report . It is a rise of 2.3 million on last year's figure , and includes 25.9 million refugees -- also the highest number ever recorded. Overall, an average of 37,000 people are forced from their homes every day, the report said, and one in every 108 people on the planet is now displaced. The body's findings paint a bleak but predictable picture of the rate of displacement around the world, as conflicts in several corners of the earth continued to tear people from their homes. The Syrian war remained a major driver, while Venezuela joined the ranks of the worst-affected countries after tens of thousands fled the humanitarian and economic crisis roiling the nation. More than two-thirds of refugees came from just five nations: Syria, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Myanmar and Somalia. A further 41.3 million people worldwide were displaced within their own countries, and 3.5 million were recorded as asylum seekers. "What we are seeing in these figures is further confirmation of a longer-term rising trend in the number of people needing safety from war, conflict and persecution," UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said in a statement accompanying the report. But Grandi also praised efforts to tackle the crisis, which he called "one of the great challenges of our times." "While language around refugees and migrants is often divisive, we are also witnessing an outpouring of generosity and solidarity, especially by communities who are themselves hosting large numbers of refugees," he said. Another 5.5 million Palestinian refugees were recorded, though these fall under the mandate of the UN's Relief and Works Agency. In total, around half of the refugee population in 2018 were children. For the fifth straight year, Turkey hosted more refugees than any other country; its take of 3.7 million dwarfed that of Pakistan (1.4 million), Uganda (1.2 million), Sudan and Germany (both 1.1 million). The United States received more asylum claims than any other nation, with 254,300, despite repeated attempts from the Trump administration to curtail the flow of migrants into the country. The report's figures highlight the dramatic escalation in displacement which started in 2012. A decade ago, one in 160 people around the world were displaced, and last year the number stood at one in 110, but the rate now dropped to 108. But the UNHCR warned that its numbers were conservative and said it was still grappling to count those fleeing from Venezuela. The recent crisis in that country threatens to cause another acceleration in refugee rates. More than one million Venezuelans have crossed into neighboring Colombia, the report said, with others heading to Peru, Chile or Brazil. More than 460,000 Venezuelans have sought asylum, including about 350,000 in 2018 alone, the UNHCR said. In total, an estimated four million Venezuelans have left their country. "With every refugee situation, wherever it is, however long it has been going on for, there has to be an enduring emphasis on solutions and removing obstacles to people being able to return home," said Grandi. "This is complex work in which UNHCR is constantly engaged but which also requires all countries to come together for a common good. It is one of the great challenges of our times."	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14284
__label__wiki	0.644664	0.644664	Next Computing & The Internet Next Applications & Operating Systems Next Operating Systems Next Linux Next SUSE SUSE 9780596101831-01-000 9780596101831-01-000 9780596101831 https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/suse-linux/chris-brown/paperback/9780596101831-01-000.html By Chris Brown (Author) https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/suse-linux/chris-brown/paperback/9780596101831-01-000.html £28.79 rrp £31.99 Save £3.20 (10%) "SUSE Linux: A Complete Guide to Novell's Community Distribution" will get you up to speed quickly and easily on SUSE, one of the most friendly and usable Linux distributions around. From quick and easy installation to excellent hardware detection and support, it's no wonder SUSE is one of the most highly rated distributions on the planet. According to Novell, SUSE is installed more than 7,000 times every day, an average of one installation every 12 seconds. This book will take you deep into the essential operating system components by presenting them in easy-to-learn modules. From basic installation and configuration through advanced topics such as administration, security, and virtualization, this book captures the important details of how SUSE works - without the fluff that bogs down other books and web sites. Instead, readers get a concise task-based approach to using SUSE as both a desktop and server operating system. In this book, you'll learn how to: install SUSE and perform basic administrative tasks; share files with other computers; connect to your desktop remotely; set up a web server; set up networking, including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth; tighten security on your SUSE system; monitor for intrusions; manage software and upgrades smoothly; and run multiple instances of SUSE on a single machine with Xen. Whether you use SUSE Linux from Novell, or the free open SUSE distribution, this book has something for every level of user. The modular, lab-based approach not only shows you how-but also explains why-and gives you the answers you need to get up and running with SUSE Linux. Illustrations Dr. Chris Brown has been using UNIX for more than 25 years, initially in his role as a Research Fellow at Sheffield University in the UK, where he carried out research into the use of tightly coupled multiprocessor systems for real-time processing of machine vision data. He has been a Linux enthusiast, user, and advocate for the last seven years and holds RedHat RHCE and Novell CLP certifications, in addition to B.A. and M.A. degrees from Cambridge University and a PhD in particle physics, which he hopes won't put you off reading his book. Chris has authored a number of hands-on training courses on Linux TCP/IP networking, systems programming, and administration. Working for a while in the USA, he managed the development of a Linux training curriculum for the training company Learning Tree International. Chris now works mostly as a freelance trainer and writer and has delivered training throughout North America and Europe for companies including Learning Tree, IBM Learning Services, and First Technology Transfer. Chris has been heavily involved in providing technical training within Novell. He wrote two five-day courses on SuSE Linux, which he delivered to Novell's consultants and IT support staff within Europe. He was also invited to deliver internal training sessions at Novell's Brainshare conference in 2004. Subsequently, Chris has been working with Novell throughout Europe to provide training to staff on Novell Linux Desktop in support of Novell's internal migration to Linux. His own company, Interactive Digital Learning, provides training content and consultancy, and also specializes in computer-based classroom training delivery systems. In his spare time Chris enjoys Bach, Jake Thackray, Flanders and Swan, gardening, reading, eating, and sleeping. Contributor: Chris Brown Imprint: O'Reilly Media, Inc, USA Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc, USA Biography: Dr. Chris Brown has been using UNIX for more than 25 years, initially in his role as a Research Fellow at Sheffield University in the UK, where he carried out research into the use of tightly coupled multiprocessor systems for real-time processing of machine vision data. He has been a Linux enthusiast, user, and advocate for the last seven years and holds RedHat RHCE and Novell CLP certifications, in addition to B.A. and M.A. degrees from Cambridge University and a PhD in particle physics, which he hopes won't put you off reading his book. Chris has authored a number of hands-on training courses on Linux TCP/IP networking, systems programming, and administration. Working for a while in the USA, he managed the development of a Linux training curriculum for the training company Learning Tree International. Chris now works mostly as a freelance trainer and writer and has delivered training throughout North America and Europe for companies including Learning Tree, IBM Learning Services, and First Technology Transfer. Chris has been heavily involved in providing technical training within Novell. He wrote two five-day courses on SuSE Linux, which he delivered to Novell's consultants and IT support staff within Europe. He was also invited to deliver internal training sessions at Novell's Brainshare conference in 2004. Subsequently, Chris has been working with Novell throughout Europe to provide training to staff on Novell Linux Desktop in support of Novell's internal migration to Linux. His own company, Interactive Digital Learning, provides training content and consultancy, and also specializes in computer-based classroom training delivery systems. In his spare time Chris enjoys Bach, Jake Thackray, Flanders and Swan, gardening, reading, eating, and sleeping. https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/suse-linux/chris-brown/paperback/9780596101831.html £28.79 rrp £31.99 Save £3.20 (10%)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14285
__label__wiki	0.827881	0.827881	Search for the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Loyola University New Orleans (Loyola) is a Catholic and Jesuit university that seeks an entrepreneurial and experienced academic leader to serve as its next Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs (Provost). The university has a remarkable history and rich Jesuit tradition, and is located in one of the most culturally rich and distinctive cities in the country – a city that is rapidly transforming itself into an enterprising and creative urban center. Together with President Tania Tetlow, the first woman and lay president of the university, and an emerging, innovative senior leadership team, the Provost will have an unparalleled opportunity to shape academic programs for the university in a time of significant change and transformation. Loyola has embarked on an ambitious plan to revitalize the institution and enhance its financial stability for the future, within a rapidly changing environment for higher education. The Provost will be a nimble and creative leader, developing innovative strategies that will leverage the disciplinary diversity of Loyola New Orleans, and promote a sustainable financial model that supports a path for academic and student success. The search committee welcomes candidates who have a deep understanding of Loyola’s Catholic, Jesuit mission and ethos and the ability to inspire and engage others in this mission. At Loyola University New Orleans, students, faculty, and staff live by the mottoes “men and women with and for others” and Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, doing everything in love or “for the greater glory of God.” Academic excellence, a commitment to social justice, and strength in diversity and inclusion are all hallmarks of Loyola, an institution dedicated to shaping not only minds, but hearts. Guided by Jesuit intellectual rigor and Ignatian spirituality, Loyola instills in its community the value of always striving for the magis, translated in Latin, simply, as “the more.” Founded in 1904 as Loyola College by the Society of Jesus, but with roots going back to 1847, Loyola is one of 27 Jesuit Catholic universities and colleges in the United States. The university is grounded in the liberal arts and sciences while also offering opportunities for professional studies at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including a law school, business school, and nursing school. Loyola is the only Jesuit university in the U.S. with a College of Music and Media. Loyola has an enrollment of approximately 4,300 students, including 3,000 undergraduates, and the university offers 71 undergraduate programs and 14 graduate and professional degree programs. With a student-to-faculty ratio of 12 to 1, Loyola has a remarkably diverse undergraduate and graduate student population, and offers meaningful faculty interaction in a picturesque campus in Uptown New Orleans. Loyola has a deep commitment to opportunity and access, with approximately 89% of undergraduate students receiving financial aid and 28% first generation students. The next Provost of Loyola University New Orleans will share in the university’s commitment to Jesuit, Catholic values in higher education and lead the enhancement of Loyola’s academic program as a distinctive educational experience for a highly diverse student population. Loyola seeks an accomplished scholar with a track record of transformative leadership and an understanding of and passionate commitment to faculty development, student success and engagement, and interdisciplinary endeavors and collaboration. The Provost will have experience in resource generation, allocation, and prioritization in academic operations in order to create a viable, sustainable economic model. The Provost will also serve as an engaged and visible leader both on campus and beyond, with a transparent, approachable, and facilitative management style. Please direct all inquiries, expressions of interest, and nominations in confidence electronically to Pamela Pezzoli or Carmen Delehanty at Isaacson, Miller at: www.imsearch.com/6855 Loyola University New Orleans does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, veteran's status, or national origin in its educational programs or activities, including employment and admissions. At the same time, Loyola cherishes its right to seek and retain personnel who will make a positive contribution to its religious character, goals, and mission in order to enhance the Jesuit, Catholic tradition. Assistant Vice President and Director for Interna… City University of New York Baruch College Assistant Vice Chancellor of Environment, Health … Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14286
__label__wiki	0.914357	0.914357	Seeking Out Great Mentors Contributes to Success ‘I try to work with women to get them to feel that they can’ Carol Cooperman Nadelson, M.D., was working in Boston when Leon Eisenberg, renowned child psychiatrist, social psychiatrist and medical educator, moved to town in 1967. She admired his work and thought she could learn from him. So she immediately reached out to make a connection. “He became the chair first at Children’s, then at Mass General, and I was in awe of him,” she recalls. “I’d read his work, and I sent him a note welcoming him, and I wanted to meet him. So I did, and we became really good friends, and he was absolutely incredibly supportive and a major mentor all my life.” Mentors—most of them men—were vital in her career as a psychiatrist and academic. In those days, medicine was still dominated by men. “There were very few women,” she says. Jack Ewalt, former chair from Mass Mental Health Center, contacted her to apply for a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) grant and develop a human sexuality course for Harvard. This resulted in her designation as a Career Teacher, a group that eventually became the Association for Academic Psychiatry. “He was a tough guy, he was a Texan, and he was someone who wasn’t quite in the New England mold, but he was a major league leader in psychiatry,” she recalls. “And he really singled me out and helped me a lot. He thought I was good. He thought I had something to offer. He knew I was interested in education, medical education, and he saw it as an opportunity.” At Harvard Medical School, Dr. Nadelson played it forward. “I worked the Dean’s Office and some of the sub-deans and the Dean of Faculty Affairs, and we not only collected data, but I tried to build programs to help, you know, seminars on how to get promoted, seminars in writing, getting lecturers who would be role models and people who could be mentors, and stirring up mentorship,” she says. Soon, she became a trusted resource for students and colleagues. “I became sort of the mentor-in-chief,” she says. An important part of that role was encouraging women to be pro-active in getting ahead. “I met with everybody, with the person who comes in, (and says) ‘I didn’t get promoted,’” she recalls. “And my first question would be, ‘Did you ask?’ Because most of the women didn’t.” As a mentor, she was committed to inspiring and advocating for women. In 1998, she became director of the Partners Office for Women’s Careers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, helping women physicians build careers and advance professionally. In 2009, she was the recipient of the Alma Dea Morani Renaissance Award from the Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine. “What I do in my mentoring now, and have always done, is I try to work with women to get them to feel that they can,” she says. This story is taken from the oral history of Carol Nadelson, MD. The full oral history is available here as part of the Foundation’s exhibit at the The Countway Library of Medicine, through our partnership with the The Archives for Women in Medicine. Alicia Lazzaro August 1, 2017 Leadership: Learning to Stand Up For Yourself and to Nurture Others Alicia Lazzaro September 5, 2017 Insights on the Importance and Politics of Research	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14287
__label__cc	0.644708	0.355292	Summary of the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO Convention) (1967) The WIPO Convention, the constituent instrument of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), was signed at Stockholm on July 14, 1967, entered into force in 1970 and was amended in 1979. WIPO is an intergovernmental organization that became in 1974 one of the specialized agencies of the United Nations system of organizations. The origins of WIPO go back to 1883 and 1886 when the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property and the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, respectively, were concluded. Both Conventions provided for the establishment of an "International Bureau". The two bureaus were united in 1893 and, in 1970, were replaced by the World Intellectual Property Organization, by virtue of the WIPO Convention. WIPO's two main objectives are (i) to promote the protection of intellectual property worldwide; and (ii) to ensure administrative cooperation among the intellectual property Unions established by the treaties that WIPO administers. In order to attain these objectives, WIPO, in addition to performing the administrative tasks of the Unions, undertakes a number of activities, including: (i) normative activities, involving the setting of norms and standards for the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights through the conclusion of international treaties; (ii) program activities, involving legal and technical assistance to States in the field of intellectual property; (iii) international classification and standardization activities, involving cooperation among industrial property offices concerning patent, trademark and industrial design documentation; and (iv) registration and filing activities, involving services related to international applications for patents for inventions and for the registration of marks and industrial designs. Membership in WIPO is open to any State that is a member of any of the Unions and to any other State satisfying one of the following conditions: (i) it is a member of the United Nations, any of the specialized agencies brought into relationship with the United Nations, or the International Atomic Energy Agency; (ii) it is a party to the Statute of the International Court of Justice; or (iii) it has been invited by the General Assembly of WIPO to become a party to the Convention. There are no obligations arising from membership of WIPO concerning other treaties administered by WIPO. Accession to WIPO is effected by means of the deposit with the Director General of WIPO of an instrument of accession to the WIPO Convention. The WIPO Convention establishes three main organs: the WIPO General Assembly, the WIPO Conference and the WIPO Coordination Committee. The WIPO General Assembly is composed of the Member States of WIPO which are also members of any of the Unions. Its main functions are, inter alia, the appointment of the Director General upon nomination by the Coordination Committee, review and approval of the reports of the Director General and the reports and activities of the Coordination Committee, adoption of the biennial budget common to the Unions, and adoption of the financial regulations of the Organization. The WIPO Conference is composed of the States party to the WIPO Convention. It is, inter alia, the competent body for adopting amendments to the Convention. The WIPO Coordination Committee is composed of members elected from among the members of the Executive Committee of the Paris Union and the Executive Committee of the Berne Union. Its main functions are to give advice to the organs of the Unions, the General Assembly, the Conference, and to the Director General, on all administrative and financial matters of interest to these bodies. It also prepares the draft agenda of the General Assembly and the draft agenda of the Conference. Where appropriate, the Coordination Committee nominates a candidate for the post of Director General for appointment by the General Assembly. The principal sources of income of WIPO's regular budget are the fees paid by the users of the international registration and filing services, and the contributions paid by the governments of Member States. Each State belongs to one of 14 classes, which determines the amount of its contribution. Class I, with the highest contribution, involves the payment of 25 contribution units, whereas Class Ster, with the lowest contribution, involves the payment of 1/32 of one contribution unit. By virtue of the unitary contribution system adopted by Member States in 1993, the amount of each State's contribution is the same whether that State is a member only of WIPO, or only of one or more Unions, or of both WIPO and one or more Unions. The Secretariat of the Organization is called the International Bureau. The executive head of the International Bureau is the Director General who is appointed by the WIPO General Assembly and is assisted by two or more Deputy Directors General. The headquarters of the Organization are in Geneva, Switzerland. The Organization has Liaison Offices in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), Japan (Tokyo), Singapore (Singapore) and the United States of America (at the United Nations in New York). The Organization benefits from the privileges and immunities granted to international organizations and their officials in the fulfillment of its objectives and exercise of its functions, and has concluded a headquarters agreement with the Swiss Confederation to that effect.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14288
__label__cc	0.726159	0.273841	Spin the Sky by Jill MacKenzie - Book Review, Interview & Giveaway Magnolia has always enjoyed living in Summerland, but the inhabitants of the town aren't friendly any longer because of something her mother has done. Magnolia and her sister Rose were left behind by their mother and the siblings have to deal with the hate for her actions on a daily basis. She only has one good friend left, George. Magnolia is a skilled dancer and George encourages her to audition for Live to Dance, a nationwide television show. Magnolia wants to win, so the people of Summerland will appreciate her again, to show them that her family can also do something good. Is that the right reason to go? George and Magnolia spend a lot of time together and they've always been there for each other. However, at Live to Dance they are competitors. Will they both get through the auditions and what will happen afterwards? Will their friendship be strong enough to survive the competitive atmosphere or will it suffer? Who will win Live to Dance, does Magnolia have a shot to clear her name or will she have to live with her mother's infamy forever? Spin the Sky is an emotional story about dance, paying for someone else's mistakes, friendship and dreams for the future. Magnolia is a skilled dancer. She's passionate and gracious and I loved the way Jill MacKenzie writes about her movements. Magnolia has her flaws as well, she's headstrong, doesn't know how to read people and thinks she's less loved than she actually is. It made me sad that she couldn't see the good in her life because of all the bad things that keep happening to her and I kept hoping she'd find some much deserved happiness. Because of the fact that Magnolia has easily identifiable and sometimes opposing personality traits she's an incredibly interesting main character and I really enjoyed watching her grow and find some wisdom. Jill MacKenzie's writing has a nice and steady flow. She writes about deep emotions in an honest and understandable way. Strong feelings and dancing go together very well and I loved the way she combines the two. Magnolia's story is fascinating from beginning to end. She's a fighter, but doesn't clearly see what's happening around her most of the time, which made me want to give her a shake every now and then. I love it when I feel so strongly about a main character. Jill MacKenzie combines Magnolia's personal problems with a competitive environment and dancers who all want to win, but slowly inevitably start to like each other. The dynamics keep shifting in a fantastic way, which for me was the best thing about Spin the Sky. I loved this terrific moving story filled with dedication, drive, drama and spirit. If you love YA books about friendship, talent and overcoming problems you will definitely like Spin the Sky. About Jill MacKenzie Jill Mackenzie spent a good part of her youth reading books that she wasn’t supposed to while wandering beaches in Hawaii, Australia, and Oregon. Though Jill danced for most of her life, the most important thing she learned from dancing was how good it feels to dance herself clean on a regular basis. Currently, Jill is pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing with a focus on Children’s Literature from the University of British Columbia. Jill lives in Florida with her non-dancing husband, two beach-loving daughters, and two cats who (Jill swears) dance whenever the music is on. Website: http://www.jillmackenzie.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jillian.r.mackenzie Twitter: https://twitter.com/JillMacKenzie3 Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3092755.Jill_MacKenzie 1. Could you tell us a bit about yourself? I’d love to! Let’s see…I’m originally from Vancouver, Canada which is probably one of the prettiest cities in the entire world (I know, I may be biased here.) I’ve lived in Florida for thirteen years, and it’s been a really great experience, actually. Yes, a lot of nutty things do happen in Florida, but the thing is Florida is also filled with the most genuine, kindest, warmest people I think I’ve ever encountered, so I’m grateful to call this sweet stretch of coastline my home now. I’ve been married for eleven years to a South African dude named Gus and we have two gorgeous girls who are half-me, half-him in all the best and worst ways. We’re all pretty huge ocean and marine life advocates and explorers and spend a great deal of our time snorkeling and studying sea life. I’m also in the final months of my MFA in Creative Writing with a focus in Children’s Literature, which I’m obtaining from the University of British Columbia (UBC.) I’ve just finished writing the first draft of my thesis now so between wifehood, motherhood, and beachhood, I’m feeling pretty busy these days! 2. You wrote your first story when you were 7, Go With It. Can you tell us what your story was about? I think I was around eight or nine when I starting typing out that story and I got pretty far (for an eight/nine-year-old) actually! I had like nearly one hundred pages completed of a first draft when my dad accidentally deleted it, which was a real bummer. But the thing is, I totally remember the story…and I remember that it was a bit of a rip off of Jean Craighead Georges’ My Side of the Mountain, which was one of my favorite childhood reads, too. At the time, I was completely obsessed with the idea of running away and living as “one with nature.” So, my book was about how this girl, after feeling completely sick of watching her parents argue and fight on a daily basis, takes the canoe out from behind her shed and paddles to a deserted island (which was tropical, I think, even though I’m from the Pacific Northwest) and sort of lives there all alone, off the grid and in solitude, until she meets the natives who, of course, occupied the island first. Then, chaos ensues. Yep, I’m sure you’re thinking Go With It sort of combines a lot of familiar books out there. But hey! I was eight! What can I say? 3. You've traveled the world. What do you miss the most about those days? Even my friends and family members would tell you I’ve always had a bad case of Wanderlust—one that just can’t be squashed. Even though I’m now married and with a family, that traveling bug hasn’t subsided yet. What do I miss most? I suppose I’d say I miss the freedom to pick up and just GO when I get restless, which happens to me still pretty often. People used to think I was running from things—demons, my past, my future, my obligations—all sorts of things, really. But I’d always say I was running to. Running to a place that was better than the place I was in, of course. 4. If you could go back to any place you've visited before, where would you go and why? Japan. No contest. I’m completely infatuated with Japanese art and animation and culture (and so is my eldest daughter, thank goodness.) I was only twenty-four when I left Japan and I’m dying to go see it again with my family in tow and my older, wiser set of eyes. 5. What makes your heart beat faster? Oh, so many things. Definitely, when I let myself dream of the roads I have yet to travel, my heart beats faster. When I see my kids trying to live out their own dreams, my heart beats faster. When my body finally gives in and allows me to be present in the moment instead of always “the next thing,” my heart beats faster. When I feel eaten up by the dark thoughts in my mind and I have to do something completely consuming to block them out, my heart beats faster. When I feel love and loved—which I feel every day, just not all day every day—my heart beats faster. 6. Do you have any advice for other aspiring writers? Butt in chair. Butt in chair. Butt in chair. There was never any better advice for me than that. 7. Where did your inspiration for Spin The Sky come from? My inspiration for SPIN THE SKY came from a lot of things, actually. Initially, the dance competition portion of the story was inspired by one of my favorite TV shows of all times, SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE. But Magnolia and Rose’s stories…that came from this little town I visited and loved often as a younger teen. The characters themselves are fictional, but that town (though it’s not called Summerland in real life) is as colorful and breathing as the Summerland in my book. I just kept asking myself, “what if a girl from that kind of town needed to go on that kind of public competition to try to get the thing she thought she always wanted but instead got the thing she never even knew she needed?” That’s where I started. That’s how my book baby, SPIN THE SKY was born. 8. If your book was made into a movie, who would play the lead characters and why? It’s funny, if you would have asked me this when the book debuted in November, I would have said totally different characters than I’m going to here. At the moment, I’m completely obsessed with the Netflix rendition of Jay Asher’s 13 Reasons Why, I’d choose Miles Heizer to play George and I’d probably want Alisha Boe to play Magnolia. As for Rose…ah, she’s always been the toughest for me to cast mentally, so I’m going to go with Vanessa Marano (from Switched at Birth) on that one! 9. Do you have a favorite quote? Sure do. Phillip Roth once said, “The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress” and I think about that all the time. And when I do, the words “well, mine sure is!” usually float through my mind right afterwards. 10. What can we expect from you in the future? Good things, I hope! I do have a couple little surprises in the pipeline here, but since I’m a very superstitious person, I can’t divulge what they are yet. But soon! I promise! Thanks so much WITH LOVE FOR BOOKS. Xoxo Two very lucky readers of With Love for Books will receive a signed hardcover copy of Spin the Sky. A third lucky winner will receive a dance related swag package. Spin the Sky sounds like an emotional story about dance. Judy Thomas October 15, 2017 at 1:53 AM It sounds like a great read! Thanks for sharing it. This sounds like a great interesting read, looking forward to reading it. Ruth Harwood October 15, 2017 at 11:05 AM interesting, I'd love to read this, thanks for writing it! Nikolina Vukelic October 15, 2017 at 1:03 PM I really enjoyed reading your interview, thank you! Melanie B October 15, 2017 at 5:18 PM Sounds like an awesome read, thanks for the chance! Caro October 15, 2017 at 9:03 PM This sounds great. Thanks for the chance. Ellen Stafford October 15, 2017 at 9:15 PM I love the sound of this book. Thanks for the chance x laura pyper October 16, 2017 at 9:17 AM sound great :) Mary Davis October 16, 2017 at 1:20 PM What a lovely cover! I used to take ballet so this resonates. :) The Writing Garnet October 16, 2017 at 11:13 PM Fantastic review & interview! Awesome interview this one sounds very interesting book to read, thanks for the chance :) elizamatt October 21, 2017 at 4:55 AM Spin the Sky sounds like a great book, thanks for the review :-) Irma Jurejevčič October 21, 2017 at 12:58 PM I would very much like to read this book, it's on my TBR list now. Red Vinyl Kitty October 23, 2017 at 12:43 AM Reading about you having the first 100 pages you typed up at 8 deleted made me feel so bad! Oh, I remember those days well. Heck. I'm so old that I still write most things on paper first and don't trust them to the computer until later, which is the opposite of most writers nowadays. It makes me giggle thinking about it. Your interview was so down to Earth and personal. Thanks for sharing. :) Janine Atkin October 24, 2017 at 7:57 PM id love to read this Lyndsey bevsta October 25, 2017 at 5:13 PM The last thing I celebrated was my daughter passing her SATS! twinlay06 October 26, 2017 at 6:51 PM Sounds a good book, I must make more me time to read again. sheridarby October 26, 2017 at 8:07 PM This sounds a great book Jana Leah B October 27, 2017 at 4:53 PM I love this cover. Miles, Vanessa, & Alisha are good choices for the movie version. Adrian Bold October 28, 2017 at 2:22 AM Allan Fullarton October 28, 2017 at 11:54 AM This sounds great. Angela Kelly October 28, 2017 at 4:41 PM Well done on the book! I love how this blog introduces me to writers I didn't know about.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14291
__label__wiki	0.82642	0.82642	Norway en-no Webhelp Group plans €100m acquisition drive Webhelp Group, one of Europe’s largest providers of customer experience services, has outlined plans to consolidate the market with a programme of strategic acquisitions. The Group, which opened new UK headquarters in London earlier this year, said it planned to invest up to €100m over the next two years to build further scale and specialisms, with a primary focus on the UK market. The group’s strategic goal is to become the number three within its sector in Europe by 2015. The announcement follows a successful €275m refinancing of the Group’s funding facilities, led by its private equity backers Charterhouse Capital Partners. Earlier this year, the Group signalled its intent to consolidate the fragmented customer experience market with the acquisition of Webhelp UK, one of the UK’s largest operators, from India’s Hero Group. Webhelp manages customer relationships across traditional voice and email channels as well as fast-growing areas of social media and webchat. Its customers include some of Europe’s leading brands, such as Virgin Mobile and Boursorama Banque. It was established in France in 2000 by co-Chairmen Frédéric Jousset and Olivier Duha. In 2011, Charterhouse backed the €340m acquisition from its previous owners, French private equity group Astorg Partners. Today, the Group generates revenues of approximately €400m and operates a total of 35 centres in seven countries. It employs some 17,000 people. Its UK division, where it employs 6,000 people across 10 sites and works for brands such as Sky and Vodafone, recently reported revenue growth of 36 per cent in the 12 months to 31 March 2013 to £111m. Frédéric Jousset, Webhelp Group founder and co-chairman, said: “The way in which consumers want to engage with the brands they buy is changing at an alarming rate, driven by new technology, new lifestyles and new expectations. The battle for brand loyalty is won or lost on the quality of a customer’s experience across every channel, not just a call centre or email.” He added: “Having developed an integrated customer experience offering for our clients, we see tremendous opportunity to build real international scale to support new and existing clients internationally, with a mixture of onshore and offshore locations. “The Group’s refinancing gives us the capital structure and funding facilities to accelerate that strategy through a highly targeted acquisition programme.” GBL announces today it has entered into exclusive negotiations to acquire a majority stake in the Webhelp group, together with its co-founding shareholders, Olivier Duha and Frédéric Jousset, who would retain their role as founding executive directors, and its management team. Founded in 2000, Webhelp is today one of the world's leading providers of customer experience and business process... Safeguarding client loyalty and retention Everybody likes to be valued and appreciated and the success a company celebrates is also directly linked to its clients. In a B2B business model, clients are after all the reason we are in business. And when they feel valued, they not only become loyal but also use their experience to... Webhelp’s market expansion strategies in the contact centre outsourcing market earn it accolades from Frost & Sullivan Webhelp's keen focus on agile customer experience (CX) solutions has helped it grow across Europe in an intensely competitive market Based on Webhelp’s successful growth strategy across Europe, Frost & Sullivan has recognised the company with the 2018 European Market Leadership Award in... B2B Marketplaces are blossoming Following our publication last year of " The Spring of B2B Marketplaces ": it is time to look back and to answer these questions: has there been some movement in the market? Have B2B players evolved in their marketplace business models? Is launching a new market observatory worthwhile? The answers... Webhelp Recruitment Privacy Policy	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14293
__label__wiki	0.533246	0.533246	Reno Co. Nickerson Real Estate Nickerson, KS Real Estate Search for Properties in Nickerson, KS View All Nickerson Listings Nickerson Schools Nickerson-South Hutchinson Unified School District #309, located in Reno County Kansas, comprises 187.5 square miles of mostly rural areas. USD 309 is a district that celebrates diversity, quality instruction and successful student achievement. The teachers there are highly committed educators who strive daily to inspire and challenge every child, every day. They are dedicated to delivering a standards-based curriculum that is robust and relevant to the real world, in order to provide students with the knowledge and skills needed for success in college and careers. USD 309 is currently made up of 2 elementary schools, 1 middle school and 1 high school. All four buildings are fully accredited through the Kansas State Department of Education Quality Performance Accreditation process. (Source- USD 309-www.usd309ks.com) Nickerson Lifestyle Nickerson has a population of 1,049 (2013). Nickerson offers a great city park to spend a day out with the family. Located under 20 minutes from downtown Hutchinson, Nickerson enjoys many other attractions including the Kansas Cosmosphere Space Center and Strataca Salt Museum. Nickerson Transportation Nickerson sits just east of highway KS-96. Downtown Hutchinson is under 20 minutes from Nickerson. McPherson and Great Bend are less than an hour away. Nickerson Local Attractions/Activities Nickerson has several events that the citizens can get involved with throughout the year. They have a nice city park that offers a quiet area for family reunions, picnicking or a place to take your children to play. The park has barbeques, water, restrooms, electricity access, sheltered picnic area, playground, basketball court, a large field and is across the street from the baseball diamonds. Nickerson has places for you to shop and dine in the city. They also have area churches for your convenience. As you can see, the city has almost everything that you could want and need. (Source- City of Nickerson-www.nickersonks.org) Nickerson – History The original town site of Nickerson was platted in 1875 by the railroad company, one mile east of the present site. In 1872, a depot was built at that point, and the station was known as Nickerson, so named in honor of Thomas Nickerson, then President of the A., T. & S. F. Railway. The next building was erected by the railroad company in the fall of 1872, and used as a section house. In the fall of 1874, a schoolhouse was built. In August 1875 Dr. L. A. Reeves erected a two-story frame building, and opened a store of goods. In 1876 he sold his store to A. Sievart. For the next two years these buildings comprised "Old Nickerson." In October, 1878, the present town site of Nickerson was platted on ground which was then covered by an extensive corn field owned by Mr. Sears. A very few days after the town site was surveyed, James Devitt commenced the foundation for the hotel known as the Dominion House. About the same time A. L. Harlow began the foundations for a building, afterwards known as the Harlow House. Before these buildings were completed, Dr. L. A. Reeves moved the building now occupied as the post office from Old Nickerson. With the exception of a small frame structure, occupied by John Sears, it was the first building on the town site. By March, 1879, Dr. Reeves had the whole block built, now known as the Reeves Block. Probably the first building built on the town site was a drug store erected by M. McCormick, in October, 1878. This was followed by a building used as a general store, and occupied by Sievart & Smith. Within sixty days Nickerson had two hotels, one dozen stores, two livery stables, two lumber yards and a printing office. (Source- Kansas Collection Books-www.kancoll.org) Nickerson, KS Real Estate Property Information 306 S Nickerson St Nickerson, KS 67561	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14294
__label__wiki	0.535521	0.535521	March was a busy month for the Search Committee. We met to review the Head of School applications from our pool of outstanding candidates. We reached a consensus on the best of these potential leaders and invited eight candidates to interview as semi-finalists with members of the committee. Six of the semi-finalists were able to come to Wesley and meet with us in person; the two more distant candidates interviewed via video link. Each of the semi-finalists has a broad range of the skills and experience we are seeking in our next Head of School. A significant number are currently Head of School or Division Head at their current school, and the others are well positioned to make the transition to Head of School. As with previous decisions made by the Search Committee, the selection of semi-finalists was a thorough, thoughtful and deliberate process held with careful attention to our community's diversity and inclusivity values. After our semi-finalist interviews, the Search Committee reached a unanimous consensus to invite four candidates back to Wesley for more extensive meetings and interviews. We are confident that our careful attention to the semi-finalists has revealed who we think are the best final four candidates for Head of School at Wesley. Each of the four finalists will be on campus for separate two-day visits beginning April 10. As was promised in previous messages, the entire Wesley community will have an opportunity to meet these exceptional individuals. We will send you information on each candidate prior to their respective visits. We will also include a link to an online feedback form to share your observations on the finalists with the Search Committee. During their time at Wesley, the finalists will tour our campus, visit classes, and meet with Faculty, Administration, Staff, Students, Trustees, and others, including Pastor Steve at FUMC. We have four dates planned for current parents, alumni parents and alumni, and other interested parties to meet each of the finalists. The evening sessions will be held on Thursday April 11, Monday April 15, Wednesday April 17 and Tuesday April 23, from 5:30 to 6:45pm in the Social Hall (child care provided at no charge). Faculty, Staff, and Administration will be provided with a separate schedule for their respective meetings. Please note that the Search Committee will be thoroughly investigating the references for each finalist. Because of the serious nature of this process and the professional courtesies we must provide to the candidates, we ask that you allow the Search Committee, and the Search Committee alone, to conduct reference checks. In keeping with the respectful and professional protocol we have agreed to with the candidates, if you know of someone who it would be appropriate for the committee to speak with, please contact us so we may reach out to that person directly. Here is a brief reminder of the overall process for determining our next Head of School: Hiring the Head of School is one of the most important responsibilities of the Board of Trustees of The Wesley School. To assist in the process, an ad hoc search committee was established, which includes Trustees, Faculty (both Lower and Middle School), and current parents. This group is responsible for doing all of the work associated with the search on behalf of the Board of Trustees. Throughout the process they have worked to gather all of the information necessary through evaluation of candidate materials, interviews, reference checks, observations, discussions, etc., to find the right person to lead Wesley. The Search Committee will make a recommendation to the Board of Trustees as to their choice for the next Head of School, and the Board of Trustees will vote on that recommendation. This is an exciting time for our community and we look forward to your participation in welcoming the finalists on campus and in the selection of our next Head of School. As was stated above, we will provide you with more details just prior to their respective visits. Meanwhile, if you have any questions, please feel free to email us.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14296
__label__wiki	0.654292	0.654292	ENTERTAINMENT: Here Are 10 Hot Korean Celebs You’d Want to Be Your Oppa • April 21, 2017 KDrama is just so hyped right now! So, we took the liberty to show you 10 of the hottest Korean actors that you might want to be your oppa. These guys are just so good-looking with their perfect smile and complexion. Oh, and some of them are so ripped you might to see them with their shirts off. LOL. Check ’em out! 10. Park Bo-Gum A post shared by Park Bo Gum 박보검 (@parkb0gum) on Oct 2, 2016 at 5:41am PDT Park Bo-Gum has had a diverse range of roles in film and television, notably, a psychopathic lawyer in Hello Monster (2015), a genius Go player in Reply 1988 (2015) and a Joseon Crown Prince in Love in the Moonlight (2016). 9. Kim Woo-Bin Uncontrollably Fond Still Cuts #함부로애틋하게 #UncontrollablyFond #김우빈 #KimWooBin A post shared by Kim Woo Bin 김우빈 (@actorkimwoobin) on Aug 3, 2016 at 8:18pm PDT Kim Woo-Bin started his career as a runway model and made his acting debut in the television drama White Christmas. He subsequently gained attention in A Gentleman’s Dignity (2012), and made his breakthrough with School 2013 (2013-2013) and The Heirs (2013). Kim later starred in box office hits Friend: The Great Legacy (2013), The Con Artists (2014) and Twenty (2015). In 2016, he took on his first leading role on television in Uncontrollably Fond. 8. Ji Chang-Wook #tvN #금토드라마 #TheK2 #더케이투 스틸 2016.09.23.FRI PM8:00 첫방송 #지창욱 #jichangwook #池昌旭 #チチャンウク A post shared by 청공(青空) (@aozora_luv) on Sep 6, 2016 at 10:34pm PDT Ji Chang-Wook rose to fame playing the leading role of Dong-hae in daily drama series Smile Again (2010-2011), and has since starred in Warrior Baek Dong-soo (2011), Empress Ki (2013-2014), Healer (2014-2015), The K2 (2016) and the crime-action film Fabricated City (2017). 7. Park Seo-Joon #ARENA A post shared by 박서준 (@bn_sj2013) on Feb 22, 2016 at 5:33am PST Park Seo-Joon is best known for his roles in the television dramas She Was Pretty (2015) and Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth (2016-2017). 6. Jang Keun-Suk ❤JANG KEUN SUK❤ Asia Prince IG account ???????????????????????????????? @_asia_prince_jks @_asia_prince_jks @_asia_prince_jks @_asia_prince_jks . . #jangkeunsuk #jks #장근석 #asiaprince #oppa #prettyman #beautiful #love #bestactor #bestsinger #superactor #koreanactor #lotte #zikzin #eels #music #teamh #support #imalwaysonyourside #iranianeelsfamily #daebak #대박 #produce101 #instagram #_asia_prince_jks A post shared by ????ASIA PRINCE???? (@jang_keun_suk94) on Jan 30, 2017 at 11:02pm PST Jang Keun-Suk is best known for starring in the television dramas Beethoven Virus (2008), You’re Beautiful (2009), Mary Stayed Out All Night (2010), Love Rain (2012), Pretty Man (2013) and Jackpot (2016). 5. Song Joong-Ki A post shared by SONG JOONG KI / 송중기 (@songjoongkionly) on Feb 20, 2017 at 4:39pm PST Song Joong-Ki plays lead role in the pan-Asia hit drama Descendants of the Sun (2016). 4. Nam Joo-Hyuk @instylekorea b컷 7월호???? A post shared by 남주혁 (@skawngur) on Jun 12, 2016 at 2:46am PDT Nam Joo-Hyuk is a South Korean model and actor. He has starred in Who Are You: School 2015 (2015) and Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo (2016). 3. Gong Yoo ????❤️ . . #공유 #공지철 #GONGYOO #ggong #コンユ #Actor #KoreanActor #photoshoot ???????????????????????????????????????? #ggong_JM A post shared by 공 유 \| 공 지 철 \| GONG YOO (@gongyoo7010) on Oct 11, 2015 at 4:27am PDT Gong Yoo is best known for his roles in television dramas The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince (2007) and Guardian: The Lonely and Great God (2016-2017), and the films Silenced (2011), The Age of Shadows (2016), and Train to Busan (2016). 2. Kim Soo-Hyun A post shared by @soohyun_k216 on Sep 7, 2016 at 10:05pm PDT Kim Soo-Hyun is best known for his roles in the television dramas Dream High (2011), Moon Embracing the Sun (2012), My Love from the Star (2013) and The Producers (2015), as well as the movies The Thieves (2012) and Secretly, Greatly (2013). 1. Lee Min-Ho #inLA #ELLE #사막 #더워 A post shared by L (@actorleeminho) on Jul 7, 2015 at 4:21pm PDT Lee Min-Ho first gained widespread fame in Korea and parts of Asia with his role as Gu Jun-pyo in Boys Over Flowers in 2009. The role won him a Best New Actor award at the 45th Baeksang Arts Awards. He is noted for his leading roles in City Hunter (2011), The Heirs (2013) and The Legend of the Blue Sea (2016). The success of Lee’s television dramas throughout Asia established him as a top Hallyu star. Lee starred in his first leading role in film with Gangnam Blues (2015), followed by his first China-produced film Bounty Hunters (2016). Who else should we add on this list? Let us know! descendants of the sungong yookorean actorsLEE MIN HOTrain to Busan IGPopular: 7 Disney Princesses Pop to Life When... 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__label__cc	0.73721	0.26279	Summer 2019 :: Sense and Sensibility :: Reading/Auditions YAT will next meet at St Peter & St Paul's Church Hall, Teddington from 7.30pm on Monday 13th May 2019 where we will be holding a discussion and introduction evening for our Summer 2019 production, 'Sense and Sensibility'. Readings/Auditions/Rehearsals Published at 7:25pm on Wednesday 8 May, 2019 Spring 2019 :: Our House :: Reading/Auditions YAT will next meet at St Peter & St Paul's Church Hall, Teddington from 7.30pm on Monday 4th February 2019 where we will be holding a discussion and introduction evening for our Spring 2019 production, "Our House" the Musical. Published at 11:06pm on Thursday 24 January, 2019 Autumn 2018 :: The Trial :: Reading/Auditions YAT will next meet at St Peter & St Paul's Church Hall, Teddington from 7.30pm on Monday 27th August 2018 where we will be holding a discussion and introduction evening for our Autumn 2018 production, The Trial. Published at 2:26pm on Saturday 25 August, 2018 Swan Award Nominations 2017/18 YAT has received two nominations for this year's Arts Richmond Swan Awards. Best Design Element Sarah Dowd, Elizabeth Lattimore, Emma Woodley and Emily Moss for Costumes and Hair in Blue Stockings (YAT) Best Production of a Play Blue Stockings (YAT) directed by Sarah Dowd and Elizabeth Lattimore, produced by Jenna Powell Published at 3:22pm on Wednesday 1 August, 2018 Summer 2018 :: Blue Stockings :: Reading/Auditions YAT will next meet at St Peter & St Paul Church Hall, Teddington from 7.30pm on Monday 23rd April 2018 where we will be holding a discussion and introduction evening for our Summer 2018 production, Blue Stockings. Published at 11:52am on Friday 20 April, 2018 Spring 2018 :: The Witches :: Reading/Auditions YAT will next meet at St Peter & St Paul Church Hall, Teddington from 7.30pm on Monday 29th January 2018 where we will be holding a discussion and introduction evening for our Spring 2018 production, The Witches. Published at 9:42pm on Saturday 20 January, 2018 Autumn 2017 :: big The Musical :: Reading/Auditions YAT will next meet at St Peter & St Paul Church Hall, Teddington from 7.30pm on Monday 28 August 2017 where we will be holding a discussion and introduction evening for our Autumn 2017 production, big The Musical. Published at 2:03pm on Thursday 24 August, 2017 Summer 2017 :: The Merry Wives of Windsor :: Reading/Auditions YAT will next meet at Hampton Hill Theatre, Hampton Hill from 7.30pm on Wednesday 3 May 2017 where we will be holding a discussion and introduction evening for our second Summer 2017 production, The Merry Wives of Windsor. Summer 2017 :: Attempts on Her Life :: Reading/Auditions YAT will next meet at St Peter & St Paul Church Hall, Teddington from 7.30pm on Monday 10 April 2017 where we will be holding a discussion and introduction evening for our first Summer 2017 production, Attempts on Her Life. Published at 7:06pm on Thursday 6 April, 2017 Spring 2017 :: The Government Inspector :: Reading/Auditions YAT will next meet at St Peter & St Paul Church Hall, Teddington from 8pm on Thursday 5 January 2017 where we will be holding a discussion and reading for our Spring production, The Government Inspector. Published at 4:57pm on Sunday 1 January, 2017 Autumn 2016 :: Titanic the Musical :: Reading/Auditions YAT will next meet at St Peter & St Paul Church Hall, Teddington from 7.30pm on Monday 22 August 2016 where we will be holding a discussion and reading for our Autumn production, Titanic the Musical. YAT has received two nominations for this year's artsrichmond Swan Awards. BEST YOUTH PRODUCTION - Twelfth Night Joanna Leppink & Rebecca Tarry (directors) BEST YOUTH PRODUCTION - Tom's Midnight Garden Bill Compton (director) Published at 7:26pm on Monday 25 July, 2016 Summer 2016 :: The Erpingham Camp :: Reading/Auditions YAT will next meet at Collis School, Teddington from 7.30pm on Monday 20 June 2016 where we will be holding a discussion and reading for our second Summer production, The Erpingham Camp. Published at 4:32pm on Sunday 12 June, 2016 Summer 2016 :: The Trial of Hansel & Gretel :: Reading/Auditions YAT will next meet at Collis School, Teddington from 7.30pm on Monday 25 April 2016 where we will be holding a discussion and reading for our next production. This will be followed by Auditions for our first Summer production, The Trial of Hansel & Gretel. Published at 3:33pm on Tuesday 19 April, 2016 Spring 2016 :: Tom's Midnight Garden :: Reading/Auditions YAT will next meet at Collis School, Teddington from 7.30pm on Monday 25 January 2016 where we will be holding a discussion for our 2016 season. This will be followed by Workshops, Readings and Auditions for our Spring production of Tom's Midnight Garden. Published at 7:30am on Tuesday 19 January, 2016 Winter 2016 :: Winter Festival :: Reading/Auditions YAT will next meet at its regular workshop/rehearsal space at Collis School, Fairfax Road, Teddington from 7.30pm on Monday 23 November 2015 where we will be holding a read through for our Winter Festival. This will be followed by auditions on Thursday 26 November at 7.30pm at the same venue. Published at 9:45pm on Saturday 21 November, 2015 Autumn 2015 :: URINETOWN The Musical :: Reading/Auditions YAT will next meet at Hampton Hill Theatre from 7.30pm on Thursday 27 August 2015 where we will be holding a read through for our Autumn production, URINETOWN The Musical. Published at 8:00am on Monday 24 August, 2015 YAT has received four nominations for this year's artsrichmond Swan Awards. BEST YOUTH PRODUCTION - Great Expectations Michael Bishop (director) BEST YOUTH PRODUCTION - Into The Woods Elizabeth Lattimore & Sarah Dowd (directors), Adam Hope (MD), Sophie Hardie & Katie Martin (choreography) BEST MUSICAL PRODUCTION - Into The Woods BEST DESIGN - Into The Woods Sarah Dowd,Jenna Powell, Elizabeth Lattimore (set), Michael Bishop (lighting), John Battersby (sound) Published at 1:49pm on Wednesday 29 July, 2015 Eric Yardley's Celebratory YAT Party Eric Yardley presents... A CELEBRATION OF YAT! You are invited to join us for a day of celebration and reunion. Eric bequeathed funds to help us organise a return to the splendours of Hampton Court House, where YAT spent so many of its formative years. Please join us on Saturday 31 October 2015 to fulfil Eric's wish and celebrate our achievements over the past 45 years. Published at 6:11pm on Monday 18 May, 2015 YAT Audition Notice :: DNA YAT will next meet at its regular workshop/rehearsal space at Collis School, Teddington from 7.30pm on Thursday 21 May 2015 where we will be holding a read through for our second Summer 2015 production, DNA. This will be followed by auditions on Tuesday 2 June at 7.30pm at the same venue. Published at 12:37pm on Saturday 16 May, 2015 YAT Audition Notice :: All's Well That Ends Well YAT will next meet at its regular workshop/rehearsal space at Collis School, Teddington from 7.30pm on Monday 18 May 2015 where we will be holding a read through for our first Summer 2015 production, All's Well That Ends Well. This will be followed by auditions on Monday 1 June at 7.30pm at the same venue. Published at 11:44am on Saturday 16 May, 2015 Summer 2015 :: Readings/Auditions Missing us already? Never fear, our next readings and auditions are not too far away! Published at 10:11am on Thursday 23 April, 2015 YAT's 2015 Season We are pleased to be able to finally announce the full line-up of productions for YAT's 2015 Season. Published at 12:20am on Friday 6 March, 2015 Spring 2015 :: Great Expectations :: Reading/Auditions YAT will next meet at its regular workshop/rehearsal space at Collis School, Fairfax Road, Teddington from 7.30pm on Monday 26 January 2015 where we will be holding a read through for our Spring production, Great Expectations. This will be followed by auditions on Tuesday 27 and Thursday 29 January at 7.30pm at the same venue. Published at 8:00am on Friday 21 November, 2014 Autumn 2014 :: Into The Woods :: Reading/Auditions YAT will next meet at Teddington School, Broom Road, Teddington from 7.30pm on Thursday 14 August 2014 where we will be holding a read through for our Autumn production, Into The Woods. This will be followed by a workshop on Monday 18, then auditions on Tuesday 19 and Thursday 21 August at 7.30pm at the same venue. Published at 9:45pm on Sunday 10 August, 2014 YAT has received one nomination for this year's artsrichmond Swan Awards. BEST YOUTH PRODUCTION - Peer Gynt Bill Compton (director and designer), Michael Bishop (Lighting) & Anna Carlson (Wardrobe) Published at 10:00am on Sunday 27 July, 2014 Summer 2014 :: The Boy and the Woodland Kingdom :: Reading/Auditions YAT will next meet at its regular workshop/rehearsal space at Collis School, Fairfax Road, Teddington from 7.30pm on Thursday 24 April 2014 where we will be holding a read through for our first Summer 2014 production, The Boy and the Woodland Kingdom. This will be followed by auditions on both Thursday 24 April and Monday 28 April at the same venue. Published at 5:49pm on Sunday 20 April, 2014 Spring 2014 :: Peer Gynt :: Reading/Auditions YAT will next meet at its regular workshop/rehearsal space at Collis School, Fairfax Road, Teddington from 7.30pm on Monday 27 January 2014 where we will be holding a read through for our Spring production, Peer Gynt. This will be followed by auditions on Tuesday 28 and Thursday 30 January at 7.30pm at the same venue. Published at 9:00pm on Wednesday 22 January, 2014 Published at 12:00am on Friday 22 November, 2013 BEST DESIGN - Spring Awakening Elizabeth Lattimore, Sarah Dowd and Jenna Powell BEST MUSICAL PRODUCTION - Spring Awakening Elizabeth Lattimore, Sarah Dowd (directors), Adam Hope (MD) & Holly Munson (choreographer) Published at 6:00pm on Tuesday 30 July, 2013 Summer 2013 :: Confusions & The Way of the World :: Reading/Auditions This Summer, YAT will be embarking on two productions. The plan is to give you a chance to read and workshop each play over the next two weeks, before letting you decide which one you want to audition for. Both will be cast during the second week of May and both will be staged in July/August 2013. Further details for each of the plays and the relevant dates are show below. Published at 12:45pm on Saturday 20 April, 2013 Spring 2013 :: Doctor Faustus :: Reading/Auditions YAT will next meet at its regular workshop/rehearsal space at Collis School, Fairfax Road, Teddington from 7.30pm on Monday 28 January 2013 where we will be holding workshops for Doctor Faustus. Published at 12:00am on Monday 21 January, 2013 YAT's Second President It is with great pleasure that YAT are able to announce the appointment of Eileen Baker as our Second President. Eileen takes over the reins from our Founder and First President, Eric Yardley, who sadly passed away in June 2012. Published at 11:35pm on Tuesday 8 January, 2013 YAT will next meet at its regular workshop/rehearsal space at Collis School, Fairfax Road, Teddington from 7.30pm on Monday 19 November 2012 where we will be holding a read through for our Winter Festival. This will be followed by auditions on Thursday 22nd November at 7.30pm at the same venue. Published at 2:25pm on Sunday 11 November, 2012 Autumn 2012 :: Spring Awakening - A New Musical :: Auditions from Thursday 16 August 2012 at 7.30pm Teddington School, Broom Road, Teddington SPRING AWAKENING - A New Musical Original Story by Frank Wedekind Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater Music by Duncan Sheik Published at 12:14am on Monday 6 August, 2012 After Genghis - Discussions After the completion of Genghis Khan, YAT will meet at Collis School, Teddington at 7.30pm on Thursday 19 July 2012. Eric Yardley It is with great sadness that YAT announces the passing of Eric Yardley, our Founder and First President. Eric passed away peacefully in his sleep after a short illness at Kingston Hospital on Thursday 28 June 2012. Published at 1:38am on Thursday 5 July, 2012 Summer 2012 :: Genghis Khan :: Auditions Thursday 19, Monday 23 and Thursday 26 April 2012 at 7.30pm Collis School, Fairfax Road, Teddington * Extra Auditions - Monday 30 April 2012 at 7.30pm * GENGHIS KHAN - Child of the Blue Wolf by David 'Iddy' Wheatley directed by Bill Compton Autumn 2012 :: Spring Awakening :: Workshops Monday 16 and Tuesday 17 April 2012 at 7.30pm SINGING WORKSHOPS for SPRING AWAKENING led by Sarah Dowd and Lizzie Lattimore Published at 5:51pm on Wednesday 4 April, 2012 Spring 2012 :: The Rover :: Auditions Monday 9 January 2012 at 7.30pm by Aphra adapted by John Barton for the RSC in 1986 Drama Festival 2010 - Discussions After the completion of The Labours of Heracles, YAT will meet at Collis School, Teddington at 7.30pm on Monday 16 November 2009. Published at 10:00pm on Sunday 15 November, 2009 Management Committee Changes With immediate effect, Sarah Perkins has made the decision to step down from the Management Committee due to family and work commitments. Published at 5:00pm on Sunday 4 October, 2009 Biddy Osborne It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of one of YAT's greatest supporters through the 80's and 90's, Biddy Osborne. She will be sorely missed by all those who knew her. Published at 12:00pm on Saturday 24 January, 2009 After the completion of Elizabeth I, YAT will meet at Collis School, Teddington at 7.30pm on Monday 17 November 2008. Published at 12:00am on Sunday 9 November, 2008 With immediate effect, Sarah Stewart has made the decision to step down from the Management Committee to enable her to pursue her professional career full time. Published at 12:00am on Wednesday 27 August, 2008 Elizabeth I - Audition Notice Readings and Auditions for YAT's Autumn 2008 Production of Elizabeth I by Paul Foster will begin on Monday 1 September at Collis School, Teddington at 7.30pm. Scary Summer Stories Now that The Good Person of Szechwan is over and with little over a month to go until we start work on our Autumn 2008 production, ex-YAT member Steve Hogben has stepped up to run a very exciting two part story-telling workshop on Richmond Green and in Bushy Park. Published at 12:00am on Sunday 3 August, 2008 Summer 2008 Reading and Auditions The first meeting to discuss plans for YAT's Summer 2008 production will be held on Monday 12 May at Collis School, Teddington at 7.30pm and every Monday and Thursday thereafter. YAT's 100th Production Reading and auditions for YAT's 100th Production, the Royal Hunt of the Sun by Peter Shaffer, will be held from Monday 28 January at Collis School, Teddington. Published at 11:44pm on Wednesday 23 January, 2008 Christmas 2007 and New Year 2008 Starting Monday 19 November, YAT will begin casting and rehearsals for a number of small cast, short plays to be performed at the Studio Theatre at Hampton Hill Playhouse on Friday 18 and Saturday 19 January 2008. Published at 10:00pm on Wednesday 14 November, 2007 Dennis Baker It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of one of YAT's finest and most respected members, Dennis Baker, who died peacefully at his home earlier today (14 September 2007). He will be sorely missed by all those who knew him. Published at 3:12pm on Friday 14 September, 2007 Coming Around Again - Audition Notice Auditions for YAT's Autumn 2007 production, to be staged from 6 to 11 November 2007 at the Hampton Hill Playhouse, will be held on Monday 20 and Thursday 23 August at Teddington School, Broom Road, Teddington from 7.30pm onwards. Published at 12:00am on Monday 20 August, 2007 We are holding a series of four workshops at Collis School Teddington Middlesex, starting Monday 30 July 2007 from 7.30pm to 10.00pm. Published at 12:47pm on Monday 30 July, 2007 Membership Feedback Meeting The next member's meeting will be held on Monday 23 July 2007 at Collis School from 7.30pm onwards. Published at 1:32am on Monday 23 July, 2007 With immediate effect, Scott O'Brien and Trine Taraldsvik have made the decision to resign from the Management Committee. Published at 11:59pm on Tuesday 17 July, 2007 Tweet Content © 1996-2019 Youth Action Theatre \| Design © 1996-2019 Bill Compton \| Hosted by Intralinx Internet Services	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14302
__label__wiki	0.511279	0.511279	The passage of forty years I first arrived in Israel late in the afternoon of July 16th 1967. I knew enough about the country not to expect camels and desert everywhere, but it did seem fitting that our first view from the windows of the plane was of sand dunes. By the time we exited the terminal it was dark, and we climbed aboard a taxi which had no air conditioning so the warm evening wind blew in through the open windows. The road up to Jerusalem was probably two lanes, but it wasn't crowded. Most Israelis didn't own cars in those days. I remember it snaked up down and around, hugging the contours of the Judean hills; I also remember that we passed though a number of towns, and there were lots of people out on the streets, enjoying the respite from the heat of the day. Eventually we reached Jerusalem, and the cab driver had to ask directions to our destination, a hostel-like place in Kiryat Hayovel. I especially remember the feeling of exuberance in the air. A few blocks from our destination the cabbie pulled up in front of a group of people sitting around a camp fire; a young boy rushed up to us and shouted in excitement "We won! We won!" Two blocks down a young woman also expressed delight in the victory, before directing us around the corner. It was a month after the Six Day War. I flew into Israel on the 16th of July this year, too, late in the afternoon. The sand dunes are all gone, covered by housing projects of 15- or 20-story residential towers. (There probably weren't more than two such buildings in all of Israel in 1967). The towns are crisscrossed by broad multi-lane highways, all of them clogged with vehicles. On the road up to Jerusalem we didn't enter a single town; the highway stays out of them all. Arriving in Jerusalem we saw no dancing groups of celebrators. People don't do public celebrations on hot summer evenings anymore. 48 years have seen a lot of change. Forty years ago today, on August 17th 1975, I enlisted in the IDF. The IDF in those days was still reeling from the Yom Kippur War. A year earlier recruits were reportedly given three choices upon enlistment: they could join the tanks, or the tanks, or the tanks. By the time I arrived people were volunteering to the paratroopers and being sent to the one or two other infantry units, but most people went into the armoured corps. Most of the army seemed to be there in those days; once there they served either on the Golan or in the Sinai. The enemy was Egypt, or Syria; I never had a single military encounter with Palestinians in my entire three-year stint - or for that matter, in my subsequent 30-40 months of reserve duty spread over the next 25 years. I had an officer who was certified as being shell-shocked, and a company commander who wasn't certified but should have been. The first evening in the recruitment depot Evyatar and I crawled out under a fence and went to find a public telephone to call home. Being 18, we weren't afraid of fighting or dying; but we were apprehensive about sharing tents and training with the loud and rough-looking soldiers from parts of society we'd never interacted with. I suppose they may have been prickly about us, too, but we didn't see this at the time. Doing first rounds of kitchen duty was frightening: we were ordered around by soldiers who seemed to delight in our sense of apprehension and disorientation. It was hot. It was strange. It was radically different. We had boarded the bus in Jerusalem cocky with the sensation that we were joining something big and important; now it looked mostly foreign and disconcerting. And l-o-o-o-n-g! Three whole years! In this?! Three. Whole. Years. Would we ever return to a normal civilian life, such as the one we'd just left so blithely behind? Yes and no, in retrospect. We did, of course, because three years isn't, actually, very long. We didn't, in many ways, because by the time we got out we ourselves were very different. That first evening, in a hot tent on a prickly blanket on a steel-frame cot was one of the most important points of my life. The thing is, I knew it at the time, too - and yet I didn't. Donning the ugly and uncomfortable olive uniform and clunky boots gave us the feeling of now being adults, citizens, contributors to society, lords of our destiny. And also hopelessly young and inexperienced, rookies, untested and insignificant cogs in a large machine which didn't at all care about who we'd been so far. We knew we were on the cusp of one of life's biggest adventures; we didn't have the slightest inkling of what we were facing. We knew we were setting out on a rite of passage; we didn't comprehend the rite or where we'd pass to. The system was reeling after war, and it looked solid and impregnable; we were over-confident and exuberant; ignorant of what we'd be called upon to deal with and what growth we'd be required to perform. Evyatar eventually made it all the way to full Colonel. I climbed up to first sergeant. Yet each of us and all of us really did acquire a personal confidence based on achievement and the satisfaction of successfully coping, functioning in the system, and mastering its requirements. By the time we walked out, we really were adults, citizens, contributors to society and, oh yes, lords of our destiny to the degree this is granted to mere mortals. And a good thing, too, because the country was changing. From two-lane roads across sand dunes, to highways between hi-tech development centers; from the simplicity of singing around a campfire on a hot summer evening to the complexity of a multilayered, multifaceted society smack in the middle of one of the world's most volatile regions. There is more than one path we can take in life, and more than one direction society can move in. Our ability to participate in the way we have, to contribute in the ways we've managed, to own our society for better and for worse, were profoundly forged by what followed when we woke, for the first time, in those hot ugly tents on the morning of August 18th 1975 to face our first full day in the army. Posted by Yaacov at 11:26 PM Labels: IDF-general How Air Berlin consciously, purposefully and cynically screwed its passengers - three times in a row About a month ago I apologized to my readers for branching off into a bit of consumerism, and told how Air Berlin had intentionally lost the luggage of a few hundred passengers. Since then the story has gotten worse, so I'm posting a quick summary. On July 5th 2015 Air Berlin sent off flight AB3546 from Tegel airport in Berlin to Reykjavik in Iceland with about 250 passengers, and perhaps 50 pieces of luggage. This was not an oversight, nor the accidental misdirecting of a suitcase. You can't misplace 200 pieces of luggage without noticing what you're doing. Later, in Reykjavik, someone told us Air Berlin preferred some other cargo over our luggage. I don't know if this is true, but it seems plausible. Someone at Tegel decided that Air Berlin had more to gain by harming its passengers than by treating them as they expected when they bought their tickets. So that was the first time Air Berlin purposefully screwed us. We spent the next 12 days in Iceland, having a wonderful time hiking in the mountains. Iceland really is spectacular! Some time soon I'll post on Iceland and JRR Tolkien, but not today. During our entire time in Iceland, Air Berlin never made any attempt to contact us, much less offer information about what we might expect. The night of the flight they uttered nary a word, though of course they knew even before taking off that they were about to inflict harm on us. We arrived in Reykjavik at about 3am, and were left to figure out on our own what was going on; there was no Air Berlin representative in sight. The next morning we had to decide if and what to purchase to replace or not replace the lost luggage. No word from Air Berlin. Actually, we never managed to be in contact with an Air Berlin representative throughout our entire stay. Any updates and eventual retrieval of our luggage was all organized by the The Icelandic tourist company giving us logistic support for our hike. (Icelandic Mountain Guides, if you're interested. They were excellent. The diametric opposite of Air Berlin). So that was the second time Air Berlin harmed us. Our luggage trickled in over the next 12 days. The first pieces reached our group on Friday, on the 5th day after the flight; mine arrived on the following Wednesday, just as we were on our way back to the airport to fly out of Iceland. Since returning home we've all lodged complaints on the Air Berlin website. Interestingly, this website does not dwell on the possibility that the airline sometimes purposefully harms its passengers. Air Berlin's responses to our claims are exactly what you'd expect of a company which holds its clients in contempt. Most of us have been offered small rebates the next time we fly with Air Berlin! As if any of us ever will! The sums seem to be totally random, except that they're all small. One or two of us got other offers, equally unacceptable. I was initially told to re-submit my claim, at a section of their website which refused to accept the claim. So the third unacceptable treatment Air Berlin has meted out is its cynical ignoring of us, and its intentional disregard of all our attempts to obtain some sort of reimbursement for the costs we incurred through their direct actions. Clearly someone in Air Berlin has thought about the matter and decided that they're a big company, and we're small individuals, and that's simply a fact. Big companies can aford to despise small individuals secure in the knowledge that they'll get away with it. And the source of their smug impunity? It's the fact they've done it before. In 2013 they lost all the luggage of an entire flight, didn't own up, disdainfully screwed the passengers, and lived to tell the tale. A mere two years later all the members of our group blithely bought tickets on an Air Berlin flight without any inkling how atrocious the airline is. Since July 5th lots of other folks have bought Air Berlin tickets, ignorant of the pernicious record of this airline. So why should Air Berlin give a hoot how much damage they inflicted on us? Unless of course it eventually occurs to the leaders of Air Berlin that one nasty story, and another, and another, and another, will eventually dent their reputation and begin to have a cost. Perhaps even a higher cost than reimbursing their passengers in a fair manner. Legalese postscript: There's a thing called the Montreal Convention which details what an Airline such as Air Berlin owes its passengers when it causes them harm. Article 22 details what happens when luggage is detained. Paragraph 5 is particularly interesting, and unambiguously describes the behavior of Air Berlin in our case: The foregoing provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article shall not apply if it is proved that the damage resulted from an act or omission of the carrier, its servants or agents, done with intent to cause damage or recklessly and with knowledge that damage would probably result; provided that, in the case of such act or omission of a servant or agent, it is also proved that such servant or agent was acting within the scope of its employment. Interestingly, if you look long enough you'll find a document on the Air Berlin website which rather grudgingly admits (in passing, on page 15) that Air Berlin is, actually, aware of the Montreal Convention. What have we learned from this? That NO ONE SHOULD EVER EVER FLY AIR BERLIN! Addendum: Here's a story by some other fellow who's really really angry at Air Berlin.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14309
__label__wiki	0.61684	0.61684	← Mining Peru Auto ad dollars dictate the news → Repression of the Canadian left By Yves Engler In Argentina they threw leftists out of airplanes while in Chile thousands were detained in stadiums, some tortured and some killed. In Brazil and Uruguay the story was similar. When threatened by progressive forces, the elite in many countries resorted to illegal acts and certainly never felt constrained by constitutional rights. How about Canada? For more than three decades the RCMP ran PROFUNC (PROminent FUNCtionaries of the Communist Party), a highly secretive espionage operation and internment plan. In October CBC’s Fifth Estate and Radio-Canada’s Enquête aired shows on “this secret contingency plan, called PROFUNC, [which] allowed police to round up and indefinitely detain Canadians believed to be Communist sympathizers.” In case of a “national security” threat up to 16,000 suspected communists and 50,000 sympathizers were to be apprehended and interned in one of eight camps across the country. Initiated by RCMP Commissioner Stuart Taylor Wood in 1950, the plan continued until 1983. The plan was highly detailed. Police stations across the country would receive a signal to open their PROFUNC lists and apprehend said individuals. The “communists” would then be taken to “reception centres” where they would be restricted from talking and anyone attempting to flee would be shot. Eventually, the “communists” would be moved to one of the regional internment camps where their contact with the outside world would be limited to a single 1-page letter each week. Their children would be sent to live with other family members. Thousands of officers collected information for PROFUNC at one time or another. Each potential internee had an arrest document (C-215 form) that was regularly updated with the person’s physical description, age, photos, vehicle information, housing and sometimes the location of doors they might use to escape arrest. Only a small number of the names on the list are public, but it clearly didn’t take much to be put on it. Enquête uncovered the name of a 13-year girl who was on the list because she attended an anti-nuclear protest in 1964. Many prominent individuals were also on the PROFUNC list, including a former Manitoba cabinet minister, Roland Penner, CBC President Robert Rabinovitch, and NDP leader Tommy Douglas (who was voted greatest Canadian in a CBC poll). Enquête focused on the presumed use of PROFUNC lists during the 1970 October Crisis when Pierre Trudeau’s government implemented the War Measures Act. The head of the Montreal police’s anti-terrorism squad when the Front de libération du Québec kidnapped two government officials, Julien Giguère, told Enquête that his department had a list of 60 suspected FLQ sympathizers that they wanted to investigate. But the federal government wanted to justify their suspension of civil liberties and their claim of an “apprehended insurrection” so the RCMP and Sureté du Québec added many names to the Montreal police list. These added names appear to have come from PROFUNC lists. In subsequent days police agencies carried out almost 4,000 raids and made 500 arrests. Many of those detained were held without charge for weeks or months. Robert Kaplan, Solicitor General from 1980 to 1984, ended PROFUNC when he ordered the RCMP to stop whatever they were doing that blocked elderly Canadians from entering the US. Kaplan claims the Fifth Estate informed him of the program. PROFUNC was disbanded at about the same time as the Trudeau government opened the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the RCMP (or Macdonald Commission), which investigated the RCMP’s “theft of the membership list of the Parti Québécois, several break-ins; illegal opening of mail; burning a barn in Quebec where the Black Panther Party and Front de libération du Québec were rumoured to be planning a rendezvous; forging documents; and conducting illegal electronic surveillance.” As a result of the Macdonald Commission, Ottawa reduced the RCMP’s role in security and intelligence gathering. In 1984 they created the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) to carry out security and intelligence gathering work that had previously been the RCMP’s responsibility. CSIS may not continue all of the functions of PROFUNC, but they definitely still monitor individuals based upon their political beliefs. The focus may no longer be solely on leftists. Politicized Muslims are definitely also on the list. In recent years CSIS has been involved in the mistreatment of a number of innocent individuals. In 2003 the intelligence agency prodded Sudan to detain Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Sudanese-born Canadian citizen, who was then tortured and put through a harrowing six-year ordeal. CSIS is also largely responsible for the incarceration of more than a dozen Muslims on security certificates. These individuals (who are permanent residents, refugees or foreign nationals living in Canada) have been incarcerated without being able to see the evidence CSIS has put forward against them. Of course, CSIS doesn’t only target Muslims. From last October to May 2010 at least seven friends of Stefan Christoff, one of Montreal’s most effective grassroots activists, were visited by CSIS agents. They arrived unannounced early in the morning and asked detailed and sometimes menacing questions about Christoff. CSIS has also been actively spying on Aboriginal protesters. In the lead up to G8/G20 protests in Toronto CSIS was accused of trying to intimidate members of Red Power United. Before, during and after the recent G8/G20 protests in Toronto Canada’s various security services demonstrated a flagrant disregard for individual’s civil liberties. Usually held in miserable conditions for 48 or 72 hours, about 1,100 people were picked up in the largest mass arrest in Canadian history. The vast majority of those arrested had their charges dropped because there was not a shred of evidence against them. To protect against a plan such as PROFUNC or G8/G20 type police repression the Left needs to build a vibrant movement that doesn’t self marginalize. One way the Left can protect itself against security service attacks is to be known by as large of a segment of society as possible. We need to be seen as part of “normal” society. 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__label__cc	0.709663	0.290337	Makes No Sense... By now many of you have heard the news - Diana Taurasi tests positive for a "banned substance" by a Turkish lab and has been suspended by the Turkish league. What exactly was the "banned substance" in question? Well, Forbes Magazine (Forbes, really?) reported that the Turkish Basketball Federation claims the tests were positive for Modafinil, a prescription medication (known as Provigil) used to counter excessive sleepiness due to narcolepsy, shift work sleep disorder or sleep apnea. However, neither Fenerbahce nor Taurasi's lawyer would validate that claim. I, however, am more concerned about how this has been handled. 1.) Labs who conduct these kinds of drug screenings have to follow strict guidelines about reporting results - this lab obviously didn't. 2.) The lab in question, that tested Taurasi's sample, also has a questionable history - yet the only Ben York has had the good sense to report it. Other media outlets have not mentioned it, but they did mention 3.) Taurasi's DUI history - something that has absolutely no relation to the situation Taurasi is going though. Bottom line - No matter what the outcome, Taurasi does not deserve to be treated like this. Too many things just don't make sense. One fact in particular; as Ben and Taurasi's lawyer have pointed out, Taurasi has undergone screenings like this for the NCAA, WNBA, and the Olympic team and has NEVER, I repeat, NEVER failed or even been suspected of using any kind of banned substance. Why now? It just doesn't make sense. My concern? That Taurasi has a legitimate medical condition that she did not want made public. Sleep disorders are no joke as I have several friends who suffer from them. It makes sense to me why she would take it - playing year round, and the constant travel - it has to take it's toll on your sleep patterns. No, I have no way to validate this, just a concern. Again, I am not a doctor, and it has not been confirmed what was found in the screening. Persoanlly, I'm pullin' for Diana. Yeah, if what I think turns out not to be true, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. Ben York's article (Click here) Forbes Magazine article (Click here)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14319
__label__wiki	0.876784	0.876784	Wed, November 15 - 06:00 PM Veterans as Innovators and Entrepreneurs WeWork Constellation Join WeWork as we hear from up and coming veteran innovators and entrepreneurs who share how their military experienced prepared them for entrepreneurial success and discuss the community’s role in supporting our nation’s heroes as they transition from military to civilian life. FREE EVENT! Opening remarks from the LA City Mayor's Office of Veterans Affairs: Blas Villalobos, Veterans Affairs Manager: Mr. Villalobos currently serves as the Veterans Affairs Policy Manager for Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Office of Veterans Affairs. Under this position, Mr. Villalobos is responsible for the development, and implementation, of Mayor Garcetti’s strategic vision to leverage private and public resources to assist veterans and their families reintegrate into civilian life. Prior to his current position, Mr. Villalobos served as the Executive Director of Community Programs and Veteran Services for U.S.VETS, where he managed/supervised the Outside the Wire program, the Career Development Initiative, and Supportive Services for Veteran Families program. Mr. Villalobos served in the United States Marine Corps from October 1999-October 2003. In 2010, Mr. Villalobos was selected as the Veteran of the Year for California’s 54th district, and was recognized at the State Assembly by Bonnie Lowenthal Panel: Veterans as Innovators and Entrepreneurs Moderated by Meredith Davis from Tech Qualled: Meredith graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a BS in International Relations. There, she served as 18th Company Commander before transitioning to the US Marine Corps as a Logistics Officer at the Marine Barracks Washington, D.C. Following the Marines, she completed seven years as a consultant for multiple US Federal Government clients, specializing in IT Strategy Communications and Security Clearance Investigation Systems. Nathan Graeser - Los Angeles Veterans Collaborative: Currently serves as a community program administrator for the Center for Innovation and Research for Veteran and Military Families at the USC School of Social Work. Mr. Graeser directs the Los Angeles Veterans Collaborative and Innovation Fund—a collective-impact group that consists of more than 2,000 different veteran service providers throughout Los Angeles County with over 250 regularly attending monthly meetings. For several years, Mr. Graeser has also worked extensively with representatives of the VA West Los Angeles Campus in Los Angeles, CA, and is familiar with its history, current goals and objectives. Mr. Graeser has educated and trained hundreds of veteran service providers on: military culture in general; how to support soldiers and airmen transitioning out of the military and into the civilian community; and how communities and service providers can develop better community policies as people return home from deployments and war. Mr. Graeser has also served in the U.S. Army National Guard for nearly 17 years, including the last five as a chaplain for a Field Artillery Battalion. Michael St. Denis - Lawyer / K&M Products LLC: Michael St. Denis is a US Army Veteran who served 5 years primarily in the Special Forces. He is admitted to the California State Bar as a licensed attorney. Mr. St Denis has run several businesses in California, and currently serves as the Managing Member of K&M Products LLC, an oil and irrigation pipe refurbishing company located in Long Beach, CA. Mr. St. Denis is also currently enrolled at the University of Southern California pursuing his Master in the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work as a 2018 candidate. Michael is also an intern at the Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans and Military Families (CIR) that administers the Los Angeles Veterans Collaborative (LAVC) which comprises of community stakeholders and representatives from more than 400 organizations, coordinating services and addressing needs of veterans and military families in the Los Angeles area. Nathan Lenahan - WeWork, General Manager: As the Head of Operations, Nathan Lenahan leads all on the ground efforts, including Sales, Marketing, Community and Operations, for WeWork’s southern region. Nathan started at WeWork in 2016 after launching and selling a real-estate and property management company, Redleg Property Group. Before starting his business, Nathan served as a Facility Manager at Lockheed Martin. During his 13 years of service in the US Army, Nathan completed two combat tours to Iraq, earning five commendation medals, two army achievement medals, and Soldier of the Year 2004. In 2005, he was inducted into the Sergeant Audie Murphy Club. Currently, Nathan Lenahan serves in the Texas Army National Guard in Austin, Texas, as a Field Artillery platoon sergeant. Nathan graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with an MBA and received a B.S. in Facility & Property Management from BYU. Nathan now lives in the DFW area with his wife and the next generation of entrepreneurs, his four children. Seth Smith, MPA - SC Veteran's Alliance, Partner/VP Communications & Public Affairs: Seth served in the US Navy from 2002-08 as a cryptologic interpreter and airborne mission supervisor, leading teams of intelligence personnel on reconnaissance and surveillance missions. He worked closely with US, British, Australian and other coalition partners to provide real-time intelligence to warfighters and strategic planners in support of OIF and OEF. Seth joined the Santa Cruz Veterans Alliance team in January of 2017 in a communications and public affairs role to help the organization obtain cannabis business permits so that SCVA would be able to continue its mission of ensuring safe access to quality, lab-tested medicinal cannabis for veterans and the public. Seth is a graduate of UCLA and he received his master’s degree in international and public affairs from Princeton University. Sarah Serrano - Hollywood Veteran Center Mobile App Project, Senior Project Manager: Sarah Serrano is a Los Angeles native who served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Post-9/11 era. She worked for the Training Command and administered company-wide legal operations. After the military, Sarah became involved with many initiatives for the veteran population, serving a broad range of needs such as workforce development, academic rehabilitation, housing, employment, and mental health. Currently, she is Senior Project Manager of a federally-funded technology project that integrates on-demand peer support, mobile app technology, and reintegration for Post 9/11 veterans. Like many veterans, Sarah struggled during her transition after the military, experiencing first-hand the many programs that exist for veterans and for women. She has learned what works and what doesn’t work, and continues to write grants and proposals in support of agencies that promote what she is passionate about. Rich Suttie - Jump Holdings, Inc.: Rich is an entrepreneur and VP for Business Development for JUMP, an intelligent mobile app that will help people establish, set and achieve goals in alignment with their skills, passions, aptitudes and aspirations. JUMP is designed to help students, including veterans who are attending schools to assist with transition, find resources and connections that are highly personalized and tailored to help achieve their goals. JUMP is due to launch before the end of the year. Rich served in the United States Navy for 32 years as a naval aviator, diplomat, senior staff officer, and educator. As a naval aviator, Rich flew 4,000 hours primarily in the P-3 Orion anti-submarine aircraft. He commanded two Navy squadrons, and served on the USS Missouri battleship and the USS Midway aircraft carrier. Rich works for the Center for Homeland Defense at Security program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. His role is to manage a partnership of over 350 universities and agencies to share curricula, research, and best practices. Parking options: Westfield Century City (across the street) Parking Rates: 1st hour: COMPLIMENTARY Hours 1-1.5: $3 Hours 1.5-5: $1 every 30 minutes Hours 5+ (Max): $30 After 6pm, in the building: $4.25 each 12 minutes with a $15 max rate. Lot closes at 9:30pm In partner with General Assembly: 10250 Constellation Blvd Bobby Kobara · Civic Social Event	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14320
__label__cc	0.720438	0.279562	Like PlayStation Vue, AT&T's DirecTV Now has several tiers, starting with $35 a month, going to $50 for 80+ channels, $60 for 100+, and $70 for 120+. That does include Viacom stations and all the networks except CBS; the priciest plan offers up multiple Starz-related channels; HBO and Cinemax are here but for $5 per month extra each; Showtime is $8 per month extra. Always take a moment on a new TV to switch off any special features that are meant to reduce motion-blurring. (These go by different names depending on the manufacturer, but the setting typically has the word “motion” in it, as in Sony’s “Motionflow” or LG’s “TruMotion.”) These settings tend to make movies and even most modern television shows look more flat and artificial, in what’s often called “the soap opera effect.” Navigate Computer With Mouse & Keyboard: You connect your computer to the HDTV (for the big screen) and then proceed to go to your favorite websites like hulu.com, Netflix and others (see some options above) to view your shows. You can use the Hulu Desktop application. You can also watch shows that you've downloaded from Amazon, Itunes or other online video sources – or your own videos. You will most likely need a wireless keyboard and mouse to make this easy – although it isn't required. Lots of people choose satellite TV because you can choose from a wider variety of shows and options than you can with cable TV. Again, plans with a lot of channels, features, and variety are more likely to be expensive. However, there are some cases in which you might really want a specific channel that a cable provider won’t have. For example, if you are from New York but you live in California, it might be easier to get Giants games with a satellite TV service than with a cable service. The market is full of streaming devices and sticks that offer viable cable TV alternatives. Some of the more popular devices are Roku, Google Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV, and Apple TV. Investigate each option to compare prices and offers and see what works best for the shows and needs you have. These are the splurges that may actually end up costing more than you thought. With the Digital Starter package starting at $49.99 per month, Xfinity comes in with the best all-around package out of all our recommended TV providers. The channel selection for Xfinity’s entry package is pretty similar to DISH’s base-level package (including channels like ESPN, TNT, AMC, and Discovery). It’s also a better bargain than the satellite service (and the next-closest cable TV provider, Spectrum) by about $10 per month. Setting this up was easy, too. We bought an inexpensive antenna at a local store that was on sale and simply attached a coax cable to the back of that antenna (the cable came with the antenna) to the cable port on the back of our television, then simply went into the menu on our television and scanned for channels. It found around 30 of them, and they come in crystal clear in about 480p – not high resolution, but good enough, especially on a smaller television. Once the antenna is set up and running, the programming is completely free. I agree with you that “net tv is simply not ready”. We’re still in relatively new stages of how these all shake out. NOTHING out there now can match the simplicity we’re accustomed to with dedicated cable boxes and one interface for all our TV watching. We all have our gripes about the various interfaces offered by Comcast, FIOS, Charter, who have you, but in the end for the “average user” even with their downsides they are “better” than the myriad of interfaces you have to deal with combining the likes of Amazon Video with Netflix with (Hulu/YouTube/DirecTV/etc), alongside the convenience of a single remote with consistent buttons. I do think a LOT of people WANT to switch to streaming-only TV, they try it out before they “cut the cord” and don’t like the inconsistency, or they try it after “cutting the cord” and end up going back. Like for me, I already cut the cord and went with PS Vue, but like I said it’s missing half the live TV I want to watch, so now on my FireTV boxes or my PS4’s I have to use some other app (with totally different controls, user interface, etc.) to get those other channels, then I hop over to Amazon Video or Netflix to watch a movie and that’s all different too. Then if my kid wants to watch something, he’s got to hop between 3 or 4 or 5 different “apps” to find something of interest. In order to receive any promotional rates, you will be required to authorize and agree that Cable ONE may obtain a consumer report about you in accordance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act from a consumer reporting agency in order to verify your eligibility to receive this and other offers as well as determining deposits and install fees required, if any. Last year, AT&T launched their own stand-alone streaming service DirecTV Now. This streaming service doesn’t require a cable subscription. The basic plan includes over 60 channels for $35/month. The Just Right plan has over 80 channels for $50/month. The Go Big plan has over 100 channels for $60/month, and the Gotta Have It plan has over 120 channels for $70/month. A bit expensive, but why not give it a go if you can afford it? Directv is available on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, iOS, Android, Chrome, and Safari with up to two simultaneous streams. Wow, thank you so much for this informative article. But to be honest I’m still so freakin confused. We have 5 TVs, so my first questions is do we have to pay for 5 Subsctiptions every month? My second questiton is, should I buy my own modem and router? I’m not exactly sure what each one does but would I still need to pay for an internet connection if I had them? Whether the price is worth it is in the eyes of the beholder. Vue may not be the cheapest, but many users feel it is the best value according to anecdotal reports in various forums. That assessment is based on features, channel selection, user interface, DVR, etc. Regardless of which streaming service is chosen, the vast majority of cord cutters claim they are saving a bundle compared to traditional cable/satellite. As for Vue's competitors, by the time you include add-ons (e.g., sports and/or movie packages) and premium channels, are you really saving much? Some of the competition also charges extra for DVR usage, but not with Vue. You will instantly get over 100 channels, and there are tons more that you can add along the way. PlayLater is software for your computer or mobile device that records streaming media, saving it to your device for future viewing. If you already have a streaming device or gaming console, you've already got most of the features offered by this software, but for $39.99 for lifetime access, you won't waste a lot of money trying it out. On both Roku devices and Apple TV, much of the best content does require a pay per view fee or subscription, so you'll want to keep an eye on how many you buy. And there are a growing number of apps like HBO Go that are restricted to those still with a cable/satellite TV subscription. But even if you never venture much beyond Netflix and Hulu Plus, you're getting a lot of content for very little money. Fiber-Optic TV is one of the newest types of television technology. Light travels through glass or plastic cables to deliver all of your favorite channels. These cables are much stronger than the copper cables used for cable TV, and they can transmit data across further distances while still maintaining the same high quality picture and sound. Fiber is typically the most reliable option, because the connection isn't affected by power outages or bad weather like cable and satellite TV are. Many fiber TV providers offer bundles with fiber internet, which is extremely fast. One of the downfalls to fiber television is that it has limited availability because it's a newer technology, so it may not be offered in your area. These fiber cables must also be installed perfectly by a professional to function properly, which is part of the reason that availability is limited. Fiber TV tends to be a more expensive option, but its incredible HD quality and reliability are worth the price! In an effort to entice cord cutters and cord nevers, some cable television providers have begun offering Internet-only streaming services. Cablevision began to offer "Cord Cutter" packages that include a free digital antenna and access to its Optimum WiFi network, as well as the option to add HBO Now to the service, making it the first ever cable provider to do so.[32] In 2015, Comcast and Time Warner Cable (TWC) began to trial television services delivered via their managed internet infrastructures; Comcast's "Stream" service offered access to broadcast networks, HBO, Xfinity StreamPix, and their respective TV Everywhere services. Outside of TVE apps, the service can only be accessed via Comcast home internet on supported devices.[33][34] In October 2015, TWC began to trial a service under which subscribers are given a Roku 3 digital media player to access their service via the supplied TWC app, rather than a traditional set-top box. A TWC spokesperson emphasized that this offering would provide "the same TV and same packages delivered to the home today", but delivered over TWC-managed internet rather than a cable line.[35][36][37] This service has since been transferred to the current Spectrum service after Time Warner Cable's merger with Charter, with an equivalent Apple TV app forthcoming. The quality of your TV picture isn’t only dependent on the quality of your antenna. It also depends on where you live in relation to the signal towers. A quick and easy tool to figure out which channels are available to you is the Mohu Station Finder. It provides information on the stations available based on your address. It also provides an idea of the performance to expect from different antennas. Sling TV is the streaming service that also offers live TV over the internet. It’s essentially cable TV without the contract or the massive bill. Currently, if you sign up for Sling TV you get a Free Roku. They also offer a free 7-day trial membership to try out their service. The service works on every major OTT streaming device and recently began offering a cloud DVR. Sling TV also streams NBC live online along with Fox and ABC in select markets. Many plans include fees in addition to the monthly price of your TV package that are either one-time or recurring. Some, like installation and equipment fees, are pretty standard, while others like broadcast or HD fees might be more uncommon. Always check with a sales representative or review the fine print so you know exactly what you’re paying for. Start with Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, tack on an HBO subscription to the latter, and consider paying for the Brit-centric streaming service Acorn as well. You’ll have plenty to watch, all commercial-free, and if you hear a lot of buzz about a show that isn’t available through any of those platforms, you can always pay for them on an episode-by-episode basis from Amazon (or iTunes, Vudu, or whichever digital retailer you prefer). Many rely on their cable provider for home phone service. Like most of their services, it can be replaced with a much cheaper internet based service. For those who need a little more than a cell phone after they ditch their cable TV subscription, I recommend PhonePower (formerly BroadVoice.) They are an affordable and reliable phone service provider that uses your existing internet connection. During the 1980s, United States regulations not unlike public, educational, and government access (PEG) created the beginning of cable-originated live television programming. As cable penetration increased, numerous cable-only TV stations were launched, many with their own news bureaus that could provide more immediate and more localized content than that provided by the nearest network newscast. Offer(s) valid with 12 month Promotional Discount. Local TV regularly $25.95/month.Wave digital equipment required on every connected TV. $2.72/month Interactive Equipment Fee on first digital or HD receiver. STARZ and STARZ ENCORE regularly $12/month each or $17/month for both. MOVIEPLEX regularly $5/month. After 12 months, Roku regularly $5/month. $100 Visa gift cardand Free Installation offer good with online order of High Speed 100 and up at 12-months, with offer code “CYBER100”. Customers must be in good standing for 90 days in order to be eligible for the Visa gift card. After 90 days, customers will receive an email with instruction on how to redeem the gift card online. Free Installation, regularly $60, is good for online orders with offer code “CYBER18”, and includes set-up for up to 2 TVs on existing outlets. Additional outlet and special wiring fees may apply. Serviceable areas only. Prices subject to change. Not valid with other offers. Certain restrictions and additional fees may apply. Call for complete details. WASHINGTON RESIDENTS: The base rates listed are subject to a 2% Regulatory Recovery Fee, which added together determines the total price. After you enter your ZIP code into our checker tool, the next question on your mind may very well be "Why are there only one or two cable TV providers in my area?" Numbers published by Forbes tell the story. One cable company enjoys nearly 40% of the cable television market share. Most of the remainder of the pay TV customer base is served by just a handful of cable providers. Recent data released by the Philadelphia-based company indicates that most cord-cutters don't stray far because many have no other viable alternatives given the poor state of broadband competition in many markets. An average Comcast customer uses 150 gigabytes per month and has 11 connected devices in their homes thanks to the proliferation of online video. For example, if your TV isn’t working, you can designate whether it’s grainy, frozen, tiled, blue, or black. After a few more questions about your service, you’ll get a specific solution and clear way forward (even if that means scheduling professional help). It’s a small convenience, but we love the option to handle simple fixes ourselves, instead of having to parse through outdated forums or spend our lunch break on hold with a technician. Hulu with Live TV. You can now get your Hulu with live television. This is a full package that contains local stations in many areas along with the usual suspects when it comes to entertainment, sports and news. The channel selection doesn't quite reach what you can get on PlayStation Vue or DirecTV Now, but because it basically comes with free Hulu, it can be slightly cheaper. Hulu with Live TV is great if you already subscribe to Hulu and want to save money, but that savings might get eaten up by extra fees such as buying more Cloud DVR storage or expanding the number of screens you can watch the service on from the limitation of 2 for the standard service.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14321
__label__wiki	0.926899	0.926899	Catholic Synod: Gay Rights Groups Say Vote ‘Disappointing’ by the guardian UK / 4 years ago / International News Religion Pope Francis appeared on Saturday night to have lost out to powerful conservatives in the Roman Catholic church after bishops scrapped language that had been hailed as a historic warming of attitudes towards gay people. In the final report of an extraordinary synod on the family which has exposed deep divides in the church hierarchy, there is no mention – as there had been in a draft version – of the “gifts and qualities” gay people can offer. Nor is there any recognition of the “precious support” same-sex partners can give each other. A paragraph entitled “pastoral attention to people of homosexual orientation” – itself a distinctly cooler tone than “welcoming homosexual persons” – refers to church teaching, saying there can be “not even a remote” comparison between gay unions and heterosexual marriage. “Nevertheless,” it adds, “men and women of homosexual tendencies must be welcomed with respect and sensitivity.” They should not suffer from discrimination, it adds. But the shift in tone is clear. And, in a potentially stark sign of the discomfort provoked among many bishop, even this watered-down passage failed to pass the two-thirds majority needed for it to be approved. One hundred and eighteen bishops voted for the text and 62 against. A Vatican spokesman, Federico Lombardi, said the voting numbers had been released at the behest of Francis, who wanted the process to be transparent. Because the names of the bishops were not released, however, it was unclear whether the paragraph’s failure to pass was due to a protest vote by progressive bishops who had wanted to keep more of the original wording. At any rate, in a speech to the bishops which received a four-minute standing ovation, Francis showed no sign of disappointment, insisting that disagreement and debate was an intrinsic part of the synod process. “Personally I would have been very worried and saddened if there hadn’t been these … animated discussions … if everyone had agreed with one another or had kept silent in a false and acquiescent peace,” he said. It was the synod’s other highly controversial subject – considering whether Catholics who have divorced and remarried should be allowed to take holy communion – that included the only other sections to fail to muster the necessary two-thirds majority. Walter Kasper, a German cardinal known in media circles as “the pope’s theologian” because of his closeness to Francis, has been the key backer of a move to allow more people access to the sacraments. But, in an indication of how far his proposal was from gaining a consensus among his global peers, the sections dealing with the thorny issue were guarded and merely noted that there was a clear clash of views. “The question will be further explored,” said the report. Thomas Rosica, Lombardi’s English language assistant, said the sections without two-thirds majorities had not been “completely rejected”. He stressed that it was “not a magisterial document” but “a work in progress” that provided the basis for another synod next autumn. The final report will come as a blow to those in and outside the church who had hoped a corner might have been turned in the way Catholic leaders discussed and dealt with homosexuality – even if not even the most optimistic of followers had been expecting a change in doctrine, according to which “homosexual acts” are “intrinsically disordered”. Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Ministry, a Catholic gay rights group in the United States, said it was “very disappointing that the synod’s final report did not retain the gracious welcome to lesbian and gay people that the draft of the report included”. “Instead, the bishops have taken a narrow view of pastoral care by defining it simply as opposition to marriage for same-gender couples,” he told Reuters. The draft released last Monday had been hailed by some church observers and gay rights groups as “a stunning change” in how the Catholic hierarchy talked about gay people. It had been written with a voice that seemed to echo closely Francis’s own, pragmatically pastoral phrase: “If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has goodwill, who am I to judge?” Exploring the idea of extending mercy to people considered to be in “irregular” situations, it asked whether the church was capable of offering gay Catholics “a welcoming home” and “fraternal space”, admitting that despite “moral problems” associated with them, “homosexual unions” provided “precious support” to each other. No sooner had it been released, however, than leading conservatives began to speak out against the text. One, American cardinal Raymond Burke, criticised a lack of transparency, saying the mid-point report had not reflected the diverse views of the whole synod. “A great number of the Synod Fathers found it objectionable,” he said in an interview. Burke, a leading doctrinal rigorist in the church who had vocally opposed any move to ease the ban on remarried divorcees taking communion, is currently prefect of the supreme tribunal of the apostolic signatura, the Vatican’s supreme court. But he said on Friday he was to be demoted to a lesser post. Asked by the National Catholic Reporter who had made that decision, he reportedly responded: “Who do you think?” Vatican observers say that, by calling the first extraordinary synod in nearly three decades and encouraging the nearly 200 bishops taking part to speak their minds during the fortnight-long gathering, Francis, 77, has embraced a radically more collegiate style of church governance than has been seen for decades. But although the Argentinian wanted to listen to what the bishops had to say, he may not always have liked what he heard. Ever since his election last March, he has made clear his belief that the church needs to become more inclusive and understanding of real people’s lives if it is to survive, let alone grow. Previous: Jonathan To Commission Dutse Multi-Billion International Airport Tomorrow Next: Lufthansa Says Strike Results In 1,511 Canceled Flights	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14324
__label__cc	0.586217	0.413783	The New Zealand Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment found that the solar PV would have little impact on the country's greenhouse gas emissions. The country already generates 80 percent of its electricity from renewable resources (primarily hydroelectricity and geothermal) and national electricity usage peaks on winter evenings whereas solar generation peaks on summer afternoons, meaning a large uptake of solar PV would end up displacing other renewable generators before fossil-fueled power plants.[127] Wind turbines are manufactured in a wide range of vertical and horizontal axis. The smallest turbines are used for applications such as battery charging for auxiliary power for boats or caravans or to power traffic warning signs. Slightly larger turbines can be used for making contributions to a domestic power supply while selling unused power back to the utility supplier via the electrical grid. Arrays of large turbines, known as wind farms, are becoming an increasingly important source of intermittent renewable energy and are used by many countries as part of a strategy to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels. One assessment claimed that, as of 2009, wind had the "lowest relative greenhouse gas emissions, the least water consumption demands and... the most favourable social impacts" compared to photovoltaic, hydro, geothermal, coal and gas.[1] Research is also undertaken in this field of artificial photosynthesis. It involves the use of nanotechnology to store solar electromagnetic energy in chemical bonds, by splitting water to produce hydrogen fuel or then combining with carbon dioxide to make biopolymers such as methanol. Many large national and regional research projects on artificial photosynthesis are now trying to develop techniques integrating improved light capture, quantum coherence methods of electron transfer and cheap catalytic materials that operate under a variety of atmospheric conditions.[119] Senior researchers in the field have made the public policy case for a Global Project on Artificial Photosynthesis to address critical energy security and environmental sustainability issues.[120] The stiffness of composites is determined by the stiffness of fibers and their volume content. Typically, E-glass fibers are used as main reinforcement in the composites. Typically, the glass/epoxy composites for wind blades contain up to 75 weight % glass. This increases the stiffness, tensile and compression strength. A promising source of the composite materials in the future is glass fibers with modified compositions like S-glass, R-glass etc. Some other special glasses developed by Owens Corning are ECRGLAS, Advantex and most recently WindStrand glass fibers. [49] Second-generation technologies include solar heating and cooling, wind power, modern forms of bioenergy and solar photovoltaics. These are now entering markets as a result of research, development and demonstration (RD&D) investments since the 1980s. The initial investment was prompted by energy security concerns linked to the oil crises (1973 and 1979) of the 1970s but the continuing appeal of these renewables is due, at least in part, to environmental benefits. Many of the technologies reflect significant advancements in materials. As the cost of solar electricity has fallen, the number of grid-connected solar PV systems has grown into the millions and utility-scale solar power stations with hundreds of megawatts are being built. Solar PV is rapidly becoming an inexpensive, low-carbon technology to harness renewable energy from the Sun. The current largest photovoltaic power station in the world is the 850 MW Longyangxia Dam Solar Park, in Qinghai, China.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14326
__label__wiki	0.553987	0.553987	A twisted killer has a deadly riddle for DI Maya Rahman to solve in this pulse-racing thriller, the first in an addictive new series set in East London. A headmistress is found strangled in her East London school, her death the result of a brutal and ritualistic act of violence. Found at the scene is a single piece of card, written upon which is an ancient Buddhist precept: I shall abstain from taking the ungiven. At first, DI Maya Rahman can’t help but hope this is a tragic but isolated murder. Then, the second body is found. Faced with a community steeped in secrets and prejudice, and with a serial killer on her hands, Maya must untangle the cryptic messages left at the crime scenes to solve the deadly riddle behind the murders – before the killer takes another victim Firstly thankyou to HQ for sending me this, it wasn't expected and i was so excited. I love a crime book. Especially when it is one that comes with its own newspaper. Turn A Blind Eye is the first in the Di Maya Rahman series and it was a great start. When a headmistress is found murdered in her office on the first teacher training day of the term, it sparks up a major investigation. Found alongside her is a Buddish Precept but thats the only clue as to why and who murdered her. Di Maya Rahman is hoping that this is a one off but when a second body turns up and its one that is in relation to the first, this one off seems less likely. Time is running out because what if it happens again? Di Maya Rahman needs to find answers, but answers are hard to come by when its a closed community who guard their secrets. It makes it a heck of alot harder. Turn A Blind Eye was a very interesting read, and to me it wasn't the plot line that gripped me as such it was the relationships between the characters and the cultures. It was those i was interested in. They were all written so well, and every night i had to sit down and delve into this more. I enjoyed it slowly and I can see why it has been labeled "Your New Obsession" especially with the TV Rights already sold. I don't want to give too much of the narrative away, but what I will say - if you love a crime series and are on the lookout for a new one, this could be the one for you. I was so invested in learning about every character that I came across that I forgot they wasn't real. I cannot wait for more! Vicky Newham is a writer, psychologist and teacher. She is the author of the DI Maya Rahman series of police procedural novels set in multi-cultural East London. The first, TURN A BLIND EYE, will be published on April 5th 2018. It has been optioned for TV by Playground Entertainment. The setting of the novels, and its main character, were inspired by the 4 years that Vicky spent living and working in the area. Vicky grew up in Sussex and currently lives in Kent. She studied Psychology at university and is still fascinated by what makes people tick.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14327
__label__wiki	0.622639	0.622639	Beyond Dreamings: A Symposium Investigating the Importance and Legacies of Indigenous Australian Art in the United States ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM The 1988 exhibition Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia at the Asia Society Galleries in New York catapulted Aboriginal art onto … A Renowned Artist and Leaders in their Field Visit UVA to Celebrate Indigenous Australian Art in the USA CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (January 24, 2019) – On February 21-23, the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of UVA will present a major … Arts Council, Kluge-Ruhe Arts Council Series: Permanent Exhibition for Kluge-Ruhe This Arts Council-funded Project is entitled 'Permanent Exhibition for Kluge-Ruhe.' The project was proposed by Margo Smith, Director of Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal … Introducing the Greatest Aboriginal Artist Unknown in America Photo: John Mawurndjul with the installation "John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new," 2018, Museum of Contemporary … Resident Artist at Kluge-Ruhe Draws Connections Between Glass and Weaving CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (Thursday, August 30, 2018) – The Kluge-Ruhe Collection is pleased to announce that its newest exhibition, Freshwater Saltwater … Kluge-Ruhe, The Fralin Museum of Art Summer Curatorial Research Project with the Mellon Indigenous Arts Initiative On June 3, the Mellon Indigenous Arts Initiative welcomed six undergraduate students from around the country to participate in the … Second Street Gallery and Kluge-Ruhe Collaborate on Sister Exhibitions and Artist Visits MAY 15, 2018 (Charlottesville, VA) — Two of Charlottesville’s most dynamic visual art spaces have collaborated on sister exhibitions of Indigenous … Kluge-Ruhe is Charlottesville’s Hidden Gem “The white man history has been told and it’s today in the book. But our history is not there properly. … How UVA Has Become a Global Center for Indigenous Art Charlottesville is a much-lauded destination for history buffs, foodies and University of Virginia fans. Thanks to the continued efforts of … Monumental Meanings: Indigenous Perspectives on Monuments On the evening of November 14, the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection and the UVA Native American Student Union (NASU) hosted a remarkable panel discussion entitled … Written by: UVA Arts CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (June 25, 2019) – On July 18 th from 5 – 9 pm, the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of UVA will open a major new exhibition, With Her Hands: Women’s Fiber Art from Gapuwiyak: The Louise Hamby Gift, curated by six undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds that are under-represented in the curatorial profession. The exhibition features selections from a gift of 100 artworks recently donated to Kluge-Ruhe by Dr. Louise Hamby that address topics of tradition and innovation, gender roles, generational change and relationships to place. This summer, Kluge-Ruhe is training the next generation of curators while addressing the pressing lack of diversity in American museums, as part of UVA’s broader Mellon Indigenous Arts Initiative. Six undergraduate students—Barriane Franks, Antoinette Griffin, Hannah Jeffries, Helen Martinez, Diana Proenza and Victoria Morales Rodriguez—have traveled to Charlottesville from their universities in Louisiana, Alabama, North Carolina, Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico respectively—to learn every aspect of designing an exhibition, from writing wall labels down to choosing wall colors. They are being supervised by Kluge-Ruhe Curator Henry F. Skerritt and two UVA Graduate students in the English department, Eva Latterner and Cassie Davies. Given that modern and contemporary art exhibitions disproportionately represent male artists (the Guerrilla Girls counted in 2012 that less than 4% of the artists in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s modern art sections were women), and that a 2015 study showed 73% of museum leadership positions are occupied by men, this exhibition is remarkably unique. With six women of color curating works by 25 Indigenous women artists, With Her Hands: Women’s Fiber Art from Gapuwiyak: The Louise Hamby Gift challenges issues of gender and representation in the museum profession. “I view this exhibition as a chance to recognize and showcase the often-unheard voices of gifted female artists.” says Diana Proenza of New College of Florida. Her colleague, Victoria Morales Rodriguez, from the University of Puerto Rico- Mayaguez, continues: “This is what I want the audience to take away: the respect, the honor and the inspiration that we feel everyday by telling the story of these brave Indigenous women from Gapuwiyak. The artworks in With Her Hands are some of 100 fiber artworks recently gifted to Kluge-Ruhe by another woman, anthropologist, professor and collector Louise Hamby. In 1991, Louise Hamby acquired her first basket from northern Australia, and over the next three decades, she amassed one of the largest and finest collections of Indigenous Australian fiber art in the world. Between 1995-2001, Hamby’s PhD research took her to Gapuwiyak, where she developed close relationships with a group of senior fiber artists including Lucy Malirrimurruwuy Waṉapuyngu, Rudy Munguluma Biḏingal and Nancy Walinyinawuy Guyana. In November 2017, Dr. Hamby established the Hamby Collection at Kluge-Ruhe as a permanent repository for the research and exhibition of Aboriginal fiber art, through the donation of 100 stunning works from Gapuwiyak. This significant gift—the first in an ongoing series of donations—will make Kluge-Ruhe a world center for the study of contemporary Aboriginal women’s fiber art. The 100 diverse artworks in the Hamby donation were made between 1996 and 2013 by 25 women artists. There are thirty necklaces made from a variety of seeds, shells and nuts; mats and various forms of basketry (straight baskets, conical baskets, string bags, purses and bathi) are made from natural and dyed pandanus palm. Also included are a variety of sculptures (a canoe, a crocodile and a kangaroo) and ceremonial objects (armbands and headbands). Skerritt explained, “These 100 works mark the start of a truly transformational gift to Kluge-Ruhe. They are the some of the finest examples of women’s fiber work produced in Australia in the last quarter century. The depth and quality of the Hamby collection will allow Kluge-Ruhe to shed light on this important but understudied section of Indigenous Australian art, and will undoubtedly become a critical destination for scholars and research of Indigenous art.” Louise Hamby is an American expatriate who hails from North Carolina. She is widely considered the leading academic expert of Aboriginal fiber art, and over her career she has explored the complex set of issues surrounding the making, meaning and use of fiber art in the community. Her books, which include Containers of Power: Women with Clever Hands and Twined Together have become the standard reference texts in the field. She has also curated numerous exhibitions at major institutions across Australia. She is currently a Research Fellow at Australian National University in Canberra and is a fiber art practitioner herself. Hamby says, “Relationships and connections with people and place have played a part in my formation of the Hamby Collection for Kluge-Ruhe. I am an American but more specifically a southerner from North Carolina. I wanted to share my love of Arnhem Land fiber and the people of Gapuwiyak with those from my own country. The Kluge-Ruhe is a good solution for me; I have been a researcher there over many years and have developed a strong friendship with the staff. This institution is in the perfect position, being part of the University of Virginia, to educate people about Australian Aboriginal people and the significance of their art and culture. The fiber works from Gapuwiyak will play a great part in teaching people about the important role of women and fiber art in everyday life in Arnhem Land.” In addition to collector Louise Hamby, two artists from Gapuwiyak will consult with the curators on their exhibition, and will be present for the opening on July 18 th . Lucy Malirrimurruwuy Wanapuyngu, a master fiber artist, and her daughter Anna Ramatha Malibirr, an emerging artist, will visit Charlottesville for three weeks in July. They will also lead two public workshops, one on fiber dyeing and another on twining techniques, both using authentic materials collected by women in Gapuwiyak. The dyeing workshop is on July 11 from 6-8 pm, and the twining workshop is on July 13 at 10:30 am. Space is limited and both require registration in advance. With Her Hands: Women’s Fiber Art from Gapuwiyak: The Louise Hamby Gift will be launched on Thursday, July 18 at Kluge-Ruhe’s Night at the Museum event, with each student presenting a short “flat-chat” tour of key works in the exhibition. This event will also feature live original music by The Sally Rose Band, food trucks, beer from Champion and wine from Knight’s Gambit Winery. Admission is $5 for non-members and free for museum members. It is family-friendly and no reservations are needed. For more information about the museum and this event, visit kluge-ruhe.org or call 434-244-0234. About the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of UVA As the only museum outside Australia solely dedicated to the exhibition and study of Indigenous Australian culture and arts, the Kluge-Ruhe Collection is a global art asset of UVA and Charlottesville. Its collection houses over 1800 objects from across Australia in a variety of media, from eucalyptus bark to acrylic on canvas to photography and sculpture. The museum welcomes more than 25 visiting artists and scholars per year for an array of enriching educational programs and acts as a center for Indigenous Australian art in the United States. It is located on Pantops next to Martha Jefferson Hospital, and is free and open to the public Tuesday – Saturday from 10 am – 4 pm and Sundays from 1 – 5 pm. Learn more at www.kluge-ruhe.org or on the museum’s Facebook page.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14333
__label__wiki	0.745755	0.745755	Literature, Upcoming Exhibition Shakespeare on the Ides of March In honor of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and in anticipation of the rare First Folio edition it will … Jazz Master Helps Open the Ears of Students, So They Really Hear the Music Listen. No. Listen. Put the phone in your pocket. Shut the laptop. Put on the headphones – headphones, not ear buds – shut … Creative Writing, News On Words: What Does ‘Meme’ Mean? Editor’s note: This is the first in an occasional series of essays in which faculty members write about some of their favorite words. … CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (June 25, 2019) - On July 18 th from 5 – 9 pm, the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection … Art, News 7 Hoos at Moma Share Their Favorite Parts of the Museum Just a few years ago, Stephanie Katsias and Jessie Cappello were classmates at the University of Virginia, studying how the … Virginia Film Festival Announces Guest Programmer Team Led by Andrew Rodgers and Iana Dontcheva to Support 2019 VAFF Efforts Charlottesville, VA – June 18, 2019 – The Virginia Film Festival has announced that it had engaged a team of … Art, Music, News This Alum Works with Elton John, Sting and Coldplay to Create Art for Charity Jeremy Klitzman went from being a University of Virginia student to an employee at the online file-sharing service Dropbox after … Alumni News, Drama, Heritage Theatre Festival Q&A: Weeks After Walking The Lawn, Alum Leaps Onto The Professional Stage Ryleigh Tatum, a May graduate of the University of Virginia’s Department of Drama, will make her professional stage debut in … Join us for Arts Grounds Day on September 7, 2019: Picnic, Arts Festivities & a Moonlight Movie!! Arts Grounds Day Saturday, September 7, 2019 Betsy and John Casteen Arts Grounds Open to all UVA Faculty, Staff & Students 6 - 8:30: Picnic & … Alumni News, Music Planet D’earth: Alumna Pays Musical Tribute to Inspiring Professor In the two decades since her graduation, University of Virginia alumna Kait Dunton has produced six albums of original music, … Heritage Theatre Festival to Present Steel Magnolias Beloved Tale of Friendship, Humor, and Heartache to be Directed by Claire Karpen Opening July 26 at the Ruth Caplin Theatre CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA … Written by: Katie McNally In honor of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and in anticipation of the rare First Folio edition it will host in October, UVA’s Special Collections Library has created a new exhibit that looks at the strange and wonderful history of Shakespeare in print. While short on soothsayers and vengeful Brutuses, the University of Virginia’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library still offers a rare glimpse into the works of England’s most famous bard. Its new exhibit, “Shakespeare by the Book: Four Centuries of Printing, Editing and Publishing,” takes visitors through the many ways Shakespeare’s work has been shaped and interpreted over the centuries. UVA is among 52 institutions nationwide chosen to host one of the Folger Shakespeare Library’s rare First Folio editions of the Bard’s plays this fall. The folios are touring the country to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, and the new Special Collections exhibit was created in anticipation of its arrival. The idea of publishing Shakespeare’s collected plays in books like the First Folio did not arise until several years after his death. The playwright himself had no role in formulating what would become the “official” versions of his works and as a result, the history of publishing Shakespeare is also a study in the evolution of editing. “That is really interesting to us at UVA because the University has been involved in some big innovations in editing over the last century, particularly in relation to Shakespeare,” Special Collections curator Molly Schwartzburg said. “Since the late 1930s, the University has been a leader in editorial practice and more broadly, the study of the book.” All photos by Sanjay Suchak unless otherwise noted. The Hinman Collator, created in 1954 by UVA graduate Charlton Hinman, revolutionized the way the edited works of Shakespeare and many other prolific writers are studied. Hinman was the first graduate student of UVA’s influential English professor and innovator in bibliographical studies, Fredson Bowers. Before Hinman completed his degree, he and Bowers served together in a U.S. military cryptology unit during World War II, and that’s where Hinman got the idea for the collator, which compares different editions of the same work to identify small differences. Using a complex system of mirrors, the collator overlays the same page from two different copies of a work of literature. As each eye looks at a separate page, the brain translates them into a single image and discrepancies in the two copies stand out. After completing his design, Hinman used the collator to determine the order of printing for every copy of every page of the 55 examples of the First Folio housed at the Folger. This allowed him to select the “best” version of every page for a massive facsimile edition. “Decades after his death, Charlton Hinman’s machine is still hugely influential and libraries all over the country still have working Hinman collators,” Schwartzburg said. Hundreds of years before Bowers and Hinman, the first men to publish Shakespeare’s collected works unintentionally became its first editors. The second quarto of “King Lear,” printed by William Jaggard for Thomas Pavier, is the earliest Shakespeare item in UVA’s collection. This quarto was once part of a complete set of separately bound plays that is often called the “false quarto” because it was actually printed in 1619, despite the 1608 date listed on each quarto’s title page. Jaggard and Pavier were the first to offer them all together as a set, and thus the first to decide what items should be included when printing the first collected edition of Shakespeare. Pages from UVA’s library catalogue indicate that the University once owned a complete set of the Pavier Quartos. This first collected edition – which predates the First Folio by four years – was donated to UVA in 1853 by Thomas Jefferson’s son-in-law, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. Unfortunately, the entire set was lost when the Rotunda burned in 1895. “It would have been a treasure if we still had this,” Schwartzburg said. “They’re extremely rare as complete sets.” For reference, there are approximately 230 First Folios still in existence, but there are thought to be only four or five complete sets remaining of the Pavier Quartos. (Photo from the Holsinger Collection, UVA Special Collections Library.) After the Pavier Quartos and the First Folio, it wasn’t long before more people started getting in on the Shakespeare publishing action. In the 18th century, editing Shakespeare became an art form and for some, a battleground. “For the editors, it was just war. You had to be really tough, really clever and just enjoy insult if you wanted to play the editorial game successfully,” Schwartzburg said. “This was a period of verbal warfare.” While sorting through these various editions of Shakespeare, Schwartzburg and her graduate students were tickled by the creative ways editors found to insult their peers. The curators couldn’t resist creating a list of top 10 insults to include in the exhibit. The list includes gems like editor Lewis Theobald’s 1726 takedown of fellow editor Alexander Pope for Pope’s 1725 editing of a passage in Hamlet: “[N]o Body shall perswade me that Mr. Pope could be awake, and with his Eyes open, and revising a Book, which was to be publish’d under his Name, yet let an Error, like the following, escape his Observation and Correction.” In the process of promoting their own work and tearing into the work of their colleagues, this era of editors created the foundations for the versions of Shakespeare we read today. They established the common editorial practices like footnotes and dramatis personae that have shaped modern English literature. The exhibit also features some important advances in the history of the physical book. UVA owns a set of the Diamond Classics edition of Shakespeare, which is one of the first true examples of a uniform cloth binding for a set of books. Printed by William Pickering in 1825, these books represent one of the earliest steps away from expensive leather binding and toward making Shakespeare’s books more accessible to all. The Diamond Classics edition represents an additional publishing advance in the size of its typeface. When it was published at 4.5 points in size, the Diamond’s was the smallest typeface to date. This small set of books is part of UVA’s collection of more than 15,000 miniature books and one of 150 miniature Shakespeare books that can be found throughout the exhibit. Amid its many historically significant editions of Shakespeare and rare finds like James Madison’s personal copy of “Hamlet,” the exhibition takes time to nod to the bizarre and hilarious ways that Shakespeare has been pulled into modern popular culture. Brett Wright’s “YOLO Juliet” imagines how the love story of Romeo and Juliet might have played out if Shakespeare’s most famous teenage couple had access to smartphones and social media. “What’s great about interpretations like this is that they’re really funny, but only if you’ve actually read the play,” Schwartzburg said. “They’re not supposed to be replacements. They’re witty accompaniments.” Other unusual items on display include a watch that uses flashing lights to send out Sonnets 18 and 130 in Morse code and a comic book edition of “Hamlet” designed for high school students. Visitors will have the opportunity to visit the Special Collections exhibit through Dec. 31. The Folger’s First Folio will be on display there throughout the month of October. Katie McNally Original Publication – UVA Today	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14334
__label__cc	0.520227	0.479773	Eco-diagramming Multi-Media & Performance Video Documentary April Vannini The Kitchen. Hangzhou China, 2014 April Vannini April Vannini is a non-disciplinary researcher and artist living on Gabriola Island, B.C. April earned her research degrees in Anthropology (M.A.) and Media Communication and Philosophy (Ph.D.). As an artist April’s individual and collaborative creative process uses a variety of mediums including: photography, video, audio field recordings, multimedia platforms, and found materials for eco-diagramming projects. She is currently working on a collaborative new media psychogeography project called Here Where I Wish. The project uses pre-made game cards that offer chance elements to navigate a walk through Venice, during the 56th Venice Biennale. April together with Sean Smith and Barb Fornssler founded a curative collective called Murmur Land Studios (MLS). MLS is an experimental field school initiative offering event-based pedagogy in art, philosophy, movement, ecology and temporary camping community for the post-anthropocene era. Our attempt is to curate spaces of creative inquiry which attract diverse makers, thinkers and doers together around thematic concerns relevant to the challenging times which lay before us. As a researcher April has written, published and collaborated in projects as diverse as the Canadian Indian Act, BC Ferries and small Island communities, movement and mobility, and genetic testing of the female sporting body. She is the co-author of a book with Phillip Vannini called Wilderness that explores wilderness geographies. The book considers how wilderness and wild places become enacted through various practices and culture The book is part of a larger collaborative research project called In the Name of Wild . The project is a five year transmedia-ethnographic journey across 6 continents and 24 World Heritage sites in search of the meaning of wild. April is a sessional instructor in the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University in Victoria, B.C. She teaches field research methods, cultural theory, and media project courses. She also collaborates with other artists and scholars in research-creation workshops and residencies. Her most recent artistic collaboration was a 12-day art/research-creation residency called Channel Surf, which was curated by the Department of Biological Flow. As an artist collective/canoe caravan, 29 participants paddled and camped along the Rideau Canal in Ontario, Canada, before performing a culminating collective exhibition of the journey at Gallery 101 in Ottawa.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14340
__label__cc	0.678555	0.321445	Journals/Series >> Personal letters TAGS: Amatul-Baha Ruhiyyih Khanum; Teaching > add tags About this document (click for more) "Success in Teaching" is the major portion of a message first published June 1949, under the title of "Teaching Problems," as an insert in Bahá'í News. Success in Teaching by Ruhiyyih (Mary Maxwell) Khanum published in Bahá'í News We often wonder why it is that when we have the remedy for all the ills of the world, the world won't take it. Sometimes it is very disheartening. We feel we are like a man standing at a fork in the road, voluntarily inconveniencing himself by acting as a signpost. He points right with a sign that reads "SAFETY THIS WAY" and left is marked "DANGER, PRECIPICE", but he finds most people rush the high road to the precipice and very, very few take the little unattractive path to safety. And we Bahá'ís, always trying to offer our priceless gift, many of us out in strange places as pioneers, many more traveling around as teachers or working hard and eagerly on Intercontinental, National, or Local Teaching Committees, wonder what on earth is the matter. Are the people all blind or is there something wrong with us? THE ILLS OF MANKIND: The answer, of course, is, that broadly speaking, the human race today is certainly distracted, and, compared to an absolute standard of normalcy, somewhat demented, and we ourselves are far from being what we should be. The combination of mass disobedience to the Laws of God, and our own incomplete adherence to them acts as a brake on the success of our labors. It is not very hard to analyze the universal shortcomings of mankind: the first is undoubtedly irreligion, "the vitality of man's belief in God is dying out in every land", said Bahá'u'lláh. He wrote that a long time ago and the pendulum is still swinging away. There is much less belief in God today than when He made that statement, and as the life of the soul of man flows from the Creator, most men are suffering from all the diseases caused by spiritual attrition. Not being content with having turned away from God they have chosen idols in His place - Racism, Communism, Nationalism and so on. These false gods exert no restraining influence; although they often arouse the misplaced idealism of their adherents, their handmaids are hatred, pride, fanaticism and ruthlessness. They put no brakes on the personal appetites of men, they exert no ethical influence outside the field of their defective philosophies. Today is the day of all the wrong freedoms and none of the right. You are free to be a rabid anti-Semite or dark-race hater, free to be a nationalist at the expense of the rest of the world, free to be a burning protagonist of any totalitarian system, free to follow your animal passions, free to divorce, free to become an alcoholic, in many places free to become a terrorist or guerrilla fighter. It is terribly sad to think that these black freedoms should be ours when one is no longer free to be virtuous without being found unstylish and peculiar, free to not drink without being looked upon as a social pariah, and above all, free to be happily and comfortably religious without being considered mentally deficient or emotionally unbalanced. In some countries today people are no longer free to enjoy the most innocent of all freedoms„tolerance„to be tolerant is to be disloyal. There is no middle ground. Any newspaper, any day, supplies us with a picture of what the world's condition is like, we don't have to elaborate. And, we know, only too well, from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, the Master and the Guardian, that the remedy for its condition can only be administered through agony. The human race still refuses to take the safe, small road of reason. It will not voluntarily reform. It will, with wild, unbelievable perversity rush down the highway to the precipice and go over the precipice into the cauldron of suffering, deep, universal, all-consuming suffering. There it seems it will ultimately coalesce into one world, not around the council table. Intelligent action it rejects, but the consequences of its madness will no doubt ultimately produce sanity. This would seem to explain the fundamental reason why more people are not becoming Bahá'ís, why our voice is not listened to, indeed, scarcely heard. Nevertheless, we must still stand firmly at our post on the fork of the road; we must proclaim the Faith to the masses - it is our moral responsibility to do so, we must not rest, for we know there is a precipice and a cauldron; as many as can be brought to our side, the side of constructive action, of reason, of brotherhood, love for all men, we must bring. This is one aspect of the teaching problem, perhaps it would be better to say the aspect of it. AND WHAT OF US? In juxtaposition to the world, we have ourselves. Bahá'u'lláh said: "And if the believers had been occupied with that which We had instructed them, now all the world would be adorned with the robe of faith." He wrote that between seventy and eighty years ago. That statement is enough to keep us Bahá'ís awake for the rest of our lives. For it clearly implies that the trouble with humanity after all, is not purely its own perversity but our failure, as followers of Bahá'u'lláh, as well. If each one of us was really a Bahá'í, in thought, spirit and deed, we would exert such a leavening influence that the sodden mass of the world would become spiritualized. Every time we look at the people of the world we are inclined to feel complacent; we compare our standards with theirs, our conduct with theirs, and see ourselves an inch and a half or two inches taller spiritually. But perhaps if we looked carefully at what kind of a human being a Bahá'í should be, namely a being resembling 'Abdu'l-Bahá, our Exemplar, our complacency would evaporate and we would realize that we Bahá'ís are supposed to be a race of spiritual giants, whereas we are still pygmies just a little taller than the average spiritual dwarf inhabiting this globe. Why? First of all most of us don't know the Teachings well. We are strong adherents of this Cause of God, but we are for the most part not informed adherents of it. Compared to what Bahá'u'lláh has delivered into our hands, we are ignoramuses; we know about ten per cent of it. I once heard my Mother say something which impressed me very much. Someone complimented her on her knowledge of the Bahá'í Faith. She said the Bahá'í Teachings were like a University and she had been a student in it for thirty-five years and was still learning. THE COVENANT IS THE HUB: But, in spite of the fact that our knowledge is so incomplete, we still, every little new Bahá'í included, know quite enough about it to let it change our lives and to teach it to others. The hub of Bahá'í knowledge is one great knot of truth, strong enough to withstand the pressure of the entire world with its disbelief and corruption: the covenant. The Great Covenant, we know, is the pledge God has made with every Prophet and through Him, with all men: that He will not abandon us to ourselves but will send us Guides to lead us on our path of knowledge of Him and nearness to Him The lesser Covenant is, so far, unique to our Dispensation, in keeping with the mature state of the world, and is the very blood in the veins of our Cause, the steel framework which will support our administrative order, our future world order. This is the Covenant Bahá'u'lláh made with us and the Master, and continued by the Master through the Guardian; that Bahá'u'lláh would not leave us alone after His Ascension, that Divine guidance and authority would not be withdrawn from this physical world when the body of the Prophet was laid to rest, but that His Mantle, to the extent of infallible guidance and interpretation of our Scriptures would fall on the shoulders of His Vice-Regent, first 'Abdu'l-Bahá, now Shoghi Effendi. When a believer has this in mind, when his heart has opened, in faith in God, and enshrined within it Bahá'u'lláh and His Covenant with the Bahá'ís, then he has the kernel of everything. To this can he added knowledge, wisdom, the improvement of his character, good deeds. That is why a totally illiterate man, a deaf mute, a person bordering on being a moron, could be a true and luminous Bahá'í if this core of fundamental faith were in him: that he believed in God, that Bahá'u'lláh was His Manifestation for this period in history and that in this dispensation, which must last at least one thousand years, that Manifestation has not taken His Fingers from the pulse of the world, but has, first through the Master and then through the Guardian, directly exerted a guiding influence from on High over the destinies of men. If we think about it this is really the most promising feature of our Faith. There are no absolute standards in this world, as far as the voice of men go, each man's opinion can be weighed against that of his fellows and is entirely relative. But in the Guardianship a new arrangement has been introduced one mans opinion, within a certain field, bearing on certain matters, is absolute and not relative because it is motivated not from self, but from on High. A person who accepts any religion and becomes its believer, accepts the primary concept that its Founder or Prophet was right and perfect because He was the mirror of God and thus absolutely divinely inspired. As Christ said: "The words that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works" and, as Muhammad emphasizes in the Qur'án by beginning every SÏrih with the word "Say" to show it is not His personal voice, but a voice from on High instructing men. Jews, Muhammadans, Christians, have all believed in the sanctity of their Holy Scriptures because they were the voice of God. We Bahá'ís believe just the same of Bahá'u'lláh with the exception that we do not believe God's guidance through a human instrument stopped with His ascension, but that it went on, and will go on, in a more circumscribed form, in the same sense that the Guardians do not creatively reveal but rather interpretively reveal, until the next Manifestation of God appears. In a world which is more and more doubtful of existence of a personal God it is not surprising that it should be difficult to convince people a new Prophet has appeared; it is even less surprising that people, disinclined to believe in anything spiritual, should find it hard to accept an institution invested with divine and infallible authority. We have a wonderful teaching to offer to men. We have a social, an economic, an ethical, an international set of laws, principles and values that are just unbeatable. But all the vitality and potency goes out of them unless a person is willing to acknowledge the reason why they are so perfect: because they come from a super-human source - from God. And if a man can get that far in his feeling and understanding, to accept this divine origin, then he is just quibbling if he cannot accept fully and comprehendingly the station and function of a Guardian, for it is the Guardian, and the concomitant House of Justice, that ensures the smooth functioning of Bahá'u'lláh's system. Take away this absolute standard and you take away the guarantee that what Bahá'u'lláh brought to the world will fulfill His Promises. THE COVENANT AND TEACHING: This question of the Covenant, particularly as it involves us now in relation to the Guardian, cannot be too much stressed in connection with teaching problems, for it is the very crux of teaching. No matter what else a person understands or does not understand, has accepted or is not yet mature enough to grasp, he must accept and grasp the Covenant and its implications before becoming a Bahá'í because without this he is a tree with no roots in the Cause. The first wind, the first test, may carry him off. It is a strange thing, and one that might well give every believer, trying to teach, pause for thought if you look back over ten or twenty years of teaching work and see those who are not only in the forefront of the work but getting the most results, you invariably see that they are lions roaring in defense of the Covenant, so to speak, and, if you trace their Bahá'í ancestry, you will find they are the whelps of still earlier Bahá'í lions, usually the first believers grounded in the Faith in the days of the Master and deeply rooted in the Covenant. Tests come and tests go, in the world and in the faith, but nothing happens to this kind of Bahá'í because his deep roots are drawing up the proper spiritual nourishment all the time from the rich soil he is planted in - the Covenant. Belief in the Center of the Covenant (at present Shoghi Effendi, the Center of the Master's Covenant) and love for him are the shield and the sword of a Bahá'í. He can conquer with them, without them he is defenseless. THE FIRST STEP: There are so many "do's" and so many "don'ts" to the teaching work. Every believer who has ever opened his mouth and tried to teach soon forms a little set of his own. I cannot go into them all - I neither profess to know enough - to, nor have I time and space to attempt to. But just by way of sharing my observations and ruminations on this subject I can give out a few ideas. I once heard a Bahá'í, in respect to the teaching work, use a very homely metaphor: she said our teachings were like a huge department store; everybody that came to us wanted at least one thing, whether it was a grand piano or an egg beater, and we had everything, was it conceivable that we could not satisfy the desire of that customer? This is a wonderful idea because the moment someone is truly seeking-not just living in a whirl or a profound lethargy or merely self-satisfied, we have, somewhere in our Faith, the answer to that person's needs. One of our main difficulties is that we do not always find out what the seeker wants and then give it to him. Some of us forget that you cannot fill up something unless you first empty it. The seeker who comes to our meetings or whom we casually meet is most often full, but unsatisfied. We do not even let him unburden himself to us, relieve his mind of its doubts or complications or theories. We know we have the answer and we promptly try to force it on him. It rarely is successful. Why ? Because there was no room made for it, and we tried to cram it in before the man could create, by emptying into us his own trouble or thought, a space for our teaching to get into. We should consider ourselves doctors and all those we meet patients. We have all the remedies, we must always try and give as much of them as we can. But supposing you go to your doctor, how do you feel? You want to tell him what is wrong, your symptoms, all about it. And supposing after you just get inside his office and sit down he starts telling you how he feels, or what he thinks the future course of international events is going to be, or all about his wife's dreams. Are you going to like it, does this technique attract you? And if he gives you a bottle of pills as you leave, are you going to take them? To teach, is, to a great extent, the art of listening you will listen to the one you want to teach and find out what he wants and needs to hear then you can start your treatment by giving him, from our teachings, the right answer, the right remedy. But unfortunately all of us have hobbies, pet subjects, pet angles, even in the Cause. And so not infrequently you would find that a person who is passionately interested in economics is being vigorously tackled by an enthusiastic Bahá'í - whose keenest interest is in the life after death. Whilst he raves about wages, hours, free trade and profit sharing, she eagerly retaliates with the qualities of the soul and its Journey back to God. Or someone who hears voices, sees visions and senses auras comes up against the stone wall of a Bahá'í who tries to pooh pooh her out of it as he expatiates on the practical perfections of the World Order. A person who wants something wants it, even if it is only an egg beater, he needs it and he needs it right away - so give it to him. If you are not a sufficiently well-rounded out student of the teachings to talk economics with the economist and spiritual data with the psychic, then at least be wise enough to acknowledge your limitations and turn your truth seeker over to someone whose "hobby' in the Cause corresponds to that of the person's deepest interest. SINCERE CONCERN FOR OTHERS: How often we meet a fellow-Bahá'í who has that radiant glint in his eye, and that expression of contentment reminiscent of a cat who has just swallowed a mouse, which is promptly explained by the statement "I've just been giving the Message!" Yes, we dare say you gave it, but did the recipient take it? He wanted something from you, but did he get it, or did you just have the pleasure of giving him the Message"? How often, how very often, 'Abdu'l-Bahá greeted people with "are you well, are you happy"? His loving interest reached out and surrounded them like sunshine. This sincere concern for an interest in the person you confront is the great teaching technic in the whole world and nothing will ever surpass it. Teaching is excellent discipline for the personal ego, for to teach successfully you have to put yourself in the background and subdue your will and self-expression enough to be a sensitive receiving instrument that will pick up the seeker's correct wave-length. If you tune into that person you can commune with him and through that sympathetic thought you can begin to let the light of the Cause into his mind, you cannot force yourself into another person's soul or pound the truth into him just through sheer conviction- that you are right. CO-OPERATIVE EFFORT: There is a delicate balance somewhere between wanting, whether you are capable of it or not, to teach a certain person all by yourself and thus have all the triumph yourself, and barging in on other people's contacts at the wrong moment. As I think actual examples are more instructive than theorizing I will give two which impressed me very much in the course of my Bahá'í education. Ali Kuli Khan, who is an excellent speaker, had been addressing one evening, a large and somewhat exclusive group of people in a private home. When he had finished, to my horror, he called upon me to say a few words. It was very unexpected and I was very taken aback. After the meeting was over I asked him why on earth he had done that; after such a comprehensive Lecture himself it was unnecessary. He said that no matter how long he addressed a given audience there would always be a certain percentage of people in it who would not respond to his mind, no matter what he said, but that another speaker might reach these he could not reach. I never forgot that remark. It is really a mathematical certainty that one person, out of a hundred people, could only reach a percentage of them. And it is certainly just as true of those we contact daily. Your mind may never be able to kindle a spark of interest in a certain individual, maybe even your own husband or wife, but another Bahá'í might. It is no small part of teaching to have the wisdom to see that Mr. X is just the type for Mrs. Y to give the message to, and not your type at all. NON-INTERFERENCE: The second lesson I learned was about not interfering in other people's teaching work and was even more vivid for it involved disastrous results. A young woman had been attending Bahá'í meetings for a long time and studying with my Mother, at length she expressed the desire to become an active believer. My Mother, with the approval of the Spiritual Assembly, had a final long talk with her, telling her mostly about the Covenant and the Master's Will. This girl was a very thoughtful, quiet person and I think took the step she was about to make very seriously. She needed to be left alone to decide. As my Mother had told her: now she knew everything about the implications of this Faith and she must make up her own mind. Just at this point, a well-meaning friend tried to make it up for her. She tried through a pressure type of approach to shove her into the Cause. The quiet, conscientious girl felt this was proselytizing, she became suspicious and uneasy, never became a Bahá'í, gave up her friendly association with us all! THE WATCHFUL PUBLIC: We must always remember that even those who seem most indifferent to us are watching us keenly. There are many, many people who know of this Faith and take a very peculiar attitude towards it; they are not ready to become Bahá'ís, either they do not believe in it or they don't want to live up to it's responsibilities, but they want to see if we really are Bahá'ís or just bluffing. In other words do we live up to what we preach or not? I think we have no idea at all to what an extent we are under observation all the time and it is a very interesting psychological fact, and a very touching one, that these observers long to see us live up to our high standards and get very distressed, scornful and even resentful when we do not. I once had a friend visiting me, the young daughter of a Bahá'í whom he was most anxious should become one herself. She was invited to a party at the house of some people who attended our meetings occasionally but evinced no desire to become Bahá'ís. I did not go with her as I had something to do at home. The next day her host called me up and burst forth indignantly, "Say, what kind of Bahá'í is that you've got visiting you ! She accepted a drink!" Of course I immediately asked him what right he had to think she was a Bahá'í? And, explained that she was not one, but that I hoped some day she would be one. The relief in his voice when he heard this was a great eye-opener to me. He offered what he thought was a Bahá'í a drink, showing how non-Bahá'ís continually probe us to see if we are sincere, but when she accepted he was really angry, and the reason he was angry was because he was disillusioned! I am glad to say the girl in question has become a most radiant and active believer. One of the reasons humanity has become so irreligious is because it no longer finds people, in churches, mosques or synagogues who live their teachings. It is all lip service and lip religion is dead religion. This is why Bahá'u'lláh and the Master so constantly emphasized deeds, actions, example. If we read our teachings aright we see that in this day the Manifestation of God has raised the jump, so to speak; in the past, belief was acceptable, but now belief is no longer enough, not acceptable unless backed up by deeds. "In this day naught will be accepted save pure and stainless deeds." THE READY PUBLIC: We present the Cause to the public, to all those we contact, why do we make so few new believers? Let us say (purely arbitrarily, for I have no idea at all what a true statistical basis would be) that only ten percent of the population of the United States of America at present is really receptive to the teachings, and by receptive let us say we mean those who could become believers at once and those who will after contacting the Faith, later become believers. Let us go further and suppose, that in a city of a hundred thousand, two per cent are ready to embrace the Cause if given a fair chance, that is two thousand souls. Why do we not reach those two thousand? In the first place, they are distributed in all age groups, from High School students to the bed-ridden old, and in all classes from the sister of the wealthy magnate who lives on the hill to the charwoman who cleans out the trains at four in the morning. Let us say this town is newly opened to the Faith, are such extremes in age and position as the types cited above likely to be contacted by the average pioneer or pioneers working in that city? The answer most certainly is no. All such people likely to come to public meetings? Of course not. In fact, if we analyze it, we see that the radius of our average Bahá'í contact is extremely small. An almost infinitesimal percentage of the population of America ever attends a public lecture and those who do attend are usually lecture-goers. So, essential as this type of teaching is, We must not expect too much from it. In Montreal there is a Peoples Forum held weekly in one of the best known churches and it has access to the best speakers who tour America, names like Julian Huxley, Bertrand Russell, Sairajina Naidu, appear on its programs and yet it is even for such speakers, not over-filled. We should constantly try to improve our technique of public meetings, have good Bahá'í speakers, good sympathetic outside speakers, but not expect this method alone is going to reach many of that theoretical "two thousand" waiting souls. THE IMMATURE BELIEVER: After public meetings come private contacts. I think this is where we Bahá'ís really fail, for dozens of reasons. There are those„few in number let us hope„ who are unwilling or too shy to let other people know they are Bahá'ís. They are afraid of seeming "queer" in the eyes of their fellow students, their business associates, or their friends. Such an attitude is sad, for it indicates great immaturity on the part of the individual. Any one, in any field, who stands for something new is sure to receive a certain amount of ridicule, for human beings, en masse, are like sheep, they all "baa" together, they all graze together and they all stampede together. For a Bahá'í nor to be able to realize that through identifying himself with the most progressive, constructive movement in the whole worlds he has risen above the herd and covered himself with distinction, is pitiful. It is not necessary for a believer to rush around loudly proclaiming himself a Bahá'í or to become a pamphleteer and thrust tracts upon everyone he meets. On the other hand he should want everyone to find out he is a Bahá'í, he should want his fellow students to know that the reason that his ideas are so progressive is because they are Bahá'í ideas, or if he is in business, his employer should come to associate his reliability, willingness, courtesy and co-operativeness with the fact that our Faith produces such characteristics; in the circle of his friends his good habits, his sincerity, his chaste conduct, his tolerance and lack of prejudice should label him a believer, without his being considered a religious crank or something peculiar. THE FORCE OF EXAMPLE: A Bahá'í's way of thinking, way of talking and way of conducting himself should be such that everyone will say, "You know, I suspect the reason George is such a reliable, decent sort of fellow has something to do with that Bahá'í thing he belongs to....I like him." We must, without proselytizing, make friends for the Faith and create in the public an admiration for the Cause. We have got to create an atmosphere of respect for our religion and for us as followers of it. And we must realize that the primary thing is not what we say but what we do. As a matter of fact no one cares very much what we say. Everyone is saying something these days, from every loud speaker in the world, in Chinese, Czech, Spanish and so on, people are shouting good plans, good precepts, good ideas„many of them are in fact similar or identical with our Bahá'í plans, precepts and ideas„ but they are, as we can see from the state of the world, largely ineffectual. Why? Because nothing goes behind them, there is no right action, no upright conduct backing them up and everyone knows it. So, our chief, not our exclusive, but our chief way of teaching has got to be our example. When the world discovers that we Bahá'ís are Bahá'ís it will follow our footsteps as the children flocked after the Pied Piper, led by an irresistible impulse! INCREASING CONTACTS: To get back to our town and how to reach those two thousand people: we see we must have public lectures for the prestige of the Faith, to make the name Bahá'í familiar to the public, to publicize the Cause's existence. We must also, with dignity, but fearlessly, be known as Bahá'ís and liked as Bahá'ís. Of course we must try to get together a group and hold a weekly fireside class, probably the most effectual form of teaching at present. But every believer, pioneer or long established resident of a place, knows by experience that these methods soon reach a saturation point. The public meetings only reach a certain limited number; the firesides probably lead to the establishment of an Assembly, maybe each year a few new people enroll, but of that hypothetical two thousand only five per cent seems at most to be made available to the Faith. Why ? I think it is because those two thousand people are tucked away in various pockets, so to speak, and each one of us, like every other person, lives within a certain radius. We must learn to increase our radius of contacts. We have a tendency to wait for souls to be "led to us." They often are, but others, probably the vast majority, need digging for. For instance, let us say a pioneer contacts one hundred of those potential Bahá'ís through the public meetings, another fifty people through fireside gatherings (generous estimates!). If he has a job he may draw from those he meets in his work five people or so to his meetings, say another five receptive people are met casually through his social life, introductions of his new friends, etc. Now, that believer has a home, a job, small circle of friends, a Bahá'í meeting he attends once a week and a study class also once a week. His radius of contacts is so to speak at the saturation point. Of the two thousand he has reached one hundred and sixty. There he stops. What can he do? As far as I can see the only thing he can do is to cross over into another pocket. If he waits for that one contact„ the advertised public meeting„to reach the other one thousand eight hundred and forty people who are theoretically waiting to become Bahá'ís he will have to wait a century. The Golf Club, the Rotary Club, the Kiwanis Club, the Junior League, the Child Welfare, the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Esperanto Society -- these and a hundred other types of either social, sport or humanitarian clubs and groups with kindred interests to ours are "pockets'" where our future fellow- Bahá'ís may be concealed. If we want them we have to go after them. It requires sacrifice of our time and energy in some cases, in others it might be a very good addition to our own lives. Let Bahá'í young people swim at the Y.W.C.A. or Y.M.C.A. and meet new young people to invite to their youth group or to interest in forming with them a youth group. Let them join the Junior League or the Junior Board of Trade, or any group whose aims are purely non-political, and through association bring themselves as Bahá'ís, with their high ideals and standards, to the attention of others. They will soon find some of the missing eighteen hundred and forty! Let Father do the same, a chess club, a country club, a debating society, a camera club, or be active on some committee of a progressive or philanthropical nature, at his factory or his place of business, or in civic affairs -- something, anything that will bring him in touch with new people. Mother can do the same. Women in every city have dozens of clubs and organizations for child, civic or home welfare which are progressive and constructive and with which a Bahá'í can identify himself without in any way infringing on our principle of non-affiliation with religious or political movements. OUR RESPONSIBILITY: If we are conscientious about teaching, about giving to this mad world, rushing along the path to destruction, at least an opportunity to hear of this redeeming message, then we will not waste our time running on a treadmill of daily routine and habits like a squirrel in a cage, to the office, from the office, our bridge, our hobbies, our selfish pleasures. We will try and make our pleasure and leisure hours not only of use to ourselves but a means of reaching those few souls who, like jewels buried in a mine, are truly believers in this new Day of God and only waiting to be found. Our responsibility is very great. They say there is not a doctor living, who has practiced for any length of time, who cannot look back on some patient and say that if he had done differently or better that patient would now be alive instead of dead. I am afraid we Bahá'ís too, who have had any experience at all in teaching, are forced to admit that there are people who, if we had been more careful, more thoughtful, more tactful, wise and loving, would today be believers instead of having drifted into and out of the orbit of the Cause. To fail in one's moral duty to humanity these days is a heavy failure. How would we like to be without this Cause today? Where would we see any hope any real security ahead in the future? How could we live without that sense of nearness to God and understanding of His ways which our teachings confer as their greatest blessing? Can any one of us feel he can receive such a bounty and yet withhold it from others, rest quiescent in his own inner sense of security and leave others untaught and unhelped in these disastrous days the world is passing through? Today, if ever, must ring in our ears the battle cry of Mulla Husayn, "Mount your steeds, Oh heroes of God!" EDITORIAL NOTE: "Success in Teaching" is the major portion of a message first published June 1949, under the title of "Teaching Problems," as an insert in Bahá'í News. Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith, passed on in 1957. Twenty-seven persons, known as the Hands of the Bahá'í Faith, had been appointed by him to carry on the unified teaching work and for the protection of the Faith. Through their efforts, the first Universal House of Justice was elected in April 1963 by the fifty-six National Spiritual Assemblies existing at that time, in accordance with the explicit directives in the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh for the election of this supreme institution of the Bahá'í Faith. Further elucidation of the functioning of the Universal House of Justice, mentioned in the foregoing article, may be obtained from the "Unassailable Foundation of the Cause of God," published in Wellspring of Guidance. The pamphlet was published in 1965, Bahá'í Publishing Trust, Wilmette, Illinois, printed in the United States of America. -S.M. Back to: Personal letters Home Site Map Forum Links Copyright About Contact	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14341
__label__wiki	0.842517	0.842517	Yao Ming to be Inducted into Hall of Fame admin March 31, 2016 Headlines, NBA No Comments on Yao Ming to be Inducted into Hall of Fame Yahoo and “The Vertical” writer Adrian Wojnarowski reported that Yao Ming will be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame this September. Sources on @TheVertical: Rockets great Yao Ming voted for enshrinement into Basketball Hall of Fame's Class of 2016. https://t.co/GL6x7c1KUU — The Vertical (@TheVertical) March 30, 2016 Ming was the 1st pick of the 2002 NBA Draft and averaged 19 points, 9.2 rebounds and just under 2 blocks in his eight-year NBA career before nagging foot and leg injuries caused him to retire at the age of 30. He made five All-NBA teams and eight all-star appearances in his eight year career and his matchups with Shaquille O’Neal in his first couple seasons were a true spectacle. Yao Ming was revolutionary for the league and the game of basketball in many ways as he was a 7’6″ center with a touch of gracefulness to his game you just don’t see in players his size. He also is a hero to the Chinese people and helped make the NBA the sensation in the far east that it is today. He opened the door for Chinese basketball players to dream of playing on the biggest stage. He made the NBA game a worldwide phenomenon in far east Asia just as much as Michael Jordan and the Dream Team did in Europe and other areas of the world in 1992. Although injuries derailed what could have been a truly special career, Ming still made his mark on and off the court and is deserving of this honor. Other notable candidates who are likely to be enshrined this September include Shaq, Allen Iverson, former WNBA player Sheryl Swoopes and Michigan State Basketball Head Coach Tom Izzo.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line14342

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